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A Great Year in Legion History

ITS membership gains, by its legislative accomplishments, by its achieve- BYments in other activities, The American Legion has made 1934 a year which will long be remembered in its history. The Legion found itself in mid-summer with 100,000 more members than it had in the corresponding period of the year before, and it seems certain to have an enrolment of at least 900,000 before 1934 ends. The legislation enacted by Congress at the Legion's request this year benefits almost a half-million veterans and their dependents. The record is a proud one. It points to an even greater Legion in 1935.

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4 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Monthly MUTUAL

Leonard 3^C.0Vaso?i^ illustrations hy y-Cerber£t ZMorton. Stoops

"UH know, I don't think we're goin' to advance!" "Don't worry. We're half an hour late, I know, but any minute now you'll hear the whistles Y tweet, and off we go! Ain't I right, Corporal?" Two men lay in the stubble of a wheat field somewhere in that rolling country beyond the Marne, where the hills rise one above the other like the seats of an amphitheater. The blue sky of late summer smiled on them overhead, and to the eye all was the calm of pleasant pastures and sylvan wilderness, but to the ear came the roar and tumult of a great city in full activity. Overhead thundered elevated trains, there was the steady rumble and thump of continuous traffic, the crash of ash barrels hurled to the pave- ment in the next street, the tweet of policemen's whistles, all the throb and intensity of a half million people in action. The half million were there, but their utmost desire was to remain invisible, and their utmost effort their mutual destruction. "Ain't I right, Corporal?" repeated the second speaker. The corporal raised his head from a little fold of ground some distance apart. "No!" said he. "Looka that!" He pointed to the sky ahead, where bright flashes in the air turned into balls of dirty smoke that erupted with a double bang. "That's shrapnel! They got our doughboys in the open there. Infantry can't move under that. They'll fall back, start over again somewhere else, and we'll change position to support 'em!" "You'll never celebrate another "Ah!" cried a fourth man who occupied yet another fold. birthday!" the corporal threatened

SEPTEMBER, 1934 The group carrying the wounded man right before them was an American "Then if we are goin' to go through any such ring-around-the- rosey as we did yesterday, I get rid of extra weight right now." His arm appeared, holding a wooden box. This box he opened, "You're doggone right I am," agreed the corporal. "I heard and there was a clatter of machine gun clips falling to the ground. him bust the sergeant major of this battalion about three hours "Here you, Giwens!" barked the corporal, "you pick up that ago, and my hair ain't laid down since." ammunition! No goldbrickin' tricks like that! Any man I catch "What's he look like?" demanded the voices of several un- throwin' away ammunition, explains it to Judge Duffy! That seen owners. plain?" "I don't know. It was dark. And believe me, what I heard "Aw, whaddyuh gettin' so military about?" complained Giv- didn't give me any craving to get to know him better!" vens. "We been doin' it right along! Who's to know whether we "Yeh," muttered another man, "he's hell on wheels with a shot it off or not? I tell yuh I'm sick o' luggin' fifty pounds or so four-wheel drive. He turned D Company's whole kitchen detail all over France, especially durin' these days when no one knows to duty! What do you suppose they got against us to give us a nuthin' about nuthin'. By the time we get ready to fire, we'll Marine for a major?" have been on a sight-seein' tour of all this county! We'll come "To make yuh snap out of it, for the milishy outfit you are!" right back here to fire, and there's my share of clips right where "Corporal Bates!" A distant voice called sharply. "Corpo- I left 'em, and not had to lug 'em all day!" ral Bates!" "You heard me!" replied the corporal. More that was profane followed, to the effect that the distant "Ah, you're scared of the new major!" snarled Giwens. man desired the destruction of Corporal Bates and his squad by Nevertheless, he could be seen gathering up the clips and putting eternal flames. them back in the box. "Here!" bellowed the corporal. "Whaddyuh want?"

6 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly recognized that kind of talk. And there machine gun crew, in a narrow gully way along the edge of the field toward what seemed to be a bowl in the hills. "Assemble that squad on the platoon commander! Make it "And that brings me to the subject," began Giwens suddenly, snappy!"' "that we couldn't have a better time for splittin' up our fund for "Whuffor?" the wounded."

"I dunno! I hear we're gonna be relieved!" "Aw," cried the corporal savagely, "have we got to go all "Relief!" Rest, safety, clean clothes, ten days' leave, Paris! through that again? Last night you was all over me for fear I'd All this was contained in that one word! Up rose from the ground get blown to bits with all your money on me! Now we're goin' a group of men, some carrying wooden boxes in both hands, one into relief, you got another moan. I suppose you think a truck carrying a machine gun, and the other its tripod. Relief! Their will flatten me out, or I'll fall off a bridge and they won't recover eyes shone. Then, as by instinct, they all looked northward. Be- my body!" yond the next field, from a valley, boiled turgid smoke, the shrap- "No," said Giwens with some asperity, "but if we're going off nel glittered high in air, and there was a sinister undercurrent, a the lines we don't need a fund for the aid of the wounded! There slow swelling in the wave of sound that was like an approaching won't be anyone get wounded. Because we're going into relief storm. don't mean that we're going to get paid. But we'll need money,

. "That's a counter-attack beginning," said Corporal Bates just the same. If you split up that fund and give each man back judiciously. "We couldn't have a better time for gettin' out!" his share, we should worry whether we get paid or not!" The machine-gun squad, slowly, and with an apprehensive eye The squad ducked, as the ashmen in the next street let fall a on a line of distant drachcn that floated in the sky like jelly beans barrel with more than ordinary vigor and uproar. on a blue plate, began to crouch and crawl and otherwise make its "When I proposed this idea to you birds," said the corporal

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severely, "it was understood that this fun' was to be given to the first one of us that got hit, to buy him some comforts with in hospital until he could return to the outfit an' get paid again. Right? There was never any agreement that we was to take it and get boiled in rest billets with it!" "Yeh," objected the man that was carrying the gun, "but there's a hundred and eighty francs in that fun'. That would buy a guy a whole hospital. No one ever figured the fun' would get so big!" "It ain't my fault none of you got hit, is it?" barked the corporal. "Go on up on the hill where the jerries can see you if that's all that bothers you. They'll give you a ticket out, or up, or anywhere you feel like! They're generous like that!" "Don't cloud the issue," said Givvens heavily. "That fund is half of our pay for the last two months, and we vote it be split up right now!" There was a hoarse murmur of assent from the squad. "Well, we can't split it up," replied Corporal Bates, "because after all the argument yesterday about me getting blown to bits with it on me, I gave it to Lieutenant Borkman to take care of!" "Yuh did? Well, whaddyuh do that for?" "Well," said the corporal, "I figured it would be safe with him." Some of the squad laughed, the officer in question having a sort of groundhog reputation, in that he came out of his hole at rare intervals, and if he could see his shadow, went in again for another six weeks. "Awright," said Givvens discontentedly, "when we get back to the battalion you can just go get it off him again." In the bowl in the hills, here and there, was assembled the machine gun battalion of which Corporal Bates' squad was a unit. Men passed; runners, stretcher bearers, outlying gun crews coming in. There was a murmur of voices, shouts, commands. But the voices were all cheerful, for the men knew now that relief was a certainty. Down hill could be seen two brigade staffs, the one of the general commanding the infantry in line, and the other that of the general relieving. The news brought back from the front by the runners that the infantry had been so badly chewed that they had pulled out, and that the enemy had penetrated as far as the regimental command posts, did not dampen the machine gunners' spirits. Relief! It would be up to the newcomers to re-take lost territory. "Hey! Where you guys goin', to Verdoon?" A rude voice hailed Corporal Bates' squad. It was their platoon sergeant. "We were told to assemble on the platoon commander!" replied the corporal.

"Well, I'm it! Lieutenant Borkman got sent up with the "They're after that staff!" cried Corporal Bates with tighten- infantry in liaison!" ing throat. "The staff give us away!" "Huh?" gasped the squad as one man. "Lieutenant Borkman The rest of the battalion having the same idea, began to flee got sent up with the infantry? How come?" from the vicinity of the staff in shoals, like minnows. The Ger- "What's that?" demanded other soldiers lying near, who had mans in those far away jelly beans had first noticed the fluttering heard. of white where the staffs displayed their maps, and then un- "Yeh," replied the sergeant, "the new leatherneck major found doubtedly had marked the dark shadow of the battalion assem- him in a hole when he shouldn't have been." bling in the wheat. Another carload of hard luck leaping to the The battalion soon had another reason for hilarity. The new heavens marked the place the staff had just left. battalion commander, late of the Marines, had plucked Lieu- "Hey!" cried a prostrate gunner who was watching, head up tenant Borkman, the champion dugout ducker of the battalion, like a turtle's, "the staffs are comin' our way!" from his well chosen hole as a robin does a worm, and had sent "Beat it!" ordered the corporal briefly, but before anyone him forward to the assault with the infantry. Everyone except could move, the brigade commander was upon them. Corporal Bates' squad enjoyed this anecdote. "Here! You men! I say there!" He called to them nervously, "An' this guy give him our money so it would be safe!" cried yet imperiously. He panted. His face was white. After all, he Givvens. "Where's the lieutenant and our money now?" He had two regiments of infantry out in front whose fate it was not waved an eloquent arm toward the north, where the smoke boiled difficult to imagine, and for which he would be held directly re- and the horizon shuddered. "Now I'm tellin' you—" The whoop sponsible. and clatter of a shell bursting downhill cut him short. "Here!" he went on, throwing himself on his knees and spread- "Wow!" murmured a hundred voices. "Where did that one ing out the map. "Do any of you men know where Colonel Pike's go? Talk about your hardware stores!" P. C. is?" Instantly there was silence and sobriety. That was the first "No sir!" answered the squad as one man. shell that had fallen near the battalion that morning. If any "It's just over the hill," went on the commander hurriedly. more followed it "You see here it is marked on this map, 209 point five, and 203 Another hardware store arrived, complete with kettles, pots point four. La Croix la Motte, you see? It would be easy to find! and pans, and shook itself into fragments with horrid uproar. If I could get in touch with him and find out how we could

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly They had off the astonished corporal's blouse, and sure enough, beneath his shoulder blade there was a wound that bled freely

support him with these machine guns, then we could do some- "What's that he says? You've just come back from there?" thing to relieve this pressure on us, and the relief of the brigade "Took me up with him!" gasped Corporal Bates. "I haven't could go on!" left this squad since I came on the lines!" "Croix la Motte?" muttered Corporal Bates. "Over the "Aw, Corporal," urged a man with his face in the grass, hill? Is it on the road there?" "don't be yeller! Own up you was up there half an hour ago!" The commander nodded. All eyes observed the indicated "Why, you lying illegitimates—" protested the corporal, but direction. Over the hill, the protecting hill, in the valley where the general cut him short. He had come all down the line of that the shrapnel played its merry tattoo, somewhere there in that turbulent battalion, with men fleeing before him like the bow hazy distance where great hiccoughs blew dirt and wheat and waves of a ship, and now here, at the last squad, when he had clouds of smoke into the summer sky. That was the place found someone that at least knew Lieutenant Borkman when from which the infantry was rumored to have gone so nimbly, he saw him, he was not going to let that person out of his and which would have been taken over by the alert and active clutches. enemy with equal nimbleness. "We won't discuss it further," snapped the brigadier. "If

"No," said Corporal Bates hurriedly, "I never heard of it!" you have been there before, you can find it again, and if you

"Come," spoke up a machine gun officer, "th ; s is Lieutenant haven't, you'll have to use your best talents to find it now. Borkman's platoon. He's gone up there in liaison! He must Ask Colonel Pike for his estimate of the situation and his dis- have told some of you where to find him!" positions in writing, so that we can issue orders for the Every machine gunner's eye suddenly swung on the corporal, resumption of the assault." who began to swallow violently. "General—" began Corporal Bates wildly.

"Well," urged the general, "how about it, Corporal? Did "God bless you," roared the general, "do you refuse obedi- Lieutenant Borkman tell you where to find him?" ence on the field of battle?" "Find him," muttered the long man, Givvens. "Why he took Corporal Bates got quickly to his feet regardless of any the corporal up there with him!" projectile that might be flying by. (Continued on page 50)

SEPTEMBER, 1934. 9 Ohe Unknown GENERAL ^By Frederick. Calmer ft ft ft ft ft ft- ft -ft

A HUGE, elderly man entered the commissary at Brest, and into the face of his old comrade for the last time on the day of /\ asked for a pair of boots, giving his size. A pair was Bliss's funeral. I % brought to him. As he seated himself to try them on "Bliss! We were classmates. We leapfrogged each other there was a flash of silver from his shoulders that made through the service. In the old days of Indian fighting in the the soldier at the counter blink and duck back into the storeroom West when I toiled along the trail I always liked a mountain in to say to his buddy: sight as my guide. Bliss was the mountain of my career. Good- "Take a look! Here's a customer that's wearing the whole bye, Bliss." milky way." He was the scholar of the Army, its sage, philosopher, deep Four stars! One star was fairly common in the A. E. F. and well of experience upon whom chiefs from those with Civil War two not infrequent. There were no three stars, no lieutenant reputations in the days of his youth depended until the days when generals yet. The jump was from two to four. Only one man had he was past three score when Baker depended upon him as his four, the commander-in-chief. military adviser. If there were a thankless hard job to be done When he stood up, squaring his massive shoulders, he looked as without glory and without fuss, turn it over to Bliss. He saw if he must have been soldiering for some time. Having paid lor things in the large, he had vision, an uncanny faculty of fore- his boots he said "Thank you." Not even one star generals al- seeing what would happen "if we do this" and "if we do that." ways said "Thank you" to privates. Whoever he was, he didn't In the revelation on inside facts about our part in the war he put on much side. is the chief American source from whom we have not heard. A He would not if he had eight stars, no more than when he had series drawn from Secretary Baker's files appeared in this maga- one star, and was out walking on the Mexican border one evening, zine; Pershing and March, the seventh four-star general, have and a soldier asked him if he had a match. He said he had. The written books, and so have other American war statesmen and flash, as he struck the match to light the soldier's cigarette, re- generals. We have had the reminiscences of European statesmen vealed the face of the commanding general. and generals from both sides. "If I had known that it was you, General, I guess I wouldn't Appeals to Bliss to write his were made in vain. "There are have had the nerve." the papers," he would say. He could not bring himself to the One side of the general's upper lip twitched in that quizzical overwhelming task of telling the long story over again. And so smile with which all his friends were familiar. his papers, which excited the curiosity of historians, remained "You're lucky you didn't ask a second lieutenant," he said. in walls of loose But I get ahead of my story. I ought to have told abou f the leaf binders and in shoes before the boots. At seventeen he walked barefoot sixteen stacks in his little miles, the farthest he had ever been away from Lewisburg, his study after his Pennsylvania home town. He had his shoes tied around his neck death. so as to keep the blacking fresh to make a good appearance be- They present un- fore the Congressman who had given him an appointment as known facts and cadet at West Point. Once he had that appointment he had re- throw fresh light lieved his father, a poor college professor with thirteen children, on old ones. They of the burden of his education. reveal his foresight. On the day he had his first turn with the awkward squad he Some stir the im- began the varied career in which he lived life to the full every agination, one con- minute, with its climax in the World War. Washington, Grant, spicuously so. This Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing—Tasker H. Bliss became the sixth was a memoran- four-star general in our history. He was not under Pershing in dum made on May

France, but represented the President and the Secretary of War 4, 191 7. If its plan on the Supreme War Council. could have been

On the way to meet Secretary Baker at Brest it occurred to followed the course him that he ought to have a new pair of boots in order to make a of the war might suitable appearance before his chief. have been changed. After the Armistice he was a delegate to the Peace Conference Military experts and before he went to France he had the greatest influence of any who have read it officer in the formation of our Army, in the lives of all of us who say that it might went into uniform in 1917. How did this happen when he was so have won the war little known to the general public? The answer might be simpli- in 1917. fied by quoting what General Hugh L. Scott said when he looked Anyhow, we

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Our first Chief of Staff in the World War, later American representative on the Supreme War Council and still later a member of our delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference, Tasker H. Bliss (1853-1930) was the sixth four-star general in our history. At left, Bliss as a West Point cadet

should not have built the great and elaborate cantonments which He held from the start that the best place to train was on the took so much time. Pershing would never have had all his other side where we would have daily lessons fresh from the front. troubles about keeping his army independent. He would not have As a young officer sent abroad to study European military been alone in France with only a hundred thousand men eight systems he knew that German war machine in the days when its months after our entry into the war. Some of us who were in founder, the first von Moltke, still lived. But Secretary Baker's France would have been over there much sooner, and some of us hands were tied in preparations. He had no money. The old Con- 7 who were over there would never have been called from our homes. gress which expired on March 4, 191 —a month before the spe- In reading this memorandum you must bear in mind that Bliss cial session of the new Congress which declared war—had not never fooled himself about the critical situation of the Allies. A made even the routine appropriations for the Army in peace. year before we entered the war he was sure that if we did go in we We know how the Allies said before our entry into the war would have to send an army to France to insure victory for the that all they asked for victory was our economic and financial aid. Allies. All this appears in his papers. So our Congress and the public thought. We waited for the Allied

SEPTEMBER, 1934 ir missions of experts to arrive with their advice. When this mem- dependent place on the line and not run the risk of having our orandum of May 4th was written, shortly after the missions ar- organizations fed in here and there, thus losing our identity as a rived, Pershing had not yet been summoned from Mexico, the national army under our own control." problem of the independence of our Army not yet bruited. But the attitude of the Allies made the plan impracticable The missions confidentially revealed to us the desperate straits Only the British had the shipping, but if they were to use it our of the x\llies: Russia out, the French appalled by the disastrous Army must be tied up with their own. The French would not result of their spring drive, the Italians fought to a standstill stand for that. Joffre would have our small force sent to train in mountain passes. We were implored to send a small force with the French to help French morale. He said we could take to France, a few thousand men, to show the flag and raise the our time in training the rest of our Army. spirits of the tired French. In a memorandum of May 12 th Bliss said (as he had to Joffre We had not yet passed the Selective Service Act. We were de- in conversation): pending upon volunteers to expand our Regulars and National "Will the moral effect be due to the belief of the French that

Part of the second battalion of the 329th Infantry with equipment spread out for inspection before their French billets

Guard. Since it was clear to Bliss that it was now up to us to win the first expedition is the advance guard of a large army rapidly the war and with soldiers he was for getting into it at once "with following and also fully armed and equipped? If so exultation both feet." The prospect of getting to France immediately will soon change into depression"—as it happened. would hasten volunteering. If the Allies would supply us with Bliss continued that, on their own statements, "the French are shipping he favored sending over five hundred thousand men as actually declining in numbers and must soon consolidate two fast as they could be transported. divisions to get one at full strength, and with the present cam- This was a straight, clear, American proposal. The Allies paign the British will begin to decline in numbers; but they are wanted our help. We were in it with them to the end now and both able to keep up their supply of material. This means that we were for action. they will have a constantly increasing supply of rifles and that "Our proposed divisional training areas will be places to or- from time to time serviceable artillery will go out of action from ganize and clothe our troops, without the necessity of giving lack of men to serve them." them technical training in the methods of combat pursued on the From the first Bliss had realized that it would take more than western front," he wrote. "In fact, any attempt of ours to give a year, nearer two years—as it did—before we could produce such instruction might complicate matters by teaching men rifles and guns in sufficient quantity. The French and British things in America that they would have to unlearn in Europe, factories started at the beginning of the war were now producing I would move all but a small part of our Regular Army and of the rifles and guns far beyond their needs. The best way was to take National Guard and the first 500,000 men to Europe as rapidly as their output for our Army. If we waited until our own were ready they are organized, clothed and can be transported . . . the war might be lost, as it very nearly was before we got the "I think that the officer who is to command the first expedition, shipping to send our men to the front from our training camps. together with his entire staff and possibly the colonels of all his We did adopt the modified British Lee-Enfield rifle and the regiments, should be immediately sent abroad in order to study French artillery. The amount of artillery of our own make we the situation and methods at first hand before the arrival of their had in France at the close of the war was not enough to equip one troops. . . division. "It would result in our occupying from the beginning something Not only could the Allied missions not agree with one another more than a very inconspicuous position and would entitle our but the experts were not agreed among themselves. commanding general to the consideration that his force would But let us take another memorandum, that of May 25th, by warrant. We could from the beginning secure our proper and in- Bliss to Baker.

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "At first the Allied missions spoke of the moral effect as being one to be produced on the troops and people of the Entente Allies. As they began to speak more unreservedly they let it appear that they wanted also to produce a moral effect upon our own people. They did not seem to think that we, as a nation, were interested enough in the matter, and that we needed something to wake us up. It was not long before they said quite openly that we were not in the war until we were well 'blooded;' that what we needed was to have a large casualty list telegraphed home and that that would stir

our fighting blood . . . "They have urged us to send small organizations, even companies ... It seemed to most of us that what the English and French really wanted from us was not a large army so that it would play its part properly on the firing line, but a large number of smaller units which they could feed promptly into their line as parts of their own organizations in order to maintain their man power at full strength. "If we followed this plan it would be at a greatly disproportionate sacrifice of life and suffering on our part and it is problematical whether it will, after all, produce a decisive result. When the war is over it may be a literal fact that the American flag may not have appeared anywhere on the line because our organizations will be literally parts of battalions and regiments of the Entente Allies. "We might have a million men there and yet no American army and no American commander. Speaking frankly, I have received the impression from English and French officers

that such is their deliberate desire . . . The time has for the English and French to stand come In Cuba during the days of the occupation fast and wait until our reinforcements can reach them in such a after the Spanish War—Bliss standing at the way as to give the final, shattering blow." right, with Senator Frye of Maine, Chair- Thus our policy was formed, such the genesis of the E. F. A. man of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- Therefore, Pershing was on his way abroad on May 28th tolearn for mittee, Secretary of War Elihu Root seated himself the real situation and what we must to win the war; do with Major General Leonard Wood, at the on his way with "the President directs" to preserve the inde- time military governor of Cuba pendence of our Army except in a great crisis that required a temporary action; on his way to his battles to preserve its in- tegrity. Army of adequate numbers, and the building of plants to make Therefore, the great cantonments, the plans to make our own our own artillery and machine guns and to build the bridge of ships to France for that Army. And on that plan—except the ships, which was the Shipping Board's job— Baker and Chief of Staff Bliss concen- trated. They were a contrast, these two, the slender Baker and the giant Bliss of the bald dome who was big enough to make two of Baker. They made a marvelous combination. Their minds met, and that was fortunate as they had to perform a miracle. For as we look back on it the raising of that huge Army seems nothing less than a miracle, an American miracle.

- Baker had discovered Bliss in the \ wQr^ ft*' Mexican affair. Bliss had commanded the provisional {Continued on page 44)

Three of Bliss's four years in the Philippines were spent as commander of the Department of Mindanao, where he was unusual- ly successful in his dealings with Moro chiefs of the type shown in the group at the left

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TH I S is the LAW oof Our Land

THREE years from this moment America will be perfect- ing preparations for one of the most momentous cele- brations in all her eventful history. On September 17, 1937, tne Constitution of the United States will be one hundred and fifty years old. today as it has guided us now for nearly a century and a half. The American Legion will have a hand in the observance of Here is America. Here is the basic law of our land—as it was in that notable anniversary. But in the interval between now and 1789, when it was declared in effect, as it is in 1934, as it shall be then there will be three September i7ths which The American as long as America endures. For if ever the Constitution ceases

Legion believes should be observed with as high a degree of patri- to exercise its benign influence on our course as a nation, if ever otic fervor as the sesquicentennial of the adoption of the Consti- its words of fire become the ashes of high resolves and noble tution itself. This year, indeed, The American Legion is working purposes, then, and then only, and then inevitably, America her- on a more ambitious program for the observance of Constitution self shall become one with the nations that perished because they Day than it has ever attempted before—than any comparable were false to great heritages. organization in America has ever attempted before. Lincoln, in his first inaugural, held that, "in contemplation of Actually, every day, not merely each recurring September 17th, universal law and of the Constitution," the republic must be should be Constitution Day to the American Legionnaire. "perpetual," and he added this profound axiom: "No govern- Certainly the Constitution ought to mean more to us than it ment proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own means to any other single group in the United States. Most termination." And Webster saw in any rupture of the Constitu- Americans go through life as little aware of the existence of this tion the surest, the inevitable road to the disintegration of this exalted document as it is well possible to be; it rarely touches nation. "Under the present Constitution," he declared, "wisely them or seems rarely to touch them. But it touched each of us and conscientiously administered, all are happy, safe and rein the Legion a few years ago with a directness which we should nowned. The measure of our country's fame may fill all our still be able to feel. Each of us took oath to uphold and main- breasts. It is fame enough for us all to partake of her glory, if tain it, if necessary at the cost of life itself. we will carry her character onward to its true destiny. But if Yet how many of us had ever taken the trouble to digest it the system is broken, its fragments must fall alike on all." even casually? Indeed, in swearing fealty and allegiance to it Daniel Webster lived in a troubled age. He visualized the in 1917 and 1018, millions of service men were to all intents and very foundation of our constitutional Government threatened purposes signing a paper they had never taken the trouble to read. by a force within our own nation. His warning, sounded in a What a fool any of us would consider a man who put his name speech at the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the to a document involving a few dollars without studying its birth of George Washington, seems to me to be just as applicable provisions! Yet sixteen years ago most of us blithely subscribed today as the day he uttered it. On that occasion Webster said: to a paper that not only involved our existence as a nation, but involved the individual existence of each of us. I urge upon every Legionnaire, whether he is called upon by his post officials to take a formal part in the exercises of this THE Constitution is a vital, pulsing, September 17th or not, to make it his duty—his duty to his breathing spirit that guides us today country, to his Legion, and to himself—to read the Constitution of the United States. The reading will require an hour or so as it has guided us now for nearly a cen- there are nearly twelve thousand words in the Constitution, tury and a half about six times as many as there are in the Declaration of In- dependence—but it is an hour which any of us should rejoice to set aside for this patriotic duty. An hour? Recall the agonized months that went into the struggle to produce an America that "Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. might have a constitution, the blood spilled on Northern and If disastrous wars should sweep our commerce from the ocean, Southern battlefields from '61 to '65 "in order to form a more another generation may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury, perfect Union" (the first specification in the Preamble to the future industry may replenish it; if it desolate and lay waste

Constitution itself), the flaming days of sixteen years ago when our fields, still, under a new cultivation, they will grow green Americans fought and died to "secure the blessings of liberty to again, and ripen to future harvests. It were but a trifle even if ourselves and our posterity." An hour? It is not too much to the walls of yonder capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars ask of any American. It is nothing to ask of every Legionnaire. should fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the And while you read, the very pageant of American history will dust of the valley. All these may be rebuilt. But who shall move in vivid panorama before your eyes. For here is no stuffy reconstruct the fabric of demolished government. Who shall document pigeonholed in the dustbin of forgotten archives— rear again the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty. here, rather, is a vital, pulsing, breathing spirit that guides us Who shall frame together the skilful architecture which unites

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national sovereignty with State rights, individual security, and public prosperity?

No, if these columns fall, they will not be raised again. Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they will be destined to a mournful, and a melancholy immortality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them than were ever shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art; for they will be the monuments of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw. the edifice of constitutional American Liberty." Certainly there were geniuses among the framers of our Constitution, geniuses in the science of public polity—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and others of that brilliant galaxy. But the Constitution itself was created ing, administering of his skill as opportunity provides and in- out of a travail such as this nation has known since only in time telligence directs. of war, and not always then. A great historian, John Fiske, was It is singularly appropriate that Constitution Day falls at a not evolving an idle phrase when he entitled that portion of his season when some sixteen million American boys and girls (not work which embraced the period from 1783 to 1789—the period to mention a million college men and women) are returning to extending from the conclusion of the—War for Independence to their studies after the summer vacation. We of the Legion the ratification of the Constitution "The Critical Period of most of us, at any rate—enjoyed the inestimable advantage American History." of stepping from the school door, whether it was grammar Never since that time was the fate of the republic so vitally grade or university, into an ordered, relatively placid world. at stake as it was during those anguished months when the dele- Our own Ship of State, time and again, has been tossed about, gates, without ostentation, without oratorical fireworks, without has crested high seas, has wallowed in the trough. But she has spectacular emotional display, were debating the provisions of always made port, and she has always sailed forth again. Who- the document that was to be the foundation stone of the new ever the helmsman may have been, however green the crew, national edifice. For a visual comparison we must think of the they have always been guided by the same Rules of Navigation physician at the bedside of a critically ill patient, waiting, watch- —the Constitution of the United States. {Continued on page 55)

SEPTEMBER, 1934 15 OL CUP'S UP

The Yankee, below, looked like America's best bet in the early trials, but the Rainbow, left, and a third boat, the Weetamoe, were still in the running. The rules provide that the defender must be named one week before the contest gets under way on September 15 th

the late Sir Thomas Lipton made his fifth and WHENchallenge for the America's Cup, many an last American harbored a secret hope that the long- legged Glasgow Irishman would lift the "old mug" which signifies world yachting supremacy. But there is no need to let such sentimentality suppress a more natural desire to see the United States victorious in this month's America's Cup Races. The challenger is well equipped to fight it out on even terms with the best yacht and yachtsmen we can select to defend the historic trophy. The new challenger, T. 0. M. Sopwith, is the same Sopwith whose Tabloids, Pups, Camels, Snipes and other oddly named war planes wrote a large share of the British Royal Air Force's history in the air during the World War. It was a cherry-nosed Sopwith Camel, you may recall, which finally got the number of Germany's Ace of Aces, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, and sent him hurtling to the ground with a neat seam of fifty bullets sewed into the side of his red Fokker triplane. Two of our American air squadrons, the 17th and 148th, were equipped with Sopwiths. Cologne and Diisseldorf got their first taste of air bombing in 1914 from a squadron of Sopwith Tabloids, and the famous Camels accounted for many a German Zeppelin and Gotha bomber during their air raids over England. The Sopwith name was on some 11,000 fighting planes turned out during the war. Just as Sopwith the aircraft constructor demonstrated a genius for improving the performance of the early kite-like machines on which he learned to fly in 1010, so Sopwith the yachtsman has built up a phenomenal reputation for improving the technique of much older helmsmen during the short time he has been racing yachts. Seven years ago he took up yachting when "flying was becoming too tame." In three years of racing with his Twelve- Meter Mouette and later with Shamrock V, which he bought from Sir Thomas Lipton's estate, Sopwith captured 109 prizes in British waters, 75 of them firsts. There is little wonder then that the British are counting on him as their white hope for success in the eighty-three-year-old struggle to get the America's Cup back to England. No less than $100,000,000 has been spent by the challengers and defenders of the "old mug," which originally cost

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T7IVE times the gallant Sir Thomas A. Tipton vainly tried to lift the historic

America ' s Cup>, symbol ofyachting supmnacy, which has remained in this country since i8ji. The old mug is ugly and it won't

hold a drinkj for there's a hole in it, but T. 0. M. Sopwith, airplane constructor who became a yachtsman when he found flying too tajne, offers a real threat in the Endeavour

$500 and is a rather ugly silver pitcher that wouldn't even hold a good drink for the winner. There's a hole in the bottom of it! Sopwith's try for the tall pitcher will cost him a cool million. His blue-hulled challenger Endeavour, designed by Charles Nicholson with not a few Sopwith innovations, has cost close to $700,000. Sails alone run about $5,000 apiece and Endeavour has more than 40 of them in her locker, each tailored with as much care as a dress coat. Then there are shipyard expenses for alterations almost up until the eve of the race; a crew of 25 to 30 husky seamen to pay and feed for several months during preparations; and the cost of operating the luxurious motor yacht Vita as En- deavour's consort on the long Atlantic voyage from England to the scene of the Cup races off Newport. The bath-chair yachtsmen who delight in figuring such things say that Sopwith will be getting away easy if he doesn't have to break into a second million. Endeavour wound up a brilliant season of racing in British waters before changing her rig in mid-July for the journey to our shores. Sopwith ran her record to eight firsts and three seconds in a dozen starts and finished her final match by easily defeating Velsheda, the 1933 sensation in British yachting; Shamrock V, Lipton's 1930 challenger; and two other big yachts, Astra and Candida. Had Sopwith shown less interest in experimentation for the coming America's Cup Races and a keener desire to win prizes at home, many concede that he might have won every match which Endeavour entered. Nearly every failure to take first place could be attributed to Sopwith's constant experiment- ing; one time it was with headsails and again with a centerboard. While these experiments cost him trophies at home, they should stand him in good stead when it comes to competing for the greatest trophy of them all—the America's Cup—beginning Sep- tember 15th. Although the Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes, the official challengers, might have substituted another yacht for Endeavour as late as July 15th under the new rules in force this year, there was no question about Sopwith's superiority. In the last special trial against Velsheda on July 9th with conditions similar to those common to Newport in mid-September, long swells from the open sea and a steady wind of light to moderate strength, the Sopwith yacht walked away from her rival. It was a fitting valedictory to her season in British waters and fore- shadowed a real threat to America's unbroken record of superiority in the America's Cup contests. The trophy will go to the first sloop to win four out of seven races over a course nine miles southeast of Brenton Reef Lightship in the open sea off Newport, R. L The first race will be fifteen nautical miles to windward or leeward and return. The second race will cover a triangular course with approximately ten nautical miles on a side, and all additional races will alternate over those two courses. Races which require more than five and one- England's hope in the Cup Race, half hours to complete and all lies will be (Continued on page 59) Sopwith's Endeavour

SEPTEMBER, 1934. 17 Remember

Qif ^airfux, ^Downetf

T^OK eighteenyears individuals and corporations -*- that suffered damages in the tremendous Black Tom explosion in New York harbor have been trying to get compensation from the German government, which they charge with having authorised the forty-million-dollar sabotage. Here's what all the excitement is about

ness of throwing a wrench 01 some sort in the works. Taken over

from civil life in the World War, sabotage was the powerful weapon of spies and secret agents against the foe's factories to hamper their James Larkin was told by the German production of munitions and all war supplies. But it was not con- territory of If agents of- the attempt to be made at fined to the the enemy. a neutral was producing Black Tom, but refused to have any- and shipping vast quantities of powder and shells, if they all went to the Allies none to Germany, cut off lack of thing to do with it. He was able to and by command of prove an alibi, but eventually went to the seas—why then, opined the German war lords, sabotage must prison for complicity in other offenses begin at the source. The Teutonic mind was not long in reaching that conclusion and

acting on it thoroughly. Spain, Rumania, the Argentine, and the Goddess of Liberty was rocked on her pedestal by United States felt the weight of the mailed fist. American mu- THEtwo terrific explosions of munitions on the sultry night of July 30-31, 1916. Those mighty blasts on and near Black Tom Island in New York harbor hung up a record which stands as unique among the thunderous annals of the World War. For more than one hundred miles the flash was visible. The tremendous concussion shattered thousands of windows in New York and Jersey City and shell shocked immigrants on adjacent Ellis Island. Under bursting H. E. and shrapnel, with flames licking toward cars crammed with TNT, railroad yardmen and firemen fought an action probably more nerve-wracking than any they may later have encountered as members of the A. E. F. Occurrencelateat night kept down thecasualties, but thepropertv

loss was very heavy. Yet it is none of these features that set the Black Tom explosion apart as extraordinary compared to other great munitions disasters. It is the fact that in this case the war is not yet over. Its detonations are still reverberating in 1934. And those echoes embody a spy story, a detective yarn, tales of intrigue and murder and sudden death. For the last ten years they have been running serially in the form of evidence placed before the Mixed Claims Commission. There are American and German editions of the book of Black Tom, with each nation striving to file the other's version under the head of fiction and presenting its own as fact. That controversial point will be finally decided when the latest chapter, now in preparation, is written and Germany's alleged responsibility for the spark that touched off Black Barge 17 in flames and Tom is proved or disproved. drifting away from Black The narrative, dramatic in Tom after the first explo- itself, gains an added fascina- sion. A short time after tion from a stake of $40,000,- this picture was taken the 000 in damage claims on the barge, which was loaded turn of its ending. with picric acid and de- Through it all runs the red tonating fuses, was blown threat of sabotage, that busi- to pieces

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Black Tom ?

Fireboats throwing streams of water on some of the buildings which remained standing after the explosion

nitions plants began to go up in smoke and flame as early as August cable later, for it serves as the frontispiece to the book of Black Tom. 30, 1914, and the list lengthened steadily until it mounted into the Clever, these saboteurs. They developed new and in- hundreds. Each successful coup took a toll genious tricks of their trade. Lead tubes of lives, injuries, and property damage rising divided in the middle by a soldered disk from a few to many thousands of dollars. It of copper, one chamber filled with picric acid was not only factories which suffered partial or and the other with sulphuric and the ends complete destruction but trains, bridges, navy plugged with wax; when the disk, the thickness yards, ships at sea—any agency for the manu- of which determined the time element, was facture or transportation of war material. eaten away, the acids mingled and jets of Profits were cut into, fire insurance reserves white-hot flame spurted out the ends of the took a terrible beating. More vital was the tube. Agents confessed they planted scores thinning of the life stream of ammunition flow- in the cargoes of munitions ships about to sail. ing to the Allies. And when sabotage and A German chemist turned out these "cigars" in not chance was at the bottom of this epidemic his New Jersey laboratory. Handier for ig- of incendiarism, neutrality was beingrun ragged. niting a factory were small bottles of feuerwas- The combination of human carelessness and ser, liquefied phosphorus; when uncorked and abnormal hazards was undoubtedly causing thrown in a pile of waste, the phosphorus, ex- some of the trouble. But soon interception by posed to air, burned intensely. Better still the secret services of the Allies of sabotage for defying detection were pencil-shaped con- orders to German agents for execution in the Lothar Witzke, German tainers contrived on the principle of the lead tube "cigars." They were made in Germany United States supplied at least an indication spy whom President Wil- that "accident" would never do as a blanket and slipped into this country under false bot- son saved from a firing explanation for blasts and con- toms of trunks or in leg casts worn by agents. the repeated squad after Witzke con- flagrations. Most remarkable of these docu- Saboteurs disguised as workmen carried them fessed having a hand in ments was a cablegram sent January 1015, into plants, dropped them into shavings or on 26, setting off the Black Tom directing the attention of the German Embassy oil-soaked spots. When the fire engines came explosion. Years after he in Washington to sabotage in America. The clanging around, it was difficult to find any- repudiated the confession British tapped it and deciphered it by the Ger- thing to blame but spontaneous combustion. man "very secret" code which they had thought- For these devices possessed the advantage of fully acquired. Turned over to President Wilson, it made it harder destroying themselves as evidence. Self-effacing also was the

' for him to live up to the slogan, "He kept us out of war. ' More of that dynamite, painted and shaped to resemble lumps of coal and

SEPTEMBER, 1934 19 — , — placed in bunkers, and the egg-shaped ex- nu ,i* r» — plosive containers thrust into intake valves or £ *VT T exhaust pipes of ships about to sail, or at- &cr2lmuc. tached by suction like barnacles. They were timed for thirty-six hours or longer, and mys- "UbteUurvtj llih terious mechanical break-downs or dis- Uf. Pol. 205. astrous fires on munitions vessels at sea often An occurred. Then there was a neat gadget which Co helm: agents attached to rudders; operation of the daa Auea&rtlgt A at t rudder rod gradually drove a pin into the ful- minate to cause an underwater detonation B * r X t n , which ended for some time all answering of the 7/ helm. Mtt Being auf A. 8. 66. vom B3.d.Mta.3 Thus many a future American soldier had En Bird ergobonat gebeten Jolgendea Tele- advance ideas on what the explosion of an grcmm tn lifjorn an die Katmerltohe Be tec hajt In Wmhtngton ammunition dump was like before 1918 and our sailors became familiar with the order, gelangen eu laaaen : ship!" before it legal "Abandon was open FUr Htlttarmtfmkt. PUr Sabotage tm Veretntgten season on them for submarines. German J^~ Stouten und Canada geetgnete Lout* bet /oigenden agents were suspected or actually caught red- handed. Yet the supply Pereonon *u er/ahron: was large and like second 1) Jcceph Mao Omrrtty, 6412 Sprtngftold Philadel- lieutenants they were re- phia, Pm., B) John P. K,*ting, Maryland Annum garded as expendable. Exhibit A in the Black Tom Chicago, 3) Jerenta O'temry, Park German officials in this rem, Norn country could and did Case against Germany. York. Ilr.i und B abaelut MuvorlSaetg und ear - draw on a large staff of achmtegan, Nr. B.auuorlttaatg.ntcht timer vor~ agents, augmented by the text reads: "To the Foreign THE ichmtogon. Pereonen Und von Sir Roger Ceaeeunt footloose crews of in- Office, Berlin: With reference to 2 instant it is respect- terned German ships, by A.S. 5 6 of the 3d baaeiohnot morden. Jn Warotntgtan at—ton kann the following telegram Irish agi- fully requested British-hating at oh Sabotage auf mllon Arttn von FaBrtken be transmitted in cipher to the Imperial ftlr tators, and by American Embassy in Washington: 'For the Mili- Krtegeltejerungen ere t reoken /gleenbahnen .DOmete reds. Finally the dev- tary Attache. For sabotage in the United they spread, Bnicken dort ntoht antaoten, Bataoha/t untar katnan astation States and Canada suitable people can be along with unrestricted ascertained through following persons: IMatHnden kompromttttoran,abanaomantg Jrtacn-Deut- submarine warfare, 1) Joseph MacGarrity, 5412 Springfield, echo Propaganda. SfUvertretendtr Genoralatif}, stretched neutrality Philadelphia, Pa.; 2) John P. Keating, farther than it would go. Maryland Ave., Chicago; 3) Jeremia[h] O'Leary, Park Row, New York City. On April 2, ior7, Presi- 1 and 2 absolutely reliable dent Wilson cast for- Numbers and discreet, number 3 reliable, not al- bearance aside and struck ways discreet. These persons have been back with ringing words designated by Sir Roger Casement. Sa- in speech before Con- a botage iii the United States can reach gress: "Indeed it is now all kinds of factories for war deliveries; evident that its [Ger- railroads, dams, bridges must not be many's] spies were here touched there. Embassy must by no even before the war be- means be compromised by sabotage plans, tabled until after the war. Then when the Treaty neither must Irish-German propaganda. gan; and it is unhappily of Berlin created a Mixed Claims Commission to Acting General Staff.' not a matter of conjec- decide the claims of American and German na- (signed) Nadolny" ture, but a fact proved in tionals, the heavy losers at Black Tom and the our courts of justice, that Kingsland, New Jersey, munitions plant fire com- the intrigues which have bined to attempt to recoup. The manufacturing, more than once come railroad, and insurance companies, which had sus- perilously near to destroying the peace and dislocating the in- tained losses aggregating forty million dollars, recalled the sus- dustry of the country have been carried on at the instigation, picious circumstances of that night when the stores for the .Allies with the support, and even under the personal agents of the in the harbor terminal went up with a bang—how the concen- imperial government accredited to the Government of the tration of explosives in the yards had never been larger—how United States." Just before Ambassador Von Bernstorff was Barge 17 of the Johnson Lighterage Company, where the first given his passports, the interned German sailors performed that blast took place, was loaded with picric acid and detonating fuses prime job of sabotage on their ships which left many of them —how it had been moored close to a pier against orders—how it useless for us until extensive and costly repairs had been made. had drifted off and blown up one hour after the first explosion War increased the perils of the German agent in the United how its captain, instead of being blown to bits, was later found, States but he kept busy. Jones and Hollister's "The German a corpse floating in the harbor with the skull fractured. Secret Service in America" records his multifarious activities Mentioned in the Black Tom evidence are the names of men how he inspired riots, strikes, a revolution in Cuba—erected se- who sat in the seats of the mighty in the German councils in 1 914- cret wireless stations and sneaked out information by every 18 and of men who have since risen to power. It calls a roll of means, once even writing it in cipher on the back of a prima donna daring spies, haling their testimony from odd corners of the sailing for Europe—placed ptomaine germs in the milk supply of globe. The story which follows hits only the high spots of the a training camp—weakened vital parts of airplanes—aided es- Black Tom case. capes and launched sea raiders—sawed the keel of a transport Deliberate sabotage by the Germans previous to the declara- nearly through—and continued to burn warehouses and shell tion of war had to be proved in the Black Tom and Kingsland plants. cases. Exhibit A was the cable the British had intercepted, de- Although the Black Tom explosion had ranked as a major coded and turned over to us. Addressed to Military Attache catastrophe, solution of the mystery of its cause was perforce Von Papen, later to become German Chancellor and Vice-

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Chancellor under Hitler, it informed him in effect that for sa- it so well that the counter-espionage reported him not only guilt- botage in America he could direct his attention to munitions less but a fine fellow. stores and factory supplies; for the time being he was not to in- Hilken served as one of the directors and imperial paymasters terfere with railroads. Three individuals in this country were of saboteurs. One of the names featured on his checkbook stubs recommended to him, their names stated in the cable to have been was Captain Fred Hinsch, a bluff mariner. His ship had been in- suggested by the Irishman, Sir Roger Casement, subsequently terned at Baltimore and he was sore about it. Big and brutal, executed as a traitor by the British in the Tower of London. Hinsch would stop at nothing. Perhaps he was once thrown The cable started a legal battle before the Commission. The by a horse or kicked by a mule, for his sabotage specialty was Germans said it was a blunder of a subordinate and had never mercilessly practised on those animals. A hidden laboratory been officially authorized. The Americans demanded the original at Chevy Chase, Maryland, provided anthrax germs and he and got it after considerable trouble. It proved to have been bossed a gang of white men and Negroes who ranged through the signed by Nadolny, a General Staff officer recently German Ambassador to Soviet Russia, and indorsements thereon rang in General Staff and Foreign Office bigwigs from Foreign Sec- retary Zimmerman to one Von Sternburg, possibly the German Ambassador in the time of President Theodore Roosevelt and a member of his tennis cabinet.

Well, maybe it wasn't a blunder then but it was meant to operate only after the declaration of war. How about the railroad discrimination then, asked the Americans, and what had pre- ceded the cable? It could not have come out of a clear sky. The American contention was that sabotage had been both authorized and practised prior to April, 191 7, and that Black Tom had been one of the greatest German triumphs in that art. They produced affidavits in support. Those documents shift the scene back to the guardroom in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in 1918. The guard was on its toes. It had Lothar Witzke, a German spy, in the clink. He had been betrayed by a comrade, convicted and sentenced to be shot—the only German spy to be so sentenced by the United States. Witzke wanted to talk. Call the corporal of the guard. Call the officer of the day. Both appeared with unusual alacrity and they got an earful. Witzke told them that he and another man caused the Black Tom explosion. It turned out not to be a last confession. Witzke was pardoned by President Wilson, served a prison sentence, was released after the war and faded away into the Far East. The affidavit to his confession made by the officer of the day and the corporal of the guard was countered in the court when the Germans pro- Captain Fred Hinsch of the German merchant duced a written denial marine enjoying a sojourn in Mexico with his by the vanished Witzke. wife while American secret service men sought He added an alibi for him on charges of sabotage at Black Tom. At good measure, but all left, the captain as he looked when his ship was regular spies invariably interned at Baltimore early in the war. His fixed up alibis in advance specialty was the administration of anthrax of jobs. However, the germs to Europe-bound horses and mules umpire ruled against the American evidence and a period was put to the picket lines at the ports and the remount depots infecting horses Black Tom case. and mules with these deadly bugs. They did incalculable damage. But Black Tom peri- The disease spread and many an Allied artillery battery and ma- ods have a way of chine gun outfit waited in vain for animal replacements. Nor did stretching into dashes. Hinsch pity his own profession—he placed time bombs in The Americans were not steamers. Finally, according to Hilken, Hinsch played a part in ready to give up. Their the Black Tom explosion. The captain ultimately made the investigators were off on United States too hot to hold him. With a Presidential warrant hot trails and in 1932 they were ready with new evidence strong out for him, he fled across the Mexican border. enough to force a re-opening of the case. They had found a Hilken's chief lieutenant was another American-born German former German agent who was ready to testify for the United named Fritz Herrmann. An adventurous fellow in his early States. twenties in 1914, Herrmann, though he had friends in the ranks of Now the scene shifts back to Baltimore in 1915 where lived the Allies, decided to give his loyalty to the Vaterland. He went Paul Hilken, American-born son of the German consul. He was to Berlin, enlisted in the secret service and became a spy in the working for the Kaiser but he had fooled the United States romantic tradition. Posing as an American student of forestry, Secret Service and kept on fooling it all through the war. He did he operated in the hazardous vicinity of {Continued on page 48)

SEPTEMBER, 1934 21 — en the G.A.R.

A SURVEY of ZjL Early Sessions of the Union Vet- erans' Organisation Discloses an Ear- nest Effort to Pro- vide for the Order's Declining Years

x (By a. 91.

Past Commander,

DESIRE to express to repeat again this year and are perfectly able to repeat for the my great surprise benefit of this Encampment. If such action has been taken, I am I that a body of surprised that in the financial condition of the Grand Army of the men, representing Republic we should refuse this donation, which comes from their the greatest organization hearts and with the approval of every member of the order. If

in the world, is told from you increase the per capita tax you will lose thousands of members, the stand that they must perhaps. Let these loyal women auxiliary to the G. A. R. assist depend for their finances you in this noble work. It is part of their mission. I am surprised upon the women. If so, that any one in this Encampment should refuse such a donation." then bankruptcy is the So we find these two former chiefs arrayed on opposite sides proper thing." the one surprised that anyone should decline a donation from the Past Commander-in- ladies, and the other surprised and somewhat disgusted at any-

Chief Gobin of the Grand one's willingness to accept it. That an organization of men then Army of the Republic numbering more than 276,000 could not or would not gauge its was speaking. The Thirty-Fourth National Encampment of the expenditures so as to keep them within its income, would not G. A. R. was in session at Studebaker Hall, in Chicago. It was the take steps to increase its income, but would accept aid from an morning of August 30, 1900. auxiliary that in seventeen years had raised and expended more The Encampment Committee had just submitted its recom- than two] million dollars in relief, was particularly galling to mendations on the Quartermaster General's report, and a spirited Comrade Gobin. debate was in progress. Neither the Quartermaster General's re- He continued his protest by adding, "The women, God bless port nor the recommendations of the committee had pleased Com- them, are earnest and sincere, but to be kept by women, an or- rade Gobin. The first showed that current expenditures had ex- ganization like this, composed of men, thousands of whom can ceeded current receipts, and that the whole of the previous year's each draw a check for this amount, to be told to U ke the pittance salary due the Adjutant General remained unpaid. The com- these women gather in their Corps, is not creditable to our mittee found the Encampment's income to be inadequate, in- organization.''" dicated that a proffered donation from the Woman's Relief Corps Two years before, when Gobin became Commander-in-Chief, should be accepted, recommended an increase in the per capita he had inherited an almost empty treasury and unpaid bills tax, and urged that the affairs of the National Encampment be amounting to a large sum. By employing measures of the utmost administered with due regard to economy. economy and husbanding resources, the liabilities were met and But what really irked Comrade Gobin most was the compla- a reasonable balance remained when he completed his term. The cence with which Past Commander-in-Chief Van Der Voort following year saw expenditures again outrun income. Knowl- viewed tne idea of receiving donations from the Woman's Relief edge of this condition doubtless prompted the Woman's Relief Corps. Speaking on this point Van Der Voort had said: "I have Corps to make a donation in sufficient amount to take up the understood that some action has been taken in regard to refusing deficiency, and a similar contribution in 1900 prevented a the donation of the Woman's Relief Corps which they are ready recurrence of the deficit.

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly wasYoung

The delegates to the G. A. R. encampment in Baltimore in 1882 were quartered in tents. Like the Legion's national convention in Miami this fall, it was the sixteenth annual gathering of the veterans. On opposite page, the G. A. R. badge of 1882. Below, the badge of the Wom- an's Relief Corps, its "Auxiliary" for 1883

duction of our investment is not to Joinder be thought of." That year, the forty-first of the Department of Nebraska organization's history, saw the Gobin, then, knew from experience that the organization'could creation of a permanent fund with live within its income. He knew also that its income could be Comrade Gobin heading the com- increased, and others shared his views. Comrade Burrows of mittee and proposing the necessary New Jersey changed a position he had held steadfastly for thirty- resolutions. The Woman's Relief two years and advocated an increase in the per capita tax. But Corps had made another generous the Department of Pennsylvania offered to donate five hundred donation, $6,000 this time, and the dollars rather than see the tax increased, and Department Com- government bonds which had been mander Pond of New York tendered his personal check for one- purchased in 1886 were maturing. fourth of the deficiency. The time was propitious. Com- Those who favored the increase in the tax pointed to the pros- mander-in-Chief Brown of Ohio perous status of the various posts, a condition which was un- had dwelt at length on the idea in doubtedly true, as the Inspector General's report showed cash his report. "I submit," he said, and securities in the hands of Post Quartermasters of nearly one "that as prudent men acquainted million dollars, while the value of other property owned by posts with the ills of this life, we ought to provide against the evil days reached almost the two million mark. when waning energy and possible lack of financial resources may In the end Gobin and his associates were beaten. The per terminate the existence of this premier body. Being farthest re- capita tax was not raised, the donation was accepted, and the moved from the rank and file, the National Encampment will customary resolution calling for economy in the conduct of the probably first feel the lack of money to keep it a going concern." Encampment's affairs was passed. He set forth the details of his plan, which outlined the kind of in- Actually there was no absolute necessity for receiving the do- vestments to be made, set up certain safeguards and provided for nation. The organization had an investment account of $16,000 a board of three trustees and added: "With a permanent invested par value in United States bonds, but these funds were treated as fund it seems to me reasonable that it will increase. Already be- a reserve—a wise measure, as it turned out later—and were not quests have been made to the Grand Army of the Republic. If taken into consideration in compiling the account current. In we manifest a capacity and willingness to husband our resources, iqoi another gift from the Woman's Relief Corps kept the gen- this fact will not go unnoted. A full purse often induces over- eral fund in the black; in 1905 the personal liberality of the Com- indulgence in that it sometimes begets fatal indifference to sound mander-in-Chief, Wilmon W . 3Iuckmar, saved the situation. In business policy and leads to pitiful conditions. Sometimes in a 1907 the report of the Adjutant General contained this forceful body like this oratorical blandishments carry ordinarily sane comment: . men into spasms of generosity never met with in their personal "The experience of the past year convinces me that the receipts relations to the noble impulse of giving from their private store." from the per capita tax are not sufficient for the proper conduct It is possible that Comrade Brown might have had in mind the of the affairs of the Grand Army of the Republic. We have not action of an Encampment many years earlier, but if he did not been living within our income. The Blackmar legacy of $3,000 has the journal of the 1884 session amply proves his point. "A com- enabled this administration to get along fairly well, but to do so rade from North Dakota," so the fluent Tanner of New York economy in every direction has been necessary. I repeat, the re- told the earlier assemblage, "who {Continued on page 39)

SEPTEMBER, i 9 -u 23 Ike Four-Point Victory

Chairman, National Legislative Committee, The American Legion

NO spirit of flamboyant exultation and with no desire to believe nor have we ever believed that it was the desire of the INshout "hurrah for our side" from the national housetops, American people or the American Congress to so sharply reduce The American Legion may pause a moment now, on the the Government's payment to the admittedly World War dis- eve of the Miami National Convention, to call attention abled." once more to the events of one of the greatest years in its legisla- There was not a sound in that great legislative chamoer, tive history. Memory is short and the significance of great mo- crowded to the ceiling. Everybody strained attentively to hear ments fades. We owe it to ourselves, therefore, to place in the every syllable of National Commander Hayes's message. The record clearly, so that it may be read through the years to come, Clerk continued: the story of the regaining of the disabled man's rights in this "So-called presumptives, 90 percent of whom are World War year of national stress and storm. The victory was won by a nar- veterans suffering from tuberculosis or neuro-psychiatric dis- row margin and not always were all the issues clearly perceived. ease, men whose disabilities have been connected with their ser-

Congress made great decisions this year, decisions which will vice under laws in existence since 1921 . . . These men constitute continue to affect the veteran's rights year after year. We must 58 percent of a group of presumptives who had their service con- keep always in mind the decisions made, landmarks for our fu- nection broken under the Economy Act. . . . These men for the ture legislative course. Should future doubt and discouragement most part have received government protection for an average threaten, we may find new courage and new strength in recalling of ten years. They have ordered their lives upon what they be- what was done in 1934 against obstacles which seemed too great lieved to be a governmental guarantee of their security. The to overcome.

IT WAS almost two o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 27, 1934. Congressman Gordon Browning, Legionnaire from In perspective, The American Legion's Tennessee, arose from his seat in the House of Representatives. legislative achievement of last March looms "Mr. Chairman," he said, "I ask unanimous consent to proceed for five minutes out of order." even larger than it did at the moment of The Chairman asked if there was objection and there was none. Mr. Browning had asked for this time, he explained, in order victory. The Chairman of the National to have read a letter from the National Commander of The Legislative Committee here sums up the great American Legion. The letter was handed to the Clerk, and the Clerk, in a clear, distinct voice began to read the letter from accomplishments of the year National Commander Edward A. Hayes explaining in plain and concise language the Legion's stand on the amendment to the Veterans Disability Laws contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill which the President proposed to veto. Economy Act and the subsequent review board actions have The floor of the House of Representatives was packed. All swept this away. Without government assistance the situation of

except a handful who were ill were in their places. The galleries thousands of these men will be pitiful indeed. . . . Service connec-

were jammed. Every seat was occupied, and men and women tion is difficult to establish ten or twelve years after a disability were squeezed against the walls in every available inch of space has developed. Thousands of these men are insane and are con- and sat on the gallery stairs. fined in the Government hospitals. Other thousands now lie The Clerk read: upon their backs upon beds for the tubercular. There is small op- "We believe the Congress should understand the points at portunity for either class to now prove their direct service con-

issue affecting World War disabled from the viewpoint of The nection. . . . We have therefore asked that the burden of proof

American Legion. . . . The first point has had to do with restora- be placed upon the Government and not upon the disabled men. tion of the payments received by the entire service connected ... It is our hope that the Congress may secure a clear under-

World War disabled group. . . . The second point concerns standing of our contentions before voting upon the veto proposal." eligibility to service connection for World War disability and af- The letter ended. For an instant complete silence gripped the fects some 29,000 so-called presumptives Under the Econ- entire chamber. Then a storm of applause broke from the mem- omy Act all service connected veterans have their compensation bers of Congress on the floor of the House of Representatives. It

substantially reduced while in hospital. . . . During the debate was taken up, contrary to all rules, by the spectators in the gal- of the Economy Act a year ago, it was repeatedly stated in the leries, and it was some moments before the chair was able to Congress that nobody planned and nobody desired that the restore order. veterans who had been admittedly disabled by their World War Almost immediately thereafter one of the President's secre- service should have one cent taken away from their disabiilty taries presented to the Speaker a message from the President

compensation. Yet we find now . . . substantial amounts have of the United States. That message was a veto of the Independ-

been taken away from the war disabled. . . . The Legion does not ent Offices Bill which carried The American Legion amendments.

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly In these Washington Headquarters The American Legion carries on its work for the nation's disabled World War service men. Located at 1608 K Street, N. W., and housing the National Rehabilitation and Legislative Committees, it was purchased this year by order of the National Executive Committee in order that the Legion might acquire a home for the future at prevailing low prices of real estate

The first part of the veto message had to do with the increase practically all of his message in regard to World War veterans in salaries of Federal employes specified in the bill. The second amendments was aimed at the restoration made to the presump- and longer part pertained to the provisions of the measure re- tives. In this connection he said: lating to veterans. "I intend now by regulation forthwith to direct an appeal by The President quoted the declaration of principles from his the Administrator of Veterans Affairs in each and every one of speech at The American Legion convention at Chicago and these disabled 29,000 cases with the (Continued on page 55)

SEPTEMBER, 1954 as Miami Wants to See You—

Sixteenth National Convention,

2§ The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —And Heres Your Way Around The American Leuon, October 22-25 By Wallgren

SEPTEMBER, 19' — 9he CASE

A Supreme Court Decision of Far-Reaching ./A Import Will Have Its Most Immedi- ate Effect on the Fate of 20,000 "Forgotten Men/' Victims of the Stringent Economy Act of 1^3, and World War Veterans All

THOMAS STEPHEN LYNCH, weary, worn, his body The two had been close friends. In an inland country where most twisted with pain, died on a railway train near Carbon of the veterans had served in the Army, they had the common Hill, Alabama, on November 27, 1924. bond of naval experiences. In addition Mr. McCreary, in story- Ten years later his death has become a matter of im- book fashion, was about to persuade Tom Lynch's sister, Teresa, portance to thousands of war-bereaved families throughout the to share his name and his troubles. United States. Most of them do not know, and never will know, Request for payment of Lynch's $10,000 war-risk policy was the contribution that Thomas Stephen Lynch has made to their made before proper authorities in Washington. Correspondence welfare; they are unaware that events consequent upon his death and investigation began. have made it possible for them to receive what slight recompense Lynch had paid no premium on his policy after July, 1919. money may offer for the disability or passing of a loved one. Unless maturity had occurred before September 1st of that year, It was Lynch's death, in brief, that led to the United States the insurance had lapsed. Mr. McCreary set about proving that Supreme Court's recent announcement aboui War Risk Insurance the total disability which led to the young man's death had certificates. The Government, citing the Economy Act of March 20, 1933, had refused to admit any further claims against itself under these policies. The court, in a case brought by Tom Lynch's bene- ficiary (his mother) , found this refusal contrary to constitutional guarantees. Automatically more than 20,000 cases, involving some $200,000,000, were returned to legal status; and more than 20,- 000 disabled veterans and survivors of veterans whose deaths had been attributable to the war * were authorized to seek financial redress for their losses. The National Rehabilitation Committee of The American Legion conducted a legal battle of the Argonne to win back the insurance rights seemingly destroyed by the Economy Act. In addition to the Lynch case there were many similar cases in which Watson B. Miller, Chairman of the Legion's committee, helped prepare the involved legal arguments which were presented to courts in all parts of the country. had its inception while the policy was still valid. Decisions in a number of these cases are still to be rendered in the The matter rocked along. Disputed points were Court of Claims and other courts, and it is expected that many of checked up, material witnesses were examined. the cases will also reach the Supreme Court, involving as they do Finally, on February 20, 1933, Lynch's mother phases of term and converted insurance even more complex than presented her evidence and a brief of law to the those included in the Lynch case. Insurance Claims Council of the Veterans Ad- Tom Lynch, born near Albany, Georgia, in 1897, was chief ministration in Washington. The answer came on auditor for a lumber concern of that city when the war-fever March 29th, after the first session of the Roosevelt caught him. Enlisting in the Navy on May 30, 1918, he served Congress had passed a measure which, popularly at the Training Station at Charleston until his discharge the fol- known as the Economy Act, bore the almost in- lowing year. Before his return to civil life, pulmonary tubercu- credible title, "An act to maintain the credit of losis had developed. disease grew worse and physicians States Government." 4 The the United ordered him to a drier climate. Lynch was on his way to Albu- This law, approved by the President on March 20, 1933, had querque on that tragic Thanksgiving Day of 1924 when death specified among other matters that "all laws granting or pertain- added his name to the endless casualty lists. ing to yearly renewable term insurance are hereby repealed" 1 In the group accompanying the young man were his brother, excepting only claims then being paid or in litigation. Lynch's his sister, a nurse and a friend, John J. McCreary. Mr. McCreary, policy, never having been converted to one of the later permanent at that time Senior Vice-Commander of Joseph N. Neel, Jr., Post forms (which of course were not affected), was of the renewable of The American Legion, of Macon, was later to be its head. He type. too had served as an enlisted man in the Navy, chiefly on U. S. S. Therefore "under these provisions," the Director of Insurance Wissoe, a section patrol boat under command of Captain O. F. wrote Mr. McCreary, "favorable consideration of this claim for Broseck. With the Armistice he had returned to the practice of benefits ... is barred and no further action in connection with law which the war had interrupted. this claim can be taken by the Veterans Administration." In For a variety of reasons Mr. McCreary interested himself in the other words, the Administration held that all such claims not complex insurance questions that followed Tom Lynch's death. specifically excepted had been automatically outlawed by Con-

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly TOM LYNCH illustration by _Q<3{.(fustcivson->

spective in scope, discriminatory and unreasonable, and declared

specifically that it violated Amendment V to the Constitution, which guaranteed that no person might be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and that private property might not be taken for public use without just compensation. The insurance policy issued Tom Lynch, she said, was a contract constituting property. The Economy Act had deprived her of its benefits without making reparation or permitting an impartial hearing. She asked judgment against the United States for the full amount of the policy. Other points, too, were involved in her petition. Delegation of legislative and judicial powers to the Executive (in violation of constitutional provisions) and improper discrimination against certain persons involved in possible benefits conferred by the measure were alleged. But these objections were never to be con-

On the lawyer's advice Mrs. Lynch appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States

sidered in the final hearing. This is the reason: One of the laws "granting or pertaining to yearly renewable term insurance" that had been gress's repeal of term insurance repealed by the Economy Act had been the World legislation. War Veterans Act adopted by an earlier Congress. Within a month Mrs. Lynch, This measure had authorized suit on disputed through Mr. McCreary, filed claims in Federal courts: "In the event of dis- complaint against the Government in the United States Court agreement as to claim . . . under a contract of insurance between for the Middle District of Georgia, Albany Division. She re- the [Veterans] Bureau and any person or persons claiming counted the refusal of the Insurance Director to pay her claim. thereunder, an action on the claim may be brought against the She contended that the Economy Act was retroactive and retro- United States either in the Supreme {Continued on page 46)

SEPTEMBER, 1934 29 You Can t Go Wrong

Fifteen acres of palms and Caribbean pines THE 120,000,000 of us who don't live there in summer, surround the clubhouse of Harvey W. Seeds TOFlorida is a habit or a desire. It is a habit to several Post on Biscayne Bay at Miami, one of the hundred thousand fugitives from the winter climate of chief centers for national convention visitors New England and the Middle West and other sections in which the snow gets two feet deep. These migratory Americans from New York, Pennsylvania or Illinois show up at Miami, wonderland, and have been longing for a chance to return to St. Petersburg, Tampa or thereabouts each autumn, shortly glories once only glimpsed. But most of us have never seen the after the last leaves have fallen upon their lawns back home, State and for these last ten years or more have been building up and they move back north each spring with the robins and the a desire which we are determined to satisfy some day. The swallows. Some of them are young, playboys and playgirls who greater part of America looks at Florida in the spirit of "See possess fortunes not stricken too grievously by the depression, Naples and die." but most of them are men and women in the autumn or winter Now is no time for gilding the lily or painting the rainbow. of their lives, to whom Florida is a glorious reward for earlier We don't believe years well lived. that anybody, There are other Americans to whom Florida is a habit. They anywhere, who are the comparatively affluent but not altogether leisured who has never been have learned that a trip to Florida's East Coast or West Coast there needs any is a splendid way of breaking the mid-winter monotony of their arguments to chilly, smoke-oppressed home communities up north. Even a convince him stay of two or three weeks on Florida's sands, amid Florida's that Florida is palms and with Florida fishing rods, transforms a December worth seeing. It refugee from Indiana into a January human dynamo geared for has been a ro- full speed for the rest of the winter. mantic and dra- Most of us, however, are not winter residents or winter vaca- matic common- tion-spenders. We are the hosts to whom Florida is a desire. wealth these Some of us have had a brief but memorable look at that tropical many years.

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Curiosity, if not affectionate interest, clings to its very name. See if you can the Edward W. Bok Mountain Lake Sanctuary What should be shouted from the Legion's housetops at this at Lake Wales, the singing tower which has been called the Taj moment is the fact that this coming month of October affords Mahal of America. With its carillon of 71 bells it rises 205 feet to Legionnaires a chance that may never come again. For The above the highest hill in Florida. See also if you can, Jackson- American Legion's national convention in Miami between ville and St. Augustine, Silver Springs and Gainesville and Day- October 22d and 25th, the railroads will sell round-trip tickets tona. Pause a moment at the legendary Fountain of Youth, at the price of one-way fare. Steamship lines will send their best at DeLeon Springs on the beautiful St. John's River near DeLand. liners to Miami, offering bargains in transportation and living But you'll choose your own places to see. Whether you drive accommodations during the convention. During the period of or go by train, you'll probably want to follow the East Coast the convention special low rates for Legionnaires will be in effect route going and the West Coast route returning, or vice versa. in Miami's hotels. There are a hundred other reasons for going The railroads will give you this diverse routing at no extra cost. to Miami in October. Yes, it is a chance that may not come again. The Paris con- For almost a week Miami will be the national capital of The vention of 1927 belongs to history, and no one can tell whether American Legion, and it will take on an air of life and gayety that world conditions will permit another Legion pilgrimage of that it has never known before. Superimposed upon the tropical magnitude to a foreign shore. There are a lot of cities in the wonderland will be all that has made the Legion's annual conven- United States which are waiting to invite the Legion to visit tion America's greatest national pageant. Just as it startled them after it leaves Miami, and no one can tell now whether the the world by the magnitude of its Paris convention in 1927, just outfit will ever pay a return visit to Florida. So now is the time as it transformed Chicago and overshadowed the immensity of to see Miami and Florida. the World's Fair, so will The American Legion next month provide a new sort of spectacle for the eyes of the world on the shores Blue and Gold Automobiles of Biscayne Bay. This year when the country looks and listens it will know that IN THE fashion of Mahomet going to the mountain, a little it is contemplating a new sort of Legion convention. The music touch of the Miami national convention of the Legion will go of mandolin and guitar! Moonlight on Biscayne Bay! One to scores of towns and cities between Chicago and Florida in the hundred thousand Legionnaires on Miami's waterfront prome- week of October 16th. Into community after community will nades, palm trees and flowers all around them, white yachts at anchor almost within hand's reach! Thousands of Legion- naires, their wives, their children, in the surf at Miami Beach, on one of the world's truly great bathing beaches! World-famed hotels, gay and crowded as never before! Automobiles from every State, in the greatest Legion motor concentration ever seen. Florida has many gateways. Fred C. Painton mentioned two of them, Jacksonville and Lake City, in his story "Points South" in the August issue. Now writes Manager F. M. Holbrook of the Chamber of Commerce at Mari- anna, saying that Pensacola at the extreme western edge of the State is also very much a gate- way. The Spanish Trail—Los Angeles to St. Augustine—enters Florida at Pensacola, meets at Marianna, 140 miles distant, the Bee Line Highway, Chicago to the Gulf. No matter from which direction you're coming, study the road maps. Nelson C. Ziegler, lifetime patient in the new Veterans Hos- pital at St. Petersburg, also took his pen in hand as a result of Mr. Painton's article. He has wounds suffered with the 6th Field Artillery, First Division. He invites everybody to stop to visit the hospital, one of Uncle Sam's newest and best. One of many places you should see.

At every turn in St. Au- gustine, on the way to or from Miami, you glimpse streets like this, typical of "America's oldest town"

SEPTEMBER, 1934 31 Jackson Hole Post of Jackson, Wyoming, brings back the Days of '49 with stove- pipe hats, checkered pants and rainbow vests—all in a community celebration roll a motorcade of eighty new Chevrolets with blue bodies which Uncle Sam issued to commemorate the historic event. and gold wheels, bearing upon their shining sides the emblem of The twenty-two American Legion posts of Baltimore gave to The American Legion. Each car will be loaded with Legion their community in June a message of good will when they con- bandsmen and drummers and buglers. At the rear of the proces- ducted a Religious Tolerance Program at which addresses were sion of CheVrolets will follow five motor trucks loaded with given by a Presbyterian minister, a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic musical instruments, cots and bedding and other supplies. priest and an eminent Baltimore surgeon. The speakers were: General Motors has donated this huge fleet of Chevrolets to Reverend Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, a Presbyterian clergyman of be used at Miami for official purposes, particularly for the trans- New York City; Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore, Fast portation of distinguished guests. By sending it across country Chaplain of the Maryland Department; Reverend Father Robert to Miami, as the largest motorcade ever to cross the Central and J. White, National Chaplain of The American Legion and Fro- Southern States, the Legion will be brought to the attention of fessor of Criminal Law in the School of Law of the Catholic Uni- the towns it visits as never before. In each town local posts are versity of America, and Dr. J. M. T. Finney, former Chief arranging ceremonies of entertain- Consultant in Surgery for the A. E. F. qe>r 1 ment for the Chicago bands and You ceuie up! , More than 1,000 persons attended the drum corps which are being trans- Your' {eKverature program held in Baltimore's magnificent ported and concerts will be given at is Oi& a bunded War Memorial. Department Commander many stopping places. C. L. Aiello welcomed the guests. The The gay official automobiles have meeting, which was broadcast by radio, helped give color to the streets of was acclaimed by Baltimore newspapers. the last four convention cities. This Dr. Clinchy in his address declared: year's cars were obtained through "We should do something more than live the courtesy of Fred Emich, Chevro- and let live. We should live and help let representative in Chicago. live. We need a society that can utilize all groups, mobilize all forces for the wel- Religious Tolerance fare of all." And Father White said: "The virtue of tolerance demands that ALL Baltimore this summer united men of every race, creed and class, re l\. in the celebration of the three ceive the respect due them as sons of hundredth anniversary of Mary- God. Some people say that tolerance founding, land's an event profoundly rests on charity. I say it rests on justice." significant in the nation's history because it established in America At the World's Fair for all time the principle of religious freedom. Americans everywhere re- flected on the nature of the Mary- World's Fair this summer couldn't land celebration as they placed on possibly find the time to see everything envelopes the special postage stamps on the grounds. But there was one spot

32 The AMEr."' LEGION Monthly which each and every one of them visited. Close by the great the South and Middle West. Labor Pat| is exhibit of Henry Ford, they saw The American Legion's own They saw these beasts walk building, a feature of the Town of Homes. The Legion's name with dignity in a grand and emblem stood out as a beacon between the white columns and parade, saw them dash in (jUST the building's front. National Commander Edward A. Hayes full cry over a measured BACK had stood beside those columns on June 30th, American Legion course toward trees sup- Day at the fair, as he formally accepted the keys to the build- posed to hold elusive rac- vaca- ing at ceremonies attended by 25,000 Legionnaires. coons. It was Kentucky's tion Within a few weeks, Legionnaires Frank Muleady and Em- First Annual National Field mett Grady, official hosts, had greeted 4,000 Legionnaires from Trials, and a Michigan dog all parts of the country who had inscribed their names in the regis- named Ohio Dan Logan, tration book. The building is open from 10 A. M. to 10 p. m. It owned by Arthur Lee Kirby has been a rendezvous for Legionnaires and their families. Its of Oxford, Michigan, won exhibits relating to the Legion's work and aims make a lasting high honors. The dry impression upon non-Legion visitors. ground, result of months of drought, made the going Coon Dogs and Fox Horns hard for all the dogs. Mule races and fox-horn-blowing THERE was a prodigious baying of coon dogs at the Fair contests were thrown in as Ground in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on the Fourth of July. added attractions. Visitors Likewise a braying of mules. Also a blowing of fox horns. More from other States found than 1,500 spectators who had gathered to see a new kind of Harrodsburg interesting as a show put on by Douglas Laws Post of The American Legion had half-way-point between a good time. North and South. In the heart of the blue grass section of Ken- They saw coon dogs by the score, dogs which had won local tucky, it lies thirty miles south of Lexington, home of Man o' fame in dozens of communities of Kentuckv and other States of War and other famous race horses. To coon-hunters from other States, the Harrodsburg Legionnaires showed the scenic wonders of the Ken- tucky and Dix Rivers, on whose banks Harrodsburg dogs hunt today as other coon dogs hunted in the days of Daniel Boone.

Law and Common Sense EVER since Joel L. Miller, a former worker in the offices of the Veterans Administration at Boston, was commissioned general counsel of the Veterans Charitable Legal Asso- ciation, a procession of service men in distress has passed his desk in a Bos- ton office building. The association was formed a year ago to extend free legal services to veterans who could not afford to pay attorneys' fees, and thirty-two leaders of the bar in Bos- ton, including judges and deans of law schools, accepted places on its advisory council. The latest report of the bureau shows 234 men aided in three months. There was the case of the veteran about to be evicted for non-payment of rent at a time when he couldn't move because of a sick baby. The bureau fixed it up so he could stay. There was another veteran living in an apartment obviously above his present means, also ordered to move. The landlord, interviewed by Mr. Miller, was far from heartless. He not only waived all arrears of rent but also personally assumed the entire expenses of moving to an inexpensive domicile. {Continued on page 58)

National Commander Edward A. Hayes accepts the keys at the formal opening of The American Legion Building at the Chicago World's Fair, visited by thousands of Legion- naires this summer

SEPTEMBER, 1934 33 ^WOLFHOUNDS PICK * WINNER

AW ERICA * m

In a contest held in Vladivostok, Siberia, in February, 1919, to determine the best drilled and best equipped soldier among the Allied forces in that country, these men were chosen to represent their respective armies. Corporal Rust of the A. E. F. in Siberia, at the extreme left, placed first, and the other Allied soldiers in the left-to-right order shown in the picture

PICTURESQUE nicknames of outfits cropped up in all of Police Department, Police Identification and Traffic section, and our services during the World War, thus continuing a a member of Jeff Davis Post of the Legion, Trenton, Kentucky. practice that originated during the Civil War and showed The picture came from him with this story: up to a lesser extent during the war with Spain. We can't "The picture I am enclosing was taken by Allied staff photog- compete, however, with the British, who during the past century raphers in the rear of the Japanese headquarters in Vladivostok, and more have had regiments which became known as The Dirty Siberia, during February, 1919. It shows a group of 'picked' Half Hundred, The Emperor's Chambermaids, The Holy Boys, soldiers—one from each of the Allied armies then in that theater Nobody's Own and The Tin Bellies. of operations, entered by their own commanders and staff American divisions were largely known by names which re- officers in a contest to determine which army had the best drilled flected the section in which the division was organized or trained. and best equipped Thus we had the Yankee Division (26th) of New England, the in its ranks. men Me douwv!'- Wor-a uskile of ' Blue Ridge (80th), the Dixie (31st), and the Middle West (89th). ' Ra tings were based You remember, among other nicknames the Ivy (4th), Red on soldiery bearing Diamond (5th), Blue and Gray (20th), Old Hickory (30th), and ability to explain, Sandstorm (34th), Rainbow (42d), Wildcat (81st), All-American tear down and re-

(82d) and Buffalo (o2d). assemble rifle, pack Even the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia sprouted and equipment in the a nickname—or, rather, nicknames. That far-off group of Ameri- quickest possible time. cans, consisting of the 27th and 31st Infantry Regiments, Am- The contest was at- bulance Company No. 4, Field Hospital Company No. 4, a tele- tended by the staff graph company and several supply units, became known as the officers of each of the "Wolfhounds" or the "Snowdogs," although the former nick- Allied forces. I was name was more commonly used. If we're wrong, let some of the chosen to represent ex-Wolfhounds correct us. the American Expedi- The group pictured above includes a representative soldier tionary Forces and from each of the Allied expeditions sent into Siberia to guard the won first place, beat- trans-Siberian Railroad, the mines, and other property in that ing the Limey who far-eastern section of Russia. America was represented by then- represented England Corporal Noble H. Rust, now Sergeant Rust of the Todd County by a few seconds. The

.34 The AMERICAN' LEGION Monthly and General Gaida revolts at Stancion during the month November, 1919."

MOST of the illustrations in this department, as you all know, have a definite appeal to some particular outfit or to outfits that served in some particular section of France or Germany, or in the Philippines, Cuba, the Canal Zone, Alaska or other outlying places. Hospital pictures, however, necessarily have a wider range of audience, since through these hospitals hundreds of men of many different outfits were cleared. We are glad, therefore, to show a picture of Evacuation Hos- pital No. 15, whose staff did valiant service during the last month of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. We thank Mrs. Mary Johnson soldiers in the picture are lined up from left to right in the order Cuttell, Legionnaire of Milford, Massachusetts, for permitting us in which they finished." to use the picture and for this account of the work of her hospital: "The snapshot I am sending to you shows Evacuation Hospital EVERYTHING went tine in the contest," continues Rust's No. 15 at Glorieux, France, just at the edge of the city of Verdun. story, "until the turn of the Czech soldier came. He demon- This hospital was organized on March 21, 1918, at Fort Riley, strated his rifle and pack but . . . that boy was a crack corporal of Kansas, the enlisted personnel being selected from various casual grenadiers and proud of it. He jerked one of those 'potato detachments of the M. O. T. C. at that place. masher' grenades off his belt and had it about half taken down "At first the unit consisted of four officers and 165 men. On when about five officers grabbed him and told him they under- October 12, 1918, Evacuation Hospital No. 15 arrived at Ver- stood hand grenades fully and to hang 'er back on his belt. He dun, the great French fortress. In less than an hour after arrival came pretty near breaking up the show. work was started in the operating rooms, handling about a dozen "After the contest the soldiers were treated to a big feed and cases the first day. From then on casesof almost every description presents of smokes from their staff officers. I received an extra were taken care of and the staff kept busy day and night caring gift from Colonels O. P. Robinson and T. W. King, chief of staff for wounded Americans and Frenchmen brought back from the and adjutant, respectively, of the American Headquarters Staff lines. in Siberia. "Twenty nurses joined the outfit in October and were assigned "I had been transferred to Intelligence Headquarters from the to ward work and to duties in the operating room. The American

1 6th Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Regular Army, stationed Red Cross was represented by Kathryn Ten Eyck Lansing and at Fort Mills, Corregidor, Philippine Islands, because of my abil- Emma Sterling Lansing, sisters of Secretary of State Lansing and ity to speak and read German, which I had studied at Bethel Col- they made thousands of friends among the wounded doughboys. lege, Kentucky. "During this period from October 12th until the day of the "Soon afterward, I was assigned to the Intelligence unit under Armistice, the staff worked under almost constant shellfire. Ger- Colonel D. P. Borrows, Captain Brazina and Lieutenant Kosilski man shells dropped into Verdun in front of us, onto the road at which landed at Vladivostok with the 27th Infantry under gen- the left, on the Naval guns, and on Fort Regret to our rear. Only eral command of General Graves. There we were stationed at the one shell landed in the hospital grounds, striking a store-room palatial 'German Club' building in Svetlonskaya Street. We building but injuring no one. Tlane attacks were also common. served as guards, interpreters, orderlies, dispatch riders and mili- "For several days after the Armistice, our operating room had tary police to the General Staff, being formed into a Head- a full capacity of surgical cases as it was then possible to bring in quarters Company by Lieutenant Mills. the wounded who couldn't be reached while fighting continued. "The boys will remember me by my nickname of 'Ding Hai.' Many of these men had lain in shell holes or in other inaccessbile I led a patrol of ten men from headquarters and fifteen men places for several days and gas gangrene cases were, consequently, from Company B, Replacement Battalion, during the Kolchak numerous. Everything that medical science could do was done but

Hundreds of soldiers who were fjfllUlil'iii^i casualties in the latter phases of the Meuse-Ar- gonne Offensive cleared through Evacuation Hos- pital No. 15, here pictured. The hospital was located at Glorieux, France, close by the famed city of Verdun

SEPTEMBER, 1934 Above we display a snapshot of President Wilson and General Pershing reviewing troops at Humes, France, on Christmas Day, 1918. Below, a picture of the unofficial snapshotter, Sergeant Morris, about to take the above snap of the Commanders-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and of the A. E. F., respectively

in many cases ex- shot referred to. The posure, loss of blood letter came from a and the dreaded gas Legion Auxiliary infection had done member, Mrs. F. E. their work too well. Baldwin of Box 136, Later we became Weeping Water, Ne- more of a base hos- braska, and we'll let pital and work was you read it: mainly the routine of "In the March is-

camp life. sue of the Monthly I "Today the vet- read the article by erans of the hospital Vergil J. Morris of are scattered widely Pasadena, California, but service friend- telling how he took ships continue. At the printed picture of the national conven- President Wilson and tion of the Legion in General Pershing. I Chicago last fall, am sending you a pic- Evacuation Hospital ture I have of the No. 15 Association same incident and was formed. It was am wondering if by voted to hold a re- chance this shows union once each year Sergeant Morris tak- at national conventions of the Legion, so we will meet in Miami, ing the picture you used in your March magazine, Florida, October 22d to 25th. I am secretary of the association "This picture was given to me by my father-in-law, Charles S. and would like to hear from all former members of our staff. McNally of Philadelphia. He Write to Mrs. Mary Johnson Cuttell, 76 West Street, Milford, was a Knights of Columbus sec- Massachusetts." retary in France during the war." PICTURES and stories bulletined herein generally bring many We wrote to Mrs. Baldwin letters of comment from Legionnaires—letters which we wish asking her to tell us something we could share with you. There is the handicap of space restric- of Mr. McNally's experiences tion. But here's a new one for the books. Just to be sure that you in service, how he happened to will remember the picture of General Pershing and President acquire the picture and also how Wilson reviewing troops at Humes, France, on Christmas Day, she happened to see Morris's 1918, which picture was very unofficially snapped by Sergeant picture in the Monthly—assum- Vergil J. Morris of Pasadena, California, and which he permitted ing, of course, that she was an us to show in the March Monthly, we are showing it again. Auxiliare. She replied: The contribution brought Morris letters from men who had "I wrote Mr. McNally asking been at the review, from men of his old outfit, the First Battalion, where he got the picture. Have 56th Engineers, and from others who wanted copies of his picture. had no reply thus far, but I as- But the Company Clerk himself received the prize letter of the sume someone gave him the lot, enclosing a picture which you will find just under the snap- picture while he was serving

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in France. We get the Monthly regularly —I am an Auxiliary member of the unit of Weeping Water Post. I was also a charter member in 1920 of Langley Field (Virginia) Unit. Mr. Baldwin was in France nineteen months with the 39th Transportation Corps, operating a train. "The picture I sent was given to me by the father of my late husband, Master Sergeant Roger C. McNally, who was killed in the airship Roma which met disaster in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 21, 1922, with the loss of thirty-four lives. Sergeant McNally went to France with the 20th Balloon Company and stayed there after the 20th returned, to tour the rest camps and hospitals with the show troupe called 'Balloonatics'." We ran the risk of sending Mrs. Bald- win's picture out to Morris in Pasadena and were rewarded with this report: "Thanks for sending Mrs. Baldwin's picture to me. Yes, you are right. The picture shows me ready to snap the picture you used in the March Monthly. "There are several means of identification, beyond being able to recognize my own self. I wore a very short overcoat account of having to get in and out of the supply truck so much. Also I wore a very Better give your car the Goodyear margin good suit (a supply sergeant naturally always wore the best!). This one was a of safety — tests show that the new "G-3" whipcord type and quite light 0. D. color. Also I have a habit of being a bit 'pigeon- All -Weather tread GRIPS and STOPS quicker toed' and this is more pronounced in the than any tire tested against it ! picture as I was leaning forward looking into the ground glass of the Grarlex. [Editor's note: Sorry we had to trim the ISN'T always luck — it isn't simply road — to put the full power of your brakes picture and omit some of these details.] IT brakes that decide whether you skid against the ground. "I also recall that I edged up close while into an accident or stop a safe distance the presidential party was at salute, which Grip and the new away. "G-3" gave me the better opportunity, and just Now you begin to understand why the new as they came out of the salute I stepped It's the grip on your tires. "G-3" All-Weather is one of the most about one pace farther forward, and as I And 8,400 stopping tests show that the spectacular tire successes in years. did so, General Pershing turned quickly Goodyear "G-3" All- Weather stops your to his right and glared at me, at which Examine it at any Goodyear dealer's. car quicker than any other tire — that time I snapped the camera and beat a You'll see that it has big, sure-footed smooth, worn tires skid as much as 779o retreat. blocks of rubber in the center of the tread— "This is certainly unusual coincidence that's mean by "the an farther! And what we more of them than ever before. and probably will not happen again during Goodyear margin of safety." the life of the Legion and our Monthly." It has the finest grip to start with — and The truth about after grueling road tests, Goodyear has MIAMI! Last call for the Legion na- accident records proved that it keeps its grip 43% longer than tional convention and for the re- former All -Weathers — twice as long as Tire advertising has recently made a great unions which will be staged there during other tires tested against it. point of scaring the public about blowouts. the week of October 2 2d to 25th. If you What makes this heavier, huskier, broader, are interested in gathering together your Yet insurance records show that blowouts flatter tread possible is the body of patented gang down there, notify K. Williams, c J. or punctures cause only 4/10ths of l /o of Chairman of Reunions, 614 Ingraham Supertwist Cord used in all Goodyear the accidents. Building, Miami, Florida, and the Com- Tires. And this same Goodyear feature pany Clerk at once. Announcements can Five and a half times as many accidents are gives you the best possible protection from now appear only in the October issue, which caused by skidding. blowouts in every ply. will be distributed to Legionnaires by to know about But what you really need to think about September 25th. And the first fact you need buy a tire is grip — and the Particulars of the following convention skidding is that it takes grip in the center when you reunions may be obtained from the Legion- of the tread — grip where the tire m. *fs the Goodyear margin of safety costs no more. naires whose names and addresses are listed:

National. Organization American Legion Nurses—Annual meeting and reunion. Mrs. Flora Sheldon, natl. secy., 2170 Atkins av., Lakewood, Ohio. National Yeomen F—Ninth annual meeting and reunion. Miss Helen Wienhusen, natl. adjt., 7 May St., New Haven, Conn. Women World War Veterans—All women who hold honorable discharges (Continued on page 62)

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"EON SCHWARZ, veterans' preference, the interviewer W. BUXTON, of

Le- asked .. Morristown, 13 Paris Caucus H N. J., gionnaire and sometime "Are you a veteran?" tells of a time when his mayor of Mobile, Ala- "Why, boss, I'm jus' the same as a destroyer put in to bama, commanded a vetrun," was the reply. Brest after fighting a company of the Nation- "Just the same as a veteran! What fierce storm for five al Guard on the Mexi- do you mean by 'just the same as a days. Wet and hungry can Border in 1916. His men, used to veteran'?" for warm food, they tied up at their civilian pay, were having a hard time "Dat I ain't worked for five years." buoy. When the mail came aboard, budgeting their stipends, or whatever it is one man tore the wrapper off a New that soldiers do with their princely re- York paper and a dozen gobs crowded munerations to stretch them over a FORMER National Vice-Commander around to get a glance at the news from glorious celebration and the front page, in three- pay-day Morton (King) David used to tell home. Across the rest of the month. Hence, he was called a story about a rookie the men had kid- inch type, was the heading: upon for loans to tide some of the men ded without mercy. As in every sol- BOYS SUFFERING AT YAPHANK; over from time to time. The morning dier's life, there came that first night on THUNDERSTORM BLOWS DOWN after one pay-day, a certain private came guard duty for the rookie. A party was TENTS to Leon and asked: approaching from the darkness. Three days later, battling another "Cap'n, will you please let me have a "Who goes there?" challenged the fierce gale, Buxton says: "My watch couple of dollars?" rookie. came off duty at midnight, soaked to the "Why, man, you drew your pay "Major Moses," was the reply. skin, and flopped on our bunks—wet, fifteen dollars—yesterday; what did you "Howdy, Moses, glad to meet you," cold and utterly miserable. We held do with it?" said the rookie, scenting another joke. on to the sides of our bunks while the "Well, Cap'n, I'll be honest," the sol- "Advance and give the Ten Command- ship rolled and pitched in the storm. All dier replied. "Last night I went in to ments." town and met my girl and took her to was dark and silent, save for the wash of the waves overhead, when suddenly a supper and treated her otherwise—it dollars. feeling sort tired voice spoke out: 'Ye Gods! This cost me ten Then, " 1man at the must be a hell of a night in of sporty, I bought a quart of liquor and THE Yaphank!' kite!:hen door, that cost me three dollars." awaiting a handout, was "Well," said Capt. Schwarz. "that only disappointed with the Larry had been to church, adds up thirteen dollars; what became of IITTLE platter of cold meat and j where he had listened to a sermon the other two dollars?" potatoes given him. mostly devoted to the origin of Eve. The soldier scratched his head in evi- "Madam," he said, At dinner he indulged all too freely in dent deep thought for a moment or so, "I have seen better days." ice cream and cake. A little later his and then replied: "Oh, that's all right; I'll let you have mother found him with his hands pressed "Cap'n, I don't know, but I guess I a napkin and finger bowl if you wish." tightly to his ribs and in great pain. must have spent the other two dollars "My goodness, Larry!" she exclaimed. foolishly." "What on earth is the matter?" "O-o-o-h!" Larry groaned. "I'm F. M. JONES, of Red- COMRADE afraid I'm going to have a wife." GASTON ROGER, of the old 313th mond, Oregon, likes to tell of an Ambulance Company, recalls that incident which occurred in the country when he was a youngster and attending grocery where he worked many years AND then there is the court-room Sunday School regularly, the teacher once ago. One of the customers, a certain l \ story about the defendant before announced Tony, not too long from the sunny land the magistrate. of the entire class only one is of his birth, wanted to buy some cheese. "Out "Guilty or not guilty?" asked h's honor. absent today, let us hope could not make clear just what kind Johnnv Jones— He "Not gu'lty, sir," was the plea. he is Ml." cheese wanted, so he was sold a of he "Have you ever been in jail?" cake of very ripe limburger. "No, indeed," was the righteous re- The next day, Tony returned and ap- sponse. "Th's is the first time I ever of the comrades were discussing proaching the clerk said: TWO stole anything." their big fat buddy. Said one: "I "Meest', deesa cheese—he'sa spoil!" saw Ben the other day, and he is not as The clerk unwrapped the cheese and, big a fool as he used to be." after close examination replied: "N A little wayside "What's the matter—has he re- "Why, no, Tony, that cheese is all rstation down in Ala- formed?" right." bama an old negro "No, he's dieting." "But yes, datta cheese—he'sa mooch shuffled up to the ticket spoil," insisted Tony. window. Another examination was made and "Ah wants a ticket EEGIONNAIRE L. brought forth the positive statement for Trivinia," he in- L H. Gardiner, of that the cheese was not spoiled. Tony, formed the long-suffering agent. Buffalo, New York, still in good humor but none the less The agent consulted the timetable of writes about a big Ne- emphatic, caught up the package and his road, and then the railway guide. gro who called at a nourished it near the nose of the clerk, Finally, he asked: government employ- exclaiming: "Where is Trivinia?" ment service bureau "He'sa no spoil? Hot damn— "Dar she am," replied the old man, looking for work. Having in mind SMELL!" "standin' ovah dar by de doah."

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly When the Was Toung {Continued from page 2j) "Mellowed I74 years? starting out as full of anticipations of joy as any of us, by an accident with which many are familiar, instead of sitting with us today is left in a hospital in this city, with one of the good limbs upon which he came to this encampment severed from his body forever." Comrade Tanner's eloquence in behalf of the unfortunate North Dakotan concluded with a resolution which the encampment adopted directing the Quarter- master General to pay the comrade $500. Departments, posts and individuals swelled the fund until it amounted to $2,990, and in the midst of the speeches of donation, which when reported covered six pages of the journal, Comrade Hazzard of Pennsyl- vania enlivened the procedure with some satire which is included here because many of today's disabled will enjoy it. "Before this pension business goes any further," he said, "it is best to use the 'precaution' usual in such cases. We want to appoint a committee to inquire, first, if this soldier was sound when he enlisted; second, whether he entered the service volun- tarily; third, whether his great-grand- mother was cross-eyed and his step-mother deaf. We must have it established by credible witnesses that his leg was cut 'clean off' and whether or not it was a wooden leg. It must also be established whether it hurt him at the time, and whether he is able to plow corn now as he was before the 'alleged' injury; and finally, whether he ever lost a leg before, and Lee Tracy . . . noted Paramount movie star whether he or any of his family were subject to the loss of legs. This being done, must be sent before a Board of Ex- he WE'RE not fooling, Mr. Tracy. They've learned what it takes to aminers to ascertain whether there is any The Kentucky Burley in produce a truly fine pipe blend. probability of the leg growing on again." Union Leader hasn't been aged That explains why Union Leader Not a word of protest was voiced save that of the Commander-in-Chief, who 174 years . . . but there are 174 is so mild and smooth and ap- said: "I am a little afraid of this business years of experience back of it. pealing to your taste. And why and hope it will not be a precedent for any- You see, the Lorillard folks have you get such a generous tin for one else getting his leg cut off." been selecting, curing and only 1GY. (In cigarettes, too . . . When this happened, in 1884, the or- blending tobaccos since 1760. it's delightful!) ganization was young and prosperous. If thought was then being given to its de- 1 P. Lorillard Co., Inc. clining years, it was only on the part of a few, and twenty-three years were to pass before a definite plan was put into effect designed to guarantee financial security for UNION LEADER the order in its old age. The creation of the permanent fund brought about the result that Comrade Brown predicted. Donations were made from time to time, not only by the ever faithful and loyal Woman's Relief Corps, but by the other affiliated organizations. The Daughters of Veterans, the Sons of Veterans' Auxiliary and the Ladies of the G. A. R. were frequent contributors. Several bequests were received and the fund swelled to twice its original size. Although the revenue from the per capita tax (Continued on page 42)

SEPTEMBER, 1954 39 — — — The Voice ofthe Legion

Membership and Publicity, Traffic Fatalities, Veteran Compensation, and Universal

Draft Interest Editors Throughout the Nation

National Economy League was jubilant over its American Legion postj, but of every civic-minded American THEtreacherously gotten Victory in March, 1933, fought citizen interested in the safety and well-being of the community? viciously to retain every penny of it in the very presence —Almont News, Montgomery Post, DuBois, Pennsylvania. of its victims who were shown to Congressmen then, after ; its oft-repeated declaration that it was for everything the war "Sore Thumb" Cases disabled deserved, proved it had lied by getting squarely behind the veto of the Independent Offices Appropriation bill. EVERY community, large or small, seems to have a few of Beaten on that, and sore as ever over the Legion's success in them. The pattern is always the same. having the Economy Act of March, 1933, liberalized, the League First we list the veteran with a comparatively short period is now organizing in every Congressional district in the country, of service who is always reputed to be drawing "a great big pen- with the intention of obtaining as many pre-election commit- sion" —never less than $125 a month, if local latrine rumors are ments as possible. No party lines are being drawn, the League's to be credited. He usually holds a good job and there is appar- only politics is to try to save money for the profiteers of both ently nothing wrong with him, according to the wiseacres. war and peace at any cost to the suffering defenders of the nation, We have investigated scores of these cases in our fifteen years the children in the public schools and the masses of people. as service officer, and these one-time "gold-brickers" in Southern Most effective tactics is to get the groups, one of which it Illinois could always be listed on the fingers of our two hands, likes no better than another, to fighting among themselves. The with several digits to spare. taxpayer not a Legionnaire is subtly told the Legion is bank- They have been eliminated from the rolls, but the local gossip rupting him, school leaders are urged to beware of the Legion's lives on and grows with each re-telling. Investigation will quickly militaristic influence, Legionnaires hear that if so much were not puncture these yarns. spent for education there would be more money for the disabled, Veteran No. 2 is the man who had a lot of front line service, honest advocates of adequate national defense read that so much was seriously wounded or disabled, but receives little or no com- of government funds is spent for undeserving veterans the safety pensation. This comrade can count on the Legion. of the nation is imperiled, veterans are informed there would be The third "sore thumb"' case is the fellow receiving a fair enough for their claims if so much were not going to defense. rate, the occasional drunkard or waster who won't pay his bills Two powerful Legion weapons: Membership and Publicity, and neglects his family. His comrades present no brief for him. through which thinking, upright Americans may be made to see The latter class must be handled without gloves. We have the light! Iowa Lcgionairc. been too tolerant. Whether we like it or not, the Legion must accept "credit" The Dangerous Traffic Season for all such situations—the discreditable cases with the meritor- ious ones—and apply the proper remedy. Egyptian Legion- THE dangerous traffic season is here. One of the most recent naire, Herrin, Illinois. reports in connection with automobile accidents states that 29,900 persons were killed and approximately 850,700 were For the Next Congress injured, non-fatally, in automobile accidents in the United States during 1933. This report also states that up until June, THE universal draft law proposed by The American Legion 1933, the deaths from automobile accidents were under the figure and introduced in the last session of Congress should have for the corresponding period of 1932. From June on, however, the active backing of all organizations that are interested in the fatalities increased at an alarming rate, with the total num- peace. This law if enacted would conscript capital and labor ber of accidents at the end of 1933 greatly increased over the as well as men in time of war. The American Legion desires to year 1932. The next few months are, therefore, the most danger- make this one of our peace time laws and not wait until war is ous traffic period of the year and all Legionnaires should intensify declared. Why should this bill have any opposition except their safety-first activities. Statistics tell us that practically from those that want to make a profit out of war? The Legion two-thirds of the automobile accidents in 1932 were due to driving believes if we take the profit out of war there will be no wars. errors —the greatest of which was exceeding the speed limit. This is a challenge to all peace organizations to get behind this In ten yeaTs' time the number of people killed by automobiles bill and it will be passed during the next session of Congress. was greater than the total number of American soldiers killed in Idaho Legionnaire. all the wars in the history of the United States. The total is more than six times greater than the fatal battle casualties of the Absolutely Non-Political A. E. F. in the World War. The number of non-fatally injured during the present decade exceeds more than fifty times the ARTICLE II, Section 2, of both our National and Depart- A. E. F. record of soldiers wounded, non-fatally, in action. ±\- ment Constitutions provide as follows: With such statistics staring us in the face, can anyone doubt "The American Legion shall be absolutely non-political the need for real safety-first effort now; not only on the part of and shall not be used for the dissemination of partisan

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principles nor for the promotion of the candidacy of any person seeking public office or preferment." PARDON, SENOR...BUT There are in our ranks those who be- YOUR WHISKERS CUT lieve Legion should into politics." the "get LIKE BULL'S HIDE However, it is our firm conviction that the strength of The American Legion has BECAUSE THEY'RE lain in the fact that we have kept out of politics. WATERPROOF- Unfortunately, now and then, a few like A DUCK'S BACK/ over-enthusiastic adherents of a political COLGATE'S candidate will forget their obligation to our Constitution and will use the name of DE-WATERPROOFS our organization. 'EM...MAKES SHAVING Whether the policy of The American EASIER, AND IT COSTS Legion has been right or wrong, the fact stands out that the provision quoted above ONLY 25 $ is a part of the fundamental law by which The American Legion is governed. What we may do as individual citizens is one thing; what we do as American Legion- naires is another. New Jersey Legion News. The Forgotten Men THERE is a certain group to be found in the Legion that needs to be brought forth every once in a while for an introduction to the rest of the Legionnaires; for a great big hand and a bow. There are two classes of real workers in the Legion. The first class comprises the workers whose tasks require that they appear before the public as chairmen or as speakers. The other class is composed of those loyal fellows who are behind the scenes when f he show is going on. They are the mechanics without whom there would be LOOK/ to every single whisker. They strip it clean of no show. They do not get their names every last trace of waterproofing. They emulsify or their pictures in the paper, but with- the oil float it away. out them there could be no success. Every post commander knows who these COMEONRAZO/?/ men are in his post. They are the old re- Shaving's a tough task... and that tough, oily liables—the shock troopers. It's time jacket is what makes any whisker a tough cus- they had their day. That's the reason for tomer to handle. Once you strip that waterproof jacket from Then countless millions of these tiny bubbles this editorial. They may be unknown, every single whisker, you take the fignt out attack each whisker, wilt it limp as a wet rag . . but they shall not remain unsung! Legion of your beard, and the scrape and pull out of soak it soft as melted butter . . . and turn your News, Detroit, Michigan. shaving. beard to fuzz beneath your razor.

But—here's where most shaving creams fail Tomorrow's Citizens FRIENDS you. They can't remove all the waterproofing. THE American Legion has accepted a Because they froth up into big-bubble lather new responsibility—that of organizing — and you can't get a lot of big bubbles close and directing The Sons of The American around every whisker. Legion. To some, this is "just another organization." Many feel that it duplicates Give Colgate's Rapid-Shave Cream a try. Find the work of the Boy Scouts. out for yourselfhow its small-bubble lather makes Those of us who have some familiarity shaving easier ... makes your razor cut slicker, cleaner. The large tube is with the Sons of the Legion organization 35^ now only 25^. Buy it... today! know it does not necessarily conflict with But Colgate's Rapid-Shave Cream is different. the work of the Scouts. Even if it did, we Because it whips up into small- bubble lather. P. S. Colgate's After-Shave Lotion and Colgate's must consider that a boy can belong to the Whole armies of these tiny bubbles crowd close Talc for Men give you the perfect finish to Scouts for only a few years—in the Sons that Colgate shave. of the Legion, membership may be for life. When you see a boy proudly wearing a LARGE SIZE TUBE Sons of the Legion cap, chest swelled out with pride in his organization, encourage NOW him. DE-WATERPROOF Legion men can well give time and ONLY 25 thought in guiding these Sons of the Legion your whiskers — and squadrons to the end that these boys may become the good citizens and proud leaders make shaving easier of America tomorrow. Verdugo Hills {Cal- ifornia) Post Viewpoint.

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dwindled, the deficiency was made good hit its stride. The average membership by the interest accruals from the invest- during the first twelve years had been about ments and by the continued donations to 27,000, but the next thirteen years wit- the general fund by ever-generous affiliated nessed a remarkable growth, and the organizations. Only in recent years has it zenith was reached in 1890 when the been necessary to make inroads on the Adjutant General's records revealed 408,- principal sum of the G. A. R.'s Permanent 489 members enrolled. Fund, and it seems likely that it will During the lean years from 1866 to 1871 nearly, if not fully, accomplish the pur- it had been necessary for comrades to ad- pose for which it was set up. vance funds so that the work might be car- Candor compels the observation, how- ried on, and mention is made of loans hav- ever, that the organization would have ing been repaid to Comrades Collins, Owen fared badly indeed during the last two dec- and Chipman. The year 1872 found the ades but for the assistance received from encampment free from debt for the first its affiliates. Just what policies the G. A. time in its history, and by 1874 finances R. would have followed but for this aid is, were in such good shape that the Quarter-

of course, a matter of conjecture, but it is master General suggested the possibility of almost certain that a different attitude re- lowering the per capita tax. The encamp- garding support of its national machinery ment apparently lost no time in acting on would have resulted. the suggestion, and a further reduction was Almost from the beginning the annual effected in 1878.

fleas have gone to another cat. encampments appeared reluctant to create By 1 88 1 some members of the order were THE a strong central authority. A national thinking of the future, for we find Com- The poor cat has gone to a flea- headquarters, as we understand the term mander-in-Chief Wagner recommending in less heaven where smelly pipes and in the Legion, was never set up. For years his report: "Because of the increase in devilish tobaccos are not admitted. the office changed annually, moving us- membership to be anticipated during the Here's a recipe for keeping kittens ually to the home city of the Commander- coming year, assuring us of still more and your companions purring: Scrape in-Chief. The salaries paid were modest sources of revenue, would it not be well to judged by the present standards and could reduce the per capita tax; or, perhaps, in the debris out of your briar, run a not have been considered exorbitant even view of the certain time when our numbers cleaner through it, get rid of tobacco then. "By the aid of a stenographer and must decrease, still better, establish a per- too strong and odorous for this fragile typewriter, whose employment was au- manent, interest-bearing fund by the in- world —and replace it with mild, fra- thorized by the Executive Committee, I vestment of a certain portion of our pres- grant, considerate Sir Walter Raleigh. have personally conducted all the im- ent income?" It might have been wiser for mense correspondence of the office," re- Comrade Wagner to have recommended It's a gentle blend of the choicest ported the Adjutant General in 1888. His only one thing, for the encampment did Kentucky Burley leaf. It's well-aged, salary was $2,000 for the year, and the both, but not in the manner their chief I burns slowly, emits a mild and de- membership was 373,000. Frequently the had suggested. The per capita tax was re- light! ul aroma. Thus you and your officers served without pay. There seemed duced and $5,000 was ordered invested in pets will live happily together. Sir to be feeling, judging from remarks ap- United States bonds, but no "permanent pearing in the journal, that the honor was fund" was established. That year the Walter Raleigh (strange as it may sufficient reward. Commander-in-Chief had served without seem) costs only 1 5 £ a tin, wrapped As late as 1006 the Adjutant General de- compensation and had borne his own ex- fresh in heavy foil it fresh. gold to keep scribed National Headquarters in his re- penses.

Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation port to the encampment as follows: "The When the encampment met in Minne- two rooms rented contain a permanent apolis in 1884 the mounting membership Louisville, Kentucky. Dept. A -49- safe, and book shelves about the rooms, for had increased the revenues and the sale which there was no charge other than the of supplies to the posts had produced a modest rent of $25 per month. The offices profit greater than the total of the per have not been carpeted, and two tables, a capita tax. Also the future seemed to have desk and six office chairs have been loaned been forgotten temporarily, for we find the by the Commander-in-Chief. For want of Quartermaster General reporting: "My a stand the letter press has been mounted account current contains an item of $5,000 on one end of a desk, and the official seal received for United States bonds called in has to be used on an old packing box. for redemption December last. In my Nevertheless we got along fairly well—the opinion there is no necessity for any fur- offices were comfortable." ther accumulation of moneys at National A reason for this attitude, which Headquarters; better far to make still amounted almost to parsimony, is not further reduction in cost of supplies and readily discovered. Perhaps the fact that let the posts have the benefit of this the early years of the G. A. R. as a na- money." tional body were none too promising had Thought of the future came to the fore

something to do with it. Although started again in 1886. Commander-in-Chief at Decatur, Illinois, in 1866 and holding its Burdett, commenting on finances, said: "It firut convention at Indianapolis in Novem- is always to be borne in mind that we are ber of the same year, political complica- on the high level now; that our direction is tions organization difficulties pre- fixed; that and in our path is the j and beyond vented early progress, and it was not until declivity, and we ought to have in mind that the of the Republic for the only a few will I 1878 Grand Army provision day when

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly contribute to the funds, but when, we hope and believe, the fading few will still assemble in National Encampment and find in their own funds means to do so until the end comes." This advice was heeded and §20,000 was invested in government bonds, which were then selling at such a premium that only .$16,000 in par amount could be purchased. The resolution authorizing the purchase did not make any provision for the permanency of the investment, but the committee on the Commander's report, in approving his recommendation, had used the words "be invested and kept invested." The implied permanency of the investment was respected, and when the permanent fund was created in 1907 this investment was the nucleus.

Apparently the financiers of the encampment were not alert in 1887, for the per capita tax was reduced fifty percent. The following year witnessed a determined effort to restore the old rate, with the Council of Administration recommending the increase. Comrade Harper, speaking for the Council, said: "We believe that the organization now, in the days of its greatest prosperity, should be able to contribute a little more than is actually necessary for its present purposes to help maintain the Grand Army of the Republic in the days of its decrepitude, and we appeal to the national encampment to provide the means to perpetuate this organization to the last possible moment." One speaker opposed said: "We have now $20,000 on hand. Wait until that is used up, or at

least half of it, and as the membership in the Grand Army decreases, the salaries of the officers can be decreased in proportion, and the time will come when these comrades will be willing to serve without salary." Another advanced this argument: "If we use due diligence, we have yet ten years of increase before us. The time will come, perhaps, when we will increase the per capita tax, but, in my judgment, that time has not yet arrived." When the vote was taken the tax remained unchanged. Two years later the membership peak was reached and the long decline started. A decade was to pass before finances again came prominently to the fore. Some temporary relief was obtained in 1892 when the per capita tax was slightly increased, UP? but conditions warranted a recommenda- 01 * 6 tion by the Commander-in-Chief in 1897 , ^T^WV^ that an additional increase be made. The encampment rejected the suggestion and resolved "that no salaries be allowed except to the Adjutant General and the Custodian of Records, and that in all other matters involving the expenditure of money, the strictest economy be main- consistent the interests of the tained with ©1934 Cluett. Peabody 8 Co., Inc., Troy, N. Y. order." Gobin's administration, which followed, complied, but the expenses of holding the that year exhausted the UNDERWEAR encampment of ARROW cash in the general fund and encroached on CP&rfect fit gzcma/ntecxL— the special funds. The $2,000 check which the women of the Relief Corps tendered the Made by the makers of ARROW SHIRTS following year {Continued on page 44)

SEPTEMBER, 1934 43 When the Q.^.%Was Toung ^Thoughts of (Continued from page 4j) at Cincinnati must have been a wel- in our own funds means to do so," it should come gift to the officers, who had seen be said that they did not relax effort in the their general fund shrink to $8.82. But face of repeated rebuffs. The struggle to wksHINGlDN it was this check that roused the ire increase the revenues continued, but that of Gobin and brought the matter of fi- remedy was applied only after economiz- nances once more to the front in 1900. ing had failed. Gradually the tax was in- That year there was a proposal to increased. Interest accruals from the perma- crease the dues. The answer of the en- nent fund helped, occasional gifts and be- campment was: "There is no necessity for quests were acknowledged with thanks

increasing the tax . . . Let us take some of that must have been heartfelt on the part

the surplus money that we have . . . The of officers, and the generous gifts from the Commander-in-Chief should not travel all affiliated bodies came regularly in increas- over creation ... A plan of economy and ing amounts.

retrenchment must be established . . . The Such financial crises as arose during the encampment has a lot of bonds, use them first decade of the new century were met

. . . Don't go down into the pockets of the by modest calls on the permanent fund. boys." The encampment did not—the tax The second decade passed without ma- remained unchanged, but in all probability terially decreasing the fund, but now the

it could have been increased without loss annual requirements are rapidity diminish-

of membership, which was the constant ing the principal sum. Will it suffice, as bogey-man of those opposed to an increase. Comrade Harper had hoped when he made One speaker favoring the raise pointed out, his appeal in 1887, "to provide the means EGIONNAIRES "We have posts that are poor and members to perpetuate the organization to the last who are poor, but most of the small posts possible moment?" have a patriotic interest are better off financially than is this Na- Should the advice of the early 8o's have tional Encampment." That year it had been heeded then? Should the plenty of the in the many activities cost less than 815,000 to conduct the late 8o's have been turned to better ac- of Government. national affairs of an organization num- count? The American Legion is in the ob- bering 270,000 men. servation post—we can observe. The men • When vis- To the credit of those who were con- of the G. A. R. did not have a similar cerned about perpetuating the order and opportunity. Is the Legion now in the iting The Capital, who felt with Burdett that "we should find 8o's of the G. A. R.? stay at The Mayflower, where National Person- ages reside and great The Unknown Qeneral events occur. {Continued from page ij)

brigade in southern California in the as the Secretary, and wore out younger • Rates are no first serious phase of the Mexican revo- men. God had given him the torso of a higher than at less finely lution, and at Fort Sam Houston in its sec- bull and an iron constitution. appointed hotels. ond before Secretary Garrison, Baker's He had one Assistant Chief of Staff in predecessor, summoned him to Washing- his ordeal while now there are five Deputy Single Rooms from $4 ton. Chiefs. Among his papers was one the day Double Rooms from $6 In the third acute phase, which came before we entered the war which will be All with bath, of course under Baker, when the National Guard was appreciated by all who ever became en- sent to the Border, Bliss used to go home to meshed in army red tape. Baker fought it, dinner and read to his daughter, who was Pershing fought it in France, but it is like

ill, until ten and then go back to the office. blown snow. When you brush it back in By this time the cipher messages from one place it drifts in on another. Some- Funston on the Border were decoded. It body works out a form which is passed on would be two or three in the morning be- to somebody else to sign, and so on along fore he was home, but he was up at eight. the line. At the very height of the Mexican crisis "In view of the great increase in busi- of the summer of 19 16 Baker sent him in ness ... so much of the general business is person to the Border because as Baker made to center in the office of the Chief of said he would "see with my own eyes." Staff that delay here means delay in the For the hard task now was to keep out of business of the entire department." Pa- war with Mexico. If we had to make it, pers written "under the direction of the on the edge of our entry into the World Secretary of War" about details that War, that would have embittered Mexi- might have been settled days before had to cans against us, alienated the sympathies wait on the formal signature of the busy of the Latin-American nations and turned Secretary, who had to accept the decisions MAYFLOWER much of our energy toward Mexico City of subordinates or he would have no time instead of the Western Front. And Bliss was to study questions of major policy. WASHINGTOKD.C. a delegate in the negotiations of the com- In the Chief of Staff's office there were mission which finally straightened out the already about 175 papers to be handled situation. daily, including those which had to pass Bliss was eighteen years older than to and from the desk of the Chief of Staff Baker, but he could work as many hours two or three or more times.

44 The AMERICAN" LEGION Monthly "If the Chief of Staff were to lock his door and sit at his desk for three consecu- Did you say 10*? tive hours, he could give only one minute on an average to each of the 175 papers. Many of them require many minutes, some of them even hours, for consideration. It would require him to sit at his desk eight consecutive hours and forty-five minutes, seeing no one except the person bringing him the papers, to give an average of three minutes to each paper." Messengers kept on bringing in more papers. From eight in the morning until after midnight he dug away at the snow- drifts. He thought that if some of the people who wrote the papers were respon- sible for the action based on them they would not be so prolific of suggestions. In disposing of some of them he used army language which he would not have uttered before his father, who was a clergyman as well as a professor of Latin and Greek. "It's all damn rot," he said about one memorandum. The highly sensitive officer who had written it was so offended that an assistant brought word to Bliss for him that he thought his usefulness in his present position was over and he would like to be transferred. "Do you think that I'd have him around here if he weren't useful?" Bliss replied. "But that idea of his was all damn rot." He was harder on generals than majors, harder on majors than lieutenants and harder on sergeants than privates. They ought to know better, especially some generals, and many generals stood in awe of him and his great knowledge. The mountain emitted volcanic wrath when anybody tried to lie himself out of a situation. Maybe a man could not help being a fool, but he was not to be excused for being a cowardly liar. With his blouse open at his desk, intent on the job, Bliss looked like a man of affairs, and in leisurely moments like a philosopher. With his cap on, his glasses Wherever MODEL smokers go, they find the attention of adjusted under his shaggy brows, his moustache stiffening, his jaw set, and his short nose carrying a pugnacious challenge, other men attracted by the aroma and flavor of MODEL. By and he looked the soldier. But he was not a parade soldier, and it large, MODEL smokers answer a lot of questions—but the one was not in his rugged, thoughtful face to appear the military Adonis. That high military collar irked him. So did military the other fellow never fails to ask is: "Did you say 10 cents?" display. One time, when he saw a soldier at sight of him hastening to run his fingers up and down buttonholes of his blouse, Bliss chuckled and remarked, "I wonder if I am all hitched up properly." But when he MODEL did bawl anyone out no gentle zephyr whispered around the mountain top. His only holidays were when he and SMOKING TOBACCO Baker rode out to Camp Meade to see how the new draftees were getting on. His re- INPOUCH OR TIM cess during the day came late in the afternoon. Then he would appear in the office VOV>ft. of General W. S. Graves, the Assistant Chief of Staff, and frequently, if things were not going right, would pace up and down in one of his soliloquies, which were so well known (Continued on page 46)

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(Continued from page 45) to his intimates. He would often do "Mr. Secretary," he said as he rose, "I superhuman knowledge and wisdom, some this at home when everybody was in bed didn't mean any caviling in your presence, will probably come back in the discard. as he threshed out a problem from all sir." That is the experience of all wars. Every sides. And Baker grinned and liked Bliss bet- colonel has his own future in his hands." Graves might interpose an idea, but ter than ever. Through the heat of that He said the same to the young officers Bliss paid no attention to it unless it struck Washington summer under that enormous at the training camps, and to those who him as new or had not yet entered into unbroken strain, Bliss was always there in were privates but thought they ought to be his reckoning. Then he would put his hand the office next to Baker's, his wisdom al- officers. Again, "I wish I were young up to his moustache, his lip would twitch, ways on call. The steps which carried the enough to have a regiment." And to those and he would mutter, "What's that you huge form of Bliss, seventeen years begging to be sent to the front, "God knows say, Graves?" Graves would enlarge on Baker's senior, were still light, if he was I wish I could put everyone there, includ- his idea, and Bliss would proceed to ana- not as nimble as Baker. ing myself." But he had been born too lyze it for what it was worth. With the autumn cool approaching they soon, under the army rule. He had never Then, at length, Bliss's Up would twitch knew that the men were arriving at the thought of his health, always spent his in a smile, he would give his head a toss, training camps, with some hitches but not strength as if it were an inexhaustible and remark that you had to take it with as many as they had feared. It had been a reservoir. It had stood by him while he the horns and hoof or "as an old woman nightmare of hasty preparation, as Bliss still needed it. Soon the curtain was to fall used to say in my home country, 'Pork said. on his career. A younger man with experi- " will come out that way in the b'ilin' — When the two forgathered after mid- ence in France would replace him. and conclude: night for a nightcap of telling a few stories Again he stood before Baker. There were "Graves, let's go over to the club and and cracking a few jokes before they went jobs which retired officers could do. Baker have a drink." home, they could rejoice in having ad- m ; ght have one for him. If Baker had sent He always insisted on shaking to see who vanced the first step in winning the war. him to the Philippines to count cocoanuts paid. The drink was not so good if he Bliss was seven years older than Persh- he would have accepted that as his chief's didn't. He would tell stories out of his ing. He would reach retiring age on De- idea of the best way for him to help the broad, human experience the world over, cember 31st. His own action, as a member cause. He would have proceeded to learn shake for another drink and tell more of the board that chose regular officers for the cocoanut business, and made it in- stories—his mind 'off the war for an hour promotion to National Army commands, teresting. He would have had detective —and then back to fight. precluded his thinking of field command. stories and classic Greek and Latin to read, His big chief once caught him talking If he could have had his way, as he wrote, and he might have learned another modern aloud. Secretary Baker had called a meet- he would have promoted no man over language in addition to the five outside ing with the heads of departments for the forty-five to a brigadiership. He held to his own, including Russian, which he al- evening in Bliss's office. He was delayed youth for action and age for wisdom. ready read well. beyond the time set. When he stepped To disappointed colonels who did not But there was another job in sight, one quietly into the room the others were get their stars, he said: which had no glory, for which he was as seated against the wall. Bliss, busy with "If we are going to have a real war, other obviously fitted as he had been for that of papers under the drop light over his desk, than a siege and capture by storm of the military attache to Spain when danger of was muttering: public treasury—a war in the trenches and war with Spain became acute, or in clean- "That Secretary— of War keeping us all on the battlefield, there are .many appoint- ing up the sinkhole of corruption in the waiting. Why in ments yet to be made. And of the generals Havana custom house in our first Cuban He looked up to see Baker standing in thus far appointed, whose appointment occupation. front of him. unfortunately could not be dictated by (To be concluded) The Qase of Tom J^ynch

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Court of the District of Columbia or in ember judgment of the lower court was Welfare Officer for Michigan, he had ." the district court of the United States . . affirmed. He requested a rehearing. It argued before the Supreme Court an im- Such a provision had been necessary. It was denied. portant compensation case, Silberschein vs. is a legal axiom that a sovereign power Litigation had been costly. Funds were United States, which tested the finality of may not be sued without Ls own consent; exhausted. Mrs. Lynch and her attorney decisions on compensation awards made by and Congress, in establishing the code of were faced with the necessity of accepting the Director of the Veterans Administra- veterans' legislation, had thus given the failure. Then a good angel in the person tion (or, as it then was, the Veterans assent of the United States to suit against of a Detroit attorney appeared. Bureau). itself on disputed insurance claims. Rowland W. Fixel had enlisted as a Some time before the Lynch case reached Yet now the Economy Act, repealing all private in the Quartermaster Corps in the Circuit Court of Appeals, Rowland laws establishing term insurance, had August, 191 7. When he was discharged, Fixel had been directed by the Adjutant seemingly rescinded the Government's fifteen months later, he held the commis- of the Michigan Department of the Legion consent to submit to suit. Federal at- sion of a second lieutenant. His brother, to investigate insurance claims of veterans torneys in Georgia quickly cited the point. Arthur E., had served in the ranks of the and survivors that had not been carried to The court, adopting their view, announced United States Naval Reserve. Both joined a successful conclusion. From more than itself divested of authority to pass on the Charles A. Learned Post of the Legion in a thousand interviews he found about

rights or wrongs of Mrs. Lynch's complaint. Detroit when it was organized. Rowland three hundred persons with rights he Her petition was dismissed. served as its Commander in 1923. He now thought had been denied; and his claims Mr. McCreary sought help from a higher holds the rank of major in the Judge Ad- covering their cases had been caught, like tribunal. He placed the case before the vocate General's Department. Mr. McCreary's, in the general repeal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; but in Nov- In 1924, at the request of the Legion's effected by the Economy Act.

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Mr. Fixel read, in the advance sheets of the Federal Reporter, of the Fifth Circuit's action on the Georgia appeal. His claims Preferred by Millions were closely similar to Mr. McCreary's;

and he felt, as Mr. McCreary did, that if the question could be brought before the Supreme Court, decision would rest with his clients. It No Michigan case had advanced so far must be in litigation as had the Lynch claim. None was ready to submit to the Supreme Court. The Lynch case, having been heard by all lower courts, was in shape for such action. Good/ Mr. Fixel, with his brother and M. Froome Barbour, Cincinnati attorney who was chairman of the National Iunance Committee of the Disabled American Veterans, joined with Mr. McCreary to carry Mrs. Lynch's claim on writ of certiorari to Washington. There it was heard and considered with a similar case from Illinois, filed two days after the Georgia petition—the action of Sam Wilner against the United States. Mr. Justice Brandeis delivered the Court's opinion on June 4th of this year. Unlike the decisions on "New Deal" legislation to date, he spoke for the full court. The decision reversed the judgment of the lower tribunals. All these whiskey ads claim so It's my experience that you In repealing the laws about yearly re- much it's hard to know what can't beat Crab Orchard. It's newable term insurance, the opinion said, — to buy. a straight Kentucky bourbon. Congress had not confined its efforts to the Mighty reasonable, too. withdrawal of the remedy—the privilege to sue in event of dispute—but had under- taken to deprive beneficiaries of all rights under their contracts, which was beyond its constitutional powers. Therefore the courts still had authority to hear such cases. Moreover, he announced, the War Risk policies were contracts which created vested rights—in other words, were property, and, as the attorneys had originally asserted, were protected by the "due pro- One man told another—and cess" clause of the Fifth Amendment. Crab Orchard became Amer- The court distinguished between the ica's fastest-selling straight two classes of obligations which the Gov- whiskey overnight. It's a ernment had created against itself in the straight bourbon; distilled early days of the war: On the one hand, in- the time-honored Kentucky surance contracts for which the insured had George was certainly right! I way and bottled from the bar- given payment in cash; on the other, pen- had no idea you could get a rel neither artificially aged sions, compensation allowances, hospital genuine bourbon for so little nor colored. Tremendous and other privileges granted without fi- money. sales make its low price pos- nancial return from the recipient or his A PRODUCT OF sible accept no substitutes! survivors. NATIONAL DISTILLERS "When it became advisable to reduce the nation's existing expenditures," announced Mr. Justice Brandeis, "the two classes of benevolences were associated in the minds of the legislators; and it was natural that Crab Oickcwd they should have wished to subject both to STRAIGHT KENTUCKY WHISKEY the same treatment. But it is not to be assumed that Congress would have re- Produced by the same sorted to the device of withdrawing the distillers : legal remedy from beneficiaries of out- OLD GRAND DAD HILL and HILL standing yearly renewable term policies if OLD TAYLOR MOUNT VERNON it had realized that these had contractual OLD Mc BR AYE R MARYLAND RYE rights. It is, at least, as probable that Con- OLD CROW OLD OVERHOLT gress overlooked the fundamental differ- SUNNY BROOK PENNSYLVANIA RYE ence in legal incidents between the two HERMITAGE classes of benevolences as that it Straight as a string wished to evade {Continued on page 48) SEPTEMBER, 1934 47 —

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Daddy?" payment of the nation's legal obligations." in the Court of Appeals for the District of About the efficacy of such an evasion as Columbia, the case of Wilber National a means "to maintain the credit of the Bank, Administrator, vs. United States, United States," the court announced: now pending before the Supreme Court on "Punctilious fulfilment of contractual an application for writ of certiorari, in obligations is essential to the maintenance which the question is as to the right of the of the credit of public as well as private Administrator to cancel an insurance debtors." award made after a court decision in favor

And so the claims of Mrs. Lynch and of the insured, if the Administrator believes Mr. Wilner, and of 20,000 others whom a the status of recipient to have changed. harassed Government, in its hour of ex- It may be influential in decision of the case citement, had seemed to forget, were re- of John H. Frederick vs. United States, turned to lower courts for full consideration which will determine whether denial by the of their merits. Nor does the importance Insurance Claims Council of a claim for of the decision end there. Its implications disability benefit is a "disagreement" are far broader. authorizing the United States District Doubtless this opinion will be cited in a Court to take jurisdiction of the suit. "THAT'S EASY"!!— pending case in which the question is And almost beyond a question the whether government life insurance is being Lynch decision will be cited as precedent in Don't become embarrassed conducted by the United States as a cases where payment of government bonds sovereign with the immunities that go with is demanded in gold of the weight and fine- or annoyed. such sovereignty or, being merely a business current before our recent revocation ness in competition with other life insur- of the gold standard. Here the court will Just hand them "WALLY'S Car- ance companies, is subject to the same be on ticklish ground. The fate of much toons of the A.E.F." and say— liabilities as they. It may be cited in "New Deal" legislation will depend on the Wilkerson and Coleman vs. Hines, pending outcome. "Every page in this book contains at least one adventure or T^enieruber ^Black Tom? incident that happened to me {Continued from page 21) and in much better detail than I Scapa Flow, keeping tabs on the British item with greater enthusiasm than did Navy. When it was necessary to write the American claimants when they laid could describe it myself. Read it down data which would send him before hands on that magazine copy and put it a firing squad if discovered, he placed the in evidence. It was worth $40,000,000 to and save Daddy a lot of wind and bits of paper inside capsules which he them, if they could prove that it was au-

carried in his mouth and swallowed when thentic and that it antedated our entering explanation." in danger of being picked up for question- the war. The testimony, the text of the ing and searched. Once one of the capsules message, and the date of the magazine all This is a new failed to. pass and lodged in his intestines, corroborated their arguments. The Ger- "THE A.E.r. IN bound volume of Cartoon- ky causing him severe pain. His most stren- mans contended that the message was a uous protests to his captors barely pre- forgery and that the date of the magazine all the WALLY vented an appendicitis operation by a meant nothing, since a back number could CARTOONS British surgeon which might have revealed have been dug up recently and the message his secret. He fled the hospital and man- inscribed and pricked in it. The Americans to get rid of the capsule drastic came back with expert testimony that the that appeared aged by purgatives. lemon juice writing had been done on the

paper it with in the Stars and Changing his base to the United States, when was new and a Bureau Herrmann worked under Hilken here and of Standards verdict that the spongy na- Stripes in France during the war. in Mexico, haunt of numerous German ture of the pin perforations indicated that agents. It was from the latter country they had been made in new paper. With hilarious introductions by that the spy sent back to his master an If that spy message were established as innocent of magazine. genuine, it would win the case for the ALEXANDER apparently copy a WOOLLCOTT and In it was written a message both in lemon Americans, declared the umpire of claims. juice, which became legible when heat was Herrmann went abroad to obtain a sup- JOHN T. WINTERICH. applied, and by means of pin pricks under porting affidavit from Adam Sigel, a com- story. rade Herrmann said, had helped him A souvenir you cannot afford certain letters of the text of the who, The message declared in effect: Have send the message. Sigel gave it under the to be without. seen Eckhardt [German minister to Mex- impression he was testifying for Germany. ico]- who doubts me on account of my bum Then he experienced one of those sudden when LEGION BOOK SERVICE, German though told of our activities at changes of mind, not uncommon THE AMERICAN LEGION MONTHLY. [various places] including New Jersey ter- certain hidden influences come into play INDIANAPOLIS. IND. minal [Black Tom]. Where is Wozniak? in the Black Tom case, and he recanted. Enclosed find $1.50 for which please send me one book "THE A.E.F. IN CARTOON." by WALLY. [The agent who, Herrmann later swore, The claims umpire, an American, ruled the Name had fired the Kingsland plant.] What are that the Americans, on whom rested we to do when U. S. enters war? Send burden of proof, had not succeeded in Address Hinsch $25,000 to purchase cruiser on fastening on Germany the responsibility West Coast. for the explosions. Town No bibliophile ever treasured a rare The score stood: Germany 2, U. S., o.

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The Americans, however, were persistent. They came forward with a plea to re-open the case on the grounds of fraud, collusion, and new evidence, and it was granted. Meanwhile a clue of real promise popped up and investigators ran it down. Their reward was a definite, damning affidavit which, it is understood, will form a part of the new evidence relied upon to perch victory on the American claims. Now into the picture again comes that Irish element whose passionate desire for freedom for their land made them alii s of Germany against the British Empire. How well Berlin used that desperate faction to attack Britain in the rear is history. Casement and the Irish Brigade which would have covered a German landing and invasion if the naval cordon in the Channel could have been pierced, were eliminated in 1915. But the Irish rebels still at large were in the war for the duration, and struck many a blow against the hated English. Naturally the Germans were happy to offer them opportunities. The Irish patriot and labor agitator, James Larkin, maker of the prized affidavit, is one of the most striking figures whose adventures piece together the story of Black Tom. Not until last year did leads in the American and British Intelli- gence files bring the investigators to HOW many times have you asked erations are continuous and entirely Larkin's door. He must, said reports, yourself the question, "I won- automatic — controlled to micro- have known something of German sabotage der if lean get by without shaving?" scopic limits of accuracy. The steel in America during the neutrality period. And yet when there is any doubt used by Gillette is the finest obtain- — able and is and According to information revealed on the you should have but one answer tempered hardened "No!" Embarrassing or unfortu- to perfection in electric furnaces contents of his affidavit, few except the nate experiences have taught us this. where the temperature automati- higher-ups in the German Secret Service Really now isn't a man foolish cally changes in accordance with knew more. — to risk the respect of others by neg- the requirements of the metal. The veteran trades unionist, although lecting to shave? Employers won't We urge you to try the Gillette decidedly radical in his views, was testified tolerate it. Women dislike it. So why "Blue Blade" on our money-back by persons of standing in Ireland to be a handicap yourself by trying to "get guarantee of complete satisfaction. man whose actions always had been un- by" without shaving! To get shaving luxury impossible selfish and sincere and whose probity was Just slip a Gillette "Blue Blade" to describe—slip a new blade in your razor frequently. The comfort unquestioned. He was induced to make in your razor—and you're through you enjoy cannot be measured in pennies. disclosures regarding his contacts with shaving in a flash. This blade is sharp amazingly sharp made so Your dealer has Gillette "Blue German sabotage in this country. War- — — by processes exclusive with Gillette. Blades." Buy a package today. We time circumstances and partisanship had Grinding, honing and stropping op- are sure you'll like them. altered, and he had had some personal experiences with German frightfidness which must have rankled. GILLETTE BLUE BLADES Pledged to resist any participation or give any assistance to the British Empire NOW 5 U 25* • l©j£*.4»t in its struggle, Larkin came to America in November, 1914, and started organizing Hear Gene and Glenn on the air every night except Saturday and Sunday, WEAF and labor unions and socialists against the coast-to-coatt hook-up: 6:15 E. S. T. or 9:15 C. S. T. giving of aid and comfort to "perfidious Albion," at the same time carrying on Irish propaganda. 3-in-One keeps tools al- The Irish can stir up trouble with the ways ready for use by best of them when they have a mind to it. Larkin organized strikes which won preventing rust and shorter hours and higher pay; thus he keeping the working and not only benefited labor but cut down parts cleaner as it lu- made costlier the production of munitions. bricates. Three fine oils He was so successful that the Germans are blended in 3-in-One arranged a meeting with this man who seemed to have the makings of a good tool. to give it this triple Naval Attache Boy-Ed, according to Lar- action. Use it regularly; kin, after glowing words on Germany's it keeps tools good intention of recognizing any de facto longer. government set up by Ireland, admitted Larkin into (Continued on page 50) HANDY CANS AND BOTTLES

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many sabotage secrets. The agitator wise to adjourn his activities to the mining a sentence in Sing Sing until pardoned by was shown hidden laboratories for the camps of the West. He happened to return Governor Al Smith after the war, and then manufacture of infernal machines and in- to New York in the last days of July. deported. Active as ever, he was one of flammables and was told what use was Always a night owl, he was walking along the powers in Irish trade unionism when being made of them by German agents. lower Broadway when the roar of Black the Black Tom trail led to him last year. He was told of the espionage headquarters Tom smote his eardrums and window That dark and devious track has led

at Lakewood, N. J., and urged to partici- glass showered about him. through Europe and North America, pate in German designs. Yet whether While his alibi was airtight, a trip to through high places and low places, in and through principle or caution or both, he Mexico City seemed in order. There he out of the news. The mystery of Black refused to be connected personally with conferred with the Germans and learned Tom begins to rival in instalments the any of the violent types of sabotage. The more of their fire and germ plots. Still enigma of who killed Cock Robin. The utmost efforts of the Germans to involve he could not be drawn into them. Arrested Americans are confident that at the next and gain a hold on this cagey Irishman several times on his return to the States, hearing they can prove at last that the failed. he was invariably released for lack of sparrow in the Black Tom case was the Early in 1016, Larkin was present at an evidence. German double-eagle in disguise. important meeting of German agents. After the declaration of war, the Ger- When "The End" will be written be- War news was ominous and it was de- mans found it much more difficult to en- neath this much-continued story, nobody termined that a desperate attempt must list the aid of Irish-Americans. Larkin, knows. Yet whether or not German guil be made to curtail the flow of munitions to however, continued his labor agitation is ever established in these instances, UncL the enemies of the Central Powers. No- and made another journey to the Mexican Sam can draw a moral from numerous ex- where could the blow be dealt more effec- capital to meet the Germans. Enraged amples of sabotage. From 1014 into 191 tively than at Black Tom, chief port of at him now. they caused him to be thrown we paid a fearful penalty for our sketchy shipment for the sinews of war to the out of his hotel when he still denied their and inadequate counter-espionage. The Allies. demands for violence. He was broke and bodies of Americans in the smoking ruins The decision was reached, Larkin defi- was forced to sleep on a park bench until of munitions plants and in the hulks of nitely states, to blow up the New Jersey one night when he chanced to find a more vessels at the bottom of the ocean testified terminal, and he heard specific arrange- comfortable spot. It was a lucky shift. to the successful machinations of clever ments made to obtain an explosive-laden Next morning the Mexican tramp who had and desperate secret agents. History has barge to be moored alongside the piers pre-empted the bench was found stabbed demonstrated that even a neutral is apt where its detonation could be counted on to death. to catch it in the neck when a war is on to set the whole great concentration of Larkin caught a train to the Border. and that the modern battlefield ranges munitions rocketing up in a blaze of Teu- Before it crossed, three Mexican bravos across borders and seas to bring death tonic glory. jumped the man who had so consistently and destruction into the home sector, Larkin realized that the enterprise was disobliged the Kaiser and who knew en- itself. literally and figuratively dynamite. He tirely too much. He fought them off and Again is pointed the old, hard-learned refused as usual to have a part in it. With escaped. lesson that preparedness saves lives and the knowledge he possessed, he was jumpy The New York police arrested Larkin money. The spy and the saboteur can next day when he caught sight of two not much later. He was tried on a charge only be checked by men alert and trained Bomb Squad detectives and he deemed it of criminal anarchy, convicted and served to meet and beat them at their own game.

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"These jaspers are tryin' to sandy me!" said he, "you'll never celebrate another "Whad that corporal say to you?" asked he bellowed. "Croix la Motte was where birthday!" Givvens. the infantry jumped off this morning! If Then hitching his pistol belt he departed. "I asked him who commanded this bat- they've pulled out since, its smack inside The two staffs retired down hill, and the talion," said the runner, "if it was the old the German lines! How could I have been squad to the right flank. leatherneck that was so hard boiled. He T there?" W ham! arrived the expected messenger said it was. Well, I got a message for the "Lieutenant Borkman is there," said of goodwill. "Boy," gasped Givvens, "this next junior. The old major was up in a Givvens coldly. "When you see him you place is gonna break out with acute Fourth forward P. C. and got gathered in with the know what to say!" o' July any minute now. Let's get outta rest of 'em." "Ah!" cried the corporal. "So that's it? here!" "Did he?—Say, what happened up You want me to get your money? Suppose "You can't!" said the squad. "The new there? Did the doughboys haul foot? I get killed comin' back with it?" major put Milliken's squad in the road Any— chance the krauts comin' back this "Good riddance!" snapped Giwens. gang for leavin' their gun yesterday when far "Listen! Just because I tried to make that trench mortar was shellin' 'em!" "Naw. Nuthin'. The jerries come down you birds soldier and to keep a few pennies "Hey, looka!" cried a gunner. "There a valley on the flank. What with the outta your pay from— bein' squandered on goes Bates off to the road! He said some- shrapnel and indirect machine gun, they dames and drink thin' to a runner and off he goes! That was all over us. The attack was in the "You talk too much!" interrupted the ain't the way to the front!" wrong direction. But it's all over now. general. "Be off! Captain, take that man's "Huh?" We're holdin' 'em! Where's the P. C name and turn it in to his battalion com- While the squad tried to stretch their around here?" mander. They've got a Marine here that necks to see as far as they could without "Down there!" said Giwens pointing. knows how to handle 'em!" getting too far off the ground, a runner, "Come, lads, let's outta here before it's too The corporal regarded his squad coldly. bearing messages from the front line ap- late. If anyone says anything, we're fol- "After I square this with you bums," peared. lowin' our corporal. You can't get into

50 77., AMERICAN LEGION MontUr trouble for followin' your own corporal!" "Followin' our corporal? You get him sent up to the front line and then you want to follow him? You been lyin' in the hot sun somewhere!" "He ain't gone to no front line! As soon as he found the major was gone, he went to the road, where there's dugouts. We'll go and get down one with him!" But when they reached the road, there was no sign of Corporal Bates. There was an abandoned dressing station, certain elements of retreating infantry, and a wire stringing detail, that having laid fifteen hundred yards of telephone wire, had now received the order to reel it up again. Their To the man who is language was so bitter that the squad did not like to ask them if they had seen a corporal pass that way. getting into his forties "Well," said a gunner, "he's gone. Let's get in a hole." "No, not now," replied Giwens. "We'd For the man in or near the forties there is addi- never dare without the corporal! If someone was to come along and find us there tional reason for the acquisition at once of ade- without him, there'd be so much argu- quate life insurance. ment about it, it would discourage yuh!" "Well, let's go back to the battalion!" He is approaching the time when physical impair- "No, no," cried several voices, "look at those shells!" They pointed to where three ment prevents a larger percentage of applicants fountains of dirt played in air behind them. from obtaining insurance and the age period when "Come," said Giwens quickly, "let's premiums go up with larger increases between the get outta here before they deliver the fruit!" birthdays. The squad crossed the road and plunged into the woods on the other side, without Every Prudential agent is equipped to consider an further look. Fire for effect had begun on assortment of domestic responsibilities finan- the place the battalion had just left, but and their interest in such spectacles had long cial circumstances and suggest the best way to ago been lost. arrange the insurance program. Off the Fismes-Chery-Chartreuve road, but having no connection with it, for it had HAVE A TALK WITH THE PRUDENTIAL AGENT its own road that came up from Fismes It may mean a lot to you and your family. along the east valley, was a gentleman's country house, almost a chateau. The artillery of the various armies that had wrestled about there during the past four THE PRUDENTIAL months had reduced this house to a rock- INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA pile. Nothing was left of it but the gate- Edward D. Duffield, President posts, and a few fragments of garden wall. In the entrance to the caved-in cellar, which HOME OFFICE, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY the careful Germans had reinforced with sandbags, sat three men, who, by their uniforms, the stripes on their cuffs, and by their faces, but by no other sign, could be recognized as American officers. Sam Browne belt, map cases, expensive boots, all had been left behind. The oldest officer was a major, one of the others was a battalion gas officer, and the third was a telephone officer. At the foot of the stairs, as far back under the blocked up passage as ACTUM#FLEAS possible, was a fourth man, stretched on them the ground, and covered with a trench instead of stupefyinq money-back guar- his Sold on a coat. This man was alive, for eyes antee to kill all the fleas or lice on your dog or cat. Also moved, but the color of his face showed "flea-proofs" your pet so and lice keep that he had been badly wounded. that other fleas ofl for days. Pulvex twice a LEARN AT HOME month and your pet will "It seems to have quieted down a lot for never be bothered by these Are you adult, alert, ambitious,willing to study? Harmless; non-irritat- GIVEN said the gas officer nervous- pests. Investigate LAW! We guide you step by step- the moment," ing; odorless. At a copy of "10 Tricks to run pet shops and jeach Your Dog" with furnish all texts, including 14-volume Law Libra- ly, "don't you think we might make a drug stores, 50c. every caR „f pu | vex ry. Training prepared by leading law professors for it?" and given by members of bar. Degree of LL. B. The major proceeded to fill and fight a conferred. Low cost, easy terms. Send NOW for Free 64-page "LawTraining forLeadership." pipe before replying. PULVEX , KEEPS THEM OFF "I said I'd (Continued on page 52) KIllS THEM OFF... AND LaSalle Extension University, DepL9361-L Chicago

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wait here until McKittrick came back "Hah!" began the major with a sigh of with help," said he calmly. relief that he quickly turned into a stern "He's been gone an hour," remarked the cough. "Another skulker? What are you Minutes telephone officer. "He's probably stand- doing here? Going underground, like a of ing in line now for his harp, G. I., and one snake, hey? What's your name and or- Your5Time robe, white, to be worn with wings." ganization?" "There's more artillery in action here "I'm Corporal Bates, of the machine Five to send the than I've seen anywhere since June!" re- gun battalion," said the newcomer. "Can marked the major, puffing his pipe. "It's you tell me where Colonel Pike's P. C. is?" coupon ; ten to read the simple, bigger calibre, too. I think Fritz will make "I imagine," said the major grimly, clear, untechnical story of life a stand on the Vesle. If he does, they won't "that what part of it isn't on its way to insurance and what it can do dislodge him all summer." Heaven, is on its way to Fismes, by now." for you in our booklet which "Do you know what this sudden calm "To Fismes?" gasped Corporal Bates. answers important questions. means?" husked the gas officer. "I've seen "Uh-huh!" it before, in July, when- we were in front "Prisoners?" You'll find it well worth of Dormans. It means the German in- "Uh-huh!" fifteen minutes of your time. fantry are on top of us. They've lifted the "Oh golly, oh golly, oh golly!" moaned May we send your copy? barrage so as not to hit their own troops." Corporal Bates. "Yeh, he's right," said the other officer, "Ahem," said the gas officer gently. white-faced. "We'd better skud for it while "Major, there are four of us here now!" the skudding is good!" He nodded in the direction of the man un- The major turned his eyes with signifi- der the trench coat. "Four well ones, I Life Insurance Company* of Boston, Massachusetts cance toward the silent figure under the mean." trench coat. "Quite so," agreed the major. He John Hancock Inquiry Bureau "Can you skud very far with him?" he turned again to the corporal. 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. asked. "He's a big man. Full of iron, too." "Where did you come from, and how Please send me your booklet about the The other two officers swallowed dryly. did you get in here?" he inquired sternly. many uses of life insurance. True, there would be no leaving the "I followed the telephone wire," said Name '. wounded man if the major said not. The Corporal Bates. "The stringers said it Street and No advantage of three officers being captured led to a P. C. up here that was still occu-

City Slate or killed for a point of honor was not clear, pied." A. L. M. 9-34 but the choice was his, and not theirs. "Did you see any Germans on the way "You came into the war to fight the in?" Germans, didn't you?" went on the "No, sir. Germans? Hell no! They imjor. "Well, now's your chance!" aren't around here, are they?" Big Pay for Spare Hours "Yes, but we haven't got anything to "If you could get in," said the telephone fight them with!" protested the gas officer. officer quickly, "then we still have time to Sell CHRISTMAS CARDS "I wish the boys that write the newspaper get out." Iextra^ Take orders for Christmas Card Box Assort- ments—21 beautiful folders retail for $1. Ex- articles about the poor quality of the Ger- "What's your mission, Corporal?" went ceptional values, fast sellers. No experience 1^7* needed. Make 100% profit. Also 8 other attrac- man soldier had to meet up with a few on the major. tive assortments, 60c. up. Free sample offer. ARTISTIC CARD CO., 346 Way St., Elmira, N. Y. krauts in war paint! They're thorny guys "I was to find Colonel Pike and ask him to take hold of!" for his dispositions in writing." "Where's your pistol?" snapped the "Well," said the major, won't l , "you be "" l| I— | IIIIIIIW" "ll^"" i||lr~ l!^ ^ major. able to do that, and probably Colonel "We came into the attack armed with Pike hasn't any very fixed idea right now

Ry. Mail Clerk ( ) POSTMASTER rifles, like the privates. We—er—I lost of just just what his dispositions will be. P. O. Laborer I ) Seamstress it R. F. D. Carrier C ) Auditor mine—somebody stole —it's gone. I I suppose you could help us carry this Special Agent ( ) Stenographer Customs Inspector ( ) U.S. Border Patrol don't know where." wounded man, here, couldn't you?" City Mail Carrier C J Telephone Opr. it P. O. Clerk ( ) Watchman "You left outside that trench we were "What's the matter with him?" gasped Matron I ) Skilled Laborer in," said the major coldly. "I saw you Bates, the ( ) Immig't Inspector t ) Statistical Clerk Corporal looking at the man on Typist ) File Clerk () come out. You went so fast you'd have ground. INSTRUCTION BUREAU, Dept.110. St. Louis, Mo. Send me FREE particulars "How to Qualify for gone right out from under your hat if it "He's full of a grenade," said the major. Government Positions" marked "X". Salaries, locations, opportunities, etc. ALL SENT FREE. hadn't been for the chin strap!" — "He's another man that was hunting for Name "All the more reason we should go Colonel Pike's P. C. We found him in the Address began the telephone officer, but the major bushes." suddenly held up his hand for silence. "Aw, no," sighed Corporal Bates, after Insure and Speed Up Crunch, crunch. Pause. Crrrunch. thought, "I can't. I can't go back there. Pause. Crunch, crunch. The men in the No, if the P. C. has been gathered in, then cellar tried to listen, but heard only the Lieutenant Borkman has been, too, and PROSPERITY blood roaring in their ears. Even the it would take so much talk to explain, I'd For many months, personal competition will be tremen- major went a little white under the jaws. rather not go back. I'd rather get killed dous. Employers—up against new problems, fighting for survival and profits—will be able to pick and choose. Someone, outside, was cautiously walking myself." Naturally they will prefer the trained man— the man who has special ability. If you want to speed up your prosper- in the debris of the yard. All waited, while "What's this?" barked the major. ity and insure your share in the business pick-up, you must prepare yourself. And your first step is to get the the footsteps drew nearer, then a shadow "Sir," said the corporal mournfully, "I facts about a proven training program. Check your subject below, write your name and address in the margin, appeared over the sandbags. It was a was sent up here to find Colonel Pike's and mail this coupon today. man's head, unhelmeted, so that they P. C. I've got to find it or have more of an Higher Accountancy DLaw: Degree of LL.B. Salesmanship O ExecutiveManagement could not tell his nationality. The head alibi than that I just heard it had been D Traffic Management Commercial Law P Industrial Management Business Corresp. disappeared, then, gently, a body slid gathered in. We ain't allowed to monkey D Personnel Management Business English down the steps. It was an American, with wounded either. We got a new K. 0. LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY Dept. 9361-R CHICAGO quite muddy and torn. that would run me foi a general court if I

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was to save Jack Pershing's life himself!'' digging were putting down a base plate for "Who's your commanding officer?" a trench mortar. Why do you suppose asked the major. he didn't stop us?"

"I don't know, sir. He's some old bar- "He took us for prisoners!" said the nacled son of a marine. From what I major. "We've none of us got on any hear, I'd rather take my chance on the equipment. Corporal, ditch that pistol krauts, and if you can find any one in the belt of yours. Come on, we've got to go A. E. F. that's more scared o' them babies on!" than I am, you're a good man!" They surged out of the shell hole again, The corporal stopped, for the faces of as men would dive from a warm room into the other officers registered horror. At a blizzard. They went on, feeling that once the corporal knew why. He had seen each step was their last, suffering the tor- the major's neck muscles suddenly go tight. tures of a blindfolded man walking on the But all the Marines that Bates had ever edge of a precipice. That German might seen wore grey uniforms, and this one was consider these four unarmed men carrying garbed like other men! But officers al- a fifth as prisoners, or he might have felt ways went into action in strange garb, to that they would be stopped farther on. prevent enemy snipers especially bent If they were following an attack-wave on their destruction from doing them instead of a patrol .... A man in grey with down. white binding on his collar, and field "Hrrumph!" said the major finally in a glasses about his neck, rose to one knee voice like a file being drawn across steel. and examined them. "I seem to have impressed the rank and "Hei!" he called. They paid no atten- file to some extent already. It would be a tion. He shrugged his shoulders and pity if the good work couldn't go on be- seemed to hesitate, whether to run after cause the Germans had me. Corporal, them or stay where he was. A sudden you help us carry this wounded man. I blast of firing decided him to hurl himself think I can take the responsibility of an down again. adverse comment on your abandoning "Those guns are in front of us!" panted your mission!" the major. "Let's hope the Americans Corporal Bates, in an agony of compli- recognize our uniforms!" ance, at once made a rush for the man un- The firing continued, savagely. The der the trench coat. men with their burden went on. Between "Gently, there, gently!" snapped the the enemy and their own machine guns major. "There's no hurry. If there were their finish was very near. Why had not any Germans around they'd have been in someone recognized their uniforms? But Man Winter with his ice-cold fingers just if the firing ceased, the OLD here long ago!" Germans would can't poke through Buck Skein's furry this your body The little party, the major and the gas dare to lift their heads and would surely warmth. When you wear Jacket, glows in the comfort of its own warmth. Whether officer carrying each a leg, and Corporal seize them. As they neared the woods, you hunt or work in the cold outdoors, your fun and health depend on keeping warm. The new Bates and the telephone officer supporting the firing, that had been tremendous, Buck Skein is so made that the natural heat of the wounded man on a cradle made of suddenly shut off. your body is locked in and the biting cold shut out. Neither the fangs of winter nor the claws of their arms and shoulders, went painfully "Feed!" rough wear can bite or tear through Buck Skein's velvety surface. wears like saddle leather up the steps, and then across the yard into "Give us another box. Open up an- It though amazingly light in weight. Look at Buck the field, following a telephone wire that other box! Git off your foot!" Skein under a magnifying glass and see those tiny

talons like steel claws . • . thousands of theml of — squirmed ahead them. Far away, to "Come on, pass up another box there, No wonder, then, that I can back it up with a the left, a white ribbon of road was under we got a million here to shoot off!" LIFE-TIME GUARANTEE: Wear Buck Skein hard. Wash it. Rub it. Scrub fire, and before them, over the hill, smoke "Feed!" it. Not a fibre gives 'way. It will not fade. It will not shrink. It won't do anything but act as hand- and flame boiled out of a distant valley, "Aw, wait a minute, will yuh? Stop some as it really is. The "Cossack" pictured above has a self bot- but in their immediate vicinity all was yellin' 'feed' or I'll feed a clip right down tom band (with hip straps) for extra wear. Also calm. Suddenly, too far from the ruined your nose!" made with a knitted' worsted band instead. Talon Slide Fastener. The Button style is a dollar cheap- house to retreat, and not near enough to American voices! Where? A narrow er. Very large, big-fisted slashed pockets, cut extra the woods ahead to make a run for it, gauge railway such as the Germans spun deep. Two-button adjustable cuffs keep out cold winds. Colors: I call my new shade "Honey they upon a German, crouching in a came behind them like a spider's web wherever Brown" because it's a honey; it's a deep tobacco new shell hole. He had unbuttoned his brown that does not show dirt easily. Also comes they went, here crossed a narrow gully. in "Arctic Blue," a deep navy, of heat, and tunic because the they could There was an embankment there, a switch, SEE YOUR DEALER FIRST his shirt, clean, with a sort of grey- see a hole for the switchman, and a sheet of Go to his store. Ask him for the genuine Buck Skein with my Money Back Guarantee. If your checked pattern. On one side of his belt off elephant iron to keep sun and rain. dealer cannot supply you, then mail the coupon hung a cluster of canteens that balanced The Americans without order, crossed this below, enclosing your check or money order, and a cluster of grenades on the other. The I'll send the new Buck Skein-—and prepay all embankment, laid the wounded man in carrying charges. German looked at them idly, but made no shelter on the far side, and looked for the move. gun. It was in the hole, under the ele- There being nothing else to do, the phant iron, which made its firing sound % LLTSTBERG, NAST 8c CO. Inc., Makers major continued to advance. They like ten. Along the embankment lay the 212 Fifth Ave., Dept. L9, New York City heard, then, in the wheat, men digging, gunners, and in the hole the long man, See that I get my new Jacket in the style and color checked. (Check here) the clank of metal on metal, and whispers Giwens, lying on his back, fired, while Cossack Jacket with Talon Fastener that were not in English. In the next Colors: Brown or Blue £5.50 a loader, lying on his, fed clips. But the Cossack Jacket with Button Front shell hole the Americans by common con- muzzle of the gun pointed skyward, and Colors: Brown or Blue #4.50 Knit Bottom Jacket with Button Front sent lay down. the projectiles flowing from it would en- In Brown only $4.50 Give your actual chest measurement first connecting file!" "That one was a danger aircraft, if any should pass that Here's my check or Money Order husked the major at once. "Don't get way, but nothing else. rattled; we're behind a contact patrol, "Hey!" cried Corporal Bates, "that's Name that's all." gun crew!" my Address "Nah," said the gas officer, "those men But the major {Continued on page 54)

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(Continued from page 53) was before him. "Pull that gun out a strip of cloth through a sewing machine. me when I can thank you properly. of there!" he snapped. "Set it up The men groaned, but there was a fear Meanwhile send two men with me to draw properly on the bank! Range two more sharp than the loss of their money. ammunition. I've got hold of a combat hundred! Wheat field in front ! Searching! If the corporal denounced them for leav- cart back here." Commence firing! You, that long gold- ing the battalion and wasting ammuni- "Ah!" sighed every gunner with relief, brick there, what the hell do you mean by tion as visions of the rock pile turned to those lying in the hole with that gun pointing "Aw Corporal," said one of them, "for- of possible promotion. j straight up in the air?" get it. We was only kiddin' when we "Ammunition?" asked Giwens sud- "We were firing indirect, sir!" stam- talked about the fun'. We didn't mean it. denly. "Why, aren't we going to be mered Giwens. He discovered Corporal Someone had to carry the money!" relieved?" Bates, and his color became green. "Ain't "Yeh, it's just hard luck!" agreed "The infantry, yes. The machine guns, that so, Corporal? Wasn't that the order another. no. Come, two men! The rest carry on!" the sergeant give us?" As the next clip began its chattering At that instant all turned black, as "Bah! Where's our line here? What's passage from left to right, the hospital though the sun had suddenly been covered. going on? Is there a dressing station orderly crawled over and shouted in Cor- All tossed and billowed, as at sea. The here?" poral Bates' ear. lungs labored, and a great weight seemed "There's a line of infantry in front of the "Were you talkin' about Lieutenant to bear down on every side. When the woods, Major." said the gas officer, who Borkman?" he cried. "Is this his outfit? shuddering of the earth subsided, and the had been exploring. "They're fresh If it is, this man has got some message smoke and dust cleared away, the machine troops. There's a flank movement de- for it. Corporal Bates. Is that your gunners and stretcher bearers marveled veloping on the right. We must be going name?" to find that they were still alive. The to try our luck again. The road down "Yes, what is it?" enemy, seeing that sudden agitation of there is full of ambulances." The gun shut off. All turned. helmets over the bank, had sent them a "Show me!" said the major. Then to the The wounded man on his stretcher flying pig to divide, which pig had burst other officer, "Go down there and get us a fumbled at the breast pocket of his blouse. on top of the bank, and had flung bank and stretcher crew. See if this wire leads to a "I was a runner," said he painfully. "I track in all directions. central and if it does, establish communica- was sent back to the machine guns to tell The hospital orderly suddenly fixed a tion! Don't you men move! Continue to about the new attack. Lieutenant Bork- startled gaze on Corporal Bates. fire!" man gave me this. For Corporal Bates. ""Where did it get you?" asked the or- When the others had gone, Corporal So the krauts wouldn't get it." He handed derly. Bates turned calmly to his trembling the envelope to the corporal, who hurriedly "Where did what get me?" squad. peered into it. "You're hit!" "Caught you cold, didn't he?" he said. "By God," he cried, "it's our fun' for They had off the astonished corporal's "That's our new major. When he comes the wounded!" blouse, and sure enough, beneath his back from tellin' the infantry the jerries Giwens left the gun, and the others shoulder blade, was a wound that bled are out in this field here and not down on each his sheltering hole, and gathered freely. the road, you guys'll get yours. Mending about the corporal. "It's just knocked off the skin," said roads under fire for the duration o' the war "Fine!'' snapped Corporal Bates. "Then the orderly judiciously, "but you can get for wasting ammunition so you wouldn't that'll be the end of that argument. We out with it. It'll get infected if it isn't have to carry it." split this fun' right here. Thirty francs treated. When we get to the ambulance

"Listen, Corporal!" cried Giwens fran- apiece. Giwens, here's yours!" I'll put a dressing on it! Come on! Make tically. "We came up here to protect But Giwens held back his hand. it snappy!" you! Tell the major that! If we hadn't "Corporal Bates," said he sturdily, "we "Hey!" cried the gunners all at once, as been here the enemy would have get in on said hard words to you awhile ago, but Bates started to follow the stretcher the battalion's flank! We was here under we're sorry. You was right and we were bearers. "That guy's got all our money!" orders, you might say. We really did wrong. You keep that money. The agree- "That ain't a wound," choked Giwens. come up here to give you a hand, you ment goes on as before. Am I right, "You can't get away with that! Major, goin' off into Germany alone like that!" fella rs?" this corporal is yaller! He was sent out "Tell that to the Marines." sneered "Right!" agreed the squad, and began to find Lieutenant Borkman and he goes Corporal Bates. "If you followed me up to crawl back to their holes. and holes up for the winter! Now he here at all it was to stitch a seam in —me "Ah," cried the corporal hotly, "don't wants to go out with that scratch! He with that gun! You mean to say if you suppose I know what's— bitin' you done it himself, I know!" "Where's this wounded man?" birds? Yuh think I'll squeal "Pull that gun out of there!" gasped the All turned. Two stretcher bearers and The major suddenly appeared from the major, having gotten his breath back. a hospital orderly had crawled up the grass and leaped behind the embankment. "Man, that was close! Nobody hit except bank. The corporal pointed to where the "We got here just in time," he barked. Bates? Good! Get out of here, Bates. If silent man lay under the trench coat, and "That's the front edge of an attack out the medical corps evacuates you I have the orderlv busied himself about him at there, but now we know where it's coming nothing to say, whatever I might think. once. from, we'll receive it hospitably. Stretcher If you have any money belonging to these "You mean to say if you had known me bearers, get out of here with that man! men, give it back to them." and the old leatherneck major was out in Come on, show some guts! Keep in the "That's my money, Major!" snapped the wheat you wouldn't have made skim- shelter of the bank and you'll be all right. Corporal Bates, putting his blouse about mers out ta the both of us? Huh!" Corporal Bates, I want to thank you. You his shoulders. "Ask this wounded man "Did you find Lieutenant Borkman?" gunners, I want to thank you! You here, he just give it to me! Am I right?" asked one of the men timidly. stopped a nasty encircling movement with The wounded man nodded silently.

"No! But I heard tell of him. He's been that firing. Even if it was in the air. If "Goodbye, Bates," snapped the major. taken prisoner! So our fun' for the it had been properly directed, this corporal "Sorry about this. Good luck to you!" wounded is gone! Now, sound off!" and I and a couple of lieutenants would "Goodbye, Major! Major, this squad o' Another clip ran through the gun, like have been dead by now. Come and see mine is the finest bunch o' coyotes that

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ever kept an honest man awake nights. You worked hard all morning so I could GOES MIDWEST! If you have any regard for me, please make get to have this fun' after all. I'll think HOLLYWOOD Giwens the corporal of it. Boy, that'll of you when I'm in Paris." Then he de- square him and me! Well, fellers, so long! parted jauntily after the stretcher bearers.

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On this coming September 17th your patriotic and educational organizations National Commander, speaking with the and paved the way for you to carry on full authority of the whole Legion as locally with these— the Parent-Teacher AMAZING NEW 1935 interpreted by its National Americanism groups, the National Education Associa- Commission, urges even- post to arrange tion, the American Bar Association. The Super Deluxe for American Legion speakers to appear school teachers of your State have already before grade schools, high schools, colleges had brought to their notice the general and universities in celebration of the one- plan of the Legion's program. We are hundred and forty-seventh Constitution co-operating with the Constitution Educa- Day. tional Association. We are asking posts ALL-WAVE Contact your local civic groups—they so situated to try to avail themselves of the will welcome you on their schedules. services of the winners of national oratori- And don't forget the music. Your band cal contests. We have made, and are con- or drum corps, your Legion quartette tinuing to make, every possible contact take them along, give them plenty of space that can help to make the effort a glorious on the program. Who can offer a finer flag success. drill than your local squadron of the Sons But in the final analysis, as in the in- of The American Legion, or the Boy Scout stance of ninety percent of Legion activi- Troop which your post is sponsoring? ties, success depends on the local post. GUARANTEED WORLD-WIDE It may well be that some other organiza- That means your post. That means you as RECEPTION * has already initiated a Constitution a loyal and alert member of your post. WORLD'S tion GREATEST Day program in your community. Co- Put your shoulder to the wheel, and this BEFORE you buy RADIO VALUE operate with them—offer them all the coming Constitution Day will be an anni- any radio, write for assistance which your post can lend them. versary long to be remembered in the FREE copy of the new Midwest 1935 ''Fifteenth Anniver- Your National Americanism Commis- annals of America and of The American eary" catalog. Learn why popular movie star3like JeanHarlow.Rich- sion has already contacted numerous civic, Legion. ard Arlen, Claudette Colbert and Ginger Rogers prefer the Midwest Super De Luxe 16-tube All Wave 57 Radio. Learn why over 110,000 DeluxeAuditorium c us to me rs saved to Vi by buying direct from Midwest. Tape SPEAKER c You, too, can make a positive saving of from 30 ,'o to 50% by buy- The ^our- Point "Victory ing this more economical way. \Yhy be con- tent with ordinary so-called "All-'Wave", "Dull \Vave"or "Tri- Wave" receivers when {Continued from page 25) Midwest gives you more wave lengths in today's most perfectly developed 16-tube Su- per DeLuxe ALL- WAVE radio* that are

proven by 4 years of success . . . that carry an further direction that in the final deter- The roll was called and the vote was: iron-clad guarantee of foreign reception. better, more powerful, clear- mination of these cases every reasonable Yeas Nays 72. These bigger, 310, er-toned, super-selective radios have FIVE doubt be resolved in favor of the veteran Cheering again broke out in a storm distinct wave bands: ultra-short, short, medium, broadcast'' and long. Their greater all-wave tuning range of 9 to 2400 and every assistance be rendered in the throughout the House as everyone present meters (33 megocycles to 125 KC) enables you to tune in stations 12,000 miles away with clear loud-speaker reception. preparation and presentation of these realized that the Legion's battle for jus- Now, you can enjoy super American, Canadian, police, ama- teur, commercial, airplane and ship broadcasts. . .and derive new excitement from unequalled world-wide performance. cases. . . . tice had been vindicated. 50 ADVANCED 1935 FEATURES "This regulation will be put into effect The bill was immediately rushed across T^RY this super de luxe 16-tube All- Wave radio in yourown home for 30 days—before you decide. The new 36-page at once. ... It is a simple and un- to the Senate Chamber. It was late in the catalog pictures the complete line of artistic consoles and chassis. See for yourself the 50 advanced 1935 features. deniable fact that the United States in afternoon. Administration leaders in the DEAL DIRECT WITH lABORAfORUS terms of compensation and in terms of Senate endeavored to have the veto mes- TNCREASING costs are sure to result in hospitalization has done and is doing in- sage held over until noon of the next day. higher radio prices soon. Buy before the SAVE io big advance. NO W ...while you can finitely more for our veterans and their This was objected to by Senator Bennett take advantage of Midwest's sensational values . . . no middlemen's profits to pay. dependents than any of the other gov- Clark of Missouri, Past National Com- You save 30 % to 50 ^» when you buy this 50% popular way . . . you get 30 days FREE trial ... as little as S5.00 down puts a Mid- ernments. . . . mander of The American Legion. In the west radio in your home. Midwest gives "I call your specific attention to the fact midst of the argument over this point, you triple protection with: A one-year guarantee, foreign reception guarantee, that since the original regulations were es- Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Adminis- money-back guarantee. Send today for FREE catalog. tablished a year ago, actual experience has tration leader in the Senate, moved an ad- MIDWEST RADIO CORP. Established 1920 shown many cases where these regulations journment and the motion carried. The Dept. 589, Cincinnati, U.S.A Cable Address, Miraco, AllCodes required modification. . . . My disapproval vote on adjournment was regarded in of this bill is not based solely on the con- some quarters as a test vote and it was FOR. | sideration of the dollars and cents. There predicted that the President's veto would AMAZING SO- DAY FREE TRIraiAtJA Off IK. A«P HIW I91S CATALOGAlOCj is a deeper consideration. You and I are be sustained. MIDWEST RADIO.CORP., User-Agents concerned with the principles herein The following day the President's mes- Dept. 589 Make Easy enunciated." sage was read to the Senate. In the mean- Cincinnati, Ohio. Extra Money Without obligation on my part send me Check Here The argument which followed in the time the press of the country had carried your new FREE 1935 catalog, and com- for l—l liberal 30-day plete details of your Detailg I I House of Representatives was very brief, in full the fine letter of National Comman- FREE trial offer. This is NOT an order. and in a short time a vote was reached, the der Ed Hayes as well as the President's question being whether the House on re- veto message. In many papers they were consideration would agree to pass the bill, carried side by side. the objections of the President to the con- The scene of the day before in the House Town State. trary notwithstanding. of Representatives {Continued on page 56)

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to the grounds was practically duplicated in the Senate. tire Senate Chamber quieted down as the ... in the heart Every Senator who was able to be present Senators and spectators listened with

of Chicago . . . was in his seat. Every seat and every bated breath while the Senators cast their closeto shops and available inch of standing room in the gal- individual votes. theatres . . . five leries was occupied. After the President's There were ninety Senators present and air - cooled dining message was read the debate started, led voting. Six were absent but were paired, rooms, world-famous off by Senator Bronson Cutting of New four for and two against, as is required for good food. Mexico, who pointed out the reasons why where a two-thirds vote is necessary. It this fair and just legislation on behalf of was apparent that more than sixty votes to B l/MA R CK the veterans should be written into law. over-ride the veto were necessary because HOTEL Senator Robinson of Arkansas then sixty for and thirty against would be a tie Rooms CHICAGO spoke in support of the veto. He was im- vote and the Vice-President would un- $2.50 RANDOLPH Write for map mediately followed by Senator Arthur doubtedly cast the deciding vote to sus- of Chicago and Robinson of Indiana, who spoke on behalf tain the veto. That would have meant de- Fair grounds. of the Bill. The debate then turned into a feat for the Legion. sort of filibuster on the part of the Sena- The roll call proceeded. Those of us Make Money at tors who desired to support the President, who were keeping a tally were nervous and Grow our famous Fancy White Queen Mushrooms. Experience unnecessary apparently in a desire to drag the debate anxious. The check of the National Legis- —we tell you how. Big demand, at highest prices. Marketing facil out so that the vote would have to be car- lative Committee earlier in the day had Ities furnished. Illustrated ried over until the next day. revealed that we apparently had sixty- book free. Write today 1 AMERICAN MUSHROOM INDUSTRIES, LTD. Through the lengthening shadows of the five votes in our favor, but four who were 722 Wuolnough Bldg„ Toronto, Ont late afternoon the speechmaking contin- for us were not present. The Clerk called ued. Every argument against paying com- the name of Senator Vandenberg of Mich- pensation to veterans was brought forth igan and he voted "Aye," making fifty- e ™% MASTERL7i and dusted off and it was even contended nine votes for our legislation. Senator Van that America was the most generous coun- Nuys of Indiana voted . "Nay," making try to her war veterans, an argument based twenty-six votes to sustain the veto. m ENGLISH solely on the amount of dollars and cents Senator Wagner's name was called; he Loam correct English with Sherwin Cody e new invention. No rules to memorize. Like a fascinating game. paid for compensation without any regard voted "Nay"—twenty-seven votes to sus- Spare-time study. ISminuteseachday, quickly givesvoa command of English. Send forfreebook "HowYonCan for the fact that the average salary paid tain the veto. Senator Walcott voted faster Good Enel^Mn 15 Minute a Dav." Write today. m SHERWIN CODY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, 849 Searle Bldg. Rochester. N. Y. in America far exceeds that of any other "Aye," sixty votes to over-ride. Senator country and in most cases exceeds it by Walsh of Massachusetts, staunch sup- many times; without regard likewise to, porter of the President, cast the sixty-first comparison of the national wealth of "Aye" vote, which was the vote that gave TwwSrJlour/ America with the national wealth of any us a bare majority. Senator Wheeler and AMAZING INVENTION—New Radi- other country; without regard to the pur- Senator White both voted "Aye," making ant Heater. Burns 967o air. chasing power of the money paid in Eu- sixty-three votes for and twenty-seven Makes its own gas. No piping. Noinstallation. Givesroomful ropean nations. against, and the bill became law in spite of of clean, healthful, penetrating heat, like Bunshine, for 1 'i cents an hour. The Vice-President had called Senator the President's veto. Hotter than gas or e lectrici ty , at l-10tu the cost. E-sy to light and operate. Bennett Clark of Missouri to the Chair. The dramatic scene of the day before in No Bmoke. No Boot or ashes. No odor. Portable— carry it anywhere. Low Senator Clark had previous to the war the House of Representatives was here ex- priced. Guaranteed. 30-DAYS' TRIAL been parliamentarian to the House of ceeded. Cheer upon cheer rang through the Liberal Offer. Try it 30 days Representatives; he knew procedure. He galleries although prohibited by the rules. at our expense. Write at once Commander Ed Hayes, who was present for special, introductory, low-price did his best to bring about the vote. offer and no-risk trial opportu- with your Chairman, leaned back and with nity. No obligation. Send today. Shortly after six o'clock he put the ques- THE AKRON LAMP CO. roll call a great sigh of relief said, "Thank God. now 1319 High Street, Akron, Ohio tion, but before he could ask for a I can change my speech." who derive another Senator was on his feet demanding largest profits an opportunity to speak on behalf of sus- Senators whose nerves had been taut know and heed INVENTORS . at considerable during the afternoon arose and, contrary to certain simple taining the vet He spoke but vital facts before applying for Patents. length, and then, shortly after seven the Senate rules, began to light cigars and Our book Patent-Sense gives evening, after the Senator to talk in their places, apparently feeling these tacts; sent free. Write. o'clock in the had adjourned. In the con- Lacey & Lacey, 635 F St., N. W., Dept. 8 had taken his seat and while several others that the Senate Wash., D. C. Estab. 1869 were clamoring for recognition, Senator fusion someone moved adjournment and Numerous Legionnaire References Clark ordered the Clerk to proceed with the great day for the Legion's legislative the roll call. program in the Seventy-third Congress There was considerable confusion. Sen- was over. ator Clark started down from the Pre- From the time this legislation passed the siding Officer's rostrum, leaving the chair House, a cry was raised in some quarters Amazing results reported daily. At last a against the "Legion Lobby," and when the simple easy set of 5 exercises. Home or vacant. Vice-President Garner, who had office anywhere any time 7 minutes a da then been talking with various Senators legislation passed this cry became a roar New method concentrates benefits on reducing waistline. Ideal, mild, effective for middle about the floor, rushed to the chair. After from those who protested the granting of aged. ResiUts in 48 hours. Puts snap in your step. Relieves "shortness of breath." four or five names had been called one any benefits to the veterans. Restores your vigor as fat vanishes. inquired "What are we voting One would think that The American Loose, fallen abdominal muscles go Senator back where they belong. Gentle mas- Vice-President informed him Legion had "sand-bagged a spineless Con- sage-like action increases elimination on?" and the and regularity in a normal way without they were voting on the question: "Shall gress," "raided the United States Treas- use of harsh, irritating cathartics. You NO DRUGS look and feel years younger. objections of the President ury," and implanted itself as a "cancer on NO DIET the bill pass, the Rp.-ULkr["Enclose 10c coin or stamp notwithstanding?" the body of American life." So cried the for 5 complete illustrated to the contrary The roll call proceeded. The filibuster editorials, so shouted the magazine articles, LANDON & WARNER ilY.S^Xc^Tti. had been broken and immediately the en- so cried the professional religious "racket- 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly a

eers" from their gold plated pulpits. unjustified payments to presumptives, but "Congress Votes 228 Millions to Vets" the burden of proof is now upon the Vet- YOUNG MAN proclaimed the newspaper headlines. All erans Administration and not upon the this from those who ignored the truth, or bedridden and mentally incompetent dis- who, deliberately speaking untruths, spread abled men. As the law now stands, the DECLARES HE IS calumny and slander against the men who Government can also strike from the rolls offered their lives in defense of America those whose service connection was es- some sixteen years ago. tablished by fraud, clear error as to fact or OLD CRANK "Great cry but little wool" as the devil law, or by misrepresentation of material said when he plucked the pig, for after all, facts. It can strike from the rolls too those what did this bill give to the veterans? presumptives whose disabilities are proved ABOUT TOBACCO The act, as its chief effect, restored to to have orginated before or after the period disabled World War veterans the pay- of active military or naval service, unless Miami Pipe Smoker, Owner of Two ments for service-connected disabilities such disabilities are shown to have been which had been taken away from them by aggravated during service. And, under the Dozen Pipes,Writes About the Mellow the Economy Act of March, 1933. It law now, presumption is not extended in Smoothness of His Favorite Brand represented the fulfilment of an American the cases of men who entered active ser- Legion pledge to those disabled men— vice after November 11, 191 8. The contentment and pleasure of pipe pledge embodied in the Legion's Four Every Legionnaire should also know by smoking seem to band all pipe smokers into Point Program adopted by The American this time that the Independent Offices Act one great brotherhood. When a man finds Legion's national convention at Chicago enacted into law the Presidential Regula- his ideal pipe tobacco he wants all his last October. tions of January 19, 1934, which governs brothers of the fraternity to know it. Here The Legion did not adopt its program non-service hospitalization and domiciliary is another letter from a happy pipe smoker hastily. Before it was affirmed by the Chi- care. This provision benefits the veteran who has discovered the one brand that he cago convention it had been submitted to with an honorable discharge who is unable loves best of all. the scrutiny of every Legion Department, to pay for hospital care and treatment. every Legion post. It constituted there- The Legion had not asked hospital care and Dallas Park Hotel fore an American Legion bill of rights when treatment for those who can afford to pay Miami, Florida it was presented to Congress bearing the for it. November 24, 1933 Larus & Bro. Co., Chicago convention's endorsement. So We may all take just pride and satis- Richmond, Va. moderate was it that no critic was able to faction in the eleventh-hour enactment of Gentlemen: attack it successfully during the months the fourth point of our Four Point Pro- I just had to write to you, gentlemen, and let you know how much I think of it was pending in Congress. It confounded gram. This is contained in the Rankin " Edgeworth." fairness the subsidized by its compact Widows and Orphans Act, which provides Although I am only a young man, I am organizations which had been campaign- for payments of $22 a month for a World an old crank when it comes to choosing good smoking tobacco. ing vociferously to perpetuate prejudice War widow, $8 a month for the first child I possess no less than two dozen pipes against the disabled service man. and $4 a month for additional children, fol- of as many descriptions, including corn, The amendments to the Independent lowing the death of a veteran who was dis- clay, Turkish and Chinese, so I know that pipes can sometimes flatter poor tobaccos; three of the four Offices Act embodied abled more than 30 percent as a result of but Edgeworth, I can smoke in any grade points of the Four Point Program. The war service but who died of injury or dis- of bruyere and enjoy. The same mellow smoothness is in every tin, and the aroma fourth point, bringing aid to widows and ease held not to have been caused by his that my wife loves so well is like incense orphans, was enacted in a separate measure service-connected disabilities. around our home. just before Congress adjourned. The Le- This last provision is not the complete Many times I have changed to other brands, some of which I thought I had gion goes to the Miami national convention fulfilment of our fourth point, it will but begun to like — then I switched back to this October, therefore, justly satisfied directly benefit more than 24,000 living Edgeworth (this is what happened tonight, and what prompted me to write this note). with its victory—the victory of the Four widows and orphans of deceased service It was like meeting a buddy from overseas

Point Program upon which it had staked men. The Veterans Administration esti- or a girl from home ... or something . . .

I guess you know what I mean . . . its prestige and honor. Keeping faith with mates 13,900 veterans of the class specified Respectfully yours, it only what it was entitled to win by the Rankin Act have died since the war won by Pierre LeRoux all the rules of justice and fair play. And and are survived by 9,666 widows and 14,- in this spirit it stands upon its record. It 755 orphans. The measure does not apply will defend what it has won against every to widows and orphans with adequate Thank you, Mr. LeRoux. You state the assault. And we may be sure that the means of support. case admirably. Smokers who know good assault will be made. The enemy has been Supplementing what we have gained this tobacco usually like Edgeworth and are defeated but he has not retired from the year for the disabled man are other legisla- enthusiastic boosters for it. field. He is reforming his lines. The signs tive victories in which we may take pride. Edgeworth is made from certain choice of a new attack are already evident. We advocated more adequate provisions and carefully selected leaves of the Burley Every Legionnaire now knows the main for the Army and Navy. The world is boil- tobacco plant. You are provisions of the Independent Offices Bill ing with unrest. No one can foretell what not deprived of the amendments. He knows that they revived the United States will encounter in its re- original flavor of fine to- service connection for World War veterans lations with other nations in the years im- bacco when you smoke on the rolls March and restored mediately ahead. Congress adopted the 19, 1933, Edgeworth. Mildness the payments which they were receiving Legion's program of building our Navy to and flavor form the prior to the passage of the Economy Act. the strength provided under the London Edgeworth combination. Almost 300,000 veterans benefited by this Treaty. In other years we would have Ask your tobacco Particular smokers action. Legionnaire knows also that rated this result as a Legion legislative ac- " Edgeworth Every j 1 . . prefer dealer for mjEdgeworth. the amendments restored to the direct complishment of the highest importance. All sizes from the 15 cent pocket tin to half service-connected rolls 29,000 presump- Exceeded only in its importance by the pounds and pounds. Several sizes packed in tives, 90 percent of whom are suffering program of navy building is the new and vacuum tins. In these the tobacco remains from tuberculosis or mental and nervous revitalized Congressional movement look- in perfect condition in any climate. diseases. These men had been denied ser- ing toward the enactment of The Ameri- Edgeworth is made and guaranteed by vice connection for their disabilities by the can Legion's Universal Draft Act. In Larus & Bro. Co., Tobacconists since 1877, presidential boards of review. line with our recommendations, a se Richmond, Va. The Government is still able to prevent lect Senate (Continued on page §8)

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(Continued from page 57) committee has been appointed under the suade the nation that our legislative pro- being swashbuckling militarists when we Nye-Vandenberg Resolution to investigate grams for the disabled have been masks of call upon all good citizens to join with us in the profits of the munitions industry and to selfishness. By twisting statistics and by a movement to place the United States in review the findings of the War Policies singling out isolated examples of fraud and the position of preparedness which the Commission. It will be recalled that the benefits gained by the unworthy, they present condition of the world demands. commission was created four years ago as have sought to damn by inference every- We simply ask that now, while war's the result of legislation obtained by the thing that we have accomplished. We have alarms are still remote, we take as a nation Legion. had to go to court with our enemies—the the same precautions which any man would Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan court of public opinion—and we have won take in his personal affairs to guard against is a member of the select committee. He our case. a calamity which might possibly threaten has always taken an ardent interest in the The public, having already rendered its him later. We believe that never again Legion's Universal Draft proposal. An- decision in our favor, is regarding us at this should the country allow a war to come other member is Senator Bennett C. Clark moment more generously than ever before upon it which would profit a few while the of Missouri. As one of the founders of the in our history. The very bitterness and un- many offer all in sacrifice. We believe a Legion, he sought his appointment on the fairness of the attacks have redounded to means should be found to banish greed in committee because he felt that the Uni- our advantage. Now we have the oppor- the hour of national need. versal Draft legislation would have first tunity to consolidate the position of pub- We have thought much about all this place on the Legion's legislative program lic respect which we have won so honor- for more than a dozen years. Our program for next year. ably. is not intolerant. It is not a cut and dried

It is a significant fact that in the area Having corrected for the time being dogma of unproved practicality. It calls conferences of The American Legion's the injustices which a year ago threatened simply for the ascertainment of the truth National Rehabilitation Committee this to overwhelm the service man bearing his about the means of war preparation and the summer, resolutions were adopted in favor country's wounds, having demonstrated fair assignment of the burdens of war. We of making the Universal Draft proposal our ability to work together in any cause ask that this country conduct any future the foremost legislative effort of the Legion which we solemnly believe to be right, we war as a united nation in arms. We ask in 1935. I find in this fact mighty reas- now face a new opportunity. that all capital, all labor, all industry, surance of the Legion's willingness to put Along with other Legionnaires every- agree now to serve in any future war with- service to country ahead of all considera- where, I believe that this opportunity is out profit. Without beating of drums, tions which might by any stretch of the calling to us loudly at this moment. It is without hysteria, we may invite our fellow imagination be termed selfish activities for the opportunity created by the present citizens to help us end the profiteering of itself. confusion of thought on the subject of our war, guarantee special privilege to none Our enemies have distorted facts to per- national defense. No one can accuse us of and require equal service from all.

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There was the case of the partners who had dends so that holders of policies acquired premiums paid, but in many cases the been quarreling. They were about to break at low age and long held will benefit. These premiums paid are insufficient to pay for up, a procedure which would have meant holders, it was stated by Frank T. Hines, the actual cost of the benefits assured." loss to both. They talked things over to- Administrator of Veterans Affairs, will re- gether with Mr. Miller and the firm made ceive proportionately greater dividends Rifles and Jitters a fresh start. There was the case of the than in other years. At the same time, Mr. veteran charged with murder. The bureau Hines said, dividends will be discontinued THOSE extreme pacifists and ultra- revealed he was clearly mentally un- on policies held but a short time by holders radicals who get the jitters whenever accountable and he was placed in a of higher age groups. The number of policy- the name of The American Legion is men- Veterans Hospital. holders receiving dividends will be reduced tioned shivered violently this summer Eighteen times the bureau intervened from 504,000 to 410,000 under the new ar- when word went out from Washington that in tenant and landlord cases. Six times it rangement. Congress had presented to Legion posts acted to obtain relief for clients of small Three factors will determine dividend thousands of army rifles. Shades of the loan agencies. It enabled many applicants payments: (1) The age of the policy-holder proverbial man on horseback, shades of to obtain loans from the Home Owners at the time policy was issued; (2) Length of the Revolution of the Right! Was not the Loan Corporation and referred many other time policy has been held; (3) Kind of pol- Legion arming itself, ready to assert a applicants to the Veterans Administration icy. Explaining the change, Mr. Hines dictatorship of the doughboy? and other governmental agencies able to stated: Practical citizens who attended thou- extend help. "It has been indicated very clearly that sands of Memorial Day services held by veterans possessed of policies acquired at American Legion posts in their communi- Insurance Dividends Up early entrance ages are paying not only ties had an opportunity to see the rifle- adequate premiums, but premiums suffi- armed Legionnaires, and they were not THE Veterans Administration an- cient in amount to warrant, according to afraid. For this year, as in fifteen years nounced in July that World War present experience, reasonably liberal divi- past, the firing squads of Legionnaires veterans holding government insurance dends. Those policy holders who took out stood with slanted rifles over the graves of policies will receive in dividends this year insurance during the more advanced years the war dead, fired the volleys which each $6,300,000, an increase of $2,700,000 over of life are not only paying premiums too year are a nation's reverent salute to those 1933 dividends, and that a change has been small in relationship to the value of their who gave their lives for their country. made in the manner of apportioning divi- contract to justify the return of any of the The rifles the Legionnaires use are obso-

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lete rifles, loaned to many hundreds of in one of the most spectacular membership to posts in the years which have elapsed since races in Legion history. New York on Snvt *SOO *IOOO the war. July 20th had 67,278 members, Illinois The Rosemont —5 Rooms, Bath $1440 Posts getting them were required to 66,267 and Pennsylvania 65,775. Forty- (Materials) give bond for their proper care and one Departments on that date had sur- preservation. In addition to the Memorial passed their total enrolments of December Day ceremonies, the rifles have been used 31, 1933- by posts of the Legion for other cere- monial purposes. Roll Call The recent action of Congress only discharged the Legion posts from the bond 1EONARD H. NASON, who wrote and other obligations they had assumed J "Mutual Aid," is a member of Cross- when they got the rifles, and vested full cup-Pishon Post of Boston, Massachusetts, ownership of the rifles and accessories in and Herbert M. Stoops, who illustrated MODERN HOMES the posts which had borrowed them. this story, is a member of First Division at Mill Prices! Lieutenant Jefferson Feigl Post of New Van Tine Home Building Service will build your Big Membership Gain York City . . . Frederick Palmer belongs to home complete—ready to move into—easily, IQJ4 safely and at one-third less costl Many are S. Rankin Drew Post of New York City saving $500 to $1000. Choose from 100 prize designs or let us design MARKING one of its most notable . . . National Commander Edward A. your home from your own ideas. Your choice of membership gains in recent years, Hayes is a member of Castle Williams Post brick, wood, stucco or combinations. We supply finest guaranteed materials and strongest construc- The American Legion ended July with an of Decatur, Illinois . . . Fairfax Downey tion to meet all building codes. enrolment of more than 800,000 or 30,000 is a Legionnaire of Second Division Post of Mill Prices—you buy direct from our 5 great Mills at low wholesale prices. One order buys your more members than it had at the end of New York City . . . Jean R. Kinder is a home complete. No extras! Finest Modern Features. Oak Floors, Warm member of Lincoln (Nebraska) Post . . . 1933- Quilt Insulation, Built-in Kitchen Units, Linen Closets, Clothes Chutes, etc. The total for 1933 was 768,000. On Raymond J. Kelly, Chairman of the Na- More comfort—less work for the housewife. July 31st the enrolment was approximately tional Legislative Committee and a Past 100,000 ahead of the corresponding date of Commander of the Department of Michi- FREE ROOK 1933, and if this ratio is maintained it will gan, holds membership in Pittenger Post 100 HOME PLANS give a total membership for 1934 of more of Detroit . . . A. B. Bernd is a member FREE if you live in HI., Ia.. Wis., Minn., Mo., Kan., Nebr., N. D. than 900,000. of Joseph N. Neel, Jr., Post of Macon, or S. D. (Other States send 30c.) As July neared an end, New York, Illi- Georgia. nois and Pennsylvania 'vere neck and neck Philip Von Blon GordonA/a nTi n e Co. World's Largest Specialists in Home Building Since 1865 1677 Case St., Davenport, Iowa Check free books wanted: Homes, Q Garages, Summer Cottages, Book of 5000 Bargains in Building Material. Farm Buildings. The Qup 's Up

{(Continued from page 17) resailed. These rules, agreed upon by the throughout the summer without a single club, the Royal Yacht Squad- of his British challenging acceptance challenge to LITTLE BLUE BOOKS of Cowes, England, and the defenders, yachtsmen. ron Great Boobs—new boobs—ra- Club, insure the Disappointed his inability mous books. Over 200,000,000 the New York Yacht over to stir have been sold. List includes so modern fiction, mystery, love, fairest possible conditions under which up competition and win some prizes to help adventure, humor, science, psychology, poetry, history,, the mettle of the contenders may be tested pay for his costly expedition to England, drama, law, biography, philosophy, and other subjects at only 5c per book. Send postcard for free catalogue of bar- in the great international classic. Stevens was ready to return home in gains. Address LITTLE BLUE BOOK CO., The 1934 rules offer a striking contrast August when officers of the Royal Yacht Catalogue Dept. Desk 335 Girard, Kansas to the heartbreaking conditions under Squadron suggested that he enter their which the America's Cup was originally annual open regatta around the Isle of MAKE captured in 1851 at the height of the great Wight for the Hundred Guineas Cup. EXTRA clipper era. The fame of the Sandy Hook Probably no course in the world could be CARDS. MONEY pilot boats had spread to England, but more difficult to a foreign skipper than that Quickest way for men and women to earn in spare time. Show beautiful new Personal Christmas Cards and no American racing vessel had ever chal- around the Isle of Wight, with its tide 3 unusual $1.00 Christmas Card Assortments; also Gift Wrappings and Everyday $1.00 Assortments. Sell to lenged the unquestioned supremacy of the changes, tricky headland breezes, and other friends and others. Experience unnecessary. Samples on approval. State if have sold Christmas Cards before a obstacles. N.Y. British until John C. Stevens, commodore But Stevens entered against Wetmore & Sugden, 749 Monroe, Dept. PN , Rochester, of the then newly-formed New York Yacht fourteen of the finest British yachts that Club, sailed up the Solent in the early sum- ever hoisted a sail. The Royal Yacht Profits Pay mer of 185 1 with the schooner America. Squadron can never forget the results of matches had been previously arranged, that regatta. The America finished so far No € o r Home x %('- but an exchange of letters with the Royal ahead of the competing British craft that Harry Hill writes: "Paid for home with H-B 'j Rug-Washer. Earned $86 first day." H. I. Riley f < » j Yacht Squadron indicated that the Yan- spectators didn't know the race was over. averages about $35 a day. L. A. Eagles took in $200 first week. C. R. Bergseth writes: "My kee upstarts would be given plenty of com- When told that the America had won, profits run about $400 every month." Many others make $125 to $200 per week. C. J. White says: petition. Stevens offered to meet the Queen Victoria turned to one of her aides "$100 business in 6 days—never a complaint." Electricity does the work. Finishes rugs and car- best of the British yachts and stood ready who was watching the race and inquired, pets like new, on customer's floor. Write today for i booklet and full details. to place bets up to £25,000 on the trim "Who is second?" and the answer came: EASY TERMS American schooner. His pride in the su- "There is no second." The American Reasonable down payment balance monthly. No shop periority of the America was greater than schooner was more than an hour ahead of necessary. Hundreds of customers in your vicinity and his canniness for enticing British yachts- her nearest rival. The Hundred Guineas nearby towns. Backed by $58,- 000,000 Company. Used by men into competition, for he made the Cup was later presented to the New York U. S. Government and Statler Flotel System. Every machine great mistake of engaging in an informal Yacht Club as an international challenge GUARANTEED, brush with one of the fastest of British trophy open to the world and known as the IT 1515* 17 Qnnlf Send today (no obligation) for * booklet illustrating Rug-Washer yachts on his way up the Solent to Cowes America's Cup. Fourteen challengers have and telling how you can earn large profits at prices below other methods; how you can build a permanent year-around and walked away from his rival. The news been turned back by American defenders. business; and how you can pay on easy terms. Enjoy a larger income. spread quickly and Stevens languished Some of the (Continued on page 60) H-B COM 6X59 H. B. BldgM Racine, Wii.

SEPTEMBER, 1934. 59 > The Qup s Up lAgain ToAnySuit! Double the life of your {Continued page coat and vest with correctly from 59) matched pants. 100, OOO patternsT^M Every pair hand tailored to your measure. ^ Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before contests have been close and others were the new rules make it compulsory to pro- pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send pieco of cloth or vest today. walkovers. Sopwith comes as the fifteenth vide quarters for a crew of 25 to 30, which SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 209 So. state St. Dept. 143 Chicago challenger. eliminates the mechanical gadgets from NewAdding Machine The honor of being selected as the 1934 the cabin. Two of this year's defense can- American defender has been hotly con- didates, Yankee and Wcetamoe, had to be Fits Pocket! Vest tested in a series of trials run off during rebuilt to comply with this new rule, made Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides like $300 machine — yet it costs only June, July and August. Three big Ameri- since 1930. The rule serves to offset the $2.50. Weighs only 4 ounces. Not a toy — guaranteed for lifetime. Per- can cutters, Rainbow, Yankee and Weeta- severe handicap usually suffered by the fectly accurate, lightning fast. Sells moe, have been fighting it in series challenger, on sight to business men, storekeep- out a of which must provide adequate ers, homes — all who use figures. brilliant races which serve to indicate that crew's quarters for the Atlantic crossing, Write at once for Free HUtNIO'*flPCMTC /±Co«t<; Sample Offer and Mon- Sopwith will get a thrill for his million and it places a greater premium on sea- ey- Making Plan. 100% Profit I

C M. CLEARY , Denl 982, 303 W. Monroe SI., Chicago when Endeavour finally meets the defender manship without the use of such expensive this month. Harold S. Vanderbilt, who and ingenious handling devices as ap- SALESMEN- skippered Enterprise in its successful de- peared on recent defenders. Business fense of the America's Cup against Lip- The new Class J rules with which Ameri- Own Your Own ton's Shamrock V in 1930, has further en- ca's Cup yachts must comply terminate Experience unnecessary, selling our $1000 Life and Ac- cident Insurance Policy to men, women and children. hanced his reputation as a yachtsman at the trend toward designing sloops which All ages. No medical examination. Quick sales. $4.00 profit per sale. Earn up to $100 weekly. Write for the helm of the newly built Rainbow. are little more than racing shells. The new free sales kit. FIDELITY MUTUAL BENEFIT AS- SOCIATION. Dept. N-9, Rockford, Illinois. former Secretary of the Navy Charles cutters are strongly built and completely Francis Adams, who piloted Resolute to equipped to be self-sustaining at sea. They 5* &10< COUNTER GOODS victory against Shamrock IV in 1920, has lack the freak architecture which charac- handled the rebuilt Yankee with that terized the yachts of a decade or two ago BRAND agility which won for him the title of "one and the rules make it impossible for them - ' Call on Healers demonstrate World's; i dealer of the world's cleverest skippers." Wee- to be very dissimilar in their general spec- line Counter Card Gooas: rtspinn, romplete lint' liazor illades, Mercurn-

. cromc, FVanuts, B6 bitr, new prulit lamoe, which gave Enterprise a close rub ifications. The challenger is of all-steel 15'/ makers. Powerful, sel r-sellinjr dis- ' plays. Big: profits for dealers and you. epeating business No for the honor of becoming the defender in construction, with steel plates on her hull

i h i Send for big 64- pntrp FRRR Catalog- Old reliable firm, 1930, has shown improvement throughout and a mast of electrically welded high- WO RL D'S PR ODUCTS CO.. Dept. 9813 Spencer, Ind. the season with Richard Boardman at her tensile steel plates similar to that used by Adventurous, Exciting, helm. The rules provide that the defender Shamrock V in 1930 and by the speedy must be named one week before the contest. British racing yacht Velsheda built in 1933. Thrilling Stories by When the two great towers of white sail The defense candidates have hulls of bronze start spilling sea miles astern in the first and steel, with duralumin masts on Rain- RUPERT HUGHES race of the series September 15th, the blue- bow and Wcetamoe and a wooden mast on KARL W. DETZER hulled Endeavour will be flying the white Yankee. The single sticks on the America's ensign of the Royal Navy, a right limited Cup sloops extend upward 165 feet, so LEONARD H. NASON to members of the Royal Yacht Squadron high that they couldn't pass under the PETER R. KYNE and the British Navy itself. The white- Brooklyn Bridge without collision. The MARQUIS JAMES hulled defender will carry the burgee of the huge white sails extended from their masts FREDERICK PALMER New York Yacht Club, a white star on a cover an area of 7,550 square feet. The red cross in a blue background. To land- yachts measure 125 to 130 feet from stem R. G. KIRK lubbers, the two huge racing yachts will be to stern, have a beam of 20 to 22 feet and a MEREDITH NICHOLSON difficult to tell apart except for these dis- draft of about 15 feet. Their displace- HUGH WILEY tinguishing hull colors and the pennants ments vary slightly from 138 to 143 tons. flying from the tops of their gigantic masts. They have the graceful lines which modern For Only $1.00 They may differ a few feet in length or a designers have found to be a corollary to foot or so abeam, and their sail plans—the maximum efficiency. No artist's brush YOU may have some of the outstanding size, placement and arrangements of the could add to the beautiful simplicity of stories by these popular authors at a re- sails—will be distinctive, but these are their clean hulls, which give the impression markably low cost . . . the price of a beautifully characteristics which will be sought out of speed and motion even when they are embossed blue and gold binder for your copies anchor. are the of per- of The American Legion Monthly. only by the trained eye of the yachtsman. riding at They acme Both the challenger and defender will use fection in naval architecture, the largest Moreover, it will give you a permanent record expensive racing craft afloat. of Legion activities as well as fascinating the double-headed rig for their working and most stories of the most important American sails, a fore-staysail and jibsail out ahead Rainbow, which captured popular at- achievements ... a record that will grow more of the huge triangular mainsail, instead of tention early in the season because she is valuable with the passage of time, a colorful the more conventional rig, which includes the only yacht built this year for the de- picture of contemporary American progress. a jibtopsail used in the 1930 races. Each fense of the America's Cup, was financed These binders, priced at only $1.00 each and will be fitted with several suits of sails to by a syndicate of seventeen millionaires available for Volumes I to XI, hold six copie? permit changes in accordance with the whose names read like a Who's Who in of The American Legion Monthly. Why not finance industry: Harold S. fill out and mail the coupon now . . . while dictates of weather conditions. Spin- American and think it? you of nakers (those huge light sails used on the Vanderbilt, head of the syndicate; J. P. side opposite the mainsail when running Morgan, Walter P. Chrysler, Frederick W. The American Legion Monthly, before the wind) together with Genoa jibs Vanderbilt, George F. Baker, Alfred G. P. O. Box 1357, Indianapolis, Indiana (the large headsails which are trimmed in Vanderbilt, William K. Vanderbilt, Ogden Gentlemen: Enclosed is $ {Insert Mills, Gerard B. Lambert, Edward S. proper amount computed at $1.00 for each binder.) Please far aft) and balloon jibs (those billowy L. send postpaid, the new binder for Volumes I, II. Ill, IV, headsails used off the wind) will be ready Harkness, H. H. Rogers, Marshall Field, V, VI. VII, VIII. IX. X. XI, of The American Legion Monthly. (Check or circle binder or binders desired.) to be broken out at a moment's notice. Joseph P. Day, Charles Hayden, George Name Below decks there will be none of the in- E. Roosevelt, W. G. McCullough and Address tricate mechanical handling devices which Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. They wrote checks for City State were such a boon to Enterprise in 1930, for about three-quarters of a million dollars

60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly in the hope that the Rainbow expedition capable of competing with such splendidly might be successful in winning the honor disciplined men as "Mike" Vanderbilt al- to defend the "old mug" against Endeavour. ways has on his yachts. The former Sec- ANNOUNCING Built at the birthplace of six successful retary is snapping out orders like a Grand Cup contenders in Bristol, R. L, Rainbow Banker this season and getting action of the was designed by W. Starling Burgess, whose kind which characterized the work of tousled hair, drooping moustache and bul- Resolute's crew in 1920, when Adams turned AMAZING bous nose give him the air of an old sea back Shamrock IV off Sandy Hook. Frank dog. By turning out the highly successful C. Paine, Yankee's designer, has altered Enterprise in 1930, Burgess carried on a her bow to give it a sharper entry into the TYPEWRITER family tradition started by his father with water and thereby increase her speed in the design of three earlier defenders, light airs. Yankee's July races against Puritan, Mayflower, and Volunteer. Like Vanitie, the 20-year-old queen of light Sopwith, Burgess had dabbled in things weather, and against Rainbow and Weeta- BARGAIN aeronautical, and his yachting designs moe did much to shake off the old label show a distinct aeronautical influence. It of "heavy weather boat" which pursued was Enterprise's "aeronautical rig" with Yankee in 1930. New Remington Portable her hollow duralumin mast which set her Weetamoe, the third defense candidate apart from the other cup contenders in whose performance the Cup Committee only 10c a Day! 1930, and Rainbow carries the aeronautical has studied, has had her most serious 1930 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL innovations a bit further. Her shrouds, fault adjusted. Her designer, Clinton H. which support the gigantic 165-foot dura- Crane remoulded the forward part of her Only 10c a dap buys this latest model machine. Not a used 01 keel so that it is several lower in the lumin mast, are made of steel rods with feet built typewriter. A beautiful brand new regulation turnbuckles instead of the conventional water, providing a better grip on the water Remington Portable. Standard keyboard. Carrying case included. Try it in your home or office 10 days wire, saving weight and windage as well as and preventing her earlier tendency to slip free. If you do not agree that it is the finest Porta- insuring a stiffer mast. The mast itself is to leeward when on the wind. Frederick ble at any price, return it at our expense. Don't delay. pear-shaped to give it a streamlined effect. H. Prince, whose Prince Plan for Rail- FREE TYPEWRITER COURSE Dozens of models of the new yacht were roads and Prince Plan for Packers is better MAIL COUPON TODAY OR USE POSTCARD tested in a wind tunnel before Rainbow was known than his ownership of Weetamoe, actually constructed, and the Baltimore placed Richard Boardman at her helm in factory which turns out the famous Martin preparation for the Cup races. Weetamoe ["remington rand inc. DEPT. 103-9, BUFFALO, N. Y. bombers for our Army Air Corps con- has shown considerable improvement over j I Please tell me how I can buy new Remington structed the mast to Burgess's specifica- her 1930 form when she gave Enterprise a 1 portable typewriter for only 10c a day. Also I enclose your new catalogue. tions. Two of the masts were made and the close rub for the honor of meeting the last second one installed on Weetamoe, although Shamrock. Boardman's experimentation Name it is understood that it should serve as a with a parachute spinnaker an acre in area Address spare rig for Rainbow should the new de- has been watched closely by the other can- fense contender come to grief. Harold didates. If such an immense sail could be I Vanderbilt, Rainbow's skipper, shares handled safely by a crew, it would let .ftk/ HUNTERS Burgess's interest in the application of Weetamoe walk away from her competitors v\/>M* Kf- tlc * TRAP sM °oTE,i aerodynamics to yachting, for Vanderbilt down wind. Modernize Your Shorgu*' has an air yacht of his own, although he This year's America's Cup Races will see Every shot fired thru Compensator pellet pat- prefers the sea to the air. Curiously enough amateurs at the helms of both the challen- gives perfectly distributed tern—killing to outside edge. Choke one of the first machines which Sopwith ger and defender for the first time since tubes for all game, long or short range. Also Skeet, traps. Reduced recoil im- flew as a young daredevil aviator was a when Lord sailed 1895, Dunraven his proves aim. For Single bbl. shotguns, 12, Burgess-Wright pusher, built by Rain- Valkyrie III off Sandy Hook and was 16, 20 ga. Write for Free Folder. LYMAN GUN SIGHT CORP. bow's designer. One of the first civilian beaten by the American sloop Defender. 74 West St Middlefield, Conn. pilots taught by the Wrights, Burgess Sir Thomas Lipton, whose Shamrock dyn- CUTTS COMPENSATOR built and flew airplanes until he went to asty has dominated the America's Cup Washington during the World War as a series since 1895, was a great showman but lieutenant commander in the Navy work- he was no yachtsman. He loved yachts PLAYING ing on naval aircraft plans. He returned to from the time he whittled them out of pine Sell his first love with the re-rigging of Vanitie chips and sailed them on the mud puddles ,h,t,*l Easy to earn money as an America's Cup candidate in 1920 and of High Green in Glasgow, but in later life taking CARDS orders from the building of Enterprise ten years later, he "shoveled on the five-pound notes" and friends and others for the new Initial Playing Cards, and oar complete line of smart Bridge and Pinochle decks. Unique, but he still utilizes his knowledge of aero- collected the cups. All of the Shamrocks EDGE C/iivinlAe beautiful; popular low pricesl mcc samples Youoan Btart mone dynamics to good effect in his yacht de- were sailed by professional skippers, with earning y at once. Thousands doing It now. No experience required. signs. Ted Heard at the helm of Shamrock V in Write today for full information and sample outfit FREE. GeneralCardCc, 1201 W.Jackson Blvd., Dept. Chicago,!!]. Soon after the July observation trials for 1930. Sir Thomas seldom set foot on his 33, selection of the new defender got under own racing yachts and was aboard none of way, Former Secretary of the Navy Adams them during the America's Cup contests. MpfAT FACTORY at the helm of Yankee demonstrated that All of the American defenders have been >V*» she must be seriously considered by the sailed by amateurs and this year's candi- PRICES/ America's Cup committee in any final ap- dates are no exception to that tradition. Send for FREE Catalog praisal of the candidates. Setting a world's Sopwith, of course, will be at the wheel of Over 200 Styles and Sizes of Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces— 174 record of two hours and forty-eight min- his own challenger. ranges, 12 heating stoves, 22 furnaces. M ore Bar- utes for a thirty-mile triangular course in The 1934 Races also mark the re-estab- gains than in 20 Big Stores. New styles, new features, 1930, Yankee is one of the fastest boats in lishment of relations between the world's new colors. Cash or easy terms. Year to Pay—30 a stiff breeze ever built. Her failure to be two most exclusive yacht clubs, the Royal days free trial —360 days approval test—$100,000 selected over Enterprise in 1930 was due Yacht Squadron of Cowes and the New Bank Bond Guarantee— 24-hour shipments. chiefly to her poor showing in light weather York Yacht Club. The bitter controversy The Kalamazoo Stove Co., Mfrs. Over 850,000 2066 Rochester Av., Kalamazoo, Mich. and to the fact that her skipper could not resulting from Lord Dunraven's charges Satisfied Users 34 Years in Business 'AKalaraazoQ spare sufficient time from his tasks as Sec- of treachery at the conclusion of the T Write for FREE Catalog Ri:.r.:,t Direct toYou" retary of the Navy to train properly a crew 1895 contest (Continued on page 62)

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fanned the flames of a feud which it diplomatic relations between the two clubs. was thought would take centuries for such That friendly relations are now resumed YOUR HOME IN aristocrats of the yachting world to forget. after such a short period as 39 years PHILADELPHIA After Valkyrie III had been beaten off has sent the old salts and bath-chair yachts- Sandy Hook, Lord Dunraven charged that men of two continents searching for an ... A hotel that alterations were made in Defender by the underlying reason. Those who know the lives up to its fine treacherous Yankees at three o'clock in the Royal Yacht Squadron, whose members traditions . . . an morning on the day of the race. The New tradition pictures as fine old gentlemen of unhurried hospi- York Yacht Club opened an inquiry and great ags and incredible lineage who lend tality reminiscent invited Lord Dunraven to return to Ameri- distinction to the sport of yachting by of an Older Phila- ca and present his evidence, which he did. being wheeled around in bath chairs on the delphia, and its charm ... a cuisine that The investigation showed that three tons sacred lawns of the squadron's castle at bespeaks the wizardry of world-famed of lead had been put aboard Defender to Cowes, cannot believe that less than three chefs . . . plus every modern, thoughtful compensate for removal of certain water centuries could be sufficient to purge such regard for your comfort, convenience and tanks and that the job, officially author- an insult as that dealt Lord Dunraven by pleasure . . . all at most reasonable rates. ized, was not completed until an early the Yankee upstarts. The squadron makes CLAUDE H BENNETT, General Manager hour. His lordship left without offering any its home in an ivy-clad fortress on Cowes apology or expressing regret. The New Point overlooking the Solent, a gift of York Yacht Club was soon being pressed King Henry VIII in 1545. Lipton, for all V by some of its outraged members for a his reputation as a patron of yachting and CUTICURA resolution requesting the resignation of his his expenditure of millions of dollars to cap- Shaving Cream lordship as an honorary member. Lord ture the America's Cup, was blackballed Dunraven, hearing of this proposed action, by the Royal Yacht Squadron because he Produces a rich, creamy lather that remains moist throughout the shave. cabled a request that such action be stayed was "in trade," a tea merchant. He was At your dealers or sent postpaid on receipt letter to the club. finally i of Address: Coticura Laboratories, X until he might post a admitted to membership a few 35c. Maiden, Mass. The resolution was tabled, but when the months before his death, but all five of his

letter arrived it contained his lordship's Shamrocks registered their challenges resignation without one word of apology. through the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. ("INVENTORS' The resignation was promptly tabled, and Well, the old sea mug is admittedly Time counts in applying for patents. Don't risk a resolution politely expelling the Earl of in danger, but the American defender can delay in protecting your ideas. Write for FKEK book, "How to Obtain a Patent" and "Record of Dunraven was adopted. That ended be counted upon to make it a race. Invention" form. No charge for information on how to proceed. Communications strictly contiden- tial. Prompt, careful, efficient service. My success built upon strength of satisfactory service to inventors located in every State in the Virion. CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN 247-E Adams Building, Washington. D. C. The Wolfhounds 'Pick a Winner

The American Legion (Continued from page 37) National Headquarters from the Army, Xavy or Marine Corps are eligible. 420th Tel. Bx., Co. E, S. C—Send names, ad- Indianapolis, Indiana Annual reunion and luncheon, Oct. 22d. .Special pro- dresses to Roy W. Ewing, Route 1, Box 776, Hialeah, gram of rights for women veterans to be considered. Fla. Financial Statement Dorothy Frooks, natl. comdr., Peekskill, N. Y., or 22d Serv. Co., S. C, U. S. Embarkation Div.-— Mrs. Mary C. Butz Grimstead, 1529 Seventh av., Proposed reunion. H. E. Tripp, Jr., 161 Broad street, June 30, 1934 Bradenton, Fla. Newbern, N. C. 1st Div. —Proposed reunion. Ed Hancock, City 35th Aero Sqdrn. and 801st Aero Sqdrn.— Assets Hall, Miami Beach, Fla. (See general reunion list below.) D. K, Mitchell, 51 2d Div.—Proposed reunion. Capt. W. J. Mc- Park av., Middleport, N. Y. Carthy, Police Dept., Miami. Air Serv., Carlstrom and Dorr Fields—J. Cash $ 48,069.74 3d U. S. Div.—Maj. E. J. Close, Box 30G4, Miami. Leo Scanlon, 487 Ellicott Sq. bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. Notes and accounts receivable 32,269.91 4th Div. —Reunion banquet night of Oct. 22d. For 13th Aero Constr. Co., Air Serv.—Proposed re- reservations address Lincoln Brown, Jr., 1921 Bay union. J. W. Smith, ex-lst sgt., 4011 N. W. 19th av., Inventory of emblem merchandise. . . 29,012.16 Road, Miami Beach, Fla., or William C. Brooker, Miami. Invested funds 699,777.83 Citizens Bank bldg., Tampa, Fla. Base Hosp. 136, A. E. F. Elmer V. McCarthy, Permanent investments: — 26th (Yaxkee) Drv.—Reunion during convention. M. D., secy., 108 North State St., Chicago. 111. Legion Publishing W. L. Lonergan, chmn.. Route 2, Box 650, Tampa, Fla. Evac. Hosp. No. 15 Assoc.—Rev. John Dunphy, Corporation $500,042.75 30th (Old Hickory) Div.—Convention reunion in pres.. Portage, Pa. Write to Mrs. Mary Johnson Overseas Graves Decoration addition to regular biennial reunion (see general re- Cuttell, secy., 76 West St., Milford, Mass. Trust $177,387.17 67-.429.92 unions). Claude S. Ramsey, pres., Asheville, N. C. Camp Hosp. No. 52, Le Mans, France—Albert reunion in addition to reg- Irwin Almand, 333 Holderness st., S. W., West End, Improved real estate 127,746.50 37th Div.—Convention ular reunion (see general reunions list.) Donald S. Atlanta, Ga. Furniture and fixtures less depreciation 35,936.39 Lavign, chmn., 114 N. E. 2d av., Miami, Fla. 117th M. O. R. S., 42d Div.—James P. Stickle, Deferred charges 17,421.54 53d .Inf., Co. L, 6th Div.—Proposed company re- P. O. Box 3363, Daytona Beach, Fla. union. Cecil H. Pillans, ex-lst. sgt., Haines City, Fla. Submarine and Sub-tender Vets.—Irving H. $1,667,663.99 103d M. G. Bn., 26th Div., also Hq. Co., M. P. Hunciker, 833 South blvd., Evanston, 111. School, Autun, France—Veterans interested in pro- Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.—Wil- Liabilities posed reunion, address W. L. Lonergan, R. R. 2, Box ford L. Jessup, natl. comdg. officr., Bremerton, Wash. 650, Tampa, Fla. Craig S. Herbert, personnel officr., 3333 N. 18th st., 4th Engrs.—Patrick J. Ganley, comdr., Ft. Dear- Philadelphia, Pa., or R. J. Walters, Miami Aquarium, Current liabilities $165,712.80 born Post, A. L., 6312 Greenwood av., Chicago, 111. Miami. Funds restricted as to use 9,503.66 21st Engrs., L. R. Soc.—14th annual reunion. U. S. A. Can al Zone Vets. Assoc.—Veterans of all Irrevocable trust: Frank L. Frazin, secy-treas., 1825 S. Hamlin av., outfits that served in the Zone during the World War including the 5th, 10th, Overseas Graves Decoration Trust. 177,387.17 Chicago, 111. period, 29th and 33d Inf., 12th for 28th Engrs., A. E. F. Vets.—Erick O. Meling, Cav., 3d Engrs., 1st Sep. Mtn. Art., C A. C of Forts Reserve investment valuation. . . . 98,756.08 pres., 2048 N. Spaulding av., Chicago; Frank T. Cush- Grant, Sherman, De Lesseps, etc.. Aviation Corps, nirik, secy-treas., 12206 Lowe av., Chicago, 111. M. C. Louis J. Gilbert, pres., 260 Gregory av., Pas- *45i,3 59-7 1 56th, 603d and 604th Engrs. (Searchlight)— saic, N. J. W. H. White, 4831 Park av.. So., Minneapolis, Minn. National Tank Corps Vets. Assoc.—Reunion. Net Worth: 00th Ry. Engrs—L. H. Foord, secy., 3318 Flower Frank J. Williams, natl. comdr., 504 Brisbane bldg., Buffalo, N. Restricted capital.. . .S699.776.83 st., Huntington Park, Calif. Y. Unrestricted capital: 212th Engrs., Co. D, 12th Div.—To include all U. S. S. Barney—C. W. Chase, Jr., Miami Beach. division. A. B. Parks, U. S. S. Jowan Stanley W. Campbell, 822 Jeffer- Capital surplus members of 318 Cotton States — bldg., Nashville, Tenn. son av., Scranton, Pa. $165,240.78 M. T. C. Verneuil Vets.—Veterans of Units 301- Investment valuation surplus 2-3, M. T. C, located at Nevers and Verneuil, France, Announcements of reunions and activi- 351,286.67 516,527.45 $1,216,304.28 Hilmer Gellein, pres., P. O. Box 772, Detroit, Mich.; Verne M. Corson, reunion officr., 1161 W. Flagler St., ties at other times and places follow: $1,667,663.99 Miami, Fla. 106th Sup. Trn., Co. A—M. F. Avery, 19 N. W. 2d Division.—All veterans entitled to 2d Div. 3d st„ Miami, Fla., or W. M. Applegate, 6033 Cham- Medal. Apply to C. O. Mattfeldt, P. O. Box 1361, Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant plain av., Chicago, 111. Washington, D. C.

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3d Drv. Society—Veterans who send name, ad- Blairsville, Pa., Sept. 9. West A. Reed, secy.. Route dress and outfit number to L. D. Ledbetter, 411 Bank 4, Box 5A, Blairsville. of Commerce bldg., Norfolk, Va., will receive free 140th Inf., Co. F, 35th Div.—Reunion, Kansas copy of publication. The Watch on the Rhine. City, Mo., Sun., Sept. 2, and Labor Day, Sept. 3. DAVIS ^CLOTHES Society of 5th Div.—Annual reunion at Boston, H. P. Chrisco, pres., 4710 E. 27th st., Kansas City. Mass., Sept. 1-3 (Labor Day week-end). David T. 147th Inf., Co. B—Reunion on Route 24, 3^ Probert, 25 First st., Fair Lawn, N. J. miles west of Napoleon, Ohio. J. J. Foster, chmn.. Society of 28th Drv.—All veterans are asked to Napoleon. register with Headquarters. Col. John H. Shenkel, 311th Inf., Co. F—Reunion at Buffalo, N. Y., pres., Wm. G. Blough, secy-treas., P. 0. Box 111, Sept. 1-2. Emil Brenner, 48 Hawthorne av., Buffalo. Homewood Sta., Pittsburgh, Pa. 316th Inf., M. G. Co.—Annual reunion, Philadel- 30th (Old Hickory) Div. Assoc. Biennial re- phia, Pa., Sat., Sept. 29. William F. Masterson, 5039 — Davis Custom-Tailored union, Asheville, N. C, Sept. 28-30. Claude S. No. Smedley St., Philadelphia. Ramsley, pres., or Irwin Monk, secy., Asheville, 325th Inf., Co. L—Reunion, Springfield, Mass., Clothe* are Jo made as to North Carolina. October 27. A. W. Silliman, Ardsley, N. Y. make the end of one trans- 32d Drv. Vets. Assoc. Annual convention, De- 333d Inf., Co. A, 84th Div. prepare roster and — —To action the beginning of troit, Mich., Sept. 1-3. Sat., Sept. 1, registration, regi- plan reunion, report to Arthur (Stogy) Buehlman, another ... so that the mental reunions; Sun., association meeting, parade care of C. Kinne & Co., Highland, 111. and memorial service, banquet at night; Mon., busi- 355th Inf., Co. I—Reunion, Bressler's Park, man who once buys a Davis If unable attend, write a letter, Nebr., Sun., Aug. 26. Ross Pomeroy, ness meetings. to Wayne, secy., garment stays sold, wedded giving your present address, to Byron Beveridge, Allen, Nebr. permanently to fine work- secy., 32d Div. Convention Hq., Hotel Statler, De- 51st Pioneer Inf.— 11th annual reunion, New- troit. burgh, New York, Sun., Sept. 16. Milton A. manship, superior woolens

33d Drv. War Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion and Siegfried, chmn., 155 Broadway, Newburgh. and a perfect fit. Let the convention, Pe- 52d Pioneer Davis man in your ctty oria, 111., in Dec. Inf.—Reunion, Date to be an- New York City, show you a new measure Wil- Sat., Nov. 10. of clothes satisfaction. nounced.

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John F. Leavitt, chmn., 17 Sanborn st., Lowell, Mass. of shoulders and leg at Meniel-aux-Bois, France, after 302d Engrs.—Reunion dinner, Buffalo, N. Y., having had meningitis. Saturday, Sept. 1, in conjunction with Legion Dept. Gen. Hosp. No. 20, Ft. Des Moines, Ia. —Claude Convention. All 77th Div. vets, invited. Fred Hupp, M. Wright, pvt., and others who recall Art W. 28 E. 39th St., New York City. Fessenbecker suffering sprained ankle while carry- Air Serv. Vets. Assoc.—8th annual reunion at ing patient downstairs, Dec., 1918. Fort Shelby Hotel, Detroit, Mich., Aug. 30-Sept. 1. 37th Engrs.—Capt. Percy T. Sealey, Lt. W. E. Air service vets, of all branches invited. T. J. Leary, Minkler and others to assist Alvin A. Armstrong 7141 .len'ery av., Chicago, 111. with claim. 35th Aero Sqdrn.—Third annual reunion at 108th Sup. Trn., Co. F, 33d Div.—Harry Munn, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 1-3. D. K. Mitchell, 51 Park John Brennan, Jas. Collins and others at Camp av., Middleport, N. Y. Genicart, Bordeaux, France, Aug., 1918, to assist 50th Aero Sqdrx.—Reunion, Akron, Ohio, Sept. Cpl. William J. Faust who was treated for flu, foot 1-4. J. Howard Hill, secy.. Hotel Portage, Akron. injury and gas burns. 801st (formerly 107th) Aero Sqdrx.— Reunion, 314th Engrs., 89th Div.—Lt. Percy G. Fohman Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 1-3. V. B. Kincaid, secy., and others who recall leg injury to John L. Benkow- Veterans Administration Home, Bath, N. Y. sky in barbed wire entanglement. 30'Jth Ammun. Trx., 84th Div.—5th annual re- 123d M. G. Bn., Co. A, 33d Drv.—F. A. Kanmis, union encampment at Shakamak State Park near O. D. Morris, P. K. Wells, B. W. Bartlett and Jasonville, Ind., Sun., Sept. 2. Four hundred at- others to assist Conrad Block. tended in 1933. Local buddies will be hosts furnishing 326th Inf., Co. D, 82d Drv.—Capts. John A. free quarters and rations. Have reunion announced Rollisox and Floyd H. Bain, 2d Lt. Edw. B. Craven on local radio stations. Lpon reaching camp area, and others who recall eye injury to Pancrasio Form- contact R. E. Jarvis, 2332 Sycamore St., Terre Haute, ica, account gas, Oct., 1918. Ind., H. E. Stearley, 403 N.'Meridan St., Brazil, Ind., 16th Inf., Co. M, 1st Div.—Richard Morrisey or Hubert Botts. Sullivan, Ind. (New York) who was with Harry Flickinger, Oct. 6, American R. R. Traxs. Corps A. E. F. Vets.— 1918, in Argonne action, when gas shell struck tree, Annual reunion, Hotel President, New York City, burying them in debris. Also Lt. in charge who helped Sept. 14-10 (instead of Legion national convention Flickinger back to hosp. reunion at Miami as previously announced.) Reser- Gudatt, Henry Lee (Los Angeles) can assist Al- vations to be made with hotel at ten dollar cost for lison A. Finstad establish claim account being gassed three days. Gerald J. Murray, natl. adjt., 1132 Bryn Oct. 8, 1918, near St. Etienne, France. 0 Miniature decorations Mawr St., Scranton, Pa. Armstrong, Edward, veteran, age 38, 6 ft., dark m and service medals are becom- Army Transp. Serv., Base Sec. Xo. 6, Marseilles, complexion, black hair, brown eyes, tattoo marks on France—To compile roster, former members report both arms, long scar right leg above ankle. Disap- ing more and more popular for use to J. H. Tison, ex-lst It., C. of E., Beaufort, S. C. peared from home in St. Louis, Mo., June 15, 1934. Base Hosp. No. 116 16th annual reunion, Hotel Subject to lapse of memory account wound above civilian — on Legion uniforms, as well as McAlpin, New York City, Nov. 10. Dr. Torr W. right ear. clothes. In addition to the Victory medal Harmer, 415 Marlborough sr., Boston, Mass. 318th Inf., Sup. Co., 80rn Drv.—Officers and men Evac. Hosp. No. 8— 14th annual reunion, Hotel who knew of illness of Clifton T. Humphries at Camp and Legion medal, to which every Legion- Penasylvania, New York City, Oct. 13. Herman C. Lee, Va., Oct., 1917, and near Sommanthe, France, other Idler, secy., 1500 E. Susquehanna av., Philadelphia. Nov., 1918. naire is entitled, there are numerous 13 - Evac. Hosp. No. —Annual reunion in Washing- Detention Hosp., Camp Barry , Great Lakes decorations and service medals available. ton, D. C, Sept. 1-3. M. L. Adamson, 213 Ashton Nav. Trng. Sta., III. —Medical officer who was in av.. Clarendon, Va. charge during June, 1918, and hospital corpsmen to The miniatures most in demand are listed Post Hosp., Jefferson Barracks—Reunion at assist Albert J. Jones, patient with flu, to obtain hosp. Barracks, Mo-., Labor Day., Sept. 3. Roy record. Now suffering with pulmonary disease and and priced below. If the particular medal Jefferson M. Speier, secy., 3801a Shaw av., St. Louis, Mo. acute arthritis. or decoration to which you are entitled is Amb. Co. 35 Vets. Assoc.—Third annual reunion, White and Blanchett—Corporals in overseas upon Detroit, Mich., Sunday, Sept. 2. Harry E. Black, hospitals, Aug., 1918, with Harry M. Kexaga, known not listed, pricef will be submitted Box 153, Parnassus Sta., New Kensington, Pa. as "Rock Island," can assLst him with claim. request. 310th Field Sic. Bx.—Veterans may obtain copy Kelly Field, Tex.—Doctor and other men who of Wi'j-Wag by writing to R. Howry, asst. secy., 41- remember 1st Lt. Ira. C. Kixg having throat treated Calif. H. Bates, Distinguished Service Medal . $2.50 each lst st., San Francisco, at hosp. Also Geo. Raymond T. Cassel- 16th U. S. Cav., Troop G—Proposed reunion. A. BERr.Y, Barton S. May, Farrell, Hager and others Distinguished Service Cross . 2.00 each 21S3 Cornell rd., Cleveland, Ohio. 1st V. S. Inf., 1903-4, who recall Purple Heart Medal 2.50 each H. (Chick) Chiconi, of Co. E, injury to C. Q. M.—To prepare roster, veterans of Office King in baseball game at Ft. Wayne, Mich. ^Victory Medal 1.50 each O of Chief Q. M., Tours, France, report to Ex-Sgt. Co. G, 3-Reg., 2d Trng. Bn., Camp Pike, Arf.— Medal .50 each Battle Clasps for Victory Kenneth N. Rinker, 413 W. First St., Greensburg, Ind. Pvts. Hans Housler and Herman Nieman who

. . each Mexican Border Medal . 1.75 Q. M. C. Si p. Co. 325—To prepare roster, which helped Francis W. Martin of 82d Cas. Co., clean rife

American Legion Medal . . . .50 each will be distributed, report to Ex-Sgt. Karl S. (Major) and gave him blankets after their return from rifle Bauernfeind, 307 E. Brewster St., Appleton, Wise. range. *N. B. Special attention is invited to extra charge S. Solace Annual reunion of shipmates, U. S. S. Cincinnati—John Epps Tucker, hosp. cf 50c each for battle clasps on Victory Medals. U. S. — Philadelphia, Pa., Sat., Nov. 3. Dr. R. A. Kern, appr. 1st cl., who recalls Albert N. Poli complaining List each battle clasp to which you. are entitled. University Hosp., Philadelphia. of deafness after latter returned to ship from hospital- U. S. S. Besoeki—Proposed veterans organization ization at Key West, Fla., account flu, Oct.-Ncv., P r ' ce of tne complete miniature combina- rKl\>EPRICE and reunion. H. W. Miltimore, 1214 W. Washington 1918. t j on to wn i c h you are entitled can be accu- 111. Repair Sec. 14, Group D, Repair Unit 320, M. rately computed by adding the cost of each medal St., Waukegan, | Military Psychology, Camp Green- T. C. 1st Lt. John B. Burch, Sgt. James Graham, as priced above. Be sure to include 50c extra for each School Of — dinner, Sept. 7, 0 m., at Butler Pvt. Thomas A. Toohey and others who recall leg battle clasp which you are entitled to wear on your leaf, Ga.—Reunion p. City. to Miles J. Rearick when Cadillac car miniature Victory medal. As an example, miniature Hall, 88 Morningside Dr., New York Dr. G. J. injury upset W. Wisconsin av., Milwaukee, Wis. Feb. 14, 1919, near La Pallice, France. Victory medal and Legion medal, is priced at $2.00 Rich, secy., 2430 about its Btry. F, 9th Brig., Camp complete, plus 50c extra for each battle clasp which Dept. of Arizona, A. L.—Will hold convention 25th F. A., McClellan, 27-29. All veterans Walter G. Muth, Cpl. Plato S. Papson, you require on the Victory medal. If you are en- in Tucson, Ariz., Sept. organiza- Ala.—Sgt. 340th F. A., 89th Div.; 158th Inf., Chester N. Alba and others who recall carrying titled to additional service medals or decorations, tions, especially Pvt. of Henry L. Schutz when he add the cost as listed above. All miniature combina- 40th Div., and 42d Div., are invited to hold reunions barracks bag was trans- Bn., Co. C. Also Pvts. tions are mounted on one bar pin, for which there at that time and place. F. R. Cottrell, chmn. of referred to the Dev. Oliver Hix- Legion Hq., Tucson. Adkins, Claude B. Adams, Dolar A. is no extra charge. unions comm., American son, Alonzo 110th Engrs.—Reunion in conjunction Missouri Cottee and John Peters of latter company, Sept.- convention. Hotel Baltimore, Kansas 1918. VZCWkl tf\ JtDHCD L' st the decorations and Legion Dept. Nov., MOW IU WKUEK service medals involved, City, Mo., Sept. 2. E. M. Stayton, 728 Delaware St., 54th Pioneer Inf., Co. M—Capt. Joseph H. also each battle clasp which you are entitled to use Kansas City. McDermott (formerly 71st N. Y. Inf., N. G.) and on the Victory medal. An order must be accom- 332d Inf. Assoc.—Reunion at Canton, Ohio, others who recall Luke Skelly getting back injury at panied by brief statement, setting forth the name Sept. 1-2. Carl V. Roth, 1000 Market av., S., Canton. Brest, France. and number of organization to which you were at- 339th F. A., Btry. D—Reunion at Chariton Gun 1st Div. Hq., Btry. A, 0th F. A., and Hq. Garage tached at the time decoration was awarded or ser- Club, Chariton, Iowa, Sun., Sept. 9. Earl E. Houdek, —Med. Sgt. Joseph Smith and others who recall in- vice medal authorized. secy., Delta, Iowa. jury to right knee suffered by Lloyd E. Stivers. 55th Art., C. A. C, Vets. Assoc.—5th annual 168th Inf., Hq. Co., 42d Div.—William A. Neese, N. B. Each Legiotinaire should have a copy of the convention, Biltmore Hotel, Providence, R. I., Oct. Paul T. Braniff, John Toler and others who recall complete 1934 Emblem Catalogue. Write for yours 12-14. Earl L. Cooney, Biltmore Hotel, Providence! illness of Ted P. Rose on hike to Germany, 1918. today—its free, with no obligation. Use the convenient Inf., Co. A Reunion, Coffeyville, Ks., 318th Engrs., Co. D Anthony Dombroski, Wil- coupon below. 139th — — Ser>t. 30. Hugh W. Clark, 1210 W. 5th st., Coffey- fred A. LeMay, James J. Cummings and Theodore L. ville.! Welles of Med. Det., to assist Albert Rein wski. EMBLEM DIVISION Talgren (or Tulgrex), Wiley—Served in Army, short and heavy set, light complexion, blue eyes, light Swedish descent. Lived at Oneida, 111., at en- American Legion, National Headquarters, unable to conduct hair, we are a listment. Fifteen-year-old son, a baby at time par- 777 North Meridian, Indianapolis, Indiana. WHILE general missing persons column, we ents separated, is trying to find him. F. A., Btry. A, 26th Div. Capt. Frederic Here is my $ for the following: 101st — stand ready to assist in locating men whose Huntington, Zaccus and others who recall Martil L. Carlson being gassed on Verdun front, Oct., are required in support of vari- statements 1918. ous claims. Queries and responses should 20th Inf., Co. E, 10th Div.—Men and doctor who I served with the recall infected foot suffered by Claude A. Dilwohtii at the time above decorations or service medals be directed to the Legion's National Re- at Camp Funston, Ks., July-Aug., 1918 4th Pioneer Inf., Co. K, and i 67th Inf., Co. A, were authorized. habilitation Committee, 1608 K Street, 42d Drv.—Men who recall Pat Kruki fainting and N. W., Washington, D. C. The committee being carried to hospital, June^.luly, 1917; also men who carried his pack after leaving transport Pastcris Street.. wants information in the following cases: at St. Nazaire, and men who served with him in GermaDy - City .... State JOHN J. NOLL 137th Inf., Co. 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