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THE big and immediate job of every Legion post as December opens is member- ship. Not until the work of signing up all men now on the rolls and getting all possible new members is completed can a post find the energy, the driving power, it needs to go through to 1936 objectives. The lucky posts are those which already have named membership chairmen of known and demonstrated ability, men who will be sure to get going early and keep going until 1935 enrollment is passed, and then the quota for 1936 reached and exceeded. If your post hasn't named its chair- man, perhaps there is someone, still not recognized, who once he is named will turn out to be a Napoleon. Remember General Grant! Nobody knew he had it in him until he got the chance.

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2 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ! Homecoming

f\NE Who Was There in i<)ig ^ When the Legion Was Organ-

ised Reports His Impressions of the Sixteen-Years-Later Convention

B ifJohn Black.

VAN WINKLES. That was us. Dazed, bewildered RIPRip Van Winkles. Prodigals come home after sixteen years. Yes sir, that was us, all right. No doubt about it. We were the iqiq St. Louis Caucus delegates who returned in Septem- ber for the Seventeenth Annual National Convention of The American Legion. We had our work cut out— trying to reconcile our memories of the handful of pioneers who founded the Legion in St. Louis in iqio with the army that invaded the city this year. "Well," exclaimed Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, President of The Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary, as we chatted over some historic aspects of the Cau- cus, "you men who came to St. Louis in iqiq should be very proud— you certainly started something!" The convention featured a Plym- Started something! The almost in- outh Rock type cradle as a reminder credible growth of the Legion since that of the Legion's swaddling clothes days. historic meeting absolutely dazzled us. At left, John Black, delegate from New To us whose memories span the two York, with his 1919 and 193 5 conventions the difference between iqiq and 1935 was bewildering, overwhelm- ing. attached to a regular train. When we reached the Indeed, our impression of the 1935 city we went direct to the Hotel Statler, which was meeting was mostly a study in con- Legion headquarters. We registered there, and were trasts. Everywhere we went in St. Louis given accommodations in one of several hotels. No two pictures confronted us. St. Louis scramble for rooms. No, indeed. I even remember in 1935. An army with banners. Gay the clerk asking me what sort of room I wanted! street roisterers. Colorful parades. Think that over, you hardened convention-goers of And in the background the solemn pro- today ceedings of the convention itself over at The contrast is especially manifest when we con- the Civic Auditorium. ... St. Louis in sider the city-wide scale of the 1935 celebration 1919. A thousand men just back from war gathered at the against the very limited scope of the 1919 event. In our first Shubert-Jefferson Theater to form a veterans' organization. No visit to St. Louis, the zone of activity for delegates was largely parades. No freedom-of-the-city ceremonies. We arrived quietly. confined to the center of the city. The Shubert-Jefferson, where We did our job. We left. our convention was held, was just five blocks from the Statler; This strong sense of contrasts stayed with us throughout the indeed, all the hotels that housed the delegates were nearby. 1935 convention. Our minds were in perpetual conflict. Today's This had certain advantages which will be appreciated by those

realities versus yesterday's memories. . . . Was Frank Belgrano of the 1935 delegations that had to commute clear across the banging his gavel to bring the 1935 convention to order? We city to reach the convention hall. had no ear for that; we still could hear Chairman Lindsley de- So it went. Each incident of the September meeting had its bating a parliamentary point with Philo Calhoun at the 1919 counterpart in the memoried events of sixteen years ago. One Caucus. evening I decided to revisit those parts of St. Louis which were To the founders of the Legion these contrasts were the most most closely associated in my mind with the Caucus. Off I went notable phase of the September convention. They forced them- down Locust Street toward the Statler. Instead of a few local selves upon us even before we reached St. Louis at all. As witness passersby to glance curiously at our new Legion badges, there the circumstances of the train trip. In 1919 there was no army were vast throngs gay in Legion uniforms. Within the Statler of Legion specials converging upon St. Louis like an invasion. itself pandemonium reigned. Bands paraded in the lobby. On No automobile cavalcades. No elaborate greetings awaiting the the mezzanine groups of Legionnaires sang lustily. I looked about traveling Legionnaires in each city their trains passed through. me with amazement. Could this really be the spot where in No, nothing like that. Our own New York delegation came 1919 we held those quiet committee meetings which shaped the to the Caucus convention quite inconspicuously in a single car Legion's destiny? {Continued on page 56)

DECEMBER, 1935 3 cake at three p. m. to tell the Side Kick that the time has come to take that walk down to the school bus stop. f lHE Tartar All But Mas- ~J^ But now six days a week Si ploughs round to the front lawn when he hears Nils whistle at the corner. Once placed where he sacred Simon the Bulldog can see the street, Si sits. If Nils rolls past the place Si keeps

on sitting. He shquld hot-foot it out the driveway, showering the in Their First Set-to, But gravel, chasing errant pie carts. But if Nils swings the slightest bit toward the entrance gate—that's something else again. Second One Was Another Story— Hot-foot it is; and let the gravel stones fall where they may! Inside the gate they meet. Nils slows down. Si climbs aboard. This Story The baker wagon is low floored. Nils operates it standing. It is especially designed to take on passengers like Si, who is not built for jumping up. Si's grandma, many times great-great, name of the chap who wanted to taste The Pieman's had had the job of taking huge bulls by the nose, and sticking THEware has always been well known. But The Pieman's with them till she brought them down. And the lower she was name has up to now been secret. The Pieman's name is built to ground, and the closer she kept to it, the less chance had Nils. the bull of getting underneath her with a horn. The Pieman Nils has kept in step with progress. He lugs his Upon a certain high class California Wednesday morning, wares no longer on a tray suspended from his shoulders and while Simon Sourmug was still a puppy of about eight months, propped out from his pantry, like the picture in the book. The Pieman Nils turned into Simon's drive, to be met as usual Nowadays he carries his pies and tarts and hot cross buns, and all by the chairman of the welcoming committee. the other belt-line bulgers, in the shiniest, painted-upest, six- "Morning, Si," greeted The Pieman. "How's crops?" cylinder biscuit buggy you ever laid a predatory eye upon. Crops were bumper. The hamburger tree, in special, had been As to the Simon of this present day history, he has no such long and eager nose as Mother Goose's artists may have led you to believe. This Simon has the shortest nose that ever sniffed a crumpet. Let it be stated right here and right now, however, that the lop-eared bloodhound never breathed who was a better crumpet sniffer. Three days a week these worthies meet, this short nosed Simon and The Pieman Nils—although not going to the fair. They meet as follows. Down at the corner Nils The Pieman tootles on his doughnut whistle; upon which Simon snorts, "Aha! Is this a break!"— and forthwith quits whatever may be occupying him. This occupation very often will be sleep—with sound; at which form of athletics English bulldogs lead the world—and Simon leads all English bulldogs. The house where Simon lives looks toward the broad Pacific.

The lawn in back of it is sunny in the morning. Search any-

where from Maine to California, where Si is native son, you won't find better snoring. But when Nils tootles at the corner, there's an alarm clock for you! Up scrambles Si and barges hell-for- leather round to the front of the house to try his fortune on tooth- some starches. It won't be long before Si learns that the baker wagon turns into his drive on only three days of the week. Three days, no bearing nobly, the ripened fruit of it not showing too much cut- more. A most deplorable arrangement from Si's standpoint. up carrot. And the knuckle-bone vine! Neighbor, it looked like

But there is reason back of it. There is Si's Side Kick. Si's a vintage year in knuckle-bones.

Side Kick is the one who, if and when the bank becomes unruly, All this horticultural enthusiasm Si conveyed by means of pays a couple jots or several tittles of the mortgage interest on wiggle-waggle. It was this method of expression which gave Si

the house where Si and his folks live. Si's Side Kick is one among his name. You will recall the old kid game. Simon says thumbs those cursed, or blest it may be, with a chemical laboratory up. Simon says thumbs down. Simon says wiggle-waggle. which will undertake a beef steak or a discarded inner tube with Simon the Sourmug may have been a little short of thumbs; but

equal confidence ; one which will also add four pounds, six ounces what it took to say wiggle-waggle, Simon had. to the owner's heft at the whiff of a cruller or a sidelong glance Nils rolled his giant cookie-box down the drive and through at a wedge of cocoanut custard pie. If Nils The Pieman turned the porte cochere to the back of Simon's house, breaking the into Si's drive six days a week, Si's Side Kick would wax prodigi- company's rules en route. "NO RIDERS," said the baking ously, so that within a month every doorway of the house where company in large and unmistakable bright red letters. Never- Si abides would have to be enlarged. theless, in pomp and circumstance, Si rode. Back in the service Soon Si would learn his baker wagon days, his Mondays, yard he superintended the opening of this beautifully smelling Wednesdays, Saturdays. Then on the other four days of the drawer and that, each loaded with temptations cunningly con- week Si will snore right through The Pieman's whistle; just as on trived to wreck the best laid diet plans. Then, finally, Nils Saturdays and Sundays Si no longer wurfs outside the study door turned his cookie-box about, departing with considerable coinage

4 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Illustrations EATER Forrest G. Crooks of the realm, and Si—Si seated on the wagon floor, contented as a "Bounty!" insisted Simon Sourmug. "Alms, in the name turtle on a stump. Si would presently get his. The cortege of .Allah. Cake, or I stay right where I dog-gone am!" reached the street. Inside the gate it stopped. Nils knew when he had met a better man. He tripped the latch "All ashore that's goin' ashore," sang Nils. that locked the cup cake drawer. He sneered at Simon genially. But Simon sat. He sat complacently, laid back his ears and "Chiseler!" he said. "Now you hop t'hell out of here!" smiled. Now the facts are really these. Up to a quarter dollar Si has "Baksheesh!" demanded Simon. "Largess! Gimme!" A-i credit rating. It is arranged that Nils keep tally. Then There followed then the regulation comedy of trying to get when Si has eaten up two bits the Side Kick pays the score, the

Simon off the cookie car by force instead of by persuasion. Nils board is wiped clean, and Si's credit is as good as new. Si is no took him by the neck and pulled. From his tail, where he was chiseler. Si is, so far as history reveals, the only bulldog up to r sitting on it, northward, Si's hide slid up, soft haired and loose date to have a cha ge account with the baker wagon. and healthy, toward the place where Nils was hauling slack. But a lot Si cares about being called a chiseler. Sticks and But the dog inside the skin just sat there. stones might break Si's bones; but you could call him a Chihuahua Then Nils tried shoving. But he might more easily have if you gave him cake. pushed a sixty-five-pound block of concrete off his wagon floor. 50 Si, persuaded properly, hopped t'hell out of there, his jut- A block of concrete would at least have offered firm resistance. ting under jaw, so poor a weapon in a dog fight, so good a one in Now the dog moved, inside the skin. But the skin stayed put, generations long departed for clamping to a savage great bull's as though glued, belly down, to the baker wagon floor. nose, clamped now upon a cup cake. He sat there on the lawn beside the drive, looking after the baker wagon, his soft eyes managing, somehow, to suffuse his black, forbidding mug with melting friendliness. "Go on back to the house now," Nils commanded. "You take that cookie, 51 merely sat and beamed. mug. That's all you're "Git!" Nils insisted. "The street is no gonna get!" place for a bull pup. Some rattlehead is like to whizz along here any time and cut \ you down. Back with you! Listen!" Simon got up. He slowly walked to- ward the house, his head turned, watching Nils. Nils crossed the curb and trundled up the street. He waved a hand. "So long. I'll see you Saturday—Cake

Eater!" said The Pieman. Said Simon to The Pieman, Wiggle-waggle.

Only bulldogs can do it. It is a business which you cannot execute with tail alone. With tail alone this wiggle-waggling is aboon your might. Tails

you can wag with. Tails you can even waggle with, if you are gifted. Simon, however, did not have much tail; and what there was of it had been screwed up too tight against his rudder end to be much good for wagging. But when it comes to rear end

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eloquence bulldogs have wagging beat. Si demonstrated. He bings, for the idea of defeat seems an idea which has no place in twisted his rump around toward his massive head as far as his his comprehension. So he sails eagerly into action against a dog short couplings would allow, and looking after Nils The Pieman, that has unmercifully cut him up a dozen times before. Lucky gave his whole stern rig a rapid series of heart warming jerks. that Simon had but one more battle with The Tartar; for the Thus you wiggle-waggle. Then, if you have it, you bolt down a first one nearly did for Si. cup cake. The Side Kick went all over Si from front to stern, and over It is a shame, as any dog could tell you, not to be able to spend him again, and yet again. Si was a slashed and bloody mess. more time enjoying what you eat. But tasting what you eat is Si was a dead pup, pretty nearly. But he said wiggle-waggle risky business. You cannot always taste your cake and have it. just the same. It had been a good scrap, hadn't it?—until some You've got to swallow it to be sure you have it. You've got to busybody came along and stopped it? The Side Kick, with his get it down before some bigger comes along. Well, puppy bottle and his probes, found every rip and puncture—so he Simon had his cake, at least, that morning, before The Tartar thought. But one of The Tartar's fangs had gotten down inside came along. It was that morning that The Tartar nearly mur- Si's ear; and that small hole was missed. And it, as you could dered Si. have safely wagered, flared. There came head shakings, what of torture in that ear. There came a grave infection, the closing cf THE Tartar was Canine Enemy No. i of Landsend Mesa. the ear canal, increasing pain, great swelling, mastoid danger, The Tartar was a crafty, merciless destroyer, quick of wit and lancings. Weeks with a veterinarian for puppy Si. fang. How many dead dogs he had to his ugly record never can Each time a bulldog owner sees his friend go through such be known. But Simon Sourmug came very close to being listed suffering, each time he foots the bill for bulldog overhauling and with The Tartar's slain. repairs, he vows his next dogs will be of some true-jawed breed

The Tartar was a dog equipped for battle. He had the deft- dogs who can punish, dogs who can dish it out as well as take it. ness, size, speed, strength. He had the weapons. His jaws were But resolutions such as these are, to be sure, mere tommyrot. armed with death. He had courage, too. Not bulldog courage. Once you have owned a bulldog . . . Not dead gameness. But sufficient courage for his needs. To be dead game was no ambition of The Tartar's. Not if you had to SI CAME back from the hospital full of wim, wigor and wiggle- die game to prove you were dead game. waggles; and with the usual comments from the doctor as to Si was still a puppy when The Tartar pitilessly mauled him what grenadier patients bulldogs always are; enduring silently, a happy-go-lucky, rollicking, awkward, soft, good-natured eight- bearing confinement fretlessly, expressing gratitude to the hand months-old; bearing no malice, no ill will to man or dog. Jaw- that has to hurt to help, awaiting with serene and quiet confidence filling folds of the dewlap of his breed, heavy and loose, kept The the day when the folks will be arranging for the joyous ride back Tartar's fangs from his life stream. This alone saved from early home. and untimely end that bit of rowdy geniality and clownishness, One fear possessed the Side Kick. This horrible beating, taken that lovely combination of grand courage, terrifying aspect and a so early in his life, before his character had had a chance to form gentle heart which is an English bulldog. When help arrived to and set; the aftermath of cruel pain; the hot stabs of the lance; break up that unequal, cruel battle, Si was about done in. the hours upon the table, probing, cleaning, dressing—had his Bulldogs were never bred for fighting other dogs. They were courage broken under these? bred for fighting bulls—a job requiring the most specialized Whose courage? equipment of any canine breed; but an equipment very inefficient First time Si spied The Tartar after the hospital days he in a dog fight. In spirit Sourmug is equipped to fight a dinosaur; marched right up to him and made inquiry if the fight went on but a lot of good that does him up against a game, true-jawed from there, or if hostilities were at an end. It warmed the Side canine foe. In fact his very courage brings him endless drub- Kick's heart to see that eight-months-old, soft puppy, after that ghastly mangling, and fresh from weeks of subse- quent pain, fronting without a sign of fear the enemy who had so nearly finished him. Had Si but been mature, eighteen months, say, instead of eight, the ancient bulldog idea fully grown inside his great block of a skull, there would have been no questioning. He would have charged right in and gotten himself an- other sweet shellacking—as he would have kept on doing each time he met The Tartar until The Tartar put an end to him. But since he was a pup, and not yet altogether sure what being a British bulldog called for, he stood there questioning and unafraid, a squat statue, The Tartar towering over him, the bullpup ready to wiggle- waggle or to hop merrily to battle. The Side Kick stood by quietly, observing, offering no advice or admonition, a warm spot in him, as warm spots will glow in those whose privilege

it is to look at bravery. The Simon the Sourmug, ram- Tartar, ready of fang, but, as ming recklessly through always, ready of wit, stood the cactus, fell happily ground a moment, a wise eye upon him turned toward the Side Kick's hiking stick. He was eager enough to complete the slaugh-

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Nils had to take a chance on getting The Tartar with a swift kick—he couldn't afford to lay down the basket

ter of this innocent; but now was not the time. With sly villainy But the bullpup, far from dodging any such foregone issue, would on his handsome face he nonchalantly walked away from the be ready to fly into action any time The Tartar offered combat. inquiring bullpup, found something interesting in a nearby The glow inside the Side Kick's chest died down, leaving a little vacant field, and galloped off. cold spot in its place. Next dog the Side Kick got would be a dog "That's a good bulldog," commended the Side Kick. " 'Beware that had dog-fighting weapons. To which strong resolution of entrance to a quarrel; but being in ... ' Which way now, Si?" Simon, had he known about it, could have said wiggle-waggle Leave it to Si, and the direction taken is the one that makes the a bit of eloquence to break down all the anti-bulldog resolutions walk last longer. A bulldog's sense of orientation is first class. ever made. Si never takes, without an argument, the turn that leads the But there was only one more fight between Simon Sourmug walk back home. So up the street he swaggered, big front pads and The Tartar. It happened on the first day that Simon met flipping jauntily, light back feet skimming after, while the Side The Pieman after Si got back from the hospital. Kick fell in, bringing up the rear. But as he watched that rolling, That was a genuine reunion. Si heard Nils tootle at the corner. lusty gait the glow died down inside the Side Kick's heart. He The rumbling in Si's pipes shut off as though someone had knew the thing that was bound to happen some day, sure as fate, closed a tap. He bounced up out of sleep and streaked around when he was not along to halt The Tartar with his presence. the north end of the house. Without a pause to see if Nils would He knew that Si, no matter how he grew in strength, and in turn into the drive or not, he rocked across the lawn, rump ability to use his burly body, would never be able to punish with twisted to the right, and wiggle-waggling as he went. What day that badly undershot jaw. He would never be able to cut and it was made not the slightest difference to Simon. For weeks slash—and no one knew this better than The Tartar. The Tar- he had not seen his pal, The Pieman. tar hadn't gotten a tooth mark in the battle when he nearly fin- Inside the gate they met. ished Si. Si was a victim made exactly to The Tartar's order. "By golly, look at you!" Nils greeted. {Continued on page 33)

DECEMBER, 1935 7 Von Seeckt Von Fritsch Von Blomberg

The second Battle of the Nations necessary to complete the By simile has not been fought. But it may be fought. The French fear that it will be fought—and before long. The German army that marched to battle in 19 14 was admittedly the strongest Wythe Williams military force that ever existed. In a clear field, that is to say against an enemy without allies on the battlefront, it probably could have conquered any army on earth—perhaps any two arm- battle of Jena was one of Napoleon's most brilliant ies. Marshal Joffre in discussing the ebb and flow of battle THEvictories. It was so complete that the Emperor was able along the western front once said to me: "Of course, in mention- to impose upon Prussia terms of peace that he considered ing the enemy I refer only to the German army. The others do were of iron. The strongest of the fetters, he thought, not count." was the reduction of the enemy army to a mere forty thousand Today the army of the new Germany is as great as if not men. These men were to be "career soldiers" as they are called greater than the imperial army of two decades ago. The second in , that is to say soldiers of long-term enlistment, as were battle of Leipsic is not necessary to affirm that history again all soldiers of that day. Forty thousand veterans, he considered, repeats itself. The blindness of Napoleon was almost identical were sufficient to keep order within frontiers, and insufficient to with that which descended upon the Wise Men at Versailles. cause further uneasiness in dreams of power and imperial glory. This army is still known simply as the Reichswehr. During Alas for dreams. Napoleon overlooked the Prussian genius its struggling infancy it was a force almost invisible. Gradually for invention. In this case the invention was the short-term other military units were formed, under its quiet guidance. conscript military service, as it is known today. The youth of First came the schutz-politzei, or green uniformed state police, the conquered nation followed each other into uniforms, to prac- tice with firearms in the tactics of war. The forty thousand time- hardened privates were potential officers, who drilled the on- coming youngsters, eager and anxious to obliterate the stigma "'"TT'ODAY the army of the new Germany is of defeat. A few years later at Leipsic, or the Battle of the \ as great as if not greater than the imperial Nations, as the Germans call it, Napoleon found two hundred army of two decades ago. Hitler is the leader and forty thousand Prussians lined against him. They adminis- and to Hitler the army has sworn fealty—until tered to the great military genius the first outstanding defeat of his career. such moment as it is pleased to do otherwise" At Versailles, in iqiq, the Wise Men of the assembled Allies again imposed an iron peace treaty upon a vanquished Germany. Again one of the most important fetters was in the reduction of the once mighty German army to a mere hundred thousand also the secret organization known as the "Black Reichswehr," men—the Reichswehr, or state army, sufficient to preserve order and later the Steel Helmets, comprising veterans of the imperial within Germany, but quite harmless for the purpose of offense. army, then the Storm Troops or Brown Army of Hitler. These This time the point was stressed that the soldiers were to be of are now absorbed into the Reichswehr, to the extent that the long-term enlistment—twelve years—thus forming an old fash- Reichswehr desired, and the remnants no longer exist. Today the ioned "army of career." The youth of the defeated nation Reichswehr is a single fighting machine, trained to the minute would receive no education in the business of war. But again and mechanized to the highest degree of modern military science was overlooked that Prussian genius to devise ways and means. Since last March, when Hitler publicly renounced the military These hundred thousand time-hardened privates also were poten- clauses of the Versailles Treaty, the Reichswehr ceased to be an tial officers, to drill secretly the entire youth of Germany, de- invisible force and became spectacularly on view. It may not yet termined to place the Fatherland again in the front rank of be fully prepared for war or on the qui vive for that eventuality power. to be signaled—not quite yet. Nevertheless its ethics are clear.

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Its imperative duty is to place the Fatherland upon the summit was on view, in all its potentiality, to anyone who exerted his of power, and, if necessary, repeat the challenge of the imperial ability to observe. army for dominion of the earth. Today it is the dominant force Go back fifteen years, just to mark a decent passage of time. in Germany. Hitler is the leader, and to Hitler the Reichswehr The first official political contact with the Germans after the has sworn fealty—until such moment as it is pleased to do other- Armistice was during the conference of the Supreme Council wise. For today the Reichswehr rules the Reich. of the Allies held at Spa. There- the new rulers in Berlin were But at any time to last March, the new German Army summoned rather than invited to send emissaries. Among the small band that arrived, seedy, threadbare in dress, and

still showing privation signs of the Allied blockade, was one man who might well have presented to the military experts there assembled a clear vision of the future. He was General Yon Seeckt, the founder of the new Reichswehr, the re-organizer of the General Staff, and the man who brought back realization to the manhood of Germany that the Fatherland was still a mighty nation, worth fighting for. Von Seeckt, impassive, his monocled eye as coldly impersonal as that of a fish, answered the questions hurled at him in dry, short sentences, frequently almost monosyllabic. His dignity was magnificent. This alone might have given the questioners pause to think hard about the years to come. The Allied leaders were not casual in those days, but they had much to do, and every detail of the post-war readjustment seemed vitally important. So they simply did not see what even then Yon Seeckt personified. Had the choice for Reichswehr leader been either Hinden- burg or Ludendorff, the Allies would naturally have made objections that they then were quite able to im- pose. But Hindenburg was tired, ready to relinquish all labor, until he again responded to the call of duty and accepted the Presidency. Ludendorff, while not so

old, was in popular disfavor. Despite the fact that it was the nation crashing behind the army, rather than a military debacle, that brought about the Armistice, both these great leaders then were held responsible for the defeat. Von Seeckt was an able staff officer during the war, but not so well known that the Allies held him either in particular respect or fear. And so he was graciously permitted to perform his task. This task—a mighty task of creation—has been finished for years, and Von Seeckt no longer occupies any part of the picture. Meanwhile the new leaders of (Continued on page jo)

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$100 Prize TTEREWITH the second series of Big Mo- AND BUDDY, CAN YOU USE IT! ment stories, announcement of which DURING the served as a sergeant in the has been carried in each issue of the Monthly I 13th Marines overseas under Smedley D. Butler, and since September. Another instalment will could write Big Moment stories for the next thirty days, but none to compare with the following nine big moments of my whole life, following my marriage on April and were warming canned beans and some "monkey meat" over

7, 1922: a minute fire when the two privates came slowly on, their Vancil Leroy —Born January 19, 1923 —-Boy twitching nostrils plainly giving the lie to their stony, unsee- Charles Albert —Born January 20, 1924 —Boy ing eyes. Gerald Morris —Born April 10, 1925 —Boy "Stop with us," pleasantly said the officer whose horse had James Jerome —Born September 28, 1926 —Boy slipped. "Since you are only 'God damned infantrymen' come Louis Gene —Born May n, 1928 —Boy and eat supper with a lieutenant colonel." Paul Elliot —Born December 12, 1929 —Boy They did. The only report of the incident was made by the two Robert William —Born October 8, 193 1 —Boy privates; and not by Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Chancey Ray —Born May 6, 1933 -Boy So far as I know the story has never before been told.— C. R. Jackey Lee —Born March 18, 1935 -Boy Cain, Oakman, Alabama. Let me say in conclusion my sons are all holding their own in height and weight. They have a baseball team here in Pitts- burg and only use a sub for Jackey Lee. The ones of school age have all made a full grade each year. The six who are oldest belong to the Drum and Bugle Corps here and they are all fighters for The American Legion and say they are glad their dad belongs to the organization, and a Big Moment in all these nine boys' hearts would be the immediate payment of the bonus. — Charles A. Small, Pittsburg, Kansas.

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IN November, iqi8, two pri- vates returning from hospi- tal to their organization plodded along the remnant of a road leading to the front. Along toward the close of the afternoon two mounted officers overtook the weary hikers. To let the horsemen pass, one sol- To the inquiring looks Sergeant Macomber dier to one side of the narrow road. His companion moved coolly replied, "We'll stick" kept the other edge. As they passed by, one horse slipped into a rut, got badly off balance and lurched against the nearest soldier. $50 Prize "That's right! Ride over us! We're only God damned in- AND THERE WAS THE BOY fantrymen!" snarled the enraged doughboy, his temper worn threadbare by hunger and by arduous march. EARLY in April, 1919, while I was on detached service at The rider twisted about in his saddle. "Your name and Camp Meade, Maryland, I received orders to report at the organization!" he demanded. War Department offices in Washington. "Private Company 306th Infantry," was Entering the office, the aide who took down my record turned , , the defiant reply. out to be an old pal who had played on the same Army football The horsemen rode on and soon came to the abandoned ruins team in Hawaii eighteen years before. After talking over old of a French village. They dismounted, cared for their horses, times, he said, "Step into the next room."

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — — MOMENTS appear in the January issue. Rules gov- I received my June, 1930, American Legion Monthly and was reading the Big Moments, wishing that I had done something erning the contest, in which jive hundred outstanding. On page 60 I read the Big Moment "The Message dollars a month is awarded, are given Went Through" sent in by Lieutenant Herman Ulmer, Jackson- at the conclusion of this month's stories ville, Florida, telling of a battalion runner, a little country boy from , who delivered a message after being shot through the chest. Good God! That was my story. I had been that battalion I did and a mild-mannered, pleasant faced little man looked runner. "The little country boy from Iowa" was me. up from his desk and asked, "Can you count money in French, Lieutenant Ulmer had seen a lot of war, yet my story stood out Sergeant?" While answering, "Yes, sir," I suddenly realized that in his mind as a Big Moment. Was I proud of that story? I'll I was talking to the Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. He tell the world I was. I was not a complete failure—I had done handed me my Big Moment when he said, "You will proceed to something outstanding. Dawson 0. Clark, Wadena, Iowa. the home of Senator Warren and take charge of his grandson, Warren Pershing, who will be a member of my party on a trip to $25 Prize France. You will act as his guard." "BE YOURS TO BEAR IT HIGH" The entire trip was full of big moments, but the biggest was, after all, not mine but General Pershing's. As the giant Leviathan IT WAS my privilege to preside at the 1935 convention of The steamed into the harbor at Brest, he came out on a small boat American Legion, Department of Colorado, at Fort Morgan. Several years ago the members of the R. A. Cameron Post of the G. A. R. at Fort Morgan passed a resolution instructing the last survivor to hand down to the local post of The Ameri- can Legion the colors of their post. Mr. James E. Jewell, a Past of the G. A. R., is now the only living member of that post. At our convention he made the presentation of the colors to the Harold De Haan Post of The American Legion. There were many who must have, as I did, experienced a "Big Moment" when that dis- tinguished old gentleman said: "I come as the lone sentinel of R. A. Cameron Post of the Grand Army of the Republic to perform a most sacred and pa- triotic duty ... In all these years we have loved, we have cherished, we have honored this flag. ... I want to impress upon you, Mr. Commander, the duty that you owe to defend and pro- tect that flag and the Govern-

ment for it . . which stands. . "And now, my flag, I salute you, and bid you an everlasting farewell, and may the recipients to welcome Secretary Baker. Glancing up the towering side of of this flag protect it, defend it and cherish it as we did in 1861 the ship, he saw his ten-year-old son whom he had not seen for to 1865." over a year, and there were tears in his eyes as he saluted his And then he saluted those old colors, kissed their silken folds superior officer, for the boy's visit was a surprise planned en- and handed them to the Legion Commander. Emory L. tirely by Mr. Baker. Joseph A. Welz, Lagrangeville, New York. O'Connell, Denver, Colorado.

Illustrations $25 Prize $25 Prize by T WAS NOT A FAILURE" BEFORE THE STRETCHER-BEARERS CAME Herbert M. Stoops I WAS discharged from an Army IT WAS in the Argonne. We were supporting the first bat- hospital in November, 1020, talion. We started to help them repulse a counter-attack, a with the thought that , a soldier I had been a failure. I had done machine gunner opened on us. The hill was bald—no protection nothing outstanding. — the slaughter was awful, men falling everywhere. Most of the

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Four new three-man machine-gun crews were organized, using the extra gun carried by each platoon. Sergeant Bill Macomber, in charge of my gun, was ordered to the left of our line where we were flanked by the French. Although we knew that not far distant was another gun, yet, because of dense wood we felt completely isolated from any help. A long night, nerves tense, we waited. When at dawn the French resumed the at- tack we breathed freely again. But attempt- ing to pass through the valley, they were severely gassed and driven back again. Swarming by us, both officers and men were shouting "Boche! Boche!" and motioning for us to fall back—that the Germans were counter-attacking forcefully. Now, with aid on the left extinct and on the right only a good guess, both gunner and loader were in full agreement with the French. But to our inquiring looks, Sergeant Macom- ber coolly replied, "Orders are to hold at any cost. We'll stick." We stuck. And so, for a full hour, an eighteen-year-old boy lived his "Big Moment" through the courageousness of his sergeant, who at a critical moment could say, "We'll stick." William G. Thomson, Saylesville, Rhode Island.

$10 Prize "WHO WILL CAST THE FIRST?"

I HOLD it a great feature of my life to have known the late Franklin Lane. While he was Secretary of the Interior, a young man of high position in the Depart- ment was up for censure, dismissal, disgrace, "I had been that for a grievous social error. His several su- batallion runner periors felt duty bound to make an example who delivered the of the clerk; they felt they must uphold the message. The 'little dignity of the Government by some action country boy from that would instill fear into all tempted to Iowa' was follow in this Lothario's path. They had met in the Secretary's office, and while waiting for Mr. Lane to open the trial, the officials, in well-rounded phrases that were audible, wounded could crawl to some place they thought safer—except denounced the victim. Secretary Lane seemed engrossed in some one named Morey of E Company. He was hit in the spine and papers, but after a few minutes, pushing aside the papers and paralyzed and was begging for help. I had a«blanket, and Ser- turning to the visitors, asked in a quiet voice: "Now, gentlemen, geant Bill Lacy and I got him and moved him along till showered who will cast the first stone?" Oh, boy! The silent stealing away with lead. We fell flat and tried to duck those whining, spatter- of those officials was drama. The case was closed. The young ing death missiles. This was repeated several times until we both man had learned a bitter lesson, he has not forgotten it to this got hit. Bill was hit below the knee. Mine was a terrific day, over twenty years after. His young wife and a great Secre- blow in the upper thighs. I crawled and rolled on my back. I was tary of the Interior brought him back to sanity, to repentance blind but felt the blood flowing. I heard Bill speak of this. He and to himself. He is today an honor to himself and his country. put six first aid bandages on me, but with such a hole these What might he have been had a smaller man than Franklin helped but little. I could see now and lay there bleeding. I was Knight Lane been in the Secretary's chair?—J. Culbertson, already soaked. Was this to be the end—bleed to death here? Casper, Wyoming. That would not take long. The war seemed so near over and I had been in it so long, and now I was through, but possibly could $10 Prize be saved if I could get to a dressing station, hospital, etc. And LUCKY SEVENTY-SEVEN then from nowhere came two men with a stretcher. That was the "Big Moment." One glance and they took me first. Grady H. T W \S a member of the third and last draft from the interior Salter, Lynn, . 1 of Alaska. After getting our uniforms and being rated as Class A men at Fort Gibbon, seventy-seven of us embarked for $25 Prize the States. None of us were raised to corporal, but a Milo Saulich THE SERGEANT MEANT IT (a big six-footer, gray haired, with goatee and mustache, and once a colonel in the Servian Army) was placed in command. IT WAS July 22, 1018, well forward of Bois de Belleau. Forced We reached Skagway, Alaska, October 21, 1918, with our to retire because of French on left flank meeting resistance, records and tickets for the Princess Sophia, but the Prince Co. C, 103d Machine Gun Battalion was ordered to "dig in" for Rupert arrived in port first. Private Saulich pleaded with the the expected counter-attack and to hold the line at any cost to agent to transfer us to that boat but with no success. He then cover retirement of artillery which moved up after the jump-off. lined us up in "two's" with himself in the lead and marched us

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to the wharf and down the gangplank. Halt was not given until ously to the fog-wet steel rung with a numb, slipping left hand! all were on board. The captain ordered us off. "No, if you have Then, as the last ounce of strength left my clutching fingers, enough officers and men, throw us off," was Saulich's reply. The Bill's long arm reached out, clamped on my ankle, and jerked it task looked too big for the Canadian crew so we stayed on. A back to solid footing! The Mallory righted. I clung to that mast number of us had to sleep in the hallway. like a leech. Weak? Don't ask me. Our "Big Moment" came when we arrived at Camp Lewis. Sure, I got down. But I never again volunteered for duty in We learned the Princess Sophia hit a rock soon after leaving the crow's nest. Russell Doughten, Stratford, Iowa. Skagway. Her captain refused immediate aid, then an on-shore wind came up and none of the passengers or crew were saved. $10 Prize This was the worst marine disaster in Alaskan waters. While ONE LUCKY SAILOR our group never got to the front I believe our "Big Moment" came when we realized how close we came to going West before THE morning of September my friend the cook ON 5, 1918, we even got into actual training. Eddy Davis, Fairbanks, came to me at breakfast on the transport Mount Vernon Alaska. and said, "Stay until the others have left, Ellis, and I'll give you an extra helping of pineapple." The other sailors who worked in $10 Prize the fireroom with me left the table and went down in the hull of FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER the ship to be ready to go on duty. After finishing my breakfast and just as the clock had been DURING the World War I served as a private in France with run back thirteen minutes—it was then thirteen minutes to eight Headquarters Company, 28th Infantry, the First Division, —I arose from the table as the ship gave a sudden lunge, plunging After the Armistice was declared we were placed in Germany as high out of the water. Suddenly word went out that a torpedo part of the Army of Occupation. Our duties consisted mostly of had hit our ship. Destroyers were sent out at once chasing and guard duty. Many a night as I walked my post I could paint a firing at the German submarine. Boiler thirteen had burst, picture clear and vivid, a picture that will live in my memory bunker thirteen was ripped open, the ship seemed to be sinking forever, something real that actually happened in France fifteen and all men were ordered to go on duty. minutes after the Armistice was declared. We marched into a When I went down to the lower deck of the ship and found woods about two miles south of a town called Mouzon. About every buddy in my compartment (Continued on page 48) thirty men were detailed to get wood for their company's kitchen. Every soldier was hungry but happy and congenial, glad that God had ended the war. Most of us were singing with joy, thinking perhaps of Home, Sweet Home. One soldier, I am sure his name was Clarke, a Texas man in Company

I, First Division, had some hand grenades in his blouse, never realizing his life was in danger. Now that the Armistice was signed he too was singing when all of a sudden he tripped over some twigs. His body struck a tree, discharging the hand grenades and the poor fellow lived only a few minutes. But

Clod, if you could only see the smile on his face as he went. In all my experience this was the most pathetic scene I ever witnessed. —Thomas Devers, Pittston, Pennsylvania.

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IT WAS autumn, 191 7. The //. R. Mallory, transporting 1500 unassigned casuals, plowed through the angry North Atlantic, staggered under shock of battering water. She rolled, too. I know! Bill and I had spent two hours in the crow's nest, riding a huge imaginary arc back and forth across the dead, midnight sky. Our eyes ached from constant staring ahead, and our fingers were numbed from hanging onto the cold guard rail. So when we heard the sergeant's yip from the deck, we didn't lose any time starting that descent downward. Bill went first. I followed, hugging the mast. I managed to descend three rungs. And right then occurred the Big Moment of my life. The Hell Rollin' Mallory, in the throes of a wide roll, crashed through a grayback. The mast quivered like a fragile twig in a hurri- cane. My foot slipped, lost the rung. I stabbed for the floor of the crow's nest with a frantic hand—missed! And there I swayed for a hair-raising moment, holding precari-

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EIGHTIETH Division J J/HAT It Takes veterans (I'm one of yy to Land a Job them myself) will re- fuse to believe me and Keep It in France when I say that one of our These Days These Blue Ridge comrades is today Chief of Police in the pictur- American Veterans esque if tiny town of Ales, in Have—Ability, Initia- the south of France, near tive, Adaptability— Nimes. And I don't blame them, for when this tale was Above All, Courage. first told to me I promptly as- And What a Range sumed that somebody's leg was being pulled—namely, my There Is to Their Jobs! own. A mechanic of the Car- negie Steel works in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, chasing crimi-

nals in Provence? . . . and capturing them, too? An A. E. F. veteran a French official? "Manifestly absurd, false and impossible," I remarked in my omnis- cience. "A crackerjack story—what a pity it isn't true!" Frankly I should have delayed judg- ment until I had examined all the facts. For in this dizzy, topsy-turvy, illogical world of ours, it is the impos- Meet (unofficially) Charles J. sible things which, every so Lunel, Chief of Police at Ales, often, turn out to be true. And France—he's an Eightieth Divi- (believe it or not) Charles J. sion veteran. At left, Jeff Davis Lunel, who put on a U. S. Dickson, late A.E.F., now boxing uniform in East Pittsburgh, dictator of Paris Pennsylvania, who fought with the 319th Infantry through the Argonne, who has an our Blue Ridge veteran; no sooner had he de- honorable discharge (I have barked when he was arrested on the ugly charge

seen it) from the United States of desertion; he had to face a court martial Army, is now Brigadier-Chef which promptly acquitted him because of his de Police of Ales (Gard), service with the 319th United States Infantry. France. Appointment to the police force of Ales fol- How did it happen? Can a lowed shortly afterward, and Lunel mounted man have a double nationality ? speedily in rank and is now the chief. I have What is the explanation? seen the stack of eulogistic clippings in which Chief of Police Lunel was his courage, his ability as a crime detector, his born in France in 1S93, and at battles with French gangsterdom are recounted the age of thirteen came with with Gallic enthusiasm. Lunel is a member of his family to America, settling Paris Post of The American Legion, and al- in North Braddock, Pennsyl- though he is legally French, his spirit is essen-

vania. When the United States entered the World War in 191 7, tially American, and in his home he has established a "little bit it was the normal, loyal, honorable thing for Lunel to join the of America"—war souvenirs, books, flags, , insignia, American Army. He did. No embarrassing questions about clippings—which excites the envy of his neighbors. His wife, citizenship and nationality were asked; and, almost before he nee Paulette Brun of Yorkville, Ohio, helps him to expand this

knew it, Lunel was on his way to Camp Lee in Virginia, to Brest, "home museum of Americana." Every year they observe to the Arras-Amiens country, and that historic region about Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and the Fourth of July, with the Verdun—Chatel-Chehery, Fleville, Imecourt, Buzancy, and same alacrity and enthusiasm as in the days when he was a Sommauthe. beardless youth in North Braddock. All the while, the citizens Came the Armistice and months of dreary waiting for the of Ales refer with pride to "our American chief of police." westbound army transport; but in June of 1919 Lunel was once Is Lund's case an exception? Frankly, yes. But he is not the again a civilian in North Braddock. Somehow the fascination of only A. E. F. veteran to hold down a French official position; France was too strong for him and by Christmas of 1919 we find there are a few others, scattered about the French administration, him back in sunny France—and France is really sunny, tropically doing technical, clerical and other work, although the war sunny at times, at Ales. But a frigid, Arctic welcome awaited service was in the American Army.

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From now on, however, we shall limit our attention to American- girls to sermons (the Reverend Clayton E. Williams, of Indian- born veterans; we shall endeavor to describe how the Never-Go- apolis, Paris Post chaplain, is minister of the American Church in Home Battalion, perhaps 1500 strong in France today, is winning Paris, perhaps the most complicated and most difficult pastoral the daily battle for food and shelter and happiness. Only by an job in the world today); from press agent promotion to chiro- unusual combination of imagination, uncommon sense, and hustle practic medicine; from American diplomas to French tobacco are they able to do so. Extracting a living from an indifferent leaves. What changes of profession have been effected! A and at times unfriendly environment; overcoming prejudices bachelor of architecture runs a seaside hotel; a pharmacist and inertia; vanquishing differences of language, outlook and philosophy—all this the A. E. F. orphan must do to hold down a job in France today. As far back as 1922 I contributed a Stay-in-America article to this magazine (then a weekly). The subject was "Getting a Job in Paris—Ha! Ha!" and in it I described the almost insur- mountable difficulties confronting the A. E. F. job-hunter in France. The situation is worse today, far worse. No American finds a job in Paris any more—except by miracle or accident; the only way to get a job is to create it and then (no cinch, either) persuade somebody with cash to sign the pay checks. If there are A. E. F. veterans in France today, in 95 cases out of 100 it is because they created the jobs which they happen to hold. The jobs thus created are as variegated as the ingredients of vegetable soup. What bizarre contrasts! The "merchandise" produced, fur- nished or sold by A. E. F. veterans in France ranges from chorus

F. B. Huger, Mrs. Huger and Hugerette. Huger operates a playground at Cannes on the Riviera

operates a steamship office; a headliner at the Folies Bergere— one-time captain, oratorio soloist and Red Cross manager, Otkar P. Dobes by name—has transformed himself into a human guidebook and an animated information bureau. Each job pays tribute to the inventiveness of the creator.

Take Jeff Davis Dickson, Jr., one-time sergeant first class of the Signal Corps, from Natchez, Mississippi, as an example. His name, I wager, appears more frequently in the American news- papers than that of any other A. E. F. veteran in Paris. Why? Well, he is the unofficial but all-powerful boxing dictator of Paris,

and it is a job which he created out of nothing except brains, spunk, daring, and initiative. After the Armistice Jeff looked about the Parisian scene and decided that what Paris needed was more and better boxing bouts. He promptly nominated himself for the job. Since then world's championship bouts have become almost monthly affairs for him; he started Pladner, Paolino, Camera and Thill on the road to big cash and the front page. Incidentally, Jeff's job has brought him fun and fame and, if I am reliably informed, fortune. How he did it, how he out- witted French competition, envy, criticism and imitation is a story which he ought to write some day.

Idea and execution must both be well-nigh perfect if an A. E. F. orphan is to stay on in France. Most of them have worked on the principle, "Find an unfulfilled need; then

fill it." In this respect, let me present Lloyd H. Cornwall, formerly of California, who served with a California ambulance unit. After France—that's where the tall corn grows, and his honorable discharge, he gazed at the French horizon Lloyd H. Cornwall, once of California, grows it to see if anything was missing. Yes, there was—no corn,

DECEMBER, 1935 15 Otkar P. Dobes, whose service rec- milkman, no buttermilk, no Pasteurized ord extends to the Philippines, is and certified milk for American kid- now chief of the Information De- dies born in France. Could such a con- partment of the American Express dition long continue? It could not, for Company in Paris—the Number Hull decided to take the matter in hand. One Ask-Me Man of France He organized what he called a necessary luxuries company. It's a going concern today, and the number of French customers no corn-stalks, no sweet corn, no corn is constantly on the increase. A few years on the cob, no corn roasts. What a ago one of Hull's customers was his own country ! Something must be done about baby. it, and that is what Cornwall did. He Jack Witteried, another A. E. F. veteran, started furnishing the corn. He per- from Cincinnati, is in the remunerative and, suaded certain French stomachs to clamor I presume, agreeable business of furnishing and cry for corn. Even today the French British chorus girls to French theatres and nation is far from being corn-minded, but French mannequins to Parisian couture the consumption of corn is on the up- houses. French girls, let it be noted, do grade. Cornwall operates the biggest not make good chorus girls; they may be corn farm in France; his 1935 production splendid stars, successful vedettes, but in will be 300,000 ears. He has placed corn the chorus, because of their individuality where it never was before, and in the and lack of discipline, they are seldom "American City of Paris" Cornwall successful. So Witteried (who must have stands for corn. Just an idea and the knack of putting it over. been born in an Ohio theatre, for he has the theatre in his blood) Other A. E. F. veterans have aided the Americanization went into the business of importing chorus girls from across the process in France and are collecting real money for doing so. A. Channel. "Require twenty brunettes for Deauville," he tele- B. Vincent, who hails from New Haven, Connecticut, is different graphs his agent in London, or "Send fifteen blondes for Biar- from Cornwall; he let ordinary corn alone; he went in for popcorn ritz." And he gets paid for doing it. and fudge and other distinctive American delicacies. Then there Jumping from choruses to culture, let us introduce Donald R. is Basil Wise from Macon, Georgia, formerly of the air service; Macjannet, whose master's degree comes from Tufts College. I he is persuading, oh so slowly and yet so definitely, the French first met him in 1922; he had an idea in his head; he wanted to to drink Coca Cola; he already has most of Paris Post on the become the American schoolmaster to American children abroad. Coca Cola wagon. Nor should we forget George Hull (former Eh bicn, the idea has become reality, even two or three, depending artillery lieutenant; Dartmouth graduate, who enlisted in Han- on how you count. For there is a Macjannet school in St. Cloud, over, New Hampshire) who came to Paris from Rome in the attractive Paris suburb popularized by Empress Eugenie; 1922. He soon discovered that the American colony had no another near the Trocadero (where the Legion's National Con

Al fresco graduation exercises at the Elms Country School, at St. Cloud, near Paris. In the group to the left are Donald R. Macjannet (hands clasped), founder of the school, and Emory Foster (hat in hand), of the school staff—Legionnaires both. Most of the youngsters are sons of A.E.F. veterans

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The monsieur at the right in the light fedora isn't a monsieur at all—he's Daniel Paul Ryan, late of Chicago, now proprieter and director of the Grands Magasins de la in St. Nazaire. Dressing the salesgirls as sailors is a Ryan idea that goes big

vention sessions were held in 1927), and there is also a Summer comrade and friend, Frank Cussans, United States vice consul in Camp near Annecy in the Savoy country. Mac runs all three of Bordeaux (another A. E. F. orphan), whose American home town them, aided by his brother-in-law, is Ada, Ohio, tells me that it is good Emory Foster, who is also a Legion- stuff. naire. While we are on this question of Some other occupations: beverages, we must speak of Robert Stephen Perry Jocelyn (ex-captain Davis, another left-over of the A. E. of infantry; Harvard '16) lives in F., an ex-Presbyterian preacher, who Guethary in the Pyrenees mountains; is now in the wine business near his letterhead states that he provides Bordeaux. Of course, Bob Davis nourrilure pour la volatile which, being wasn't in the Army, but he rendered translated, means chicken feed. It good service to the Allied cause as a must be good feed, for the French Red Cross major; and when the government has decorated him with war ended, it left him stranded the Order of Agricultural Merit. stranded in the beautiful Chateau Abram Hogewonning (o6th Division Montbrison at Margaux, with acres —Camp Wadsworth) lives in Paris of vineyards about it. He wrote and his job is the growing and selling Atlantic Monthly poetry about it; of tulips. James L. McCann of he made speeches about it, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama (ex-aviation finally he was able to sell the stuff to lieutenant; former Commander of the America. He has distinguished cus- Department of F ranee, The American tomers from the Social Register and Legion), has set himself up as a doctor Who's Who—former parishioners, for sickly and ailing American (or and also seven members of the other) typewriters; business must be Supreme Court of the United States. fairly good, for he now has 77 assist- Elbert L. Dodds, once a sergeant major All the while, leaping from the ant surgeons to help him. at Bourges, now operates the Delavigne Bordeaux country to Brittany, Then there is one comrade (cross Hotel near the Luxembourg Gardens, Franklin H. Stafford (ex-captain of my heart) who runs a brewery near Paris. With him are his two daughters the 54th Infantry; from Pittsburgh) Bordeaux. By special request I omit runs a paper factory in Quimperle. his name; for he has a wealthy W. Its specialty is the manufacture of C. T. U. aunt (he tells me), and he's afraid she would cut him cigarette paper, which is then sold to the French tobacco mo- out of her will if she knew the truth. To encourage me to be nopoly. When U. S. tourists smoke French cigarettes the chances silent, he has promised to send me a case of his best beer. My are the paper was made by Stafford. {Continued on page 60)

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One Iron in the Fire

American Legion bases its fight for would have been won. For many Representa- THEthe of the Service tives payment Adjusted in the Congress, however, the chance Certificates squarely on the issue of was too good to be missed. The Congress simple justice. The debt is due and overdue; was confronted with the opportunity of voting it should be paid—that, in a nutshell, is the against two issues for the price of one. To Legion's case. take advantage of the situation was the The machinery by which payment will be human thing to do. Nor is this to question

made is not the Legion's business. That, in the sincerity of any Representative or Sen- the case of this debt as ator who seized the ad- of any other, is strictly The Legion's Position vantage. Faced with the the debtor's concern. In necessity of voting against Following is the text of the Adjusted divorcing clearly and un- Compensation resolution which was a good bill in order at the equivocally the Adjusted adopted unanimously at the St. Louis same time to be able to Compensation issue from National Contention: vote against a bad bill, the entangling alliance of BE IT resolved that: many members reasoned method of payment at its that it was certainly the 1. We request immediate payment of St. Louis National Con- the Adjusted Service Certificates at face part of wisdom, of sound vention last September the value, with cancellation of accrued in- legislation, to kill the evil Legion took a position terest on loans, and refund of interest at the expense of the paid, and do hereby reaffirm the Miami that has already made it good. Convention resolution on this subject. an abundance of friends in The question of whether 2. We request the immediate favor- quarters which have here- inflation is itself a good able action of the Congress, and the hos- tofore evinced sharp President of the United States, upon or a bad thing is not the tility every time the shud- this clear-cut and single issue, without Legion's problem. The derful word "bonus" crept having it complicated or confused by only question before the other issues government finance, or into the discussion. of Legion, so far as the bonus theories of currency with which the since its First is concerned, is the bonus Ever Legion does not intend to become in- National Convention at volved. itself. faced Let this bit of history Minneapolis, when, 3. We hereby ratify and approve the with fifty-six bonus meas- efforts of National Commander Bel- be made clear, at the risk ures sponsored by as many grano and the National Legislative of repeating what has been Representatives in the Committee on behalf of the Legion's bill said before, both in this at the last session of Congress. Congress, the Legion spe- magazine and elsewhere: cifically avoided endorsing The means of meeting the any one of them, but left "with confidence to bonus obligation is purely a matter for the de- the Congress the discharge of this obligation," cision of the legislative branch of the Federal the organization has invariably declined to Government. For sixteen years—ever since the attempt specification of means by which the question was first brought before it — The bonus shall be paid. During the last session American Legion has insisted on the utter of the Congress a situation arose whereby the separation of the bonus issue from the ques- bonus became linked with currency inflation tion of method. In the last session of the issues. This bill became the bonus bill of the Congress, owing to a situation which was in session, winning a scant preferential vote over no slightest degree of the Legion's creation, the measure which had full Legion approval the bonus and method-of-payment issues be- —a measure conforming to the traditional came entangled, and as a consequence the Legion position of having no concern with the bonus was defeated. In its St. Louis National method of payment. Inflation and the bonus Convention in September, 1935, the Legion were too heavy a combined load to carry reasserted its insistence on the utter separa- the bill sank of its own weight. Stripped of tion of the two issues in words which no one its cargo of inflation ballast, the measure could misunderstand. would unquestionably have been adopted over During the coming session of Congress a Presidential veto, and the battle of the bonus there will be only one iron in the bonus fire.

DECEMBER, 1935 19 ! "The NAME IS MURPHY ByFrank Miles

We're from I-o-way, I-o-way Louisiana by falling into the hands We'll have you understand of the dashing Spanish dons at It's the best State in the land; New Orleans and St. Louis. Resid- We're from I-o-way, I-o-way, ing there under the Spanish regime That's where the tall corn grows! was Jean Marie Cardinal, hunter, trapper, miner and explorer, who that saw more than a thousand Hawkeye was noted for his exploits up and WHOLegionnaires, each holding aloft a fifteen-foot corn- down the Mississippi and Missouri stalk and singing the Iowa Corn Song, marching valleys. Because Spain was aiding sixteen abreast in The American Legion parade the colonies in their fight for inde- at St. Louis, last September 24th, doubts that Iowa is a land of pendence against Great Britain, a towering corn, irrespective of his opinion as to which of the British force at Prairie du Chien, forty-eight States is best? Wisconsin, in 1780 set out to at- Who that has ever attended a national American Legion con- tack the Spanish, French and vention has not been kept awake by lusty-lunged Iowans roaring American miners in the Dubuque that battle hymn which enables voices to attain the utmost in area. At the approach of the volume? The singing corn-stalk carriers at St. Louis, along with extolling a nature-granted glory of their homeland, were boosting a tall, Long before the zebra costumes rugged comrade for the highest position in the gift of the Legion. of the 1930's: Ray Murphy as Time andagainthe thousand throats shouted, "We want Murphy!" a back at the University of "Murphy," on September 26th, became National Commander Iowa—he captained the 1911 of The American Legion. Christened James Raymond, he was team. Below, the National born on a Dubuque County farm forty-eight years ago. He now Commander and Oley Nelson, prefers to be known as Ray Murphy; his intimates call him 91 and fellow-Iowan, Com- Murph. mander-in-Chief of the Grand Dubuque County, in picturesque hills which rise majestically Army of the Republic, at the above the Father of Waters, is the most romantically historic Murphy homecoming celebra- spot in Iowa. Here, on June 18, 1673, tion at Ida Grove in September Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Mar- quette, with rive voyageurs, cruising in birch bark canoes, first saw, then set foot on, soil the Indians nad named "Iowa," their word for "beautiful land." Here did the fleur-de-lis of France ascend, the colors of a Spanish king wave, the flag of Eng- land float before the Stars and Stripes were flown to the breeze. Here was fought one of the only two battles of the Revolution- ary War west of the Mississippi River. In 1690 the intrepid French captain Nicholas Perrot came from Wisconsin to assume rule of eastern Iowa. Five years before, Miami Indians, then living on the ground of what is now Dubuque County, had gone to him with gifts of beaver skins and ore to induce him to locate in their region that they might trade with him. Perrot discovered the almost fabulously rich lead mines which he and his men worked, and which for many years there- after made northeastern Iowa one of the wealthiest spots in the Mississippi valley. By 1763 the section had become a part of

The AMERICAN LEGION Mon The family: Mrs. Murphy, Ray Junior, Charles Hanford, and the National Commander

enemy, Jean Marie Cardinal hurried down the Mississippi to whites he was known as the Great Miner of the Mines of Spain. warn the soldiers and people of St. Louis of the invasion. The In 1 796, when war broke out between Spain and England, Du- British seized the Dubuque mines, marched on St. Louis, at- buque determined to strike a blow for his . Wisconsin, tacked, and in the fighting there Jean Marie Cardinal was though nominally American, was still entirely under British and mortally wounded. An ave- Canadian intluence. Du- nue and the National buque, with a force of League baseball team in St. Spanish traders and Sac Louis honor his name and and Fox Indians, captured memory. and pillaged Prairie du Julien Dubuque in 1783, Chien, seizing all of the at the age of twenty-one, furs and peltries there, came from the Quebec dis- which they accused the trict in Canada to Prairie British of having stolen du Chien. Impressing the from Iowa. haughty and suspicious Dubuque became a not- Foxes with his honest man- able figure in St. Louis, ner, in 1788 he obtained which he often visited with full mining concessions to his argosies of lead and a strip of territory on the furs. A St. Louis man who Iowa side of the river, knew him well has left Iowa twenty-one miles long and historians with probably nine miles wide, which in- the best description of him. cluded the present site of He said Dubuque "in mid- the city of Dubuque. He dle life was a man of black made this region celebrated hair and eyes, wiry and well and himself one of the built, capable of great en- wealthiest men of his day durance, and remarkably in the great valley of the courteous and polite, with Mississippi. attractive suavity and The Indians called him grace. To the ladies he Little Cloud. His smelting was always the essence of furnaces for lead ore were politeness." the largest in the West. He In 1803 the new Ameri- controled the vessels which can government consum- carried the product down mated the Louisiana pur- the river to market. He chase. President Thomas fixed the price of the re- 'Tis nineteen years since—Lieutenants R. J. Laird, now Iowa Jefferson sent a gallant fined product. By more Department Adjutant; Hanford MacNider, National Com- young lieutenant, Zebulon than a hundred years he mander, 1921-22, and Ray Murphy in front of the quarters M. Pike, who later died anticipated the methods of they shared on the Mexican border, clad in issue breeches heroically in the War of modern companies. To the that weren't so hot {Continued on page 44)

DECEMBER, 1935 — Wanted One Qoat BY JAMES E.DARST Illustrations by Walla ce Morgan

MAJOR GROAT harrumphed a couple of times and tossed a beady eye about the environs of his inner sanctum—Headquarters, Third Battalion, Four-Eighty-Second Infantry. There sat Lieutenant Hotchkiss, beau ideal of adjutants, the confidant and very shad- ow of the major. Slight of build and vague of feature was Hotch- kiss, unless it might be said that a symmetrical yellow mustache lent a certain piquancy to his map. A tractable fellow and loyal. Ready with advice or silence as the occasion warranted. His given name was Chilton. It was said of Hotchkiss, maliciously to be sure, that he had won his commission in training camp solely by reason of pro- mumbled his agree- moting the very swankiest of company dances, which gave the ment. colonel's lady a chance to wear her ostrich plumes. Be that as ''There are, of it may, he was playing the game skilfully now. He had taken that course," went on the old war-horse, Groat, and shown him the promised land, socially major, "some few of- speaking. Nor is the word horse used inappropriately, for the ficers who are ripe and major's past led back somewhere into the shadowy recesses of a ready for promotion" school of farriery. Ruddy, well-groomed, with a certain native he paused and Hotch- saltiness and shrewdness, he stumbled along right willingly as kiss blushed prettily Adjutant Hotchkiss initiated him into the realm of dinner dances "but I could name you and teas, the social whirl of the nearby metropolis. The major a dozen others that was eating it up. should go before a "Hotchkiss, front and center!" board." The adjutant walked over, stiff-legged, and the major picked "I could name them, too, sir." up the paper he had been contemplating. "They'll be named!" "This is serious. Listen: 'All battalion commanders are here- The major ran them over in his mind—McNulty, that loud, with directed to conduct an immediate survey of their officer talkative shavetail in K Company; Morrison, always late for personnel, so as to eliminate the lazy and unfit. Commanders formations; First Lieutenant Steele, sly, detached, mysterious. will report to these headquarters without delay the names of And others. Devastation could be wrought in those ranks, inefficient officers, so that a trial board may be convened. Im- thought the major, and the American Army be not a whit the mediate action is imperative. The time has come to ruthlessly worse off. " weed out dead timber.' "But here's a thought, Hotchkiss." Hotchkiss was becomingly grave. "Yessir?" "Dead timber, sir. That expresses it." "Suppose I do turn in eight or ten names of officers of my "I'll say it hits the nail on the head. I can tell you, Hotchkiss, command that I figure to be inefficient. Won't it look bad for Colonel Moffet is dead serious about this. Never saw him more me?" serious—or hard boiled." "That's a point, sir." "A general divisional order, sir?" "In other words, here I have been commanding a battalion of

"No, I don't think so. But Colonel Moffet is set on making the Four-Eighty-Second for five months and two weeks. I have this the crack regiment of the whole blamed Army. And why organized the battalion and supervised its training. Naturally, not?" I have had close daily contact with the officer personnel and have "Why not, indeed, sir?" had plenty of opportunity to size them up. If half a dozen of "We have swell enlisted personnel, Hotchkiss, as fine a body them are inefficient, why didn't I bust them long before this, of men as ever I've seen in many a year of soldiering. But without waiting for a regimental order? Suppose they say: " there are some darned weak spots among the officers. They don't 'Groat himself is inefficient.' know nothing!" "They'd hardly say that, sir." Hotchkiss recoiled at the dreadful solecism. After all, one "Maybe not. But again they might." suffered for one's country—and one's personal ambition. He "It's worth considering, sir." 22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "Like to have me undertake the job of representing you, Worm- ley?" the first lieutenant asked

"It sure is." "No one has any respect for him, sir. No one dislikes Wormley, They did. but they consider him a blank. In the Hotel de Shave—in the "Of course, Hotchkiss, I could report all my officers up to second lieutenants' quarters, sir— he is only tolerated." scratch. No exceptions." "Absolute zero if ever I saw one. Where did we get him from, "That would be charitable, sir, to say the least." anyway?" "But then if I did that, Colonel Moffet might get the idea that "Transfer from depot brigade, sir. I've looked up his card. I wasn't taking his order very seriously. He's been a little peevish He sold something in civil life. No education." lately. He might even get the idea of putting someone in com- "You figure, then, Wormley 's inefficient enough to fill the mand of the outfit who would obey orders." bill?" "Remote possibility, sir." "No question of it, sir. He has been rated very low by the

"Yeh, but a possibility . . . No, I have it, Hotchkiss. We'll pick captains, sir. He doesn't look the part of an officer, He isn't just one officer to take it on the chin—the worst one in the bat- skilled at anything. He can't be expected to know very much." talion, the one we can spare easiest." ".All right. Fine. We'll make it Wormley. I'll tell Captain Adjutant Hotchkiss became eager. McNair right away. He'll be glad to get rid of him. We'll shoot "How about Lieutenant Steele, sir? We could spare him." his name into Colonel Moffet this very afternoon. Gotta be "Oh, say, no, I'm afraid not, Hotchkiss. I don't like him, tough, Hotchkiss. This is a war, not a pillow fight." He leaned either, but he isn't inefficient." back, well-brushed, sleek and contented. "What time do we eat "He has such a nasty, sneering way about him, sir. I'm at the Andersons' tonight?" sure I've caught him smiling at me and acting superior and even "Seven, sir. You'll find Mrs. Anderson a delightful hostess." taking that attitude toward the major, sir. Surely a man like "Great! Time for officers' call now, isn't it? Bring 'em in." that is lacking in the spirit of team-play and therefore is not effi- cient." HOTCHKISS went to the door and gave the crowd as- "Well, I don't know. Don't think we could pick on him— too sembled in the outer room a chilly nod. They filed in intelligent. Lawyer in civil life. Good deal of political pull. After and stood about diffidently. There were about thirty of them, all, the captains must have something to say in the selection, too. the officer personnel of the four companies of the third battalion. No. Mmmm. Lemme see ... I got it! No question about it, our An average crew. Young Americans of street and of farm, of man is Lieutenant Wormley." fresh -water college and the school of hard knocks. They had "By Jove, yessir, Wormley of course. Why didn't I think of been some eight months under arms, the first three in officers' him? Why, he is the very embodiment of inefficiency!" training school. There were men there who were destined to "Pompous little runt! That blamed strut of his!" lead troops gloriously, to win decorations from a grateful nation, "And those silly freckles, sir, and the way he wheezes!" to die. Others were destined to lead men into their own barrage, "Those asinine big boots that I've told him to quit wearing!" to lose ration trains, to have their packs drop off at divisional

DECEMBER, 1935 23 a corridor running lengthwise and ten small sleep-

ing-rooms on each side. As its name revealed, it was the hostelry that housed the second lieutenants of the battalion, with an occasional first looey tossed in. There they gathered when Taps had blown, or in the brief intervals before retreat or after meals, to swap yarns, mutter against oppressors, tell lies about good jobs they had or were promised in civil life, read paragraphs from their girls' letters, break out boxes of candy, borrow cigarettes, exchange rumors. They swarmed in, now that the noon-day meal was through, now that Wormley had vanished and there was an opportunity at last to discuss the case. "Poor old Wormley. End of the line for him." "You, too, McNulty." "Not me, boy. They need McNultys in this man's Army." "What's the big idea, anyway?" "The old game. Want to throw a scare into us." "They sure succeeded!" "They can kick me out and okeh." "Yeh, but you're not drafted." "Gangway for the officer of the day!" "He told Captain McNair to wait and talk to him." "That cinches it." "Well, Wormley did his best." "No worse than the rest of us. Only seemed worse." "Always had his platoon loafing when the major rode by." "Needed a shave at the wrong times." "Why, hello, Wormley!" "Hello, boys." Only for an instant was the silence painful. They knew he must have heard a good part of their dia- logue, but he didn't seem to mind. His small He had won his commission, it was shoulders were squared, his pale blue eyes clear. said, by promoting the swankiest of He company dances gave the impression now, as he so frequently did, of a little boy looking up at someone bigger than himself, inquiringly. You could

like him, if you took time to notice him and he didn't happen to inspection. There stood the chatty McNulty, the inscrutable irritate you. Steele. Major Groat and Hotchkiss watched him with distaste. "Boys, they meant me," he said. And the sacrificial victim, Wormley himself. Yes, they had "Who meant you? What you talking about?" stalled McNulty. chosen well. There he leaned, pre-empting the only window-sill "Captain McNair sent for me after lunch I just left him. in the place, blandly serene, well-pleased with himself for some They're going to bust me." obscure reason. He was short, stocky, freckled. His manner was "Why, what for?" affable but annoying. He began to toy now with the cord of the "Well to tell you the truth, I don't know. They claim I'm window-curtain like a clumsy kitten. inefficient. Maybe so." Most of the crowd sensed that something particularly menac- "How they going to go about it? How do they do those things?" ing was afoot, even before Major Groat made his announcement "Well, it looks like they'll just send me before a board at and read the colonel's order. While he was speaking, men glanced regimental headquarters. And they got a lot of questions cooked covertly at Wormley. up and they'll ask 'em and I won't know the answers."

"This is hard, gentlemen," concluded the major. "It means "Well, better off out of it, Wormley." that some officer, maybe more than one, has to go. I'll talk to "Yeh, maybe, but I hate to go home now, with everyone else the captains and whoever we pick will be sent before a board. away at war, and me thrown out. I realized I wasn't very good, He'll get a chance, of course. If he's good he can show it. If not but I didn't know I was so rotten. I'd just bought me a sixty- —blooey." five dollar serge uniform. Won't get much chance to wear it." They shifted nervously. Every man held the fear in his heart They all perked up at this and in another moment an auction that he might be a victim if fate were in a particularly nasty would have been under way; but Lieutenant Steele came into mood. Surely, though, Wormley was doomed, barring a miracle. the room. No one had the temerity to bid now for Wormley's They glanced at him again and were embarrassed for him, but clothes. It suddenly seemed in atrociously bad taste. Steele his brow was placid. He was batting the window-curtain cord affected these younger men that way. They resented it a little back and forth, engrossing himself in this simple pursuit, en- and bandied a few derisive nicknames behind his back. But the thralled by it. It got on the major's nerves. clear light of intelligence in his gray eyes awed these cubs in "That is all for today, then, gentlemen. Captain McNair, I spite of themselves. He was a man a little past forty, in excellent want to see you for a minute. Something important." physical shape, poised, sure of himself. Everyone thought it Even in the face of this, Wormley maintained his cheery grin curious that Steele was only a first lieutenant. as he gave up his batting. He hummed a gay tune and clumped "When do you go before the board, Wormley?" he asked. away in the general direction of lunch. "Some time next week, sir." "Why are they trying you? Did they say?" HIS particular Hotel de Shave was exactly like several score "General inefficiency, sir." T others in the cantonment—a one-story wooden building, with "Anybody representing you?" 24 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly :

"How do you mean?" "Are there any other officers being tried at the same time?" "As counsel, advocate, lawyer." "I believe not. Your man is the only one." "Why, no." "What do you make of that?" "Like to have me underake the job?" "Make of it? Nothing, except your man is out of luck." "Say, I sure would!" This was not good. Why, the major did not know; but not "Come to my room tonight at nine. I'll see what can be done." good. He hastened to talk to Hotchkiss, but he found him no Wormley registered gratitude and even a trace of hope. comforter. "I keep wondering, sir," he began, "If there might be any- MAJOR GROAT was displeased when Adjutant Hotchkiss thing we could do about Wormley. That is to say, not press the reported to him that Wormley was being represented by charges against him."

Lieutenant Steele. "Don't be a fool, Hotchkiss. We can't do that . . . How do "Why, I don't like this, Hotchkiss," he fretted. "Why does you mean?" Steele have to do this? Is a man entitled to counsel in a matter "I've just heard a very disquieting story, sir. Lieutenant of this kind? After all, this is an efficiency test, not a court- McNulty told me, sir, that Lieutenant Steele had confided in martial. Did you look it up?" him that Wormley was not a salesman in civil life but a college Hotchkiss, prince of adjutants, had looked it up. It seemed there professor. He speaks four languages, including French." was no regulation to prevent Steele from representing Wormley "It was you who told me he sold something." at the trial. The major mused "That was on his card, sir." "They say he is a very able lawyer in Chicago." Major Groat pondered. "I've checked that too, sir. He is considered able. He might "Well, we'll stand pat. He may be a swell professor but I'll even be called a leader of the bar." bet he can't take a Chauchat rifle apart. We can tangle him up "Then why in blazes is he stuck away here as a mere first on that. But we won't press him on the French. The trial is set lieutenant?" exploded Major Groat. "Why is he not in the for next Thursday. Notify Steele." judge advocate general's department? Why must he be here "Very well, sir. May I remind you that the Parkers expect us to—-to annoy—to interfere?" for bridge tonight?" "I have learned, sir, that he has put in for transfer to the "That so? I don't feel much like it tonight." judge advocate's department." "But the major promised." "Good! I'll see that it goes through at once." "Oh, all right." He called at divisional headquarters that afternoon to try to On Tuesday afternoon Hotchkiss again felt it necessary to expedite Steele's transfer, was told by a harassed chief of approach Major Groat. The major's feelings had just been flayed staff to mind his blanked business, then made his way, less con- by a memo from regimental headquarters: Subject—an unsightly fident, to the headquarters of the Four-Eighty-Second. incinerator on the premises of L Company. Vainly, the major "Major," said the regimental adjutant, "you have a second had pointed out that there was no such thing as a handsome lieutenant coming up for trial next Thursday." incinerator. "This coming Thursday?" "I thought the major would be interested to know that Lieu- "None other. The colonel says for you to be ready." tenant Steele, acting as Lieutenant (Continued on page 46)

"Now wait," said the major. "Don't be hasty. You are out to get information for the troops behind you"

DECEMBER. 1035 Win 'Em SALESMEN of life insurance and of inexpensive automobiles A basketball team consists of five regulars; an additional five call on from twenty-five to fifty prospects a week and are substitutes are commonly taken on out-of-town trips; for home

if sale. I pretty good they make one A lawyer may be games the squad will number about twenty men altogether. famous and still not win many more than half his cases. You already know these facts. You also know that more than Hundreds of thousands of school teachers never had a pupil who nine-tenths of the men in a college or university have played became President of the United States. The man who owns a basketball at some time or other—on high school first teams, big office building is likely to count himself fortunate these days class teams, and gym teams; at summer camps, on city play-

if more than two-thirds of his office space is rented. Merchants grounds, at the "Y," in the backyard, or in the street. If you are have to set aside sizeable reserve sums because they make too a coach in an institution as large as the University of Pittsburgh, many mistakes in extending credit. Statistics show that even you have a group of at least two thousand young men from whom widely-known authors sell by no means every word they write. you have to select those twenty on your squad who will furnish Doctors do not cure all their patients. the ten players to take on trips and the five regulars to start the No doubt these various kinds of activity differ greatly from the big games. job of a basketball coach, but the percentage of victories required Now, Mr. Salesmanager, how would you pick the twenty? to make a man stand out in these other forms of gainful occupa- I am willing to stick out my neck and hazard a guess. I think tion seems on the whole low to a man who will have to win 'em you would choose them in one of four ways, or in a combination all this season, 26 out of 26, to get his picture printed by itself in of two or more of these four methods. You might get the boys the papers. Of course, you don't have to win 'em all to be fea- on a basketball floor, give each in turn a basketball, and pick the tured on the sports pages in a four-column cut that shows you twenty who handled the ball best and who seemed to be the best shaking hands with your successor and wishing him Happy shots. Or you might give the places to the twenty with the best

Baskets. But if you and your team want to represent the United high school records and the best recommendations from former

States in the Olympic Games, you've pretty nearly got to win Diving through an opponent's outspread legs is a bit unusual, 'em all. but possession of the ball is all-important if you're going It is, therefore, with the hope that persons who perhaps never to win 'em all even saw a game of basketball may be interested, that these words are being typewritten to show what basketball players at coaches. Or—I am hitting below the vest on this one—you might the University of Pittsburgh have learned in the last ten years or give the stamp of approval to the twenty whose fathers are most so about the technique of being winners. prominent in the community. Lastly, and this is another insult This technique, with the necessary modifications, should be to your intelligence, you might pick the twenty who pleased your successful in developing winners in almost any form of human fancy because of a certain head shape, a certain bodily vigor, a activity. certain appearance that reminded you of famous basketball

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly All By DR.H. CLIFFORD CARLSON As told to William Shipman Adaulsbij

players of by-gone days. In other words, you had a hunch they were manly little and there- fore could play basketball.

Well, we employ a different method at Pitt. It is a comparatively long time after the boys first sig- nify their intention of trying out before we pay any attention to their mechanical ability. The point that most interests us is how strong is the desire of each boy to play, and to play the game the way stars play it. We sometimes give the boys ques- tionnaires to fill out, questionnaires with as many as sixty questions. We ask them to answer each question either Yes or No. Here are some of the questions we ask in an effort partly to find out how great a desire to play well fills the heart of each candidate, and partly to impress on every one of them that he can get nowhere without an overwhelming desire to excel. Do you want to be on the squad? Do you want to go on the trips away from home? Do you want to be a regular? Do you want to be on the team that represents the United States at the Olympic Games? Are you willing to de" Saved—for the moment. A Georgia player takes vote your mind and your body to basketball 365 days out of 365? the ball off the backboard to prevent a fol- The mind leads the body; do you want to win 'em all? low shot on a Georgia Tech try for a basket Our first game in any season comes in December. We mail out these questions to the boys as early as July. The boys are sup- hay forever tied six inches in front of their noses, there are other posed to think basketball all the year around. The theory is that trips they can make if they are among the ten best players on the if a man desires anything strongly enough over a long enough squad. The situation may be different at other educational in- period, he can attain it. What man can imagine, he can do. Sell stitutions, but we find at Pitt that many of our younger basket- an idea to the mind first, and then the body can do it. Or as we ball players have never been farther away from home than Aunt sometimes say in these summer letters: "Thought is concentrated Mary's place three miles the other side of Ogle View—yes, that's energy; concentrated energy is power." the name of an actual spot in Western Pennsylvania. Of course, One of the chief functions of a coach is to create a tremendous we always have games scheduled in Eastern cities like Philadel- desire to excel in the boys under him. The method used at Pitt phia, Washington, and New York, and we ordinarily take a short is to show the players the benefits that will result to them if they trip into the Middle West with usually one of the games in or near develop themselves into winners. These benefits are of two kinds Chicago. This season, however, there is an additional tidbit in — immediate and distant. a Christmas vacation trip through the South. The first nine Immediate benefits are the personal satisfaction in being a teams on our schedule this season come from eight States, and winner and the rewards in the shape of out-of-town trips. Every nine of the first ten games are played away from home. university student knows without much telling on the coach's Before the Christmas vacation we play Northwestern at part how much a successful athlete is admired and envied by his Evanston, Illinois; Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa; and Butler at fellow students. There is serious talk— or at least there was Indianapolis, over one weekend. During the vacation we meet serious talk at the time this article was written—of sending a Xavier at Cincinnati, Ohio; Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky; United States basketball team to Berlin for the Olympic Games Vanderbilt at Nashville, Tennessee; Tulane twice at New next summer. All any amateur team in the country has to do Orleans, Louisiana; and Louisiana State also at New Orleans. to be chosen for this jaunt is to win 'em all in the regular season Our boys don't find it hard to go on trips like these. One year and in a sectional elimination and in the national elimination. we sent a team out to the Pacific Coast, with games in Kansas Want to go to Berlin? and Colorado on the way. The immediate benefits of being a Win 'em all. winner loom fairly large to boys who walk half way home every In case, however, some of the boys think Berlin is a bundle of night to save one street-car check. (Continued on page 41)

DECEMBER, 1935 27 PHARMACIST'S d Mate, 3 class

"What in the devil is the matter with you, sailor?" he rasped. I was utterly non-plussed. Except that my pants were slipping

slightly there wasn't a thing the matter with me that I knew of. "Why," I replied, "do you ask that?" He had come out of the salute stage by this time, and said in a menacing tone: (3larence2H. ^hilhrick. "How long have you been in the Navy?" "About two hours." I answered. "I thought so. The place is lousy with you landlubbers," he WAS May,-igi8, and, after waiting for a year for the call sneered, "but I thought any fool knew enough to salute when the ITto active duty, I was at last a full-fledged member of the colors are being lowered." United States Naval Reserve Force. I sauntered out of my "Colors?" I inquired. "What colors?" tent in the Newport Naval Hospital grounds and stood in the "Can't you see anything?" he retorted. "Look over there." company street, feeling just a little self-conscious in my white I peered through the trees and there, sure enough, down by uniform, having discarded my civilian clothes three minutes the shore, some two hundred yards away, I could just make out a since. I had two rolled-up handkerchiefs between me and the figure at the base of a flag-pole. waist-band to keep my navy pants from slipping down and the "Oh, yes," I agreed, "there is a flag-pole there, isn't there?" bottoms of the legs were rolled up to keep them off the ground. "Didn't you hear the sunset gun?" he went on. My white hat, about a size and a half too small, was set at what "I heard a gun," I admitted, "but I'm sure I didn't know it was was supposed to be a sea-going angle. If the German sailors a sunset gun. It sounded like any old gun." could have seen what was about to tackle them, they would have "Bah," he spat, and strode off, mumbling profanely. quit right then and there—incapacitated by apoplexy. We spent some six weeks in Newport being trained in the As there was half duties of hospital corpsmen. It was hard for us, but it must have an hour to go be- been almost unbearable for the doctors and nurses, because we fore chow, I de- were absolutely green. One night I was hauled out of bed at two cided to stroll a.m. to stand by at an operation. It was about the third or around the hos- fourth night of our stay. Everybody was sleepy and cross, but pital grounds a bit and get accli- mated. On reach- ing the driveway in front of the hospital I met an officer coming to- ward me. When he was about thirty feet away a gun boomed out in the harbor a quarter of a mile away. The effect on the officer was electric; he sprang to attention and stood at salute, facing the harbor. Undecided as to whether he was waiting for me to pass him as he stood thus paralyzed or whether he was a bit balmy, I resolved to sneak past as unobtru- sively as possible. As I drew up alongside sprang to at- I glanced at this in- and stood spiring souvenir of ute as I drew the late Spanish War. longside" His face was flushed. "Halt!" he yelled. I halted. 28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly turned off the flash-light Cartoons bi/ and began to back out, still on his hands and knees, 'jhlerb ^jOth from under the bed. He started to straighten up before he had come out quite far enough and struck the back of his head so

that it bounced off the bottom of the iron bed frame. The bed springs rang. Still, with exactly the same Indian-like expression, the officer stood erect, flecked the imaginary dust off his perfectly creased knees and strode in the same awe-inspiring silence from the ward. The patient, under whose bed our splendid apparition had come to grief, caught my eye and said, "Jees, what a crack in de conk!" Late July found us zig zagging in convoy across the Atlantic, crowded down on E deck. I often wondered if there was anything beneath us except the keel, so one day I ventured down the ladder in our compartment to see. A lurch of the ship caused me to slip on the iron steps of the ladder, and, after a series of exceedingly disagreeable bumps, I A series of exceedingly landed in a sitting position at the bottom. I found disagreeable bumps myself in the midst of an interested group of the black gang. One replica of the Hairy Ape called to his fellows, "Hey, guys, look at de Reserve—he's all went well until the patient was being ether- got his wrist- on!" I climbed painfully back ized for his emergency appendectomy. The to my quarters. nurse was giving the ether, the doctor and his The voyage was the usual war passage—warming assistant were ready to start in. I was doing our shaving water with live steam, dying for a nothing—there was nothing I could do until the time came to smoke, pushing soldiers around, trying to get used to living in clean up. life-jackets, and gradually acquiring a sort of scum of dirt. The Suddenly, the doctor looked at me and said, through his mask, trip was enlivened a bit by the discovery' that one bright lad had "Get a rubber sheet." found out that his ditty-box key fitted everybody's ditty-box. "Yes, sir," I replied, and rushed to the supply room. I had He confided to me later that he never stole anything, but he been in the supply room just once before and knew nothing of its liked to sneak down when everybody was up on deck and take a arrangements. I couldn't find a rubber sheet. I searched more look in the different boxes He found that some people had some and more frantically. I found everything under heaven that had pretty queer things in them, he said. any connection with a hospital, but no rubber sheet. I knew Upon our arrival in Ireland we rapidly became acquainted with that neither the doctors nor the nurse, being washed up and the fact that, although we were still in (Continued on- page 55) sterilized, could help me. The doctor called for speed. Sweat broke out all over me. The doctor began to curse and bellow for the rubber sheet. By this time the supply room looked as though it had been struck by a hurricane, but no rubber sheet appeared among the debris; finally the operation went on without it. I spent the time out of sight in the supply room. After the operation, I found the rubber sheet neatly folded up on a metal stool in the wash room. On a Saturday morning came my first navy in- spection. I had been warned that this was a highly formal occasion. Because of a superfluity of help in the operating-room I had been detailed to Ward B for the morning and we had the ward shining when an orderly came in "Attention!" he shouted. We stood at attention. Then there appeared in the doorway a tall, thin officer of about fifty years of age. He was the most dignified and severe-looking man I had ever seen. He was impressively immacu- late in a perfectly-fitting, well-pressed white uniform with epaulettes of purple and gold. He wore spot- less white shoes. His face was like cast iron, it was so rigid. A warrant officer with a note book followed him. He stalked slowly down the center aisle, look- ing at each patient-laden bed. Not a muscle of his face, save his eyes, moved. No movie admiral ever touched him for grandeur. He turned at the end of our ward and came as slowly back. When he reached the last bed on the left, nearest the door, he took a flash-light from the warrant officer and carefully got down on his hands and knees, turned on the flash-light, crawled under the high to be in Engl hospital bed, and looked for dust on the floor. He Christmas Eve

DECEMBER, 1935 29 Fonvitte RF. D Neville " I ^LEASE Mister Mail Man," ran the crude HUMOR, Pathos, Tragedy, I _^/scrawl on a scrap of brown wrapping paper, Comedy—They're All Part "if you have got a pin please stick it in this of paper and leave in mail box so I can pin up my the Day s Work to the Mail Man little gal for school." If you would seek a place where the spirit of dire days has been almost personified these past few years, go to the mail boxes scattered throughout the country, served by some 41,000 rural mail carriers. Doubtless it's a state of mind that the boxes look more than forlorn—dejected would be the better word—swinging from un- painted, rotting posts, doors hanging loose, signals rusting. An occasional post card, a piece of box holder advertising matter, a seed catalogue, maybe a dun, does not make for sprightliness in such inanimate things. And as for what is picked up in lieu of postage these three-cent-stamp days, it certainly fills a rural carrier's hours with plenty variety, besides putting him on more intimate terms with human nature. Eggs have come to be a properly accepted medium of exchange. I carry a basket especially for them. "Please Mister Mail Man stamp this letter and carry it. I'll pay you tomorrow if I get ^-

the change" became entirely too com- • > J mon. So I had to educate my patrons to leave eggs in the boxes with their letters instead of notes. One patron of color, knowing how I am that way, left an Indian arrow head in his box to mail his letter. Opening a box one day I found a letter ad- dressed in a child's handwriting. A battered spinning top rested upon it, mutely significant of its purpose. I had seen that same top, shining and new, one birthday, so of course I left it to grace others which I hoped would be much brighter. That same day two pieces of fruit cake wrapped in tissue

paper and tied with a piece of stocking were in box with the A new family moves in and a new kid is watching you from request to leave a postal. a doorway. The next day he's sticking his head out from behind My route is fifty miles long through a typical Southern section. the mail box. He will not say much at first, just stands, and digs Patrons are white and black, the latter predominating. Roads a hole in the dirt with his bare toe, finger in mouth; he squirms are rock and dirt, and after twenty years of them I dare to say and twists, grabs the mail and flies to the house. But you just that I can drive over them blindfolded, checking for every rough mention something about candy or chewing gum and see what place and calling every curve and hill. Dale, curve and hill are happens next day. associated with some event or person, some more marked than My colored folks are plenty interesting and amusing. They others according to the nature of the event, the individuality of do not run to type so much as the whites do. Almost every

the person. Negro, if you know him long enough, is as different from his One is apt to think carrying the mail a prosaic business. brother as day is from night. Rules and regulations mean little Same old road, same people, and much the same mail. You see to him. The service you give him must be patterned on or in the same people—John, Bill, Henry', Jim. But John, Bill, Henry, accordance with his peculiar individuality. Jim of today are not the same individuals tomorrow. You see I've one old black mammy to whom I'm not only the mail them in changing moods, under different circumstances—under carrier but the daily newspaper. She lives some two hundred stress, in contentment, working and playing and idling. You vie yards from the road. A grapevine message conveys to her a bit with the doctor and preacher in becoming their confidant. of news of which she must have absolute and unqualified verifi- The road? You've driven over it six times a week— three cation from me. hundred times a year, yet two days it's never alike. One day A stentorian whoop from the house halts me away down the it's a gray beneath a summer sun, hot and dusty; cool road where I must await her coming at a gait much like the wad- and mysterious then are its dales and hollows. Another day it dling of a duck. "How's all? Is yu hyard how ole man Bill. lies in the web of a cleansing rain. Brint is dis mawnin? I hvard he's daid. Sho' nuff! Bless mah

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly soul. When's he gwyin tuh be funeraled? Efen yu fin's out be and the slitted placed filled with a mixture of black pepper and sho' en stop en lemme know." salt. I've been called on to prescribe for nearly every ailment and One morning I was flagged by an excited little girl who shrilly misfortune to which human beings are heirs. I've picked out informed me that old Beauty was about to bleed to death. Fol- splinters; I've corded arms from which hands have been blown. lowing her, I found old Beaut in a dejected state indeed, and her One— family had been down about a month, so the father told mistress in tears, me "a sorter breakin' out." One would get well and another The cow doctor had slit her tail too deeply. The blood was would come down. It hadn't been bad enough to have a doctor. pouring from the wound at such a rate that old Beaut was about All had had it but the baby. A few days later the mother brought to set sail for the Glory Land. All the known remedies had been the infant out for me to see and prescribe for. tried—soot, salt, dust, ashes—but to no avail. It was simply a The little thing was almost dead. And I almost died, too, for I case of a tourniquet which I applied to old Beaut's favor and to had seen smallpox before. her mistress's undying gratitude. I've helped doctor horses, mules and cows. When an epidemic I cured Uncle Messick of a misery in his back and legs which known in the vernacular of the colored folks as "hollow tail" had kept him from working ten years. However, it had not de- hits the route, I try to make it my duty to carry a sharp knife terred him from the road, nor from any activities to which work and set my mind upon a willingness to hold the caudal appendage was not attached. One morning, unnoticed, I coasted up behind of the afflicted bovine while the splitting is being done. The him. Approaching close, I blew my horn vigorously and raced hollow place is determined by feeling. There a short slit is made. the motor. {Continued on page 58)

DECEMBER, 1W5 31 Hhe PLAY'S WINTER rings up the curtain on a thousand American Legion dramas and minstrel shows. There is scarcely a post which at some time or other has not tried its histrionic hand to provide a stage-and-footlights enter- tainment for its community, and in many towns posts put on shows year after year. As the so called legitimate stage shrinks and as Broadway and the Great White Way in New York City tend to become the legitimate stage's battleground for national survival, these local shows of the Legion in the towns and cities of America's n,ooo Legion posts gain in importance. Sound movies are only the latest threat to the legitimate theater. It was only recently that a Hollywood producer staged at vast expense the Shakespearean drama, "A Mid- summer Night's Dream," and the film version of that play, magnificently done, is now flashing on the screens foremost actors of the country. Now there are myriads of of thousands of motion picture theaters in towns which no longer American children who have never seen real actors on a real stage. have a single showhouse for rlesh-and-blood actors. The Legion is mighty well fitted for its role of actor, for its Everybody knows, of course, that every outstanding success of effort to keep alive the embers of stage traditions in its home New York's stage is followed sooner or later by the film counter- towns. Its members belong to those generations which grew up part of that play. You saw, if you were lucky, the stage versions in the glare of footlights and knew grease paint before the word of "What Price Glory?" and "Journey's End." You almost lipstick got into the dictionary. They carried the American stage certainly saw, no matter where you live, the screen productions with them to France. Almost every A. E. F. division had its of the same shows. Meanwhile the number of theatrical com- own show. Up behind the front, in the S. O. S., at the base ports panies on tour grows smaller and smaller, and every day sees the and in Paris, doughboy actors trod the boards before and after closing of playhouses which had been holding out against the the Armistice. Those A. E. F. shows live in the Legion's memory. combined forces of the depression and the sound pictures. Whether it revives a play of Army days or tries its hand with The American Legion post which stages its own show, there- a slightly-timeworn Broadway success, any Legion post will find fore, is doing something in the way of patriotic service to its that a play will quicken its pulse and stir its blood grown some- town. It is giving to its older fellow citizens nostalgic pleasure, what sluggish from doing usual things over and over again. The reminding them of the stage's golden era—the before-the-war letters on current post shows which are coming to the Monthly days—when any sizable community had one or more theaters tell of glowing success. where on winter nights one stood a good chance of seeing the For example, here's a letter from Porter Williams, Commander

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Upper, left, a big moment in Charleston (South Carolina) Post's production, "Seventh Heaven." Above, interlocu- tor, end men and everybody in Oles-Reader Post's old- fashioned minstrel show at the Thing Truman, Minnesota

"Curtain! For the workers to sit back and listen to the beautiful over- ture of A. E. F. music, to see their friends perform at their best, to be part of the large and enthusiastic audience, now laughing, now crying, now applauding—well it was indeed Seventh Heaven." Then, here's a letter from C. H. Richardson of Commodore Denig Post of Sandusky, Ohio, with an as-

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On with the dance and let of Charleston (South Carolina) Post, telling of joy be unrefined! Beneath with his outfit's good luck in putting on a show these ropes of walnut-sized the help organization known of a local dramatic beat masculine hearts, as the Footlight Players. chose to put on It in the ballet numbers of Austin "Seventh Heaven," a French war play by Rose City Post's burlesque Strong. play had a cast of seventeen, with The show in Portland, Oregon important parts for fifteen. Veterans found delight in the colorful French uniforms, the Parisian atmosphere and the pretty mademoi- selles. It is a play of a sort which may be obtained by any post from one of the many publishers and distributors of plays suitable for amateur production. The National Americanism Commission of The American Legion in Indianapolis will supply on request lists of suitable plays and tell where they may be obtained. "Our objective," writes Mr. Porter, "was to give two perfect performances to packed houses. The Footlight Players were to attend to the actual production—with seven Legionnaires in leading roles—and the post and its Auxiliary unit handled the publicity and sale of tickets. We set a budget of $640 and fixed a price of one dollar for orchestra seats. Our music problem was solved by the Eighth Infantry Band from Fort Moultrie.

DECEMBER. 1935 programs, newspaper clippings and such-like, all sortment of Vto^somaMer? Isivr -rke^e #^ 5 Nor a one !: attesting that his post's production of the famous overseas review a|-rerrtaf

' Reynolds suggests that other posts producing minstrel shows take their shows on tour for the benefit of posts which may not have Three Hundred Nurses facilities for producing shows of their own. Rose City Post of Portland, Oregon, produced a novelty, a THERE is at least one squadron of the Sons of The American burlesque show in which the post's glee club appeared in the Legion whose members don't tell one another how papa won costumes of ballet dancers. Writes Post Commander Ben Fleisch- the war almost singlehanded by capturing machine gun nests, man: "Knotty, muscular legs and arms and hairy chests were shooting down enemy planes and especially good bayonet work. much exposed. A facial beauty expert had worked over the faces That squadron is composed of sons of members of Helen Fairchild until they were unrecognizable." Nurses Post in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The squadron It is lots of hard work but also lots of fun, all these reports started with thirty members and has been growing as it took part agree. The post which produces one play is sure to repeat. in picnics, baseball games, hobby shows and other activities. Mothers of the boys served as nurses in the Army and Navy at Reminders of'iy and ' 18 home and overseas during the World War, and Post Adjutant Anna L. Hawkins writes that they are still serving. MANY a doughboy in the A. E. F. took time out long enough "Every winter since 1Q29 the post has sponsored a Nurses' to mail home a French or British or Belgian war poster. Basketball League," writes Mrs. Hawkins. "Games are played by Hundreds of these posters are now on the walls of Legion club- ten teams of nurses who are in training at ten different hospitals. houses, framed or var- nished or otherwise pre- served. The champion poster collector of the A. E. F. seems to be Legionnaire Edward H. McCrahon of Washing ton, D. C, who has built up on the nucleus of the posters he got im- mediately after the Armistice a collection which now numbers more than 3,000. Six hundred of Mr. McCra- hon 's best posters were recently shown in New Jersey's Statehouse at Trenton, New Jersey, under the auspices of Trenton Post, and this collection has also been shown in other cities.

The Kings County American Legion Mounted Guard leads the New York De- partment convention parade at Rochester. Its forty-six men be- long to Brooklyn posts

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A big moment in super-football of the sort Los Angeles County Council of The American Legion gives its community each season. Bronko Nagurski, fullback of the Chicago Bears, stiffarms the famed Cotton Warburton, quarterback of the Pacific Coast all-star team

All the players are invited to attend the post's annual American- ten Powderhorn skaters appeared. Marvin Swanson won the ism meeting at which small gold basketballs are presented to each national senior men's championship, taking first place in the three- member of the winning team. The team itself receives a cup. quarter mile, two mile and five mile events. Pat Maloney won "The post gives layettes to the wives of needy veterans when the juvenile championship. But of even greater value than the babies arrive, distributes baskets of food to racing events is the every day recreation the pro- needy families at Christmas and observes gram provides for Minneapolis boys and girls." Memorial Day with a service beside the tree dedicated to the memory of the nurse for Blood, Debit and Credit whom the post is named." ME* It's Skating in Minneapolis Phoenix, Arizona, who became members of the post's blood squad, volunteering to serve MOST Minnesota posts of The American as donors in transfusion operations necessary Legion remove snow from lakes and to save life, were curious over the reported rivers to provide good skating places for the results of the first operation performed. Ac- children of their communities. Lawrence cording to Legionnaire W. C. Hathaway, the Wenell Post in Minneapolis has established the first man to serve walked eleven blocks to his 10,000 Lakes Speed Skating Championship home after the operation and felt fine. But, Meet as an annual event, has conducted the strangely enough, though he had smoked Powderhorn Skating Club in which dozens of regularly for forty years he stopped smoking boys and girls become champions or near- after the transfusion. The patient also was champions and has made Minneapolis skating- reported to have undergone an equally strange minded as it never was before. Post Comman- transformation. Upon feeling the effects of the der H. B. Flower, inspired by the nearness of new blood, Mr. Hathaway relates, he sat up in the 1936 skating tournament, to be held in bed and lustily called for a high ball. January, sends word of the great luck his outfit "The squad has given blood in three trans- has in promoting winter sports. fusions," writes Mr. Hatha- had LeV us Uavc A "The first skating championship match was way, "and all the patients held in January, 1933," Mr. Flower relates. have recovered or are well on "Fully 30,000 fans gathered about the lake in Bowling is a major win- the way to recovery." Powderhorn Park, which has been made avail- ter sport of The Ameri- Thirty minutes after Mrs. able for the post's skating activities each year can Legion in Los An- Thomas Gibney, the widow of by the park authorities. In 1934 and 1935 also geles. Here is Marie a former commander of Van the post sponsored the championship matches, Gore, captain of Yeo- Buren Post in Chicago, Il- and awarded medals to the winners of the main manette Post's team linois, had notified the post's events. The governor of Minnesota and the service officer that her young mayor of our city provided loving cups for the man and the son had undergone an operation and was in woman scoring the highest number of points. need of a blood transfusion, nine members of "All season long post members give instruction to the boys the post appeared at the hospital as volunteers and girls of the Powderhorn Skating Club. They have provided, for the operation. Doctors quickly determined with the help of business concerns, distinctive costumes. Mem- that three of the men could serve as blood bers of the club last year took part in championship matches donors and performed the transfusion operation. held in other cities. In the national meet held in Oconomowoc The patient was (Continual on page 62)

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TT FOUNDED in Action, W John Silver, a Winged Veteran of the War, Is Still in the Service of His Country

UCCESS or failure of offensive operations depended largely, as every veteran knows, upon the all-important means of communica- S' tion. Distribution of vital information caused not only costly delay, but, as in the case of the so- called Lost Battalion, almost disaster. So, as was to be expected, many decorations and citations were awarded during the war to runners who risked their lives hourly carrying messages between regimental or battalion P. C.'s and front-line units, and many signal men were similarly recognized for the signifi- cant part they played in keeping open the wires. But in addition to runners, to field telephones and to wireless, which was still in more or less an experi- mental stage, there was another means of communi- cation about which comparatively little has been told. We refer to the carrier pigeons—the last resort in many desperate situations. And as with the human warriors, there were heroes, too, among the feathered couriers. Many of these birds became famous and we are pleased to introduce "John Silver," whose picture we show and whose story we learned from John Steep of New York City. Here it is: "John Silver, one-legged veteran of the Western Front of 1918, is one of two survivors of numerous companions who were 'enlisted' in his branch of the service—the Signal Corps. Today he is spending his declining years at Scholield Barracks, Hawaii. "John, a fine homing pigeon cock, had a dis- tinguished career under fire. While carrying mes- sages from the front lines and pigeons were pigeons'—the days when the world was aflame. to artillery positions at "John is the real veteran of the signal corps lofts, being 17 the rear John flew through years old and the only pigeon in Hawaii who has been in battle. many barrages, through But he has lots of company among the younger generations as gas attacks, through Uncle Sam keeps some of the finest pigeons in the world there. storm and fair weather. They are given as careful training as officers and men and those Never once did he fail to who fail to meet the requirement are quickly discharged." deliver the important messages he carried CONTINUING his story, Steep tells us: "Young pigeons messages upon which the have just three months in which to make good in the Army. lives of American troops When one month old they are taken from their parents, put depended. through a severe course of training for two months and then given "Late in the war, John final examination. If they pass the tests, they stay with Uncle was taken from his cage Sam—if they fail, their days are few. in a front-line dugout. A "There is more to this use of homing pigeons in the Army than message was strapped to most persons realize. Take a homing pigeon 400 miles from his him. The enemy had loft, release him and he'll fly a straight course for home, day or laid down a furious bom- night. If pigeon lofts could be kept in the same spot throughout bardment, threatening to the course of a war, training of the carriers would be simplified, open an attack. Through this fire, John circled and soared, but warfare requires mobility. How can this handicap of con- gained his bearings and started on a straight line to regimental stant shifting of lofts be overcome? You may not know it, but headquarters. Men in the trenches saw a shell explode near pigeons are fond of color. Therefore, lofts and nests are painted John. The gallant pigeon was tossed upward by the concussion in various hues so that each pair of birds know their own nest. At and then plunged toward earth as a stricken airplane might. night, signal lights are placed on the mobile lofts. Pigeons ar- But John was a true soldier—he struggled to regain his altitude, riving after dusk see a certain number of lights displayed and succeeded, and continued on his course. immediately pick out their respective homes. "Arriving at headquarters, the bird was a bloody sight. Bits "These Army pigeons are the best of the best, the pedigree of of shrapnel had ripped his tiny body—and one of his feet was the birds going back at least a hundred years, and the standard missing. Weeks of careful nursing gave him back his health but is rigorously maintained. Their average length of active service could not give him back the foot he left on the battlefield. is from eight to nine years. Mr. Pigeon may be cock of the walk "Then came the Armistice and troops were mustered out. to some but not to men of the Signal Corps, who report that the But not John Silver. He was returned from France and in 1921 hen pigeon makes just as good a flier as the cock. sent to Hawaii with the Signal Corps, when signal corps lofts were "John Silver is nearly 18 years old now. He has been through established. Today he is satisfied to sit in his loft, listen to the the Army mill from raw recruit to seasoned veteran. His remain- young recruits brag, and think of the days when 'men were men ing days are all too few. But in Hawaii, as elsewhere in the

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly s United States, there may be men living who, but oner taken by the American Army, for the heroism of this wounded veteran and his has come to light at Horseheads, many feathered comrades, might be but dust today." Chemung County, New York. "The plate was brought back to QUITE often, illustrations that appear either in this depart- the States in 1919 from Verneuil, ment or other pages of the Monthly cause readers to dig France, by then-Sergeant Bur- into their war archives and come up with worthwhile pictures dette W. Playfoot of Unit 303, of wartime service. We wish more Legionnaires and Legion- Motor Transport Corps. nairesses would do likewise and send to us good action pictures "A newspaperman member of about which they can tell a story. The more, the merrier. Harry B. Bentley Post of Elmira Though all of the photographs cannot be used because of the heard of the plate, believed it limitations of this bulletin board of the Company Clerk, we try might be of considerable historical to select interesting pictures covering as many different branches value, and had a photographer of service as possible. strike off a print. The resulting The picture of the Naval Training Station reproduced, came picture is enclosed. to us with this yarn from B. E. Christy, ex-gob, vice commander "The group shows three Medical of Joel Vaughan Post at Granite, Oklahoma: Corps men operating upon a man "In the July issue of the Monthly I noticed a picture of the in what appears to be some improvised field hospital back of the clubhouse of San Diego (California) Post of the Legion, located in lines. According to what Playfoot recalls of the story, the pa- beautiful Balboa Park. tient was the first German captured by the Americans and had "This picture brought back pleasant memories to me of the received a shell-splinter wound in the head. days of 1918 when I was in training as a rookie at the U. S. Naval "Possibly some reader can put Playfoot, who belongs to Training Station located in this same Balboa Park. The build- Richard E. Bentley Post of Horseheads, right on the subject. ings which were erected for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in He would like to have the mystery cleared and as an employe 1915-16 served as our barracks and training quarters. of the Horseheads, New York, Post Office, he will be looking for "I am enclosing a picture of the 'Navy's ,' taken mail concerning the picture. on September 11, 1918, in the Plaza that served as our drill "Playfoot came into possession of the plate on a fall day late grounds. The flag was formed by the grouping of several thou- in 1918. He was reading an Elmira newspaper when another sand men then in training. The small building in the upper left soldier came up and evinced great interest in the paper. He corner of the Plaza was the civilian canteen, famous for its cocoanut pies and marshmallow sundaes. "The building used now as the Legion clubhouse was then known as the Seamen Guard Building. The first building east was known as Building Ten and was the sleeping quar- ters for A- 1 Battalion of which I was a member. In Building Ten were also located the post- office, Officer of the Day, can- teen, broom lockers, sleeping quarters of the Firemen's Bat- talion, and the armory. "I should like to hear from some of the ex-gobs who were in this picture."

MEMBERS of the Then and Now Gang have many times been quite adept in solving some of the mystery and who-is- Site of the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915-16, it pictures that we have shown from time to time, so we're giv- and of this year, Balboa Park in San Diego, Cali- ing them another chance with the photograph reproduced on the fornia, served as a Training Station for gobs next page. The print came to us from Edward L. Van Dyke, during the war. Here we see a Navy Service Flag Chemung County Adjutant of the Legion, of 365 West Clinton composed of several thousand student sailors Street, Elmira, New York, with this unusual story: "After having reposed buried among other war souvenirs in a former doughboy's trunk, ignored and nearly forgotten for more introduced himself and it developed they had lived on the same than sixteen years, a photographic plate bearing on its sensitized street in Elmira before the war. Unfortunately, Playfoot cannot surface what is believed to be a picture of the first German pris- recall the name of this soldier, other than that he was called

DECEMBER, 1935 37 Does anyone recognize the American medical officers in the above picture? The plate was given to Legionnaire Playfoot of Elmira, New York, in 1918, and was said to show an operation performed on one of the first German soldiers captured by our troops during the war

'Slim.' The two saw each other quite frequently at Verneuil, years ago and used it in this department without —first getting one of the S. 0. S. bases which is well remembered. his permission. So this letter from Leonard H. Nason "Steamer" "Several days after the Armistice, 'Slim' announced that he to his host of friends—not alone shows that he reads the was going up into Germany with the Army of Occupation. Then Monthly, but that he has forgiven us for "salvaging" some of he told him about a photographic plate that he had—the story his earlier writings: as Playfoot remembers it being this: "I was very much interested in the photograph of the Gallop- "Slim had been given the plate by a lieutenant months before, ing Goose in the September issue. This picture shows the train although it is not known if the officer had himself taken the pic- at a later period than when I knew it. In August, 1918, the ture. Having a strange premonition that he would be killed engine had no roof to the cab. Furthermore, well down the train during his next hitch in the lines, the lieutenant left the plate can be seen two double deck passenger cars. In my day the train with Slim, after having taken a print, Slim learned that the only had one and that was a single-decker, with the letters L. lieutenant was killed soon thereafter. T. C. in faded gilt on the side. Meant "Now Slim, going into Germany, A box oP \/^To -\Mr 5ro««4 A\eck \ La Teste a Caseau I suppose. turned the plate over to Playfoot, sug- lootenawV wofi rtinnin' "It's a lot of fun to think about Le Cooties «?JL J gesting that as it might be of value, Courneau now, but when I knew it Who ijA' w around cutKt m\\ ^i'H J the latter try to forward it to the that camp was the nearest place to S£ft4mq back" kowie~ Soldiers j£> officer's family. But there again, j\ hell that I've seen, before or since. A things went amiss—Playfoot in the Florida chain-gang construction camp scurry of demobilization lost the would compare favorably with it. record of the officer's name. There was one other place that was "So it's up to readers of the Monthly almost as bad— it was the Regulating to help him out. Who are the three Station Casual Camp at Is-sur-Tille. Medical Corps officers grouped about Just some huts in the center of a rail- the operating table? Did the German road yard. I spent four days there in prisoner patient survive? Where and mid-summer, just long enough to get when was the picture taken? Who my orders and a swell case of dysen- was the lieutenant who first owned the tery. But then, as my top kick said plate? And who was Slim?" afterwards, 'Nobody ordered yuh to go goldbrickin' around them hospitals, " HERE'S a letter from an old war- did they?' rior whose stories in the Monthly / 1 have been read by thousands of Legion- T" HE [936 national convention cf naires. We lifted an article of his J- the Legion—Cleveland is the city, which appeared in Adventure some as you probably (Turn to page 61) 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

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the new army have remained more invisi- too able an officer ever to be replaced in consideration. At present the leading ble than even the army itself. Although the fist of leaders that Germany must Reichswehr candidate is the Duke of

the Allied observers might have sensed have if her present schemes are to be Brunswick, husband of the kaiser's only the determination of the new republic realized. daughter, the Princess Victoria, affec- to find leaders capable of carrying on the Von Reichenau is like Von Blomberg tionately known to the populace as the tradition of the great Von Moltke (crea- in that these men are slightly more hu- Sunshine Princess. The duke is con- tor of that first German army of modern man than the other pair, have more to sidered a safe, sound, middle-of-the-road times, the one which crumpled the say, have less aversion to politics, and choice, neither brilliant nor stupid, French Empire at Sedan) the names of have other diversions than drill forma- sufficiently unemotional and pompous to these men are even today practically tions and the eternal study of the strategy sustain the role of German emperor be- unknown west of the I hine. Only within of war. Reichenau also is a magnificent fore his subjects. His reign would be the past few months have the German athlete who in his early fifties can give but a slight break in the royal line, inas- people come clearly to recognize the as good an account of himself as a young much as his wife, the Hohenzollern generals who may lead their sons in contender at an Olympic meet. He princess, has borne him a son. another war. boxes, fences, wrestles, is a long distance But all this is for the future. Today runner, plays tennis and association foot- the Reichswehr leaders are fully occupied FOUR names now stand out promi- ball with men many years younger than with more important matters. The drill is of liaison the perfection, nently in the list that forms the himself. His present job that of new army approaches officer General Staff. Von Blomberg is the best between Hitler and the Comman- and the re-arming keeps pace. Krupp's, Fritsch, never world's known because he is War Minister in the der-in-Chief, Von who the largest arms manufactory concern- Hitler cabinet, is an ardent Nazi, is less troubles himself with anything before the World War. long ago ceased taciturn than his companions and at times ing politics except when in conference the manufacture of sewing machines this officer. typewriters, it is even oratorically inclined. Therefore with subordinate and to which was reduced Fuhrer have innermost the terms of the Armistice. he is the show piece, on view at public The may by Today functions and prominent at parades. thoughts concerning the Von Fritsch it is again making guns—big guns, field The other three are Von Fritsch, com- hauteur, but nothing can be done about guns, machine guns and rifles, working it. Fritsch of loyalty three shifts daily, mander-in-chief of the field army, Von With the Von oath on of eight hours and Reichenau,head of the Army Department to the present regime he must be content, dominating the entire valley of the Ruhr service to that its in the War Ministry, and lastly Von Ham- for so far as paying Up by never ending buzz of high-power himself merstein, who remains in the background, regime goes, Von Fritsch concerns activity. Similarly at the great steel mysterious, silent, but known to possess not at all. works in Bavaria and in Hesse, the new greater knowledge of Germany's military All of these men, it will be noted, wear Germany is working overtime, equipping needs, particularly in the direction where the "von" before their names, indicating the army with all the mechanical perfec- Germany wishes most to expand nach that the new army, just as the imperial tion known to military science today. Osten, or to the East. army, is officered by the upper classes, created by the The most important of the quartet the barons and counts BEHIND the scenes, the fortunate ob- Hohenzollerns. All four served as staff is probably Von Fritsch, unless Von server can now view more ponderous Hammerstein bulks into the foreground, officers during the World War, and all guns than the so-called heavy artillery still fifties, with plenty of just as Hindenburg did after the battle of are in their of the World War, bouncing along on past experience and tradition to guide Tannenberg—and for the same reason. thick tires, pulled by speedy caterpillared vigor life. Von Hammerstein definitely understands them, and yet still in full of tractors. Tanks, large and small, churn the organization of the Russian and The restoration of monarchy is one up the turf. There are vast pontoons on that this Polish armies better than any living man of the grave political problems lorries, searchlights and anti-aircraft quartet feel called upon outside those nations. Just as Hinden- may some day guns—all on wheels. The massed bands burg dreamed the victory of Tannenberg to decide. For the present Hitler is at future military reviews in Germany permitted to rule, but since the "blood years before it happened and was dug will be drowned out by this snarling of last year out of retirement to make the dream bath" at Munich in June rattle of machinery. the Reichswehr more come true, so Von Hammerstein has his Hitler has needed How big is this new army, since Ger- than has needed Hitler. plans all ready in case the German at- the Reichswehr many renounced the Treaty of Versailles orator, tack, or the menace against Germany, The position of the mob-swaying and openly called conscript classes to the however, is still strong. The Reichswehr lies in the East. This pair, Von Fritsch colors? Roughly speaking, according to preparation and Von Hammerstein, may well become bides its time. In its patient experts of other nations who have been the Hindenburg and Ludendorff of a for "Der Tag"—the day when it will given fleeting glimpses, Germany now the precepts next "last war," or vice versa, with Von strike— it merely continues has a field army of fifty divisions (the Fritsch in the secondary role and Ham- of the empire. German divisions are less than half the merstein the supreme commander in the size of American wartime divisions, or field. IT IS not believed that even these about 12,000 men) making a total of Von Fritsch is now the idol of the nobles who command the Reichswehr six hundred thousand. The French be- troops. He is a martinet but his men will consider a Hohenzollern for the lieve it is an even greater total—nearly like just that quality, because they have vacant throne. The ex-kaiser, aside from three quarters of a million. No one seems the feeling that he knows his business his world-wide unpopularity, is now too very certain about it, for much in the and can be trusted. With everyone, old. The former crown prince, while way of figures the Germans still cloak officers and men, he is icy, silent, except popular, is admittedly without ambition, in mystery. But these figures are cited when indulging in devastating criticism. and prefers to enjoy life as a private citi- as representing the number actually He succeeded Von Hammerstein in his zen. The other sons of the emperor, the ready to march. An equal number is present position, but no one takes the Princes Eitel Fritz, August Wilhelm, added that Germany is believed able to present obscurity of his predecessor too Oscar and Adelbert are all totally unfit equip for field warfare within a maximum seriously. Von Hammerstein is much and have never been given the slightest of two months after a declaration of war

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EPARTMENT being too young to testify. When he had M. RA GLAND, of D Adjutant Howard been sworn, he was asked by the prosecu- E. Fort Wood, passes Rowton of Florida tells tor what he had done. us the one about a of an old man who went "I sweared," the boy replied. certain Regular Army to the oculist and asked "And what will happen to you now if sergeant who had a rep- if he could fix him up you tell a lie?" utation for being hard- some specs that would "My mammy'll whip me." boiled. He married a enable him to read. The oculist told him "Is that all?" suggested the lawyer for woman who had certain orthodox ideas that he could, and proceeded to try sev- the defense. about who should run the household. One eral lenses, each time asking the old man "No, suh!" replied the boy. "De debil day she picked up the sergeant's hand- if he could read the words on the chart. he'll cotch me, too." kerchief, which he had dropped, and Each time the answer was no. And then the judge took his feet from handed it to him. Finally the oculist asked: the bench, and pointing a menacing "Thank you, dear, thank you," he ex- "You can read, can't you?" finger, said: claimed, giving her several hearty kisses. "Jerrups, no!" replied the old man. "Yes, and I'll get you too!" "But John, I've done nothing," she "That's what I want the specs for!" "Dat's right, boss!" replied the boy. insisted. "Why all this sudden show of "Dat's jess what I done said!" affection?" "Oh, yes, darling, you have done preacher met one of his flock, a THE something," he replied. "You have re- man. HAD spent several weeks in surly old HE stored to me the only thing in this house services last Florida. Proud of his acquired sun "You were not at Sun- into which I can safely put my nose." day," said the parson. tan, and in high hopes it would impress "Too wet," was the laconic reply. his girl friend, he called upon the young National "But," protested the minister, "it's lady immediately upon his return home. LEGION Past Vice-Comman- Davis, always dry inside." She gave him one look and exclaimed: j der Hughes B. of Oklahoma, nominates for the Descriptive "That's another reason I wasn't there." "Stop! Don't tell me you have the Names jaundice!" Club the resort out his way designated BILL'S BEERPORIUM. NATIONAL Vice-Commander Lou Sunday School Probst, of Wyoming, is telling a THE SHIBE, President of the Phila- about a who went dashing teacher was a very TOM yarn man \1 delphia Athletics, tells as his favorite 'VwMl I stern man, and the chil- down the pier to a ship just as it was pull- the one about the fishing party that had ^ren sto°d in awe of ing out. The vessel had moved off some LdmP/niSSl been urged to mark the spot where they '' ul one Sunday, three or four yards, and he jumped and Hni'mnHBl made the biggest catch. When they re- BwiwflBK| .son, he as- fell, hitting the back of his head on the turned to camp with a boat load of fish, several minutes he sumed a very pleasant deck. For lay one was asked if he had marked where tone and said to his class: stunned. When he came to, the steamer they caught them, and he replied: "Now, children, I wish to ask you a was several hundred yards from the "Sure, I made a chalk mark right there few questions about the lesson we've just shore. He looked back, blinked a time or on the side of the boat." had. First I shall ask you who made the two and shouted: "You nitwit," stormed his questioner, world?" "Boy! Boy! Can I jump!" "suppose you can't get the same boat There was a long, painful silence. He tomorrow?" repeated the question in a reassuring MISS MARY GOLDTHWAITE, of manner. "Come, children, certainly limit the Baltimore, Maryland, writes about some little girl or boy here can tell me THERE seems to be no to a dear old lady—modern in every way who made the world?" There was no miracles attributed to repeal. During except appearance—who is a crack shot reply. the National Convention at St. Louis an with a pistol. One day, with arms full of Then, turning on his naturally stern eating place carried a sign which boasted packages, she bustled up to the ammuni- look, and speaking sharply as he thumped Dancing Cocktail Bar. tion counter of a large department store the desk, he demanded: with a request for some .3 2 shorts. "Children, I must know who it was EXHIBIT at the Missouri His- The clerk gave her a quick glance the world!" ON and that made torical Society, in St. Louis, is a said: And then one little fellow, in a voice Mark Twain collection. Among the said: "Shorts, madam, are in the men's fur- trembling with fright, papers is an envelope addressed to the nishing department—three aisles to the "Please, sir, it wasn't me!" author's wife and marked: "Opened by left." mistake to see what was inside. —S.L.C." COMRADE Karl Fisher was on vaca- CERTAINc judge in tion in New England this summer, ITTLE1 Christopher's A a rural district was accompanied by his nine-year-old son. L mother had just accustomed to sit with While he was motoring in Vermont a seen him put his thumb his feet up before him, friend was pointing out various places of to his nose and wriggle showing the soles of his interest, but had failed to elicit any com- his fingers at his play- shoes to counsel and ment from Karl's boy. Finally he turned mates. spectators. A trial was to the lad and asked: "Sonny!" she cried. in progress, and the lawyer for the de- "Did you ever hear of Ethan Allen and "What in the world do you mean by such fense had offered a little colored boy as a his Green Mountain Boys?" a thing?" witness for his client, and the state's at- "No," answered the boy. "What "Don't you worry about what I mean, torney had challenged the witness as station are they on?" ma," he replied. "They know."

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Sometimes the immediate reward comes That is at least one-third of the battle. concentrating on building it up every as a surprise. After a hard practice ice The other two points in this three-point hour of every day, in season and out. It cream or hot chocolate is likely to be program for developing winning habits is identical with desire in this respect. handed around to one and all with a are Faith and Work. Well, that is the Pitt idea of picking generous second helping for the boy who Here are some of the questions we send basketball winners: Select the boys who made good in the practice session. An out to test a boy's faith and to help him have the desire to win and the faith that interesting variation of this kind of re- see the importance of faith. They are they are going to win. Give us a boy who ward helped us win an out-of-town game almost the same ones that build up his rates 75 percent or higher on each of with Penn State a few years ago at a time desire, but they go at the matter from a these two points, and we will teach him when it seemed unlikely we would make slightly different angle. Are you going the specialized things he has to know and even a good showing. to make the squad? Are you going to be able to do about basketball in a rea- make the trips? Are you going to be a sonable length of time. But if we have a THE team looked to me as if it was regular? Are we going to win 'em all? boy who is an excellent basket shooter going stale; something drastic and un- Are you going to Berlin? Can you pivot and an excellent dribbler and passer and expected was plainly indicated. We were faster and more deceptively than anyone an excellent everything else, but a boy a pretty gloomy crowd of players and else on the squad? who lacks either the desire to win 'em all coaches as we rode the 150 miles up into This last question may call for some or the faith that he is going to win 'em the mountains where we knew an eager elucidation. Pivoting is one of the most all, we spend little time on that boy. Our Penn State team would be waiting to important basketball fundamentals. We experience has shown us that a team of tear us limb from limb. We were even like to have a boy who is an accurate mechanical prodigies who lack desire and more gloomy as we came out on the bask- shot, we like to have him able to dribble faith will win no championships, whereas etball floor that evening. And then the and pass, but pivoting is almost equally a team that wants to win and knows it is gloom disappeared in less than ten sec- important. And there is one peculiar going to win comes out on top most of the onds. Down there in the front row right thing about pivoting: It can be practised time even if it is a little ragged at the behind our bench were the six most beau- and developed without any uniform, beginning in some of the mechanics. Re- tiful girls in the world. And they were without any ball, without any basket, member: Where the mind leads, the standing up applauding with might and and without any hardwood floor. A boy body follows. main as we came over the horizon. can improve his ability to pivot while he We had staged a surprise party for is walking along the sidewalk to get his I WAS checking over the other day to the boys. My wife had got out the mother a loaf of bread at whatever chain see how many Pitt basketball players Carlson family bus and had driven the store grocery is doing the heaviest maga- in the last few years had come to the uni- girl friends of five of the players up to zine advertising this year. Pivoting is versity with anything outstanding in the State College for the contest. After that I nothing but a quick turn completely way of a reputation for mechanical ability don't have to tell you the game was in around such as dancers make much more as high schoolers. Before I could concen- the bag. slowly when they waltz to the strains of trate on Pitt's all-state high school stars

It is the coach's duty, however, to any Boom-chick-chick tune. A good I remembered some of the teams we have make the young athletes see that the pivot allows a player to keep advancing faced and beaten. We played a school, more distant benefits from being a when he is on the point of falling over his not in Pennsylvania, one year that had winner are much more important than own feet. It enables him to elude an op- twelve former all-state players on the the immediate ones. A boy who learns ponent and cut for the basket. If he has squad. That mythical salesmanager to how to be a winner is likely to be a win- possession of the ball when he is pivoting, whom I addressed the rhetorical ques- ner when he is a man. And when a man he can evade an opponent and still retain tion a while back would think it difficult is a winner, the benefits are much more possession of the ball. His body is always to develop a winning basketball team substantial than merely getting a free between the ball and the opponent. With unless he had his share of the best high ride to New Orleans or to Berlin. I sup- this question about pivoting we attach an school players in his State. Well, I got pose more than half my time is spent in explanatory note to the effect that every out a list of all the varsity basketball driving home to the fellows that being candidate for the squad— if he has been men Pitt has had beginning with the a winner is a technique that can be improving each shining minute of his 1927-28 season. Unless my memory is learned for one phase of activity and summer vacation—ought to be able to badly off, we have had only two all-state then transferred to a more important give the truthful answer Yes until he gets high school boys play for us. One of phase later. There are dozens of substan- back to the university and sees how much them was on that 1927-28 team, Charlie tial citizens in Western Pennsylvania who some of his teammates have improved. Hyatt. The other is playing for Pitt this are right now carrying on as winners in season for the first time. His name is I more than half my time Spotovich. their businesses and professions by fol- I SAID spent lowing the technique they learned while creating a desire to win in the players. Chipper Charlie Hyatt is the greatest they were playing basketball for Pitt. Now that I come to this matter of faith, college basketball player I ever saw. He After all, it makes little difference in the I think it is this attribute of mind and was an individual star in every phase of long run whether or not the Pitt basket- heart and soul I spend more than half my the game, and as a team player he was ball team wins 'em all this season, but it time inculcating. And I know I must perfect. He never shot for the basket if is of the highest importance that these spend some time on Point Number 3: he could pass to a teammate. Think that youngsters win more than their share of Work. But faith is tremendously im- over. In 1927-28 when we won 21 out life's victories when they get out in what portant. A man can have an overmaster- of 21 he scored more than 300 points. He has been increasingly for the last half ing desire to win, but until he has averaged more than fifteen points a dozen years a harder, colder, and cruder supreme faith that he is going to win, he game. But to those of us who were world. does not win much of anything. You can present at those twenty-one games these There you have the first step in devel- do anything you want to do if you have figures mean nothing. For one thing, he oping the technique of being a winner: perfect confidence you are going to do it. played scarcely half of each game. We Create a consuming desire for victory. But you have to build up your faith by wanted to give {Continued on page 42)

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our opponents some chance of keep- had been good high school players, but by the highway. I told you our players ing the score close. Instead of scoring no means all-state material. practise pivoting any time they have to 347 points, or whatever the exact figure Willie Arture, he's Dr. Arture now walk anywhere. Keep your good eye is, in twenty-one games, he really made with a D.D.S. after his name, who was peeled from now on, and when you see a that total in what amounted to fewer co-captain in 1930-31, played no basket- youngster doing a fast waltz turn you than a dozen full-length contests. He ball in high school and was not good have spotted another budding basketball was good for at least a point and a half enough as a freshman to make the fresh- player. If you look sharp you may see a minute—and, you understand, he man team. He almost did not make the one of our boys, or one of some other spent 90 percent of his time and energy squad as a sophomore either. Don Smith team's boys, improving themselves in and brain in helping the other boys on was not all-state although he made All- two other ways. Watching for this sort the team to pile up records for themselves. America as a senior. Tim Lowrie, a cap- of thing is more fun than playing Road- Among the teams we beat that season tain two or three years ago, had so little side Cribbage or Beaver. Let's count ten were Michigan, Chicago, Indiana, Iowa, reputation that he did not make the points for the person who first sees each Northwestern, Ohio State, Notre , freshman team, and as a sophomore he pivoter. That would make a boy im- Dartmouth, Syracuse, Colgate, and Army did not go on the trips because we proving his peripheral vision worth in addition to representative teams in our thought he was the eleventh best man twenty-five and one giving his somatic own part of the country. on the squad. sense a workout worth one hundred. There are two other angles to this You probably have often called some- AS DIRECTOR of the Student Health matter of how good the boys are when one a bird. You know, "Will one of you J- ^- Service at Pitt one of my jobs is to we get them. We sometimes play teams birds kindly pass the butter?" Did you give a physical examination during the whose members come from as many as know that basketball coaches intro- summer to all men who are applying for five States. And we sometimes play duced this use of the word bird? The entrance to the university. My assistant teams consisting of men who look as if point ought to be easy to see. Birds have in this work this year is Dr. Paul E. they cast their first votes for Hoover. peripheral vision; they can aim their eyes

Zehfuss, who was a forward here during In the last ten years we have not had straight ahead and still see what is going Charlie Hyatt's time. Paul scored more a basketball player who lived outside on behind their ears. Well, basketball than 300 points for our win-'em-all Pennsylvania; and Pittsburgh, as you players have to be able to do the same team, and he is going to be assistant may know, is almost in both Ohio and sort of thing. It is an observably demon- basketball coach this year. Well, here is West Virginia. Most of our players live strable fact that your opponent in the point to this. Paul and I were more in Allegheny County. The Hughes boys basketball your eyes in order to than agreeably surprised this last sum- who lived in Holidaysburg, ninety miles predict what you are likely to do next. mer when we had the pleasure of certify- away, are almost the only players we Consequently it is highly important to be ing that Charlie Hyatt's younger brother have had recently who did not come to able to look straight ahead and still pass was physically fit to enter the University the university on the street cars. the ball accurately to a teammate on of Pittsburgh this fall as a freshman. If And about that matter of age, we made either side of you, or catch a ball passed Mansfield is one-quarter as good as an accurate check on that the year we to you from either side. Charlie, Paul and I are going to spend a went out to the Pacific Coast because of lot of pleasant evenings for three years an amusing incident that happened out OUR birds are supposed to practise this beginning with the late fall of 1936. there. You see, we were away from home peripheral vision when they drive

1 am sorry if my enthusiasm for the on Christmas Day, and our friends and automobiles. You know, "Is anything Hyatt family made me lose the thread of relatives back East sent us Christmas coming out of this side road?" and "Was this discourse. I was saying Pitt had had gifts and greetings to the hotel in which that gal in the rumble seat we just passed only one other all-state high school star we were scheduled to be staying. Russ a blonde or a brunette?" When they walk since Hyatt's time in the person of Spoto- Ochsenhirt's girl sent him a razor, and along one side of a street they practise vich, who is playing his first year for the two weeks elapsed before he was able to taking in the details on the other side Pitt varsity this fall and winter. Let me grow enough- whiskers to give him a without turning either their eyes or their tell you briefly about a few others. chance to use it. He had made the mis- heads. We have never yet had a bird who We did not even know Zehfuss could take of shaving just before we left Pitts- could see behind his ears, but several of play basketball back in 1927. It is sur- burgh. We found that the average age the members of this year's squad are prising to think of it now but there were of the ten players on that trip was nine- pretty optimistic about their chances for certain special practice sessions to which teen. We believe in catching them young. ultimate success. We, however, are sat- we did not invite him. But, do you know, isfied if they can see clearly and accurate- he found out about the places and dates I OUGHT to say a word or two about ly the part of the basketball court that anyway and always turned up. The only this matter of work. At Pitt we lies between them and the basket. But reason we took him on our first trip was spend plenty of time on physical work in their eyes must be glued on the basket all that we had expenses for ten men, and addition to the mental gymnastics that the time. Willie Kowallis, one of our re- there were only nine others on the squad. build up our desire and our faith. There cent captains and a brother of Dr. George Gyp Wunderlich was another man on is no good reason for going into technical Kowallis, also famous in Pitt basketball, that win-'em-all team who would never details about our practice sessions. We worked so hard on improving his periph- have been heard of under ordinary cir- have plenty of these sessions and we eral vision that he had a far away, rapt cumstances. He was a junior in the uni- practice plenty of things. Any basketball look on his face and in his big brown eyes versity and was not even a candidate for player knows the sort of thing we do, and all the time, and thus earned the sobri- the team. But when two of the men we persons who don't play would not be par- quet of Dead Pan Willie. If you know a had been counting on got into scholastic ticularly interested. youngster who wants to be a basketball difficulties, Gyp was prevailed on to come But as non-players yourselves you player tell him to practise this matter of out. Sykes Reed and Stan Wrobleskie, might be interested in one or two ways peripheral vision, but don't encourage who, with Hyatt, were the other players we have of practising when we are stroll- him to try it when you are riding in the to make up the starting lineup that season ing on the sidewalk or even riding along car he is driving.

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somatic sense you cannot be blamed if at first you think you have found a candi- IT'S A GIFT! . . in Better Taste date for the nearest booby hatch. That is why you can score one hundred points for yourself for every such practiser you Found in Seagram's this Christmas discover. When a person's somatic sense is well developed it means that his mus- cles function properly without depending on his eyes. Many basketball coaches make their players practise shooting fouls blindfolded. You see, two things happen when your somatic sense is well trained. One is that your muscles more or less seem to do their work without any con- scious direction on your part, and the other is that if you can shoot an occasion- al foul blindfolded, when you get a chance to shoot without a bandage on your eyes there is nothing to it. Wes Bennett of Westminster College, one of the best players ever seen in our part of the country, had a highly developed somatic sense. In practice before a game he used to electrify the crowd by standing on the foul line with his back to the basket and then tossing in half a dozen shots in a row. This is about the end of my story. If you want to be a winner, at least be man enough to want to win. After you arouse a high powered desire for habitual vic- tory, get the faith that you are going to attain victory. Last of all, practise over and over again the details that are ne- cessary. And remember that a lot of this practice can take place far removed from the scene of your actual contests and that much of it can be entirely in your mind. Here's hoping you win as many of them before next fall as we are going to. And can bet your socks that the Call it a gift, or whatever you will, it that is a generous wish, because we are You cheer is is going to win 'em all. best way to a buddy to undeniable that Seagram's master see to it that his socks contain a distillers have produced better taste bottle or two of Seagram's Whiskey a-plenty for your pleasure in these this holiday-time. He may not be- whiskies. The rare old stocks of CORRECTION lieve in Santa Claus — but he's sure whiskies owned by The House of to believe in the better taste that's Seagram are likewise responsible for THE article on the St. IN found in Seagram's Whiskies. the taste-thrill that is yours with Louis National Convention The age-old spirit for finer things every bottle of Seagram's. published in the November at Christmas is reflected in these And so, for a Merry Christmas, issue under the title "1919 finer whiskies that give such pleasure buddy — and for your buddies, too, St. Louis— 193 5" it was stated the year-'round. No wonder they are ask for Seagram's Whiskies, pack- that the motion that the elec- so favored throughout America. aged in gay holiday dress. tion of Ray Murphy as Na- tional Commander be made unanimous was presented from the floor by Vilas Whaley of Wisconsin, one of the five candidates on the second and final ballot. This statement is an inadvertent injustice to Harry W. Col- mery of Kansas, who as run- ner-up in the election received arid 45 5 votes on the ballot and himself made the motion that Mr. Murphy be declared unanimously elected. As SEAGRAM'S "V.O." SEAGRAM'S 7 CROWN stated, the sec- motion was 6 years old. Bottled in Blended for Taste onded by Earl V. (Pat) Cliff Bond under Canadian with a master's touch of Minnesota, who was in Gov't Supervision. —America's Favorite. third place on the ballot. Seagram-Distillers Corp.—Executive Offices: New York

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1812, to contact Dubuque in his name. prematurely white hair reflective of this that when admirers tried to make much Dubuque received Pike cordially and life when she departed in 1915. He al- of him he invariably spoke enthusiastic- readily swore allegiance to the United ways speaks of her and the kindly father ally about what one or more of his team States. with moving tenderness. mates had done. Dubuque, who died in 1810, will live Inheriting the Murphy brawn and Upon being admitted to the bar brightly forever in Iowa annals as a mas- keen for all things enjoyta by normal Murphy set out for Metolius, Oregon, to ter builder, intensely loyal to Spain when boys, Ray was ever a leader among his practice law, but business didn't come so he was a Spanish subject, and a true chums. Once, when he was twelve, well to a stranger, so after nine months he American patriot after Louisiana became members of his gang ran a foot race to returned to the home town to hang out a part of this nation. In 1897 an imposing the swimmin' hole in the Maple River his shingle. monument was erected at his grave over- near Ida Grove. Ray, undressing as he For several years he had known charm- looking the Mississippi River. sped, won, and without slowing up dived ing Edith Northrop, of Ida Grove, from a fallen tree trunk into the water. youngest in a family of twelve children. TIMOTHY MURPHY, born in Cork Flood wash had so filled the hole with Miss Northrop was at the university a County, Ireland, in 1798, grew to mud that Ray's head went down only year while Ray was there but neither stalwart young manhood aflame with a about two feet, where he thought it would registered unusual interest in the other pioneering spirit which brought him to go ten. His mates pulled him out until Thanksgiving Day of 1913, when the Seneca County, New York, in 1820. stunned, thereby probably saving his life. young lawyer took her to a dance. They Among his children was Daniel Andrew In 1902, at the age of fifteen, Ray en- were married July 24, 1917, while Ray Jackson Murphy, born in New York tered Ida Grove high school and made the was in service.

State on June 1, 1835, who was to be the backfield of the football team his first In 1903, when Ray was a high school father of Ray Murphy. season. In his final high-school year, sophomore, he had enlisted as a buck in Glowing stories of rich, colorful Dubu- 1905, Ida Grove won the state champion- the local Ida Grove company of the Na- que County fascinated Tim Murphy. He ship. Ray was also on the basketball tional Guard. Steadily he climbed to a decided to move to it, not only for what- team, pitched and played first base on captaincy, from which he resigned in ever adventure it might hold for him, but both the Ida Grove town and high-schcol February, 1916, following his election as because he thought the West would afford baseball teams, and in his senior year Ida County attorney. In June, 1916, with his sons greater opportunities than the won the individual state track and field trouble brewing on the Mexican border, East. championship to help his squad win the he turned his duties as prosecutor over to In 1850 the Tim Murphy family ar- state title. His track specialties were the the man he had defeated to don once more rived at Dubuque. Dan, fifteen, he'ped broad jump, shot put, discus, half mile the uniform of a National Guard private. raise tall corn and to perform other farm and mile relays and the hop, step and On the border he was made a second tasks until he was twenty-five, then jump, which record of forty-four feet, ten lieutenant, then a first lieutenant. struck out to prospect for silver in Mon- inches he still held when the event was tana. Five years later, in 1865, he re- abolished from Iowa high-school com- WHILE he was stationed at Browns- turned to Dubuque County, satiated with petition. ville, Texas, two of his closest bud- frontier thrills and hardships, and in 1870 After working for two years as deputy dies were Lieutenants Hanford MacNider, married Catherine Roach, a blue-eyed county recorder and at other jobs to save who would be elected National Com- Irish miss who had been born there in money, Ray entered the University of mander of The American Legion at

1844. They farmed nineteen years. Iowa in 1908, to take a combined course Kansas City in 1921, and R. J. Laird, James Raymond was the youngest of of liberal arts and law. While at college now for more than ten years Adjutant of eleven children who blessed their union. he belonged to the Phi Delta Theta social the Iowa Department. Two, Lawrence and Louis, died in in- and the Phi Delta Phi legal Men who served with Murphy on the fancy, and John and Bernard in man- fraternity, was president of his junior border and in France are among his most hood. The living are: William, Robert, class, and upon his graduation in 191 ardent supporters. Often when Murphy's Joseph, Emmett and Ray, of Ida Grove, was awarded the Max Mayer for outfit was coming in from a hard day's Daniel of Anoka, Minnesota, and Mrs. excellence in both scholarship and ath- hike through the mesquite and sand

J. M. Shea of Sioux City, Iowa. letics. The was the same as that under a blazing southern sun, the lieu- Father Dan, like many farmers of his now known as the Big Ten trophy. tenant was seen carrying on his broad day, was an expert blacksmith and he shoulders two or three packs that had had considerable skill as an inventor. R\Y was on the Iowa University foot- proved too much for exhausted privates. Reports that the hills of Sioux City, on . ball team in 1909, 1910 and 191 1. In March, 191 7, he returned to Ida the Missouri River, three hundred miles Big, rangy, powerful, fast, resourceful, Grove, where he was inactive a week be- west, offered opportunity for operators of he smashed lines like a battering ram, fore accepting call to active duty on machinery which would cut them down skirted ends with amazing agility, was April 1st, five days before America en- led him to take his family there when a shifty broken field runner and a stone tered the World War. He was assigned Ray was two. Unfortunate investments on defense. The last game of the Thirty-fourth Division at Camp j wall to the toward that end cost him most of his 1910 schedule was with Washington Cody; was promoted to captain, com- savings. University at St. Louis, and there Ray manding the Machine-Gun Company of Undaunted, he moved to Ida Grove, was elected captain of the Iowa squad for the 133d Infantry in February, 1918; sixty miles southeast, to engage in his 191 1. In 1909 and 1910 he was a guard went overseas that summer; was trans- blacksmith trade when Ray was eight. on the university basketball team and ferred on November 10, 1918, to the Almost six feet tall and weighing two held his opposing forwards to one lone Twenty-eighth Division, with which he hundred and thirty-five pounds with a basket in the two seasons. came back to the States, and was dis- forty-nine-inch chest, the elder Murphy Most memorable about his play was the charged at Camp Dix, New Jersey, on gave every ounce of his superb vigor to fact that he was a fine sportsman, that May 2, 1919, his birthday. bettering the lot of his family until he when the tumult and shouting were at Murphy, a Democrat, had been elected died in 1914. Ray's mother had beautiful their height he would be missing, and county attorney against a normally over-

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly whelming Republican majority. While he was in border service he was re-elected by a majority four times as great as he received the first time he was a candidate. In 1923 Governor Nate Kendall, a Re- publican, gave him his first chance at state public service by appointing him chairman of the state board of parole. Soon the governor was pointing with pride to the wisdom of his choice. While Murphy was presiding over one board session his automobile was stolen and never found. He resigned in 1924. Murphy has been city attorney of Ida Grove for ten years, belongs to the county, Iowa and American Bar Associ- ations, and has a statewide reputation as a lawyer and civic leader. Besides the Legion his only other organization mem- bership is in Woodbury County, Iowa, Voiture of the Forty and Eight. In March, 1934, the present governor of Iowa, Clyde L. Herring, persuaded him to accept the chairmanship of the Iowa Board of Assessment and Review, which had the tremendous responsibility of setting up the State's then new three- point tax system. Murphy accepted this responsibility with reluctance, happy as he was in the practice of law, and in his associations at home, and knowing that a personal financial sacrifice was involved. Iowa daily newspapers without exception commended the appointment, and not one printed a word of editorial criticism in the sixteen months of his administra- tion, even though the system he set up and administered itself became the principal issue of a heated gubernatorial campaign. Iowa, with the capital, Des Moines, known as the "Hartford of the West," is such an insurance center as to make the office of Insurance Commissioner one of the most important in the state govern- The Gift ment. Upon its becoming vacant on

July 1, 1935, Governor Herring appointed Murphy to that position for a four-year to cheer his mornings term. Again the press applauded. He has been granted a year's leave to serve as National Commander of The American for months to come Legion. It was only natural that a citizen such SEARCH the gift counters— you can imagine. Make up your as he had been and was to be, and one hunt for hours in the jostling list now. Just write Gillette "Blue who had been such a good soldier, should Christmas shopping crowds and Blades" on your shopping list for be intensely interested in The American you couldn't find a more men who "have everything" or Legion when it was launched in Iowa. He thoroughly acceptable gift at are hard to please. was an organizer and member of anything like the price of this at- Most dealers have the special Leo P. McNamara Post of Ida Grove. tractive package of 50 Gillette Christmas carton or can get it Volunteering to be its first service officer, "Blue Blades." Here's a gift that for you quickly. Save he has held that little publicized but will cheer a man's mornings for yourself endless vitally responsible job ever since, hand- months to come — assure him ling scores of cases for comrades and steps and be sure of hundreds of clean, easy shaves. developing a profound understanding of a warm reception rehabilitation problems and laws. The Gillette "Blue Blade," for your gift. Ask He was Post Commander in 1922, especially made for tender skin, your dealer for the finishing his year with two hundred and is first choice of most men every- Christmas carton thirteen members, an astounding total where. It is the blade in demand of Gillette "Blue for a town of 2,200 inhabitants. In 1925 —the most logical, practical gift Blades." he was unanimously elected Department Commander, serving with marked dis- tinction. Twice he has been Department Legislative Chairman. He aided in put- GILLETTE BLUE BLADES ting over the {Continued on page 46)

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Iowa law which provided for a $2 2,000, which Murphy and two clients were rid- being National Commander?" this writer 000 World War veterans' bonus and a ing in Jefferson National Forest in Mon- asked the boys. $r, 800,000 disability fund, and was the tana lost control. The machine plunged "That's something!" grinned Charles author of the Iowa uniform veterans' and over an embankment and started sliding Hanford. graves registration acts. down a mountain side. Miraculously, the "All right!" beamed Junior. How the comrades of his home county bottom struck on jutting rocks which Some prophets may be without honor feel toward him is evidenced by the fact halted its course, to hang suspended in at home, but not Ray Murphy. Eight that three weeks before the St. Louis con- mid air, five hundred feet above a rush- days after his election, the town of Ida vention all four posts went over the top ing mountain stream. Murphy was cut Grove staged a homecoming. More than on 1936 membership "to boost Murph." about the scalp and badly bruised but three thousand persons of all walks of life In the national Legion, Ray Murphy managed to climb out to safety with the sat in a chilly wind at the local gridiron in 1922 was Chairman of the National other occupants. He didn't tell Mrs. to hear and cheer as Thad Snell, for the

it Athletic Commission ; he is a former mem- Murphy about for two years. community, expressed the esteem of "us ber of the National Policies Commission; "So long as I wasn't dead, why should folks for our most noted, best loved he has been on many committees at Na- she be worried?" he smiled. citizen;" Bob Colilesh lauded him as the tional Conventions; he was Iowa's Murphy plays a bang-up game of golf "ideal Legionnaire;" Major General Mat National Executive Committeeman from —and he likes contract bridge. He is A. Tinley, of Council Bluffs, said he was 1929 to 1933, the only Iowan ever re- justly proud of his clean-cut sons for "as splendid a soldier as ever wore the elected to that office; he was on the their prowess both as students and ath- khaki;" Governor Herring praised him as special committee which wrote the reso- letes. Junior, seventeen, is six feet, three "one of the most valuable public officials lutions for the committee which resulted inches tall, weighs 196 pounds in his Ida Iowa ever had;" Oley Nelson, of Slater, in the broadening of the loan provisions Grove high-school football togs, has for National Commander of the Grand on Adjusted Service Certificates in two years been one of the best fullbacks Army of the Republic, said, "The Legion January, 1931; he was on the National in the State, and was a state track-meet has a wonderful leader," and Hanford Legislative Committee in 1933 and 1934; point winner in the high jump and javelin MacNider told of his virtues as a man he was National Legislative Chairman in last June. Charles Hanford, fifteen, is and comrade. 1933, and he was National Americanism five feet nine, weighs 155, and is a speedy, To the little town of Ida Grove and its Chairman under his immediate pre- scrappy halfback on the football team. charming rural community, Murphy Day decessor, Frank N. Belgrano, Jr. Both boys have played Legion Junior gave opportunity to express pride in the Mr. and Mrs. Ray Murphy are an ad- baseball. Junior, from a C. M. T. Camp achievement and the elevation of a friend mirable couple. In Ida Grove Mr. last summer, came home with a grip full of forty years. To the new National Murphy used to go to mass early Sunday of military proficiency and sports medals. Commander, it was an opportunity to morning, then sing tenor in the Methodist In the heat of the campaign at St. drink deep from the wells of friendship. church choir at special services. No one Louis a Murphy worker rushed into his Ray Murphy has never forgotten and was more proud than his wife and their headquarters to tell him twenty more has often quoted the brief but eloquent two sons when he was elected national votes had been pledged. Murphy was too acceptance speech of his predecessor and commander. Mrs. Murphy is a Past absorbed in a home newspaper to hear. fellow Iowan, Jack MacNider, at the President of her Auxiliary unit, a Past "I was just reading here," Murphy Kansas City convention: "I stand to County President, and a member of the chuckled, "how Junior made three touch- your command!" D. A. R. downs Saturday." Ray Murphy, too, stands to the In 1929 the driver of an automobile in "What do you think of your father Legion's command. Wanted—One Qoat

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Wormley's counsel, proposes to put the Hotchkiss found Steele reading in his "The most outrageous thing, sir. major on the stand." room that night. He got a jolt when he Steele intends to go the limit. He is "Put me on the stand, that is?" glimpsed the cover of the volume and going to tell Colonel Moffet and all the "I'm afraid so, sir." noted that the inscription was in Latin. other members of the board that Worm "Afraid? Say—what are they trying Surely, the man didn't read it for pleas- ley had no chance to be anything but in- to do, Hotchkiss?" ure! He laid his cards on the table. efficient because, sir, you failed to con- "McNulty told me, and he begged me Steele heard him through courteously. duct evening classes for the officers of the not to repeat it, that Steele intended to "No," he said. "I don't think so. A battalion. He couldn't learn anything. try to embarrass the major." charge has been made against my client You didn't teach him. In other words, "I'm not afraid of that. You under- that should be pressed to decision. He your fault." stand that, Hotchkiss?" should be cleared. We are ready, and I They looked at each other, glassy- "Yes, I do, sir. But I thought we might think the trial will be interesting." eyed. Major Groat broke the silence. approach Steele—effect a compromise Early in the afternoon, on Wednesday, "Well, I'll tell you, Hotchkiss. I've do something." Hotchkiss was worried. Hotchkiss burst into the presence of always made it a rule to know when I'm He felt his whole scheme of things totter- Major Groat almost on a run. licked. He's right. I didn't conduct anv

ing. After all, if the major slipped, a lot "We have to do something at once, classes. I was having a pretty swell time of time and effort had been wasted. sir," he announced excitedly. "We have in the evenings and all that but I wasn't "Well, all right, see Steele and feel him to act fast. I've just learned his entire running any classes. Other battalions out. I don't want to be hard on Wormley. plan of attack." had 'em, didn't they?" We might drop the whole thing." "What the deuce is it, Hotchkiss?" "Afraid they did, sir."

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"Well, you can bet I'm not going ahead with this trial." "But Steele refuses to call it off." "Refuses? What do I care? Anything to prevent me from deciding that Worm- "And only a dime ? ley has improved so much that he don't need to stand trial?" "I suppose not, sir." "Go get him. Haul him in here. Keep away from Steele, don't let him suspect ,ha,s what we're up to. Get Wormley in here

I'll an examination that something! and give him he can't help passing. I'll see to that!" Hotchkiss took the major's horse and rode out into the hills where the troops were at drill. He found Wormley with his platoon grouped about him enjoying the doubtful benefits of Wormley's views on the care of the feet. "Turn your men over to a sergeant. Major Groat wants to see you." "Coming right along, sir." He started to walk as Hotchkiss wheeled and rode away. By the time he trudged into battalion headquarters they were ready for him. "Lieutenant Wormley," said the major crisply, "I have decided to give you one more chance." "Thank you, sir, but Lieutenant Steele told me— "Never mind Lieutenant Steele, if you want this chance. I understand we had you wrong on your knowledge of certain things. So I'm just going to give you a brief test now and if you pass it, as I'm sure you will, I'll notify Colonel Moffet that you are up to the standard of the battalion and all's well. What say?" •" "Well, sir, Lieutenant Steele said— "Here's the problem. It's in tactics. You are out leading a reconnaissance pa- " trol "That's to gain information of the enemy, you know," said Hotchkiss, hovering close to him. " Chester Morris, Universal Pictures Star, has smoked Union Leader since 1933. —and suddenly you find a greatly superior body of the enemy entrenched and supported by machine guns. Now, Sure, I used to think ex- counts. You can'tbuymorepipe what do you do?" — pensive pipe mixtures had contentment than you get in "Why, I guess I'd dig in, too, and to be better because they cost this fine, old Kentucky Burley. "Now wait. Don't be hasty. You are out to get information, so you can give more! Then I tried Union So, when you can buy the best it to the troops behind you."— Leader and discovered it's the for a dime, why part with more ? "Well, I might attack and tobacco, not the price tag, that (It's great in cigarettes, too.) "Hold on, take it easy. Remember, your commander sent you out to get in-

formation. You have it. Now what?" Wormley furrowed his brow. Hotch- kiss and the major longed to choke him. "Why," said Wormley brightly, "I UNION LEADER guess I'd go back and give the informa- tion about the enemy." The major exploded: "Of course you would! Lieutenant Hotchkiss, this officer has an excellent grasp of his duties. He would go back, he says, and that sums the whole thing up in a nut shell. There's tactics for you and there's leadership. How did Lieutenant Wormley ever happen to be subjected to this humiliation? Know what I'm going to do? I'm going to send a memorandum to Colonel Moffet {Continued on page 48) | THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKE DECEMBER, 1935 ' " —' —

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at once withdrawing your name, lieu- Washington's Birthday, sir. Quite the tottered across and read over the major's tenant. No trial tomorrow. You can most interesting affair of the season. shoulder: notify Lieutenant Steele it's all off. Mrs. Anderson is making up a party of "Rufus T. Groat, Maj. Inf., is directed ! ' — Congratulations eight. I had rather counted on to report at once to the Commanding "Well, now that's mighty good, An orderly from regimental headquar- Officer, School of Farriers and Black- •" major— ters came in and laid two yellow en- smiths, Fort Franklin." "All right, run along now, Wormley." velopes in front of Major Groat. He The major harrumphed and pulled The little fellow saluted and strutted out. opened one and read it aloud: himself together. Hotchkiss frowned and A sixty-five-dollar uniform had been "Application of Richard Steele, 1st walked over and looked out the window. saved—he would go and tell Lieutenant Lieut., Inf. R. C, for transfer to Judge "Well, anyway," said the major,

. ' Steele—and wouldn't he be surprised! Advocate 's Department—D isapproved "horses don't need evening classes." He The major became brisk. Major Groat grinned his first grin in reflected. "Tough on you, Hotchkiss. I "Now, Hotchkiss, let's wind this up. several anxious days. had recommended you for promotion. Write the memo to Colonel Moffet drop- "Well, well, so Steele will stay with us. Guess that's off." Hotchkiss looked ping the charges. Then another memo to The guardhouse lawyer! I'll see what I around at him and pouted. "It ain't so all company commanders notifying them can do to keep him guessing for a while. bad. I won't be far away. Just a few that officers' school will be held every He's had his fun. Now I'm going to miles. We can keep on seeing each other. evening from seven to nine, beginning at have mine." What's that you were saying about that once!" Adjutant Hotchkiss smirked: Washington's Birthday dance?" "Including Saturdays,— sir?" "You'd be more than human if you But Hotchkiss had already charted his "Yes"—a deep sigh "including Satur- didn't, sir." new course. days." Then Major Groat opened the second "It sounds like a dull affair," he said "There's the Country Club dance on envelope and turned pale. Hotchkiss blandly. "I don't think we'd care to go.''

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was dead, thirty-seven in all, some still A snowbridge over an old crevasse had hill and I yelled over, asking if they were floating in boiling water, I knew that my given way under the terrific weight of the Yanks or Germans. Their answer was by gluttony for pineapple and the kindness grizzly's charge. gunfire. We at once got down. Three of of the cook had aided in my fate, making I was in a most painful and perilous us—Ayers, Nunzetta and I —got into thirteen minutes to eight on the thir- predicament; lying there on the bottom of shell holes, Russell and Silloto fired kneel- teenth trip of the Mount Vernon after a hundred-foot ice crevasse with a broken ing. Russell beside me was killed in- being taken over from the Germans. My leg, a few crushed ribs and a dead grizzly stantly, Silloto started to run for a shell Big Moment, while it was the moment of for company, and weather twenty degrees hole but got his also. As we put up a doom for my companions.— T. E. Ellis, below zero. steady fire on the front, I noticed that Forgan, Oklahoma. I crawled in between the grizzly's fore- rifle and machine-gun fire was coming legs and snuggled close against him, his from the rear. I got down and waited,

$10 Prize fur almost covering me. There I lay on thinking it was help coming up, but as TWICE SAVED BY THE GRIZZLY my grizzly featherbed for over two hours soon as they ceased firing I jumped up until Ted returned from camp with a and knew differently. There stood, not MY BIG MOMENT came September rope to pull me to safety. The heat from fifty feet away, at least sixty-five Ger- 20, 1 92 1, while I was serving in the the grizzly's body kept me from freezing. mans, with their guns leveled at me, for signal corps as telegrapher on the Twice had Mr. Silver-tip saved my life. I was the only one up. W.A.M.C.A.T. System in Alaska. Henry H. Exllne, Fort MacArthur, Was I scared? No, I was past that My partner and I were mushing over California. point. I was frozen stiff. Up went my the Delta Glacier hunting for silver-tip hands. John A. Friend, Grccncastle, grizzlies. Hours of fruitless hunting, and $10 Prize Indiana. we were disconsolately making our way CAPTURED homeward. Suddenly as I rounded a $10 Prize large ice hummock, I was brought up NEAR Exermont on the morning of HE DIDN'T MENTION THE NAME short by a most blood curdling snort. October 9, 1918, we started to ad- There stood a monster silver-tip not vance under the worst fire ever thrown 10AFING on the station platform at twenty feet away. into Yankee ranks. Men fell right and jCrossville, Tennessee, I saw an an- With a roar he charged. I barely had left. Finally we halted and dug in about cient touring car stop at the opposite time to get in one hasty shot and he was 9:15 p.m. on the far side of Hill 240. curb. A big, sandy-haired man stepped upon me. As we went over backward, a We spied a German to the left of us from the car and with two small boys sharp crackling of ice, and the whole with a couple of horses. His hands were entered a drugstore. Later the boys glacier seemed to give way suddenly be- up, but when we failed to fire he ran. emerged with ice cream cones and the neath us. We started falling—straight The major in charge, John G. Emery, trio headed for the car. down went grizzly and I. ordered me to take the first squad I came "I want you to meet that man," said We struck bottom with a bang, the to and clean out that ravine. So I took my friend and called, "Wait a minute, grizzly on the bottom and me landing five men and started to clean out that Professor!" The boys climbed into the squarely on his belly, cushioning my fall ravine and whip the Hun. Advancing to car while the man waited. and thereby saving my fife. the ravine, we saw men on the opposite "Meet my friend," said my sponsor 48 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

and as I grasped the strangers' hand, asked "Your folks?" indicating two women on the rear seat with two more children. "Yes," he replied and courteously in- troduced them, saying "Meet my wife" and "Meet my mother." Then followed perhaps fifteen minutes of questions and answers concerning the school. "You'll have to excuse me," said the professor at last. "Afraid I'm behind schedule now." As the car rolled away I said, "Bill, you sure are the world's worst introducer. You never mentioned a name." Bill's jaw dropped. "I'll be darned. That was Alvin York, Tennessee's famous A. E. F. hero. Guess I thought you'd recognize him." My Big Moment—and I'd muffed it. —Erwin Funk, Rogers, Arkansas.

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SHORTLY after my discharge from the Navy in 1010, I became a mem- ber of a steel erection crew working on the construction of two high coal towers on the Delaware River. While waiting for the derrick to bring up the next girder, I lighted a cigar. In a few minutes the derrick had hoisted the girder even with me, and I walked out There is a priceless gift within a neighbor or asks about the baby. on a beam to guide it to its destined place. reach of every one — the gift of Renews old times — shares confi- Leaning hard against the wind, I had friendship. dences plans for the future. reached the middle of the span and was — Thus the bonds of friendship are extending my hand for the incoming Of all the services of the tele- girder when an inch of hot ash became phone there is none more important formed and strengthened. Greater detached from my cigar and the next in- than this —helping you to make happiness comes into the widening stant my eyes were full of ash. At the friends and to keep them. circle of your life. Some one, some- the wind there — same moment ceased and When people are in trouble, you where, says sincerely "It was I was, two hundred and sixty-five feet go to them quickly by telephone. nice of you to call." in the air, trying to regain my balance, The telephone carries good wishes This day, a voice-visit by telephone dodge the swinging girder and wipe the on birthdays, weddings anniver- may bring reassurance to some one ashes out of my streaming and burning and who is wondering how you are. eyes. Mental pictures of accidents simi- saries. Arranges a golf game or gets lar in nature to this raced through my a fourth for bridge. Invites a busi- mind. As I crouched and groped for ness acquaintance to your home for More and more are people turning to Long Distance to carry friendly voices across the some sort of handhold at my feet, I won- dinner, and advises "home" that he miles. They like its speed, clarity, intimacy dered if I would and low cost — especially after 7 P.M., when miss the beam alto- is coming. Congratulates a young- calls by number to most points cost about gether in my blind helplessness. Finally, 40% ster on his work at school. Thanks less than in the daytime. after seeming hours of agony my search- ing fingers found the flange of the beam and I was able to lower myself to a sitting BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM posture. Relief flooded my being and with trembling nerves I remained in that position without thought of my tortured eyes until I regained control of myself at TAKES B.O: OUT OF YOUR PIPE last. Samuel C. Hanson, Evansville, Indiana. Your home in Philadelphia # PIPE $10 Prize Making hospitality a very- SWEETENER "STICK TO IT, HONEY" personal consideration has made the Bellevue one of the AS A girl in London during the war I World's best known hotels. MADE BY THE MAKERS OF fx. believed in guardian angels. Later Rates Begin at $3.50 I wondered if mine had gone off duty. That was when my father was in- BELLEVUE Drinkless terned, I lost my job and my sweet- heart, and still had to keep the home fires STRATFORD KAYWOOD IE burning. (For while my father might CLAUDE H. BENNETT, General Mgr. PROVED THE BEST SMOKING PIPE IN THE WORLD be a suspected {Continued on page 51) KAUFMANN BROS. YORK, N. Y. DECEMBER, 1935 49 — — —— The Voice ofthe LEGION

The Legion's for All Veterans, Oath of Allegiance, the Machinery of Democracy in the Organization, and Other Timely Topics

posts as they come before your Department and national conven- we've heard and sometimes we may have FREQUENTLY tions, and discuss them in post meetings. expressed the wish that the time may come when all 3. Choose post delegates to the district and Department con- veterans' groups could get together in one organization. ventions who are interested in your wishes and in the welfare of Maybe it's better this way! the Legion as a whole. Each local post must constantly maintain Ever since men have organized for a common cause there have its interest in the higher-group organizations of our Legion and been divergent schools of thought. The goal is the same, but one follow through.— Vcrdugo Hills Post Viewpoint, Montrose, Cali- group has always insisted on taking the left fork and another the fornia. right. One of them is bound to get there! The viewpoint of the "Veterans Who Have German War What! No Kingmakers? Brides" is bound to differ from that of the "Veterans Who Married French Widows." "The Gobs of the U. S. S. Raritan" EVERY year about this time, when the national convention are bound to think differently from "The Doughboys Who of The American Legion is over, we hear a voice from some Fought for The Bottle of Vin Blanc." source or another, crying in the wilderness and saying, "The

The American Legion is all-embracing! It is composed of kingmakers have elected a commander and he is going to sell those who can appreciate those who were in uniform, unre- the organization down the river or somewhere." stricted by where or how that service was effected. We are But this year the voice is strangely silent. Even the dizzy organized not to emphasize our service but to continue to serve. whirl-a-go-round columns have not come forth with this time- It may be just as well that different groups of veterans have honored charge. Can it be that they have been stumped for different views and take different paths. Maybe it's better this once, that they find the new commander aligned with no faction, way, for some of us are bound to reach our objectives. For us, that they find nothing in Ray Murphy's record that they can we'll stick to the middle road and try to see things with the broad twist around to their advantage? But rest assured, they will viewpoint of every American veteran who served in the World cook up a plot. Wait until the bonus fight gets hot and the scribes War. New Jersey Legionnaire. are put on the pan by their big bosses. The labor will be difficult but something will come forth. Southwest Veteran, Tucson, The Oath of Allegiance A rizona. Getting at the Truth WHEN the Kentucky General Assembly meets in 1036 one of the first bills presented for of body the consideration that THE American Legion committee to investigate the dis- should be a measure requiring the teachers in the schools of Ken- aster that overtook war veterans on the Florida keys, is dig- tucky to take the that is required all public officials. same oath of ging out the truth of that holocaust—and the truth is not The teacher, more than probably any other public official, complimentary to the government officials, nor does it show any molds the future of the citizens of this nation. If the teacher is change in attitude toward destitute ex-service men since the disloyal to America and American institutions the student cannot bonus army was driven out of Washington, D. C, by force and help but have his or her Americanism contaminated. fire, in a previous Administration. The student respects the superior knowledge of the teacher in Veterans in America will watch the outcome of this affair, the subjects the teacher is likely teaches and in most cases very and will hold to account those who are charged with account- to attribute the like in which to teacher a knowledge of subjects ability for these deaths—whether that accountability be direct the teacher has not specialized. For that reason it is necessary or indirect. Veterans are entitled to the same consideration as that all the teachers be true Americans and take the oath to up- are other human beings. Legion News, Detroit, Michigan. hold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. —Kentucky Legionnaire. Help Find a Solution

IS said that there is an unconcern with the plight of educa- The Machinery of Democracy IT tion. That business and political leadership seem to be too GROUP of companies of soldiers, however large, cannot much harassed by the economic crisis. That such leadership A itself education crisis, has been pro- win a battle or a war, unless they are bound together by as has concerned with the

organization into various larger units, i.e., battalions, regiments, vided by the educators themselves. cross-section of Minne- brigades, divisions, etc. So it is with the Legion's war to win It is significant to note that the great worthwhile and necessary compensation, hospitalization and sota citizens, the Legionnaires, have taken the initiative and are other benefits for the veteran, his widow and orphans. There is urging their posts to offer their meetings as open forums on educa- efficient system may be only one answer if you are really interested in helping to further tion. Perhaps in this way some more such a "war": devised as to the sources from which school support should be derived. Thus the community can be informed of plans by which 1 . Formulate a program in your local post and watch it through the district, the Department and national organization. the general property tax may be relieved from being the main Legionnaire. 2. Become familiar with all measures proposed from other source of public school support. Minnesota LEGION Monthly S9 The AMERICAN — — — — — —

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alien, his children were British subjects). were probably more recently in uniform same advice given to many a rookie try- I found a job as a manicurist in a Strand than we! Frank H. Jameson, Kansas ing to cut corners. "Apply through barber shop. A young brother was under City, Missouri. channels" and "Stop annoying the my care and he needed plenty. I turned skipper." down many offers to better myself finan- $10 Prize By November P. O. Z.'s stuff actually cially, but one man was persuasively per- SAFE BY THREE FEET became pathetic. It wasn't hard to guess sistent. I could have a coveted course that somebody was on the run. The for a private secretaryship, or I could be IN AUGUST, 1018, three American astounding thought that the war might set up in business and so on, ad infinitum. submarine chasers sped up the narrow even end assaulted our certain knowledge I began to wonder whether I could do harbor of Brindisi, Italy. Our mission that it never would. Then, at 10:53 p.m. more for my brother that way. As I was was to demonstrate to high Italian naval on November 10, 1918, our telegraph feeling terribly harassed and bewildered, officers how the Yankees were equipped operator called me, "P. 0. Z. coming in one morning an American officer friend and trained to hunt submarines. for N. F. F." I walked over to his desk. came in to find me on the verge of tears. Next day, observers aboard, we went Reading over his shoulder the message He was old enough to be my father. I down the harbor at full speed in column spelled out the usual starvation of women opened my heart recklessly and told him formation. As the first two ships reached and children line and then, abruptly, so the whole story. the harbor entrance, they careened over abruptly that the full import was lost on My big moment came when I heard in a smart left turn. Following in their us for a moment, four momentous words the swish of my returning angel's wings. wake, I gave the helmsman the order, formed on the paper, "We have to ac- I felt a fatherly pat on my hand and an "Hard left." cept." And that was Germany's sur- understanding voice saying, "Stick to it, "Hard left, sir," he replied and spun render to the Armistice terms! Creston honey; it's worth while." the wheel. Laager, Bcectikurst, Long Island, New He left me to ponder upon these im- It just turned loosely in his hands. We York. mortal words: "This above all else, to were out of control and headed straight thine own self be true, and it must follow fcr the rocky mole that guarded the $10 Prize as the night the day, thou canst not then entrance. THE LEADER be false to any man." Mrs. Walter J. In one brief instant I had visions of the Krupper, Takoma Park, Maryland. eighteen 300-pound depth bombs, the AUGUST, 1 918, I was aboard the two thousand gallons of gasoline, and the l\. English freighter Titan and we $10 Prize three-inch ammunition aboard, of the were approaching the danger zone. Our THE CAR CAME THROUGH effect of these things upon us and the commanding officer called us in a huddle neighboring ships when we met that wall. and gave instructions as to what to do TURNED from the map. "Ed," I in case we were torpedoed. Among the I I seized the engine room telegraph, said, "there's something wrong with rang for full speed astern on all engines, many don'ts he particularly stressed the these contours. I'd like just one look at and prayed that the boys down below fact that in case of any trouble we were that country!" were on their toes. to conduct ourselves in an orderly manner A gruff voice from behind answered, They were. When we stopped, our and any man caught running up the "All right, son, if you want to see it, take bow was within three feet of the mole. stairs to the deck would be shot down in my car and go and look at it!" I turned Rescue parties seemed to swarm toward his tracks by him, the commanding and saluted General X, commander of us from the allied warships. officer. our artillery brigade. We soon found our trouble, and accord- Previously each man had been assigned "Yes, sir," I said, and went out, found ing to our observers, put on a good show. to a life boat or raft, and as it had been Ralph, the general's chauffeur, and Walter D. Klpp, Charlemont, Massa- my luck along with thirty-nine others to away we went in his Cadillac bearing a chusetts. draw a raft which looked like it would general's star, up the Schlucht mountain. hold a half dozen men, I made up my We were in a "defensive sector" near $10 Prize mind that in case of an emergency I was Gerardmer, in the Yosges mountains. "WE HAYE TO ACCEPT" going to get to the raft in time to grab a The road was fair at first, but gradu- rope. Sure enough late that afternoon ally became a cart-track, winding thnugh DURING the war radiograms to our there was a terrible explosion, the old tub trees and thickets, up and up. Occasion- A. E. F. and other European groups shivered and shook, soldiers made for ally we passed an armed sentry who were sent by naval operators in the safety and nobody was loitering. I did would salute our star and pass us. The Washington control room. Replies from my best and made the raft in record time sentries were as fresh at the game of war the European radio stations were re- —only one man got there ahead of me as we—and on we went, going as fast as ceived by operators in Maine. In addition and that man was our commanding offi- we dared on that treacherous mountain to the routine reception of radiograms cer, and his trusty old forty-five was not road. addressed to the United States, the Maine smoking. Charles W. McDonald, We neared the top, going faster. Ahead operators also picked up propaganda Asheville, North Carolina. the road seemed to be blocked ! From one from all continental stations including side of the blockade a terrible coughing P. O. Z., the German transmitter. $10 Prize chatter began—taken up by another on Throughout the war P. 0. Z. bombarded HE DIDN'T KNOW the other side! Two machine guns the ether with predictions of calamity for German machine guns—we had driven the Allied cause. As the Argonne offen- THE hospital company to which I be- within two hundred yards of their front sive developed a note of worry crept into longed had established an emergency line! the lines. Endearing messages addressed hospital just back of the lines during Ralph and I talked about it a few days directly to President Wilson interrupted that memorable all-American drive of ago—how he threw that big car into the the flow of propaganda with increasing St. Mihiel. Here operations were per- ditch, backed it across the road and frequency. 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attention. Casualties were coming back in the World War. Ralph E. Mor- hospital. His will was written about four fast and several operating teams were rison, Benson, Arizona. months previous to his death, which oc- being kept busy. I was a helper in one curred in March this year. Ray Nunnaly of the operating rooms when my captain $10 Prize was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. sent me to another part of the hospital THE LINER JUST MISSED THEM His life as we knew him was entirely on an errand. In a long hall just outside devoted to The American Legion and of operating room, and through which misty morning in October, helping children. the ONE 191 7, poor Dozens of times I had to pass, were a number of wounded while with the base battalion of the Ray said to me, "Buddy, when I die I soldiers just off the operating table wait- Fifth Marines, I awoke in a Bordeaux want the Legion to have everything I ing for transportation back to base hospi- hotel, having courted Bacchus the night own." And while it was one of the sad- tals. As I walked down the aisle between before, to discover it was 7:30 and I was dest moments it, too, was a Big Moment these two rows of stretchers, I was halted due on guard at 8 at Lormont across and to know that Ray died as he had lived by the call of "Hey, buddy!" down the river. a real Legionnaire.—L. C. Stapleton, I turned to the boy, a fine-looking lad, A street car meant too long, a cab un- Harrison, Arkansas. not a day over twenty, who had called available. Hurrying to the dock with a to me. pickup buddy of the 17th Engineers, we $10 Prize "My left leg is twisted and is paining looked for a Frenchman who ferried over- ROUNDING UP A GANG me," he said. "Help me straighten it timers over in a decrepit motorboat. THE night of July a out." We found the boat, but no Frenchman. ON 19, 1933, I leaned over and gently lifted the Time was valuable. The buddy allowed big car struck a telephone pole, blanket in order to help the lad, whose he could run any damn engine, so we backed away and continued on toward flushed face told me was in a high started across the Gironde full speed the lights of the city. I was off duty in fever. ahead. the motorcycle traffic department, but "My God!" he exclaimed. "So that's Suddenly in the fog ahead appeared a without gun or star, the car was stopped. off tele- what it is!" mountain of steel, the French mail boat "Where do you get smashing I was doubly surprised when I saw the Chicago returning from the United States. phone poles without paying for the surprise on his face. I softly tucked the We could not stop. A quick turn meant damage?" I asked. blanket back over the lad and with a capsizing, so grabbing the wheel we "We hit no pole and if you hick cops lump in my throat, turned and went my raced for the bow accompanied by think you're getting anywhere stopping law-abiding citizens, you're crazy," way. There was no left leg there.—J. H. shrieks and shouts from nurses and brand just Moore, Canton, North Carolina. new shavetails at the rail welcoming growled the driver. La Belle France. I saw the broken bumper and ordered $10 Prize If you have never crossed the bow of a the driver out of the car. He refused and A LIFE SAVED 25,000-ton liner bearing down on you in I hauled him out by the collar and ordered the jail. a junky tub trying to stall, don't try it a friend of mine to take him to BIG moment came during the St. When the others started to swear and MY with a weak heart. We crossed, but . . . Mihiel drive, Sept. 12, 1918. Shakily tying up on the other side and argue, I ordered them to pipe down and With the Second Battalion, 355th In- with a curt grunt or two, my buddy dis- while I stood on the running board, they fantry, I advanced across No Man's appeared in the fog and I to my post. drove to the jail. Land from Flirey to Jury woods. After Paul E. Riege, Spring Valley, Ohio. Upon searching the car we found a assisting my platoon sergeant with a machine gun and kidnapping equipment, prisoner to the bull pen, I started to $10 Prize but my Big Moment came when they were cross an open plain in the direction of FOR THE LEGION identified as the notorious Touhy gang, Thiaucourt. and the man I had handled so roughly Soon I noticed a white rag waving over THE shop whistle had just blown for was Roger Touhy. His companions were a shell hole. Advancing cautiously, I lunch when someone came by to use Eddie McFadden, racketeer; Gus found a wounded German soldier beside our telephone and excitedly said to me, Schafer, postal bandit; Willie Sharkey, his dead comrade. He was bleeding pro- "Hurry up to W. H.'s house, Ray is in gang killer, and the fifth man, who fusely from a leg wound. Appealing to bad shape." escaped, was Alvin Karpis of the Karpis me for help. Well, he was a better look- Just before I arrived Ray had passed gang. ing man than I so I knelt down and on. We called a doctor and the coroner, My second Big Moment was when they looked at his wound. At once I saw the who were only a few moments arriving got 99 years for kidnapping Jake Factor. artery was severed back and above the and pronounced him dead. Before the I felt somewhat relieved. Harry J. knee. ambulance arrived, the coroner suggested Ward, Elkhom, Wisconsin. My first thought was of a tourniquet. that we search his belongings for identi- Jerking off my first-aid kit, I took out fication of his relatives and so forth. In $10 Prize compresses and bandage. After cutting Ray's handbag we found an envelope THE TICKING TOLD THE STORY away trouser, I applied iodine compresses which said "To be opened at my death." and bandage, twisting bandage with a Contents, "To Whom it May Concern: THIS happened about July, 1918, at stick. The flow of blood stopped. He After I am decently put away I want Pigeon Point, Delaware, near Wil- shed tears of gratitude and kissed my everything else to go to The American mington on the banks of the Delaware hand. After showing the photos of his Legion at Harrison. I want Christeson River. I was corporal of the guard on an wife and children and offering his per- to put me away and there is no one to outpost guarding at least 150 cars of sonal possessions to me as souvenirs, I notify." high explosives. A private on my relief shook his hand and moved on. Next day Christeson, it so happened, was the was feeling sick so I asked him if he I saw him taken back of the lines. He coroner and was present. Just the day wanted a sub to take his place, and he

recognized me and it felt good to know I before, Ray had returned here from North said he would try to stick it out. He had saved a human life. Carolina, and the following day was went on post and sat down under the This was my outstanding achievement leaving for Hot Springs to re-enter the edge of a car where he could rest and

52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly keep from getting caught by the O. D. or Legioti Monthly -will pay $500 monthly: C. O. He was sitting there and heard a A first prize of $100 for what, hi the opin- "Tea, Sir?" clock ticking so he became afraid he was ion of the editors, is the best story submitted, "Tea? going to die because he had heard of $jo each for the next two, $25 each for Me? No! death watches ticking when a person the next four, and $10 each for the next TEACHER'S!" was going to die, so he called the corporal twenty. of the guard and when I answered he The contributions submitted will be told me he was going to die and told me judged not by their literary finish or lack what he had heard. I laughed because I of it, but by the quality and interest of am not superstitious. I sat down and their contents. No contributions will be listened at the same place and I also returned, nor can the editors of the Monthly heard the watch ticking. (whose decision will in all cases be final) We began moving around under the enter into a correspondence concerning car and located a cigar box up on the them. trucks of a car of what we call gun cotton, Contributions need not be typewritten, a very high explosive, containing two though typewriting is preferred. Don't sticks of dynamite, an alarm clock and send pictures! Address Big Moment two dry cell batteries. You can imagine Contest, The American Legion Monthly, our Big Moment when we ran nearly a 521 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Sub- mile and took the bomb to headquarters. mit as many stories

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"Home from the wars! Fit as a fiddle borrowed the icing off all that day's and ready for cake! Shake, Oldtimer!" cakes. Si put 'er there. Followed a hearty "You think that's what he's up to, thumping of ribs and whacking of rump; sure enough?" Nils asked. shoe chewing and a bit of ankle biting; "Bet your bottom cruller on it." then the pompous, circumstantial ride "Do you mind then if he rides along back to the service yard; the supervision this morning? I'll bring him back before of all purchases; the stately progress I leave the Mesa. I haven't seen the old to the street again. Observing, there, the crocodile for weeks, and I sure have old routine, a cookie coaxed Si off the missed him. He cheers the toughest wagon to the lawn. But now appeared days." new business for the act. With the cookie "How about it, Si?" the Side Kick cantilever his sweeping ... A RULE stuck out from asked. "Want to go along?" GOOD jaw, Si stepped right back into the baker's Did he want to go along? Was that a to follow, when ordering Scotch whisky, car again. question? Si put his ears up, cocked his is to specify TeacherVHighland Cceam" Nils looked down at him. reinforced concrete calabash, and ex- and make it clear you will be satisfied "What's this?" demanded Nils. "A ploded an affirmative that sprayed all stick-up?" Landsend Mesa with cookie crumbs. withnothingelse.Itsrich flavour,delicate Si sat, said nothing, and forbore to eat So up the street they rolled together, bouquet and satin smoothness make the cookie. Simon and The Pieman, Si seated on the it the "Perfection of Scotch Whisky." "Ah! So you won't talk, eh?" growled doughnut buggy floor, watching an infe- Nils. "Hunger strike, maybe? Cherry rior world pass by, as proud as Pharaoh Bottled in bond in the United Kingdom pie, or you won't get off! You take that in a chariot of inlaid gems and gold. under government supervision by cookie and you step down from my car- And not a half hour later The Tartar WM. TEACHER & SONS, LTD., GLASGOW riage, mug. That's all you're gonna get!" took a whack at Nils, the charioteer. But by this time Si's Side Kick, who The Tartar's mouth had long been and LONDON. Established 1830. had been an interested observer of this watering for a snack of Pieman. The SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: love feast, reached the gate. Tartar had already sampled iceman, Schieffelin & Co., new york city isn't pie after, Nils," he "It cherry he's milkman, laundryman, gas meter reader, IMPORTERS SINCE 1794 explained. "He's trying to tell you that and telegraph messenger boy. And he he'd rather ride with you today than have had found them good. But he had never the cookie." got his teeth into a Pieman, and he hank- Not that the Side Kick was any too ered for that delicacy much. TEACHERS sure of his canine psychology ; but it was Complaints had showered the police good diplomacy to flatter baker wagon about The Tartar's appetite; but Mr. 'HIGHLAND CREAM" men. Times being what they were, there and Mrs. Tartar liked the sort of dog was no telling how soon he might want that The Tartar was. They paid his to chisel a couple cookies off the baker license fee, and the license did not wagon man himself. specify what sort of meat he might SCOTCH WHISKY Nils fell. The Side Kick could have or might not (Continued on page 54)

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eat. So they continued to feed him But a vast gap yawns 'twixt theory and It is Harold Harebrain's custom to stray little girls and boys, preferring performance when it comes to actually come careering thus abruptly into any those with curly hair, and paid no heed staring your man-eater down. Nils scene. Harold drives a vehicle which whatever to any complaints. would have done it nicely, it is pretty can do a hundred and eighty miles per The Tartars lived in a very pretty certain, had he been able to fold his arms. hour in reverse. The greatest marvel house. Too pretty. It reminded a body But the old glittering optic, as has been of the automobile is that its engineers of the gingerbread house into which well established, will not do its stuff unless design it so that it operates without the Hansel and Gretel blundered. One the arms be folded, and the head thrown use of any brains whatsoever. Harold's suspected that the flowers about it were well back. It is thus that Ajax gave the car runs with less than that. It tears all insect trappers, and that the vine Bronx Cheer to the Lightning. But Nils, about the landscape at a speed which which climbed the chimney was a poison without putting down his basket, could demonstrates Harold as that great abom- ivy vine. At any rate there flourished by not fold his arms. And he did not dare ination, the exhibitionist. Harold's idea the curbing, sure enough, a wide and to put his basket down. The basket of perfect self expression is to drive as very stabby cactus garden, extending had bay-window-builder in it—two bucks' fast as possible on straight streets, and Tartar hospitality. worth. And The Tartar might like lady- faster round the corners. And if he fingers—who could tell? Nils did, there- makes a turn with less than two wheels NILS, our Pieman, never had tried to fore, what almost any other man would in the air, it doesn't count, and he has make a customer of Mrs. Tartar. have done. Instead of using his head, he to go back and do it over again. Nils, having heard tales from the iceman, used his feet. He started kicking at The Every one said, "That Minus Sign laundryman, et al., laid off the Tartar Tartar. A very futile gesture. And duck will pile into a group of playing children place. But lately Nils had had some soup, positively, for the foe. some day." But no one went and got lean sales days. And Nils feared greatly Nils never would have tried it had he the family blunderbuss and shot him. that if he got back to the bun factory ever seen The Tartar fencing, cruelly, And so, that morning of the last battle many more days with a lot of wares with some little dog. Such small afraid between Simon Sourmug and The Tartar, unsold, he would get his frame mountain- ones he would force into a corner, and Harold Harebrain stormed round a near- climbed by the superintendent, who, it there, retreat cut off, he would make piti- by intersection and rocketed into the pair was said, had all the mountain climbing less rapier passes at them, feinting with of fighting dogs. The taller Tartar got gadgets, including spiked boots and the his death weaponed muzzle daintily, tossed through the air. The low set ice pick. So, though Nils knew that until the victim, panicky, bewildered, bulldog was knocked down. The car more than one good man and true had guarding frantically, left an opening. At went over him, miraculously missing had the bosom of his trousers chewed, which lance fangs would drive down, him with every wheel. Harold skidded. braving the Tartar hold, he nevertheless swift as any foil thrust; and then, except The front wheel of his tumbril hit the performed his stuff. There was old for help which might with luck be near, curb, the steering wheel was twisted Viking blood in Nils. There was the a savage wrench or two would end that from his hands, and the roadster, leaving spirit of Childe Roland also in him. Up devil sport. the street, snaked giddily across the Tar- to the entrance of the Tartar keep The It would have taken but a second for tar lawn, climbed the front steps of the Pieman rode, and dauntless the slug The Tartar to out-fence the kicking feet Tartar domicile, tore the door off its horn to his lips he set, and blew! Or, as of Nils, and so get for himself that hinges, and stopped with broken radiator you might say, tootled. longed-for bite of Pieman. But much deluging hot and rusty water—it is a Everyone who has read that back- can happen in a second. In much less privilege to report—on the gold and mul- bone-icing piece about Childe Roland than a second there exploded sixty-some- berry Kirmanshah in the reception hall has wondered what grisly shape, fouling odd pounds of brindle blasting powder! of Mr. and Mrs. Tartar. H. Harebrain the world with venom, came squidgeling Like a projectile Si came shooting from got a broken nose. One only. We are across the moat from the Dark Tower the doughnut buggy. sorry. No arms, no legs, no.neck. Alack- after the brave knight blew his dauntless He hit The Tartar broadside, utterly aday! blast. But you do not have to wonder by surprise, and took him out of the play The Tartai, zooming through the air, what came ravening from the Tartar with a body-check that rattled his bones made an unhappy landing. Terrifically lair after The Pieman tootled. None like dice in a leather cup. Then, for a shaken, but otherwise undamaged, he other was it than The Tartar. More moment, Si was all over him, trying for came down, all four up, in the cactus bed fearful than The Green Eyed Dragon the hold which his badly offset fangs along the curb! There, as he struggled to With The Thirteen (Count Them) Tails, could never get. But only for a moment regain his feet and go far, far away, he tore across the Tartar lawn, yelling was The Tartar under-dog. With a deft Simon the Sourmug, ramming recklessly his cockeyed ears off. gathering of his feet, with one swift through the cactus, fell happily upon Nils had stepped down from his wagon, spring, The Tartar put himself out into him. To Simon Sourmug all battle fields and with his napkined basket full of fat clear where he could size things up before are good battle fields. Cactus spines man's dynamite had started toward the he went to work. He landed in the open stabbed him, belly, sides and paws. Tartar house. Nils had his plans all laid. street. Hell-bent Si followed, driving What the hell, Buddy? What the hell? Nils knew his pooches. Nils had read headlong. But when he reached the But panic seized The Tartar. Here or heard that if you show no sign of fear place where The Tartar had been, the was this bullpup who had never gotten a a dog will not attack you. Nils had it place was empty; and in the instant fol- tooth into him in their previous encoun- figured. If The Tartar rushed him he lowing Si felt the fire of fangs sear through ter; but now, after hitting The Tartar would do like good George Nidiver, a the loose skin of his neck. nearly hard enough to knock him out hunter bold was he, in the old recitation "Saint George and Merrie England!" through the front end of his skin, this book. George stood unarmed and looked growled old John Bull's dog, and set his former easy victim boarded him, letting the charging grizzly in the eye, nor yet an wide spread front props solidly to try to him have it port and starboard, fore and inch gave way, until the bear turned shake those teeth out of his hide. aft, with a hundred spiky fangs in a hun- slowly round, and slowly walked away. And just then Harold Harebrain spun dred different places all at once. And The Unquote. around the corner! Tartar, yelling mayhem, murder, and

54 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly the wrath to come, squirmed out from humane officer would have taken one under Si and uncorked such a burst of scared look at that ferocious black mug, going as would have made H. Harebrain froth to the ears, and would have shot and his go-devil, rounding their favorite him on the spot for rabies. corner, seem to be laboring up to the Froth to the ears, Si paused before he hubs in pitch. went for other of The Pieman's wares, It was the last combat between the and rolled an eye at Nils, prepared to bull pup and The Tartar. Since that wiggle-waggle his appreciation. But the AS A BIRD NEEDS day, indeed, Simon has got not one good glance of Nils was at that moment fo- clear glimpse of The Tartar. Every cused far away. He was looking a half time Simon sees The Tartar nowadays, mile down the street. A half mile down The Tartar seems to be going on a jour- the street, and still accelerating, The ney to a far country, and in haste. All Tartar dog was continuing to put them that Simon ever sees of him is tail, and down and pick them up again. only the most fleeting views of that. Then Nils looked down at Si. The eye Simon sighs wistfully. of Nils held gleamings. Si made Nils "Tough luck," Si breathes regrets. think of old Norse heroes who, with bat- "There goes a fellow who can sure give tle frenzy on them, foamed at the mouth you a sweat-up!" as they fought. Nils stooped and picked himself a UPON the lawn of Mr. and Mrs. cream puff, too—with Scandinavian Tartar on this high class California thriftiness, a cream puff wrecked beyond Saturday a.m. there lay buns. There lay repair. All the king's horses and all the also cup-cakes, cookies, crumpets, apple king's men could never have unsquashed

tarts and cream puffs, star scattered on it.

the grass. Nils, in his demonstration of He held it at arm's height, as some an- la boxe francaise—in his foot sparring cient Viking jarl might have hoisted an with The Tartar, had upset his basket. iron beaker streaked with foaming mead, Simon the Sourmug looked this layout to toast his stoutest warrior. over. What a pal—what a pal, that "Here's gravy in your wrinkles, old baker wagon skipper! Go to bat for berserker!" offered Nils, and buried his him, and he practically snowed you in nose. with eatments! Si looked up, his sooty pan all gor- Your bulldog has a sweet tooth, what geously belathered. He wiggle-waggled I mean. Your bulldog is no dog to with one end and made whipped creamy So a pipe tobacco needs dally when it comes to cake. Without noises with the other. Past the lips and delay Si bore down on a cream puff. through the gums; look out stomach, BOTH Lucky for Si the humane officer was not here she comes! After great fighting, on hand when Si came up for air. The mighty feasting. Skoal! mildness and flavor!

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{Continued from page 2q) But it's Flavor that gives the pleasure. Flavor is the reason men smoke pipes. Flavor navy uniforms and were still afflicted with casional hovering of discipline, we needn't makes the difference. navy officers, the salty life was not to be have been in the Navy at all, and the only Good flavor is not so easy to get. Edge- ours. No heave-my-hearties for us, no lecture on navy discipline that I rerrem- worth has a flavor all its own. This Flavor scuppers running with blood while the ber we received in Ireland was when we is so good that many pipe smokers have broadsides went shattering and no desper- were called together by a lieutenant used Edgeworth for twenty years and more. ate work in the sick-bay as the shells commander who apparently chafed a bit The Edgeworth people found the way to struck. Ours was the life of the pickaxe under the union labor atmosphere and so keep Edgeworth tobacco mild and keep and the shovel, the paint-brush and the gave us a talk on the proper way to all the good flavor too. Mildness and wheel-barrow, for we found that our base salute. Flavor together, that's Edgeworth. Try a 15-cent tin. Edgeworth is made and guar- hospital, made up of a series of frame "When you meet an officer," he said, anteed by Larus & Bro. Co., Tobacco- one-story buildings, had been left finished "you give him a smart salute, like this, nists since 1877, Richmond, Va. only up to the point where the carpenters, and look him straight in the eye. You will

plumbers and electricians had left off. find you do it better if you say to your- " We had to do all the painting, build selves as you are doing this, 'Go to hell!' the roads and set up all the contents of This advice worked splendidly except the hospital. We raced neck and neck in the case of one of our lowest-test men- with the fast-concluding war; when the tality lads who didn't catch on that you army cleaned up St. Mihiel, we cleaned said "Go to hell" to yourself, and not up the painting, and when the boys in out loud. * olive drab were pushing through the Finally, the war won, and our sphere m • Argonne, we boys in blue were pushing of usefulness contracted to practically the wheel-barrows on the road job. By nothing, we were sent on our way rejoic- the time the German navy mutinied we ing toward home. After a hard, all-night had completed the work. trip by way of Waterford and Fishguard So we had no battle casualties to take we arrived in Southampton two days EDGEWORTH HAS BOTH care of; but we finally avoided a shut-out beforejChristmas. The first day we rested by the flu epidemic, a few accidents, and up in our delightful quarters on the old MILDNESS AND FLAVOR a stray hernia or so. Except for the oc- Louisville, again {Continued on page §6)

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on E deck. They told us we were waiting I finally turned in to the YMCA. There "I know," he agreed, "but I just got for a shipment of army amputation I found a nondescript assortment of even with one of 'em." cases. We were to take care of them on English and Americans sitting around an "With one of what?" I asked. the trip back to the United States. The unsuccessful fire. An English soldier was "With one of the Limeys," he an- next day, the day before Christmas, playing a violin, playing in a way that swered. "I got so sick of hanging around I felt a lot better, after a good rest, and acutely reminded one of what violin I just walked up to an English sailor and managed to obtain shore liberty for the strings are made of. Finally, after a series knocked him cold. I feel a lot better." evening. of doleful tunes, this part of the enter- We separated at our ships and I went Ah, to be in England on Christmas tainment ended. There followed a period below. I found my shipmates getting Eve! All the memories of Bracebridge of awkward silences interspersed with ready to turn in. Hall and A Christmas Carol came to my dull, dispirited bits of conversation. It "Say," said my friend who occupied mind. I thought of yule logs blazing in was the deadest group that I ever the bunk above mine, "have you heard the fireplaces of the great houses through- encountered. the latest news?" out the English countryside, of holly and The Y secretary tried valiantly to "No," I replied. mistletoe, of the village wights singing inject a little life into the party but it had "Well, we have to start the day after their Christmas songs; in imagination I died on his hands. In desperation, he to-morrow coaling ship ourselves, the saw the jolly interiors of all the humble suggested we make some cocoa, so we had English lighter-men are on strike. Ain't homes and smelled the plum puddings some bitter thick cocoa with damp crack- that swell?" and roasted geese. I looked forward to ers. This repast, with its preparation, I crawled into my bunk and tried to strolling about on English soil on the killed half an hour, at the end of which forget that this was Christmas Eve, the night before Christmas. I set out alone the secretary, visibly exhausted, faded night the Christmas tree used to stand in about five o'clock in a chill easterly into an inner room. the living-room when I was a kid. drizzle. It was already dark and the Fearing that I might be found in the Early on a clear, cold January morning sparsely populated sidewalks were slip- morning a corpse among those of my we sailed slowly into New York harbor. pery with a film of wet mud. feckless companions, I departed. On my We lined the rail, watching the marvel- I walked aimlessly about the town for way to the ship I stopped in at a pub and ous city sky-line. When we finally docked an hour or so, gradually getting wetter had a drink, partly to take the taste of there was a small crowd on the wharf and colder. I passed two English soldiers, the cocoa out of my mouth and partly to to greet us, including some very pretty one had an empty sleeve and the other a try to cheer up. It was no use. I felt girls—and didn't American girls look black patch over one eye. An old woman lower than ever. As I picked my way good! Everybody was excited and cheer- with a shawl over her head stopped me among the railroad tracks along the dis- ful. Even our patients were happy as we to sell some unprepossessing-looking mal misty quay, lighted at intervals of helped them down the gang-way. A band apples. about fifty yards by tiny electric lights, began to play. Everyone was shaking In a dark alley near the water-front I was joined by an Australian soldier on hands. I met a couple coming out of a pub, a his way back to his ship which was tied I stood by the rail and watched them man and a woman. The woman, a hard- up just behind ours. take a wounded soldier to an ambulance. faced slattern, reeking of gin, was making "What you been doing?" the Aussie They carried him in a sort of white canvas disgustingly indecent proposals in a loud inquired. bag that looked like a coal sack. He voice to her stumbling, muttering com- "Nothing," I replied. "What is there to didn't have any legs. I've wondered what panion. do in this joint?" became of fellows like that.

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I found myself in the office of C. S. Club this year if they had thrown a party Union Electric Light and Power Com- Abell, who has managed the hotel for for "all Legion members." pany. Questions put to officers of that many years. Did he remember the But it is not only the Legion which has company elicited the information that Legion's iqiq Caucus and our all-night grown in those sixteen years. St. Louis, the Shu bert-Jefferson Theater had been committee meetings? Did he! Abell too, has grown. We found that out as demolished a couple of years after our grinned. You bet he did! And off he soon as we arrived. St. Louis has grown Caucus meeting. went into a rhapsody of recollections. —and changed. The building at Olive And now we are out on the streets That meeting stirred me to further and Locust which housed the old Shubert- again, making merry with the Legion- recollections. All sorts of incidents of Jefferson Theater, birthplace of the naires of 1035- The dream of 19 19 fades 1919 came to mind, and some are amusing Legion, is no longer recognizable. It has before the rushing reality of this tumultu- enough when you try to fit them into been completely remodeled. The theater ous evening. Resplendent in their color- the 1935 picture. Take, for instance, the is gone. * I stood outside trying to fit it ful uniforms, the conventioneers mass time when the Sunset Club of St. Louis into my memory of other years. That gaily in mid-street and hold mock trials invited "all Legion members" to a supper- was not so easy. All that remained to of passing motorists. Strange how this dance at its clubhouse. I remember the recall our historic gathering was the carnival kaleidoscope of 1935 gets con- party well. A couple of hundred of us metal plaque erected last May to com- fused in our mind with the memories of went—just enough to fill the space. memorate the birthplace of The Ameri- yesteryear. The 1935 veterans surge Even in those days the clubhouse could can Legion. along, arm in arm, singing that slightly not have accommodated our entire mem- Time, of course, has wrought its in- Rabelaisian doggerel "They all ask for bership. And I cannot help wondering evitable change. The building now is a you." It is the same spirit we knew in what would have happened to the Sunset commercial structure, occupied by the 1919, the same verve and impudence.

56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Only the songs have changed. In the old Illinois delegate beckoned me; he had days we would chant "Hinky-dinky seen the faded 19 19 Caucus badge on my Heureux Noel!! parley voo" and "How ya gonna keep coat. 'em down on the farm?" Pulling me into the aisle he told Then, too, the various insignia of the me that another 1919 delegate was near- 1935 convention were quite a poser to the by. "Where?" I demanded; he pointed patriarchs of Caucus days. Hats! Hats to a gray-haired man standing a short of every sort and variety—and all be- distance away. I recognized the delegate tokening Legion organizations that were without difficulty. He was Dr. A. D. unborn in 1910. Auxiliary hats, Forty Houghton, of Los Angeles (Sergeant and Eight hats, Eight and Forty hats. Houghton in wartime); he had attended And—most incredible of all to our 1010 the Caucus Convention as a member of minds— those hats of the Sons of the the California delegation. Legion! When Dr. Houghton saw my 1919 The numerous organizations growing badge he beamed. There was a rapid by- out of the Legion were a development no play of do-you-remembers between us as one could possibly have foreseen in 1919. we traced the whole sixteen years of the Most particularly is this true of the Sons Legion's history in a few minutes. Then of the Legion— why, in 1919 we were I played traitor to my duties as a dele- for the most part scarcely out of the gate for a brief spell while we stood in an son stage ourselves. ante -room of the convention hall living No, all these things were beyond the the 1919 meeting over again. horizon. Our thoughts were focussed on One favorite topic of talk whenever the one purpose and one alone— to found 19 19 delegates got together was the dif- The American Legion. That was a big ference in procedure between the 1919 enough job—we had no room for any Caucus and the 1935 convention. And other. what a difference! In 1919 the delegates (This will solve a few Xmas Present Problems were young, wild, warlike. They hadn't for You.) AND now I'll let you in on a secret, been cooled and calmed by sixteen years xi. We of the St. Louis Caucus went to of civilian life. 1935 convention with a chip on our col- No, we Caucus lads were fresh out of That's French for MERRY lective shoulder. We were quite sure that the military, with the rigors of war still like still the Legion had forgotten all about our in our ways and moods. Our convention XMAS the Buddies 1919 meeting. Well, that notion met an speech was brusque and unpolished. I re- say it in WALLY'S CAR- early death. It was banished forever the member expressions we used addressing minute we saw the first big "welcome the chair— expressions which I suspect TOONS OF THE A. E. F home" banner waving at us gaily in the would shock convention delegates of Union Station. The next thrill came these days. when we pinned on our convention badges And yet immature and impromptu as You can say Merry bearing the graceful inscription "In some of it was, it is remarkable how Christmas in many honor of the men who at the Saint Louis often our talk at the Caucus sounded different ways — in ." (Mail Caucus, May 1919. . . To the 1919 the identical note of the 1935 conven- many different lan- men that inscription was a real heart- tion. this warmer. "As good as a handshake," one The explanation, of course, lies in guages—but the best delegate commented, and we all agreed this paramount fact: The fundamental order way to say it is with heartily. principles of the Legion have changed not laughs! Reunions with other Legionnaires one whit during those sixteen years. Our coupon Then you will have whom we had not seen since Caucus days spirit of iQio remains our spirit of 1935. a Merry were, naturally enough, a highlight of the Time and growth have solidified, mel- today) Xmas—and convention for us. On the opening day lowed and strengthened this spirit, but many merry days to at the Auditorium, just after Madame we are still as we were then dedicated come thereafter. Schumann-Heink finished singing, an to service "for God and country." (All the Wallgren cartoons from the Stars & Stripes, Official A. E. F. news- paper in France reprinted in one bound These are the cancer danger signs for which any person, especially volume with hysterical histories by if over thirty-five, should be wachful. ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT & Any sore which does not heal promptly, particularly one about the JOHN T. WINTERICH.) mouth. Any lump, whether in the breast or other part of the body, which COUPON- begins to grow or change. Legion Book Dept. Any unusual discharge or bleeding. The American Legion Monthly Pain is a late symptom. Indianapolis, Indiana Many cancers can be cured by early treatment, and in the presence of any of the above symptoms immediate advice should be sought. Dear Sirs: The Veterans Bureau operates special cancer clinics in some of its Please send me copies of hospitals, where ex-service men who are unable to pay may be given Wally's A. E. F. cartoons at $1.50 treatment free. Information may be obtained from the National ea. for the $ enclosed. Rehabilitation Committee of The American Legion, 1608 K Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Literature dealing with cancer may be Name obtained from the American Society for the Control of Cancer, 12 50 Address Sixth Avenue, New York City. Residents of New York City, write to the New York City Cancer Committee, 150 East 83d Street. Town .State.

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You've seen a chicken rise from in It was about a week before Christmas, River Jordan with which to baptize the front of your car—almost from beneath and here was a little Negro barefooted as small son of a minister. the wheels—and fly to the side of the a jay bird. But there was no package. I carried out an oblong box from which road? That is the way Uncle Messick Every day from then on, rain or shine, had issued a faint, wailing sound to which sought safety. I'll bet he jumped a good sleet or snow, Chigger met me, looking I had paid no especial attention. It was ten feet —clear into a cotton patch for the shoes. consigned to the small daughter of a by the road. He wasn't any too robust a little fellow, patron who lived back from the road Fortunately or unfortunately, as the with his feet tied up in pieces of tow sack- quite a distance. When expecting parcels case might be, Uncle Messick's wife wit- ing. he sent a small Negro boy to meet me. nessed his exhibition of agility. The One day he came racing to the car, The youngster was on hand and began next morning when I passed, Uncle Mes- eyes popping. "Dey come?" he asked. to swell with importance when I pufled sick was picking cotton. I shook my head. "What's Santa go- out the box. But the importance went ing to bring you?" out of him like a puff of wind when from TO witness weddings has been my al- He hung his head. "Nuffin. Dem the box as I lifted it came a ghostly most daily fate. I've been asked to shoes'll be mah Crismus." A racking wailing. perform the ceremony. I've drawn up cough shook him and he wiped a fleck "Lawd hab mussy, Mr. Mail Man! deeds, mortgages, rent notes, petitions, of crimson from his purple lips. Whut am dat?" he cried. wills. I look after the pets of my vacation- The next day no Chigger. But the I shook the box. It wailed again, more ing patrons. I obliged a patron one day next he was back at his post waiting. pronounced, and the boy jumped ten by tying a bull yearling to the rear of the No shoes, and the following day was feet. I moved the box again, and this car and towing it two miles to a neighbor. Christmas. time moved it right, for from within came That is an experiment I'll never I was almost as anxious as the little a distinct but somewhat muffled "ma- repeat. For several yards I'd drag Negro for the shoes to arrive. Without ma." the obstinate animal along, his every leg them he'd have no Christmas. But It was one of the first of the talking braced, his feet plowing up the road. Christmas came and passed without the dolls then being put out. But the Negro Then he'd change his program and try shoes. Chigger, too, was not at his ac- boy would not be convinced it was a doll. to get in the car with me. customed place. Then, two days later, Dolls couldn't talk. And he absolutely There is an old maid who frequently the long awaited package. refused to touch the box. It was hau nted. asks me to decapitate chickens. I The cabin was silent when I drove up. brought her a box of setting eggs which I had expected Chigger to be waiting and THERE is quite a difference in serv- had come through the mail. She threw had anticipated his happiness. Shiver- ing the two races. I'd rather serve up her hands in horror. "Every last ing in the wind, wrapped in a piece of old the black. They rarely kick so long as chicken will be a rooster!" she cried. "I quilt, face pinched and ashen—I knew you are accommodating and friendly, no didn't think of that." Questioned, she what this fruition of his hopes would be. matter if you are five hours late or don't explained that if a man handles hatching I blew my horn. But instead of Chig- run at all. eggs they'll all come roosters; if a woman, ger his mother came out. Different with the white brother. You they'll all be hens. That was news to "Where's Chigger?" I asked. "His must be friendly and do your job too. me. Maybe to you. shoes are here." You may be right on time twenty-four Perhaps the most interesting single The old woman put her apron to her days out of twenty-five, but on that phase of my job is the letters I'm asked face. "Lawdy, Mr. Mail Man. Chig- twenty-fifth day if you're thirty minutes to read and write. The pathos, humor, ger's daid. He died yisterday." late he'll be waiting for you with an im- tragedy and comedy hidden beneath the There was another who flagged me portant letter to mail. Been waiting insignia of a postage stamp! before Easter. He was older than Chig- most all morning. Where you been? Reverend Cargo, colored, wrote to an ger and a good deal blacker. He climbed Mislay as much as a single piece of elder in one of his district churches, up on the side of the car with three baby mail, be it the humble circular he'd never "Am sending Bro. Nelson out to preach to chickens in his ragged cap. look at, and you'll forever be under his you next Sunday.— Take up a collection "What are you going to do with them?" suspicion. Let a letter he's expecting as usual, but —" and the words were to "I wants tuh sin dem tuh er little white be a day late and you've mislaid that, be underscored "save half of it for me boy whut lives in St. Louis. He's cripple too, and he's ready to take the matter up sure!" Aunt Francis lost her best work en ain't never seed eny baby chicks." with the Department. mule. She asked me to write her son in A lady of quality met me one morning Mississippi to send her another "by I'LL go a week and not sell a money with that calm majesty which goes with partial post right away." order. Then just as certain as I sell one righteous indignation. Her daughter had Chigger was a little Negro not much a few miles out I'm in for a run. It mailed her from a distant city a small larger than the insect he was named for. seems as if they had entered into an but very important package. It had Acquaintance with him was limited at agreement to buy money orders on that not arrived. Why not? first, he being a lonely spectator each particular day. Queer, but it works like I couldn't say, and I promised to keep day to my passing. Back in those hills that. The psychologist can explain this, an eye open for this very small and im- the coming of the mail carrier is quite but I can't. portant package, thinking that it couldn't an event. Then one day brought Chig- Monday and Friday are the heaviest be anything less than a . ger, wild eyed as a yearling steer, tearing mail days. But the package did not show up, and down into the road to stop me. With The average money order is about each day I drove away from that particu- great excitement, "Got er package for three dollars. People order everything lar box feeling that good lady's eyes bor- me, Mr. Mail Man?" from a paper of pins to a wagon wheel. ing into my back. "Who's going to send you a package?" The queerest package I ever had offered A few days and she met me again, and I asked. for mailing was the body of a week-old with a condescending "I hate to do it but "My mammy done ordered me er par negro baby; the queerest I ever carried it is my plain duty" manner informed me ub shoes." was a small bottle of water from the that she was going to take the matter

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly up with Washington immediately. The put in on a route of this length. But there way she spoke her piece you knew the are days when I'm out twelve or four- Department would drop everything and teen. On the Shelf . . . rush to her rescue. A bridge washed out—miles of detour She bore a fine old Southern name, and to make. A tree across the road—several or On a Vacation as is the custom in the South several hours' labor before a passage can be Negro families boasted the same. There effected. I've driven thirty-six miles to was of course a namesake among them, detour around a mile and a half portion Retirement and to this namesake a few days pre- of the route on which a bridge was gone. can be a glorious vacation vious I remembered having delivered a Knowing a perfectly terrific night- enjoy letter. Getting hold of this letter the rain had wrought havoc, I drove a mule with pay, a chance to following day, I found that it was what and buggy the following day on a part life more than ever, if you our indignant lady was expecting. And of the route where creeks abounded. prepare for it with a John the very small and important package A forty-foot bridge was gone—washed was a paper of pins enclosed in an en- up against the railroad bridge. There Hancock retirement plan. velope. was no way of getting across unless—and I pondered the question seriously—unless Don't go on the shelf; go was another, a Sunday school I could get through the field which edged THERE on a vacation when you leave teacher, leader in the community life the creek to the railroad, drive up it and —the seeming paragon of her sex. She cross the creek on the trestle, which was business behind you. Send bought fifty cents' worth of stamps and floored. for our booklet describing put them in a letter to a publishing house. I knew there were no trains due and After a few days and no literature, she decided to take the chance rather than the John Hancock way. asked me what about it. I counseled pa- drive back nine miles to another road. tience—so many things could be re- The mule was a faithful animal, steady sponsible for the delay. and dependable and powerful. So across A few more days and no results. The the field we made it to the railroad em- Life Insurance Company' lady wrote the publishing house I bankment. There was difficulty and some Of Bostoh. Massachusetts had a glimmer of what was about to getting up on this, but finally it was done happen. When the reply came it hap- and we were headed down the track for John Hancock Inquiry Bureau 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. pened. the bridge. On it we got and were half Please send me your booklet, "Money /« I've never before or since heard anyone way across when a train whistled for the All Your Tomorrows." talk so fast and so long about fifty cents. crossing to which we were moving just

I was a thief and several kinds of rascal; as fast as possible. Street and No. the whole post office force were robbers. We had perhaps fifty yards to go. I City Slate She was going to have that fifty cents urged the mule on. We made the bridge back if she had to have every man on and got within twenty or thirty feet of the force fired. the crossing when the train showed up. I fight shy of that woman to this day. Had it been a freight we would have These of course are exceptions, but they made it. But it was a special running are to be found on every rural route. Ask light and coming at tremendous speed. RADIOtips latest most important develop- your mail man! It could not stop in time, so there was What are Radio's and ments? Read the surprising facts in Popular Mechan- On the other hand there are any nothing else to do but head the mule ics. Special section filled every month with vital new3 and information on construction and maintenance of number who will hail you on a bitter cold down the twenty-foot embankment. both transmitting and receiving sets. Original designs engineers. Besides, this big 200- page magazine day and bring you in to the fire to drink The mule and myself made the dozen by our is crammed full of fascinating accounts and pictures a hot cup of coffee or have a bowl of soup. or so revolutions to the bottom in fair (many in colors) of astounding scientific discov- eries, new achievements in aviation, electricity, etc. One of these made it a point to have a shape, but there wasn't much left of the Don't miss t his month's is- sue a thrilling record of bit of hot toddy on cold, wet days. He buggy. POPULAR — the world 's newest wonders. was one of the finest, though slightly There was a World War veteran on MECHANICS 25c at all newsstands. given to viewing the wine when it was my route who could pin more red. for valor on his coat than I had buttons "Here's to you," was his accustomed on mine. Day after day I watched him MINUTE toast. "Let her rain or freeze" —as the struggle impotently to wrest from his few STOPPED IN ONE Are you tormented with the itching tortures of eczema, case might be. "Nobody out but fools impoverished acres a scant living for rashes, eruptions, or other skin afflictions? For quick and mail carriers." his wife and two babies. Gassed in the and happy relief, use cooling, antiseptic, liquid D. D. D. Prescription. Its gentle oils soothe the irritated and I'd stop toast hottest Argon ne Forest, he fallen and him in the had an easy inflamed skin. Clear, greaseless and stainless—dries days of the summer with a dipper of victim to tuberculosis. He had filed a fast. Stops the most intense itching instantly. A 35o trial bottle, at drug stores, proves it—or money back. cold water. "Let her shine" —meaning claim for compensation but it seemed the sun—"let her boil. Nobody out but as if he must go under before the claim D.D.D. PA^cAZ&ZIo-vl fools and farmers and mail carriers." would be recognized. Carrying the mail is not what some people think—a mere matter of putting MONTHS passed, and nothing came out and picking up letters, getting back from Washington save letter after by noon with the rest of the day to be letter about some trivial discrepancy in spent as pleases you. Besides the human the records. Fiddling with red tape while element, the variable temperament of a man was dying, his children hungry. old Mother Nature helps to add to your Then the check came. woes. Eager to get to him, I drove fast. I $1260 to $2100 Year There is an old Negro man who, when looked for him when I topped the hill a certain creek near his place gets out of before reaching his place. There was FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. Dept. DI83. Rochester. N. Y. banks, mounts his mule and rides through no sign of life when I drove up. I blew irs: Rush to me without charge (1) page book with list of many U. S. the water, guiding me where it's shal- but no one answered. The wife and ba- nment Big Pay Jobs. (2) Tell appointments. O .il.nul I'n-tY • Mr lowest. bies had gone to spend the day with Seven hours a day is the average time relatives. {Continued on page 60)

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I got out of the car and knocked. Not There was old Mrs. Bobby, who met coming it would be! I could just see old a sound. I went around to the back. me the first day of every month for her Mrs. Bobby with arms outstretched, eyes No one there. A silence was on that government check of fifty dollars—in- burning with the vindication of an imper- little home which made me shiver. I surance on Jimmy who was sleeping in ishable hope. Couldn't beat a woman's

went back to the front and as a last France. Every once in a while she'd intuition. She had been right after all. resort called, "John, your check is remind me she wasn't taking the check Jimmy was coming home. here." with a clear conscience. Jimmy, she'd But on the first of the month old Mrs. The door opened. John came out. say, was not dead, don't care what the Bobby met me as usual. Not as usual He didn't say a word. From the looks Government says. "Some day he'll come either, for she wasn't the same old Mrs. of him he couldn't. Just took the letter home. I've moved since he left. But Bobby—just a bit of humanity sucked with trembling hands and sat down on he'll find me." dry and robbed of hope. the doorstep and cried like a baby. It hurt me to see this belief cling on. "You'll not be needing this any more," Through the door he had left open I One day that hope would have to die. I said, holding up the check. saw a shotgun leaning against the bed. Then came a day when I overtook a "I can take it now with a clear con- A piece of string hung from the triggers. khaki clad figure hobbling down the road. science," she said. I waited long enough for John to open I picked him up and he inquired the way "But—but," I stammered, "wasn't the letter—the check was for $1388.99 to old Mrs. Bobby's. that Jimmy who came back last week?" and to see faith and strength come back I didn't spoil this homecoming with a "No; it was his buddy come to tell to his thin, worn face. lot of fool questions. And what a home- me how Jimmy had died."

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Raymond Henry Duquesne, from El plays bridge with such skill that he is ac- In this , our list could be ex- Paso, Texas, an officer with the 348th claimed as the Culbertson of Saint Na- panded until it stretched across the At- Field Artillery, trains and owns race zaire. lantic ocean. Subsequent entries would horses at Marseille, which puts him in In another part of France, namely, in be as odd, as astonishing, as praise-com- the same class as the Aga Khan and Strasbourg, another A. E. F. veteran pelling as those which have preceded. the Baron de Rothschild. Allan Henry makes both ends meet by operating a Indeed, my chief scout in the Bordeaux

Muhr, of Philadelphia, who served with restaurant; his name is Julian J. Levy of sector writes: "Down here, A. E. F. the British, French and American armies Warnersville, Pennsylvania, and he saw veterans do even impossible things. I and ended up as a captain, is now the service with the 315th Infantry. His personally know of a horse doctor, per- general commissioner of the Racing Club place is famed for its gastronomic special- haps the only American one in France; de France. How an American could ties, such as Alsatian sausages, pastries, a dentist; several farmers—one of them land such a job and keep it is a miracle foie gras, beer and wine. Any ex-soldier operates a model farm near Agen; a for which I have as yet found no adequate passing through Strasbourg should look paper manufacturer; two garage owners; explanation, but the fact itself is beyond up Levy's restaurant; he'll be sure of a a grocer; a sign painter; a wine producer; dispute. good meal, a warm welcome, and a chance a taxicab driver; a chemist; and an in- In my comings and goings about to fight the war all over again—orally. spector on the French police force." France, I bump into A. E. F. comrades Indeed, there are many A. E. F. hotel- (Not to be confused, that last, with

in the most unexpected places. After keepers in France. Earle J. Smith, ex- Charles Lunel.) registering at the hotel 1 generally ask sergeant of Columbus, Ohio, runs the All of which proves the correctness

if there are any left-overs from Pershing's Nouvel Hotel in Verdun. Peter L. and modernity of the ancient wisecrack, army; seldom am I disappointed. At Brown, of Albuquerque and Hollywood, "Necessity is the mother of invention." Saint Nazaire, when I asked this ques- is the owner of the "Grand Hotel of the In ordinary circumstances, few of these tion, the response was: "Out! Oui! II Beautiful Star" at Mennecy near Paris. A. E. F. orphans would have revealed y a Monsieur Ree-awn." Upon investiga- John J. Jankowski, from Owosso, Michi- such imagination, shrewdness, and origi- tion, I learned that Monsieur Ree-awn gan, is mine host at the "Hotel of Good nality. Faced by grim necessity, they be- was Daniel Paul Ryan, of Chicago and Welcome" at Merlimont, on the Channel came minor Marconis and social inven- Pittsburgh (he used to go courting a girl Coast, while Wilbur Nicholas Albertson tors as they created the unusual, unex- from my home town of McKeesport, runs the Hotel Delpierre at Ambleteuse pected jobs which permit them to wage Pennsylvania, but a demoiselle got him), nearby. In Paris there are two Legion a winning battle against the Big, Bad formerly sergeant first class at Camp hotel proprietors, Louis W. Wehrle Wolf. Hospital 95. Of all the thousands and (from Ft. Wayne, Indiana), who runs the As I terminate my manuscript, I re- thousands of A. E. F. soldiers who passed Hotel de Versailles in the Montparnasse ceive the friendly visit of the Saluting through St. Nazaire, Ryan alone remains. district, and Elbert Lee Dodds (from Demon. (Truly, he's a real person, and

Life has been kind to him ; he is the pro- Fort Dodge, Iowa; former sergeant major not just Wallgren's brain-child.) I prietor of the Grands Magasins de la at the C. R. O., Bourges), who owns and show him this very article; I request Chatelaine, the big store of the town operates the Hotel Delavigne near the comment. which is famed for the charm and beauty Luxembourg Gardens. "Every month," he remarks, "in his of its salesgirls. And believe me, from Down in Cannes, on the Riviera, F. B. clever and humorous cartoon, Wallgren personal observation, I can testify that Huger, from the sidewalks of New York, depicts me as saluting a lot of nit-wits, the reputation is deserved. After closing runs a children's playground and an open- ciphers, and stuffed shirts; and nobody his store every evening, Ryan crosses the air gymnasium on the beach, known as enjoys the caricature more than I do. square to the Grand Cafe, and there he "Pajama Land." And yet, some day I hope Wally will

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draw a serious cartoon around your deserve not only my salute but that article, and show me saluting the inven- of General Pershing himself." Safeguard Your Face! tive talents and the courageous spirit of After all, why not? So I transmit the the buddies whose adventures you have Saluting Demon's suggestion, through Shoot narrated. "For those fellows really channels, to the one and only Wallgren.

HIS enumeration of ex-A. E. F. INjob-creators, Mr. Ragner modestly forgot an interesting specimen—him- self. After serving with Co. L, 320th In- fantry, and 160th Infantry Brigade Head- quarters, in the Argonne and elsewhere, he hit the home trail via the University of Bordeaux. Then, in 1022, this ex- sergeant abandoned McKeesport, Penn- sylvania, for the sunny vistas of Paris. For seven years he served with the Chicago Tribune (Paris Edition)—now extinct—ending up his service there as managing editor. In 1920 he resigned, having created some more interesting jobs for himself most important that of publicity counsel for the Railways of France. All he has to do is to travel over France, eat good food, drink good wine, enjoy the sights, and then write articles about what he has seen, imbibed and admired. All the while, he has amassed what Prof. William Lyon Phelps recently described as "apparently aganda methods in France but how he limitless information" about France got the French to adopt them is a mys- which he is happy to share with all tery, perhaps even to himself. The comers—A. E. F. comrades preferred. above photograph shows Mr. Ragner He was first to introduce American prop- and his French wife.

Dry Cleans! Sells Itself! REVOLUTIONARY invention banishes old- ' ^Ace of zyfces dollies brushes forever. Never ftnythmk' Ukt

Saves cVeaning'bilis^ Low. {Continued from page j8) priced. Sells on siKht. Agents clean anlI>le9 S6nt 1 SAMPLE OFFER f 3d Div. know. It may seem a long way off, —Send name and address to Ceorge Dobbs, !l Colby St., Belmont, Mass., for free copy of but not too far away but that some of The Watch on the Rhine. Society of 5th Div. has a number of divisional the outfits are already announcing their histories on hand. Order from Win. Barton convention reunions. Bruce, 48 Ayrault St., Providence, U. I. 42d (Rainbow) Div. Vets.—Annual national Gerald J. Murray, National Adjutant convention-reunion, Kansas Citv, Mo., July 13-15, 1931). The Rainbow Reveille is your paper; write of the American Transportation Corps A. for free copy, stating: your outfit. Harold B. Ro- E. F. Veterans, reports that over five dier, editor, 717 Sixths!., N. W\, Washington, D. C. 59th Pioneer Inf. —Former members interested hundred men attended the reunion ban- in a reunion, address John J. Dugan, P. U. Box 007, Wilmington, Del. quet during the Legion national conven- 308th Inf. — Reunion dinner, Roger Smith Rest- aurant, tion in St. Louis and that his outfit is 10 Fast list St., New York City, Sat., Feb. 29, 193ta Talon 100th Inf., Co. L (old 7th Calif. N. G.)—Re- New Catalog. Pennsylvania. union in Feb., 1930. Report to E. H. (Dick) Hawk- L. L BEAN, Inc., 131 Main St., Freeport, Maine ins, 1017 W. 5th St., Santa Ana, Calif. The National Association American Mfrs. Hunting and Camping Specialties 313th M. G. Bn. — Photos, diaries and all records Balloon Corps Veterans, through its are wanted by L. E. Welk, 310 Commerce bldg., Erie, Pa., for battalion history. Personnel Officer, Craig S. Herbert of 322d F. A. Assoc.— 17th annual reunion, Hamil- LIARS) ton, Ohio, in 1930. To complete roster, report to 3333 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, L. B. Fritsch, secy., P. O. Box 321, Hamilton. Ex-Seeviob Men Get Preference Pennsylvania, also reports a splendid 328th Inf., M. G. Co.—Reunion by mail. Send Ry. Mail Clerk ; your letter to Joe M. Carr, Monticello, Fla. ) POSTMASTER meeting and reunion in St. Louis. The P. O. Laborer ) Seamstress 130th F. A., Btry. B— 17th annual reunion, R. F. D. Carrier Auditor j gas-bag men will meet in Cleveland next Lawrence, Kans., Feb. 22, 1930. For roster, report Special Agent Stenographer to W. H. Horr, 1030 Maine, Lawrence. Customs Inspector U.S. Border Patrol fall with the Legion. Vets, <> City Mail Carrier Telephone Opr. of 14th Engrs., Ry. —7th annual reunion, ' P.O. Clerk Details of the following additional re- Des Moines, Iowa, June 20-21, 1930. James A. Matron Elliott, secy.-treas., 721 E. 21st St., Little liock. unions and activities of Divisions and Ark. OTypiat OFile Clerk 15th Engrs., Co. D Reunion, Fort Pitt Hotel, INSTRUCTION BUREAU.Dept.llO.St. Louis, Mo. smaller obtained from the — units may be Pittsburgh, Pa., Apr. 25, 1930. R. L. Knight, 221 Send me FREE particulars "How to Qualify for LTked "X". Salaries. Legionnaires whose names and addresses N. Aiken av., Pittsburgh (0), Pa. ALL SENT FREF 62d Engrs.—Veterans are requested to assist are given: H. Work, ex-C. O., 521 Riverside av., Covington,

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Va., in compiling history, especially after regiment 45th Regt., C. A. C, Btry. D—Officers, doctors, 9th Inf., Co. E—Joseph Dubray and John Hall reached Cherbourg in July, 1918. Where did it nurses and others who recall John L. Hall being who went overseas on same transport with James go? What did it do? What were some of its sent to hospital, July-August, 1918; also sent to E. Pruiett, about Oct. 7, 1918, to assist latter. major feats? Who stood out among personnel? hospital in Eustis, Va., wit!) influenza. Co. E, A. A. P., C. A. C, 1st Army, A. E. F.— 109th Engrb., 34th Div. —For new regimental 342d M. G. Bn., Hq. Co.— 1st Lt. Forrest E. Comrades who recall injuries to Pvt. lcl Jess E. roster, report to L. Owen Tisdale, 1718 Park av., Long and others who recall Joseph M. Hanson Purse ll near La Trecey, France; particularly Cedar Rapids, Iowa. suffering severe shock and becoming unconscious "Red" and Willis (Washington State) who carried 302d Engrs. — 17th annual regimental dinner, during heavy shelling in or near Beney, France, Pursell to first aid. 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th st.. New York Sept. 15, 1918. 313th Cav. and 70th F. A.—Pvts. Stanley Kos- City, Sat., Feb. 15, 1936. Bill Murch, chmn, care 351st Inf., Co. D—Med. offers, and men who re- tonski and Geo. J. Lee, Orlando J. Connolly and of Clubhouse. call Clarence N. Isaacson having dental work done others who recall Ed Reynolds receiving spine in-

Co. A, 302d Bn., Tank Corps— 18th annual while in A. E. F. ; also men who remember name of jury. Camp Del Rio, Tex., June-July, 1918, account reunion, Chicago, 111., Nov. 30. Walter R. Titzel, large American dental office in St. Nazaire, where kick from horse. Jr., 30 N. LaSalle St., Chicago. Isaacson had tooth filled in May, 1919, while Sig. Corps, Arcadia, Calif., and 51st Balloon 85th Aero Sqdrn. —Report of successful con- AWOL from outfit. Co.—Men who worked with W'illiam W. Rich, vention reunion at St. Louis will be sent to all for- 20th Inf., Co. G—Sgt. John Zwifel, Cpl. lineman, at Arcadia, under Lt. Clare, and recall mer members who report to Carl T. Felker, 730 Sprague, Pvt. Sammy Weliman, Company Clerk Rich unable to work because of arm, leg and back Greeley av,, Webster Groves, Mo. Proposed re- Ralph M. Williams and others in Fort Douglas, disability while climbing poles in 51st Balloon Co. union by mail. June, 1918, who recall disability of Luna E. Jones. 26th Engrs., Co. D—Men who recall Pvt. 267th Aero Sqdrn.—Annual reunion, Indian- Kerns, Mrs. Margaret Mary (now probably Mrs. Joseph Rivers treated for flu, pleurisy and ear in- apolis, Ind., May 31, 1930. Lloyd Hessey, fection during flu epidemic at Bourg-sur- secy.-treas., 3557 Kenwood av., Indianapolis. Gironde, Jan.-Feb., 1919. 24th Balloon Co. —Proposed reunion. Harry Smith, Mrs. Bertha, mother of the late C. Nipp, 522 W. McDonald st., Hartford City, Charles George Robinson, veteran, (who died Indiana. WORSE) Feb. 27,1935), and beneficiary of his compen- Kelso's Navy Co. 47, U. S. N., Great sation. Last address, RFD., Uniontown, Pa. — %) ? 3 Lakes—To complete roster, report to A. E. Information wanted regarding whereabouts. Hurlbert, care of Luzon-Argonne Post, VFW, 144th Inf., Co. B, 36th Div.—Capt. Carl Kalamazoo, Mich. C. Brown who asked Carl C. Schuessler, his U. S. S. -Zeelandia— 193G reunion. L. W. runner, to fall out because of swollen legs and Wittman, 415 Parsells av., Rochester, N. Y. ankles while on 11-day hike. Co. 726, Sig. Div., U. S. Navy, Hampton Sick Bay, Newport, R. I. —Doctor in charge Roads, Va. —Proposed reunion. Report to of main barracks, pharmacist's mate and Comdr. Barney Shapiro, Cohasset, Mass. others who recall Earl Williams Smith, 4th Siberian Vets. —Proposed organization of Regt., Co. C, as patient, Jan.-Feb., 1918. Wolfhound Society, also reunion dinner. Staff 42d Inf., 12th Div., Camp Devens, Mass. Sgt. Herbert E. Smith, The Recruiting News, — Lt. C. Walczynski (Mil. Intel. Div., Sec. Governors Island, N. Y. 10, Gen. Staff, Washington, D. C.) leader of band who recalls fractured left hip and nervous trouble suffered by Frank Trovato, bandman, weare unable to conduct WHILE Camp Devens, 1918. a general missing persons 10th Engrs., Co. F, and 37th Engrs., 37th Co. (Forestry)— Officers and men who knew column, we stand ready to assist in Earl A. Warburton in A. E. F., Oct., 1917, locating men whose statements are to 1919, to assist his dependent mother. Btry. C, 37th Div. (Regt. ), C. A. C. required in support of various claims. Harold E. Peebles, Gilbert Elmore and other comrades who served with Clyde E. Williams Queries and responses should be di- at Fort Hancock, N. J., Apr.- Aug., 1918; Eustis, Va., or Newport News, rected to the Legion's National Re- Camp Va. 423d Tel. Bn., Co. D, Sig. Corps—John habilitation Committee, 1608 K C. Van Etten, med. officers and others who recall George E. Williams in hosp., Ft. Leaven- Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The worth, Ks.,Oct. 1-8, 1918, with influenza, and in December in A. E. F., suffering with gastritis. committee wants information from vet- 161st Depot Bgde., 14th Co.—Men who erans who know of the following cases: 61st C. A. Btry. Med. officers of btry. Basil Goldsberry), widow of veteran, Elmer E. C, C— be- C. deceased) who was disc harged at Camp Grant, 111. tween July, 1918, Feb., formerly of Dayton, Ohio. Information and 1919, and others who Kerns, To assist widow. recall back disability suffered by Edward R. Best. regarding her whereabouts required in connection 101st Inf., Co. I—Information wanted regarding 319th Inf., of minor children for adjusted Co. F—Men who recall Stephen C. with claim two com- whereabouts of Frank Ted Crast or family who Brim being gassed (>rt. t, l'.HS, when company pensation. lived in Coal City, 111., in 1916. Crast is benefi- went to aid of 159th Bgde., Div., 79th Inf., G. Co.—Capt. Eugene S. Gray 80th and sent to M. ciary of insurance of his brother, Pvt. Louis M. first-aid station. Found med. officer gassed also, (Michigan) and others who recall Roy A. J. Koch Crast, Co. I, 101st Inf ., buried in France. both for kidney condition during and sent back to hospital together. Wants receiving treatment 23d Engrs. — Maj. White (supposed to have statement from latter particularly. service. been in command of colored labor battalion near 51st Art., Btry. C Cayer, Dot Arnold and 13th Inf., Co. E—2d Lt. Endyemeoin M. Chaumont, France, Feb. -Mar., 1919) who knows others who recall John Blankenship Cleveland, Mess Sgt. Joel A. Lewis, Sgt. Daniel being struck of motorcycle accident in which William Snyder, by shell during St. Mihiel drive, W. Wehtz, Pvts. Cyrus L. Kirk and Bonnie D. Sept., 1918, and driver, and a lieutenant in side-car were injured. later gassed in the others who recall disability of Harrison Argonne. Sears, and Both treated in Chaumont base hosp. 314th Inf., Co. B, 79th Div. —Comrades who Kyle. Gaylord, Clair Edwin, served as musician, secret re-all disability to Michael in St. 128th Inf., Co. D, 32d Div.—Capt. Edmond T. Chrzanowski service, drill sgt. and 2d It. during war, discharged Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. Now patient in hosp. Czaskos, C. O., Dr. Sheeley, Sgt. Sweet and at Camp Gordon; 5 ft. 7 in., stocky build, 160 lbs., 13th F. A., Hq. Co. others recall illness of Johnny Mach in Dier- — Men, particularly Willard who light brown hair, gray eyes. Last heard from at (Toledo, Ohio) who recall dorf Germany, and relapse in Puderbach, Germany. Alva Ditto being sent to , Letterman Hosp., San Francisco, Jan., 1934, patient Acceptance Park No. 2 hospital with kidney trouble. Sec. 4, Aircraft —Sgt. with diabetes. Important mail being held for him U. S. S. America—Comrades who recall Feliz M. Clark McKee (Weybridge, Eng., formerly R. in Minnesota. (Rebel) Gifkin being knocked Albany, N. Y.) to assist Allan Mcir in compensa- down by gun con- Sec. 567, 18th Bn., M. C, Allentown, Pa.— 1st cussion while working on deck, causing loss tion claim; suffering with asthma and bronchitis. of hear- Lt. Noel B. Leggett, Med. Res. Corps, who recalls Co. Perigueuz, ing one ear. Also suffered arthritis and skin eruption. Administrative Labor 92, Lewis W. Bryan, ambulance driver, suffering with Tech. Detchmnt., Ordnance, Fla. France Former members to assist Earl F. Need- Miami, — eye and other disability. Bryan claims while -sgt., with claim. Men who recall William R. Groover receiving ham, ex driving from Camp to local theater in Allentown, back injury, 1919, while placing telephone 11th Regt. Marines, Co. C, Ouantico, Va. on obser- Pa., during Liberty Loan Drive, a major noted bad vation pole. Pole collapsed and all were Campbell, Capt. Finger, Lt. Avont, Sgts. men Maj. condition of his eyes— later resulting in his receiv- thrown into water, sandbox striking Groover. Elliott and Hughes, Pvt. Owens and others who ing an S. C. D. 65th Engrs. Det., Piregue, France — Sgt. George recall Glenn Norton suffering with acute attack JoHN J. NOLL Kelley and others who tired for of mastoid trouble, winter of 1917-18. Later locomotives (The Company Clerk) French engineers, to assist S. R. Guthrie. transferred to casual outfit and sent to A. E. F.

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pronounced out of danger hours later. transfusion were two Past Commanders." The American Legion. Almost one year Reports Legionnaire James Mangan, ago, on January 2, 1935, when most wrestling with the problem of "Practically all the members are post- Early Bird Post posts were office employes. We are able to contact lining up members for 1935, Buffalo Lake hundreds of men on short notice because DEPARTMENT Adjutant C. A. Post sent to department headquarters a most of them work in the new building. (Chic) Zwiener of Minnesota nomi- check for the 1936 dues of all its thirty- That is how we responded so quickly. nates Buffalo Lake Post of his Depart- nine members. Furthermore, it made Among the volunteers for the blood ment as the champion early bird post of similar records in the two preceding years.

62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly It paid up in full for all its 1935 members followed his body in the funeral proces- of April 29, 1934 and on June 22, 1933, sion after services held in the regiment's FREE FOR ASTHMA for its 1934 members. armory. National Commander Murphy delivered a eulogy at the services in the Final Honors armory. Present were representatives of DURING WINTER almost every post in Cook County. NATIONAL Commander Ray Mur- Past National Commander Foreman phy and other notable Legionnaires had attended the national convention in If you suffer with those terrible at- rendered The American Legion's final St. Louis only a few weeks before his tacks of Asthma when it is cold and tributes to Milton J. Foreman, who was death. He died following a stroke of damp; if raw, Wintry winds make you choke as if each gasp for breath first on the list of the Legion's Past apoplexy. was National Commanders, when General the very last; if restful sleep is impossi- ble because of the struggle to breathe; Foreman was buried in Chicago on Roll Call if you feel the disease is slowly wear- October 18th with highest military ing your life away, don't fail to send honors. Chairman of the Paris Caucus, BLACK, who wrote "Homecom- JOHN at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. in of which service title is recognition the ing," a member of Joyce Kilmer Post for a free trial of a remarkable method.

of Past National Commander was con- of Brooklyn, New York . . . Wythe Wil- No matter where you live or whether ferred upon him by unanimous vote, liams and Bernhard Ragner are members you have any faith in any remedy un-

General Foreman remained continuously of Paris (France) Post . . . Frank Miles is der the Sun, send for this free trial. If active in the Legion's affairs until his a member of Des Moines (Iowa) Post and you have suffered for a lifetime and tried everything you could learn of death and despite the demands made editor of the Iowa Legionaire . . . James without relief; even if you are utter- upon him by a distinguished career in E. Darst belongs to St. Louis (Missouri) ly discouraged, do not abandon hope law and public affairs. He died at the Post . . . Clarence H. Philbrick is a mem- but send today for this free trial. age of 72. ber of the Providence (Rhode Island) It will cost you nothing. Address: Formerly Major General in command Post. Frontier Asthma Co., 117 -A, Frontier Bldg. of the Thirty-Third Division, Illinois Of the artists, Herbert M. Stoops 462 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y. Guard, General Foreman's to First National belongs Jeff Feigl Division Post CONSTITUTION* military career, begun as a private in of New York City, Herb Roth to Larch- <|WE THE |>3frffiOTEGr THIS BULWARK OF AMERICAN LIBERTY AGAINST 1895, followed the best traditions of the mont (New York) Post, and Hanson |>$KWFIUENGES OF COMMUNISM b,h,l P io, p i«« »co Py of this marvelous documc nt In 5veTy loyal American Home citizen soldier. Scores of men of his war- Booth to Woodstock (New York) Post. Acquajnt yOurjflf And your friandi with il5 valuable te«t S«nd2SC«nts for sample copyfre&dy for framing ) of time command, the i22d Field Artillerv, Philip Von Blon

.jft. If colors and illustrated wilh scenes from American History p**l\rj With Cftth jBfnple ord«f wfwilUend SL.ggeit.ori end instructions J \\ fortho** r^ni-wtoform local Constitution clubs. The Story Behind The Cover ALL AMERICAN DISTRIBUTORS Jgr 40 Nonh Dearborn St. Chicago III. THE cover design of this issue of the Monthly is a complete stage set designed and erected by Forrest Crooks, an artist of Solebury, Pennsylvania. Dominating the Skin Help/ stage is a puppet Santa Claus fifteen inches high enjoining silence and the absolute When surface pimples necessity for rigidity on the tiny mouse poised on a comparatively gigantic chair, all of spoil looks or eczema ten inches high, in the spirit of the famous Night Before Christmas poem, in which torments you "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." In the fireplace a pair of andirons

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WAKE UP YOUR News of Veteran Interest

LIVER AMERICAN LEGION service . of- as Adjudication Form 526, revised No- BILE- / \ fleers are encountering cases in vember, 1934, in applications for disabil- Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out -*~ which the Veterans Administra- ity compensation and pension based on of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go tion declines to make reimbursement for service subsequent to April 20, 1898, The liver should pour out two pounds liquid of funeral expenses because the application under the several Acts of Congress. The bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just was not filed, as the law requires, within Veterans Administration requires the use decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- one year following the veteran's death. of this form for such applications dated soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world Other information on this subject should after June looks punk. 1, 1935. Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel be kept in mind- by Legionnaires gener- movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those ally. will good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these The Administration pay $100 Veterans Pay Promptly two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you towards the funeral expenses of an honor- feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing Veterans Welfare Board of Cali- in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little ably discharged World War veteran who THE Liver Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything fornia is providing farms and homes dies leaving assets less than $1,000. else. 25c at all drug stores. 1935, C.M.Co. © for the veterans of that State at the rate Insurance made payable to the veteran's of $1,000,000 monthly, according to a estate is considered an asset. Insurance recent report by Thomas M. Foley, made payable to a beneficiary is not ToAnySultT^^li U chairman of the board. He stated that I Double the life of your considered an asset. Reimbursement is ' coat and vest with correctly new applications are being received at matched pants. 100,000 patterns. made only to the person or persons who the rate of 300 a month and 46,000 ap- Every pair hand tailored to your measui paid the funeral expenses, or to the un- Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece plications are on , of which 40,000 of cloth or vest today. dertaker in case his bill is unpaid. Appli- SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY have been approved. The purchase act 209 S. State St. Dept. 309 Chicago cations should be made on Form P-oi. was passed in 192 1. A bond issue pro- The itemized receipts should show the OFFICIAL viding additional funds was approved by name of the person who paid the bills. AMERICAN LEGION SHIRT the voters a year ago. Burial expenses of veterans died Complete with American Legion buttons and col- who Mr. F'oley reported that veterans have lar emblems. Made of a guar- (5 A while undergoing treatment in Govern- anteed fast dye navy blue T#* dV been remarkably prompt in keeping up broadcloth, preshrunk. ment hospitals will be paid up to $100 to date the payments required of them. Gold Tie to Go With Shirt 25c even though assets amounted to more DURABLE OUTFITTERS The board has under contract almost UNIFORMS than $1,000. Cost of transportation from 12,000 properties in 54 of the 58 counties, 752 Broadway New York, N. Y. the hospital to place of burial will be paid and payments were current on more than by the Government and not deducted AfeiA/AddingMachi percent. from the $100 allowable. 70 Fits Vest Pocket "It is a pleasure to report to the tax- Adds, subtracts, and multiplies like $300 payers," said Mr. Foley, "that the prom- machine—yet it costs only $2.f" Burial Flags for Veterans only 4 ounces. Not a toy— ise made by the veterans in 1921 that \\ n k m a ns 1 1 i p. Perfectly aeeura ning fast. Sells on sight to 'Administration of the Veterans Farm men, storekeepers, homes—all Postmaster General, at the re- THE and Home Purchase Act will not cost quest of the National Rehabilitation Write at once for Free AREIITC the taxpayers one cent'has been fulfilled." Sample Offerund Mon-MUCH I has caused to be published ey- Making Profit! n W Committee, Plan. 100 „ "P V$ J95 C. M. Cleary. Dept. 53. 303 W. Monroe SI.. Chicago ^^^^ * in the Postal Bulletin and Monthly Sup- New Bonus Time Limit The American Legion plement to the Postal Guide instructions assist the Veterans NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS to all postmasters to IS estimated that 250,000 eligible furnishing burial Hags IT Indianapolis, Indiana Administration in veterans who have not yet applied for to drape the coffins of deceased veterans. adjusted service certificates are now able STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION These Hags are obtainable from the post- to do so as the result of the extension of September 30, 1935 masters at all county seat postoffices. the time limit by Congress at the last Assets In cases in which a veteran has been session. The right to apply had expired buried without the use of a burial Hag on January 2, 1935. The recent action of Cash on hand and on deposit $ 78,389.85 the Government, a Notes and accounts receivable 16,773.98 furnished by such Congress extended the time limit five

Inventory of Emblem merchandise.. . 38,295.33 flag will be issued upon application and years, to January 1940. About 10,000 Invested funds 2, 595,348.80 compliance with specified requirements. Permanent investments: applications had reached the depart- Legion Publishing Issuance will be confined strictly to ments in Washington after the January Corporation $691,547.66 widows, children and parents of deceased Overseas Graves Decoration 2, 1935 time limit, and these are now Trust "8i.2i4.7j 875,762.37 veterans, in the order named. Veterans good, as will be those submitted before Improved real estate, office building regulations provide: Administration January 1940. Washington, D. C 131,054.31 2, will not be issued subse- Furniture and fixtures, less depre- "Burial flags ciation 3I.972.56 quent to interment of the deceased, ex- For War Orphans Deferred charges 35,304.13 cept where circumstances render it im- $1,802, 901.33 possible for relatives or undertakers to AS A result of a law passed by Congress flag drape the casket." Form x\in 1928 at the request of The Ameri- Liabilities secure a to 2008, designated Application for Burial can Legion, 924 war orphrns and sons of Current liabilities $ 90,811.71 Flag, must be signed personally by the World War service men who have died Funds restricted as to use 14,445.29 service en- Permanent trust: widow, child or parent. since the war of causes were Overseas Graves Decoration Trust. 184,214.71 abled to follow courses in schools and

Reserve for investment valuation . . . 63,893.77 Proper Application Form universities this year. This fact was re- * 353.36S-48 vealed by the report of General P. C. Net worth: American Legion posts en- Harris, National Director of the Educa- Restricted capital $595,347.80 MOST Unrestricted capital: deavor to keep in their records tion of War Orphans Committee, to the

Capital surplus. . . .$276,534.16 copies of the application forms most fre- St. Louis National Convention. The law Investment valua- quently used in submitting claims to the permits payment of compensation to tion surplus 577>6 53- 8 9 ?".449>535- 8 5 Veterans Administration. It is advisable orphans after the age of 18 and up to 21 $1,802,901.33 that these posts keep on hand and use a when they are enrolled in institutions of Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant consolidated application form, designated higher learning. 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Not yesterday's service . . . nor only today's ... but TOMORROW'S, too tells the story of The American Legion forcefully, com- pletely, quickly.

^ That is the foundation of The American Legion. fc See this poster on display at your department convention. It panels first Certainly that boy ... or girl, too ... is glad you belong. will be ready for thirty thousand outdoor the of November, through the co-operation of the Outdoor Advertising More than glad — Proud is the word. Proud you faced Association of America, Inc., if your Post does its part and orders death to serve . . . Proud you are still serving, in peace the required number early. Take this order blank to your next as in war. Prouder still they will be when they look Post meeting and get action on it. The National Organization of The American Legion has officially adopted the above design tomorrow upon the America you are building today! and has authorized the Morgan Lithograph Company, Cleveland, This is the message the American Legion 1936 Poster Ohio, to make, sell and distribute all Legion posters, display

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