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a plain buck, a fightin' man and all that, and didn't crave no commission, I'd 'a

got one if it hadn't been for what Sergeant York done two or three days after my brave deed. You know he captured a whole lost German battalion single- handed. When he done that he shore did steal my thunder—but at that I had done my duty by Uncle Sam." Here I started another attempt to get in a few words and really succeeded in saying, "How would you like going to WAS just out of Asheville war again?" and had seated myself ad- "That all depends," he said. "If this vantageously and comfort- country had a real reason for fighting I'd ably in the observation car go in a minute, but when a feller goes for an enjoyable trip and view through one war and done his duty as I of The Land of the Sky, when in done and all that, it's mighty fine to barged our hero. hear them French words, 'Feeny la gair,' Seeing my Legion button he which means to cease firing." gave the grand hailing signal in "You have an amazing knowledge of French: "Bonjewer m'sewer, the French language," I managed to

buddy; I see you belong! Car- venture, and made him think I meant it. ter's my name; I was just a "Yes," he says, "I took to it like a

buck and I bucked the line all duck to water; seemed like it just come the way. What was your rank natural to me and all that—and say, and outfit?" them French gals: I just kept 'em "I was a first lieu— " but I splittin' their sides laughing when I'd

didn't get to finish. "Well," he tell 'em American jokes translated into said, "you gotta have lieuten- French." ants and even generals but At this juncture I reached for my lemme tell you—braid and cigarette case and was about to offer him brass buttons without the old one when he said: "I'M take one off you, rank and file don't win no wars. 'silver play'— that's French for 'please.' Tray be an—that's P'rench for Now, speaking of French, it's easy if 'Get me'." you'd remember it by something—for "Sure, you are dead right," instance, silver is money and if you have I said, but got no farther. He money you can play or do as you please; was off again. that's the system and it works every "Now, take me for instance. time. Duck soup is what French is to a

When I went over the top I went feller that has an ear for it. Now you take on the the'ry of every man for German, they say 'verstayen see' for 'do himself and the devil take the you understand'; well, I like to mix 'em hindmost and I was always way up like a baseball pitcher and all that, not out front. One early morning I for show but because German and had outdistanced the boys and French, and especially French, is so was dead against an enemy dug- expressible and everybody knows that

out 'fore I knew it and I felt a French is what peace treaties and di-

little bit nervous but I put on plomers is written in. plenty of front and I yelled "In one of them French college towns down to 'em in their own lan- one day the boys got me to talk to a guage. I says 'Vee feal soljern French perfesser and boy did I wind him dare in, ver stayen see,' and up? I'd puncterate with German and they yelled back 'nine' and I garnish with Spanish that I picked up says nine or eighteen, surrender during the border campaign. He didn't "I bucked the and come out reaching for the tarry long but humped it off, shakin' his line all the stars. They was eleven of 'em. head and dangling his hands. 'Course, ." way . . "You know, while I was just different sections {Continued on page 30) JANUARY, icuo ; —

CjorQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (Jo uphold and defend the Constitution / oftheTdnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent Americanism topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreat^War; to inculcate asense ofindividual obligation to the com- loth classes munity, slate andnation; to combat the autocracy of the andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood will on earth ; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjusticejreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate and'sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion

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CHAMBERLIN'S fascinating CONTENTS the United States, as a Representative JOaccount of the Zeebrugge expe- COVER DESIGN from Montana, made the statement dition recalls two similar but un- By Arthur Mitchell in a "panel" discussion on the Co- successful American exploits. In lumbia Broadcasting System's People's RIGHT GUY 1 December, 1861, sixteen whaling By Pat McBrayer Platform. She was by way of answer- vessels from New Bedford and New Illustration by George Shanks ing a challenge by Mrs. William H. London were loaded with granite and BLIND MAN'S BLUFF 3 Corwith, National President of The By Richard sunk in the main channel of the har- Matthews Hallet American Legion Auxiliary, who Illustrations by Forrest C. Crooks bor at Charleston, South Carolina. asked Miss Rankin and the other

ST. GEORGE FOR ZEEBRUGGE ! 8 The Confederates thereupon found members of the panel, Princess Alex- By Jo Chamberlin another channel that would work. Illustration by William Heaslip andra Kropotkin, author and lecturer, Again, in 1898 Naval Constructor WHOM WE DELIGHT TO and Miss Josephine Schain, Chair- Richmond Pearson Hobson with a HONOR 10 man of the National Committee on crew of seven sank the collier Merri- By Marquis James the Cause and Cure of War, to cite mac in an attempt to bottle up Ad- I SKULKED A LITTLE 12 a single instance of the United States By Peter B. Kyne miral Cervera's fleet in the harbor of being prepared in a military sense Illustrations by Herbert M . Stoops Santiago, Cuba. There was just at the start of any war in our history. TO NOWHERE AND BACK 16 enough leeway for the Spaniards to By Irving Wallace It was then that Miss Rankin, one come out one ship at a time. When of those who in 1917 voted against TEN CROWDED YEARS 18 they did this a month later their fleet By Samuel Taylor Moore our getting into the World War, was destroyed in a gallant fight. 65 MILLION—AND MORE TO made the statement about the New COME 20 York police and the Boy Scouts of "T70R one hundred years we By Barron C. Watson America. Earlier in the discussion she

J- haven't been prepared and we've A PLACE TO GO 22 had said that "there is no nation or By Frederick C. Painton never been attacked. Now the point combination of nations that can at- Illustrations by Raymond Sisley is this: The Army is built on the Na- tack this country successfully," and TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION 24 tional Defense Act, written in 1916 By Elizabeth La Hines that "every merchant knows there and amended in 1920, and it pro- aren't boats enough in the world to EVEN AS YOU AND I 26 vides for giving four million men By Wallgren bring over an expeditionary force of to another country, and now the EDITORIAL: let's look at: 27 more than fifty thousand people Administration is saying we've got the record men, soldiers. And everybody knows to build it up to that, which is per- TEACH PATRIOTISM 28 that those on the shore would have fectly absurd, for protecting our By William H. Johnson a better advantage, so that with fifty shores. Why, the police in New LIFE SAVERS 30 thousand on each of our shores with By Boyd B. Stutler ." York City could take care of it all we possibly need to keep out . . 34 here and in the rest of the coun- GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS By John J. Noll try the Boy Scouts could do it." MERCIFULLY, at this point Mrs. BURSTS AND DUDS 64 Hold your hats, everybody! No, Corwith broke in and thus Conducted by Dan Sowers the foregoing wasn't taken down by saved Miss Rankin from saying some- a stenographer in a psychopathic thing possibly even more ridiculous. ward, but was actually said by a If what we have quoted represents supposedly responsible person in a the best thought of the National 7 5 -station, coast-to-coast radio broad- Council for the Prevention of War, cast, on the evening of December 2, IMPORTANT of which Miss Rankin is currently the legislative representative, its 1939. Miss Jeannette Rankin, who had A form for your convenience if you wish mem- the distinction of being the first to have the magazine sent to another ad- bers had better start reading Ameri- be on page 60. woman to serve in the Congress of dress will found can history.

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FORREST C. CROOKS

ELLEN PAULSEN'S heart beat faster when she heard the jingle of sleigh-bells. That must be Barr Leavitt's pung ploughing down the back road. The snow evidently had been too deep for his truck. But at the bottom of the steep attic stairs she stopped short, remembering that nothing had happened to change the situation between her and young Barr. They had quarreled over her coming here to take this job of practical nurse to old Uncle Myron Kent. "That old man? Why, he's dirty and his house is dirty. It's not fit for a decent girl to live in," Barr had protested. "He's blind," she had said gently.

"Blind! What if he is? I guess you think you are going to twist him round your finger, honey up to him and get him to leave you all that money he's reputed to have, tucked away somewhere on the premises. The rats have got it all by this time if it did exist," Barr insisted, with a violent arm round Ellen's waist. She had twisted away and slapped his face furiously, and they had parted in anger. Now she was finding out that Uncle Myron was dirty enough in all conscience. The kitchen was frightfully sooted. Black cobwebs wavered overhead, the walls were black, the glass door to the steeple clock was blind with soot. The south wall was even charred a little, where it had caught fire from Uncle Myron's hanging up a red-hot poker there. Worse than anything, he had painted the ground- floor windows with green paint, not want- ing people to look in on him in his blind- ness. The place was actually so dark that

Ellen Paulsen had to have a lamp lit in broad day, to do her work. And nothing could be moved, not even so much as one of the tubs or pails placed to catch droppings from leaks, because that would change Uncle My- ron's world for him. Ellen Paulsen could brush down cobwebs with a bandaged She cried out in broom, sweep the gummy floor, milk the terror as his hand cow, chop wood, get meals and administer closed on her wrist

JANUARY, 1940 3 I'ncle Myron's heart-piils as the doctor The old man had money pinned all you ever think he might take the shape had directed; but this was all. over his coat with safety-pins. Dollar of a woman?" Now, with her Scandinavian look of bills he pinned with single safety-pins. He looked with more than a trace of strength and wholesomeness, her round Five-dollar bills had two safety-pins, and resentment into Ellen's eyes, and her arms and corn-silk hair, she stepped gin- tens, three safety-pins. He tendered Barr own blue eyes blazed and widened. gerly past Uncle Myron, who had the one of the ten-dollar bills, and Barr gave "I'm onto Barr. He's trying to queer writing-board propped on his knee. His him back a five and some small silver me with Uncle Myron. Much good that face was iron-colored, positively as if as change. will do," she was thinking. iron-filings had been ground into it. "I don't know how you get by, I'm Uncle Myron said, "Woman was the His clothes would stand alone, and his sure, Uncle Myron," the young man said. shape he took, considerable. That time thick, mouse-colored hair was dreadfully "Must be a lot of people in the world I blasted into a crib of flour gold on the untidy. The heel of his hand left a smooch on the writing-tablet. Barr Leavitt drove the grocer's de- livery wagon, and Ellen was hoping he might see fit to make it up with her this morning, because the place was really giving her the creeps. "Barr Leavitt's outside," she said to Uncle Myron. The old man grunted, kept on writing. The writing-board had a cleat across the top, and two upright cleats on the sides, notched. When he wrote, he put a long, smutty spike in the top notches, and brought his pen-point down with each stroke to the round of the

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The door swung in —but it was Barr Leavitt that faced the gun

spike, rolling the spike into the next lower Yukon, and got a piece of rock in my notches when he came to the end of a left eye with the same blast that made line. The spike ruled his writing for him. me rich, there was Satan's cruel rage Barr Leavitt banged his way in with a clubbing me down. He took the shape of a basket of groceries. With his red cheeks that'll tell you what isn't so when it girl named Ada Farwell. She was some and the patch of snow on his dark hair, comes to changing money." handsome. There was I on a bed of pain, he looked like an angel of light to Ellen "Plenty," Uncle Myron growled. "Sa- with one eye destroyed, and if I could Paulsen. But he was still unreconciled, tan comes right snug in back of me and have got to a doctor I could have saved she saw. He dropped canned goods on sets his feet down in my foot-prints. We the sight in the other; but Ada had took the table. don't make but the one track. He takes my dogs and some loose gold, and lit out." "Comes to four dollars and twenty different shapes too." "She couldn't have got all your gold, cents, Uncle Myron," he said. Barr Leavitt said whimsically, "Did Uncle Myron," Barr said, and again he

The LEGION Magazine l AMERICAN looked at Ellen, as if to say ironically, unlock the door, go out and bang it he could put his finger on her idlest "Maybe I can help you put your finger behind him. He had complained that thought. And she hud had just the tip of on it." Ellen didn't strip the udder. Let him the tail of a notion that if Uncle Myron "Not what was stored in the earth, she strip it himself then, she was thinking. should die and leave her money, she didn't take," the old man muttered. Coming down-stairs, she found the door could bring Barr Leavitt to his knees

"That was a glory hole, right. I been into the ground-floor bedroom open. Was with it. That was really all she thought living on it all my days, and 1 ain't come it in there that Uncle Myron kept his of doing with it. She could buy out Lafe to the end of it yet, young feller. I still money? Certainly there was a big iron- Bracker's grocery, and set Barr up in got enough to buy five or six slack-salted bound trunk there, standing in the middle business. cod, and you can bring 'em round to- of the floor. It was nonsense, of course, she kept morrow when you're coming this way." The trunk's padlock stuck out at an telling herself. More likely than not, the poor old man was at the end of his rope. He might not have enough to pay her

« i this week's wages. There could be no -A harm, at least, in just lifting the lid of this tantalizing trunk. She tugged at

it with an impulsive motion of her strong young body. A hinge squeaked, there was a cold puff of camphor-laden air. The trunk yawned, bulging full of old wool socks, china pitchers wrapped in under- wear, blue flannel shirts. She plunged her arms deeper, groping, and brought up a photograph mounted on a gray mount. This must be Uncle Myron himself, in hip boots and black beard, and a revolver pocket at his hip. He was standing in front of a cabin with caribou horns nailed on over the door, and had his arm round a girl v\ith a face of impudent beauty, and a form corseted within an

inch of its young life. That must be Ada Farwell. Ellen Paulsen was all eyes, and then suddenly she heard the cow still roaring

in its stall. "Where's Uncle Myron gone to?" she thought. And with that thought, an old hand full of iron bones closed on her wrist. She cried out in terror. Like Satan, Uncle Myron came from behind. With his infernal cunning, he had banged the door, and then, pretending to go into the barn, had actually scuttled back in here, and folded himself away behind a rag of curtain on a string, which had served somebody for a wardrobe. "What are you up to now, my girl?" he said. Barr Leavitt went out, and Ellen inviting angle too. It wasn't locked, and His fingers ground her flesh; he had heard his fingers slithering along a wire. curiosity burned in her. Did Uncle surprising strength. Uncle Myron had strung wires every- Myron really have as much money as "I was thinking you might have some where, to the mailbox by the road, to the people said he had? On her very first stockings in this trunk." Ellen Paulsen well, to the barn, to the wood-pile. With day here, when the coal man had to be faltered. "Those you have on aren't the help of these wires, he moved quick as paid, Ellen had asked artlessly, "Where fitten. They're all holes." a lizard in his black world. do you keep your money, Uncle "They'll do. I wouldn't go mousing

Ellen Paulsen, feeling horribly low, Myron?" round in here if I was you. Say I was to went up into her attic room. This room And he, with his rasping chuckle, had miss money, then where would you be? at least she had tidied, but it was papered replied, "Don't you wish you knew?" Here, you take a look at this bill young with old newspapers pasted against slop- Ellen, feeling her skin crisp in one Leavitt gave me. What's the spot?" ing walls, the window was nailed fast, and burning wave, as if the blood had fluctu- "It's a five-spot, Uncle Myron." at night rats as big as cats went squeak- ated all through her body, had faltered, "It better be. How do I know, though? ing and fighting through the walls. The "It's just that the coal man is here at If he v. ill lie, you will swear to it, I guess, bed had a hollow in the middle where the door." thick as thieves the way you are. Where foxes might have nested. Standing in "You come to me when you want I have fallen out of God's eye the way I front of the bureau's cloudy glass, Ellen money. I can peddle it out. You no need have, it wouldn't be any great under- brushed her hair clear of a smooch that to know where the old man keeps his taking for a body to come creeping round had got on it. shin-plasters." me in my sleep and change a five to a "Uncle Myron," she called down, "Shin-phsters?" one." "that cow's roaring in her stall. I wouldn't "Rag babies. Green-backs. It ain't the "There, that's enough of that," Ellen wonder if she didn't have a dripping virgin gold I keep by me here," Uncle Paulsen cried, trying to recapture her udder." Myron had mumbled. authority as nurse. "It's time for you to He didn't speak, but she heard him With that terrible clarity of the blind, take your pills, Uncle Myron."

JANUARY, 1940 5 Preparing them for him, she thought. Ellen was on the point of crying out at again. He lived a mile away. She could "What a box I am in now." If she left Uncle Myron, "Why have you made me wake him by throwing a snow-ball up his service, as she was half tempted to, out a thief in his eyes?" but her throat against his window. now that Barr had turned against her closed against that utterance. She felt She dragged on her coat, and took her so. Uncle Myron might accuse her of sick at heart, outcast forever now, even shoes in one hand. The lamp was still thieving from him. Her blood was ice from Barr Leavitt's good opinion, let burning, but her hand trembled when she in her veins, and that night she slept alone his love. She could never patch it lifted it, and she was afraid the chimney brokenly. up with him. might drop off. She blew the flame, and When, in the middle of the next fore- She snatched the lamp, and ran up the put the lamp back on the bureau. The noon, Barr Leavitt threw open the door, attic stairs, seeking her room for refuge. house-door was close to the bottom of the and deposited a bag of slack-salted cod, Almost at the top step she stumbled, and stairs, and she knew exactly where the he looked lithe and beautiful, as if his heard Uncle Myron chuckle, "After that, key was hanging. whole body might be full of light. But you won't get married this year." She started downstairs in her stocking his face was as forbidding as ever. He Now suddenly she caught the drift of feet. The house was full of diabolical was stubborn. Ellen had acted against things. The old man had sensed that Barr starts and frost-snappings, but Uncle his best judgment in coming here, and Leavitt was outraged at her being here. Myron didn't seem to waken. The kitchen now he ignored her altogether. Seeing He was trying to drive a wedge between was quiet. The narrow flight of stairs money fluttering on Uncle Myron's them, so that Barr's influence could not was almost as steep as a ladder, and the shrunken chest, he rapped it gently with prevail with her to leave. Heaven knew, sharp turn near the bottom had made his knuckles. he had succeeded in that undertaking. necessary six or eight wedge-shaped steps "Better get you a cake-box to put Ellen put the lamp down on the which forced her to crowd against the that money in, Uncle Myron," he ad- bureau and stared into the cold glass. south wall. Her arm rasped against the vised. "Rats'll nibble it off while you Her breast heaved, her hair was bushed teeth of a big cross-cut saw hanging from sleep, like it is there." out over her ears in great untidy masses. a peg. "Human rats, more likely," Uncle She looked wild, and even to her own The saw replied with a nasty jangling Myron said, with his detestable cackle. eyes, half-guilty. Yes, the very shape of whimper, and Ellen sucked her breath "Here, boy, here's the bill you gave me Satan. What could Barr have thought in quick and stood still. She felt sweat yestiddy. 1 somehow disremember what but guilt, guilt, guilt? He had shielded rilling between her shoulder-blades. Half it was." her, but he despised her. a minute went by, and still no sound "What was it? It was a five-spot. But She lay down on the bed without un- from Uncle Myron's corner. She went it's a one now. It's a dollar bill," Barr dressing, not even thinking of falling down another step. cried, leaning close and fingering it. asleep. She did drop off, finally, and then, There was a clash of loose iron parts,

"Why, holy Indian," he was beginning waking with a start, felt as if something and from a point just below her, Uncle again, and then, breaking sharp off, or somebody were sitting by her bedside. Myron gave a wide-awake titter, and in looked strangely at Ellen, who felt her "Here I am waiting for you," that shadow the pitch-dark nipped her toes in his heart beat hard against the roof of her seemed to say. The shadow of Barr fingers. He had been crouching there, mouth. Leavitt's contempt for a woman who waiting, after stretching that string of "It takes different shapes," the old would juggle with a blind man's money. iron straps across the doorway. man mused. He didn't seem awfully up- It was only two o'clock, but now she was "Morning so soon?" he inquired. set. He went on, "It's dwindled, seems on fire to put herself right with him "It's not morning, Uncle Myron," so. Over-night. While I slept." Ellen quaked. "I feel a little upset, "No. I'll tell you what," Barr was say- that's all. I was going to drink ing decidedly. "I must have made a mis- some hot water." take yesterday. I must have given you a "Take off your coat and stay one for a five, everything black here the awhile," he said mockingly. way it is. Here's four more ones, Uncle He had felt the edge of her coat, Myron." and knew that she was lying. She The old man took them and stuck jerked her foot away from him safety-pins through them, one after convulsively. She meant to leave the other, and stroked them down him now, no matter what he softly. Barr Leavitt went away, and charged her with. She ran back up- Ellen Paulsen felt badly shaken up. stairs, felt out matches, lit the Much as ever if her legs could still lamp, and put her shoes on. support her, she was thinking, and Downstairs again, she saw what sank despairfully into a chair. Barr, Uncle Myron had been up to. He she well knew, had made no mistake had hung strings of iron straps in change yesterday. And Barr every which way, from the house- knew that he had made no mistake. door to the attic stairs, from the Why, then, his alacrity in producing stove to the north window, and those four one-dollar bills? Did he from the barrel of the twelve-gauge shot- think perhaps that Ellen was the gun at his bedside across to the knob on guilty party? What else could he the sink closet. It was a kind of iron think, she wondered, breathing fast. tickle, there was no moving at all without She glanced at Uncle Myron. He brushing into it. Worse than anything, had picked up the writing-board the key to the house-door was gone from again, and his blind eyes fixed on her its nail, and he had locked the door into a bright, sharp, iron look, like a the ground-floor bedroom. Ellen had the hook cast out to tear the secret from liberty of the black kitchen, the villain- her breast. He had changed the bill ous steep stairs, the attic room, and that himself, deliberately, she was cer- was all. a tain of it. Now, if he chose, Uncle "Sit ye down," he said. "We'll have Myron could accuse her of stealing, little scripture reading. Satan shall cast and Barr Leavitt then would have to out Satan." testify against her. He scuttled away, and brought out 6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine from under the head of his nailed; and anyway under

bed a massive pulpit Bible it on the ground outside, with deep-sunk gilt chan- masked with snow, was a nels in the black cover and a heap of old bricks and heavy gilt clasp. He planked broken glass. As for this

it down against the pile of block of darkness here, Un-

dishes on the table. cle Myron knew it like the "Uncle Myron, I'm just inside of his brain. Ellen the worst reader in the herself, with her sooted world." arms and hair, might be

"Let you tell it. I've al- nothing but a shadow-shape ways kept the marker here, inside that skull, a phantom snug up against the Song of yesterday which he had of Solomon, which is the cunningly coaxed in over his song of love, didn't you tell door-sill. me? I never did misdoubt ye. Drinking her coffee in

Let's have a go at it again. great gulps, she murmured,

What's it say? 'Thou art all with a side-long glance at fair, my love; there is no his attentive face, "I forgot spot in thee.' Go on from to tell you. I've got to be there, Ada." away a little while this "Lncle Myron, let me morning." go," Ellen Paulsen cried. Uncle Myron came and "You're dreaming. You have stood over her, clawing at confused me with another her shoulder. woman. This is Ellen . . "Not you, my lovey.

Ellen Paulsen." What if Uncle Myron should

"So 'tis, my lady-bird. have one of his dying spells, You're enough like her and you not at hand to min- though to be her. Maybe ister unto him? I ain't only you ain't quite so hard in the jest a-carrying my life like shell, but your hair's got an egg in a spoon. You sit that same heavy damp feel by, like you're paid for, and into it. You are good lathe- tend out on me." work on the part of the Al- "I tell you, I've got to mighty, right down to these have a breath of air. 1 little pickers and stealers," can't be everlastingly cooped he went on, wrenching her up here in this smelly lingers. "Come, read the place." Song pretty to me." "It won't be so long as Uncle Myron dragged his all that comes to," he mut- chair close against Ellen's, tered. "I guess if I can stand and held her left arm hugged it, you can." against his ribs. Interminable hours passed. "The lamp's smoking," Finally came the jingle of she said, with a choking sleigh-bells, the pluff, pluff cough. of hoofs falling in drifted

"Let it smoke. You can snow. Barr Leavitt. Ellen see to read, can't ye?" Paulsen was in a mood to She began reading in a throw herself into that young trembling voice, and soot man's arms. She took a long from the smoking lamp breath secretly, not wanting fell on her arms, on her hair, Uncle Myron to know how on the musty page with its this rescuing sound had giant print. When she fal- affected her. tered and stopped, hepinched "I never knew him come her arm. two days in succession," the "Come, read the Song," old man said. "He's got a he commanded. "Read where crush on you, h'ain't he?" it says, 'Whither is thy be- "He hates me," Ellen loved gone, O thou fairest Paulsen cried. "He thinks among women, whither is I'm perfectly despicable." thy beloved turned aside?' "Tut. When he opens the Read on from there." door now, don't you go flut- "I'm faint. Let me make tering your lashes at him, a cup of coffee," she begged. dearie." "That's you. Always a "Uncle Myron, I'm not woman for your coffee," made of iron. You're hurt- Uncle Myron said. The Bible on the floor caught his ing me," Ellen gasped. He let her go; but, stoop- eye, but there was something else too Then she saw the full ex- ing to open the draughts of tent of her predicament. the stove, she touched with Uncle Myron stood there her elbow one of those strings of jangling a captive of her? He could, perhaps, if he with a knife clasped in his hand. scrap-iron. Did he actually mean to make wanted to. Her window upstairs was "You send him {Continued on page 46)

JANUARY, 1940 7 'OLUN PEERS are wauled for an undertaking of real danger?' These mysterious words went quietly 'round the British navy jz:in November, 1017. And the volunteers, it was added, should not expect to return. The time had come for desperate endeavor. A German victory was terribly close in those dark days. Russia had collapsed on land, the .Allies were retreating before German legions released from the Eastern front. At sea, Jo Chamberlin the U-boats were sinking 400,000 tons of ships a month, four times as much as they would send to the bottom in the first months of the repeat war in 1939. If they kept this up, the Allies would collapse before the Yanks could unleash their full power. Manned by these volunteers, there assembled in the mouth of the Thames a broken- down battleship, several obsolete cruisers, two ferryboats from Liverpool named the WILLIAM HEASLIP Iris and the Daffodil, and other craft —seventy-four vessels in all, including motor boats. Admiral Roger Keyes, commander of this strange armada, revealed at last to his men that they would attempt what no navy had ever accomplished: the blocking of a harbor. In fact two harbors—Ostend and Zeebrugge. Captured by the Germans in 1914, and heavily fortified by them, these two Belgian ports were a threat to the lifeline of ships from England to France. Here, only eighty miles from Dover, was the lair of at least ten destroyers, thirty-five torpedo boats and thirty submarines. From Zeebrugge ran a ship canal to Bruges, six miles inland. A similar canal connected Ostend with Bruges. At Bruges was a great shipyard, converted by the Germans into a naval base 300 miles nearer England than any German In one flaming blast the port. Only torpedo boats could use the viaduct roared high in canal from Ostend. But down the deeper the air, cutting the canal from Zeebrugge destroyers and mole off from the shore submarines came and went at will. Admiral Keyes proposed to cork these lethal canals by sinking British ships across their entrances. If he succeeded, thirty submarines would be bottled up for the rest of the war. Zeebrugge, the German sub-base, was naturally the No. 1 objective. Shielding the canal mouth from the storms of the North Sea, a mole, or breakwater, curved in a semicircle one and one-half miles out from shore. Most of the mole was a huge railway dock for the supply of German warcraft. Connecting the dock with the shore was a viaduct of open steelwork which supported the railway. To protect the mole were machine guns, barbed wire, eight heavy guns mounted on the mole itself, and along the coast 225 guns with ranges up to eighteen miles. They were there to blast to bits any English- man silly enough to try landing troops at this strategic spot for a flank attack on the German army in France.

KEYES planned to land troops on the mole merely to divert and mis- lead the enemy. Meanwhile, three old cruisers would slip around the mole, sneak into the harbor, and sink them- selves across the mouth of the ship canal.

It sounded simple, yet it was complicated, because wireless or other method of sig- naling was tabu and everything had to be done on time schedule. The most important actor in this drama was incalculable— the weather. There should be no moon. The wind ought to be blow- (Continued on page 42)

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We Delight to- Honor MARQU I s James words of American achievement, but The Colonnade of the Hall of there are others—well, what do you know Fame for Great Americans, in about Maria Mitchell, Joseph Henry, New York City or Mary Lyon? And perhaps I might A blustery afternoon in add, Josiah Willard Gibbs, who came ONMarch, 1937, a company of within a few votes of election in 1935? consisting at present of one hundred and distinguished citizens forgath- The mode of election to the Hall is so fourteen eminent persons selected by the ered on the wind-swept campus unhurried, so freed from the influences of director and approved by the Senate of of Xew York University, which crowns partisanship, sectionalism or contem- New York University, and representing a hill overlooking as much of the city as porary acclaim, and the qualifications of every State in the Union. They ballot on one can see standing on the ground any- the candidates are so searchingly exam- the nominees, and those receiving the where, and the sweep of the blue Hudson. ined that there can be little wonder that votes of three-fifths of the electors are In a granite edifice that makes one feel the result has constituted the most ex- declared chosen. This is merely a sketch the force of its name, the Hall of Fame clusive group in the world. Nor is it re- of the sifting process, which requires for Great Americans, a bronze bust was markable that unfrequented paths in the nearly a year. In 1935 more than a hun- ceremoniously unveiled. By this means annals of American endeavor should be dred nominees were voted upon but only Grover Cleveland joined the select ranks trodden, with the result that a few men three—William Penn, Simon Newcomb of our immortals. Mr. Cleveland and and women, comparatively unrecognized and Grover Cleveland—got the three- Abraham Lincoln are thus far the only by history, have been adjudged suitable fifths vote necessary to elect. statesmen born after the Revolutionary company for Washington and Lincoln, George Washington received the high- War to be chosen to the American Val- Grant and Lee. est vote that has ever been cast for a halla on their record as political leaders, nominee—ninety-seven. He was elected and only he and Alice Freeman Palmer ELECTIONS to the Hall of Fame are in 1900, when the Hall was inaugurated, among the seventy-two immortals chose held every five years. The next one and when only ninety-seven electors others to the Hall. Mr. Cleveland and will be in October of this year of 1940. voted. At the same time Lincoln and

Mrs. I 'aimer were electors in the ioco poll. Any citizen may submit nominations, Daniel Webster tied with 96 votes. The seventy-two immortals illustrate but those nominated must have been Franklin received ninety-four, Grant 93, the distinction between fame and popu- dead for 25 years to be eligible. The list Jefferson 91, and, with others interven- larity. Most of the names are household of nominees goes to a board of electors, ing, Henry Clay 74. The election of Web

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ster and Clay on this first ballot is an invented the steamboat in Paris and example of historical judgment correcting made a commercial success of it in New contemporary judgment. These gentle- York. City. Edgar Allan Poe and Benja- men were aspirants for the Presidency min Franklin were born in Boston, but oftener and longer than any other men their lives are identified with Virginia in our history, always without success. and Philadelphia. Mark Twain, the only Some of their victorious adversaries one of the seventy-two born west of the have never received a vote for the Hall .Mississippi River, did most of his writing of Fame and others have received con- in Hartford, Connecticut. spicuously few votes. Thus it has not Admiral Farragut went to sea at nine been without result that Henry Clay de- and retired at sixty-nine. He hardly clared, "I would rather be right than knew what land looked like, but was born President." in the Tennessee mountains, the son of a

Henry George, author and re- former, received a total of 56 votes in the 193 5 election

the seventeenth century, thirty-four in the eighteenth century, and thirty-six in the nineteenth. Place and time of birth is not, how- ever, the truest index to the field of activ- ity of our most famous people. We are a restless race, and particularly was this true in the decades after the Revolution when frontiers were pushing westward and every few years saw a new State Walter Reed, the army surgeon fashioned from the wilderness. Daniel Sidney Lanier, poet of the for whom the great veterans' Boone, the father of Kentucky, was a Southland and soldier of the hospital in Washington is named. Pennsylyanian. Pennsylvania early lost Confederacy, who in the last

He got 57 votes five years ago its other protege, Robert Fulton, who election received 5 5 votes

An interesting fact about the seventy- Spanish mariner and adventurer tem- two inhabitants of the Hall is that porarily enticed from his logical element. twenty-seven were born in Massachu- Maury, for whom Tennesseans have setts, or twenty-eight counting Long- named a county, was born in Virginia. fellow, who was born in the District of Lincoln, born in Kentucky, rose to great-

Maine before it became a separate State. ness in Illinois. Webster, who has re- Virginia is next with nine, New York ceived more votes than any of the shoal eight, Connecticut four, Rhode Island, of native sons, emigrated to Massachu- New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio setts from New Hampshire. Five States, have two each, and New Hampshire, as well as Ireland and the high seas, have Indiana, Kentucky, Man-land, South claimed Andrew Jackson. He was born Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri one in South Carolina. each. Eight were born outside the United It is not easy in every case to classify States: William Penn in England, Alex- our immortals by profession. Would you ander Hamilton in the British West call Washington a soldier or a statesman? Indies, John Paul Jones in Scotland, John Either could be supported by good argu- James Audubon in Haiti, Roger Williams ments, though he earned his livelihood in Wales, Louis Agassiz in Switzerland, by farming. One is tempted to group him

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Ireland, and with the soldiers because it was through Simon Newcomb in Nova Scotia. the Army, with which he was identified All but a few of the seventy-two were for fifteen years before the Revolution, born more than a century ago, conse- that he found the road to greatness. The quently the poll merely confirms the un- Hall of Fame puts him with the States- mistakable leadership in thought and men. For fifty years William Cullen action of Massachusetts and Virginia Bryant edited the New York Evening during the first half century of our life Post and was one of the celebrated journ- as a nation. Of the first six Presidents alists of his day, but he lives as a poet. four were Virginians and two were natives Oliver Wendell Holmes was a surgeon of Massachusetts. These two, John and the foremost anatomist of his genera- Adams and John Quincy Adams, are the tion, and although that side of his career only father and son among our immor- is not widely known, it is a toss-up tals; Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet whether he contributed more to literature Beecher Stowe were brother and sister. The bust of Grover Cleveland, than to surgery. There are no other doubles. latest to join the select company Eli Whitney, a sc hool teacher, invented Two of the immortals were born in of American immortals the cotton gin, (Continued on page 6i)

JANUARY, 1940 1 Skulked little

Herbert M Peter B.Kyn e

soldiers are great hands for OLDback-tracking to the emotional experiences of their youth. In 1Q24 I back-tracked to the spot where 1 had experienced my first baptism of fire, took one look, choked up with rage and sadness and while a feeling of old age de- scended upon me, back-tracked away from there. My wife, who accompanied me, gave me a queer look and said: "Peter, what's wrong? What are you all choked up about?"

"Everything's wrong," I fi- nally managed to tell her. "When I was here last on the morning of February 5, 1800, all this country hereabouts was wooded. Now it's been cut down to make pasture fields for white men's polo ponies. You see that sign? (It was a sign in the form of a T-square, white with a black pointing-finger and the legend Cafe Ritr..) It points to that big nipa roadhouse where soldiers and sailors dance with native ballerinas and get soused. And there's one of the gals on the front porch now giving me the come- hither look." "Well, what do you expect in the Orient?" my wife replied. "What's wrong with the Cafe Ritz?" " The last time I saw the ground that horrible shack now occupies," I answered,

"eighteen men of M Company of the is holy and it's been profaned. I don't 14th United States Infantry were lying want to prowl any further in the fields scattered around there dead and I was of my youthful glory. Let's go back to hopping in and out among them, trying Manila." honest): "My dear, right here, a quarter not to step on them and hoping none of "Just what part did you play here?" of a century ago, I skulked a little." the dozens of Filipino riflemen shooting my wife asked, and I replied, (for with "What do you mean when you say at me was up on musketry. This ground the years I have become more or less you skulked a little?"

Tlu- AMERICAN LEGION Magazint ammunition; my own company was on guard back at the Cuartel de Malate and upon completion of my ammunition-carrying mission I was supposed to report back to my proper station. Instead I had infiltrated with E Company and gone over with them and now I'd had enough and remembered I was supposed to go home. So I started. I went through that field of pole beans so fast, as Lew Dockstader used to say, I thought it was succotash—and I came out of it and there was E Company in skirmish line just getting up and making another fifty-yard rush. I'd lost my orientation in the bean field and all the "You ought to be ashamed of time I had been running toward the enemy yourself," I called to him. down instead of toward home." "You're half a mile back of the "So then what did you do?" my spouse firing line" inquired. "I saw the enemy was running so I "Oh, yes," I replied, "a dead man said infiltrated with E Company again and to me, 'Look here, kid, I skulked and hid helped them pursue the enemy and "I mean I fled from the firing line and in this trench in this field of pole beans hoped nobody had the goods on me." found myself a nice safe place to hide." and a low ball got me. You better get to On our way back in the car I stopped "You mean you were a coward?" hell out of here.' So I took his advice. I and gazed intently at a spot in the lush I nodded. "But didn't anybody say had no official business in that fight, any- grass. "Seeing ghosts again?" the woman anything to you about it?" how. I had merely helped drag out some asked.

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I nodded. "I see the ghost of Corporal ruckus had started north of the city seal and I felt very brave and tried to Steinhagen, of G Company. He was hard about eight o'clock the night before and appear nonchalant. There was a devil's hit and fell right there and he was the had been all night creeping around a tattoo of Mauser bullets beating on the first evidence of war I had seen on my twenty-mile front to our sector. We had barrack galvanized-iron roofs and drop- way out with that cursed ammunition." I ten companies of my regiment in Luzon ping into the square between the build- lifted my hat to the spot. "Steinhagen and nine of them had gone out that night ings and a ricochet might have done me was a Man," I told her, "and had a great and taken up position along the Cingalon a mortal injury, but of this, being un- deal to do with instilling in me some- road; at dawn when they started across versed in warfare, I was happily ignor- thing that was good for me in later country toward the enemy a sweet riot ant.

years." promptly developed on our front—First I came off guard just as the first ser- We went on down the Cingalon road North Dakota Volunteer Infantry. 14th geant, who under our guard system was and I paused on the concrete bridge U. S. Infantry, 4th U. S. Cavalry (dis- sergeant of the guard, was boiling about across a little slough that was a river in mounted), Utah Field Artillery (two sixty general prisoners out of our very the rainy season but was now as I had batteries, man-drawn), and the First elegant bastile. Having been built by

seen it last, dry. I peered over the para- Idaho Volunteer Infantry. Mausers, the Spaniards for such, it housed all the pet. "What, another ghost?" exclaimed Remingtons, Krag-Jorgensens, 45-70 cali- tough hombres in our brigade. Presently madame. ber single-shot Springnelds and 3.2 field I saw that Dad Keyes, the first sergeant, "Yes, another ghost. The ghost of pieces combined to produce a racket that was depressed about something and Jack Tosney of M Company. Jack and a made funny little tingles caper up and upon making inquiry discovered that few more heroes were hiding in that down my young person as I stood on in the excitement one of the prisoners ditch and under this bridge as I passed guard on Number 1 post back at the had escaped and Dad wasn't very happy over it on my way out with that ammuni- Cuartel de Malate. We used to do com- about having the blame for this hung on tion. I was ashamed of Jack. I said: pany guards and my company had him. I asked which one had escaped and 'Jack, what the hell are you doing here?' mounted guard with due pomp and Dad said he didn't know and none of the And Jack said: 'I'm scairt!' And I gazed ceremony on the morning of the 4th of other prisoners would tell him. down on him with all the majestic dis- February, so we were deprived of our Now, a boy who isn't abnormally approval of my eighteen years and said, share of the alleged glory in the second curious has something wrong with him. 'Jack Tosney, you're skulking, and you battle of Manila which was fought on On the instant I was as curious as Dad ought to be ashamed of yourself. the 5th. Keyes to discover the identity of the You're half a mile back of the firing line.' The front gate was fanked with three- escaped one and I imagine I must have And Jack Tosney burst into tears and been fairly smart then for I said to Dad: shrilled: 'You wait till you get out there, "I bet it's that murderer, Haffy. He's you nosy little so-and-so. You'll wish going to swing so he would be the one " you had wings so you could fly back!' to take a chance and escape." I walked Poor Jack. He died down the front of the prisoners, paraded of pneumonia five in the sallyport, and sure enough Haffy years later. He was a was missing. "You know him?" Dad master prophet and I Keyes queried. Know him? Of course I told him so over a knew him. I used to stare up at his red- bottle of warm beer a bearded brutal face between the bars of week later and apolo- the guard house window and say to gized for my high and myself: "That man is going to swing." mighty attitude to- "Of course I know him," I told Dad and ward him that day. what did the old scut do but say: "Good. Strange to relate Petie, you dash out and get him, dead neither of us ever or alive. He can't be gone more than five skulked again ... I minutes'" daresay that, like a Out into the Calle Real! Out among the mean dog which is dust-devils and the swarms of bullets entitled to one bite, coming up the road from the firing line every soldier is en- three-quarters of a mile distant. And I titled to one skulk knew they weren't spent bullets, either; or ought to be. In the I knew a Mauser bullet would sicken a words of the colored man at three miles. 1 thought Dad ought gentleman: " 'Tain't to go himself, so I described the man no disgrace to run minutely. After all he was Dad's re- when you's afraid." sponsibility, not mine. But Dad gave The disgrace lies in me a little push out the gate and said: not getting on to one- "You go get him, Petey-boy," and I self and going back. I did that accident- went—like a tin-canned dog. ally and Jack Tosney did it intentionally Now, the barracks stood about a so I suppose he was worthy of member- hundred yards back from the bay-shore, ship in a regiment with a glorious tradi- and there was a six-foot cut-bank along tion. the shore. A man trying to make his way This singular adventure never would to the Filipino lines (I figured Haffy I count have befallen me had I been born with In that field could would do that) wouldn't run straight sense enough to keep my mouth shut eighteen dead Americans down the Calle Real in the line of fire. until somebody asked me a question. The He'd cross to the beach, and travel along Cuartel de Malate where my regiment foot brick pillars and safe behind one of under the protection of the cut-bank. I was quartered was a fine old Spanish these I stood and watched hundreds of thought this because I wanted to travel barracks about three-quarters of a mile high-overs kicking up little dust-devils there, too! When I got down to the back of the line of battle on the day in the Calle Real on which the cuartel beach I saw Haffy about two hundred when Aguinaldo decided it was time to fronted. It's very interesting to survey yards ahead of me hurrying toward the give Los Americanos the raus. The such a scene from a perfectly safe front front so I jogged after him; presently he

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine I could have poked the barrel into their brains, but all I wanted was to get away from there

there? I knew blamed well how they were going to get them out turned and saw me and there. They were go- started for the bank. I ing to pick eighteen knelt and fired four shots men from the Big and missed and then he Fours and each wretch was over the bank and would carry one out, gone. But so was I —in 0* which would come un- time to see him dodge der the general head- through the big iron gates ing of a chore. I into the grounds of a knew they wouldn't South American consul's villa. I'd done pretty deeply but for me. I sat down on a pick me for that detail, because I was far a guard there once, so I knew I had bench in the sallyport and reflected on down among the Little Four, so I went Haffy run to earth and could not escape the ingratitude of men—and then who back to the bastion at the gate to watch over the sixteen-foot brick wall topped should come pounding through the gate the dust-devils in the Calle Real. with broken bottles. but a runner from the front, bearing a Down the Calle Real I saw a native Well, I found him in the consul's verbal demand on the officer of the day coming in a quilez, or springless, country stable and marched him back up the (who was also by now, commanding cart, his pony galloping. Fifty yards Calle Real and tried to be casual about officer of the post) for a dozen and a half from me the pony took a bullet between it because I couldn't afford to show this cases of Krag ammunition. The regiment the eyes and dropped and the native tough guy that I had the wind up. I had gone out with 250 rounds per man leaped out of that cart and fled like a got home with him and reported, with a and was already running short. This roebuck. snappy rifle salute, to the company com- runner brought us the first news of the You would think that my pursuit of mander, who was also the officer of the action, but his tale was quickly told. that murderer would have taught me to day: "Sir, Private Kyne reports with an "They're shootin' hell out of us" was keep my lip buttoned. But it didn't.

- ' escaped prisoner. the sum total of his report. Nothing ever could! All my life I have It is my recollection that neither he The company commander went into been speaking out of my turn. I yelled: nor Dad Keyes even said "Thank you" a huddle with Dad Keyes and the burden "Mr. Burnside, sir, we have transporta- for my noble and successful effort, al- of their plaint was: How are we going to tion for that ammunition," and I pointed though both would have been in dutch get eighteen cases of ammunition out up the street. Dad (Continued on page 40)

JANUARY, 1940 IS TO NOWHERE

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Charging up from the rear, worming gian, the Italian, the German, the is in an uproar. Above the and slashing through the field, is the 230- Frenchman! blare of a brass band, seven- pound redhead from Victoria, Canada, Seventeen thousand maniacs are ap- teen thousand frenzied spec- Torchy Peden, who once rode 81 miles an plauding the annual jam session of the tators, rising in a huge wave from their hour on a bike, and is now attempting to League of Nations on Wheels! They are seats, scream and cheer at the death- repeat it. Just ahead of him, steel spokes cheering this international perpetual- defying spectacle below. For in the pit of merged into a silver blur, struggling to motion convention of bike riders, stars of the Garden, on a steeply-banked white- hold his own advantage, rides Alfred every color, creed and nation, who wor- pine saucer, fifteen men in gay colored Letourner, the firebrand representing ship the same god— Courage. sweaters hunch over their brakeless bi- France. And above him, almost at a right- cycles, pedaling at forty miles an hour. angle, another Frenchman, a World War THAT'S the way it was last winter. It is the final night of the six-day bike veteran, raised in the Marne countryside, This winter they had only ten teams race! the anemic-appearing, crafty Maurice in the affair, and cut the grind from Purring wheels, vicious skids on wafer- Procco. six days to five. The war, you know. thin tires, courageous pilots maneuvering Others are farther back, their heads Kilian and his fellow-German Vopel their plunging craft high on the track wagging, their faces bright with sweat, weren't on hand, and McNamara, rim, hanging almost from their heels, their bodies slung low over handle-bars. Rrocco, Georgetti and Peckman were then darting crazily down through yard- They are biding their time. One of them also missing. A couple of outsiders won, wide openings. And the wide-eyed, di- is Gerard Debaets, the clown from but tradition held when Torchy Peden sheveled crowd, leather-lunged, turning Pelgium, the Nick Altrock of the sport, and his brother finished second. the Garden into bedlam. whose face is serious now. And hawk- I am here to say that in all the world The fifteen riders go slithering past. faced Franco Georgetti, the great Italian no finer institution exists. The six-day The crowd cheers them impartially, champ, his high-necked sweater streaked bike race may have its faults but you've though these riders come from eight with sweat. And hanging on, Tony Peck- got to give it an awful lot of credit. It nations. You can hear the names of the man, the American boy from New Jersey. promotes goodwill among men of differ- various competitors on all lips. And still another American, a former ent nations. It shows American spectators There, in the morbid black sweater, is amateur titleholder from Kenosha, Wis- that all men, from everywhere, from 52-year-old Reggie McNamara, the "Iron consin, clean-cut Pobby Thomas, swing- every land, are fundamentally no better, Man" from Australia, who has ridden ing high on the saucer. nc worse than themselves. And it places a 114,000 miles in his career, equal to five Spectators bob from their seats. Most premium on fortitude and the accent on times around the world, and now pump- are standing, waving excitedly, as the skill and stamina. Here's to courage! ing his last race. And beside him, wheel fifteen riders go jamming into the far In brief, it is six-day bike racing, here to wheel, hammering his legs desperately, turn of the immense nine-lap track. The to stay: an international wonderland of is the dark-haired Apollo from Germany, air rings with tumult, shouting, lusty speed which will, when the new war is Gustav Kilian, fastest sprinter alive. cheers —for the Americans, for the Pel- done, once again bring the French and

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the Germans and the Italians and the was condemned. It was labeled inhuman. And so, in 1016, the "Berlin" point Australians together, on whirring wheels, Such voluntary six-day punishment was scoring system was introduced. This bit as neighbors, to remind them of the bellowed down as stupid and cruel. And of mathematical hokus-pokus involved a futility of their hate, and to impress upon above all it was unforgivably dull. series of short sprints each day of the them again the fact that people can get Spectators tired of seeing lone exhausted competition—the winners of the sprints along together if they half try. individuals inching along the track. in the first phases of the contest receiving Eventually the spectators furnished the six points, the winners of sprints on THE sport itself, not unlike a mortal, show, starting feuds with fists, settling Friday acquiring twelve points, and the suffered much before it came of age. them with blackjacks, to the accompani- sprint victors in the final hours on Satur- The first International Six-Day Bike ment of snores from the Bowery habitues daynight being credited with seventy-two Race was staged in the old Madison who panhandled themselves enough to points. Square Garden, away back in i8gi. The turn the gallery into a flophouse. These points for each team were used bikes were old-fashioned, primitive relics Finally, in 1899, the law-makers only in case of a mileage tie, when the —manufactured by a sewing-machine stepped in, and revolutionized the sport. pair with the highest total of sprint points company—with high front-wheels and They decreed that no hard rubber tires. They were nicknamed man could ride more "bone-shakers," and they scrambled the than twelve hours a day. anatomy of their riders. So the two-man teams In the initial 1801 event, men were not were formed. The high- teamed. The race was a free-for-all, each wheelers had by this competitor riding as an indivuidal, time given way to speed- pumping as long as he could, resting, and ier new safety bikes. then once again pedaling. The pace of In its new Sunday the high-wheelers seldom varied, and clothes, the sport picked laps were rarely stolen. Stamina, and not up. All the great came speed, won in the end. When these to Madison Square dur- pioneer contestants reached the climax ing six-day week. Harry of the week's effort they were fit for a Payne Whitney attend- psychopathic ward. Most of them, ed, and Diamond Jim bruised, fatigued, glassy-eyed, in the Brady, Fifth Avenue, final hours of the race steered around and Broadway, and points around talking to themselves. One pedal- east and west. But there pusher was smarter than the rest. His was still one weakness. name was "Plugger Bill" Martin, and Too often, teams ended during the last two days he carried a in mileage and lap ties monkey on his shoulder, and conversed at the end. This would with it to keep his wits alive and himself necessitate the best awake. sprinter from each ty- On the final night "Plugger Bill," with ing team pedaling a the miniature baboon on his shoulder, match race for an extra wobbled home in front —after 142 hours of mile to determine the going nowhere—and became the first six- winner. It wasn't al- day-bike king in American history. ways quite fair, and it This went on for eight years. The sport was anti-climactic.

Two of the six-day riders after they'd tangled handlebars. At left, Glenn Cunningham, who knows something about endurance him- self, starts the teams on their grind

was acclaimed the victor. If one team led all others by a full lap or more at the finish points were disregarded. Which all leads up to one of the most hair-lifting races ever run, over twenty years ago, in the old Garden. It was one of the farewell ap- pearances of the greatest team in all bike history Goullet and Grenda. They were perfectly paired. Alf Goullet was a gutty French- man who rode like a dervish and whose brain was a synonym for strategy. His mate was a giant, hook- nosed (Continual on page 44)

JANUARY, 1940 17 The Blue Eagle of NRA, born in 193 3. Here's The Bonus Expeditionary Force of 1932, the New York parade the movement inspired which was forced out of the nation's capital

binge was over. world over. An era of assured peace was THE"The era of wonderful non- beginning. The Kellogg Pact, outlawing sense," as the booming twenties war as an instrument to settle disputes be- were to be known, appropriately tween nations, at the start of 1930 had had ended in deserved anguish of re- been formally adopted by every world covery from the horrible hangover rep- power. resented by the busted balloon of stock, Looking back at American interests as market values. It had been fun, but "Never Again!" Yep, we were through

the old wringer and it was in painful so- briety and with the best of intentions that we welcomed the new decade of the nineteen-thirties. ''Two cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot," still remained the American goal on January i, 1930. Soup- kitchens of the moment were merely an unavoidable temporary phase while necessary readjustments were worked out. Business conditions, we were told, remained fundamentally sound. Was not deflation happily over? Yes sir, and it was good to be on rock-bottom again. If the answer to such popular beliefs was to be found— in the skeptical phrase of the moment "Oh Yeah?"—at least one monumental accomplishment could be treasured by simple, plain peoples the

The Hindenburg, destroyed in explosion and fire at Lake- hurst, New Jersey, in 1937, with a loss of thirty-six lives

this promising new decade opened, in the if one excepts Amos and Andy, and a matter of styles women's skirts were newcomer known as a crooner—Rudy being lengthened. From ballet brevity Vallee—the list of popular air-wave en- they reached for the ankles. Millinery of tertainers of 1930 would not be recog- the period suggested in shape huge in- nized. verted bowls covering hair and ears like The theater, however, was going a headguard. But save as in recent years strong. Hits of the period were Street the loud checks and pastel-covered Scene, Strictly Dishonorable, Fifty M illion shirts of sport wear have given a rainbow Frenchmen, Death Takes a Holiday, Green touch to male attire, the cut and tones Pastures, The Last M He. An actor in the of men's clothing have altered little. A last named has come far in the films suit of 1930 vintage would not attract in the last decade—Clark Gable—but it undue attention today. The family car is surprising to find in the movies so of the period, however, would prompt many stars still shining after ten year-,. He had been head of the British smiles. Streamlining was yet to revolu- Gary Cooper, Norma Shearer, Loretta Empire the year before, but in tionize auto design. Radiators, head- Young were "big draws" in 1930, with 1937, when he married an Ameri- lights, and windshields all remained stars only recently taken off top billing, can, he was just another duke vertical. Everv home had its radio, but Chevalier, for instance, and Warner Bax-

Tht AMERICAN LEGION Magazine It happened in 1937: Start of the unofficial Begun in 1936, the war between factions in war between Japan and China, still raging Spain ended with defeat for the Reds in 1939 Crowded

BY SAMUEL TAYLOR MOORE

ter. The movies had only recently found ment. The Jones Bill providing for voice and early in 1030 the talkies went $10,000 fines and five years' imprison- musical comedy in a big way. ment, or both, for first offenders had Yes, the national concern as the new been law for a year. The House vote had decade made its bow was how to restore been 283 to 90, the Senate 65 to [8. prosperity. And the burning political Kansas listed more than a thousand issue of the moment was Prohibition. "ginger-jake" paralysis victims. Govern- George V's death in 1936 Congress appeared determined to compel ment agencies announced intentions to ended a reign begun in 1910 enforcement of the Eighteenth Amend- continue putting {Continued on page 52)

JANUARY, 1940 19 1 11 'iiwm—m By Barron C.Watson

IS 4 p. m. on the 20th day of ducks, pintails, teal, mallards, coots, ITDecember, 1030. Somewhere off in blacks, ruddies, canvasbacks, redheads, the Southwest the final shotgun bufileheads, ringnecks, wood ducks, gad- bumps out its last legal charge of walls, oldsquaws, shovelers, mergansers No. 4's, a bird tumbles, possibly, and thus and Canada geese, blue geese, white- ends the best duck-gunning season this fronted geese, brant, snow geese and country has seen for long years. swans—to mention just a few—came Some 65,000,000 ducks and geese have streaming down from somewhere up hurtled down the continental fly ways north in an apparently inexhaustible that fan out from the vast breeding perennial avalanche. grounds south of Great Slave Lake to our Successively along parallels of latitude Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf shores. Around from Passamaquoddy Bay and Puget one million Americans have taken joyous, Sound to the bayous and bottoms along but reasonable, toll of the migration. And the Gulf of Mexico and around countless there still remain more migratory water- lakes and potholes across the continent, fowl to rear next spring's brood of duck- gunners banged away at the birds to their lings than in any winter during the past hearts' content. decade—twenty-two percent more than The bag of game was unlimited. A Manitoba duck-banding there were last year. Sportsmen rigged out blinds and floats trap gets pintails and coots will help There is a story back of this jump in whenever and wherever they wished. whose case histories duck population—a non-statistical, hu- They shot over wood tollers or live increase our duck population man story, with a twist and implication decoys, and lured birds with bait if they

in it to warm the cockles of any real wished. They had the precious privilege progressive diminution. Not until after American's heart. of dawn and dusk shooting. They could the World War.

To appreciate what has happened plan trips with nary a glance at the It is curious how so many evils stem among the ducks we shall have to start calendar. Those were the good old days, back to that conflict. In the case of ducks

back at a time when the members of the and the methods and lore were of the it was the big wheat prices in the Allied Legion averaged in stature about the forefathers, handed down from dad to markets that brought the trouble. height of a full-grown Canada gray goose. son and from oldtimer to novice. Farmers began to drain and plow every In the i8qo's the United States had Of course the bird counts were nothing tillable corner of land in the North some of the grandest duck-shooting to the myriads reported by explorers and Central States and prairie Canada. regions anywhere on the globe. Even- early settlers, but there were still plenty Shallow lakes and sloughs became autumn the dipping ducks and the diving of them, and no one worried about the smooth grainlands. The old water-holding

20 Tin- AMERICAN LEGION Magazine sod of prairie grass was destroyed. A farther north or else they nested in ditions, ravenous crows still took a toll plague of egg-eating crows followed the rain-filled places which dried up just in surveys have shown they destroy thirty plow northward and westward. Almost time to kill the ducklings. On the other percent of the new generation in some no one realized it, but the agricultural hand, sudden freshets common in skinned- areas. juggernaut was rolling over the duck off land might raise water levels and America tried the same solution as was factory of North America, drying up and drown broods. Lowered ponds became applied to the liquor problem, prohibition obliterating the only home the birds alkaline and lost the grasses and sedges —and with the same result. Open seasons could, or would, use for a nursery. On the that provided duck food. The former were made shorter, the number of legal American side alone 17,000,000 acres of pond bottoms exposed fostered the germ birds per daily bag was reduced, more breeding ground were ruined. that spreads botulism, the deadly "duck restrictions were thought up to frustrate Each spring the ducks were forced disease." If the birds survived these con- and enrage the gunners. The system fostered law-breaking and bootleg gun- ning, but as fewer ducks were killed each year, fewer birds came back the next season. By 1930 America's wild ducks had been reduced fo 30,000.000. That is a long way from extinction, but the decline

had been so great it was plain that duck

shooting would disappear if the birds didn't. A permanent, all-year closed season loomed as the doom of what its devotees maintain is the most fascinating and highly -skilled of all our traditional kinds of hunting.

This is where a group of prominent American business men and sportsmen went into action. They got together in 1030 and banded themselves into a foundation called More Game Birds in America. None of these men had any interest in profiting from an increase in wild ducks or other game birds except in an An engineer doing preliminary work near site of an Alberta esthetic sense. Some of them liked to shoot dam whose construction will mean more ducks for sportsmen and others were (Continued on page 50) JANUARY, 1940 21 a

I LLU ST RATI O N S BY RAYMO N D SI S LEY

pain in his swollen joints welfare workers saw THEnever left Jimmy Toobye day or that he was fed, paid night. The local physician who his room rent, and

took charity cases diagnosed it as finally shifted him to arthritis deformans, and spoke of lime the charity ward of formations growing in the bone joints, the Good Samaritan formations that grew larger and hardened Hospital. so that Jimmy was gradually losing the "On the town— use of his fingers and toes. Later, unless pauper," he used to the progress of the disease were arrested, say again and again. he might be unable to bend his back or "Better croak and get his elbows, his knees or his neck. it over with."

"The only cure I know of," said the No doubt of it, he physician, "is a warm climate, good food, was getting worse. You lots of rest and peace of mind. Helio- can't lie on your back therapy would help allay the pain." day after day, suffer- Jimmy's lips curled hopelessly. "That's ing agony every time you flex a a honey," he said bitterly, "and me on muscle, brooding about a black the town." future, and beat arthritis. He lost He was forty-four years old, his wife weight rapidly; privately the was dead, and he had spent the last of his physician did not think he would savings months before. He couldn't go last a year. back to work even on the automatic The welfare worker found out machines to which he had been trans- he was an old field artilleryman, ferred when the heavy lathe work was and the next time she went to the beyond his strength. The community big city she dropped by The *4 PLACE -£rGO

American Legion service office. The Service Officer went home and did "The poor fellow's going to plenty of thinking over a half pack of die," she said. "I should think butts. He knew, of course, that Jimmy you men could do something." could be sent to any government hospital "All depends," said the Service without regard to service connection. Officer. Late one afternoon he There would be proper food, skilled hopped into his flivver and drove attention, but Jimmy wouldn't get any over to see Jimmy. The case better; he would just die a little more puzzled him. Jimmy Toobye comfortably.

hadn't contracted arthritis as a "Even if the disease halts," the Legion consequence of his war service. Service Officer told his wife, "the guy He had seen service at St. Mihiel can't do another lick of work as long as he and in the Argonne Forest, but lives. What he should have is sunshine,

liked it. peace and quiet, a sort of home." He "When I was discharged I blinked and heaved the butt into the never felt better in my life," he fireplace. "By golly, that's it! A home! A declared. soldiers' home!"

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine very simple after that. The Government paid Jimmy's transportation because he was broke. One February morn- ing under a sky dark and brooding with un- fallen snow, Jimmy hob- bled with clenched teeth between two Legion- naires, one a doctor, to a Pullman car bound south. "It takes courage and tranquillity to lick ar- thritis, Jimmy," said the medico. "Fight, don't get despondent, stay cheerful and you'll live a long time." Cheerful? How could you be cheerful when you were about to be an inmate of an insti- tution? A serial num- ber! Jimmy had seen a soldiers' home, too, as a kid—old men hanging around waiting to die. Not individuals any longer, but sort of back in the Army—you can't go there, soldier. He took up the journey with foreboding. Some hours later he rode under a brilliant hot sun through flat, pleasant country. The balmy air smelled good; his sickness- starved eyes feasted on the green grass, the purple bougainvillea; he saw women cutting roses in back gardens. Ahead was the deep-water blue of the Gulf of Mexico. Down South that arthri- He was feeling better already when the tis would yield to treat- taxicab took him from the St. Petersburg ment, they assured him station along Don Ciego Bay toward Clearwater. What would this place be like, this thing they called the Veterans Adminis- tration Facility? The cab crossed Long The Service Officer didn't know much Administration, and twenty-eight State Bayou and turned in through white- about Soldiers' Homes. If you had a sick homes, already caring for more than pillared gates—and there it was. Four veteran you sent him to a Veterans 20,000 World War veterans. The eligi- large buildings set well apart, surrounded Administration hospital, tried to service- bility rules, generally, were as follows: by acres of smoothly clipped green lawn connect his case. If you did, the man was Any honorably discharged veteran who is and flower landscaping. A few men were taken care of for good; if you didn't, at suffering from disability, disease or defect in sight, but Jimmy put them down for least they cured him so that he probably and who is in need of hospitalization or visitors; they didn't wear uniforms. could go back to work. The Service domiciliary care, and is unable to defray Officer didn't know what the eligibility the necessary expenses attendant on all UNIFORMS?" the driver repeated rules for entering a soldiers' home were. this (including transportation to and his question. "Those guys don't As a kid hs remembered the state-owned from the Veterans Administration Fa- wear uniforms. Look at 'em, blue serge home where he old Civil War vets in cility) shall be furnished the necessary suits just like mine. You're going to like their blue uniforms walked over the hospitalization or domiciliary care (in- this place, fella. Want to go to the hos- country-side or came to town to swap cluding transportation) in any Veterans pital, I reckon." stories. But this was different—or was it? Administration Facility, within the limi- The five-story building on the right, He discovered, in the next few days, tations of that Facility, irrespective of surrounded by shrubbery and royal that Soldiers' Homes had been in exist- whether the disability, disease, or defect palms, was the hospital. Of renaissance ence more or less since the American was due to service. style, done in cream-colored stucco, with Revolution, and that particularly since "That fits Jimmy Toobye," declared roofs of mission tile and ornamented by the Civil War domiciliary care had been the Service Officer. polychrome terra cotta, it looked like one an increasing government responsibility. He found out that the Veterans Ad- of the swanky hotels in St. Petersburg. To his amazement he learned that there ministration had completed in 1033 a Jimmy grinned. "That's swell," he said. were twelve national Soldiers' Homes, domiciliary facility at Bay Pines, Florida, For four days he slept and rested, not now incorporated with the Veterans and he wrote to this institution. It was even getting up {Continued on page 37)

JANUARY, 1940 23 TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION

hospitality, their table later became President of Yale Univer- "with simple plenty sity. crowned." A son. Gay Philip, was born of this The Sweet name had marriage in 1827, and while he was still been brought to America a small boy the family moved to Hills- from Wales in the seven- dale. There he grew up, married Emily teenth century by James Palmatier, of a Holland Dutch family, Sweet, who settled in and became the father of Harvey Sweet. Rhode Island, where he During this time, Martin Dexheimer, married an English girl, of a German family of inn-keepers, set- Mary Greene, in 1654, tled in Hillsdale, acquired the Hillsdale prospered, raised a fami- House and married a girl from his home- ly, and passed on to his land. A daughter, Charlotte, grew to reward in 1605. For sev- womanhood and became the wife of eral generations family Harvey Sweet, who purchased the inn

history is obscure. Then from his father-in-law. the scene becomes clear In the year i8q8, Hillsdale House

again in 1823 at Farm- stood much as it did when built, except ington, Connecticut, the for a wing which struggled valiantly to home of Benjamin Sweet, meet the standard of beauty set in the original plan. The recessed doors with their fan lights and Mrs. William H. Corwith of Rock- hand-forged hinges of mam- ville Centre, New York, National moth size still adorned the face President of The American Legion of the structure and gave it an Auxiliary atmosphere redolent of by- gone days. In the sturdy sim- have to know something plicity of the inn and its people, YOUabout Hillsdale, New York, to Doris and her brother Ray- get an accurate picture of the mond were reared. woman who at Chicago in Sep- W ith the Sweet family lived tember was unanimously elected to the the paternal grandmother, the highest office in The American Legion Dutch girl who had married Auxiliary. You have to know Hillsdale's Gay Sweet, and she had a deep people, too, Hillsdale's rigors as well as influence on the early life of its bucolic charm, to appreciate this Doris. It was from her that the woman's character foundations. girl learned how home-making Sheltered in the valley between the can be not only a science but an Catskill Mountains and the lovely Berk- art. Her skilled fingers were shire Hills, Hillsdale, since the days when never idle. Someone has sug- the stagecoach traveling the Columbia gested that she was responsible Turnpike between Hudson, New York, for the cleverness in dress- and Hartford, Connecticut, made Hills- making which used to astonish dale House a stop for change of post, Mrs. Corwith's associates in has been satisfied to be a way-station to the days when more momen- points in the more or less troubled world tous duties did not fill her time. outside. It has been content to be in- Doris was always a serious dustrially dormant in the lee of its moun- minded youngster, say Hillsdale tains, yet its church spires proclaim a residents, interested in dolls and Doris at three, her brother Raymond, two lively interest in the things of the spirit. books and people. No one can years older. He served in the A. E. F. and In the Hillsdale House, the inn built recall a trace of self-conscious- is a Legionnaire of Syracuse, New York in 1813 upon completion of the Turnpike, ness in the girl. She was always Doris Sweet Corwith was born in 1898. ready to "talk on her feet." a

Her parents, Harvey P. and Charlotte whose son Milo is being married to Eliza gift which developed with the years.

Sweet, were the proprietors, the second Moody. I he minister performing the Throughout elementary and high generation of the family to dispense its ceremony is the Rev. Noah Porter, who school, books and the richness they im-

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part to "the kingdom of the mind" had In the fall of 1914 she matriculated at street from her home, remembeiing the no competition from distractions like New York State College for Teachers at lessons of patriotic service and sacrifice. athletics and dramatics. It was a union Albany and was initiated in her freshman When she returned to Hillsdale for school with all twelve grades housed in year into a local sorority. No stimulating the summer vacation of 191 7, she found one building and it emphasized the phase of college life passed her by. She her brother, Raymond, two years her fundamentals of education. won recognition in dramatics, held mem- senior, preparing to enter the service. During those school days she often bership in the Press Club and served on The summer was overshadowed by war. sat on the base of a monument in mem- committees for various college func- They left about the same time, he to ory of the Civil War dead, erected in the tions. camp and she to school. village square facing her home. There, During her junior year, the college Knitting needles clicked in college looking up at the heroic figures of a sol- campus, like the rest of America, was halls that winter— seeks, sweaters and

A Hillsdale high school group photographed in 1912, when Doris Sweet was a junior. The future National President is the farthest left of the three girls seated in front

dier and a sailor, ideals of patriotism, gripped and shaken by the events of 191 7. helmets for the soldiers. It was a cold ideals of service and sacrifice for country, The United States was at war! Boys left winter and they needed them. Doris kept began to take concrete form. Every college classes to enlist. Doris Sweet her needles busy when the pressure of her morning when she started for school, thought of the monument across the senior studies permitted. Out of her slen- every evening when she returned, she der student's allowance she subscribed for learned the lesson of this monument. a Liberty Bond. She was a leader of And as she read Lincoln's immortal patriotic activities on the campus, and Gettysburg Address the monument and to her came the highest honor possible its lesson were brought home to her in for a gitl, election as vice-president of the words, "from these honored dead we the senior class. take increased devotion to that cause The spring of 1918 brought the news for which they gave the last full measure that her brother, now a sergeant in of devotion." Company K, 303d Infantry, 76th Divi- Doris was fourteen when she took her sion, had gone overseas. Doris wanted first job in an economically untroubled to go, too. Her ambition was to get into world. She was engaged as accompanist an ambulance unit as a clerk, but they for the silent motion picture shows which weren't taking eighteen-year-old girls were given weekly in the Masonic Tem- just out of school. She came home from ple. Here on the piano she had to convey college with her degree, a promise of a the varying moods of the picture to the teaching job in the fall, and her knitting audience, requiring a keen sense of the needles. fitness of things. No one can recall her Concern about her brother in France playing "The Stars and Stripes Forever" shared her mind with anxiety over her for a love scene or offering "Hearts and first classes when she went to Fayette- Flowers" for soldiers on the march. ville, New York, that fall to teach En- When Doris graduated from high glish, American history and ancient his- school at the age of fifteen, she was © BACHRACH tory. His long-delayed letters told noth- offered a scholarship at Vassar College, Former Sergeant Bill Corwith ing of his whereabouts and American but was considered too young to leave of the Quartermaster Corps casualty lists were mounting. home. A post-graduate course was de- lawyer, realtor and active Le- Then came Armistice Day. Doris spent cided upon in which she studied Virgil, gionnaire. Cheer up, Bill; less that unforgettable day in Syracuse, where advanced algebra and German. than a year to go the wild happiness (Continued on page 38)

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* EDITORIAL * LETS LOOK AT THE RECORD

WASHINGTON. On next Armistice Day, American veterans of the World War will not be so strong numerically as were the veterans of the Civil War in 1906, forty-one years after Appomattox. World War veterans are dying twelve percent faster than other citizens of the same age. More than 500,000 veterans died from the close of the war to last Armistice Day, and another 3 3,000 will have died by November eleventh next. Membership in The American Legion has fallen to 974,637, from its peak of 1,053,909 in 1931. There were 4,088,784 living ex-service men of 1917-18 on last Novem- ber eleventh. Saturday Evening Post, September 30, 1939 (editorial page.)

us accept as correct the 4,088,784 given above by the business depression in the United States. Now any advertising

IET Saturday Evening Post as the total of World War man will tell you that the Saturday Evening Post is as much

i veterans alive on November 11, 1938. It is pretty a barometer of business conditions as unfilled orders of United close to the figure of the Veterans Administration for States Steel, or carloadings. When business is booming in this

the number living on January 1, 1939—4,073,176. country issues of the Post are fat, and its advertising revenue The Veterans Bureau calculations are that 32,120 of that is high. When we Americans go into an economic tailspin the

4,073,176 will have died by January 1. 1°40, so that the Post is lean, and its advertising revenue drops. But year after number alive on that date will be 4,041,056. year the Post does all right. A full-page advertisement appear- The Union forces in the Civil War were: Army, 2,128,948; ing in newspapers throughout the United States in late Navy, 57,841; Marine Corps, 3,860, the total therefore being November made the statement that in every year since 1020 2,190,649. Exact figures on those in uniform on the Con- the Post had led every other weekly magazine in the United federate side are not available, but Woodrow Wilson in his States in volume of advertising. That's a great, worthwhile "History of the American People" estimated the Confederate achievement. But since 1031 the Legion has done so much host at 000.000. Other historians have placed it between better in the "has fallen" membership field than has the Post 700,000 and 800.000. Hence the total number of men in in its fields of advertising linage and advertising revenue that uniform on both sides in that war was about three million. from the Post's standpoint the comparison would be painful. Records in the Adjutant General's Office in Washington show After all, what corporation wouldn't consider itself the

war deaths on the Union side to have been 359,528 and on possessor of a charmed life if it could show an increase in the Confederate, 133,821. Subtracting these from the three business every year since 1933? Legion membership can do million gives a total of 2.507,000 veterans, North and South, just that. in the summer of 1865. As for the death rate among veterans being higher than

It is obvious thai if there are today some four million that of "citizens of the same age," there's a reason, as the living American veterans of the World War and that in 1865 service officer of any Legion Post in the United States can there were only two and a half million veterans of the Civil testify. To see that those of our comrades who were physically War, somebody has put over a great "1906" hoax on the and mentally handicapped by their service in uniform receive Saturday Evening Post. all the aid that a grateful Government provides for them and Furthermore, according to testimony offered by Brigadier their dependents was and is The American Legion's chief General Frank T. Hines, Veterans Administrator, before a reason for being. Congressional Committee in 1037, there will be at least When the statement reproduced at the top of this page 2,564,295 of us American World War veterans alive in 1961. became public property The American Legion's membership

was 1 .026.2 70+—not 074,637. It is true that Legion member- SO THAT twenty-one years from now we shall actually be ship has never embraced more than twenty-five percent of more numerous, by some 57,000, than the combined Blue those eligible to join. But we know we speak by the book and Gray veterans were at the time of Appomattox, let alone when we say that in every county in the United States the their 41-year-later total. citizens look to Legionnaires as spokesmen for World War As for The American Legion, the Saturday Evening Post veterans, realizing that in addition to being active in service statement that membership in the Legion "has fallen" gives for the community we are also prepared to preserve, protect the impression, entirely erroneous, that our organization has and defend the characteristic institutions under which America

been steadily slipping since 1931, and that World War has grown to greatness. It is still true, as the then National veterans as a whole had better just cash in their checks. Commander Franklin D'Olier told a Cleveland Plain Dealer

What are the facts? reporter in 102C, that the Legion is "the best insurance policy Here are membership records of The American Legion for a country ever had." the years 1930-1939: Here's a straight tip: There are plenty of fellows all over 1Q30: 887,754 1935: 842,855 this country who would be willing to bet the editors of the 1931: 1,053.909 1936: 956,273 Saturday Evening Post that the sacred peak of membership 1932: 931,373 1937: 973.841 1031 1933: 769,551 1938: 974,637 1,053,909 in — ain't gonna be no peak no mo' when the 1934: 831,681 1939: 1,029,405* Twenty-Second Annual National Convention begins its Remember, a good many of those years were years of deliberations in Boston on September 23, 1040.

* As of Nov. 17, 1939 t As of Sept. 25, 1939

JANUARY, 1940 27 NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: One Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

-•8 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga — Patriotism RECENT world events have our schools in order to stress the patriotic brought home the need for significance of the occasion. These assem- teaching and reteaching patri- blies are pupil-planned in cooperation ^" otism in our schools. An inten- with local civic and service groups and sive program of Americanism has been William do much to emphasize the many tradi- added to this year's objectives in order tions which have become associated that the half-million school children of with specific holidays. Likewise, partici- Chicago may become enlightened citi- H Johnson pation in projects relative to Youth zens in these troubled times. A committee Week, Thrift Week, and Clean-Up Week has been appointed to scrutinize the leaves each student better prepared for present curriculum to determine at what the responsibilities to which he will fall points it may be revised to include inten- heir in the years to come. sive study of those aspects of American The program of social studies through- culture which have enabled this country of Commerce, the Rotary and Kiwanis out our entire school system is designed to stand out, above all others, as the ex- and many others. By doing so, they learn to make the student aware of his respon- ponent of the democratic way of life. the first attribute of sincere patriotism sibilities as a citizen. Teachers help him The patriotic teaching which takes the willingness to cooperate with others to see how "life, liberty, and the pursuit place in our schools must manifest itself toward a common end. Habitual respect of happiness" are related to understand- in improved conditions in the community, for majority rule, fair play, respect for ing and cooperation among men. Be- in civic action, and in cooperation and the noble elements in our history, and sides teaching facts, all social studies service. The schools must set up a wide the ability to carry on independent classes in Chicago aim to teach accepted variety of activities which stimulate and thinking are only a few of the ideals that values, together with the socially ap- challenge participation of youth in the the schools of our city are developing. proved attitudes which parallel good actual solving of problems of their en- In preparing the new Americanism citizenship. The development of qualities vironment. Youth must be equipped program, The American Legion and the which are essential to the citizen of to- with practical habits of good citizenship office of the Superintendent worked hand morrow is receiving a great deal of atten- in a democratic world of its own. in hand. Discussions centered around tion in our schools under the heading The type of patriotism which the new what the schools could do to further the of Character Training. Americanism program stresses in the plans of the Legion with which Chicago Organizations within the school do Chicago schools is many-angled. It educators were heartily in accord. All much to promote pride in community teaches a sense of loyalty to American agreed that a great deal had already been citizenship. At Steinmetz High School, ideals and traditions. It is the logical done, and that no opportunity for teach- for example, during the past year the outgrowth of good citizenship. It is a ing patriotism is ever consciously over- History Club has made a study of pio- habit of mind and action—not a parade looked in the Chicago schools. Each new neer activities in the neighborhood of the ground for hysteria. It implies alike a day is opened with patriotic services school. Members of this club, numbering belief in individual rights, and a negation including the salute to the flag, the pledge eighty-five students, have been organized of individual interests for the common of allegiance, and the singing of our for three semesters for the purpose of good. It recognizes both the obligations national anthem. A sincere attempt is discovering and tabulating the original and privileges of citizenship, and finds being made to supplement this daily historical material of the community. its highest moral implications in the program with the type of activities Members visited the library of the policy of the good neighbor. which will lead each student to accept the Chicago Historical Society and consulted Patriotism may be best taught when kind of patriotism which comes from the all available sources of information in it is derived from activity which is vital heart. If the schools are successful, "lip an attempt to get accurate historical and meaningful to youth. To be effective, loyalty" will be absorbed in a deeper data. Some even spent holidays photo- it must be functional. Its highest values appreciation of American life. graphing landmarks and interviewing are personal and real. Youth best learns old residents of the district. Students the democratic way of life by living that THE R.O.T.C. has proved a most effec- belonging to the club became more and life at school, at home, and in the com- tive agent in our schools to teach, by more interested in their neighborhood as munity. There is abundant occasion for example, what real Americanism means. each new bit of past history turned up. patriotic service and expression in the Twenty-seven of the thirty-seven Chicago Similar organizations exist in all high many activities of daily class work. high schools have R.O.T.C. units. The schools, and serve to build a new loyalty. Young people learn to work together in total enrolment has increased in the past The various campaigns sponsored in committees and groups of various kinds. three years and now includes 8,898 the Chicago schools do much to bring the There is a steady give and take of ideas young men organized under the supervi- need for civic service home to the student. which leads to consideration for the view- sion of five officers and thirty-four non- Principals of all schools enlisted the assist- point of the other fellow. commissioned officers, all of the Regular ance of all students in a "Respect for The Chicago schools offer a laboratory Army. The entire corps takes part in an Public Property Campaign." Part of the of experience for all pupils in the art of annual review in which all of/the schools drive was to reduce glass breakage in the living in a democracy, and prove an are invited to participate. It is to the public schools. Another school problem is effective training ground for the develop- R.O.T.C. that our schools look for sup- pupil safety, which also presents an ment of leadership. Pupils cooperate port in the Americanism program of the opportunity for practical training in freely with such service organizations coming year. patriotism and service. Each elementary as The American Legion, the Chamber National holidays are observed in all school has as {Continued 011 page §6)

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The six Posts of Franklin County Council, Depart- Four special type hospital beds and two oxygen ment of Maine, provided a resuscitator-inhalator for inhalation masks comprise the latest gift of Adams use where needed within the county (Massachusetts) Post to Plunkett Hospital Ll FE found other needs just as urgent—iron lungs, resuscitators, oxygen tents, thera- peutic pools, hospital bed and room equipment, and a hundred and one other things, even to the construction and operation of complete hospitals. In the way of personal service, groups of Legionnaires were banded together in blood donor organizations—the hundreds of squadrons of blood brothers who stand ready at all times to give of their own Continuing the long time ambulance project, Lloyd- blood to the needy and in emergency William Post, fifty-nine members, filled the need in cases. its home town, Halifax, Pennsylvania One of the very latest of these groups is that organized to serve the city of KEEPING abreast of the pro- and hundreds are still operating through Toledo, Ohio, under the sponsorship of gressive development of medi- the third and fourth replacement. In the Lucas County Council of The Ameri- cal science, Legion Posts late September Lloyd-William Post, of can Legion. The members of the trans- throughout the country have Halifax, Pennsylvania, put a brand new fusion group come from the several maintained a flexible hospital-assistance ambulance in community service at a Posts in the city and have volunteered program as a major contribution in cost of $3,150. Back in the early days of to furnish transfusions, upon call, to in- community service work. This program, the organization this project had its digent comrades and their families. But which is really not a program within it- origin in Smyrna (Delaware) Post; the an interesting suggestion comes from the self but spontaneous offerings suggested idea was adopted immediately and other Spokane County, Washington, Medical by some very definite community need, Posts took up the task of providing Society in its formal acceptance of the has broadened with the years until now ambulances to communities that were services of a group of blood brothers there is scarcely a community served by a without such facilities. The program organized by Spokane (Washington) Post that has not been benefited in some soon reached out into some of the most Post which seems to open another way. These are the Legion life savers. isolated sections. There are literally thousands alive today The ambulance service Ik's Necu VJe ore. •! X'wv <\dw*\ -to who owe their continued existence to is by no means obsolete Ev/e- — VJe V\elp 40U etak*f -Hve W2u> the prompt and effective operation of many of them are Yeats CHM\\rie<\ ofF nqht- - dear!'. some piece of equipment or appliance equipped each year and do placed at the disposal of the community started on their errands by these Posts. of mercy—but with the There is really no way to determine development of the sys- to an exact certainty the extent of the tem of good roads more contributions that have been made to and more ambulances the health and well being of the several were put into operation communities. There's the ambulance by hospitals, county and service, for instance. No record has been city governments, and by kept as to the exact number, but there individuals. The ambu- were hundreds of them placed in service, lance-minded Posts

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Upper Darby (Pennsylvania) Post rates a star for Thanks to Pittsfield (Massachusetts) Post, its home its presentation of an iron lung and equipment to city is well equipped with resuscitator-inhalators. the Delaware County Hospital Three were given to hospitals at one time

to prove that the Posts of Franklin County in the Department of Maine are doing their full share for the health and safety of their communities, I send a pic- ture of the presentation of a resuscitator- inhalator to our County. This presenta- Savers tion was made through the cooperation of the six Posts avenue of Legion service to the afflicted. west, will not go unheeded. Neu) Year comprising Franklin County It is that of providing hospitals with And in hundreds of other buddy// Council: Thaddeus Roderick blood banks, and it is an idea that is cities the need is just as Post, Donald W. Norton worthy of most serious consideration. great—and there are lives Post, Phillips Post, Fred L. "We of the medical profession of the to be saved. The Blood Johnson Post, Ralph S. Inland Empire," says the official publica- Bank is a comparatively Hosmer Post, and Rangeley tion of the Spokane Medical Society, new thing—so were the iron Lakes Post. Two of the "and especially the citizens, owe a debt lungs just a few years ago Posts have organized blood of gratitude to Spokane Tost and Com- when Legion Posts began donor clubs; that of Thad- mander Allan Johnson for the organiza- to buy them for their local deus Roderick Post was the tion of a donor squad to furnish blood hospitals—and it is subject, first such club in the Depart- where needed. Already a veteran of the perhaps yet, to great im- ment." Post has given blood to a deserving pa- provement. It is suggested Pittsfield (Massachusetts) tient . . . Spokane and the Inland Empire that any Post, moved by Post just recently presented needs a Blood Bank. It is our hope that the great humanitarian val- resuscitator-inhalators to Spokane Post, or some other philan- ues of the system, inclined each of the three hospitals thropic organization, will make it possi- to contribute a Blood Bank in its home city, and Upper ble for us to enjoy this modern service. take counsel with the best Darby (Pennsylvania) Post The outlay in refrigeration equipment available authority as to continued its fine record of does not exceed $500. A Blood Bank type and character of the apparatus that community service by giving an iron lung should be established in one Spokane will best serve the local need. to the Delaware County Hospital. hospital, or preferably, all. We of our No promotional campaign was ever Adams (Massachusetts) Post found profession know of its utility, making for necessary to popularize the iron lung that another type of equipment was speed, accuracy and safety. Blood by benefactions, or indeed other types of needed and, late in October, installed this method can be stored for a period of respiratory appliance. And hundreds of two oxygen inhalation masks and four three weeks until any semblance of a Posts have responded to the need and special type hospital beds in Plunkett reaction begins to occur. Speed in obtain- supplied their communities with the Memorial Hospital in its city. ing blood from a donor is all too often a means of preserving lives, always with These are but a few of the reports of a criterion of recovery . . . Why not con- the provision of free and unrestricted use great program carried on by individual tinue your philanthropy? Furnish a Bank to those in need of the character of treat- Posts under the name of community and stock it with the blood ment for which the respi- service. It is community service at its of your good American vet- rator was designed. Re- best. erans and the deposits will ports of presentations continue, not only through continue to come to the Miami Fisherman your volunteers but from desk of the Step Keeper, many citizens in the Inland and will continue until DOWN Miami way, where they have Empire. Blood can be trans- each community is pro- sunshine, white sand beaches, salty ported in this form and is vided with an adequate salt water and deep-sea fishing, they have immediately available in an number of respirators. a bunch of thoroughgoing Legionnaires emergency." Chaplain Clinton W. who are alert to all the advantages

That is a clear call which, Greenwood, of Thaddeus showered by a beneficent providence if we know the spirit of the Roderick Post, Farming- upon their favored sector. And none are Legion in the great North- ton, Maine, writes: "Just more alert than the group banded to-

JANUARY, 1940 31 Deep-sea fishing is a real sport, so says Harvey W. Seeds Post, Miami, Florida. It takes the youngsters out to the fishing grounds and gives big prizes for the biggest catch

gether in Harvey W. Seeds Post, Miami- last winter, was chairman of the award match to the document, supported and ans who have won stars in Legion service, committee for the juniors and master encouraged by Commander Paul F. both in and out of the organization, over of ceremonies in the prize distribution Anderson and Dr. E. G. Denison, the a long period of years. So, last winter, show." first Commander, was Philip S. Garbutt, when a metropolitan fishing tourney in a brother of the man whose name is its area was such a markedly successful Mortgage Burners borne by the Post. The Auxiliary Unit, event these Harvey Seeders got to think- which put in many good licks to achieve ing. Why not organize a junior fishing HAPPY days are here again, at least a debt-free home, was represented on the tournament, Post-sponsored and Post- for John Donald Garbutt Post, of fire-bug committee by Miss Mabel John- controlled? Sheridan, W yoming. For the Post mem- son, President, and Mrs. Harold C. Now we have a report of the contest bers recently took an evening off to cele- Fleisher. The pyro-maniacs are shown in from Lynn M. Shaw, Post Publicity brate their freedom from debt and, dur- the order named, Legionnaire Garbutt Chairman: "Seventeen boys and girls, ing the course of the evening, paused in center, in the picture which appears on sixceen years old or less, were awarded long enough to cheer a couple of incendi- this page. It was a good blaze and every- prizes in the Junior Fishing Tournament aries who built a fire on an improvised body felt better after the purge by fire. conducted by Harvey Seeds Post at altar which soon reduced to ashes the At the business meeting preceding the Miami from August 20th to October 1st. mortgage which has been held against ceremony a Past Commander's badge was Five deep-sea-fishing expeditions were the Post home since its construction in presented to Howard B. Sharp, who organized between those dates and the 1923. The man who actually touched the commanded the Post last year, and contest was participated in by 390 youngsters, their expenses being paid by individual sponsors. The top prize went to Miss Ann Glover, of Birmingham, Alabama, who landed a sixty-five-pound sailfish after a thrilling battle. Second prize went to Darwin Woodworth, of Topeka, Kansas, whose forty-two-pound sailfish was next largest. Other prizes were distributed at the conclusion of the tourney to winners in other classifica- tions. American Legion Posts in Birm- ingham and Topeka were asked to make the presentation to the two mentioned. "Local interest was aroused by news- paper publicity and radio broadcasts. On every Monday afternoon during the tournament radio station W'QAM put on a fifteen-minute sketch telling of events and happenings in the course of the tournament, and at the conclusion had a thirty-minute show in honor of the win- ners. II. If. Hyman, who was chairman John Donald Garbutt Post, Sheridan, Wyoming, had a fire that was of the metropolitan adult tournament not reported to the police department—it was the old mortgage

32 Th, WIERICAN LEGION Magazine special honors were paid to Miss Lena A. ^'di'dnvV wakle wwj usual FlatIamis Memorial So , W Not" Stover, long-time Post Historian and Y\0 Neio Veav* M ov\es - 1 beei\ Past Post Adjutant. It is the proud SOON after demobilization of the com- fesolu-Hoixs -^8 tmder Itoc4c>v<\s boast of John Donald Garbutt Post that, bat forces at the close of the first to tyeok eU!!?^3k orders sWe thanks to Legionnaire Stover, their Post World War a group of service men who records and history, now comprising lived at Flatlands, New York —an out- No several volumes, are most complete in lying part of the city of Brooklyn—met every detail from the date of organization. in the basement of the historic old Flat- Jn fact Commander Anderson challenged lands Dutch Reformed Church, built in the Posts in his area to show a better set. 1654, and organized a Post of The Ameri-

naires began to feel cramped for space. There was but one thing lo do —enlarge the building. So it was decided to add a second story. Then, according to Chester Harris, editor of La Liaison, the Post's own monthly publication, things began to hum. A building drive committee, headed by Legionnaire Pasqual A. De- Vito, was organized and within a short time reported that the necessary $25,000 was in the bag and that the addition to the building could go forward with assur- Flatlands (New York) Post is justly proud of its fine home ance that the bills would be promptly and community program. Below, members of Glen Burnie met. (Maryland) Post got together and built their own home Flatlands Memorial Building is now a two-story and mezzanine structure, with a frontage of sixty feet and a depth of 'i one hundred feet, constructed of red Vir- ginia brick faced with limestone and, for the first time in years, Flatlands Post has room and facilities within its own building to carry on its varied activities and the activities of its Auxiliary and junior organizations. The spacious ball- room on the first floor, the grille in the basement, and the large, beautifully ap- pointed lounging room on the second floor are features which the members look upon with pride.

Another Homebuilder

ANOTHER proof that most any Legion - Post can provide itself with a home of its own through a united effort of all members is had in the case of Glen Burnie can Legion. Flatlands Post was organized (Maryland) Post. That Post has just 1 CXw -ook*. . A for community service and has continued completed a permanent home—not a Xyyuxs -He l! louden in the same policy through twenty full make-shift, but a real club house—for I'm blmc- ov\ee af Wofne years until now, snugly housed in its very little outlay of hard cash money. dededV. -to ujear ue-rl' handsome and comfortable club home, it How? All the members turned to and ranks among the first of the social and each one lent a hand in performing the service organizations in its area. numerous tasks incidental to building Back in 1925 the Post set about to construction. Members who were not erect a Flatlands Memorial Building qualified to work as carpenters, brick- dedicated to the service men of the city layers, plumbers, or roofers because who died during and since the World of lack of training, were set to work as War, and was successful in its campaign common laborers.

to raise $50,000 for that purpose. The The Glen Burnie Legion home is a building was erected and served well dur- forty by ninety foot structure, with a ing the years, but as the Post broadened basement to provide space for a steam its activities and the building came to heating plant, locker rooms and store be used more and more as a community rooms. The first floor will comprise a center and meeting place for civic and kitchen and a main hall forty by seventy church organizations, Flatlands Legion- feet, with a ceiling {Continued on page 56)

JANUARY, 1Q40 33 — Gentlemen oftL Press

FTER a lapse of twenty strange and unique jobs to help k years with the ad- win the War, but did you ever A" vancing age of veter- hear of soldiers helping to win ans of the World that War by pushing electric War, many arts and practices hand irons over ladies' garments? and unusual occupations that "Enclosed is a picture (includ- were learned and performed by ing myself in white pants, with men in service no doubt have hands behind back) of some of the long since been unlearned and, members of our outfit of the perhaps, even denied. There Medical Department of the Army were strange, seemingly un- stationed at U. S. Army General manly jobs that men of the Hospital No. 1, Williamsbridge, land and sea forces had to fill. New York, whom I trained as Room orderly, for instance hand ironers. I enlisted during nothing but a low form of in- June, 1918, in the above hospital glorious chambermaid or up- which was then known as Colum- r stairs girl; kitchen police—an- bia W ar Hospital, and being, other name for pot-slingers and strange to relate, a laundry man- bottle-washers; outfit cooks ager by profession, I was assigned well, more in a man's line, as to duty in the large laundry de- there were and are still many partment attached to the hos- chefs. pital.

Then there was that little "It was my job to see to it that item, a regulation part of the nurses were kept supplied Equipment C as issued to each with clean uniforms, and as the soldier— the "house-wife." Re- only equipment we had on hand member it? A little khaki- to finish their garments was elec- cloth roll that contained thread tric hand irons, I was given about and needles—and, we believe, twenty enlisted men of the staff buttons. Not that warriors in- to break in on this work—for day dulged in embroidery or tatting, and night shifts. Among those but many of 'em became adept assigned to my detail were chem at replacing buttons—particu- ists, truck-drivers, carpenters, larly before inspections—and farmers, and some pottery work- many a finger and thumb were ers from Ohio—but they all soon punctured while newly-ap- adapted themselves to this class pointed corporals or sergeants of work and became proficient promptly, though laboriously, ironers. sewed on the chevrons that in- Keeping the nurses' uniforms in trim was "I've conveniently forgotten dicated their new authority. the strange wartime work of these soldiers the names of the soldiers shown Perhaps the title given this of U. S. Army General Hospital No. 1 in the picture for fear that their department is a misnomer, be- wives, if any, might take advan- cause the A. E. F. and home camps did got experience in a crude form of launder- tage of their past knowledge and return boast of many writers of news items, ing socks and shirts and drawers in a them to this work at home—but I would poetry and other contributions to the neighboring French creek or village be pleased to hear from any of the old overseas Stars and Stripes and innumer- laundry house, when we didn't have the outfit. able outfit publications. But you'll par- extra couple of francs to pay a local "It might be interesting to add that don our pun? The gentlemen of the press blanchisseuse to do the job for us. Now, for sixteen years, prior to April last, when to whom we refer were of a different however, Charles G. Sarfaty, member of I returned to reside in the States, I was stripe. Many of us, across the pond, Alfred E. Wilson Post of the Legion, stationed in Kingston, Jamaica, British who lives at 815 East 14th Street, Brook- West Indies, and employed by the United lyn, New York, introduces to all of us a Fruit Company as Manager of its hotel group of specialists in this particular line. and steamship laundry. The British Regi- What you may fail to comprehend from ment stationed in Kingston, together the accompanying illustration is ex- with British veterans of the World War, plained in this letter with which Comrade held annual Armistice Day services Sarfaty sent the picture: which concluded with a dinner and dance

"Stop me if you've heard this one! at the Manor House Hotel at Constant "I know for a fact that lots of our sol- Springs, owned by a Captain Rutty who diers were assigned and detailed to had served under General Allenby in

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Palestine. During my sixteen years there, plode. Several mattresses were stuffed carrying flashlights. The order came from I was the only American veteran and into the hole and the vessel was able to the skipper to abandon ship. This may be member of the Legion to attend those proceed to the Sub Base at New London, possible today but at that time it seemed functions. Naturally I rooted for my out- Connecticut, under her own power. I rather ridiculous. As it proved to be a fire fit, Alfred E. Wilson Post, when the re- was stationed at the Sub Base at the drill, the order to go back to respective porters came around, and they, of course, time and obtained the print from a buddy stations was a relief. gave my Post lots of publicity." who was the official photographer. On "There were five of us brothers in serv- that reservation the order against the ice—all born in Holland, all charter THE broad Atlantic, particularly use of private cameras was strictly en- members of Katonah Post. Four of us when ships enter the eastern half of forced. each served a term as Post Commander it, is anything but a safe place to be in "I was an instructor at the submarine while the fifth held the office of Vice these days of renewed strife. Since Commander one year." the declaration of war by two of our former Allies on the nation WHILE on the subject of which was our major enemy during submarines, we want to the World War, the newspapers are share with you an extract from an full of reports of the destruction of interesting letter that came to us ships, including those of neutral several months ago from Legion- countries, by submarines and by naire j. McDowell Morgan of contact with mines, and of the 723K Porter Street, Glendale, search and detention of neutral California, whose contribution of a ships suspected of carrying con- picture and story of the interned traband of war. And, as we remem- German raider, the Kronprinz Wil- ber was true during the war in helm, in the last February issue you which we participated, occasionally may recall. Here it is: mistakes are made and friend "Before I close I thought you attacks friend. might be interested in another bit The result of one such mistake of information regarding my war during the World War is shown in the school at that time, and also carried on service. As you know, the recent sinking illustration we use, and the story of it is considerable experimental work which of the submarine Squalus off Portsmouth, told by the man who sent us the picture necessitated occasional trips to the vari- New Hampshire, was headlined through Past Commander Paul A. Noe of Ka- ous boats. One of the major results of our the country's press, also that the rescue tonah (New York) Post, ex-chief elec- experimentation was the elimination of and salvage ship Falcon saved the surviv- trician, U. S. Navy. You have the floor, hydrogen gas explosions on submarines ing members of the sub with her rescue Commander: which previously had taken quite a toll chamber. "The photograph I am enclosing is of lives. "It so happens that I placed the Falcon of U. S. S. N-i in the early morning of a "There were many interesting happen- in commission during the World War, on day in May, 1918. When about four ings at the Base, but one in particular November 9, 1918, at the Brooklyn Navy hundred miles out of New York, this I have not been able to figure out to this Yard. She was then a mine-sweeper and submarine of ours was mistaken for an day. While submerged in approximately was converted after the war for sub- enemy sub by a British vessel. Several one hundred feet of water, the fire signal marine rescue and salvage work. One of shots were fired, one of which made a sounded and, afterward, the usual pro- the unusual things about her commission- direct hit in the forward torpedo com- cedure—all power and light controls off, ing is that only about four or five of u? partment. watertight doors closed, the crewgathering were attached to the ship at the time. 1 "Fortunately, the shell failed to ex- in the central operating compartment, was the quartermaster and hoisted her

item

It was only an error! Mistaken for an enemy submarine, U. S. S. N-l crawled back to the Sub Base at New London, Connecticut, after being fired upon by an English vessel in 1918

JANUARY, 1940 35 put for any one month was in August, 1918, during which month we turned out 1,399,176 pounds of bread. Believe me, if the boys didn't get enough bread it wasn't our fault! Can any other Bakery Company, using regular hand equipment and composed of 101 men, equal or better this record? "Our first company commander, Lieu- tenant Harold B. West, was transferred to Is-sur-Tille where the big machine- operated bakery was built, and George F. Somer followed him as commander. I was a corporal in the company and would like to boast of the fact that we left the U. S. without a single non-commissioned officer. All non-coms were men promoted from the ranks, except our chief baker, A. H. Hudon, who came on transfer to us. "The enclosed snapshot, I No—not holding logs from the woodpile, but twelve-pound loaves which got from one of old buddies, was taken in of bread. The men were with Bakery Company 327 at Dijon, France my the spring of 1918 and shows some of our company. These boys in front of the colors for the first time. Since the war, the "So far in Then and Now, I have not wood-pile are not holding chunks of wood Falcon has become quite famous for her noticed any of the former members of but 12-pound loaves of bread. The regu- rescue and salvage work on the U. S. S. Bakery Companies sounding off. lation loaf of field bread weighs four S-51, U. S. S. S-4 and the Squalus. "During our particular war, I served in pounds and as only two of the four-pound ''Strangely Bakery Company 327. loaves could be baked in a pan, the higher- enough, about three We left New York on ups were experimenting with the 12- She Uollered •Sure -TUaf-r years ago, I went October 31, 1917, as a pound loaf, which would occupy the same '"ftoue /Annie" -Hv TVensU aboard the Ortolan, bunch of casuals attach- space in the ovens. aM kissed the rescue and sal- ujqh o'sa^in' ed to Bakery Company "The 12-pound loaves did not prove a we - qosK!! vage ship in the Pa- Happif Meou 318 and landed in Brest success, as most of the soldiers who cific, and met one of on November 12th, a handled them can testify. They cracked my old shipmates, a year less a day before and were in bad condition when de- master diver, and he the Armistice. livered at the front. In defense of the took me all over the "We proceeded to boys who served in Bakery Companies let vessel and explained Dijon via Nevers and me say that our instructions were to bake the workings of the were organized into the bread until it was hard and then let it modern scientific Bakery Company 327 dry out thoroughly before shipping. equipment aboard. early in December, 1917. "The only men in the group whom I The Ortolan and the While there, we were can name are Peterson at the left and Falcon are identical, located in an old French Harry Potts, second from right; in the so you can appreci- bakery at 36 Rue de front row, left to right, are Simkins, ate my interest. The Longvic where from Stout, Mason and Weaver. I don't sup- submarine rescue January, 1918, to Janu- pose this long afterward that the boys chamber, used dur- ary, 19 19, we baked will get into trouble over the improper ing the Squalus dis- 9,023,208 pounds of use of Government supplies, but the fact then aster, was a bread. Our greatest out- remains that the (Continued on page 58) new development and had been tested only a few times at 100-foot depths. To make a long story brief, I wrote what is perhaps the first article ever printed on this modern rescue work on submarines and it was published a month or so after my visit to the Ortolan."

NOTWITHSTANDING oft-repeated invitations to those fellows whose unusual service outfits have not yet been introduced to the Then and Now Gang, it is only occasionally that one of them steps forward with a word regarding the specialized work his organization did. Now, bread, as you'll all admit, was a most important item in a soldier's diet, but not until recently did we hear from one of the soldier-bakers who produced that item. The man to whom we're in- debted for this contribution is Homer Daniel, Adjutant of Hebcrt Hillman l'ost of the Legion in Mart, Texas. With the On enemy soil, men of the 3 54th Infantry celebrated picture we show, we received this report: Christmas of 1918. The town was Liinebach, Germany

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(Continued from page 23) for his meals. It was the most modern Jimmy heard: The bugle blowing Soupy. recreation hall, and played a little pool. hospital he had ever seen. The nurse was The me-> hall \vu- in the hospital wing — He didn't draw any money—was still affable, the attending doctor cheerful. a large room with hurrying waitresses, and broke, because his case was not service- Then he was told he was an ambulatory a good, fine smell of cooked food about it. connected—but he found he didn't need case and would be transferred to the Jimmy laid into braised beef and gravy any. domiciliary. (seconds on this), French fried potatoes, The thing he had to spend and the "What you need is heliotherapy and buttered carrots, lettuce salad, apple hardest to get rid of was time. To a hydrotherapy. We'll put you man who has worked most of in the barracks." his life even play gets tire- Barracks! It had a tough some; and Jimmy wanted sound. Then he met the domi- something to do. He wanted ciliary officer, Major Walt- to earn his way even though man. He was advised that he it meant the Government could be given necessary cloth- wouldn't give him clothes and ing by the Government in toilet articles and tobacco. case his income from all For a time he did as some of sources was not in excess of the other members did ten dollars a month. In his ap- helped his favorite waitress in plication for admittance, he clearing the tables. He talked agreed that any personal with the dietitian about the effects of his, if he should die best chow for his ailment. in the home, would go to the But he wanted real work Government. That was all with pay, and finally he saw a right, too. Jimmy owned job he could do. For purposes what he stood in and nothing of organization Major Walt- else. Of course, if he should' man had set up a company come into any property he commander who was, in fact, could dispose of it by will, or a sort of top sergeant in quite informally, through sign- charge of the detail work of ing a paper, designate some the domiciliary. This job person to take the property. paid forty dollars a month. "We better report it stolen I'm afra He liked Major Waltman; — Under the company com- they'll fire us if we tell the truth as the saying goes, they spoke mander were iloor sergeants, the same language. responsible to the company "My only job here," said the major, betty with orange sauce, and two glasses commander for their floors. This job also "is to see that you get the peace and of iced tea. It tasted swell. paid forty a month. Jimmy wanted to be quiet you need. This is a home and noth- After lunch there was a bus to take a floor sergeant. ing less; and the only rules are those him around the bay to the Gulf of Mexico He would have a lot to do, for floor necessary to keep three hundred and where he was to begin his heliotherapy sergeants inspected the bedrooms, ninety-odd men in order. First, you'll cure. Inside the high wire fence along the checked in the men at ten-thirty lights need clothes and toilet articles." beach was a new log cabin equipped with out, issued passes for those who were The supply officer issued a hat, two showers and lockers. He put on a breech going to stay out later. The sergeants coats, two vests, two trousers, four shirts, clout and lay down on the white coral acted as judges and juries of the petty one tie, one belt, one light overcoat, four sand to let the sun have its will of him. disagreements that arise between men undershirts, four pairs of socks, two pairs The rays soaked in, loosened the joints, living such a monastic life. The sergeants of shoes, one pair of garters, one pair of stole away the pain. He listened to the couldn't order any discipline for rule gloves and four handkerchiefs. roll of the waves coming in from Mexico, infractions but it was up to them whether Jimmy moved that batch to a large, and black depression left him and he to report such infractions or not. airy room that had twelve beds in it. knew hope and contentment. Major Waltman was the only one who, Behind his bed was a locker and he piled For the next month time sped rapidly with approval of the manager, Colonel his clothing into it. Then he drew shaving for Jimmy. He rose at six-thirty, bathed Bryan, could discipline. He could take brush and soap, safety razor, blades, and had breakfast at seven. Then he away passes, order extra hours' work per comb and brush, toothbrush and paste, made his own bed and policed around it. week, or, as a last resort, give the diso- shoe polish, envelopes, writing paper and One of his roommates was a sort of corpo- bedient one a compulsory leave up to six two stamps for his first week's corre- ral to see that the room was clean when months, getting him off the station. spondence. the floor sergeant came around to in- Jimmy discovered Major Waltman sel- "Want smoking tobacco or cigarettes?" spect. He learned that most of the am- dom had to do this. The men under their the company commander asked. bulant cases were assigned to do some company commander and sergeants made Because of his joints Jimmy liked them sort of work around the station for three a compact little republic that pretty well already rolled. He drew a package of hours a week. The rest of their time was handled its own discipline. cigarettes. their own. Jimmy's time was all his own If a man came in drunk and n< isy, "The laundry picks up your soiled because of his malady. he was warned once. The next time he clothes," Major Waltman said, "and the He baked black in the sun, fished for left the station. The men forced him to dry cleaner takes care of your suits. All sea trout and red fish off the bridge leave. this stuff will be replaced as you need it, across Long Bayou, read in the well- "We want peace and quiet and we'll but use reasonable care. 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in the station credit union that Major after Appomattox. But now we think here who drew compensation, he would Waltman managed with great skill and the peak load of World War men will now have to pay for everything except few groans. So he studied men. He met all come in 1052, and will be around 65,000." food, lodging and medical attention. the Spaniards, as the Spanish-American He liked to chat of a day with the CCC But he was glad to do this. He had work. war veterans were called. He found out men hospitalized here; and with the He was a man earning his way; he had that some patients were trouble-makers. Canadian veteran who by a reciprocal his self-respect, and with it came happi- These men ate enormous meals, slept, and agieement was hospitalized in Florida ness. suffered from indigestion and howled instead of Montreal. On the green lawn, You can see him at Bay Pines any about the chow. They wouldn't do any sitting on the benches under the palms, time you care to drop by this show- work; they wouldn't even think. he swapped war stories with the rest of place of the Veterans Administration. He liked, too, to talk to Major Walt- the gang. Men liked him, and he found Some day, with its four additional domi- man every chance he got. The major had that they, like him, wanted peace and ciliary buildings and extra domiciliary been in the old National Home Service quiet and as little responsibility as possi- cottage for women already occupied and and was full of stories and unusual facts. ble. Mentally tranquil, he put on weight extra hospital wing, it will be four times

"Back in 1921," Major Waltman said, his disease was arrested, and if he was as big as it is now. But it will always "on the Maine Station we had 450 not happy he was at least content. be the place where a disabled veteran Spanish War veterans, 325 Civil War Summer came and he dreaded the without recourse to compensation can

veterans and only 7 1 of the World War. heat. But there was always a breeze, be fed and housed and clothed and know In 1032, only eleven years later, the and the waters of the Gulf were cool. He the safety of security. The ticket of entry Civil War vets were reduced to twenty- played catch with a ball now and learned is an honorable discharge from the United one; there were 332 Spaniards, but the to type to keep his fingers useful. Then, States forces—probably the most precious World War men had increased to 1,000. one morning, the bulletin board carried document a man can own. I'd say that was about the proportion a brief announcement of his appoint- American Legion service officers every- all over the country in all stations. ment as floor sergeant. Rating a room where are studying this system for caring "The peak-load of Civil War veterans of his own, forty dollars a month pay. for disabled veterans. There are lots of came in 1913, a little short of fifty years Like those disabled veterans domiciled other Jimmy Toobyes in this country.

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{Continued from page 25) of the people over the return of peace of a sergeant first class, Quartermaster for service. In 1932, she succeeded to the left an indelible impression on her mind. Corps. There are no official records of office of Unit President through the With her was her room-mate, a young just what happened at the party but death of the woman under whom she Missouri woman who taught physical right there Rockville Centre lost a good had served as Vice-President. training in the Fayettesville school, later English teacher. The wedding took place From Unit leadership, she advanced to become Mrs. Harry I. Smith and in a the following May, accompanied by her through offices of the Nassau County far future year to be appointed by Doris resignation from the teaching staff. organization to Chairmanship of the as Chairman of The American Legion Mrs. Doris Sweet Corwith entered en- Second District, and in a remarkably Auxiliary's National Junior Activities thusiastically into the life of Rockville short span of years rose to prominence Committee. Centre. She became president of the in the New York Department. In 1934, Her brother's safe return from France Rockville Centre Service Club, a group as Department Vice-President, she super- and the opening of a better position in of young women interested in welfare vised the Department's poppy program, the Fort Plain, New York, schools were work, and was invited into the Fort- making a record for sales. It was in this big events in 1019 for Doris Sweet. Her nightly Club, the oldest and largest cul- work that the Auxiliary first observed the success as a teacher continued and the tural organization east of Jamaica on full measure of compassion which lies at fourth year in the profession brought her Long Island. There in a short time she the roots of Doris Corwith's enthusiasm an offer from South Side High School in was elected to office as recording secre- for her affiliation with The American Rockville Centre, on Long Island, as tary and later served as chairman of the Legion Auxiliary. In all phases of service English instructor. committee on education. She resigned for disabled veterans and for those There must have been a twinkle in the this position when she became affiliated economically adrift, she evidenced a con- collective eye of the Rockville Centre with the Kenwood Apartment Corpora- sistent and whole-hearted interest.

Parent-Teacher Association when it tion at Great Neck, where much of the The Presidency of the Department of voted to ask the eligible young men of the management of a large cooperative apart- New York went to her by unanimous village to meet the new teachers at a ment house devolved upon her. action in 1035. She gave the Depart- party in a school auditorium. The story While carrying forward these activi- ment's 624 Units and 25,935 members goes that meticulous care was taken in ties, Mrs. Corwith was continually hear- inspiring leadership. Her interest and the selection of guests so that it became ing about the work of The American enthusiasm are credited with being largely a sort of "command appearance" for the Legion from her husband, an active responsible for the passing by the State young men. member of Rockville Centre Post. When Legislature of the Amended World War Among the men so selected was a an Auxiliary Unit was formed by the Scholarship Bill, which provided for young lawyer by the name of William Post in 1926, she became a charter mem- forty awards of $800 each for college H. Corwith, member of an old and promi- ber and soon was engrossed in the Unit's expenses of children of veterans who had nent Long Island family, who during the activities, finding pleasure in the duties died of service-connected disabilities. World War had been wearing the stripes assigned to her and losing no opportunity After the expiration of her term as De-

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 39 partment President, she accepted the She served on its awards committee dur- mittee and a member of the New York chairmanship of Education of War Or- ing the years 1038 and 1030. Department's Investment Committee. phans in order to supervise the difficult Like the husbands of hundreds of His father, Luther G. Corwith, with a task of searching out the children entitled leaders of The American Legion Auxil- brother Frank established a real estate to the awards. iary, William H. Corwith has contributed business in Brooklyn in 1874, specializing In 1936, radio broadcasting was assum- in property in the Greenpoint section on ing its full stature as a great national the East River front, then a thriving force for the influencing of public opinion. development. The firm has been con- The American Legion Auxiliary already tinued by the sons of the founders, still was using it widely and now a capable bearing the name, Corwith Brothers, woman of magnetic personality was Inc.; William H. Corwith now manages needed to carry on and perfect the radio the busy Jamaica branch of the business. program. Doris Corwith, President of His mother and two sisters share mem- the New York Department, was ap- bership with his wife in the Rockville pointed to the chairmanship of the Centre Unit of the Auxiliary. National Radio Committee. The brother of Doris Corwith who Mrs. Corwith's work as National came back from France in ioig, is now Radio Chairman brought marked de- in the automobile business in Syracuse, velopment to Auxiliary broadcasting. New York, is proud of his seven -year -old Building on the foundations established son, of his membership in Syracuse Post by her predecessors in this office, she of The American Legion, and, of course, planned and conducted frequent nation- of his little sister. wide broadcasts, gave Department and The inn still stands in Hillsdale, offer- Unit radio chairmen access to an ever- ing the same friendly hospitality to growing script library at National Head- travelers. Its proprietor is Mrs. Harvey quarters, and directed the writing, print- P. Sweet, member of Minkler-Seery Unit ing and distribution of two official theme of The American Legion Auxiliary of songs for Auxiliary use. Philmont, New York, and mother of the During the first year of this radio National President. She assumed com- work, she also had the responsibilities plete management of the inn after the of New York's Department President, death of her husband in 1034. and during the second, when the Auxil- In the Flillsdale village square, facing iary came to New York City for its the inn, still stands the monument which National Convention, she was Chairman gave the girl Doris those first unforget- of the National Convention Committee. table patriotic impressions. To her fell the work of directing the 1,000 Perhaps it is to the inn's fine old timbers New York women who arranged and and to the monument's gallant figures conducted the great convention. that Doris Corwith goes back for inspira- She was re-appointed to the national tion to guide the destinies of The Ameri- Raymond Sweet, the Na- radio chairmanship for a third and then can Legion Auxiliary this year—to these tional President's broth- a fourth term, continuing her work in and to the sturdy men and women, appre- er, in wartime O. D. this vital field until elected National ciative of the privilege of being American President. At the hour of her election, she citizens, from whom she is descended. was behind the scenes in the Chicago in no small measure to the service rendered A rich heritage bequeathed by them convention hall directing the broadcast by his wife. The sacrifice of her stimu- together with native qualities developed of convention proceedings on a national lating companionship during the years by diversified experience have con- hook-up. she has devoted to Auxiliary work is but tributed to her development. By reason Mrs. Corwith's radio work for the a repetition of the experiences of other of an enduring faith in the cause to which Auxiliary brought her into the Women's husbands. Much of his own time has she has dedicated herself, she exemplifies National Radio Committee, which in- been devoted to Legion work. He served the finest traditions of American woman- cludes representatives of leading women's for years as County Treasurer, and is now hood. She will make a grand leader for a organizations throughout the country. Chairman of the County Finance Com- great Auxiliary year.

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(Continued from page 1) talk different, like Yankees and South- I didn't want to be no Post Commander. hero got off with me, saying he wanted erners and all that and too, them high- I don't like show and all that; just like I to stretch his legs. educated French speak what is called was in war, I always want to be out on We had just stepped within the waiting high-brow French." the firing line. The feller that got elected room of the station when we saw a Here he changed the subject a bit and that night got to be the State Com- typical mountain woman, about 75 years asked: "Was you ever a Post Officer?" mander the next year; so I was glad I of age, sitting dejectedly in a far corner I said, "Yes, Post Commander, Service got out of the way and besides I did not and sobbing bitterly. My buddy rushed Officer, etc." "Well," he said, "I come want to be no State Commander." to her side. "Grandma," he asked, "what's pretty near being a Post Commander I was so greatly interested in the con- the trouble?" oncet and would 'a been but on the versation of my buddy that I forgot the "I'm tryin' to git to the bedside of my night of the election the guy that wanted beauties of The Land of the Sky; I had sick daughter," came the answer between it said I couldn't run because I'd failed to seen nothing but had heard much. I was sobs. "She lives eight miles from here and pay my dues. Sure 'nough I had been approaching my destination and was I must 'a' left what little money I had on away at work and I hadn't paid 'em. But making ready to leave the train. Our the train. The {Continued on page 40)

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taxi man refused to take me and here I Norfolk. You will need some money lawyer but I had to quit school and go to am, my daughter sick, 'bout to die and can't I let you have— work and then come the war." His train I just can't walk 'way up there." "Listen, Buddy," he said, "I got a was in motion, he swung on and turned "Bless your heart," said our hero, ticket and a reservation and sposen I was toward me, saluted and said: "Au revoir "we'll fix that"—then, turning so that he to miss a meal or two—what's it amount and aufweedersane"— just why he thought I could not see him, he reached to? Money is not so scarce, find it any- omitted his Mexican border Spanish I

for his roll ; he had six one-dollar bills, and where, but only a few old folks like her is can't say. From the very depths of my gave her five of them. "That'll get you to left around. My mother is one of 'em— heart I returned the salute and yelled your daughter with some to spare," he just been on a visit to her and, of course, back to him: "Au revoir, coeur d'or." said to her in a subdued voice. "Hope I gave her most of my money 'cept little He heard it all right but he did not get you find her much better; now I must get more'n enough to get back to my job." it all—part of it must have been 'Cas- on my train, goodbye and good luck." His train was about leaving. I gave him tilian French' to him but the heart-of- "Look here," I said, "Carter, you gave my professional card and a great big, gold part was a justly-deserved tribute that old lady most of your money and heart-felt handshake. He looked at the to his great and generous heart. you tell me you are on your way to card and said, "I always wanted to be a A Right Guy, I'd say.

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Keyes and Mr. Burnside ran to the gate Burnside said wearily: "Oh, hell, if buck got for extra-curricular activities and peered out and saw the dead horse you're going to throw things up to me, was a week in the kitchen, and if you between the shafts of the quilez. "By go and be damned to you." did something that would have brought cracky, Petey, you're right," said Dad So I went. I was the off leader, hauling you the Distinguished Service Cross, and gratefully. "You sure keep your eyes at the end of a shaft; two others hauled two kisses from Admiral Foch in the open, don't you? Lemme see, now. at the single tree, two hauled away from World War, the first sergeant might or You're farm-raised, Petey, so you know outside the shafts and the remaining pri- might not mention the incident on the how to unharness a horse. Kelly First! vate and the corporal pushed behind. back of your honorable discharge, pro- Go with Kyne and help him get a cart We went away at a dog-trot and the near vided you were discharged with a charac- off a dead horse and then drag the cart in leader, in a gay attempt to prove how ter not less than good. here." little he minded facing death, neighed like We turned down a wide, grassy glade Kelly didn't relish the prospect. There a stallion and pranced and made nasty that led directly to Blockhouse 14 (in were two other Kellys—Kelly Second noises until the corporal told him to cut the old Spanish lines) because it was here and Kelly Third, so he didn't see why out the horse play. we were to deliver the ammunition. A Dad had to pick on him, with both the At the concrete bridge on the Cingalon muddy, boggy road ran down the west other Kellys present. However, Dad road we met the first wreckage of battle side of this glade which after that day

Keyes seldom made mistakes. Kelly Jack Tosney, et al., skulking in the ditch was known as Bloody Lane . . . presently Second was a light-weight mentally and and under the bridge and, as previously about four hundred yards from the firing physically and Kelly Third was a gang- related, I had my famous interview with line I saw my first casualty. He was lying ling boy so thin and weak from hyper- Jack, and rested a little; presently feeling on his back in grass about a foot high and activity of the lower intestine that very virtuous and superior, I went on his campaign hat was tilted over his neither would do. And Kelly First, the with the ammunition detail. eyes to keep the sun out. There was brawny devil, was big enough to swing I do not know how much 18,000 car- enough of him exposed, however, for me that dead pony by the tail. As a matter tridges weigh but they weigh plenty and to identify him as Corporal Steinhagen of of fact he did—tailed him right out from delivering them over a rough, muddy G Company; and my heart came up in between the shafts when the sketchy road in a heavy cart moved by man- my throat and I wanted to cry. Instead harness had been unbuckled. The cart power was one job I knew I'd never vol- I abandoned the cart and ran over to was hit twice before we got it safe inside unteer for again. The cart and the am- look at him. the sallyport and, presto, it was loaded. munition had been hit three or four times Now, a digression here while I de- Dad Keyes decided a corporal and a and we were all jumpy, except the cor- scribe this Corporal Steinhagen. He was squad would be required to double for the poral, the dog, and he was reasonably the handsomest man I have ever seen horse and, for the first time, he decided safe behind the loaded cart until we so handsome he might have been called to play no favorites. He called for volun- turned at a left angle and then nobody beautiful if he hadn't been the old war- teers. Of course I volunteered. I was the was safe. rior he was. He was a huge Norwegian only veteran present. Hadn't I been out We swat and we swat and we cursed well over six feet tall, beautifully built, in the open twice under what war corre- each other and ourselves for volunteering erect as a flag-pole. He had thick golden spondents always designate as a withering and one of the nuts, who was an old hair and dark brown eyebrows and eye- fire? Mr. B':rnside must have thought I soldier, said he knew very well no sensi- lashes and big, kindly, intelligent eyes was much too young to die and that he ble Regular Soldier ever volunteers for the color of anemones. He had a magnifi- could better spare some man he had not anything and why the hell he had vio- cent golden moustache carefully culti- yet learned to love, so he said kindly: lated tradition was more than he could vated an inch on each side of his smiling, "No, no, Private Kyne. You've done say. The smart soldier, this wind-broken kindly mouth, and when he walked by enough this morning and nobody doubts philosopher declared, will do that which you knew a man had passed. He was my your willingness to go." I was deeply he is ordered to do and no more, because beau ideal of a soldier. I loved to look hurt. T said: "Sir, 1 claim it as my right, if he does more he never gets thanked at him come to a right shoulder and do in return for services rendered!" So Mr. for it. In those days about the best a an about-face. He had been in the 14th

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"I'm not a skulker," I protested. "I'm V normally again I heard, far down on (he with a squad dragging ammunition out right of the line a mile away a bugle to the firing line and when we rested I sounding the charge. Another joined in saw you and came over." and a long sustained yell drowned the "Get on with your yob!" he com- ^ magic summons. In a little while the manded. "They'll be needing that am- / same thing was repeated— closer—and munition." / I sat there and listened to those bugles

He couldn't insult me. He was too ijk coming up the line, closer and closer and wonderful. I wiped a bloody froth off 1) then Spud Murphy was passing the the fringes of his magnificent beautiful word along the line for the men to be moustache and held my canteen to his sure they had five in the magazine and lips. He took a couple of big swallows one in the breech. "Thanks, kid. I looked at the old man, fascinated, and mumbled: Get on "Can you drop back in 15 min- with the yob." and I saw the E Company bugler watch- utes? The house is a mess." He was glorious and I still think so. ing him, too, with something of the Forty years have passed but I have alertness of a terrier. Presently Spud never forgotten that unconquerable man. minuendo and I lay in the tall grass too nodded, as calmly, as casually as if he

Get on with the yob! I've been doing it petrified to move, for my face was within were nodding across a room to a friend ever since and whenever I do a bad job six inches of the face of a lad who was a and that bugler blew the charge and we and have to do it over and over and over good pal of mine, an M Company man all stood up and followed old Spud over again I do not mind. I hear Steinhagen's named Harvey Knight. Harvey's brains the trench with the dead natives in it golden voice with the warrior note of were in his hat and there was a gory hole and out into the field. The bugle spoke command in it. "Get on with the yob." through the haversack strap where it again and we all flopped and sent five That man did something for me and to crossed his heart and another gory hole rounds into the bush ahead of us. Then me. He was back with us in six weeks. in his thigh; there was beside him a little Spud was up, limping along on a damaged We plodded on with the yob and pile of empty cartridge cases—about sixty-three-year-old leg and I saw him finally got the cart mired in a bog about forty. He had knelt there, firing quietly, take two shots at a rifleman in a tree and fifty yards from the parado of a trench until the end—and on his nice face was a bring him down at forty yards with his we knew had once belonged to the Spani- smile. Yes, a smile, not a grimace. He pistol. Then I saw Jimmy Thompson of ards and later to the Filipinos. Men in must have said something funny to M Company killed. A bullet plucked out blue woolen shirts and khaki breeches Douglas, who lay live feet away—and, his jugular vein and the great spouts of crouched behind it now. The corporal still smiling, had gone out like a light. blood leaped about three feet and almost ran toward them shouting "Ammunition. I cried over him and I had to go away deluged me. We ran on and flopped again Come and get it." Then he and six pri- from him. So I jumped up and the firing and some horsethief put three bullets vates each lifted out a case and ran for- started again, but I made the parado and one, two, three— into the ground right ward with it just as the enemy opened a slid in under its welcome protection face under my nose and filled the chamber of fire on us that put the wind up in me in a first. my Krag with gravel. hurry. I went into the bush like a jack- After a while I took stock of myself. That was the finish. I'd stood a lot and rabbit. Why should I carry a case of I had a crease across the top of my left with a reasonable measure of dignity, but ammunition out there in the open where leg above the knee just deep enough to I wasn't going to stand any more. I men could sight on me? Weren't men leave a scar. I had a series of holes up didn't belong in this fight, I thought running back from the shelter of the through my left sleeve, wherever a virtuously. I had completed my detail parado to unload the cart? wrinkle had bulged. I had a hole through and should return to my proper station, I stood on the fringe of a little strip the peak of my campaign hat, I had a which was snug behind that three-foot of wood and gazed across a little grassy hole through the left breast of my shirt brick bastion at the Cuartel de Malate. field of about an acre—and started and out the right breast, I had a bullet I started to rise but one of my company counting dead men. Eighteen. I said to through the stock of my Krag and, to who had helped drag that accursed cart myself: "They are shooting at the am- my huge disgust, a bullet had struck the out with me, was lying beside me. He was munition detail but it seems quiet in this gate of the magazine and twisted it a a cool young man named Arthur Downes little field, so I'll cross to the parado little on one hinge and it would not close and he saw that I was going to beat it. here." I started across as fast as I could properly. Old Major John Miller Mur- His great hand clamped over the back run—and the manner in which the (until phy, affectionately known as Spud, sat of my neck and he shoved my nose down then) crackle of rifle swelled in volume I with his back to the parado and smiled to earth again. "Pete! Pete!" he yelled. knew I was IT and if I wasn't tagged it at me. He'd taken a Minie 1 dl in his "Don't dishonor yourself!" would be a miracle. I ran wildly; I didn't hip at Chancellorsville when he was my I shrieked back, (Continued on page 42)

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"I'm all right, Arthur. I'm just scared to thrice. It was a sap leading from a for- war was over. There were souvenicr death!'' ward position back to a secondary line hounds before 1917, you'D understand. Then the bugle spoke again and we of native entrenchments and the regi- It seemed I had only been out about got up and I watched Arthur get a little ment was executing left wheel to enfilade half an hour yet it was dusk and the ahead of me—then I bolted for a field of them. fight was over and we halted in some pole beans I saw about twenty yards to Suddenly I turned a corner into the woods and men were running around my left. Nobody saw me leave and no- main trench and it was a mess. A wounded asking for their bunkies. I thought a bat- body tried to stop me. In I went and I native took a hack at me with his bolo tle was a very strange performance. I thought: The dogs can't sight on me and I parried it mechanically with the had seen but one man killed and yet of here—and one of them sighted three barrel of the Krag. I could have poked about seven hundred men in action my times at my head out there. But my the barrel into his brain but I wasn't regiment's casualties were 40 killed and uumber wasn't up. feeling mean. I just wanted to get away 139 wounded—roughly, as I figured it from there. then— 28 percent, which isn't bad for a I FELL into a narrow ditch about four Just then another native soldier— couple of hours of hot rifle fire from un- feet deep. I thought : This must be an mere brat—poked upward at me with a trained natives, sans machine guns and irrigation ditch, but where do they get short curved dirk. I think he tried to artillery. their water? I ran along it, bending low, hamstring me but only succeeded in get- until I found a man sitting in it in front ting the point home in the heel of my THE corporal came and collected his of me. I hated him instantly because he shoe. I felt I should return good for evil squad and we were all present. Arthur was a witness to my skulking. I yelled at in this case, also, so I went hopping along Downes gave me a funny look and then him to get out of my way and give me a and other wounded made swipes at me put his arm around me. "So you came chance to get by. and finally I thought: I must get out of back," he said. "I saw you beating it at I didn't want to climb out of this safety this trench. So I did and—well, you know the third rush but I saw you join the spot to go around him but he did not what happened after that. line again at the fourth." answer—and then I saw he had a black E Company had gotten into Aguinal- I permitted him to think I had over- eye where a Mauser had entered exactly do's band and the mad rush for souvenirs come my demoralization by a magnificent in the corner. He hadn't bled externally was on. I chased a musician until he effort of will, that I was a very devil of a and he had just died! dropped a very nice expensive flute fellow. Indeed, before very long I had I crawled over his lap and this pan- which I couldn't play so I sold it for two convinced myself that this was so. How- icked me some more. The funny irriga- and a half to a lad that couldn't either ever, after forty years I know I skulked tion ditch turned sharply at right angles but thought he might learn when the a little.

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(Conl i uued from page p) ing toward the shore, to permit the at- except the weather. Night after night miles. Then down fell a drizzling, blan- tackers to lay down a smoke screen. the moon was too bright, or the wind too keting mist. Perhaps St. George was on High tide was needed, to get the blocking fickle, or the tide too low. The men were their side! At a given point the Brilliant, ships into the channel. The sea had to on edge. Each moment increased the Sirius and other craft left to blockade be smooth, so that troops could be c I). Hues that tin- enemy was warned, and the Ostend canal mouth, while the main landed on the mole. warning meant annihilation. From France group continued on to Zeebrugge. The obsolete light cruisers Iphigenia, came nothing but bad news. No one knew Shortly before midnight the monitors Sirius, Brilliant, Intrepid and Thetis where the Germans would stop. It was Erebus and Terror began the bombard- were overhauled. Explosive charges were the hour of despair. ment of Zeebrugge with their long-range laid along their keels. The United States Twice this queer fleet started out, only guns. The Germans were not surprised; Navy was consulted on using cement to to return to its lonely anchorage. On this had often happened. Two or three balk efforts to raise the ships after they April nth, when but a dozen miles from searchlights casually explored the night, had been sunk. The Vindictive was fitted the goal, a favorable wind veered, then went out. A star shell rose and fell with a false deck and special gangways threatening to blow their own smoke to seaward, unwittingly locating the to land men on the mole, which rose screen back into their faces. On the 13th, mole for the approaching ships. Like thirty feet above the water. The two rough seas forced another cancelation. angry hornets the motor boats sped lowly ferryboats for storm troops, Daffo- On the 2 2d the tide was high, the sea was ahead to lay down the smoke screen. As dil and Iris, were armored with steel. smooth, the wind was right. But the the Germans sighted them, Zeebrugge The public protest when they were re- moon was full. Admiral Keyes decided exploded into life. moved from service at Liverpool had to start once more. The men were at a Suddenly the wind changed, and began been quieted by announcing they were high pitch. They would reach Zeebrugge to blow off shore, wafting the smoke to be used in America to embark troops! at midnight, when it would be St. screen seaward and exposing the British Two old submarines had their bows George's day, and he was England's ships to the fire of the batteries. A huge packed with tons of explosive. Were patron saint. It was a good omen. Ad- searchlight located the Vindictive: shells their crews to be human bombs? Airplane miral Keyes signaled his fleet, "St. crashed into her, killing scores of men, photographs were taken of the harbor. George for England!" Captain Carpenter shooting away all but four of her board-

Marines and bluejackets practiced storm- on the 1 ' i nd i< live signaled back, "May we ing gangways. ing objectives, with a full-scale model give the dragon's tail a damned good At one minute past 12, exactly on marked on the ground. twist!" schedule, the Vindictive was along the Finally, in March 1918, all was ready- Under the full moon one could see for seaward side of the mole, in itself some

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protection. There was a heaving swell; the grappling irons would not hold. The "How does COOLNESS rate ferryboat Daffodil nosed the Vindictive against the mole and held her there. She with you in pipe tobacco?" rolled and bumped as the storming troops jumped down to the mole from lurching

gangways. we asked in a drafting room . . Machine guns mowed down half the first men over. An officer with one arm shot off waved new men on with the COOL BURNING MAKES A COOt SMOKE IS A troops could not other. But the landing A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE IN silence the mole batteries; the men who MELLOW, DELIGHTFUL ' PIPE-SMOKING. PRINCE ALBERT were to bomb the seaplane hangars and SMOKE, THANKS TO before they could TAUGHT ME THAT. IT'S SO MUCH docks were shot down PRINCE ALBERT'S reach them; and the Vindictive's upper MILDER! works, extending above the mole, were CHOICE TOBACCOS riddled by enemy guns.

Meanwhile, the submarine Cj, lit up by star shells and under fire, was speeding toward the viaduct. In her bow were five tons of amatol which would blow her to bits if she were hit. The Germans guard- ing the viaduct with its railway line to the mole believed the submarine was trying to go under the viaduct and into the har- bor. In a moment of quiet the English heard their shouts and laughter. The sub would be caught fast they would take the ; COOLNESS COMES Britishers without a struggle. FIRST WITH /VIE, TOO. Her commander, Sandford, drove the submarine hard between the steel sup- THERE'S NO BITE IN ports of the viaduct, and fired his time COOL-BURNING P.A./ fuses. He and his men hopped into a " BUT THERE'S PLENTY) motor skiff to get away, but its propeller OF RICH TASTE failed. AND AROMA They had to row for their lives. Fifty yards—a hundred—two hundred. In one flaming blast the viaduct roared high in the air, annihilating its defenders and cutting the mole off from the shore. IN RECENT LABORATORY One job was accomplished. "SMOKING BOWL" As the viaduct blew up, the blockship TESTS, PRINCE ALBERT BURNED Thetis rounded the end of the mole, and hurried for the mouth of the canal. On her heels were the Intrepid and the Iphigenia. The Thetis listed heavily as the mole batteries tore into her. She cleared the way through some steel nets, until her propellers fouled on the wires. COOIEZ Mortally wounded, she had taken the f6 brunt of punishment, could go no further, than the average of the 30 other of the and signaled the other ships to pass her. largest-selling brands tested. ..coolest of all ! The Intrepid led the way into the canal's entrance under heavy fire. She goes the pleasure of pipe-smoking when made the canal mouth, rammed her prow UPburning temperature goes down! There's into the eastern bank of the channel, then no excess heat to bite the tongue and flatten out swung her stern around until it grounded flavor and aroma. COOL-SMOKING Prince on the west bank. Her commander Albert opens the door to TRUE MILDNESS blasted out her bottom, and down she and MELLOWNESS with PLEASING TASTE settled in the water. Another objective — the topmost joys of choice, fully aged tobac- was achieved. cos. "No-bite" treated for exrra smoothness. The Iphigenia came in close behind, "Crimp cut" to pour, pack and draw easier. In pipefuls of fragrant while shore batteries blasted at her point- a pipe (and a "makin's" smoke, too) you'll tobacco in every handy blank. Her commander saw a gap between simply be delighted with P. A.! 50 tin of Prince Albert the Intrepid's prow and the east bank.

He swung the Iphigenia round to close it, Copyright. 1939. R. J. Reynolds Toba ston-Salem. N.C. churning his motors backward and for- ward until, after what seemed eternity in the withering fire, he had her where he THE wanted her. Then he threw the switches. There were dull thuds below the water NATIONAL line. A third objective was accomplished, JOY SMOKE the job done. (Continued on page 44)

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Cutters went alongside both ships as British recalled what was left of the Out of a total of 1500 men, 400 were they were settling and rescued the crews. landing parties and the fleet limped off wounded and 200 dead. Besides the ships Many strange things happened in the under the shelter of a smoke screen. Even purposely sunk, the British lost only one confusion of battle. When a launch the Vindictive got away. As the last of destroyer and two motor boats. Back in smashed a hole in her bow, a seaman sat the launches put out to sea, the flagship port, they heard that the simultaneous in the hole to keep the water out. One Warwick—which, with Admiral Keyes raid on Ostend, with the blockships group of officers took to a life raft and on board, had remained near the Vindic- Sirius and Brilliant, had failed. found, to their consternation, that it had tive throughout operations—slipped in to But their own gallant effort, which one an automatic flare which lit on contact search for stray survivors. In the thinning officer had called "sheer madness," was a with water, making them a perfect target smoke, aided by star shells that still rose success. The Zeebrugge canal was corked for German machine guns. A cutter acci- vainly, she sighted a damaged and over- up. No submarines left it for five months. dentally left the Ipkigenia's commander loaded launch. When the Warwick drew The German U-boat campaign was once on a raft. Seeing a rope trailing behind near, her Admiral's flag luminous in the more based on distant Heligoland. The the departing craft, the commander flickering light, the men on the launch spectacular daring of the attack sapped leaped into the water and grabbed it. He stood up and cheered their admiral. From German confidence, and raised the spirits was towed for yards, trying to keep from that tiny boat, that never should have of the Allies, whose people seized upon it swallowing the entire North Sea, before carried more than 50, the flagship took as a sign that the tide had turned. Seven he was seen and pulled aboard. 100 men. Their cheering was the last months later the war was won. It had An hour after the first onslaught, the sound of a famous victory. been indeed St. George for Zeebrugge!

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Tasmanian, a brute of a fellow, the around, then was relieved by Lands. ing, smashing, plunging, forward and personification cf endurance, with more Lands kept the lead, and then shoved forward—and gaining, up to the lear of patience than Job. Gastman back in—and between them, the field—for a complete lap as the final Goullet and Grenda were odds-on the two youngsters drew farther away gun banged the end of the race! Goullet favorites to win, even though there were from the others, caught up with the tail- and Grenda, after 144 weary hours, both other great combinations in that contest enders and lapped the field. Gastman aged veterans, had made up their lap —outfits like Brocco and Van Kempen, and Lands, leading by a full lap, with and defeated gallant Gastman and Lands and Egg and McNamara. Nobody paid fifteen minutes to go! on points in the greatest Frank Merriwell much attention to the usual pairs of The spirits of the other competitors finish in all sport history! beginners and rookies. Nobody paid at- flagged. They were weary and their legs tention to a team composed of Dave leaden. They were through. But not Alf AFTER the World War, six-day bike Lands, a struggling, rugged youngster, Goullet. He smiled grimly at his Tas- A. racing became better organized and and Sammy Gastman, a little Jewish manian partner as he whirred past the began increasing in popularity. The boy from the Bronx. cubicle. He stuck with the pack. He United States Cycling Association took The opening days of the race were con- waited. The field slowed down to a snail over the events. Their czar was a gentle- centrated hell-on-wheels. Some riders ate crawl. Tired men facing the journey's man from Georgia named John Chapman. ten meals a day, and the food wouldn't end. Only twelve minutes left. Soon eight He paid the riders their guarantees—be- settle. The constantly shimmering pine minutes left. And then—suddenly— ginners receiving over $100 for every day track made a few seasick. Others suffered deafening roar — from thousands of they raced, and veterans, above good the usual rider's occupational diseases, throats the scream salaries, battling for a prize of $2,500, and sore seats and constipation. But by "There goes Goullet!" sometimes as high as $5,000. Thursday things were clicking. It was His bike bolted yards and yards ahead Chapman selected the teams. He one of the first races under the new point of the mob. Head down, shoulders would place old with young, break up system, and the constant sprints broke hunched, legs beating like pistons, he superior combinations, do even-thing beginners, eliminated weaker competi- urged the screaming tires over the wood. possible to make races interesting. He tors. Goullet and Grenda were still heavy The others picked up the challenge, went controlled it entirely, and never a race favorites. But oddly enough, the new- madly after him. Gastman, caught in a was fixed. The best men always won. comers, Gastman and Lands, were pocket, struggled to extricate himself, Today, the Association has a new hanging on. lost time and energy, and finally, bravely, czar. His name is Harry Mendel—and he As the closing hour approached three took up the pursuit. But just as well try has booked six-day bike racing through- or four teams were tied in mileage, but to catch Mercury. out the Americas, spreading it from New Goullet and Grenda were far ahead on The huge Grenda wheeled out on the York to Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chi- points, and unless someone did the im- track, received a strong push and a pat cago, Buffalo, Miami, Los Angeles, and possible, went out and stole a lap, they from Goullet, and now Grenda took up even to Toronto and Montreal. were the victors. the torch, half way ahead of the field, Harry Mendel, following the tradition But someone did the impossible. It was trying to make up that extra lap, established by Chapman, allows riders the slender Jewish lad, Sammy Gastman, battling the slim, taunting finger of the to earn as much as they can by permitting suddenly catapulting his steed from out big wall clock. spectators to offer cash for one- or two- the dreary pack and smashing into the One minute left. Then forty-five mile special sprints. I recall one occasion, lead. Grenda and other leaders were seconds. Alf Goullet was riding again. at the Garden, about ten years ago, when caught deep in the field. Gastman, pedal- Not like a man, but like a machine, with- Mickey Walker, then welterweight box- ing like the wind, went three limes out heart, without blood, merciless, driv- ing champ, tried to liven up a dull race The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine by offering twenty-five dollars for a five- lap sprint. The pedal-pushers fought it out, and the winner collected. Across the Garden sat Edith Day, musical comedy star. She offered one hundred dollars for another sprint. Then Mickey topped that with a prize of two hundred and fifty. This went on through the evening, celebrities pushing up the ante, until Peggy Hopkins Joyce emerged from her jeweled splendor and put up one thou- sand greenbacks cash for the winner of a brief sprint! The riders earned more that evening than they did the rest of the week. One feature of bike racing satisfies the inherent sadistic nature of spectators. It is packed with gory accidents. One time old Bobby Walthour, of the baby face, slipped around a curve at fifty miles an hour in the Parisian Velo- drome d'Hiver, went crashing through the top guard rail, tumbled fifteen feet to the cement below—and was immediately shipped for dead to the morgue. The next day, taped like a mummy, he was laugh- ing about it. I once chatted with Bobby Walthour about his wounds, and he told me he had been pronounced "fatally injured" six Our Debt to Old Bohemia times, and twice declared dead! But when it comes to being on the re- grandfather would have got a big kick out of ceiving end of wholesale destruction, MY this!" Frank Cermak ran a caressing ringer there aren't many who compare with insulator, Reggie McNamara, the Iron Man, along a towering transformer ready for the recently retired. kiln. "He was a skilled pottery maker in Bohemia- McNamara was for years the doctor's turned out beautiful urns and vases. But he never delight. He broke even' obvious bone in tackled a job like this. It's about the biggest we've his system. He fractured his skull, done. acquired several brain concussions, over a half dozen cracked ribs, a broken leg, Frank Cermak, head of the G-E Porcelain Depart- split knee—he has inhaled so much ether ment, isn't afraid of big jobs. His family have been he almost prefers it to air. skilled porcelain craftsmen for generations. His father, Once, trying to add another race to a back in organized the department that Frank dozen major six-day victories, Mc- 1891, Namara and his giant partner, Pietro now manages. And Frank's son, too, is following the Linari, led the field by a narrow margin family tradition. going into the next to last day. Then, on Ancient skills, passed on from father to son for a vicious turn, traveling full blast, McNamara's front tire blew — and generations, still play a part in modern industry. strapped to his bike, he went rolling. He Porcelain craftsmen, for instance, produce insulators wound up with five stitches in his head which make possible the transmission of electricity and two broken ribs. The track doctor from the powerhouse to homes and factories, where it told him to quit. McNamara laughed, serves in a thousand different ways. had himself bandaged from arm-pits to you hips, re-entered the contest in a half hour In General Electric are hundreds of men who, like and tried to hold up his end. The follow- Frank Cermak, are applying their special skills to the ing day, however, his colleague, Linari, task of making electricity more useful and less expen- tumbled and gashed his skull—and Reggie, tortured, despite the sneering of sive. These experts — scientists, engineers, skilled work- Lady Luck, went on to win! men—are helping to provide you with the comforts One of the most courageous modern and conveniences that electricity makes possible. They, pilots was Carl Stockholm, a good- too, are devoting their lives to the creation of More' looking Chicago kid who joined the for People at Less Cost. infantry during the World War, was Goods More badly shot and gassed in action—and G-E research and engineering have saved the public from ten to one hundred was in time shipped home an invalid. dollars for every dollar they have earned for General Electric The physicians gave him one chance for recovery. Exercise. Carl took to a bicycle, found he was more talented along cycling lines than anyone he knew, GENERAL II ELECTRIC entered amateur competition and won a berth on the Olympic team. Within a few years this invalid {Continued on page 46)

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{Continued from page 45) soldier was a top-notch six-day rider pounds during a strenuous, wearing race. of mud. The car almost turned over and for ten years dominated his new pro- The only other man with a comparable once. It blew two tires. At five o'clock in fession, gaining fame and health. hunger was a Hercules of a Belgian the morning, shaking with chills, numb Probably the two best riders produced named Harry Stockelynch, a tireless with cold, Letourner reached the track. in recent years were William "Torchy" rider, who loved raw chicken, and would LePage had been pedaling five consecu- Peden and Alfred Letoumer. tear the birds apart with his huge hands tive hours, and was almost unconscious. In the last ten years, red-headed and gulp the morsels down. He devoured After a quick rubdown, Letourner threw I'eden, paired with little blond Jules fourteen meals a day! himself into the fray, found he and Le- Audy, won the amazing total of thirty- As for Alf Letourner, the dazzling Page were trailing by ten laps. He rode one major six-day races. Last year he Frenchman, who in 1Q31 copped both like a demon, gained eight of the laps introduced his younger brother, Doug, to New York six-day classics—he was in- back—and on the final day, in a fierce the game and rode with him in the Gar- volved in a hundred story-book finishes. battering finish, finally won! den. Peden, a behemoth of a man, once But the best was a couple of years ago The best team in the world, in the revealed to me that he was near-sighted, when he was scheduled to ride in the last few years, has been the German and couldn't see clearly nine feet away, Montreal six-day contest with Henri combination of Kilian and Vopel, who without glasses. Yet he gained a reputa- LePage. made $25,000 two seasons ago. Owning tion for squeezing through tight spots, Letourner was busy until the last eight bikes, with cotton processed tires, and in Minneapolis, in 1031, on a meas- minute, and planned to fly from Newark they walked away with four of the last ured mile track, he sped his bike Si miles to the race, and still have a few hours to six international races held in New York. an hourl spare. But everything went wrong. There The chances are they're in uniform Peden has the biggest appetite in the was a fog, a thunderstorm and rain. Le- somewhere in the Reich. business. After much experimenting, he tourner's airplane was forced down But they'll be back, with the rest of decided an egg had the value of a pound miles from Montreal. He knew his part- the cast —the Frenchman, and his beret, of steak—and within eighteen hours he ner, LePage, would have to start, at the Italian, singing a native song, the has been known to consume thirty-three midnight, alone. Letourner hiked through Belgian, the Pole, the Australian—one of eggs and six quarts of milk! In fact, the the driving rain to a farmhouse, and these days. six-day grind once whetted his appetite bribed the occupant into taking him by They'll be scrapping, struggling, jok- to the point of his eating over a dozen automobile to Montreal. ing, speeding—and riding feverishly, meals a day, and actually gaining ten They began the trek through inches miles and miles—to nowhere!

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packing, if you know what's good for chuckled. "Just a little game to while Barr Leavitt was perfectly confounded. you," he hissed in her ear. "Remember, I away the poor blind man's hours. She "I guess if that's how you feel about can rip him from throat to waistband, and hides from me in amongst these strings, it, I better make myself scarce," he said. you too, and I will if things don't go ac- and I tell where she is hiding from the He shut the door, and his footsteps cording to my liking." sound." He twitched at a string, and the died away. Dragging her along half-fainting in the scrap-iron slid together, chiming. "Spider Ellen Paulsen sank forward slowly, and hollow of his arm, the old man unlocked and fly, we call it," he added, with a with her hair scattered in a ring on the the house door, without opening it. He flash and wheel of his sightless eye-balls. table, sobbed great convulsive sobs. threw down the string of scrap-iron there; "It's—it's fun," Ellen said. "He'll never look at me again," she and then forcing Ellen back into her "It must be. My God, Ellen," Barr moaned. chair behind the table, drew his own cried, staring at her hair and cheeks, "you "Sure to if he learns you have in- chair close. The knife hovered at her look like you had been drawn through herited," Uncle Myron croaked. side until her nerve-ends were mere twigs seven knot-holes." His indifference was "Inherited," Ellen repeated, sitting of ice. gone at last. "Don't you ever go out in up and pushing hair out of her eyes. "I won't let on, Uncle Myron," she the open air at all? You don't have to "I'll write a will and leave you every- gasped. stick so close to Uncle Myron as all this." thing," he said, and tapped the back of The hand that held the knife was hid "That's what I keep telling her," the her hand with his horny forefinger. in the red fringe of the table-cloth. Barr old man purred. "But you can't make her "Uncle Myron, no." Leavitt banged on the door noisily, and think so." But he was already writing on his opened it without ceremony. He looked Death hung in the air, with that look writing-board. Soon he tore off the sheet ruddy and strong. in Barr's blue eye that seemed to say, and jammed it into his coat pocket. "I thought I'd just dodge in," Barr for two cents he would snatch her bodily "There 'tis," he proclaimed. "Just the said. "Anything you want in the way of out of that dismal kitchen, whether or no. scratch of a pen done it. All my strong- groceries, Uncle Myron?" Ellen said sharply, "I'll thank you to box is yours. You won't have to wait "Ls there, my child?" Uncle Myron mind your own business, Mr. Leavitt. long, either. Dying's easy when you get asked Ellen benignly. What I do or don't do is no concern of the hang of it." "Nothing," Ellen forced herself to yours." "There's— there's no witnesses," Ellen utter. She achieved a look of positive hatred. said faintly. Barr Leavitt looked at her hard, and The black shades of Uncle Myron's "Young Leavitt can witness it to- then at the strings of scrap-iron. prison-house had seemingly settled on morrow." "What's all this:-'" her, smutting her face, soiling her hair, But hadn't Barr accused her of wanting "Just a game we play," Uncle Myron darkening her brain. to wrap the old man round her greedy

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine finger? Now it would seem as if she had — IT'S done it. She must get this will away from Uncle Myron, tear it up, while he slept, I SMOOTH GOING and put another sheet of paper in his

pocket. But it seemed as if he never slept. He was too absorbed in this fascinating problem of how to keep a vigorous young woman with two good eyes from escaping out of his blind clutches. There was not much chance of any- body's looking in on them, she knew. Uncle Myron had been so thundering ugly with his few neighbors that now they all steered clear of him. The postman f # ... the fine old aged-in-wood came no nearer than the mailbox. The ^ mildness of Kentucky Burley tobacco doctor had told her that if the old man 1/ had a dying spell, she could go to Drum- that cools your pipe and warms your mond's house and telephone. heart . . . extra good taste of pure Tranced, she heard the steeple clock W ticking with a loud beat followed by a \ maple sugar flavor. faint one, as if time itself had gone lame, and dragged a leg. Uncle Myron, with his iron-colored head cocked on one side, sat listening to her least moves. By chance her elbow knocked against his writing- board. He had shoved it away from him to the center of the table, and now, star- ing at the dirty tablet, she saw that if she wrote across it exactly where the notches came, her writing would not conflict with what Uncle Myron might scratch there later. The two lines of writing, his and hers, would alternate.

Fantastic as it seemed, it was a chance. She took a stub of pencil, and wrote, a word at a time, and very lightly, so as not to make a squeak, "I am held here by this old man. He is mad. He has a knife, If he mistrusts anything or anybody, he will kill me. Have Barr Leavitt come. Alone. Ellen Paulsen." Half an hour later she announced with a casual little yawn. "You seem to be out of safety-pins for pinning money, Uncle Myron. Hadn't you better write to Anna Quick to send you a few cards cf them?" This was taking Uncle Myron on his weak side. He was more than a little struck on himself as a penman. He felt out the writing-board again, shoved the tablet against the top-cleat, put the spike in the top-most notches, and began writing.

"I'll put it in the mail-box for you," Ellen said. "'Tain't likely," Uncle Myron an- swered. He made his down-strokes very black, so black indeed that Ellen began to be afraid her own strok s, faint as they were, might not be noticed. But Anna had sharp eyes, and any communication from Uncle Myron was sure to get a close reading. Packs easy in a pipe He tore the sheet off, and slipping it rolls smooth in a cigarette into a stamped envelope, dirty from his inside pocket, addressed it to Anna Quick. He looked sharp at Ellen from under shaggy brows. "You think you can stand without hitching, while I drop this in the box?" say VELVET Copyright 1940, "I'll be right {Continued 011 page 48) Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.

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here, Uncle Myron, until you get back." Ellen let the stock of the gun bang don't believe me. The will's there, sure "I better throw a hitch round ye." against the floor. enough, only," Ellen Paulsen went on

He jerked down a coil of cindery rope, "I thought it was Uncle Myron," she with another quivering wild laugh, "he tied her into her chair cleverly, lashing whispered. wouldn't die fast enough to suit me, so her unresisting arms against her sides. "Uncle Myron's dead." I shifted the wire on him. He just carried Then, when he started for the mailbox, "Dead." his life like an egg in a spoon anyway, he left the house-door open, so that he "The wire was shifted," Barr went on, he said so himself. Any little start would

might hear anything that went on in the fumbling for words. "He got confused. roll it out . . . The sheriff can pin it on kitchen. Ellen Paulsen didn't move a His—his heart stopped on him." me plenty." muscle. Uncle Myron was nimble, and He took her hard by her two shoulders, "Now I know you're lying to me," Barr could return in a flash, if he had to. His trying to speak further, but no words Leavitt said thickly. "Because I shifted

calloused fingers screamed their way came. Something on the floor had caught that wire myself, it so happens." along the icy wire that replaced the optic his eye. In her struggles with the chair, Ellen felt as if an icy cold wind were nerve in his black scheme of things. she had knocked the Bible off the table. blowing through her heart. Would they Next he was swallowed up in a cloud It stood tented on its two black covers, arrest Barr? of snow that took the shape of a wind- and a lot of crisp ten-dollar bills were ly- "You? You shifted it?" eddy. Even when the flurry died, Ellen ing in the soot. "Sure I shifted it. I didn't like what Paulsen couldn't see him. He had van- Ellen Paulsen saw now why the old was going on here, you so black and ished. In his place, a crow hovered, man's hands had covered hers, and why dopey, with that sleep-walker look to you. perched on the mail-box, and bent down he himself had turned the pages as she S11 I called the sheriff from the ('niter. his tail, black as a stove lid against read. The back of this Bible was his Then I came back. I figured Uncle Myron mounded snow. treasure-house. Barr Leavitt stooped and would be coming out after his morning "It's me that's mad," Ellen told her- began picking up the bills and slipping mail before long, so I shifted the wire self. For that second, she felt masses of them back between the leaves. over to that crippled oak on Drummond's goose-flesh rising on her thighs and arms. "Sheriff's coming," he muttered. "I land. When he did come, I let him get But despite the bird's black twinkle, telephoned him. No need for him to see pretty near to the end of the wire before and that suspicious pointing of his iron- all this money lying around." I snapped it out of his hands. He pitched colored beak, Uncle Myron had not been The evidence was too damning, and right down." transmogrified into a crow. If he had got Ellen Paulsen just gave up. She laughed "Barr, what possessed you?" Ellen out of sight, that was because the wire a light, brilliant, crazy laugh. moaned, clinging to him. had been shifted away from the mail-box "You've got the sheriff coming. You've "I didn't go for to kill him, naturally. in the direction of Drummond's house, caught me red-handed, haven't you?" I only wanted to leave him floundering, and at a bad time for Ellen Paulsen, since she cried. "You knew I was after his so's I could get me a chance to talk to now Uncle Myron couldn't mail her let- money all the time with these little pick- you alone a minute before the sheriff ter. He couldn't find the box. ers and stealers," she blazed, flinging up came. You giving me all those dirty looks, Once before, this wire had been shifted. her hands with the fingers spread. "Now I kept thinking maybe Uncle Myron had

That time the Drummond boys had it looks like I had got it. Here's his strong- told you I juggled that money of his shifted it, had tied it to a tree on Drum- box, isn't it? There's any God's legion of purposely, but I swear to God, Ellen, it mond's land. Had the little wretches money in it. And all willed to me." was just a dumb mistake, and how I shifted it again? Ellen had a sense of suf- "Willed to you?" Barr repeated come to make it I don't know." focation, as if the malicious facts had stupidly. "You didn't make it," Ellen said. clamped themselves like iron round her "Look in his right-hand pocket, if you "Uncle Myron changed that bill himself.

lnv.l-l . He changed it from a five to a one. He The house-door slammed shut and knew you didn't like my being here. put the lamp out. Desperate at last He wanted to come between us." for Uncle Myron might think she had "Holy Indian! Why would he want shifted the wire herself to devil him to do that?" she worked the chair round, and get- "He was afraid you would get me ting the back of it tilted against the away from him." table edge, put all her strength into a "Fair enough," Barr said.—"If I was thrust of her round legs. blind, and I got hold of you The chair, rim-racked to begin with, "Don't," Ellen screamed. "He did fell in pieces, and Ellen fell with it. have hold of me, don't you see? He She rolled and twisted, and then, man- had a knife under the table-cloth, that aging to get to her knees, wrenched last time you came, —and he promised at splintered rungs, wrestled black me—he promised me coils of rope down the round of her "Why, he was daft," Barr Leavitt quaking body. Steps sounded outside, suddenly perceived. and her heart pounded against the "I think you had better take me to roof of her mouth. Uncle Myron was —where he is," Ellen whispered, and coming back. She lifted the shot-gun stepped across the door-sill. by its sooty barrel. The door swung Snow whirled in her face. In among in—but it was Barr Leavitt who stood the silver beeches, crows were arguing there, staring at the gun-stock lifted some fine point. They held a sort of as if Ellen meant to brain him. conclave. Ellen Paulsen felt as if her "I know what you think," Barr legs were wood and fitted into wooden " said. "You've got to let me explain the fellow who used to put hi sockets. They dragged along, slurring anyway before you slog me." he the lion's mouth at the circus, up the new light April snow, and back

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of her, Barr Leavitt began stopping and "He's dead all right. What was he do- words stuck in Ellen's throat. They questing under the snow with his foot. ing out here?" seemed to be drifting into that spinning "What's on your mind?" Ellen asked, "He came out to mail a letter and went whirlpool of the facts. Cass Wincapaw looking back and showing him a sharp, astray a little," Barr said. reached into Uncle Myron's right hand pinched, bloodless face. Cass had got hold of the wire. pocket, and brought out (hat smutted "Nothing much." "I get the idea," he said. "His wire piece of paper.

"Yes there is something too. What is came off the post, and he got excited try- "This ain't the letter. Why, this looks it?" ing to lay his hands on the mail-box." to be his will," Cass said, reading. "Sure "I was thinking maybe—before the Ellen Paulsen waited for Barr, and it is. It's his will. He leaves everything sheriff comes— it'll look better if — if I Barr said nothing. He was going to let to somebody named Ada—Ada —can " shift this wire to the mail-box where it that explanation of the sheriff's go. He you make out that last name, girl was before I — was crazy. When Cass got at the will, Ellen Paulsen felt a lightness distrib- He raised the wire a little out of the he was sure to come back to this question u ted all through her quaking muscles, a so rt snow on the toe of his boot. It slid off, of the wire. Yet Barr said nothing, and of giddy flash. (Continual on page 50)

he hooked it up again, toying with it. "No," Ellen Paulsen gasped. She stamped the wire down into the snow. There was blackness of terror in her blue eyes. "All is," Barr persisted, "it don't look so good, with Uncle Myron dead on ac- count of me shifting this wire, and—and the will made out to you. Where you and

I have been so kind of thick, it could look

like a conspiracy to . . . People might say— "No," Ellen breathed. "It's more the will than the wire. We ought to get that will out of his pocket

and tear it up," he urged. "BY know we are innocent of course—but just the same— Ellen shut her eyes, and swayed against him with a violent shake of her head that made her hair sting his eye-balls. "We are blind. Blinder than Uncle Myron ever was," she said. "And blind people can't have things shifted on them. Uncle Myron shifted that five-spot to a one, and after that I couldn't touch you, I couldn't find you any more than in the pitch-dark, and still there you were not arm's length away. You shift this wire back or go pilfering the will, and we'll get separated, and we don't do so well when we are separated. Barr, keep me with you." "Tell the truth?" "Maybe the truth can set us free." "That's the theory," Barr said dis- mally. Overhead, iron-colored crows cawed. A NATION UNITED BY TELEPHONE Uncle Myron seemed to sit on every tree- limb, mocking. Wind had blown the Just twenty-five years ago, on garret workshop in snow off the wires that led from the back- Boston in 1876. January 25, 1915, the first trans- door to the barn, well, and woodpile. That ceremony ushered in trans- continental telephone call continental They sparkled in the sun, threads of a was service twenty-five years made. ago. Then it cost web in which the fly was caught, though $20.70 to call San President Wilson the spider was dead. talked from the Francisco from New York. Now it White House across the country, costs $6.50 for a And now it was too late to juggle with station-to-station testifying to the nation's pride "that call and only $4.25 after seven in the facts, even if they wanted to. A car this vital cord should had stopped in the road by the mailbox. have been the evening and all day Sunday. stretched across America as In The sheriff, Cass Wincapaw, was walking a sam- 1915 it took about half an ple of our towards them. A bow-legged, paunchy, energy and enterprise." hour, on the average, to make a inventor scrutinizing man, who made heavy going The of the telephone, connection. Now most calls are Alexander Graham Bell, in of it through the snow. New put through without hanging up. York, repeated "What's wrong?" he asked, coming up. across the conti- These are measures of progress nent to "Old man in trouble?" San Francisco the first in the never-ending effort of the words ever heard over a telephone "Not any more," Barr said. "He's — Bell System to give faster, clearer, dead." "Mr. Watson, come here, I want more useful and courteous service He nodded towards the oak-tree on you"—to the same Thomas A. to the people of the Watson Drummond's land. Cass went over there, who had heard them in the United States. and bending down, took hold of Uncle BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Myron's snowy shoulder.

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"Farwell," she had just force enough right. Uncle Myron couldn't, could he? dragged by the hair, by the skin of her to say, looking over Cass' shoulder. "Ada \\ illing all his pile to this Ada Farwell, teeth, out of some pit or sink-hole. There Farwell." after you tending out on him the way was warm violence in that arm of Barr's "You know any Ada Farwell?" you done, Miss Paulsen. The least he that held her weak body up on feather "I've heard him mention her. She was could have done was will what he did knees. She tilted against him gratefully. his Klondike sweetheart." have to you." "Uncle Myron's done enough for me "Klondike. 1 bet you she's been dead The crows were flying overhead now. without willing me his money," she mur- half a century," the sheriff hazarded. Their shadows moved fast on the snow mured. "He was a one-woman man, it

His brown eyes were full of righteous in- and vanished. Ellen Paulsen felt as if, seems. I'll burn lights to his memory for dignation. "He just couldn't do nothing just in the nick of time, she had been that."

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concerned lest America's wildlife become and uncounted lakes of the primeval Indians, and to a great many whites extinct. Their plan was to make a breeding grounds far to the north where as well. business-like survey of the situation, de- our ducks are hatched, or more than Among other activities on the Ca- termine how to improve it, and get the seventy percent of them, anyway. Our nadian duck breeding grounds. Ducks job done. In 1931 they published a book neighbors raise them, and we shoot 'em. Unlimited and Canadian bounties elimi- called "More Waterfowl By Assisting We can salvage a part of the nursery on nated 300,000 predatory crows and mag- Nature" which is still the cornerstone of this side, but the main effort will have to pies this past year. In 1030, D. U. worked the duck conservation movement. It pro- be to protect the Canadian grounds. Not on two tracts in Alberta with 805,000 posed a program that had been worked that the Dominion and provincial gov- acres and others of more than 200,000 out in cooperation with wild game ernments and their officials and citizens acres in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. officials of the United States and Canada. haven't made generous and vigorous The Canadian governments gave them The original breeding place of Ameri- efforts. They have, and their contribution management rights, and are providing can ducks is a region taking in most of out of proportion, generously so, con- patrols and also building dams at their the two Dakotas and large sections of sidering the comparative resources of the own expense. Minnesota, Nebraska and Montana in two nations concerned. Up in the Saskatchewan delta a biol- the United States, and an area about But it was seen that it would require ogist and a naturalist of Ducks Un- twice as large in Manitoba, Saskatche- the help of John Q. Citizen himself, and limited surveyed a 60,000-acre area and wan, Alberta and the Canadian North- especially the duck gunner, to put the found that northern pike were killing a west Territories. Altogether, it includes plan over. That is the reason for Ducks third of the duck hatch, or 182,000 birds, nearly a million square miles, or the Unlimited. besides a lot of \'oung muskrats. Canada equivalent of a dozen average-sized Ducks Unlimited was founded in 1037, has set aside 300,000 acres there, and Versailles Treaty countries. The first as a kind of extension of the More Game Ducks No Shootum is to prepare survey, made in 10.53, showed that in the Birds foundation. Its members are duck management plans and cooperate with United States and in the southern half of gunners, or anyone else interested. It now the government men in pike control. the Canadian grounds agriculture had has a membership of nearly 20,000 in the An annual duck census of the whole claimed eighty percent of the old water United States with a couple thousand empire of duck breeding is made by the areas, and that half of the ponds, lakes volunteer workers in Canada. The mem- wildfowlers' organization with the aid of and holes left were dry in that summer. bers live in every State in the Union, and 2,000 volunteers from both sides of the

More Came Birds in America was one it gets homesick memberships in places border, all Ducks Unlimited men. Over of the organizations instrumental in like Honolulu and Arabia. The size of the the great water-logged northern tundra getting the "duck stamp" act passed. dues is optional, but a standard minimum the count is obtained from airplanes, and That has produced nearly three and one- is the cost of one day's duck shooting as the illustrated report on this job makes half million dollars, not counting the reckoned by a member. as interesting a book as a man often reads. k)3q sales, since 1034. The President's In 1038 Ducks Unlimited allotted The story7 about saving the ducks and Committee on Wild Life Restoration was $100,000 to be spent in Canada on the their breeding grounds has been told asked for an eventual $25,000,000 for program. In 1939 the allotment was very sketchily here. There are lots of refuges, and had allotted $23,000,000 $r 25,000. The Canadian volunteer work- other main characters in it —CCC from emergency relief funds up to last ers, or "Kee-men," contribute no money, boys, farmers, school children, govern- September. In the United States there but they do a lot of useful chores right on ment scientists and all kinds of sundry are now 136 refuges primarily for migra- the spot. They think nothing of making folks. It isn't completed; this is an early tory waterfowl. They cover r, 611, 711 up a detail of volunteers and going stage of a five-year plan with its goal a acres. Hundreds of "duckports" have twenty miles or so to throw up a dam that far larger duck population breeding on been built in recent years by private will save a duck community menaced by permanently secured grounds. citizens, gunning clubs, service organi- the lowering water level in some pond. Surveys and research have shown that zations, municipalities and States. The The Cree and Chipewyan Indians in a recurrence of the disastrous dry sum- foundation aids with instructions in Canada call this outfit "Ducks No mers of 1931-34 would result in another creating these smaller refuges and awards Shootum," and they are all in favor of its decline in the duck population, even annual trophies for achievements. program, because it is promoting the under the improved conditions existing; However, the United States can't return of the muskrat by making more the foundation and Ducks Unlimited appropriate money to be expended in ponds, and is importing beavers to build estimate that another 3,000,000 acres of

Canada, and it is among the muskegs dams. Pelts mean income to these water project area secured against

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Here's why most of the money spent on ducks goes to Canada. But American sportsmen have a big stake in the enterprise FREE We are so sure that you will like Listerine Shaving Cream, that we offer this 20-shave drought levels are necessary to safeguard but it occurred to the writer that here tube absolutely "tree and postpaid." We against that danger. The five-year ob- was an international problem that pro- don't even ask you to share the mailing jective of federal agencies and the vided a fine pretext for a disagreeable costs. private organizations is an additional dispute, and even a first-class scrap. 7,500,000 acres. Instead of agreeing that migratory How can we afford to do this? Experi- The aim is not only to keep the num- birds were joint wards of the two nations, ence has proved that this offer works to bers of migratory waterfowl at present Canada and this country could have our advantage. The cream seems to sell figures, but to increase them, and very ignored them and let them be killed off. itself. Men who get the sample apparently largely. Other conservation bodies are They could have clapped on a universal remain steady customers . . . like it so well still demanding shorter open seasons, or closed time. they talk about Listerine Shaving Cream the abolition of duck shooting altogether. Or we could have maintained a national to others. You can see what happens when More ducks is the only justifiable answer interest in these ducks and claimed them newly made friends begin working for us to their arguments. as a cultural minority. That would have that way! It would be unfair not to take note of entitled us to make demands, bring Send for your sample now. See how much in the work done by More Game Birds pressure to bear and finally take over faster it lathers ... in hot water, cold water America in the department of upland some good wheat country and swamp- —even ice water. Note that we have a game birds. Grouse, quail, wild turkeys land, provided we could lick the Canadi- really moisture-laden lather, which stays up and similar kinds have been disappearing ans. right to the end ot your shave! in the United States, even as their As it is, everybody can have a crack at The regular tube at 35e gives between swimming cousins. Most small game duck gunning, and men who have to save 130 and 175 shaves! Any drug counter has birds are on farms. One of the founders of up a year for a gunning trip are in effect it— as well as Listerine Brushless Cream. the organization provided funds to es- proprietors of the vastest game bird for the free size, today! tablish a game conservation institute at preserves in the world. A lot of govern- Or send

Clinton, N. J., and 150 young men were ment people on both sides, including Mr given free courses at this experimental Roosevelt and the CCC boys here and station. Game breeding methods de- the PFRA boys across the line, and CUP THE COUPON veloped there and data collected from thousands of private individuals, includ- private and public preserves were in- ing a few millionaires and many low- corporated in a manual for farmers and income duck shooters, have all chipped 20 shaves free others, and more than one million free in and are settling the matter without Lambert Pharmacal Co., Dept. 141, St. Louis, Mo. Please send me free and postpaid your large sam- copies have been distributed in this coun- killing anything but some crows and pike, ple tube of Listerine Sliaving Cream; Listerine try. Most farmers are eager to cooperate and are getting a lot of fun out of the Brushless Cream. (Check whichever 13 desired.) when they understand what it is all whole business. There is something com- about. forting and reassuring about the whole Name.

And what is there in this program to picture. But it's about the way you'd Address. warm the cockles of the heart? expect men who like to go duck gunning Well, this is only one man's opinion, would handle such a matter. Citv

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poison in all of the alcohol produced. man died. The Athletics won the World's early in the year when Knute Rockne, Lobbyists of the Anti-Saloon League Series over the Cards. Bobby Jones, storied coach of Notre Dame's pigskin dictated their desires to Congress and miracle golfer, announced his retirement warriors, met death in an airplane crash. the timidity of the people's representa- from match play. Another beloved American to die, in tives was high lighted by a prohibition As the year came to a depressing close the fall, was the great inventor Thomas lobbyist, Bishop James Cannon, Jr., who America had learned the truth of the A. Edison. defied investigators armed with evidence old Wall Street adage, "There's no top Abroad, King Alfonso of Spain was that he had used funds of that organiza- to a bull market and no bottom to a deposed. Mussolini was in conflict with tion to play the stock market and had bear market." In April and in June, in the Vatican as a result of wiping out conducted a privately-financed campaign October and November, renewed forced Catholic Action groups, the last political of intolerance against Alfred E. Smith, selling had in each frenzied session sent barriers against Fascism. Germany's who as the Democratic candidate for stock values to new lows. People tight- finances were in worse shape than ever. the Presidency had been overwhelmed ened their belts. Apparently the return American Federal Reserve Banks were in 1928 by Herbert Hoover. of prosperity was not to be as rapid as advancing her a hundred millions in Early in Eebruary ex-President Taft had been hoped. To stimulate recovery credits after the British had been unable died, leaving Calvin Coolidge as Ameri- President Hoover was asking Congress to assist. Indeed, Great Britain was to ca's only surviving ex-President. At the for more than $100,000,000 for "the borrow four times that sum here from time Mr. Coolidge was moving from the greatest program of building in our his- private bankers. $25-a-month tenement which he had tory." Mahatma Gandhi, clad only in breech maintained throughout the term of his America, concentrating on domestic clout and shawl, was in London for peace high office to an estate of comparative problems, saw nothing ominous in poli- parleys after a year's campaign against magnificence in Northampton, Massa- tical developments in Germany through British rule in India keyed to civil diso- chusetts. that year. In September a figure who bedience as distinguished from passive aroused mirth because of his Charlie resistance. Japan began its conquest of ELSEWHERE in the world at the Chaplin mustache emerged as a new Manchuria "to restore order" there. start of 1930 news stories reported German leader. The national socialist American notes reminding the Japanese that the harassed German government, party, or nazis, which Adolf Hitler led, and the resisting Chinese of their obliga- accepting the Young Plan as successor to won 107 seats of the 550 in the Reichstag. tions under the Kellogg Pact went un- the Dawes Plan in its floundering at- Anti-Jewish hooliganism was rampant heeded and attempts of Secretary of tempts to keep up reparations, had bor- as the new members took their seats. We State Stimson to rally Great Britain and rowed $125,000,000 from the fabulous saw no threat to peace in this. Indeed, other signatories of the Nine-Power Pact Ivar Kreuger in return for a 10-year French troops withdrew from the Rhine- received the cold shoulder. The nazis match monopoly. In Spain, where he had land in June after twelve years of occupa- were gaining in local elections. been fighting uprisings for years, Primo tion. In December French and Belgian In December the 7 2d Congress saw Rivera turned in his resignation as dic- troops evacuated the Saar Valley. Democrats in control of the House for tator to King Alfonso, and died. In the If the New Year of 1931 seemed the first time in twelve years. John N. recently enlarged Papal State a certain gloom}' there was at least the consola- Garner, the new Speaker, was chosen by Cardinal Pacelli was named Secretary tion that things certainly couldn't get the narrow margin of 218 to 207 votes.

of State to succeed Cardinal Gasparri. worse. Prosperity, we were told, was just A bad year was 193 1, marked by in- That Cardinal sits today on the Papal around the corner. There was soon to creasing unemployment, widespread wage throne as Pius XII. Italy, where a be some aid for war veterans at least. cuts, the abandonment of the gold treaty guaranteeing Austrian political Over a Presidential veto a bill had been standard by England, with repercussions independence was signed, had a celebra- passed, in the House by a vote of 328 to the world over. tion as a minor cabinet minister, Count 70, in the Senate 76 to 17, authorizing Ciano, married II Duce's favorite daugh- veterans to borrow fifty percent of the BEST forgotten is 1932 at home. Few ter Edda. China was even then an exten- face value of their bonus certificates. All were the bright spots amid parades by sive battle-ground but it was a civil this new money in circulation promised "hunger marchers," "Farmers' Holidays" war that was being fought, in principle to speed recovery. Somehow it didn't. attended by picketing violence, strikes in between the Nationalist government and The Prohibition controversy was high- industry, open defiance of the courts in Communist leaders. Actually it was a lighted by the report of the Wickersham forced sales under mortgage foreclosures. dog-fight among various war-lords. Later Commission, a majority of the members Reluctantly must be recalled the shame- in the year dispatches from Ethiopia of which favored repeal or revision of the ful dispersal of the "Bonus Expeditionary described the coronation of a new em- iSth Amendment. President Hoover re- Force" from Washington before tanks and peror, Haile Selassie, with unique pomp fused to tamper with it, calling it a Regular soldiers armed with machine and pageantry. "noble experiment." guns. An overtone of despair ruled amid Aviation still remained in the stunt As financial troubles both here and something approaching chaos. stage. Not until the end of the year abroad threatened the monetary struc- So grave were affairs at home American could passengers fly from one coast to tures of the world, in late June the interest in upheavals abroad was some- the other. Lindbergh, married the pre- President proposed a one-year mora- what passive. Manchuria was in fact ceding year, became a father, and the torium on all war debts. In the face of annexed by Japan, with a pretense of air news of the day featured new trans- this generous gesture to Europe strife for sovereignty as the state of Manchukuo. continental records alternately lowered world trade became more bitter. Great Hitler was Chancellor of Germany after by The Lone Eagle and Frank Hawks. Britain, grown mighty on a policy of a meteoric rise of the nazi party to be On (he sport front Sir Thomas Lipton Free Trade, enacted import tariffs as measured by the 11,000,000 votes cast again lost to a United States entry, the high as fifty percent. Other nations did for the fuehrer in the presidential elec- Enterprise, in what proved to be his last likewise, with the result that international tion to 17,000,000 votes in the parlia- attempt to retrieve the America's Cup. trade was stifled. mentary elections a few months later, The following year that fine old sports- American sport lost a notable figure giving the nazis complete domination of

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 53 the government. Poland signed a non- stimulus of NRA factories were reopen- aggression pact with Soviet Russia. ing everywhere, with wage and hour Between the period of the landslide regulations promising a near millennium. which in November elevated Franklin For the desperately poor there was

' D. Roosevelt to the Presidency, with the emergency relief—a dole. The Civilian electoral votes of 42 States, and his in- Conservation Corps put to work youths auguration in March, America had the who had been idle for three long jitters of uncertainty. Bank runs forced years. institutions to close their doors all over In the bustle of all these new gov- the country. Script served for money in ernment activities, Americans failed to many places. The nation was not far sense the significance of the rise of the from panic. national socialists in Germany. Oppo- Keynoted to the phrase "All that we nents of the nazis were disbanded by have to fear is fear itself," March 4, 1933, sweeping decrees. Assassinations were rife. proved a turning point as the new Presi- Fortunate were those opposition leaders dent was inaugurated. No matter that who escaped by flight. Communists and he promptly declared a banking holiday Jews suffered most, but stern restrictions and those of us caught with little cash had also were imposed on Protestant and the devil's own time buying necessities: Catholic groups. Nor was this nazi terror there attended a definite upswing in confined to Germany. Austria, alarmed sentiment. The new Congress, over- by its spread there, outlawed the nazi party. whelmingly Democratic, granted sweep- NO CHAINS . . . ing powers to the President with the Optimism still was in the ascendant as one thought of reviving the nation from 1934 made its bow. Yet painful finan- HE COULDN'T STOP hoarders to return despair. An appeal to cial readjustments under way in local # A split-second margin between their withdrawals when the banks began governments here were overshadowed by safety and crash! That's when grip- later reassuring. reopening nine days was foreign bond defaults totaling over three ping traction is life-saving action . . . More than six hundred million dollars billion dollars. Friction over codes of the fractional moment in which in gold and gold certificates was rede- fair competition under the NRA was Weed Chains can repay their cost posited. An early symbol of the New Deal prompting General Hugh Johnson to ten thousand fold. In snow or on ice they deliver protection to persons was marked by legalization of the sale threaten "crackdowns" on "chiselers." By and property. of beer and light wines. The House vote September General Johnson resigned in a Weed Americans are your best on that reversion against almost fourteen self-predicted "hail of dead cats." NRA tire chain investment because: years of attempted enforcement of Dry- tottered. Labor, still unified under the 1. You get greater traction and more than ness to 97. Within a month of con- was 316 American Federation Labor, was double mileage from the cleat-like bar- Michigan started the parade of legisla- solidating huge gains. But strikes went reinforcements on the cross links. tures towards the necessary 36 State on, the most serious outbreak being a 2. You get far more hours of safety due to Weedalloy — the tougher, stronger votes to make effective full repeal of the strike in Fran- three-day general the San metal. saw 1 8th Amendment. Early December cisco area. Crime was rampant with kid- 3. WEEDS are easier to use and positive the final end of that mockery. napings and bank robberies all over the fastening because of patented lever- lock end hooks. Of the many agencies launched to Nation prompting grave concern for 4. Side chains are hardened to resist curb achieve full recovery the brightest early law and order. Most picturesque of the and rut wear and increase cross chain star to which hopes were affixed was the Public Enemies of the period was one mileage. National Industrial Recovery Act, "a John Dillinger. For most of the year his Don't take chances. Ask by name for partnership between Business and Gov- exploits, which were to end in death, Weed American Bar-Reinforced Tire with red hooks. by ernment." In August the Blue Eagle, brought to attention the hitherto little- Chains end Made symbol of that hope, fluttered through- publicized Federal Bureau of Investiga- out the Nation. tion, whose operatives gangland itself So elated was most of America by the tabbed as G-men. Melvin Purvis, who led rebirth of optimism that almost un- the Dillinger chase, became a public hero noticed went a diplomatic parley in with his chief, J. Edgar Hoover, as in a Rome in early June when Mussolini and reversion of sentiment which had ap- the ambassadors of France, Britain and proached worship of "big shots" of Germany affixed signatures to a peace crime during the prohibition era, G-men pact to run for ten years. The mora- found a pedestal on the crime front. torium on war debts being ended, most Abroad, Germany opened the year of debtor nations made modest "token" 1934 by signing a ten-year peace pact payments in silver. These proved to be with Poland. In mid-year Hitler flew to the last payments made by our major Venice for a two-day visit with Mussolini. debtors. In England and in France subse- The Italian dictator, secure in the lime- quent reminders of debt obligations were light as the world's first sword-rattler, greeted with the contemptuous phrase, received the fuehrer in the mood of imi-

"Uncle Shylock." tation is the sincerest flattery. At the same Reacting from three years on the to- time Germany declared a moratorium boggan, most Americans embraced all on all her foreign debts, including recovery measures without question. American loans under the Dawes and Banking reform was made doubly im- Young Plans. Directly thereafter took pressive as through the year a govern- place the nazi "Blood purge" of 77 brown WEED American ment investigation of pre-crash proce- shirt leaders whose loyalty Hitler ques-

dures disclosed shocking greed if not tioned. Within a month nazi assassins Bar-Reinforced flagrant dishonesty in the highest finan- slew the Austrian Premier, Dollfuss. Italy, cial places. Farm credits lifted farmers concerned by the ruthless tactics of TIRE CHAINS from the slough of despond. Under the Hitler, rushed {Continued on page 54)

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troops to the north to forestall any Ominous gestures toward Ethiopia 1037, the date for that ceremony having attempted coup. When a week later by Italy in the late summer caused a been advanced six weeks by a constitu- President von Hindenburg died. Hitler threat on the part of the League of Na- tional amendment which also sounded seized complete power. At the year's end tions to invoke economic sanctions. The the death knell to "Lame Duck" sessions France and Soviet Russia signed a pro- British fleet, concentrated in the Medi- of Congress. Labor strife starting in the tocol of mutual support to keep the terranean, was warned by Mussolini to automobile industry was marked by a peace in eastern Europe. Spain was in go home. With little face-saving, the new technique—the "sit-down." For the turmoil. Mistress of the Seas complied. first time in his Administration the The year 1036 at home opened with President witnessed majority public dis- OTHERhighlightsofthaton-the-whole yet another Supreme Court blow to the approval of one of his proposals—the encouraging year at home were the New Deal. The Agricultural Administra- sponsorship of a bill to increase the size "59-cent" dollar, the birth in Callander, tion Act was declared unconstitutional of the Supreme Court from nine to fifteen Ontario, of the Dionne quintuplets, the by a vote of six to three. The bill pro- members. The bill was defeated. tragic death of King Albert of the Bel- viding for the immediate full payment Other news of the vear was the de- gians in a fall while mountain-climbing, of the Bonus was enacted over presiden- struction of the German airship Hinden- the boycott of vicious movies, the Mono tial veto, in the House by a vote of 324 to burg, the horror of the schoolhouse ex- Castle sea disaster, Japan's denounce- 61, and in the Senate, 76 to iq. When the plosion in New London, Texas, where ment of the Washington Naval Treaty. Bonus bonds were distributed in July 427 young lives were snuffed out, the

The worst drought in years plagued the few were the veterans who were not death in Rome of ( iuglielmo Marconi, Middle West and attention was first obliged to cash them for the payment of father of wireless communication, the focused on those drab areas known as pressing debts. coronation of George VI, and the mar- the Dust Bowl. Despite improved na- Alf M. Landon of Kansas, chosen as riage of the Duke of Windsor to the tional morale, however, Harry Hopkins the Republican standard bearer in June, woman for whose love he had renounced reported 16,000,000 families were on was overwhelmed by President Roosevelt the throne. government relief rolls. at the polls in November. Abroad, East and West, the nation was The surge of national optimism attend- Peace was still an important ideal both shocked by war's turmoil. In July a ing recovery measures definitely sagged here and in England. Munitions-makers Chinese sentry on the Marco Polo through 1935. The wisdom of some of in both countries were under legislative Bridge in Peiping had fired on Japanese the measures was being questioned, fire. In France, a Leftist Government troops. Thus was launched the Japanese and nervous business men welcomed the nationalized the arms and munitions invasion of China. President's promise of "a breathing industries. But in Germany arms were The Spanish Civil War saw increased spell." A new agency, the Works Progress the new god of the nazis. Early in March participation by Italian and German Administration, which in no time at all Germany marched troops back into the "volunteers" while England and France became known familiarly as the WPA, Rhineland in defiance of the Versailles mewed feeble and futile protests against replaced the dole. NRA was declared Treaty and the Locarno Pact. repeated affronts to their sea-rights, the unconstitutional, first Supreme Court Italy, having conquered Ethiopia in sinking of merchantmen by "pirate" failure to support a major New Deal seven short months, mostly by airplanes submarines, or destruction of ships by measure, although other parts of the pro- and the use of mustard gas, renewed her air bombs from mysterious unidentified gram had won approval only by the nar- pledge to defend Austria, and then hast- planes. Formally, Germany and Italy row margin of 5 votes to 4. ened to take part in the Civil War in declared intentions of extending their Babe Ruth, most colorful baseball fig- Spain. Rightists under General Franco power in the Mediterranean. Hitler gave ure of the decade, turned in his homemn had landed at Cadiz from Morocco in full scope openly to rearmament. The clubs to the Yankee bat boy after domi- mid-July and ugly civil war, barbaric in Rome-Berlin axis was broadened to nating the national pastime for fifteen its first phases, raged from the Mediter- include Tokio, ostensibly as a united years. In New York City, climaxing a ranean to the Bay of Biscay. Germany front against the spread of communism. long-drawn-out scandal pointing to close soon joined Italy in support of the rebels, The New Year of 1938 was ushered in connections between politics and crime, later to be called nationalists, while Rus- with expropriation of American and for- a new hero emerged in the person of sia sent assistance to the leftist govern- eign oil properties in Mexico. Dominant Thomas E. Dewey, special rackets 'prose- ment. human interest story of the year was cutor. Dutch Schultz, last of the sordid the flight around the world of Howard crime czars of the Prohibition era, was IN ENGLAND King George V had died Hughes and three companions in the slain. John L. Lewis, resigning as vice- in January of this year of 1036. He amazing time of 91 hours. president of the American Federation of was succeeded by Edward VIII, who as Austria fell to the nazi forces in a Labor on the issue of industrial versus Prince of Wales had been called "the Hitler coup on March 13th. A British craft unions, launched his civil war in Empire's Salesman." In October British protest was ignored. French suggestions labor circles with a "Committee of In- Tories were violently upset as it became to Italy for concerted joint action were dustrial Organization," now the Congress known that the new king was paying turned down. Mussolini frankly approved of Industrial Organization, always the court to an American divorcee, Mrs. the anschluss which two short years before

C. I. O. United States Senator Huey Wallis Warfield Simpson. Prime Minister he had mobilized his army to prevent. Long, regarded by many as a rising Baldwin declared that the King could Forgotten were his treaties with Austria. Amcrian dictator, was assassinated. not contract a morganatic marriage. In the midst of this surprise Poland, too, Abroad the year opened with citizens On December 10th King Edward an- mobilized in a threat to her neighbor of the Saar basin voting 9 to 1 to return nounced his "final and irrevocable deci- Lithuania. Five weeks later Great Britain to German rule, followed by Hitler's sion" to renounce the throne. His brother, and Italy signed a harmony pact, followed announcement of reestablishment of the Duke of York, succeeded him as by a return state visit of Hitler to Rome conscription. An army of 324,000 was George VI. and awakened concern for the peace of planned, he stated. France and Italy President Roosevelt took the oath of Czechoslovakia. The German press thun- protested, to no avail. office for his second term on January 20, dered against alleged persecution of the

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German minority in the Sudeten moun- last relay of the decade, but it was arms tains on the German border. In June to defend our peace. The nation's leaders Czechoslovakian troops were mobilized. embraced the entire Western Hemisphere If Ruptured France and Great Britain came closer in their new defense plans. From indif- together. In September Italy followed the ference to subversive activities, the peo- nazis in enacting anti-Semitic laws. All ple became aroused to the spread of Germany was now an armed camp. To communist inlluence here which The Cut This Out and mail it with name anil address to W. S. counter the French Maginot line she was American Legion had been battling Kice, Inc., 9-G, Main .St., Adams, N. Y. You furiously building Rhineland defenses, through the post-war period. Other for- will receive absolutely free and no obliga- tion, Treatise with full particulars of this the West Wall. Italy gave support to eign groups also were under fire and sabo- amazing' Method for Reducible Rupture Control that is bringing a new ease, com- German complaints of the Sudeten prob- tage of democracy from within was no fort and freedom to thousands who have lem. In protest France assembled an less a concern. For the first time since suffered for years. No matter how bad the rupture, how army as the British fleet was mobilized. she severed ties with England America long you have had it, or how hard to hold, Prime Minister Chamberlain and Pre- welcomed British sovereigns when the no matter how many kinds of trusses you have worn, let nothing prevent vour get- mier Daladier of France flew to Germany king and queen of the British Empire ting the full 30 Days' Trial that this Free Offer opens to you. Whether you are tall for a conference with Hitler and Musso- paid the East a brief visit. and thin, short and stout, man or woman, old or young, rupture single or lini at Munich, and were told of the Anxiously America kept its eyes on with double, large or small, this modernized Fuehrer's ultimatum to Czechoslovakia. the powder-keg of Europe. The Spanish Appliance should so control the ruptured parts that you may be as free to work in Soviet Russia watched proceedings cov- Civil War came to an end in late spring comfort and continual security, at prac- ertly. with Franco's nationalists the victors. tically any occupation, as though you had never been ruptured. Thousands have al- Air power was the unknown factor In March the complete subjugation, of ready reported such result. You should test this Method in your in Germany's might. The British and Czechoslovakia became a fact as the own home without a dav's delav. FIIER French on September 30th accepted nazi government established a "protec- TREATISE TELLS HOW. Send for it today to W. S. Rice, Inc., 9-G, Main St., Hitler's terms for the surrender of the torate" there, while the fascist govern- Adams, N. Y. Sudetenland. The Germans had agreed ment, not to be outdone, on Good Friday to occupy the new territory gradually strafed Albania and established a "pro- type CHEAP OIL BURNER and under the supervision of an inter- tectorate" over the little kingdom. WHY COOK OR HEAT With COAL or WOOD national commission, but this promise of All this fruit of the Munich conference Quick heat at turn of valve— hot- Slijjsjnto Any STOVE, no dirt, ashes or drudgery RANGE or FURNACE. moderation was swept aside completely as alarmed France and Britain. Both sped doegine up. "'GUARANTEED. Hitler's troops marched into Czecho- re-armament. As Germany turned on its SENT ON TRIAL slovakia, occupying what territory they friend Poland, which had been satisfied FREE BURNER pleased. Two other nations also grabbed with crumbs from the nazi table of con- f„l monev-maWpr. »o»re or full time Write oniric -a nn B tnl ca-d uill di> UNITED FACTORIES. A- 101. Factory Building. Kansas City, Mo. as that World War-created democracy quest, the issue came to a head. Poland fell supinely. Poland marched from the appealed for aid to the French and Brit- North, Hungary from the South. ish, both of which had military missions SU*t ^POTATO CHIP In the Orient Japan moved aggres- in Moscow seeking some sort of offensive sively. Hankow, temporary capital of and defensive tie-up with soviet Russia. BUSINESS the Nationalist government, fell. Fol- But the nazis were ahead of them. To lowed the occupation of Canton, which, the consternation of the world, Hitler dominating the British naval base of and Stalin, supposedly arch enemies, B Hong-Kong, established a definite threat negotiated both a commercial agreement Potato Ch

apare or full time. Small 1 to Britain. Without loss of time the Japs and a non -aggression pact. inent buy« conipU-te equipment N. experience needed. I show you how next seized Hainan Island, severing the Poland was promptly vanquished in a to get stores to sell all you tell you how to make profit firtllfSt J.i All information, pictures, prices :intl terms sent free Send n postnl r-ird for British line from Singapore. Seizure of blitzkrieg, or lightning-war, the start of Free Far-la on flua hi* ' Home Hn- n,w Opportunity Food Display Machine Corp., 620 N. Michigan Ave.. Dept. F-71, Chicago. Spratly Islands constituted an equal which brought war declarations against threat to French and Dutch possessions Germany by France and Britain, with in the East, a menace to the Philippines. Italy holding her breath as Mussolini W ith Austria fully absorbed and eco- marked time. While that war proceeded Sweet Toned nomic domination of Czechoslovakia fol- cautiously on land, aggressively on the VIOLIN lowing, the world waited anxiously for sea, with air power yet to meet a major *~ "^"Handsome finish .highly polished. Set of strums an.i how included. SEND NO MONEY. Just nam,- an.] address WE the next move in Europe. test, the soviet imposed conditions which TRUST YOU with 2-1 packs of Garden Seeds to ell St 10c a packst. When sold send $2.40 collected Re-armament was a major concern of stopped just short of sovereignty on the and we will-send Violin Outfit a id Instruction Book. Learn to play In 5 minutes No more ...onev lo pay. - You may win. Write fur mvd* A I'ost Card will do. Americans as 1030 stepped forth on the Baltic governments of Esthonia, Latvia LANCASTER COUNTY SEED CO., Station 330, PARADISE. PA and Lithuania. With German ambitions in the Baltic and to the East thus appar- WORK FOR. THE LAST CALL ON BONUS ently stymied, Hitler sought peace on FOR 150,000 MEN the basis of a partition of Poland between the Soviets and the nazis. Late in the World War veterans and year came the outrageous attack by the their dependents and there are — Soviets on Finland. about 150,000 of them—who America, trying to make sense of this have not made application for crazy-quilt of broken treaties and un- their bonus, or Adjusted Com- predictable turns, showed firm deter- GOVERNMENT pensation Certificates, are mination against mixing again in the $1260 to $2100 Year affairs of Europe. At the same time Con- warned to do so before January TO START gress has repealed the embargo which it 2, 1940. Time for filing will not set up a few years back against selling Men—Women / franklin institute be extended. A bill passed by / Dent. W-180, arms to nations at war. But under a Many 1940 . Rochester. N. Y. Congress providing for an ex- examinations ' "cash and carry" arrangement they must expected * Rush FREE list of U. S. tension did not meet with Presi- 5> Government big pay dependable "come and get it." On the question of Get ready > .lolis. :<2-page book describing immedialely q salaries, boms. work. Tell me dential approval and, under the staying out of this war there is more „ . .. O how lo qualify for one of these jobs. Common education . present law, the time limit defi- unanimity in the United States than at usually sufficient / ., „ / Name nitely expires 2d. any previous time in her history. Mail Coupon . on January Today— / Can we take it? Bov. we took it! SURE Address

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part of its student management organi- past, the present, and the future in civic part offered a splendid opportunity to the zation, a corps of patrol boys who life. Always, the spirit of service is em- student body to become acquainted with guard corners before and after school phasized as an essential element in all the constitution of our State. Although hours. These boys acquire fine habits patriotic conduct. that document is studied in civics classes, of leadership and courtesy, and grow The success of the national oratorical the contest offered a chance for a more in a spirit of community service which contest sponsored by The American exact survey of our state laws. Chicago

is the essence of patriotism. Legion stands out among the achieve- was happy when Edward Camenir of Chicago teachers feel that students ments of the past school year. All 37 high Manley High School won third place. should have an opportunity to operate schools participated, with a total of some A unified program of Americanism was for themselves the machinery of good 2,000 students. Fleetwood McCoy, a possible last year because of the splendid citizenship within their own schools. colored student of Lane Technical High cooperation between The American Le- Toward this end, practically every School of Chicago, was the winner of the gion of Chicago and Cook County, and Chicago school—and there are 332 ele- contest. He had the honor of addressing the orifice of the Superintendent of the mentary, and 37 high schools —has set the recent Department Convention of the Chicago Public Schools. It is my sincere up a student government for the active Legion at Peoria. Those present were desire that we continue working to- participation of all. The standard pattern agreeably surprised at the content and gether for that patriotism which will

of government followed is that of the delivery of his speech, "The American result in a renewed pride in all that is city. Opportunities are many for partici- Citizen, His Duties and Obligations American, and which will lead to an en- pation in activities of common interest to Under the Constitution of the State of lightened citizenship, the members of both school and community. Shared proj- Illinois." which will be eternally grateful that they ects build pride in the local community The essay contest of The American breathe the air of this country, glad and stress the interdependence of the Legion in which the Chicago schools took above all else that they are Americans

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height of about thirty feet. William Nut- schools, and the one who carries the school was organized at Wheeler with tie supervised the construction, aided by heavy burden of teaching and lecturing, Sunday afternoon sessions. Two addi- C. W. Dunton, Linton Pumphrey and is a blind veteran. He is Stewart P. tional schools were opened at the begin- Fred Stranz, members of the building Arnold, Chairman of the Post's Ameri- ning of the 1930-40 term, at Cloverdale committee, all experienced in one or canization Committee, and in this work and Caribaldi, and it is the belief of more phases of building operations. is aided and assisted by Mrs. Arnold, Chairman Arnold that a record number who holds a similar assignment in the of naturalizations will be made during Teaching Americanism Tillamook Auxiliary Unit. the coming year. The Tillamook school was organized The first graduates of the school be- TILLAMOOK (Oregon) Post and its in the fall of 1938 with an enrollment of came citizens in a ceremony in the circuit Auxiliary Unit have won wide recog- sixty applicants; within a year the num- court room on September 5th when, nition for the work accomplished by ber had increased to two hundred and the with Judge R. Frank Peters presiding, their citizenship schools designed particu- school work was expanded to serve other twenty-eight applicants successfully larly to assist aliens to become citizens. towns. The first classes were conducted passed the tests. A banquet and reception Put there are few who know that the in Tillamook with sessions on each Wed- was held in their honor on the evening of active director of the Americanism nesday and Wednesday night, when a September 7th when, with Chairman and

Twenty Past Commanders in twenty-one years of service on the front lines—just one repeater—is the record of Western Electric Post of New York City. That Post rates the hundred percent club in more ways than in having all Pasts present and active

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Mrs. Arnold as the guests of honor, the side in Salinas and are active in the Post. twenty-eight new citizens representing The stray member of the group gets in sixteen nationalities were presented their occasionally, or gets with the old gang in citizenship certificates. some other town, as he did when the picture, on the next page, was taken at The Legion Spirit the great Treasure Island Fair in San Francisco Bay. AT FOR more years than most old timers Something funny about this Salinas FACTORY care to recall at one sitting, the Post—a survey discloses that there's not PRICES names of the Utah Legion and Otto a lawyer or a regular M. D. in the bunch The B ELM AR—6 Rootr Wiesley have been inseparably associ- of P. C's. (There may be, at that; the and Bath (Materials) Buy direct from our 5 great Mills a' ated. A human dynamo in action, Le- Mayor, City Clerk and Truant Officer lowest wholesale prices. Ready.Cut saves 30' o in labor, 1K' „ In building costs, liriugs savings gionnaire Wiesley has held nearly every are listed under titles of their official of modern i rodurlion methods to home building. Beautiful ex- r attractive and positions). it's the climate. '? A?r?;, modern features and office in his Post and Department, Maybe skillfully arranged floor plans mean more comfort and less work for the housewife rendered yeoman service in each office. Just for a change we'll list the occupa- Write for NEW BOOK OF HOME PLANS For thirteen years he served the Depart- tions of these Past Commanders; it may FREE if you lire in Iowa ami 111 (Other stales send 10c to cover in; ment of Utah as its Adjutant, then re- be of interest to Legionnaires to know- costs.) Brings you very latest designs; money-saving building infor- M- signed to accept election as Department just what these Californians do in spare nation; model interior plans, etc. Commander, and is now Utah's National time when they are not working for the - Gordon Van"~~~ Tine Co. Executive Committeeman. During the Legion or attending its conventions. 1807 Case Strut, ™" n.„„„„0 „ , years as Department Adjutant he carried Reading from left to right in the picture, on a law practice and for several years arranged in order of service, in the front —W ANTE D—M E past he has been a member of the Public row: Ralph L. Hughes, banker; Jack N— to cast Christmas (Joods, 5 and 10c Novelties, Toy Service Commission of the State of Utah. Hunter, concession manager; Prank Autos, Ashtrays, etc. Can be dime in any spate room, basement garage and Then the old heart machine that he had Heple, City Clerk; Oscar Daley, or no experience necessary. A rare opportunity tn devote spate or full time to profit- able work. Write Dept. driven so hard for many years refused merchant; E. J. Leach, Mayor of Salinas; 0. to be driven further—he collapsed while L. II. Nielsen, chiropractor; P. S. George, METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. 1696 Boston Road New York addressing a Legion meeting and his sales manager; W. T. Bramers, rancher, City doctors stowed him away in a hospital and M. A. Stoffey, florist. Rear row, left for an indefinite stay. to right : Leo Andrus, trucking contractor; Legionnaire Wiesley was down, but Charles B. Taylor, jeweler; W. W. Mcln- HOW MEN AND WOMEN not out. Pep messages to the Posts go out tyre, druggist; H. S. Mathews, salesman; PAST CAN QUALIFY from his hospital room; one sent out at W. B. Murray, milk plant manager; P. 40 POSIYIONS the end of his first four weeks is well B. Tavernetti, rancher; E. B. Austin, P. FOR HOTEL worth passing on for its fine expression T. & T. installer; C. E. Butner, archi- Lewis-trained men ami women past 40 and younger men women <>f l& and over are winnins success fighting spirit that and of the old has made tect; J. P. Feliz, Truant Officer; L. M. everywhere in the hotel ami institutional field. "making jiood" as managers, assistant man- the Legion great: have no regrets," he Bloss, Springer, traffic They're "I banker; E. K. agers. Stewards, housekeepers, hostesses and in 55 once during the past four agent, truck other typos of well-paid positions. Previous experi- says. "Not and C. C. Brewer, manager ence proved unnecessary in this business where you're dropped after 41), Grade school education, plus weeks have I wished that I had not company. not Lewis Training, qualifies you at home. FREE I k hard, traveled so miles, gives details; explains how you are registered, FRKE worked so many of extra cost, in Lewis National Placement Service. visited so many Posts, lost so much GETTING back to the East Coast, Write today! LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOL sleep. I would do it again if I could re- there's that always faithful Western (Now In Its 24th Year) trace my steps. The Legion is worth Electric Post, 463 West Street, New York Room WA-3387 Washington, D. C. every sacrifice we have made. I am happy City, which boasts of twenty Past Com- in the service I have been privileged to manders in twenty-one years of active render our Legion and the thousands of service. Commander C. W. Stevens says friends I have made this past twenty-one it was a bit difficult for W. A. Bollinger, years." Commander for the 1922 and 1923 terms, to appear twice in the group picture All Present, Sir which appears on the opposite page. Western Electric Post has not only Adjutant G. A. Peers calls held its Past Commanders in active WHEN We also have Wrist Watches, Gorgeoaa the roll of the Past Commanders service, but has a remarkably large num- Dinner Sets. 35 other Frizes. of Salinas (California) Post he can report ber of charter members still on its rolls WRITE TODAY "all present or accounted for" and occa- numbering an even fifty—to whom sionally "all present." For of the twenty- special honor was paid at the twentieth one Past Commanders, twenty still re- anniversary din- (Continued on page 58) HELP KIDNEYS PASS LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Pat McBrayer. Warren F. Hoyle Post, Shelby, North Carolina. 3 PINTS A DAY Georce Shanks, Reville Post, Brooklyn, New York. Doctors say your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and Marquis James, S. Rankin Drew Post, New York City. keep you healthy. Kidneys remove excess acids and Peter B. Kyne, Merced (California) Post. poisonous waste from your blood. They help most people puss ints day. Herbert M. Stoops, First Division Lieut. Jefferson Feigl Post, New York City. about 3 j a Samuel When disorder of kidney function permits poison- Taylor Moore, Aviators Post, New York City. ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- Frederick C. Painton, William C. Morris Post, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep Raymond Sisley, Pacific Post, West Los Angeles. California. and energy, getting up nights, swelling, pufliness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness, preouent or William H. Johnson, Albany Park Post, Chicago, 111. scanty passages with smarting and burning some- times shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Doan's Pills, Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- Don't wait! Ask your druggist for used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They naires, are not listed. give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's I'ills.

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Ranchers, merchants, jewelers, druggists and bankers in this group of twenty-one Past Comman- ders of Salinas (California) Post, but not a lawyer or a doctor. All hale and hearty—it's the climate

ner held on the evening of September right, seated, the Past Commanders are: same order, C. W. Stevens, J. C. Cruger 25th. All the V. C's. were present at J. M. Hayward, J. C. Kennelty, A. J. L. F. Tellin, C. F. Swasey, W. E. Stevens, that memorable dinner and it was then Engelberg. P. J. McGann, H. A. Doll, B. R. Blair, E. L. Erwin, T. U. Purring- that the group picture was shot for the W. A. Bollinger, R. B. Miller, A. A. ton, G. C. Pratt, J. N. McTighe and Post archives. Reading from left to Reading, and F. J. Given. Standing, in R. H. Miller. Boyd B. Stutler

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(Continued from page 36) boys are wearing regulation fatigue pants, of the trenches, but it also found almost men of my regiment, the 354th Infantry. and 100-pound tlour sacks for undershirts. two million American soldiers still "A month or so later when I happened These sacks solved the laundry problem thousands of miles from home. The to be on guard on this particular post, the as they could be thrown away when troops, however, made the best of the building shown caught fire. Someone soiled. situation and wherever American soldiers came running out of the building and "Leaving Dijon on March 20, 1910, we were congregated, Christmas was ob- yelled 'Fire!' I shot several shots into the went to Marseilles, from which port we served. A picture of one such celebration air to draw the other soldiers' attention. sailed on April 19th on the S. S. Columbia —on German soil—came from Mathias The fire was not serious and was quickly which had been taken from the Austrians A. Lefeber of Route 1, New Holstein, extinguished. I still have the discharged and was operated by an Italian crew. Wisconsin, who belongs to the Legion shell and I am now proud of it as this one Wonder how many of the boys will re- Post in nearby Chilton, and served with was an American shell actually fired on member the live oxen which were tied on Company D, 354th Infantry, 89th Di- German soil in line of duty with the the forward deck and killed as we needed vision. The picture, shown on page 36, Army of Occupation. them for meat. There was no refrigera- came with this letter: "Many months ago you published in tion on the ship, but we had no trouble "With the holiday season not too far Then and Now a story about a snapshot with spoiled meat through this handling. off, I am enclosing a picture of a Christ- picture of two German children, found And how many recall the nice shower mas celebration held in Lunebach, Ger- by an American soldier during the war, bath we received when we reached the many, on Christmas Day of 1918. The which you had just succeeded in return Gulf Stream? They called us out on deck, trees were gathered from the nearby ing to the mother of the children in dressed a la September Morn, and turned woods for the affair. Unfortunately I did Germany. It was her first news as to the fire hose on us! not take part in the celebration because where and when her husband had lost his

"I would like to hear from I he old com- it was just my luck to be on guard duty. life during the war. Several months later rades of Bakery Company 327." My post included the bridge over the a similar story appeared in the Sheboygan river which runs through the town. Press of Sheboygan, Wisconsin—only the OUT of the trenches by Christmas! "Several inches of snow had fallen situation was reversed. A mess kit had That well-known slogan of World during the night before, as is shown on been returned, through Prescott-Bayens War time finally worked out — but not the trees and roofs. I do not remember Post of the Legion in that city, to the during the year for which it was intended. whether this was a company or a bat- parents of Paul Sass, Company C, 59th Christmas, 1918, did find the soldiers out talion affair, but I do know they are all Infantry, 4th Division, who had been The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — —

killed in action during the Meuse-Argonne But then came the first confirmation from L. Offensive on October 3, 1918. John McKitrick, ex-mechanic. Be a "The messkit, upon the cover of which Company C, 1st Anti-Aircraft Machine — had inscribed his name, outfit and Gun Battalion, member of Man o' War Ilk flea Man address, had been found by a German Post in Lexington, Kentucky. Said soldier, Johann Stumpf, more recently McKitrick: No Time Like Now toGet in.. Deputy Collector in Reutlingen, Wiirt- "Concerning the photograph on page Make up to $75 a week temburg, Germany, and had been kept 61 of the July issue, the soldier in the It'a no trick to make up to S12 a day when you by him as a souvenir through all the picture is an old buddy of mine. We uaeyourcarasaMc Ness "Store on Wheels." intervening years. Late last year, the started out with Company M of the old Farmers are buying everything they UseYour can from McNess men. Attractive German veteran wrote to the mayor of 7th Ohio Infantry which later became a business-getting prizes, also money- CAR saving deals to customers make selling ensuing Sheboygan and through the part of Company D, 148th Infantry. He McNess daily necessities a snap. Tliis to business is depression-proof. Raise correspondence, located the deceased is Jesse Lane, formerly of Stockport, We Supply Capital— Start Now! Your soldier's parents. The messkit was Ohio. While old M Company was still at There's no better work anywhere pays well, permanent, need no ex- PAY brought back to Sheboygan by Walter the Armory in McConnelsville, Ohio, perience to start and we supply cap- 1 ital to help you get started quick. You start making Knippel, editor of the Sheboygan Ameri- Jesse's folks invited us down to his home money first day. Write at once for McNess Dealer Book— tells all —no obligation. (92- B) ka, when he returned from a visit to for a dinner on the lawn of the Lane THE McNESS CO., 825 Adams St., Freeport, III. Europe, and at a meeting of the Legion home. We hiked down the river from

turned over to a member of the McConnelsville to Stockport and, if I am Post was SrffAMEfAfAGJV/r/C SPffi Sass family." not mistaken, the picture was taken at that time and the women in the picture THIS department can report to the served the dinner. The dog is M Com- CLOTHES BRUS Then and Now Gang another suc- pany's mascot. REVOLUTIONARY invention. VKA UN ilii out of fabrics. No messy bristles. No dim Use- no .'.on cessful identification of one of the "The fourth lady from the left, stand- electricity, AGKNTS WANIfcl SAVES DRYCLEANING !>"<:,.,

"whoosit" pictures that appear from ing, is Jesse's sister, Dorothy. Goldie is AN _ _ ts. drapes, upholstered iurniture, etc. Long lasting. Low priced. In- sister, stantly it-rips attention wherever shown. time to time in these columns. In July andther sitting next to the dog. HOT SKLLFK FOIt AGENTS. Hunt- K last, we reproduced a snapshot of a lone The last I heard of Jess he was located SAMPLE dFFER^^%^rpe°rso^^

each locality who writes. No obligation . Get a pooch surrounded by al- somewhere around Columbus, Ohio. I am rirst soldier and s...... >,.;>«. A-lt.il I" — „,l ,n r TODA > l BRISTLE CO., 340 Bar St., Akron, Ohio most two dozen women, apparently in sure if Steve Hanna should write the party attire. It was sent to us by Steve Commander of Malconta Post in McCon- Hanna of Toledo, Ohio, who had found nelsville, he or some of the boys could tell Free for Asthma it in his war archives and knew nothing him where to locate Jess. about the group or how he had acquired "Company M went to Camp Sheridan, the picture. Under the picture we asked, Alabama, for training and I volunteered During Winter "Who?—Where?—When?—Why?" for overseas service with the 1st Anti- If you suffer with those terrible attacks of Asthma when it is cold and damp : if raw. Wintry winds Right off the bat came a letter from Aircraft Machine Gun Battalion, so went make you choke as if each gasp for breath was the

very last ; if restful sleep is impossible because of Mrs. Harry F. (Mary Walker) Nelson of over ahead of the 148th Infantry and the struggle to breathe ; if you feel the disease is Warren, Pennsylvania, who said: have never met Jess since." slowly wearing your life away, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial of "The picture on page 61 of the July To clinch the identification, a letter a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether you have any faith in any remedy under Legion Magazine was evidently taken in then came to us from Jesse B. Lane, the Sun, send for this free trial. If you have suf- my home town of Stockport, Ohio, as I himself, from his home at 320 Tremont fered for a lifetime and tried everything you could

learn of without relief ; even if you are utterly dis- recognize most of the people in the group. Avenue, S. E., Massillon, Ohio. He wrote couraged, do not abandon hope but send today for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Address The soldier in the picture is my cousin, at the same time to Hanna and to his Frontier Asthma Co J132-F. Frontier Bldg. Jesse Lane, who is now a school teacher cousin, Mrs. Nelson, who had given us 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York (I think superintendent of a school), in the first clue. In the letter, we read: Massillon, Ohio. I do not know his "I am writing you in reference to the pock" RADIO FREE ! address, but I have written to his sister, sent picture in the July Legion Magazine, -St. Enjoy music, sports. .. lents with this sturdy, Miss Goldie Lane in Stockport, Ohio, to you by Steve Hanna of Toledo. I do pocket size Radio. NOT A TOY. Requires no tubes, batteries, or telling her call his attention to the pic- electrical connections. Guaranteed to not know Hanna nor do I have any idea as to performance. Genuine walnut Cabinet. SEND Nt) MONEY. Just ture. I hope that through this action, how the picture came into his possession. name and address for 24 pkts. of Garden Spot Seeds to sell at 10c a wartime friendships pkt. Radio is yours for selling only perhaps some old As I wrote him, I do not recall ever hav- two 24 pkt. orders. Write f r seed NOW. A Post may be re-established. ing the snapshot while in camp or while Card will do. Hurry] LANCASTER COUNTY "I am President-elect of Chief Com- in France. SEED COMPANY, Sta. 124 Paradise, Pa. planter Post's Auxiliary Unit here in "The soldier in the picture is myself.

Warren." It was taken at my home in August, 191 7, From Heber Springs, Arkansas, Legion- while we were assembled in the local Amazing Quick Relief naire Robert W. Webb wrote to say: armory. I enlisted in Company M of the "I feel very sure that this man is Cor- old Seventh Ohio at McConnelsville, For Acid Indigestion poral Harry A. Apostol of Toledo, Ohio, June, 191 7. TUMS bring amazing quick who served in Company D, 38th In- "While we were training at McConnels- YES— relief from indigestion, heartburn, fantry, 3d Division, and according to ville and awaiting orders to move to sour stomach, gas caused by excess The Story of the Thirty-Eighth, written by Camp Sheridan, the company was often acid. For TUMS work on the true basic Act unbelievably fast Lieutenant C. E. Lovejoy, Apostol died entertained by the various communities principle. to neutralize excess acid conditions. in France from wounds received in over the county. This picture was taken Acid pains are relieved almost at once. action." on one of those occasions. The citizens of TUMS are guaranteed to contain no soda. Are not laxative. Contain no Hanna then received a letter from Fay Stockport entertained the company at harmful drugs. Over 2 billion TUMS H. Copening of Waverly, Ohio, who said the home of my father who owned a farm already used —proving their amazing that the second woman from the left of at the edge of the village. We were fed benefit. Get TUMS today. Only 10* for 12 TUMS at all druggists. the group was Mrs. Blanche Carpenter so much chicken, watermelon, ice cream, never when or where Kellogg, graduate of Springfield City etc., that we were hardly able to make the You know Hospital in 1915, and that she would ten miles back to McConnelsville. Always Carry send Mrs. Kellogg a card about the "Now I know you are curious about FOR ACID picture. all the women (Continued on page 60) INDIGESTION

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6o "--JUNIOR GUITAR Get thin „ ^m$xfo/t you/ handsome insm Qentlemen of the ^ress mcnt NOW. He Just Bend ri-,.1 mMm (SEND NO MONEY . WE TRUST YOU with 24 pack* of page <; .rdon Seeds to nil at 10r a packet. {Continued from 5$ VVtien sold send $2.40 collected and WE WILL SEND thia mahogany fin- Ish ifllitarand Piva Mmule InHtructioL ll-ok nl.Bolotely FREE. Writ.' for seed„ 23d HOW. A post card will do. Address: in the picture. They were members of a Kngrs. Assoc. —Dennis J. Clynes, secy., LANCASTER COUNTY SEED COMPA 7040 Karlov av., Niles Center, 111. Station 167. Paradise, Pennsylvania Sunday School class I had while teach- 317th F. S. Bn.—22d annual reunion, Parker House, Boston, Sept. 23. If you do not receive Bat- ing. I was subjected to a great deal of STOPPED talion Review, write John J. Doyle, secy., 01 First st., QUICKLY kidding by the boys while this picture Medford, Mass. Chem. Warfare Serv. Assoc.—Geo. W. Nich- was being snapped. The dog was one of ols, secy.-treas., R. D. 3, Box 75, Kingston, N. Y. Bakery Co. 337— 1st reunion and banquet. L. E. the company mascots. I know this is Bancroft, Box 79, Sudbury, Mass. rather a disappointing report—not very 1st Pursuit Group, A. E. F. (Sqdrns. 27, 94, ITCH 95, 147, 185 & 218)— For details, write Finley J. romantic. Two of the girls in the group Strunk, secy.-treas., 170 Roosevelt av., Bergenfield, other e* N. J. anfj 35c bott)e a( druggists, are my sisters, the others friends in the Camp Sevier Base Hosp. Assoc.—Proposed re- proves it or money bach home town. union. Send name and address for roster to M. R. Callaway, organizer, 500 W. Third st., Dayton, Ohio. "Our National Guard company be- Spruce Prod. Div. Assoc.—Wm. N. Edwards, secy.-treas., 422 Greenleaf st., Evanston, 111. came part of the 148th Infantry, 37th ftiM7£0MENPAST4O V. S. S. Dixie—Dr. R. O. Levell, chmn., Box 103, If you are past 40 anBelgium, and sent to a British REUNIONS and activities at times Base Hospital at Boulogne. Upon my i- and places other than the Legion to outfit, I was sent to. 2d STOP Your Rupture return the National Convention, follow: Why suffer with that rupture? Learn Battalion Headquarters and later made Soc. of 3d Div.—Annual convention and re- about my truss invention for reducible union, Philadelphia, Pa., July 15-18. W rite Harry a battalion sergeant major. rupture. Automatic air cushion assists Worries! Cedar, secy., Arlington, Va. Third Div. vets are Nature to close the opening—has relieved teacher in High requested to send names and addresses to Sgt. Bill children. Noobnoxious springs "I am a Washington thousands of men, women and Shomaker, 3811 25th pi., N. E., W ashington, D. C, or plasters. trial to prove or hard pads. No salves Sent on School here in Massillon, and have a son to add to roster of more than 8,000. The sergeant it. Beware of imitations. Never sold in stores. Write today receives many requests for addresses of buddies for confidential information free in plain envelope. of 18 and a daughter 16. I am a member 4th Div. Assoc. (N. Y. Chap.)—Regular meet- Brooks Company, 405-C State Street, Marshall, Michigan the local Legion Lost. ings, 2d Wed. each month, Columbia Lniv. Club, 4 W. 43d st., New York City. W. J. Massey, secy., "You have been instrumental in renew- 259 W. 14th st., New York C ity. Profession Learn Profitable 5th Div.— Divisional history, five dollars. Wm. ing my friendship with McKitrick. May in QO days at Home Barton Bruce, 48 Ayrault St., Providence, R. I. I thank you again for your interest and 7th Div.— Proposed permanent veterans organi- i Earnings of Men and Women in the fascinating pro- \ fession of Swedish Massat-e run as hinh as $40 to zation. W. F. Boot, 824 S. 2d st., Springfield, 111. \ $70 per week but many prefer to open their own of kindness in the whole matter." 12th (Plymouth) Div.— Organization and re- \ fiees. Large incomes from Doctors, hospitals . Bani- r1 union. New England 12th vets and 42d Inf. vets tariums and private patients come to those who Finally, a letter from Mrs. Nelson, qualify through our training. Reducing write L. Irving Beach, 175 High st., Bristol, Conn.; ' me offers rich rewards for specialists. Write for Anatomv Charts and which sums up the case: "Well, I have all other 12th vets write Geo. H. Thamer, 31 booklet— They're FREE. Thatcher av., Buffalo, N. Y. THE College of Swedish Massage finally heard from that elusive cousin of Soc. of 2b.TH Div.—To prepare up-to-date roster 30 E. Adams St.. Dpt. 17S. Chicago report to Walter W. Haugherty, secy.-treas., 1444 Manor 10 National Coltr Div. —Convention reunion. Ilq. at your copy of The Wanderings and Trai els of the 83d, City Hotel Bradford, Boston. Ceo. F. Dobbs, reunion 59th Art., Btry. F.— Reunion dinner, The Mid- secy., 9 Colby St., Belmont, Mass. wood, Flatbush av., near Clarendon, Brooklyn. N A ., Div. Assoc. —3d annual reunion-banquet. Sat., Jan. 27. John M. McG rath, 3005 Glenwood rd., STATE— 85th John J. Kraniak, pres.. Mariner Tower, Milwaukee, Brooklyn. Wise. 124th F. A., Btry. A— 21st annual reunion The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Whi n Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine a •

.Springfield, 111., Jan. 21. Emmett Itebok, chmn., Leland Hotel, Detroit, Mich., Oct. 19-20. W rite C 800 S. Ninth St., Springfield. A Maynard, pres., 93 Wenonah dr., Pontiac 6oth Balloon Co., Ft. Omaha and Arcadia, Mich., to be placed on roster. Calif. Proposed reunion. C. A. Carroll, G. & C. 197th Bv., UP YOUR — Canadian' Exped. Forces— Vets of WAKE Fdry. Co., W. Monroe & Olds sts., Sandusky, Ohio. "American Legion" Bn. send names and addresses Base Hosp. 48— Regimental history ready for to Thos. McLaughlin, 2111 McKinleyst., Berkeley distribution. Five dollars. W. H. Felton, secy.-treas., Calif. Forming association. 15:5 Rutland rd., Glen Rock, N. J. LIVER BILE- Gen. Hq. Bn., A. E. F.—Vets of Chaumont, John J. Noll Bourges, Tours, etc., organized in 1939. Gen. Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out Detroit The Company Clerk Pershing, Honorary President. Reunion, of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flow- ing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You Whom We "Delight To Jfotwr get constipated. You feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills {Continued from page n) to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up." Gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. 10<* and 2"(( at all drug stores. which changed the economic and political New York University, because a ruling Stubbornly refuse anything else. history of the United States and caused of that body kept them from being ad- him endless trouble in futile efforts to mitted in 1920. At that time the Senate protect his patent. He was also the went over the names submitted in nomi- WE father of mass production, which a hun- nation and culled from the list those ToAnySuItT dred years later changed the industrial whom they considered "more justly Double the life of your coat and vest with correctly picture in America. In 1798 he obtained a famous." In that year there were 101 matched pants. 100,000 patterns. Every pair hand tailored to your measure. contract to make 12,000 rifles for the electors, and those in the "more justly Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send pieco Government and organized a factory in famous" list needed but fifty-one votes of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY which one man made stocks, another to be admitted to the Hall. The others 209 S. State St. Dept. 913 Chicago triggers and so on instead of each fabri- had to get 68. Louisa May Alcott, best cating a complete rifle. This innovation known as the author of "Little Women," made him rich. William Thomas Green got 57 votes, and General Phil Sheridan Make Big Money Morton, a dentist of Baltimore, was 52, but neither was on the preferred list, Start making voted on over a period of twenty years and so missed out. Alice Freeman Palmer, ey at once simple, pi before he was elected in 1920. In 1846 whose name is unquestionably less he gave a patient ether before he pulled widely known than that of the general, hi his tooth—and it did not hurt. The dis- and probably, now that "Little Women" Over 2 0 0 fast selling, covery has relieved more human suffer- has been produced in the talkies, less quick repeat- ing, national- ing than any other achievement of man. familiar than Miss Alcott's, got in with a ly known prod ucts guaranteed But it did not relieve the suffering in the vote of 53. She was President of Wellesley to satisfy. Get my sure-fire Plan and his: valuahle Outfit, includ heart of Morton, who saw his claims to College and did notable work in the ing a large assortmen full size packages— honors and wealth disregarded in favor of educational field. In 1935 Sheridan did FRFE to reliahle per sons. Full or part time another. not get a single vote. Miss Alcott got Liheral credit plan. Old Westahl ished company By the Hall of Fame's own classifica- 28. tion authors lead the list with sixteen After 1920 the "more justly famous" representatives. Rulers-Statesmen are list was abolished. In 1922 all discrimina-

next with fifteen, Scientists 7, Soldiers tion against women was abolished. Up to BOTH . FREE and Sailors 5, Educators 5, Preachers and that time they had been placed in a sepa-

. Picture Ring Theologians 5, Musicians- Painters-Sculp- rate section of the Colonnade. Now they stone R ik Both Given. TODAY. VVK 1KUST YOl tors Inventors Lawyers and Judges take their places with the men. It was No Money. 5, 4, PARADISE SEED CO Box 304 PARADISE, PA, 4, Philanthropists-Reformers 3, Engin- in 1922 also that the margin of time after eers-Architects, Physicians-Surgeons, and death was extended from ten to twenty-

t. Sell only 15 pkts Missionaries-Explorers, one each. Seven five years. Had Mark Twain failed to ^2E5> Grow" Seeds at nc ea. Newest strcam'ined Pen. *" t n 1 "' Penc and Knife Set. Order TODAY. °i ' ^*'^r SEND NO MONEY. of the seventy-two are women. get irt in 1920 he would not have been f B -^dl ' ^ ~ "» Paradise Seed Co., Box 186 Paradise, Pa Such is the list to date. Fashions in eligible until 1935. No authors have been fame are changing, however, and while chosen since 1930, but in the last election it will not be possible for the Hall to re- Henry George, who is placed in that flect this to any extent for another thirty classification because of his "Progress INVENTORS years, it is possible to perceive the trend. and Poverty," although he might just TIME POUNTS—don't risk delay in 1 patenting your invention. Write for 1 industrialists, Business men, inventors as well have been put forward as a new FREE Book and Record of Inven- 1 t ion form. No charge for preliminary 1 and builders are leaving their mark in reformer, received 56 votes, while Sidney information. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN America today where statesmen, soldiers Lanier, the Confederate veteran whose Registered Patent Attorney 1 Dent. OA4'.. Adams Bldg.. WaBhinzton. D. C. 1 and writers did it in bygone generations "Song of the Chattahoochee" and other from which the membership of the Hall poems have given him a nation-wide necessarily has been chosen. For years recognition, got 55, and Noah Webster, Samuel Adams, the fiery apostle of the father of the American Dictionary, had LEGION POSTS ADOPT Revolution, and John Jay, the first Chief 54. All of the names placed in nomina- WARD SOUND SYSTEMS Justice of the United States, were well tion are submitted to the Senate of New Unequalled for dances and meetings. Puts pep up in the voting, but in 1935 Adams York University for its approval and and life into parades. dropped to a mere thirteen and had then placed upon a formal ballot which Operates on either 6- Jay vnlt auto battery or 110 an insignificant nine. On the other hand, is sent to the whole body of electors, this volt light current. 15-day trial. Money-hark Guar Walter Reed, the American Army surgeon year numbering 114. To win through to antee. Convenient time whose researches in Cuba during the election requires a vote of three-fifths of payments. Mail this ad lor FREE Catalog. Spanish-American War whipped the the electors. MONTGOMERY yellow fever scourge, has steadily pro- The Director of the Hall of Fame, Dr. WARD & CO. gressed since 1920, when he had fourteen John H. Finley, distinguished educator Dept. FN-32, Chicago. III. votes, to a healthy in the last election. and editor, invites Americans to send in Name 57 As Low as The shades of two noted Americans nominations to his office at 630 Fifth Address S59.95 City State are probably haunting the Senate of Avenue in New {Continued on page 62)

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American Legion Magazine {Continued from page 6i) INDEX of York City, on blanks which the Hall of Cyrus W. Field, a Massachusetts paper ADVERTISERS Fame furnishes for that purpose. Nobody manufacturer who financed the first At- who died after December 31, 1915, is lantic Cable, had twenty-five votes in eligible for the election of 1940. Notable 1935, more than any other person in that A rican Chain & Cable Co 53 Americans who have become eligible grouping has been able to command. It \merican Telephone & Telegraph Co.. .49 since the 1935 balloting include Wilbur he is elected he will find congenial com- Wright, who in 1903, with his brother pany in Peter Cooper, whose glue factory Briar Hill Corp. .63 Orville made the first heavier-than-air provided funds to start the Baltimore & flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Ohio Railroad, and George Peabody, Brooks Co . 60 Joseph Pulitzer, the noted newspaper whose philanthropies were made possible publisher, and Alfred T. Mahan, United by the success of his department stores Carter Medicine Co 61 States Navy, whose book "The Influence in Philadelphia and Baltimore. John College of Swedish Massage 60 of Sea Power on History'' has been a Singleton Copley, painter, with thirty- classic for more than forty years. eight votes topped nominees in the arts Condon Bros., Seedsmen 63 So far Lee and Maury are the only Con- section in 1935, with Edward MacDowell, federate men-at-arms in the Hall, the musician, taking second place with 29. D. D. D. Corp .60 latter, however, having been selected for James Buchanan Eads of Indiana, Denison, T. S. & Co. .63 his scientific attainments rather than for who in 1874 completed his bridge across Doan's Pills .57 any military prowess. No other category the Mississippi at St. Louis is the only of Americans whose view of their duties builder on the list in the Hall, though Eastern Seed Co 57 placed them in opposition to the Govern- Americans are the greatest race of build- ment has been recognized. A feeble effort ers since the Romans. Food Display Machine Corp 55 in favor of the Indian has won a scatter- The whole great field of electricity, ing of votes for Pocahontas, but the without which modern civilization could Franklin Intitule 55 giants of the red race such as Pontiac and not exist, is represented by but three Frontier Asthma Co 59 Tecumseh are still apparently without names— Franklin, Samuel F. B. Morse, the pale. One of them gets his name inventor of the telegraph, and Joseph Fyr-Fyter Co 60 in the Hall, however. A pioneer Ohio Henry. The vast field of science and in- judge knew the great Shawnee chieftain dustry comprehended by the ascendancy General Electric Co 45 and thought so highly of his personal of the motor car has never had a candi- Gordon-Van Tine Co 57 character that he named his son William date except Charles Goodyear. No mod- Tecumseh Sherman. In Daniel Boone we ern financier has been voted upon.

Kristee Co. . 59 have America's tribute to its sons of the The time is too soon for these things. frontier. George Rogers Clark, who won Edison has been dead only eight years, Lancaster Co. Seed Co 55, 59, 60 the West for the flag during the Revolu- and already Edison is ranked with the tion, died in poverty and until recently pioneers, the Boones of electricity. Very Lewis Hotel Training School 57 was neglected by history. He may some wisely the electors of the Hall of Fame Lewis-Howe Co. Tunis 59 day rejoin his old comrade. Clark re- must wait and view these things in per- Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. ceived 46 votes in 1935, the most he spective. Fifty years from now a surer has ever had. and clearer view of the beginnings of the Chesterfields Cover IV The newer trend discloses itself in the wireless and automobile age can be had. Velvet 47 increasing number of votes for inventors, Possibly some one unknown to us now may scientists, physicians, of be honored someone who like Joseph Listerine Shaving Cream 51 men business, — and artists. Cyrus H. McCormick, inven- Henry preferred to labor in obscurity. tor of the reaper, has always had a large "I cannot be bothered with making McNess Co 59 following among the electors. In 1935 money," said Henry, who might have Metal Cast Products Co 57 he polled fifty-five votes. Josiah Willard added, "or meeting the requirements of

Mills, E. J 61 Gibbs and Walter Reed we have already contemporary fame." His electrical stud- mentioned. Among men of business ies made the ocean cable possible. Montgomery Ward Co 61

Morgan Lithograph Co Cover III THE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME (In order of election) Nurito Co. .60 1900 Votes O'B rien, C. A. .61 George Washington, 1732-1799 — 97

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 '. . ... 96 di d Co. .61 Daniel Webster, 1782-1852 96

Benjamin Franklin, 1 706-1 790 94 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885 93 Camels Cover II Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 91

Prince Albert 43 John Marshall, 1 755-1835 9 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 87 Bice, W. S 55 Robert Fulton, i 765-181 5 86 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 85 Schiffmann, R„ Co .63 Washington Irving, 1783-1859 83 Superior Match Pants Co. .61 Jonathan Edwards, i 703-1 758 82 Samuel F. B. Morse, 1791-1872 82 United Factories 55 David G. Farragut, 1801-1870 79

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Henry Clay, i 777-1852 74

George Peabody, 1 795-1869 74 Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804- 1864 73

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Patrick Henry, 1736-1799 57 Cash on hand and on deposit J5 493,773.99 Alice Freeman Palmer, 1855-1902 Notes and accounts receivable 115,384.67 53 Inventories 80,888.79 James Buchanan Eads, 1820-1887 51 Invested funds 1,930,603.40 Permanent investments: 1925 Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 204,418.51 Office building, Washington, D. C, less Edwin Booth, 1833- 1893 85 depreciation 123.0V7.64 Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less John Paul Jones, 1747-1792 68 depreciation 32,683.94 Deferred charges 24,833.03 1930 X3.005.683.97 James A. McN. Whistler, 1834- 1903 74 James Monroe, 1758-1831 66 Liabilities, Deferred Revenue Matthew F. Maury, 1806-1873 66 and Net Worth 9-1 Walt Whitman, 18 1 89 2 64 liabilities. Current .. . . .$ 99.924.05 1935 Funds restricted as to use. .. 32,012.67 Deferred revenue 307,123.52 William Penn, 1644-1718 83 Permanent trust: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. 204,418.51 Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909 78 Net Worth: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908 77 Restricted capital $1, 924, 356.73

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SERVICE Officer Paul R. Roach of The comrade looked puzzled for a wanted to make some corporals. One of Rock Rapids, Iowa, tells the one moment and then said: the men was doing fine drilling a squad about a salesman passing through "Let's see, what kind of uniform did until they approached the top of the hill, I a small town who had several hours they wear?" and all at once were confronted with a to while away. Seeing one of the towns- horse and buggy coming up from the people, he asked: ND there's the one about the man other side. The man could not think of a "Any picture show in town, my who was tuning in his radio, and way to avoid a collision, but just as the friend?" said to his wife: squad was about to march into the horse, "Nope, not a one, stranger." "I believe I'm getting lumbago." he gave the amazing but effective "Well, is there a pool room or bowling "Well, tune it out," said his wife. command: alley?" "You won't be able to understand a "Squad! Fifty-fifty around that buggy, "Nope." word they say." MARCH!" "What form of amusement do you have here?" ACCORDING to Grand Chef de Gare FOR the sign collectors, Stanley Col- "Well, come on down to the drug . Logan E. Ruggles of San Diego, burn, of Washington, D. C, writes store," the man said. "There's a freshman California, a young member of the navy that at a point on the Washington- home from the university." Alexandria highway where a road turns off to a large govern- MRS. Joe Rabinovich, of ment project, the motorists are Grand Forks, North Da- faced with this enlightening in- kota, sends us the one about two formation: farmer boys who went to the Do not enter circus and took in the side show. ENTRANCE When they got to the elephants, one of the boys turned to the A WOMAN who had recently other and said: come into quite a fortune "No wonder they call 'em decided to have her portrait elephants; they're so darn big." painted. The artist had called to confer on the subject. COMRADE W. K. Hackler of "Shall I paint you in evening Elbert, West Virginia, tells dress?" he inquired. about the young couple sitting "Oh, that's not necessary," on a park bench in the moon- replied the woman. "Just wear light. With a sudden bit of fer- your overalls." vor, the young man said: "Darling, while we are here in A TAXI was creeping slowly the moonlight, I would like to through the New York ask you — rush-hour traffic and the passen- "Yes, dear; go on." ger was in a hurry. "If we could move over a "Please," said the passenger, little; I'm sitting on a nail." "can't you go any faster?" "Sure I can," he replied, "but "Look, Senator Cyrus remembers you!" LEGIONNAIRE George C. — I ain't allowed to leave the taxi." j Biggar of Cincinnati, Ohio, recalls the time when a bunch of shave- hospital corps was being examined for JUST the other day someone recalled tails of the S. A. T. C. were getting ready pharmacist's mate, third class. a story Colonel William Haywood, for the war in a fraternity house on the "Name three articles containing who commanded the 360th Infantry campus of the University of California. starch," said the examining officer. (colored) in France, told about the time Armistice rumors had been coming and "Two cuffs and a collar." when a group of high ranking French going like the rise and fall of the tide. officers came to his headquarters for a One morning they were all routed out by FROM Mrs. Bess Hurst, of Coronado, conference. The colonel's dog robber. ringing bells and shrieks of whistles. As California, comes the story about the Sam, had been instructed to clean up the they stood around wondering if this was time her father—Brigadier General Henry headquarters tent for the coming con- really the end of the war, Jimmie Berry, D. Styer, retired—was driving through ference, but when the officers arrived he one of the fellows from Marquette, ex- Nevada and was prostrated by the heat. he was still pushing his broom around, claimed: At the first filling station the General's though unobtrusively. One item of con- "Go back to bed, boys; I think the wife inquired of the attendant: versation in the tent Sam took to heart, Kaiser has just heard of the S. A. T. C. "Is there a V eterans Hospital in this and after the meeting he said: and called off the war." town?" "Colonel, sah, what was that y'all "No'm, we've just got a regular hos- was savin' about if the Germans broke

< :< lines and back here?" AI >RDING to Walter M. Wood of pital," replied the man. "But, there's a through the came . Portsmouth, Ohio, he and some of veterinarian just down the street." "Why, we were discussing just what the gang were fighting the war over at my command would have to do in case the Chicago Convention, when one LEGIONNAIRE Arthur V. Johnson, of that happened, Sam?" mentioned he had been in the rest camp u Osage City, Kansas, tells about a "What, Colonel sah, would y'all do?" at Cherbourg. Walter told the comrade time when he was on duty at Camp "I don't know exactly, Sam. What that he, too, had been there, and one Doniphan, Oklahoma. His company would you do?" thing he would never forget was the great commander told him to put some privates "Ah reckon Ah'd spread that news all number of magpies around Cherbourg in charge of the drill that morning as he over France, Colonel."

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