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Vol. 4, No. 44 NOVEMBER 3, 1922 10c. a Copy "No Such Thing as a Type" There is something more than comfort about a Kahn made- to-measure great coat. The generously proportioned collar, like the rest of the coat, has a distinctly masculine flourish. The contact of fine wool against the cheek on a crisp day has a bracing feeling that puts you in fine feather. You go forth in a Kahn garment with the sense that you are a quality man—continuously comfortable, continuously right, continuously at an advantage. You never have to compromise with your quality conscience. "Individuality" with Kahn is more than a trade expression, because Kahn insists that there is "no such thing as a type." Kahn garments are actually tailored to the individual by crafts- men who are more hypercritical of their own work than the most fastidious customer. Because so many men know the mental ease and satisfaction Kahn quality can give them, the Kahn clientele is very large. Consequently Kahn is able to give exclusiveness to the individ- ual and moderate prices to the thousands. KAHN -TAIL^RINQ - <Z<3. VF USmAfSyM^^L-IS: MAI7E TS7 measure stlvthes — Official publication of Published by the Legion The American Legion Publishing Corporation. and The American Le~ (7/feA President, Hanford gion Auxiliary. MacNider ; Vice-Presi- dent, James A. Drain; Treasurer, Robert H. Owned exclusively by Tyndall; Secretary, The American Legion. LECI Le?nuel Bolles. EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICES: 627 West 43rd Street, New York City NOVEMBER 3, 1922 Copyright, 1922, by the Legion Publishing Corporation. PAGE 3 None But the Brave By Lance C. Deady the authority of those who Farm will relate how utterly heart- was suggested in all good faith. He ONhave seen the Geddon Bible, it broken was young Tom Geddon when reported the presence of a recruiting appears that the momentous he discovered that he would not be officer at Strawburg who would surely occasion was set down therein called upon to register on that fifth of take pride in welcoming Tom to the by no other hand than that of Geddon, June in 1917. If he had only been born fold, if the latter would present him- Sr., himself, at the expense, be it ad- three days later than he was, Kansaw self. As I have said, Seth acted in mitted, of a severe strain on a some- Farm might one day have been made all good faith, so it were well to spars what abbreviated education. Geddon, a national memorial by a thankful and him here a description of how his life- Sr., lord of those certain lands known adoring people. saver idea was received in the Geddon as Kansaw Farm, consisting of one As it was, Tom did not submit quietly household. Evidently he had said the house, one barn, sixty-seven acres of to his fate. He raised the greatest up- wrong thing, he decided on his way farm land (mostly corn), two horses, roar known in that locality since the home, though dinged if he could figure three cows, fifty-one chickens, six partisan warfare of the 60's, and even why, seeing that he had done it to help hawgs, ditto dawgs, five cats and the went so far as to consider writing Tom out. innumerable issue thereof—to say noth- Washington in an effort to have the As for the latter, while the thing ing of the mule—must therefore be Selective Service Regulations changed was just what his heart was craving, acknowledged the author of that his- to include him. Wiser counsels among poor ignorant Seth was evidently not toric inscription. It ran: his own admiring family and among possessed of the necessary wit to see "This secund day of june 1886 was certain friends prevailed, however, and that since Tom was over draft age, born to Thos Geddon and Sallie his the idea was reluctantly abandoned. the Government did not want him at wife one mail child by the lords grace Thus were the destinies of our hero all. It stood to reason that only those named Thos Geddon jr wich was his settled, and though it cannot very well within the fortunate ages of twenty- father name and his father and hisn." be estimated how much the duration one and thirty-one had any responsibil- Necessarily, after being thus fit- of the conflict was protracted thereby, ity toward defending America's hearth tingly entered upon Earth's register, the head of the house of Hohenzollern stones. What, then, was Tom to do but it was no unwarranted work of Fate surely drew a new lease on life from pine away in hopeless yearning, along that the new arrival should grow up the shuffle. with a legion of other vocal patriots to be an asset of importance to Kansaw Days, weeks, months went by. Tom who were out of the draft age? In- Farm and to the nation at large. Like Geddon, Jr., had convinced himself, and cidentally, it may be remai'ked here his father and his father, Thomas Ged- at least a part of the neighborhood, that hitherto unheard-of responsibili- don III soon gained a reputation in that he had been played a dastardly ties about the farm grew into prom- the neighborhood for incandescent ideas trick in the matter of his birthday. As inence soon after the Seth Winnie and native wit, but, unlike his illustri- his protestations gained greater cir- episode, and the matter of the paternal ous forebears, he was not so soil-sound culation, he was fast becoming almost mistake sank into oblivion. But in- that even Kansaw, with its divers ap- as great a hero as Andrew Jackson stead of a loving cup donated by the pendages, should prove to be the hori- among the gentler sex. I say "gentler forgiven parents, Seth drew a unani- zon of his ambitions. In other words, sex" because they constituted the great mous verdict from the Geddon family he must have been moulded in the same majority of the countryside, since most that he was a "meddlin' donkey." clay as Christopher Columbus or Doc of the young bucks were already in Cook or the Wandering Jew, for he O. D. or ducks. But, to continue, Tom's MORE months went by. Tom heard announced as early as his twenty-ninth lot bade fair to change from one of one day with a mixture of emo- year that he intended to see the world pity to one of genuine worry, and there tions that some Heinie soldiers had —even if he "hadta go clean outa th' is no telling how great a blame might been roughly handled at a place called State t' do it." No doubt he would not ultimately have rested upon the Cantigny. That same evening Smith's have executed the idea had not the souls of his innocent parents (they who store at the cross-roads knew exactly war inconveniently broken out in his were responsible for the unhappy birth- how great a catastrophe the Central thirty-first year and interrupted his day) had not old Seth Winnie taken it Empires had escaped by the absence preparations. upon himself to relieve the situation. of one of Kansaw's sons. Millie Swain, To this day the neighbors of Kansaw Seth's idea was wholly original and who operated the fizz-fountain, had " " PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY some misgivings on the subject, but held tomers abruptly knocked off bargaining the talking died away. Inquiring looks her peace. She had not forgotten Bob or gossiping to focus their attention swept from Mr. Smith to the now non- Warder, who was in the 16th Infantry upon Seth, now expanded with impor- plused messenger. Smith stroked his at his last writing, even though he no tance. Smith went quickly from behind chin. longer wrote to her. How was Millie a counter to quiz the eager Seth, and "Well, of course it might mean that to know that the absence of letters Tom, pausing in the act of pouring the boys were hurt while working there, could have been connected with that vinegar, shot a hasty look in the direc- and by 'we slipped one over' Martin word Cantigny? Besides, Tom Geddon tion of the soda fountain. Millie was may mean the American Army in gen- had been taking her out lately—had leaning tensely over the marble stand, eral. At any rate"—as someone be- even spent some silver on her—and of her eyes glued on Winnie, her ears hind Seth laughed—"it's great news to course poor Tom was not to blame be- straining for his words. hear that the boys are all right and cause he couldn't go over there and win "What are the details, Seth?" from that we're whipping the enemy." the war. Mr. Smith. "Don't tell us the boys are Whereupon Seth Winnie came into As the summer months drew on wounded!" the notice justly due him, business re- Tom's affair with Millie showed grati- The last word, for some reason or sumed its sway, and one Thomas Ged- fying progress. Naturally it had its other, cut into Tom Geddon. He left don, Jr., furtively thanked his stars for ups and downs, but on the whole the his place at the counter to join the a catastrophe averted. campaign was not without marked suc- circle about the orator. cesses. The first trench was gained "Well, I can't say asta thet," an- PROMPTLY on time that evening, when Mr.

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