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Message Center THE LEGION CARRIES ON 5 By Lynn U. Stambaugh, National Com- JUST a couple of days after you got mander the July issue of this magazine carry- ing the article Greenland Goes U. S. the Drawing by Ed Stevenson world learned that Iceland had also gone TUMPING TUROUGH GEORGIA 6 U. (Aside dictators: We'll return S. to By Don Wharton 'em when you boys get your ears pinned back.) We've always taken a sentimental DEMOCRACY'S BULWARK 8 interest in Iceland, and its place in the By Huch S. Bonar world news caused us to recall the Cartoons by John Cassel singular feat of old Dr. Sam Johnson, the English philosopher, who boasted PAPA QUATTROCHPS FLAG 10 Frederick Hazlitt that he could repeat an entire chapter By Brennan of Horrebow's The Natural History of Illustrations by George Giguere AMONG BOTTLED IN Iceland. The good doctor thereupon BOND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT CHALLENGE AT THE PORTS 11 obliged with Chapter of that book, BOURBON WHISKIES 72 By Fairfax Downey which had the heading Concerning Cartoon by Will Graven Snakes, and ran thus: "There are no JOBS, STEADY JOBS 14 By Harold E. Stassen Important UNITED IN THE WILL TO WIN 16 A form for your convenience if yon u'isfi to By Boyd B. Stutler fiore the magazine sent to another address will be found on page 51. TWENTY YEARS AGROWING z 4

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NATIONAL COMMANDER

A MIDST widespread confusion any group in America for sound think- waste of modern warfare they insisted

/\ and disagreement over the ing upon matters which concern our that, if fighting is necessary to defend I % course to be followed by Amer- country's security. the United States, we be prepared to do ica in the present world emer- They expressed confidence in our Gov- the fighting outside of our own territory. gency, The American Legion assem- ernment, our President, our War Depart- To that end they advocated removal of bled in convention at Milwaukee on ment, our Navy Department and pledged geographic limits upon the movement of September 15th last. Uppermost in the them the support of The American troops and urged repeal of the Neutral- minds of those assembled was a devout Legion. ity Act. purpose to aid in dispelling confusion With characteristic realism they an- They approved and endorsed the for- and in promoting national unity. To nounced that our present national ob- eign policy of the President and Con- this end the problems confronting our jective is the defeat of Hitler and what gress and urged all Americans to unite country were examined with utmost he stands for and appealed for an end to in support of our Government, to the seriousness and with full appreciation all diverting controversies—for national end that the American way of life may of the great responsibility entailed in unity upon this objective. survive. speaking for America's most powerful In keeping with the traditional belief These were the salient pronounce- patriotic organization. Courageously the of The American Legion they demanded ments of the Milwaukee Convention delegates refused to evade or sidestep. an America strong enough to meet any upon the most pressing problems of Their decisions were reached by demo- possible attack before it arrives— to turn these trying times. They represent the cratic processes and therefore represent back any enemy before our homes and most realistic thought of the organiza- the composite judgment of an organiza- families are imperiled. tion best qualified by experience and tion which has the greatest record of Having in mind the devastation and (Continued on page j8)

NOVEMBER, 1941 MAY, 1940, there wasn't a para- INchute trooper in the U. S. Army. There wasn't an officer who had specialized in parachute attacks, nor was there any training apparatus, knowledge or experience. We were simply fast asleep—inexcusably, for this was originally an American idea. Before the first World War an American made the first parachute jump from a plane. In the last war, far-seeing General Billy Mitchell conceived and urged a gigantic parachute attack to land 20,000 men behind the German lines. Americans in the early 1920's led the world in para- chute stunts. By 1928 American Air Corps men were making mass jumps of ten from a ship—stunts, done without orders. In the fall of 1939 our own For- est Service began using parachute jumpers to fight fires. And there we stopped. The Russians got interested, the Germans carried on, but we slept. In the spring of 1940, Ger- man parachutists seized the Rotterdam airfield. Only then did our Army halt- ingly organize a platoon of parachute troops—two officers and 48 men. This platoon of volunteers, beginning in tents at Fort Benning, Georgia, bor- rowing equipment, virtually begging rides from the Air Corps, has in a year grown There are all sorts of tricks to the job of landing safely, to four battalions of some 400 jumpers but it takes a good many jumps to learn them all each. Officers, learning along with their men, have developed a school that can turn out a parachute battalion a month. around on their 21st birthday. Officers spring to his feet while being jerked By running night classes it could double want quick-thinking, athletic types, emo- head-on along the ground. He does road this output. tionally well balanced. In examining vol- work like a prizefighter. He jumps time All parachutists, both officers and unteers they have their little tricks, and again from a dummy plane on the men, are still volunteers—more than some secret, for eliminating all but the ground. He learns to manipulate the four

1 S.000 men and officers tried 900 have cream ; for example, asking a volunteer riser cords which connect his harness to get in. All are from the infantry. The his serial number or date of enlistment; with the parachute. He is pulled along men get $50 a month extra pay, the offi- if he fumbles, can't remember, he might an inclined trolley and dropped, to ac- cers $100. They can't buy life insurance have trouble learning parachute pack- custom him to landing with a forward though they've had but one death out of ing. motion.

4500 jumps. When one of these picked men reaches Then he is taken to the great 250-foot Soldiers chosen must be unmarried, Fort Benning he starts through the towers modeled after the one at the under 30, and physically tops. They toughest school ever devised for Ameri- World's Fair. He makes five parachute must be under six feet tall ; experience can soldiers. For six weeks he is hardened descents in a chair seat and four in har- showed taller men were slow getting into a physical superman. Leather- ness. Then he is strapped horizontally through the plane door. The top weight lunged sergeants drive him side by side in his harness, hauled up 150 feet and is 185—extra poundage leads to in- with new officers through exercises at a signal told to pull his rip cord for juries in landing. Regulations bar men which make football practice look soft. a 15-foot drop which jerks him into an under 21, though perhaps the 19- and He tumbles on mats, then on the hard upright position. During this nerve test 20-year-olds would make the best Georgia soil, then over other men. He he holds a tiny rubber ball in his left jumpers. Several have wormed their climbs ropes, somersaults off platforms hand; if he turns it loose he hasn't full way in as cook's helpers in order to be forward and backward. He is taught to control of himself—and can go through

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A few of the soldiers of the Parachute Battalions at Fort Benning awaiting their turn to go aloft THROUGH GEORGIA

the hangman's drop again. This shock tional hypo and curiosity. Part of the

test washes out a few men; a few more emotional build-up for the first carries Making the half turn just are washed out in the next step; two over to the second and. further, the before the 'chute opens jumps from another tower with an open men feel that if they don't make the parachute. second their buddies will think they

Now the trooper is ready for the were scared to death by the first. It is. jump from a plane. Besides being tough- they'll all tell you. the third, fourth, or ened physically and trained technically, fifth which is hardest. By that time the {Continued on page 38)

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he has also been conditioned psychologi- cally to make it hard for him NOT to jump. This is done partly by making him familiar with his 'chute. Every man al- ways packs his own. He learns how in

1 2 four-hour lessons. He has been taught to think of a parachute as a means of transportation. His reserve 'chute

worn in training, not battle—is the one he thinks of as a life preserver. Plane flights give green men the feel of the air. An experienced jumper goes along and after a student has had his two hours' riding takes him to the door, talks to him casually about jumping out. That's fairly new; some of the pioneers have been up in a plane a dozen times and never yet landed in one. The first jump is not the hardest— the parachutist has been building up to it To get the feel of the thing the parachute troops for six weeks, is pushed by an emo- first do their jumps from this dummy platform

NOVEMBER, 1941 Democracy's

Cartoons By

John Cassel HUGH S. BONAR

Bulwark AMERICAN SCHOOLS ENSURE AN ALERT, INTELLIGENT CITIZENRY TO SAFEGUARD OUR CIVILIZATION

BASIC in the structure and func- tions of political and religious allegiance; government "of the people, by the peo- tion of our Government is the sacrifices involved in the life struggle on ple, and for the people." principle "We. the people.'* It the wilderness frontier; and sacrifices of Sometimes we become impatient with is the principle of many voices blood in the struggle to establish and "We. the people*' principle. Its processes as opposed to one voice. It represents maintain this new government "con- are slow, it is cumbersome, it isn't al- the struggle of the people to free them- ceived in liberty and dedicated to the ways efficient. This impatience breeds selves from the bondage Old World proposition that all men are created discontent, encourages shortsighted and standards had imposed for thousands of equal." often ill-advised criticism of our most years. It was not won easily. It involved On the anvil of human rights these essential democratic institutions, and decisions which could only be made by heroic freemen hammered out in this prompts hysteria to usurp the functions men and women of uncommon strength hemisphere the framework of govern- of reason and deliberation assigned lead- of character. Sacrifices were exacted ment which makes the welfare of all men ing roles in democratic processes. which would make weaklings wince; and women the most important re- The structure of government which sacrifices of ties with the fatherland; sponsibility of organized society, and Gladstone declared "the most wonderful sacrifices of family relationships; sac- cooperative procedure with majority work ever struck off at a given time by rifices of traditions of inheritance, of vote of an enlightened electorate the the brain and purpose of man" made traditions of social custom, and of tradi- characteristic working principle of this provision for adjustment to an advanc

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ing. changing civilization. Enlightenment of the peo- recognized as a ple was relationship between democratic govern- fundamental requisite to the develop- ment and education. From France in ment and perpetuity of a democratic 1787 he wrote to James Madison saying: society. Upon this rock our living gov- ernment was built. Above all things, I hope the educa- Considered a local matter, the Fed- tion of the common people will be at- tended to; convinced that on this good eral Constitution left to the States the sense we may rely with the most secur- responsibility to provide through schools ity for the preservation of a due sense and higher institutions of learning this of liberty. enlightenment of all the people. Fearful that the States might not assume this re- Madison likewise emphasized this re- lationship of and security of sponsibility as effectively and as prompt- education ly as was deemed essential to the wel- popular government when he wrote: fare of democracy, the national govern- A popular government without pop- certain ment from time to time made ular information or the means of ac- of provision for the education of the quiring it is but a prologue to a farce people. When the Congress of the Con- or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowl- edge will forever govern ignorance; federation, in 1787, adopted the Ordi- and a people who mean to be their nance for the organization and own governors must arm themselves government of the Northwest with the power which knowledge gives.

Territory, it made the Ordinance these founding subject to the following provision I have summoned fathers to testify that in the beginning ample warning that without pro- Article 3. Religion, moral- we had ity, and knowledge being nec- vision for the education of the people essary to good government and popular government could not survive. the happiness of mankind, schools and This counsel has prevailed throughout the means of education shall forever history of republic, being char- be encouraged (in the States to be the our formed from this Territory.) acteristic of the admonition of those whom the people have designated as By the time the State of Ohio their responsible leaders.

There is no security for the democra-

tic institutions and processes without

carved out of this territory Congress general diffusion of knowledge. In pro- provision for the most widespread en- as the structure of a govern- gave each new State a generous en- portion lightenment of all the people. This Is ment cives force to public opinion, it dowment of national land to aid in Our First Line of National Defense! is essential that pubkc opinion should establishing and maintaining a state sys- be enlightened. Saboteurs of government will seek in tem of schools. Additional lands were diverse ways to weaken this first line of Jefferson, too, recognized this vital given to endow state universities. defense of popular government. They Washington recognized this funda- will seek to disillusion the people by mental relationship of education to the NATIONAL EDUCATION questioning the cost of education in a maintenance of Democracy when in his WEEK. NOV. 9TH—15TH republic of free men. Naturally ex- Farewell Address, 1796, he said: penditures for education of all the peo- ple at as high a level as possible will in- Promote, then, as an object of pri- For Legion Post participation (Coiitinued on page mary importance, institutions for the see page 30 44)

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THE most sacred spirit of BYGeorge, the Washington, it was a near thing, a very near thing. Had Papa Quattrochi not turned up North Broadway to buy meat for raviolis, they would have done it. Those wicked men of a certainty would have done it. Who was there to stop them but Papa Quattrochi? "Who'll start it? What'm I bid for this genuine worsted American flag?" shouted the auctioneer, that villain. "Sixty foot long an' forty foot wide one of the largest flags ever con- structed, my frien's! Imported at a cost of over nine hundred dollars by Mr. Monahan of this unfortunate business firm. What'm I bid? Who'll start it?" Papa Quattrochi could scarcely be- lieve his ears. But the banner outside said "Bankruptcy Sale" and. inside, they were about to do it. Papa Quat- trochi with his own eyes could see them gathered about the flag on the counter. Only part of it was showing from a brown paper bale—very wide red and white stripes and a few stars as broad as a man's chest. "Ten dollars!" a man said. "Ten dollars for a flag sixty foot long and forty foot acrosst?" yelled the auc- tioneer, "Come, come, my frien's where's your patriotism?" Sacramente, yes, he said that, the bigga bum. What was a man to do? By the sacred spirit of Abraham, the Lincoln, such a crime could not be countenanced. Yet no one spoke out, not one of them. It made Papa Quattrochi very sad, but very angry also. "You stoppa that!" said Papa Quat- trochi.

They all looked at Papa Quattrochi as he pushed his way into the crowd.

Certamente, it was -a dangerous mo- lustrated by ment. Men who would attempt this George Giguere thing were of a nature most horrible. Papa Quattrochi was short and old and Papa Quattrochi*

fat, but he remembered the sacred spirit They laughed and made grunts, they "What '11 you offer?" of Theodore, the Roosevelt. said "Tony's drunk" and "Tony's a nut" "I am a poor man, but—

"What's wrong, Tony?" asked the and "G'wan, beat it, you crazy Dago!" "Put up or shut up, Tony!" auctioneer. But there is a time when a man must "I give a twenty dollars. It is all— I "That flag." gasped Papa Quattrochi. stand his giound. can afford for him. Here is the money "You cannot sell him in place like this, And, behold, that auctioneer so red- "Not so fast, frien'. Any other bids?" atta the auction. No, no!" faced and sweaty remembered of him- "Twenty-two fifty," said a man at "Oh, yeah? Why not?" said the auc- self the conscience. He said: "I get whom the auctioneer directed a wink un- tioneer. what you mean, my frien', but the seen by Papa Quattrochi.

"It is The Flag, do you not see?" said court's orders is everything goes. And "Please a no. not at the auction! I Papa Quattrochi. "He is a sacred—you at auction, see? I got the court's give a thirty dollars and take him now, must not say so mucha this an' so mucha orders." please." that for him. Like a bracelet, like a vio- What was a man to do, if the court "Thirty-five dollars!" lin. Oh, but no, surely no!" And then was so stupid, so unfeeling? Papa Quat- Madre Dios. what villains. When Papa Quattrochi remembered his man- trochi glanced at that flag and then Papa Quattrochi inquired of the man ners and added, "Please a, Mister, please looked into the faces around him. who bid against him if he really wanted a no!" "I will buy him, you please," he said. that flag, the man said: "Hell, what

! 0 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Mrs. DelBondio knocked at the door rant. It is our furniture. They will take of Papa Quattrochi's two-room flat, the furniture. What am 1 to do with ostensibly to return some borrowed this man?" "That flag! You cannot cheese. Mary Mother, save him—that poor, sell him in place like By all the saints, what a scene, what addled Papa Quattrochi. this, atta the auction" a tragedy! There stood Papa Quattrochi "There are things in this a life a man must do," said Papa Quattrochi—and Mrs. DelBondio was the witness to his very words. "Had one of them prom- ised me he would take care of him, this a flag, I would not have bid so

high. Look at him, is he not a beauti- ful thing? He was made to fly in the air, in the sky. Those a villains kept him in creases on a store shelf. I ask'a you, Mrs. DelBondio, what could a man do?" "They will take our furniture," sobbed Mamma Quattrochi. Then, Papa Quattrochi went quite out of his mind, poor man. He scolded Mamma Quattrochi for her tears. He said—and Mrs. Del- Bondio can swear to it —that furni- ture is an unimportant thing com- pared to matters of principle. With principles and two hands that can clean fish for Nick Sansone's Mar-

ket, a man is still a man. "As for this a debt—I have been in the debt before!" cried Papa Quattrochi. "Angela mia, they will not take the furniture. I swear to it. In the morning, I will take him out and let him forget the creases. (Continued on page 46)

Hanging down al- most four full sto- ries in the areaway

holding the middle portion of a flag which stretched from the parlor- bedroom sofa at one end clear into the kitchen-dining room at the other. And there sat Mamma Quattrochi, rocking and sobbing

as if her heart would break. would I do with a flag sixty feet long? "It is the final ruin," wailed f I'm gonna cut it up for quilt patches." Mamma Quattrochi in Italian. S./ And another said it man would make "Ninety-six dollars he paid for it! good neckties if cut . . on the bias. . Ninety-six dollars. All his wages The story of what Papa Quattrochi and a chattel mortgage for sev- had done spread rapidly through Little enty-two dollars without the in- Italy. Young James Alvericis and Paul terest. It is our food. It is our Constanto saw him huffing and puffing along North Ninth Street with an enor- mous brown paper bundle. Mrs. Spi- gardi of No. 1719, east door, saw him carry it up two flights of stairs. Mrs. DelBondio of the third floor, west, FREDERICK watched him manage the third flight and heard him say to Mamma Quattrochi: HAZLITT "Angela mia. I have bought a flag!" Later, hearing the sound of weeping. BRENNAN

NOVEMBER 194, UNCLE SAM'S ALL-OUT ECONOMIC WARFARE,

outfit today FOUGHT THROUGH THE OFFICE OF EXPORT THERE is a military standing a most unusual sort of guard duty. The posts it walks, CONTROL, IS SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT so to speak, cover all ports and other shipping outlets from the United States. General and special orders are in the guardhouse. There's no fooling home industries which were going to take vastly more complicated than anything with this Army and Navy organization, a beating. It would stop or restrict the you or I ever had to remember, but they responsible finally to the Commander-in- outflow of materials we ourselves might boil down to this: Allow nothing to pass Chief, the President of the United States, soon need and prevent their reaching without the proper authority. Sentries and to the Vice-President. nations which meant no good with them are not armed with rifles, yet there's a Although there has been no shooting, toward our friends and might well take tremendous wallop in the powers they and Export Control began operating in a crack at us with them, when ready. wield. peace time, it has seen action just the On two counts this authority was unpre- For this outfit, known as the Office of same. It has beaten the Marines to it on cedented. The War Industries Board, Export Control, is potentially able to their slogan, "First to Fight," since it which handled the task in the last war, wreck or at least put a bad crimp in a has been engaged in that deadly-effective was civilian and not organized until war machine and to ruin the business of kind of conflict termed economic war- after hostilities commenced. This time a foreign firm trading with nations fare. And that can be more damaging Export Control was inaugurated in peace which, to put it mildly, are no friends of than many dive bombers and machine and the President set it up by military ours. When it challenges and halts a guns; in fact, a blockade of fuel and order. Therefore it became an assign- shipment of aviation gasoline, machine ammunition can ground the former and ment for the services. tools, scrap iron or many another item, silence the latter. Thus Export Control Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell that shipment stays halted unless it has strikes a regular battlefield blow against Ordnance and General Staff, was first a pass or license, as the Control calls it. a possible enemy, as well as strengthens appointed Administrator. Under him was

If the consignee is on the blacklist, the our own defense. constituted a personnel with a strength commodity never leaves our docks. Who- When Export Control was established of 500—army and navy officers, mostly ever tries to smuggle anything past is on July 2, 1940, many Americans Reserves with a few Regulars, and a liable to a fine of $10,000 and ten years cheered, including even most of those clerical staff to help handle the appalling

1 2 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine left by the preced- ing ones. It requires licenses for addi- AT THE tional steel and iron items; machinery, tools. It lists a large assortment of office Bu FAIRFAX DOWNEY equipment — which, it is to be hoped, will cramp Axis com- pany clerks and headquarters staffs considerably and make their paper-

amount of paperwork The reserve of State, Treasury and Commerce, the work even more onerous. It stretches officers, numbers of them Legionnaires, O.P.M., and the Priorities Board, put export control on rubber so far that frequently gave up excellent positions in certain items under Export Control. even rubber bands, erasers, and bathing

the business world to come back into Then he ordered the Control outfit into caps are included. Nor does it forget the service on this important detail. action, and it laid down a barrage of soap and powder (tooth). They, according to testimony by ex- schedules listing articles and materials Why, many people have been asking porters, are doing a high calibre, non- which might not be exported without a for a year or more, didn't we crack down dictatorial, extremely cooperative job. license. and put up the bars sooner? Why did so The President on September 18 placed Those schedules are something! They much oil and scrap iron go through to Export Control under the Economic De- run from A to Z, not to mention a flock Japan? Weren't we aware that many fense Board, headed by Vice-President of numerals. By the time Z was reached, much-needed war materials were being Wallace. General Maxwell, who had done they covered about 91 percent of the shipped across the Pacific and freighted a fine job of organization, was relieved imports from this country. As one com- over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to and his functions assumed by Milo R. mentator put it. they took in almost Russia, which was passing some of them Perkins, executive director of the board. everything but women's underwear and on to Germany? Under Mr. Perkins, Lieutenant Colonel canned lobster. (It may be that there President Roosevelt gave the answer W. E. Chickering, former deputy admin- are certain gents to whom we would last July when he explained that we had istrator, and the staff carried on. gladly send quantities of the latter item refrained from cutting off our supply of The bases for Export Control are —slightly spoiled). oil to Japan because otherwise she might these: First, National Defense; second, Included of course are many more have gone into the East Indies a year aid to friendly countries, along the lines articles than those obviously used in a;;o "and you would have had war." We of the Lease-Lend Law; third, to assist combat. On Schedule Z are tobacco, were not ready then. Neither were the Latin America in maintaining its nor- toilet paper, typewriters, printing presses, British, who also permitted a How of mal business and to preserve Uncle Sam*s phonograph records, stringed instru- materials. In allowing stuff to reach friendly relations with his neighbors to ments, cream separators, bee-keeping Russia, apparently we guessed right; the south; fourth, to prevent exports to equipment, table glassware, men's night- some of it must have been useful against the Axis Powers, conforming to the State wear, and men's underwear, not knit. Germany.

Department's policy. We're bound to give no aid and comfort Then, too, it must not be forgotten

You can watch the system working to the "enemy." If he gets stung for what a huge job this control business is.

through reports in newspapers almost lack of bee-keeping equipment or itches The Export people didn't go at it by every day. They won't read as dramati- from wearing permitted exports of knit- building up a high, airtight barrier which

cally as battle stories, but they may be ted underwear, it serves him right. would have stopped anything and every- more vital. Immensely significant events Subject to license also are patent ap- thing. That would have been exceedingly

have been taking place in Japan, in Lati 1 plications and technical information and tough not only on our home trade but America, along the Burma Road, all over drawings which might assist the Axis. on our friends to the south and elsewhere the world because President Roosevelt, Schedule 17 went into effect late in as well. The wall was built up block by after consultation with the Departments August. It filled in virtually every gap [Continued on page 42)

NOVEMBER, 1941 13 since he hung up his uni- EVERform and got back into overalls

in 1 91 Q, Jim Brown has worked for the same small Minnesota manufacturing firm. To be exact, he has worked for this outfit about three-quar- ters of the time, for he has averaged a three-months layoff in most years, from before Christmas to around St. Pat- rick's Day. The unpaid winter vacations were not Jim's idea—he never had the money then to take the missus and kids to loaf on a sun-kissed beach. Instead, he stayed around home and scrambled for odd jobs to provide groceries and coal. Jim was a living example of the truth

that whatever your rate of pay, it is your annual income and the regularity ILLUSTRATIONS BY of your job that counts. Both he and the boss always figured there was noth- FRANK STREET ing anybody could do to make the job steadier. The plant's product is required in heavy construction work, and can be sold only for jobs reasonably close at hand.

Customers can use it only when the ground can be worked, hence JOBS. Steady JOBS the company can't sell a nickel's worth in winter. So—Jim got his annual lay-off. HOW THIRTY-FIVE STATES ARE BRINGING Three years ago, Jim found his bad situation eased off a little bit, for that ABOUT JOB STABILIZATION, USING A was the year benefits became payable under his State's unemployment com- LEGION PLAN DEVELOPED IN MINNESOTA pensation law. He missed a couple of pay checks during the waiting period, pinched their pennies to make the sary for the State to pay out unemploy- but from then on he got something like money last through the winter. ment benefits are the ones who ought to half-pay. which is still not very much What had happened was that this pay most of the cost. In Jim's State the at that time of year when living ex- same Minnesota law which made it pos- employer who provides steady work for penses are highest. sible for Jim to collect unemployment his people pays a lower rate of unem- Two years ago the picture changed. benefits while he was laid off, also ployment tax; the employers whose

At Thanksgiving time the boss told the made it worth the boss's while to scratch working forces fluctuate violently have boys he was going to provide some work his head and figure out a way to do to pay more. for every man all winter, maybe a few something about keeping Jim and his When Jim's boss first realized how days and maybe full time, depending on fellow workers on the payroll the year much tax money it would cost him to how things turned out. Jim's wife will around. The unemployment compensa- lay off his workers in the winter as he always remember that Christmas as the tion law in this State varies the unem- always before had done, he began to first really good one of their married ployment tax according to the employ- plan. Every spring he had hired a few life, because it was the very first time er's "experience rating," on the principle temporary laborers to do simple repair they dared spend much on making the that the employers who cause seasonal jobs such as mending plant fences and kids happy. Always, previously, they unemployment and thus make it neces- driveways, patching roof leaks, spray-

The AMERICAN I.EGTON Magazine necessary to have an emergency gang HAROLD E. STASSEN sent in by a repair shop—why not have all equipment overhauled in winter by GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA his own men, and thus prevent loss of production in summer? As told to ARTHUR VAN VLISSINGEN, JR. He thought of a dozen jobs he had been wanting to have done: put safety guards on some machines, resurface the floor in the boiler room, lay out the storage yard with the driveways in the opposite direction. If he tackled any sizeable share of these tasks this coming winter he could keep his regular force working all or most of the time. It would tie up money for a few months,

but he could convince the bank that it would be a good loan. Of course, his regular employes weren't cement workers or mechanics, but they could be taught to do the nec- essary work, with some supervision. Of course, too, it would be cheaper to bring in common labor for these odd jobs, but his own men would still be idle.

It proved out even better than he had hoped. The boss now gets the tax sav- ings, and his manufacturing costs are ower because he has the same old gang of experienced men, with no costs of breaking in green hands. As for Jim and the rest of the men—well, as long as you are on the job, you don't need to worry about being hired back. Jim had begun to realize that getting back on the job was getting to be something of a problem for an old soldier. Christmas means a lot to the family Only a few miles distant is a neigh- of the feHow who works all year boring Minnesota town where three em- 'round ployers achieved the same sort of result by working together. Art, the coal dealer, painting outdoor structures and interior always laid off most of his men in April, walls—but his regular employes could them in for only a few weeks' work until rehired them again in mid-September. do these odd jobs just as well in the the peak demand passed—but these Meanwhile, he called some of his older winter. At the height of the busy season, staples could be manufactured in winter, men back for an occasional few days' the plant always ran low on certain and stored. Every year, just when every- work when he sold a basement fill-up, staple products, so that it was necessary thing was busiest, some of the ma- which was not often in June and July. to hire some green helpers and break chinery would break down, making it {Continued on page 40)

NOVEMBER, 1941 IS BOYD B. STUTLER

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defeat of Herr Hitler and all that he stands for the old belt up another notch, called on Americans generally THEis the first national objective of The American Legion. to practice the sternest patriotism. The convention demon- That is the answer to the bid for world domination strated once and for all, whatever else may be said, that the of the blood-mad ravager of three continents given men of the Legion are no less the front line soldiers of today by the delegates representing one million, one hundred thou- than they were some twenty-odd years ago. sand Legionnaires assembled in National Convention at Mil- In thunderous tones that could not be misunderstood the waukee, September 15-18. That answer was roared out as in Legion reaffirmed its complete support of the foreign policy one voice. On the Hitler proposition there was quite evidently of the Government of the United States; urged immediate no division of sentiment. repeal of the Neutrality Act and removal of the fetters that

As when Thomas Paine said it in the dark days of the have prevented all-out aid to the invaded democracies; asked Revolutionary War, these are the times that try men's souls, for the removal of all geographical limitation on the move- and it is no time for sunshine patriots or summer soldiers. ment of United States troops; called for the completion in The Legion accepted the challenge of the times and, hooking the shortest Dossible time of a national defense system sec-

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine For more than twelve hours the Legion marched down Kilbourn Avenue be- hind the fluttering masses of flags. Right, Lynn Stambaugh gets a big ova- tion after his election is announced

ond to none in the world, and announced its entire belief in a policy of preparedness strong enough to carry the war to the enemy

and into the enemy's country if war should become unavoidable. On the question of extending the provisions of the Lend-Lease Law to include Soviet Russia there was a sharp difference of opinion. That issue was fought out on the floor, and by more than a 200 majority the convention refused to ask that such aid be denied the Soviets. A few hours later, in another resolution, the delegates reaffirmed the Legion's traditional stand of opposition to communism, fascism, nazism and all other totalitarian ideologies as repugnant to the principles of American democracy, and de- manded the outlawing of the communist party in the United

States. Aid to Russia, it was explained in the plainest kind of language, must be accepted as one of the means to bring about the defeat and downfall of Hitler and the unholy Axis alliance. The action of the convention cannot, therefore, in any way be construed as an endorsement of any part of the communist philosophy or accord with Stalin, apostle of communism. On other questions more or less related to the national defense effort the Legion was not backward in taking its stand. It approved a resolution demanding the compulsory arbitration of strikes in to Win WISCONSIN AVENUE-

The flag-bedecked Auditorium was pack-jammed from the front entrance to the stage at the opening session when the keynoters keynoted

NOVEMBER, 1941 17 8 — —

The new National Vice Commanders group, left to right front row, V. M. Armstrong, Indi- ana; John F. Sul- livan, Vermont; rear, Charles E. Booth, West Vir- ginia, and De Lacey Allen, Georgia; in cir- cle, Tom Sawyer, Arizona

of war or national emergency" on the

same basis that fighting man-power is now drafted. The convention voted for Federal regulation of war supply agen- cies, an increase in pay for service men, and, taking into full consideration the bilious state of affairs in the Far East,

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plants holding vital national it requested a complete re- defense contracts, and another examination of Philippine- calling for the establishment of American relationship. a National Maritime Board to In addition to all this, have jurisdiction over the mari- nearly all of which has to do time industry, with only na- with the national defense ef- tive born or completely nat- fort, the convention charted uralized citizens to be allowed a course of action for the next to represent labor in any nego- year laid down on the lines tiations or proceedings. No resolution was received with greater single accord, or with Rev. Fr. Frederick J. louder applause, than that one Halloran, National Chap- which called for the immediate lain, with his predeces- "tender and acceptance of the sor, Brigadier William G. resignation of the present Sec- Gilks. Below, pony bat- retary of Labor," Madam tery that got a big hand Frances Perkins, and for the in the parade deportation of Harry Bridges, stormy pe- trel of the West Coast ^uweau "PoAt >S labor field whose ac- vjjhere /Milwaukee tivities have been under Legion fire for several years. The twenty - year - old stand on the ques- tion of universal serv- ice in time of war equal service for all, and special profit to none—was reaffirmed after a brief flurry in which a more sweep- ing proposition was voted down; one that called for immediate legislation to con- script capital, labor and industry "in time

1 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Some of the guest speakers: Josephus Danieis, Ambas- sador to Mexico; Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox with National Commander Warner, and—you've guessed it! —Mayor La Guardia of New York City of its established policies and programs. There will be no been claiming for it. That may be stretching it a bit, but at slacking in its rehabilitation work, in child welfare, in the any rate they came, they saw and they were conquered. Mil- many-sided Americanism program, or other distinctive Legion waukee has plenty of cheese, but it's not a cheese town. It activities. has the goods and knows how to use them. The Milwaukee meeting was one of unusual gravity in its The issue uppermost in all minds—at least the minds of import, though the spirit of the Legionnaires in holiday mood those who comprised the working sections—was the relation could not be quenched by the thought of black and ominous of the United States to the second World War within their clouds looming on the horizon. There was high carnival and own generation, even within the years encompassing their merry-making in the streets; the own eligibility for military service. The hotels were filled to wall-bulging lowering clouds bore heavily on most of those capacity; overflow groups were who were in places of responsibility and housed in dormitories and pri- whose voices would speak for the numeri- vate homes. One hundred thou- cally largest body of service men ever en- sand visitors crowded into the rolled. It was a personal matter to thousands, hospitable city of Milwaukee for while Legion fathers gathered in commit- taxed its capacity to the utmost, tee rooms to discuss the five hundred and but care for them it did with thirty separate resolutions sent up from the a graciousness that completely Department Conventions for action, their won the hearts of old-time con- draft-age sons—and others under draft age- ventionnaires. Some one re- were mobilized in army camps or were pre- marked that a lot of Legion- naires made the trip to Milwau- kee just to see if that town had everything that Frank Greenya, George Howitt, George Kiewert and other top Legionnaires have

Doc Kosminsky—new 40 'n 8 chief—gets a fraternal hug from Ben Hilliard. Top, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, speaks to the Legion

NOVEMBER, 1941 19 From the first wave of Legion visitors on Saturday morning be- fore the convention is officially opened on Monday morning, until the last blue cap and uniform have disappeared from the streets of the convention city about the next Saturday there is something doing

all the time. "No show like it since the Armistice," headlined the Journal on Sunday morning. But

the next day it had to revise its statement, by deleting the excep- tion of the Armistice. It was the

A pair of champs from Chi- cago—Musicians Post Band, at left, new national Cham- pions and, below, the Com- monwealth Edison Post Drum and Bugle Corps, still champs

you Mo -She means c\oir\q uu'irW cheese p "CurtfCA ball! W\a+ bomb !

paring for service at sea. While Legion bands and drum and bugle corps pa- raded the streets and went through their evolutions, to the infinite delight of the crowds that jam-packed the streets, sons of these same men were marching and counter-marching in training camps with a far more serious and deadlier purpose in view. Hundreds of old-timers whose presence at National greatest ever. "Legion Has Command of the City" was the Conventions has become almost a tradition, were conspicu- Sentinel's banner head on Monday. And well it had. But it ously absent. "On active duty," was the almost invariable was given back to Milwaukee intact and untarnished on response when one asked about the absent comrade. Thursday evening. Thanks for your town, Mayor Zeidler, No one not actually present at one of these annual affairs can says the Legion. It's plumb chuck-full of the kind of folks we catch the spirit by reading like. And we all hope you liked us. Irresistible, alluring and the coldly factual news- And that parade. All the way around the clock with some pralines as sweet as the paper accounts. thirty minutes thrown in for good measure—from nine in was this they handed out the morning until nine-thirty at night—the men of the Legion bevy of New Orleans beau- and affiliated groups passed in parade. They paraded not only ties. Right, 3-year-old before the eight hundred thousand people that does a hand-turn majorette packed every available bit of space along the line of march, but before the whole world. Twelve hours

I 1 1 20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine and thirty minutes by the clock the Le- gion marched down flag-lined Kilbourn Avenue, eyes front, grim and purposeful. High stepping drum majorettes led musical units arrayed in uniforms of varying hues and design; floats of many kinds put in the line of march by Posts ranging from the East to the West Coast, reminders of the past and prom- ises for the future. Even without know-

ing it the Legion hosts were marching against time on a planned twelve-hour parade—it could have been extended well into the night by admitting other units and features. It was the old story of the greatest parade in the history of the city, the kind that has made New York, Chicago, Boston, Los An- Here's a he-man How ewaAy wore geles and other top rate towns in these United States gasp majorette who b'eujries Have we u)e VMS im- a bit in astonishment. By this time the directors have led a trick band, biA iiw/rted to become something like experts in parade planning and pa- to the joy of the MiSrr- iPaAy^ rade timing, and, in the nature of things, experts in parade sideliners guessing. Past National Commander John G. Emery called the time almost to the minute when, in the reviewing stand at the beginning of the day, he guessed the last units would pass the reviewing stand at 9:06 p. m.; National Commander Milo Warner recorded his guess at 8:57 and National Adjutant Frank E. Samuel thought 9:10 would be about right. It was just 9:07 when the last units of the

Department of Wisconsin marched down the slope from the court house to pass the reviewing

stand, and it still had several minutes to go to reach the point of dispersal. All in all it was a great parade, and in many respects the greatest the Legion has ever held. In nearly every annual parade there is a theme tune, a popular melody played over and over by the different musical outfits, sometimes running along the whole line of march. Two years ago, in Chicago, the theme tune was "Roll Out the Bar-

rel,'* last year in Boston "God Bless America" resounded from early morning until late in the evening. The Milwaukee march was unique in

Harvey Seeds Post, Miami, Florida, again carried away the champ color guard trophy. Below, Earl R. Stew- art Squadron, Grand Rapids, Mich- igan, Sons of the Legion band champs

» ill 21 NOVEMBER, 1941 ington Park Amphitheater on Sun- day night. The weather was the best and, with the stars scintillating above and a gentle breeze stirring the festoons of flags on the band- shell, some eighteen thousand vis- itors and townspeople listened rev- erently to a musical and spiritual treat. Addressed by National Com- mander Milo Warner, National President Mrs. Louis Lemstra, the keynoters of the evening were Ser- geant Alvin C. York, of Pall Mall, Tennessee, hero of the World War, and Right Reverend Benjamin Franklin P. Ivins, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee and a World War service man who held the rank of major. Frank

Square Post Squadron's Drum and Bugle Corps, of Chicago, champ of the Sons of Legion that there was no one air that took over completely. Old favorites, tunes of '17 and 18, some popular melodies, were played over and over, but if any one air took precedence over another it was that fine old marching rhythm, "Onward, Christian Soldiers." It most admirably fitted into the spirit of the marching men and those who watched with eyes eager or reverent, some laughing and some filled with tears, as the blue clad marchers passed with measured step, the gay uniforms of the musical corps and drill teams flashed, and guards escorting the nation's flag swept by General Julius Franklin under the bright sun. Milwaukee will General George C. Marshall, Chief Howell, UCV Commander, not soon forget that parade, nor will of Staff, U.S.A., was a speaker was a distinguished guest at the Commander's Banquet

Greenya, President of the Convention Corporation, presided. Music for the memorial service was furnished by Monahan Post Band, Sioux City, Iowa, the national champions, and by Miss Marion Claire, radio so-

Left, the boys from Alaska found the cool weather hot. Below, Past National Commander Ray Mur- phy reports on Foreign Relations

xhose who were privileged

to march in it. But to get back to some- where near the beginning. The first formal meet- ing was, in accordance with the custom estab- ished at Boston eleven years ago, a religious- patriotic memorial meet- ing held in spacious Wash-

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prano. A massed chorus of Legion singers from Detroit and Ironwood, Michigan Syracuse, New York, and ; West Hartford, Connecticut, sang several numbers, led alternately by Thomas Larrimore, President of the Legion Chorus Association, Orville Collide and DeWitt K. Botts. On Monday morning, September 15th, the Legion and Auxiliary

pacity, but official delegations were seated without confusion. Common- wealth Edison Post's Drum and Bugle Corps, of Chicago, national champions, played while the crowd gathered. There was a warmth of welcome in the addresses delivered by the host State and city officials that rang clear and Governor Julius P. Heil, Mayor Carl F.

Pennsylvania conies a swingin' down the line—and it was a real line. Top, the new champion sponsored junior Drum and Bugle Corps comes from State College, Pennsylvania, backed by Nittany Post

buckled down to the serious business of the meeting. It was just 9:35 on Mon- day morning when, in the main hall of the magnificent Municipal Auditorium. National Commander Warner rapped his gavel smartly and called the Legion- naires and Auxiliaries to order for the usual opening joint session. The great hall, bedecked and festooned with the national colors and the colors of the Le- gion, was jampacked to its utmost ca-

A new idea in panzer equipment—all it needs is a pontoon. At left, Warren Atherton, California, gives the Legion a national defense program. Warner puts the question

Zeidler, Frank Greenya, President of the Convention Corporation, and George A. Weber, the immediate Past Commander of Wis- consin. These addresses were responded to by Past National Com- mander Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., of San Francisco. The convention paused to pay its tribute to our dead in an impressive ceremony conducted by Brigadier William G. Gilks. National Chaplain. A deeper note of sadness was touched when Chaplain Gilks announced the sudden death of Fred W. Cham- Missouri, bers, of Kansas City, who {Continued on page 57) NOVEMBER, 1941 23 JOHN J. NOLL

pioneer in Auxiliary work—Mrs. W. H. Cudworth of the hostess city who had served as one of Mrs. Hobart's National Vice Presidents. But long before the convention was called to order in the Auditorium of the Milwaukee Vocational High School, there had been many business and social activities. As early as the previous Sat- urday, convention committees had met to prepare programs and outline recom- mendations for the consideration of the delegates. On Sunday morning the final meeting of the retiring National Execu- tive Committee was held. Prefacing the many social events, the Colonial Breakfast on Sunday presided over by Mrs. James P. Paul, National Chairman of the Colonial America Study Committee, filled to overflowing the vast ballroom of the Wisconsin Club. With the American Indian as the motif, the ballroom was beautifully decorated—the stage representing an Indian camp. The guests were entertained by Mrs. L. D. Akin of the Department of Oklahoma, who sang several Indian songs, and were Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, first National President, cuts the twentieth- serenaded by the St. Paul (Minnesota) anniversary birthday cake of the American Legion Auxiliary, while one Drum and Bugle Corps, garbed in strik- of her National Vice Presidents of 1921-1922, Mrs. W. H. Cudworth of ing Indian costumes. Wisconsin, looks on A sightseeing trip and tea for the A LTHOUGH faced with a program national power and influence the Aux- Gold Star Mothers, a tea for the conven- /\ which involved ever-increas- iliary would grow during the ensuing tion's pages, the annual Department Sec- I % ing burdens and responsibili- twenty years. retaries' Dinner, under the chairmanship ties created by the present state To make the occasion complete. Mrs. of Miss Cora Brown, Secretary of the of national emergency, the American Lemstra presented to the convention Department of Wisconsin, and participa- Legion Auxiliary, under the guidance of Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart of Ohio tion in the annual Patriotic and Re- ligious Services, made a busy Sunday for its National President, Mrs. Louis J. who helped guide the embryonic organ-

Lemstra paused during the opening ses- ization through it first convention and the women. sion of its National Convention in Mil- who was then elected its first National Following established custom, the Aux- waukee in September for an historic ob- President. Felicitations were showered iliary women participated in the open-

servance. The Auxiliary had reached its upon Mrs. Hobart and Past National ing session of The American Legion Na-

twentieth milestone. Little did the small President Mrs. William Corwith. Jr., on tional Convention in the vast Milwaukee group of delegates representing the behalf of the Auxiliary presented Mrs. Auditorium where with many other distinguished guests, Mrs. Lemstra was 1 00.000 women of the organization at Hobart with a huge birthday cake and

its first National Convention in Kansas with a gift. Further to enhance the cele- presented to address the assembled mul- City, Missouri, in 1921, foresee to what bration, Mrs. Hobart was able to re- titude, to renew the Auxiliary's pledge heights in membership strength and in introduce to the delegates another of assistance and allegiance to the Le-

Tht AMERICAN' LEGION Magazine gion, and to report the splendid progress of her organization. The Twenty-First National Conven- tion of the Auxiliary was officially called to order by Mrs. Lemstra on Monday afternoon, September fifteenth, after the impressive and colorful processional in which the National President, Past Na- tional Presidents and other officers were escorted to the stage. There followed the ad- vancement of the national colors, the pledge of allegi- ance to the flag, led by Mrs. Linn Perry, and the invoca- tion by Mrs. C. E. McGlas- son, a Past National Chaplain who served in place of Na- tional Chaplain Mrs. Albert E. Greenlaw, absent because of illness. Mrs. Fred Young, junior Past President of the Indiana Department, sang ''The Star-Spangled Banner." From Mrs. Charles Shager, retiring President of the De- partment of Wisconsin, came the official greetings of the hostess State, after which Mrs. Lemstra presented to the convention her official

pages, her husband, Louis J. Lemstra, and her mother, Mrs. J. N. Frist. The printed reports of the National Secretary, Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDowell, and the National Treasurer, Mrs. Cecilia Wenz, were accepted by the convention, after these officers had Mrs. Mark W. Murrill of Scituate, Massachusetts, smiles her been introduced to extend greetings. thanks after being elected National President. The Mayor of With National Vice President Mrs. R. Boston, Maurice J. Tobin, was there to extend congratulations Elton Warman in the chair, the National President gave an accounting of her large over a radio hookup. After refer- tion for orphans, community service

year of stewardship to the assembled ring to the conditions that exist in the which is always a paramount activity of delegates and visitors who filled the world, conditions that threaten our own the women, the increased interest in the convention hall, and to the nation at nation's safety, Mrs. Lemstra said, "We other nations of the Western Hemisphere have a record of achievement probably developed through the newly-adopted never surpassed by any women's organ- Pan-American Study program. And.

ization. . . . First interest of the Aux- Mrs. Lemstra added: "With The Ameri- iliary this year has been directed, be- can Legion Auxiliary stronger than ever cause of national events, toward the before in numbers, inspired by the security of the nation. The safety of achievements of the past, and ready for the United States against foreign ag- every call of service which may come to gression and internal subversion always it in the year ahead, we can help to had been a primary interest of the Aux- strengthen our democracy, we can build iliary. For twenty years we have cam- still higher the ramparts against tyranny, paigned with the Legion in behalf of injustice and oppression. ' national defense and we have worked Mrs. Myron K. Elbertson of Wiscon- with the Legion for better, more pa- sin, the National Convention Chairman, triotic citizenship, and this year we have was presented and in turn introduced

expanded that program. . . . Early recog- the women who served as chairmen of nition of the place of the volunteer in the numerous committees whose work civilian defense prompted The American culminated in one of the best conven- Legion Auxiliary to issue a call to its tions the Auxiliary has ever held. Splen- members in March, which resulted in the did progress in the work of Unit and registration of one-fourth of our mem- Department historians was reported by bership for emergency voluntary serv- Mrs. Carl Goetz, National Historian, ice." who announced that the Toomey Trophy Her report reviewed the increased sig- had been awarded to the Department of nificance of Americanism activities, the Michigan and the Nancy Lee Abreo Mrs. Louis J. Lemstra, retiring continued work for the disabled and the Trophy for Junior histories to the Need- National President, presided widows and orphans of veterans of our ham (Massachusetts) Unit. over the convention sessions earlier war, the efforts to provide educa- The National Vice Presidents who

NOVEMBER, 1941 25 convention would then read each submitted ballot for pos- sible challenge by any delegate. When the ballot was found to be correct, the chairman of the delegation would so announce. Upon completion of the second roll call, the total vote for each candidate would be com- puted and announced. After a careful discussion, the report of the special committee was approved and made a part of the rules of the convention. The report of the Rules Com- mittee, including the revised method of balloting, was pre- sented by its Chairman, Mrs. The newly-elected National Vice Presidents. From the left, H. A. Goode, and accepted. Mrs. M. G. Andresen, Washington; Mrs. Grace Gilbert King, After being introduced to the conven- Iowa; Mrs. E. J. Goppert, Wyoming; Mrs. Richard Redwood, tion by National President Mrs. Lem- Alabama, and Mrs. Nathaniel S. Hawthorne, Rhode Island stra, the National Commander of The

American Legion, Milo J. Warner, paid served with Mrs. Lemstra, Mrs. Eben the National President, presented recom- special tribute to Mrs. Hobart of his P. Keen, Eastern Division; Mrs. R. mendations, approved by the National own Department of Ohio, to Mrs. Lem- Elton Warman, Central Division; Mrs. Executive Committee in January, 1941, stra, his co-worker during the year, and George C. Burton, Southern Division; with reference to a change in method of then lauded the Auxiliary for its con- Mrs. Harold Diers, Northwestern Divi- casting ballots by Departments in na- tinuing outstanding work in rehabilita- sion, and Mrs. Roy L. Cook, Western tional convention elections. The first tion and in child welfare—admitting that Division, were presented and brought to recommendation was that nominations often when the Legion itself fell down the convention the greetings of the Aux- would be made by roll call of Depart- on the job of visiting the disabled vet- iliary women in their respective Divi- ments in alphabetical order, that no De- erans in hospitals, the Auxiliary did sions and reported briefly the great partment could yield its prior position more than its share. He continued, "No progress that had been made during to any other Department for the purpose nation, no community, no State can be their year of office. During the several of nomination and no seconding speeches stronger than its women, than the spirit sessions of the convention, each of these could be made. It was further recom- of its women. You women, throughout women occupied the chair upon the in- mended that each Department delegation these twenty-two years, have definitely vitation of the National President. caucus—either by secret ballot or other- instilled that spirit into this country Paying tribute to their enduring in- wise—and thus determine the vote to be when you and I know it needed it so terest and faith in the Auxiliary, Mrs. cast by the delegation chairman, ab- badly. Had it not been for you and that Lemstra presented the Past National sentee ballots to be cast with the major- spirit, I hesitate to think what our Presidents, who were in attendance: ity and the vote of each Past National situation would be today. So, my tribute Mrs. William Corwith, Jr., Mrs. James President to be included in her Depart- to you, as National Commander of The Morris, Mrs. Malcolm Douglas. Mrs. 0. ment s vote. American Legion, for your fine support W. Hahn, Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, On the roll call of Departments, the of the National Defense Program." Mrs. Albin Charles Carlston, Mrs. Wil- Chairman of each delegation would then Mrs. Warner and Miss Caroline War- liam H. Biester, Jr., Mrs. S. Alford deliver to the Secretary of the conven- ner were also presented to the conven- Blackburn, Mrs. Frederick C. Williams, tion a report of the vote on a specially tion and a gift of Naval Print plates Mrs. Robert Lincoln Hoyal, Mrs. Boyce prepared form, signed by the delegation was given to Mrs. Warner.

Ficklen, Jr., Mrs. Robert Walbridge and chairman and secretary, and in turn this In her report of the National Com- Mrs. Franklin Lee Bishop. To the two vote form would be given to the desig- mittee on Constitution and By-Laws, Past National Presidents, Mrs. Donald nated tellers for tabulation. It was fur- Mrs. John Trumbull, Chairman, offered Macrae, Jr., and Mrs. J. W. Macauley, ther provided that the Secretary of the (Continued on page 54) who were unable to be present because of illness, messages of regret and affection were dis- patched upon action of the delegates. In rapid succession, the re- ports of the Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Or- ganization, Mrs. A. L. Buzzell, and of the Chairman of the Credentials Committee, Mrs. Mildred R. Knoles, who re- ported a total of 858 accredited delegates to the convention, were presented and accepted. In accordance with action taken at the 1940 convention in Boston, Mrs. William Cor- with, Jr., the Chairman of a The convention stage presented a colorful picture special committee appointed by with its massed American flags and Auxiliary colors

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1 AMERICA'S OBJECTIVES EDITORIAL

course for America best calculated to crown dom for all nations and peoples—especially those attacked by THE the forces of Nazism which we condemn as opposed to the rights with success the national defense efforts which we of free men everywhere: as a people are putting forth is set forth in the fol- WHEREAS, the freedom of the seas has been the traditional lowing resolutions passed by the 1941 National Conven- policy of the United States since its foundation and has been so tion of The American Legion in mid-September: enunciated by our President; and we are opposed to any sur- render of this policy or any appeasement toward the aggressor nations, Germany, Italy and Japan toward whom we demand a We have confidence in and pledge our support to our Govern- — policy of stern and exact justice; now therefore ment, our President, our War Department, and our Navy De- BE IT by The American Legion in National partment. RESOLVED Convention assembled, that Our present national objective is the defeat of Hitler and what (a) We approve and endorse the foreign policy of the Presi- he stands for, and all diverting controversies should be subordi- dent and the Congress and nated to the main objective. We appeal for unity on this national (b) urge the immediate repeal of the so-called neutrality objective. We act We believe the basic elements of National Defense to be: (c) We urge all Americans to join us in an united, whole- (a) The ability to apply any fraction or all of our manpower hearted and unswerving support of our Government's foreign and war industrial resources promptly and efficiently—by uni- policy: To the end that the American way of life may survive versal military training and federal regulation of war supply in a world of free men. agencies. (b) The ability to carry war, when unavoidable, to our enemy, the rollcall and thus prevent him from bringing war to us. This ability will \\ 7HILE Convention, by a vote of 874 to " require removal of all geographic limitation on movement of * 604 tabled a resolution which would have placed forces and adequate provision for corresponding plans and ma- The American Legion "on record as opposing aid to terial. Russia under the Lend Lease Act," it adopted the follow- (c) Our great potential bulwarks are the Atlantic and Pacific ing resolutions dealing with Communism, and again de- Oceans. These oceans will be our greatest assets or worst liabil-

ities, according to our strength or weakness therein. They repre- manded the deportation of the Australian-born Com- sent the base of our world strategy. munist labor leader, Harry Bridges: We want America strong enough to meet any possible attack

before it arrives and to turn the enemy back so that our homes RESOLVED by The American Legion in National Convention

remain intact and our families secure. If fighting is necessary to assembled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 15-18, 1941, that defend the United States, we insist upon being prepared to do The American Legion's opposition to Communism remains un- the fighting outside of the United States. altered. We regard Communism, Fascism and Nazism as equally We recommend universal military training and federal regula- false and dangerous, and urge our members and all our fellow tion of war supply agencies. citizens to be constantly on guard to prevent these and all other We demand continuing production in all industry vital to types of dictatorship from creeping into our midst and under- national defense and compulsory arbitration of all labor disputes mining our American liberties founded on the Constitution. therein. WHEREAS, our Constitutional Rights of freedom of the press, We commend those labor organizations which have sought assembly and speech are the panoply of democracy, and to purge themselves of subversive elements. WHEREAS, Communism invokes this provision as a mask to

We recommend the tender and acceptance of the resignation cover its sinister attacks and destructive campaign against both of the present Secretary of Labor. state and federal government and We recommend removal of geo- loudly proclaims its avowed objec- graphic limit on the movement of tive is to destroy by violence existing troops and the adequate provision for The Day We'll democratic institutions and supplant such military and naval forces as may them with a despotism patterned on be assigned now or in the future to Never Forget that of Stalin: any mission. BE IT RESOLVED, that Com- WHEREAS, we believe in our munism cannot be dignified by recog- constitutional form of government ARMISTICE DAY nition on the part of the several and are determined that it shall be States as a true political party and maintained as a beacon light of free- NOVEMBER 11th must be outlawed.

and nlry, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes • To uphou and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War,- to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, slate and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity

the principles of justice, freedom and democracy , to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devoiion io mutual helpfulness. — Preamble to the Constitution of The American Lecion

NOVEMBER, 194 A hunter parks his gun, snowshoes, duffel bag and dog while he snaps the mountain lion he has just shot

THE time you read this, big- BYgame hunting seasons will be open or opening all over the IS RIGHT United States and Canada; your equipment will be, or should be, in order, and perhaps you have just bought your By DONALD STILLMAN first big-game rifle. If you did, lefs hope you didn't get too light a caliber, but instead have a weapon capable of anchor- number of years hung about the place. the deer to run away, but instead Jimmy ing your quarry on the first shot—not so As time passed Jimmy grew to enormous rushed him, gored him and knocked him much as a matter of personal safety, but size and carried a rack of antlers with down. of sportsmanship; for while, back in the twenty-two points. And he was getting The boy certainly would have been muzzle-loading days, there may have mean and had lost all fear of man. killed had not his screams brought his been a number of different species of Then, last fall, just before the opening companion on the run. With rare pres- American big game classed as "danger- of the deer season, two young boys went ence of mind he pressed the muzzle of ous," today the high-power rifle has hunting rabbits. One of them came upon his shotgun against Jimmy's neck as he taught its lesson, and only the big bears Jimmy in the woods. Thinking Jimmy stood over his companion and pulled the now are considered dangerous by hunt- just another wild deer, the boy expected trigger. The big buck fell dead. ers and explorers. However, during the past two decades, a number of tragedies and near-tragedies have been authentically reported, which indicate that virtually all big game is potentially dangerous and may prove so on occasion. The whitetailed deer, most generally- distributed and most numerous of all

American big game is, seemingly, a shy and timorous woods creature. And yet. during the rutting season, the bucks bat- tle among themselves, sometimes with fatal results, and may, at such times, prove dangerous even to man. Last fall I was at the Mink Pond Club in western Pennsylvania during the deer hunting season, and it was there I learned the story of "Jimmy,"' the big white- tailed buck which had come to an un- timely end about three weeks previously. It seems that about nine years ago the Porters Lake Club purchased from the game commission some deer, which they kept behind wire. Jimmy escaped, but Black bears disporting themselves in a river. Note to novices: The used to come back for food and for a bear is the most dangerous animal on the North American continent 28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1

The injured boy was confined to his Manitoba was attacked without provoca- back of the cabin. All that night the bed for many days under a doctor's care tion and killed by a black bear. Some- father kept watch, rifle in hand. but eventually came around all right. time later what was thought to be the Just as the first light of dawn was The incident is only further evidence of same animal was shot and it was found spreading over the clearing he saw the the inadvisability of attempting to do- that its body was pierced with innumer- bear emerge from the bushes. He fired, mesticate a potentially dangerous animal able porcupine quills. Possibly it had but missed, and the bear disappeared. like a buck whitetailed deer. Too often been driven mad by pain. The provincial police were notified and they turn mean, and when they do acci- However, the most ghastly atrocity sent three constables armed with a ma- dents are likely to occur. ever laid* to the black bear was the chine gun. They were scouting through Deer-hunting, for one or more of the tragedy which occurred at Lowlands, the brush when the bear suddenly ap- tl.ree species commonly found in the Manitoba, September 3, 1929. The story peared. At the first burst of machine-gun United States, which include the white- of the raid made by this bear equals in fire the brute staggered and fell, but was blood-curdling tail, the mule deer and the Columbia frightfulness the most on its feet again, charging instantly. A blacktail, is available to almost any sportsman anywhere. As a matter of fact, there are only a dozen or fourteen States Wyoming is the only State that which do not have at least a short open allows you to hunt moose, but season on deer. Nor is it always necessary Canada has an open season to journey to the back woods to secure on this leviathan of the forest your trophy. It might come as a sur- prise to many sportsmen that an average of about 2,000 deer are taken annually in the comparatively small, heavily-settled State of New Jersey, and that last fall, with a simultaneous open season on both bucks and does, Pennsylvania hunters killed a total of about 200,000 deer.

Elk-hunting now is confined largely to a few western States—namely, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and, by permit, in Utah. Several attempts have been made to restock elk in the eastern States but these have not always been successful, although the State of Virginia does de- clare a tbree-day open sea- son on elk. The tracks of the black bear may be found near any camp in the wooded areas of all the provinces. Bear, for- merly considered as pred- ators in Canada, now are given the benefit of closed seasons in some regions. But even where killing by African lion or Indian tiger second burst and the 400-pound man- closed seasons are in effect for part of ever reported. eater was dead.

the year, there are long open seasons Lowlands is a little farming commun- An affair such as the Lowlands tragedy which in most cases embrace both the ity in the Lac du Bonnet section, about might appear to be a severe indictment fall and the spring. The grizzly now is sixty miles northeast of the City of Win- against the entire race of black bears. found only in the Rocky Mountains and nipeg. On the evening of the day in ques- However, the facts of the case were that

contiguous ranges in British Columbia. tion, Mrs. Fred Gregoroicuk, wife of a it occurred during a period of severe Its near relative, the barren-ground griz- farmer, left her house to carry supper drought when thousands of acres of zly, is met only on the treeless wastes to her husband, who was working late Manitoba's forests were destroyed by in the north. in an outlying field. Her three children, fire. The bear apparently had come out

Although the black bear is considered aged seven, four and three, remained in of the fire zone where he had been travel- one of the best natured and least dan- the house, and as was their custom, re- ling ahead of the roaring flames for many gerous to man of all the carnivores, every tired to bed early. days. Sleepless, with singed hair and now and then tales of their having at- As darkness fell, a large cinnamon bear burned footpads, half-starved and driven tacked human beings are told. A story -—which is but a color phase of the black from place to place, the bear actually from New Brunswick tells of a black species—shambled toward the house. The was insane when the tragedy occurred. bear which charged a hunter. The bear, tracks, which were discovered the fol- however, had been wounded by an im- lowing morning, indicated that the ani- WHILE the danger of stalking and properly-placed shot and under such mal had circled the house two or three shooting American big game often conditions or in defense of its young a times, standing on its hind legs to peer is magnified by writers with vivid im-

black bear may charge. in the window. Finally it threw its weight aginations, the dangers of entering the

But instances of black bear attacking against the frail door and crashed it in. winter woods, for any purpose whatso- humans unprovoked, or of turning man- The bear seized the oldest of the chil- ever, without proper equipment, fre- eater, are seldom heard. And when the dren and dragged her outside. The two quently is overlooked. Every winter the

facts are known it usually is found that other children managed to escape to a pages of the press carry stories of hunt- some unusual factor had contributed to neighbor's house. When the father and ers frozen to death or lost in the woods the animal's actions. According to re- the mother returned they found the body during periods of snow and extreme cold. ports, a trapper in the lake section of of the little girl at the edge of the woods {Continued on page 50)

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ber cjth, through Saturday, the 15th. cation Week originated?'' asks Dr. J. The theme for the week, as agreed upon W. Crabtree, the distinguished Secretary by all of the participating sponsors, is Emeritus of the National Education "Education for a Strong America," and cation, and, in later years, the National Association. the entire program has been built around Congress of Parents and Teachers. Dur- 'Since I had a small part in the pre- the subject of the defense of America. ing that week, according to an estimate liminary steps,'' continues Dr. Crabtree, This business of conducting the pub- made by the association, approximately "perhaps I can tell you. Even before lic schools is not the job or the special ten million parents and friends of the leaving France the boys began to won-

interest of the few. It is a partnership schools visited public schools and took der what they could do to help in do-

business, and it must be so accepted if some part in the program. That was a ing away with illiteracy in America. we want to build our defenses for the splendid record, but it should be in- They had witnessed many a death as a future and attain the unified objective creased this year. result of ignorance. It was surprising of educating for a strong America whose It is not a Legion program alone—it how many young men of American youth understand and appreciate the is a partnership—with the single pur- blood could not even understand orders. advantages of being an American. It is pose of interesting the greatest possible They also saw the need of educating unfair to ask the public school teachers, number of people in the schools. That the foreign-born.

however competent and efficient they is, to obtain their active interest and "The National Education Association may be in their chosen work, to carry whole hearted cooperation in the educa- likewise saw these needs. We began call- on this job alone. tion of our young people, in order that ing leaders to. our office to see whether The 1940 observance of American we may continue to have a strong The American Legion would not coop- Education Week saw the high tide of America. It is not enough that the erate with the organized teaching pro- public interest after twenty years of ef- Posts and Units pay special attention fession and to see whether we could fort on the part of The American to the schools during the week men- not be of help to The American Legion Legion, the National Education Associ- tioned: there must be organization for in carrying out its educational program. ation, the United States Office of Edu- a full year of work. There are many The boys of the Legion lost no time in

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine organizing and creating an Americanism and cultural threat of all foreign ideol- The Legion's National Americanism

Commission. Its first Secretary, Sailor ogies. The long pull threat is to gird Commission urges that special effort be Ryan, spent many days in the office of ourselves for the consummation of a made by Legion Posts this year to se- the Secretary of the National Educa- lasting peace when the immediate prob- cure a more thorough and unified ob- tion Association working out plans of lems have passed." servance of the special days. To that cooperation largely through American A general program of observance has end the Commission has suggested a

Education Week. Then, on their advice, been suggested, but there is nothing hard plan of preliminary action in order to both the Legion and the National Edu- or fast about the rules. Each community arouse community interest, based on the cation Association appointed commit- or school system is free to use the out- knowledge that no program, however tees to consider these plans. The com- lined topics or, if it seems more desir- worthwhile, can be depended upon to mittees promptly reported and made able, make up a program of its own carry itself to a high point of success. recommendations which were adopted by The Amer- ican Legion and by the Na- tional Education Associa- tion. Thus American Edu- cation Week was estab- lished. You know the serv-

ice which it is rendering. Do you blame me for being proud to have figured in that movement?" Dr. Crabtree's question answers itself—he has cause for pride; his part was a distinct and highly credit- able contribution to the schools and the cause of popular education. But Legion Posts, Auxiliary Un- its and the entire Legion or- ganization are not impelled to continue the work be- cause of a sense of pride in

A roll call memorial placed in the Christian Church, Chillicothe, Mo., by Vern Glick Post. Below, prize float in parade held by Campbell- Partnership Lossing Post, Sanford, Florida

past accomplishment. Rath-

er, the compulsion is from a sense of duty to the children of today and our country of tomorrow. National Commander

Milo J. Warner expressed the Legion's attitude in his address to the National Education Association last summer: "We (Legion-

naires ) do not approach the subject of education as ex- perts save as thousands of our members are teachers

by profession . . . Our stake

in the future of America is at least equal to that of any other segment of the popu- lation. You have the guid- ance of our nation's children as educators. We seek an honored future adapted to community interest which There must be intelligent direction. for our children as parents. There is no would seem to promise greater value in First of the suggestions, and perhaps divergence of opinion in the goal that the local observance. the most highly important, is to offer you and we seek. Each of us, educators The daily topics suggested are: Sun- assistance to the school officials in de- and Legionnaires, strives to work for a day, November gth, Seeking World- veloping special programs for the week continuance of the solidarity of pur- Order; Monday, Building Physical Fit- and to work in close cooperation with pose that today makes the United States ness; Tuesday, Strengthening National all other agencies and groups in giving of America the most wholly desirable Morale; Wednesday, Improving Eco- publicity to the observance, particularly field for the development of true citi- nomic Well Being; Thursday, Safe- with the local Parents-Teachers organi- zenship. The immediate problem is to guarding School Support ; Friday, Learn- zations. achieve that solidarity of purpose ing the Ways of Democracy ; Saturday, Direct participation of members of against the military, economic, spiritual Enriching Family Life. the Legion and Auxiliary is suggested in

NOVEMBER, i 9+ i 3i —

the preparation of a special Armistice ceived by Count}' Commander Clifton In the picture which appears on this Day program in each of the schools on C. Stone. page, reading from left to right, are: one day during the week, and in sup- A colorful parade preceded the dedi- Joseph F. M. Baldi, Senior Vice Com-

plying the services of Legion speakers catory ceremonies, in which Legion mander; Harry J. Crosson, Manager to address the schools. Some Posts Units of the Eighth New York District Veterans Administration; William I. many of them—have for several years had a part, joined by patriotic and civic Stauffer. Commander of the County arranged for a Legion speaker in every groups, and headed by a color section Council; Dr. A. A. Mitten, Post Com- school within their area. Personal visits bearing the flags of the twenty-one mander, and, at the mike, Past Com- to the schools by Legionnaires and Aux- countries of the Western Hemisphere. mander William H. Jones making formal iliares are also urged. John K. Badewitz, a member of the presentation of the memorial. Other suggestions having to do with Memorial Committee, was master of publicizing the week and its purpose are ceremonies. Legion Champ to join with others in the community to urge the Mayor or town executive to /// Memory R. T. (Bob) Fairey, Department Ad- issue a special American Education jutant of South Carolina, reports an un- Week proclamation, and to arrange for Cahill-Cholerton Post of Philadelphia, usual instance of individual Legion de- a parade of school children through the at a recent dinner meeting, dedicated a votion in his Department and offers a streets. handsome memorial plaque to the mem- broad challenge. Here is what Bob says: Legionnaires and Auxiliares, this is another call to service!

Honor to Bolivar

Unity of all the Americas was stressed in the impressive dedication ceremonies of a memorial in honor of Simon Boli- var, the George Washington of South America, at Salamanca, New York. The memorial was erected by the Cattar- augus County Branch, The American Legion, in the interest of hemispheric solidarity through closer relations with our neighboring Latin and South Ameri- can sister republics. Dr. A. Ramon Ruiz. M.P.. Councillor of the Republic of Nicaragua and Di- rector General of the International League for Bolivarian Action, officially accepted the memorial. At the conclu- sion of his address of acceptance he be- stowed upon the Cattaraugus County Branch the insignia of the Order of the Cattaraugus County Legion ded- Bolivarian Merit, the first to be granted ory of the comrades who have passed icates a memorial to Simon Bolivar, to any organization or person in North on. The memorial was the gift of Legion- South American Liberator, at Sal- America. The silver medal with its naire William H. Jones, one of the amanca, New York multi-colored ribbon was pinned on the organizers and three times Commander Legion County banner by Dr. Ruiz, who of George H. Imhof Post of Philadel- also presented a diploma citation in ap- phia. Made of the best Barre granite, "Lewis E. Blanchett Post of Wal- preciation of the Legion's action in hon- the plaque will have a place of honor halla. South Carolina, presents the oring Bolivar. The citation was re- in the Post's club house. champion Legionnaire of the United States. His name is Jackson Carter, who flourishes a hefty handle-bar moustache and a sturdy pair of feet. The latter is evidenced by his walking once a month fourteen miles to the Post meeting and, at the close of the meeting, fourteen miles back to his home. Comrade Carter has been a consistent Legion member and has enrolled as Number One mem- ber in his Post's 1942 membership cam- paign. He is not in the best of health, but he asks no favors of Uncle Sam and says he only did his duty in the

last war and is ready to do it again if

he is needed. For loyalty, physical effort and true Americanism Lewis E. Blan- chett Post challenges any Post in Amer- ica to match Comrade Carter's record."

Five Edwards Brothers

Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) Post has In memory of our departed comrades: Granite plaque dedicat- made many records, and held on to ed by Cahill-Cholerton Post of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania them. It has another mark of distinc-

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rider in a Field Artillery outfit citizens of Japanese ancestry. Legion- Earl was an instructor in bakery naire Phil Cass, Honolulu lawyer, ex- schools; Roy served in the Field plained the Legion's stand against the

Artillery; J. J. was in the 111th language schools at a meeting held late Regiment, 36th Division, and in August. The address of Comrade Cass Warden was a balloon observer in was delivered before a joint gathering of the Aviation Corps. The brothers Legion Posts held in the Honolulu Post were separated in the service and club house and was broadcast over the did not see one another from the mid-Pacific by KGU. All Posts in the time of their enlistment until Jack Territory listened in, says Commander returned from Germany, where he John L. Padgett, and reports of good was with the Army of Occupation. reception have been had from Midway and Wake Islands, some 1,200 miles Puerto Rican Report away. "We have here in Hawaii a situation Comrade F. Torres Fernandez peculiar to ourselves," said Legionnaire of Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) Post Cass. "There are among us a consider- writes: "During the World War able body of persons who have the we Puerto Ricans trained at Camp unique privilege of declaring where their Las Casas and were at all times loyalty shall lie. Under our international ready to do our duty. Since that law and the laws of our country, a per- time our sympathy with and soli- son born in Hawaii of foreign parentage darity to the U. S. A. has grown may accept the citizenship of his parents more and more, and we are no or of the United States and need make less ready today to do our duty. no open declaration of his choice while We have our Home Guard organi- exercising in full the rights of American zation and in the re- citizens of undeclared loyal- cent aluminum cam- £p' ty. Further, under our stat- paign a good quantity utes, if e&p such a person shall of this metal was col- leave the United States and lected by our Guards return to the land of his Post Adjutant Ira S. Holden, and a group of young fathers for six months he (left), presents South Carolina's ladies organized as the Sani- automatically loses his champ: Jackson Carter, Lewis E. tary Division. American citizenship status Blanchett Post of Walhalla Another notable activity and must prove his loyalty of our Post was in the ob- before he regains his right

tion in that it has on its rolls five servance of the twenty-fifth to enter the United States."' brothers. The quintette of World War anniversary of the arrival The joint meeting pro-

service men is composed of Roy R.. J. of American troops on this gram also included an ad-

J.. Warden M., Earl F. and Jack C. Island on July 25th. Mem- dress on preparedness by T. Edwards. That the Edwards' service is bers of the Fire Depart- G. S. Walker, Coordinator not yet at an end was proved a few ments of Mayaguez and of the City-County Major weeks ago when Jack Edwards. 19, son Ponce were invited and Disaster Council, and a talk of Comrade and Mrs. Earl F.. left for participated in the pa- on youth by Alexander service in the Marine Corps at San rade." Potts.

Diego, California. His is the first en- listment of the new generation of Ed- Opposes Jap Schools Legion Singers wardses, but others are planned. Of the elders—and it was the enlist- Describing the Japanese language Fisher Body Post of Flint, Michigan, ment of young Jack that called atten- schools in Hawaii as an instrument sings the praises of its official quartette, tion anew to the remarkable family rec- used by the Japanese government to un- which was brought together in May, ord—Jack C. Edwards was a dispatch dermine the loyalty of Young American {Continued on page 52)

The five Edwards brothers who are members of Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) Post. Left to right,

Roy R., J. J., Warden M., Earl F., and Jack C. A new generation of Edwardses is now in service

NOVEMBER, 1941 33 :

Open Letter to All the

United States . . .

Gentlemen

Milwaukee is justly proud of the American Legion.

You'll see smiles of true affection on our faces whenever the Legion Convention is discussed.

On the page opposite is a letter that tells how our city really feels about this splendid body of men. They are a credit to the nation, and we of the Pabst Brewing Company deem it an honor and a privilege to have been their hosts during the 1941 convention.

The Legionnaires gave the life and spirit of our citizens a tremendous lift in every way. That is why we say your city will indeed be fortunate if it is chosen as a meeting place by the Legion.

We commend them to you as the world's finest guests. And though we congratulate New Orleans on being the Convention City for 1942, we confess we're a little envious. We'd like to have the Legion back in Milwaukee and we're looking forward to the day when we'll welcome these grand fellows again to our city.

Yours sincerely,

Chairman of the Board Pabst Brewing Company

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Many gobs will recall the above buildings—a section of Naval Base Hospital No. 3 at Leith, Scotland. At left, Nurse Nora Lindburg and patients Bushel, Shep- herd and Freeman in one of the wards

test that there "Stories of World War II," she writes, was no such thing ''bring our own experiences to us as a as a sick bay dream. We who served overseas during

ashore and blame 1 91 7 to 1 91 9, travel again in memory it on our contrib- over the high seas and through the paths utor, we'll admit of Scotland, England and France. Dur- that this Com- ing our time overseas, the nurses of the pany Clerk, a Navy had the opportunity of rendering land-lubbering service to our own sick Navy men and foot-soldier dur- to the British wounded, some of whom

ing the war, is were assigned to us.

guilty of the title 'Our U. S. N. Base Hospital No. 3 on this depart- was organized in Los Angeles at the EVERY so often, though not often ment. We are happy to introduce Miss California Hospital. About forty of the enough, we have the pleasure Chloe Loughead of

i of welcoming into the Then and Los Angeles (Cali- Now Gang some of our war- fornia) Post of the time comrades of the fair sex. Their Legion, who sent failure to be represented more often is us the pictures on i Ml due either to their lack of appreciation this page, from her of the important part they played in the home at 4024 Adair war or just plain laziness when it comes Street, Los Angeles. to digging into their archives for pic- tures to illustrate our pages. This month,

however, we make a double haul : rcm .%• ' * two nurses, one formerly of the Navy, The Chateau the other of the Army, step forward Band enter- * /! with contributions, and we welcome tained at Naval them. Base Hospital And now before any former gobs or No. 5 at Brest, Navy nurses rush forward with a pro- France

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 1 11 you S+Dp Sure! . Soor\ as you - Keepir\q iV\ step ik\ or\ my SWt- y \jou — 1 SCOTLAN D heel cmd toe J.

"At the time, many of our nurses were on leave in Ireland, North- ern Scotland and in W" England. Miss Dauser, our Chief, received or- ders to send ten nurses to Naval Base Hospital No. 5 in Brest, France. What a thrill as Block 3 at Naval Base Hospital No. nurses, including Sue Dauser, now Chief when I received my orders to proceed 3 at Leith, Scotland, and the extremely Nurse of the Navy, were graduates of to London. long corridor which was called the Long. that hospital, and the greater part of We arrived on Christmas Eve, 1918, at Long Trail;' the other was taken in one

our doctors were also of its staff. Our the American Nurses' Club, 42 Gros- of the w7 ards, showing Miss Nora Lind- hospital corpsmen, cooks, waiters, ambu- venor Place. London. After spending a burg, the nurse in charge, and three pa- lance drivers and so on were also picked delightful Christmas in London, we pro- tients, who are, from left to right, from Los Angeles men. We had addi- ceeded to Plymouth to sail on the De- Bushel, Shepherd and Freeman. tional men, many Regulars, join our stroyer Yarnell to Brest. "Nearly all of my pictures of over- unit while in Scotland. "After crossing the Channel, soon seas' naval service were taken by Ralph "After seven long months of waiting, after three o'clock the following morn- Grief of 453 Lewis Street, Los Angeles, doing part-time duty in various naval ing we entered the gloomy, forbidding who was a corpsman on our staff and hospitals around Philadelphia. League building which had once been a monas- who has a wonderful collection of nega- Island, Old Cherry Street, Hampton tery and now housed Naval Base Hos- tives of pictures taken in Scotland, Eng- Roads and Newport News, the seventy pital No. 5. We were given small wards land, France and Germany.

nurses of Base No. 3, under command in the 'sick officers' quarters' until the "I would like to hear from comrades, of Chief Nurse Sue Dauser, and escorted nurses of the Philadelphia Unit, the who served at Base Hospitals 3 and 5."

by our chaplain. Reverend Cary R. original Naval Base No. 5 unit, could

Blain of Kentucky, embarked. We crossed clear out. Within a few days, an Ameri- ANOTHER Thanksgiving is in the off- the gangplank onto the Transport Man- can transport came into port and a x \. ing and this department hopes that dingo, commanded by British officers there may be occasion for even a small and with a civilian crew, which had also percentage of the thanksgiving we ex-

as passengers, units of the 81st (Wild- pressed in 1 91 8 when our particular war cat) Division, a Signal Corps detach- had ended. Even though our outfit's ment and an Army medical unit from "feast" consisted of cold canned willie, Memphis, Tennessee. cold canned tomatoes and two pieces of

'"We sailed on August 1, 191 8. arriv- hardtack to each man—the ration train ing in the harbor of Liverpool, England, got stalled somewhere along the line of at midday of August 15th. Naval offi- march to the Occupied Area—we were cers came aboard to meet us and escort thankful that the fighting was over. us to the Great North Western Station But some outfits fared better and the Hotel, where we had dinner. At mid- second of our women contributors to night we started our journey north by Then and Now in this issue, Miss Kath- train. The next morning we reached erine B. Moore, R. N.. of American Edinburgh. Scotland, where motor buses (Continued on page 62) were waiting to carry us to the seaport town of Leith. A group of gray stone buildings within a stone wall proved to be our Sea Field Hospital, where Naval Base Hospital No. 3 was established. So number of the No. 5 nurses sailed for ntnu y there we were, alongside the Firth of home. We were transferred to their Forth, within an hour's ride of Queens- lovely quarters in a French chateau American Expeditionary Forces I ferry, the home station of the British where soon we had as Chief Nurse. Miss Grand Fleet, where our American Squad- Du Bois, whom we had learned to know ron also lay. and admire while she was Chief of the Provisional Base Hospital Unit N 8 "Influenza was raging among our Brooklyn Naval Hospital nurses. service men and women. Of a crew of "Some of the nurses who served there 1 200 men on one of our American bat- will no doubt remember the 'Chateau weaves hospital center tleships, 500 were ill with influenza. Our Band,' organized at the old chateau at MESVES nc

NOVEMBER, iqh 37 — The Legion Carries On

{Continued from page 5) tional Legion policies. The Legion still at large in the world today. The na- study to speak upon the subjects in abhors war and is still opposed to our tional defense policies which they advo- question. Hysteria, wishful thinking and involvement in war when avoidable. But cate are designed as an effective defense

partisanship played no part in the de- the Legion also still believes, as it has against the actual perils of today. liberations which resulted in the deci- always believed, that the best insurance We of The American Legion are proud

sions of the convention. Differences of against involvement in war is a strong of the courage, the unswerving patriot-

opinion existed and were heard in the national defense, so strong that it will ism, the singleness of purpose with democratic way. The convention was be unsafe for any aggressor to attack our which our National Convention acted. actuated by one motive only— to point shores. In the hour of our country's greatest out the course most likely to make In implementing that belief at Mil- need we have answered the call. We America secure. waukee, the Legion, realistic as always, have again tendered our services in de- The action of the Twenty-Third Na- examined the record of the present fense of America and all that America tional Convention does not even super- world conflict, appraised the strength means to us and to our fellow country- ficially represent a departure from tradi- and the technique of the warring forces men. The American Legion carries on. Jumping Through Georgia

{Continued from page 7) can feel it; every man is silent, some with his shoulders wet with blood and excitement is over, curiosity is satisfied, are sweating, their minds are working a didn't even know it.

the man has proved to himself and bud- mile a minute. Behavior is contagious; The third stage is the one parachutists dies he had the nerve—and now he buck fever can sweep through the cabin like—floating down. They call it de- knows jumping is a tough and frequently —once there were five refusals in the lightful. They come down shouting to painful job. same plane. one another, often about plans for a big A parachutist in training can always The jumpmaster, peering through the evening. Once opened the parachute will refuse to jump. He is simply sent back door, calls "Stand up!" The 12 men fill not collapse. Oscillation—a pendulum- to ground troops—and no hard feelings. the aisle; the tension immediately dis- like swinging—looks dangerous but any He is always shipped away quickly, appears. "Hook up!"—each man hooks good parachutist can stop it by pulling never permitted to eat another meal or a snap-fastener to a cable running along on the riser cords. By different pulls he sleep another night with the parachute the cabin roof. A line attaches the can also slow his fall slightly or alter his troops—for his own sake and theirs. But buckle to the cover of the parachute. course. He laughs at reports of German after a man qualifies—completes one When he jumps this line will jerk the parachutists being dropped by riflemen solo and four mass jumps—a refusal is cover off his 'chute. "Stand— to door!" shooting holes in their 'chutes; 'chutes treated the same as disobedience of any on left side of the plane "Go!" cracks will come down nicely with half a dozen military order; it calls for court martial like a pistol. The jumpmaster—a ser- holes. and a few months in the guardhouse. geant or lieutenant—jumps, and his men As a parachutist gains experience he Parachutists say a man is yellow if he come piling after, all out in ten seconds. worries less about the jump, has more refuses on his first jump. They think A parachutist doesn't step, run or dive respect for the landing. That's when the little of later refusals. Comforting a man out of a plane. He really jumps. In a injuries occur—the breaks, sprains and who had just refused, a parachutist ex- split second he comes to the door, torn ligaments, usually below the knees. plained it didn't mean anything, that spreads his feet, grabs the sides with his Out of the first 4300 jumps there were everyone was scared of something. "As hands, leans head and shoulders into the in hospital cases, 28 of them fractures. for me," he concluded, "I'm terrified of air. He jumps straight out, pushing with But serious injuries have been cut in mules." both feet and hands so that he stays up- six months from 40 in a thousand to a right. The propeller blast gives him a mere two. A trained parachutist de- THE instructors never try to push or half turn ; now he is facing the rear, feel- creases oscillation which would slap him talk a man out of a plane. They had ing gently with his right hand for the against the ground. A few feet before rather lose misfits early than late. Re- rip cord of his reserve 'chute. He is landing he gives his riser cords a mighty

jects vary from one class to another but counting: "One-a-thousand . . . two-a- tug which cushions his fall; he bends

today a fair average is 22 out of 150 thousand . . . three-a-thousand," so if his knees slightly, resists a strong im- starters—five on the towers, five in the he has to pull his emergency he won't pulse to pull them all the way up. If he's planes, three for physical reasons, two pull too late. He has no sensation of coming down vertically he can land on for inability to learn 'chute packing, and falling. If he keeps his eyes open—some his feet—on the balls, not heels or seven for minor injuries. The Army got can't—he may see the plane's tail pass- toes. much higher losses in the early months ing over him. Or a 'chute opening below but cut them down by better selection, or another jumper hanging up there IF THERE'S wind and he's being conditioning and training. At one time above. Sometimes he hears the cover pulled in a diagonal fall, he tries not they were getting nearly 20 percent re- ripping off his 'chute — sweet noise. to hit on his feet but to land in a for- fusals in the planes alone. Sometimes on a first jump he may freeze, ward or backward tumble—whichever From the ground, parachute jumps fail to grab his ring, forget to count, see way he's being pulled. Soon as he -hits look easy, mechanical, almost auto- and hear nothing. he tries to collapse his 'chute so it will matic; from inside the plane you get a Then the 'chute opens—a rough, rude not drag him. He races to get it be- different picture. The take-off is the jerk at best—a cruel, wrenching one if tween him and the wind, knocks it down, worst moment for many parachutists. the parachutist has gotten into a head- and unbuckles his harness. Landings

Then tension begins to ease, the men first fall or if the plane wasn't throttled have been compared to jumping off the start chattering in their seats, chewing down to ninety-five miles an hour. But top of a car going 15 miles an hour;

gum, lighting cigarettes. As the plane terrible or merely tough, the jerk is wel- that's nonsense. Some are like being

makes a preliminary pass over the jump- comed; so great is the relief that many thrown off a barn roof and some are as ing field and circles for the pass that a parachutist has failed to notice the gentle as stepping off your running board. counts, the tenseness mounts again. You pain until after landing. A colonel landed When a trooper lands, his first desire

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine AMERICAN RED CROSS

NOVEMBER, 1941 is to do it again—like when you made 46, far too old to jump and he was not about average. The big job at this stage your first high dive. If the parachute expected to. But he jumps—and plans is combat training. Parachutists must school could get enough planes to capi- to keep on jumping, once with every develop speed in getting to their weapons talize on this a trooper could get in all class. Once when a soldier was nar- —dropped by separate parachutes—and his training jumps in two days. The men rowly saved by his emergency 'chute an expertness in turning these weapons upon say there would then be far less lying in officer ran up, made sure he wasn't in- pre-selected targets. There is nothing their bunks re-living the jump, dreaming jured and said, "Come on, we'll jump haphazard about a parachute attack. It about it, and waking in a cold sweat. again together.'' is planned down to the finest details. Most training jumps are from 1250 to The enemy territory is mapped from the 1500 feet altitude; some have been from NO WONDER morale among the air. The terrain is then modeled on as low as 750, which is more dangerous. parachutists is high. They are standtables, and every company, pla- In war these men will jump from 250, probably the hardest, toughest and best- toon and squad is given a definite mis- 300. 400 feet, will not carry a reserve dressed soldiers in the Army. Every sion. 'chute—no time for it to open. soldier buys a tailored overseas cap out All parachutists are trained to use pis- Our parachutists have jumped into of his own pay—scorning the regular tol, rifle, tommy gun, grenade, mortar cotton fields, into underbrush; in high army issue. He shines his boots twice a and machine gun. Some in each platoon wind, rain and at late dusk. Dusk and day. When he finishes his jump training are turned into experts in demolition dawn are ideal jumping hours in war- he gets silver wings to wear on his and sabotage. A squad of parachutists fare because visibility is lower and winds blouse and he is cocky. can destroy a batch of parked planes in less tricky. Shortly our men will be More than half the men are South- a tenth the time it would take a squad jumping at night—we have secret de- erners. They will tell you—and no one of infantrymen. In 30 minutes 12 para- vices to guide them without tipping off disputes them—that they drink more chutists could disrupt the water system the enemy. Every day something new in liquor, do better with the gals and give of a city of 50,000—they know exactly equipment or technique is tested. If any the M.P.'s more workouts than any what to wreck. They can sabotage a tele- risk is involved, an officer tries it first. other outfit in Georgia. phone system so it would take 30 days Officers made the first jump, the first Some wear crosses around their necks, to fix it. They can also do some tall into-water jump, the first with a gas others carry good luck coins and "found marching; recently the 501st Battalion mask and with a heavy camera. When marbles" in their pockets. A few jump marched 12 miles in three hours carry- data was wanted on how to slip in on a only when ordered, others are con- ing all their weapons, including rifles, target from 3000 feet, two officers went tinually trying to chalk up an extra one. mortars and machine guns. Every spare up and tried it. As second choice they go up and watch afternoon these men run two and one-half No officer has ever refused a jump. learners jump. Recently three were in miles to a swimming pool and then run Their consecutive string of around 800 a plane when a learner refused. The back. without a refusal is the Army's perfect jumpmaster told him to take off his In maneuvering in Alabama one day case of leadership by example. One offi- 'chute. Instantly the three hitch-hikers against a top flight regiment, the para- cer has made 32 jumps—top record for yelled "Butts," each hoping to get and chutists moved so fast and took so many men or officers. Colonel William C. Lee, jump that empty 'chute. prisoners that they had to be stopped in who commands the parachute troops, is After qualifying, one jump a month is order to keep the mimic war going.

Jobs, Steady Jobs

(Continued from page 15} It took them a couple of years to get statistics, they say that all of the men Bill, the ice dealer, always hired a couple their three-cornered swap going really like it this way, though some of them of men every spring, let them go around smoothly, but last year every one of had rather work for one firm than for November. And the men who worked for their men drew 52 paychecks. Each em- the others. Where several of the drivers Charlie, the hauling contractor, put in ployer kept a few year-round employes formerly went on relief every slack sea- lots of overtime in summer, loafed away exclusively his own: two in the ice busi- son, and wage garnishments were a com- most of the winter when road construc- ness, four in coal, six in hauling. Besides monplace, every worker of the lot is now tion was at a standstill. these few, the employers maintained a able to carry his own living expenses and A bunch was sitting around after joint mobile force, or labor pool, of 25 pay as he goes. Two of the coal drivers meeting in the Legion club one evening, men. The three employers agree to keep say they have been enabled to keep in and fell to talking over the new State these men continuously on one payroll high school youngsters who would have law. Said Bill, the ice dealer, to Art, the or another. Charlie's big dump trucks had to go job hunting to help out at coal merchant, "It will cost both of us now handle most of Art's coal deliveries home in the years when their fathers had plenty." in winter, and Art has drummed up to take seasonal lay offs.

"Yeh," said Art, "but if we dovetailed enough summer-discount coal business It would be possible to tell scores of our seasons, we wouldn't have such a to keep a few drivers busy; when there similar instances from real life, as un- bad problem, would we? Why don't we is no coal to deliver, they mend fences earthed by the Minnesota American try putting men to work for the full or clean up the yard. All of the work- Legion Employment Stabilization Serv- year, part of the time on your payroll men belong to the same teamster's union, ice, known as ALESS for short. The and part on mine?" so it's all right with the local labor Department of Minnesota organized this It worked all right, too. The only council. movement to develop a program which trouble was that Art had more than a The other day, Charlie and Bill and would be tested out in an area before dozen coal hikers and drivers to place Art sat down and told just how their it was extended to other Departments. for the summer, and Bill could use only "labor pool" has affected their employes. Pursuant to resolutions of the National a couple of them because his ice business Most of the men have been with them Employment Committee and the Na- is small. They were crabbing about it for a long while, and the bosses know tional Executive Committee in Novem- over a glass of beer a few weeks after their family affairs almost as well as ber, 1939, it was made available to the tin- firsl swap, when Charlie, the hauler, their own. About half of the employes other Departments. The basic creed of bought a round and inquired, "Is this a are fellow Legionnaires, and anyhow, ALESS is that unemployment is not one private deal, or could I muscle in?" it's not a large town. Side stepping the problem involving millions of people,

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but is really millions of problems involv- ing one person each. Wisconsin enacted the first unemploy- ment compensation law back in 1932. Since then, every State has adopted the Worlds Mightiest "Eye"f principle that the worker thrown out of a job through no fault of his own is en- IMAGINE MAGNIFYING OBJECTS UP TO

100,000 '. titled to draw from a State reserve fund TIMES BIGGER ELECTRONS FLASH THROUGH THIS STARTLING NEW a fraction of his normal wage rate for a 'MICROSCOPE AT ABOUT 83,000 reasonable period of unemployment, and TJrnNM I JHAT$ eveN FASTER'N has provided legislation to this effect. S\ CAN LOAD UP HAY PIPE These job-loss payments are mighty good .WITH PRINCE ALBERT! as a stop-gap, but of course they cannot provide real security. For security, a man must count on holding his job rather than on being paid for a while if he is laid off. To encourage employers to provide steady work instead of lay-offs, the un- employment compensation laws of most of the States provide that employers are rated in groups according to how much in unemployment benefits has been paid out to their laid-off employes in the past few years. This method is called experi- ence rating, and prevails in every State except Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Mary- land, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Washington. DEGREES Thus the employer whose experience earns him a poor rating pays a relatively COOLER high unemployment tax rate on his pay- roll, while the employer who earns a THAN THE AVERAGE OF better rating pays a lower tax rate. THE 30 OTHER OF THE This kind of taxing is called incentive LARGEST- SELLING BRANDS taxation. Specifically, it gives the em- ployer an incentive in folding money, to TESTE D _ COOLEST OFALL f devise ways to make jobs steadier for his people. It was this incentive that made Jim Brown's boss figure out how he could keep Jim and the other factory workers working all year instead of merely from March to December. The same incentive made Art, Bill and Charlie, the three small employers, put their heads together to discover how they might give steady jobs by pooling their seasonal needs. Originally, The American Legion in the Department of Minnesota, saw an opportunity to serve community, State and nation by helping to educate em- ployers in the savings they might achieve for themselves by stabilizing their jobs and in the techniques of stabilization.

Thus would be made more jobs and bet- WHEN I FIRST TRIED IT'S THE SAME WITH PRINCE ALBERT IT PA. IN 'MAKIN'S' ter jobs for you and me and the fellow SEEMED TO ME THAT SMOKES, TOO — PIPEFULS 1 next door, by using the appeal that can SMOKING PLEASURE NO HARSHNESS, YET OF FRAGRANT be depended on to bring forth anybody's WAS MAGNIFIED A PLENTY OF RICH TOBACCO IN

THOUSANDFOLD-THAT \ GOODNESS — AND EVERY HANDY best efforts showing — how to make more EASY- ON-THE -TONGUE EASIER, FASTER POCKET TIN OF money out of his everyday occupation. MILDNESS ALONE, ROLLING, TOO, PRINCE NOT TO SPEAK OF WITHOUT A BIT OF ALBERT This basic purpose of ALESS still exists. JHE MELLOW, RICH WASTE R. Reynolds But, like so many aspects of everyday TASTE J. Tobacco Co. life, while the basic principle remains Winston Sale N. C. unchangeable, its apparent direction has been changed by our country's defense effort and the consequent demand for production. 7\ Today, it is more important than ever TklNCE THE NATIONAL to stabilize employment, so that the JOY SMOKE nation's employable men and women ALBERT may find the jobs they can best fill, and

NOVEMBER, 1941 41 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine then keep productively employed. Pay of employers who have been trying to in the gaps between their busy seasons. for production benefits everyone more provide steady work for their people. Many have found out how to manufac- than does a dole for idleness. We must From the facts thus uncovered, ALESS ture staple goods, or standard parts, in never lose sight of the fact that the rea- prepared case studies describing the dull months and store these until they son why a person is unemployed makes techniques so that other employers are needed. no difference in our national output. might adopt them for use in their own A method that has been useful in many

The goods that he might have made if businesses. firms is to train employes so that they employed can now never be used, either Already the Service's Stabilization Ex- can handle several jobs and thus be by the armed forces or by the civilian perience Manual, made up of these case transferred from slack departments to population. From the standpoint of na- studies, is a bulky volume — beyond busy departments as the seasons pro- tional safety, the loss of a million pro- question the greatest accumulation of gress, instead of accepting layoffs. A few ductive man-hours is the same whether information anywhere available on how employers have found peak-season labor the workers were prevented from per- to make more money in business by giv- supplies among workers in other indus- forming their tasks by ill health, sea- ing workers year-round employment and tries who would be laid off from their sonal shutdowns, strikes, or subversive pay. normal employment at these times. sabotage. Many employers subscribe to this Groups of employers have set up joint

Because it is actively engaged in Manual, receive weekly mailings of case employment sen-ices, so that they can showing employers how to keep their studies freshly prepared from the most hire anyone they need from among the employes on the payroll more steadily recent and significant achievements in people that their cooperating firms are throughout the year, the Minnesota making employment steady for wage laying off. American Legion Employment Stabiliza- earners. The results that have been achieved tion Service is contributing to the de- More than 259,000 pieces of Legion by these varied and ingenious methods fense program and to the nation's pro- literature have been directly distributed, can be tabulated and measured only in ductiveness. It believes that every dol- in addition to articles in newspapers and terms of employing units, of man hours lar which is claimed by an employer as other publications. More than 35,000 of production gained, and similarly im- his reward for finding how to give steady employers have directly received the personal statistics. But the results are work is a reminder that some man some- Stabilization Service's leaflets telling of tremendously personal to every employe where is busy producing goods and the money they can put in their own affected. services, being a good provider for his pockets by getting busy on plans to keep For each firm that really develops family and a good customer for others. their employes working steadily. Large steadier employment, dozens, scores, Also, that every dollar which is paid out numbers of these employers have thus even thousands of men and women in unemployment compensation is a re- had the opportunity to study the suc- workers feel the direct results in more minder that some man somewhere is cessful methods used by other employ- and fatter pay envelopes. Perhaps three idle on half pay, half ration, and is ers, and many of them have adopted dependents is an average for these work- doing with half his normal purchasing ideas thus obtained. These techniques ers—wives, children, parents. All have power at this time when the country include dozens of methods, and all man- their lives made happier, because the needs every ounce of productive effort ner of combinations. wage earner is working instead of laid for national defense. Some companies have got rid of their off—just as was Mrs Jim Brown that ALESS keeps a force of research in- traditional layoffs by off-season sales first Christmas when she and Jim could vestigators traveling around to investi- campaigns based on price discounts. really give the kids a time because his gate the motives, methods, and results Others have devised new products to fill job held on through the winter.

Challenge at the Ports

{Continued from page 13) Then fireworks in the economic battle Japan declared an all-out economic block to avoid hardship as much as pos- were touched off in another quarter. All mobilization, but we were set along those sible. As holes appeared, they were was noisy on the eastern front. Japanese lines and except for silk we had the plugged. Whenever it was discovered assets in this country were frozen, as greater fire power by far. All over the that a substitute for a licensed commod- the Mikado's troops moved into French globe, cordons were being tightened as ity had been slipping by, the substitute Indo-China and marched toward the this article was written. Economic battles was promptly placed on a schedule. Thailand border. Japan retaliated by were making the headlines along with A major offensive in this economic freezing our assets. Jap liners turned the actual fighting in Russia. war occurred last July when by presi- around in mid-Pacific and steamed for For months now the Office of Export dential proclamation was published a home, one with a party of vastly discon- Control has been in heavy action at its "List of Certain Blocked Nationals." In certed American citizens aboard. headquarters in Washington and at the plain English that was a blacklist and it Another, the Tatuta Maru, landed a ports of New York, San Francisco, and named 1,800 persons and firms in Latin $2,500,000 cargo of silk in San Francisco Los Angeles, where units are stationed, America (some of them since removed before returning; officials said the silk with more to be established at other and restored to trading rights ) to whom might be taken over by our Government exits. The "Shall Not Pass" schedules none of the scheduled articles and ma- as vital defense material. If so, payment were constantly augmented, and at the terials could be exported except under for it probably would be frozen, with no same time goods sent our friends in Latin extenuating circumstances. We had suffi- thaw in sight. Promptly the O.P.M. tied America were expedited. A new Clear- cient evidence that the people named up all raw silk stocks in the United ance Section was organized to speed ex- were passing on the stuff to the Axis in States. A frantic search for substitutes porters' applications for licenses through one way or another. There were, for in- began. American women, realizing that the several Government agencies con- stance, Italian planes still flying the economic warfare—like bombing—gets cerned and in addition to arrange ship- South Atlantic, and there were other personal, stormed the hosiery counters. ping space. The section was designed to means of evading the British blockade. Export Control spotted a firm that was put through complete set-ups, as for German diplomats protested to Latin buying up old silk stockings and clamped instance for a new steel mill in Brazil, American governments against our black- down on plans to ship out their unrav- thus sparing the shipper the task of list, showing it hurt. eled threads. requesting licenses for the numerous sep-

4-' The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-J,u arate items thereof. We have assurances dressed to Germans, were taken posses- some tungsten. Although we were not that such materials will not furnish aid sion of by order of a national committee then at war with Germany and had no and comfort to the Axis. For one, the investigating Anti-Argentine activities. export control, the Deutschland had consignee, his need, and his purposes Followed a prompt and angry protest by plenty of difficulty obtaining clearance have been thoroughly investigated and the Nazi Embassy, significant to som,e papers. approved. For another, a number of our people with suspicious natures. American opinion was largely hostile, neighbor nations to the south have Reports from agents abroad furnish and Canada, which had been supplying established their own export control. information on what has been eased by. us with nickel, threatened an embargo A blockade, so strict a stoppage at the Obviously there has been considerable on that material. On her second voyage, source as is this one, can be a life-and- tracking down of dummy firms in Latin this time to New London, Connecticut, death matter to nations, individuals, and America which have been forwarding our the submarine brought a cargo said to businesses. With so much at stake, cer- exports to the Axis—hence the black- be worth ten million dollars; it included tainly there must be attempts at smug- list. securities, precious stones, dyes, and gling and assorted skulduggery. Such Just as obviously there has been a drugs. Among the drugs was a quantity being the case, how much is getting lot of checking up in this country. As to of salvarsan; the opinion of the Kaiser through? who is doing it and how it's being done, and his cohorts that we needed that cur- Probably very little in bulk now. Sub- nothing can be learned from the Office ative seems just a touch insulting. The stitutes have been steadily tracked down of Export Control. It's a close-mouthed return cargo was reported to be rubber, and placed on the license lists. Without outfit and knows a military secret or any nickel, and silver. • a license nothing passes the ports. Mail other kind when it sees one. Now it Could the Deutschland's feat be dupli- remains the only avenue of evasion, and can t be told. But after the current emer- cated now? Possibly, and Germany is undoubtedly by that route have been gency is over, there ought to be available free to export to us, if she can get the eased through such items as industrial a bunch of corking good spy and smug- stuff here through the British blockade diamonds, vital to cutting tools, plat- gler stories. The E.C. will say no more and doesn't mind about her frozen assets. inum, and valuable drugs such as opium, than that it will be happy to hear from Getting anything out of this country in small volume. Only censorship can any Legionnaire who knows of any vio- would be another matter. Germany does stop that traffic. lation of the license regulations or of not come under the head of "friendly

any substitute for listed materials not nations" in our bright lexicon. It is very THOUGH the United States still lacks yet spotted. doubtful that licenses would be granted censorship, our mail planes, alighting Remember the Deutschland, the Ger- her. en route at British possessions, have been man merchant submarine which made Nowadays all officials and departments subjected to examination, and their mail two successful voyages here in 1916? are on the alert right down to the Cus- bags have yielded contraband destined She first landed at Baltimore with a toms. That outer line of defense is just for the Axis. Recently Argentina seized cargo of mail and dyes, valued at sev- as tough to get anything past on the way three heavy express packages carried by eral million dollars, and carried back out as it is for the incoming. Private one of our airliners. The packages, ad- nickel, rubber, and tin, with perhaps citizens are watching their step, too. The

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other day a woman in the Middle West ready been pointed out, the United —and failed to make the threat an actu- asked Export Control if she needed a States realized this and did not let fly ality. license to export a Dobermann-Pinscher until our armed forces were set to cope Had the sanctions then been enforced, dog, which is of Germanic origin, to with unpleasantness in the vicinity of flames might have been quenched in the Canada. She was told that all she need the targets. kindling. For Export Control is as bother with were the quarantine regu- mighty an instrument for the preserva- lations. SUCH, briefly, is the story of that tion of peace as it is for the waging of Export Control has been aptly called tremendous weapon, Export Control. economic warfare. It will play a vital a loaded gun. Sometimes simply aiming You will recall that it came to the fore part in the reconstruction of the world it is threat enough. Yet any nation that when the present world conflict was after the present cataclysm. Let us en- fires it must be prepared to take the brewing at the time the League of Na- deavor to keep its powers in the hands consequences. The people shot at are tions proposed oil sanctions against Italy of the honorable, the fair-minded, and going to be good and sore. As has al- during Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia the free.

The Message Center

BASEL (Switzerland) National tholdi's Statue of Liberty holds high (Continued from page 2 ) THE the torch But the National Inventors' Council Zeitung, which is printed in German, of freedom. "Switzerland, hemmed in by warring nations, is de- asks you to pay special attention to this made note of the double-page editorial termined that come what may, she paragraph of instructions: on Switzerland which we used in the will not surrender her democratic way simplify the procedure and to issue of last February, under the title To of life. Preserving her neutrality, she the Council of that editorial, A Light That Will not preserve its official records, perforce invokes the blackout nightly. will retain all documents submitted Fail. Said the National Zeitung: But on Christmas Eve the Swiss dared Inventors are advised to prepare to it. We have just received the February to set their lamps agleam as a symbol duplicates of such written and retain issue of The American Legion Maga- of their will to keep alight the fires descriptions and drawings as may be zine of which two pages are dedicated of freedom. . . . The American Legion advisable to sign submitted. It is also to Switzerland. An impressive symbolic then prints the text of an American preferably and date these duplicates, picture shows the map of a Europe Christmas message from Switzerland in the presence of witnesses. dim under the shadows of war. Out and emphasizes America's concern with Your idea may be helpful; you won't of the darkness rise the Alps bathed the preservation of freedom through- know if you don't try. in the light of day and above it Bar- out the world.

Democracy's Bulwark

(Continued from page q) independent thought, and search for tion of a dictated code and by perfect- volve unprecedented percentages of our whole truths, make up the most demo- ing precision in conformity to certain total income. But we may forget the cratic army the nation could assemble. physical drills, but after the fashion of counsel of John Adams, distinguished The first effective weakening of our democratic philosophy and procedure attorney long before he served his coun- free institutions will be the attempt to which stresses understanding, investiga- try as President, when he said: lock-step the thinking of our nation's tion, assembling of facts, free discussion, teachers. This is the pattern of the and practice in making choices and de- The instruction of the people in dictator. Against this tendency all pa- cisions. We must make sure we get more every kind of knowledge that can be triotic groups and all loyal citizens must than form. Substance is the invaluable of use to them in the practice of their constantly be on the alert. product sought in the schools of de- moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and Those who would destroy our form of mocracy. civil duties as members of society and government will seek to promote con- Have the nation's schools and uni- freemen, ought to be the care of the fusion among our people by giving the versities given us this substance? Never public, and of all who have any share impression that what is taught is un- has the schools' product been subjected in the conduct of its affairs. . . . Laws

for the liberal education of youth. . . . American. They will spread distorted to as severe a test as has been adminis- are so extremely wise and useful that, or wholly unfounded stories that create tered during the past decade. With to a humane and generous mind, no ex- panic and confound the unwary. The hundreds of thousands, yes, millions of pense for th's purpose would be thought tasting bitter extravagant. damage done, often by well meaning our youth the dregs of the poison of unemployment people, is so extensive that the security ; appealed

Those who would weaken this basic of our free institutions is seriously to by divers dispensers of social, eco- defense of our nation will seek to con- threatened. nomic, and political panaceas, and urged fuse the people by questioning the loyal- The nation needs defense against the to follow false leaders who promised ty of the nation's teachers. A million ill-advised, the misinformed, and the pots of gold at the end of the trail strong, this First Army in our nation's over-zealous for a season, who either what was their record? Displaying a total defense has been trained in the innocently or as agents of enemies of the patience, a coolheadedness, a faith in best traditions of our republic, includ- state weaken democracy's primary de- democracy, that might well be the envy ing the giving of their lives, if nec- fense—the institutions of enlighten- of their elders, these products of the essary, to preserve the blessings we hold ment. The enemies of democracy are nation's schools refused to be stampeded, dear to our way of life. They represent most fearful of the total enlightenment and exhibited a courage and a spirit of a thorough cross section of the nation's of all the people. sacrifice worthy of the admiration of families. From the ranks of laborers, From kindergarten through the uni- their sturdy frontier forefathers. agriculturists, artisans, businessmen, in- versity the children and youth are When the threat of force from with- dustrialists, and professional groups, grounded in the philosophy and practice out compelled our people to set up a these million defenders of free speech, (if democracy, not as children in the land huge program of military preparedness free press, free assembly, free worship, of dictators are schooled by memoriza- with the first peace-time conscription in

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our history, these same products of our claimed by our founding forefathers. dependence to detect and renounce false nation's schools responded with a will Our military defense is important. To prophets, and who could not be de- and a saneness characteristic of a peo- this we are committed. But we have a pended upon to effectively direct them- ple schooled in democratic processes. grave responsibility to maintain the basic selves when left without leaders and There was a complete absence of riots. educational program that made possible plans in the midst of the conflict. There were no uniformed guards sta- the steadfastness displayed by our We cannot be too conscious of this tioned at registration centers. youth during the depression. It would be danger. Let us not permit a breach in When the tremendous program of fatal to have a huge military machine our nation's first line of defense—the arms and munitions had been voted by manned by individuals who did not mighty fortresses of enlightenment. At a free people's elected representatives understand the purpose of such vast pre- all costs these must be maintained. In and the nation found itself without paredness, who did not have the char- the interest of national defense we will trained personnel to meet the demands acter to endure the supreme sacrifices strengthen the budgets, the personnel of industry, the Government appealed to exacted in a modern war. who did not and the independence of democracy's the schools and universities. The re- have the intellectual freedom and in- schools and universities. sponse was prompt and enthusiastic. Vacation was forgotten. Schools were opened over night, operated on twenty- four hour schedules in many instances, and within weeks were pouring into shipyards, steel mills, arsenals, and a thousand other industries a steady stream of trained workers and technical specialists.

The U. S. Commissioner of Education has been tireless in his matchless efforts to command and coordinate the nation"s institutions of enlightenment that they might make the utmost contribution to the nation's defense in this time of great crisis. Boards of Education in countless cities of the nation have approved of the use of facilities and personnel to hasten the achievement of total defense. Principals, superintendents and univer- sity presidents have with courage and conviction urged their teachers and stu- dents to more effectively train minds and hands to better defend the free institutions of democracy. A continuous study of curriculum and method is re- sulting in adjustments to meet the emer- gency educational needs of the total population. However grateful the nation must be for this extraordinary effort of the schools and universities to throw their total weight in the direction of more speedily achieving total defense with 1941 looks at 1916 particular emphasis upon assisting with the emergency military defense program, the more serious concern of our people must be with the contribution the insti- tutions of enlightenment are making in Things have changed a lot in 25 spending more than 420 millions times of peace as well as in times of in crisis to the security of popular gov- years and yet there is much that 1 941 ernment. is the same. The entire Bell System organi- Educational leaders have been vigil- In 1 91 6 it was Preparedness; in zation is giving "first call" to de- ant. If loyalty is not wanting; if mental National Defense. But now fense. We believe you would want and manual skills are abundant; if the 1 941, spirit of tolerance is abroad; if ability the scale is bigger, the pace faster. it that way. to think, assemble evidence, and make There was pressure on the tele- judgments following calm deliberation phone business then. The pres- is characteristic of our leaders; if free institutions are stronger because of the sure is infinitely greater now. self -discipline of free people; if a sense New training camps; new aviation of responsibility parallels our sense of fields; new munitions plants— all rights; and if we hold sacred the life and liberty of the individual; then the need telephones. Every one is mov- long range contribution of the institu- ing faster and when a Nation hur- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM tions of enlightenment to the security ries it does it by telephone. The is broadcast of popular government has been the "the telephone hour" Bell System spent millions on vital factor in the total defense of our 94 every monday evening over the free institutions and processes that was new construction in 191 6. It is n.b.c. red network.

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Papa Quattrochi's Flag

legs? allowed (Continued from page n I — Rosa Constanto to have w-ith that flag hanging down almost four He will be very magnificent when the her say. full stories in the areaway. !" w ind shakes him "Of course Papa Quattrochi can't It drew a great crowd, and the buzz Papa Quattrochi hugged that flag and take the flag back," Rosa said. "It of talk awakened Mrs. Rogardo's baby

kissed it. Mrs. DelBondio was standing would be a desecration. The thing to and all the neighbors began to com- not five feet away and could not be mis- do is for the community to buy the plain that Papa Quattrochi's flag shut taken. flag from Papa!" off the air and light from their windows. "Oh, what am I to do with this man?" "A very good suggestion, Rosa," said But Papa Quattrochi was stirred to even cried Mamma Quattrochi. Mr. John Angelo, that sly one when a wilder foolishness. He climbed to the Mrs. DelBondio was not the one to girl turns her eyes on him. "I'll see roof of the Victor Emmanuel Garage to shirk her neighborly duty. what can be done. In the meantime— see the flag from there. Then, he "Do not cry, Mamma," she said. "I "I keep a him, please!" said Papa mounted the cornice of the Hand Laun- will fetch the landlord!" Quattrochi. dry on Tenth Street to see the flag Mrs. DelBondio was as good as her "You bet you can, Papa!" said Rosa. from that view. Then, he stood right word. Not only did she bring Mr. "And I love you more than ever. You out in the middle of North Ninth Street !" Coucci, the landlord, but also Mr. De- are a great man and made a speech. natti and Mr. John Angelo— three of That minx, that snippet. She kissed "The wind is shaking him!" cried Little Italy's elder statesmen. Papa Quattrochi and turned up her nose Papa Quattrochi, "and the sun has The council met in Mrs. DelBondio's at Mrs. DelBondio in her very own bleached his stripes white already. Be- front parlor and summoned Papa Quat- parlor when Mrs. DelBondio made cer- hold how happy he is, how free! Does trochi to render judgment. tain remarks about encouraging old not a that remind us that we also are "That Irish-American Importing Com- fools in their folly. Then, that Rosa free? There are so many places on this pany is a bankruptcy racket, Papa," went upstairs to work around Mamma a earth where men are not so a free. said Mr. Coucci. "Give me the flag and Quattrochi and flapdoodle her into for- Ah, Mother Mary, pity them, those I will see if I can't make them return giving Papa for buying the flag. Could poor ones who are not free!" anything but trouble result from such And Papa Quattrochi, poor addled your money." < But Papa Quattrochi was stubborn, nonsense? man, wept in broad daylight. ah Dios, how stubborn. As Mrs. DelBondio told Mrs. Spi- But this was just the beginning of it. "I am so sorry, please," said Papa gardi: "Let them say what they will, but When a man falls into his dotage and

Quattrochi. "But I cannot return that a Papa Quattrochi is in ' the dotage. risks his furniture to buy flags and risks flag to such men. They will cry the auc- Ninety-six dollars for flag, indeed! And his neck on roofs to look at that flag, tion over him, again. So much a this, him too poor to have a pair of pants he is ready for even greater foolishness. so much a that—and perhaps they can that do not reek of fish! No good will One night, Papa Quattrochi came find no buyer to pay for him. He will come of this. We can only pray." home to North Ninth Street with a go back on the store shelf to crease Next day, there was more shaking of guest. much a worse, so much a worse. No!" heads in Little Italy. Mrs. DelBondio saw the two of them Mr. John Angelo tried to put some Papa Quattrochi put that flag in the climbing the stairs. sense into the numbskull, poor daft air. With the help of Paul Constanto The young man staggered on the third one. and other reckless boys, Papa Quat- floor landing and almost fainted. There "We respect your desire to own a trochi hung that flag from the fifth floor was great excitement, with Papa Quat- flag, Papa," he said. "Every loyal corner of Mr. Coucci's building across trochi calling upon Mamma Quattrochi American should have a flag. But such the L to the cornice of Mrs. Alvardo's for soup, for soup and noodles. The a big one— it is too impractical. Of a flat. And little room there was to spare, young man spoke weakly in Italian. certainty, you see that, Papa?" Again Papa Quattrochi shook his head. "He is as they made him—big." Even so, the sound judgment of Little Italy might have prevailed had not Miss Rosa Constanto—such a one, so pert, so forward! —come butting into the business of her elders. That Rosa Constanto—may Saint Teresa be very patient! You educate a girl in these American schools and set her up as a teacher in the third grade at the Chris- topher Columbus Grammar with a sal- ary of $140 every month, believe it, and then you have that Rosa Con- stanto. "What's all this about a flag, Papa Quattrochi?" said Rosa Constanto, walk- ing right in. So what? Sapristi—Papa made a big speech. Rosa Constanto listened just as though poor Papa Quattrochi were still sane. And those foolish old men—what will a man not suffer from a one with the black hair and fiery eyes and slim

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Mrs. DelBondio could not catch the his shoulder. One had to be careful. and the Church against that monster, words, because Papa Quattrochi shut "I will look into this at once," said that tyrant, that big-mouth, that the door right quick. But the truth Mr. Coucci. trouble-maker getting the good Italians came out soon enough. It was a matter of great delicacy, of of the old country into —wars. And such a truth ! This guest of Papa grave importance. Mr. Coucci fortified "Sh-h-h, I beg of you " gasped Mr. Quattrochi's. so tall, so handsome—but himself with two glasses of Chianti. Coucci. so thin and sick—called himself Re- smoothed his white beard and set his But Papa Quattrochi would not naldo DiRicci. black felt hat squarely on his head. sh-h-h. This, he said, was the United

"He is from the old country," Mrs. Poor Papa Quattrochi! As if that flag States. Men need not fear to speak out DelBondio reported to Mrs. Spigardi, were not enough; now. he must befriend in the United States. For shame upon with heavy emphasis. "From the old a dangerous young man. Mr. Coucci, Mr. Coucci to be afraid of that black- country by way of South America. What with Mrs. Spigardi and Mrs. DelBondio brow, that bloody-gut, that disgrace to can that mean? Do they come from the watching from the lower landing, rapped the sacred spirit of the Garibaldi, that old country by way of South America firmly upon Papa Quattrochi's door. He vexation to the peace of His Most unless it means something?" drew Papa Quattrochi into the hall and Blessed Holiness in the Vatican. "Madre Dios, si! An exile!" gasped shut the door behind them. "You have lost your senses. Papa," Mrs. Spigardi. "It is reported to me that you have quavered Mr. Coucci. "Never mind. We — '' The rumor concerning Papa Quat- a guest, Papa?" will talk of this some other time trochi's guest created the sensation in "Yes, a fine a young man. You must Then, who should come butting into

Little Italy. But definitely, the sensa- a meet him. Mr. Coucci. So handsome, it again but that Rosa Constanto. She tion. so brave, so—unfortunate! It will break a had been within the flat of Papa Quat- Mr. John Angelo discussed it with your heart trochi all the while. Of a certainty she Mr. Coucci at the Garibaldi Restau- "He comes from the old country?" must even have been talking to that rant. "No, no. from Brazil in the South dangerous young man.

1 "If that fellow is a refugee he should America." "Now what's the trouble'- " said Rosa. not have come here," said Mr. Angelo. "But before that?" "We will talk of it some other time," "It will make trouble." "From Turin, yes. Of a noble family said Mr. Coucci. Mr. Coucci picked his teeth ner- —so educated, so—intelligent. Come, he "We'll talk about it right now," said vously. will talk for you Rosa, that minx. "Has he been trying

"It is dangerous," he agreed, "If it is "He was in trouble there, no?" to make you take the flag down?" as they say, Papa Quattrochi must not Papa Quattrochi, poor addled one, Papa Quattrochi sighed. keep him. Not in my building. Santa waved his hands right under Mr. "No—no—it is my guest, Mr. Coucci Maria, who knows what enemies the Coucci's nose and made a speech. Re- is afraid. He trembles. His beard boy has made over there?" naldo Ricci of a noble family, he said, quivers. I feel a so sorry for him, Mr. "Our friend over there has a long had indeed been in trouble. But such Coucci, who does not know there is no !" arm," said Mr. Angelo, and looked over good trouble. He had stood for the King danger

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Ah. but there was a beautiful quar- the sky a good deal and had a smile "Papa permits me to clean him with the rel. Mr. Coucci did his utmost to save for everyone. But perhaps this elation tailor's fluid." poor Papa Quattrochi from this risky was due in part to the fact that almost She led Mr. John Angelo to the foolishness, this madness. He even every evening Papa Quattrochi's guest kitchen, where that flag was draped on threatened to make the Quattrochis va- went to Rosa Constanto's house On a stand made for the drying of curtains. cate. But Papa Quattrochi, egged on North Eleventh Street for lessons in the Mrs. Denatti had loaned her the drying- by Rosa, refused to send Renaldo Di- English. stand. Mamma explained, and Mr. Levy Ricci away. And in the midst of the And poor Papa Quattrochi, how was had donated the cleaning fluid. row that young man himself appeared. it with him? Alas, no better. With the "Papa also is going to permit me to Luckily, he did not understand the first payment on that flag now due, Mr. mend this star," said Mamma proudly. English. John Angelo appealed to the neighbor- "It will require the finest of needle- ''Why are you threatening Miss Con- hood Post of The American Legion. work." stanto and Mr. Quattrochi?" he de- This was very just, since Papa Quat- Such a nonsense, such a craziness! manded of Mr. Coucci. "Are you from trochi had served his country in two Mr. John Angelo is witness to the fact the secret police?" wars. that when he tried to explain to Papa Mr. Coucci could only gasp, but Papa "Papa dug latrines for our soldiers at and Mamma Quattrochi it was their pa- Quattrochi laughed a big laugh. triotic duty to place that flag in the "We do not have them, the secret Legion Post's fine, new hall. Papa Quat- police," he explained to his guest. "Only trochi spoke the speech of a lunatic. the G men who are good, democratic "Renaldo say it is a Paradiso any people." place that flag it is a there," babbled Renaldo DiRicci looked ashamed. poor Papa Quattrochi. "You should see ."I do not implore your pardon, Papa," Renaldo look at him. Mr. Angelo. In he said. "I keep forgetting I am in the prison that poor boy never did he think

United States. It is still like a dream." to see such a flag. Now, it is like a Para-

Then, it was all made clear to Mrs. diso. He believes it. Ah, Mr. Angelo, DelBondio and Mrs. Spigardi, listening we who are the Americans these many and watching. They saw Rosa, the sly a year do not love as he loves. We are puss, blush and roll her eyes at that not so a happy as he is happy. He has young man. the new soul, I tell you!" "Mr. Coucci is the landlord," they Poor, kind Mr. John Angelo. Once heard her say to Renaldo DiRicci. "He more, he tried to warn Papa Quattrochi complains that Papa is using too much against this mad thing. light. That is one of Papa's most charm- "There is great danger for you and ing faults." Mamma," he said, and was it not the That dangerous young man smiled at truth? "That boy has suffered so much Rosa. his mind has become unbalanced. Sen- "I have died and am in Paradise." he sible young men do not speak of North said. Then, he bowed to Mr. Coucci. Ninth Street as Paradise. It is illogical adding: can use too much irreverent. not enter the "No man "Sorry, sergeant, it looks like and They do light, Signor. As I recall, it was a dark you're in for some more drilling!" Garibaldi Restaurant and gape at busi- world. The shadows were creeping ness men talking politics. They do not everywhere. A world, in many places, fit pester Sergeant Corrivieto with endless only for cockroaches, Signor. So let them Tampa in the war with Spain," Mr. An- questions about our courts and jails. have all the light they wish, and send gelo reminded the Legionnaires. "And They do not buy a newspaper they can- the bill to me!" he was a cook on the transport Le- not read and wave it around their heads He bowed again and stood aside for viathan during the war with Germany. like a madman."

Rosa and Papa Quattrochi to enter the It is true that Papa gained no glory, But would Papa Quattrochi believe flat. They all forgot Mr. Coucci—Papa but it also is true that Papa served his madness of Renaldo DiRicci? Do the congratulating young DiRicci upon his country." daft ones accuse the daft? rebuke and Rosa flirting with him with The Legion Post immediately voted "Our freedom is beautiful to this an appalling brazenness—and went back the entire sum of $96 with which to buy poor boy," said Papa. "He has but inside and left Mr. Coucci standing that flag from Papa Quattrochi. Mr. lately been a slave." there. John Angelo was instructed to complete Mr. John Angelo was obliged to con- "That young man—he has the man- the deal as soon as possible, since vari- tent himself with the suggestion —ah, ner," whispered Mrs. Spigardi. ous Legionnaires who lived on North what a good head, what a far sight—that "We can only pray," said Mrs. Del- Ninth Street reported that flag would a certain powerful ruler has a long arm. Bondio. "For he is as crazy as poor be entirely ruined by coal soot if Papa But this only excited and angered Papa

Papa. He thinks he is dead and in Para- hung it across the L many more times. Quattrochi. He followed Mr. Angelo to dise. St. Cristoforo, plead for him!" So what happened? Surely, the angels the stairs, shouting: "That brigand can- Mr. Coucci clumped down the stairs. must be weeping. not touch him in this a country. He is He puffed his cheeks and shook his Papa Quattrochi refused to part with a free man, now, he is a free!" head. His beard quivered. that flag. Little Italy shook its head and whis- "Lunatics," he said. "All of them!" "Rosa and Renaldo say I must not pered. North Ninth Street watched the This strange one, this exile stayed on sell him!" Papa told Mr. John Angelo. romance between Renaldo and Rosa with with Papa and Mamma Quattrochi. "Rosa she has lend a me the money to gloomy mutterings. Ah, those young Every morning he went out to look for pay this a week. Renaldo say if I sell a ones—the old folks said—they did not work and every evening he came back him there would be much a sorrow live in the days of the Mafia. They said to North Ninth Street unsuccessful. And where now it is all of the happiness." "Pooh for him, that big-mouth!" Yes, yet to look at him—so Mrs. DelBondio And this time Mamma Quattrochi did pooh—and a shrug and a smile—but remarked—one would have thought that not weep or insist that the flag be sold. how is one to be sure? he was indeed in Paradise. Renaldo Di- "He is a good flag and not much And even when Papa Quattrochi's Ricci whistled little tunes and stared at trouble," said Mamma Quattrochi. guest found a job reading copy for the

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine weekly Italian language newspaper. Little Italy still had forebodings. As Mrs. DelBondio said to Mrs. Spigardi: "They will wait until he and Rosa are betrothed. Then they will strike." One day, Papa Quattrochi was busy cleaning fish at Nick Sansone's Market when that great and fearless man, Ser- geant Corrivieto, came to see him. It was not a social call, because Sergeant Corrivieto did not stop to greet Nick or Dave Sansone. He went straight to Papa's counter and motioned him with a finger. Words were spoken, and Papa was observed to blink and look grave, even pale. But he put a brave face on the matter, after the first shock, and

Sergeant Corrivieto talked still more earnestly. Then, with an eloquent shrug, the Sergeant walked out of the market, giving only a sombre nod to Nick and Dave Sansone.

"What was it, Papa?" the Sansones asked. "About the a lodge," said Papa. But that evening. Father Salvatore, the priest of St. Ignatius's. climbed the stairs to Papa and Mamma Quattrochi's flat. "He has come to talk about the banns." Mrs. Spigardi whispered to Mrs. DelBondio. They waited on the second floor landing. There were loud words from Papa and louder words from Mamma— St. Ig- natius, pardon it —and all of a sudden Mamma Quattrochi came running down the stairs. Oh. the terror in poor Mamma's eyes. "They are going to kill Renaldo!" sobbed Mamma to her neighbors. "Father Salvatore fears it! But Papa will not listen. He will not believe it. What am I to do with this man?" Mary Spigardi, eleven years old, ran to Rosa Constanto's house. Rosa and Renaldo were in the parlor teaching and learning the English. Kissing, too. Mary Spigardi remembered the next day. She delivered her message and, presently, the two young people arrived in the Quat- trochi parlor.

Ah, Dios. what a tragic crisis, what a lamentable madness! Not even Father Salvatore himself could persuade Rosa and Renaldo and Papa Quattrochi of the danger. That unfortunate, demented young man was at first inclined to ac- cept the opinion of Holy Church.

"Even if it is only a rumor," he said. "I cannot remain here and place these people I love in danger. I shall leave at once, Father."

"I think that is very wise, my son," said Father Salvatore. e Howard Koch & John Huston • Music h Max Sttlner

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I've heard rumors of a secret Black But Father Salvatore could not be trochi and tried to protect Renaldo from

Shirt organization since I was old enough deceived. his madness. But it was left for Papa to take an interest. It doesn't exist. It's I think you should be very watch- Quattrochi to do that. all just talk." ful, my son," he said. "There are a few They came at night, just as Mrs. Del- Renaldo looked al the floor. in our country who should not be here." Bondio and Mrs. Spigardi and Sergeant "I am hated, Rosa," he said. "They Little Italy thinks that it was, per- Corrivieto knew they would. Basta! were going to shoot me when I es- haps, this final warning which festered what monsters, what cowards, what evil caped." in the disordered brain of that poor assassins.

Rosa's dark eyes flashed, that reck- Papa Quattrochi. He had promised that Renaldo and Papa Quattrochi had left less, that deluded girl. no harm should come to Renaldo Di- Rosa's house. The stars were out and "Double your fists and they'd run!" Ricci and, even in his right mind, Papa Renaldo was thinking of his romance she said. "If there are any such rats was a man of his word. and Papa Quattrochi was saying: "Per- they haven't got a government behind What drama, what horrible suspense haps I have been so a foolish, eh, Re- them here. Our Government is behind those next few days brought to North naldo? Perhaps you do not need proof you, Renaldo." Ninth Street! First off, that Papa of this a sacred freedom, eh? That flag This wild talk sent poor Papa Quat- Quattrochi took a vacation from the —they say they will take him if I do trochi altogether out of his wits. He Market. Then, he begged and wheedled not pay tomorrow. I do not wish to jumped to his feet and made a speech- Mrs. Anthony Gigliemo who owned the borrow from Rosa the more money. No. Father Salvatore, pray for him! A man tenement across the street from Mr. So I will perhaps return to my job, eh? must stand his ground, said Papa. He Coucci's building, to permit him to hang I cannot lose him, that flag— must have faith in his country and in that flag—one end of it—from the front Rosa heard the shots. She ran scream- the sacred principle of liberty. Was a cornice. So that flag no longer shadowed ing into the street. man free if he had not such faith? Was the L but stretched right across North At the mouth of the alley, Renaldo he free if he trembled at every threat? Ninth Street five stories high in the air. was on his knees bleeding from bullet What would Renaldo become if he ran Then, with the so terrible and per- wounds in the shoulder and legs. Papa away? A skulking slave, a shadow, a sistent cunning of the mentally de- Quattrochi was dead. hopeless, bitter man. Fear and distrust ranged. Papa Quattrochi began to "He jumped in front of me," Renaldo ." would put him in prison again, a shadow that young Renaldo DiRicci. He said. "He did that . . he did that. . . stronger prison than iron bars make. was seen following him to work all the "You have come to this country for way to Columbus Avenue. Like a faith- MRS. DelBONDIO and Mrs. Spi- freedom, Renaldo!" cried Papa Quat- ful old dog, Papa Quattrochi waddled gardi agreed that Papa Quat- trochi, in Italian. "I say it is here. If I after Renaldo when he went to lunch; trochi's funeral was the most beautiful cannot say that, I am no American. If when he came home in the evening; funeral they had ever seen. Five bands I cannot guarantee that, I have be- when he went to Rosa's house; when he and three lodges in uniform and a truck- trayed my country. I myself will guar- and Rosa walked to the picture show. load of flowers, all the members of the antee your freedom, Renaldo. I am but Renaldo soon discovered what Papa neighborhood Post of the Legion and a one of many who will guarantee it. But Quattrochi was up to and protested. So detail of Regular Army soldiers, Papa I am here. I will guard you. You are did Mamma Quattrochi, who sat and Quattrochi and that flag rode along safe. Do not be afraid. Night and day rocked all day in a mumbling fear. But North Ninth Street together. I will prove to you what my country Rosa was heard to say: "It's just a no- "Papa, forgive it," sobbed Mrs. Del- can do to keep a man safe!" tion, Renaldo. We'll humor him for a Bondio. "But why did they use that flag Papa Quattrochi ran out of breath and while, then he'll go back to work." on the gun carriage? It got him into all sat down mopping his bald head. Rosa Twice, while Papa was looking after this trouble, and it spoiled things right patted him on the shoulder and said: that flag, taking it in at sunset, Renaldo to the end. It was so big. You couldn't "You mustn't get so wrought up at and Rosa slipped off by themselves. But see the casket and it kept trailing down, your age, Papa. Don't you worry about they could not long escape Papa Quat- that flag." guarding Renaldo. He doesn't need it." trochi—Mary Mother, understand—be- "But it was all right afterwards," said And that poor, addled boy said: "Of cause all of Little Italy loved him and Mrs. Spigardi. "When they put it on course not, Papa. Rosa is quite right. I knew his pride and his fear. "They went that great big pole in the cemetery." think we all got a little excited. And no to the library after books. Papa Quat- "Yes, it was all right then. It waved wonder. Rosa and I are excited enough trochi," small boys would report, or: beautiful then," said Mrs. DelBondio. without gossip of Black Shirts. We're "They took the street car to the park." going to marry as soon as I have a bet- Who knows the wisdom of the good (Sreattr Intie Ijatli wo man than ter job." God? All of Little Italy—except those this, that a man lay baton his "And a little more English," said young ones who do not remember the life for his frtenfts. Rosa. Mafia—kept watch with Papa Quat-

Big Game Is Right

( Continued from page zq) go into the big woods may result in your general course so you know where There have been too many of the e wanderings during which you become you are going and let somebody in camp stories. There would be less if sportsmen lost even though you carry a compass. know where you expect to hunt. Then generally realized the possible dangers The experienced woodsman knows he if you don't get back when expected they of the winter woods and duck marshes. never should go into the woods, particu- will know where to begin looking for A sudden blizzard, howling down from larly during the winter, without a good you. the north, may in a few minutes blot out compass, a map of the country, a pound Use your compass on the way in or all familiar landmarks and eventually or so of chocolate, a waterproof match- it will be little use to you coming out. buffet the hunter to a point of exhaus- box filled to capacity, a good knife, a Your compass will show the way back tion where he no longer can struggle light belt ax and plenty of extra car- only if you have a fairly definite idea of against the elements. tridges for his gun. where you are when you want to return Failure to plot your course when you Before you start into the woods, plot to camp. In other words, if you have

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hunted to the west of your camp, you know that the camp is in a general easterly direction and the compass at least will tell you which is east. And on the way into the woods glance FALSE TEETH backwards occasionally so you will get — a picture of the country as it will look Played "hob" with Daniel Dobb on the way out, bearing in mind that if But this is how he saved his job there is no snow on the ground that pic- ture will look entirely different if snow From door to door trudged Daniel Dobb, falls while you are in the woods. His sample case in hand; The minute you realize you are lost, Yet all day long he made no sales, stop, and if you can't figure out where No orders coidd he land. are, there. Aimless wandering you stay Alas! his dingy, foul probably only will take you farther from false teeth help, farther from the region you are Were more than folks supposed to be in, and consume precious could stand. energy which must be conserved. Start a fire to keep warm. If the woods are soaked you can chip bark from the dry sides of trees. With your knife you can cut shavings that will ignite read- A dentist said: "Try POLIDENT, modern thing to do. ily. When you have your first fire going The neither rub nor scrub start another. Keep it supplied with dead "Although you leaves so you can keep a column of Your teeth will 'look like new'; smoke towering above the tree tops. "It brightens smiles; checks Denture Breath;

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tail is found in the coast section of unfastened her apron and dropped it to EBU British Columbia. the ground. Then she slowly backed Caribou once were found all over away from the tree. When she returned TTational Defense require- Canada, but as in the United States, do some time later with her husband, the ments have resulted in a not stand up under civilization and cougar still was up the tree, snarling shortage of "Prestone" over-shooting. They now are protected and eyeing the apron supiciously. The anti-freeze. Your dealer in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and husband shot the animal. Ontario, but are quite plenty in north- The polar bear, or great white bear, may not be able to supply ern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al- is found only along the Arctic shores of if wait for a cold you you berta, and numerous in northern British the Northwest Territories, Hudson Bay snap. Buy now! Columbia, the Northwest Territories and and Labrador. An interesting species the Yukon. known as Kermode's white bear inhabits

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BALL CLINIC, Dipt, 6830, Excelsior Springs, Mo . a full schedule each year, appearing at spirit of the American Legion Post here various Legion functions, business, civic has been exemplified on many occa- Free for Asthma and labor banquets and, in addition, last sions," says a local newspaper in speak- year appeared on thirty-one church pro- ing of Webster-Dudley Post of Webster, During Winter grams. Massachusetts. "Whenever a matter If you suffer with those terrible attacks of Asthma pertains to the general good of the when it is cold and damp; if raw, Wintry winds community Webster-Dudley Post is al- make you choke as if each gasp for breath was the Husband Calling very last; if restful sleep is impossible because of ways in the forefront with a generous the struggle to breathe; if you feel the disease is slowly wearing your life away, don't faii to send al Ever on the alert to detect some new contribution. This has been shown many once to the Frontier fur Asthma Co. a free trial of Legion idea, the Step Keeper is most times in the past, and the most recent a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether you have any faith in any remedy under happy to report the innovation of a gift, that of an electric refrigerator to the Sun, send for this free trial. If you have suffered District Hospital, is of for a lifetime and tried everything you could learn husband-calling contest developed at a Webster but one of wit hout relief ; even if you are utterly discouraged, big carnival held recently by Jackson many such instances." The paper con- do not abandon hope but send today for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Address County Post at Pascagoula, Mississippi. tinues its commendation of the Post for Frontier Asthma Co. 48-J Frontier Bide. 4G2 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York It is an idea that can be snapped up by generous contributions to the local Na-

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Get Out the Vote

Elections of one sort or another will THE GREATEST NAME IN SHAVING be held in several States and many cities in November and, following its usual custom, George Westinghouse Post of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, has entered vigorously into its "Get Out the Vote" campaign. According to Clarence Crux, Publicity Committee, the aid of Boy Scouts was enlisted and a special handbill was distributed throughout the towns of Wall, Wilmerding, East Mc- ". . and for Want Keesport, and parts of North Versailles Shells you Township urging all voters to partici- A5THMA in the election w/Nc/fssrm pate primary of Septem- "ssffiteimm offem ber 9th. They will do this all over again If you suffer from Asthma, Paroxysms, from coughs, gasp- ing, wheezing— write Quick for daring FREE TRIAL SUPER SPEEDS" on the Saturday before the general elec- OFFER of amazing relief. Inquiries from so-called "hope- less" cases especially invited. Write tion in November. NACOR, 956-Y. State Life Building, Indianapolis, Ind.

Why con '' J; 1 do ,,?• Historic Gavels congee S ^. WeH, you need '° u . equipm*"'- gun -a LOYALTY ,he righi A couple of years ago, just before the Winchester... B invasion of France, idea to an occurred Let's be practical about Article Legionnaire Harvey H. Myers of Orange Ten in our Preamble which experienced wild- (California) Post. He felt that Legion- speaks of "devotion to mutual MANY fowl shooters insist on naires who had served his Post as Com- helpfulness" by giving our busi- Winchester Super Speed Shells mander deserved some special recogni- ness to Legionnaires whenever — know them as the fast, far- tion. Legionnaire Myers turned to Paris possible. reaching, powerful shells that put the finest thrills in a day's (France) Post for assistance. At his re- The average community has sport. . . . Winchester Super quest the comrades in Paris sent him many Legionnaires in profes- Speeds are loaded with pro- two sacks containing blocks of wood sional and business life who are gressive-burning powder for anxious to serve every member maximum velocity. Their Seal- from an ash tree that grew in the Ar- of their Posts. Tite wads insure famous Win- gonne Forest. chester balanced spread of These pieces of wood were entrusted Some are doctors and lawyers. shot pattern. With their con- operate filling stations, trolled short shot string, they to an expert, who turned out twenty Some run grocery stores or restau- deliver a clean-killing charge handsome gavels, each adorned with a of shot to the limit of effective- rants. Others are plumbers, copper band bearing the Legion emblem, ness of the gun and gauge you electricians or hardware dealers. are shooting. the name of the Past Commander and Let's make a special effort to be Ask your dealer for the year in which he served. A big din- loyal to these Legionnaires by Winchester Super Speeds ner meeting was held when the memorial giving them our business. Information FREE gavels were distributed; four of the Also, when buying nationally WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. Dept. 25- BZ Post's Past Division of Western Cartridge Co. Commanders had removed advertised merchandise, let's New Haven. Conn.. U. S. A. from the community and one had died. favor those products advertised Send me FREE the Winchester Shot Shell Folder, also your 52-page Pocket Catalog of Winchester World Standard Guns In the latter case the gavel was pre- in The American Legion Maga- and Ammunition. sented to a son as a testimonial of his zine. Name father's service. Boyd B. Stutler

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(Continued from page 26) mento, California, and Dana Garner, The advancement of the colors, the the following amendment to the By- Bethany. West Virginia. pledge of allegiance to the flag, and an Laws to conform with action taken Ly Mrs. Beatrice L. Hart, as Chairman invocation by Past National Chaplain the Legion at its 1940 convention: "Ar- of the National Employment Commit- Mrs. J. J. Doyle of Ohio, opened the ticle I. Section 2. When a Post in the tee, reported an almost 100 perce: t second session of the Auxiliary's con- territorial or insular possessions of the response on the part of Departments in vention. The first order of business was United States or in foreign countries this all-important activity. Legislation the nomination of national officers. Upon shall become attached to a Department pertaining to employment of veterans roll call of Departments, Mrs. Ritchie of The American Legion, the Unit shall was sponsored by twenty-eight Depart- of Georgia placed in nomination Mrs. automatically become attached to the ments, and the need of employing men Pleasant I. Dixon of her Department, Department selected by that Post. over 40 years of age was brought to while Mrs. Franklin Lee Bishop, Past Widow Units shall be permitted to make the attention of the nation through Department and Past National Presi- their own selection, with the approval radio, contact with churches, civic organ- dent, presented the name of Mrs. Mark of the Department of the Auxiliary se- izations and the press; by the issuance W. Murrill of Massachusetts. There lected, provided, however, that should a of proclamations by governors ami were no other nominations. unit fail or refuse to make such request mayors and through public meetings The names of the women nominated or be ur.able to obtain the consent of a and posters. Reports of only twenty- for National Vice Presidents—their se- Department, then the National Execu- two of the Departments showed 10.626 lection by their respective Divisional tive Committee shall designate the permanent placements and 1,564 tempo- Caucuses being equivalent to election by Department." rary placements of veterans. Continued the convention-at-large—were presented At the second reading of this amend- v. hole-hearted support of the Legion's by the retiring National Vice Presidents ment during the Auxiliary's final session, employment program was pledged. of the five Divisions. They were: Mrs. it was adopted. Immediately following the adjourn- Nathaniel S. Hawthorne of South Provi- Mrs. S. Alford Blackburn. Past Na- ment of the first session, the five Di- dence, Rhode Island, Eastern Division; tional President, presented the report 0: visional Caucuses under the Chairman- Mrs. Grace Gilbert King, West Union. the Past President's Parley, of which she ship of their respective National Vice Iowa, Central Division; Mrs. Richard was Chairman. It indicated that a Past Presidents were called. That evening the Redwood, Mobile, Alabama, Southern

President's Parley had been organized in Past Presidents' Parley Supper, with Division; Mrs. E. J. Goppert, Cody. almost every Department and that the Mrs. S. Alford Blackburn as toastmis- Wyoming, Northwestern Division, and principal program of the Parley was still tress, was held and the Auxiliary's twen- Mrs. M. G. Andresen, Olympia, Wash- in the interest of ex-service women of tieth-anniversary birthday cake was cut. ington, Western Division. the World War, with special attention Except for adjourned committee "The major efforts of The American being paid to scholarships for daughters meetings, on Tuesday the Auxiliary Legion and its Auxiliary in 1941 were of Legionnaires and Auxiliares. Scholar- delegates and visitors were free to wit- directed, as in 1940, towards a strong ship awards in honor and memory of the ness the Legion's annual convention National Defense Program—a program late Mrs. Claire Oliphant and the late parade—a pleasure shared by tens of with which, after almost two decades Mrs. Eliza London Shepard, Past Na- thousands of Legionnaires and citizens of our urging, every true American is tional Presidents, have been established of Milwaukee and most of Wisconsin. in sympathy," began the report of Mrs. in the sum of $250 each. The Claire Oliphant Memorial Schol- arship was won by Miss Lorraine Daly of Magnolia. Massachusetts, while Nell Reynolds of Dimmitt, Texas, won the Eliza London Shepard award. The awards were based on an essay contest on the subject, "What is 100 percent Americanism in an all-around school and community activity?" More than twelve million and a half poppies were made by disabled veterans in sixty-two hospitals and in fifteen Auxiliary workshops in 1941, according to the report of the Poppy Committee Chairman, Mrs. G. E. Chambers, and poppy sales amounted to nearly thirteen million, an increase of over a million compared with the preceding year. The profits of approximately $350,000 were distributed among The American Legion, and the Auxiliary's Service. Rehabilita- tion, Child Welfare and other welfare funds.

Certain minor changes in the rules gov- erning the annual Poppy Poster Contest among school children were adopted and will be announced to the Departments and Units. In their respective classes, the following were selected as winners in the 1941 contest: Buren Cauley, Apopka, Florida; Florence Fouts. Sacra-

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Andrew H. Lawo, Chairman of the Na- Fund would be made, the balance to tional Legislative Committee. Commen- be transferred to the regular Auxiliary ought to dation of the Units and the individual National Fund. The report, resolution No luck, son? You members of the Auxiliary was expressed and recommendations were accepted. shoot NITRO EXPRESS ! You for their full support of the five major As evidence of the vast activity of items of the 1941 legislative program the Auxiliary in service to children, Mrs. need their EXTRA POWER I National Defense, Widows' and Orphans' P. I. Dixon, Chairman of the National Protection, Veterans' Preference, Ameri- Child Welfare Committee, recited the canism and Civil Service-—and assur- fact that 629,993 children had received ance given that the Auxiliary would assistance through the efforts of the again lend its every aid to the new Legion and its affiliated groups at an program adopted by the Legion in its expenditure of more than six million 1941 convention. dollars, of which approximately two Through Mrs. A. C. Schaefer, Chair- million had been contributed by the man, the report of the Education of Auxiliary. Recommendations included Orphans of Veterans Committee was the continuance of the ten-thousand- brought for the convention's considera- dollar contribution to the Legion's Child tion. Exceptional success in making Welfare Fund, the sponsorship of con- available educational opportunities to tinued Child Welfare Area Conferences, orphans through legislation and through and the carrying on of the study course Department Loan Funds was reported. in child welfare work. "Let me give you a few tips about duck-

As the last war orphan will reach the Because of space limitations, we are . . shooting . . . First, and most important . age of twenty-one in February, 1943, constrained to sketch briefly the reports shoot a good, big powerful load . . . plans will now be extended to include and actions of the twenty-two com- Nitro Express. Its extra power makes a also post-war orphans in this program. mittees that reported to the convention, big difference in results. A resolution to provide five scholarships, but the Summary of Proceedings will "BUT USE YOUR common sense on ranges. one for each Auxiliary Division, to be be soon made available for general dis- Even though Nitro Express shells give range, you'll al- known as National President Scholar- tribution by National Headquarters. your gun tremendous most always get more ducks if you wait ships and not to exceed $400 each, was The Chairman of the Publications for them to come in closer. approved. Committee, Mrs. James J. Bromley, had "BE SURE TO place your decoys on the Miss Minnie Harmon, Assistant to the contained in her report a recommenda- side of the blind away from the wind. Director of Volunteer Service of the that the national by-laws be tion Shooting with the wind to American Red Cross, in an address changed to increase national per capita to your back is more com- the convention outlined the aid which dues from twenty-five to thirty-five fortable, and ducks will Auxiliary women can render during the cents so that the National News might come in for your decoys against the wind present crisis—particularly through re- be placed in the hands of all Auxiliary head on, cruiting 200,000 blood donors, through members—-the extra ten cents to cover "If you stay with those the enlistment of 100,000 nurses' aids annual subscription to the official publi- green Nitro Express shells with their barrel for the Civilian Defense, and the en- cation. Referred to the National Com- famous Kleanbore priming, your will okay. 'Klean- rollment of its members for training in mittee on Constitution and By-Laws, an be bore' priming protects first aid. amendment was offered promptly for first your gun barrel against After outlining the general advance reading, but was rejected by the con- rust and corrosion. in rehabilitation work in the Auxiliary, vention at final reading during the last "OVER tE AD rather than Mrs. Mark W. Murrill, Chairman of session. underlead. If you over- the National Rehabilitation Committee, Mrs. Dorothy McAllister, member of lead, a duck can fly into the shot column. offered a resolution endorsing the con- the Volunteer Participation Committee Don't move around any more than you tinuance in 1942 of the five Area Re- of the Office of Civilian Defense, ad- have to. Use good dull-finish decoys. habilitation Conferences. It was recom- dressed the convention and recited vari- "SHOOT A WATER-PROOF shell. Remington's mended that hospital visitors' schools ous ways in which the Auxiliary could exclusive Wet-Proof process on Nitro is be conducted, that the Rehabilitation give valuable assistance in its program. Express and Shur Shot shells so effective that they can be soaked in Manual be revised and that the units Following, in lighter vein, a talk by water for hours, and still load, feed, fire, continue their ten cents per capita con- Miss Hedda Hopper of the radio, press and eject properly. tributions to the Special National Re- and Hollywood, entertained the dele- "GO EASY on the duck habilitation Fund from which the estab- gates. call . . . till you know lished annual allocation of $25,000 to Among the distinguished guests and — how to blow it. Use it the Legion's National Rehabilitation the representatives of many patriotic gently, especially when ducks are close.

"THAT'S ALL, son. Every one of these pointers is valuable, and means more Try them LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ducks. and see." Rem- ington Arms Co., J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. Bridgeport, Lynn U. Stambaugh. Gilbert C. Grafton Post, Fargo, North Dakota. Connecticut. Hugh S. Bonar. Buy Drews Post, Manitowoc. Wisconsin. Fairfax Downey, Second Division Post, New York City. Will Graven, Advertising Men's Post, New York City. Boyd B. Stutler, John Brawley Post, Charleston, West Virginia. John J. Noll, Capitol Post, Topeka. Kansas. Donald Stillman, White Plains (New York) Post Remington.

Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- naires, are not listed.

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NOVEMBER, 1941 00 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine organizations presented for brief greet- propriated $1,000 for Boys Town, Ne- Music activities were reported by each ings was General Frank T. Hines, Ad- braska, and $625 for the Department Department. In a theme song contest ministrator of the Veterans Administra- of Alaska, The American Legion, for for the Juniors, the award was made tion, who lauded the Auxiliary for the a traveling respirator. to Leah Rivenburg, Creston, Iowa, for splendid work which it is continuing An address by Miss Betty Greb, 1941 her composition, "We Are the Juniors." in Veterans Facilities among the 85,000 Governor of the Wisconsin Girls' State "Our Juniors are mindful of their World War veterans still being hospital- was roundly applauded. heritage, they are eagerly accepting the ized. Urging unity throughout the country training which is building them for the

Again on a national broadcast, the for the defense efforts, Mrs. A. J. leaders of tomorrow,"' reported Mrs. National President introduced the White Mathebat, Chairman of the National George F. Cassidy, Chairman of the Sulphur Springs (Montana) American Defense Committee, submitted a resolu- Junior Activities Committee, in telling Legion Auxiliary Trio, which had won tion calling upon Congress to enact of the widely-varied program in which first place in the National Music Con- legislation for the settlement of differ- the Juniors interest themselves and aid test, and announced that the sixth an- ences between workers and employers the Auxiliary. The report of the Colonial nual Auxiliary award of merit for the to prevent stoppage of work on defense America Study Committee, was pre- radio program that was most acceptable orders. She termed strikes in defense sented by its Chairman, Mrs. James P. and worthwhile to the general family Paul, while the Chairman of the Finance audience would follow. The presentation Committee, Mrs. W. Harvey Stegman, of the award, a plaque, was made by could report the usual splendid condi- Mrs. Lawrence Smith, National Radio tion of the organization's finances. Chairman, to Mr. Russell Varney, rep- Fervid debate arose over a problem resentative of Standard Brands, Incor- inherited from the 1939 and 1940 Con- porated, which sponsors ''One Man's ventions—whether or not the wearing Family,"' chosen as the program which of the Legion overseas type of cap by makes the best constructive contribution Auxiliary members should be barred. to American life. This is the second Upon roll call vote, the wearing of the consecutive year that this program has cap was denied official sanction. received the award. The White Sulphur Mrs. Hal R. Whitehead, Chairman Springs (Montana) Quartette, which of the Trophies, Awards and Emblem also placed first in the National Music Committee, stated that the committee

Contest was heard at the end of the is now functioning fully in the service radio broadcast. for which it was created: "To stimulate After several numbers rendered by every activity of our great organiza- the St. Paul East Side Glee Club, na- tion." National Headquarters will make tional champions, addresses were made available a report of the winners of by the Honorable Josephus Daniels, the numerous national trophies now be- United States Ambassador to Mexico, ing awarded for work accomplished. "Morning, sergeant, meet and Mrs. Bertita Harding, authoress and Harold D. Robinson, National Publicity the Mrs." authority on Central and South Ameri- Director, gave an accounting of the suc- can countries, both of whom stressed cessful work accomplished by his divi- Pan-American amity and understanding. industries unpatriotic. In reference to sion of National Headquarters. Mrs. S. Alford Blackburn, Past Na- American aid to Russia, she said "I know On Wednesday night, the outstanding tional President, reporting as Chairman it is a bitter thing to recognize Russia social event of the entire Convention, of the Pan-American Study Committee, but it is only a means to an end. It the States Dinner was held in the vast told of the great success of the first is like taking medicine. We will help Auditorium. Fir trees ranged in the bal- year of the study program and her Russia now in defeating Hitler but after conies and banked against the walls recommendations that Spanish be a re- that has been accomplished we shall transformed the banquet hall into one quired study course in our public go back to our standards, because com- of Wisconsin's famed forests. Here al- schools, that interest in the music of munism is as obnoxious as ever." most two thousand guests, including all Pan-American republics be stressed by The convention adopted a resolution the dignitaries of both the Legion and the Auxiliary during National Music offered by Mrs. T. Louis Chess as Chair- Auxiliary as well as the rank and file, Week, and that the study program for man of the Emergency Voluntary Serv- enjoyed an especially entertaining pro- this year be on Mexico, were adopted. ice Committee, that Auxiliary register gram. National President Mrs. Louis J.

In the report of Mrs. N. J. Danhof, all women for emergency volunteer de- Lemstra presided as hostess. Joe E. Chairman of the Community Service fense service. Mrs. Rose Hildebrand, Brown of movie fame made a particu- Committee, was contained the informa- novelist and radio commentator, a larly happy master of ceremonies. The tion that special emphasis had been refugee from England, addressed the nationally-noted Quiz Kids, we regret given during the year to library exten- convention on England's problems and to report, showed up an adult group sion work, especially in serving the men the aid that our country can give and consisting of National Secretary Gwen- now in training in the military service. is giving in Britain's struggle against the dolyn Wiggin MacDowell, Department Mrs. Linn Perry, as Chairman, reported Axis powers. Secretaries Marie Moore and Cora for the Americanism Committee, out- Great development in the use of radio Brown, of Ohio and Wisconsin, respec- lining the many activities that came in furthering the Auxiliary's program tively, and Miss Hedda Hopper and Joe under her direction. Recommendations was the message brought by Mrs. E. Brown of Hollywood. included the continuance of the annual Lawrence Smith, Chairman of the Radio During the final session, ballot for Essay Contest, the subject to be "The Committee, while Mrs. Willard L. the office of National President resulted Characteristics of a Good American,"' Morss, Chairman of the Membership in a vote of 436 for Mrs. Mark W. Mur- and the award the sum of $100. Committee, reported an almost 20.000 rill of Massachusetts, and 422 for Mrs. The Eight and Forty submitted its gain in membership over the previous Pleasant I. Dixon of Georgia. Mrs. report of progress and aid to the Aux- year, distributed in 8,896 Units. Dixon moved that the election be made iliary through its La Chapeau Nationale, "Keep America Singing.'' was the unanimous. Official ratification of the

Mrs. Alyce J. Gill, and Mrs. Gill an- slogan of the Music Committee of which election of the five Divisional National nounced that her organization had ap- Mrs. L. D. Akin served as Chairman. Vice Presidents followed.

56 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Escorted to the platform by the Rox- Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDowell and bury (Massachusetts) Post Legion Band Mrs. Cecilia Wenz to the offices of STALLING ALL CARS! CLEAN OUT and a delegation including Mrs. Marietta National Secretary and National Treas- Conway, Auxiliary Department Presi- urer, respectively. Mrs. Rena B. Huss- RADIATORS WITH SANI-FLUSH dent, and Richard Cunningham, Legion man of Little Rock, Arkansas, was ap- BEFORE ADDING ANTI-FREEZE Department Commander, of her State, pointed National Chaplain, and Mrs. and Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston, R. W. Waldrop of Bessemer, Alabama, Mrs. Murrill in a brief acceptance speech National Historian. thanked the Auxiliary for the honor be- stowed and pledged herself to carry on AT ITS annual National Pouvoir the duties of her office to the very best -ljL meeting, the Eight and Forty of her ability. elected the following officers for the en- Mrs. Lemstra bestowed upon Mrs. suing year: La Chapeau Nationale, Mrs. Murrill the badge and ribbon of her Hal R. Whitehead, Tampa, Florida; office, and the National Vice Presidents Demi Chapeaux Nationaux: Eastern, performed a similar service for their Mrs. Mary Burgess, Elmira, New York; successors. In a simple but impressive Central, Mrs. Emily Francke, Indian- ceremony, Mrs. Albin Charles Carlson, apolis, Indiana; Southern, Mrs. Pauline Past National President, inducted the Carlson, Harrison, Arkansas; Western, new national officers. To Mrs. Melville Mrs. Kaye Vincent, Tucson, Arizona; Mucklestone, Past National President, Northwestern, Mrs. Hazel Davis, Den- was given the pleasure of presenting to ver, Colorado; La Secretaire Nationale, Mrs. Lemstra the colors under which Mrs. Pauline Rairdon, Indianapolis, In- she had served during her year as Na- diana; L'Aumonier Nationale, Mrs. tional President. The convention was Maude Jackson, Philadelphia ; L'Archi- then adjourned. viste Nationale, Miss Marie Sweeney, vcr Shortly after adjournment, Bayonne, ca"ses ° the Na- New Jersey, and La Con- Radiator J tional Executive Committee, under its cierge Nationale, Mrs. Rose Bassett, new Chairman, Mrs. Murrill, re-elected Detroit. Michigan.

United in the Will to Win ~ cpvvwe s«*" insist on (Continued from page 23) crisis. He, with his customary frankness, was stricken with a heart attack while met the issues squarely and without cir- visiting in the rooms of Senator Bennett cumlocution. "Let there be no misunder- Champ Clark on Sunday night. Comrade standing," he said. "We are not neutral. Chambers was a Past Department Com- Congress has taken a stand for the and 5-anc mander of Missouri and was serving as American people by the passage of the ,a aware Ohio. a member of the Advisory Board of the Lend-Lease Law, which gives material, o Caion, 1 products*?Co., Legion Publications Commission. help and aid to the countries fighting Hitler. And that is not neutrality!'' THEN the keynote speech was de- Other speakers of the morning were livered by Legionnaire Frank Knox. Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, who pre- Secretary of the Navy, whose address sented a commemorative medal mark- will go down as an historic one. Before ing the 1940 Convention to Mayor Mau- the assembled Legionnaires and Aux- rice J. Tobin of Boston; Mrs. Louis iliares he announced the grim purpose Lemstra, National President of the of giving navy protection to all lend- American Legion Auxiliary; Ben Hilli- TAKE first step to protect your Invention lease shipments, and the same protec- ard, Chef de Chemin de Fer, Forty and without obligation. Get free "Kecord of Invention" form and 48 page Cook. "Patent Guide for the Inventor." 'x'ime tion to American ships and American Eight ; Governor John W. Bricker of counts! Write today. seamen. Then, after a pause, he said it Ohio, who spoke for the twenty-one CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN Registered Patent Attorney was the firm purpose of the American Legionnaire Governors; U. S. Senator 1L4S Adams Building Washington. O. C. Navy "to capture or destroy by every Harold H. Burton, of Ohio, who spoke means at their disposal, Axis-controlled for the twenty-four Legionnaire Sena- submarines or surface raiders encountered tors and the one hundred and forty-five Kidneys in these waters. That is our answer to Legionnaire Representatives in the Con- Help Mr. Hitler's declaration that he will try gress of the United States; Legionnaire to sink every ship his vessels encounter Darryl F. Zanuck, of Hollywood, top- If Back Aches on the routes leading from the United flight man in the movie industry, and Do you feel older than you are or suffer from Getting Up Nights, Backache, Nervousness, Leg States to the British ports." General Lewis B. Hcrshey, Director of Pains, Dizziness, Swollen Ankles, Rheumatic "The Secretary of the Navy was not Selective Service. Pains, Burning, scanty or frequent passages? If so, remember that your Kidneys are vital to your foolinT' shouted Legionnaire Fiorello The retiring National Commander, health and that these symptoms may be due to non- organic and non-systemic Kidney and Bladder H. LaGuardia, dynamic Mayor of Milo Warner delivered his official report, New troubles— in such cases CYSTEX (a physician's York City, who also holds down the job and other reports were received from Carl prescription) usually gives prompt and joyous re- lief by helping the Kidneys flush out poisonous ex- of Director of Civilian Defense, and Moser, Oregon Department Adjutant, cess acids and wastes. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose in trying Cystex. An iron-clad who was the next of the keynote who spoke for the Committee on Per- guarantee wrapped around each package assures speakers. The Mayor, in a characteris- manent Organization; Rupert Caviness, a refund of your money on return of empty package unless fully satisfied. Don't take tic speech, brought the audience up of Florida, who delivered the report of chances on any Kidney medicine that is not

guaranteed.yuitittin.evu. Don'tuyjit *, delay. Get\j Cystex (Siss-tex) standing with an impassioned appeal for the Committee on Rules, and Edward A. from your druggist national unity and support of the pol- Linsky. Pennsylvania Department Ad- today. Only 35c. The guarantee protects icies of the in this Cystex Government national jutant, for the Committee on Creden- HelpsHelDS Flush KidneysKidnevs vou -

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tials. All preliminaries cared for. the ident of the National Education Associ- five hundred and thirty resolutions were ation, and listened to a series of rou- sent to the proper committees for con- tine reports. sideration, and the first session re- Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to cessed at two p. M. Mexico, wartime Secretary of the Navy E33 One of the highlights of that first ses- and the only living member of President sion was the introduction of Julius Wilson's Cabinet, spoke on continental Franklin Howell, of Bristol, Virginia, 95- solidarity and our national relations year-old Commander-in-Chief of the with our sister American Republics. United Confederate Veterans. Respond- Though not eligible to membership in PTTTTT7 ing to a great ovation, whistles and the Legion, he has appeared before many cheers interspersed with old-time rebel National Conventions in the role of One shot of "Prestone" anti- yells from men in the Southern delega- mentor and guide. His son, Josephus tions, General Howell, clad in full dress Daniels, is a Past Department freeze lasts all winter. It's used Jr., Com- uniform of Confederate gray, straight as mander of North Carolina. Ly Lhe U. S. Army and Navy. an arrow and with enunciation clear and Another speaker on the Wednesday Don't wait for a cold snap. Buy distinct, greeted the youngsters with a program was Brigadier General Frank "Prestona" anti-freeze today! brief speech. "My spirit is young, even T. Hines, Administrator of Veteran Af- though my years be long," he said. fairs, whose address to the annual meet- SEE INSIDE FRONT COVER "I'm a real Rebel in Yankeeland, and ing has become a fixed part of the pro- I'm glad to be with you boys with whom gram. His appearance at Milwaukee my eldest son served on General Lig- marked the nineteenth consecutive an- gett's staff in France during the World nual convention to which he reported on War." the state of veterans' affairs, and of

While General Howell, who now com- the service that is being rendered vet- mands about five hundred survivors of erans of all wars by the bureau of Gov- the wearers of the gray in the 'sixties ernment which he has so long adminis- WOODSTOCK was speaking, the seventy-fifth annual tered. Encampment of the Grand Army of the Messages received from President

TYPEWRITER Republic was being held in Columbus, Roosevelt, General John J. Pershing and Ohio, representing fifteen hundred sur- British Prime Minister Winston Church- Attention vivors of the Union armies. Ninety-one ill were read to the Convention by Na- old soldiers attended that diamond tional Commander Warner. Fistula Sufferers jubilee Encampment, ranging in ages Long hours had been spent by the The McCleary Clinic, C 1166 Elms from eighty-nine to one hundred and several committees wrestling with the Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo., is putting four. It was the circumstance of the two five hundred and thirty resolutions as- out an up-to-the-minute 122-page book conventions being held simultaneously signed, a number considerably smaller on Fistula, Piles (Hemorrhoids), related that prevented Commander-in-Chief than in recent years many of them ailments and colon disorders. You can — have a copy of this book by asking for William W. Nixon from being in Mil- duplicates—but which covered nearly it on a postcard sent to the above ad- waukee. His greeting and that of his every phase of Legion activity and na- dress. No charge. It may save you comrades was delivered to the Conven- tional defense, and nearly every shade much suffering and money. Write today. tion by Mrs. Mary J. Love, Past Presi- of thought and belief. Several of the dent of the Woman's Relief Corps. In more important committees, those hav- Save Your Feet responding, National Commander War- ing controversial questions to deal with, ^Thousands relieved from pain walk ner said: "My father was a member of were in session almost constantly from with \imm' ' HEEFNER the Grand Army of the Republic." the time of organization on Monday \ ARCH SUPPORTS Write for free Monday night National Commander until Wednesday morning; some did not Booklet Warner was host to some hundreds of complete their labors until the follow- "FOOT the Legion visitors, rank and file, at the ing day. As one result of these long ses- FACTS" Schroeder Hotel. It was at this meeting sions, to which proponents and oppo- HEEFNER ARCH SUPPORT CO., 58 Lewis Bldg.. Salem. Virginia that General George C. Marshall, Chief nents of every measure were invited to of Staff of the United States Army, de- present their views and arguments, a FREE CROSS livered an address, speaking "as one series of reports was formulated which, soldier to another." He asked for ag- on the whole, met with the approval Send Us Your Name and Address ill mail you thisbeautiful OENUINK the home of the majority when presented to the Aft AT C.Ol I> FINISH CROSS with gressive Legion support on l* PIN/ attached ABSOI.UTI-XY FRFK. FR^E CATALOG showing over 100 front ; the kind of home defense service convention. IAP.I.F C.TFTS—OIVF.N FRKE—with , INFORMATION on HOW TO RK- that men of the Legion are more capable At the Wednesday session George THFM. F.i tier FRKF, CROSS. in the re- RELIGIOUS HOUSE Dept. LEG. of giving than any other group Amer- Cameron, of Alabama, presented 5. Market St. Chicago, III* ica, because of their training and experi- port of the Committee on Rehabilita-

ence in the World War. The entertain- tion; J. T. McGarry, of Iowa, reported ment program at the Commander's din- for the Committee on Education of

ner was directed by Bob Hope, movie Orphans of Veterans; Lawrence J. Fene- and radio star, as master of ceremonies. lon, of Illinois, spoke for the Com- The magnificent spectacle of the Le- mittee on Employment; Glenn Camp- gion on parade filled the entire day on bell, of Ohio, delivered the report of the

Tuesday and it was not until Wednes- Committee on Publications; Oscar day morning that the Convention re- Lamp, of Arizona, tendered the report THE SECRET OF Hair getting thin? Bothered urniTUV naip by dandruff:1 Don't waste time assembled in the Auditorium and heard of the Committee on Child Welfare; moping or doping your hair. a series af addresses by Robert E. Harry Benoit. of Idaho, reported on the Wake up your scalp, see the difference, feel the results. Let the new electric driven V1TABRUSH answer your Bondy, National Administrator of the actions of the Committee on Constitu- worries. 5000 vitalizing strokes per minute. Restful. tional Amendments, and Edward F. Pleasant. Satisfying. Takes only 3 m inutes a day. Recom- American Red Cross; Max Singer, Com- mended by scalp authorities. Satisfaction guaranteed. mander-in-Chief of the Veterans of McGinnis, of Illinois, read the report of Write now for full information and money-back smoothly offer. Hershey Mfg. Co., 131 So. LaSalie Street, Chicago Foreign Wars; Mrs. Myrtle Dahl, Pres- the Committee on Finance. So

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and efficiently had these committees balance the sauerbraten. bratwurst, formulated their reports based on the Muenchener kalbshaxen, apfel pfann- resolutions sent up for consideration by kuchen, deutscher speckbraten and other the several Departments that all were Milwaukee specialties which found high adopted without debate, except for re- favor with the Legion visitors. wording of a few. Warren Atherton, of California, THE fireworks were not actually Chairman of the National Defense Com- touched off until Past National Com- mittee, was called to read the report of mander Ray Murphy, of Iowa, ad- that committee and, because of the na- vanced to the microphone to read the report of the Committee on Foreign Re- VJki Caniuou^H 7es.'-(Md u>e use lations. In all the sessions it had been S+ake us!* Ute % ft ?or \^e\^e". apparent that there was a sharp division qot a Welfare m- Nor to ftmance on the question of aid to Russia—an op- position that had not been smoothed out when the majority of the committee made up its report. Immediately that section had been read by Past National Men, take a tip from the stars — if Commander Murphy it was challenged you've been using scented hair prep- arations without success, switch to at once by Jack Abrams of Washington, the MEDICINAL treatment used

millions ! Try GLOVER'S, with offered report and by who a minority moved massage, for Dandruff, Itchy Scalp that it be substituted for the majority and excessive Falling Hair '.You'll actually feel the exhilarating effect report which called for aid to Russia instantly! under the Lend-Lease Act. Regular size bottles at Drug Stores everywhere. Send for com- The fires of debate were loosed and plete FREE treatment of GLOVER'S MEDI- for the question ex- MANGE an hour or more was CINE and the New GLO-VER amined from all angles. The minority Beauty Soap SHAMPOO, in hermetically sealed bottles, by report was supported by Past National COUPON only! Useful Care Hanford MacNider, Ste- booklet. Scientific Commanders of Scalp and Hair, in- phen Chadwick and Bennett Champ cluded FREE Clark, and by Mike Murray, Minnesota, tional importance of the questions in- James E. McCabe, of New York, Don- GLOVER'S volved, the entire report was broadcast. ald J. Zimmerman, Pennsylvania, Arthur For DANDRUFF & ITCHY SCALP Section by section, the Convention ac- Clark, Michigan, Jeremiah F. Cross, GLOVER'S, 460 Fourth Ave., Dept. 1511, New York FREE samples, Glover's Mange Medicine cepted the platform drafted in the sev- New York, and others. Send and new Shampoo. I enclose 3# to cover postage. eral resolutions presented, though there The majority report was stoutly de- Name was a little parliamentary flurry on a fended by Past National Commander Address motion to reconsider that section which Ray Murphy, Senator Tom Connally. for the of the ban of called removal Texas, John Stelle, Illinois (who insisted save v; geographical limits on the movement that the minority report was out of 50% SUPER BAN D SPREAD of United States troops. The motion to order), Jack Wicker, Virginia, Robert (HASSI! reconsider was ruled out of order by Shaw, Iowa, Herbert Hargrave, New National Commander Warner; the pro- York, Clinton Brome, Nebraska, and by mSPEAKER ,TUBES, PUSH reply direct question, BUTTON TUN!MG, MAOHA ponent, in to a several others who clamored for the TEH HA LOOP AEPIAL disqualified himself in stating that he floor. MIDWEST RADIO CORPORATION CINCINNATI, ( l/SE#-AS£#TS */4#r£p PEPT, 74-B OHIO ) did not vote in the affirmative on the The debate was quenched when original adoption of the section. George Phillips, Texas, moved that the New Orleans was selected as the roll call PATENTS minority report be tabled. On a Other men have read and profited by our free place for holding the 1942 Convention, demanded by Colorado, New York, books, "Patent Protection'' and "Selling an Invention." Fully explain many interesting and the dates were fixed at September Washington and other Departments the points to inventors and illustrate important mechanical principles. With books we also 21st to 24th. That city was the only minority report was tabled by a vote send free "Evidence of Invention" form. Prompt service, reasonable fees, deferred one left in the race when the report of payments, forty- of 874 to 604. The majority report was three years' experience. Avoid risk of delay. Write imme- the National Convention Liaison Com- diately to: Victor J. Evans & Co., Registered Patent adopted calling for aid to Russia. This, Attorneys, 436- M Victor Building, Washington, D. C. mittee was rendered by Chairman Leo J. by the way, was the only roll call of Duster, of Iowa; Atlantic City, New Departments for a vote on any issue WORK FOR THE Jersey, a strong contender in the early during the Convention other than that stages of the meeting, withdrew from the for nominations for the office of Na- race. Chairman Duster said in his re- tional Commander. port that the Crescent City Convention At the Thursday session the Conven- Corporation had already fortified its tion was addressed by William Green. financial structure and had accumulated President of the American Federation a fund of $105,000 to insure adequate of Labor; Frank Church, Jr., of Boise, funds to meet the very necessary ex- Idaho, winner of the 1941 National GOVERNMENT penses incident to staging a meeting Oratorical Contest, and Alex Walker. such as that the Legion holds each year. Dominion President of the Canadian $1260 to $2100 Year TO START The selection of New Orleans was Legion, who conferred on National Ex-Service Men greeted by rounds of applause, and a Commander Warner the insignia of get preference / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE rip-snorting Dept. 0181 speech of acceptance by Gus Honorary President of the Canadian / You are Rochester. N. Y. Blancand, a former National Executive Legion. exempt from o Rush FREE list of U. S. Govern- Committeeman, age limits. o. ment big pay dependable JOBS, who promised Legion- Upon resumption of the hearing of g 32-page book describing salaries. Prepare now for hours, work. Tell me all about naires all sorts of § Creole gustatory deli- the reports of the various committees, 1942 Examinations • preference to Ex-Service men and / how to ciualify for one of these jobs. cacies when they came to the town near Howard Rowton, Florida's Department Mail Coupon Xante Today J the mouth of the Father of Waters to Adjutant, read that for the Committee SURE J Address NOVEMBER, 1941 59 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine .

on Internal Organization; B. A. Brooks, Fargo. North Dakota—Lynn Stam- were thereupon elected by acclamation. Arkansas, reported for the Americanism baugh s home Post —made its way to the New Jersey's National Executive Committee; Irving A. Jennings. Ari- rear of the stage drumming and bugling Committeeman, William G. McKinley, zona, presented the report of the Com- with all the might and main of a sturdy nominated Reverend Francis J. Hal- mittee on Legislation, one section of outfit. Camera men popped their bulbs, loran, of Trenton, who was unopposed, which— that calling for immediate con- and those who could not crowd onto the for the office of National Chaplain. scription of capital, labor and industry- stage with the several Department ban- Father Halloran was elected by accla- was challenged by John H. Walsh, of ners marched up and down the aisles. mation; an honor due him, his friends Massachusetts, who offered a substitute It was several minutes before order could insisted, for his long years of arduous resolution. After some debate partici- be restored and then, as a soothing in- and incessant Legion service. pated in by Pat Cliff, Minnesota, Frank fluence, Gilbert C. Grafton Drum and The concluding ceremonies included

A. Mathews, Jr., New Jersey, Tom Mil- Bugle Corps was given a chance to do the presentation of Mrs. Mark W. Mur-

ler, Nevada. Fred Johnson, Alabama, its stuff without the competition of sev- rill, newly elected President of The and others, the substitute resolution was eral thousand cheering and shouting American Legion Auxiliary; the pre- adopted. men and women. sentation of the old stand of colors to The final report of the session was Order restored, the election of five Past National Commander Milo War- that of the Resolutions Committee read National Vice Commanders to serve ner by Past National Commander Frank- by John H. Walsh, Massachusetts, its with National Commander Stambaugh lin D'Olier, and the presentation of the Chairman, and was adopted as presented was the next order of business. Roll new colors to National Commander after a long exchange of views on one call was dispensed with and nomina- Lynn Stambaugh by Past National Com- section calling for complete unity of pvr- tions from the floor were called for. mander Ray Murphy. The Legion was pose, and the rejection of a substitute Past National Commander Louis A. organized for a new year, united in the offered by Anson T. McCook, Connecti- Johnson, West Virgina, placed before will to win. cut the Convention the name of Past De- partment Commander Charles E. Booth, THE flashing fifty-seven piece Com- WITH several candidates for Na- of the Mountain State; Irving A. Jen- monwealth Edison Post Drum and tional Commander in the field nings, Arizona's old war-horse, presented Bugle Corps, of Chicago, Illinois, suc- early in the week, the number was re- the name of Past Department Comman- cessfully defended its title as National duced to three by the time nominations der W. C. ("Tom") Sawyer, of Ari- Champion on a rain-soaked field at Mil-

were called for slightly after noon on zona ; Isadore Levine, Indiana's Na- waukee and for the third time carried Thursday. On roll call, Alabama yielded tional Executive Committeeman, placed the highest award from the field in the to Tennessee and that Department's Na- the name of Past Department Com- face of the keenest competition. Loyal tional Executive Committeeman, Roane mander V. M. (Army) Armstrong, of fans packed Marquette University Sta- Waring, strode to the mike to place the the Hoosier State, in nomination; Pat dium to the brim and stayed through name of Lynn U. Stambaugh, of North Kelley, Georgia's National Executive during a deluge of rain as the musical Dakota, before the Convention. Canada Committeeman, offered the name of competition reached a crescendo in the yielded to New York; Ed Vosseler, im- DeLacey Allen, Past Department Com- final night contest. mediate Past Commander of that De- mander of Georgia, and Department Winners of the top places in the Mil-

partment, presented the name of the Commander Edward J. Casey, of Ver- waukee competitions were;

Empire State's favorite son, Edward mont, gave the Convention the name of Drum and HuRle Corps: 1st, Commonwealth

Edison Post, Chicago, Illinois I Russell G. Cre- N. Scheiberling, of Albany. Past De- the Green Mountain State's favorite son, viston and Miami Trophies I ; 2d, Captain Harry Post, Kacliensack. Jersey partment Commander Rendell Cobb, of Past Department Commander John F. B. Doremus New ;

3d, Harvey W. Seeds Post, Miami, Florida ; 4th, Sullivan. The five placed in nomination Oklahoma, took his place at the mike to Stratford I Connecticut ) Post. offer the name of Raymond Fields, fa- vorite son of the Sooner State. The roll call proceeded on to the end, but as Department after Department sec-

onded the nomination of Stambaugh it was apparent to all that the North Da- kotan had rolled up a commanding lead that could not be overturned by any- thing short of a hurricane cr earth- quake. The balloting, however, was carried on until the name of the last Depart- menl had been called, when Raymond Fields made his way to the platform and moved that the election of Lynn Stambaugh be made unanimous. His motion was seconded by Ed Scheiberling who said that last year, at Boston, when he made a similar motion, "I told you then that I was not making the speech

I expected to make. This year I did not come to Milwaukee with any speech." National Commander Warner did not have time to put the question —his voice was lost in the roar of applause and the rushing, milling, banner-waving delegates in the great ovation that follows the election of every National Commander. To add to the confusion the Drum and Bugle Corps of Gilbert C. Grafton Post, 60 1 ;;

Bands: 1st, Musicians Post, Chicatro, Illinois Spafford National Trophy for winner of Na- (Lemuel Bolles Trophy); 2d, Ed Jones Post, tional High- School Oratorical contest—Depart-

Oconomowoc, Wisconsin ; 3d, West of Twin ment of Idaho (Frank Church, Jr., Boise).

Peaks Post, San Francisco, California ; 4th, National Sons of the Legion Gallery Trophy Franklin Post, Columbus, Ohio. to winner fifty-foot gallery rifle match—Harold Chorus: 1st, Syracuse (New York) Post, win- A. Taylor Squadron, Chicago, Illinois. A NEW WAY ners for the sixth consecutive time (American Franklin O'Olier Trophy to the Department Chorus Contest and Alonzo Cudworth Post enrolling the highest percentage of eligibles

Trophies) ; 2d, Ironwood (Michigan) Post; 3d, within its area—Department of Alaska, per- Judge John Faust Post, Detroit, Michigan. center ? 5G.75. Rifle Drill Teams: 1st, Beverly Hills Post, Department History Contest— 1st, Euclid Chicago, Illinois; 2d, Newton (Massachusetts) (Ohio) Post, Robert E. Parrish. Historian; 2d, TO SHAVE Post; 3d, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Post. Naval Post, Chicago, Illinois, Milton A. Myers,

Color Guard : 1st, Harvey W. Seeds Post, Historian: 3d, Indianapolis (Indiana) Memorial

Miami. Florida (Glenn R. Hillis Trophy I ; 2d, Post, Florence Martin, Historian. Captain Harry B. Doremus Post, Hackensack, New Jersey: 3d, Upper Darby (Pennsylvania) Post 4th, Commonweath Edison Post, Chicago, ; THE Forty and Eight, holding its Illinois. Sons of the Legion Band: 1st, Earl R. Twenty-Second Promenade Nation- Stewart Squadron, Grand Rapids, Michigan ale, reported its greatest membership, (Louis J. Canepa Trophy) ; 2d, Bellefonte, with upward of 45,000 Voyageurs signed up in 1941 as compared with the I qof a fosf- Wid's Afy a total of 43,608 for the entire year d Card Prom Corporal of 1940. Chef de Chemin de Fer Benja- Barbers find it marvelous for rviq son, in min C. Hilliard, Jr., and Correspondant softening beard — for soothing skin Hrf Murines, I was up National Charles W. Ardery gave the • 15 you have a tough beard or sensitive skin, try yes'dee" to trick more and more bar- See Wiivi conventionnaires reports of progress all the new shaving used by bers in better shops! They know the way to soften along the line. Breaking precedent, the beards and protect tender skin! Just apply a little Forty and Eight Parade was held in the Medicated Noxzema before lathering — or use Noxzema alone as a latherless shave. Notice the the latter of Monday afternoon of amazing difference. No razor pull! No smarting the Convention week instead of at night, irritation! And how cool and comfort-^ able your skin feels. At all drug stores. but despite the crimp that this put in some of the fireworks the parade was a SPECIAL OFFER great success, with thousands of people lining the sidewalks to cheer the as- TIME*0HLY 75^ JAR 49* sorted locomotives, boxcars and other features of La Society's colorful pageant.

As its Chef de Chemin de Fer for the com- Asthma Mucus ing year the boxcar Legionnaires named Dr. L. J. Kosminsky of Texarkana. Arkansas, who wisecracked after being kissed on both cheeks by retiring Chef Hilliard: "What this country Loosened First Day needs is a good five-cent scar, and if any of you come to Texarkana I'll give you a free operation. That ought to keep you in stitches For Thousands of Sufferers until we meet again in New Orleans!" Officers chosen to Serve with Chief de Chemin Choking, gasping, wheezing spasms of Bronchia] de Fer Kosminsky were: Sous Chefs de Chemin Asthma ruin sleep and energy. Ingredients in the de Fer, Andrew W. Lull, Greensboro, prescription Mendaco quickly circulate through 3d, Evansville, 4th, N. C. Pennsylvania ; Indiana ; St. the blood and commonly help loosen the thick Nic Bosler, Louisville, Ky. ; H. S. Bitner, Louis, Missouri. strangling mucus the first day. thus aiding nature Latrobe, Pa. ; Brian Burt, Ely, Nev. ; Elbert H. Sons of the Legion Drum Corps : 1st. Square in palliating the terrible recurring choking Burns, Champaign, 111. ; Tracy Kinyon, Mitchell, Squadron, Chicago, Illinois (Cleveland National spasms, and in promoting freer breathing and S. D. ; Commissaire Intendant National, N. Convention Trophy); 2d, Squadron No. 37, restful sleep. Mendaco is not a smoke, dope, or in- Carl Nielsen, Gig Harbor, Wash. ; Historien Quincy, Illinois; 3d, Norman J. Cornwall jection. Just pleasant, tasteless palliating tablets National, Phil E. Clements, Indianapolis, Ind. Squadron, Chicago, Illinois; 4th, Greece (New ; that have helped thousands of sufferers. Printed Drapeau National, R. F. Leemhuis, York) Squadron. Elvria, O. guarantee with each package—money back unless Gardes de la Porte National, Dr. Rudolph T. Legion Sponsored Junior Drum Corps: 1st, completely satisfactory. Ask your druggist for Turcotte, Waterville, Me., and Nittany (Pennsylvania) Post (J. Guy Griffith James K. Taylor, Mendaco today. Only 60c. Oakland, Calif. ; Aumonier National, Rev. D. C. Trophy) ; 2d, Richard J. McNally Post. New Mallory, Jacksonville, Fla. York City; 3d, Chelmsford (Massachusetts) Correspondant National, Post; 4th, Bluefield (West Virginia) Post. Charles W. Ardery, Other trophy awards were: Indianapolis, Ind. ; Avocat National, Judge Frank J. Jennings, Milwaukee, Membership Trophies: Hanford MacNider Wis. ; Con- ducteur National, Vic H. Kennedy. New Or- and Henry D. Lindsley Trophies, to the De- JREE! leans ; Directeur of Voiture Activities, A. B. partment of North Carolina ; John G. Emery, < Weyer, Kansas City, ; Directeur of Child SEND NO MONEY! A8Sortment General Henri Gouraud and Henry L. Stevens, Mo. &nr" of , Welfare, Milt D. Campbell, Indianapolis, Ind. FOODS. liUOCEKIES, P. .APS. K'l'O -full Jr. Trophies, to the Department of Arkansas; ; size I*.,***.-*, worth jr.. on. Yours AHSO- Directeur Show these Alvin M. Owsley Trophy to the Department of of Americanism, Fred W. Young, LUTELY FREE! products to Merigold, Miss. friends and neighbors. Take orders for Georgia ; North Carolina Trophy to the Depart- sensational values, more than 200 quality In addition to the Voiture National Trophy, products used in every home. Earn big ; L. ment of Mexico O. Bodenhamer and John profits, full or span time. No experience whicn went to Illinois, for getting most Legion necessary. rit- lor R. Quinn Trophies to the Department of Ala- W FREE $5.00 Assort- . bama. members, the following awards were announced: ment of Products NOW. ZANOL, 3835 Monmouth, Louis J. Ratcliff Trophy to runner-up in Voiture National Trophy for individual getting semi-finals of Junior Baseball—Department of most Legion members. Dr. J. W. Bodley, Ten- Michigan (Fisher Body Post, Flint.) nessee ; Pelham St. George Bissel Trophy for Dan Sowers Trophy for Department showing greatest increase in Legion membership by per- BACKACHE, greatest percentage of increase of Junior Base- centage for the year, Grande Voiture, District of ball teams—Department of California. Columbia; John "Chick" Conmy Trophy for Ralph T. O'Neil Education Trophy—Depart- most new 40/8 members, Grand Voiture of ment of Pennsylvania. Montana ; E. Snapper Ingram Trophy for 40/8 LEG PAINS MAY Paul V. McNutt National Postal Rifle Match memberships in Grandes Voitures over 1,000, Trophy— Surface Lines Post, Chicago, Illinois. North Carolina ; Edward A. Mulrooney Trophy A. A. Mitten Trophy for Junior Rifle Match for 40/8 membership in 1,000-2,000 class. Wis- consin —Youngstown (Ohio) Post. ; Charles A. Mills Trophy for services to BE DANGER SIGN John R. McQuigg Trophy, to winner of 50 the Legion, Des Moines, la., Voiture ; Robert meter Post team match—Hollywood (Califor- John Murphy Memorial Trophy for excellence in Of Tired Kidneys nia) Post. exemplifying Legion ritual, Detroit Voiture leg pains are making Howard P. Savage Trophy for champion- Charles Walker Ardery, Jr. Trophy for greatest If backache and you miser- able, don't just complain and do nothing about them. sh.p team in Legion Junior Baseball program service to the Legion in Child Welfare. Grande Nature may be warning you that your kidneys need — Department of California (San Diego Post Voiture of Georgia ; Merritt Jones Cooper attention. No. 6). Trophy for aid to Legion in Americanism, kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking excess James A. Drain Community Service Trophy Grande Voiture of Delaware. The Department of Iowa. acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. They help — Parade awards were : Best Box Car, V oiture most people pass about 3 pints a day. National Service Trophy for best service for 220, Chicago: Box Car Mileage, Voiture 251, If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and 61ters don't war veterans—Department of Illinois. Gulf Coast. Miss.; Best 40/8 Band, Rockford, work well, poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. Frederick W. Galbraith Trophy for greatest HI., with Indiana State Legion Band second, nagging backaches, rheu- aggregate travel-miles to convention Depart- These poisons may start — and Oil City, Pa., third ; Best 40/8 Drum matic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting ment of California (841,921 miles). Corps, St. Paul, Minn., with Des Moines, la., up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, head- Frank N. Belgrano Trophy for Department and Denver, Col., second and third. Best Sons rendering aches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with outstanding service to Boy Scouts of the Legion Drum Corps. Des Moines, la., of smarting and burning sometimes shows t here is some- America— Department of California. with Waukegan, 111., second: Best Marching bladder. Patrick J. Hurley Army-Veteran Golf thing wrong with your kidneys or Trophy Unit, St. Paul : Best Appearing drum major, Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, —John Bird, Chicago, Illinois. Sam Miller, Kansas City; Unique feature, Kane Charles used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They Francis Adams Navy-Veteran Golf County, III. The Grand Voiture of Illinois had give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney Trophy—George Hausch, Wauwatosa, Wiscon- largest number of members in line, Grande tubes flush out poisonous waste from the blood. Get sin. Voiture of Iowa most musical organizations. Onan's Pills. NOVEMBER, 194 61 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine :

THE A Sick Bay in Scotland American Legion Magazine (Continued from page 37) tight pumps (my feet having taken on INDEX of Legion Post No. 6 in Washington, length and breadth from the Muason

D. C, whose home is at 141 7 Hampton last). ADVERTISERS Street, in the capital city, thoughtfully "That Thanksgiving Dinner with the submitted the menu of the 1918 Thanks- nurses and officers of Provisional Base giving Dinner of her A. E. F. outfit. A No. 8 was a glorious success. After ice American Red Cross 39 reproduction of the cover only of the cream—honestly! —the cracking of fil- American Telephone & Telegraph Co. . . 15 menu is shown, but to make your mouths berts with the handles of our knives on American Tobacco Co. water, we'll list the items served at the the unfinished-pine mess-hall tables Lucky Strike Cover IV dinner: Cream of turkey soup. Roast made a noise like repeating rifles, but a Ball Clinic 52 turkey with oyster dressing. Cranberry great time was had by everyone! The Barre Guild Cover III sauce. Mashed potatoes. Creamed aspara- dinner was practically 'All-American,' in-

Brooks Co 51 gus on toast. Celery, Radishes. Olives, cluding, as I mentioned heretofore, Pickles. Rice pudding with vanilla sauce, the great American favorite, ice cream.

< i ..] i \ : I I >i -i i Ih-r- Corp. Bread, Butter. French jam, Thanksgiv- "Most of our group of nurses had Special & Reserve Whiskies 47 ing cake, Ice cream, Cocoa, Fruit, Nuts. been transferred from their unit. Base Carter Medicine Co 52 We'll ask Miss Moore to tell more of Hospital No. 4, to open up the thousand- Ca-e, Paul 65 this gala occasion bed Provisional Base No. 8 for ambula- D. D. D. Corp 63 "I thought your readers might enjoy tory patients. I wonder where those for- Doan's Pills 61 seeing the menu of the Thanksgiving mer co-workers and the patients in our

Douhleday One Dollar Book Club 1 Dinner which was enjoyed by my outfit. hospital will celebrate this Thanksgiving ?" Provisional Base Hospital Unit No. 8, of 1941 Evans. Victor & Co 59 J.. at the Mesves Hospital Center, Mesves,

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1 old outfit if Frontier Asthma Co 52 ber 28. 1 9 S. Dig out the picture, "There are several things I recall you have one, and take a look at the Glover, H. Clay 59 about that November 28th. Principally, guys who during your service were that the clouds were spilling their tears closer than brothers to you. Then con- Heefner Arch Support Co 58 —either they had succumbed to the centrate and see how many of those Hershey Mfg. Co 58 habit or perhaps were weeping particu- fellows you can call by name. You'll be Knox Co. larly bitterly in sympathy with the surprised, if your memory has dimmed Cystex 57 mothers, widows and sweethearts who as much as has that of this department, Mendaco 61 were remembering other Thanksgiving at the number of men whose names Days. won't come to mind. You'll say. "Why. McCleary Clinic 58 ." "On that gala day, we were permitted of course. I know that guy—that's . . Co., The 53 Mennen to wear mufti—a special concession. and there comes the hitch. Metal Cast Products Co 51 My outfit consisted of a pink chiffon Then consider the warranted boast Midwest Radio Corp 59 blouse of questionable vintage, the regu- contained in the following letter that lation dark blue skirt, and white, too- came to the Company Clerk from Nacor Medicine Co 53 National Carbon Co., Inc 52. 58. 63, Cover II National Distillers Products Old Grand-Dad 2 Noxema Chemical Co 61

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Legionnaire Emanuel Rosenstein. a reunion chairman, Balloonatics can start counselor at law at 26 Court Street, lining up by writing to Harlo R. Hollen- Brooklyn, New York, a number of beck, Editor, Haul Down and Ease Off, months ago: 117 Seedorf Street, Battle Creek, Michi- "Here's another one for the books. gan. "Friday last, the Skipper (captain, to Many reunions will be held during the you) of Company E, 307th Infantry, intervening months and details of the 77th Division—Captain Earl C. Good- following activities may be obtained win—drove in from Augusta. Maine, to from the Legionnaires listed: New York City, where a committee has- tily arranged a party and gathered Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets.—Annual natl. re- together at the 77th Division Clubhouse, union-convention, Orlando, Fla., July 13-15, 1942. B. J. Sullivan, chmn.. Court House, Or- 28 East 39th Street, about fifty men of lando. the captain's old command. 77TH Div. Assoc.—Annual Armistice Dance, Hotel Roosevelt, New York City, Nov. 8. Walter "As each man entered the room, the E. Baldwin, exec, secy., 28 E. 39th St., New York City. captain looked him over, scratched his 310th Inf. Assoc.—For information regard- head (where the hair is getting a bit ing presentation of 310th Memorial Window in chapel at Ft. Dix, N. J., write John P. Riley, thin) and called the man by name. In secy., 151 Wendell St., Providence, R. I. 328th Inf. Vets. Assoc. 22d reunion-dinner, not one instance did he fail to remem- — Rosoffs Restaurant. 147 W. 43d St., New York ber the man's name and at least one City, Nov. 29. Dr. Wm. Blumenthal, 311 Hewes St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. incident connected with each man's 368th Inf. Band—Photo of band taken at Camp Upton wanted Chauncey D. service, although it was over twenty by Clarke, 618 E. 51st St., Chicago. 111., to have copy made. years since he last saw them and during Hq. Co. 108th Inf. (Co. F. 74th Inf.)—Re- union of The Old Outfit, Fox Head Inn, Niagara time necessarily some changes had that Falls, Ont., Nov. 8. Lawrence L. Varley, 733 taken place. Tonawanda St., Buffalo, N. Y. Co. F, 116th Inf. (2d Va.)—6th reunion. "RHEUMATIC PAINS" "We men of his outfit did not marvel Chase City, Va., Nov. 11. R. H. Ragland, secy., 118 Richelieu, Roanoke, Va. this exhibition for we have always at Co. H, 137th Inf.—Reunion, Lesion Hall, MAKE THIS TEST FREE Winfield, 8-9. been aware of the deep interest the cap- Kans., Nov. Paul Smith, secy., If you'll just send me your name and address, I'll mail Winfield. you ABSOLUTELY FREE a generous trial test supply tain took in every man even while the Co. I, 138th Inf.—Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., of the NEW IMPROVED CASE COMBINATION for Nov. 8. A. L. Bardgett, secy., 802 Frisco Bldg., METHOD relief of those agonizing pains commonly fighting was hottest. associated with St. Louis. RHEUMATIC, SCIATIC. ARTHRITIC, and NEURALGIC conditions. No matter how long you Co. C, 143d Inf.—Reunion, Jasper, Tex., Nov. ''I would like to know how many have had those awful pains you owe it to yourself and 11. M. P. Stewart, secy., 1475 Cartwright, Beau- your dear ones to try my new improved Case Combina- commanding officers of combat outfits mont, Tex. tion Method. IT DOESN'T COST YOU ONE PENNY Co. I, 364th Inf. and Last Man's Club—23d TO TRY IT, SO SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS can enter a room full of men from his reunion, Tulare Winery, Nov. 8. Assemble 6 TODAY. old command and, without exception, p. m. at Hotel Johnson, Visalia. Calif. Walt PAUL CASE, Dept. 4£9 Brockton, Mass. Sunkel, 712 Mariposa St.. Tulare, Calif. name each man, both original members 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion, Radisson and replacements, and recall some hap- Hotel. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 13. Joel T. Johnson, pres., 411 Essex Bldg., Minne- pening relating to that man. apolis. 52d Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, of "Here are some of the names the Governor Clinton Hotel, 32d St. & 7th Av., New men who ganged up on Captain Good- York City, Nov. 15. Jos. B. Kelly, 1441 Broad- Stop itch way, New York City, or Edw. J. Pollak, secy., Relieve itching of eczema, pimples, win: Haydock H. Miller, I. Mark Grop- 331 Tecumseh Av., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. athlete's foot, rashes and other skin Btry. D, 80th F. A. Assoc.—Reunion, Phila- troubles. Use cooling antiseptic Gillen, Nat Finkelstein, ODD- per, John J. delphia, Pa., in Nov. For date, write F. C. Prescription. Greaseless, stainless. Patrick McTigue, Victor Hankewich, Grieves, 3931 N. Percy St., Philadelphia. Stops itching quickly. 35c trial bottle F Btry. Assoc.. 109th F. A.—Annual dinner- proves it — or money back. Ask your Max A. Schulman, Murray Perkel, reunion. Hotel Redington, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., druggist for D.D.D. Prescription. Nov. 8. W. Chas. Gallagher, 157 Willow St., Emanuel Rosenstein, Barney McNulty, Wilkes-Barre. Rocco Cavallo, Sam Sloane, Barney 19th Engrs. Assoc.—Annual reunion. Phila- delphia, in 1942. For date, write F. P. Conway, The American Legion Turitz, Harry Lippman, Philip Stern, 4414 Sansom St., Philadelphia, Pa. Engrs., Pittsburgh Dr. Irving Cantor, David Feiffer and 37th Chap.—Annual National Headquarters banquet, Ft. Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh. Pa., Nov. Henry Modell. The writer, who was 8. J. A. Clark, secy., 3041 Earlsmere Av., Pitts- Indianapolis, Indiana burgh 16. present, cannot even recall at this time 304th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion, Phila- delphia, Pa.. Nov. 8. Bainbridge, all those who were there, and envies Dave 208 Yeakle Av., Erdenheim, Phila., Pa Financial Statement the captain his remarkable memory." 314th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, York Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.. Nov. 8. Bob Walker, August 31, 1941 secy.. 2720 Ann Av., St. Louis. 115th F. S. Bn.— For roster, write Ralph H. off to Milwaukee for doing a HATS Gilbert, Rm. 1308, 140 West St., New York City. Assets bang-up job in taking care of the 322D F. S. Bn.—Reunion-dinner, San Fran- cisco, Calif.. Nov. 8. J. Bascou, 80 Ellis St., scores of outfit reunions which were San Francisco. Cash on hand and on deposit 505.323.36 320th F. S. Bn., Cos. A, B & C—Reunion- $ Accounts receivable 41.692.80 held during the Legion National Con- dinner, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 8. A. W. Inventories 97,322.29 Ward. Rm. 312. 564 Market St., San Francisco. vention in September and a special Invested funds ', — Hq. Det., Transp. Corps, AEF 5th reunion- 2,473,862!48 — Permanent investment: bow to G. H. (Gil) Stordock and his dinner, P.R.R. Post (A.L.) Clubhouse, 3204 Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Pa., Nov. 10. Edw. Fund 211, 139.43 Office Washington, efficient committee and staff for the yeo- A. Fitzharris, R. Meeting House Rd., Bedford. building, D. C., less 1, depreciation Mt. Kisco. N. Y. 126,470.97 man work successfully accomplished in Furniture, Utilities Det., Camp Dodge—Reunion, Minne- fixtures and equipment, less depreciation providing headquarters, luncheon, dinner apolis, Minn., Nov. 10. R. H. Luther, comdr., 42.642.77 Deterred charges 538 N. W. Bank Bldg., Minneapolis. 26.625.02 and banquet halls and for rendering out- Base Hosp. 116—23d reunion. Hotel McAIpin, $3,525,079.12 standing general service. New York City. Nov. 8. Dr. F. C. Freed, 59 E. 54th St.. New York City. And now everything points to the Le- 1st Marine Aviation Force Vets.—Annual Liabilities, Deferred Revenue reunion. New York City, Nov. 8-9. Wm. J. Love- gion National Convention of The 1942. joy. 125 Barclay St., New York City. and Net Worth place: New Orleans, Louisiana; the U. S. S. Solace—-Annual reunion of crew. World War I, Philadelphia. Nov. 1. Dr. R. A. Current liabilities $ 83.347.25 dates: September 21-24. The National Kern, University Hosp., Philadelphia, Pa. Funds restricted as to use 54,422.63 Ex-Service Women—8th annual luncheon re- Deferred revenue 282^590. 12 Association American Balloon Corps union of Yeoman (F), Marines (F) and Nurses, Permanent trust Veterans, born at the Portland Conven- New York City, Nov. 8. Annual Armistice serv- OverseasGraves Decoration Trust Fund 211 139 43 ices. Memorial Grove Shaft, Bronx. New York Net Worth: tion in 1932 and a regular at each Na- City. Nov. 11, 11 a. m. Write Sally R. Wolf, Restricted capital $2, 380, 922. 17 condr.. United Women Vets. Council, 3400 Tryon Unrestricted capital .. 512,657.52 $2,893 579 69 tional Convention since then, has already Av., Bronx, N. Y. ?3, 525, 079.12 announced that it will meet in New Or- John J. Noll leans. Awaiting announcement of the The Company Clerk Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant

NOVEMBER, 194 63 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine to drive the new car, "first turn the jug- "We'll have to march on ger over and push on the doo-hickey with this village tonight! The your left hand and pull down on the American newsmen have little jimcrack with your right. Then already reportedit taken" press down the doodad with your foot and pull the thingumabob at the same time, and when it starts you push in the dofunny with your left foot and yank the umty-diddy back and then let up on the foot dingus, and put your foot on the hickey-madoodle. Don't for- get to push down on the hoot-nanny every time you move the whatyoumay- callit and vou'll be all hunkv-dorv. See?"

TOHNNY was attending Sunday School tJ for the first time. As usual, cards were passed out. Johnny studied his card, then blurted: "I bid five spades!"

CHIEF YEOMAN JOHN F. HAND FORD, member of Houston Posl of Philadelphia, has a favorite story about a comrade who was a bit careless about attending to his church duties, but whose wife was regular in her attendance. The pastor was a bit surprised one Sun- day morning to find the former sailor waiting to speak to him. The sailor seemed a bit embarrassed, but finally got R. A. D. OTTINGER. Commander around to making his request. "I want D of Edgar A. Fisher Post of Valley you to pray for Anna Bell," he said. City, North Dakota, says that some of The pastor agreed, assuming that Anna his friends have been pestered with a Bell had been seized with some sort of new kind of chain letter. And here it is: sickness. A couple of Sundays later he "This chain was started in Reno with the met the sailor husband, who did not hope of bringing happiness to tired busi- seem at all cast down. Solicitously, the ness men. Unlike most chains, this one pastor asked about the wife and was as- does not cost money. Simply send a copy sured that she was all right. A bit puz- of this letter to five male friends, then zled, he asked if the prayers should be bundle up your wife and send her to the repeated on the following Sunday. top name on the list. When your name "No, thank you very kindly," was the gets to the top you will receive in return astonishing reply. "She won last Wed- 15.176 gorgeous girls. nesday—seven to one!" "P. S. — Have LEGIONNAIRE LEE E. BROWN of faith! Don't break i Chief Joseph Post, Enterprise. Ore- this chain. One gon, tells a good yarn about one of hi- man did and got top sergeant friends: The sergeant was his wife back." lying on his bunk suffering from a beau- silence A R M - tiful hangover. All he wanted was AF and a lot of it. The time was midnight. E R E T T E The company cat came slipping up the rushed into the aisle between the rows of bunks, in county building, search of a vagrant mouse. When Tom- wheezing and al- puss reached a point about twenty feet most breathless. from the sergeant's bunk, he raised up "Where is the vet- and roared: "Pick up your feet, you erans' depart- club-footed son of a desert camel!" ment?" she asked of the first person AND here's a wheeze spun by Past she saw. Ix. Commander Leo Furney of Clat- "Which one?'' sop Post, Astoria, Oregon. A sailor, none asked a bystander, too steady on his feet after a heavy eve- "G. A. R., Spanish ning, wandered into an Astoria beer War or Legion?" parlor. "How about a gin fizz?" he bel- "I don't exactly lowed. know and I guess "I have it no that gin fiss," replied it doesn't matter the Finn barkeep after a moment for re- much," gasped the flection. "I have it yes that salmon fiss. gal farmer. "You

Miioked fiss, and i lial t una fiss. but i hat see, I've got to gin fiss . . ." By that time the gob was have one awful on his way. quick. My cow's terribly sick!" THE ultimate ult in an appeal to the patriotic impulse was noted by a NOW," said reader who saw a big billboard stuck up the obliging on a cemetery wall: Wake Up! Your husband who was Country Needs You! teaching his wife you have a reservation?"

64 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

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