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THE prospective bride was worried. "Darling," she confided, if I marry you, I'll lose my job." "But, sweetheart, can't we keep our marriage a secret?" "Yes, but suppose we have a baby." "Oh, we can tell the baby, of course."

AS AN IRISH temper, Mc- "NO MORE CLOTHESPINS will / QUICK Ginty plunged to save it. SPLASH! be weariu' on my nose," snapped Has he a chance? Is the pipe worth Mrs. McGinty. "Sure and it's good saving? Maybe some of the caked-in riddance to an ugly-sniellin' pipe!" bite and smell will get soaked out. And plop the pipe went in thewater!

"Now, Judge, this is what I mean"

THE blitzkrieg type of warfare, opines Chester Martin of Los Gatos (Cali- fornia) Post, is terrifically unfair to the generals. They have no safe place to hide in.

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FROM Norwich, Connecticut, Legion- naire John VV. McKenzie sends one about casting a show the Fletcher Post was going to put on for two nights. "I want eight of your most handsome Legionnaires to take the part of Grena- dier Guards," said the young lady who had come to Norwich to direct the show. "What do they have to do?" asked Commander John Bowman. 7£^^,,. UNCLE WALTER S DOG HOUSE "Merely be dressed in fine uniforms; EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT NBC * PRIZES FOR YOUR "DOG HOUSE ' EXPERIENCE they will not have {Continued on page 2)

JULY, 1940 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ^Bursts and Tf>uds Take \jife a \jitfle Easier (Continued from page i) to say a word during the whole show." "Not a word?" "No, not a word." "Splendid I will give you eight Past Post Commanders." "Why Past Commanders?" piped up one of the assembled buddies. "Because," said Commander Bowman, "it will be two nights we can have those birds with us and make them keep their mouths shut!"

'I was a sucker to take off mv hQ4 mask!" AYOUNG lieutenant, a middle-aged major and an elderly general were holding forth in the general's office, as Chet Brewer, Past Commander of Man- hattan (Kansas) Post, tells it. The topic of kissing was being disposed of, specifi- cally as to whether kissing your wife was GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK effort or pleasure. The lieutenant said that with him it was ninety percent If you're between 35 and 40, the chances pleasure and ten percent effort. The major allowed that with him it was fifty- are you've passed your physical peak. Then fifty. The general admitted to ninety pleasure. it pays to watch what you eat, conserve your percent effort and ten percent The sergeant on duty began shuffling the energy, exercise regularly. And if you drink papers on his desk, whereupon the what's your idea —never take "one too many". general said, "Sergeant, on this important matter?" Enjoy a whiskey you know Js extra- "Well, General," replied the sergeant, it can't be the way you say it is, or smooth, extra-light, extra-fine, Seagram's 5 you'd have me do the work for you." Crown— whiskey in its "smoothest" form.

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THE desperate character of the CONTENTS made into a virtually impregnable fighting in Europe between the COVER DESIGN base against European attack upon western democracies Hit- North and South America and the and By W. J. Aylward ler's Germany has provided the Panama Canal, just in case anyone BURSTS AND DUDS 1 American people with numerous ex- gets the notion that we won't light amples of the futility of relying RED LIGHTS AREN'T ENOUGH 6 to maintain the Monroe Doctrine. By T. H. Thomas on anything except our will to defend Legionnaire Tucker's "National what we have with every resource at BROADSIDES OF VICTORY 8 Whirligig" column from Washington our command. Norway, Denmark, By David I. Walsh appears in 232 American newspapers. Illustrations by Grattan Condon Holland and Belgium received sol- emn assurances from Hitler that he BANK JOB 10 ARED WHITE in Lampposti ana had no idea of invading them. Three By Karl Detzer Ix. Sabotage gives you a line on 1 /lustrations by J. W. Schlaikjer of these countries are functioning to- what the Fifth Columnists in America day under the swastika banner, and LF THEY COME AT US . . . 14 will doubtless try to do to our get- By Ray Tucker the fourth is maintaining its sov- ting-into-gear emergency program for ereignty far from its capital, with the LAMPPOSTS AND SABOTAGE 16 national defense. Barron C. Watson's conquerors in control of the southern By Ared White Ships and More Ships takes up the Decoration by Will Graven portion of the nation, as well of the role of the merchant marine as an majority of the ports of entry. TO THE LAST MAN 18 auxiliary to the Navy in peace and ii\ Fred B. Barton war. The editorial deals with the part Illustrations by Frank- Street UP TO May 10th, when Hitler's which every person who loves Amer- army began to overrun Hol- SHIPS AND MORE SHIPS 20 ica must take in proving to the world

- land and Belgium, the war was a By Barron C. Watson that in a time of crisis our democraq pretty remote affair to the vast ma- ABOVE ALL, THE can conduct even a national election jority of Americans. Your magazine CONSTITUTION 22 based on controversial domestic is- B\ Anson T. McCook had not emphasized the war in its sues without weakening in the slight- Decoration by William HeasHp columns, principally because it ap- est our unanimity in the matter of peared that the Magi not Line and EDITORIAL: what's to do 23 foreign affairs. the Westwall seemed to have stale- STOUT FELLOWS ALL 24 mated the opposing forces, and not By Irving Wallace ONE of the must places to visit on much was happening that would in- your trip to the National Con- SOUTH DAKOTA'S WAY 26 terest Americans who had been vention in Boston, September 23d By Frederick C. Painton through the experiences of 1917-18 through 26th, will be the U.S.S. AT FORT in France. But suddenly the Allies YOUNG GLORY Constitution, Old Ironsides herself, STANWIX 28 were defending desperately towns which is berthed at the Charlestown l'>\ Boyd B. Stutler and villages that became household Navy Yard, only a few minutes Irom SO THIS WAS PARRIS 32 words to us twenty-two years ago. downtown Boston. In this issue Sena- By John J. Noll tor David I. Walsh of Massachusetts. new interest in the righting WHEN WE WERE 21 64 Chairman of the Naval Affairs Com- THE B\ Wallgren raging overseas is reflected in a mittee of the Upper House of the number of articles in this issue. national legislature, in Broadsides of Major Thomas in Red Lights Aren't Victory tells you something of the Enough tells you something of the IMPORTANT career of that famous vessel and of significance of the break-through by the other Yankee ships which ac- your convenience you wish the Germans. Ray Tucker in // They A farm for if quitted themselves so splendidly on to have the magazine sent to another ad- lakes in the Come At Us . . . takes you to Puerto the high seas and on our dress will be found on page jj. Rico, which the United States has War of 1812.

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REN I HOI OH

ended at the Mame. It was halted not by trench war- for working against troops inside trenches. Could they have fare but by fighting in the open field, and the con- been massed for a collective effort against any one sector of tinuing war of movement presently Drought the the front, the Germans might have won the war in 1915. front to the English Channel. It became an en- In 1916 the full string of new British divisions was ready. trenched front automatically as soon as the fighting The output of Allied war industries and munitions plants died down in any given sector and the weight of attack was vastly increased, and from this time forward both sides was shifted elsewhere. Thin lines of troops left holding were on a more or less equal footing as regards artillery and long stretches ot front were too weak to advance; and munitions. But tJt$|i]a|&BidBM|^^ on both sides of the line the troops dug into the multiplied so thickly that even with far stronger armies ground automatically in order to keep alive and to and with an infinitely greater use of munitions, it was still be able to hold the ground. By the end of impossible for the attack to break through the ever deeper November 1914 this line of thin and rather network of trenches. From the technical standpoint. 10 16 in the contest between sutiUery flimsy trenches reached all the way from and , 9 i 7 marked a deadlock Alsace to the Channel. This entrencheicned and trenches. front represented no change of military By 1918 the gun had gained the advantage. Between the policy but the plain fact that both a mies new types of weapons, the abundance of medium and heavy were thinned out and exhausted. artillery, and an almost inexhaustible supply of munitions, The one thing Schlieffin had set out Ludendorff was convinced that a properly conducted attack to avoid had come to pass. Quite as could now be pushed forward through any trench system on in Manchuria in 1005, the war of the Western Front. The exit of Russia from the war allowed movement, once blocked, settled him to do the thing on a scale never conceived before. Every into trench warfare. good division and every gun that was needed was gathered It became permanent because up from the Russian front and sent west. New infantry neither army at first was strong tactics were devised for this final effort, and during the enough to break through the barrier. winter of 1917-18 the whole German army in the west was In 1015 the German etiort wa: put through special training courses to unlearn mos drawn off to the Eastern Front, what they had learned before, and start out afresh accord- while the Allied supply of artillery ing to the new field tactics. The German offensives of the and munitions could not keep pace spring of 1918 were the most powerful and the best prepared with the steady growth of the lines efforts in all military history, and they made short work of trenches. Throughout 1915 the of the opposing trench Nevertheless the offensives failed. Man}- factors entered into the failure—above all the fighting spirit of the French and British infantry when in a tight place. But one common factor entered into the halting of all these offensives. In each case, however successful the break-through and however thoroughly the attacking infantry rid themselves of the encumbrance of enemy wire and trenches, in the last resort the pushing forward of the advance lines came to depend upon the human frame. The German infantry started out well rested and in first rate condition. They pushed forward with enterprise and spirit, and kept going long after they had passed beyond the range of their support- campaign in Russia left the German command un- artilleAery. But noweverjwever rapid the drive, each day had to able to gather at any point on the Western Front have an end. However favorable the situation, a night's rest enough men and guns to undertake a serious offen- had to come before the advance could get on its feet again. sive; but through all this early period the German Sooner or later the French railways deposited a thin line of field howitzers provided a steady advantage over pailus across the line of advance. By next morning, the the enemy in the ordinary routine of trench warfare. poilux would have dug themselves into foxholes and planted They proved as useful as Schlieffin had anticipated, their machine guns under cover of solid earth; and the weary and were of course far better than the French 75s and footsore German infantry would find themselves forced once again to attack an organized position. It was a flimsy affair in comparison with the one they had just broken through, but they themselves were by then a much thinner line of attack than at the outset —and they had marched well ahead of their artillery and supplies. An offensive which started out with all the devices of the newest techniques, with the fullest resources of massed artillery, firing unlimited quantities of high explosive and gas—was thus stripped down to an exhausted effort of foot -soldiers carrying on the light on their own. In the last resort the thing turned on the staying power of infantry fighting {Continued on page 52)

JULY, 1940 4 DAVID 5. CHAIRMAN, NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, UNITED STATES SENATE

r AM pleased to report that we have made the nec- all Navy Yards and Naval Stations. But, because of * essary arrangements to permit visitors to the na- the location of Old Ironsides near the Navy Yard tional convention of The American Legion in Boston gate and the fact that The American Legion and to visit the U.S.S. Constitution, known as Old Iron- their families constitute one of the most representa- sides. Because of the state of limited emergency that tive of all American organizations, we have made has existed since the beginning of the war in Europe, special arrangements to permit visiting this historic we have been compelled to forbid general visiting in ship. ^{gne^^^iM^^^l^^^c^ta^^^h^avy

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine THE Boston Navy Yard, for manded by their doughty "Yankee INevery American Legion visitor Commodores" during these eventful to the 1940 Convention to be- years, established many a tradition in hold and to admire, stands in seamanship, marksmanship, courage and her full majesty America's Number chivalry, to inspire the officers and men

1 Naval Shrine, the great United of the United States Navy for all time States Frigate, the Constitution, or and to arouse the patriotic spirit of Americans in every generation. The United States Navy entered the struggle hardly a match for the vaunted British Fleet. Against an armada of a thousand cruisers, America was able to muster but twelve. Great Britain had At left, the Constitution de- 1 24 ships of the line, carrying 60 or more livering a broadside, and at guns. We had none. Great Britain had right the shattered hulk of 116 frigates in service. We had six. Who, one of her victims. Above is under the circumstances, would have shown the lower gun deck; dared to expect anything from our below, the steering wheel of Navy? Yet, when the score was struck, the famous ship. On opposite it was found that on the ocean Great page, Ironsides Old today Britain lost 8500 tons and 351 guns to our 6000 and 278, respectively; and that on the lakes we destroyed or captured 13,500 tons

. and 605 guns as compared to our own losses of 10,000 tons and 431 guns. No, the United States

Illustrator GRATTON CONDON

"Old Ironsides," as she is better known to the thousands upon thousands of visitors who have promenaded her deck. Her glorious achievements as a man of war extended over a span of fourscore years beginning in 1708 and ending in 1878. The exploits that gained her immortal fame, however, are crowded

into the period of 1812-15, the days of the War of 181 2. On land the War of 1812 was marked by drab and futile effort; indeed, probably most Americans think that we took a sound thrashing. The historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon in The Story of Democracy disposes of the entire war in this manner: "The War of 1812 was an endless series of defeats and disasters. The City of Washington was taken by the British. The Capitol and the White House and most other public build- ings were plundered and burned. And although the American troops gained one signal victory at New Orleans, peace had already been signed and General Jackson's successful action, therefore, came too late to do any good." Navy did not sweep the seas. It did not But that's only half the story. The keep our shores inviolate. The landing little Yankee Navy covered itself along the Chesapeake, which culminated with glory in a series of heroic and in the burning of Washington, is not a colorful performances. Of sixteen en- proud chapter in our history, but the gagements on the high seas the small number of American ships could Americans came out on top in twelve. hardly have been in a dozen places at Equally impressive was the score in once. Suffice it to say that whenever the engagements on Lake Erie and Lake opposing fleets met on anywhere near Champlain. The deeds of the Con- equal terms, the Americans usually gave stitution and her sister ships, corn- an excellent (Continued on page 46)

JULY. 1040 radio under the dash had been silent for five min- THEutes except for the low, continuous bustle of static. The patrol car splashed ahead at a steady forty-five, its headlamps burning a shallow hole in the rain. It was rolling north again on U. S. 31, once more covering the same

ten-mile sector it had been patroling since four o'clock. Some- where over to the right, in one of those cold, wet swamps the bank bandits probably were hiding. Trooper Jim Smith shifted uneasily behind his wheel and stared through the spattered windshield at the darkness. He was only four months out of recruit school and this was his

rirst bank job. If he'd ever guessed that it would turn out this way, that he'd be called so soon to choose between wanting to do his job right and ... he swallowed hard, trying to dis- lodge the plug in his throat. Sergeant Casey, who rode beside him, yawned. He warned, "Keep to your side of the yellow line, ree-cruit. Can't drive all

over the road, even if there ain't no traffic. What's eatin' you?" Jim shrugged and didn't answer. Usually Casey hadn't much to say. He was an old-timer as state troopers go, forty- six his next birthday, and fighting hard against his waistline.

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In this kind of weather he often got grouchy when the damp- was stuffing the bowl from his pouch when the radio blared. ness began to sink into that big shrapnel scar on his shoulder. "Attention all cars on bank job. The woman customer who This wasn't his first bank job by a good many dozen. For was shot in the chest by the bandits has regained consciousness. twenty years he'd been chasing hoodlums all over Michigan, Her descriptions are as follows: Number One, six feet, one hun- ever since he got mustered out of the Rainbow Division and dred sixty pounds, age about eighteen, dark brown hair, medium ." first pinned on a trooper badge. But this time he insisted on an complexion, very nice looking, scar on left cheek. . . answer, repeating, "What's eatin' you, anyhow?" and grunt- Jim gripped the wheel tighter. That was the third witness ing, and turning in his seat to look hard at Jim Smith by the who'd noticed the scar. The radio still was talking, telling what reflection of the dashboard light. the other two bandits looked like. Jim swallowed again. But he "Nothing's eating me, sarge," Jim replied. "I'm okay. wasn't listening. His own kid brother fitted that first description

Nothing wrong at all." But his voice didn't sound right, even to a T . . . height, weight, age, hair, complexion, scar . . . young to his own ears. It sounded sort of choked. He knew that Charley, who didn't like the farm any more than Jim had, who Sergeant Casey was nobody's fool. He'd been a cop long didn't like it, either, enough to spot a phony voice when he heard one. But Casey that he had to stick didn't say anything, just grunted again and looked ahead there when Jim got through the windshield, and after a minute began to swear picked for drill school, quietly to himself about the rain. who didn't want to KARL Smith drove with his left hand, with his right dipped into take his turn at plant- his tunic pocket for cigarettes. He offered one to Casey. ing potatoes and look- "No, thank you kindly," the sergeant refused, and rum- ing after stock. Charley maged in the dash compartment for his pipe. He found it and knew all about this DETZER

JULY, 1940 1 J. W. Schlaikjer He could hear them smashing through the brush ahead of him

It had been a mistake, ever to start for Governor Dickinson or Shirley worrying. Temple. ..."

"Can't be any mistake about it." The radio interrupted. "Car 17." it Casey suddenly said, as if he were read- directed, "on U. S. 25 south of Mutton- ing Jim's mind. ville, an accident. First repeat." bank in Pineville that had been stuck "What you mean, no mistake?" Jim Jim settled back . . . one message, at It was only twenty miles from home. roared. "Sure it's a mistake!" Jim least, that had nothing to do with the The Smith family never had banked stopped short, realizing that Casey had bank job. Casey was talking again, there, never had banked much any- turned again and was giving him one of which again was unusual. where, but Charley knew all about it those long looks. "Yes, sir, ree-cruit, it's goin' to be just the same. "Well, for gosh sakes, try keepin' your easy. Good description to stait on, and Not that he was the kind of kid to shirt on," he advised. "No mistake, I'm we. know enough else about these hood- ." stick up a bank. He wasn't. He was a thinkin', none a-tall. Easy to get the lums. . . good kid. But his pockets always were one guy. No chance for mistake when "What else?" Jim asked quickly. empty. Whose weren't, just working on three eye-witnesses . . . cashier before "Why, we know just what sort of a farm? And he'd taken to hanging he died, little kid that got shot in the birds they are. Small-time punks. Not around town half the time, days as well leg, and now this here lady . . . when all been at it long. Shoot hard as anybody as evenings. Jim had talked to him three of them give the identical same else, but don't know how to get away about it just last Sunday when he was description. You can just close your as easy." ." home for two hours. He had seen young eyes and see this one tall guy . . "How you know' they're punks?" Charley when Car 88 rolled through "Mebbe," Jim said, and cleared his "First place 'cause they took off this Pineville on Saturday night patrol. The throat. "Mebbe that's right." But he here little one-horse bank. 'Cause they kid was loafing on the corner right beside need not close his eyes. He could see pull a job up here in the sticks where this same bank, waiting for nine o'clock plainly enough, just staring ahead at there ain't many roads or bridges and show to start. Anybody, passing, would the rain. See Charley, tall and good- we can blockade 'em nice. 'Cause after- see him. He was just too good looking to looking in spite of that scar. See him wards they lam north 'stead of south. It miss. doing his chores down by the barn. See they had sense to pour sand out a boot, The scar on his cheek where the horse him driving the team at potato-digging they'd know we'd corner 'em up north. kicked him once didn't spoil his looks. It time, hauling the crop to the root cellar. They ain't got a chance. Now this kid ." just made folks glance at him twice. See him dressed up for town. See him w ith the scar. . . Jim didn't know the two fellows with the way he used to be, a nice little kid "What about him?" Jim asked. him that night; round-shouldered little with big eyes. And see him the way he "Well, I was wonderin'. Seems like guys they were, and dressed sort of was last Sunday, mad clear through at I've seen a kid answers that look-out, flashy. But Charley got mad when Jim everybody, slouching even when he kid hangin' around somewheres. ..." mentioned them. walked, wanting some money of his Jim turned his head. The sergeant He argued that he was old enough to own. Talking about nothing else. wasn't even glancing at him, but cer- do as he pleased, wasn't he? To pick his "Hey," Casey warned, "you got two tainly there was something suspicious own friends, too. He was eighteen. wheels off the concrete." He waited till in his voice. The rain drummed noisily Jim shrugged. Sure. Charley was Jim straightened out the car again. on the top of the car and the tires made eighteen. Lots of boys were that age. "Most times," he said, "preserve me a continuous sucking sound against the

What matter if the rest of the descrip- from a flock of eye-witnesses. Bankers pavement. Roaring across muddy fields tion fitted, too? Must be plenty of nice- and women is worst. Can't see straight between black patches of pine woods, little looking, six-foot boys with brown hair w hen I hey're s< a red. (live you three where the soggy snow still hid in and scars. Plenty of them. Sure there or four descriptions of the hoodlums pockets, the squally northeast wind were. It couldn't he Charley' Couldn't! afterward. You can't tell whether to look found the car and pummeled it.

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "If I could just get to a 'phone," Jim like this same number 88, had sped inside didn't say anything more, just kept on started to say, but the sergeant stopped the circle and begun to cruise, shaking growling about the weather. The weather him. down everything they met, raiding would help, eventually. Twice already "You 'phoned twice already. What's shacks, putting the bee on farmers who police cars had flushed out the bandits, so almighty important?" might think it smart to shelter a bank and twice, thanks to luck, they'd got "Nothing important," Jim said. He mob. In the hunt by now were sheriffs of a away. had telephoned home twice. And Charley dozen counties, police of a hundred small But they weren't riding now. They was out both times, had been away since towns, checking every car at their city were afoot, in the rain. The Seventh early morning and the folks didn't know limits. District captain had shot it out with where he was. Hadn't even come home "Them posses of Legionnaires and them over west of Manton, and they'd to do his chores. That last call was at farmers must be gettin' plenty wet," ducked into the woods, leaving their seven o'clock. It was past nine right Casey suddenly remarked. He turned up sedan with its rear end full of holes like now; he might be there. . . . the radio. It reported railroad detectives a pepper box, in the middle of a gravel The radio awakened. A bell struck in Grand Rapids were searching all road. three quick taps. Then the dispatcher's southbound freights; game wardens in "They won't stay out long," Casey tired voice said: "Signal seven-one-one. Manistee and Benzie Counties with por- said. "Not them birds." Signal seven-eleven. Signal seventy- table transmitters were out in the "Why not?" Jim asked. one-one." swamps; at seven o'clock the four coast "Ain't got the guts. Mud an' dark in "Heh!" Casey said. "Something com- guard stations along Lake Michigan the woods, why, it'll give 'em the creeps. in' up?" His tone was almost enthusiastic. had sent out surfmen in pairs to watch They'll run for the concrete. I know ." "That signal's for the skipper. Want the dunes. "Gettin' lots of free help." their kind. I seen it happen. . . him to 'phone his office. Think maybe Jim nodded. Just before dark the dis- The radio bell rang. Jim slowed the them satchel-pants district detectives patcher had reported that even country car to listen. Creeps? Mud and dark decided to go to work, after all? Turned telephone operators were spreading the wouldn't give Charley the creeps. . . . something up? Hope so. I sure want alarm, grinding out long and short rings "Attention everybody!" the radio some shut-eye." on party lines, warning farmers to keep warned. "Three armed men stole black "Not me," Jim said. "Not sleepy a- eyes and ears open and doors locked. sedan near Karlin forty minutes ago. tall." The dispatcher signed off and immedi- Headed north." He wasn't. His nerves were too tight ately Casey said: "What'd I tell you?" Casey demanded. for sleep. He'd been driving since noon "Lots o' talk but no news. Don't tell He grunted and lighted his pipe. when the first radio dispatch came in. nothing. Nary a word whether they The radio was directing: "Car 14, join The bandits still were in Pineville Bank found fingerprints." Car 106 at Fife Lake corner. Car 72, go then. They'd gone in shooting like ama- Jim felt a sudden relief. At least to Betsie bridge on Highway 115. Car teurs, one with a tommy-gun, and the Charley never had been printed. Never 46, meet Sheriff White at Maple City. cashier hadn't a chance. But as he any reason to be. He was a good kid, Car iq, go to filling station at Buckley. dropped with four slugs in him he wasn't he? No matter what, they'd not See the man. Information. Cadillac tripped the new silent alarm. That gave find him in those green steel cases in sheriff, please hold your bridge guards, ." the law a break. It registered not on the record room down at East Lansing. and thanks. Car 88. . . the front of the bank, where it would "One fingerprint's worth a dozen "That's us!" Jim shouted. warn the robbers to hurry, but in the scars," Casey said. "Shut up an' listen," Casey barked. sheriff's office, so the blockade got Jim turned and looked at him this "Car 88, go to M22 and County Road

The patrol car's headlamps burned started while the hoodlums still were a shallow hole as it plunged along 76 in town of Empire. Shake down scooping the money into sacks. the highway everybody. ..." Within five minutes eighty cars had "Empire!" Jim exclaimed. started to close in, blocking cross-roads time. Why didn't Casey come right out "What about it?" and bridges as the radio directed them. and mention Charley, instead of hinting "Why, he's got ... I got ... a cousin They had made a ring of men and guns around about scars? It was Jim who had lives there," Jim said. "That's all." fifty miles from the bank that no bandits, introduced Charley to old Casey, that His voice dwindled off, but it wasn't neither smart old hands nor dumb young Sunday when the kid came down to all. Charley went up to Empire every punks, could hope to break. That ring visit recruit school and Casey had been summer to pick cherries on the cousin's still was holding. Twenty other cars, in charge for the day. But the sergeant farm, knew {Continued on page 50)

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New type machine gun goes into position in maneuvers to protect San Juan, Puerto Rican capital, and its harbor. At left, Camp Buchanan, at Bayamon, base for Uncle Sam's Army in the Caribbean. Inset, Brigadier General Daley, Commander, Puerto Rican Department. Below, the Army's radio station on the island COME AT tS

ONLY a few years ago—about RAY TUCKER which once sufficed for native pack ani- the same time that he sat on a mals or inquisitive tourists are being log with British Prime Minister widened, straightened and paved to ac-

Ramsay MacDonald and dis- it owes the fact that soft, sun-washed commodate sky-fingering guns. A gigan- cussed permanent world disarmament at waters have awakened to the "Hellza- tic naval radio station, hooked up with his Rapidan Camp in the hills of Vir- poppin" discords of the world's most permanent and movable field telephones ginia —Herbert Hoover described Puerto modern but noisy airplane engines. It poking into every cranny of the island, Rico and the adjacent Virgin Islands in owes to the German War Lord the pros- has been established and expanded. the Caribbean as "the nation's perma- I>ect that soon its brilliantly colored In short, the so-called "nation's poor- nent poorhouse." So they might have hsh will catch their tails in the propellers house"' will, upon completion of the remained had it not been for a discon- of our fastest and most deadly subma- proposed $250,000,000 Army-Navy proj- tented and dyspeptic house painter rines and destroyers. ects there, become Uncle Sam's military named Adolf Hitler and the military Today, drowsy and romantic hillsides and naval power house in the Atlantic, mess which he dished out to Chamber- in this pearl of the Antilles echo and re- as Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is inthe Pacific. lain and Daladier at Munich in the echo with the detonations of "Big A glance at any map of the Caribbean Autumn of ig.^S. That historic confer- Berthas" which can clip the stripes from and our Atlantic Seaboard reveals the ence was a bonanza for Puerto Rico the shoulders of a battleship commander strategic value of the Island of Puerto and for Uncle Sam. 45,000 yards offshore. Now, the thatched Rico. Well stocked—as planned—with Ever since that tragic assemblage of roofs of native huts camouflage machine airplanes, destroyers, submarines, cruis- Europe's best and worst minds, the and antiaircraft guns. Winding roads ers and Coast Artillery, it will provide American Army and Navy the most powerful source of and their respective Air Serv- defense of the Panama Canal, ices—with major help from which lies only 993 miles to the Engineers so underrated westward. No enemy, it is in song and story—have com- believed, can wreck that sea- bined to transform our east- way from the Pacific to the ernmost possession into an- Atlantic without first de- other Pearl Harbor—into a stroying our Puerto Rican more modern Gibraltar—into outpost. And how essential a nearly impregnable Atlantic the preservation of the Canal outpost against invasion from is to the United States may be Europe or South America. It judged from this statement is, in a sense, Uncle Sam's of Major General George Y. counterattack against pro- Strong, Assistant Chief of spective blitzkriegs. Staff: Puerto Rico owes a heavy "Our whole scheme of na- debt to Herr Hitler. To him tional defense is built upon

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the maintenance and continued operation of that enduring monu- bomber of the 27th Recon- ment to engineering skill that is the A air- Panama Canal. In fact, as stated by our naissance Squadron passing over the base Punta Borinquen. right, 2 5th Field Secretary of War, it is the keystone of at At Artillery in their pup tents during maneuvers this our national defense, and as such it must be as nearly impregnable as engineering spring. The inset is Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, Com- mandant of the Puerto Rico Naval District skill and trained soldiers can make it. . . . "Under present conditions, and in view of the present development of weapons, this hemisphere is safe from any aggression from abroad as long as two conditions maintain:

"First, that the Panama Canal is open for the transit of the United States Fleet, and "Second, that an aggressor from abroad has no bases in this hemisphere from which to operate." In his famous report to Congress on the need for additional naval bases—the document upon which our present program is based—Rear Admiral A. J. Hepburn said: "In its study of the Caribbean, the Board found only one site capable of being made into an air base suitable for the normal operations of patrol planes. This site is at Isla Grande, in the harbor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. ... A base for patrol planes situated this far eastward in the Caribbean will be of major strategic importance." Here are the detailed reasons why Puerto Rico figures so importantly in our national defense panorama: It will be Puerto Rico's assignment to preserve the Canal from a hostile thrust, and to prevent a potential enemy from estab- lishing himself in force on this continent. There are, however, other considerations which reveal the island's key position in President Roosevelt's program for insuring hemispheric safety. A hostile fleet aiming at an attack on the American mainland would presumably move against us by one of two routes from the bulge on the African continent to a similar protrusion in South America, or directly across {Continued on page j8)

JULY, 1940 war: Lockheed bombers destined for Eng- land salvaged from New York harbor after sinking of a barge. Below, a million and a half dollars in military equipment goes up in ARED flames in an bama ar- senal WHITE

ABOTA GE

ate wing bomb." "Large chemical plant at Cadillac, Mich., mysteriously destroyed." "Two attempts made to dynamite piers of Pacific Steamship Company." "Suspected alien agent makes at-

tempt to assassinate J. l'ierpont Mor- gan, financier, who is credited with engineering heavy loans for the Allies." "Atlas powder-mixing plant destroyed by sabotage attacks." Unless the

"Black Tom terminal in New York harbor wrecked by greatest vigilance is exercised the alien agents who detonate 2.000.000 pounds of munitions damage from sabotage in this stored there for shipment abroad." country may prove far more dis-

Those are not phrases from a spy-thriller but extracts astrous than it was in our war. from the record of sabotage by foreign agents in the This due to improved methods of United States preliminary to our entering the World War. violence and a more intricate and This record of alien violence might be extended over sinister organization of saboteurs. several pages to include scores of sabotage attacks on Effective incendiary and corro- American industry that cost many lives and millions of sive chemicals can be reduced dollars. All this at a time when the United States, today to objects the size of a stoutly maintaining neutrality, supposed that it was at pencil, cigarette or cigar, objects

iea.ce with the world. that lend themselves to ready I The record comes into importance again as Europe concealment. Bombs capable of flares out of stalemate into active warfare, and the wrecking heavy machinery can United States, protesting neutrality, sits on the sidelines be hidden in an ordinary lunch selling war supplies to belligerents. Will history repeat pail. Or heavy bombs may con- itself? So far only minor sabotage plots have revealed ceivably be dropped on impor- ihcmselves. But government counter-espionage agents tant factories by skillful agents are on the alert in the knowledge that American industry, using commercial planes at night. straining to rush our five-billion-dollar re-armament, There are innumerable new weap- faces sabotage attacks far more disastrous than those ons and methods for saboteurs. incident to the last war. Improved weapons for these

16 The ANTl'KU W LEGION Magazine skulking battalions of secret invaders Therefore, if history and the ordinary practices of war spell have developed in pace with new- anything, retaliation might prove inevitable if American mu- weapons and tactics for the front lines. nitions threaten seriously to shape the course of conflict in Unhappily the average citizen, for- Europe. It was for just such a reason that American industry getting the past and overlooking some was wracked by sabotage that began as early as the first year of the sinister developments of the of the war we knew, more than two years before this present, smiles in smug skepticism at country finally declared war and plunged its might into the any possible menace to the United red maelstrom. States from an unseen invader. No Obviously, organized sabotage would be the only ready

matter if secret agents did swarm method of striking at the United States. Sabotage for the through Poland and Scandinavia, Hol- purpose of wrecking factories, ships, docks, in short every land and Belgium to pave the way for facility engaged in manufacture and shipment of war supplies armed invasion, nothing of the sort to belligerents. The motive would be obvious—to stop, or could happen here. What if warring na- slacken, the ilow of war materials to Europe, and to prevent us from being prepared ourselves. Sabotage attacks are not acknowl- Decoration by Will Graven edged by the countries responsible for them. On the contrary, they are launched in secrecy. Saboteurs are

A small part of the devasta- tion that accompanied the Black Tom munitions explo- sion in New York harbor. Below, ruins of the Roebling plant fire in New Jersey, where anti-submarine nets were manufactured

pledged not to talk if tions bombard one an- captured. They know that the other, and us, with end- government they serve must repudiate less propaganda. Since sec- them. This practice was amply illustrated when ret agents are part of warfare President Wilson protested vigorously to the German and the United States is a peaceful kaiser against the rampage of imperial German spies. The neutral intent only in keeping out of kaiser's government emphatically denied any knowledge of, or war this time, why fret about foreign responsibility for, secret agents operating in America. spies? But when our own secret service, put on its mettle by the But it must be remembered that in this mounting toll of spy mischief, got to the bottom of some of the particular World War supplies are the great plots, the whole disastrous intrigue led right up close to the issue at the very outset. In fact, supply will de- Imperial embassy in Washington. The Kaiser's ambassador, von termine the victory in this war, as in any other Bernstorff, managed to absolve himself of personal complicity. great wars. Therefore the United States, as an im- But there was so much unmistakable evidence against Captain portant source of supply, not only of foods but of Boy-ed and Captain Yon Papen, German naval and military

raw materials and munitions, is already a factor in attaches, respectively, the President demanded of Berlin that this war. Moreover, history has fairly well es- they be withdrawn from further duty in the United States. The tablished the fact that warring nations, their backs kaiser's government yielded, still protesting that Germany was to the wall, are motivated chiefly by the law of their not responsible. Eurther evidence conclusively proved that the necessities rather than by formulas of international saboteurs were German agents, fully financed by the imperial law. German government. (Continued on page j6)

JULY, 1 040 17 DANIEL FREDERICK BAKEMAN

^euoiuti on art lAJar ^oldi

FRED B. BARTON

William Vernon Smith

of Flint, Michigan, who

as a boy of eleven knew YOUR editor does fairly well, for He handed me two pictures, and taking a young fellow," said the gentle- advantage of my silence, went on to ham- Bakeman man with the thin, kindly face, mer his point home. "but he slips up when he says "I am 82 years old, plus, born August that John Gray was the last soldier of the 6, 1857. My life and Dan Bakeman's over- American Revolution to die.* I remem- lapped by eleven years. I knew him when ." ber . . I was a boy."

"Just a minute," I interrupted. "The It was almost as if a magician had

Revolution ended on April 19, 1783. That turned back the clock and re-incarnated was something like 157 years ago. Your men and events long past and almost for- imagination, plus your history school- gotten. Here at Flint, Michigan, in the books, may tell you things; but what's person of William Vernon Smith exists an this about your memory?" actual, living tie between us of 1940 and He brushed me aside with a gesture. the soldiers who established our liberty in

"John Gray died March 20, 1868, at the the war of 1 776-1 783. Here sat a man who youthful age of 104," he continued. knew a man whose life antedated our

"Daniel Frederick Bakeman died April 5, whole national history, as represented by i860, at the mature age of 100 years, five the signing of the Declaration of Inde- months and 28 days. He was not only the pendence, by sixteen years. last to die, but by far the oldest. Here's Yet not an old man. either. Eighty- his picture, and here's a snapshot of his two, yes. Slightly hard of hearing; yes, gravestone to prove it!" that could happen. But a man who * See "The Last Eight," The American types his own letters and reads books; a Legion Magazine, October, 1939. man with clear, blue eyes and a quick

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Magarine sense of humor and a hearty laugh; a man with young friends and courageous young ideas. I was glad to meet W. V. Smith, not only to bring home a first-hand pic- world. He had always been a ture of what a Revolutionary War vet- pioneer farmer, never earning eran might be like, but to show other much, never doing anything Legionnaires what a human person a man extraordinary. Then a coupb He'd fire thirteen sa- of 82 of today can be. We need encourage- of years before he died he was lutes with his old mus- ment for our old age. We'll be there our- awarded a pension of $500 a ket on the Fourth of selves presently. year. That was big money, July Sit down with me in the livingroom at and it made him a nabob. He 017 Garland Street, Flint, and while Mrs. drove around in his own car- Smith—("Together we add up to 164 riage. Two or three towns bid years," says Mr. Smith cheerfully) — for him to ride in their parade knits contentedly in the next room, let every Fourth of July.

W. V. Smith tell the story which, of 1 30 "I remember those July million people in this country, he alone is Fourths," he smiled and con-

able to tell. tinued, "Bakeman would get because it would have been out his old war musket and a line relic." DAN BAKEMAN spent his last I brought the conversa- years near Sandusky (Post Office) tion back to Bakeman. in the town of Freedom, Cattaraugus Had he fought in any County, New York," Mr. Smith began, FRANK STREET battles, and had he had any with the careful exactness produced exciting war experiences? by 58 years of practicing law. "Goodness, I don't think "The old man had a nephew, he was in any battles," ex- Jacob Bakeman, or 'Jake,' about 80 / V ploded Mr. Smith, genially. years old then, who lived in our town "Service in that war was about a mile away from my old farm pretty casual. We used to home, and in his old age he used to speak worshipfully of the come over and stay for a while with Minute Men, but James Jake. On these occasions I saw him. Truslow Adams and other "The last time I saw him was 71 modern writers have shown years ago last fall," he continued. us that Washington never "At that time I heard him tell of cer- had more than 22,000 men tain of his experiences as a soldier. As under arms at any one I said, I was eleven years old at the time, and that there were time." constant desertions, and What sort of a person would a that everything was run Revolutionary War veteran have very informally. One writer been? Stiff and dignified, like some- refers to the whole Revo- thing in a museum? Hardly. Mr. lutionary War army as a Smith remembers Bakeman as a 'rabble in arms.' man of wit and spirit; a "But Bakeman may have jollier and a lover of life. done some service, probably "He was very slender, in New York State, though tall, erect and wore chin his name does not appear whiskers," Mr. Smith says. in this huge volume called "He got a lot of fun out of 'New York in the Revolu- life. Not all old people do. tionary War.' When you wish a person "You won't have room long life, it's not always a to tell the history of west- blessing. Often old people The old man had his reasons for ern New York State during are wretched. not warming up to Strong and following the Revolu- "Bakeman never grew tionary War, but it's a too old to enjoy a joke. fascinating tale," Mr.

Practical joking prevails fire thirteen salutes, in Smith went on, and his tone told that he among rural people, and memory of the original was on familiar ground. we lived in a rural com- Thirteen Colonies. It took "The western end of New York was en- munity. Some men were him about half an hour! tirely unsettled. It was part of the Five digging a well, and the old The gun was an old muzzle- Nations' holding. They didn't dispose of man was down maybe 16 loader and a flint-lock. it until after the treaty following the War. or 18 feet. The bell rang for "I was promised that There had been a dispute between Massa- dinner, and the gang went gun," he added sadly. "I chusetts and New York, because the off and left Bakeman down joined the Masons sixty- grants of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the well. They hadn't one years ago and met a and of the Duke of York overlapped. This much more than sat down nephew of Bakeman's dispute was settled by Congressional when in he walked. They named Austin. He gave me action when Congress gave to Massa- never got a word out of this picture of Bakeman chusetts the fee and ownership of the him as to how he climbed and promised me the old land but gave to New York the power of out of the well. He left musket, but unfortunately government. It was a compromise. them guessing. the house burned down al- "Massachusetts sold this land in west- "Of course Bakeman was Recording most the next day. I never ern New York to Robert Morris, the a big figure in our little of an got the musket. Too bad, financier of the {Continued on page 40)

JULY, 1910 19 WHETHER his apartment overlooks the docks on Manhattan's waterfront or his house is at the end of an R.ED, route in a prairie State or in

the far Southwest, an American is en- titled to take a critical interest in our

merchant marine. It is an important

factor in our national prosperity, it is a

vital element in national defense and it is run on money put up by all of us. Between iqij and 1037 our taxpayers anted up exactly $3, Soo, 860,(176. 15 to build and maintain an American merchant marine. (The figures are furnished by the U. S. Maritime Commission.) Not much of this can be charged off to World War expenditure, because not one ship of the Shipping Board's so-called war-time fleet was completed and commissioned until after the Armistice. At the end of the 20 years noted the net assets remain- continent. As for foreign trade, ing to show for the expense of three and even in wartime we can find eight-tenths billions were less than one- ships of other nations eager quarter of a billion dollars. The whole to handle our exports and im- program was a gigantic flop. ports for us, and, most casual We have now started on another observers would suppose, they merchant marine program. Its cost in are competing among themselves public money is set at $500,000,000, for the business. which is about what the vast TVA pro- This is the answer. In peacetime

ject will have cost when it is carried we need our own ships for the same through to full completion. In terms of reason that a manufacturer doesn't

national defense this building of ships is want to hire his trucking done by a rival tremendously important. concern. All the big nations are savage A serious hitch has developed in the business competitors, and the ship lines, new ship-building and ship-operating regardless of whether they are government

plan. The trouble is not the disruption of owned or apparently privately- sea trade routes brought about by the owned, are instruments and weapons European war and our own neutrality of national business policy. The lines act. That is a temporary matter. The don't really compete "fair and real difficulty is something basic and square." Rates are fixed by great

fundamental; it concerns the crews that ocean conferences, and the country man the ships and the stevedores' gangs that doesn't have ships to threaten that load and discharge them. Ships are

like any other machines— if the men who run and service them are not efficient, Top, the American liner the machines are useless. Iroquois, which had At its n)3g National Convention in naval vessels convoy her Chicago the Legion took official notice from Europe to the of the situation. This article is an attempt United States. Be- to tell very concisely what all the shoot- low, the tanker ing is about, what is being done in the Esso Baytown re- direction of the recommendations made turning from her at Chicago to make our merchant marine rescue far at sea a foolproof service to the nation in of a sunken air peace and in war. liner's passengers First of all, why do we absolutely have to have cargo and passenger vessels? That is a sensible question that always

occurs to the taxpayer. It is obvious that the railroads, buses and trucks are more than willing to carry people and freight up and down the coast and across the

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine with doesn't have a voice in maintained. It could the conferences. When the advance money to com- other fellows suddenly need panies to build ships, their ships at home, back and could make them home they go, with little outright grants of the worry about what happens to difference between the their foreign customers. In costs of building in the 1914 the United States had United States and practically no deep-water mer- building abroad. Then chant fleet. All at once the it could pay the com- German lines couldn't serve panies a subsidy repre- us, and the Allied ships were senting the difference in operating with American wages and American grub and foreign wages and grub. If the plan didn't work that way, the Commission had the authority to go ahead A gun being and build and operate the ships all by hoisted aboard a itself, without any private ownership at British ship for all. service against Now this United States Maritime

submarines. At Commission is doing a grand job. It is left, high - angle building fifty ships a year—those are anti - aircraft foreign-going vessels—on a ten-year guns ready to go schedule. The vessels are scientifically- on a merchant designed types, suited for the exact vessel tasks planned for them. They are the most fire-proof cargo and passenger boats ever built, and they have crew quarters that compare with correspond- requisitioned for national purposes. We marine system was overhauled and a ing accommodations on foreign ships couldn't get what we needed from abroad fresh start was made. A United States as does a four-dollar hotel room to a and our exports piled up on the docks Maritime Commission was established bunk in a flop house. All the boats are over here until our whole economic ma- and given great powers. It was to liqui- built to navy specifications, and are chinery was thrown out of gear. date the accumulation of rapidly-ageing always ready to go on war duty. In war merchant ships are an indis- junk that represented the Shipping Board Although the Commission has run pensable auxiliary to the Navy. They fleet, and to begin building a new fleet of some lines itself, its policy is to turn serve fighting craft in the same way that modern, fast, safe and efficient vessels them over to private operation as supply trucks and freight cars serve with comfortable crew quarters. It was rapidly as possible. (Continued on page 54) the fighting men and guns of land also to liquidate the forces. They have to be constructed with claims of ship oper- this end in view to be most useful; in ating companies, particular, in these days, they have to be some of which were vessels capable of cruising at a speed of at being ruined by the least sixteen knots. previously-existing Recognizing these national values of a government policies, merchant marine, the United States and some of which has always subsidized its commercial had been grafting vessels, either directly or indirectly. from theGovernment The policy has been spasmodic, so that and their stockhold- sometimes we have had insufficient ton- ers on a grand scale. nage, as in 1914, and sometimes an over- The Commission grown fleet, as in the early 1920's. We could decide what are an enthusiastic and highly senti- routes needed to be mental people, and this financial support of the shipping industry might be attributed to pride or misdirected patriotism, (or even catering to special interests.) But it is also a fact that every impor- An Atlantic liner tant power with a seacoast is sprouts a six-inch also subsidizing its shipping. gun. At left, a And the European nations dozen bombers and Japan are extremely prac- bound for England tical outfits. We may feel sure loaded on vessel at that when they spend a lot San Pedro, Cali- of money on merchant ships, fornia they are getting their money's worth. In 1936 our whole merchant

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THERE is nothing llabby about The American Legion or its Constitution. Both are active and vigorous. The very first mandate of the Preamble calls for something positive—"'to uphold and defend." But why give first importance to the Constitution of the

United States? Why should it need defending? Let's see: In three great nations one man can create war for all the people, at any time, for any cause, for no cause at all. Ore man, Hitler, said the word—and German bombs rained on Polish cities and villages, then on Norway, then on Holland and Belgium. One man, Mussolini, ordered the invasion of Abys- sinia and Albania, and it was done. One man, Stalin, decided to attack Finland, and Soviet troops began their march. In each case, just one man's word—and all his people followed automatically along the path of blood and destruction, powerless to prevent. Powerless, because without realizing it they had permitted a centralized government to gain control over the press, the radio, their courts, their liberties. They no longer had a living Constitution such as ours to protect their right to listen and to speak; and so, being in ignorance of the facts, they had lost the power to think or act for themselves. The builders of our Constitution refused to entrust such awful power to any one man, no matter who he might be. They placed it instead in the hands of many, permitting war to be declared only by Congress—by men of our own frequent choosing., directly responsible to the people. In defending the Constitution, therefore, we defend our Peace.

Everyone is talking about the coming presidential and congressional elections, freely and without fear. If we lived in a country where the people had abandoned their constitution, there would be only one party, one set of candidates, one voice, one vote—and the Secret Service would do the rest! Here, the Constitution protects us in our free choice of candidates; then protects them in doing their duty; and finally, protects us against them if they violate their duty. It protects us all alike, the majority and the minority. But to say that the Constitution protects us is only partly true. It is our fortress; but like any fortress it can defend us only while we defend it. Recognizing this, our Presidents, beginning with George Washington, have been sworn to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Indeed, they are forbidden to take office without that oath, for the Constitution is ours. It belongs to each one of us; and any official, any citizen, who seeks either to override it or to evade it is attacking you and me in our most precious right The Constitution is not a dried-up document, but living and up-to-date. As its opening words tell us, "We the People" created it. Its obligations and its benefits run to each one of us.

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ED IT ORIAL* WHAT'S TO DO

"A I "1HESE are the times that try men's souls. The political parties and balloon them up, hoping to bring I summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in confusion worse confounded into our counsels. this crisis, shrink from the service of their coun- We must be calm, but we must be grimly ready to try; but he that stands it now, deserves the love stifle this political sabotage as we are preparing to pre- and thanks of man and woman." vent industrial sabotage. Thus Thomas Paine in the dark days of December, The communist party and the nazi bund here should be 1776, when Washington's army appeared hopelessly outlawed by Congress at the earliest opportunity. There beaten, and the cause of the Thirteen Colonies lost. is not time for that action to be accomplished by the The desperate fighting in Europe and the possibility various State Legislatures, many of which will not be in that the totalitarian governments will overwhelm the session for months. We should not hesitate to take this democracies of Britain and France and attempt to sabo- step. Too long have the Moscow and Berlin disciples here tage and strangle the democracies of the Western Hemi- sniped at our democracy, taking refuge, when brought sphere is reflected in the five-billion-dollar emergency de- to book, in the Bill of Rights of our American Consti- fense program which Congress has just authorized as tution. This, despite the fact that the totalitarian dic- these lines are written. The need for swift, decisive action tatorships would, if given the opportunity, utterly destroy to build up our defenses in a realistic manner is starkly those rights here, as they have in the former Russian and clear. We ot the Legion have cried it from the housetops German empires. year after year, only to be called war-mongers, jingoes and saber-rattlers. EARLY this month the communist newspaper organ But that's water over the dam to-day. in New York City reprinted an article* by Captain In a world where for at least this moment land, sea Eddie Rickenbacker which appeared in the June issue and air might is the determining factor we're getting our of this magazine calling upon the American people to industrial and military machines into high gear to meet stay out of the present European War. The red news- any juggernaut that may come charging at us. Democ- paper very carefully skipped the core of Captain Ricken- racies are admittedly inefficient, bungling, slow to get backer's article, which was contained in the sentence started—in contrast to dictatorships—-but the precious " .... we must still refuse, as we refused last September, principle of representative government which is democ- to be dragged into this war unless our national safety racy at its highest and best is the only way of life com- is imperiled." The italics did not appear in the article, patible with the aspirations of free men. for the simple reason that at the time they were not What can the individual Legionnaire do to best serve necessary. his country at this historic moment? When you find that you've been quoted with approval First of all, he should keep in touch with the Com- by a communist organ you naturally ask yourself, How mander and the Adjutant of his Post, who in turn are come? The answer, of course, is that Moscow hates the holding themselves in readiness for any duty which the democracies of France and England, as it hates us. It constituted authorities may ask the Legion, through na- hopes that if we stay out, the Allies will be defeated, tional and Department officials, to undertake. because it believes that it can engineer a communist revo- Second, he should take every precaution to see that lution in a victorious but bled-white Germany. An over- public sentiment in his community is not undermined whelming majority of America, on the contrary, want by communists and purveyors of other alien isms, who the democracies to win this war, but they do not want may be counted upon to magnify domestic differences American boys to be sent to die on European battlefields. between legitimate political parties in the United States So far as the instruments of war—airplanes, for instance to the detriment of our presenting a united front to those —are concerned, under the cash and carry law the who would destroy us. democracies are able to obtain those things here and Remember, domestic issues are debatable; the prin- transport them to Europe. ciples of the emergency defense program are not, though Faced with one of the gravest crises in our history, details of its administration may be. But the job of we Americans will be able to cope successfully with Fifth making us ready for any eventuality must be speeded Column and Trojan Horse traitors, of whatever stripe. up, and delay in its completion is indefensible. The utmost vigilance is necessary. One has but to remember that sabotage of a few French airplanes by THIS is a national election year in the United States. youthful communists was a tremendous factor in opening Candidates for election to the various offices in the up territory to the mechanized Hitler forces in the Sedan gift of the people should choose their words carefully. area and allowing the drive at the heart of the French The enemies within our gates will take advantage of every Republic. opportunity to widen the gap between political parties A word to the wise, runs the old saw, is sufficient. on matters that skirt on the national safety. They will * See "Let's Keep Out!" by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, page one, pounce upon legitimate differences of opinion between American Legion Magazine, June, 1040. 23 JULY. 1940 Maurice McLoughlin, the California Comet of some 2 5 years ago, who trans- formed tennis by his great play, and Don Budge, also of California, now a professional and the world's greatest player today STOUT FELLOWS

I RVING WALLACE

Groucho Marx was slashing a pellet at Fred Perry. In another court, Robert Taylor and Elly Vines were trading forehands. Fred Alexander looked up from the games with a smile. "Not exactly patty-cakes." he said, gesturing at Vines's bulleting service. "Tennis has changed a good deal, believe me. In my time, the balls were slower, pumped to one-third of the modern ones. The game wasn't as fast then. All lobs, placements and stamina. But today it's whirlwind and breakneck. Smashes. Drives. An exhausting and dangerous pace. Did you see the pro match here between Vines and Perry at the Pan- TENNIS got off on the wrong foot. man}' decades. It long was regarded as a Pacific?" ." It was introduced in the sissy game. . I had. United States by a woman. Her However, since the very early days, "Not exactly sissy stuff, eh?" inquired name was Mary Ewing Outer- three centuries ago, when the sport was Alexander. bridge. She learned the pit-pat sport all lace and ruffles and popularized by No. not exactly. That was the tre- from English army officers in Bermuda, the French, it has matured greatly. It mendous match on January n, 1938, brought it back to Staten Island, built has become virile. And today the racket- in Los Angeles. Both Vines and Pern- a court shaped like an hour glass on the waving industry has grown hair on its had played 70 matches the previous year cricket grounds, and on a warm summer's chest. and were all square. This one, before day in 1874, played a match against her Fred B. Alexander, teacher of Tilden, seven thousand people, before their own girl friend. winner of the National Doubles and 89 wives and friends, was for keeps. Alexan- "The fact that girls were the original consecutive matches with Hackett as his der thinks it was one of the greatest tennis players," explains sports historian partner, from 1007 to iqio, assured me tennis matches of all time. I think so too. Frank (i. Menke, "and that the scoring that the game at present is as rough and The match was played on a green can- system had something to do with Move,' tumble as lacrosse. We were sitting on the vas court, set on a platform three feet created an early masculine prejudice veranda of the Beverly Hills Club, which above the ground. Linesmen sat in the against the game, which endured through Alexander founded. Below us, on a court, pit below. Perry, usually a careful player.

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine belted the ball wildly. the way Red McLoughlin

Once he plunged off played it, and he played the platform trying to it the way Napoleon get an angle shot and played war. almost broke his neck, Some of the bluebloods but he won the first wanted to bar him. Red set. The match lasted hit the ball too hard. It three solid hours. was bad manners. It was Three murderous also unbeatable, and so hours of leaping, they put him on the stretching, diving, Davis Cup team—and miming, swinging. It the reformation set in, was after midnight with snobbery, snootiness when the duel of gut and sissies taking a It was somewhat of a sissy game in the nineties, but even ended. Ellsworth Vines gosh-awful beating mixed doubles like this are fast and furious affairs today won by a score of 4-6, in tennis circles. 13-u, 8-10, 6-2, 6-3! Red McLough-

"If that match was sissy stuff,' ' said "fault," and "severe service" into its lin, after grabbing the United Alexander, "I'd sure be proud to be a vocabulary. States championship, began to sissy!" The whole setup was pretty effeminate prove that the game was hard

Three things, I gathered, contributed until 1Q12. when a freckled kid with and tough and that it took guts. to change tennis into a masculine game. brick-red hair burst out of the West and He proved it, especially, one The three things were—the Davis Cup, introduced the words "cannonball," Maurice McLoughlin, and Profession- '"smash," and "drive" into the game. alism. The freckled kid was Maurice Mc- In the early days of tennis, centuries Eoughlin, and the sport scribes promptly ago, the game was played largely by the labeled him "The California Comet." French and English nobility. It was con- That Maurice part of his name was a mis- fined to those who could afford it, and take. He was just plain Red, and he hit there were so few that the second Wimbledon was won by P. F. Hadow, who had never even seen a tennis match until a few about weeks before the tourney. Nothing la-de-da players of recent The nobility played the these game with as much vigor years. How many can as they drank tea and you recognize? Identifi- shuffled cards. cations are on page 44 In America, I repeat, the game got off on the wrong foot when it was intro-

August afternoon in 1914, when he played Norman Brookes, the 34-year-old Australian miracle man, who was recently knighted. duced by squealing women, attired in the felt-covered ball like he had a grudge Brookes, a magician, a careful crafts- layers of petticoats, skipping after a soft against it. He swung a terrific round- man, was entirely Old School, and reared bouncing ball. house, busting rackets, tearing nets apart, in the blueblood tradition. And Red There was another handicap. The blasting opposition off the courts. McLoughlin was, by contrast, all the language was all wrong. The French, who He was utterly masculine, a lovable Dead End Kids rolled into one. This popularized the idea, injected such lovely mug, who sprawled, scrambled, and did match was not only a meeting of masters, phrases as "love-forty," "lob," "rally," everything upside-down. That was tennis but of systems {Continued on page 42)

JULY, 194" 2-5 Tom Collins of Water- town, umpire-in-chief for the State's amateurs. He thinks 70,000 play- for-fun teams will competingbe throughout the nation one of these

NEXT Saturday 500,000 youths from ten to sixty will be out on the playing fields of these But before enlarging on baseball let's United States, earnestly striv- make a clinical examination of a De- ing to make one of the 25,000 baseball partment that has met and conquered teams which will fight it out for the FREDERICK all of the so-called "small Department" amateur baseball championship this problems. For example, there's member- summer. Not softball players, but the c ship. In the last few years South Dakota real McCoy, playing with the kind of 7' hasn't had it any easier than any other ball that travels four hundred and PAINTON agricultural State. Yet between 1935 eighty feet if you sock it right. And when the membership total was 8,902 not one in a hundred of this half-million and [939 when 10,300 were enrolled vill realize the debt of gratitude owed there has been a steady, healthy growth. to South Dakota for this phenomenal This year the quota is 13,000, of which, revival of sandlot baseball. Jim informs me, a minimum 11,000 will I didn't realize it either when be reached. Just what this represents in I dropped into Watertown, South effort can be understooel when you Dakota, to see Jim Mullaney about learn that the total of ex-service men wiiting an article on this splendid in the State is 23,000. So South Dakota

Department. I knew that, rain or will have signed up fifty percent of ;.hine, good times or bad. South Da- its potential. Offhand I fail to recol- kota had year after year substantially lect another Department achieving increased its membership. I knew this the same figures. Department had met all its problems This took work and understanding. with a grin and an out-thrust chin, In the early Thirties when Mr. Depres-

but it took Jim Mullaney, pulling in- sion lay over the land with a black dustriously on a corn-cob pipe (that shadow Jim even used the device of pay- peisisted in going out), to inform me ment cf dues in kind. For instance, the about South Dakota's baseball contribu- tions to The American Legion anel to the Governor Bushfield, the State's nation. No. 1 amateur baseball player

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Back to the bag just in time. At White Lake Post, down in Aurora County, gram. Ordinarily, since such efforts must right, Department Commander R. took grain, hogs, suckling pigs, poultry, be limited by the Department's member- P. Harmon and Department Ad- potatoes, dressed meats and seed grain, ship income. Commander R. P. Harmon jutant Jim Mullaney, responsible and issued membership cards. auction and would be justified in saying, An for the Legion's amateur baseball Jim "We of the goods resulted in real folding give it everything we've got." program. Below, the State's junior money. And whereas the year previous champions, 1934-1939 But South Dakota does a lot more. White Lake's membership had been In the famed Black Hills region on the forty-two, it grew to fifty-three. banks of Legion Lake and Grace Coolidge During the same period before W.P.A. kind of a job, and put a veteran to doing Creek the Department maintains The or its brothers were thought of there was the work. American Legion Tourist Camp—and the unemployment everywhere—and also in Now, in addition to baseball, South proceeds from this are devoted to en- South Dakota. But not for long. Each Dakota is intensely interested in rehabi- hancing its community work. Swell fish- Post in the fourteen districts tabulated litation work, child welfare and the ing, good hunting and the unsurpassed the unemployed in its community. Then essay contest feature of vista of the Rushmore Memorial where it carefully canvassed the jobs—any the Americanism pro- the giant sculptures of Washington, Jef- ferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt look down on the ages, draw many tourists. And the De- partment has thirty- three modern cabins to meet the demand. The DAK OTA'S additional income of two or three thousand dollars {Continued on page 44)

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Raising the flag at Fort Stanwix in August, 1777—the first Stars and Stripes to fly in the face of an enemy. Scene from the picture "The Flag Speaks"

AT FORT SIWYVIY

WAS a young Hag then, that night tain Abraham Swartwout's uniform coat. was the first Stars and Stripes to be flown ITof August 1777, when the The Stars and Stripes was raised over in the face of an enemy. Before nightfall women who were cooped up with Fort Stanwix on the morning of August 3, it had received its baptism of fire. And their husbands in Fort Stanwix 1777 —Young Glory then—tlaunting de- under that flag the pitifully small garrison now Rome, New York—worked fever- fiance to the besieging force of British force, reenforced by a company of Massa- ishly through the night to fashion a llag soldiers and their Indian allies. That llag chusetts troops, withstood every assault after the design adopted by the for more than two weeks. Its colors Continental Congress on June 14th. were never struck. Fort Stanwix So cjouVe -foi* a. Sore-buV U)e apWa. Se+ Some \ No one of the defenders of the Safe- a^d Sa^e- (Wutork's of? foe -VW? kiddies I —then and for a time later called Fort had seen the new symbol of Fort Schuyler—stands out as a national unity. They had but a landmark in the Revolutionary scanty description of the design struggle as "the Fort that never adopted —a banner bearing thirteen surrendered." stripes, alternating red and white, Fort Stanwix has long since dis- with a blue field containing thir- appeared and its site is a part of teen white stars. Nothing more, the City of Rome; in fact the spot but with that description before where the first Stars and Stripes them these women whose names was raised in battle is in the busi- are lost to history made a flag out ness section of the city. But, keep- of the only materials they had ing watch and ward over the site the red of a petticoat, the white of a of the southeast bastion where the soldier's shirt and the blue of Cap- tide of battle rolled, there is Henry

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine P. Smith Post, The American Legion, love for their nation is their respect for especially interested to know something housed in a more than a century-old its flag. In the dramatic story of the tlag of the Legion guardians of the site of old building maintaining a center of patriotic as told in "The Flag Speaks" the develop- Fort Stanwix and what is being done to impulse on one of the most historic spots ment of the nation is told as the story of preserve the spot where the Stars and in all America. The flag that flies from the flag. It is not a hysterical, flag-waving Stripes first faced the foe. There Henry the tall mast in front of the building is thriller but a restrained, well documented P. Smith Post, housed in its roomy, home- Old Glory now. It was only a hope when story reciting the glory of national like club house, is carrying on in the best achievement and also tradition of the flag and The American

telling of some things Legion. Though Commander Alfred J. of which we, as Ameri- Baker says that the Post is doing the cans, cannot be too things a Legion Post is supposed to do, a proud. It is a spine- brief glance at the voluminous scrap- tingling story this film books kept by Club Manager Lee C. tells: Down through Sheu indicates a much broader range of the years with the service. For instance, in addition to the Constitution as their usual community service activities, there's guide and the Stars a well organized disaster emergency and Stripes as their squad fully equipped with a mobile light- inspiration, the Ameri- ing plant, boats and other equipment can people have fought which was called out several times last against every effort to year to aid in searching for lost persons, curtail their liberty to tight forest fires and to feed the fire- or hinder the demo- fighters. There's the toboggan slide and craticprocessesof their ski course at Westernville, about seven government. Having miles from Rome, where winter sports are held—slides for adults and youngsters and a ski run 2,400 feet long with a goo foot tow. And there's a dozen other activities, all contributing to the community welfare. The tradition of the Flag lives at old Fort Stanwix through the service of Henry P. Smith Post. it was first unfurled to the breeze very Brand New near that spot. Americans Then, when the National Americanism Commission of The American Legion set " AS A CLIMAX to about to interest some one of the major L * the term of the film producing companies to make a flag naturalization school history and flag etiquette film for general conducted by the showing in theaters throughout the Naturalization Committee of the De- country, it was but natural that the story The century-old home of Henry P. partment of Florida's Seventh District, should begin with a dramatic, moving Smith Post on the site of old Fort The American Legion conducted the natu- portrayal of the making and raising of Stanwix, at Rome, New York. Top, ralization ceremonies in Federal Court at the first flag at Fort Stanwix. Produced cannon and marker on the club Orlando, Florida, on April 15th," writes by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Mo- house grounds marking southeast Chairman H. N. Wroth of Orlando tion Picture Producers Association this bastion of the Fort. Bottom, plaque Memorial Post. new story of the flag and what it stands on cannon telling of siege "The Court opened with the entry of for, "The Flag Speaks," had its first showing on June 14th—in commemora- tion of Flag Day. told why the flag Distribution of the two-reel film and should be respected, cooperation in its showing in all parts the film, in conclusion, of the nation is urged by the Legion's devotes itself to show- National Americanism Commission as a ing the proper method part of the program of public education of displaying and sa- in the history, respect for and proper luting it. display of the flag. For many years the Millions of Ameri- Commission, through individual Posts, cans young and old has distributed copies of the Flag Code will see this techni- and has insisted, particularly, that each color film and be in- school be supplied with a sufficient num- fluenced by it within ber so that each child may have ready the next few months. access to it. "The Flag Speaks" broadens It is a story that will that program to include the adult public not stale. The flag does as well as the children. speak through the

The greatest symbol of a nation is its voice of John Nesbitt. flag, and the greatest symbol of a people's Legionnaires will be

JULY, 1940 29 Florida Legionnaires assist in cre- Federal Judge Alexander Ackerman to Post's Child Welfare Committee, "and ating new citizens in court room the accompaniment of the traditional all material is provided by the Post at no at Orlando. Bottom, Latonia (Ken- 'oyez' outcry of the United States Mar- cost to the children who enroll. When a tucky) Post's beadcraft class at shal, which ends with the prayer girl an article it is her own and 'God completes work save the United States and this Honor- she is free to do with it as she pleases." able Court.' The colors of Orlando Memorial Post P ue bio's New man John A. Martin, from whose hands were advanced, while the the Post had received them, was laid to Spe»vi qour1 Colors court and all spectators vjaCaHot\ rest. After these years of service the flags stood at salute. After prayer TWENTY-ONE years were recently retired and a new stand of by the Legion chaplain, the ago the recently or- colors, again the generous gift of Arkansas court proceeded to the ex- ganized Pueblo (Colorado) Valley Chapter, D. A. R., was put into amination of the applicants Post received its first stand service, dedicated by National Vice for citizenship, forty-three of colors— the Stars and Commander H. Elwyn Davis, who stood of whom were found quali- Stripes presented by Ar- by when the original colors were presented. fied and took the oath of kansas Valley Chapter, "Appropriately enough," writes Aux- allegiance. Appropriate ad- Daughters of the American iliare Ruby Fern Brookshire, "the colors dresses were made to the Revolution, and the Post retired were handed to Legionnaire new citizens by Giles F. banner by the merchants of Sperry Packard, Past Commander of the Lewis, District Command- Pueblo. CommanderSperry Department of Colorado, and were by er; Harry S. Kretsinger, Packard received them from him returned to the Post for preservation. Commander of Orlando the hands of Legionnaire Commander D. P. Ducy has provided for Memorial Post, and Le- John A. Martin for the a cabinet to display them permanently gionnaire S. Kendrick Post. Two years later the in the new Legion home." Guernsey, \ ice President of Rotary colors went down in Pueblo's great flood International. The group of Central but were rescued and made fit for service Bratt/eb oro Minstrel's Florida Legionnaires present, by special again. A little later the colors were spot- permission wore their Legion caps in lighted on the platform of the City Audi- WHILE winter winds were sweeping Court." torium when President Woodrow Wilson over the Vermont sector, Brattle- made his last public address, and only boro (Vermont) Post and its all-veteran Bead craft Classes last year they were reverently carried to Drum and Bugle Corps brought a breath the side of the open grave when Congress- of the deep South into its home city by SINCE opening in Oc- the presentation of its sec-

tober, 1 930, nearly one ond annual Cotton Blossom hundred and twenty-five Minstrels—now an estab- pupils have enrolled in the lished event. "Elaborate and art bead and handicraft appropriate costumes, light- classes sponsored by La- ing effects and scenery con- tonia (Kentucky) Post in tributed to the success of the Cdopcral inn wilh the Na- performance," says Adjutant tional American Legion child Edward M. O'Connor. "Fol- welfare program. The classes lowing the prologue, on a are held in the Post 's home Southern plantation, the first and are open to all children act presented the minstrel in Latonia, Rosedale and circle on 'Cotton Queen.' DeCoursey. "The school is show boat. The second act served by a staff of volun- consisted of a floor show in teer teachers," writes Joseph the Mississippi Cabaret. The R. Ouinn, Chairman of the cast was complete from the

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Quemado, according to Paul Simon, E. Hunter, 40; Roy A. Applewhite, 18; New Mexico's Membership Chairman, is Edward W. Ligert, 4; Edward L. King, an old Mexican town of about two 34; Goree E. Allison, 6; W. W. Phipps, hundred population located in the west- 40; Delma A. Ruyle, 30; Grover B. West, ern part of the State. There are but few 20; Brooks B. Bryan, 60; Roy W. Dea- eligible veterans in its area, but nearly all son, 120; Guy B. Rencher, 120; and

of those who can reach the Post are mem- Frank Balke, 1 20. The average number

bers and take an active part in its affairs. at each Post meeting is about twelve. Notwithstanding the scattered membership Adjutant Boone tells the Step- Four-Star Post Keeper of the social affairs sponsored by the Post, of its welfare work, of the com- AFOUR-STAR rating is given by this munity Christmas tree, and of its leader- . chronicler to the recently published ship in the observance of patriotic holiday History of La Grange (Illinois) Post, a observance, all of which would do credit finely printed, 311-page volume contain- to a much larger Post with a compact ing the record of the first twenty years of membership. the Legion in LaGrange. Laurels to Just to complete the record of this un- Henry M. Larsen, Post Historian, for usual Post, it is interesting to note the this sphndid achievement, and through miles of travel necessary for each mem- his devotion to a work that is wholly a ber to attend a Post meeting: Com- labor of love he has added another star to

mander J. H. Elgin, 214; W. F. McAbee, La Grange's already well spangled service

70; J. W. Thompson, 60; Charley C. Hag.

Walker. 46; Rufus H. Unger, 30; J. W. La Grange Post is one of the very few- Killen, ,30; Robert E. Moore, 46; C. F. units of the National Organization—and traditional and gaudily at- Rohrer, 30; George R. Bard, 16; William this book serves to remind us of it — that tired end men to the Gay has consistently made an an- 90's male quartet." nual increase in membership twenty years in a row with On em ado's Legion never a backward slip. The community service program, Commander WHEN J. in which it has always ex- Elgin a H. attends celled, has kept in step with meeting of his Quemado that membership record. (New Mexico) Post, as he Notable among its contribu- does regularly, he is required tions to La Grange is its to travel a distance of two continued operation, since fourteen miles. hundred and IM27, of the Sunday Evening And that is not all. When all Club which is said to be one the twenty-four of members of the finest community the Post get together—all cultural institutions main- living within the Post's tained anywhere, bringing to service area—a total of La Orange each year, with- eleven hundred and seventy- out cost to the citizens, four miles travel is re- of world leaders in the field of quired. fact the In Post has music, politics, exploration, but three members living in education and international its town, home Adjutant affairs. It can also take pride G. R. Boone, M. C. Bell and Pueblo (Colorado) Post gets new in its youth program James B. Stout. Now that is something colors from D. A. R. Chapter. Below, school award medals, cash college scholar- of a record for a live, active American Brattleboro (Vermont) Post brings ships, sponsorship of three Boy Scout Legion Post. breath of Southland in winter Troops, one Naval {Continued on page 0)

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Not dress blues nor olive green uniform s nevertheless the group alongside is composed of boots at the Ma- rine Barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina, during the war

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this Parris

mistake us. It's not the — in which name you will note a second DON'TParis of the boulevards, the "r"—of happy, or perhaps unhappy, Cafe de la Paix, the Arc de memory to thousands of Leathernecks. Triomphe, the Moulin Rouge By veterans who were not of the Marine of Montmartre -- that mecca of A. E. Corps—veterans who can picture marines F-ers., with or without official passes only in their snappy dress uniforms, and of which we are about to hear. Down they're an eyefilling outfit when fully South Carolina way, there'sanother Parris caparisoned—our statement that the two pictures shown on this page display men of that select branch of service may be received with doubt. iqi8, sworn in on the 5th, the 222A That's the gospel truth, though, as Company formed, clothing issued, and

we have it on the word of ex-Gyrene we were marched to the maneuver Ralph L. Jones, Legionnaire of Morning grounds. We fired for record on August Sun, Iowa. So instead of telling it to the 22d. Eight of us made Expert Rifleman, Marines, we're going to let a Marine tell which required a score of 253 or better

it to us: out of a possible 300 points. The 222A " The pictures I am sending to you Company was then broken up—some were taken at the maneuver grounds of men sent to coach on the Range, some the Marine Barracks on Parris Island, to N. C. 0. School, and the rest to the South Carolina, in July, 1018, while 1 13th Regiment and eventually to Quan- was a member of the 2226. (Boot) Com- tico, Virginia, and to the A. E. F. any. Howard Baird, Howard E. Malone "Now for the group of 'bathing beau- I and I enlisted at Burlington, Iowa, and ties.' Instruction in swimming was part were sent to the recruiting office at St. of our training schedule. We were lined Paul, Minnesota. Thence, by way of up and bathing suits issued in the usual Chicago, Cincinnati and Atlanta, we service fashion—just thrown at us, and traveled to Port Royal, South Carolina, some of the short fellows got suits that and crossed on a tugboat to Parris Island. drooped to their ankles and tall men "I remember one of the 'boots' was tot- suits that were skin tight, until we ing a large watermelon. A marine on swapped among ourselves for better fits. the dock stepped over and said, 'I'll take We were then marched from our tents, A gyrene, ex-blacksmith, operated care of that for you, buddy,' and he did, just east of the water-supply tank, to the as barber for his boot company for that was the last we saw of the melon! beach at the southeast end of the island, in 1918 "We were examined on the 4th of July, formed into a company front facing the

32 The AMERICAN' LEGION Magazine ocean, took off our shoes and pajama mona, California, and John W. Keck INDEPENDENCE DAY. As is usual Houses (the latter worn to prevent too of Watertown, Wisconsin, and would reach year, there will be parades and violent sunburn), and went into the surf welcome letteis from the other gyrenes in oratory and picnics and fireworks, and for instruction. As I remember, we were the pictures or from other buddies who particularly in this year of 1040 patriotic fervor should be at its greatest height. But somehow or other for rapidly ageing veterans, American holidays had a particular signifcance when they were observed on foreign soil, or, as happened with many service men, on the broad seas. That Fourth of July in 1918, for

instance, we recall was spent in our t tain ing town— Manois; the real Armistice Day at Stenay on the Meuse: Thanksgiv- ing Day, even though our mess produced only cold bully beef, cold lomatoi- and hardtack, through failure of supplies to come up, was enjoyed at Buzenol, Bel- gium, on our march to the Occupied Area, and then Christmas in the snow- covered hills of the Eiffel in the Rhine- land. And now we hear of and see a picture of a particularly happy Fourth of July celebration — in iqiq, after the war had ended and the troops were coming home. Troops en route home in 1919, required to learn to swim fifty yards to The snapshot of the aboard-ship cere- attended Fourth of July ceremo- qualify. At Recall, we gathered up our monies came to us with this yarn from nies aboard the U. S. Transport belongings and were marched back to ex-Gob John G. Krieger of La Jolla Siboney. Captain Morris, U. S. N., camp. (California) Post of the Legion, who is speaking. What outfits, soldiers? "I recall once just as we were starting lives at 6605 La Jolla Boulevard in that back, a cold rain city: came up and, in "With the approaching celebration of conjunction with our the Fourth, my mind went back to iqiq wet bathing suits, it — *t \r>in \i\or\ when aboard my ship, the U. S. S. just about froze us. Siboney, that national holiday was cele- The oyster shells brated. I dug out some of the snapshots I were hard on the took at that time and am enclosing them. feet and some of us I am unable to tell you what Army troops received bad cuts. were aboard our transport on this home-

However, those ward trip, but it was our fifteenth round- same shells were trip. This particular trip was from Brest, harder on our backs France, to Newport News, Yirginia. and when some of us, as no doubt some of our soldier passengers extra duty, had to will remember this occasion and make carry waterpails full report to us. of shells for road building in th e camp. served with me. They were a great ganj "I quote the following from the 'His- "When my boot company was broken those Leathernecks at Parris Island. torical Souvenir of the U. S. S. Siboney:' up, I was sent to X. C. 0. School. About the second week there, Bennie Kline, our company barber, went to Savannah on a holiday. We had no barber to cut our hair for troop inspection at 8:30 on a Sunday morning. Sergeant McLoon asked if anyone in the company had ever y worked as a barber. No response. He C4 6 / ?/4 then asked if anyone had ever been a or butcher. I admitted I blacksmith Roeeivod of had done some blacksmithing and he y' - jflta franca ( V. said, 'You're appointed barber!' Well, The sua of f with the aid of Dillard C. Luther, in full payment of IU I kept the leathernecks' hair cut from then on. Proof?— the enclosed snapshot CoamuneA C laijMWT"'^-'^?- shows me in operation. far us tha *zJ? Thia ia eoaplet* ••ttlwitn-; of Ceamuoal So,. J j } "Later I was sent to the Machine Gun ~~7 ia eonetrnad. School in Utica, New York, and returned to Parris Island to help train the 465th Company. I hear from Howard E. Ma- lone, now at 390 East Pearl Street, Po-

ATex T. Si A baseball game, a busted window 2nd. Lt. Inf. Town ttajor of Boyen. in a Frenchman's shop—and a doughboy footed the bill

JULY, 19+0 33 "The Siboney to be remembered by tion "R. R. & C." stands for? Anyone with her accus- every man aboard. who served as a member of a billeting tomed foresight "I would like to detail or Tow n Major's staff will probably staged a memor- hear from former recall that it means Rents. Requisitions able event on the shipmates and from and Claims, the outfit through which all morning of Inde- charges for supplies, damages, billets and pendence Day. It Army veterans who other obtainable services was unique by were with me on the locally were virtue of the fact Siboney on that me- cleared. We always thought all claims had that it marked the morable occasion." to be directed through that channel, but fifth time in the The picture we evidently not so. As evidence, take a history of America reproduce shows look at the receipt, executed in pencil, when her Army Captain Robert reproduced on the preceding page, which and Navy victori- Morris, Com- E. George Cheuvreux, Jr., of 775 St. Johns ously came home. manding Officer of Place, Brooklyn, New York, reports is "At 10 o'clock one of his prized souvenirs of the war. music by the the Siboney, deliv- Before we permit Cheuvreux to tell tooth Engineers' ering his address. his story, let us introduce his Legion record: At present Historian of Green- point Post and Editor of the Gas Bag, official publication of the Post, he formerly served his Post as Adjutant, as Wel- fare Officer for two years and as Publicity Chairman. Not bad, eh? And now, Com- rade Cheuvreux, you take the floor: "The enclosed receipt, issued in Noyon, France, on April 15, iqiq, indicates my contribution to the financial side of win-

ning the war. I wonder if our Govern- ment might not owe me a refund of the five francs, 85 centimes. Here's the story: "In April of iqiq we were billeted in Noyon and our outfit, the 302d Ammuni- tion Train, was in the process of preparation for its return to the States. Time hung heavily on our hands and many of us had already traversed the length of Noyon a dozen times, spending our re- maining francs for such sweets as were obtainable in the city. "One day an officer's orderly dug up a baseball, a bat and some gloves from an Formal parade, in which the tri- officer's baggage, and four or five of us band was a pleasing prelude, while the color was also carried, marked on the boys had a game of baseball in the main largest audience ever assembled Bastille Day, 1918, in Fort Mon- Siboney crowded into every available street. As I recall, I was the pitcher and roe, Virginia. Below, a back-of- space. just when I thought I had a nice curve the-barracks view at the same "Captain Robert Morris, U. S. N., in under control, bang! —a hot liner came fort it must have been washday command of the Siboney, then arose and — in my direction. I ducked, and the ball without introduction delivered an elo- found its way through a merchant's quent oration on the splendid work ac- ( )\Y many students in the Then and window! From the screams of the store- complished by the Army and Navy in class know what the abbrevia- keeper I that would immedi- of an en- H Now judged he the present war and the need

lightened patriotism if America's mission

to the world is to be fulfilled. "The Army was represented by Lieu- tenant Colonel Earle Welles of the 106th Engineers, Commander of Troops aboard, and by Lieutenant Commander Oscar P. Cole of the 225th Provisional Battalion, both of whom delivered emi- nently practical addresses on the need of an open minded and fearless facing of the future. Colonel Cole's speech may be characterized as typically Rooseveltian. Chaplain George Merle Whitmore, attached to the Siboney, spoke eloquently and forcefully on the symbolism of the Flag and closed the exercises with prayer after which the band played The Star- Spangled Banner. "It was gratifying to see representa- tives of the Army and Navy on the same platform, indicative of the fact that la- boring in a common cause has made them one as guardians of the Nation's honor. This meeting, in connection with the Athletic Tournament held in the afternoon, constituted a celebration long

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ately file claim for a million francs, so I ganization group— about which very few DURING the month of July in [917, took the initiative, called upon the Town privates in the A. E. F. knew anything. iqi8 and 1919, when uniforms were Major, and offered to pay for the broken "My main reason for going to the meet- still the order of dress, two national window. He accepted my payment and ing was to get a badge so that I would holidays were observed. Not only our gave me the receipt, closing the incident. have a good excuse for the alert M. P.'s own Fourth of July but also Bastille Day—the French independence day—on July 14th. Ceremonies commemorating that day were held not alone in the A. E. F. but in camps and cantonments on this side of the water. Observances incident to that day are pictured in the snapshot print that came to us from C. L. Clark, attorney-at-law in the Helm Building in Fresno, California, shown on the opposite page. Comrade Clark, veteran of the Coast Artillery Corps, is one of our pioneer Legionnaires, having circulated the application in April or May, 1919, for the charter of Henry W. Griesbach, Jr., Post of Fort Benton, Montana, though later he moved to Fresno and has been affiliated with Fresno Post for the past eighteen years. The "wash out" picture came with the formal parade picture and Legion- naire Clark tells about both of them in the following report: "Diiggng {Continued on page j8)

End of service. George D. Kyger and two comrades pose with their benefactor, in strictly unofficial headgear, in Columbia, South Carolina, 1919

"I still don't know why I should have paid for that busted window, but the umpire ruled that in baseball that was an error—as a pitcher or a fielder is supposed to stop everything that is batted in his direction.

"And here is how I wandered into an historic meeting: During the first week in March, iqiq, I obtained a two-weeks' Class B (pay-your-own-way) leave to Grasse, France, down near Cannes. Some- how or other I found myself in Paris on March 14th and the next day someone told me something about a meeting of all A. E. F. officers in some local theater or hall. I hailed a taxi, showed the driver an address that had been given me and told him to find the place. When I reached the hall, I had trouble in picking out even one enlisted man in the gathering outside. When brass-hat good fellows get I snapped off one salute, which I thought together. General Parker, Colonel would suffice for the gang of officers, and McCormick and General Summer- I was surprised when one officer, a all enjoy a First Division reunion major, said, 'Won't you come in?' picnic during the Legion National "I told him I wasn't a delegate, but he Convention in 1939 assured me that anyone in the uniform of the United States Armed Forces was a for overstaying my time in Paris, but a delegate. At the time he couldn't change bewhiskered French officer told me there my thoughts which were that this congre- had been no badges issued. I couldn't gation of Sam Browne belts was up to no get him to give me as much as a letter

good and whatever the outcome, it was as a souvenir. for 'officers only.' Eventually I did go The whole thing seemed to be more or in, but felt out of place with all those less informal. In the hall I tried to pick brass hats. out the sign of my Division —the 77th —

"It was many months later that I but faded to see it. Even if I had, I felt learned that this hall—the Cirque de I would have found a colonel holding it. Paris—was the cradle of today's Ameri- What a difference to our present-day can Legion. It was the caucus of the or- Legion conventions!"

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When the German secretary of state, provide airplanes in quantity sufficient to penitentiary sentences of a few years Zimmermann, boasted to Ambassador maintain numerical superiority of fight- each. Similar offenses in most European (ierard that the 500,000 German re- ing planes for some considerable time. countries, even in peace time, would have servists in the United States would One report, considered reliable, credits brought the death penalty.

cripple our effort if we declared war on Hitler's air force with more than 20,000 The difficulty in unearthing the sabo- Germany, Gerard replied. "We have five lighting planes and his factories with ca- teur is that he does not reveal his presence hundred thousand and one lampposts in pacity to produce bombers enough to until he receives orders to swing into

America, and that is where the German meet all possible replacement needs even action. This type of foreign agent en-

leservists will find themselves if they try if her air casualty rate runs up as high as trenches himself in factory, shipyard or any uprising." fifty percent for each fighting mission. other important production or shipping

If the half million reservists made the Six thousand planes a month is the point and waits the hour. Ordinarily he

try, they certainly didn't get to first base. German goal, and the claim is made that is a trained artisan, a skilled mechanic, this rate may be achieved by Hitler's who readily impresses his value upon his NO MATTER what skepticism exists factories during the present year. employers. He may have been in the as to the presence of saboteurs and Allied production is much slower. country ten years or longer. Never does other types of alien secret agents in the While Great Britain has been able to he identify himself with bunds or other

United States at the present time, it is swing into a considerable production alien orders. Instead, he is more likely to not shared in official quarters. Appropri- stride, with her plants now working associate himself with patriotic societies ations have been increased for counter- twenty-four hours a day, French factories and to be outspoken in condemnation of espionage activity since Europe launched turn out relatively few craft; thus both the very country he serves.

this war last September. The ranks of the countries, in their race to catch up ulti- Even if a saboteur agent is caught and

F. B. I. have been increased and men mately with Germany, must look to the should turn state's evidence he would be given special training in the work of United States for help. Partly due to able to unmask only three or four of his running down enemy agents. Special pre- vulnerability of British factories to the associates. Saboteurs work in small cautions are being taken against an out- ravages of air attacks, the Allies have groups and none of them is able to break of sabotage in plants that manu- launched an immense air enterprise in identify the higher-ups or the location of facture war planes. All known aliens have Canada. Throughout Canada, training other groups. Men of fanatical loyalty are been systematically eliminated from fields have been established for the train- chosen for the key positions, men who among their workers. Only men of sound ing of 6,000 pilots annually. Fifty would die rather than betray their or- antecedents are kept on the payrolls. thousand men have been recruited for ganization; and all countries have an

But if the United States has escaped ground forces, instructors, mechanics and abundant supply of men of such mettle. serious sabotage activity so far, the specialists of various essential kinds, as probable explanation is that the shoe well as pilots, observers and gunners. CANADA had an unusual break hasn't begun to pinch anyone as yet. Since the .Allies are unable to provide against an organization of saboteurs Moreover, the belligerents are proceeding the necessary training and lighting planes early this year when a key enemy agent with some degree of caution so far as for the Canadian air force, the United unwittingly betrayed a whole company American opinion is concerned. American States is looked to for planes. Hundreds of his brothers in mischief. This man, dis- determination to keep out of the war has of planes already have been wheeled across guised as a land agent and travelling been widespread and genuine. There the border. But thus far the United States about by motorcycle to set the pegs of exists an especially strong determination has been unable to supply the demand. mischief, collided violently with a tele- on the part of the public that we do not Another complication is that of dollars. phone pole. His skull was crushed, his send our men to European battlegrounds While Hitler is able to meet his airplane body taken to a morgue. The list of this time. needs with mere man-hours, the Allies names in his possession aroused suspicion. Supply is the present great issue, with must pay in cash, and the question has Intelligence officers took up the investi- each side trying to shut off the supply risen of how long the Allies can continue gation at this point and arrested every

arteries by land and sea of its opponent. to pay in dollars. One reliable estimate is person whose name appeared on the Supph means airplanes, shells, materiel, that Great Britain will run short of dol- dead man's list. The result was a whole- food. A frank examination of the whole lars before 1940 passes, surely in 1041. sale roundup of what proved to be dan- supply situation as it now exists reveals Then will come the question of credits in gerous enemy aliens who had entrenched the major importance of this compli- the United States. Which is one of the themselves in Canada. Directly and in- cation. man}- headaches of the future. directly this accident resulted in arrest

Germany is credited with a year's sur- of nearly a hundred spies who now plus of all supplies needed to carry on the IT IS in view of this whole supply situ- occupy an internment camp in a remote war, including fuel oils needed to put her ation that extraordinary precautions section of western Canada under secure immense air armadas in action and keep are being taken against a possible future military guard for the duration of the some 6,000 planes in the air an average M-day for saboteurs. Our counter- war. But accidents of this sort aren't to of 150 hours per month. Economic sur- espionage investigators are on the job. be counted on in the gruelling work of veys, considered reliable, suggest that, Scores of trained American agents are counter-espionage. despite the furious pace of her attack in now on the alert for unseen invaders on Saboteurs, of course, are merely one recent weeks, Germany faces no immedi- the theory that a substantial advance breed of foreign agents. Organized espi- ate shortage of any essentials. Where in guard has entrenched itself securely in onage embraces many varieties, ranging World War I, Germany faced an im- the country against the day of possible from propagandists to prowlers after mense army on her Eastern front, so far emergency. So far few saboteurs have official and forbidden information, such the Germans have there today only a vast been caught in the net, the total haul of as military and naval secrets. The pres- source of actual and potential supply spies being confined largely to a score of ence of such agents in the country has oils, foods, raw materials needed in the small fry engaged in stealing military and been eloquently attested by the number conduct of war. naval secrets. Those convicted since the of arrests during the past two years since Furthermore, Germany is organized to war in Europe began have escaped with the United States abandoned its ancient

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indifference to- ment. These wards alien ac- In sights, weighing tivity. Memoriam less than a hun- No one coun- dred pounds and t r y has any attached lo a L P H service w - as as a First monopoly on RAT H O MASM Lieutenant and Cap- bombing plane, O'NEIL, six- t. in of the 1 1th In- these agents; in provide an un- teenth National Com- fantry, Filth Divi .nin. fact all Europe mander of The Amer- His gallantry in ac- canny accuracy ican Legion, (1930- iion in the Meuse- in bombing. and the Orient 1931), is gone. His Argonne Offensive The are ably repre- death occurred at was notable and out- story is both Wichita, Kansas, on standing and he was sented. Propa- Saturday evening. officially cited in Di- affirmed and de- May 25th, to which visional orders lor es- that one set gandists still place he had gone from tablishing and main- nied work with im- his home at Topeka taining communica- df these sights to attend a meeting of tion with attacking punity. They are the Kansas Bar Asso- units by carrying for- disappeared some ciation and where, ward the telephone months ago. If able to register during the day im- wire under heavy themselves with mediately preceding machine-gun fire. He true, the results his death, he had held the American the State De- completed his official Silver Star, and dec- will make them- partment but duties and had turned orations from France selves known on the office over to the and Italy. must not engage new President. It was Upon his rerurn to some violent while guest at the civil life in the sum- a battle in subversive home of W. E. Stan- mer of 1919. Cap- European activity. Infor- ley, the newly-elected tain O'Neil resumed front one of these Bar Association Pres- the practice of law at mation spies run ident, at about seven Topeka, and since days. o'clock in the eve- 1924 in association the risk of jail ning he suffered a with John D. M. Ham- Another which ilton, - terms w h e n stroke, from Chairman of the American d e he died soon after. National Republican caught, but thus When a biograph- Committee. He was velopment is a RALPH THOMAS O'NEIL ical sketch was writ- successful in his bomber that can far no agents of ten soon after Le- practice and in his importance have gionnaire O'Nc-il was chosen to lead the several corporation connections but withal be navigated by Legion the writer said that but few people lound time t useful public service to been trapped. would know Ralph Thomas O'Neil, but that his community and State. It was to the Legion, ray without bene- everybody in Kansas knew "Dyke" O'Neil however, that he gave his time and whole- There is a saying fit of crew. This and it was as "Dyke" he is known to the Le- souled devotion. pe:sonal qual- in official Wash- gion; beloved for his many fine From the ranks, he stepped into leadership ship has passed ities, honored, respected and admired for his in Capitol Post in Topeka, serving as its Com- ington that most splendid leadership and administrative abili- mander and in many other positions. He was the experimen- high coun- European capi- ties. Sadly will he be missed in the elected Department Commander of Kansas in tal stage, al- cils of the National Organization and by thou- 1925 and in 1927, at the National Convention tals probably sands of persons who were proud to call him a held in Paris. France, he was elevated to Na- t h o ugh its friend. tional Vice Commander. election personal His as six- haracteristics have more con- Past National Commander O'Neil was a na- teenth National Commander of The American c tive Kansan, born at Osage on August 8, 1888, Legion followed at the National Convention cise and complete and utility are and, except in fulfilling military and official held in Boston in 1930, and in that position his information on duties, his entire life was spent in that State. administration of the Legion's affairs was still cloaked in He was a graduate of Baker University, where marked by an increase of membership to more official secrecy. American mili- he attracted considerable attention as an ath- than one million— the high tide of enrolled tary matters than lete. Upon graduation he coached at Clay Cen- members that has not been exceeded to this Or are they? ter High School one year before entering Har. day. At the same time he directed a campaign is readily avail- vard Law School, from which he was graduated for legislation in Congress to provide more ade- Then there are in 1913. Entering upon private law practice at quate hospital facilities for disabled veterans. in our fast pursuit able our own Osage Cicy in 1913, he was elected Osage He was married to Miss Margaret Heizer, capital. County Attorney and served in that office from sister of an Osage City friend and playmate ships, surpass- 7 1914 until 191 , when his entry into the armed who was killed in action in France on August Some of this forces for World War service interrupted his 15. 1918. who. with two sons, Robert Heizer ing in speed civil duties. and Ralph Thomas, foreign activity Jr., survive him. anything known His military service earned new honors ; his A gallant soul has passed. Hail and farewell! in this country is to exist in any so ludicrous as to oilier country. reveal an utter On at least one of lack of understanding of basic American was seriously afflicted by communist these there has been a leak. This fact de- character. The Soviets have spent tre- affiliations until recently. Every country veloped when the representative of a mendous sums here in the past several that has been invaded during current foreign country recently asked to pur- years trying to gain recruits, on the wars was iirst raked by espionage an J chase some of these new ships that are theory that persons having a hard time subversive propaganda. Hitler invariably being secretly developed for use of our of it economically would be ripe for the has had henchmen planted to hail his own air corps. Asked what ship he meant,

Moscow doctrines. They have had little intervention as salvation. Russia tri j 1 the visitor calmly described the new fast success, and since the Stalin-Hitler the scheme on Finland, and Japan novv pursuit craft in detail. So far the source treaties many communists of long stand- has its puppet government in China. But of that leak has not been traced. ing have deserted the Comintern ranks. subversive propaganda and foreign or- A number of snoopers have been picked Similarly with the nazis. They get very ganization of local talent in the United up lately in Panama for checking Panama

little for their money. Legionnaires will States can never be anything more than Canal defenses. Others, convicted of recall that one of the imperial Germany a vacuous and silly dream of foreign peddling military and naval secrets to government's greatest mistakes before plotters. The kind of intense citizenship foreign governments, included an army we got into the World War was to suggest that is led by The American Legion and sergeant and a former naval officer. There to Mexico that if she and Japan would supported by the great mass of American exists small official doubt that many of join with her in an alliance against the people is an insurmountable barrier our carefully guarded secrets have es- United States Mexico would receive a against the inroads of imported isms. caped betrayal, including possibly pro- large slice of the Southwest in case the As for the ordinary or garden variety tective mobilization plans, industrial kaiser's forces won. That proposal did of spies, the United States offers a fertih mobilization plans, various technical more to get us into the war than almost field of activity in which the rewards are plans for hemisphere defense, plans of anything else. It was a prize boner. But well worth while. American ingenuity, for proposed new naval craft, specifications Berlin's propaganda in this country today one thing, is producing new and better of such new army weapons as the Garand

is just as heavy-handed and stupid. types of planes, of army and navy semi-automatic, 37 millimeter anti-tank Doubtless success in other countires weapons, of new instruments of precision gun, new fast tanks and anti-aircraft encourages continuance of propaganda and bombing devices. Our Sperry bomb- weapons. While we have some of the campaigns that have so palpably failed ing sights, for example, are worth a finest weapons ever designed for any in the United States. France, for example, king's ransom to any foreign govern- army, so far the {Continued on page 38)

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army hasn't been supplied with them to arrived in great secrecy at Belfort, near tion that may bring us escape from actual

any appreciable extent. Not until [94.1 the Franco-Swiss frontier. Carefully as organized sabotage against factories, will the infantry of our initial protective they guarded their tongues the whisper mills, docks and workers out of this

force be equipped with its new ritles, went out that they were preparing a huge present war. This is the fact that the mortars and anti-tank guns. American drive against the German left kaiser's secret service violence against It was the rarest and most vicious of ilank on the Swiss border. Only blunder- our industries, and in Mexico, swiftly all secret agents that brought thousands ing Americans, new at the game of war, shaped American public opinion away of Legionnaires their first taste of mobili- would be expected to billet themselves at from its sentiments of neutrality, and zation at a time when the United States a large Belfort hotel, notorious as a hang- thus was a heavy contributing factor to

was still a neutral a quarter century ago. out of spies who persisted despite the our later entry into the war. The agent provocateur is the breed efforts of the French Deuxieme Bureau. Memory of just how far American that deliberately stirs up trouble and the Plans of the attacks were kept in a neutrality was shaken by espionage out- activities of this ilk in fomenting Mexican dispatch case carried by the general's rages must still linger in foreign capitals. revolution and border raids finally re- chief of staff. During the first week of And America has amply demonstrated sulted in concentration of army and arrival he left these plans in his room that, once aroused, we are not to be National Guard on the Mexican border most indiscreetly to answer a hurried taken lightly as a foe. Even though the in iqi6. The motive of that trouble was summons from the general. The colonel United States has failed fully to equip

to keep the United States occupied with was absent an hour. During that hour an and train what small army it possesses, Mexico at a time when America was enemy agent got into the dispatch case, yet we are admittedly the most powerful rapidly losing patience with the kaiser unmasked the secret of the attack. nation in the world. Powerful not only in and showing strong pro-Ally tendencies. Some days later four German divisions, potential manpower and fighting spirit War-time espionage, of course, is with auxiliary troops, moved into po- when our rights are in jeopardy, but another matter. The average ex-service sition from the St. Mihiel salient re- powerful in actual resources and in all man had his share of experience with serves to checkmate this American drive. the essentials needed to protect the espionage once the war broke. In training At the same time the American First United States against any existing power camps he had to guard his tongue, when Army launched its first big drive or combination of powers. sent overseas he usually was maneuvered against the salient at St. Mihiel and This realization, unless necessities and by some indirect and covered route to the pinched off that salient in several days of desperations arise in the future course of port of debarkation. Overseas he was vigorous fighting, the first big American conflict to overthrow reason, may cause warned again to guard his tongue, par- success as an Army fighting on its own. all warring nations to remain a bit hesi- ticularly when talking to mademoiselles. Whereupon the American general at tant this time about stepping too roughly In the front lines he had to be on guard Beltort folded and went back to head- on American toes and flagrantly outrag- against enemy intelligence patrols, in the quarters with his staff in high fettle over ing popular opinion in a country that is S. O. S. there was the danger of spies. the four German divisions that were hold- earnestly intent on maintaining its neu- An excellent example of American ing the bag in front of Belfort. trality according to its own ideas of just military adaptability at beating the Once sabotage breaks out in the what constitutes neutrality. enemy agent at his own game was the United States, if it does, American re- In the meantime, pending eventuali- projected battle at Belfort. An American sourcefulness will again assert itself. ties, our counter-espionage forces are general and key members of his staff And there is one important considera- keeping on their toes.

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{Continued Irani page if) from French and British ports against which fleets of tankers carry a contin- 993 miles from San Juan to the Canal our Northern Atlantic coast. In either uous supply of oil from Gulf ports to the Zone, and only 700 miles to the oil fields event air and naval forces operating out Army and Navy centers and key indus- of Venezuela. To such militarily avail- of San Juan, or from the Army Air Base trial plants along the Atlantic Seaboard. able islands as the West Indies, Haiti, now under construction at Point Borin- They will aid in preventing an enemy Cuba, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Trinidad quen, P. R., would be able to strike the from seizing or destroying the valuable and Martinique, the distances range invading force on the flank. Moreover, as Venezuelan oil fields, and the world's from 200 to (>oo miles. Within a few the continent's optical outpost, the largest refineries on the nearby Dutch hours our pursuit, reconnaissance and Puerto Rican garrison would be the first islands of Aruba and Curacao. In an bombing ships could land on any of to warn our other Atlantic forces of the emergency, planes, submarines and de- those shores to repel an invader. enemy's approach. And if an invader stroyers from San Juan and Point Borin- To such points as New York, Boston, dared to assail the mainland in this area quen could quickly appear on the Pacific Baltimore, Charleston and Jacksonville w ithout first having reduced the island side of the Canal to help in warding off and near these centers are located naval thereby providing a warning to our an attack from that quarter. and army bases for quick reinforcement secondary defenders—he would leave his For a further understanding of Puerto of the Puerto Rican defenses—the dis-

rear <>r Ilank exposed to a deadly thrust. Rico's strategic significance, consult tances range from 1000 to 1600 miles. The Puerto Rican defenses have your map or the chart which accom- Thus, Puerto Rico is within commuting numerous other major assignments. They panies this article. As a bird —or an distance of many of our key and collat- guard every approach to the Canal, to American airman — flies, the distances eral strongholds. Mexico, to the mainland, through the between our Army and Navy bases on It was such considerations as these narrow waters of the Antilles. They also the island to other key defenses are which led the Hepburn Board to recom- stand athwart the channels through comparatively insignificant. It is only mend to the President and the Congress

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that Puerto Rico be strongly fortified. ment at least, on the construction of clared that they cannot be permitted to The Board was authorized to make the aerial defenses. But they also realize fall into hostile hands. In that event study only a few months before Munich, that any hostile force, knowing that it Puerto Rico's warlike role would become

it finished its assignment only three must reduce this outpost before attack- even more theatric. months after that event, and in the ing mainland forces, will seek to destroy Nor can the Army-Navy Air Bases on spring of 1939 Congress made an initial it with an onslaught of battleships, the Atlantic Seaboard be neglected in appropriation of $40,000,000. cruisers, destroyers. So it is also being any consideration of these preparations. The Navy immediately swung into made into a defensive pill box as well The Navy is constructing three vast action with the construction of an air as our Atlantic spearhead. air stations at Quonset, Rhode Island, at base in the land-locked harbor of San Army authorities maintain unusual Hampton Roads, Virginia, and at Jack- Juan, which is located on the northern but understandable secrecy about their sonville, Florida. The Army's centers coastline. It is building a field are located at Chicopee, and service facilities for han- Massachusetts, Langley Field, dling at least 200 planes im- Virginia, and at Tampa, Flori- mediately, including an air- da. With Puerto Rico they craft carrier. But the room round out our Atlantic de- for expansion is almost un- fense boundary, much as the limited because of the har- line extending from the Aleu- bor's capacity, and the num- tians to Hawaii and thence to ber of planes stationed there the Panama Canal fixes our could be easily increased to Pacific outpost. In both oceans icco or 2000. any hostile fleet movingagainst Blueprints for a submarine our coast would be subject to base have been drawn, but the a pincers attack. Squadrons money has not yet been ap- of planes attacking, or guid- propriated by Congress. The ing the operations of the new crisis in Europe, however, naval units down below, would insures that these funds will hit the invader far offshore. be forthcoming soon. The fact In selecting the men to in-

is that, in the comparatively augurate and supervise the peaceful days of early 1939, training of troops and con- the Army and Navy submit- struction work in the Carib- ted minimum demands to bean, President Roosevelt re- Congress, knowing well that vealed his conception of the any serious war threat would seriousness of the problem "You're crazy to be tippin' that barber just eventually produce all the — and the need for speed. On wiggle around like I do and he'll give you a necessary funds. It will. July 1, 1939, he placed Briga- dime to sit still" In addition to the airplane dier General Edmund L. Daley field and facilities which the —a "fighting Irishman who Navy is constructing alongside the har- Puerto Rican projects, especially with gets things done"—in command of the bor, the Public Works Administration is respect to artillery arrangements. But newly created Puerto Rican Department. using $5,000,000 of its funds to build a it is known that the preferred types of His reports show that the Army prepara- dry dock there. It was originally planned guns will be the heavy coast artillery bat- tions are far in advance of schedule, al- to accommodate one cruiser, three de- teries and three-inch anti-aircraft. The though at least two more years' work stroyers and two submarines. Plans have Cordillera Range, which divides the remains. General Daley's experience in been fashioned, however, so that it can island, furnishes ideal locations for the the Engineer and Coast Artillery branches be enlarged to handle at least twice that "Big Berthas" needed in standing off obviously gives him special fitness for his complement. The Hepburn report speci- capital ships and aircraft carriers. The assignment. fied that these new works should be ar- low-flying, coastal plains permit con- General Daley was born in Worcester,

ranged so as to permit further expansion. struction of wide, smooth highways for Massachusetts, on November 1, 1883, The trend of events abroad means that mobile anti-aircraft. and was graduated from West Point in the long-time program will be authorized Although it is the key, the central 1906. He was immediately commissioned and undertaken without delay. strong point in the Caribbean area, a second lieutenant of Engineers. After Meanwhile, the Army Air Service has Puerto Rico is an integral part of a services in the Philippines, he became an started the construction of a major general defense plan. At Guantanamo, Instructor of Engineering at "the Point." base at Point Borinquen, which lies at only 700 miles distant, is located the During the World War he was Engineer the northwestern tip of the island. There fleet's main station in these waters. In Officer with the Third Division. He took it will lay out a field of about igoo acres, the Canal Zone, only 953 miles to west- part in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and together with overhaul and repair facili- ward, is a powerful air and submarine Meuse-Argonne Offensives, serving later ties for at least 1000 planes, possibly base, and heavy Coast Artillery guns. with the Army of Occupation. He more in an emergency. It will reinforce At St. Thomas in the nearby Virgin Is- topped off this service by accompanying the Navy Air Service in joint operations lands there are anchorage and service the Harbord Mission to Turkey and the for repelling any hostile force. The fast stations for submarines. Allied High Commission to Armenia. pursuit, reconnaissance, observation and Army and Navy men admit off the On his return to the United States, he bombing planes will be able to meet any record that auxiliary bases on the Ba- occupied various army engineering posts foe far out at sea or at least give warning hamas and Bermuda, and especially on in Pittsburgh, Washington, D. C, and of their approach. the Island of Trinidad off the coast of St. Louis. Before going to Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico will be primarily an Venezuela, would enormously strengthen he commanded the First Coast Artillery Army-Navy Air Base. The lessons of the our ability to ward off an attack from District, with headquarters at Boston. European War have demonstrated that Europe. Depending upon future events General Daley's naval sidekick is in closed waters like the Caribbean, the in Europe and elsewhere, Uncle Sam Rear Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, plane has a peculiar value against war- may have to -occupy and fortify these who was named Commandant of the ships. Therefore our military and naval islands under an arrangement with their newly-established Tenth Naval District experts are concentrating, for the mo- present owners. The President has de- of Puerto Rico {Continued on page 40)

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last January. He was bom at Baltimore, distinguished record. A freshwater boy thority on gunnery and engineering. He Maryland, and got out of Annapolis in his birthplace is Hampton, Iowa—he has received so many decorations from

1 007. Like General Daley, he was picked has held almost every important post in this and foreign governments that he can- for his new post because he is a hard and the Navy. He has been Chief of the not wear them all simultaneously. fast worker— tall, spare, nervous. He Bureau of Navigation, Chief of the The trio's colleagues doubt whether has specialized in ship construction and Bureau of Ordnance, Commander of the the President could have chosen three engineering. Battle Force and the Chief of Naval officers better qualified for their particu- Admiral William D. Leahy (retired) Operations. lar assignment. Their selection demon- was drafted as Governor of Puerto Rico He has specialized in almost every strates that —Mr. Roosevelt wants action by President Roosevelt because of his branch, but he is recognized as an au- on this front "and action now."

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Revolution. A lot of land speculation evening and sat himself down on a dry- Then she got a pad and pencil, and it took place after the war, and some of it goods box, about the time that people had was her turn to ask us a few questions. was started with money from Europe. got away from work. You know how "Probably in their archives you'll find You see, the Holland Land Company was country people used to gather around the my name," he continues. "But there

r a world factor at the time of the French center and swap lies! W ell, here was the wasn't an awful lot they could find out Revolution, and Amsterdam was the old man, and here was Darius Strong and about Bakeman, even that far back. I financial center of Europe. These Hol- his brother William, who had the farm imagine that was about twenty-five years landers realized that property rights were between us and town. Everybody knew ago." uncertain in Europe, and so invested in that Katherine Herkimer, their mother, Then about twenty years ago the lands bought from Robert Morris and was a niece of old General Nicholas women of the Daughters of the American others. The Holland Land Company sur- Herkimer. They prided themselves that Revolution at Olean, New York, made a veyed that country about 1800 and put it they were somebody because of that pilgrimage to Bakeman's grave. Mr. on the market, attracting a lot of settlers relationship. They came from the same Smith read about it in the home-town from New England States. place that Bakeman did. It wasn't far paper and was able to send them a better "I don't know when the Bakemans away. photograph of Bakeman than the one moved into this section: they're not listed "Well, sir, Darius Strong asked Bake- they owned, having had a photographer among the early settlers, at least. My own man some questions, and I remember the make a copy-shot of the original. grandfather, Reuben Smith, and Joseph old man didn't warm up to him at all. He Mr. Smith had seven ancestors in the Remington, his prospective brother-in- just seemed sort of quizzical. I didn't Revolutionary War, one seeing service in law, walked out from Rutland, Vermont, know until fifty years later that most of the battle of Bennington in 1777. One of to western New York and walked back. General Herkimer's family went and his relatives, Joshua Remington, re- Then they married and brought their made peace with the British, after ceived a yearly pension of $24.18 a year families out by ox-team. That was during General St. Leger landed on the shore of ("All he was worth, no doubt," says Mr. the year 1816. Lake Ontario and was preparing to march Smith comfortably). Pensions were based "I don't think anybody ever thought to up through the Mohawk Valley and join on the length of service and the risks a ask many personal questions of Bake- Burgoyne. At that time a lot of timid man ran. man," Mr. Smith continued. "He must people who had been loyal to the patriots' He is tremendously proud of his wife's have married long before he moved to cause went and swore allegiance to King colonial history, and says she had five New York. We didn't know much about George's cause. Maybe that was why ancestors who distinguished themselves— them then, and the records don't show- Bakeman didn't warm up to Darius ("My ancestors did more running," he much since then. For instance, about the Strong at all or appreciate that his inter- says). Jacob Stroud, founder of Strouds- only mention of the family in print is locutor was a son of Katherine Herkimer." burg, Pennsylvania, and a notable war that Jacob Bakeman, the nephew, was hero, was one of her grandfathers. Stroud living in Yorkshire Center and that the MR. SMITH'S interest in Bakeman was one of three who carried General town included 42 houses, according to and in all Revolutionary War Wolfe off the battlefield of Quebec. the gazetteer of i860. That's no great matters has led him to buy and digest Mr. Smith carries his quiet humor into help. many books on the subject, until his own everything he does. A generation ago he "Bakeman himself was not the type to library is a small museum of the subject. edited a big volume of the history of his attract a lot of attention, there was A score of years ago he and Mrs. Smith section of Michigan. It wasanopportunity nothing about his life that was remark- visited Boston. At Old South Church many men would cherish, to tell the able. He was just a farmer, did his work, they were surprised to see a picture of truth about themselves in a glowing and marketed his crops, and had just a fair Daniel V. Bakeman, a copy of which is uncontradictable way. But he was fed up living." shown on page 18. with the self-praise some of the sketches r He paused a minute to answer a He asked about Bakeman. showed. W hen it came his time to write, question, and then went on. "We checked thoroughly, and are he understated the case. His autobiog- "He was not loquacious, and he had no pretty sure he was the last veteran," the raphy is a masterpiece of originality. ability to talk to a crowd. He was a custodian said, rather defensively. woman William Vernon Smith [he wrote] was typical old pioneer farmer. "I'm sure of it, because I knew him born on a farm . . . Received the two "Hut [ shall never forget one thing. He personally," replied Mr. Smith en- above Christian names on or about came up to the Post Office one summer couragingly. August 8, 1857, thus making his name

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an anti-climax. He spent his early days on the farm. Early days are common on

the farm, every morning bringing one. . . Taught country schools during the greater part of the time he was supposed

to be in attendance at the Academy. . . . Studied law at Arcade, New York. In 1861 was admitted to the bar and matri-

mony. . . . Practiced law in New York 25 years with no alarming success. A kind and beneficent Providence has worked overtime to protect him from

the corrupting influences of wealth. . .

Though he ha? lived 33 years in Flint he confesses to a wanderlust. Some fifty years ago he bought a tract of land in Minnesota. He knew Indians at firsthand, has made a hobby of American ethnography, and was adopted into the Seneca Nations of Indians, who gave him the euphonious name "Gar-ay-gar-yo," which means An Old Fence. His collec- tion includes some startling Indian curios and totem poles. He insists that Indians have a wonderful sense of humor! "Experiences that came to me in Minnesota spiced up my life a lot," he says. "I saw frontier affairs at first hand." He thoroughly believes in every man following some research or other and getting a big kick out of it. "We all need a FIRST in popularity hobby as we grow older," he says. "Then when we are shouldered out of active participation in world affairs, there are com- among pensations." He isn't too optimistic about conditions today. For that matter, you don't live to U. S. BOTTLED IN BOND 82 without generating a philosophy of life. "Our wars, even our Civil War, were KENTUCKY STRAIGHT health resorts, compared to the war they are fighting today," he says soberly. BOURBON WHISKIES "War now is an awful thing. It proves that our civilization is built on false premises. It proves our religion is a failure. We need to do less worrying about the life everlasting and to practice more humanism in the world we have. "This world is not a wilderness of woe. and it is our home. "Talk about Lincoln's Emancipation freeing people from slavery! It would be nothing to the emancipation of people from the fear of a hell. "But maybe the world is not yet ripe for the truth." Mr. and Mrs. Smith have a daughter who is a school teacher in California, an adopted daughter, a son who is trust officer in a Flint bank, and three grand- sons. A peaceful citizen, but a firm be- liever in justice, he has compiled the full story of an unreported lynching in Topeka, Kansas, fifty-two years ago, when a soft-hearted Governor refused to order the hanging of a burglar who had murdered a popular local businessman in his bed. So they lynched him, in an orderly and dignified fashion, and so popular was the act that thousands of men asked to put a hand on the rope. They finally had a rope two blocks long. "It was one of the best examples of simple American justice I ever heard of," NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, NEW YORK he savs, not unkindlv. COPYRIGHT 1940,

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(Continued from page 25) of tennis. It was a crucial event. Another were always in there giving everything gawky Don Budge turned professional, Aussy victory, and the United States they had. For instance, Little Bill the United States last year, at the Merion would have to hand over the Davis Cup Johnson, 112 pounds of dynamite, with Cricket Club, lost the cup to Australia, It was up to the carrot-topped Cali- the greatest competitive heart in the when John Bromwith of th? double- fomian to stem the tide. And he went out history of tennis. Big Bill Tilden, a later barreled backhand blasted Frankie Parker there, that blistering day, before fifteen immortal, would throw a set when his off the courts. thousand people in the Forest Hills opponent had a big margin of games won, In 1899, young Dwight F. Davis, of stadium, and turned tennis into a he- and concentrate on the following set. But Harvard, who was National Doubles man's game. Champion with his classmate, The first set was the most daz- Holcombe Ward, conceived the zling in court history. Brookes, a idea of a tennis rivalry between picture-book player, a superb the United States and England. strategist, was the better on the After a short correspondence, the ground. His half-volleys, his fore- foundation for the rivalry was hand drives, his placements—all laid. Dwight F. Davis contributed had McLoughlin on the gallop. the fancy-fringed, big-bellied Then, at last, the Califomian bowl. turned on the steam. His cannon- The first Davis Cup was ball serve almost took Brookes' staged at the Longwood Cricket head off. His overhead smashes Club, in Brookline, Massachu- were accurate and angry. And setts. A picket fence surrounded upon receiving, he would wait for the courts, and almost ten thou- the little ball to bounce high, and sand persons paid a quarter each then would coil his body, unwind, to see the competition. Dwight F. and from the top of his shoes Davis and Malcolm Whiteman slash down and into the ball. won four singles matches, and Brookes never saw those shots. Davis paired with Ward to take Forth and back the spheroid the doubles in straight sets. sizzled. And the harder Mc- The Davis Cup, it is pleasant Loughlin hit, the better Brookes to note, was inaugurated to seemed to get. Finally, with the stimulate international sports- score q to 0, Brookes broke manship, but, like the Olympics, through the Califomian 's service from the very first matcn oecame 40-0 It appeared and took a lead. 'The Van Camps just love a picnic" a grudge competition. to be the turning point. H. Roper Barrett, who with It was then, this moment, that E. D. Black, was on the losing tennis became a man's game. McLough- not Johnson. He was always in there English doubles team in that first compe- lin hitched his trousers, and strode to the trying, and his forehand was one of the tition, scowled at the officials, at the baseline to serve. He looked a mess. His greatest ever. cup, and blasted: red hair hung damp over his forehead. R. Norris Williams, a Legionnaire and "The ground is abominable! The net a Sweat blotched his shirt. Suddenly, he Davis Cup player who was national disgrace! The balls are soft and motherly toed the mark, sucked in his breath and champion of the United States when we looking!" let go. The serve screamed in—perfect! got into the war, was another player who Immediately, the Davis Cup caught on. Brookes couldn't touch it. The score be- will be long remembered. He was always In 1904, France challenged for the cup. came 15-40. Again, the red-head served, trying for service aces— if the first went And a year later, Austria and Belgium dynamiting the pellet into the opposite wrong the second slammed over the net sent regiments to the baselines. corner. It tore the racket out of Brookes' without any decrease in speed. The tennis Today, an average of from thirty to grasp! 30-40. gallery—always fickle—cheered loudly thirty-three different nations, ranging Another cannonball rocketing into the when that second try landed inside the Lorn Monaco, eight square miles in size, court. And the game was even! Then lines, and booed just as hard when it to India and Chile and Japan, battle another! And another! Five perfect didn't. Williams was one of the first to annually for Mr. Davis' gift. serves in a row and McLoughlin had hit the ball on the rise, and in the opinion The competition is unique in that the pulled the game out of the fire. Five of men who have seen all the great holders of the cup do not hav3 to play serves, screeching like one-pound shells— matches in this country since 1900 he through the eliminations, but only meet balls the Australian couldn't touch. Five was the most flawless player ever. the finalists of challenging countries. consecutive aces—each traveling 128 It is odd to note, however, that in 1914, miles an hour! The greatest exhibition of WHILE the advent of Red Mc- at the beginning of the World War, raw power the tennis world had ever seen. Loughlin showed the world that Australia took the cup away from ths

It broke Brookes. And McLoughlin tennis could be rough and tough, it was United States in three matches against eventually took the historic set, 17-15. the Davis Cup competition that took the two. Anthony Wilding, their star, im- and then battered Brookes, 6-3, 6-3, for sport away from the rich and the royalty mediately went to the front, and was the crucial match. in a select few countries and made it an killed in Flanders by a shell, while The newspaper scribes that day de- international pastime. Norman Brookes served with troops in cided "panty-waist" and "tennis" were The Davis Cup, of course, isn't a cup Egypt and Palestine. And last year, not synonymous. at all, but a silver punch bowl. It con- again at the beginning of a new war, McLoughlin of course gets the credit tains 217 ounces of silver—and during Australia once again took the cup from for starting something, but there were 1938, swathed in flannel, it lay in the the United States by an identical score, some other Americans of his day who vault of a New York jeweler. But with with their aces once more leaving to

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine serve on fronts of action in a new war. Few will forget that hunk of mayhem between France and Australia in 1925 fflrOireat Occasions when, with the teams deadlocked, the winner of the doubles was to enter the Davis Cup finals. Jean Borotra, manufacturer of gasoline pumps, and Rene LaCoste, phlegmatic ace, squared off against the inimitable duo from down cJn&ven under. Patterson and Hawkes. The Stade Roland Garros was jammed. And the contest was terrific. With two 'Wnek sets apiece, the doubles outcome de- pended on the fifth set —and with Borotra acting Zvengali to the tennis ScHLITZ ball's Trilby, France soon surged ahead. 5-2. Only one more game, four meager

points from victory. And then it hap-

pened ! W ith the contest in his lap. Borotra rushed the net for a kill—and the ball, hot off Patterson's racket, caught him full on the temple. For a moment he wavered. His beret slipped off his head, and then he pitched face forward to the greensward, and lay motionless. It took them five minutes to find out he wasn't dead. France had just decided to default the match —when Borotra staggered to his feet, pulled on his silly beret, and insisted upon continuing. And so they continued. But Borotra, on Leon Errol legs, was drunk with pain. He couldn't see the dancing ball. He missed it. He topped it. He lofted it into the galleries. And he unnerved LaCoste, whose technique began to resemble Grandpa with the fly-swatter. In ten minutes, the French pair lost their lead and trailed, 5-6. Borotra. courage waving through his head like the tri-color. at last pulled himself together and began stroking the ball with vengeance. His shots were like missiles from a catapult. And beside him, LaCoste became a precision machine. They were everywhere, stumbling, jump- ing, walloping—and winning. 10-8! Paris went wild. Borotra quietly fainted. LaCoste drowned himself in yellow champagne. A sissy game, eh? Then a third factor entered to harden the sport. Professionalism. On the night of February 18, 193 1, under the bright white lights in Madison Square Garden, before fourteen thousand shrieking souls, William T. Tilden. of the stooped shoulders and drooping jaw. turned pro and faced Karl Kozeluh, the tireless Czech. Tilden and the fourteen thousand who came to see him proved something that night, nine years ago. They proved that, since tin loving-cups and bronze medals One glance at the new cream, gold and brown label on the famous don't go good with mustard, and since the masses were willing to come across Schlitz Brown Bottle will tell you that there's news inside. And there is: with the root of all evil to watch a match, It's an even finer Schlitz — a beer brewed for the great occasions of life a livelihood could be made from tennis. ... a brilliant without trace of bit- Professionalism did a great thing. It beer that's dry and and buoyant, a made tennis wholesome and democratic. terness. Try it — discover for yourself how good a bottle of beer can be! It added the final touch to the virility Copyright fp/o, Jos. Schlitz Brewing Companv, Milwaukee, Wis. of the game. (Continued on page 44) JULY, 1940 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — —

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Players no longer had to juggle tea-cups ripped off the tip of his second finger tennis effeminate! I'll tell you something. and obey the Lawn Tennis Associa- then for tortuous months had the raw I've seen them all, foreign stars and tion. There was a new field open to wound treated daily, and then, with his Americans, amateurs and pros, and the them. Their Shangri-La changed from racket hand still in bandages, entered the perfect composite player would be

Rye and Southampton to Madison National Doubles 1 tougher to tangle with than a truck- Square. Their ambitions changed from With him, in the doubles, was his side- driver. The perfect player would have glory to the cash-register. It was adult. kick, Vincent Richards. They batted Tilden's serve, Vines' overhead smash, The big parade began. After Vincent their way to the finals, and collided with Perry's slashing volley, Lott's deceptive Richards and Bill Tilden, all the best Gerald Patterson and Tat Wood. lob, Sid Wood's snap and punch, and graduated. Lanky Elly Vines, the Pasa- Despite his handicap, Tilden's rifling Budge's crashing backhand. A player dena lad with the lightning serve. Fred serve was a chalky blur that afternoon. with all that would be unbeatable—and Perry, the scrappy Beau Brummel from The ball came from his racket like a shot if you had to get out on a court against

London. Les Stoefen, the blond Hercules, exploding from a steam pipe. And it was him, with only a small tennis racket to and George Lott, dispenser of black eyes, one of these screaming serves that caught protect you, and a hard pumped ball and Henri Cochet, the little Frenchman, Vince Richards in the back of the neck. slamming at you over two miles a minute, and freckled Don Budge, with the He toppled over like a dead man. And it you'd forget about tennis being a sissy heaviest racket in the game—all went took over one hour to revive him! game!" barnstorming. Budge got as high as But when he became conscious, he But back to Mr. Tilden. Having proved $75,000 his first year. finished out the contest, and helped in his time that tennis wasn't all ruffles,

But one must remember, it was Bill Tilden win the National Doubles. Bill Tilden, on a balmy New York after-

Tilden who started it. He was the great- "Those two cripples won the United noon, did try to prove it was a fine art est net wizard of all time, and anything States championship," concluded Alex- like literature, opera and French post-

but a lily. True, he was temperamental, ander. "Think of it! Then try to call cards. halting in mid-game to stop the clacking On that balmy afternoon, the hecklers of a typewriter or a baby's squawk. crowded around Tilden, waved a news- For the benefit of those who still think Here are the players in action on paper in his face and attempted to de-

tennis is for Lord Fauntleroys, Fred page 25: Left to right above the stroy the dignity of the game by shouting, Alexander told me a story about Tilden wording Lightning-fast action and "Did you read in the paper here, Mr. and Richards when they were still simon- bow! Fred Perry, Pat Hughes, Tilden, where George Bernard Shaw says pures. Wilmer Allison, Eunice Dean, he never heard of you?"

ll was in September of 1022, when Perry again; below, in same order, For a moment Tilden was immersed in Tilden, at the height of his game, met Gerard Podestr, Don Hawley, Bill thought. "Shaw?" he murmured. "Shaw? with an accident. Chasing a high lob, he Tilden, Sidney B. Wood and Rene Is that the new doubles player from drove his hand into a backstop, and Lacoste Australia?"

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{Continued from page 27) a year will enlarge a basically efficient swift, comprehensive outline of the de- to play on the Junior Legion teams sud- service program. partment objectives. denly found themselves unable to play A great part of this efficiency is owing When you're told that practically a game they had come to love. to the Department organization. South every school in the State had contestants And out of that South Dakota devel- Dakota does not begin each year with a in the essay contest you realize this system oped amateur baseball for juniors, inter- new district administration that must gets results. mediates and seniors of unlimited age. spend half the year getting acquainted With this background we can take a Today South Dakota has thirty-two with strange duties. The District Com- look at baseball—which is really South amateur baseball leagues and three manders are elected for two years, the Dakota's dish. Like everything else it hundred teams, composed of eleven even-numbered districts electing in the does the Department goes at baseball players each. Tommy Collins estimates even years, and the odd-numbered in efficiently and on a big scale. that one out of every four persons who

the odd years. Thus you have a fifty Really, the whole idea of Junior Legion could play baseball is playing it. This is percent holdover each year that keeps baseball originated in South Dakota ten percent and better of the 25,000 the work moving. These fourteen Dis- and was taken over by the National teams in the nation. trict Commanders constitute the execu- Americanism Commission as one of the Crandall, South Dakota, for example, tive committee, insuring state-wide con- Legion's most successful nation-wide has a population of—count 'em—fifty,

t inuity of service. services. Frank McCormick, then De- yet it has a team composed of four cous- Each fall the South Dakota traveling partment Commander, Francis Cosgrave ins of Bob Feller, Cleveland Indian's school makes a 2,5co-mile swing through and Tommy Collins, the professional um- whizz, three Osbornes and two Smiths. the districts. In one car is Commander pire, fathered the idea. And the team was good enough to reach R. P. Harmon, Jim Mullaney, the Ad- In those days sand-lot baseball was the semi-finals in the play-off for the jutant; Herb Barnard, the State Service in the doldrums, but as each South Da- State title at Aberdeen. And incidentally, Officer, and Ted Brown, the veterans' kota Post developed its own team there in Aberdeen, a city of 15,000 population, placement officer. In the other are the were suddenly thousands of kids crazy the paid admissions to the play-offs were State Auxiliary leaders. In each district about baseball. Some of them went on, 26,000.

these meet with the newly-elected Tost it is true, to play pro and semi-pro ball. Flere is why South Dakota baseball is and Auxiliary officers and give them a But hundreds of others, growing too old strictly amateur. No amateur ball player may be paid. Every player must reside in the community for which he plays. Anyone who has played pro ball for two years or has appeared in fifty games for pay is considered a professional and must sit on the side-lines for three years to regain his amateur rating. And even then only three such ex-pros may play on any one team. A new ruling, effective this year, requires that each team must have three "rookie" or junior players to bring along the youngsters.

Fifty percent of all the South Dakota teams playing in the State finals were made up of graduates from Junior Legion baseball. Well, out of this beginning grew a re- vived sandlot baseball. The American Baseball Congress, a non-profit-making corporation that cannot pay salaries, came into existence. Amateur baseball started on its national sweep. In 1935 there were only 1,500 leagues. This summer, as I have said, 25,000 teams will play a schedule of ten games on week-ends. South Dakota's example has returned baseball to the small towns. Last year ?'* sixty-five teams were formed in towns "Whose Vacation Is This, Anyway of less than a thousand population. And twenty-seven in towns of less than a /^AMPING out is fun—if it doesn't last too long. hundred. In Kentucky there are six teams in towns of less than sixteen We speak of "roughing it" and brag about the hard- again) population. There will (count 'em ships entailed. But only a few years ago it wasn't con- be more this year. sidered hardship to live this More, for example, like the team Dan a way. For most people, Yellow Earring formed at Bullhead, it was the only way they had to live. South Dakota. Or Solomon Long Chase's The tin washtub, for instance. It did duty Mondav aggregation at Little Eagle, or the team at Tomato, Arkansas. mornings and Saturday nights, and the water was heated From South Dakota's contribution in the reservoir at the back of the wood-burning range. amateur baseball has grown rapidly. Splitting the wood was good exercise—but it was no fun It will grow more rapidly. But other Posts in other Departments can take a to get up in the middle of cold nights to keep the fire lesson from South Dakota's book and see going. And the feeble kerosene lamps, though better to it that a youth doesn't cease to play baseball when he outgrows the Junior than candles, had to be continually cleaned and filled. Legion team. There's health} - exercise in Sometimes we have to "roueh it" to realize the im- it for all—as witness the sixty-year-old provements time has brought — many of them through gent who pitched and won a game for his team. electricity. Not only electric lights, and automatic heat, Tommy Collins who is now the ama- and electric appliances to make housekeeping easier, but teur baseball players' umpire-in-chief also automobiles, better roads, better coats and dresses. will tell you at the drop of the hat that the ball played at Battle Creek is better Wherever electricity has been put to work in industry, than half the Class B ball you see. it has brought us better-quality and lower-cost products. "The day will come," he said, "when And because General Electric scientists, engineers, and we'll have seventy or eighty thousand registered amateur baseball teams in workmen are finding still more ways to make electricity the country." useful, we can look forward to still higher living standards Other Departments who want to foster intermediate and senior baseball along in America through the continued creation of More Goods with its Junior Legion teams have now for More People at Less Cost. got the chance. All it costs is a three- cent stamp and ten minutes of time to C-E research and engineering have saved the public from ten to one hundred write to C. 0. Brown, the American Base- dollars for every dollar they have earned for General Electric ball Congress, 209 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois. As I turned to leave, Jim Mullaney GENERAL '% ELECTRIC put his patented lighter to his corn cob EXPOSITION pipe. "Hope you got enough for a story," NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR— SEE THE G-E "HOUSE OF MAGIC"— SAN FRANCISCO he said. "Well," I replied, "what do you think?"

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to fit present and future needs. Being the other, each one vital to the engine's our own backbone and watchfulness. The

People's, it has been amended by us functioning. The Bill of Rights, two dangers from without are serious, but whenever there was need; but, being the pages long, is packed with things that there can also be political Trojan Horses

People's, it can be altered only in ac- seem as common as the air we breathe, and borings from within. What comes cordance with its terms. Anything else is and yet are as essential to our happiness silently or smilingly is always more tyranny. as air is to life: Freedom to speak, and dangerous than open attack. Who prepared it? Liberals and con- meet, and worship God; a fair trial, even Modern Germany and ancient Rome servatives, farmers, lawyers, scientists, against the State itself; the right to live both were once democracies. In both, most of them young men, all sincere be- in one's home without search or molesta- democracy committed suicide! Nor are lievers in the people. These men had the tion; all powers not vested in the Federal we immune in these United States. The courage and the wisdom to start the Government to remain the People's and test is —do we care enough to sacrifice our nation forward on its road of liberty and the States'. time and strength, to fight the fires of opportunity with only sufficient traffic Across the water, the people of the internal disunion and dictatorship while regulations to make the people's control dictatorship-nations bartered away their they are yet small, to prepare against more effective and more permanent. In a constitutions for glittering promises of attack from without. It takes vigilance wonderful Preamble of 31 simple words greater comfort. Today they are paying and it takes courage to preserve our they stated its objects. Read that Pre- for that comfort, if it be comfort, in peace and our liberties. By upholding and amble, then read again the Legion regimentation and war—a dreadful price defending the Constitution we protect all Preamble indeed. This is what Abraham Lincoln that we hold dear. No task is more worth Our constitutional form of government had in mind when he insisted that if while. is the most powerful engine in the world, government was to remain for the people, set on three points of balance. It is it must also be of and by the people. This is the first in a scries of ten articles effective only while that balance is main- Our country has been the happiest on dealing with the principles set forth in the tained between Congress, President and earth. But these good things can be lost Preamble to the Constitution of The Ameri- Courts—none more important than the by us. They cannot stand except through can Legion.

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account of themselves. Especially was In her cabin, on June 3, 1805, the treaty officers and men, distinguished them- this true in single ship duels. Here, the of peace with Tripoli was signed, which selves beyond the fondest expectations L'nited States Navy completely out- ended the paying of tribute to pirates. of their most ardent admirers. classed the British. The table on which the treaty was signed In the preliminaries, both Captain The first of these duels took place be- can still be seen in the captain's cabin Hull and Captain Dacres of the Guerriere tween the historic Constitution and the in its original place. maneuvered their respective ships with Guerriere. The Constitution was built in The declaration of war on June 18, consummate skill, each looking for a

Boston, as a 44-gun frigate to be manned 181 2, found the Constitution at Annapolis, favorable opening. The British were the by about 400. In her construction, well- hardly prepared for a strenuous campaign first to fire. The shots fell short. Captain known patriots played important roles. at sea. She did not have her needed Hull did not respond. More shots fol- Paul Revere, for instance, made her stores. She was breaking in a new crew. lowed. Some took effect. Captain Hull copper fittings. Boston was very proud, She was admirably constructed for ardu- stood fast. The shots came closer. Many indeed, of the vessel and she was hardly ous service, however, and had an invalu- landed on deck. The members of the launched before she embarked on her able asset in her commander, Captain crew became impatient. Officers begged notable career. Isaac Hull, whom Theodore Roosevelt, for the command to fire. Still Captain Her first service was in the West In- in his "Naval War of 181 2" characterized Hull held fire. The ships drew closer. dies, 1708-1801, against the French, who as the "outstanding single ship captain The Captain observed his men. The crew, were committing depredations upon our of the war." now well disciplined, he held in complete commerce during this pe-iod She made Fearing that the vessel might be control. Crouching low, till, it is said, several notable captures, including the blockaded in the Chesapeake, Captain he split his knee breeches from waistband Niger, the Spencer, and the Sandwich, Hull quickly completed his preparations to buckle, he watched and waited. Not well-known ships of their day. and set out for New York. A few miles until within pistol range of the enemy At the end of these hostilities, the Tom her destination, the Constitution ran did he give the order to fire. Springing to ship was thoroughly overhauled and into a British squadron and soon found his full height, he gave the command: fitted out for service in the Mediterran- herself surrounded by five vessels. Exer- "Now boys, pour it into them!" ean as the tlagship of Commodore Ed- cising all his skill and ingenuity, Captain They did. After twenty minutes of the ward Preble. She left the United States Hull outsmarted the British, and es- most accurate firing, the battle was de- in August, 1803, and during the next four caped the trap. He found a haven in the cided. The Guerriere was shattered, re- years was constantly in service. She par- familiar Boston harbor, where he paused duced to a shapeless hulk, too badly cut ticipated in live attacks on the harbor of for but a week to catch his breath and up to be taken into port. The Constitu- Tripoli and captured three of the enemy's then set out upon the seas. tion lost seven killed and seven wounded; ships. She was employed not only in bat- Southeast of Halifax on August 10, The British, 23 killed and 56 wounded. tle against the enemy, but also as a 181 2, the Constitution encountered the Captain Dacres surrendered, commended ilagship. It was on board the Constitution British frigate Guerriere and the first de- the American captain and crew and of- that operations were planned and orders cisive naval action of the war followed; fered his sword. Captain Hull, showing originated for the rest of the squadron. and Captain Hull, the Constitution, its that his chivalry equaled his skill and

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 47 courage, refused to take it, but did de- noted that there were many other repairing damages, a British ship of the mand Dacres' hat. In the so-called peace American vessels whose victories and in line came along and carried both vessels that preceded 1812 Captain Hull had some cases even defeats are equally to Bermuda. bet Captain Dacres that if the two ships worthy of glory and acclaim. Then followed the battle between the ever met in battle the Constitution would There was the victory of the Wasp two frigates, the Macedonian and the come out victorious. over the Frolic. These two sloops of war United Stales, and the American seamen Captain Dacres' hat was not the only met in a stormy sea and engaged in under the leadership of Stephen Decatur prize that Captain Hull received. After what tight fans would call a "slugging" again won a clear-cut victory. So skil- burning the Guerriere, he returned to match. The British Frolic was heavier. fully was the United States maneuvered Boston, where he and his crew were pre- The .American Wasp was more aggres- by its captain and so accurate was t he- sented with the freedom of the city, wined, sive. The tight was soon over. The Frolic lire of its crew, that it struck the Mac(- dined, and honored by her grateful citi- casualties included 62 out of no. The donian with 100 solid shot while hit but zens. Sword presentations followed from American list had but ten names. Un- three times itself. Casualties were 1 2 the citizens of New York, plate from the happily, while the crew of the Wasp was for the United {Continued on page 48) people of Philadelphia, and gold medals from Congress. A nation which had expected little or nothing from its meager Navy now united in widespread exulta- tion. They showered praise not only on the officers and men, but also on the ship itself. "Old Ironsides," they fondly re- named her because, to quote her seamen, "the shots of the enemy bounced off her sides as though they were made of iron." Her victory over the Guerriere, though the most sensational and far-reaching of her exploits, was not her only achievement during the war of 181 2. After this battle, Captain Hull voluntarily resigned, but his successors continued to add to her laurels. In the course of the three years she ran in and out of Boston seven times in spite of the fact that it was closely blockaded by a British fleet. She made five cruises, ranging from Halifax on the north to Guiana on the south and as far east as the coast of Portugal. She captured and brought or sent in as prizes, nine merchant ships and five British ships of war. In addition to the Guerriere of 49 guns and 280 men. she captured the Java of 4Q guns, and 422 men; the Pido 11 of 14 guns and 60 men; the Cyane of 34 guns and 175 men and the Levant of 21 guns and 138 men. The battle between the Constitution and the Java w as one of the hardest of the sea tights. For two and one-half hours the two ships bitterly fought each other. The Constitution had her steering wheel shot away. Her commander, Captain William Bainbridge. was twice painfully wounded. By the skillful maneuvering of her commander and by the superior marksmanship of her crew, however, she came out the victor. The Cyane and the Levant, the Consti- tution took on simultaneously. Although alone either would have been no match for her, the combination offered a stub- W born resistance which began at six in the IS IT FOR ME?" evening and lasted well into the night. As an exhibition of seamanship, the You kind of hope it is — for a Mother to find out if things are action is regarded by some authorities as lot of good news and good times all right. And everything is more "unrivalled in naval annals." To take his ship into action against two hostile ves- come your way by telephone. likely to be all right when there's sels and to handle her not only so as to Maybe it's a date for Sister a telephone in the home. In escape being raked, but actually to rake Sue. Or a golf call for Dad. Or many, many ways, it is a real his enemies himself, was a great demonstration of naval skill to redound to the Bill asking if Jimmie can go to friend of the family. credit of her captain. Charles Stewart. the movies. Or Grandma calling BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Although the battles of the Constitu-

tion are the best known of those on the The Bell System cordially invites you to visit its exhibits at the New Yuri Francisco high seas in the War of 181 2, it should be World's Fair and the Golden Gate International Exposition, San

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.Sidles to 103 men for its British opponent. tow by the Essex the captured sailors tions, and restored order in the island. When late in the war the Hornet, com- aboard the Alert plotted a mutiny. This, After thoroughly overhauling the Essex manded by Captain James Lawrence, young Farragut discovered in time. He and one of the prizes he had named met the British Peacock on the high seas, notified Captain Porter, who frustrated Essex, Junior, he set out for further con- America scored again. The ships were the uprising by giving the signal for fire quests. Success followed but by this time substantially of the same size but in drill. The members of the crew- jumped to news of his maurauding had reached armament, marksmanship and seaman- their posts. The mutineers thought the London and the Cherub and the Phoebe ship, the Hornet were dispatched to proved superior. the Pacific. In the Victory followed harbor of Valpa- raiso in short order. TheJL X 'Li Warvt nix of 1812 ON THE High Seas on several oc- Mingled among casions British these notable vic- AMERICAN BRITISH DATE and American ves- tories were a few sels passed within Constitution'"' Guerriere Aug. 19, 1812 bitter defeats and gunshot of each Wasp* Frolic Oct. 18, 1812 in the first of these other. Rather than United States* Macedonian Dec. 25, 1812 the same Captain violate the neu- Constitution* Java Dec. 29, 1812 Lawrence played trality of Chile, Hornet* Peacock Feb. 24, 1813 an immortal Captain Porter did Chesapeake Shannon* June 1, 1813 though tragic role. not strike when he Argus Pelican* Aug. 14, 1813 In command of the had the advantage. Enterprise* Boxer Sept. 5, 1813 Chesapeake with a When the tables Essex Squadron* Mar. relatively green 28, 1814 were turned and Peacock* Epervier Apr. 29, 1814 and motley crew, the American ves- Wasp* Reindeer June 28, 1814 consisting of sel, still in neutral Wasp* Avon Sept many foreigners, 1, 1814 waters, suffered the President Squadron* Jan. 1815 he met the British 15, loss of her main Constitution* Levant-Cyane Feb. 20, 1815 Shannon off the topmast and ran Hornet* Penguin Mar. 23, 1815 City of Boston. into a little cove, Peacock* Nautilus 3 1815 His own courage June 0, close to shore, for could not make up "Denotes victor shelter, the British for the lack of commander was training and team not quite so chival- work of his men. rous. He attacked. The superior fire of the Shannon crippled time not propitious for their project and The Essex put up a gallant fight. She the ship and inflicted many casualties. it was abandoned. was torn literally to pieces, her guns When the British boarded her they had When the Essex found that she was dismounted, a third of her crew shot little difficulty in overcoming the crew. practically alone in the South Atlantic down and disabled. When resistance be- During the battle Captain Lawrence was fighting against insurmountable odds, she came utterly hopeless, the Essex gave up. struck by a musket ball and fell mortally steered for Cape Horn, rounded the tip Despite the defeat, American men of the wounded. His officers rushed to his side, and carried the war into the Pacific. sea regard the action of the Essex under raised him gently and began to carry him Prize after prize fell into her hands. Captain Porter as one of the cherished below. Many, Captain Porter sent to port with traditions of the fighting spirit of the "Tell the men to fire faster, and not an officer in command. Even young service. give up the ship. Fight her till she sinks," Farragut found himself on occasion in The creditable record of the United he shouted. Out of this cry came the charge of a prize. Once when the erst- States Navy in duels with the British slogan, "Don't give up the ship," to while commander of the Barclay, then a men-of-war on the high seas was con- which American naval men later rallied captive, tried to dictate the course of the tinued and even surpassed in the fights to sweeping victory on Lake Erie. vessel the future American admiral made on Lakes Erie and Ontario.

Another serious loss was the capture it very clear that he was the boss. The year 181 2 found Great Britain in of the Essex, which ended a most spec- Battleships among his prizes, Porter possession of Canada and in control of tacular Odyssey with a superb demonstra- converted to military use. At one time the magnificent St. Lawrence waterway. tion of the American Navy's fighting he found himself in command of a veri- To the south and west extended gateways spirit. The Essex was commanded by table squadron. He broke up the British to the heart of America. The capture of Captain David Porter, father of the whaling trade and captured one-half of the route via Lakes Ontario and Erie Civil War admiral of the same name. She its vessels. He frightened British mer- promised the resources of the Northwest. carried aboard Midshipman David Glas- chantmen entirely from the waters of the The conquest of Lake Champlain and gow Farragut, then but a boy of twelve, southern Pacific. The world beheld the Lake George offered the approach to serving a useful apprenticeship in a naval strange spectacle of one vessel dominating the middle of rich New York. To win education which trained him for the almost an entire sea. After a strenuous these gateways was the strategy of the responsibilities that lay ahead. year of varied activity the Essex pro- British command but in neither case Disguised as a merchant vessel but ceeded 3000 miles to the southwest to the were they successful. mounting twenty-six guns, the Essex at Marquesa Islands. These Porter took in First blood was drawn in Sackett's first wrought great havoc in the Atlantic. the name of the United States and set Harbor in July, 181 2. There at anchor Prize after prize of British merchantmen himself up as its administrator by right lay the Oneida, at that time America's she sent into port. Her first notable vic- of conquest and occupation. When the principal ship in these waters. The tory against a man of war she won against tribes fought among themselves, he allied British with five men-of-war decided to the Alert, a British sloop. While under himself with the Typees, one of the fac- destroy it. To save the civilian popula-

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49 tion, the British asked for the town's cent advantage in weight of lleet broad- "We have met the enemy, and they capitulation. The Americans refused. side. The British ships had the greater are ours—two ships, two brigs, one For its defense, Sackett's Harbor had range. For his flag ship. Perry used the schooner, and one sloop." the nine guns aboard the Oneida and a brig Lawrence, named after the ill-fated The United States Navy had success- hodge-podge battery consisting of "Old captain of the Chesapeake. For his signal fully blocked the enemy's route to the Sow," an iron thirty-two pounder which for action he adopted the hoisting to the Northwest. had lain for years in the mud of the lake masthead of his ship a large square blue A year later another American squad- shore, and a pair of brass six-pounders flag bearing in white letters, gallant ron, under Captain Thomas Macdon- that Yankee sailors had salvaged from Lawrence's dying words, "Don't give ough, achieved a victory of similar import a sunken hulk of a British vessel. In com- up the ship." on Lake Champlain. His flotilla consisted mand of the motley array of artillery The British opened with their long- of the Saratoga, the Eagle, the Ticonder- stood Commander Melanchthon T. Wool- range guns with telling effect. Perry real- oga, the Preble, and ten gunboats. The sey, of the United States Navy. ized that his best chance of victory lay in British Navy was led by the Confiance When the British ventured too close close combat, and took the risk. The ene- and included sixteen other vessels. to the shore of Sackett's Harbor, "Old my, however, concentrated on the Law- The British were the first to attack. Sow" fired a single shot. It missed. The rence and subjected it to terrific bom- They moved forward, flags flying, nun British replied with a cannonade. They bardment. The Americans aboard fought cheering, in anticipation of victory. The did not miss the shore but hit nothing bravely but the odds were too great. For American squadron waited in silence. else. The bombardment lasted two hours. two hours the Lawrence took terrific A chance shot from the British brig Lin- Still there were no casualties. Finally, punishment. Perry saw his officers and net hit the Saratoga and knocked to one of the Americans serving "Old Sow" men fall around him. For a time no one pieces a chicken coop in which lived a picked up a British cannon ball that had was left on deck to lay the guns but fighting cock of great repute in PlattsburK just missed him, rammed the missle Perry and his first lieutenant, John J. which belonged to a sailor aboard. The down the muzzle and sent it back. It Yarnall. He used the wounded and the rooster flew into the rigging, flapped its crashed into the stern of the British surgeon's aids. But soon the Lawrence wings, and gave a lusty crow. The crew Royal George, killing fourteen and wound- was a complete wreck. of the Saratoga broke into cheers. The ing eighteen. The British ileet withdrew. Undaunted. Perry abandoned his ship, tension was broken. Despite this rather comic opera pre- wrapped his tlag around him, got in a row The battle was a stubborn, see-saw lude, the struggle for control of the boat and transferred to another brig, fight in which the Americans defeated Lakes soon took on a very serious aspect. the Niagara. The "daring of their com- the more experienced British fleet. The decisive battle on Lake Erie was mander inspired his men on every vessel. In the peace that soon followed, the fought at Put-in-Bay. An American They fought like demons and ultimate!)' United States retained its territory, and squadron, consisting of nine vessels, carried the day. The result is best de- won the freedom of the seas. Our Navy commanded by Captain Oliver Hazard scribed in the message, precious to every of the War of 1812 had laid down tradi- Perry, was pitted against a British force American, that Commander Perry sent tions of skill and courage to inspire loyal of six ships. Perry had nearly a fifty per- to General Harrison: Americans for all time to come.

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As their lights picked out the wet 'phone! Well, go on. Get it over with. details of the machine ahead, Jim sud- Tell her it breaks your heart these here denly wanted to yell. Wanted to shout bandits spoiled your date." He chuckled that it was all a mistake. That there again. wasn't any need checking that car. Jim was pressing the door handle as That they'd better go on patroling. For the radio bell struck. The deputy

if this wasn't his kid brother's jaloppy . . . quickly thrust his head into the car win- same make and model, same dirty color, dow and his hat brim dripped on Jim's same bent fenders, same empty spare knees. There was excitement this time tire rack, same .... in the dispatcher's voice. He bit off his "Keep your shirt on," Casey repeated. words and spit them at the microphone. Patting his pocket to make sure the "Attention, all cars! Special attention, extra shells were there, he climbed out. Car 88! Machine with one headlight Jim took a long breath, gripped his believed to be bandits went north pistol, lifted it slowly and took aim through Lake Ann five minutes ago. through the windshield. He waited while Eluded posse at crossroads there. Travel- ." Casey splashed forward, the shotgun ing fast. . .

cradled in his arm . . . waited while the "Get going, kid," Casey said. ". sergeant jerked open the door of the . . Car 88, go east on county road jaloppy. 76 for three miles. Head 'em off." The Casey's lips were moving. Jim could dispatcher's voice still was excited. The see that much, even though the storm deputy sheriff jerked back his head.

wiped out the voice. He could see, too . . . "Sheriff at Maple City, hold your cross- he took a long breath, and his fingers road. Car 92, start west on county line (Continued from page ij) shook. Why, he could see the license road. WVve got these babies cornered ." now! Of all the dumb recruits he was . . . hold on . . the radio paused, then the country like his own barnyard. If dumbest! He'd been staring all the time added, "That's right. Car is positively

Charley, trying to get away. . . . at the license. It wasn't Charley's num- identified as belonging to bandits!" t "Empire's to hell an' gone from here," ber. This was a Kent County plate. It "Step on it," Casey said. His voice grumbled. "Twenty -thirty miles." Casey wasn't Charley. . . . was calm. He leaned out and shouted Jim tramped the accelerator and And Casey had slammed the door. back, "Thank you kindly, men, thank headed north. Scattered farmhouses He was tramping back. you kindly." dark windows on the wet ". showed only "Now, ain't young love wonderful?" . . took a shot just now at a farmer empty road. Bandits or no bandits, most he asked. begging a lift. Car 91, hold your post. folks were staying home in such weather Car 18, take bridge at Cedar. Traverse and going to bed early. At the cross- A DEPUTY sheriff with a small City police, send your car west on Long another patrol car road in Benzonia, badge pinned to his wet overcoat Lake road. Car 164 . . . wait a minute, flaies burning and a stood with bomb and three drenched men in Legion caps here's something else . . . bandit car is "Halt. Police Block- ." sign that ordered, waited at the crossroad in Empire. Two headed for Empire. . . ade." of them carried deer rifles, one a stout "What's that you say?" Casey de- Jim touched his siren and slowed club, the fourth a flashlight. They sig- manded. momentarily, till the trooper beside naled the patrol car to halt. "Nothing," Jim answered. He hadn't the other car lowered his shotgun and "Better stop quick," Casey warned. meant to say anything, didn't believe he waved him on. Jim recognized him, a fel- "Posse can get awful enthusiastic. When had said anything. Empire. Couldn't low from Manistee post. Looked like he it does, it starts shootin'." He leaned it have been any car but this one dis- needed a cup of coffee. Jim roared down hurriedly from the window and yelled, patched tonight to Empire. . . .? the hill into Beulah. "Hiya, sheriff. It's us. State police." The dispatcher was continuing: "Re-

"Hey,"' Casey said, "Eighty's too He made his voice jovial for once. member, 88, bandit car has one light. fast." The deputy advanced cautiously on You'll meet it, 88. Bound to, if they keep r ." "Too fast?" soggy shoes. W ith his flashlight full in on coming. . . "Slow down," Casey said, and then Casey's face he halted. Then he came on Jim's foot went down to the floorboard. he remarked, for no reason, "Me, I'm and put one wet foot on the running They were climbing a hill. Beyond it, sorry for their family." board. this hill or another, they'd meet a jaloppy. "Family!" Jim exclaimed. He looked "Three hours and ain't nary a cat Jaloppy or something better. It didn't at Casey quickly, then back at the dark tried to get past!" he said glumly. "I matter what. Didn't matter one light ." wet road. Hang it all, why didn't Casey got chores to do at home. . . or two, Charley Smith would be in it. come out and say what he thought? Jim reached for a cigarette, nervously And they'd shoot it out. Sergeant Casey Why didn't he ask where Charley was offered one to the deputy. Chores. and he himself, Charley Smith's brother, supposed to be right now? Why didn't Charley hadn't done his chores. Not at would take their guns and shoot it out he. . . . seven o'clock. But there might be a with a green kid who didn't know any

"Take no chances!" the dispatcher chance now ... he might be home by better . . . who did know better . . . who was warning. "These men are des- now. If he were, it would mean he wasn't didn't. . . . perate!" running from cops. . . . They were swinging a curve into a "Something comin' up now," Casey "Listen, sarge," Jim said. "I got to down-grade. Jim saw the sergeant said quietly. "Look. Parked car ahead." 'phone! I'll be just a minute!" reach for the shotgun. Straight ahead, " Jim slowed. He hadn't seen it. Eyes 'Phone?" Casey yelled. "Now? Right beyond the next rise, there it came . . . right on the road, and he hadn't seen it. in the middle of a chase? Good Lord, no!" a blur of white light soaking upward in " Hut there it was, standing on the shoul- 'Phone right there in the filling sta- the rain. . . . der without lights. tion." The deputy was pointing across "Car coming," Jim managed to say. "Pull in behind 'em" Casey directed. the road, and Jim seized the chance. "Yeh," Casey agreed. He was fussing ." "I'll shake 'em down. You stay at the "Take me only a minute, sarge. . . with a handful of shotgun shells. "If it's wheel." He reached for the shotgun and Casey turned and stared at him. them . . . um . . . we'd best stop right

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine here, see that culvert ahead? Straddle it." Jim stepped on the brake. His car wob- bled, halted at last. "That's right," Casey said. "Turn her a little. Block the road. You get in the ditch." Once more the oncoming light flashed against the rain, brighter this time. Casey snapped off their own headlamps. Then he climbed out. "In the ditch, kid," he repeated, "never mind the water." Something made him chuckle. "No rats in this war. anyhow. Keep your head down." "It's him!" Jim shouted. The car flashed over the hill. It was roaring toward them. "Yeh, it's them," Casey agreed. That had been a single headlamp lighting the sky. It was coming fast. Too fast to mean anything except chase ... or IN ATLANTIC CITY, escape. Jim ran for the ditch. One headlight . . . trying to get to Empire . . . not BATHING LEADS home for chores . . . scar . . . tall . . .

nice-looking. . . . "Head down!" Casey repeated. The car was only a quarter mile away. ... IN MILWAUKEE, An eighth of a mile. Jim could hear it roaring down the grade. It wasn't a BLATZ LEADS! jaloppy. Came too fast. Charley always did like to go fast .... "Aim steady, kid!" Casey sang out. "If you got to shoot, do it quick!" The car was two hundred yards away and doing sixty when Jim heard the yell of its brakes. He looked quickly over his shoulder. Casey waved his flashlight once, snapped it off. grabbed his shotgun and took aim. The one-eyed car was screeching, twisting, trying hard to stop. They knew they were trapped, Jim raised his pistol. It was awfully heavy. His fingers JUST as America looks to Atlantic City for the it. like his felt numb, holding Numb, last word in bathing, it looks to Milwaukee ditch water. Aiming knees in this cold as an authority on beer. It is doubly significant, to him? at Charley, was he? Aiming shoot therefore, that Blatz is Milwaukee s most popular He let the pistol waver. The oncoming bottle beer. An independent survey made by a light swept its beam crazily across the great newspaper verifies this fact beyond doubt. brief white road, right and left, wiping a Enjoy Blatz Old Heidelberg, the extra-pale beer old Casey, streak in the night, touching with the mellow, thirst-quenching Pilsener flavor. standing there, with the shotgun in his BLATZ BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. hands. 89 years of brewing experience Then the light went out. The car had halted, thirty yards away. For an "FOR THOSE WHO WANT THE BEST" instant there was only wet darkness. Then a dozen quick flashes spurted from the black bulk of the bandit car and Jim heard the ping of the slugs. Someone was shooting at Casey. Someone with Old the tommy-gun. A tall young fellow, Heidelberg rice looking, with a scar. Voices shouted BEER c ""' pMU BREWING ""' ; and a car door slammed. Casey didn't CO. MILWAtlKH I fire. What was he waiting for? Jim yelled, "Sarge!" No answer. "Sarge!" he cried. He found Casey on his knees beside his car. The shotgun lay on the wet pavement. Casey was holding the fender with both hands, trying to get to his feet. He was being sick. ." "Let . . . 'em get me . . he said. He

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Only the car door was too narrow. Bu f ness of the woods, his wet eyes made out had shot. He was tall, seemed heavy, he got him in. A slug was in his shoulder, the three darker shadows. He knelt in the and they kept tripping. "Hurt a lot?" swamp water and carefully lifted the "I'm right behind you," Jim warned. Casey tried to laugh. "Not ... a lot." shotgun. What would his mother say, if "Now, which of you is Charley?" Jim staggered up. It couldn't matter they brought bad news about Charley? "Huh?" the voice asked. "Another now, whose brother that was. "Give me The three plunged toward him, still gag? No Charley here." the shells," he heard himself yelling. He crashing through the brush. Going back At the edge of the woods Jim met the took them, snatched up the shotgun. to concrete, were they? He couldn't tell corporal from the Traverse City post "Be right back, sarge," he promised. which was tallest. Couldn't see what and a couple of troopers coming to help Running, he didn't think to bend low. they looked like. Whether any of them him. Two new police cars and the sheriff's Didn't Charley know he'd catch him? had a scar. But one did have a scar. sedan stood at the road by the culvert.

Hadn't he always caught him, ever since Three witnesses had said. . . . Casey still was there, propped up in his they were kids? Even in the dark he "Halt, you!" he sang out. "Don't own seat. He was smoking his pipe, could see where the gang had raced down move!" swearing, while two of the boys, who the muddy bank. A snag of somebody's The three halted. had taken his tunic off, were binding the raincoat hung to the barbed wire fence. "What's this, a gag?" a voice de- hole in his shoulder. He wasn't being Jim ducked through it and halted, lis- manded. sick any more. When he saw Jim, he tening. "I'll shoot," Jim said. He felt very said, "Three dirty punks, kid, just like They were over that way, down the calm. Nothing mattered. If he had to I said." He shouted at the hoodlums, hill. He ran, following the sound. shoot, he had to shoot. If that was "Where you birds from?" Back on the road he heard a police Charley nearest him, it was Charley. "Chicago," one answered. He was a siren coming. Some other car, that "Shoot, then," one of the figures said. hungrydooking guy. All three looked meant. It would find Casey. He ran on. "If I could see him," another muttered. hungry. And scared. And dumb. One He needn't turn back now. For any- So they couldn't see him, here on his did have a scar. But he didn't look like thing. Needn't turn till the job was done. knees. He had that advantage. Charley. Not a bit. A voice shouted: "Dropped it in the "Who the hell are you, anyhow?" the "What I tell you, kid?" Casey de- mud. Busted it." voice demanded. manded. "City punks. Anybody'd know "Let it go," someone answered. "Don't "Drop your gun, you," Jim bade. it, way they done the job. No farm kid need it." "Drop it." would make all them mistakes. That's Jim didn't recognize either voice. There was a flash, instead. So they why I knew we'd get 'em." He paused. They were too far off. It didn't matter, wanted to shoot him, too, did they? Jim's "Ouch!" he said. "Just punks." anyway. Didn't matter, either, what they finger closed on the trigger. Slowly. "Sure," Jim said. "That's right." had dropped; even when he tripped over Squeezing the way he'd been taught on He was feeling easy. Over to the west it, the tommygun, he didn't pause. He the range. The fellow who'd tried a flock of cars were rushing down the didn't want it, any more than they did. to shcot at him first sang out as he hill. Possemen tumbled out. Troopers

He still could hear them. But they fell. were patting him on the back, calling it didn't hear him. Or else they didn't care. "Rest of you want the same?" Jim nice work to bring in all three. One of "Where the hell we goin'?" one of asked. They didn't. them shouted, "Come on, boys. Get them yelled. "Me, I want the road. Get "How many guns?" Jim asked. "Throw Casey and this lug to the hospital." another car. Hell with the woods." 'em in the brush!" He heard one crash. "Me?" Casey said. "Oh, all right. Jim slowed, and moved forward more "Pick up your man," he bade then. Only first, on the way, leave Jim here silently. Casey had said they would rind "Carry him. Face into the rain, It'll take get to a 'phone. He's been havin' an the swamp too tough. Jim could hear you to the road." awful time. Something awful important them arguing. He tried to make out the "Ought-to-of thought of that!" one to call about." He chuckled. voices. But still he couldn't. He could muttered. They did not resist. But it "Thanks, sarge," Jim said. "Never see them, though. Suddenly, in the dark- took both of them to lift the man Jim mind. Nothing to call about, after all." c Red Rights ^Arent Enough

{Continued from page 7) each other on more or less even terms. which was counted on to bring about a were all the more clear in their convic- On this basis, the French and British decision. In each case its offensives had tion that the next war must be short in fan try could hold their ground; and been checked because infantrymen by and decisive. A curious sequence of cir- their artillery could hurry forward as fast the nature of things could only march so cumstances favored them at almost as the German guns could be brought up. fast and no faster in exploiting a break every turn. The dissolution of the old Once again the defense became practi- through; because after the first few days army after the Armistice and the dis- cally as strong as the attack, and after a the opposing infantry could be brought armament of Germany by the Treaties day or two of sparring, the war of move- up w here they could fight on even terms. allowed them to strip away all the dead- ment found itself stalled in position wood and all the military encumbrances warfare along a regularly organized front. IT WAS this situation above all that which otherwise would have carried over The whole set of offensives had been the German command determined to from the World War: The officers chosen set going in order to get rid of this very avoid in the next war, and their success in for the new Reichswehr were the very thing, and by the beginning of summer this is the dominant note of the swift first pick of the old officer corps; and with fhe Oerman army had worn itself out phase of the offensive of 1940. them, a younger generation came at without achieving the war of movement Having experienced one long war, they once into full control. The artillery, tanks

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1918. Once again the elimination of was accomplished not by heavy infantry whose outline could be marked on maps Russia allowed the German army to assaults but by a skilful combination of at headquarters, but an unknown and gather its full striking force upon the the new weapons. Poland and Finland unreported horizon of wide open spaces. western front. Once again the immediate may have offered a few hints, but the There was no front to report and no aim of the opening offensive was to drive thing must have been worked out and known 'situation': instead, a series of the British back, to the Channel ports, practised long before. The result proved disconnected stabbing lines reaching and (in an effective military sense) to that with tanks, dive-bombers, and highly deep into French territory—stopped separate France from England. Unlike mobile medium and heavy artillery, it short here and there, but pushing for- the Schlieffin plan, the plan of 1940 was possible to concentrate a mass of ward experimentally over any road where offered pretty clearly, no neat pattern fire such as no troops could survive—as the going happened to be good at the of strategical movements worked out in effective fighting units. The French moment. advance. troops along the Meuse, moreover, were The basic idea in this was evidently in fixed and known positions: small forti- THE tanks of 1918 were out of whack to break across the frontier wherever a fications, plus the trenches and strong- after a full day's work, and needed far break could be found, and to rely on the points of concrete added since the out- more than a night's rest to get going. certain superiority of tanks and airplanes break of the war. All these would have Their grandchildren of 1940 have a far

to develop a general advance to the been carefully photographed during the different range of endurance, and it re- westward. last few months. The dive-bombers and quires some outside force to stop them. tanks could concentrate their attacks on Thin lines of infantry are no such FOR his initial break-through in 1918 chosen and accurately marked positions; force. The dusty machine-gunners who Ludendorff relied on bringing many di- and east of the Meuse the French posi- dug themselves in across the open spaces visions into line at the last minute, and on tions were of necessity held to a narrow left by Ludendorff's drives could do an immense concentration of artillery and restricted area. By sheer force of nothing to-day against columns of tanks whose fire was worked out in detail long steel and high-explosive the defence tearing far and wide across the French in advance. Although the result was a was 'smeared' by the weight of the at- rear areas. This modern advance moves surprise, it had taken months of work tack. forward as fast as trains or trucks can to complete the preparations on the The errors of the French Command bring up troops to meet it: in about ten spot —directly in front of the French made the touches of color in this story. days the Nazi drive had reached the positions. The practical question for us to ask is: coast of the Channel. In 1940, in this sense, there was no What scheme of defence will the U. S. time for "preparations." The attack Army adopt to meet such a situation? ONCE again the practical point arises moved out from the eastern frontier of The doughboy has his points but he is for us. What counter-measures has Belgium—a hundred miles or so east of not bomb proof. our Command prepared for dealing wit h an the French line of battle. The advance was Once the advance was across the attack employing such weapons? Shall driving rapidly ahead when this line Meuse, tanks, mobile artillery and fast we send in the doughboy w ith his gleam- was reached, and it was attacked without armored cars put up the continuing drive ing bayonet? For another Pancho \ ilia

waiting to stage a full-dress artillery which Ludendorff asked of his infantry we are doubtless well fixed, but what if preparation. At Sedan, these bold tac- in 1918. The internal combustion Bodies some accident brought into the fray an tics were aided by a bungle of the French of 1940 need gas and oil, but their march- opponent with modern equipment? Will Command, but they succeeded fuither ing day is far longer and over the good the 171 reconditioned 75s now in our north as well; and in the end the lightly French roads their daily mileage was possession form the strategic reserve fortified Meuse frontier was broken surprising. What would have been a for dealing with roaming columns of 30- through practically without interrupting pocket ten miles deep or so in 191 8 be- ton tanks? Or shall we leave all the the war of movement. came an immense bulging salient within traffic lights set at red, and thus halt This amazing result, pretty clearly, 48 hours: not a loosely defined front the enemy's onset?

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It has gained the confidence and co- Besides seeing that the ships are union hiring halls. The Commission operation of both builders and shipping built, allocated to useful world routes and refuses to agree to that. There have been companies. The consensus among ship- properly managed, the Commission is clashes between traditional ship's disci-

ping men is that this country is now charged with the duty of getting them pline which is semi-military, and some embarked on the first practical, well- manned with trained and efficient men new principles of unionization as repre- thought-out, long-range merchant marine and officers. The law specifies that their sented by workers' councils in the fore- program in its history. The weakness personnel shall all be American citizens, castle. The communists have made that the Legion detected in the method except that ten per cent of the stewards' organized efforts to get control of mari- of selecting its membership has not be- staffs on liners, or in plain language, the time labor. The situation has been much come apparent yet—but that is because cooks, messmen and bartenders, may be worse on the West Coast than elsewhere, it has been fortunate in the choice of the aliens. and the port business of San Francisco two men who have served as chairman, The Commission has not won the has been nearly ruined thereby. Joseph 1'. Kennedy, who organized the whole-hearted approval of organized Sailoring is a tough life, even now, system and resigned to become Ambassa- labor. The chief difficulty has been over when the mates are forbidden by law dor to Great Britain, and the incumbent, the method of hiring crews. The unions to bully the men, wages are ten times Emory S. Land, a retired rear admiral. want to select and provide the men at what they used to be, and food and

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine for two years are enrolled. They have three months of training and are then eligible to belong to the Maritime Ser vice. Active service in that organization calls for eight months annually at sea, and another month at the training station each year. The men receive $30 a month while in training, and Barrows, ^^^^^1.1 lewis O. the officers $125 a month. In addition both classes get one month's pay as retainer as long as they belong to the Service. MAINE Unlicensed men are given an outfit of uniform actually worth about $100 invites you when they enroll at the Fnrtier. State 11 "„ C station. Colonel W««f/ American Legion o) fc e "Wake up. I think I hear cops downstairs Commander mm^^mmm When seamen were laid off American ships with- quarters are infinitely better than they drawn from the North Atlantic routes were in the good old days. because of the war zones embargo another

Employment is intermittent, most of station was opened up in Boston Har- the crew being hired for long voyages by bor to receive icco of them. At St. Peters- the trip instead of by the month. Em- burg. Florida, there is a training station ployers, the shipping lines, were formerly for apprentice seamen, greenhorns, who a hard-headed and hard-boiled lot —and are selected in the same way as the they still are. Large numbers of adven- C.C.C. boys. There are 250 down there. turous and drifting young men start At first glance it seems absurd to set going to sea, and then remain in the busi- up training schools to make sailors of ness. The life is full of temptations, and a men who are already professional sailors. proportion of the recruits become al- But in reality these schools are proving • Governor Barrows and Colonel coholic bums. They provide a fertile technically worthwhile. Lots of the men Fortier, State Commander of the Amer- field for subversive doctrines, and the who arrive don't know how to tie a field has been cultivated. These super- bowline. Many of them never pulled ican Legion, invite you to pay a visit to numeraries cling on to the trade, like an oar. The emphasis is on safety train- the great, friendly State of Maine when barnacles on the hull of a vessel. During ing, launching and handling life boats, you come to New England for your the great expansion of post-war times fire prevention, using gas masks, etc. National Convention. September is a the ranks of seamen were swelled by There are cooks', bakers' and stewards' glorious month in Maine. The days are great numbers of men who still want to schools and schools for engineers, but all warm, the nights are crisp. And the fish- work at the only profession they know. hands learn to rig breeches buoys, and ing — both in fresh and salt water — is They are now in their forties. Some of they all pull the lifeboats plenty of hours. better Plan them have become masters, mates and Perhaps the greatest weakness of our yet! to spend some time in engineers, some of them are still first- modern merchant marine has been the Maine before the Convention, or if that class material for deck and engineroom lack of facilities for training men. All of isn't practical — come down after the gangs and some are useless, but belong our chief competitors at sea train men Convention. to the union just the same. The unions and officers very thoroughly. A steam- You'll enjoy the good food and want all this too-numerous labor supply ship nowadays is a complicated piece of the genial hospitality of this great vaca- hired through their own halls, by rota- mechanism that requires technical skill tion State. You'll find all types of action. The companies, naturally enough, to be operated at the high speed modern commodations—and all of them good! \\i-h to pick out the smart, capable practice requires. The Japanese, in par- Well-known hotels, inns, camps, com- and sober men. That's the picture. ticular, give everyone connected with What's being done about it? A training their shipping high-grade training. The fortable overnight stopping places and system has been established that gives course for their merchant marine officers tourist homes. Don't miss this oppor- the promise of a real solution. It is is as stiff as a university course. tunity to visit the State of Maine! financed by the Maritime Commission, But the greatest value of the new that is, by the Covernment, and is run American training plan may not be in MAINE by the Coast Guard. A station on Hoff- what it teaches. It has proved that one- man Island in New York Harbor ac- quarter of the unlicensed men eliminate DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION commodates 600 unlicensed men and one themselves from the course. Half of that on Government Island at Cakland, quarter just quit —which they can do at California, can take 128 unlicensed and 28 any time—and the rest eliminated them- MAINE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION licensed officers. Another station at New- selves by reporting back good and drunk Tourist Service. 951 St. John Street. London, Conn., is equipped to receive 100 early in the period. Portland, Maine Please send me the new Maine licensed men. Two square-rigged ships, The remainder graduate and belong Vacation Guide for 1940. a converted freighter and Coast Guard to the Maritime Service. They are Name_ cutters are used for cruise training selected men, and have already won pref- Address^ Only genuine sailors who have been erence in ship lines and sea services like City_ -State FREE D00KU71 to sea on deepwater or Great Lakes ships the Army Trans- (Continued on page 56)

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{Continued from page 55) port boats. These graduates may be the would be practically self-sustaining. disputes affecting the entire maritime nucleus of America's future merchant industry, including operators, vessel The following resolution was adopted ship force. personnel, longshoremen, towboat, barge, at Chicago by the Legion's Twenty-First If the labor angle can be straightened lighter and dock employes. National Convention, September, iqjq: out, which seems far more likely than it It is further recommended that the did two years ago, the prospects for the . . . We recommend that essential legisla- Merchant Marine Act of 1936, Section American merchant marine look bright. tion be enacted to restore, preserve and 1132(b), relating to citizenship require- The money spent on it is not being maintain discipline in the American ments of unlicensed personnel aboard thrown away. A judicious building and Merchant Marine. That seamen and ship, be enforced and further strength- replacement program like the present one officers shall be members of the U. S ened, by providing that only native- means that at any time the nation Merchant Marine Naval Reserve. That born or completely naturalized citizens has a big and sound investment in good if discipline cannot be enforced aboard be permitted to represent such personntl ships and facilities. The cost of operating ship we suggest that not less than 50 in any and all negotiations or proceed- subsidies in only running to about percent of the personnel be made a part ings. . . . $18,000,000 annually, a mere fistful of of the Naval Reserve. That the action We are fully cognizant of the cost. money as aid for public services is reck- of the masters and ship officers in the We recognize that our continued safety oned in our times. If we can capture only enforcement of discipline shall be upheld and preservation entailr sacrifices in a reasonable 50 per cent of our own for- by all departments of government meeting the expenses. These appropria- eign cargo and passenger trade for our charged with law enforcement. . . . tions and expenditures must be cheer- own ships in place of the 30 per cent we The National Maritime Mediation fully and willingly met by the citizenry have, the American merchant marine Board should have full charge of labor of this Republic.

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Scout Unit, the second largest Squadron Commander of Missouri, who delivered James S. Gray, Walter J. Frey and James of the Sons of the Legion in Illinois, each the key-note address. The candidates B. Groteweil. On the initiation team were year sends ten youngsters to the Illinois came from sixty-six Posts in St. Louis. Earl H. Shackelford, Missouri Labor Boys' State, and contributes to youth "Henry Levison, St. Louis Legion Commissioner; Harry C. Blanton, United activities in a dozen other ways. Membership Chairman, presided at the States Attorney; Fred A. Bottger, One of the most recent projects under- great rally, with Dr. Julius L. Eishof as Missouri's junior Past Department Com- taken by the Post was the institution of a Master of Ceremonies. It was under mander; and Harry W. Castlen, former death benefit system, assuring financial Legionnaire Levison that the entire pro- Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis County. aid to the families of all of its members. gram was planned and arranged. Assist- Morris Stone acted as Chaplain, and

The system hss been adopted by many ing on his committee were Carl J. Holz, John E. Sheeks as Sergeant-at-Arms. other Posts. All in all, La Grange Post Victor Wolf, James Carson, Carl Bauer, The speakers included Governor Lloyd has a program to meet the interest and C. Stark, of Missouri, and Mayor capability of each one of its more than Bernard F. Dickmann, of St. Louis, both five hundred members. Its contribution active Legionnaires. to Department and national leadership "Preceding the ceremony, fourteen has been most notable. drum and bugle corps, seven bands, a dozen drill teams and a group of Scotch St. Louis Initiates bagpipers gave a demonstration on the floor of the arena, and ranking only "T)ERHAPS nowhere in the nation is second to the initiation itself was the Jl the spirit of Americanism implanted mass singing of 'God Bless America,' led more in the minds of the people than at by Clay Bellew, director of the 128th St. Louis since the second annual mass Field Artillery Post's chorus. In all the initiation of American Legion members program continued for four and a half

on April 26th," reports Edwin J. Reed, hours. Then as a grand finale all musical Editor of the Missouri Legionnaire. The outfits were assembled on the floor facing first public induction ceremony was held the bandstand where the band of Mu- in April, 1930, with 1,907 candidates tak- sician's Post was seated. Then, with ing the pledge. At the meeting held in Gilmer Cobbel directing, the massed April, 1940, 800 took the pledge to units played 'Semper Fidelis' with a 'promote peace and good will on earth' thunder of drums and bugles." before an audience of 15,000 seated in

the Municipal Auditorium arena. Chicago 's Fourth "Joining hands with The American Legion were some forty other organiza- SINCE 1935 the official observance of tions to make the affair one of the most the Fourth of July in Chicago and its colorful, patriotic and impressive ritual Front cover of the official publica- immediate area has been under the ceremonies ever performed in the St. tion of the Legion in Greece, with sponsorship and direction of Cook County Louis area. The class was named in picture of the Athens Post's mil- Council of The American Legion. The honor of Lue C. Lozier, Department lion-drachma home event is an established institution and

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Redlands (California) Post is another that boasts all Past Commanders It's a well-known fact that Sani-Flusli living active only one repeater in the group and — i.s found in most bathrooms for cleaning toilet howls. More and more each year more than sixty thousand The exhibition of modern weapons of ear owners are saving money, saving persons assemble in vast Soldier Field to defense is but one of the events planned power, saving repair hills by cleaning witness the colorful program, which is for a long and full program beginning at out radiators regularly with this same always climaxed with a mammoth dis- seven o'clock on the evening of the Sani-Flush. It's harmless. Cannot in- play of fireworks. Fourth. jure motor or fittings. It cleans out The program is varied each year, but Those Legionnaires who attended the rust, sludge and scale. It costs 10c always with the patriotic theme upper- 1933 and 1939 National Conventions and (25c for the largest truck or tractor). most. Last year the spectators sat in who have done their stuff in Soldier Field awed silence as one hundred foreign-born will not need the endorsement given by a Do the job yourself (direction* on persons, who had qualified for citizen- Chicago newspaper: "No spot in the tin can), or ask your service station ship, marched on the field to take the United States will be more interesting on to do it for you. Insist on Sani-Flush, oath of allegiance and receive their final the evening of the Fourth of July than Sold by grocery, drug, hardware, and papers from Federal Judge Philip L. Soldier Field where the Cook County 5-and-10c stores. 10c and 25c sizes. The Sullivan, distinguished Legionnaire, who Council of The American Legion is spon- Hygienic Products Co., Canton. Ohio. sat on a stand which had been fashioned soring a Fourth of July Celebration. Any to represent a court room dais. This year, Chicagoan who deprives himself and his according to Secretary Dan F. Mc- kids of the opportunity of being there Carthy, in view of the. fact that thought will cheat himself and his kids." of national defense is uppermost in the minds of American citizens a display of One Hundred Percenters the effectiveness of the modern stream- lined American combat division will be THE STEP-KEEPER adds a group given. picture of the Past Commanders of IS IT A STOMACH ULCER- Arrangements have been made for Redlands (California) Post to the gallery participation in the celebration by the of one hundred percenters. All are living GASTRIC mfgplklDITY— mechanized forces of the Illinois National and active in Legion work; seventeen of Guard, in which tanks, motorized ar- the nineteen (Bruce McDaniel served tillery, anti-aircraft units, scout cars, and two terms) live in Redlands but all of high-powered infantry trucks will take them turn out for the annual get-to- SIMPLE INDIGESTION part. gether. Reading {Continued on p

if IF YOU have asked yourself these questions ; doubt and worry harassyou, if you are anxious LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE to know more about your condition; to learn sound facts about stomach complaints, facts recognized by high medical authority, told in sim- W. J. Aylyvard, Port Washington (New York) Post. ple, understandable language . . . send today for Karl Detzer, Leelanue County Post, Leland, Michigan. the booklet, "Facts About Pfunder's." It is yours J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. for the asking. Simply fill out the coupon below Ray Tucker, Press Club Post, Washington, D. C. and mail today. Ared White, Capital Post. Salem. Oregon. "1 Will Graven, Advertising Men's Post, New York City.

f. PFUNDER, Al l Pfunder Bldg., , Fred B. Barton, Summit Post, Akron. Ohio. H. Minneapolis, Minn. Frank. Street, Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post, Leonia, New Jersey. Send me today free copy of book- Anson T. McCook, Rau-Locke Post, Hartford, Connecticut. let "Facts About Pfunder's" and . William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. the Pfunder Special Guarantee. Frederick C. Painton, William C. Morris Post, Fort Lauderdale. Florida. NAME. Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- naires, are not listed. ADDRESS CITY STATE..

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left to right in order of service are: sit- "About five years ago the idea was TENDER SKIN? ting, OrvilJe R. Emerson, Raymond broached to buy a Legion home and Hornby, Bruce McDaniel, H. Earl working under the direction of Harry Cromas, H. H. Ford, jr., A. B. Drake, Mauricides, Demetrio Caltchas and Dr and Ray Canterbury. Standing: Frank Anthony Blase—all ex-Chicagoans—the Godshall, Ernest Danielson, E. H. money was raised and now we have a

Spoor, F. Karl Grassle, Henry J. Wilson, home all our own. Believe me, comrades, E. E. Runkle, Paul Jones, Dr. M. G. it was some job to collect $10,000, the Beaver, Allan F. Whitney, Dan McLeod. price we paid for the home, because that

Standing at back, Edward J. Swan and sum equals more than a million drachmas. Howard Smith. "We have a beautiful story-and-a- • Try the new shaving trick used by scores of half building situated at the foot of the barbers. Just apply a little medicated Noxzema in before lathering or use it alone as a latherless Legion in Greece Acropolis and right the center of the shave. See how it soothes and protects sensi- beauty spots of ancient Greece. It is just skin — how smoothly your razor glides through FOUR Posts of The American Legion across from Zappeion Park, about one etivethe toughest whiskers. And with an average membership of hundred yards from Adrian's Gate and notice how cool and comfort- something more than seven hundred the Columns of Zeus, and only about able your skin feels! carry on the work of the organization fifty yards from the the Prove its value with a small monument to trial jar. Save money later by in Greece. Comrade Demetrios J. Tset- American Philhellenes which was erected getting the Giant Hospital size. On sale at all drug stores. sonsis, Finance Officer of Athens Post, through the efforts of The American Le- reports on the state of the order in that gion. We are preparing to add another country: "About thirteen years ago a story to the building to provide an audi- NOXZEMA handful of American World War veterans torium for our general meetings, annual BALTIMORE, MP. got together and started Athens Post. As conventions, dances and other large time passed the membership grew until affairs. Our Post has an Auxiliary Unit, The American Legion it was found necessary to organize a sec- a Squadron of the Sons of the Legion, and National Headquarters ond Post at Tripolis to serve the middle we maintain a school in which our wives Indianapolis, Indiana part of the Peloponnesus. Three years and children are taught the English ago Patras Post got its charter and last language. By no means the least of our Financial Statement year we organized the Hania (Crete) efforts to perpetuate our comradeship April 30, 1940 Post in order to serve the comrades on and to keep the spark of Legion service that island. The total membership at glowing is the publication of our monthly Assets one time was a little over a thousand, but magazine, free to all of our members." Cash on hand and on deposit $ 652.S4X.04 is now about seven hundred. Boyd B. Stutler Notes and accounts receivable 35,939.63 Inventories 107,596.22 Invested funds 2,216,431.77 Permanent investments: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 207,289.19 Office building, Washington, I). C, less depreciation 122,097.64 So This Was Tarris Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 33,271.43 Deferred charges 53,516.02 {Continued from page 35)

553,428,989.94 through my war archives, I came across men who were students in the Enlisted Liabilities. Deferred Revenue a great number of prints and negatives Specialist School, a part of the Coast of snapshots that I took while serving Artillery School which had been located and Net Worth as sergeant major, junior grade, with the in Fort Monroe for many years. The per- Current liabilities $ 92.108.59 Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Monroe, sonnel consisted of soldiers from the F'unds restricted as to use 33,703.24 Deferred revenue 494,862.27 Virginia, during 1918. entire C. A. C.—from the coast defenses Permanent trust: picture of the review was taken of the entire United States, Hawaii and Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. 207,289.19 "The Net Worth: on Bastille Day, July 14, 1918. the Canal Zone. The school was in four Restricted capita! $2, 155,477.47 Unrestricted capital 445.549.18 2.601,026.65 "The ceremonies consisted of a regi- divisions —for the training of sergeant and, of course, the band majors, master gunners, radio sergeants $3,428,989.94 mental parade was present. While the regiment stood at and electrician sergeants. I was with the Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant attention the band played our national sergeant major division, wherein the anthem. The commanding officer then courses pursued included shorthand, directed the band leader to play 'The typewriting, army regulations, formal Marseillaise.' The leader of the band guard mount ceremonies, the manual for said, 'Sir, we do not have the music' court-martial and spelling. The graduates The C. O. commanded, 'Get the music!' were appointed sergeant major, junior Whereupon one of the bandsmen dou- grade, Coast Artillery Corps. bled-time back to the barracks, re- "After finishing the course, my group turned very soon with the music—and was sent down the beach to Camp Eustis the day was saved when the French to await orders. We remained there until national anthem sounded forth. the middle of September, when, accord- "In comparison to the formal parade ing to my understanding, Major Emery, and to show the seamier side of soldier Commandant of the school, came down 1 vg&aEgs&sSm life, I thought the Then and Now Gang the beach and expressed surprise that a

H i mm might enjoy also the picture of the lines sergeant major he met whom he knew, ASTHMAD0R of wash on a porch of a barracks. was not in France. When told that the "Our outfit was composed of C. A. C. man had been down the beach for almost

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59 three months, the major made some First Division were the guests of Colonel vitriolic comments and within twenty- McCormick, one-time commander of the four hours the entire contingent of 5th Field Artillery, for a reunion and pic- 'graduates' was on its way to Camp Hill nic luncheon at the colonel's 'Cantigny and embarked for the A. E. F. within Farm' near Wheaton. Illinois. The guests three or four days thereafter. Regretfully, of honor were Generals Summerall and three or four other men and I were vic- Frank Parker. tims of the flu at the time of transfer and "The enclosed picture was taken dur- therefore remained in Virginia. ing the noon hour when chow was served, "It would be interesting to hear from army style, by a detachment of soldiers some of my fellow students at the G. A. C. from Fort Sheridan, 1 believe. The men School." in the picture, from left to right, are: General Parker, Colonel McCormick. NOW for a most interesting yarn that General SummeraU. might well be titled: "It Couldn't "Where else in all the world could a Happen There"—the "there" being al- picture like that have been taken? In Massachusetts Bids Legionnaires most any other country in the world. what other country would you find three And to prove the story's authenticity, we men of the standing of those three, sitting A Cordial Welcome! direct your attention to the illustration on the ground, surrounded by ex-buck Members of the American on page showing an informal luncheon privates, number fours, rear rank, last 35 Legion and their families group. We thank J. B. Manson of 406 squad, eating? America should be thank- . . . all those in whom West Market Street, Crawfordsville, ful that it has men like those three and pride of country mounts Indiana, Past Commander of the Ninth that if the need ever comes again, others high these days . . . will District, Department of Indiana of the of their calibre, officers, gentlemen, find this summer an espe- Legion, for the snapshot and this account: scholars, commoners, will arise to take up cially warm and cordial

"On the afternoon of July 3, 1918, a the load they have laid down. welcome in this historic State. young lieutenant of Field Artillery was "The picture was taken by a man of Here . . . surrounded by memories and adjusting the hre of a battery of 155-mm my battery, Richard Garrett of Hanover, landmarks that rekindle patriotism . . . Howitzers located in an orchard just out- Pennsylvania." one may enjoy salt sea shores, cool mountain retreats, golf, swim, dance, side the village of Quiry-le-Sec, a few boat, fish, stay at gala hotels or modest kilometers west of Cantigny. It was a AS a result of our occasional invitation tourist camps, at prices that make it al- balmy summer day and the cflicer was 1 a. to members of the Then and Now most costly to stay at home. Massachu- mattress (borrowed "unofficial" seated upon a box Gang to submit snapshots of setts extends to you a hearty welcome. from the nearby village), his back resting service days, we sometime.^ get unusual WRITE FOR against an apple tree, the field telephone returns—as for instance the picture show- THIS HANDSOME BOOKLET case swinging from a limb overhead. ing three soldiers in most unofficial head- PlttU where America was born - "The observer was in a Frog observa- gear, posed with a civilian. All in good 111 111 ISS iCIIIIM I I tion post up ahead and had reported the fun, though, and we'll let George D. MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL first three rounds 'lost.' Now that was Kyger, ex-Battery F, 121st Field Ar- COMMISSION, Stale House, Boston, Mass., Dept. L-2 Please send me, free, the above illustrated really something as this battery was D of tillery, 3 2d Division, now a member of booklet which gives complete details about the 5th Field, First Division, with a Joe Carson Post of Tulsa, Oklahoma, tell vacationing in Massachusetts. Check here for specific information about^ record for smashing up enemy batteries. about his photograph on page 35: Cape Cod, North Shore, Berkshires, Historic Boston, South Shore, Pioneer "In desperation, the officer gave the "Here is a picture I unearthed recently Valley, AJ1 New England. 'Right 100.' then it hap- it command, And and surely would be interesting to me Name a rustling sound in the pened! There was to learn who the two soldiers, besides me, Street. knee-high grass; the officer looked over are, what outfit they belonged to, where City. . State his shoulder, then jumped to his feet and they now are and what they are doing. threw a salute that would have made "The picture was taken in Columbia,

'Wally' Wallgren's Salutin' Demon turn South Carolina, on July 1, 1919, the day green with envy. But that salute was we landed in the U. S. A. from France, wasted on the peaceful air. and the very day the States went dry! ofInsect "There stood a little man in the uni- "The civilian in the center was a resi- Bites— form of a general in Uncle Sam's Army dent of Columbia and just picked the SwItch Heat Rash For quick relief from itching of insect bites, heat and behind him was the usual group of three of us up in a restaurant and wined rash, athlete's foot, eczema and other externally staff officers. The general's stature may and dined us. His business being dis- caused skin troubles, use world-famous, cooling, anti- septic, liquid D. D. D. Prescription. Greaseless, have been small, but his vocabulary was tributor of these Mexican sombreros, he stainless. Soothes irritation and quickly stops intense itching. 35c trial bottle proves it, or money back. Ask in and filled with taken in great —great volume an insisted we have our pictures your druggist today for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. indefinable something that smacked of them so he could show the plantation many years of service in many lands. Did owner and his prospective customers that he speak unkindly to the young shave- even soldiers wore his hats. We thought tail? If my memory serves me rightly, he it a good idea—and I'm submitting the did. It was most evident that this brass results. I'm the doughboy third from the Want a , hat was an artilleryman himself and that left. ^riimeiit it pained him to hear such a command "Incidentally, he took care of us for as 'Right 100.' He looked like a mild little four days. The night that Jack Dempsey Hi country minister, but he talked like one fought Jess Willard and won the Heavy- START of his seventy-fives! weight Championship— I think it was the $1260 to $2100 Year "You have of course guessed before Fourth of July—our host won ten Ex-Service Men Get Preference. / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE now that I was the young officer and the thousand dollars on Dempsey (the story / Dept. FI80. Rochester, N. Y. Get ready / Sirs: Hush to me without charge, '1 ' general was Charles P. Summerall. was) and so he made us a present of his Immediately. 32- page book with list of many I S © Government Big Pay Jobs obtainable 1 1,428 with "I had never seen the General again all the VI) Tell me about preference \<< Ex- Ford car and supplied us with gas Veteran Prefer- A 6"^> Service Men and how to qualify for one ence appointed in ... until last fall during the Legion National could use as long as were there. 01 tn680 JoDs ' we we 1939 Gov't year. ^ Convention in Chicago. There on Mon- "We remained in that camp about Thousands /Name appointed / day of convention week, veterans of the five more days— {Continued 011 page 60) each year. / Address

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6o WAKE UP YOUR (§o This Was Harris LIVER BILE - (Continued from page 59) and then sold the car to soldiers Argonne front. was buried in Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out some He the who were stationed in Columbia per- American Cemetery in Neufchiiteau, of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go manently, and we three divided the Yosges, France, but in 1921, his body was The liver should pour out two pints of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flow- proceeds of the sale, and then parted to returned to the States and now rests in ing freely, your food may not digest. It may just decay in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. be sent to different camps in the country River View Cemetery, Aurora, Indiana. feel sour, sunk and the You get constipated. You to be discharged. His last letter home was dated October world looks punk. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills "I went to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and 19, 1918, in which he informed his to get these two pints of bile flowing freely to make you feel "up and up." Amazing in making haven't heard of or seen anything of the Mother that he had been wounded." bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills Similar requests that we by name. 10^ and 25e> at all drug stores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. published in the May issue in the Julius W. Jones and Learn Profitable Profession John Pearl Weaklend cases, in QO days at Home brought prompt response Carnings of Men and Women in fc»aion of Swedish Massage run high as $4H to $70 per week but many prefer to from Legionnaires to whom hospitals, snni- ficea. Large incomes from DocU , tanuma find private pat; ts come to thorn- we express our sincere Mho qualify through on raininfc. deducing alon< s for specialists. Write thanks. R. C. Patterson, booklet—They're FREE. THE College of Swedish Massage Adjutant, Department of 30 E. Adams St., Dpt. B7S. Chicago (Succcisor to National C »U>'g? of M

WERE YOU THERE AN APPEAL from a Gold Star Mother TIME moves on apace—but there's wearing your con- Show your comrades by 1 x. gives another opportunity to our still time to put out a reunion call for dition clasps—Now available for all con- from Paris "J7 including Bo ton ffrlFffirtrFllI_^jL%HVt>^3^) \entions comrades—especially veterans of Com- the old outfit during the Legion National ,| 0 clasps are solid die struck bars. ^ bronze finished, raised, polished letters. pany H, 4th Infantry, Third Division Convention in Boston, September 23d to ' Easily attached to ribbon of your legion medal. Send cash or money order. 2".c to render the special service that this de- 26th. While the 'convention will hold each. 5 for $1.00. 10 for $2.00. CONVENTION BADCE CO. partment has come to expect from its plenty of enjoyment in itself, a get-to- SOUTHVILLE MASS . readers in these cases. Twenty-one years gether with the fellows with whom you and more after the war ended, relatives of served will double your pleasure. OTHER MEN have PATENT comrades who failed to come home are In order to have announcement pub- read and profited by our free books "Pat- still hoping to get some firsthand infor- lished in this column prompt action is ent Protection" YOUR IDEA and "Selling an Invention." Fully explain many mation about their sons and brothers who necessary in notifying The Company interesting points to inventors and illustrate important mechanical principles. With books we also send tree fell in battle. Clerk. Report your reunion also to Jere- "Evidence of Invention" form. Reasonable fees, deferred payments, forty-two years' experience. Write to: The following appeal came from C. J. miah J. Toomey Reunions Chairman, Victor J. Evans & Co., Registered Patent Attorneys, 504-H Victor Building, Washington, D. C. Maurer of Rural Route i, North Bend, Court House, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Ohio, member of Outpost Post of the as Chairma.n Toomey and his committee ADVERTISING CENSORED Legion in Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, stand ready to assist in arranging for Legionnaires can patronize advertisers In The American Legion Magazine with complete Ohio. We know it will be answered reunion headquarters and such entertain- confidence. For your protection each advertiser and his promptly. ment as your group may desire. advertisement are carefully checked by the Advertising Department before acceptance in "A request of a Gold Star Mother has Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Mary any issue. come to my attention. Aid from our com- Sullivan of Worcester, Massachusetts, a rades would mean solace in her ageing life. special program of entertainment will be EARN THIS Perhaps we of the Legion could help in provided for women Legionnaires. On obtaining for her a picture of her boy in Monday night at seven o'clock at the >mi r. ELECTRIC really or of his company, a history of Hotel Somerset will be held the annual this valuable uniform elect rlc lantern his company, a word from his former banquet for ex-service women. On Sun- quick! It's a genuine Delta Klectric. Powerful buddies or a last statement that he may day afternoon, September 2 2d, a sight- —throws piercing beam 800 ft. Fingertip control. Uses 6- volt V*v have given to his attending nurse or seeing trip to historic Lexington and battery. Nickel finish. Has 101 uses. y< Lantern is sent to you postpaid just doctor. Concord has been arranged. On Monday fnr Introducing really exceptional household needs to a few friends and "The Mother is Mrs. Anna Beard. Her at 2 p. m., the women will be entertained neighbors. In addition to getting this practical lantern, you can make boy was Private Raymond Beard, Com- at a tea at the Isabella Gardner Museum; some fine cash profits. Send no money — rush name, address for spe- pany H, 4th Infantry, Third Division, Wednesday at noon a scenic drive along cial offer and Free details. who when barely past nineteen years o'd the North Shore, with luncheon at New EL J. MILLS, 1806 Monmouth Ave Cincinnati, died on October 25, 1918, at American Ocean House, Swampscott, will be pro- Ohio Base Hospital No. in France, of vided. All of this entertainment with the MAKE BIG MONEY,TOO/ 27 wounds received in action in the Meuse- exception of the banquet (three dollars

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Co. F, 3d Engrs.—Reunion. John s. Buswell, 314 a plate) will be free. Ex-service women Warren st., Waltham, Mass. are requested to report to Mrs. Molly Hy. Co., 218th Engrs.— Proposed reunion. Win. Aitken, 199 Condor st., East Boston, Mass. Grady, secretary of the Ex-Service 301st F. A. Assoc.— Reunion. Hq. at Parker House. Jas. F. Moore, 10 Bromfield rd., Somerville. Women's Committee, at Convention Mass. Headquarters, 8 Beacon Street, Boston. 303d F. A. Assoc.—Reunion, Hotel Sheraton, LEGIONNAIRES! Sept. 23. Page Browne, Park Square bldg., Boston. Boston National Convention reunions, C. A. C. Vets. Natl. Assoc.— Reunion-banquet. Sept. 23. Vets of Ry. Art., Trench Mortars, Anti- Your Convention details of which may be obtained from Aircraft, -Art. Parks & Animun. Trns. invited. R. R. the Legionnaires listed, follow: Jacobs, 43 Frisbie av., Battle Creek, Mich. is in the Heart of 57th Art. C. A. C.—Reunion. Geo. E. Donnelly, Soc. of 1st Div. —Annual natl. reunion of all 1st 1506 L'niversity av., Bronx, New York City. Div. vets. Henry J. Grogan, chmn., 73 Summer st., 58th Art. C. A. C.—Regtl. reunion-dinner. E. L. Hyde Park, Mass. Paltenghi, 50 Park av., Manchester, N. H. Soc. of: 1st Div. Alix.—Reunion. Mrs. Gerald 67th C. A. C. Vets. Assoc.— Proposed reunion. VACATION LAND Fitzgerald, pres., 83 Olney St., Dorchester, Mass. For roster Btry. C and reunion details, write 2d Div. Assoc.—Reunion of all 2d Div. vets. R. Gerald D. Nolan, chmn., 372 Bridle Path, Worces- W. Robertson, chmn., 62 Summer st., Boston. ter, Mass. 6i/ Come to Boston in September. Soc. of 3d Div. —Reunion hq. at Hotel Brad- 71st Regt. C.A.C. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- \r^^'/ ford. Geo F. Dobbs, secy., 9 Colby st., Belmont, union. Theo. A. Cote, adjt., 140 Bullard st., New eJ*Y// Stay long enough to see New Bedford, Mass. Mass. (s?\r*H/£ England's mountains and 4th Div. Assoc.—Annual natl. reunion, Parker Btry. C, 64th Art., C.A.C-—Proposed reunion. ' House, Boston, Sept. 23. Ben Pollack, chmn., 100 Chas. Williams, 176 Falcon st.. East Boston, Mass. hills, its quaint seaside vil- Summer st., Boston. Ord. Dept., Camp Hancock & Ord. Schools— - lages, and to sample the care- 6th Div. Assoc.—Annual natl. reunion. For the Luncheon reunion, Boston City Club, Sept. 24. A. Y ' tree lite at a peaceful lake. Sightseer, write Clarence A. Anderson, natl. secy., O. Shallna, 305 Harvard st., Cambridge, Mass. -Jt^^i Box 23, Stockyards Sta., Denver, Colo. Co. B, 58th Amm. Trn.—Proposed reunion. Almo ^-^* Swim, sail, hike, ride, play golf 10th Div. (esp. 41st Inf.)—2d natl. reunion. Pennucci, 50 Upland rd., Somerville, Mass. - and tennis what you will. Michael Cifelli, personnel adjt., 860 E. 228th st., Co. A, 439th M. S. T., M.T.C.—2d natl. reunion. — — Bronx, New York City. All companies invited. Wni. L. Harvery, 234 Delhi Visit antique shops, historic houses, 12th Div. Assoc. — 1st natl. reunion. H. Gorden- st., Mattapan, Mass. famous landmarks.Taste New England stein, natl. adjt., 12 Pearl st., Boston. 301st Sop. Trn. —Reunion. Hq. at Hotel Soc. of 20th Div.—Annual reunion. E. Leroy Manger. Write Leroy F. Merritt, 7 Karl pi., Brock- foods again. Really relax ami rest in a Sweetser, chmn., 81 Hancock st., Everett, Mass. ton, Mass. land mellowed by more than three 77th Div. Assoc. —21st natl. reunion, .Sept. 21- 304th Motor Trans. Co.—Reunion. Wm. V. centuries. 24. Hq. at Hotel Lenox. Jos E. Delaney, exec, seey., Begley, chmn., 28 Mayfair St., Lynn. Mass. 28 E. 39th st., New York City. Motor Truck Cos. 391-392-401-402—Proposed FREE BOOKLET— Send now for the free 32- 78th Div. Assoc.—Reunion, with 78th Div. Post, reunion. Geo. Franklin, 24 Sigourney st., Jamaica page New England vacation booklet. The New A. L., of R. I., as host. Proposed organization 310th Plain, Mass. England Council, non-profit, all-New Inf. Assoc. John P. Riley, 151 Wendell st., Provi- Base Spare Parts, Depot Units 1-2-3, M.T.C. a England dence, R. I. 327—Annual reunion, Parker House, Sept. 23. organization, will gladly help yuu plan a trip 82d Div. Vets. Assoc.—Boston, auspices Mass. Sandy Somers, pres., 4t«8 Massachusetts av., Cam- for you and your family. So clip the coupon now. Chap. G. A. Arnold, 3 Richard rd., Lexington, Mass. bridge, Mass. 85th Div. Assoc. Reunion banquet. J. J. Verneuil Vets., Units 301-2-3, M.T.C. and — New England Council AL-io Kraniak, pres., Mariner Tower, Milwaukee, Wise. other Nevers & Verneuil vets. — Reunion. John Natl. Organization World War Nurses— E. Havlin chmn., 101 Milk st., Boston. Statler Building, Boston, Mass.

Annual reunion^ and breakfast , at Republican Club, Field Remount Sqdrn. 303 Assoc.—Annual re- Boston, Sept. 25, 8:30 a.m. Mrs. Mary Sullivan, union-dinner. W. J. Calvert, 527 State Mutual, Please mail my copy of your free New England R.N., chmn., 92 Chatham st., Worcester, Mass. bldg., Worcester, Mass. vacation booklet. The National Yeomen F—Annual reunion and 104th F. S. Bn. —Proposed reunion. Geo. R. meeting. For details, write Miss Charlotte L. Deecken, 173A Baldwin av., Jersey City, N. J. Berry, comdr., 161 V st., N.E., Washington, D. C. 317th F. S. Bn. —22d reunion, Parker House, Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.— Sept. 23. For Review write Irving C. Austin, treas.. Reunion, auspices Boston Bed. Hq. at Hotel Tou- ISO Prescott st., Reading, Mass. raine. Eugene F. Daley, chmn., 136 Highland av., 318th F. S. Bn.—Reunion. For details, write Somerville, Mass. Nick X. McGahan or Leo. A. Wall, S824-43d av., 65th Balloon Co.— Reunion. Chas. A. Carroll, Elmhurst, N. Y. G. & C. Fdry. Co., Sandusky. Ohio. 321st F. S. Bn. —Reunion. Victor J. Kline, Box Amer. R. R. Transp. Corps Vets. —Annual re- 167, Orland Park, 111. union of all railroad men. Gerald J. Murray, natl. 37th Serv. Co., Sig. Corps— Reunion. Jos. E. adjt., 722 S. Main av., Scranton. Pa. Fitzgerald, Box 157, No. Cohasset, Mass. Vets, of A. E. F. Siberia— Natl. reunion-ban- Chem. Warfare Serv. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion- quet. L. H. Head, secy., 41 Nichols av., Brooklyn dinner, Hotel Westminster, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. Geo. N. Y. W. Nichols, secy. -treas., R. 3, Box 75, Kingston, Bean's Saddle Sport World War Tank Corps Assoc. —2d natl. con- N. Y. Made of white elk with vention-reunion. L. A. Salmon, chmn., 11 Chap- Air Serv. Vets. — Reunion of all air vets. J. E. Oxford brown calf saddle. Full man pi., Lynn, Mass. Jennings, natl. adjt., 337 E. Oak st., Louisville, leather lined counter with white drill vamp lining. 301st Inf. Vets. Assoc. —Annual reunion-mili- Ky. Dark red rubber gristle sole that will outwear tary ball, Rite-Plaza, 218 Huntington av., Boston, 1st Pursuit Group (Sudrns. 27, 94, 95, 147, 185 leather. Men's: $4.85, ladies': $3.85 23. Hq. at Hotel Minerva. Spear Demeter, 218) Reunion. Finley J. -treas Sept. & — Strunk, secy. , postpaid. Send for free samples of chmn., 214 Huntington av., Boston. J 76 Roosevelt av., Bergentield, N. J. leather and sole and new Inf. Hq. Co., 302d —Proposed reunion. James 28th Aero Sqdrn.—Proposed reunion. Jack. spring catalog. Burns, 18fi W. Brookline st., Boston. Sullivan, 93 Park Springfield, Mass. M. G. Co., 302d Inf.— 72d Aero Sqdrn.—Pro- Reunion. Jas. S. Mc- posed reunion. Edward J. L. L. Bean, Inc. Loughlin, 100 South Bend Duggan, Martin Terrace, 251 Main Street st., Pawtucket, R. I. OW .qau/Sk! I? 1 could Marblehead, Ma^>. Co. C, 302d Inf.—Pro- 96th Aero Sqdrn. — Freeport, Maine posed reunion. Write ex- 2d reunion. W7 rite Carl C. C. O. Wilford A.Walker, Blanchard, Farmington. Mfrs. Fishing & 53 Bow st., Woburn, Mass. N. H., or Earl S. Ray: Men's Camping Co. A, 347th Inf.— Nantucket, Mass. $4.85 Specialties Proposed reunion. Jas. H. 140th Aero Sqdrn.— Postpaid Buckley, 44 Vernon st., Reunion. Paschal Mor-

Springfield, Mass. gan, 14 N. Market . Nan- Forestry Engr. Vets., ticoke, Pa. A. E. F. (10th, 20th, 41st 225th Aero Sqdrn.— and 503d Regts.) — Re- Annual reunion. Jos J. union. Hq., Boston City Pierando, 82 Weldon st., Club, Somerset st. Tom Brooklyn. N. Y. BACKACHE, Halman, treas., 220 11th 498th Aero Sqdrn.— av„ New York City. Proposed reunion. Robt. |14th Engrs. Vets. F. Harding, 40 Beach st,, Assoc.—Reunion, Colon- Marblehead, Mass. LEG PAINS MAY ial Room. Hotel West- 638th Aero Sqdrn. — minster, Sept. 22-26. Har- Reunion. Willard L. John- old G. Knapp, chmn., 35 son, comdr., 4S42 Devon- Minnesota av., Somer- shire rd., Detroit, Mich. BE DANGER SIGN ville, Mass. Selfridge Field Vets. Tired Kidneys 15th V. S. Engrs.— Club — Annual reunion, Of Reunion. Dinner. Parker .lav X. Helm, pres., 940 If backache and leg paina are making you miser- House, Boston, Sept. 24. Hill st., Elgin, 111. able, don't just complain and do nothing about them. Samuel Sherreck. 1406 Air Serv. Mechanics, Nature may be warning you that your kidneys need leushnet st., New Bed- 1st, 2d, 3d & 4th Regts. attention. ford, Mass. — Annual reunion, Sept. The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking excess 21st Engrs. L. R. Soc. 23. John L. Cuffe, 21 acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. They help —20th annual reunion, Mason st., Salem, Mass. most people pass about 3 pints a day. Sept. 22-24. F. G. Web- Spruce Prod. Div. If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't ster, secy. -treas., 113 E. Assoc. — 2d annual re- work well, poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. 70th st., Chicago, Illinois. union. Wm. N. Edwards, secy., 422 Greenleaf st., These poisons may start nagging backaches, rheu- 23d Engrs. Assoc.—Annual reunion. Hq. at Fvanston, 111. matic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting Hotel Brunswick. Dinner-dance, Sept. 25. A. C. Bakery Co. 337— 1st reunion and banquet. L. E. up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, head- Hudson, chmn., 3 Capital st., Concord, N. H. Bancroft, Box 79, Sudbury, Mass. aches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with T 26th Engrs. — Annual reunion. W rite Arthur D. Camp Rochambeau Associates St. Pierre-des- smarting and burning sometimes shows there is some- "Weston, chmn., 15 Blackstone Terrace, Newton, Corps— Banquet-reunion. Elmer F. Forest, secy., 9 thing wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Mass. Arbutus pi., Lynn, Mass. Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, 29th Engrs — Reunion. Write Herbert S. Rand, 7th Army Corps, Hq., 3d Army— Proposed re- used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They 129 Florence rd., Waltham, Mass. union. Dr. L. Lloyd Crites, 1219 River st., Hyde give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney 56th (Searchlight) Engrs. Assoc.— Reunion. Park, Boston. tubes flush out poisonous waste from the blood. Get S. J. Lurie, 2636 Clarence av., Berwyn, 111. Club Camp Hosp. 52— (Coviinued on page 6SS) Doan's Pills.

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American Legion Magazine {Continued from page 6i) INDEX of Reunion hq. at Hotel Kenmore. Kay S. True, C>(>2 to Wm. J. White, City Assessor, Iowa City, Iowa. Main St., Hingham, Mass. Amer. Vets, with Italian Forces— Miss Frida ADVERTISERS Med. Dept., Base Hosp., Camp Lee—2d re- Smith, 410 Stuart st., Boston. union-banquet. Mrs. Anna Pendergast, secy., 232 E. Amer. Sec, Paris (France) Post, A. L. —Re- Water St., Kalamazoo, Mich. union. Hq. at Hotel Statler. Write Jack Specter, Camp Sevier Base Hosp. Assoc.—Reunion. M. 752 West End av.. New York City. American Telephone & H. Callaway, organizer. Box 873, Dayton, Ohio. War Vets, of t". S. Civil Serv. —2d annual re- Camp Cpton Base Hosp. Assoc. —Annual reunion and convention. Write O. R. Isaacson, 7003 Telegraph Co 47 union, Sun., Sept. 22. Dr. David Coyne, secy., S. Peoria St., Chicago, 111. t.00 Washington st., Hoboken, N. J. La V a lbonne Vets. Assoc. — Reunion of Inf. Cand. Anheu9er-Busch, Inc Cover III Med, Det., St. Elizabeth's Hosp.— Reunion- School vets. Write Henry Rappleye, Hotel dinner. J-:. C. Jackson, 205 W. 80th st., New York Paris, New York City. City, or David Esbester, 2 Columbia av., Newark, N. J. Bean, L. L., Inc 61 Base Hosp. 34— Reunion of entire personnel. Thos. J. Bannon, 13 Worcester sq., Boston. You Saidt upx YetA-buf I Blatz Brewing Co 51 Base Hosp. 44—Annual reunion of women vets. dOA'r waiVr Mrs. Edith L. Mcintosh, 47 Morton rd.. Beach feheafse <3t* to qir f^ect Block Drug Co 63 Bluffs, Mass. Evac. Hosp. 14—4th annual reunion. J. Chas. Hv* 'Boston up OA OM Terminal, Meloy, pres., Room 3050, Orand Central Co*wertWoA'-' Brown & Williamson New York City. Marine Corps—General natl. reunion of all ex- Tohacco Corp 1 marines, with Mass. Dept. and Theodore Roosevelt "CSA Det . .Marine Corps League, as hosts. Robt.W. Elder, Vasty lit) Riverview dr., Waltham, Mass. North Sea Mine Force Assoc. Reunion-Ban- Distillers — HEMT Calvert Corp 49 quet, Boston City Club, Sept. 23. Hq. at Copley Plaza Hotel. J. Frank Burke, secy., 3 Sherwood, Carter Medicine Co 60 rd., West Roxbury, Mass. Navy Radio Men— Proposed reunion. Mark Chicago Sign Sales Corp 63 Feder, yeoman, 132 S. George St., York, Pa. Nav. Radio School, Harvard Univ. — Proposed College of Swedish Massage 60 reunion. W. B. Dobbs, 45 Melrose St., Arlington, Mass. Convention Badge Co 60 0th Co., U.S.N.T.S., Gulfport— Reunion-banquet. Paul Klose, Room 407 Municipal Court House, Pemberton sq., Boston. 8th Co., 7th Regt., New port N. T. S. — Pro- D. D. D. Corp 59 posed reunion. Wesley A. Cook, ex-C. O., 340 Bank St., New London, Conn. Doan's Pills 61 Nav. Trng. Sta., Rockland, Me.— Reunion, Kenmore Hotel, Sept. 24. Andy Bunton, 13 Oak- ridge rd., Atlantic, N. Quincy, Mass. Nav. Overseas Transp. Serv. — Reunion of Emblem Division 3 crews of cargo ships, especially ships carrying mines and activities at times and and suppties to Scotland. F. Hanley, 10 Fordham REUNIONS Evans, Victor J., & Co 60 ct., Albany, N. Y. - places other than the Legion Na- U. S. Nav. Detention Trng. Camp Crew— Re- union, Boston City Club, Sept. 25. Jos. F. O'Brien, tional Convention in Boston follow. Ford Motor Co 5 secy., Fire Alarm Hq., Boston, Mass. 2d Div. Assoc.—22d annual natl. reunion, Hotel Mass. Nav. Militia (Natl. Nav. Vol.)— Re- Statler, St. Louis, July 18-20. Ed Decker or Bud union. Report Edw. J. Hogan, Bunker Hill Franklin Institute 59 to Melford, chmn., 1739 Ohio av., E. St. Louis, 111. Post, A. L., Chesnut & Adams sts., Charles- Soc. of 3d Div.-—Annual convention-reunion. town, Mass. Frontier Asthma Co 60 Hotel Philadelphian, Philadelphia, Pa., July 11-13. U. S. S. Aeolus—Reunion of crew. Samuel (Jake) C. J. McCarthy, Box 137, Camden, N. J. For copy Steinberg, 127 Broad St., Elizabeth, N. J. The Watch on the Rhine, write Harry Cedar, 4320 U. S. Destroyer Burrows— Proposed reunion. Old Dominion dr., Arlington, Va. General Electric Co 45 Peter E. Cocchi, 25 Maiden st., Springfield, Mass. Soc. of 5th Div.—Annual reunion, Hotel New U. S. S. Covington Assoc. — Reunion-banquet, Yorker, New York City, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Aug. 31 is Graybar Electric Co 63 Hotel Lenox, Sept. 23. Geo. E. Cummings, 195 5th Div. Day at World's Fair. W. E. Aebischer, Bowdoin st., Dorchester, Mass. chmn., Glenwood Gardens, Yonkers, N. Y. C. S. S. DtKulb— Proposed reunion. Ashley. M. Red Diamond Round-Fp—Reunion 5th Div. Smith, 8 Pierce St., Revere, Mass. vets, Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111., Aug. 31-Sept. Liggett & Myers Tohacco Co. U. S. S. Dixie— Reunion. Dr. R. O. Level!, chmn.. 2. Frank Barth, 105 W. Madison St., Chicago. Box 103, New Castle, Ind. Oth Div. Natl. Assoc. — Reunion, Los Angeles, Chesterfields Cover IV U. S. S. Dreadnought & Undaunted. — Reunion. Calif., Aug. 25-30. C. A. Anderson, natl. secy.. Box Write W. A. Magner, 52 Autumn St., Everett, Mass., 23, Stockyards Sta., Denver, Colo. or Henry Doherty, 14 Flint av., Somerville, Mass. 7th Div. — Proposed organization and reunion. U. S. Destroyer Ericsson—Proposed reunion. W. F. Root, 824 S. 2d St., Springfield, 111. aine Development Jas. M. Cureton, Spring Valley, N. Y. Soc. of 28th Div. —Annual convention, Lancas- C. S. S. Georgia— Proposed reunion. Charles ter, Pa., July 18-20. W'alter W. Haugherty, secy.- Commission 55 Noble, Navy Post, A. L., Fayette St., Boston. treas., 1444 S. Vodges St., Philadelphia, Pa. I . S S. Ilemlt rson — Reunion. Arthur T. Mi- 29th Div. Assoc. —Annual convention, Norfolk, ndly, 151 Payson rd.. Chestnut Hill, Mass. Va., Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Wm. C. Nicklas, nail, adji Massachusetts Development , I Currier, . S. S. Housatonic— Reunion. Ross H. 4318 Walther av., Baltimore, Md. & Ind. Comm 59 108 Massachusetts av., Boston. 32d Div. Vet. Assoc.—Biennial convention, S. S. Kerwood, Armed Guard— Reunion. M. V. Green Bay, Wise, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Ralph 11. Mason, Jr., 0 Barnes av., East Boston, Mass. Drum, chmn.. Green Bay. Mills, E. J 60 U. S. S. Lake Elsinore— Reunion. Robert Hardy, 34th (Sandstorm) Div.— Annual reunion, Sioux 42 Congress St., LawTence, Mass. Falls, S. D., Aug. 10-12. Fred K. Cashman, gen. U. S. S. Mount Vernon Assoc. —22d reunion. P. chmn., Sioux Falls. National Distillers N. Home, shipswTiter, 110 State St., Boston. 35th Div. Assoc.—21st annual reunion, St. U. S. S. O'Brien— Reunion. Karl A. Kormann, 23 Joseph, Mo., Oct. 18-20. For roster, report to F. Products Corp 41 Lakeville rd., Jamaica Plain, Mass. W. Manchester, secy., P. O. Box 182, Joplin, Mo. U. S. S. Plattsburg— Annual reunion. Brent B. 37th Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc.—22d reunion, New England Council 61 Lowe, chmn., 122 Bowdoin st., Boston. Mansfield, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Jas. A. Sterner, U. S. S. Rijndam—2d reunion-dinner. Jas F. 1101 Wyandotte bldg., Columbus, Ohio. McKeegan, 145 Greenpoint av., Brooklyn, N. V. Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets.—22d convention-re, Noxzema Chemical Co 58 U. S. S. Texas—Reunion. E. N. Culifoux, 1915 union, Montgomery, Ala., July 12-14. Al Hoyt, E. 86th St., Chicago, 111. natl. secy., 3792 W. 152d st., Cleveland, Ohio. U. S. S. Waters— Reunion. T. H. S.tolp, 5404 N. 78th Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Fort O'Brien, C. A 53 5th st., Philadelphia, Pa. Dix, N. J., Aug. 16-18. Write Raymond Taylor, gen. U. S. S. Wilhelmina—Annual reunion. Dr. Milo secy.. Box 482, Closter, N. J. M. Sorenson, 1001 W. 0th St., Racine, Wise. 80th (Blue Ridge) Div. Vets. Assoc.—21st

I S S. Yneona — Reunion. ( leu .1. Ccisscr, Pub convention-reunion, Bluefield, W. Va., Aug. 8-11. Page, E. R., Co 53 Bldgs. Dept., City Hall, Providence, R. I. Dr. H. R. Connell, gen. chmn., Bluefield, or Mark U. S. S. Zeelandia— Reunion. Leonard W. Witt- Byrne, natl. secy., 413 Plaza bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Pfunder, F. H 57 man, 1906 E. Main St., Rochester, N. Y. 89th (Mid-West) Div. Soc.—Annual conven- U. S. S. C. 2J,8— Reunion. Warren W. Burn- tion-reunion, Omaha, Nebr., Sept. 20. James E. Polident 53 ham, 1395 Commonwealth av., Boston. Darst, pres., Municipal Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo: Syracuse (N. Y.) Camp Band— Reunion, Sept. Soc. of 17th Inf.—Annual reunion, Columbus, 22. Thos. Small., 11a Ashland St., Somerville, Mass. Ohio, Aug. 15-17. Robt. E. Shepler, natl. adjt., 1548 Premier Pahst Sales Co.. . .Cover II 82d, 83d 81th & 97th Cos., 3d Bn. Hq., 6th E. 133d St ., East Cleveland, Ohio. Regt., U.S.M.C. — Reunions with 2d Div. reunion, 107th Inf. —22d annual reunion-dinner, Hotel Copley Square Hotel, Sept. 24. R. W. Robertson, Astor, New York City, Sept. 28. A. L. Burgess, 16 Sani-Flush 57 chmn., 02 Summer st., Boston. 82d-84th Cos., D. Wall St., New York City. N. Harding, 110 Appleton st., Cambridge, Mass.; 138th Inf. — Reunion, Battery A. Armory, Schiffmann, R., Co 58 83d Co., B. S. Schwebke, 1232 Bellevue av., Los Grand & Hickory st., St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 10. Angeles, Cat; 97th Co., W. M. Rasmussen, 2011 Harry J. Kierker, secy., 2813 Maurerav., St. Louis Wilson av., Chicago, 111. 314th Inf. Annual reunion, Hotel Phil- Schlitz, Jos., Brewing Co 43 Vets. — Amer. Merchant Marine— Reunion. John adelphian, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 27-29. C. M. O'Brien, 14 Salem pi., Maiden, Mass. Stimpson, secy., 1070 Sheepshead Bay rd., Brook- Seagram Distillers Corp 2 2d !4n., U. S. Guards— Proposed reunion. Write lyn, N. Y. The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Whin Purchasing Products Please Mention Thf American Legion Magazine 63 314th Inf. (New England Dist.)—Annual re- 308th F. S. Bn. — Reunion, Fort Hayes Hotel, union, outing and clambake, Crescent Park, R. I., Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 12. Robt. H. Michel, 1593 Sun., July 21. Families and friends invited. H. K. Kenmore rd., Columbus. TO Ellis, 27 Harding av., Edgewood, R. I. 313th F. S. Bn.— Reunion, Des Moines, Iowa. 310th Inf. Assoc. —Annual reunion. New York Oct. 5. Dr. Chas. L. Jones, secy., Gilmore City, City, Sept. 28. Edwin G. Clceland, secy., t>125 Iowa. McCallum St., Philadelphia, Pa. 2d Engrs. Assoc.— Reunion, St. Louis, Mo.,

332d Inf. Assoc.— 19th reunion, Youngstown, .1 ills' lS-L'll, wiili LM Piv. rem 1 Y uni- .1 It van, Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Henry P. Everitt, secy., 76 ehmn., 114-45 199th st., St. Albans, N. Y. Como av., Struthers, Ohio. 15th Engrs. and 15th Engrs. Mothers & 353d (All-Kansas) Inf. Soc. — Annual reunion, Wives—22d annual reunion for all 15th Engrs. and Hutchinson, Kans., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Regtl. history families, West View Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 0. available at $1.00. John C. Hughes, secy., 829 East Mrs. W. H. Greenway, ehmn., 1961 Perrysville av., B, Hutchinson. Pittsburgh. 355th Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Grand Is- 19th Engrs. Assoc. — Reunion, Altoona, Pa., land, Nebr., Sept. 15-10. Joe Seymour, adjt.. 110 Aug. 10. Geo. M. Bailey, adjt., 319 W. 28th st,, E. 8th st.. Grand Island. Wilmington, Pel. Co. K. 101st Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- Cos. A, B & C, 22d Engrs.— Reunion, Galena, union, Hiugham, Mass., July 25, 8 p.m. L. E. Dill, 111., Sept. 1. Julius A. Nelson, adjt., 23 E. 137th pi.. pres., 142 South st., Hiugham. Riverdale Sta., Chicago, 111. Ho.. Inf.— 10th reunion, Fox Head 34th reunion, Co., 108th Engrs. Vets. Assoc. —Annual TOUVEAMMf Inn, Niagara Falls, Ont., Nov. 9. L. L. Varley, secy., Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 31-Sept, 2. George Rem- av., Buffalo, N. Y. ple, secy., 2523 N. Main st,, Dayton, ( »bio; 733 Tonawanda Hear at greater distances, Hq. Co., 129th Inf. —8th reunion, Hopkins Park, 52d Engrs. Assoc. R.T.C. —3d reunion, Minne- DeKalb, 111., Sept. 8. Geo. A. Novak, C. C, 77 W. apolis, Minn., July 27-29. Families invited. C. carry on group conversation. Washington st., Chicago, 111. Gjestvang, comdr., 236 Penn av., S., Minneapolis. Hear clearly with this Audi- Co. A (Wise. 1st, 3d & 128m Inf.) Vets. .W.. > •. 00th Ry. Engrs. and Aux.— Reunion, Antlers — llth reunion, Neilsville, Wise, July 27-28. Last Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind., July 12-14. Home-coming phone based on advanced Man's Club banquet, Sat., July 27. A. F. Prange, to Ft. Benj. Harrison. D. E. and Eula Gallagher, design technique and on 58 secy.-treas., Reedsburg, Wise. secys., 812 E. 21st st.. Little Rock, Ark. Co. L, 145th Inf. — 10th reunion, Couneaut, 61st R. R. Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—3d reunion, Ft. years of experience in mak- Conneaut. Ohio, Aug. 11. Frank Marvin, R.D. 1, Wayne, Ind., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. E. M. Soboda, secy.- ing Bell telephones. Consult Co. G, 168th Inf.—Annual reunion, Ottumwa, treas., 932 Roscoe St., Green Bay, Wise. Iowa, Aug. 4. Urban Dayton, c/o O. B. Nelson Post, 301st Engrs. Assoc.— Reunion, Providence, R. an authorized dealer. After an A. L., Ottumwa. I., 14. not receiving their notices report Sept. Vets audiometric test, he'll show Co. A, 316th Inf.—Annual reunion-basket pic- to Esmond S. Borod, secy., 51 Empire St., Provi- nic, South Mountain Fair Grounds, Arendts- dence. you the Audiphone that will ville. Pa., 14. Clement C. Smith, Co. Clrk., July 309th Engrs. Assoc.— 17th reunion. Hotel Gary, best meet your needs. 1 \ 1 Sherry st own, Pa. Gary, Ind., Aug. 9-10. Families invited. Daniel J. Co. A, 356th Inf.—Annual reunion, St. Joseph, Redding, pres., 504 Broadway, Gary. Accepted by American Medical Association Mo., Nov. 10-11. John H. Dykes, 21-1 Kennedy 319th Engrs. — Reunion, Los Angeles, Calif., bldg., Tulsa, Okla. Aug. 10. K. S. Thomson, secy., 218 Central Bank Co. M, 357th Inf.—Annual reunion, Medicine bldg., Oakland, Calif. Western Electric Park, Okla., July 27-28. Martin G. Kizer, secy.. Co. B, 11th Engrs.— Photos taken at Camp Apache, Okla. Mills, 1917, available for mailing charges only, Inf. Assoc.— natl. reunion, 3d Pioneer Vets. 3d from Stf. Sgt. Herbert E. Smith, Publicity Bureau. AUDIPHONE St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 13. For roster, write Hq., Ill U.S.A., Governors Island, N. Y. Essex bldg., Minneapolis, Minn., stating company. Co. E, 22d Engrs. — Reunion, Spring Mill Park, ^ 4th Pioneer Inf. — Proposed reunion of all vets. Mitchell, Ind., Aug. 25. John Gibson, 1325 S.21st, Ortho-technic Model Report to Ben. H. Giffen, Jones Paw bldg., Pitts- New Castle, Ind. burgh, Pa. 301st Ice Plant Co. — For details of 1940 re- GRAYBAR ELECTRIC CO., 51st Pioneer Inf. Assoc.— Reunion, Hemp- union, write Clarence F. Kohler, 210 W. Market st., ""iToTT™! raj bar Building, stead, L'. I., N. Y., Sept. 8. Write John Mack, gen. York, Pa. New York ehmn., 133 Willow st., Hempstead. Co. D, 54th Telegraph Bn. —Proposed roll Please send details on Western Electric | 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—9th reunion. Reser- call of men who served in the Canal Zone. Elmore Audiphone (Ortho-technic Model) and name of | voir Park, Tyrone, Pa., Aug. 4. Jonas R. Smith, Wheelock, Factoryville, Pa. nearest dealer. secy., 4911 N. Merviuest., Philadelphia. Pa. 82d, 83d, 84th, & 96th, 97th Cos., USMC— Name 59th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—5th annual reunion, Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., July 18-20, with 2d Div. | Fort Dix, N. J., Sept. 28-29. Howard D. Jester, reunion. 82d & 84th Cos., D. N. Harding, 119 Ap- Address secy., 1917 Washington st., Wilmington, Del. B. S. pleton st., Cambridge, Mass.; 83d Co., ^ 108th M.G.Bn.— Reunion, Reading, Pa., July Calif.; Schwebke, 1232 Bellevue av., Los Angeles, City State— j 27-28. Russell Parry, secy., 1108 Allen st., Allen- 96th Co., L. B. Malugen, 2708 Arkansas st., St. town, Pa. Louis, and 97th Co., W. M. Rasmussen, 2611 Wil- 127th M. G. Bn. (ex-lsT S. D. Cav.)— Reunion, son av., Chicago, 111. Watertown, S. D., July 29-31. Write Harry B. Base Hosp. Camp Grant Assoc.—2d reunion, Gordon, Federal bldg., Watertown. YMCA, Milwaukee, Wise, Sept. 10-17. Harold E. Giroux, pres., 841 W. Barry av., Chicago, 111. BIC OUTDOOR Base Hosp. 11 — Proposed reunion. Write Edith v "Assewb\t| cwaVW- Hodgson, 10548 Lawton av., Detroit, Mich. NEON " Base Hosp. 48—Annual reunion, Utica, N. Y., ,-tt\aU CKoco Call ? Oct. 12. Chester W. Owen, ehmn., 025 Eagle St., SIGNS Utica. Field Hosp. Co. 127— Reunion, Madison, Wise., Its easy to sell beautiful big neon these terms. Imagine! Your July 20. J. Brausen, 103 S. Carroll St., Madison. signs on day 118th Amb. Co., 5th San. Trn. — Reunion, Can- customer pays us only 15^ per —and we supply the big sign—all ton, N. C, Aug. 1-2. Guy McCracken, pres., Mrs. complete, ready to be connected to Chas. Mease, secy., Canton. his store wires U. S. Army Amb. Serv.—21st reunion, Hotel Jefferson, Atlantic City, N. J., July 18-20. Write ONLY ONE SALE EACH DAY Wilbur I'. Hunter, natl. adjt,, 5321 Ludlow st., PAYS YO0 4C ^ PER Philadelphia, Pa. Ask about plan of Camp Crane. MINIMUM Air Serv. Reunion—Joint reunion Balloon Corps E ASKINGS UWEEK vets and Aviation Post (Chicago) at Grier-Lineoln We furnish all sales helps—colored Legion sales Hotel, Danville, 111., Aug. 24-26, with LI. illustrations—catalogs— and |_ Dept. Convention. Sid R. Rothschild, 2422 E. 74th manual. "How To Sell Neon Signs", write for free catalogs st., Chicago. Learn how to sell signs in one day CHICAGO SIGN SALES CORP. 142d Aero Sqdrn. —6th reunion. Hotel Shelby. COMMISSIONS PAID DAILY. CH/awnr north cabolwa Detroit, Mich., Aug. 30-Sept, l. L. C. Ehlers, comdr., 127 E. Fort, Baltimore, Md. 154th Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 10. Harry E. Levy, 6549 Scanlon av., St. Louis. Flush Kidneys of Spruce Production Div. — Midwest reunion, Danville, 111., Aug. 24-25, during 111. Legion Dept. Convention. Wm. N. Edwards, 422 Greenleaf st., Evanston, III. Acid and Poisons 2d Nav. Dist. Assoc.—2d annual reunion, New- port, R. I., Aug. 23-24. Chester L. Wood, Office of Gain In Health And Stop City Clerk, Newport. Reservists, Nav. Trng. Sta., Rockland, Getting Up Nights Co. B, 134th M. G. Bn. —Annual reunion, Nav. Vie. Reunion, Rockland, 19-21. Andy Bun- Steubenville, Ohio, July 20. H. G. Weals, secy., 424 — July ton, 13 Oakridge rd., Atlantic, X. Quincy, Mass. Market St., Steubenville. When kidneys are continually over-bur- Bcnham Proposed reunion 313th M. G. Bn. —21st reunion, Erie, Pa., Sept. U. S. Destroyer — dened they often become weak—the blad- Jesse L. Pippen, R. Cisco, Tex. 1. L. E. Welk, 210 Commerce bldg., Erie. 1, der is irritated—often passage is scanty U. S. S. Florida— Proposed reunion. E. J. 1 Ith F. A. Vets. Assoc.— Reunions, Providence, and smarts and burns sleep is restless ('Chief") Starr, Box 37, Neopit, Wise. — R. I., and Portland, Ore., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. R. C. and nightly visits to the bathroom are U. S. S. Leviathan—Reunion, vets of 1917—all Dickieson, secy., 7330 180th st., Flushing, N. Y. frequent. first crossing at Hot Springs, Mont , Btry. E. 108th F. A. Vets. Assoc.—To complete who made — Kalispell, and inexpensive way roster, send names and addresses to Albert Risdor- Aug. 31-Sept. 1. A. C. Hanson, Box 56, A safe, harmless " and help restore fer, 2732 W. Oxford st., Philadelphia, Pa. Mont. to relieve this trouble S. S. Montana Reunion, Gary, Ind., Aug. blad- Btry. E, 150th F. A. — Reunion, Vincennes, Ind., U. — more healthy action to kidneys and 18-20. Dixey, Harrison av., Oct. 25-27. Write C. K. Gregg, 6094 Ralston dr., R. C. 7013 Hammond, der is to get from any druggist a 35 cent Indianapolis, Ind., for roster. Ind. box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Cap- annual Co. B, 103d Amm. Trn.— Reunion, Sunbury, Pa., Natl. Olranio-Kashmir Assoc.—2nd re- sules and take as directed. union, Galesburg, 111., Oct. 6. A. H. Teflord, 124 July 13-14. C. I. Homan, secy., 423 Pershing av., Don't be an EASY MARK and accept a substi- Lebanon, Pa. E. Simmons St., Galesburg. tute Get Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules the 3d Trench Harvard Radio & New London Listening — — Mortar Btry. Assoc.— Reunion, original and genuine. Look for the Gold Medal Hotel Philadelphian, Philadelphia, Pa., July 11-13. Schools— Proposed organization. Write Chas. E. — 6 St., Newark, N. J. on the box—35 cents. Barney Gallitelli, secy., 294-17th st., Brooklyn, Loux, W. Park N. Y. Remember other symptoms of kidney and blad- John J. Noll — • 319th Remount Depot— Reunion. Franklin, der troub'e may be backache, puffy eyes, nervous- Ind., Oct. 6. Clayton O'Banion, secy., Tipton, Ind. The Company Clerk ness and leg cramps.

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