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The American Legion Weekly This Amazing History of the Legion by Marquis James OCTOBER 2, 1925 UfieMERICAN For Only ONE NOW* MEMBER SUBSCRIPTION to The American Legion Weekly This Amazing History of The Legion By Marquis James Aware that many Legionnaires would feel pride in owning this "History of The American Legion," The American Legion Weekly has decided to offer this volume in return for your cooperation in securing One Non=Member Subscription to The American Legion Weekly The effort necessary to obtain one of these interesting volumes is negligible when compared to the enjoyment you will have in reading its fascinating contents. Brimful of exciting and colorful incidents, it should be a cherished treasure in the home of every loyal Legionnaire. ACT TODAY! Get a Won*Member!f Send $1.50 With This Coupon Follow These Easy Instructions Call on a friend. Sell him (or if you can afford The Jtmerican Legion Weekly, It and prefer to do so, give him) a year's sub- Indianapolis, Indiana scription for The American Legion Weekly. The price to a non-member of the Legion is $1.50 a Fill out the coupon correctly. Here is a new reader for The American Legion Weekly and $1.50 year (52 issues). Enclose in an envelope with check, postal or to pay for the year's subscription. Please send me the History of The express money order for $1.60. Address and mail American Legion as advertised. to The American Legion Weekly, Indianapolis, Indiana. Histories of The Send History of American If you want one of these Send The American Legion The American Legion as a free gift, act NOW. Get a Weekly to Legion Free of Any Charge to subscription now and send for your History at ONCE. Name Name Address Address City City Use This Coupon Stat" __ State 10-2-25 3CZ3E IDI ID - DL=JO=3DE=OE 3E3E I DE 3C=] E Vol. Afo. 40 October 2, 1925 AMERICAN 7, .LEGIONw^ while More signs of another big year ahead of The American After reading Mr. Gigliotti's letter it will be worth L. N. Kilman, "First Aid for Legion. The Department of France has just won . to re-read the article by the Hanford MacNider Trophy for making the highest per- the Veteran Who Is Still an Alien," published in the Weekly of centage increase in membership this year over average of for March 13, 1925. This article explains that thousands the World membership in past years. And now promise comes from foreign-born veterans of the American Army in under the Italy of new expansion. "Rome Post of The American Le- War, now living in the United States, are wrongly Amer- gion, born July 25, 1925, impression they are they sends greetings to the bud- ican citizens because applications while dies at home," writes Frank executed Kilman B. Gigliotti, the new post's in service. Mr. these men adjutant. "With our own Table of Contents points out that post getting under way in must appear before a Fed- fine shape, we hope soon to eral naturalization exam- their final pa- have many prosperous posts Cover Design by V. E. Pyles iner to get throughout Italy. Rome pers. It would appear from Post was organized by a A Hard Job, a Big Year, and a Strong Man Mr. Kilman's article that without new legislation group of Americans at a By the National Commander's Secretary time when the hot Italian there is no way by which sun made a fellow long for Fritz Duquesne: The Sequel the service men living in a bathing suit and the sea- By Arthur Pound Italy who executed citizen- shore. We met in the office ship applications in the A. of the military attache to A Tall Adjutant Comes Up from the E. F. can be naturalized in the American Ambassador. Tall Corn State By Frank F. Miles that country. We already have one thou- sand names and addresses To Honor the Memory of a Gallant Leader of American service men By A. B. Bernd 8 'his is the season in living in and about Rome T:which newly - elected and we're going over the He Liked Kansas City, post commanders are mak- top in real style this So He's Going to Omaha 9 ing plans for carrying on autumn." activities which will reflect * * * Editorial 10 as much credit as possible administrations. Progress for God and Country upon their Gigliotti adds Here's a reminder which Mr.some interesting de- A Personal Page By Frederick Palmer 11 every new post commander tails concerning the prob- will welcome. Under Amer- Buddy's Awakening, or a Day-Coach Knight lems of American veterans ican Legion auspices in the now living in Italy. "Four By Wallgren 12 week of November 16th to thousand men here are get- 22d, American Education Radio 14 ting compensation from the Week will be observed in Veterans Bureau and I am Endowment Sidelights 20 the schools throughout the told that 2,500 insurance country. Every Legion post checks come monthly for Bursts and Duds 22 has a great opportunity to relatives of those who died make the observance of the for the American flag," he week successful in its own writes. "From the requests ALL ABOARD community. Now is the made for Federal adjusted time to appoint a commit- the compensation, there would for tee and get it working with seem to be from 12,000 to SEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION the school authorities and 15,000 American service other organizations which men now living in Italy. OMAHA may help in the observance. No doubt the question will Copies of the program for be asked: 'Why have so OCTOBER 5th to 9th the week and suggestions many returned to Italy for making its observance since the war?' Here's the really vital may be obtained answer. After the men went from the National American- through what they did in France, they wanted to come back ism Commission at National Headquarters of The American to see the old folks. After they got here they found that Legion in Indianapolis. applications for American citizenship they'd made before A. E. F. courts did not give them citizenship automatically, and, because of the immigration law, they have been unable AN ex-service man who is an inmate of the San Quentin to return to the United States. There is need for legislation „ (California) Penitentiary writes that "the boys sure to give these men the right to go back to the United States appreciate the Weekly. One man was very much interested which they helped preserve. Many of them were wounded, in the articles on 'Human Contraband'. Dealing in human and their present plight is a reproach to us all." contraband was the cause of his downfall." The American Legion Weekly is the official publication of The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright. 1925. by The Legion Publishing Corporation. Published weekly at 2457 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second class matter January 5, 1925. at the Post Office at Indianapolis, lnd., under the act of March 3, 1879. Price $1.50 the year. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 5, 1925. In reporting change of address, be sure to include the old address as well as the new. Publication Office, Indianapolis, Indiana; Advertising Office, 331 Madison Avenue, New York City; Western Advertising Office, 22 West Monroe Street, Chicago I I d 3E3 -t=i i H =i<^=inp^ ' " ir=3l ^=1 i t ==i n i i n PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY A Hard Job, A Big Year, and a Strong Man By the NATIONAL COMMANDER'S SECRETARY bly the reason is that I don't give him much to do. As a matter of fact I don't have to. The Legionnaires in the field the country over attend to that and do it right. They attend to it to the tune of about ten hours a day when the National Commander is at headquarters and from ten to eighteen hours a day when he is on the road. At this writing, if there were a prize to be awarded the marathon entertain- ing department of the Legion, that award with palm ought to go to Nebraska. This characteristic pose of National It was Commander Drain's first trip Commander Drain (above) was re- into the field after his election—last corded while he was giving a Memorial Armistice Day, to be exact. He ar- Day address at Middletown, Ohio. rived in Omaha, scene-to-be of the The lower photograph, showing Mr. 1925 National Convention, at 6:20 a. Drain in camp at American Lake, m. One hundred or more Legionnaires Washington, was taken in 1901 while were at the station to meet him, prob- he was Adjutant General of the State ably without their breakfast, in which of Washington. The photograph was a case they had nothing on the Com- surprise gift to Mr. Drain after his mander. Introductions were had all election as National of Commander around, pictures taken, old friendships The American Legion. It was given renewed before the Commander re- to him by Legionnaire Rugen of Can- boarded the train for Lincoln. .tigny Post, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, He spoke in that city his old place a member of his old outfit — of residence in pre-Spanish War days —and immediately afterward was whizzed out to the fairgrounds and SINCE June, 1917, when I totally into an airplane which whizzed him ignored a Marine captain on the back to Omaha in time for a noon streets of Boston, I've been luncheon and speech at 12:30.
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