The American Legion Magazine [Volume 28, No. 1 (January 1940)]
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GOOD FRIENDS AGREE. Whatever price you pay per "THERE'S EXTRA PLEASURE . • AND pack, it's important to remem- EXTRA SMOKING IN CAMELS \" ber this fact: By burning 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling East, South, West, McCrorey agrees on Camel's slow NORTH, brands tested—slower than any you'll hear the same story : One burning, and adds: "To me that of them—CAMELS give a smok- true yardstick of cigarette pleasure means extra pleasure and extra ing plus equal to is slow burning! Kenneth E. (Nick) smoking per pack." Knight (below, left) confirms the Yes, the costlier tobaccos in 5 EXTRA SMOKES experience of millions of smokers Camels are slower-burning! And of when he says: "One of the first course the extra smoking in Camels PER PACK! things I noticed about Camels was (see right) is just that much more their slow burning. I figure that's smoking pleasure at its best — why Camels smoke so much cooler, Camel's costlier tobaccos! Enjoy milder and taste so much better. extra pleasure and extra value in Camels last longer, too." Howard America's No. 1 cigarette. ..Camels! 7/Z 4 ; n Cigarettes were compared re- cently . sixteen of the largest- sellingbrands...under the search- ing tests of impartial laboratory scientists. Findings were an- nounced as follows: 1 CAMELS were found to contain MORE TOBACCO BY WEIGHT than the average for the 15 other of the largest- selling brands. 2 CAMELS BURNED 5LOW- ER THAN ANY OTHER BRAND TESTED—25% SLOW- ER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME OF THE 15 OTHER OF THE LARGEST-SELLING BRANDS! By burning 25% slower, on the average, Camels give smokers the equivalent of 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! 3 In the same tests, CAMELS HELD THEIR ASH FAR LONGER than the average time for all the other brands. MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF... MORE PUFFS PER PACK! PENNY FOR PENNY YOUR BEST CIGARETTE BUY Ifht. 1939. R. J. Ilrynolda Tobao WinstonSulem. North Carolii RightGuy By PAT M C BRAYER 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 - n~he Jim eric an January, 1940 Vol. 28, No. 1 LEGIONMAGAZINE Published Monthly by The American Legion, 455 West 22d Street, Chicago, Illinois EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis , Indiana 15 West 48th St., New York City 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.