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JUNE, 1929 June, 1929 Vol. 6, No. 6 92MERI CAN EGION Contents

Cover Design: the battle of bunker hill by V. E. Pyles

Prosperity and Laughter by Meredith Nicholson 4 Illustration by William Heaslip Bill by R. G. Kirk 7 Illustrations by Harry Townsend The Legion of the Missing by Leland Stowe 12 Decoration by John Richard Flanagan SAN JUAN: Part Two by Charles Johnson Post 16 Illustrations by the Author Kentucky by Ulric Bell 18 With Photographs Copyrighted by Caufield and Shook, Louisville Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 22

The Town that Joined the Legion by Carter Johnson 24

The Broken 3-. Part Four by Karl W. Detzer 26 Illustrations by V. E. Pyles Hors D'Oeuvres by Wallgren 30

A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 31

Keeping Step by Right Guide 32

Then and Now by The Company Clerk 41

Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 46

The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Missouri: The 24th State, admitted to the Union Aug. of population (1920 U. S. Census), 49.3 per sq. mile. Rank 10, 1821. Marquette and Joliet, in passing down the among States, 9th in population, 18th in area, 19th in Mississippi River, visited the region in 1683. The French density. Capital, Jefferson City (1920 U. S. Census), 14,490. settled at Sainte Genevieve in 1738. St. Louis became the Three largest cities (1928 U. S. est.), St. Louis, 848,000; center of an extensive fur trade. The French Kansas City, 391,000; St. Joseph, 78,500. Esti- diplomats, foreseeing defeat impending in the mated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), $9,981,409,- French and Indian War, which would mean the 000. Principal sources of wealth (1923 U. S. surrender of Louisiana, of which the present Census), slaughtering and meat packing, $152,- State of Missouri was a part, ceded it in 1762 916,678; automobiles, $137,447,034; boots and to Spain. France, during the days of Napoleon's shoes, $121,830,354; all farm products (1920 U. power, bought it back from Spain in 1800. The S. Census), $5,59,047,854, principally in wheat, Stars and Stripes floated over St. Louis when oats, potatoes, tobacco and mules; mineral prod- France ceded Louisiana Territory to the United ucts (1925), $92,548,473 in lead, zinc, clay prod- States in 1803. First a district of Louisiana, next ucts and cement. Missouri had 161,805 men and organized as Louisiana Territory in 1805, it be- women in service during the World War. State came in 181 2 Missouri Territory. Not until 1836 were the motto, adopted Jan. 11, 1822: "Salus Populi Suprema Lex present limits of the State finally decided on. Population, Esto"—"Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law." 1810, 19,783; 1928 (U. S. est.), 3,523,000. Percentage of Origin of name: From a family of the Sioux Indians, the urban population (communities of 2,500 and over), 1900, Missouri. Although Missouri's accepted nickname is Show 36.3; 1910, 42.5; 1920, 46.6. Area, 69,420 sq. miles. Density Me State, it is also called Ozark or Iron Mountain State.

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The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly JUNE, 1929 3 — PROSPERITYand LAUGHTER

Habit is habit, and not to plained of this, notably Mat- be flung out of the window thew Arnold who, forty years by any man, but coaxed ago. attributed to us a lack of down-stairs a step at a intellectual seriousness. But time. the fathers of the Republic

- Pudd'nliead Wilson's were serious minded men; ex- Calendar cept for Franklin's wit there By Meredith Nicholson isn't much to relieve the im- L 0 WE Americans pression we get of those great laugh enough? Illustration by William Heaslip souls as a pretty solemn lot. Or, do we fre- We have had wits in all peri- quently "laugh in ods, but humor was almost the wrong place," when there is occasion for tears rather than an unknown quantity among the great and good who adorned our mirth? first half-century. "Everybody I've met on the street today looks so glum," com- Washington Irving was the first to establish the right of plained a woman who had been ranging the business district of a American humor to literary recognition, and an explorer of the Mid-Western city. Her remark left me speculating as to whether subject can't do better than to begin with him on the Hudson. there is really as much good humor in the American people today However, the great body of American humor— the stuff that we as there was twenty years ago. think of as raciest of the soil and with a wild native flavor came The political history of a nation, with an account of its wars, from the West and Southwest. A few years ago John Donald and the failure or success of its rulers is hardly half the story. Wade paid tribute to one of the first American humorists in his The social life, the conditions in which the people lived, their biography of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, which he amplified moral standards and practices, what they ate and drank and, not into a history of cultural movements in Georgia. Longstreet's least, what they found to laugh at are what really give us a clew "Georgia Sketches" is a book that survives after nearly a hundred to their character. The Muse of Comedy seems to have been years by reason of its shrewd observation and racy humor. It's a abroad in some guise pretty far back in the history of civilization. question whether Longstreet wasn't the first American realist. There were probably humorists among the cave men. With a At a time when most of the writing done in America was flimsy, hop, skip and jump through antiquity we find many hints of imitative, sentimental stuff the Georgia lawyer wrote zestfully periods when the people went whoopee and gave so little thought of uncouth countrymen, their fights and horse trades, and con- to the serious affairs of life as to rouse the ire of the prophets. tributed importantly to the social history of his time. Edward Isaiah predicted ruin and desolation for his erring people, when Eggleston rendered later for southern Indiana a like service, the mirth of tabrets and harp should cease and the wine should be though his humor was less broad than Longstreet's. bitter in the cup and the mirth of the land gone. Always there The pioneers of the Ohio Valley, particularly those who came have been wise men, calling attention to the speed limit and the out of Virginia and North Carolina, developed a remarkable folly of jay-walking. And there have always been the frivolous talent for story-telling. Amid the hardships of the wilderness, who refuse to think seriously and thumb their noses at dingy old with hostile Indians and wolves to combat, the log-rollings and fellows like Isaiah and Plato who have worked hard to save them political and religious gatherings that brought them together gave from destruction. opportunity for the spinning of yarns; and as they knew little of The joke is on the merrymakers after all, for the wise have had what was going on beyond the great forests they resorted to ex- a way of grasping immortality while the cut-ups are forgotten. aggeration to magnify the importance of their adventures. In Still, a considerable body of literature survives, some of it of first their isolation they pondered their material that they might be rank, that has been produced through the ages by satirists, hu- ready with the best possible stories when they found auditors. morists and dramatists, who have tried to help mankind by mak- To make light of privation and danger and give their vicissitudes ing fools ridiculous. There have been ironic commentators on a humorous touch was only a manifestation of their splendid men and manners conspicuous in nearly every century. "Don heroic spirit. If some of them lied as to the size of the wolf they Quixote" isn't merely the amusing story of a poor devil who went had slaughtered or the number of red men they had driven away nutty thinking about chivalry but a masterly satire on a state of from their cabins, they were rather to be admired for their in- society that tolerated noble knights gadding about and fighting genuity. The early lawyers, riding circuit, picked up anecdotes, for the love of their ladies. Caricature in the hand of a genius is retouched them and put them in circulation. Most of these yarns one of the deadliest of weapons and in considering the stupid and were funny; the people back yonder needed mirth; they laughed pretentious characters who have strutted their little hour on the at themselves to keep up their courage. Lincoln, famed for his stage one must regret that every period hasn't had a Cervantes. stories, got his first lessons in narration during his early years in We Americans have long been regarded as a lighthearted people, southern Indiana, where story-telling was a fine art, and by the with a humor peculiarly our own. Foreign critics have com- time he began to practice law in Illinois {Continued on page 48)

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IllustraHons BILL hy Harry Townsend

inimitably on all sides, and where every gallant, cheery little robin red-breast is tethered to earth with a couple feet of string. Cats are good hunting; but kit- tens, as we say, Bill leaves By alone. He cocks his head at them in appraisal, in anticipation, as it were, as though to say, mouth watering, "Well, hurry you! Get grown up! I'll be behind the ash R. G. barrel in the alley, waiting for you!" KIRK But he grins at their immature arched backs, and silly, straight up tails, and passes by. kILL'S a pit terrier. Bill's the most dog you ever saw Bill almost never starts up anything. Of course, now, if there inside one dog skin. The fighting weight of most pit is a lady—but then that's different. But though Bill is a very terriers is a ton. Bill's is two tons and a quarter. To rare beginner, he does a heap of finishing. He rambles up and be altogether correct in this record of Bill, we ought, down, we must admit, expectantly; trusting to run across his perhaps, to designate his breed by its proper official name share, at least, of trouble hunters. Like the Devil in Job, who which is American bull-terrier; for Bill knows nothing of the went to and fro in the earth, and walked up and down in it, dog pit. He came to us as a puppy, and so he had never been hoping for the worst, so Bill. Just the same there never breathed put down on the tan-bark. He never will be. I like to see stark a squarer shooter. Name half a dozen virtues you admire most. courage as well as the next man; but in the pit there are displays Bill's got every one. Courage, sportsmanship, honor, gentleness, of it so ghastly as to sicken the heart. Grand dogs, to the rustle loyalty, love without end. Call off the hatefulest of the vices; of lousy dollars changing hands, rip out each other's lives, and selfishness, cowardice and the rest. Not a one Bill's; unless, maimed unthinkably, fight on for hours. And when at last one perhaps, in error, savagery is on your list. Savagery may be a of them loses, he nearly always loses, as pit parlance has it, vice, or not. Bill's kind is not; although Bill is an utterly re- "right." He dies, still fighting." morseless savage, once provoked to action. Never the pit for Bill; but the pit heart is in him just the same. Bill kills. That is the pit blood in him. What is the fun of Bill's sire was The Red. Ask any pit dog man about The Red. a fight that you do not fight out to the end? And in the pit the Bill has inherited. Bill loves battle. He fights at every end is death. No other finish is decisive. Let your opponent sporting opportunity; not by arrangement, in the pit; but as live, and no matter how terribly you have punished him, he is the gods of chance are good to him, and in the wide out-doors, not whipped. He will be back at you, somehow, some time, to in the daily round of respectable canine citizenship. finish it. That is pit knowledge, come to Bill through many You should see Bill go into action. There's a sight for you. generations of his forebears. And so that dog who tackles Bill There's joy o' life. In the icy, vicious savagery of Bill at death is a dead dog; unless, perchance, he sees the error of his way grips, you sense no hatred—only rapture; but such a rapture as before Bill has him, and then proves he's the better runner; or makes you shudder, watching. unless, as nearly always is the case, I am with Bill on his rambles, A sportsman, Bill, however. One fine, hell-raising gentleman. and so on hand to take charge of the festivities. Bill never took advantage in his life. Bill never accepts a chal- A pit dog's throat grip is a sickening thing. It isn't strange lenge from a smaller dog, and seldom starts an argument in any that poorly balanced people always lose their heads on seeing it. case. He passes kittens; but God help all cats. Unlicensed alley Ill balanced people, seeing it, always want to kick and club. You

rabbits, tough old experienced campaigners with six or eight cannot blame ill balanced people much, for that death hold is lives back of them devoted to night prowling and bird murder- cruel, pitiless. It is not nice to look at. The dog that has it ing—they are fair game. And woe betide the one who banks on often shuts his eyes and lies there quiet in a sort of fiend's content. past experiences, electing to stand ground when Bill says scat! The job is done. As far as he's concerned, the fight is over. All Feline defiance stops most dogs. But into needle teeth and that remains to do is hold. If there is to be exertion, let the raking claws Bill gallops joyous, hell-for-leather; and in about other dog exert. Let him thrash and rear, frantic to get out of four seconds by the clock the spirit of Thomas has arrived in that this trap that will stay shut till the Grim Huntsman comes to delectable night realm where howling-fences stretch away claim what's in it. A sickening thing to watch the pit dog

JUNE, 1929 7 lying there, content to hang on so long as there's any life in the thing his jaws hold. And yet the thing is fair. Ten to one the pit terrier didn't start it. Ten to one the other dog is bigger, or the pit terrier would have passed the challenge up. Like as not, too, the pit has taken long, hard punishment to get that grip. And now the ill balanced ones want to start their kicking, clubbing. Kickings and clubbings, short of to the death, will never do it. They are worse than useless. Kick and club all you wish; he will not open. He knows his cause is just. Not only that, but I am half convinced he thinks he's being punished for not doing the job right, and so sinks that grip a little deeper, tighter. When boot and club are found of no avail, then come advices from the circle watching; water, ammonia, red pepper, fire; these and other expedients, not all printable, are suggested; all of doubtful value, and most of the instru- ments needed not at hand. The thing is simple. The instruments are at hand. You choke him. It is true, of course, that only those who know pit dogs will try it; only those who know that pit dogs don't bite people. Even if a pit dog should be so inclined, in a fight he's so intent on killing the other dog that it would never enter his head to leave that job to turn on you, no matter what you'd do to him. It's true too that you ought to have strong hands. A pit dog's neck is any man's two hands full; and about as yielding as a well blown up cord tire. But underneath his throat there is a soft place, not so well protected—the spot a pit dog goes for. A steady, unrelenting grip, with the finger tips pressing carefully upward into this soft spot underneath, will do it. And it will not injure him; will not even hurt him much. To fight it out to the finish, he must breathe. And he does want, above all other things, to kill that dog. So in the end he'll open, trying to gasp in breath; he'll loosen up that hard won grip in hope to get enough fresh air to start the thing all over. That's when you drag him off. It seems a shame. I've choked old Bill loose from a score of dogs—and most times not without considerable regret. I've seen him take some elegant lacings till he got his hold. And then it really seemed too bad to rob him of reward commensurate. I often wonder that Bill doesn't hate me for it. But he doesn't. He only looks up at me good-naturedly after the other dog has staggered to his feet and gone away, and says, "OK, boss, if that's the way you feel about it. But you know the other fellow started this. I'll get that baby some day when you're not along!" I try to explain to him that you can't let good dogs maim each other. But Bill can't see it. However, I think Bill's wrong. Splendid institution that a dog fight is, you've got to stop it short of bad injury or death. Perhaps a man who will let dogs fight at all is brutal. I wouldn't be surprised. I've heard so often. But it hasn't worried me much. 1 always say, "Well then, why don't you stop it?" That generally ends the argument; unless, perchance, the critic starts to hunt himself a club, or prepares to do a little humane kicking. The man who lets a fighting dog chew up some poor scared tyke whose one desire is to hit the grit for the far horizon is a brute for sure. But when some dog just naturally takes a whirl at Bill, I let it ride a while. I can't exactly say that it hurts me more than it does the aggressor dog, but it does him a world of good. It gives him a valuable lesson—one that no doubt prolongs his days—and Bill has a wonderful time. Some day, maybe, Bill will get it. That's very possible. No dropped over, and was gone to meet the son and (maybe) heir. matter how good you are, there's some one better. The grim But boy and dog did not come home that day together. Cherchez thing is that the dog better than Bill will be another pit dog, la femme would be as good a bet as any. The girls looked good and that Bill, losing to him, will lose right. The fight he loses, to Bill. At any rate Bill's journey led him off the route to school Bill will finish dead. But just the same we never tie Bill up. and into some encounter. It must have been a dandy. Bill He is gentle as a lamb with children, and he minds his own came home later pretty well cut up. But we had seen him business. And I pity from the bottom of my heart all dry nursed often in worse shape; so we tended him carefully, replenished dogs—all dogs who may not stir without a leash upon them. our supply of antiseptic, filed another notch in the gun handle, Dogs have such a grand time. But leash dogs do not even live. and proceeded to mark off the incident. Bill seemed top hole. Maybe their life span, under constant care, will stretch out But we noticed next day that he wasn't eating. And he did look, a little longer than ever Bill's will; but Bill does more living we thought, a little bit dejected. every month than leash dogs do in a year. And when it comes It couldn't be that he was cast down because he had at last Bill's time to go, I know he'd rather go out in a fight than any gotten a first class trimming. When did a first class trimming other way. That's a man-dog's way to die. ever affect a good man that way? A first class trimming does It came about therefore that Bill, loafing at home one day, not prove a thing but that the other fellow was better than you Bill untethered as usual, became aware that the hour for school today. Now tomorrow— ! But I couldn't feel that had dismissal had arrived; so he charged the wall that runs around got a beating. Pit dogs alone, perhaps, are worthy that grim our ground, hooked pasterns on the top, clawed up, high tailed, praise, dead game. When Bill lost, he would come home on his

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partial jaw and throat paralysis arrived, his mouth a little open, could not bite, and only with great difficulty swallow. The wickedest low groiul I ever so that he "Wear gloves when you tend him," the veterinary warned us. heard whirled Weasel about, "He couldn't bite you if he wanted to, what with the mouth ghastly pale. It was Bill, paralysis. But that's a deadly symptom. Don't dare get that ivhom he had dead left for saliva in a scratch. Dumb rabies!" Dumb rabies maybe, if there is such a thing. But despite the paralysis and the probable venom of that dripping mouth, we got egg-nog into him, and milk and beef broth and his medi- shield, not walking. So his dejection worried us a bit. We cine; only to have him retch up every drop. thought it must be something physical. Dumb rabies, maybe; but you can't tell me that was all. Our first real apprehension came soon after. In a day or so There was internal injury, else why couldn't that poor, starving we noticed a most peculiar altering of Bill's voice. His bark dog keep down the smallest drop of nourishment. There was Bill's tremendous became sepulchral, hoarse; explosion all gone out of it. It was internal injury—some hurt so cruel that even not Bill's resounding, hearty bark at all. It was not any normal vitality did not seem strong enough to mend. You can't tell dog's. The sound had something eerie in it; something, as the me. Somebody tried to break Bill's hold by the boot method. Scotch say, fay. The huge black undead were-dog in that On that day when he had gone off to meet the boy, and had terrible story Dracula must have had a voice like that; not of come home alone, Bill must have gone about the killing of some the earth. It scared us. challenger with all his usual cold efficiency; and some one twenty Then came a most unnatural, unaccountable desire to be times more brutish than the dogs that fought must have tried alone, to avoid the friends he loved the best. Twice he ran to kick Bill's fair won death grip loose. Most times the ones away from us, the poor sick fellow, and we had the devil's own who try this method see in a couple trials that kicks are ineffectual time finding him. It seemed brain sickness then; but I've often and cease. Ill balanced people these, no worse; excited, sickened, thought about it since, and wondered if it could possibly be that angered by this savage thing they do not understand. But he knew he might soon be dangerous to those that loved him, this beast must have stuck right to the job till he kicked Bill and so while still able, tried deliberately to leave our tender unconscious, and then left him for dead. Nice chap. I had a care, so as to free us from the menace of himself. I think he feeling that I'd meet up with him some day. I had a feeling would have been capable of that. that I'd find out some time who it was that did this thing to Bill. And now we really were afraid for Bill. Each day found The veterinary told us that Bill couldn't make the grade. So him a little worse. A horrid slavering came. Long ropes of I hunted up a pit dog man. I thought maybe I could get help some clear thick mouth liquid hung and dripped. And then a there. I told him how it was with Bill.

JUNE, 1929 9 Weasel invaded Indian Ida ' s shack, but she would not tell him where she kept her treasure

"How old's the dog?" he asked. the germs of some vile malady aswarm within him. Famished, I told him two. 1 tell you. Not a drop of nourishment down in him for a week "He'll live," the pit dog man said. but he had vomited it up. And yet he fought death back and "The vet says it's dumb rabies. He savs no dog ever gets fought him back and fought him back! He suffered so. I went well of that." a dozen times to get the cone, and each time I came back to "Did he say pit dogs?" asked the pit dog man. Bill without it. I couldn't do it. I wanted Bill to have an easy "But he can't take nourishment. He's hurt inside, I think. out; but just the same I could not bring myself to take one He's starving." single chance away from him. I'd seen him win so many times "How long's he starved?" before with his case absolutely hopeless. And I knew too, that "Five days." even if he couldn't win, he'd want to go out fighting. "Listen," the pit dog man said. I could see that he was But at last, at three that morning, it got too much for me. It properly disgusted at my lack of faith in the breed. "Listen. had kept on getting worse. The very rattle of disintegration He's The Red's pup, isn't he? And he's out of Poison Mag, if had been in his throat an hour. And yet he fought. He would I remember right. Well, what the hell you worrying about? have gladly died, I know, he suffered so; but he would not quit. There ain't so much the matter with that dog!" If he had quit the fraction of one second he could have gone There came the night that the veterinary said would be Bill's to the long, painless sleep. But quit? Who, Bill? But at three last. I sat beside Bill through it. God! what a fight! Hurt, his agonies got too much for me. I'd do his quitting for him. sick and starved. The vitals of him battered dreadfully; and I'd stop that dreadful struggle with a blessed rest. as though the injury itself were not enough, disease made ravage, I said to the veterinary, "Where's the bottle?"

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly He said, "Thank God, at last you're going to do it. I'll be I think it must have been my aching heart-call that he heard, going then. He's so weak you won't need any help from me." trotting so bravely from me, out that misty valley. I can see He said something too about a big day coming, work at a him stop, far down that lonesome way, put up his drooping ears, state police troop's camp, or some such thing, and he'd like and turn. I wish I could make you see him as I see him, fighting to catch forty winks; but I know. He didn't want to see the back to me up that terrible grim road! No wonder that she end of that gallant fight of Bill's any more than I. He knows, cringed against me—Belle, that fearless airedale lady, growling too, that there is one job with my dogs that I never let a veter- voiceless fear. There he stood, Bill, my dog, outside his stall, inary do. So he said good night and left us, Bill and me. propped swaying on four wide-spread legs. He tried to take Whenever it happens that the merciful thing must be done another step toward me, lurched and sprawled, struck a water to dogs of ours, I do it myself. We can't send our sick dogs pan and upset it. Then, lying in the water, he lapped at it! away to strange, indifferent hands for that. If ever a dog needs His tongue worked. The paralysis was gone! P'eebly, eagerly, the folks he loves, he needs them then. We've got a system. half a dozen times he lapped. Then his mouth closed easily, At night, before retiring, I nearly always visit a little at the mat his tail made one small move, and without any sign of retching where our house dogs sleep, and smothering up a muzzle for a he fell fast asleep. moment with my hands, I say "Good night, feller." This thing Hill is a pit dog. As the pit dog man reminded me, he's one of done all their lives, they know my hands, if the last merciful The Red's pups, out of Poison Mag. Bill got well. It took thing must be done for them, and they are not afraid. months, but he did it. And in those months I tried by every I put the cone down on Bill's nose, and I said "Good night, means I knew to find out who had done that thing to Bill. But Bill. Good night, Bill. Good night, Bill," until at last he the thing stayed mystery. No one had seen the fight or heard pulled back against my hand no more. So that was done. about it. Strange. Each fight of Bill's was an event in sport Those damned jobs always make it so hard to swallow. Well, in our small town. Our news sheet featured it. Every one knew anyway, with my hands at his muzzle, and my "Good night, about it. But of this particular battle I could not find out a Bill" coming to him through the closing dark, he knew he'd thing; and before Bill got altogether well, a business opportunity wake up in the morning in our house, with us, just as he'd always took us all, wives, kids and dogs, into a bigger city, and we left done before when sleep was finished. What did a moment's the old home town with the mystery unsolved. I let it drop smothery breathing matter? then, of course. But I had a feeling that sooner or later I'd run Don't give your heart for a dog to tear! Who wrote that across the fellow who had kicked Bill into the very valley of the blather, anyhow? Of all vapidities, that's the washiest! As shadow. though losing a dog were too great a price to pay for having Four years went by. In them Bill grew to fifty pounds—huge had him. But it was hard, man, hard, to help Bill over; for for a pit dog. Those four years gave him mighty bone, maturity. there was the doubt, the cruel doubt all the time. If I had let They padded that stout frame of his with the muscles of a him fight, if I had let him suffer one more minute, might he have champion. A dog among dogs, Bill. Straight English bulldog, won? Impossible, the veterinary had declared. And at three generations back, crossed with good terrier stock, gave him that morning I had been convinced. And yet doubts tortured proud ancestry. The terrier breeds for crossing varied some- me, helping Bill to sleep, for I knew this: that no pit dog is ever what; different pit dog men having different ideas as to just beaten till he's dead. what combination made the perfect fighting dog. But the I woidd have held that saturated cotton to his nose a little English bulldog, ancient fountain well of canine courage, bred longer; but just as he ceased trying to pull back, the telephone straight for centuries, always was the base; the old bull baiter, in the veterinary's stable office rang. who was not a good dog fighter, being too undershot to punish Three in the morning. Who could that be? The doctor, and too squat for speed. The terrier matings trued his jaw and calling from his home, no doubt, to find out if I'd got it done; got his body up on his front legs, not swung down in between; to tell me to be sure and lock up properly. I laid the cone beside and soon the pit men had a dog—a canine hell-on-wheels; a dog Bill's nose, and walked away heavy hearted from the little stall like Bill, with the fire and heart, the dash and craft of terriers, where he now lay so still, and went into the dimly lighted and with the bulldog's stable office. lion strength and courage My wife's voice! How I started! It said, "I just hap- —with the bulldog's ter- pened to awake. How's Bill?" rible will to stick—to go And ever since that phone call I've believed with Den- on and to go on with the mark's Prince that there are more things in heaven and (Continued on page 56) earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. There was a lovely airedale bitch who had a stall next ours. A fine, upstanding animal with the fire in her keen eye softened a little with the near approach of motherhood. Her name was Belle. She and I had talked things over more than once that night. I came away from that sad telephoning with a mighty need of consolation, and as so often happens, there was a dog to give it to me. I called her, and she came over to my side. I knelt Bill cocked his head as if to down on the floor and took say, "Hurry and get grown her head between my hands up! I'll be in the alley, and put my face down waiting you! against her face. And then for I felt her growl. Felt it, not heard it. It was voice- less. Fear made it so; fear —and she was a well nigh fearless lady. I looked up, and I saw what it was that made her afraid to growl out loud. I didn't blame her. Ice slid along my own back-bone. "Here, Belle! Here, Belle!" I just had finished calling. Perhaps it did sound like "Here, Bill! Here, Bill!" But I wonder if he really heard that lip-call. He was already far down that dim road where lip-calls cannot reach.

JUXE, 1929 11 The American Cemetery at Si/resnes, near Paris. Compare this ordered loveliness with the view of a typical burial place of battle days, ivhich shows employees of the American Graves' Registration Service at work

Clintock of the A.E.F., supplied the first in a long list of clues and misclues which finally led to the recovery, nine years later, of the body of Bill Sheehan—Lieutenant William A. Sheehan, Company F, 315th Infantry. They were written to a lawyer in Washington, a close friend of the dead soldier. But in those crowded last days of '18 and equally confused ones of '19 there was neither time nor organization to conduct the search for the lost legion of the A.E.F. Hence it was not until January 1920, that the United States Government was able show that Lieutenant Sheehan's case, like thousands of others, was not forgotten. On that date the following cable was received by the American Graves' Registration Service in Paris from the Quartermaster's Department in Washington: sfz> I believe I told you, we were unable to take "Search for grave location William A. Sheehan. 1st Lieut. Co. yj the woods in which Bill Sheehan was killed and F, 315th Infantry, killed Sept. 15, 1918. If no record, search f m were forced to make a hasty withdrawal, leaving Commune Cunel, Meuse 35 northeast-east 310.1 north from -JL his body therein. However the woods were later north 83.4 and vicinity. Expedite." taken by the Third Division and our chaplain tells me he made The records, like all army records, tell only the skeleton of the inquiries in regard to Sheehan and learned that he was buried storv. The first results, as forwarded back to Washington two by a chaplain of the Third Division and that his grave is marked. months later, were crisp and shorn of detail. The report read:

At the present time the body is not recoverable and I doubt if it "Careful search made vicinity above co-ordinates. Two un- will be so until after the declaration of peace. marked graves found. Both exhumed but neither proved be "So that you may give them the details I will give you the American. No trace of grave of Lieut. Sheehan was found." The exact location of where he was killed and more than likely buried, message was signed by Captain W. C. Brigham of the G.R.S. in the small batch of woods i 1 2 kilometers north, 15 degrees west But on April 20, 1920, another former fellow-officer of Lieu- of Nantillois, which is three kilometers due north from Mont- tenant Sheehan added his bit to the record. From Pennsylvania been faucon. The following map may help . . Argonne Special, Captain George L. Wright wrote saying that Sheehan had scale 1 /5o,ooo; Co-ordination 310.5 and 282.7." killed on September 29th (not 15th), at the southern edge of the These words, written on November 22, 1918, by Captain Mc- Bois des Ogons near the Madeleine Farm:

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The temporary post-armistice burial ground of the Lost Battalion of the yyth Division in the Argonne Forest. In circle, a comer of Romagne, largest of the permanent American cemeteries in France

"Sheehan was killed just prior to the relief of the 315th Infantrv and this relief was effected before the regimental details had an opportunity to bury members of the 315th killed in the at- tack on the Madeleine Farm. As a result the regiment was never able to secure any information concerning the burial of Lieutenant Sheehan or the location of his grave. "Following the Armistice," concluded Captain Wright, "officers of the 315th made three separate trips to Madeleine Farm and the Bois des Ogons in an effort find Lieutenant Sheehan's grave, but in each instance thei trip proved fruitless." Such was the apparently hopeless case of Lieutenant Sheehan when it first came to the attention of investigators in the Graves' Registration Service. Three kilometers due north from Mont- 1018, when they were written, I came back step by step over the faucon— the Madeleine Farm—the Bois des Ogons—two sets nine-year quest for Bill Sheehan's resting place. The search of conflicting co-ordinates for the military maps of the Meuse- seemed to stop dead, to fail. There were gaps of many months. Argonne front. It was now two years since Bill Sheehan had had But always there came another thread of information, another written after his name in the army records the three initials woefullv slender lead, and the quest went on. A." received which are supposed to close the record, "K.I. —killed in So it' was that the Q.M.C., in April, 1921, asked and action. Yet government searchers, men who might well be from Lieutenant Sheehan's mother his latest dental chart before called the world's most humane detectives, now were trying to he went overseas—the most important of all possible means of succeed where his own brother officers had failed two months identification. In Sheehan's case there were two gold crown after he fell. teeth; possiblv a third. And his mother added with a mother's "As I believe I told you, we—were unable to take the woods in forethought, "On the little finger of his left hand the first joint which Bill Sheehan was killed was dislocated by playing ball. On this finger he always wore a I was sitting in the cozy little cement-cottage office of the small gold-band ring." G.R.S. at Suresnes Cemetery, France, when the dramatic sim- Then there followed the cryptic account of trails which led officer plicity of these opening words on the first page of an inch-thick nowhere. In 192 1 the body of an unknown American book of documents arrested me. From that day in November, had been disinterred from the Commune of Cunel which was

JUNE, 1929 13 Legion posts throughout the country have conducted thousands of impressive services for soldiers and sailors. This photograph shows the funeral procession of Commodore Robert Gracey Denig with members of Perry Post of Sandusky, Ohio, in charge

believed to be that of Lieutenant Sheehan. The body was exhumed In April of that same year the report of Chief Investigator from the Argonne American Cemetery, where it had been buried. James McGourty—who, in seven years of this service did brilliant The teeth did not correspond to Sheehan's chart. work in finding lost American soldiers—gave indication of what In February, 1922, a "search in Cunel, co-ordinates 35 NE, N persistent efforts had been made to give Lieutenant Sheehan a 283.4 E. 310.1, and in the Commune of Sommerance failed to recorded grave and marked cross. The body of an American locate Sheehan. There is no unknown in Meuse-Argonne private in the 319th Infantry and those of ten German cemetery with the co-ordi- soldiers, all previously nates given for Sheehan or undiscovered, had been similar tooth chart." found, wrote McGourty, Another lapse of over while searching for two years. Then, on Sheehan. With the mind

July 1, 1924, the inves- and soul of a born detec- tigator in the Meuse-Ar- tive McGourty ap- gonne sector reported proached every case from that a thorough and ex- the ground up. His haustive search for Lieu- words betray his thor- tenant Sheehan's remains oughness and careful rea- had failed. He said: soning. "During past months "If Lieut. Sheehan was every foot of both open killed near the co-ordi- and wooded terrain be- nates given by Capt. tween E 309-313 and Wright and Capt. Mc- North 282-285 has been Clintock," McGourty's painstakingly searched report reads, "this spot in connection with vari- strikes a point near the ous cases and remains old wagon road which were recovered from runs through the woods every wood except the from the Nantillois-Cu- Bois de Cunel. This nel road, northeast terrain was searched dur- through the wood. ing the most practicable Vincent B. Costello Post of Washington, D. C, conducts services Alongside this road in time, before the leaves for Sergeant John W . Rae^er, killed in action in Belleau Wood, ivhen the woods were many and grass started growing his body is returned for burial in Arlington National Cemetery former German machine and before the farmers gun pits. Now, did Lieut. started their spring plowing. It is our opinion there are no re- Sheehan get past this road and further on into the woods nearer mains recoverable in this particular locality." the Madeleine Farm? Was Capt. McClintock with or near Lieut. It would have seemed that the final period had been written Sheehan when he was killed and could he give any information in the quest for Lieutenant Sheehan. But in static cablegrams how they entered the woods, by a path or trail or by the wagon and reports it may be traced on. Witness this notation of Janu- road? ary 26, 1025: "There is not sufficient evidence to identify Un- "Captain McClintock also mentions that the Bois des Ogons known U.S. Soldier U-3694 as 1st Lieut. William A. Sheehan, were taken by the 3rd Division. In this connection I find very Co. F., 315th Infantry." much equipment of the 80th Division and remains of three mem-

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Legionnaires of Swampscott, Massachusetts, cast a wreath on the tcaters in honor of America's war dead as fart of their Memorial Day services. Similar ceremonies are conducted by many seaside posts bers of the 319th Infantry have been exhumed from near the co- The investigator in his report upon these cases states: ordinates given as the place of death of Lieut. Sheehan. The 3rd "The above mentioned deceased American officer and soldiers were recovered in an isolated shell hole in Bois des Ogons while combing the Division seems to me to have been more to the left and nearer woods for late members of the 7Qth Division. The bodies were buried the Nantillois-Cunel road. about four feet deep and each remains was positively identified by two "Attention is also invited to the fact that Capt. McClintock tags on the body. All these remains, except one, were buried without small of woods. Bois des is quite mentions a patch The Ogons a shoes. This office is of the opinion these late soldiers were buried by large-sized woods. Was Germans. Lieut. Sheehan killed in "The bodies slightly over- one of the small patches lapped each other and were of woods between the very close together. They Bois des Ogons and the were buried with their heads to the east and feet Nantillois road?" to the west. Beginning at The question, as far as the south side of the shell the records was show, hole the first body exhumed never answered. As in was Pvt. Ruffis, the second the case of so many Rittmiller, the third Moran, American "unfounds" fourth Lieut. Sheehan, fifth and "unknowns" time Schaal, sixth Eskowitz and the seventh and last body brought its own answer. was Pvt. Faller— the only In fact, it seemed that remains found with shoes the story of Bill Sheehan on. had ended there with "There is no dental in- that question asked by formation on record here Chief Investigator Mc- for any of these late soldiers Gourty. From April, except for Lieut. Sheehan 1925, until June 11, 1927, and Pvt. Faller. Dental nothing further is noted information on Lieut. S. in the G.R.S. record-book shows two gold crowns, sev- eral fillings and teeth miss- labeled "Lieut. William A. ing. This checks witli the Sheehan." But on that tooth chart on Form 16-A latter this date communi- This memorial plot, a copy of the familiar cemeteries of war days, has except in the numbering of cation to the Quarter- been set aside for the use of Peter Gedda Post of Bessemer, Michigan. the teeth. master General, U.S.A., personal Similar provision has been made in scores of American towns and cities "The following is inserted: effects found with these re- Forwarded herewith are Grave Registration Service forms 16-A for mains are forwarded herewith: the following remains recovered by the research personnel of this office: Koffis ... 1 broken Waterman fountain pen. 1st Lieut. A. William Sheehan Moran . . 1 silver franc piece. Pvt. Irving S. Roffis piece, one-franc . . 1 Faller . 1 Testament cover, two-franc 3 Pvt. August H. Rittmiller pieces, 2 fifty centime pieces, 3 five centime pieces, 1 Italian lira

Pvt. Edward G. Moran and 1 American dime.

Pvt. Jesse E. Schaal 1 penknife. Eskowitz . . 1 broken fountain pen and broken ring Pvt. Henry Faller Lieut. Sheehan . 1 silver tag and broken chain. A small gold

Pvt. Ellis Eskowitz (All of the 315th Infantry) and 1 fifty centime piece. (Continued on page 61)

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By CHARLES JOHNSON Illustrations by theAuthor POST reasonably kept. It wasn't, of course. Suddenly Goldsborough whirled around. "Company halt!" We Part Two —halted. "Count off!" We counted off the hill was ours—if we "One —two — —three — four; one- rES,could hold it. And even then two—three—four " We banged our Lieutenant Ord, who had led elbows into our left-hand neighbor's that mixed handful of men ribs and threw our eyes to the right to who had been squeezed out at the head establish the line. We dressed to the of the trail, like paint from a tube, right. And Goldsborough swung down across Bloody Ford, was dead at the the line as we counted fours to see that top—dead just as he knew that he had the count was preserved. A veteran of San actually captured the hill. And all the while the little bullets abandoned, In the distance across the reach of Juan, kept on whe-e-ening up and down the meadow a thin line of men were in sight; with its mate, by line and filling the air above with it was Company F of the Seventy-first Mr. Post on July 31 1898 poisonous droning. New York, my company and my regi- Well, the alignment was better, no ment, with Captain Rafferty at the head. Here and there crawl- doubt about that. It was rather well done, considering all the ing up the hill were little scattered figures. In some way he had circumstances, and Goldsborough did not hear the last of his got his company—or most of it—through that trail and over the evening dress-parade under fire at San Juan for a long time. ford. Major J. Hollis Wells, our battalion commander, who had Luckily there was not a man hit. And we marched on, a nice gone to the head of the column and crossed the ford, ordered straight line at last, into a sudden silence from the little bullets. him up—this was right after the break by Lieutenant Ord, with We were under the protection of the hill itself, and they could no his group, had started the charge. Major Wells was a sick man. longer reach us; the flanking hills from which they came were too His sword out, he was striding up and down the bank and every steep, perhaps. Or perhaps the Spaniards had begun to retire few steps stopping to vomit. "Where's the Seventy-first?—come from their flanking positions; but, at any rate, there suddenly on—come on, Seventy-first!" he would call back across that ford came a complete calm from the passing bullets. as if his voice could carry, and then he would lean on his sword At last we were at the foot of San Juan Hill itself and began and vomit again. There were other officers—officers as barren of our climb. Later this same hill was terraced with ladders to troops to command as he. "By the Lord," one called, "we've got reach from one terrace of dog-tents to the one above or below, so to get 'em up that hill—they can't hold it!" He spied our M you can see how steep it was. It was too steep for a path. You Company outfit with light blue pants just emerging from the ford climbed its ragged face almost as you would scale a half-buried with Goldsborough at the head. "Major!" he shouted, "here's ladder against the side of a railway cut. And then, all at once, some of your outfit!" we popped over the edge at the top, and once more into a steady, Major Wells caught sight of Captain Goldsborough. driving drone of bullets. "Thank God you're here, Goldsborough—get on up that hill; "Hey, there, Goldsborough—this way!" And there was Raffer- I've just sent —Rafferty on over. Get up there and stick—and ty. Lord, it looked good to see your own captain and your own hurry. Get on " but a fit of vomiting broke him off and Golds- outfit! borough swung on our outfit—almost as mixed now as that of "Hello, Captain—here we are. How is it?" called back Golds- Lieutenant Ord's. borough. "I've got some of your men here—hey, you F men, get "Forward!" shrilled Goldsborough—he was cool, perfectly back to your own company!" cool, but eager rather to be correct. "Come up with those pieces "Hot," said Rafferty. "Damn hot!" —oh, damn— for-ward, march! Guide right!" "Well, you are senior—what'll I do." It was like the parade ground. Back of me an officer laughed. "There isn't much to do— the Spaniards '11 be back. We've "Oh, hell, hear him—he orders guide right! Get 'em over, just got to stick here till they are." dammit, double time!" Here and there, flat on the ground beyond us and at the crest But Goldsborough was at the end of the line, and couldn't a few men were firing slowly and carefully. A few were lying flat, hear him. just waiting and watching. These were the men who rushed up We guided right. We cussed each other for not keeping the with Ord. Here and there lay a Spanish soldier, dead, and one or guide. You know that is where the book says: "In 'guide right' two blue-shirted Americans. Back of the blockhouse a few more you yield to pressure from the right and resist that from the left." Americans had gathered. It did not look as a battle should look So we did. We shoved one way and then, to correct it, shoved too at any stage. much the other. And all the time we crouched and ducked to A tree, a mere sapling, was a few feet from our company; its get out of the way of the whining little bullets. Though the hill few branches held some ragged leaves and an occasional dangling was ours the bullets still came from somewhere—our left front, twig proved how heavy the fire was and had been. A little bird, it seemed. something like a kingbird, continuously flitted into the air and Up the little terrace, breaking open our ranks to pass where a hovered among the invisible bullets that whinnied past it with dead or wounded man lay in our path, we stumbled on across the some kind of a bug-like sound. Insects they were to the bird, for meadow of tall grass, a ragged straggling line. The whining little at times of slower fire I could note it rise and dart after some in- bullets came on—fewer than back in the trail, but aplenty. dividual bullet that sung past. Captain Goldsborough was in the center and with an eye over Down below in the bird's-eye view the plain was becoming either shoulder to see that our company alignment was being dotted with little figures, scattered mostly, but here and there

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Headquarters of the jist New York at Siboney

fairly definite groups rather spattered out—extended order likely, for an instant. Others were having as hard a time; their pride was for remember, these Regulars were mostly men of years of service holding them to it and here was a man whose pride had given out. in Indian campaigns. They needed no officers; they could take There was, perhaps, contempt in Rafferty's voice. care of themselves, and they were doing it. Officers there were in "You can't stand it?" he asked, and he put his hand on the plenty on top of the hill, even now, but they were busy with their man's shoulder. Up in front from under a shed a few of our men glasses looking over toward Santiago and were firing; overhead to the right the galvan- trying to spot the Spanish movements and ized roof of a little shed whanged steadily like intentions. a sounding board as the bullets popped through As I passed Captain Rafferty I was close it; for a time that roof made more clatter than —so close as to almost touch him, and at that all the rest of the landscape. Other men were instant we both felt the breath of a bullet getting used to it; this man wasn't. Yet at this against our faces and heard its long seething moment we were fairly sheltered from Spanish whine together. We ducked instantaneously fire. and in perfect synchronization—and we "For God's sake, Captain, transfer me!" The ducked low. Squatting on the ground he man's teeth were chattering, his voice was al- looked at me. most a hysterical scream and at the same time "Post," he said, "there's no use ducking a hoarse half whisper. His little control was these damn things; they'll get you before going even as we looked at him. you hear 'em!" "All right, Blank—you're transferred. Get Then he chuckled. Lord, there was a down the hill. Sergeant," he called, "Blank's man. that Rafferty! In one Afridi campaign, been transferred to the hospital corps—send in another in the Soudan, up in Canada as him back. He's transferred for good, too." a Hudson's Bay Company factor and as fine "Thanks, Captain," he dropped his rifle on an officer as any outfit could wish for. the ground. "Thanks! —Gawd, Captain—I don't Square, sl»ady, quiet and discernful; and want to leave the boys " Hysteria was gone, now dead these many years in Venezuela there was a whine instead. a man whose very recollection fills me with "Get down the hill," ordered the captain proud memories of service under him. curtly, "and shut up." The man flitted over That night I realized that from the very the crest and was out of sight. "Damn," re- moment that Rafferty and I met face to face marked the captain, "I suppose I'd ought to on the ground in that sudden duck, I had keep him—but one man like that would cut never ducked another bullet or tried to go the heart out of a squad. Damn a hysterical sidewise between them. You'll never hear man!" the bullet that gets you, and the ones you The man was the one who had got crazy hear are on the way to the other fellow; I drunk at Long Island City when we started for learned that fact at that time. the front; and crazy, killing drunk, too, while A man broke from the ranks of our com- his worn father and mother, in common kind- pany and came up to Rafferty—he was white ness, were kept back outside the guard line and quivering. instead of saying the goodby they had come far "Captain, I'm in," he said and to give. his teeth clicked as he spoke. "I The brow of the hill where we had been can't stand it—I've gone as far as halted was fairly at the level of our eyes and I can—for God's sake transfer me we were fairly protected. Far off in the brilli- to the hospital corps or I'll run. I antly clear air we could see the faint red of the Cuban ain't no good, Captain, I ain't no A tile roofs of Santiago. Between were rolling good any more." insurgent hills and long slopes with the heavy tropical Rafferty looked at him keenly jungle foliage everywhere {Continued on page So)

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KENTUCKY ~F WOMEN are the prettiest, known as Kentucky lay, with sundry horses the swiftest and liquor other tracts, at the bottom of the sea. the fieriest in Kentucky, it must By Ulric Bell Over this bottom crawled all manner Tbe because of the soil. of creatures whose shells and other im- Providence gave to the very earth pedimenta contained the plant food of this superlative old commonwealth a racy richness of quality called phosphate. The waters went away; that was too bad for not to be found elsewhere. It is this vitality that makes the blue- all this animal life. The casualties helped to form a sediment grass blue—and nutritious blue bluegrass encourages thorough- which is now limestone. It is by far the most abundant thing in breds to be swift. Out of the same soil is derived that difference Kentucky, save possibly the salubrious air itself. At places—you which causes that nectar known as Bourbon whisky to stand out can prove this for yourself—the limestone stratum is 25,000 feet among the gifts of the gods. Surely it makes the weed called thick. As it decays, it turns its phosphatic vitality loose—into Burley as smooth as the Bourbon. the soil and the streams and mayhap into the veins of the people. There must be in it also a magic that gives bloom to the cheek, Anyhow, this soil has a chemical property all its own. To this grace to the form and sparkle to the eye. That, and a slight re- property is attributed the peculiar authority of the Bourbon, dis- course to poetic license, explains the beauty of Kentucky's tilled from limestone waters diluting sour corn mash; the blue- womanhood, if a reason need be given for perfection. ness and vigor of the bluegrass and the velvety flavor of the And the whole explains that particular "it" which is Ken- Burley. Bourbon whisky never has been made successfully else- tucky's lure. One may question the explanation, but one cannot where. Just try to raise a crop of Burley in any other place under long deny the appeal. One literary authority has said that every the sun! Or enumerate spots outside Kentucky where bluegrass Kentuckian is born a poet. A Kentuckian cannot write or speak beckons! Or compare—but it is perhaps best that Legionnaires dispassionately of Kentucky. do not emphasize this geological side when they invade the proud "Kentucky's greatest natural resource is history," someone old State this autumn. Kentuckians prefer to look back to less else has said. Assuredly it has history and a lot of it. It has a prosaic beginnings. They rather like to think they derived their galaxy of statesmen, warriors and men and women of letters and virtues and blessings and cussedness from more mysterious the sciences that should be the envy of lesser commonwealths. sources. They won't admit that the hellfire and starshine are It was the fifteenth State to enter the union, but it had been a right there in the phosphate limestone. going concern, mixing up in all the best wars and having some of For them, the poet explains: its own, long before that. Grizzled old Simon Kenton, confound- ing the Indians with his copious pipe and teaching them the vice God spoke of nicotine, was as much of a statesman in his way and on his And out of the Chaos Earth and Sky, scale as Henry Clay. Even among the redskins there were some Rose the Ocean, Rivers, flowing in majestic beauty to the Sea, pretty slick politicians. Lofty Mountains, crowned by Forests, But history must be reasoned out. In this instance the soil fits Overlooking Plains and Valleys, scientific exposition of the secret of into a kind of Kentucky's Rich in Flowers and Fruits for Man, superlativeness. His latest handiwork. A few millions of years ago the tract which later became And in the midst of each Hemisphere

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The cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was bom, restored to the exact spot where it originally stood, now rests forever as a shrine for all America in the beautiful memorial at Hodgenville, Kentucky, within easy reach of Louisville. On opposite page, Louisville' s Market Street, down ivhich the Eleventh National Convention parade of The American Legion will march next October

He set a Garden this gateway city General Clark thrust forward to win his^ wax- Eden in the East to the new western empire— to show the world that not all of Kentucky in the West. America lay east of the Alleghanies. r A professor in the University of Kentucky, J. T. C. Neo thus IntheW arof the Sections, this battlefield commonwealth again takes leave of any theory of geological evolution con- was a frontier over which both sides surged and ad vanced cerning this marvelous land. Why, even the com- and receded. To both North and South it gave its pilers of encyclopedias succumb a little to fighting sons. They flocked to either cause sentiment when they dwell upon 1 th equal fervor, glorying mostly in the tucky. "A land of milk and hone smoke of battle, whether it came from indeed!" one of these staid volumes Union or Rebel (don't use the latter exclaims. "The best place outside ord in Kentucky) muzzles. of Heaven the good Lord ever Kentucky was the Belgium of the made" is the common summing Civil War. It defied the Federals up among Kentuckians. and the Confederates to violate Behold here stalwart hosts its neutrality—made a char- of warrior shades to greet acteristically grand threat to fighting men. Tecumseh, lay by the heels either side who once claimed dominion that might defile its soil. But over this rugged land; Gen- here was a fight, and Ken- eral George Rogers Clark, tuckians could not keep out who came down Wilderness of it. And they saw a good Way to blaze a path for the deal of the war fought out white man; old Zachary Tay- on the home grounds. lor, the hero of Monterey; Both great leaders of the General Breckinridge, war Civil War—Abraham Lincoln minister of the Confederacy; and Jefferson Davis—sprang Daniel Boone and Chief Big from this soil. Knife. Kentucky always has been and Be at ease, fighting men, in these is the border. Even now it is the surroundings. It was here that th political frontier. The major parties art of fighting was invented. For cen- ion the course of political tides by turies before the white man came the uring their success or failure in aborigines surged backward and forward Kentucky. over these plains and hills and forests in When Kentuckians have nothing else to fierce conflict, giving to the soil its name of do they fight among themselves. Witness Churchill Downs, where horses are "dark and bloody ground." the feuds of the moonshine regions of the Then the white man contested with the horses mountains, where families have been w iped redskin for sway over the land, and the out by continuing enmities brought about conflict raged anew. The British redcoat came, beguiling the by wholly forgotten causes. In some of these feuds, to be a Indian as an ally, and a broader issue for battle arose. Through Tolbert or a Hargis or a Smith or a Jones— to bear the name of

JUNE, 1929 ig satin skin and shining tresses swayed continents, grew up in these surroundings, became the city's fair-haired darling, lent herself to its nomen- clature. It is still lawful to bask in such atmosphere, to gaze upon such loveliness. But, alas and alacka- day, as if any Legionnaire could have any pos- sible interest. Brother Volstead and Senator Jones have almost written finis to the story of Bourbon, which, though it is just hard likker, is essential background to the story of Kentucky. This famed product is virtually extinct. In and around Louisville there are stored only some 10,000,000 gallons of it. But it is under seal and guard in concentration warehouses, and is being doled out slowly and carefully in small medicinal doses. Kentuckians are a kindly lot, however—even Kentuckians who are Federal warehouse custodians. You can get your fill—of looking. Visit the old Sunnybrook Distillery on West Broadway and weep there at the true bier of John Barleycorn. Travel in any direction and find similar mausoleums. The old boy and all his relatives were laid away in regal state. It is no wonder, though, that he gives an occasional twitch, considering the roseate days when the "corn was full of kernels and the Colonels full of corn." Louisville, Kentucky's metropolis, has stepped out a whole lot since George Rogers Clark set up a few cabins on Corn Island and named the place the Falls of the Ohio. It has been a big town long enough to have a cocky, bustling air about it, but its ' izens still reserve the

right to be leisurely, if the mood moves them, in spite of all modern- A scene in the cave region, not far from Louis- ities. ville. Mammoth Cave is, of course, the (By the way, the center of attraction. In circle, the doorway city lately has of the. original "Old Kentucky Home" at adopted a traffic Bardstown light system ap- plying to pedes- trians, which the opposing clan—was to be a target for the makes conges- deadly aim of the other. It did not matter t i o n no less how the family hostilities had started. Yet, complicated when the "revenoors" came, the rifles of the than it was in Capulets and Montagues of the mountains the days when drew a common bead upon the invaders. La Salle is sup- Do not forget that marksmanship—the kind posed to have that Alvin York from neighboring Tennessee stopped at the site practiced so well—was the earliest gift of Ken- of Louisville for a tuckians. In all of the nation's battles the sharp- smoke and a nap and shooters of the State have left the marks of thei chat with the Indians.) shooting prowess. Examine Regular Army records a within eighty miles discover how many crack shots have been enlisted center of population, Kentucky. is as imposing as that Remember that every inch of this land was wrested by bloody of many greater cities. From the In- conflict. It was not even possible to lay the beginnings of the city diana approach it challenges the eye long of Louisville without risking peril of tomahawk and scalping before one reaches the Hoosier edge of the broad expanse of the knife and the stake. Many pioneers fell before the warwhoops of Ohio. The city stretches out on a fairly level plateau bordered the Indians in the days when mere existence was continual war- by a wide curve in the river. There are few undulations save in fare, when one went to bed with a musket at one's side and when the beautiful parks which, with parkway drives, enfold the outer one's front yard had to be stockaded. edges of the town. Leave your alpenstock at home unless you There have been dark and tragic chapters throughout the want to explore the hills and valleys of these outlying reservations. history of the State, even its later history. But weep no more. Iroquois and Cherokee Parks, especially the former, are, de- The sun will be shining brightly and Kentucky's famed hospi- spite perfect roadways, still suggestive of Kentucky in its rugged, tality will be at its warmest when The American Legion takes primeval state. Shawnee, bordering the river at the west end of over Kentucky and Louisville on September 30th next. the city, is a flat though lovely expanse of tree-dotted sward. Breathing Kentuck's very special air as you promenade Fourth These parks, the city's particular pride, offer every facility for Street —Louisville's main stem—recall, if you must, that the relaxation— tennis, baseball, swimming, boating, picknicking maidens of France were beaucoup la la; muse, if you will, upon and riding—and the trysting places are incomparable. There is a the storied heroines of Athens and Rome; raise, if you are so spot at the top of a knoll in Iroquois, to the south of the city, moved, the maize- fed vixens of Kansas and Iowa; the svelt Shebas which doddering grandfathers still visit and upon which they be- of the Eastern seaboard and the ruddy Helens of the West. stow tender reminiscence. But look about you. On Fourth Street you move on Olympus. At Louisville—ah!—there is Churchill Downs, where the On the spot you will become a poet in your own right. Goddesses Kentucky Derbies (or Darbies, if you will) are run. If you never to the right of you and goddesses to the left. It must be the soil! have seen—and heard and felt—a Kentucky Derby, you have Mary Anderson, the beauteous one, whose silver voice and yet to experience one of life's big moments.

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Consider some of the spacious days of the past. Recall the electric quality of the rumors that ran through the trenches in November, 1918, when the Armistice came. Reflect upon the emo- tions you felt when—if you did—you passed under the Arc de Triomphe with the "Marseil- laise" mingling its strains with "The Star- Spangled Banner" in the hour of victory. Re- construct your first sight of the Statue of Liberty as your troopship hove you homeward into the harbor of New York. Roll all these thrills into one, and then add the thrill of a first kiss and the delectable tingle of the first shower on leaving the front line, and then try to prepare yourself for the thrill of a Kentucky Derby! This is another rite of Kentuckians. All things they cherish are ceremonial. Hardly any- thing, however, has the same spaciousness, the same color, the same spirit of Churchill Downs on Derby Day—Derby Day in May in Ken- tucky. Kentuckians bet, of course. They bet, and, in their politics, quarrel as to whether legal- ized betting is right or wrong as a principle of government. But in all the rancor and strife that has resulted from the pari-mutuel system of wagering, and the alleged dominance of the racing interests in the field of government, no voice ever has been lifted against the Derby. The Derby is an institution as revered as the state song or the right to fight over politics or women. They still ride out to the Downs on Derby day in tallyhos. People come from far and wide to watch, I suspect, how the Kentuckians go through with this ceremony. The event is a social as well as a sporting one. A Deri breakfast is the sine qua non of the social requirements. In the old days (and, it is barely possible, now) A minnow pool in Louisville' s Cherokee mint juleps were Park. In circle, a bit of rural Kentucky served at these the Cumberland River at Molus, breakfasts in glis- Harlan County tening silver tum- blers, with the frosted outside giving mute glory Buchanan, soldier-playwright, toiled as a to the land and youth under Marse Henry Watterson's the protruding spell. So did Cleves Kinkead before he mint crowning all wrote "Common Clay" and before he in rhapsodic per- tried to disprove the notion that he wasn't fection. raised to be a soldier. What a devastat- Here John James Audubon lived and gath- ing bouquet it had! ered the fame that came to him as an orni- Even Kentuckians thologist. Oscar Wilde made a sojourn here. dispute whether the race "Mrs. Wiggs" was lifted by Alice Hegan Rice should be called Derby or out of the obscurity of the "Cabbage Patch," a Darby. W hy should th< part of the settlement known as Limerick, among overlook this opportunity the railroad yards at the south of the city, to live argument, when all that has gone vividly in American letters. Madison Cawein gave to before in the long history of the com- the innate poetry of Kentuckians a finished touch during a monwealth has been based upon difference of lifetime of rhyming in Louisville. It was Cawein who asked: opinion? Call it one or the other, but be at pains not to say Doiby. A pity it is that there will be no Derby this fall, but the Where smile the stars, or bloom the days Downs will be there and, because of the presence of the Legion- More absolutely fair than here? naires, something of the Derby spirit. Kentucky raises its fine horses mainly for Easterners to own Charles Neville Buck wrought his novels here and in Ken- and win Derbies with. Oftener than not some effete outsider tucky's mountains. Eleanor Mercein Kelly and Cale Young carries off this prize. But, mainly, the horses that win their Rice still spin dreams of far places amid Louisville's bustle. way thus to equine royalty are Kentucky born or trained. Charles Sneed Williams is among the foremost American portrait Morvich and Man o' War, now in retired grandeur, make their painters. In the Jefferson County courthouse stands a statue of home near Lexington, in the bluegrass country where the biggest Henry Clay fashioned by Joel Chandler Hart, Kentucky's great stock farms are. sculptor. Irvin Cobb used to pound these Louisville pavements, gath- Across from the old Courier-Journal Building, in Liberty ering the store of lore and legend with which he now regales the Street, you will find Al Kolb's beer and oyster emporium. The land, although he discovered Judge Priest at Paducah, down in beer is now Yolsteadian, but the oysters persist in superlative the Pennyrile. Butt did the same as a budding journalist in the savor. Al has never given away the secret of the frying. Marse days before he became the aide and friend of President Taft and Henry used to run across the street to this house to call for a long before he died a hero's death when the Titanic went down. foaming stein betwixt thundering editorial onslaughts, such as his Marc Klaw and David Wark Griffith laid in this quaint old town lunges at Bryan and Roosevelt and his stirring "To Hell With of toil and traffic, art and song, the foundations of their later con- the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns." Despite all legends, quests in the world of the theater and the films. Thompson Marse Henry cared little for harder liquor. {Continued on page 68)

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CforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (7o uphold and defend the Constitution ofthe'LlnitedStates of!7lmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a onehundredpercent Americanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theffreat'War; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the com-

munity, state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; topromote peace andgood willon earth ;to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjusticefreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradesh-ip by our devotion to mutual helpfilness.— Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion.

Cjfoch

N ONE sense, the verdict of history would have been a confused jumble of mixed-up upon Foch will be long in coming. armies had Pershing accepted Foch's first plan, and The spirit and figure of the man some of the essential moves in the Allied campaign were stamped clearly upon us from were due to Foch's having abandoned his own plans the first, and it took no time to in favor of the counter-projects which Haig put for- grasp the quick stroke with which ward and insisted on. The greatness of Foch was he turned the tide, or the irresistible that he was able to rise above himself and his per- variety of counter-thrusts that sent his bewildered sonal conceptions; he had to the highest degree enemy into defeat. But from the standpoint of "the good sense of the French in yielding when a military history there is still much to learn as to better scheme is put forward." Ludendorff held to the ways and means of this remarkable proceeding. his own way against all persuasion or argument; The Germans themselves, however alive to the Foch was a leader who could profit by not only the result, have never yet understood clearly the modus arms but the brains of his subordinates. operandi. Throughout the steady retreat of those But the strategy of the battle-front was only one last three months they expected always that Foch phase of Foch's contribution—and possibly not the would follow their own method of developing a greatest. Above and beyond the task of co-ordi- single weak spot, and driving the attack through in nating the Allied armies was that of pulling into line a crowded unmanageable advancing salient. Terri- the policies of the Allied nations—and of the two it fied by the danger of a break-through they kept was far the more difficult. The three commanders- bolstering up the most threatened point—only to in-chief might have their differences of view as to find themselves assailed on some new sector and the best way of doing it, but they were at least at finally sent rolling backward on all sectors together. work on the same job—once there was agreement Ludendorff, when he sat down to write his memoirs as to a plan they went ahead in a common afterward, knew only too well that he had received direction. Nothing, however, not even a German a knockout, but even so, with two years to think offensive, could quite merge the separate interests the matter over, could not make out just what it and viewpoints and necessities of governments and was that had happened. nations. War aims, war methods, food supply, • Even on our own side of the line, historians have tonnage, coal and raw materials, the political com- been slow to grasp the essentials of the story. The plications facing each government at home—all swiftness with which the thing was done, the com- these formed the unceasing jangle of divergen- plete somersault from a desperate battered defense cies and contradictions which went by the name to bold attacks all along the line, gave an impres- of inter-Allied unity. sion of easy mastery of the situation which was decidedly misleading. The huge totals of French AGAINST all this Foch had to contend; and in and British casualties during the full-tide period l a way the enemy in front was less of a problem, of success are proof that the result was by no means called for less pertinacity and determination and sup- a matter of mere skilful maneuvering—as always ple management, than these many masters he had to on the Western Front, the battle was achieved serve by ruling. The supreme command, created by stand-up fighting. The men who did it required for the purpose of concentrating an undisturbed no Foch to teach them their business or to spur them direction of military operations, had to lend itself forward, and it was the units in line rather than the to this overtime job of politics and diplomacy. strategists behind them who made this contribu- Foch himself at every moment had to turn over tion to the final outcome. his shoulder to cope with prime ministers, cabinets, In the strategical direction of the campaign, parties, public opinion, and parliamentary opposi- likewise, Foch's actual function and role have never tions—by turns putting his foot down, cajoling, been clearly realized. His supreme command gave persuading, insisting, at times going ahead regard- him no actual power of command over the British less. This side of the story will be the longest in and American armies or their commanders. Over appearing and the most difficult to set forth fairly, their own forces Haig and Pershing held the same but until it is done men will not know the full mea- authority as before; they disagreed at times with sure of his achievement. Foch's proposals, and even refused to adopt them But we who saw Foch will not need to wait for on certain occasions. What is more, they were any final verdict of history. History, to tell the certainly right in doing so. The Meuse-Argonne truth, loses many things in the process of patient

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gathering and putting together. Future military gallantly to the end, but as a practised hand quietly students, for one thing, will never know the pecu- and competently making his arrangements for a liar feeling that came with some hours of full winning battle. The future will bring out more dress artillery preparation of an impending enemy fully, as is due them, the part his great lieu- offensive. No documents will ever give that sharp tenants played in that battle, but throughout it historical perspective that we experienced for some all it was upon Foch that the Allied nations rested months on end while German offensives followed their hope and assurance. each other in what seemed an irresistible sequence. Just as joffre embodied in his character and per- It was against that storm-cloud sky that Foch first sonality the determination of the early days stood out in full stature on our wartime horizon. to stop the Germans and then to set to work dog- Future generations will be able to read a clearer gedly to beat them, so Foch personified the stub- and fuller story of what then happened, but they born, indomitable, spirited temper of 191 8. It has will never know the singular reliance with which we fallen to few men in the course of history to carry turned to him in the worst of the crisis. Nor can so great a burden of trust and responsibility. The they ever feel that quality in the man himself which greatest thing that can be said of these two is that steadily stiffened our confidence and reliance. they bore out the faith that was put in them. How Even when things got worse instead of better that great that faith was, how much faith was required, feeling held; even at the very worst we never the generations to come can never know. thought of him as a hero who would fight Our own will never forget.

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"The TOWN that By Carter

After the burning of Kingston by the British, in 1777, the Van Deusen homestead in Hurley became for a while the capital of the State

Chambers went to Fort Orange, but as land was worth money there he kept on for another ten miles upstream, where he found that soil could be had for the taking. Chambers took some, built a house, parleyed with the Indians, planted a crop and eventually had five or six Dutchmen from Fort Orange working THOMAS CHAMBERS had red hair—a small fact, but for him. one which, like the rain before the battle of Waterloo, Ex-Carpenter Chambers was by way of becoming a personage seems to have influenced history. Otherwise it is on that frontier when Kilian Van Rensselaer appeared on the conceivable that no framed photograph of the drum scene. Mr. Van Rensselaer was a great Dutch gentleman. He corps of Kingston Post (Alamo in the background) would adorn overshadowed Chambers and overshadowed everybody. His the wall in the lounge of the attractive colonial clubhouse in grant of land took in Fort Orange, Chambers's farm up the West O'Reilly Street, or Commander Jacob be up to his ears river on the present site of the Arrow Collar factory at Troy, with plans for making as big a dent at Louisville this fall as and nearly everything else within the scope of the imagination he made last year at San Antonio. In of the local geographers. Three large fact, but for Tom Chambers and the counties have been carved from the spirit of impulse one prefers to asso- personal holdings of Patroon Van ciate with his red hair, there would be Rensselaer. Having no choice in the no Kingston Post at all, or for that matter, Chambers signed an agree- matter any Kingston, a city in Ulster ment with the patroon and continued County, State of New York, which to work his farm on shares. But it came in for consideration some years was no go, being too much like work- ago when they were picking a place ing for one of the big lords in merrie to put the capital of the United States. England. Van Rensselaer had first Tom Chambers long had been in his call on the purchase of all produce, grave by then, or the choice might one must grind his grist at his mill, have been different, as Mr. Chambers one could not hunt or fish without his usually managed things to the advan- license—which was about the same as tage of Kingston. getting permission to eat. Tom started life as a carpenter in Chambers made a poor vassal and England, but as the building boom decided to leave. Mr. Van Rensselaer under Queen Elizabeth had waned installed other of his liegemen on the there seemed to be no future in the Chambers farm and permitted the trade. One might live and die still red-haired Englishman to forget his swinging a hammer for a few shillings agreement and depart untrammeled. a week. So Tom, who was single, came Chambers was still in his thirties to America, but he passed up Massa- tall, slender and with a self-reliant chusetts and Virginia, where the En- way that gave him a certain popu- glish had a few little settlements, larity about the taverns where beer deciding to try his luck in the great and Holland's gin flowed pretty freely. Dutch colony of Nieuw Amsterdam. But the smiles of the Dutch maidens, There was one town on Manhattan in their fetching starched caps, were Island, called Nieuw Amsterdam, and The First Dutch Church, Kingston. The lost on prosperous Tom Chambers. another, called Fort Orange, one hun- original was built in 1661 He remained unmarried. dred and fifty miles up Hudson's River. In the summer of 1654 when Tom

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General Washington addressed the assembled citizens of Hurley on this spot on November °f 17, 16, 1J82 'rated *sed to bold tie river set out from Fort Orange, prospecting down the beyond *W t>o.' Ste eu 'a 0n the limits of Van Rensselaer's domain, he did not go alone. A h of ai rj party of eight or ten Dutchmen followed him. Their investiga- tion ended at a place on the west shore about one hundred miles above Manhattan Island, near a point where forty years before the Dutch had erected a fort and a trading post, but had let it mouth of Rondout Creek. Ten gallons of whisky were present. go to concentrate on building up Nieuw Amsterdam and Fort Chambers and other white men who drank with the Indians Orange. later testified that there was nothing the matter with the whisky. Beyond the steep bank of the river lay a "groot plat," as the The Indians all got drunk and one of them accidentally shot Dutchmen said, and Chambers, who rarely had anyone to speak Harmen Jacobsen, whose wife seemed glad to get rid of him, English to, let it go at that. This great plain extended between although the demands of racial solidarity impelled Chambers to two creeks that flowed a mile or so apart, and could be brought make a strong protest over the slaying. The Indians replied under cultivation with less labor than the average new land. by setting fire to Jacob Adrijansen's house and making the Chambers attended a council of the Dutch do some extra plowing in the local Indian chiefs, bought the land chief's corn patch. from them and divided it into farms. Chambers wrote to Peter Stuy- His retainers who were thus blessed vesant, the resolute governor not of sent for their wives and the new com- Nieuw Amsterdam alone, but of all munity started off. It was called Dutch possessions in the Western Esopus, after one of the creeks. Hemisphere. Stuyvesant went up the The place prospered and grew. river, stamped his wooden leg and More Dutchmen came—also a parcel said that if Chambers and his people of French Huguenots, and a consider- could not take care of themselves able immigration of Germans. There they had better move to Manhattan was the usual trouble with the Indians, Island. The inhabitants demurred which arose in the usual way. The and Chambers talked the governor Indians liked liquor and a couple of into lending some soldiers to help drinks made them crazy. All of the build a fort, called Wildwyck, in which early pioneers on this continent sooner all of the farmers could shelter their or later made the same discovery and families in time of danger. found it an advantage in their trade Peace and prosperity continued for relations with the tribesmen. But the a year. Chambers had eight Indians local Indians had a smart old chief shucking corn for him and one evening named The Bald Head who saw that he supplied them with liquor. They his people were not imposed upon. got roaring drunk, but were harming When he felt that his braves had got no one, when a white man shot an the worst of a bargain he would make Indian who was sleeping off his jag the Dutch plow the tribal corn fields near a fire in the woods. Next day the and do other humiliating chores by Indians waylaid a party of whites, way of balancing the books. killing two and capturing thirteen, In May of 1658, when the commu- including Chambers. After consider- Kingston Post The American nity was four years old, the Indians The home of of able mistreatment the captives were were having their seasonal "ball play," Legion exhibits the spirit of other days exchanged, with the exception of a or lacrosse game, on the flat near the young man (Continued on page 59)

JUNE, 1929 25 TIIF iMPITH

Chapters I— VIII in Brief tangled rHEskein of an in- vestigation that started with the disappearance near Bor- deaux of a wealthyFrench horse trader named St. Denis has wound around Sergeant Fete Bright of the American D. C. I., as- signed to ferret out the mystery. The American detective finds in the rooms at Bordeaux of a man with mismated eyes who had been inti- mate with St. Denis a chalked symbol resem- bling a figure three with its top bar broken. Neigh- bors insist the queer-eyed man is an American. Subsequently, returning to Paris on a night train, Bright has as compart- ment companion an Eng- lish courier who confides in him that he has important papers for Sir Harry Whitfield, a British expert to the peace conference. Bright leaves the train for a few minutes at a suburban station and on his return sees a heavy-set man leaving his compartment. When the man re- fuses to halt the detective fires at him and the man drops an object that turns out to be the courier's dispatch case. A minute later Bright finds the courier murdered, with the broken three symbol chalked on the sole of his shoe. Ordered by his superiors at I'aris to deliver the dispatch case to Sir Harry, Bright takes it to the town of Circe, only to find that the expert has gone on a fishing trip. The detective goes on to Domfront, where St. Denis lived, hoping to get some information about the horse trader. Deciding to stay the night, he leaves the dispatch case in the safe at the St. Denis home. Shortly afterward during an alarm over intrusion by a skulker, Bright discovers the safe open and the case gone. Suspecting the horse trader's secretary, Bright locks him in a wine cellar and goes to Circe and informs Whit- field of the loss of the case. Returning to the St. Denis home, brushing gently on his cheek. Even the passage of air was he opens the safe and—-finds the missing bag. Once more back stealthy. in Circe to return the dispatch case, the detective discovers the Duclose went down to one knee. His face twisted with amaze- oil expert stretched out on the floor of his quarters, murdered, ment and incredulity as he peered at the body on the floor. His with the now inevitable broken three symbol chalked on the short, stocky figure held rigid, out of balance, as if he were sole of his shoe. falling. The silence persisted. It carried a threat in its intensity, a threat no noise ever can attain. At length Bright's ears IX picked up two outside sounds, both peaceful and comfortable, both full of a security that divorced them utterly from the ugly S "^y 'OR a moment the great, black, damp room hung omi- splash of light wavering on the floor. I Jj nously silent. The stillness clung to the high ceiling. A train whistled plaintively over the hills toward the station / Like wads of cotton it stuffed the ears of the two men of Bains-les-Bagnoles. Somewhere nearer a motor car drummed standing there, until they heard the rapid thumping of mightily, with the vibration of an engine laboring on a hill. their own hearts. The flashlight that Corporal Duclose held wa- Next it was a voice, a hearty American voice, crying out vered at length, as if his hand were shaking. Then the round, yellow lustily upon some guard post in the town. medallion of its beam trembled upon Sir Harry Whitfield's dead "Corporal of the guard!" it shouted. "Relief, Number Three!" face. For a terrorizing instant, while shadows flickered about Other voices, still more distant, picked up the words. "Cor- the ..." open eyes, it gave the appearance of returning life. Then a poral . . . relief . . . three draft stole past. Sergeant Bright felt its motion like cold fingers But in the great hall neither man stirred. Duclose was

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"Died of blunt instrument," Bright said. His voice and mouth were dry. He leaned down, and lightly touched the Britisher's wrist. Its warmth startled him. But there was no pulse. "Of blunt instru- ment and parties unknown," he continued. "Not more'n ten minutes ago, either." He consulted his watch. It was thirteen minutes after six. "And it's too damn bad. He had a gentleman's taste for ." liquor. Well . . "It is the gentleman for whom you have searched?" Duclose asked. "What's left of him,' Bright answered. A gust of wind played through the room again. It rattled loose papers on a dusty table with a minute sound. Both men recoiled, then Bright laughed. Duclose moistened his lips with his tongue. "You have remarked the slipper?" he asked. "I have." "The crayon ... it is a price marking from the shop where it was purchased per- haps?" "Perhaps not!" Bright an- swered. "Look at it hard, Corporal. Whenever you see that thing you better dodge. It's a trouble maker. Take the slipper but don't rub off the chalk. We'll have to examine the body." The pockets of Whitfield's blue dressing gown were empty. The hands showed no sign of struggle. Because of the sardonic ex- pression on his amiable face one could not tell whether he had One of his eyes, staring into the been attacked without warning or not. "Lift his foot," Bright ordered. "Never mind, then. You'll blinding I ight , was $ale gray; the other was a deep reddish brown never make a cop, Duclose, if you're afraid to touch a corpse." "I am not afraid. A man may object and still have no fear." "Look at the heel. Dirty. Dragged on the floor. And the

track in the dust . . . see? . . . from toward the bedroom." sweating. A drop trickled down his nose, hesitated at the end, He remembered again the scene through the open window, and splashed on the stone floor. It awakened him, in effect. He Rennels's face drawn, the teeth showing, his loud, angry words: moved his head gingerly as if testing his neck, and putting a "You'll do no more meddling." finger inside his collar, pulled it away from his throat, an in- Another draft blew past. voluntary gesture, to make his breathing easier. When he spoke "Give me that flash," Bright directed. "Let's look at the his soft voice had an edge like emery dust. door." "It is incredible, but the man is dead!" Before his companion stirred, he had circled a heap of gilt His words removed the spell. furniture, its spindle legs thrust immodestly out from under "The hell you say," Bright replied slowly, scornfully. "If linen dust covers that reminded him ridiculously of sagging that ain't a smart discovery. You ought to get promoted to petticoats. Turning toward the front of the hall, he came upon general for that!" the main entry. The door gaped ajar. It was a wide, oaken The corporal held _ glanced at him inquiringly. He lifted his flash- panel, studded with spikes, and bound in iron straps by light. Bright's face, usually a mask of tolerant good nature, rivets. The key protruded from the lock on the inside of the showed stiff, hard, drawn lines about the mouth. The unlocked door. Neither door nor lock showed signs of forcing. dispatch case, that had slipped from his shoulder, still dangled "It is as I told you, open," Duclose affirmed. by its strap from his elbow, between him and its dead owner. Bright closed it softly. He turned the key and was about to Duclose cleared his throat vigorously. fasten the chain also when he changed his mind, and leaving the "The man is dead," he repeated. "It is obvious. He has been chain down, put the key in his pocket. He returned slowly murdered. ." Look, his head . . toward Whitfield's body. The dispatch case thumped uncom-

JUNE. 1929 27 fortably against his side; he lifted it higher upon his shoulder. seems to be getting bumped off. Go on. And don't hold out on "Better look around," he directed. me. I don't like serrets."

"To be sure," Duclose replied. His voice pitched up and the "A gendarme at St. Laurent . . . that is a sous-prefecture in

echo in the shadowy roofbeams answered "Sure!" The sound the Department of Hautes Pyrenees, southeast of Bordeaux . . . of it caused the corporal to halt. a gendarme there reports that on last Friday a man who resembled "Turn that light toward me, please," Duclose asked, once Monsieur St. Denis walked into his town from the south. He more assuming his precise accent. "I do not desire to fall over was attired in ragged clothes of good material and his beard was furniture." a week long. It was early evening, and he was seen coming a "It ain't furniture you're afraid of falling over," Bright kilometer off, on the mountains. When he arrived he ordered retorted. his supper at an inn, and having eaten, refused to pay." The great shadowy room, under its covering of dust, gave up no "How could he? If it was the horse trader, all he had left out information that Bright thought important. Duclose, trailing of bokoo francs was the experience." after him, once stumbled, upsetting a heap of chairs. "But he conducted himself in a strange mannner otherwise. "You're a lot of help," the sergeant said sharply. "It's Insisted on sitting with his back to the wall, where he could view obvious that he's murdered, is it? Well, if that's the best you the door. The gendarme was called. This gentleman was asked

." ' can put out . . He lighted a cigarette and puffed twice questions. He could offer no excuse for his action, and refused thoughtfully. "Footprints enough," he complained. "At least to speak his name. He carried no identification. But, they tell

a half dozen pairs in and out the main door. And look here . . . me there, he had a north country accent."

hobnails . . . our own heroes. A lot of heavy traffic for a locked "There's lots of north country accents. Chance is, it wasn't room." St. Denis." "There is no weapon." "No?" "Of course not. He was killed in the bedroom." "The gendarme just hoped it was him." Again Bright pondered. Sir Harry Whitfield was dead, and "To hope is not always futile." the unlocked dispatch case was undelivered, in spite of Colonel "Where's he now, then?" Saunders's orders: "Be sure to get a receipt." There was a Duclose shrugged. "He escaped while they discussed what fine chance of getting one now. He had solved many hard measures to take. He sat one minute in the kitchen, the next problems in this chosen profession of his, both plain and fancy was gone. They searched but discovered no sign. Afterward killings. He had cleared up some murders that involved neither they reported to Inspector Gibon at Bordeaux. That is what I women nor liquor nor money, and that was saying a lot. But wished to tell you." this was a new situation. There was nothing to start on except "Hell of a lot of excitement and nobody pinched," Bright a senseless scrawl of chalk. He had not found St. Denis. He summed up. "That sounds like the Pyrenees gendarmes. They was as far now from the solution of that case as he had been the discussed measures. There's another one downtown here just like first day, when Duclose and he halted in the Bordeaux station 'em. He's a hundred and ten years old and his name's Bonnet." to watch the British courier and the dark, thick-set man on his "I shall confide in him?"

trail. That was a week ago . . . yes . . . a week tomorrow. A "Lord, no! Tell him nothing about this, nothing about the week, and he was no nearer a solution than at the beginning. horse trader, either. Maybe it's him down south, maybe not. All he had of the Blackbird was a torn shirt sleeve and a .25 lust tell Bonnet you got orders to guard St. Denis's house. caliber automatic pistol shell. The other un- Take him along. I'll be there later. Explain to known quantity, the man with one eye gray the girl I can't come for supper." ." and the other brown, might be an American "As to this . . Duclose nodded to the body and might not. As for the dispatch case, it on the floor. had been stolen and returned unlocked. Who "I'll tend it. No need call the medicos yet. besides Whitfield knew what was missing from Just stir up a lot of talk. Morning's plenty of it? And now Whitfield, the man on whom time." Great Britain depended to establish the loca- They left the great hall by the same route they tion of the best oil lands in the Near East, lay had entered, taking care to close the door into the dead here on the cold floor. passage behind them, even troubling to replace the "It's too much for me," Bright told the screws loosely in the bolt, giving it thereby the corporal. "What Sherman said didn't cover appearance of being locked. At the entrance to the case, not half. This Whitfield's one of the Whitfield's sleeping quarters Duclose proceeded on boys that make the world go round. He's to the kitchen. Bright entered the room. a Limey and a sir at that. We'll have Scotland By the aid of his flashlight, he discovered a candle Yard on our necks before night and more on the small round table at the head of the bed. reporters than clues." He lighted it, and at once began to examine the He paused. "What apartment. The furniture apparently had not been about your wire? Cir- disturbed except for the open chest of drawers; the cumstances peculiar?" bed was smooth; several clean, squat drinking "To be sure." glasses stood in order on the center table. Even "Spring it." the rugs on the floor lay flat. There had been no "It concerns St. struggle here; that was what Duclose would call Denis," Duclose said obvious. A frantic search, but no fight. However, softly. Bright had just inside the door lay the pieces of the shattered returned to the body glass lamp, and a few inches from the table the from his second fruit- sealed cognac bottle. The trail of Whitfield's drag- less exploration of the ging heels led from this direction. great room. He paused Bright opened the door and looked out into the now, looked down corridor. On his knees he examined the floor. once distastefully at There were pieces of broken lamp-shade here, too. Whitfield's bare foot. The door had been open, that proved, when the "Well?" lamp was smashed. Bright picked up the bottle, "My information a handy weapon; other cognac bottles had been concerns St. Denis," used as weapons in the A. E. F. Searching the bed- Duclose repeated. "I room floor again, he found a corkscrew lying against have reason to sus- the baseboard near the door. It was a small folding pect the man is alive." contrivance, dated Paris, 1010, a souvenir of the For the space of kind American soldiers frequently bought. Bright a breath Bright wait- thrust it into his pocket. He closed the door and ed; then he com- went down to the kitchen. The cook might know Cbevonnet leaned against mented: "Alive? Well, something and be willing to tell it; so might Grice the open door in that there's him still alive if he still were there. maybe, and me and attitude of listening pe- The cook was alone. As Bright felt his way you. Everybody else culiar to him quietly down the steps, the fellow stood with his

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The lights jrom military police headquarters poured out upon the olive drab side. The nutnber, distinctly painted on the door, ivas 2j,ig8 back turned, a leg of chicken at his mouth, chewing appreciatively Bright refused. "Haven't time." Glancing toward the dining and wiping his lips on his forearm. Bright spoke before the other alcove, he observed that no one had eaten at the table set for knew he was there. three. "Night, soldier," he said to the cook, and walked out to "Where is Whitfield? He's not in his room." the garden. The cook whirled guiltily. Lamplight still glowed pleasantly through the glass nearest the "How the hell do I know?" He grinned sheepishly. dining room, which Bright judged to be Grice's. He passed "You say he went in. You haven't seen him go out?" purposely under the dark window of the major's room. Rennels "I didn't say nothing. That's the trouble with you cops. had argued with someone in that room not twenty minutes Put words in a fellow's mouth. It was Grice said that. I don't before Whitfield's body was discovered on the floor. And the know where Whitfield's at." major had departed hastily for the office. Even Duclose had "Haven't seen him tonight?" noticed that in the dark. "Something on his mind," the corporal "I didn't say that, either. Sure I seen him once. He was out had guessed. It was delicate business to arrest a major, particu- here a minute ago trying to borrow a corkscrew. Had a cognac larly when he was district commander. But the Division of bottle in his hand." Criminal Investigation had handled just as ticklish situations "Lend him one?" as this before. "Didn't have none." He crossed the garden to the office. Since this was the supper "A cook without a corkscrew?" hour, it was deserted except for a single clerk. "Don't use 'em. Always knock their necks off." He grinned "Where's all the soldier boys?" Bright inquired. again. "Like a bite more chow?" he invited. "Chow, "the clerk replied good-humoredly. (Continued on page?!)

JUNE, 1929 29 HORS DCEUVRES

A Common Faux Pas Among the A. E. F. on Leave By Wallgren 4 A PERSONAL VIEW

In this forum of ideas to promote discussion among readers I know a man whose real heartbreak in the midst of his who were making words good in action eleven years ago, is success since the war, in which he had a fine record, is that there any quarter for liars? No hypo- he cannot play games well. His parents Being Born Drys, Stop crite is worse in our day than the citizen hacj the money and hired the best in- Drinking! or legislator who votes Dry and drinks With It structors in vain in his youth. Nature Wet, except the judge who both patron- did not give him muscular co-ordina- izes bootleggers and tries bootlegging cases. Let the Drys tion. "But I play at it!" he says. "I shall always keep set an example by their personal conduct. playing it." That's the spirit. And poor orphan Babe

Ruth, he was just born with it, that muscular co-ordination, to possess which the other fellow would sign a check for a The casualties among Allied leaders have been heavier fortune. than among enemy leaders since the war. Hindenburg and Ludendorff have outlived Foch and Fame Is Haig. Foch, the man, had courage, He is the professional prize-fighter of the piker class. He fights for a manager who shares his pay when he can never His Forever simple faith and loyalty. For these he to be in for the big money. The was loved. They were the strength be- hope The Most crowd jeers him if he stalls. He keeps hind his tactical genius as generalissimo of five million men. at it until he is "punch drunk," a A thousand years hence his name will be known—known as Pitiful Boob battered wreck. Wits and character long as the memory of the World War survives. beaten out of him, he faces the future, while yet young, with no way to earn a living, the man who has taken of his small earnings having by that time found another hopeful All look alike to the top sergeant ; and this story bears from whom he may get a living. So it has been and repetition. "I had a lot of recruits," said old "Papa" Brunier who enlisted young Foch in probably always will be. Young Foch's 1870, "but I don't remember anything Top Sergeant particular about Foch. If I had known The old covered wagon took the pioneer westward to that he was going to be a marshal I make new farms and towns. Such is the emigrant story of might have paid more attention to him." Would he? America's making. The new covered Doubtless as top sergeant he would still have made Foch Pioneers of wagons, millions of automobiles, soon understand who was boss. Today will be taking the roads in summer time with vacationists wedged in bag- gage. They camp at night, and move on the next day, Uncle Sam still has quarter-sections open for settlement. seeing America. Some of them may also feel that they have But who wants them? Last year's decrease of farm popu- met a few Indians when they count expenses at the con- lation was 600,000; and for twenty Free Land clusion of the trip. years it was 4,500,000 while our whole Goes Begging population increase was thirty-three percent. Still there is enough food for David S. Ingalls is rich, thirty, able lawyer, veteran skilful all. increases crops with less labor; more fac- Machinery aerial pilot, with a war record, before he was twenty, that tories in town make more luxuries for general consumption. includes the American and British but in Europe, Vast irrigation projects, not only in America What More crosses. He has been used to flying producing land. Asia and Africa have increased the area of Can He Want? instead of motoring where he wanted to food shortage will turn the movement back to Yet one day go. Now he is the Navy's Assistant the farm. Secretary for Aviation who will not have to call a pilot when he makes an inspection.

A female mosquito breeds 159,875 mosquitoes a year, says for bridge. the state entomologist of New Jersey. Scientists raise their Retreating Mexican rebels were making a estimates to make the age of the world They found it destroyed by aerial bombardment. They planes; so were If You Like 900,000 years. Tourists will spend had no defending Trapped and under showers of Figures $1,000,000,000 this year outside the caught in a huddle United States, says the Department of Bombed bombs and a machine gun fusillade Commerce. Americans spend $2,330,000,000 a year on from the air. Let the enemy have are flies under the ham- churches and philanthropy. New York City increased its mastery of the air and your troops has artillery and you have not. debt $300,000,000 last year. The income of the average mer as surely as when he is question about that. {Continued on page 79) wage earner is $27 a week. There no 31 JUNE, 1929 KEEP!RteJNNg G

THE post that is tired of doing the same things dustriously going from one post to another. Most of the men over and over it sometimes seems there is nothing new arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses have been rOin else already done every- to without service in the world—somebody has shown be records of the World War. thing one could think of. Perhaps that was the way Crook County Post of Prineville, Oregon, felt when it started Air Pioneer thinking of something new to do this spring. Then it really did something new. AIRPLANES are commonplace today in Wyoming and no- "Our post mailed personal invitations to all residents in this body can tell how many and what kind of aircraft will be county over seventy years of age, asking them to come to Prine- flying in Wyoming twenty or thirty years from now when the ville on St. Patrick's Day as guests of the post," relates Legion- members of John Donald Garbutt Post of Sheridan, Wyoming, naire Asa W. Battles. "Thirty of them accepted the invitation. have become old timers given to spinning recollections of days We escorted them to the banquet room in the Ochoco Inn where when. No matter what aerial progress brings to Wyoming, they found a table set 'family style.' Garbutt Post's place in the eyes of We assured them that we had brought posterity is assured—it was the pioneer them together simply for an afternoon in making Sheridan air-minded. When of sociability as guests of The Ameri- the air mail route between Cheyenne, can Legion and that we were not going Wyoming, and Great Falls, Montana, to bore them by set speeches. They was first proposed, Garbutt Post took fell in with the idea and had a wonder- the lead in a campaign by sponsoring ful time. A roster of our guests an air meet in the interest of the pro- showed their birthplaces represented jected route. The meet was attended ten States and three foreign countries." by delegations from the commercial clubs of most of the towns along the Follow -Up Slicker route. The large number of planes flown during the meet convinced LIGHTNING may never strike twice everybody that the airplane would J in the same place but Frank A. quickly become the rival of the auto- Rohrs, Service Officer of Teaneck mobile in everyday transportation. (New Jersey) Post, knows now that bogus service men on panhandling Hospitality Plus jaunts can do so. "A year ago a townsman directed ALL Oregon is proud of the State to me a stranger who claimed to be a • Capitol at Salem. It is a monu- former soldier," writes Mr. Rohrs. mental building standing in Salem's "The man said he had just been dis- civic center, a plaza ornamented by charged from hospital and gave other fountains and fir trees and shrubbery plausible details. He asked for a loan covering a half mile. Twenty thou- and promised to return it when he got sand Oregon Legionnaires and their to his home, which he said was in guests are expected to throng the civic Camden. I gave him $3. Needless to center early in August while the Ore- say, the money was never returned. gon Department holds its annual con- On Christmas Eve, who should appear vention in the legislative halls of the at my door but the selfsame man. Capitol. The State legislature this He told about the same story, not re- The State Capitol at Salem, Oregon, in spring passed a special act extending calling that he use of its chambers had visited me before. ivhich the Oregon Department will hold its to the Legion the When I asked him about the earlier for the convention. The privilege thus annual convention — the first department loan, he turned and left. He probably extended is the first ever given to any convention to be held in a state capitol left his mark on the gate post, as Legion department by its State legis- tramps are wont to do, so he wouldn't lature, the Oregonians believe. Capi- make any future calls on me when working through our town." tal Post of Salem, with more than 1,200 members, will be host National Adjutant James F. Barton urges all posts to in- to the convention; and Capital Post's drum corps, which won vestigate applications for loans or donations and advises posts second place at the San Antonio national convention last year, to send a telegram to the post in the town in which the appli- will show the delegations from other posts what it expects to cant claims to live. Observance of this precaution has cut short do this year in the national convention at Louisville. the careers of many professional panhandlers who were in- One of the important subjects to be taken up at the con- 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Tl

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vention in Salem will be the Oregon Plan of hospitalization and vided by the Idaho Department of The American Legion Aux- rehabilitation. Under Department Commander Ben S. Fisher iliary. The G. A. R., the United Spanish War Veterans and the the department has arranged for permanent full-time American American War Mothers will join with the Legion and the Legion secretaries to serve the disabled men who are patients Auxiliary in the dedication. in the new Veterans Bureau hospital at Portland and in other The building itself was formally presented to the State of hospitals in the State. Every form of assistance will be given Idaho last autumn at a ceremony held during the annual Idaho each patient from the moment he enters hospital. and Washington State College football game. Department Commander L. V. Patch presided and the presentation address Meeting the Test was made by Robert D. Leeper, Past Commander of the De- partment of Idaho and President of the Idaho Memorial Asso- WARREN BLACK POST of Ottawa, Kansas, has pre- ciation, the body which had charge of the state-wide campaign sented to Ottawa's city commissioners a plan for the for the construction of the building. Addresses of acceptance future control of floods from the were given by 0. E. Hailey, Lieu- Marais de Cygnes, a river that flows tenant Governor of Idaho, and Fred- through the center of the town. Early erick M. Kelly, President of the Uni- in the winter when the river came out versity of Idaho. of its banks swiftly, rising more than Vice Presidents of the Memorial a foot higher than it had ever been Association were Paul Davis, Past De- before and threatening hundreds of partment Commander, and J. Ward homes in the lowlands, the entire post Arney, Past Commander of Kootenai took part in rescue and relief work. Post of Couer d'Alene. Dr. Harry Ein- Legionnaires used boats to save men, house of Dudley Loomis Post of Mos- women and children marooned on cow served as member of the board, housetops or clinging to tops of trees. along with Department Commander At post headquarters Post Commander Patch. George Horton, Secretary of Tom W. Flory and Post Adjutant the University of Idaho Alumni Asso- Ralph Ford received three hundred ciation, was Secretary and Treasurer. separate calls for help. "Days and nights of hard work in All M. P.'sfor Once sleet and rain were repaid by the new understanding of Legion service that PERHAPS ten years ago the mem- our work gave," writes Mr. Flory. bers of Dykeman-Pinkston Post of Lake Wales, Florida, were in the habit Idaho Memorial of asking M. P.'s in the A. E. F., "Who won the war?" If any M. P. FIVE years ago the Idaho Depart- who got his share of crossroads heck- ment of The American Legion ling in the old days was among the adopted at its annual convention a pro- 60.000 persons who drove in automo- gram for the construction of a memo- biles to Lake Wales on February 1st, rial gymnasium and armory at the he had a good chance to pay back University of Idaho at Boise, a build- every taunt ever uttered by the Lake ing that should be the whole State's Wales Legionnaires. For one and all, tribute to the eight hundred Idahoans these Legionnaires were doing M. P. who gave their in duty on that day. Moreover, it was lives the World War The Idaho Department of The American and the easy to pick them out, for every one Spanish-American War. Legion had the leading part in providing Today a huge structure of brick and was wearing the orange headgear of this memorial gymnasium and armory stone stands upon the campus of the the Florida department. for the University of Idaho University of Idaho, representing the Dykeman-Pinkston Post became an fulfillment of the Legion's vision of M. P. Corps to save its town from five years ago. In size and architectural beauty it ranks as one what threatened to be one of the worst automobile traffic jams of the foremost buildings of its kind in the United States. in the history of the United States. Fifteen thousand automo- In June, when the university observes its annual commence- biles entered Lake Wales over a few highways, bringing the vast ment, a bronze tablet bearing the names of Idaho's eight hun- crowd that attended the dedication of the Singing Tower in dred war dead will be formally dedicated and the whole State Mountain Lake Sanctuary, the bird refuge established by Ed- will join in honoring their memory. The tablet has been pro- ward W. Bok, former editor of the Ladies Home Journal. They

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came not only to see the unique tower and hear the bells of the sheer rock walls on both sides and in which from beginning to world's largest carillon but also to greet Calvin Coolidge at one end there are 365 rapids, many of them nightmares of boiling of his last public appearances as President of the United States. water and submerged boulders. Of course it was Post Com- At an earlier carillon recital, an experimental event, the un- mander Francy who dared, in mid-winter, to steer a boat into controlled streams of automobiles had produced a traffic tangle this dangerous race course of muddy water in an effort to find that lasted far into the night. Lake Wales, therefore, was ap- and rescue Mr. and Mrs. Hyde. With him went Legionnaire prehensive when it learned how many cars were headed its way Jack Harbin, also of John Ivens Post. for the ceremony at which President Coolidge would speak. The That voyage came near being Commander Francy's last. town was reassured when Post Commander H. E. Draper an- After days of battling one rapids after another—lifting their nounced that his post would take over the job of handling ice-encrusted boat time after time over the most shallow of traffic. In carrying out its task, the post was assisted by Legion- them—Francy and Harbin found themselves trapped in their naires from posts in surrounding towns. The Legionnaire waterlogged craft in the midst of one of the swiftest rapids, traffic men mapped all available parking spaces and as the tide with the canyon walls meeting the river at both sides and pre- of automobiles set in caused all cars to be parked heading in venting advance or retreat on shore. Their boat had jammed the same direction. After the ceremony the outward movement its nose between two boulders and the surging water had filled

of the cars under Legion di- it rapidly. At first their plight rection proceeded as smooth- seemed hopeless. They fig- ly as the parking. ured they could only escape "There was not a single if they could build a raft traffic jam during the day." from driftwood. The rolling reports Legionnaire R. C. water swept over the boat's Patterson of Lake Wales. stern in wave after wave that "Newspapers everywhere, seemed to make bailing im- publishing accounts of the possible. dedication, mentioned with Francy and Harbin alter- praise the M. P. duty per- nately rested o'n a shelf of formed by our post and the rocky shore and struggled color guard and squad of to free the boat by sheer buglers representing Fort strength. Then, laboriously, Myers (Florida) Post." they rigged up a shield made of a hatch cover and a piece Below Grand Canyon of canvas. While Francy held this in place on the boat's IF Bob Francy lived at a stern, Harbin began bailing busy street corner in any the water from the boat with sizable city he might find a gallon bucket. The boat excitement by rushing out of began to rise, bringing hope his home every time a cou- that it would soon lift itself ple of automobiles collided. Bob Francy, Commander of John Ivens Post of Grand Can- high enough to grate safely

But Mr. Francy lives at a yon, Arizona, builds a fire to dry his clothes after a peri- over the boulders which held place where excitement comes lous struggle to free his water-logged boat stranded on the it. Then Harbin lost the buck- in bigger-sized packages. He et it was torn from his hand rocks of an icy rapids of the Colorado River—an incident of — lives in Grand Canyon, Ari- and carried away. Francy the 139-mile mid-winter voyage through the Grand Canyon zona, and he is Commander still held the shield with made by Francy and a fellow-hegionnaire in an effort to of John Ivens Post of The straining muscles, and it and rescue Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hyde, who disappeared American Legion. Within the find seemed that the work of bail- while trying to cruise through the canyon in a scow last year seven men have ing had been in vain. But in drowned in the swift waters the bottom of the boat Har- of the Colorado River at the bottom of the mile-deep canyon bin found a long strip of tin, carried as an emergency patch. below Mr. Francy's home town. And every time there is a He fashioned this into a scoop. More bailing, and then the boat

drowning in the river. Commander Francy and other members cleared the rock . At the end of that rapids Francy and Harbin of his post go into action. The thousands of tourists who spend tied up their boat and built a fire of driftwood. a day or two in the big hotels on the canyon's rim, make motor Francy and Harbin ended their voyage when they met Mr. sightseeing trips and descend on muleback over steep and wind- Hyde's father, who had come with a searching party down a ing trails to the bottom of the canyon never realize how drama trail that led from the canyon's top to the river. Near the point and tragedy lurk in the splendid panorama of the Grand Can- of the meeting the Hydes' scow had been found, loaded and free yon. Mr. Francy knows all about it. of water, with nothing to indicate the fate of the missing voy- Three men drowned a year ago when a cable broke and a agers. Everybody concluded the pair had drowned in a rapids ferry boat carrying an automobile went adrift and capsized in in some unexplainable mishap or had been left stranded on a the torrent below the town of Grand Canyon. And only a few shelf of shore when their boat had gone adrift. One theory was months ago a small boat upset in a rapids of the river and that Mr. and Mrs. Hyde, losing their scow, had sought escape Legionnaire Glenn Sturdevent and two other men drowned. by following a side canyon that led to the north rim. Post Commander Francy found Mr. Sturdevent's body but the In their expedition Francy and Harbin had traveled 139 miles bodies of the other two were carried downstream and never downstream and run seventy-five rapids. were found. After taking part in the funeral of Mr. Sturdevent, John Ivens Post's firing squad drove to the canyon rim and Helping Hand fired a volley as a last salute for Fred Johnson, one of the men whose bodies were not found. Johnson was not a member of WHEN Past National Commandef John R. McQuigg died the post but was preparing to join it at the time he lost his life. at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, last autumn, Legionnaires But Commander Francy's hardest work in the past year came living on reclaimed land in the Shoshone District of Wyoming while the whole United States was speculating on the mystery honored his memory. They recalled that Mr. McQuigg, as Na- of the disappearance of a man and woman who had voyaged tional Commander of The American Legion, had intervened to into the canyon in a scow, expecting to traverse the 217 miles save them from ruin when Government charges for water and of river. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hyde of Hansen, Idaho, were the improvements had burdened them heavily. voyagers. Search for them began a month after they drifted The Shoshone Dam. near Cody, Wyoming, rises 268 feet into the canyon, in which the swift river at many places scours above the bed of the old Shoshone River and furnishes water

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Snow-covered mountains in the background, hut a great day for boys and girls in this sunny valley in Cali- fornia when Eppa Post of Dunsmuir dedicated an official American Legion poster, with the high school band providing the incidental music. In several thousand other communities throughout the United States the same poster ivas displayed this spring

for irrigating more than 164,000 acres of what was once desert going to have real water. Instead of pitching its tents along a land in Park and Big Horn Counties. The settlers on these river, it will hold forth beside one of the most picturesque and lands included many hundreds of service men who had been most expansive lakes in northwestern Indiana—Bass Lake, given preferential rights. In 1926 water charges and assess- between Indianapolis and Chicago. ments on construction costs had made the settlers desperate. "We are expecting boys from a score of States to enroll They could not pay and the Government was preparing to shut again this year," bulletins Legionnaire S. A. Bishop, Past Com- off the water from ditches. Waterless, the fertile fields would mander of John Holliday, Jr., Post of Indianapolis, the outfit have reverted to desert. Settlers would have been ruined. which is sponsoring the camp this season. "Practically The Legion posts in the tiny towns of Frannie all the officers of the camp are members of our and Deaver held a series of meetings which were post, and the big event of the summer for our attended by 120 settlers who were service post will be its annual picnic at the camp. men and many others. Will G. Metz, then The camp will open June 15th. Expenses of Commander of the Wyoming Department, boys attending it are only nominal, includ- gave his help and called upon National ing $22.75 for uniforms and ten dollars a Commander McQuigg. Mr. McQuigg at- week for board. Applications for this tended a meeting of Legionnaire set- season's camp are being received by our tlers at Cody and then proceeded to post. Any other post anxious to do a Washington. His presentation of the good deed this summer might well send cause of the settlers, the continued a boy to camp, paying the compara- efforts of the two posts and the help tively small expense. Lieutenant O. of Wyoming's Senators and Represen- F. Heslar, Supervising Officer, and tatives resulted in the drawing up of Lieutenant F. F. Knachel, Command- new land contracts which were liberal. ing Officer, will direct the camp again this year. In recognition of what the Vacation With Oars Indiana Department and National Headquarters of The American Legion EVERYBODY pulled that old wheeze have done to make the camp successful, about the Swiss Navy when the one of the boats in the camp's racing Legion-sponsored Naval Reserve Summer f events will be called 'The Legionnaire.' Training Camp for Boys opened in Indian- The races each year attract many visitors dianapolis several years ago. For Indian- to the camp. Legionnaires from other posts apolis hasn't a waterway formidable enough to will always find a welcome at the camp." get a Congressman excited with plans for dredging and deepening it. The camp, located Business as Usual on a broad and shallow river in an Indianapolis National Commander Paul park, proved a success, however, and boys ORVILLE Redding Post of Canova, South V. McNutt and Mrs. Mc- came to attend it from all parts ,of the United Dakota, will get a new Adjutant only if Nutt as guests the States. It is not recorded that any of the boys' of first William S. Leonard leaves town. Mr. Leonard the regulation naval cutters got stuck in the river department convention of has held down the job for more than three mud—but, shades of Davy Jones' locker! year, at Jacksonville, Flor- years now. This might not be unusual, only This year the Legion-sponsored camp is ida, in April it happens that Mr. Leonard isn't like most

JUNE, 1929 35 KEEPING STEP other Post Adjutants; he is a disabled man, a prisoner in bed writes Mr. Barnett. "A disabled veteran named Earl Carson, at his own home. He had spent four years in Government hos- who had just come from the East, happened to be looking for pitals before returning to Canova for home treatment in 1926. a job in Tulsa. He proved the man of the hour for our plan, Since he became Adjutant post meetings have been held in his and in a week or two had fifty other disabled men working in bedroom. From his bed he runs the post affairs mighty ably, paint squads. Fifty cents was the charge to each householder and just now, according to Legionnaire Max W. for two sets of numbers, one on the face of the Harter of Canova, he is directing the work curbing, the other on the top. Four disabled which soon will put the post in a clubhouse men composed each paint squad. The money of its own. collected was divided equitably among the '"Mr. Leonard was a skilled elec- workers and nothing went to the post. trician and motor mechanic before ;.. The city-wide curb numbering won he became disabled," writes Mr. much praise. It had scarcely started Harter. "Now, in addition to doing when the post was asked to make his Legion work, he exercises a survey of vacant houses and his electrical and mechanical to paint as aviation signs ability. Often a bench is placed the names of towns on roofs ox er his bed and he builds ft through eastern Oklahoma." radio sets, ship models, clocks, a Last year Joe Carson Post candlesticks and toys of had 1,700 members and was many sorts, large and small." the fifth largest post in the Legion. It made this record By the Numbers under Post Commander Pat- rick J. Hurley, who is now in T> Y STENCILING street Washington as Assistant Sec- -D numbers on the curbstones retary of War. Post Com- in front of most of the houses mander Barnett reported that and business blocks in its city, m his outfit, with more than 1,100 Joe Carson Post of Tulsa, Okla- men signed up in March, hopes homa, not only performed a public to get so many more that it will service but also gave continuous em- rank in 1929 as the fourth, third or ployment to scores of disabled men for even second largest post. many months, reports Post Commander Victor F. Barnett, who is Managing Edi- Callfor Mr. Detzer! tor of the Tulsa Tribune. Mr. Barnett strongly urges that the plan carried out in LEGIONNAIRE J. B. Manson, Craw- Carson Post Tulsa, Oklahoma, his city opens up a brand new activity Joe of > fordsville, Indiana, Commander of for other Legion posts. painted street numbers on curbstones the Ninth Indiana District, asks Second "Tulsa business men first suggested the in front of almost every residence and A. E. F. Photo Exchange Clubbers to help plan of putting numbers on the curbs," building in its city him get track of the man who took orders

A typewriter, a one-band telephone, a radio set and a portable work bench full of tools and electrical de- vices enable William S. Leonard of Canova, South Dakota, to act as Adjutant of Orville Redding Post and manufacture clocks and ship models and all sorts of things, despite the war disability that keeps him constantly in bed. His bedroom is the post's meeting place now 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly KEEP I N G STEP

for Paris convention photographs aboard the S. S. Pennland on British wounded. When the United States entered the war she the return trip. "His pictures were the best of all that were became county chairman for the American Red Cross. She also taken," Mr. Manson reports. "But the carbon copy of my order helped actively in the work the D. A. R. was doing for French doesn't give his name or the name of his company. Did others war orphans. She was Regent of the Crawford County Chapter who ordered the pictures on the Pennland get them? If they of the D. A. R. and directed "its participation in the program did, perhaps someone will give me the name and address of for orphans. Her eagerness to serve was in keeping with the the company. It may be a case for Mr. Detzer's D. C. I." traditions of her family, for her ancestors fought in every con- flict in American history from King Philip's War down to the Town, State and Nation World War. Her ancestors, among the first settlers of New England, took part in the Colonial struggles and were enrolled THE pioneers who established a town in the geographical in the Revolutionary armies. A great-grandfather fought in the center of the State of Iowa and named it Story City hoped War of 181 2 and her two grandfathers served in the Civil War. perhaps that some day it would become a metropolis. A native Iowan, Mrs. MacDowell lived in Nebraska Two railroads met at Story City, but they carried _^0F* until the death of her husband after the war. when new population elsewhere and the town never jfj^^A she returned to Iowa and began her work with the got its hoped-for growth, possibly for th Auxiliary unit in Story City. reason that it is the center of a small circle of When Mrs. MacDowell was elected National populous nearby cities. Secretary by the Auxiliary's National Execu- When the newly-formed unit of The tive Committee at its meeting held just American Legion Auxiliary in Story City after the San Antonio National Conven- looked about in 1021 to determine how tion, she took one of the most important it could best help its town it discovered positions in the women's world. The that Story City needed as much as any- Auxiliary, with more than 300,000 mem- thing else a town library—the children bers, is the world's largest dues-paying of the town especially needed a center organization of women, and the busi- where they could have easy access to I ness of all its extensive national ac- good books. The President of the unit tivities passes over Mrs. MacDowell's was Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin Mac- I desk at the Auxiliary's National Dowell, and Mrs. MacDowell imme- 1 Headquarters in Indianapolis. diately gave her whole energy to the task of getting the library started. Teaching a Town to Swim Mrs. MacDowell asked all other organizations in the town to contribute THE boys and girls of Columbus, books. Book showers were held. In a Wisconsin, and a lot of grown-ups short time a sizable library had been too are counting the days as they look gathered. The Auxiliary unit rented a forward to the first warm day when room in a downtown building and en- the swimming pool built by Lange- gaged a professional librarian to catalogue Ostrander Post of The American Legion the books and prepare them for circula- will be open for another season. In a tion. When the library was opened, Mrs. f single year, the swimming pool won such MacDowell took charge as a volunteer favor in the town, which hitherto had not worker. For two years she kept the library had any sort of bathing pool, that citizens open two days each week. It expanded as were inspired to help the post make it even, more funds and new books became available. better than it was when it was dedicated last The successful experiment attracted attention May. The improvement program was given in the whole State, and Mrs. MacDowell, who especial impetus when F. A. Chadbourn, presi- had served as a member of the Auxiliary's dent of the First National Bank of Columbus, department American- for the construction of a executive committee, as Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin donated $10,000 ism chairman and as Department Treasurer, bathhouse and children's recreation building MacDowell became National was called to Des Moines to become Secretary which will be a memorial to Mr. Chadbourn 's Secretary of The American of the Iowa Department. The record she made deceased wife. The post itself spent $6,000 in Legion Auxiliary in that post was the important factor that last after four building the pool, which is 225 feet long and autumn influenced her election as National years as Secretary of the Iowa 175 feet wide and has a maximum depth of Secretary of The American Legion Auxiliary. Department, the largest de- seven feet. The water is treated chemically Before leaving Story City Mrs. MacDowell partment in the Auxiliary and examined regularly by state chemists. The had the satisfaction of knowing that her post keeps a life guard on duty always during library was flourishing. A paid librarian had been engaged and the season and employs a swimming instructor most of the time. many other organizations were helping the Story City unit of "The pool has added to the summer pleasure of everybody the Auxiliary maintain the library. As Department Secretary in town." comments Legionnaire A* 0. Fink, Superintendent Mrs. MacDowell worked continually for the establishment of of Schools, who had a leading part in the project. similar libraries by other Auxiliary units in Iowa towns. She also established the custom of the Department of Iowa giving Where Coyotes are Coyotes a book each year to each of the one hundred dependent chil- dren whom the department is aiding. The books are presented THE difference between forty-six seconds and forty-five and each year on April 6th, which is observed as Children's Day. three-eighths seconds doesn't mean much to you unless you While Department Secretary Mrs. MacDowell directed the are running to catch a moving train or something like that. It manufacture of memorial poppies by the disabled veterans of meant a lot in the coyote rodeo conducted by Christopher L. Iowa. She also directed the membership activities which in- Stockwell Post of Stafford, Kansas, according to Legionnaire creased the Iowa Department's membership from 17,000 to E. E. Boyd. The dog that won first prize in the main event of 25,000 in the four years she served as Department Secretary, the rodeo was only five-eighths of a second ahead of the second making the department the largest in the Auxiliary. prize winner, Mr. Boyd said, adding these details: Mrs. MacDowell's work for the disabled began even before "Coyote racing is a standardized sport in Kansas and there- the United States entered the war. While living in Crawford. abouts and all posts in other sections need to put them on is Nebraska, where her husband. Earl MacDowell, was an attorney, coyotes. The big feature is a race against time. A coyote is she organized a circle of the British Red Cross, and in 1010 released sixty yards from a dog. The dog is to catch the helped make bandages and dressings for the Canadian and coyote in the shortest time possible and hold him for at least

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ten seconds. A speed race is another feature. Twelve dogs are "Greetings through Keeping Step to Monthly readers from released simultaneously on the trail of a coyote which has been the Albert Hamilton Post of Bellingham. Washington. This given a start of a hundred yards. The dog which reaches the message is being sent by Troop 15, Boy Scouts of America, - ' coyote first is the winner. sponsored by our post, and is being relayed by amateur station celebrating the Boy Scout anniversary here in the Legion hall. Deathless Baseballs Our post is helping put the show over." From station to station, the message traveled across the FOUR regulation baseballs that might have been knocked country until it was picked up at Amateur Radio Station into oblivion at the Yankee Stadium in New York City have WgFAW at Stanley, Wisconsin, which forwarded it to the a good chance for perpetual life in Freeport, New York. Unless Monthly in Indianapolis. four members of the four teams which William Clinton Story "Our post is proud of its Boy Scout troop," writes Legion- Post sponsored in The American Legion Junior baseball games naire Sam Rugg of Hamilton Post. "Our post has eight of its 7 last season change their minds, the four baseballs will live on members on the W hatcom County Scout Council executive and on. their horsehide covers unblemished by contact with a board and many members are officials of troops. Our troop baseball bat. For the four baseballs bear the autographs of all sent one hundred radiograms from its station during the anni- the members of the Yankees. The players inscribed them for versary celebration and these were relayed by other amateur sta- the boys when the teams tions until they reached

visited the stadium as , destinations. Operators v M guests of the Legion post of amateur stations must of Freeport. The Free- pass Government tests port Junior Legion base- and are given licenses ball boys also visited the and assigned code num- Polo Grounds. Some of bers. They may send as the boy players were many messages as they photographed with such wish but they may make baseball celebrities as no charge for them." Roger Peckinpaugh, Grover Hartley, Babe Filling the House Ruth and Miller Huggins. WE HAVE found French Course the right formula for home talent shows," THE ex-doughboy of bulletins James F. Lind. the A. E. F. who once Adjutant of York (Penn- knew enough French to sylvania) Post. "In Jan- be able to order oeufs uary we gave our tenth and vin rouge, to get annual show and it was some place in a Paris a production that had taxicab and to communi- stood the test of theater- cate amatory sentiments goers' popularity. Our to a mademoiselle finds show this year was 'The of Pilsen.' In the linguistic going very Amateur Radio Station WjAK is located in the clubhouse of Albert Prince hard when he tries to other years we gave such J. Hamilton Post of Bellingham, Washington, and is operated by read a French newspaper time-honored shows as members of the post' s Boy Scout Troop. Scout Alonzp Hunt, ivearing ten years apres la guerre. Very Good, Eddie,' the headphones , is shown starting a ivireless contribution on its way But, suggests Legion- 'The Red Mill' and to the Keeping Step sector of the Monthly. Other amateur stations naire S. P. Bailey of 'The Firefly.' We have relayed the message Paris Post, who is chair- found that by reviving man of the Finance Sub- musical comedies we in- Committee of Fidac, any service man can easily sharpen the sure full attendance and win a lot of praise from everybody. dulled edge of his wartime French. Earlier, we tried shows of other types and didn't do so well. "The Fidac Review, official organ of the Interallied Veterans All our shows run for a full week. Profits from the shows have Federation, publishes all articles in French and English in reduced the indebtedness on our clubhouse to almost nothing. parallel columns," writes Mr. Bailey. "When you read a story They also helped us support our boys' baseball teams, and in in the Review, you can find it translated, word for word, in two years we have had the championship boys' team of the French, on the same page. The Review is very much worth Pennsylvania Department." while for other reasons also and we are making an effort to obtain 1.500 new subscriptions for it in the United States. The "Roug/iewn" subscription price is $2 a year. It appears monthly and con- of modern city life tains thirty-six pages or more. Posts might well subscribe to it WHAT man in the hustle and bustle for the reading tables of their clubrooms. I will be glad to does not long occasionally to drop care and flee to the transmit any subscriptions sent in my care." mountains? Legionnaires of South Pasadena (California) Post Mr. Bailey, member of the Legion's National Executive Com- can do more than long; whenever' fancy dictates they can mittee from the Department of France, may be addressed at actually go to the mountains. The post has its own mountain The Equitable Trust Company of New York, 23 Rue de la retreat, sixteen miles from South Pasadena, a rather impressive Paix, Paris, France. camp with cabins made of rough granite in a wonderful setting of trees and shrubbery and mountain streamlets—just the place WjAR Gets Across for post picnics or for a day or two of real solitude when the whole outfit isn't around. THE distinction of being the first American Legion post to "Our camp, 'Roughewn,' was started by a South Pasadena send its contribution to Keeping Step by radio belongs to physician who was accidentally killed while transporting ma- Albert J. Hamilton Post of Bellingham, Washington. Early in terial to its site," reports Legionnaire M. L. Winn. "The main February, members of the post gathered about Amateur Station cabin was unfinished when he died and his widow agreed to W7AR located in Liberty Hall, the post's clubhouse, and turn the camp over to our post, through efforts made by Phil watched Scout Alonzo Hunt, a member of Hamilton Post's Dodson, Past Commander of the Department of California own Boy Scout troop, start on its way a message which read: and now National Executive Committeeman. The post floated 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly K E E PING STEP

One of South Pasadena (California) Post's monthly picnics at its mountain camp, "Roughewn." The post members bought $2,000 ivorth of bonds six years ago to acquire the camp, covering many acres. Today it is worth ten times the amount of the original investment and is the center of the post's social life a bond issue of $2,000 among members. That was six years ago. Little more than a year ago, Roland, red-haired, freckled, Today the camp is free of debt and with the improvements we smiling, wearing blue overalls, appeared for a try-out with his have made is worth many times the sum we have put into it. team. He won his place as an outfielder by living up to the "The camp has two main buildings, a large cabin with kitchen training rules set down for his team—plenty of sleep and outdoor adjoining and a bunkhouse which provides real springs and life, hard work and no smoking. Today his face is familiar to mattresses for forty men. A fixed rule is that no woman shall tens of thousands of boys the country over. Seventy-five thou- be permitted to help with the cooking or dish wash- sand copies of The American Legion Junior Baseball ing. The cabin will provide seats for diners at the Guide have been printed and are being distributed average week-end party, but as many as eighty to Legion posts everywhere. The guide con- persons can be served at one time when we tains photographs of more than fifty boys' use the huge stone tables outdoors, under teams. A letter to Mr. Sowers at National the spreading branches of the baytrees, Headquarters in Indianapolis will bring poplars and sycamores. The post has a copy of the Guide to any Legion post. provided a cabin for its Boy Scout troop near the camp and the Scouts Ford vs. Chevrolet make good use of all the grounds. , Albert Gordon Post Incidentally, they keep both the Jjf yjyHEN grounds and the cabins well po- of Jefferson, Georgia, in- liced. Now we are trying to ob- i§ creased its membership 612 per- tain the Government's consent to cent, enrolling every eligible the construction of a large swim- service man in its town of two ming pool, and we have plans for thousand, it originated a member- another large dormitory for wom- getting contest that was as simple 1 en. A handball court will be built." / M as a game of one-old-cat played by ' Ms boys on a vacant lot. Exemplar * .0 "At our meeting where we were talk- / ing over plans for a membership con- Eckles, WHEN Dan Sowers, Director of iftil NjGTA test," writes Post Adjutant J. F. the Legion's National Americanism "it happened that the sales manager of the Commission, got ready to send to press the Ford agency and the sales manager of the 1929 edition of The American Legion Junior Chevrolet agency were among the Legionnaires Baseball Guide, he decided he wanted to place present. There was some kidding back and The typical American Legion upon the cover a picture of the typical Ameri- forth, and Chevrolet challenged Ford to a Junior baseball boy —Roland can boy baseball player. One way of getting membership contest. The Post Commander Jodoin, Burlington, Vermont such a picture would have been to select a asked the two sales managers to 'choose up' great many photographs of boy players and sides, the way it is done in boys' baseball. combine them in a composite picture. But Mr. Sowers didn't Chevrolet named one member for his team, and then Ford have to do that. He didn't look for other pictures after he saw named one. And so on, until each manager had eight men on the photograph of Roland Jodoin, 14-year-old member of the his team and there were no more old members left for drawing. Lakeside Team of Burlington, Vermont, the team which won We decided the losing team would provide a banquet for the the Vermont Junior Baseball Championship in 1928. winner—losers to eat beans, winners to eat turkey.

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The Easter Rabbit pays his annual visit to the children of the service men patients of the Veterans Bureau hospital at Oteen, North Carolina, under the auspices of the Auxiliary unit of Kiffin-Rockwell Post of Ashe- ville. Throughout the year the Auxiliary maintains a health clinic for the children

"When the drive started, every time a new member was on American Legion Day, September 30th. a real shirt-surren- signed up by the Chevrolet side he immediately became a dering ceremony will take place in the middle of the race track worker on the Chevrolet team. The same thing with the other in front of the grandstand. side. Neither team knew just how many men the other team was getting while the drive was going on. At the wind-up, Ford Roll Call had eighty members and Chevrolet had seventy-three. It was so close that the winning team decided that instead of our TWO pioneers of the Legion's founding days met for the first turkey and bean banquet we'd have a barbecue for everybody. time since 1919 at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club We believe that any other post could profitably follow the same in Washington in April. One was Franklin D'Olier, the first man plan we used. The simplified membership elected National Commander of The campaign, we think, will work anywhere." American Legion ; the other was Ulric Bell, who was Commander of the Depart- Who'll Beat Who? ment of Kentucky in 1919. Mr. Bell in this issue tells the story of the city and CAN New York catch up with Illinois State which will be hosts to the Legion at and regain the title of the largest its i92g national convention. Mr. D'Olier department in The American Legion? Or has written for the next issue his recollec- is Pennsylvania going to spring a surprise tions of the Legion's cradle days of ten by passing both New York and Illinois? years ago. These questions were suggested by mem- Leland Stowe, who wrote "The Legion bership figures on April 20th when Illinois of the Missing" for this issue, is a mem- was leading all other departments, with ber of Paris Post. 58,094 members signed up for 1929, New Captain George Fried, whose name was York was second with 48,153, and Penn- added to the list of Legionnaire con- sylvania was third with 44,339. tributors in the May issue, was honored While the departments were striving recently by his own post, United States for first place, Omaha (Nebraska) Post Lines Post, at a dinner and dance aboard and Jefferson Post of Louisville, Ken- the S. S. America. As a tribute to Cap- tucky, were in a duel for the title of tain Fried for his exploits in saving the "world's largest Legion post." Omaha, crews of the British freighter Antinoe with 5,000 members, had the title for sev- and the Italian freighter Florida, the post eral years but the Louisville post walked presented to him a gold American Legion Susie Alice Bauer s father belongs away with it last year—and Louisville says ceremonial badge. The presentation was to it is going to keep it. It has bet its shirt Russellville (Arkansas') Post's made by Dr. Herbert Lawson, New York it will keep the title. And the bet isn't emergency relief unit, and Susie is County Commander of The American just a figurative one. At Churchill Downs, a candidate for post nurse Legion. Right Guide 40 The AMERICAN LECIOX Monthly ,

N AND Bon Voyage to the C.-in-C. —Membership Gains in the A. S. M. W. W.— "Sound Off!" in Song— Base- ball Holds Sway—Paris.. Biarritz... Heaven?—Reunion Notices

death in March of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, com- telling of men with similar auto licenses have come to my rHEmander of all the Allied forces during the last year attention. of the World War, was as deeply mourned in this "In Urbana (Illinois) Post there are now two members with country as in his own France. Among the many such license plate numbers—Howard D. Johnson has number notable Allied commanders who bade the Marshal a final fare- 33-124, he having served with the 124th Field Artillery, 33d well was General Pershing who was in Paris at the time of his Division, and I myself have number 34-133, corresponding passing. This recalled to the mind of William J. Gilbert. Jr.. with my old outfit numbers, the 133d Infantry of the 34th ex-sailor, of Chicago Heights (Illinois) Post, the time Marshal Division. Foch bade farewell to General Pershing in the harbor of Brest, "Incidentally both Johnson and I have served Urbana Post France, when the General returned to the United State c in as Commanders and have been active members of the Legion September, ioio. since its organization." Legionnaire Gilbert was on duty on the U. S. S. Rintintin, Any more men telling the world through their auto license which ferried General Pershing from the pier to the U. S. S. plates of the best outfits in the Army? Leviathan. The snapshots reproduced on this page were sent by Gilbert, who briefs his wartime experiences as follows: WEST VIRGINIA enters 'Cootie.' mascot of the 314th "I enlisted in the Navy at Chicago, Illinois, on June 25, 1917, Field Artillery, 80th Division," reports Boyd B. Stutler, at the age of 16 and continued in service until June 21, 1Q21. Legion Department Adjutant of that State, "as member number My first trip was on the U. S. S. Long Beach, a freighter, bound three in the Association of Surviving Mascots of the World War." for Dublin, Ireland. Or- And as member num- dered to Bordeaux, the ber three, Cootie has Long Beach ran onto the been duly enrolled on rocks and we eventually our roster which is show- had to abandon ship, ing a sudden increase. after beaching her. All of which goes back "The crew was sent to the introduction of to the chateau in Brest Mile. Verdun, mule mas- and later was sent over- cot of the 15th Field land to Glasgow, Scot- Artillery, in the March, land, to put two small 1928, issue of the Month- barges into commission. ly. Then we learned of These were later named a dog mascot still on the the Nenette and Rintin- active roll — Captain tin. The barges were Nuts, ex-member of the taken to Brest where 18th Field Artillery— they were used for the which regiment we er- ferrying of troops to and roneously credited in the from transports which April Monthly to the could not dock. It was First instead of the while in this service that Third Division — when we had the honor of his picture appeared in carrying General Persh- Above, the late Left, General these columns. ing to the Leviathan Marshal of Pershing on Those two wartime when he returned home France, Ferdi- the U. S. S. mascots gave us the idea after the Armistice. nand Foch Kin tin tin. for our Association of Marshal Foch came out bidding fare- This b ar ge Surviving Mascots and to the Leviathan on a ivell to the ferried him to as a result of our cam- French ship to bid the paign for additional Commander- the transport General farewell. members, five more have in-Chief of Leviathan, on "After the war, our submitted applications. the A. E. F., which he made barges were towed to Brest, France, Hampton Roads, Vir- the journey of the appli- September FOUR ginia, where they were 1, back to the cants are dogs—and put out of commission. 19 19 States the fifth is none other I should like to hear than a monkey which from my old shipmates on these barges and also served in the Navy during the war and is still from men who were on the U. S. S. Olympia on more or less active. The monk's official application, which I shipped when she was flagship of the Adriatic including his pictures, came just in time to be acted "I might add that I had an older brother who was upon for this issue. Soon we will have a real menagerie. killed while serving with the famous 'Princess Pat' Regiment." Before some wit among our readers beats us to it, we want to assure the Gang that Then and Now is not "going to the dogs." OOMETIME ago I saw in Then and Now," writes Ross A. Now to continue with Department Adjutant Stutler's story ^ Phenicie of Champaign, Illinois, "a then-and-now illustration of his applicant: of a Ford roadster belonging to some former major who lives "Cootie has been a resident of St. Marys, West Virginia, in New England. The story included the fact that after all since the demobilization of the 80th Division in June, ioig.and these years the major had obtained license plates which con- though of German birth has become thoroughly Americanized. tained the numbers designating his unit and division. The members of the 314th Field Artillery are the only parents "Since then one or two additional items in your columns this dog knew: she is a true dog of battle. She was born in a

JUXE, 1929 41 -*4 THE AC and j\OW !>• dug-out in the Bois des "We—Trimmer and I—are hot Legionnaires and interested Sartelles, near Bethin- in all activities. The picture shows that though Trimmer is court, on the morning getting gray in the face, his hair is standing the peacetime wear of the opening of the and tear better than mine. Meuse-Argonne offen- "The Bide-a-Wee Home (for animals) in New York City sive, September 26, informed me that Trimmer was left with them in 1917 and was 1018, one of a litter later given to the captain of an Army Transport. Evidently of five puppies. Trimmer did not like the transports any better than the rest of "A day or two the Army and went A. W. 0. L. upon reaching France, attaching after their arrival the himself to the A. E. F. At that time he would have nothing to mother dog, left by do with the soldiers of other nations and particularly hated the Germans, disap- all civilians. peared—presumably a "Where are those men of the old LeHavre Signal Corps outfit?" victim of the intensive shelling — and Head- NEIGHBORLY co-operation must be credited for the intro- quarters Company duction of the dog which now ranks fifth in our Associa- adopted the five or- tion of Surviving Mascots. Hale W. Hunt of La Crosse, Wis- phans, feeding them consin, interested himself to the extent of sending us the picture the priceless canned of "Madelon," the war mascot dog shown in these pages. Hunt milk available. Three was a member of the regimental band of the 127th Infantry, of the youngsters went 3 2d Division, and while he fails to say so, we assume that Earl west, but the other Nessler, the owner of the dog, was in the regiment. Madelon, ex-mascot izjth In- same two remained with the Madelon, according to Legionnaire Hunt's account, was also fantry, helps her master, Earl a true war dog as it was reported that her parents, Nessler of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Belgian police dogs, had both served with the at his station filling Belgian Army during the big scrap overseas. This particular dog was born on Novem- regiment until in December, 1918, when ber 29, 1 918—apres la guerre—and was it reached the 15th Training Area . purchased by Nessler from a Belgian south of Paris, where both dogs soldier. were offered to a French family. A An amusing item in Hunt's letter 'Cnod' Core of the regimental is that "Mr. Nessler's family ex- band held onto one of them, how- pected Madelon to be a French ever, and that one was Cootie. war bride and was relieved to "Fitted with a blanket bear- find Earl in possession of a ing the Blue Ridge insignia. dog and not a bride." Cootie proved herself a good soldier. At LeMans, prepara- FIRST of our surviving tory to the trip home, much mascots entitled to wear a red tape was unwound by men wound stripe in addition to his and officers of the regiment until service stripes is "Bum," num- Cootie obtained her passport. ber six on the roll-call of the She returned to the States with Association, hailing from another her outfit, was a feature of the M of the Pacific Coast States. Mrs. 80th Division's homecoming parade Virgil Adams of Dieringer, Wash- in Wheeling, West Virginia, and has ington, tells us that Legionnaires of since made her home in St. Marys. Ten the post at Sumner, Washington, urged years old on September 26th last, Cootie her to file Bum's application for mem- is still in good health and vigorous and bership. His eligibility qualifications are has made trips to a number of reunions stated as follows: to meet her old friends about the State." "Bum, our French-born dog, was found The above pooch, Trimmer, is one of the MEMBER number four in the Asso- newly-accepted members of the Association ciation is a purp on the other side of Surviving Mascots. Felloiv members of the continent. His sponsor, Past Com- are shoivn on this and the opposite page. mander R. W. Johnson, West of Twin Trimmer poses with his boss, R. W. Peaks Post, San Francisco, California, Johnson of San Francisco, ex-Top Kick ex-sergeant icl, Signal Corps, will intro- the 39th Service Company Signal Corps duce him: of , "I am enclosing a picture of two former members of the A. E. F., and make application for in awar-wrecked build- 'Trimmer,' a small black wirehaired dog, for membership in the ing in France after the Surviving Mascots Association. St. Mihiel offensive "While I was a member of the 39th Service Company. Signal by my brother, Pri- Corps, at LeHavre, France, in 1919, maintaining John Persh- vate Evan Davies. who ing's telegraph service to the U. S. A. (Oh, yes! Do the boys served as an M. P. in remember the 'secret' wire from the Peace Conference?), the qist Division. Trimmer showed up wearing a collar marked 'Bide-a-Wee "Bum has the scar Home' and adopted the 'Bureau Telegraphique Americaine' as of a shrapnel wound his own. on his left hind leg. "He stayed with us until we locked the gate at Havre and He was brought to this sailed with twenty of us as casuals on the Santa Paula from country in June, 1919. Brest in July, 191Q. When the company broke up at Camp We have two health Mills, by virtue of being Top Kick I annexed Trimmer and took certificates, written for Bum, French-born, saiv service him home to Canandaigua, New York, where he rested tran- him in France before quilly with the family until five years ago when he crossed the he was permitted to with Private Evan Davies of the continent to join his old Top where we now live within sight board the returning M. P.'s, gist Division. He lives of the Golden Gate. transport. in Dieringer, Washington

4-2 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly M TH E K and ACOW )!>• "An unsympathetic conductor on the troop train bringing the names I recall are Olmstead, McConnell. Cassell, Mooney, boys west from New York threatened to put the dog off the Taylor, Nash and 'Speedball' Hayes. I consider Olmstead the train but changed his mind when the carload of soldiers thought best pitcher in Navy service at that time. Every man in uni- otherwise. Bum arrived in Black Diamond, Washington, July form had played big time before entering service. 3, 19 19, and immediately became the town pet. He lived there "Before closing I want to blow my call regarding the much- with my father. J. E. Davies. until 1923, but for the past six discussed term 'gob.' I enlisted in 191 2, served four years, re- years has made his home in Dieringer with us. enlisted in 191 7 and served until 1920, so I am not speaking as "If any of the boys recognize his picture and remember Bum. one who was just in for the War. Secretary Daniels put pajamas we would be glad to have them stop at the School Cottage in on us, sent us to school and was of the opinion that the tried Dieringer and say hello to him. He will welcome his friends. and true nautical terms 'starboard' and 'port' were too difficult "We think he must be fully thirteen years old. He has and that the Navy should say "right' and 'left' instead. absolutely no teeth and his tongue persistently hangs "All this was done to raise the standards and morale out of the corner of his mouth. He is in his second of the crews—and now comes the order to do away puppyhood because he is almost as active a with the word 'gob,' which I have heard used when we first received him. He claims us for both ashore and afloat, and read of for years, his own and resents any attention we give but they tell us it is disrespectful to the to any other animals in the neighborhood." sailor. It is interesting to note the nationalities "If they want to do something worth- of these four dogs. Trimmer is an Ameri- while, why don't they raise the pay of can, Cootie of German extraction al- the gobs instead of raising cain about though French-born, Madelon hails from different sea terms which have been Belgium, and Bum is the only French handed down from the old Navy of dog in the group. Truly cosmopolitan. wooden ship days, when men were men and women remained ashore. MANY times we have stated that this "I'd like very much to hear from any of department belongs to the whole the baseball team members and from the Legion and not alone to those Legionnaires crews which served with me at Panama on who were overseas. But only occasionally one the South Carolina or at Vera Cruz. Mexico. of the fellows who were kept on this side of the in 1914. pond or who saw service other than in France, produces. For that reason we want to thank The above lady, Cootie, AS ONE of that thin and rapidly aging line of Ex-Boatswain Mate icl H. Worcester of St. -veterans,'' writes Peter B. in his fore- M. fought with the 314th Kyne Maries, Idaho, for the picture of the baseball word to a recent valued addition to our library. "I Field Artillery. Her mas- team we display and for the following letter: hail the advent of Lieutenant Dolph's book. He ter, "Chod" Core. Her "The baseball team lined up in the enclosed has performed a labor of love, indeed; he has fur- home, St. Marys, West picture was organized shortly after the Pacific nished us with a vital necessity and has saved from Patrol Station of the Navy at Balboa, Canal Virginia oblivion ballads that were born of historic events ." Zone, was started in the spring of 1918. We and reared in hardship, danger, and blood. . . played all of the Army teams stationed in the Zone, and also The line of World War veterans is still mighty firm, but we the team from the Atlantic Patrol Station—so we claimed the must remember that Peter B. Kyne, Past Historian of the De- Canal Zone championship. partment of California of the Legion, besides having commanded "I remember that the three men in front were Bennett. a regiment of artillery in the World War, saw service also in Worcester and Dr. Leeson, but the onlv men of the team whose the Philippines in the early days of the century.

More champions! But this time fro?n this side of the pond and not of the A. E. F. Legionnaire H. M. Worcester of St. Maries, Idaho, ex-gob, reports that this team, representing the Pacific Patrol Station at Balboa, Canal Zone, claimed the service championship of the Zone in 1918

JUNE, 1929 43 -*( TH E K and J\OW I*- The volume referred to is "Sound Off!" which aptly bears the pointers was on the Marine when she fought a Sub for two hours sub-title of "Soldier Songs from Yankee Doodle to Parley Voo." in the Mediterranean; our gun captain was on the Finland when It is the work of Lieutenant Edward Arthur Dolph. A rough she was hit and one of our loaders served on a ship that rammed count shows the complete lyrics of 330 soldier songs from the a sub in the English Channel. Revolutionary War through all the wars to the one in which "Jim came through 0. K. and shortly after the nth of No- we had a part and a great proportion of them are supported by vember was paid off and I brought him home with me. He is the music, arranged especially by Philip Egner. A brief history about twelve years old now and has come to the twilight of life. of the origin of many of the songs is included. He doesn't do much but sit all day with his chin in his hands Impromptu service songs, parodies on popular ditties of the and think of the days when men were men and when he served day, a comprehensive line-up of Hinkey Dinkey Parley Voo with the Armed Guard Detail, the outfit that was first to fight, verses, words to the bugle calls—you'll find them all in this first to give lives in the war and whose first shot was a hit. volume of 621 pages. Acknowledgment for assistance in com- "I also had a dog named Dreadnaught—a powerful name for piling the volume is given to the Legionnaires who responded to a small animal—with me during the war. She died about a Lieutenant Dolph's request which we published in Then and month ago at the good old age of twelve years." Now in the June, 1028, Monthly. There should be more Navy—and Army and Marine—mas- If any of the World War songs are missing from the book, cots still on the active lists. For instance, we find in Ralph D. we have failed to discover the omission so far. It is a book that Paine's history of the Corsair, pictures of Boatswain's Mate every post should have in its library, that many Legionnaires French with a pet parrot he bought in Lisbon (parrots, we will want to have, and understand, live in- that is well worth the w definitely) and of 1 , „ i^mj^j^pyp^— expenditure of seven "Tommy," the ship's dollars and fifty cents. cat. Let us increase our roster of surviv- WITH six Army ing mascots. mascots enrolled in our Association of FROM a permanent Surviving Mascots, assignment in Paris the Navy steps for- to a week's leave in ward and registers a Biarritz, famous shore novel member. The resort on the Bay of Army's contingent Biscay—that's what consists of a mule and we call the ultra some- five dogs—the Navy thing-or-other for a member, presented by soldier. But that was ex-gob George Y. the sad fate of Le- Shanks of New York gionnaire C. Philip City, is most appro- Carlson of Geneva, priately associated Illinois, who tells us with the Navy — a of the picture on the monkey. opposite page: That statement is "Enclosed is a pic- not meant to be criti- ture of the writer in cal of the Navy or of front of the restaurant its personnel, but with of the Hotel Beau Se- the wide-ranged sail- jour where my buddy Then: "Jim O'Boyle," the Navy' s first-reported surviving mascot, perched ing of ships, we al- and I were guests of on the shoulder of his master, ex-gob George Y. Shanks, when they shipped ways associate mon- the Army during a on the Coamo in 19 18. Now: and George in New York City in 1929 keys or parrots or Jim week's leave in that other more or less famous resort. exotic animals with the gobs. Of course, goats seem also to "Our stay in Biarritz was easily the most enjoyable seven have been popular with the gobs, and even cats—so we wonder days spent in France. And why not?—with three wonderful if any parrots or goats or cats are still among the surviving meals a day, plenty of sleep in a comfortable bed, several fine Navy mascots. If so, we'd like to have them join up. beaches where one could lie around and soak up a lot of sun- Legionnaire Shanks, by the way, is known to veterans for his shine, band concerts, sight-seeing trips, and perhaps the best of clever cartoons of gobs which appeared in the Navy's wartime all, no bugle calls or formations of any kind. Broadside and in early issues of the old Weekly. His "An "I know when it came time to leave, we were sorry even if it American Destroyer in an English Port" was reproduced in did mean going back to Paris where we were connected with Then and Now in the December, 1928, Monthly, although we the Rents, Requisitions and Claims Service, an outfit requiring didn't identify him as the artist when the picture appeared. no formations, inspections, bugle calls or the like." The monk and his master are pictured "then" and "now" on We don't like to get nasty toward members of the Gang, but this page and this is what the master, Shanks, has to say: after a tale like that, as an ex-infantryman we're almost tempted "I am enclosing pictures of an applicant for membership in to yell "Who won the war?" or hum to ourselves "Oh, Mother, ." the Surviving Mascots Association. I believe that this animal take down your service flag, ta ta ta-ta ta-ta-ta. . . Get us? is the only monk that served with the armed forces during the World War. EVEN though this won't meet your eye until the baseball "He was given to me early in 1918 while I was on duty at a season is well under way, we are writing it just the day training station. I named him after a shipmate of mine, Jim after the big league teams—with the exception of those that got O'Boyle, the old Georgetown University football player, and Jim rained out—opened the scramble for the 1929 pennants. Then has never forgiven me for it. I don't think the monkey has either. a former member of Motor Transport Company 804, H. A. "In a short time I transferred to the Armed Guard Detail Stewart of Norman Hutchinson Post of Eaton, Colorado, who and was assigned to a gun's crew on the Coamo. The monk lives in Ault, Colorado, felt the baseball fever, as witness this went Xvith me. He served with us in the war zone for about six letter which he wrote on April third: months and although we never went into action there were lots "One sunny afternoon while my outfit was stationed at of sub scares and little Jim kept his chin up in great shape Angers, France, I heard there was to be a ball game, so I went. through it all. Two teams from that vicinity met on a neutral field at Angers "I think it was a matter of pride with him as he was shipmate and, believe me, it was some ball game—twenty-six innings with to some real veterans. The Chief in charge of our crew had the same two pitchers and a final score of 5-2. been with the landing party at Vera Cruz in 1914; one of our "It happened like this: Each team made a score in the first

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TH E K and ACOW J*- 2-2 inning, then each made one in the ninth. Score until the last from October. 1017, to January, igiq. The narrow gauge rail- half of the 20th inning when two men were on base and the man road alongside the road, constructed and operated by the 503d who played second base was at bat. He had been fielding like Engineers, was used to haul lumber from La Broquette Cam]) nobody's business but had been unable to get a hit—in fact, to Pontenx. Incidentally, reforestation is shown by the young there had not been many hits, and but few errors. All of a sud- stands of maritime pine on each side of the road. den, the said second-baseman lost one over the center-fielder's "The 10th Engineers went overseas in the first fifty thousand head so far that he did not even go after it and three men scored. and were the first American troops to land in Scotland. Upon "Beaucoup francs had been bet on the game and it certainly was arrival in France, the Second Battalion went to the Vosges and a thrilling climax to such an interesting game. began lumbering operations (pictures of which "I would certainly like to know if ^—ggpBK^^ appeared in Then and Now in the Janu- others remember this game and ary Monthly), and the First Bat- what outfits the teams represent talion plunged into the great ed and who the players were. artificial maritime pine forest They certainly must have on the flat, sandy country been big leaguers because of the Landes. it was the most remark- "Small French mills able game I have ever A were manned and then, witnessed, including $ as sawmills from the lots of American United States arrived, League games, Babe an ever-increasing Ruth and all." stream of lumber, ties All right, you A. E. F. and piling flowed north- ball fans and players ward to Bordeaux and —front and center! beyond. Isolated far back in the woods, directed by CLARENCE Hill Burrage, some incompetent officers, the late Company C, 10th Engi- men worked at high speed under neers (Forestry), and now forester unfavorable living and working con- for the University of Kentucky, sent us ditions. The high light of our campaign the print of the unusually attractive A. was when a ship in the nearby Bay of C. Philip Carlson of Geneva, Illinois, E. F. scene which decorates this page. Biscay was torpedoed. The ship was posed in front of the pension Beau Seiour This interesting report accompanied his loaded with wine and cognac and thou- in Biarrit^, France, a leave area well contribution sands of barrels drifted up on the beach. known to A. E. F.-ers "In view of the work of many Legion Fighting forest fires occasionally varied posts in roadside planting of trees, the the routine. enclosed picture of cork oaks should be of interest. A close "The 20th Regiment of Engineers (Forestry) followed the look shows that the cork bark has been removed from the trees. 10th to France and did similar work. In the summer of 1018 "The road pictured is in the Department of Landes, south of all forestry troops, both white and colored, were merged into Bordeaux, between Pontenx-les-Forges and Ste. Eulalie (in the 20th, which was then the largest regiment in the Army soldier parlance, 'St. Ukulele'), where the First Battalion of the 18.000 men. More than a hundred sawmills were operated in all 10th Engineers converted trees into lumber, ties and piling. parts of France and there was an ample ( Continued on page 66)

Landes, France, south Bordeaux. More trees of the A. E. F. — this time along a road in the Department of of tells us that Company C, 10th Engineers Forester Clarence Hill Burrage of the University of Kentucky the <>0}d (Forestry), shipped its lumber, ties and piling over the narrow gauge railroad, operated by been stripped cork Engineers. The trees are cork oaks, from which it will be noted the bark has for

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Sensible Request Rebuff On Advice of Counsel "What?" ejaculated the pedestrian. The suave sheik, having attempted all "And what did the lawyer tell you, "A dollar for a cup of coffee?" the tested methods of getting a reply dearie?" inquired Bessie. "Nah, jest a nickel for de coffee, mis- out of the girl sitting beside him on the "Oh," replied Tessie in the tone of ter," the panhandler explained. "De rest park bench, tried another line. one for whom everything is already is fer taxi fare across de street." "Why, surely you remember me!" he settled. "He told me to wear this same exclaimed. "We played together as costume in court." children." Next! "Maybe so," the young woman an- swered, concealing a yawn. "But I Revival Meeting He was a big oleo and storage henfruit don't feel like playing now." man and she was a A crowd of ancient Egyptians were on slip of a girl whose their knees on the banks of the River eyes were filled with Nile praying, but not very lustily, for Friendship guileless innocence. Sweet relief from the rising waters. To them But. as he paid the "Sorry," said the greeting cards manu- spake King Pharaoh, as follows, and also staggering check in facturer to his clerk. "Got to let you to wit the supper club, he out. Sentiment has no place in business, "Louder! Louder! You weak-kneed, began to wonder if you know." chicken-hearted, pip-voiced sons of Egypt! How can you expect the gods maybe . . . "Say!" he ejaculated sternly. "I've to hear you? The trouble with you just given you a string of pearls and now Sensitive mutts is that you are trying to dam the river with faint prays." you want an imported car. Did you "I can't figure out what is the matter ever hear of the goose that laid the with your husband," said Dr. Caterpil- golden eggs?" lar. "He seems to be in a coma." "Oooo, no!" she cooed eagerly. "Who "Oh, he's just sulking," replied Annie Announcement is he?" Inchworm. "He heard somebody men- "I have some bad news for you," said tion the metric system and it made him the young wife tremulously. furious." "Shoot!" growled the brute, never It All Depends emerging from the sporting section of

Myrtle: "Who is that woman you the newspaper. were complimenting on her three per- "The Memory Lingers On" "N-no." she replied thoughtfully. "I fectly beautiful children?" The din from the adjoining apartment had considered that, but I decided not Vivienne: "Oh, that's the mother of had been terrific, and at last the house- to. I'm just going to divorce you." those three awful kids who get on my holder hurled his paper to the floor in nerves so." a rage. "That boy has been playing his in- Time Out fernal saxophone for hours now!" he One of the lady tourists to a western Road to Riches yelled. "If he doesn't quit, I'll go crazy!" reservation was a An ambitious young man and one who "You are crazy," his wife returned human question- had already amassed a million were calmly. "He quit twenty minutes ago." naire, and at In- talking things over. quiry No. 1,000 "This correspondence school adver- even the long-suf- tisement says that a man's financial suc- And What's His Name? fering guide was cess depends upon what he does with his "Heavens! Elinor's taken an insec- losing his patience. tell evenings," the first said. ticide ! "Oh, me," "That's absolutely correct," stated the "Heavens! What do you suppose she she cried, "who is other with authority. "I wouldn't be told him?" that great tall Indian standing by him- wealthy today if I hadn't spent every self over there?" night courting an heiress." "Madame," answered the weary guide, Silver Lining "that is Sitting Bull. He is on his va- cation." Only two passengers had survived the "Mademoiselle, etc." shipwreck, a lady "What's this big volume?" from New York and Just a Couple of Girl Friends "Oh, that's 'Songs the Soldiers and a gentleman from " Sailors Sing.' Aberdeen. By the Gladys : "Have you a good command "And what's this little pamphlet?" end of their second of English?" "That's the expurgated edition." week on the desert Myrtle: "Yes. but I can handle isle their clothing Americans better." was in tatters, their Danger! provisions were ex- A welfare committee was being shown hausted and the monkeys had even Die Game through an insane asylum, and one of ceased tossing milk-filled cocoanuts at Stella had been out to dinner with her them paused before a patient who was them from the trees. The future looked sheik, and on her return was telling her crouched quaking on a chair. pretty crumby. roommate Delia all about it. "What's the matter with him?" he "Oh, it just couldn't be any worse, "Goodness!" Delia exclaimed. "Wasn't asked. Sandy," moaned the woman. Dick sore when he saw the waiter's check "Poor fellow, he's nearly dying with "Ah, but it could!" the Scot contra- for twenty-two dollars and sixty cents?" fear." the guide said. "He thinks he's dicted, a rare grin wrinkling his dour "Oh. no," Stella replied, "he just said. an electric fan, and he's afraid some- countenance. "I micht ha' bought a re- 'You might as well pay it, kid, no use body might turn him on." turn ticket." arguing with these birds'." 46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A good mattress must fit around every joint

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he had stored away many of the humor- tinctive Southwestern mustangish kick. tence when he said that looking around ous anecdotes that were to serve him as Most of these funny men, notably Bur- at the poor old human race, and seeing illustrations in his speeches, make him dette and Read, varied their humorous how many fools there were in the world, welcome at tavern firesides where bench sketches with others in a vein of genial he sometimes thought it would have and bar sought relaxation after a busy sentiment. Locke, of the Toledo Blade, been a good thing if Noah and his day in court, and were at last to relieve was a political satirist with gall and family had missed the boat! The first the tedium of cabinet meetings during wormwood in his ink-pot. Charles Farrar great navigator seems to have had a the dark days of the Civil War. Browne, better known by his pseu- fascination for him for when the Lusi- Are the American people as happy donym of "Artemus Ward" (which he tania was a new ship he inspected it now as they were, let us say, in the '70's purloined from a general of the Revolu- thoroughly and remarked: "I must re- and '8o's? Certain it is that life was tion with the change of a single letter) member to tell Noah about this!" cheered with more real humor in those was ahead of the period I am indicating Fathers and grandfathers of Legion- years than now. I make the assertion but he was still much quoted within my naires who may be reading this are with full knowledge that every news- memory. His lecture on "The Mor- probably supplying the omissions in my paper today offers a comic strip and on mons" doesn't seem so funny now, but list, but I did not set out to write a Sundays a whole supplement of comedy. he had a quaint way of putting things comprehensive article on American hu- But comic strips are hardly a high order and his eccentric grammar and spelling mor. However, Edgar ("Bill") Nye of humor; they are more of the charac- added to the humor of his writings. The must not be neglected. He was im- ter of slap-stick stuff on the stage and work of "Josh Billings," otherwise Henry mensely funny, and got his effects with- this, translated to the screen, delights Wheeler Shaw, was much in Browne's out resorting to bad grammar or lawless millions without superseding printed vein. His cracker-box philosophy was spelling. His letter to the president, re- humor of a sort that once enjoyed na- marked by a certain shrewdness of ob- signing the postmastership at Laramie tion-wide popularity. It is conceded that servation, and his lecture on "Milk" was and stating that he had left the key Charlie Chaplin is a great artist in a a weird hodgepodge of wisdom and ab- under the door-mat, is one of the classics line of broad farce which he created or surdity. Before he appeared on the plat- of American humor. Nye's appearance adapted to the requirements of his spe- form a glass of milk was placed on a on the platform was indescribably droll. cial genius. No one would take from table. In his lecture he made no ref- He was tall, extremely slender and per- his vast audience the joy to be found erence to his subject but at the con- fectly bald. His spectacled countenance in his droll predicaments. clusion he drank the milk and solemnly betrayed no emotion whatever. The peo- But in those years when life was, by marched off. ple who roared at him little knew that present standards, preposterously sim- Samuel L. Clemens, as Mark Twain, for many years he suffered from a seri- ple; when a horse-and-buggy was a was just becoming a national figure ous spinal disease, and that often it was luxury, and children were buttoned into when Artemus Ward died in England, only by sheer force of will that he met red flannel early in the fall and the knees where he had contributed to Punch and his engagements. He appeared for a of womankind were not for the world's enjoyed a great vogue as a lecturer. time with James Whitcomb Riley, the contemplation, there was a great deal of Mark Twain was not only a humorist Hoosier poet, who was a humorist in his humor abroad. Much of it turned upon but one of America's most' distinguished own right. Nye, opening the entertain- home affairs—the discomforts of house- men of letters. No other American has ment, would tell the audience that he cleaning, the husband indignant because contributed so abundantly to the joy of would talk to them until he was tired his spouse had failed to sew the buttons life. He became a great personage; in and then Riley would talk until they

on his shirt ; or the tragedy of the collar the best sense he was a man of the were tired. button that rolled under the bureau (not world. A great creative artist, he inter- Mark Twain said of Riley's story of a chiffonier!) and eluded the most dili- preted in enduring literature some of the soldier who had lost his leg in battle gent search. A wife sends her husband the most interesting phases of American that it was the funniest story ever told. downstairs for a pitcher of water. He life. He was a master reporter, and The fun lay in Riley's way of telling it falls the length of the stairs. She calls what he wrote of the Mississippi River —as a stupid man would tell it—becom- down demanding: "Did you break that and the Far West is an amazing com- ing confused, going back to fill in omis- pitcher?" He howls back: "No, but I'm bination of truth and humor. "Tom sions, and building up an acute suspen- going to!" In those pre-gasoline days Sawyer" and "Huck Finn" are easily the sive interest before the overpowering when "Darius Green and His Flying most distinctive characters in American conclusion. Riley was truly a great Machine" was excruciatingly funny as a fiction. They are not just two Missouri actor. Every one who heard him recite recitation at school exhibitions, we boys full of mischief, but the Boy Uni- "Good-bye, Jim," or "Out to Old Aunt laughed more easily because we didn't versal. The range of things that in- Mary's" (which never failed to bring have so many things to worry about. terested Clemens is as remarkable as tears) must remember the fine delicacy Fountains of humor bubbled in many the great amount of work he accom- of his impersonations, the modulations parts of the country; every section had plished. He was attentive to public af- of his voice, his ease and spontaneity, its humorists. We had an American Mrs. fairs, probed deeply into history, en- though the shading of every line had Malaprop in B. P. Shillaber's "Mrs. joyed society and knew most of the been carefully studied and rehearsed. Partington" sketches, that were still read interesting men and women of his day. One of the memorable evenings of my and quoted within my recollection. There Anything that was of human interest life was an occasion when Riley, Nye were weekly journals of wide circulation piqued his curiosity, whether it hap- and Eugene Field appeared together in

devoted to domestic comedy ( folks pened around the corner from his home Indianapolis. Field, remembered for his stayed in o' nights then ) and each three thou- charming verse for children, was one of ! had in Hartford or in Jerusalem its particular "funny man." Among the sand years ago. Oddly enough, facts the most brilliant and versatile journal- stars of that twinkling galaxy were Bur- were his great passion. Enthralled with ists the country has known. He adored dette of the Burlington Hawkeye; Bailey the saintly character of Joan of Arc he his Chicago; but in his column of of the Danbury (Conn.) News; "M. wrote a noteworthy book about her. His "Sharps and Flats" in the Morning News Quad" of the hebdomadal issue of the autobiography shows how well he carried he reproved or derided his fellow citi- Detroit Free Press, and Opie Read of through his long life impressions that zens in impudent satiric paragraphs that the Arkansaw Traveler. I forget the had been gathered up and stored away lost nothing by their expert literary names of the geniuses who conducted in his earlier years. The folly of man he craftsmanship. Texas Siftings, but this journal was of viewed with philosophic tolerance; and George Ade's "Fables in Slang" began the same general character, with a dis- he swept all history into a single sen- to tickle the nation about the time of

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On the air! the World's Fair and were marked by They are as readable keen observation. Ben Bernie and his Mennen Men today as when they first began to make people laugh at themselves. No better Dance to their music every Thurs- play dealing with the absurd phases of day at 8:30, eastern daylight time, politics has been written than Ade's on the N. B. C. network stations— and he was also "County Chairman," WJZ,KDKA, WLW,WBZA,WBZ,WBAL, the first to disclose the comedy of col- WHAM, KYW, KWK, WREN lege life in the theater. WJR, All these humorists were—if I dare use the word today—wholesome. (The very word is now out of date; a term of reproach, a synonym for dumb!) Their fun was clean, buoyant, express- ing very truly the American spirit. In so far as it had a serious side it ridiculed sham and hypocrisy. It was essentially of the period before the tired business man discovered that Sunday golf was necessary to his well-being; when the apartment house and the delicatessen shop were only beginning to threaten the

home as it had long been constituted; when citizens visited the neighbors on their porches on summer evenings and sipped lemonade and on winter evenings chuckled over the diverting tales of Frank R. Stockton or, if there were chil-

dren to be amused, papa or mamma Here is Jim Henry, Mennen salesman, talking to Ben Bernie. Mr. Bernie and his orchestra are read Joel Chandler Harris's "Bre'r Rab- famous for their animated and willy radio performances, and their tingling dance music. bit" aloud. To say that the humor of the theater in those days was clean is, by present Ben Bernie tells Jim H cnry standards, to condemn it as stupid and old fogyish. However, the plays we laughed at really were not so dull! We I keep my Face in tune had the farces of Charles H. Hoyt—"A Bunch of Keys," dealing with hotel life, with shaves" and "A Milk-White Flag," poking fun MENTHOL -ICED at the military companies with a strong I play before a 'high-hat' New unique absolutely different from any social side that preceded the National JIM, York audience every night. And shave you've ever had! Guard. The list must include John T. believe me, it's hard, hot work to Raymond as "Mulberry Sellers," Harri- Mennen Menthol - iced Shaving lead a band through jazz numbers! gan and Hart in various Irish comedies; 17 Cream has Dermutation — the exclu- and, of a higher type of comedy, Joseph But—when I have started the eve- sive Mennen process of softening Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkle" and E. ning with one of your cool Menthol- the beard and toning the skin. H. Sothern as "Lord Chumley." Jack iced shaves I feel fit as my fiddle at Dermutized shaves are smoother,

in- . Haverley's Minstrels were a national the finale . . The minute the lather quicker, easier shaves! stitution and the day after his show ap- goes on, I can feel my face cool down Try this modern pep - up shave. peared in any town everybody was quot- . . . and my spirits go up. Since I've Send for free trial tube. ing the end man's jokes. started using Menthol-iced, there's Prosperity in those days hadn't be- close harmony between my face, my After the shave! come a gospel. Riley's sentiment, ex- lather and my razor! ..." As a finishing touch to a perfect pressed by a plain citizen who had shave, Mennen Skin Balm, the modern gained affluence and still wanted to go Mennen Menthol-iced back to Grigsby's Station, "back where fragrant freshener for the skin. Re- The Young Man's Shave! we ust to be so happy and so pore!" moves "face shine." Send for trial tube. did not seem so quaint. There still Coolness—refreshing, invigorating, Mennen Talcum for Men, the neu- existed in many bosoms the idea that mountain-breeze coolness — that's tral tint man's powder that doesn't poverty assured a degree of felicity. what makes Mennen Menthol-iced show . . . Great after a bath too! Something of the pioneer's homely hu- mor survived. Every town had humor- ists; my home town had at least seven MENTHOL- ICED good story tellers and their jokes and witticisms became a part of the local SHAVI NC CREAM tradition. Nobody was in a hurry; everybody had time to hear a good story. The fun I am trying to identify with the three decades following the Civil War was, I admit without shame, "small town stuff." We were content with com- forts and not so avid for luxuries. Our grandfathers, coming to visit us and sitting close to the base burner, were en- couraged to retell the stories we had laughed at on many previous occasions. Free 14 COOL shaves! trial tube of Mennen Menthol- Our comic muse didn't begin to put on the Let J im Henry send you a iced — and Mennen Skin Balm .J us t write your name and airs of sophisti- ( Continued on page 50) address in the margin below, tear i t out and send it to Jim Henry, Mennen Co., Newark, N.J., Dept. B-3.

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cation until the advent of Life, about voked mirth without resort to what Mr. and-gin exhilaration, the craze for ex- the time the Harvard and Yale glee St. John Irvine calls the brutal humor citement, the mirth over political cor- clubs were taking to the road with of the recent success, "The Front Page." ruption which is regarded as "smart" by such songs as "Oh, yes! You Introduced The American people are almost pa- many apathetic citizens, and the joyful Me to the Dude that Didn't Dance!" thetically anxious to be happy, but the ascendancy of the bootlegger and the (Dude? Though unknown to the bright pressure and rush of modern life are racketeer. True humor makes for the

lexicon of the rising generation it is against them. Irvin S. Cobb, 0. 0. Mc- moral health of a people ; but not vulgar neatly embedded in Webster as a syno- Intyre and Kin Hubbard ("Abe Mar- humor, not inanity or filth. nym for fop.) Puck and Judge also tin") are about the only humorists we "Laugh it off" is not the safest slogan broke away from the lost-collar-button have who invoke successfully the imps for our Republic. "Some one's always school for humor with a metropolitan of comedy that flourished in the olden, taking the joy out of life," but possibly note. Puck in the days of Henry C. golden days when the circus parade the considerable number of serious stu- Bunner and his "Short Sixes" (droll caused a panic among the horses on dents of our time who are shaking a little tales with a nice literary touch, to Main Street. Don Marquis is an all warning finger at those who "laugh in be read while the candle burns) was a around man of letters with a most be- the wrong place" are not so foolish. periodical of distinction. guiling humor. Will Rogers is an ac- Some economist has lately launched Fun without vulgarity was possible complished wise-cracker and Ring Lard- the phrase "profitless prosperity" to de- when weekly bank clearances didn't ner can be immensely funny. Others scribe a business condition marked by climb so high as now and we didn't hear there are, but they hardly belong in the enormous sales but without commensu- so much about big business and stand- major league of American humorists. rate profit. It may be that in the zeal ardization; and schools of commerce The old-time humor has been succeeded for bigness—the tremendous emphasis hadn't encroached upon the cultural de- by a kind of cynical jesting and sneer- on speed, number and size, the anxiety partments of the American universities. ing that may well give the moralist con- to command a bigger car than our A joke didn't have to be profane or cern. Only highly-spiced provender neighbor's, we are not really as pros- tinged with sex to "get over." Not so tempts the jaded appetite. We are be- perous or as happy as we ought to be. rich, but cheerful, and with leisure for coming too tired to laugh where a laugh It is possible that America is laughing decent fun, we did manage to have a would be salutary. There is a rare op- "out of order" and without a realization pretty good time. Such a play as "The portunity for a "Mr. Dooley" to satirize of the danger that lurks in superficial Henrietta" of Robson and Crane pro- the present trend of society—the jazz- and dishonest mirth.

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except for occasional patches and sweeps vomiting blood. Ducking and dodging, staggered, his field glasses dropped from where plantation fields had been culti- another Regular darted in. "Gimme his hands and he fell back into the arms vated before the Cuban revolution had room, boys—what range you usin'?" of a couple of others who jumped from brought desolation. In and out of the "Five hun'erd yards—an' no wind to the doorway to catch him. He was car- blockhouse door stepped officers; inside speak of," said the man on his right. ried inside and an instant later another a group of soldiers were keeping shel- And then, as he reached for a handful officer stepped into the open with his tered. At the left was the low shed with of cartridges from his own belt to load hands cupped and called "Hospital corps! the typical fluted galvanized-iron roof of the magazine of his Krag-Jorgenson, a Stretcher!" It was the only time I ever the tropics; a half dozen Regulars were tiny stream of blood, as from a high- heard that call. It was quite correct and beneath this, and at each end were two pressure hose with a tiny nozzle spurted out of the book, probably, but there huge iron pots that still contained Span- from his neck fully two feet and sprayed were no books that covered that day's ish rations. Between these iron pots an over the far side of the door barricade. operations. ordinary wooden door rested to form a He clapped his hand to his neck, his More men were climbing the hill and barricade. From behind this flimsy shel- Krag dropped, and from between fingers dropping flat just behind the crest. We ter, no better than a sheet of blotting the blood spurted in heavy gushes. He lay in clusters; here and there a man paper so far as stopping bullets was con- dropped, caught himself, half rose and toiled painfully up staggering under a cerned, four Regulars and a Seventy- stumbled to the rear of the blockhouse case of ammunition that was promptly first man were firing. No officer or non- for shelter. He never reached it. He broken open by a sergeant with a bay- com was near them. They were firing was dying as he ran. Suddenly he onet and a rock. coolly and slowly, changing sights be- sprawled and as he sprawled, face down, "Call for it, boys!" yelled a sergeant. tween shots and swearing that they had hit so he lay, motionless. There was not a "Fill your belts—how much you need?" or missed. Not a Spanish soldier was in quiver. Men fumbled at their cartridge belts. sight, nor were there any evidences of An officer looked over from the block- These were some of the men who had Spanish trenches beyond. But every now house door. rushed up with Lieutenant Ord. and then a little figure, far off, would "Quit that shootin', you damn fools "Eight!" called one man. dart from one patch of bushes to anoth- it ain't worth it!" he shouted. "Hell," said the sergeant, "you hain't er, or sometimes two or three. So the A second officer appeared from the in- done no shootin' yet!" little group behind the door were shoot- side and stepped out into the doorway. "Twelve!" "Sixteen!" A carton of ing at likely looking clusters of bushes He trotted over. cartridges would be thrown through the to see if a Spaniard popped out, or tak- "Get out," he said, good-naturedly. air, to fall between two men. "Split 'em, ing a wing shot as he ran. Behind this "You'll get all the shootin' you want you fellers," the sergeant ordered. There iron pot-and-door barricade were a couple the Spaniards '11 be coming back. They're were twenty-four to the carton, with a of bodies, one Spanish, one American. getting too many of you. Get cover back string in the pasted wrapper to open Suddenly one of the shooting group of the blockhouse." with a rip. "Twenty-seven," one man dropped, caught himself, and then stag- Before he reached the blockhouse door called after he had counted his belt. gered off down the hill crouching and the officer who had first called suddenly "Here's a box—you been a busy fellow,

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Jack." This was the highest number I heard called. Here we had been in battle since sun- WALK- OYER rise, almost, and yet this was all the shooting we had done. And, mind you, these were the men who had been out on the lighting line and had done all the shooting. For one thing we had been SHOES jammed in that trail with nothing to see and nothing to shoot at. Our Company F had been at ease just under the crest of the hill, with M a trifle in the rear and extending beyond to the left. We had moved around more in the rear of the blockhouse for better shelter—for protection from a nasty fire that came from our left flank; the hill protected us in front. Captain Raf- ferty and Captain Goldsborough were talking together at the right of their companies when several officers came up from our right. One, a slender, spare man, with a white goatee and white moustache and uniformed in the new khaki, spoke to Captain Rafferty. "Your company here, Captain, I see." "Mostly, General Hawkins," replied Captain Rafferty. "Company F, Seven- ty-first. And Company M, Captain Goldsborough. I am in command." "On the right of the blockhouse are two of our field guns," said General Haw- kins, as he wet his finger and held it up in the almost breathless air. "You will go over the hill in front of those guns and to the windward—to the left, that is. Rapid fire and cover their withdraw- al. The battery reports it cannot bring up the horses and the guns must be withdrawn. Stay there until the bugle sounds—then come back." These were the two field guns that had been dragged up that terrific hill the Lord alone knows how. In column of twos—left leg up-hill, right leg down-hill, sideways on the steep slope—the flank march brought us past the Spanish trenches with their dead and with here and there an Amer- ican body mixed in; we came out pres- ently just below what might have been a sort of road cut in on the crest of the hill to the right of the blockhouse. Against the high Santiago side of this o put your golf game on a good Jay the cannoneers of the battery scat- X tered along and waiting for us. An officer was standing near them and General footing, start from the ground up Hawkins, who kept had with us for this " march of less than a hundred yards, with the Briarcliff" — a swanky spoke to him. He nodded and gave an order that was passed down the line of moccasin -type golf shoe of black- artillerymen. "By the left flank mar-rch!" sang out and-white calf. Has double -caulked Rafferty. From our rear we could hear Goldsborough shrilling the same com- sole and heel to give you a good mand. And we swung into company front, two companies strong and with a stance. Also in brown -and -white fairly even line. We hopped up the little bank on the far side of the road and there stretched before us a gentle slope combination. Price $10. ^ with Santiago in the distance, and there were the two field guns to our right. Geo. E. Keith Company, faM "Double time! March!" But Rafferty did not need to add the march. We broke Campello, Brockton, into double time at once. Straight ahead, At this goif match, the gallery the guns to our right. Perhaps fifty feet watched with breathless interest as Massachusetts. ahead of the guns and twenty yards to this "out" was playea\ In this sort ofgallery you will see smartly turned the left Rafferty's voice rose above the out men wearing Walk-Overs, clank of can- ( Continued on page 52

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£im Jinan 11 over the A ( Continued from page 51 teen against tin cup and cartridge belt grass, John McGeechan, Bloomfield worldpeople are and the chug-chug of the socks of car- Mills, Ernest Potter, Harry Watson and tridges slung around our necks, with the Lewis Youngs. Not that we knew it thud of running men and the steady then; but we did later. The smoke whe-e-een of the bullets. drifted across as General Hawkins' wet- CHEWING "Halt—lie down! Rapid fire, com- ted finger told him it would; up came mence firing!" We couldn't hear Golds- the artillerymen and pushed the two borough at all—his voice was drowned guns back by hand, spoke over spoke, out in the clatter of breech blocks of behind our drifting smoke screen. the noisy old .45-70 Springfields. And while they were doing it bang— Bang! The roar of the first of our hug the ground—fumble back for anoth- .45-70 Springfields—and a belch of er cartridge—damn that sockful of cart- white smoke leaped over the grass as ridges digging in the ribs; shift—that's big as a cow. On the instant the noise better — shove her home — where's the was terrific. A ballooning wall of white Spaniards, or their trenches, or what? smoke from our firing rose like a billow- nothing but smoke in front—never mind, ing sail. Santiago was blotted out in the Spaniards over there somewhere—noth- smoky fog. To the right and left of me ing in sight—maybe back of those bushes men faded into pale blue silhouettes and —rapid fire, let 'er go! bang! fumble then were lost altogether. A flickering for a cartridge—damn that canteen, it's line of the pinkish-yellow flashes picked leaking, oh hell! wet my pants! stopper's - - FEEN A MINT out of the fog of smoke. Here and there out, shove it in—where's that cartridge, a man was kneeling as he fired. damn—no Spaniards, just smoke, well, "Lie down—dammit, lie down!" Raf- rapid fire — bang! — let 'er go! — here, for quick relief ferty's tall figure was striding up and another cartridge— down the line to our rear. He smacked How long would this last? from Constipation a kneeling man with the flat of his Bang! Gosh, how that rifle kicked sword; but the man never felt it. "Lie shoulder would be sore before long down—damn you!" roared Rafferty, and funny, shooting and nothing special to COOL, delicious, mint-fla- he grabbed the man by the shirt collar shoot at but bushes with maybe a Span- vored chewing gum — yet and thrust him down. He spied Golds- isher back of 'em bang!—Rafferty's containing a tasteless new lax- borough striding up and down behind voice: "Steady, men, steady — keep ative that acts with perfect his company. He waved at him. "Lie down down!"—and somewhere off on the left evenness, perfect thorough- — Goldsborough — dammit, lie down!" Goldsborough's voice, in snatches in "Lie down yourself!" Goldsborough which only syllables drifted across the ness! That's Feen-a-mint— no shrilled back. smoke—what was that—a bugle, what wonder that all over the world Lie down! they blowing a bugle for charge?— men and women are chewing It did not seem as if anything could what at?—gosh, a down scale on the it to banish constipation! live that stood on its hind legs. The bugle—down scale means to the left or For because you chew Feen- trail, below and behind, at its worst, was to the rear! a-mint, its scientifically ap- nothing to this. There were no gusts of And then Rafferty's voice "Cease fir- proved laxative is carried into bullets as there were there; it was all ing! To the rear—double time—back the intestines gradually. No one great gust. It was going low, too run!" griping — no drugging of the not high as in the trail. And we ran. system, either. For this laxa- Frank Booth, a boy—wars are mostly On past that little road with its pro- fought by boys suddenly drooped over tecting edge, back below it until we tive is not absorbed like ordi- — the stock of his rifle and never moved heard Rafferty and Goldsborough yell- nary laxatives — it passes un- again. A little hole over his eye settled ing halt, and the lieutenants and the ser- changed from the body after him. Corporal Henry Scheid began geants. Roughly we lined up on that its work is done. No weaken- crawling toward the rear shot through steep side hill. Overhead the bullets ing or habit-forming after- the stomach; he died the next day. swarmed; a palm tree—a feather-duster effects. Leander Eiseman began swearing as he palm—that thrust its trunk high above Your own doctor can tell started for the rear with a hole through the crest of the hill marked where the you why you should keep his shoulder; his father had promised a bullets were going. Every now and then Feen-a-mint on hand for the hundred dollars to the first man to cap- a little spot of yellow fibre flashed into entire family. Children love ture a Spanish flag and two hundred if view on the rear side where before there had been only the smooth elephant-grey it, naturally, for its delightful it was Leander. Leander's chance was gone now. Ferdinand, Heb- bark. It was pock-marked with these flavor. On sale at every drug John Jim rank. Mercer, McDermott, first ser- holes, where bullets had drilled through. store in the United States and geant it was coming quick. Down the Up and down the line men began call- Canada. — line to the left M Company was as bad ing. They were calling to their bunkies, —yes, worse. Quartermaster Sergeant their pals. Feen-a-mint William Sheppard, Sergeant John Mara, "Hey, Jimmy—Jimmy, you there!" Sergeant Alfred Halliday, Corporal Alfred "Hev, John!" "I'm here — where's The chewing laxative Conger—in the right leg, once, and before Gus?" he could crawl to the rear five more in "Featherstone—where's George?" No the left leg that you could cover with a answer. "Hey. Featherstone—Feather- HEALTH PRODUCTS CORPORATION A-6 saucer; Clifton Brown, just made a stone!" Missing. George Featherstone 113 N. 13th St., Newark, N. J. lance corporal, Ernest Potter, artificer, already had got his. Down back in that Please send free samples and free copy of "The Mysterious 35 Feet." Malcolm Barret, private, Jim Carroll, trail below he had been in that shellburst. A heavy fragment caught him on the Name Michael Daly, who grunted once and died. 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blade always stuck out like a sprouting wing for George to joke about. Down in the second squad a tall, pink-cheeked chap waved his hand Why try to GUESS "Yeah—fine, d'they get you?" "Hey, captain, they got Frank Booth —he was next to me ! "Yes, they got Scheid, too," called another voice. which Tire is Best ? Here and there a man was brushing himself off; it was not fastidiousness, it was just nervous reaction. "First Sergeant — First Sergeant!" Captain Rafferty was calling. The men helped him out. "Hey, Mc- Dermott!" "McDermott !" "Hey, Mac!" tire The call scattered along the rough line This ivas first of clustered men. There was no Jim McDermott. btiilt to stand abuse "Moore, Sergeant Moore—" Rafferty

turned to the first duty sergeant. "Call . . . then bonded the roll and see who's out!" Sixty-four men of F Company went against abitse over the crest of San Juan Hill to cover the withdrawal of those guns. Seven got theirs, for they got Jesse Powell through the foot, on the run back. In Company the maze of claims and M about the same number went over, INcounter-claims, how can fifteen and of them went out as casu- you be sure which tire will alties. give you the most trouble-free Not over one hundred and twenty men service. went over. We were over there for three Certainly you can't tell by minutes—maybe five at the very outside. appearance. Look at any five And we had twenty-two casualties in tires without knowing the that period. Approximately twenty per- names or prices. You cannot cent—in three to five minutes. I submit even guess which tire is best. this figure as one of dignity. I believe But here is one way you can it will compare favorably with any fig- cut straight to the heart of the ure of stiff losses in action except in question. Dunlop Tires are first those instances that occurred in the more built to stand abuse, then to prove this, they Dunlops BONDED, even against abuse modern World War in which the almost are bonded against abuse. SURETY Companies are the most prudent peo- instant extermination of a whole com- Every advantage of the world's greatest tire- ple in the world. Their job is to safeguard other mand was involved. building experience . . . years of it . . . goes 40 people — bond banks against embezzlement and Not, of course, that I will yield my into each Dunlop Tire. Every step of the manu- forgery — guarantee every where faithful perform- point that it makes any particular dif- facture is guarded by skilled craftsmen. ance of duty . \ ference to the individual whether he is Only long-staple Egyptian cotton for maxi- So Dunlop Tires are bonded by a Surety Bond a casualty in a great battle with fifty mum strength . . . only cords woven in Dun- backed by both Dunlop and the American Sure-

thousand others or merely a single cas- lop's own mills at Utica, N. Y. . . . only the ty Company. ualty in a lonely skirmish. In either very finest processed rubber ... go into each This bond guarantees Dunlops against al- case he is a one hundred percent casualty Dunlop Tire. most every conceivable tire hazard, even abuse. to himself and his family. And there is Dunlop users know this extra quality. But no higher figure than that. Dunlop leaves no doubt. Takes the guess out of tire-buying Some years later I had the pleasure UNDER the Surety Bond Plan, you know exactly what of meeting General Hawkins in Geneva, you are getting — a tire built to make good, then guar- Switzerland. anteed against almost every tire hazard. "So were in that outfit," said, you he A guarantee so sweeping in its statements — so simple and he said it with a cordiality that made American that any Dunlop dealer makes good in his own store me proud for my regiment. "I sent you surety — instantly. boys in F and M over to cover the with- COMPANY Naturally , such a guarantee has aroused wide-spread of New York drawal of those guns for two reasons. interest. To answer the many inquiries, we have pre- You had smoke powder rifles but you pared specimen Bonds. One is ready for you now. It is were the first organized units in order free. Mail the coupon below — a free specimen Bond and under command that I had seen on will come back bv return mail. the hill. Yours were the first outfits on San Juan to whom I could give an order as a controlled command. I have never seen such disorder in action. But the men—superb! The story of San Juan DUN SURETY has never been written. It was— !" he BOND threw his hands up in a courteous de- ('_ ' •velitia-- THE DUNLOP TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY spair. DUNLOP Department iox, Buffalo, N. Y. Here and there on the side of the hill, TIRE Please send me free specimen copy of the new Dunlop Surety Bond. It and to the right of the blockhouse where GUARAN is understood this does not obligate mc in any way. we now were, was the sprawling figure of a dead Spaniard in his thin blue-and- white striped pajamas. A wounded Span- iard lay propped up against the palm tree that had the little pock-mark bullet holes still (Continued on page 54) City-

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Nature's Finest Insulator o$an Juan Makes Cham- (Continued from page 53) suddenly blossoming high overhead. His desperate breathing of a fish in the bot- pion the Better eyes followed our men—they happened tom of a boat. to be nearest. His blue striped calico "No use tendin' him.'' said the hospi- SPARK PLUG jacket was open—that and his pajama tal sergeant, nodding at the gasping fig- trousers were his only uniform—and ure as he gave a last tie to the grass and on the pale olive skin of his belly bandages and his patient cursed at the was a little, glistening, unbleeding red pain. "Stretcher'll be up pretty soon. hole. One of our men—Jimmy Lowe, Where'd you git yours—let's see it," he pink-cheeked, tall, easy going Jimmy added to the nearest sitting man with took a long pull at his canteen. The eyes the dripping hand. of the Spaniard lit on that canteen and The sitter drew up his blue shirt- his dry teeth bared themselves in eager- sleeve and revealed a nasty, tearing ness. Jimmy nodded and pointed at the wound that entered at the wrist and canteen. The dulling eyes lit up, the came out at the elbow. The sergeant teeth bared more in the eager smile that turned away with a shrug. "Ain't any struggled with the numbness. Jimmy you other fellows got a bad hit?" he stepped over and held out the canteen. asked. "This station's only for stretcher Weakly the Spaniard shook his head; cases. If you can walk get on back he was too far gone to raise his arms to they'll take care of you back at the field take it —or it hurt too much. Jimmy hospital." held the canteen up for him. The Span- Already the firing from the Spanish iard murmured something—it made no lines had died away. The steady, seeth- difference what, for no one could under- ing whine of bullets was gone. Bullets stand it. And when, a half hour later, there were, but only a light, occasional Jimmy and I went over to look at the hiss. Down on the long plain below that only live Spaniard we had seen close-up, we had crossed at noon from Bloody the Spaniard had already drooped a little Ford men were scattered everywhere to one side and was dead, with his dry searching, searching for wounded No white teeth still showing in wistful pla- longer was the entire drift of little blue "SHE insulator is the most cation. shirted figures straight across and for important part of any It was late in the afternoon now and the hill, although little parties, squads the sun was already beginning to turn and details, were straggling spark plug. Without it across with hills ammunition there can he no spark, no oper- the blue of the distance into un- boxes—one hundred twenty- dulating velvet amethysts, shadowing the five pounds each on ation of the engine. — their shoulders. nearer hills a gorgeous purple and pour- Stretchers were straggling back and here The insulator is suhjeet to more ing over all the foreground the golden and there was a lucky man walking with stress and strain than any part in glow that wove among the sapphire his big white triangular first-aid bandage the engine. In most spark plugs, shadows like slow molten copper or carrying his arm in its sling. necked the bare earth in filagree The fight at porcelain is used. as a of San Juan was over as the Oriental brocade. Off to the left in a sun sank. But in Champion Spark Plugs tiny basin on the steep slope directly un- Could San Juan Hill be held—for it and only in Champion— the in- der the blockhouse an army surgeon and was the key to Santiago? And it was in- sulator is sillimanite. Ceramic a half-a-dozen hospital men had estab- credible that the Spaniards would not science—disinterested and seek- lished a first-aid dressing station. A cou- desperately attempt its recapture. It was ing the finest — unanimously ple of sergeants and the surgeon were only a day later that our Commanding agrees that sillimanite is the applying rough splints for a man's leg General, Shafter—a most tragically in- from competent figure in that finest insulating material known bunches of coarse grass that were disastrous and being cut by a couple of other hospital spectacular campaign almost compelled today. — attendants. The patient was no silent its abandonment, in the face of the pro- To its supreme insulating quali- sufferer; he cussed the Spaniard who had tests of his generals in command at the ties, superior strength, and heat- got him, he swore at his leg, he damned front. resisting properties, Champion his luck and then he would just plain The little Spanish trench in front of adds a remarkable glaze which yell as the rough grass and bandages the blockhouse was useless to us; shov- els and picks were already on the prevents carbon and oily deposits. twisted his stiffened wound. Scattered way around this little basin in the hill some for us to entrench ourselves. Special analysis electrodes resist ten or twelve men were sitting, for the But by this time order was coming pitting and burning to the utmost most part bloody as to face or hands or out of disorder. Men were wandering up There is a special type Champion with dark soaked khaki trousers. At one and down along the hill seeking their Spark Plug which is better for side of the group, his face covered by a commands. A big negro strolled by. He every engine and every operating bloody bandana, was a Regular. His stopped—men straggled, but they condition. Consult your dealers' shirt and khaki trousers were soaked in stopped to get news and to give it. bloody streaks his in "They got mah boss," he remarked chart and buy by number. and head was a great patch of dark, soaked earth. offhand. ''Bad hit, ain't it?" asked one of the "Yeah—who was that?" I asked. sitting figures as he tenderly held his "I dunno his name rightly—but he C II A MPIO IN dripping hand. took us up the hill," he responded. "Yes, "Yeah, they bleed most when they git suh—they shot him up from the chin it in the lungs—or the neck," said the clear out the top of his haid." A pause. hospital sergeant. "He's a-goin' fast." "But I got the what did Unconscious, the blood-soaked figure it. Yes, suh. I hopped in the trench an' SPARK I just busted his haid back in his shoul- PLUGS was gasping in slow, hoarse convulsions; his whole frame drew together and then ders with the butt of mah ole carbine jerked open rigidly; it was like the final yessirree." TOLEDO. OUIO WINDSOIt, ©NT. 54 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — " —)

It was thus that Lieutenant Ord had died—shot by a wounded Spaniard in the trench as he stepped across. A white Regular drifted by from the left questioning everybody. Had any- one seen a dead bugler—his bunkie; bunkies they called them then. "I wanted his bugle—if I could get it. He was my side-kick." No one had run across a dead bugler. An hour later he drifted by again. "Find your side-partner?" someone asked him. "Yeah, I found him—bugle and every- thing gone. Yeah," he spoke sadly, "he had eight hundred dollars in his pocket —won it coming down on the transport." "Did you get his bugle?" The soldier looked absent-minded: "His bugle—oh, yes—well, that was all nicked and tramped on. An' he had eight hundred dollars in his pocket that some has got." Another soldier strolled along sociably. "Say," he said, "don't youse guys pass up any Spanisher. Did youse hear about it—a guy stumbles against a dead Span- isher and hears something clink and he 1800 conversations at once fishes three hundred dollars gold outer the feller's pants! Look 'em over"—and he passed along. through a cable less than 3 inches thick Well, we looked 'em over—there were only three near us: a dead officer, the Spanisher propped up against the palm An Advertisement of the tree and another sprawled along the road American Telephone and Telegraph Company where the artillerymen had been. They had been stripped for souvenirs already even to their buttons. Nothing in their pockets. Our stragglers who had been lost in that crowded trail came up and rejoined. The earth beneath our great rightly considered a scientific Two of them straggled in from our left. cities is crowded. Steam, gas, triumph. Captain Rafferty looked at them keenly. sewer and water-mains, com- Today, cables containing "Where you been?" he demanded. pressed air pipes, pneumatic tube sys- eighteen hundred pairs-of wires are in "We been fightin', Captain—we got tems, telephone and telegraph cables, service and these cables with every lost down there in the woods." "Yes, where you been fighting?" de- light, power and rapid transit conduits wire insulated are only two and five- manded the captain. These were the two lie so close together that any further eighths inches in diameter, one-half men who had demanded overtime pay additions create serious engineering as large as the first nine hundred-pair for working at night to lay the regimen- problems. Yet the number of telephone cable. tal water-pipe back in Camp Black, calls that must flash through the under- Eighteen hundred conversations at Island. Long The captain's tone indi- ground arteries of great cities is once— six hundred more than before cated the necessity for more information steadily increasing. —can now pulse through this two and —information that would be specific. The challenge to the scientific minds five-eighths inches of cable. "Captain," said the taller earnestly, of the Bell System was to find a way There is no standing still in the "we've been fightin,' yes, sir; swear to for more conversations in existing Bell System. Better and better tele- God we was, Captain, over there"—and Fifteen years ago, the pride phone service at the lowest cost is he waved his hand to the left —"with the conduits. Rough Riders we was—and we fought of the System was a cable containing the goal. Present improvements con- good, Captain; swear to God, Captain!" nine hundred pairs of wires. Then by stantly going into effect are but the Captain Rafferty stepped up close: many improvements a cable of twelve foundation for the greater service of "How many cartridges you got?" He hundred pairs was perfected. It was the future. looked at their belts. Eagerly they showed him some twen- ty or thirty empty loops where the car- Travel On Ex-Service Men Get Preference tridges had been. looked hurt. They "l Railway Postal Clerks Mail Carriers — ] npjp C o nrj'c' "Swear to God, Captain Postoffice Clerks Prohibition Agents But Rafferty grabbed their rifles from General Office Clerks Bookkeepers them; his eye glanced at the muzzle Stenographers nice and polished, not a trace of powder $141 to $283 MONTH stain. Mail Coupon Before You Lose It "You damned liars," he said slowly and evenly, "get into the ranks and stay FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. SI90 f Rochester, N. Y. there. You two fighting! You two STEADY WORK — NO LAYOFFS — PAID /Sirs: Hush to me without charge —copy of 32-paee with the Rough Riders!" He waved his hook. "How to Get a U. S. Government Job" with VACATIONS . list of positions obtainable, and full particulars tellin*; hand to the right. "That's where the / how to get them. Tell me all about preference given to Ex-Service Men. Rough Riders have been all day—and Your Honorable Discharge Entitles / are now." You to Special Preference / Well, it would ( Continued on page 56 I Common Education Sufficient Ad.

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saves ^an Juan your ( Continued from, page 55 have done your heart good to have heard ranks. Down the line a couple of more hair that line of men, loafing at ease, laugh. dead Spaniards happened to be with the In the sunset afterglow we moved up line of our company. Did we move the hill the few paces to the little road them? We did not—certainly I and my This simple "1-2-3 that ran almost along its military crest. neighbor did not. We grouched, it is Method" for men re- The bullets had completely ceased. Offi- true. cussed the inconsiderateness moves dandruff, saves We the hair and keeps it cers with orders floated down the line. of that Spanish officer in getting himself well-groomed. General Hawkins was somewhere—we shot just where we would need his space were in his brigade—and had ordered to sleep. And there he sprawled as he had that pickets be thrown out toward the fallen, instantly killed, and with arms 1 Shampoo the hair at suitable intervals with Spanish lines from other companies but and legs pointing all four as Herpicide Tar Soap. ways he that F and M were to rest. Here on this lay on his back. Of course, we talked it J Rub Netvbro's Herpicide ( the original scalp * germicide) daily into the scalp. hard-pan road we were to sleep—no sup- over—about moving him—and then de- "2 As a final dressing apply Neti'bro's Herpi-Lay per, our canteens all but empty and the cided it was too much trouble. So we -''to keep hair in place and give it lustre. water stale and lukewarm shoved his arms legs in close to his Bv following the "1-2-3 Method" every man and —our haver- and woman can have healthy, well-groomed hair. sacks and all the food in them down body and lay down on either side of Sold at drug counters. Applied by barbers. somewhere back by the trail where we him, almost too indifferent to envy the Send 15c to Dept. D for "1-2-3 trial treatment". had been ordered to leave them just be- others in our ranks who had not drawn fore entering the trail. And yet how soft a dead Spanisher for a bedfellow. that bed of that hard-pan road looked! Tired. We lined up in a single rank—we were I know I was tired—but I had passed to lie in formation, all counted off and in my first day's fire—I was a veteran GOING ! G-OIN&' GONE !! Herpicide Will Save It Herpicide Will Sa< Il Too Late tor Herpicide thereby ready instantly as soon as too tired to sleep—too, too tired, I aroused for anything that the night thought, as I noted the slumped head The HERPICIDE CO. Detroit, Mich. might bring. We were facing Santiago and shoulders of the dead Spanish sol- and, once aroused and on our feet, the dier showing above the crest of the hill company was already counted and ready to our rear and saw the dry, white teeth BE A RAILWAYTRAFFIC INSPECTOR for action. still white in the rapid dusk. Here's a position — and a career — for ambitious men Tired? And the next thing I knew I was on Many positions are open in tbia uncrowded profession. You etart at f a definite salary, and advance rapidly t" $17f. $1MU iJ. .D There was nothing to describe it. my feet in the pitch black star-lit night, r n ontb plus "Ponaes. Travel 01 remain near R? . ? home. We II train you with three months' spare time home instruction, A dead Spaniard—a lieutenant colonel, a sergeant shoving a pick in my hands and upon completion, assist you t.. a salaried position, or refund your tuition. Could anything be fairer? I was told, although his spurs, his but- and mumbling at me in a hoarse whis- Send today lor free booklet For ten years we have pla tons and all insignia had been already per, telling me to dig! graduates ed positio Railways lo stripped the foraging sou- Entrenching tools had arrived. It was booklet shows bow we can make from him by your future a certainty. Send for it today. venir hunters of the Army—was be- ten o'clock. Standard Business Training Institute tween and right-hand man in the THE END Olv. 24 Buffalo, New York me my EARN UPTO ^SOnfonthSALARY mi

Home Comfort ( Continued from page 11) WHILE DRIVING A neat, compact and artistic hat holder that job in hand to the end of it, however last year in it, Weasel acquired a dog takes care of your hat keeps it in perfect and bitter. a and wolfish, hulking, skulking form up out of the way, so that you can fully mean enjoy summer's balmy breezes while driving Four years went by, in which Bill beast that matched his master's disposi- your car. strength and fighting craft; tion absolutely. Of course he tackled Agents and Distributors Wanted gathered four years in which Bill grew into a dog Bill. I choked Bill loose from him. Mid-West Motor Supply Co., Mfgrs., Hector. Minn. among ten thousand. And then I met "From now on," I told Weasel, "when the man. The man was Weasel Wil- you see my dog coming, get yours out of WE liams. sight. I may not be around. And Bill Most boy gangs have a Weasel; a will kill your dog if I'm not. Bill didn't ToAny Suit! 1 Slimey, or a Rat. start this, but he'll finish it if he gets Double the life of your Weasel or a a Sneaky coat and vest with perfectly Boys pin the right nickname nearly a chance, if it takes five years." matched pan ts.100,000 patterns. Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no every time onto the dirty, vicious cow- Twice after that I had to choke Bill "readymades." Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before panta are made. Fit guaranteed. ard-bully which nearly every boy gang off of Weasel's dog. So Bill got cheated. Send piece of cloth or vest today. ©'27 SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY has. Born to get hung, the old folks say Not long before we left the old place, in Dearborn Street, Dept. 145 Chicago Its So. of that one. The boys, a little afraid of fact while Bill lay sick, the Weasel's him, nickname him properly, and let it great ugly mongrel died. But the Weasel f PIN A DOLLAR BILL TO THIS go at that. We had named the Weasel kept on living, more's the pity. The properly. And our parents, with their world would have been much better off Get this genuine leather 5 window "born to get hung" were prophesying the other way around. With a few good card case, with gold closer than they knew. breaks the Weasel's dog could have been corners, Masonic em- senseless into a better than Weasel. blem stamped in heavy He grew up Weasel, a cruel, made man gold. Your name or killer from his boyhood. Dogs, cats, The Weasel never left the old home other stamping 35c rabbits, nestlings, snakes, frogs, flies— town. As often is the case with such as extra per line. Money back guarantee. could tell you deviltries practiced on he, he never even left the boytime neigh- poor, helpless things this abominable borhood, too cowardly even to venture Please send catalogue by boy that you would not believe. He from the safe, familiar places of his No. lOBooks, Monitors, Jewelry youthful days. so at last, when the No. 11 Lodge Supplies grew up Weasel; reached that state And which we, for want of a better name, hour came that was to witness his un- Established I850 of it was in one of the Redding Masonic will call manhood, still a Weasel. I doing, the scene Supply Co. watched him for a score of years before most familiar of all our old time haunts. 200 Fifth Ave., Dept. L. C. New York I left the old home town. During my In a little shack, just off the old home Everything Masonic**, 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly town ash dump there had lived for years Fastest, Finest Outboard Motor on end, old Indian Ida. She held forth solitary there, an ancient, ageless crone, for Runabouts, Cruisers, Racers half fearsome, half benevolent; half medicine woman, actually called on Enjoy big-boat pleasures at a fraction of old- time costs. 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There had always been the legend, even way back when we were kids, of "Keystone treasure hidden in old Indian Ida's shack. And thither, on a day fraught with evil, Weasel Williams fared. Vile Luckl as he was, I do not feel that he intended Out fishing death for that poor soul. Much as he PARADE BUGLE liked to hurt poor, helpless things, I The new long-model Bugle, especially designed for Legion with your and Fraternal musical units. Long, rakish lines — stirring, can't believe that of him. But he de- full tuunpet tone. Remarkably easy to blow. 28 in. long, built in Bulls-Eye served the noose, just the same, for do- G with slide to F; chords with Military Band. ing what he did. He overestimated, no Single Bugle, Prepaid doubt, the strength of Indian Ida's tight Quantity prices on request $8 and seemingly unbreakable hold on life. Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, 3rd Cav- alry, Fort Myer, Va., using a Weymann Just the same the noose was coming to Parade Bugle at Tomb of UnknownSoldier, Level-Wind Casting Reel Arlington. him, doing the thing did. he We organize and equip IKE a wounded lion for excitement is this famous complete bands, orchestras I I think old Indian Ida must have J reel for strides. Action! You'll get plenty.' or string bands for Fraternal. smiled at Weasel trying to make her School and Civic Organiza- Casts that center a water dimple at long range. tions. Sole distributors for Spurring slanvbang, hair-trigger Big Fish poised right there to tell him where her treasure was. But I Keystone State Band Instru- grab your bait first and think next. Sport day and night. can see panic come to Weasel's cruel ments. Ludwig Drums, Buescher True-Tone Band In- Genuine Meisselbach design, precision workmanship and face when that smile set and stayed. 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Through that small wood a by-road ran toward the old home town—a by-road little used; but that FOOT PAINS day I was using it, because I was return- ing home and that little wood was fra- grant with the memories of boyhood. First utter contempt filled I ENDED me when saw who it was that had stopped my car deep in that little wood. IN 10 MtNUTES "Put down that gun, Weasel, you OR COSTS YOU NOTHING fool," I told him, "before I take it off you and bend the barrel of it around your neck. Don't you remember me? 1 Trouble starts in weakened muscles. Burning, aching, tired Tiny bones of forward arch are dis- You turned road-agent, Weasel? placed. Pain follows. Tough feeling in the feet and legs luck 2 A super-elastic band assists and you struck some one who knows —cramps in toes, foot calluses, strengthens weakened muscles, how little guts you've got. You've got pains in toes, instep, ball or heel replaces bones. 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"I don't want you spreading ber lift are urgently advised for severe cases. Pain stops like magic. Soon bands may be Shoe Size Shoe Width news too soon. Put your hands back." discarded and feet are well to stay. Nearly Send Free Booklet I knew I might be in that little wood Name for days before somebody found me; ARCH Address e . City. . — _'__ but his gun ( Continued on page 58) ______2h£ — — — — —— . BRACES , Add 25c to above prices JUNGS Canada: "DurFerin St. Toronto. JUNE, 1929 57 — ) :

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was in my ribs, and I did as I was told. put my teeth into my lip to keep from He tied my hands together back of me, crying out next instant a cowardly sur- around the tree trunk with his belt. Then render. he went to the road and got into my car. I did cry out, in fact. I cried out just I heard his curse. Then he climbed in time, I honestly believe, to stop the out again. crooking of the Weasel's finger. The cry. "Where's the gear-shift key?" he de- though, God be thanked, was joy, not manded, walking swiftly toward me. cowardice. For just as I was about to Good! Then he hadn't noticed when shut my eyes against the thing to come. I let it drop among the ferns as I I saw a bush move back of Weasel Wil- stepped out of the roadster. liams, and through the green I caught a I told him, "Try and find it!" patch of brindle! His belt held well. All my strength The dog pit; that's a bloody, beastly was of no avail; and my strength just place, where gallant dogs do bloody BRONZE TABLETS then, I think, was doubled. First fear, deeds of utter courage one upon another, then rage, increased it. to the delight of beastly, betting men. HonorRolls -Markers For first I heard from far the voices And yet—and yet— . Without the dog BUILDING TABI£Br(p sight this fear on I never Z6i7-Z7nAVZ 30 MINNtAPOUS MINN shuddered at the of knew a face could go that him; for with this frenzy lashing at him ghastly. But he thought he had killed I felt he'd do just what he said he Bill. He had left him for dead. He did would. But rage swelled in me, too not know pit terriers; he did not know almost as potent for the doubling of my that when we left town. Bill, in a padded strength as fear. For what he said was laundry basket, convalescent, went along. this: He stared at me incredibly at first; and "Your dog Bill wouldn't open up his then the wickedest low growl I've ever mouth. He fastened onto my dog out in heard whirled him about. I know now these very woods one day when you how a man looks when he sees a ghost. Learn in fewmonths to make plates, crowns, bridges, were not around. He wouldn't let go, How Bill had found me I will never etc., for dentists. No books. Day or night schools in Chicago, Detroit. Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia. and so I killed him. I'll kill you, too, if tell you. He had been travelling with WRITE FOR FREE BOOK McCarrie School of Mechanical Dentistry you don't open up your mouth. I'd give me in the car on this trip that was taking 1338 S. Michigan Avenue Dept. 263 Chicago, 111. you the same dose of boots I gave your me back to the old home town. He was dog if I had time. I think you'd open good company, Bill; a splendid travel- PANTS MATCHED! up, all right. But I haven't time. Quick ling companion. But in the country, five THROW AWAY THAT COAT AND VEST? then! through! Or in a second miles out, I had stopped to see old Save $2 5 or more! Let us match your coat Come and vest with new trousers and save the you'll be dead as Indian Ida!" friends—to accept the offer of a week- price of a new suit. Each pair tailored to your measure. (Average price, $8.50.) The man was desperate; even to the end's splendid hospitality at their nice Over 100,000 patterns. Mail sample of suit, or your vest, which will be re- point of parting the curtain a moment estate—and Bill had been left there, turned together with FREE Sample for Originatora Bill's friends d Largest your approval. on some dreadful scene so as to show content, for they were old Mathers MATCH PANTS COMPANY me just how desperate he was. He had as well as mine. Dept. 70, 20W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago done some terrible thing, and now the They say a dog can follow the scent hunt was up. He had to have that key. of automobile tires. Or you could call it Prohibition Agents "I'll count three," Williams told me. intuition, if you wish—the thing that and Investigators "One!" brought Bill to me. More likely, I be- "If you shoot me you'll never find lieve, it was merely a desire of Bill's to $2300 to $3400 YEAR that key," I said. roam the old familiar country. We had MEN 23 to 57 "I'll be even with you when they had many a fine ramble together through Interesting work. 'PnlP unnecessary. Common education sufficient. Ex -Service men get preference. catch me, won't I? Two!" that wood. Or he may have been mak- Write Immediately for 32 page book of Government Jobs, with de- scription of experience needed, and particulars on how to get an And so I knew he'd do it. ing a journey to the old home town to appointment. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. S332. Rochester, N.Y. I looked straight into that gun's ugly see how many of the kittens of his youth barrel; but scared cold as I was, it's had grown up into cats. Or maybe he menacing muzzle was not the thing I was hunting Weasel Williams. What saw. What I saw was poor old Indian brought him to me does not matter. Ida. Princess Ravenhair she had been There he was. once upon a time, most surely, but prac- He did not bark a greeting, and I PUT your post in limelight at conventions and celebra- ticed upon by hideous magicians. Old knew just what that icy silence meant. tions. Boost year 'round at- age, infirmity, poverty, death of her He pushed his brindle-patched white tendance. Get new members the stiff-leggedly with thrilling martial music. ones beloved, loneliness—all of those body through brush Organize a drum corps with dire sorcerers had worked their black and I knew what that peculiar tenseness of valuable new Leedy aid high cor- booklet "The Roll-Off"—42 arts against her, transforming youth and meant. He flattened down the pages of information answers beauty into Indian Ida. And a convic- ner of his triangular bull-terrier eye, and all organization and equipment problems. Shows all drum major sig- tion came upon me, with her ghost face a sinister, pitiless, Oriental slant arrived; nals. Scores of interesting photos and much historical data. Sent before me, that I'd be eternally damned and I also knew what that meant. These FREE to Legion if I would help a escape who. little things all meant that I would have to members. No obH- man l/ation. Write for doubt, had visited further evil on that choke him off of something presently. your copy now. unoffending soul. And, man, my hands were tied! Leedy Mfg. Co., So I searched myself for courage, and "For God's sake, Weasel," I cried out, 1031 East Palmer Street, Indianapolis, Ind. somewhere found enough to let me tell "For God's sake, cut this belt!" Williams he could go to hell. But I was But Weasel was too much filled with SendforTreeHooklet clammy-cold with fear. And I had to deathly fear to think. He might have

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly got it done. A sudden spring behind the use than calling. But that was all that tree, a couple slashes of his knife. Even I could do. I tried to get free with all In shorts, too if Bill had gotten hold of him, he might my honest might, for it was terrible to have got it done. Then there would have see; and my wrists were bloody when been two hands free that knew technic they cut me loose. But I couldn't do it. with pit dogs. But in the precious sec- My hands were strapped most cunningly. onds that he had, the Weasel turned a My hands, that knew so well just how trembling hand on Bill and emptied his to handle Bill—they were belted help- cheap gun. less, back of me, around that tree; tied I saw twigs fall about the dog. I saw well, defying every atom of my strength a red spot come on Bill's white shoulder. —by Weasel Williams! But so tensely was he set that the hit A mob of men, hunting the murderer did not knock him over. Instead, he of Indian Ida, came beating through the came; came silently, and with amazing little wood, and so we soon were found. swiftness. I would not at first believe it Some of them worked at Bill while oth- when the veterinary told me that his ers cut my bonds. shoulder bone was splintered. His charge "Don't break his teeth off, prying with had greyhound speed. He seemed to that pistol barrel," I pleaded as my work four-legged. Maybe he did. He hands came free. "Here, let me." was The Red's pup, out of Poison Mag. But it was difficult. It was ten times I called and called and called to Bill. as difficult as any other time I ever had When they thrashed near enough I even to do it; and a grislier task, I'm sure, a kicked him; I who knew well as any hundred times, than would be the undo- man alive that kicking was of no more ing of a hangman's noose.

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named Pels, who had taken up with an to get a quorum together. It finally met Indian girl who saved him from the or- —the Senate in a bedroom of Colonel deal of running the gauntlet. The Poca- Wessel Ten Broeck's house, and the As- hontas-John Smith story, although Smith sembly at Evert Bogardus's tavern. The told it, is almost certainly fictitious, but session was brief, as the British captured Pels's romance is a fact. Fort Montgomery, and would have cap- Four years of tranquillity followed. tured the governor had he not slid down Wildwyck became quite a town and a precipice to the river bank and found the value another village called Nieuw Dorp was a boat handy. Finding his Legislature established a few miles away. Then came gone Governor Clinton assembled in the inevitable war, in which Nieuw Dorp Kingston a Convention of Public Safety, is outstanding was burned by the Indians and Wild- which enjoyed an existence more brief wyck savagely attacked. Nineteen men, than that of the Legislature. The con- WHETHER you prefer to wear women and children were killed and vention adjourned on one day and on Union Suit or Shorts, you can't forty-three captured, including Cham- the following morning the British dropped beat BIG YANK for value. bers, who was carried away wounded. in and burned Kingston. Look over these Shorts, and you'll The prisoners were all eventually re- This act of vandalism did the British see that clearly. Here are Shorts of Fifth turned, however, excepting a daughter of cause no good. The burning of Kingston Avenue smartness dashing, colorful Cornelius Slecht, who had married an was of little military importance, but the — Indian warrior. place became the Chateau-Thierry of its — cut generously full — and with the The following year, 1664, the English day, and brought a good many recruits earmarks of skilled tailoring all the took over Nieuw Amsterdam and changed to Washington's standard. Up to that way through. And their Hold-tite Hips the name to New York. In the general time lower New York had been rather —a new feature—makes them the most Anglicization Wildwyck became Kings- strongly Tory. Two weeks before peace comfortable you've ever seen.' ton, Nieuw Dorp Hurley, and Fort was signed Washington visited Kingston From every point of view — style, Orange Albany. The new rulers were and in a few well-chosen words thanked quality, comfort, wear you'll like glad to find a countryman of theirs so the citizens for their reception, compli- — these Shorts, that's certain. And you'll well thought of at Kingston. Chambers mented them for their devotion to the find their pricing very attractive. had been a captain in the Dutch militia. cause of liberty and remarked at the en- Ask The English made him a major and a terprise they had shown in rebuilding for BIG YANK Shorts by name. magistrate and raised his landholdings to the ruined town. the dignity of a manor. Thus the ex- With the war over, Kingston pros- carpenter became Thomas Chambers, pered again and the veterans held their Esquire, of Foxhall Manor, an English meetings at the De Waal Tavern on BIG YANK colonial country gentleman. He lived for North Front Street, which had a teeter- thirty years more, administering justice, ing floor, famous for dancing. A teeter- SHORTS fighting Indians and promoting Kingston. ing floor is one that gives a little. The In BIG YANK Union He put the place on the map—so sentimental interest in Kingston aroused Suit, sensational im- much so that in 1777 it was declared the by the British blunder of 1777 was still provements for 1929 capital of the new State of New York, alive and the town took its place on the —a new Inter-Spliced in rebellion against His Majesty George list of candidates for the capital of the Crotch and a new III. New York City was, of course, a republic, but this was settled by build- Saddle Seat — make bigger place, but the British were there ing a new city on the Potomac con- this more than ever at the moment. Governor Clinton was venient to Mount Vernon. "the greatest union suit made for $1." up the river commanding a little army In 1910 another war was over and the at Fort Montgomery. Most of the mem- boys came home. They formed Kingston RELIANCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY bers of the Legislature also were other- Post of The American Legion. Now, if 212 WEST MONROE STREET (Continued on page 60) wise engaged and it took several weeks historical CHICAGO. ILLINOIS

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association and the traditions of many business and professional men of the generations count for anything—as they city of Kingston, with their own affairs do—toward the stimulation of patriot- to look after. I have asked them how ism and patriotic service, the chances they find time for so much Legion work. in favor of Kingston's having a good They tell me the Legion does not- take post of the Legion were excellent. so much of their time as one might ex- But these factors of themselves are in- pect. They get too much credit for what I the Snap When \ sufficient. It has been the lot of this is done, they say. The credit belongs to Elto Lightweight is > — writer to observe strong, vital posts of the rank and file of the post and of the through for the day, the Legion in little ranch towns on the Auxiliary unit. Allowing for a becoming you snap it "closed" edge of deserts, — simple as shutting a Western where half of amount of modesty, this is perfectly pocket knife! Then it the membership rides from fifteen to true. Kingston Post is an organization. measures only 22'' by 11" forty miles to a meeting. There are In proof of these statements as good OAe by 11"— easy to carry and Super€£tCf weak posts in populous centers where an example as any to cite is how the stows anywhere. lightweight two hundred veterans might be bugled post built its clubhouse. The boys of '76 compact outboard It's the most together in fifteen minutes. Leadership had the De Waal Tavern, with its teeter- motor in the world, and the most The Lightweight weighs practical for average needs. Cat- only 38 pounds, develops and a spirit to do are more important ing floor, for a meeting place. The tavern alog mailed on request. Write 3 horsepower. Drives av- than all of the natural advantages. building is still there, but it was not Elto Division, Outboard Motors erage boats 7 to 10 miles an hour. Easy to start, '18 Corporation , Mason St ., Dept . AL extremely quiet. In Kingston there was leadership and available to the boys of to meet in. Milwaukee, Wisconsin a spirit to do. And so there is every So they met in the National Guard ar- place. But in Kingston these forces mory, or almost any place, during their were quickened into action and made to first years. The dues of the post were serve the Legion. Kingston Post started low—three dollars a year—but the post off with a membership of seven hundred, made a good deal of money on entertain- which made it one of the first ten posts ments, and the like, and spent it in wel- in size in the State of New York. This fare work. In 1925 the post owned a fAVC MONEY PAY ONLY if 995 is good gleaning for a city of thirty building site worth $2,500 and had $3,500 /or this *m-9 * oumam thousand. The post justified its exist- in the bank. The Auxiliary chipped in JSaf^^l DUR A BUT ence, first of all, by being of service to its own building fund of $1,500. It also the local veteran on the ground. It ran had a plan for building—the contribu- OSS an employment bureau to find jobs for tion of a distinguished architect, Charles wkm soldier sailor. It the newly-returned and S. O'Keefe, a Kingston man practicing Made of durable weatherproof Khaki Tent Fabric ; com- plete with awnine, screened window and door, sod cloth, helped the sick and helped the families in New York City. He is a veteran of metal frame, stakes, jointed poles and carrvlng bag. 7x7 ft. only $13.95. delivered. Same tent 9 1 ;x9 >«ft and of those who needed it. At the same the Spanish-American War. It was esti- other models at lowest prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. time it lent its aid to the current na- mated that $35,000 more would be need- SEND NO MONEY—Just name and address. Pay only price of Tent on delivery. We prepay Express. tional work of the Legion, which in ed to erect and furnish the building. WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG those early days centered mainly around This seemed like a lot of money to Factory Prices save you Money. the care of the disabled. In this respect accumulate without a sacrifice of other

a.. Kingston Post was an ideal post from activities or raising the dues. A build- | 3803 Or i. ..i. W t Mil Uuli . Mo the point of view of the national organ- ing committee, headed by George W. ization. Service of this kind works two Potter, the Post Commander, discussed As one of the oldest ways. It imparts strength to the arm of the pros and cons of the matter. The patent firms in Amer- PATENTS ica we give inventors the national organization; it solidifies the decision was to ask for outside help, to at lowest consistent local organization and gives it a reason test the standing of the post in the com- charge, a service noted for results, evidenced by many well known Patents of extraordinary value. for being. munity. Mr. Potter asked John D. Book, Patent-Sense, free. The pleasurable and the sentimental Schoonmaker to accept the chairmanship Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St-.Wash., D. C. sides of fraternal life were not neglected. of a citizens' committee to help the Le- Estab. 1869 The post gave dances, held boxing gion. In making this request the post Numerous Leglonnnire References bouts, clam bakes, picnics and parties of could not have set its sights higher. Mr. all descriptions indoors and out. The Schoonmaker is a man of wealth and formation of a unit of The American great influence in Kingston. His name at Legion Auxiliary greatly simplified these the head of a citizens' co-operating com- Bass Out matters. It observed the traditional hol- mittee would constitute an unimpeach- idays and took general charge of patri- able testimonial of public confidence. IbodSantplesltm otic occasions. All posts do these things, Mr. Schoonmaker accepted the chair- but some do them better than others. manship of the Executive Committee, as 9'UPayyoutS anVour The consistent record of Kingston Post it was decided to call it. Furthermore, is that it has done everything well. From he said he would organize the committee toDoWorldseasiestWotk the jump it gained the confidence of the himself and that the post might an- it. the public that one hundred Nothing to do but distribute free samples of veterans and of the public and has kept nounce to fine quality food products, family remedies, As in every successful post with which cents of every dollar contributed would beauty preparations, etc. Do this amazingly easy work and earn $5.00 an hour. Plan I am familiar a good share of the work go into the post building. An "invisible absolutely new and different. Lewis Bodine. said N. Y., earned $101.57 in one week! W. J. falls on a few leaders—or perhaps I committee" which Mr. Schoonmaker Glasstetter, Pa., banked $125.50 in one take day! Indiana lady made $250.53 in one should say the outlining and direction of he would be responsible for would week! You can make this money too. the work. Taking a bird's-eye look at the care of all expenses of the fund-raising the drive was over I Also Give You Groceries for LIFE eleven years of history of Kingston Post campaign. When BUICK at About Half Price a dozen names assume a measure of these expenses were found to be $450. it is uncertain who, if any- FREE Yes — I also give you lifetime contract to fur- prominence—Eugene Carey, Commander To this day nish you with finest tjuality groceries at about half price. Aluo valuable premiums, prizes three times, if I am not mistaken, and one, besides Mr. Schoonmaker consti- Harley repre- and bonuses. You don't need experience— sentative. POU don't need capital, Start in spare hours. then drafted as Post Adjutant; Andrew tuted the invisible committee. The Ex- I < Not a con- furnish everything you need t • start earning test. A car big income at once. Including Supply <>f many free samples and new Bun-k automobile. My Murphy, Conrad Heiselman, George Pot- ecutive Committee chairman also started new automatic Sampling I'lan will amaze you! Rush name and address now for complete de- ter, Father O'Reilly. Herman DuBois. the fund with a personal contribution of ^^b^^mm* tails. Send no money. No obligations. B. JENNINGS, E. C. HARL.EY CO., Roy Jacob and so on. These are all $1,500. DEPT. H I 19S, HARLEY BLDG., DAYTON, O. 60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — — .

Ulall This Coupon tor Wew Book— FREE! The campaign proper was launched The fund was raised. Including dona- HIIXERICH & BRADSBY COMPANY 438 Fm»r St, Louisville, Kentucky after the most thorough preparation. Not tions of material and services, which Send mc, without charge, copy of the hlrw CJiiion of one possibility was overlooked. A proper were as good as money, the total was your illustrated baseball book, "Famous Sluggers of 1928". relation of the details of the planning $39,000. Six days after the campaign and execution of that campaign would closed ground for the building was bro- nil the space allotted to this article. The ken with ceremony, and six months later, story will interest anyone concerned with in January of ig:6, the building was clubhouse fund raising, and it may be formally dedicated before a city-wide

had by dropping a line to Conrad J. turnout of folks. "One of the finest things Heiselman, who directed the publicity about the whole campaign," wrote Mr.

for the drive. Here are three slogans Heiselman in a letter directly after it with which Mr. Heiselman literally cov- was over, "was the spirit of close, unselfish, ered the town: intimate comradeship which developed among us. It brought back nearer than They rolled their packs for you, anything I have experienced the feeling Now you unpack your roll for them. we had in the old days of the A. E. F." That spirit continues to invigorate this They went across for you, useful in Now you come across for them. post, which is now the fifth size in New York State, and, as inti- They fought for your home, mated earlier in these pages, has some Now you fight for their home. grand projects afoot for Louisville. In the last WorlfPs Series Set t> I¥ew Records

Five! - Count 'cm: (1) took part in his thirty-seventh The J^egion of the <^hCissing World's Series game; (2> batted bettet than .300 for his fifth time in a World's Series; (3) batted .625 for the series; (4) scored nine runs in one series, and (5) made ( Continued from page 15) six extra base hits, including three homers and three doubles. In addition, he equaled five and exceeded five No effects were found on the remains of But army records are army records of his former records. Lou Gehrig, Ruth's team mate, set two new records, driving in nine runs in the seties, Pvts. Rittmiller and Schaal." and romance is no part of their claim and hitting three homers in three official times at bat. These remains are being held in the Both players used Louisville Sluggers exclusively. for existence. That is how the finding Meuse-Argonne mortuary pending receipt of Lieutenant Sheehan—the end of a of advice from your office as to confirma- mi .Hade With nine-year quest—is dismissed in a sin- tion of identification and disposition. L.OUISVILL.E gle sentence which neglects to explain SLUGGERS (Signed ) F. W. Van Duyne, Why not enjoy for yourself, this season, the bat that how he and his companions were dis- Colonel, Q. M. C." great players of the game use exclusively? Select it from covered in a patch of woods that had Louisville Slugger models, made to the specifications of leading sluggers, and bearing their facsimile signa- Here, after nine years, was the suc- been combed and recombed for years tures, which are shown in full selection by leading dea- cessful culmination of the Government's without success. lers in your city. For complete batting records of the great sluggers, pictures of their bats, and reproductions patient and unceasing efforts to solve It only night, sit- the was by chance one of their autographs send the above Coupon for a copy mystery of the death of Lieutenant ting at dinner on the terrace of the of our new illustrated baseball book. It is free. HILL- ERICH & BRADSBY CO., Incorporated, ^Manufactur- Sheehan and his companions. in the Place The re- Restaurant Dreher du ers, Louisville, Kentucky. port of that achievement is as common- Chatelet, Paris, with a former G. R. S. place and unostentatious as the facts investigator, that I had the good for- Louisville Slugger are dramatic. It is well to remark on tune to learn the real story of the find- some of the details which the investi- ing of Bill Sheehan. Jim McGourty, the MM TS lHILl£RICHSBfiAOSfrrCSl gator merely mentions in passing. man who found him and should tell the G Just as Captain Wright had stated story, had gone back to the U. S. A. seven years before, it proved to be the invalided home with T. B. contracted Bois des Ogons in which Lieutenant from persistent and heedless exposure NewKind of Sheehan met his death. The bodies were to French rains and French mud while Can Opener buried "about four feet deep"—ex- throwing all his heart and soul into the WORKS LIKE MAGIC! planation enough for the difficulty in search for American dead. AT LAST! An automatic^ simple little can opening machine locating them. All except one were In his seven years' work as an in- for the home I For now an amazing, lifetime device holds the can and cuts out t lie top leaving can rim slick, smooth buried without shoes. "This office is of vestigator in France, chiefly in the and clean. Just turn a crank, that's all. Approved by <;

,0 ' 45 M * r> CO., mans. Behind that sentence is the or another in every American sector, CENTRAL STATES MFG. JX* |; L°o U i5 ^ fact, well known and generally accepted McGourty investigated 765 cases. Out among the G. R. S. searchers for miss- of these he recovered 286 bodies of lost SACO WINS! ing American soldiers, that the Ger- American soldiers. In 135 cases Mc- Write for Samples mans usually removed the shoes of Gourty worked from locations reported enemy dead before burying them be- by buddies or friends of the missing, or SACO BRAND cause the German Army needed all the from approximate vicinities. The re- Uniforms and Equipment shoes they could get. maining 155 bodies he found on his S. ABRAHAMS & CO. Perhaps nowhere is there demon- own. McGourty went back to the Juniper and Vine Sts., Phila., Pa. strated the importance of apparently States broken in health but still in love trivial details in this great search for with his work. Because of his untiring our lost soldiers more strikingly than zeal and enthusiasm 286 American in the means of identification of two of homes today know where their boys are them—Lieutenant Sheehan and Private buried. Perhaps Jimmy McGourty's Faller. They would have been posi- name should also be added to the list Railway j ( ) Mail Clerk ( ) Meat Inspector ( ) P. O. Clerk Special tively identified by the teeth charts of the unsung heroes of the World ( ) Agent j( ) Post-office Laborer (investigator) ( ) File Clerk procured in Washington, but in the list War. It is my lasting regret that he j ( ) Steno -Typist Matron i ) Immigrant Insp. j of personal effects of Lieutenant Shee- could not have stayed over long enough General Clerk I I City Mail Carrier \ Chauffeur-Carrier I ) Border Patrol han is recorded "a small gold ring" to tell me his own story of the finding . Skilled Laborer ( ) Typist ) Watchman this I ) Seamstress the same ring which his mother had in- of Lieutenant Sheehan. But Postmaster ) j ) Steno-Secretary ( ) RFD Carrier formed the War Department about. former comrade of his told it well. I ( ) Auditor Today, thanks to the Government's was down near Montfaucon one Instruction Bureau, 110, St. Louis, Mo. "Mac Send roe particulars about qualifying: for posit * marked X". BalarteB, locations , opportuni services, that ring is a sacred possession day," he told me. "He was probably of Lieutenant Sheehan's mother. down there on ( Continued on page 62)

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another case, or prowling around the down as a rubber-neck guide feeding Bois des Ogons from force of habit be- wide-mouthed tourists a lot of apple- The Insured Watch cause he was passing by that way. Mac sauce. But you never can tell in this The only high-grade watch always poking here and there wher- job of hunting remains just where sold direct iromJactoryl ^ was — Imagine being able to par* ever there was a particularly tough case you never expect to find 'em is probably chase these magnificent thin model watches at lowest that nobody had solved yet. where they are." factory prices on easy pay-fftj In this story finding of ments out of your income, °rlUy/ "Anyhow he happened to be there one of the forcashl Letussend you onetfft when one of those tourist buses drove Lieutenant Sheehan is wrapped up, it of these marvelous watcheaftS? —you are under no obligationKf up, loaded with Americans anxious to seems to me, all the splendid consecra- to keep it. You'll agree it i3\£\ the world's greatest watch see the battlefields. Of course they tion to a noble mission, all the unre- value. Write for free6-color book and learn the true f actsl had a guide telling them all the dope, lenting effort, all the mystery—yes, and and not having anything particular to romance—of what is probably the FREE do Mac wandered over to hear what greatest organized search for missing kind of a line the guide was handing soldiers the world has ever known. Yet 6-Color Book them. there are hundreds of stories like it, all If you write at once we wr send beautiful style book, "Well, he didn't pay any particular tucked safely in the files of the Quar- showing lowest factory prices on these lifetime insured attention until the guide said something termaster Corps. watches. Thousands save money this way. Writstoday! about how he'd been with the German The statistics of how many bodies of WRITE! Army himself. He was an Alsatian, he American soldiers have been restored Luxurious strap and bracelet said, and had been a captain in the by the G. R. S. from the mists of the watches at remarkably low

prices I Write for free style German Army and his outfit had come missing and the unknowns to the realm book TODAY right through here north of Montfaucon of the knowns will probably be surpris- STUD E BAKER WATCH COMPANY the first Directed bv the Studebaker Familv—knoten for in September. 1918. Then ing to almost every American reader. a century fair dealing Three-quarters of of thing Mac knew the guide was say- Since 1010 the roll-call of the recovered Dept. NI-4 South Bend, Indiana Canadian Addrese: Wlndeor. Ont. ing: 'Why, I had my men bury seven has mounted to between eight hundred Americans, a lieutenant and six pri- and one thousand. In 1024 a total of vates, after we drove your troops out 144 bodies of missing Americans were of this wood. We buried them right found. In 1925 a total of 147 were Bonus for Live Rats near here.' added; in 1026, 122, and in 1927, 59. 25c plus your money I back, if Tvmpto Rat "That was enough for McGourty. From January, 1924, until midsummer. Killer fails to get them all. can picture him brushing half a dozen 1928, a total of 491 of our dead were OXLY KIND, not a squill orotherpoison. Harmless tourists aside as he made for that guide recovered in France by means of the to anything but Rats and Mice. Pests die out- " 'Well, if this is true what you're organized work of the investigation side. Proved by thousands. Send no money—just your name to Imperial saying,' pipes Mac, 'then show me forces of the Graves Registration Serv- Labr., B-9T3 Coca Cola Bldg., Kansas City. Mo., for a large $2.00 Farm Size pkg.—enough for where you buried them.' ice. Each of these cases is a story in on 15-Days' 200 Rats—for only one dollar, "And maybe you wouldn't believe it itself. Each may be duplicated by an- Trial. If there is a live one left, the dollar you paid the postman (with postage), plus 25c —there's a lot of stuff in this investi- other unfinished story of one of thos; for trouble, will be cheerfully mailed. your than fiction Vou risk nothing, so write today. gation work that's stranger still missing, search for whom has not and it's no use trying to explain it been abandoned. but anyhow, he did. Just led Mac off In four and one-half years almost into some thick underbrush and pointed five hundred names have been crossed louRiMiie out a spot where the hedge was thicker off the list of the war's missing and than most around there, with the ground added to that of the known dead. When a trifle lower. 'We buried them, all one considers that this has been done seven, in a shell hole off here to one from six to ten years after the war side,' the ex-Heinie told Mac. 'This looks ended, the true measure of the task like the exact spot as I remember it and may be appreciated. Battlegrounds I've been by here many times. I could have become fields of wheat and barley. almost swear this is the spot.' Shell-stripped woodlands have sprouted RAISE CHINCHILLA "Well, Mac didn't say much, I guess. and concealed their scars with new V AND NEW ZEALAND WHITE He never did till he was sure he'd limbs and leaves. Trenches, once as Vj^fcfc^ CUD Make B '8 Money M| rUll HHDPARRITQD lid We Supply Stock found a grave. Then he got so excited clearly marked as a fresh furrow across and pay you following pr ices for all and half crazy you couldn't get near a field, have caved in gradually, been Jw K>' ou raise: Chinchillas average S3 each ^m Xph- Zealand Whites $2 each. 32-page him, he was so damn anxious that dimmed by weeds, refuse and briars. illustrated book, catalog and contract, also copy of Fur Farming magazine, tells how to raise rabbits for everything be done easy and every Expert detectives well know how cold big profits, all for 10c. Address OUTDOOR ENTERPRISE CO. ounce of dirt sifted so no tags nor any- and baffling the track of a criminal be- BOX 1042, HOLMES PARK, MISSOURI thing would be lost. As soon as the comes with the years. The trails and guide spilled that much, though, I can features of hundreds of miles of battle- picture Mac racing off, wild-headed, to front become no less, perhaps even Home-Study get his gang of diggers and put them more deceptive and hopeless. That is to work. why an investigator, seeking the time- Business Training "That's about all there was to it. effaced unrecorded graves of our soldier Your opportunity will never be bigger than your The ex-Heinie knew his location, all dead, must be a detective of the first preparation. Prepare now and reap the rewards of right. It was Lieutenant Bill Sheehan rank a humanitarian Sherlock Holmes. early success. Free 64-Page Books Tell How. Write — NOW for book you want, or mail coupon with your —and six others beside. We'd been I thought of these things as I sat name, and in present position address margin today. after him for seven years. Followed that night at a sidewalk table of the Higher eBusiness Accountancy Correspondence of Modern Salesmanship Credit and Collection every lead and tried every fool sug- Restaurant Dreher, probing a few Traffic Management Correspondence gestion you could think of without an investigator's experiences. To Philip Railway Station Modern Foremansbip Management Personnel Management getting warm and then the right lead McCabe, as to all of the "men in the Law: Degree of LL.B. Expert Bookkeeping drops out of a clear sky like that. field," they had been part of the day's Commercial Law C. P. A. Coaching industrial Management ^Business English Funny, ain't it? But still, you've got work—plus something more. Banking and Finance Commercial Spanish to give McGourty credit. Almost any "Yes, most of us who've been in this Telegraphy Effective Speaking Business Management DStenotypy—Stenography other guy would have put that Alsatian investigation work were over during

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the war," McCabe was saying. "And I clues in places like that, and there's lots of 'em. RAZOR suppose most of us, at one time or an- OLD other, have found some of the fellows "Anyhow I was new and enthusiastic from our own outfits. That reminds and ignorant, so I gave it a try. It was BLADES me of Jack Loughlin who was with our my first case and I remember I had a gang. little fellow named Abie Rockman driv- "There were 116 of us came over here ing the G. M. C. Well, that's how the Worth Money! together—every damn one of us Irish case shaped up. And the nurse, she and in th^ old First Division. There's says for a mark there was no cross three of iu living today. just a helmet. "Well, one day I picked up a file for "First I went to see the farmer that my district. This lieutenant says he owned the land—as everybody else had, buried a man in a trench which was off I suppose. Had he found any Ameri- the road that leads from the national can bodies when he came back from DON'T throw away razor highway from Soissons to Villers-Cot- the war? No. Had he seen any rifles your old blades ! Now thru an amaz- terets to Chaudun. He buried this pri- or helmets? Oui, oui, one of his work- ing little machine you can again. T. vate six feet off the edge of this em- men had ploughed one up two or three make them new J. Main has used one old Gil- bankment, and north of him, about six years before. What had he done with lette blade for five years using hundred metres farther on, he buried it? Ah, je ne sais pas, monsieur—he about 1,500 shaves—by this sensational device which a sergeant. So I went out there— supposed it had been thrown out to the gives new blades for old ones. remembered that section of the front side of the road, probably in the ditch Ent irely unlike ordinary blade- sharpeners. Inventors will all right—to see what I could do. near the other end of the field. send a sample for examina- "I found the embankment with a "So I went poking and scratching tion and test. FREE RAZOR offer included as reward for trench running along it and finally an along the ditch until finally, half cov- promptness. Mail coupon now without obli- old dugout. We found an American ered with mud and rusted, I found it. for full details gation. Rhodes KRISS- identification tag and two German That meant, if a soldier had originally KROSS Corp.. Dept. bodies. They were the ones we were been with this helmet, he must be lying G-413. 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. after, though they weren't in my outfit. somewhere in the field about opposite "After a while I took to wandering there. Probably the first thing that AGENTS around—it looked as if there might be would occur to anyone would be that $2 0 to? 4 0 adayiseasy end- more in there somewhere and finally, Frenchman, ploughing an old hel- ing razor blade expense for — a up men and giving away free three hundred metres in a straight line met like that, naturally would stop and razors. No wonder Kellogg made $200 in 7 days, and east, I stumbled on an empty grave. give it a throw out of the field. So I Loughren $5,300 in one year. Check bottom line in Nearby was part of a rifle that had been figured the best way to get the approxi- coupon for money-making plan. Do it now. plowed up. It struck me there might mate location would be to throw it in be someone near that rifle, so we started again. digging all around and sure enough we "I took the helmet and scaled it' out unearthed the body. The tags and into the lot. It must have gone 150

Rhodes Kriss-Kross Corp. i everything were right there. He was feet. know, when you get a flat j You Dept. G-413. 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 1 j one of the 116 that came over with me. surface like that under it Without obligation, send full description of Kriss- momentum I |

Kross liberal . j and examination offer. We were casuals in the First Division sails. Then it struck me, 'Now would Name and there's three of us left. throw a helmet like that?' — a Frenchman Address "Would you like to hear about the The best way to find out was to have City State

( ) Check here for agents' money-making plan. first case I ever worked on? Well, one throw it, so I got the thing again there's beginner's luck in this game, and gave it to one of my laborers. He same as any other. It just goes to picked up the blamed tin hat, put his show how everything turns on some arm back like he was tossing horse- UNIFORMS crazy little thing that you happen to shoes at a peg and wobbled it under- WRITE FOR think of—or maybe don't think of. hand out into the field. Of course, it CATALOG No. SO. That's how a dozen might work a strip only went about twenty-five yards in- ALUMINUM HELMETS Qoo of ground, and often have, and the stead of fifty. Well, we dug right there POLISHED on ANY COIOff

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as near as he could remember it. We'd "Every few feet the ground was We'll work it again.' There was a been there several times and dug about spaded up where some of the other fel- machine-gun trench on one side everywhere in sight without striking a lows had searched. I had to admit it U-shaped like they are, you know. Kind thing. The woods there are full of rab- didn't look very promising. About of a nest on one side where you plug bits and one day as we came onto the five o'clock we still hadn't struck a the shells in and one on the other spot I started out after a couple of thing and I began wandering around where you throw them out. It looked young cottontails no bigger than your in widening circles on the off-chance I as if it had been pretty well worked fist. Thought I'd like to catch one and might spot something that would give but we dug right where the machine take it home to the kids. us a lead. Wherever bodies lie the gun was and found the body of a "I'd just about get my hands on him grass is always greener, you know. You German. Off to one side and pretty and the little devil would duck and bob get so you can pick them up that way deep we found an American and, head to off in another direction. Finally he almost without fail, if there's enough head, another one. Then we went went scooting into a broken-down dug- grass around. But here there was along the trench until we uncovered a out and under some tar paper spread hardly any grass, the place had been third. We were—working in water up over the floor. I says to myself. 'Now worked over so much. to our knees and I've got you,' and tore off a piece of "Well, I was a couple of hundred "But how could you find identification paper to grab the rabbit. Well, there yards off to one side when a big fallen tags in mud like that?" I asked. were the two bodies, corporal and pri- tree trunk caught my eye. It was "Why, I'd just go down with my vate, right there. We found the tags. about eighteen feet long where it had hands into the mud and fish it up a There was no mistaking them. A thin snapped off at the butt. I stopped to handful at a time. That's nothing; we layer of earth which had been hastily look at it —you see I happened to have have to do that lots of times. Well, scraped over them had since washed studied forestry some back in the we still had the corporal and one man away. I suppose the Germans, or who- States—and the longer I looked at that missing and the French rain was ever next occupied that dugout, merely trunk the more certain I became that slithering down just as if the war was decided some tar paper would make it hadn't lain there any ten or twelve still on. Finally off on the other end the place drier and spread it out with- years. It had fallen since the Armis- of the trench we found the fourth pri- out ever dreaming two doughboys were tice. I called three of the men over vate, but no sign of the corporal. buried underneath. Now there was a and told them to roll that log off to one "I had the men start to give the case where we might have hunted for side and dig right under it. They did. woods the fine-tooth comb. Everything weeks or never have found them if I When they were down three feet they so far had stood up, and the corporal hadn't been fool enough to chase that struck a soldier's foot. Both of our ought to be there somewhere. I found

young rabbit for my kids. . . . No. I men were right there. A shell had ex- what appeared to have been a shell-hole didn't get the rabbit. I forgot all about ploded and buried them at the foot of at the foot of a big tree and told one him." this tree and a year or so later the of the men to dig there. It had already Tales of war days contain no more trunk had tumbled over, hiding them been dug once and he said as much. suspense, no more tangled mixture of completely. 'Never mind that,' I told him. 'Dig it comedy and pathos, and scarcely better "When we searched for their effects again—only dig deeper this time.' The examples of devotion than are revealed we found a fountain pen in the pocket corporal was there and his tag was in the incidents surrounding the quest of one. It was rusted and corroded. I there, but he'd been buried without any for America's missing. They are so scraped all the dirt and rust off that I uniform. That showed that the Ger- many that it is hard to choose between could and managed to get it unscrewed. mans had buried him, after taking his them. I recall an experience which an- The pen point looked all right so I uniform probably to use for spy work. other investigator told me one day out took a piece of paper out of my pocket They often did that, the same as they at one of the American cemeteries. It and—sure enough—I wrote my name liked to get hold of American army illustrates perfectly how a name may with it. It had been underground for shoes. be added to the list of found simply seven years but still had ink in it and "As a matter of fact, we've had some because one man may suddenly have an still wrote. The pen was sent back to tough cases because of the mix-up in idea which has never occurred to any Washington and the boy's mother has shoes. Sometimes the Germans would of those who preceded him. it now." swap—take the American ones and put "Two men had been killed not far Of course, trenches and machine-gun their own on the American. The result from a clearing in some woods in the pits have always been the most fruitful was, when we came along, that the Chateau-Thierry region. You went down places to search for bodies of the dead. American might be taken for a German,

an old road toward the clearing. To the But as the years passed, even these be- if it happened he did not have a tag or left in the woods was the last place came more difficult. Ten years after some other means of positive identifica- they had been seen. The outfit had the war isolated pits and shellholes tion. Worst of all for us were the pushed through these woods. When it still conceal their dead. There was the Marine Corps shoes. They were yellow came out these two were missing. They case of five men of the Yankee Divi- mulehide with black toes and heels and were never seen again. It was practical- sion, a corporal and four privates, who not unlike the German shoes in appear- ly certain they had been killed. For five were killed at the same time during ance. For that reason they were fre- years searchers had gone over this the Belleau Wood offensive and sup- quently mistaken for Germans at first ground. It had been combed in all posedly were buried together. The and we had to learn to check up pretty directions for several hundred yards Bois des Loges, between Belleau Wood carefully. without any results. and Bouresches, was their reported "A lot of unknowns were caused, en- "We set out in our truck that day," locality and their story as told to me tirely without intention, by the Ger- the investigator said, "and when I told was this: mans' habit of collecting both of the the men where we were heading for "We had been working a ravine about identification tags from the Allied dead. they said it was a waste of time. They'd where these five were said to have dis- They would send one back to the War been there too many times before. Well, appeared and it started to rain, so I said Ministry in Berlin and the other to that was the only file I had with me, we might as well go into a small patch Red Cross headquarters in Geneva. so I told them we'd make another try of woods nearby and keep digging After the Armistice the Red Cross sent anyway. We couldn't have any worse around until the rain let up. One of the back sacks of these tags. Of course luck than the rest had had. I set them men said they'd been all through that they helped establish definitely who to work in the woods. spot before, but I said, 'That's nothing. was dead and ( Continued on page 66)

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who might not be, but you can imagine Into the Graves Registration Serv- the confusion this absence of tags has ice's headquarters in Paris have come caused since the G. R. S. started its weekly the investigators' reports of

Send $1.00 with order and search for bodies. I suppose that one their labors on and behind every Amer- tell U3 a little dbout yourself: (A) How long at thing has added hundreds to the list of ican front. Each report lists the num- prost-nt address, (B) Atfe. unknowns in our cemeteries over there." ber of recoveries, the of (C) Married or Sniffle. number dead (D) Name of employer, In reference to army identification identified, the details of new and re- (K) Position, (F) How long at that work. Al tags it is interesting to note the differ- newed investigations which remain information held strictly confidential. We make ence in them as used by the various without tangible progress. "Private no direct inquiries of any- one—not even from your nations. Our grave investigators in Philip Jordan—no results, search to be employer. France all agree that the German tags continued." In this manner the cases 10 Days' Free Trial Satisfaction Guaranteed were superior to all others. The Brit- are carried on, either until the body is Watch comes to yoa postag ish used tags of a paper compound which, found or all clues have been exhausted. _ paid —no C. O. D. to pay |N on arrival. You take no risk once in the earth or dampened, swelled In Paris Colonel Van Duyne's assistants jj\ —satisfaction guaranteed or 0 \ money back. about one-sixteenth of an inch. This revise these reports and send them on Established 1895 \ swelling, though slight, when added to to Washington. In a few weeks new AVA I DIAMOND £r the darkening by dirt and time often leads or additional clues may have UI/VL WATCH CO. rendered the tags illegible and useless. found their way to the Q. M. C. in

ADDRESS DEPT. 14-T. 1 70 BROADWAY. N.Y. J The tags used by the United States were Washington; these are forwarded to not a great improvement. They were Paris and the search is picked up where made of aluminum and therefore corrod- last it seemed to end. Gallon ed very badly, not from the earth itself The men in the field are neither dis- filters a but from the chemical changes. As a couraged nor ready to quit. In fact the result bodies have often been found with investigators and the office workers I Evav4Mmtes tags which could not be identified. The have talked to all mourn the seeming LowPriced-Guaranteed Germans manufactured their tags from inevitability that the search may soon Amazing new invention gun-metal and after ten years in the face a virtual close. They still have faith patented Home Filter for earth they are still perfectly legible. that a good many more missing and un- fruit juices and beverages. Noth- Teeth all known may be found and identified. ing likeit. Removes all sediment, are by odds one of the pulp, fibres. Filters a gallon most certain means of identifying war Many of them have in mind definite every 4 minutes. Perfect re' eults guaranteed. No moving parts. dead. In most cases the investigator cases which they are convinced can yet Simple. Practical. Low priced. Lasts must possess an army tooth chart or be solved. Bigger obstacles with each pass- a lifetime. Thousands already In use. FREE HOMETRIAL—Agents Wanted one forwarded by the missing or un- ing year? Yes. Harder work? Of course. Try free at our risk and return if not satis- known soldier's relatives or family den- But the men in the Graves Registration fied. Send name and address TODAY for full par- tist. Now and then, however, a letter Service are used to both and love their ticularsof thisliberal offer. ActNOW. AGENTS WANTED. pointing out certain distinct peculiari- work. They would go on gladly, if funds HOME FILTER CO., 306 CENTRALAVE.,BAVCITY, MICH. ties will suffice. In this respect gold are supplied with which to carry on the BECOME AN EXPERT teeth have been a big aid in identifying quest. American dead, for at the time of the The list of America's missing and un- war, investigators claim, Americans had known soldiers is still formidable. Ac- Accountant more gold fillings and other dental work cording to latest available figures there than any other nationality. On such a remained at the end of the last fiscal Executive Accountants and C. P. A.'e earn 53.000 to $10,000 a year. Thousands of firms need them. Only S.000 Certified Public Account- slight distinction as a single gold tooth year a roll-call of 1,335 missing. In our ants in the United States. We train you thoroly at home in spare time for CP. A. examinations or executive accounting positions. Previous rlen ?e unnecessary. Training the identity of more than one missing cemeteries abroad there are buried no f.'f?^ i under the personal supervision of William B. Castenholz. A. M . C. P. A., and a large staff of C. P. A a, including members of the American Institute of Accountants. soldier has at last been established. less than 1,630 unknown American sol- Write for free book, 'Accountancy, the Profession that Pays. diers LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 836 1 H, Chicago The true extent of the American —a grand total of 2,965 unknown The World's Largest Business Training institution Graves Registration Service and its and missing. work in recovering lost American sol- Among the missing there are names of WANT a new business profes- diers is neither known nor dreamed of "hyphenated Americans" of dozens of sion of your own, by the average American. The G. R. S. European extractions. And this regiment wit hall the trade DO YOU you can attend headquarters are at 20 Rue Molitor in of the missing includes also exactly to? be- Then Paris and the officer in charge is Colonel forty Smiths, eighteen of various ranks come a foot eorrectionist, and in a few weeks earn big income in service fees—not medical F. W. Van Duyne. Through his hands who bore the name of Jones and sixteen nor chiropody—easy terms for home training, pass tragedy, romance and mystery. Johnsons. no further capital needed, no goods to buy, no agency. Address Stephenson Laboratory, 9 Back Bay, Boston, Mass. Then and J\(ow A NEW CAR ( Continued from page 45) supply of lumber on hand at the Armis- sub-head in this outfit notices column Get the and BEAUTY tice. Several outfits were under fire, one suggested in Then and Now in the April LUSTRE of a NEW PAINT JOB at a small frac- officer was killed in action and one D. Monthly. tion of the cost. Do it Your- self with NUKAR. NOT a Wax. S. C. went to the 20th. In the sinking Special railroad rates of a one-way NOT a Paint. NOT a Polish. Thia New Chemical discovery Instantly of the Tuscania, men of the 20th fare for the round-trip are made to Le- restores Original Color to dull 95 ' ided cara. and gives a Beautiful. national con- Brilli M -Like Lustre that lost their lives." gionnaires attending the lasts for months. Does not hold Dir Actually makes old Shabby Carslook NEW. No rubbing— ork. Flows on like vention and that inducement, together water from a sponge. No Waiting—No I i a NEW CAR the same day. Results Guaranteed. NOW that six wartime outfits have with the special entertainment offered, MEN! Amazing Profits FREE I announced intentions of holding should persuade many outfits to gather Are being made by Agents, Distributors SAMPLE and Service Station operators. Get in on their 1929 reunions in Louisville, Ken- in Louisville. William J. Horrigan. the biggest thing in the automobile busi- PROVES IT ness today. Earn up to $50 a day. Full or part tu s of Cars tucky, in conjunction with the Legion chairman, Convention Reunion Com- Sensational sal.-s compelling; De: stration. n-ed NUKAR. Mak-s a ' We hack you to the limit with powerful Sal Cooperation and give National Convention on September 30th, mittee, Heyburn Building, Louisville, you FREE—a Business Start that M> . _ 1 not Buy. Let us send Prepaid and without ch FREE SAMPLE and our Big Book in olora. Act NOW. Write TODAY. October 1st, 2d and 3d, we can start the will be glad to furnish veterans' asso- ATLAS SOLVENT CO., 5647 Harper A?e., Dept. 122, CHICACO. ILL

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Hotel Sherman. Address Glenn Swale. ciations with his special plans to handle H. Bur- lington Ticket Office, 50 So. 6th St., Minne- outfit reunions. apolis, Minn. Reunions to be held in Louisville, 44th Art., C. A. C.—To compile roster and organize veterans society, former members are this Kentucky, at the time of the Legion requested to report to J. A. Donnelly, 611 E. take summers convention, follow: Willow St., Wheaton, 111. Base Hosp. No. 11 —Located at Nantes. igF^toiif vacation in 38th (Cyclone) Div.—All former members France, during war. Society now known as are requested to write to F. J. Helm, 6310 Veterans of Grand Blottereau would like to Wentworth ave., Ensdewood Station, Chicago. hear from former patients and members. Ad- 111., for outlines of reunion program. dress Paul C. Dunn, editor, Eleven News, 2130 Light 21st Engrs., Ry.—More than a hun- Morse ave., Chicago, III. dred have already lined up for the Louis- men Base Hosp. No. 19—Nurses reunion at ville meeting. Particulars may be obtained Nurses Clubhouse, 37 S. Goodman st.. Roches- Glacier from "Yardmaster" William Bruckman, The ter, N. Y., June 29. Address Miss Bailey, 37 Brewing Co., Ludlow ave. and Bruckman S. Goodman St., Rochester. Rapid Transit, Cincinnati. O. First. Second, Third and Fourth Regts.. 113th San. Train, 38th Div.—Fourth an- WATERTON LAKES Air SerV. Mech.— Fourth annual reunion Aug. nual Sept. 28th, just prior to reunion Legion 22-24, in Indianapolis, Ind. Address Thomas convention. Former members, particularly of J. Leary, 7141 Jcffery ave.. Chicago, III. Indiana and Kentucky, are requested to send 200th and 201st Aero Sqdrns.. A. E. F. names and addresses to James D. Lewers, RAINIER 137 Beaumont Overseas Club, Inc. (name derived No. Peterson ave., Louisville, Ky. from Beaumont Barracks, Tours), is interested 309th San. Train, 84th Div. Former — mem- in locating all former members. The "lost" bers of Field Hosp. and Amb. Companies com- men are requested to report to W. N. Edwards, Mt. BAKER posing this train, interested in reunion in 12 West Euclid St., Valley Stream, Long Is- Louisville, address John J. O'Brien, 2017 Lowell land, N. Y. ave., Springfield. 111. Reconstruction Aides— National reunion at NATIONAL PARKS Camp Hosp. No. 91, La Baule, France.— Chicago. 111., June 14-15. Legion men are re- All officers, nurses and enlisted men of person- quested to advise Aides they know to write to For descriptive books and nel or patients who passed through hospital Mrs. Winifred K. Pinto, 822 La Porte ave., requested are to report to Paul H. Waldow. Valparaiso, Ind. low summer fares write 1216 Barret ave., Louisville, regarding Ky., 809th Pioneer Inf.—Former members in- proposed reunion. A. J. DICKINSON, Pass. Traffic Mgr. terested in proposed veterans society, are re- Evac. Hosp. All Room 757, Great Northern Railway No. 22— former members, quested to write to J. F. Bolger, 1551 E. 65th including nurses, desiring to attend reunion St. Paul. Minn. pi., Chicago, 111. during Legion convention, address George D. Co. H, 164th Inf.—Reunion in Jamestown, Liebel, P. O. Box 508, Lexington, Ky. N. D., Sept. 1-2. For particulars address Other announcements of interest to James D. Gray, pres., Jamestown. N. D., or L. W. Upshaw. secy., Ishpeming, Mich. veterans follow: M. G. Co., 310th Inf., 78th Div.—Former members desiring to join veterans society of tune in~ Second Div. Assoc.—Annual reunion will be this outfit, address Jacob J. Singer, pres., 591 ontheGreat Northern held in Boston. Mass., May 31-June 1. For Summit ave., Jersey City, N. J. particulars address Capt. C. O. Mattfeldt, secy., "Empire Builders" 10:30 Army War College, Washington, D. C. Co. B, 353d (All-Kansas) Inf.—Reunion in every Monday, , Eastern Time, THIRD Div.—The Society of the Third (Regu- conjunction with regimental reunion at Wichi- P. M. ta, Kans., Sept. 1-3. over Coast-to-Coast lar) Division will hold its tenth annual reunion Every B Company man network of N. B. C. A dependable railway and convention in Philadelphia, Pa., July 11-14. with wife and kids is expected to attend. Ad- dress C. H. Paulen, bldg.. For further information write to Charles J. Memorial Topeka, McCarthy, Jr., chairman convention bureau, Kans., or Francis Leigh, Box 267, Key West, P. O. Box 1621. Philadelphia. Fla. Fifth Div. Society—Sixth annual reunion Btty. E, 15tii F. A., Second Div. —Copies of the log of 1st Sgt. Tony Cone (still on the at Chicago, III., over Labor Day (Sept. 2d). free For particulars address Frank F. Barth, Suite job), covering Btty. E's adventures in France I A \ht 602, 20 West Jackson blvd., Chicago. and Germany, will be sent to all former mem- bers who send names and addresses to Major Book Seventh Div.—Copies of official history of LAW Raymond E. Lee, General ' division may be obtained by sending five dol- Staff. War Dept., Write today for FREE 64-page book. THE LAW-TRAINED Washington. D. C. MAN", which showB how to learn law in spare time through the lars to Addison B. Freeman, 1808 Chestnut st., Blackstnne home-atudy course prepared by 80 prominent legal Philadelphia, Pa. Btty. B, 134th F. A., 37th Div.—Tenth authorities, including law school deans, lawyers, and U. S. Su- annual reunion at Akron, Ohio, June 15th. preme Court justices. Combination text and case method of 30th (Old Hickory) Div.—Former members instruction used. All material necessary furnished .with the Plans and details will library, are requested to furnish historical data and be mailed promptly to Course, inclu'lintr elaborate Llf.-vnlume law which is de- all livered imm. .h.it.-lv upon enrollment. Many successful attorneys photographs of Sevier members by "Period-Check" R. A. Poling, degree conferred. Moderate Camp and overseas serv- among our graduates. LL.B. ft—] secy., 219 Rhodes ave., Akron. monthly terms. Money-Back Agreement. IT. ice to E. A. Murphy, Lepanto, Ark., who is tuition, low Amb. Co. 321, 81st Div.—Reunion Guil- for free book today // compiling a pictorial history. at Write IJJf "j7 ford Battle Ground, Greensboro, N. C, July /;'•««/ 42d Div.— Eleventh annual reunion Balti- BLACKST0NE INSTITUTE, E£-££*»A2:cago more, Md., July 13-15. Francis E. Shea, editor. 4th. Address F. E. Brockmann, 506 S. Cedar st., Greensboro. The Rainbow Reveille, 512 E. 23d st., Balti- Supply Co. more, wants Rainbow Chapters to send news 318, Q. M. C—Annual reunion items for the publication. in New York City, Oct. 5th. Address William 89th Div.—Reunion and banquet of 89th A. (Speed) Leckie, 1809 Beverly rd., Brook- Div. men during department convention of the lyn, N. Y. Mine Sweeping Div. Squad. No. 10. Sec. Legion at Mitchell. S. D.. Aug. 6th. Address PETTIBONE'S Base No. 8—Former members interested in Ed Backlund, Route 2, Mitchell. CINCINNATI, OHIO 109th Inf., 28th Div.—Former members of reunion, address Harry Levy, Lighthouse Depot, all units are requested to send names and Staten Island, N. Y. can equip you with good addresses to 109th Inf. Vets. Assoc., Dept. of Camp Merritt and Port of Embarkation Pittsburgh. Lloyd B. Blough, comdr., 7013 Band No. 1 —Former members interested in Fletcher way, Pittsburgh. reunion in St. Louis, Mo., this coming fall, UNIFORMS Fourth Illinois—130th Inf. Vets. Assoc.— forward names and addresses to Fred W. Wiethueehter, comdr., Musicians' Post, BAND Write for Catalog MILITARY Third annual reunion at Carbondale, III., Sept. The American Legion. 2526 North st., St. 28-29. Address Maj. J. H. Coady, Paris. III. Market Louis. 145th Inf.—Former members interested in Mo. the 145th Inf. Assoc. and proposed reunion are Marine Corps League—All former and requested to forward names and addresses to present members of the Marine Corps are eli- gible for in this organization. Its R. S. Ursprung, 97 E. Grant St., Berea, Ohio. membership purpose is to foster Marine ideals. Informa- 150th Inf.—Regimental history is being tion prepared and any articles, newspaper clip- regarding membership or organization of detachments be obtained from W. Karl pings, photographs or interesting letters will may Reduce be gratefully received by ex-Lieut. Wilbur H. Lations, 142 Green st., Worcester, Mass. Rose, Spencer, W. Va. 166th Inf.—Annual reunion at Mansfield, ELAND STOWE'S "The Legion of Ohio, June 14-16. Address Sam Lichtenstein. L secy., Ohio Chapter, Rainbow Div. Vets., 329 J the Missing" which appears in this Stoneman bldg.. Columbus. Ohio. issue will have particular interest to many 353d (All Kansas) Inf.—Annual reunion of regimental society at Wichita. Kansas, Sept. members of the Then and Now Gang. 1-3. Gen. Reeves will attend. Address H. C. request of the Office of the Quar- Paulson, secy., Memorial bldg.. Topeka, Kans. Upon 11th F. A.—Reunion at York. Pa., Sept. termaster General we published in these 1st. Address T. Carroll, Assoc.. J. pres.. Vets. columns a great number of the unidenti- 11th F. A., 211 Federal bldg.. Brooklyn. N. Y. 108th F. A., 28th Div.—Former members fied dead and missing dead cases and interested in proposed reunion write to Major the response was unusually fine. Edwards Hubbs. 2110 N. Broad St., Phila- delphia, Pa. So the enlisted men and officers and 322D F. A. Annual regimental reunion will — chaplains and all who sent in reports of be held in Hamilton. Ohio. Sept. 14th. Tickets may be obtained from Harry Lowenstein, men killed in action, and also carefully- treas., 322d F. A. Assoc., Third and Ludlow marked maps to show the burial places sts.. Hamilton. 328th F. A.—Sixth annual reunion in Sagi- of American bodies can feel a distinct naw, Mich, (instead of Port Huron, pre- as personal pride in having co-operated in viously reported), June 16-18. Address L. J. Lynch, adjt., 209 Elm st.. Grand Rapids, Mich. this most important job. 36th Engrs.—National reunion in Chicago, 111., Aug. 31st-Sept. 1st. Headquarters in The Company Clerk Little Corporal Beit

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Not even the mint-julep beguiled him years—in return for the hospitality of contingent came home from the St. nearly so much as a cold tankard of the State. Louis meeting in iqiq. amber ale. It may have been in early Louisville Zachary Taylor's tomb is just outside Walk up to Third and Walnut Streets. that Louis Philippe imbibed the notions the city limits. It recently has been

On the northeast corner stands what of democracy that led him later to walk getting some of the care long denied it, was once Joe Kottman's, haven of the the streets of Paris carrying a green um- as a National Monument under Federal most exclusive club in the world—the brella and conversing with commoners. supervision. Chile Con Came. In a back room of When Louisville was younger it was a Louisville's hospitality is spread Kottman's saloon was its headquarters. stopping place for the palatial packets through many splendid clubs, including Its members were Marse Henry, Wilton that plied the Ohio and filled its wide the famous Pendennis. All outdoor Lackaye and the late Colonel John T. harbor. The river trade brought to it yearnings are satisfied by several of the Macauley. Over the lager in Joe's some its first flush of prosperity, gave it its finest country clubs in America, includ- epic bon mots were made. place in the sun. Along Fourth and Fifth ing the Louisville, the Audubon and the Marse Henry, like Mary Anderson, Streets, going toward the river, Legion- River Valley. Bring your golfing—and was a link of Louisville with all the naires will find remaining landmarks of your dancing—shoes along. world. Those who have perused his the gilded times when glamor came from If you have descended to highbrow letters know the wide sway he held in the river, when the stakes were high, inclinations, your soul's need may be national—even international—affairs. He the laws few and the trigger finger quick. met by all manner of literary and art was the intimate of Secretary of State Steamboats still clog the harbor. One organizations. The Filson Club is the John Hay, the close adviser of Champ finds at the foot of Fourth Street the custodian of Kentucky's past glories. Clark in his ill-fated quest for the Presi- only inland life-saving station in the Its publications are the last word—or dency, the nemesis of Bryan, for a time world, and along the river-front some almost the last word—on the exact hap- the illustrious and implacable foe of survivors of the steamboating aristocracy penings of the past. For decades Louis- Wilson, the sturdy friend of Joe Foraker, of Mark Twain's time. Nearby are the ville and Kentucky have stood forth as and in the older days the admirer and tobacco breaks. Great hogsheads of educational centers. The metropolis has companion of Mark Twain. Burley still line the pavements, but not the Southern Baptist Theological Semi- Though born elsewhere, Colonel Wat- as of yore, when the city visually lived nary, a Presbyterian seminary and many terson early imbibed the spirit of Ken- up to its title of the world's greatest other institutions of learning. There is tucky and ere long, to the world outside, tobacco market. Louisville is now thor- a fine new art gallery connected with became the embodiment of its glamor, oughly modernized. the University of Louisville. its chivalry and its valor. His fighting Yet the old town, in the midst of a Venturing beyond Louisville, the aura spirit he left in his workshop. In his boom brought on by its increasing manu- of historical glamor thickens. At Bards- personal relationships Marse Henry was factures, is even now looking forward to town, nearby, one will find the home of as gentle and kindly a soul as ever a recrudescence of river traffic. This is Stephen Collins Foster. It is known as breathed fire when in working harness. due to the fact that the Federal Govern- Federal Hill. There Foster wrote "The It was necessary to have a tuft of ment, after many years of work in deep- Old Kentucky Home." And mark, Le- gray hair on one's chin to win the title ening the channel of the Ohio from gionnaires, that this home of a bard is of Colonel in the old days. Once gained, Pittsburgh to Cairo, is about to present no mere landmark—it is a shrine to Ken- the appellation was clinched for life. to the river cities a year-round nine-foot tuckians, the sweetly-pitched song is an One of the statues of which Louisville is stage. For the immediate vicinity, the anthem, a heart-tightening hymn of the proud, standing at the entrance to Chero- Louisville & Portland Canal, avoiding clan. I heard a Kentucky woman sing kee Park, is that of John B. Castleman, the falls, solved this problem long ago. it the other day in Statuary Hall in the who was a surviving general of the Con- On the southeast rim of Louisville is Capitol at Washington in the presence federacy. It was no small tribute to the the site of Camp Zachary Taylor, the of several thousand Kentuckians who General that his fellow townsmen raised cantonment which rose overnight for had gathered for the unveiling of statues this memorial while he still lived. Most war-training purposes and which disap- of Henry Clay and Dr. Ephraim Mc- Louisvilleians will tell you that the Gen- peared almost as quickly when the need Dowell. Watching that audience, one

eral was more the embodiment of the for it was gone. Hundreds of thousands thought of sudden disaster lurking for pictured Kentucky Colonel than any of rookies learned squads right there and any thoughtless soul so careless as to other man they knew. practiced "long, short and jab point," to mar this solemn rite of Kentuckians. This aspiring city which Legionnaires say nothing of scrambling "six feet up a Foster wrote "Suwanee River" and will overrun ere the frost is on the tree" and indulging in their opinions of "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground" and

pumpkin was named for King Louis XVI shavetails. I can vouch for it that rigid other things, too, but "The Old Ken- in recognition of that ill-fated monarch's discipline and the winter of ioi7-'i8 tucky Home" makes him the deathless aid to the American Revolution. It got made it about as uninviting a place as poet laureate of the State. Federal Hill its first charter under this name in 1780 Siberia. From the viewpoint of many has been set aside as a state shrine. It from the Legislature of Virginia, of of us wr ho had our own ideas about the is within easy automobile distance of which State it was then a part. conduct of the war, it was the Valley Louisville. Another French monarch, Louis Phil- Forge of the World War. Not far from Bardstown is Gethse- ippe, who tried to restore the lost glories Camp Henry Knox, now a permanent mane. seat of the Trappist Monastery of the Bourbons, lived for a time in reservation, was an artillery center dur- behind whose walls men may hide the Louisville while an exile in this country. ing the war period. It is a regular train- griefs and travail of a secular past be- The "Citizen-King." in whose figure ing camp for the Fifth Corps Area. One neath the habiliments of the monkish La Fayette tried to reconcile the con- of the largest of the Quartermaster orders. A forbidding place, it would flict between the republicans and the Depots is located at Jeffersonville, In- seem. But it is not so. No more hos- royalists, was one of the earliest distin- diana, across the Ohio. The State Fair pitable haven is there in all the broad guished visitors by way of the Ohio Grounds, in West Louisville, were a commonwealth. The good abbot who River to the Kentucky metropolis. In preliminary training place for the Na- presides over this sanctuary, Father St. Joseph's Cathedral, in old Bardstown, tional Guard at the outset of hostilities. Obrecht, loves to welcome the stranger, not far from the city, hang a group of Do not forget that Jefferson Post, within the rules laid down by the order. Murillos and Van Dycks and even a host to the Legion in IQ20, is the largest Plenteous is the wherewithal for regal- Rubens—the priceless gift of the man post in the world and that it was one ing the guest. No visitation lifts the who was later to rule France for eighteen of the first organized after the Kentucky rule of silence ( Continued on page 70)

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that is imposed upon the lay brothers of in 1773, but it was some time before the community, whose voices are lifted the Indians would concede that. Colonel only in supplication to heaven. But Harrod arrived, by way of the river Father Obrecht is spokesman for all. route, with about thirty men, in June, It was from Gethsemane that Father 1774. They laid out town lots, built a Damien went forth to establish the leper few cabins and prepared to defend their WANTED once! colony on Molokai and win his martyr citadel. More good help introduce and men to re- crown. One historian tells how Daniel Boone tail Eawleigh's Good Health Products. Town and country. "Wonderful opportunity. Warriors always, Kentuckians never- came into the picture. Speaking of Har- Nothing new—no experimenting. On the theless have practiced the arts of peace rod, he writes: market since 1889. Nearly 200 necessities , needed daily in every home. Annual Sales as assiduously as those of war. In every "While these men were busy planning over 37 million packages. Largest Com- branch of endeavor, in every field of their town, Lord Dunmore's messengers. pany over million — 15 dollars capital. Daniel Quick service from 16 great factories and learning, in all avenues of science, Ken- Boone and Michael Stoner, came branches—one near you. Practically no tuckians abound. The State sent Ephraim to call them into the settlements to take capital, no experience needed. Quick, easy McDowell to Edinburgh that might part in Dunmore's sales, repeat every 30-60 days. Big pay he War. These trusty risht from start. Garrett, Wash., sold there gain the groundwork in medicine messengers had come eight hundred miles $•208.75; McTeer, So. Car., $211.75 first which later enabled him to perform, in sixty-two days, and went from Har- week. Profits increase monthly. Thousands make more than they ever could before. under the crude conditions then exist- rod's to the Falls of the Ohio to warn You should do well. as Simply follow ing, the first abdominal operation. Mc- the men there. While at Harrod's Boone the same old time-tested Rawleigh Meth- ods which have given consumers best val- Dowell's then unhailed exploit makes became interested in their plans and ues and satisfaction for 40 years. We him so revered among Kentuckians that was given a lot adjoining that of Evan supply everything—products, outfit, sales and service methods which secure the he has just been given one of the two Hinton. A double log cabin was built, most business everywhere. Steady year niches allotted to Kentucky in America's serving both of them, until burned by round—no lay-off—no boss—you are sole owner and manager. For particulars write Hall of Fame in the Capitol, the other the Indians in 1777. Thus we see, Boone going to Henry Clay. had a hand in settling Harrodtown be- THE W. T. RAWLEIGH CO. Mammoth Cave, in western central fore he built Boonesboro." DEPT. F-40ALM FREEPORT, ILL. Kentucky, is about to become a full- A trip to Harrodsburg takes one 1WMTJCH THE LARGEST INDUSTRY fledged National Park. It is ninety miles through the Bluegrass country, and, if OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD from Louisville. It is one of the won- one chooses, one may visit Shakertown. ders which Kentucky has exploited little The latter settlement is one of the in years gone by. But now the finest quaintest and most picturesque in all highways reach the cave from every Kentucky. It was founded by the sect direction and it promises to become a known as Shakers. One of their prohi- 10A RD wrf,,,ij bigger magnet than ever for tourists. bitions, as their tenets are understood tf Mammoth Cave is one of many such to the modern generation, was short- Jf* at'/2 ay* PRICE caverns throughout a large sector of lived. But visitors may see their odd of them are believed frame dwellings Undemood, Remington. Royal, etc. 4/1/ the State. Some and have pointed out to AU late models, completely refinished lur to be connected. Floyd Collins was try- them the separate stairways that led to brand new. GUARANTEED for ten *T big free catalog yeara. Send no money— t\ &v ing to find another passage leading from the compartments for men and for Bhowa actual machines in full colors. Get oar direct -to-you easy payment plan and 10 days' trialoffer. Sand Cave when he became caught and women. The last of the Shakers died International Typewriter El.. 186 W. Lake St., Dept. 610. Chicago, III. was held prisoner, moving the nation to not long ago. daily tears over his fate. Boonesboro, where Daniel Boone estab- The legend is that another Kentucky lished a fort and a settlement and which Panama Internal Railway Motor woodsman, seeking a wounded bear is now a place proposed for Federal which had crawled into a lair in order care, is not far from Harrodsburg, and Canal Revenue Postal Rural to escape, discovered an eighth world is located on the beautiful Kentucky Clerk Position Clerk Carrier wonder in Mammoth Cave. There was River. Boone's remains and those of his no extensive exploration until 1812, pioneer wife were brought back from when the Kentuckians had another war Missouri to lie at Frankfort, the state Check HereThe on their hands, and the quest then was capital. for saltpeter for use in gunpowder. There At Hodgenville, which is only a short are evidences, however, that the Indians train ride from Louisville, is Lincoln GovernmentJob had been there before, and prior to that, Farm, for which Congress has just ap- men who preceded the Indians. propriated money for improvements. Here again, in Kentucky's caves, the Within a marble palace here is enclosed YOU Want limestone is a factor, for such deposits the log cabin in which the Great Eman- WHICH of these four ine jobs do you want? I will help you get helped to form their fathomless myster- cipator was born. Roosevelt. Taft and it! Good pay. trav 1 if you want it. steady interesting work, and no worry about strike t and hard times! I have helped thousands to get well-paid Governn ent positions. I can help POU too. I know ies. In Mammoth Cave the currents of Wilson at different times went to Ken- just bow to train you so thatat YOU SURELY QUALIFY. Do you want of these four job; uld you rather be a Carrier, Custom River flow silently beneath great tucky to have a hand in establishing Ma Echo r! E domes, wind around stygian pits and this great memorial to the immortal son Book My FREE send eerie sounds to high-vaulted of Nancy Hanks. Tells How to Get It up upletL detail_ chambers, where imagination runs into Kentucky impartiality also sets aside s positions and ho j as Civil Service Secretary. dim visions of giants and behemoths the birthplace of Jefferson Davis at Fair- Examiner, help you get the job you pick. Send for this book now. peopling these spacious corridors. There view, in Todd County, where a great It costs you nothing and may get you "set for life". Mail the coupon TODAY. cathedrals shaft erected to his memory. ARTHUR It. PATTERSON. Civil Service Ex- are labyrinths and lakes and has been pert Patt«rs.»n School, »;;_[„ Winner Building. 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. Rochester, N. Y. __ a pos as the first of the Kentucky colonels. spirited Kentucky mountaineers of pure 300 a yea 'ith excellent cha doean't cost He founded what is now Harrodsburg, Anglo-Saxon strain. These hills, fading the first settlement within the boundaries into Virginia and Tennessee, enclose Big

N 1 of what became Kentucky to stay set- Stone Gap, where John Fox, Kentuckian, Address tled. The site of Louisville was laid out found inspiration for "The Trail of the

City 70 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly JOHN HANCOCK SERIES Lonesome Pine."' Cumberland Falls, one of the many distinguished Ken- called America's second Niagara, is in tuckians of that name; that Proctor this region. Among these mountains, Knott went from Kentucky to the pe- John Hancock "moonlight"' schools first brought knowl- culiar fame in the nation that followed • • * • edge to illiterate adults. on his tribute to Duluth, "zenith city of Policies At the estate called Ashland, near the unsalted seas"; that Kentuckians The Best for Service Men: Lexington, the Bluegrass capital, lived hold Jouett to have been peerless among Henry Clay, the man who "would rather the painters; that Simon Bolivar Life Insurance Buck- Endowments be right than be President," and who ner was a great warrior and a great Annuities foresaw secession and fought so hard leader of the Gold Democrats; that the Retirement Funds against it. Champ Clark was born in late Oscar W. Underwood was born in Mortgage Replacement this section, moving westward with the Louisville; that Theodore O'Hara, au- Group and Salary tide for which George Rogers Clark thor of "The Bivouac of the Dead," and Deduction made provision when he opened up the Stanton, who wrote the "Moneyless Total Disability Illinois territory. Man," are among the most revered of Double Indemnity In Louisville and elsewhere Legion- Kentuckians; that James Lane Allen All necessary forms for Home and Fam- naires may find the history of the State and "The Kentucky Cardinal" were ily protection as well as contingencies in business. Liberal contracts and prompt in the nomenclature of the streets, the products of the State; that Kentucky is adjustments. buildings, the inns, the roads, the statues, a consistent supplier of Supreme Court For full information address the paintings and the people. Justices and that the commonwealth INQUIRY BUREAU It will not take long to learn that now holds no mean place in the national George D. Prentice was the greatest of the ensemble. early editors, preceding Watterson, with Nor will the visitor be long denied the a wit as nimble as his pen was powerful; knowledge that General Morgan and his Life Insurance Company* that General John C. Breckinridge, Vice- raiders are mightily esteemed in these of Boston. Massachusetts President of the United States and later parts; that there are two sides to the 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. Confederate leader, who was defeated story of the killing of Governor Goebel, Five Hundred Million Dollars paid out on policies in 66 years. for the Presidency by Lincoln, was but and the "big cyclone" occurred in 1890. Over Four Million Policyholders signed on the dotted line. Join them. A.L.M. — OVERSiXTY-FIVE YEARS IN BUSINESS - The broken j Pep Up Your Post with a ( Continued from page 29) f DRUM CORPS He bent his head to examine the stripes fat party was around. Didn't have no It's easy to organize a snappy Drum on the detective's sleeve. "What you help a-tall today." Corps that will make your post a want, Sergeant?" "Where's the major now?" Bright de- factor at Conventions, bring in new members and keep up the "Where's the major?" manded again. enthusiasm of old "buddies." "He went away." "How the devil do I know?" The boy How to Organize a Bright sat on the edge of the desk and grinned. "I suppose he took that fat Drum Corps—Sent Free rested the dispatch case on his knees. Limey and went somewhere. Always go- Write for our 48-page book "About that front door," he asked indif- ing somewhere." LUDWIG & LUDWIG, Dept. 7.6 ferently, "the one over there in the main Bright interrupted. "This Limey the Lincoln Street, Chicago, 111. part. Which of you guys got the key? I same fat party who was helping move want in." furniture?" I OfferYou "Can't get in," the clerk replied. He The boy appeared to think. "Why, ft ^ %f W put down a ration return in which he maybe 'twas. Fact is, I never saw that had footing figures. to the boys been "Nothing Limey close up myself. Heard Y\ rite quickly for new proposition. We go in for, anyhow. A lot of worn-out talk about him. They say he's an oil ex- offer $8.00 a day and a new Chevrolet Coach, for demonstrating and taking furniture. Who're you?" pert." orders for Comer A 11- Weather Topcoats and Raincoats. Spare "I'm a cop, and I want in there." "They're right." time. No experience required. Sample outfit free. Write now. The clerk examined his face, then he "Well, I bet he can't pull a cork fast Comer Mfg. Co. Dept. F-494 Dayton, 0 o whistled. as our major. Rennels has a thumb at's "What's the trouble?" growed backward from his pushin' out ." to be "Measles." Bright offered a cigarette. corks . . fear-n a The other laughed. He was a young "Where's Grice?" Sergeant Bright in- ^LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT clerk, not more than twenty. His hair terrupted. At home, by mail. Bit fees. Plea ant, healthful work. Experts ea curled and he wore two wound stripes. The clerk shook his head. $50 to $200 a week. You can ea while learning. Write today f "I'll find out soon enough," he said. "Don't know. Signed out for all "That's being night, all about something. Want- AMERICAN LANDSCAPE SCHOOL the only good thing about het up 34 Plymouth Bide. a clerk, you get to know things. There's ed to get away in a hurry. Couldn't Des Moines. Ia. just one key to that door and the major write his name fast enough. Him and the keeps that. He had some of us boys major both. No, not together. Lieuten- move some furniture today. He let me ant went first. And a minute later the have the key. When I got done I give major came yelling. Hunting his car." Dream it back to him." "Lost his car?" Bright asked casually. "Move furniture?" He drew out notebook and pencil. laze . . "Back to the big room out our own "What's its number?" quarters." He added: "Some guy whit- "U. S. 25,198. I used to be extry relax! tled his name on it." driver. But I guess he found it, least he "Major help move it?" didn't come back again. Been gone ten Canoeing brings you the essence of perfect relaxa- "Him? Say! He ain't a Y. M. secre- minutes. How do I know where he went? tion. Old Town Canoes are patterned after real Indian As low as $67. From dealer or factory. tary. There was a fat party tryin' to Somewheres." The boy grinned again. models. Write today for free catalog. It shows and prices many

help . . though . guess it was today. "Glad this war's over?" light, water-tight models. Paddling, sailing and square- stern canoes, extra-safe Sponson models, dinghies and No . . . guess it was yesterday." "It ain't," Bright answered. sturdy family boats. Also speedy craft for outboard "Move furniture yesterday, too?" His face was grave. Evidence was motors—racing step planes and hydroplanes. Old Town "Some. Moved a lot today. Guess it piling up against the commander of Canoe Co., 966 Main Street, Old Town, Maine. was yesterday, maybe the before, the Circe district. ( Continued on page 72) day 'Old Town Canoes

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Whitfield had been found dead in a are born with feelings easily damaged. a hurry to be rid of it. But Bright was .room to which Rennels controlled en- This evening he resigned, and has gone the quicker. T trance. And the major (not to men- already. The man has no sense. W here "There's a Frenchman involved in this tion Grice) was gone, hastily. Police will he discover another such position?" mess, brigadier." experience pointed to one move on "Gone? Where?" "Frenchman?" Bright's part. Under the circumstances "The good God only knows. I hope "Peton." Rennels at least was wanted. The ser- far away." Again the caretaker spat, as "The innkeeper? Why, m'sieur! He geant said good night once more and if ridding his mouth of accumulated dis- is an honest, hard-working man!" sauntered out with an appearance of in- taste. "I told him he is a worm. So I "So you claimed for Rude." difference. Ten minutes later he was assured the M'selle Josephine before she "A good husband, a devoted Chris- ." talking hurriedly and insistently to an departed." tian . . astonished lieutenant of American mili- "The girl? With Rude?" "He's got the Blackbird's shirt, or I'm tary police in charge of Circe platoon. "No!" blind. I want him, brigadier. Now. He'll The lieutenant, a mild, quiet young man "Where'd she go?" be missing, too, one of these days. First with large hands and feet, shut the pock- "How should I know? It was one of it's St. Denis gone, then his daughter, et English-French dictionary he had your Americans escorted her. The old then Rude." been studying and listened incredulously woman had been unpleasant, I need not Bonnet rubbed his chin. He looked to those facts which Bright chose to explain to you how unpleasant. It is disturbed. "Peton!" he murmured. Then tell him. But in the end he volunteered none of your business. It concerned he remembered his own news. "But why to go himself, with two or three men, to chiefly the wild Americans that M'selle does M'sieur the commandant Rennels guard the great room of the chateau un- Josephine so greatly admires." depart in such extreme haste?" til morning. No one in staff headquar- "Admires? That ain't the dope Rude "Rennels?" ters must know he was there. Bright ex- gave out." "To be sure. I witnessed him not an plained. The party would enter through "Admires. She admires any Ameri- hour ago. I had completed only my first the main door, to which Bright gave can, all — foolish, wise, even ugly. Just cider after dinner." him the key, and he would see that the so they are American. The aunt, M'sieur "Which way?" door to the passage kept its appearance St. Denis's sister, she is the opposite. "On the Route du Mans. I do not of being locked. She accuses your countrymen of making recognize his face in the dark naturally. "Take a doctor along," Bright bade in this war. So the two women disagree Only the automobile. Flute, what a devil conclusion. "Tell him to keep his report often. Today, after one hour of it, the for rapidity!" in his pocket till he hears from me." M'selle Josephine finds herself one small "Go get your honest Peton," Bright The lieutenant agreed. He never had railway bag and comes down the stair. advised. "I'll take care of Rennels." seen Bright before, but the sergeant's To me she explains: T depart. I cannot He was careful to show no anxiety. identification card, linked with the word remain. The aunt makes it impossible.' But within his head thoughts were turn- murder, made him obedient. and at that time this American ap- ing like wheels. Route du Mans. Here At the gendarmerie, Madame Bonnet, proached." was a tip that might be worth while. who had been growing fat all day on "Who was he?" Within a few minutes after Whitfield curiosity, bread and cheese, explained "How do I know? An American. That was murdered, at least within half an between questions, most of which Bright is all. I cannot see him. But I hear his hour, Rennels had started south for Le ignored, that her husband had departed voice. And his car sounded on the hill for Mans. It would be easy for any man, on his evening inspection, after which he three minutes before it halted at the gate. no matter what his rank, to lose himself would go afoot to the St. Denis house. It had difficulty with the steep road. My in the disorderly madhouse of the Em- He had been called for, the woman add- ears are good, policeman. I can hear the barkation Center, to secure assignment ed, by a short, blonde stranger of for- blossoms fall from the apple trees." before the night was over to a homego- eign name. Bright glanced at Duclose; the corpo- ing outfit, to be in Brest or Bordeaux to- "Duclose?" ral nodded. They, too, had heard a car morrow. Hoboken next week. Mustered "But yes!" straining mightily up hill as they stood out. Safe. Many an officer had done The front door of the St. Denis house in the high, dark room of Rennels's quar- just that to escape various minor un- stood open when Bright arrived, with ters with the body of Sir Harry Whit- pleasant ries. the lean figure of Chevonnet the care- field between them on the floor. "Stay here, Duclose," Bright instructed. taker, stiffly outlined against the hall "She met this person on the gravel "If Rude comes back, keep him. Or Grice

lamp-light, in that attitude of listening path. Non, she did not expect him. It . . . he's the adjutant. Or the major." peculiar to him. Duclose hurried down was you, sergeant policeman, she expect- "I? Arrest a major? I, who am a the steps as the car stopped. From a ed. The aunt said 'No' when she heard humble corporal?" room above, the cawing complaint of old you would dine with us. There was an Bright started down the steps. "You Mademoiselle St. Denis descended shrilly. unpleasant affray between the two wom- may know all about art," he paused to "Drafts," Bright guessed, "feeling en, all of which I could not hear. Then say, "but don't you never read history? drafts again. Hello," this to the corpo- this other American arrived. They con- You ought to. You get a lot of good tips ral, "more circumstances peculiar?" verse a moment quietly, he says 'Come,' out of history books. There was a fel- Duclose called to Chevonnet in and together they depart." low named Napoleon once. Quite a hand French: "It is Sergeant Bright whom Bright regarded the uneven ends of for squads east and west. Well, he said: you have heard approach. You will Chevonnet 's long, dyed mustache. He 'Every corporal's got a nightstick in his please tell him what has happened." was an unromantic looking creature to pack,' or something like that. And one "There is nothing to tell," the care- be narrating the flight of a young French of the first things you learn in the po- taker answered. "How can a man half lady with an American. "Rude left after lice business is that all heads look alike blind be expected to manage a household they did?" to a nightstick." of wild savages? It is too much. I am "But no. It before them." was an hour X. ." alone here, with the old woman. . . "Everybody's beating it," Bright Bright's mind reverted to the secre- grunted, "all except me. I must be stick- TWENTY minutes later Sergeant tary. "Where's Rude?" he demanded. ing around just because I like the coun- Bright passed the forks of the road, ." wider highway branches off to "That rascal," Chevonnet spat defi- try. Well . . where the antly at the nearest rosebush. "He re- Brigadier Bonnet panted up the walk. Domfront. Somewhere ahead a mud- signed. He has been insulted. Some men The gendarme had news and he was in colored car was racing, a car with its

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official number, "U. S. 25,198" painted in white figures on its sides. At nine o'clock he was threading the zig-zag track over that range of black, pine-cov- ered hills which Normandy calls the "little Alps," and at nine-fifteen he roared through the sleepy town of Sille- le-Guillaume, alive now with home- bound olive drab. Here the road turned southeast on a winding down grade. American trucks, grunting along on their nocturnal errands, began to splash mud as he progressed. It had rained, and south of the hills it recommenced, spat- tering the dust into a thin, slippery paste. The car skidded when Bright tried to swing to the left on a sharper turn than usual. He twisted at the wheel and jammed his foot down on the brake. The rear end responded; it plunged roughly into the cropped road, the front wobbled

a moment, then followed it. Thought of the dispatch case was up- c permost in his mind as Bright felt the car nose into the ditch. The case stood beside him on the seat; were he badly hurt it would be the property of the first vandal who rode past. This much, only, he had time to think. In a second the right fender encountered the low stone hedge, he heard the rip of iron, the pop of a tire, and for a moment the body hung trembling, tilted against the wall. Then it turned gently upon its side and the engine stopped. Bright lay still a moment, his left arm under him. When he drew it out he was surprised to feel no pain. He was unhurt, the dispatch case was safe. He had no more than fought his

way stubbornly out of the wreckage . . .

less than five minutes had passed . . . when a truck pulled up behind him. A hearty voice called: "Trouble, soldier?" Americans tumbled off. Standing where he was, Bright watched them ap- proach, trying to pick out in the silhou- ettes against the headlights any familiar figure. Too much was involved to take a risk with strangers. Two men had died for the part they played in this ex- traordinary game in which a leather dispatch case seemed to be a dreary, expensive prize. "Had a smash," Bright answered, hand on his gun. "Where you going?" "Camp Etat, Le Mans." "I'll climb on behind." P They were mechanics, evidently, or motor transport men, more interested in gossip of truck parts than in inquiries about their new passenger. However, .~"Z«....„. Bright kept his holster flap open. He & ^ Av& „ss- . mm placed the case between his knees, and can Legion* sitting down in the least damp spot he could find, braced his back against one of the sides. Two other men, both of [0 them large, slept comfortably on the floor; they wakened as he climbed in and begged cigarettes. Having smoked them, they gave no more attention and returned to sleep. Wet roads reduced the pace of the truck, and it was past eleven when it rumbled to a halt in the Place de la Re- publique, that wide, windy civic center of Le Mans. Bright glanced about cau- tiously. The ( Continued on page 74

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The ^Broken 3 FIREWORKS Fa ( Continued from page 73 Exhibition assortments of high grade domestic and imported fireworks for Public and Private Displays. Assort- neighborhood slept for the most part. "Another murder, eh?" He settled Firecrackers, Tor- ments for children. There no traffic, no sign of the pedoes, Procession Torches, Illuminat- was more comfortably in his chair. "Where?" ing Fire, Sparklers, Snakes, Pistols, car he had meant to pursue. Only a "In Circe. Near Domfront." Canes, Balloons, Lanterns, and Flags. New and Novel Table Fireworks. dozen other trucks at rest made a dark "Sit down," the captain bade, "and Write for Catalog "A." blot along the wet eastern expanse of begin at the start." 34 Park PI., M.WAGNER, New York Clly the square. Scattering gas lamps on Twenty minutes later O'Sullivan rolled rusty posts cast their faint-hearted illu- and lighted a new cigarette. mination on dowdy cafe fronts. Atop "I'll have the desk sergeant put out his stone monument General Chanzy an alarm on this major," he said. "You posed, calm and heroic in spite of his go to the A. P. M. office—Captain defeat, hand on sword and left foot Dick's in charge there tonight. Tell him pushed forward uncomfortably. Behind I sent you. Give him a lookout on this Wally him the lights of Gruber's restaurant fellow. What's his name?" shone mistily through the rain, unwilling "Rennels." Post Pep Postals are to blink out so long as another doughboy "Tell him if they pick him up, bring with another franc remained at large him here. Ought to be easy since you Government stamped, upon the square. got the car number. What you say it humorously written, Sergeant Bright waited until mechan- was?" ics and drivers had piled off the truck; "Number 25,198." and well illustrated. then he slid from the tailboard, clinging Captain O'Sullivan wrote it down. They bring 'em out carefully to the dispatch case. Opposite "We'll phone Motor Transport Garage the monument the two lower right-hand about your car, have 'em tow it in. As for meetings, parades, windows of the Bourse de Commerce for this fellow you call the Blackbird

building . . . well, that's French entertainments, and cast sharp squares of white a job for the light into the drizzling night. It was police and Scotland Yard, far as I can other Legion func military police headquarters. see. He hasn't got any of our boys yet. The driver came around the end of You have enough trouble keeping Amer- tions. The Adjutant's the truck. "We'll be here quite a while, icans lined up." He leaned over and signature — a flip into buddy," he called. "Gotta wait for or- picked up his crutches. "I'll give you a ders. Know your way about?" lift back to the square. I'm going on the mail box — a rec- Bright pointed to police headquarters. midnight inspection tour." ord attendance — "Going in here," he answered. "You've a safe?" Bright asked. The driver laughed. "Get your pass "Ordinary field safe." smile on everybody's ready," he advised. Bright lifted the dispatch case from Bright started toward the brightly the floor where it had been lying be- face! Is it worth it? lighted windows; when the driver was tween his feet. "I was thinking about Consider the work out of sight he changed his mind and this bag." and trouble these Post boarded a Leon Bollee street car for the "Too big for us," O'Sullivan said. Le Mans headquarters of his own organ- "Ours is just an iron box, packed with Pep Postals save and ization. prisoners' property. Leave it at the A. The D. C. I. occupied an old house P. M. They've got a big safe there, a you'll agree with behind a high stone wall on a steep nar- regular vault." hundreds of satisfied row side-street which at this hour was The captain's car waited at the gate; not only silent but extremely dark. He he lifted himself in beside the driver. Post officials that they had visited it once before officially, while "A. P. M.," he directed, "couple of are "Great!" working through Le Mans on a stolen the street men waiting for me there." sugar case. From the desk sergeant, who It was a scant ten minutes' drive back sat sleepily in the lamp-lighted room at to the Place de la Republique. Two hus- the left of the door, he learned that Cap- kies with large feet moved from the Each is a Government tain Bart O'Sullivan, commander of the sidewalk toward the car as Bright D. C. I. in the area, could be seen up- climbed out. Silently they took his place. stamped card, ready for stairs. " 'Night," O'Sullivan said to him. "See mailing, and requires The sergeant waited while two street you tomorrow." men in plain clothes submitted their The car started. Bright watched it additional postage. no night reports. The captain sat beside speed to the left and turn abruptly into

the desk, his right leg in a plaster cast, a narrow street ; there was assurance in propped upon a chair, and a pair of its manner, it knew where it was going crutches on the floor beside him. and had authority to go there. He had lOO Cards $3.00 Crutches. Bright grinned. The man turned toward the lighted windows of looked as if he belonged in this case. the provost marshal's office when his at- Save $5.00 by ordering 1000 cards Like everybody else mixed up in it, he tention was drawn to another car, sput- at a special lot price of $25.00 was crippled. tering uncertainly, as if a green hand "Well?" the officer asked at length. were on the wheel, or someone not sure The American Legion Monthly, "What can I do for you?" of his direction. P. O. Box 1357, Indianapolis, Indiana "A lot," Bright replied. It was pulling up the grade from the

Enclosed $ Please send. "Who are you?" Rue Gambetta, beside the Cinema Pa- Post Pep Postals and catalog. Bright drew out his identification the in the northwest corner of the Place. Send only catalog card. Captain O'Sullivan glanced at it. Its headlights cut a path through the Name "What's the trouble?" he asked. mist as it reached the level of the square, "Murder," Bright replied, and waited and shone for a moment upon the glazed Street for the change in the other's face. O'Sul- front of the tall Credit Lyonnaise to the City State- livan blew the ash from his homemade left. Then, slowly, it swung about, hesi- cigarette. tated, and with its engine still acting un- Post Name or Post Organ

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ruly, came on in an uncertain circle. Her assurance disconcerted him. He As it wavered in front of him, the had arrested but one other woman. She, 10 Inches Off lights of the military police headquar- too, had been French, only fat, and ad- ters, shining over his head through the dicted to selling bad cognac. This one Waistline In two windows, poured out intensely upon was different. He explained with dignity. the olive drab side. The number, dis- "I am arresting you because you are tinctly painted on the door, was 25,198. driving Major Rennels's car, and he's It was Major Rennels's car. It was wanted. You're going to tell me why "I reduced from 48 inches to 38 circling now toward the Hotel Dauphin, you ran off with him, and where he is inches in 35 days," says R. E. on the right, and for an instant its head- now, and where's Rude. When you've Johnson, of Akron, O., "just by wearing a Director Belt. Stom- lights picked out the name of Felix Potin answered that much I'll think up some ach now firm, doesn't sag and 1 in proud black letters on a food shop more." feel fine." awning, then the Cafe du Grand Balcon. She came back at him quickly. The Director Belt gets at the quickly r Bright sprinted. The dispatch case "M'sieur Rude is resigned his position cause of fat and moves it by its gentle, kneading, banged his hip. The car still rolled slow- in my father's house. Of him I possess massaging action on the abdo- men, which causes the fat to be ly across the square. It dodged behind no further informations. It is fortunate dissolved and absorbed. Thou- sands have proved it and doctors the row of motor trucks, and in front of he is gone. I was not fond of him. The recommend it as the natural way to reduce. Stop drugs, exercises the three ... I . . horse-drawn cabs that waited major have not seen him for . and dieting. Try this easy way. patiently opposite the Cafe de l'Univers. not since this afternoon. I am not fond Sent on Trial Bright had run a hundred yards, cutting of him either." Let us prove our claims. "We'll send a Director for trial. in ahead, while the machine completed "But you happen to be promenading If you don't get results you owe nothing. You don't risk apenny. its cautious circle. around in his car at midnight sixty miles Write for trial offer, doctors' en- dorsements letters He approached it from the left. So from home, and the cafes all closed and and from users. Mail the coupon NOW! far as he could determine the driver was nowhere to go." LANDON & WARNER 332 S. La Salle St., Chicago III. the only occupant. However, there was "M'sieur!" , - Landon & Warner, Dept. K-6,332 S. LaSalle, Chicago ! not enough light to be sure of anything. "Don't call me that. It's what your j Gentlemen : Without cost or obligation on my part | Suddenly, putting on speed, it turned gendarme keeps hollering at me. My please send me details of your trial offer. j into one of the narrow, winding streets name's Pete. What I want to know is, Name.. that lead sharply down hill toward the how a nice gal like you is mixed up in Rue Marchande this business, and I got to pinch and the street of the why Address.. tunnel. With a spring Bright reached for you on the street after midnight in the the rear door, and still running, pulled car of an officer who's wanted?" himself upward, took three more agile "I do not understand your speech, TheMusicalSensation steps, and swung to the running board, m'sieur. More slowly, please. As to the pistol in hand. major, he is objectionable. I came here JACCORDEON "Stop!" he ordered. Breath caught in with a friend, a gentil man, who has PlayedbyMusic Rolls his throat. "Stop this car! You're every right to procure this car. did under We Without any knowledge uf .Music or Notes you play in a arrest." not run away, as you say. He was trav- few minutes, perfect like an artist, latest hits, souks and dances. No study or practice. Nobody can see the ar- The driver dodged once, and pressed eling to Le Mans himself this night. I rangement. Musical Entertainers wanted everywhere, mak- ing easy money. Three models. Every instrument guar- hard on the brake. The reduced speed have told him my difficulties and he anteed. Interesting circular No. 23 and roll list mailed free. Treasure Sales Co., 1690 Boston Road, New York, N. Y. swung Bright forward, but he held the consented to accompany me." side with his elbow, the pistol still in his "What's his name?" right hand. The flashlamp that he had "The lieutenant Grice." Surveying at Home dragged from his pocket as he crossed Bright exclaimed in spite of himself. Thousands needed for subor- the square to think dinate positions on survey par- pushed an inquisitive shot of "Grice?" He took a moment ties by Federal, State anil City light into the driver's face. over this information. At least there was governments. Learn this inter- esting work by home study in It was Josephine St. Denis. no new American involved. In meeting G months. Complete tuition The car fee $25. Pay only $10 on en- bounced over the curb, broke Josephine he had discovered Grice. "Ob- r.jsr rolling. one headlight against the house front, ject matrimony?" he inquired, and with- >il Engineering Institute, World Bldg., Park Row, Y. C. and halted. out waiting for an answer: "Where's he "You!" the girl exclaimed, more an- now?" noyed than frightened. She could be "I do not know. That is my unpleas- BIG MONEV startled and haughty at the same time. ant difficulty." She pronounced it "deef- SHOWING samples and writing orde "You!" Bright echoed, then: "Where's iculty." —World's largest, most complete men's wear line. Shirts, underwear, pajamas, Rennels?" "Don't know where he is?" Bright waterproof trench coats — [umberjacks. Many earn $75.00 A WEEK. We She took her time to answer. When prompted. send all samples and supplies FREE and show you how to make ms profits, full at length words came, she spoke quietly. "He went to the caserne of the Thir- or spare time. Apply at once and we will in- clude men's tie line FREE. "Please descend. I do not know where ty-first Artillery regiment, the Ameri- HOWARD SHIRT CO. 1213-W VanBuren St.. Dept. 121-H, ." he is. What is more, I do not care. Be cans utilize it . . kind and descend. I have not invited "As a madhouse." You can be quickly cured, if you, you to accompany me. I am occupied." The girl continued: "He leaves me in Bright laughed and then regretted it. the car at a distance, with suggestions 'STAMMER "Sister, h that ain't the half. You're ar- that I shall remain till he return. He m Send 10 cents coin or stamps for 288-page cloth bound book on "Stammering', Its Cause rested. And never put on high airs with does not return, one hour . . . two. I go J and Cure." It tells how I cured myself after a cop, he don't like 'em." to the gate at length and am refused stammering and stuttering- 20 years. "I do not follow." permission. I cannot remain the night, BENJAMIN N. BOGUE, "You don't need to. That's one thing therefore I came away. He has taught 1069 Bogue Bldg., Indianapolis I know to do myself. Slide over, I'll me to operate the car." drive. We're going back to headquarters "So I noticed!" Make Big MONEY and you can tell all you know there. She finished, undisturbed. "He will What you doing way down here? For- know where to discover me." ijmmmim. Every Day!

get you invited me to supper? Move "What's he doing at the Classification Sell to every housekeeper, mer- over, chant, building superintendent, fac- please." Camp?" tory, railroad, ear owner. The She Original Self- Feeding' refused at first, with a shake of "He requests your general, whatever WONDER her head. Then, thinking better of it, he has name, to relieve him from his po- WINDOW WASHER she slid obediently to the right side. sition. He wishes to depart from Circe." is bringing big Incomes to hustlers all over the coun- try. Cleans windows in one tenth the time, with less "However," she asserted, "we do not Bright released a long breath. effort. Biggest commissions in the business. Write for

proposition or send SI for sample. DO IT NOW t go to the headquarters. We sit here. "Oh, he does? That don't draw down Wonder Washer Corp* Why did you follow me?" any prize for (Continued 011 page 76) Window Dept. 6A 33 E. 10th Street, N. Y.

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originality. Lots of folks seem to be of American Camp Hospital 52; just the dark: "What man lives in there?" wishing to do the same thing. So it was as they were opposite the gate an ambu- "No man. Madame is a widow. She Grice come to the house after you?" lance rumbled out of the courtyard. Two resides alone." "But no," she denied quickly, "he did soldiers on the rear step slid off, and "A man just stuck his head out." not come after me. He came to say dodging into the shadows as if they "I saw him, too. Indistinctly." farewell, he was departing. I happened might be in hiding, disappeared by the "Who was he?" to meet him in the garden. I, too, was narrow cobblestone walk to the north "I don't know, m'sieur. I would say a prepared to leave. 'Come,' he said, 'I of the roadway. Bright stared after visitor." shall conduct you.' It was what might them. "At this time of night? Just how re- be called an accident." "You invited me to supper," he re- spectable is this widow lady anyhow? girl. "Why were you going? What's ailing minded the Well, you go in . . . knock. I'm right be- your conscience?" "Yes," she admitted. "You did not hind you. But be careful, miss," he added, She hesitated before she replied. A come." unable wholly to mistrust her, "there's pair of French soldiers were rolling nois- He drove thirty seconds in silence. something funny in this business." ily up the street. When they had passed, "Said something about having infor- Quick French voices argued within the ." singing, she shook her head determined- mation. . . house, a man's and a woman's. Jose- ly. Bright, observing the gesture, re- Again the girl answered: "Yes." phine had advanced four steps when she membered Rude's first description of Then: "At another time I shall explain. halted.

her. This was what the secretary had Stop . . . this is the house." "There is a dispute," she whispered. meant by proud. Bright drew up before a narrow, re- She turned half about, uneasily. Bright "That is an affair entirely personal, spectable, two-storied dwelling set back gripped the leather case. Again he wished and I shall not discuss it. The difficul- of a small clean garden filled with rose for Duclose. for any one who could ties within the family, except regarding arbors. The arbors were bare, it being stand with him, back to back. It was my poor father, are not property to tell February, but in spite of that they threw a lonely road, this, and a lonely house. in the ear of the first policeman I see. I the building front into an impenetrable He had been foolish to come. The voices have explained now more than it is nec- bulk of shadow. A light shone in the within raised louder. He distinguished essary. You will please descend?" narrow glass above the door. that of the woman. "No." "Expecting you, are they?" Bright "Out!" she commanded. "Out! I in- "No?" She turned and looked in be- asked. sist!" wilderment at him. "You are not en- "But no. When we arrived first this "We must go in," Josephine declared. tirely the gentleman." evening, I came here accompanied by She added: "What is he doing here?" "I'm entirely the cop, if you get me, the lieutenant. There was no one at She was running boldly toward the low miss. Where you thinking of going from home. The house was locked naturally. stone step when an electric light flashed here?" I said I would sit on the step and wait. on above the door. It was a dim bulb, "To the house where I desire to spend Instead of that, the Lieutenant Grice with the habitual flicker of French pro- this night, the home of a friend." suggests as I have told you that I shall vincial current. But after the intense

"Lady friend?" go with him to the caserne and after- darkness of the road it gave a satisfying "The house of Madame Journac, which ward he will bring me here." illumination. Bright hesitated. He glanced is in the street to the right of the mon- "I see." Bright acknowledged. He about cautiously before he followed. astery. A hospital now conducts itself spoke absent-mindedly. After a second There was no one in the yard. The door in that monastery, the lieutenant ex- he added quietly: "Listen." opened. plains. Madame Journac will make me The engine still was running. Its A woman's plain, middle-class face, welcome at her door." metallic drum set up small echoes in the obviously frightened, appeared. "Leave "Who wouldn't?" The sergeant con- darkness. As Bright reached for the at once!" she ordered someone within sidered the facts briefly. "I'll drive you switch and shut off the motor the house the house. there." he decided. He looked at the door opened and a man's head thrust out. "Madame!" Josephine called. damaged car. "If we can get this heap He looked left and right, as if he had "You? Josephine?" of junk to going." heard the car and were searching for it. "Yes, madame." The girl protested when he backed the The light behind cast the figure into "She is here now." The woman turned car away from the wall; then thought brief relief; for a second Bright expe- toward the interior of the house, pulling

better of it. Turning slowly, they be- rienced a vague sense of recognition, but the door wider. Beyond her Bright per- gan the steep descent toward the Place the head retreated before he could make ceived the man. It was Marcel Rude. des Jacobins. As they slipped into the sure. Caution departed from him. He need- dark, deserted square the great bulk of "Who lives there?" he demanded ed Rude; not so much as he did Ren- St. Julien's Cathedral loomed above sharply of Josephine. The dispatch case nels, but enough to make pleasant to them, on the hilltop opposite, with its stood on the floor between his feet, and him the sight of the one-armed French- wide flying buttresses etched black with an involuntary motion he clamped man's thin, stupid face. against the spacious dark gray sky. his heels upon it. "This creature slanders you." Madame "Where's Rude from?" Bright asked "Madame Journac, as I told you." Journac said to Josephine. For the first abruptly. "Alone?" time she discovered the American uni- "From the south. He is not a Nor- "To be sure, alone." form behind the girl. "You are accom- man. It is after the Marne that we Without speaking he opened the car panied?" Rude, who had been standing make his acquaintance. This friend door, slid down lightly to the dark at ease, feet spread defiantly, made out where I go tonight, her son was lost street. He swung the strap of the case the second figure in the dooryard. Bright there. Rude was of his company. When to his shoulder, however, and let his charged past the girl. he comes here, mutilated, she seeks the right hand drop to his holster. Suspi- Rude lifted his arm, as if trying to position for him. and my father, being a cion spread into his mind. Who was the conceal his face. He held that position good patriot, makes room in his estab- man? Had this girl led him into a trap? for a heartbeat, appearing uncertain lishment. But I shall inform her of his Was she a part of this plot that had cost what to do. Then, leaping forward, just

true nature now . . . turn to the right two lives already? Was she the bait set to as Josephine set her foot upon the step, 5 here, . . . and again left so . . . straight catch the dispatch case, and him with it he pushed Madame Journac to one side in front." "Get out," he commanded shortly, and and slammed the door in Josephine's The road swung past the high walls when she obeyed, standing beside him in face. Bright (Continued 011 page 78)

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heard his feet rapping in retreat. The "Well, not technically." sergeant jerked up on the latch and dove He left the two standing uncertainly into the room. in the narrow corridor, and opening the Rude had reached the rear of a nar- door, passed out into the rose garden in row corridor and was yanking at a door. front. Madame Journac, like a thrifty He was coughing excitedly. Bright's arm citizen, already had extinguished the stretched within three lengths of him light over the door. Bright hesitated in when that door, too, slapped shut in the the shadow of the building, listening. sergeant's face. Outside, in the rear gar- He still was not sure what this latest den, Bright slowed down, remembering turn might mean. He was tempted, the dispatch case. He heard Rude smash- more than tempted, to believe the girl. ing through the trellises, and a moment But what was the information she had later a clatter as a flower pot bounced which she would give him later? Why from the wall. Beyond the garden lay had she led him to the house where Rude open fields. Darkness covered the escape. was waiting? Had she known he was Sergeant Bright, wishing the courier's there? How much truth was there in her A Necessity packet in the devil's hands instead of his explanation regarding Major Rennels's own, returned cautiously to the house. car? At least Rude had escaped again. Josephine had entered its parlor; she He was sorry he had not kept him to those who would was removing her hat from her close-cut locked in the wine cellar. black hair. Her cheeks were flushed. a hell of cop," confessed to preserve each copy of The "I'm a he Madame Journac talked excitedly in himself. American Legion Monthly French. He stood well under the shadow of "I told him it was a lie. He said that the house, trying to decide what to do A NEW binder suitable for pre- you were too frequently seen with Amer- next. He might go to the Classification icans, that your aunt, who is my good Camp in search of Adjutant Grice, or serving one volume—there are two friend, threatened to turn the key on return to Captain O'Sullivan's office and volumes yearly—of six numbers ." you . . report his discovery of Major Rennels's of your magazine The American "So she did," Josephine admitted car. He was turning the choice over in Legion Monthly. "You must know my aunt is becoming his mind when he heard slow footsteps childish. She wastes no love on the Amer- approaching along the street in the di- THIS binder is strong, artistic in icans. I even so politely to rection driven ten min- design, beautifully embossed in gold, Should speak he himself had sulks, or is before. the and made of blue artificial leather. an American she what worse utes Looking through bare she screams. Have I not trouble enough rose trellises, he saw only the dim lights THE Locking Device is convenient with my father gone? And this Rude . . . of the old monastery that housed Camp and simple the actual binding can be ." — I can not suffer his attention . . Hospital 52. But the footsteps sounded It requires no made in a few minutes. Bright whistled. "So that's it?" again, clear this time on the frosty road. hole punching does not mutilate your — "I do not understand, m'sieur." Was it Rude coming back? Hardly. He copies is easy to operate can be — — "I do. A lot." He turned on Madame thought he heard voices speaking quiet- quickly detached. Journac, and forgetting, demanded in ly. But a puff of wind rattled dry leaves IN gold on the front of this binder English: "What was Rude doing here on the paving and he could not be sure. is embossed The American Legion tonight?" He first made out the figure, a tall Emblem and The American Legion Josephine repeated the question in blur of shadow, when it halted in the Monthly logotype. On the end, em- French, then explained the woman's roadway between him and- the car. bossed in gold, is the title, The Amer- answer. There was a snap of a match and a ligjrt ican Legion Monthly, and the volume "He came by train this evening, on flared. It was an American soldier.

number—I, II, III, IV, V or VI. The the steam tramway, and complained to Bright had a hasty sight of the dark sil- present volume is No. VI. If you de- Madame that I was misbehaving. He houette. The man was lighting a cig- sire to bind a complete set—all your had left here a bundle of belongings." arette, but his thin back was toward the past copies of the Monthly—binders She turned to the older woman. "Cloth- house, and recognition, even had Bright can be purchased for volumes I, II, ing, was it not?" known him, would have been impossible. III. IV, V, VI. "Clothing, a large bundle," Madame "I'll be damned," the soldier muttered. agreed. Talking to himself, he seemed. Bright THE price of this new binder is $1.00 Journac he each, postpaid, in the United States. "He came to secure it, and explained missed the next dozen words. Then In foreign countries, add to remittance that my actions had driven him from his caught one more. The name Rennels. estimated postage. position. He is ungrateful." She spoke A second match, held low in the stran- emphatically. ger's hand, purposely illuminated the "He ain't so good at explaining." white number painted on the side of the Bright affirmed. Josephine's manner was car. Bright advanced slowly. At the reacting favorably on him. He looked at edge of the road he stepped out less The American Legion Monthly, her with somewhat the same approval he cautiously. Was he getting nerves? P. O. Box 1357, Indianapolis. Indiana had felt the first day. At least she knew Why connect every footloose American how to talk independently. He observed with the murders of Bathhurst and Gentlemen: Enclosed is $ (In- the great red stone she wore on her right Whitfield? And incidentally with this sert proper amount computed at $1.00 for little finger. Belief in each binder.) Please send, postpaid, the began to grow him sack on his arm? new binder for Volume I. II. III. IV. V. VI. that she meant what she said about "Hey, soldier," he called. He had of The American Legion Monthly. (Check Rude. "I'm going now to look for your approached within half a dozen paces or circle binder or binders desired.) friend the lieutenant," he told her. of the man, who whirled now, back "Maybe he can explain a bit, too. You against the car. "That's my machine," Name stay right here, miss. I'll see you before Bright said. "Want a ride? What you morning." doing out so late? Got a pass?" Address "I am in arrest?" the girl questioned. Three steps, three questions. He She stood very straight. pushed forward the electric flashlight. City State 78 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly )

and within six inches of the stranger's had no strength, he did not resist. The eyes pressed its button. The man who flashlight rolled on the ground. Bright's stared directly into the glare of the left foot teetered on it, and he slowed IpFTIS powerful bull's-eye was a young, slight, to recover his balance. Dept. A- 36. 108 N. State Street, Chicago, III. white-faced individual in the uniform The sound behind him was so slight of private. He was un- was not sure an American he he heard it before a DIAMONDS WATCHES shaven, with broad nostrils, rather loose clawing weight descended on him. The lips, dark hair and cheeks unusually new voice was heavier than the first. CASHorCREDIT thin. The fingers that tightened on his throat Genuine Diamonds One of his eyes, staring into the were stronger. He felt a hard knee in Guaranteed blinding light, was pale gray; the other the small of his back, then as his own We import Diamonds direct from Europe and sell direct to you by a reddish brown. prisoner wriggled the weight was deep away and mail. Lowest priceB ! Buy now. Bright shouted huskily. The Amer- behind increased, a blow on the side of ican leaped backward as the light his head caused him to spin. Another SEND FOR swayed, and dodged toward the rear of gouge in the back flung him forward. CATALOG! Write for big free book of 2000 the car. Bright flung forward, drop- His cheek struck the side of the car and illustrations and descriptions of Diamond ping the flash lamp. dispatch case he went down. Four hands pawed at Rings. Dinner Rings. The Pins. Brooches. Watches, Pearls,

Dresser Set , 1 hampered him as it swung against his him. Face in the frozen road, he fought s Si ver ware. Clocks, Kodaks, Leather Goods. side. But his hands found the cloth breathlessly, knowing before the next Satis/action ouaran- then his neck. smart rap the that he was de- teed or money back' on the fellow's shoulders, on head Credit terms: Pay ease one-tenth down: bal- "I got you!" Bright cried. The feated. ance weekly, semi- monthly, or monthly of the fight surprised him. The other ( To be continued) at your convenience. Wrist Watch Special No. 869. DELIV- Solid 14-k white gold case, CO/1 oc ALL GOODS 16-jewel movement .... ERED ON FIRST $2.48 Down and $2.48 a Month PAYMENT. NO. 897- Eleln •' Le- Standard Railroad elonnalre ' '. New Elgin Watches on Credit at Cash Prices <^A Personal Uiew with whiteor green gold- All Guaranteed to Pass Inspection filled case Hamilton No. 992, $55. and raised Elgin's Latest Raymond, ( Continued from page 31 figured dial, $2 S.OO- $55. Illinois "Bunn Spe- $2 60 Down cial" $50 and $2.50 a Terma to Su it Your Convenience I would have every American who had Every time I see a man drop a news- Month. never seen the sea have a dip in its paper to be blown along the roads or waves this summer; everyone who lives streets or to litter a public park I'll on plains, in little think of this item. valle s °r b the At fi rst k as ard i y y Dollars Out ™ * if Had , t , . 1 sea, see the Rocky to believe. Members jt/r Wish„7 r\i Waste117 ^ My Mountains. South- Of Qf Post 2o6 of Los erners should sport Angeles raised four TRIAL OFFER the of lakes; thousand dollars out of the collection Obtain a perfect - 68,000 doctors, on shores northern and looking nose quickly. users praise Anita Northerners return the call next winter and sale of" waste paper toward their At home, while you Nose Adjuster. Gold sleep. GUARAN- MedalYVinner. Write and have a glimpse of the Gulf of new home. Beat that if you can. TEED ! today. Bldg., Newark, N.J. Mexico. There is education in that which Anita Institute, F48, Anita institutions of learning do not afford. Paderewski, pianist, statesman, great soul, is the living proof to confound Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Walter cynics that gratitude does not exist in

Johnson are out of it. Only Ruth of the the world. He gave glamorous stars remains as a player in a11 h s Pront s ™ a SELLING — Biggest Company • Largest Une He Never [ EXPERIENCE UNNECESSARY major league base- recent concert tour Forgets COIIDTC Million Dollar Stock Back of Because we like in France to French NECKWEAR & UNDERWEAR Your Samples. WRITE The Magic of fall. p ,.. his personality Ruth war charities in oiimiij y jams the bleachers thanks for what France had done for behind him in center his nation, which he did more to free field. Dempsey had personality in pugil- than any other man. GET ON ism; Tilden had it in tennis. We go to „ see the man for the appeal of his char- acteristics as well as to see him win. You may grin at this. No one dares to in Italy except up their sleeve in the PAYROLL dark. Picture multitudes of solemn- Tailors and haberdashers came to at- faced little boys, Ex-Service Men tention when President Hoover went to Laugh and Fascist recruits, Get Special church in a tailed coat and a soft hat. Then Weep swearing fealty to Preference Other Presidents had their Fascist deca- worn high silk hats to logue. Its cardinal $1260 to What Is Under rp, tw .p church. Ihe thing is feature is: "Mussolini is always right." It 1 tie nat. $3400 Year what the President is a sure way to bring on a war for Italy. of the United States Become Railway has under either stiff or soft headgear. More searchlights swing their rays Postal Clerks over our city roof tops; more beacons Steady Work '""~~7~7"~ . i / Franklin Institute A banker asked: "What is to become light the path across country for planes. n r aid / Dept. S194 Rochester, N.Y. all In a year have of the Legion clubhouses when the we Vacations Rush tome, entirely free of charge 32 page book with ( 1 ) Afull descrip- Legion is as old as the A. An- 1 trebled air mail G. R.?" ti.„ Common ' tion of the position checked below: I he Light , , , , , ' VI) A list of U. S. Government swer, "Boy, we'll not f . D . , poundage, doubled That Binds s^rtaVi'Jnf'i^' lobs' obtainable; (3) Semi full ln- worr about ^ aerial mileagCi l formation describing preference to ex- Leave It y Mall service men. , ^ 4j un th™ quadrupled our pas- 97 °' Posla ICIerk.. (S1S0O lo S270IH Until C? - R«ilwi» 1970 ...Posloltice Clerk .... ($1700 lo $23001 we^11 leave| it to the senger traffic; immense sums are being 3 - S" to SZI00I ' ....City MailCarrier. (SI700 younger generation invested in aviation. We have 1,500 air- / ... Rural Mail Carrier (S2I00 lo S3300) / .. .General Clerk (SI260 lo $21001 who will be equal to it if real estate ports. More are projected. But that is / Prohibition Agent _ ($2300 to $34001 values keep on rising." not enough. Aviation is yet young. . Name

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DICHARD WELLING of Barbara RUDOLF G. RUSTE of Clinton Club .... Not all Kentucky military- -C*- Frietchie Post of New York City • McClausland Post of Ripon, Cali- gentlemen are colonels. Ulric Bell, a bona- writes: "Much impressed by the admir- fornia, "started to read Gibbon some- fide native Louisvilleian, attended the able account of the Lincoln plot by time before mention was made of him in Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benja- Marquis James. It seems timely to re- the Monthly, but my enthusiasm had, so min Harrison, Indiana, and emerged from call an excuse for the conduct of General to speak, insensibly declined till this the war as a captain in the 83d Infantry

Lee and many others often stigmatized sort of contest re-enthused me. I have of the 1 7th Division. He has been on the as 'traitors'. At the United States Mili- also used the book for its soporific quali- staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal tary Academy the text-book used when ties, like Comrade Myers [See Message since 191 o and has been its Washington

Lee was a cadet there was Rawle on the Center, February, 1920. Ed.], but one correspondent since 192 1 . . . . Another Constitution of the United States—-a night 1 chanced on Gibbon's too, too newspaperman who operates at a dis- classic. Speaking of the right of a State graphic description of the Mohamme- tance from his base is Leland Stowe, who to secede, on page 296, he says: 'The dan paradise, and that was not soporific is Paris correspondent of the New York right must be considered as an ingredient at all." Joseph Henry Booth of Philadel- Herald Tribune .... Meredith Nichol- in the original composition of the general phia "finished this noble literary accom- son is a frequent contributor to the government, which though not expressed plishment about two months ago and Monthly. was mutually understood . . . The States have started on my second round." He then may wholly withdraw from the adds: "I'll admit at times it was hard Union.' How many of us realize that work but I was spurred on by the cheers MR. PYLES'S cover depicting the this is what Uncle Sam taught Lee?" of the comrades who had come through." Battle of Bunker Hill, the first for- R. H. Crandall of Newark, Ohio, vice- mal engagement of the Revolution, recalls president of the Burke Golf Company the fact that if you live in Boston you (who said golfists were a pack of low get an extra holiday on June 17U1 as a campaign to raise the member- THE brows?), wants to know "if prospective result of the good work done there one ship of the Society of Legionnaires applicants have to pass an examination hundred and fifty-four years ago. Who Have Read Gibbon's "Decline and on the subject matter of the book before Fall of the Roman Empire" Entire to becoming eligible for admission". The one hundred or bust is meeting with high answer is no. Dr. Howard Burns of result of The American Legion success. We should say to one hundred THE Carrollton (Illinois) Post, late captain, Monthly-Houghton Mifflin Company and bust, because the Society will auto- M.C., 337th Field Artillery, writes: $25,000 prize war novel contest, which matically disband, so far as this depart- "About forty years ago, while an enlisted closed May 1st, will be announced as soon ment is concerned, when three figures are man in the old Fifth Cavalry stationed at as possible, but certainly not for some reached. The goal is now only thirteen the Presidio of San Francisco, I read weeks. As this is being written, shortly members away. Seven new entries have Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall'. Since 1926 before the close of the contest, the final just raised the total roster to eighty- I have read it again owing to the en- rush of manuscripts is deluging both seven, and the vice-president in charge thusiasm of the Monthly." K. R. offices with many bundles of typewritten of membership is already making over- Conner of Ralph Courtright Post of paper, one of which is worth several times tures for a transfer to the Guild of For- Coshocton, Ohio, qualified in 191 1 while its weight in gold. Wait a minute—that mer Pipe-Organ Pumpers or the Society a junior in high school. "It would be in- calls for a little arthmetic before someone for the Prevention of Calling Pullman teresting," he adds, "to know what catches us up on it. The manuscripts Porters George. State has the largest number of readers." seem to weigh in at a little less than three Well, his own has the edge this month, pounds apiece, commas and semicolons thanks to Mr. Crandall and himself. included—say three pounds even for the TOUIS MAYER, a patient in the United (In his final report, the vice-president in sake of argument. Gold, the United -—* States Veterans Hospital at May- charge of membership promises a detailed States Assay Office courteously informs wood, Illinois, is, according to the same survey of membership by States.) H. R. us without asking why we want to know, vice-president in charge of membership, Woods of Metro Post of New York City is quoted at this writing at $20.57 a fine the first hospitalized Legionnaire to join writes: "I suggest that those of your ounce, which is, we take it, the only kind the ranks of the Gibbonnaires. "Since members who deplore the dryness of of ounce that the best people have any- I have been here," he writes, "I have Gibbon try the German historian-phil- thing to do with. Three pounds make read some of the world's greatest liter- osopher Oswald Spengler. I'll wager (or rather are) forty-eight ounces—wait a ature—books that I have long wanted that if they ever scrimmage through the minute, isn't gold weighed by troy to read but which I have never had an op- two volumes of his 'Decline of the West' weight? One troy pound appears to portunity to read before, such as Gibbon, they will think the dry-as-dust pages of equal 5760/7000 avoirdupois pounds; in Frazer's 'The Golden Bough', Durant's Gibbon like the latest Crime Club other words, roughly .82, so that three 'Story of Philosophy' and several others, effusion." avoirdupois pounds ought to equal about all good books. I am sorry, however, three and two-thirds troy pounds—that that as an American institution our is, forty-four troy ounces. (This is get- library is somewhat weak ting much more involved than we on American RG. KIRK is a native of Harrisburg, history." Thus Mr. Mayer in Chevrons, • Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the thought it was going to be.) Forty-four the hospital paper. So far as we know, Lackawanna Steel Company of Buffalo, times $20.57 equals- $905.08. Yes, the there is no law to prevent anyone from whence derives the quite genuine he-man winning manuscript will be worth several sending books to government hospitals. background of most of his stories. At times its weight in gold. How do the hospital libraries stack up present he lives in Santa Monica, Cali- generally? We shall welcome any data, fornia, and unless some dark horse has official or unofficial, and be glad to pass it recently deposed him he is handball champion of the Santa Monica Athletic

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