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APRIL 8, 1921 Copyright, 1921, by the Legion Publishing Corporation. PAGE 5

The Jailbreaker's Bride

Gone Are the Soul-Thrilling Days of the Ten-Twenty-Thirt, and the Movie Is the Villain in the Case

LET me admit right here at the over- By TYLER H. BLISS right away which was what. It was as ture that as a movie hound I'm explicit as Who's Who, and it required prejudiced — I'm only in the Illustrations by AUGUST HENKEL no more imagination to fathom. Rule Fomeranian stage. To me a movie is A was that the villyun was the lad with the artichoke of the theatrical world— was that my prejudice against the the moustache. a good way to take up the time and movies rises chiefly from the fact that In the style of meller that followed always a problem how it's going to they're the ones responsible for the the rules of technique laid down by turn out, but a good many times more passing of that far more virile form "East Lynne" the moustache sat on top trouble than it's worth. of entertainment—the good old Ten- of the upper lip like the driver of a Vera, the Vivacious Vamp, leaves mi> Twenty-Thirt. In other words, the hansom cab on his seat, or like a bit as cold and sodden as yesterday's break- mellerdrammer. Not the melodrama, of overlooked chop suey. fast waffles. I am not interested in as they have now. The mellerdrammer. Whereas, in the school which fol- scenics where hundreds of little In the good old mellerdrammer you lowed "Uncle Tom's Cabin" it drooped brown children run around around the corners of the in Gold Dust Twins costumes lower lip, as if indicating that couldn't make a legible that napkins hadn't been cancellation on a postage served with the meal. stamp if they were dipped in But anyway, there had to ink. be a moustache. A smooth I'm sure of what is com- faced cast was all right as ing in the news weeklies as I far as it went, but it gave no used to be when I went shirt more chances of a plot than hunting in the old days. They a chorus of archangels. all start off with Governor Then there was the matter Guff being met at the station of clothes. The villyun was in Dubbinville by a delega- all decked up either in riding tion of moist citizens, switch breeches or evening dress. to Feeding Time at the Zoo, The villyuness wore a cling- skip over to $50,000 Fire in ing black jigger that started Texas Oil Fields, hand us a under her armpits and fin- few hundred yards of Nor- ished just above her shoes wegian Ski Jumpers Com- looked like a string bean that pete for Title, and wind up has taken a dose of bromo with a real treat as a thrill- seltzer and had been boosted ing finale—Whip Making in part way out of its shell. Westfield, Mass. On the other side of the As for the comedies where morality fence there was the all the characters have hero and heroine. The hero screamingly funny names was blonde and curly—that like Sally Ratus and Eppa is, in regard to hair. As for Dermis—well, I do get a cer- character, he was so upright tain amount of intellectual and undeviating that he could satisfaction out of them. hide behind a geometric When I see a comedy com- straight line which, as every ing I know that for the next V school child knows, occupies hour or so the old brain will no breadth dimensions at all. be free to grapple with a He manifested this to the couple of problems that have audience by wearing cow- annoyed me since early child- hide boots reaching half way hood. To wit: to his knees and by refusing Did anybody ever use those to smoke cigarettes under 'Mon Doo ! De Duke iss coming back !" mugs in a barber shop that any provocation. A pipe, are all inscribed with flowers perhaps, but cigarettes, and scrolls and things and names "like knew what you were getting into a? never! If the skag-puffing American J. F. Dolan? soon as the characters came onto the Army in the late (and present, And why do fish markets always stage. You didn't have to sit through when you come to think of it) war harbor yellow and white cats? Will so many feet of film that it sounded was any indication of virtue according no cat except a yellow and white one like the statistics of the number of to the mid-McKinleyan mellerdram- condescend to live in a fish market, or nickels dropped into telephone slots merist, then Germany should have won. does a fish diet just naturally turn a yearly before you found out that the The heroine was also blonde and cat's complexion yellow and white? innocent little country gal with hair- wore blue checked gingham. As far These matters will probably never curls like wood shavings was really the as brains were concerned, both she and be satisfactorily adjusted till Gabriel sin-scarred countess of something or the hero were in the same state as one trumps his ace. other. of the excavations of an Indian cliff- But what I was trying to drive at No. In the mellerdrammer you knew dweller's home. Somebody lived there PAGE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY once maybe, but not now. Anybody pos- show that the servant problem is a "Mon Doo! De Duke iss coming sessed of head accessories enough to pooh-pooh matter to the blighted nobil- back! Vot can de Dukess do mit de realize that Kokomo, Indiana, isn't the ity.) Runs over to telephone, the bell Prince? Ach, de back vay—out by de capital of New Jersey could slip as many of which hasn't rung yet, and answers sumpchuous stables und greenhouses, as they wanted over on this simple-mind- in pronounced French accent: de broad rolling acres of de ducal ed pair of hairpins. The villyun would "Hello. Oh, iss dot you, Duke? Vot, estate, und down de long gravel-paved say: "Come, little gell, and we'll go you are coming home from de National drive und out by de elegant stone lions." buggy riding out in the country," and Dukes' Club right avay?" See? This is to give you a notion the trusting lollypop would follow him (At this point the telephone bell does about the swellness of the place. The like an outfielder going after a fly ball. ring, showing that some stage hand Duke, it is evident, maintains a ranch You always knew, though, that Jack has torn himself away from his crap like a retired steamfitter. Dalton—the hero's name was generally game and remem- But now we have to Jack Dalton, but sometimes it was Jack bered his cue.) Maid get some of the prin- Hathaway—would pop up in the nick waits until ringing is cipal characters on of time like the stopper on a bottle of over and continues: the stage. So Jack home brew and rescue her from the "Sure, I will in- Dalton—this is one fiend. But she was no better off for form de Dukess. Sure, of the Dalton shows, the experience than a man who's just Duke. Yes, your Maj- not the Hathaway been hanged. In the next scene she'd esty." ones—is dragged in be back under the buggy laprobe again. Hangs up and reg- by a couple of game- isters worriment, keepers. What game THE show that made the greatest im- causing the audience not stated, but judg- pression on me in all my young life to hug itself gleefully. ing from their gen- was an immortal classic I saw up in You see, they've all eral appearance they North Conway, New Hampshire, called been to mellerdram- are not foreign to red "The Jailbreaker's Bride." There were mers before and know dog and stuss. four acts to the play, six scenes to the the regulations. Jack, honest lad, act, and twenty-two guaranteed, spine- They know that the wears a blue flannel chilling thrills to the scene. So much Duke is coming home shirt, Windsor tie, for the statistics. from the National broad brimmed felt Act 1, Scene 1, was laid in the draw- Dukes' Club right hat, natty corduroy- ing room of the Duke of Durham. You away, because the suit and boots reach- knew right away this lad was going to maid has told them so. ing half-way to his be the villyun because he was a duke. (The maid furnisher knee. But a heart of All English dukes are potential mem- the "comic relief" gold beats within that bers of the Mutual Welfare League, as later on — you just rough exterior. any lojyal Sinn Feiner will tell you. wait and see.) And From the conversa- The Duke At the left was a fireplace with a they know that since tion of the gamekeep- cuspidor, tastefully painted with for- she seems all steamed ers, it is learned that get-me-nots, beside it, showing that the up about it, it is because the Duchess is Jack is a poverty-stricken tenant on titled aristocracy is there with the entertaining a clandestine lover. Duch- the ducal estate and has been pinched modern improvement stuff. Here and esses, it appears, are always getting for poaching. The evidence against there were placed green plush chairs, that way. However, seeing that both him is something terrible. The game- at one side was a red plush sofa with Duke and Duchess are a pair of bad keepers came along and found him purple plush cushions and at the rear Leghorns, it doesn't matter whether he standing right there over the body of center were orange plush portieres. finds it out yet or not. They'll both be a dead plover with a smoking rifle in E plushibus unum, you might say. gathering raspberries eventually. Vir- his hand. As the geometries used to It all made a composite whole, but tue is always its own reward and the say: Q. E. D., hence theorem. was slightly variegated in tone, remind- wages of sin is death—in the meller. ing one somewhat of vegetable hash. In real life, of course, it's usually the gamekeepers fail to explain a Still, I have never been in a duke's corner cop who collects the reward and THE couple of minor points. One is why house, so I don't know. But it does since the war the wages have been anybody, even anybody as dunderheaded seem as if he might have afforded one slashed unmercifully. as a mellerdrammer hero, should go of these engraved bronze cuspidors in- But to get on. plover hunting with a rifle when there stead of a crockery one. The dainty Parisienne, fearful lest are shotguns to be obtained, and th<> Enter French maid. (Rule B of the there is somebody who hasn't caught other is why they should permit him to mellerdrammer is that the show is to the idea, trips to center, front, and swing the rifle picturesquely in his hand be opened by a maid or butler, just to unburdens herself of a monologue: after he has been nabbed. But they do. And here we're going to let you into the secret because you've probably guessed it already. It was the Duke who killed the plover just as it was flying over Jack's head, and he did it, the cowardly dog, just to throw sus- picion on Jack, who is in love with Bess, daughter of one of the gamekeepers, and with whom the Duke himself is in love and has fell designs upon, and also because he (the Duke) suspects that the Duchess is in love with him (Jack), which she is, but with an un- requited affection, because he (Jack) loves Bess and Bess alone and has no more use for her (the Duchess) than a man with a walrus mustache has for a lipstick.

Well, the Duke himself comes in, all dolled up fit to kill in an evening jacket, riding pants and low tan shoes. I ad- mit that, young and unsophisticated as I was at the time, I considered the garb a bit eccentric, but I put it down to my lack of acquaintance with dukes. "Ah-ha," hisses the Duke. (Nobody

"Be mine and I will unloose you from, your bonds" (Continued o)i page 15) —

APRIL 8, 1921 PAGE 7

drawn to the same L;cale, of Bunker Hill and Yorktown, Gettysburg and the The Yardstick on Our Wilderness—battles which were fairly typical of the magnitude of the greater conflicts which occurred during the Revolution and the Civil War. Battlefields In viewing the several fields in this way a number of interesting compari- sons may be made. By JOSEPH MILLS HANSON The extent of the front of the First American Army at the jump-off in the Meuse-Argonne was approximately twenty miles, and the depth of pene- tration which had been attained into the German positions at the time of the break-through on November 1, 1918, was approximately eleven miles. The opposing lines at Gettysburg were about four and one-half miles long and the depth of the fighting zone over which the contending armies pressed one another forward and back was at no point more than a mile. THE lines of battle in the Wilderness were about six miles long and, as at Gettysburg, about a mile in depth. At Yorktown the front was not over one and three-quarter miles in extent, that of Lord Cornwallis' British army, in- deed, being much less than that, while Bunker Hill was fought out on a piece of ground less than half a mile square. The Wilderness was as extensive a field as any of the Civil War, while Yorktown was fairly representative of the larger battlefields of the Revo- lution, though a few, such as Bemis Heights or Monmouth, covered some- what more ground. Still more striking in comparison with fields of such dimensions is that of the Meuse-Argonne if we consider the territory which the First American Army had conquered at the close of the war on November 11, 1918—a com- parison which is justifiable because all of this territory was gained under battle conditions. The attacking front at that time, from Ornes, just north of Verdun, to a point southwest of Sedan, was forty miles long, while on the line of deepest penetration beyond the old stabilized front—that is, from La Harazee to the outskirts of Sedan the Americans had advanced about thirty-five miles, taking altogether more The four Revolutionary and Civil War battlefields superimposed on this than eight hundred square miles of ter- map of the Meuse-Argonne, if laid end to end, would not cover half the ritory. If the Battle of the Wilderness linear extent of ground which the American Army fought over from had been fought in the Meuse-Argonne, the jump-off line of September 26, 1918, to the outskirts of Sedan the front would have extended from Malincourt to Vauquois, or from Som- to Grandpre; Gettysburg the importance of a seat of war but a few months before merance NEITHER would not have reached from Mont- battle nor its intensity is neces- the end, occupied at St. Mihiel and in faucon to Charpentry. sarily determined by the mere the Meuse-Argonne fields many times extent of the territory over which it greater than American Armies had ever another angle, these was fought. A thousand struggles of fought upon, even though the American /TEWED from \ battles form a basis for comparing the past covering a great deal more Civil War had been the most tremen- the density of troop formations under ground have exercised infinitely less dous struggle which had occurred in the old conditions of war- influence upon the course of history the hundred years between the fall of the new and fare. The American divisions in the than the battle of Concord, whose field Napoleon and 1914. each held a front of was embraced within a few acres, while But in saying that the St. Mihiel Meuse-Argonne miles. These divisions sel- the widely extended and indecisive fight salient and the Meuse-Argonne region about two exceeded 22,250 men each; that is, along Mine Run, Virginia, in Novem- were many times greater than any pre- dom average of about 11,000 ber, 1863, for example, bore no com- vious battlefields of American Armies, they had an per mile. The Union army at parison with the close and sanguinary no definite idea is conveyed of their men embraced about 92,000 men, conflict at Fair Oaks in May of the relative size. A more satisfactory idea Gettysburg per mile. preceding year. of how much greater they really were or 20,400 men In other words, four and one-half Yet in the war in Europe, during may be gained by comparing the actual miles of the Meuse-Argonne front con- which it seemed that nearly every dimensions of our greatest European about 50,000 men as com- precedent of military history was battlefield with the fields of some tained only with the 92,000 men on that broken, battles of the most desperate famous American battles of earlier pared Gettysburg. In the character frequently extended over years. length of line at Wilderness, Grant had 118,000 men for fields more vast than had ever been This has been done upon the accom- six miles of front, or 19,600 men imagined in previous conflicts. Our panying map of the Meuse-Argonne, his (Continued on page 16) own American Armies, arriving at the upon which have been placed maps, PAGE 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

anew in the Sixty-seventh Congress for yet more money for more hospitals. With the LEGION IN REVIEW number of patients still increasing at the THE rate of 1,000 1,500 between and a month; with 25,000 patients in hospitals, 9,000 of them in contract beds and 10,000 of the remaining 16,000 in unsatisfactory ones, the absolute necessity of an act to provide HOSPITALS FOR DISABLED VETERANS more hospitals is obvious. Since much has been made from time to STILL A PRESSING NEED time of the fact that some empty beds were available in regular Public Health Service hospitals for the disabled which were not THERE is a wide gulf between hospitals that all preliminaries might be concluded being used, and more specifically since the on paper voted by Congress and hos- in thirty days and ground actually broken chairman of the House Appropriations Com- pitals built and ready to minister to the on some if not all of the five hospitals mittee, Representative Good of Iowa, at one urgent need of disabled ex-service men. within sixty days. Experts say that none time during the last session expressed a Despite heroic efforts to bridge the gulf of the hospitals can be completed in less doubt as to the need for new hospitals be- as soon as possible, developments in the than a year. It is estimated that 4,000 cause of 4,000 such beds which he claimed new hospital program voted in the closing new beds can be made available in the five were empty, the Public Health Service re- days of the Sixty-sixth Congress indicate new hospitals authorized for $12,500,000. cently announced that it was running its that at the very best it will be a year The quickest relief in the emergency hospitals with an empty bed leeway of only before any of the $12,500,000 appropriated situation of lack of government hospital six percent—with, for instance, 1,000 out can be transmitted into actual beds with facilities for the disabled will undoubtedly of 17,394 government beds vacant on Feb- sheets turned down ready for the disabled. be brought by that part of the hospital bill ruary 19th. One on the first acts of the hospital board passed by the last Congress providing "Six percent leeway," comments the of four members appointed by the Secre- $6,100,000 for additions to existing Public Public Health Service, "is a frightfully tary of the Treasury to plan for the fiv.e Health Service hospitals and the remodel- narrow margin on which to run any hos- hospitals to be built under the program ing of three army forts,- Walla Walla, pital; for any day, any hour, the hospital was to ask National Commander Galbraith McKenzie and Logan H. Roots, to be taken may be swamped by new patients. Par- to designate a Legion committee to coop- over from the Army. Including the three ticularly is this so in hospitals for soldier erate with the board in planning for the forts to be transformed into hospitals, patients." new hospitals. The board comprises Dr. twenty-one projects are contemplated William C. White of Pittsburgh, tubercu- under the $6,100,000 appropriation. It is lar expert; Dr. Frank S. Billings of Chi- hoped that at least 3,000 new beds can be VERBOTEN cago, former president of the American provided within the next five or six Medical Association; Dr. Pierce Bailey of months by the completion of these projects. THE platinum-plated, non-refillable sauer- New York, in charge of neuro-psychiatric Even, if all of the 7,000 beds which the kraut set has been awarded. work with the surgeon general of the $18,600,000 appropriated by the last Con- It goes to Johannes Nedlich of Dresden, Army during the war, and Dr. John G. gress should eventually provide were now Germany, who not so long ago was draw- Bowman, chancellor of the University of ready and occupied, there would still be ing paper pfennigs for wearing a cootie- Pittsburgh. 2,000 disabled men in contract and leased gray uniform and snapping into it when When the meetings to decide on the loca- beds and 10,000 in unsatisfactory govern- Herr Leutnant barked "Achtung!" tions and plans of the hospitals began, it ment beds. This is the basis of the fight Johannes, one time Boche soldier in the was the hope and expectation of this board which The American Legion must wage late war, wants to join The American

SUMMARY OF LEGISLATION IN THE INTERESTS OF THE DISABLED WHICH THE LEGION WILL PRESS IN CONGRESS

Name of Corresponding Bill in 66th Con- Object gress and Status at Close of Session Remarks

Consolidation of Bureau of War Risk Sweet Bill' (later Rogers-Capper Bill). Passage by House without amendment al- Insurance, Public Health Service and Re- Favorably reported from House Committee most certain in coming session. Only minor habilitation Division of Federal Board for on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Died amendments, if any, likely in Senate. Vocational Education under one head in on House calendar. No action in Senate. Treasury Department.

Adoption of definite three to five year Congress in March appropriated $12,500,- program for building new hospitals for dis- 000 for new hospitals and $6,100,000 to abled, involving appropriation of $25,000,000. alter existing hospitals, but $35,000,000 was asked.

Decentralization of Bureau of War Risk Wason Bill. Passed both branches of Con- Established on reliable authority that veto Insurance by establishment of fourteen gress but failed to become law by pocket of bill was due to objections to post office

regional branch offices ; relief of disabled veto of President Wilson. collecting clause. Amendments likely. May men in hospitals or vocational training from be incorporated in Sweet Bill.

payment of premiums ; provision for ex- service men to pay premiums or reinstate insurance at all postoffices.

Granting disabled emergency officers of Stevenson Bill. Amended after hearings Bill as reintroduced provides retirement World War same privilege of retirement on by House Committee on Education and rein- for disabled emergency officers with three three fourths' pay as now enjoyed by officers troduced. No action in House or Senate. fourths' pay only during period of dis- of Regular Army. ability.

Amending Vocational Training Act to pro- Kenyon-Fess Bill. Passed Senate. Re- Objection to feature of bill which provided vide vocational training for Americans dis- ported favorably from House Committee on vocational training for widows and orphans abled in Allied armies, vocational training Education but died on House calendar. of men who died in service during war caused with maintenance pay for all disabled men bill to be amended and that feature elimi- awarded ten percent disability rating by nated in House Committee. Effort will be Bureau of War Risk Insurance or suffering made to restore it in new Congress.

from vocational handicap : vocational train- ing for war widows and orphans.

You, individual member, must do your part in securing the prompt enactment of this legis- lation. Get your post, your chamber of commerce, your local Y. M. C. A., your K. ofC. council, your fraternal orders, your Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, to write or wire your sena- tors and representative urging immediate action. Let Congress know that the full strength of awakened public sentiment is behind these measures. And write or wire YOURSELF. :

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Legion. Here is a translation of his letter, recently received at National Headquarters A Weekfy Survey ofActivities ofInterest Amerika Legion, Indiana, U. S s A.: The undersigned would like to become a member of the Amerika Legion and would like to have details and particu- to the World War Veteran lars about the organization. I am twenty-one years old, five feet nine inches tall and was in the army for more than two years. Free transpor- tation is expected. With best wishes, Johannes Nedlich, Dornbluth Strasse, 35, Dresden. ComeOn Boys!What's National Headquarters has requested Amaroc Post, at Coblenz, to give Johannes Eating You? a suitable answer. You Gobs, Leathernecks, Doughboys; how ONE ON LAFAYETTE do you get that way? Going to be hard FORMER A. E. F. men who read recently boiled all your life? dispatches and in this press an item Look it here! This aint a shave-tail, one-striper, nor petty officer magazine announcing the sudden death of hollerin' at you. Just a plain and ordinary gold-bricker, that's all. Col. Charles E. Stanton, former chief pay- And you're being ast, nice and politely, invited, bowed down to master of the A. E. F., recalled that Col. been dodgin' Stanton was the author of the phrase, boned to get in on a good thing. But here you've "Lafayette, we are here," spoken at the detail right along. What's the idea? Why can't you come along tomb of Lafayette in Paris, July 4, 1917, and with us guys and join the American Legion? erroneously attributed to General Pershing. Now comes from San Francisco a letter to THERE'S not much chance for a veteran to overlook the Legion when a full-page The American Legion Weekly saying "We newspaper advertisement hits him in the eye. Here is a sample of the publicity of Illinois is putting out, with the co-operation of local posts are still here, Lafayette," and signed by which the Department and merchants, in its present membership drive. Other States are not idle. Nebraska's himself. In explanation Col. Col. Stanton 1921 membership boom has netted 5,000 new members in ten weeks, and Virginia has Stanton adds: "The person found dead was got under way with 1,600 additions. How about your State? afterward identified as Charles Edward Stanton, a blacksmith and miner of North- ern California." POSTS ON BOTH SIDES OF ATLANTIC LEGION HIS GUARDIAN PREPARE FOR MEMORIAL DAY SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy charged A with stealing and altering a $5 war is mobilizing for the great- There are 25,812 dead whose final resting certificate has been paroled in custody of THE Legion Charles A. Learned Post of Detroit. est day in its history—Memorial Day, place has not definitely been decided. It 1921. will through is .estimated that 40 all "You shall be taken into the comrade- On that day there sound percent of the the streets of every and village in overseas will ship of your dad's best friends and buddies, town bodies not be brought home. The American Legion," said Judge Arthur the United States the measured tramp of The solemn obligation of the Legion in columns, marching to honor the dead of America to remember the comrades who J. Tuttle of the United States District Court where the boy's case came up. "They all America's wars. There will be in those rest overseas is emphasized in a bulletin columns the blue and gray of Gettysburg, issued National Headquarters asking will help you go right." The boy's father by the khaki of San Juan Hill and the olive for funds for the decoration of A. E. F. is in hospital recuperating from wounds drab that swept the Argonne. It will be a graves, which will be directed by the De- received in France. day when the flag of America will fly from partment of France. It is requested that Learned Post, in its efforts to aid any coast buddy who has stepped from the straight the roof of mansion and hovel from each department raise a sum equal to in the path, regularly has ex-service men paroled to coast, over far parade grounds ten cents a member and that no post con- Philippines and on the battered plains of tribute less than $5. Posts are instructed in the custody of its members. France where more than 50,000 Yanks to make checks payable to the National still rest. For May 30th above all will be Treasurer, The American Legion, and to "NO BACHELOR POSTS" a day of remembrance of the men who forward them through Department Head- did not come back from over there. quarters to reach National Headquarters When the year 1920 ended the Depart- The Legion long since has been making not later than April 30th, stating that the decoration ment of Kansas had 24,000 paid up mem- its plans for the observance of the coming checks are for the fund for the Paris Post, this year as of graves overseas. Contributions bers on its rolls. When the year 1921 ends Memorial Day. American the Department of Kansas will have 40,000 last, will hold memorial services in every from the public also will be welcomed. cemetery in France, and the Hamilton Fish, Jr., of members on its rolls if the goal that it has American Congressman New sleep far from the introduced the resolution set for itself is reached. This peak of en- graves of those who York, who rollment was decided upon at a State con- beaten track as well will have their wreaths adopted by Congress providing for the and of un- vention of Legion post officials and Wom- and flags. In Great Britain, Belgium burial in Arlington Cemetery an battle- en's Auxiliary leaders at Topeka at which Italy, wherever American soldiers, and identified American soldier from a of a statewide membership drive was launched. sailors lie, their graves will be tended by field in France, has written Secretary The Department of Kansas at that time had men of the Legion. And this year, the War Weeks requesting that the decision graves, not November 314 Legion posts and the Auxiliary 106 figures show, there will be the to have the burial ceremony— on units. The Auxiliary, with "No Bachelor only of 22,000 returned soldier dead to be 11th—Armistice Day 'be reconsidered. a Posts in Kansas" as its slogan, is busy honored in America but the graves of the Arguing that Memorial Day would be proposes forming new units. 25,000 ex-service men who have died here more appropriate occasion, he To spur the posts in the membership at home since last Memorial Day, 700 that the Government provide meals and American race, which is now actively under way, of them in government hospitals. The quarters for representatives of Department Headquarters has offered three equivalent of practically one full division Legion posts all over the country who might year, prizes—a stand of silk colors, a stand of will answer the last roll call each be expected to attend the ceremonies. wool colors and a lamp with the Legion according to the estimate of the Bureau Legion department headquarters al- upon emblem. The Auxiliary also is offering of War Risk Insurance. ready are issuing bulletins calling programs for Memo- prizes. One thousand of the hero dead who now the posts to prepare in their respective communities The standing of the posts in the contest rest in France are to come home the week rial Day thousands of posts are making ar- on March 10th showed that seventy-four before Memorial Day when a transport and 1920 rangements for parades and speakers. The posts had already exceeded their mem- bring its cargo of flag-draped caskets will Department of Minnesota has engaged a bership with ratings that ranged up to 153 pier at Hoboken. The latest official to the number of Memorial Day speakers for percent. figures show that there were 75,882 Amer- Among the resolutions adopted at the posts, and every post in the State is plan- ican dead overseas when the work of trans- Topeka meeting was one requesting Presi- ning to secure a United States government porting bodies home began. Requests have graves, if these dent Harding to use all means to secure headstone for all unmarked relatives that 19,861 bodies and the return of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll been made by are available in sufficient quantity, overseas, relatives marker and the release of the two American ser- rest permanently and to place an American Legion grave Legion- geants who were arrested in January while of 50,040 of the overseas dead have given over the resting places of all dead attempting to capture him. instructions for the return of bodies. (Continued on page 18) PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

jobs Americans hate to do and that 'But She's Only a Foreigner" hunger makes the foreigner do? The foreigner is just like you; he does not " like it, but that is his only chance to By the Author "So This Is America ! of eat.

The French Bride of a Yankee Soldier Rises to Protest TF the American Government favors Against the Patronage of Some Natives immigration and posters are printed to scatter over Europe, I suppose immi- HAVE been twenty months in Amer- sorts of nationalities living thus, by gration is needed. Anyhow there would I ica and I am still a stranger. It themselves. be no advertising, and no immigrants is not because I want to be. I I have heard American children re- would be admitted, unless there were have tried to be as "American" as possi- fusing to play with others because they room enough for .them in America. ble. I live like an American, eat and were foreigners' children. What about Then why not at once try to reform dress the same, go with them all the that? If you look back a little in the them and make good American citizens time, and yet everywhere I find Ameri- families of these children you will find out of them? Why not teach them cans who remind me of the fact that that their ancestors came here some American ways, American customs, I am a stranger—a foreigner. ' And years earlier, that's all. I should think American standards? It will take years when they say that last word it is al- there ought to be only three kinds of for them to learn them otherwise, and ways with a touch of presumed superi- people living apart, white, yellow and some of them will never learn. ority. It is right for anybody to be black. Such distinction is necessary Consider the question of sanitation, proud of his own country, and I am because there is a natural marked dif- most conspicuous and important. Most certainly proud of mine. There is no ference between them, but to extend foreigners do not understand the rules shame in being a foreigner when you that difference between white people is of sanitation to which education has come from France! wrong. brought most Americans. If the for- Well, we foreigners, as they call us, In the offices of American consuls in eigners live together they will have this cannot come to love America immedi- France, and all over Europe, I think, fault, as they will have all their faults, ately. During these first years it is big posters are displayed on the walls all their lives. But if they are shown hard for us to get acquainted with the inviting people to emigrate to America, the advantages of modern hygiene you new customs we meet. Yet the Amer- promising them work, good salaries and will see how quickly they will realize icans seem to make it harder by ignor- shelter. that they have been backward and will ing and avoiding us instead of trying to correct themselves. understand us and help us to be like THE ones who accept are those who Recently I visited an American young them. know what sorrow and hard times lady and we came to talk about a Rus- Many a time when I have gone so mean. Such promises are for them the sian woman I had met in the street with far as to criticize something American, only silver lining in their black skies. a crowd of clean and bright little ones. I have read in the American mind (and They come over with the intention of "The trouble with these foreign wom-

I have even heard it said) : "Why did starting a new life. They summon a en," she said, "is that they do not seem she come here if she does not like our new courage to fight for an unknown to care if they do have large families ways?" But I am willing to like your happiness. But too often they find here and they cannot afford to buy clothes ways if you will give me time and a —humiliation. "He is a foreigner." for all of them." friendly hand. Foreigners do not want Even the child born in America who Of course, there is a little truth to be thanked for having come, al- retains his parents' name and racial about that, but there is also something though I think most of them when characteristics will be kept at a dis- in it to be thankful for. The large they arrive expect much of the Amer- tance by American children, and when families of the foreigners will one day ican hospitality they have heard about. he grows up will seek friends of his be half of the population of America, if The meaning of "help yourself" is un- parents' nationality and will settle with the Americans do not change their known to them when they arrive, for them, knowing that is the only way he minds about not having more than one instead of hospitality they find this may find sympathy and love. He will child to a family. doctrine. work for the American, but will not respect him because the American has THE lure of the silk is one of the THEY find, too, that Americans are been despising him and he feels it. Hav- causes for wishing small families. too busy to spend time in teaching ing no opportunity to do otherwise, his An American baby has a silk dress when foreigners. The latter are either French children will marry among themselves, she cannot even walk. At six years she or English, Spanish or Italians, there- and the apathy of the parents toward asks for it herself, and at fourteen you

fore a little inferior to Americans ! They America will be made stronger. • Thus, cannot make her go to school with cot- have, however, the same heart, the without knowing it—in the belief prob- ton stockings. When the same girl same intelligence, the same love for the ably that he is helping them in giving gets married she will refuse to have same God, and they have the will to them work—the American is forming, several children because she will not do good if they are given confidence. right in his own country, thousands of be able to give up the silk she has been To expect a great patriotism from enemies every year. At any rate he is wearing all her life. She will need all people who come to a new country in not making friends. her husband's salary to keep up with the middle of their lives is to expect One day an American old lady talk- her garments. a great deal. But whether these people ing .about men and women working in In the meantime, the daughter of for- become thorough Americans or not, various menial jobs said to me: "They eign parents will also be married and they will have children, and these chil- have to be Italians or Spanish to do will have the same gingham dress, the dren will be educated in American that sort of work. No American would same cotton stockings—and she will schools with American children. If do it." have also two or three little husky and the children are welcomed they, at any She did not mention the French be- round-cheeked y6\ing ones. She keeps rate, will learn to love America and cause she was talking to me, but I sup- up the repopulation, while the American will become devoted American citizens. pose she meant foreigners altogether. keeps up with Lady Fashion. • The country which leaves the greatest Then a simple question came to my Which one is doing the more for impression upon you is the one where mind. If the Americans had no for- America? you are born and where the first years eigners rn their country, would they I do not mean to blame the American of your childhood are spent. Therefore, not be obliged to do this honest dirty women. But I do think they should not the real country of foreigners' children work ? blame the foreigners for having as is America. If you welcome them, they Why not be a little more honest about many children as they want. And I will be real Americans; if you deny it and give the foreigner the gratitude think they should try to help the for- them, they will reunite, live in their you owe him in taking the low and dirty eigners. We never know—the foreign- own communities and learn from the ers' children may in the future put on old folks to dislike the country that the khaki uniform again and help save gives them life. I have seen here all America. !

APRIL 8, 1921 PAGE 11 The "Glad" Page

Things for Which We Are Glad, Glad, GLAD

By JOHN HELD, Jr .

We are glad that the inven- tion of the wireless camera has not been perfected

We are glad that women don't design men's clothes We are glad that we don't have to do our own dentistry

We are glad that ham is still friendly with eggs

— and that the dear girls have really taken the dress reform movement seriously — —

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should be passed as quickly as possible; first, because it will the sooner mitigate the suffering of the disabled, and EDITORIAL second, because it will clear the way for other important legislation affecting the ex-service man, including adjusted compensation, over which, by decision of the national con- ventions, disabled legislation takes precedence. Elsewhere in this issue is printed a brief summary of the legislation sponsored by the Legion and an appeal for not the I do not want any man's support if it comes because that unequivocal and unanimous support from Legion man is acting as a German-American, or an Irish-American, member alone, but from every voice in his community, to or a Jewish-American, or a native American. If he cannot bring about the speedy passage of the laws sought—support act as a plain United States citizen, then he has no business expressed in letters and resolutions and telegrams and at all. Theodore to vote in our country Roosevelt. memorials from every corner of the land to every Senator and Congressman at Washington asking the enactment of the measures in the Legion's programme. It is to be hoped Urgent Rush that the response to this request will be so general and so — impressive that not a Congressman will be uninformed of THE Sixty-seventh Congress of the United States will the interest and sentiments of his constituents. convene on Monday. It will be confronted with prob- lems innumerable and grave. Few of these problems, how- Serves Us Right ever, transcend in importance that of the disabled ex-service man. Because of the Government's shameful neglect of THE whirligig of t ime usually brings its revenges. Those who this problem in the past it is entitled to, and demands, used to fume because our best soldiers were used in Paris special attention now. The situation surrounding the broken as bellhops and errand boys for the American Peace Com- veteran of the World War has drifted during the last two mission have at last extracted a laugh out of that painful years from bad to worse to intolerable. It now constitutes situation. an emergency, and it should be treated as such. When the American representatives first started for the Every person interested in the plight of the disabled Hotel Crillon in Mr. Wilson's train, a guard of honor for the man has derived satisfaction from the utterances of the President was demanded, and only the finest and most battle- political party now in power and its chosen spokesman. scarred of the A.E.F. veterans were even allowed to volunteer. President Harding has thrice in personal interviews assured From these volunteers a magnificent detachment was selected, National Commander Galbraith, of the Legion, that the dis- and when they inarched off to Paris they were just about the abled man will receive the immediate attention of the Ad- best American product on view in the world. They were the ministration. In his inaugural address he digressed to pride of every American in France. • assure a group of disabled men in his audience of this same Great, therefore was the wrath of the onlookers when solicitude. Many similar promises have come from other these men were made orderlies around a Paris hotel. Great leaders. Then there is the official enunciation of the was the suppressed enthusiasm when one of them stared a party contained in the platform upon which it was elected: passing professor-major out of countenance. "Don't you ever salute?" asked the major coldly. "No," replied the old-war- We hold in imperishable remembrance the valor and the patri- horse, just as coldly. "Why not? Aren't you a soldier?" otism of the soldiers and sailors of America who fought in the great war for human liberty, and we pledge ourselves to discharge to the "No, I'm an elevator boy." (Loud cheers from the ranks.) fullest the obligations which a grateful nation justly should fulfill, Well, it has all come out all right. For our sins the tax- in appreciation of the services rendered by its defenders on sea and payers must turn over $125,870.82 to the Hotel Crillon to re- on land. place* the wrecked and tattered carpets of that handsome Republicans are not ungrateful. Throughout their history they edifice. That bill should be duly receipted and filed in the have shown their gratitude toward the nation's defenders. Liberal archives of the War Department in an envelope marked: legislation for the care of the disabled and infirm and their dependents "The Revenge of the Hob-Nai'ed Shoe." has ever marked Republican policy toward the soldier and sailor of all the wars in which our country has participated s*e a»e

The last Congress became aware of the presence of the An ounce of preventio may be worth a pound of cure, disabled veteran when it found him lying' suffering on its but in rattlesnake bite cases doorstep one morning. It had not exercised foresight enough to prepare for his coming. It had no sick room, no ba:l after the fires doctor ready, no nurse. So it carried him out to the wood- Business may be today of war, but shed and dumped him on the floor. From time to time after- think what it was like after the Flood. ward it occurred to Congress that he was out there suffering. ae **r <*s From time to time it was suggested that something ought Slogan of the political job hunters: Now is the time for to be done about it. But when Congress adjourned he still the party to come to the aid of all good men. was lying neglected and suffering on the floor. Many influences contributed to the negligence of the last •ae s»e &e Congress. One of the most bothersome of these is now There is education as well as amusement to be gained by eliminated. longer is it true that the different No branches going to the movies. They teach you how to find a seat arc controlled oi the Government by men of different in the dark. parties a condition which, if it political — was not a cause of sue .<*e legislative impotency during the last Congress, was always Now they're talking about reviving "The Merry a handy excuse for it. The control of the Government is Widow." Just as the world was beginning to it now politically centralized. It is centralized in the hands of hope had got that dog- gone waltz of its head at last. a political party which already is pledged to justice. There out is reason for hope in this. The outlook for legislation for ae ae >*s the disabled man is bright. Experience with the income tax leads one to believe that But however bright the outlook, The American Legion the interval between dates of payment of installments can cannot but remember and be guided by its past experiences. only be measured by a split-second stop watch. Many, many things will confront this session of Congress, and we must see that tin 1 disabled issue is never overshadowed sue sue sue until it is settled. We must be prepared to combat and over- Former Attorney General Palmer has often been accused come that undercurrent of antagonism upon all ex-service of lack of diplomacy. If he'd only made his beer decision matters which characterized the last Congress and may earlier we might still be talking about the great Democratic be present in this one. Moreover, the disabled legislation sweep. — — — — .

APRIL 8. 1921 PAGE 3 HE VOICE ofthe LEGIO Responsibility is disclaimed for facts, stated or opinions expressed in this de- partment. Because of space demands, letters are subject to abridgement.

Disillusioned organization and serial number while in ber of the crew and other service; place and date of discharge, and ratings. This rescue work by I lo- To the Editor: am number of claim with the Government if the Mounsey was accom- homestead in cated on a one has previously been filed. plished in spite of the ter- leave the Arkansas Ozarks and I shall Your Congressman should be notified rible gale that was raging at the time, it just as soon as I have put in the promptly of any change in your address. when, owing to the heavy seas running, it it, this is a lonesome necessary time on as You should acknowledge receipt of all com- was driven away again and again from life here and this is no place for a man munications from him in regard to your the Otranto, but always returned, and All who is not whole physically. you case. Write only when you have definite went on taking on survivors until she was buddies who contemplate taking up gov- information to impart or when you wish absolutely packed. The troops rescued ernment land, listen well to me; decide to obtain definite information.—G. Hilton were stated to be largely from Georgia, where you wish to locate, even to the Butler, Washington, D. C. South Carolina, Illinois and Ohio. county, then write to the county surveyor Lt. Cmdr. Craven met his death when a and get all the information possible before An Accounting member of the auxiliary forces of the Royal leaving your home. Disillusioned Bach- Irish Constabulary in County Longford, elor, Mount ainview, Ark. To the Editor: The League for the Pro- Ireland. While on patrol duty with fifteen tection of American Prisoners of War, or- other auxiliaries in two motor tenders, the ganized at Berkeley, Cal., by a group of first car struck a mine, which had been laid He Asks to Know women, collected voluntary contributions across the road. Afterward, the survivors To the Editor: Can anyone account for of ten cents each from many men and of the party were fired on from ambush by the discrimination shown against former women. When, after the Armistice, the a large party of armed civilians and all ex- members of the S. A. T. C. in the terms of work of the League automatically ceased, cept five were either killed or wounded. the pending Illinois state bonus bill? For- the committee in charge had to its credit Lt. Cmdr. Craven and another cadet were mer S. A. T. C. men are excluded from approximately $550. An effort was made killed outright by the mine explosion, which payment. Why? The S. A. T. C. was as to get in touch with all former American blew the engine out of the car conveying much an Army organization as the infantry, prisoners and 200 were located. them. The worst details of the embush have artillery, Q. M. C, S. O. S., R. 0. T. C, etc. It became apparent that the distribution been purposely omitted. -George D. Bau- Its members were subject to the same dis- of the small sum of money among so large ringer (London Post), Belfast, Ireland. cipline, performed the same duties, received a number of men would mean nothing to the same pay, ate the same meals (only any one man. After consideration, the worse), wore the same clothes and made the Executive Committee of the league set The A. E. E. with the B. E. E. same sacrifices as the men in the army can- aside $300 to give one man a fighting To the Editor: The Adjutant General's chance for his life, tonments on this side. Yet there is a preju- gave $25 to each of Office has informed me that it has communi- dice against the members of the S. A. T. C. four hospital cases and turned over the cated with the American military attache Why? One of Them, Chicago, III. remaining sum of $150 to the Red Cross to at London to learn what military opera- hold in trust until it is known whether the tions I participated in while I was an one case already helped by the league' will American medical officer attached to the Post Histories in Film need further assistance. British Expeditionary Forces. It promises To the Editor: Why would it not be This accounting is submitted for the to notify me later of the clasps which will possible for the posts in the towns and knowledge of the men who responded to a be awarded on my Victory Ribbon. notice published in cities to have motion pictures made of their The American Legion I believe this procedure will be of interest parades and ceremonies for preservation Weekly last August. Harriet Balis to other Medical Officers who were attached in the post archives, in which the pictures Calkins, Berkeley, Cal. to the B. E. F. during the war, of whom would constitute a history better than any I believe there were 1,500 at the time of written record? Wild Ensigns and Their Ways the Armistice. Many had served with the What would the nation not give to have British since July, 1917, and almost all saw motion pictures of its Civil War veterans To the Editor: In view of the number considerable action. Out of the party with still of letters from as they came from the war, young ex-yeomen that have been which I returned home, fully 25 percent men, just beginning to exert their influ- published, I am surprised that there have had been wounded. ' not been no letters ence in public affairs? And would from ex-ensigns. The units with which I served had on the nation like to see once more in moving I would incline to believe that former their battle flags five major engagements, pictures the homecoming parades and the ensigns had suddenly become meek, but in which I did my part. I should like final marches of the men of 1898? can any ex-gob conceive of anything more to know if any of the other American I believe clubs in the same locality could impossible? I can't, though I have seen M. O.'s brigaded with the B. E. F. have re- club together in arranging to have movies ensigns wearing that S. O. L. expression ceived their Victory Medals as yet, and if made of their ceremonies, although in the which indicated that they had strolled too they have, with what clasps. Nat P. larger cities there should be no great diffi- far from some officer's side and were hope- Brooks, M. D., Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. culties or expense in having the pictures lessly lost. No ex-ensign who had that made.—R. H. R., Detroit, Mich. experience will ever forget the agony he suffered when he discovered that he had Free Philippine Lands wandered into the crew's compartment and To the Editor: While England is paying Writing Your Congressman was alone, all alone, midst those terrible the cost of transporting her veterans to roughneck sailors. To the Editor: A large number of ex- her colonies, why would it not be a good Poor dizzy ensigns! What mental suf- service men are having their Congressmen idea for the United States to give its own ferings they could have avoided if they aid them in matters affecting their com- land-hungry ex-soldiers who can't find op- had only realized that the gobs were trying pensation, vocational training, etc. As the portunities for settlement in this country to make them feel at ease and had no in- secretary of a Congressman, I should like free passage to the Philippines? In these tentions of adopting them as mascots! — to set forth some suggestions which may far-off islands the free land exists. They E. C. P. (Aeolus), Nylic, N. Y. be of benefit to them. have minerals, oils, coal, fruit, nuts and In the first place, it may be assumed fisheries. The lands should be opened to that a Congressman is glad to do all in his A Hero of the Sea the veterans of all our wars. In addition power to help an ex-service man, but it is to paying the fare of potential colonizers, not reasonable to expect that he will step To the Editor: I believe the numerous the Government should stake them. In the beyond the bounds of law, nor should he survivors of the U. S. troopship Otranto, Philippines today there are thirty-seven be expected to make unusual concessions in collision with the S. S. Kashmir (also acres of fertile land available for each of on the grounds of personal friendship or carrying American troops) and wrecked off one million men. political policy. His interest is simply to the island of Islay, Scotland, on October 6, Napoleon gave land to each of his sol- see that a constituent gets fair and im- 1918, will be sorry to learn of the death by diers, and his policy contributed to the partial treatment in the adjustment of a ambush in County Longford, Ireland, of growth and glory of France. A score or claim. Lt. F. W. Craven, R. N., D. S. O. (after- more years ago England obtained seed of

The various bureaus that handle matters wards promoted to ;< lieutenant-commander, the rubber tree and planted it in I nd i pertaining to the ex-service men are uni- and presumably decorated by the United That country today is a great rubber pro- formly courteous in their dealings with a States Government), on February 2, 1921. ducing country. Congressman, and the Congressman in turn This officer was mentioned in the Ad- Let the Philippines produce our tea. keeps the ex-service man whose case he miralty despatches as being in charge of the coffee, hemp, jute, rubber, cocoanuts and is handling informed of his status. British destroyer Mounsey, which vessel tropical fruits and by their fisheries further In writing a letter to a Congressman was sent to the rescue of the Otranto and augment our food supply. The natives for the first time, these facts should be succeeded in taking off 295 United States would benefit by the new opportunities given: Full name; present address; rank, military ratings, and an almost equal num- open to them.— W. H. Evans, Joplin, Mo "

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He'll Say They Are Ad Infinitum "Are the blue laws enforced around Sam had been working on the woodpile here?" asked a tourist of Blackpowder Bill for a couple of hours steadily. He con- of Holster, Ariz. templated the meager results with a gloomy "You're darn right," retorted Bill. "Only eye. last Sunday Quick Andy shot a tenderfoot "Sam," called his employer, "how long and, by gosh! they up and arrested him." have you been on that job?" "Boss," replied the dusky laborer, "I'se Per Ouija? been on it ever sincet, an' I expects to stay on it on-til." (From Personal Column of New York World.) And Out! George J. Raub. Dead or alive. Answer. "When you get angry —Julia. pause and count ten," counseled a revivalist. "Wot's the use?" grumbled a pugilist who Fifty-Fifty had wandered in by mistake. "I just hit "Ole," said the preacher to the Swedish the guy and let the referee do the countin' bridgegroom-to-be, "do you take Hilda for me." Sorgeson for your lawful wedded wife, for A Repeater better or for worse?" "Oh, well," replied Ole gloomily, "Aye "You're the first man who ever treated uncivilly," s'pose Aye get little of each." me announced the book agent. "If you ever start looking for the second man, call again," replied the uncivil one. Useless The fussy stenog had looked at her wrist A Dog's Life a number of times one morning. watch "Hey, you," bellowed a policeman. "I've have a date for lunch and don't want "I had my eyes on you for a long time. What to miss it," she explained to the office boy are you following that lady around like a when she found him watching her curi- "Was Mrs. Sickly' s operation suc- " lost pup for?" ously. cessful, doctor ? "It's the only way I can," said the crest- "Huh!" replied that youth scornfully. "I no, "Ah, madam." fallen citizen. "She's my wife." don't need no watch to know when it's "What, she died?" lunch time. I got a belt, I have." "Not that. She didn't pay me." For Valor Its Weakness Stern Parent: "Do you know, Willie, Headstrong Mary what you ought to get for fighting with "Why do you call my play, 'The Good that across the street?" Jimmy, with the carving knife, boy Old Days,' a booster for prohibition?" de- Willie: "A medal. He's twice the size Took his sister Mary's life. manded the author, red-faced and angrily. of me." "It has no punch," replied the low-voiced "Now you've done it," papa said, "Mary's skull has nicked the blade." critic. Advice Taken "The time you waste daily is worth Jammed to Capacity A Short History of the War money," bellowed the orator. Sign Painter: "Who ordered this Stand- "Now cough." "Guess I'd better be moseying along, ing Room Only sign?" "Sign here." then," said an auditor as he rose from a Clerk: "A lodging house keeper. He "When do we eat?" seat in the front row. wants to hang it outside the bathroom "Haven't any 8's. Take a pair of 10's." door Saturday nights." "There's a soldier in the grass." Woman, "You're in the Army now." Woman! Precocious "Treat 'em rough." "Dolly's sore because I kissed her last "Read 'em and weep." night." Bobbie (whose father has just helped "All we do is sign the payroll." "Why don't you tell her you're sorry, him to a skimpy piece of pie): "Dad, your "It's a great life if you don't weaken." then?" name ought to have been Brutus." "The first seven years are the hardest." "Good Lord, man! If I told her that "Why?" "Where do we go from here?" she'd never speak to me again." "You gave me the most unkindest cut "You can't stand there, soldier." of all." "Oo-la-la." No News "Lafayette, we are here." Hospitality "Let's go." A regimental band was about to be organized at one of the war-time canton- "You've probably heard that this house "Any seconds on gold fish?" ments and, after the first rehearsal, the is haunted," said the owner of the country "Madelon, Madelon, Madelon." officer in charge was signing up the candi- estate to his agent. "But don't worry if "Encore the vin rouge, see voo play." dates. you should hear strange noises in the "Toot sweet, monsieur." "Your name?" he asked the trombonist. cellar at night. Some of my friends are "Is your right arm paralyzed?" "Sam Jones," returned the embryo a trifle irregular with their hours of visit- "Mother, take down your service flag; ing." your son's in the S. O. S." trombonist. "Bon soir, ma cherie, ou allez vous?" "Your station?" "Paint it with iodine and mark him duty." "Camp Devens." It How They Do "Son fairy Ann." "Your rank?" "My marriage is a complete success. I "Heaven, Hell or Hoboken by Christmas." "I know it," sighed Sam. do just as I please. My wife does as she "Fini la guerre." pleases." "In the Army, the Army, the democratic Fizziology "Ah, it must be wonderful to live hap- Army." "Name two large joints," said the teacher pily together." "So this is Paris!" of the class in physiology. "Oh—well you see, we haven't lived to- "Hinky-dinky, parlez vous." — "Mike's and the Dutchman's," replied gether for five years." "If I ever get out of this man's Army— the sophisticated pupil. "Only prohibition's "Who won the war?" put them both on the blink." The Once Over "There's a long, long trail a-winding." "When do we go home?" There once was an A. N. C. nurse. "We've paid our debt to Lafayette—who Fancy Free Her features, they might have been worse. the heck do we owe now?" North: "Why bother to ask the janitor She felt somewhat lonely "When the cruel war is over." to do that?" Officers For Only. "Say 'ah-h-h' and sign here." West: "Because it really makes no dif- privates, For 'twas quite the reverse. "Let's eat." ference whether it's done or not." ! !

APRIL 8. 1921 PAGE 5 THE JAILBREAKER'S BRIDE (Continued from page 6)

except a duke can hiss "ah-ha," but they're rather clever at it.) And the curtain falls with vice tri- umphant. Between the acts the manager comes out and waggishly announces there will be an olio and that the next song will be a dance by the Wood Sisters, Rose and Mohagany. Whereupon everybody laughs loudly and gives him credit for being a bright lad. (If they only knew, it was a line he stole bodily out of a burlesque he saw the last time he was in Indianapolis.) The Wood Sisters, it develops, are none other than the Duchess and the French maid. That shows the under- lying democi-acy of old Britain. They assault "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine," causing a good many chips to fall where they may and are succeeded by: Scene 2. This is laid in the prison yard. While the Wood Sisters were in front lonesomely pining, Jack has been tried, Bring Me A City! convicted and sentenced. But the title of the play, "The Jailbreaker's Bride," gives everybody the comfortable feeling he's going to escape. Jack is discovered Heeding barrier of Distance" service of the marching up and down lockstep with no two other prisoners who are strongly river, mountain, forest or Bell telephone has accom- reminiscent of the gamekeepers, but, of course, can't be because the latter desert; unmindful of dis- plished for you ; what sci- are in cahoots with the Duke and it isn't their turn to be nailed yet. tance; the telephone has ence in construction has But wait, what's this? At the side of the stage are the self-same fireplace spread its network of com- created; and what effi- and cuspidor. Can it be that the Duke is so solicitous over Jack's personal munication to the farthest ciency of workers has welfare that he has imported his own outposts of our country. personal belongings to lend a little sun- maintained. shine to an otherwise cheerless life? Knowing the Duke as we do, we are The ranchman, a score forced to believe it is due to the re- You take the telephone missness of the stage hands. of miles from his nearest Enter Duke unannounced. The other as much for granted as you two convicts fade out of the picture, neighbor, a hundred miles do the wonder of the appreciating, with that delicacy so in- herent to all convicts, that His Nibbs from the nearest town, changing seasons. You ac- would have words with Jack alone. Duke: Give me the gell, and I will may sit in the solitude of cept as a matter of course strike off your shackles. his prairie home and, at Jack : Never-r-r- the company's ability to Duke : Lie here and r-r-r-rot then will, order the far-distant Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha ! (Exit, leering.) keep all the parts of this Now you might stop to ask why the city brought to him. And Duke bothers to consult Jack in the great nation in constant matter and why he doesn't just go and the telephone obeys his grab the gell on his own hook. Well, contact. that's exactly what he's going to do, command. but Jack has to have the chance to ex- hibit his nobility, hasn't he? By so doing you offer a At this point the bass drummer Time and space become chucks a handful of buck-shot on his fine tribute to the Bell or- instrument, causing a deep, reverberat- of small account when, ing roar: ganization which has cre- through desire or neces- Jack: It thunders. 'Twill snow ere ated this "Long Distance" night. sity, you would call across Then a slim, girlish hand appears service—a service no other over the side of the prison wall and a continent. before you know what it is all about country has attempted to Bess shimmies right into jail. Rapturous applause by audience. This is what the "Long equal. Nobody stops to wonder why Jack didn't do the same thing himself with a reverse English and shimmy out, not having a thing in the world to stop him American Telephone and Telegraph Company but a slight breeze. Jack and Bess: My own! And Associated Companies Jack: But, Bess dear, you must seek One Policy One System Universal Service shelter. A storm is brewing. Irreverent voice from audience: If And all directed toward Better Service ! —

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anything's brewing, lead me to it. Then—and here's a surprise—enter (North Conway, New Hampshire, was Duchess. She wears evening—very dry then. It probably still is.) evening—clothes, but doesn't seem to Jack casts a savage glance over the mind the storm, although Jack and Bess footlights while dear little Bess sneers are plainly framing their last dying 1 audibly. Then the play continues: wishes. Jack (afraid the audience didn't get Duchess: My Jack! What do you

it the first time) : But, Bess dear, you there? must seek shelter. A storm is brew- (Bright remark.) ing. Jack: Ah, save me. Unloose me ere Glares over the footlights in a if-you- I swoon. But no, save the gell first. do-it-again-I'll-break-your-neck manner. Duchess: Never-r-r-r! But be mine Bess: Ah, no, my love, I have an and I will unloose you from your bonds. idea to win your way to freedom. Jack: Never-r-r-r! Have you no It's a good thing she has, because heart? Unloose the gell. her love has never had one yet and Duchess: Never-r-r-r! (Exit.) apparently hasn't any intention of hav- Jack: Alas, we are undone! ing. And the curtain falls. And the curtain falls. And so forth and so on. Bess is tied During the intermission Jack and to a buzz saw, to the railroad tracks the Duke come out and beat out a tune and to the tongue of a great bell. No with little wooden hammers on one of insurance company could possibly con- those long instruments with a lot of sider her a good risk, but she comes $95 An Hour! metal slabs lying across it like railroad through bright and shining. ties—xylophone, I think. And do you know how it all comes "Every hour I spent on my I. C. S. Scene 3. Lost in the great forest. out? Why, the Duke has left Jack and Course has been worth $95 to me! My Fireplace and cuspidor present and ac- the gell to be shot by one of the game- position, my $5,000 a year income, my counted for. Forest painted on canvas keepers and he has the rifle on his home, my family's happiness—I it all owe drop in rear. Enter Duke and the shoulder when suddenly he is struck to my spare time training with the Inter- game keepers. by the strong resemblance between him- national Correspondence Schools!" Duke: Forward all. The object of self and the gell (though no two people Every mail brings letters from some of my hatred must have passed this way. ever looked less alike) and he cries out: the two million I. C. S. students telling of (Exit.) "My darter! My long lost darter, wot promotions or increases in salary as the Now comes some hot stuff. Jack and was snatched from my arms while but rewards of spare time study. Bess come out of the wings where they a tiny babe by some fiend in human have been hiding (nine to two it was form!" What are you doing with the hours after Bess thought up the idea), but hardly Well, you bet that's a surprise to supper? Can you afford to let them slip have they reached the center of the Jack and Bess, but they make inquiries by unimproved when you can easily make stage when the Duke and the game keep- and what do they learn but that Jack them mean so much? One hour a day ers, who have been lying in ambush, is the rightful Duke and that the spent with the I. C. S. will prepare you come in. Jack shadow boxes with both phony Duke gipped Jack's father out for the position you want in the work you like best. opponents at a distance of six feet and of his estate when Jack, too, was but a Yes, it will ! Put it up to us to then goes to the mat without a blow tiny babe and the Duchess herself was prove it. Mark and mail this coupon now I being struck. only a serving maid in the real Duke's TEAR OUT HERE ' The Duke binds them together with palace but he (the phony Duke) had INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS a piece of rope he finds providentially to marry her (the phony Duchess) to BOX 7065-C SCRANTON, PA. lying nearby and is about to ping them keep her (still the Duchess) from tell- Explain, without obligating me, how I can qualify for the position, or in the subject, before which I mark X. with his rifle (same rifle Jack carried ing him (Jack) about his (the phony JELEOTRIOAL ENGINEER SALESMANSHIP in Scene 1) when he glances into the Duke's) perfidy! ] Electric Lighting and Kyi, ADVERTISING ]Electric Wiring Window Trimmer heavens and gets a better idea. So they go back to the palace, where ^Telegraph Engineer Show Card and Sign Ptg. Duke: No, in an instant 'twill snow. the old game keeper cautiously stabs ""Telephone Work Railroad Positions MR0HAN10AL ENGINEER ILLUSTRATING I leave them here to suffer a more the Duke to death between the arm and Mechanical Draftsman Cartooning lingering death. . Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha the side and the Parisian maid comes Machine Shop Praotlce BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Toolmaker Private Secretary (Exit.) down and informs everybody that her Gas Engine Operating Business Correspondent CIVIL ENGINEER BOOKKEEPER He hasn't been gone a moment be- mistress has been thrown over by this t-eving- and Mapping Stenographer and Typlgt FOREMAN or ENG'H fore it begins to snow heavily—but Prince person, who never appears in MINE Cert. Pub. Accountant STATIONARY ENGINEER TRAFFIC only in one corner of the stage. Some- the play because he and his baggage Marine Engineer MANAGER Railway Accountant thing has gone on the blink with the were held up by a sheriff at Rutland, Ship Draftsman Commercial Law ARCHITECT ENGLISH weather apparatus over the rest of it. Vermont, when the show was playing Contractor and Builder GOOD Common School Subjects Archlteotni-al Draftsman CIVIL That doesn't phase Jack and Bess, how- there and has taken arsenic. (That Concrete Builder SERVICE Mall Clerk Structural Engineer Railway ever, who, although several yards re- is, the Duchess has—not the Prince or HEATING AUTOMOBILES PLUMBING AND Mathematics moved from the blizzard, lie and moan: the sheriff.) Sheet Metal Worker Navigation inSpanlsh " Textile OTerieeror Snpt. B Tis bitter cold. Will this terrible Whereupon Jack, Bess and the game- CHEMIST AGRICULTURE iQTeacher Pharmacy Ponltry Raising Hanking storm never cease?" keeper decide it's a great life. Seeing that this terrible storm has Clinch. Name only been going on for about ten sec- "Bless you, my children." Curtain. Present Business Occupatn ..Address . onds, this demand seems a bit unreason- Do you wonder I have a grudge Street able. But never mind. against the movies? and No._

ntv State , Cfivartiavs may zrvd this coupon to International THE YARDSTICK ON OUR BATTLEFIELDS Correspondence Schools Canadian, Ltd., Montreal, Canada (Continued from page 7)

per mile, a slightly less density than at range and accuracy of firearms is not Gettysburg. On the line at Bunker borne out by the facts. To take some SMONEY? Hill, about one-half mile long, each side European instances, at the battle of If you are making less than $150 a had some 3,500 men, and on the one Blenheim, in August, 1704, Marlbor- month, write me today. I have no and three-quarter miles front at York- ough and Prince Eugene fought a head- "gct-rlch-qulck" plan. But, It you are wide-awake, honest, willing to town the American and French armies on battle with no flank movements, work with me and give mejit least part ot your time, I otter you numbered 16,600 men, about 9,500 men against the French, with only 58,000 MAN OR WOMAN per mile—in both cases considerably men on a six-mile front, or 9,660 men tho Special Agency (local or trav- less than on a mile of front in the to the mile. Marshal Turenne at the eling) for our great line of House- hold Necessities. Experience ia Meuse-Argonne. battle of the Dunes, near Dunkirk, Bel- unnecessary. I will furnish every- Hill Yorktown gium, June 1658, with 14,000 thing, so that lack of capital shall not Both Bunkei and 14, stand in your way. Hundreds of pros- in point of numbers French beat a Spanish army of equal sroue men and women who started this were small battles w making $150 a month and the popular numbers on a front of three miles your great opportunity—and 1 engaged, but nevertheless say don't rubb It. Just drop me a post ,.ca£d today for complete particulars FREE. theory that battle fronts have tended 4,660 men per mile. AJbert Willi, Mgr. 2895 American Bldg.. Cracinniti. 0. to grow thinner with the increase in the Such examples might be multiplied, APRIL 8. 1921 but the fact is that, although under modern conditions there are not less men per mile of front, they are dis- membeiv^a^ when ? tributed in much greater depth, the only limit being their availability for action as needed. Whereas at Gettys- burg the combat troops of each army, supports and reserve included, were massed within a quarter of a mile of the firing line, in the Meuse-Argonne the fighting strength of a division might easily reach two miles to the rear or even more, depending upon the proximity of covered ground. Another possible comparison is that between the artillery masses employed in the Meuse-Argonne and those which took part in the earlier battles above mentioned. Supporting the First Amer- ican Army at the jump-off on Septem- You lined up at the commissary with the avowed intention of spending your last jew francs of all cali- ber 26, 1918, were 3,928 guns for a pack o' razor blades—and then you saw the top kick, who was always first in line jor bres, about 196 guns per mile, or 884 everything except jor working details, go by with a can oj Grapelade! Good bye clean shave. guns on four and one-half miles of This excessive density of front. was an Welch's Grapelade is the pure grape spread of the artillery even in the Great War. NOW Nation. For bread, muffins, toast and griddle cakes, it spreads so temptingly and smoothly. That tart-sweet Grape- the front of this length at Gettys- ONburg, General 300 guns lade flavor gives all an added charm. Meade had : General Lee 250 guns. At the Wilder- grapelade is whole ripe grapes, juice and all, with nothing ness each army had about the same added but pure sugar, and nothing taken away but seeds, number of guns as it had at Gettysburg, skins, and acid crystals. on a front twenty-five percent longer. Hill the British appear to At Bunker Your grocer has Grapelade in 15 oz. glass jars and in have used about a dozen cannon on the smaller tumblers. Other fruit spreads of the same quality field in addition to the much larger and smoothness can also be had in Welch's Peachlade, Plum- number which fired upon the American lade, Cherrilade, Currantlade, Blackberilade, Straw- works from the batteries in Boston and Fruitlade, the warships in the harbor, while the berilade and Apple Butter. Americans had six field pieces. At Yorktown the British surrendered THE WELCH GRAPE JUICE CO., Westfield, New York 144 cannon and the French and Amer- icans may have had as many for the attack, but the struggle at Yorktown was a siege, and in a siege artillery is Welch's cars. Double Simply the duration of a war, we e tools not books. ages for address to- Stitched _ your name and learn in Information Bulletin No. 31, _ay, a post card will do, for our Chief of Field Artillery, United States Seams and 27 photographic reproductions or shop work, Let's Write Mowl I machine etc. Go— Army, that the Union artillery with ' Non Rip EMORY J. SWEENEY, President field armies during the four years of LEARN A TRADE-; / the Civil War fired an average of four Sleeve rounds per gun per day. This was a Facing } SCHOOL OF AUTO-TRACTOR AVIATION , than main- BLDG KANSASOTXMO^ much higher average was 128 SWEENEY gg tained in any other wars of that day. Reinforced between January 1 and November Gusset But •a BECOME AN EXPERT 11, 1918, the American artillery aver- Rush your order In aged thirty rounds per gun per day, SEND NO MONEY today sure. Great- and even this was less than the average est shirt offer ever made. 3 fine heavy Blue for the French and British artillery Chambray shirts for work and semi-dress guar- Accountant anteed fast color and worth $1.50 each, only $2.29. Executive Accountants command big salaries'. Thousands of firnn during the same period, which averaged If y°u can match these need them. Only 2.5U<) Or titled Public Accountants in U. S. Many MID RIIADAUTCC thoroly mail in UUff AllAll ICC are earning $3,000 to $10,000 a year. Wo train you by respectively thirty-four and thirty-five UU 3 wonderful shirts for Bpare time for C. P. A. examinations or executive accounting posi- course less than $4.50, and do not think you have saved tions. Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary to begin. The rounds per gun per day—almost as iBunderthe personal supervision of William Eft. Castenholz. A.M.. C. at least $2.50. return at our expense. Don't pay high P. A., former Comptroller and Instructor, Universityof Illinois; Direc- much as the Union guns in the intense retail prices. Order today sure, before it is too late. tor ofthe Illinois Society of Certi6ed Public Accountants, and of the sUtf WE PAY DELIVERY CHARGES TO YOUR DOOR, National Association nfCont Accountants, assisted by a largei battle of Gettysburg. These great in- another big saving. All 3 shirts $2.29. Give nei-k size. of C P A'b including members of the American Institute of Ac- countants. Low tuition fee—easy tennaJ/V rite now for information. due to improved creases, of course, were BERNARD-HEWITT & COMPANY Extension University, Deoi. 4361 H. Chicago 91Q W. Van Buren St.. CHICACO LaSalle (Continued on puge 22) Desk F.I44 The Largest Business Training Institution in the World PAGE 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

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ACTIVE IN AUXILIARY AND LEGION—Miss Pauline Curnich, National Secretary of the Women's Auxiliary; Robert Hale, State Americanism Chairman, Department of Maine; Charles T. Maylor, Publicity Officer, Depart- ment of South Dakota; Frank Knox, member Military Affairs Committee and former State Americanism Chairman, Department of New Hampshire. THE LEGION IN REVIEW (Continued from page 9)

Every naires. A special Memorial Day ceremony attorney retained by Paris Post of The program has been distributed to the posts. American Legion. This attorney, despite puff a At the last national convention the hostility of the courtroom crowd, entered poppy was adopted as the memorial flower a vigorous defense of the prisoners and at- of the Legion to be worn by every mem- tacked Bergdoll. pleasure ber and all citizens on Memorial Day in "In Germany also is a deserter consid- honor of the dead. The sale of artificial ered despicable," he told the court. red silk poppies manufactured by the The action of the American Government American and French Children's League in pressing the claims for the release of for such a display has been endorsed by the two men is expected to be influenced National Headquarters and is now well by a request submitted to Secretary of War under way. These poppies, at ten cents Weeks by the National Legislative Com- apiece for boutonnieres and twenty-five mittee of The American Legion. The letter cents apiece for a larger size, may be ob- containing this request, signed by John tained by posts and units of the Women's Thomas Taylor, chairman of the commit- Auxiliary on application to Mrs. Isabelle tee, asks not only that steps be taken to Mack, 238 East 10th Street, Indianapolis, free Neuf and Zimmer but also that the Never gets on your nerves where the League's headquarters is located. surrender of Bergdoll be demanded from Checks should be made payable to Robert Germany. H. Tyndall, National Treasurer of the Interesting sidelights on the efforts of Legion, who also is national treasurer of Paris Post to obtain the release of the two the American and French Children's sergeants are printed in the Amaroc News, GIRARD the sale of the official League. All profits from newspaper of the American forces in poppies, are devoted to the care of children Germany. in the devastated region of France. Quoting the representative of Paris Post, Send No Money Branch offices in a number of States are the Amaroc News stated that the two pris- Snap this bargain up right being opened by the League for the sale oners were being given considerate treat- the poppies. Among the first was one ment and were suffering no hardships ex- now before it is too late. of 234 Central Park West, New York City. cept that of being deprived of their free- Only limited quantity. at Legionnaires of New York State may ob- dom. Amazing underwear bargain. tain their poppies at this office, by order- "The Legion representative stated that Greatest ever made. ing from Mrs. Eleanore Brown, making he was following out the directions of The checks payable to Mrs. McAllister Smith, American Legion in the matter and was 3 UNION $060 state chairman. The New York State Ex- not concerned with any other question, or ecutive Committee has endorsed the sale the activity of other agencies that might SUITS™&— of poppies by the League to the posts in be interested in the case," says the Amaroc Send postcard or letter to- New York. The General Federation of News article. day—this very minute, for Women's Clubs, supporting the memorial urged its branches these 3 athletic style, white poppy project, has 6,000 dimity check summer union to aid it. THE LEGION'S ANSWER As part of the Legion's campaign to have suits, cut full, well - made, citizens wear the Legion memorial poppy all voice of the Legion spoke in Madi- wear splendid. [Send No the Department of Washing- THE on May 30th son Square Garden, New York City, on Money pay only $2.60 on will conduct a "Poppy Week," May 23d — ton March 18th, and uttered in tones that the arrival, no more; we pay. in the department have been to 30th. Posts nation heard a solemn pledge to guard flowers on public sale delivery charges, another big urged to place the America against a revival of pro-German this week. saving. during propaganda. It was the Legion's prompt answer to the first meeting of Edmund WE GUARANTEE 'v'ur mo"-" v BERGDOLL'S "ABDUCTORS" von Mach and the supporters of the "Rhine Horror" movement held in the same place if you can match these three wonderful two weeks earlier. summer union suits for .16.00. Order this THE prison sentence imposed by a local From the speakers' stand there rayed out amazing bargain this minute before it is German court on the two American through the great amphitheater not only too late. Just give name, address and Army detectives arrested in Eberbach, the patriotic messages of the chosen spokes- breast measure. Baden, after an unsuccessful attempt to men of the evening but the challenge of capture Grover C. Bergdoll are expected the Legion departments— North, South, BERNARD-HEWITT & COMPANY to afford the United States Government the East and West—to the disseminators of Dept. G 144 Chicago opportunity of making diplomatic repre- disloyal propaganda, carried in some cases sentations which will result in the early thousands of miles over the telegraph release of the two men. wires. Representatives of other, and i SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE Washington officials of the State De- nearer, departments sat in the speakers' 120 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED, CLOTH partment had professed their inability pre- stand as guests of the New York organiza- to release tion, which meeting, to- By Win field Scott Hall, M. D. Ph. D. viously obtain the of the two had arranged the SEX FACTS MADE PLAIN men, Carl Neuf and Frank Zimmer, because gether with national officials. the German central government had taken "The Legion is behind you." That in fv Whit every young man and the stand that it had no jurisdiction to substance was the message carried by ri^SlHr Every young woman should know intervene until the trials had been con- every telegram to the National Commander What every young husband and \ \\\ Alt ducted by the local government authorities read from the rostrum as the States took j> I . UU Every young wlte should know postpaid What every parent should know in Baden. advantage of the New York meeting to Mailed In Table contentsb- ndtitions on requvst Neuf was sentenced to serve fifteen affirm their resolve to combat the enemies plain wrapper months in jail, Zimmer to serve six months. within America. AMERICAN PUB. CO., 489 Winston Bldg.. Philadelphia Both men were represented by a German Among the first departments to send x —

APRIL 8, i921 such a message were Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, Minne- sota, Nevada, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, New Mexico, Colo- rado, Arizona, Idaho, Maine, New Hamp- shire, Massachusetts, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland. The first message read was from President Harding- A further echo of the original von Mach meeting came when the New York County Committee of the Legion took up the case of Lt. Col. Alexander E. Anderson, for- merly of the 165th Infantry and a Legion post commander, who had addressed the "Rhine Horror" gathering against which National Headquarters had warned all Legion members. After full consideration of evidence presented by Legion officials who had heard him speak, the county com- mittee by a unanimous vote ordered Colonel Anderson expelled from the Legion. The State Executive Committee previously had declared that Colonel Anderson in his ad- dress to the von Mach meeting had made "utterances unworthy of a man who wore the uniform of America and who holds membership in The American Legion." Colonel Anderson has claimed he was out- side the jurisdiction of the county commit- tee because the post which he had com- manded had disbanded.

THE WASON BILL VETO THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY learns on excellent authority that the BIG YANK WORK SHIRT veto of the Wason bill was deliberate, not accidental; that President Wilson in fail- The Shirt that Beats the Price ing to sign the measure was acting on the advice of at least one and perhaps two of Big Yank is roomy, as well made as a dress shirt, and comes in his cabinet officers, and that his real reason a big variety of serviceable fabrics. Seams are double stitched, for. the adverse recommendations and con- buttons are high grade. If your storekeeper does not carry sequent veto was that clause in the bill Big Yanks write us, and we will see that you are supplied. which provided for the payment of insur- ance premiums and the reinstatement of RELIANCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY government insurance at any and all government post offices. .212 WEST MONROE STREET The Bureau of War Risk Insurance is CHICAGO, ILLINOIS under the Treasury Department, and all post offices are, of course, under the Post Office Department. There is good ground to believe that officials of both of these Departments looked askance at the possi- bilities of complications in the joint han- dling of the paperwork and funds involved MILLER TREADS in these ex-service insurance transactions, SendCORD "Geared To The Road" for which, they are believed to have been TIRES convinced, the bill made no adequate pro- vision of method or machinery. WRITTEN 5000 MILE GUARANTEE It is virtually certain that either Secre- Most modern and lasting of reconstructed tires. These semi-cords are heavily tary Houston of the Treasury Department reinforced with Genuine New Miller "geared to the road" treads as illustrated in or Secretary Burleson of the Post Office ad and will give wonderful service. Do not confuse them with sewed or half soled Department, or perhaps both, refused to tires. A remarkable low factory purchase enables as (o offer these guaranteed ties at smashed prices. r approve the bill when it finally came to x3 $8.00 31x4* $11. lO 32X4V2* $13.SO 3G iVz* $16.25 them for recommendations to the Presi- 30x3" 8.40 32x4" 12.50 33x4V2 " 14.25 33x5" 16.75 " dent. 30X3V2" 9.60 33x4" 12.90 34x4y2 14.75 35x5" 17.50 1 l 32x3 /3 « 10.50 34x4" 13.25 35x4%" 15.60 37x5" 17.75 STANDARD-MAKE TUBE FREE WITH EACH TFRE Ca||iI Kirk Thy only after examination at. express office. Unwrapped FOR COMMUNITY EFFORT OfCIIU liU IVlUMVsyMnnov section for inspection. If cash with order, deduct 5%. Cost you nothing to send for tire. Write today- Return if not like new. thousands of Legion posts and THE HUDSON TIRE CORPORATION, 124-A, Harrison & Peoria Sts., CHICAGO, ILL. Auxiliary units that are working for the betterment of their communities will find "The American Legion, A Community IN YOUR SPARE TIME AT HOME Asset," a booklet prepared by Community New Army Razor Sets Service, a mine of useful information and FOR BUSINESS practical suggestions. This booklet is based in Gillette Safety Razors, $2.35 on the survey of post activities and wel- PROFESSION . with 6 blades and „_ fare work submitted to the last national JiJOR Study law with only institution which gives Auto Strop Safety Razors, ,n 2-35 convention by a special sub-committee of same Course by Correspondence through Lecture gaffH*^ the Legion's Americanism Commission. Dis- System as was given for years at resident classes of this. College. Sent prepaid on receipt of U. S. postal money order. Business today demands a knowledge of law for those who want is advise ordering at once. tribution of the booklet to departments has success. Big opportunities in the legal profession. We coach you As supply limited, would free to pass the Bar Examination in any State. Special consultation been started by Community Service, which Y. Oept.AI, privileges. Complete 24 volume library (12 books) specially prepared Jesse Schramm, 458 Broadway New Yorfc.N. is providing each department with sufficient by leading professional and law trained business men. Organized 1910. Low fee, easy terms. Write for free illustrated book. copies to send one to each post in its enrollment territory. National Headquarters will have HAMILTON COLLEGE OF LAW. 104 Morton Bldg.. Chicago a small surplus of the booklets to be dis- Automatic Adder, $3.50 tributed to posts and Auxiliary units char- New tered in the future, but the general dis- Adds, subtracts, multiplies, whole numbers, fraction*, Correspondence Courses decimals. Makes adding easy for anyone. Saves time tribution will be carried on by the depart- brain work—eliminates errors. Checks your work. ments. Bought, Sold and Rented ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE Quirk as a flash and eisy to operate. Ca- A broad field of suggested activities for pacity 8 columns or 1993, 999. 99. Quickly All subjects; new or used. We save resets to zero. 76. "00 pleased owners Legion posts and Auxiliary units is pre- Fulls- (uuantead. Price H.60deri»ereil BANDS. sented in the booklet. you half the original price. WITH META1. OPERATING Under separate *6. Del'd. AGENTS WANTED. Or * headings it discusses in detail recreational ' dor roara today. Prompt shipment ECONOMY EDUCATOR SERVICE made. J. H. BASSITT * CO.. Dept activities and athletics, social activities, 1664 (Dept. L) Broadway, New York 14SB Hollywood A»»., Chlcaeo, lit- dramatic and musical entertainments, health PAGE 20 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Genuine Imported Toyo surveys and social hygiene, civic improve- S5.00 J 279 ment, patriotic celebrations, memorial com- HAT munity buildings and educational and PANAMA Americanization activities. A selected list of plays suitable for presentation by Delivered Legion posts and Auxiliary units is con- 75% Stunning FREE tained in an appendix. The booklet carries Stylish a preface by National Adjutant Lemuel Pay Only : Hat m\ Holies, of the Legion. S2.79 on Additional issues of the booklet will be Arrival printed after sufficient time has elapsed to permit interested post, department and national officials of the Legion and the A Lamp that Auxiliary to make constructive suggestions upon which later issues can be based. Can Never Be

INDIANA MEMORIAL PLANS Made Again THIS sum of $100,000 will be expended for This is a lamp so inter- SEASON'S THE twined in hisiory wllh the LATEST prizes and to meet the expenses of a World War that to future contest to obtain the most artistic plans Generations it will be as MODEL for the eherished as a sword from $15,000,000 Indiana War Memorial Bunker Hill. Becoming to Building which will house National Head- Notice the symmetrical Young or Old quarters. The Indiana Legislature appro- architectural lines—see what a look of stately dignity it has compared with the priated this recently architects Write quirk for this amount and merely "pretty" lamps you find in the average store. amazing bargain. Only limited lot at this prollt- fiom all parts of the country are now be- These are not merely lines of ART. Their very look of smashlns low price. Guaranteed S3 value tor only $2.79. power and strength which lends such artistic beauty to ing asked to submit their ideas. the lamp also tells the story of the greatest single instru- The Indiana War Memorial will be ment of victory in t he World War. For the shaft of each lamps is itself shells for SEND NO MONEY erected in the center of a five-block plaza, of these one of the heroic the famous French-American "Seventy Fives" the gallant Just mail post-eard or letter today for this handsome — the land for which has already been pro- "75" with Which the Germans never did succeed in Panama Hai. Beautiful drop style; flexible crown coping. non-breakable brim; made of the linest super-Tex: One vided by vote of the Legislature. Tenta- The shade was especially designed for the Victory tough tilire. tightly woven. Looks and wears like a reg- tive plans for the building have been drawn Lamp by that great painter. Franklin Booth. The whole ular SI -.00 hat. Heavy black grosgrain silk ribbon band, lamp is considered by artists one of greatest artis- non-sollable sweat band, tremendous bargain. Send no up and are now in the possession of the as the tic achievements of recent years. It Ls particularly ap- money, pay only SJ.T'.i on arrival. We pay delivery State War Memorial Commission. charges, another big saving. propriate for the home of a World War veteran or for National headquarters of other veterans' your Post's headquarters. Only a few lamps still left. Uf t° refund your money If you T*Ca n+Aa, organizations also will be asked to occupy .No more can be made. Price about one third the cost UUdrdlUCCnn match this wonderful of lamps of this class in retail stores. Easy terms to hat for less than So 00. Save writing money by today space in the Indianapolis building. Legion members or Posts. Write today for full particu- sure before this offer Is astounding withdrawn. Just lars, sent free. give your name, address and size. BERNARD, HEWITT & CO. VICTORY MEDAL DISTRIBUTION SNEAD & COMPANY Dept. A 144 900 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, III. Fifth York. N. HAVING already distributed 1,500,000 175 Ave., New Y. Victory Medals to veterans of the World War, the War Department an- Go Into Business nounces that it will endeavor to speed up Deformities the delivery of the medals to the 2,500,000 men who have not yet applied for them. For Yourself of the Back Twenty-four Regular Army officers and a force of field clerks have been started on CTJCCESSFUL aviation company will sell its Greatly benefited or en-^y business, in tours which will cover the entire country whole or part. Eleven planes ; tirely cured by the Philo commodious and fully-equipped hangar. Has in the effort to get in personal touch with been in successful operation for years; Burt Method. the men who have not received their medals. two excellent reasons for selling. rare oppor- The 40,000 cases «uc- Officers of the National Guard and Reserve A tunity for anyone appreciating the possibili- cessfully treated in our Corps are co-operating with the medal dis- ties of commercial aviation. Terms reasonable. experience of over 19 tributors in the cities and towns visited. years is absolute proof of Box No. A, care AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY this statement KANSAS MOB INQUIRY 627 West 43d St., New York City No matter how serious your official investigation by the Depart- deformity, no matter what treat- AN ments you have tried, think of ment of Kansas of the recent disorder SERVICE the thousands of sufferers this method ha3 at Gfeat Bend in which two organizers of made well and happy. will prove BRONZE We the value the Non-Partisan League were tarred and ROLLS of the Philo Burt Method in your own case. feathered is expected to confirm the de- Write today for Free Book L The Philo Burt Appliance spatches sent out by newspaper corre- showing designs spondents on the scene who declared that on 30 Days' Trial the Legion as an organization took no part FLOUR CITY ORNAMENTAL IRON CO. Since you run no risk there is in the affair. The investigation was or- 27th Av. S. Minneapolis, Minn. no reason why you should not ac- dered by the National Commander on ac- cept our offer at once. count of the presence of ex-service men in photographs The here show how mob. light, cool, elastic and easily ad- the ADVANCE HOURSELF justable the Philo Burt Appliance is— how different from the old tor- Our Graduates Earn ss.ooo Yearly taring plaster, leather or Bteel DEPARTMENT BASEBALL LEAGUES Learn by Mail in Your Spare Hours jackets. To weakened or de- Auditing; Cer. Pub. Acct. Advertising; formed spines it brings almost crack of the bat meeting the flying Rankin? Cost Accounting: Salesmanship immediate relief even in the most THE will be heard throughout the Brokerage Corporate Sec'y Bookkeeping serious cases. You owe it to sphere Real Estate Business Organizer Credit Manager yourself to investigate it thor- Legion this spring in Iowa and Oklahoma, Prepare at home for larger income. Write for Book, within oughly. The price is two of the first departments to lay plans stating the business in which you are interested. 17th yr. reach of all. UNIVERSAL BUSINESS INSTITUTE Send for our Free Book for the coming season on the diamond. 1052 Pullman Bldg., New York today snd describe the nature Thirty-two teams have already applied for your trouble and condition of membership in the Iowa Legion baseball as ful'y as possible so we can give j* a definite information. league. Schedules for county, district and PHILO BURT CO. state championship games were discussed at a recent conference of post commanders SCHNOTER'S 92-4 Odd F.H.wa Bld« . Jama>town,N.V. in Oklahoma City.

MAKING SPORTS SUCCEED SUSPENSORIES Standard Underwoods THE success of the second annual athletic S Year Guarantee meet of the Department of Massachu- Leaders For 51 Yean Yes, this genuine Standard Visible Wri- setts at Boston, and the enthusiasm which it ing Under- aroused, is regarded by Bay State Legion- Perfect in every way, wood newly] quality, fit and wear. rebuilt, at naires as more than bearing out the op- Low price. Used in^os- much less timistic predictions that were made re- prescribed by medical authorities. than factory garding the development of athletics in the price, yours druggist does not carry Schnoter's for&.OOdown Legion when the state athletic committee, pt no substitutes. Order direct $ 1 .00. and then easy which arranged the event, was appointed "monthly payments. Booklet of other styles sent upon request. early in the winter. 10 Day* FREE Trial Try It for 10 day. at our rial. — In addition to track and field athletes J. G. SCHNOTER CO. Hone, back guarantee. Send now for^^^'^SteSKM^^r art* Jersey free book BUt b.rirmln offer. ^^^"^ Keyboard from Legion posts all over Massachusetts, Park (Dept. T.) New TYPEWRITER EMPORIUM 2514 Shlpman Building teams and individuals were entered in the and Ravanswood Avnuea Chicago. IlllnoS MggjWgg meet representing Harvard, Yale, Williams, PAGE 21

Brown, Boston College, Tufts, Northeastern College, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Holy Cross and Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. National Guard regiments and Do You Want leading athletic clubs of Boston, New York, in MONTHS TO Pay Chicago and other large cities sent entrants. High schools, Y. M. C. A.'s and athletic Bonus? associations of Massachusetts were well $100 7' 72 70 Yearly Increase Guaranteed represented. SPECIAL TERMS—Ten months' credit on There were several track events for Yes, you can earn $100 any article selected from the SWEET cataloe NO MONEY IN ADVANCE. Shipment made Legion members only, including a relay bonus—and what is more you for your examination. First payment to be made race between teams from the Departments can have it every month! only after you have convinced yourself that of New York and Massachusetts. SWEET values cannot be equalled. If not what you wish return at To members of the American I pur expense. Any dia- mond bought of us Legion we are offering positions may be returned for exchange at an in- as field representatives of the ! ', creased value of 7 j

. more than you paid. largest publishing organization

I NO RED TAPE -NO DELAY in the world. Every transaction CON- goes another record! But there are FIOKXTIAL. You don't, UP The men we want are able to do justice to yourself and two contestants this time for the honor 0NLY$5^. your dollars unless you of being the youngest member of the Wom- visualize the possiblities of a big ' inspect our unusual values en's Auxiliary. They are Phyllis Marie Sweet's Cluster: in Diamonds, Watches. job when they run up against it. 7 Fine Diamonds Jewelry, Silverware, Lea- Markley, of the Auxiliary of Purton- set la Platinum. ther Goods, etc. Send Murphy-Popham Post of Minneapolis, They want something with a Looks like 1 y$ TODAY for SWEET De carat Solitaire. Luxe Catalogue. Write Kans., and Doris Jean Huckeby of the future. They want to be out in Price $62. SO NOW to Dept. 1031-J. Auxiliary of Henry Parthie Post of Edge- the open— to travel. They want Capi t a $1,000,000 ley, N. D. Both joined when two minutes old. Helen Elise Freeh of Cincinnati, O., to be bosses of their own time. » _"THE HOUSE OF, QUALfTX" —- | became a member of the Auxiliary of Rob- And, most of all, they want to ert E. Bentley Post at five minutes of LWSWEET INC I age not long ago and Justine Lorman, earn big money. If you want 1650 - 1660 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. | when all of one month old, attended her these things—and have the E3i utntiummui first meeting as a member of the Auxiliary ability to attain them we have of Herbert Warriner Post of Philadelphia, — Pa. Little Miss Lorman is expected to a place for you on our staff. No $650 DOWN SECURES parade with the post on Memorial Day, experience nor capital required. 100 A. WITH HORSES AND riding in her own car. We furnish you everything to Poultry, hay, vehicles, machinery, etc.: 2 miles hustling town; dark loam fields; brook-watered pasture; large start work. Write now. The Auxiliary of Shubin-Buchsbaum Post quantity wood; fruit; sugar maples; 7-room house, of Philadelphia, Pa., recently entertained running water; 70-ft. barn; owner forced sell S1300 Box 55, Agency Bureau the Post with a coffee party. takes all, easy terms. See page 16 Spring Catalog 1100 Bargains. FREE. STROUT AGENCY, 150 P B INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY The first convention of the Women's Nassau St.. New York City. Auxiliary of the Department of Virginia 119 WEST 40th STREET will be held May 13th and 14th. YOU CAN Have a NEW YORK, N. Y. A stand of national colors and a Legion banner were presented to the Fourteenth Business Infantry Post of Brooklyn, N. Y., recently profession of your own and earn big income in service by its Women's Auxiliary. fees. A New system of foot correction; readily learned Othev types down to $3,50. Far life size pBtterns and simple by anyone at home In a few weeks. Easy terms for The Auxiliary of Murphy-Major-Sloan 11 deta training, openings everywhere with all the trade you ->iir Fmd int . .his fas*, seor; or to Post of Atchison, Kans., is the first colored speedster ;s can attend to. No capital required goods buy, no hundreds hav* agency or soliciting. Address Auxiliary in Kansas and one of the first done with rj w dollnr- STEPHENSON LABORATORY, 20 Back Bay, Boston, Mass to be organized in the country. th of m;; Urta] rrom i! • ,i»rdware storr A rummage sale and military whist party No need to lay u\ thf< car. Tli. GENUINE Write Quick were among the latest successful activities . - ''Pnl" with di-- Up to the minute wheel pattern TUB SILK For This of the Auxiliary of Concord (N. H.) Post. only $6.40 delivered. Built low. rfdes wonderfully easy. Orri>r NOW from thin ad, Wn will s-nd r.'tEE Pre^ert Metal Stream- The Auxiliary correspondent regu- r-.n SPECIAL SMASHING who line Rearwhiidi makes fine finish. Sf.no Gci-oin kor ii.i iisTHAl larly writes up the doings of the unit for PSOBFBQnib, Patterns for "Jifdy" T.-p $2.2!> and "GOSDIB ' $10 Value OFFER Windshield $2.->'> delivered. Kuempel Company, 74 Kuempel Bldg., Guttenberg, Iowa Only the local papers recently added that appli- We Pay cations for membership would be received Delivery and gave the name of the treasurer, who Charges was almost swamped. KENNEBEC Baskets of red poppies, the memorial 'Tanoea flower of the Legion, were the decorations Send today for illustrated book about our >n.-,l paid of Quality." mailed to any addrts;. I at a public meeting for Hanford MacNider, KENNEBEC BOAT AND CANOE CO. Commander of the Department of Iowa, 10 R.R. Square. Waterville. Maine. held at Vinton under the auspices of the Auxiliary of George G. Luckey Post. The Auxiliary has made and given to the post SAFEST TO USE a silk quilt for a lounge in the post head- quarters which has been a temporary bunk for many an out-of-luck buddy. "By joining together women of the same 207 WAR PHOTOS ideals and sentiments in a common bond and acting together with men of the of Army. Navy & Murines In action on land and sea, re- Legion, who by their past acts have shown produced In full colors with descrip- that the welfare of this nation is their tions. Bound In Album for your li- highest aim, we may become a force non- brary or to give family and friends. Order today, by mall, post-paid 25^ political, non-sectarian, influencing all of the great issues of life." This was the Historical Publishers USURoscoe St., Chicago ft„|.. l AO for this genuine super quality declaration of Mrs. E. Clinton Murray, Mnly Sp*r.?JO regular S10.00 satin stripe tub eilk dress shirt. Sent on anproral, no money in, advance, President of the Women's Auxiliary of the pavable C. O. D. Made of finest quality Department of Texas, at the commencement SATIN STRIPE TUB SILK of her state-wide tour in the interests of Learn to Dance Heavy weight, very durable Good extra full roomy the Auxiliary. yowcanlearnFox-Trot.One-Step.Two- arm-holes; coat front style; very dressy; soft French p. Waltz and latest "up-to-the-minute" so- turn-back cuffs; fine pearl buttons; double-stitched; finest workman- ciety dances in your own home by the wonderful Black, blue or lavender stripes whip; latest nobby satin stripe effect. The number fourteen seems to be work- Peak System of Mail Instruction. < fast color) on white back-srround. Sizes 14 to 18. State size and color. no IA/a CniKiniflfl *o refund your money if you can match ing overtime in the Auxiliary of the De- New Diagram Method. Easily learned; guarantee for We th j 3 handsome silk shirt elsewhere music Deeded; thousands taught successfully; less than $10.00. Send no money- -just your name, address and size. partment of Massachusetts. There are success absolutely guaranteed. Charges- Another Big Saving. You pay only $4.98 We Pay Delivery councils in the State, Write for Special lon**v for on arrival. Write quick, don't lo3e out on this stupendous bargain. fourteen county and Terms. Send the Norfolk County Council was formed on FREK information and surprisingly low offer. WILLIAM CHANDLER PEAK, M. 3. BERNARD -HEWITT & CO. ^^JffS^gRgggg TWomber 11th with fourteen units renre- Room 99 4737 Broadway, CMcac*. Iff, —

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sented, one of the earliest, if not the first, LearnMecharacal of the Auxiliary county organizations to be created. 3Shi

Dressed in costumes of old Colonial days, DRAWING the members of the Auxiliary of Franklin EARN $35 TO $100 A WEEK Post of Columbus, O., entertained the A**> you earning less than this amount? If so my offer will interest you. I offer to a\vc you a thorough, prac- Legion post at a dinner recently. John R. tical trainintt in mechanical drawing by mail, in your Spare time, at home. Course includes highest quality McQuigg, Commander of the Department set nl" instruments and Drafting equipment. I guaran- give you a thorough practical training that of Ohio, addressed the gathering. qualifies for a high salaried position as a professional Draftsman. My graduates are making good with big onneernseverywhere. Write for free book of information "Your A concert for which noted artists have Future in Drafting." been will held in ROY C. CLAFLIN, PRESIDENT, booked be the New York Columbia School of Drafting Hippodrome on the evening of April 17 Department 1439. I4th & T. Sts.. Washington, D. C. under the auspices of the Women's Auxili- ary of Don Tallon Post. The proceeds will go to a fund for a clubhouse for post office omjr Agents: employees, of which the post is composed. $50 a Week Rush your order in today sure. Genuine Swoizene shirt material, extra fine count, very high luster. For your spare time. Men or women Latest effects, most beautiful black, blue selling guaranteed hosiery. Must wear Within ten days after applying for a and lavender stripes. Guaranteed fast colors, rich 12 months or replaced free—all styles, col- charter, the Auxiliary of Asbury Park looking, wear better than silk. Cut extra full, ors and fancy stripes, including silk hose. (N. J.) Post had given a public card party coat front style, soft French turn-back cuffs. Sell for Less Than Store Prices which netted $400 and was off on a career <° refund your money im- Often sell dozen pair to one family. Every "»,Vio Hliavanfno of activity. Weekly socials, hospital visit- JL C yuaraniee mediately if you can match man or woman, young old, or can make Dig ing and dances are on the program. "We these shirts for less than S6. 50. Don't pay high retail money selling this quality line. Write for £rices. Order yours today sure, before it is too late, ' did not realize what we had been doing lehvery charges paid—nnother eamcles, Tbomae Mfg. Co. big saving. Send no without until the Auxiliary was formed," money, all three shirts $3.59 0. O. L>. Give neck size. H-501 t Daytoa/Ohio is the word from the post. Bernard - Hewitt & Co. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGE- Dept. E 1 44 900 W. Van Buren St„ Chicago MENT, CIRCULATION. ETC.. REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE YARDSTICK AUGUST 24. 1912 ON Mileage of The American Legion Weekly, published OUR BATTLEFIELDS weekly at New York, N. Y.. for April 1, 1921. .State of New York \ Tires ss ' (Continued from page 17) County of New York ) NOT A SEWED OR SO-CALLED Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State "SLIGHTLY USED" TIRE— but a and county aforesaid, personally appeared C. methods of ammunition supply and the sturdy fabric casing, honestly re- Robert Baines, who, having been duly sworn built of new materials, which introduction of quick firing field guns. we are confident will give according to law, is deposes and says that he the mileage equivalent to a cord Bi'siness Manager of The American Legion On the score of casualties in these tire. Standard, Weekly, and that the following is, to the best of typical American battles, a final com- non-skid tread of new live rubber his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the parison may be made. In the Meuse- ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid same as drawing, which should publication for the in Argonne, the twenty-five American date shown the above cap- give 6ooo miles tion required by the Act of August 24, 1912, em- divisions which were engaged at one service. bodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, time or another, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: not including corps A BRAND NEW 1. That the names and addresses of the pub- and army troops, suffered casualties of TUBE FREE WITH EVERY TIRE ORDERED lisher, editor, managing editor, and business 117,039 men out of 556,497, or about 28x3 J7.30 J2X4^ $l'.SS managers are: 30x3 8 . 00 13- IO twenty-one percent of their total 30X3K 9-IO 34*4H IJ-75 Publisher strength. It should be said that the 32x3 Yi SS. Only... 9.70 3Sx4Vj 14.00 Legion Publishing Corporation, 627 West 31x4 10.9s 36x4 K 14. SO 43d St., New York City percentage, however, varied greatly in 32x4 11 .30 35*5 15.50 33X4 II. 75 37XS 1560 different divisions, from .4055 in the 34X4 Editor: Harold W. Robs, 627 West 43d St., New II. 95 York City First Division to .007 in the Seventh State SS. or Clincher. SEND YOUR ORDER TODAY Division. with S2.00 deposit. Tire shipped balance C. O. D., with Managing Editor: John T. Winterich, 627 West section left unwrapped for examination. If not satis, 43d St., New York City At Gettysburg the Union loss was factory, return tire and advise us at once. Deposit will bo promptly returned as soon as received. 2.3,033 out of 92,000 Con- fire la Business Manager: C. R. Baines, 627 West 43d men and the FIELD Tl RE &. 230 St., New York City federate loss 20,451 out of 78,000 men, RUBBER CO., Dept. or 25 percent for the Union army and 23th &. WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO 2. That the owners are: The American Legion, an organization of over 1,000,000 members. Hold- a little over 26 percent for the Confed- ing corporation, The Legion Publishing Corpora- erate. In the Wilderness, Grant lost Send for a Complete Catalogue or tion, 627 West 43d St., New York City. President, F, W. Galbraith, Jr., Meridian Life 17,666 men out of his 118,000, or about Building, Indianapolis, Ind. 15 percent. Lee's losses were not accu- MASONIC BOOKS Secretary, Lemuel Bolles, Meridian Life rately reported. Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Jewelry and Goods Treasurer, Robert H. Tyndall, Meridian Life At Bunker Hill the Americans lost Building, Indianapolis, Ind. 441 men out of 3,500 12.6 percent — REDDING & CO. The American Legion, Meridian Life Building, while the British, owing to their per- Indianapolis, Ind. Publishers and Manufacturers 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, sistent and bloody assaults on the Dept. A 200 Fifth Avenue, New York and other security holders owning or holding 1 per American works, lost fifty-three percent cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, of their numbers engaged, a proportion or other securities are: None truly appaling. At Yorktown the en- 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving tire British army of 8,077 men became the names of the owners, stockholders, and .security prisoners of war, although their battle BATTERIES holders, if any, contain not only the list of stock- holders and security holders as they appear upon casualties had been only 482, or less Power Dependability the books of the company but also, in cases where than six per cent, while the casualties the stockholder or security holder appears upon Long Life of the Franco-American allies were of the company as trustee or in the books any other ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY CO. fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corpor- about 1.5 percent. THE 1888 tion for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also In connection with the heavy losses at PHILADELPHIA 19Z1 that the said two paragraphs contain statements Gettysburg, which ranks among the Branches in 17 cities embracing affiant'3 full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which most sanguinary of the great battles stockholders and security holders who do not appear of history, it is to be remembered that upon books of company as trustees, the the hold days; stocks and securities in a capacity other than that the fighting lasted for only three of a bona fide owner: and this affiant has no reason the heavy fighting, indeed, for only to believe that any other person, association, or two days, while in the Meuse-Argonne corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so most of the American divisions were in stated by him. action for two weeks, more or less, Wanted—Railway Mail Clerks | (Signed) C. Robert Baines, either constantly or in two tours of Business Manager. $1600 First Year FRANKLIN INSTITUTE front line service. In spite of the Every Man or Woman Dept. J-191, Rochester, N. Y. Sworn to and subscribed before this 16th day me vastly increased power, range and ac- ?end couoon Slra: Send me. without charge. (1) of March, 1921. Pv £.rfi™ menm.n ou-O* sample Railway Mail Clerk Examination curacy of modern weapons, the ten- s5HEJt v questions; (2) schedule showing places (Signed) E. R. Lakeman t„ Q Bprlng examinations; (3) list .of many gov- [Seal.] dency seems in recent times to be for ernment jobs now open. Notary Public, New York County. Certificate casualties to grow less in proportion to filed in New York County, No. 193. (My commis- sion expire* March 31, 1921.) numbers engaged. ——— — — —— — .

Thin Skinned or Thick Skinned?

So far we have succeeded in obtaining the advertising of but one underwear manu- facture!^ The rest of them attaching little importance to the possibilities of selling their products to us through the advertising pages of Our Weekly Apparently these underwear manufacturers, for the most part DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WE WEAR ANYTHING NEXT TO OUR SKIN!

Over Three-quarters of a Million Men in a Goose Pimple Parade?

Let's hope not. Even in the days of our youth we learned the lesson of the careful selection of under- wear For a boy who appeared with a freak style at the swimmin' hole would ofttimes find a knotty problem to unsolve after the plunge- In fact, he probably would return home minus the undergarments And even in those days—we learned the advantages of the kinds we could slip into and out of quickly Because the first kid undressed was the hero. In our army days, underwear was just underwear

If the supply sergeant threw it at you, it was yours — fit or no fit —cotton, wool or mixed Us birds who took his various and sundry styles, sizes and makes, have more choice now —lei's prove it — To the Advertising Manager, Come on you Union Suiters —Knee Length, Long Sleeves, Cot- — 627 West 43d St., New York City. ton, Wool and Silk Lads —Tell us about your dainties Our Buddy in the paper suit ought to wear Ssssshhh—What do you wear? underwear (Give name of brand) Send your letter or coupon in right away —Help us "get under Because the skin" of the underwear manufacturers and show them (Give reason) we've "got something next to ours." Name Dealers —write us your general orders on coupons — Address

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