The American Legion Monthly [Volume 17, No. 5 (November 1934)]

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.

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 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.

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The Canadian and American Legions dedicate the cenotaph in Multnomah Civic Stadium at Portland, Oregon, as a memorial to Canadians and Americans who LEGIONS gave their lives in the World War AGAINST WAR THE Canadian Veteran Comes Across the Border to Work with His American Buddy on the Job Nearest Their Hearts (By GlwudeOH.QHstol

A conspicuous part of the huge Multnomah Civic Stadium known as a shrine for international peace and being visited by INin Portland, Oregon, through which marched thousands of celebrities from all over the world. George H. Dern, Secretary Legionnaires during the national convention days of 1932, of War, on the occasion of President Roosevelt's visit to the "City today there stands a cenotaph. Not an ordinary war of Roses" in ceremonies participated in by national officials, high memorial this, but a monument unique in its purpose as the ranking army officers, American and Canadian Legionnaires, movement which brought it into existence. War Nurses, Spanish-American War veterans, state and city It was erected to mark the beginning of an activity which its officials and prominent citizens, gave national recognition to the sponsors hope will unite the English-speaking races of the world movement by placing a wreath at the base of the cenotaph. and bring lasting peace among all nations. The monument does In carrying out the spirit of the intermingling of friendly not represent the idea of pacifists but of sincere men and women thoughts of the people of the two nations, Canadian maples and who saw service under fire and want wars to be ended for all time. evergreens have been planted immediately back of the monu- These are ex-service men and women of Canada and the United ment in soil brought from Canada with which has been mixed States who for the first time in history have figuratively linked native soil and surrounding the maples and evergreens are trees themselves together to espouse a common cause for the good of and shrubs of this country. In front of the cenotaph proper humanity. and as a part of the memorial stands the 112-foot flagpole erected The cenotaph was erected last June during the first Canadian to commemorate the visit of The American Legion in 1932, and Legion convention ever held outside of the British Empire — from it on state occasions flying side by side and frequently en- convention which brought across the border several thousand twining are the flags of the United States, Great Britain and men and women who never before had been on United States Canada. soil—a convention itself which both Americans and Canadians The memorial is a massive structure of steel and concrete, declare already has done much to cement further the friendly re- semi-circular in shape and built to stand for many years. In lationships between the two great English-speaking nations. large bronze letters on its face is the inscription: Since the dedication of the memorial, the movement has gath- "In grateful tribute to the men and women of Canada ered great momentum—the monument, itself, rapidly become and the United States who gave {Continued on page 58)

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NOVEMBER, 1934 5

Me Navyand Our National Defense r Jldrniral W.D-C.Standley,

Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy

constitutes an adequate national defense? WHAT its The United States Navy, with proud traditions of service to the nation, must assume a big share of the task of answering that question in the troubled present and the uncertain future. As a navy man for forty-three years, I have watched with considerable pride the progress and accomplishments of this important arm of the national defense. I watch now with equal interest the attempts of patriotic Americans to bring our Navy to its proper strength and position and to lay the groundwork for keeping it there. The fundamental purpose of our Navy is to guard the continental and overseas possessions of the United States and to support the national policies and commerce of the nation. To maintain the Navy in sufficient strength to carry out this purpose may be said to be the fundamental naval policy of the United States. Our national security depends upon our power to defend our shores and our overseas possessions and the citizens of the country from hostile attack at any point over which the American flag flies. Our national security depends further upon the unin- terrupted importation, across wide oceans, of raw materials essential to our major industries and hence to the life of the nation. Our economic organization, extending beyond our land boundaries, is vulnerable and must be protected on the seas. When I first entered the Navy as a cadet at Annapolis, back in 1891, the famous "White Fleet" of the eighties was the backbone of our naval defense. My first ship was the Olympia, finest ship afloat at the time, with about five thousand tons displacement. I have seen ships grow in size until we now have battleships of 35,000 tons. I have followed our Navy's progress through the victorious days of the Spanish-American War and the territorial service, the emergency of the World War, and the years that have followed. I have seen the Navy fulfilling its mission in war and peace. And here let me point out that the Navy is a great peace-time asset to the nation. The words of President Coolidge, on the occasion of the Navy Day celebration in 1924, are appropriate: "Our Navy has always been much more than an arm of war- Admiral Standley time defense. All the money that has ever been spent on the Navy has been returned to the community several times over in direct stimulus to industrial development. We may be very sure Through new construction and repair work, if given a chance for that in the future, as in the past, the Navy's service to industry present needed activities, the Navy will do a full share of lifting and the arts of peace and science will continue completely to the load of unemployment. justify its maintenance in the highest efficiency." The United States Navy has always been out in front in mat- Of all naval expenditures of our Government, eighty-five per- ters of scientific development. Whether in peace-time or under cent goes right back into salaries, wages and pay of labor, while the pressure of war, the Navy's contributions to America are the remainder finds its way back through the purchase of material. many and lasting. Specific mention will be made later of exam-

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The engine room of a modern warship with its bewildering maze of pipe lines is to the landsman a thing fearfully and wonderfully made

pies of the Navy's worth to the nation in times of peace. But we power—the wisdom of that view is not questioned. Both the must emphasize here that its first great task is to be ready for Washington Naval Limitation Conference of 1921-22 and the defense—and at a moment's notice. conference at London in 1930 accomplished firmer bases of inter- What constitutes an adequate Navy? How "big" should national understanding and co-operative effort to preserve the the Navy be? Big enough for its primary and supreme task. peace of the world. Effective enough in personnel and ships to do the job of defend- The framers of these treaties contemplated that our Navy ing our shoreline and our possessions, however strong may be the would be maintained at the limits set therein. The Washington enemy against us. Treaty provided a definite schedule of replacement of battleships. We are now far short of our defense needs. That is apparent to But the fact remains that during the years since 1922, the limits any citizen who understands the condition of our fleet. Much is of our naval strength considered essential for national defense said publicly about a "treaty Navy." There are two important have never been attained, particularly in regard to replacements. considerations in measuring a treaty Navy. One is the total While four other nations—Great Britain, Japan, France and tonnage of ships, and the other is whether those ships are over- Italy—have steadily and consistently moved forward in their age and inadequate for modern needs, or new and effective. plans to reach treaty strength in fighting vessels, the United States It is the latter consideration the American people must now has lagged behind. Now we find ourselves in many respects the seriously ponder. We are not so short of tonnage, but there are third sea power instead of the first. at least 102 ships in our fleet—about sixty of them destroyers To remedy that situation, the Vinson Act, passed by the last which are pitifully over-age and well-nigh worn out. They are Congress and approved by the President, permits the building spoken of contemptuously as "crocks," and that's just what they of vessels of modern design and construction to replace our over- would prove to be in an emergency. age vessels, within the limitations of the Washington and London The reason for this situation lies in our consistent failure since agreements, and to procure the necessary aircraft for vessels and the World War to carry on a proper program of replacement. other naval purposes in keeping with the treaties. In a word, we Other nations have moved along, building steadily to replace old are authorized to build up to treaty strength. ships. We have not. In order to grasp the full significance of what that means, we During the three years immediately following the close of the should glance back at the important dates in naval limitation greatest war in history—a war in which the American Navy history and refresh our minds as to just what the treaties specified. played a more glorious part than it is sometimes crediied with When the delegates of the four great foreign powers came to we were at least holding our own as the foremost naval power. Washington in 1921, five countries figuratively got their heads Our Navy was second to none, and President Wilson's 1916 build- together and agreed on limitations for capital fighting ships and ing program, due for completion in 1927, would have given the airplane carriers. Smaller craft were not covered at this historic United States the most powerful navy in the world. The feeling gathering, except that an agreement was entered into in respect was general, however, that the cause of peace could best be served to cruisers which provided that no cruiser, or any vessel of war by international agreements limiting naval construction in the other than capital ships and airplane carriers, may exceed 10, 00c future. The setting of definite bounds on capital ships, it was tons displacement or carry guns in excess of eight inches calibre. hoped, would at least check any mad and unwarranted race for No limitation was placed on the number or total tonnage of sea supremacy that might develop in the decade to come. Al- cruisers by this treaty. though the United States gave up her lead for supremacy in sea As to capital ships, the agreement limited these in number to

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly eighteen for the United States, twenty for the British Empire, completed, that would have furnished us 525,000 tons. and ten for Japan. As to tonnage, here is the total number of During the next three years the United States did not lay the tons allowed all five nations, for both ships and airplane carriers, keel of a single ship. In 1925 we built one submarine. The in summary form: other powers, in the meantime, began replacing and building. Japan showed her determined stride by laying down six cruisers, United States Great Britain Japan France Italy ten destroyers, five submarines, four gunboats, three tankers, Capital Ships 525,000 525,000 315,000 175,000 175,000 one supply ship, two depot ships and three minesweepers, a total of 34, for the year of the disarmament conference. France and Airplane Carriers 135,000 135,000 8 1 ,000 60,000 60,000 Italy laid down five craft each, and Great Britain four. By 1927 Thus, it will be seen, the ratio agreed upon by the five nations Great Britain was striking a pace that averaged i8>4 vessels which were parties to the treaty was approxi- per year until 1933. mately 5-5-3-1.6-1. 6. Capital ships to re- The London conference of 1930, partici- place those in existence were limited to 35,000 pated in by our nation, Great Britain and tons for any one ship and 16-inch calibre for Japan, scrapped three American, five British the biggest guns. An age limit of twenty years and one Japanese capital ships, reducing the was placed on ships, and a replacement sched- number of big fighters to 1 5-1 5-9. Also, the ule was agreed upon whereby, beginning in beginning of replacements was postponed

193 1, the United States, Great Britain and six years. Most of the agreement concerned Japan could begin construction which in 1936 itself with limitation of cruisers, destroyers would bring their number of capital ships to and submarines. Cruisers were divided into 15-15-9 respectively and in 1942 would bring two classes, heavy, those mounting guns over their tonnage ratios to an exact 5-5-3. 6. 1 -inch calibre, and light, those mounting Airplane carriers were not to exceed 27,000 6. 1 -inch or less. tons or mount guns in excess of eight -inch The following table shows the boiled-down calibre. Exception was made for the United results with respect to limitation of tonnage States in the Saratoga and the Lexington, originally designed as for auxiliary craft agreed upon by the London Naval treaty: battle cruisers. United States Great Britain What did it mean to the United States at that moment? It Japan meant we had to scrap down more than any other nation. We 8-inch cruisers 180,000 146,800 108,400 stopped construction of several splendid vessels, soon to be badly 6-inch cruisers 143,500 192,200 100,400 (total cruisers) 23>5°° 339.°°° 208,800 needed, and blew into Jones's locker a lot of usable craft, 3 Davy Destroyers 150,000 150,000 105,000 along with considerable pride of the Navy! Submarines 52,700 52,700 52,700 In all, the United States scrapped 32 vessels, a total of 842,194 tons. Great Britain scrapped 30 vessels, a total of 721,250 tons. These were the ratios, together with limitations as to forti- Our greatest curtailment of fighting effectiveness came in the fied bases contained in the Washington and London treaties, ships being built. We scrapped 13 vessels, averaging 28 percent considered just and proper to give each (Continued on page 42)

"The Navy is a national insurance worth all it costs even if no emergencies arise to disturb the future"

NOVEMBER, 1934 The inside Story ofthe Armistice £3y Frederick Calmer

A session of the Armistice Commission, a body that had nothing to do with drawing the terms of the Armistice. Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Orlando of Italy, with Marshal Foch as military adviser, worked out the terms. Colonel Edward M. House, American member of the Big Four, found himself up against a cut-and-dried program and had to yield

THERE is one thrill—and the date of it to the hour and democracy and in a war to end war—and that is the outside minute—indelible in all our memories. A man may for- story. get the day he broke a leg, took his oath to fight for Then some of us have heard that Generals Pershing and Bliss his country, or sailed for France, but he does not forget were for unconditional surrender by the Germans and keeping up this date. He remembers where he was on the day of the Armis- the march to Berlin until unconditional surrender was won—and tice as well as he remembers where he was when his first child that sounds like an inside story. was born. If true, why?

Some men got the news that firing had ceased in a flash to a Why, when it meant a lot more soldiers might be killed? And training camp. It told them that there would be no over there why did it take so long to get our soldiers home? Why, when the for them and they would be sent home soon. Others were along war was supposed to be over, did we stay on as if we expected the the battle line. These heard—and heard is the word—the sudden war to break out again? Why did we remain so long on the Rhine? and ear-numbing silence as strange and incredible as though We know that Marshal Foch, generalissimo of the Allies, Niagara Falls had ceased roaring. They hoped they would be and the British Admiral Wemyss went out on the night of sent home soon. So, for each man, this November nth had a November ioth to meet the German delegates in the Forest of personal story. Compiegne between the trench lines. It was a dramatic moment We know that we sang "The Gang's All Here" and "Hinky- when Foch said to them, "What is it you want?" Dinky" and we were fighting in a war to make the world safe for They wanted an armistice. Foch had the document ready,

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Clemenceau asked General Bliss what terms the United States fa- vored FOR THE ARMISTICE GERMANY SOUGHT IN EARLY NOVEMBER, I918. Bliss's answer was Grant's famous formula, Unconditional Surren- der. Frederick Palmer tells why America's proposal was shelved

They signed it —at 5 o'clock in the morning of November nth. guage in which a man who was supposed to stand for ruthless One hour later the American G. H. Q. had the news and at once terms expressed his idea and ideal. Having this in mind, let us relayed it to our units in the various sectors. Firing was to stop look back a few days foi an inside view with Hindenburg and at eleven that morning. Ludendorff. On Septemember 21st Ludendorff asked Berlin to Who made the terms which were to affect the peace of the approach America for peace. On October 1st he telegraphed: whole world? Of what high secret counsels were they the prod- "Today the troops are holding their own; what may happen uct? And wr hy was no American general present at the meeting? tomorrow cannot be foreseen The line may be broken at any We sent two millions of moment." soldiers to France and spent Two days later Hindenburg twenty-five billions of dollars took up the plea to win that war to end war, "The situation is daily and we know the state of the growing more acute and may world today. We know Eu- force the Supreme Army Com- rope is armed to the teeth to- mand to very serious deci- day for another war; and each sions." of us has his own opinion Such was the inside Ger- about that and about the war man story after the Ameri- debts to us which are unpaid. cans had won Saint Mihiel. So the inside story of the and they were in the first Armistice deserves to be told stages of their great attack in sixt een years aft er firing ceased. the Meuse-Argonne, with the And I'm going to start the British and French steadily story according to my idea, advancing. at what seems to me a good President Wilson was for beginning: I start with a the surrender of the German letter written, October 9, war-lord military caste which 1918, by General Tasker H. ruled Germany and which Bliss—that unknown four- threatened to rule the world. star general who had worn his He had said when he asked country's uniform for forty- Congress to declare war that seven years—to Secretary of the battle was against this War Newton D. Baker—one military' autocracy; we had month before the Armistice "no quarrel with the German was signed. Bliss foresaw people." He wanted fair what was coming, and what terms which would not allow he wanted to prevent, and has militarism to rise again; he come. wanted his League of Nations "Judging from the, spirit to insure future peace. In the which seems to be more and third week of October, 1918, more actuating our European he hastened Colonel House, Allies I am beginning to de- his closest adviser as his legate spair that the war will ac- to represent him in counsel complish much more than the with the Allies. abolition of German mili- With whom was he to coun- tarism — while leaving sel? With the Prime Minis- European militarism as ram- ters of Great Britain, France pant as ever. and Italy — Lloyd George. "Looking to the future, the Clemenceau and Orlando. curse of the world today is These were the statesmen European militarism. Prus- three of the Supreme War sia, or rather a Prussianized Council. They had power over Germany, has given us a the lives of their fellow present exhibition of what countrymen and world des- this curse can be, but it is a tiny. German ulcer on the Euro- They had decided on com- pean body growing out of the mon policies in secret meet- rotten European blood. And ings in which, as the records for practical purposes, for the before me show, they bad- purposes of the scientific phy- gered and quarreled in racial

sician, it makes no difference and national bitterness and

that it was Prussia which in- then came to some kind of troduced into the European agreement lest they lose the system the evil, blood-putre- war. For ten months Bliss fying germ. It is there, in the had been one of the council's blood of all Europe, and must four military representatives be gotten out." What tales of a grandfather General Bliss could un- who were the military ad- This is strong, clear lan- fold to beguile Granddaughter Betty Bliss visers {Continued on page 46)

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Synopsis of Pari On MONSIEUR Flandreau has been murdered in a passageway of the inn at St. Antoine in Normandy, following his complaint to Captain John Wheat, commander of a nearby American forestry unit, that an American soldier, uni- dentified, assaulted him in his chateau a few kilometers away. The pistol whose butt end smashed Flandreau's skull turns out to be the property of Lieutenant Munn of the forestry company. Munn, summoned to the inn, claims an alibi and says the pistol was stolen from his locker, but Corporal John Sullivan, D. C. I., tricks him into disclosing that he was on the premises a moment before Flandreau was killed. As Sullivan questions him in one of the rooms a gun is discharged from the garden and Munn falls dead, the back of his head blown away. One of these killed him: Madame Banc, who runs the inn; her son Pierre, handy man; Yvonne, pretty waitress; Captain Wheat, Sergeant Perthe and

Private Hlaska of his command. And was it Munn's murderer who had killed Flandreau?

PART TWO {Conclusion) CORPORAL SULLIVAN yanked open the door and plunged out into the cold, low-ceilinged main room of the inn. As he did so he heard Hlaska yelling somewhere nearby; saw Sergeant Perthe rush in from the street at the front entrance, shouting, "What's up?" Sullivan did not answer. He could not. What had he done? Made a target of Munn? Yanked him into the dining room for somebody waiting outside to kill? The surrounding stone wall became a line of gray, the rose He turned toward the kitchen, and there collided with old shrubs a hazy shadow, the dining room window, through which Madame Banc, who was padding out of it in her bare feet. He murder just now had been committed, a yellowish rectangle of saw Pierre emerging from what seemed to be a store room off the lamplight. There was no one in the garden now. Quickly but kitchen, his arms filled with fagots; heard Wheat's voice bellow- cautiously Sullivan walked around it and made certain of this ing, somewhere in the other end of the house. fact.

Although the candles and the lamp had given off only a dim il- But it was the only fact of which he could be sure. Who had lumination, the darkness of the garden in this hour before the been out here in this garden a moment ago? Perthe, who had just dawn was so black by contrast that Sullivan halted, once his feet rushed into the front door? Hlaska? Pierre? Captain Wheat? Or found the stone flagging, and he backed quickly against the wall. none of them? From a leather-lined inner pocket of his blouse he drew a small And how had the murderer escaped? By way of the kitchen or flat Spanish automatic pistol, threw off the safety with his thumb, the side passage into the hotel or out through the gate to the and held the gun in his right hand while the familiar outlines of street? the garden took shape. Sullivan tried the passage door and found it bolted; yet that

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The girl once more began to weep un- controllably and she flung herself down He gasped as Sullivan replied, again. Then he picked her up and carried "It was right where you left it" her, resisting and clawing at him, from the room. He set her down on a chair near the fireplace, ordered her to remain there, and

returning to the dining room, entered it and closed the door, inviting no one in with him. With a candle he examined the body carefully. It had been a slug of heavy caliber that tore away the back of the lieutenant's head; this was plain enough, Sullivan could tell from the wound. He had even guessed as much when Munn first was struck and spun around. The window was still shut. Only one of its small panes was broken, and Sullivan

pushed it open and slid across the sill into the garden. He still carried his gun in his right hand. With his left he took a flashlamp from his belt. He looked cautiously about, then turned his flashlamp on the ground.

ITHIN thirty seconds he had found w:the thing he half expected would be there, an empty brass shell, caliber .45, ejected by an automatic pistol. It was the same size and type gun that had killed Flandreau, but Munn had not died by his

own pistol; Sullivan had wrapped it care-

fully in paper two hours ago and locked it in his handbag. To be positive, he returned to the main room, unlocked the bag, and found that the pistol still was there, the clotted blood upon its muzzle, the hah ejected cartridge still sticking out of its top. Wheat, following him, asked huskily, "Corporal, who killed him?" "I aim to find that out, sir," Sullivan replied. "Where's your own gun, sir?" "Why, in my room!" "You're sure?" "Of course I'm sure." He hesitated. "Why, damn it ... I don't remember proved nothing definite. The door could have been locked by taking it to my room at that! Intended to. It must be there." someone entering while Sullivan himself went out through the "Go look!" the corporal ordered, and Wheat, taken aback by kitchen. his manner and his demand, hesitated a moment; then started, He returned past the shattered window of the dining room and grumbling, down the corridor. into the kitchen door. This room was empty now. Out in the But immediately Sullivan heard him exclaim and start back. main hall he found the others, peering with that fascination with "It isn't there," Wheat said in a flat voice. which men look on violent death, into the door of the small dining "I didn't think it would be. Where was you, sir, when the room. He pushed by them without speaking. shot was fired?"

The body of Lieutenant Munn lay on its back as it had fallen, "I . . . Why, I was standing back there outside my door. Trying and Yvonne, crouching beside it, was crying hysterically and talk- to decide what to do next. You'd shut the door on me again. ing to it in French and English. Sullivan looked down at her for What do you mean? Are you accusing me?" an instant, then pulled at her shoulder. "No, sir. I ain't accusing anybody, yet. When I do, I'll put "Get up," he bade. She peered at him, her eyes pushed open glue on it, sir, and make it stick. Guess I'll look around your with terror and grief, both of which he saw were genuine. "Who room myself. Maybe you didn't see it." did it?" Sullivan asked. But the gun was not in Wheat's room. Sullivan poked his

NOVEMBER, 1934 13 flashlamp through the window and examined the ground outside. Perthe takin' himself a promenade. That leaves the two women. There was no chance of footprints here, however, for the flag- What about you, mam'selle? Where was you when the shooting stones extended all the way to the wall. starts?" Wheat, following him back to the hearth, exclaimed suddenly: Yvonne looked at him sullenly. "Why, look here, Corporal! You were in the room with him "I tell the gendarme when he comes in the morning," she said when he was killed. Alone. You had the door shut. Maybe at last. "I also tell him who kills the poor lieutenant." you'd better do some explaining yourself. Now . . . I'm your "Tell the gendarme who killed him?" Sullivan repeated. "Now superior officer. I think ..." that'll be nice, but how do you know?"

Sullivan replied, "Yes, I know. You think you ought to take "I am positive," she said slowly. "I know. The lieutenant is charge, sir, but I'll not let you. I got the authority in my pocket my good friend. He is fearful of someone. He is fearful he will from G. H. Q. I'm running this, and wish I wasn't. Your gun is be killed. He has told me." gone. Maybe we'd best look for it. Meanwhile, where was you Sullivan glanced quickly at Captain Wheat, who was biting all when the shot was fired? Sergeant Perthe, I see you leggin' his underlip and scowling at the girl. it in the front door." "Poppycock!" the captain ejaculated. "I'd gone out to walk up and down the roadway," Perthe said Yvonne tossed her head. "Very good, m'sieur. I tell the gen- lamely. darme." "Accustomed to takin' a promenade at three in the morning?" Wheat picked up the remainder of the small heap of fagots Sullivan asked. and threw them on the dying fire. He rubbed his hands together.

"No, I'm not. I'm not accustomed to have a pop-eyed corporal "You're . . . going to leave him there, that way?" he asked. go jawin' at me, either." Sullivan hesitated. "Guess not," he decided. "No . . . you,

"You'd be surprised at what you can get accustomed to," Pierre . . . your clerk, Captain, what's his name?" Sullivan retorted. "Where was you at, Pierre, when the lieuten- "Hlaska," Wheat said. ant got shot?" "You and the boy carry this one away too, Hlaska," Sullivan The young Frenchman, who at last had remembered to put on told them. "Goin' to be old hands at it before the night's over." his trousers, had difficulty in understanding this time. Sullivan Again the group followed the pair with their burden to a bedroom. translated into awkward French, speaking loudly, as if the man "That makes two," Sullivan said. He turned to Wheat. "I'm were deaf. going out to hunt your pistol now, Captain."

"Who . . . me?" Pierre, too, gave up attempts at English. "I go with?" Pierre asked. "Why, m'sieur, I am procuring the fuel for the Sullivan looked at Hlaska. "Better fire ... it is the desire of m'sieur the captain that stay and watch the grog shop."

I build a fire. I have the arms full of wood . . . you In the kitchen Madame Banc was cut- ." see me in the kitchen ... I am. . . ting herself a hunk of bread as Sullivan "Where was you, soldier?" went through. When he returned, Private Hlaska hitched up his trousers and twenty minutes later, she still was there wiped his mouth on the back of his hand and looked at the same task. The others waited sil- down at the dried mud on his shoes before he an- ently in the big room. Only Perthe paced swered. the floor. "Well, now's you're askin', I was havin' me a "Find my pistol, Corporal?" Captain swaff of liquor." He paused. "Come close an' you Wheat demanded. can smell it on me yet, it was that potent." "I guess it's been issued to the lost "Having a drink? Wouldn't mind lickin' up a battalion," Sullivan replied. "It's not few myself. Where was you drinking?" around here anywhere, at least." "In the grog room." The man pointed a finger He pulled the lamp to the edge of the that shook violently, toward the esta- table, sat down, drew a notebook from his minet. pocket, and began to write in it slowly. "I didn't notice any light in there," Perthe, walking up and down, paused be- Sullivan countered. "Who waited on hind the chair. Sullivan snapped shut the you?" cover, and at once the sergeant resumed "If there'd been a light or somebody his pacing. to wait on me I wouldn't of got my The clock struck five. drink," Hlaska explained. "You "Ever sit?" Sullivan asked Perthe. ought to know that. These frogs want The sergeant complied briefly. In a to ring your money on the bar to make minute he again was walking. sure it ain't phoney before they pass "You must be a hell-bender on a hike!" the swaff across the zinc. We ain' Sullivan growled at him shortly before had a payday for two six o'clock. No one had spoken for months. I ain't rich an' fifteen minutes. Madame Banc, a chunk settin' on my coin like of bread still in her hand, sat in a chair Flandreau." asleep. Captain Wheat rose. "In other words, you "I'm going to make a fire that is a fire," he said was stealin' a shot of determinedly. He picked up a short candle from licker in the dark?" Sul- the table. "It's not going to be all match sticks, livan said. either. Where's the wood kept around here?" "I don't call that steal- Yvonne answered: "In the room by the in'," Hlaska objected. kitchen," but Pierre leaped up from the floor. "What you call it "I, m'sieur," he cried anxiously, "I will get don't make very much it!" difference right now. You "You don't know wood when you see it," stealin' licker in the esta- Wheat said, making for the door. minet, Pierre luggin' in "Please, m'sieur ... I ." the kindlings, Captain regret m'sieur is cold . . Wheat just standing Wheat persisted, "I "I do not kill M'sieur around in his door won- : ' want fire this time. Climb Flandreau . . . derin' what to do next, over logs up at camp all

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly day and then come down here and freeze! Doesn't make sense." "It shall be a fire, m'sieur!" the boy cried. '"Please!" he ." urged. "I . . he ran out, stammering. He brought in two armloads this time, bigger than usual.

When he had puffed one into flame he asked solicitously if this was enough. "For a minute at least," Wheat admitted. "I'll get some, too," Sullivan said. Pierre cried, "Oh, no, m'sieur!" "Why not?" Sullivan folded his notebook and walked with lazy steps toward the kitchen. But once through its door his attitude changed. He swung alertly to the right, and poking his flashlamp ahead of him, entered the dark room from which earlier in the night he had seen Pierre carrying the fagots. The room was heaped with bundles of small twigs and a little pile of heavier wood was stacked in one corner. The air smelled dusty, like an old barn. Sullivan worked quickly. He began to jerk out bundles of fagots, tossing them into the middle of the floor. When he had thus disposed of a dozen or more bundles his hand reached suddenly into the pile and came out clutching Captain Wheat's pistol. He dropped the magazine into his hand, by pressing the small release button on its side, then smelled the muzzle, sniffing lightly. Yes, it had been fired. He returned, walking briskly. Wheat cried huskily: "You found it?"

Sullivan nodded. "I'll keep it, too, if you don't mind," he added when the captain reached for it. Pierre jumped up. "Found? Where, m'sieur?" Sullivan faced him. He held the pistol in his right hand. "Where you put it," he answered. Pierre gasped and Sulli- van went on, "Just where you left it, after shooting Lieuten- ant Munn." Yvonne had jumped up from her place beside the wall. She was crying: "That is true . . . You kill . . . You kill my lieutenant!" Pierre cringed, then raised his arms toward her. The girl stamped her foot and the wooden sole of her shoe whacked the floor resoundingly. "I tell you true, m'sieurs! This fat cow," she indicated Madame Banc, "would make me marry Pierre!" "Yes, I know," Sullivan agreed.

"When my young man . . . my Lieutenant Munn ... he come here to see me. (Continued on page jg)

The corporal climbed up and spent two minutes examining the wide sill of the window

NOVEMBER, 1934 15 Keeping the Peace

THERE occurred, within a single week last August, <2y QurtM.JttcConnell several things that may lead to important changes in American aerial defense plans: Soviet-Japanese negotiations for the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway in the 1935 naval maneuvers would be held off the coast of South- Manchuria were broken off indefinitely; Japanese naval authori- western Alaska. ties announced their determination to build up their navy to full There you have the picture. Draw your own conclusions. Treaty strength before the end of January; Russia was quietly Now, the writer is not an alarmist. But a knowledge of de- seeking admission to the League of Nations; Japanese naval velopments in the Pacific, together with the fact that the Four- officials announced that they would support their government in teenth Annual Convention of The American Legion, Depart- denouncing the Washington Naval Treaty; Washington officials ment of Alaska, adopted a resolution calling upon the Govern- declared that an investigation had revealed Japan as an empire ment to decline to promise not to establish naval air and sub- impregnable to any kind of attack; the Secretary of the Navy marine bases on the Aleutian Islands when the Washington opened bids at Washington for the construction of twenty-four Treaty comes up for consideration next year, seemed to warrant cruisers, submarines, and destroyers, as the first step toward the editor in sending with one of the above cruises to Alaska, not making the United States the greatest defensive naval power in a war correspondent, but a peace correspondent, to report on the world; and the Secretary of War declared that two experi- the summer activities of the Army and Navy. Incidentally, no mental bombing planes, each with a cruising radius of 3,000 miles, other magazine was so represented. were to be built for the Army Air Corps. It was manifestly impossible for a writer to be in four places While all this was going on, ten huge Martin bombers were at one time, so the cruise with the Navy seaplanes was chosen. flying from Washington to Fairbanks, Alaska, and return; a This may seem like rank treason on the part of a former sergeant Navy submarine division, consisting of the Admiral's flagship, in the Army Air Service, but after all, the Navy is our first line two tenders, and six submarines, was en route to the Aleutian of defense. If, as high-ranking military and naval officers predict,

Peninsula and the Hawaiian Islands; six Navy amphibian planes the next great war will be fought in the Pacific, it will be the were just completing their surveying and mapping work in that Navy's job to cut off the advance of the enemy. Meanwhile, it part of Alaska nearest Japan; the Washington Department of The is its duty to prepare for whatever the future may hold. American Legion was considering a resolution (later adopted at The writer joined the Navy contingent at Seattle. He found the Department Convention, which was attended by the National that Admiral A. W. Johnson, former assistant to Admiral Moffett Commander) calling for adequate fortification of the Aleutian in the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, was in charge, not only of Islands; the commander of the United States Navy's seaplanes the Alaska flight, but of all the Navy's patrol plane squadrons was directing from his flagship the first mass flight of a dozen and their main bases at Coco Solo, Panama, and Pearl Harbor, large bombing and patrol planes in Alaskan waters. Hawaii, together with the necessary surface ships to carry on A few weeks later the Navy Department announced that their operations. Last year one of his squadrons flew an average

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NAVY OFFICIAL PHOU The Navy planes on the mass flight to Alaska passing over Malaspina Glacier, largest in the world, with Mt. St. in Pacific Elias in the back- #b ground. On opposite page: One of the ships passing Mt. Fairweath- TVTAVY seaplanes working as a unit flier. He accompanied the Alaska er, an outstanding seaplanes on their first hop of six ^ conducted maneuvers off the coast peak of the St. Elias hundred miles, and later in the range in Southeastern of Alaska last summer, operating for flight had one of the seaplanes Alaska two months independent of aid from lowered into the water from the deck of his flagship, the Wright, and overtook the main flight the mainland and laying the foun- at Cordova. dations for whatever operations by that the hop of the six big seaplanes to Pearl Harbor arm of the Navy may be necessary there. WHILE was the most spectacular undertaking in the history of No matter what happens in the Orient, our naval air force, and was carried out on schedule, perhaps the Uncle Sam means to be prepared—in most useful was the mass flight of Squadrons 7 and 9 to Ketchi- kan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Kodiak and Sitka last fact, the Navy's 1935 maneuvers are to summer. For four weeks the writer alternately sailed in the flag- be held in Alaskan waters ship and flew in one of the gray-hulled air-cruisers past scenes of infinite beauty, over Malaspina Glacier, the largest in the world; past Mt. St. Elias, rising in lonely majesty far above neighboring of five hundred hours (which is the rough equivalent of 50,000 peaks; above Yakutat Bay, first settled by the Russians more miles) without serious accident. This is, without doubt, a greater than a hundred years ago; parallel with miles of forest trees that mileage than that of any other squadron, army or navy, in the were old before Columbus discovered America. world. In order that the writer might get a photograph of several Another squadron of his command established a world's record seaplanes with a background of ice, he was flown to within two last January, when Commander KnefHer McGinnis led the six hundred yards of Columbia Glacier, in all its snow-white and big twin-engined flying boats of Squadron 10 in a non-stop flight steel-blue splendor; around precipitous mountains and rugged of 2,408 miles from San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands. This peaks. Rivers, kissed by summer's sun and fed by winter's snow, squadron had already flown, non-stop, from Norfolk to the Canal came tearing down steep canyons like herds of wild horses, Zone (2,150 miles); on to Acapulco, Mexico (1,250 miles); and tossing high their manes of foaming spray. Off to the westward, to San Diego, California (1,648 miles). The last two hops, ag- the sun sank in a glory of copper and gold; the snow-covered gregating 2,898 miles, were made in two consecutive days, and peaks of the Fairweather Range took on a pink and salmon color. on the flight from Acapulco Admiral Johnson accompanied The foot-hills in the middle distance were clothed in a deep purple Commander McGinnis. Like his former chief, Admiral Moffett, haze. Below was a sea as smooth as the proverbial mill-pond and Moffett's successor, Admiral E. J. King, he is no arm-chair dark green, jade green, and black. Bays, forests, lakes, rivers,

NOVEMBER, 1934 17 NAVY OFFICIAL PHOTO The aircraft tender Wright, flagship of the Navy's cruise to Alaska, taking on fuel at Seward, where as at other stopping places officers, pilots and members of the crew were given the heartiest of welcomes

waterfalls, glaciers, and range after range of mountains were recent years; actually they are faster than many single-seat passed in rapid succession. On every side was a vista of enchant- fighters, with a speed in excess of two hundred miles an hour. ing beauty. Many of the bergs cast off by those relics of another This type of plane, equipped with retractable landing gear, age, the glaciers, were the color of turquoise; others were a pure, constitutes a valuable coastal defense weapon; it can strike an glistening white; still others had the brilliance of blue-white invader far out at sea. Equipped with a flying-boat hull, it could diamonds. Glaciers were everywhere; vast rivers of ice filled the range five hundred miles out, land on the open ocean if necessary, valleys. and take off. Its maneuverability—the ability to indulge in But the Navy seaplanes were not brought to Alaska in order aerial acrobatics or elude an enemy fighter in the air— is unusual that Commander Shoemaker and his pilots might take in the scenery. The cruise was a routine Navy maneuver, one of the many the planes and tenders are required to make at frequent Time out for lunch on a navy seaplane intervals to give the flying and ships' in the harbor of Valdez personnel operating experience in different localities, at different seasons, and under different climatic conditions. A few weeks before, these same planes were operating with the Fleet off Puerto Rico during the annual maneuvers. American naval officers who once had a predilection for the battleship now agree that naval aviation is a most indispensable part of the Fleet. Today the airplane is a major arm instead of the auxiliary it was at the end of the World War; many naval officers consider it the major arm. Increased speed, increased range, and increased load- carrying ability have brought about this remarkable change. Admiral Johnson's PM-i (Patrol Martin) seaplanes, an obsolescent type, will carry two i,ooo-lb. bombs—one under each wing. The Army's Martin bombers which made the Alaska hop last summer are not the slow, cumbersome planes of jg PHOTOGRAPH BY THE AUTHOR The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The harbors were the landing fields for the planes. Here's a crew from the Wright taking up moorings after the planes had resumed their flight

for a large, weight-carrying plane. With two 700-h.p. engines set in the leading edge of the wing, this all-metal monoplane has been declared by the War Department to be "the most powerful military weapon produced since the World War." Admiral Johnson's belief is that the Navy should have (in addition to the land planes and amphibians carried on cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers) a separate unit of long-range patrol seaplanes, capable of landing on the open sea and riding out a storm.

He has demonstrated that with these flying PHOTOGRAPH men-of-war, operating with small tenders and a flagship, an aerial bombing and scouting patrol can be made en- visits to glaciers, lakes, and other points of interest, and chamber- tirely self-supporting. In other words, they can operate for of-commerce luncheons. Governor Troy came on board at Juneau months at a time along a coast where there are no landing fields, to extend an official welcome—and was surprised to find in the hangars, supply depots, or ramps—wherever anchorages can be "skipper" of the Wright none other than Captain A. C. Read, found for planes and tenders. The ships constitute a mobile base; who first flew the Atlantic in the old NC-4. in fact, they acted as such during the recent naval maneuvers in The Army Signal Corps co-operated in every possible way in the West Indies and in the flight from Puerto Rico to Alaska. sending and receiving weather reports by radio. And the Navy, They serve as advance bases for fuel and oil, engine overhaul, on its part, was able to manufacture carbogen on the Wright, and repairs, moorings, food supplies, and equipment. to send it to the hospital at Ketchikan by transport pilot in When one considers how difficult and expensive it would be to time to save the lives of three pneumonia patients. build hangars, supply depots and landing fields all along our At Juneau and everywhere else in Alaska (and in Prince Rupert extensive coast line, one realizes how valuable an adjunct to the and Vancouver, B. C), Commander Shoemaker and his flying Navy this mobile organization would be once hostilities had personnel received a welcome that they will never forget. Alaskans, begun; how essential it is to search out sheltered bays and inlets accustomed to neglect by Washington bureaus, interpreted the along Alaska's shores, and to familiarize a large number of our visit of the flagship, the twelve seaplanes, and the three tenders as naval pilots with Alaska's peculiar weather conditions and the an assurance that Uncle Sam had not altogether forgotten his sight of her rocky headlands. Nor will the pilots be compelled "Ugly Duckling," as our most valuable possession has been called. to rely on their memories alone; the Wright carries two expert As for the writer, he was taken in hand by the Commander photographers, and one of them accompanied every flight. of the Ketchikan Post and Department Commander Chase, the From the moment the Wright dropped her hook at Ketchikan, Department Adjutant at Juneau, the Commander of the Post the first Alaskan port of call, until she steamed out of Sitka, the at Cordova and Past Commander Ellis, the Commander of the old Russian capital, the cruise (between flights) was one round of Post at Seward, and Past Commander Hansen at Sitka. Clubs official welcomes, dances; of baseball games between the Wright were established for the officers at a number of towns, fraternal team (champions of the Navy) and a local nine, dinners on board orders threw wide their doors everywhere, and motion-picture and ashore, theatre parties, hunting and fishing expeditions; of theatres, of course, were free to everyone in uniform. There was never for a moment any doubt about the warmth of Alaska's welcome. Moreover, the Army fliers were made to feel just as The tender Swan putting a plane over the side much at home in Fairbanks, Nome, Anchorage, and Juneau. after repairing it, in the harbor at Sitka While a comparison between two branches of the government service might at first seem to be invidious, in all fairness

it should be pointed out that the Army's Martin bombers which made the flight to the central part of the Territory were absolutely new; the Navy planes were five years old. By a coincidence, they were made by the same designer and manufacturer—Glenn L. Martin. The Army flight was made by a specially organized unit. The pilots were carefully selected from the best in the Air Corps, and the most experienced mechanics and the best radio experts were assigned to the planes; Admiral Johnson merely designated two squadrons out of a dozen to make the Alaska cruise. It is true that plans for the flight were approved by the Navy De- partment some eight months before the beginning of the maneuver, but the ships and men were the regular operating fleet units and did not need to undergo a long period of training. The Army Air (Continued on page 55) PHOTOGRAPH BY THE AUTHOR 19 NOVEMBER, 1934 JrWilL

CooperI

T'HE politicians call this an off-year because ive're not electing a President. In off-years, Mr. Cooper never been in jail. He is kind to his revealsj sometimes as feiu as 6j voters in a hundred cast family. He stops for red lights and votes for Governor or Congressman. In some local elec- only cheats on yellow lights by split seconds. He gives half a week's tions less than half of those eligible cast ballots. And pay to the Community Chest every yet, measured by ivhat each type of government costs him, year. He serves on two committees the average citizen should be at least three times as of his Legion post. He has one of che neatest lawns on the West Side. anxious to vote alderman or selectman as President, for for Two years ago his citizenship Governor or Congressman was practically feverish. Jones was all in a dither about the Presidency.

The country was going to the dogs if PROBABLY my friend Jones is an average citizen. He has Hoover were re-elected or were not re-elected—I forget which. a wife and two children and an automobile and a radio Election day he arose, as Pepys and the columnists say, betimes. and a dog. He was in the infantry and he shoots golf in He shaved, bathed, or bathed and shaved, and he took his wife something over a hundred. He plays bridge regularly by the hand and marched her to the polls. They voted. Then and gradually he is acquiring an unwarranted conviction that Jones went to work with a clear conscience and a firm belief that he was a star baseball player in his youth. He refuses to walk he had saved his country from a terrible fate. under ladders -and he laughs at people who knock on wood. He Along with the rest of the people of this country—or most of likes apple pie with ice cream. them—Jones will have another opportunity to vote in a few days But the final proof that he is an average citizen is this: If now. But his temperature seems normal. He hasn't a dither to you call him one he may bop his name. you on the nose. Jones likes to And I doubt seriously if he votes. He didn't vote in the muni- think of himself as a very good cipal election a year ago, I know. He mentioned his negligence citizen indeed—a much-better- shortly after I had read about the re-election of his Alderman, than-average citizen. one Soandso. He probably is a good citizen, "I don't see why they keep on re-electing that guy," said too—average good. He has Jones, petulantly. "The ignoramus votes for every appropria-

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — — Whoozis jftlustration, htf tion bill that comes up. All alone I'll bet he adds five mills to But down at City Hall, the tax rate." Jones pays about $240 a "Why didn't you vote against him?" I asked. year to keep Alderman So- "Didn't have time," said Jones. andso and the city in the Jones didn't have much time to vote in 1932, either. Did I manner to which they have become accustomed. He happens to mention that he got up early, to do so? These and other reflec- own his own home, which is assessed on a valuation of $6500 tions made me wonder if, after all, the presidency is any more im- which is high, but the tax rate of 30 mills on the dollar is rather portant to Jones, the individual, than an aldermancy. I hunted low for the average city, so it evens up. If Jones rented the down some statistics. Finally, I came to the conclusion that from house, he'd just be paying the taxes via his landlord. If he lived a purely materialistic point of view, President Roosevelt prob- in another city, his house probably would be valued at less ably is much less important to Jones than is Alderman Soandso, maybe $4500, maybe $5000—but the rate might run to $40. who so elaborately misrepresents Ward 36 at City Hall. Anyway, Jones pays about $195 a year into the municipal Now Jones, as I have said before, is close to being an average treasury. His water bills average $30 a year. This year he had citizen. Maybe his salary of $50 a week, plus expenses, departs to pay $175 for a new paving which was laid in front of his home. from the average, but in many respects he's a composite of all But let's not count that in; it was an extraordinary expense, like Americans of his age. For instance, he pays no income tax. the Federal expenses implied by a war, or by the PWA. Jones Strange to say, not many Americans do. Jones's various exemp- pays a $2 poll tax and a $3 dog tax and somebody once told him tions manage to clear him of this onerous obligation. About the that one is a privilege tax and one is a nuisance tax and neither only Federal taxes he really feels are those on gasoline, cigarettes Jones nor I can figure out which is which. He pays about $10 a and amusements. (The $5-a-barrel tax on beer comes under the year as an excise tax on his car. In our State, the poll tax, dog head of amusements.) He drives his car about 10,000 miles a tax and excise taxes go to the State, but come back, after a little year and pays a gasoline tax of about $7 all told. He smokes a bookkeeping just for fun, to the town or city. package of cigarettes a day and pays six cents tax on each pack- However you figure it, Jones pays at least $240 a year, on the age—a total of about $22 a year. average. Last year, as my figures show, he paid much more. His other tax payments—tariffs, corporation and the like This average from year to year is three or four times as much as are highly indirect and, I think, highly insignificant. In theory he pays to Washington. Yet he did not vote for Mayor and Al- at least, they are paid by people whose incomes are much better derman last year and he may not vote for Governor, United States than average. All told, Jones probably pays Uncle Sam about Senator, Congressman and members of the State Legislature this $50 a year. But suppose he is entirely average and pays his per year. And he boasts that he has never failed to vote in a Presi- capita share, and the shares of his wife and children, toward the dential election since 191 2! national income. Even then he gets mulcted for only about $80. Nor is Jones unique to our town. Asa (Continued on page 48)

21 NOVEMBER, 1934 3k Home *w

RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES was thirty-nine years old when the Governor of Ohio appointed him major of a volunteer infantry regiment, and one month la'.er, in July of 1861, he found himself in western Vir- fathers marched away to Gettysburg and Appomattox, were now ginia—a kindergarten of the Civil War. He fought throughout seven or eight years old. Almost every community in the State that war, showed exceptional bravery at South Mountain, Win- found its sympathies stirred by the dark fortune of the children chester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, became a brigadier general bereft. of volunteers and then a major general of the army composed of At Dayton, Ohio, was the National Soldiers' Home, harbor for his friends and neighbors from back home in Ohio. battleworn human craft who had found Ohio no longer the home General Hayes was on the road to destiny. The Ohio town of port it had been when they went away. Here, Colonel E. F. Delaware was his birthplace. He practiced law in Lower San- Brown, governor of the home, had a problem of his own. Boys dusky and Cincinnati before he put on the blue uniform. He whose fathers were in the Home were being sheltered in a bar- was still in that uniform when his friends and neighbors in Ohio racks building on the Home grounds. There was no place else ebcted him to Congress in 1865. They re-elected him in 1866, for them to go. Somebody was clamoring objections to their and in 1868, as a foremost figure of Ohio's recent soldiery, they being there. made him Governor. Eight years later he was to be President The Grand Army of the Republic, busy with politics and of the United States. parades, still found time to do a lot of thinking about war or- Governor Hayes found he had inherited a Pandora's Box of phans. Several members of the G. A. R. living in Xenia, Ohio, troubles growing out of the war. There was the problem of proper decided the time had come when somebody must establish a home care of the wounded soldiers who had come back home to find for the orphans. They called a meeting in the City Hall at Xenia. jobs scarce and times hard. There was the problem of taking It was held on June 30, 1869. Many G. A. R. members came, and care of the families of the dead and the disabled. There was with them citizens of the community and public spirited men particularly the question of what the State should do for the from other parts of Ohio. Governor Hayes came also. He made orphans of those who had not come back. Abraham Lincoln had a speech approving the idea. The G. A. R. men and others given the nation's pledge that these children should not be forgotten. But what could be done? There was no precedent upon which the State could found its provisions for them. Earlier wars of the nation had been fought in different times. And now, Ohio was no longer a pioneer State, no longer a pioneer collection of neighborhoods in which rela- tives and neighbors quietly and unassumingly would take into their homes any child who became fatherless and motherless. Boys and girls who were in the cradle when their

The Administration Building was destroyed by fire and rebuilt on its original walls in 1879. The Legion is urging replacement of other old buildings, used as schools, which are firetraps

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Found Itself

The Peter Pan Cottages of the Ohio Soldiers' Von £Blon > and Sailors' Orphans' Home, for children under eight, replaced antiquated Civil War structures after Ohio Legion Posts and Aux- present pledged themselves to give $16,500 with which to start iliary Units appealed to state legislators in the Home. their home towns Before the snow was flying that autumn a new building had risen on a sloping hillside, amid forest trees, southeast of Xenia, where the city had given a tract of one hundred acres. The been built on a standardized pattern—huge buildings into which Grand Army created a board of control, and one of the members children were crowded like baby chicks in an incubator. School- was Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of the Governor. Little boys and rooms were on lower floors of these buildings and sleeping quar- girls began to arrive at the Home from Ohio, towns. There ar- ters—big rooms with many rows of cots—on the upper floors. rived also the boys from the National Soldiers' Home at Dayton. Just such buildings, perhaps, as Charles Dickens must have The problem of the governor of the Soldiers' Home had been known when he wrote Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist, those solved, but the orphans' problem of Governor Hayes of Ohio was novels which aroused all England to the deplorable conditions of just beginning. English private schools and orphanages. The G. A. R. had intended to build and operate the home at Luckily, at Marietta, Ohio, a woman had conceived the idea Xenia. But the organization's experience in the first year proved of a different sort of home for fatherless and motherless children. that it couldn't do the job unaided. With the sum of $16,500 She visualized a home which would be composed of many cot- originally pledged, and with later contributions from residents of tages, each one small enough to make those within its walls feel the National Soldiers' Home at Dayton, the founders managed that they belonged to a little family which was part of a big to erect not only an administration building but two cottages as family—each cottage presided over by a mother who would at- well. tempt to give to her own little flock all that they might have Note carefully those two cottages. They marked an important received in the homes in which they were born. The Marietta innovation. Up to this time orphans' homes everywhere had woman's idea, embodied in those first two cottages at Xenia, was later destined to win favor throughout the United States. In 1870, the G. A. R. and its auxiliary, the Woman's Relief Corps, discovered that even though they had built at Xenia the administration building, a trade school and two cottages, the cost of maintenance was far beyond the means they could command. Fifty-five years later The American Legion after a similar national experiment was to make the same discovery. Governor Hayes, a Past (Continued on page 59)

Typifying progress at Xenia under the Legion program is the new fireproof dining room in which children sit as little families at small tables and are free from depressing restraint 23 NOVEMBER, 1934 IT WAS And Then Again It Wasn't By Wallgren

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ACOLORED recruit got bv a drowsv door man and presented ing and could not restrain from asking . from South Georgia his bill. another bystander: "Did you. see that?" arrived in Bordeaux, "Sir!" said the clubman, glaring at the "See what?" where he was placed in collector, "is this all you know of the "Why, that fellow dealt himself four a pioneer infantry out- usages of decent society; to present a bill aces!" fit, and his first assign- to a man breakfasting? Do you know "Well, it was his deal—wasn't it?" ment to duty was help- you are an intruder in this club, sir? Do ing unload A. E. F. cargo at the docks. you know I could have you thrown out? There was keen rivalry for tonnage If you wish to talk business, return to the ND Hugh Lewis, records in those days, and the com- outside and send in your card." alternate for the pany to which he had been assigned was The collector reluctantly went outside National Executive leading the pack, but hard pressed to and sent in his card. The debtor picked Committeeman from Kentucky, revives the hold the honors. it up between thumb and forefinger, classic about the ma- At the end of his first day's work, the carefully adjusted his glasses and read it. gician recruit looked up the top sergeant and '"Tell the gentleman," he said sweetly, who was giving a in a Kentucky town. asked "that I am not in." performance Dur- the the magician "Cap'n, is you all got mah name right ing show, announced on de books?" that in his next trick he would need a honeymoon over the pint flask of whiskey. one "I guess so," replied the top, "but we THE was and No made a having their to supply the beverage. can check up and see. What is your young newlyweds were move name?" first bat tie. "Perhaps you did not understand me," "Simpson, suh." "And another thing," said the irate said the magician. "Will some gentle- The sergeant started through the ser- groom. "Did you tell your parents that man please lend me a pint flask of whis- vice records; finally pausing at one, he you married me for my money?" key?" asked "Yes!" replied the belligerent young A tall spare man in the rear of the hall bride. "I had to give them arose. "Mistah," he said, "will "Henry Simpson; is that your name?" some excuse!" a quart "Yassuh, dat's hit." flask do?" replied the magician. "Satisfied now?" DAKOTA'S "Just as well," "I guess so but de way dat corp'l SOUTH And every man in the hall arose with — one and only Jim was a measurin' dem loads out to me, I flask extended. Mullaney tells about thought maybe you all might a had mah taking an old G. A. R. name down as Samson." friend to a Legion ban- TOUIS R. PROBST, Wyoming's Na- quet. l j tional Executive Committeeman, with one W. McLARTY, who used to Because of his deaf- comes through the about the JOHN the old just cleaned up a large train machine gunners in the A. E. F., ness, good comrade made some man who had ludicrous and at times embarrassing mis- fortune, and was starting his social tells us about three soldiers who had got takes. At the banquet he was seated at career with a reception and concert. into enemy territory and did not know it speakers' table to got a good piano player for the until they came upon a detachment of the next a member of "So you Auxiliary who tried to help him along concert I'm giving?" he asked his newly sleeping German soldiers. the "S-s-sh!" whispered one of the Ameri- in conversation. As the fruit was being acquired secretary. she him: "Yes, a truly great virtuoso." cans. "Let's capture 'em." passed, asked like bananas?" "I don't care nothin' about his morals. "Ah, why go to that trouble?" de- "Do you murred another. "Why not shoot 'em "No," replied the old soldier, with a Can he play?" astonishment. fact is," and be done with it?" look of "The in confidential tone, "Hell, no!" exclaimed the third. "Let's he continued a which could be heard all over the room, "I like 1ES ALBERT, Idaho's Department Ad- wake 'em up and start a right!" jutant, yarn tailor the old-fashioned nightshirt —it's plenty j has a about a who good enough for me." had called on a debtor frequently in an THE children in 5B effort to collect his bill, but without suc- were having their cess. Finally, in desperation, the tailor said: arithmetic examination. THE teacher was examining the class "Mr. Delay, I must insist' that you Little Virginia was the in Nature Study. "Now, children, make some definite arrangement with me. last to finish her prob- while we are on the subject of sheep, can "Why surely," replied Mr. Delay lems and turn in her any of you tell me the names of the male, agreeably. "Let's see. Suppose you call paper. Instead of sign- female and the offspring?" every Wednesday afternoon at four ing her own name to the paper, she had "You bet, teacher," was the confident o'clock." inscribed that of a well-known actress. reply of one little boy. "Ram—the "Why did you sign the name of Mae daddv, Dam—the mammv and Lam' >UY WILES of Wil- West to your problems?" her teacher the kid." liamson, West Vir- asked. G ginia, reminds us of " 'Cause I think I done 'em wrong." HERB KIBLER, from out Montana a sign that used to way, says that one day he chanced hang on the wall of an THEN there's the one about a certain to watch a poker game in the merry days old hotel on the banks fellow noted for his nerve, shortness of old, when the stakes were heavy, and of Tug River. It read: of temper and scarcity of cash. While he saw a player give himself four aces "A reasonable amount of loafing will be seated at a lonely breakfast in his club from the bottom of the deck. tolerated —but not encouraged. Noisy one morning a professional debt collector He had never seen such brazen cheat- drunks not wanted on anv basis."

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vfthat baseball ^laifers Talk About uah Critz.

Second Baseman, New York Giants

do major league baseball players talk about There are a lot of wise-cracking guys in baseball. What do they WHAT are field, playing championship while they on the a say? Well game, with anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 fans There was a free-for-all ball game going on in the Philly ball roaring in the stands? park. It's so small you rub the paint off the fences every time The fans know they must be talking about something. They you turn around. The weather was hot and the players were can see that the catcher, batter and umpire are in conversation. mean. Anyone who was sent to the showers that day was lucky. One or more players is always talking to the pitcher. There is at At least he had a chance to cool off. least one argument every day. The fans can see this, but they Fresco Thompson, then second baseman and captain of the are not close enough to hear what is being said. They hear Phillies, came tearing home from second base on a hit to the out- noises like the crack of a bat, the thump of a ball, and the cries field. He came home sliding, and he and the ball arrived at the of fielders and coaches. For the most part, however, baseball, plate about the same time. It was a close play, all right, the as far as the patrons of the game are concerned, is a melodrama kind that's sure to bring a protest from one side or the without words. other. "What were they talking about?" Uncle Charley Moran was behind the plate. He used to coach It is a common, every-day question which seldom is answered, Centre College football team, nicknamed "The Praying Col- because the only persons who can answer it are on the ball field, onels." playing the game, and doing the talking. Even the coachers "You're out!" barked Moran. on the first and third baselines don't always hear what's said, You could have heard Thompson over in Camden. He let out and the players on the bench get it for the most part by a roar and a flood of words. Moran took out his little whisk- hearsay. broom and dusted off the plate, paying no attention to him. This talk, inaudible to the fans, is \ lively part of baseball. It Fresco followed him like a yapping dog, calling him everything flavors the innumerable stories the players tell among themselves he could think of in the way of insults. Finally, as a parting when they are sitting around in trains, hotel lobbies and odd shot, Thompson said: places, killing time. It is the intimate part of baseball which the "No wonder they call that football team of yours 'the Praying fans sometimes read about but never hear. Colonels.' I c'n see where they'd have to pray with you as their

coach." Moran straightened up ^ and slipped his whiskbroom into his pocket. "Well," he said, "since this conversation has taken a •eligious turn, suppose you go to Critz slides into the clubhouse and baptize yourself." third to beat out The fans, sitting in the stands, saw the throw of a the action—the play at the plate and Washington out- Thompson raging and being put out of the fielder in a 1933 game—but they did not hear what was said. World Series game They never do hear what is said on a ball field. 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Manager Bill Terry of the Giants crosses the plate on his home run in the final game of the 193 3 series. Wonder what the catcher's saying to him

Sometimes it is just as well they don't. But I dare say a fan's idea of heaven is a seat on the bench with the ball players. He'd be all ears. Everyone in the stands can see what the players are doing out there on the field; but they don't always understand what's

going on. A man can't know "why" if he can't hear. When I was with the Cincinnati Reds, this same Charley Moran was umpiring a ball game we were playing with the Chicago Cubs. Moran knew I was interested in hunting and he had a bird dog he wanted to sell. When I came up to bat Moran said:

"Say, I've got a fine dog I'd like to sell you . . . Strike!" I stepped out of the box, picked up some dirt and said: "What "How much do you want for the dog?" I inquired, tapping my kind of dog?" bat on the plate and facing the pitcher. "A setter," said Moran. "This is a well bred dog." "Seventy-five dollars," answered Moran. Meanwhile the fans were yelling at Moran. They thought I I fouled the next one. was kicking about the strike. "That's too much," I said. I stepped back into the batter's box. "His daddy sold for $150," said Moran. "His mother won a "Yes, sir," continued Moran, "I think you'd like this dog." couple of field trials and sold for $175." "How old is the dog?" I asked, waving my bat at the pitcher. "I'll give you $50."

"A year and six months," said Moran. . . . "Ball one!" The pitch thudded into the catcher's mitt. "Holy Cow!" screamed the catcher—it may have been Hart- "Sold!" cried Moran. "Take your base." nett; I don't remember. "We're tryin' to win a ball game and The catcher moaned; the pitcher swore; the crowd howled. vou two are talkin' about dogs. What was the matter with that No one in the stands suspected I had just bought a bird dog. ball?" "I bred him myself," Moran went on. "I think you'd like EVEN though a fan's knowledge of baseball often gives him

him. Black and white dog . . . Strike two!" a pretty good idea of what players are talking about at I stepped out of the box again and picked up some more dirt. times, he would understand what they were doing a lot better

"How good is this dog . . . Will he retrieve? If he won't re- and would get a great kick out of it if he could hear them. Every trieve, I won't want him." real fan who attended the fourth game of the world series in The fans put the blast on Moran again. Washington in October of 1933 had a good idea of what the "He's a great retriever," said Moran again. T tell vou what Giants were talking about when they went into a huddle in the

. . . Ball two!" eleventh inning. What they did not know was what Charley The catcher popped off again. Dressen said when he came running from the dugout and spoke "Has the dog been hunted much?" I asked. "Is he gun shv?" to us. Dressen was not even in the ball game. We did what he

"He's thoroughly broken," said Moran . . . "Ball three!" said and won the game. This was a close one. It might have been called a strike. The Giants had a one-run lead, and the Senators had three The catcher raved; the pitcher raved; the crowd razzed the men on bases and one out in the last of the eleventh. It looked pitcher and the catcher. as if they were bound to tie the score and {Continued on page 52)

NOVEMBER, 1934 27 ohe Power Behind the Plow Cornelius Glaasseru, (3y Jf.

WAS Abra- from decade to Lin- ITham decade. And if coln, I be- you do not real- lieve, who ize how much pointed out that easier farm work farm machinery has become was the deter- meanwhile, I rec- mining factor in ommend that be- winning the Civil fore it is too late War for the you discuss the North, and thus subject with one preserving the of the oldsters Union. who swapped his Some years be- farm overalls for fore, a Virginian a gray or blue named McCor- uniform seventy mick had in- years ago. vented a reaper The use of farm and had settled in machinery in- Chicago to manu- creased in a facture it both be- steady uphill line cause the young from Civil War city was close to to World War. the wheat lands But in 1017 it of the Middle shot almost West and because straight upward. there he found fi- The reason? The nancial backing world's farmers which enabled had gone to war, him to go ahead and machines on a large scale. The gasoline-driven tractor was a war baby, developed to replace man- once more had the During 1850's power that was needed on the fighting fronts. It has made good despite a the duty of taking their places. he made and dislocation of labor which it has sometimes caused widely sold his For example, machinery in the how many people grain belt of the Mississippi Valley. Where previously a man with —yes, even how many farmers—had seen a tractor employed in scythe and cradle could harvest one to one and one-half acres of cultivation prior to the W^orld War? Those of us close to farming wheat from dawn to dark, the reaper multiplied his reach. The knew that gasoline tractors existed, that they were being used on Chicago River was consequently a forest of schooner masts, and some tremendous tracts. We had perhaps even watched demon- grain flowed in golden torrents down the Lakes to the thickly strations at state fairs. But by 1910 everybody who remained on settled East. this side of the Atlantic was familiar with farm tractors. The With the outbreak of the war the farm boys of Iowa and Min- papers had been full of them, for in a world demanding ever more nesota, of Nebraska and Wisconsin and Illinois flocked to re- foodstuffs tractors were news. Motorized farming was prophe- cruiting stations. McCormick's great factory shipped trainloads sied as a remote possibility. After church and in Red Cross work- of machines to take their places on the farms. And because his rooms, in cantonments and in munitions plants, people told their unerring mind saw that only the Virginian's invention had per- friends how they had seen a tractor at work in a field the other mitted maintaining Grant's and Sherman's armies at over- day. And their friends listened, for everybody rejoiced in a new whelming strength while still feeding the nation, Abraham Lin- tool that would feed us and our allies. The farmers aided by coln said in effect that reapers won the war. machinery met the crisis in satisfying fashion, as everyone knows. We have seen the same thing happen, though less spectacularly, Before the W'orld War a few far-western wheat ranches which in our own times. In the fifty years between Civil War and measured their boundaries in miles harvested and threshed the' r World War, farm work was steadily mechanized. One by one the crops at one operation with a specialized tool called a combine. hand jobs were displaced by machines which did them cheaper, It was drawn by great teams of horses—twenty or forty animals and usually better. The per capita production of crops climbed to a hitch. But the combine was expensive to operate for its

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly This mechanical cotton duster sprays six rows at a time to combat the destruc- tive boll weevil. It can cover a hundred acres in a single night

short working season because it required feeding too many the world's primary food crop. But the application of power to horses the year around. It was practical only on a giant farm. farming touched .every other crop. Unsatisfied world demand Other farmers cut and bound their grain with McCormick's reflected itself in high prices for all farm products. High prices machine or one of its successors, and relied on the community made the farmer itch to produce just as big a crop as he possibly threshing machine—famous for its puffing steam tractor and its couid. High wages made farm help costly. The new agricul- crew of hungry neighbors—to prepare their small grains for tural machines made possible larger crops and fewer hired men. market. So the farmer bought, put his new tools to work, and eventually The gasoline tractor opened the way to combines on land developed a productive capacity that glutted the markets, which could not support horse-drawn combine farming. The broke prices, and unmercifully collapsed his income. world still cried for wheat five years after the Armistice, so much While agricultural machinery was thus creating the farm so that farmers were buying sod-breaking plows which imple- problem, it was having an equally important effect on another ment makers had not manufactured in quantity for thirty years economic sector. It is a basic principle that there will always prior to 1916. Many of the war-torn nations had not yet re- be upon the land enough manpower to produce under normal sumed normal production. Huge areas, such as those of south- conditions crops to support the population. Only the surplus western Kansas and northern Texas, were brought into wheat manpower is available for trade, industry, and other supple- which the combine now produced at lower costs than were possi- mentary occupations. ble to small farmers on older lands. And the beginning of the W ell, you see what happened. The labor-saving farm ma- present-day farm problem was upon us. chines released great numbers of men from the land. Census

If I have so far dealt chiefly with wheat, it is because wheat is figures disclose that millions of Americans {Continued on pagt 5 ; <

NOVEMBER, 1934 29 The Captains of Cumberland and New Orleans greet Judge Landis and National Commander Hayes. At right, Russell Cook, who bossed the series. In rear, Past National Commander Howard P. Savage, cup donor PORTSMEN J/lCTORYAnd Defeat Are Not Everything in the Legion's Little World Series

THERE is plenty of drama left in amateur baseball. you'd have been amazed. You wouldn't have seen the White Don't let anyone tell you that the only games worth Sox at all. You would have seen, instead, an American Legion watching now are the major league contests, in which boys' team from Cumberland, Maryland, and an American titans of the pitching box and prima donnas of the bat Legion boys' team from New Orleans, Louisiana, playing for the keep alive the glamor which belonged to the game in the days of championship of the United States. Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson, Larry Lajoie and Honus What a game! Cumberland started out like a steam roller, Wagner. No sir, to see a good baseball game today, you don't methodically piling up four runs by the seventh inning while have to follow up the New York Yankees, with New Orleans was getting only one. In that Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, or hunt to their seventh inning New Orleans drove in four more lairs such teams as the Detroit Tigers, starring runs. The final score— 5 to 4. Schoolboy Rowe. None of the players older than seventeen! Suppose you had gone to Tahiti or Timbuctoo These two teams had come to the top in com- after you took off your uniform in 1010, and petition with thousands of other American suppose you had hopped in an airplane straight Legion teams in city, state, regional and sec- for Chicago on landing back in this country at tional games covering the whole country. the tail end of last August. Then, supposing Cumberland had won the Eastern Sectional further, you had plopped yourself down in a Finals held in Gastonia, North Carolina, a week seat at Comiskey Park on August 29th, all set or so earlier, at the same time New Orleans was to see what the White Sox could do to entertain winning the Western Sectional Finals held at you in this year of 1034- Remember, you hadn't Topeka, Kansas. Other Regional winners in seen any baseball for more than fifteen years. the East had been Tampa, Florida, Cincinnati, Well, on that third day from the end of August Ohio, Trenton, New Jersey, Springfield, Massa-

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly chusetts, and Charlotte, North Carolina. The final game. And New Orleans got the P. K. other Western Regional winners had been Wrigley Trophy as national runner-up. Russell Seattle, Washington, Oakland, California, Cook, director of the Legion's National Ameri- Neligh, Nebraska, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and canism Commission, the fellow who runs the \Mefe., Wichita, Kansas. You found out this and a junior baseball program each year, presented to lot more about The American Legion's Junior Charles Gilbert, captain of the New Orleans Baseball Program for 1934 and—stranger in team, the Schumann-Heink Trophy, in recog- your own land, as you were—you rightfully nition of his outstanding sportsmanship during concluded that amateur baseball in the year the series. 1934 had gone a long way since you saw it Director Cook was mightily pleased with this last, in the days before the war. year's series. More than 17,000 boys and girls That first game made you a Legion Junior attended the three games. Present also was Baseball fan. So you were in the stand on the Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's following day when the teams met again, but High Commissioner. National League Um- this time the stand was at Wrigley Field, the pire Sears bossed the games at Comiskey Park, home ground of the Chicago Cubs. You had and American League Umpire Hildebrand ran been a bit late in arriving the day before, the show at Wrigley Park. Detected in the so you missed the opening ceremonies, at which stands and on the sidelines were the Sherlocks National Commander Edward A. Hayes of major league baseball—the scouts who travel pitched the first ball. Now, at the new field, about the country looking for likely amateurs most of those ceremonies were repeated. to sign up for their teams. Stars of both the Thousands of Chicago school children in the New Orleans and Cumberland outfits were ap- stands with you cheered as an American Le- praised and approached. Perhaps the scouts gion drum corps marched in a parade along hoped to find among them another Schoolboy with Legion dignitaries and guests, Boy Scout Rowe, the marvel pitcher for Detroit who cele- bands and drum corps, other musical organiza- brated his baseball debut this season by win- tions of the Sons of The American Legion, and, ning sixteen straight games. of course, the members of the two teams. Then the flag was Don't let anybody tell you that baseball is dying at the roots. raised to the top of the mighty flagpole in center field. After this, It is true that golf and tennis and football and basketball each a voice boomed from the field's loud speaker. Paul H. Griffith year enlarge the number of their juvenile followers, but that of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, chairman of the Legion's National simply means that more boys are going in for sports. It doesn't

Maybe you know one of them! They're some of the sixty boys from twelve States who took part mean that they are making a wallflower out of baseball. Russell in the Legion's Second National Model Airplane Cook's statistics show an estimated half million boys playing each Contest at Indianapolis of the last several years on the Legion-sponsored teams. One difficulty in keeping filled the ranks of junior players is the lack of good playing fields. Corner lots are getting scarce. Americanism Commission, asked everybody to stand up and Alert cities have provided diamonds in parks and playgrounds. repeat with him the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Have you ever As lack of adequate playing space has grown acute in some heard that pledge repeated in unison by boys and girls? 15,000 places, boys and grown-ups too have started playing miniature And that second game! Wally Hoewat, Cumberland left baseball, kittenball, sockball or call it what you will. That is fielder, singled to center with the bases filled in the thirteenth an encouraging evidence that the baseball instinct will survive inning, to game apiece. You had and Cumberland won 4 3. A even against obstacles. to see the third game, of course. We're still an outdoor race. Little Bobby Benson may catch Well, that third game, played again back in Comiskey Park, the just -before-dinner radio listeners and a new film with Joe pitched for gave Ronald Triplett a chance to be a hero. He Brown or Harold Lloyd may draw heavily from the after-school Cumberland, that he weighed pounds and stood 6 and day 190 customers. But, given a chance, every American boy still longs feet plenty of speed and a lightning- and three inches tall. With to make a home run with the bases full. like curve, he mowed down the batters from New Orleans. Nine strikeouts he made and he gave but three hits. Cumberland won Model Airplane Contest 6 to 1. OLD folks who consider ourselves pretty good when With the victory, Cumberland got the Howard P. Savage WE we Junior Baseball Trophy from the hands of Past National Com- can tell the difference between a monoplane and a biplane mander Savage himself, as the crowd sat and watched after that are likely to be a bit dismayed as we contemplate the variety of

NOVEMBER, 1934 31 flying machines which were displayed and flown at Indianapolis artist, staged and directed the tableau. Thomas Flanagan, ex- on August 25th and 26th in The American Legion's second Marine, now a builder, rigged the props and posed as the soldier. annual national model airplane contest. Harold Costain, ex-gob aboard the Leviathan, now an interna- Did you ever hear of a rotor plane, a vacuplane or a helicop- tional prize-winning photographer, was the bugler. Later Mr. ter? The boys of the United States, apparently, are as familiar Costain restaged the tableau to make the photo shown on this with them as their fathers once were with White Steamers, page. It may inspire other posts to create tableaux. Ramblers, one-lung Cadillacs and antediluvian Fords in the days when automobiles were still playthings. Legion Bull' s-eyes Sixty boys, representing twelve States, entered the Legion's in of Cook, director competition this year, which was charge Weir FRANK J. SCHNELLER, Past Commander of the Wiscon- of the Legion's National Aeronautics Commission. Vernon sin Department and National Marksmanship Director for Boehle of Indianapolis won the outdoor commercial duration several years, took on several sideline jobs this year in his own flight, with time of State. He served 23 minutes and five as chairman of the seconds. Robert committees on ed- Huddleston of In- ucation of orphans, dianapolis won the CMTC and child outdoor tractor safety, won two duration flight. trophies for his His time was 16 post and signed up minutes, 23 sec- personally twenty- onds. Twenty-five one new members. planes were en- All of which lends tered in speed con- emphasis to the tests, and Kenneth fact that Mr. Ernst won with a Schnellersucceeded model which flew also in making this 200 feet in 3 sec- year's Legion rifle onds. William activities about the Griswold of Chi- best yet reported. cago won first prize He sends along for a model built word of two new exactly to scale, high marks in Le- color and specifi- gion shooting. cations. He repro- At Camp Perry duced in miniature in September The u.n army fighting American Legion plane, the Boeing team shooting in P-12-c. the Fidac international contest set Armistice a new world record Tableau of 1964 bull's-eyes out of a possible EACH year 2000. This score Scarsdale was regarded as (New York) Post certain to give the during its Armis- Legion its fifth con- tice Day dance ob- secutive Fidac serves a moment championship. of silence in honor Clarence R. Rip- of the departed. ley of Dennison, Last year when the Ohio, captained lights were turned the Legion's Fidac off at exactly 11 team and eight of o'clock, as the mu- the other ten mem- sic stopped and as bers were also a bugler sounded Ohioans. Webb attention, Legion- This tableau, depicting the spirit of Armistice Day, was Stump of Denison, naires and their glimpsed through the darkness in the "moment of silence" by Iowa, shot a per- guests stopped dancers at Scarsdale (New York) Post's Annual Armistice Ball fect score of 200, dancing, looked in- repeating the to the darkness. achievement he Immediately, dim lights shone out from a double doorway, made in 1933. It is getting to be a habit with this fellow. previously closed, now open. Framed against hangings of black By the irony of chance, Legionnaire Thurman Randle of velvet, dancers saw a tableau typifying the spirit of Armistice Dallas, Texas, who has been a stalwart of the Fidac team in other Day—a soldier at present arms standing beside a grave, a gold years, failed by the narrowest of margins to win a place on it this star glowing in mid-air. Taps sounded in the distance. year. This after he had hung up at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, a "There was absolute silence," writes Past Commander Walter few weeks earlier, a phenomenal score—a world's record—in the G. (Pop) Roeder. "Then, a few feminine sobs. A few masculine Swiss small-bore match of the National Rifle Association. In this coughs. The last note of Taps, and the tableau lights faded in event, he shot 196 consecutive bull's-eyes at 200 yards, a feat that unison. Doors were closed quietly and as the house lights flashed called for supreme nerve and endurance as well as marksmanship. back on handkerchiefs were fumbled out of sight. The music He fired for two hours and seventeen minutes and he didn't get began again, the dancers swung into motion." off the bull's-eye until his 197th shot. He has been elected cap- Mr. Roeder, ex-sergeant of the 58th C. A. C, now a New York tain of the 1935 Fidac team.

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Legionnaire Thurman Randle of Dallas, Texas, long a wheelhorse of the Legion's Fidac rifle team, registers how it feels to make a world's record— 196 bull's-eyes out of 200 possible at 200 yards

Mr. Schneller reports all but four Legion Departments now craft which were now looming in the murk. Quickly the Legion- have marksmanship committees and thirty-one took part in the naires got ready to help the survivors. C. Richard Allen, new De- national contests. Portland (Oregon) Post won the Paul V. partment Commander, took charge with Samuel Spingarn, re- McNutt Trophy in the national postal matches. Legionnaires won tiring Commander, and Department Adjutant Roland F. Cowan. seven of the general matches at Camp Perry. The first national A call was issued for Legion volunteers. It was answered immedi- match between the five-man teams of each Department was won ately by bands and drum corps in their competition uniforms, by by William J. Linehan Post of Dennison, Ohio, with a score of hundreds of individual Legionnaires. 986 out of a possible 1000. In all 1,000 Legionnaires responded, were assigned to shore Junior rifle teams are going strong, Mr. Schneller adds. The towns where survivors were coming ashore, where bodies were team of Youngstown (Ohio) Post won the national drifting in to the beaches. The Legionnaires junior match for the fifth straight year, with a score manned relief stations, patroled beaches to keep six short of a possible 1000. Clausen-Worden Post back the morbidly curious, served as traffic police of Mason City, Iowa, enrolled 48 boys and 42 girls on the crowded highways, loaded and unloaded in the marksmanship class it conducted. ambulances, carried stretchers, tugged at oxygen tanks. Others drove miles for blankets and cots. When the Morro Castle Burned Legionnaire doctors and nurses helped exhausted survivors. Legion chaplains ministered to the FROM Sandy Hook to Cape May stretches New dying. There was a call for someone to adminis- Jersey's Riviera—almost 150 miles of seacoast ter last rites and a Legionnaire priest responded. edged with gently-sloping white sand, spaced by The Essex County Forty and Eight ambulance dozens of the world's finest bathing beaches and and Legion ambulances from Tom's River, Beach proud ocean resorts. The New Jersey Department Haven and Asbury Park carried dozens of sur- of The American Legion, which in other years has vivors from beaches to hospitals. Legionnaires in held its annual conventions at Asbury Park, At- their own automobiles took less seriously injured lantic City, Cape May, on this famous shore, this to private homes for rest and warmth. The work year assembled at Belmar, from whose promenades went on all that day and into the night. could be seen at almost any hour great liners plow- The New Jersey State Legislature adopted a ing the ocean highway between New York and the resolution of thanks to The American Legion for West Indies and South America. its work. Survivors expressed their gratitude. Saturday September 8th was to have been the convention's gala day—with musical and drill ® Wheel Chairs for the Disabled competitions in the afternoon, parade in the eve- parade and ball TOWARD Verdun, while the A. E. F. was driving its way ning, grand ball at night. The competitions, UP were not held. Nature changed the program. She ushered out through the Meuse-Argonne, hundreds of American nurses Friday with a driving northeaster, and in the rain and wind toiled night and day in the dressing stations and field hospitals. and darkness of early Saturday morning a glare lit the horizon. They wore their army nurse uniforms then. Today, in all parts Outlined in flames seven miles off shore was the Ward Liner of the United States, many of the 20,000 wartime nurses are Morro Castle. again wearing uniforms, the uniforms of their own posts of The The New Jersey Legionnaires woke in their hotels, helplessly American Legion. And they are doing today for the disabled saw the Morro Castle burning unchecked, knew they could not World War seivice men much the same sort of work they did in in veterans hospitals, on help those still on board, trusted they would be saved by the other France. Not only (Continued page 62)

NOVEMBER, 1934 33 — RINGING DOWN the CURTAIN

While not making claim to having fired the last shot in the war, the above-pictured outfit, Battery B, 13 5th Field Artillery, 37th Division, can contend that its last shell went over the enemy lines after the eleven o'clock deadline

MORE than a half-million O. T'HE final curtain of the World near Bathelemont on October 23, 1917. D.-clad actors of the A. E. It will never be established officially War went down with a bang, F. occupied footlight posi- which American unit had the distinc- tions on their particular but ivhich A. E. F. outfit fired tion of firing the final gun for the A. E. sections of the Western Front stage F. on November n, 1918. Here is one the last shot will never be known when the four-year-long tragedy, "The reason for such failure, quoted from World War," reached its final curtain such an official source as General T Another half-million O. D.-clad actors had played their parts in Pershing's story, "My Experiences in the World W ar": this final act of the drama or stood ready, upon call, to assume "As the conference between Marshal Foch and the German the roles of their front-line comrades. Still another four million delegates proceeded, and in anticipation of advices regarding the men in the home camps and in the A. E. F. backed up the fellows Armistice, telephone lines were kept constantly open between in the glare of the footlights. my headquarters and those of the First and Second Armies. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive which started or September 26, When word came to me at 6:00 A. m. that hostilities would cease

1 91 8, during the course of which a million, two hundred thousand at 11:00 a. m., directions to that effect were immediately sent to American soldiers were actively engaged, was the last act of the our armies. Our troops had been advancing rapidly during the drama—admittedly the major stroke which spelled success for preceding two days and although every effort was made to reach the Allies and prevented the war from continuing into another them promptly a few could not be overtaken at the prescribed year. To all of us, whether in the front lines, in the rear areas, hour." in home camps or on the high seas—wherever duty called us that eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of FROM the foregoing it can be seen that final shots were sent 1918 will always stand foremost in our memories. toward the enemy lines even after the curtain had been It has been established officially that the A. E. F. unit which officially rung down. The artillery gun crew pictured above fired the first gun on the Western Front when our country took its might conceivably be among those who, as it were, sent a shell place alongside of its allies was Battery C of the Sixth Regiment or two through that curtain. Harry W. Carter of 4228 Caroline of Field Artillery, First Division. This historic event took place Avenue, Toledo, Ohio, member of McCune Post, took the snap-

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shot which is reproduced and submits this interesting report: of the "side shows" to the big show of the Legion convention was "During the World War I took about two hundred pictures the annual meeting and reunion of The National Organization that follow the activities of my outfit, the 135th Field Artillery of American Legion Nurses. The society, composed of nurses of the 37 th Division. I am enclosing one of my prints and can who are active Legionnaires, received the official recognition of report this about it: the Legion at the Chicago convention in 1933. "Daybreak of a cold, rain-soaked November day in 1918 found Those women who did such a splendid job during the war are the guns of Batteries A, B and C of our regiment on the brow of still in service and in many instances are better Legionnaires than hill in a near Thiaucourt, the St. Mihiel sector, firing a barrage of the men are. More power to 'em ! We are always glad to welcome high explosive shells in the direction of Metz. more of these women comrades to our "Then At about 8:15 that morning we received orders and Now Gang" and are proud now to intro- to cease firing for a change of data and a change ^POM if, duce Miss Sue G. Gallagher, Publicity Officer to gas shells. of Ragan-Lide Post of the Legion, 51 West Swell Cdouj " "The third gun crew of Battery B had just Warren Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. The pic- received orders to load the first gas shell when ture below shows some of the nurses, officers this snapshot was taken, and a few seconds and enlisted personnel of Base Hospital No. 36. later was giving Fritzie hell. For the last time, We'll let Comrade Gallagher tell you about it: at about 10:30 a. m., a runner brought orders "The enclosed snapshot shows members of to cease firing at eleven o'clock as an Armistice Base Hospital No. 36 in the Memorial Day had been signed. Our guns pounded away until parade in Vittel, France, in 1918. Base Hospi- the eleventh hour and at the last minute a shell tal No. 36 was a Detroit unit and many of the became lodged in this third gun and was leaking nurses shown in the picture are now members gas. of Ragan-Lide Post (a woman's post) of De- "The ramrod would not budge the shell so a troit, while the men organized Vittel Post, also charge was put into the gun and it was fired of this city. with a long lanyard, with the crew behind trees. "Ragan-Lide Post is named in memory of

The leaking projectile was dispatched and it two nurses who died in France and last May was after eleven o'clock. How long after, no celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its one seems to know but the fact remains that organization. these boys fired one of the last shots of the war "There were many appreciative comments on on the Western Front. the article devoted to women veterans in the April Monthly. "The crew in the picture from left to right are: Private Harry Personally, I would like to see some space given to us regularly Mills, Sergeant Frank Clemens, Private Bill West, Corporal Roy perhaps not every month but just often enough to keep our (Red) Crandall, and Privates Kirkbride, Frank Brodrick and readers informed that we are veterans and Legionnaires. It is Chet Henderson." surprising how many people, veterans included, look askance at any woman who claims to be a World War veteran. It is not WHEN this issue of the Monthly reaches you the last generally known that there were over 30,000 women in voluntary echoes of the national convention and of numerous outfit service during the war. reunions will be dying away in Miami, Florida. Perhaps you "In addition to being the Publicity Officer of my post I have joined in the annual celebration. Among the most important the honor of being the Department delegate on the Legion's

Above we have a snapshot showing some of the nurses, officers and enlisted personnel of Base Hospital No. 36 of Detroit parading in Vittel, France, in the observance on Memorial Day, 1918

NOVEMBER, 1934 35 Hastily, but thoroughly constructed camps and cantonments notwithstanding, one outfit on this side had to throw up the above-pictured improvised shelter. It was Company D, 10th Ammunition Train, and the shack was erected while the company was convoying automotive equipment out of Alma, Michigan, in October, 1918

National Rehabilitation Committee. Also I have served many Tommies, convalescents, accompanied by British and French times as delegate to Department and National Conventions." officers from the Officers Hospital . . . Following a verse of

'America,' a volley was fired and taps was sounded . . . The REFERENCE to "A History of United States Army Base graves of all the soldiers, French, American, English and Algerian - Hospital No. 36" in our library discloses the fact that or- were decorated by the nurses and three little French girls put on ganization of that unit got under way within a short time after the American graves flowers they had gathered in the fields." war was declared on April 6, 191 7. The personnel was recruited largely from the faculty, staff, graduates and students of the De- TROOPS on the march overseas soon grew accustomed to troit College of Medicine and Surgery. bivouacking wherever nightfall found them— whether in an After several months of training, Base Hospital No. 36 reached open field, in a woods or, if lucky, in what was left of some French New York on October 27, 191 7, and village. But until Legionnaire Wil- boarded the Orduna where the nurses _ ^ ^ ^ ^ »p & liam A. Barth of 3301 North Four- joined the officers and enlisted per- /* teenth Street, St. Louis, told us dif- sonnel. The unit reached Liverpool, ferently, we thought that as late as England, on November 10th, Le the fall of 1918 troops on the move Havre, France, on the 13 th and pro- on this side were assured of some sort ceeded to Vittel where it arrived on of housing at the end of a journey, the 17th. The hospital was estab- usually some camp or cantonment. lished in a number of hotels in this The picture which Barth loaned to French resort town, located about us and which we display shows there- twenty miles southeast of Neufcha- fore not a temporary camp "some- teau. It continued in service until where in France" but one in the the middle of February, 191 9. We State of Michigan. But why tell quote from the account of the Barth's story for him? He has the Memorial Day, 1918, observance, part floor: of which is shown in the picture Miss Gallagher sent to us: "In the past years you have been publishing pictures of outfits "Tribute to the memory of the brave lads, American and that served in the World War. I am sending a picture of a mess French, who gave their lives for the cause of the Allies, was shack which we built during a short stay in Alma, Michigan. rendered fittingly by the Americans in Vittel, May 30th. Our Here's the how of it: first Memorial Day in France will be remembered as an occasion "Company D was one of four companies of the motor battalion when the full significance of that great day was deeply felt. Out of the 10th Ammunition Train. These companies together with in the little cemetery beyond the town a monument had been many other motorized outfits such as the ambulance corps, the erected to mark the resting place of Jack Yuill, first of the person- sanitary train, etc., after training at Camp Funston, Kansas, nel of Base Hospital No. 36 to leave the ranks. The dedication were transferred to the Motor Transport Corps. Some operated of this monument was an important event in the day's program. out of Alma and Detroit, Michigan, others out of Lima, Ohio, Forming on the parade ground at 10 A. m., officers and men of and elsewhere where automotive equipment was manufactured. Base Hospitals No. 36 and 23 and of the Graves Registration Our job was to drive the cars, trucks or tractors overland to Unit No. 304, marched to the cemetery where they were joined Camp Holabird, Maryland, which was a huge concentration by the nurses of the two hospitals. center for automobiles destined for overseas shipment. "In the parade were detachments of French poilus and British "Our company, togetherwith Companies (Continued on page6j)

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NOVEMBER, 1934 37 — . —— — THE VOICE ofthe Legion

Relief This Winter, Law Enforcement, Housing and National Defense Interest Editors of Publications the Country Over

path of the Legion in the immediate future is clearly with criminal tendencies, and in surroundings which instil THEdefined. Neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet is criminal thought into them from the beginning. Amarillo needed to point out that the winter ahead is to be one of (Texas) Legionnaire. the most difficult in the history of the nation. There is here no thought of spreading a gospel of gloom. Rather Back the Housing Program there is the desire to remind Legionnaires that they will have the CIVIC or patriotic organization in finest opportunity to exhibit that love of country so clearly ex- NO Alabama is more en- pressed in the preamble to the constitution of the Legion. thusiastically behind the Federal Housing Administra- Despite the heroic efforts of the recovery agencies, those who tion's Better Housing Program than The American Legion. The are planning the conduct of their programs during the winter Commander, the Executive Committee and other leaders in the frankly speak of increased numbers on the relief rolls. Such plan- Department have assured the government agencies in charge of ning following the long dreary months of economic misery since the gigantic program of their hearty and active support in this the year 1929, indicates the necessity for concerted effort to- State. wards improvement. The Legion realizes that the quickest way to get re-employment Even the years 191 7-18 produced no more compelling reasons in private enterprise is through making property repairs and im- for displaying practical Americanism than do the months ahe::d. provements. About one-third of the workers whose families now Post officials with an adequate sense of citizenship can do no are on the relief rolls are normally employed in the building in- finer thing than commit their year's administration to a program dustry, and many others in factories, transportation and other of helpfulness to the constituted authorities. fields are indirectly dependent upon the industry for a liveli- All posts should inventory their own resources in manpower hood. and material in the light of conditions existing in their own com- About 65 cents of every dollar spent for modernizing goes di- munities. They should learn where the Legion's strength can be rect to labor and most of this money is immediately put back most helpful in those communities; and then lend all the strength into the channels of retail trade. For every building tradesman of the organization of the Legion to the task of upholding, bol- put to work, the FHA estimates that on the average a family of stering the morale of our less fortunate. The opportunity is four can be taken off the relief rolls. With winter coming a mod- there. No group has a greater right, a greater duty, to do just ernization program will help materially to relieve distress among that than has the Legion. West Virginia Legionnaire the unemployed. The making of needed repairs not only benefits a property and increases its usefulness and value, but generally improves the "To Maintain Law and Order" beauty and appearance of a city or town. \ modernization cam- paign is a worthwhile civic enterprise which appeals to all who are IT TAKES an aroused citizenship to enforce the law. It is well to furnish our officers with the latest equipment, but if we interested in improving the condition of their community. leave it entirely up to them we will still have gangsters. We Alabama Legionnaire. have just the type of law enforcement we want. If our sheriff arrests men for crimes committed and does his best to produce All Should Support Universal Draft the necessary evidence to convict them, and the District At- torney does all in his power to convict, yet the jury turns them THE AMERICAN LEGION has been charged by some in- loose, what more can be done? Or if the jury convicts and the terests with being militaristic. That nothing is farther from verdict is sustained by the highest court and the man goes to the the truth is apparent to all fair-minded people who consider the pen but is turned out by the Governor, not because all the activities of the organization in the past. officers and courts erred and an innocent man was incarcerated The American Legion is solidly behind a program of adequate but because he and his friends had, according to common re- national defense. Its members carried the brunt of the last war! ports, the stipulated price for a pardon, then what has been ac- Therefore, who knows better the needs of the country than this complished? organization? It is time to take steps to "Maintain Law and Order" and we During the next Congress The American Legion wiD marshal believe we are entering that era. It is time to "Uphold and De- its full strength to support the enactment of a universal draft fend the Constitution of the United States" and we believe that law which has been endorsed by this organization. If passed and is the conviction of Mr. Aroused Citizen—he is even willing to approved it will be a long step in the move for peace. This pro- increase the Army and Navy. gram presents an opportunity for all interests to unite in the com- And in speaking of law enforcement, the most effective thing mon cause for peace. It answers once and for all time the charge is to remove the root of crime, destroy the soil which produces that The American Legion is militaristic. Take the profit out of criminals—ignorance and poverty. Children reared in homes of war and you inevitably destroy the incentive for war. Idaho squalor and want are, in many instances, brought into the world Legionnaire.

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Pierre is like a shark. So furious! So mad with the jealousy! He will kill my lieutenant ... I hear him say it many times." "Well, well," Wheat muttered. "Tonight my poor lieutenant come to see me. He find his captain here. He fear to enter, but he will wait there for me." Sullivan interrupted. "Did you see Lieutenant Munn in the garden, Pierre?" "Non, non!" "When'd you snatch up the captain's gun, fellow?" Sullivan demanded. Pierre scowled. "After I show the captain his room and return to the kitchen," Yvonne cried, "I see Pierre then with something under the coat. I do not know what it is! But, alas, I know now!" The corporal was searching Pierre's poc- kets. Along with other things, he pulled a long Spanish comb. Yvonne snatched it. ." "It is mine!" she cried. "Oh, oh . .

She burst into tears again . . . "My lieutenant, he gives me this ..." "Funny how big fools some men can be," Sullivan said. "You could of spoke up sooner tonight, young lady."

"I dare not, till m'sieur the corporal has the weapon in his hands!" "Set down, too," Sullivan bade Pierre. "I knew Munn was beating your time, but if you hadn't all of a sudden gone so polite on us 'bout the wood, I'd not have guessed where you hid the gat." "But why would he kill Flandreau?" Wheat demanded. "He wasn't jealous of Flandreau!" Pierre leaped up. Jack Holt . . . noted Columbia Pictures star ." "I do not kill M'sieur Flandreau . . "Oh, no?" Sullivan lighted a cigarette. read about the hob- mellow, sun- ripened "I do not! I swear it, swear it!" YOU'VE Kentucky "Not even for his bocoo francs? You bies of movie actors. Well, Burley in Union Leader is the kill Munn for a femme, why not Flandreau my hobby happens to be fine most satisfying. It never has the ." for money? If it ain't femmes, it's . . tobaccos. And I guess I've tried slightest bite, nor ever makes Hlaska stepped nearer. "You damned them all, including the most my pipe strong. Yet is as rich dirty frog!" he growled. He struck Pierre costly of the imported brands. in flavor in fragrance with his fist. (Continued on page 40) and as old But for steady, day -after -day wine. (Have you tried Union smoking I've found that the Leader in cigarettes, Mr. Holt?) CANCER is largely a disease of middle age. In recent P. Lorillard Co., Inc. years an increasing number of Americans have died of this disease, which in its early stages can be cured. The Veterans Bureau UNION LEADER operates special cancer clinics in some of its hospitals, where ex- service men who are unable to pay may be given treatment free. Information may be obtained from the National Rehabilitation Committee of The American Le- gion, 1608 K Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Literature dealing with cancer may be obtained from the American Society for the Control of Cancer, 12 50 Sixth Avenue, New York City.

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"Hi!" Sullivan cried. "None of that." The boy looked blankly at him. Sullivan tended now in many directions, in wings "In your place, Hlaska," Captain Wheat stooped and observed the tracks on the that cut the grounds into narrow court- ordered. edge of the stream. yards, which even at this time of the morn- ." Pierre was on his knees. "I swear it, I "Go on," he prodded Pierre. "Wait . . ing were dark with shadows. The windows ." no . . he reconsidered. "I'll unhitch one brace- were high and narrow, oaken shutters pro- "Will you call the gendarmes, sir?" Sul- let." He stopped again and unlocked the tected the doors. livan asked Wheat. "Post at Domfront's iron from Pierre's left wrist. "Guess you In a passage on the south side, Sullivan nearest. You, Perthe, keep an eye on this can't get away," he said. halted and peered down at the flagging. fellow a minute." The corporal went to his They started to climb slowly. As they A patch of small brown spots were scat- suitcase and from it brought handcuffs. passed the camp, the dogs ran out to bark tered there, and in a corner against a wall,

Pierre begged, "Please, I no kill M'sieur at them and Sullivan smelled bacon frying a stone, as large as a man's fist, bore a Flandreau ..." in the kitchen. The corporal did not pause, similar stain.

"I'll find out soon enough," Sullivan an- but looking thoughtfully at the camp as he "Here's where Flandreau got his first swered. walked past, he saw that its location was rap," Sullivan decided. He pointed to the Wheat returned from the telephone. high and pleasant under the trees, with ground. "Bloodstains, see? This was what "Line's out of order," he said. "Some- dry, sandy soil which made duckboards hit him." He turned over the stone with body '11 have to ride over. One of my men unnecessary. his foot. "Just like he said . . . He wasn't can." "Hell of a hole," Wheat growled, "lone- lying . . . He was coming out the door when some as all get out." some yegg come down on him." SULLIVAN was putting the handcuffs on "I've seen worse camps," Sullivan an- An old wine cask stood under a nearby Pierre. "Your men ... I tell you, get swered, and they passed on, out of sight of window, and Sullivan started toward it. ." away, madame . . he pushed the weeping the barracks and tents, around a clump of The others followed, Hlaska just behind

Madame Banc away again . . . "your men trees. him, Perthe behind Hlaska. Captain are going with me, Captain," he said, Another quarter mile they followed the Wheat, keeping a close watch on Pierre, "and everybody else, too. Going to have a road. Where it dipped toward the bottoms, brought up the rear. look at that castle." Perthe, who was ahead, halted and waited "Flandreau's?" Wheat exclaimed. for the others. PERTHE halted at the wine cask and "Away up there?" "Don't know exactly how to go from climbed up on it. He observed the "Trouble started 'way up there, didn't here," he admitted. shuttered window closely, then turned on it?" Sullivan asked. He jerked Pierre to "Road leading that way," Hlaska said, the Frenchman. his feet. "Stand up. You're going to take a and pointed to a narrow track at the left. "Ever around here, frog?" promenade avec. Compree?" "We'll take it," Sullivan decided. Pierre stammered, "Never!" They started at once, only Yvonne and Fifteen minutes later they stood outside "Yea, bo!" Perthe retorted. He told Madame Banc remaining at the inn. the barred gates of the castle. Chateau Sullivan, "Somebody's been chipping at Perthe, still nervous as a cat, and Hlaska, Pourquoi perched on an eminence over- this shutter, trying to get in." sleepy, looking even more untidy in the looking the entire valley, a sheer cliff But Sullivan had halted in front of the morning light, set off ahead. Pierre came dropping away from its front, and a high door and was examining it thoughtfully. next, his wooden shoes clattering, with stone wall surrounding it on the other sides. "Here, too," he said. "Somebody mighty Sullivan directly behind him, and Wheat, But Sullivan wasted no time on the view. anxious to see where Flandreau hoarded puffing, at the rear. Already the sun was Instead he gave his undivided attention to his francs." breaking up fog banks on the ridges; from the fastenings on the gate. He started back toward Perthe, and the deep, shaded valley below the town "Locked up good," Perthe observed. Wheat, who had stopped behind him, also small clouds of vapor were rising. "Like a Y. W. C. A. dormitory," Sulli- turned around. Thus the four men crossed "We can take a short cut down across the van agreed. He stood thoughtfully a min- the courtyard together. valley and go past the camp," Perthe sug- ute. "Watch the prisoner?" he asked Cap- In the middle of the flagstone paving, gested. "It's nearer that way." He added tain Wheat. an oblong platform of wooden planks was quickly: "Not that I ever was up at the let into the pavement. Its boards were castle, understand. I just know it's closer ALONE, he walked along the wall to a gray with age and covered with dead from the lay of the land." 1 A. point where an apple tree grew close to brown moss. Sullivan walked toward it,

Sullivan grunted, "I get what you're it. He examined the lower branches of the his eyes on the window where Perthe still driving at. Go on." tree; fresh wounds seared them from the stood on tiptoe on the wine cask. At the edge of the village the path dipped feet of some recent climber. Hlaska, stepping quickly to the left, sharply to the valley floor, where a small "This way," he called to the others, and called out, "Careful! Watch your step. stream ran quietly through a muddy bot- when they arrived, said, "we're going in- That thing's rotten. It tips up when you tom, and a log, well scuffed by hobnails, side." walk on it. Break your neck!" served as a bridge. This was the path, Pierre objected. Sullivan halted, looked down quickly, Sullivan determined, Munn claimed to "I cannot climb, m'sieurs," he pleaded, and stepped back, but Pierre, not com- have taken last evening returning to camp; "I cannot." prehending, planted his foot upon the it was here, he said, someone had passed Hlaska laughed. planks and they gave way under him. The him, and running on this log, had fallen in- "Can't climb that?" He dug his shoes whole rotten structure bent. Its other end to the mud. into the crotch and lifted himself. lifted. Sullivan caught Pierre by the shoul- Wheat caught up with the others while "Take off your sabots," Sullivan bade der and dragged him back. they were crossing and looked down at the Pierre. With the aid of Wheat and Perthe, "Good Lord!" Wheat ejaculated. "Glad banks. he dragged the Frenchman to the top of the you noticed that, Hlaska. Must be a well "Somebody did fall in!" he exclaimed, wall and let him down inside. "Walk there! Ought to put a fence around it or and pointed. "See the footprints? Maybe ahead now," he told him. somebody'll be killed." the lieutenant told the truth about it. The castle Pourquoi had been con- "Nobody's supposed to be in here, re-

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dropped to his knees and was peering into a crack in the mouldy boards. "That's right," he said. "A well, or most likely a cistern." The four men passed around it and Perthe got down from his cask to make room for Sullivan. The corporal climbed to its top and spent two minutes examining the wide sill of the window. The stone was old. Centuries of rain and ice had worn away its corners. The shutter across the window was deeply inset, and Sullivan must climb up to the sill and wriggle back into the wall to touch it. When he did so, it gave under his fingers and he pulled it out. "Somebody already had pried it," he called back over his shoulder. "Only it didn't do any good. There's bars inside. Immense, the brotherly love of these frogs. Bars everywhere. Broken bottles on the walls, armor plate at night on butcher shop windows." He halted and backed cautiously out of the narrow space, then paused and picked up several small yellow grains from the sill. These he held on his palm so long, looking at them, that Wheat demanded: "What you find?" "The last link, sir," Sullivan replied. He closed his fist, slid down from the window, and placed his back against the wall. "Guess there's no more to find out." Wheat glanced at Pierre. "You can hook him up with both?" "The guy that killed Flandreau was the one that hit him yesterday evening up whips up into small-bubble lather . . here," Sullivan answered. "You told me, bubbles so small that millions of them when Flandreau saw him in the inn, he can get close to every whisker. yelled, 'You again!' and screamed for - Then these tiny bubbles swarm all over help." each whisker. .. strip away every trace of "That's right," Wheat agreed. Most of your shaving troubles are due to that waterproof coating. They emulsify "Well, we find how somebody did hit just one thing . . . the tough, waterproof the oil — float it all away. him up here. Somebody that was trying to coating that Mother Nature puts around break in the castle. Not laying for Flan- every whisker you own. For that tough dreau. Just aiming to clamp onto some of coating is what makes whiskers hard to cut. the hidden jack, and got caught." Once you strip every trace of that water- Wheat said, "It sounds reasonable." proofjacket from every single whisker,you get a shave as smooth as a barker's smile. "Me . . . never was I here," Pierre

pleaded. , 1 su "Shut up," Sullivan admonished. "When Nk / Then myriads of these little bubbles seep into each whisker soak it I want any chin music off you I'll ask for — so soft that your razor cuts slick and clean. it. Y' got enough to think about to keep you quiet. Sergeant Perthe, was you out Try Colgate's! You'll find that small- But — that's something most shaving o' camp last night?" bubble lather takes all the toughness out creams don't do. They can't remove all the Perthe stared at him. "No, I wasn't," of whiskers . . . takes the "Ouch" out of waterproof coating because they froth up he said finally, "not till captain sent for shaving. You'll find you can shave faster, into big-bubble lather — bubbles so big me." too. The large tube is now only 25c they can't get close enough to every "You, Hlaska?" Buy it today! whisker to do a good job. "Told you once," the clerk replied. "I P. S. For a perfect to your Colgate That's just why Colgate's Rapid-Shave finish wasn't." shave, try Colgate's After-Shave Lotion, Cream is different — and better. It and Colgate's Talc for Men "But somebody falls in the mud," Sul- livan said. "Lieutenant Munn is hiding down there by that log when somebody falls off it. No reason to doubt it, I guess." LARGE SIZE TUBE Perthe said huskily, "He wasn't lying?" "It was hobnails fell off the log. Saw NOW 'em plain as we came up. Besides," Sulli- ONLY van opened his hand, "I find sawdust here " you 1 whiskers — and on this window." "Sawdust?" Wheat exclaimed. "Leave me tell you," Sullivan said. "I just got it figured {Continued on page 42)

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Tells Yon out. There's no mud up around your lum- "Yen. And you in the grog shop. You ber camp. It's too high in the hills. But come in the front door, bent on doin' just To Pick a there is sawdust. Gets into guys' clothes. what y' did. Y' knew old Flandreau could And gets out of 'em when they scrouge point you out as the guy trying to break in TVmCff£ST£H around. So . . . here's the sawdust. It all up here. Y'd hit him and you was afraid TRADE MARK proves up." he'd squawk. Matter of fact he wouldn't've Perthe begged in a strained voice," Go on. squawked. He didn't want anybody, gov- "That's all there is to it. Just now when ernment or anybody else, to know he had Hlaska saved our life by pointing out how- money hid. You didn't know that, though.

rotten those boards was, just how they So what? What '11 you do? Y' have to

tipped . . . why ... he naturally confessed have a gun ... it came to me right away he'd been here before." last night that it had to be an American "Me?" Hlaska yelled. "Me?" took the gun." "Who else?" Sullivan demanded. "You Hlaska started toward the wall. got grains of sawdust in your pocket now. "Needn't even try that," Sullivan Willing to bet it. At least you've still got warned. "I'll keep an eye on you myself. dried mud on your shoes where you fell off Perthe, take charge of the frog. He had the log. First thing I noticed last night trouble coming in across the wall, remem- was that. There you was, standing in dry ber? Well, Hlaska hadn't any trouble. He sand up at your camp with fresh mud on come over like a monkey on a stick." your shoes. I made you wipe 'em before I Wheat wiped his forehead.

let you in my car." "So he . . . killed . . . Flandreau! Then it ." Wheat muttered, "Hlaska! My God . . . wasn't the girl at the back of it all . . Hlaska!" "There's two things behind most "Pierre killed Munn," Sullivan resumed, troubles, sir," Sullivan said, "one or the ." FASTER HANDLING "and . . other always, so look for them both. In "And Munn killed Flandreau!" Hlaska this case it was both. Francs and femmes." ...FASTER DEER cried. "It was him in the court!" The End

"\T THY do so many guides prefer a M W Winchester Rifle? Why is it that the great majority of them are found using the same type of Win- fif Chester—with Model 94 lever fir The ^(gvy and Our Rational Defense action or its development in a jSt Says Pete Nelson, latermodel? AM {Continued from page g) veteran guide on the upper /jm Ottawa, in Western Que- Mr NEW of these three great powers an adequate Great Britain now lacks for full treaty bee: "Try a guide's job. Mt MODEL national defense, and an equality of naval strength 211,811 tons less than half of He shoots last and /^m , . — shows how. That /^W power in the areas in which each would be what we lack, which is 435,000 tons, and takes shooting." jfi^r With every reason called upon to operate. There have been Japan lacks only 77,595 tons. The total to excel in shooting jmm no changes in the international scene to effective modern tonnage now built gives Jj^W • • with yearly more make defense a matter of less importance Great Britain a ratio of 13.6 to our 10. i?' {Wf demand for faster skill . o- these men who than when these agreements were made, Japan comes up to 9.6 almost on a par ^ v Jtitm make — "l us i' «,-'

of bunching it after years of neglect. Under the Vinson Act, the old plan of placing the needs of the Navy piecemeal before Congress and hoping that in the rush of business the Navy would be taken care of, is replaced by a comprehensive program, submitted to Congress through the budget, which includes the total of the Navy's financial needs expressed in terms of ships, aircraft, personnel, material, and equipment. President Roosevelt designated $238,- 000,000 of Public Works Administration funds in 1933 for naval construction, and under this allotment thirty-two vessels were provided for: Two aircraft carriers, four 10,000-ton cruisers, twenty destroyers, four submarines and two gunboats. No appropriations were made by the last Congress specifically to underwrite the Vinson Act, but upon passage of this Act the President promptly made a second allotment from Public Works Administra- tion funds, under which fourteen destroyers and six submarines will be laid down. Included in the program now under way, under the regular naval appropriations, are the aircraft carrier Ranger, completed in June; four heavy cruisers, two of which were completed in June, a third to be completed this fall and the fourth in January, If don't like John 1936; one light cruiser to be completed in you Jameson, December, 1936; two submarines, completed in 1934; and twelve destroyers, two of which have been completed. you're no judge of whiskey In addition to the foregoing, a program has been prepared in our Department for the annual replacement of ships which will Its Taste May Surprise You — bring the Navy to treaty strength in 1942 and maintain it thereafter at that strength. It's the Way Real Whiskey Tastes If the program can receive the public You may not even like John Jame- and time. It is made well because support it deserves, we should be able to son the first time — a few people we have been at it 150 years. It is build up our Navy to treaty strength in don't. But if you don't like it the made by the pot still method be- new and replaced ships by 1942, and to fifth time, then — although we don't cause that is traditional and, we feel, progress from that time on with a regular mean to be rude about it— you must best. (Although it is more ex- schedule of about fifteen to twenty ships blame yourself. Because John Jame- pensive — to us, not to you). Then of the classes that may be needed. son is whiskey reduced to its hon- it is aged seven years in the wood be- According to a provision of the Vinson est fundamentals. Here's why: it is fore bottling, if this method doesn't Act, half the construction of Navy vessels made of barley malt, unmalted bar- produce real whiskey,thenthereisn't is to be done by United States Navy Yards ley, wheat and oats—and absolutely such a thing. If ycu know whiskey and half by private ship-building concerns. nothing else whatever except water you will like John Jameson. Our principal yards doing primarily construction work are at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston, South Carolina. Our yards John Jameson doing primarily repair work, the "fleet overhaul" yards, are at Puget Sound, Washington; Mare Island, California; Norfolk, Virginia; New York. The importance of an adequate mer- IRISH WHISKEY chant marine as a part of our sea power can- JOHN JAMESON D-SON LTD. BOW STREET- DISTILLERY, DUBLIN, IRELAND not be overlooked. It is the policy of our country, as expressed in the Merchant Marine Laws of 1920 and 1928, that our Government should assist in sustaining a merchant marine capable of carrying one-half the sea commerce of the United States. We are far short of that today.

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in overseas trade, but to support the efforts Before Cleaning of our Navy in case of war. At the present After a few thousand miles. Oxide Coating, soot time we have very few merchant vessels and carbon coat spark that are suitable for naval support in an plug insulators — wasting gas and impairing per- emergency. We should initiate a mer- formance. chant-marine building program which will give us modern ships suitable for use with

the Navy if the occasion demands. "Men tight, not ships," said Lord Fisher, of the British Admiralty, and his state- After Cleaning ment has become a classic. Ships are no The new AC Method good without personnel. And here must removes all Oxide Coat- ing, soot and carbon. be recorded one of the weak links in our Insulator is clean a^ new present chain of naval defense. — saving gas. restoring The Navy performance. is short of enlisted men. Not because it can't enlist them—plenty of young men would make worthwhile additions to our Navy—but we can't pay for them. STARTING enlisted is QUICK Our authorized strength 137.000 men. But Congress authorized with CLEANED SPARK PLUGS appropriations for only 82,500 during this REMOVE OXIDE COATING WITH THE AC SPARK PLUG year. We were down to 79,700 in 1933 a dangerously low figure. Next year we CLEANER— AND YOUR MOTOR STARTS INSTANTLY hope for 88,000 men. But these reduced figures the ships that fly the col- . . ONLY C A PLUG mean that 5 ors of the United States Navy are twenty SPARK PLUG No spark plug can escape Oxide Coating — the chief percent undermanned. This makes for CLEANING cause of hard starting, loss of speed and power, poor lowered morale and efficiency. The Navy STATION gas mileage. But a thorough cleaning— by a Regis- is supposed to be "ready at all times" equipped for immediate combat. But it can tered AC Cleaning Station — is a "sure-fire" remedy. never be ready until the enlisted personnel LOOK FOR Replace badly worn plugs with new ACs. THE "PLUG- is strong enough to man the fighting ships. AC SPARK PLUG COMPANY, Flint, Michigan, St. Catharines, Ontario Given a program of building and replac- IN.THE-TUB" Plugs /or Canadian market made at St. Catharines, OnU ing of ships and aircraft, and sufficient per- FLY, WITH THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE sonnel to make them effective, the United consider itself "Eagles of Victory," they were called by General Gouraud . . . that little band of States Navy may equipped Americans whose inborn sense of right led them to volunteer for the most hazardous service. to live up to its proud motto of being

There was William Thaw, the first to enlist in the Air Corps . . . the corps d'elite of the first line of national defense. Is it the French Army. Following his lead came Raoul Lufbery, Victor Chapman, Price, McCon- worth it? The answer is that the United nell and Bert Hall. Even today, their names conjure up mighty deeds of valor. States Navy is a national insurance worth Kiffin Rockwell it was who said, "If France were conquered, I should prefer to die." all it costs even if no emergencies arise to France was not conquered. But Rockwell, an explosive bullet in his heart, plunged from a dizzy height to crash just two miles from the point where he first tasted the heady wine disturb the future. of victory. And what of the Navy as a great national The story of the Lafayette Escadrille is an epic of valor ... a story of men who sent peace-time asset? A recital of the duties

their frail craft hurtling the skies, diving, twisting, turning . . . engaging the through which fall to our Department would fill enemy in mortal combat without counting the cost or reckoning the odds. many pages. In justice to the service we You will find this story as it is told in the Source Records of the Great War more absorb- should note just a few. ing, more interesting than any fiction you have ever read. And it is all true, every word of United States Navy has given the it. The Source Records were written by men who themselves made history, by combatants The and non-combatants, by statesmen, diplomats and industrialists, by official observers and world a century of knight errantry as secret government agents. The war as they saw it. humanitarian agent. In 1832 vessels of The Source Records spread before you a complete, panoramic view of those four cata- the Navy went to the relief of famine- clysmal years an unbiased, narrative-history in the story of the Lafayette Esca- ... which stricken inhabitants of the Loo-Choo drille is really incidental. You may find any one of a thousand other fascinating phases of Islands. Fifteen years later the American the war far more interesting. All of it is authentic, all of it told by eye-witnesses and participants. The mightiest drama of history. Navy performed similar services during in With all the propaganda and misinformation being circulated about the war, it is most the great famine Ireland. And humani- fitting that the Source Records are owned and published by The American Legion. And now, tarian work has been going on ever since. the publication of the new Service Edition, priced at a fraction of its former cost, places this Rescue work has written some of the monumental, seven-volume history easily within the reach of everyone. The most interest- brightest pages in our book of service. ing, the most absorbing stories ever written ... a most valuable addition to your library airplane comes down in mid-ocean and . . . endless hours of real enjoyment. An The coupon will bring you a most interesting booklet, the intimate, inside story of the American naval vessels converge on the way in which secret reports and carefully guarded governmental archives were obtained spot to rescue a life or two. for publication in the Source Records of the Great War. Fill out and mail the coupon It is an acknowledged fact that the

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44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly on errands of mercy unless persons concerned are wealthy or influential. It should be pointed out that the Navy does not make a practice of seeking charitable

missions, but in all emergencies it will render aid and answer any S. O. S. where humanity is in distress. I quote from a u«<»Y recent statement of Commander J. H. Ingram of the Public Relations Branch: "A naval commander's decision in a question of humanity will not be influenced by position or financial standing. Most of the requests for emergency aid come under the head of humanity in need and rarely is the name of the individual given. So it is apparent that John Smith will not be neglected by the Navy, even though he

is not given a rating by Bradstreet."

A sample dispatch on rescue work is quoted to show the point: From the Chief of Naval Operations to the Commandant, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida: "Department desires commandant send one patrol plane to assist in search for three boys missing from small boat near Key West since Saturday. Use own judgment as to method and duration of search." The Navy's achievements in diplomacy are many and glorious. The Department make's a continual contribution to international relations. It may shock some pacifist souls to discover that the United States Navy is an earnest builder of goodwill. From the early diplomatic victories of naval officers, Kearney in China and Perry in Japan, to modern instances of the founding of goodwill and understanding, the record is one to be proud of.

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(Continued from page 11) of the three. The soldiers worked out But Bliss was not even for drawing mission on which were the military rep- military policy, the three called them in cards, let alone putting up an ante any- resentatives and representatives of some of for the meetings when needed. where but on the western front, where he, the smaller nations. The terms were half No man was in such a position as Bliss Pershing, March and Secretary Baker, the military and half political, neither proper to know the three and the inside story of organizer of victory, were determined that peace terms nor proper armistice terms. Allied relations and policies. As Chief of the war the}' were fighting to win would be The Germans must surrender a certain Staff in 191 7 he had heard the Allied ap- won. There on the western front Persh- amount of arms and yield the east bank of peals to send an army to France. He had ing's soldiers, a large percentage of whom the Rhine. They had enough arms left for known the mighty three in their alarm had not even begun drill in a training a great army, and as Bliss said, if there over the coming great German offensive in camp at home a year before, were forcing were anything that would re-rouse their France, at the Supreme Council meetings of their way up the Romagne hills between war spirit it was the loss of the bank on January 30 and March 15, 191 8, when the troughs of the Aire and the Meuse their side of their river. they said only rushing the troops in our and over the hills on the opposite banks. As long as there was any danger of Ger- training camps to France might save the They were threatening to cut off the re- many renewing the war Foch wanted to war. treat of the German corps in western retain a large American army in France. He had known them at the meeting of France. It was then that the Germans Bliss wanted to be sure the fighting ended June 30th when the people were fleeing pressed for an armistice. at once, and for good. He was in one sense from Paris just before our men made their What did Bliss think the terms should going to the mat to make sure our soldiers stand against the advancing Germans on be? Clemenceau was eager to know. Bliss could start for home at once. Instead they the Paris road. It was then that, backed was ill in bed with the grippe that day. were to be held in miserable billets in win- by Foch, they sent a cable to President He wrote "Unconditional surrender" on a ter and given battle drills to be ready if the Wilson saying that America must send slip of paper and sent it to Clemenceau. war began again. 100 divisions, 4,000,000 in all, to hold the This did seem quite harsh and surprising There were other reasons affecting the enemy and then to insure victory. from a man of so kindly a nature as Bliss. future of humanity why Bliss was for un- Pershing's answer was the same. But it conditional surrender. To him it was the THE three could always agree in asking might be said, quite unfairly to anyone merciful and right way in fine with our for more American troops. They simply who knew him, that he had just got his own war aims. could not have enough after an exhibition great army together and started fighting of the way they fought. and he wanted to go on to further mili- EEADING the Bliss papers one imagines

After the last of the German offensives tary triumphs. l. what might have happened if Bliss had was over, after the Americans had been the This could not be said about Bliss. All met Hindenburg as man to man and sol- main force closing the Marne salient, after the army he commanded was a small dier to soldier in No Man's Land. One can the British and Canadians were driving group of officers, clerks, stenographers, an imagine Bliss saying: "We are not fighting the Germans back and when everywhere orderly and a chauffeur. To all that little Germans as Germans. I have good Ger- the Germans were on the defensive army he was Bliss, a great character, some- man neighbors at home. There is German Foch sent for Bliss and asked again for times preoccupied and a little irascible, blood in the veins of a multitude of our 100 divisions. and then very human. soldiers who have been fighting yours; When we were forming up for Saint Both Bliss and Pershing had word from many were of pure German blood." Mihiel he raised his estimate to 120 di- Washington that armistice negotiations For to Bliss a man was a human being visions, more than the total of the British were left entirely to House, who now whatever his race, slim and tall, or short and French armies combined in France. added the fourth to make the Big Three a and fat. And he would have said to Hin- But Bliss concluded that 80 must do, and Big Four. So Bliss and Pershing with denburg:" You have fought the whole world 7 the W ar Department agreed, since that their unconditional surrender were out of but it was too much for you. We have two was all in the limit of the power of Amer- court. Bliss wrote that House and Presi- million more Americans coming. So it's ica to send and supply three thousand dent Wilson were up against the "wiliest time to quit. And when you've quit, fair miles from home. politicians in Europe." play, justice." And we know Hindenburg Bliss never entered into the Allied would have accepted unconditional sur- quarrels. He represented the nation which FOCH, the generalissimo of the Allied render. The Germans would have had to had the blood of all races of the Allies in armies, became the dominant military accept it. its veins and the blood of the enemy races. adviser of the Big Four. He was mainly re- That would have prevented the instal- He knew what his job was, what he was sponsible for the armistice terms. It was ment plan Armistice, starting with one there for—to win the war against the curse the formulation of these terms that led to month, and when that got the Germans of militarism in behalf of all races. He was the false armistice report before they back to the Rhine, putting heavier penal- the arbiter, the tranquilizer, the voice of were accepted. But Foch, by this time, ties on them, and still heavier. It made the American spirit, this huge wise man, was no longer generalissimo of the whole. the Germans feel that they had not been with his bald dome, his clear reasoning, a He had become humanly and inevitably really licked but tricked with America's rock that could not be budged when a Foch the Frenchman, thinking of the fu- connivance. principle was at stake. ture power of France. In the same way The Kaiser was off the throne, Germany He kept us from being drawn into Lloyd George was the Briton thinking of a republic, the military caste broken. Bliss tangent adventures to grind the political power for Britain, Orlando, the Italian, of foresaw the danger of a Germany brooding, axes of the different Allies, from sending power for Italy—army power, naval learning to hate, a Germany that might go troops to Italy in force—Orlando asked power, territorial power. America stood wild some day. turning back to militarism for 500,000—and to Salonika. He held alone against a vengeful peace, and soldier and racial animosity. out against sending troops to Northern Bliss, the sage of the American Army, was For that reason, when the question came Russia and to Siberia, those foolish ex- the lone outpost who already saw that up between him, Foch and Haig, the Brit- peditions to which the President finally Europe was on its way back to militarism. ish commander-in-chief, he said Ger- yielded on the plea of the big three as The terms were brought "cut and dried" many was entitled by her size, population rulers to ruler. by the Big Four before the Armistice Com- and situation to an army of 400,000 and

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Let But he kept up his battle for a better people rule their own lands in peace. world, speaking, writing for the World When he grudgingly signed the Peace Court, in which he believed, and for the Treaty which was not ready until eight limitation of armaments. Every nation months after the Armistice, and which the was entitled to an army of reasonable size Senate would not accept, he said: for defense, but not one for aggression. "We will have a low period, then a high His happiest moments were spent with period and then hell will be to pay all over his little granddaughter Betty. To her he the world." was quite the best story teller in the The after-war depression of the early world. twenties, the great boom of 1925-28, Pershing, Bliss, March, the three were and then the world depression and Europe made permanent four star generals. But repudiating her war debts and arming to Bliss did not often put on his uniform with the teeth! all his medals of the first class. His mind He was kept on till December, 1919, in kept clear to the last, but his body was Paris, looking after details and laboring wearing out. He knew that he had to die, against our putting up any further mili- but viewed death with Blissian philosophy. tary antes beyond the army on the Rhine. When the question as to where he was to be One of his last acts was to try to hasten buried came up, he chose Arlington. He the return of the German war prisoners HER 1uisLand feared it was an said: who were still in France. They were attack of her old asthma, but tlie human "Pershing has decided for the cathedral, beings. They had wives and children but in case he might change his mind, eminent M. D. correctly diagnosed waiting for them, livings to earn. don't put me where I might be above him the trouhle as "Gas-ma' —overpower- On the day before that set for his de- on a slope. He was commander-in-chief." ing smoke-clouds from a long-neg- parture for home it was found that his car The end came, November 9, 1930. If lected pipe and grouchy tohacco. The had been turned in. He wanted that car the opinion of those who gathered for his back, and his own chauffeur for that final followed best tohacco 111 the world is unhappy funeral and the flag-draped ride to the station. He would go out in caisson to Arlington had been summed up 111 an unclean pipe, and hubby's was style. The car was forthcoming. it would have been like this: Though he lar from the hest. At home he was made Governor of the had never risen to be a town clerk or a Clean outthe oldpipe, friend. Pack Soldiers' Homes; and after that he had his corporal, but had only been the sage who

it \* 1 tli iSir Walter Raleigh /Smoking leisure to read, to visit with his friends. lived down the road, he was a great man. Tohacco. Then puff away and watch your iSweet Aiama smile again. Sir Walter Raleigh has a mildness that wins you, and a delicate fragrance "Vote for Whoozis that wins others. Sales of this choice (Continued from page 21) Kentucky Burley Blend have hoomed phenomenon, he is at least as wide-spread tions. Sometimes barely more than half because it really has the mildness as the people who never get pyorrhea. His the voters trouble about mayor, aldermen, mankind is searching for. Try a tin problems and his behavior may be dupli- councillors and the like. A municipal

. . . will ya, man? cated in every State—his problems by al- election calling out 65 percent of the voting most everybody, his behavior by almost enrollment is very good indeed. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation one out of three. The per capita taxation No wonder Alderman Soandso thrives, Louisville, Kentucky. Dept. A-411 (of all kinds) for the National Govern- and that Aldermen Soandsoes thrive in ment is only about one third the per capita practically every city of every State. taxation of Jones's fellow townsmen, and Alderman Soandso gets by because all of Jones is fairly lucky compared to a good his friends vote; his opponents' friends many Americans. The American Year don't take the trouble. Alderman Soand- Book for 1933 cites as a possible average so votes for appropriations, and thus keeps per capita expenditure for all cities—the a minority satisfied. Our town has paved closest approximation available—$73 and a lot of streets that didn't need it and has some cents. And yet only about two thirds refused to pave a lot of streets that did

as many people vote in municipal elections need it, but in justice to Alderman Soandso as vote in Presidential elections. I must admit that he has voted for the ap- In Jones's ward and city, which is al- propriations regardless of need. There most exactly average in the proportion of are some municipal laborers in his ward; votes to registration in different kinds of he gets their vote. There are some con- elections, almost 90 percent of the voters tractors in his ward; he gets their vote, too. vote for President. Between 65 and 80 One of his greatest triumphs was the cut- percent of them go to the polls in a state- ting of a street through an unprofitable wide election—one of those off-year elec- tenement region to an orphanage for the tions when we choose a Governor, generally superbly naive reason that it would "help one Senator to Washington, and a Con- the poor fathers and mothers to get to the gressman, not to mention a State Senator orphanage to see their children." A local and a member of the Lower House of the newspaper even remarked, rather un- It's 15^— AND IT'S MILDER State Legislature. The figures dwindle couthly Alderman Soandso seemed to further when we come to municipal elec- think, upon the coincidence that the al- 48 Jhe AMERICAN LEGION Monthly N

derman owned some of the unprofitable Now a great many people will argue that tenements that the city planned to take the presidency is the most important office over, but it didn't prevent the re-election in the country and deserves the largest Most Astounding of Alderman Soandso. There were other possible expression of the public will. tenement-owners in the ward; they voted This is true. But to any individual voter, for him, and although the orphan vote was public offices are practically all important. TYPEWRITER negligible, he got by. The Government at Washington can ruin Yet 500 Joneses, going to the polls, the nation. But so can the government could have chucked Alderman Soandso in- at City Hall ruin a municipality. Jones BAR6AI to the political ash-can. The ward has has just as much at stake in the city elec- about 10,000 registered voters. About tion as in the national election. 9000 of them voted for President in 1932. I know a town which had 12,000 in- 10$ a Day About 5500 of them voted for Mayor last habitants only ten years ago. It was pros- this year, and a few less than that voted for perous, with many going industries. It buys New Alderman. Alderman Soandso won by a elected municipal officials who went in for Remington Portable majority of less than 500. And the vote improvements with enthusiasm, but not which he got just about represents his always with judgment. They hired police- Model No. 5 maximum possible vote. It represents men and firemen with eclat. They spent every beneficiary of municipal extrava- money in the true Klondike spirit. In gance in our ward—every beneficiary and order not to infuriate the home-owning his wife and maybe his cousin. citizenry, they tried to make the factories I honestly believe that of the 3500 of the town pay most of the bills. Today, Joneses who stayed away from the last three out of four of those factories are municipal election, about 3400 feel about closed down. And most of them closed Alderman Soandso as Jones feels. down before the depression began. They

Big town or little, the Joneses are were taxed to death. The pampered home- lavishly indifferent to municipal elections. owners often lost their homes anyway, Offer The last municipal election in New York because they lost their jobs. Yet in the PRICE REDUCTION was one of the most important in metro- year 1928, during a spring municipal elec- 25% Accept this amazing offer on a brand new Remington politan history. For once, also, a muni- tion, fewer votes were cast than were cast Portable No. 5, direct to you from the factory. Never cipal election was almost as thoroughly for either presidential candidate in the fall. before could we offer it on such easy terms that it actually costs you but a day to own it. Thia dramalized as a national election. Yet I know of another city of almost 150,000 1(V machine formerly sold for 25% more than its present almost half a million fewer votes were cast people which went to the other extreme. price. The price and the terms make it the greatest in the city election than had been cast in It pampered industry. Factories were un- bargain in typewriter history. the Presidential election the year before. dertaxed and homes were overtaxed until Not a used or rebuilt typewriter, Not an incomplete j machine. A beautiful brand new regulation Reming- Important and dramatic municipal elec- the factories began to have trouble with ton Eortable. Standard 4- row keyboard; standard tions also were held last year in the large their workmen. Some of the factories width carriage; margin release on keyboard; back spacer; automatic ribbon reverse; every essential feat* cities of Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, their packed tooth brushes and moved out. ure found in standard typewriters! but the ballots nowhere fell with the pro- If the State hadn't stepped in under a rip- COURSE IN TYPING fusion of 1932. per law to supervise that city's finances, With your Remington No. isn't all. 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In 1932, York, probably has felt at times that New ably low cash price on this machine. We don't I found, 42,000 fewer Iowans voted for a local election can be as important to an believe we can maintain the present 257" price United States Senator than voted for reduction for long. individual as any national election can be. You can try this machine for 10 days without ballot. in of your money. Not even ship, President on the same And the The presidency is an office which easily risking one penny ping charges. Send for complete details on this off-year election of only about two- 1930, dramatizes itself. The presidential elec- most liberal offer. Get attractive new catalog il- Reming- thirds as many Iowans voted at all, al- lustrating and describing the many tion is a great national show, and this is ton models available on unusually low though they were electing, among others, well. But to Jones and to me, and to you, terms. Clip coupon today! a United States Senator. you and you, Alderman Soandso can be a Remington Rand Inc., Dept. 103-11 Jones evidently isn't stirred up about terrible menace. Let's not be too busy, Buffalo, N. Y. Senators and Governors and state legisla- next time he comes up, to vote against him. Please tell me how I can buy a new Reming- ton Portable Typewriter for only 10f< a day. tors. This, although his state gasoline Or if we are lucky, like my friend Brown, Also enclose your new catalog. tax of three cents a gallon is three times and have a good representative in City

Name . the Federal gasoline tax, although his per Hall, like Alderman Whoozis, let's not capita share of the State budget is almost forget, next time he comes up, to vote to exactly equal to his per capita share of the re-elect him. If another Soandso gets in, City_ _State_

Federal budget. it will be our own fault.

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ROUTES PAY UPTO unsuitable material. Yet this attempt is cal defects. The difference between the commonly tried. My own guess is that not qualifications of a picked force of drivers more than two-thirds of the automobile like ours and the run-of-mine people A WEEK drivers operating today can be safely en- operating most motor cars explains why Big, reliable, national company needs more men immediately to take charge of fine paying Tea and Coffee Routes. Pre- trusted with motor vehicles. Yet many of we can demand 60,000 road miles per ac- vious experience or special training unnecessary, but you must be willing to put in a fair day's work for a fair day's the States with largest automobile regis- cident. Likewise, why we know that the profit. These Routes pay up to $60.00 a week. Earnings start at once. We give brand new Ford Tudor Sedans to tration have utterly no driver's license laws difference between safe and unsafe driving producers. Rush at once. name on post card Do except for chauffeurs this now before your neighborhood route is snapped and other employed is in the drivers themselves. up by someone else. Get free facts today. ALBERT MILLS, Route Mgr. drivers. Many other States issue a driver's Even competent drivers vary in ability 5237 Ave., Monmouth CINCINNATI, OHIO COPE license on application without any tests at different times. I have seen a two-year

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly no-accident driver come to work in a black can stop in the distance you can see. Sup-

mood, then go out and have his first acci- pose you can see for 1 50 feet to the crest of dent. From years of experience we know a hill. And suppose that over the crest it is one of three causes when a no-accident hurtle two cars abreast, taking up all the SAVM •'river becomes an accident repeater: road. Your only chance is to stop in, say, BY BUYING YOUR RADIO Physical impairment, money troubles, or seventy-five feet, giving the passing car a DIRCCT {ROM MIDW£ST LABORATORIES woman troubles, which last classification chance to get back on its own side of the takes in a great deal of territory. The pavement. general mental tone of a driver makes a I hear you objecting that nobody has tremendous difference in his driving ability. any business to pass on a hilltop or on a

When you are worried or have a headache curve, in fact that there is a law against it. or otherwise feel below par, take a bus or a But the fact is, dim-wits do it all the time. train or a streetcar, or let your wife drive You must be prepared for them. Remem- you. ber our advice to the bus driver: Always Rules for safe driving have been enunci- figure that all other drivers are idiots and ated so often that it seems hopeless to com- will behave accordingly. This is a base pile another list which will have much slander on most of the drivers on the road. effect. Instead, let me tell a few of the But if you assume they are all imbeciles, things we expect of our drivers to assure when you meet an imbecile you are on the maximum safety. Likewise, some of our safe side. findings about the causes and occasions for Accidents arising from collisions head- %wl\J as passenger car, but if its great following too close. 1 tance a 1935 Midwest ^J' ?, teenth Anniversary" ? If N-fcW weight hits something at high speed it is the other evening not far from Just my catalog and learn why '^WB Deluxe bound to do a lot of damage. home a fine example of this occurred. A 110,000 satisfied cus-AUDITORIUM'TYPC tomers bought radios you, not believe that alleged $ PtAKtR Mind we do any- police car overhauled an speeder direct from Midwest Mi TUMI - Laboratories andsaved thing above fifty is necessarily dangerous and he stopped on the pavement. The I \i to Yz. You, too, can 30 DAYS for passenger automobiles. I drive my own driver and two officers were standing be- t makeapositive saving of 30% to 50% by or- car well over sixty when road conditions hind his car having a heated argument. dering this more eco- nomical Midwest HUE way. permit. Most of our operating people (the Along came a third car from the same di- gives you triple pro- TRIAL same ones who set the bus rules) drive their rection and crashed all three men against | tection with: Foreign Reception Guarantee, One-Year Guar- own cars at high speeds under favorable the parked car, killing or seriously injuring antee, Money-Back Guarantee. circumstances, and have about as good them as well as the occupants of the third HIGH FIDELITY RECEPTION This bigger, better, more powerful, safety records as have our bus drivers. car. Presumably the figures of the arguers clearer-toned, super selective radio gives

y ou absolute realis m . . .assures you of life- Again, reasonable speed varies with con- hid the tail light until it was too late. The like crystal-clear tone. Only Midwest ditions. When you know that your brakes driver who crashed into them may not gives you a tuning range of 9 to 2400 meters (33 Megacycles to 125 KC). are in perfect order, a speed is safe which have been coming at excessive speed. The 12,000mile range. Now, enjoy today's finest High Fidelity American programs might be reckless if they are gripping even accident was caused when the car was left ...Canadian, police, amateur, commercial, airplane, ship a little less than one hundred percent. standing on the concrete slab. It was made broadcasts. ..unequalled When the road is wet, quick stopping at almost inevitable when the men stood be- world-wide reception. 50 Advanced 1935 Features forty-five is probably the limit of safety, hind it instead of at the side of the road. ...and 16 tubes make still this Super radio to- on asphalt lower; when the pavement The other principal cause of tail-end col- I day's most powerful is icy, the limit may be as low as fifteen; lisions is following too close. How often long-distance receiver. 36-page 1935 dry, gritty concrete road you can stop seen the road cars FREE on a have you on two bowling catalog pictures a com- just as well at sixty-five. With visibility along at sixty with an interval of ten or plete line of beautiful de luxe consoles and perfect and the road straight, set your own fifteen feet between them? Our drivers chassis in four colors. speed limit. But when the air is foggy, have to endure these hind-end cuddlers DEAl DIRECT WIIH IaBORaTORIES Order before the biff price advance... NOW.. .while you v snowy, rainy or otherwise difficult to see much of the time. Since the bus is allowed can take advantage of Mid- $4VE TO through, cut down your speed. The safe only forty-five and most cars on the road west's sensational values... no middlemen's profits to pay. You save 30^ to 50% rule, we tell our drivers, is never to drive are traveling faster, a bus driver's day is ...you get 30 days FREE 50% at a rate which would prevent stopping just one long series of being passed. trial. ..as little as $5.00 down puts a Mid- west radio in your home. SCtltf COUpOit OF within the distance that can be clearly Perhaps half of the passers do it proper- penny postcard for FREE catalog! MIDWEST RADIO CORP. seen. In a heavy fog or dust storm, this ly. Such a passer follows sixty or eighty Established 1920

i Dept. 788, Cincinnati, O., U.S.A. speed may be ten or even five miles an feet behind until the other side of the road \Cable Address: Miraco, All Codes. hour. All right. It is better to creep along is clear for a long enough stretch, then MAIL COUPON TO DAT/ FOIL AMAZING -DAY TRIAL at five than to be picked up in a basket. steps on the gas, toots the horn, goes JO FREE and OFFER AND NEW I91S CATALOG There are other kinds of impaired vision around. The other half get impatient. MIDWEST RADIO CORP.. Dept. 788 User-Agents bility. Curves, for example. On plenty of Even though he will probably not get Make Easy Cincinnati, Ohio. Eitra Money curves a driver familiar with the route around any sooner than if he kept back Without obligation on my part send U neW FR 1935 °«aloir. Check Here knows he can see just as clearly, and about where he belongs, such a driver tails on ?Rpf° MlnC, ">t"re ^PDial, i j and com. for detalls of your liberal 30-day R'5*S„ Details as far, as on a straightaway. But if the close behind the bus, which probably has FREE trial offer. ThU is NOT an order. driver does not know, if he cannot see far far better brakes than his car. So when Nam* ahead, then safe speed at that point is low some sudden danger makes the bus driver _ speed. Similarly coming to the top of a stamp his right foot on the brake pedal, Addracs hill. It is not enough either on a blind the tail-end tagger bashes into the Grey- Tow" State. curve or a hill to drive so slowly that you hound's rear (Continued on page 52)

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bumper. It usually is not very hard on the but you already know that—and if you bus, which is built to take it. But the don't my command of English would never other driver may very well dive through be adequate to drill it into your unreceptive his windshield. skull. It would be possible to take you through All this, then, would be superfluous. You the entire list of major accident classifica- get more good advice about the details tions and tell you what to do to avoid par- of safe driving than you could read in

ticipating in them. But the advice would a year. And the uselessness of it is proved be nothing new to you, nothing newer than by the national accident record, which the advice already given about avoiding climbs year after year. I had rather leave head-on and rear-end collisions—and it is with you just one basic, significant a safe bet you have heard every one of thought which you cannot afford to over-

these at least a dozen times. I might fill look, and which once you grasp it will reams of paper with the familiar populariz- make you a safer driver than you ever ations of formulas which you learned in have been. high-school physics. You know: When It nets down to this: Assuming you a car at twenty miles an hour hits a sta- have the physical and nervous equipment tionary object, the impact is about the for competent driving, you can either be a same as if the car had fallen off a one-story no-accident driver or else an accident re- building; forty miles an hour equals a fall peater. The choice is in your hands. off a four-story building; sixty miles equals Remember now: Don't blame the other nine stories; and so on. I could point out fellow exclusively if you tangle with his the unwisdom of driving an automobile car. For I'll still bet you ten to one you

which is not in prime mechanical condition, could have prevented it.

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maybe win. The crowd was crazy with chance. But then, no matter what we excitement. Time was called while Joe did. we might be wrong. We were just in Cronin, the Washington manager, selected a tough spot, that's all. a pinch hitter to bat for his pitcher. Terry, our manager, made up his mind We thought he would send Sam Rice fast. up to the bat. We were in a tough spot. "All right," he said. "We'll try to When he picked Bolton, we were still in double this guy. I'll play in. Jackson, a tough spot and we did not know how to you play in. Hughie, you and Ryan play pitch to Bolton. None of us knew him. half way. If the ball is hit right, go for We stood there—Terry, Ryan, Jackson, two. If it isn't, we'll make the play at the Mancuso and I—around Hubbell on the plate. And for Crimminy's sake, Hub, mound, trying to make up our minds keep that ball low and away from him. to do while the crowd roared for us Make him hit on the ground. All right. of Boston. Massac what to play ball. Let's go." John Hancock inquiry Bureau It was a cinch that what we had to do Dressen went back to the bench. We 197 Clarendon St., Boston, Mass. was to keep the runner on third from scor- went to our positions waiting for the ball Please send me your booklet about Annuities ing with the tying run. The trick was, how that would either end the game or do

it. Should play in? something else with it. Ryan was playing Name _ _ to do we Should we play back? You see we did not know any- shortstop; I was playing second. Address thing about Bolton. If it had been Rice Hubbell kept the ball low and outside City State who was hitting, we would have known in a spot where it would be most difficult A.L.M. 11. 34 what to do. Incidentally, if Rice had for Bolton to lift it into the air. A long batted and had hit the same ball that fly would have been as bad as a base hit Bolton hit, we never would have been right then. What happened is history. able to make the play we finally made on We made the double play. Bolton. The Senators probably would I knew we were going to make it the in- [LEANS MfflK T have tied the score with two out. stant the ball left Bolton's bat. W e all STRANGE vN"iMn^^^, While we were standing there on the knew it would be a double play or nothing. CHEMICAL mound, scratching our heads, Dressen, We swept into it. The ball hopped along SPONGE a substitute infielder, came gaUoping out the ground a little to Ryan's right. He from the bench. scooped it up and tossed it to me. I Revolutionary Invention cleans autos like magicl Ban- "Listen!" he said excitedly. "You can passed it along to Terry. The game was ishes dust, dirt, grease, traffic film—thanks to secret chemi- double this Bolton! I know him. He over. We had won. It was spectacular. cal and sensational, self-suds- ing feature. Also cleans lino- can't run. You can double him, I tell We felt proud of ourselves. We took the leum, woodwork and windows AGENTS without work! Auto owners you." cheers, but the hero of that play was housewives wild MAKE BIG MONEY! and about New, easy plan. Simply t his strange chemical sponge t show and take orders. No Dressen had played with Bolton in the Dressen. because we didn't know what to SAMPLE OFFER! Samples sent at experience needed. No oar risk to first person in each local- risk. FREE OUTFIT. Southern League. What he suggested do until he told us. it? who writes. No obligation. Be Write today for all details. first—send your ruime today! KRISTEE MFG. CO., 341 Bar Street, Akron, Ohio was a swell idea, but it was an awful There are lots of things happen on a

52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ball field that the fans don't understand. goat and he got it. The big man was so They probably wonder what in the world indignant he hit an easy grounder and was the umpires and one man from each team thrown out. talk about every day just before the game. Everyone who ever has seen a ball game They stand at the plate and point and look has seen the catcher or one of the infielders NO FASTER and pass pieces of paper around. And they stroll over and talk to the pitcher. It is do it every day before every game. taken for granted that the pitcher is getting Maybe the fans don't wonder. Maybe advice or encouragement. Sometimes he they know that somebody from each team is; sometimes he isn't. has to give the chief umpire the official Jack Fournier, the former Brooklyn HIGH POWER batting order in writing. Maybe they first baseman, once came over and told a know also that they are talking about the young pitcher to be sure to pitch inside to ground rules. Rogers Hornsby. The pitcher did and Hornsby almost killed the third baseman BUT I've heard people ask why, when with a line drive. RIFLE MADE! the same teams are playing on the same "What's the idea of tellin' me to pitch grounds for three days, it is necessary to go inside to that guy?" asked the pitcher. rules day. They "I'm a married man with a family to over the ground every SMASHING SHOTS do this to prevent possible arguments support," said Fournier. "I don't want FIVE as fast as you can pull the during the game. There is a different set him hitting any outside balls at me." trigger. Loading, cocking, eject- of ground rules in every park in both With the best intentions in the world, ing all done automatically. The leagues. By going over the local rules Sammy Bohne, playing shortstop for the only locked-breech high power every day, the umpires do not give the Reds, advised Pete Donohue to pitch in- autoloading rifle made in Amer- visiting manager a chance to complain side to Zach Taylor, who was catcher with ica that offers such lightning that he did not know about a certain rule. Brooklyn then. Pete pitched inside and speed, the only one made in the Some of the ground rules sound funny; Zach hit the ball right straight at Sammy whole ivorld that has such instant but they are serious. Everything that can and broke his nose. Sammy just threw his action with dependable, uniform possibly interfere with the handling of the glove up hi the air and yelled wildly: accuracy— is Remingtons Auto- ball is included in the ground rules. One "Wheel" loading Model 8! of those advertising balloons once hovered It stands by you in the "tight over a ball park and the umpire stopped WERE all gathered around Jakie WE places" where life may depend the game and announced: "If the ball May one time, everybody telling on the speed of firing. You can't hits the balloon—two bases." The blue him how to pitch to Hack Wilson. The balk the action. It's absolutely pigeon which came to the world series Reds were playing the Cubs and had a one- safe, for it locks the cartridge in games in Washington last year and would run lead in the ninth. The Cubs had the the chamber until the bullet has not get off the field was put in the ground tying run on third base with two men out. left the muzzle! This means rules. It was understood that if the ball After everyone had told how he thought greater shocking power! Builtfor hit the pigeon, the ball was in play. It Jakie ought to pitch to Wilson, I said: thehardest kind of service. Made never happened; but if it had and there "Well, Jakie; you're the pitcher. How in .25 Rem., .30 Rem., .32 Rem., had not been a rule, there would have been do you want to pitch to him?" and .35 Rem., center fire. See a terrible argument. After listening to all this talk, May this fine rifle at your dealer's, or Every time the fans see players talking, made a great decision. write for free folder which also what it's all about. They he said to Hargrave, his catcher. they wonder "Bub," gives ballistics of Kleanbore guess and most of the time they're wrong. get back of that plate. I'm going to "You Express and Hi-Speed cart- have a lot more fun, if they only wind and throw just as hard as I can. They'd up ridges—the ammunition hits it, I can't help it." knew. If he that keeps your barrel clean incident in a game in the There was an Al Sophrer, catching for the Boston always! Remington Arms league. The Yankees were playing Braves, had nice sociable conversation o'her a Co., Inc., 90 Helen Street, a little lead going into the Tigers and had with Flornsby, at the plate, one time, try- Bridgeport, Conn. the last of the eighth. In this inning the ing to talk him out of getting a hit ir a Tigers filled the bases with two out. Bob pinch. Just Published Fothergill, who is as big as a barrel, was "Hello, Rog," said Spohrer, as Hornsby RECORDS OF the batter. The crowd was excited. came up to bat. "You're lookin' fine. NORTH AMERICAN Fothergill was a good hitter. How d'ya feel?" BIG GAME Suddenly, Leo Durocher, who was play- "I feel fine," said Hornsby, shifting his Compiled by ing short for the Yankees, ran in from his feet and keeping his eyes on the pitcher. PRENTISS N. GRAY position and stopped the game. He "Why don't you come and see us when Until now the only official big spoke to the umpire, pointing to Fother- you get to Boston?" continued Spohrer. game records have been printed in a limited edition costing $10. gill. The umpire waved Durocher away. "I'd like to have you meet the wife." We have long felt the need of making this valuable material The game was resumed. The fans won- "I'd like to do that," said Hornsby, available to all sportsmen, and dered what was the matter. They had always with his eyes on the pitcher. are happy to announce our publication of a special edition for no way of knowing that it was just Duro- "Yeah; come around and have dinner only 25c (all proceeds to be do- nated to the N. Y. Zoological cher setting out to get Fothergill's goat. with us," said Spohrer in his eagerness to Society for compiling future records). It contains the complete If they had been in the field this is what keep the conversation going. records plus detailed measure- they would have heard: "That'll be fine," said Hornsby and he ment charts for registering your own trophies. Send for it today. "Hey, wait a minute," shouted Durocher, stepped up and knocked the ball into the running toward the plate. "Stop the stands for a home run. game!" Spohrer watched the ball disappear "What's the matter?" inquired the um- and forgot all about his wasted efforts pire. at conversation until Hornsby trotted "It's against the rules," protested across the plate and said: "By the way, Remington.

Durocher, pointing to Fothergill. "Those Al . . . What's your address?" two men can't bat at once." Spohrer did not answer. For once a ball Durocher had set out to get Fothergill's player had nothing to say.

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moved from country to city during the to make a reasonable earning. I know, for Each of these farms must have indivi- 1920's. Industry absorbed this labor that is my business. dual equipment, but also all three must supply. Manufacturing boomed at an Nearly a dozen years ago we formed have certain basic machines and animals. unheard-of rate. And for a while all went the Farmers National Company for the This over-all list is: Four or five milk merry as a wedding. sole purpose of managing farms for owners cows, a small truck, and perhaps a small But presently trouble started. The who either cannot do their own managing tractor, a harrow and a disk, a two-row farmers found their cash incomes so im- or desire management more expert than go-devil, a cream separator, a mower, a paired that they quit buying anything they can give. (*) We handle between 600 hay rake, a stacker, and a hay sweep. they could get along without, which was and 700 farms aggregating a quarter mil- Both corn-and-hog farms must also have most of the things the factories were turn- lion acres in six Missouri Valley States. ten to twenty brood sows, two hundred ing out. Presently industry began laying These are all farmed by tenants working and fifty chickens or more, a two-bottom off workmen, among them many former under our supervision. Except for those plow, a two-row cultivator, a corn planter, farmers. These city folks had to cease farms which are badly run-down or on a two-row lister, a grinder, and a self buying freely of the farmers. So we found which some other extraordinary situations binder. The smaller corn-and-hog farm ourselves in the depression. And then prevail, a goodly number of them have re- needs from four to eight horses; the larger came NRA and, for the farmer, AAA. turned a net profit to their owners and to needs twelve horses and perhaps a corn their tenants year after year. picker, where there is considerable corn DOES all of this mean that we should We are practical farmers in our company, acreage and not many boys at home. The curtail our use of farm machinery or do many of us with country banking experi- wheat farm needs besides the basic list, without it? Not at all. Despite the jere- ence as well. To us farming is just as four horses, a hundred chickens, six or miahs who feel that civilization is doomed much a business as is his store to a mer- eight brood sows, a small combine, a larger unless the world scraps labor-saving de- chant or his factory to a manufacturer. You tractor, a three-bottom plow, a one-row vices, I cannot share their gloom. The might, then, expect us to be all depressed lister, and a spring-tooth weeder. world has previously seen temporary over the sad lot of the farmer. Actually, maladjustments and misery from sudden while we know the farmer's lot (like every- THE mechanical equipment for the applications of machinery to jobs which one else's) is at a low ebb and might be smaller hog-and-corn farm costs new had been more crudely handled by larger much improved to the benefit of city folks about $2,000—purchased at a farm sale it numbers of people. It has always worked as well, we have to admit that even during can be had second-hand for between $500 its way out of these troubles, and is now the worst of the panic it was possible to and $1,000. The equipment for the larger working out of this depression. In the make a typical Iowa or Nebraska farm corn-and-hog farm will cost another $600 long run, labor-saving devices have im- pay its way. Why deny it? Our records new or from $150 to $300 second-hand. measurably improved mankind's lot, and show this was being done, not with one The equipment for the wheat farm will this instance will be no exception. farm, but with many farms. cost $2,500 new, or $1,000 to $1,200 We must, of course, draw a sharp line In making a reasonable showing, every second-hand. All of which should con- between the two major kinds of farming: farmer must rely heavily upon good farm vince anyone that today farming leans Farming as a business; and farming as a machinery. The first requisite of profit- rather heavily on machinery.

means of just getting a livelihood. Busi- able tenant farming is, of course, a good On the other side, of course, is the ness farming must always be the reliance tenant. We continually have a waiting list machinery enthusiast who keeps himself of the nation's agriculture, for we cannot of tenants who want to get on farms under head-over-ears in debt paying for ma- endure with half of our people on a bare our management because they know this chinery that he could get along without. subsistence level. But there is also a place is a better than ordinary chance to get There are many such farmers, and they for subsistence farming, particularly in ahead. Consequently we can be some- are even more undesirable than the under- times like these. Subsistence farming offers what choosy. And one of the qualifica- equipped tenant. And oddly enough, a the one best answer to the needs of those tions to which we naturally attach a great craze for machinery quite frequently goes unemployed families with enough farming deal of weight is the machinery and live- with poor farming ability and always with knowledge for the task. Nor does it harm stock and poultry that the tenant owns poor management. I don't know why, the business farmer. Some professional and can bring to his task. We know that unless buying too much machinery shows farm leaders sputter against subsistence without adequate mechanical aids and a lack of the sane business judgment farming as depriving the real farmers of livestock he can make a profit neither for essential to money-making on a farm. their market. My everyday work keeps himself nor for our client, the owner. If you want further evidence that a me in touch with the business farmers. farmer needs a good deal of machinery, I know that not one real farmer in a^thou- ONCE in a while some city friend asks me you can find it by reading the catalogs of sand objects to subsistence farming. The how much machinery a typical farm standard agricultural colleges. The stu- business farmer has the gumption to com- requires. He usually thinks it consists of dent gets practical courses in gas engines, prehend that it is better for him as well as three or four tools, of which he can enu- and half a dozen other mechanical studies for everybody else if we can let unemployed merate a plow, a cultivator, and a cream necessary to today's mechanical farming. families support themselves rather than separator. Of course the kind and quantity One result, naturally, is that farm ma- rely on tax funds raised from the rest of of necessary machinery varies with the size chinery now is far better cared for, and far the population. of the farm and the type of farming. We more economically operated, than when Thfs type of farming cannot, of course, know pretty well the acceptable minimum first it came into use. Recall, if you can, employ farm machinery to any consider- for farms we handle, and we always check the many farm implements which twenty

able extent, hence cannot compete with the tenant's application against our list. years ago stood outdoors in all seasons business farming. With the business Three typical farms of which we handle and weathers. Next time you drive farmer it is different. Since prices of farm large numbers in Iowa and Nebraska are through the country look for therm You products are low, his one hope of making the 240-acre corn-and-hog farm, the 480- don't find them. The farmer has passed a profit lies in producing his crops cheaply. acre corn-and-hog farm, the 640-acre that elementary stage of his mechanical What is more, on a reasonably good farm wheat farm. education. it has been possible all through the de- Farming has come to depend heavily on •Editor's Note: Described in the author's book "Making pression not only to make a living but also Farms Pay," published by Macmillan, New York. machinery besides tillage and harvest-

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ing tools. For instance, the hog raiser another, each performing a successive finds it profitable under most price con- operation which planted a good-sized field ditions to crack the grain, when small of vegetables the same day it was plowed. NEW JERSEY grain is used, before feeding, since it takes I could enumerate similar examples for only three-quarters as much ground feed another half dozen pages. We have not as whole grain to produce a given tonnage even touched upon the machinery used in of pork. Therefore he has a power- such major crops as cotton, fruit, and many PIPE SMOKER driven burr mill or hammer mill for others. We have ignored such familiars grinding. He makes money by installing as the windmill and the gasoline pump; a thermostatically controlled oil heater to nor have we more than mentioned such in- heat the hog house where his sows farrow, genious machines as the corn picker or TELLS OF since the even temperature saves losing husker which in times of high wages saves many pigs. He needs electric light in his several men's wages and in late afternoon hog houses, just as every farmer needs it enables the fanner to haul to his corn-crib (whether or not he has it) in barns, barn- the ears which that morning stood un- BIG DISCOVERY yard, and other work areas. An increas- touched in a ten- to fifteen-acre field. ing number of farms are on central station Quite as important to the welfare of the Writes that he has transmission lines, and many others have rural population, if not so immediate a found out how their own gasoline-driven electric plants. factor in farm profits, is the machinery to smoke a pipeful on one match In dairying many forms of machinery that lightens the farm wife's task. Wash- are used. three milking ing machines, electrically gasoline The commonest— or Here is a letter from a good friend of machine, separator, and the overhead driven. Electric refrigerators, electric and Edgeworth who wants all the members of trolley for handling ensilage and manure gas stoves. Running water and sanitary the World Edgeworth Club to know of his are practical equipment for the larger dairy- plumbing. Farm homes with these con- discovery. man. The last word to date in mechaniz- veniences are all too few. But there are ing dairy barns is in one big-scale eastern more of them than city folks think, and 284 Oak Street Larus & Bro. Co. Audubon, J. establishment where the cows stand on a their number was increasing daily even N. Richmond, Va. July 23, 1934 huge turntable and are rotated to one man while the farm problem and last year's Gentlemen: after another, each of whom performs at much heralded so-called farm strikes I have been a pipe smoker for many years and far his station as specialized an operation as (which they were not) monopolized the as back as I can remember have always used Edgeworth. However, it the workmen on an automobile assembly headlines. For it seems an immutable was not until the past week I learned how line. And the hard-headed farm-bred man rule of intelligent human life that man- to get the maximum out of Edgeworth! Am passing the information along to who told me about this installation as- kind will have more and more mechan- you, being confident it will prove of assist- sures me that it shows a profit by rigorous ical slaves to do its bidding, to save its ance to your countless Edgeworth smokers. Heretofore I crammed old pipe standards of cost accounting. strength, to retard the preventable appal- my chock a block full of tobacco, packing it down There are dozens of specialized types ling waste of human health and time and tight, and then proceeded to use five to ten of farm machinery of which most city happiness that has prevailed for years. matches per pipe load trying to keep the fool thing lit! folks have never heard. In truck farming, Yes, farm machinery is here to stay. Of (Am really ashamed of myself for being for example, plant setters are used—in- this I am convinced. The theorists may bo dumb) But, now I know the real secret! Before loading my pipe I rub my Edge- genious machines which automatically point to tractors and combines as a major worth between my fingers until it feels a make small holes in the prepared row, drop cause of the depression, which I should be little sticky, then instead of "jamming" it into into them tiny plants grown in hotbed or the last to deny. But we practical dirt the pipe and shutting off all possibilities of a draft I merely "dip" my pipe into greenhouse, tuck the soil tight around each farmers have another way of looking at it. my pouch and gently " scoop" up two or plant's roots, and finally give it a benedic- We point to it enthusiastically as the three times until my pipe fills itself. Believe me, my smoke is ever so much tion of water to start it toward your dinner principal reason why, in times such as we improved, and I can smoke a bowl full on one table weeks or months hence. Another went through some months ago with farm match! Further there is practically nothing to throw away at the of the truck gardening machine in increasing use products prices at all-time lows, the end bowl full either. After all that's economy as well is the garden tractor so small that the competent farmer used it intelligently who as enjoyment!!! I am, . farmer does not ride but walks along with was able to keep himself going and Sincerely yours, L. Harris Sullivan it. In a recent farm magazine article a average a reasonable earning in the years photograph showed some six or eight of when dead and dying commercial enter- these machines following close behind one prises cluttered the city streets. The quality in Edgeworth that attracts pipe smokers is the combination of honest tobacco flavor and comfortable mildness. Mildness without flavor is disappointing. Full tobacco flavor without mildness may Keeping the Peace in the Pacific be uncomfortable. Every pipe smoker wants good tobacco flavor, {Continued from page ig) but often he is afraid that a tobacco with Corps, of course, had to depend entirely Throughout the Alaskan cruise, these good flavor may not be mild. Edgeworth upon the good-will and co-operation of aerial dreadnaughts, weighing with a nor- has full rich flavor, Canada in its flight through the Dominion mal load more than seven tons, with their and is guaranteed not for fuel, oil, food, shelter, weather reports, wing span of feet, and a crew of six, 72 to bite the tongue. landing fields, and transportation to and kept in constant communication by radio, Edgeworth is sold from the fields; the Navy's outfit was self- not only with the flagship, but with each everywhere in all sizes, sufficient from the time it left San Diego other. They flew in formation, and on Economy and enjoy- from the 15£ pocket ment until it returned, with the exception of a schedule. Each carried a 75-pound anchor, package to the pound temporary landing nearthe Alaskan border, a rifle, a rubber boat, and emergency ra- humidor tin. Several sizes come in vacuum made because of heavy fog. This landing tions. Always there was a tender ahead to packed tins. In these the factory freshness was made, incidentally, despite the fact lay down moorings, send weather reports, and full flavor are retained indefinitely in that the flagship received and sent, before and provide quarters for the pilots, me- any climate. and during the six hundred-mile flight, chanics, navigators, and radio operators. Edgeworth is made and guaranteed by some 78 messages on the subject of weather On a hop of more than five hundred miles, Larus & Brother Co., Tobacconists since alone. a tender stood {Continued on page 56) 1877, Richmond, Va.

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guard at the half-way mark in case some- Meanwhile, tender number two would thing should go amiss. The pilots not only go on ahead. Tender number one, immedi- were expert fliers; they were naval officers, ately after the departure of the planes, able to carry out the regular naval duties would send out large motor launches to for which they were trained. pick up the moorings and depart for the The value of Admiral Johnson's theory next rendezvous. The harbors were our that pilots should be familiar with local landing fields, and the surface vessels were conditions in Alaska was demonstrated at the fuel stations, storehouses for spare the outset. Pilots who came from the motors and parts, repair depots, and Caribbean, the Canal Zone and San Diego hotels. The writer neither ate in a restau- with pre-conceived ideas of cold, stormy, rant nor slept in a hotel during the entire and foggy weather found, much to their cruise. From the weather reports sent by surprise, that the Alaskan weather was army and navy radio stations, by the neither stormy nor cold; and that while planes themselves, and by passenger ships fog did exist in spots, it was usually pos- at sea, an aerologist on the flagship was sible to fly under it. On the other hand, able to make a forecast each day. If con- they encountered a difficulty which they ditions seemed favorable, the Admiral gave had not expected: The water in many the word for the flight to proceed, first sheltered bays and harbors is usually too consideration being given to the safety of deep for a seaplane anchorage. In one the crews rather than to the maintenance harbor they had to anchor the planes a of the schedule. While in flight, the planes mile from the city. But the point is, they were in constant radio communication with went up there, off the beaten Atlantic, the flagship, and their constantly. changing Caribbean and Pacific track, and gathered positions were plotted on the chart by a They don't mind waiting when first-hand information about weather, fly- member of the Admiral's staff. they've got one of these gloom- ing conditions, possible seaplane and sub- Xo branch of the Army or Navy in and other things. dispelling memory ticklers to help marine bases, many modern times has rendered more valuable They navigated without outside assist- service to .Alaska than its airmen. In 1926 them pass the time and forget their ance from place to place, in uncertain Admiral Johnson, then Admiral Moffett's troubles. weather, and without familiar land-marks assistant, recommended that the Bureau to guide them. Radio, of course, is in- of Aeronautics furnish planes and pilots for All the Wally cartoons that ap- dispensable for successful air operations. It an aerial survey of Southeastern Alaska. facilitated their flights in Alaska, and re- Other mapping expeditions in later years peared in the A. E. F. Stars & duced the flying hazard considerably. The explored and photographed from Navy Stripes during the war reprinted in Signal Corps and other radio stations planes thousands of square miles of un- a handy sized volume of 76 pages brought the flagship advance reports on charted land area, shores, harbors, and in- the weather, and kept the squadron leaders dentations in the coast line. During their with defamatory introductions by — advised as to ceiling and visibility along recent flight to Alaska the Army bombers Alexander Woollcott and John T. the route. Only once did radio have an covered 10.000 square miles in their aerial Winterich. opportunity to prove its greatest value, survey. These photographic flights have viz., to give the latitude and longitude of a expedited the work of the Geological Sur- plane that was forced down at sea by en- vey, the Forest Service, the Hydrographic A book of belly laughs to hand gine trouble. Once a plane did not start Office at Washington, the Army and the your waiting dinner guest—or the with the others, but this delay was caused Navy. They have made it possible to esti- kiddies. To keep on the tables of by a defective switch. Both planes were mate the value and extent of the Govern- hoisted on board the nearest tender, re- ment's timber resources and water-power your living room—the doctor's of- paired, and later lowered over the side. sites, and to locate roads and trails. fice professional men's ante-rooms Flying the twelve Navy seaplanes to Captain H. Hoover, Admiral — Ask J. —clubs and barber shops. Always Alaska and back to San Diego, and operat- Johnson's Chief of Staff, what the recent ing them for two months independent of Navy flight expected to accomplish, and new. any aid from the mainland, required a he will say, with due care in selecting his great amount of preparation and fore- words: "The Alaska operations were for at least one before Send thought. The first thing to take into con- planned for the purpose of training the sea- they re all gone. sideration was the cruising radius of the plane squadrons to operate from their PM-i type of flying boat. That being tenders over a considerable period of time; A wonderful Xmas present. known, the route and the number of stops to familiarize the pilots and navigators were arranged on the chart, and the ten- with the geography of the Alaskan coast; ders so distributed and their schedules so and to give the flying personnel an idea of LEGION BOOK SERVICE laid out that one always arrived ahead of what sort of weather they may expect dur- The American Legion Monthly, the squadron to drop a 500-pound anchor ing the late summer." Apparently that is Indianapolis, Ind. for each plane. This tender remained on the Navy's story—and they are going to Please send me one book of Wally's the spot, sending weather reports at in- stick to it. For we have diplomats in the cartoons for the $1.50 enclosed. tervals and furnishing oil and gas for the Navy, as well as in the State Department. planes, and food and shelter for the men The fact remains, however, that high Name 72 comprising the crews. It furnished a naval officials have gone on record as Address speedboat to patrol the anchorage at night favoring a naval base for seaplanes and and thus to insure the safety of the big submarines in the Aleutian Islands. The Town State flying boats; and the tender's searchlight Governor of Alaska urged it in his last re- was trained on them at frequent intervals. port to Washington. The American Legion,

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Department of Alaska, "relying on the more extensive and important than those opinions of eminent naval authorities that of the United States. If—or when—we the next great war will be fought in the give up the Philippines, and Japan should CONSTIPATED Pacific," recorded its vote in favor of es- invade them on some pretext or other such SinceHe ChangedJobs tablishing an air and submarine base near as she used in the Manchurian affair, Great For two years after Dutch Harbor as soon as practicable. Such Britain would not sit idly by; she has too changing jobs he a base, Alaskans point out, would be nearer many interests in the Pacific, and there are fought constipation... < Ordinary laxatives lost Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaiian Islands, too many parts of the British Empire bord- their effect— left him "dragged out "—even than would a base on the Pacific Coast. ering upon it. She would have, as the only weak—then worse than before. Working northward from Pearl Harbor alternative to a war with Japan, an alli- and southward from Dutch Harbor, scout- ance with that country—and Canada, ing vessels, submarines and seaplanes could Australia, and New Zealand would not per- keep enemy ships from approaching the mit that. continental United States. It may be that peace or war in the For years the annual naval maneuvers Pacific depends in considerable degree have struggled with the problem of how upon how long Japan's military and naval Solved Problem at Last to keep any Asiatic power from approach- leaders are able to retain their power. It ing the Panama Canal or the Pacific Coast may be that they embarked on warlike and SAFE, ALL-VEGETABLE WAY! cities. imperialistic policies in Shanghai and THEN his doctor told him, as yours will tell At Versailles in iqiq, Japan was given Manchuria to draw the attention of the you—"Use a natural all-vegetable laxative." a League of Nations mandate over the average citizen of Japan away from a seri- Discover the difference for yourself. Give Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets) a trial tonight. ous internal situation, It has islands in the Pacific which she had taken been done be- See how much better you feel tomorrow—how from Germany in the early months of the fore in the Flowery Kindgom. refreshed—invigorated—a clear head—better digestion—a feeling of pep and aliveness. What World War. This gave Japan virtual con- Japan's system of government is auto- a difference from minerals and laxatives control of most of the North Pacific. The cratic, in that the people have no real voice taining phenol derivatives! The bowels act naturally —thoroughly—but gently as nature Japanese have announced their withdrawal except in home affairs. There is, it is true, intended . For Nature' s Remedy contains nothing from the League, but they still hold the an Upper and a Lower House, correspond- but the natural laxative elements of plants and vegetables. That's why Tablets are so islands, which form a series of potential ing in many respects to our own Senate and NR kind to your system. You'll want to use them bases for war vessels and seaplanes. House, but these are little more than de- regularly—whenever troubled with headaches, colds, biliousness or other conditions caused by By the terms of the London Naval bating societies; if the opinions of the accumulated bowel poisons. Get a 25c box at Treaty, Japan must not establish such members clash with those of the govern- any drug store. bases for war purposes. Harbors are there- ment, they are ignored. The army has a CDCP 1935 Calendar-Thermometer, beautifully de- f If EE signed in colors and gold. Also samples TUMS fore being improved, and docks and ware- power which a democratic form of govern- and NR. Send stamp for postage and packing to A. H. LEWIS CO., Desk 150-SW, St. Louis, Mo. houses constructed for "commercial pur- ment would not tolerate. For example, the poses." A flying field is being built upon minister of war is not a civilian, responsible prfuzeb GET the nearest suitable island to our own to the President; he is an army general, y Remedy A TOMORROW Guam so that "atmospheric conditions" intent upon building his war machine to I l£SEBIK3SMB5rALRIGHT 25

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J^egions ^Against War JUL (Continued from page 4) their lives in the World War Mounted Police with their prancing YOUR HOME IN May their heroic sacrifice ensure steeds, and a score of distinguished Can- PHILADELPHIA lasting peace among the nations adian officials and private citizens. Here a gracious, unobtrusive —Dedicated at the Canadian From the mist-swept coast of British hospitality in the best Phila- Legion Convention June 13, 1934. Columbia, the waving grain provinces

delphia . . . tradition every With representatives of the British and the industrial centers, they came thought for your comfort . . . Crown and the Lieutenant Governor of representing that famed Princess rooms smartly modern in Pat decoration and appoint- Canada, prominent Canadian Legion- regiment and a dozen others which had ments, including Simmons naires and American Legionnaires, Ore- left their dead in the mud at Ypres,

Beds . . . the skill of Bellevue gon's Governor Julius L. Meier, and dis- Yimy Ridge, Cambrai and elsewhere on chefs . . . and a convenience tinguished fields of of location that will make citizens and clergymen taking the Flanders. Those who had yours a well remembered part, a group of ten American Legion seen service on the mystery ships, on visit. drum corps buglers playing taps and a the transports and fighting ships in the lone Canadian bugler playing the last North Sea and the Mediterranean, those post, the unveiling and dedicatory ser- who had entered Jerusalem with General eiievuc f < <~>t cat^ot(L vices were exceedingly impressive to the Allenby, a score who had gone over

CLAUDE H. BENNETT, General Manager many thousands who attended. with the first Canadian contingent—all Official cognizance of the movement representative of those valiant Canadians /VenvAdding Machine to bring about closer unity among the who went to the defense of their mother English-speaking races and further the country at the first call—trekked across Fits Vest Pocket! interests of peace was given by The Ameri- the border to receive the welcoming hand- Adda, subtracts, multiplies, and divides like $300 machine — yet it costs only can Legion with State Commander clasp of American Legionnaires, war

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The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly its thousands of visitors but to the entire to representative Portland citizens, de- nation, Canada, England and most of the clared that the people of Canada living onv€ni€nT world, as the opening of the convention alongside of the great English-speaking was broadcast nationally, then picked up nation that is the United States, and re- in Canada and by short wave transmitted lated in a commonwealth status to the to England, where it was re-broadcast to great mother country of the English were English listeneis. in a position to act as intermediaries to Distinguished Canadian speakers promote the peaceful world leadership stressed the fact that the people of the of the English-speaking races. United States and Canada had lived "War is not altogether a matter of border to border in harmony and good armament and standing armies," said will for more than a century on either General Ross. "It is a matter of heart and side of a division line of more than 3,000 mind. When suspicion and distrust and miles with no fortresses for defense and greed have been eliminated from human no armed men on guard and this in itself relationships, real progress towards per- should be an example and an inspiration manent peace between nations has been to other nations. achieved. The Canadian Legion has for Brigadier General Alex Ross, domin- its purpose not only the reverencing of the ion commander of the Canadian Legion, dead past but to build for the happiness R€flSOnflBL in one of the principal addresses, given and security of the future." Accessible to Philadelphia's stores,

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whims of those it serves . . . And the The Jfome That found Itself appeal of less than "top" hotel rates.

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Commander of the G. A. R., ordered a tion. By the time it was beginning to re- committee of the Ohio General Assembly ceive children of World War veterans, to visit the home at Xenia. As a result of everything in the United States had that visit, the Legislature passed an Act changed, but the Home still remained as it under which the State assumed the cost of had been. Society and industry, all the maintenance. The act provided that con- everyday affairs of life had grown im- CHESTNUT AND NINTH STREETS, PHILADELPHIA trol of the Home should continue to be mensely complicated. E. LESLIE SEFTON, Managing Director vested in a board of trustees composed of Through sheer inertia and public indif- THE LARGEST UNIT IN THE UNITED HOTELS CHAIN veterans. A woman might be appointed ference, the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' to the board if she were the wife, sister or Orphans' Home had become obsolete and daughter of a veteran. Mrs. Hayes, wife antiquated. Furthermore, it was in the grip of the Governor, exercised as a member of of the dead hand of the past, and for a time the board the same sympathy and ability it seemed that nothing could shake that which she was later to show as mistress of grip- PI ay ATune the White House. Now can be told the story how that Home at Xenia was changed from an out- In 10 Minutes years have passed since of-date institution into a Home which On yourSpanish Guitar. Uke, Tenor Banjo, SIXTY-FIVE Mandolin or Banjo Mandolin. No knowh the first building of the Ohio Soldiers' can serve as a model for the rest of the edge of music necessary. No practice. Play first by number, then and Sailors' Orphans' Home with its tower country. Now can be told the story of the by note. Simply attach E-Z Player to your favorite in- FREE and gables was erected on the hillside remarkable transformation which has strument— press num- instruction bered book keys and play. with numbered tunes overlooking the town of Xenia. The been effected at Xenia since The American V and chords comes with every E-Z Player. Start country has passed through two more wars Legion began in 1927 to exercise its right- y playing popular tunes by number right off the reel. since then, and the maples and elms and ful voice in the Home's affairs. Be the life of the party — the center of attraction — a radio star. oaks which were set out as saplings along Two leaders of the Ohio Department Don't wait. Write today for 3-Day Free Trial Offer and Special Guitar the winding drives of the Home grounds of The American Legion, working quietly, Values. A postcard will do. FERRY SPECIALTIES, INC., have to spreading trees. The last with no thought of reward or even public grown Dept. 3711 Evanston, 111. son or daughter of a Civil War veteran to approval, had the leading roles in this edu- graduate from the home has long since cational achievement. Seven hundred gone into the world of everyday affairs. children in the Home today owe to them On the whole, the Home at Xenia has their chance for richer citizenship. performed well its duty to the State, to As this is written, the Ohio Soldiers' society and to the orphaned children of and Sailors' Orphans' Home is showing the Ohio war veterans. Judged by the stand- earliest remarkable effects of American ards which prevailed when it was created, Legion thoughtfulness, planning and guid- by the standards which ruled for several ance. The new order of affairs, remember, scores of years thereafter, it served always dates back only six or seven years. The with high honor. boys and girls who have been graduated But the State and society grow careless. in the intervening years have been helped WAGON MAN The children of Civil War veterans were by the new order, but the real beneficiaries I—We Furnish Capital -J cared for adequately, in relation to their of the new order are the children who are A great responsible, successful, 45 year old company now makes this surprising offer to honest men. Invest times. So were, for the most part, the now of kindergarten age, who will be privi- no capital in merchandise! Let us start you in a permanent business that YOU own and control for yourself. children of Spanish-American War vet- leged to receive from now on through all Become an Authorized McConnon Dealer and handle the complete McConnon Line—no red tape. We finance erans. But as the memory of those earlier their years to the age of 18 the benefits you with complete stock. You extend credit to your friends and customers when and if you please. Only a wars faded, as people generally began to which the Legion is now guaranteeing to certain number of these "stock furnished" propositions are open. Each one offers a good living with a chance to forget original strong concepts of obligation them. put some money in the bank every week. Honest, steady men who write promptly are assured of first considera- and duty, the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' It has been said and often repeated tion. Write TODAY and ask for special offers Address McCONNON & COMPANY. "The House of Friendly Orphans' Home became a forgotten institu- that a great (Continued on page 60) Service". Desk 130- LD, Winona, Minnesota*

NOVEMBER, 1934 59 Want to Bag The jTome That found Itself More Game? [Continued from page 59) institution is but the prolongation of the not answered adequately in the opinion shadow of an individual. It should be of the committee. It submitted a com- said here and now that the Ohio Sol- plete report covering its findings to the diers' and Sailors' Home as it now exists, Grand Voiture meeting held during the a model for the country as it stands, a annual convention of the Department at tremendous inspiration for the future, rep- Elyria. This report included twenty-six resents seven years or more of work by recommendations for changes in the Home. Herbert R. Mooney, the President of its It also requested the Governor of Ohio to Boaid of Trustees, and Milt D. Campbell, appoint a survey committee to make plans Secretary of the Board. Mr. Mooney is a for the future physical, mental and moral These two valuable booklets, SENT FREE, tell how to improve yourshoot- Past Commander of the Ohio Department betterment of the home. ing ! How to aim, lead, practice. Prop- er gun weight, barrel boring, testing of The American Legion. Mr. Campbell Governor Vic Donahey appointed the for gun fit, etc. "Days with Super-X" was formerly a National Vice Commander survey committee in gives actual experiences with Super-X 1927, and he sent a on game, from quail to geese. Hints and is now Chairman of the Legion's special message to the General Assembly on blinds, decoys, etc. A world ofhelp- ful information worth dollars to you. National Child Welfare Committee. asking that body to appropriate money for But we send them absolutely FREE! needed changes Mail Coupon today! Ten years ago the Ohio Department at the Home. Mr. Camp- first became aware that the Home at bell was made a member of the survey 2 Shooting Booklets FREE! Xenia had fallen sadly behind in the march committee. So was Herbert R. Mooney of educational progress. Its buildings, of Woodsfield, then Department Com- Western Cartridge Company, erected after the Civil War for the most mander of The American Legion. The Dept.FC-68,East Alton, Illinois. part and improved or added to in later Committee was charged specifically with Send, FREE, the two booklets, "HOW TO HIT 'EM" and "DAYS WITH SUPER-X." years under inadequate appropriations, the duty of preparing a five-year building Name were not worthy of the State—had become plan for the institution. Street or R.F.D unsuitable in many respects for the use The survey committee began to get re- State Post Office being made of them. Teaching methods sults. New buildings were erected, but it and courses of instruction, both in the became apparent that the Board of Trus- elementary and high school grades and in tees as it was then constituted could not the vocational training branches, belonged adapt itself to the program being prepared. to a period which had long since been left A new hospital with 100 beds was built in behind in modern institutions elsewhere. 1928. It was then and it is now as modern Provisions for the health of children, for and complete as any hospital of its kind in the cultivation of character and person- the country. Modern toilet facilities were ality, were likewise deficient. It was dis- installed in place of old and worn-out ones covered that the administrative branch that were in the cottages. Dangerous of the institution and its corps of instruc- winding stairways—terrible fire hazards- tors, through lack of knowledge of modern were removed from all the cottages and practice, were incapable of devising and fireproof stairways were built. New light- putting into effect the changes necessary ing fixtures were provided, and in general

if the Home were to take its place as an the cottages were rejuvenated as far as it is efficient institution by today's standards. possible to rejuvenate old buildings. A series of unfortunate developments in There were built also two new and very the Home began making newspaper head- modern cottages, one known as Roosevelt lines in this period. It became more Hall, for the boys of the graduating class, apparent in each new month that the con- the other dedicated to the memory of ditions at the Home were drifting into Lucy Webb Hayes, for the older girls. chaos. New officials were obtained, but In the two following years, there was defects were too widespread to permit built a new trade school building, com- correction overnight, and the people of the pletely equipped for the teaching of voca- A BINDEIt suitable for preserving your copies of The State began to manifest impatience as tional courses for boys. American Legion Monthly. THIS binder is strong, artistic in design, beauti- crisis succeeded crisis. New buildings were not enough. The fully embossed in gold, and made of blue artificial issues of the magazine. lcatber. Each holds six It is to the everlasting credit of the Forty spirit of the school was still derived from THE price of this binder is * 1 .00 each, postpaid, countries, add to in the United States. In foreign and Eight in Ohio that it took in 1924 the old patterns. Boys and girls, even broth- remittance estimated postage. The American Legion Monthly first effective action to correct things. It ers and sisters, were not permitted to have P. O. Box Indianapolis, Indiana 1357, acted after Dr. Edward Smith of Amlee social life together. Their clothes were of Voiture of Columbus, investigating the old pattern and of uniform nature. Meals medical needs of the home, found that the were far from good. The schools had de- HowTo Secure A Home's hospital was antiquated and medi- teriorated. The improvement program cal needs in general were great and urgent. had to go on. Government Position The Ohio Grand Voiture of the Forty and As the fundamental requirement of Why worry about strikes, layoffs, hard Eight appointed a special committee to in- further changes, the Legion demanded at times? Train now for a Government job! Many examinations expected. Increased the resig- salaries, steady work, travel, good pay. vestigate further the needs of the Home. its next department convention Open to citizens 18 to 50. Let me help Trustees. you become a Rail way Post il Clerk, Post Mr. Campbell, leather goods manufacturer nation of the entire Board of Office Clerk. City Mail Carrier, Rural Carrier, —or help you pet into any other of Cincinnati, was made chairman of the It was a bold step, but the reasons the Government job you want. I was a Sec- retary Examiner of Civil Service Com- committee. Legion presented convinced public opin- mission for 8 years. Have helped thousands. Ex-Service men get preference. Mr. Campbell's committee, after an in- ion and the Governor. The resignations Now FREE ftr-.'-.sy) vestigation lasting six months, prepared a were given. The Governor then re-ap- - A.T?.^ATTE^sbN, c7CirScrvice"!™pert series of twenty-four pertinent questions pointed two of the old members who had PATTERSON SCHOOL. 6311 Wisner Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. Please send me. without obligation, jour free book. "How which it presented to program. Express- Secure a Government Position." the chairman of the supported the Legion's Board of Trustees. Those questions were ing his own confidence in the Legion's pro- 60 ne AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

gram, the Governor appointed Past De- Legion urged in the Legislature the neces- partment Commander Mooney as Presi- sity for an immediate appropriation for INSTANT freedom dent of the Board and Mr. Campbell as the building of a new dining room it en- for your Secretary. countered opposition. Economy was in the Fingers The newly-constituted board went to air. work. After testing several new superin- At this juncture, the Legion organized

tendents, it gave this important position a "Home Lobby." Each Legion post and to Harold L. Hays, a young veteran of the Auxiliary unit got in touch at his home World War who had graduated from Ohio with the Representative from its county State University in 1923. Legionnaire and the Senator from its district, present- Hays, a captain in the 147th Regiment of ing the reasons for the Legion's request while your the Ohio National Guard, demonstrated for the new appropriation and urging quick an understanding of the Home's many action. The Legislature did not delay. hands keep warm needs and he has continuously held the It provided the money for the new dining A comfort and joy for all confidence of the board while many addi- room and the Peter Pan Cottages as well. outdoor work and sports, hunting, motoring, etc. A quick "flip" and your fingers are in or out, as tional changes were being made. You ought to see that dining room to- desired. Slot in right palm, with snug-fitting flap day. Gone are the days of the long tables provides marvelous new utility. A chief matron was obtained, her ap- Genuine wet-proof SARANAC rule. grain deer pointment predicated upon her special and the "no talking" Now the boys WET EM (buckskin) ; wool lined ; knitted wrists. Long and training. assistance and girls of assorted ages sit in family-like they education The wear ; all-weather comfort. never Sizes, large, medium, small. of the United States Children's Bureau, groups at little tables, each presided over $2.50 Postpaid the Child Welfare League of America and by a cottage mother or older student. HARDEN Full refund if not delighted the National Child Welfare Division of Brothers sit at tables with their sisters. upon examination. Legion in The children talk with one another and a The American was obtained the PARKER BROS. & CO. solution of many of the Home's problems. lively hum of conversation fills the room. Dept. A. Littleton, N. H. Typical of the manner in which these There is no depressing uniformity of cloth- Dealers: Send for samples. many problems were handled was the pro- ing, nothing else to suggest repression and cedure in erecting a new nursery and home regimentation. No exaggerated introspec- for the smaller children. Today, contrast- tion. Instead, good manners and self SARANAC ,icskin ing strongly with the cottages erected just assurance, cheerfulness and confidence in after the Civil War, the Peter Pan Cot- today and tomorrow. tages, finished in have the appear- These are the impressions you get, in- Dl- MITT 1933, HAN ance of a group of homes of Cape Cod cidentally, wherever you see these boys Colonial architecture in an American and girls, in their classes, on the play- BEAN'S CANOE SHOE suburban town. While the cottages are ground, in the gymnasium—even in the Made of high grade brown elk leather wich double connected, they appear to be six separate dentist's office or the hospital ward. oil "tanned moccasin sole, rubber heel and Talon " Fastener. It is a combination "Slipper Shoe. used cottages and there is a separate unit of Always you feel that the new way of do- for many purposes around administration. The cottages provide ing things has only started to produce its camp and cottage. Sizes 3 to 12 facilities for the housing and training of great results and that the plans which are Write for Catalog Mfd. by children between the ages of admission, just beginning in every department of the four years, and school age. institution will carry the Home to fine LLBEAN 437 Each unit is designed for a family of achievements unthought of today. Main St. Freeport eighteen under the care of the house You find Dr. T. F. Humphrey, resident Maine mother. The cottage mother's living physician and veteran of the Navy, con- quarters are so located that she is in templating with satisfaction the advances touch with her family at all times of the already made but eager to enlarge still Diamonds day or night. further the provisions for keeping his boys and girls mentally well as physically To make this building all that it should as Win Hearts:111 be, the board and the architect visited fit. They study pupils as individuals, m Buy a gorgeous blue white progressive homes of this type in the incidentally, in Dr. Humphrey's depart- Diamond ring for "the only

girl" — or buy and wear a superb I United States and scanned plans speci- ment, and there have been amazing per- and Diamond ring of your own— the fications of similar buildings erected in sonal transformations of scarred victims admiration of all your friends. 1 ALL STANDARD MAKES OF Europe. Miss Helen G. Lindsay, head of early environment under the magic WATCHES ON EASY CREDIT

TERMS - ELGINS . . . HAMILTOIIS supervisor, and the other supervisors of of modern psychiatry. That is an explora- . ..BULOVAS.. .TAVANNES. the Peter Pan Cottages have succeeded in tory field, and the future promises great Send for big new FREE Loftis Cata- No.38.Solidl8-K log; Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry on WhiteGold; Three convenient terms; everything doing just what it was hoped these cot- accomplishments. confi- diamonds; dential. Money Back ifNot Satisfied. (1.25 a Week tages would make possible. The little This habit of looking toward tomorrow 30 estate St. DEPT. boys and girls living in them are leading extends to every department. For exam- IOFTIS F-36 L jewelry co. Chicago, III. happy, natural lives, developing the habits ple, when the Board of Trustees decided which through life will be priceless to in 1932 that a survey of the Home's them. You feel, seeing them at rest, at schools should be made, the survey widened ^— ^ study or play, that if The American Legion into an expert examination of every re- " u. s. had done nothing else in the Home, what source and every facility. As a monu- Government it has done here has justified all its effort. ment to this spirit there now exists a 178- You have that same feeling, too, when page book entitled "Survey of The Ohio + JOBS' * you see the Home's new dining room. Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home," While the Peter Pan Cottages were being published by the Bureau of Educational planned, the floor of the Home's old dining Research of Ohio State University. It is $1260 to$2100 Year room budding sagged and threatened to far from dull reading. Ex-Service Men Get Preference FRANKLIN INSTITUTE / collapse. Luckily, this happened at night. The director of the survey was Dr. T. Dept. J 183. Rochester, N. Y.

Sirs : Rush to me without charge The accident lent emphasis to the Legion's C. Holy. was assisted a large staff Many Fall o He by 0. (1) 32 page with list Examinations book of repeated warnings concerning the danger- of associates and consultants. The report U. S. Government steady Jobs. Expected § (2) Tell me how to get one of these ous condition of the Home's older struc- of the survey is convincing evidence of the jobs and preference to Ex- Service Men. Mail Coupon ' Name tures. Nevertheless, when The American soundness of the (Continued on page 62) today sure / Address NOVEMBER, 1934 6l — —'

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Send for FREE Catalog principles and program which have guided of Civil War architecture, which still sur- Over 200 Styles and Sizes of Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces— 174 the Home since the Legion began to exert vive. It declared its belief that safety ranges, 12 heating stoves, 22 furnaces. More Bar- its influence. and sanitation demand new construction. gains than in 20 Big Stores. New styles, new features, With the assistance of more than a score This winter scores of Ohio Auxiliary new colors. Cash or easy terms. Year to Pay— 30 of educational authorities, enlisted in a units will be sending to Xenia stores of days free trial —360 days approval test—$100,000 consulting staff, every branch of the Home jelly and canned goods, and there will be Bank Bond Guarantee 24-hour shipments. was studied thoroughly. The survey represents all round at Christmas time at The Kalamazoo Stove Co., Mfra. Over 850,000 2066 Rochester Av., Kalamazoo, Mic port placed ninety-five recommendations the Home from the Legion posts of Ohio. Satisfied Users 34 Years in Business before the Board of Trustees and the Board There are many years ahead. You will Write /or FREE Catalan adopted ninety-one of them. On the pat- want to know five years from now, and ten tern thus laid out, the Home is being re- years from now, what has been done at made for its greater future. Xenia after the beginnings here described. When the Ohio Department held its 1934 A State has embarked upon a worthwhile ToAnySuit! convention at Sandusky in mid-August, experiment in better citizenship as a part Double the life of your coat and vest with correctly it turned an approving eye toward the of its performance of duty, and you as a matched pants. 100,000 patterns^^^ Every pair hand tailored to your measure. ^ Home and adopted resolutions requesting Legionnaire are wishing it every success. Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send pleco the General Assembly to provide additional So, as time speeds, stop now and then to of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY new buildings to replace some of the ones observe what is happening at Xenia. 209 So. State St. Dept. 145 Chicago 5< &10< COUNTER GOODS PROFIT MAJ sportsmen zAll I mimuni- BRAND — ' Call demonstrate World's great- on dealers ' 1...3 Counter Card Goods: Aspi: complete line Razor Blades, Merct_ _ (Continued from page *me. Peanuts, 66 big, new profit jj) ' makers. Powerful, self-Belting dis- plays- Big profits for dealers and you anent, repeating business. N< ment to start. Send for big 64 but in the larger cities they are still doing Parents and Teachers. Second was the t-age FREE Catalog. Old reliable firm. mm -mm _ WORLD'S PRODUCTS CO., Dept. 11813 Spencer, Ind good deeds for the sick and wounded vet- General Federation of Women's Clubs. eran and his family. Forty-three States and the District of Co- GOING BALD? Take for example Florence Nightingale lumbia were represented. Post of Toledo, Ohio. From Legionnaire The principal award of $1,000 was won Don't waste money on medicines, hair tonics, mas- saginfr the top of your scalp, u you ire bald Laura Peregoy Keeler comes a letter tell- by the Council of Social Agencies of Rich- vour hair is beyond restoring. But—you may save four hair vl it has not fallen out yet. My book on Baldness—CAUSE AND PREVENTION ing about the "Loan Closet" established mond, Virginia, in recognition of its estab- telle, bow. This book i9 a result of 35 years practical" experience as a physician in Europe & the by this post, a store of wheel chairs, lishment of a Citizens' Service Exchange, Orient, as well as the U. S. Sent FREE. Write Dr. B. L. Dorse;. M.D., Dept. 24, Fullerton crutches, sick room supplies of many de- in which thousands of unemployed were Meg,. St. Louie, Mo. scriptions, from which stricken service provided with the necessities of life in pay- The American Legion men may borrow equipment. When the ment for their labor. This was to have National Headquarters borrowers return the wheel chairs, the been the only award, but three additional Indianapolis, Indiana crutches and other articles, these indis- awards of $100 each were announced; in- Financial Statement pensable aids are lent again to other cluding the Legion project in Colorado and August 31, 1934 sufferers. the Auxiliary project in Mississippi. Shortly after the post began its loan The American Legion Auxiliary in Jack- Assets work, its single wheel chair was borrowed son, Mississippi, co-operated with the

Cash $36,013.98 by a Legionnaire with a fractured verte- Community Welfare Association of its city

Notes and accounts receivable. . . 26,250.73 bra. When appeals for mobile chairs were in establishing a free hospital, in which in Inventory, Emblem merchandise. 27,780.32 received from three other stricken service four months care was provided for bed Invested funds 700,406.30 91 Permanent investments: men, the post issued an appeal which patients and 160 clinical patients. Legion Publishing brought in from attics other chairs which In Huerfano County, Colorado, in an Corporation $557,522.34 Overseas Graves Decoration could be loaned. The appeal also brought employment project initiated by the Trust 177,387.17 734,909-5! donations of many other sick room articles. Parent-Teacher Association, the Legion

Improved real estate, office bldg.Wash. All of the equipment not in use is stored in post in Walsenburg assumed entire re- D. C 130,746.50 the home of Miriam C. Joyce, Post Ad- sponsibility for the building of a baseball Furniture and fixtures, less deprecia- tion jutant. park. Deferred charges 19,220.10 Edward A. Hayes, National Commander the Legion, the of The American Legion, was one of the $1,711,664.43 By For Town judges. Associated with him were Mrs. Liabilities THE American Legion Auxiliary unit in Geline MacDonald Bowman, President of Jackson, Mississippi, and Walsenburg the National Federation Current liabilities $165,072.73 of Business and Funds restricted as to use i3.95J-'7 Post of The American Legion in Huerfano Professional Women's Clubs, Mrs. Grace Irrevocable trust: County, Colorado, figured importantly in Morrison Poole, President of the General Overseas Graves Decoration Trust 1 77>3^7- 1 7 Reserve for investment valuation 97,562.39 two of the four projects which won awards Federation of women's clubs, Mrs. Hugh in the Ladies' Home Journal's 1933 civic Bradford, former President of the National *453.975-46 achievement competition, and ten percent Congress of Parents and Teachers, and Net Worth: of all the entries in the competition were John A. Lang, President of the National

Restricted capital. . $700,405.30 submitted by Legion posts or Unrestricted capital: Auxiliary Student Federation. Capital surpl'is units. In announcing the awards in $147,323.72 _ October, the Ladies' Home Journal stated Investment valuation surplus Roll Call $409,959.95 $557,283.67 $1,257,688.97 that The American Legion and its Auxili- ary stood third in both number and per- M. BRISTOL, who wrote $1,711,664.43 CLAUDE centage of entries. In first place, with 13 "Legions Against War," is a member

Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant percent, was the National Congress of of Portland (Oregon) Post . . . Admiral W.

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H. Standley, author of "The Navy and Our Cobb-Williams Post of Hibbing, Minnesota. ' Deformed or National Defense, ' is a member of August us Harvey Dunn, who made the cover P. Gardner Post of Washington, D. C. . . . painting for this issue, is a member of De- Injured Back Karl W. Detzer belongs to Bowen-Holliday Witt Coleman Post of Tenafly, New Jersey Thousands of Post of Traverse City, Michigan ...... Among other artists contributing to the r Remarkable Cases Frederick Palmer is a member of S. Rankin issue, V. E. Pyles and William Heaslip be- A Man, helpless, unable to Drew Post of New York City, and Burt long to 107th Infantry Post of New York stand or walk, yet was riding horseback and playing ten- M. McConnell is Adjutant of that post . . . City; Lowell L. Balcom is a member of nis within a year. An Old Willard Cooper is a member of General Augustus Matthias Post of Norwalk, Lady of 72 years, suffered for many years, was helpless, Charles Devens Post of Worcester, Massa- Connecticut, and Abian A. Wallgren be- found relief. A Little Child, paralyzed was playing about chusetts. . . Philip Von Blon belongs to longs to Thomas Roberts Reath Marine the house in 3 weeks. A Rail Wyandot Post of Upper Sandusky, Ohio Post of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Road man, dragged under a switch engine and his back broken, reports instant . . . is Ralph A. L. Bogan a member of Philip Von Blon relief and ultimate cure. We have successfully trcat- edover nTty-nine thousand casesinthepast 30 years. 30 DAYS' TRIAL FREE We will prove its value in your own case. The Philo Burt Appliance is light, cool, 'Ringing Down the Qurtain elastic, and easily adjusted—how different from the old torturing, plaster-cast, leather and celluloid (Continued from page jackets or steel braces. ' 36) Every sufferer with a weakened, injured, diseased or deformed spine owes it to 77th Div. Assoc. —Membership entitles holder to A, B and C, arrived in Alma in October, himself to investigate. all privileges in clubhouse at 28 E. 39th st., New York Doctors recommend it. 1918. On this cold morning of arrival City. Send name and address for free copy of association paper, The Liberty Light. Jack Simonson, 28 E. Price within reach of all. we were dumped out of the train coaches 39th st., New York City. Send For Information into what looked to me like a prairie—no 90th Div. Assoc. —Reunion at Fort Worth, Tex., Describe your case so we Nov. 10, 11 and 12. Registration; dance and enter- can give you definite in- quarters or shelter in sight. Our company, tainment on 10th; memorial services and business formation at once. session, Sun., Nov. 11th. Armistice parade and bar- PHILO BURT MFG. CO., under command of Captain T. A. Kinder, becue, Nov. 12th. E. C. Hands, Box 1257, Fort 92-11 Odd Fellows Temple proceeded to construct this shack for our Worth. 359th Inf., Co. C Club, 90th Div.—Meets second JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK comfort—latrines were built, trenches for Friday night of each month at Armory, 209 Page St., Fort Worth, Tex. Sponsoring, jointly with 359th fire to heat water for bathing and washing Amb. Co., 90th Div. reunion, Nov. 10-12. E. C. clothes were dug and other conveniences Hands, treas., Co. C Club, 359th Inf., 209 Page St., Fort Worth. n n v § k^iillL. provided. 91st Div. Assoc., No. Calif. Sector—For roster, iilL^iiiCfl reached send names, addresses, news of comrades, to Secy. SALARY Ex-Service Men Get Preference "When we Camp Holabird, we Albert G. Ross, (321 Market st., San Francisco. Ry. Mail Clefk POSTMASTER 91st Div. Assoc., Washington State To com- TO START P. O. Laborer Seamstress built another shack more pretentious than — R. F. D. Carrier Auditor plete roster, send names and addresses to Jules E. $l05to Special Agent Stenographer the one pictured. It had running water, Markow, 201 County-City bldg., Seattle, Wash. Customs Inspector U. S. Border Patrol 47th Inf., 4th Div. —Men who failed to receive $175 City Mail Carrier Telephone Opr. sewerage, electric lights and heat. The P. O. Clerk Watchman copy of history for which they paid, may have it by MONTHLY Matron Skilled Laborer equipment such as lumber, nails, roofing writing to J. E. Pollard, 2000 Devon rd., Columbus, Immigrant Inspecto Statistical Clerk Ohio. Typist File Clerk paper, piping, faucets, wire, sockets, light 52d Inf. Assoc.—Now being organized. Proposed INSTRUCTION BUREAU, Dept.l 10, St. Louis, Mo. reunion. Paul J. Osman, Westboro, Mass. Send me FREE particnlara "How to Qualify for globes and hammers were 'borrowed' Government Positions" marked "X". Salariea, 356th Inf., 89th Div.—loth annual reunion in locations, opportunities, etc. ALL SENT FREE. the word so popular in the Army. The Kansas City, Mo., Sat. evening, Nov. 10. Inghram D. Hook, pres., Federal Reserve Bank bldg., Kansas C ity Name. . building of the shack at Holabird was quite 330th Inf., Co. H, 83d Div. Annual reunion, — Address Athens, Ohio, Sat., Nov. 10. H. H. Sands, adjt., a stunt. We violated about all the Army Logan, Ohio. regulations in doing it and it was only 80th F. A., 7th Div. —Proposed reunion and banquet in conjunction with New York Legion Dept. r'DWENTORSS through the foresight and efforts of our 1935 convention at Rochester, N. Y. Dates to be an- Time counts in applying for patents. Don't risk nounced. Louis Palladino, 128 Wente Terrace, Syra- captain that we were able to get by with delay in protecting your ideas. Write for FREE cuse, N. Y. book, "How to Obtain a Patent" and "Record of it." 136th F. A., Btry. E, 37th Div.— 14th annual re- Invention" form. No charge for information on union, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 10. Harry C. Romer, how to proceed. Communications strictly confiden- careful, efficient service. suc- 917 State av., Cincinnati. tial. Prompt, My cess built upon strength of satisfactory service to 306th M. B.n., 77th Div. bring roster convention reunions of G. —To up inventors located in every State in the Union. NATIONAL to date all veterans who are not members of the as- CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN 1934 will be history when this is read sociation or of the 306th M. G. Bn. Post, A. L., write 247-G Adams Building. Washington, D. C. to J. P. Mauning, 28 E. 39th st., New York City. and we are unable to report where the 1935 312th M. G. Bn., 79th Div.—Proposed reunion. Harry Webb, 9577-1 14th st., Pichmond Hill, N. Y. national convention will be held. It is 312th M. G. Bn., Co. C—Third annual reunion, UTICURA fairly safe to suggest that it will be in some Washington, D. C, Nov. 17. Wm. H. Fox, 176 Uh- land Terrace, N. E., Washington. Soap for daily use. centrally-located city of these United 52d Pioneer Ink.—Reunion at Algonquin Chop st., to heal States and that many outfit organizations House, 40 East 19th New York City, Sat., Nov. Ointment skin irritations. 10. Informal get-together at 3 m., beef steak din- p. Talcum ideal after bathing. will follow the Legion for their next year ner at 7:30 p. m. Reservations must be made through N. J. Brooks, 2 West 4£th St., New York City. Price 25c. each. Sample free. reunions. No doubt some of the early birds Samur Artillery School, A. E. F. Proposed re- Address: "Cuticura," Dept. 7B, — Maiden, Mass. will have announcements in this column in union of men who attended L'Ecole d'Artillerie Americaine during war. John S. Boyd, 1520 Widener the December issue. bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. WIDE AWAKE 372d Aero Sqdrn. A. E. F. Vets.—Fifth annual re- But there are still plenty of reunions union in San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 3. All members Broderick st., MEN fop scheduled for the remainder of this year. report to Harry Duddy, 1261 San Francisco, requesting reservation if possible to attend. HIGH GRADE Here are the ones reported to us, and de- 23d Engrs. Assoc. (Central States)—For information and membership, write to Bonny H. Benson, tailed information regarding them and WANTED BUSINESS secy., 518 N. Cuyler av., Oak Park, 111. other activities may be obtained from the 37th Regt. Engrs.—The Pittsburgh, Pa., Chapter FOUR *I5 $Mta££iHgMcu)3uiiHCii will hold annual banquet in Fort Pitt Hotel, Sat., Legionnaires whose names are listed: Nov. 10. C. W. Reynolds, secy., 1108 Tennessee av., SALES DAILY Specialty cn FREE TRIAL South Hills P. O., Pittsburgh. PAY YOU Ferrell, Georgia, makes over 1,000 4th Div. —-Armistice reunion dinner, Hotel Penn- 107th Engrs. Assoc.— 16th annual reunion, Mil- sales netting him $5 to $60 profit each sale. E. Foyer, Calif., makes sylvania, New York City, Sat., Nov. 10. waukee, Wise, Nov. 10. Joe A. Hrdlick, secy., 2209 Drake De $4,920 In 3 months. Pegram makes W. 41st st., Milwaukee. Kay, secy., N. Y. Chapter, 1271 Broadway, New York t2AO S315 his first 5 days. J. C. Baker, City. 308th Field Hosp., 77th Div.—Letter reunion. $151.71 In 3 days. Write for others 4th Div. —Veterans in California can obtain sample All veterans are requested to write to former Capt. WEEKLY —enormous profits for high grade copy of Ivy Leaf Bulletin and Verdun medal applica- R. Emerson Buckley, 404 Hazleton Natl. Bank bldg., men installing new business specialty on free trial. Now bringing big cash returns for thou- tion blank by sending name, outfit Hazleton, Pa., so he may combine letters and furnish and company, sands of U. S. firms. $4,707 returns in 3 months for one with stamped envelope, to Lewie W. Smith, pres., each man who writes to him with a copy. Kansas firm on $88.60 investment. Install without a dol- Calif. Chap., 4517 Marmion Way, Los Angeles. U. S. S. Rochestei—Annual reunion of crew at lar down. Produces the cash to pay for Itself before 6th Drv. Assoc. —Los Angeles Sector No. 1 will Mayflower Hotel (formerly Bergonian), 4th and Olive, payment due. Many of world's leading firms among our customers. Smallest business or office buys. CuJtomer hold quarterly meeting in Rosalyn Hotel, Los Angeles, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 3, 6 P. M. John Ross, secy., guaranteed cash return 10 times price paid. furnish Calif., Nov. 10. R. E. Moran, secy., 5941 We Monte 328 N. 74th st., Seattle. you portfolio of reference letters from foremost concerns. Vista, Los Angeles. U. S. S. Solace—Annual reunion of shipmates, Closes the deal. Exclusive. Representatives wanted 33d Div. War Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion and Philadelphia, Pa., Sat,, Nov. 3. Dr. R. A. Kern, Un- try this business without risking a cent of your own convention, Peoria, 111., Dec. 1 and 2. William E. iversity Hosp., Philadelphia. money. We train you. Write now for full Information. Keith, secy., 209 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. USAAC Assoc. —Annual (Continued on page 64) F. E. ARMSTRONG, Dept. 3020-M, MOBILE, ALA.

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Armistice pilgrimage Nov. 3-4, at Allentown, Pa., Joe'WiND (Trenton, N.J.), Patton (Mo.), and Cecil of all veterans who served at Camp Crane. Me- V. Talley (Kansas.City) t o assist William J. Selken. morial services at camp ground monument, Sun., Nov. 326th M. G. Bn.—Sgt. David N. Goldsmith, Pvt. 4. Edson Holstou, chmn., 1442 Chew St., Allentown. Eric R. Tegel and others who recall Pvt. Nickles Last Man^Clubs— All presidents and secretaries of van Dyke as patient in Cherbourg, France, emer- Legion Last Man Clubs are requested to send names gency hospital, Oct., 1918, with heart and lung con- and addresses to P. T. Haas, 1629 Spring St., Ft. dition; also Pvt. Eric R. Tegel, Cpl. Charles O. Wayne, Ind., for purpose of formulating plans for a Stubbs, Dr. John L. Redmond and others of 132d 1935 national reunion. M. G. Bn., who recall van Dyke being disabled Nov., 1918, and sick in bed with same condition. 12th F. A., Hq. Co., 2d Div.—Former officers and WHILE we are unable to conduct a men who recall Sgt. Edward Van Marter being carried in unconscious condition from Farm La Loge general missing persons column, we (Chateau-Thierry sector) June, 1918, and sent to stand ready to assist in locating men whose Base Hosp. 6, Bordeaux; also when he collapsed in dugout during advance at Mount Blanc (Champagne statements are required in support of vari- sector), Oct., 1918; also illness at Schloss Arenfels, Hannigen, Germany, Jan., 1919, and removed to ous claims. Queries and responses should hospital at Coblenz for treatment. be directed to U. S. S. Susque- hanna— Lt. Comdrs. the William L. Legion's on'.!! I'll Martin, AH piqkT- , Soldier- - Carr-q owe National Re- William P. Mull ^ou a Salute )! Cau'V qou see T'oe qc* and Clifford E. habilitation Kelly, Lt. Carl J. wq VmAs Cul< rtoui '•!? Bucher and others Committee, who recall physical condition of Edward 1608 K Street, L. Tait during N. W., Wash- 1918-19. Casual Co. A, ington, D. C. Tank Corp s— James H. Welch, The committee Guy Bardwell, LEGION CAPS wants informa- Oscar Sakols and others who recall tion in the fol- condition of Fred- erick A. WaItman, for Armistice Day lowing cases: June, 1918 to July, 1919. Post caps are now available in two Prisoner of 302d Bn., Tank grades —A and B. Detailed specifica- War Escort Co. Corps, also Co. B, 201— 1st Sgt. Or- 328th Bn., Light tions are set forth below. There is still ville H. Holt, Sgts. Tank Corps — time to get your cap for the Armistice Walter D. Parsons Cook J. W. Kane, and Claire F. David Nelson, Day parade. Play safe — order yours Cramer, Cpls. Vic- Marshall Chopson, today! tor Carlson, Oliver L. H. Fleck, Wm. PRICES W. Anderson, J. Cloyle, Lester" Lindzey O. Black- L. Shields, Philip A. Fortin, Grade A—Style 1 lettering ; ; $2.25 mon, Bryan Byars Wm.' and others to assist S.. Bones, also 1 Grade A—Style 2 lettering . . 2.50 C h e s t e e n Floyd doctors, nurses, offi- , Grade B—Style 1 lettering . . 1.95 Bethards. cers and men ' who 61st Art., C. A. C, Btry. C—Rene Cloquet (St. recall severe pleurisy suffered by Laurence Hunter^, Grade B—Style 2 lettering . . 2.20 A Louis), Andrew F. Dowling (Wise.), Wm. M. Has- Floyd (now deceased) pn board S. S. Oriana, en kins (Ga.), Valentine Koerner (111.), Wm. Nebsola route to A. E. F., Sept.-Oct., 1918; also treatment in Specifications — Grade A (Minn.), Hubert Reagan, John Shields, Max Siegel infirmary at Langres, Nov. 6, 1918; also ptomaine poisoning suffered Floyd on S. S. Patricia, Material— 1 4-oz. American Legion blue uniform and others who recall dental treatment received by by Mar., cloth. George A. Carney during service. 1919, en route home. To assist widow with claim. Ft. Thomas, Ky. Former 10th Co.", C. A. C—Comrades at Ft. Barry, Calif., Embroidery--All embroidery, including the em- 2d Co., Med. Corps! — comrades who recall illness of Joe Cerf during service. Apr., 1918, who recall back injury to John J. Casey in blem, which is reproduced in colors, is in Crisp, Calvin, former major, 7th M. G. Bn., fall while being tossed in blanket. pure silk. James 3d Div. Disappeared Apr. 28, 1934, while suffering 3d Trench Mortar Bn., Btry. C—Capt. Hogue, Trimmings—Genuine gold silk piping. Tan from nervous breakdown. Sgt. Pease, Sgt. Frank Kibckas and others who recall sateen lining. Genuine leather sweat band. Clermont-en-Argonne, France—Men who were sore eyes Buffered by Leroy ("Shorty") Urquhart during flu epidemic in Mataigne France. Lettering—Two types of lettering available. Style with group of two hundred soldiers detained in Cler- (?), 139th Inf., Co. D, 35th Div.—Comrades who re- 1 provides for the Post numerals only on the mont without a commander, several days without call William F. Shafer being knocked unconscious by right hand side and state name in full only on food, can assist Martin R. Staff. Men were from shell burst Sept. 29, 1918, and same day being gassed. the left, directly beneath the emblem. No de- Camp Jackson, S. C. Sent to various hospitals, finally to Base Hosp. viations or additions. Style 2 provides for the 88th Div., Co. F, 352d (?) Inf.—Men who recall No. Chatel on. Post numerals only on the right hand side, Joseph V. Donahue falling into drainage ditch while 20, Guy Co. K, 9th Bn., Repl. Tr. Center, Camp Pike, and the town name in full with state name leaving camp for rifle range, summer, 1918. Ark. Capt. Herbert A. Daly, 1st sgt., Sgt. Edward abbreviated on the left. Additional or special 125th Inf., Hq. Co., 32d Div.—William High- — Kf.nzie (or McKenzie?), Cpl. Charlie W. forms of inscriptions extra. Prices upon appli- bercer of Co. A or F, and others who recall injury M. C. cation. sustained by Edmond Eller. Smith and others who recall Thomas B. Clark being 39th Div. 1st Lt. James R. excused from drill, after return from base hospital, Delivery stock, but 153d Inf., Co. L, — —Caps are not carried in Nov. 1918, to Jan. 4, 1919, and acting as orderly Murray who recalls being ill at same time Cook T. 20, made only to special order. Two weeks re- for earring mail. ill with ptomaine poisoning in stone- capt. and quired for delivery. C. H afford was barn mess hall at Massay, France, Aug. -Sept., 1918. 8th U. S. Inf., Co. K, Fort Moultrie, S. C. Also Cook Penrose Williams who recalls Mess Sgt. Capt. B. H. Hurlfss, Pike A. Harper (Okla.), Specifications J. — Grade B Hafford, 1st Dep. Repl. Div., being sick with flu and Elmer J. Toson (111.), Michael Meehan (St. Same as for Grade A, excepting made without rheumatism at St. Florent, France, Dec, 1918, to Louis) and others who recall Harvey W. Smith lining, and with less expensive sweat band. Feb., 1919. suffering from broken arches, rheumatism and cel- Pennsylvania Shipmates, including lulitis in May and June, 1923. Smith claims arches NOTE: Serge caps to match state uniforms avail- U. S. S. — Sam William Britt, of 10th Div., broke while with Co. L., 3d Ky. Inf., at Camp Stanley, able at no extra charge. Be sure to specify ma- M. Smith, Roy Cade and who recall Bounty B. Ham, fireman lcl., being caught Lexington, Ky., in fall of 1917. terial name, and weight. L. in hutch door and having to report to sick bay during 11 1th Inf., Co. L, 28th Div.— Lt. Harry Kim- 1918 and 1919. mell, George Yates and others who recall back in- suffered William H. Stewart when he slipped 102d Art., Co. C, 26th Div.—Comrades who re- jury by EMBLEM DIVISION and fell while helping unload car of beef while in call Sgt. A. E. Keeney suffering with feet and legs Sept. 26, 1918; also being gassed Nov. 9, 1918. France. Emblem Division, The American Legion 138th Inf., Co. K, 35th Div. Officers and men 7 McDonald, James Edward, British veteran, sailed — 7 North Meridian Street recall Peter H. Homala, pvt., suffering from for U. S., May 23, 1922, and communicated with who Indianapolis, Indiana. to hospital. family for a year. Missing since May 14, 1923; last after-effects of mumps and being returned disorder after offensive. Also known address 177 Frederick av., Atlantic City, N. J. Also stomach Argonne Enclosed is remittance for $ in pay- Wife endeavoring to establish widow's pension. two men of Co. 1 who carried his pack and gun to Co. R. B., veteran who served with M. T. C. K kitchen when he was disabled with rheumatism. ment for one Post cap, size , Grade , McClary, 327, Base Spare Parts 1-2-3, Yerneuil. Missing for Patten, Carl C, enlisted as second class fireman, 1918, after being given order No. with Style lettering as follows: three years. 5 ft. 10Jt> in., 150 lbs., gray eyes, iron Navy, Mar. 15, 1 Local for Butte, gray hair, fair complexion, 48 yrs. old, slightly hard of 166, serial No. 7064 by Board Mon- hearing, wears glasses occasionally. tana, where he registered June 15, 1917. Born July PRINT LETTERING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY 1SS9, Cadillac, Mich., occupation, teamster. U. S. S. Eastport, 1918-19; Baker lcl. McCumber, 30, at four years old in 1917, has not Fireman Stickney, John Horshman, J. W. Fitz- Daughter, who was Name patrick and Benson brothers (twins);' U. S. S. Texas, heard from him since then. 311th Field Remount Sqdrn. Cpl. Charles Street.- 1920: Baker lcl. Henry Ecks, Harry C. Sausson and — J. recall Philip Baker 2d cl. Walter Thurston; U. S. S. Idaho, 1921: Wasdin and Sgt. John Bloom who City State Comm. Clerk Lloyd Thompson, James Prince and Rosenberg having been kicked by horse while they watering horses, at Depot, others who recall James L. (Pop) Owen, S. C. lcl., were feeding and Remount I am a member of Post Dept of-. No suffering disabilities. Mont Carbon Blanc, France, Oct., 1918. Wasdin and Bloom helped Rosenberg to first aid station. Send 1934 Catalog Vet. Unit No. 29, Inf. Brgde.—William M. D Arnold and others who recall horse falling with John J. Noll Hughie M. Redden, Jan., 1919. 117th Ammun. Trn., 42d Div.— Sgt. Buntie (Kans.) The Company Clerk 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — END YOUR THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER IN AN OLD-FASHIONED BLAZE OF GLORY!

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