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...TURKISH AND DOMESTIC .. .T HAN ANY OTHER POPULAR BRAND WHOEVER originated the idea that em- that they are deplored by even the most enthusiastic ployers and employes have their interests supporters of collective bargaining. Nor is there any necessarily opposed has a lot to answer for use pleading for law and order so long as we tolerate when he comes to judgment. Intelligent injustice and fail to provide any lawful, orderly method employers and intelligent employes both know that for righting unjust conditions. unless the business succeeds and unless the people who Collective bargaining cannot be to any important work in it are well treated, it cannot continue and they degree effective if we simultaneously enforce our pres- will all be losers. ent laws. Law enforcement would prevent the only Most people want to be fair, want to give value for kind of mass action that gets results. And we seem to value whether they meet payrolls or draw pay enve- be under the impression that mass action is the only lopes. This is how it looks to me after a good many means of enforcing collective bargaining. This impres- years as an employer. Yet we have in this country of sion is incorrect. ours a situation where despite the fair-minded majori- In this misconception lies our sole difficulty. There is ties on both sides of the fence, violent strife frequently open an effective way to enforce collective bargaining breaks out. How can this occur? without resort to force. But before we can make use of It arises because neither the worker nor his boss is, it there must be some basic statement in law of the under existing conditions, always free to act as liberally rights involved in the employer-employe relationship. as he desires in dealing with the other fellow. An em- We are floundering in major difficulties from which we ployer, no matter how fair his intentions, cannot raise can emerge by only one road: We must have a legal wages greatly if his competitors will not. Any attempt statement of the rights of labor. to set an example of higher wage scales to equally effi- In most respects our laws covering the rights of prop- cient competitors may put him in receivership by in- erty seem adequate. But the rights of labor are not creasing his labor costs more than he can get back in his adequately protected. The reason for property rights selling price. One recalcitrant may block an entire and labor rights coming into conflict is that the dispute industry's desire to do better for the people on its pax - is usually concerned with the division of available in- rolls. come which is jointly earned by the property and by the No wonder that both the employer and the employe labor of the people who work there. sometimes under these conditions feel despair or resort Before now the world has frequently been torn by a to inherently undesirable methods. The employer conflict of interests. As long as either of two conflicting who wants to be fair may have his hands tied. The interests—in the situation under consideration, this employe who feels that he is getting a raw deal and interest is that of labor—remains unprotected by laws has no hope of any other effective remedy for his which state its rights, the unprotected group has ef- troubles reaches for a hefty club. No one can fairly fective recourse only to force and violence. Each time blame him. Yet the fact remains that such industrial in the history of the world when such a conflict became strife contains the seed of revolutions exactly like some too serious for comfort, laws were developed which we have seen upset democratic government in other stated the current public opinion of the rights in- lands. volved. As we developed such laws in shape satisfac- One of our gravest national needs is a method to tory to the majority, enforcement of the stated rights remove the basic reason for industrial violence. We became a comparatively simple task involving no need not undertake any program aimed at reforming violence.
the morals of the world, nor need we indulge in any Is it not, then, apparent that there exists a way by other form of impractical idealism. There exist which we can avoid the violence which has appeared in facts to be observed. From these it should be pos- the relationship between labor and capital? Is it not sible for us to draw some accurate conclusions for plain that we can quickly end this lawlessness by re- avoiding the very real dangers of violent industrial moving the underlying cause, by developing laws which strife. state the relative rights of capital and of labor on a It long since became apparent to the general public basis which meets the approval of a majority of our that labor does not always automatically get its just people? due. The need for getting labor its due brought collec- Until we have such a method working smoothly, we tive bargaining into existence. Obviously, collective cannot hope to avert industrial violence. Until then bargaining is ineffective if the it is useless to look for law other fellow says "No." The and order to be maintained next natural step was mass ac- Jay C. Hormel is president of Geo. A. Hormel & in the face of industrial injus- tion. But mass action can be Company of Austin, Minnesota. As head of this tice arising from either side of effectual only as it becomes meat packing business, he has given a great deal the fence. Only when this basic violent and lawless. cause of lawlessness is removed of attention to developing methods of wage pay- Thus we have as a common shall we have taken a long step ment and other aspects industrial relationships spectacle in our national life of toward maintaining unshaken which would at strikes of varying degrees of the same time bring greater those American institutions security violence and lawlessness, some to the workers and lead to less friction which we cherish above all of these going to such extremes between employe and employer others.
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4 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Oglesby Carson (rfiauAeA it out " By George Herbert
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WERE a happy WEbunch of foreigners in Northern Mexico during the last of the "good old days" of Diaz about 1908. Those who drifted into Tor- reon were a cosmopolitan lot. Every nationality was represented in our Foreign Club. Boom times were on and money was easy. Our town had grown from a desert rail- way junction, to be a thriving little city of some twenty-five thousand souls, all in a few years. No one asked the who or why of any stranger who happened in. He or she merely had to stack up with the crowd and pack his or her part of the load. All undesirables quickly sank to their own level, for we had some pretty high standards of fair play among us. It was a happy life, and none of us guessed even remotely that we were sitting on top of a volcano that would break our beloved Torreon wide open with revolution within two or three years. Quite unheralded and unannounced there hove into our midst a couple that caught our eye. Some- how they quite stood out from our usual run of visitors. We first spotted them at Sternau's quaffing scotch and sodas. So one by one we welcomed them into our little fold. We found them to be Oglesby Carson and his wife Hattie, from Canada. For a long time that's about all we knew of them. Things had to unwind in Tor- reon; few questions were ever asked. Though they told delightful stories from all over the world, they themselves never appeared in their narratives. They read good books, made excellent cocktails, gave de- lightful dinners and immediately fell into our no- tions of what Torreon's foreign social life should be.
Truth has a way of coming to the top, if given time. And it finally became an established fact that Oglesby was a "perpetual," though he always handled it like a gentleman. A propensity for strong drink, manifested when he was a mere schoolboy, "I had pretty nearly slipped to the his parents, wealthy, send caused who were to him very bottom when I managed to all over the world in an effort {Continued on page 59) catch hold" JANUARY, 1937 5 " "
CLIFFORD W. KENN EDY
"But I hadda tell you about them dames, both of them painted up like new houses. Whatta they in here for, don't they know there's a war on? And the feller, he—
"Should I kidnap the fellow so's you'd have to escort the frails? k Street I'll bet—hello, Chief." Fran But Curley persisted despite the approach of the Works En-
WAS the second summer of the war. Early in the ITsummer was always the time for something to happen in our plant. In 1Q14, right in the summer, we stirred away from shot shells, from twenty-twos and a whole line of hunters' favorites to start the first French order for cartridges. In 191 5 we canceled vacations to somersault over into British production. By summer, in 191 7, we were going hell-bent after our own war. The following year, up to this summer, had been full, full, full—work by day, work nights, all the week, catch up the ends on Sunday. The tremendous program of expansion and construction was nearly done, equipment was bought, made and in, production was finally just about meeting demand, we were shipping shells almost as fast as they could rattle them off over there; at least our part of the whole scheme was up to schedule. Every so often somebody tried to stop the swing, for the enemy was fighting the war on this side too. As much as a month had passed without an episode, even the guards were crying monotony. But somebody was preparing to serve up a nice dish; it was to be served to a poor chap somewhere in the sky—wait a minute, here's the story. Little Curley, ambling in his usual sauntering style down the aisle back of the primer cup presses, stopped, just as if another step would hurtle him over the edge of an abyss, stopped so suddenly the test lamp he had been dangling swung violently to and fro. Complete, bewildered aston- ishment crowded expression into his ordinarily placid countenance, his jaw, dropping down into his union-alls, interrupted the constant comfort of a quid of tobacco; small, close-set, blue eyes popped out to take in the entire scene. Recovery, after a minute, jerked him around and
With three painted, perfumed actresses dawdling right under his nose, and that guy Ziegler to be watched, Curley suffered
sent him, practically on the run, way back to the crib and electrical shop. He commenced to clamor at us all the way from the further stair-well. "Hey, did anyone see what's upstairs in the primers?" he shouted. "You shoulda seen the two dames —and the guy what's with 'em"—swallowing and puffing "did I ever see a powdered poppy in pants in here?" gineer. "Van, you can lay down in a nest of carpet tacks; I gotta "Never see a woman before, Curley?" said Van, who was a good know who they are. If you don't know, ask the Chief. Espe- foreman from sheer power of dry, unsmiling wit. "You didn't hap- cially that feller, I've seen before somewhere." pen to forget still ain't there no light up on the swaging room,—did "Curley, my boy, I can set you straight in a few words," put you? Not being cats those fellows ain't so handy in the dark in the Works Engineer, "and if Van wants to fix it that way, you
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have another job. Item number one. Somebody in Washington must receive a great deal of decides that those who are toiling for the good of this war but publicity. It is proposed to who do not happen to be across shall receive some mark of honor. write about it a great deal It'll be a silver chevron for each half year of service. Just like the and to talk it up in the news- gold chevron over across, see? What's more, civilians, in war papers. A good method is work, can earn the chevrons, too, as well as the uniformed men." to show a regular moving pic-
"That daisy up there," interrupted Curley, "couldn't earn ture of our hero earning his award in several different ways. T no chevron, only a brass one." W hich made Van put in his oar: He sells Liberty Bonds and makes speeches. They take him "You don't get 'em, either, Curley, popping eyes at painted about to all the places in Washington, he works on a farm out dames." West, then he comes over into a shipyard. Finally he works "Item number two," the Chief continued. "The Silver Chevron here on munitions, catches a spy and has a hero medal pinned on.
JANUARY. 1937 ''That guy gets a chronicing with the swing medal?" Curley exploded, of his jaw as he tortured "I'd send my mother-in- his quid of tobacco. law a bouquet of roses, Doggedly he concentrated first." on the man of the trio, his "But you don't have to mind plugging in again pin on the medal, and, as and again, in the attempt I was saying, some of the to ring through clear to movie shots are to be some point in the past taken here in the Works where that fellow and you, Mr. Curley, will belonged. soon be rigging up a port- Curley, completing any able generator and flood- particular stint of think- lights for them, in line ing, had an unconscious with what I am just now sign for that, too. It was about to describe to Van." simply to dispense with the Van handed Curley a worn out tobacco and in- roll of tape. "Here, little troduce a new shipment one, tape down your eyes with his knife point. Then so's you can get by those we could breathe easy for women and while you're we knew orders would be up that way wouldja be carried out carefully and willing to just see about quickly, albeit mechanic- those lights up in 46?" ally. In this case 46 got its "Chief," said Curley lights just as the section solemnly, "two minutes boss was ringing the Chief after you're gone Van'll for help. But Curley was sweat his baggy pants get- undisturbed — he had ting up to see those frails; planted an idea, back in me, I'm only a piddler side his mental files, that would of him. But that guy save a tough situation what's with 'em, he ain't some day. here for no good purpose, Mister Curley was a I'm telling you." busy man during the next With that Curley started few days. With consider- again for his destination. able care he bolted a dy- We used to notice that, if namo set onto a hand truck; he scratched the hair above expertly he fashioned a his ear with his right mid- power cord-set with which dle finger, he was really he could connect the motor thinking, for him; funny to any one of the plant thing, too, something usu- junction boxes in a jiffy; ally came of it. By the he whipped up innumer- time he was again passing able extension cords for the primers, he had irri- the Klieg lights and rigged tated a round, red spot a truck, for his helper to which gleamed through his pull, which carried the thin, gray hair like the battery of lamps and other indicator bull's-eye which accessories needed for the tells the telephone operator picture work. Like a cara- somebody is calling. Some- van the two, pulling the thing was calling in Cur- trucks, followed the trail ley's brain but it was hav- the artists had taken dur- ing a terrific time complet- ing their half-day visit, ing a clear circuit. As he into a number of parts of spied, again, the pair of the plant. At each point
rather gaudy young wo- where, as Curley 's mem- men, with the theatrical ory served him, the man atmosphere, his mental and girls had stopped to wiring shorted to a dead discuss location, he and ground. For a minute just his helper would proceed average, every day, me- rapidly to work, as effi- chanic's habits took pos- ciently as firemen, con- session; his eyes drank in necting the apparatus and silk stockings, form-plas- throwing a glare of light tering skirts, scarlet lips, upon taunting or disgrun- desire painted in shadows tled machine hands. Cur- under dumb eyes. His job ley came to know the best was going to be putting power outlet location for bright light on that, and each "take" that might be Unmindful of stinking, muddy water, for- them! Then the corona made, just as the fire- getting his clothes, he pitched down to the effect passed over, the captain knows his hy- bottom and sucked a casting out of the mud circuits in his brain cleared; drants. He planned in de- up went the scratcher syn- tail that the female talent
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should admire him! splendent in fresh union- After the second re- alls, clean skin, a necktie hearsal of the searchlight (yes, a necktie) he halted squad 'mm Curley's assistant JOK2j ] in the Chief's ante-room gathered the crib gang into to absorb the feminine a huddle — at quitting time scenery and then casually Curley was still puttering slipped into the office. over his equipment—for This day there were two entertainment. new girls; one especially, a "You it's know hot dark one with bobbed hair, around those lights," he to whom he edged over a related. "In a few minutes signal that flashed back an you're sweating like a echo; maybe this job was trooper, even if you don't going to be a chance to move. So what does Cur- "Here's Curley," the ley do but have me rig up Chief interrupted a delec- a shelf high on my truck. table train of thought. "I Then he made me go all want you to meet Mr. over the plant and shack Bloom—no, over here in three or four fans which Mr. Bloom is directing I strap down to the shelf this picture being made in and hook to up any handy our plant and I want you socket. I didn't tumble to be right with him all the to it till he stands out in time, do or get for him the light and has me keep whatever he wishes for the moving truck till my he work. If Mr. Bloom is gets a good breeze—it's absent you will report to all for those sweet canar- Mr. Ziegler, the leading ies of his, Curley won't man—this is Mr. Ziegler. have them minding the While we are finishing, heat!" Curley, you can lug those Van agreed, "Curley's cases over near the blank- a smart lad; good dope to ing presses in 78—get your keep those babies cool." apparatus there too, and "Maybe I better fix him then come back here to a personal fan; no, I got guide these people over. it, let's take along that Now, gentlemen," turning circulator and keep cool to the others, "what else water on him—the way can I tell you; are you all he's licking his lips he'll provided with passes?" need it." Unusual for "Yes, to be sure, yes," him Curley took this twit- replied Bloom, "except, ting silently. Without de- but—er—Ziegler here is a preciating one whit the little anxious about the need for impressing the shot in those high-explo- actresses, he stubbornly sive places, what did you focussed his mind on the call them—fulminate or male trouper, convincing full of something houses? himself that all the prep- I guess Zieg is scared," he aration was intended to continued. "Does this man give plenty of him time to of yours know when it's talk with that fellow, or safe to—er—photograph was it renewing an ac- there?" quaintance? The Chief chuckled. Things were all calmed "Curley enjoys his own down and dust was actu- skin too much to take any collecting ally on the dy- chances; he'll be sure you namo set before the Silver are safe." Chevron bunch showed up "So they are letting that again. Then one day the bird in the river shacks, Chief had Van send Curley are they?" Curley mum- over to the head office, bled to the new helper. trip a he delayed long "Believe me the one I let enough to spruce up in the him into will be washed wash-room and to pick clean that day. Hey, pick up his new helper. This up that dame's suit case being an easy job, Van you'd like us to carry that had explained, he would over, ma'am?" Just a give ar- him the newly little flushed from the look rived greenhorn. Curley in those dark eyes, Curley Along with them a crowd was converging the found the stranger bright on trag- dragged on after his helper. edy, guards, machine hands, porters, the and willing, full of ques- plant emer- The fulminate houses gency tions, but that is getting crew—nurse and all—everybody was running were little more than large of the story. ahead Re- (Continued on page 42) JANUARY, 1937 James G.Harbord
%^ communications to prevent them betraying themselves, and spotting enemy ground stations and raiding planes. As an adjunct to the A. E. F. intelligence service, our radio division probably located and identified more enemy units than any other means, including raids. Many a story of gallantry and ingenuity stands on the service record of our radio men. Listening-in posts pushed far out into No Man's Land and manned through bombard- ments and attacks by German-speaking operators who sent back vital information. Stations maintained in the shell- A sight to reassure any prospective gob of that "next war"—a lifeboat fitted with emergency radio equipment RADIO was in use by the United States Army as far back as 1900. Soon after Marconi came to this country in 1899 to demonstrate wireless telegraphy, Major General A. W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer of the Army, detailed officers to develop it, and in April, 1900, messages were exchanged between Fort Wadsworth and Governors Island, N. Y. The Signal Corps became the first federal organization to adopt radio, and its development went forward continuously. We employed it in Cuba in 1906 and on the Border in 1916. It was a German wireless message to Mexico, intercepted by the British and turned over to us, that helped bring us into the World War. That message sought to enlist Mexico as an ally in the event of hostilities, promising her Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the United States were Direction finder for smaller vessels a de- conquered. — vice serviceable alike in peace and war. At Once we had entered left, field operator, First Army Maneuvers, the war, radio became Pine Camp, New York one of the pressing prob- lems of our war effort. Handicapped by lack of torn, gas-drenched areas just back of the lines, sometimes with equipment and trained the crew working in masks through 24-hour mustard gas attacks. personnel, the same un- Other stations knocked out by direct hits. Officers, careless over preparedness we found the telephone, presented a few minutes later by the control sec- in other branches, we tion with complete transcriptions of their conversations which were forced at first into could have been heard as easily by the Germans. Headquarters dependence upon our Al- accurately informed that a reported German withdrawal had not lies for apparatus and taken place because our radio men had determined that all the training. But American spotted enemy radio stations were still functioning regularly in adaptability and energy the same places. And mention also should be made of the efficient triumphed and before radio network in our Army of Occupation. long we were in action While wire telephone remained the principal method of com- with the various novel munication in 191 7-18, 1 need not remind any veteran how costly and invaluable uses of in lives its maintenance was. One Division at St. Mihiel had radio which the war eighty breaks in its lines in three hours of combat and lost many called forth: Listening-in, signal men. Radio was not fully appreciated in those days, as interception of enemy this story shows. A Brigade Commander, his wires all shot out, messages from ground or radioed to Division Headquarters: "I am absolutely out of all air, control of our own communication." to The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — tku Radio Yet by the end of the war radio had strikingly established itself as a form of communication, as well as in its other phases. Communication is a key to victory and has been ever since the first scout sighted the approach of the enemy from a hilltop and waved back a warning to his tribesmen in the valJey below. Since the war, mechanization and motorization of armies has spurred the development of radio personnel and appa- ratus as essentia] equipment for modern warfare. Whereas at the Armistice the strength of the radio division of the Signal Corps and the Air Service amounted to only 85 officers and 1,045 enlisted men, it was estimated not long ago that one American field army requires 1,512 radio stations and more than 6,000 trained operators. While it takes weeks to train an efficient radio operator, we could in a sudden expansion draw upon a splendid civilian source of supply to a greater extent than we did in the past. When Radio's place in the national defense scheme puts it at the service of everything on wheels and of everyone who rides or walks advance in radio equipment. Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N. J., and Wright Field, Dayton, O., along with civilian organizations, are constantly engaged in radio research. Notable progress in short wave broadcast- ing; portable sets with generators instead of storage bat- teries; light-weight printer equipment to replace operators these are among the improvements whose military value has been demonstrated. The army equipment has in- cluded twenty-five different types of portable field sets: Two way air-ground, inter-air, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and mechanical units. Veterans watching army maneuvers today can witness such strange and unfamiliar sights as these. Infantry runners become company signalmen with radio p ick sets on their backs. Cavalrymen with an Facsimile recorder used in ultra-short-wave aerial rod rising from the stirrup socket where circuit. Below, a modern knight-at-arms once rested the guidon. A field artillery combat carrying saddlebag radio equipment train including a car which is a radio station on wheels. Once isolated and groping tank crews talking to each other and their brigade com- the need of radio men was made mander by wireless telephony. A one-time scout known in 1Q17, 4,000 amateur manning a direction finder. A truck with a pow- operators enlisted in the Army erful radio plant, capable of communication with and Navy within a space of front lines, rear areas, and airplanes, sixty days. rolling up to division headquarters. The subsequent great increase More familiar to the ex-sailor going in the ranks of amateurs (there aboard ship again will be the dia- are 40,000 licenses in force to- mond-shaped loop antenna on deck day) means that skilled rein- serving the radio compass and its forcements are available. Many controls in the chart room. He will executives and technicians of remember how useful this device has the company I serve, the Radio Corporation of proved in navigation and for spotting America, are reserve officers of the Army and the whereabouts of other ships and Navy. The company, kept free from foreign submarines. He may also notice a influence or control, maintains a close contact newer and reassuring sight—the with the War and Navy Departments in the emergency radio equipment now avail- event that its systems should be taken over by able for lifeboats. the Government in an emergency. Radio facsimile apparatus, similar Our country has been to the fore in the rapid to that in daily (Continued on page 48) JANUARY, 1937 I I a SHARD VILLA—how many tons. This chain was left to me rays of memory shine down and is now in my safe. His lips upon me through the sixty were rather tightly closed. He years since I shared its said little and when he spoke he hospitality! It was a big, square scarcely seemed to open his stone mansion on the old road from mouth. In deliberating he would Middlebury to Brandon in Ver- take a silver snuff box from his mont. Under the turret of its front waistcoat pocket, tap its side, tower was a white stone on which open it, and inhale a pinch of the words Shard Villa had been snuff and then express a brief cut. The words and the estate were opinion. If his neighbor, John the final chapter of one of the great Dyer, was under discussion, his romances of history which had its opinion would be distinctly un- beginning far back in the 18th Cen- favorable. tury. Of this fact I was entirely He said little. He had no in- ignorant while I lived there—a boy timate friends, no enthusiasms, in my seventeenth year—as teacher probably because he had been, of the two children of the master for many years, the slave of a and mistress of the mansion, Mr. great, absorbing task. In the and Mrs. Columbus Smith. midst of the crowds of London These dear people are long since he had been a man apart and gone, root and branch, and a time alone. I think that he had some has come when I can tell their sense of humor crushed and dis- story. They had two children— abled by years of serious work. boy eleven years of age and a girl . Mr. Smith had made a large just beginning her tenth year. fortune, after many years of They were a lively, beautiful pair. practice in the British Court of In all the world I think that Claims, and had returned to his there was not another man like native heath. There he had Columbus Smith or another estate bought an immense acreage and like his. He was the most pic- built his mansion with a great turesque figure of a man that ever turreted gray stone wall enclos- stood before me—-stout and of ing the ample grounds of the medium stature, thick hair, white villa. He had tenant houses and as snow, eyes and eyebrows black. his life was fashioned after that As I remember him there was not a of the English squire. Yet he had wrinkle in his big, ruddy, smooth, not been able entirely to put serious face. In it was the ex- aside the old Yankee thrift and pression of an indomitable will. simplicity inherited from his One may almost say it was a will fathers. Horses and hounds were which had done impossible things. not for him. When he went to In the house he wore a short coat of brown doeskin, a figured silk across the front of which waistcoat, He had made a large for- ran the clasped and tripled lengths tune in practice before the gold watch chain with a large of a British Court of Claims fob hanging in the line of the but- VOUND -\ MEASURE The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly * BY IRVING BACHELLER * his bank in Brandon he sat in a plain, side-spring buggy behind In the middle of the next summer I rode on my bicycle from a farm horse and did his own driving. Mrs. Smith, with the aid New York to Shard Villa. It was the first of many visits after my of one of the many hired men, would see that this buggy was kept leaving there. Smith had aged rapidly. The loss of his son, who clean, and I remember once she bossed the painting of it. was the main hope of his life, had softened the granite nature of They were both as innocent of any knowledge of art as the most the man. ignorant denizen of the mountain country that fronted the villa. They were glad to see me. I connected them with a dear and They had brought from Italy an artist to decorate the walls of happy past. Mary, familiarly called Pinky, was a beautiful girl the mansion. He had covered them with vivid colors. I think in her sixteenth year. The old gentleman was kind and thoughtful that a good country sign painter could have done a better job. of my comfort, but silent. He said little to anyone. Mrs. Smith One of my first tasks at the villa was a rather trying one. liked to talk of the beloved son who had left them. The old Scotch gardener had not come to breakfast. Mr. Smith The servants were growing gray. They seemed to feel the deep, had tried the door of his little house on the grounds and found cold shadow which had fallen upon the house. Mr. Ranney, the it locked inside. He had called and got no answer. I was young farm superintendent, was now a rather feeble old man but was and supple. He had succeeded in still on duty. What a curious opening a narrow window that conservatism in the master and led to the cellar. I crawled mistress of the villa! There were through it, jumped to the cellar no changes in its working force. bottom and climbed two flights A faithful servant was never cast and found the old man helpless out. They were like members of on the floor. He had had a stroke the family. They had a pride in and was near his end. I looked at the name and fame of Columbus him lying in the dim, melancholy Smith and in the grandeur of his light that sifted through the blue person and estate. paned window and hurried down I spent three days at the villa the stairway and opened the and when I was leaving he said to front door. me: "I shall be coming to New After the big mansion was York soon and will see you there." finished Mr. Smith gave to the A year passed. It was mid- estate a grim and singular token summer again when a letter in- of his unique character. I almost formed me that he would be at shudder when I think of it, for the Grand Union Hotel on a cer- the thing seems to have tempted tain day, where at six o'clock in fate and to have put a curse on the evening he would be glad to him and his descendants. see me. I found him there. He He built a handsome gray had recovered his composure and stone mausoleum on the grounds was more communicative than I near the big house for himself and had ever known him to be. I was his family. It would seem that he a man now—not a boy. wished to be reminded every day On the Park Avenue side of the of the inevitable end of life. hotel there were armchairs near Both he and his wife seemed to the wall where guests could sit of enjoy living. Governors, gene- an evening, when the sun was rals, senators, bishops and col- low, and enjoy the cool open air a lege presidents came to enjoy the few feet back of the sidewalk. hospitality of the villa. At com- After dinner we went there and mencement time, the faculty and as the shadows of the night fell graduating class of Middlebury upon us he told me the strange were entertained there. story of his life. He also loaned The mansion could not have me a manuscript record of it on had a more delightful setting which he had been working for with green mountain peaks some some time. I observed that many five miles in front of it and a of the words were misspelled. He beautiful valley between. was one of those shrewd, mathe- I went home to begin my col- matical Yankees with a small gift lege course. Five years had for the architecture of words. He passed and I was at work in New had graduated from the law York when a letter informed me school of Middlebury College that the mausoleum had got its early in the 1820's. I am not able sixteen, first victim. At the boy to recall the year. This is the William, who had grown to be story that came from his lips, the more than six feet tall, had died story of "The Maid of the Black of meningitis. Horse." year was about THE 1 740. The The great Columbus Smith Black Horse Tavern was a now sat in a wheel chair, popular inn near Trenton, N. J., utterly broken owned (Continued on page 52) JANUARY, 1937 13 (JA DATES ahL o^V^ 20-23 fay "UP FIFTH AVENUE AGAIN Frank E.Samuel IN 1937'' WILL MARCH National Adjutant REPRESENTATIVES OF "P FIFTH AVENUE again in 1Q37" The American A LEGION MORE THAN Legion will march in convention parade in what bids fair to be the greatest spectacle the world has A MILLION STRONG u ever known. Legionnaire Robert E. Condon, repre- senting the New York Convention Corporation, told the Na- tional Executive Committee in Indianapolis at its fall meeting to 17th. The telegraphic roll call of November 16th showed a that the parade will last exactly twenty-four hours, from the 1937 membership of 448,559—better than the previous telegraph- stroke of noon Tuesday of convention week to noon Wednesday. ic record by 115,457 and pointing unmistakably to the greatest The National Executive Committee had just announced the membership in the history of the Legion. The minimum objec- dates for the convention as September 20-23, inclusive. tive is 1,100,000 members, but we won't stop there. "Don't be alarmed," said Mr. Condon, as an incredulous buzz Curiously enough, when on the second day of the Executive of comment swept over the room. "We won't make you stay in Committee meeting Sam Revnolds of Nebraska stood before the assembly area any longer than you've stood in recent na- tional convention parades. The Department of New York and two large neighboring Depart- ments will themselves consume nine hours of the twenty-four, so you see it isn't as fantastic as it sounds." The National Executive Com- mittee, having recovered from this shock, went on to set the programs in detail for 1937 which the National Convention in Cleveland outlined in Septem- ber. Meeting as a sort of com- mittee of the whole on the state of the Legion on November 10- 20, the committee was as usual preceded at National Headquar- ters by the conference of Depart- ment Commanders and Adju- tants, held on November 15 th As they were—New York's own 77th Division stepping up the avenue on its return from France VE5TFRN NEWSPAPER UNION 14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The Shrine Building of the Indiana World War Memorial, in which the National Execu- tive Committee met number of men under arms in Europe today is far greater than in 1914, he said, pointing out that Germany has so great a supply of ammunition that A h she is furnishing munitions to Austria, JL_LLi that England is working overtime to bring her defenses up to requirements, and that the conditions in Spain are daily bringing the Continent nearer to a general outbreak. His talks with military and naval attaches in Wash- ington made him certain, Mr. Taylor said, that the matter of a general European war is not a question of if, but when. Rev. Father Robert J. White, Chairman of the Legion's World Peace and Foreign Relations Commit- tee, reporting on the Fidac's annual congress in Warsaw, Poland, last sum- mer, brought a somewhat less somber picture of the European situation. He did not minimize the gravity of the outlook, but said that the influence of Fidac was being brought to bear on the situation, and that in every country of Europe affiliated with the inter-allied veterans' organization, the former soldiers are making realis- tic efforts to prevent an outbreak of hostilities. The success of the Czecho- slovakian and Polish ex-service men in bringing an amicable settlement of differences in 1035 when across the border of the two countries was flow- ing a propaganda of hatred, points the way to a program of peace, Father White said. Warning the Legion that if it the committee and with a series of charts showed a parallel be- neglects the peace movement, that movement will be taken over tween the careers of the Grand Army of the Republic and The by the pacifists with their fantastic program of non-resistance, American Legion, it was just seventy years to the minute from Father White praised the work of Fidac and said, "Our efforts the time when the Grand Army held its first convention at will be worth while if we avert war for a single hour." Morrison's Opera House in Indianapolis. The first session of the Executive Committee was held in the National Commander Harry W. Colmery told the Executive auditorium of the Shrine of the Indiana World War Memorial Committee that the Legion at the coming session of Congress just south of the Legion's National Headquarters. There in a would press for passage of the Universal Service Act with all the beautiful setting that is not to be formally dedicated until next power it can command. Declaring that the issue was a simple spring, the committee was welcomed by Legionnaire Robert R. one, without complications, he said, "It is time men in the House Batton, Chairman of the Indiana War Memorial Commission, and Senate of the United States got their eye on the ball. This and received the greetings of Mrs. O. W. Hahn, President of The is all that's involved—whether Congress shall give to the Presi- American Legion Auxiliary, and of Harry E. Ransom, Chef de dent power over the national resources, with authority to com- Chemin de Fer of the Forty and Eight, both of whom promised the mandeer, and to freeze prices." cordial co-operation of their organizations in the year ahead. With Universal Service, the Committee placed the matter of Karl W. Kitchen, Executive Vice-President of the Cleveland greater benefits, compensation or pension for widows and or- Convention Corporation, reported that it had made arrange- phans of deceased World War veterans, and national defense. ments to pay back in full everybody who advanced funds to en- John Thomas Taylor, Director of Legislation, told the meeting sure the success of the 1936 convention. He revealed that a study that Universal Service would almost certainly be enacted into had shown delegates and visitors to Cleveland during the con- law, and declared that the National Legislative Committee vention spent eleven million dollars there. would press for action on the claims of the widows and orphans. He pointed out that widows and orphans of veterans of every OPERATING under a mandate from the Cleveland conven- other war are paid pensions. "If the established principle in tion, the Executive Committee passed a resolution offered by these cases is right," he asked, "why should World War widows Harry L. Hall of Puerto Rico, Chairman of the Publication and and orphans not receive this benefit?" Publicity Co-ordination Committee, constituting the Legion's In the matter of national defense, Director Taylor promised Publishing and Publicity Commission, which hereafter will pub- that the National Legislative Committee would impress upon lish and distribute both The American Legion Monthly and the Congress the need for adoption of the Legion program for na- National Legionnaire, as well as have charge of publicity within tional defense promulgated by the Cleveland convention. The the Legion. (Continued on page 60) JANUARY, 1937 15 ! YOU mislaid your job during a depression, could you IFcreate an immediately successful business of your own with a capital of twenty-five dollars? I made the experiment—by proxy. The results were amazing—especially the by-products. I discovered a disease called White Collaritis, and that when a victim of this malady Jennings says "I'm desperate, I'll do anything," the answer is—Phooey! Paul I worked in the advertising department of a large corporation. So did Hervey, my associate in the Great Missouri Lion Hunt. My entrepreneur leanings and his interest in entomology made us a perfect team for the venture, or Adventure. It was the blackest period of the depression. From the security of a lofty office window, we watched the St. Louis police gas, bottles for baby-doll targets in the baseball-throwing game. A slug and pistol a mob of hungry unemployed into dispersing. new game would clean up. The public is apathetic toward the old An idle discussion ensued on what to do if we suddenly parted familiar catch-penny devices." company with our jobs. Springtime having brought to the sur- Speculating further, we agreed that such a game must qualify face the gypsy in my heart, I suggested it should be easy to turn as a test of skill to meet the most stern anti-gambling ordinances, carnival concessionaire and enjoy a profitable summer touring and that the players would prefer prizes of groceries rather than the wide open spaces. kewpie dolls. Above all, it should in some way be identified with "People can always find money for amusement," I reasoned. a current happening of universal interest that was getting front "Also, the carnival is a fertile field for the exercise of advertising page newspaper publicity. In short, effect a tie-in with a million brains. They haven't had a new idea since substituting milk dollars' worth of free advertising. "Something like this crazy lion hunt that is going on," Hervey commented. "You've got too dang many We looked at each other and gasped—we had it red lions," said the carnival This Missouri lion hunt was the sole topic of public and man private conversation at the time. It started when a St. Louis manufacturer and hunting enthusiast had an irresistible impulse to slay a lion. For one reason or another he couldn't go to Africa to gratify his whim. Ergo, he would bring Africa to him. He would buy a couple of lions, release them on Missouri soil, and track 'em down. Naturally, this proposal created a tremendous furore. The press, humane society, the police and even tiny tots objected en masse. But the doughty hunter went stubbornly ahead, bought a pair 1/ of decrepit lions from a stranded circus, turned them loose on a Mississippi River island, and returned to the mainland for a bit of lunch before starting the safari. This was a tactical error. In his absence, the sheriff and his deputies rowed to the island The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly and machine-gunned the lions, thereby keeping their oath to pre- stationed at the twenty levers, the lions would be released from vent the hunt. Even the depression was forgotten in the re- their lair to gallop madly about. The first customer to trip his percussions that followed. trap and catch a lion beneath it won. With this as a starting point, Hervey and I developed an idea The lions? Shiny black beetles, scientifically classified as that was not only novel, but startling as well. It so fascinated us Calasoma something-or-other by Hervey. And could they run! that the desire to try it out became an obsession. We preferred cockroaches, but found them to surpass the fox "But who can we get to run the contraption for us?" Hervey in wariness and cunning. We caught a few with a miniature asked. teeter-totter device whereby Mr. Cockroach walked a plank into That was easy, since half of my acquaintances were jobless. the mouth of a mason jar, the plank going up after he stepped From them I selected a promising young off into the bottle, preventing his escape. But the architect whose career had collapsed with others caught on shortly and gave the apparatus a the boom. He not only was "desperate and wide berth. would do anything," but was doubly quali- We drove into the country over a Farm-to- fied in that we needed technical assistance Market road you had better not take any eggs to to materialize our brain child. market over, to what Hervey said was an ideal So we got hold of the architect, whom hunting ground. It was the slope we'll call Henry. He too was enthusiastic, of a high railroad embankment. not so much because an income was in pros- He was right ; under each stone and pect, but because building the thing in- log were hidden one or more trigued his inventive mind. He was to get strapping black beetles. We pur- half the profits, while Hervey and I would sued, caught and popped them donate the necessary capital. into glass jars at a fast ra.te. That Soon we had plans on paper. The Great is, Hervey did. When a section Missouri Lion Hunt would be housed in a hand came along with a copper- square booth having a counter on all four head he had found sunning itself sides. In the center of the booth would be nearby I lost my enthusiasm and a table, with a 3-inch glass "fence" around left. the edges to keep the lions from escaping. Next we contacted the owner of In this enclosure were arranged twenty lion "My friends would razz me to a small carnival located on a va- traps, similar to the container portion of a death," he said. "I can't afford to cant lot in a factory district. For safety-match box. One end of the inverted be a laughing stock" ten dollars a week he would lease box was hinged to the table top. A thread us a plot on the midway near the attached to the other end led up through a merry-go-round. The price in- tiny pulley suspended over the table, and thence to a lever on the cluded electricity, we to provide the necessary light bulbs and counter. By manipulating the lever, the trap could be raised and fuse box—and it would be smart to tip the carnival electrician a lowered at will. dollar for hooking us to the main circuit. In the exact center of the circle of traps was the Lion Den, an For prizes we negotiated with a wholesale grocer in the neigh- inverted aluminum bowl. When twenty cash customers were borhood whose brands were cheap. After {Continued on page 40) JANUARY, 1937 17 — COLMERY ^Kansas act in the matter of the Adjusted Compen- sation certificates and even more important than this, established the principle, in the Rogers Act of March 4, 193 1, of building alexander hospitals and homes for non-service-con- nected cases. With that principle estab- lished through this act, which appropriated Gardiner 820,877,000 for hospital construction, Con- gress has subsequently appropriated as BEING under-sized is likely to make or much more for the same purpose. Truly the break a boy, in almost any environ- ex-service men of the nation owe Harry Col- I ment. It made Harry Colmery, for mery a great debt, for this successful fight in the steel mill town of western for additional beds brought an end to an era Pennsylvania where he grew up and where of disgraceful, callous disregard for the they still know him affectionately as Shorty veteran who was sick and unable to pay he had to prove he was able to take it while for treatment of ills that in the vast majority dishing it out in the time-honored American of cases had their inception back in war custom of fisticuffs. It was just about then days. that the bigger fellows stopped trying to There never has been any doubt about pick on him. In a few years the natural Harry Colmery's courage, but this trait process of growth, with a lot of help from reached new heights when at Cleveland he participation in competi- told the delegates who tive athletics, gave him HARRY W. COLMERY had just named him the sturdy, well knit National Commander by frame and at least aver- acclamation that in the age height that makes it past we of the Legion hard to believe anybody have had a tendency "to As a boy in North Brad- could have thought him stick our nose into other dock, Pennsylvania, in the an easy mark. But the people's business instead late nineties, and as short- spirit of combativeness of keeping within the stop on the baseball team that these early experi- confines of the Legion's at Oberlin College ences aroused, the will- program." He followed ingness to battle for this up with a ringing what he believes to be right, is still the dominant characteristic of declaration in the November National Legionnaire under the title the National Commander of The American Legion. That and "Let's Be American" which set forth the fact that the Legion is a fine capacity for making and keeping friends. pledged to uphold all of the Constitution of the United States It has been a distinguished career that the new chief of the and not merely those sections of the Bill of Rights that happen Legion has carved out for himself in three zones of endeavor that to please it. have overlapped one another. The same energy and forthright The guarantees of free speech, free press, peaceable assembly directness that before his election had made him known through- and petition for redress of grievances, Colmery declared, are the out the Departments as one of the keenest minds in the Legion most American things in the Constitution, and interference with had in the job of making a living brought him from the public their operation plays into the hands of communists or fascists, schools of North Braddock, Pennsylvania, on through Oberlin or both. Read that Colmery declaration again. It is as funda- College and the University of Pittsburgh, to become one of the mentally sound under the system of American democracy as the most noted lawyers in Kansas, with the distinction of having deathless words of Voltaire to Helvetius a hundred and fifty won several cases at the bar of the United States Supreme Court. years ago: "I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend Bound in with these careers has been that of captain in the to the death your right to say it." The election returns of No- Aviation Section of the Reserve Corps, following his wartime vember 3d last proved by the ridiculously small communist vote service as pilot and instructor in the Air Service. that there may be too much worrying over a red revolution in In and through these several activities of the overlapping this country. careers Harry Colmery has shown a tirelsss devotion to the things A public speaker of winning charm and the ability to convince, in which he believes and a natural ability to make and keep Harry Colmery has shown himself also an organizer and builder friends. The Legion knows him particularly as the Chairman and a good sport. On his accession in 1926 to the presidency of for two years, iQ3i-'33, of its National Legislative Committee, the Topeka Chamber of Commerce he found the organization during which time the Congress enacted the fifty percent loan in debt, and took it out of the red. Three years later he faced a The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Mrs. Colmery and the rest of the family in their home at Topeka, Mary Caroline sitting in front of Sarah Elizabeth, and Harry Walter, Jr. Below, the National Commander as a wartime pilot similar situation as fished or other- the Commander of wise comported the Legion's De- himself in their partment of Kan- particular State. sas and again was They might have successful in wip- made the roll a ing out the indebt- bit more exten- edness. When in a sive, for in Legion memorable battle service alone Col- at the St. Louis mery had jour- Convention in 1935 7 neyed to no less Ray Murphy de- than twenty-two feated him for the Departments be- National Com- fore his election mandership Col- at Cleveland. In mery not only gath- his speech accept- ered a group of ing the responsi- Kansas Legion- bility of National naires and took Commander he them to the Mur- acknowledged phy homecoming celebration at Ida Grove, Iowa, but showed he that despite his having made the rounds, "I ain't seen nothin' was first and last a working Legionnaire by taking the job of yet." membership chairman of his home post in Topeka, Capitol Post The capacity for friendship has had a determining effect on the No. 1. He sent the membership soaring. From this post, by National Commander's career, which began December 11, 1890, the way, came Ralph T. (Dyke) O'Neil to head the Legion dur- in the little borough of North Braddock, Pennsylvania, where in ing iQ30-'3i. Harry Colmery was O'Neil's campaign manager 1755 the defeat of the British regulars under General Edward and Harry's subsequent elevation to the biggest job in the Legion Braddock in the French and Indian War's most bloody engage- constitutes a record which very likely will not be matched by any ment brought to the fore the military genius of George Washing- other post during the next seventy-odd years that life insurance ton. actuaries allot to the Legion as a going concern. Ten miles east of Pittsburgh, the town was growing fast as a When Frank McFarland of Topeka nominated Harry Colmery result of the emergence of that city as the hub of the American at Cleveland and called him "the All-America Legionnaire," steel industry under the bounding energy of Andrew Carnegie, H. reciting his record of service to the nation and the Legion in C. Frick and others whose names have become household words in Utah and in five other States numerous delegates, in a bantering the industrial history of America. Harry was the third child mood, called attention to the fact that Harry had hunted or and second son of Walter Scott Colmery {Continued on page 54) JANUARY, 1937 19 First Dear Comrade: At the request of the Department Adjutant, by request of the National Legislative Committee, I am requesting you to request your Congressman to vote for the bill providing for the Universal Draft in time of war. Will you please comply with this re- quest? Yours for The American Legion, letter gives me no information as to the so I could use them in writing to you, Joe Durp, subject matter of our correspondence. because we are both writing about the Post Adjutant Yours truly, same thing? It seems funny that I should Con S. Tituency be paying postage and you not when we Dear Congressman: are writing about the same thing. At As a man who served in the Navy in Dear Congressman: least I hope we are writing about the the last war—at least I hope it was the The copy of your letter which you have same thing. I am sure I am. last—I am writing to request you to vote must be a correct copy, because the orig- Hoping you are the same, for the bill providing for the Universal inal, which I duly received, gave me no Justin X. Gobb Draft, as advocated by The American information on the subject matter either. Legion, in case my hope should be hope- So that you may know what we are Dear Congressman: less. corresponding about, it is the bill for In the past two months I have written Hoping you will do so, the Universal Draft now before Congress. you several letters concerning a matter of Very truly yours, Very truly yours, vital importance to the veterans of this Justin X. Gobb Justin X. Gobb country and I am still without any defin- ite information from you upon the sub- My dear Mr. Gobb: My dear Mr. Gobb: ject. May I urge that you kindly write I have your letter of recent date, and I have j'our letter of recent date, and to me about it? assure you that the matter referred to assure you that the matter referred to Very truly yours, therein will receive my very careful con- therein will receive my very careful con- Justin X. Gobb sideration. sideration. I am always delighted to hear from my I am always delighted to hear from my Dear Mr. Gobb: constitutents and want you to feel at all constitutents and want you to feel at all In reply to your recent letter concern- times free to write me or to call to see times free to write me or to call to see me. ing the matter of vital importance to the me. I assure you it is a pleasure for me. I assure you it is a pleasure for me. I veterans, I am very, very glad to advise I desire only to serve the United States desire only to serve the United States you that Congress has passed the act and our great State. and our great State. providing for the immediate payment of Yours truly, Yours truly, the balance of the bonus certificates, and Con S. Tituency Con S. Tituency that I was very, very glad to vote for the Representative in Congress bill, as you will see from the record of Dear Congressman: votes in the House. Dear Congressman: Thank you for your last letter. Being Yours truly, Having said you would carefully con- exactly the same as the first one you wrote Con S. Tituency sider the matter about which I wrote to me we are now back where we started you, and having now had a month in from, except that I am out some postage. Dear Congressman: which to do the considering, may I ask I notice from your envelopes that you do I looked at the record of votes in the what conclusion you have come to? not have to pay any postage. House and am very, very glad to see you Very truly yours, I enclose herewith a copy of the first did vote for the bill providing for the Justin X. Gobb letter which I wrote to you in order that immediate payment of the balance of the we may begin all over again. Adjusted Compensation Certificates, but Dear Mr. Gobb: Very truly yours, the record did not disclose how very, very I have your recent letter, and while I Justin X. Gobb glad you were to do it. But I am willing find a copy of my letter to you in my P.S. : Could you tell me how I could ob- to take your word for this. files, unfortunately I seem to have mis- tain some of the envelopes like you use But that was not what I wrote you laid your original letter. The copy of my where you don't have to pay any postage, about. What I wrote about was the 20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Class Mail Universal Draft. Being a veteran, I am Dear Congressman: much interested in this particular subject. Your last letter has just been received, Very truly yours, and I am glad to read what you say Justin* X. Gobb about wanting everyone to know where you stand. I want to know that too. Dear Mr. Gobb: I did not mean to insinuate that Con- Thank you very much for your recent gress was pulling anything over or any- letter. I only hope that you will convey thing, and I hope that you did not think to all your comrades and friends just that was what I meant. If so, I apologize. how I stood upon this important issue. I But how about the Universal Draft 5 want you and them to know that I always Very truly yours, desire to be of service. Justin X. Gobb Yours truly, Con S. Tituency Dear Mr. Gobb: I am very glad to have your recent Dear Congressman: letter. I felt quite sure you did not mean Your letter received. Are you still to cast any aspersions upon the members talking about the Adjusted Service Cer- of Congress, most of whom I know per- tificates or has Congress had a secret vote sonally and intimately because of my on the Universal Draft which I did not long service in the House, and who I am know of, not having seen anything in the quite sure are animated by the highest Dear Comrade: papers about it? Very truly yours, and most unselfish motives, despite some Some time ago I sent a letter to every Justin X. Gobb opinion to the contrary. member of this Post asking that he com- In your letter you mentioned some- municate with the Congressman from Dear Mr. Gobb: thing about the Universal Draft, so I this District with reference to the passage I have your recent letter and beg to in- take it you are interested in that matter. of the Universal Draft Act but so far I form you that Congress has no secret So I am glad to inform you that a bill have received no information that it votes. The law does not permit it nor has been introduced in Congress at this has been done by any member. If you would I ever stand for such a thing. I session upon that very subject. have not already done so, PLEASE DO want everyone to know plainly, definitely Trusting that this is the information SO IMMEDIATELY. and promptly how I stand on every issue. you desire, Congressmen throughout the country Yours truly, Yours truly, are replying to letters from members of Con S. Tituency Con S. Tituency. the Legion, accord- {Continued on page ji) JANUARY, 1937 21 The Cave Creek Veteran Colony is a pretty stark affair. A newcomer will need money, courage, persistence — and lots of luck As Told to b FREDERICK C. PAINTON With a sudden warm wish to help this gaunt veteran, the physician consulted the records, checking back over the time he sympathy in his heart and kindness in his eyes had known Joe Stephens. Finally he shook his head. "This has WITH physician in last four years, the Middle West took his stethoscope come on you the Joe, so there's no chance of from the singing lungs of the half-naked, middle- getting government compensation for it. And the Economy Act aged man who watched him with such desperate stopped payment to tuberculous veterans who got sick after the hope. The doctor didn't need the confirmation of lung sounds; war." the ominously high color, the rapid loss of weight in this ex- He paused. Then: "But you are entitled to hospital treatment. soldier, and the deep, wet cough had told him the truth almost Why don't you go alone out there and enter a hospital?" at once. Joe turned fiercely. "And leave my wife and kids? And worry "It's active pulmonary tuberculosir, Joe," the physician said. whether they were eating? Doc, they're all I've got. I need them "Only one lung is involved now, but it's getting worse. You've and they need me." got to get out of this damp, cold climate." "Well," said the physician, "you've got your bonus money, Joe Stephens (which is not his real name) went sick inside. He haven't you? That will finance your trip out, and after a while thought of Mary, his wife; he thought of the kids, Junior, Steve, you should be able to do light work." Ellen, Margaret and Rose. He thought of the months on relief Hope flared in Joe's eyes. He didn't know and neither did the when there had been no work, and now when he could have a physician that there is virtually no light work in Arizona; that job he was too sick to hold it. For their sakes he must get well. the State has few industries; that there is only desert and irrigated Must. farm land and all the work is hard. Joe went home to tell Mary. "I was a machine-gunner once, Doc," he said. "Give it to me She listened, worn, tired hands resting in the lap of her ragged straight. Have I got a chance?" print dress, her ill-nourished body stooped, her face pale, the only "The hot, dry desert of Arizona has dried up a lot of T. B., Joe. youth of her left shining in her eyes when she looked at Joe. To If you go out there, keep mentally tranquil, get lots of rest and her the problem was simple; if Joe could get well in Arizona then good food, I'd say you had a very good chance." to Arizona they must go, and a body could thank God the ad- 22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly justed compensation bonds were here to pay the costs. Eagerly his wife while now these new drifters had families of kids, three, they prepared for departure, for somehow in that promised land four, live and six, and sometimes seven and eight. Which made of sunshine Joe would get quickly well, find a job, and they would the problem of handling them tough. all be happy once more. It was easy for Mac to meet the present necessity. To handle After the debts had been paid, and a rattle-trap car without a the Joes and Marys and kids who arrive daily— 552 families in top and without paint had been purchased for twenty-five dollars 1935 from forty-two States—the Arizona Department had an there was little enough money left. But one morning, the kids in emergency relief fund, §2,000 from the National Rehabilitation the back, Joe behind the wheel, they headed west (not one Joe Committee, §2,000 from The American Legion Auxiliary, and Stephens, but hundreds, arriving in Arizona at the rate of fifty $6,500 from the State of Arizona, only this last sum could be used a month). only to aid destitute Arizona veterans and not Joe Stephens. The car panted across Illinois, the Mississippi, Missouri, the Joe got his requisition for groceries, for temporary lodgement. Kansas prairie lands. Boiled over the mountains at La Junta and But this did not solve the problem of Joe and his kind; you Raton. The weird, savagely beautiful mesas of New Mexico, and couldn't live permanently off the emergency fund. What was to then across the Great Continental Divide. They dropped down be done? to the desert, saw giant cacti. The promised land at last! Joe needed hospitalization, for the trip had worn him out. Joe rolled the car into the pleasantly green irrigated districts There was a bed vacant in the Tucson government hospital. of Salt River Valley with ten cents left. They were all hungry. That took care of Joe. But what of Joe's family? Not having lived in Arizona a year they were not entitled to state aid. The five kids needed Mary all day, every day, so she could not do part-time work even if a job could be found. There was no so- come by the hundreds from al- THEY lution to this increasing problem in Arizona. most everywhere, these sick World Mac said to Joe: "We'll have to send your wife and children War veterans who think Arizona's marvel- back, Joe. In your home town they are entitled to relief. I know it's tough to separate you from your family. But won't ous climate will not only make them well you be better off in the hospital knowing that back there they'll and strong but at the same time provide get food and shelter, while if they stay here there is no way to care for them?" for their families. It just can't be done Mac knew it was, or seemed, cruel; but already in Arizona there were 8,000 disabled veterans of whom only 3,450 received govern- ment compensation, and the State could do no more than it was The kids cried for food; Mary wept from fear and Joe felt the doing. Mary and the five children journeyed by train back to lonely, desperate melancholy of a stranger in a strange land. their home town, and Joe went to Tucson, bitter and lonely . . . A drifter! A bit of tumbleweed, blown by the breath of hope to Two years later he got news: His T. B. was arrested, he could the sunshine of the Southwest. They had to eat, to find some be discharged, but if he wished to prevent a recurrence and an- shelter. other breakdown he was advised to remain in Arizona as long as Joe had his American Legion card—queerly enough all the he lived. drifters did—so he sought the Legion Department headquarters What could the Legion do for Joe Stephens now? in the Capitol Annex; and the traffic cop said the Legion helped Jobs were scarce in Arizona and fiercely competed for by guys like Joe. He faced E. P. MacDowell, Department Adjutant, veteran and non-veteran who had to stay in the State or die. Joe and told his tale. turned again to MacDowell. All the Joes always did, which made Joe was nothing new in Mac's life; Joe's kind came and went, the problem tougher. day after day, year after year, only since the payment of the Mac said, "Well, Joe, we can send you to the CCC camp below adjusted compensation there were more and more Joes so that the Tucson. You'll get thirty dollars a month, which with what your load was heavier than it had been in four years. Only in the home-town relief gives the family ought to help." earlier days the disabled veteran had come alone or possibly with "But I want them here," Joe said. (Continued on page jS) JANUARY, 1937 23 - ) GENERAL ORDERS FOR 1937 Wally's Annual Sermon UJake a New Years QESoLu-nors Fine fellow, oil viqWt-- YqcKa. cjive nlm Credit To OBey, To -rue, Best of Your. U»n We biAckecMVv'" /ABil rry, THe.se. rules of life., AS depression - bem' OU.VaPajob So Pertaining to TEace PRosPERcry, " , tonq.qwdo.11 " AMD "The. P(jF?sarr of RAPPimess By ADOPTING TVUS NEW SET OF General orders >mcw w& OUTLINE HEREWTH EOR YOUR, EARNEST CONSIDERATION.- (SEE IF YOU. CAN MEMORIZE, AND REPEAT THEM, AS WELL AS VtoU DID "XDUPL 'General orders for se/htinels M ON POST ALMOST TWENTY >EARS AGo} General ORDER Mo.l- -fo So Live. MY life, that MY own Self- respect (S DESERVED , AND vJUSTlFlED &Y "~fH& MGASUQE OF RE- CAW AND ESTEEM EXTENDED ME BY MY FELLOW MAN , "1U>5 «$ Hot* politics." &Udd4 Sa Concerns Hie uielrWe of ou«* So>e vn^eresT Oj^s Leqis lahon H^e NaHon - avid \rs -Wie r>uk^ m Veterans ferouv" OUW benefit-" lin , Veil k> m*-ev es<' (ess-infocrned a;lad X Ca,r\ tetM (Jiff/ lHj€ '- nou>! General order. No a. -""to drive my CAUTION SSION - AMD Pasr AUTOMOBt LE- SAFELY, WITH | : . CHMttM6»4 AND "DUE. REGARD FOR THE LIVES AND PROPERTY, OF OTHERS. AS WELL AS FOR ME "AND MINE. . General order /^to- 3 - Totry To eeooME. a better cw?em- BY Continuing, (in the, LegioN, AND DOING ALL IN (V\Y POWER To Carry our the Precepts of its CONSTITUTION . A CrENERAL ORDER Mo.4- - To DEVOTE. AS MUCH Time as i can spare to active Partio paton in all /my leg.ion vbst affairs , by regular. Attendance - a" paid-up "membersh (.P. LiS+evi - I \earnf a lo+ abomV life, and friendship, and, beinq Sq>ua<*e snooted, m +V\e service "Live, and ^ep Uve" is Wil) wiorfollypfRY To OBEY THESE- ''ORDERS',' Buddy -and We'll all (gENERAL OPDER. No .5 - To SAFE- Have A GUARD THE FUTURE OE THE. LEGION Happy BY ENROLLING MY AAALE OFFSPRING General order No- 6- ~r0 observe, the gold em rule- in the 'Sons of legion"- and to iHEv 24 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — * EDITORIAL* For a Red, White and Blue Legion heading "Veteran Steals Wash from Line" deserves, but the discredit of the bad boys, the hell- THEand others like it got to be a tolerably fa- raisers, the busters-up and the tearers-down. miliar newspaper phenomenon in the years im- It's going to stop. The National Commander has mediately following the war. It was regularly given the command "Let's be American!" In a greeted by non-wash-stealing veterans with a sar- statement that has been carried widely in the donic chuckle that had in it a note of futile exaspera- nation's press and has received wholehearted ap- tion and was accompanied by a few soldier cuss- plause from newspapers which by no stretch of any words. (Or they may have been sailor cusswords sane imagination can be denominated red sym- the vocabularies resemble each other closely in more pathizers, he has declared in words that can admit emotional moments.) of no misinterpretation: Now if a newspaper said that somebody stole the Americanism, TRUE Americanism, means acceptance wash and added that the somebody was a veteran, of and adherence to ALL of the principles and institutions the newspaper was probably correct. Newspapers of our American form of Government. We cannot accept are accurate most of the time, and the people who only those which coincide with our individual point of view and violate those which do not; and we MUST resort believe them most implicitly are the very people who NOT to force to suppress persons or groups whose opinions differ say, believe anything in "You can't you see the from our own. That is the very essence of UN-AMERI- newspapers." But the paper that headlined the CANISM. larcenous veteran might equally have called him a The Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the plasterer, a Mohammedan, the local checker cham- press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, or tear-jugs, pion, an authority on Etruscan assum- and it declares that Congress shall not make any law ing he was, as he might have been, all those things in prohibiting or abridging the free exercise of these sound addition to being a veteran. Why, then, pick on the principles. They are the most American thing in the Constitution. Without these wise provisions, we would fact that he was a veteran, to the exclusion of all have no democratic government; indeed, history tells us his other distinctions? we would have had no United States of America. The answer to that is more flattering than at first It is the sworn obligation of every member of The appears. The veteran angle was played up because American Legion to uphold and defend these principles as faithfully, as courageously, and as impartially as every being a veteran meant something, and still does. It other article of the Constitution. We must not deny the was a distinction, and it still is. The veteran was right of free speech or peaceable assembly to any person supposed to be endowed with such faith in the or any group, not even to those whose theories we despise. foundations of his country that it was a special Our country has enjoyed a greater degree of progress, our people have been blessed by more happiness than any enormity if a veteran stole the laundry from the other country or people on earth because this Government line or filched the milk from the doorstep. For has maintained the principles of freedom and liberty. We the veteran was the very personification of law must not do anything to undermine them, however well in- and order. tended our motives may be. The constructive record of accomplishment of The THERE were other headlines from time to time American Legion during the past seventeen years has that were not quite so flattering—and often not been too fine an achievement to be vitiated and set so accurate. "Legionnaires Boo Wagnerian Opera." at naught by the unintelligent un-Americanism of a "Legion Post Prevents Kreisler from Playing"—and few boob button-wearers. The day for complaisant in another city Kreisler played under the auspices acquiescence with their carryings-on is past. It is of the local Legion post. "Legionnaires Break Up to be hoped that every member of the organization Red Meeting." The implication in every instance will heed the National Commander's forthright was that the booing and the preventing and the words. Their meaning is unmistakable. Let every breaking up were officially sponsored and carried out post, therefore, see to it that in its own community by the local Legion organization. Rarely was the Americanism will in future mean real Americanism, effort made to secure an authoritative statement from and not one of the imported strong-arm isms that Legion officials. If one Legionnaire was present (and are so loathsome and repugnant to all that America sometimes he was and sometimes he wasn't) he was stands for. enough to make it an all-Legion party. And the At the Cleveland National Convention last Sep- impression got around the country, and is still all tember the Legion passed a resolution ringing with too generally held, that in many communities The righteous anger requesting the press of the country American Legion, far from standing for law and to use the term "Black Legion," and not merely order, was taking the law into its own hands and "Legion," in headlines and news stories whenever it tossing order to the four winds. referred to that one-hundred percent un-American Now let's not kid ourselves. Too often the local organization. Let it be said here that the press post was involved in these un-American activities. generally was already alive to the potentialities of Too often, in instances where it was not officially the implication and was using the color designation involved as a post, it failed to repudiate the over- whenever the mechanics of headline writing per- zealousness or misguided individual Legionnaires mitted, and that it has since shown a consistent who had become involved on their own responsibility. sympathy with the attitude of The American Legion. And isolated as these ruckuses were, they were That particular problem doesn't seem to be anything sufficiently notorious to taint the whole organization. to worry about in the future. We have now only to All but a tiny fraction of the whole membership of get and keep our own house in order— to show The American Legion has carried on loyally, hon- America that The American Legion itself has a color estly, faithfully—and has earned not the credit it scheme of which it is proud: the red, white and blue. JANUARY, 1937 -'5 < lMtL4u%t Can't and if I can't skate I'll never be a hockey player and to me that would be worse than death." "The doctors," Dutton said when pressed for details, "looked pityingly down at me and finally decided they would not ampu- tate if I was willing to take the chance. They carved away the VOICES, muffled as though they came from a great dis- bad flesh and took out half of the shrapnel which had entered my tance, were penetrating his brain. At first it was just leg. They managed to stop the spread of gangrene, but to make a jumble of sound but then as he slowly regained con- sure they hoisted my leg up to a thirty degree angle and for four- sciousness the unintelligible words began to make sense. teen months I lay on a cot with my leg up above my head. No one "I don't see how we can save the leg, doctor," someone was thought I would ever be able to walk again without the aid of saying. "It looks like a hopeless case to me; not only has gangrene crutches, but I fooled them. set in but a goodly portion of his hip has been blown away and "Seventeen months later I was discharged and found that I his leg is just peppered with shrapnel." could barely use either leg, but I was still hopeful, and after an- "You are right," a second voice replied, "but I always dislike other year of careful nursing once more put on a pair of steel seeing a man lose a leg. Especially a youngster like this. Some- blades. The next two years saw me playing amateur hockey day times I wonder whether it wouldn't be better if they never re- and night. When I say that I mean it, because at one time I was covered. You may proceed with the operation." a member of five different clubs and not only played in all the That was all that Mervyn (Red) Dutton, fiery-thatched man- scheduled games but tried to make every practice. ager of the New York Americans, needed to bring him fully to "Two years later when Calgary entered a club in the Western his senses. He began to realize that it was his leg which the two Canada League I knew I had won my battle the day I was offered surgeons were discussing and that in a few minutes, unless he did a contract to play professional hockey." something, he would be crippled for life. Dutton went over with the Princess Pats and is one of the "Just a minute, doc!" he cried, struggling to one elbow. "If few members of this gallant outfit still alive. Up to the time of it's my leg you are figuring on sawing off I would much rather receiving the wounds which put him out for the rest of the war he take my chances with gangrene and everything which I may have had begun to believe that he bore a charmed life and would be to face. If you cut off my leg I will never be able to skate again back in Canada in good shape for the hockey wars. 26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Kill Em As of today and in 1918, left to right, Ching players' bench of professional clubs at the start of this season Johnson, Bill Cook, Rabbit McVeigh, Bill Brydge, awaiting the word to leap the boards and take up their positions on the ice just as they had awaited the word to go over the top Helge . Bostrom and Red Dutton, veterans all nearly twenty years before on the Western Front. Another veteran, Bill Brydge, for many years a star defense man with "My luck ran out when a shell dropped within a few yards of Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and New York Ameri- me and ripped off a large chunk of my right hip," he relates. cans, retired from the game shortly before the end of last season. "Blood was pouring from the wound and I couldn't move, but It is possible that this will be the last campaign for most, if soon afterwards the stretcher-bearers came up, piled me onto a not all, of the above players. Dutton is now well established as stretcher and started back to the rear. We had not progressed the manager of the New York Americans. Last season saw him very far when shells started whining overhead too close for com- acting as player manager of the star-spangled sextet for the first fort. The boys who were carrying me couldn't find a hole to shove time and he brought them into the play-offs for the Stanley Cup, me into so they lowered the stretcher to the ground and ducked something which no one else had been able to do since 1928-29 for a shell hole. Again the enemy aim was good, in fact it was when Tommie Gorman, the pride of Ottawa, was equally suc- almost perfect, the shell landing right near us. Nearly all of the cessful. But while Gorman's club was eliminated in the first boys around me were wounded and I received my quota of elimination series, the Americans under Dutton's leadership shrapnel." battled their way through to the semi-finals with the Toronto While Dutton's wounds were probably more serious than those Maple Leafs before bowing. suffered by any of the other players who returned from overseas Dutton must have fought as he plays. But then this is true of and were able to continue their puck-chasing careers, only too all the veterans still in hockey. Every one of these men has cour- many hockey stars failed to return at all. age and spirit beyond that of the average man. They never know 1 'layers who took part in the greatest game of all, the war to end when they are licked and that is one of the reasons most of them all wars as it was so humorously called, are rapidly disappearing are still in action. Dutton ceased to be a top-notch defense man from the sports world. In fact ice hockey is the only professional two years ago, but his will to win has meant more to his club than game which still boasts a number of active stars who answered the mechanically perfect playing of other players. the call to arms. When Red is on the ice he seems to be able to lend the spark Bill Cook, Lome Chabot, Ching Johnson, Rabbit McVeigh, to the boys which sends them on to play far above their heads. Helge Bostrom and Red Dutton complete the roll of honor of Sometimes he boils over and finds himself the center of a free- those players who were still huddled under blankets on the for-all, but this just makes life much more {Continued on pjgc 50) JANUARY. 1937 4 — 3tj Miles wide range between the fastest and slowest fliers, of course, but the great middle class, so to speak, falls far short in actuality of the speed which has been credited to them for generations. Although man has long studied the mechanics of flight as il- lustrated by these absolute masters of it, and while he has learned much from them, it is safe to say that as far as solving the mys- tery satisfactorily is concerned, only the fringes have been touched. A bird's wing is still the ideal and unmatched tool of efficiency in the air; a bird's tail is still the perfect rudder and its body the perfect example of a streamlined, non-resistant solid for aerial navigation. Attempts have been made to produce a plane with wings which flap. It seemed logical that a wing, to perform its function satisfactorily, should move up and down, but success in this en- deavor has not been attained. Many birds can soar for long periods of time on rigid pinions, but eventually they must flap or come down. Despite human failures to match the performance of our feathered preceptors, some enthusiasts, quite carried away with the accomplishment of some hitherto unperformed The duck hawk attains a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour when it swoops down on its quarry "OOK at that bully go—I'll bet he's doing ninety miles an hour!" So exclaimed my E companion as we paddled down a long canal in a Carolina ricefield. There had been a slight commotion in the still water some distance ahead of us; a small flock, of widgeon had risen into the air, and wheeling in a wide circle, had passed us on the wings of the wind, the leader several yards in advance of his fellows. The duck was speedy certainly, but he was not doing ninety miles an hour or anything like it. Though my incredulous companion scoffed at the idea, and firmly held to his original estimate, the widgeon was very probably not making more than half that speed. As is nearly always the case, the velocity was overestimated. How fast do birds fly? The question, asked times without number, is still unanswered as far as the vast majority of questioners are concerned. A good reply might be, "Not as fast as you think they do." Such an answer is perfectly true, if lacking in conciseness. There is no doubt that the ancients wondered about it anyone feat of a plane, have de- who has watched a bird fly, whether a student of ornithology or clared that the birds have a casual observer, will have speculated, idly or seriously, as to been beaten at their own how fast it was traveling. The ancients had no way of arriving at game. They say that man any definite conclusion, and it is only in very recent years that has gone them one better. But man will never go the birds one anything like accuracy has entered into this most fascinating better, and, as a matter of fact, will never even be nearly so field of study. efficient in the air. The result has been surprising and, to many enthusiastic I shall never forget a picture I once saw in a nationally-known guessers, highly disappointing. Birds do not fly so very fast after newspaper which showed an airplane, piloted by a navy flier, all, at least measured by man's standards of speed. There is a which was speeding along upside down in the air. Under it was The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Per Hour TTZHICH travels faster, an express train or a canvasback —an air- plane or a duck-hawk? Is the flight of birds as rapid as we think it is? And if you compiled a list of the ten swiftest- flying birds what would it show? Try itj and then read Mr. Sprunt's article a caption which exulted in the statement that here was a feat impossible for any bird to perform. Whoever wrote that caption would probably have been surprised had he been in a dug-out canoe with me one day in a Carolina cypress swamp. I was watching the breath-taking aerial evolutions of a flock of wood ibises, those great snowy storks of the southern sea- board. There were incredible side-slips, nose-dives, tail-spins following each other in rapid succession, and at intervals an ibis would wheel over on its back and sail for some distance upside down. That same caption-writer had evidently never seen a pair of eagles indulging in combat, playful or serious, above a vast salt marsh, but I have, and I have seen them fly up- side down. No, we have not gone the birds one better yet. Ex- cept in the single detail of speed. How fast, then, do birds fly? ^litistration bif £Patd Qransom^ This timing of bird speed by speedometer on a beach or straight road is possible to anyone interested in the matter, without the use of complicated instruments. More and more of the Southern beaches are becoming available to motorists, and the abundance of birds, the delightful smoothness of the surface and the com- parative freedom from annoying traffic make the experiment a fascinating one. The curlews which are frequently encountered are among the fast travelers of the shore-bird tribe. A friend of mine once paralleled two of these birds for seven miles along Daytona Beach with the wind abeam and found that they main- tained a perfectly steady rate of 34 miles an hour for the entire distance. One of the most interesting members of that family, and, indeed, of all American birds, is the splendid golden plover, that prince of ocean migrants, whose over-water course is a non-stop One afternoon I was driving along the hard-packed sands of an performance of 2500 miles. Leaving the shores of Labrador and ocean beach near my home. Some distance ahead, feeding at the Newfoundland, the plover voyages straight across the uncharted edge of the surf, was a small flock of sandpipers. A light breeze ocean to Cuba and the West Indies. How long it takes him to do was blowing from behind and as I drew abreast of the busy little it is still unknown, but he must fly at high speed and sustained waders 1 leaned out and waved my hand. They sprang into the speed for he cannot, or at least does not, alight on the water. air, and wheeling out over the surf, paralleled the beach and flew Exceedingly fat when they leave, plovers are thin on arrival in the steadily along. I glanced at the speedometer as I kept pace with South, all the surplus body-fat being consumed in the tremendous them, and found that it registered 31 miles an hour. It is a good effort put forth. Naturally, they cannot be clocked over this speedometer and has been tested for accuracy periodically. ocean course, but on the return migration in the spring they fly We all maintained this speed for some hundreds of yards, then up the Mississippi Valley, and there is on record an instance of I touched the horn a time or two and waved again. The sand- a golden plover being timed by the engineer of a fast train in pipers at once accelerated, and drawing abreast once more I saw Illinois. The train was running at a rate of from 58 to 62 miles per that our speed was now 43 miles. Again I blew and shouted, hour. The plover not only flew alongside with no apparent effort but no increase was noted. For fully a mile we cruised along to- but forged steadily ahead of the speeding locomotive, or, to use gether, then I slowed down and the little fliers shot on. the words of the engineer, "beat with (Continued on page 46) JANUARY, 1937 29 — a ONCE. i a Legion Christ- IT'Smas. It always has been ever since there was a Legion. Note, for instance, the photograph depicting the Christmas tree sponsored a year since by San Pedro (California) Post. The post in- augurated the custom fourteen years ago. "Prior to 1932," writes W. T. Mudge, "all ex- penses, which average $200 a Christmas, were borne by the post. That year, due to economic reasons a closed bank to you—the committee decided that inasmuch as the post Christmas Tree Fund was tied up, other civic, fraternal and service groups might help defray the expenses of passing out a half ton of candy, three thousand apples and oranges and a similar number of toys to all children attending. "The response far exceeded expectations. The amount necessary to put over the party that year was oversubscribed to the extent that it was de- cided to refund $15 each to two service clubs, the Lions and the Optimists, as their contributions had exceeded all others by that amount. Can you imagine a Legion post refunding anything, much less real dough?" Well, since 1932 San Pedro has had no trouble at all getting the community all hyped up about its Christmas Tree. A lumber company gives the tree —the E. K. Wood Lumber Company, fittingly enough. The fire department turns out a hook and ladder to erect it. Four thousand folks attended the Happy 1935 party. New Cross the country now to New Hampshire, and look in on Clare- 1* mont. Last year Claremont gave its third annual Christmas party for San Pedro (California) Post has been superintending a children of the community who community Christmas tree for fourteen years and sees no otherwise might have had little to reason to quit now remember the day by. One hundred pounds of turkey (and that is a lot of turkey even in grand turkey Edge back a few hundred miles to the west now, and visit Rantoul country) went down some 211 (Illinois) Post, which for fifteen years has distributed Christmas baskets to youthful gullets, accompanied by the needy in its community. The distribution is effected annually on Christ- the proper quantity of fixin's. At mas Eve, with the churches and business men of the community co-operat- the conclusion of the exercises the ing. 211 gave "three vociferous cheers" Now here are just three Christmas affairs put on by Legion posts out of for the Legion. Claremont would hundreds that might be cited. It is worth noting that every one of the three seem to be a poor place in w bich to posts adopting a Christmas program has continued it, and the same would Start crabbing the Legion. be true of a tremendous majority of the examples which are not cited. In 30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly And whenever, as frequently hap- pened, the post made use of the ad- mirable facilities of the War Memorial Building, its members were reminded of that special fund. "Many times during the depres- sion," writes F. J. Gueterlet, "with bank failures and frozen assets in the air, the post was sorely tempted to use the organ fund, but wiser counsel pre- YEAR vailed and the fund was left intact." Finally, during 1936, the post de- cided to go ahead with the original each of those hundreds of instances of the practical expression of project. Another money-raising campaign was conducted in the "good will toward men," it is hardly necessary to point out that post and among its friends, and sufficient additional funds were the good will works both ways. secured to buy an electrically-operated instrument which was approved by the War Memorial Commission of Maryland when Zoom-Zoo?n- Zoom! Post Commander Maurice E. Drill presented the plan for their consideration. The organ has been duly bought, presented, and WHO ever heard of a male chorus composed exclusively of dedicated. artillerymen? Well, you're hearing about one right now. Post 328 of St. Louis, composed entirely of former members of Out of t/ie Ashes the 128th F. A., already has an enrolment of fifty voices and hopes soon to raise the figure to a round hundred. The 128th JANUARY 1st won't be a particularly Happy New Year's Day Singing Cannoneers (that's the official name of the chorus) made in Bandon, Oregon, but on Thanksgiving you may be sure its debut at the Missouri Department Convention at Springfield that The American Legion came in for its share of notice. Early last summer and carried the day. The chorus is under the direction of Clay Bellew, instructor of voice culture at Washington University, and they are re- sponding so well to his tutelage that they have already perfected plans to attend the New York National Convention in a body. Patience Wins NINE years ago a project got under way to provide a pipe organ for Baltimore's beautiful War Memorial Build- ing. At the time the plan was just a little In Claremont, New Hampshire, the local Legion has no difficulty in selling these youngsters on the idea of roast turkey Rantoul (Illinois) Legionnaires have been distributing full market baskets in their community for fifteen years too ambitious, and when hard times clamped down a few years later so little headway had been made that the project died a natural death. Among the posts which had co-operated in the effort was Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Post, which had collected some SSoo from its own members and from friends in the B. & O. family. After such a flourishing start the post was reluctant to cry quits. It realized, however, that the times were not opportune for starting an elaborate campaign; it realized, also, that the SSoo was always going to be a temptation, like the well-known dime in the little boy's pocket. So first, to insure the preservation of the money for the in the fall Bandon was virtually destroyed as the result of a forest purpose for which it had been originally intended, the post fire which swept everything before it and quit only when the deposited its nest-egg in an interest account known as the Me- Pacific Ocean itself confronted it. The destroyed buildings morial Organ Fund and placed it under the control of a board of included some four hundred permanent homes and two hundred trustees composed of three watchdog members of the post. and fifty beach cottages. JANUARY, 1937 31 — The Legion has been concerned with more than the physical needs of the moment in its work for Bandon. An appeal has been sent to posts throughout the State for books from home library shelves to become units in the library which Bandon Post is seeking to equip. More- over, in spite of all it has been through, Bandon Post is sponsoring a community tree this Christmas. That's the right spirit, considering what the trees did to Bandon. Another Soldier Efilists ONE of the superb accomplishments of the age in which we of the Legion have grown up is the winning war on tuberculosis. The Great White Plague is on the way to being stamped out, but considerable stamping re- mains to be done. Mindful of the fact that the slightest let-down in the fight will be seized upon by the monster in an effort to regain its terrible prestige of half a century and more ago, General Gorgas Post of Birmingham, Alabama, has presented to the clinic of the Anti-Tubercu- Bandon, Oregon—a study in cause and effect losis Association of Jefferson County a pneumo- thorax machine—an instrument which (we have it on the word of H. N. Starnes, secretary of the Jefferson County Council of The American Legion) is extensively used in the treatment of tuberculosis and has proved highly efficient as an arresting medium. "Particular attention is given to children at the clinic," reports Mr. Starnes, "and through the use of the pneumo- thorax machine many of these have been re- stored to health." The photograph across the page shows Commander L. E. Hollums of General Gorgas Post and Mrs. Roderick Bed- dow, President of the Anti-Tuberculosis As- sociation of Jefferson County. For a Rainy Day THEY haven't forgotten the 1936 spring flood in Newport, Pennsylvania. Newport is on the Blue Juniata River—a name which conjures up a picture of a fair, idyllic stream flowing gently through a region rich in romance - 1 W\ake ex Ok- Oe o Bandon is the farthest west of incorporated municipali- but Harry M. Zeiders of -fhem New y&xr ties in the United States proper. But Bandon wasn't far Newport Post assures us "Post adopt" enough west for The American Legion to forget it in its that the Blue Juniata 7 ek . >6u aiv\{ hour of peril and distress. Even before the fire reached changed its color last Satisfied u>vrk Bandon, Legionnaires from the town itself, not realizing resolution March. The flood just wakin' ^01*1* that they would themselves soon be homeless, were out in brought four feet of wa- the inferno beyond, attempting to save ranch houses that ter into the post's home, lay in the path of the flames. And the Auxiliary was on and the following day a the job supplying them with coffee and sandwiches. Mean- truck brought a load of while posts throughout the region were mobilizing for food and clothing con- action. tributed by Legionnaires The Bandon Legionnaires were beaten back before an in Harrisburg and neigh- enemy more relentless than any human foe could be—an boring communities. enemy equipped with super flame-throwers. Soon they Newport, therefore, were fighting with their backs to the walls of their own knows when wet means homes. With the town itself a torch, the residents were wet, and this thought evacuated, many of them to Coquille, where the local may have been in the Legion hall was thrown open to them and served nearly backs of Newport Le- four hundred meals a day for eleven days. The news of the gionnaires' minds when disaster spread quickly through the State, and within a few they decided to present hours truckloads of supplies from Legion posts and raincoats and rainhats to Auxiliary units throughout Oregon were rolling toward Bandon. the student safety patrol of the Fourth Street School. Two Some of the homeless were cared for by neighboring Legion members of the patrol obligingly posed for their pictures in the posts for as long as a month after the disaster. Posts and units Legion-bestowed garments, and one of them even more obligingly throughout the area are continuing to co-operate with Bandon let himself be exhibited with the coat on backwards so that in the work of reconstruction. the label "School Patrol" could be read by all the world— 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Who's makitf just as particular about my battery, brakes and lights. They all »\eck+i'e r'mr'efet'Vi^ -to? pay big dividends in safety. On anything that needs fixing, my I didnt- peep motto is, 'Don't wait—get it done.' a whisper*!' Voom - \hs dea-fWvuAq"- "I always expect the worst of any car approaching me and am ready for it if I should just happen to be right in my guess. I always expect they are going to swerve into my car, turn off into a cross road, stop or straddle the center o f the highway. It is surprising how many times they do these very things. When they do, I have already reduced my speed and have decided on my action. "Fifty to fifty-five miles an hour as a steady pace in open country will get you there as quickly, on a long drive, as sudden spurts of seventy miles an hour, and it will save lots of automobile —maybe all of it. "I have had the breaks in some emergencies, but the brakes of my car had some- thing to do with and by passing motorists in particular. The rainy-day raiment my good luck every was presented to the school in the name of Newport Post in a time. special assembly period. "I have driven To the Moon and Back across the country both East and BELIEVE an expert, said some framer of wise sayings. If West, in large what he said was right, and it sounds right, the words of cities, around Al Kay, Past Commander of District No. 2, Department of floods, detours, on Wyoming, The American Legion, ought to be worth heeding. bad roads, past bi- Legionnaire Kay was Wyoming's delegate to the First National cycles and around Motorcade Conference held in New York City some weeks ago, little children. On which was attended by the carefully-selected safest drivers of all every occasion I the States. Here is what Mr. Kay (he has driven half a million have been ready miles) has to say: for the unexpected "Wyoming and Nebraska are real open spaces. A salesman in and many times such territory frequently goes one hundred miles between towns. have not been dis- I drive it in all seasons. There are no trees, buildings or people, appointed. Being or road-side diversions to distract attention. In such country we ready means cau- acquire the habit of always watching the road because it is the tion. My speed most important thing in sight. and care are always "Covering this territory eighteen years ago in an open Ford on in proportion to the roads that were just four grooves in the prairie taught me first to possibilities of dan- watch where I was going. A two-inch wobble threw the car across ger. Back view, front view the ruts, and that was really serious. In those days you were al- "Plenty of rest lowed only one mistake. I still drive in a straight line on pave- before I start on a ment the same as I did when we ran in the grooves. This relieves long drive is one of my first considerations. I believe many those behind me or approaching from worrying about where I in- accidents are clue to sagging nerves and drooping eyelids. If I tend to drive when they come close enough to be reached. feel either of these coming on. I drive off into a side road and take "Many nights I have stayed out in the car until daylight. In a nap; one good way to save another life, along with my own. this country dur- "Narrow roads of themselves are a warning sign to me. I ing a snowstorm know everyone who passes my car must be in the pink of condi- or blizzard we tion and extremely alert, as there is no room for fancy maneuvers. know that leav- Naturally, I do not try to pass the car ahead of mine until I know ing a car for help that it can be done safely. If there is any doubt, a few minutes often means can be profitably spent studying the tail-light of the truck ahead death. My car is rather than picking the license plates of the approaching car out always in perfect of my radiator. condition. For "It is my belief that one-eyed and one-armed drivers, large example, my tires trucks and trailers, youthful drivers of powerful cars and those will not vary two who mix gas and alcohol constitute the greatest hazards of the pounds of pres- road. If they are given all of the road, it is better than trying to sure the year divide with them. If necessary, I stop my car, almost in the round. I get five ditch, in the hope that they can get past. I never try to run thousand more around such cars until I'm sure I can do it safely. I'm not above miles out of a set obeying suggestions that will improve my driving or save me some of tires than my anxious moments." friends that drive Sole Survivor the same territory and pay no atten- CB. GAMBEE Post, Grand Army of the Republic, was tion to pressure. . organized in Bellevue, Ohio, in 1872. In the heyday of its This gives me existence in the 1880's, Gambee Post numbered one hundred and better traction sixty-three members and had an average regular meeting at- and less inclina- tendance of thirty-five to forty twice a month. tion to swerve The post is still in existence, retains its own charter, and keeps from a direct path all State and national dues paid up, in spite of the fact that it is when other cars reduced to one member, P. C. Kline, who is ninety-one years old. are near. I am It's a pneumothorax machine Incidentally, he has set one record which {Continued on page 61) JANUARY, 1937 33 sji\M n g a Hot A.E.F. When it came to cut- UMBER, and lumber in huge quantities, was one of the "There have been recorded in ting and stacking I principal articles under the general head of supplies your department of The American fuel wood, it is j required by the A. E. F. Anyone who made the trip Legion Monthly many entries for claimed there was no across during the war will remember the acres of docks A. E. F. championships, but I have one any better than and storehouses, the innumerable hospital buildings, the barracks, never seen one for that of cham- Nazareth Taggard of the miles of railroad and of telegraph lines constructed by our pion woodcutter. the 323d Labor Bat- Army—all of which required lumber. In fact, lumber was of such "I am submitting a photograph talion, shown above great importance that it led one British expert to classify it as of Nazareth Taggard taken when at Vernois, France. a munition of war. he was a member of Company A, This stack was just To conserve tonnage urgently needed for the transportation of 323d Labor Battalion, located at one day's work troops and of munitions, it was necessary to eliminate the ship- Vernois-les-Vesvres, Cote d'Or, ment of timber and so our country had to depend upon the forests about fifteen kilometers north of of France for this important commodity. So, for the first time in Is-sur-Tille. He is entitled to consideration for the above-named our military forces there was introduced an Engineer Regiment championship. of Forestry. You have read in these columns about the work "During iqi8 a great deal of fuel wood was cut by the men cf accomplished by the 20,000 Forestry Engineers—all grouped in the Labor Battalions in the hardwood forests adjacent to Is-sur- the largest regiment of the A. E. F., the 20th Engineers. Tille and Grancey-le-Chateau. In order to assure maximum pro- We have not, however, had a report before of an important duction, each man was assigned a given task for the day. It was auxiliary of these foresters. As Engineer Service Battalions at- understood that if the work was completed, a man could return tached to the 20th Engineers and as Labor Battalions of the to camp no matter what time of the day it might be. Some of Quartermaster Corps, there were thousands of troops engaged in cutting and shipping fuel wood. Kitchens had to be supplied with firewood, otherwise how could our tasty slum and beans -TUe^'ll kill me im-H\' All the Locse. HACvnma,,bi*.T Iiv> BLAMK6TS, AND and coffee have been cooked? You see we single out the most real f-" warm, OVERCCATS, ETC important use for firewood. and comfu NTHfc BILLET^) - at last !.' A great percentage of these special troops were Negro soldiers who adapted themselves readily to the work and established some real production records. One of these soldiers, according to Willis G. Corbitt of Walker Bailey Post in Mendocino, Cali- fornia, stood out above all the rest and gained the title of cham- pion woodcutter of the A. E. F. We're merely quoting Corbitt and if you have another nominee don't hesitate to tell us. We reproduce a picture of this champion, Nazareth Taggard, and give Corbitt the job of setting forth his claim: 34 Th: AMERICAN LEGION Monthly So, ijouVe (k\ Out,M's CapiWue '.! / fast in order to complete O' ernizing order that issued forth from G. H. Q. to the troops their assignment by noon, of the American Third Army—better known as the Army of (FRCFMCH- others did not finish till the Occupation—in the Rhineland. It wouldn't have been quite the middle of the afternoon and thing to get too friendly with a recent ex-enemy, especially as ENSEMBlE) a few were so slow that they the Treaty of Peace hadn't as yet been signed. had to work overtime. But orders or no orders, try to keep American soldiers from "At our camp, the small making friends with kids. The German youngsters flocked trees were cut in the forest around the generous American soldat and it was inevitable that on the hillsides and then soon an entente cordiale was established. We saw many a soldier transported in various ways save part of his chow so that he could share it with one of the to the roadside in the valley. hungry-looking boys or girls who gathered around mess lines There the poles were cut with pan or pail to receive what food might otherwise go to waste. into meter-lengths and the We'll admit, too, that violation of orders about fraternizing didn't wood stacked along the road stop with the children—it included pleasant miidchen, parents so that trucks from Is-sur- and grandparents and even ex-enemy soldiers who had returned Tille could pick it up con- home. But as things developed, no harm came of it. veniently. From out in Mount Vernon, Washington, Claus Larson of "Nazareth Taggard was Golden Stars Post sent us the picture we show of a group of assigned to cutting wood at doughboys with some of their little Heinie friends (see next the roadside. As I recall, page). Larson tells us: the assigned task was placed "A German photographer took the enclosed picture up in at three cubic meters per Bendorf, Germany, early in 1919, when my outfit, Company B, day, as that was found to be about what the average soldier oth Infantry, 2d Division, was stationed there. Perhaps some of could cut. As you can see from the photograph, Taggard was the old gang will remember Corporal Larson, who is second better than average—and even the supply sergeant found this to from the right in the back row. be true when he tried to fit him with clothes and shoes. "As most everyone knows, the Second Division was one of the "However, in Nazareth's long arms was the strength of the first to go over to France and one of the last to return, after seeing proverbial village blacksmith. With one swing of the axe he action in most of the major offensives. We were in at the end, could cut a three-inch pole of beech wood in two. The smaller having crossed the Meuse River the night of the tenth of Novem- pieces were cut like cornstalks under his regular blows. That is ber on a temporary bridge built by our engineers, and under why he was able to establish a record of 30K cubic meters in one machine-gun fire, too. In the morning of the nth, we were day and thereby earn ten days' rest to which he was entitled for digging in when the Kaiser said he had had enough. That accomplishing ten days' work in one. night we hiked back to the village of Beaumont. "On November 16th, we started our long trek to the Rhine and arrived in Bendorf just a month later. At several places on this hike we camped where the withdrawing Germans' camp- fires were still warm. We saw trucks from which the motors had been taken out, and worn- out horses that had been shot. "Thanksgiving Day found us in Luxembourg and six of us guys went to an old lady's home and she fried rabbit for us with the necessary trimmings. We paid her for her trouble and she was glad to have us. On the Rhine, life consisted of various tours of guard, drilling, shooting on the range, a few sightseeing excursions on German passenger boats and several trips to Co- blenz. On one trip to Coblenz, a bunch of us fellows climbed up onto the huge Kaiser's statue at the juncture of the Moselle and the Rhine—and paid the usual doughboys' respects to him. "We also enjoyed deer meat at times. Most of Two cooks and a chauffeur of Company C, 74th Engineers, didn't our mess a few baseball and foot- know that their photograph, taken in Luxembourg, had an the outfits had informally posed K. P. in the background ball teams and put on shows of various kinds. They were all mighty good. "As Forest Officer for seven fuel wood projects, I found none "Uncle Sam built a few barracks in Bendorf and I got quite a who equaled his record for cutting wood and I believe he is kick when I saw stenciled on the lumber, 'Ferry-Baker Lumber entitled to full credit for accomplishing something outstanding Company,' an old concern in this community of mine. We had in the S. O. S., A. E. F." Wenatchee apples, canned fish from Anacortes and canned milk Sounds so to us, too, but you never can tell. Anybody able from the Mount Vernon Cream Company—all from my home to go the recoid one better? State. My squad was billeted together in one big room and one JANUARY, 1937 35 American soldiers and children—a natural combination, whether in France, Italy or, as in the above picture, Germany. Here are men of Company B, 9th Infantry, 2d Division, in Bendorf, Germany, in 1919 day we decided to have our picture taken as a souvenir. A few of certainly went looking for me for an explanation. After apologies the local kids were hanging around and when someone suggested were offered and accepted, they presented me with a copy and we have them in the picture with us, we decided to gather to- we had a hearty laugh about it. I hope they see the picture and gether some more—and there they are. write to me. "In our city of four thousand, we have a membership of 175 "I was located in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1918, and noticing in our post, a thirty-piece drum and bugle corps that ranks that the younger men were disappearing rapidly to join up for the among the best in the State, and last September we burned the big show, and being 27 years young with two dependents, I de- mortgage on our Legion home, so it's all ours." cided that I belonged with the rest of the flower of the nation. I applied for enlistment to the THE photograph reproduced on the preceding Engineers Department in Washington, and page is in the nature of a double surprise- received an answer asking me to accept enlist- it was a surprise to the three soldiers who were ment in a special outfit, the 29th Engineers, being photographed and it will be a surprise to Flash and Sound Rangers, that was being Walter Ward of Pleasantville (New York) Post organized at Camp Devens. I had visions of who sent the picture to us many, many months gold braid, but was booted out with the rest of ago to use in our columns. Yes, Ward himself the enlisted men. Four months in Devens and is in the picture—but suppose we let him tell we started for the A. E. F. you about it: "We trained at Langres and were formed "Perhaps if you could publish the enclosed into the Flash and Sound Rangers whose work picture, it might be the means of my contacting consists of locating enemy artillery positions by some old wartime buddies whose names I've sound or triangulation, reporting all general even forgotten. Two of them were our much intelligence ahead of the front line of the enemy experienced and time-tried cooks, and the and the ranging of our own artillery, at the same other was a chauffeur. time giving targets to our artillery. Being an "The scene: Headquarters of the Third electrician, I was assigned to a Flash Ranging Corps (General Hines), rear of schoolhouse in Section, No. 2, whose work was principally that which we were quartered in Dudelange, Luxem- of operating electrical equipment. Comrade. "Sans cuusrres bourg, December 1, 1918. We were on our way "We went through the St. Mihiel drive and to Germany to join the Army of Occupation. took up quarters in a former German regi- The outfit: Company C, 74th Engineers, formerly the 29th En- mental headquarters in a valley east of Thiaucourt. An inter- gineers which was known at the front as Flash Ranging Section esting discovery was a wireless station that was powered by a No. 2. dynamo geared to a stationary tandem bicycle frame. "My buddies had, as I recollect, engaged a civilian photog- "Later we were shifted over near Pont-a-Mousson for the rapher to do them justice, if possible. The photographer arrived Meuse-Argonne scrap, but hardly got into working order when and as he was getting ready to shoot the picture, it suddenly the Armistice came along. We started for the Occupied Area and occurred to me that I ought to salute him from where I was spent ten hilarious days in Luxembourg, where the trick photo- sitting in the rear of our Kelly-Springfield truck—which had been graph was taken. We went on to Trier, Germany, where after shot up a couple of times. I had been honored by a week's K. P. ten days we got the all-important order that started us on the duty for bravery at the front, which is why I happened to have way home." been present. 1 "Of course, I never expected myself to register in the photo- VETERANS of the Lost Battalion—Front and Center! graph. But to my surprise and my buddies' chagrin, there I was Here is an opportunity to contribute to a work which will when the photos arrived the next day, and those two fellows return to you equally as much pleasure. (Continued on page 63) 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — — — — — Was It Mike Hayes? body must have been full of bullets. But country, that they were written into the Mike Hayes didn't fall. The iron in him very first article of the Bill of Rights of To the Editor: In the November 1936 is- carried on. He had an objective. He the Federal Constitution. sue of The American Legion Monthly, an wouldn't lose his last race. In these days of economic depression article, "Who was He?" by J. H. Parme- Those who dared to peer around the and "red" hysteria, it is well to ask: lee attracted my attention. corner saw the finish. With a leap that were these liberties so signifi- On Nov. nth, an article in the New must have been inspired by sheer force "For whom York Herald Tribune by Richards Vidmer of will, he hurled himself on the hot cantly expressed?" For Americans at of the machine gun. It jammed. primarily, drew me very forcibly. In Mr. Vidmer's muzzle large, of course, but the writer Mike Hayes had won. believes, for the protection of dissident editorial, "The Last Tackle" it would ap- The men in his company followed. It pear that Captain Mike Hayes was the groups in just such times as these. It is was simple to capture the nest then. But obvious that the right of speech of those man whose identity Mr. Parmelee was they couldn't cheer. There were too we agree with will not be questioned; trying to uncover, at any rate the inci- many eyes full of tears and too many that the conformers among us will have dent is similar. Frank J. Smith, throats tensely tight and choking. The Albany, N. Y. American Army advanced. no difficulty in printing and publishing * * * their news and views; and that the great many will not find it necessary to assem- To the Editor: A few days after reading A Buddy of Joyce Kilmer's ble and petition their government. Nor John H. Parmelee's story "Who was He?" To the Editor: As a member of the Sgt. will the great many be hindered in wor- in the November issue of The American Joyce Kilmer Post I was particularly in- shipping as they please. These rights Legion Monthly, I received the Novem- terested in the story of "Joyce Kilmer and liberties, however, do take on under- ber copy of the Colgate Alumni News, Soldier" by Emmett Watson, as well as standable significance and potent vitality from Colgate University, Hamilton, the accompanying tribute written by when put to the test by minorities, by N. Y., which contained a description of a John Black in commemoration of the let us say—unpopular minorities. To very similar incident. 50th birthday of our patron. protect the minorities is to protect the Enclosed I am sending you the story years ago, ever since I Many became a majority; the parts make up the whole. from the Colgate Alumni News, and won- member of Kilmer Post founded by Mr. Must we not, therefore, zealously guard der if it question may answer Parmelee's Black I have had a haunting impression and protect these liberties; liberties for as to the identity of the unknown hero that I met Kilmer in France. And sub- which our comrades fought and died? mentioned in his story. sequently from Ed Stewart, past com- —Samuel Robbins, Delegate to the Coun- There are striking differences in the mander of our post, who is rounding out ty Committee from The College of the City two accounts, but that may not be his 29th year with the York Times New York Post, The American Legion. strange, considering they were written of Nov and who knew Joyce back in '14, I ob- eighteen years or so after the war. tained further particulars which had a Captain Michael Hayes, whose ex- tendency to confirm this hazy impression. Quentin Roosevelt's Grave ploit is recorded in the News, was in the However, upon reading Emmett Wat- same class that I was at Colgate, and was To the Editor: Answer to Barney Rag- son's description of La Rouge Yetu I am the liked in college. ner's letter to Harry, (Does France For- one of best men now convinced that I am among the get?) in the November Monthly. A. Bertram Davis, Oneonta, N. Y. legion of admirers who can claim to have During the year of 1918 our 28th rubbed shoulders with the poet-soldier {Enclosure) Division, of which I was a member of the acclaimed by the clergy as "the uncan- 103d Field Signal Battalion, was lo- . . . Mike Hayes was commanding a com- onized saint of the A. E. F." cated not far from Chateau-Thierry, pany that had an objective. That ob- Like Kilmer, I too was a newspaper- along jective was a machine gun which was the Marne River. man before the war, and thus was I as- holding up the advance. Whenever a One afternoon when things were a little signed to divisional intelligence duties as little raiding party dashed around the quiet along the front lines and we hadn't a combatant observer with the th corner and down the street the rat-tat- 77 started to trade TNT, some of us went Division. And it was on tat of leaden death met the brave men. June 18, 1918, scouting along the roadside to see what that our unit took over the observation One by one they fell, clutching at their could be seen, of course being careful throats, toppling to the shell-torn street, post known as La Rouge Yetu. were We not to advance too far into No Man's bodies stiffening and straightening in properly introduced to the observers of Land or where we might be welcome or agony. This was war. the 4 2d Division but paid little attention "Wait!" The order that Captain unwelcome visitors. We came across a to names. We were all too eager to take Hayes gave must have been something grave which had been newly decorated, a peek through the telescope from the like that. read the inscription, Lieutenant Quentin O. P. atop lofty spruce trees. Louis The surviving men in the company — R. Roosevelt, on a wooden marker, also saw Elder, Brooklyn, N. Y. must have wondered when Hayes did two floral designs carved and spliced to- what he did. crouched down there, He gether, all of wood. If I live for years to around the corner. He took a sprinter's Americanism come I never expect to see such beautiful position, one knee resting on the ground, the Editor: one, born handcraft one piece I believe was to his hands placed in front. Perhaps they To To and edu- — knew what he was going to do. Perhaps cated in this country, mixing with fellow represent some kind of lace work. All they didn't. But he did it. It may be Americans in factory, office, on farm and this was done by the Germans, I was told. that he turned his head and smiled once in travel, the word AMERICANISM I understand that when the United and his lips formed the word "Good- has taken on a definite meaning, amongst States started to bring home the soldier bye." others, of Tolerance. Tolerance, to dead, Quentin's mother went to France Then he was off. He leaped from the exist, must continually feed on liberty, and after seeing how her son was laid to mark like a true sprinter. He wheeled be it the liberty of freedom of speech, rest, decided to leave him where he fell. around the corner at full speed—and of press, of assembly, or of religious wor- But the grave duplicated in headed straight for the machine gun. was to be The machine gun sang its requiem of ship. These liberties and rights were stone. Was it? Jack Brawdy, Pitts- death. Before he had gone ten yards his considered so vital by the founders of our burgh, Pa. JANUARY, 1937 37 : . Burstsjs^D lids' CcmHvci^d \>y Dart Sowers EGIONNE AIRE Jim THE eminent psychiatrist was show- VOYAGEUR Fred L Rowan, of Kings- ing a party of friends through his K. Lewis, of Little ton, West Virginia, is institution. To one patient he said: Rock, Arkansas, writes telling about a man who "John, why do you continually insist that he was recently had just obtained em- on scratching yourself?" visited by Grand Chef ployment in a restau- "Because," replied the patient, "I'm de Gare Jerry Lemor. rant as cook. the only person in the whole wide world He took Jerry to visit "You said you were with the American who knows where I'm itching." a hospital, and to the first patient they Expeditionary Forces in France, I be- approached he said: lieve," said the manager as he sampled LEGIONNAIRE Calvin Crawford, of "Buddy, I want you to meet our new the new cook's first pot of soup. j Dayton, Ohio, adds to the collection Chef." "Yes, sir," replied the man. "I was of stories about the amazing wisdom of The patient took Jerry's outstretched the cook with a company in the lines, and young lawyers' legal opinions. A man hand and said: I was wounded three times." had erected a pretentious and costly "I'm darn glad to know you; we've "You're a lucky bird," said the man- mansion, only to discover that he had been needing a good cook here for a kill ager. "It's a wonder they didn't inadvertently placed it upon the lot of long time." you." another. He consulted youthful counsel, who, after days of intensive research NEW HAMPSHIRE Legionnaire IT SO happened that a Legion district among the authorities, floored his client John L. Sullivan delights in telling conference and a meeting of the Min- with this choice morsel of advice: a story of an early experience of Comrade isterial Alliance were being held on the "You can go right on the other man's James O'Neil in his duties as deputy same floor of a certain hotel. One of the lot, tear down the house and remove it. chief of police of Manchester. tardy Legionnaires wandered into the And the owner of that lot can't do a A group of boys were raising a small- ministers' meeting by mistake, and was thing about it!" sized rumpus near the entrance of a hotel in attendance for quite a while before where the new deputy chief was attending he realized his error. He then beat a FROM the mountains a social function, and in rather flossy hasty retreat. When he was telling a of West Virginia, attire. Attracted by the noise, he went comrade about his experience, the com- Flick Bainbridge airs out to quell the disturbance. The boys rade asked the one about a befud- scattered; that is, all except one particu- "How'd you feel surrounded by all dled man who reeled larly obstreperous lad who finally talked them preachers?" out of a bar and sagged himself into being locked up at the sta- "Scared," he replied. "I felt like a into a seat in the hotel tion house. This boy happened to be a single lion in a den of Daniels." lobby alongside a clergyman. Being in relative of a police inspector, who ad- an overwhelmingly friendly mood, and monished him for his misbehavior, and ARAS PITRE, of Oberlin (Louisiana) desiring to make conversation, he said concluded with: ii. Post, writes that when he was a to the clergyman: "And of all the dumb things to do, you telephone operator in the old Veterans' "Thish ish a nice shotel." would start an argument with the deputy Hospital in Philadelphia a patient was "Yes," coldly replied the minister, "I chief." I a being examined for admission. During find it amply comfortable." "Aw, gee, how was to know he was the examination, a social service worker "Ash what I shed, brother. Whatchu copper?" complained the boy. "He was didn't have approached the examining doctor and say let's you and me have a li'l drink?" dressed like a sheik, and he said: "No, thank you; I never touch the flat feet." "This man is indigent." stuff." "No, I'm not either!" spoke up the "Shay!" replied the befuddled one. THE man walked in- if "Who y' shink y'r kiddin'? Why, you patient. "And you put me in a locked to a restaurant, or- I'll sign out against medical gotcha collar on backwards right now!" ward ad- nate in its futuristic vice." decorations and reek- pickpockets were working a TP TWO ing with an atmosphere FROM Comrade small town. They followed a pros- of high prices. He was James N. Ball, of perous looking man for several blocks, ushered to a table and Bartow, Florida, we hopeful for an opportunity to extract immediately ordered a glass of water. learn about a railroad his pocketbook. The man suddenly The waiter brought the water, which the lawyer who had been stopped and went into a lawyer's office. man swallowed with one gulp, and asked invited to address a "Now what are we going to do?" one for another glass of water. While the convention of dairy-cat- asked. waiter was away the man took out a small for re- tle men. While awaiting his turn on the "Guess we'll wait the lawyer," package of sandwiches and spread them program, he listened to several talks plied the other. on the table. No sooner was this done about fancy breeds of cattle. When fin- than a severe looking individual came to ally introduced, he opened his talk by DURING the political campaign an the table and said: saying: angry candidate strode into a news- "I beg your pardon, sir, but this "I'm afraid I know nothing of all these paper office. isn't—" fancy breeds you gentlemen have been "Look here," he cried. "You've been "Who are you?" interrupted the man. discussing. However, in my experience printing lies about me in your paper?" "I am the manager," was the impres- as attorney for a railroad company, I "That's right," replied the editor. "I sive reply. have found the highest-priced critter in know it, but—Good Lord, man—what "Good!" said the man. "I was just the world is the offspring of a common would you do if we told the truth about going to send for you. Why isn't the cow crossed by a locomotive." you?" orchestra playing?" 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ^Advertising (£~*VERY advertisement in a maga- The advertiser pays the publisher zine contributes many elements to print his advertisement. Without of value to the publication in which advertising revenue, all the fine mag- it appears and in return receives but azines in America would have to one reward. charge many times their present sub- scription rates. Art for advertisements is selected to command attention and its excel- Thus, advertisers not only contrib- lence is such that nine times out of ute art, literature, typography, and ten this function is performed. a timely information service, but Those who write advertising copy they actually make it possible for you are students of human nature. The to get the best magazines at a nomi- text is not only well written but also nal charge. it has something known as appeal. The one reward an advertisement To insure distinction the type can earn is to be read, remembered used in composing advertisements is and acted upon. chosen with care, and when necessary, especially designed type is used. To have The American Legion Advertisements appear only at the Monthly popular with our advertis- time you are, or ought to be, inter- ers is to have you fellows continue ested in the articles advertised, and to read and act upon the advertise- constitute a service to readers. ments they publish in our magazine. LET'S PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS ion Monthly epartmentj 521 FIFTH AVEN1 YORK CITY JANUARY, 1937 39 — The Qreat ^hCissouri J^tpn ZHunt {Continued from page 17) some dickering, he agreed to furnish the A music store had produced a "cuc- with the hard times prevailing, had re- ingredients of an imposing basket for a koo" sound effect used by trap drum- stricted attendance to perhaps 500 total of 74 cents. mers. Then there were large horn- pleasure seekers. There is an art to this business of pre- rimmed spectacles minus glass, cartridge This throng milled about in one spot. paring imposing baskets for the carnival belts from which dangled toy cap pistols, Glory—it was our booth! They were trade. First you put two large rolls of and a pop gun. jammed ten deep around the place. cheap toilet paper in the bottom. With "These things will make it more funny We elbowed our way to the front—and this as a base, you start the superstruc- —you'll have 'em rolling in the aisle," gazed upon an astounding sight. Cower- ture, carefully tilting and balancing each we promised. ing far back in a corner among the gro- package so as to leave a maximum of Henry gulped, and turned slightly ceries was Henry. He was paralyzed empty space concealed from public view. green. He was strangely preoccupied with terror. Cheap cornflakes did yeoman service. with his own thoughts during the re- I ducked under the counter and con- Big cans of sauer-kraut were cheap and mainder of the rehearsal. fronted Henry. bulky, with an added virtue of lending That evening he called me, saying we "What in the world is the matter?" weight when a skeptical customer hefts should hire a couple of fellows who'd As nearly as I could determine—for the basket to determine if things are as do the actual operating of the con- Henry was past anything more intelligent they appear. We bought cheap catsup, cession. It appeared he would be kept than gibberish—our hired help had un- beautiful bottles of cheap vinegar, very busy filling baskets, replenishing dergone a change of heart. The rug packaged salt and soap chips. the supply of lions, banking our profits buyer had taken one look at the crowd, and so on. He really wouldn't have another at the outfit he was to wear, "T TELL, you don't want to give away time to work in the booth. Of course he and told Henry his wife wasn't feeling J- JL a prize basket every time," snorted would pay his operators from his half of well and he wouldn't be able to work that the carnival man. Besides violating the the profits. night. The bank teller reported he had sacred carnival code—never give a sucker I suspected right then it was a case heard rumors of a possible opening in a a break—the other concessionaires would of White Collaritis, the victim of which bank, and opined he must go and see regard such amateurish generosity as un- invariably displays these symptoms: about it forthwith. fair trade competition, or something. (a) A fear that he will make himself ridi- "And what can I do by myself?" We met this issue by arranging to have culous in the eyes of the world; (b) A wailed Henry. "People won't spend lions of different hues, the coloring being sudden conviction of the importance of money these days for a thing like this. achieved with water-color paint. At maintaining his dignity at a high level, Money is too tight. I think we had bet- first we tried oil paint, but the lions and (c) Hallucinations implanting a ter give it up." curled up and died in protest. belief that he is incapable of doing any We figured that a hundred lions would work other than that to which he has IT WAS apparent that he couldn't be about right for the hunt. We had ten been accustomed. However, I agreed. meet the emergency. He was in the red lions, twenty purple ones (they were We did our best to force jobs on an throes of stage fright, and could no more beauties) and the rest just ordinary un- accountant, an efficiency expert, two have advanced boldly to rake in the tinted black lions. If a red lion was cap- former bank tellers, a disillusioned in- proffered dimes of the crowd than he tured, the prize would be a basket of surance salesman and a department could have swum the Atlantic hand- groceries. If a purple lion, the player was store rug buyer with a wife and two small cuffed. He would gladly have tackled awarded five pounds of sugar. If he was children. After much hesitancy, one the latter at the present moment, just so unlucky as to trap a black lion, he of the bank tellers and the rug buyer to get away from there. must be content with a two-pound accepted, without, however, bursting I looked at Hervey, and he stared package. into hosannas for their deliverance from back. We both realized that assuming "Hell," said the carnival man after the breadline. the role of carnival ballyhoo men was this adjustment, "you got too dang many The grand opening was on a Thurs- dangerously near the border line of what red lions. Make it five, instead of ten. day night. I returned to my office from constituted undignified conduct as in- You'll spoil the customers." So we did. an out-of-town business trip at six o'clock terpreted by the corporation for which Came the day of rehearsal, staged in to find the telephone ringing furiously. we worked. We weighed in our minds the back yard of the architect's rooming It was Henry. the possible consequences. Simultane- house. The booth was set up, presenting "Say, we're not going to be able to open ously, we decided. a mystifying, if not exactly lovely ap- tonight." "Gimme that helmet—you fill some pearance. The lions were brought from more baskets," I told Henry. Hervey the prison and put through their paces. IT SEEMED that somebody had kicked and I grabbed the headgear, pop gun, It worked fine, and Henry beamed at the over the glass jar containing our herd cap pistols and other accoutrements of praise lavished upon his handiwork. of lions, and not more than a dozen of the African lion hunter, and went into Then we started unwrapping the final the necessary hundred had elected to re- action. We had observed closely the packages. main in captivity. technique of other concessionaires in the "These, Henry, are some props you I told Henry in no uncertain terms art of spiel : ng. will use to heighten the burlesque feature that the show must go on despite hell "Hurr—ee, hurree—hurree! The of our game," we said. and high water. I dispatched a taxi Great Missouri Lion Hunt is about to Henry gaped as there came into view driver to his rooming house with orders commence! You pay a dime, and win a a pair of tropical pith helmets picked up to pick up a second-string batch of lions grocery store! Try your skill—catch a at a costumer's. One was a monstrous we had in reserve, and deliver them to lion! The first lucky man, woman or khaki affair which had seen actual use Henry. child to catch a lion wins the prize in the Boer War. The other was a dinky By the time I had cleared my desk, hurree—we're gonna turn the varmints little white helmet, part of the uniform wolfed a sandwich, picked up Hervey loose!" of St. Louis street cleaners during an and reached the carnival ground, it was We whooped our wares in raucous earlier era. nine p. m. A cold, misty night, together abandon, and in less than a minute 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — twenty players had parted with twenty dimes. Hervey fired a salvo from the popgun, and I freed the lions by the sim- I Threw the World's ple expedient of lifting How the aluminum bowl that covered them. The place became a shrieking mass of excited hu- manity as each player worked his lever Strongest Pipe' madly, snapping his trap open and at- By MATT McGRUNT, Champ Wrassler tempting to snap it shut at the exact instant a lion scurried past in a dash for freedom. You can't appreciate the meaning of the word bedlam unless you witness the Great Missouri Lion Hunt with the pack in full cry. Even Hervey and I were carried away by it. Hervey pounded lustily on a lard can tom-tom, while I fired volley after volley from my trusty cap pistols. An eight-year-old girl made the first capture. "The little girl did it! And she got a red lion—she wins a basket of groceries." The prize was presented with a grand flourish. Another hunt was in progress. By closing time we had a neat profit for our night's work. But our demon- stration had not cured Henry of his stage fright. He hesitatingly agreed to remain in charge and oversee the carnival spieler we hired to operate our bonanza. Under the practiced and energetic han- dling of this worthy, the next night saw no decline in business. However, the visible cash receipts, when Henry checked up at midnight, were shockingly dis- proportionate to the actual intake. We fired the new man pronto, and hired another applicant, jobless by reason of the dancing girl show folding. Saturday night was a repetition of Friday—plenty of business, but our dimes continued the tendency to disappear forever. "This just isn't my line—I'd better quit," confessed Henry. So, freed of our obligation to Henry, and being ourselves unable to pack up and follow the carnival (our wives already were threatening divorce) the Great Missouri Lion Hunt became extinct. The carnival world again reverted to the old baseball-throwing, ring-pitching, wheel-spinning brand of amusement. Our experience convinced me that THIS EASY, INEXPENSIVE WAY! ness. But the extra "class" that nothing can be done for victims of White makes champions is trained into Collaritis—they are incurable. I've Don't be bullied by an overpower- Union Leader by patient curing and ceased my philanthropic endeavors to- ing pipe! Don't take any more back- aging in wood. For a cool, comfort- ward rehabilitating jobless white-collar bite! Union Leader makes any pipe able, clean-tasting tongue— even if workers, who are "desperate will do — behave. Nature richly flavors the you smoke all day— get the big red anything." The statement only means finest Kentucky Burley for Union tin of Union Leader at any tobacco- that the victim can borrow no more Leader ; ripens it to fragrant mellow- nist's. (Makes grand cigarettes, too money from his friends, and probably !) must go on relief unless he can find a job that appeals to him. But by golly, the Great Missouri Lion Hunt was a swell game, and I hereby UNION bequeath it to any unemployed chap who is not afflicted with White Collaritis. With it, he will make money, can chortle at depressions and blue slips in pay envelopes, and he'll have lots of fun. LEADER Furthermore, he can eat his prizes if worst comes to worst. IO' "I'm desperate—I'll do anything" PHOOEY! THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKE JANUARY, 1937 4i " — — Bad ^4ctor {Continuedfrom page g) wooden boxes, about twice the size of retakes, watching them load and dis- stantly pressed for a greater variety of Chic Sale emporiums, so constructed, pose of film for developing; all the me- picture set-ups, while the girl, with rapt lighted and heated that the interior cubic chanical tricks caught his eye. The pic- expression aimed at Curley, led him on surfaces were as perfectly smooth and ture called for a spy to wreck production and on to display and explain the way we plain as possible. Each shack nestled by covert manipulation and tampering made cartridges. down within a four-square, sand bank with machine tools. On another day Curley discovered that fortress. In each of them a lone operator But it was over in the basement of 82, Dark Eyes smoked, that she was aching mixed the ingredients, harmless enough the last of that row of enormous build- for a cigarette. Smoking is sacrilege separated, which made up the touchy, ings where the empty shells were com- to the nth degree in a cartridge plant but quick-firing, viciously explosive substance pleted—by the million—from strip brass the over-privileged, like Curley, who contained in the little copper priming cap to polished cup ready for powder and were provided with the proper keys, of each shell. At just the correct degree of bullet, that Curley noticed something. could sneak an occasional, quiet smoke mixing, the fulminate was carefully wet This was after two weeks of steady in one of the transformer vaults. Such down ; thereafter it was safe to transport camera grinding. They had photo- a one, a low, brick building, lay in the and to be packed in the tiny copper cups graphed the operation of rolling a little alley between 82 and 83. It was a sim- which were in turn pressed into the holes bead, or fret work, near the butt end of ple matter, between shots, to stroll out- provided for them in the firing ends of the shell. One camera was focused side for a breath of air and then steal in- the brass shells. Primer mixing was close-up; Bloom was studying the script. to the transformer house. On this day highly paid, dangerous work; the few "Hey, what's Ziegler tryin' to do!" Curley took Dark Eyes with him. operators obtainable for it were allowed Curley exclaimed in a low voice to his "Now," he vouchsafed, "you can light to work only an hour or so at a time, helper. "Watch— see—he's holding a shell up, ma'am, have one of mine? Oh, you there could be no diminishing of atten- right on top of that camera. That ain't like them kind better." tion and concentration until the mixture nothing to do with the picture. What's was wet down. An amount that could the last number, D.G.33? Write that THANK you so much, Mr. Curley, I be picked up on the flat side of a tooth- down and spot the next number. I'll be was just dying for a smoke," she pick could flare up sharply enough to back in a minute." murmured, "and I did so want to talk take off the end of a finger. Hence after He walked over by the cameras, to you." each mix, the operator conscientiously simultaneously cutting a piece of his "To me, ma'am? I ain't much on hosed and washed out all the smooth plug tobacco convenient to break off. talking—here, lemme light it for you interior of the shack before he left for a "Chew?" he asked the cameraman, I've always been useter listenin' and rest period. No wonder Curley did a little thrusting out the plug. workin'." worrying. "Thanks." "I wager you work fast, sometimes," "Heat make the reel sweat?" she said, gratefully exhaling the first MORNING saw the troupe under- "No, it doesn't matter here, we de- sharp puff, "but what I wanted to say way and Bloom in the saddle. velope them so quick." I'm awfully afraid to have Mr. Ziegler "Just move that light toward me "Whatta you do with the pieces boss go in one of those ful—ful you know, — , see?—no, more, you must get the shadow there tells 'em to do over?" one of those little exploding houses we off her nose. Can't you back that truck "Oh, we develope all of it and wind it looked at the other day." more out of sight, Mr. Cooley?" through, Bloom has to see it. Then I "Sure, sure, I getcha, you mean a ful- "Curley, sir." cut, afterwards, what he tells me to." minate house; now they ain't so bad, I'll "Yes, to be sure, yes. Miss Mayo, Curley 's right hand was scratching up see he's all right." you must get down closer to that piece a fiery red bull's-eye. "But isn't there one with a machine in of brass, the machine doesn't bite—the "Them pieces you cut out of the strip, it, isn't that a safer kind?" man says it's safe. Ziegler, you don't just throw 'em away?" "Huh? How'd you know—humph, look as if you were bawling her out. "Most of them, yes, they are usually yeah, I check. I'll fix it so's we use that Remember she's a spy, but you don't no good." one." know it, and she's awkward at the ma- "Throw them in the waste-basket?" "Thank you so much, Mr. Curley, chine. You're a foreman who can't let The cameraman nodded. Curley shot I'm awfully relieved; we had better slip dumb help be dumb, yet you are just his chew into the corner and started up back, don't you think?" getting in love with her; can't you look a new one, signals again. "Betcha that "Aw, your butt ain't burnin' your lips and act that way? Now rehearse again. stuff catches fire easy; I better bring over yet. You know Mr. Ziegler long, Great day, where'd that wind come from, a covered can soon's we get through ma'am?" they don't have wind in shops. Mr. here." Which he did, to that part of "Not very. We have worked together Cooney, will you— the Ballistic Laboratory now converted for about a year." "Curley, sir." into a combination of darkroom and pro- Curley lifted an iron plate from the "Huh? Will you move that breeze jection booth where, and so that, the floor. "We throw the stubs down the contraption back and keep it back?" part of the picture, depending on the sewer, here, so's nobody'U know—when So Bloom talked, shouted, exhorted all Works for background, could be satisfac- you're through. I s'pose, ma'am, he's the rest of the day up in 78. Curley torily completed before the party left traveled around, some." suffered. With three painted, perfumed for good. "He's traveled—who, Mr. Ziegler?" actresses dawdling right under his nose, she asked. "Oh, yes, I presume so. At with Dark Eyes laboring under Bloom's THE temporary projection room had one time he was with a circus or carnival, abuse, his fans discarded, and that guy become headquarters for the players. I don't know how long; once in a while he Ziegler to be watched every minute, yes, Thence they went forth to location and speaks of it." Curley suffered. He forced himself to back again each day, intent on the work, "A feller learns to do magic tricks, I absorb movie technique, learning how betraying little interest in the manifold suppose," Curley offered as he opened the they numbered the different shots, ob- operations going on about them. Except door, "when he's in a carnival." serving the disposition of discards and Ziegler and Dark Eyes—the former con- "I don't know—we must get back." 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly For several days nothing out of routine occurred. The players labored under Bloom's whip; set up, instructions, re- hearse, shoot, refine, change, rehearse again, and the cameras would click some more. Meantime, Curley was watching intently the preliminary screening of each section and even took away the discarded PORCELAIN PIPES clippings, plastering them against a base- VES INDEED, CHUBBINS, u~" NONE OTHER PORCELAIN, IT'S THE PRIZE \ ment window, to pore over them with his YOUR DAD CERTAINLY HAS THAN the EH ? SA-A-AY PIECE OF DAD'S helper each morning. One morning he SOME PIPE COLLECTION. LITTLE THAT'S PRETTY FRENCH COLLECTION KEY-ISN'T THAT NAPOLEON CORPORAL NEAT selected a shadowy, three-inch clipping - IN THE n-fr j r HIMSELF-1N from the discards which he carefully Glass IJSs^ J/ PORCELAIN wrapped up and stowed away in his card case with his plant pass and electrician's license. With only the photography at the fulminate house left to be done, Bloom suddenly ordered the retake of a yard scene which involved only the girls of the group, leaving the men with nothing to do and with Ziegler slouched at a time- keeper's desk. Curley fumbled in his NO GUESSING ABOUTI HE S MY l~ THIS, EITHER. A FAVORITE OF pockets. ^ TROOPER WITH HIS ALL THE PIPES "Let's shoot a round of pitch," he sug- BUGLE FORMING ^ IN DAD'S WHOLE THE PIPE-, COLLECTION gested, pulling a stool up to the desk, BOWL "we gotta keep outa trouble, somehow. Here, you deal," shoving over the cards. "Say," he continued, "I useter know a feller who studied to run the lights in a theayter; summers he'd swing out with a circus or something. He got good pay there 'cause he could run a gas engine, you know, one of them portables to make juice for the lights. He was always studyin' like that—Jack Terry—ever THAT'S MY SENTIMENT; TOO. SMOKING t?A. I CAN FROM meet him?" Curley reached over to cut GO ONE END OF THE YEAR TO THE OTHER, GETTING FULL ENJOY- the cards. "A guy showed him how to 7 — MENT OUT OF MV PIPE I— spoil a cut, something like this, only I'm AND NEVER HAVIMG 1— f THERE'S NO L it Bite my tongue J [other tobacco no good at it. Kin you do it? Boy, oh boy, that's clever." "Kin you make things disappear in your hand," he asked, holding up the play, "and fish 'em outta your pocket? Jack could, and I always wished he'd show me. He'd take anything, like these shells," going over to toss back two pieces from a press hopper, "and do the trick." Copyright. 1939, R. J. Reynolds Tobacc He watched Ziegler's obliging legerde- 365 DAYS OF SMOKING JOY EVERY YEAR! main with childlike intensity. "That's the one, that's the way, just like Jack. Prince Albert has what it takes to make Gosh, I see now, there's always one in pipe smoking a year-in-and-year-out your pocket that you take away when pleasure. In the big red P. A. tin there the trick's done. I'm mighty glad to are 50 pipefuls of prize tobaccos that know that." smoke exceptionally cool. P.A.'s scien- Shortly, the game was terminated by tific"crimp cut" insures that. And Prince Bloom's orders to proceed to the last Albert does not bite the tongue. Dis- shot—at the fulminate house. Leaving cover for yourself how much extra his helper to bring along the apparatus, smoking satisfaction you get with Curley hurried ahead to make sure the , Prince Albert. Of course, Prince Albert little buildings were clear of operators or ' is swell "makin's" too. any possible danger from mixing opera- tions. Circumstance threw him with the chief, also walking that way, and Curley PRINCE ALBERT MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE in serious conversa- eagerly engaged him Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't tion. Evidently the chief agreed to the find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever point Curley was making for he then ran smoked, return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco in it to us at any time within a month from this date, and to the row of shacks and waved the wait- we will refund full purchase price, plus postage. (Signed) ing troupe, after a quick inspection, to- t R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. 50 Piipefuls, of ward the one with the door left open. THE NATIONAL fragrant to- one prepared for his Gingerly each JOY SMOKE! bacco in every place in the rehearsal, the girls staying Prince Albert 2-ounce tin of discreetly outside {Continued on page 44) Prince Albert. JANUARY, 1937 43 "— 2W ?Actor {Continued from page 43) the sand banks. Even Bloom was hushed, see you so calm, but I suppose you know lighting in the coal nearby. He looked for him, and hurried; all carried that at- the lion you are taming." ugh!—it was a hand, attached to what titude of a first visit inside a morgue. Hawley was essentially handsome, had been an arm, partly covered with a However with instructions and the first he owned brown eyes that glowed always remnant of bloody sleeve. rehearsal of the really simple motions with quiet enthusiasm and his smile Dully, something else was thumping a being photographed over with, the tension never cheated him. Dark Eyes caught signal in his aching, ringing head. He eased and even Dark Eyes strolled in to all that in a second and in the next one scrambled down to the edge of the creek watch the take from the vantage of a seat she had slipped in beside him and Bloom. and splashed cool water on his face; the on the bench. Poor Curley just stood there with mouth splash of his hand completed the connec- agape while the three conversed; un- tion. Slipping off shoes and socks he THE Ballistic crowd (they would be noticed, in his lately suspicious mind, waded in, back and forth, out as far as called a Research Department nowa- was the girl's chatter, leading skilfully his rolled-up trousers permitted, and days) at that time were pressed into a stiff to questions about the machine and back, just as he did at low tide treading battle on two fronts, plus a skirmish with bringing courteous, but rather too infor- for clams on the sand flats. Sharp ob- safety on the side. Over across, bullets, mative, replies from Hawley. Unno- jects, buried in the ooze of the river bot- on belts, were jamming regularly as the ticed, too, was the activity of the leading tom, bruised his feet; many he lifted up gunners, on the ground and in the air, man. Hawley, under feminine influence, and tossed back. Then his patient work fed them into machine guns. Jams meant was just plain forgetting. He started to was rewarded: his foot landed on a trouble, delays, curses, losses and, too take the cover from the machine, to smooth, round object. Unmindful of frequently, life. The guns, perhaps, demonstrate his explanation—there was stinking, muddy water, forgetting his could not be blamed for all of it, so Haw- a hissing flash, a snapping report, the clothes, he pitched down to the bottom ley's men had brought forth a clever girl squealed. and sucked a casting out of the mud. It change in the shell-case design, to over- "What the hakes you doing?" yelled was revealed to him as part of a motor come that sticking in the gun breeches. Curley, jolted out of his dream and jump- housing—the dome-shaped casting which Vince Hawley's whole life, just then, ing at his helper's neck. supported the brass bearing; clinging in was dedicated to the ideal that our Works "My wrench dropped on the fuse the bearing was the twisted shaft of the must lead with every possible improve- block—honest, I didn't mean to do it." armature, its windings spread in a snarl ment and as Chief of Ballistics he was The helper dodged Curley's thrust, of wire all over the core. He examined directing a first-class job. lurched against Hawley and sprawled the wreckage for any possible clues. Let a dud machine gun shell hit the over the machine. In the meantime From habit, he lifted the oil-reservoir row into the breech and lor the space of everyone else had scuttled to safety. cap, covering the bearing, and peered that one click there is no firing reaction; The flash of the short circuit termin- in at the oil ring. He needed to see no the gun may eject the dud and load in ated the picture taking at the Plant. more. He pulled out a fragment of a the next shell from sheer momentum. Bloom withdrew his company, cameras rag wedged under the oil ring, between Almost inevitably, however, it stutters and equipment to Long Island, there to the shaft and the bearing—a tiny strip and stops until the gunner jerks it into finish, in a studio, his picture. But he of linen, evidently torn from a handker- action again. The slip produces a jam, never completed it, all because there was chief. In a few minutes he was on the sometimes—usually the wrong time. treachery in the hearts of two who filled way to the main office lugging the frag- Hence, our Research was working on most of the film footage, and also be- ment of arm, newspaper wrapped, and faster firing shells which meant snappier cause the indicator over Curley's ear the remains of the motor. primers. On paper, they formulated a flashed a red warning that converted hotter, faster, more violently explosive those two into Government boarders. THE blow-up—its detonation—caught priming compound, but they were afraid To escape the pitiless satire on love his the chief nodding over his desk top, to ask any man to mix it by hand. An- foreman ladled to him, Curley found it startled him so he was dazed for a min- swer: A machine to be devised which a an excuse to wander up through the open ute, before he could leap to the window. man could fill with the separate, harm- field on the east side of the river, a little There was nothing to be seen, that is less components, which he could start stretch of meadow which separated the nothing moving, hardly a drift of dust up and return to, later, to find a properly South Plant from the North. This open or smoke—primer mix is, to say the least, mixed batch of violent death safely wet lot, known as the switching yard, kept thorough in its work—but his eyes trav- down. The latest development of Haw- the row of fulminate houses, west of the eled unerringly to that same row of ley's effort along this line lay on the river, from the powder loading rooms houses, to discover at once the gap, the bench next to where Dark Eyes was then over on the eastern end of the meadow. tooth missing. sitting. Curley was refilling one of the bunker "The new mixing house!" he gasped. This long dreaded bit of photography light sockets when it happened. "Was Hawley in there working?" He done, it was not until Curley snapped off shouted frantically: "Miss Lund—Miss the generator and white-hot arcs sub- IT" BURST startlingly out of the Lund, see if Hawley's in his office, sided into blackness that eyes became blanket of quiet that seemed to lay quick." His voice lowered to a moan,— sufficiently accustomed to ordinary day- over the humming, dreaming, droning "My God if he's got it, oh my God light to discover Hawley smiling in the plant on this summer day. It was an "My God what?" it was Hawley at doorway. explosion, not like the boom of a big his door. "Quit praying and staring at "How do you do," he said. "I am Mr. gun, nor the muffled growl of dynamite, me, let's get going down there." Hawley, I've been quite interested in but an enormous bla-a-m, such a roar "Then you were not in there?" your way of doing things; I am honored a gigantic gas oven might make. Cur- "No, no, no," Hawley threw over his to have our poor work included in your ley's whole body jerked, spasmodically, shoulder to the chief dashing after him, picture." his neck snapped and he bit his tongue. "we were just starting the new mix "I think the honors are ours," laughed His numb brain scarcely noticed the formula, trying it in that new machine. Bloom, "we have been mighty nervous sharp plop of something dropping nearby I don't know which one of the boys was in here; I feel a little less shaky when I in the river nor the soft thud of an object in there." 44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ! — — Along with them a crowd was converg- The girl leaned out the door. "He There was this thing in the mud, though,'' ing on the tragedy; guards, machine says he is Mister Curley." pointing to the wrecked motor parts. "I hands, porters, the Plant emergency "Curley?" cried the Chief, "let him in, thought you oughta see it." crew—nurse and all—everybody was bring him in quick—of course he knows; "I guess that explains, Mr. Witham, running. There was little to see: Part hey, Curley, come in here. Why didn't why nothing has been found," said the of the split, torn, splintered floor of the I think of you before, what have you chief. "Everything fell back in the river, shack still clung to foundation posts; there?" like this piece." one earth wall was badly dug up and Curley deposited the parcel and the "Well, looking at that piece," Witham scarred, the grass seared black, its crest motor part on the conference table and replied, "does not help us to explain what had been toppled into the river. That drew over to one side where his muddy caused the explosion." was all, everything else—wood, machine, dripping would not ruin the rug. "When "No, I'm afraid the evidence went in operator—was scattered in tiny bits the shanty blew up," he related to his the river, too," Hawley added. somewhere all over the property, or expectant and questioning audience, "Excuse me, sir," Curley put in, ad- dumped in the river; by contrast, the "I was filling bulbs in those empty sock- dressing Hawley, "but when that ma- silence was almost ghastly. ets by the coal pockets. I guess it sorta chine was mixing the—well, whatever The Works Manager gathered his knocked me cuckoo, for a while, I had you put in it, would anything happen if subordinates for an emergency hearing to lay down for a minute. All the time I the motor stalled all of a sudden, would a very solemn party. Nobody, just then, was trying to dope out what I heard that make it blow up?" was able to offer a definite idea. Tele- landing in the river; I was groggy, I "It is possible it would," answered phone calls to every point in the plant, couldn't think, you see. Then I got up Hawley, "it was supposed to mix, dry, in sight of the blow, failed to uncover and the first thing I see is this." He automatically for a certain number of further information; Hawley's office reached over to give everyone a peek at revolutions—there was a worm and cam could not even name the casualty. Into the gruesome contents of the newspaper timing it —then the mixture would be the group came the Manager's secretary. package. flushed with water at just the right "Mr. Witham, there is a man out here "Dear Heaven," Hawley groaned, second. If the motor stopped just before who insists on seeing you right now, I amid the exclamations and grunts of the the point of flushing, it all might explode. can't make him leave." others, "it had to be Camp—he always I know we all talked that point over "See me, now? No, let him wait; wore blue shirts. The only married man supposing a fuse blew or the power went Lord, what a time to call!" Then noting we had. He was a prince of a fellow, off. Camp was mighty confident it the confused look in her face, "No, wait smart as a whip—go on, Curley, before I wouldn't flare if you left it all night. a minute, what does he look like?" yell." But he was fiddling, just the same, with "Why, I guess he is one of the work- Curley resumed, "That arm opened something to overcome that difficulty." men, but he is simply filthy—all covered my eyes, quick. I figured there was more "Excuse me again," Curley said. "That with mud and soaking wet." of him in the river, so I ploughs in, in motor stalled. There's a rag in the oil "Wait, maybe he knows something, my bare feet, and felt around the bottom well, wedged in—the bearing. It was put in what's his name?" but I couldn't feel no more of him. there, I know " ( Continued on page 46) you'll Yeel better this Winter andf&fvugn'af/f/our'A/ida'/elearr' — if you'll take life easier, rest when you're tired, watch what you eat . . . and, if you drink, choose a whiskey that AGREES with you. FINE, rich taste is the first thing any commissioned by the House of Seagram* man wants in whiskey. But don't for- determined that Seagram's Crown Whis- get kindness! 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It tells how to feel better—today, tornor- row, and in the years to come. Tear out coupon and mail today. BLENDED WHISKIES SEAGRAM- DISTILLERS CORP., CHRYSLER BLDG., N. Y. Gentlemen: Please send me a copy of "You'll Feel A MOST WHOLESOME FORM Better" by Frank Parker Stockbridge. I enclose lOi (stamps or coin). OF WHISKEY Name ©Seagram-Distillers Corp.—Executive Offices: New York Street- City -State JANUARY, 1937 45 2W zActor [Continued from page 45) "Just a minute, Curley," Mr. Witham "How would information on that new we went to it every night. Pay night, interrupted him, and then to his secre- shell crimping," in a lowered voice, "get some of us got cheerful and after the tary, "what is it?" outside so soon?" show we played some stud with a coupla "Washington is on the wire—very "I gotta butt in again," Curley was carnival guys in one of the tents. One urgent for you." reaching in his pocket, "here's the dope fella was smart; after they cleaned us out There was a criss-cross of conversa- right here. See this film? That feller's this feller showed us how to do card tion with the Works Manager listening, got the other piece of it—he sneaked in tricks and magically, next morning I mostly. Finally he interrupted and a close-up. He was a magician, he made couldn't find my watch." turned to Curley. the shell disappear and come out his "I guess Ziegler sold himself out," re- "Have you had a new helper for the last pocket." Witham motioned him to stop sumed Witham, after the laugh. "Some- few weeks," he asked. and turned to the phone. body found out about this picture and "Yes, sir." "I will not hold you any longer, this put pressure on him; they sent along a "Pretty smart fellow?" same man has information on that too. girl to help him. He pretty nearly suc- "You bet." I will talk to him, yes; I will either phone ceeded. He and the girl were getting a "Did you know who he was?" you right back, or, better still, I will section of film and a sample shell to "No, he never talked much." bring him with me tonight." somebody when they were picked up. Turning again to the telephone, he con- "That clears things up," said Witham, Probably they failed to secure definite tinued, "Yes, that checks all right here. turning to the group, "it is too bad they data on the mixing machine so they, or Now listen, I have a man right here now could not have worked fast enough to one of them, decided to destroy it, or in my office who has just brought in some save poor Camp." try to, which would hold up develop- corking evidence, it ties right up with "But what is it, Mr. Witham?" asked ments for a while, anyway." what you have. No, I think it would be Hawley, "if it is any of my business." "As for you, Mister Curley," turning better to bring it right to you. How "Moving pictures," he replied. "Cur- to him, "you go home, get dressed, fit to soon? How about New York tonight? ley, did you know this Ziegler before he travel with a gentleman—put in your Yes, I can get over by then. How's appeared here?" toothbrush—and come back here, all as that? No, it's too late, we had an ex- "Him? I'll say—I had a hunch it was quickly as you can. Tonight you will be plosion an hour ago—yes, one man. Let him. A long time before I came here, I the Government's number one helper me have that again." Witham listened was working for a contractor on a mill in versus two acquaintances of yours. intently, then motioned to Hawley. Georgia. There was a carnival came and Maybe you will get your watch back." Miles Ter Jfour {Continued, from page 29) ease," therefore making in excess of the seems that the birds are doing that, par- a mile-a-minute rate. maximum figure mentioned. ticularly if one leads them well and still "King Canvas" seems to be the cri- One does not ordinarily connect the misses. I have known gunners to lead a terion of speed in the duck world as he is fragile little hummingbird with long-sus- file of teal more than was considered ne- upon the table. This species has been tained flight. Certainly it is not thought cessary to kill the leading bird and actu- known to attain a speed of 72 miles an of as an ocean voyager, and yet this ally hit either the last in line or one nearly hour. In speed, therefore, the canvas- feathered atom accomplishes startling at the end. The ducks have furnished a back is still the king among ducks, with feats of both speed and distance. Its great deal of ground for speculation. the golden-eye a close second. admirers over much of the country real- The great majority of wild fowl, how- Swans have long been credited with ize that they do not see hummers in ever, long thought to be very fast, do not two characteristics which seem to have winter. At that season they are sojourn- as a rule average much more than 40 miles little foundation in fact. One is their sup- ing in South America or the West Indies. an hour. This will doubtless be a surprise posed great age, and the other their high To get there they must cross water and to many sportsmen. Various articles speed. Ages up to and over one hundred lots of it. The route of the hummer takes have appeared from time to time in sport- years have been credited to a swan's life it across the Gulf of Mexico, and the over- ing magazines relative to the speed of span, but careful study in recent years water distance varies from five hundred ducks, geese and swans, but too many of has shown twenty-five years to be a ripe to seven hundred miles. No one can say them are based on guesswork. old age for a swan. This bird is outlived how rapidly this distance is covered, but Several years ago, Colonel Richard by many geese and some ducks. The it is certainly a non stop flight. Meinertzhagen published in a scientific speed reputation has likewise suffered a The writer has on more than one journal, The Ibis, a treatise on the sub- decline, and the aviator has been the occasion timed hummers in flight by ject and advanced the theory that birds source of such information. automobile speedometer. The average in general have two speeds. One he In the ornithological journal The Auk speed is somewhat in excess of 40 miles called the normal rate, used under ordi- some time ago appeared an item dealing an hour. Speeds of 35 to 47 miles have nary conditions and during migration; with the experience of a pilot. He took been noted, and on one or two occasions the other the accelerated rate, resorted to off from an airport in Pennsylvania and in the North Carolina mountains, some in time of stress or alarm, almost if not was flying at an altitude of 1400 feet when hundreds of yards of parallel running have quite double the normal rate. he saw ahead of him a flock of migrating shown speeds of exactly 45 miles an Generally speaking, 40 to 65 miles an whistling swans. Seizing the opportunity, hour. hour is the range of nearly all of the ducks. he pursued the big birds at once and Duck shooters will tell stories of "at Everyday flight and migration speeds easily caught up with them. Following least 75 or 100 miles an hour" attained hardly exceed 45 to 50 miles. Hurried this he actually flew with the flock for by teal and other wild fowl. True, it flight will sometimes result in an over more than fifteen minutes, during which 46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly time he took careful note. There were about one hundred birds in the flock, and he found that by flying about the edge of the formation he could herd the birds at A Happy Xew Year for will, and in such maneuvers realized that he was far exceeding their speed. On some of the straightaways he could measure the rate of speed with no trouble whatever, and found that the maximum rate was 55 miles. In this case it was quite obvious that the birds were alarmed and doing their best. Much discussion has been voiced in regard to the speed of quail. The most accurate experiments, conducted by $>f*A> stop-watch, have shown the top speed of this famous game-bird to be slightly under 50 miles. Quail do not fly far as a rule, (fit and the highest pitch of speed is not maintained except for short bursts. The f birds are at their fastest just after ex- ploding into the air, when the speed then decreases rather than accelerates. It would be safe enough to say that the average bob-white rises from the ground and darts away at from 45 to 50 miles. Little is known as yet of the ruffed grouse, but it is probable that similar speeds are attained by it, perhaps not quite as fast. The heavy-bodied geese are comparatively slow fliers, speeds of between 40 and 50 miles being main- tained. These birds lack the accelerating power of the ducks. Whatever else may have been said of the crow, it is rarely looked upon as an exponent of speed, and yet he is well in the forefront in this respect. A contribu- tion to a scientific journal of recent date stated that a locomotive engineer who has done considerable research along That's a real letter— written by reach. It means keeping the these lines timed crows in New York a real Kathryn— to her brother. family circle unbroken — con- State and found that they "could just You can read her happiness in tacts with people — gaiety, about keep up" to a train going 58-62 miles per hour. every line. She's mighty glad to solace, friendship. It means No doubt the activities of "carrier" have the telephone back. greater comfort, security; quick pigeons will occur to many, and among And so are a great many aid in emergency. these birds accurate records are available other it because of the many racing associations men and women these Whether be the grand to be found throughout the country. A days. About 850,000 new tele- house on the hill or the cottage probably reveal the few averages will phones have been installed in in the valley, there's more fact that exaggeration has been the rule the past year. happiness for everybody when here, as well as with other birds. In The Auk for July, 1933, R- A. 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The speed attained by the Write Today. Send 3c Stamp to cover Postage. of song-birds is really surprisingly slow. CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN RocMord, Illinois Many of the small perching birds make less than 20 miles an hour in routine EEEEEEHEEI flight. The familiar kingbird, blue jay, —like J. R. Sammons of Billings. Mont. Started a Fyr-Fyter Dealership in his home a few years ago. Made Profits over $6,900 in 1935. Business in 1936 will meadowlark, catbird and robin average exceed 1935 record. Inspect. Service and Refill all types of Approved Fire Extin- guishers. Previous experience unnecessary. We train and advance you to Dealer- from 15 to 23. Baltimore orioles have ship for complete line of Fyr-Fyter Extinguishers. Schools, stores, homes, auto and truck owners, farmers, warehouses, churches, factories, filling stations, public been timed at speeds as low as 12 miles utilities, etc., are your prospects. Use your home as headquarters. No stock in- vestment required. Real opportunity for men past middle age as well as younger an hour, though they are capable of men. Write a letter giving full information about yourself and past work to THE FYR-FYTER COMPANY, Dept. 9-13, Dayton, Ohio. reaching 26 {Continued on page 48) JANUARY, 19^7 47 — Miles "Per ZHbur (Continued from page 47) m.p.h. under stress. The family of spar- velocity. It is what the aviator would bird should better that figure by 20. rows and warblers, wrens and others are call a power dive. When one considers One would naturally conclude, then, all slow movers. that this falcon can overtake a frightened that the duck hawk is the fastest bird At the other end of the list, and exceed- duck, gain a position above it and de- that flies. This, however, is not the case. ing even the speed of the fastest wildfowl, scend with half closed wings like a The real kings of speed are birds which are some of the birds of prey—not so feathered projectile, it will be apparent would probably be far down the list in any much the heavy, soaring hawks such as that excessively high speed is reached. guessing contest conducted among those the red-shouldered and red-tailed species Just what this rate is remains to be who have not looked into the matter. but that famous family of raptorial birds found out, but duck hawks have been The fastest birds are the swifts—the which was once employed in the royal timed by stop watches over a known dis- familiar little chimney swift or its rela- sport of falconry. The beau ideal of the tance. The results of researches by tives. No bird is better named. birds of prey is, without doubt, the duck D. D. McLean of California disclosed Accurate records of the velocity at- hawk, our American counterpart of the that this splendid bird actually attained tained by them are not available, but it famous peregrine falcon of Europe. an average speed of 165 miles per hour is well known that chimney swifts have Though eagles are very fast and have and a maximum of 180. circled airplanes in full flight, and this been known to exceed the speed of an This is by far the top-notch of meas- when the latter were proceeding at a express train, the duck hawk exceeds the ured bird speed now known. Even to the speed of well over one hundred miles per eagle. speed-mad human race it is an impressive hour. No seeming effort was put forth As a matter of fact, no one knows ex- figure. the birds swooped and darted about with actly how fast a duck hawk can fly. Its If a specimen picked at random and their usual easy ability. That this can be hunting tactics consist of gaining a posi- timed in ordinary chase achieved 180 accomplished speaks volumes, and when tion above the intended quarry and miles per hour, it is certainly reasonable their maximum rate is finally determined swooping down upon it with tremendous to suppose that a particularly vigorous it will no doubt be an astounding figure. zArms and the 'Radio (Continued from page 11) use for transmitting news photographs, trailed from planes flying high, could repeatedly over the air. "Jamming" suggests itself as adaptable for despatch take views of enemy movements or posi- each other's broadcasts or refusing to re- to headquarters of maps and photos made tions, as well as of the progress of one's lay them has not always barred the words from observation planes, and for mes- own troops, and place on a screen before which can be more dangerous than sages as well. Not only does it assure commanding officers a moving picture bombs. The penetrating power of radio accuracy in transmission but it would of the action along the front. The value is another reminder that modern war- largely eliminate coding and decoding, of such a panorama in the conduct of an fare involves an entire nation, not its since each piece of military information attack and the direction of artillery fire military forces alone. sent in facsimile would carry its own proof would be immense. A deep-sea model of There are still, however, many Ameri- of authenticity. the same device would serve to scan the can citizens who doubt how directly, This year has seen the invention of the bottom for lurking submarines. other than economically, they would be "coat-pocket transmitter" which may Remote control by radio already is an affected by a future conflict. Our fortu- be carried in the palm of the hand. It established fact. By it the tanks of a nate geographical situation might spare already has been successfully employed future war, with no men in them, may them war at first hand, but their morale in commercial broadcasting. Operating be crashed through barbed wire to crush would be strenuously attacked. The on a one-metre wave length, its battery concrete pill-boxes and machine-gun twenty or thirty million radio receiving unit weighs less than four pounds, its nests. Bombing planes, with no pilots sets in their homes would be the target aerial rod is only half a meter long and it aboard, may be steered over enemy terri- for enemy propaganda and as open to it, has a four-mile range. It is easy to con- tory to drop their explosives and, their at least in the case of the short wave ceive how advantageous that device mission performed, recalled. Concep- sets, as they are today to international would be in war time to advanced front- tions which once seemed equally fantas- broadcasts regularly sped across oceans. line units. tic have evolved into reality. Remember that in the World War the Maneuvers in which parachute men Statesmen have declared that national first break of the Central Powers came have been dropped by airplanes behind frontiers have been thrust outward many in their morale and that Germany was the enemy lines open up whole ranges of miles by the airplane. Radio has in a vanquished without any invasion of her interesting possibilities. If each of these sense obliterated frontiers entirely, for territory, with her army still in the field. scouts or spies were equipped with an the limit of a nation's primary defense But, it may be objected, our own wire- easily portable short wave transmitter, it or offense is measured by the range of its less stations would blanket the enemy would solve his chief difficulty— that of wireless stations, not by that of its cruis- messages and blast them out of the air. sending information gained back to his ing air fleets. How far the ancient bar- What poor strategy that would be! The own lines. riers of time and space have been re- suspicions of every listener would be While television as a practical service duced can be gauged from the fact that aroused at once. He would be certain in peace or war is not an immediate pos- last year a radio message was sent twice that a disaster to our arms was being sibility, steady progress is being made in around the world in one minute and forty hidden from him. How far wiser to let its development. One phase of it which seconds. him take the foe's announcements with stirs the imagination is the ultimate pos- The record of recent troubled years a grain of salt and to offset them with sibility that the television camera, while shows the nations of Europe clashing our own. The cleverest conduct of war 48 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly over the air would be, paraphrasing the words of the Confederate cavalryman, Bedford Forrest: "To get there fustest BOYS GIRLS with the mostest news." Furthermore, MEN-WOMEN PKKYOUR PRIZE it had best be true news. The over-rosy SPORT WATCH communiques of the World War were A Perfect Time Keeper generally discounted. 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It was ten successive years captain of the same Have you ever seen big Ivan "Ching" Frank Boucher. team, carries the same indomitable spirit Johnson barging up the ice, his bald head Last season when I was talking with into action on the ice. In fact one of the gleaming, a grin spread across his moon- some of the players in the dressing room oldest feuds in hockey (it began back like face? Fritz tried to knock that grin of the New York Americans the con- around 1923-24 when Bill was playing from the big Swede's face at Yimy years versation turned to players who had for Saskatoon and Dutton for Calgary) ago but failed, and the toughest players served overseas. Bill Brydge, then still exists between these two. While they in hockey have been doing their utmost active with the Americans, told us about have not tangled as frequently of late as to make him scowl, but have failed to some fellows who went over and failed in past years, at one time a collision be- succeed. In their zeal to ruffle the calm to come back. He told us about "Scotty" tween the two inevitably wound up with which always seems to surround the Davidson, George Richardson and Frank both dropping their gloves and sticks Winnipeg Scandinavian they have not McGee, all hockey immortals who found and flying at each other with fists flailing spared the hickory, and while "Ching" a permanent resting place in France. He away. It is just the natural outcome was gassed overseas he did manage to told us about others who had returned when an old artilleryman like Bill, who escape flesh wounds, which is more than and had played for a few years. As the was with the 46th Battery, and an in- can be said of his experiences in the wars conversation ended Bill left the room and fantryman meet. which they stage annually in the Na- Harry Oliver, one of his teammates, tional Hockey League. came over and said: "Bill can always tell WHENEVER hockey fans get to- Since turning professional with the you about the other fellow's career but gether and begin to discuss the Rangers in the fall of 1926 "Ching" has he never mentions the fact that he was stars of the game Bill Cook usually is se- had his jaw fractured, his collar-bone over for three years, was wounded twice lected as one of the greatest right wings broken, twelve ribs caved in at various and cited for bravery in action." of all time. Others mentioned along with times, his leg and ankle broken and many I had known Bill for about eight years, him are Charlie Conacher of the Toronto minor injuries too numerous to mention. had been with him on trips and had spent " Maple Leafs and the late Charles "Scotty But whenever you see the "Chinaman" many pleasant hours in his company, but Davidson, who also played for Toronto. —as his friends call him—whether he is in all that time not once did this modest Davidson rests under a little white cross being carried crippled from the ice or hero mention that he himself had served not far from Ypres. A hand grenade which drinking a glass of his favorite beverage, in France for three years. he was about to toss went off prematurely, that same infectious smile is still spread ending his career at the age of twenty- across his face. EVERY hockey fan on the continent four. Johnson enlisted in the summer of 1915 knows little Charles "Rabbit" Mc- Cook went over to England with the and sailed for England in January, 1916, Veigh. Although he is now with the 46th Battery in the fall of 19 15 and was with the Third Division Ammunition London Tecumsehs in the International in France early in 1916. Bill has nearly Column. After six months' training i.i League the "Rabbit" was in the major always managed to escape serious in- England he was sent to France and went leagues for fifteen years during which jury and had it not been for an attack of up to the front lines for the first time in time his acrobatic style of play was fam- pneumonia might have gone through the July, 1916. He was there almost con- ous all over the hockey world. One of the war without a visit to a hospital. After tinuously with the exception of a visit to real comedians of the game, the "Rab- he recovered he was shipped to Arch- a hospital occasioned by his having bit" made life just one long laugh after angel in northern Russia with the 66th breathed too deeply at the wrong time another. I don't know his real age—he Battery, where he was stationed for a during a German gas attack at Pas- won't tell, just says that he was entering year. He was awarded the Military schendaele. high school when Dutton was graduatinj Medal for his service in Russia. —but, if he was more than sixteen when a member, many people Bill has been THE Montreal Ma ^ons own in Lome he enlisted Shirley Temple is over say the mainstay, of the famous Cook- Chabot a goaltender who went over- twenty-one. Boucher-Cook forward line which was seas with the 7th Brigade in June 1916 McVeigh was one of the famous "ladies composed of Frank Boucher and the and after two years in France was given from hell" enlisting with the 16th Cook brothers Bill and Bun. Their value his discharge on Armistice Day because Canadian Scottish, one of Canada's to the New York club can best be judged he was still too young to be in the army. crack kiltie regiments. His lieutenant when you consider that during the nine Lome has been adept at blocking pucks was "Bullet Joe" Simpson, another well years they played as a unit the Rangers which have been fired at him. He once known player and manager who handled never finished out of the play-offs, but blocked one with his eye during the world the New York Americans for several last season when Lester Patrick, man- series of 1927^28 when he was a member years. The "Rabbit" had played hockey ager of the Rangers, was forced to break of the New York Rangers. He claims the against Joe before they both joined up up the line the Blue Shirts failed to make reason he turned to goaltending was be- and he never learned that Joe was a lieu- the grade. This season with the sale of cause he was so expert at dodging bullets tenant and therefore should be given that Bun Cook to Boston the line has been he figured that if he just reversed the special respect which is reserved for completely disbanded, which is a break procedure he should make a star goalie. officers of this lofty rank. Joe thought for the other clubs. His line of reasoning seems to have been the best thing he could do was appoint Off hand you might not consider the vindicated because there are few if any the "Rabbit" his orderly and thus save records of these war veterans remark- goaltenders the equal of the raven-haired himself from being called "Joe" in front able, but if you will glance around at giant. of the company by the irrepressible your friends and see how many of them When Lome got his discharge from the McVeigh. Joe's decision led him into one were "over there" and still look as though army he lost little time joining the Royal entanglement after another, even so. they could go out on the ice, on the Northwest Mounted Police and played Those of you who go to the major football field or the baseball diamond, on the red coats' team while stationed league games or may have been in the So The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly : Middle V/ est during the past season will after the doctor had taken 148 stitches to have seen Helge Bost :om play. A mighty, close the wound and the old Viking had blond Norseman, H ^lge is almost as rested up the foot for a few months he broad as he is tall. Ht completes the list was ready again to return to the wars. of those war veterans still active in the When you feel stiff after bowling a game. Strangely Helge received his most few games or playing a round of golf serious wound in hockey when his right think of Johnson, Dutton, Cook, Chabot, foot was almost severed at the instep McVeigh and Bostrom. Their bones while he was playing for the Chicago may creak and they may have lost a Black. Hawks against the Rangers in little of their zip but the same unbeatable New York some years ago. A skate, its spirit which carried them through the blade razor sharp, bit through shoe and greatest of all wars still propels them up sock and as Helge was carried from the the ice on attack after attack and like ice the foot dangled loosely, almost com- real old soldiers they will never quit so pletely severed. No one expected he long as they can still toss a leg over the would ever be able to skate again but boards and wield a hockey stick. {Continued from page 21) ing to last reports from National Head- he don't know anything about them and quarters, stating how they stand on this is therefore qualified to operate them for bill. WE MUST GET EXPRESSION thirty dollars a month, where the fellow Who Else Wants FROM EVERY CONGRESSMAN AS who works in the yard gets all kinds of TO HOW HE STANDS! dough in a war because he is exempt or Smoother Shaves? Yours for the Legion, something because he works and don't Joe Durp, fight. Of course it is harder to fight than — Use the blade that was made Post Adjutant work but it don't seem to be quite as razor decent or honorable and so don't pay so for your Dear Adjutant much. MEN, remember this: Real shaving comfort Your letter re Universal Draft re- What I mean is, why shouldn't we all depends upon the perfect team-work of ceived. It's plain that Congressmen are get the same, and I want to know where your blade and razor. If you are not getting the clean, comfortable shaves you are entitled not all alike and that adjutants never you stand on this thing before the next to, just try using the blade that was especially do what they tell all the members to do. war comes along. designed for your razor. Did you ever try to get an expression of Very truly yours, The Gillette Blade and the Gillette Razor opinion from THIS congressman? No, Justin X. Gobb are made for each other. The same engineers I know damn well you haven't. Well, I who drew up the specifications for the razor have. My Dear Mr. Gobb: also designed the blade. Both are produced in the same great Gillette factory where equip- Enclosed is statement for postage Your letter to the Congressman is at ment costing millions of dollars assures flaw- in the matter. Please already expended hand, and in his absence in Hollywood, less coordination of blade and razor. credit same to my dues. Cal., I am writing to you as I know he 1937 When you know the scientific care with Yours, would do if he were here. which the Gillette Blade is produced, it is Justin X. Gobb The matter you suggest about the easy to understand why this blade always gives you far superior shaving results. Post Office Department is quite inter- Dear Congressman: esting and I will bring it to the attention Tested tvith Diamonds My correspondence with you has in- of the Congressman as soon as he returns. For instance, samples from every coil of creased my interest in our Government, As to the Universal Draft, I must be Gillette Blade steel are tested for hardness by square-cut diamonds. Then the steel is "X- if it has had no other result. Being an perfectly candid, as I know the Congress- rayed" by an amazing device which "sees" man always is and as I know you would engraver by trade, I have always taken deep beneath the surface of the metal. No hid- an interest in the Bureau of Engraving want him to be. He never dodges an den flaws can escape this rigid examination. and Printing, or whatever it is, and now issue and always wants everyone to No wonder millions of men everywhere I am beginning to have an interest in the know plainly, definitely and promptly agree that shaves are cleaner, smoother when use the Gillette Blade in the Gillette Post Office Department. It has oc- where he stands. He knows that the you Razor. Buy a package of Gillette Blades from that if more people would veterans and veterans' organizations are curred to me your dealer today. Slip one into your Gillette take a real interest in what is going on in working hard for this bill and he does not Razor and enjoy the matchless shaving com- Washington and write to their Congress- blame them for working in their own in- fort of the world's most scientifically matched shaving combination. men about it, the Post Office Department terests. That is but human. would be soon on a very paying basis and While the Congressman takes a back Reputable mer- we might be able to reduce the Federal seat to no one in his reverence for and chants never offer substitutes for gratitude to those who have fought, bled taxes. Of course I am no politician, but Gillette Blades. just give you this thought for your con- and died for this country, still, you must Always ask for them by namet sideration. admit that Congress has been extremely But what I really want to write to you liberal to the veterans, disabled and Smile and sing with Milton Ber/e and other about, and what I have been trying to otherwise. A large portion of the na- stars on Gillette's "Original I want to know tional budget is made up of appropria- write about and what CommunitySing" radio program what you think about, is the Universal tions for veterans' benefits and the Army —CBS Network— Coast fo Coast Draft bill, and particularly the provision and Navy. Veterans have been the recip- —Sunday nights— 10 P.M. E.S.T. for drafting men, money and materials ients of large public benefactions—not without exemption of some guy just be- that they do not deserve it, for the cause he works in a yard where they make Congressman would not wish for one Gillette Blades Precision-made the Gillette Razor ships instead of in a glue factory where minute to be (Continued on page 52) for JANUARY, 1937 51 ! ffirst- Glass zJWail (Continued from pige ji) understood as belittling the services situation really presented, and feels sure your opinion, you need a new Secretary. of a man for his country. But the fact you will appreciate it. If she has, we need a new Congressman. remains, nevertheless. And now the It may be that the act can be so Yours truly, veterans are asking for this Universal amended or a compromise measure intro- Justin X. Gobb Draft. From the standpoint of the vet- duced with which the Congressman can Dear Mr. Gobb: erans themselves, may they not be asking unhesitatingly go along. In the mean- I have your letter of recent date, and for too much? The public may fee! so, time, let us see which way the wind blows. assure you that the matter referred to at least. The Congressman has tried to Of course this does not mean that the therein will receive my very careful con- go along with the veterans at all times in Congressman has made up his mind con- sideration. the past, and hopes he can see his way cerning this bill or has committed him- I am always delighted to hear from my clear to do so in the future. But he must self one way or the other, but just to let constituents and want you to feel at all also think of the rest of the citizens of you know plainly, definitely and promptly times free to write me or to call to see the country, mustn't he? They are en- just where he stands, as he always desires me. I assure you that it is a pleasure for titled to consideration, too, aren't they? to do and always does. me. I desire only to serve the United Really there is very strong opposition After all, the Congressman must be States and our great State. to the Universal Draft bill as desired by fair to every citizen of the country, Yours truly, The American Legion. There are many mustn't he? Con S. Tituency who believe that should it become law Yours truly, and should there be a war it would Ethel Gass, Dear Gobb: greatly interfere with business, and, of Secretary to Representative Your letter with bill for postage is re- course, you know we cannot put further Con S. Tituency turned herewith. What in hell's the T burdens upon business, as recovery from idea? W e asked you to write a letter to the recent depression is the most import- Dear Congressman: your Congressman—not carry on a cor- ant matter to the country today. I got a letter from your Secretary and respondence with him like a couple of The laboring man and the skilled she says that thirty dollars a month is a steady neckers separated for a few days. workman must be considered, and the dollar a day and wants to know if I ever Too bad you missed the last meeting of standard of living kept up. And I think thought of it that way. She's telling mc the Post. We had nomination of officers; you will agree with me that thirty dollars it's a dollar a day you were named for Vice Commander, a month is too little to pay a laborer, let She says a man can't live on thirty with no opposition, so it seems you'll be alone a skilled workman. Why, I do not dollars a month. A hell of a lot of them elected. This Post is certainly going to believe a man can live on thirty dollars died on it during the war. Maybe that's hell. a month, particularly in time of war what she means. Sincerely, when, as we know from past experi- She says you must be fair to every citi- Joe Durp, ence, prices for the necessities of life in- zen of the country. By Heaven, that's Post Adjutant variably rise. Thirty dollars a month is exactly what the Universal Draft is in- Dear Adjutant: only a dollar a day. Did you ever think tended to do—be fair to everyone and not I decline the nomination for Vice Com- of it that way? make one man take that thirty dollars mander on account of what it says in our While the Congressman certainly does a month in a trench or on a damned Constitution about running for public not wish to convey the impression that he floating bath-tub while somebody else office. I am going to run for Congress. is going to vote against this bill, he wants gets rich. Yours, you to know, as an intelligent citizen, the If your Secretary has not expressed Justin X. Gobb J^ound Treasure (Continued from page ij) and kept by a Scotchman named William Mary waited on him. The young Irish cestral home of the Fortescues in Ireland, Rutherford. He had a pretty daughter, Lord was impressed by her beauty for he where no gentle welcome awaited them. Frances Mary, who served in the dining came again and again to the Inn for din- What? His son married to the daugh- room as a waitress. Her charm and beau- ner. There can be no doubt that he was ter of an inn-keeper? It was an outrage! ty were a subject of talk in the country- falling in love with her. But the young Fathers were kings in that time. This side and among the guests of the inn. She man was a play boy fond of the flowing one banished his son. He could have an was a well formed, sweet faced girl, with bowl. His Lordship was informed that he income ample for his needs as long as he manners better than her station in life. would no longer be welcome at the Inn. kept out of Ireland. If he ever dared to For that reason, no doubt, she began to It is probable that the attachment had come back to his native land he would be be called Lady Frances. gone further than the inn-keeper knew. cut off and his income would stop. One summer day along came a grand Suddenly Frances Mary was missing. So it happened that the young Lord coach and four horses from Philadelphia. Soon a letter came announcing that she and Lady were packed off to the conti- Its owner was young Lord Fortescue, had eloped with the young Lord and that nent in disgrace—a homeless pair. who was driving about with his grooms they were to be married. It is likely that He would seem to have been in bad and footmen to see the country. His her father had answered this letter and health for soon he died in the capital of Lordship came in to dinner while the what he may have said no one knows. France. The girl was childless and still horses were being stabled. A noble guest Frances Mary never saw him again. comely. No doubt the old Lord in Ire- like that would be sure to have the come- The two elopers were married and, as land continued to send money to keep liest maid in the dining room. Frances man and wife, they returned to the an- her comfortable in the gay city. 52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — — Among her friends in Paris was a Philadelphia and then to The Black wealthy Englishman named William Horse Tavern. It was a bit of family Shard. The word wealth had a different history going from mother to daughter meaning then. Fifty thousand pounds and from father to son. Naturally, they was a large fortune in the 18th century. had some pride in passing it on. I went Shard—a man considerably older than to England and learned the facts, that Frances Mary—had an ancestral estate her fortune had gone to the crown. at Paignton in England. "My troubles had just begun. I had The second romance in this remarkable to prove that Frances Mary Shard was bit of history began. Shard fell in love the daughter of William Rutherford and SUCCESS— with Frances Mary. The Scotch girl had that my clients were as they claimed to Will You Pay the Price? acquired some wisdom. She wanted to be—his descendants. Was it possible? you are normal, you want the comforts know all about him and the reports were Were the records still in existence? There IF and luxuries which are the by-products of favorable. They were married and went was the main trouble. success— a home of your own— a new car to live in Paignton. It was the old "I returned to America and went to the leisure to read— the means to travel. baronial life that she lived there and Trenton. Some years before a new county You want these things very much. Frances Mary became the Lady Bounti- clerk's office had been built. The old But—you are keen enough to perceive that experience and facility in handling routine work ful of that countryside. stone structure had only one room. They will never get them for you. "That is all I can say of her life at the had thought of burning the records so What, then, are you doing to gain that country house in Paignton," said Smith. ancient that they were unlikely to be of specialized experience— that trained ability for which business firms are willing to pay "The time is far back in the past. I only service to anyone. Some were for keeping real money? that William Shard died leaving them, so they were dumped on the tiled know During the past twenty-eight years more Frances Mary childless and a woman be- floor of the deserted building. The door than 900,000 men have found the answer to yond middle age. She did not marry was locked and there they had lain for that question in home-study training under the LaSalle Problem Method. again. She made no will. There were no many years. I could, if I wished, go to Evening after evening, they have seated quite clerk's office in that big stack heirs. She loved England and was the old and themselves, to all intents and purposes, at content to have her property go to the of ancient rubbish try to find the records the desks of men in high-salaried positions, crown. She died intestate. I desired. I went there. The heap was as and have squarely faced the problems of those positions. "When I left Middlebury College I be- high as my shoulders, sloping like a hill Evening after evening, they have been gan my practice. A certain case took me to the floor. shown the principles involved in the solu- to England where I learned that many . "Here was a task like looking for a tion of such problems—and how those prin- busi- estates had gone to the crown. A few needle in a haystack. I worked there for ciples are applied by highly successful ness houses. years after my return, I fell in with a weeks and my patience was rewarded, for Evening after evening, they have tackled great grandson of William Rutherford of I found a will of W illiam Rutherford in concrete problems, lifted bodily from business the old Black Horse Tavern. A number which he had mentioned his daughter life, and under the direction of some of the of great grandchildren were living. The 'Frances Mary, wife of Lord Fortescue,' ablest men in theirrespectivefields/;«wwor/r./ those problems outfor themselues. story of Frances Mary had been handed and his two sons from whom my clients That they have been well rewarded for their down to them. One of the family had were descended. This was a lucky find. foresight and their earnestness is shown by learned of the death of the young Lord I discovered deeds of the old tavern the fact that during one period of only six reported in Paris and of her marriage to a wealthy keeper which increased my evidence. months' time 1,248 LaSalle members salary increases totaling #1,399,507 an aver- Englishman of the name of Shard. The "In the parish records were the birth age increase per man o/'89%. story had passed many lips in Paris. I certificates. Convinced, and, as I thought, for Free presume someone had brought it to prepared for my {Continued on page §4) Send Book "Ten Years' Promotion in One" If you—knowing these facts— are content FRITZ to drift, you will not profit by reading further. If on the other hand you have imagination enough to see yourself in a home of your own, enjoying the comforts and luxuries of life the coupon below may shorten your journey to success by many years. 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IANUARY, 1937 53 ffiund Treasure (Continued from page 53) battle, I went to England and opened " 'Come with me and we will put it in a weird cry ringing through the dark, my case in the Court of Claims. I had the bank,' I said. 'The banker will ad- empty spaces of the great house. It sank a fight that lasted ten years. They vise you what to do with it." into a deep leonine roar. I was to learn would baffle me with new demands. I in the morning that it was the voice of would go back to America and return WELL into the night I sat there the master trying to speak. with their demands satisfied. They listening to this magician who had Soon after I went away, he, too, was turned my hair white with opposition the art of turning poverty into wealth. taken to the mausoleum. I returned to and delay. The end of it came when For the last time I shook his hand. give the dear woman what comfort I the Queen's Bench gave me a verdict for The next winter I met Pinky in the could. We sat long by that lonely fireside 45,000 pounds with interest for ninety home of General Veezy in Washington. talking of the great days of old when the years. Shard Villa is a monument to that She was a tall, shapely, beautiful girl, with merry voices of the children were there. verdict." dark eyes and hair. I have never known a braver soul than So this iron son of the Green Mountain When I went again to Shard Villa, the was in this woman—one of the Joneses of country, with the will of Agamemnon at mausoleum held another victim. Pinky old Claremont. When I was leaving her the gates of Troy, had established credit had been married to a young naval she gave me the portrait of Milton by in the most difficult court in the world. officer who in two years had become a Vandyke, hanging in the parlor. In 1829 "Yes, I won other cases there," he crazy drunkard and killed himself. Mr. Smith had bought it in a London went on. "I had learned how to do that Broken hearted, Pinky returned home ill auction room. It seems to be the portrait work and had good credit with the court. with tuberculosis and soon died. described by Charles Lamb in a letter to One case I shall never forget. I had got The great Columbus Smith was now Wordsworth. £20,000 for a poor cobbler who lived in a utterly broken down. The gift of speech One paragraph in Columbus Smith's country town in Michigan. I found him at had left him. He sat in a wheel chair will ought to be mentioned. There is a work on his bench. When I told him that and looked at me. They told him my little gleam of humor in it. I had fifty thousand dollars for him he name and he smiled. He tried to speak "I give to (here was the name of a man took a step toward me and fell into a and a strange sound came from his he disliked because of his conceit) a broad tub of water that stood near his throat. Rose and Marie, the two maids feather for his cap." bench. A bit of Vertigo. of Mrs. Smith, were there, now old and The mausoleum has long since com- " 'What will I do with that money?' bent. pleted its task and Shard Villa still he asked. That night I was awakened often by stands—a home for aged people. Qolmery of K^ansas (Continued from page iq) and Flora Scott Thomas of Webster, Legion interests frequently keep him from shortstop for Oberlin College and at third Pennsylvania. Walter Scott Colmery his law practice until the last possible for the University of Pittsburgh, again had come to North Braddock from Iberia, minute for the orderly preparation of a at shortstop for a team in the Uintah Ohio. Harry Colmery was to remember case. His presentation of a case at the Basin of Utah where he first practiced in later years the picture of six men, the bar is thus a model of preparedness, and law, and now in his maturity when com- Colmery brothers, which hung in the his handling of the material in the face petitive sports of all sorts of the more parlor of his home, five of them wearing of unexpected twistings and turnings of rugged type—football, ice hockey, bas- the stock-collar of ministers of the Pres- opposing counsel is by the testimony of ketball, baseball—interest him as a spec- byterian church. The one in civilian at- men who know, a beautiful thing to watch tator. For two seasons he was the direct- tire was Harry's grandfather. They were and hear. ing head of the Legion's Junior Baseball of Scotch-Irish stock and were all born Evidence of the natural ability of Western Sectional Tournament held at in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Harry Colmery came rather early. At Topeka. His inspirational drive made a Harry Colmery had a younger brother, fourteen he entered the North Braddock success of both tournaments, and at the Montgomery S., the baby of the family, high school. He not only completed the end of the second one, in 1934, players to whose defense Harry came when the four-year course in two years, but was and Legionnaires and prominent Kansas younger boy found the going too tough. valedictorian of his class, graduating in officials presented him with a plaque Monte saw service in the Ordnance De- knee pants. During these two years he testifying to his success at the job. partment during the war and is a Legion- found time to deliver goods from his naire of Pittsburgh. father's grocery store, with Monte assist- STILL in short trousers, Harry consid- Mathematics and grammar, it early ing him, collect laundry and operate a ered the matter of college. His parents developed, were Harry Colmery 's spe- paper route, this last building up to a were glad to help and gave him a free cialties in study, and this aptitude for the business that required the employment of rein in choosing the place he would go. exact sciences pretty well shaped his five youthful assistants. There was no Methodically, he studied magazine ad- career. In the preparation of law cases, system of competitive athletics in the vertisements and articles about various his associates say, he is at his best in high school, but Harry organized and institutions, and sent for catalogues. arranging complicated masses of detail played shortstop on a neighborhood From Oberlin College came with the and dovetailing them tc fit into a se- baseball team and was quarterback on a catalogue a personal letter signed by quence that has on occasion flabber- football eleven called the North Brad- George M. Jones, Registrar of the col- gasted opposing counsel by the thorough- dock Scholastics. The interest in sports lege. Mr. Jones wrote that his sister, ness with which it was assembled. A that showed itself thus early has been a Mrs. Rufus Emery, lived only a short twenty-four-hour job is not an uncom- source of satisfaction to him ever since, distance from the Colmery home, and mon thing with Colmery, because his in his young manhood when he played the cordial letter answering a routine 54 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — request for a catalogue asked Harry lowed and cigarette smoking was banned, if he wouldn't call on her for information for men, of course. Though in all its about Oberlin. Harry did, and as a departments the college had an enrolment THE DOVER 5 Rooms and Bath result headed for Oberlin the following of some twelve hundred it was the kind (Materials) September, where he became a member of place where everybody got to know of the class of 19 13. He was wearing long everybody else. Harry became one of trousers by now, but his mother wanted the popular figures on the campus, short- to see what the boy was being let in for, stop on the varsity baseball team and and so the two of them made the trip until one of his legs was rather seriously from North Braddock. injured one of the most promising back- Oberlin College had been founded in field men on the football squad. Strangely 1833 under Congregational Church au- enough in view of his choosing the law as MODERN HOMES spices, and was the first college in the a profession, he did not take part in at Mill Prices! United States to accept women students debating or any literary activities. Buy Direct from Mill and Save—You buy from under exactly the same conditions as Laird Dean says the first efforts the our 5 great mills at lowest wholesale prices. One order buys your home complete. No extras! Over 270,000 men. 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Dr. King, who During the long summer vacations of his for fix-up work—at amazing money-saving prices. became president soon after the turn of Oberlin years Colmery worked at all FREE BOOK the century, held that office for twenty- sorts of laborious jobs—tamping ties, HOME PLANS VnnW five years, and brought attention to the unloading ballast, repairing railroad cars. Contains modern home J plans, specifications, valu- £" t' college through the lectures which he he was advance man for 1 One summer able home building infor- 1 \ mation. 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GOSHEN.IND. month he had a room at a small boarding city where the greatest shortstop of all house, and then with Laird Dean, whose time was at the time holding forth, Harry career subsequently was entwined with naturally made Hans Wagner his model MINSTRELS his, Harry went to the home of T. on the baseball field. To such an extent first parts fore pleteshow, J. th special songs and horuses. Henderson, head of the Oberlin Business did he talk about the Pittsburgh slugger Black-face plays, Jokes, Gags, Post- ers, Make-up Goods, Wigs, Bones, Tiimbourines. Lively, up-to-the College (not connected with Oberlin that he became known to his team- minute plays for dramatic clubs and lodges. Deniaon of Hans, and his future wife for College) where with a group congenial mates as a laya produced every- . 'here. 00 yearsof lii i friends he lived for the greater part of long time believed that Hans was his Free Catalog his Oberlin career. Brock Henderson, a name. The restrictions at Oberlin were T. S. DENIS0N SCO S. Wabash. Dept. B9. Chicago son of the family and a member of the rather severe to youngsters situated as class of '13, was one of Harry's close they were, but occasionally they were friends, as was Glen Gray, '10, a famous guests at house parties at Vermilion Oberlin athlete who lost his life in a Beach on Lake Erie or visited with WAKE UP YOUR hunting accident in Utah. It was Laird friends in nearby Cleveland. Following Dean, now president of the Merchants the convention which elected him Na- LIVER BILE- National Bank of Topeka, who a year tional Commander Harry visited with Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out later introduced Harry to Miss Minerva Mrs. Colmery at the Oberlin home of the of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go Hiserodt, Oberlin '14, who in 1919 be- Hendersons, where he had spent so many The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid came Mrs. Harry Colmery. happy days. bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just Hiserodt, in three years after he had secured Miss whose home was For decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. Gridley, Illinois, had gone to Oberlin his Oberlin degree Harry Colmery was a You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world because her parents felt that a college student at the law school of the Univer- looks punk. Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel with pretty rigid standards and situated sity of Pittsburgh, the while teaching movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those in a small town offered the maximum of mathematics and English at Carnegie good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you opportunities for self improvement and Tech. Here his ability to concentrate feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little the of distractions and frivoli- on the job at hand to the exclusion of all minimum Liver Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything ties. At Oberlin dancing was not al- distracting in- (Continued 011 page 56) else. 25c at all drug stores. © 1935, C.M.Co. JANUARY, 1937 55 Qolmery of Kansas {Continued from page 55) fluences made it possible for him to carry ant in the Air Service as a pursuit pilot. officer a new trial that resulted in his a heavy schedule of activities, for in ad- In addition to more than five hundred acquittal. Probably his most notable dition to these duties he read law in the hours of actual flying he performed the successes in the Supreme Court were offices of the noted Pittsburgh firm of additional duties of company and squad- those in the City of Marysville cases in Blakely and Calvert, found time for ron commander, instructor of interior which the court upheld the Kansas membership in the legal fraternity Phi guard duty, manual of court martial, municipality's ordinance requiring un- Delta Phi, and still was able to make and military gymnastics. His experience derground storage of gasoline and distil- his letter in varsity baseball, shifting to acquainted him with the terrific hazards late by oil companies, and the Sauder third base. imposed on wartime pilots by the hap- case, involving the right of a landowner hazard, criminal incompetence that fur- to cancel a lease. In this last case Col- ALMOST as soon as he had received his nished "flying coffins" for the students in mery represented certain landowners L j- law degree at Pitt he left for Utah. training, and as a result he became a who were fighting a large oil company. In the Uintah basin in the north central thorough believer in adequate peacetime On a writ of certiorari to the highest part of the State the federal Government national defense. court in the land, the decision of the cir- had in the year 1905 thrown open to Receiving his honorable discharge from cuit court of appeals was reversed in favor settlement some two million acres of the service on April 24, 1919, Lieutenant of Colmery's clients. arable land. In the small town of Colmery returned to Duchesne and the Duchesne in the Basin, Laird Dean, practice of law. He early recognized the DEAN and Colmery remained part- Harry Colmery's old friend of Oberlin value of The American Legion, and or- ners until 1926, when for two years days, had settled down to the job of run- ganized many posts in the Basin. He Harry went it alone. In 1928 he be- ning a general store. He wrote to Harry was a member of the first Department came an associate in the firm of Doran, and to numerous others about what a Executive Committee of Utah. Toward Kline, Colmery and Cosgrove. fine rough country it was to grow up in the end of 1919 he returned to Topeka Harry Colmery likes to meet people, and Harry at once set out for the place. to join forces with Colonel John S. Dean, to talk to them, to persuade them. He is In Duchesne there were about twenty father of Laird Dean, in formation of the civic minded, believes that good citizen- professional men, probably fifteen of law firm of Dean and Colmery. Colonel ship is a matter of acceptance of indivi- them college men who were used to taking Dean had been in the judge advocate's dual responsibility. He has been in de- part in sports. They had a baseball department during the war and became a mand as a speaker on public occasions team that was pretty successful in com- Legionnaire. Harry Colmery on moving and gets his message across. As a mem- petition. They had a good rough-and- to Topeka joined Capitol Post No. 1, ber of Kiwanis and in Masonic circles ready outdoor life, and the hunting was and rose through the various offices to he has had an excellent opportunity to good, with deer, bear and coyotes in that of Post Commander in 1928. Just sell the Legion in Kansas and adjoining abundance. before going to Topeka he married Miss States, and it requires no particular gift Colmery immediately plunged into Hiserodt in her home in Gridley, Illinois. to prophesy that when he tackles the job legal work, which consisted mainly of They have three children, Sarah Eliza- nationally this year he will do it up litigation over water rights and beneficial beth, sixteen, Harry Walter, Jr., who will brown. use of water under which homesteaders be thirteen on January 10th, and Mary With the probability .that in 1937 made good their title to the land. The Caroline, whose twelfth birthday comes the Legion will break its all-time high man whose irrigation ditch failed to get eight days later. membership mark the prestige of the its quota of water was out of luck, and organization should also reach a new there were plenty of chances for a young SUBSEQUENTLY, Colmery's story is high, for this commander knows where lawyer who was willing to work and that of an enlarged service in the he's going and won't be satisfied with less didn't want to spend all his time in the Legion, as officer and Commander of than a bang-up job. As for his friend- office. It was here that Harry met Frank the Kansas Department, national ex- ships, he clings to the old ones, but makes McFarland, who was playing on the ecutive committeeman from that State, hundreds of new friends every year. baseball team and filling various sorts and eventually for two terms as Chair- He's that sort of person. Of those with of jobs in the store and out. Today man of the National Legislative Com- whom he was associated at Oberlin he Frank McFarland's law office in Topeka mittee. He has in his time presented still keeps in touch with W. O. Hunter, is on the floor below Harry's, and it was hundreds of claims for disabled soldiers director of athletics at the University he who placed Colmery in nomination and has worked consistently too for of Southern California, Elmer Henderson, at both St. Louis and Cleveland. Legion objectives both within his De- now coaching the professional football While they were thus engaged in a partment and nationally. In the diffi- team sponsored by the Los Angeles rugged sort of primitive adventure in cult days of reorganization of the New County Council of The American Legion; living, the United States declared war on Mexico Department he had a large Phil Edwards, President of the Kearney- Germany. Colmery's attempt to enlist and telling part in restoring order from Trecker Corporation of Milwaukee; at Camp Funston in May 191 7 was de- chaos, and despite some resentment felt Maurice Shurtleff, Chairman of the Board nied because he was not a resident of the toward him at the time by individuals of the Shurtleff Co., Elgin, Illinois; Second Geographical Area, and it was not in that State, New Mexico was the first Harry V. Marsh of the Stemars Display until three months later that he was ad- Department to declare for him in the Co., Chicago, and Frank C. Fisher, a mitted to training in the Officers Training race for National Commander. prominent attorney in New York City. Camp, Eighth Infantry, at the Presidio In his legal career since going to The story is about done, and yet it is in San Francisco. He received a commis- Topeka the National Commander has but half done, for I have had to condense sion as second lieutenant, Air Service, been conspicuously successful. Rarely rigorously the material about a career on November 27, 191 7, being assigned to dipping into criminal law, he carried the that is but now rising to the crest. They Kelly Field, Texas, as instructor of in- case of Major Shepard, a regular army gave Harry Colmery a great homecoming fantry drill regulations, preparing a group officer who had been found guilty of when he returned to Topeka after his of recruits for flying service. In January murder in the lower courts, to the United election, but after all that's the sort of 1918 he was commissioned a first lieuten- States Supreme Court and won for the thing they'd do even if he were not quite 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — ' the personality he is. I have had to ing on locations, and declined to accept have telescope the material on his Legion the Senate amendments. " . . . writes George Bailey foreshadows greater accomplishments ing of March 4th (adjournment of the ahead. Harry Colmery will be heard session was at 1 2 noon that day.) Wear the WEIL BELT for from in the years to come, after he has "The Legion wanted the larger Senate 10 days at our expense! YOU will appear many built this Legion into what we all hope bill (6,000 beds), so did all five Senate inches slimmer at once and in ten days if it will be. His stimulating influence in members and two Congressmen. That your waist line is not 3 inches smaller, Chamber of Commerce affairs has made 7 to 3 in the Conference Com- it won't cost you a cent. "I reduced 8 inches". . . writes brought him attention quite aside from mittee. The rub was that a majority Geo. Bailey, "Lost 50 lbs," writes . . his Legion and ordinary legal connections. of each group was required to secure an W. T. Anderson. . Hundreds of similar letters. like to close this all brief I should too agreement. IF YOU DO NOT account with the story of what Colmery "Harry called us from Topeka on REDUCE your WAIST did to get the Rogers Bill of March 4, March 2d to learn the situation. We 3 INCHES in 10 DAYS 1931, enacted into law. I touched briefly asked him to come down and he took a ...it will cost you nothing! on this matter earlier in this article. Now plane, getting here on the morning of You will be completely i comfortable as this I should like to call as a witness Edward the 3d. We spent the day having confer- amazing reducing belt gemly but persistently McE. Lewis, former co-worker with ences with everybody, getting no place. Bl '* eliminates fat with every John Thomas Taylor in the offices at Harry's position was the correct one HL move! Gives an erect w2h athletic carriage . . . Washington of the National Legislative that the responsibility lay with Congress Mr ...it supports abdominal walls ... keeps digestive Committee. Eddie Lewis talking: whether they passed or killed the bill. organs in place and with "The Rogers Act of March 1931, es- "There was a night session lasting loss of burdensome fat 4, comes increased pep and tablishing the principle of government until 2 a.m. of March 4th. The length greater endurance. building for non-service-connected cases, of the capitol is feet, and the floors Insurance Companie9 know the 751 danger of fat accumulations. was the climax of two years of Legion are marble. Harry, Jack and I walked Doctors warn against obesity. Don't wait . . . act today I effort, more than two score bills intro- the length that night no less than a duced, and the testimony of more than dozen times, arguing with conferees. acnngDD THE WEIL COMPANY, INC. 100 witnesses who came to Washington No result, except fallen arches and corns. 551 HILL ST., NEW HAVEN, CONN. from all parts of the nation. The ques- Next morning the House met at o. We Send me FREE, in plain envelope, your illustrated folder describing The Weil Belt and full details tion would the Government build for went at the attack again. was, of your 10 DAY FREE TRIAL OFFER. those needing NP hospitalization whose "The House conferees gave in at n Name service connection had not been proved? a.m. Mrs. Rogers asked for agreement Address "Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massa- in the Senate amendments, which was City State chusetts was chairman of the hospital immediately given. Then clerks had to Use Coupon or Send Name and Address on Penny Post Card sub-committee of the House Veterans leap back and forth to get the signatures Committee. After two months of hear- of the Speaker and Vice-President to the Follow This Man Secret Service Operator No. 88 is orj ings and executive meetings, she reported bill. Hoover had come to the Capitol, the jobl Running down Counterfeit Gang- Tell-tale fingerprints in mur- a bill for $12,500,000 of construction, and it was on his desk by 11:45. He dered girl's room. Thrill, Mystery. The Confidential Reports Operator No. 38 made it BTfafkf* of which the House promptly passed. signed ten minutes later, so the bill m m. t0 his chief. Writo for it- Earn a Regular Monthly Salary Senate Finance Committee after became a law with five minutes to spare. "The YOU can become a Finger Print Ex- pert at home, in pare time. Write brief hearings increased the authoriza- Harry was cool as a cucumber during for details if 17 or over. Institute of Applied Science tion to $20,877,000, but left locations to the whole trying row, never lost his head 1920 Sunnyside Ave. Dept. 4051 Chicago. 111. the Federal Board of Hospitalization, once. The beds have now been built and and in this form it passed the Senate are occupied. This was probably his most February 21, 1031. 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An excess of acids or poisons in your blood, when due to functional kidney disorders, may be the cause of nagging backache, rheumatic pains, lumbago, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes 'For goodness sakes, Gertie, pull down the shades!' flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. JANUARY. 1937 57 Tumbleweed {Continued from page 23) "Can't I get light work of some sort?" talked, thought, and dreamed about it. only hoped to make their land pay their "There is no light work. You can pick Without water the desert was cruel, keep. God! One man, however, was more cotton, but it's a man-sized job. You merciless. He heard discussion of a optimistic—a chap named Stone, six feet can clear land but that's even harder. veteran who, without money, had dug a and a hundred and eighty pounds, who Better take that CCC job. The govern- hole by hand 346 feet deep to reach the worked in Hollywood until he broke down ment hospital at Tucson has to employ precious stuff. He saw that out here in and had to come back to the desert. veterans as orderlies and kitchen help, the shimmering heat waves life was a con- "This is the place to raise turkeys," he and when a vacancy comes there we can stant fierce struggle against the savage declared. "I get me a section of land, a pull you out of the CCC camp." passivity of this brown arid land. And Mexican to ride herd, and I fence the But Joe had another idea. He had yet he did not lose hope. These men had land and let the turkeys eat bugs and made friends in the hospital. He had done it; why not he? mesquite, and I watch 'em day and night heard about homesteading*— all the Eight of the twelve Legion members with a .30-.30 to kill off the coyotes. veterans get this idea sooner or later. were in the cool adobe building when Joe They'll pay me a living." Fellows told him about the veteran col- frankly set forth his situation. They felt He looked at Joe kindly. "Only I'm onies such as Wintersburg and Cave sorry for him, but none seemed to wish putting my bonus money into it. These Creek. What better, so long as he must to encourage him. Finally, Ira Oliver, fellows are right, Joe, you can't come remain here, than to apply for a piece brown as shoeleather from working his here without something in the way of of land, prove up on it, and make a home land in his birthday suit, turned to a cash." for Mary and the kids? He knew about tanned, tall, shy man and said, "Harold, But Joe wondered if he couldn't farm farming, and eventually the land would you started on the desert without a dime. for somebody else while getting a start. support all of them. A friend who had a Tell Joe what it's like." Marc Kentch shook his head. "Eastern car drove him one Sunday to Winters- Joe listened eagerly as Harold Good- farming and this kind of farming is all burg, so Joe could look into the matter. man began to talk. Goodman said he different. It's even different from dry spent his last money to buy a tent and farming—honest. WINTERSBURG! Ten miles north- a month's groceries and began to clear "Let me explain, Joe. Now, you take west of Hassyampa on the desert the land. The groceries didn't last as long alfalfa. You can soak the ground for road to Salome. A tiny schoolhouse, a gro- as they should have, so Goodman sold his that. The more water you put on the cery store and post office, mail delivered car for twenty-five dollars and pressed better it is. A lot sinks down and comes twice a week; an oblong adobe house—the on to more clearing. This money gave up later. Fine. But if you put water on Legion home—and against the skyline out. Marc Kentch gave him credit, but alfalfa when the first or second leaf is here and there the round sails of windmills that couldn't go on. He got a job six just on—you lose the crop. Put water on that marked habitations. miles away digging a well, walking the after the third leaf is up and you harvest Just this, dropped down on a flat, end- twelves miles each day. That lasted until it. Don't ask me why it's so—I'm just less desert of sagebrush, cacti, mesquite he broke his arm. Then he got sixteen telling you. and greasewood, and against the horizon dollars a month from Arizona relief and the jagged, barren mountains. existed on that until his arm was healed. WE try all kinds of experiments out Used though he was to the desert Joe Then there was cotton-picking — you here. Most anything will grow if was appalled. Rain seldom if ever fell made a dollar and a half, sometimes two you know when and how to water it, what here. The sun rose hotly over the purple a day. Then there was work clearing the kind of soil it needs. For instance, pea- hills, climbed fiercely into a faultless blue land of weak service-connected veterans. nuts make a good crop. But you've got vault and drowned in a crimson sea of its You got three dollars an acre for doing to have a sort of porous soil so the water own making, taking with it the breeze, that. It bought beans and salt-horse, don't lie on the top. If you soak peanuts so that the desert lay breathless, utterly and at night you cleared your own land and the water stays on top—the peanuts silent, until the sun rose again and so as to prove up. Or your wife helped to rot right there. I mind a fellow who brought the wind with it. A hundred and do that, and between your wife and your- planted corn—good crop corn. He turned thirty degrees in the summer when a man self you built a single-room shack. Then on his water and figured that when the gasped for breath; chill winter nights you saved and sweated toward sinking a ground was soaked to the fence he'd put when a man cuddled under blankets. well to bring water to the place. That on enough. Well, do you know, the corn How did you make things grow here? cost fifteen hundred dollars. A fortune. closest to his windmill pump did right Marc Kentch, the veteran who ran the well. That out by the fence died. Didn't grocery store and post office, was friendly. I PROVED up my land," Goodman get enough water. Took him a year to "You're in luck," he said. "This is concluded, "but don't raise anything find that out. Legion meeting day, and the boys will be much yet. I work for Marc Kentch, dig- "Some of us do right well with grapes; drifting in presently." ging wells." He stared at Joe's thin body. some try citrus. We all work and study Joe hung around, listening. Some of "You couldn't work like that," he said and experiment and find out how to the veterans got the statutory award of simply. "You aren't strong enough." grow crops. So that's the way it is." fifty dollars a month as service-connected Joe sat stone-faced. He heard in the Joe Stephens went back to Phoenix. arrested cases, but Joe wasn't interested general discussion that even homestead He wanted to go on the land, but he had in them. Anybody could live most any land when you got it cleared and ready to have money. He needed his family. place on fifty dollars a month. No, how for water cost you five dollars an acre. He had to have a job. The land would did you live out here with nothing but "And besides that," Ira Oliver said, have to wait on these vital problems. your two hands? "you've got to have enough money to MacDowell shook his head dubiously. As he listened it seemed as if he heard keep you at the rate of thirty dollars a Dozens of Joes, just as desperate and de- of nothing but water. Water! They month for two years. Even then you serving, came to him every day. It was a can't always make your place pay out." never-ending problem that was growing *Since Joe's arrival all government homestead land has then that these the bigger instead of diminishing. been withdrawn, and until it is again offered (veterans Joe knew men were Yet Joe ninety-day have a preference) the only way homestead last pioneers, the nesters who lived from Stephens had a stroke of luck. Mac- land can be acquired is by finding a relinquishment and getting it transferred. day to day by their two hands. And they Dowell found him a job in the machine 58 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly a — y shop of the highway department— it's worse." state job, without civil service protection, "Yeah, I know," Joe admitted. "It's yet a job. MacDowell did even more ; he a case of being separated from their advanced Joe fifty dollars to get his families and continuing to live, or stay- family to Phoenix. ing back with their families and dying." When Joe came in to pay the first in- He nodded sadly. "There ought to be stalment on the loan he saw other men a law helping them." waiting patiently, trying to get a job. "Yes," agreed Mac, "there should Mac said, "Your luck still runs, Joe. but there isn't. And there'll be a dozen We're doing our best for these others, more just like you tomorrow. More but the situation isn't getting any better, drifters—more tumbleweed!" Oglesby Gcirso7i figures It Out (Continued from page 5) to find some spot where hard liquor did ing from an El Paso street car to hurry not abound. Just why they picked out through the main gates of Fort Bliss, I Torreon puzzled us, for the town bore noticed a lone soldier leaning against a a continental reputation for the unending stone pillar. I hastily asked him where supply of its choice brews and blends, as Colonel Hathaway resided. Clicking his well as tequila and aguardiente. heels together and at salute, he said, It mattered not to us that Oglesby was "Colonel Hathaway lives in the third a "remittance man." He never foisted house on the right." his wealth upon us. He always graciously There was no mistaking the voice and did more than his share. He took to the face. My eyes almost popped out of OLD FACES MADE YOUNG Sternau's, our main hostelry, like a duck my head. There in the flesh stood MENyou can look lOto 15 years younger. S Minutes a Day to water. Hattie was the salt of the earth. Oglesby Carson. Much flabbergasted, I Keeps Wrinkles Away and erases agre lines. This new sen* We grew to love him. To us he became asked him, "Beg pardon, but are you not sational home method Sent on Trial — You Risk Nothing, stories were rare, another salute a real hombre. His Oglesby Carson?" With Lifts sagging muscles, fills up hollows. Ao Cosmetics, varied and full of the human touch. He and click of the heels, he repeated with- Men, Women, all ages write was soon a light among us. Only a few out blinking an eye, "Colonel Hathaway for thrilling book and Facial Analysis Chart —both sent times did he desert his corner at Sternau's lives in the third house on the right." FREE in plain wrapper. F.ULiNE PALMER, HOOA Armour BK d., Kansas tity.Mo for our more boisterous picnics. But on And thither I moved in much perturbed the few occasions he stepped out, he went thought. NEW WAY! in all over. I lost little time with the colonel, and CLEANS WALLS A year or so after their arrival, Oglesby hurried back to El Paso, where I im- Ends Drudgery . • . Sells on Sight invited a number of us to dine with him mediately sought old "Doc" Clarke, who AMAZING NEW WALL CLEANER. Revolution- ary invention. Banishes old-stylo housecleaning at Sternau's. As we gathered round, we had long since established a practice Mi and muss forever. No dirty raps—no stick "douffh"—no red. swollen hands. No more dan- noted a certain seriousness about our there. Excitedly I told him the story. gerous stepladdera. Literally erases dirt like magic fn.m wallpaper and painted walls. Also cleans window shades, upholstered furniture. , foreign to him. said, "George, ( calmly you are crazy. work. < host heretofore He without SAVES RE DK 'O RATIN ; 1 Ap* i With the black coffee, he arose. His Oglesby Carson was drowned on the Soul light. AGENTS WANTED, up big money. terse and to this effect: at California, in 2." speech was short, beach Monterey, 191 pies sent at oar risk SAMPLE OFFER: ; ! i j locality .writes. otili "< "Men, I literally fell into Torreon and I had some trouble convincing "Doc" who No 1mt5!.n. "rt'detafla. Be first—semi in vc * name TODA.X. krist££ iviFG. CO., 331 Bar St. Akron, 0. you picked me up. It's been a joy to live that I was still sane, but we determined among you and be one of you. I leave to try to solve the case together. Instead you with the keenest regret. I am going of playing tennis early every morning, away from Torreon, as I have left many we took his car and drove out to the WANTED MANUFACTURERS only because I have de- Fort. Search of muster rolls and roster other ports, By old established firm, to east. 5 and 10c Novelties. Toy termined not to die in a drunkard's grave. revealed no Oglesby Carson, so each Autos. Ashtrays, etc. Can be done in any spare room, basement or garage. No experience necessary as When I go over the cliff, I want to fall morning, egged on by my insistence, we we furnish full instructions with moulds and small outlay starts you. A rare opportunity for these times, with a smile on my face and a great satis- went out there and just nosed around. so if interested in devoting your spare or full time to profitable work write AT ONCE as we are now closing faction in my heart. I am convinced that About the tenth morning, just as arrangements for 1937 supply of our goods. only a complete shift of threshold can "Doc" had determined to give up the METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. save me. Our bags are packed and at hunt, we bumped into Oglesby Carson, 1696 Boston Road Dept. 9, New York, N. Y. the station. We leave in fifteen minutes. just as he was coming around the corner God bless you." of a Supply Depot. The cool nerve he You Need GLOVER'S To Combat And so we solemnly escorted Oglesby had shown me at my first encounter with to his train, where Hattie with a few him at the gate of the Fort quite deserted Unsightly friends was awaiting him. There was no him. With raised hand, as if to silence DANDRUFF! To effectively with Dandruff, Itching hilarity. We were losing Oglesby sud- us, he almost whispered, "Boys, you cope Scalp, excessive Falling Hair or Baldness, you denly, just as we had acquired him. And don't know me now. Keep quiet. Satur- need a Medicine— GLOVER'S. It that was the end of Oglesby Carson. day afternoon, I'll meet you wherever has been saving the hair of men Some four years later, old "Doc" you say in town, and tell you the whole and women for over sixty years. with it. Clarke, also a Canadian and a warm story. For God's sake, keep all of this in Start today and persist Your druggist sells Glover's friend of Carson's, came into the Foreign the strictest confidence." And without Mange Medicine and Glover's Club with a long face and a letter, which any other sign of recognition, we parted. Medicated Soap for the informed us that Oglesby had been Promptly at three o'clock Saturday shampoo. Or have your drowned on the Beach at Monterey in afternoon, Oglesby appeared at "Doc's" Barber give you Glover's Treatments. California. office in civvies. He did not seem to have Five years passed and we were on the aged a bit. He gripped our hands t fkiyirij'c MANGE hard and (Continued VJT M^KJ T £IVi3 MEDICINE verge of entering the World War. Jump- looked on page 60 ) JANUARY, 1937 59 Oglesby (parson figures It Out {Continued from page 59) us in the eye so intently as he greeted us, "They found me after five days, al- They ordered our regiment from the that we sensed something unusual was most dead from thirst and hunger, and Philippines to the Texas Border in special coming. With the utmost deliberation somehow I managed to arrive in Manila, preparation for the big move. When I lighting a cigarette, he started to unwind a complete physical wreck, but still with met George, 'Doc,' I wanted to hug him. his story. the inborn determination to fight shy of But a quick, misguided decision bade me "Fellows, you just can't duck life. I booze. To no avail! I literally became a keep up my bluff, in the hope that I presume I came as near doing so as any beach-comber in the tropics. I think I would soon be in France. man living. When I left you fellcws at slipped as far down in the human scale as "Thank God, you fellows persisted. Torreon, I told you that I was doing so a man who innately wanted to be some- Now here we are with the same old to escape a drunkard's grave and that thing could possibly have slipped. Oglesby, who in saving himself from a only a shift of scene would save me. I "Just when it became an almost losing drunkard's grave has a pretty mess to tried so hard to taper down gradually on fight between further effort to right my- explain. I am in your hands. Tell me, my liquor. Hattie and I wandered up and self or commit suicide, I managed to what am I to do?" down the Pacific Coast—spent some time catch hold. I determined to join the Many questions popped into our minds, at Lake Louise and around Yellowstone. United States Army, and I did so under but we could not bring ourselves to ask Through it all Hattie was the same an assumed name. And before I knew it them. And so we told him to rest easy; brick with no scolding. But despite three years went by. that we'd find a way out for him. the greatest effort, old John Barleycorn "Oglesby Carson was no more. I want- And we did. Colonel Hathaway saw and myself continued on very friendly ed to forget him; wanted everybody to to it that his assumed name was changed terms—so much so that by 1912, I de- forget him. I had pretty well managed to to that of Oglesby Carson in the army termined upon another major operation. build up another personality, for the old records. His regiment was among the "Hattie had been a peach. She under- Oglesby without the stimulus of alcohol first of our Regulars to be called to stood and had tried so hard to help me. became a sensible sort of philosophical France. Before embarking, he secured a It wouldn't go. I simply had to find some cuss. And I re-enlisted. From corporal, furlough to visit Canada, where Hattie way to figure it out for myself and work I became a crack sergeant. I found a greeted him proudly with that forgive- it out by myself alone. So I faked the great satisfaction in my army record. I ness that passeth all understanding. And drowning scene on the beach at Monterey was sorely tempted to break away and Oglesby Carson was one of the first —did it rather neatly too, when I recall get into the World War, but I had a row of our American soldiers to lay down the amount of liquor I was carrying at to hoe, and was still not quite sure of my- their lives in the war. the time. Slipped up to 'Frisco, and self for such a move. "Doc" and I know that he went "over stowed away on a boat bound for Manila. "And then it began to look as though the cliff" with a smile on his face and a I knew that Hattie would be provided we might have to get in. We Regulars of great satisfaction in that fine heart of for, through the terms of my father's will. course would be the first to go over. his. The T)ates *Are September 20-23 (Continued from page ij) Publicity from the Legion to the public for round-trip transportation on all rail- That the National Commander be au- generally will be under the supervision roads for Legionnaires going to the 1937 thorized to appoint a new committee of a National Publicity Officer be directly national convention in New York City. known as the Committee on Investment responsible to the National Commander. That the National Commander be au- Policy which shall handle exclusively the Some of the more important resolutions thorized to appoint a committee of five investment of all funds in behalf of the approved by the National Executive members to examine all previous na- National Organization of The American Committee were: tional convention actions and mandates Legion and thus enable the National Authorizing the National Commander which may be in conflict with the present Finance Committee to concentrate upon to appoint a committee of three members policy of the Legion, and for the purpose the duty of preparing the yearly budget, to study the types and colors of Legion of eliminating such conflicting or obso- handling of funds under that budget, and caps now being sold through the Em- lete directions through National Con- such other duties as shall be prescribed blem Division, to the end that a standard vention or National Executive Com- by the National Executive Committee, and uniform cap may be determined mittee action. in accordance with the provision in the upon, and to establish the authority for Abolishing the present National Aero- national by-laws of the Legion. the sale thereof. nautics Commission and creating a new While there are vacancies yet to be That the National Organization of The commission of nine members. filled on existing or newly created stand- American Legion become wholly re- That for the purpose of insuring greater ing national committees of The American sponsible for the detailed arrangement efficiency and service in the matter of Legion, the Committee on Committees and official control of the annual Legion administration of child welfare, the mem- reported the following national chair- Armistice Day observance at the tomb of bership of the present unpaid, technical manships for the ensuing year, represent- the Unknown Soldier. advisory staff, meeting with the Execu- ing the recommendations of National That the Legion request passage of tive Committee of the National Child Commander Colmery, and they were legislation providing that immediate re- Welfare Committee, be increased to nine confirmed by the National Executive enlistment after November n, 1918, and members. Committee: before July 2, 1921, be considered as con- That the National Contests Supervis- National Finance Committee, Sam tinuous, active service in the World War. ory Committee of three be abolished and Reynolds, Nebraska; National Rehabili- That the National Commander be em- a new Committee of the same name tation, E. V. Cliff, Minnesota; National powered to negotiate for a one-way rate composed of nine experts be established. Child Welfare, Roland B. Howell, Louisi- 60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly : — ana; National Americanism, Stephen F. the 11,370 Legion posts; continued op- fm He Got $1000 lot Chadwick, Washington; National Legis- position to all subversive activities, by lative, Robert W. Colflesh, Iowa; Na- educational counteraction and revision if ONE 01D COIN tional Defense, O'Connor Roberts, of the Legion book on "Isms" and its 'B.TldiK lUil paid Mr. %rou/ntee of J. Qeorciia $ IOOO.°f> tor (JuJ District of Columbia; World Peace and distribution to libraries; sponsorship of coin tlial he found iiiule aiqqinq.- DO YOU WANT BIG MONEY Foreign Relations, Rev. Father Robert legislation restricting immigration, and hr OLD COINS BIUS STAMPS ? White, District of Columbia. deportation of all undesirable aliens. J. POST YOURSELF! . . . IT PAYS! Education of War Orphans, General As national officers for the coming I paid S400.00 to Mrs. Dowty of Texas, Half Dollar ; J. D. Martin of Vir- for one ( P. C. Harris, District of Columbia; Dis- year the Committee approved the re- ginia $200.00 for a single Copper Cent. \ „ Mr. Manningof NewYork, S2.500.00 tinguished Guests, Lyle 0. Armel, Kan- appointments of the following: National •**^>>^for one Silver Dollar. Mrs. G. t K. Adams, Ohio, received $740 , cash prices for sas; Contests Supervisory, Matty Bain, Adjutant, Frank E. Samuel, of Kansas; for a few old coins. I will pay highest \ all kinds of old coins, medals, bills and stamps. Pennsylvania. National Treasurer, John Ruddick of I WILL PAY $100.00 FOR A DIME! 1894 'S' Mint: $50.00 for 1913 Liberty Head Nickel mot Buf- falo) and hundreds of other amazing prk-es for coins. Send 4c ; Advocate, Ralph Marksmanship, Frank Schneller, Indiana National Judge It J. for Large Illustrated Coin Folder and further particulars. \ much profit to you. Write today to Wisconsin; Veterans' Preference, Frank B. Gregg of Indiana; National Historian, may mean B.MAX MEHL, SOOMehl Bldg.,FortWorth,Texas i _ {Largest Rare Coin Company in V. S.A.) Established 36 years A. Mathews, Jr., New Jersey; National Thomas M. Owen, Jr., of Alabama. Pilgrimage, William N. Morell, Mary- Among the resolutions of condolence land; Graves Registration, Mancel B. adopted by the National Executive Com- Talcott, Illinois; Resolutions Assign- mittee was one expressing the deep grief ment, Edward Scheiberling, New York; of The American Legion over the passing ^Scratching National Emblem, Roy L. Cook, New of Madame Schumann-Heink in Holly- Mexico; National Aeronautics, Dr. W. wood, California, on November 17th. /treli EVE ITCHING In Ons. Minute. Even the most stubborn itching of eczema, blotches, W. Arrasmith, Nebraska. At the final session of the committee it pimples, athlete's foot, rashes and other skin erup- tions, quickly yields to Dr. Dennis' National Law and Order, Judge Rich- turned down a proposal that the heroic cooling, antisep- tic, liquid D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. Its gentle oils ard Hartshorne, New Jersey; National size painting "America" by Reni-Mel, soothe the irritated skin. Clear, greaseless and stain less —dries fast. Stops the most intense itching in- Liaison, Ringley, artist, has in the Convention James P. French which hung stantly. A 35c trial bottle, at drug stores, proves it Illinois; National Employment, Forrest National Executive Committee room at or money back. Ask for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. Cooper, Mississippi, and Overseas Graves National Headquarters for several years, Decoration Trust, Harry W. Colmery. be removed to the Auditorium of the During 1037 the Legion will expand its Shrine of the Indiana World War Memo- sponsorship of model "Boys' States'' and rial. A resolution allowing the Trustees If Ruptured other citizenship training activities such of the War Memorial to have the picture as sponsorship of Boy Scout troops, reproduced was adopted. organization of Sons of the Legion So, as 1937 dawns, The American Cut This Out squadrons and continuation of Junior Legion finds itself in a better position Baseball activity, according to the report than at any previous new year to carry and mail it with name and address to W; S. Rice, Inc., 12 E. Main St., Adams, Americanism its service on the program made by on to the community, State N. Y. You will receive absolutely free Chairman Chadwick and adopted by the and nation. The winning of Universal and no obligation a genuine test and full particulars of his amazing Method for National Executive Committee. Service, after a fight of nearly seventeen reducible Rupture control that is bring- The report stressed four outstanding years, will mean insurance against the ing a new ease, comfort and freedom to phases of Americanism for the ensuing American youth of today and tomorrow- thousands who have suffered for years. No matter how bad the rupture, how long year: Youth training activities; commun- being sent into battle needlessly. That you have had it, or how hard to hold; no ity service, with emphasis on highway in itself will make 1937 stand out in- matter how many kinds of trusses you have worn, let nothing prevent you from safety education and completion of delibly in our history. The rest of the getting this FREE TRIAL. Whether you organization of disaster relief units among year's objectives can and will be taken. are tall and thin, short and stout or have a large rupture, this marvelous Appli- ance will so control the ruptured parts that you will be as free to work at any occupation as though you had never been Once a Tear ruptured. Test this guaranteed Method for re- (Continued from page jj) ducible rupture without anv risk. Simply send for FREE TRIAL to W. S. Rice, Inc., no Legionnaire will be able to equal for papers the man whose name will endure 12 E. Main St., Adams, N. Y. yet a while. He has attended twenty-two in that of the local Legion post so long as National Encampments of the G. A. R. the post itself endures. Bellevue also has a post of The Ameri- In Runnemede, the Legion supplied Greet Every Day In can Legion—Liberty Post. Liberty Post the local paper, the Observer, with a 1937 Without A not long ago held a special service in the brief tribute Irvin to John which the H E ADAC H E I Central High School Auditorium honor- Observer was proud to use on its front ing Comrade Kline. The exercises in- page. This tribute is here reproduced as BROMO-MINT On Sale At Drug Stores, cluded a dramatized version of a meeting a suggestion to Legion posts everywhere Fountains, Clubs, Bars, Cafes of Gambee Post of the G. A. R. "John Irvin Post, No. 250, American Legion . . . What response does this name Namesake bring? . . To the vets who lived with John Irvin during training, on board ship, WHAT is your post doing to keep embarked upon what was to prove to be alive the name of the man which his Great Adventure, at arduous final 35BE SALARY Ex-Sbhviobj Men Get Preference it has taken for its own, thereby alike preparation behind the lines for tne [) Railway Mail Clerk ( ) POSTMASTER TO START P. O. Laborei Elev. Conductor honoring his memory and being honored Great finally in ) ( ) Drive to come, and the ) R. F D. Carrier ) Auditor $90 to ( ( ( j -Special Agent ( ) Stenographer by it? Howard A. MacDougall of John trenches of St. Mihiel, the Argonne, and Customs Inspector U.S. Border Patrol $175 ( ) () City Mail Carrier Telephone Opr. Irvin Post of Runnemede, New Jersey, bloody Grand Pre, the name Irvin ( ) ( ) John MONTHLY ( ) P O. Clerk ( ) Watchman f ) Stock Clerk ( ) Meat Inspector has a suggestion that is worth passing on. stirs remembrances of a young hero . . . ( ) Special Inve tigator ( ) Secret Service Opr ( Typist File Clerk He believes that on some such appropri- "John Irvin was a Turnerville boy, ) ( ) INSTRUCTION SERVICE Dept. 110, St. Louis, Mo. ate occasion as Memorial Day or Armis- son of William and Anna Irvin, and Send me FREE parti. to Qualify fo Government Position- ' marked "X" Salarie: FREE tice Day it would be a good idea for local he had barely reached his majority loOJttiom, opportunitie etc. ALL SENT Name posts to memorialize in their home-town when the Great (Continued on page 62) Address JANUARY. 1937 61 INDEX Once a Tear of (Continued from page 6i) ADVERTISERS War enmeshed America. At camp this recent years, the Sixth District has or- farm boy quickly became a corporal ganized and sponsored all-Legionnaire JANUARY 1937 and despite many attempts to advance softball teams. The District is now spon- PAGE his grade he chose to remain with his soring two all-star teams formed from American Products Co. 57 'Gang,' the boys he had helped train. the twenty-four posts in the District. American Telephone & Just before the 78th Division went across Last season nearly twelve hundred tick- Telegraph Co. 47 in May, 1918, a little delegation called ets were sold by the Legion Softball American Legion Monthly on Irvin at his barracks to offer him a Chairman alone for the Sixth District Advertising 39 sergeancy in another company which Finals. Bromo-Mint Co. 61 was badly in need of trained non-com- missioned officers. Arrangements had Carter Medicine Co. 55 Aviation Goes Indoors been made at Battalion and Division C. M. Cleary 64 Headquarters to transfer Irvin, but he THE basis of enthusiastic support Commonwealth Mfg. Co. 49 ON said an emphatic no, he preferred to re- from the entire aeronautic industry, Condon Bros., Seedsmen 47 main with his beloved squad. every indication points to the most suc- D. D. D. Corporation 61 "Finally at Grand Pre, with German cessful indoor air exposition in the history T. S. Denison & Co. 55 snipers and machine-gun nests at every of flying for the National Aviation Show Doan's Pills 57 point of vantage, Irvin had assigned to to be held in Grand Central Palace, New him, in the drive to capture the city, an York City, January 28th to February Emblem Division Cover III advance in face of hot fire. Irvin faith- 6th, inclusive, under the auspices of Ford Motor Co 4 fully fulfilled his mission, Grand Pre Aviators' Post. Franklin Institute 64 was taken, but like other members of his Every phase of flying activities will be Frontier Asthma Co 64 squad and his company in 311th Infan- represented—latest models of private Furst-McNess Co. 49 try, he died the following day of machine- aircraft, new Army and Navy machines, Fyr-Fyter Co 47 gun bullet wounds at the advance dress- full-scale models of the interior of trans- ing station just back of the front lines at ports, soaring machines, small-scale Gillette Safety Razor Co. 51 Talma Farms, Grand Pre. models. Featuring the Bureau of Air H. Clay Glover Co. 59 "May his name never be forgotten." Commerce exhibit will be "the air vehicle Gordon-Van Tine Co. 55 of tomorrow," the Roadable Autogyro, Heefner Arch Support Co 63 Last Man of Many Wars which by folding back the rotors may be converted into an almost-conventional Institute of Applied Science 57 Man's Clubs are not uncommon automobile. The National Advisory Instruction Bureau 61 LAST ^ in The American Legion, but W. R. Committee will display working models Kalamazoo Stove Co. 63 De Kay, Commander of Wasmer Post of of the famous Langley Field laboratories Kristee Mfg. Co. 59 Le Mars, Iowa, believes that the Last where tomorrow's aircraft are tested for A. E. Kunderd, Inc. 55 Man's Club which his post is sponsoring various qualities in advance of produc- is the only organization of its kind made tion. During the show there will be Lancaster County Seed Co. 49 up of veterans of the Civil, Spanish- mass flights of privately-owned air- Landon & Warner 49 American and World Wars. "We have craft over Manhattan in fulfillment of LaSalle Extension University 53 Leedy Mfg. Co 49 enrolled one Civil War veteran who is the conception of artists of the city of eighty-seven years of age, and six Span- the future, and formations of military P. Lorillard Co. Union Leader 41 ish-American War vets, remaining mem- planes will simulate a night air attack Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. bers of the 122 being World War veter- while anti-air-craft searchlights seek out Chesterfields Cover IV ans," Commander De Kay reports. The the "invaders." Commander Harold E. Civil War veteran—Andrew Crouch, the Hartney of Aviators' Post, who com- McCleary Clinic 64 last survivor of a Grand Army post which manded the famous First Pursuit Group Media Research Bureau 3 once boasted 175 members—was elected in the A. E. F., and Past Commander B. Max Mehl 61 honorary head of the Le Mars organiza- Casey Jones, noted veteran speed pilot, Metal Cast Products Co. 59 tion. are active in the direction of the show. National College of Massage & G. A. Parsons, war-time flying instruc- Physio-Therapy 63 Are You a Softbal/er? tor, is managing director. Clarence A. O'Brien & Hyman Berman 47 THESE are the days when the hot Americans in Rouen stove league is in session, but it Pauline Palmer, Inc. 59 won't be long now before a good many E. ENGEL, Commander of Pluto Water 59 Legion posts will be thinking of the great W.Rouen Post of St. Louis, read in Pyko 63 outdoors. This doesn't exclude big city the November issue of the Monthly the posts either. After all, there is a good statement that there were no graves of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. deal of outdoors in the towns of from half American soldiers in Rouen, and he writes Camels Cover II Prince Albert 43 a million all the way up to New York to state that while, in all strictness, this and if just to still W. S. Rice, Inc. 61 Chicago you know where statement may be true, there were a look for it. Chicago Legionnaires, for number of deaths among Americans at Distillers Seagram Corp. 45 instance, are getting considerably het up Rouen, both among the staff of Base 21 Superior Match Pants Co. 63 about softball, and James R. Mangan, and among the wounded in hospital. United Factories 63 Softball Chairman of the Sixth District, These men were buried in or around Cook County Legion, believes that the Rouen, but Commander Engel believes Weil Co 57 sport will soon take on national interest that doubtless most all of these have World's Products Co. 63 so far as the Legion is concerned. During since been moved to some of the great 62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — A.E.F. cemeteries or to America. Rouen Lynch Post, and 29 of them were present Post is comprised entirely of former for theorganization meeting of thesociety. members of Base Hospital Unit 21. PIPE Voiture Awards A Florida Legion of Honor ITS account of the Seventeenth IN Little cubes that fit in your pipe and INSPIRING event took place in Promenade Nationale of the Forty AN absorb all the juice and bad taste. any pipe sweet and clean, dry . Gainesville, Florida, recently when and Eight in Cleveland appearing in the Make and mellow, and keep it that way a Legion of Honor was formed by Haisley November issue the Monthly failed to always. Try a PYKO Cube in your Lynch Post composed of winners of The mention that the Charles A. Mills Trophy pipe. rnrP To get 2 PYKO Cubes, a valuable American Legion Medal of Honor, a awarded annually to the voiture locale r K r_ n pipe reamer, and pamphlet, "How and 1 1 * Why of Pipe Smoking," send this ad citizenship medal which has performing service to the been be- the greatest and 10c (coin or stamps), to cover mailing cost to stowed upon one boy and one girl in the Legion during the year was awarded to PYKO, Dept. ALI, Pittsburgh, Pa. eighth grade of each of ten schools of the Voiture 45, of Minneapolis, Minne- Alachua County for the past two years. sota. The Robert John Murphy Me- Learn Profitable Profession Recipients of the medal are decided upon morial Trophy, awarded to the voiture in QO days at Home according the to best qualifications for locale which makes the best record in Salaries of Men and Women in the fascinating pro- fession of Swedish Massage run as high as $40 to citizenship, based on honor, courage, exemplification of the Legion ritual in its £70 per week but many prefer to open their own of- fices. Large incomes from Doctors, hospitals, sani- scholarship clubs and private patients come to those leadership, and service. In posts during the year, was awarded to vhoqualify through oar training. Reduc- ing alone offers rich rewards for special- Alachua County 34 boys and girls have the Voiture 85, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ists. Anatomy charts and supplies are i given withour course. Write for details received the medals awarded by Haisley The Step-Keeper National College of Massage & Physio - Therapv. 20 N. Ashland Avenue, Dept. 175. Chicago, 111. LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE awe Your Feet Jay C. Hormel is a member of Austin (Minnesota) post. When all else fails end your suffer- General James G. Harbord is a member of Louis E. Davis Post of Blooming- ing with the flexible "no metal" ton, Illinois, his birthplace. SUPPORT Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant, belongs to Capitol Post, Topeka, Kansas. £ FOR Flit t UOUS LI T Alexander Gardiner's Legion membership is in George Alfred Smith Post, Fairfield, Connecticut. Frank A. Mathews, Jr., is a Past Commander of the Department of New Jersey. Irving is National Arizona. Jennings Executive Committeeman from Heefner Arch Support Co., 85 Commercial Bide., Louisville, Ky. J. W. Schlaikjer belongs to Winner (South Dakota) Post. Frank Street is a member of Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post, Leonia, New Jersey. CHEAP OIL George Shanks belongs to Reville Post, Brooklyn, New York. BURNER INVENTED Paul Brown belongs to William Bradford Turner Post, Garden City, New York. Cooks A Meal For Less Slips Into Your Stove. Range or Furnace; Hotter and Cheaper Than Coal or Wood; No Dirt or Ashes. An amazing new type oil burner which burns cheap oil a new way. without pre -generating or clogging up; gives quick intense heat at LESS COST by turn of valve. One free to one person in each locality who will demonstrate and act as agent. Write quick, be first to learn how to end drudgery of coal and wood and make big money, spare or full time—mail lc postcard today to United Factories, ^Making It Jfot for The *A. €. A-101 Factory Bide-. Kansas City, Mo. {Continued from page j6) WE Read this letter from Thomas M. John- stories, anecdotes and incidents showing ToAnySuitr son, served correspondent what it has meant to them, or to friends who as a war Double the life of your in France during the big scrap, and send of theirs, to have been a member of the coat and vest with correctly matched pants. 1 00, 000 patt your stories to him at 416 West n 8th Lost Battalion. Stories of men now dead Every pair hand tailored to your measure. Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before Street, New York City: are also welcome. Confidences will be pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece of cloth or vest today. "Collaborating with Fletcher Pratt of preserved." SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 209 S. State St. Dept. 454 Chicago 327 West 28th Street, New York City, I All right, you men who served with the contemplate writing a magazine article, 1st and 2d Battalions of the 308th In- and possibly a book, that for the first fantry, with Company K of the 307th aetJettoffie! time shall give the complete story of the Infantry or with Companies C and D of famous Lost Battalion episode—and the 306th Machine Gun Battalion—the MAKE Up To $65 WEEKLY in new kind of wholesale business. more. wish to tell what effect that outfits that were cut off in "The Pocket" Place famous line 5c-10c merchandise We with stores. Merchants grab ourFREE pro- supreme experience has had upon the —here is your chance to contribute to AMAZING NEW GOODS Deals. 200 fast-selling ducts — all on salesmaking Counter profit for you and survivors. it history. BUSINESS Displays. Up to 140ft lives and careers of the Has authentically recorded merchant. No experience or investment needed to start. Get big catalog FREL'. helped them or hindered them in the pur- Sell to Stores World's Products Co., Dept. 1813, Spencer, Ind suit of happiness and success in life? Are THOSE parades up Fifth Avenue in they better men for having been through New York City during 191 7 and 1918 it, or not? and 19 1 9 were high spots for the inhabi- "Today, can the veterans of the Lost tants of that greatest metropolis in our Battalion look back and see that, now country. But New Yorkers ain't seen and then, in one way or another, the fact nuthin' yet! Wait till the Legion's hosts of having been members of that group follow that famous avenue in the foot- SALE CATALOG- FREE Nearly 200 Styles and Sizes of has influenced the course of their lives? steps of the warriors and heroes of the Heaters, Ranges. Furnaces at Fac- tory Prices. Easy Terms How do they now feel about it? What war years! So you had better reserve the aslittleas 18c a day—Year to Pay. More Bargains than emotions does the memory evoke? And period from September 20th to 23d, in 20 Big Stores. New styles, new features, new colors. what of the men broken in health by which has been selected for the Legion 30 days free trial— 360 days approval test — 24-hour wounds and sickness then incurred? national convention, for your vacation. shipments. The Kalamazoo Stove Co., Manufacturers. "We would like very much to get in Indications are that there will be a 2060 Rochester Avenue. Michigan. touch with veterans of the Lost Battalion record number of outfit reunions held Over 1,100,000 Kalamazoo. Satisfied Users who are willing to give the answers to during that week, and there will be 37 Years in Business A Kalamazoo Write for FREE Catalog toYou" those questions—to have them tell true plenty of other {Continued on page 64) 3es« Direct JANUARY, 1937 63 . : 1WCRK FOR THI ^Making It ZHbtfor the iA. 8. {Continued from page 6j) UNITED STATES j Hawarth, chmn., 117 Hillcrest av., Manhasset, L. I., . /// Tl activities. For instance, the 77th Divis- St"- fcOVERNMEN N. Y. Also send to Carroll E. Scott, 54 College av., ion Association has already extended Medford, Mass., for copy of bi-monthly News. 35th Engrs. — Reunion by mail and proposed na- its invitation for veterans of that Di- $1260 to $21 00 Year tional convention reunion, New York City. Fred Krahenbuhl, 1310 vision to call at its Club House which Hanover st., Hamilton, Ohio. Ex- Service . 502d Bn., Cos. A, B, C & D, U. S. Engrs.— . ' FRANKLIN INSTITUTE „ Officers IWen Get / Dept Tl80 Rochester, N. Y. is at 28 East 39th Street, New York. and enlisted men. William J. M. Tingling, 24 E. King St., Littlestown, Adams Co., Pa. Preference ' sirs: Rush to me without charge. City. Centrally located, three short Air Service Vets. All who registered at St. d) 32-page book with list of TJ. S. — m,„„ ,« 17 Louis and Cleveland conventions and inter- Ointments ^ Government Big Pay Jobs. (2) Tell blocks from Grand Central Station and others me how to get one of these jobs and ested in New York City reunion, write to J. E. Mail Cou- - about preference to Ex-Service men. not very much farther from the Pennsyl- Jennings, natl. adjt., 1128 8. 3d st., Louisville, Ky. pon today / sure 486th Aero. Sqdrn. —William A. Skinner, 75 - ^Narne vania Station, the Club House will be a Cedar st., Bangor, Maine. Fire Truck and Hose Co. No. 324 Harry C. ' mecca for thousands. The invitation — Address Davis, 71 Main st., Ashland, Mass. reads 3d Armv M. P. Bn.— Proposed organization of New Adding Machine vets of Cos. A and D, Army of Occupation, Coblenz, "We request every former member of Fits Vest Pocket! and election of officers, Legion national convention. 77th to call New York City. Clarence P. McGee, New Iberia.La. accu- the Division pay us a upon Adds, subtracts, and multiplies, as IIhHsSS'tSMfl 2d Co., 4th Bn., Inf., C. O. T. S., Camp Pike, costs only rately as $100 machines—yet it his arrival in New York City, register Ark.—Veterans mustered out after Armistice, $2.95. Weighs only 4 ounces. Not a toy- write to Jos. B. Milgram, 18 Lake av., Brooklyn, guaranteed workmanship. Perfectly ac- and receive his convention souvenir. fast. Sells sight to Ilk N. Y. curate, lightning on " business men, storekeepers, students, We wonder how many Legionnaires Hosp. Corps, U. S. Nav. Trng. Sta., Newport, homes—all who use figures. R. I. —Proposed convention reunion. Kenneth D. know that thirteen American Legion Marks, 905 N. 41st st., Philadelphia, Pa. Write at once for Free /XostS JIPrilTQ U. S. S. Indiana —Crew reunion. Clark Galla- Sample Offer and Mon-ftUf-N Id/ Onlv Wf>i* posts hold their meetings in our Club ey- Making Plan. 100%. Profit! gher, Monroe, Mich. AT*^* U. S. S. Iowa— Following huge success of Cleve- C.Jj-_Cleary Depl. 56, 303 St.. ^* will find the of . W. Monroe Ctlicagl)^^' House? Here you men land reunion, the Iowa gobs claim they will have the all units of the Division wining, dining, largest percentage of potential attendance of any outfit in New York City. Directory of ship- dancing, playing and shooting and the 360 FISTULA — mates available upon small contribution toward printing expense. Wendell R. Lerch, 400 Front other rectal trou- latter is no joke, as we have a very inter- St., For fistula or Berea, Ohio. ble permanent relief la entirely esting rifle range, where competition is U. S.jS. Wilhelmina Reunion of officers and men. possible. Read about the mild — Walter G. Petersen, care of Josephthal Co., 120 treatment, and what 1 & McCleary .Jooj*** keen. Broadway, New York City. It has done for thousands of rf*»«M* U. S. Sob. 0-8, 8th Div., Sub. Flotilla Pro- former sufferers. Address B « "Of course, our bar and restaurant — posed reunion of crew. Albert W. Lawton, Jr., 179 McCLEARV CLINIC always attract many and here one may Green st., Fairhaven, Mass. C-466.FI ms Blvd. Excelsior Springs. Mo. hear tales of bygone days. Our Memo- Announcements of reunions and other rial Hall, with the various regimental Free for Asthma activities at other times and places: colors and bronze plaques, is unique and 4th Div. Assoc., Pa. Chapter—Annual reunion, well worth a visit. The rooms are veri- During Winter Rittenhouse Hotel, Philadelphia, Jan. 30. C. table picture galleries—wartime posters, Roland Gelatt, 4807 Chester av., Philadelphia. If you suffer with those terrible attacks 4th Div. Assoc. of New England—Annual re- of Asthma when it is cold and damp; if photographs, paintings, sketches by many union, Hotel Kenmore, Boston, Mass., Jan. 23. Ben raw, Wintry winds make you choke as if Pollack, secy., 100 Summer st., Boston. cover the walls and if you each gasp for breath was the very last; famous men, Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets.— National conven- if restful sleep is impossible because of look at the group pictures, you will find tion and reunion, Columbus, Ohio, July 12-14. the struggle to breathe; if you feel the Frank D. Henderson, Columbus. disease is slowly wearing your life away, yourself and the rest of the gang." Vets, of 23d Regt. (IOoth Inf.)—75th anni- fail send at once to the Frontier versary of 23d Regt., New York, Jan 20. Address don't to Details of the following National Con- Asthma Co. for a free trial of a remarkable General Committee, 1322 Bedford av., Brooklyn, method. No matter where you live or vention reunions in New York City may N. Y. whether you have any faith in any remedy Vets, of 13th Engrs. (Ry.)—8th annual reunion under the Sun, send for this free trial. If be obtained from the Legionnaires listed: Plankintin Hotel. Milwaukee, Wise, June 18-20. you have suffered for a lifetime and tried James A. Elliott, secy .-treas., 721 E. 21st st., Little everything you could learn of without re- Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets. — Rock, Ark. lief; even if you are utterly discouraged, Harlo R. Hollenbeck, personnel offer., 117 Seedorf Vets., 31st Ry Engrs. —Annual reunion, Los do not abandon hope but send today for st., Battle Creek, Mich. Angeles, Calit., June 19-21. F E. Love, secy.- this free trial. It will cost you nothing. 14th i^nghs.— Convention reunion. Herbert A. treas., 104^ First st., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Address 34th Engrs. Vets. Assoc —An- nual reunion, Pittsburgh, 5. Frontier Asthma Co., 75-B Frontier Bldg. Pa., Sept George Remple, secy., 2521 N. Main 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York Wruj didtf House Salute - 1 \MaAe we a St., Dayton, Ohio. the american legion -Htor orpiser- like 40u.1T' NooYeairS Vesolve r\ot 109th Engrs. Assoc. — Biennial re- union, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 23. National Headquarters little friend Ueve aid!?- -to Salute Kobodq.or indiana L. O. Tisdale, secy. -treas., 1718 Park indianapolis, of, d\d vjouse Piquet* he KoWuW, fYoiYi r\OU) Oft av., S. E., Cedar Rapids. financial Statement 15th Engrs., Co. Reunion Saluted Sftappq ewouqU Vill I Sees +W S+orrue D— October 31, 1936 banquet, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, +o do for +a tctUa 40,? of Liberr^ iw NcoYcrk Pa„ Apr 24 R. L. Knight, 224 N. Assets Aiken av., Pittsburgh (6) VWbar aqaiw !! 314th Sup. Co Q. M. Proposed Cash on hand and on deposit $ 422,959.45 , C— 1937 reunion. Vets send addresses to Notes and accounts receivable 120,366.71 ? ! /Witvse !! .Arthur Booth, 1801 Natl. Bank bldg., Inventories 105,880.45 V Detroit, Mich. Invested Funds 1,419,081.25 Evac Hosp. No. 4 —Proposed re- Permanent Investment—Overseas union of all officers and men. Albert Graves Decoration Trust 190,062.36 A. Pratt, P. O. Box 604, Newport, Office building, Washington, D. C, R. I. F. H. and Amb. Cos., 106th San. depreciation 129,097.64 less Trn., 31st Div., Camp Wheeler, Furniture, fixtures and equipment, Ga. —Proposed reunion. Report to less depreciation 36,147.15 Charlie E. Brooks, secy., 2908 N. 27th Deferred charges 27,343.09 st., Birmingham, Ala. Co. 22, Camp Gordon Aug. Auto. $2,450,938.10 Repl. Draft, and Depot Serv. Co. 39, Conflans— Proposed letter re- Liabilities, Income Ml Deferred union. B. G. Roberts, ex-capt , 335 Amanda st., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. and Net Worth 0 Co. 320, Motor Sup. Trn. 405— Proposed 20th anniversary reunion. Current liabilities ..$ 72,918.01 Write to C. J. Vyinandy, 6129 N. Funds restricted as to use 45,242.47 happy Hermitage av., Chicago, 111. Deferred income 295,857.79 new Amer. R. R. Trans. Corps Vets. Permanent trust—Overseas Graves •few — Reunion convention, Scranton, Pa., Decoration Trust 190,062.36 Jan. 16-17. Gerald J. Murray, natl. adjt., 1131 Amherst st., Scranton. $ 604,080.63 U. S. S. Covington —Reorganization Net worth: of association and proposed reunion. Restricted capital. .$1,325,430.16 Louis Lavena, 503a Washington st. ; Unrestricted capita l 521,427.31 1,846,857.47 Dorchester, Mass. $2,450,938.10 oP THE. "CELeBRATK." THE. "Trie. SALUTlMG DeMoN A'E.r- John J. Noll, r- Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant NewYea^wi*? in Paws w^tm a "n&w Year Resold The Trocp Clerk 64 THE CUHEO PkESS. INC., U. S.A. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly t>/ //te «6f///g.Jk4Wotijpt a**///s/$/S/// of t^.i^.T^^ncKigf^ _ ,/iai y&.i/taif, f/rrsrfoSfi t&tc/fatfoe fa/ cmt/Ae tJ AtsvSt/ efiatyetfw'/A tie i/ffcftc du{// of ufA/tutiijervu? wtlfit/r //u iwiA&J of /A* Iftnertcait S&ufioM ttM.jwetHHJty nJAyiusua (A a*tJ'aHMffeu/es mt//v> a/i/edyt t//tv*t£#* At A*>A/A/t/A lAes utcjx-es/u/ea/i cftAe. . 7A/' tJevum. * THE one STAR WARRANT Official Recognition is for all Post Officers. To meet the insistent demand for an Officers' citation, this brand new War- ** THE tWO STAR WARRANT is for all County and District Officers. rant of Merit was officially approved by the National Executive Committee. *** the three star warrant Beautifully done in four colors, this striking Officers' warrant is de- is for all Department Officers. signed for presentation to all newly elected American Legion officers. *** THE four STAR WARRANT Because of its beauty and moderate price, many Posts will make the is for all National Officers. award retroactive for all of its past officers. Be among the first to give your incoming officers for 1936-37 this Each certificate comes in a special mail- enduring evidence of the responsibility which they carry. ing packet, all ready to be filled in locally by hand, or by typewriter. Each Mail now Warrant is to be signed by the out- Emblem Division, National Headquarters, going Commander, for either the Post, American Legion, 777 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. County, District or Department, as the Enclosed is check for $ Ship C. O. D. for $ case may be. Size 16 x 12 inches. Please ship the folloiving; k One Star Warrants kkk Three Star Warrants -k-k Two Star Warrants kkkk Four Star Warrants Price 100 Name each . POSTPAIDp Street City. State / am a member of Post No. Dept. of Copyright 1937, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.