Chesterfields are made of mild ripe tobaccos . rolled in pure cigarette paper . the best ingredients a cigarette can have For You... there's MORE PLEASURE in Chesterfield's milder better taste ft f/' Copyright 1938, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. — Years Ago calendar of America's share mitted to House Military Affairs Committee Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, Adju- THIS is based on a force of not fewer than 3,000,- tant General, A. E. F., and Brigadier General in the World War does not seek to 000 men and 160,000 officers in the field by A. E. Bradley, Chief Surgeon, are relieved be all-inclusive or even partly in- July 1, 1919. Army will have 2,298,000 men from duties because of ill health and are re- clusive. It simply attempts to recall the in uniform by July 1, 1918, Secretary Baker turning to America. Lieutenant Colonel tempo and color of an era in which the announces; Provost Marshal General Crowder Robert C. Davis replaces General Alvord and will call men to Colonel Merritte W. Ireland, General Bradley. Lcgionnaire-to-be played an essential part. 233,742 colors during May. are Newspaper editors everywhere in- War Department casu- MAY 6 vited to make use of any of the material in alty lists resume the prac- Australians gain ground west and south- this calendar, and in all future calendars tice of carrying home ad- west of Morlancourt, between the Somme and dresses. the Ancre. British improve position on south in the series, without the necessity offurther A. Mitchell Palmer, side of Lys salient. On north side of salient credit is given The permission, provided Alien Property Custodian, British and French by series of small daily American Legion Magazine for the reprint- seizes §40,000,000 proper- gains have placed themselves in position to ing. In many instances they will wish to ties of George Ehret, New regain Mont Kemmel. Fifteen thousand gas York brewer, who is in Germany. shells loosed on American First Division supplement this general chronicle of events Government has commandeered every ton positions on Picardy front. with local citations that will recall how the of steel and pig iron in country for war Peace treaty between Rumania and the war touched their own communities. purposes, Washington discloses. Central Powers signed. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt urges Major General Sir Frederick Maurice, United States Senators to vote for a woman's formerly Director General MAY 1 suffrage amendment to the Constitution. of British Military Opera- Gavril Prinzip, whose tions, addresses letter to assassination of the heir to MAY 4 London newspaper chal- the Austrian throne and President Wilson pardons two A. E. F. AM! lenging statements made his morganatic wife was soldiers previously sentenced to death by in House of Commons by- the immediate cause of court-martial for sleeping on post in front Premier Lloyd George the World War, died of lines and commutes to prison terms death and Andrew Bonar Law tuberculosis April 30th, sentences imposed on two other soldiers for regarding the military London learns. disobeying orders. situation, and demands a Fifth Division head- Campaign for Third Liberty Loan ends parliamentary investigation. quarters arrives in France. with $3,000,000,000 quota oversubscribed by Heavy type Browning machine gun, Jury is selected in Federal Court at $1,1 70,000,000. Loan is called most successful deliveries of which were to have begun in Chicago, Judge Kenesaw M. Landis presid- ever floated by any nation, with 17,000,000 April, will not be ready until next year, War ing, for trial of 133 members of I. W. W. on individuals participating. Department learns. sedition charges. French and British make progress on both Senate passes bill outlawing I. W. W. and Eighteen thousand Rumanian-speaking sides of Somme and repulse local German other organizations advocating violence to soldiers in Austrian army captured by attacks. bring about "any governmental, social, Italians are now fighting against their former Former Czar Nicholas of Russia and his industrial or economic change" during the comrades, Rome reveals. family are removed from Tobolsk to Ekater- war. Savannah liner City of Athens, rammed by inburg, on Asiatic side of Ural Mountains. Bill authorizing Post Office Department to French cruiser in fog twenty miles off Emperor Charles of Austria prorogues charge twenty-four cents an ounce on air Atlantic City, sinks with loss of 67 passengers. Reichsrath indefinitely, the action being mail is adopted by Senate. Service will start French score advances east of Amiens and officially attributed to danger of famine. May 1 5th between Washington, Philadelphia northwest of Montdidier. and New York. British Order in Council again postpones MAY 5 Hospital established by Dr. Alexis Carrel Irish conscription. Steel freight steamship Tuckahoe—5,548 near the front has been bombed so consis- Army balloon explodes at Florence Field, tons—is launched at Camden, New Jersey, tently that it is now almost destroyed, Omaha, killing two soldiers, injuring 18. twenty-seven days after keel was laid, Paris announces. The Rockefeller Founda- establishing a world's record. tion scientist will install the hospital in Paris MAY 2 Franco-British forces advance in Somme or one of its suburbs. Forty-four Americans, including five sail- area; Germans are flung back in attempt to ors, lost in torpedoing of old Dominion liner occupy trenches in Bois Brule which were MAY 7 Tyler off French coast. formerly held by Twenty-Sixth Division. Nicaragua declares war on Central Powers, Forty-Second Division troops raid German Four general hospitals twentieth nation on Allies' side. positions in Bois de Chien, Baccarat sector, to take care of war maimed Former Premier Asquith, on basis of attack penetrating to enemy third line. are now available, War on Lloyd George by Major General Sir American Red Cross learns through Department announces Frederick Maurice, recently removed from prisoner sources that German force which at Cape May and Lake- post of Chief Director of Military Operations, raided Twenty-Sixth Division at Seicheprey wood, New Jersey, at moves for parliamentary inquiry. on April 20th was cut to pieces, four-fifths of Fort McHenry, Balti- American troops are going into the trenches its 1500 effectives being killed or wounded. more, and Walter Reed in increasing numbers, Premier Clemenceau French and British retake valuable high Hospital in Washington. declares on return from front lines. ground south of Yillers-Bretonneux. Others which will be ready Harassing artillery fire of Germans in Secretary Baker announces new Army Bill by the end of the month are at Colonia, New Flanders and Picardy screens foe's building will seek $13,000,000,000, double original Jersey; Fort Niagara and Fort Porter, New of concrete roads and drawing up of guns for estimate, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. York; Fort McPherson, Georgia, and expected new offensive. Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco. British casualties for week ended today are MAY 3 Forty-two thousand binoculars, telescopes 6,555 killed or died of wounds, 32,136 Major General James W. McAndrew and spyglasses have been offered to the wounded or missing, a new record. appointed Chief of Staff, A. E. F., succeeding Government by patriotic Americans, Navy Congressman John Jacob Rogers of Brigadier General James G. Harbord, who is Department announces; 20,000 of these have Massachusetts in House address urges States assigned to command Marine Brigade of been found adequate; each donor has received to make early provisions so that soldiers over- Second Division. a check for one dollar and promise of return seas may be able to vote in fall elections. Administration's army program as sub- of glasses at end of war. Captain James [Continued on page j6) MAY 1938 I : ; — CforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes.-(Jo upholdand defend the Constitution w/ oftheldnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; to'foster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent (Thnericanism topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreaiTWar; to inculcate a sense of'individual obligation to the com- munity, state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; topromoter peaceandgood willon earth ;to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles qfjustice.jreedorn and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution, ofThe American Legion. r _ 77i<? Jlmerican May, 1938 Vol. 24, No. s LEGIONMAGAZINE Published Monthly by The American Legion, 455 West 22d Street, Chicago, Illinois EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES BDITORI AL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis, Indiana 15 West mh St., New York City = ===== ASKED Department Com- CONTENTS THE Legion outside of California WEmander Joe Long of Cali- COVER DESIGN was quick to respond. Listen fornia if the January floods By Herbert Morton Stoops to Department Adjutant Jim Fisk: had affected Los Angeles National TWENTY YEARS AGO 1 "While California Legionnaires, Convention preparations. He replied UNFORGOTTEN 5 sleepless, foodless, rain-soaked, pa- "While the loss has been great, early By Harlan Wood trolled broken highways, searched reports were much exaggerated and THE MUD PUPPY 6 the wreckage for human life, brought By William Hazlett Upson and by the time of the Convention there order out of chaos, the story of the Thomas M. Johnson will be little to indicate that we had Illustrations by Frank Street havoc spread, and with the broad- a flood. The areas most affected are REMEMBER THE RESERVES 10 cast there came an answering call not closely adjacent to the Conven- By General Malin Craig a call which carried courage in its tion area, and the unpleasant experi- TO A FRIEND BACK HOME 12 sound, assurance and understanding By Bernhard Ragner ence has had no deterring effect on in its warmth.