The American Legion Monthly [Volume 17, No. 5 (November 1934)]
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NAVY NUMBER We JImerican ODE Legionx MONTH L Y NOVEMBER 1934 ,5 CENT; Frederick Calmer tells THE INSIDE Story ofthe Armistice CRAWFORD BURTON, gentleman rider, twice win- ner of the Maryland Hunt Cup, dean of the strenuous sport of steeplechase riding . a Camel smoker. Everyone is subject to strain. Hence the importance to people in every walk of life of what Mr. Burton says below about Camels. Copyright. 1934, R, J. Reynolds Tobacco Company HAVE YOU TRIED THIS ENJOYABLE WAY OF HEIGHTENING ENERGY? As this magazine goes to press, cessant smoker, not only be- reports pour in from all parts cause Camels give me a 'lift' ALL TOBACCO of the country ...showing that in energy, but because they MEN KNOW: thousands of smokers are turn- taste so good! And never yet "Camels are made ing to Camels. ..and that they have Camels upset my nerves." MRS. CHARLES DALY, housewife, from finer, MORE says :"Camels pick up my energy do "get a lift with a Camel." You have heard the expe- EXPENSIVE TOBAC- ...and have a mild, delicate Here's a typical experience. rience of others. Science tells COS — Turkish and flavor that Domestic — than any a woman likes," Mr. Crawford Burton, the fa- us that Camel's "energizing other popular brand." mous American steeplechase effect" has been fully con- rider, is speaking: firmed. "Whether I'm tired from So try Camels yourself. You riding a hard race or from the can smoke as many as you like. pressure and tension of a For Camels are made from crowded business day, I feel finer, MORE EXPENSIVE refreshed and restored just as TOBACCOS. They never soon as I get a chance to smoke taste flat... never get on your a Camel. So I'm a pretty in- nerves. Camel's costlier Tobaccos REX BEACH, famous sportsman, says: "When I've gotten a big AT game fish landed I light a never i?et on vour JNerves Camel, and feel as good as new." Accidents dontJtappen~ they're CAUSED Q$y Ralph ^L.CSBoyan First Vice President, Greyhound Management Company r <Drau>incjs bif William31easlip REMEMBER how chickens used to squawk and flutter ly in the wrong. across the road ahead of us when we were very young? Hence, if you were They got away with it until the automobile. Nowadays driving one of our very few chickens attempt to cross in front of a car. buses and had such This is remarkable progress, for even poultry fanciers admit that an accident, you chickens are too stupid to learn. Nature took care of it for them. would be disciplined Those chickens which were irresistibly led to road-crossing in for it—surely reprimanded, probably fined, perhaps laid off, pos- front of automobiles were killed off, leaving few or no descendants. sibly discharged. Those rare chickens of thirty years ago which stayed on their own Does that sound hard-boiled? One company operating 1500 side prospered and mul- trucks throughout the United States fires any driver after the tiplied. third accident, with no exceptions. He may be just unlucky, Presumably the same says the management, but they cannot afford that kind of luck. evolution will affect hu- Alongside that policy, ours seems soft-hearted. man safety in driving Consider an incident like this. You are driving your car along automobiles. If auto- a highway at 35 miles an hour. Out of a crossroad catapults a mobile accidents con- brakeless old ruin, ignoring stop sign and state law. It knocks tinue their present up- you for two fenders and a bent frame. Legally it is not your fault. ward trend, those indi- Your story should win you a verdict for damages. What it would viduals prone to acci- win you if you had been driving a Greyhound Bus would be at dents will be gradually best a detailed explanation of where you were wrong. Here is eliminated from the hu- how it might be put up to you by your boss: man race. But it will "When you approach an intersection, you know perfectly well take centuries, since human generations are so much longer than you should have your bus at such speed that you can stop within chicken generations. And it will be a needlessly expensive and the distance you can see down the side road. Oh, you saw him tragic method of reducing accident ratios. coming but thought he was going to stop? That's worse. Always Did you ever have an automobile accident? Most drivers have figure that the other fellow is a reckless driver, just like this guy them, so probably you have not been immune from at least a who hit you. As soon as you see a car coming up to an intersec- little hub-cap scraping. No doubt those accidents you were in tion, slow down so that you can stop if he doesn't . Huh? Of were the other fellow's fault. Most accidents are. I know of one course you had the right of accident where a sedan backed out of a public garage and way! What of it? You've smashed the running-board of an unoccupied roadster parked been taught ever since you outside. The guilty driver's head popped out of the door and de- came to work that on the manded of the empty roadster in tones of outraged righteousness, road your right of way does- "Didn't you see me coming?" n't do a bit of good if the To get myself on record right at the outset, let me state a view- other fellow chooses to ignore point sure to win first place for unpopularity in this issue of the it. The only time to think Monthly: Most accidents are preventable, and in any accident about right of way is in being you have, the chances are better than ten to one you were at sure to let the other fellow fault. The other fellow? I will give the same odds against him. have it when it's his . Sure, Even though you produce a court verdict that you were entirely your previous record is good. But you know you could have pre- blameless and the other fellow was culpable, I still maintain that vented this accident, and when an accident can be prevented, it almost surely you were also partly to blame—so much to blame, is one hundred percent up to you to prevent it." in fact, that if you had been realty on your toes the accident would If everybody had this same outlook on driving, taking your never have happened. Now you know car out for a spin would not be in the same general class for the worst. danger as wire-cutting between the trenches. It would be a safe This conviction is not peculiar to me. pastime. The day's automobile casualties of the United States Any experienced operator of a fleet of would shrink to a handful instead of looking like trucks or buses is almost sure to feel the the killed-and-wounded list of a day in the same way. It is a truism that accidents Meuse-Argonne. do not happen—they are caused. Most Last year Greyhound Bus drivers in the De- of them are preventable by either troit district drove 985,000 consecutive miles driver. Those of us who employ large without an automobile accident of any sort. We numbers of drivers are not paying were proud of this world's record, and still are. them to have preventable accidents, But this summer the Indianapolis district broke even though the other fellow was clear- it by rolling up 1,022,000 (Continued on page 50) NOVEMBER, 1934 ; Cfor(godandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: Oo upholdand defend the Constitution- ofth e IdnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent (Thnericanism r to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the Cfreat War; to in xilcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the com- , to autocracy "both the classes munity stale andnation; combat the of andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; topromote peace andgood will on earth ; to safeguardand transmit to posteritg the principles ofjusticejreedom and democracg; to conse~ crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion. November, 1934 Vol. No. Legion-|- The Jlmerican 17, 5 MONTH L Y Published Monthly by The Legion Publishing Corporation, 4^ West 22nd Street, Chicago, Illinois EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES executive offices WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE 521 Fifth Avenue, New York Indianapolis, Indiana 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago Editorial and Advertising Correspondence Should be Addressed to the New York Offices, All Other Mail to Indianapolis Cover Design: homesite by Harvey Dunn Accidents Don't Happen by Ralph A. L. Bogan Drawings by William Hcaslip Legions Against War by Claude M. Bristol 4 The Navy and Our National Defense by Admiral William H. Standley 7 The Inside Story of the Armistice by Frederick Palmer 10 Femmes and Francs: Conclusion by Karl W. Detzer 12 Illustrations bv V. E. Pvles Keeping the Peace in the Pacific by Burt M. McConnell 16 Vote for Whoozis by Willard Cooper 20 Illustration bv Lowell L. Balcom The Home That Found Itself by Philip Von Blon 22 It Was by WaJlgren 24 Bursts and Duds Conducted by Dan Sowers 25 What Baseball Players Talk About by HughCritz 26 The Power Behind the Plow by Cornelius J. Claassen 28 Sportsmen All 30 Ringing Down the Curtain by John J. Noll 34 The Voice of the Legion 38 ' VHE American Legion pearing on this issue by Monthly has been re- sending ten cents in stamps ceiving many requests for or coin to the Cover Print reproductions of its cover Department, The American paintings in a form suitable Legion Monthly, Indianapo- for framing.