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Cover Design: The Pioneer by Harvey Dunn Next Month's

Rope's End by R. G. Kirk Illustrations by Lowell L. Balcom Features

It's the Human Element by Clarence D. Chamberlin 10

B. F. Affleck Alfred Kauffman SAMUEL Advice by Otto H. Falk Edward A. Filene 12 McROBERTS Decorations by Harry Toivnsend Points Out the Earmarks Exit the Slum by William F. Deegan 14 of a Good Bank

Bedside Stories by John Palmer Cumming 16 Illustrations by Hubert Mathieu ALEXANDER

Why You Couldn't Run A Restaurant by Oscar of the Waldorf 18 SPRUNT, JR. Cartoons by John Cassel Has a IVordfor a Family of Useful Creatures When Mr. Baker Made War: Part Seven by Frederick Palmer 20 Who Are Persecuted for the Sins of a Campfires by Samuel Scoville, Jr. 26 Few Bad Eggs Among Them Illustration by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge —"Suffering Snakes"

Ici On Parle Americaine by Philip Von Blon 28 PETER B. KYNE Then and Now by The Company Clerk 32 Tells the Story of a Boy Who Grew to Be a Teamwork by John R. Tunis 34 Man and Couldn't See Why a Debt The Unfinished Battle Should Be "Outlawed" THE STARS IN THE FLAG

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Law Goes it, for instance. There's a right and a wrong way to do as simple a thing as that. You coil it clockwise. Coil it Halfwaif 'Round counter-clockwise, and there's kinks all over the place. Ask Wily Koskinen how to coil rope, the World and he'd say, "Coil line? You coil line wit' ta sun" — "with the sun"— which is 0. K. for Finns, who live in the north. to Get Its But I've often wondered how Wily would coil a line below the equator. The sun swings up moving left as you look Man^ at it rising there. And Finns are con- servatives, what I mean. If "wit' ta and Loses sun" is O. K. for coiling up rope in Finland, it ought to be O. K. any place in the world—and the kinks be damned. Him Stubborn? Say, listen. To say that a Finn is as stubborn as a mule wouldn't

give you the least idea. But if you J JILY KOSKINEN knew should say that a mule was stubborn as Finn, you'd be telling about some C* m A / rope—no steel erector bet- a mule. Of course I really doubt if a 1/1/ ter. But that didn't help Finn sailorman would coil a rope wrongly, jT Wily much when it came J rules, except under his time to get hanged by the neck. All rules or no most un- bridgemen know rope. Line, they say; usual, overwhelming conditions, as when did it; for Finn, never rope. But by any name, Wily Wily Koskinen a give the heathen his due, is most generally Koskinen knew it. For Wily was not always bull-headed in only a steel erector; he was a sailorman. pretty' near a And Wily was not only a sailorman; he right cause. was a Finn. And what a Finn sailorman But Wily Koskinen did coil a rope in his life. doesn't know about rope is literally no- wrongly, once Not counter- body's business. clockwise, not against the sun; but he operation wrongly. There If ever a man got sent up the rope finished the things to remember especially, without cause, it was Wily Koskinen. are two First, clockwise. All Wily did was to swipe Hop Denver coiling a fine. Next, alongside the head with a reinforced and of vital importance aloft, in bridg- end of the line down in- concrete fist, and knock him, dead as a ing, drop the coil you're done. herring, off of a bridge. All fair and side the when Never honest, although at his trial poor Wily leave it hanging outside of the coil. And once, couldn't convince the jury of this. A Wily Koskinen forgot this in a gang of Hop Denver's buddies perjured moment of terrible stress. That made him. the first their lousy souls to hell, and the verdict two crimes against For Denver, they was guilty. First degree murder. And one, cold-caulking Hop pinned a medal on him. all Wily did was to whang Hop Denver should have for that to across the skull with his knuckle bones Hut they sentenced Wily until he was in a fight, and crack his neck, the snow- hang by the neck dead, for the second, im- peddling rat. How do I know it? Wily dead, dead. And the rope actu- Koskinen said so. Any one who knows properly coiling a rope, ally got him. For that bridging crime, Wily would take his word against a On the suicide squad hooked up with the whole court-room full of snakes like the which was strangely mob that witnessed against him. But civil one, he actually swung—he actu- at the end of the jury didn't know Wily. And the jury was made up of hun- ally got hanged by the neck until he—but that's dred-percenters. They didn't like Finns. And Wily was sure this record. Denver got his. It one tough looking bird, with his blond stiff hair, and his pale I remember the day very well when Hop cantilever that Father cold eye, and his face as flat as a Manchu's. He strengthened the was on the Tide River job, a stupendous Father jury's belief that the Finns were a heathen tribe that dwelt in Joe Priest was raising. I was field engineer for Joseph, erector chief Siberia somewhere, and who went to and fro in the earth break- the coldest nosed, warmest hearted, hardest boiled out by for not ing necks as a sort of pagan rite. it has ever been my elegant luck to get bawled And so fate had it that Wily Koskinen, rigger, first class, who checking deflections on time. for we practically lived by the rope, was to hang by a rope by the neck. A fine job of work Wily did when he cold-caulked Hop; a little halt And the fact that Wily knew all about rope didn't make this found out later that Hop got his nick-name not from low any the easier for Wily. in his gait, but because he was peddling snow. Any worm good funeral. There's a lot more sensible stuff to know about rope than enough to bootleg that stuff is an ornament to a tying a wide selection of never-used, fancy knots. How to coil A fine job of work Wily did, although he never intended to make

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it as thorough and finished a chore as it turned out to be. It was coming to Hop, too. Hop Denver did worse to hundreds of men than merely to kill them. Now Hop was a first class bridgeman. He had to be. He worked for Father Joe Priest. And Father Joseph could get up more steel in a shorter time, with fewer men—all of whom had to be very doggone first class—than any erector chief in the game. Sooner or later, of course, Father Joe would have found out that Hop was bringing his filthy dope racket onto the bridge, and Father Joe would probably have booted the pants of Hop and his p-i buddies right off of steel into the river. But until that discovery Hop would have stayed on with Father Joe as long as he did good bridging— if he hadn't called Wily Koskinen a Swede.

THE day before Hop got his, a fitting-up wrench came whanging down from way up aloft right in- to the midst of Hop's gang, where they were bunched together, riveting a bottom chord splice, near the foot of a vertical strut. It luckily hit no one. If it had, there would have been brains, or some substi- stute, splashed all over the place. Nobody got hurt; but just the same, when quitting time came, Hop's gang didn't go down at once to the ground, but stood waiting about at the foot of that strut. And presently Wily Koskinen came clambering down it to the floor of the bridge. Erecting gangs have a pretty hot third degree that they hand out to men who let tools get away. And rightly. A dropped tool means a dead man, often enough, on a steel erection job. Hop said to Wily, "Look here, you unprintable so on and so forth! This wrench came down from up there where you been workin'. So get this, Flat Face. Bridgin's no job for a so on and so forth who can't hang on to his tools. Where you belong is back in the old country, shovelin' dung on a farm. We don't like you guineas anyhow, comin' in here and grabbin' off jobs that good Americans ought to have. So listen, Dead Pan, when you get to the ground, you just ask for your time. And don't come back up on this bridge tomorrow. You do, and you'll get this wrench that you dropped bent over your skull. Is them orders, gang?" Hop's riveting gang assured Koskinen that them was orders. Now Finns, though a bull-headed people, are not swift to wrath. They are reasonably long-suffering. Instead of wasting good time and strength in strife, they win out, often, by passive resistance; meantime sawing wood, and making their regular trips to the savings bank. But there is one little thing which will change their resistance from passive to active—one little thing that will make a Finn throw off his characteristic stolidity like a burning shirt. We refer to the ceremony of laying on hands. Offer him bodily harm, and up he will flare. Deep under a more or less humble exterior, Finns are proud, and do not care to be kicked in the pants, or to have fitting-up wrenches bent over their skulls. And, what's more, they do not have to But of course Hop didn't go along down to the office with stand for it. Your Finn is a pretty fair shakes of a bodily harmer Wily, to see Father Joe. Instead, he made further loud-mouthed himself, when he finally goes into action. As developed tragically threats. He'd handle this business himself. And of course, in this particular case. next day, Wily, the bull-headed Finn, instead of asking his It came out later, at Wily's trial, that Wily's young cousin, pusher to give him another job, away from Hop's gang till the Arny Koskinen, not long on this side, and but that day come war cloud blew over, came right back to where he had worked on our job, was the one who had dropped the wrench. He had the previous day. Nobody tried to adjust the fitting-up wrench been sent aloft to work as a buddy to Wily that day, on the to the contours of Wily's bull head; but inevitably there was bolting-up gang. And at whistle time he had stayed up aloft, more eloquence. And Hop Denver called Wily a Swede. A so as a course of wisdom, while the more experienced and better- on and so forth etcetera and then some Square Head. known Wily went down first, to reconnoiter— to see if any Now the so on and so forth part of the speech is unprintable trouble had brewed because of the fallen wrench, and to take stuff, but it goes with bridgemen. They like it. Steel erectors' the brunt of it if it had. terms of endearment start in where other folks' terms of blas- Wily took plenty brunt, all right. But he never mentioned phemous opprobrium stop. It was only the Square Head part his cousin. He took it all in silence, until Hop Denver came to to which Wily took exception. the place in his oration where he promised to wrap the fallen It's true, Finns are oftentimes blonds. But this shouldn't fitting-up wrench around somebody's alabaster brow. The make you confuse them with Swedes. Finn hair is unruly, Wily orated back. stickupish, like hemp; and their eyes, when pale, often glint Wily said, "Dot's all right, Hop. You t'ink I'm best get fire with fleckings of gold. Finns have rather flat faces, and wide- off yob for let fall dot ranch, you come down alonk to office wit' apart cheek bones. A Finn is no Teuton by race. His nose me. We see bik boss. I'm tell boss all 'bout dot ranch. Bik is too flat. A Finn is no Scandinavian. A Finn is a Finn. And boss say I'm fire, I'm fire. But he don' say dot, I'm come back he's damn proud of it. You might as well call him a Turk as a on yob tomorrow. You don' can fire me, Hop. You and you Swede. Maybe, ethnologically, you'd be more nearly correct gank, all four, don' can fire me off dis 'ridge. And one some- at that. And you'd probably run less chance of a cat fight. For body dis gank put hand on me, I kill him. Sure t'ing. Come on it isn't the Turk who holds the finest farm land in Finland— down alonk, see boss." country where most of the soil gives battle to man which none

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly one with half a grain of sense could see at a glance that the only way you could make a mark on a weather-baked map like Wily's would be with a cold cutter and an eight pound maul. Hut the cards were stacked against Wily. There was the cruel business of Hop Denver's fall. He was dead in the air, so it didn't matter a rip. But the jury couldn't seem to get the pitiful picture out of its mind of Hop's body whirling down, end over end, to hit with a white geyser splash in the black winter river, a hundred and thirty-five feet below. A smart attorney put that picture into their minds, and there it stayed, to the end of the trial. Could a man's fist do that? Here they brought in the snatch-block. Exhibit A. Smart enough at that; for a snatch-block looks to a jury a lot more like a tool of premeditated as- sault than a fist; although as far as I am concerned, I'd as soon be clanked over the skull with the one as the other, with Wily Koskinen on the delivering end. But it helped stack the cards against Wily. They brought it in, and they put it down on the table; and the jury looked at it. And Wily's in- sistence that he had used only his fist, made his case that much worse. Hop Denver's riveting gang, and three or four others, who later were found to be sharing in Hop's coke racket, swore they had seen Wily level on Hop with Exhibit A; which made more sense to the jury. They weren't used to thinking in terms of fists like Wily Koskinen's. But you ought to see Wily's fists. I've never seen hands like Koskinen's. Lethal tools if ever I looked at a pair. He got them swinging a sweep. From his thirteenth year to his twenty-fifth, first learning under his dad, then licensed pilot himself, he had brought the tar-boats down from the forests along the Russian border, through the hair-raising rapids of the Ounas in northern Finland. A dozen years of hanging on to the mighty oars with a grip that meant life or death, as he fought the wild water, had given him hands of steel. Years to follow, before the mast, and other years in the gentle calling of bridging, had not left him much time for the handling of silks or the knitting of doilies; so that his huge paws hadn't softened so you could notice it much. He had little skill in handling them in a fight. He had used them to work for a living. But it happened, nevertheless, that when one of them landed, full swing, on the side of Hop Denver's head, Hop's light got jarred out. And good riddance, I say—the snow peddling louse. Anybody who peddles a merchandise that His t/iighty fist landed appeals alone to the wobble-kneed side of his brother men is as full swing, and Hop's much a pimp as one who procures for some drab. body whirled down, end But they railroaded Wily Koskinen. They swore, Hop's over end outfit, seven or eight of the rats, that Wily deliberately killed. With malice aforethought and a steel-bound snatch-block. And Wily had no other but Arny, who was his countryman and his cousin, and who could scarcely make himself understood but a race with Finnish persistence could win. Don't mistake to the twelve good hundred-percenters and true, with his broken me; the Finns and the Swedes get along very well together in English. Although they understood well enough when he had Finland. But then a Swede would never think of calling a Finn to admit that Wily, upflaring at threats of bodily harm, had a Swede. But Hop Denver did, and one word led to a bookfull, threatened to kill. and when the smoke cleared away, Hop Denver was dead. So it was up the rope you go for Wily Koskinen; as filthy a Koskinen told at the trial that it started in as a knock-down, mess of perjury back of the verdict as ever I hope to hear. And drag-out fight, one against four, which very suddenly stopped off to the big house went Wily. in a deathly quiet. His cousin Amy had started to go aloft, and when he got back to the bridge floor, the thing was over, THEN, soon after that the Tide River span got finished; and and men were standing aghast. And if Koskinen said so, that's next thing you know they were sending Father Joe clear across how it was. But Hop Denver's buddies swore otherwise, claim- to the other side of the world, to throw that magnificent lace- ing that Wily was laying for Hop with a snatch-block. They work of steel across the Hsipaw gorge in Burma. And I, praised swore that Wily had always hated Hop Denver. They swore be, got shipped the long road to Mandalay with him, as that that fitting-up wrench of Wily's wasn't the first of his his field engineer. Old Johnny Bull wanted that terrible tools that had fallen close to Hop Denver. And they swore chasm spanned in a year. Father Joe was the man to span it. that when Hop said that he'd run Wily off of the bridge for Father Joseph; nobody else but. Susquehanna Steel Company dropping stuff from aloft, Wily said that he'd kill him. Four knew it. And Father Joe knew it; and knew he held the cards. to one? They swore that Hop Denver went up on the bridge So before he left, or would leave, you may knock me cock-eyed a little ahead of them. They saw the thing done, but they with a handful of tripe if he didn't persuade the company to couldn't get there in time to stop it. promise the best criminal lawyer in the U. S. A. the sweet sum Four to one? Why, Wily Koskinen was unmarked after the of twenty-five grand if he would keep Wily from climbing the fight. Any time the four of them couldn't leave a few trade rope. marks on a single opponent. Why even Hop Denver alone, Why did Father Joe do this for Wily? Father Joe knows a with a chance, would have left signs of battle on Wily, aplenty. man when he sees one, that's why. And he told the Company Hop was good. He had fought around, a bit, at the clubs. They that they could take the twenty-five grand out of his salary, a if sr rimp- produced his record. The jury considered it. Some jury. Any thousand a year, until it was all paid back ; they were

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souled enough to do it. Father Joe assured them that they were "No sir," Olafsen said. "I'm first class rigger; but I'm never as good as paid. They had plenty of time to get their dough work on steel yob. No, sir." back, he explained. He said he had heard a persistent rumor "That's fine," said Father Joe. "I'm glad you did. We're that the first hundred years of bridging were the hardest; and short a man in the raising gang, Church. Knorr fell into the it was his intention to stick, around for some of the easy picking gorge when you were away. He's number four. So put this after that century term of raw-hiding was over. Swede in his place, on the suicide squad, out at the end of steel It's a pity that Susquehanna Steel didn't get back of Wily tomorrow." with their twenty-five grand before they did; but until Father And Father Joe turned to his blue-prints with no more sign Joe got them where he could bear down on them, on account of of warmth in his pale grey eye than you'd find on a dagger that one year contract on the Hsipaw viaduct, that ice gizzarded blade. Fate and Finnish obstinacy had combined to bring about outfit— heart, hell! they didn't have any heart!—would not have certain satisfactory results. put up twenty-five grand to keep Santa Claus from getting But they traced him anyhow, be damned if they didn't. Even strung up, pack and all. But the criminal lawyer never did get the heroic measure of taking a Swedish name didn't throw off the twenty-five grand. They got back of Wily too late. The the law. Old Lady Justice, so named, demanded a rope's end lawyer got his retainer, that's all. For Wily got hanged. He for Wily Koskinen. And to give him that rope's end she traced got hanged by the neck until—but that, as we said before, is him half way round the world. Clear to India. Clear to the the end of this record. Which now approaches. Northern Shan States of Upper Burma, mind you—after a man We got to Burma; and out to Hsipaw, and started to get up who had done the world a lot of good, by cuffing a dope peddling steel. Then one day, down at Rangoon, where Father Joe sent rat on the side of the head, and knocking him dead as a salted me to meet and hurry up country a hold full of steel, who comes mackerel, off of a bridge. They should have tossed a garland of off of the ship as soon as it docked but a solid hundred and daisies around Wily Koskinen 's neck for that, instead of a ninety pound chunk of tan whiskered sailorman, and hits me rope. up for a job. Mr. Southing—Mr. Ramsgate Southing, none other than the "I'm Yens Olafsen," said this man, looking me straight in the Extra Assistant Deputy Commissioner of the District—did us eye. "I'm first class rigger. I like yob on Hsipaw. I get him?" the honor to handle this thing. A special engine brought him He got him. and a couple native police to the camp—all dressed in spotless Olafsen told me, riding out steel up through Burma's hills, linen and a pith helmet and a monocle; not the native police, to the gorge, that there had been a terrible boiler explosion, or the engine—Mr. Southing. followed by fire from broken gas mains, in the big house back Mr. Southing said to Father Joe, "You've a certain Finlander in the States just before he shipped for India. working on your job, I understand." Prisoners had been released to escape the flames; Father Joe said, "My dear sir, you are full of crum- but so systematically had they been guarded pets and what not. There's not a Finn name on my that only one of them managed to make a get- pay sheets!" away; a man in the shadow of the noose, who, pre- "Crumpets, what!" exclaimed Ramsgate, old turnip. ferring bullets to rope, took a thousand to one "I am Mr. Southing, sir. Mr. Ramsgate Southing, Extra shot, and made the river; went into it carrying Assistant Deputy Commissioner of this District." lead, out-dived the boats and the search "Oh!" Father Joe said. "I beg your lights, shed his clothes, every stitch, pardon. Here I was, thinking all the swam the best part of thirty miles, time that you were somebody else climbed anchor chains at the end of and stuffed full of crumpets. You see, his swim, and stowed away. you had failed to introduce yourself or I would have known who that was to state your business. I, sir, am Mr. without any tan-whiskered A. B. to tell Priest—Mr. Joseph U. S. A. Priest, me the story. Finns are the greatest erection chief for the Susquehanna Steel endurance performers in the world. They Company, engaged in erecting a viaduct have to be or they wouldn't grow up in in your District. I'm pleased to meet Finland. The night had been dark, you, I'm sure. But there isn't a Finnish the month had been May and the name on the books." water refreshing and cool, he had only "Quite so," said Mr. Southing. "His carried one bullet; so what was there name, on your pay sheets, is Swedish. to stop Wily Koskinen from swimming Olafsen; but that is wrong. The man a mere couple of dozen miles? is deceiving you. The name, properly, The ship on which Koskinen had is Koskinen. The police of your country stowed was by sheer luck bound for want him for murder. And there is India, loaded with structural steel. Kos- our extradition treaty, you know. kinen was right at home. He crawled in Will you have this man brought to between a couple big girders, found a me?" comfortable cross-brace for a pillow, and "I will not," said Father Joe Priest. went to sleep. Two days out, he changed "But I will give you a drink. Come that bed for a forecastle bunk. The fo'c's'l, into my elegantly appointed field office, knowing a sailor when they saw one, where you can take off your monocle, sit asked no wrong questions. He was a on a transit box, spit in the sawdust stranger, and like good Christian men, they took box and be comfortable. And we'll talk this him in; naked, and they clothed him; hungry, and thing over, and take a look at your papers." they gave him to eat; thirsty and they gave him Father Joe has an eye that can twinkle back a jolt; wounded, and they dug out the bullet, of the ice, and say, "Give me half a chance slapped a filthy cud of tobacco, made up of three and I'll talk your language." Mr. Southing large chews from as many mouths, on the wound, hooked arms with Father Joe, and they went and called him a well man. Which he was. He into Father Joe's office, and they had a drink. reported on deck next watch, and although the I was down in the gorge at the time, giving mate didn't seem to remember this tan-whisk- levels to a gang that was shimming up base ered sailor, the ship was short handed, and when plates on foundations there; and I missed it the mate saw this man coil up a line, he asked no all. But Father Joe told me afterward that questions at all. no amount of eloquence or of perfectly first Olafsen and I reached Hsipaw without incident. class Scotch could move the Extra Assistant And I took him in to Father Joe, and introduced Deputy Commissioner the width of the well him. You should have seen the perfectly dead known red hair of our business. eye that Father Joe turned on him. "It's orders, dear fellow," said Mr. South- Father Joe said, "All you Square Head sailors ing. "Too bad. Much too bad, old chap, if seem to think that because you know line, and can this thing is as you say. But the man had a go up, that you're natural bridgemen. We want Wily Koskinen, rig trial, and the man was convicted of murder, rst steel erectors, not sailors. Ever raise any steel?" ger, fi class and the man was sentenced to hang. So

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there's nothing to do but to hang him, what tense moment, he did not In England, we do that, you know. And we notice the blunder him- have few murders. Perhaps in America self. Neither did Mr. there might be fewer also if you good peo- Ramsgate Southing will bring this blame him. Mr. Rams- ple— . But here. If you not man to me, I shall go to him!" gate Southing didn't "Let's see you," said Father Joe; for he know what it was all didn't think that he could. about. He didn't know It took nerve to go out to the end of steel anything more about coil- on the Hsipaw viaduct. The Hsipaw viaduct ing a line than the justly was, at this stage, out to about the middle of famous fillyloo bird of the terrible gorge which it was to span. Over legend and song. But three hundred feet above foundations the Mr. Ramsgate Southing end of steel rose here. Beyond was the void ; was due, in the next few and across it, a thousand feet, sheer cliffs of moments, to find out limestone, red streaked, yellow streaked, something about it. toward which we were building, towered and For there suddenly challenged. And far down below the highest came to his ears a ven- steel trestle's foundations, five hundred omous hiss. And sud- deeper, the Chungzwi plunged into the black denly, like a serpent more and terrible portal of that marvelous tunnel deadly than any cobra which the river had bored through the living in Burma, that line reared rock on which the viaduct stands. up out of its coil, and It took good nerve to walk out to the end started to strike. of steel. It took good nerve for a bridgeman Just as in whaling days to do it. It wasn't the height alone. It was the lines leaped squirm- the awesome beauty of it all that left you ing out of the tubs in the breathless, shaken. The sheer cliff's chal- whale-boat's bow when lenge across the gorge, the mountains of the quarry felt the har- Shan mounting up and away on every side, poon, so Koskinen's line the overpowering green of the jungle—the leaped. But the whaling feeling that little men could never conquer lines were coiled in tubs, it all. It took nerve all right. And Mr. confined. Their leapings Ramsgate Southing, who never had been were upward. Yet log three stories up in his life without walls books show more than around him, and solid floors under his feet, once how these lines stuck his monocle into his eye, and went out sometimes flung out side- to the end of steel; while Father Joe followed wise, and snaring a man, after him, wondering. snatched him overboard Out at the very end of steel, at the dizziest to death a thousand point above the floor of the gorge, Mr. South- fathoms below with the ing came on the man he was after. He had a sounding whale. description of Wily Koskinen, and I know of So the end of a bridge- no man who could be so unmistakably de- man's line must always scribed. be dropped down inside "You are Yilho Koskinen, are you not?" of the coil when the coil- inquired the Extra Assistant Deputy Com- ing's done. A loose end, missioner. left unworkmanly out- Wily Koskinen was coiling a line. He was side the coil, may get coiling it up on a little platform of boards kicked overboard, hun- laid across steel out at the very jumping off dreds of feet aloft. Then, place. Wily was highball man that day from its own weight, that signal man, who relayed the hand signs from dangling rope end may the men deep down in the gorge to the hoist start to drag. If ever it operators on the traveler. Not every man starts, there's only one could be highball man at Hsipaw. Bridge- finish. The more rope men who had never felt in their lives a qualm pulls over, the faster it at great height, told me that there was some- falls, with gravity taking thing about the Hsipaw, with its river diving the place of the sounding into the fearful tunnel a thousand feet below, whale. The faster it falls, that put yellow streaks up their backs. But the faster the coil will Wily Koskinen could lean out over that ter- unwind, until in a mo- rible gash, braced against the wind that blew ment the vicious loops up through it, and look down for signals, and will be leaping and search- pass them along to the traveler crew with no ing about, and the air more concern than if he were looking down will be full of death on into a bucket of beer. every side. It was whistle time, and Wily was coiling There was no escape. a line when the law spoke his name. And Behind those three men when the law, with a noose in its hand, said was the void. Before in proper Finnish, "Yilho Koskinen" them leaped Wily Koski- when the law said that, unexpectedly, way nen's line, unconfined by out there in the Shan hills of Burma, half whaling tubs, free like a way across the world from where he had terrible lariat to fling its cracked the neck of Hop Denver, Vilho Kos- searching coils to every kinen made what was perhaps the first rig- side before it whisked ger's error of his career. He dropped the end them, hissing, over the of the line he had just finished coiling and little platform, over steel, — The wild line picked up Wily as though dropped it outside of the coil, and not safely and into the chasm be- he were some little girl s rag doll and down inside of it. low. With the menace of whipped him in an arc into the gorge I do not blame him. Neither did Father awful that other ghastly rope Joe, who afterwards told me that in that {Continued on page j6)

MAY, 193 9 In Ocean Flying, As in Everything Else, Jts the HUMAN ELEMENT Bif Clarence D. Chamberlin

/T IS not quite four years since the span the North Atlantic at an average speed monoplane Columbia carried us from of at least one hundred and fifty miles an hour Garden City, Long Island, to Eisleben, —perhaps even two hundred. To reduce the Germany, non-stop. Last fall the old Co- flying time from New York to Europe between lumbia again spanned the North Atlantic one-third and one-half, to have at the same time carrying Captain J. Errol Boyd and Lieutenant increased confidence in the reliability of your power Harry P. Connor from Newfoundland to the Scilly plant and to be able to land at your destination re- Isles, off the southern coast of England. Probably gardless of how thick the weather may be, surely because this is the only airplane to have twice ac- that is progress. Should the next four years see complished the passage of the Atlantic, a friend recently similar advances, regular transoceanic travel by air asked me whether there had been any real progress in cannot be far away. aviation toward regular transoceanic travel since the For the purposes of this article, I am considering only pioneering flights of 1927. flights over the North Atlantic route and only those made My answer was yes, decidedly and emphatically yes. in heavier-than-air machines, for in a strong head wind a told my questioner that if he could supply me with $50,000 good steamer is just as fast as a dirigible. Last year saw two to build the plane and equip it with instruments now available, heavier-than-air crossings beset by constant head winds suc- I would fly from New York to France, non-stop, carrying a pay- cessfully accomplished in the difficult westward passage from load of from five hundred to one thousand pounds, and that I Europe, and both planes arrived at their destinations in excellent would arrive at my destination in less than twenty-four hours condition. from the time I took off. Furthermore, I assured him that I would The pioneers of the westward flight profited, as did we who disregard the weather in starting. I would leave on an agreed blazed the eastward trail, by the mistakes of predecessors. day, at an agreed hour, he to select the date at random in ad- Flights that failed often taught as much as those which suc- vance, and with radio direction-finding equipment I would ceeded. Approximately fifty persons who crossed the Atlantic guarantee to land at my destination regardless of weather con- in either direction are still alive today. Some twenty-five have ditions there. perished in the attempt. Curiously enough, the percentage of Lest my offer be considered the too optimistic declaration of an those who gave their lives to advance transoceanic flying parallels air enthusiast, I hasten to set forth the facts on which it is based. the increase in speed for the time represented. First, let me say that there has been but little progress in air- It certainly is aggravating to hear the word "luck" so often plane design since 1927. So far as air-foil section is concerned, used in connection with successful transoceanic flights. Ad- I would use a type of wing that was available before 1927. The mittedly, the element of chance enters into any large flying proj- advances all lie elsewhere. The Wright Whirlwind motor which ect, but it enters to the same degree in motoring. For that powered the Columbia on our German flight was the best power matter, it was luck whether or not our antediluvian ancestor was plant at that time. It was very reliable, but it weighed some 540 surprised by a crouching beast when he left the security of his pounds, and developed two hundred horse-power, an average cave to hunt pot roast for Sunday dinner. weight of slightly more than two and one half pounds per horse- The well-known human element is, to my mind, the deciding power. Today, however, anyone can buy a Type D supercharged factor in the success or failurt of any major flying enterprise. Pratt Whitney Wasp motor weighing only seven hundred pounds First, are you a promoter? The ability to finance your under- and delivering 650 horse-power, an average of little more than one taking is of primary importance—you should be able to buy or pound per horse-power, or a Wright Cyclone of still more power. build the best equipment on the market. It was quite obvious Moreover, the new motor is much more dependable than the old, that the failure of several flights was due to insufficient financing. and for the most part may be considered absolutely reliable. As Frankly, had I personally been able to raise sufficient capital, our I write, a motor of nearly two thousand horse-power weighing flight could have been made as early as 192 1. So few of us who twelve hundred pounds is being perfected. fly possess the Midas touch. The ability to finance is, then, a Another great development of the last four years has been the first consideration in measuring the ability of the aspiring ocean advance in stream-lining—what we call "cleaning up" the ship. flyer. For instance, the motor cowling designed by the National Ad- Conceding that ample capital is available, the competence of visory Committee for Aeronautics, the "pants" for the landing the pilot then receives its true test. What plane, what motor, wheels, the retractable landing gear, the refinements, in short, what instruments and accessories will he select? The flyer who of many kinds to reduce resistance to the wind have increased takes the salesman's word for such things is foredoomed to fail- flying speed of airplanes from twenty to fifty percent with no ure. He, personally, must know. He must possess that technical appreciable increase in weight. knowledge that will permit him to pass judgment by experience, The third achievement, particularly as it affects transoceanic and by practical tests. When selection has been made on that flying, is the development of radio direction control and other basis, then the work begins. Not only must each detail receive instruments to make possible flying and landing when blinded a final check, but also he must know the function of every part of by weather. his plane and engine. Any possible source of failure should thus For a long flight, the cruising speed of the Columbia was be anticipated. ninety-five miles an hour, although with the help at times of a About two hundred miles out on our trans-Atlantic flight, we tail wind we averaged over one hundred miles an hour. Today, encountered what might, without forethought, have easily spelled with the major advances outlined above, it would be possible to disaster. The vibration of the motor (Continued on page 40)

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me $50,000 to build a plane

LjT and fproperly equip it and I will *J fly it from New York to France, non-stop, carrying a pay load of from five hundred to a thousand pounds, and will arrive at my destination in less than twenty-four hours. I will disregard the weather in starting and will leave on an agreed day, at an agreed hour, with the date selected at random in advance."

Clarence Cbamberlin as a student aviator in the Army Balloon Service in the war, before he turned to airplanes. With him is his sister, Ethyl, noiv Mrs. Max Moffat

MAY, 193 — JIDVICE CAN YO U TAKE IT or LET IT ALONE? Decorations by Harry Townsend,

)W do you stand on And it followed quite naturally that f—j advice? Some people pretty soon I was sales manager for £ g° around asking for the cement division of the company, other people's opinions went with this division when it be- and then act contrary to those came a separate corporation, and opinions. And some people take eventually was given more and more stock tips from furnace tenders and responsibility in it. manicurists. Most of us can look My natural inclination, you see, is back on two or a dozen times when, to accept advice which savors of on someone's sayso, we have done novelty and turn down advice of the thing we ought not to have done ultra-conservative type. Many of or failed to do the thing we ought to the moves that have turned out have done. So the Monthly asked best for me have followed advice four business men of wide reputation that I received enthusiastically. So how much importance they place in now, when someone comes to me advice. There's good advice for with advice, I make an effort— if everybody in their answers. effort is needed—to keep myself receptive to it. I try to be just as en- By B. F. Affleck, President thusiastic in my first reception as if Universal Atlas Cement Co. it were an idea of which I was the IT IS pretty hard to say just when proud parent. I take advice and when I don't. But as soon as I have thought up all Sometimes, I daresay, I refuse advice these that I can, I ask myself, which would be extremely valuable "Why not?" There are always some if I accepted and acted upon it. reasons against any advice. I bring And I know—in fact, I can prove! up every objection I can think of. I that I have accepted and acted on a try to prove that the idea is against good deal of advice which has brought all the laws of nature or of economics. me gold bricks of many descriptions. If I can't, I am likely to say, "Let's So much, alas, depends on how I am try it out." feeling that day, and on whether I Maybe the tryout proves it won't like the way that the giver of advice work. But enough of these pieces of parts his hair. In other words, a good advice do work out so that the ad- salesman can sometimes give me vantage is, in my experience, all on poor advice and make me like it, the side of taking advice—if not where a poor salesman fails to con- whole, then at least enough of it to vince me of the merits of the far better give it a trial if it sounds reasonable. advice that he is urging. Which is, of If a man does not immediately dive course, a confession of my own off the end of the pier, but first tries weakness. the water with his toe, he is not so Most of the time, however, I try to likely to get a cold shock. And he follow a definite technique in listening will get a refreshing swim. to advice and making up my mind By Alfred Kauffman, President whether or not to act on it. This tech- Go West, Link-Belt Company nique happens to fit my own habits of mind and emotion. Perhaps it would 'You.ng Mart J^JORE time seems to be wasted be all wrong for many other people. needlessly listening to advice Now it happens that I like novel- from people unequipped to give it ties, instead of viewing them with than in most forms of human activity. suspicion the moment they heave into sight. So when someone Xot that ad vice is to be decried ; woe to the man who considers him- comes to me with a piece of advice about, let us say, a new idea or self so wise that he needs none. Weall get about the average man's a new product for our company to make, or anything of this allotment of advice offered in good faith and listened to in the general sort, my natural tendency is at first to get just as enthusi- same way. And I go out of my way frequently to ask advice from astic as he is. In fact, I suppose that this natural tendency of someone who has experience or specialized knowledge or common mine is responsible for shaping my whole business life. For when sense that deserves my respect because it surpasses my own. the Illinois Steel Company, for which I was salesman at the St. But take this example. An executive at an out-of-town plant Louis branch thirty-five years ago, sent out a notice that they has been in charge of one line of products, among his many re- were making a little cement and would be glad to have their sponsibilities. Of late he has been advising that we drop the line. salesmen take orders, I pitched in and began selling some. Folks Certainly it is not profitable right now. But it happens that my told me this was a wild-eyed venture, they advised me to keep on experience in our business tells me that this particular line of selling steel and not to split my efforts to include this new cement goods can be expanded in sales and can contribute a good profit But cement in those days was a novelty, so I bore down on it. to the firm. Someone could take over that line for six months or

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a year and make it a star performer. At one time I was advised by a So this advice is not being taken. medical friend, in whom I had con- We are not going to drop this line. fidence, that it would be good for

On the other hand, there recently me to have an outdoor hobby. I [e arose a problem of management thought I might well take up golf inside the company. It was tre- or some similar form of outdoor mendously serious in its possible recreation, but these did not appeal effects on our executives, and I to me. However, I soon found my- talked it over with most of them in self thinking about acquiring a advance. They were almost unani- country place. This led to such a mously against the idea—which was place. On it I have a herd of Tog- rather to be expected. Their own genburg goats, which give me great experience did not go back quite so pleasure and satisfaction. At the far as mine, and some of the facts same time, this hobby has en- in our company history have not couraged me to get out of doors a had the chance to impress them- great deal and thus has been of real selves on these younger associates benefit to me. as strongly as on those of us who My whole business life has been have lived through them. tremendously influenced by advice When all of them had been heard of friends at one turning point nine- I was still almost sure that they teen years ago. In iqi 2 I was hap- were judging on inadequate infor- pily situated with the Falk Com- mation. But it would not have pany of Milwaukee. Then Allis- been good judgment to go against Chalmers Company went into re- them single-handed under the cir- ceivership; I was not connected cumstances. The chairman of our with the company, and I was offered company, Charles Piez, started as a the position of receiver. My own draftsman many years ago and has inclination was to decline with had only the one employer except thanks. I was not looking for a for government work during the change and had every reason to sup- war. His advice agreed with my pose I should stay with our own judgment, and because of his longer business for life. experience he was even more vehe- But here is where advice took a ment on the subject. So his advice hand. My friends urged me to be- prevailed and today all of our execu- come receiver of Allis-Chalmers. I tives say they are glad that it did. appreciated that their advice came There are, in any important set of from sincere, disinterested motives. circumstances, advisers on opposite Moreover, these men were able to sides of the question. So the advisee take a broad and intelligent view of is bound to reject one side. the situation. So, against my own When contract bridge began to inclination, I took their advice. take the place of auction, four of us When my receivership was con- went to a teacher for lessons. We cluded I was elected president of the got along fine for a while, but pres- company and have remained in this ently w7 e had to give it up. So much position. The experience turned advice was coming from the teacher out to be very pleasant and satis- that it wr as confusing, and the factory in many ways. teacher, despite repeated requests, Unfortunately, I have not always apparently could not come to the taken advice of the same sound sort. request that the advice be confined During the early years of my con- to the major points of the game. nection with Allis-Chalmers, one of There was only one thing left to do our directors was also a prominent —give up the class and learn the rest director of a rather young business of the game by the more leisurely known as General Motors Corpora- and more expensive method of get- tion. General Motors stock was ting it from friends in actual play. then selling around thirty-one dol- But that teacher typifies one of the basic faults of the whole lars a share, and he advised me to buy a lot of it at the market system of advice under which we all move. For if the advice had price. He admitted that he did not know what the stock's future been a little less profusely extended, we should still be getting the would be, but he had an intelligent comprehension of the com- benefit of the otherwise excellent instruction—and the teacher pany's existing situation and prospects. would still be getting our weekly tuition fees. As it is, we all lose. I acted on his advice—with one important exception. I placed an order for a very large block of the stock, offering several dollars price at which it was then selling. The stock never went By Otto H. Falk, President below the as low as my bid, with the result that I did not purchase any. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company Had I accepted his advice, and bought that block of stock at the THE answers to two questions which I ask myself guide me in market price, my profits by now would have amounted to several taking advice or rejecting it. First, is the person honest in millions of dollars. giving advice? Second, does he know what he is talking about? It is always necessary to be sure that the person offering advice By Edward A. Filene, President is doing so from an unselfish and disinterested standpoint. Even Win. Filene 's Sons Company if he is not, his advice may still be worth taking. It depends on is an expert on the subject in whether he is moved primarily by selfish motives rather than by YES—if the giver of the advice the purpose of giving me sound advice. question and if his experience and general success in life make Obviously, it is important that the adviser be qualified to give me have confidence in his straight thinking. this advice. His unselfishness is valueless unless he is in position No—if there is nothing about the giver of advice that makes to understand the whole situation sufficiently to make his recom- me have confidence in his ability to give good advice. mendation worth while and more than a mere opinion. Probably, on the whole, there is more (Continued on page 61)

MAY. 193 13 EXIT the SLUM

Like the Old Gray Mare , Newltbrk's East Side Ain't What She Used to Be By William EDeegan Tenement House Commissioner, City ofNew York,

/T HAD been getting under my skin every time I saw a along. He said he would be glad to as he had not been in the movie or read a book in which the lower East Side of East Side since the war. New York was used as a handy symbol for the slum and all We were driving up Cherry Street, busy talking, when my that is unhealthy and bad in American city life. A legend friend broke off with a question: has more lives than a cat, and particularly a legend based on some "Didn't you say you were going to the East Side?"

sixty or seventy years of notorious fact , such as the legend of the "Certainly. Isn't Cherry Street East Side enough for you?" East Side. But I did not realize this until lately, and, as I say, "This Cherry Street?" resented seeing the Bowery represented as a string of underworld "It is. You didn't take it for Park Avenue?" dance halls and dives, which it hasn't been for thirty years, and My friend took another look around. "No," he replied. "And the East Side in general as a babel of tongues and teeming tene- I didn't take it for Cherry Street. Where are the people? Where ments, which it hasn't been for ten or twelve years. It was time, are the push-carts and the kids?" I thought, that Hollywood and the rest of the country knew this. Obviously they were gone. And it was not Cherry Street I now appreciate that I was projecting my disapproval at too alone that had come within the scope of this transformation. long range. A week ago a friend and fellow-Legionnaire, living The intersecting thoroughfares—Rutgers, Jefferson, Clinton, right here in New York, was driving about with me when I had Scammel and all the others—were the same. My friend had to make an official call on the East Side. I asked him to come carried these streets in memory as swarming so thickly with

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Teeming with

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manity to the ultimate square foot, Orchard Street, a typical East Side ar- tery, looked in

the year before the World War began much as

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Some of the push- carts remain, but in general Or- chard Street today takes its -pattern from the great open spaces further west.

And it's not all due to the fact that there are two hundred thousand fewer people thereabouts

people that one could hardly drive through them, speaking every walked off. The holders of mortgages often hesitate to foreclose. dialect under the sun and boiling in and out of smelly tenements They could not get their money back by a forced sale at this time, that gave an impression of strangely symmetrical ant-hills. That and would have a white elephant on their hands besides. More was the East Side as recently as ten years ago. To one who has than one property owner has walked into my office and laid his not visited the East Side in that time the change that has come deed on my desk rather than fireproof a wall, renew the plumbing over this historic couple of square miles is striking. My friend or do something else to keep in line with the laws I am required to said it gave him the feeling of prowling about the interior of a enforce. Fifteen years ago these very houses were probably deserted theater. packed to the roofs, with beds occupied in shifts, night and day. He exaggerated a little, I think. The East Side is not deserted, but streets once as thronged and clamorous as any in the world THIS situation creates problems of its own, not the least of have become as quiet as the Bronx or outlying Brooklyn. And which is the increased fire hazard. Last year I made a survey the people who remain speak English. Between 1920 and 1930 of the district to see what could be done to meet this, and among the East Side lost something like forty percent of its population, other things ordered the removal of pigeons from tenement roofs. or, I believe, around 200,000. The great human hive that intro- Nothing I have done as Tenement House Commissioner of New duced the word slum into the American vocabulary is a thing of York City has created such a commotion. Indignant letters came the past. from all parts of the United States. Every virtue of the pigeon The curtailment of immigration, the labors of social workers, of was extolled, including his value to the army and the fact that law-makers and their administrative assistants have brought an in the Argonne pigeons helped to save the Lost Battalion, which, acceptance of normal American standards of living to the con- as you may recall, was a home-town outfit. With the storm at its gested regions of our cities which has forever abolished the old- height I was haled, on a moment's notice, before the National time slum. The great improvement that has been made since the Association of Pigeon Fanciers, which happened to be meeting in war will be permanent. I am assured of that when I see ground New York. that was gained during years of prosperity held in these times of I sketched for them the condition of affairs on the East Side. economic stringency which have resulted in a distressing—and Owing to a boom in the squab market the pigeon population had futile—migration to the cities. not decreased any. The raising of the birds had become a fad, In these days when most of us demand a dollar's worth for a especially among the Italian boys. They built elaborate coops dollar spent we find housing accommodations which once shel- of every kind of inflammable material imaginable and often locked tered nearly 200,000 people vacant on the East Side because those fire doors leading to the roofs to protect their flocks from rival who once inhabited them prefer to pay more to live elsewhere. fanciers. The sanitary problem was a serious one, aside from From point of accessibility the East Side is a desirable residence the risk of fire. Fortunately I was able to convince the Associ- district. Rentals there are the cheapest in New York. Tene- ation of the wisdom of my action, but I am afraid that many good ments that were filled from cellar to garret for seventy years may people about the country still regard me as a hard-hearted be had for from five to six dollars per room per month. Some may martinet who has forgotten his own boyhood. be had for nothing, in fact. There are hundreds of abandoned The exodus from the East Side seems to be at an end. Indeed, houses, some of them utterly unclaimed. The owners, unable or people are returning—but not to the crowded, airless tenements unwilling to meet the interest on their mortgages, have simply of yore. They are going to the new (Continued on page 44)

MAY, 193 — — BEDSIDE STORIES By John Palmer Cumming

zterans Bureau Illustrations AV by Hospital Provides Hubert Mathieu the Setting for These SMITH has been my room- missed the telling of it to ye? Why, the leetle Tense Little rIGEmate for weeks. He awakens me Dramas, booger's been dead two days. But we're with a rich Irish and western Through All of JVhich a-givin' him a han'some buryin', boy-ee, brogue. what I mean, a hansomc burvin'!" "Shur-r-r-re, boy-ee, an' will ye look at Runs the Golden Thread them mountains! I'm fer tellin' ye that the HEDDY ADAMS is a bull-headed, high- green grass is growin' under them snows, an' of High Courage strung, hard-boiled roughneck. He it's a-ticklin' of me feet 'til it rises up to me has been wandering in and out of hospitals knees in me sleep." and speakeasies ever since the war. There are Angora chaps and silver-spurred, high-heeled cowboy There were such things as Methodist Sunday school classes and boots in Tiger's locker. Also, there are eleven hospital A. W. 0. Epworth League meetings in Heddy's pre-war record of good be- L.'s to Tiger's credit in eleven years. Eleven good-natured, happy- havior. But the taste of red "vin blam" and service in a hard- go-lucky absences that are Tiger's annual answer to the lure of boiled longshoremen's outfit at Le Havre gave him an insatiable spring. Always he hits for the Colorado mountains; and always thirst for life that was wild, raw, free and rough. the long arm of the Veterans Bureau has brought him back for They say that ships, unloading at Le Havre, had a peculiar examinations and enforced hospitalization; or, rather, as Tiger habit of dropping such things as railroad locomotives, revolving says, not exactly enforced, but "No tickee—no laundry; no come derricks, I-beams and 12x12 timbers on Heddy's head. Stitches back—no checkee." So Tiger, with a tiger's streak and strength, here and there had patched him up, but when they let him out of always comes back, always goes again. service at Camp Merritt, he was the wildest, liquor-drinking, Not so many days ago, they stuck a needle in Tiger's spine and fist-fighting he-man on the lot. injected the resultant serum into a laboratory guinea pig. If that Once, in his highly-colored, variegated rambles, he made a dive guinea pig dies, Tiger has tuberculosis of the spine. After that for a freight train in the railroad yards of Denver, Colorado. He well landed just behind the tender, but his foot slipped and he fell to "An 'ows me little guinea pig this mornin'?" he asks the doctor. the road-bed between the rails. The engine gathered speed and "An' is he eatin' well, an' is he pert and saucy as a guinea pig rushed its forty cars above him. should ought to be?" They picked him up with another scratch across the back of his "Sure!" says Doctor O'Brian. "An' he's the fattest, spryest, skull and a wow of a nick in his side. Instead of sending him to the perkest leetle peeg in the pen!" Denver City Hospital, his army discharge indicated his rights to So, Tiger feels the itch of the green grass growing up between treatment at the army hospital at Fitzsimons. The ambulance his toes, wanders out to his bath with a towel across his arm, made the nine-mile trip and brought meets a nurse in the hall, and it's "Well, well, an' good mornin' to him in as limp as a rag and still uncon- ye, Missus Glidden, an' did ye see me this mornin'? Shure, an' scious. The doctors said they could ye must of been a seein' of me, Missus Glidden, I was packin' of have taken him completely apart and me things an' cuttin' 'cross the green grass to me mountains!" put him together again without an And so he goes. "Oh, boy-ee," he says to me, "an' will ye be anesthetic. givin' me a shake of ye little mit through the window when I'm Heddy's day was done. Everybody a leavin' of ye?" knew it and waited in that half-expect- A week has passed. Today the Negro orderlies are moving ant feverish state that precedes the final news. Doctors told the Tiger's locker and his personal things to a new bunk upstairs on nurses that it was a question of minutes. A special orderly, a big, the roof with the spinal cases. And it is Tiger himself who follows green buck private was stationed at the door of Heddy's room to in his bathrobe with his ditty bag over his shoulder. And as he report the least sign of Heddy's passing. goes, he is sticking his head into every Heddy lay back in his bunk, a bundle of bandages, his mouth door along the ward. open, his eyes half-glazed with the stare of death. There was a "Shure," he shouts at the bed-fast queer, husky rattle in his throat. The orderly stirred. He was faces there, "an' what'd I tell ye? I'm new on the job. a leavin' fer me mountains with the "Hey, buck," he whispered to a passing fellow worker, "ain't green grass growin' under me feet an that what you call the death rattle?" a-ticklin' of me knees. Don't you worry, The orderly listened for a moment and whispered. "Sh, that's boy-ee. Some day you'll be going, too!" it! I'll get the nurse." And, now, he has told them all good-bye, but he is back in our Heddy Adams and his bandages stirred. His eyes opened upon old room again for a razor he forgot. the two soldiers at the door. His jaws snapped shut. "Well, good-bye, boy-ee," he says again, "an' be a good-un, "For cripes sake," he snapped, "if I can't do my dyin' in peace, will ye? An' will ye l'arn ye-self to sleep wit yer mouth shet? Ye damned if I'll do it at all." snore like the divvil hisself." He didn't. That was three years ago and now Heddy is back at Then, I remember the laboratory. "Sav, Tige, how's the guinea Fitzsimons, over on "Upper East," the surgical ward. They are pig?" to take his tonsils out tomorrow and he is as white as a sheet and "Shure, boy-ee, and didn't ye know? D'ye mean to say I shaking like a leaf.

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This time, he says, he's afraid he won't pull through.

IIGGETT'S right leg was J gone for good. They had to carry him around. The leg was still there, but it was as heavy as a ton of brick and just about as useless as a suit of underwear would be to Joe Givins. But Joe's story is one we are saving up for some Sunday afternoon. It seems that a Base Hospital missed one little shaggy, sharp-edged piece of shrapnel in Liggett 's hip. Through all these years, that souvenir de la guerre had been eating its "Calm blue eyes and way deeper and deeper light hair of thin-spun into Liggett 's thigh and gold, as lovely as a pic- then without warning it ture. I watched her had struck and killed a coming over to the hos- nerve. pital every morning So Bessie was sitting in a chair with Thelma, their bright eyed little girl, and Bob was rolling himself about the room and talking to the second-hand furniture man. They were selling out. The Veterans Bureau was sending an ambulance for Bob Liggett that very afternoon. It's an old story in a Veterans Hospital, this shifting of patients and personnel, and everybody gets used to it after a while. Doctors and nurses come and go. patients are transferred to another hospital in another part of the United States, most of them never again to swim within our ken; but occasionally one like Tige Smith getting back to the same old hospital or meeting up with a buddy at some far-off medical institution that comes under Washington's jurisdiction. So Liggett was going away and the man who gives you cash for what you have was going over found thoughts back of a childish tear, and who knows what for- the possessions. bearance has been brought into play before the actual breaking "And what did you pay for this?" Sometimes down of childish resistance and those tears rolling down the cheek. the man pointed at a table, or a rug, at a table- But Thelma wasn't crying. Mother was afraid, though, that lamp, or a set of blue-enameled dishes. Always, at any moment the childish emotions would give way in a the man jotted an item in his note book and torrent of grief. She remembered in particular that time when named a price. Bob Liggett nodded his head at the doll which Thelma had broken was taken away from her to even- figure. Everything went. The chintz cur- be mended. That had been a trying experience for them all. So tains, the bedroom set, the books, Bessie's vanity when the man picked up the breakfast set and put it near the table and manicure set, Bob's rifle and his hunting door with the other articles that were to be taken away, mother clothes. And there was Thelma's breakfast set, a was ready with: baby's table and a chair. Thelma was very brave "You won't need it, dear, at grandma's. She has a lot of about it all. Possibly she had come to realize that things that you can play with." mother was doing the best she could with a very difficult situ- But Thelma, if her heart was breaking, said never a word. She ation, and that poor daddy was bearing pain for a long, long time just looked on in quiet, childish wonder. of the sort that she had experienced that time she bumped up "And what did you pay for that?" Once more a price, an against the stove. The psychologists can tell us a good deal offer, a nod of the head in acceptance. about the behavior of children, but who can measure the pro- The last item was listed. The {Continued on page 46)

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By Oscar of Cartoons by

practice the rule that the guest is always right. If his critics could have appreciated the whole meaning of that policy they would have been even more skeptical of the success of his venture. In those days that policy meant catering to the tastes, eccen- tricities and notions of five hundred hotel guests. And no- where were the implications of absolutely pleasing each guest more colorfully brought to a focus than in providing good cheer in food and drink. Prohibition chopped off half of the problem, yet made the remaining half no easier, nor as easy. The Waldorf has boasted such chefs as Eugene Thomann,

None of the average There is a rigid rule against man s opinions are more bringing a water bottle from decided than those that another table rather than a concern food' freshly filled one from the serving gantry" /N ONE respect the appreciative guest of a hotel is like a good baseball fan. He has his opinions, and he has them because he is so interested. And none of his opinions are more decided than those that concern food. What would he not do if he had the management of the place! In most cases he would serve only the best of really good, plain, home cooking. He prefers that kind himself, and he has observed that most others also prefer it. Yet it is doubtful if he would be any more successful in the management of a restaurant than in the management of his favorite baseball team. If he failed it would not be because of the wrongness of his theory. The palate's keenest delights are in dishes to which it is accustomed. They are like old friends. Sauces bearing the names of the great culinary masters may add a new interest, Xavier Kriesmeier and Rene Anjard. And it can lay claim to but a good mushroom sauce does not atone for a tough steak. its share of justly famed specialties—chicken a la King, lobster And a hungry man who shuts his eyes and points at something Newburg, croquette Gadski, W'aldorf salad. But the real foun- on a menu printed in French does not like to be told that the dation of the fame of the Waldorf's cuisine was in none of these orchestra is playing it. specialties so much as in the discovering of individual tastes, There were skeptics who could not and then in exactly suiting them. appreciate the vision of George C. Celebrities—are easy to please. It is the inexperienced Boldt, under whose guidance the Wal- who are sometimes hard to please. When King Albert dorf became a great hotel. When it and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians were guests of the was first built they called it "Boldt's r Waldorf they ordered from the regular bill of fare. On O J> folly." It was thirteen stories high. h Wit the many occasions that Madame Schumann-Heink has 1 Later it was enlarged to include the M been a guest at the Waldorf she has always preferred the John Jacob Astor mansion, and then plainer dishes—one of her favorites is schweinknochen the m Taft dined at the became Waldorf-Astoria. What und sauerkraut. When Chief Justice would those skeptics of 1893 sav if Waldorf he always wanted and got a baked apple for they could see the new Waldorf-As- dessert. toria of forty-seven floors and twenty- m Well I recall one of the first distinguished visitors from two hundred rooms? abroad whom the Waldorf had the honor of entertaining, Yet it was not its the Chinese viceroy, Li Hung Chang. He came in the thirteen floors, tower- Jm August following the hotel's opening. Among the pieces ing as they may have included in his luggage were many strong metal-bound seemed in that day, chests and stout hampers. They contained dried sharks' which gave the Waldorf fins, birds' nests, his favorite teas and many other food its first start toward delicacies and staples which long experience had taught world fame. Rather it him how to appreciate. In his retinue were three cooks, was Mr. Boldt's great who were assigned to a corner in the Waldorf kitchen. ability as a hotel man. How simple the hotel business would be if every guest The hotel was preemi- were a Li Hung Chang! Not only did he bring his own nent because of its size food and cooks, but even his favorite chair, upholstered and elaborateness of in imperial red. Never was there such a guest as Li appointment. But even Hung Chang. Never, perhaps, will there ever be such a more exceptional was one as he again. Mr. Boldt's conception But he was unusual not alone because he brought all "A Southerner thinks a real Sunday of the obligation of a of — these things, but also because he knew so well what he hotel to its guests. He breakfast in terms of waffles waffles and wanted. With most guests, the first thing that must be laid down and put into fried chicken" done is to discover their wants. Then the problem is to

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supply those wants—service, food, or whatever it may be—and, what is often most difficult of all, to supply them at the time they are wanted. Does such a formula seem easy to carry out? I can assure you that it has not always been easy to carry it out at the Waldorf. I cannot see how, under any conditions, it could be very easy to carry out as it should be carried out. With only a few guests the difficulties might not be so great as with many. But with such a plan of hospitality in effect the few would soon become the

many. Attending to everyone's wants at the Waldorf made six- 'The palate ' s keenest teen hours seem all too short for most of the days of the maitre delights are in dishes to d'hotel. which it is accustomed'

"Coffee means one rare," "medium well done." The guest is thinking perhaps of the thing to an American. helping he had at a famous old tavern in London. It was just It means something such a thickness. It was in its natural juice. Or there was entirely different to a thickened gravy. Or, for that matter, he may have a picture in Frenchman" his mind of the slice he likes best when his wife serves it at home. The waiter, of course, is not a mind reader. What is he to do? His problem is not easy. Unfortunately a great many Americans when they sit down to eat are in a hurry. They are tense. The waiter must judge whether an adroit question or two may be in order. Quite often the guest does not wish to be bothered. If such is the case about all the waiter can do is to use his best judgment. It is not often that the guest who wants to get his order- ing quickly over with finds fault with the food that he receives. Just as surely, however, it is only luck if what he gets pleases him as much as it might. As it pertains to food, such a plan boils down to almost the It is the waiter's business to learn the preferences of such guests same problem as supplying the best in home cooking. But there by observation. It was because the waiters at the Waldorf made are added complications, of course, in the fact that nearly every it their business to learn by observation in this way that casual guest comes from a different home. Five thousand meals were guests so often became regular patrons. Thus it was that many served daily at the old Waldorf. Chief Justice Taft wanted his patrons were in reality provided with the food that they liked baked apple. He did not have to ask for it. It is in such details best in spite of themselves. The whole staff conspired, as it were, as this that the waiter helps the chef. By close observation he to bring* this about. Often, had the guest but known it, a random can quickly learn the preferences of the regular patron, and ex- remark in the elevator, relayed by a bell boy to the maitre perience teaches him how to gauge the preferences of new comers. d'hotel, and so to the head waiter, supplied the clue. Coffee means one thing to an American. It means something This was considered the acme of good service at the Waldorf: entirely different to a Frenchman. A Southerner thinks of a real discovering the guest's wants. Sunday breakfast in terms of waffles—waffles and chicken, Promptness of service is of course perhaps. He means fried chicken. The Northerner, on the other always important. Often the hand, is more likely to associate waffles with afternoon tea or guest who is in a hurry forgets that light lunch. If chicken is to be in- the special dish which he orders is cluded he rather assumes that it is to one that necessarily requires some be creamed. Griddle cakes and sau- time in preparation. Usually the sage come closer to the Northerner's experienced waiter is able to tell favorite Sunday morning breakfast. from the guest's manner if he ap- If he comes from Chicago he calls preciates the necessity of the delay. them wheat cakes, if from the far It is as bad taste for the waiter to West flapjacks. remind unnecessarily as it is care- Seldom do any two individuals less for him to fail to do so under have just the same ideas about any other conditions. given dish. Yet the highest standard Much of the guest's pleasure de- of entertaining requires that every pends upon the grace with which guest be made to feel that he is the he is served, the manner of the only guest. What a problem that waiter, the manners of the other creates for the host in providing waiters who are present. The food ! Consider what a difficult mat- 'Waiters were waiters at the Waldorf were es- ter it is for even the most experienced always warn- pecially warned against craning of waiters, under their necks to observe how large the direction of the against craning most discerning of head waiters, to the tip might be that a fellow their necks to appreciate with exactitude the cut waiter was receiving. There was see how largi of roast sirloin of beef that will satisfy a rigid rule against bringing a tip the guest's innermost desires. The a fellow water bottle from another table guest's instructions, all too often, are waiter was re- rather than a freshly filled one of the briefest—"rare," "medium ceiving' from the (Continued on page j6)

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The trans-port America before she put on her war paint. She ivas the palatial German liner Amerika when the British forced her internment in this country with other vessels. German crews tried to disable these ships when America entered the war, but, quickly repaired, many of them ivere used as transports (By Frederick (Palmer

^)OLDIERS who look back to their part as compressed On October 8th, sixteen days before Caporetto, Colonel \ atoms in crowded transports and French horsecars, and Slocum, our military attache in London, said in a long cable- 1 all others who drilled and worked at home as the bandied, gram: riven pawns of the nation's imperious haste in 1918, "In my opinion, Haig's recent advance, if he could gain have good reason to respect the ability of Marshal Eric von Passchendaele and the heights north of it as well as the ridge Ludendorff, master tactician of the German army under the [which was already in his possession], would hold the last re- counsel of Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. maining high ground on an advance toward America's had been the spectator's suspense the east and Brussels over the Belgian plain. at the end of August, 1914. Then the German His left flank will then be protected from the right was swinging toward Paris, the center Germans attacking from the plain below. driving toward the Marne, and the left sweep- . . . From Haig's position today on the ing down from the Vosges. But America's heights, the city of Bruges thirty miles away was to be the suspense of participants in the is visible." To straighten their lines the war at the end of October, 191 7. Then the pins, Germans might have to withdraw from the which long had had a way of stepping back great city of Lille, and be obliged "to give and forth for distances hardly visible on the up the submarine bases at Zeebrugge and per- map, were again in rapid movement, leaving haps Ostend . . . The results so far are bound broad spaces of Allied territory between to be very depressing to the morale of the yesterday's front and today's. Our troops first German troops and to public opinion, which entered the trenches in France just as Italy German authorities have for some time found was suffering the greatest disaster inflicted it necessary to stimulate by increasing sug- upon any combatant in the war in so brief a gestions of the prospect of an early peace." time. "not be . . . Any withdrawal which could At Caporetto on October 24th Ludendorff either concealed or explained away might had recovered the element of surprise with have a seriously disastrous effect in Germany, Edivard N. Hurley, head a thunderbolt out of a blue sky when the of especially in view of the hardships of the ap- dispatches from Europe that came to Secre- the United States Shipping proaching winter. The effect on the Allies, tary Baker's desk were promising fair weather Board, in charge of "the and especially on the British, is proportion- for the Allies. bridge to France ately encouraging, and the buoyancy of public

The disaster of Caporetto, which late in 1917 very nearly put Italy out of the war, made the little village of Rapallo near Genoa for the moment one of the most important places in the world, as Allied statesmen and military commanders gathered to seek measures to build up Italian morale. Five British and jive French divisions had been sent to the Italian from the western front to help hold the Austrians in check. A general view of Rapallo is shown

feeling throughout this country [Britain] is already marked." ress of her own war program. The British, who had enormous Eleven days before Caporetto, Pershing had reported by shipping resources and who were only across the Channel from cable on October 15th, "Persistent reports of an offensive by the front, had not brought the new army to bear in a major Germany and Austria against Italy. Reports not credited." offensive until the Somme in the summer of 1916, two years That is, the Allied intelligence services did not credit them. after the war began, and had not brought its full power to bear All the summer Germany had been on the defensive on the until the third year of the war. A nation three thousand miles Western front, a general defensive which, as part of the German from the front, with slight shipping resources to face submarine system, included, of course, local counter-attacks. losses, must depend on the Allies through 191 7 and early 1018 Two days before Caporetto, there was more good news from to hold the Western front while we formed our divisions at both the British and French fronts. The British part home. In the summer of 191 8 the ships we were build- in this concerted action was further pressure in ing would transport them and their supplies for train- Flanders. And Petain, after spending the summer ing behind the wall of the trenches in preparation for in reviving the French army, resumed the offensive. preliminary action of importance in the summer and

He had pinched the Laffaux salient with slight losses fall of 19 1 8, and to be ready to strike with such force for the French and heavy losses for the enemy; and in 1919 that the decision could not be in doubt. So then in his line of advance from Craonne to Laffaux it had been Kitchener's plan in 1914, in his training had taken a mortally contested position which had program and orders for munitions, to strike achieved fame in common with Ypres and the decisive blow in 191 7. But then he Verdun among the names on the bat- could not foresee the collapse of Russia as tle map. The Chemin des Dames, that coincident with the Passchendaele offen- ridge soaked with the blood of French sive. For, I repeat, all these things must and German dead, was once more in be repeatedly set down if America's part, French hands. its merits and its defects, are to rise clearly Major General Sir Edmund Allenby out of the fog of war. was advancing on Jerusalem in his cam- "The load was off my chest," as Lu- paign in the Holy Land, which had the dendorff said about Russia. What turn appeal of a crusade against the infidel. the chaos of that vast reservoir of man- Turkey's plan to recover fabled Bagdad power would take had added its weight from the British had failed. She seemed to his anxiety as the result of the about to collapse. Venizelos was back in pressure of the British with "their ex- power in Greece, which was now seen as traordinary will" against German will. an asset to the Allies, while she rejoiced The aggressive Prussian spirit of Hinden-

in an American loan. Rumania, if we kept burg, the champion of offensive warfare, up our remittances, promised great things grieved over the German sacrifices on the for next year's campaign, while Bulgaria Western front. He was loath to stall on was reported to be weary of her alliance 1 the Western front in order to strike on with the Central Powers. the Italian. Eric von , who con- Altogether, on the 23d of October, the General Ludendorff "If we won a wholesale success we should day before the Caporetto attack, America ceived and put into operation the not succeed in forcing Italy out of alliance had every reason to feel secure in the prog- Caporetto attack with our enemies," he said in his "Out of

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My Life." Therefore, instinct of either seeks the final decision could RFCOiaffTOHTKMS to get the other on the not be won by this ad- flank. Lest there be venture. But he yielded any deflection in 1. That our cdlitary program for the first half of 1918 to the high governing be the despatch to France of 24 divisions, the last to arrive thought from that prin- factor in grand strategy, not later than the month of June; these to be accompanied or ciple, which had held political necessity. preceded by the proportionate number of service of the rsar through the ages, the troops America had not yet German staff studies

declared war on Aus- 2. That the artillery troops precede the: other troops made Hannibal's vic- W l" ~ °t the receive such artillery as tria-Hungary. President ^Cv* r*\ corps, to instruction with tory at Cannae, two -Jto 08 available in France Wilson was courting her jY,v*^*'^-^,p./ y thousand years ago, a

peace. 'vV staff for a separate 7 ,v>- 3< That evory sffort be aude to secure the additional model for instruc- Austrian morale needed tonnage indicated in paragraph 1 of ay despatch 3 0 from tion. stiffening. Cadorna's Paris to the War Department. First, Ludendorff summer drive had would recover the ele- 4. That the Governor, t of the United States concur ir. brought the Italians in the resolution adopted by the Inter-Allied Conference in Pari ment of surprise which front of the last line of by which an Inter-Allied organization is created to handle th superficial opinion was defence before Trieste. accepting as having "Woe betide," said been lost under condi- Hindenburg, "if that tions of modern war- question of shipping "with a view to liberating the greatest city fall . . . Trieste, fare, with its wireless, amount of tonnage possible for the transportation of American

therefore, must be troops", as quoted in. paragraph 7 of my despatch iJo B 10 from scouting planes, and saved." Paris to the ?/ar Department. elaborate spy systems. Another reason for Counter espionage That the very beet -kin obtainable the United States yielding was his faith in should represent ue on that commission. against planes would be Ludendorff, his Chief of mastery of the air at That an exact Staff, that other half of 5. inventory be taken of the capacity of the right time and place. all vessels no;7 in use by the War department and that before the team-mind which sailing a certificate bs required that 3he is loaded to full On the Western front had planned and carried capacity- the enemy had been through the victories forewarned of the loca- 6. That every effort be made to speed up completion of over the Russian hosts. facilities at ports of debarkation in France. This, together tion of each offensive by Ludendorff would put with using fullest capacity of vessels, will, in the opinion the prolonged heavy the German divisions of shipping aen who have inspected these ports, increase in bombardments to bat- effect our present tonnage as now operating by from thirty to on the Western front to fifty per cent. ter in trenches and cut mortal trial, gird their barbed wire before the efforts and skilfully x~ 7. That the EJVIAT AN (the former VATÛXID^ be used as attack began. But these J station Ship at iiresi, if we continue to use that port f or guide them in holding our deep draft transport fleet. All troops from the other had cleared the way back the British and vessels can be berthed on her pending evacuation f rou that only for a certain dis- French from any deci- port. This will greatly hasten the turn around of the rest of tance. The advance tie fle9t. It will avoid the linger of a torrible disaster re- sive gains, as he pre- passed beyond the range sulting from the torpedoing of a vessel carrying 10,000 men. pared for his blow else- of its own protecting where. The Allied view 3. That a careful study be râde of ê relative ad- shell-fire and was ar- that the Germans were vantages of Southampton as the port of debarkation of the rested by the enemy's deep-draft transport fleet. This fleet cannot carry cargo too weak to persist in to 3rest. To Southaiupton it could carry stesl billets to banked up shell, mor- an advance on Petro- aiset our obligations to Fngland for steel used by her in tar, and machine gun filling our Our transports grad only served the order3. other can do the same for fire before a full rupture ranee. concealment of his of the necessary breadth plan. .ju a. That a acre satisfactory and efficient plan for port of the defense line was Meanwhile, the Ger- administration in France be devised. It would seem that achieved. Sensral Atter'cury, assisted by a high-grade t?rair.ul expert man divisions on the Ludendorff planned at each port, could have entire control cf discharge of trans- Eastern front were far '1 ports, troop and cargoes, until men and supplies are deliver- that gas should play a from idle. The master, ed at their destination. further part in warfare who had devised the as a means of recover- 10. That the resolution of the Ministries of iiinitions, supple drive on the long as quoted in paragraph 2 of my despatch Ko, 10, in respect to ing surprise. There ' loose Russian front in "j*^ our supply of artillery a nd ar^cunition for all of our troops would be a diffusion of arriving in France during 1918, be at once accepted with refer- overwhelming clumsy "A gas shells over a wide //v"^ er.ee to every item v days, and incrsasinr *.hs r.uubsr of troope sent via Fnrlond meet changing condi- transport organization. to 30,000 per L.onth. tions. The victors of Only a brief artillery Tannenberg and War- bombardment would saw would demonstrate precede the advance be- in a far greater innova- hind the rolling barrage Secretary Baker s notations on the recommendations of General Tasker tion than minor tactical of shell-fire. The units H. Bliss, Assistant sent early in December, detail that they had not Chief of Staff, from France of the advance should lost their cunning. 1917, after a conference with Allied commanders . Bliss sought twenty- be taught suppleness Attacks on the con- four American divisions in France and detailed the naval arrangements and disciplined and for- tinuous heavily held necessary to get them there tified in spirit for adap- Western front from table initiative. They Switzerland to the should be accompanied Channel must be frontal. All the great Allied offensives there by light artillery as well as machine guns and mortars. Division and the German offensive at Verdun had failed to break through should follow division in quick succession to make progress to elbow room for open warfare. Each had been in principle, continuous. if not quite so in fact at Verdun, caught on either flank in the Far away in the fields of Poland Ludendorff had put his salient of the wedge of its advance. veterans at school in long hours of faithful German industry as When two companies of infantry face each other the natural they were making a new army out of the old, while America

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The Leviathan, whic'h became our greatest transport, steaming down New York bay on one of her post-war Atlantic trips as flagship of the United States Lines. Originally the German liner Vaterland, the Leviathan took over thousands of American soldiers to France

was making a new army out was tottering toward the of the raw under the tutelage fall that disaster precipi- of French and British in- tated. There were strikes. structors in battle tactics The indifference of some which Ludendorff would regiments in suppressing dis- demonstrate to be anti- order amounted to mutiny. quated. So the enemy was sof- The Riga advance was a tened while along two moun- first trial horse for the new tain roads so narrow in system. No Allied officers places that there could be were present with the Rus- movement in only one di- sians at the time to observe rection Ludendorff ad- it or even to learn of its vanced his artillery and existence. Every month the trains, followed by infan- new system was kept secret try, with amazing success in the obscurity of the East- in concealment. Cadorna ern front was a month gained knew there was a concen- over the Allies, who, in turn, tration under way but did would have to learn it from not take it seriously in the intensive drill. The next security of his bastion trial, that of the Italian manned by superior num- front, was to be a progressive bers. experience to prepare the "Tactically, Cadorna way for another long period of seems to have taken no winter training to meet in de- steps," Ludendorff wrote. tail conditions on theWestern "There were five front in the spring of 1018. German divisions Ludendorff had the genius with six Austrian. for taking infinite pains in For the first time the whole material and psy- Italians were to David Lloyd George, Brit- chological range of prepara- meet German ain's ivar time prime minister. tions. German agents were shock battalions. He was attending the Rapallo conducting the same cam- A brief artillery Colonel conference when the American paign to foment unrest be- preparation and Edward mission, headed by Colonel hind the Italian lines that the infantry be- M. House House, reached London they had conducted behind gan the ascent of the Russian. Communist the irregular propaganda fed on discontent under a weak Italian cabinet which heights which

MAY. 193 1 2.3 rose to crests of five thousand feet. Once the Caporetto position The House mission arrived in London to find that many of was won, and Cividale and Udine occupied, the way was open to its eminent hosts were absent. There had been a flight of British the Fruilian plain. At the same time an Austrian army group was and French statesmen as well as generals and army divisions closing in from the Carso on the retreating Italians. "It was a to Italy. Lloyd George, Premier of England, Painleve, the latest race to victory," as LudendorfT put it. Premier of France, Foch, General Sir William Robertson, and Some Italian units which had been infected with red propa- the new Premier of Italy, Orlando, met at Rapallo, a village ganda made practically no resistance. Others were readily de- sixteen miles from Genoa. All the other Allies' prestige and moralized and sought the release of surrender in masses; others all the power they stood for was bound up with the cause of were caught in a merciless trap by the enemy's maneuvers; and Italy, who must realize that her life was at stake. General others fought bravely, gripping and hobbling parts of the ava- Diaz, who had distinguished himself in the retreat, was given lanche. Within a week the command of the Italian armies in the place of Cadorna as Cadorna'sarmy lost two hun- a further incentive to rally their resistance. The Rapallo con- dred thousand prisoners and ference shaped a definite duty for the somewhat vague purpose eighteen hundred guns. Ana of the coming inter-Allied conference in Paris in which the this the Central Powers had Italian disaster had cast America for a part whose importance done in the fourth year of was reflected by the new emergency. the war. It was incredible Austrian morale had risen correspondingly as the Italian had that it could happen, but it fallen. Italy could not be counted upon for a further offensive did happen. in the near future. The thing was to strengthen her defensive Where in early September, will sufficiently to permit the withdrawal of some of the British 191 4, the world was asking and French reinforcements. W'ith the Austrian army holding if Paris could be saved, it the Italian army on the Piave, LudendorfT could summon the was asking in early Novem- German divisions from Italy as well as the Russian front for ber, 191 7, if Venice could be the trial of his new system in a magnificent concentration on saved. The Italians, who had the Western front. bargained with the Allies and thought that their entry THE war-statesman, laboring for co-ordination within his into the war in 1915 would nation, had to deal with his own parliament and the cross- bring immediate victory, currents of home opinions and interests; but when he met Allied might wonder what would statesmen in council he was dealing with the racial emotions have been their position if and interests of other nations which his colleagues reflected. they had been faithful to They could agree among themselves as to a common plan only their alliance with Germany so far as their peoples would follow them. The military com- and Austria. manders served under the statesmen and they, in turn, repre- Hitherto, co-operation sented the clashes of professional army opinion among the Allies. Just as Washington was working its way out of the committee stage, which, under a democracy jdlVf HIM CN0U6H SO and a watchful Congress, must necessarily initiate war preparations, the Allies, after three years of war, had avanced their co-ordination to the committee stage. That is, instead of occasional con- ferences, they were to have a permanent organization or staff Tor working out a unified policy. A meeting of the members of the Council of National Defense or the War Industries Board in Washington, or of the War Cabi- net in England, might be called General DiaZ, who had dis- on short notice by telephone. tinguished himself in the But the gathering of the inter- retreat after Caporetto, suc- Allied conference in Paris was subject to international formali- ceeded Cadorna as head of the ties in relation to the suscepti- Italian army bilities of sixteen nations. They must be amenable to the program between the Allies had been as worked out by the leaders unless simple in action as it had been the plan for the new permanent various in suggestion. Forthright Supreme War Council should be co - operation required defeat. balked. It was not until Novem- When one was hard hit the other ber 29th, four weeks after the hastened to her aid. The most nature of the Italian disaster was notable of such crises had ar- understood, that the conference rived, a staggering crisis. Five met. Present were the represen- French divisions and five British tatives of the nations who up to divisions were immediately rushed that time had declared war Medicine the Kaiser. A cartoon of 1917 in the to Italian support. They reached for against Germany or the Central con- the I'iave in time. America's part New York Tribune. So far as the Kaiser was Powers, namely Great Britain, was in our Red Cross, which was cerned, America s "war preparations" at the time con- France, the United States, Italy, promptly on the scene, generous sisted mainly of sending the Allies munitions and money Japan, Serbia, Belgium, Rumania, with its ample funds, tireless in Greece, Portugal, Montenegro, its aid to stricken soldiers and Brazil, Cuba, Russia, Siam, and refugees. And while the British spared five divisions, they put China. These were to set a common mind and will against the more British will into their pressure in Flanders, finally winning Hindenburg-Ludendorff team mind and will. General Ferdinand the village of Passchendaele, with the honor of the decisive attack Foch was present; but unity of command was far away. Unity to the Canadians. Then they dared a bold offensive at Cambrai, of policy under several commanders was the only practicable goal which was met by an equally bold counter-attack by German as the result of the latest disaster. We had to wait on another divisions which LudendorfT might wish that he had on the Piave disaster to bring unity of command. to improve the opportunity which beckoned to him. On December 3d two important cablegrams were received in 24 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly As the Allies faced a crisis after Caporetto, American draft increments continued to arrive at the camps to be trained for service

in this country and abroad . Most of them had no conception of what military training was like the War Department, one from Pershing which has often been Pershing had to deal; but which was all so trying to the War published, and one from Bliss which has been given less promi- Department as the center of all complaints. Tardieu concluded nence. Their tenor was the same. Their significance will appear by saying that France was today, as she had been for three years, more clearly in the light of a letter which Andre Tardieu, High "supporting the principal effort of our redoubtable enemy," and Commissioner of France, had written in Washington on July 30, that she was "a country which maintains at the maximum of 191 7, to Baker. The letter was an answer to pessimistic rumors power, without hesitation or feebleness, its effort, resources, and and allusions in the press about the state of the French army, will." And then, "It remains only to give the final kick to the which had been inactive for four months. enemy, and in that you (America) will go to aid us." "Our actual effectives in the zone of the armies alone," M. In the period since the letter was written, while the French Tardieu wrote, "represent the maximum attained during the power had been recuperating and ammunition supplies accumu- war. The number is not quite three million, a million more lating, the French had undertaken a single offensive. It had than at the beginning of the war." brilliantly taken the Laffaux salient and Chemin des Dames, He offered figures to show that the average losses for a four with slight losses, just before the Italian disaster. months period during 1915-16 had been under two per cent. Now for the dispatches from Pershing and Bliss, who at the Even in the battles of Charleroi and the Marne in 1914, he said, first session of the inter-Allied conference had talked over the the losses of mobilized effectives had been only 5.41 per cent. situation with Foch, Chief of the French Staff, General Sir France was economically in a very strong position. Of the six William Robertson, Chief of the British Staff, and other com- billions of francs she had received from abroad during the war, manders. Pershing said: she had loaned four to other Allies. "With the apparent total collapse of Russia and the recent Tardieu dwelt on her enormous output of arms and ammuni- success of the Central Powers in Italy German morale is un- tion. She had re-equipped the Belgian, Greek doubtedly much improved and the probability and Siberian armies with artillery. He dwelt of a serious offensive against the Western on the fact that she held five hundred and front is greatly increased. In fact, informa- seventy-four kilometers of front compared to tion indicates German concentration in the one hundred and thirty-eight held by the V'osges, opposite Nancy, and also near the

British. (To this the British would reply that French border . . . The Allies are very weak three-fourths of the line held by the French and we must come to their relief this year. was a tranquil stalemate while all that held by The year after may be too late. It is very the British was active and critical.) He said doubtful if they can hold on until iqiq unless that there were forty-two German divisions we give them a lot of support this year." against the British and eighty-one against the Pershing had reason for alarm aside from the French. (To this the British would reply that general situation. The Yosges mountains were the figures were inexact and shock divisions opposite his own American sector, where, in were against the British while in front of the the grim, sunless winter climate of Lorraine French were largely old reservists or first line he had, as yet, only one division with any troops which were in rest after exhaustion by trench experience. But the French informa- the British summer offensive.) tion that the German blow would come in Tardieu's letter came after the summer's this region was mistaken. Bliss, in turn, said: inactivity of the French, when Petain had "The military situation for 1918 is un- allowed as many as two hundred thousand doubtedly critical and gr; ve. The Chiefs of French soldiers on leave at the same time, as \ Staffs of the armies of the Western front a part of his policy of recovering French J and the representatives of the commanders morale after the spring disaster under Nivelle. Dr. Harry A. Garfield, Presi- in the field at the conference here urge that The letter spoke French pride and resentment dent of Williams College, whom the United States must be prepared to make of any criticism that the French army was President Wilson chose to ra- a great effort as early in the year as possible." wrote in a fought out or that French spirit was falter- tion America s coal Lloyd George on December 2d ing. It carried the usual intimation that one note to Lord Reading, to be shown to Colonel Ally was bearing more than its share of the House: "We shall be hard pressed to hold burden. By this time Baker was habited to the human attitude our own and keep Italy standing during iqt8. Our man power is which prevailed in inter-Allied relations at the expense of har- pretty well exhausted. We can only call up men of 45-50 and boys mony and with which the members of the House mission and of 17. France is done." She wasn't! {Continued on page 50)

MAY. 19; 1 2.5 CAMP Samuel Scoville,Jr.

/T ALL began when we were very young. Three of us, none over twelve, camped out for the first time on a wooded hill in the northwestern corner of Connecticut. During those enchanted weeks we learned to depend upon our own strength and skill for life itself. We made dishes out of birch-bark and beds from pine-boughs and lived on what we caught and shot. Once, I remember, we had to eat a crow and another time a woodchuck. It was a little green heron, however, which brought us back to civilization. Even romance and youth combined could not stomach fried heron. In spite of what were real hardships to those three little boys they learned to know the sheer delight and beauty that life in the open holds for those who dare to live it. The early clue. There were stalactites and stalagmites in it and an under- morning swim, when the whole world was fresh and clean and ground lake—which we discovered by falling into it—and alto- beautiful, the exploring of hidden marshes and lonely mountain- gether we had a most enjoyable time. I remember that once I tops, the campfires under the cold stars and the dreamless sleep stuck fast in a tiny, underground passage and only escaped by beneath scented pines were some of the daily happinesses which leaving my shirt behind. Probably it is there yet. came to them that summer. Then came a year when I first crossed the continent and camped They had adventures, too, which are always the spice of life in the Northwest. We started from a little town on Puget Sound in the open. None of them were very desperate ones yet they and by using a tramp steamer, a pair of broncos and a home-made bulked large to those boys. There was the giant snapping turtle launch belonging to a couple of prospectors, found ourselves at with the hissing, hooked head and shearing jaws that had come last on the shore of a tiny lake in the foot-hills of the Olympic out of the lake to lay her eggs. She weighed thirty-two pounds Mountains, which was full of fish, salmon trout, rainbow trout and provided them with meat for many days. and togue. Then there was the night when they heard the rare and ter- On our trip through the mountains we had a Siwash Indian for rible scream of a red fox on the hill near their tent, one of the a guide. Rainy was his name and he was a good cook and a won- most blood-curdling sounds in all nature. Instantly deciding derful liar. We had five meals a day and how I wish now that I that it was the screech of a panther, the boys heaped the fire high could taste again old Rainy's broiled trout and elk -steaks and and kept guard all night with their weapons ready, to wit, three hear him tell fearsome stories around the camp-fire about jackknives—one broken—and a muzzle-loading shot-gun con- screamers, who wailed in the woods before a great tree fell and taining a charge of bird-shot and two marbles. Many years later Indian devils, beasts of incredible strength and malignancy. in the depths of a Southern swamp I was to hear the scream of a Rainy had a hunting knife with numerous notches on the real panther but it did not thrill me nearly so much as did that handle, each one of which stood— so he told us— for a bear or a apocryphal one among the Connecticut hills. mountain lion killed by him single-handed with said knife. What good times those boys had and how far away it all seems One day as we were following a trail, clambering every now and now. One of them learned then—and never forgot the knowledge then over the trunks of fallen trees some six or eight feet thick, —that sky-air is the real elixir of life. Many years afterwards he Rainy carelessly landed on the back of a black bear who happened bought that hill and built a house there named "Treetop," where to be digging for grubs beside the tree-trunk. We stood still ex- his first tent used to stand overlooking a little glacier lake and pecting to see him add another notch to his knife. now he brings boys and a girl of his own back there every summer There was a crash through the brush like a runaway locomotive to the old camp site. —that was the bear. There was the rush of a racer traveling at Another year and I camped. on a knoll in the Berkshires be- a world-record rate down the trail—that was Rainy. We finally neath a vast white pine, with a lake on one side and a cold, bub- overtook him a mile or so away and convinced him with some bling spring on the other. That summer I learned how to paddle a difficulty that the bear was gone. canoe and how to catch black bass and also how to cook them when caught, by wrapping them in white-oak leaves and burying them in a bed of hickory coals. After an hour I would take them out, done to a turn. The skin and scales would all come off, the IOOKING back over life, I can see camp- entrails would come out and the fish baked in its own juice was fires here there through- delicious. gleaming and That summer we came upon a cave which ran for a mile be- out theyearsin many a lonely and lovely neath the lake and explored it all one summer day with a huge ball of twine fastened about the foot of the hindmost boy as a

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too, nearly went overboard. At the time I almost wished that he had. He said that the merman was only a hair-seal but I had my doubts. Why did it grin at me before it went down? Then came a year when two of us paddled and carried a canoe through a chain of Northern rivers and unnamed waters until we found ourselves at last on the shore of a lonely lake where a pair of loons laughed at dawn and moose fed at dusk on the knotted roots of yellow water lilies. There we pitched our tent on a high, dry bank close to the water with a towering ledge of rock fencing us off from the shore. Every morning we would walk He explained that he had no fear for his own safety but was out on the bole of a dead pine which stretched far out in the lake simply trying to lead the bear away from us so that we might not and dive into sixty feet of clear, jasper-green water with a tingle be injured in the melee, and expressed great disappointment at in its depths like cold fire. How good breakfast used to taste after the bear's cowardly behavior. one of those early appetizers! That summer I learned how to cast a fly and how to walk, and In that camp we spent two happy weeks filled full of little ad- walk and keep on walking when it seemed as though I would die ventures. The very first morning in camp, in the ghostly light on my feet from sheer exhaustion. I had salmon fishing such as which comes just before dawn, I awoke to see a big, blackish I shall never see again and caught sea-bass by night in Puget animal in the tent apparently about to bite off one of my sleep- Sound when the water was afire with phosphorescence and the ing friend's feet, which he had thrust out from'under the blankets. fish seemed fashioned from luminous gold. The thought of it Under the impression that the visitor was a small bear or a wol- brings satisfaction even today. verine, I jumped up to get my gun. Instantly the strange beast One night as Rainy was rowing me back across an arm of the doubled in size and out through the opening of the tent, grunting Sound a head popped out of the water close beside me. It had indignantly, with quills erect, waddled the largest porcupine black hair and eyes and white teeth. I yelled and nearly fell out which I have ever seen. of the boat at the sight while the old Indian laughed so that he, As my companion commended himself very highly as a cook, all the raw labor devolved upon me—and some of it was very raw indeed. I made the beds, cut the wood, washed the dishes and fetched the water. Then every night it was my duty to corner of this country. Each one stands for build a big campfire down on the beach. We would sit in the soft sand with our backs against the overturned canoe and watch the a measure of that joy which can always be fire roar up ten feet high through the windless, frosty air. found in the open and never in the shut." Some of the meals which my friend served on the shore of that lake are among the pleasantest memories of all of my many camps. One evening I went to the spring for water, {Continued on page 38) MAY, 1931 27 The crossroads of the world—the Place de 1' Opera, Paris, with the Opera itself in the right background and the Cafe de la Paix in the center ICI ON PARLE AMERICAINE HARD BOILED SMITH'S The world-wide depression olive drab gendarmes are has brought to Paris Post an gone from the boulevards, and unusual number of marooned those same boulevards, dark or jobless American veterans. in the nights of war, are once The post finds employment for more ablaze with light and them or helps them obtain aid gaiety. The American metrop- from home. Some it must pro- olis of Paris is again a part of vide with transportation back France, and tourists throng its to the States, with the assist- streets. ance of the American Aid So- There are still reminders of ciety. When an expatriated other days, however. There is, veteran falls ill or meets with for example, Paris Post of The an accident, the post finds a American Legion. Alvan F. place for him in a hospital. If Sanborn, a member of the post he dies, the post will try to lo- and for many years Paris cor- cate his relatives in the United respondent of the Boston Eve- States. Many times the outfit ning Transcript, says the post has had entire charge of fu- Children Paris Post members have a merry costume party does more than preserve the of nerals and burials and the set- memories of America's fighting at the end of each school term. The post maintains a school, a tling up of the affairs of men men in France; its peacetime once-a-week affair at which the English language and who have died. activities make it a sort of sec- American history and traditions are taught One of the most serious ond American Embassy. Mr. problems of the post has been Sanborn, who enlisted in the helping children whose Ameri- French Foreign Legion September i, 1014, and fought for several can-born fathers have disappeared since the war. In many cases years in the trenches, sends some facts to prove that Paris Post fathers have been disabled men unable to adapt themselves to the has won prestige among French citizens and American residents difficult after-the-war environment of France. The welfare com- alikc. mittees of the post and its Auxiliary unit do everything possible

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The caisson carrying the flag-draped casket of Major General Clarence R. Edwards, wartime commander of the 26th Division and former Commander of the Massachusetts Department of the Legion, to the grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Legionnaires from Massachusetts and all over New England took a prominent part in the ceremonies

to make it unnecessary for the wives and mothers and innocent the home of a French nobleman. In the rear of this building is children to appeal to French charitable agencies. By working to being erected a six-story modern office building. Rodman Wana- repair wrongs done, the Legionnaires and Auxiliares instill in the maker made the first gift for the memorial building, the sum of children pride in their American birthright. $5,000, at the Legion's Philadelphia National Convention. Last In France Thursday afternoon instead of Saturday afternoon year the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks contributed to the is the regular school holiday. Thursday afternoon, therefore, is enterprise $30,000 in memory of Elks who served in the World the time in each week when the sons and daughters of American War. The Y. M. C. A., the Masonic Order and the American Red service men gather at Paris Post's clubhouse to attend the post's Cross have each given $25,000 for rooms to perpetuate the free school, in which they are taught the English language and memory of their war work, and similar contributions have been American history and become familiar with American ideas and made by the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army, the traditions. Later the post hopes it can conduct the school five Jewish Welfare Board and the Daughters of the American days a week. The project is looked upon favorably by the French. Revolution. The Pershing Memorial Building will have a library devoted to AT THE end of each school term the boys and girls attend a cos- rare military documents. It will be known as Herrick Hall, in i- tume party, a merry occasion upon which the regular pupils memory of the late Myron T. Herrick, who as Ambassador to act as hosts for all the children of veterans who can be scared up. France did much to assist in the enterprise. There are clowns from the Cirque d'Hiver, ice cream and cake galore, a fish pond, in which each child catches his own present with a real hook and line, and prizes for the most fetching cos- tumes. Another big occasion for the children is the annual family picnic—fifty francs a throw for all the grown-ups but free to all the boys and girls. There everybody gets chewing gum and pea- nuts, watermelons, corn-on-the-cob. Horse-shoe pitching and baseball are favorite games. The Christmas party is also typically American, with Santa Claus in person, the singing of carols and presents for everybody. On Memorial Day Paris Post places flowers and flags upon the 30,000 graves of men in the six American cemeteries of France and in isolated burial places. The post's color guard takes part in the principal Memorial Day ceremonies, just as it does in almost all international events in which the American colony is represented. In its Memorial Day observance the post represents the posts of the Legion at home who subscribed to the Overseas Graves Decoration Fund, amounting to $162,000. By- Products The whole Legion knows, of course, that Paris Post has a new home, the Pershing Memorial Building, financed largely by con- SOME such ditty as "There little still, don't you cry, You'll be- tributions from American citizens. an ashtray by and by," has been sung by disabled service The memorial building is at 4g Rue Pierre Charron, near the men at the California Hut, the workshop maintained by the Arc de Triomphe and the American Embassy. It was formerly California Department of the Auxiliary in Los Angeles, since

MAY, 193 29 state prohibition officials began turning over to the workshop General Edwards's estate, Dunroving, at Westwood, Massachu- copper stills captured in raids. setts, a home for convalescent disabled men. Out of confiscated stills and other apparatus seized by prohibition agents the disabled men are fabricating trays and Million Jobs other articles of general household and decorative manufacture that are not likely to be used in illegal ways. It's a modern PAST National Commander Howard P. Savage of Chicago has adaptation of the Biblical beating of swords into ploughshares. expressed to National Commander Ralph T. O'Neil the hope California got its idea from the Walter Reed Hospital in the that The American Legion will directly help one million persons national capital, to obtain employ- where disabled ment before the men have long national conven- been employed in tion in Detroit. making copper Mr. Savage is chair- knicknacks from man of the Le- the liquor-making gion's National apparatus seized in Employment Com- the District of mission and Jerome Columbia. F. Duggan of St. Louis is vice chair- Last Honors man. With the approval of the WITH solem- National Execu- nityand deep- tive Committee, est emotion The Mr. Savage's com- American Legion mittee will distrib- of all New England ute throughout the rendered in mid- country certificates February to Major of honor, to be General Clarence awarded to em- R. Edwards trib- ployers increasing utes of honor and number of workers affection as the ten percent. A body of the war- "patriot card" will time commander be issued to each of the Twenty- Legionnaire who Sixth Division lay finds a job for an in state in Boston, unemployed manor was borne through woman. The cer- the streets in one tificates and cards, Members of Earl Foust Post of Fostoria, Illinois, had a chopping and sawing bee and of the most impres- to be awarded on distributed the wood to the needy families their town. Other organizations joined sive processions of recommendations with the Legionnaires in cutting and distributing the wood Boston has ever of posts, will be seen and was laid signed by National at rest in Arlington National Cemetery at Washington, D. C. Commander O'Neil and department commanders. The national Legionnaires among the 25,000 persons who filed in double line commission has distributed to all posts reproductions of the cer- by the bier in the Hall of Flags in the Massachusetts State House tificate and card, with suggestions for organized efforts to obtain wept without reserve. The flags of the Massachusetts Depart- co-operation of employers and Legionnaires in the campaign. ment, which General Edwards had served as Commander and as devoted leader in the ranks, were massed in the funeral procession Help When Needed and moved as a solid bank of color, while uniformed delegations of Yankee Division Post, Boston Police Post and Bessie Edwards THE benefits from the passage of the Adjusted Compensation Post marched to the railway station and rendered special tributes. Loan Act were swift and evident everywhere, and the law Eight Legionnaires in Legion uniform acted as body bearers and has imposed no strain upon government finances, John Thomas were accompanied to Washington by a large number of other Taylor, vice-chairman of the National Legislative Committee, Legion mourners, headed by James P. Rose, Vice-Commander of said in a bulletin issued at the end of the first week in which ap- the Department of Massachusetts, Dennis P. Haverty, Depart- plications for loans under the new law were received. applied to the ment Adjutant, and Carroll J. Swan, President of the Yankee "Within these seven days 70,000 veterans have Division Association and President of The American Legion Con- Veterans Bureau in Washington," wrote Mr. Taylor. "No esti- vention Corporation. mate has been made of the number of loans in the regional offices. The Legionnaires' final tributes The urgency of the situation is shown by the fact that in one day were rendered as the body of the central office received 10,000 applications by air mail alone. General Edwards was placed at More than ninety-nine percent of the applications show that the rest in Arlington Cemetery beside veterans had previously borrowed. Many veterans walked his wife, and his daughter, Bessie hundreds of miles to Washington to obtain their loans, and for Edwards, who died in France in these, penniless, without food, in most cases without overcoats, war service. the loans have come as a blessing. Lines of needy veterans ex- Under the will of General Ed- tending blocks from the doors of the regional offices in cities in wards, the largest bequest, $25,000, was to the Bessie Rochester practically every State became commonplace during the week. Edwards Memorial Foundation to insure the future of the Dis- They demonstrated conclusively the need for immediate as- T abled Ex-Service Men's Exchange in Boston. The foundation sistance of thousands of W orld War veterans. bears the name of the General's wife who died in 1929. "The week has exposed the fanciful predictions of the Treasury The Massachusetts Department is considering a plan to make Department that the enactment of the bill would have an un-

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When the State Capitol of North Dakota at Bismarcz went up in flames during the winter the State Legislature began meeting in the War Memorial Building constructed under the sponsorship of Lloyd Spetz Post of the Legion at a cost of $211,500

favorable effect upon government finances. The Treasury De- This organization specializes in the development of new inven- partment put forth a combined offering of $1,400,000,000 in tions and in mechanical, chemical and industrial research. percent bonds and i}4 percent and 2 percent certificates. A In a letter to National Adjutant James F. Barton Mr. Lindell total of $1,403,000,000 was allotted on the three issues. The wrote: "Did you ever stop to think how it would feel to cut off bids totaled $3,734,000,000. In other words, the Treasury offer- your right hand? Not pleasant to think about and perhaps not ing was over-subscribed 2I2 times. Only a portion of these funds so easy to bear. It can't be any worse, though, than what I am will be required for the adjusted service certificate loans." doing now in announcing my resignation as Department Ad- jutant. I shall not say goodbye to those I hope will continue to be For Duration my friends and I shall always look forward to a Legion or Auxil- iary gathering as an opportunity to meet again with the finest and REUBEN E. GUNDERSON of Leo C. Peterson Post of Red most unselfish lot of men and women in the world." Wing, Minnesota, suspects he should be the founder of some sort of new organization. His claim to distinction—and he When the State Capitol Burned thinks that perhaps some other Legionnaires can share it with FOR years and years the citizens of Bismarck, North Dakota, as they admired the architectural lines of the North Dakota State Capitol had realized that the building was a shining mark for a fire. Built in the State's earliest days when iron and steel and concrete were not drawn upon to make public buildings fireproof, the Capitol was a standing challenge to Providence. At last the day everybody feared arrived—on December 28, 1930, the old Capitol caught fire and was destroyed. On that day, the citizens of Bismarck blessed the foresight of Lloyd Spetz Post of The American Legion, for the light of the blazing Capitol shone upon a temporary home for the state legislature. There was nearing completion the community him—is that he was married at 11 o'clock on the morning of memorial building which Lloyd Spetz Post had sponsored, a November nth in iqiq at Minneapolis, during the Legion's great convention hall that had cost $211,500, constructed jointly first national convention. by city and county. "Guess I ought to rank as the kingfish of any order of Armistice The Bismarck post encountered opposition when it first pro- Day brides and bridegrooms," comments Mr. Gunderson. posed the erection of the community building, citing as one argument for it the possibility that the Capitol might be de- Lindell of Minnesota stroyed. Bismarck has 11,550 persons. A two-thirds vote was necessary to authorize a city bond issue of $125,000. The post In the national activities of The American Legion in the past campaigned vigorously, almost all voters turned out and 74.4 six years whenever the name of the Department of Minnesota percent voted yes. When the building was being finished it was has been mentioned it has brought to mind the name of Edwin L. found that money hadn't been provided for a balcony. Le- Lindell. The two seemed inseparable. For six years Mr. Lindell gionnaires subscribed $1,000 and the Auxiliary gave $1,500. has been Adjutant of the Department of Minnesota. The energy and ability which won for Mr. Lindell such wide A Name in a Fog recognition in The American Legion has brought to him opportunity in the world of business and science. At the end of Febru- WHEN members of Frank R. Kirk Post a year or more ago ary he resigned to become associated with the Rand Laboratories, painted air markers on large flat roofs in the towns of Inc., in Minneapolis, headed by Rufus R. Rand, Jr., like Mr. Crafton and Ingram, suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they Lindell himself a Past Commander of the Minnesota Department. considered their task a prosaic one (Continued on page 61)

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The name Ehrenbreitstein conjures up visions of the mighty Rhine fortress opposite Cob/enZ- Here is the lighter side of it—a German beer-garden on a terrace at the upper end of the town

f^Jf 1 ^E ALWAYS did claim that army cooks had it soft possibly a German veteran—who was the owner. Says Schoenberg: /and a picture on this page gives some visual evi- "Back in the early days of October, 1918, when Headquarters m/ */ dence. Two of the three soldaten in the picture of Company, 319th Field Artillery, 82d Division, had just taken J f the German beer garden held that office with Ambu- up its position at Baulny, France, I was engaged in clearing an lance Company No. 329. On the other hand, we hasten to give entrance to one of those underground passages which the ousted credit to cooks of our infantry outfit who cooked doughnuts for us enemy had evacuated. While moving debris, I was attracted by up in the village of Beney when the Germans daily threw iron the clink of my shovel against metal. Upon examination, I found bouquets into that town. a mud-covered coin which proved to be real money—no less than Legionnaire R. Chamberlin of Washington, D. C, who fur- a U. S. trade dollar bearing the date 1877. It was in perfect nished the picture, was a sergeant in Ambulance Company No. condition. 329 and after reporting that he took the snap himself, adds that "As we were the first to take position in this newly-acquired the beer garden was located on a terrace opposite Coblenz and territory, it may be assumed that a German had dropped the overlooking the Rhine, at the upper end of the town of Ehren- coin and that at some time or other he had been in the States. I breitstein. The well-known fortress was at the lower end of the slipped the coin into my belt as a souvenir of Baulny. town, opposite the point where the Rhine and Moselle flow "Several months later I was sitting with Dr. Troyansky of the together. medical detachment of the 319th, telling him about my find at Ambulance Company No. 329, he reports, went overseas from Baulny and as I told him the story, I got out the coin and threw Camp Sherman, Ohio, as a part of the 83d Division but later was it on the marble-topped table. Imagine my surprise when I saw attached to the Third Army Corps. Regular ambulance work the coin open up on one side. I wondered if it were the result of was performed in many towns, including Nogent, Toul and Le the Burgundy wine we were imbibing at the time. But, sure Mans, and in the Occupied Area covered the area from Neuwied enough, the coin proved to be a locket, containing a picture of to Ehrenbreitstein — their billets being in some old German bar- some woman. Not only that, but the picture was covered by a racks in the latter town. thin glass set in a frame—all fitting snugly between the thickness Chamberlin says that he has forgotten the name of the charm- of one trade dollar. ing young friiulein, but the rest of the usual left-to-right consists "The entire coin is an example of the highest workmanship. of Cook Ray Iredale, Cook Ross Lester and Corporal Nick The cover hinges out from the body perfectly and when closed Christu — all of his company. Again we say, pretty soft! hides its purpose as a photograph holder even after the closest inspection." EVER hear of an Schoenberg's suggestion that this coin might have belonged to American trade a German soldier may be considered but it must be remembered dollar. It was a silver that the 319th Field Artillery did not take its station at Baulny piece very much like until October 7th, although the town was captured by infantry the cartwheel we have of the 35th Division on September 27th. These facts are added known, and was used in merely in the hope that they may assist in finding the owner of China. Many years the coin and learning the remainder of its history previous ago the Government to 1918. called them in. But Abe Schoenberg of JUST when we think that Taps has been blown for the last Bridgeport, Connecti- animal mascot of a World War outfit, another is called to our cut, found one in attention for introduction to the gang. Robert R. Manley of France, and maybe the Waukesha, Wisconsin, is the latest Legionnaire to add a mem- telling of the story here ber to our Association of Surviving Mascots of the World War. will result in its being In the picture with the dog, reproduced on the next page, we returned to the man see Robert R. Manley, Jr. Dad Manley offers these credentials:

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"I herewith submit a picture of 'Trixie' arrived back at Camp Hospital No. 85 —formerly called 'Toodles' or 'Dutch' about three days later, only to find who should be listed among the still-living after an X-ray at Base Hospital No. mascots of the A.E.F. She was purchased 101, St. Nazaire, that she had both by Captain Earl L. Mullineaux in the legs fractured. Later the others re- spring of ioio at Coblenz, Germany, turned—one with an injured back, the and became mascot of Motor Truck other with a dislocated hip. All re- Company 465, Train 417. turned to the States in plaster casts. "The captain was very busy with his "I have often wondered if these fellow- duties and as I was sergeant in charge of nurses recovered from their injuries. the Motor Reception Park, I had the time Telling this story may help some of those to take care of her and she was with me injured." a great deal. I became very attached to the dog and tried to buy her from FROM one of our foreign Legion- Captain Mullineaux on board the trans- naires—no, not a member of the port on the way home but he refused my Foreign Legion but of Brussels (Bel- offer. But at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, gium) Post of the Legion—comes the he gave her to me. familiar scene pictured on this page. "She is still living and has proved her F. W. Slaughter, veteran of the 26th right to the citizenship of dogdom in this Infantry, First Division, is the man good old U. S. A. through a wonderful and we're proud to welcome him into record of service and unselfish devotion our Then and Now Gang. including the saving of the life of my After the picture arrived, we wrote herdsman on a farm in Illinois. An in- last fall to Slaughter at his address in furiated bull had attacked this man and Brussels which has at least a tinge of the dog came to his rescue. I wonder home in it —Rue Washington—and were if, sometimes, like me she longs for the surprised to get a reply from Tampa, old gang and friends of the A. of O., in- Florida. He told us that he was spending "Trixie" sits at attention for Robert cluding Lieutenants Fletcher, Davies, the winter in the States but would re- R. Manley, Jr., whose daddy brought Kay, Felton, Sully Bledsoe and the turn to Brussels in the spring as his wife the pup with him from Germany in 19 19 rest. was a war bride "The snapshots and had been born were taken by in Brussels. Harry Greenly, Regarding the former Chief R. T. crap game snap- O. in Italy and shot, he reports Germany and now that the men were a member of the of Headquarters Railroad Classifi- Company, 26th In- cation Board of fantry, stationed New York." in Nentershausen, Germany, and the HOW many picture was taken veterans real- on the May or lize that included June, 1010, pay- in the tables of cas- day. He identifies ualties in the one of the men in World War is the group as Joe found this state- Hines of Schenec- ment : Died of tady, New York, accident, 4,503. who married a girl Just what kind of from Ligny-en- accidents were Barrois. The one these—besides the with the almost train wrecks, auto- bald pate served as mobile collisions cook in the officers' and similar occur- mess. Perhaps ences of which we more of these men heard? Legion- may be identified naire Vesta These occupiers of the Rhineland are not policing the billet yard but, F. W. Slaughter by Then and Now- Carton of Ed- ers. E. of Brussels (Belgium*) Post reports, are celebrating payday in Nentershausen, Germany, ward Hines, "Last spring," Jr., in 1919. Happy days, eh wot, Gang? Hospital at Hines, adds Slaughter, Illinois—and we're "I was with Brus- glad to hear from some of our nurse members—tells of one sels Post when the chapel was dedicated in the Flanders Meld unusual accident, in which fortunately there were no fatal- American Cemetery at Waereghem, Belgium, in the presence of ities: General Pershing, Ambassador Gib- "In the late spring of 1019 another nurse and myself, son and the Gold Star Mothers, when meeting three others from our post, started on a three-day trip the latter were on their pilgrimage." conducted by the Y. M. C. A., from Brussels to northern Belgium. WHEN ex-Lieutenant Herman Ul- "Arriving in Bruges, I shall never forget the chimes. Then a merof Jacksonville, Florida, sub- trip to Zeebrugge and the roof of the submarine station used by mitted his entry in the Big Moments the Germans. Eager to hear all the guide told, my chum stayed contest conducted by the Monthly in the lead. I was half-way down when the wooden bridge swayed last year, he little knew that he would and fell. The small group I was with was fortunate in falling not alone win a prize but would also only about ten feet, being caught by a support. discover the soldier about whom his "One of the nurses fell into the oily water about thirty feet story was built. This prize-winning below, just before an Australian soldier decided to land in the entry appeared under the title, "The same place. We took her to a Sisters' hospital and left the second, Message Went Through," in the June, who said she was all right, with her. The third we were told had 1030, Monthly—and told of a bat- a sprained ankle and with the aid of soldiers along the way, talion runner (Continued on page 47)

MAY, 193 1 33 s Teamwork By John R. Sven in One -Man Tunis Cjames

probably know Jim Saunders. CanJYlean r|OUThere's one in every office. Had about four jobs in the last six years, and ad- &vertfthing mits he made good in every one. Doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, never watches the clock, and one way or another brings in considerable business. Yet, despite all this, everyone lets him pitcher after another was thrown into the go. breach. The batting order was shaken Jim has everything except the ability to work up; fresh men were sent in to run for regu- with the boys. He is always and everlastingly lar players. The Senators went ahead thinking about Jim—about his record and his once more in the eighth, yet that scrap- sales sheet. He is forever trying to tell the rest ping bunch of Pittsburgh ballplayers how to do their jobs. Some- came back in the murk and gloom of the times he is right, but always late October afternoon to sweep through he is tactless. He antagonizes the Washington defense for three runs everyone with whom he works. and victory. Victory in the Series. Bat- Jim knows nothing of team- Jesse Sweetser, tered, beaten, behind, this team kept their work. American winner of heads up—played as a team, not as nine Teamwork. One man, by the British amateur individuals. And they won. As showing hitting a single that brings championship in what teamwork really means, it is inter- home the winning run in a esting to note that every man but the 1926, thanks to his World's Series, grabs the cheers pitchers made at least one hit and one fellow American of the frenzied thousands; but putout. competitors as well eight men back up the pitcher "The most remarkable instance of in a close battle, shut off runs as his own prow- teamplay in baseball history," said John and win the game. Some well- ess. Below, Jean B. Foster, a national authority on the advertised halfback runs through Borotra of France, game, in his discussion a broken field for a touchdown; ivhose marvelous co- of this greatest match but eleven players together operation with Rene of the greatest of all stand on the two-yard line and Lacoste secured World's Series. hold the goal inviolate when Teamwork won the France the Davis inches spell all the difference. Davis Cup, the big- Cup in 1927 A famous sprinter breaks the gest international 100-meter record and the wires trophy of sport, for buzz with his name from conti- France in 1927. Team- nent to continent, while twenty work has kept the cup unknown runners, jumpers and abroad ever since—the hurdlers pick up a hundred teamwork of four men: points and the United States The world' Cochet, Lacoste, Borotra and Brug- wins the Olympic^Games. greatest dis- non. When two singles specialists One of the most amazing ex- tance runner, are necessary, Cochet and Lacoste hibitions of teamwork in the are ready. Brugnon is a doubles star. Paavo Nurmi of whole history of sport was Last year Lacoste fell ill and Borotra Finland. He could given by the Pittsburgh Pirates was thrown into action against the beat any individual, in the last game of the World's United States to win the deciding but not a team like Series of 1925. Washington had point in the challenge round in Paris. taken three of the first four America' s in the "Fortunate the country," says A. Wallis Myers, games that fall, the Pirates had Olympic Games the great English tennis authority, "which has four won the next two, and the series top-flight players who can interchange their partner- hinged on the encounter at ships according to the task at hand, and do so un- Forbes Field. In the box for Pittsburgh was luurmuringly, conscious only of the team's interest." Aldridge; for Washington, the great Walter You'll hear it said that teamwork isn't possible in Johnson. The Senators knocked Aldridge out sports like golf and tennis. Even a man as well of the box in the first inning, scoring four runs. versed in games as Coach Knute Rockne made The Pirates came back in the third to slam the statement last year in The American Legion three runs across. Washington retaliated in Monthly that "golf and other individual sports the next inning by knocking Morrison, the have their place in the training of youngsters, but Pittsburgh relief pitcher, from the box, driv- how much more important are games where organ- ing two more runs over. At the end of the ization is necessary." sixth they led six to four. My business is to follow sports the world over. Pittsburgh tied the score in the seventh. One Every twelve months I travel about ten thousand

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miles covering the big international golf and tennis matches, track meets, inter- collegiate football games, hockey con- tests. One of the most magnificent exhi- bitions of teamwork I have ever seen was in a Davis Cup tennis match between France and Australia at Forest Hills, Long Island, in 1925. Lacoste and Borotra were playing Pat- terson and Hawkes. Two sets to one for France, when in the opening of the fourth set a close-range volley from the racquet of the burly Patterson hit Boro- tra square on the temple. The Basque dropped like a log, unconscious. For a minute the possibility of a default loomed, but the spirit of France surged in Borotra's breast and he staggered to his feet and resumed play. The fourth set went quickly to Aus- tralia. Two sets all. Lacoste up to that point had been uncertain, inaccurate; now he became the genius of the four, throwing himself into the fray, taking balls off Borotra's racquet, jumping in front of his partner, intercepting volleys at the net, until by his efforts alone France needed but a single game, at last but one point for the match. They could

not get it. Then Lacoste slumped. He was through, exhausted. The Australians concentrated on him and evened the score at five games all. But as Lacoste faltered, Borotra came to life and picked up the attack. Blinded momentarily by the blow from the Aus- 'Earth never did breed tralian's racquet, he was some time re- Such a jovial weed." covering his poise. By this time his —Holiday team's lead had vanished. At his side was a wearied partner. Borotra jumped into the battle, and began a series of acrobatics which brought the crowd to its feet—no shot too difficult for him with a birdie "in each to handle, nothing that he did not try for—wherever the fight was thickest there blazed the blue beret of Borotra. mellow By his dazzling and furious attack he bowlful! brought home victory to his side. This, by the way, was the day he won his famous nickname of the Bounding Whether your pipe is caked and ven- Basque. The match ended in a French 1 Cut for Pipes Only erable, or brand-new, here's a tobacco, triumph, the crowd in their emotional response forgetting that Mr. Smoker, that will put it in top form he had merely 2 Made by Wellman's saved, not won the fight. When one Method ... an 1870 and keep it there. Frenchman fell off in his effectiveness, Tobacco Secret his partner assumed the burden. Not Pack your pipe with shaggy Granger individuals, not shots, not courage, not 3 Big Flakes that Burn flakes. Load it on the "installment plan"; skill, but teamplay won this victory. Slow and Cool Teamwork won the British amateur pack it tight; light it all around. golf title for an American some years 4 Sweet to the End Then draw deep: Sweeter, mellower ago. Of all the sporting invaders I have No Soggy Heel ever seen, this bunch sent over for the flavor — a cooler, drier, cleaner pipe Walker Cup matches against England that's the answer! and for the British championships in LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. 1926 was the finest. There were Bobby Jones and George Von Elm and Jess Sweetser, and Watts Gunn, the joker of the party, and Francis Ouimet, the song leader, and Robert Gardner, a one-time track captain at Yale. They took their golf not as a serious business but as a RANGER fortnight's holiday. *C On the way north from London to ROUGH CUT Gullane in Scotland, where the amateur championships were being held, Sweet- ser got an attack of sinus trouble, and two days before the opening round he put himself further out of competition by spraining a ( Continued on page 49) A COOLER SMOKE AND A DRIER PIPE

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serving pantry, always strictly enforced. vided, on the other hand, is more elab- But all this is viewing things from the orate. The dancing often lasts to hours standpoint of the host. Eating is an art that would have shocked another gen- that requires collaboration to attain its eration. greatest success. The host can do much In talking of food I have digressed to with no help or very little help from the discuss the things that go with food. guest. But he can do so much more That is but natural. For eating is a form with the guest's help. of entertainment, and as such it appeals There have always been vogues in eat- not only to the palate, but to all of the ing. The dishes that used to be most senses, and to the mind as well. It is be- popular were those that tasted the best. cause so much more than the excellence of And I think that some dishes were once the food provided enters into the art of esteemed, more so than they are today, eating that it has been so greatly harmed because they were of great rarity and by prohibition. The greatest success in very expensive. eating demands an atmosphere of con- Many eating customs, however, have geniality and good-will. not changed greatly. At luncheon time But we still have to eat, and it is still American business men have always been possible to make of eating an art. With- Leonard in rather of a hurry. I am not sure that out good wine it is more difficult, but still they are in much more of a hurry now possible. For the host the responsibility is

than they ever were. Women have more greater than ever ; it should be greater also

sense in this respect. They are not in for the guest. For, more than ever, it neces- Nason as much of a hurry as their husbands. sitates perfection in the minor things that Now, more so than ever before, they together are all important. Now it is linger over their cigarettes and coffee. necessary that the tolerance of error (as says More than ever formal dinners are engineers call it) between the desires of held in hotels. Nowadays so many peo- the guest and the hospitality provided by ple of means live in apartments which the host should be reduced to the negli- do not afford room for elaborate affairs. gible minimum that is allowable in the "I met a fellow in a broken Even formal hotel dinners are less elab- fitting of the parts of the finest auto- orate; the entertainment that is pro- mobiles. down dugout one evening

when Jerry was very busy L and we weren't. We had I^opes End

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upon him, Wily Koskinen had dropped the terrible thing Koskinen had done, the war would end, if ever, the rope he was coiling, so that its end Father Joe lay for a moment flat on the fell, hanging over the little highballers little platform, beside the Englishman, and he insisted we'd still stage. whom he had flung down with him. For Nobody blamed him. But Koskinen a moment they felt the hideous coils be at it up to Christmas blamed himself. And because of his search over their bodies, hunting a hold. 1918. He bet me a hat he blunder, there, in a whirl of death, stood Then came a jar, and the venomous Father Joe Priest, his friend, who had hissing ceased. stuck by him through all this terrible Father Joe crawled across the little was right. I had his name mess. So he would square this blunder, platform, clammy sweat upon him. Vilho Koskinen, square it if he could. Father Joe looked down. And then, sud- but I lost it; so if he sees You can count on a Finn to square an denly, he was on his feet shouting orders. account of any kind, if he can. He He was no longer afraid. The under end this, he can pay his debt weighed a hundred and ninety pounds, of the line that Koskinen had been coil- this ing, was fast to cross-brace. The line with one of the smart, man. He did with his hundred- a ninety the most terribly valorous thing hung there. It had not fallen into the I have ever known. He threw it into gorge. And neither had Wily Koskinen. new Knox Hats for spring. that coil. There was something about the Hsi- His heavy body—it, maybe, would paw that got men. We lost seven in it. I think they're great." stop the deadly leapings of that line. It wasn't the height. That doesn't affect His steel-tough arms — they, maybe, good bridgemen. It was something else. could lock themselves about the un- But whatever it was, it didn't get Kos- wound part of the coil. Maybe? You kinen. The law — that got Koskinen. KNOX can't tell me. He hadn't a chance in a Swaying there, limp in the wind that hundred thousand and he knew it. Well, draws up through the Hsipaw, halfway a chance in a million then. He'd take between earth and steel, on the most HATS that. A good gamble, one in a million, stupendous gibbet that ever was built, if played as the only chance to square hanged by the neck, swung the man accounts. who had killed Hop Denver. That wild line picked up Wily Koski- They hauled Wily up. m and up nen as though he were some little girl's As neatly as expert hands could ever rag doll, and whipped the hundred and have done it, two perfect half-hitches There's Dealer in a KNOX your city ninety pounds of him in an arc out into had looped themselves over his head, the awful gash of Hsipaw. and hauled up under his chin. It happened in seconds. Stunned by They stretched Wily out.

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The Extra Assistant Deputy Commis- sioner screwed his monocle into his eye, but due to a pair of castanet knees it wouldn't stay screwed; so, without its aid, he looked down at Koskinen. "Dead," he said. But I've tried to tell you about Kos- A BOSTOniAn S€L€CT€D STYL6 FOR SPRinG kinen's hands. The strongest I've ever seen. Years of rivet guns, dolly bars, wrenches and mauls; years of going aloft, over land, over rivers, over the sea; years of swinging the tar-boat sweeps in the seething rapids of Finland years of jobs for male men; years of hanging to steel and to wood with a grip that meant life or death. What a pair of man's hands! What a lot of fine jobs they'd done for the world—including the job on Hop Denver, who peddled co- caine. Why couldn't they do just one more fine job for the world? Why couldn't Koskinen's powerful hands, hanging onto a rope with a grip that meant life or death, save his neck when his long drop jerked to an end? Call a coroner, eh? Coroner, hell! First give him the works. Artificial breathing. A good hot shot in the tonsils. If only his neck is whole! "Fate!" intoned Mr. Ramsgate South- ing, Extra Assistant Deputy Commis- sioner of the District of the Northern Shan States of Upper Burma, British Empire. "Dead!" He looked at Wily Koskinen as keenly as might be without the aid of his sol- itaire cheater, which still, because his knees kept clicking, would not stay. "Fate!" he repeated. "Hanged after all, by jove. Too bad. Much too bad. Distressing in fact. I doubted that there were men with valor like that. But justice. It must be served. And has been, I say. Absolutely. Hanged, after all, by the neck until" — here Wily Koskinen rolled his head and coughed Scotch out of his windpipe—"until," Mr. Southing went on,—without the least change of expression "until he is dead, dead, dead! And thus I shall make my official report," Mr. Southing concluded, "to our police. The law is fulfilled. The case ir- revocably closed. I bid you good day, sir!" "I bid you good day in turn, sir," said Father Joe from his place, where he knelt by Koskinen. "But I recommend, sir, that ere you depart, you down a small wallop of this. Very effective for raising the dead, or silencing rattling * * knee joints. Atta boy! And kindly re- NrVith the growing acceptance of custom turn the container when you have con- simplicity in the styling of gentlemen's shoes Allonby has cluded. Also when next you drop a

chatty line to the king, kindly mention received a warm welcome . . . for it introduces new ideas the fact to him that Mr. J. Priest, U. in fine footwear. Allonby's free-walking tread is well bal- S. A., doffs his skimmer to representatives of his empire out in the Northern anced by its English bootmaker toe. Receding toe lines Shan States of Upper Burma." "I will mention it to His Majesty," lend character to the tailored looks of this Selected said that old sport, as grave as a pair of Bostonian. Bostonians are modestly priced at $7 to $10. fried owls; and back of his monocle, which at last stayed in, he closed his eye. COMMONWEALTH SHOE & LEATHER COMPANY, WHITMAN, MASS. I would not go so far as to say that this was a wink. But I will say this. That if it is possible for the more or less human face to achieve as expressive a thing as a wink without the least hint of expression, Mr. Ramsgate Southing's marvelous pan is the one to achieve it. sHoes for men MAY, 193 37 Whenyou go to Qampfires EUROPE ( Continued from page 27) carrying a hatchet with which to split up bank into the depths of a deep pool of some driftwood for kindling. On the the little river. One by one we took the . . . Sail on a way there I saw a fat partridge hopping plunge, swam across the stream and fantastically on the beach ahead of me. back, afterwards drying ourselves in the Throwing the hatchet like a tomahawk, nipping air without suffering any ill- UNITED STATES by some miracle I managed*to knock effects, either from the swim or the ex- over the bird and returned to camp, only posure. to find that my friend had shot with a Some of my most interesting camp- LINER revolver another one which he had fires have been scientific ones. In fact, found perched in a pine tree. When I what little knowledge of natural history reproached him for his unsportsmanlike I possess has been mostly obtained by behavior in shooting a bird sitting, he tagging along after celebrated field-nat- remarked that at least he had never sunk uralists on various of their expeditions. so low as to kill ruffed grouse with a Once I braved the black-flies and mos- hatchet. quitoes of New Brunswick in June with That morning he had picked a couple a trio of celebrated ornithologists on a of quarts of high-bush blueberries and I trip after the eggs of divers rare birds. had caught half a dozen six-inch trout A journey of a thousand miles landed in a tiny brook in the woods and we had me at a little camp on the Canadian a Lucullian feast of broiled trout, roast coast and I fell asleep in the starlight partridge, with hot biscuits and blueber- to the wild notes of water-fowl passing ries for dessert. over in the dark on their way to the Ah, me, what good times we had on Bay of Fundy. the shore of that little lake before the Followed a week of unalloyed happi- years blew us apart forever! Even the ness during which I made the acquaint- mishaps we suffered are pleasant now to ance of a number of birds which were remember. new to me, such as the Arctic three- The call of the wilderness may come toed woodpecker, the olive-sided fly- at any time of the year. Once in mid- catcher, the Philadelphia vireo, the Not alone because it signifies loyalty to the Lin- winter I received a telegram from an old coln finch and the Tennessee warbler. flag or an avowal on your part that you will friend of mine in Maine which read, I heard the strange wing-song of the share to build up a powerful Amer- do your ' Come and camp with me if you are man Wilson snipe, the fairy melody of the ican Merchant Marine but because of the enough." winter wren and the rare notes of the transportation value you receive and the Four days later found three of us on Cape May warbler. Every day I was routed marvelous comforts you enjoy. the bank of a rushing stream which out of my bed by those three joined two lakes, Big Tunk and Little scientists, given a ration of bread and LEVIATHAN, largest and most famous Tunk. The air was like iced, spiced cheese and directed to hunt for birds'- nests until dark ship in the world, offers ... a cuisine that wine and around our camp were the —but I enjoyed it all blue-shadowed snow, the eternal still- and had the luck which sometimes comes numbers every world delicacy . . . brilliant ness of great mountains on guard, and to a novice. Leviathan and Ben Bernie orchestra, Club rows and regiments of dark, scented On the last night of my stay in that entertainment, suppers without cover charge pines spiring high into the burning blue camp I wandered along the river in the of moonlight, while or check . . . ship - to - shore telephone . . . the winter sky. my companions were At night we would pile up driftwood engaged in writing up their notes and first-run "Talkies" . . . gymnasium, electric logs salvaged from the shores of the compiling a list of every bird seen or baths, masseurs, Pompeian Swimming Pool lakes and pine stumps full of resin, the heard in that part of Canada during

golf, ping . . . splendor . . . tennis, pong in embalmed life-blood of the dead trees, their stay. It suddenly occurred to me salons and spaciousness in rooms ... at until a solid column of flame roared up that it would be interesting to call up astonishingly low fares. towards the violet-black sky and the an owl and I gave the eerie little wail of sparks shot away through the dark like a screech owl, one of the few bird-notes The famous Cabin liners —GEORGE myriads of golden butterflies. which I can imitate. It was not an- WASHINGTON, AMERICA, REPUBLIC, In the late afternoon we would cut swered, although I repeated it several PRESIDENT HARDING and PRESI- holes here and there in the lakes through times, but from where I stood I could three feet of ice and with half-frozen see, through the window of the camp, ROOSEVELT— to Plymouth, Cher- DENT fingers bait set-lines and fasten them to my learned friends straighten up. The bourg and Hamburg give you the sweep of supple beech-twigs, which a dash of wa- next moment they stood in the doorway transatlantic travel luxury and comfort at ter would freeze solid in the settings. and peered excitedly into the darkness. I later extremely low cost. Every fare is a contri- Early the next morning I would be When came back half an hour up with the sun, chop out the holes they told me that they had located the bution to American prosperity — because it which had frozen solid during the night, first American screech-owl ever reported remains here to buy ship fuel and supplies. and haul out from one or more of them in that part of Canada. I never told a silvery, landlocked salmon. Hurrying them the real story of that bird-note for Tourist Third Cabin "Grade A" Leviathan baek to the camp, I would dress the it is not safe to trifle with the finer feel- Round Trip $216 $231 or on Five Famous — great fish and broil them over the coals ings of an ornithologist, but when I read Cabin Liners $185— $209 round trip. left from the campfire of the night be- their account of the expedition, as pub- Weekly Sailings AMERICAN MERCHANT fore. I would give a great deal to taste lished in a scientific journal, I really felt that I ought given LINES—New York to London— $100. their wild, sweet flavor again. to have been some It was at that camp that I first credit, not only for the yellow-palm war- UNITED STATES LINES learned to swim in winter waters, a prac- blers' nests, which they reported, but tice which I have kept up ever since, also for the last bird appearing on their Paul //'. Chapman, President finding it a fine tonic. The stream which list —the American screech-owl. For complete information see your local agent or ran between the lakes was so swift that My most recent campfire has blazed our ofiiccs: New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia, San it had not frozen over and one zero day for me in the middle of the Okefinokee Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, we dared each other to dive off a snow- Swamp, that vast marsh which stretches Pittsburgh, Washington, Little Rock, New Orleans.

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for six hundred square miles between Georgia and Florida. Last year Bud, my guide, and I camped with Uncle Billy, Shock Tests who lives alone on Seminole Island, in the depths of the Swamp, and one morning we started long before dawn on a Show the Greater Stopping Power hunt for Lost Island, which few white men have ever seen. Twice before I of the New Super-X Long Range .22 had searched for it but without success. As the sun rose and warmed the chill The new Western Super-X long' The greater Power and Speed of brown waters of the great marsh we be- range .22's have the power and range Super-X .22 's are made possible, gan to see on all sides signs of the wild to stop small game at distances un' without dangerous increase in pres' life which haunts its depths. Snowy egrets perched among the cypresses and there heard of before. 50% more Power sure, by an entirely new powder were anhingas and white ibis, while now 26% higher Speed—and greater Ac principle Western's exclusive new and then the dark forms of alligators slid curacy! Everything you've wanted Double Action Powder. It gives off mud-banks in front of us, while in a small'bore cartridge and have flatter, straighter, big-league shoot- everywhere on logs and bushes were the never had until now. ing—more powerful .aa's that can be sinister shapes of huge water snakes. The Shock Tests show the big differ' used with safety in any standard rifle. Once, as Bud was pushing the boat ence in bullet effect between Super-X. shells gleaming Plate. through a fringe of bushes, I heard a The are Nickel cartridges and the .22's you've been thud behind me as if a piece of heavy The greaseless Lubaloy-coated bullets shooting. They show why Super-X fire-hose had fallen into the boat, fol- glisten like gold ! The report of these lowed by a fierce thick hiss. Glancing .22"s anchor game in its tracks . . . cartridges is a sharper, louder over my shoulder I saw the head of a Super-X .22*5 are designed to do that! CRACK— and the bullets Z-?w monstrous serpent rising from the bot- The terrific speed with which they i-n-g through the air as though shot tom of the boat not two feet from my hit, and the special composition lead from a high-power rifle. Loaded with non- 22 back. As I stared helplessly at it, the used in the bullets, make them flat' corrosive priming, Super-X long-range 's keep your rifle bore like new, free from rust. grim mouth slowly opened, showing the ten out and expend their force within white lining which marks the dreaded the object struck. Made in .22 Short, .22 Long, .22 Long Rifle cottonmouth moccasin. The snake had and .22 W. R. F. sizes—with solid or hollow- It is not penetration been basking in the upper branches of a but STOPPING point bullets. Write for free leaflet, telling bush and, startled by our approach, had POWER that makes a .11 cartridge all about this new ammunition that is bring- small-bore shooting into tried to slip into the water only to land effective on game.The tests show how ing its own! in the boat. the ordinary .11 penetrates with' WESTERN CARTRIDGE COMPANY I had nothing in my hands and if I out expanding, often going through 568 Hunter Ave., East Alton, 111. moved the snake would probably strike. an animal it. without stopping Branch Offices. Jersey City, N. J.; San Francisco, Cal. Accordingly I sat still, very still, watching the great moccasin over my shoul- Make the der. It was so close to me that I could plainly see the curious pit between the Super-X Shock Tests eye and the nostril, which is found also with the cartridges you've been using. in the rattlesnake and the copperhead They will prove, once and for all, the and which gives their fatal family the greater Stopping Power of Western name of pit vipers. Super-X. .22's! At the other end of the boat Bud also The photograph below shows the greater de- kept perfectly motionless, fearing to use structive effect of Super-X .22 L. R. bullets his pole on the snake lest it should bury compared with harder lead bullets. The three holes on the left show the much greater splinter- its fangs in my back. ing effect of the Super'X bullets as they For what seemed to me a long hour, emerged after passing through three oneinch pine boards. although it was in reality only a minute or so, I sat still until at last the men- acing mouth with its white satin lining closed, the heart-shaped head thrust itself over the gunwale of the boat and the monstrous body flowed after it and with scarcely a ripple disappeared in the water. After that snake episode we traveled for hours through a labyrinth of chan- nels and came at last to a chain of dark pools linked by stretches of blue water, like a necklace of black opals and sap- phires. This waterway widened into Lost Lake, a tiny curved stretch of water, in- describably beautiful as it stretched away before us bordered with the bleached silver of cypress trunks. Bud paddled along the lake's edge until he came to a great clump of gall berry bushes with bitter black berries and evergreen leaves. Pushing aside the overhanging boughs he showed me a hidden channel zigzagging through a tangle of trees and just the width of our boat. For nearly a mile we followed this little canal until it came to an end, and then stepped out of the boat to wade the rest of the way to (Continued on page 40)

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Lost Island, following a line of blazes in my memory as the worst journey that which Bud had made the year before. I have ever taken. We waded and cut Once a bear-path crossed our way and our way through thickets laced with in another place we came to an otter- barbed bamboo vine. At times we slide., and finally, after hours of climbing stepped into deep holes and often lost and wading, reached the island and I our trail and had to go back, and all the dropped exhausted on a bit of the first time we were racing with the dark, for dry ground that I had seen since leaving if we were not out by nightfall we would our camp early that morning. have to stay knee-deep in the icy water Later on, following a dim trail through of that black swamp until morning. the long grass and reeds and keeping a Finally, just before the last light faded, careful lookout for diamondback rattle- we reached our boat and the open chan- snakes, we came to the ruins of a little nel. Like a slow stain the dark spread shack which Bud had built there during over the marsh and the shadows of the the winter which he had spent on the great cypresses were linked against the island. It was set beneath one of the dull silver of the water. Then a pale- largest live-oak trees in all the South, gold moon blossomed in the dim violet larger even than those monsters which sky and slowly rose above the edge of are found in the environs of Charleston, the marsh, followed by a flaming star. a towering, gigantic tree, perhaps a All night long our boat slipped through thousand years old, which looked as if the shadows as Bud followed the clues it would stand as long as the earth en- of twisting waterways for hours and dured. hours on end. Finally, when it seemed a of this great tree as if I would perish sheer cold, the Bamegat Light — Barnegat, N.J., Established more than On dead stub was from ninety years ago. Famous in maritime h istory. a magnificent woodpecker nearly as large great trees on Seminole Island loomed as a crow, with black and white wings up before us and through the window of Faithful is the character of the and a scarlet, crested head. As I watched the cabin we caught the sudden gleam of it hew out slabs of wood with its sharp firelight. light that guards the pathways horn-colored bill, I recognized it as the Half an hour later I was sitting be- of the deep. Mellow and friendly pileated woodpecker, the largest of all fore a roaring fire of pitch-pine while of our woodpeckers except the almost Uncle Billy set before me a brace of is the character of the blend that extinct ivory-bill. roast mallards, a pan of fried sweet po- sparkles through the flavor of Bud assured me that there were many tatoes, a pot of steaming coffee and a other rare birds and beasts to be found stack of flapjacks covered with honey on the island but as we had no provisions and butter and cinnamon. I may forget nor blankets and the nights in the Swamp my name or my age—I wish that I could were bitter cold, I resolved to make our —but never will I forget that dinner and way out before dark and come back, the twenty-four hours of deep, dream- now that I had learned the way, some less sleep which came after. other time with complete equipment. Some day Bud and I are going back The return trip will always stand out to Lost Island, some day, some day.

TOBACCO It's the J£utnan Element IN your first pipeful of OLD BRIAR you will find an introduction to a new sense of content- (Continued from page 10) ment. This rare blend of choice tobaccos will awaken the most jaded smoke taste to a keen en- broke the hair spring on the indicator of near Dortmund, almost exactly on our joyment of ingratiating mildness and rich flavor our earth-inductor compass. Although course to Berlin. I don't know whether flavor with an underlying tang that continually the compass still functioned, we had to call that shift in the weather bad luck. satisfies without ever satiating the appetite. no way of reading it. It was most dis- We had studied weather maps intently, Ask your dealer about OLD BRIAR Tobacco. concerting, for we had placed great con- but to prognosticate a weather change fidence in that compass, as its value had four thousand miles away, forty-eight been demonstrated on many remarkable hours in advance, was just a little too flights. Of course, we might possibly much to ask of my friend Dr. Kimball have turned back, but, fortunately, we of the United States Meteorological Serv- had anticipated a possible failure, and ice. Later we did get a good break, how- so had provided ourselves with an or- ever, because on the comparatively short dinary magnetic compass. With that in- hop from Eisleben to Berlin a cam- strument we kept on. It functioned well follower on the engine cracked and stuck enough, although we did not reach Ber- in its guide, holding one intake valve lin non-stop. The intermediate landing, open and cutting out three cylinders. If however, was not the fault of the com- that mechanical failure had taken place pass but of the weather, which shifted in mid-ocean, this article would prob- after we left Roosevelt Field. ably have been written by somebody else. When we took off, a storm area over Moreover, the same thing happened to England was moving toward Norway, but Lindbergh's motor after the plane was by the time we reached Europe it had unloaded from the cruiser Memphis on shifted directly across our path. For ten his return to America. As a result, he UNITED hours, therefore, we were compelled to flew in a borrowed plane to New York TOBACCO fly above the clouds. When finally we from Washington for his great reception. RICHMOND, came down through the fog, we were Had the failure happened over the At- 40 Thc AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 1

lantic that would have been luck—hard where they landed in a peat bog, was one luck—beyond the control of an excep- hundred and twenty-five miles an hour. tionally capable pilot. No trans-Atlantic flyer has equaled that To note further the part that luck or record for speed. good management has played in failures Harry Hawker's attempt with Mac- TEGIQNNATRT- as well as successes in air travel, let us Kenzie Grieve, made a few days earlier, analyze the best publicized trans-Atlantic was distinctly a flirtation with the God- attempts. You may then judge for your- dess of Luck, inspired by the $50,000 self what is the deciding factor. prize offered. I believe Hawker was a In ioig, the Atlantic was spanned first competent pilot, that he had groomed the THE LEGIONS by the American naval seaplane NC-4, machine carefully, but figuring miles to then by Alcock and Brown. Since the be traveled against his fuel supply and OWN SHOE first thought of the naval aviation author- incomplete meteorological information, ities was safety, provision was made for his attempt was made against tremen- a series of intermediate landings, with dous odds. Yet the goddess was not aiue destroyers stationed at comparatively wholly unkind. Hawker's ship, and that short intervals, both as a guide to the of George Haldeman and Ruth Elder are pilots and as a means of prompt rescue the only ones whose occupants were able in the event of mishap. That flight proved to "walk home" when their Europe- that trans-Atlantic flying was possible. bound land-planes came down in mid- With the planes, motors and equipment ocean. pilot, then available, it was a first-class dem- The rescue of the Italian Loca- "The Legionnaire" onstration. But time-saving is the chief telli, who was accompanying the round- ...black calf English asset air travel has to sell, and the Azores the-world flyers in 1924, emphasizes one brogue... solid lea- route is a long detour, wasting valuable thing: If you don't use a land plane with ther construction. Steel shank and hours in intermediate landings. Even its superior speed and range, use a flying special inner-sole today I cannot see the advantage of the boat, which can ride out the battering of gently but firmly southern route via Bermuda and the heavy seas. Captain Courtney's experi- support the arch Pinedo are Azores. In taking the southern route, ence and that of Major de and prevent fatigue. one must fly many miles and hours off further examples of the safety-factor in the shortest course, not to speak of the boat flying. Pontoons, on the other hand, time one loses in landing to refuel. Thus, are of little advantage in the event of in commercial service, the caution neces- mishap. If, for whatever reason, you are sary for bad weather would make flying forced down, the chances are the ocean *7 incapable of competition with steam- will be so rough that pontoons cannot ships. What is true of the Bermuda- keep you afloat long enough for you to Azores route applies with greater force be rescued. The recent disaster to the to the (projected) extreme northern seaplane of W. S. Maclaren and Beryl route, with intermediate stations at Hart supports this statement. Moreover, UILT by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. B' especially for members of the Amer- Greenland and Iceland, for the weather the loss of speed resulting from the air- ican Legion. An unusual value in style, materials in those sub-Arctic regions is naturally resistance and weight of the pontoons is and of quality that represents the maximum in bad. flyers the merely tempo- The Army round-the-world not compensated by skilled shoemaking. who used this route, operating in the rary advantage of a better landing on "The Legionnaire" was designed and best season of the year, were too long in water. constructed with the advice and approval of their crossings to impress the public with The reason for the failure of Rene high ranking Legion officials. It is endorsed its practicability, nor have recent Fonck in 1926 can only be conjectured. more by all who see or wear it. trans-Atlantic crossings with similar in- Overloading and insufficient testing were For general wear.. .uniform termediate stops aroused public desire probably the cause, although a story was or "civies". You will want for trans-Atlantic flying. current at the time that spectators crowd- To be com- a pair for Memorial Day. mercially successful. trans-Atlantic ing the runway caused the pilot tempo- A remarkable value for $7. Look for flights must be non-stop. The only con- rarily to cut his throttle, with conse- the name "Legionnaire" and the guaranteed cession which might possibly be granted quent loss of speed for his take-off. In value stamped on the sole. would be an intermediate stop for fuel at that event, disaster would have been due -1 Newfoundland, and there the weather is to an uncontrollable human element poor at most seasons. Lest I be thought rather than to ill luck. inconsistent in emphasizing the weather The tragic ending of the plane Amer- handicap, after mentioning primarily to haste. the contribu- ican Legion was due If not for sale in your tions of radio to navigation, I hasten to At the time Noel Davis and S. H. vicinity, order direct distinguish between bad weather on the Wooster were conducting their load- from factory. ground and bad weather in the skies. tests, other planes were poised to take W. L. DOUGLAS Snow and ice Wooster were on a landing field, low off for Paris. Davis and SHOE CO. temperatures and severe storms at an naturally anxious to be first. As a result, airport, make landings and take-offs ex- I believe, they did not scale their loads Brockton, Mass. tremely hazardous. But in the air a plane gradually, but increased their cargo flies out of bad weather—either over or abruptly and without ascertaining whether THE around it. it was secured in place. When they f Perhaps the most amazing transoceanic crashed, due to a too heavy load, the LEGIONNAIRE flight of all was the first non-stop cross- loose ballast slid forward, pinning them ing by the Anglo-American team. John beneath. Thus the stimulus of large cash Alcock and A. W. Brown, in June, 1019. prizes has its serious drawbacks as well Their machine was an obsolete Vickers- as its advantages. Not only is thorough Yimy bomber with a cruising speed of testing too often sacrificed to impatience only eighty miles an hour. Their instru- in starting, but often the type of flyers AMERICA'S SOLD THROUGH ments would now be considered the crud- attracted may not be wholly competent BEST OUR OWH STORES est. Yet they apparently capitalized a for the task involved. We know that both KNOWN IN PRINCIPAL CITIES spring gale, realizing that this meteoro- of those circumstances were factors in SHOES AND » logical phenomenon was a necessity to the loss of life attending the Hawaiian their flight. Amazingly, their average race. It is my belief also that one or the W. L. DOUGLAS speed from Newfoundland to Ireland, other was re- (Continued 011 page 42) DEALERS EVERYWHERE

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of their oil pressure for some unex- plained reason finally put them down fortunately near a ship. The distance TO U are flown before they landed, however, demonstrated first-class navigation. Even the in this book! fact that they landed on a rough sea without turning over, permitting them to transfer to a ship, was further proof of exceptional piloting ability. Gen. John J. Mcintosh, Wreford and Fitzmaurice. starting out from the British Isles and then turning back to land in September, Pershing 's 1927, showed excellent judgment. Head- winds encountered at the start foreor- dained this flight to failure. The tragedy which claimed the lives of Colonel Michin, Captain Hamilton Y EXPERIENCES and Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim on a similar attempt proved that the Irishmen IN had made the right decision. I met THE WORLD WAR Michin in England. He was a first-rate (The only complete, finally revised story) pilot, competent in every way. But the head-winds were just too great a handicap to be overcome with the equipment You doubtless have long felt, with General Pershing, he had. Therefore the first non-stop that "the American people know practically nothing crossing from east to west was technically of what really happened Over There." that of the Junkers monoplane with Baron von Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitz- Here is the whole inside story of in the maurice. That they landed where they America War— of did demonstrated the need of celestial history you helped to make — told by the Commander- navigation or radio direction equipment in-Chief of the A. E. F. Two volumes, lavishly illus- in future flights. trated, and with maps, $10.00 per set. The Courtney attempt of the same year was a well-planned, conservative Ready April 2j. Order it today at your bookseller' s or, more convenient, flight. Whether the broken fuel-line if from the publishers, which forced him down on fire in mid- ocean could have been anticipated is a FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, 443 4th Ave., New York question. It is easy to point out the reason for the Captain Hinchcliffe-Elsie Mackay failure that same summer. They were determined to start secretly, and obviously, because of that determination, they were not able to obtain necessary weather reports. Consequently, they took off in the worst weather of the season. Captain Hinchcliffe's unquestionable FOOT ACHES competence as a pilot and navigator were of no avail against stormy head-winds in a plane with little range to spare. In the following year, 1928, the tragic failures of H. C. McDonald and U. F. Diteman, Jr., corresponded to the Hawker failure. Only by a special dis- 1 Trouble ^ starts with in 10 minutes pensation from Providence could these overstrained, weakened muscles or relatively small machines have succeeded. Tiny bones are dis- - ^ costs placed. Pain follows. ^ They deliberately took off against tre- nothing mendous odds. When they were forced 2 A super-elastic band assists and strengthens W down no fishing craft such as Hawker muscles, replaces Dones. Pain stops instantly. ^ found was near. Such attempts must be ^ placed in the category' of circus stunts. Burning, aching, tired feeling in the feet and Even had they succeeded, flights their legs — cramps in toes, foot calluses, pains in would have contributed nothing of value toes, instep, ball or heel — dull ache in the ankle, calf or knee — shooting pains from back 2,000,000 now in use. Specialists, amazed at to the science of aviation. of toes, spreading of the feet, or that broken- results, urge them widely. The successful flight of Wilmer Stulz. down feeling — all can now be quickly ended. 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saved Boyd and Connor on the last proved a perfect combination. Had they crossing of the Columbia. Soon after been equipped with a modern plane New their take-off, the wind shifted suddenly York instead of Newfoundland would and forcefully, sweeping them far south doubtless have been their first stop. (against fire? of their projected course. In other No less well done was the German words, without advance warning of the flight of Von Gronau, Zimmer, Hack change, had they not checked on the and Albrecht, but, as was explained heavenly bodies to determine their posi- above, intermediate landings in trans- tion, they well might have lost their way, oceanic flying are not desirable. and when finally trouble developed wii.h The striking and highly commendable their gasoline feed line, they doubtless feature of the Costes-Bellonte flight was would have been far from land. the personal restraint of the pilots. Know- The death of one of the two Polish ing what they would have to encounter flyers in the Idzikowski-Kubala expedi- in the way of weather in order to make tion was due to the fact that no suitable Paris to New York non-stop, they intel- landing field was available in the Azores. ligently and quietly carried on the work They were well past these islands when of preparation and then sat down to wait finally they realized that their fuel supply for the particular brand of weather which would not permit them to reach Amer- they needed. They refused to be hurried. ican shores. With excellent judgment, What newspapers or other flyers said therefore, they gave up the attempt, but about or to them as they waited was dis- in trying to land on rough terrain, they regarded. Then one day the weather map crashed. was propitious, and, forearmed, they took Three other lives were lost in 1929— off and landed here. That was not luck. the Swiss flyers Kaesar, Luescher and That success was due to competent pi- Tschopp. They attempted the long south- loting in first-class equipment, combined YOU insist upon overworking ern crossing non-stop. I doubt if their with intelligent planning. And of such IF plane was able to carry three men from character must all successful transoce- that strong old briar with any- Europe to the United States on that anic flights be. thing but Sir Walter Raleigh Smoking route against head-winds. As was stated earlier, it is now, we Tobacco, you take a chance on a hot We have learned much, however, from firmly believe, possible to span the At- the three successful westward crossings lantic by airplane with a pay-load, and smoke. But how unnecessary, when Sir of last year. The Kingsford-Smith, Van on regular schedule, although I am not Walter's favorite pipe mixture is ready Dyk, Sau, Stannage expedition was an so sure of regular flights from east to outstanding example of a well-planned west. The extra fuel required due to the and able to comfort, calm and tame flight, despite the fact that their plane, head-winds certain to be encountered the hardest-boiled pipe. the historic Southern Cross, was not the would seriously reduce the pay-load. of its type. comprised If the four years progress outlined Sir Walter Raleigh is as popular most modern They a most competent crew of first-class above may be considered a yard-stick in with wives, maiden aunts, and girl pilots who were experts in both celestial measuring the future, transoceanic flying

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ley tobaccos, and it's much milder. Exit the Q^lum Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (Continued from page 15) Louisville, Kentucky, Dept. 174 buildings that are making their appear- northern cities began about 1915. The Send for this ance, buildings as modern and cheerful great movement has been since the war, as any moderate-priced apartments in and as a result only Chicago has wit- FREE New York or elsewhere. One I have in nessed a change in its racial map greater BOOKLET mind is equipped with mechanical re- than New York's. frigerators—fancy that in contrast with There are 300,000 Negroes in Harlem the old East Side. A large co-operative between Madison and Eighth Avenues apartment opened last December, and, and noth and 155th Streets. This is now filled, rents for $12.50 a room plus congestion, but not the congestion of a payment of $500 a room to establish the East Side of another day. The an- the tenant-owner's equity. This is a nual death rate among colored people very low rental for that class of accom- in New York is twenty-five in a thou- modation in New York. Nothing can sand and among whites fourteen. This make a permanent waste of a section so is indicative of ignorance and undesir- convenient to the downtown business able sanitary conditions, but not the district where 400,000 people, mostly conditions that prevailed in the old-time office workers, are employed. Thus the siums. Nor does this rate compare un- eventual reclamation of this celebrated favorably with other cities, North or portion of the sidewalks of New York. South. Our tenement question is not a thing Judged by modern standards, the ten- of the past, however. The ten years that ements of Harlem are antiquated, but have witnessed the final decline of the we do not find rooms without windows, old East Side have seen the growth of as in East Side buildings that have been standing since the Civil War. We have It's & — AND IT'S MILDER another national institution in our midst —Harlem. The drift of the Negro to our difficulties. An air-shaft seems a

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natural repository for garbage and a fire escape for anything not needed at the I Had aWaistline Like His moment in the crowded rooms, but these have always been the problems of the tenement house inspector. The Amer- I Got VLidofXt m . m ican Negro is, on the whole, tractable m and amenable to authority. But I cannot say the same for West Indians. Five 181 This EasyWay thousand of them in Harlem cause more ^ trouble than ten times their of number 'My waistline quickly went from 42 colored people from our Southern States. Jdown to 34 inches," says E. D. Lane,

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trucks came. Everything moved away her share of sunshine. Then, there's the At last, the ambulance, the stretcher, the kids. I've got 'em scattered around in painful ordeal of getting Bob comfort- Alabama homes under the Legion Wel- ably adjusted. fare Committee. That's 'cause I'm desti- "Come, dear," Mrs. Liggett said to tute, see? But if I was up an' making Thelma, "Kiss daddy good-bye." thirty-seven bucks a week, I wouldn't Thelma drew away. "No, no. Thelma be, see? I'd have to send the wife that never kiss daddy any, any more." hundred, the kids couldn't stay in the "But darling, daddy is leaving for the welfare homes any longer, and where'd per I >V^co\tv?g^e^| 5 hospital and he won't be back for a be on twelve a week tryin' to run a teS long, long' time. Come, be a nice girl barber shop and give a baby her bottle ateS S^ l»«**£ P Lent and kiss daddy." all at the same time. Couldn't do it, "No," Thelma pulled herself still could I? Don't believe there's a feller farther away. "I never kiss daddy livin' 'at could." again. He is a bad, bad boy. He tell the He paused for breath and I waited. man a story." "Well, I got it all figgered out. The Le- "Why, daddy didn't tell the man a gion keeps the children; I send the wife story!" a hundred bucks, and there's that extra "Yes, he did, too. My breakfast set. five dollars left for me. Five's all I need, Santy Claus brought me it, and daddy see?" say he buy it for five dollars." It is Dudley's sixth year in the hospital. He has been in and out a time or "AN ADDRESS OF DISTINCTION" DUDLEY flopped across the foot of two frying to earn that thirty-seven my bunk and began to wail his bucks a week, but old man circum- woes. They have run him through a stance has him licked, and year after 1 AUkf ^ series of operations that have a terrify- year, he has come back to recuperate. LAW Boo^ ingly dumb-striking mortality rate, but When they told him that his wife had to LAW-TRAINED-o Write today for FREE 64-pa«e book. "THE m Dud is still here. He knows his hos- go to Denver last fall, he never whim- MAN", which shows how to learn law in spare time through th

And not only the ribs, but the keel, 'P&T,' I get a check for $105.00. That's bad as I am," he says, "what-the-hell am stern, and canvas-covering! Old eighty for me, ten for the wife and five I gonna do for my five dollars?" Towns aren't just slapped together. apiece for the kids. So I'm staying 'tem- • Their sterns are ^ braced and cross- porary total' as long as I can. It gives SHE was only another child-wife, but braced to stand the motor's weight. me five bucks more." she was beautiful. Beauty is so dif- Ribs and keel are reinforced and It all sounds like a column of figures ferent from mere prettiness. Beauty rigid. No vibration or shaking. The to but comes with heartaches, happiness and covering is seamless. It can't open up. from the World Almanac me, You don't have the trouble and ex- Dudley has the floor and I let him rave. sorrows; prettiness is for virgin youth pense of caulking! Sometimes he gets somewhere. and laughter. She was no bigger than a Free catalog shows prices and mod- "See?" it's a favorite word of his, "I minute, and she had calm, blue eyes and els. Also canoes; dinghies; rowboats; ain't so sick. I could get up and out of light hair of thin-spun gold, and she was big, fast, seaworthy, all-wood, outhere any time. But if I do that my com- as lovely as a picture. board family-boats; and speedy step- pensation stops. It means I gotta go For a year she lived alone in one of planes. Write today. Old Town All I where those spare rooms that the Red Cross Canoe Co., 255 Main St., Old Town, back to barberin'. can make Maine. I live is thirty-seven bucks a week. Not keeps reserved for relatives of those who so good. Now, my wife, she's got TB. are critically ill. For a year, I watched w I've got her out in Denver in a 'san,' her coming over to the hospital every Old Town appear just a little Boats and it costs her the hundred just for morning. She would

46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly bit before breakfast, to sit at his side plained, to see some of the boys. I said Lowest Prices in 10 Years! the whole day through, to help the nur- that that was nice, so nice of them. ses, to hold his hand and to listen with They were from Bulgarten Street church, vain, vague hopes to his muttered delir- they said. "Is that so," I asked. My ium. Every night I have seen her go conversation was as faltering as their back to her lonely room in the old Colo- own. Evidently I was their first victim. nial home that is the Red Cross building. Where were the other boys? Could they If you wanted to know if she was still see them? Yes, surely! Right through down the hall at his side, you could look that door and down the hall. Any door. at the light on the Red Cross porch. There were boys behind them all. And They always kept it burning for her. as they went away I felt sorry for them Ten o'clock, midnight, two o'clock, then and for the Christian duty they had im- her mite of a figure would fling a long, posed upon themselves. MODERN HOMES eerie shadow before, around and behind Thursday, there was another group; sit her, and seemingly as swift as the sha- just as pretty, just as hesitant, just as Wholesale Prices! Choose from dow itself she would dart across the timid with the same awkward attempt at 100 prize designs—or let our Home Planners design a home from your ideas in wood, dim-lit space, alone, always alone. momentary conversation. lu iek or stucco. We furnish materials of highest For a twelve-month, Gene Gordon "We are coming out every week from quality—direct from Mills-to-you. No extras! Ma- terial Plan-Cut (machine-sawed at mill) saves 1/3 had been lying between life and death, now on. All of us." Someone explained. labor cost—18% material waste. Makes tighter, just down the hall from me in "Double "We want to visit the boys and cheer warmer, sturdier home. M." They were married for only a week them up. Yes, we are from Bulgarten Get modern features: Warm Quilt Insulation (saves hills) when he collapsed. What he had hoped Street, too." hi fuel ; Hardwood Floors. Built-in Kitchen Cases, Linen Closets. Ironing Boards, to be an arrested case of a war-found ail- The conversation lulled. They looked Clothes Chutes, Fireplaces, Phone Nooks, etc. : Colorful Kitchens. More comfort less housework. ment, had come back upon him with a at my bedside table with its heaps of — With Plan-Cut Materials. Easy-to-follow Plans. sweeping, deadly rush. She followed magazines, books and mail; they looked had Complete Instructions, you can build your own him here, refusing the companionship of at the linen where my nervous fingers home and save SI, 00(1 up. Invest your money in a

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. . . NOW A DRUM CORPS Then and V\Qow FOR YOUR POST (Continued jrom page 47) if I could get that canceled check. It Fourth Div.—General reunion of IVY men. Miss Dorothy Egan, asst. secy., Fourth Div. would be one of my best keepsakes. In just five simple steps — Assoc., 720 No. Michigan av., Chicago, 111. ana within 6 weeks from "I am very proud of the lieutenant's H Company Club (126th Inf., 31st Mich.. now — your Post can have Inf. and First Mich. Inf.) —Reunion of all for- big moment not that I am boasting of a playing drum corps ready — mer members. Gordon L. White, secy., 6409 for public appearance! anything I did over there, but to think Theodore av., Detroit, Mich. Ludwig has worked out 21st Engrs., L. R., Soc.—Eleventh annual that of all the things he did and saw in the plan— based on long reunion. Frederick G. Webster, secy, and treas., years of successful experi- France, after all these years this little 6819-A Prairie av., Oiicago, III. ence—and will help you 23d Engrs. Reunion, with 23d Engrs. Post, incident was the most impressive. It — put it in effect. Details free; American Legion, as host. F. R. Erilsizer, send coupon now for new makes me feel that all the hardships and comdr., 5253 Allendale, Detroit, Mich. illustrated book, "Here 26th Engrs. Reunion and organization of suffering is paid for. I don't even mind — They Come," giving all veterans association. Ray Bielman, 8100 Gra- the facts. the years I have spent in hospitals." tiot av., or W. W. White, 15217 Forrer av., De- Prize winning corps use We sent photographic copies of the troit, Mich. Ludwig drums — brilliant, 31st Engrs.—Third annual reunion. F. E. snappy tone, easy playing. check to Dawson — and then learned Love, secy., 113 First av., W., Cedar Rapids, Instruction manual with some more interesting facts. He reports Iowa. every outfit. Tank Corps—Reunion of all former Tank that this memento of the war will mean Corpsmen. Victor T. Porter, Tank Corps Re- a lot to his three husky boys — aged union Headquarters, 2006 Industrial Bank, Washington at Grand River, Detroit, Mich. eight, five and two, and that those boys LUDWIG & LUDWIG are the joint property of himself and 523C Ludwig Bldg., 1611-27 N. Lincoln St., Chicago the nurse who had tended him for ten Gentlemen: Send me your free book, "Here They Come" months in government hospital and tell me how we can have a drum corp3 in 5 steps. a and who became Mrs. Dawson 0. Clark on Name. __ November 18, 1920, the same day he City was discharged from the hospital. Street _.. Vocational training developed him into | State .County 338th Aero Sqdrn. and Prov. M. P. Co., a first-class photographer, which profes- Charlotte, N. C.—Reunion of former members sion he follows. Hospitals have known of both outfits. Homer R. Ostrander, 91 N. Brook St.. Geneva. N. Y. him in the past eight years—seven long U. S. S. Rhode Island—Reunion of former months having been spent at Waukesha, crew. Sumner W. Leighton, 1118 S. Elm- GERMS ARE ALWAYS FOUND wood av.. Oak Park, 111. Wisconsin—but he hopes to stay on top WITH DANDRUFF U. S. S. South Dakota—Reunion of former now and some day tell his grandchildren crew. Philip T. Wallace, 14 Edwin St., Brook- war stories, and we heartily echo his hope. line, Mass. U. S. S. Wilhelmina—Reunion of former GLOVER'S crew. Dr. M. M. Sorenson. 1506 State St., Ra- cine, Wise. May 9. Carlton E. Dunn, York City. AjH. easily adjusted—how different Kelly, chairman of the Reunions Com- New J. Seventh Div. Copies of limited special edi- ^Kf? from the old torturing, plaster- — mittee for the convention. His address tion of History of Seventh Division, auto- {r/ leather and celluloid j'ac- graphed by Generals Bullard and Wittenmyer. pP[ kefs or steel braces. is in care of the Department of Street r Every sufferer with a weak- may be obtained for six dollars from Addison Railways, St. Shoemaker St., Philadelphia. ened, injured, diseased Jean and B. Freeman, 1808 Chestnut. or deformed spine Streets, Detroit, Michigan. Pa. Connecticut Post of the owes it to himself to 29th Div. Assoc.—A The following outfits are already lined investigate. Doctors 29th Div. Assoc. has been organized. Geo. F. 3fe« Klopfer, secy., 70 Girard av., New Haven. . recommend it. Price for meetings in Detroit, September I t up IK u it bin reach of all. Conn. 21st to 24th, and detailed information 30th Div.—Former members are requested Send for Information ^gfy may be obtained from the men whose to send pictures, reports and stories of divi- Di-serilM; your case so we can sion's activities to E. A. Murphy. Lepanto, give you definite informal inn names and addresses are given divisional history. at once. Ark., who is writing 37th Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc. Annual PHILO 8URT MFG. CO. Third Div.—Special reunion. Ed. Boivin, — Montgomery, Ala., 92 17 Odd Follows Too, |, I. adjt., 230 Schenectady av., Brooklyn, N. Y. convention and reunion. JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

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Nov. 9-H. Complete history of division, two 17TH Enc.hs. — Central Ohio veterans have volumes and maps, may be obtained without organized with headquarters at Columbus. L. New Million Dollar cost by former members. John Edwards, secy.- H. McReynolds, 359 Clinton st., Columbus. Ohio. treas., 329 Stoneman bldj;., Columbus, Ohio. 34th Encus. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion 42d (Rainbow) Div. VtTS. Assoc., New Triangle Park, Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 6. George YORK Chapter—Annual ball. Pennsylvania Remple. secy., 1225 Alberta st., Dayton. CAN OPENER Hotel. New York City. May 1. Theodore L. 306TH F. S. Bn.—Annual reunion, Rochester. While, Jr., pres., 69th Regt. Armory, 68 Lex- N. Y.. last week in May. J. C. Schulz, 39 ington av.. New York City. Aberdeen st., Rochester, N. Y. 42d (Rainbow) Div. Vets., Indiana Chap- 401st Telegraph Bn.—To complete roster ter—Annual convention, Indianapolis, Ind.. and to obtain information regarding reunion May 23-24. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall as truest. in Boston. Mass., in June, former members John M. Caylor, 619 Meyer-Kiser Bank bldg., write to William J. Sullivan, secy., 50 Oliver 1 ndian&pblis. st.. Boston. 80th Div.—Comi>let>' set of The Bayonet, Third Trench Mortar Btry.. Third Div.— official publication of division at Camp Lee, Reunion, New York City, July 20. Barney has been presented to the Congressional Li- Gallitelli, secy., 294 17th st., Brooklyn. N. Y. brary at. Washington, D. C. by Arnold W. Vets. Assoc. of Air Sehv. Mech. Regts.— Wetsel, 341 Madison av.. New York City. For- Sixth annual reunion, Detroit, Mich., Aug. 27- mer members in need of official records at any 29. Thomas J. Leary, secy.-treas., 7141 Jeffrey time may write to the library. av.. Chicago. 111. 91st (Wild West) Div,—"Back to the Chemical Warfare Serv., Lakehurst Prov- A'o More Stabbing and Hacking! Front" reunion in Paris. France, including ing Grounds—Former members, particularly Just a Twixt-of-tlie-\Vr ist Opens tours of England. Belgium, Germany and of Company C, interested in proposed reunion, Square, Hound or Oval Cans. France. Leaving Pacific Coast on Aug. 14, write to Nat Jacobs, Drawer L, Hollidays Cove, sailing on Leviathan, Aug. 19. Returning to W. Va. San Francisco Sept. 25. For particulars, write USAAC'S—U. S. Army Amb. Serv. conven- Brings Fortunes to to George P. Miller. 451 Central av„ Alameda, tion and reunion, Atlantic City, N. J., July Calif. 15-19. John H. Fetter, Hotel Jefferson, At- 20th Inf. Vets. Assoc.— Fourth annual re- lantic City. Agents-™*6y*8;:Hour unon, Reeds Springs. Mo.. Aug. 27-30. Men American Field Serv. —Annual reunion, At- Tull Spare Time of 42d, 43d and 70th Regiments also invited. lantic City, N. J., July 15-19. Albert E. Herr- or E. E. Wilson, comdr.. 1934 23d st.-A, Moline, 111. mann, natl. comdr., Usaac's, 1625 W. Diamond TMAGINE a little automatic machine that opens 312th Inf. Assoc.. 78th Div.—Annual regi- st., Philadelphia. Pa. A any shape can, round, square or oval, in a couple mental dinner and reunion, at the Newark Elks A. A. S. — Annual convention, Atlantic City, of seconds at a mere twist of the wrist ! Holds the can Club House. Newark. N. J.. May 16. John A. N. J„ July 15-19. Lyle C. Jordan, Hotel Jef- for you, and cuts out the entire top. slick, smooth

Filzsimmons, general secretary, 620 High St., ferson, Atlantic City. and clean, inside the rim —juices can't spill ! No Newark. Italian Contingent, USAAS—Reunion. At- jagged edges to snag your fingers. All food pours 355th Inf.—Annual reunion. Grand Island, lantic City. N. J.. July 15-18. Wilbur P. Hun- right out without scraping or spooning! No wonder Neb., Oct. 15. Oscar Roeser, 1408 W. Koenig ter. 5315 Chestnut St.. Philadelphia. Pa. Speedo representatives have sold to every house in st.. Grand Island. French Mallet Reserve—Former members the block and have made up to $6 and $8 in an hour I 28th In f.. Co. B— Former enlisted men. June. of the "gypsies of the A. E. F." interested in J. Williamson, Wise, made $5 his first hour. Mrs. 1917. to July. 1918. report to Capt. Clarence R. proposed reunion, address Howard T. Wiggers. Spain. Kans., made $9 her first afternoon. Duncan. Mont., rk-aned up $17 his first day. OrnolT. Va., $522 his toll Oliver Committee, 262 E. 13th St., Elmira 432 Main St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. month. You, too, can make big money with Speedo. Heights, N. Y. Amer. Forces in Germany— Limited number 103n Inf., Co. M—Former membei-s, to com- of copies of Review of the American Forces Write for Free Test Offer notice 1931 re- still available. Roster of officers, plete roster and receive of in Germany Whether you have ever sold anything before or not, learn union, write to George R. Caswell, 23 Chandler history of every organization, photographs. the facts about this new wonder-worker. We furnish everything St., Somerville, Mass. Two dollars. James G. Adams, 1236 Union st., including most novel demonstration outfit you ever saw. No 11th F. A. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Brooklyn, N. Y. experience needed. Not sold in stores. Three special selling plans for full-time or part-time workers. Act at once and you WUkes-Barre, Pa.. Sept. 6. R. C. Dickieson, Jefferson Barracks Post Hosp. and Ex- can test your profits FREE! secy., 4816 47th st.. Woodside. N. Y. amining Barracks Staff— Fourth annual re- 328th F. A.— Eighth annual reunion. Occi- union at Jefferson Barracks. Mo.. Sept. 5-7. CENTRAL STATES MANUFACTURING CO Dept. E-1004, 4500 St. Louis, dental Hotel. Muskegon. Mich., June 15-16. H. P. Riggin, 512 N. Pine St., Little Rock, Mary Avenue, Mo L. J. Lynch, adjt., 209 Elm St., S. W., Grand Ark. Rapids. Mich. 69th New York and 32n Michigan Volun- ^ Central Stales Mtg. Co., Dept. E-1004 I 4600 Mary Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 108th F. A.. Btrv. D—To complete roster, teer Regts.—First reunion at national en- I members write to Joseph P. Hopkins, campment of the United Spanish War Vet- Rush me your Free Test Offer. former 1 217 S. 47th st., Philadelphia. Pa. erans. New Orleans. La.. Sept. 6-10. Daniel P. Name 108th F. A., Btry. E— Proposed reunion, Sullivan, past comdr.. 2384 Marion av.. Bronx. Garvin, City, or Robert Rattray. Dept. Q. M.. Harrisburg. Pa., in May. Harry A. New York Address 1905 E. Allegheny av.. Philadelphia. Pa. 749 State Office bldg., Lansing. Mich. J 305th F. A.. Btry. B—Members interested in Town State Company Clerk J proposed reunion, write to Frank J. Wiesner, The l [ J Chech here if interested only in one for your home. 8970 213th st.. Queens Village, N. Y. JOHN J. NOLL ACCOUNTING Teamwork New Revised Course Thousands of ambitious men are Continued from page 35) earning more money today because they know Accounting. mm Send for new booklet, f The Ac- knee so badly he had to go to bed. In defeat Robert Scott in the semi-finals countant — Who he is, What he fact, he would have defaulted had not and W. G. Brownlow in the finals and does, How to become one," and his adversary in a letter defaulted to him won the amateur title for the first time first lesson of new revised Course. Both sent free. In reply please first. So he stayed in bed and the second it had been captured by an American in state age and position. him to day hobbled out to beat a second-rate over twenty years, they hoisted Internatioirial Accountants Society, inc. Englishman. The next morning he was their shoulders and carried him half a A Division of the A LEX AN!>ER HAMILTON INSTITUTE better, and to the huge surprise of a large mile to the clubhouse with songs and Dep. 205, 34 1 1 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago, HI. gallery, including the winner, defeated cheers. Ouimet in a really great match. Only a few of the natives realized that Then one by one the Americans fell to the end the American side was to- out. first Gardner, then Chick Evans, gether as a team, rooting and helping the UNIFORMS then Von Elm. then Guildford, then weakest member carry off Britain's most WRITE FOR Jones. Eventually the hopes of the prized golfing trophy. The spirit of team- CATALOG No. SO. team centered on the pain-wrecked fig- play had overcome the disabilities of the ALUMINUM HELMETS ure of Jess Sweet ser. So the entire team individual; it was the deciding factor in POLISHED OR ANY COLOR got behind him to pull him along to the ultimate triumph of this plucky and GEORGE EVANS&Co- victory. They assisted by tuning up his courageous golfer. He couldn't have won 132 N. FIFTH ST.- A.L.DEPT - PHILADELPHIA. midiron play in the evening after din- alone. the individual athlete ner—it stays light late in Scotland in As never before July—they checked up each day on his is magnified and glorified in the daily next adversary's strong and weak points, press until modern sport, to the casual they even massaged his weak knee in an observer, is a yearly kaleidoscope of attempt to keep him well and ht. They famous names. To the average follower cheered him off the course with song of the Olympic Games, for instance, it and story, they kept up his spirits in has always been an axiom that our great the most trying situations of a match, stars of track and field were the ones to they encouraged him by pointing out place the American flag at the peak in that sick men are dangerous men in any every one of the games since the first Good and sporting contest. When he went on to of them all in ( Continued on page 50) Good for You. 49 MAY. 1 93 : —

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Miniature Athens in 1896. Actually this is incor- ing toward the ultimate success of the rect. Not our stars, but the vast number expedition. Several thousand feet higher of steady performers winning third, up another shelter was constructed. The po$t fourth and fifth places have pulled us to party dwindled. Still the rest went on, the front. up and over the famous Rongbuk Gla- Thus in 1924 we won only 12 out of cier, 1,200 feet along a sheer wall by COLORS thirty firsts in the track and field events. steps cut into the ice, through an im- The individual stars were the great Fin- mense crack and up this ice chimney nish distance runners. Ritola, Nurmi and until they were on the great ice cliff of Steenroos. Between them they won Everest with the peak directly ahead. every distance race on the programme. Windy Ridge Camp, their final secure Yet, thanks to our well balanced team, shelter, was constructed at 25,000 feet. thanks to our second string men, our There more tents, more supplies kept hurdlers and sprinters and weight throw- coming over that endless human chain ers, we scored 94 points, while Finland from the base camp in the valley far with three or four stars scored 34. In below. Smaller now, the party moved 1928 the same situation was repeated. forward to a height of 27,000 feet, where We scored 131 points and Finland the highest bivouac was established and scored 62. In 1924 in Paris we won the preparations made for the last dash to eight-oared crew race, the lawn tennis, the summit. Below, a photographer was men's and women's swimming events, ready with long-distance lenses trained rugby football, rifle shooting, trap shoot- on the summit above. ing, and boxing. No nation could stand By now the natives had long been against such teamwork. left behind. Only three Englishmen But of all the epics of teamwork the Norton, Mallory and Irvine—remained. greatest is the Epic of Everest. Here Each one carried an oxygen tank on his were two hundred individuals, native back; without this aid they would have Indians and Englishmen, starting out lacked breath to go on in the rarified from Darjeeling, in the foothills of the atmosphere. As it was every step meant Himalayas, to subdue the tallest moun- exhaustion, fatigue, weariness. At 29,400 tain in the world. Porters and carriers, feet Colonel Norton sinks to earth, com- doctors and photographers, bearers and pletely done. Two men left. For just a guides—all this crowd merely to help second the summit is exposed in all its one or two men climb higher than mor- grandeur before them, bare of ice and tal has ever climbed before. Slowly they snow because of the terrific gale which marched across Tibet from Darjeeling, sweeps across the cone day and night. and at the foot of the mountain, even The goal is at hand—they have all but Miniature American Legion then 12,000 feet above sea level, they conquered Everest, mightiest of moun- pitched their base camp at the head of tains. Only a few hundred feet are left. Post Colors designed for the East Rongbuk Glacier, leaving Slowly, painfully they stagger up, higher your personal use at seventy-five porters and helpers under than any human has ever climbed be- the command of an English director. fore, up. up until suddenly a thick cloud home or the office ! Each set Mules and carts now abandoned, the swirls across the summit. The two black consists of 8 x 12-inch long, long climb began. At 16,000 feet figures are lost to those watching with silk U. S. and Legion Post No. 1 Camp was established. Here fifty telescopes below. They vanish, never to flags (unlettered) fringed, men were left hauling supplies from be- be seen again. low, erecting a hospital tent and work- That's teamwork. and mounted on 18-inch ebonized staff with gilded spear. A specially designed holder is included. When Jifr. "Baker zMade War

Mail the coupon immediately ( Continued from page 25) for prompt delivery. Bliss stated, as Pershing had, that the thorough cablegram which might well result of the conference was that "it have been circulated at home as an was unanimously agreed that the United answer to the rising criticism of the Emblem Division, The American Legion States should, as its minimum effort, failure of our munition plants to supply 777 N. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana send to France as rapidly as possible our troops with artillery. The early

Gentlemen : Please forward immediately one four complete corps of six divisions each French and British assurances that we complete stand of Miniature Post Colors. or twenty-four divisions in all; the last could depend upon them for both guns Ship C. O. D. division to arrive not later than the end and machine guns had been fully justi- I am enclosing herewith check for $1.25 of June, 1918." fied. Bliss said that Perkins, of our War Name. To have placed these cablegrams Industries Board, and the ministers of before our people would have been a munitions of France and England, had Street. revelation of the problem which Luden- gone over the situation carefully with this dorff's new system of tactics had pre- result Tow ii Stale sented to us; and he would have pub- "The representatives of Great Britain lished it to all his troops when he was and France state that their production I belong to Post_ -Dept. of_ beginning to drill for the Western offen- of artillery, field, medium and heavy, is sive as proof of Allied alarm and of now established on so large a scale that certainty of victory if they learned their they are able to equip completely all lessons well. American divisions as they arrive in But there was one portion of Bliss's France during the year 1918 with the

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best makes of British and French guns order to compel us to sue for peace. No and howitzers." German submarine had come to test the In fact, in order to save tonnage, the efficiency of the mine fields of our har- British and French preferred to supply bors or to give our coast artillery an us with artillery. But we must send alarm. them sufficient raw material for their Our Navy's barrier was not on our manufacture, which we could easily do own coast but three thousand miles if we had the shipping. They asked us away on the coast of Europe. The Make that we should keep the British shell trenches, where our soldiers were need- plants in the United States in full activ- ed, were on the other side of our Navy's Pitchers Afraid ity and concentrate on our own produc- patrol. It was a world war, and so in a of Your Slugging tion of shells and high explosives. They far larger sense since Caporetto. a land booklet tells how would supply all the guns if we supple- war on continental spaces, a sea war on FREE mented their own production of propel- all the seas. The reinforcements in men Improve your hitting by reading this FREE booklet. It lays bare the secrets of batting lants. and material must cross the seas when known by Babe Ruth. Hack Wilson. Al Sim- This call for the twenty-four divisions submarines lurked in the sea-paths. Thus mons, and other famous slusprers. disposed of the Allied plea in April, the problem of how to get the soldiers "Famous Sluggers of 1930" eives you the battins: records and photographs of r>0 lead- 1917, that we need send over only a to the front and how to maintain them ing batters of 1930, and tells how to get power into your own swing, how to lay division to show the flag; or Tardieu's there involved all the transport facilities - down a bunt, how to time your swing , how view in August that we were expected of the world. to place your hits. only to give the final kick to the stag- A nation whose armies are to fight A copy of this authoritative booklet is FREE for the asking. As the supply is limited gering enemy. overseas neglects the primary element if write at once to: The Hillerich & Bradsby Inc.. Finzer St.. Louisville, Ky. The War Department's highest esti- it neglects transport. And her sea trans- Co., 403 mate for our program, long before the port is in her merchant marine. Without Tardieu letter, had been for the dispatch it, if we had a strong Navy, our home Louisville Slugger of six hundred and forty-three thousand defense was secure; but without it an Bats men by June, 101S. We had not been enemy overseas was beyond our reach. used by practically all professional players able to keep up to that schedule. Twenty- The very lack of ocean transport pre- four of our big divisions, being double vented us from any military aggression the strength of the German or French against an overseas nation, which was UNIFORMS divisions, represented a total force equal contrary to our interest and policy, in OF to that of the Germans before the Brit- keeping with our ethics and internal self- DISTINCTION ish army, as stated in the Tardieu letter, sufficiency. For Legion Bands, and a third of all before the French. Of the many shipping bills introduced Etc. Counting all auxiliaries and all special into the Congress after the War began, Drum Corps, service and technical troops Pershing one was talked to death at the close of Write for our new Legion wanted, we must have about one million, the 63d Congress, March 4, 1016, in a Catalogue Samples one hundred thousand men in France by remarkable marathonic record of a and Prices June, 1918. speech lasting sixty-five hours by Sen- CRADDOCK COMPANY ator Stone of Missouri. The debates on Fine Uniforms SO THE Caporetto disaster had brought subsequent legislation for which the Craddock Building, to the War Department a very acute President was pressing were more sec- Kansas City, Missouri reminder of the principle, which it had tional than partisan. The rest of the UNION MADE already so many reasons to appreciate, country outvoted the munition making America's Most Progressive Uniform House that the military power of a nation is and shipping area of the Eastern sea-

in ratio to the distance of the front board. When, on September 7. iqi6. at from the home base. Time was teach- the very end of the protracted and ing us not only the truth out of the stormy session of Congress, a shipping Quick Relief! Allies' experience that it took longer in act was passed, there was no thought in For rashes and all forms of itching, burn- the industrial age to make weapons and the Congressional mind, of course, that ing, disfiguring skin irritations. equipment than to drill men in their use, we should need ships to send soldiers or but our own experience was teaching our their supplies to France. It was cham- Cuticura Ointment nation with its mighty industrial power pioned as strictly peace legislation, a Price 26c. Sample free of "Cuticura," Dept. B, Maiden, Maes. and skill, which was neither military nor corollary of the National Defense Act maritime, that it takes even longer to and the greatest naval appropriation bill who derive build ships to transport the men and in our history. It created a Shipping largest profits know and heed munitions. Board of five commissioners to be ap- INVENTORS certain simple We had formed and trained the pointed by the President for the pur- but vital facts before applying for Patents. Our sent free. developing, and book Patent-Sense gives these facts : twenty-four divisions, the more than a pose of "encouraging, Write. million men, which the Allied creating a naval auxiliary and naval re- command- Lacey & Lacey, 635 F St., N. W., Dept. 8 ers had asked that we have in France by serve and a merchant marine to meet Wash., D. C. Estab. 1869 the end of June. 1918. This was the the requirements of the commerce of Numerous Legionnaire References army for home defense which had been the United States with its territories and urged by the preparedness campaign of possessions and^with foreign countries; igi5-'i6, and which had the support of to regulate carriers by water engaged in the President, who reversed his attitude the foreign and interstate commerce of in 1916. However, now that we were in the United States for other purposes." the war, we had no use for that force This was phraseology wistfully satis- TALKING PICTURES Fascinating Jobs, leading- to salaries of at home except to patrol bridges and to the ear, but without guarantee fying $fi0. $70 a week and up — in Service Work. munition works. that more ships would be the result. Broadcasting*. Talking Pictures, Wireless Oper- ating, etc. And Television is already here! Soon In spite of the of There was another provision which was there'll be a demand for Thousands of Television Experts. prophecies the imag- NO BOOKS — SO LESSONS inative in ioi5-'i6, as a reason for much more to the point as peace legis- Yoa qualify in 10 weeks— not by correspondence, bat by actual work on actual Radio, Television, Broadcasting raising an army, the Germans had sent lation for thoughtful men who were en- and Sound Equipment. No experience needed. Earn while you Learn. Fr.-e Employment H.-lp f-r M-' MAIL ColIFON NOW no aerial squadrons to bombard our sea- visioning our entry into the War. With FOR BIG FREE R A1>1'> AM* TELEVISION HOOK. port cities; and no landing force which the approval of the President the Ship- Radio Division. COYNE Electrical School, Dept. 51-1A H. C. Lewis. Pres.. 5O0 S. Paulina St., Chicago, HI. left detachments to police their ruins ping Board could subscribe to the stock Send me pour Rift Free Radio and Taleviaioo Book. This does not obliirate me in any way. while one army proceeded to the capture of a private shipbuilding and ship-op- of our munition center of Pittsburgh and erating corporation. So the act allowed Address another to our capital at Washington in the Government ( Continued on page 52) City State.

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ML. STOP When iMr. "Baker *Made War foot fatigue. ALLEN'S ( Continued from page 51 FOOT-EASE gives quick relief to tired, aching, swol- to go into the shipbuilding business; and had been busy with foreign contracts at len, perspiring feet. Get upon our entry into the War the Ship- war prices. Hurley immediately took the new convenient shaker ping Board did not have to wait on Con- over all shipyards in the United States top tin. gress to authorize it to organize the and all ships of over twenty-five hundred Sold Everywhere. A Foot-Ease Want- ing Doll sent Free. Address Allen's Emergency Fleet Corporation or to sub- dead weight tons under construction. This FooNEase. Le Roy. N. Y. scribe to fifty million dollars' worth of brought protests from other nations stock as its capital. through the State Department. Hurley ""Allen's But the act provided that the Corpora- held to his rule and the President backed tion should be run by a committee. One him. Exceptions were in favor of the committee was bad enough under war Allies, rather than neutrals. Arthur Bal- Foots Ease conditions, but two much worse. The four joined his influence to that of the thing was that the Board and Corpora- British shipping representatives, but tion should act in harmony. This, in yielded to the American viewpoint after turn, was dependent upon the human the War Sword, which was nearly com- $600 a Month equation. The Board had no legal right plete, and had been paid for in full, was to operate ships; that must be turned turned over to the British owners. over to the Corporation. As govern- with Amazing ment operation was imperative, the WERE performing industrial Fire WE Demonstration Emergency Fleet Corporation was act- magic. The magic of our skilled Men recoil in horror as gasoline ing as private workmen had its part in reconditioning flames leap toward the ceiling a corporation under au- then Rasp with astonishment as you thority from the President, which, as in the 700,000 tons of interned enemy ships smother them with a few drops of t he amazing new Fyr-Fyter liquid the case of the War Industries Board for our service. When the German crews that kills fire instantly. Actually might be considered "extra-legal" rather broke the cylinder heads their officers absorbs fire. Yet it is so utterly safe you can make this sensational dem- than legal. thought we would have to make new onstration right in home or office. J Puts out — raff- William cylinder heads, long Ten such demonstrations a day should flttHH fi re Denman was Chairman of which would take a hring you a Many Fyr- split second $50 week. the Shipping Board. In keeping with time. Our expert welders from our rail- Fyter men making $350 to $600 a month and more. No experience needed. We train you traditions, especially of unprepared road shops welded the fragments to- free. Write today for new profit facts. countries at the outset of war, we sought gether. All expert welders were doomed FYR-FYTER CO., 9-41 Fyr-Fyter Bldg., Dayton, 0. men famous for past achievements of to exemption. If one reached France in magnitude for all our great technical uniform he was put to work repairing ^RADIOW tasks. So Major General George W. locomotives which would pull other men Goethals, an engineer officer of the Army to the front. ard, nationally advertised brands ^^^iBaB^i^^ at wholesale prices. All merchandise who had been the third and final engi- There was industrial magic in cutting GUARANTEED. New 1931 Bargain Catalog NOW READY. Write to-day for FREE COPYI neer of the Panama Canal, was made in two lake steamers, too large to pass WHOLESALE RADIO SERVICE COMPANY. general manager of the Emergency Fleet the Welland Locks, joining the parts 38 Ve.ey St., Oopt. E-18, Now York, N. Y. Corporation. Denman was supposed to after they were through to steam down favor and Goethals to oppose wooden the St. Lawrence to service on the At- ships, but both were for as many steel lantic. Private shipyards on the lakes ships as could be built, and Goethals and coasts were expanded with the aid WMtAISRAISE CHINCHILLA approved the wooden ship contracts, as of government capital. Charles A. Stone AND NEW ZEALAND WHITE P^^^^ offering additional bottoms without lim- conceived a great shipbuilding plant on 11 & FUR RABBITS iting the output of steel bottoms. The the swamps of Hog Island. This vision, ^^^|^B. Make Big Money— We Supply Slock r difference between the two men was in- as in the case of so many visions in war ^ ^ AND CONTRACT FOR ALL YOU RAISE Paying up to $6.50 each. Large illustrated herent in their character. Soon the quar- days, was to be fulfilled. All the labor also copy of book, catalog and contract, rels of the Denman-Goethals factions that could be spared from the canton- Fur Farming Magazine, all for in cents. STAHL'S OUTDOOR ENTERPRISE CO., bo« 102 -a. Holmes Park, Mo. were brought into the open in a public ments, as they neared completion, was scandal. Goethals, who was a powerful wanted at Hog Island, and still no less executive unfitted by his Panama Canal wanted if any part of it were diverted to experience to act as second or a col- other construction enterprises. Hog Is- ToAnySuit! league in authority, went to the public land's enormous demand for materials \ Double the'life of your with his cause and brought the issue to further intensified competition for prior- coat and veBt with correctly matched pants. 100,000 patterns. a head. He wrote to the President say- ity. It was to have ways for the build- Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no "readymades." Our match sent FREE for your ing that he could not go on unless his ing of sixty-eight steel ships at once. O. K. before pants are made. Kit guaranteed. To house and feed the workers and to Send piece of cloth or vest today. authority was better defined. The Pres- SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS CO»P»NY ident carry on all its business required two Its So. Dearborn Street, Dept. 479. Chicago made an end of the row by accepting Goethals' resignation. There was hundred and fifty buildings, hospital, other work for Goethals to do in a field restaurants, offices, barracks, sewerage, in which his position had not become water, and telephone lines. Twenty loco- -AMERICA'S- compromised. motives and four hundred and sixty- The public call for more concentrated eight freight cars would be occupied in lotvertflrepr.ee* authority warranted the President in moving the material to the ways on spur turning all of his own power over to tracks which must be built. And this andother ~.iA% I Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone tire was just one plant in the industrial re- fl~ I Btandard rebuilt tires. Tireaaers who demand Edward N. Hurley, Denman's successor. mileage at lowest coat can get it buying from us. This reliable company. Est. In 1918. will .upply John E. Barber, whom Hurley sum- gions around Philadelphia where war you reconstructed a tandard tires at lowest prices at all times and guarantee 12 months service. moned as his assistant, let it be known contracts to the amount of two billions CORD TIRES BALLOON TIRES Size Tires Tubes Size Tires Tubes to all factions that where there was dis- of dollars were placed. 30x3^4 S2.25 11.00 2'.tx4.40 $2.30 $1.10 E> 31x4 2.95 1 . 1 2.40 cord Hurley held the complainant to be So reassuring was the news from the 32x4 2.9S 1.15 2.4S 1.20 37x4 2.9S 1.16 3il« I .'.15 2.90 1.36 theater of war on September 13, 1017, 3.50 1.15 28x5.26 2.9S 1.35 about ninety-eight per cent wrong. Any 3.20 1.45 311x6.25 2.9S 1.35 3.20 1.45 111x5.26 3.10 1.36 member of the Shipping Board, or of when work began on the Hog Island 34x4 J 3.45 1.45 311x6.77 3.20 1.40 3.60 1.75 32x6.00 3.20 1.40 the Fleet Corporation, who felt very swamp that our war extravagance 3.60 1.75 33x6.110 3.20 1.45 4.45 32x6.20 3.50 1.65 belligerent would be turned over to Pro- seemed, to many home observers, to have Send only $ 1 .00 deposit for i lor Fay balance C. O. D. 5 ,, discount cash vost who gone mad in spending vast sums which with order. Tires failing to give 12 months serv- Marshal General Crowder, ice will be replaced at half price. would have no result until long after YALE TIRE COMPANY would give him an opportunity for ac- 3983 So. Parkway, Dept. I 40, Chicago, III. tion in France. Many of our shipyards the war would probably be over. BE SATISFIED — ORDER FROM US 52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly I

Ships built in peace time are worn of Shipping, and representatives of the tHZISOSTAHTUMC out in service if they are not lost at British Admiralty and the Foreign Of- sea; but the submarine might make the fice, on November 9th and 10th. PROVES! s first voyage of any ship, old or new, or By November 20th the discussion t TIMf reconditioned enemy's, its last. Outside about shipping in the London meetings y QUICKfR of the war zone time charters had risen had extended its scope into a general Than Other from a dollar a deadweight ton in 1914 Anglo-American conference with the Water Heating Methods to thirteen dollars a ton in 1917, and in Earl of Curzon in the chair. All the the war zone from twenty to eighty dol- experts of the House mission, and Vis- lars; cotton freight rates from thirty-five count Milner, British War Minister, cents to six dollars a hundred pounds; Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Block-

the market value of ships from sixty to ade, and Sir J. P. Maclay, British Ship- three hundred dollars a ton. ping Controller, were present. Their MEN On August 8, 191 7, in face of the leap- business was to establish some sort of -WOMEN Here's the King ing costs of shipping, in which not only international committee with some kind of Sight Sellers! the neutral nations but many private of co-ordinated authority to control "the "Magical!' 'Mysterious!" "Almost Unreal!" firms of the Allies were profiting, it whole of the tonnage available to the thousnndswho gasp in amazement at the light- was recommended the Council of Allies," and to determine what was "the ning-likeactionofthcnewLUXEl.ECTRlCVVArER by HEATER which boils water steaming, stilling hot National Defense's Shipping Committee best use to be made of the neutral ship- instantly: Entirely new principle. No clu mi. .tl action—no fire— no fussing, no waiting. Simply that all ships should be requisitioned by ping available to the Allies." drop LUX in water, plug in light socket and—zoom! Cold water made piping hot in split seconds! LOW the Shipping Board. The Board acted The idea of an Allied shipping com- COST—EVERY HOME CAN AFFORD LUX.

promptly. "There was mittee was not new, as Curzon reminded N«w, PROFIT-SHARING .. . - - nothing to do," ' Plan Agents. No said Sales for Hurley, "but to own or control the Americans who arrived with fresh Investment. every ship that flew enthusiasm for I*ttx is a necessity eve the American flag a program that seemed where. Dynamic d and fix the scale of requisition rates our- so obvious to the outsider. The idea stration clinches sales in 2 minutes. selves at some fair level below that pre- had failed, as Curzon had said, for rea- Free Offer vailing Up to St. 95 Cash In Ad- in the market, a level that rep- sons that still applied. Britain would vance Evory Sale. resented legitimate values." not submit her shipping, which he stated Write at once for full The owners information, facts and proof. jlid aluminum, 8 ft. of requisitioned ships became operators was four-fifths of the whole, to interna- w.it.rnroof cord furnished. Lux-Viscl Company For both AC and DC current. for the Fleet Corporation; the Govern- tional control, because it would lead to 58 Jackson St. Elkhart, Ind. Guaranteed. ment assumed the risk of loss. inter-Allied friction and it was already As the object of all shipbuilding, of entirely at the service of the Allies as a the reconditioning of interned enemy whole. Lord Robert Cecil said that the ships, present system not working well, HOME-STUDY and of securing any additional was shipping from any quarter was the in- and he was for control or anything that BUSINESS TRAININGS crease of our army power in France, would work better. Of course real con- Your opportunity can never be bigger than your and we were behind our schedule, Ba- trol meant pooling all the ships the preparation. Prepare now and reap the rewards in earlier and larger success. Free 6-1-Page Books Tell ker's interest in our shipping program Allies could gather. By this time Colby How. Write now for book you want, or mail coupon was intense. Pershing was naturally press- also had concluded that pooling was with your name and address in margin today. ing to impracticable, that the forthright O Higher Accountancy O Business Mgm't know ahead how many men and and O Mod. Salesmanship O Business Corres. what quantity of supplies he could expect requisitioning of neutral shipping was O Traffic Management O Credit and Collection O Law : Degree of LL.B. Correspondence month by month in the future. Previs- not yet practicable. America would not O Commercial Law O Modern Foremanship O Industria iMgm't O Personnel Mgm't ion even for one month ahead was agree to control in London, he said, or O Ban king and Finance O Expert Bookkeeping dependent on the time taken in loading London to control in Washington. The O Telegraphy O C. P. A. Coaching U Rail. Station Mgm't O Business English and unloading, so uncertain to estimate best that we could do was to send a O Railway Accounting O Commercial Spanish O Paper Salesmanship O Effective Speaking on the other side; and it was dependent representative to London to sit in with SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITV upon a foreknowledge of the English in the allocation of Allied LA how many Dept. 536 l-R Chicago ships would be sunk by submarines the shipping. Raymond B. Stevens was next month. In September, 1917, we had chosen by the President. o © 177,000 deadweight tons serving the Bliss reported in his cablegram urging c LE6ION UNIFORMS r A. E. F. and submarine destruction of the twenty-four division plan that this We specialize in American Legion 2 the world's shipping was four hundred resolution was adopted by the inter- i? uniforms. Write today for our special i? 1? Legion catalog which is beautifully V and fifty-eight thousand tons, or twice Allied conference: 2 illustrated in colors. It's free to Le- gionnaires and no obligation. the amount the world was building that "The Allies considering the means of ^ — ^ S. Abrahams & Co., Inc. month. At this rate, all that maritime transport at their disposal, as f\ would save ^ Juniper and Vine Sis., Ph. la., Pa. Q us from the eventuality of having our well as the provisions which they dis- C .© army cut off was such wholesale build- pose of, should be utilized in common ing as Hog Island or overcoming the for the pursuit of the war, have decided submarine. It was our faith in these two to create an inter-Allied organization for tfeduceYouxVfaistline elements that warranted us in sending the purpose of co-ordinating their action more troops to France. to this effect, and of establishing a com-

On October 17, 191 7, seven days be- mon program, constantly up to date, fore the Caporetto disaster, Hurley enabling them by the maximum utiliza- reported to Baker that if all urgent needs tion of their resources to restrict their were supplied by American bottoms it importations with a view to liberating would take 900 ships with a deadweight the greatest amount of tonnage possible tonnage of 5,650,000. for the transportation of American So the shipping situation was bad troops." enough before Caporetto, and the House The estimate for the twenty-four di- mission started abroad. Bainbridge Col- vision plan was for 1,500,000 gross tons by, of our Shipping Board, had been additional by January 1, 1918; 300,000 IT'S surprising- how fast flesh grows at the but it's more surprising how quickly supplied with full information and ex- tons by March 1, 1918; and 200,000 by waistline, the LITTLE CORPORAL "EL A ST EX" Belt total of 2,000,000 pert assistance by the Board when the June 1, 1918, or a takes it off. Your comfort and appearance should President sent him as shipping repre- gross tons. come first. sentative on the House mission. It was Pershing in his cablegram, sent at the Don't let fat and fatigue discomfort you. It's your birthright to look and feel fine. Simply send time as Bliss's, said: under the shadow of the Caporetto dis- same waist measurement over underwear and $6.50. aster, with its premonition of another "A study of transportation facilities Money refunded if LITTLE CORPORAL doesn't please you. German thunderbolt, that Colby met shows sufficient American tonnage to with F. W. Lewis, of the British Ministry bring over this ( Continued on page 54) The Little Corporal Co., Dept. V5 1215 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, III. 53 MAY, i 93 1 — —!

Use Your Car to RaiseYour Pay/ When Mr. "Baker Made War (Continued from page 53)

number of troops, but to do so there other side formulating the extra effort mm must be a reduction in the amount al- expected from home in the twenty-four lotted to other than army needs. The division program. The call was for five use of shipping for commercial purposes hundred thousand more men than Per- must be curtailed as much as possible." shing had planned by June, 1018; and Pershing made no suggestion for reduc- the real blame for this as for all the ing the amount of material for building Allied troubles for three years was with railroads, docks, bases, depots, ware- the enemy's armies and submarines. houses, and all manner of plants in Meanwhile the Caporetto disaster theimileM Way France, whose quantity had so rapidly hampered keeping up with the original increased in the estimates of the A. E. F. schedule in which we were already be- If you have a car and a good reputation we'll back you with our capital in this paying business It was very difficult for a soldier, pre- hind. It laid a further burden on French of running a McNess "Store on Wheels." Earl occupied with a soldier's business of resources in co-operation with our army. Garlick of Penn., writes: "Without selling experience, I started a McNess business and doubled drilling and preparing his army and its French railroads and shipping had to my pay." needs, to realize what a vast amount of meet the sudden emergency of the trans- Hundreds of others are doing the same. Why not use your car to raise your pay? Fries of Illi- shipping must be occupied in all the port of British and French reinforce- nois, Aston of Idaho, Cook of Iowa, are just a complicated business of a world war. ments and munitions to Italy. The few of the men who Action must be taken to have the 1,500,- French army must hold in readiness a Make $50 to $150 a Week 000 tons withdrawn from the submarine larger reserve of rolling stock for a con- every week selling McNess Sealed Remedies, Quality Food Products, Toilet Articles, Brushes zone and all its errands in Europe and centration to meet a German drive on and Stock and Poultry Preparations. more distant waters, to American ports the French front. No Experience Needed by January 1st, as the days sped by to- With the submarine zone between the Many of our best dealers were formerly farmers, mechanics, teachers, etc. Our national advertis- ward spring weather, which would pre- two, there was a bottleneck in French ing, popular premiums and generous samples cipitate the German drive on the Western ports as well as in American. In Sep- make selling easy for you and help you make money right from the start. Business is perma- front. If Pershing were wrong and we tember troop ships were actually taking nent, pleasant and profitable, and grows bigger could not supply the shipping, then as long as nine cargo three every year. weeks and (G7 j We Supply Goodson Liberal Credit could and would Britain? months for a turn around. Speed in —to worthy men. We help you get into a paying It was to their assistance and the de- unloading ships in France was as impor- business of your own and make money by using our fense of their soil we were sending the tant in saving time in a turn around as capital. Write for details of new,double profit plan. Furst Thomas man power they requested. And the con- speed at home. The French army and & F^lvu. ference in London on shipping had gone French private interests were bound to no further than the resolution, which press for priority over the needs of an had a certain similarity to the resolu- army which was not yet in action. The tions of the many conventions in Wash- French port, municipal, and prefectural ington soon after our entry into the authorities had been under the strain of war. Bliss, who was familiar with their three years of war. Our State Depart- /VWShoesforOld! fine pledges of unity and readiness to ment had long communications for the serve, which had to be organized into War Department as to the system by Mystery Discovery Replaces Leather effectiveness, reminded the War Depart- which we should pay port dues for our discovery now replaces ANEW that it if transports cargo ships. Local leather for shoe soles. Cuts shoe ment must be insistent results and au- bills AGENTS in half. Imagine put ting on new were to be forthcoming. The quantity thorities even thought that regimental Boles right at liome without nailing Chance for $40 to $90 a week! New or sewing! Do a professional type job of shipping we might receive from Brit- trains in passing through their villages even better plan. No experi- than the average shoe- ence or capital maker! In live minutes! Without spe- needed. Foil or ain in the crisis when Britain must make and towns should pay octroi duties. cial tools! And at a mere fraction of Spare Time. Take the usual cost! Thesolea come cut to orders for shoe every man, ship and gun count, was re- There were many things to be settled size. Just stick 'emon. Light, flexible, solos and 47 other waterproof. Outwears3 pairsof leath- fast-selling House- lated to another passage in the note before the relations of the American er solos. hold Specialties. Send for Introductory ( iffcr. in Givesyou chance Write today for bier which Lloyd George had written, urg- Army France could be established on to get a pair FREE. FREE OUTFIT. Send your name and address today. ing America's prompt action: a regular working basis. KRISTEE MFC. CO., 335 BAR ST.. AKRON. OHIO "The American soldiers will not be If we were to unload ships rapidly on ready to fight as an army until late in the other side we must send labor and ave Your 1918. Our experience proves that mean- build docks. Why didn't Washington Feet while we must keep the fight going. send the labor and also the material for When all else fails end your suffer- with the flexible "no metal" Even half -trained American companies the docks? Labor also required trans- or battalions would fight well if mixed port and that we should feed it after it

( mil aooxtffr with two or three-year veterans. Beg H. arrived, and frequently house it, too; (House) to consider this favorably." and the material had to be provided, This inaugurated an era of bargaining, shipped by rail to an American port, complicated by alarms and interwoven and then wait for a ship. Naturally, the Hufao Arch E. Taylor BIdg, Louisville. Support Co. 7! M. Ky. with the ambitions and fears of states- staff in France, which saw itself as the men, generals and nations, which is a first scientific staff that the nation had subject that I shall treat as a whole ever had, was bound to view that an- FiltcpsaGaJlon later. It was disconcerting to War De- tiquated staff system in Washington as p partment and Allied plans. It was time- failing in its part, while the staff system \mj4Minutes consuming. Time, that very vital element in Washington had a problem which in had no precedent either for the British, Low Priced-Guaranteed war! Time, which hobbles the unprepared! A wasted hour might turn the French, German, Italian, or Russian Amazing new invention scale of victory. staff systems. It had to adapt itself to patented Home Filter for fruit juices and beverages. Noth- local conditions no less than other staffs. ing likeit. Removes all sediment, HpHE Secretary of War did not have to When at G. H. Q. I shared its irritations. pulp, fibres. Filters a gallon every 4 minutes. Perfect recall in military experts to explain the I had its viewpoint. When with the sults guaranteed. No moving parts. officers Simple. Practical. Low priced. Lasts news that came from Italy in the last troops and I heard what line a lifetime. Thousands already In use. week in October. Its serious import, so said about the G. H. Q. staff I shared FREE HOMETRIAL—Agents Wanted clearly written on the map, was a spur their irritations and had their viewpoint. Try free at our risk and return if not satis- to exertion all along the line. But it was During a month which I spent in the fied. Send name and address TODAY for full par- llcularsof thlsllbcral offer. Act NOW. AGENTSWANTED. four weeks before word came from the United States, December, 191 7, to Jan- HOME FILTER CO., 305 CENTRALAVE..BAYCITY.MICH.

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uary, 1918, I soon learned the viewpoint lish counties we had States which were of home. far more independent integers of our In French seaports I was reminded of national whole. New York harbor is the likeness to the critical period in the bounded by two States. Each wanted to Panama Canal project and the confusion help win the war, no doubt, but State at the port of Colon. The chaos of unfin- authority had clashed with State author- ished works across the twenty-mile strip ity and with national authority. There of the Isthmus was comparable with that were volunteer citizens' organizations, along ojr lines of communication in labor, shipping, and railroad organiza- France. The situation in Hoboken re- tions, and municipal authorities to be called on a larger scale that at Tampa considered. Sea and land were related in 1898 during the Spanish War. Amer- through the Army and Navy. The For MEN—WOMEN, Age 18-50 ican energy was crowding men and sup- Treasury Department had a hand. There IN or OUTSIDE WORK—LOCAL or TRAVELING If you want a steady Government Position where strikes, plies through the bottleneck on this side, were bitter complaints against incompe- hard times, polities, etc., will not affect you. where you tent superiors to be analyzed. Strong draw twelve months' pay every year, get on Unrle Sam's and the same brand of energy in the Payroll. Stop worrying, enjoy life. Pick the position you want, it belongs to you just as much as to anyone else. A. E. F. was trying to pull it through personal jealousies must be soothed. Why not get it? It is all up to you! Tho positions the bottleneck on the other side and then The demand was for one man, who described in this announcement are only a few of tho many desirahle ones obtainable. Fill out the coupon push it into the interior of France with was finally picked, in General Frank T. helow, mail it today, and full particulars will lie sent Immediately. utterly inadequate transport. Pershing Hines, another Regular of the type who SPECIAL AGENTS (Investigators) informed Washington in a cable that it would compose, under army authority, Start S'JOO Month Government Secret Service Work is a fascin- might be better to stop sending timber civilian and military co-operation. But ating branch of the service. These positions lo- for docks and send railroad cars instead. for the moment the best that could be cated throughout the country are both traveling and stationary. Salaries up to J5.000 yearly, Meanwhile he was hastening the repair done was that one board should take the and all traveling expenses paid while on the road. of French cars. He would communicate place of several. Baker did not pass the OUTDOOR POSITIONS Ideal, healthy, fascinating work, definitely when he had more information. buck to Hurley, who was driving the where you can enjoy the forests and mountain trails. The duties are shipbuilders, for re- pe- And Washington kept on getting out the or to the Navy not troling our Borders ami Forests, Game, Fish, and Fire Warden, furnishing in- timber while it considered how the rail- pairing the boilers of the big German acting as formation to tourists, etc. roads could spare rolling stock. liners and reconditioning them as trans- RURAL AM) CITY CARRIERS The fluctuations of the A. E. F. de- ports overnight. No administrative $1,400 to DCi.OOO Year Rural Mail Carrier easy, healthy work, short hours, mands were related to those of the Al- genius, but only ships could really solve with a large part of the day left to do as ho pleases. the Thousands of city positions for those who prefer in- lies and dictated all deliveries in place of problem. side work, delivering mail in office buildings. These the orderly routine of peace in private Some onlookers had confirmation of positions open to both country and city people. MEAT INSPECTORS business. For "over there" was the com- their views that a Secretary of War $1,500 to $1,800 Year and UP mand that speeded up production in any should be a "hard-boiled he-man" in- Farmers, butchers, or anyone witli a knowledge of live stock, food products, meats, etc., are in line plant and speeded factories and the rail- stead of a sentimental pacifist when for one of these position?. Salaries and promo- tions splendid Both men and women are eligible. roads in transportation of the A. E. F. Baker paused on the wharves to watch RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS requisitions. Once it had reached the the soldiers going over the Christmas $1,000 to $2,700 Year port, the railroad and producer's part presents from relatives to men in France. Ideal work for men who like to travel and see the country free. You are was finished. So supplies piled up at the Combustibles and perishables must be usually on duty four days and off four days, but paid for full time. ports. Articles for which the latest ca- removed and the packages securely You receive extra allowance for hotel expense when away from home and when old you are retired with a pension all blegram from France demanded urgent wrapped up again. Baker visualized which makes you comfortable the balance of your life. priority were behind stacks of material it meant that a package a mother had CUSTOMS INSPECTORS $2,100 Year to Start much nearer the ship's side. Finding the sent from Arizona, Maine, or a city flat, The duties are to check and inspect goods right man for the job, when we lacked should reach her boy in a French billet. brought into this country, levy the duties, etc., and see that Customs regulations arc war experience, was a besetting quest. As one of the party with him remarked not violated. This is very fascinating work with splendid salaries. Officers who had charge of loading the "If he gets any relaxation out of that, I EX-SERVICE MEN GIVEN PREFERENCE ships, under stinging reminders of the let him have it. Life is not one grand We Help Yon Get One

slow turn around, madly hastened load- holiday for him and his troubles are Ry. Mail Clerk ( ) Steno- Typist P. O. Laborer Immigrant Inspector ing in order to clear a ship for sea. And only beginning." But Christmas pres- ( ) H. F. D. Carrier ) Seamstress Special Agent Auditor big troubles found their way up to the ents when the A. E. F. was crying for ) Customs Inspector ) Prohibition Agt.

( ) City Mail Carrier ( S. Border Patrol Secretary of War. He might have en- essentials! That killjoy of priority would ) V. ( Meat Inspector Chauffeur joyed inspections of pleasant situations; hardly permit the presents to cross ( P. 0. Clerk Watchman ( File Clerk Skilled Laborer but the only time he had to spare away France to the billets in time. ( I General Clerk ) Postmaster

( ) Matron Typist from Washington was where part of it is ) a However, not in human compass INSTRUCTION BUREAU the general plan was failing of results. to explain all the mistakes that we made Dept. 460, St. Louis, Mo. Send me immediately, FREE, full particulars about positions So he answered an alarm sounded in the war. Mistakes were a part of the marked "X". Also your big list of other positions obtainable, salaries, locations, how to qualify, opportunities, etc. from the Hoboken wharves. General education when everybody was in a new NAME Francis J. Keman had worked out our school of experience. Only by making original transportation program, but not mistakes did we get ahead. We were at in contemplation of so large demands war and war is made at the front. The from the A. E. F. and least of all of the G. H. Q. was the front. It was respon- Caporetto disaster. The really big mis- sible for the lives of men; and for vic- CfPANCE IRONING take of the Secretary of War, Congress, tory in battle which would end all the CORD Pays Immense Profits the War Industries Board, Pershing, and expense and strain. Criticizing G. H. Q. the people of the United States, not to was simply not done, owing to the ex- PREVENTS SCORCHING — SAVES ELECTRICITY mention all the Allied commanders, was ample and order of the Secretary of CANNOT KINK OR SNARL 200* Profit! not to have foreseen Caporetto. Such War. Hudson made $75.00 15-minute sale to foresight should be included in future Yet even the new scientific staff sys- large Com- preparedness, thus removing from war of in lepnones. - tem G. H. Q. France might make Ve furnish proof. Two Dol.uxe nd (wo Low Priced models itiv the element of surprise and chance. And mistakes. Even it might be subject to you L'4 chances for sales where perhaps such an other salesmen have one. achievement would au- human frailties, to exhausted men and NEW KIND OF CORD tomatically abolish the stock exchange, shattered nerves. Indeed, as one who SET FREE Every Neverknot Salesman as all prices could be charted for a year was at great deal, while I is given free the beautiful G. H. Q. a DeT.uxe Neverknot Cord Set to iwith only Unbreakable come. rarely met staff officers who admitted Switch Plug of its kind in the World) which automat- Baker saw the Hoboken piers, where their own mistakes, I often heard them ically coils itself out of the way. prevents eoTchlost and production was banked up for the want descanting on the mistakes of their col- saves electric bills. Every woman buys this set instant- of ships, as another example of the need leagues, which was not surprising in the of concentrated authority in war time. course of a rapid expansion of inexpe- Imperlant! There Is only In place of French prefectures and Eng- rienced person- ( Continued on page this Company for oxclu 56) prices and bis free offer. NEVERKNOT CO., Dept. 5-0, 4503 Raven.wood, Chicago

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work. . . . Both French and British had a shortage of railroad cars. The are going to lean very hard on us, and value of the draft's classification of man- public opinion in both countries will clam- power was exemplified in the prepared-

or loudly for American assistance. . . . ness of the boards to respond to such Consider it of the utmost importance emergencies; but selection from the lists that our best troops be sent over. The took time and every bricklayer or car- National Guard divisions now here con- penter sent was taken from unfinished IT NEVER FAILS! tain a large percentage of raw material war construction at home, whose chiefs both in officers and men. It will take would have resented the loss for any The ease and certainty of opera- very hard and persistent work to get reason except "over there." All the me- tion, together with its ruggedness them in shape." He emphasized the "im- chanics, after being mobilized, must be portance of sending Regular divisions organized into construction squadrons qualities, distin- and lasting have here for our first line combat divisions under officers and given places on ships guished this American Legion in order to get more time for training which might have been transporting in- our National Guard and National Army fantry. When there were disasters at lighter from all others. Just a divisions." sea the A. E. F. had to wait until the press of your thumb on a tiny The Regular divisions, it should be articles lost were made and shipped said, were also largely composed of re- again. button and the lighter is at your cruits; but the idea was that they were Regular in name, discipline, and formed might be an American autoc- service. It never fails. THERE in the Regular spirit and tradition and racy in France, but on this side of the officered by chosen Regulars. Pershing Atlantic we were still a democracy, suggested relieving the Regular regiments which is not ordered from on high to go to war Here's in Hawaii and Panama, which were al- but went to war through emotion ready much reduced, with National and conviction. The Regular officer who Your Order Guard divisions. The answer was that served on the home background was re- Blank the War Department had "begun organ- ceiving his morning paper, he was in ization of Regular regiments into brigades touch with the popular mood. In a few Emblem Division and divisions about three weeks ago. The weeks he might learn more about his The American Legion Third Regular division will sail about own people than in all the years since January 1st, will followed West Point received him as plastic youth 777 North Meridian Street and be by other divisions. In case of any delay in to be formed into the classic military Indianapolis, Indiana Regular divisions the best of other di- mould. Gentlemen: Please forward im- visions will be sent to avoid loss of time. Or, if he were not learning this, co- mediately one American Legion The matter of relieving the Regular in- operation between the military and civil Lighter. fantry regiments at Panama and Hawaii worlds suffered. For important civilians now under consideration." This transfer with whom he dealt were not reserve Ship C. O. D. would take more shipping and was a fur- officers awkwardly saluting him as a su- lam enclosing herewith check ther tax on the railroads now unequal perior, and foremen and workmen were for $5.00. to the traffic. not sergeants, corporals, and privates in Unforeseen additional demands of the khaki. The throb of the wheels of indus- Name A. E. F., for which only the war was to try rather than the tramp of marching blame, interfered with keeping up the men was in his ears when his part was the humdrum, and so highly essential, Street schedule of regular troop movements. In early December Pershing asked for business of inspecting material, which four thousand aviation mechanics to be the recruit munition plants were turning Town State rushed to England; five thousand in out. He must make sure it was up to January; six thousand in February; and standard lest a premature shell burst at I belong to Post No thereafter fifteen thousand to be main- the muzzle of the gun and kill the gun tained permanently in England, where crew instead of enemy soldiers. Department of we should have to house and feed them. At the cantonments he conducted the This of itself was a force as large as we primary school of instruction for the re- had at Santiago in 1898. cruit raw material of man-power which

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was utterly ignorant of military forms. make as part of his contribution to The graduate school was in France. morale. Napoleon and other military a father to your Mothers and fathers of the men in the leaders, as he reminded his audience, Be cantonments were more than names on had said that war was three parts morale children ALWAYS cards to him. They and their friends, and one part force. Usually his speeches their clergymen and Congressmen vis- were near Washington, so that he would B eing mother to ited the camps. He had frequently to be away from his desk briefly. But your children is full-time job explain why it was that the boys who Cleveland was his home town. a lived within commuting distance might It was after the Caporetto disaster, for your wife. You wouldn't not sleep at home. as winter closed in and all the land felt ask her to be father, too. That's the ominous if undefined And he was training a different type portent of a your end of the bargain. of men from those of the peace time great German blow in the spring, that Regulars who were accustomed to drill his remarks to a meeting of college pres- Plan to see them through,

two or three hours a day. All the classes idents in Washington on May 5, 1917, always. The right kind of a life of in the came at war's appeared as having had prophetic ring men new army a insurance program will prom- call from civil occupations where they "Now we are at the beginning of this. ise them their mother's time had been used to eight or ten hours of We are going to have losses on the sea; labor a day. They unquestioningly ac- we are going to have losses in battle; and their father's protection as cepted the same number of hours of our communities are going to be sub- long as they need them — no training jected to the rigid discipline as the soldier's routine job; and of multi- matter what may happen to no Regular officer would slacken their in- plied personal griefs scattered all you. dustry by telling them that this was not through the community, and our feel- the usual thing for soldiers. ings are going to be torn and our nerves Our booklet, "This Matter If the primary lessons in America made raw." of Success," tells all about it. failed, then there would be failure in This was to the intellectual leaders of for France, and the primary lessons would the land, the heads of our great institu- Send your copy. fail if the spirit to endure the drill was tions of learning, who, at the time, felt not in the new soldiers who reflected, in particularly helpless as they were too old turn, the spirit of the people. Even in to fight and did not know how to make Germany the war lords understood this munitions. It carried conviction beyond Company factor. It was the constant care of the the mood of May, 191 7, when we still rance of Boston. Massachusetts German General Staff. Ludendorff often thought we might have to send only a Inquiry Bureau, 197 St., Mass. refers to its importance, and he recog- few regiments to show the flag in France Clarendon Boston, booklet, "This Matter nized the turn of the military tide against and the gesture of our power in the bal- Please send me your of Success." him when national morale began to ance against Germany might bring her break. The civilian Secretary of War to terms. Name

had reason to understand the difference Meanwhile, the British and American Address between leading and driving in a democ- navies had safeguarded us from the i.L.M. Over Sixty-Eight Years in Business racy. tragedy of a torpedoed troop transport. When Baker spoke to the graduates But, as our divisions continued to de- of the First Officers' Training Camp at part for "over there," we knew, after Fort Myer, August 13. 191 7. he had Caporetto, that we should have battle said: losses. In the winter of 191 7-18 our feel- 1CR0WN UNIFORM CO., "I want you always to remember that ings were being torn and our nerves mJ| 323 Fourth Ave. New York, N. Y. you are officers of a democratic army, touching the raw. A rigid discipline was UNIFORMS OF that discipline with us is not desired for upon civilians as well as upon soldiers DISTINCTION the creation of pleasant emotions in a and sailors, and the most settled and Legion Posts Corps man who gives an order and humiliation secure of us were being taken out of our — Drum and Bands in a man who receives it, but is desired habits. We looked for national leading Cataloguc t Sam pies, and Prices on for the purpose of executing the com- to the President. His County Antrim Request mon will and of preserving the common jaw was still more firmly set in his mes- right; in short, in the giving of an order sage to Congress on December 4, 191 7: you are the trustees of the common "Eight months have elapsed since I voice to execute the common will and last had the honor of addressing you. preserve the common safety. Therefore, They have been months crowded with your duty is to remember that the men events of immense and grave significance in the ranks, like yourselves, are citizens to us. ... I shall not go back to debate and members of a free people, that all the causes of the war. The intolerable the obedience and discipline necessary to wrongs done and planned against us by effect the common purpose are appro- the sinister masters of Germany have priate and proper; and yet that the hu- long since become too grossly obvious man relations in an army of free people and odious to every true American to

are important, and the surroundings, the need to be rehearsed. . . . As a nation welfare, the happiness, and the life of we are united in spirit and intention. I every man entrusted to your command, pay little heed to those who tell me is a part of the wealth of this nation otherwise. I hear the voices of dissent entrusted to you to use most carefully, who does not? I hear the criticism and and to return with the utmost safety the clamor of the noisily thoughtless and $1260 to $3400 Year you can." troublesome. I also see men here and EX-SERVICE MEN GET PREFERENCE To the doubtful who were still in- there flinging themselves in impotent dis- clined to a pacifist hesitation he said on loyalty against the calm and indomit- — / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. MEN 18 UP / Oepl. CI89 October 17th in a speech Cleveland: able power of the nation. I hear men Rochester. N. r. at STEADY WORK I Rush to of "There are some things dearer than debate peace who understand neither its / me. FREE Ma / charge. list of II. S. Govern- life. Would we call back the Continen- end nor the way in which we may obtain tJ raent big pay steady posi appointmentsannnh?tm«>nt<5 — 11:11 tal army? Would we take the sword of it with uplifted eyes and unbroken i~r»n*n/irm pmirtTlou ^ 32-pagfl hook describing Sal- COMMON EDUCATION -v ,„„.„, hours> workj ,,, Washington out of his hands and break spirits. USUALLY anil full particulars on hoiv to SUFFICIENT Ltlon Advise me it over our knee?" "But I know that none of these speaks c f fully regarding preference given to Kx Service men. Cleveland was far afield for him to go for the nation. They do not touch the Mail Coupon / today. Nome to make a speech, and speeches he must heart of any- ( Continued on page 58) SURE f

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thing. They may safely be left to strut that we were economizing to feed our

their uneasy hour and be forgotten. . . . Allies strengthened the fellowship of Our present and immediate task is to sacrifice in all things for the common win the war, This new self -massaging belt and nothing shall turn us cause. Hoover was the War's master only not makes you look aside from it until it is accomplished. propagandist. thinner INSTANTLY— but He stood for the relief of quickly takes off rolls of Every power and resource we possess, famine, and when he said "food would excess fat. whether of men, of money or material, win the war," our public in T"\IKT is weakeningi — drugs believed U are dangerous strenu- — is being devoted and will continue to be him, which was good statesmanship in ous reducing exercises are liable to strain your heart. devoted to that purpose until it is the early period. A safe method of reducing is massage. This achieved. Those who desire to bring We had come to a sterner period. We method sets up a vigor- ous circulation that about peace before that purpose is were learning that sea distances were not seems to rnelt away the achieved, I counsel to carry their voices the only limiting distances. England's surplus fat. The Weil Reducing Belt, made of elsewhere. We will not entertain it." advantage in bringing her force to bear special reducing rubber, produces exactly That appeal touched many angles of was not alone in the narrow space of the tiie same results a; skilled masseur, only opinion, plugged many holes of dissent. Channel. Her forty million people were quicker and cheaper. Every His pacific little island. move you make causes followers had the urgent on a Our one hundred mil- Weil Belt to gently massage necessity pictured by their own leader; lion were spread from coast to coast be- your abdomen. Results are rapU because this belt works for you his political opponents who had depre- tween the Canadian and Mexican bor- every second. his ders. Fat Replaced by Normal cated pacifism were fed the red meat Her coal mines, her steel plants, Tissue of combat which they craved. The dar- all her munition works, her camps, were From 4 to G inches of flabby fat usually vanish in just a few weeks. Only solid, normal tissue remains. The Weil ing ascent of the heights of Caporetto much nearer the seacoast than ours, Reducing Belt is endorsed by physicians because it not only takes off fat, but helps correct stomach disorders, by German divisions had dismissed nearer the mouth of the shorter funnel constipation, backache, shortness of breath, and puts another diplomatic hope. Wilson called which fed the rapacious hopper of war. sagging internal organs back into place. Write For lO-Day Trial Offer for a declaration of war against Austria- Steel billets had to be transported far- Send no money. Write at once for detailed description, testimonials from delighted users and particulars of our ll)-day trial offer. Hungary, whose military morale was re- ther to the rifle and gun maker in Amer- THE WEIL CO.. 585 Hill Street, New Haven, Connecticut covered now that her victorious troops ica than a new rifle from an English were on the banks of the Piave. factory to the front. Our grain had to Utmost in $ The question of how we were to bring go a thousand or two thousand miles be- all our resources and power to bear on fore it was at a port for transport to Comfort and Wear the enemy was becoming more acute Europe. England's labor was in a con- Builder challenge Another Trade to the world, in .sj. „ every day as our spirit became more gested area, quickly moved from one foot comfort and durability. A broad, roomy toe V._a» with a snug fitting ankle pattern supported by a united and better educated in military munition works to another. placed right steel arch. A foot form combination last in widths from AA realities. It required more imagination Her railroad system pointed toward to KJKE. Sizes 5 15. to Hours of for G. H. Q. in France to realize the the many ports of a seabound country, Comfort . . . Miles of Service. Ask your dealer. Sold by thousands. situation at home than for the people at dependent upon overseas trade. Our rail- M. T. SHAW, Inc. Dept. 1, abroad. roads were already stretched COLDWATER, MICHIGAN home to realize the situation to capac- For the minds of the people at home ity before we were in the War and were set on the front as the goal and calling for more equipment. Many of

! responsive to all the repercussions from our railroad equipment plants were Europe in affecting their daily lives. transformed into munition plants. Our — Europe, which had been so remote, now labor, which was usually occupied in kCM for you r became integrally intimate. Our for- maintenance, was building spur tracks, SPARE TIME tunes, our comforts, our national future, being alienated by the draft, and muni- were being settled three thousand miles tion work at high wages, or sent to Easy to take orders from friends, rela- away. France to serve the railroad system of tives, fellow employees for Davis fine- quality, tailor-made suits at $24.50 to We saw England as grim in winter the A. E. F. $45.00. Advertised in Saturday Evening strict There were not freight cars to Post. We supply instructions and $40 fog. Her people were on a food enough order outfit. Write quick for our plan. ration under police surveillance to save keep up with the transport of war mate- P. H. DAVIS TAILORING CO. tonnage for war supplies. Her women rial to the factories and the coast. Dept. C-3, Cincinnati, Ohio and children, too, were doing farm labor, Troops must not only be moved from START YOUR BUSINESS taking the places of the men at the front. home to camps and then from camps to OWN Her statesmen were reassuring the pub- the coast, but back and forth between The PLASTEX INDUSTRY needs manufacturers on small scale and for big production of Art Goods, Novel- lic with reports of larger grain reserves camps. That new master, "military ties, Souvenirs, Lamp Stands, etc., in Plastex and Marble than a year ago and of the immense in- necessity," had become a nation's train- Imitation. Experience unnecessary. Only water and plaster needed. Five cents' material makes one dollar articles. crease of acreage under cultivation. In dispatcher. An army order called for Rubber moulds furnished for speed production. Tremen- France rationing was related to morale. many unexpected routings of what would dous business done. We place orders and buy goods. Am- bitious men have chance for real prosperity. Interesting It must not be very severe. Food have been called "excursions" in peace. booklet mailed free. Plastex Industries, Dept. G, 108 5 Special units mobilized in Washington Avenue, New York. was not the principal concern of Luden- one place were dorff as he trained and mobilized his dispatched to other camps for further armies for the spring drive. It was more training, as new aviation fields and train- men, more guns, more killing and de- ing centers were established. Large num- \NEW Invention Makes stroying power. bers of men were sent from the wintry xm washing emf Our rationing was voluntary, saving North to camps vacated in the warmer Gyro washes cars clean without soap or chamois. our administration from the unpopular South by departing divisions. And the Attaches to uiyfrurderi hose. Water pressure revolves center brush, removing all dirt ami traffic (ilm. Eaves business of police regulations and divisions from the South waited, as iiiitoiHta. tiara Re a, AGENTS! queues waiting in line with their food pawns of "military necessity," in chilly cards. Voluntary dieting was one way Northern camps for troop ships delayed BIG MONEY II for every American to do his bit, a re- by storms or slow disembarkation "over Forceful demonstration helplessness Tor there." sells Gy-ro Brushes I lease from the sense of WltllOUt effort. Sensational | location of all of en- new plans make money lot you. many individuals. While we spared gas- The manner new 100% PROFIT. Get 1 oline for our cars, were now having terprises, as well as camps, meant of started right now. Write we AT ONCE for particu- meatless days and turning to warbread. itself much switching and disarrange- lars Freet It was all good war psychology. There ment of the peace transport system. In GY-RO BRUSH CO. was ample food at home, and the thought nine months the enormous and discon- Oepl E-32, Bloomfield. N.J .

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certing demands had greatly depreciated touchstone for all successful appeals. rolling stock, which had not been kept "The main urgent thing to be done," up since the World War began by peace- he said in his proclamation of January time renewals and repairs. Poor main- 18, 1918, "is to send to the American tenance and undermanning led to ineffi- forces abroad and to the Allies the food Make Colorcrete Products ciency. A railroad that was not in run- and war supplies which they vitally New Easy Fascinating down condition had lost caste. Railroad need. War munitions, food, manufac- Big Money for you-— part time or full time. No experience men were proud of what they had ac- tured articles of every description, lie necessary. Make them in 30 complished with engines and cars that at our Atlantic ports in tens of thousands colors and shades, and in 38 designs. They sell on sight, ought to be in the repair shops or the of tons, while literally hundreds of ships, many of them for 10 times cost to make. scrap heap. waiting loaded with war goods for our Learn how Mr. Crockett made Therefore, in face of the winter crisis men and the Allies, cannot take the $1,231. O'Shea of Pa. $780 with 2 designs, Kauble of Iowa and the call for the twenty-four division seas because their bunkers are empty of $2,000 with 3 molds, etc.. by plan, War Department plans had been coal. The coal to send them on their sending for Book on Colorcrete disrupted by the inadequacy of home way is waiting behind the congested Now is the time to act—before transport. The munition plants had a freight that has jammed all terminals." someone else beats you to this great opportunity for your reason for delay in keeping contracts The railroads must first have coal to city. Equipment as low as $30. because raw material did not arrive on carry material to the munitions plants, 15 days' free trial. Write today for book—32 pages of ways to time; and the General Staff reason for and the munitions plants must have coal make money. delay in meeting A. E. F. requisitions. to go on manufacturing. The soldiers COLORCRETE INDUSTRIES ) Ottawa Ave, Holland, Mich. /iy It had been proposed at the outset of must have it in their cantonments or the War that the Government should freeze. The wheels of industry, except take over the railroads, but the railroads those propelled by oil or water power, UK had accomplished remarkable co-opera- must have coal. As a public slogan coal tion by voluntary action which railroad now outranked food as the means of BE A experts thought was sound for the first winning the War. stage, though they now understood we Providence was not on our side in Traffic Manager had reached another stage. At first providing an open winter. The weather Big Pay—Big Opportunity Washington was testing public opinion was in a war mood. In regions where it in suggesting a limited control. The re- rarely touched zero the thermometer fre- Big business needs trained traffic sponse was in the temper of the hour. quently registered below zero. The men and pays them well. Train in The people were ready for the war time snows were heavy, and shoveling snow your spare time for this highly prof- measure which pooled all the railroads was in order for the soldiers at the can- itable, growing profession. to be run as if they were a single system. tonments where drifts covered the drill Low No dissent arose from stockholders and grounds. When there was no coal for cost; easy terms. managers of railroads which had to share ships ready to clear for France, the rail- Write now for valuable, interest- valuable terminals with competitors that roads of the Eastern United States, fighting 64-page book— FREE. had none or inferior ones in the great ing snow and ice, were almost paralyzed cities. Evolution had brought us one in the last days of January. Passenger LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY more dictatorship. Secretary of the trains between New York and Chicago Dept. 5361 -T, Chicago Treasury McAdoo, of the many jobs, and solid trains of supplies for the Allies had still another. He became the dic- were cancelled. Elsewhere, flood condi- 'A Price tator of all the railroads of America. tions were a menace, and production was |J£R

There was another shortage in the stopped in several mines. Ships which Save oi H'Rock Botb most vital material of all, which is waited for coal before they could leave Price on all standard off models-Underwood. Remir another reason why life not so pleas- port, when they had it, were held back ton. Royal, etc. -Easiest terms ever was fared. Also Portables at reduced prici ant at home or abroad. The nation by terrific storms. SEND NO MONEY All Into model, complete!; refinished which had formerly only worried about We were having workless as well as like brand new. Fullv Guaranteed Sent on 10 .lay.' trial. Send N< the prices charged for fuel worried heatless and meatless days. There had Money. Big Kree Catalog ebons actu- now al mkeninea in full colors. Greatest bar Bains ever olTered. Send at once I I about a sufficiency. In spite of all our been many kinds of holidays, but none 0 International Typewriter Exch., illt^i" cmtaVo' stores under the earth we had a coal so strange as that, when all industries famine. Such is human nature that the were suspended for five days by Fuel war dictator who enforces a schedule of Administrator Garfield, in order that the rationing inevitably becomes a target, railroads might catch up with the trans- UNIFORMS and Administrator Garfield had a "No" port of coal and supplies. It was reas- task which should have made him sym- suring to learn in a cablegram from For Leprion Diaim Corps and Bands. Write for NEW catalog pathetic with the Secretary of War. In Pershing that the soldiers of the A. E. F.. showing 8K tools. Gold mine agents. says Akcman. "Itusli for the difficult of this situation, and a day. easy." "complete patriotic co-operation'' in part fiOO HOT SHOTS," wires Kllnt. Write for FBI "Doubled my mileage," writes SAMPLE OFF his system of rationing. He asked it in yet that is one of the prices we pay Belckc. "HOT SHOT a wonder." Reardon Mfg. the name of our soldiers overseas, the for democracy. ( Continued on page 60) says Abbott. Car owners amazed. Acents cleaning up; part lime, Oept. OA5 full time. Peoria, III.

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NEW LOW PRICES zMr. "Baker 0 2.4S 1.20 public authority telegraphed abroad, of the East came news that recalled the 2.95 'JsxI.Tf. 2. 45 1.20 2 95 l'9xl,75 2.45 1.20 'Everybody act according to Rule 13.' ancient crusades. This time the Richard 2.95 :l"x 1.95 2.90 1.85 3.50 29x5.00 2.9S 1.85 It would be possible fix congres- 3.20 ililxo.OO 2.9S 1.36 to by Coeur de Lion was Allenby, released 3.20 '-'KX5.20 2.95 1.35 3.45 :i"x5.25 2.95 1.35 sional enactment a particular breakfast from the attrition of the Western front 30x5 3.60 31x5.25 3.10 1.35 33x5 3 60 30x5.77 3.20 1.40 hour for the human race and prescribe for a cavalryman's paradise, as he led .-15x5 4.4S 3iix6 HO 3.20 1.40 flll Other Sires 31xK.no 3.20 1.40 their conduct for every five minutes of his British soldiers into Jerusalem. DEALERS 82x6.00 3.20 1.40 33x6.00 3.20 1.45 the rest of the day; and in certain forms Sir Douglas Haig, commander-in-chief WANTED 82x6.20 3.50 1.65 Send onlyonij $1.00 deposit with each tire of government that is more or less pop- of the British in France, in his ordered. We ship balance CO. D. Deduct 6 army percent if cash in full accompanies order, ailing lOBive 12 months service will bo replaced at half price. ular amusement. report of summer operations, said: "The YORK TIRE & RUBBER CO., Dept. 648 "But one of the characteristics of additional strength which the enemy can 3855-59 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago, III, democracy is that it does not proceed obtain from the events in Russia and that way. It scatters its people; it allows Italy has already been discounted and them to go about here and there, seeking the ultimate destruction of the enemy 200% to 600% PROFIT by individual inspiration and unguided field forces brought perceptibly nearer." Every man buys. effort to find the avenue of their own Winter was always the period for Biggest money- highest opportunity and enjoyment. All peace talk in Berlin. Lord Lansdowne, maker in years. Big are busy about their own concerns, and of the British House of Peers, had given opportunity to earn then, when the national emergency it a lead this winter in his letter in late $50 to $100 comes, there is no Rule 13. Everybody November suggesting a peace of com- a Week has to ask somebody else, 'Well, what promise. The Germans chose the Christ- \ Karat Gold Plated are you going to do? What do you think mas period as favoring propaganda for The Crest Collar Layrite I can do?'" softening the enemy for Ludendorff's Invisible device keeps soft collars flat and free of Our people were beginning to under- coming blow on the Western front. The wrinkles. On in a jiffy. Eliminates starching, stand the necessity of Rule 13 and that Berlin press was admitting the need of l asts forever. Men buy several at one time. Sells for only 25 cents. Don't complain of hard times. everyone should do what his card told peace; the Kaiser was sending out feel- Here's sure-fire money-maker. No competition. Send 25 cents for sample and complete details. him to do. Fewer women were asking ers for a conference—when the Italians CREST SPECIALTY CO. where and how they might serve. They were so sore beset and America was 28 Crest Bldg., 227 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, III. were driving motor cars and taking storm-bound on the brink of shedding men's places in the factories and stores, the blood of her youth. as well as on the farms. "Germany's newest peace propaganda." Here's Your Opportunity p Baker made this statement in the same said Baker in his weekly review of the speech military situation, "viewed as a forerun- ,15 "I have made no careful search of my ner to an offensive in the West, unless a own mind on the subject, but I think I am German-made peace is accepted by the 1 end A New Ford Car Start at once. Send postal today} prepared to say that, if all the women Allies and the United States, should not formarveloaa offer. Introducemygora eoua and outstandingline of Guaranteed in America were to stop tonight doing for a moment induce us to slacken our Hosiery and Lingerie. 126 etylee and colors former., women. children. Amazingly Ion the things they are doing, and making preparations for war. The Germans re- 6 months satisfactory wear ruarantoed or new hose Free. Spare time brings enormous profits. the sacrifices and contributions they are alize that within a short time our armies Faonfe Pope, Ga. reports $10.25 profits La 2 bra.\ Hose for Personal Use Given. No ex- making toward the conduct of the war, will form the principal body of fresh Rerience needed. Wessburs of Illinois earned $194 i one week. New Selling Plans— simple, easy. Sellini equipment furnished. Send no money. Write quic we would have to withdraw from the strategic reserves remaining available on L. E. Wilkin, Gen. Mgr. Wilknit Hosiery Company' 195 Midway Greenfield, Ohio war. We would at least have to with- the battle fields of Europe. Our armies draw until we could bring about the constitute the reserve of victory." entire reorganization of our social and Yet the peace talk persisted. Pres- f STUDY AT HOME ident Wilson it his H JBSbm flnl^lflr Legally trained men win high industrial structure." met with "fourteen 1H MB WUnW Positions and big success in busi- JS«j§n nSsEHnSff ness and public life, Be independ- Allied censorship was keeping from points," which became the charter of SgSB AlJBk VBbHBT ent.Greater opportunities now than 959 fiBHn «BffW ever Delor«- »ig corpuratiorit, aro their publics and armies the astounding Allied aims throughout the rest of the mHt headedbymeDwtthlegaltraining.Eam flflB^jfifflBL iBr W |w_flpW_w $8,000 to $10,000 Annually fact that the American industrial titan War until the Armistice. Upon the return HRnn^l Wefruideyonatepbpbyatep. You can train at home dar- of Bliss Aw^H ing spare time. Deg-L»egrft' 01 LLi B. conferred. SucceBS- was crippled, but it was the cause of General from Europe. Baker had ^™™B™™6*^ ful graduates„_ in everyevi section of the United States. We famish all text material, including f ourt tun-volume Law Library. grave solicitude among the Allied states- before him the report of his Chief of Low cost, easy terms. Get our valuable 64-page "Law Guide" and "Evidence" books FREE. Send for tbem NOW. men who had discouraging reports of our Staff, who had been over the Allied sit- LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 536 Chicago 1-L our uation himself. It The World's Largest Business Training Institution situation. In the morning papers for covered every public had reason for optimism one day, point in Bliss's thorough fashion and on and for pessimism the next. The Ital- its margins are written Baker's direc- ians were reported to have gained ground tions as to action to be taken on each $ DAY in an attack, and to have lost another recommendation. The British Chief of Winston Staff crossed to the British ^s^^M50 With Tiny nine thousand prisoners. and French Churchill said the situation of the Allies fronts frequently to keep in touch with 'PHONE "MIKE" was perilous. Lloyd George, who knew the front. But in the seven days it took that it was, had lost none of his facility Bliss to cross the Atlantic conditions Agents are cleaning up everywhere with a phone attachment for cheerful public statement. One morn- were changing in the play of Allied pol- that looks like a radio mike. Absolutely controls all sounds In ing we were aghast at a horror that had itics and conflicting views as to where roar that your phone—ends tho an aspect more terrible than battle on the Western front the German blow keeps you from hearing clearly : makes it easy to hear even if losses. T. N. T. had become the very would be struck. your phone is in the noisiest factory. Yet also assures pri- symbol of concentrated material power Apprehension linked our suspense with vacy—talk unheard, with people within five feet of you! Write and And out how agents report earnings up to $30 in the depth charges against submarines, that of the Allies. The early volunteers a day and even more this tiny mechanical mystery. with and the drafted in our training Itig quantity orders from stores, offices, etc.: amazing in aerial bombs, in the shells that shat- men .sales plan doubles calls and sales. Write for FREE tered trenches and laid villages in ruins. camps, those "reserves of victory," were Introductory offer and amazing Sales Guarantee.

lira Si III. Standard Appliances. Inc., Dept. E-60, 71 W , Chicago. 60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthh 1 — '

Drum Corps, York Post No. 127, York, Pa. no longer wondering if they should see tration day and the landing of our first Pennsylvania State Champions, 1930 France, but when their turn to go would contingent in France was the day when Completely equipped by WEYMANN come. The question was if there would the first keel was laid at Hog Island. be enough of them and in time; if there Speed the building of ships; speed the were not, how long would the War last? - troops and supplies to "over there!" The extra shipping for the twenty- Our Navy had the great Leviathan four division program had not been with her first crowded passenger list in forthcoming. England insisted that if khaki on the way. Her deep draught she had it to spare she would not spare brought a problem for Liverpool, while it until some definite understanding as Brest was not ready for her yet. Other to how our man-power was to be used German liners had been also recondi-

came out of the negotiations between tioned and fitted out as transports. In Wa nieariize nnd equip complete SPECIAL bftndu. orchestras 01 string hniulsfor Pershing and the Allied commanders. December we had seven hundred and Lc-cion. School and Civic Orftanltft- The nation was gradually settling down eighty-six thousand deadweight tons of OUTFIT tiona. Sole diatributors for Keystone State Band Instruments. Ludwig Complete miiBical netruiuents to recognize that the two great essentials troop and cargo ships in the service of Drums. Kinp Band 1 and equipment for unit Saxophones. were man-power and shipping. Not coal, the A. E. F. and we transported forty- of 15 men KEYSTONE STATE not food, not loans, but a "Bridge to nine thousand men. In January we had 116 .00 PARADE BUGLE France" had now become the slogan for eight hundred and sixty-three thousand Write for details and New. long, rakish model, Special Bugle and stirring trumpet tone. a new national drive. The hand behind tons and had transported three thousand Orum Corps equip- Single Bugle, prepaid - $Q the rivet, Storms delays account- ment catalog. joining the ship's plates, be- fewer men. and Quantity prices on request ^ came the heroic of industry. ed for the decrease. At this rate we hand Hog H. A. WEYMANN & SON, Inc. Island was now far from a mad concep- should not have half a million by the Dept. LM-5, 10th and Filbert St... Philadelphia, Pa. tion of wild extravagance. Why had we end of May. The crisis at home was Musical Instrument Mfrs. Since 1864 been so long in starting it? Why had it mounting with that abroad—a crisis in been so slow in building? As significant the fortunes of the War Department. in its place and time as the draft regis- (To be continued) SMOOTH NEW CUTTING 25c CAN OPENER

makes can opening? a pleasure . Simple ^Advice and eaBy to use. Cuts top out completely of any size or shape can leavinK a. smooth eape all around. No tuna — no more ja«ged edtres-no nr re ( Continued from page 13) danger of cut lingers. New pntenU-d safety roll works like magic Safe- way does the work of expensive can opening machines yet retails for only harmful advice given than that which is the subject —even when the motive be- 2i>c. No wonder women everywhere are eager to buy. helpful. For instance, our acquaintances hind that ignorance is love and sym- AGENTS MAKE S8 TO S12 A DAY or friends often Get started at once. "Safe- way ' advise us what medi- pathy. can openers sell as fast as you can hand them out to homes and dealers. cines we should take for our ailments. I remember that years ago, in a back Packed on single cards or 12 on a beautiful self-selling counter display More often than not, this advice is dan- country Chinese town, I took the advice at*- Send $1.50 for dozen on dealer dis- gerous, for although well meant it comes of a wise official with whom I was stay- play or 25c for sample, including tul particulars. Write today! MASTERUTE MFG. CO. from people unfit to give medical advice. ing, when, just as I was opening the DEPT. OE 12 HO E. 23rd St., New York, N. V Especially dangerous is advice from old- door, he warned me not to go out. He er people—often relatives, loving friends, explained that a mad dog was running or business associates—who think tradi- about the streets. And a few minutes NewAdding Machine tionally in terms of past conditions, and later, a man who had not taken his advise us against newer, better methods, advice was severely bitten by the dog. Fits Vest Pocket! because these Adds, Babtracts, and figures jast like methods are different. On the other hand, I have escaped $300 machine — yet it costs only On the other hand, the man who never money losses in many instances by not $2.50. Weighs only 4 ounces. Not a toy — guaranteed for lifetime. Per- takes advice, averages to live a less suc- heeding the advice of well-meaning fectly accurate, lightning fast. Sells on sight to business men, storekeep' cessful life and a shorter life. The reason friends as to buying certain stocks. ers, homes — all who tise figures. for this is apparent: namely, that he Then, too, I know I am better off for Write at once for Free npCMTt Sample Offer and Mon- HUfcHI« does not profit by the experience of having rejected much well-intended busi- ey- Making Plan, 10055. Profit! C. M. CLEARY, Oept.215 303W. Monroe St., Chicago others, and therefore at best many of his ness advice, especially advice against experiments in living and doing are cost- using newer and unusual methods in ly and at times dangerous. business. I think we must conclude that advice Finally, I think that I sometimes is like medicine—good when given by my critics say "often"—do not take straight-thinking experts, and not to be good advice because I am not wise taken when given by people ignorant of enough to recognize that it is good.

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( Continued from page 31) $1260 to and, according to Post Vice Commander He flew over the town for fifteen or $3400 Year Glenn S. Aston, proceeded to forget twenty minutes, unable to locate his about their deed. Frank R. Kirk Post position. Then he flew over the long Become Railway had done what a Legion national con- building of the Crafton Lumber & Supply Postal Clerks vention had recommended that all posts Company and saw the name "Crafton" the painted Steady Work / do and knowledge of duty done was which the Legionnaires had upon Franklin Institute a sufficient reward. it. He immediately got his bearings, Paid / Dept. C 183 Rochester. N.Y. That deed was blessed by an aviator's located the Crafton field and landed his VaratinnsVdtdiiuns / Rush to mo free of charge, / 32 page b0()k w)th (]) A fu „ de . gratitude on a foggy and smoky day in passenger safely. Common edu- ' srription of the position checked he- 7 II. S. Government ralion ninallv low ;( 2 ) A list of cat.on usually A,a . the middle of this last winter. Captain The post archives now contain a letter ^ obta)nal)le; (3) Send fu „ ln sufficient Jack Morris, who flies regularly from expressing Captain Morris's apprecia- Mail & service men. coupon ...Railway Poml Clerk ($1900 to $27001 Rodgers Field in Crafton, took off from tion. Nothing ever looked better to him today— v> Postollice Clerk ($1700 lo $2300) Columbus, Ohio, with a passenger. When than the name on the roof, he said. SURE / ... Cily Mill Cirrier ($1700 lo S2I00) / ....Rural MailCerrier .($2100 lo $3400) also has Immigrant Inspector $2100 loS2900i he approached the Crafton district his Dalton (Massachusetts) Post / . / .Prohibition Agent ($2300 lo $2800> ceiling was only several hundred feet the satisfaction of knowing that the air Inspector ol Customs - ($2100 up) ' and there was absolutely no visibility. marker it paint- ( Continued on page 62) / Namev"

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ed after it had helped its town obtain an was third, with 20,815 members. Vir- This Remington Sheath Knife aviation field was instrumental in saving ginia, Tennessee, Missouri, North Dako- lives. is just what you need for tuintinc, fishing or camping trips. Post Commander Edward J. Nor- ta. Colorado, Michigan, Florida and 4 forged blade with strong, durable, keen- It has a 'A -Inch man, reports that this air cutting edge. Bone Stag handle and leather sheath. We will Jr., winter an Ohio also were over the top on March send you this knife liner carrying mail and passengers from 24th and others were near the top. Newark, New Jersey, to Montreal, Can- FREE ada, became hopelessly lost in fog after Ohio Sons and Daughters of charge on rereipt of only $ 1 leaving New York. o for a two-year subscription to 52-page "The Berkshire Hills Hunting & Fishinu, a are treacherous THE Ohio Department in February magazine crammed full monthly aircraft," of hunting, fishing, camping and for wrote Commander Nor- began enrolling sons and daughters trapping stories and pictures, man. "Far from his course, the air-mail of Legionnaires in auxiliary or- valuable information about guns, a new revolvers, fishing tackle, gamelaw pilot sighted our field and its marker and ganization which it called Legion-Heirs. changes, best places to get fish and gatne, etc. landed safely—on the only field marked Public and parochial schools co-operated Clip this adv. and mail today in Berkshire County." with $1.00 bill to with Legion posts in the enrollment and HUNTING & FISHING The National Americanism Commission in many cities parades were held. The Ml Transit Bldg.. Boston, Mass. of The American Legion will send to any boys and girls of the new society wore post on application a ribbons which iden- bulletin on the pro- tified them and were $350 a Week motion of air-landing carried in buses and fields by posts of The private automobiles in OWN Business American Legion. to meeting places. F. W. Tesnow, Benvyn. 111., earned $350 his best Children of service week. Many others make $125 to $200 a week with H-B Bug-Washer. E. Anderson, Cedar Grove, men not Legion- N. J., made $87.50 in 10 hours. C. J. White. Invitation Louisville, writes: "$100 business in 6 days- naires were accepted never a complaint." Harry Hill. Marseilles, 111., says: "Paid for home with rug-washer. PORTLAND, Ore- as provisional mem- Earned $75 first day." Frank Diedrich writes: "I started business with one H-B Rug-Washer. gon, sends word bers, to gain full Today I own large Milwaukee store it wants Amer- membership rights with 4 machines." Thousands earn- The ing quick, easy profits. Electricity ican Legion's nation- after their daddies does the work. Finishes rugs like* new on customer's al convention in had joined the Le- floor. Write for booklet. IQ32 and it is going gion. All members EASY TERMS to Detroit this au- were to receive a Inexpensive equi shop necessary, tumn to try to get book explaining the of customers in your vicinity and nearby towns—resi- dences, hotels, offices, schools, clubs, theaters. Backed it. The Pacific purposes of the Le- by$58,000,000 company. Used by S. Government. U. with its rose gardens, big for- gion and the new organization and a Send today (do obligation) for booklet illua- Northwest, CD»*-'*-»IT IT *»wm*.RaaIc * tratintr rug washer and telliner bow youcaneani general, large profits at prices below other methods: how you can build a ests and distinctive scenery in membership certificate signed by John

i permanent year around buninesB . and bow you can pay on . v terms. Eojoy a larger income. Mail a postcard or letter today— NOW. has never been convention host although A. Elden, Department Commander. H-B Co., W615S H. B. Bldg., Racine, Wis. most other sections have had the honor. "Portland will present a certified The Firing Line check for $25,000 along with its formal THAT STORY invitation," writes Carl R. Moser, Ad- UP-TO-DATE Daniel Boones and jutant of the Department of Oregon. Davy Crocketts are thick in the "This was assured when Governor Ju- Legion. In the Legion's First National YOU CANT lius L. Meier signed an appropriation Postal Rifle Match five hundred teams measure which was passed by the Ore- took part in preliminary department try- gon Legislature without a dissenting vote. outs and 189 teams entered the final FORGET The fund provided is the unexpended matches on February 28th and March portion of the state educational aid fund 1st. The Paul V. McNutt Trophy was YOU can read it again and again voted for Oregon's World War veterans won by the team of Vancouver, Wash- if you save your back issues of just after the war." ington, which also got first place last The American Legion Monthly. year in a national test match. The team Besides, back issues grow more Membership Gains of Frankford Post of Philadelphia won valuable with the years. Many com- second place. depression have re- mand premiums now. DROUTH and Frank J. Schneller, of Neenah, Wis- duced everything except debts — consin, National Director of Marksman- So bind every copy as you get it everything from the birth rate to income ship, is anxious to line up all Le- in a beautifully embossed, blue tax payments—but if reports from Legion gionnaires who will attend the national and gold, artificial leather binder. departments in March meant anything the matches at Camp Perry the last two Each volume holds six copies. Avail- Legion's national membership for 1931 weeks in August and the first two weeks the total for and able for volumes I to X. Price $1 .00 will greatly exceed 1930 in September. Twenty-three department to round million. teams per volume. Use the coupon. may come close a competed for the Milton J. Fore- On March 24th the Legion's national man Trophy in the national matches at membership, as shown by cards received Camp Perry last autumn. The American Legion Monthly. by the Monthly, stood exactly 756,630. The National Legion Team had the P. O. Box 1357. Indianapolis, Indiana On that day the Legion had 71.120 more highest civilian team score at Camp members than it had enrolled on the cor- Perry last autumn. Director Schneller Gentlemen : Enclosed is .$ . (Insert proper amount computedat $1.00 for each binder.) responding date of the year before and hopes it will win first place again this Please send, postpaid, the new binder for Volumes only 131,124 fewer than were enrolled at autumn. He has prepared a bulletin giv- I. II, III, IV. V, VI, VII. VIII. IX, X, of The American Legion Monthly. (Check or circle the end of 1030 when the enrollment ing information on this team, on the binder or binders desired.) was 887,754. Fidac international match, the junior all other de- marksmanship program of Name Porto Rico was leading and formation partments in March, with 226 percent of new Legion rifle clubs. National Head- Address. its membership quota. Rhode Island quarters will send the bulletin upon re- was second to exceed its quota. Kansas quest. Philip Von Blon City State_ 62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

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C^£B your (fast Service OfficerJordetailed information on any ofthe subjects relating to rights or benefits covered In Your Own Cash *^ in this departmentfffhecannot answer yourauestion, your^DepartmentService Officer canTVnte. toj/ourlDcpart- ment Service Officer or to the(r\cgional Office ofthe^Veterans (Bureau inyour State on matters connected with Business uncomplicated claims or routine activities $J unable to obtain service locally or in yourState. address communications to National (Rehabilitation Committee. Ohe (American &gion. 710 (Bona(BuiUina(Washirujlan.'Z).C> Put yourself in business with your bonus million or more poppies will be charged by the Government afford pro- money — here's your TEN big opportunity to sold by The American Legion Auxil- tection at a low cost. This cost is further start in spare time make good money iary this month, most of them on May reduced by the dividends." in a steady, year- — 23d, the Saturday before Memorial Day. Despite the fact that the National Re- 'round buslnoss that nays Bond CASH PHOF- On that day 100,000 Auxiliares will habilitation Committee of The American ITS. C. E. Winters writes,

' . * . average about 20 aaws a work from dawn until dusk, selling the Legion has been carrying on a continu- day and make from $12 - «* c a day. Cualomera" t little paper flowers which disabled men ous campaign to acquaint service men aatlalied. . . AUTO have been making for many months in with their insurance rights, the commit- FOLEY MATIC hospitals and special workshops. Each tee finds that a surprising percentage of SAW FILER of the sellers is a voluntary worker. The service men outside the Legion do not money—a million dollars it will total realize that Government insurance is still Files All Saws Automatically will be used to finance Legion and Auxil- obtainable. The committee urges that It's easy work to turn out perfectly filed saws on the Foley. They cut better, faster, cleaner, truer and stay iary relief work and most of it will re- all posts take steps to acquaint their sharp longer than hand tiled saws. 91c CLEAR main in the cities and towns where the own members and, through newspapers UOFIT out of every dollar. poppies are sold. and radio stations, outside service men FREE Plan Starts You This year the Auxiliary's poppy work- with the fact that veterans in good start in snaro time at home, and you will soon he health obtain upon application poli- shops have been unusually busy because may able to build up a fine paying business. NO CAN- the depression has hit the disabled man cies of seven standard forms—ordinary VASSING. Free Plan tells you bow to get the business. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Write for life, life, first. The poppy-makers receive a penny 20-payment 30-payment life, Free Plan and Details NOW I for each poppy. Three hundred is about 20-year endowment, 30-year endowment, all a reasonably active hospital patient endowment at age 62 and 5-year con- Foley Manufacturing Co. can make in one day without fatigue, so vertible term. Policies may be obtained 1541 Foley Blag., 11 Main St. N. E., Minneapolis, Minn. most workshops set this figure as a limit. in amounts from $1,000 to $10,000 in Some men, weak from long illness, can multiples of $500. Any office of the make only half that many. Poppies are Veterans Bureau will furnish upon re- Ge being manufactured this year in thirty- quest proper forms, rates and instruc- ELECTRICITY one States, the other States obtaining tions and will conduct without cost, MyAmazingly EasyWay their poppies from them. when feasible, the necessary physical ex- df^S. ~-am Right now— Today— decide to (?et out of HTjj Jap1 the small pay class. I'll train you here in All poppies sold by the Auxiliary bear amination. f JSESfc my shops in 12 weeks on real electrical «Jh J jfll^H machinery for jobs leading to Balance of $S0 on a paper sticker the names of the Le- An important improvement in the W w BHamekandup. No books - no leseons. You Bk * < need .previous experience or advanced AU nlinlu.ii. while you Freeeroploy- gion and Auxiliary, and this sticker is Government's service to its policy hold- V'ilBB Earn learn. MF Jp ^^^B ment service for life. Thiols your biir chance to (he buyer's guarantee the ers two years ago when re- aaflB^H lfetint..abi»ri)ayfiel(i. My bik' Iree book gives that flower was made jmm jmtms^M you all the facte. Write today for your copy. was made by a needy, disabled veteran gional offices of the Bureau in each CoyneElectricalSchool, SOO S.PaullnaSt.. Dept. 51-04. Chicago

and that all the money paid for it will State were directed to receive payments S COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL, H. C. Lewis, Pres. 1 I 500 S. Paulina St., Dept. 51-04. Chicago, III. be used for the relief of the war's liv- of premiums and conduct other busi- " Please send me FREE your big catalog and yourtpe- , ing victims. ness which had formerly been handled cial offer of extra courses. No obligation. | in the central office of the Bureau in _ Name „ _ T^O CORRECT the wrong impression Washington. Later, all regional offices Address

* that a large construction force is were authorized to make loans to policy City I already at work or is now being organ- holders, thus reducing considerably the ized at Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam), time and formality involved in getting Send for Free Catalog the United States Civil Service loan on government policy. Commis- a a insurance 2000 illustrations — Dia* sion issued a statement urging that no monds, Watches, Jewelry. workers journey to the dam site or Las JULY 3, 193 1, is an important date to Largest Diamond and Watch Vegas, Nevada, before communicating veterans who claim insurance bene- Credit House in the World. with the Public Employment Service at fits because of permanent and total dis- LOFTIS BROS. & CO. Las ability. Vegas. This employment service has On that date under present law Dept. N-36, 30 N. State St. been established jointly by the Govern- the right generally to bring suit expires Chicago, 111. ment and the State of Nevada and will if permanent and total disability is give information on prospects of getting claimed to have existed before July 3, jobs. Only small preliminary works are I925- now under way. Before suit may be filed a claim for insurance must be denied by the Admin- TTOLDERS of United States istrator of Veterans Affairs. Bureau 9utlmi Govern- The * ment Life Insurance policies are has established a new board in the cen- being pleasantly surprised as they re- tral office at Washington which passes SIDE-STEP COMPETITION EARN Sell this new, low priced ceive dividend checks for 193 1 and dis- originally upon claims for insurance. method of duplicating cover that the amounts of the dividends Many claims are being allowed by this cards, menus, invita- are substantially greater than in previ- board, making it unnecessary for the tions, notices, sales, programs, announce- ous years. George E. Ijams, director of claimant to file suit. ments. Does the work of the Veterans Bureau, has announced that If a veteran files claim for insurance club secretaries, teach- this year dividends will be $000,000 before July 3, 1031, and the claim is ers and business men like Send for de- more than the amount allotted in thereafter denied, a special provision of mai;ic. 1930. scriptive circular and The total amount will be the law permits him to file suit after he $8,200,000. learn how it sells on— Per Day/ "The increase in dividends was made receives notice of the denial. This spe- siifht. No investment no waiting for profits. Prove you're Rood and possible by the satisfactory experience cial extension of time will be equal to the get more territory. of Government Life Insurance in 1930," period elapsing between filing of claim FVFRV CLUB SHOP AND SCHOOL LVE,IX1 CHURCH |C A Director Ijams said. "It indicates the and July 193 1. For example, if a PDfKPFrT 3, RESTAUR ANT.BUSINESS, lJ rt IRUOlEtl healthy condition of the Government claim is filed on June 1, 1931, with no- Write for dctaiIs\TH£ STENCIL STAMP CO. Life Insurance Fund. Considering the tice of denial reaching the veteran Sep- 297 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NOW ) N. Y. benefits granted, the premium rates tember 1, 1 93 1, ( Continued on page 64)

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severe to Henry suit may be filed at any time up to Octo- member injury ex-Cook E.mdie of Co. G, when loaded ammunition ber 3, 193 1. The claim for insurance wagon fell on him in France. PRICES! should be presented to the nearest re- 496th and 497th Aero Sqdrns.—Statements AT NEW LOW from Sgts. Fred Smith and Richey, and Ralph You can rely upon Chicago's oldest and gional office of the Veterans for reliable rubber company ti> deliver tire mileage Bureau G. Davis, who remember Charles A. Elus worst roads at lowest cost. Actual tests on the while stationed at Beaumont Barracks, Tours, in the country prove that our standard brand, consideration. reconstructed tirea deliver 60 to 60 per cent France. more Bervice. A trial order will convince you. It must in that only be borne mind Parris Island, S. C.—Statement from foot SERVICE I SAVE BUY 12 MONTHS' those veterans who can establish that specialist (about six feet tall, 175 pounds, aged NOW GUARANTEED HONE/ about 40 to 45) at Parris Island. June or July. CORD Tires permanently totally dis- BALLOON Tires Reg. they were and 1918. in connection with disability claim of Size Rim Tires Tubes Size Tires Tubes 30x3 52.20S1.00 abled at a time when their insurance Charles P. Cramer. 29x4.40-21"$2.3O$].10" 29x4.60-20'" 2.40 1.16 30x3« 2.25 1.00 128th Engrs., Co. B—Statements from for- 80x4.50-21' 2.4S 1.20 32x3^ 2.70 1.16 was in force will be entitled to insurance 28x4.76-19" 2.45 1.20 31x4 2.95 1.16 mer comrades, particularly 2d Lt. R. W. 30x4.96-21" 2.90 1.35 32x4 2.95 1.15 benefits. A complete definition of total Young, who remember disability to Horace 30x5 00-20" 2.9S 1 36 33x4 2.95 1.16 1.15 Levi Lawson contracted at Issoudun and Dis- 28x5 25-18" 2. 95 1.35 34x4 3.50 and permanent disability, as expressed 30x5.25-20" 2.9S 1.35 32x1V; 3.20 1.46 trict of Paris. Patient in Base Hosp. No. 57. 31x5.25-21" 3.20 1.35 33x4^, 3.20 1.46 30x6.77-20" 3.20 1.40 34x4 Vj 3.45 1.45 by the United States Circuit Court of 327th M. G. Bn., Cos. C and D—Former 31x6.00-19" 3.20 1.40 30x5 3.60 1.75 members, including William Varbuba and All Tubes New- 32x6.00-20" 3.20 1.40 83x5 3.60 1.75 Appeals, was published on page 63 of Guaranteed 83x6.00-21" 3.20 1.45 85x5 4.45 1.76 Frank Rossi, who served with these com- Other Sizes first Quality 82x6.20-20" 3.6S 1.76 All the Monthly for March. 1031. panies in Camp Wheeler at Macon, Ga.. in ordered, balanc ' O. D. Send onlv SI.OO deposit withith each tire 1917- 18. and in Mayet, Vernile and Allison, If you send cash in full deduct 5 per cent. You are e nteed a z««',"£e France, or the Belgian Camp at Le Mans in £}J^ COMPANY Veterans Bureau some months 1918- 19, who remember Sidney Hart. W. Sixty-Third Street Chicago THE Dept. 1 154 1O00-1O Bakery Co. 391. Q. M. C— Statement from from now will turn out a book which former Sgt. Harry H. Wells (or Fred E. PHOTOS will probably join the ranks of best sel- Wells) in support of claim of Lucien L. Huffine. lers. In single will appear ENLARGED a volume a 121st Engrs.—Former members of Cos. A Size 16x20 inches "codification of all federal laws relating and B who remember former Sgt. Icl William Same price for full A. Kennedy. length or bust form, to the veterans of our various wars," to- proupB, landscapes, 313th M. G. Bn.. Co. C—Affidavits from for- pet animals, etc.. or enlargements of any gether with "appropriate explanatory mer members, including Capt. Hamilton, part of group pic- 98 Capt. Stoddard, Lt. Linehauser and 1st Sgt. ture. Safe return of your own notes and annotations, headings, refer- original photo guaranteed. Frank Fee, in support of disability claim of SEND NO MONEY ence tables and indices." former Pvt. Thos. H. McGrew. Juat mail photoorenapshotfany Startin, Rex—Information wanted regard- Bizt'Wind within a week you will Taylor, vice-chairman receive your beautiful life-like John Thomas ing whereabouts of this man who enlisted in enlargemeo t size lGx20in. guar- at Ariz.. 1918. anteed fadeless. Pay postman of the National Legislative Committee, Army Tombstone. Feb. 5. and 98c plus postage or send $1.00 was discharged at Ft. Riley, Ks.. June 26, order and we pay postage. that the Senate authorized the with reports 1918. Disappeared in 1926 from Ukiah, Calif., Special Free Offers book on January 24th by passing a reso- leaving wife and child. Was in bad physical enlargementwe will eend Free and mental condition. a hand-tinted miniature repro- lution introduced by Senator Norris of ductionof photo sent. Take ad- Bakery Cos. 9, 304 and 305— Statements vantage now of thia amazing ©ffer--send your photo today Nebraska. Rex A. Bagley of Chris Han- from former officers and men, Dijon. France, March-April. 1918. who remember former Sgt. UNITED PORTRAIT COMPANY sen Post of McCook, Nebraska, says his Dean D. WHITNEY of Co. L, 23d Inf.. Second 900 W.Lake St.. Dept. E-33 1 , Chicago, III. outfit requested Senator Norris to intro- Div.. killed in action in Meuse-Argonne offensive about Nov. 1. 1918. Widow who is reduce the resolution and has asked to ob- A RAILWAY ceiving benefits from $2,000 War Risk Insur- TRAFFIC INSPECTOR tain the first copy of the book for exhi- ance policy wants to establish fact that late husband applied for additional S8.000 insur- EARN BIG MONEY and TRAVEL FREE bition at the Nebraska Department's BOTH RAILWAY and BUS ance while in Dijon where he was detailed with 19 at once as Rail- Active Men to 55— needed 1 1 convention. The date of publica- bakery companies. way and Huh I'aHsenger Traffic Inspectors with 93 Opport unities for promotion to even higher Callahan. Edward J. —Information wanted in time- tion will not be known for some months positions. We train you your spare regarding whereabouts of this served give youCertifi cat e on complet ion of a f ew weeks' man who course and place you immediately to earn $120 but wilfbe announced in the Monthly. as private in Coast Artillery Corps from July Up per month, and expenses, or refund your money. Many graduates earn $25U per month 7, 1918, to Dec. 21. 1918. Age. 44 years ; born and expenses Send for Free Booklet andTesti- in Roslindale, Mass. Blue eyes, gray hair, very n are unable to conduct a STANDARO^BUsVnEsW TR AimNG i'NSTITUTE WHILE we bald, all upper teeth extracted, ruddy complex- Dlv. 2405. Buffalo, N. Y. general missing persons column, we ion. 5 ft. 6% in. tall. Very shy. Has clerked in store, worked for gas company and did stand ready to assist in locating men cloth cutting for clothing firm. Missing three PANTS MATCHED whose statements are required in sup- years. Mother anxious to find him. Mare Island Navy Yd.. Calif. —Affidavit DON'T THROW AWAY THAT COAT ANO VEST! port of various claims. Queries and re- coat from former comrades who remember explo- Save ? 1 5 or more ! Let us match your and vest with new trousers tailored to your meas- sponses should be directed to the sion of black powder magazine at yards. July price of a new suit. (Average ure. Save the Rehabilitation Com- 9, 1917. and recall William George Stewart price $8.50.) Over 100,000 patterns. Mail Legion's National of seaman guard from Yerba Buena (Goat) sample of suit, or your vest which will be re- mittee, 600 Bond Building, Washington, Island who was there at time with severe case turned with FREIC Sample for your approval, of mumps. Stewart was quartered in tents D. C. The committee wants information MATCH PANTS CO. SAMPLE below nurses' home, July 3-24. 1917. and went 20 W. Jackson Blvd. Dept. B11 Chicago in the following cases: across draw to hospital for treatment of ears and eyes after explosion. Doctor who treated 30th Inf., Co. L, Third Div.—Statements him was civilian specialist from Vallejo. or from Capt. E. D. Rott, Sgts. Mickey Lana- CHEMISTRY San Francisco, Calif., visited island who three HAJi and Chase in support of claim of Rich- Complete, practical home-study times weekly. ard F. Venters, shell-shocked Oct. 4, 1918, in courses prepared by some of the Base Hosp. No. 42. France Statements Meuse-Argonne sector. — best-known chemists in this from former doctors, men and nurses, par- Inf., Co. M, Sixth Div. Former mem- country, including 52d — ticularly Helen B. McCherry, in support of Forrest, in May. 1918, who Allen Rogers, B.S., bers at Camp Ga., claim of John Adair, treated for gas and injuries sustained by Harrison B. S., Ph.D.—Head of remember double pneumonia from Sept. 2 to Nov. 13, Department of In- Green when he fell over tent rope. 1918. Div.— Former mem- dustrial Chemistry, 156th Inf., Co. G. 39th American Red Cross Military Hosp. No. 6. 89th Pratt Institute; L. bers later transferred to Co. B. 355th Inf., Bellevue. Siene-et-Oise. France—Former per- Ph.D., RoiiIcheaux. who M. Tolman, Div., who remember E. A. sonnel, including nurses, and patients who re- barn, Sept.. 1918. Vice-president, was treated for flu in French member Placide Rodriguez, sgt., Co. B, Fifth United Chemical Especially 1st Lt. Lewis and 1st Sgt. M. G. Bn., Second Div., -who was gas patient and Organic Prod- HUCKEItBAY. in October. 1918. are requested to assist. Plans ucts Co.; Bradley 358th Field Hosp., 90th Div.—Former of hospital wanted also. Stouchton. B.S. sus- members who remember fractured knee 373d Inf.. M. G. Co. Head of the De- —Former members who tained by William Earl Ray while at San recall Albert partment Metallurgy Lehigh University, and A. BERNARDINI. supply sergeant Antonio, Tex. and machine gun instructor at Los Casts Owen L. Shinn, Ph.D. — Professor of Applied Camp Co., C. A. C.—Men who remember in Porto Rico during 1918, his Chemistry University of Pennsylvania Third and remember (Windy) Baur being hit on head with fall from a service horse. Bernardini. now Mail Coupon for Free Booklet R. M. sledge hammer by man named Barker while totally disabled, requires affidavits in support dismantling mortar guns at Fort Hancock. of claim. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY | 1917. Division of the N. J., during summer of 310TH F. A.. Btry. E—Former members who International Correspondence Schools 359th Sup. Co.—Affidavit from Maj. Frank remember LeRoy Joseph Martel. can assist Box 7577-C, Scranton. Penna. W. Van Kirk in support of claim of Marion him in establishing disability claim. Without cost or obligation, please send me full I injuries to bead at Banthe- First Div. Ammunition Trn.. Co. A—For- ' because of your home-study course in A Clark stalls of 28. 1918. Also men mer members, especially 'Pvt. John RuffNER Chemistry ville, France. Oct. 27 or Analytical Chemistry Metallurgical station. Chemistry Course who remember treating him at first-aid and Cpl. Harry Such, who remember that Chemical Engineerinn G Short Farm, Industrial Chomistry Pharmacy Third Bn. dressing station, Madeleine James F. Butler was sent to a hospital in for fractured arm. Injured while hauling sup- France, Sept. 6. 1918. Also men of Camp plies for 359th Sup. Co. Headquarters, Camp Sherman. Ohio. Feb. 25, 60th Inf., Co. M, Fifth Div.—Men who re- 1919, to Feb. 9. 1928.

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