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MAY, 1927 — —— —— ——— — — —— —— — —————— — — — — —— — May, 1927 American Vol. 2, No. 5 (Monthly Contents Cover Design: by Howard Chandler Christy March of the Minute Men on Concord and Lexington The Message Center by The Editor 4 Liberty Bells by George Creel 6 Woodcut by Harold McCormick The Prisoner's Song by Samuel Spewack 9 Illustrations by G. Patrick Nelson Forever America by John J. Pershing Decorative Border by G. H. Mitchell How Long Will America Last? by Meredith Nicholson 18 Decorations by Charles R. Chickering Why I Live in Paris by a Former American Soldier 20 For Services Rendered by Hugh Wiley 22 Illustrations by Albin Henning Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 26 Spruce Knob and Thereabouts by Freeman H. Hart 28 They Also Serve: part four by Peter B. Kyne 32 Illustrations by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge Because It's Their Town by Clara Ingram Judson 36 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 39 Add Sauce and Serve by M. E. Neville 40 How Not to Go to Paris by Wallgren 42 Bursts and Duds with cartoon by Paul Carruth 43 Two Months to Go by Watson B. Miller 44 Blood Will Tell by Edward R. Bradley 46 On to Paris 49 Keeping Step by Right Guide 5o Then and Now by The Company Clerk 57 A PATRIOTIC CALENDAR FOR MAT 1st: Battle of Manila Bay, 1898 2d: Oklahoma created a territory, 1890 3d: Order permits soldiers in United States Army to draw coffee rations instead of rum if desired, 1838 4th: Flotilla of United States destroyers under Admiral W. S. Sims reaches Plymouth, "ready for action at once," 1917 5th: Congress issues call for Constitutional Convention to meet in Philadelphia, 1787 6th: Battle of the Wilderness ends, 1863 7th: Lusitania sunk by German submarine, 1915 8th: Battle of Palo Alto, 1846 pth: Ximines, Spanish explorer, discovers California, 1534 10th: Last spike driven uniting Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point, near Ogden, Utah, 1869 nth: U. S. S. Omaha completes jour- ney from Hawaii to San Francisco in three days, three hours, forty minutes and forty seconds, 1923 12th: American pri- vateersman Unity captures first British prize of Revolution, 1775 13th: First governors' conference assembles at Washing- ton on invitation of President Roosevelt, 1908 14th: First Japanese embassy arrives in Washington, i860 15th: Quota immigration law adopted, 1024 16th: NC flying boats take off at Trepassey, Newfoundland, for overseas flight, 1919 17th: Siege of Quebec raised by French, leaving British in complete possession of Canada, 1760 18th: Congress approves Selective Draft Bill, 1917 19th: Lafayette dies, 1834 20th: Air Service created an arm of the service by separation from Signal Corps, 1918 21st: Ferdinando de Soto buried in the Mississippi, 1541 22d: S. S. Savannah, first steamship to cross Atlantic, leaves Savannah for Liverpool, where she arrives June 20, 1819 23d: William Kidd hanged, 1701 24th: Brooklyn Bridge opened, 1883 —25///: Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod. 1602 26th: NC-4, first airplane to cross Atlantic, reaches Lisbon, 1919 27th: George Washington accepts presidency of Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia, 1787 28th: Congress orders all Indian tribes moved west of the Mississippi, 1830 2Qth: President Johnson issues procla- mation of amnesty, 1865 30th: Kansas and Nebraska created territories, 1854 31st: Seventeenth Amendment to Consti- tution (popular e'ection of United States Senators) adopted, 1913.

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GENE TUNNEY is not the only fessor Hart started in early, however, to introduction. His name is John J. Legionnaire who has read the whole overcome this handicap. He began Pershing. Everybody knows that he is of Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of roaming the mountains as a boy and has one of four Americans who have been the Roman Empire." Our offer, made in kept it up until he is perhaps the best accorded the rank of full general in all our the March Message Center, to publish authority in the United States on these history—can everybody name the other the names of any other members who romantic people. Hart has the mountain three?—but not so many fellow citizens could say as much has brought four re- build—six feet one, spare, blue-eyed, know that, as chairman of the American sponses. Writes John P. Doak of Vincent sandy haired. He played varsity football Battle Monuments Commission, he has L. Giantvalley Post, Minneapolis, Min- at Washington and Lee and got an A.B. for many post-war years been working nesota: "I did that little stunt several degree in 191 2 and an M.A. in 191 5. In hard and earnestly to co-ordinate the years ago while sitting under a banana 1917 he got a set of sergeant's chevrons task of immortalizing with taste and leaf, eating wild chickens, rice, and ca- in the Eightieth Division—a mountain beauty the record of America's share in motes, and trying to civilize a bunch of outfit—and later the post-graduate em- the World War. Convention-bound headhunters. Perhaps those surround- blems of a second lieutenant of artillery. Legionnaires next September will have ings relieved the reading of being a strug- After the war he went to Harvard, pick- an opportunity to inspect at first hand gle. There's a lot of kicks in that im- ing up another M.A. and passing tests for the result of the commission's efforts to mortal historv." And Elmer 0. Evans a Ph.D. He was one of Edward Chan- date. of Kent-Metzler Post, Oak Hill, Ohio, ning's collaborators on volume six of his writes: "I began reading it when I was History of the United States, which vol- ten; still read it occasionally; just before ume won the Pulitzer Prize in 19 25. He SAMUEL SPEWACK, a native of the war I read it straight through—six instructed in the Noble and Greenough Russia and a graduate of Columbia volumes—and would as soon give up prep school in Boston and was in line for University, probably saw more of the Shakespeare as Gibbon." Mr. Evans a job on the Harvard faculty when, like general hullaballoo in Europe that fol- expresses the hope that we will be "unable Buck Swecker's son in his story, some- lowed the World War than any other to find room enough to print all the names thing hit him and he forsook the culture American. As correspondent for the of Legion members who have read Gib- of New England for that of the Virginia New York World in Moscow, Berlin and bon." Come on, gents, crowd us—the mountains. Another mountain touch elsewhere in central Europe, he covered contest is still on. takes one back to the Civil War, when the Russian famine and was almost cov- Mr. Hart's father and one of his father's ered by the Bavarian and Rhineland brothers fought for the Confederacy revolutions. Living nowadays some- WALTER S. HEARNE of Boise, while a third brother was fighting in the what tamely in New York, he has written Idaho, who subscribes himself "ex- Northern army. Mr. Hart emerged from two plays, "Sweeney," in rehearsal as kiwi, 120th Aero Squadron," writes: his last mountain sojourn (save for a fly- this is written, and "The Solitaire Man," "Listening to you ex orderly room dudes ing trip he made to take the pictures that scheduled to appear in the fall, and a discuss books prompts me to unlimber go with his article) to become head of the novel, "Mon Paul." Not to mention the old pen and tell you I too have bat- history department of Hampden-Sidney several short stories, whereof a sample is tled my way through Gibbon's 'Decline College, an old-fashioned institution in on display in this issue. and Fall of the Roman Empire'. I was the Piedmont where the young gentle- so enamored of it that I bought a set to men major in Greek like their prede- keep for my own, though the time has cessors who left their lectures to fight in GEORGE CREEL, nationally known never come when I could read all of it the Revolution under the college presi- journalist, was chairman of the through again." And J. G. White of dent, turned captain. Committee on Public Information during

Durham, California, announces that his the World War . . . Hugh Wiley makes name is "eligible for entry on the roll of his second appearance in the Monthly honor for having read Gibbon entire," THE recent retirement of John Madden (more coming) with "For Services Ren- adding: "I do not take undue credit for makes Edward R. Bradley of Ken- dered" . . . Meredith Nicholson, novel- having done so because history has al- tucky, author of "Blood Will Tell," the ist, essayist, poet, good American, is a ways been an interesting subject to me." biggest breeder of thoroughbred race- frequent contributor to the Monthly . . .

Four names on the Gibbon honor roll horses in Kentucky. In addition to this, Likewise Clara Ingram Judson . . . strikes us as being a pretty good start. Mr. Bradley has had more Derby winners Watson B. Miller is an ex-cowboy and no Remember, to be eligible for enrolment than any other horse owner in America. mean piano player, which doesn't neces- entrants must have read Gibbon from He is known as One-Two Ed because of sarily qualify him as an insurance expert. cover to cover (or rather from covers to the pleasant way so many Bradley But see what Right Guide has to say covers), and not in an abridged edition. horses have of finishing one-two in Derby about him in Keeping Step. events. When Bubbling Over romped home in the Kentucky Derby in 1926 it HAD the original American ancestor is estimated that the victory meant a COMING in June: Short stories by of Professor Freeman H. Hart gone million and a quarter dollars to her owner Leonard Nason, author of "Chev- westward another day's march, instead —and this is the opinion not of pipe- rons" (read it?—then you don't know of stopping in the wilderness of what is dreamers, but of conservative racing ex- what you've missed), and by William now Rockbridge County, \ irginia, the perts. Race followers will also tell you Slavens McNutt, who wrote "A Pass to author of "Spruce Knob and There- that there isn't a man in America who Paris" in the April number, also articles abouts" might have been one of the loves horses as Bradley does. by John Drinkwater, Marshall Field III mountaineers he tells about. The orig- and Marquis James. inal Hart got beyond the Blue Ridge but he stopped six miles short of the Alle- IT SEEMS wholly reasonable to make ghany foothills, where Mr. Hart was born the statement that at least one con- one hundred and fifty years later. Pro- tributor to this month's issue needs no

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MAY, 1927 r~Y 1 7E LIVE in a country By George Creel ington and the words of Jefferson, I/I / dedicated to freedom, led Venezuela into revolt against t/y yet all things are Woodcut by Harold McCormich, the tyrannies of Spain, and for taught in our schools eighteen long years fought back except the literature of liberty. Every age and every race has and forth from Caracas to Lima, crossing the terrible Andes as had heroic souls who fought, suffered and died hi defense of man's though they had been foothills, making his own powder, casting right to aspire, but scarce one of these tremendous names is his own cannon and contriving his own arms, rising from crushing hung as a liberty bell in the heart of America's youth. Text books defeats to glorious victories, at last giving Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, deal fully with those kings and captains who bestrode the world Colombia and Ecuador popular government and free institutions. like great colossi, their cruel feet crushing the hopes and dreams And there was Jose de San Martin, who captained the patriots of an oppressed humanity, but only here and there are pages that of Argentina in their revolt against Spanish rule, and then blaze with the stories of humble men who went to torture and marched an army across the Andes, thirteen thousand feet above death that freedom might not perish from the earth. sea level, smashing Spanish power in two great battles. Out of For instance, just how much does the average American know South America's struggle for liberty came our own Monroe Doc- of George Castriota, the immortal Scanderberg, who led his wild trine, yet how many Americans know of Bolivar and San Martin Albanians against the Turks for twenty-five victorious years, not except as shadowy names? only freeing his own people from the cruelties of Turkish oppres- What of Mazzini, that clarion of Italian liberty and unity? sion, but standing like a great rock against the Moslem wave that And Giuseppe Garibaldi, every year of his life a battle cry of free- bade fair to engulf Christendom? Except that there is an aperi- dom? Fighting for South American independence as a youth, ent water that bears the name, how many can tell of Janos tortured until every limb hung useless, escaping only to aid Uru- Hunyadi, the Hungarian patriot? guay in her fight for freedom, then returning to Italy to fire his When England suffered under the rule of corrupt monarchs people with his own fierce patriotism, and leading them to victory and a brutal upper class, John Ball dared to proclaim the doc- in incredible campaigns. In all of mankind's struggle against trine of man's equality, and oppressed people the world over lifted oppression, there is no achievement more inspiring than the story their heads at his bold rhyme, "When Adam delved and Eve of Garibaldi and his One Thousand, but how many Americans span, Who was then the gentleman?" He sowed the seeds of know it? revolt against the theory of tyranny by divine right, and watered How many know of William Wallace, who drove the English the seeds with his blood, but what school book teaches American beyond his country's borders, and had Scotland's freedom in his boys to revere the memory of this brave priest? grasp when envy and treachery delivered him to a barbarous The name of Kosciuszko lives in our hearts because he came death? Of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the liberator of Haiti? Of with La Fayette, Pulaski, and Von Steuben to aid us in our war John Zizka, the Bohemian patriot whose courage and patriotism of independence, and was dearly loved by Washington, but beat back the armies of Germany, Hungary, Austria and Rome?

there is no mention of his return to his native land, the marshal- Coming close to home, how much is known of Mexico's George ling of Poland's peasantry in desperate endeavor to throw off the Washington, that Miguel Hidalgo who dreamed a dream of jus- Russian yoke, and the victories won by his ragged scythemen tice, brotherhood and freedom, and charged his Indians against over vastly superior forces, well armed and disciplined. Even Spanish might in a score of bloody battles? They hung, drew and when Frederick William's treachery brought Prussia to the aid of quartered him, but his soul marched on. And Benito Juarez, the Russia, Kosciuszko fought on, and while he sank at last, crushed Abraham Lincoln of Mexico, the poor Indian boy who rose to be under the weight of mercenaries, he left an inheritance of uncon- president of his country, and whose invincible patriotism finally querable courage to Poland, his beloved. defeated Maximilian and his French bayonets, forever ending What of that great Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who for six- Europe's dream of empire in the western world. How many teen splendid years beat back the might of England with his school boys can tell of him? handful of half-naked Irish? What of Hugh O'Neill and Hugh How can these failures in teaching be regarded but as a tragedy O'Donnell, those paladins who held Ireland against Essex and of wasted opportunity? Such ignorances continue the provincial- his armies? And knightly Patrick Sarsfield who launched his ism that shuts us off from world understanding, and cheat patriot bands against the great William of Orange and his host of us out of values that might constitute a national asset. The English veterans, Dutch, Brandenburgers and French Hugue- story of freedom's martyrs, burned into the hearts and minds of nots, whipping him back to England to gather new levies? young America, would go far to bringing us into closer and more Where is the school history that tells these shining swords? sympathetic contact with the people of earth, even as it would Simon Bolivar, fired to patriotism by the example of Wash- give liberty itself new, richer and finer meanings.

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. /?"\N THE Taconia the second don't lose in Paris, either." £ (* m day out they admitted no money I J the fourth musketeer. The Schwartzkopf winked. Abel ceremony took place in looked knowing, and Hutchins Salem's commodious cabin, for grinned. The three shared a curi- Salem, as the fourth musketeer, played host. ous resemblance. They wore the There was mellow masculine sentimentality same clothes, designed, according to with the champagne. the advertisement, for the youngster "Minute you began talking to me up on of fifty. They were short, and knew heavy, with faces ruddy from much deck," said J. Witherspoon Abel, "I you was meant to be one of us, Salem. That's Scotch and a little golf. Even their gestures singularly similar. what I said to Hutchins and were Schwartzkopf. And let me Their eyes, although they varied in color from hard blue to hard gray, tell you, Salem, me and Hutchins and Schwartzkopf had the same guarded expression in have made seventeen trips repose. across without taking any- "Of course, you've been over before?" inquired Abel. body into our little club." Mr. Abel lifted his glass. "No, I haven't," Salem admitted. Hutchins and Schwartzkopf "What!" drank deep. Salem, a reti- "I've traveled in America and only. the ini- cent sort, modestly looked Canada Never had down at his cigar. tiative to cross, I guess." gloated Mr. Abel. "You're Then, as if all four were "Boy!" ashamed of any show of emo- gonna see Paris for the tion, the conversation scat- first time! Oh, boy! You tered. certainly hit the right "By the way," chuckled company to show you Abel later. "Here we've been the town. We know talking for two days, and I Paris. Why, listen, I forgot to ask you your line." can take you to places in "My line?" Salem looked Paris where you wouldn't puzzled. even know "Yea. Your business?" you was in "Oh!" Salem smiled. Paris. You'd "I haven't any." think you was "Retired?" in New York! "No." Salem shook Right, Hutch- ins?" his head. "You see, I , never even got started. "Right," said When I was a kid an Hutchins. uncle of mine left me his "It's the ad- money, and I've just venture of Paris been living on my income "I will not go into all that gets me," ever since. Having a the pitiful details, but confided Abel. "The minute good time seems to be his creditors succeeded in you get off the my line. I'll confess, lodging him in jail" though, when I sit with train, you just three men who've worked want to go out their way up in the world, I feel ashamed of and have a good time. It's in the air." myself." "Adventure," and Salem smiled wist- "Funny," said Abel. "I figured you was fully, "is what I need.' executive. But don't talk about being "Well, you're going to get it!" crowed ashamed of not working. We're about ready Abel. to retire ourselves. Kind of hate to give up Hutchins and Schwartzkopf nodded pro- this trip to Europe every spring, that's all. phetically. Only chance a man's got to get away from home "Of course," added Salem, "I'm not over once in a while is on account of business, y' here just seeking adventure. I've got a know." Abel was pensive. little mission." "Yes, sir!" said Hutchins. "I wouldn't The three musketeers looked up. swap this trip for anything. Gives you a chance "I'm not in a position to—well, I can't tell you about it. Not liquor you can trust." yet, anyway." Salem smiled regretfully, and lit a fresh cigar. "And," added Schwartzkopf, "with the franc where it "Who is she?" demanded Abel.

MAY, 1927 "You see, the old man, the girl' s father," Salem explained, "was in a bad way when we got to the deserted house by the Seine, where we dug for the stuff. He could barely walk. And after we found this box, he fainted"

Abel burst into laughter So did Hutchins. So did Schwartz- "But I wonder what's his mission?" Abel persisted. Being kopf. But Salem would say nothing more. aggressively curious, Abel was annoyed at Salem's reticence. On the fourth day out Mr. Hutchins asked Mr. Abel to guess But what could you do? Salem's mission. Abel wasn't compelled to do anything. Abel confessed he couldn't—although he'd given the subject They had landed in Cherbourg and were seated in their com- much thought. partment on the boat train, anticipating sourly a seven-hour "He looks like a wise guy to me," said Hutchins, "but he talks jolting past rain-drenched fields. Schwartzkopf and Hutchins like a sap." had buried themselves in the Paris Herald and Abel in a red "We can't all have brains," said Abel tolerantly. "What address book, when Salem, who had been looking out of the I like about that feller is the way he plays poker, for instance. window, suddenly spoke. Never peeps when he loses. And he's right there when it comes "I wonder," he said shyly, "if you could give me some advice." to buying drinks. That's what I like about him." Schwartzkopf and Hutchins dropped their Heralds. Abel "Same here," agreed Hutchins. put away his address book.

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"You see," explained Salem, "this being my first trip across, I only realized how green I was when I got oft" the boat. First really foreign country I've ever been in, this. And I've got—a Believe me, mon- rather delicate proposition to handle. Now —you understand sieur, a beautiful, he looked from one to the other earnestly "this is in strict innocent girl of seven- confidence. We haven't known each other very long, but teen—a flower—was I feel as if we've been a good deal together this past week, and sent to a convent" I'd known you all my life. Now—I need your advice." Abel nodded, weightily, encouraging. "I got a letter at my home in Buffalo," Salem said, taking several letters and a photograph from his pocket. "From a stranger in Paris. First, I think I better read you the letter." Salem adjusted his shell-rimmed glasses and read: " 'Dear Mr. Salem: The writer is unknown to you, but he has chosen you, of all the substantial citizens of Buffalo, because of your standing and your general reputation. How to put this matter to you best, I don't know. Pardon my incoherence, due entirely to my desperate state of emotion. " 'The writer is an old man. For years he has been a friend of Pierre Savarin, a business man of means and repute in Paris. Due to the post-war crisis, Savarin went into bankruptcy. I will not go into all the pitiful details, but his creditors succeeded in lodging him in jail. Savarin's only daughter—believe me, monsieur, a beautiful, innocent girl of seventeen, a flower—was — " sent to a convent ' "Hey, hold on!" cried Abel. "The Spanish prisoner game!" "Eh?" Salem regarded Abel in surprise. "The old man's got a cache of money in a trunk, hidden in the suburbs. He don't want to give it to the creditors because then his poor gal would be penniless," outlined Abel swiftly. "The money's hidden and he's the only one that can get at it. But he's in jail. Am I right, so far?" "Yes, but— " Salem blinked and swallowed. "And then the friend of the family asks you to put up the dough so they can bribe the warden to let him out for a day," continued Abel. "You put up five thousand bucks. There's generally a couple of hundred thousand hidden away in that cache. You're to get half of that and also help the poor gal out." And Abel burst into hearty laughter. Schwartzkopf and Hutchins laughed with him until the tears ran. "But how do you know all this?" demanded Salem, somewhat dazed. "How do I know?" repeated Abel. "How do I know my own mother? It's the oldest game in the world. They started ped- dling that before they sold the Brooklyn Bridge. Say, you don't believe —it, do you?" "But—but " Salem stammered. "Here's the photograph of the young lady." He displayed the likeness of a demure young girl in white sweet innocence incarnate. "Pretty good!" Abel whistled. "They're improving!" "Is it possible!" Salem was red and confused.— "Is it possible that this is all a swindle—that this girl is "Say, listen," interrupted Abel. "Doncha ever read the papers? Why, this Spanish prisoner game has been worked to death. Listen: You put up the five thousand dollars for the warden's bribe. You meet the girl. She goes away with daddy's friend, and promises to be back right away—with the prisoner himself. And that's the last you see of 'em. And you haven't got a come-back because you can't tell the police you was con- spiring to cheat—this guy's creditors." "Then—then " Salem stammered, "there isn't any trunk with money?" "No—and no prisoner,'' said Abel. "It's all a fake. These boys send out a bunch of letters, and then take on the suckers "What I don't understand," Salem —excuse me, Salem—the suckers that bite. They pick on fel- persisted, "is your absolute certainty lows that don't know Europe. I think the game started in that this is a fraud." Madrid, and that's where it got the name." "Well, I oughta know," Abel blurted. And Abel returned the photograph to Salem. "I was twenty-one when they worked "I can't believe it!" Salem insisted. that game on me. Yes, sir. Let 'em try it now." "Don't be a sap," cautioned Abel delicately. "That game is as "Sure, it's different with —a kid," said Schwartzkopf, "but a stale as The Prisoner's Song. Lay off it!" man of your age, Mr. Salem Salem examined the photograph anew. "You mean to tell me," Salem's voice was earnest, "this is a "But the girl!" Salem repeated. "Don't tell me that a girl common widespread fraud?" with a face like hers is a fraud!" "You can betcha sweet life," said Abel. "Listen," said Abel, "if she's out of a convent, then I'm a "Then I think we should expose it." Salem seemed deter- ventriloquist. And if her old man is a prisoner, his cache is mined. rolling stock of bread and water." "What for?" demanded Abel. "You can't stop the suckers." "I can't believe it!" Salem shook his— head. "There's some- "Mind you," said Salem, "I'm not convinced yet. This case thing about that girl's face—something may be wholly genuine. It may be entirely a coincidence that "I got some swell oil propositions," invited Schwartzkopf. crooks have used this scheme, while the writer of this may be One never knows how far a sap will flow. perfectly honest and sincere."

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"So's his old man," scoffed Abel. "In any case," re- flected Salem, "this promises adventure." "You come up to Muntmart," advised Abel, "and you'll get all the adventure you want. And it*ll come cheaper. Drop it." "If it weren't for this girl's picture," Salem replied earnestly, "I would. But there's something about that girl—she can't be a fraud." The three musketeers groaned and went back to their Heralds and little address book until the train pulled into the Clare du Nord. "Paris!" shouted Abel, as they got into their taxi bound for the Crillon. "Boy, this is my town! Lookit that!" indicating the side- walk cafes. "Yes, sir! Boy, there's something about this town that puts a lotta pep in me. I want to go out and—let loose—go into places I've never been before, you know what I mean!" He sank back, exhausted with enthusiasm. "Sure," said Hutchins. "Let's have a drink." After this, the journey to the Crillon was a series of stops with Hutchins wield- ing the divining rod. "I really don't need liquor in this town," said Abel, as they got into their taxi for the eighth time. "The air alone gives me a kick." They bumped along for another five blocks when suddenly Salem jumped up and demanded the taxi stop. "Whatsarriatta?" demanded Abel, seeing no cafe in the vicinity. "Look!" Salem pointed. "Look! The girl! There she is!" "What girl?" asked Abel, without looking. "Any girl!" Hutchins laughed genially. "What girl?" Abel persisted, now craning his neck. "The girl! The girl of the photograph!" And Salem leaped out of the cab, but paused, bewildered. The girl had disappeared. "She was here a moment ago," Salem mumbled, getting back into the taxi. "How do you know it was the girl?" Abel de- manded, as they drove on. "Of course it was the giri!" Salem exclaimed. "I recognized her from her photograph." "Say!" Abel scoffed. "You don't think that girl looks anything like her picture? They never do." "This girl does." Salem was emphatic. "Boys," Abel chuckled, "he's seen her and he's hooked." "That's just it," Salem confirmed, squinting appealingly over The boys snickered. his glasses. "I want to be shown. That girl— But Salem leaned back, impervious to banter. "Oh, you make me sick!" Contempt with Abel bred familiar- "Don't be a sap," advised Abel. ity. "Goon. Goon!" Salem looked up. "After all," Salem reminded him as he edged off, "it's my "Whatever you think," he announced, "doesn't matter, I'm funeral." going ahead with it." "That's the first sensible thing I've heard you say," applauded The three musketeers began to laugh. They were still laugh- Abel. ing when the taxi deposited them at the Crillon. Salem strode briskly off. The formality of registering over, Abel suggested cocktails at "What," demanded Abel, "do you think of that?" the Cafe Americain. He knew the waiter. "It hurts me," mourned Schwartzkopf, "to see a feller make I "I don't think I'll go," Salem demurred. "I— —I'd like to such a sap of himself, even in Paris. make a few inquiries— "Let's have that cocktail," urged Hutchins. "Forget the poor "You can't stop him!" Abel exploded. "You're one of those dummy. He'll be crying on our shoulders tomorrow." saps that wants to be shown." The three musketeers did not mention Salem again for at least i-' The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly " a

waited until iwo, periodically sending down for more drinks. "Maybe," suggested Abel suddenly, "they shot him!" "What do you mean—shot him?" Schwartzkopf was in- dignant at the thought. "We ain't gonna be dragged in no murder. Why should they shoot him?" "How do I know what a sap will do?" asked Abel. "Be just like that guy to come with the money and then refuse to pony up." "Serve him right if they shot him," drooled Hutchins. "Be a lesson to him. I'm gonna sleep," and Hutchins staggered off to his room. "What d'ya think?" demanded Schwartzkopf of Abel. Abel pondered. "Well," he decided finally, "I think I'll turn in, too." Late the next morning the three muske- teers reassembled for breakfast. Still no sign of Salem. "He musta been shot," said Abel, ring- ing for the waiter. "Ice-water," said Hutchins. "We'll havta call the police now," growled Schwartzkopf. The waiter brought ice-water, orange juice and coffee, and the three musketeers drank deep. "If he don't come back in a half hour," began Abel, when the door swung open and Salem burst in upon them, clutching a small package wrapped in an old copy of Le Petit Parisien under his arm. His eyes were red and heavy from lack of sleep, his clothes rumpled, and he was un- shaven. But he seemed triumphant rather than disillusioned. "We thought you was shot!" Schwartz- kopf was the first to greet him. Salem peered over his glasses. do you "Why, no!" he said. "Who would shoot demanded Salem, me?" "A little bird," sneered Abel. "I sup- into the box and i 'p a pose they didn't have to shoot you. handful of jewels shed Trimmed you good and proper, didn't them in the h they?" "Oh!" Salem chuckled understandingly. "I see! You still think the proposition wasn't genuine. I see." four hours. Then, while sitting in a Montmartre bar, at the And Salem ripped the newspaper covering off the package he quiet hour of eleven, Schwartzkopf resurrected the subject of the had been holding so closely to him and disclosed a heavy wooden sap. box. This he placed on the table and dramatically lifted the "Wonder if he's back?" speculated Schwartzkopf, eyeing his cover. The three musketeers bent forward. drink intently. "What do you say to this?" demanded Salem with the pride "I'll bet," said Abel, "he took his money with him, and paid it of a successful showman. He reached into the box and dragged on the dot. Just begging to be trimmed." up a handful of jewels, and flashed them in the bright sun— "Didja ever notice," inquired Schwartzkopf after a pause, cluster of pearls, emeralds, diamonds and sapphires, strung into "that sometimes the saps are the ones who get the lucky breaks? necklaces, set into brooches and rings of old gold. I mean, look back in your own experience and see if you don't "You mean—that's the cache?" Abel stared up at him. remember where a dummy walks in where the wise guys fear to "Part of it," said Salem. tread, as the book says, and cleans up." "It's fakes," announced Schwartzkopf. "Meaning what?" asked Hutchins emptying his glass. "Five and ten cent stuff," Abel agreed, sagely. "It must be "Meaning," said Schwartzkopf, "that there's just one chance a new wrinkle. In the old days they gave the sucker nothing. in a million that he may be in on something real." Now they give him fake jewelry." "Aw, you're crazy!" snapped Abel. "Don't I know?" "But this isn't fake," Salem protested solemnly. "They're "Sure, we all know," agreed Schwartzkopf heavily. "Every- real." His hand played with the jewels. "Look at them! body knows. That's just what I mean. And along comes a Pretty?" guy who don't know nothing, and he walks away with a fortune. "Yea, lovelv," sneered Abel. "Didja have 'em tested?" I'm just talking generally." "Tested? Why should I?" "Generally," said Hutchins, "you're right." "Why should you!" Abel lifted his hands in despair. "To "And particularly," said Abel, "you're cock-eyed." find out if they're real." "Let's have another drink," said Hutchins. "But—you don't seem to understand," Salem interrupted "This place is dead," Abel disapproved. "No pep. Let's patiently. "They must be real. I promised to sell the stuff, try another." and give half to the girl." "Why not go back to the hotel and see if Salem's back?" sug- "Listen," said Abel. "Did you hand over five thousand gested Schwartzkopf. "We'll have more fun with him than a bucks?" hundred joints." "Yes. But—" "Great idea!" Hutchins agreed. "And we can get all the "All right." drinks we want right there." "But that went to the warden— Inquiry at the hotel desk disclosed Salem had not yet returned. "Gosh," sighed Abel, "there's saps and saps, but the saps "Let's have a bottle up and wait for him," Hutchins proposed. that don't know even after they're trimmed, they're the prize They waited in the sitting-room shared by the four. When saps." Salem did not return at midnight, they waited until one. They "Look here!" Salem bristled resentfully. {Continued on page 74) MAY, 1927 13 FOREVER By John J. Decorative Border bif

Thousands of visitors to The American Legion convention in Paris in September will visit Suresnes Cetnetery, which, of the eight cemeteries on French soil that will be fore ver Ameri- ca, is closest to the capital—so close that Paris is easily visible from this quiet hillside where thousands of Ameri- can soldiers sleep. Suresnes Cemetery is unsurpassed in the natural beauty of its setting, and the photograph indicates how skilfully this setting has been tak- en advantage of

7m? H E Ameri- can Battle Monuments Commission was created by Act of Congress in 1923, to secure designs for and erect suitable memorials to commemorate the services of the American forces in Europe during the World War. Since it came into being, the Commission has carefully prepared plans which involve three distinct parts: first, the development of the eight American mili- tary cemeteries themselves into fitting memorials; second, the erection of suitable monuments in honor of the services and lar study is being given to the character of the interiors. Each sacrifices of our troops; and third, the publication of a guidebook chapel will contain a tablet bearing the names of the missing in which will present in condensed form a true picture of the Ameri- battles fought in the vicinity. Each cemetery will be enclosed by can effort. a masonry wall to give the necessary protection, and there will Our cemeteries are in charge of the War Department, under be other minor improvements added to give completeness. whose direction they have been well arranged and carefully The plans of the Commission have passed through a period of maintained. It is the purpose of the Commission to carry out evolution, especially as to battle commemoration, and now em- further development from the architectural and landscape view- brace a scheme of monuments and tablets, including a monument point in order to express as fully as possible the appreciation and for the Services of Supply, and others in recognition of the efforts affection our people feel for the men who gave up their lives and of the Navy. The project of the Commission will cover all activ- who now rest over there. The central feature in each cemetery ities of our forces, considering the various operations according to will be a beautiful memorial chapel, non-denominational in their relative military importance. In the preparation of this character. The designs have already been approved, and particu- project the Commission has decided to construct a few rather im-

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American soldiers and sailors who died in English camps or hospitals lie in this permanent American cemetery at Brook- ivood, Surrey, Eng- land. Of the eight American cemeteries in Europe, one is in England, one in Bel- gium, and the re- maining six in France. The central feature in each, ac- cording to the plans of the Battle Monu- ments Commission, of which General Pershing is chair- man, will be a mem- orial chapel, non- denominational in character

Argonne offens- ive, the greatest battle in Ameri- can history. The site selected is on the ruins of the old town of Montfaucon, which occupied the dominating hill of that name. The ruins themselves are to be preserved by the French Government. The design selected for our monument is a lofty column which, standing above the ruined city in sharp outline against the sky, will accentuate the effect. posing monuments instead of a large number of smaller ones. The operation second in importance conducted by the American To be of greatest value, a memorial should be placed where Army was the elimination of the St. Mihiel salient, which for four people would naturally go, or if commemorating an important years had stood as a threat to the Allied lines. The monument to event it should be of such a striking nature that they will go out this battle will be on Montsec, an isolated hill about four hundred of their way to see it. As the rehabilitation of the devastated feet high which lay within the German lines until captured. It areas progresses, the battlefields will lose more and more of their will always be a familiar landmark to the troops who served in war-time appearance, and before long most of the evidences of that sector. the conflict will have disappeared. As time goes on, fewer and No war name appeals more to the popular mind in America fewer people will visit these regions, and it is the Commission's than Chateau-Thierry. It is the common designation for the view that the memorials should be of such an impressive char- series of operations which turned the tide of the war. Beginning acter that efforts will be made to see them. on May 27th, American troops were thrown in front of the Ger- The project contemplates three major battlefield memorials mans and effectively stopped the drive on Paris. On July 14th and five minor ones. The largest will commemorate the Meuse- they fought with the French in the thick of the defense against

MAY. 1927 15 the last great enemy Mont Ridge, in the offensive, and on July Champagne, one will i3th the First and Second honor the services of the American Divisions, with the Second, 36th, 42d and 93d Di- Moroccan division, formed the visions in that region while with spear-head of the attack that The resting-place of the fallen victors of St. Nlihicl the French armies. Near Bony went through the German lines and the famous sector north of Toulj the American ceme- another will preserve the mem- Soissons forced the the services of the th south of and tery at Thiaucourt (above). In oval, Romagne ceme- ory of 27 and German commander to begin the 30th American Divisions, that tery largest of American cemeteries abroad, where lie retirement of his armies from the fought with the British Army. It the dead of the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne, in the Marne. The attacks against the will crown a site over the canal heart the bloody soil which they won back to France enemy continued during August of tunnel north of St. Quentin, be- until he was driven behind the tween Bony and Bellicourt, and Aisne, over 300,000 American troops participating. To com- overlook our cemetery in that vicinity. On the road between memorate these successes, the Commission will erect a single Ypres and Mount Kemmel, in Belgium, a smaller marker will memorial at a prominent site on what is known as Hill 204, near designate another battlefield where these divisions fought. the village of Courteau, just west of Chateau-Thierry. From The Cantigny monument will commemorate the sacrifices of here the visitor looking in the direction of the advance will obtain the First Division in the capture and retention of that town in a splendid view of that historic city and the Marne valley. our first independent divisional operation of the war. In the These three then—Montfaucon, Montsec and Chateau- public square at Audenarde, Belgium, a pedestal will commem- Thierry— will be our principal battle monuments. orate the aggressiveness of the 37th and 91st Divisions with the The remaining five will be of modest character, conforming to Belgian Army. the lesser importance of the operations involved. On Blanc The contribution by the Service of Supply, in which three

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quarters of a million has been decided to men did their part to erect a monument to the serve the fighting army and Army and the Navy to com- make the victory possible, will be memorate the services of the marked by a fitting memorial at troops who fought with the Tours. The General Headquar- Over the brow of the ridge where the A. E. F. waged Italian armies and the sailors ters of the A. E. F. at Chaumont one of its most desperate fights sleep thousands of the who guarded the Mediterranean. and the Headquarters of our First victors of the Belleau and Chateau-Thierry fighting in Designs and sites have been Army at Souilly will be marked the earth which they won—Belleau Cemetery {above), obtained for most of the monu- with bronze tablets. closest to Paris after Suresnes. In oval, the cemetery ments mentioned, and working As to the Navy, an appropriate drawings will be finished within at Seringes-et-Nesle, in the heart of the Mame salient memorial will be placed in Eng- a few weeks. Unless unforeseen land to record the effective co- difficulties arise, construction operation of our naval forces with those of the British in policing will probably begin by Fall, and it is the hope of the Commission the seas and keeping open the great routes of travel. Another that work may be far enough advanced in a few places to permit memorial at Brest will recognize the very arduous work of the the Legionnaires who visit France in September to assist in Navy in convoying transports carrying armies and supplies across laying the cornerstones. the Atlantic and through infested waters. This monument will It has been agreed with the French and Belgian governments be erected on a bastion of the old fortifications overlooking the that no American memorials may be erected in either country harbor, familiar to so many American soldiers who received unless first approved by the American Battle Monuments Com- their first and last impressions of France at this port. mission. It is the opinion of the Commission that the scheme Other naval memorials will be placed at Gibraltar, at Corfu, proposed will modestly commemorate in a complete and equitable in Greece, and at Ponta Delgada, in the Azores. At Rome, it manner the devotion and sacrifice of {Continued on page 84) MAY, 1927 17 HOW LONG WILL

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7"-5HIS question wears a queer look in the types. Nothing in all the world seems so stable as the United States of America. It is the richest and the most powerful government that ever existed. Its natural re- sources are prodigious, and we have only scratched the surface. Our inventive genius has made a ser- vant of the lightning and a miraculous thing of the wheel. In a journey from ocean to ocean the eye is constantly impressed and gladdened by the variety of labors that engage the people. On trains and in hotels there is always the hum of voices booming and boosting. Hardly a town of any size but asks special consideration as having the biggest Some- thing anywhere in the world, sir! Nor does the general complacency rest upon material success alone. If a stranger pausing in any State of the Union shows a lack of interest in material glorifica- tion the intelligent and discerning resident will at once launch into praise of his State's educational advantages, the millions poured into its public schools, the amounts expended upon colleges and universities. This is all interesting and admirable. But let us look a little further. It would seem that in a republic like ours one might sometimes stumble into a community where the citizens point with pride to their local government; where the mayor is a gentleman chosen for his character and conspic- uous fitness to grace the head of the municipal table, and public affairs are conducted strictly in the public interest. But such cities are indeed rare. Even in gatherings that are supposedly representative one does not meet the mayor. If you remark upon his absence you are likely to be answered with a smile and a shrug and you learn that the official head of the community is not really representative of its best life and aspirations, but as likely as not is an accident or a political adven- turer. On the other hand, where there has been earnest effort to improve conditions and the town is experimenting with a business manager, chosen for his fitness, he and the movement that has given him his place are likely to be sneered at as only indica- tive of a temporary eruption of idealism. There are exceptions in the results of some of my own in- quiries of this sort, but they are few. Not often are the more important business and professional men interested in the public affairs of their communities. They will serve effectively on the boards of hospitals and art museums, but it is unusual to find men of the first rank interested in improving municipal or county government. That would be politics, and politics is an abhorrent thing except where it concerns the financial and business policies of the nation. Nearly everywhere one learns of small groups of earnest striving people who have the patriotism to try to work for better government, but these labor- ers are few and usually cramped by lack of funds with which to carry on their fight. And usually these patient laborers in the vineyard are spoken of contemptuously as meddlesome persons and im- practical dreamers. In no way can a man so quickly earn a reputation for being a crank as by manifest- ing political independence. Very often he is made

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to suffer in his own business for his courage. The men who ought to rally to his support back away from him. He is dangerous—a fool to stir up trou- ble. His motives are questioned. The fellow must be after something! Much of the political apathy that is now so pro- foundly disturbing to observers of American condi- tions and tendencies is due to the failure of the small political units to cling to their rights. Home Rule was a battle cry almost from the beginning of civilization. The continual abandonment of local rights and duties has resulted in a weakening of the whole political fabric. If local government is a nuisance, to be got rid of wherever possible, indif- ference to state and national affairs follows quite naturally. Instead of government by the people, the people have shown a curious disposition to re- lieve themselves of as much government as possible. Matters that should be handled in the town hall are transferred to the State House. Once, while he was governor of Indiana, the late Senator Ralston remarked to me with a groan that the State was commissioned to death. Towns and cities ought to have the fixing of their own gas and water rates. State commissions cannot judge of local needs with the knowledge or the sympathetic interest of the citizens immediately concerned. Great power is confided to these commissions, and not infrequently it is scandalously abused. It is not easy for a governor to find men of the best sort to take these places. In most of the States the salaries are not commensurate with their responsibility. The ap- pointments are usually made merely as a reward for party service, and the public interest suffers. There are matters, such as road building, that are best done by state units, but this became true only because of a lack of local initiative—another illustra- tion of the widespread feebleness of public spirit. We have indulged for the past twenty-five years in a veritable carnival of law-making, which has cluttered the statute books with laws that are a dead letter from the hour they are passed. Our legisla- tive bodies, State and national, are supposedly "representative"; that is to say, the members when chosen are entrusted with the confidence of the people, and are expected to exercise their best judgment in the public interest. But this has so changed that now the Congress of the United States and every State Legislature conducts its proceedings encircled by lobbyists, the paid attor- neys of all manner of interests, business, moral and religious, whose function is to influence or intimi- date the lawmakers. Lobbying has become a fine art, and even where States attempt to control or regulate this valiant army the result is chiefly to give a degree of dignity to the persons thus employed. The use of money to influence legislation is one of the familiar scandals of our politics. As long as the people take as little interest in public affairs as now, and meekly accept the second rate, the unfit and venal, just so long we shall hear of corruption in every department of governmental machinery. If moral laws are not written in the consciences of the people, little good and frequently a great mis- chief is done by writing them on statute books. In the January issue of {Continued on page 77)

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WHY I LIVE I N PARI S Btr a FormerAmerican Soldier

"^yvOMEO moaned bitterly that the terrors of exile were that they are anti-American, always asking scornfully, ' Can L^J greater than those of death: "Banished? Oh, friar. anything good come out of the United States?" The dollars by g % the damned use that word in hell. Howling attends which they live, at* least, come out of the U. S. A. I'm an exile, it." But I have never found them so. Of course, yes; but even though I adore France as my second country, I * I haven't died yet and so my knowledge of death remain pro-American to the core. There's not more than a is limited, but if it resembles banishment to Paris, then I feel platoon of us in Paris. like exclaiming, "O Death, where is thy sting?" Do I ever get homesick for America? Yes, indeed, especially True, Romeo's experience was different from mine. He was for her gastronomic glories. I like French cuisine and my wife banished from his Eden, and from his Juliet, while I was exiled is a veritable cordon bleu— French for wow—but now and then in the contrary direction, to Paris, and into the arms of the I have an irresistible hankering for buckwheat cakes and maple French girl of my dreams. He fled from Verona to save his neck, syrup, for shredded wheat, and for the fluffy biscuits my mother but there is no sheriff chasing after me with a warrant, since I used to bake. In Paris this is treason; it indicates vulgar preju- am neither a retired bootlegger nor an escaped bigamist. I can dices and barbarian tastes, but dauntless and unashamed, I con- return to America tomorrow if I wish, although I confess that fess my intense enjoyment of Vermont sausage and Quaker Oats the old home town of Millville, Pennsylvania, doesn't tempt me and grape fruit whenever some American woman exile, angel in very much. But when and if I go, there will be a fatted turkey, disguise, invites us to breakfast. Ah, the American breakfast plus cranberry sauce, to greet me, and not a prison cell such as may violate all the laws of nutrition and dietetics, but it charms awaited Romeo in Verona. my palate in a manner that cafe au lait, with croissants and but- There was no compulsion in my case. Of my own free will I ter, never will. My stomach will always remain American. came to Paris, seeking the Blue Bird of Happiness, and I remain Once, to please me, my wife attempted to bake some American because I have found it. As a result of this, all the lachrymal biscuits; after tasting the result of her efforts, I had to tell her, poetry wasted on exiles makes me laugh, since the bread of ban- kindly but firmly, that she was too light for such heavy work. I ishment, which Shakespeare described as bitter, for me is sweet, know that's a stale joke in America, but in Paris it had the de- palatable, and nourishing And why? Because it is eaten in sired effect. Paris, with Juliet and Juliet Junior, is sometimes accompanied Almost every day I get homesick for American matches and by pate de ioie gras, and—here comes the climax—is frequently American tobacco. Bizarre as it may seem, I have an unreason- washed down with a glass or two of sparkling, golden Burgundy. able preference for matches that really function, instead of the When I left St. Nazaire in July, ioiq, I never expected to re- never-light variety which the French state manufactures. After turn to France except possibly as a tourist or an A. E. F. pil- five years of arduous training I have finally accustomed myself grim. But there was always the haunting memory of Juliet to French cigarettes, but at first they gave me as much pleasure the thrill of that final kiss in the cathedral tower of Bordeaux, as smoking a piece of hemp rope would. Consequently, when the pathos of those farewell tears, and the love-light in those some wicked American tourist smuggles in some genuine Ameri- mist-clouded eyes. That sounds like an extract from Elinor can tobacco I give him my quadruple blessing plus an invita- Glyn, but it was a poignant, vivid reality to me. That is why I tion to dinner. At times I also have an intense longing for succumbed to the lure of France and—Juliet. I could not for- American telephones. Back in America I sincerely thought Mill- get; I resisted as long as I could; I had a domestic Waterloo ville had the worst telephone system in the world. This was a with my family when I announced my project; and then, one colossal error. When the world's championship for bad tele- afternoon, I suddenly gave up my job, said good-bye to my phone service is handed out, I nominate Paris, confident that mother, and ten days later was on the Atlantic. As I look back, my candidate will win. In truth, if any American Socialist wants I confess that my action was reckless, silly, irrational; it might to see how miserably his ideals work in practice, let him try to have ended in tragedy; it might have transformed me into a beg- light a French cigarette with a French match, and I venture he'll gar seeking alms in the vestibule of the American consulate. I be cured of his dreams; or let him try to call a friend on a abandoned a good job for a hazardous adventure into the un- French telephone, and if he doesn't die of the weariness of wait- known and the uncertain. But Providence—says a French ing, he will confess that French state ownership and operation proverb—takes care of infants and fools, which doubtless ex- are an abject failure. plains why, a month after my arrival in Paris, I had a job; six It is no wonder then that, sometimes, I get homesick for months later I was married, and a year after that Juliet Junior, American bath-tubs, American electrical appliances, American half mystery and half plaything, appeared to brighten our comfort, and the American idea of service which I left behind home. And my exile, it seems, is of the Kathleen Mavourneen me. In these pagan days after prohibition I realize how old- kind: "It may be for years and it may be forever." Certainly fashioned and illogical and stupid is the idea of service, but it's it will be broken by visits to the United States, but I will likely my humble opinion that Paris would be better off today if she remain an exile to the end of my days. had fewer statues in her public squares and more American ser- Still, I am not an expatriate of the Henry James type, always vice in her telephone system, her railroads, and her public admin- throwing verbal bombs at my country. I did not leave the istration. Comparisons are odious, I know, but I can never for- United States because I consider it an inferior, decadent nation, get that last year it required fourteen days for a package to barren of romance and grace, ruled by morons and inhabited travel from Millville to Paris, and fifty-six days for the same solely by boobs, as the Montparnasse intellectuals here would package to cover the distance between the Gare St. Lazare and have us believe. Indeed I believe quite the contrary. I have my home, approximately three kilometres. Happily the pack- no quarrel with my country I lament the crudity, bigotry and age contained nothing perishable. ignorance which admittedly exist there, but I refuse to believe I'm thoroughly in love with France, however, for life is more that America has a monopoly of these vices; I have yet to visit than telephones and railroad trains, but I'm not a blind admirer, a country where they are non-existent. I regret the cultural since I know her defects. Indeed, in some respects, Paris is the shortcomings of many of our self-made men, but if a Chamber of greatest hick town in the world. Can you imagine Pittsburgh's Commerce president or a Rotary club secretary wants to spend street cars or New York's subway system ceasing to function at his leisure time playing golf instead of reading Walt Whitman 12:30 a. m., as happens in Paris? Can you imagine Chicago or studying Beethoven, that is none of my business. As blocking State Street or cluttering up Michigan Avenue with a human values go, certainly Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, village fair, as Paris does on her Grands Boulevards every Christ- cl al. are greater benefactors of mankind than the third-rate mas week? Can you imagine an American city where you can't artists, pseudo-poets and fake intellectuals such as usually lead get a decent meal after midnight, as in Paris, unless you go to the Anvil Chorus in Paris. In truth, within the American colony Montmartre in a full dress suit and pay five times the value? of Paris I am tne self-appointed, unpaid defender of my country. Can you imagine Cleveland or Birmingham requiring half a It's an ungrateful job, since I get little or no assistance, because century to put a thoroughfare through to its destination, as was many Americans resident in Paris have become so Frenchified the case in Paris with the Boulevard Haussmann? Here are a

JO The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The Eiffel Tower, one thousand feet high, the tallest edifice eier constructed by man, as seen from the Trocadero across the Seine. In circle, the Trocadero, photographed from the second landing of the Eiffel Tower. The business sessions of The American Legion s Ninth National Convention, to be held in Paris from September 19th to 23d, will be conducted in theTrocadero

few examples where the Americanization of Paris wouldn't hurt a bit. But there is another side to the coin. Being an exile in Paris has its advantages. Except for the courtesy which we owe to our French hosts, we American exiles are as free as Robinson Crusoe on his island. If we will refrain from tweaking President Doumergue's nose or singing "Deutschland Ueber Alles" on the Place de la Concorde, we can be as eccentric as high-brow, as low-brow, as stupid as pleases our fancy. And we are all of this, and more. Our spare time is literally and absolutely our own, and what we do with it is none of the boss's business. There is not the slightest attempt at pressure. (Continued on page 85)

MAY, 1927 — By HUGH WILEY

y/'FTER the ZJ Rabble En- E gmeers had wad e d through their first muddy year in France their equipment included a cargo of traditions. Never trust a stranger's dice. Replace- ment troops are not human. In a pinch with an M. P., soak him in the jaw but don't try to ex- plain anything. No frog has francs. Beware the Belgian belles. When the shower baths are built the Rabble moves. "Git to town and buy a franc bath like every- body else does," an old- timer warned a replace- ment. "Otherwise you are likely to git yourself chloride of limed. They ain't going to be no water in these Genimont showers until Thursday / night. If they is, the chances are the outfit moves Friday." Fair prediction. Before Retreat the Lieutenant came back to camp from a rush trip to Base Headquarters. To the Top and the com- The lantern-bearing over pany clerk, "Cancel all stranger bent overnight passes," he said. "Round up the strays. We're mov- him. "How do you get that way! Nix ing into a new Base. We entrain tomorrow for Survalle. Cap on that rang stuff! sticks in this county as Base Engineer." "Another construction job, Lieutenant?" The sergeant's tone "Dis-missed!" Now, informally, the Loot could sympathize was sad. with a few good phrases of profanity. This he did, in a soothing "Big storage depot. Railroad yard and a flock of warehouses. voice whose carrying power lay in the sulphuric emotion it ex- Pet project with the General, Kingnall, commanding that Base. pressed. Then, calming abruptly, "Get in the clear with your He has four thousand men standing on each other's feet up there with all personal matters tonight," he advised, while the vapors now. Topheavy with labor and no talent. Rush job." of the gratifying explosion still hung above the group. "You'll "Lieutenant, will you bust the news at Retreat?" For the be busy in the morning." first time in his military career Sergeant Linn passed the buck. "Lootenant, what about pay-day?" Someone needed to know. "The Rabble is all set to kill me off if I tell 'em. I guess I sort of "Pay-day the day we hit Survalle. Best way. You don't want encouraged the gossip that we had a chance of going to the front to leave it all down here. For emergencies to be approved by as soon as this Genimont job was done. They're fed up on the Sergeant Linn—laundry, loans, love and such matters—a few S.O.S. stuff." francs will be put out by the company clerk." "So am L I don't blame 'em, but it's the Rabble's fault for Many the hearts that were broken, for the Rabble, off duty, being so good at their own game. I'll tell 'em." cherished the comforts of home and had considerable luck The Lieutenant decided to get it over with. Retreat had its wherever amiable fireside companions were appreciated. "Tell uses. "We have orders to move tomorrow at ten o'clock," he me, pet little cabbage, to me the letters you will write every day, announced when the Rabble stood in a company front. "We are is it not?" to hit the ball on the Survalle storage depot." "Tell your grandfather I will miss him and his good wine A bugle. The Rabble, with its blasted hopes, slouched into bokoo." parade rest. The first notes of the Anthem found the line at a "I will write you the money for a beautiful hat from Survalle." cast-iron attention, steady, but jaw-muscles were bulging over "Say, cheerie, those dames up there in Survalle where we are clenched teeth and the War was being described with silent going don't make no more hit with me than a Belgian refugee. profanity. It is the truth."

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"All right! Have it your way. You'll be bokoo sorry when fattened for the slaughter, a couple of geese named Tom and Jerry I'm gone, for we're going up to the front and I will get shot. You whose lives had been spared because some observer noted that better get affectionate." they walked like a general who had pulled a surprise inspection. Such were the lighter phrases of farewell. Next morning a Good cussing targets. string of passenger coaches was spotted on a spur track near the When the company lined up for division into car-sized groups camp. "Cast your dazed eyes over that layout," an old-timer the Lieutenant ran his eye down the line. "The best gang, God advised a replacement. "None of them Forty Horse equipment bless 'em, in the whole blasted game," he reflected. "But not for this outfit! We got a drag with the frog railroaders and we at this moment a sight to soothe the eye of a military fanatic." ride in style." Then, to the Top, "Any sudden rush on Madame Fenelon's The replacement, having no sense of values, skipped lightly to place?" the subject of rations. "Is there a dining car on the train?" he "Lieutenant, isn't a quart of coonyak in the outfit. It's the wanted to know. wrong side of pay-day for a flood." The old-timer played his hand. "There is. With French "Better check the canteens to make sure. Then move on waiters and a ally carty menoo. That's why we're so crazy about board—highball in twenty minutes. We take the local's running traveling. Every luxury you can think of is provided for us rights to Survalle. She trails us as the second section." traveling soldiers. You're mighty lucky to be with this outfit. A lot can be done in twenty minutes. When the canteen in- There goes your master's tin horn. Allay!" spection began a pair of fast thinkers broke out of Squad Three. With packs. Well, there is nothing very specific in the regu- One, it seemed, had left his watch under his mattress, and the lations which forbids adding a few canned goods to a personal other, seeing things, was sure he had just seen a courier come in pack. Of course a dyspeptic elderly judge-advocate can read with a sidecar full of mail. "Git your watch and hurry up. We're almost anything into the Manual, but the Rabble never posed due out mighty sudden ... All right, see if there's any letters as intellectual giants in military law and so the packs bulged in for us but let the packages go. Tell him to send them up on the spots with salvaged tools—clawhammers, saws, canned peaches, next train." Australian jam with its high percentage of stems and mainland, The watch-loser and his mate ducked around the corner of a personal pillows, spare sweaters and a general miscellany whose hut. At the far end of the hut they encountered another one of inventory would read like the stock list of a rummage sale. There their lieutenants. The world seemed suddenly infested with were some mascots on foot—dogs, goats, a young pig being lieutenants. Damn so many lieutenants. The quick precision

MAY, 1927 23 'Tell me, pet little cabbage, to me the letters you will write every day, is it not? of their salute, the unusual quality— of the salute, the simple fact know nawthin' but work. Lissen— forget him! We got to act that a salute had been rendered "There is something fish-like quick. You sure you can parley-voo enough to rope that chef- here," the officer surmised. "Where are you birds headed for? la-gare?" You know there's a highball mighty toot sweet, don't you?" "Say, that frog would sidetrack the king for us Rabble. Ain't When they git hard, git military. Click. "Sir, Sergeant Linn he been on the payroll for six months?" detailed I and Red to get the company mail." "He ain't now." "On your way, then. Get it." "He will be just as quick as we deliver the goods. What you Clear of the peril! "Red, do you figger he's likely to gum the think we can get easiest? Canned goods?" game?" "I'm going to hit the stevedore cookhouse for a sack of sugar. "Nah—his mind's a blank except for the new job. He don't Time Shorty raided that Q. M. for them Germans' rations we lent

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly them black boys ten sacks. That guy 'II do anything for sugar." comes. Got to make a hit with the new general. Begin it now, The agreement, orally accomplished, by and between the and when the right time comes for asking favors maybe they'll linguist and the chef-de-gare, witnessed that in consideration of let us hit the front." a sack of sugar certain acts were to be well and faithfully per- The first of an impending series of commendable qualities was formed by the French railroad man, and might the unholy Saint demonstrated a moment after the Rabble lined up in the rain Kilometer have mercy on his soul if there was a hitch in the deal. alongside the vacant coaches. A dozen lanterns glimmered "And attend!" the linguist emphasized. "Hook her on right back through the rain, and in the light of one of these Shorty, the chief of the engine so it looks like an extra haywire water tank?" of the Rabble's cookhouse crew, absorbed a bracing slug of good "Hay—wire?" vang blush out of his full canteen. "Want a drink of vang, "Finnay! Allay! Veet veet!" fellah?" he asked affably, addressing a lantern-bearing stranger Accomplished. "Come on, Red—that's done. Hit a trot, who towered over him. everybody's on board." "How do you get that way! Nix on that vang stuff!" When the switch-engine hauled the string of coaches out of the Here was something new and strange. "How do you get that Genimont yard to a march played on the chef-de-gare's tin way yourself, big boy?" Shorty asked, noting, even as he spoke, whistle the Lieutenant gave himself a free moment for a cigarette. the M. P. band on the stranger's arm. "Where did you git on?" He looked out of the window and saw the locomotive which was to "Git calm or I'll show you where I get on!" The M. P. spoke haul their train to Survalle standing on the main line. "Since in a voice pitched for the benefit of a growing audience. when did these frogs begin hauling extra water tanks? Reminds "Is that so?" Shorty flamed. "Well—here's where I show you you of an Arizona desert drag." He indicated with a wave of his where you get off!" Lacking a stepladder, Shorty did the best

cigarette an immense cylindrical tank car coupled back of their he could. "You louse M. P. . . . Wham ... Us guys is motive power. Engineers! We knocks youse birds cold!" "Maybe we have to ride through without any water stops," Within lass than ten seconds the melee had assumed sizable one of his companion officers returned. dimensions. The Rabble craved action. "Hop to it!" Here was That was a close guess. Before the train was a mile outside of a chance to work off that run-down feeling which had come as the Genimont yard the hidden virtues of the so-called water tank a reaction to the tank of wine. Here was a chance to show the might have become apparent to an outside observer. First of all, military world what a lifetime of pick-and-shovel work would edging his way along the narrow running board toward the tank do to suppressed combat troops. Here was a chance to mold the car came a thirsty old-timer. He led a service squad laden with annoying war a little nearer to what a war should be. "Let's go!" half the canteens in the company. Hanging from his belt was The fight was fair enough. When it had quieted, and when a brace and bit. Arrived safely on the narrow deck of the tank the disabled battlers had been revived, the Loot managed to get car he set to work. "Whittle that plug for an inch hole," he twenty-eight members of the offending Rabble paroled out of advised the man next to him. He began boring a hole into the the local guardhouse into the clutches of company discipline. A wet wood of the tank. When the bit finally went through a gush fine mess of good impressions! It was three o'clock in the rain of good red wine followed. "Hold your hand over it! Shut her before the Rabble began snoring in the new strange barracks off before it's all gone!" that had suddenly become their home sweet home. "Never gonna be all gone. You know how much these frog "Queered from the start!" the Loot reflected, on the edge of wine tanks hold—thousand gallons. Gimme that plug." sleep. Then, absolutely firm in his unchanging faith: "Nothing "Guess that'll hold us Rabble one day anyhow." can queer that gang if they get the shadow of a chance to show "01' Red's scheme sure worked noble. Never saw nothing the cockeyed world what they are." put out with so much profit as Ten minutes after the Loot was asleep a that one old sack of sugar." whistle on a cargo ship in the harbor, half "Didn't mean nothing to a mile from the barracks, gargled and that chef-la-gare to couple in coughed and moaned into a string of one frog outfit's wine wagon. alarm signals. Sergeant Linn got this They's a hundred of 'em go subconsciously and rolled over to begin up the line every day." a real job of sleeping when a hand "Means a lot to us. Start touched his shoulder. Old Pop Sibley be- back with that load of can- gan speaking from a great distance. teens." "Linn, they's something on fire down at "Gosh, but I hope them the docks." loots ain't pokin' their heads "Roll 'em out—forty men. Rest of out of no windows." the outfit stays here." The Top was "They're asleep by this awake now. "I'll be with you in a time. Beat it. Next!" minute. Don't bother the Loot." The traffic in vang blush The ship's officers and the ship's crew, slowed up after the first hour. save for half a dozen men, were eight Then, after a noticeable lull it miles away. The ship was was renewed with a fervor deserted and mysterious which lasted well into the and vacant—cool enough afternoon. Canteens, emptied for a ship on fire until at supper time, remained you walked half a block, empty for a while and then, in the dark, three decks down, to the agile couriers scrambled along their where, through a buck- precarious footways to the head end of ling bulkhead, roared a the train. Good old filling station. smothered inferno. "What time the Loot say we lit at "Might sure enough be Survalle?" dynamite," one of the "Nine o'clock we're due in. We got Rabble panted, heaving to run five miles further to where the into the trailing line of quarters is." hose. With expected delays it was after "If it is you'll miss midnight before the long train was pay-day." guided through the complicated Survalle yards "(iit me a long sleep and spotted on a temporary spur whose rolling wave no-how." effect served to arouse the sleeping members of the "Git that gas-bag on— Rabble far more effectively than the notes of a 'less you can eat steam." Sergeant Linn's whistle. Rain. Back in the last It was hot now. "Lawd car, as the train creaked to a stop, "Promote all gosh, when is them top- the pleasing qualities you can," the Loot advised side jaybirds gonna turn his companions. "Little hypocrisy won't hurt our way on some water! Come prospects. We got to get right with the local along the narrow running board, on, water!— before this powers if we crave to set pretty when the time came a thirsty Old Timer (Continued on page 60)

MAY, 1927 25 ; -EDITORIAL-

(JforQodandcountry ,u>e associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (Jo uphold and defend the Constitution, ofthe 'Zlnited States of^lmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent (7lmericanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the Cjreatltyar; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com- munity, state and'nation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgoodwillon earth ;to safeguardand transmit io posterity tlie principles ofjustice,J"reedom and democracy ; to conse- crate aridsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion.

What Say? to form first-hand opinions of post-war France. Many of these emissaries of good will will visit other countries besides France. Some thousands will get ENGLISHMAN has just published a book AN at least a glimpse of England. . that goes rather farther in the gentle pastime It is conceivable that they will even get a glimpse of panning America than any predecessor has of Mr. Joad, and for Mr. Joad to get a glimpse of done. There is the possibility, of course, that the them will be well-nigh unavoidable. And to make book—"The Babbitt Warren," by C. E. N. Joad—is the contact certain, The American Legion Monthly simply a clever hoax, something written to get a rise hereby tenders Mr. Joad the refusal of a press seat and most tumultuously getting it. Let us pass over at the Ninth National Convention of The American that possibility and look on Mr. Joad's product as Legion in Paris. If Mr. Joad will not come to a genuine and heartfelt discharge of spleen. America, America will go to Mr. Joad. Virtually every critic of the book on this side of the ocean (the side, Mr. Joad seems to believe, that the world could very well get along without) has A Parallel thrust at the apparent weak point in Mr. Joad's book —the fact that he has never been to America. Now WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE of Emporia says there is no getting around the fact that this failure that in any discussion of agriculture there are to visit us—to accept the hospitality of the warren, two kinds of persons to be distrusted, namely, those such as Mr. Joad probably thinks it is—-makes his who say there is no farm problem and those who criticism, as criticism, of negligible value. But as say they can solve it. an indication of a state of mind, his conclusions, There is a farm problem. It is America's greatest based on no matter what erroneous and prejudiced problem at the moment. The farmer alone is not data, are of considerable significance. getting his just share, or any share to speak of, of There are two kinds of Englishmen: those who the current prosperity. Annual farm bankruptcies have been to America and those who haven't, just have risen in fifteen years from one in ten thousand as there are two kinds of Americans, those who have farmers to one in every six hundred and sixty-nine been to England and those who haven't. It requires agricultural renters or proprietors. Every part of no senatorial investigating committee to determine the country is affected—some worse than others, that the total of Americans who never visited Eng- notably the upper Mississippi and Missouri River land, and of Englishmen who never visited America, valleys. Conditions have improved a little since the outnumber their world-faring brethren from a hun- crisis years following the shake-down after the war. dred to one up. Yet every American has in his If this were not true the farming industry as such mind's eye a sharp and definite, though perhaps would be out of business. This improvement merely hideously inaccurate, picture of England and Eng- emphasizes the problem. Our other industries have lishmen. emerged from the post-war readjustment into an era The comparison need not be limited to England of unprecedented prosperity. Everyone has money and America. Every Frenchman has a definite idea except the farmer. He is barely making a living. of Sweden, every Swede an idea of Japan, every He is tramping forward into a clouded future. Japanese an idea of Brazil. And it is these con- Many factors complicate his situation, but the ceptions, not the painstaking data assembled by nub of it is this: The scanty profit the farmer expert students of politics and sociology, that coalesce does make is not on what he sells in this country, into public opinion; it is these conceptions that but on what he exports. In the foreign market our settle a nation's foreign policy, and determine, in farmers are in compstition with a class of people moments of high crisis, the issue between war and that has no counterpart in American life. This is peace. the peasant class. If our fanners were content to Ten years ago America was dispatching to Europe live as peasants live there would be no problem. the vanguard of a force that was ultimately to num- The American manufacturer and the laborer he ber two million men and women—Americans who employs also compete with foreign industrialists were privileged to see with their own eyes how other whose workers are paid less and live on a cruder peoples live, and to gain some insight into the scale than ours do. But the manufacturer is pro- equally important phenomenon of how other peoples tected by tariff laws. The farmer is not. Yet every- think. This year the greatest peacetime argosy in thing the farmer buys is bought from the American history—just as the A. E. F. was the world's great- manufacturer at the "protected" price. What the est wartime argosy—will go to Europe from America farmer sells is sold at the unprotected price, in com- to renew the friendships formed a decade ago and petition with the peasant.

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly That is the gist of the problem, and it has proved Mr. MacNider showed that the situations were not a hard nut to crack. The farmer has bettered him- too dissimilar for profitable comparison. The men self some by organization, but his problem requires who had fought the war had not had a fair shake. national treatment. A debt was acknowledged and owing. But a great This is recognized, that the farmers have accom- part of the country was ignorant of the situation plished little nationally. They have made attempts, and a rich and powerful group was hostile. but usually a ruction among themselves as much as The veterans had a national organization—the anything else has nullified their efforts. Legion. Through that organization they reconciled On this point Hanford MacXider, who is Assistant their family differences and agreed to a national Secretary of War, resident of agricultural Iowa, plan. This plan was incorporated into legislation. where he owns a couple of farms and keeps pretty This was a compromise, inevitably. It was the mean close tab on their operation, and a Past National of what the majority of the men concerned wanted Commander of The American Legion, recently made a after they had taken counsel with their leaders. suggestion that is causing discussion in the Tall Corn They went to the front for that plan. A million men Belt. MacNider offers no solution, but a possible took off their coats and fought. They won—through means to one that might attract even the skeptical organization, discipline, cohesion, intelligent leader- sage of Emporia. In a letter to an Iowa newspaper ship, and because their cause was right. MacNider editor Mr. MacNider said the farmers of the country says the farmer can do the same, step by step. would profit by taking a tip from The American Incidentally, more Legionnaires follow the calling Legion in its fight for the Adjusted Compensation. of agriculture than any other one vocation. SPRUCE KNOB NAME Freeman JYI for Mosie ^ J \ § Bennet has course to the superior in- ^— ^ ^ always been fluence of Mosie Bennet, who The Senator. I should not is the big man of the whole call him that to his face or to region. Each family has from anyone else in the mountains. twenty to two hundred acres. They might think I was trying They raise sheep and cattle to spoof Mr. Bennet. I should for market and cut lumber for not care to have Mr. Bennet or neighborhood consumption. anyone else think, that. He is When I say Mr. Bennet The Senator to me because of built his house himself I mean my great respect for the man. that he did most of the work Mr. Bennet's house lacks and hired no labor. Neighbors twenty feet of being on the top came from as far as Circleville of Spruce Knob. Spruce Knob to take a friendly turn with is the highest point in the hammer or saw, staying three Virginia Alleghanies. It is or four days at a time. Per- nearly a mile in the air. The haps the frame-raising or the building site was well chosen. roof-shingling took on the air It is on the east side, just in of a social event, with a grand the lee of the crest, so as to be gathering of kin and neigh- sheltered some from the year- bors. Such an occasion would round winds that sweep the have warranted the killing of a peak so that all vegetation, bear, or a sheep or two, or a including big trees, grows at beef. Bears are rather scarce, an angle. The first floor of the though not so scarce as they house is better protected from were twenty years ago. As the wind than the upstairs. the cut-over land grows up Mr. Bennet's is the finest the bears return. Incidental residence in that part of the mountain meats are wild mountains, and the finest one turkey, pheasant and "whistle I ever saw in any of the South- pig," or woodchuck. But a ern mountains where the whistle pig must not be people are cut off from the angered before he is shot. It rest of the world. It contains spoils the taste of the meat. eight or nine rooms. There I have eaten whistle pig that is a rug or two, an oil lamp or must have been considerably two, and Mrs. Bennet has a riled at the thought of having kitchen stove. These are a menu for his memorial. novelties. The inside walls are There would have been a plastered. That borders on few hardy vegetables, like magnificence. potatoes or roasting ears, in Mr. Bennet built the house season. Peas or tomatoes himself eighteen or twenty would have been a delicacy, but years ago. He carried the lum- there would have been "fruit," ber up Spruce Knob on his meaning apples or nut-brown back, taking the "near path" apple sauce. In the mountains from the Hunting Ground. apples are not apples; they By the near path it is three are "fruit." Strawberries, miles from the Hunting raspberries, blackberries and Ground to the top of Spruce huckleberries go by their ri^ht Knob, and about a half mile names. They grow wild and the of this is "straight" up. The women can them for winter. "far path" spirals about more. None of Mr. Bennet's guests A good mountain horse can would have known the taste get up the far path in dry of an orange or a banana. weather, but nothing on There probably would have wheels has ever travelled up been a jug or two of "shine." or down it, or is likely to. Mr. Bennet does not drink, But this doesn't matter, as but this is his personal atti- Mr. Bennet owns nothing on tude toward the liquor ques- wheels and he is the only tion, and he is tactful about inhabitant of Spruce Knob. the way he attempts to extend George, last name not given, a character of the Virginia The lumber was cut at one it to others. A sense of hospi- highlands, and not to be accented as a type. The two of the little water-power mills tality would prompt him to articles attire shown in the -picture constitute his sole on the Hunting Ground—Mr. of provide moderately for the Sigafoose's, I believe. The summer and winter raiment convenience of his guests, ob- Hunting Ground is a flat taining the best the region mountain top— flat, that is, lor that country. There is quite a affords. But there would be no repetition of the unpleasant settlement on it. The Warners, the Sigafoose's, the Whitecottons, scenes that sometimes follow drinking in the mountains, as else- the Lucases, the Lamberts—nine or ten families, all related. The where. No one starts anything rough around Mr. Bennet. If Warners outnumber the rest and sort of rule the roost, subject of they should start that would be about as far as it would go.

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conversation but was a failure Mr. Bennet told me Jake at it. Presently the three men Teeters makes the best shine. rose and went outside. The Jake has seen something of Teeters boys had left a jug the world. He has been in jail outside, and all three had a several times. He distills his drink. Mrs. Mullenax slipped liquor from cucumbers and off to bed and I was left alone. the product is held by the dis- The three came in. sat criminating to be greatly su- We before the fire for the most perior to the commoner part in silence. This was the "corn." Jake's cabin is off by only light in the room. Pretty itself on the side of Birch soon the Teeters boys and my Mountain, fifteen miles, I host went outside again. They should say, from Mosie Ben- had another drink and con- net's. His nearest neighbors versed in low tones. They are a family named Gibson. stayed longer than they did Jake and Mr. Gibson had a the first time. I was not falling out not long ago and embarrassed by their failure shot at one another with Win- to ask to join over chesters for the best part of me them the jug. They knew I did not a day. Mr. Gibson was in his use liquor. There were more house, firing out of the win- trips outside. Finally I looked dows. Jake circled about shooting from behind stumps. at my watch and it was ten o'clock very late. I rose and I never heard that either of — stretched and said I reckoned them was hit. Another time I'd be going to bed. Jake followed me for four miles with that same Win- Mr. Mullenax showed me a chester. He said he was look- bed in the next room. It was ing for his cow. The state- an average mountain bed— ment was calculated to put wooden frame of native work- me at my ease, but it failed of manship and a straw tick on a the effect intended because I slat foundation. There were knew Mr. Teeters had no cow. blankets, which are needed the He thought I was a revenuer, year round. There is frost but wasn't sure. I was grateful everv month in the year on for his doubts. I managed to the Old Lick. convince him that I was just a I took off my shoes and schoolteacher. InMr.Teeters's pants and turned in. Possibly estimation that was only a I took off my socks, too, but shade better than a revenuer, if I did it is to be reckoned but that shade put me out of as bordering on an affectation. range of the Winchester. At any rate I did not sleep. Ike and his brother That same summer I was Young Mullenax talk- crossing the Old Lick. The and Mr. were ing outside. I could not dis- Old Lick is a geological curi tinguish what was said, but I osity —at least to me— being it concern matters a swamp on top of a mountain. knew must Night came on and not want- of singular gravity, as mid- night conversations are not ing to lose my way I stopped in the mountains in at Kay Mullenax's house. so common as they are in mountain We had supper and were sit- literature. At two o'clock ting in front of the fire talking. talking. There was just Mr. Mullenax they were still I do how long they kept and his wife. The children not know because sleep overcame had gone to bed—five of them it up from ten years down. my resolution to see what if anything, as The three of us were having would happen, of conference so a good visit when two men a result a came to the door. They were unusual. Jake Teeters's grown sons— Breakfast was at 5.30. My host no reference to Young Ike, as he is always made anything that had occurred called, and another whose Mosie Bennet, the Senator, six feet four, straighter mor- the night before, which pre- name slips my mind. They Bennet s ally and physically than his pine trees. Mr. introducing the were invited to come in and cluded my home, built entirely by himself, lacks but ttventy feet of much as I should '"take cheers"—a formal cour- subject, being on the summit of Spruce Knob knew, of tesy-phrase reserved for state have liked to. He I could be think- occasions or the presence of a course, that with whatever conclusions "furriner." Young Ike stood his rifle in a corner and they sat ing of nothing else, but was content down. Both wore revolvers strapped inside their homespun I might draw. a stranger at coats. They did not disturb these weapons. The mountain folk are like that. They stump ages. We sat there and nothing much was said. I tried to make every turn. It is hard even to guess their 29 MAY, 19^7 This is Hardscrabble Cove, where, ifyou tossed a stone, it would almost certainly hit a Hedrick, unless a Vandwander happened to get in the ivay. The building is the Pink Hedrick place

I would put Mosie Bennet at fifty, knowing that I may be off mile under Round Top. I have talked to men who say they ten years either way, though after a mountain man or woman have waded through it there. If they say they did, they did. passes fifty an outsider is more apt to underestimate than other- The Gandy drains westward into the Mississippi. Ten to twelve wise because they retain their vigor so long. A ten-mile walk is miles away, by air line, the Hunting Ground Mountain Lamberts not mentioned. A walk of forty miles in a day is by no means fish in Big Run, which drains into the Potomac. exceptional. A mountaineer will walk five miles with a departing Mr. Bennet married soon after the big house was ready. Per- house guest in the same way that a Tidewater Virginian would see haps he built it with something like that in mind. Perhaps he you to his front gate. built it large expecting a large family. That would have been Mr. Bennet is six feet, four or five inches tall and as a normal expectation. Seven or eight children are average straight as they make them. He has light hair and gray and Mr. Harper, who did live on the Hunting Ground eyes. He is rather the physical ideal of the moun but has moved away, is the father of twenty-two. tain type, which is of Scotch-Irish extraction Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have only one child, in the main, although there is German, though—a girl about fifteen named Effie. English, Dutch and French blood She, too, will be a catch in her time, and among them in about the order of pre that time is not far off. The mountain dominance named. My friend Kay girls marry young. They lose their Mullenax is a scion of the some youthful beauty young, but usually what distinguished French Moly- live to hale old ages. neaux family. Through genera- Effie's mother is a dumpy tions of inattention to scholar- little woman in her forties, ship similar corruptions in perhaps her later forties. She spelling have evolved, but this can do a day's work that would is the history of proper names tire a younger man. On top of everywhere. that she can walk ten miles Mr. Bennet was a bachelor over trails that a flat-country when he built his big house. horse would have trouble with, With this estate and his person- and return as fresh as a school al prestige he must have been girl after a game of tennis. She reckoned a great catch, but one can climb the near path faster of the Lambert girls from The than I can, going up with the Sinks was the lucky maiden speed of a bear. Lambert is one of the commonest The three make a happy family names in the Virginia mountains. and an interesting one. I have A genealogist might run them all back been there for weeks without hearing to the same stem, but now one finds the least word of discord. Under their Lamberts scattered in cove and mountain roof I have experienced hospitality that side settlements all around. There are meets with a true conception of the term. Lamberts on the Hunting Ground just I have met few men, in any walk, with three miles below Spruce Knob, but Mosie whom I can spend a more pleasant eve- Bennet went to The Sinks, on the other Mrs. Hen Hedrick and the community ning of conversation than I can with side of the Knob, for a Lambert bride. milk and butter establishment Mosie Bennet. And, self-interest being The Sinks is an alluvial valley where all that it is said to be, when I say rhododendron bushes grow twenty-live pleasant I probably mean profitable. I feet high, and the low ground is covered with moongrass and am a college professor. Most of my life—all of it, you might say, ferns—which the inhabitants pronounce "ferrens." The Gandy barring two army years—has been spent in the supposedly River flows through it —a hide-and-seek stream that tunnels erudite atmosphere of academies. On the other hand I doubt if under mountains, hence The Sinks. In one place it flows for a Mosie Bennet ever went to school a day in his life. I question

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if he can write his name. I know I ransacked his house one time Bennet and his fine house. Curiosity, if nothing more, is apt for reading material and came off with a Bible and a Sears- to take him on the wind-breaking climb up Spruce Knob. Govern- Roebuck catalogue. These are probably the two commonest ment forestry representatives, geological survey men, an itinerant books in the mountains, but their presence in a home is no proof preacher or a strayed engineer—Mr. Bennet sees a few people of literacy. Like most isolated people the mountaineer is in- from the outside each year. He has a curiosity concerning their stinctively religious. He feels better with a Bible in the house world but never betrays it by the ordinary signs. That is a whether he can read it or not. Many of their Bibles have been thorough-going mountain trait. I took a mountain boy of about handed down through several generations. Some time ago I fifteen to see his first locomotive. It happened to be one of those happened upon one that was printed in old Dutch or low German. huge Mallets that pull coal trains across the mountains. He A mail-order catalogue tills a different niche. It is regarded it without a change of expression, though he the mountaineer's magic fairy-story book. It is was by no means a stupid boy or unimpressed. his encyclopedia of the outside world. Rather Mosie Bennet asks few questions, but he oddly, the illustrations of "store clothes" has a way of getting his visitors to talking seem to be the greatest attraction. They about the outside. His countenance seldom order any—probably not one never changes as he listens, but you can mountaineer in twenty-five in the see that he is storing it all away for isolated sections has a store suit or reflection. You can see also when dress—but they can look at the he thinks you are trying to string pictures and plan. him. I don't think the most Mosie Bennet was born on the bumptious vulgarian from the Hunting Ground, I think I heard outside would try to string him say, and has never been Mosie Bennet very long. Some- more than thirty miles from his thing would soon tell him that birthplace. The only city he he was simply stringing himself. ever visited is Horton, West Some of the scenes of the Virginia, but he has been there movie, "Tol'able David" were three or four times. Horton made not far from Buck has a population, by generous Swecker's place on Lance Moun- estimate, of one thousand. tain, off Crabbottom. This is not Once a month, except in winter a very remote part of the moun- when he is snowbound on his tains, although many strangers wind-swept mountain, he gets to think it is. Really it hardly begins Circleville, which is six or seven the isolation. Director Henry King miles away. Circleville has a post- and Richard Barthelmess and his office and store, ten or a dozen families, crew came in there and began to shoot four or five Fords and a pump where gas scenes. They got Buck to play the part costs ten cents more than the prevailing of the sheriff. rate outside. The gas is dragged in drums Buck is a shrewd and substantial citi- over the mountains because the tank zen. His three boys have college educa- Gil Bland' s children, residents trucks cannot climb them. I should not of tions. But like all mountain men Buck care to contract for its transportation at Hardscrabble Cove has little to say to outsiders, and some of ten cents a gallon. the movie people mistook this reticence Mr. Bennet never saw a radio and is not for simplicity. A thunder shower inter- what one would call familiar with the use of the telephone. His rupted operations one afternoon and Buck, Mr. King, Mr. only contact with the world "across the mountains," as they Barthelmess and a few others were standing under a shelter say, is the occasional visitor who penetrates the country. Any- waiting for it to clear. The movie people began to entertain where in the community a visitor is bound to hear of Mosie Mr. Swecker with tall stories of their (Continued on page 68)

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"Ye born eedjit!" Rogan roared. He grabbed that motorcyclist by the scruff of the neck, jerked him off and shook hi?n

Indeed had he been a man instead of a horse I think he would have wept. He compromised by walking out from under the weeping willow where we were yarning and pretending to crop some grass in the pasture. Even the Welsh pony, Taffy, who is a rattle- brained and not particularly amiable personality, was impressed; at least he forbore comment and it is a cold day, indeed, when Taffy cannot be depended upon to speak out of his turn. Indeed, now attached to a California ranch, detailing his service in the as I told my story, the memory of that bitter night returned to World War for the benefit of his ranch companions, Charles me with some of its old poignancy and I was glad of the break in O'Malley, an Irish hunter, and Taffy, a little Welsh pony, reaches the recital which the thoughtful and sympathetic Charles the point in his narrative where his owner, Sergeant Ern Givens, O'Malley provided. has been transferred from the —th Field Artillery to the Remount Presently O'Malley got himself—in hand and came back to his Service because of insubordination, coupled with refusal to sell place. He swore great Irish oaths "Be the rock av Cashel" and The Professor to the commander at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma. "Be the great gun av Athlone"—and finally expressed the hope It is to protect Second Lieutenant Burwell of the —th, to whom that Stable Sergeant Rogan, being a Celt, had had the fore- (livens, contrary to Army Regulations, has given The Professor thought to put the Black Curse on that cold-hearted bully of a for the duration of the war, that the sergeant holds out on the division commander. camp commander. In the meantime Burwell has been advanced As to that, O'Malley (I resumed), I cannot say, but I do remem- a grade and has been made commander of his battery. Nurse ber quite clearly that Rogan's face was black as a thundercloud Mary Vardon of the Base Hospital at nearby Fort Sill, and when he led me out and tied me in the sunshine on the picket Lieutenant Burwell, having met each other through her admiring line next morning. He groomed me himself that morning, so I The Professor, become betrothed. Tip, a little pack mule who has knew he loved me, if not for my own sake, then for my lost been through several campaigns since '98 and has nine battle master's, for the years had been long since Rogan had groomed a scars as mementoes, has told The Professor of the many experi- horse. It was his job, as stable sergeant, to make the privates do ences he and Stable Sergeant Rogan of the battery had together the work and be responsible to the battery commander that they in the Army from the Spanish American War on, and makes did it well. Having made my toilet the excellent fellow appeared him ready to believe Rogan can accomplish wonders. to have no further interest in his job. He sat down on an up- turned bucket before the harness-room door, and his setter dog Chapter XIII Demmy, realizing that his master was troubled of soul, sneaked over to him, with many a wistful smile and apologetic wag of his 'MALLEY'S warm Irish heart was quite full as he listened to tail, and thrust his muzzle into Rogan's cupped hands. So o my recital of the parting between Ern Givens and me. Rogan drew Demmy in between his knees and held him there and 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly (By (Peter

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then the stable sergeant began to talk, loud enough dog to their commanding general, you know, Rogan." for us to hear. - "I'm an old soger, sir. I lick no boots. To hell wid It was a public scandal to hear him. Indeed for the him. May Satan sind a corporal's guard of guard- things Rogan said about the commanding general then house divils to fly away wit' that ould piece av he could have been given a general courtmartial and tucked away putrified putty, if they only flew a foot a day. Whin he sinds his on Alcatraz Rock for twenty years. Being a canny old warrior, ordherly over afther Demmy, faith I'll tell the ordherly to convey however, Rogan said them to Demmy and was careful not to men- me respectful djooty to the commandhin' gineral an' to say that tion names. Even Tip was interested. He to'd me afterward that Stable Sergeant Pat Rogan has too much respect for himself an' to his certain knowledge and belief mule-skinners were good at his dog to oblige the likes av him." ground and lofty cursing, that the men of a mountain howitzer Sam Burwell was distressed. "But you cannot offer your com- battery which is transported on pack-mules, are better, but that manding general a gratuitous insult, Rogan. You know very Rogan's language made all the cussing of mule-skinners and well the commanding general's request is always tantamount to mountain howitzer men the mere innocent prattle of babies in an order." comparison. Rogan prayed that the commanding general might "Thrue for the lootinant. But wan may not be thried for re- never know a restful night, that a plague of cooties would de- fusin' to obey a request. Eor the last time I say to hell wid him. scend upon him and build nests in his ears, that his wife might He's an incompetent bully an' a disgrace to the serrvice." nag him, that baboons might bite him, that moral, physical and "Rogan," Sam Burwell pleaded, "you know I don't want to financial ruin might overtake him, that—but it would take me lose you. Suppose the old fungus takes a notion to blooey you to at least half an hour to enumerate all the misfortunes Rogan Remount?" prayed a just God to inflict on that commanding general. "In that evint Remount will be the gainer by another good Then, quite suddenly, dear old Rogan commenced to laugh man. I tell ye, lootinant, I'm bound to let that scut know what an and hugged Demmy to his heart. "We'll let him know what honest enlisted man thinks of him. Shoot over me dog he shall honest sogers think av the likes av him, Demmy darlin'," he not. Didn't Givens defy him? What kind of a man would I be to crooned. "He wants to borrow you tomorrow, me lad, to go give in to him, thin? I'll not let Givens outdo me, the poor man, quail shootin'. Divil a birrd will that black leg ever shoot over in manliness an' courage." you agin if ye never smelt a quail from now till I bury ye." "Oh, I can see your point of view, you wild, stubborn Mick," "Easy, Rogan, easy," said the battery commander, who had Sam Burwell pleaded, "and I honor you for it, Rogan. But it just turned the corner of the barn in time to hear Rogan's will not get you anywhere." prophecy and promise. "If the commanding general asks for the Rogan grinned cunningly. "It may get me to Remount, an' loan of your dog it would be the part of wisdom to oblige him. to rebuke that big-stuffed blouse of dog-robbin', malingerin' Dogs are not permitted in camp and you know it. You're dis- know-nothin' I'd simmer in hell an' cheer at the prospect. If he obeying a general order by maintaining Demmy, and the only sinds me away I'll know I've stung him. Lootinant Burwell, sir, reason you get away with your disobedience is because the com- can ye imagine anything worse nor havin' to stomach an insult manding general likes to shoot over Demmy occasionally." from an enlisted man?" "He'll shoot no more over me little Demmy dog, sir," growled "I wouldn't stomach it. I'd fight him." Rogan. "That's a pleasure I'm denied, av coorse. Well, let what will "Then you'll have to get rid of Demmy." come. God'll be me comfortin'." "I've thought of that, sir. I know where to sind him where "You sacrilegious old pagan, will you let the commanding he'll be well took care of and hunted a bit by a decent gintleman." general have your dog, for my sake?" "But you'll miss the delight of having him with you, Rogan." "It breaks my heart to refuse the lootinant, but whilst by re- "I can shtand more than most men. God knows I've proved fusing him he may lose me, in the long run he'll get me back agin. that in my day, sir." The day this regiment entrains for a port av embarkation an "Most enlisted men would leap at the opportunity to loan their ordher from Washington—shtraight over the top av that laddy-

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buck's head—will thransfer me back to this batthery agin, as sure to report within the hour what action I have taken in regard to as pussy is a cat an' divil a worrd av lie in that! I'm only an said dog." enlisted man but I have friends in high places. They're ginerals "Demmy will be crated and expressed within the hour, sir," now, but wanst they was shavetails an' captains. They know the said Rogan, saluting. sort av man I am, sir; some av thim are not above shakin' hands "Thank you, Rogan. And here's another order transferring wit' me. Hoo-roo! To hell wid him, says I. There's an assistant Stable Sergeant Pat Rogan to the Remount Service." adjutant gineral that'll remember the man that carried him on "I'm packed an' rready to go, sir." his back down to Siboney from San Juan Hill. Sure, I was young "Oh, Rogan, Rogan, this is terrible," Sam Burwell almost wept. an' shtrong as a bull in thim days. I could go a week wit'out food "What am I going to do for a stable sergeant now?" an' three days wit'out wather, an' as luck would have it that day "That new sergeant, Ed Parks, sir. He's a good man an' what me canteen contained a liquid no wounded man despises. Mu- he don't know he'll learn. I'll come over from Remount from sha, now Private Rogan,' says he, the poor lad 'what have we time to time and lecture him a bit, sir, on the little things a man here?' 'Wather wit' a little whiskey in it, sir,' says I. 'Ye lie,' learrns only from experience. Am I to have transportation to says he. ' 'Tis whiskey wit' a little wather in it. How?' says he. Remount, sir, or must I march in me pack?" Sure he was fightin' dhrunk be the time I dumped him in on the "I'll take you over, Rogan. Saddle Dandy and The Professor docthor." right after mid-day mess. I have a notion I'd like to see how "So you think a wire to him will do the trick, eh?" Givens is getting along, and I want to put in a good word for you "I'm sure of it, sir. He has a pint of my blood in his veins. both with the officer commanding Remount." He'd lost so much av his I give him some av mine—an' good, "Thank the lootinant." clane blood the docthors said it was. No, he won't forget." So after mess (we only drilled half a day on Saturday) Rogan strapned his kit on Dandy's saddle and he and the battery com- Chapter XIV mander mounted up and rode over to Remount. I noticed that Rogan was carrying something in his blue denim barracks bag SOMEHOW the week dragged to an end. We were working holding it before him in his lap and leaning far back on the cantle. hard, and while ordinarily I would not have had an appetite "Your laundry, I suppose, Rogan," said Sam Burwell. for my forage, Tip helped to create one by informing me that I "Yes, sir," said Rogan, and at that moment the bundle hadn't seen the last of Ern Givens—not by a long shot. He as- squirmed and twitched and Demmy's complaining bark came out sured me Ern would come over from the Remount Station on of it. Sam Burwell said nothing, for he had been in the service Sundays to see me and visit his friends in the battery, and as I long enough to know that the officer who sees too much is a fool. had discovered by this time that Tip rarely sounded off until he He had obeyed orders and got Demmy out of his battery, so knew what he was talking about, I lived in high hopes of a visit what happened to Demmy after that was none of his business. from Ern on Sunday. We walked all the way over to the Remount Station, out of Saturday comes before Sunday. Early Saturday morning a deference to Demmy, and tied up to a hitching rack in front of headquarters orderly on a motorcycle with a side car came roar- the commandant's little office. Rogan went inside to report and ing down our battery street and out to the horse lines; he swung present his authority for so doing, and Sam Burwell went in with around the corner of the stables in a cloud of dust and half the him to tell the commandant that the latter's gain was his loss. horses on the picket line snorted and squatted and reared. And While Dandy and I were waiting outside Ern Givens came he almost ran over Rogan. through a corral gate. I smelled him even before I saw him "Ye born eedjit!" Rogan roared. He grabbed that motor- and heard his voice. "Professor!" he called, and I leaped a low cyclist by the scruff of the neck, jerked him off and shook him. fence and ran to meet him. What a joy! I put my head down "What do ye mane by scarin' me horses an' runnin' over yerfe over his shoulder and he laid his cheek against my neck and talked milithry betthers, bad cess to ye, ye baboon- in very happy tones to me and told me he was faced recruit." coming over to see me on Sunday morning. So "I'm from division headquarters," the or- you see Tip was right again. In fact, Tip was derly yelled, as if that gave him the right to always right. run down battery streets and frighten horses. When Rogan and Sam Burwell came out of "Get back to division headquarters before the commandant's office presently Sam looked I break the back av ye in two halves!" Rogan around, saw that nobody was near to be a wit- roared. "What do ye want at my stables?" ness to his lack of official dignity and gave Ern "I want Stable Sergeant Rogan's dog for a hearty handshake. Ern, of course, knew by the commanding general." this time that an officer should not shake hands "I'm Stable Sergeant Rogan and I'm not with an enlisted man, because, with few ex- linding me dog to the commandin' gineral. ceptions, it is very subversive of discipline, since Tell him I'm particular what society me well- an officer cannot shake hands with an enlisted bread little setther keeps. He's man today and bawl him out for a dereliction of not accustomed to hunt wit' curs. duty tomorrow. However, Clear out av this!" there are rare exceptions. In The orderly cleared out " v. fact, I had seen our colonel slowly. Of course he was incensed , - shake hands with Rogan one at Rogan and of course Rogan day—in the seclusion of the was incensed at him for arriving harness room. It seems they'd like a tornado and disturbing the been through a number of picket line. I imagine if Rogan stormy passages together and hadn't been angry he would have hadn't seen each other for a couched his message in words long time. Then, too, Rogan more respectful; I imagine, too, was an old, old soldier and had that if the orderly hadn't been acquired privileges. roughhoused he would not have Ern was mighty pleased when carried Rogan's message word for our battery commander shook word, which I greatly fear he did. his hand. It made him feel he Tip said he would, and subse- had a true friend in the quent events seemed to bear out Army. "It's mighty nice this prophecy. of the lieutenant to make An hour later Sam Burwell me this visit in my exile," came down to stables with a sheet said Ern. "I sure do ap- of paper in his hand. "Rogan," preciate it. And you, he said grimly, "here's a mem- too, Sergeant Rogan." orandum from the chief of staff "Hell's fire, lad, I'm a calling my attention to the viola- sergeant no longer," realizing that his master tion of paragraph A. general order Daiiwy, Rogan grinned. "Whin No. 231, with reference to dogs on tvas troubled of soul, sneaked over a man is thransferred this military reservation. I am • to him he's always busted to

34 AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "I can afford to lose my grand men, of course, but I cannot afford to lose you, Mary" private, so since I've been sint over here to keep you company, 'tis a private I am—like yourself." He let Demmy out of the barrack bag and Demmy jumped up on Ern and kissed his hand. I'll be He called my dear master Ernie. That showed he thought a shot if the old pup didn't recognize him! lot of him. "You had a run-in with division headquarters, Rogan?" Ern "Oh, it's just like working on a ranch busting broom-tails, Pat. asked, and Rogan told him what had happened. And then these We have reveille and retreat, but no drill. The officers work two looked at each other with little grim grins and even a fool about as hard as the enlisted men and there isn't any effort made could see that from that moment forward they were to be bud- to be military. We stand to attention and give the old man a dies—or bunkies, as Tip called them, employing the phraseology salute when he comes around in the morning and then forget of an elder day. It was inevitable that they should together it for the rest of the day. We're all horsemen here, and between plumb the depths of comradeship, for they were much alike in men who are fond of horses or dogs there's always a certain temperament, although of different racial stocks and background. human fellowship. We have a couple of hundred animals on sick Those two had in common something that (as Tip expressed it report all the time and when you're fussing with a sick horse you that night) makes for the building of empires, and that was guts forget you're a soldier. I ride about six bad ones daily. That's and undying loyalty to a principle. They hated all that was my specialty; then I turn them over to other men to halter-break mean and unmanly and cruel; to die, trying to suppress a bully, and bit and handle. We have some mighty good men here—real would have been a joy to either. They were primitive men, cow men. I'm not happy here but I'm at home, and 1 suppose simple men—men who thought straight and talked straight and that's as much as I ought to expect." acted straight, men who could be depended upon to do a job and "Hum-m-m!" said Rogan. "Well, I never was much of a hand do it well, since not to do the job well would have convicted them, at ridin' an angry horse, but whin it comes to sittin' up all night

in their own hearts, , of being treacherous and unreliable. Oh, wit' a sick animal an' dhrenchin' him wit' medicine an' knowin', yes, O'Malley, there are men like that in this world. Not so be instinct, what's wrong wit' the poor baste, I'll take a back many, but enough to make your heart swell with pride in them, seat from no man." enough to make one feel that all the squealers and quitters and "You've forgotten more about horses than most veterinaries swankers and rebels against organized society are just a nuisance know," said Sam Burwell. "I've told your commanding officer but never a menace. what a wonderful farrier you are, Rogan, and likewise I've put Ern Givens held out his hand to Pat Rogan. Rogan pressed it in a good word for you, Givens. He'll be making you both non- hard and said: coms before long." "Well, what sort av a layout have we dhropped into here, Well, we all visited a little while and then with a handshake Ernie, me lad?" all around we parted, and the last I saw {Continued on page 88)

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Because its Their town HE people of Bif Clara Ingram Judson dry it really isn't so cold, <• / wWakefield do and anyway, when you M notno forget. are having such a good Thev haven't a very big city—that is, if you mean time, why bother to read a thermometer? numbers, their population is only 4,iq2; the place is not so much Hills—beautiful wooded, iron-veined hills—encircle Wakefield to see—that is, if you are expecting skyscrapers. But if you are making it look sheltered, cared-for and homelike. Mine shafts looking for loyalty and public spirit and pep, combined with the dot the hillsides and valleys; excellent, cleanly-swept roads make sort of civic energy that gets things done, you'll find it in abun- traveling a pleasure in winter as in summer, and the air frora dance in this little city in the Gogebic iron range on the upper Lake Superior, only a few miles away, brings freshness and vigor. peninsula of Michigan. One could hardly ask for a more beautiful spot on which to place If you fear that may be an exaggeration, look at the Memorial a memorial to man's achievement. Community building they have erected—wouldn't it Nearing the city, I saw a pretty little lake, about a be a credit to a city many times Wakefield's size? mile across, gleaming with ice and snow that morn- Likely as not you've seen this building, for ing; one could readily picture it sparkling and Wakefield is on the intersection of Routes 12 blue in summer time. I spied a great build- and 28, two very popular state highways. ing; the road turned and we whirled You may even have enjoyed a shower through the little city, down the main bath in its commodious bathrooms street toward the lake, and there on you were more than welcome if you the shore was a great three-story did, that's certain. Or you may have brick and stone building, imposing, spent a summer evening on the beautiful and significant. broad porches or inspecting the The four words "Wakefield Com- native fish in the interesting I munity Memorial Building" aquarium or strolling about the carved in stone over the hospit- lawns around the building. If able doorway tell the story of you have been anywhere around its purpose and meaning; glimpses that part of the country, the fame fes! of very modern soldierly figures of Wakefield's Community Me- in the art glass of some of the win- morial Building has come to your dows confirm the notion that it is ears and you want to know more in memory of the World War, while about it. the inscription "1021" on the corner- It was on a sunny morning in the stone assures one that it is no new- late winter that I went to Wakefield / fangled enterprise but a tried and to see it for myself. They told me they proved part of community life that one is were having a nice spring-like day in viewing. It was with a thrill of seeing a honor of my coming and that the tem- sight most uncommon that I entered the perature was only twelve below. Person- doors. ally, I would never have thought of using On the main floor there is an attractive the word "only" with such a temperature Th ooking class in busy scs- lobby with commodious rooms for both men reading, but after I had been there a few sion. Wakefield's community and women adjoining; a fine, large gym- hours I was ready to agree with the oldest building is just that—some- nasium with great windows on three sides, resident that when air is clear and clean and thing for the whole community thus assuring plenty of light and air; a

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Back in 1886 Wakefield, Mich- like a settlement that would grow igan, then a frontier toivn with up to have a fine World War much of the wildness and wooli- fnemorial community building. ness generally associated with But it has it, thanks largely to further back and further West the ivhole-hearted efforts of Geroux {see opposite page), did not look Post of The American Legion

beautiful auditorium seating more than "I didn't do a bit more than Mac or a thousand and a roomy stage that is some of the rest of you," protested well equipped for any sort of produc- Mr. Rummel with vigor, as he pointed tion. On the ground floor below are to Wilbur McNamara, city purchasing the generous sized shower and dressing agent and also a Legionnaire. rooms for men and women and a great "The truth of the matter," said Mr. swimming pool (regulation width and McNamara, "is that everyone helped, depth) that fairly gleams in its im- and the Legionnaires pushed it over maculate blue and whiteness. The the top." second floor (so-called, though it really Bit by bit, as we sat there chatting, is the third, you see) has the balcony the story came out. of the auditorium, pleasant rooms for At the beginning of the World War, the two large women's clubs, a well- Wakefield was a small village en- furnished kitchen, a spacious lounge cumbered with a complicated organ- and connecting offices that are the ization of village and township rule. home of the American Legion post, From this small community neatly and a beautiful big room for dancing four hundred men went to fight for parties. On the lake front are wide their country; seven never came back. porches, on two floors, furnished in When the war was over and the boys summer with wicker chairs and swings began to arrive home, they found a that tempt one to linger and enjoy the new village in a different world. comfort of this community front porch. Nothing was quite the same. You From the broad windows of the remember? So do I. Our horizons American Legion post rooms, I looked had widened. The men who had been over the little city. Against the back- doing things together wanted to con- ground of hills of course it didn't look tinue that spirit in peace; the women very large—no place of between four who had worked and sacrificed to- and five thousand could look very big, gether couldn't bear to go back to the hills or no hills. I looked around the self-centered lives of before. We all building and thought of its beauty felt it; Wakefield did something about and its perfections—it is something a it—that's the only difference. city twenty times Wakefield's size The American Legion post was or- could claim with pride—and I ex- ganized— Geroux Post, Number claimed, "How in the world did you Eleven, Department of Michigan do it?" and the men said to each other, "Let's Legion room "We didn't, the Legionnaires did A corner of the scrap this worn-out village and town- it," said someone. in the community building ship organization. Let's make Wake- "And the city backed them up and field a city—give it a city charter and finished the job the right way," said someone else in the group. make one essential part of that charter the erecting of a memorial "Rummers the man who did most of the work," said a voice building that shall be worthy of our spirit of service and unity from the depths of a great leather chair, as a hand pointed to in the war." Alvin L. Rummel, Legionnaire and mayor of Wakefield during "How did you happen to decide on such a magnificent commu- the five-year period in which the building project went through nity building as a memorial?" I asked curiously, interrupting the to completion. story to satisfy myself on this point. It seemed pretty ambitious.

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"We didn't happen to," replied Mr. McNamara. "We de- after-luncheon smoke of some two score Legionnaires; the cided after careful study. Of course we considered all the kitchen was astir with preparations for the woman's club meeting cities memorial projects that other were undertaking— roads, that afternoon, and shrieks of glee from the swimming pool 1 re- trees, monuments, fountains and such. Mighty good things to claimed that it, too, was in use. Back of all this activity and en- have in a city, they are, but somehow they didn't go to the spot joyment lies a plan you would hardly credit at first, it sounds so with us. We men had been doing things together over there— like a dream of what every community ought to be (and isn't) fun as well as work. We wanted something that would keep that that it's hard to believe a real, live city does its living in such an 'together' spirit alive, and there seemed no better way than to ideal way. This building literally and actually belongs to the provide a place where there would be room for all of us in the people of Wakefield. community; a place where all could have an Does it sound vague? Well, it isn't vague at all. It's very interest, a place where we belonged." simple, when you come to analyze it. "It really wasn't hard to de- Suppose Mrs. Tom Smith of Wakefield wants cide when we came right down to give a party—a dance, we'll say. Her living to it," added a Legionnaire room is a bit small and she doesn't want to on his left. "We just give the party at home. She calls up the wanted a community y clerk (no, you are not dreaming, this house and we got it.' 3 what she really does) and says, "I'd Does it sound like the ball room and kitchen for the easy? If you tenth of next month." The city clerk could look, as I looks at his calendar and replies, did, at that "You're lucky. The tenth is free building and at but the ninth and eleventh are the little city, taken, so it's a good thing you you wouldn't called today, How manv dishes think it would do you need?" hive been an Mrs. Smith looks at her list easy task. and answers, "I expect abou, But if you eighty." could look at "Fine!" says the clerk, as he jots the faces of down the number. "You mail me the men who your check for ten dollars and the make up place is yours." Gcroux Post, But wait a minute. That ten dol- you would know lars isn't rent money, it's a deposit. positively that Mrs. Smith has her party. She uses whatever they de- the building and that includes the check cided to do would, rooms, the dance hall, the light, the somehow, get done heat, the kitchen, They are workers an the electric stoves, doers. The roster of the dishes and all the post, reads like a list of the equipment (which is prominent business and considerable) and professional men of the the party is a big city. There are bankers, success. When it is city officials, real estate all over, she looks and insurance men, electri- over the dishes and cal and mining engineers, such, sees that there the superintendent of is no breakage or schools and several princi- damage, and there- pals, newspaper men, the postmaster and mayors, past upon the city clerk and present. You see, Wakefield is a city of young men, sends back her ten and the Legionnaires are the ruling spirits. They have dollars and the partv the knack of knowing what is best for their community, has cost her not as and of getting or doing it. much as it would At first they modestly asked for $140,000, thinking of have cost in her own that as a vast sum. But as they worked for the project home where, as a they also made plans for the actual building, and in the matter of fact, she light of their dreams $140,000 came to look like mighty couldn't possibly little. So they raised it to $240,000—just like that—and have had such a big before they finished, they obtained and spent close to affair. $400,000 for the building, grounds and equipment. For some of the The city charter went through, the Legionnaires didn't smaller rooms only a stop working till it did; the ground was broken for the five-dollar deposit is community building, the corner stone was laid in 1921 needed. It is all onlv two years after the first thought of such a project free exactly as the and now, for more than three years, Wakefield has been city streets are free, enjoying the fruits of such efficient labors. the city light at the "Do you use it all?" I asked, as I thought of the quiet corner lamp post and halls and rooms through which we had walked. the city water at the "Use it! Look and see!" was the answer. "Remember public fountain. It's you arrived before eight o'clock this morning. Let's go an actual working, through the building now." living community It was then mid-morning. The halls were no longer house. A glance at silent, echoing the splash of the janitor's mop. They the calendar on the rang with life and chatter. Scores of children dashed in and out city clerk's desk looks like a list of people and organizations. of the gymnasium. Women's committees conferred in the Lodges, church societies, clubs—they all use the building. smaller rooms; Legionnaires dropped in for a quiet conference, When the final plans were drawn, rooms were included for and preparations for the coming local dramatics went on behind three of Wakefield's most promising children—the Legion post, the great curtain that hid the stage. The building was no longer the Woman's Club and the Girls' Club. The Legion rooms are just a place; it had become, in an hour, a community home, large and commodious, overlooking the city; the Woman's Club bustling with interesting activity. room is smaller, but amply large, conveniently located near the By one o'clock the Legion rooms were blue with the sociable kitchen and dance hall where some {Continued on page 80)

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A PERSONAL VIEW

Conditions Double-Cross the farmer. The price of his Borah or because all the words of his large output are grain is set by foreign markets; the prices he pays for pearls of wisdom. He has the authority of being chair- manufactured articles are set by the man of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United

The Farmer home market. He must keep up to States Senate. Is it true that Secretary of State Kellogg Hit Both Ways the home standard of living as a citi- very properly laid the evidence before him and received zen and parent with children to edu- his approval for his action about Nicaragua? Then Borah cate. He competes with peasants who buy in a cheaper loosed his thunders of condemnation in the Senate. The home market and whose standard of living is below ours. question in point is not Kellogg's policy, but Borah's Such is the naked fact. methods, the irresistible temptation to "Borah." He out-Borahed himself when he wrote a letter to President Calles of Mexico, with whom we are having a Knows. Aguinaldo, or "Aggie," as our The Veteran difference, asking him for information as to the rights of soldiers used to call him, led the Filipino rebellion against the situation. Thus he sounded forth to the world from us in '99. As president of the Fili- t( his high official position corroboration of all the foreign dggie" Says pino veterans association he denounced gibes that we are pursuing a ruthless imperialistic policy. Manuel Quezon, chief of the agitation Never Again Thus he made us misunderstood by Brazil, Argentina and against American rule, and Quezon the big progressive South American as well as the Central was unanimously expelled. Aguinaldo knows what it American nations. Thus he fed Mexican antipathy and meant to fight America. In memory of what the islands Bolshevist leanings; put his own country in a false light; were when we came and what good we have brought them, sowed the seeds of animosity that may lead to war. he does not want a return to rebellion and misery, but to Only a small percent of Mexicans can read and write. continue progress. They may think that they can defy us because the mighty Borah will always make us yield. If we should ever be forced to stern action blood might be on Borah's hands. It Was Odd to pass the White House, when I was in If the Secretary of State and the chairman of the For- Washington recently, and realize the President was not eign Relations Committee of the Senate worked together there. He was living elsewhere, with our foreign policy might be less confused. "Where are we The Same workmen in possession of the official at?" Borah has taken a personal mandate over our inter- White House residence. Only repairs to preserve national relations which should be the subject of no one the noble building as it is in simple man's whim, or of political partisanship, but the expression simplicity. When a nation forfeits simplicity it is just as of national unity and wisdom. Make up our differences dignity, a reminder to the nation to preserve its own ourselves and then present a united front. likely as an individual to get a headache. among

By The Newspapers you might judge that divorce scan- A Seventeen-Year-Old Belgian servant girl received dals are the favorite pastime of all motion-picture actors word that a rich uncle in America had left her a million and actresses. Their occupation and dollars. John W. Anderson, a young Not All Are fame single their private affairs out Hit by Detroit lawyer, put $5,000 into the Tarred 10r publicity. All who succeed work ]_nck original Ford Company. Among his hard; many, after the day's work, return special dividends before he sold out home to families in sound and healthy domestic life. Re- for seven million was one of a half a million. It sometimes member, among the screen folk who entertain you, those happens in that way, but not often enough to warrant any who have been mixed in no scandal. Discriminate in the of us quitting work in the hope that we will be hit by luck. use of the tarbrush!

We Fans Are warming up to the long, fair prospect of the World Wide Is the fame of Borah. Only that of Musso- summer's games. I make my annual appeal to the hearts lini eclipses it. Europe thinks that he speaks for the whole of all the tribe, and the more ear- United States. An American told me Lest the nestly as we are told that as much Borah Still that he heard one Paris taxicab driver Fans Forget money is now invested in golf as in Borahs call another who was oratorical "a baseball. Think of the ball games that Borah." "I hear you Borahing," may could go on in the space occupied by a golf course! Base- yet become a slang phrase at home for anyone who is ball is still the national game, the game of youth. Many "overcome with the exuberance of his own verbosity." a golf player loses enough balls on a round to buy a bat Borah does not get the headlines just because he is and mask. Enjoy your golf, but (Continued on page 84) MAY, 1927 39 No, Texas hasn't a monopoly on the bar btcut business. Here's a ton of pork being roasted under the auspices of Raleigh (North Caro- lina) Post of the Legion. The barbecue is an annual event

Adm WMnd , m FIFTEEN gal Take, for example, the <• Ionslor of ketchup add matter of sauce for barbe- #r M one hundred and cued meat. The formula -M- fifty pounds of mel- given at the start of this ar- ted butter, twenty-four ticle is the one actually used large bottles of Worcester by the post in Paris. It sauce and five pounds of cayenne pepper. was no happy inspiration of a hurried mo- Add boiling water to thin ..." By ment. It is the product of experiments cov- And then, Legionnaires and Auxiliares, ering over half a dozen years—experiments providing you have already divided into conducted by Legionnaires with the zeal and joints fifty beeves and enough accompanying MENeville tenderness which ancient alchemists put into hogs and sheep and goats; and, providing their labors in laboratories when the moon you have watched the countless joints of beef, of pork, of mutton was in just the right quarter for a hoped-for discovery. Legion- and goat, roast aromatically to a sizzling brown—then you are naire Gus Cothran, traffic supervisor for Paris, and Legionnaire ready to sound mess call for all the people of your town. John Bill Harris worked out that recipe to make the ten barrels of Get a lusty bugler to sound that mess call, for you want it to sauce needed for the chow lines. It is an anxious moment each be heard by many hungry thousands of your fellow citizens. year when the ten-barrel pan is finally full of the steaming sauce Take a tip from Winfield F. Brown Post of Paris, Texas, and and the Post Taster is called upon to verify the exactness of the its unit of the American Legion Auxiliary: When the mess call flavor sought. Just the right amount of cayenne pepper! Who- sounds for the Legion community barbecue—on Armistice Day, ever saw five pounds of cayenne pepper together at one time and on Fourth of July, or any other day—it will be answered by place? Just the right amount of Worcester sauce. Twenty-four every man, woman and child who is able to "come and get it." bottles of it—shades of the mess shacks at Brest! And fifteen Winfield F. Brown Post and its Auxiliary unit on last Armistice gallons of ketchup—Mr. Heinz and other ketchup makers, please Day served a free barbecue dinner to thirty-five thousand per- note. sons. By that feat it qualified for the role of gastronomic adviser But it takes more than the right kind of sauce and more than to the rest of The American Legion. just an ample supply of beef and mutton to make a community And, lest anyone doubt whether a single dinner qualifies a post barbecue. Winfield F. Brown Post has shown that. That post to rank as the Legion's sublimated mess sergeant, be it known so conducts its annual barbecue that everybody in Paris feels that that the post and Auxiliary unit in Paris, Texas, have given a he has a direct part in the success of the undertaking. The community barbecue dinner each year since the World War. Legion barbecue in Paris is an institution. Merchants of the The Parisian Legionnaires of Texas, therefore, may be expected town help pay the expenses, and so do other individuals. Each to know something more about wholesale cooking than the aver- year a good percentage of the scores of beeves and sheep needed age post which may never have engaged in culinary adventures. for the barbecue are donated to the post. Winfield F. Brown Post knows nearly all there is to know about While we are dealing in marvels and superlatives, let us speak the art and science of barbecuing. Each year it has added to its here of one feature of the Paris barbecue which makes it unique, own knowledge. in the belief of the Paris Legionnaires. What other Legion post

40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly can point to ownership of a permanent barbecue pit? Or, for tally, brought another evidence of community co-operation. The that matter, is there a permanent barbecue pit anywhere else in Southwestern Bell Telephone Company had recently replaced a the United States? Certainly there is none as large as the one in large number of old poles in Paris with new ones. It donated the Paris, or constructed so well. old poles to the Legion post to be used as supports for the roof The barbecue pit in Paris is one of the show places of the State of the shed over the barbecue pit. of Texas. No visitor to Paris can escape seeing it. He may The pit was built on the Lamar County Fairground. It hap- carry away only a hazy image of Paris 's city hall or its new office pened that the county hospital nearby was being torn down, to building, but he will remember clearly the barbecue pit. make way for a modern hospital building, so the post obtained The barbecue pit is notable for many reasons. One reason is free all the old brick it needed for its pit. From the building that it is a monument to the city's friendly spirit of co-operation, being razed the Legionnaires also got enough iron piping for the evoked when the Legion called upon citizens for help in building it. supports of the gratings on which the meat is placed. Constructing a pit one hundred and twenty feet long and thirty The lumber and hardware dealers supplied materials at whole- feet wide, lining it with brick and erecting over it a roof is a task sale prices, rounding out the cycle of evidence that the whole that would make any post do a lot of planning and talking about community was backing up Winfield F. Brown Post. financial ways and means. When Winfield F. Brown Post, after The photographs accompanying this article give a faithful idea using improvised pits several years, envisioned the need of the of what the pit is like. The pit is quite deep and the masonry elaborate permanent pit, it found plenty of help. Two labor walls have openings at intervals for adding fuel to the fires and unions, a telephone company and many merchants and contrac- removing ashes. Iron piping is strung across the pit eighteen tors enabled the Legionnaires to build the pit speedily and strongly. inches from the top. On the piping is placed heavy wire netting. The bricklayers' union caught the idea immediately when a The meat is placed on this netting for roasting. Legionnaire member of the union appealed for help. The union Only hickory wood is used for the fires. It imparts a flavor voted to take a special holiday for lining the pit with brick. to the meat which can be obtained in no other way. The fact Legionnaires hauled the brick and kept the masons that the meat is held on the wire netting prevents it supplied with them. The Auxiliary members from being spoiled by smoke, ash or too much served a lunch for the bricklayers and heat, and insures even roasting and a the Legionnaires helping them. succulent browning of each piece. The carpenters' union The fires are built in plenty matched the service of the of time to permit the pit bricklayers by taking to become thoroughly a whole day off and heated before the erecting a shed joints are put on over the pit to roast. Then The building a mixture of of the shed, (Continued i n c i d e n- on page?i)

Union bricklayers and union carpenters donated their services to construct the elaborate barbecue pit out of which comes food for thirty-five thousand hungry Texans, annual guests of Winfield F. Brown Post of Paris and its Auxiliary. Above, part of the big Paris mess line MAY, 1927 4i HOW NOT TO GO TO PARIS

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"You say you were present when this "So you don't think there is life on "Madame, is your husband home?" in- man and his wife were engaged in a very Mars?" inquired the scientist. "Can you quired a book agent. "I'd like to have violent quarrel?" inquired the magistrate give any reason for that belief?" him look at this book, 'What to Do in " of the witness. "Well, in the first place," returned the Case of an Accident.' "Yes, your honor," replied the man on political observer, "they've never asked "Just wait till I look and see," replied the stand. Uncle Sam for a loan." Mrs. Peck grimly, "and if he ain't home "What was he saying?" he's going to need that book." "He wasn't saying anything, your honor." Feeling Him Out "Does yo' all smoke cig'rets, Sam?" They're Wearing Less The Danger Point "Dat am a suppositious question, de- "What's that little animal you just The girl reporter who had been as- pendin' altogedder on who Ah is wid at killed—a mouse?" asked the city visitor signed to do human-interest stuff was in- de time, Rastus." to the farm. terviewing a steel riveter. "Yo' means has Ah got one?" "No, that was a mole," replied the "Don't you ever feel nervous and "Ah means does yo' want one." farmer. frightened when you are working on a "Great Heavens! And my wife wanted narrow beam way up in the air?" she a coat made out of one of those things!" asked. Double-Barreled Pun "Oh, yes, ma'am," answered the riv- "You lead the orchestra, sir?" asked eter. "I'd been drinking a little the other the tired business man in the cabaret. Safety in Numbers night and didn't go home, and the next "I do," replied Professor Jazzolo "And do you love me, your majesty?" morning I looked down fifteen stories and proudly. asked Wife No. 999 anxiously. saw my wife coming toward the building, "Then would you mind leading them "I certainly do, my dear," King Solo- and I almost fainted." out for a bit of air?" mon assured her. "Why, you are one in a thousand!"

The Pool Shark Shining Example "I want to enlist in the tanks," an- "I sold my flivver last week because it Current Scotch Story nounced the applicant at the recruiting drew such a crowd of tramps around my "I'd like to sell you these trousers," station. garage all the time." insinuated the tailor. "Why so keen about the tanks?" asked "But why should it do that?" "Aweel, I micht," agreed the cautious the sergeant in charge. "Oh, they admired it because it Sandy, "if the price is guid an' if ye'll in- "Oh," said the applicant modestly, wouldn't work any more." clude twa pairs o' suits with them." "I'm a pretty good swimmer."

Pep The finicky customer at the Who's Who in Anecdotes seed store had pawed over all the It seems there was a Scotch envelopes and still was unde- spendthrift and a couple of Irish- cided. men named Isaac and Percy, a "I just can't make up my Norwegian yodler from Virginia, mind," he said at last. "My gar- an Italian butler, an English den must be cheerful and lively organ-grinder, and a courteous this year." taxi driver, and they were all sit- "Then why not plant tumble- ting in the synagogue one Sunday weeds and Mexican jumping morning when the deacon got beans?" suggested the weary up and announced there would clerk. be a crap game in the belfrv at 4 P. S. The Expert He had just stolen a hurried Obituary kiss. "The stranger from Texas was "Don't you know any better right smart of a poker player," than that?" she demanded in- related the old-timer, "but not dignantly. quite good enough for these parts. "Sure!" he replied. "But they I sets in a game one night with take more time." him an' Greasy Dick an' Coche- tope Shorty. They comes a big pot with over six hundred dol- Traveler: "Beautiful view ahead there, my man. Taking It Like Little Men lars in it an' when it comes to Marvelous!" Two friends had met after a a showdown Greasy Dick lays Tramp: "Think so, do yer? There ain t a hand- year or so, to find that both were down a heart flush, high; ' married. At that, they ace out in sight waxed Shorty shows four sixes with a confidential. ace kickin', an' the stranger holds four Invariably "Say, Bill, does your wife treat you aces." "Sam, are you ever fired with enthu- right?" asked the first. "Whew! And what did you hold?" siasm?" "Well, I can't kick," was the reply. "Me? Oh, I was the coroner an' I held "Yassuh! From ev'ry job Ah "You're blamed right you can't the inquest." tackles." neither can I. Tough, ain't it, old bov?"

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"N THE everlasting lot- By Watson B. Miller any sort for their dependents. tery of life and death In other words, on the aver- every normal man is sure age, fifty-seven uninsured Chairman of the National Rehabilitation that he holds a winning World War veterans are dy- Committee American Legion ticket. Even in the face of an of The ing every day. insidious and fatal disease a Why should not the unin- man will convince himself that, though others may die pre- sured millions of service men protect their dependents as the maturely, he will hold one of the lucky numbers entitling him insured veterans have protected theirs? There is 110 mystery in to live on and on until his body stops, simply worn out. the apparent apathy of service men toward government insur- Nature wisely permits none of us to be too morbid, even in a ance. The fact that only six hundred thousand men are carrying civilian world in which Taps is always echoing. She renders our government policies today, while more than four million men hearts impervious to the remorseless philosophy of death, sanc- paid Uncle Sam to insure them during the World War, is simply tioning grief only when death has struck most bitterly close by. proof of what everybody knows—that life insurance is sold For there is work to be done in the civilian world, and the able- rather than bought. The initiative for new insurance is almost bodied must press on in everyday life as in battle, though the always with the salesman rather than with the man who buys ranks be decimated. We are usually too busy to take the time the policy. The effectiveness of the methods of selling used by to think about dying. private companies is attested by the eighty billions of dollars These facts partly explain why Uncle Sam, offering the greatest represented by the face values of the policies they have issued. insurance bargains in existence, has been able to sell his policies Americans are taking out new insurance in private companies at in peacetime to only six hundred thousand of the more than four the rate of fifteen billion dollars a year. These companies main- million men who served him in uniform during the World War. tain armies of representatives, covering every community by Youth won the World War. and it has retained the philosophy of hand-to-hand selling. Congress has not permitted Uncle Sam to youth despite the ripening of its years. And insurance ordi- develop personal solicitation for the sale of his insurance. narily doesn't count much in youth's philosophy. At the height of the war Uncle Sam's insurance policies had a These facts also explain partly why Uncle Sam, despite all that face value of roughly forty billion dollars, so that he was by far he can do within the next sixty days, will be confronted the greatest agency for insurance in the history of the on July 2, 1027, with the realization that the over- world. Today the policies outstanding from the whelming number of World War veterans Insurance Division of the United States have forever sacrificed their rights to obtain Veterans Bureau have a total face value of his insurance. Jul}' 2, 1927 is the final slightly less than three billion dollars. day under the law for the reinstate- On January 31 this year, exactly ment of government insurance which 101,468 men were still paying premi- has lapsed and the conversion of the ums on wartime term insurance temporary insurance, whether policies, while 464,644 held con- long held or recently reinstated, verted policies of the six perma- into permanent forms. Con- nent forms or the new five-year gress adjourned on March 4, term insurance. A year earlier, 1927. without granting any in January, 1926, the number extension to the time limit. A of holders of the old term year ago, when the time limit policies was 156,255, while had been set as July 2, 1926, holders of converted policies Congress extended the time numbered 390,431. limit a whole year. The Veterans Bureau is now If he were to use the urgent taking it for granted that most note and the tone of the auc- of the one hundred thousand tioneer, Uncle Sam could shout holders of old term policies will his final warnings that the great- have converted their insurance est insurance bargains in history before July 2, 1927, either into wiil soon be forever beyond the permanent standard insurance or reach of those who may obtain them the new term policies. The present now by a few strokes of a pen and the holders of term policies are men who payment of a few dollars. "Going have taken the trouble to inform them- going—going", Uncle Sam is saying today. selves of the merits of government insur- On July 2, 1927, two months from now, the ance and they are practically certain to hammer will fall and the word of the auc- safeguard their rights by converting their tioneer will be "Gone!" A photograph that preaches its insurance to permanent policies before July should service men who have not 2d. The big problem facing the Veterans And why own sermon: R. J. Cholme ley- yet bought the insurance Uncle Sam offers Bureau, and the Legion as well, is how to Jones, then director of the Bureau do so before July 2, 1927? There are count- reach the several million other men who are of War Risk Insurance, explain- less reasons why they should. Anyone who letting slip, perhaps forever, their right to ing to National Commander F. has confidence in life insurance can think the best insurance bargains ever offered. IV. Galbraith, Jr. of The Ameri- of those reasons. Any life insurance expert , The unfortunate thing about it all, from Legion the new converted can speak of them glibly. But, off-hand, can the standpoint of the uninsured service men, here are some figures which supply one policy for $10,000 which he is is the fact that a good percentage of them reason. about to hand him. This photo- are failing to protect their rights through

Only six hundred thousand of the more graph originally appeared in The plain misunderstanding. There has been than four million wartime policy holders are American Legion Weekly for too much talking of insurance in terms of carrying government insurance. ten thousand dollar policies. Too many at present March 11, 192 1. A little more than Almost six thousand government insurance men have let themselves believe that gov- three months later Commander policy holders died during 1926. It is es- ernment insurance premiums, low as they Galbraith was killed in an auto- timated that more than twenty thousand of are comparatively, are still prohibitive mobile accident at Indianapolis, the three and a half million men whose poli- beyond their means in view of their living and before anotheryear had passed cies have lapsed since the war also died in expenses. Hundreds of thousands of men 1926. Presumably most of the twenty Mr. Cholmeley-Jones himself was who may be right in their belief that they thousand died without having insurance of cannot afford a $10,000 insurance policy at

44 The AMERICAN LEGIOIJ Monthly the present stage of their careers can surely afford to carry one of the government policies for a smaller amount—for as low as $1,000 perhaps. And a $1,000 policy is certainly $1,000 better than no policy at all in any of the eventualities for which in- surance is designed. And how low the cost of a $1,000 policy really is. Take, for example, the cost at the age of thirty-five which is somewhere near the average age of service men today. At that age a service man may obtain a $1,000 ordinary life policy for an annual prem- ium of only $20.08. (A man who smokes a fifteen-cent package of cigarettes a day pays $55 a year for cigarettes.) At the same THE age of thirty-five a man may get a thirty-payment life policy for an annual premium of $22.44; a twenty-payment life policy for UNITED $27.52; a twenty-year endowment policy for $40.28; a thirty-year STATES endowment policy for $26.46, and an endowment at age sixty-two for $29.30. When premiums are paid by the month instead of OFAMERICA annually the rates are slightly higher—for example, the monthly premium on the $1,000 ordinary life policy is $1.70 and on the twenty-year endowment policy, the most expensive type of in- surance, $3.41. It comes as somewhat of a surprise, the realization that most American World War veterans are near their thirty-fifth birthday. GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE And that fact has immense importance from an insurance stand- point. For it is an insurance axiom that the older a man is the X 987,654 more he must pay for insurance. This principle so operates that PoIiryNn. insurance is almost prohibitive for the man who is past forty when he tries to get a policy. Amount 10tOOO You will remember what you had to pay each month for the $ insurance you had when you were in uniform. It was a very small amount comparatively if you were as young as most men Name in service—between five and six dollars a month on a $10,000 policy, or not much more than seventy-odd dollars for a year. John L* Doughgob The premium you paid then was based on your age. A year after you first got your War Risk Insurance policy your premium rate was advanced. It went up the second year, and the third year, and it has been going up each succeeding year if you have kept your temporary wartime insurance policy in force. However, if you converted your wartime policy in 1920 to, let us say, an ordinary life policy you have had to pay no prem- NOTICE ium advances due to your increase in age since 1920. Your premium was set at a flat rate when you converted your policy It is not necessary for tne insured or from temporary to permanent government insurance. So the the Beneficiary to employ the agency amount you have paid in premiums for six years may be readily of any person, firm, or corporation in figured by multiplying by six the sum of the premium established collecting the insurance under this pol- for you in 1920. The fact holds true on all six forms of perma- icy, or in receiving any of its benefits. nent insurance. The premium rate stays the same year after Time and expense will be saved by year and does not keep on rising each year as it does on term in- writing direct the surance. Another advantage converted insurance offers is the to Bureau of War payment of dividends each year. These reduce the net cost of Bisk Insurance, Washington, D. C. converted policies considerably.

Term insurance is actually more expensive than the insurance of the permanent forms which call for higher premium rates, be- cause the cash surrender value of a permanent policy more than offsets in a short time the difference in cost of premiums. Com- pare, for instance, a term policy for $10,000 at age thirty-five and an ordinary life policy for $10,000 at the age thirty-five. The premiums on the ordinary life policy for five years would be $1,004. The premiums on the term policy for the five years would be only $457.20. In five years, then, the holder would pay in premiums $546.80 less on the term insurance than on the A year ago Congress extended until July 2, ordinary life type. However, at the end of five years the term 1927, the time for reinstating or converting gov- policy would have no cash surrender value. On the other hand ernment insurance. The recent Congress did not the ordinary life policy at the end of five years would have a cash extend this time further. July 2, 1927, there- surrender value of $627.30, the amount of money the holder fore will be the unalterable and absolute last day could obtain in cash if he decided to give up his insurance. Act- ually, therefore, the ordinary life policy would have cost $80.50 cents less than the term insurance. term insurance which caused your Uncle Sam arbitrarily to set And also consider that the holder of the ordinary life policy the time limit .vithin which the increasingly expensive term during the five years would benefit by payment of yearly divi- insurance must be converted to the flat rate permanent insurance. dends. These dividends are quite substantial. No dividends are Uncle Sam had in mind the interests of the men he is insuring. paid on term insurance. To know that Uncle Sam is doing his part in this matter of Actual figures also show how important it is to convert term insurance consider what Congress did in 1926 for the express insurance to permanent insurance as early as possible because of purpose of helping those service men who are anxious to main- the yearly increase in premium rates on term insurance. At age tain government insurance policies but can not see their way forty the ordinary life premium would be $237.40 for a $10,000 clear to pay the higher premium rates of permanent insurance. policy, whereas at age thirty-five the premium would be $200.80. Congress authorized the Veterans Bureau to offer a new type of The man who waits five years to convert his term insurance to policy, a term insurance policy at a flat premium rate to run for an ordinary life policy would have to pay $36.60 on his yearly pre- five years. mium rate. This policy may be converted into one of the six forms of There's no joker, then, in all this talk about the urgent neces- standard government insurance at any time within the five sity of converting term insurance into permanent insurance as years. If it has not been converted within the five years it soon as possible. It is this factor of yearly increasing rates on automatically becomes an ordinary life {Continued on page 66) MAY, 1927 45 • — BLOOD WILL TELL

/'T WAS Derby Day in encouragement to Bubbling Kentucky. More than ByEdward R.Bradletf Over and Bagenbaggage seventy-five thousand my horses. admirers of King Horse And down the long strength were in the club house, the grand stands and on the lawns of eating stretch, drawing away from his field at every bound, came Churchill Downs. There was color everywhere—green trees, Bubbling Over with much in reserve, to cross the finish line five white stables, scarlet foliage, silvery waters, red and white pa- lengths ahead of his stable mate and seven lengths in front of godas, white and black men, silks of every hue in the spectrum. Rockman and Rhinock, which finished third and fourth And there was movement—the movement of crowds, of betting respectively. commissioners hurrying from grand stand to betting ring, of "You've finished one-two. Ed, one-two in the Kentucky owners, trainers, jockeys, racing officials, news boys, Pinkertons, Derby!" exclaimed an enthusiastic member of my party. "This men and women—both of the latter with children in tow. And must be the most thrilling moment of your life!" there was the movement of horses—prancing, dancing, nervous In the afterglow of that great afternoon I recalled that remark steeds in whose veins ran the finest blood in the equine world— —"This must be the most thrilling moment of your life!" sons and daughters of steeds that once Hew like the wind over Was it? the burning sands of Arabia. In searching for the answer I looked back over the long stretch From the paddock for their parade before the cheering stands of years—thirty-five to be exact—during which I've devoted the prior to going to the post came thirteen of the leading thorough- major portion of my time and interest to the racing and breeding breds in America, if not of the world. Two of those horses— of thoroughbred horses. In those glorious years I've experienced Bubbling Over and Bagenbaggage—carried my colors, the green every thrill that can be distilled from the laurel leaves of victory and white of the Idle Hour Stock Farm. On them, and especially and the bitter fruits of defeat. I've seen my colors riding to upon Bubbling Over, I had pinned my faith to bring home to victory in every sort of contest from a cheap maiden race to the Kentucky the honor of winning the turf classic of America—the most coveted event on the American turf. I've seen fortunes Kentucky Derby. I had backed up my faith on this three-year- won and lost by the narrowest margin known to the Sport of old son of North Star Ill-Beaming Beauty with the largest Kings—a horse's nose. I've known the thrill of a filly's soft wager I had ever made on a thoroughbred racehorse. Enthusi- muzzle against my check, the greeting neigh of a favorite mare in astic writers of the turf have made it appear that I staked a for- a moonlit meadow, the exultation of calling mine the only horse tune on my entry—that I bet enough to win a million should Bub- in the world which, I believe, could run a quarter of a mile in bling Over capture the prize. How much I bet is of little moment. twenty-one seconds. Suffice to say it was something over one thousand dollars. But it was not in the betting ring nor at the finish of the In the club house on that May afternoon were many Fifty-second running of the Kentucky Derby that I re- of my friends of the racing world—Cabinet members, ceived my greatest thrill on the race track. The thrill diplomats, Senators, Governors, horsemen, jour- of victory always was and always will be greater nalists, racing men from other lands and than the thrill of gain. Does the father watching friends and neighbors from the Blue Grass his son straining every muscle in a hundred region. Many of these were with me yard dash need the added incentive of a bet when the parade passed the stands and on his boy to be thrilled to his finger tips? the horses went to the post. They Real thrills come from the heart, not from were with me, heart and soul, I believe, the purse; through the sense of sight when the field of thirteen in that rather than through the pay-off window. great race of 1926 broke from the I didn't have a dollar's interest in barrier and started on their long jour- the race that gave me one of the mo:;t ney of a mile and a quarter round lasting thrills of my turf career—the the coffee-brown ribbon of soil. running of the first American Derby Bubbling Over, piloted by at the old Washington Park trace

that sterling veteran of the reins, at Chicago back in iSS (.. Jockey Albert Johnson, was Although I hadn't become a horse hustled into the lead. Bagen- owner at that time I was attracted baggage, with Jockey E. Blind to the race track as naturally as the in the saddle, began more slowly. needle of a compass is attracted to As the field swept past the stands the North. That, perhaps, because for the first time Bubbling Over I am a Kentuckian. was a length in front with Johnson Chicago at that time was just tugging hard at the reins. Next emerging from the crushing blow came the hope of the East—Pom- dealt it by the great fire, and the pey—followed closely by Rockman, business men of the Windy City felt Canter, Champ De Mars and Light that some spectacular event should Carbine. Bagenbaggage was be staged each year to attract visitors seventh, but not out of the race. from far and near. They finally de- As the golden flanks of Bubbling cided to inaugurate the Great American Over, glistening in the light of the Ken- Derby, a thoroughbred horse race that tucky sun, rounded the first turn, I was would rank with if not eclipse the American conscious of a roar not unlike that of a classic— the Kentucky Derby—and also the distant surf going up from the throats of the English Derby at Epsom Downs. They thrilling thousands. This roar grew until L. S. Sntcli/Tc formed the Washington Park Jockey Club and it became Niagara-like in volume and in- judiciously chose Lieutenant General Philip can say that Bit tensity. When Bubbling Over rounded the "I truthfully H. Sheridan, famous Civil War hero, as the stretch turn two lengths in front of his run- of White is my best beloved. first president. ning mate, Bagenbaggage, that roar was Sell her? Not for a million I was in the crowd at the rail when twelve deafening, exhilarating, inspiring. It made dollars, cash on the table" of the finest thoroughbreds of that day went my heart beat faster; it brought a lump to to the post. My sympathies were with Ed my throat; it sent sensations up and down my spine. Above Corrigan's Modesty, a filly I fancied because, perhaps, her rider, the sustained appeals for Pompey and Blondin and the other a negro jockey named Isaac Murphy, had booted Buchanan home Eastern cracks to come on and win, rose the mighty roar of to victory in the Kentucky Derby a short time before. horse-loving Kentuckians. The latter, far and away in the The details of that race are unimportant to this narrative. majority at Churchill Downs that afternoon, were shooting their It is sufficient to say that Modesty, with 117 pounds on her back, 46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —•

Colonel Edward R. Bradley, biggest breed- er of thoroughbred race horses in Kentucky {and therefore in the United did what no other filly has States'), photographed done since—came home first in with Miss Muriel Ryan at the American Derby. When Belmont Park, New York I saw that game little lady, carrying the green and white silks of the Corrigan stable, flash under the wire ahead of My eyes blurred a bit as I read Kosciuszko and Bob Cook, that message. The ambition born which finished second and forty-two years before had been third respectively, I tingled gratified; the green and white of from head to foot. I imagined Idle Hour, like the green and myself a horse owner watching white worn by Modesty in the my own colors on a horse of first American Derby, had come my own breeding coming home in front. It was a thrill home the winner as the good marred only by the fact that I filly Modesty came home that hadn't been there to see the horse June afternoon. That day of my own breeding romp home to dream later became a reality. I did become a horse owner and victory. In that moment of triumph, I can honestly say, I didn't forty-two years later I had the supreme satisfaction of winning give a thought to the amount of money Boot to Boot had won the American Derby with Boot to Boot, son of North Star- $80,000. It was his victory which was uppermost in my mind— Padula, at the New Washington Park track. his victory and the knowledge that I had lived to see one of my The thrill I got from winning this, the richest stake in America, earliest ambitions satisfied. its value to the winner being $89,000, came to me by telegraph. A true lover of the thoroughbred doesn't necessarily have to Up to the time that the American Derby was revived in July, see his own colors come home in front to get a thrill out of racing. 1926, I had never missed a running of the famous race. But on One of the greatest moments I ever had at the races was con- this day I was at Saratoga where I had some of my horses entered tributed by that splendid horse, Peter Pan, by Commando out in important races and was unable to go to Chicago for the of imported Cinderella, and owned by the late James R. Keene. eighteenth running of the American Derby although I had great That was on July 13, 1Q07, in the Twelfth Running of the faith in Boot to Boot's ability to uphold the honor of the Idle Brighton Handicap at Brighton Beach. The Brighton Handicap Hour Farm. This good son of North Star III had been through was for three-year-olds over the mile and a quarter route. Peter a strenuous campaign during the spring and early summer of Pan, ridden by Jockey Notter, one of the best boys of his day, 1926 and three days before he started in the American Derby he carried an impost of 115 pounds and went to the post favorite at had shown his mettle at Maple Heights by winning the Ohio 8 to 5. There were fourteen starters including McCarter, State Derby. Montgomery and Coy Maid. On the evening of that race I was in my room at the United They got away to a pretty start, the leader for the first mile States Hotel at Saratoga when a boy came to me with a telegram. being McCarter, with Coy Maid and Montgomery alternately It said, "Boot to Boot wins American Derby." second. Peter Pan got jostled and lost ground at the first turn,

MAY. 1927 47 Coming around the turn in the 1926 Kentucky Derby, which was won by Bubbling Over {leading

in this photograph) , ivith Bagenbaggage next. A Bradley horse first and a Bradley horse second!

but once the field straightened out on the back stretch Peter latter who select the parents of a future racer with all the care and Pan gradually picked up those in front. He joined Montgomery study that a master of eugenics would exercise in choosing ideal and McCarter in the stretch and from there to the wire it was parents for the breeding of a wonder baby, every foal that is one of the prettiest races I ever saw, with the three leaders dropped is a potential Derby or Preakness winner. These baby running head and head. At the finish a blanket would have horses receive the same tender care that a mother bestows on her covered the leaders, infant from the moment they are born. They worm but the judges gave their way into our hearts, become part of our lives and the decision to Peter when sickness or death overtakes them we grieve more Pan, one of the gam- than we sometimes care to admit. est horses I ever saw When Believe Idle Hour was killed by lightning in perform, the place 1924 I could not have felt worse had one of my own to McCarter and r family been stricken. She was ore of the sweetest little show money to fillies that ever equalled a good track record. And she Montgomery. gave me one of my greatest thrills when as a two-year- In that race Peter old at Lexington in 1920, she raced in the Breeders' Pan. by taking the Futurity. middle of the track In that memorable contest this chestnut daughter of and sticking to it, Cunard-Love-Xot, by Voter, ran fully sixty feet was matched with some of the further than his competitors best babies in training. Among so he had to be much the them was J. K. L. Ross' Star better of the field. In that run Voter, the odds-on favorite through the stretch he showed which the public fancied at 2 his great heart, his marvelous to 5. endurance and his ability to From start to the finish of "look another horse in the that six furlong sprint Believe eye" without faltering. It Idle Hour and Star was the sort of an exhibition of Voter ran like a team, gameness that endears the never having been sep- thoroughbred to king or arated by more than peasant. It gave me a thrill half a length with Sir I shall never forget and now- Thomas Kean six adays whenever I look at lengths behind. From Peter Pan's son, Black Tony, the head of the stretch in the pasture down at Idle to the wire both gave Hour Farm, I remember his every last ounce of sire's beautiful and exciting strength that they had. race at Brighton Beach. Their heads bobbed Too much stress is placed up and down together on the commercial side of and it looked as if a racing. I've heard men say dead heat would be that they could not enjoy a the result. But it horse race unless they had a wasn't. In the last bet down on one of the con- few strides Believe testants. That may be true Idle Hour showed her of the casual follower of thor- great gameness in a Bagenbaggage, which finished second oughbred runners but I don't wonderful final spurt in the 192(1 Kentucky Derby believe it holds good for men that carried her under who breed horses. To the (Continued on page 87)

48 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ."""^^^^ ALL IN" will be sounded surprisingly soon for for last-minute decision or stop-gap action. With thorough- f m the Paris convention pilgrimage. Memorial Day ness and precision an organization has been built up in every I fal comes at the end of this month of May, and State to handle the details of obtaining all necessary accom- >^ M hardly more than three months from that day the modations in advance and getting the state delegations started ~ / Legion's great fleet of ships will be sailing from on special trains for the eastern seaboard when the convention seven American ports, bound for France—bound pilgrimage actually gets under way. In each State, a Legion for the brightest and gayest city in the world and the constel- Department France Convention Officer—D. F. C. 0., he's us- lations of American battlefields and cemeteries. The conven- ually called—is in charge of arrangements. He approves and tion will be held in Paris, September 19th to 24th. forwards applications and conducts all dealings for his depart- Already the pilgrimage has taken form so fully that its suc- ment with the France Convention Committee's office at Na- cess is sure. In the first three months of this year more than tional Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the commit- five thousand Legionnaires and members of their families tee's office in Paris. made official reservations for the pilgrimage in September, each For each State a special folder has been prepared, giving full one making a deposit of fifty dollars. And as the month of details about the special arrangements made for that State. March drew near its end, new applications were coming in at This folder shows a photograph of the ocean liner on which the rate of several hundred a day and the daily totals were the department delegation will sail, together with deck plans getting bigger and bigger. It was estimated that in the re- indicating the location of every berth on the ship. It tells maining five months before sailing time the number of appli- about special trains, reduced railway fare, steamship round- cations would maintain a steady rate of increase, making cer- trip fares, prices and grades of Paris hotel accommodations, tain that almost every State will find its quota overflowing. arrangements for cemetery and battlefield tours. It gives also With the France Convention pilgrimage, as with almost a lot of other information which everybody will want to know. everything else people do, the natural thing to do is to post- Each D. F. C. 0. has supplied this folder to the men of his pone making reservations. The France Convention State who have asked for it. Committee, counting the steadily increasing To supplement the special information folder for number of applications and making assign each State, a new booklet of general infor- ments to various classes of steamship mation, designed for convention pil- and Paris hotel accommodations in grims of all the States, has just been the order that applications ; d by the France Conven- ceived—for accommodation Committee and is now be- certain prices and classes a distributed through the limited—looks forward tc ). F. C. O.'s. This new the starting of a grand rush booklet i s exceptionally this summer. In this rush complete. It attempts to many Legionnaires who present the answer to put off making their ap- every question any plications may be dis- prospective pilgrim appointed. might ask. Everything has been Whether he is sure done to insure a fair of going to Paris in distribution of both September or not, ev- steamship and hotel ery Legionnaire ought accommodations to have a copy of this among the Legion- booklet. Its illustra- naires of all States, tions, its charts, its ex- but naturally the men planations, will be use- and women of each ful for reference con- State who have taken stantly from now on. their places toward the And many men and front of the line are going women who haven't got to fare best. Not that thos round to the point of mak- who come in late are going g up their minds about the be entirely out of luck, of course. trip are going to decide speedily

The committee has done what it when they see the new booklet could to guard against that, and and learn how simply and easily it has made arrangements for as and cheaply the trip to Paris and many as thirty thousand pilgrims, back may be made. both for steamship transportation This is a personal tip to every- for- and for Paris hotel accommo- Minutes here are worth mouths of living else- body. Sit down before you to the F. C. 0. dations. where, for nowhere in the world does life flow get it and write D. more swiftly, more joyously, than in the Place de of your department, asking for a I'Opera, the heart of Paris. A chair at a table copy of the new booklet of gen- /"^NE by one the big problems on the sidewalk in front of the Cafe de la Paix eral information about the Paris of the pilgrimage have been (left) is something to dream about. The Place convention. You will find the worked out. Nothing has been de I'Opera is bound to be the center of the Legion's name of the D. F. C. 0. for your left by the national committee 1927 national convention in Paris in September State on (Continued on page 73)

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y^~S a contribution to the cause of his- A CIRCUS is here today and there tomorrow, yj torical accuracy, here is a comment and when Nile W. McKay, an animal trainer, f\ A~m which arrived in an envelope bearing a took sick while his circus was showing in Win- JL French postage stamp and the cancel- chester, Virginia, he was taken to a Winchester lation mark of the city of Biarritz: hospital while the circus went on to another city. "Dear Mr. Editor: I must take my pen in hand McKay's heart had weakened so that physicians to tell you that the picture of the statue of Hunter and Hounds could not save his life. He died soon after he reached the has a caption that roused my wrath. Is there anything that hospital. But before he died he told his attending physician, came out of the war that didn't come out of Belleau? Yes. Dr. B. B. Dutton, a Legionnaire of Robert Y. Conrad Post of That statue. It came from in front of a house in Chateau- Winchester, that he had served in France during the World War. Thierry, said house being now a hotel. Also, the The post in Winchester took charge of McKay's holes in the dogs are not shell holes, as the funeral. An aunt in Arkansas, the only rela- caption stated, but those made by a .45 tive recorded on hospital records, re- One Sergeant Nason, of the 70th Field quested that burial be made in Win- Artillery, shot said iron dogs one chester. The post gave McKay a night when he had a skinful military funeral and burial was and their howling kept him made in the National Ceme- awake. The gang in the tery at Winchester. But P. C. under the statue Robert Y. Conrad Post's were peeved." efforts in McKay's be- The letter came from half did not end at the Leonard H. Nason. grave. Somewhere, the Go back to the pic- Winchester Legion- ture on page 45 of 1 naires knew, was a the March issue of grandmother who the Monthly if you had been named as want to know more beneficiary in an about the cause of application for Ad- Mr. Nason's justed Compensa- wrath. The cap- tion which McKay tion explains that had partly executed the statue, a fam- before he died. Be- ous A. E. F. battle fore burial, the fin- relic, now reposes 1 gerprints of McKay in California, whith- were recorded at the er it had been brought request of Clifford D. from Belleau Wood, Grim, Post Guardian- and adds: "During the ship Officer, so that fighting at Belleau Wood Government require- in 1918, the statue, riddled ments of legal proof of by bullets and shell frag- death might be met. After ments, stood over a vaulted the funeral, Grim began mak- cellar used by the Signal Corps ing a countrywide search for as a message center." McKay's relatives. He learned Will Mr. Nason, however, please that McKay had served during the depose some more. Is he sure the dogs war with the 304th Graves Registration weren't already wounded when he shot Unit and that his home had been in them. Quincy, Illinois. The Winchester post This tower is the the dominant feature of will keep up its efforts until the missing World War Memorial Plaza in Indianap- relatives are found. T^ROOP "I" Post of Buffalo, New olis, Indiana, of which the National Head- A York, isn't sure that Thaddeus B. quarters Building of The American Legion is the first completed unit. The plaza will Glover is the oldest Legionnaire but it SUPPLEMENTING what an earlier cover is reasonably certain that he could claim seven city blocks and cost twelve travel-talker had to say in this sec- million dollars the title of oldest Post Commander. tor of the magazine about the Imperial Mr. Glover was 75 when he was Com- Valley of California, Ira G. Erichsen, mander of Troop "I" Post last year. As proof of his ability Past Commander of Calipatria Post, recites a few more facts to step fast despite the years, he raised his post's membership about the valley, facts which will be surprising to the rest of to 555, making it the largest post in Buffalo and Erie County. us who have to walk downhill when we want to get to ocean Past Commander Glover has been reading with especial in- level. As is generally known, in most parts of the Imperial terest the articles on the Indian wars in the Monthly written Valley one has to walk briskly up hill for a long ways before by Major Daly, for he knew personally General Custer and he gets his head above the level of the Pacific Ocean and the served under General Miles and General Crook, the great In- Gulf of California. dian fifty- fighters, according to George J. Schopf, present Com- "The Imperial Valley is one hundred miles long and mander of Troop "I" Post, who adds that Mr. Glover received five miles wide at its widest part," volunteers Mr. Erichsen. the Congressional Medal of Honor for his services in the "It is entirely surrounded by mountains. As I sit here at my Indian Wars. desk, with the winter thermometer at seventy-five degrees, I "Can any other post present an older Legionnaire or an older can see snow on Mt. San Jacinto and Mt. San Gorgonio, both Legion Post Commander?" Mr. Schopf asks. of them more than 110 miles away. Now for a little history: 50 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly c7r KEEPING STEP

"In 1906 the Colorado River broke through its "Insurance representatives are giving us their levees and inundated the entire valley, or rather as co-operation," writes Post Commander A. W. Sand- much of it as is below sea level, causing great loss rock, "because they know that our plan is teaching of life and property. The break in the levee was many persons who never have held policies to invest finally repaired but we live in dread of another break, in life insurance." although ordinarily, of course, we go about our Bird-McGinnis Post is proud of the fact that business without wasting time thinking about it. You can thirteen members of the United States Army Guard of Honor understand why we are plugging so hard for the Boulder Dam maintained at President Harding's tomb in Marion are mem- and the All-American Canal. The novel, 'The Winning of bers of the post. The thirteen Legionnaires in the guard of Barbara Worth,' by Harold Bell Wright, is largely the honor include all the World War veterans of the detach- story of the 1906 flood. ment, whose total strength is twenty-six men. "We are just seven miles from the shores The guard is composed of picked men of the of Salton Sea, the only body of water in the 10th Infantry Regiment. The detachment United States below sea level. It is rap has furnished firing squads for twenty- idly disappearing through evaporation two funerals conducted by Bird-Mc- It is still, however, a great wintering Ginnis Post. place for wild ducks and geese and other waterfowl—a dream spot for hunters. Scientists say Salton Sea THE Alabama Department of was once connected with the Gulf the Auxiliary has originated a of Lower California and a volcanic doll custom which it hopes will disturbance threw up the chain of spread throughout the whole Aux- mountains which now separates the iliary. "Practically every country sea and the gulf." has doll customs which are well known," relates Miss Emily Mc- Bride, Department Historian. BIRD-McGINNIS Post of Ma "Miss Frances Youngblood had the rion, Ohio, has found a new use happy idea of linking up the doll for life insurance. In co-operation stories of all countries with 'joyful with an insurance company it is induc- gift' presentations of dolls to service ing its own members and other citizens men's children of doll age. to take out insurance under a group policy. "The idea was suggested to girls of vari- The post receives a commission based on ous schools. It was received splendidly. the first premium payment and each year Girls of one school gave over thirty dolls, it will receive an additional payment on and a photograph of these girls with the each policy. It estimates that the receipts National Adjutant James F. Barton dolls they assembled for presentation con- from the insurance program will meet all and Mrs. Barton, formerly Miss Sara veys to everybody who sees it the truly in- the operating expenses of the clubhouse it MacGettigan of Des Moines, Iowa. spiring spirit of the ceremony." is planning to acquire soon. Their marriage took place in February Miss McBride recalls also that the Ala-

These girls; under the auspices of the Alabama Department of the American Legion Auxiliary, made and presented dolls to the little children of disabled service men, in keeping with the department's annual custom

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the University of Illinois or any other institution the win- ner might select. "The contest succeeded so well that we will make it an annual event," reports Post Adjutant Charles G. Campbell. "The boys and girls may have overlooked a few men this year, but we're reasonably sure they'll get one hundred percent next autumn." Mr. Campbell says his post has done some other notable '4 work in the high school. Ameri- can Legion medals are award- ed yearly to the two freshmen having the highest general av- erages. The junior class con- ducts the annual sale of pop- pies in Mt. Carmel, with the help of the Legionnaires.

AST year tens of thousands J of citizens of Tacoma, Washington, gathered in the magnificent Tacoma Municipal Stadium for the Fourth of July celebration which is con- ducted annually by Edward B. Rhodes Post of The American Legion. As one feature of that cele- bration, eight Tacoma girls appeared before a jury composed of prominent artists charged with the Chosen as the most beautiful girls in Tacoma, Wash- duty of selecting ington, girls appeared at a huge celebration held these Miss Tacoma by Edward B. Rhodes Post in the Tacoma Municipal to represent Stadium, and Miss Shirley Stoddard, who is third the city in the from the left in the back row, attracted the attention national beau- of Howard Chandler Christy. Miss Stoddard has ty pageant in since posed for many of Mr. Christy's paintings. Atlantic City. Below, Legion emblem in fireworks displayed at the Twenty- Tacoma celebration four girls had been considered the winning bama Department of the Auxiliary has sent twenty-one hun- for honor when the dred Christmas boxes to Alabama service men in hospitals. contest began, but "Our! slogan is 'No Alabama boy in any hospital in the United the eight who States can be forgotten at Christmas time,' " she comments. all but met the judges in the sta- dium at the Fourth of July Miss NOW and again somebody discovers an albino blackbird, a celebration had been eliminated. Among the eight was white blackbird, a freak of nature; and occasionally an Shirley Stoddard. Miss Stoddard quite philosophically ac- at editor who is also an orator comes to light. The Department cepted the fact that she wasn't selected to be Miss Tacoma of Iowa nominates Frank Miles, Editor of the Iowa Legionaire, Atlantic City. And then chance was kind to her. Howard as a composite Horace Greeley and Daniel Webster. In addi- Chandler Christy, noted American painter, who had been un- struck tion to doing his regular work of producing his department able to serve as one of the judges of the contest, was the publication, Mr. Miles managed to deliver no full-sized Le- by Miss Stoddard's beauty when he saw a photograph of gion speeches to audiences throughout the whole State during contestants. He sought an interview with Miss Stoddard and the past year. His addresses averaged three a week for the her mother. greater part of the year. If you will look at the photograph of Miss Stoddard appear- ing on this page, you may be impressed by the fact that you have seen her before. And you are right. She was the subject on the January THE Wabash River is an impressive stream at Mt. Carmel, for the painting by Mr. Christy which appeared later Illinois, and Wabash Post at Mt. Carmel isn't any back- issue of the Monthly and she posed for several other water outfit itself, as witness the new idea the post has de- covers which Mr. Christy painted for the Monthly. veloped for keeping up membership and getting into the fold any stray service men who might be overlooked. Last autumn the post offered a scholarship prize of fifty dollars to the senior inspiration for every man now in the Illinois National AN Past of the Mt. Carmel high school who would bring in the most • Guard, the military career of Milton J. Foreman, termed in iQ2- American Legion membership payments of dues. It stip- National Commander of The American Legion, was Illinois in ulated that the prize could be used for payment of tuition in a General Order issued by the Adjutant General of 52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

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January upon the occasion of Mr. Foreman's retirement from Legion do. in addition to what it has already done, to induce active service. Calling attention to the fact that Mr. Foreman World War service men to take advantage of the truly great had entered service as a private in the Guard in 1895 and had bargains in insurance which Uncle Sam is offering to them? risen to the rank of Major General in the Guard and What can the Legion do to impress upon service men the Reserve Corps, the order by Adjutant Gen- who have not taken insurance with Uncle Sam eral Carlos E. Black gave in detail Mr the importance of taking out a government Foreman's services during the Spanish- policy before July 2, 1927, the final date American War, the Mexican Border for the reinstatement or conversion campaign and the World War. In of the policies originally obtained the World War, Mr. Black re- during the war? called, Mr. Foreman won both In reality, there is little more

the D. S. C. and the D. S. M. the Legion can do. What it for bravery in action and can do is to keep on telling also won foreign decora- men who do not know of tions, including the Legion M their rights that those rights of Honor awarded by I ought to be pro- France. Mr. Foreman tected. The Legion must retired from service upon do for the service man reaching the age of sixty- what every alert insur- four, as provided for by ance agent does for the National Defense Act. si his prospects, the men to whom he hopes to sell policies. It must estab-

American [Legion * lish confidence, give an THE I has never believed it \ ) understanding of types of necessary to convince Le- «k v WJm insurance and, finally, get gionnaires and service men ^k^l down to the ;u t ual and all- outside the Legion that life important detail of getting insurance is advantageous the name on the dotted line. almost always absolutely neces- Uncle Sam can not sell insur- " sary—to the average young Amer- ance as private companies do. If ican citizen. Surely no proof is any single old line private insur- needed of the general desirability of life ance company in the United States insurance; for life insurance today is today could announce premium rates so strongly established as a fundamen- as low as those charged by the gov- tal principle in our national life that ernment, it would send its agents most men count upon paying insurance Commander Robert E. Gallagher (left), of J. through the country by thousands in premiums with as much certainty as Wesley Garland Post of Lansdowne, Pennsyl- a great evangelistic insurance cam- paying money for groceries, shoes or vania, thinks the bas relief figure of anthracite paign to win millions of new policy- taxes. coal which he handed to Legionnaire Gene holders. It would win them, for no Granted, then, that most Americans Tunney last autumn had something to do with other insurance company could com- believe in the principle of life insur- Tunney's big victory and will continue to be pete with it in premium rates. Uncle ance, what more can The American Tunney's lucky piece Sam, however, is a conservative old

A reminder that Legion junior baseball teams will play again this season in every State and tournaments will be held under the auspices of Legion departments—this was the moment of victory for the team from Yonk- ers, New York, which won the Junior World's Series at the Legion's Philadelphia national convention

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"Ja, es ist das!" exclaimed Max Potratz, George Schultz and Frank Ritt, German war veterans now liv- ing in Milwaukee, to Legionnaire H. W. Peterson of Alonzo Cudworth Post, who is teaching them Eng- lish in a night school. Peterson (second from left) had just pointed to the town of Stenay on the map after learning by chance he had faced the three Germans in battle there. They all remember the same sawmill landmark. Peterson served in Company B, 354th Infantry, 8gth Division insurance agent. He offers the lowest premium rates and A CENTURY and a half ago American soldiers who had seven standard forms of policies which are as good as any won the Revolutionary War moved westward from Vir- offered by private companies, but he asks his clients to come ginia and New England, settled in the states between the Ohio to him; he doesn't go to them. Congress never has provided River and the Great Lakes and tr.ught themselves all they had an appropriation for the widespread solicitation of the veterans to learn in order to survive in the wilderness. Sixty years ago who need Government insurance. veterans of another American war moved restlessly from the Every American Legion post ought to have a special meet- Mississippi Valley States to the Great West beyond and gave ing at which government insurance is explained. Service men complete form to this nation, a continuous settlement from outside the Legion should be asked to attend these meetings. the Atlantic to the Pacific. Expert insurance salesmen for private companies are usually When the men who fought the World War got out of uni- glad to give what advice and help they can to the service man; form they found no free Government lands to lure them to ordinarily they will consider it a privilege to address a meet- unsettled regions of the United States. What they did find, ing of service men and help individuals select the types of however, was what veterans of no other war had ever found, government policies best adapted to their needs. a country magnificently developed, with opportunities on every In two months several millions of service men will auto- hand calling to the service man who had qualified himself to matically lose the right to hold a government policy at a rock- seize them. Older service men of the World War rose to places bottom premium rate. For the next two months, therefore, of direction and responsibility in every American community, every American Legion post ought to be Uncle Sam's insur- while younger men, also rising, demonstrated that the Army ance agent. had given them a fresh appreciation of the rewards education will bring. A striking proof of this is the record of enroll- ment in the free correspondence courses for World War vet- BETHEL, Vermont, is old as American towns go. For erans offered by the Knights of Columbus Educational Bureau. more than a century and a half its cemeteries have held Chiefly through advertising in The American Legion Weekly the graves of men who fought in American wars. When and the Monthly, these courses have attracted since 1922 in- Bethel Post of The American Legion, in conjunction with vet- quiries from 190,385 World War service men, of whom erans societies of other wars, began to make a list of all sol- 118,566 enrolled in the school. Twenty thousand veterans diers' graves in the nine cemeteries roundabout the town it have already completed the courses. compiled data on 198 men who served in the country's seven As anyone understanding vocational trends would expect, major wars. Fifty-two graves of soldiers of the Revolutionary business and industry have run a close race in attracting men War and thirty-eight graves of men who fought in the War to the free educational courses. More than forty-five thou- of 181 2 were found. Thirty-one of the graves were without sand men enrolled in courses in business subjects, while thirty- headstones. The post and its co-operating societies obtained seven thousand signed up for technical and special courses. headstones and also supplied grave markers for all the graves Accounting and salesmanship each attracted more than five which lacked them. In order that public interest might be thousand pupils. In industry and technical courses, gasoline insured, the complete list of the graves and all the known facts automobiles attracted more than five thousand pupils, while about the war service of each buried soldier were published architectural drawing and radio were close behind. Almost in the Bethel Courier. In compiling the records, much infor- fifteen thousand men enrolled in civil service courses, five mation was obtained from seven scrapbooks of clippings and thousand of them in railway mail service courses. More than letters and other material relating to American wars which had seven thousand took courses in mathematics, while fourteen been accumulated by Legionnaire Guy Wilson. thousand were enrolled in numerous language courses.

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LEGIONNAIRES who read the advertisement of Murray and ment Fund. And Junior, of course, is only one of many baby J Company, tent makers of Chicago, Illinois, appearing on boys and girls saved in critical moments of their lives by the page 74 of the April issue of the Monthly may have wondered help the Legion gives. how the company could supply a seven-foot tent of the kind Meanwhile, Junior's father has been recovering his health pictured in its advertisement for the low price of $6.85. Well, in a Veterans Bureau hospital. The Bureau has started paying the answer is that the company couldn't. The price quoted to him disability compensation, so that when he has fully re- was the result of an error in printing and it should have been covered he may make a new hopeful start in life. $16.85. Incidentally, wouldn't it be a good idea for Legion posts which have operated tent camps successfully in other summers to tell the rest of us about them? ALONG comes a letter from Charles S. Perel, Past Com- - mander of Whiting (Indiana) Post. Whiting is the center of a big Standard Oil industry, the home of a citizenship of IF your post and its Auxiliary unit will supply the actors, varied racial elements. Mr. Perel expresses the viewpoint that Bell Post of Chicago, Illinois, will furnish the play. And it is wrong in principle to encourage the formation of posts it is a mighty timely play, too—a good one to give before July composed exclusively of service men belonging to single racial 2, 1927, the final time limit for the reinstatement of govern- groups. ment term insurance and conversion of term policies into per- "My post," writes Mr. Perel, ' is made up of men of all na- manent forms. "Why Wait" is the title of the play, a copy of tionalities, and they have joined together in one post, and in which Bell Post will send to any other post. It was written by one common brotherhood. To sacrifice this ideal for a few Kearney Harmas, Junior Vice- hundred members is, in my Commander, and the post has opinion, contrary to the best produced it successfully many interests and the best princi- times for the benefit of other ples of the Legion. It will also posts. Of course it is all about seriously injure its future." government insurance. Mr. Perel also argues that a post's true worth may not be appraised by a spectacular FATE hadn't been at all kind membership gain made in a to Baby Charles Collins, Jr., single year. "My post," he up until a year ago. For adds, "has increased its mem- Charles's mother had died soon bership every year since its after he was born. His father formation. It would be pos- was sick and, cruelly handi- sible to discourage membership capped, he couldn't care for a in 1927 and come back in 1928 baby scarcely a year old, al- with a record-breaking gain, but though he did the best he could. that's not the way of sound So a year ago Baby Charles progress even though it may was thin and sickly, and his bring publicity. The country is future seemed dark indeed. full of good posts which are Then fate turned kind. It led carrying on year after year and Junior's father to the office of which never get any mention J. A. Nicholas, Adjutant of the by reason of the fact that they Virginia Department of The never lag and are always up on American Legion, in Richmond. membership." Mr. Nicholas saw the dis- tressing signs of disease in Mr. Collins. Certainly a father suf- ANOTHER joint meeting of fering from tuberculosis should -German and American vet- not have the daily care of a erans, a let bygones be bygones baby. So Mr. Nicholas did two affair, was held by Franklin things. He found a place for Post of Columbus, Ohio, this Charles in a convalescent home winter, and one hundred men for children, and he presented who had served on the other a claim to the Veterans Bureau side of the Hindenburg Line on behalf of Charles's father. lined up for chow in doughboy Soon Junior lost the traces fashion. In honor of the new of illness and, in keeping with Americans, however, frankfurt- the Legion's child welfare pol- ers and liverwurst and sauer- icy, was given a home in a fam- kraut were served instead of ily which received him as joy- beans and goldfish. Many of fully as if he had come into it the German veterans spoke at birth. English haltingly, but every- Not long ago Junior was body helped with the music awarded a blue ribbon at the the boys with the deficient vo- Virginia State Fair Baby Show. cabularies managed to whistle. That fact was hailed as an in- "The American soldier can spiring example of the success not harbor bitterness and hate," of the Legion's plan of helping declared Major General Benson children. For the care provided W. Hough, a Federal judge in Junior cost exactly $118.92, Charles Collins, Jr., was motherless, tiny and sickly Columbus, principal speaker paid from the emergency fund when the Legion's Child Welfare Service began help- at the meeting. A speech on of the Child Welfare Division ing him. After a year of care in an institution and behalf of the visitors was given at National Headquarters, in the home of a volunteer mother Baby Collins re- by former Lieutenant Joseph money derived from interest on cently won a blue ribbon in the Virginia State Fair Sedelmaier. formerly of the Ba- the Legion's $5,000,000 Endow- Baby Show varian Royal Flying Corps, who

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Kenneth P. Cramer, Commander of the Connecticut Department, placed a wreath in honor of Theodore Roosevelt during field day exercises held by the Boy Scouts oj Hartford County on Roosevelt's birthday anniversary. The scout troop sponsored by Dillworth-Cornell Post of Man- chester, won first place in the field day events, and one of the two troops of Rau-Locke Post of Hartford won second place

entered the Army as a boy, served on almost every front and Not so many, however, know of Mr. Miller's extraordinary was wounded twice, once as an infantryman and again as an career. Miller was born in Indiana and brought up all over aviator. Lieutenant Sedelmaier was only ^ixteen when he the West. His father was a civil engineer whose work took entered war service, was commissioned a second lieutenant him around quite a lot. The father finally settled down in and made a pilot in the air service. An American flying man Washington, D. C, but the son kept on traveling. Young gave him his only wound as an aviator. Watson Miller punched cattle from Mexico to the Canadian border and carried a surveyor's chain in a dozen western States. As a stripling he came to Washington when the Spanish-Ameri- blasted him WHEN General John J. Pershing, who heads the list of can War was getting under way, but his parents Legionnaire contributors to this issue of the Monthly, got away from his newly-put-on uniform by telling officers how around to the task of writing the article, "Forever America," young he really was. Later he spent a number of years in he had to hesitate a short time in the midst of one of the South and Central America. In 1916 Mr. Miller's father died most important works he has undertaken since the World War, and he came home from the tropics to manage the construction the preparation of his memoirs. General Pershing will accom- business his father had built up. In the next year he was in pany the Second A. E. F. to Paris in September for the Le- the Army. gion's 1927 national convention. A member of George Wash- In 1920, a conservative business man, Miller saw a sign in ington Post of Washington, D. C, since the Legion's founding a florist's window inviting veterans to join the Legion. He sent days, General Pershing was elected Honorary National Com- in his application by mail but didn't get to a post meeting for mander of the Legion at the national convention held in Phila- several months. When he finally did show up he was elected delphia last October. Post Chaplain. The next year he was elected Commander of Legionnaires will welcome back in this issue another Cali- the District of Columbia. In 1922 he was elected National fornian, Hugh Wiley, to join Peter B. Kyne, who was the first Vice-Commander. In 1923 he became chairman of the Na- Historian of the Department of California. Wiley's story in tional Rehabilitation Committee. In Miller's office in Wash- this issue is his second for the Monthly, the first, "Sidelines ington are files of thirty-five thousand claims of disabled of Duty," appearing in the August and September issues for service men who have been assisted by the National Rehabili- 1926. The fourth installment of Mr. Kyne's serial, "They tation Committee. Also Serve," appears this month. Another Legionnaire contributor to this issue is Freeman H. Clara Ingram Judson, author of several articles in preceding Hart of Virginia, author of the article, "Spruce Knob and numbers, contributes to this issue an article, "Because It's Thereabouts." In IQ19 Professor and ex-Sergeant Hart was Their Town," which will help any post that is considering chairman of a mass meeting of newly demobilized veterans in sponsoring a community center clubhouse. Mrs. Judson is a Lexington, Virginia, assembled to consider their collective member of the Auxiliary Unit of Evanston (Illinois) Post. futures. They became Rockbridge Post of The American Le- Everybody in the Legion knows that Watson B. Miller, gion. Mr. Hart is now a member of Jack Garland Post of author of the insurance article called "Two More Months," is Farmville, Virginia, a town on the Appomattox River. chairman of the Legion's National Rehabilitation Committee. Right Guide. 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ,

France — More Requests for Information About War Dead — Outfit Notices

/DISLIKE to criticize," writes 0. H. Johnson of Gales- they were present with Sergeant York on the morning of burg, North Dakota, "but it seems to me that in the October 8, 1918, at the place mentioned: George W. Wills, article about Sergeant York in the February issue, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Joseph Konotski, Holyoke, Mas- author could have mentioned the names of the members sachusetts; Patrick J. Donahue, Lawrence, Massachusetts; of the party that advanced into enemy territory a"nd list the Percy Beardsley, Roxbury. Connecticut; Feodor Sok, Buffalo, ones who were killed and also the survivors. In all the pub- New York, and Michael Sacina, New York, New York. licity Sergeant York has received, the only mention of these "With regard to these six men, the records show that four survivors has been that six members besides Sergeant York of them, namely, Beardsley, Konotski, Wills and Donahue, returned and most of the time this even is not mentioned. were cited in General Orders No. 1, Headquarters, 164th I heard the names of these men while in France but do not Infantry Brigade, American Expeditionary Forces, May 4, recollect them now. Surely the other sixteen men in the 1919, as follows: 'It is with particular pride that the Brigade patrol must have been of some aid in capturing these Commander announces to the command the splendid conduct prisoners. of the following named officers and soldiers in action against "I do not write this with any idea of belittling Sergeant the enemy, as described after their names.' The citation in York's achievement as my hat is off to him at all times, and, the case of Percy Beardsley reads: 'During the attack on believe me, the 82d is proud of Sergeant York, but credit Hill 180, west of Chatel Chehery, Mechanic Beardsley with should be given where credit is due. The resultant publicity a detachment from his company surprised and captured a was not due to any act of Sergeant York for, modest chap number of Germans, who were delivering flanking fire on the that he was. he went about his duties saying nothing and it attacking line.' was not until some higher-up got wind of it and saw an oppor- "The citations in the other three cases (Konotski, Wills tunity for some reflected glory that the story came out. If and Donahue) are identical and read as follows for each: the author of the article has these names, I should like very 'On October 8, 1918, in action west of Chatel Chehery this much to see the list appear in the Monthly." soldier when his company was held up by the enemy flanking Agreeing with Johnson, we referred to the Official History fire, with several others crawled to the flank and killed or of the 82d Division in our reference library and while we captured the enemy who were delivering the flanking fire.' found1 an account of Sergeant York's heroic exploit, the names The records further show that Private Michael Sacina was of the men in the patrol were not given except that of Cor- commended in General Orders No. n, Headquarters, 328th poral Early, who led the patrol when it left the American Infantry, for conduct in action on October 8, 1918. No copy lines, and of course, York's. At that time, Sergeant York was of the order containing the name of this soldier has been found a corporal. The history recited the fact that the patrol con- on file. sisted of four non-commissioned officers and thirteen privates of "No record has been found covering the service of Private Company G, 328th Infantry, that six men were killed and Feodor Sok as a member of the patrol in question, other than three wounded, a stat e m e n t the casualties made by him including all of on February 6, the non - com- 1 1 9 9 , which missioned offi- reads as fol- excepting cers lows : 'Was Corporal Alvin present with C. York. Sergeant Alvin Inquiry made C. York, west of the Adjutant of Chatel General's Office Chehery, on the brought the fol- morning of Oc- lowing report: tober 8, 1918'." "The records If any for- show that six mer members men are men- of the 328th tioned in con- Infantry, par- nection with ticu I a r 1 y of the conduct of Company G Sergeant Alvin can supply us York in action with the names on October 8, of the men in 1018, near the patrol who Chatel Chehery, were killed or with reference wounded, due to a recommen- credit will be dation for the given to them award to Ser- in these col- geant York of umns. These the Congress- "Lady (there's only one in sight) and gentlemen,—introducing Soldier Red Carr of heroes were not ional Medal of Buffalo, on our right, and Soldier Blank." Does some one who saw this scrap in the intent ionally Honor. These Y. M. C. A. at Biarritz, May 15, 1919, know the other scrapper? George E. J. Boiler, slighted in the men state that Third Air Service Mechanics, at Romorantin, France, now of Buffalo, took the picture story. MAY, 1927 57 —

WHEN a discussion of the "first-overs" among Americans Chatel Chehery, owes its origin to an abbey founded by the in the World War comes up, consideration must be given Chapter of Our Lady of Rheims, in 1147. According to to those men who preceded the first-overs of the A. E. F. tradition, it was erected by monks of the order "Citeaux" the Americans who served in various branches of the French who came from the Abbey of La Chalade in the center of the Army before our country entered the war. Argonne. The Abbey became one of the most important in An association of the fighters who didn't wait for the the diocese and so continued until it was ruined in 1657 during United States to get into the war was organized in 1923 when the "Fronde," when a dissatisfied political element waged war the title "Association of American Volunteers with the French against Louis XIV. The present chateau is only w part of the Army, 1914-1917," was chosen. Notable sponsors were on Abbey which the monks rebuilt about the middle of the 18th hand when the organization was founded. These were headed century. by the Marechals of France, Foch, Joffre, Petain, Lyautey, The French revolution made the chateau a private residence, Franchet d'Esprey and Fayole, and a committee of patronage, and it became the property of the de Melcy family, from the headed by President Poincare, Clemenceau, Bourgeois Bartou. last members of which it was purchased by the family Longuet Jusserand, former Ambassador to the United States, and hun- la Marche. The present owners are Charles Longuet la dreds of others. The organization followed the inauguration Marche and Emile Longuet la Marche, both of whom were of the monument erected in memory of the American Volun- officers in the French Field Artillery during the war. teers on the Place des Etats Unis, Paris, on July 4, 1923. A In 1914-15, the chateau was used by the Germans as a reproduction of the monument appears on this page. hospital. Small cemeteries were laid out in the grounds where Each year on July 4th, the American colony in Paris, led German soldiers of all ranks are' interred. From 1916 to 1918 by Ambassador Herrick and the survivors of the Volunteers, the chateau was occupied by many German staffs as head- holds impressive ceremonies at quarters. The building was left the monument. The Volunteers in good condition although most residing in Paris will be on hand of the furniture and works of to welcome the Legionnaires art had been removed. when they attend the National The building bears every- Convention of the Legion in where the scars of explosive September. shells. The roof was much pierced but was repaired by troops of the 805th Pioneer In- WE venture to guess that fantry, U. S. Army. Unlike during the next several most French chateaux, this one months the eyes and thoughts is situated under rather than of the majority of Legionnaires atop a hill and hence escaped will be directed toward Paris, being used as an artillery target. even if their footsteps do not The 28th and 82d Divisions trend in that direction in Sep- of the A. E. F. captured the vil- tember when the Legion Na- lage of Chatel, which lies on the tional Convention is held in that western bank of the Aire, Octo-

former mecca of A. E. F. tour- ber 6, 1 9 18, and troops of the ists. Invitations and assurances 8 2d Division captured the cha- of welcome have been received teau and outlying buildings. For from official France. We are a few days early in November, now glad to relay an invitation the chateau was used as head- from an individual Frenchman, quarters by the First Corps, and himself a veteran of the Great from November 25, 1918, to the War. This invitation will inter- end of May, 1919, it was occu- est particularly those veterans pied by Colonel C. B. Humphrey of the 28th and 8 2d Divisions and staff of the 805th Pioneer who helped free his home near Infantry, while Headquarters Chatel Chehery from the enemy, Company of this regiment occu- and the men of the 805th Pio- pied the outlying buildings. neer Infantry, who helped make Captain and Lieutenant Lon- repairs on the same place. guet la Marche visited the cha- "Having just received from teau in December, 1918, and the one of your Legionnaires a num- captain spent the month of In front of the above memorial in the Place des ber of The American Legion April, 1919, making plans for Etats Unis, Paris, the Association of American Vol- Monthly," writes Charles Lon- the restoration of the chateau unteers in the French Army, 1Q14-1Q17, holds guet la Marche from the Cha- and the rehabilitation of his memorial services each July 4th teau de Chehery par Grand Pre lands, in which work the 805th Ardennes, "I venture to send Pioneer Infantry rendered con- you the enclosed report of the 805th Pioneer Infantry Regi- siderable assistance. On November 3, 1918, General Pershing ment, dated April 17, 1919, and to bring to your notice the presided over an historical council of war in the chateau, and following suggestion: many American officers connected with divisions in the Meuse- "Why aren't American people who come to France to visit Argonne offensive were guests of Colonel Humphrey and his the battlefields of the Great War ever directed to see the staff. More than two hundred officers from the A. E. F. Chateau de Chehery, called by the 805th Pione'ers 'The Bearcat General Staff College at Langres made the chateau their Chateau'? Close to Varennes-en-Argonne and Romagne-sous- headquarters while on a staff ride in January, 1919. Members Montfaucon, the Chateau de Chehery could, having been re- of the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus, Society taken from the Germans by the American troops, earn a short of Friends and other welfare workers of several nations visit of the American tourists in the Argonne. stopped at the chateau for shelter.

"Is it too great a liberty for the owner of the chateau to From the foregoing it would appear that the chateau would call the attention of the Legion to the 'Bearcat Chateau' in have a strong appeal for many of the members of the Second view of the next trip to France which the Legionnaires will A. E. F. when they arrive in France in September next. soon take? The visit is none too soon according to the wishes and the friendship of their French comrades." From the report of the 805th Pioneer Infantry, com- CO-OPERATION plus. That's the only way we can de- piled while that outfit was occupying the chateau, we glean scribe the spirit of the Then and Now gang in responding these facts: Chateau de Chehery, situated on the eastern to requests in these columns for information regarding com- edge of the Argonne Forest, just across the Aire River from rades killed or missing in action or who died of wounds or

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other causes. We hope this co-opera- tion will continue. Attention is directed to the following list of cases:

First Division: Donald I. Ford, private, Company M, 28th Infantry, killed in action October 12, 1918, near Very, France. First Division: James R. Laughrin, private, Battery C, Sixth Field Artillery,

killed in action October 5, 191S. Third Division: Charles M. Town- send, private id., Company C, Seventh Infantry, killed in action at Belleau Wood, July, 1018. Fourth Division: Erwin Kauffman, private, Medical Detachment, 59th In- fantry, died of disease May 25, 1918, at Base Hospital, Camp Greene, North Carolina. Fourth Division: Harry A. Lay- You may ''kid" field, Company F, 47th Infantry, killed in action October 26, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. 32D Division: David W. Armstrong, the 'cold-bath liar" private id., Company I, 125th Infan-

try, killed in action October 9, 1918, Meuse-Argonne offensive. but you envy him one thing 79TH Division: William E. Sheridan, corporal, Company B, 313th Infantry, know him— the "cold-bath It comes from the air. The U. S. Aid Sta- YOU died October 1, 1918, at First liar." brags, offensively, Weather Bureau estimates that there tion, Avocourt, of wounds received in He action September 28th. about the bracing, stimulating, zest- are 115,000 swirling bits of dust Clint Coast Artillery Corps: ful feeling he gets when he tumbles and grime in one cubic inch of city Conrad, private id., Battery A, 70th out of a nice warm bed and jumps air. These bits of smoky grime are Artillery, drowned while swimming in River la Mayenne, near Feneu, France, under the icy shower. Yes — you may so small that they are invisible. August 8, 1918. dislike him because you think he's They collect upon your face, in tiny lying half the time, but one thing wrinkles and open pores. Once "T\UE to the National Convention of you envy him. He gets by with a there, they resist every effort of soap the Legion being held in Paris this reputation for being antiseptically and water to get them out. year, the 82d Division Association has announced a new departure in its 1927 clean. You can get clean — and stay clean. reunion plans. The division association How about yourself? Have you A Pompeian massage in your own has decided to dispense with its regu- recently shoved your own familiar home takes only seventy seconds lar annual reunion and in its place to truthful hold a reunion dinner and reception in face up close to a mirror no more time than a hot towel and New York City just prior to the em- for a good honest look? Try it. rinse. Use this invigorating massage barkation of that quota of the Second You are due for a surprise and a cream after shaving, for that stimu- A. E. F. which will sail from that port. shocks. are going lating, zestful "feel." it Details regarding the proposed dinner couple of You Use to get and reception may be obtained from to discover that your face is really clean, stay clean, then absorb some of H. A. Meehan, Secretary, 82d Division not quite clean. the glory that gravitates to the cold- Association, 27 West 25th Street, New That off-color, almost -but -not- bath enthusiast. Above all, use it for York City. Other reunions reported, follow: quite-clean look about your skin is the grand and glorious feeling that, 301st Field Sicnal Bx.—Reunion dinner at caused by ordinary, unpleasant dirt. by gosh ! you really are clean! Hotel Garde, Hartford, Conn., 6 p. m.. May 7th. Address Harry Garwig, 83 Flax Hill road, South Norwaik, Conn. Make this convincing hand test free U. S. S. Alccdo, Wanderer and Corsair— Former members of the crews of these con- verted yachts who intend going to the Paris Convention of the Legion are requested to Wash your hands thor- black! The black is dirt that write to J. E. Witteried, 42, Rue de l'Echi- oughly. Dry them. Rub a you could not remove by quier, Paris. Xe. France. little Pompeian Massage washing. Now use this pleas- 306th Field Signal Battalion, 81st (Wild- Cream into the back of your ant massage cream every day cat) Div.—Second annual reunion at Ro- cream first chester, N. Y., May 21-22. Address Frank hand until the to give your face that clean Spencer, 720 Linden St., Rochester. disappears, then comes out and healthy look of the suc- Base Hospital No. 114—Former members again. Notice this the cream cessful man. 60c at all drug interested in a proposed reunion dinner dur- goes in pink and comes out stores. ing the week of the American Medical Asso- ciation Convention in Washington, D. C. May 16-20, address Dr. J. A. Talbot, 1621 Connec- ticut ave., Washington, D. C. 363d Infantry, 91st Div.—Former members p e i a n interested in proposed reunion write to Dave Pom McCullough, 103 N. D st., San Mateo. Calif. Fleet Reseuve Association— Enlisted men MASSAGE CREAM of the Navy on the Fleet Reserve and retired lists are entitled to membership in this or- Increases Your Face Value ganization whose purpose is to promote the shipmate spirit Navv. of the Branches have Name- been established in a number of the larger FREE TO MEN ONLY cities. Loftrren. C. E. Director of Organi- The Pompeian Company, Dept. 42, zation, may be addressed at 201 Earle Theatre Cleveland, Ohio. Please send me free, Street- Building, Washington, D. C. the sample tube of Pompeian Massage Cream, with enough cream to make the The Company Clerk. hand test, and to give me several City -State- massages.

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c ffir Services Reridered 1 (Continued jrom page 25) kill hose burns up! . . . gimme a sack or ful. I volunteered into this war to sump'in— this nozzle is gittin' red hot." Germans. Sometimes I figger I wouldn't The three-inch hose stiffened and it be so perticular who I kilt if I had it took four men to hold the snake. to do over. I warn you futher, Linn ' Good old water!" If you held your if this on-ceasing work ain't changed to finger nails in the solid jet enough spray fightin' mighty shortly I'm going to take would come back to cool the melting my rifle an' some shells an' git up where ALOVED one passes on. fabric of your mask. "Now what louse the shootin' is. That's final. Pass me The anguish of soul is is layin' down on the floor? Git up off them pertaters." almost unbearable. It is the floor, Red! ... lug Red back to "Sic 'm, old timer!" unthinkable that one with old where he can breathe some air . . . The timer smiled a twisted smile such a burden should con- Put that mask back on." at the Top. "Onderstand me, Linn, sider practical matters and in the they ain't nawthin' personal in what I yet what may transpire in Well, there was a little fun said. Only the is sort of water- future years justifies calm doggone war after all. When the fire war a study in those dark hours. was out the Rabble detail climbed haul compared to what I figgered it'd wearily up the steel stairs to real air. be—an' it pesters me to stand idle." The funeral approaches. Is They found a thousand men lining the "I understand, Pop." Sergeant Linn it to be merely an occasion alongside the ship and shouldered was Top because he understood a lot of respect? A display of dock of things about the Rabble gang. "Lot emotion? through the mob, following old Pop and Sergeant Linn, conscious of fatigue. of us understand—and we're with you is it to the last Or to be the laying "Wish I had me a scupper of that old misfire." away of all that is mortal vang blush right now." An hour after breakfast the Loot of that loved one in a rest- "Boy, I got me two full cantanks in handed a bulging money sack to Lieu- ing place amply protected if locate it again. Give tenant Brook. "Highball this payday for- against the ruthless ele- my bunk I can ments? you over half—I'm dang near fed up on mation," he said. "Get Wally and an- that vang. Don't agree with my stum- other man to help you, and pay off. I'm That people are today mick." going to take a trip over the new job thinking seriously of such At the barracks the Loot, informed with Linn. Back in two or three hours matters is proved by the his Top, asked a ques- and then I'll report to the Base Com- remarkably growing de- of the affair by mander. He ought to be awake by the mand for the protection tion. "Linn, do you know why nobody afforded by the Clark else came down to help you?" time we get back." Grave Vault. "Not unless that gas-bag watchman The welcome bugle: "Pa-a-y Car!" kept em away with his news about the Here and there owners began to reach Merely by asking for the hold." for dice which for thirty days had been Clark Grave Vault you dynamite in the next he asleep. Two or three men hung out of may be certain you are "Holy Quartermaster—you mean providing positive and per- told you birds about that stuff?" line long enough to dig decks of cards manent protection. "Sure he did, Lieutenant—I guess the out of their pockets. Debtors were sur- gang figured they'd see it through, prised by reminders of minor obligations This vault is designed ac- either way." in francs which they had forgotten. cording to an immutable The lieutenant, silent thereafter for "Lissen, you louse wino—I stake you law of Nature. It has never to eight francs the same night you bust failed. Being made of 12 a moment, looked suddenly at Sergeant gauge Keystone copper Linn. "Grand old gang! Best old your thumb on that artillery cawpril in steel, or Armco Iron, with Rabble in the world!" Madame Fenelon's. Jugger was there

a plating of pure cadmium . . . where's Jugger? . . . Jugger, (applied by the Udylite didn't I put out eight francs to Fat? Process, exclusive to this BREAKFAST wasn't what could be The night you and Isadog gets lit?" vault ) it offers the greatest called full and complete compensa- "You give him eight francs all right. resistance to rust that is "Stick close I remember it well—it was part of them known to science. tion for the night's work. to your happy home," Sergeant Linn an- twenty francs I lent you. Isadog re- Also, because it is made of metal, nounced during the sketchy meal. "The members it—where's Isadog?" it is not porous. pay-boat whistles about ten o'clock Isadog, arranging a blackjack layout, Leading funeral directors will audited the incident to the discomfiture gladly supply the Clark Grave maybe before." of all lent Vault because they know it 13 A chant from Jugger, Tex, Isadog, concerned. "Sure you him absolutely dependable. Chuck, Rags and a heavily deducted twenty francs—it was sort of a torn gold, take ten-franc bill and a couple of fives. It Less than Clark complete protection group: "Take back your was part of that fifty francs you bor- is no protection at alll back your lousy francs, subtracting the rowed off of me when we started out." THE CLARK GRAVE VAULT deductions; Ko-russ! —All we get is "I borrowed fifty off of you?" Pained COMPANY, Columbus, Ohio thanks!" "Lissen, Rabble:" the Top continued. surprise in Jugger's question led to an Western Office and Warehouse everybody Kansas City, Mo. "See how much obliged you can get for argument which ended with this one—everybody falls in for a work in doubt as to the reliability of the detail at one o'clock. No passes, no memorandum in Isadog's little black C.LARK place." book. Old Pop Sibley took his brass spec- "Somebody ought to git that doggone tacles off. He was sixty-three years old book of his and burn it up." and could see better without them. "In The last few men in line watched the that case, pass the bread. I got to git pay-table and its diminished stacks of my strength back some way." When coin and currency with anxiety bred of he had secured three thick slices of the experience. Then, voicing their relief, CRAVE VAULT soggy experiment he put his spectacles "By gum, this time she's over!" Gen- back on and turned toward the Top. erally "she" was short. "Going on This trade-mark is on every genuine Clark Grave Vault. It is a means of identifying the "I want to warn you right now, Linn, eighty francs too much! 'Ray for the vault instantly. Unless you see this mark, this on-ceasing work pesters me dread- mess-fund!" the vault is not a Clark.

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"Where do vou get that mess-fund stuff?"' Wally. the company clerk, craved to know. "I'm running this bank—there ought to be nearer two hundred left, counting what I put out

to you birds day before yesterday . . . that's a fine mess of bookkeepin' if I ever saw one." "Cheer up, Wally—you can't lose more'n once a month. C'mon over to Isadog's blackjack game an' mebbe you'll git it all back." There was Isadog's game and three more where participants craved to be

hit. "Hit me . . . ah, rats!" There were five or six crap games, varying in size from a ciacker affair to the heavy enter- tainment where action could be had. in the last stages of the play when all but two or three men were merely innocent bystanders, on a thousand francs coming out. Old Pop Sibley, disdaining the pas- times of wild youth, leaned against a post near the door of the barracks and counted his money. Through the native generosity of the supply sergeant Pop owned two blouses, "one of them built f'r little Tawm Thumb, th' other one f'r Chinee Giant." He wore the Tom Thumb blouse, and it was unbuttoned for comfort. From its pockets hung corners of bandanna handkerchiefs, a loop of clothesline, the end of a razor strap, half of a gray wool sock. A man never knew when he was likely to need equipment. Old Pop leaned against the rough post and made sure that the

Guv'ment had lived up to its fiscal ob- Answers 1001 travel questions— published by iirentano's— $1.00 at alt bookstore* ligation as agreed: "Ten. twenty, twenty-one ..." A charred pipe whose leaking stem had been bound with New 160-Page Travel Book a frazzled stained string hung in the corner of his mouth, and visible excess of saliva testified to the mental stress ^ Free ^ occasioned by pay-day. "Twenty-one, an' five is twenty-six . . . twenty- TO PURCHASERS OF A B A CERTIFIED CHEQUES seven— "Attention, men!" A tinkle of spurs TF YOU ARE planning a trip abroad barrassment or inconvenience. and a youthful voice. looked side- Pop there are probably a thousand and Through special arrangements with from under a gray thatch of eye- ways one things you want to know. How to the publishers a complimentary copy brows. "Smart young lad with boots get your passport, what clothing and of Mr. Franck's book will be given to

an' them balloon pants . . . dang him. - - baggage you should take, how much those who purchase A B A Cheques

where was I? . . . an' ten is Ten you should tip the stewards. for use abroad. twenty! Twenty-one— These and all your other questions A-B-A Cheques are the official trav- " Tention!" A deeper voice, lost in are answered in this new book by elers cheques of the American Bankers the Hit Me jungle of sound, its raw the famous author of "A Vagabond Association. They are the only certi- edges softened with a chattering chorus Journey Around the World" and many fied travel cheques enjoying world- of Shooting the Works. other popular travel books. Over 100 wide acceptance. Yet they cost no more "Ten-shun!" This one banged into pages of valuable information, care- than ordinary travel funds. Pop Sibley's eardrums with an impact fully indexed: in addition, special maps Ask your bank for A'B-A certified that set him back ten francs. "Durn and a handy travel diary. A real service Cheques and get your copy of Mr. the dern war—reg'lar epidemic of brass- book which will save you possible em- Franck's invaluable book. necks." With rare exceptions, a few officers Better Than Gold more or less meant nothing to Pop. His attitude toward officers had been ex- pressed in an uncensored letter to a lodge brother, months before: "They A* BA^XCHEQUES are going on four hundred ossifers with shiney boots on that haf to be kept run off of this job and nary one worth his salt as they only get in a mans way and wont work." "O-Tenshun!" This one had a mus- tache and wore the tin chickens. He advanced four paces in a military man- ner and exploded right in Pop's face. AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION His words ( Continued on page 62 Bankers Trust Company, New York, London and Paris, acts for the American Bankers Association as Manager of A*B*A Cheques

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ran a good sixty-five percent of the kind snake eyes on the skunk list with that a man used in getting eight head of bird, an' it's all your fault." shavetails across a soggy ford. "Who "You really think that, do you, son?" th' hell's in charge of this deleted Something of sincerity in the ques- outfit!" tion brought a quick revision of the Still relaxed comfortably against his charges. "Rats, no! We're all as much post, Pop removed the charred and to blame f'r that fit the colonel had as drooling pipe from between his false you are. Fergit it, Pop!" teeth. He clicked the upper and lower At Taps that night Pop was gone. sets together a few times to limber up "Naw sir, Top, he jus' must of walked a stubborn spring that always stuck out. His pack's there but his rifle's right in the middle of a long word and gone." then, "Th' Lootenant," he admitted, "Pop didn't check in tonight. Lieu- frowning with evident annoyance. He tenant," Sergeant Linn reported, half Yourwar experiences! resumed the patient auditing of his pay an hour after Taps. "All the rest are What stops YOU from after the black pipe was replaced in its O. K." groove, mildly interested in the fact "Damn it, all we can do is keep still turning them into cash? that there within about it," the Loot four feet of him an »-.. returned. "From Why not make something out of this man's infantry colonel had what the General war you fought in ? Other men are doing it. You can't pick up a magazine these days without been suddenly over- did to me this after- seeing war stories and reminiscences. (And a lot taken with some noon, Linn, and of it as if it sounds had been written by some- kind of a fit. A fine from what he prom- body who never got nearer the trenches than example for the ised of his own free Hoboken.) Then there are the movies — and the group of younger of- will after he got stage — a great big wide-open market for war stuff. ficers who seemed, started, I'd say all at once, to swarm we've got grief Sure, you ' ve got stories to tell— the real thing- just as you saw it and felt it and heard it. about the place. enough ahead of us What's keeping you from telling those stories? Well, if the brass- to make sudden

Ten to one, the answer is — lack of training neck wanted to have death a real pleasure. or confidence. a fit that was his Keep Pop on the list Newspaper- trained business — "twenty- —what's a forgery or writers succeed two, and five is two amount to dur- twenty-seven ..." ing the hanging sea- Today most of our successful authors, dram- of if of 'em atists, and scenario writers are recruited from Members the Rabble who wit- son? That goes—and any more the newspaper profession. Why? Because these nessed the colonel's fit remember it as step out cover it up. We'll get by men have learned to write by writing. Writing the outstanding incident of their corner —or get shot. But technically, no de- under expert criticism from the editors at the of the war. Equally distinct is their serters. Paste that in your brain. Fake copy desk. memory of the dramatic entrance of the the damn company records. Whenever Today you can acquire a thorough New York Commanding General of the Base. Her- any of the gang grabs a back-door fur- newspaper training right in your own home. alded by a frenzied chorus of com- lough the odds are a million to one he's The Newspaper Institute of America (an organ- mands, General Kingnall walked slowly having a vacation at the Front and the ization of newspaper men approved as a cor- through the door of the barracks, and least we can do is to protect him at this respondence school under the laws of the State of instantly New York) brings New York copy desk work- the place was quiet. Now, be- end. That's that. We hit the ball to- ing conditions right into your home. Week by yond question, the Rabble stood at at- morrow on the new job." week, you are given actual assignments — just tention—holding its breath. Address- as if you were a cub reporter on a great metro- ing old Pop Sibley, "Where is Lieuten- politan daily. Your work is individually edited ant Conway?" the general asked. WITH the September rains the and constructively corrected by a group of men Bowing with some ceremony in his AWOL list increased to a twenty- with 182 years of New York newspaper ex peri- best corn-husking quadrille manner after man average. "I can't take care of it ence back of them. No tiresome technicalities. a right and left salute, laden respectively much longer," the Loot confessed long Not a dull moment in the course from start to after finish. You learn to write by writing— and in with a cluster of francs and dripping midnight to Sergeant Linn. "Six months, instead of years. pipe, "I think he's lookin' f'r you," Pop of 'em gassed and us tryin' to fake 'em admitted. as flu cases. Jimmy with a lump of Be sure you can write- After five seconds of throbbing silence shell in his leg and tryin' to tell that then go ahead Pop saluted again, at which, summoning new medico he cut it with an axe. I'm But how can you be sure? Easy enough. The his escort with a single violent gesture, damn near ready to bunch this deal and coupon below will bring you our famous Writ- General Kingnall started away. After go up there myself." ing Aptitude Test. It insures you against wast- the first step he halted and turned again "Loot, you got to stick," the Top re- ing your time and money— it tells us (and we toward the oldest member of the Rabble. turned. "I told 'em last week if any teil you) whether you have the fundamental qualities necessary to successful writing — acute "Please ask Lieutenant Conway to re- more stepped out f'r the love of snake- observation, dramatic instinct, creative imagi- port to me as soon as he gets back." eyes get back in ten days. And to bring nation, etc. No charge or obligation for this Saluting some more, "All right. Gen- the stragglers back with 'em. We'll service. Send in the coupon today. eral," the old man consented. "I'll tell have that tourist list cut in half within week. They're all with the I him." a herding 1 I Newspaper Institute of America, Forthwith, when the inspection party same outfit at the Front they'll pass 25 West 45th Street, New York — had left, there was some talk of sub- the word along." I Send me your Free Writing Aptitude Test and I further information on Writing for Profit. j jecting Pop to a quick course of mili- "A fine mess of help that'll be if some tary training. "How come you had to roving inspector blows in on us. What git sarcastic with that colonel and git if somebody pulled a muster on us him all riled up? What for did you act where the hell would we be then? The

I Address sassy to that general? You done it best thing I can do is to get the outfit (All correspondence confidential. No salesmen | that time, Pop—we stand two less than together some night and all of us move I 3E87 will call on you) |

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out in a bunch. We'd at least see the war then." "Next to "There might be worse things than that," the Top admitted. myself "There are worse things than that Hike rotting to death in this muck for one thing! Fading out with the flu like a bunch of uplift lungers without ever hearing the bang of a gun! Beggin' like a dog for timber and steel for a lot of limgerwear lousy warehouses while our joke rifles are plugged with rust! Seein' herds of better fit slackers go by us on their way to the Big Show—half of 'em scared stiff and the old Rabble rearin' to trade jobs with 'em. It's the bunk." "Some of the gang have already traded places with some of these north- You don't try on underwear before bound birds." "I know it—too many bright and you buy it. The LABEL is your sole shining faces, too many mascots and assurance fit, wear, and comfort. Belgian refugees to fool me more than of twice a day. Do what you can, Linn, That's why millions of satisfied wearers and do it sudden. We're getting this insist the "B.V. D." red job along to where we're apt to get always on jerked off of it any lucky day now; get woven label. 'em bunched again before something busts." "Lieutenant, there's one way you could bring 'em all back inside of a week—just pass the word that we had "B.V.D." "B.V. D." our orders to hit the Front. They'd Union Suits Shirts rally like pigeons f 'r the chance of going Men's $1.50 and Drawers Youths' 85c 85c the garment in with the gang." "You haven't lied to 'em yet, have you?" Extra large sizes obtainable "Not about anything serious." at an additional charge "Well—neither have I. We'll let that bet ride. Quit thinkin'—go and turn The B.V. D. Co., Inc., N.Y. in. It's three o'clock and two hours Sole Makers "B.V. D." XJnderxveat sleep won't hurt you. Click that light,

will you . . . Holygoldfish, I'm tired." Be Sure to SEE it's "B. V.D." Survalle job had become a ma- THE ©1927 chine. Under the leadership of the The B.V. D. Co.. Inc. Rabble the construction forces on the great project functioned with a preci- sion that accidents seemed unable to affect. On the progress charts the cryp- tic symbols showed that the job was a - full week ahead of the Rabble's sched- 1927, uled program of events, and the Rab- ble's schedule had been created in the first place by cutting fifteen days from the progress demands handed down from General Kingnall's throne at Base Headquarters. "The Survalle Project must be finished by January first," read the edict. "We'll be in the clear by December first unless something busts," the Loot commented, late in October. Forthwith something bust. "Orders to play tag in a circus parade to be re- viewed by some visiting frog firemen," the Loot explained, handing the annoy- ing document to Lieutenant Brook. On From Paris "You're stuck. Turn out a couple of T> ICTTJRE yourself along the broad highways of the Old World in a private car Rabble platoons—that's all I can spare. driving with an English speaking chauffeur ! After three thousand miles of blue sky and it. Get 'em slicked up and go to Ken water and only a week in Paris, a fellow isn't going to dash right back home ! And there and Bill will help you do the honors." is no joy greater than that of traveling with good fellows.

Here was a total loss of a hundred An unusual opportunity is within your grasp, one that you may never have again. Reduced will it man-days of high-priced talent. "Ken rates have made it easy for you to reach Paris and the Convention : they make just as easy for you to see something of Europe afterward. Write for the booklet "On From and Bill"—Lieutenant Kenwood and Paris.'.' It will provide a delightful solution to your travel problem. Lieutenant Walker—informed of the catastrophe, helped nobly with the pro- FRANCO-BELGIQUE TOURS CO., LTD. fanity. Then, taking thought, the trio 1440 Broadway Prearranged arrived at a method of expressing their Headquarters for Personalized Travel New York, N.Y. Schedules opinion of ( Continued on page 64

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military reviews staged for the honor review. What did you birds do—give and glory of visiting frog firemen. him a salute fifty paces past the throne? "Give 'em an eyes-left," one of the Or what? Come clean so I can go are Signs ofApproaching plotting trio suggested. loaded." "Nix. The plot is, the Gang will be Kenwood and Brook and Bill Walker perfect or better. The rough stuff will struggled for place. When the casual be pulled by us officers and gentlemen, confession of high crimes and misde- if any." meanors had been finished, "Fair enough Nature has ways All set. At the crucial moment the —the charge sheets would soak you for warning us when of Rabble paraders swung into a column marching in a millinery manner. I'll fix certain parts of our of platoons and headed down the it." The Loot reached over and poked body are sick or un- stretch. While they were yet a hundred the general's order into the open draft der-nourished. In the reviewing stand the senior of the office stove. case of our hair the feet from the "That settles that." danger signals are French officer extended his neck for the Six days later, when it became rea- itching scalp — dan- first time during the event. "There are sonable to assume that the incident had druff — and falling soldiers!" he exclaimed, indicating the been engulfed in the great void of for- hair. If neglected, approaching Rabble. gotten trifles of the A. E. F., the ar- these conditions will General Kingnall, at his side, accepted rival of a courier at seven o'clock in The Result of Neglect result in thin, lifeless the compliment with a bow, and then, the morning bearing an imperative sum- hair- -and eventual baldness to an adjutant, mons for the Loot "What troops are to report to the through these?" An impa- Base Commander tience in the gen- gave rise to some MENT eral's voice sug- doubts concerning Professor Maurice Scholder, the internationally gested a curiosity the real worth of renowned specialist on ailments of hair and scalp, inspired by some- the Hot Stove Fil- who has heretofore treated patients only at his thing more than the ing System. "The Clinic, now offers a course of Home Treatment excellence of the general said 'right to any sufferer who is unable to come to his Clinic. Professor Scholder's Home Treatment Rabble's display. now,' " the courier System is based on the prin- Taking the salute, emphasized. "He individual analysis, ciple of the general's impa- meant toot sweet diagnosis and prescription. In other words, he analyzes tience flamed to a quick, Lieutenant." and treats each case as an wrath that bulged "O. K.—on your individual ailment. This diag- the veins in his way. I'll get there nosis and prescription, to- gether with his secret formulas neck. The Rab- before you do." and individual treatment, ac- ble was perfect- On his way to count for his uniform success right enough, but Base Headquarters in stopping loss of hair, and actually growing strong, new their three officers the Loot devoted hair, in cases where less gifted had a message for thirty seconds to Professor and less experienced practi- Maurice Scholder the general wherein framing the more tioners have failed completely. he might read just what busy Engineers emphatic phrases of a reply to the The newspapers in this country and abroad have thought of parades. tried one proclaimed Professor Scholder as the marvel 01 "Street women!" anticipated indictment. He his profession. Now, in his advancing years, "The hats of the officers ..." be- of them out loud. The driver of the Professor Scholder is not content to call a halt gan the French general, who enjoyed a Loot's car, formerly a freight brakeman, to the accomplishments of a long and honorable broad jest between friends thrilled with admiration and tried to career. He is retiring gradually from treating and military ". patients at his Clinic and is devoting three days equals, . . in the mode of the demi- memorize some of the incandescent a week to treating patients by his Home Treat- monde, are they not?" words for future emergencies. ment System. His successful cures are numbered Hats indeed! Presently, with half an acre of office in the thousands and among his grateful patients A wide cream colored are men and women of highest prominence. sombrero, a flagrant challenge, adorned separating them, the Loot faced General Lieutenant Brook. Wide, cream-colored Kingnall. "Come over and sit down. Send a Sample sombreros on Kenwood and Bill Lieutenant." the general invited, indi- Walker! Hats in a style which had cating a chair beside the broad desk. for been adopted, for the moment, by some "Will you have a cigarette?" of the more companionable ladies of the "All the delicacies the market affords region who strived to please. Laughter —just before they hang you," the Loot along the sidelines near the reviewing reflected, lighting his cigarette from the Professor Scholder will accept no stand where some of these ladies stood. match which the general held for him. case that is incurable. To enable him to determine the condition of "How droll, is it not?" "What is the status of the Survalle hair, send a few of your kyour "But yes of a certainty quite droll." project?" the general asked. "I mean hairs (ordinary combings will do) — Pres. Roosevelt > n an envelope with this coupon. In the mind of General Kingnall, not to ask—would a change in the . . . One of Prof. Professor Scholder will subject so droll. "Have the officer commanding management seriously delay progress?" Beholder's many them to his laboratory tests and famous patients send you a report as s00a as the those men report to Headquarters at Stalking up like a tiger. "Eighty- analysis is completed. There is no charge made once," he directed. "Hats of street three percent complete yesterday even- for this analysis and report. women!" The general, it appeared, was ing, General. The present 'management' Free Analysis Coupon prepared to inject a mixture of snake can complete it by December first." j_ . venom and nitric acid into the subject "And if I should send a Quartermas- PROFESSOR SCHOLDER INSTITUTE A.L.-5 1 of officers' headgear. ter personnel to relieve you—would that | 101 W. 42nd St., New York "What's it all about?" Lieutenant delay completion to any great extent?" Professor Scholder : i I I am enclosing a few specimens of my hair for your I Conway questioned, when the order to The Loot wondered, after this seem- analysis with will tell I I the understanding that you me what to do to save my hair and renew its growth. ' report to the General reached him at ing insult had been added to the Rab- This places me under no obligation whatever. | ] Survalle. "I haven't got time to trail into ble's suffered iniuries. just when the im- Name | j the Base to discuss parades with every portant fireworks would begin. "The Address | j whimsical tyrant who happens to pull a delav would be less than ten davs

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64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly things would move along fairly well without us if they followed our con- struction program,"' he admitted.

"Less than ten days . . . Lieutenant, your outfit has established a remark- Carlton Mills able record on the Survalle work!" OfferYou Why postpone the execution—but here it came. "How many technically definable cases of desertion exist in your company at the present time—how HOOaWeeK many deserters are you carrying?" Here was a good place for a perfect lie—but there was no perfect lie. The to Start, Loot breathed what might be his last breath of freedom. "Twelve or four- teen, sir." "Call them in. I have some reports which may help you locate them it you do not know where they are. Your Pop Sibley, for instance, is at Exermont. Your outfit moves in ten days. Orders will issue tomorrow. Get your 'Rab- ble,' as they call themselves, assembled." From bad to worse, and from there to a wholesale court martial—but a kindly smile in the general's eyes con- tradicted this. A quick resume of the Rabble's record obscured the momen- tary smile. "No visible military dis- cipline, drunkenness, the theft of a car- load of wine from the station at Geni- mont, assaults on Military Police and other serious disturbances beginning the night of your arrival, continual-instances of desertion—none of which show on the altered records of the organization —disgraceful hats worn most indecently

by three conspirators . . . and fifty other offenses reported with specific de- m tails by the operatives of the D. C. I.

. . . Lieutenant,' have you any reply for this—any excuses to offer?" "No excuses, no reply, General—ex- cept that the Rabble volunteered the day the first gun banged. Engineers. imtyouK PectatT.. actM/xiC Combat troops, with never a chance at the Front since they landed fifteen 1 months ago. Never a chance at any- J 00.00 a xoeeA In with FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. and take orders without effort. We de- keep the outfit's killing record well liver, collect and guarantee satisfaction. above the front line average. It's a louse war from where we sit and we've You are paid in cash daily. To those had a louse lay from the start." This who are ambitious, we pay besides their much accomplished, the Loot punched big earnings, extra cash bonuses, and a share in profits. his cigarette into a vacant inkwell on DEPT. 325 the general's desk and then, his ques- If you prefer, begin by devoting spare tion tinged with a faint ray of hope, time your earnings will soon justify full Send romplete free sample nut fit of Carlton Cus- — tom-Quality Line— also details of earnings, "Where do we go from here. General?" time to this money making proposition. bonuses and profit sharing. The older man looked up at a clock hung on the wall opposite his desk. Complete Sample Outfit — Free! "You go home," he answered, quietly. Upon receipt by us of special coupon to the Address light, you will be promptly furnished with com- "That has become the great objective. plete sample outfit—order books and supplies. Home is the prize now—and your outfit City Compact Sales Kit furnished free—jroes in your has won it. An armistice was signed pocket like the $100.00 a week—so that you can four hours ago. The war is ended."

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policy at the end of the five years, tak- Should he wish to stop paying premiums ing the premium rate called for by the he could accept a paid-up insurance pol- age of the insured at that time. icy for $2,977.20. On this policy he This new type of policy has definite would have to pay no further premiums advantages tor men absolutely unable during his life. At his death the sum to pay the higher premiums of the con- of $2,977.20 would be paid to his bene- verted permanent policies, but every ficiaries. Should he, however, wish to veteran ought to study carefully the maintain in force the full $10,000 pol- new form so that he may understand its icy, the Government will agree to do so disadvantages as well as its advantages. without further payment of premiums Consider first the advantages. The for twelve additional years and two new form does offer maximum protec- hundred and seventeen days. tion for minimum cost. And it does For other forms of permanent insur- offer most of the conditions, benefits ance, the cash surrender values, the and privileges of the six other forms of paid-up insurance values and the ex- converted permanent insurance, such as tended insurance values are much participation in dividends, total and greater than they are for the ordinary permanent disability benefits, cash sur- life policy. At the end of ten years on render values and so forth. No medical a twenty-year endowment policy, for examination is required for conversion example, the cash surrender value would of the policy into one of the permanent be $3,959. The policy could be changed forms. The old term insurance, of to a paid-up policy with a face value of WB3— Style Leader! Attractive Lady's wristwatch, course, has no dividends and no cash $5,471, or it could be extended for ten HK solid white gold case with ribbon band and white gold clasp. Highest grade, 15 jewel ruby and sap- surrender values. But the important years as a $10,000 policy without fur- phire movement, lifetime guarantee. 51.67 $99,00 per month ^^5^ MtM$* advantage of the new level-premium ther payment of premiums. term policy is the fact that a man will Nor should anyone lose sight of the be paying the same premium in the loan privileges which permanent policies fifth year of the policy as in the first. carry. After a converted policy has Nevertheless it is imperative that a been in effect one year, its holder is able man convert this flat-premium insur- to borrow from the government a defi-

WB4-The Smartest thing WB5- Massive genth ance as soon as possible, because if he nite percentage of the computed value in a lady's ring. (Jeriainu man's ring. UK blue white diamond: ur- gold. waits until the end of the five years he of the policy. This sum which can be tiitii'.-illy engraved radiant blue pierced. 1HK white gold hite gold top. will find himself paying the premiums borrowed grows larger each year. $4.56 pe: $H.79 per $56.75 called for by his added age when he Uncle Sam makes no additional does convert. If he is thirty-five now premium charge to cover the permanent and holds the new term policy for five and total disability features of his in- years, he will have to pay ordinary life surance. Should a man become inca- premiums for age forty. The dividends pacitated for life, he is automatically paid on the flat-rate policies will make freed from the necessity of paying the net cost slightly less than for the premiums and his policy becomes pay- old term insurance. able to him in monthly installments Many men can solve their insurance $57.50 a month in the case of a policy problems by converting as much as pos- for $10,000. sible of their old term insurance into This disability provision and all the permanent insurance, converting the re- other advantages of government insur- mainder into the new level-premium ance are explained in detail in the offi- DIAMOND G>.WATCH CO ROYAL ESTABLISHED 1695 term insurance, with a view to convert- cial booklets which may be obtained

ADDRESS DEPT QEQ 1 70 BROADWAY NY ing the latter to permanent insurance from the Insurance Division of the Vet- when personal finances permit. erans Bureau, Washington. D. C. or Quite a few men have lost sight of from any of the numerous branch of- the advantage of insurance as a means fices of the Bureau located in the 1 of saving each year a definite percent- larger cities throughout the country. John Hancock age of their earnings. For the average In all Bureau offices government experts I man. insurance provides a beneficial will give advice and help to men wish- Policies discipline in saving money. ing to get straight on their insurance rights Thousands The Best for Service Men: The money paid as premiums for per- before July 2, 1927. \ of posts of Legion are s Life Insurance manent forms of insurance does more The American s*; Endowments than provide protection for dependents also continuing their work of helping Life Annuities Mortgage Replacement in case of death. Every permanent Legionnaires and other service men re- Education Guarantee policy becomes a valuable asset for its instate and convert their policies within Total Disability Double Indemnity holder. Take for example an ordinary the time limit. In writing to the Vet- All necessary forms for Home and life policy for $10,000 issued to a man erans Bureau or any agency of the Le- Family Protection issued by a at age thirty-five. He pays an annual gion, any service man should give the Strong Mutual Company Over 60 Years in Business. Liberal as to premium of $200.80. At the end of ten full name he was known by in service, Contract. Safe and Secure years he will have paid in premiums rank and organization at discharge, date in Every Way. $2,008. From this sum may be sub- of discharge, and, if he has a claim of For information address tracted the amount of the yearly divi- any sort with the Bureau, the official dends he has received. Should he desire number of that claim. He should also to receive from the Government at the give his present age. UFE Insurance Compa Or BOITOM. M.ltUMUMm end of the tenth year the cash value of Make no mistake about it, the insur- 197 Clarendon Street his policy he could obtain immediately ance policies Uncle Sam is offering are Boston, Massachusetts the sum of $i,357, technically known bargains. Uncle Sam pays all the over- as his policy's cash surrender value. head expenses and sells his insurance at

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cost. The tables of rates and other literature which the Bureau will supply to any service man are proof of the bargains, and every disinterested insur- W. L. DOUGLAS ance expert will so advise the service $5 to $8 Shoes for Men man who has only a slight knowledge of insurance. The big private insurance companies of the United States have Smart Russia uniformly been doing what they could Brogue to support Uncle Sam in his business correctly styled of supplying to service men insurance for right now at actual cost, and they have not re- garded him as a competitor. In only a few isolated communities have a com- paratively small number of agents of private companies disregarded the spirit of the insurance profession in general by attempting to induce World War vet- erans to transfer government insurance holdings to private companies. Certain opponents of government in- surance have argued that as time goes AMERICA'S BEST KNOWN SHOES W. L. Douglas stores in principal cities and shoe dealers every • on, government insurance must become where are now showing new Douglas styles disadvantageous for policy holders in good health because no new policy holders at the younger age levels can be The proof of a recruited and death claims from "bad shoe risks" will be disproportionately heavy. They fail to take into consideration that is in the wearing of it premiums are based upon the accepted That explains why, for half a century, L. mortality tables used by all insurance W. Douglas companies for specified ages and new shoes have won an ever increasing patronage. policy holders are not necessary to off- W. L. Douglas shoes have always given the best set death claims. They fail to consider in style, comfort, service and value. The oxford shown also that a good percentage of the here is a typical example of what $7.00 will buy in a claims arising from deaths or permanent Douglas shoe. total disability of disabled men are not sj" Men's Shoes $5 to $8 Ts T Women's Shoes and $6 paid from insurance funds but, under $5 | L Boys' Shoes $4 and $5 J the law, by direct Congressional appro- W.L.DOUGLAS SHOE COMPANY • B ROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS priation, being regarded justly as ex- penditures directly growing out of the war. When you hear anybody charging that Uncle Sam's healthy policy holders are bearing the insurance burden of all badly disabled men, men not insurable Legion Tours to France in private companies, just remember "Approved Legion Tours" that death and disability claims for the wartime disabled men are paid out of PRE CONVENTION TOURS government appropriations especially Tours "A" and "B" sail from New York on August 26, from Boston next day, on the Cunard SS. "Laneastria." for that purpose. "A" includes Ireland, England, Holland, Belgium, Germany and the Rhine and The man who is still in doubt whether France. Cost $165. or convert his government to reinstate "B" includes England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and France. Cost $160. insurance should remember that govern- These rates are inclusive except steamer and housing in Paris. ment insurance really is the lowest-cost insurance obtainable. That fact cannot POST CONVENTION TOURS "1" be obscured by all the allurements of to Switzerland and the Alps. 8 days. $95. "2" includes Switzerland., Italy, Monte Carlo and the Riviera. 22 days. $260. special features offered with insurance These prices include all expenses, drives, hotels, meals, tips, etc. obtainable elsewhere. Besides, he All parties are limited and selective in character. Special atten- should remember that government pol- tion to ladies. offer advantages obtainable icies certain Write for descriptive booklets and full information, address: nowhere else, such as a surpassing lib- erality on payment of premiums. An WALTER H. WOODS COMPANY N / important point is that after a govern- 80 Boylston Street Little Building Boston, Mass. 5?Uj5 ment converted policy has been in ef- fect a year it is automatically kept in force, even without specific action of ROSMAN PNEUMATIC .22 RIFLE the insured, in case of failure to pay Power without Powder premium when due. This extension is c in addition to the thirty days of grace allowed for the payment of a premium. Economical Should a man carrying a $10,000 policy, Silent Powerful for example, fail to pay a premium due You can hit the bull's eye at will or get your small on January 1st, he would still be pro- game easily with a Crosman Pneumatic .22 by following instructions in tected for many months thereafter, the booklet sent free on request. Silent, powderless, smokeless, accurate. Men and exact time depending upon the age of boys, experts and amateurs, use this wonder rifle the year 'round for target and small Have a shooting gallery in your own home. Kill rats, stray cats, crows, his policy. The full policy would be game shooting. sparrows, woodchucks, rabbits, snakes, prairie dogs, squirrels, etc. Saving on ammu- continued automatically in force for the nition which costs i 3 as much as cartridges pays for rifle. Always ready because the Crosman period of time based on his equity in never needscleaning. Try a Crosman at your dealer's. Send postal card now for "Target and Game written by an expert that tells how to become a crack rifle shot. It's f n. j. premiums paid before lapse. Shooting." a booklet Crosman Arms Co., Inc., 402 St. Paul Street, Rochester, N. Y.

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experiences making pictures and of life "piercing" look. It is a mellow, com- at Hollywood. Buck has a little more prehending look. His voice is deep and humor in his makeup than the average surprisingly soft. His speech is delib- mountaineer. He proved such a good erate. The inflection never changes. listener that his associates ran out of You see the big, unpainted house material before the rain let up. Mosie Bennet carried on his back up a Buck filled in the pause. mountain and put together with his own "Did any of you gentlemen," he hands. You see the stables and sheds asked, courteously, "did any of you he has built. You see the flock of sheep gentlemen ever see a thunderbolt? he has raised. You see his herd of hogs, Probably so, you've seen so much." his cows and horses and Mrs. Bennet's That was the longest speech anyone chickens running around. had heard Buck make up to then. None But his best possessions are not the HowtoMake present had seen a thunderbolt. material things he has. They are his "Well, gentlemen," continued Buck, independence, his freedom, his peace of "I saw one once. Held it in my hand. mind, the happiness he takes from hos- Just once. pitality and the responsibility that goes AWeeksPay "It was on Lance Mountain here. I with the respect he commands of his was coming down. It was rainin' and fellow men, be they moonshiners from thunderin' and lightnin' about like it is the next mountain or Oxford graduates. now. Ideals of life and living that we on the in One Day "A clap throwed me off my feet. I outside hear much about but know looked up just in time to see a chestnut mostly as vague abstractions are tang- Make this test and find out whether you can tree, as big as that one there, just ible things in the mountains. For in- earn $5,000 to $10,000 a year. To make sure of $400 to $600 a month may be far easier splintered into nothing. I went over stance, courtesy. One can understand than you think. Many of our representatives where the tree had been but there why men who know a different world are making $500 and more a month. Probably more men are making $5,000 a year—or more weren't nothing left excepting a hole in will return to the mountains. — with the Fyr-Fyter Company than with any other direct selling company in the world. And it is easier the ground and some slivers. One of Buck Swecker's boys is a doc- now than it has ever been before I felt something hard under tor. He is an exceptionally able Fyr-Fyter is the most perfect fire prevention device "Then and ever invented. It bears the label of the Underwriters foot. I looked down and saw this scholarly man. He was graduated from Laboratories. Fire Chiefs everywhere urge and endorse my it. Hundreds of America's largest factories use it. After here thunderbolt. All burnt out, of a university. He served his interneship exhaustive tests, the U. S. Government purchased over 250,000 Fyr-Fyters. There is a size and type for every course, but there it was. About this in a city. He might have opened an building in America. Every month, by hundreds and by thousands, Ameri- long"—Mr. Swecker measured eighteen office there and been a success by the can factories homes are turning to this new way to and inches or so on his arm—"made of iron, metropolitan standard. He returned, light fire. The field is enormous. Only 5% of the pos- sible market has been supplied. Practically every it seemed like, and forked at the busi- however, to Crabbottom to practice his factory. home, store, garage, school, church, hotel, theatre and public building is in need of fire prevention ness end. Three forks, like that. profession. After an intelligent test of equipment. That's why Fyr-Fyter men find it easy to earn $100 to $300 a week. That's why any number of "Yes, sir, gentlemen, that is a thun- the two standards of life Dr. Berly men report earnings of derbolt. I reckoned I'd tell you so in Swecker chose the mountain standard. $50 In One Day case any of you finds one you'll know One hears a good deal these days That's why you, too, can make this your lifetime oppor- what it is and can tell the people you about Americanism. The ethnological tunity. T. S. Gill, of Louisiana, who made over $600 in one meet wherever you take your next side of the question engaged the atten- month and who has made as high as $122.50 in a day, picture." tion of those have says: "I am firmly convinced that any man joining the who framed immi- Fyr-Fyter force and working 8 hours a day will soon Buck concluded his anecdote as he gration laws calculated to reinforce the Bhow a profit of $5,000 a year." had begun it—without cracking a smile. Nordic blood-stream which was almost Send But no one tried to tell him any more pure among the colonists of pre-Revo- about Hollywood. lutionary times. In no part of the For This That is a lesson the mountains will United States is the old colonial stock impress upon the least discerning. The purer than in those mountains. It is sophistication of the world is a shal- virtually one hundred percent pure. I lower crust than we are apt to suppose. know of no mountaineer with a drop of FREE We speak of culture. I assume there blood in his veins that does not trace can be no culture without courtesy. back pure American to 1776 and be- The mountains know few of the forms yond. Book and conventions that on the outside They are the actual descendants of

We give you an opportunity to join one of the highest- pass for courtesy. But once I stopped the hardy spirits, typified by Daniel how is paid sales organizations in America. See easy it mountaineer I did not know and asked Boone, who pushed westward one hun- to start in almost any way that is convenient to you. a Send for this free book, "Building a Permanent Income." the way to some place. It was fifteen dred years in advance of the advice of See how W. E. Saal, Ohio, made 5100 in six hours. How Hickey. Ont., made $148 in one day. How Payne. Iowa, miles. He insisted on going with me, Horace Greeley. With a bag of corn made $159 his first 3 days. We do not ask you to do a day's work that will not pay you well. We give you a for fear I should lose the way— meal, a bag of powder, a rifle and hunt- 90-p.nge manual that covers every point. It tells you exact ly what to say and what to do. Don't make the thirty-mile walk for him. That is not ing knife they led the way to the win- mistake of trying to judge how much you can make, be- a rare of mountain courtesy, ning of a continent. First they occupied fore you read these full facts on this unparalleled oppor- example tune v. Mail the coupon now for the full plan. but enough to set one to thinking that the Valley of Virginia beyond the Blue it is the man beneath the crust that Ridge. Then they climbed into the The FYR-FYTER CO. counts—which sounds like a "success" Alleghanies and settled the country I 1532 Fyr-Fyter BIdg. Dayton, Ohio slogan, but what I mean is this: am speaking of. Then on into Ken- Meet Mosie Bennet and you know tucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri—and The Fyr-Fyter Company you've met a man. The feeling is un- across the plains, across other moun- 1532 Fyr-Fyter Bldg., Dayton, Ohio mistakable. The magnificent physique tains and to the Pacific Ocean.

Without obligation, send me full particulars, and of which he seems utterly unconscious On the Hunting Ground, in Hard- a copy of "Building a Permanent Income," free. strikes one instantly. You observe the scrabble Cove and on Birch Mountain Name reflective gray eyes. You feel that they we find today the descendants of those Address see much, though Mosie's is not what very people whose habits of life have the dramatic writers describe as a been but lightly touched by the pass- City State

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ing of time. Their speech is flavored with old English words that have been dropped from the language for a hun- dred years. A bag is a "poke" and a mountaineer can pay you no greater I WasBald! compliment than to call you "common." A "stranger" lives, or was born, some place else. and Mountain men formed the little Revolutionary army of General George It Rogers Clark, whose services to his country have been shockingly unappre- Was ciated. In the War Between the States they split, but more of them fought No with the Confederacy than many other- wise careful histories imply. This is Joke susceptible of definite proof. It is true they owned no slaves, and knew or cared nothing of the doctrine of state sovereignty, as such. But they knew Look at ! that a tight was on and the Scotch-Irish Me Now are not great on neutrality in such sit- uations. "Furriners" were coming down You Grow Hair Quick | Can New \ from the North. That, briefly, was enough to swing more of them to the I'm Vreeland. I take my own medicine. But I'm bald no longer as my photo- I practice what I preach. Look at my graph will prove. Neither need you be Southern armies than were swung by pictures above. Both bonafide photo- bald unless you want to be. So keenly other reasons to the Union armies. But graphs. No retouching. No chang- did I feel my baldness, made worse by ing of any sort. The first one shows my contact withothermenwhohad full families were divided, and the bitter- me a bald headed man— getting balder heads of hair, that I went to work on my- everyday. I dreaded to comb my hair self. If there was anyway to make hair ness engendered still survives. — so much of it came out on the comb. growl was going to find it out. I set up In the World War Southern mountain Every shampoo left me a little more a laboratory in my bathroom and there naked. The flies and mosquitoes bit I tried outtreatments originated by my- men made up a considerable part of the in the summer and it got cold under self based on thesoundest physiological Thirtieth, Eightieth and Eighty-second my hat in the winter. "Gee, Vreeland, facts. It was my hairand I could do what you're certainly getting bald," was I pleased with it. I had a definite theory Divisions, whose records in France re- tossed at me day and night. I looked — and had not a lot of men like Edison quire no comment here. 10 years older than I should. done things which had not At the beach I heard one been done before? The de- There are fewer blood feuds in the sweet thing refer to me as tails are not interesting. Dis- mountains than most people suppose. "Old Baldy"-and I a litth appointment, ofcourse, atthe over 30. I thought everybody Money start—then success. Personally I have never encountered sitting behind me at the the- Refunded My hair beean to grow ! I looking at bald such a feud, although I have heard of atre was my tried it on other bald-heads it joke spot. Men, was no If I grow I them, and know they exist as a minor don't whom knew. Hooray—their to be bald. You who are bald hair on any hiir grew! My friends and incident of mountain life taken as a know it. I'm not telling their friends were pop-eyed. thing. head under 45 you a I was almost mobbed by bald- whole. The bitterest rivalries I know years old if I was bald I would have heads wanted When baldness was who hair. of are between members of the same given $500 for a head of hair. Whether I'm the first to un- isn't among you not caused by earth the great hair-growing family, sometimes brothers, and between There one who wouldn't do the same scars or burns. secret, I don't know — but competing moonshiners. The revenue thing today. listen to this — agent, of course, is the common enemy. The Federal Government has made — little progress in its century-old war on Pay lie Nothing the unauthorized manufacture of whis- key in the mountains. President Wash- Nothing at All If You Don 't Grow Hair ington called out the army to put down the "whiskey rebellion" in western by Using My Treatment Pennsylvania where the distillers had It you are a bald-headed man or woman were as bald or balder than mine. If or if you are getting bald — if your you are under 45, and if you did not refused to pay a tax on their product. hair is falling out because of dandruff lose your hair from burns or scars, I'll He did not attempt to extend his mea- and you ar* afraid and think you might refund every cent of money you pay be bald some day, write to me and I'll me if you do not cultivate a growth of sures into the mountains, which carried send you all the proof you want—plent y hair even in advanced stages of bald- on no export trade. of pictures of other hair-covered heads ness. No apparatus. Just a simple besides my own—heads which once home treatment. All the mountaineers have ever ob- jected to is the payment of this tax. Write NOW—Just Send a Postal They can see no reason why they should You may not see this advertisement again because I don'tdo much advertising—so pay a tax on corn whiskey when mani- write while you have the chance to grow new hair quick. You can't get my treat- ment in stores yet— I'm too busy actually growing hair on heads that are bald. Write. festly they should pay none on corn I'll send you photographs, names and addresses of people who have actually grown hair.

bread. That is their whole fight. The 4055 c , ndsor The Vreelands, u\iJinr Cleveland, Ohio later restrictions upon the manufacture | and sale of whiskey, tax or no tax, is not a factor in the situation. I venture that there are mountaineers who have never heard of the Volstead Act or the Eighteenth Amendment. Be a Railway fostal Cleric I say this in no vein of sympathy. The mountains would be better off Get $1900 to $2700 a Year without moonshine, Dut the problem has not yielded to the methods that have Tsy Work Long Vacations been employed; nor will it. Education Why work hard for small pay? Uncle Sam offers you a fine position as a Railway Postal Clerk. Travel on fast trains sorting mail. Travel expenses must come first for the mountain folk, paid. $1900 a year TO START. $100 RAISE EVERY YEAR until you ^" Arthur R. and that will take a long while. There reach TOP PAY Patterson, Write for FREE Information About These Fine Jobs , >• Ci.il Semce E.ptri or in Customs. PlttenonSchool.Dept 63 is you qualify for a positioni as Railway Postal Clerk Internal «» . sentiment in the mountains against , Let Arthur R. Patterson help Revenue Departmental, Irnmiirration, l',.Btmn»t, r !'»> (Jfc and Rural Branches. Me trained ^. " Wisner Building. Rochester, M. V. ; . *~ Tells how M Patters. 01 -. aches .. . l.-rHthK BOOK. r thousands now in Civil Service Write , moonshining. It is supported ^ s \ , Caree your by men you to pass exams. AIM read hie aQTtemmt **ti»m vear after rat.no vouwMU ° »" emtalop:„b dracriaescrliilne.i KItainilwaV« ay Mail Clerk offered a posxton-vr i/our mow back. Mail coupon now. ^ WIIWI who are looked other bervlce positions. up to, and this over- ARTHUR R P«TTcRS0rl CIVIL SERVICE EXPERT and Civil Patterson School, Dept. 035, WIsnerBldg. ^ "T comes their ( Continued Name Age on page yo Rochester, N. V. aa, Address City State MAY, 1927 69 )

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sometimes numerical inferiority to an Kenny had been shot. Yesterday, at extent. There is some drinking but no Glendye's house. Accident. Kenny commercial moonshining in Mosie Ben- came round the corner of the stable net's sphere of influence. The same just as someone shot that way. Body obtains elsewhere when the right man at Abe Arbogast's. Funeral directly. is the leader, generally not by virtue of I could learn no more. The number any office he holds, but by force of of shooting accidents is high for a peo- character. Mountain leadership is never ple so accustomed to firearms. thin slender nominal. such a intimates huos the wrist When man We had an early dinner at Billy's and that it would be well for a shiner to all walked over to Abe Arbogast's, two OROOVEO STEM his still across the mountain he miles EASY CRIP move away. Abe is a nabob of the Old moves. With a revenuer he would fight Lick, and a relative of the dead boy's it out—the revenuer would stand alone. mother. SECOND HAND FOR These risks are considerable, but they A funeral is one of a limited number TIMING PURPOSES may be minimized by a brand of local of recognized social events in the moun- ATRIUMPH ! Illinois "Sportsman"_the 2-in-l Strap Watch: for DRESS -Wear, for SPORTS-Wear. justice that strikes the mountaineer as tains. At Abe Arbogast's was as- Has remarkable SHOCK-PROOF Movement. RESILIO wheels, plates, escapement, secret process tempered. Gen- sensible. This incident came under my sembled practically the entire settlement uine — 15 Ruby Jewels -not 7 or —but 17|owels for PRE- shiners CISION! Created by ILLINOIS WATCH CO.. Spring- personal observation. Three —seventy-five to a hundred men, field, Illinois. The U. S. Government, during the World a partnership and were doing a women, children and babies in arms. War, requested their entire output of Military Watches formed because they were conceded best. good business when one of the partners They were having a sociable good time AMAZED at Its Accuracy! decided to withdraw. He reached this out in the yard—the men drinking from BUSINESS MEN, ProfeBBional Men. Executives. Sportsmen are decision while his associates were ab- corn-cob stoppered jugs, the women ASTOUNDED at its splendid Terrific . performance under action! drives down the fairway, smashes on the tenniB court: winter sports, still and a motoring, office use. intense heat or cold, do not affect its timekeep- sent, and removed the best gathered in other groups, the younger ing! It's SHOCK-PROOF' WEATHER-PROOFI Case is DUST- I'KOOK' MoIS'l'I'RK-l'Hool-' Cr.-.-n or White Cold Filled. quantity of the finished product to a ones taking snuff and the older ones RADIUM dial GLOWS time HRKiUTI.Y in darkness! For Red- blooded Men! Proud poBBessors praise itB ACCURACY 19995 secret cove of his own. The two part- smoking cob pipes; and all gossiping. _$50 List. Our price for LIMITED *JJ ners returned and finally located the Mountain women rarely drink, but they It is arousing nation-wide com- absconder. They beat him up. A regu- begin taking snuff at fifteen. mcnt. W» ask for AO Money in advance! NOTHING on battle seemed about to Delivery! We send Watch to lar mountain Preacher Ake Lambert had come on responsible persons for 10 days' trial ABSOLUTELY FREE. ensue when a local justice of the peace foot twenty miles to deliver the funeral intervened with stern impartiality. He sermon. He arrived in a new black If pleased you may pay on Budget Plan: $6 MONTHLY fined the two for assault and battery. homespun suit. The mountaineers have or, if to Cash within 10 DAYS, deduct you prefer pay He fined the other for stealing the still, few churches and fewer ministers. They $2.70 and send Check or Money Order for $31.25. Otherwise return and made him return it. The graver are mostly of the Brethren or Dunkard it. Send money. Pay NOTH- NO 25 offense of moonshining was not gone faith, a branch of the Reformed Dutch ING on Delivery! Order NOW at *31 this Special Price! into. Church; if not that, the Baptist or 1 A little while after this occurrence Methodist. Preacher Lambert is a solid SEAVER-WILLIAMS CO. I was climbing to the Old Lick, on Alle- character who would be looked up to Importers, Erporters, International Mail-Order House "2 Generations of Honorable Dealings ghany Mountain. It was on a Sunday regardless of a mountaineer's respect 365 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Sole Distributors of SHOCK-PROOF "Sportsman." morning. I met a Mrs. Lamb coming for the cloth. I asked him about G.nllemen-l'leaBe Bend $33.95 Illinois "Sportsman" watch for Fork. 10 D.-iyn FREE Trial on above plan. down the path toward the North Kenny. I might just as well not have, 11 Green Gold Case While Gold Case. {Check color.) "Did you hear that Kenny Lambert though. It is possible, of course, that NAME has been killed?" she asked. he didn't know anything. ADDRESS I had not heard. The funeral procession started. Clip and mail this Adv. NO W! If a new a r. please tell i [ something about yowrMU . We will apprcci respect the i> But no details were forthcoming from Preacher Lambert walked in front car- I formation. THANK YOU! Am. Leg. 5-'. Mrs. Lamb. I thought there was some- rying a Bible. Next came the pall- thing back of her reticence. Kenny bearers with their burden. There were Lambert was a boy of fifteen. I had six of us—three on a side. I was the tried to get him to go to school, but only one who had not been drinking. BigPayS with slight success. He spent a good My file leader, Young Ike Teeter, had deal of his time with a half-brother, been particularly punctual in his refer- "I MADE $2 1 .OO IN FIVE HOURS" Glendye Lambert, who lived at Colaw ences to the jug. I kept stepping on Wood, or the Burnt Chestnut, a cattle- his heels. The trail was rough and Writes Peter Werner, III. Sell Madison "Better-Slade" grazing ground about five miles on. I Kenny began to get heavy. I was Shirts for Large Manufacturer to there. afraid we should drop him, and hoped direct to wearer- No capital or intended go experience needed. Spare or The next habitation on the trail, how- I had not added to the tragi-comedy by full time. Cash bonuses. ever, was the cabin of Billy Mullenax, failing to fasten the lid on securely. WRITE FOR FREE SAMPLES a brother of Kay Mullenax. Eight or We carried Kenny into the little one- MADISON SHIRT MILLS, 564 Broadway, New York ten men were standing around outside, room school house—one of the few in looking as if something were in the the mountains. The people took seats PIN A DOLLAR BILL TO THIS wind. But a mountain man's face tells and Preacher Lambert began his funeral

and Ret this fine 5 one little. I saw only one or two rifles, address. I did not stay for it. It was card case. Genuine leather. Masonic or though. That was more assuring. getting late and I had heard and seen Shrine Emblem present and enough. stamped on in gold I knew nearly everyone free. (No other em- walked up and shook hands around. I headed for Mosie Bennet's, turning blem supplied on this case. ) Your name "How do you do, Mr. Mullenax?" over in my mind something Mrs. Lam- other stamping 35c exi tra per line. (Cash mustIHt 1 "Good morning, Mr. Hart." Moun- bert had said to me while I was putting accompany order. ) taineers seldom shake hands among Kenny in his coffin. She said her son Wecarry EVERYTHING MASONIC themselves, and never "mister" each was the victim of a moonshine war. other the first name is good enough. They start young. Send for free catalogue No. 2(, 2m — Monitors, of Books, Jewelry But this is expected of a stranger. Mr. Bennet's was fifteen miles away, No. 30 of Lodge Supplies. "What's this I hear about Kenny but worth the walk. In The Senator's Wc Have Been in Business fc'7 Yeai-s! Lambert?" I asked, casually. jurisdiction there are no moonshiners REDDING & COMPANY The company was not communicative. and fewer funerals. 200 Fifth Ave. or 9 West 23rd St., New York

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nJldd Q^aiice and ^erve (Continued from page 41) a new pipe with the salt, pepper and vinegar is used to baste the meat as it browns. After the meat bite smoked out has been well roasted, expert butchers another evidence of community co-op- Cheer UP* you pipe-shy smokers eration carve the joints and place the — the marvelous new Thorobred is tobacco- meat in big containers to make serving broken before you buy it! It is smoked, easy. caked and tamed by a sanitary machine. At this stage, the ten-barrel sauce pan the very first puff, it gives the is called upon to do its stuff. The huge From pan of sauce is kept simmering. The mildest smoke you ever enjoyed! Italian briar, centuries forms its bowl. Its meat is dipped into it and allowed to old, bit is red triangle. All become thoroughly heated and seasoned inlaid with the WDC popular shapes—plain or rustic finish $1.00 each —until ready to be served, the hotter at good dealers. And . . they . . CAN'T. . bite! the better. Wm. Demuth & Co., 230 Fifth Ave., N-.Y. the lines form beside the When chow Makers of Milano the "Insured" Pipe pit and men, women and children by thousands file past the Legionnaire mess sergeants and K. P.'s, the post members get their reward in satisfaction. Every person in the chow line is given a paper plate and is served with sliced bread, pickles, onions and coffee in addition to the barbecued meat. The sight of the pit when chow is being served is inspiring enough, but the real thrill is given to the visitor who sees the pit on the night before the celebration. He sees the tall figures of Legionnaires silhouetted against the glare of the pit. With the shadows playing tricks against the smoke and Thorobred the flames, glimpses of the cooks thrust- ing their pitchforks into the fiery depths CTWE CAKE IT WHEN WE MAKE IT or holding them aloft complete the illu- sion of a glance into conventional hell. On last Armistice Day the members of the carpenters' and bricklayers' unions were guests of honor of the Le- ' 'In Flanders ' Fields the Toppies Tttoiv gion post, in recognition of the great service they had rendered. The Spanish- Hetiveen the Crosses, Row on "Row" American war veterans of Paris also were honored guests. The barbecue always is attended with other community events, including a parade in which school children and W get!/ patriotic organizations march, a grand efor ball and a dramatic entertainment. % Lest we forget, the poppy, symbolical of What the Legion community barbecue America's hero dead, was adopted as the has done in Paris, Texas, to make memorial flower of the American Legion friends for Legion, the to win new sup- and the American Legion Auxiliary. porters for the things the Legion be- Once each year, during the week preced- lieves in, the will community barbecue ing Memorial Day, the Legion sponsors and do for a post almost anywhere. As man- the Auxiliary actively conducts a national kind has kept on progressing through poppy sale to provide funds for Veterans' the centuries, it has celebrated each step Welfare work. This is truly honoring the forward with a banquet of some sort. dead through service to their comrades— Literature is filled with historic feasts, the disabled who though living did not and your story-teller in his finest mo- wholly escape the ravages of war.* ments of fancy likes to dwell lingeringly There is only one official Legion and Aux- upon the dinners of his heroes. One iliary poppy. It is made entirely by disahled in hospitals and training centers, and need not be a gourmand, nor an epicure, I J men this bears the approved label of both organ- to find in the recollections of a feast, izations. Insist on these and your efforts or even in the anticipation of one, one will do double duty in behalf of the dis- of life's finest pleasures. So, assuming abled. Write your Department Headquar- that the beef is roasted just right, that ters for prices. If they are unable to supply the mess call has sounded and the chow you, order direct. lines are shuffling along, what do you suppose that sauce tastes like? Try it * Special poppy campaign helps, including motion picture trailers, sales plans, publicity, on your imagination again: prologues and exploitation ideas will be supplied at cost. Write for details! "To fifteen gallons of ketchup add one hundred and fifty pounds of melted butter, twenty-four large bottles of poppy division Worcester sauce, five pounds of cayenne National Headquarters The American Legion Auxiliary pepper. Add boiling water to thin." INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

MAY, 1927 71 £Roll Gall ofthe SecondAEE atJhris W Sept. 19 to 23

The never-to-be-forgotten days of '17 and '18 will be relived by thousands of Legionnaires during this roll call of the Second A. E. F.

The Legion's pilgrimage to France this year offers a glorious opportunity to a limited number of Legionnaires of seeing Paris and of roaming at will through beautiful, historic France. Old friendships to be renewed—familiar haunts to be revisited—and

new ones to be explored. It is a chance of a life- time to make that much-talked-of trip to France.

Everything has been arranged for you—railroad accommodations, palatial ships, housing in Paris and side trips to the battlefields and cemeteries that

you will want to see. All at surprisingly reduced

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The number who can go is limited. You must act

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AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION Paris, France, September 10-23, 1927

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the list of all D. F. C. O.'s published and endorsed by the Legion's France sum. Special privileges include one- on page 93. The title of the booklet is Convention Committee. way fare for round trip on American "On to Paris." Ask for it by that railways, half-fare on French railways, name. The cover of the booklet, in reduced steamship rates with freedom colors, bears the insignia of all A. E. F. HERE are some of the questions to go any place on shipboard regardless divisions. most often asked of the France of price or class of berth, special Le- Convention Committee these days, to- gion-inspected housing accommodations gether with the committee's answers: in Paris at very low rates, and special PRESIDENT Coolidge in the White Who is eligible to go and how long Legion passport saving approximately House recently heard from the lips will be required to make the trip? twenty dollars and eliminating visa of National Commander Savage. Gen- Members of the Legion and Auxil- charges and delay at frontiers. eral Pershing, Honorary National Com- iary, whose dues are fully paid up for How long may I stay in Europe? May mander, Past Na- I go over on one tional Command- line and return on ers Lindsley, Mac- another? Nider and Drain, A Second A. E. and other notable F.'er may stay in Legionnaires the Europe until the inspiring details of last official sailing the arrangements of the line over the Legion has which his ticket made for its pil- reads, but he must grimage to Paris go over and return in September. on same line. President Coolidge Members of the expressed satisfac- Second A. E. F. tion, extended his must be back in best wishes for the United States the pilgrimage and by midnight of promised that the November 30th. Government would The return half of help in every way American half- possible. price railway tick- President Cool- ets is not good af- idge gave to The ter December 1st. American Legion What is the es- the following state- timated cost of the meals in Paris and ment on Paris President Coolidge heartily approved- the American Legion's Paris Conven- convention outside Paris? tion when a delegation of notable Legionnaires called on him in the White "You took care Two dollars a House in March. Left to right, front row: General John J. Pershing, of yourselves day and upward Honorary National Commander ; Howard P. Savage, National Commander when you were in Paris. Prices President Coolidge; Milton J. Foreman, Past National Commander ; James over before and I outside Paris are A. Drain, Past National Commander, and General Charles P. Summerall, know you will lower than in Paris. Chief of Staff of the Army. Back row: Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, take care of your- What baggage Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War; Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secre- selves again. I should I take? tary of War; John J. Wicker, Jr., National Travel Director of the France am glad to learn A standard tour- Convention Committee, and John Thomas Taylor, Vice-Chairman of the that the pilgrimage ist case, such as Legion's National Legislative Committee is assured and will can easily be car- be a success. It ried on the lug- is entirely fitting that this pilgrimage 1926 and 1927, Gold Star mothers, gage rail of a European railway coach is should be made; and I heartily approve fathers and grandfathers of Legion- advised. The importance of a minimum of it. The French people have a very naires or men killed in service, minor amount of baggage can not be stressed high regard for our former soldiers and children of Legionnaires and members too much. will welcome you again. The Govern- of the Auxiliary, husbands of Auxiliares II7/6I assigns hotel accommodations, ment has been doing everything it can and Legionnaires when accompanied by when do I receive them and what do to assist this worthy undertaking. If member wives. The minimum time re- they cost? you believe there is anything further quired is twenty-three to twenty-seven The National France Convention that the Department of State, the days—for Gulf ports thirty days. Committee assigns hotel accommoda- Shipping Board, or I can do to aid you, What ship has been assigned to my tions and will send assignments direct do not fail to call upon us and it will department and when does it sail? to those making the trip in ample time be done." The new "On to Paris" booklet gives before sailing date. Lowest cost rooms a complete schedule of all sailings. with bath run from $11 to $15 a week. Ask your D. F. C. O. to send it to you. Five other classes of rooms with bath A/I" ANY hundreds of Legionnnaires How much will it cost? What special are offered, the highest class running who might otherwise find them- privileges do I get? from $46 a week upward. selves unable to make the trip to Paris The minimum cost for essential items, Who will answer any individual ques- will be able to go through a series of with cheapest accommodations through- tions or give me advice on any subject? newspaper circulation contests being out, is estimated at $175 for the period Write to the Department France conducted by newspapers in many cities from date of sailing to date of return Convention Officer of your State. (A under a plan directed by Emerson B. to an American port. Of course each list of D. F. C. O.'s is published on Knight, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana, person will spend much more than this page 93.)

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WRITE "I wont stand any more insults. The "I hope," Salem lectured, "that this trouble with you chaps is you've lost will teach you all a lesson. If I had your faith in human nature. I haven't. listened to you— TO EARN That's why I'll not only make a consid- "All right, wise guy," agreed Abel erable amount of money, but be of real sourly. service to the girl." "Say!" said Schwartzkopf, "didn't "Hear, hear!" cackled Hutchins. you mention something about this box "Listen," said Abel. "You come with being only part of the cache or some- us to a jeweler I know, and he'll tell thing?" you in five minutes all about the deserv- "Why, yes," said Salem. "You didn't ing girl and the big fortune you're gonna give me a chance to explain. You see, make." there were two boxes, the one I have "Gladly," Salem agreed. "Then I'll here, and the other a big steel casket."

find out how much I can sell it for." "Where's that?" demanded Abel. Laughter lurked in the eyes of the "That's what I wanted to explain to three musketeers as they waited for a you. You see, the old man—the girl's cab to take them to Abel's jeweler. father—was in a bad way when we got Hutchins, catching Salem's eyes on him, to the deserted house by the Seine, burst into giggles. where we dug for the stuff. He could Arrived at the jeweler's establishment barely walk. And after we found this on the Rue de la Paix, Abel called for box, he fainted. The warden got fright- Monsieur Francois. ened and rushed him back to the prison. "Once bought a present here for my You see," Salem explained naively, "the "You save the writer years wife," explained Abel. "Franqois will warden was afraid if the old man died it would come out that of disappointment and do anything for me." I'd bribed the The obliging Francois appeared, and warden to let him out for one night, useless toil." the four were ushered into a private and he'd lose his job." room. "Lemme get this straight," Abel in- "Listen, Francois," began Abel, taking terrupted. "You and the girl and the "Your Palmer course in Short the box from Salem. "Give a look at warden and the old dodo went to a de- Story Writing transmits quickly this, and tell us what it's worth." serted house, and found this—box. to the writer a knowledge of The jeweler picked up the pearl Where?" technique," says Colonel Fred- necklace, and studied it. He screwed "In the cellar." erick Stuart Greene, Commis- a glass to his eye and then studied it "Where's the house?" Abel leaned sioner of Public Works, New further. forward. York State, and writer of over "If you will wait but a moment," he "I don't know. I was taken there." 20 stories in The Saturday Eve- said finally, "I shall tell you exactly." Abel bit his lips. ning Post. "You save the writer He left the four alone. "And was the big casket supposed to years of disappointment and use- "Anything over two dollars," said be near where this box was found?" less toil." Yet till he was 45, Hutchins, "we split." "Must've been. The old man started Col. Greene had not sold a single "Well," contributed Schwartzkopf, looking for it when he collapsed." short story. He then took a "the poor girl needs the money." "Well, have you got any idea how short story course to learn tech- The heavy banter seemed to affect you're gonna get hold of that big box?" nique. His discovery of the Salem, for he began nervously to pace "No." Salem shook his head. "I Palmer Short Story Course up and down the room. Abel merely haven't. I'm going to wait until the old was a revelation to him. Colonel sat and smiled from time to time. man is recovered, and then perhaps Greene reads and rereads every And then Francois returned. Salem we'll go out again. I've got to sell bookand everyitem in the Palmer fixed him with anxious eyes. Abel these jewels first." Course. smiled. "Listen," snorted Abel, "don't you Why not make your talent for "It is not," said the jeweler, "a sen- realize you're in on something real big writing in pay you profitably sational value. The necklace is worth if you get the rest of the jewels?" part time, full or time? Let the about ten thousand dollars." "Of course I do," Salem smiled. "But Palmer Institute teach you tech- Salem smiled and looked from the the fact is, I haven't had any sleep and nique. Personal, intensive train- jeweler to his companions. I'm just too tired to think. I'm going ing — almost inspirational. "What!" Abel was incredulous. right to bed." Endorsed by Gertrude Atherton, "What—what about the rest?" Salem jumped from the cab, and Jesse Lynch Williams, Julie "And the rest?" Hutchins's eyes pro- made his way to the hotel cashier's M. Lippmann, Alex McLaren, truded. desk. He ordered the jewel box put Tim Tully, Ruth Comfort The jeweler shrugged his shoulders. into the safe. Mitchell, Carl Clausen, Kath- "I cannot give you an official ap- "Responsibility, that," he yawned. arine Newlin Burt, Charles praisal. That takes time. But I should "Must be careful. Half of that is the Kenyon and Rupert Hughes. say forty thousand dollars or so." girl's, and I don't want anything to go "Didn't I tell you?" Schwartzkopf wrong." PALMER INSTITUTE OF AUTHORSHIP shook his head bitterly. "Didn't I tell He yawned again spaciously. Palmer Building, Hollywood, Cal. 111-S Clayton Hamilton - - President you? Who gets the breaks?" "I really must sleep," he apologized, Frederick - Palmer Vice-president "All right," snapped Abel, halting and took the lift up to his room. Please send me, without any obligation, de- him. lot, tails about the course I have checked. "Thanks a Francois. Come "Now what do you think about that!" Short Story Writing on, boys." Abel demanded of the fates. "It looks O English and Self-Expression Photoplay Writing Abel jostled his companions out of like the oldest game in the world, and the room. Salem carefully closed the it's on the level, and he walks into it Name- box. and put it under his arm. a sap like that!" Address- When they were back in the cab "I'm gonna have a drink," said All correspondence strictly confidential No salesman will call upon you again, Salem turned upon Abel. Hutchins.

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"Let's go up to the sitting-room and "You look kind," she said earnestly. have it there," suggested Schwartzkopf. "But can I trust you?" "Maybe we'll get an idea.'' "Sure," said Abel. ' You can trust us The drink was ordered and consumed, like you trust Salem." when the telephone rang. Abel an- "M'sieu Salem said nothing of you," swered. smiled the girl apologetically. "And it "Miss—who?" he asked. "Oh! Yea, is so important, so terribly important." send her up!" "I know," Abel comforted. "Your He turned about, eyes narrowed. father is feeling better and is going for "The girl's coming up—for Salem!" the big casket!" "Shall we wake him?" demanded The girl looked at him in amazement. Hutchins. "But how—how do you know?" "Wake him my eye!" sputtered Abel. "It's true, isn't it?" "Let's see what it's all about first. "Yes. That is why I came." Maybe she's got something." "Well, you see, girlie, we're in on this Going to Paris? "Yes, and maybe, that jewel box was thing with Salem. We know all a come-on," suggested Schwartzkopf, about it." Bring Back a Movie warily. "Maybe they got a big "Then it is well," said the girl ear- scheme on." nestly. "We must act at once. Papa is for Your Post "They don't give saps forty grand afraid he will die with his secret." worth of jewels as a come-on," snapped Her voice was husky with repressed IF YOU attend the great Legion Con- Abel. sorrow. vention in Paris this summer, be sure you take a DeVry. Get your Post to buy There was timid knocking at the "Wait a minute," Schwartzkopf rose this ideal movie camera and delegate you door. The three mus- and moved towards the to take movies at the convention. keteers rose. girl. "How about the Amazingly simple to operate quickly invited — "Come in," warden letting him out?" focused from any position, the DeVry Abel. "He will come with takes 100 feet of Standard film movies The door opened him tonight, too," said without reloading. Movies guaranteed to slowly. the girl. be as perfect as those taken by expensive "Come right in," re- "For the same professional cameras. peated Abel heartily. money?" With both the DeVry Standard film camera and projector, not only your own A girl in white stood "No." sighed the girl. movies but all the films of the world are at the door, with wide, "He wants money again. available to you. Films furnished for Post child-like eyes, and love- He is greedy." use by Legion headquarters are standard ly white hands. She was "Five thousand dol- size as are also the free films provided by the girl of the photo- lars?" theU. S. Government and the Y. M. C, A. graph, only that had The girl nodded. Think what an attraction a DeVry outfit omitted the delicate pink " Mmmm." grunted would be for your Post. And think, too, how quickly this outfit could be to of her cheeks, and the Abel, pacing up and made pay for itself. golden sheen of her hair, coiled on trie down in deep thought. Suddenly he The DeVry Standard-Automatic Movie back of her neck under a drooping wheeled on the girl. Camera is not expensive. It sells for $150 white silk hat. "Meet us here in front of the hotel and on easy terms. Write for our new She drew back, fearful. tonight, and we'll go with you." FRFE booklet, "J ust Why tne DeVry "It is a mistake," she said in pain- Schwartzkopf gestured to Abel. Takes Better Movies." fully slow English. "No use meeting her in front of the "No mistake, girlie." Abel advanced hotel. People we don't want might be towards her. "You want Mr. Salem?" around." "Yes, yes," "Yeah, that's right," Abel understood. DeVry Standard —Automatic %F "Well,— we're his friends." Salem might wake up. "Make it the MOVIE CAMERA "But " still the —girl did not enter, Cafe Americain." "but I do not know The girl nodded.

Abel moved to the door and closed it. "Cafe Americain. eleven o'clock to- The girl found herself in the room, and night," she repeated in parting. looked from one to the other. The door closed softly. "Now sit down, girlie," Abel coaxed. "Maybe—maybe you was too fast." "We know all about it. Salem's our Schwartzkopf broke the spell that fol- partner in this. We know about the lowed her departure. little casket, and the big casket, and "I can make my mind up like that!" your poor poppa." Abel snapped his fingers. "Listen! "But—but —there are too— many of We're putting up five thousand bucks. you. It is—not wise. It is All right, suppose it goes wrong. Sup- "It's all right," Abel assured her. "It's pose either this is a stall, or the guy is all right." honest, and he can't find it. We come "But where is M'sieu Salem?" back and tell Salem he was asleep when "Salem's gone out of town for a few the girl came. We had some considera- days, that's all." Abel lied easily. tion for him, so we let him sleep. We "Oh!" The girl crumpled into the took up the proposition for him. The chair. "Oh! What shall I do?" jewels he's got is worth forty thousand. "Whatsmatta?" Abel expostulated. He put up five last night. We put up "You can tell us anything you'd tell five tonight. We're covered, see?" him." "But supposing," objected Schwartz- The girl wrung her hands. kopf, "he wakes up between now and "But I don't know eleven?" you!" THE DE VRY CORPORATION Abel grew impatient. "Well," Abel grinned, "we ain't gonna 1111 Center Street, Dept. 5-FF, Chicago, Illinois "And I'm telling you you do know be here between now and eleven. We Please send me your new free book, "Just Why the DeVry Takes Better Movies." us. Now come on. girlie, what is it?" meet her at the cafe, and off we go. Name —— — She looked at Abel with a pair of Then if something goes wrong we put wide blue eyes. Then she surveyed it up to Salem. He's a sap. He'll be- Address

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"It looks good," said Schwartzkopf minute, cantcha? You wait here. I'll cautiously. get a taxi to the hotel and bring the "Good? It's perfect!" money. We ain't got it with us." At eleven o'clock the three musket- The warden hesitated. eers met the girl at the cafe entrance. "I will accept," he conceded finally, She was huddled in one corner of the "if you are fast." cab. The three musketeers crowded in Abel sputtered, but Schwartzkopf and the taxi shot forward. No one leaped out of the cab, and hailed an- spoke. Occasionally they looked at other that was just turning the corner. each other, and then at the girl. Her The warden extracted a heavy gold TheVCbrld's Greatest face was pale, and her hands trembled. watch from his vest and studied the They crossed one of the brightly il- minute hand. Shirt Value! luminated bridges of the Seine, and "Too long," he said. Work rattled into a series of slum streets Abel cursed him under his breath, BigYank outwears two ordinary shirts, redolent of sausage and vin ordinaire. and turned to the invalid and the girl. wearers say. Millions will wear no other. A dozen odd times the cab, true to "You're sure now," Abel's voice was Only huge volume makes possible such Paris tradition, threatened to smash threatening, "you won't have no trouble valuel Exclusive features. Thread-riveted other cabs or collapse of itself, but finding this casket?" at every strain point. Ripping practically impossible. Cut oversize throughout. Ex- somehow it managed to draw up before "But most certainly!" the invalid pro- tra strong materials—triple stitched. Big a gloomy iron-barred building on a de- tested. "It is there.—And m'sieu"—his armholes—wide sleeves. Unusual style. serted street where the girl got out. eyes were pleading "m'sieu will not Big Yank, Jr., the same, in boy's sizes. "One moment," she begged. "We will forget my daughter?" Ask your dealer for the Big Yank today. not be long." Abel said he wouldn't. Guaranteed against defect of material or work- manship. If your dealer hasn't it, send only $2 "Que est la?" demanded Abel, point- After a long nervous silence broken for two shirts to ing at the building, as the girl plunged only by the hammering ticking of the RELIANCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 212 WEST MONROE STREET into the gloom. warden's watch and the sighs of the CHICAGO, ILLINOIS "Prison," replied the chauffeur. girl, Abel heard a taxi cough up beside Abel felt reassured. They waited. them. Schwartzkopf descended. Schwartzkopf smoked furiously. Abel "Got it!" he panted, and climbed in. tapped one foot nervously on the loose He and Abel began counting out the BIG YANK cab floor. Hutchins found relief in a money, and the warden counted labori- : flask of cognac. ously with them. 'v-v-}::v:vwbftk;;SHiRT^v^; :; Suddenly the girl appeared, with two "Good!" approved the official, and The Light That Never Fails men. One of the men was old and shouted to the chauffeur to proceed. RAY-O-LITEK bowed, and even in the half-light they "Didja see Salem?" Abel whispered could see that he was ill. The other to Schwartzkopf. Agents wanted to distribute man was in a blue uniform, with peaked "He was still asleep," Schwartzkopf RAY-O-LITE Cigar Lighters. cap, and shifty eyes. grinned. . Guaranteed for life. Sell in all 22-' kinds of trades for gifts, adver- "In with you," growled the uniformed The cab stopped in an alley of sur- tising premiums, etc. Send 50 cents for sample and details. One dozen man, hoisting the invalid into the cab. prisingly well-built houses facing a display cartons, $3.00. in attractive He whispered to the chauffeur in glistening Seine. They were private Gold Plated Samples $1.00 French. residences, and, except for one, had RAPID MFG. CO., W-799 Broadway, New York "Here, girlie," Abel was gallant. "Sit carefully cultivated gardens, massive I Offer Yon _ on my lap. Then we'll have room." iron gates and sweeping balconies. The "No," whispered the girl. "My father, three musketeers singled out the de- Write quick for new proposition. We he will sit on your lap." serted house by its barred and shuttered offer $8.00 a day and a new Chevrolet Coacb, for demonstrating and taking or- She embraced her father tenderly, and windows, the unkempt garden and the ders for Comer All- Weather Topcoats deposited him in Abel's lap. rusted open gates. and Raincoats. Spare time. No ex- perience required. Sample outfit The warden leaned over to Abel. "Here?" Abel pointed to the house he free. Write now. "I have decided." he informed him, chose. Comer Mfg. Co., Dept. F-482, Dayton, Ohio "that it is no five thousand tonight. It The girl nodded in confirmation. HY THROW AWAY is ten thousand." "Better have the cab wait," suggested "What!" expostulated Abel, shoving Abel. YOUR RAZOR BLADES? the invalid off his lap. The girl caught "Yes, yes," said the warden, "I must ROBT. H. INGERSOLL. to whom her father and held on to him. bring him right back." the world owes the Dollar Watch, is now bringing before the public an- "You take five thousand," snapped The girl helped the old man descend. other article of great eco- Abel, "or you get nothing." He swayed feebly as his feet touched A nomic value, an ingenious "]» invention for resharpen- "Very well," the warden rapped at the pavement. ing all makes of safety chauffeur's "For love of Sarah," cried Abel, razor blades. Makes ev- the window. "Come!" He the ery blade good for 100 gestured to the prisoner. "Back he "tell him not to pass out now. We got to 300 perfect shaves. goes." too much money on him." INGERSOLL Schwartzkopf clutched Abel's arm and The invalid tottered, and then whispered in his ear. straightened himself. Leaning heavily DOLLAR STROPPER "Don't get him mad!" urged on the girl, he shuffled past the gate, automatically brings the edge of the Schwartzkopf. "Even at ten thousand down a straggling grass path back of blade in contact with the leather strop at the proper angle, thus in- we're still covered with Salem's stuff, the house, and paused at the cellar door. suring a keen cutting edge. It can be used by anyone without skill or practice. aint we?" "This door!" gasped the invalid. Over 1,000.00 0 sold within a single year. "Yes," Abel whispered back, glaring Abel tugged at it until it creaked TenDays' FREETRIAL JST.rJoM malevolently at the warden, "but I ain't open. Schwartzkopf and Hutchins Stmpper is all we claim. Send $1.00 for got five thousand bucks more." watched the old man lift his trembling complete outfit, including patent Stropper (blade holder) and fine leather Strop. Use The warden gestured decisively at hands prayerfully. it ten days. Your money hack at once, if not completely satisfied. Write at once, this moment. Then the girl and the invalid moved lentiuning make of razor you use. "We go back," he announced, gruffly. forward slowly into the darkness, the ROBERT H. INGERSOLL* Inc. "No!" cried Schwartzkopf. "Wait a warden with them. The three musket- 'Dept. 55 476 Broadway, N.Y.C.

7(> The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly eers followed in silence, and stopped Abel retraced his steps to the desk. only when they hit a wall. "Monsieur Salem," began the clerk "Anybody got a light?" shouted Abel, amiably. suddenly frantic. "Where is he?" interrupted Abel There was no answer. fiercely. His heart was breaking and "A light!" he repeated. "Allumette!" he craved blood as balm. He listened. So did Schwartzkopf. "I do not know. He has checked So did Hutchins. No answer. out." They peered into the gloom but "Checked out?" Abel shrieked. could see nothing. "Checked out?" The girl, her father and the warden "Yes, he left an hour ago. He said had vanished into the night. you gentlemen would take care of the bill. It is a trifle. That is why I called you. It is all right, is it not?" A HALF hour later, the three mus- Abel opened his mouth as if to say keteers, by dint of much wall hug- something about it but changed his ging, finally found the cellar door. Once mind and said nothing. It was Schwartz- more they saw the garden and the glist- kopf who demanded to know if Salem ening Seine, but no taxi. had taken the wooden box from the Abel voiced a conclusion that all three hotel safe before he left. had been nursing in secret silence. "Ah, yes!" the clerk's eyes brightened "We've been gypped!" His voice intelligently. "Ah, yes, indeed. He did flattened. Then he waved frantically to take the box. It was in his name. He a taxi cruising idly by. called for it soon after you came for "To the Crillon!" he shouted. The the money in such a hurry." three musketeers sank exhausted into Abel was apoplectic. the hard confines of the taxi. "And here," concluded the bright boy "Salem's gonna pay for this!" Abel of the Crillon, "is a message Mr. Salem !" cried. "If it wasn't for that sap— did leave for you." ...that command attention. ..eyes that dominate the taxi at the hotel snatched it savagely from the When drew up Abel the situation ... MUST BE SEEN,., must be its three passengers hurled themselves clerk. Schwartzkopf and Hutchins read free and unfettered . . . must radiate personality through the lobby. A clerk at the cash- over his shoulders with him the follow- as the sun radiates light. ier's cage spied them and called out to ing, neatly typed on Crillon stationery: To influence men you must give them an un- Abel with obsequious cheerfulness. To the three musketeers: obstructed view of yourself. Just as you look "Monsieur Abel—Monsieur Abel!" Never give a sap an even break. out through your eyes to see me, just so must I look in through your eyes to see you.

Who are you? Whatever it is that peers from behind the curtain of consciousness through

your eyes to influence people. . .that thing is You. (Continued from page 10) Don't pocket your personality by masking your eyes. Never!!! this magazine I expressed my opinion The present situation is intolerable. SMake Your Eyes Mean More! of prohibition—which, I judge from the The Volstead Law is openly flouted and commendatory comments I received, has been ever since its passage. Other Capitalize your natural eyes. Projedt your per- met with considerable approval. The laws are disregarded, to be sure, but not sonality powerfully and pleasantly into the con- only scolding letter I had questioned with the dangerous far-reaching conse- sciousness of the person you wish to persuade.

my statements of fact, but as it came quences that attend the violation of the Let those Twin Servants of your Soul do it.

from New Jersey, which is not famed prohibition laws. They were laid upon Learn the new scientific secret of conserving natural eyesight for its aridity, it hardly shakes my con- the country as a war measure, just when ...how to regain and maintain the persuasive power of the natural eye undimmed by time. viction that prohibition is a failure. temperance and abstinence were making Those who cry that "we mustn't give most encouraging headway, due to the "Natural Eyesight," a new book, tells in word and pidure of this New Knowledge of the Eye that marks the dawn up prohibition" are blind to the fact growth of enlightened sentiment and of the New Age of Vision. It is FREE. The coupon, be- that we, haven't got it now. And those markedly to the hostility of industrial low, is for your convenience in sending for it. others who cry "no more saloons!" beg and other business interests. For the

the question. I don't know of any one work done by many agencies to promote Send for your FREE who wants to restore the saloon to its temperance from the beginning of the old place. But we don't want the youth nation I have only the profoundest re- of America to be corrupted by drinking spect. But much of what was gained, poison booze peddled by bootleggers. whether through moral or economic Prohibition is a fraud upon the pressure, has been thrown away. people; it isn't doing what was prom- There was a certain degree 'of pro- ised and expected of it. It was a mis- tection in the old laws against selling take to take the regulation of the traffic liquor to minors. They were violated, from the States; the failure of the Fed- of course, but the saloon keeper had to eral prohibition laws to function is all be pretty cautious about it. Now the more conspicuous -and deplorable American youth has no protection what- because they are backed by an amend- ever from drink. It is the smart thing, ment to the Constitution. It is not an and a common practice, for a boy to exaggeration to say that the force of all buy a pint of the bootlegger and carry law is diminished where a declaration it on the hip when he takes a girl to a of the fundamental law, broadening the dance or for a drive. People who never Natural Eyesight Institute, Inc. Federal police power, is ignored by kept liquor in their homes before pro- 1422 Pershing Square Bldg., thousands of citizens. hibition so because a tyranny The new and do now Los Angeles, California dangerous ethical question is projected has grown up about the thing; every- Please send me your free book "Natural Eyesight." of whether a citizen is justified in break- body's doing it and everybody expects CN'ume ing a law if he thinks it unreasonable the bottle of rare old stuff to be brought and an infringement upon his personal out on every social occasion. Recently Mddtm

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city I heard the proprietor of several people sleep a base sleep beside their lib- apartment houses moaning because his erties then we may be sure that the tenants, chiefly young married people, enemies of the people are not idle. They uality make the nights hideous with their are quick to interpret Lincoln's phrases Gifts noisy "parties." Women were fre- as meaning government for themselves T,he Quality ' Diamond Gift quently carried out drunk and the is the moet prized of ell. at the expense of the people. Every article we eell is of halls reeked of alcohol finest ttrade , You always set and "home Nobody cares particularly! That's the best value from Loftis. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. brew." In how many town or country The Diamond Rings shown here are the heartbreaking thing about it. There all exquisite creations in solid 1m k clubs over the country is alcoholic liq- White Gold, set with sparkling blue are a few instances in recent years of ^3^^- white Diamonds of fiery radiance. Any ring sent for your free examination on request. uor absent at any function? Banquets revolt against flagrant abuses of power, ICredit Terms: Pay one-tenth down; bal- are dry, we say, because the tables are - ' ance in weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly but these follow s' ictly the party lines. terms at your convenience* AU good* de- no longer set with the familiar string livered on first payment. There is a cynical feeling abroad that of wine glasses. But in side rooms, be- Railroad Watches Guaran- 19- Jewel Ad- with sufficient money and influence a istedWaltham teed to Pass Inspection hind closed doors (in deference to the HAMILTON NO 992. 21 Jew- o. 846- 14- political malefactor can escape punish- Adjusted toSpositioDB. $CC white gold fill- els. ed; assorted Constitution!) the cocktails are shaken filled 26- Year Case. . ment. The effect of this is seen down Gold patterns. $42.60 ELGIN'S LATEST RAYMOND $4.26 down and 21 Jewels. 8 adjustments. Runs and consumed with old time gusto. the line to criminals of all degrees. 40 hours one winding. SCC $100 a Gold filled 20-Year Case.. *week The story is the same everywhere. Chief Justice Taft lately pronounced ILLINOIS "BUNN SPECIAL" 21 Jewels. Adjusted to 6 Posi- The tax formerly collected by Federal, the administration of criminal law in the tions. Gold filled 25- Year SjjQ state and municipal governments now Railroad Watches sold on our United States "a disgrace to civiliza- regular credit terms. goes to the bootlegger. The medical tion." Former Justice Hughes in his profession has begun to express its address last year before the American alarm at -the baneful effects of the Bar Association deplored with his usual widely sold poisonous intoxicants that vigor the inadequate enforcement of are working injury, often insidious and Wrlat Wstch No. 16— 14-k white criminal laws. The Baumes Anti-Crime gold. High grade 15-Jewel move- ment. $14.86. $1.48 SI 48 a not immediately apparent, to the health Laws, enacted by the State of New down and ...... * month of countless victims. York last year, deal drastically with the Cushion Strap Watch, nickel, 6 -high grade $9.95 Wedding Rings The effects of the prohibition fiasco, situation, restricting the criminal's No. 824-The "Elite" $750 18-lc white gold .... * moral and physical, are so far-reaching much-abused right of appeal, providing Set with 3 Diamonds. $22.50 6 Diamonds. S32.SO; 7 Dia- that the subject must be dealt with increased penalties for many crimes, monds, S42.50: 9 Diamor S52.50: 12Diamon.li, S67 50 courageously. Everybody talks about with a life sentence where there is a All platinum,$25. With 3 Dia- monds. $50; 6 Diamonds. $70 it, but as Mark Twain said of criticism fourth conviction for felony. Sloppy 7 Diamonds. $80; 9 Diamonds circledbyDiamonds.$20o $100 ; of the weather, nobody does anything sentimentalism toward criminals, partic- about it. It is unjust to the rising gen- ularly in picturesque murder cases, has LEARN to be a WATCHMAKER eration to let the thing go on. It is greatly weakened the administration of fiiandinn a good salary. Positions y graduate. Largest and best unfair to the Government itself to let it the laws. In the pursuit of sensational- school in America. We teach watch work, jewelry, engraving, continue to be made a fool of. I have ism, the American newspapers have clock work, optics, aviation ana other fine Instrument repair. no conceit of Tuition reaaonable. A {8,000.000 my own wisdom, but glorified crime. So long as he feels endowed school. stirred by the growing scandal of un- himself hero, a romantic figure, ad- b KEE CATALOG a BRADLEY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE enforceable laws I make this suggestion, mired for his prowess by an indulgent Peoria Dept. 6 Illinois in the hope that it may bring forth a public, and with a fair chance of escap- better one: ing punishment while his money holds Secured. Trademarks and out, a murderer or bandit is not likely Copyrights registered. Let the questions of enforcement or PATENTS Attorney at Law to use his temporary freedom to ad- modifications be entrusted to a com- Registered Patent Attorney just himself to the ways of lawful mittee of the American Bar Association, E. E. STEVENS, Late of the 115th U. S. Infty. society. LEGIONNAIRE OF MAR YLAND a body of dignity, character and intelli- Many citizens, men and women, con- Solicits as a member of the old established firm of MILO B. STEVENS gence, removed from partisan or fa- and of their friends It CO , the business of his fellow Legionnaires scious that the political tone of the na- We offer a strictly professional service at moderate fees. Preliminary natical clamor, with a request for a con- advice without charge. Send sketch or model for examination. Offices tion is low and that the general apathy W.L &T. Bide.. Washington, D.C.; 338 Won ad nock Block. Chicago, 1 11. crete program of action. and submissiveness, the growing cyni- Either these laws are enforceable or cism as to the processes of government, they are not. If they are not the sooner are not only unbecoming in a free peo- they are repealed or modified and we ple but lead toward disaster, would like flgfc begin all over again with more AGENTS some to do something, but they are numbed Tires Hammered Full of Nails, practical device for handling the liquor by their seeming helplessness. The scale Leak no Air. GALACITE a new Viscous Pneumatic Cement traffic the better for society. of things in America is so vast and the NOT A LIQUID) The familiar phrases of Lincoln's Seals PUNCTURES Instantly political machinery so ponderous and -the very moment they occur. One ap- Gettysburg address, "government of the complicated that they shrink from try- plication made in a minute without taking t ireoff whet lorrim does the work. people, by the people and for the peo- ing to change its motion. Seals slow leaks and porous tubes. Gala- cite aids in preserving rubber often ple," ring strangely in the ear as we read What is imperatively demanded is doubling Tire Mileage. Don't confuse daily of in office, the with, anything else intended for the malfeasance con- the awakening of a new civic conscious- same purpose. Galaclte is new.different ' stant investigations of bribery, the in- clean and scientifically correct. Made ness, intelligent, -alert and fearless. We by a long established.highly rated fin- creasing power of dollars in politics. have thousands of organizations seek- ancially responsible concern. It would seem that the American citi- ing to reform one thing and another, FREE SAMPLE zen, out of sheer pride, would concern flooding the mails with propaganda. himself the AT OUR RISK. MAKE THIS TEST with Government of his Every town has its lunch clubs, which, nails into a tire as you wish Hammer aa many country. And yet it is notorious that no matter what their civic and ethical — Pull them out. No air will escape, No pressure will be lost. If you are not delighted only half the electorate take the trouble pretensions may be, really do nothing we will pay you for your time and trouble. iu the (acts AfCMTC It will pay you to get f to vote, even at national elections, after but promote good fellowship. Ques- HUCPJ I O and get them NOW. You can ;t £ get rich in an hourjr but youvon can make immedi-immeai- m' -\ campaigns in which millions are ex- tions of local government are studiously N r ate. sure, steady profitsrefits that are amazing. No talk- J f\ ^i our L [I I ails an old tire. We back T . { ing. Just drive nail in "1 pended by the contending parties to avoided, for this means raising the men with powerfulul advertising helps. Hanners I aimand i;u^wcirculars. \ -\ PosU-rs. Newspaper*r Advertisements f arouse interest. If government ceases dread spectre of partisan politics, and sample will be FREE SAMPLE book *and 'a free' to be "by the people," then "for the there is nothing the average man is so sent you postpaid, by return mail. Territory is going fast Send no money, just your name, but ACT NOW- people" becomes a mockery. And if the touchy about as his party affiliation, JOHNSON & CO. 19 W. Jackson Blvd., Dept. 540. CHICAGO

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little as he may do to keep his party constitute a large element of our non- clean or to urge the elevation of its voting citizens. A great many women best men. refuse absolutely to exercise their rights "On to Paris!" The easiest place to begin freshening or assume the duties of citizenship. I the currents of national life is in the have found young women, some of them If you have signed up for the sec- small political unit, the city, the town college graduates, who didn't know the ond A. E. F. to Paris next Septem- and the county. Here is a first-rate nature of a primary and were bored at ber, here's your chance to earn a big patriotic job for the young men and having its functions explained to them. slice of spending money — perhaps enough to more than pay all your ex- women of America. It demands youth In the long campaign for suffrage, great penses from this offer: and enthusiasm for its highest realiza- emphasis was laid on the injustice of tions. I am trying to suggest some- denying the franchise to the wage-earn- thing that is practicable. Large organi- ing woman. It was said that she in par- zations are unnecessary and undesirable ticular was entitled to vote to protect

for this work as I visualize it. The herself legally and economically. But beginnings at least should be made in now that she has the vote she shows $5,000 small bodies—neighborhood clubs, ward the greatest reluctance to take an in- clubs, gathered together in a friendly terest from any angle. If she votes at spirit for the study of local affairs and all it is often without knowledge or IN CASH! these only. conviction, at the direction of some National politics should be taboo. man. The political organizations in 1st Prize $500.00 The tariff has nothing whatever to do both parties make a gesture of "recog- 2nd Prize 250.00 with the crying need for a new bridge nizing" women, apparently on a footing 3rd Prize 100.00 appointing them members at the Main Street crossing of Sugar with men, by 4th Prize 95.00 Creek. Learn the of all committees, 5th Prize 90.00 community needs, assistant secreta- 6th Prize 85.00 then enlarge the ries and the like. movement; assem- They sit in at the 7th Prize 80.00 ble these groups in open meetings but 8th Prize 75.00 mass meetings; lay are not invited to 9th Prize 70.00 out programs of the conferences 1,070 additional prizes improvement o r where the real bus- And $5,000.00 in all. To a limited num- retrenchment and iness is done. It ber of non-professional spare-time begin actively at grieves me to say representatives and to individuals it, thus far the proper time to but who enroll with us during May and enlist newspaper about all women June, we will pay the $5,000.00 in support and en- have done with cash prizes, besides cash commis- courage desirable their franchise is sions! persons to take to stow it away in Of the limited class of our pres- nominations. Support in the election their reticules and, meekly tag after the ent representatives who are eligible the best candidates without regard to men. to share in these awards, not one party. Keep the clubs going right on But here again looms local govern- lias in any one month during the as after the election and check up the work ment, where woman's personal interest past year sent us as many 25 subscriptions. Less than 1% of of the office holders. is greatest and should be vigorously as- them sent us as many as 8 sub- All this calls for less time than ap- serted. Here, if she will bestir herself, scriptions in either May or June of pears. I should like to see the experi- she can really achieve something. In last year. No professional maga- ment made in a thousand towns of be- state and national politics her ideas may zine worker may compete. tween five and ten thousand population. be disregarded, but in town and county During our last similar offer. 10 To hard-boiled partisans this sounds al- and in school management she as- may of the first 17 big winners were new together hifalutin, amateurish and fool- sert herself effectively. The chance of representatives. You have as good ish. But quite possibly it would start success would be increased by the strict a chance as anyone in this group to something. avoidance of any partisan alliance. Such win some of the prize money. Wherever fifty young people might matters as the sanitation and the polic- Never before have so many cash gather together, eager to serve, in the ing of a city, smoke abatement, the awards been offered to inexperi- community interest, we should be mak- honest expenditure of public funds, the enced representatives of The Satur- ing just so much progress toward re- most enlightened instruction of youth, day Evening Post, The Ladies' animating our sleeping citizenship. all touch the home, the children and the Home Journal and The Country Gentleman. There are 1.070 in all Courage would be required, for the first family purse. Again I suggest small —$5,000.00 in cash to divide and time the organization scratched some neighborhood conferences for a begin- a liberal commission for each order business interest that was grafting ning, to be widened into larger organi- to be deducted as you go along. through the local powers some patriotic zations. Even though you should not win a young man would be admonished to There are thousands of organizations prize, you can still make a good walk softly and he might lose his clerk- of women that discuss political ques- many extra dollars in commissions ship in a bank or a mercantile house tions; frequently they are addressed by alone! that played ball with the grafters. He men, who refrain from telling their You cannot lose. You may win might even get a crack on the head hearers that they hold the balance of hundreds—but there isn't a minute to waste some dark night if he uncovered some- power and can do something important thing that disclosed a prominent "good" if they will only keep clear of partisan Mail this Coupon — Now citizen, who was also a bad citizen, in alliances, concentrate on local issues collusion with a crooked political con- and stubbornly refuse to be frightened tractor. by dreary pictures of the melancholy The Curtis Publishing Company, 1037 Independence Square As the improvement of local govern- effect upon the nation if they elected a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ment is a matter of greatest importance high-grade city council and a mayor I suggest to women readers who have pledged to the regular collecting of gar- Rush me full details of your big cash offer. followed me thus far that here is a bage. Municipal government is akin to Name field white for the harvest in which they housekeeping. As men are so shy about please PRINT

can if they will lend a helping hand. attacking this problem I gallantly lay Street- The hopes of those of us who encour- it upon the shoulders of the women City— aged and aided the suffrage movement with all faith in their ability to succeed. have so far not been justified. Women There is (Continued 011 page 80) Slate- -Age

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Per Dollar (Continued from page ?g) Your happy face nothing so disturbing to the practical lessly to preserve them. The challenge politician as an independent vote that to action is written large in every news- will smile right can't be counted in advance, that paper every day. If United States sen- back at youwhen can't be scared and can't be bought. atorships are being sold to the highest In my observation of the Parent Teach- bidder, there's something wrong. If the to mm? you begin ers Clubs I have been struck by the governor of one State of the Union is shave with Bar- pride women take in their neighbor- taken from his seat to serve a sentence basol. No brush. hoods, their splendid co-operation with in the penitentiary, there's something their children's teachers. The same serious for the people to ponder. If the No rub-in. No spirit carried into larger municipal af- great American public smiles a good- aftersmart. Try fairs would I believe bring very quickly natured tolerance of incompetent or vi- a great awakening of interest in local cious servants something is wrong with Barbasol 3 times — government. America. —according to di- Ladies, all! Don't let the men fool Only America itself can destroy rections. you! This is just as important as America! If our experiment in "gov- "Mister, you're America's foreign policy, with the dif- ernment of the people, by the people, ference that here you have something for the people" is destined to fail it next!" tangible that lies at your own door. will be only because the people them- The menace to the perpetuity of selves bend their necks to tyranny, be- America is not in our institutions, which come subservient to the power of dol- we all admire quite comfortably, but in lars and are false to their glorious Barbasol the people, who have got to labor tire- heritage. For Modern Shaving

The Barbasol Company Indianapolis, Ind. "Because Its Their Town I enclose 10c. Please send trial tube. ( Continued from page 38 Name meetings are held and is most attractive present and an assured future and the in its outlook over the lake and its con- community house is a necessity. Ever Address nection with the open porches; the since our change to a city form of gov- Girls' Club, a newer and younger or- ernment our success has been sure. We BECOME AN EXPERT ganization, has a very pleasant room have had and we will continue to have opening off the Woman's Club room so such efficient management that we can that on occasion the two may be thrown keep taxes down and at the same time together. These three rooms belong have the building freely used by all Executive Accountant* and C. P. A 'a- earn $3,000 to $10,000 a year. organizations ex- citizens. Thousands of firms need them. Only 9,000 Certified Public Account- absolutely to these ants in the United States. We train yon thoroly at home in epare time for CP. A. examinations or executive accounting positions. Previous actly as John's room at your house Wakefield men and women believe in experience unnecessary. Training under the personal supervision of WiHiam li. Castenholz. A. M., C. P. A., and a large staff of C. P. belongs to John and Jane's to Jane. their city. A's., including members of the American Institute of Accountants. Write for free book, ''Accountancy, the Profession that Pays.' Doesn't it cost the city an appalling Going deeper into the financial side LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 5361 H, Chicago The World's Largest Business Training institution sum of money? Doesn't each citizen of the administration of the community pay for every bit of such pleasant serv- house, I discovered that it is rented to GRAVE MARKERS ice in high taxation? You would ask a certain extent (though never to indi- for that question, I know, just as I did, the vidual citizens), and that the $11,500 R., WORLD WAR VETERANS, G. A. minute you began to realize to what ex- of annual operation is actually reduced Veteran 1861-1865, S. W. V., tent the building is used. to about $5,000 by a very effective plan V. F. W., S. of U. V. The place has been in operation long which reduces costs to the city at the Send for circular. TRENTON EMBLEM COMPANY enough now to speak with assurance same time it brings great advantage to both as to its use and the cost—it is the citizens. The auditorium is rented 130 Hamilton Ave., Trenton, N. J. no experiment, just undertaken. In the to theatrical and moving picture com- Irritations of the Skin more than three years of operation, the panies and in that way attractions are quickly and permanently relieved by this average yearly cost has been about brought to Wakefield that are a joy to soothing, healing preparation $11,500. The assessed valuation of all. And of course, the community idea LEVANTOL Wakefield is $13,000,000—$11,500 looks is in no way hurt by the taking of rent An ex-service man discovered the formula while treating himself for skin trouble. Now prepared by expert phar- pretty small, relatively, doesn't it? from companies who use the building in macist. It will help you! 50c a jar, prepaid. Talking on this subject with a group this business way. The auditorium is LEVANTOL PHARMACAL CO. of Woman's Club members, I was much the largest and best equipped in that 280 Pearl St., New York City interested to learn their point of view section of the State, and consequently PREPARE FOR AN on the business side of the question. Wakefield has the best attractions that "If the time ever should come," said come to the Upper Peninsula. But public good is CAREB one, "it won't, but if it should, that the even in such renting, the city couldn't pay the upkeep costs, we considered first as illustrated by the people who have learned to use the arrangement with the moving picture —thru the only art school operated building would gladly pay rent for it firm. One part of the consideration in the as a department of a large art organ- contract is that one night a week shall ization, who have actually produced rather than give it, up." over a quarter million drawings for A group of men, approached on the be "family night," when an entire fam- leading advertisers. Commercial ar- ily shall be admitted for the price of a tists trained the "Meyer Both Way" same subject, had equal faith, but a earn as high as $10,000 per year. different point of view. single ticket. Since many of the miner's Home study instruction. Write for fifteen children, illustrated book telling of our suc- "The time will never come," said one families number ten to cessful students. business man, "when we shall give up think what it must mean to take them MEYER BOTH COMPANY having the community house free to all for the cost of one. Supplementing everyone. Our city has a prosperous the financial arrangement is the stipula- Michigan Ave. at 20th St., Dept. 40, Chicage, 111.

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tion that the picture that night shall be watch me!" And, thus hospitably in- one that is interesting to old and young. structed, I began folding. for BEAUTIFUL No wonder "family night"' is one of "It's such a comfort to have a place the most popular institutions in Wake- like this for meetings," said the woman MANSIONS field. next to me. "I never mind bringing But by far the most important tenant my little boy here as I might at a pri- of the community building is the school vate house. He likes it here because °F BUNGALOWS system, which rents the pool and gym- something's going on, and I know he nasium for daily use. The schools of doesn't bother. I couldn't come to the Wakefield are organized separately meeting if I didn't bring him." from the city, and under the capable "This seems like a big home," I re- direction of Superintendent A. W. marked. Clevelger they are giving excellent edu- "You've said the right word," she cational facilities. You'd realize that approved, vigorously. "It's a home for if you could see the beautiful building, the city—we all, feel that it is." the fine equipment (which includes "I should think it would be a fine handsome busses for transporting all place for conventions," I said, as the becomes the pride ofowners and the the children to and from school) and chairman put out another stack of admiration of their friends. The use the large force of capable teachers who plates to be piled with napkins. of autumn birch for in- are well paid and interested in their "It's wonderful," she assured me. brown terior work. The schools of Wakefield would "We know, because we have tried it. trim, veneer paneling, and make a story of their own. We had the Upper Peninsula District doors adds to the worth of your prop' Just on the right of the community Federation Convention last year—Bes- erty. A birch trimmed home, is large junior high school, Wakefield entertained building the semer and them floored with birch, is always a pre' and immediately beyond that is the together and we certainly did enjoy — ferred purchase withjudgesofvalues. first unit of a splendid high school. In having the meetings in this building." view of the fact that the community "What's happening now?" I asked, as house was available and that the needs a clatter on the stairs proclaimed new- of the children were many and press- comers. ing, it was decided to make this first "I expect that's one of the high- unit entirely for academic work—class school cooking classes," remarked some- rooms, laboratories and such. The sec- one, not in the least surprised at the ond unit, soon to be built, will be the thought of an invasion. "You see, very school of industrial arts, for which often the high school classes serve the there is a big demand. The third and suppers at meetings or cook for the as yet not definitely planned-for unit banquets. It gives them a chance to will probably be for physical training. learn quantity cooking. Maybe they In the meantime the school rents the are having such a lesson today. Here! community building pool and gym, thus We're just through! Let's get out of helping with the cost of operation and their way!" All with the most friendly at the same time keeping the commun- air of unannoyed interest in the girls.

ity building in constant use—both im- Sure enough ! It was a cooking class. portant factors in the success of the Come to the community kitchen, not building. There need be no fear that for a regular lesson, but to plan for a

the school will become so self-sufficient project that was to be undertaken later. Dining Room. New York Resi Minium Pinchol, Paneled in that the city will lose a good paying They wanted to assign each girl to a Be tenant either, for as the school build- place and to arrange each task for the The close grain and nearly mar-proof hard* ings increase, the needs also grow, and important enterprise. A jolly, inter- nessof birch make it one of themostenduring and beautiful the community building is conveniently ested-looking class they were too, each permanently interior finishes.

close at hand to help out. anxious to do something, each eager to Likewise, for furniture, birch is an ideal All this renting brings in, on the aver- help the teacher with the lesson. We wood for bringing out and retaining the per- age, some $6,000 annually, which, taken cooks, who are used to one room for fection of fine workmanship— beauty plus from the average cost of $11,500, each person, would think it difficult to serviceability. leaves a modest upkeep for the taxpay- work, elbows together, as they were. GET BEAUTIFUL BROCHURE—FREE It contains ers to shoulder. No wonder they do But the girls obviously enjoyed it and many valuable suggestions on interior finishing and furnishing. Write to not object! worked together without bother or dis- THE BIRCH MANUFACTURERS By two o'clock the Legion rooms traction. 238 F. R. A. Building Oshkosh, Wisconsin were nearly emptied of their members, Before the cooking class was dis- and I wandered into the kitchen, where missed, the Woman's Club meeting had things were beginning to happen. On begun, offering an excellent program of 'BeautifulBirch for the long table in the middle of the room music and lectures on civics and on were piles and piles of plates and gay home economics subjects. Don't tell Beautiful Ttbodwortf paper napkins and around one end, me the Wakefield Community Memorial pulled up companionably close, sat the Building activities are not as varied as social committee of the Woman's Club a three-ring circus— I've been there and (with some of their small sons and I know! 1M& daughters) busily folding napkins, By the way, the Wakefield Woman's Thousands have been waiting for it. A masterpieceasterrnece of counting Americanization concentration. All outstanding features in a nutshell plates and making final ar- Club has put on some — the talisman, of the well-informed and popular rangements for the meeting that was work that is well worth the telling. Sev- traveler. Adds 100% to pleasure and success of your trip. Sells as fast as it comes from Press. Usiful Bon soon to begin. eral times a year they have an Ameri- Voyagt Gtfr , $1 postpaid. Money-back guarantt* "Let me help, too." I said as I pulled canization evening, choosing some par- Gray's Publishing Co., 429 W. 42 St., New VorkJ up a chair alongside. "Shall I begin ticular country that is well represented with this pile?" in Wakefield for the "hostess country" CALLOUSES The social chairman said "Yes!" while of the evening. One of the recent suc- Callonaeg, Bunions yield at once to the wonder- ful medication in this thin, comfortable Jane, aged four, who stood beside me. cessful affairs was given by the Finns, ter. You walk. play, dance in comfort. Tiore nagging foot paina; no dangerous added, "You fold them in the middle, who form a large portion of Wakefield's applications of acids and poison». Medi- cated COMFI-TAPE. so. Then you turn them and fold again population. The women who have lived Stops Pain Instantly —so. And make the pretty flower in in Finland cooked and served the sironer Absorbs all hard growths without injury to healthy flesh. Antiseptic, healing. Send the corner $1 for bit? Bpool and if not satisfied after show on top. Now you of favorite (Continued on page 82) trying. full refund.

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Finnish dishes and of course they "All the people of Wakefield, you wore native costumes and did every- mean?" I asked, wanting to make sure. thing in the most approved Finnish "Oh, no," she corrected me, "free to fashion. After supper there was a dis- everyone. Tourists who come here play of Finnish household art—needle have free use of the park and the bath- work, weaving, pottery and such, and ing beach and also of the camp stoves, during the evening there was a program light, water, wood and playgrounds and of Finnish dancing and music. may attend the dancing parties given The Italians. Swedes. Poles and sev- in the pavilion twice a week. They may eral other countries have had their also come over here to the community "evenings" and all were most success- building and use the pool and showers ful. It seems a kindly, gracious act. and porches." does it not. to say to the newly arrived "It's no wonder you have a reputation BRONZE TABLETS citizen. "You show us some of the for cordial hospitality!" I exclaimed. honokrplls'markers lovely things you admire from your "We try to Live up to it every day." Building tablets- arches country and we'll show you what we she added. And they surely do. memorial fiagp0le5-etg love most in ours/' It gives us, also, All day long the gym had been in a better chance to become a real melt- use. Classes from the high school had Write forfree brochure* ing pot of all the art and skill and followed each other in quick succession, Memorial Department modes of hospitality of other countries and now. at the end of the school day. 1h e FlouhQty Oknam esimJrck& when we have a chance to see methods the room was immediately taken over ZSi7-27nAYZ ^0 rtIKT~IAP0U5 MIRK and customs close at hand. by athletic teams from two of the near- By four o'clock the pkhole building by mines for basketball practice. Be- was a whirl of interest, and yet so well cause of the facilities of the gymnasium, PHOTO ENLARGEMENTS did various organizations work together with its seating capacity of several hun- that there seemed not the slightest dred and its fine spaciousness, basket- Size 16x20 inches Same price for fail length sense of conflict. Three troops of Girl ball is a major sport in Wakefield. or bust form, groups, land* scapes, pet animals, etc., assembled in the Girls' Club Various business and industrial or enlargements of any part Scouts groups of group picture. Safe re- turn of your own original room. Of course, as all good scouts have their teams and the championship pboto guaranteed. 98 know, three troops do not usually meet is hotly contested. Think what that

SEND NO MONEY snapshot 1 any size) and within a week yoo will receive yotrr beantj- at the same time, as the numbers would must mean in the development of fnl life- tike enlargement, size 16x20 in., guaran- teed fadeless. Pay postman 9&c pins postage— be too great for most sorts of work. sportsmanship in a city—as well as of- or send SI. 00 with order and we pay postage. particular occasion they had fering wholesome fun. Special Free Offer g^ra«^ ™ But on this will send FREE a hand-tinted miniature reproduction of photo sent. '"Now Itke advantage now of this offer and send your pboto today. come to rehearse some songs and to you must come to the Dra- UNITED PORTRAIT COMPANY have a sociable hour. Between times matic Club." said my hosts, and they 1652 Ogden Ave., Dept. 335 Chicago, III. of singing—and their songs were charm- took me behind the great curtain onto Hot weather suits for little showed their the stage where the Cool Clothes men. Tropical wor- ing—seven scouts rehearsal for a steds. Fourteen styles. skill at Charlestoning greatly to the de- home-talent play was going on. Wake- Does not wrinkle. Genuine Irish Linens. all. In the Legion rooms field hadn't done much in Twelve styles. Serges. Flannels. Summer Fabrics light of us the way of with Rayon Decorations. Tailored to fit. three troops of Boy Scouts were check- dramatics, I was told, until after the $12 to S19 ing up on their tests and receiving some community building was opened. But to salesmen on each suit. Sells until Au- S3. 00 instructions from their popular with such a stage and with the gust. Excellent side line. Send for outfit today. special knowl- COOL. CLOTHES scoutmaster. You could fairly feel the edge many of the men had picked up Box 156 Rome. Georgia pride of those boys as they showed me in camp that home-talent plays were fun. the German gun. a prized trophy of it was easy to start a club and to make Work for "Uncle Sam" Geroux Post, and played host to the it successful. Many creditable plays visiting guest. Their shoulders set a have been put across, and the calendar RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS bit more manfully because of being in shows that many more are on the way. $1900 to $2700 Year the Legion rooms, and their civic pride By the time I left the building, dark- POSTOFFICE CLERKS was very fine. One could hardly ima- ness had settled over the little city with MAIL CARRIERS gine a better background for the train- its homes, its lake, its wooded hills. ing of citizens. But brilliant lights gleamed from even- Ex-Service Men Get Preference "Too bad it's not summer so you window on every floor of the memorial could see Eddy Park." remarked one of building. In each room a group was the Woman's Club members as I wan- enjoying some activity, neighbors work- Steady Work dered back to their rooms for tea. ing and playing together. No Layoffs "Thousands of motorists visit us every The lights made of the building a Paid Vacations year, and you must plan to come this brilliant monument—not a cold testi- summer." monial carved in stone: mere stone "Visit you." I repeated as I took my however lovely, could never have the Common tea and sandwiches. "That has a nice humanness of that lighted, occupied Education hospitable sound." building—but a memorial carved from Sufficient "That's what we mean to be." she a cross section of human living. Xo. said. "See that pavilion?" She pointed the people of Wakefield will not forget. directly across the little lake. Sunday The ideals we dreamed in war days, the Lake it is called, where I had noticed work we did together, are brought to MAIL .'franklin institute, COUPON / Dopt. J 193. Roche sier, N. Y. a large, open building set on the beach life in the plain sight of even* man. JOJIY / sirs: Rush to me without charge. 32 page book against a background of woods and hill- woman and child in the city, helping SURE with 1) Sample Railway Postal Clerk Coachine: '2 J3 1 List of U- S. Government Jobs now open to Ex- side. "The park and pavilion, named them toward better living, standing for ^> Service Men- (3) Full particulars regarding pref- ^ erence to Ex-Service Men. for Dr. and Mrs. Eddy, who did so finer citizenship, unifying the civic spirit much for Wakefield, are owned by the —a monument to successful community / Name all." / citv and are free to accomplishment. / Address 82 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Received my Inkrtgraph. Am surprised to know how well I can write with it. The Inkograph Is a wonderful little writer, it's my REE lO DAYS TRIAL friend now for good penmanship. I am writing this letter with it; can you tell the difference be- pXthe new tween Inkograph and pen letters? I Can, is my answer. C. R. Fuller, Patterson, Mo. f IMPROVED I received my Inkograph with which I am writing th i s let- ter. I have purchased at least one dozen ink pencils. Yours UheTerfecfWriting Instrument seems to be the only one that [ Kives perfect satisfaction. I be- lieve you have solved the problem of the perfect writing instrument. Dr. Richard T. M'cLaury, GREATEST W*UE EVER OFFERED Dunkirk, Ind. I before has any manufacturer of a standard writ- The Inkograph is truly the best NEVER pen I ever had the pleasure to use $1000 REWARD ing instrument which is guaranteed to give perfect sat- barring no price or make of pen, consideration isfaction, offered so great a value. after I take into you Remember, the high price I usually paid for to anybody who can prove the Inkograph answers the purpose of both pen and pencil com- a Parker, or a Waterman pen, I that these testimonials cannot see how such a low priced bined. Its point is shaped like a fine lead pencil point and pen as the Inkograph can be put were solicited by us. writes with ink free and easy without a miss, skip or blur. Draws on the market and give such un- Inkograph has proven so satis- usual service. Harvey L. Winston, The steady uniform flow of ink actually improves your Brentwood, Calif. factory and has elicited consider- Lines to able favorable comment am enclos- handwriting. Won't blot, scratch, leak or soil hands. In making out local requisi- order, please send me ing money a Ruler tions, it is necessary to make an three more. T. J. Trow, Travel- original and two carbon copies on ing Claim Agent, Joplin. Mo. You who already possess a standard fountain pen Without very heavy paper, and the Inko- smearing graph docs this twice as well as The Inkograph fully justifies all will find the Inkograph a most valuable addition to , pencil, and claims you make. I own a Water- smudging or the haidest indelible your writing equipment, for it will do everything neater the original is man but Inkograph is far prefer- blurring the is much and much more legible. able. Frank R. Sargent, any fountain pen can do and many very important paper. Writes Oakland. Calif. Wm. L. Fortney, Placerville, la. things which it is impossible to accomplish with with any color Tour Inkograph is everything Tou have one of the best writ- of ink. state. It is just wonderful. ing instruments I ever used re- any fountain pen at any price. you two more. gardless of price. I use the low- Bo send me Requires Arthur Ollcott, Tucker, La. est grade stationery and there is Combines the Best Features never a blot or scratch because of No Blotter Gave pen thorough tryout. En- It's round smcoth point. It is a of both pen and pencil, minus the weak points of closed find sample of work I have wonderful invention. L. H. Orley, The ink dries as fast usinT both, plus improvements not found in either. to perform, Have been Albano, Va. as you write, because Never got entire satis- pencil the point pencil. The lead smudges, breaks and pencil makes orig- Oh boy, I am tickled skinny to the flow is fine, even faction. Hard its writing soon is obliterated. Most fountain inal too pale and soft pencil have the Inkograph. it's a darling. and uniform. pens skip, scratch, flood, clog, leak, blot, soil highly can now make carbon copies in makes poor copy. I am I Cooper. Inquiry taking orderB and send original In hands and clothing. The old stylographic ink pleased. 9. M. Patent Division, Bend, Ind. Ink to factory instead of a pencil- pencil dries up, balks, blots, writes heavy, P. O., South surely flows over the ed sheet. It flows unevenly and is never reliable. The Ink- Automatic Feed I found the Inkograph all you paper as if it was grease instead ograph feeds as fast and uniform on the represent it to be and I was very trouble a Prevents clogging. No of ink. No at all and well satisfied with it. I made a 20th page as it did on the first. thing I could not do before to complicated mechanism to great mistake when I bought the trace straight lines very fine and clean or get out of order. A Inkograph. as I did not take out clean. No smear, no muss of any Cannot Leak year's guarantee certificate Loss or Theft Insurance on the kind. It's just great. pen, for the pen Is gone. 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It is sure, sane and clean and always t sufficient. Pay postman Mark X Here You IVcuit Ladies' Style ready to use. I am very well // ' deliv- pleased with it. J. E. Rampton, $1.50, plus postage on Pensacola, Fla. f ery. When cash accompanies INKOGRAPH CO., Inc. * order, Inkograph will be sent 197-29 Centre St., York, Y. prepaid. If within ten New N. I postage Gentlemen: You may send your Inkograph. t days the Inkograph does not me I will pay CENTS- postman $1.50, plus postage on delivery. 0 prove satisfactory return it and Sell Inkographs, make bigger profits, 1 we'll refund your money without more sales, Name without investment. E further correspondence. It is be- Quicker commissions, popular prices, t cause we are sure the Inkograph will no competition. Send for an Inko- ' meet your requirements to perfection Address graph or write for special sales plan f that makes it possible for us to make booklet. * you so attractive an offer. City State MAY, 1927 83 . )

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Second A.E.F. (Continued from page 17) of Will you be one the thousands Americans and that there is no real need from former officers and enlisted men, who are going to live the old for others on the battlefields. The Com- a large number of whom were reached times over again—but under far mission believes that all other American through the columns of The American happier circumstances? Are you memorials erected over there should be Legion's magazine. to of going be one those having a of a character useful to the inhabitants The historical research of the Com- dandy time visiting the old places of the locality in which they are placed. mission and its preliminary investiga- after the big Paris Convention ? It should be remembered that there tions in Europe early revealed the need Join the Second A. E. F.—go are but few French, British, Belgian or of an accurate guidebook to the Ameri- with the buddies. Take a lei- Italian monuments, and it is improbable can battlefields. The most widely cir- surely tour around France, Bel- that many will be erected on these bat- culated books giving information about gium, England, Germany, with tlefields, nor should we forget that our activities are of foreign compila- Dean & Dawson's— official agentsts. many of these fields had been cour- tion and are full of errors. Those in- One week in London (from Paris) ageously fought over by the Allies be- dividual guides conducting tourists who for $65. Other tours up to fore we arrived, and all of them have have come under our observation give $485 for 40 days. Call or been battle grounds at some time or very incomplete and misleading accounts write for booklet "Post other in the past. of the American fighting. The Commis- Convention -Tours." In the completion of its task, the sion has been working for some time on L Commission is exercising great care that the preparation of the guidebook, and all data recorded by inscriptions on Congress has recently authorized its DEAN & DAWSON, Ltd. monuments and tablets shall be accu- publication. It will be the official guide rate. In many instances the original and will contain in brief form a sum- 500 Fifth Avenue, New York records of units have been found to be mary of the American effort. confusing or contradictory and it has Such, in outline, is the work of the required voluminous research to ascer- American Battle Monuments Commis- tain the actual facts. It has often taken sion. We are attempting fittingly to Reduced 50% months to determine which division discharge the sacred duty entrusted to £59 should be entitled to credit as the cap- us as the American people and the vet- FAMOUS 0 NL ft YT fV* tors of this or that position. Valuable erans of the World War would have it z^«V OWATCH \J data, which has become a part of the done—with accuracy, with modesty, and permanent archives, has been obtained with reverence.

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pr 8DAYS - ONE WINDING also see that the boys have bats and membership and endowment drives. He balls and a place to play. has found plenty to do and is doing it. PATENTS T£ei£k He is a master binder of harmony and MUNN & CO. endeavor. It was thought that after so law- big an urge, membership might wane. Associated for 8 1 years with the Scientific American There Will Always be enough 1577 Scientific American Building yers. An overstock encourages litiga- It is growing, the Legion is finding 24 West 40th Street. New York City tion. When practicing law becomes a itself, being welded in healthy progress. 568 Scientific American Bldg.. Washington, D. C. 1355 Tower Building, Chicago, III. popular sport jus- Hobart Building, San Francisco, Cal. 692 p, tice may suffer. 575 Van Nuys Building, Los Anieles. Cal. Educate The movement that Because So Many Legionnaires did so 4Hr* MH9STUDY AT HOME the Lawyers Bn nft «H» MB! JV Become a lawyer Legally trained 5et ter education much walking in the war does the idea BBH mHBn vinJHRHr men wm n '^n positions and big WSSSa fiSn^Ba wSsBRBffiff success in business and public life. preclude ad- prevail that they never ride in peace? S9r Be independent. Greater opportuni- must I^B HwBHff ties now than ever before Big corpo- ^HH^B. with legal to the bar is a practicable form That they got so JgKF*fflfi&L_ TOT Hwratinns are headed by men mission HH^^k H^Mnr ^yUaining. Law-trained men earn $5,0OO to $10,000 Annually of restriction. It is with the lawyer to use <° carrying WB?^a&^ home dur- No Cars In ^Rnffl We guide yoa step by step. You can train at J that they dis- ^^^^B^HT>n? Bpare time. Degree of LL.B. conferred. Laballo dignify the law or desecrate it. If he ^, r a packs ^"^^^^Rtudents found among practicing attorneys of every the Legion? Law state. We furniiih all text material, including fourteen-volume advises honestly and wisely he keeps ^ wheds? Do Libr.trv. <•• t. t-a-.v t.-rms. <;,-L..ur v:ilijaU.- lns-p:,^.- Law Guide" and "Evidence" bookB free. Send for them NOW us out of court unnecessarily. A lawyer they still use horse- LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 5361-L, Chicngo The World's Lamest Business Training Institution with the right training and character drawn wagons to deliver goods? Do will be looked up to in the community they never buy automobiles of any and not be called a shyster. kind? If so, that explains the economic r mystery of why, when I look over the 0NtY pages of our excellent Monthly, I find Charger C so few automobile advertisements. They Say That the man who is the SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Charges any type of Legion's own for a year, met at train battery, storage A or B in his rapid travels by such warm using a few cents worth steps of ordinary house current, hospitality, should While Our Own bill still hangs fire alternating or di- either draft rect. Cannot Injure bat- c _ r\ be rubber tired, of the French parliament passes a tery. Complete directions Savage On ^ endurance and bill. When war begins man-power, cap- enclosed. Anyone can op- expensive His oes e r a t e. No 1 proof against sore ital, everv human "extras" to buy. Why pay $10.00 to $15.00 for throat. Commander m e l ™* a charger when you can France Shows h , , will be fdrafted.f No get this splendidGI'AK- Savage makes his big task seem easy. w ANTEED R. B. Charg- the way i one ma s ac k. n0 er by mailing us two dol- He thrives on his job; his is the hap- y (bills, money order, lars piest smile of all present wherever Le- one may profiteer. check or stamps) plus ten cents in stamps or will be coin to pay mailing costs. Charger gionnaires greet him. We no longer "It gives greater security than in the sent postpaid. If you are not satisfied, return within five days and we will refund your ask the question of what there was for past with less risk of war," says Paul money. Order at once—TODAY. to do coming into office after the Boncour very wisely. R. B. SPECIALTY CO. him Depi. K-1, 308 East Third St.. Cincinnati, 0. Monthly 84 The AMERICAN LEGION Fit the Why I J&ve in Taris First T>ay ( Continued from page 21) The political, religious, or economic. That is he advocate abuse. In Millville I was

why many of the expatriates lose their formerly an ardent prohibitionist ; I Newport politics and their religion. Naturally, the even made speeches for the cause; I No. 5583 exile won't call attention to the wart on stigmatized all liquor as "distilled dam- his hostess's nose (assuming that she has nation.'' Here in Paris I have taken a a wart, which I deny), but aside from saner, more human view; I am still a that we can air our opinions, preju- fervid advocate of temperance and an dices and whims without restraint. If admirer of voluntary, total abstinence; we criticize the national idols such as I abhor all excess, and I am convinced that intoxicating liq- Suzanne L e n g 1 e n, Mistinguett or with the Psalmist Georges Carpentier, we can expect uor, consumed intemperately, is "the heated retorts, but even the most ar- poison of serpents, and the venom of dent Frenchman would never think of asps." But I am persuaded that drink- muzzling our mouths. ing a glass of wine or a beaker of beer Morals may not be a matter of is not a sin, and no law, no Constitu- geography, but manners are, and the tional amendment, can ever make it so. Dignified Class! man from Hometown, U. S. A., often I refuse to believe that the French peas- That's what you find in Osteo- adopts a different code upon being self- ant, who moistens and enlivens his fru- path-iks— the shoes favored by exiled in Paris. Oh, yes! There are gal fare with a glass of wine, is com- college and business men. An scores of things I do regularly in Paris mitting a crime. Used in moderation, appealing which I wouldn't do in Millville. I wine has no evil effects; instead, it aids up-to-minute style wouldn't dare carry a cane down Main digestion, stimulates wit, creates joy to every individual taste. And Street (they would accuse me of being and promotes comradeship. My Mill- comfort — just step into a a snob) while on the Champs Elysees ville friends would condemn me for pair — walk up and down the I hardly dare take my Sunday afternoon such heresy, but I am thoroughly Bib- room — what a difference! stroll without one for fear of being con- lical; I make St. Paul's standard my sidered peculiar. Back home I wouldn't own, "Take a little wine for your stom- Read about then in our new book- -y.OU.. dare kiss my father-in-law or my wife's ach's sake," while calling attention to let "Walk for V H ealth in Osleo- in public, since it might arouse the fact that his advice did not include uncle paih-iks." Send suspicions as to my normalcy ; here in bootleg booze or distilled dynamite. Of for a copy. Most Osteo-path-ik Paris it's an obligatory rite. course France has not yet found the styles £6.50. In Millville I wouldn't dare go to a remedy for alcoholism, but I believe that ALLEN SPIEGEL SHOE MFG. CO. theatre on Sunday night (assuming that her system of free-will temperance is 155 Grand Avenue Belgium. Wis. one was open), while in Paris I do so infinitely superior to the prohibitionist quite regularly. Back home I wouldn't panacea of compulsory goodness by law. dare offer wine to my guests, if I had In truth, since coming to Paris I have any to offer; in Paris I haven't courage lost my youthful faith in the ability of enough to refrain from doing so, and law to effect moral reforms. Con- ®§to@-]pfililhi-n^ mellow Bordeaux are scripted virtue doesn't work; it never sweet Anjou or ALL GOOD LEATHER I constantly on my table. The preacher yet produced a saint. Manhood and in Millville wouldn't dare smoke a womanhood cannot be created by legis- cigarette, even in the secrecy of his lative enactment; they are the fruit of study, but the American preacher in voluntary self-development. This is Paris smokes his Chesterfields in public, perhaps the principal truth which exile and the Ladies Aid Society refuses to in France has taught me. get excited over the fact. It's all a When I came to Paris I knew the matter of pressure or atmosphere; in difference between a fresco and a fire- Millville the pressure is (or was, when plug, between a Gothic church and a To Introduce I left home) all towards Puritanical Ford automobile, but aside from that & Use HYDRO severity; in Paris it's all the other way. my knowledge of art was blank and \ Insured TIRES Inevitably, the fundamentals of de- bleak nothingness. True, it wasn't my Hydro Agentsmake money selling [ cency, honesty, fair play and truth are fault alma mater, for some mys- the only Tires in the World Insured ; my for One Year against ail road constant, whether in Arctic Nome or terious reason, hadn't put art in the re- hazards regardless of mileage. HYDRO TIRES sell fast because tropical Timbuctoo; neither longitude quired portion of the curriculum, and they have nocompetition in price; nor latitude can affect their sovereignty. so artistic education suffered. Since no rival in quality; no imitation in my appearance and no equal in the But in Millville. to the pure almost then I have been exposed to the Parisian Insured Protection to the user. Insurance Policy with every tire. everything was rotten; in Paris, we art microbe, and if my knowledge of American exiles refuse to read evil into painting, sculpture and architecture re- innocent acts. After all, evil is merely mains amateurish, at least HYDRO sketchy and a perversion of good, and things are a new value has been added to my life, Hie Moil good or bad as we use or abuse them. namely, that of art and beauty. For I are made by the only tire factory in There may be exceptions to that rule, have experienced a revaluation of values, America selling its own product through authorized Salesmen-Agents. but I have never found them. So, my and the yardstick of my salad days has We offer opportunity of lifetime to establish profitable tire busi- sojourn in Paris has convinced me of been thrown into the garbage can. es* of your own. No capital iquired. Sales kit and adver- the sanity and accuracy of Omar's atti- Personally. I never measured life in Raited- Bins i»e'ps furnished. Excla- j^BY THIS ve territory granted. Write VwRITTrtN POLICY ilav for Catalog and complete tude toward wine: terms of dollar marks or golf scores, but formation about the Hydro Kency Flan. A Blessing, we should use it, should we my parents used the old fashioned tape- not? line of goodness or virtue: today I And if a Curse—why, then, who set it realize its imperfections, since virtue is there? often bigoted, tyrannical and repulsive Omar was precise in his language; he in its ferocity. Later my professors Hydro -United Tire Corp. Address nearest branch said, "We should use it," but never did taught me (Continued on page 86) Dept. 49 HYDRO-UNITED TIRE CORP Pottstown Pa. Millersburg, O.

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: leather-lined, er at the altar of science: now 1 am con- And still there are some imbeciles who. felt add ins p Reach the word has no French welted seams vinced that truth is a defective unit because home ; p ro fes_ fully reinforced, sional. of measurement because it is often equivalent, assert that the institution Boys' sizes. S3. Oiled. ugly, cruel and inhuman. Finally, Paris does not exist in France! Send Check or Mone Order acquainted me with a third and perhaps The average American exile can*t ex- the noblest criterion of all—beauty. I plain why he is in France. He thinks question whether it is the supreme ideal, he knows, but he doesn't. He rhapso- because beauty is sometimes false and dizes about the charms of Paris, but if shallow, but its opposite vice—ugliness you ask him to define those charms he —is certainly one of the unpardonable hems and haws and stutters and finally sins. seeks refuge in an awkward silence. Or $5 Catcher's However, I have not deserted either he may reply. '"Because Paris is the art Mask $2-50 virtue or truth as exploded ideals; I center of the world," but when you machine Special still retain them, but attempt as well as question him you learn he hasn"t been I can to blend these everlasting ideals to the Louvre once in five years, and -Made to Measure' with beauty. that his acquaintance with art is limited $ of all is the studio apartment. Perhaps Baseball Uniforms 6 jar But the supreme science to renting a are Other Uniforms to Order S8.S0 and art of living, and in this the French he will blame his presence in Paris on SU.50. Write for Swatch Book. Easy past masters. They may lack our me- music, but cross-examination reveals Self - Measurement Blanks and Spe- less cial Bargain Sheet. chanical appliances, they may be that the only music he has heard in businesslike, but they certainly get more twelve months was produced by the jazz M. & H. SPORTING GOODS CO. delight out of living than Americans do band — sometimes native, sometimes 512 Market St., Phila., Pa. ESTABLISHED 30 YEARS ^= in the haste, bluster and dirt of our in- American—in the Casino de Paris or the dustrial cities. The Frenchman takes Moulin Rouge. "Paris is so poetic." he time to live; he is not overly ambitious; mutters, and then you discover that the he is not constantly in a hurry; and he closest he ever got to poetry was one extracts from the routine events of life afternoon at the Cafe du Dome, where he —the evening aperitif, the beefsteak accidentally bumped into a would-be smothered in onions, the friendly inter- versifier whose poetry is still in the fu- course of the family council every ture tense. Of course, if he tells you he

. - To Show My Mystery New bit of enjoyment that they can possibly came over to escape prohibition, he is Cigarette Lighter to Men ^ bestow. We American exiles are for- likely telling the truth, as his rum- I with : ^Wjg^P \ Quick easy profits for you this if amazing invention. Lights cigar- tunate in receiving instructions from scented breath or rubicund nose (or 'ifc^- ettes and cigars in strongest wind. New principle of ignition. Does these specialists in the science of living. possibly his Parisian police record) will work of expensive lighters, but of our American demonstrate. I not deny that real \.*>ll* for only 50c. Guaranteed So we shed some do 'for 10 years. habits: we abandon the cafeteria mode poets and genuine artists exist in Paris, Men Making Big Money of existence: we adopt a more leisurely but in the American colony they are Elmers sold 4S in one day. Johnson cleaned up $63.00 in two days. No experience necessary. Work full or manner of life: we take two hours for few and far between, while the would- spare time. Send $3.00 for dozen lighters or 50c for agent's sample. Yoa make IWQb clear profit. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. pleasant, be's false-alarms are in the great M ASTERLlTE MFG. CO., luncheon: we idle in the mus- and New York Citj D««k E-21 110 E. 23rd St. ical atmosphere of the sidewalk cafe; majority. we take time to eat—to play—to get Many exiles like myself, however, cMerts Strap "Watch acquainted with our families—to rest will readily confess that a little French z\direct from Switzerland to Live! girl was to blame for it all. which has guaranteed %i This fully , A A/) watch cannot be manufactured \ ^ These impromptu confessions would the advantage of being truthful and un- in America for less than $12. Yd J snockproof jeweled movement be incomplete if I neglected to pay derstandable. Undoubtedly Paris has —tells time in darkness. Silveroid ecjrraved. genuine L earn- —Cashion -shaped case, with tribute to the life stimulated my mental life; acquaintance er strap. engraved dial,—accurals, durante. French home which Send No Money. Pay on delivery S3J» plua with another language, another civiliza- postage. "Federal" V. S. Swiss Agents. we American exiles, wedded to French W-iO 561 Broadway. New York City, Dept. wives, are permitted to enjoy. In tion, has widened my intellectual hori- France the home is more than a place zon: freedom from absurd restraints and to sleep, to eat. to hang up your hat. taboos has been a delightful boon; but of all Poultry Books FREE It is the veritable social unit, the de- I would be a triple liar and an unmiti- How to Mjke Big Money in Pouttry Shows ^| as reasons ^vy V QaiBenberry's NewWay insures great- lightful, wholesome joys of which ex- gated snob if I gave these my e ey true ex- \ L^^.-j^ WRITE TO-Mf ceed all others. Loyalty to his family is for remaining in France. The V:.l?FulIy7x- the distinguishing trait of the French- planation is much simpler and more man, despite the lopsided pictures of human; it consists of Madame Dough- boy and our daughter Juliet. They are ERICAN POULTRY SCHOOL family life painted by French novelists Kansas Crty. Mo. in Dept. 7 1 (for which they ought to be drowned the irresistible magnets that hold me in the Seine). In France no paterfamilias Paris; they symbolize romance made in would allow his family circle to be real. Perhaps we could be happy broken into five or six segments, at meal America, but we are unwilling to try time, as so often occurs in America. the experiment just now. Some day No: the evening repast takes on the perhaps we will. For the moment, how-

( ) Meat inspector Railway Mail Clerk character of a sacrament, a holy rite to ever. I remain in Paris, a contented P. O. Clerk ( ) Special Agent (investigator) always I Forest Banger which the stranger is seldom invited. exile, a voluntary expatriate, but ) File Clerk ( ) Stenographer- Typist Immigrant Inspector an alien. That is the price of my pres- ) Matron ( ) Forgetting the cares of the workaday ) General Clerfc ( ) City Mail Carrier ent happiness, and I am perfectly will- ) Chauffeur-Carrier ( ) C. S. Border Patrol world, the French family gathers at

) Skilled Laborer ( ) Typist night-time for friendly converse, for the ing to pay it. My father abandoned ) Watchman ( ) Seamstress Steno-Secretary ) Postmaster ( ) exchange of confidences, for a true com- Europe to find happiness in America: I ) RFD Carrier ( ) Auditor Mr. Ozment. Dept. 1 10. St. Louis. Mo. munion of souls. After participating in have merely reversed the process. So me particulars about positions marked Send one of these friendly family meals the far. neither of us has regretted our con- "X"—salaries, locati on3, opportunities, etc. NAME American visitor begins to realize why trarv courses across the Atlantic. ADDRESS — The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —)

Our "Blood Will Tell 50th Birthday Sale BUY Celebrating our 50th Annivers- ary, we are offering these big TODAY (Continued from page 48) specials at prices unheard of be* fore. Convince yourself; exam* Ine the article of your choice The Modern without obligation. Simply send the wire a whisker in front of Mrs. confident that they would carry on the your name and address with the Way deposit mentioned, and Every one-two finish for Idle Farm. your Ross" courageous representative. Hour And choice will come for approval Terms as low at end a that day knew when they finished in those positions 15 day trial, if you can dup- horseman at Lexington licate your purchase for less money elsewhere, Si before the official time was posted that my "thrill flower" became a bouquet. send it back ^ end your deposit will be refund* i Down Believe Idle Hour had equalled, if not When my friends hear me singing the ed. If satisfied, pay the balance In 10 equal monthly payments. beaten the track record. She had praises of Bubbling Over they some- Our Charge System is simple, easy, convenient. Prompt dellv* all stepped about six furlongs in i.ogi/5, times ask me if he of the horses I've ery. no difficulty, no Interest charge, everything which put her on an even basis with the bred and raced, is the one I loved best. confidential. Gent's 14-karat green gold Ring record holder for the distance. Sometimes when I'm with the beauti- -ith white g*ld top; AAI blue-white ? nd - *S5* S5 with order $6 a The great thrill of that race was in ful chestnut, when he puts his soft muz- B. True Lovers Knot Engagement knowing that I had bred and raised zle against my cheek, I realize that he Ring, hand carved in 13-karat white fold; AAI blue. white diamond. Believe Idle Hour; that she had vindi- is very dear to me, but always between 6S. $5 with order, $6 a month. C. Artistic design 18-karat white judgment in breeding Cunard the Bubbler and me stands yes. you've gold Kin?; AAI blue-white dia- cated my — mond. $50. $3 with order: 54.70 a month. to Love Not, and her subsequent races guessed it—a woman—a little filly that D. 18-karat white gold carved Wed-\ to satisfaction at least that is dearer to me than anything I possess. dtng King- five blue-white dia- proved my monds. $29.50. $2 with order: $2.75 a montb. she was one of the greatest mares that Her name is Bit of White! E. U-karat white gold Gent's In- of Kentucky. You'll forgive a man who is flirting itial Ring- Old English Initial on ever came out genuine Onyx. Mention Initial. $22.50. $1 with order; $2.15 Thrills sometimes are cumulative. with the threescore and ten mark if he a montb. At least I got mine that way in 1926 grows a bit sentimental about a little when horses that I had bred finished mare which he has known from birth one-two in so many Derbies and Stake a mare which he has nursed through races that my enthusiastic friend Jimmy sickness, ate with, slept with, hugged Davenport, turf writer for the Morning to his breast a thousand times? Yes. Telegraph—Running Horse thrust upon I'm sure you will, especially when I me the title " One-two Ed." tell you that whenever I see her my Bagenbaggage, that good chestnut heart beats faster, my eyes get misty colt by Under Fire out of Blushing and over me comes the joyous feeling Beauty, coupled with Boot to Boot that a man gets when he sees the sweet- started the one-two finishes in the Idle heart from whom he has been separated Hour Farm colors at New Orleans on for a long, long time. March 17, when they ran one-two, fin- Bit of White is going on nine years ishing in the order named, in the Louis- of age now but it seems only yesterday iana Derby at Jefferson Park. Bub- that she gave me one of the greatest bling Over and Boot to Boot furnished if not the greatest thrill of my life. the next one-two finish in the green and It was at Churchill Downs in the In- white silks when they took first and dian summer of 1021. This brown second places in the Preparation Stakes daughter of Sun Star—Dreamy II. then at Lexington a little more than a month a three-year-old, was entered in the later. Three days later when Bagen- Louisville Cup, a two-mile event which baggage and Barcola ran one-two in the brought together many of the best dis- Your Outfit's Photograph '17, '18 or '19 your organization was pho- at the same track the cumu- tance thoroughbreds of the day. In Midway tographed. It's the only photograph of the lative thrill of which I speak began to Bit of White had trained well that "bunch" as you and they were then. It can never be taken again. Get a copy now. while take seed. It grew and budded a week season and was at the top of her form, you can, for your children and their children's later when Bubbling Over and Boot to but I hardly expected her to do any- children. If your outfit was photographed we can supply it. Give full name of organization, Boot finished in the order named in the thing phenomenal that particular after- camp and date. Price S3. 00. Blue Grass Stakes at Lexington. When, noon. But COLE & CO., Asbury Park, N. J. on May 15. the grand "Bubbler"' and Well, here's what she did. who derive largest profits Bagenbaggage. finished The moment the barrier went she his stable mate, up INVENTORS know and heed first and second, respectively, in the was off like the wind. Jockey Eddie certain simple hut vital facts before applying for Patents. Our Fifty-second running of the Kentucky Barnes had the leg up and he gave her book Patent-Sense gives these facts ; sent free. Derby, that thrill burst forth in full a wonderful ride. She set a terrific pace Write. bloom. It was a duplication of the feat from the start stepping the first quarter Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St., Wash., D. C. performed by Behave Yourself and in 241/5, the half in 47 4 '5. three- Estab. 1869 Numerous Leeionnaire References Black Servant back in 1021. when those quarters in 1. 12 2 '5. the mile in 1.38. two great performers carried the Idle mile and a quarter in 2.04 2 '5, mile and s colors to victory. half in 7 A Lifetime Watch ! Hour Farm a 2.30 4 5. mile and three-quar- I had long known that Bubbling Over ters in 2.57 and the two miles in Sent for was a great horse—the greatest horse in 3.223/5. She won from Humphrey, '00 training, in my estimation—and I was the chief contender, by fifteen lengths anxious for him to add just one more and clipped three full seconds off the DOWN leaf to his laurel crown—the Latonia track record. Derby. That he would have won that If you will analyze ' the fractional STUDEBAKERJ 21 event, had he not met with the accident time of that marvelous race you will 9he Insured WatcK. JeweU

which threw him out of training. I see that Bit of White ran the last quar- Only $1.00 down I Balaneeineasymonthly / payments. So good we insure it for your haven't the slightest doubt. Before ter in 253 5 seconds, which was but lifetime. 21 Ruby and Sapphire Jewels. 8 adjustments including heat, cold, iso- that believed, still mishap I and believe, one and two-fifths slower than she chronisro positions. Mag nificent and 6 Amazingly accurate. Sold direct from factory at that Bubbling Over is the only horse in stepped the first. W a t f rk » JL___ lowest prices- You save at least 30%. the world that could have run a quarter It took her just three-fifths of a sec- FREE! Over 100,000 sold. Investigate! For a limited of a mile in 21 seconds. than time we are Write for FREE CATALOG ond longer to run the Derby Route offering an ex- Send at once for our SI. 00 down offer and quisite watch beautiful sfz color catalog showing 60 new- With the "Bubbler" in no fit condi- Old Rosebud ran it when he established chain FREE. est Art Beauty cases. Latestdesignsln yel- Write atonce— low gold, green gold and white gold effects. tion to compete in the Latonia Derby the track record of 2.034/5. while this offer Wen's strap watches and Ladles' bracelet lasts. watches also. Special sale now on. Write/ I sent the old stand-bys. Bagenbaggage is in xiev This in itself remarkable STUDEBAKER WATCH CO., Dept X718 South Bend. Indijnj WATCHES • DIAMONDS • JEWELRY and Boot to Boot, to the post perfectly of the fact ( Continued on page 88 — Canadian Addrt** Windsor , Ontario

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A successful shave is made up of three things — "Blood Will Tell a good brush, a good lather, ( Continued from page 8j and a good razor. that fillies are not considered equal her body, had the courage of a con- j^B|| We will supply the first to colts in distance running. Only queror, the smoothness of a machine Xj .'' requirement with a once in fifty-two years has a filly and the gentleness of a house pet. WHITING- won the Kentucky Derby and that ex- Yes, I can truthfully say that Bit of ception was marked up by Regret which White is my best beloved. I never see ) ADAMS came home in the Kentucky Derby of her that I do thrill Vulcan not to my finger Rubber Cemented 1015. I'm morally certain that Bit of tips. And when I recall her as she Shaving Brush White could have equalled Old Rose- came down the stretch in that race at bud's time that day had the race been Churchill Downs, giving everything she The you. othertwoare upto over the mile and a quarter route as had of courage, stamina and speed, a Thisfamousnameon a shav- she was never urged from the mile to lump comes into my throat and I can ing I -rush is a guaranteethat you are getting a good brush. the mile and a quarter post. weep—unashamed. Bit of White could and did win at Sell her? Not for a million dollars, any distance. She was one of the most cash on the table. There are some dependable racers I ever owned. She things money can't buy. And Bit of was game to the last drop of blood in White is one of them. WHITING-ADAMS BO STON BRUSH MAKERS FOR 118 YEARS They ^Also ^erve

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of Ern Givens and Rogan for many a onel recommends me for a captaincy, day they were hiking off to quarters, and the brigadier endorses the appli- g, steady with little Demmy trotting along at cation favorably, the commanding gen- 'inrome, city or h the itry. ? "J 0 . n n or mure Rogan's heels. I had gathered from eral will probably veto it. I fear it was ekly full time— $5.00 to conversation, that the commanding gen- an unlucky day for me when I met The r - $10.00 a day spare time. Segal of Ohio made as high as $33.00 in m eral seldom visited or inspected the Re- Professor." one day. Hutchins tailored-to-mea- \j sure trousers, knickers and riding mount Station, so Rogan was going to "You met me the same day, didn't breeches sell at sight. Better quality, lower prices, bigger variety bring or- take a chance and maintain his dog you?" Mary rebuked him. Your profit ders quick, sure, easy. caught. J 1.0 0 to every order. Pay every day. there until he got Evidently That shut Sam Burwell up. Outfit and Trousers FREE the commanding officer of the station "Well?" Mary pressed for an answer. Let me take your measure for tailored trouaem and send yoi was a dog man, too, because I saw a "I can afford to lose my grand men, Spring and summer outfit FREE no red tape, no delay. Send narr ml ,„Mr collie dog asleep on his front porch, and of course. Soldiers are always expend- on postal. Best season right now HUTCHINS PANTS CO. there was a stubby-tailed mongrel sniff- able, but wives are not. No, Mary, I Dept. 180-E Cincinnati. Ohio ing around among the horses milling in cannot afford to lose you." the corral. "When your regiment is sent abroad, IRRITATING RASHES" dear," Mary inquired, "what will you do For quick, lasting relief from Chapter XV with The Professor?" itching and burning, doctors prescribe "I'll return him to Private Givens at Sam Burwell rode Dandy back to the the Remount Station. While it's against General Hospital at Fort Sill and I Regulations for an enlisted man to trotted along behind him. Miss Mary maintain his private mount at Govern- Resinol Vardon was waiting for us there, so 1 ment expense, the fact remains that knelt and she mounted me and we went Givens is doing a lot of rough riding for a long ride up toward the Wichita over there and he could use a grand haz- FOREST RANGERS National Forest. Sam told Mary all ing horse like The Professor. He tells Men, get Forest Ranger job $125- ; about the loss of his two good men and me there isn't a decent hazing horse in $200 mo. and home furnished per- ; why and she was furious and said that the Remount corrals, so I imagine the manent hunt, fish, trap. For de- ; the next time they had a dance over at commanding officer of the Remount tails, write the hospital and the commanding gen- Station will wink at a breach of the law NORTON, 274 NIcMann Bldg., Denver, Colo. eral asked her for a dance (it seems he that helps along his job. Most officers had a habit of asking her several times do—if they expect to get anywhere. at every dance) she'd refuse him. "And Red tape won't do in war time." ti sliermen! if he persists, as he probably will, Pro- "But if Private Givens should be or- Write for V.L.& A.'s new tackle fessor, darling," she said, giving me a dered abroad also?" and camping goods catalog. Sent to you free. Finest tackle at lowest prices. pat on the neck, "I'll tell him what I "I do not think he will. If he should Promp t service. Money back guarantee. Write today. Ask for catalog N0.70W think of him." be it will probably be to care for horses VON LENGERKE & ANTOINE "Careful, Mary," Sam warned. and mules on a transport and when that 33 S. Wabash Ave. CHICACO. ILL. "You're in the army now." work is done he will be ordered back. "Nevertheless, my dear," said Mary, He's too valuable a man here—knows You can now Own a laughing, "I'm a woman and I can get too much about breaking horses. The away with murder. We nurses are not horses sent to France are supposed to Typewriter/ supposed to be so military that we must have been broken before shipment, you 3^ down and its yours hold that punctured balloon in awe. understand. So Givens will probably Guaranteed 5 years Besides, I'm not in his jurisdiction." fight the war in no graver danger than Small Monthly Payments "I wish I were not," Sam sighed. that of being thrown and rolled on or Free Course in Typing "He'll try to buy my horse, of course. bitten—and he's used to taking those Send JMnv for He has one soldierly quality. He chances in civil life. If he has to get Bigfree Book doesn't quit readily. And of course I rid of The Professor, I'll instruct him Shipman-Ward Mfg. Co., 2515 Shipman cannot sell him The Professor at any (o pay the expressage. Then if Givens Bldg., Chicago price and of course, too, when my col- survives the war he will know where to

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TAKES 10 MINUTES TO find his horse; if he does not survive view—not for the Old Man, but for the war and I do, / will know where to Tip! Perhaps, then, the regiment will find The Professor again. It's all quite be massed and the Old Man will make a simple." speech and tell his men of old Tip's "I wish I might have The Professor service and his honorable wounds ac- for my very own," Mary replied. quired on foreign battlefields. Prob- "If you survive the war, darling, ably he'll tell his men to emulate Tip, we'll see what arrangements can be made who never quit, never flunked his job with Givens." and was always faithful. Then the "No, we'll not. I was merely wish- band will play 'Aloha' and Tip will be ing, my dear. There will be no attempt led off the parade ground to live the life to separate him and his horse. There's of Reilly—all play and no work and a Elld Foot been much too much of that already, nice pasture to frolic in until he dies. and Sam." And when he dies he will be mentioned That was Mary Vardon—one of t-he again in regimental orders and hauled to Leg Pains grandest feminine sports that ever his grave on the horse ambulance and Amazing new device offers lived. My heart rejoiced that she was have taps and the three volleys and a fastest way known going to be our Sammy's mate; even headstone erected over him. And part Burning, aching feet and legs — cramps in toes, foot calluses, pains having a few of the fatigue for the guardhouse sol- in the toes, dour old Dandy was instep, hall or heel — dull ache in the thoughts on the subject just then. diers will be to keep his grave green." ankle, calf or knee—shooting: pains, flat- tening and spreading of the feet, sagging "The get of these two should be "I don't believe it," Dandy declared. arches — all can now be quickly ended. thoroughbreds, Prof," he nickered to "I do. Dandy." I replied. "Did you SLIP a new and amazing band on the most j painful feet. Within 10 minutes every trace will No? Well. me. "Oh, Lord, I wonder what be- ever hear of Old Putnam of pain has vanished. This band acts to come of me when this war is over. I've I have. I heard Rogan telling the bat- strengthen and support the vital muscles whose weakened condition causes 94% of all foot led a dog's life since I was foaled and tery commander about him, and Tip troubles, medical authorities say. Wear stylish again, walk and I would like to verifies the story. shoes dance without a twinge. No stiff props to further weaken the foot. drop into some- Tip and Rogan This is a strong, superelastic yet amazingly thin, light band. It's thing soft." should know, be- called the Jung Arch Brace and acts through correct tension and "You'll drop in- cause they were scientific design to strengthen muscles natu- rally. Soon you do without it feet are well. both at Peking. — to the Cavalry, old Test it 10 days. If not amazed and delighted son," I assured Old Putnam was a your money returned. Go to druggist, shoe store or chiropodist. If they can't supply you, weigh- him. "You're at big brown, use coupon below and V VT TWT ^* *CV pay postman. Send for Cjr half thor- ing about thirteen J U m least tree hook on foot and ^he'Qriginaf and a hundred pounds leg troubles. oughbred ~ ARCH BRACES perfect Cavalry a wheel gunner in , FREE if it fails 1

I Jung Arch Brace mount. I heard Reilly's Battery. Co., I 31 5 Jung Bldg.. Cincinnati, Ohio. Rogan say so. Tip His team mates I Send 1 pair Wonder Style, $1 and post- | age. Miracle Style (extra wide for severe tells me life in the were all casualties, | cases), $1.50 and postage. Send free book. Cavalry is easier but Old Putnam Shoe size Last. than in the Field Artillery, unless we sneaked into the collar and all by I Is i me should have war with Mexico Tip says himself did the work of six horses. Address.. that would be a Cavalry campaign and Yes, sir. he hauled that heavy gun I ! p. o ..State- the wastage in horses would be fright- up a hill and into the firing posi- Canada: Kirkham & Roberts, Pacific Bldg-.. Toronto. ful. there with Pershing's tion. was cited for it and He was He Can. prices: Wonder,$1.25; Miracle, $1.75. Cash. No C.O.D. Punitive Expedition in ioio. so he decorated for conspicuous gallantry in should know." action over and above the call of duty, "That old hybrid's been everywhere and when the battery got back to Ma- and seen everything," Dandy com- nila Old Putnam was honorably retired So** plained. by order of the Secretary of War. And y^io he autiful proportions — "Well, Tip explains it himself. maybe you don't think as Old Putnam while you sleep! Dandy, they don't send green recruits lived the life of Reilly after that. He where there's real work to be done." always led the regiment at reviews." 1/qniTFY ilOSE flPJUSTER comfortable. "I often wonder what will eventually "What became of him. Prof?" is SAFE, painless, Speedy, permanent results guar- ^ become of old Tip. He's bound to wear "Tip says his teeth finally went back anteed. Doctors praise it. No metal to harm you. Small cost. out some time, although I hear that on him and he couldn't digest his fodder. GoldMedal Won 1923 Write for FREE BOOKLET BErttt'AfTM mules live to be forty or fifty years He failed dreadfully, of course, and ANITA CO., Dept. E-48. ANITA Bldg. NEWARK, N. J- old." when it was seen that the old hero was "Tip will be retired after thirty years slowly starving to death the colonel or- of service. He says it's the custom. dered a soldier's death for Old Putnam Mules and horses have service records, —a bullet between the eyes—and they PARADE BUGLES you know, and you bet that the day Tip buried him with full military honors." "KEYSTONE STATE" "American Made" Bugles especially has been in service thirty years the bat- "Cripes, Prof. I hadn't any idea designed with new. lonn rakish tery clerk will remind the battery horses and mules were appreciated so lines for Legion and other fraternal units. Remarkably easy to blow, commander of it. The battery com- much in the Army." instantly responsive. The clear, is a revela- mander will then take the matter up "Tip says that any soldier—whether full, true-trumpet tone tion, 28 inches long ; built in G with the Old Man, and there'll be a he walks on two feet or four—is appre- with slide to F. Ear pitch— will chord with Military Band. dress parade of the entire regiment, ciated if he does his duty. It's a kind ... with the stable sergeant leading Tip at of religion, this soldiering business. Single Bugle, prepaid $8 Quantity prices on request the head of the parade. And he'll be Dandy. It's the religion of loyalty, and wearing a bright new blanket with his you've got to be ready to die for your I" Special Outfit 1 medals and his service and wound faith and not cut up any mock heroics I Complete musical equip- $107,20 I Lment for unit of 27 men J stripes on it. Yes. sir, that day Tip will about it, either." Write for Bugle literature and special be honored. He'll lead the regiment So we chatted between ourselves, outfit particulars all four firing batteries, the battery while Sam and Mary chattered about trains and the regimental train. At the the things that interested them, and H. A. WEYMANN & SON last Tip will debouch into a position by along about sunset we came back to 1108 Chestnut Street the reviewing stand and the Old Man Fort Sill, and after delivering Mary at PHILADELPHIA, PA. will stand beside him and hold his the hospital we jogged back to Camp Musical Instrument Manufacturers halter, while the regiment passes in re- Doniphan. ( Continued on page go) for Over 50 Years

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"Hello, old kid," Tip brayed, as we trotted up to the barn. "Have you heard the good news?" Of course I hadn't and I told him so. "The division's ordered abroad. Hee- haw, hee-haw!" And old Tip put his head down between his legs and threw his hind end aloft in a transport of de- light. "By the corn of Missouri, I'm weary of this barrack soldiering. It makes one soft. I want to hear the guns barking again before I die. I want to hear the put-put-put-put of machine guns and the crack-crackle of rifle fire. I want to see the wounded coming down from the front. I want to see the dead in the grass again—and me packing am- munition up to those hungry guns." "You bloodthirsty old wretch," Dandy reproved him. "For the love of green grass—why?" "It's life," Tip brayed. "Life! It's York to Paris where you see boys made into men; it's New Pert where you see the Havers of this world in all their gaudy yellow; it's In the ^Plane where you find out Who's Who and Over the hills >5 Why. and across the fields, swimming rivers, eating and American Legion drinking when you can, doing the job you've been trained to do and doing it LIEUTENANT Commander Noel Davis. opportunity of individually participating in well. Haw-w-w-w!" And he pranced United States Navy, a member of the venture, The American Legion and bucked like a colt. j The American Legion, will attempt Monthly has arranged for Commander • the trans-Atlantic flight from New Davis to carry with him on the "Ameri- Queer old cuss, Tip! York to Paris early this summer—prob- can Legion" a limited number of decora- ably in June— in an airplane which has tive postcards similar to the one repro- been built entirely in the United States. duced above. The cards are attractively He has named his plane, "American Le- printed in four colors and will be consecu- Chapter XVI gion," by especial authority of the National tively numbered in the order purchased. Executive Committee of The American Le- Each card will sell for $2.00. The Month- gion. Commander Davis will compete for ly will assume the responsibility of placing Tip was right again—as us- the $25,000 Raymond Orteig Prize offered on the plane, just before it takes off, all WELL, for the first non-stop flight between the of the cards sold to its readers. The post- ual. That mule seemed to live two cities—New York and Paris. While cards will be mailed in Paris upon the ar- with his long ears to the ground, for the United States Army and Navy are en- rival of the plane. Each card will be prop- couraging the endeavor, the construction erly addressed to the person whom the pur- he could hear more rumors than the of the plane has been financed largely chaser may direct. The funds from the colonel's orderly. Of course he heard with private funds provided by Americans sale of the cards will be presented as a gift inspired by a patriotic interest in the de- from Legionnaires to Commander Davis to a lot of rumors that were figments of velopment of aviation. reimburse him for expenditures personally some blatherskite soldier's hectic imag- The National Executive Committee in assumed in preparing for this great ven- ination, conferring upon Commander Davis the ture which, if completed, will be one of but he was too old a soldier right to name his plane after The Ameri- America's greatest contributions to the and much too wise to assimilate these. can Legion, knew that his flight, if suc- advancement of aviation. It takes time to a division. cessful, would mark a new and sublime Remember there is absolutely no obliga- move The achievement in aviation, and that in no tion on the part of anyone to participate. number of trains that have to be pro- finer way could the Legion proclaim its But. surely, there are thousands who will interest in aeronautics. The committee appreciate such an opportunity. Each vided and the work of routing them undoubtedly felt, too, that it should rec- card will be a memento of this great his- takes weeks of preparation. We'd had ognize the bravery of an American about torical event. DO IT NOW !—MAIL THE our target practice before our regiment to engage in one of the greatest adven- COUPON PROPERLY FILLED IN TO tures in history. THE AMERICAN LEGION MONTHLY received its orders, and after that we So that each Legionnaire may have an WITH YOUR REMITTANCE FOR $2.00. drilled no more. Just a little setting- up exercises to keep the men fit, for Make All Remittances Payable to The American Legion Monthly there was much work to do getting ready to entrain. The battery property

I COUPON= had to be inspected, checked, marked | The American Legion Monthly, and crated; the men had to undergo Indianapolis. Indiana. another searching physical examination, I am enclosing $2.00 for my NON-STOP FLIGHT NEW YORK TO PARIS postcard. Commander Davis is to carry it on the plane "American Legion" to which developed some weaklings that Paris, France, and mail it. the training had broken down. Dink Munro and the battery commander Purchaser worked late every night, making out reports and returns, assigning baggage Address details and studying the method of en- Please have postcard addressed to training and detraining the troops rap- idly, lecturing to them, seeing that no single detail was omitted. Name Pretty soon I observed that Tip was him why. Street getting nervous and I asked "I have a foreboding of evil, Prof," he City or Town State answered. "Nobody is paying any at- More than one card may be purchased by remitting the required amount and tention to us. No spare horse-shoes be- submitting names of persons to whom cards should be addressed. * ing crated, no effort made to box and

90 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ship the forge and the farrier's equip- on top of the saddles and equipment on ment, no sign of a final inspection of the the truck and went bumping away along animals, and not a sign of getting the the dusty road and out of our lives. You guns and caissons ready to load on the Ern and Rogan stood looking after flat cars. Frankly, I don't like it. I them a little while, then turned and Try It have a suspicion we're all going to be grinned painfully at each other. left behind, and if that happens to me "Well, Pat," said Ern presently, "isn't I'm going to go bad. I'll become a it high time you worked that rabbit's * 2Weck$ balky mule and never do an honest day's foot of yours on your assistant adjutant soldiering again until they retire me. general friend in Washington? The bat- By the corn of Missouri, it isn't fair." tery will be entraining for a port of em- FREE the or the \ Tip was right. One morning barkation tomorrow day after." drivers, the gun and caisson non-coms "I've worked it already, Ernie, me and the men of the battery command- son—and it back-fired on me," Rogan er's detail were marched down to the confessed. "The day after I was Gaa^ picket line. Every man saddled his thransferred here I wrote him all about toror horse and mounted. Then the cannon- us, confidentially, marking the letther eers placed the halter shanks of the led 'Personal,' for of course it would never OneYear horses and mules in the hands of the do to let anybody else see that letther, mounted men and away we all went. or I'd be in throuble up to me eyebrows Controls Waistline! line And we never saw that picket again. for plotting agin me superior officer. (~* OOD-BYE to that growing bulge and uncom- The battery commander was riding Divil an answer have I had to that \* fortable feeling! The "Little Corporal" gives that springy step, youthful alertness and me and I saw that he was quite de- letther." athletic poise which every man wants and needs. pressed. He led the outfit across coun- "They forget, Pat—and those that Prove it by a two weeks' trial at our expense. try to the Remount Station, and there do not forget are afraid." Little Corporal the men unsaddled and removed the "He has not forgotten—and he is bridles and head- afraid of nothing, ELASTEX Belt stalls and stowed me son. He must Patented Dec. 22, 1925 them in a Quar- be in France. But Something new! An exclusive feature! The famous Little Corporal belt has been gTeatly termaster's truck we'll hear from improved and is now being1 made entirely of the newly in due time, patented ELASTEX webbing. This that had followed him marvelous fabric doesn't shrink, "creep" or us. This done, all if he's livin'—an' lose elasticity and launders perfectly. Indi- vidually tailored. It's simple—no clasps, the battery if he was dead lacers, or buckles. On and oft in a jiffy. Literature Free! Send coupon for Free Trial horses and mules I'd have read it Offer and interesting literature telling the were turned loose in the Army and whole story. Thousands now wearing the "Little Corporal" —why not you? in one of the Navy Journal.

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old Rogan was on eight hours, we'll Name. hand to look after him and Ern Givens never get back to the ould outfit." Street Address. was there to receive me. "If we only get to France I'll be sat- "It's hard on us, so it is, Tip, me isfied, Pat. I enlisted to do some fight- bhoy," Rogan murmured, and I could ing. If I'd wanted a job busting horses see that he was profoundly affected. "A I could have had a better paid one than grand big brute of a war on in France this in civil life." Se/ZLIFE

and us two out of it ! Well, never mind, "Something will turn up," Rogan as- Tip," and he rubbed the mealy nose. sured him. "I haven't been twinty PROTECTION "I'm not going to see an old soger like years in this man's Army to be licked in $50 to $100 you turned in with the rabble. 'Tis the a hurry." He reached out and scratched week TO AGENTS m ye '11 keep nose. "Well, the division \ company of ye're equals my com- & Amazing Anti-Glare [i and sleep in a barn at night and have mandher has gone on ahead of his di- Device for Automobiles \\ tj prevents loss nf life awl makes big been used vision, bit, the attintion ye've always so you're safe for a Profes- money for salesmen. Motorists buy on 30-seeontI demonstration, to. I'll not have ye associating wit' a sor, and so is me little dog. Demmy treated by secret process. lot of wild rookie mules and mustangs But you're a privately-owned horse and Shields the eyes from dazzling head-lights. Also used by sold 10S day as a rear view mirror. Uniqt: that'll gang ye and kick daylights out owned be a private, so if you're to ate in less tban a week mystifying. Big season now. _ - Kallance made Write for details of our gene of in scrap. little Demmy is government fodder 'twould be well for S40 in a day-$2U0 ye a And ous trial offer sensation and in a week—GriBsin- money-making plan with spe- KerBiddBixtirBt fif- here to sleep in the shtall wit' ye, as of us to go to our C. O. and tell him about cial discount prfcetoageata.No teen minutes. It's obligation. Address winner ould." you. An honest confession is good for THE LEE SEE CO. a for Bales- Dept. 235 Kewaunee. Wisconsh Sam Burwell handed Ern Givens a the sowl." wad of bills, shook his hand, mumbled He was spared the trouble, however, something about never forgetting him for at that moment the commanding of- MARTIN AUTOMATIC and then walked abruptly away so the ficer of the Remount Station looked out ^FISHING REELS men could not see how badly he felt. of his office window and saw me. Out He did not say goodbye to Rogan. He tie popped and commenced circling For Casting couldn't. He had known him so long around me like a young rooster around If you've never used Martin Automatic and had so much affection for him as an opponent. Then he looked at my a Reel.you'vemisseda 1 a man, and so much admiration for him teeth and rubbed my forelegs thought- of fun, it offers so many advantages over the ordi as a soldier, that he would have showed fully, to see if my bone was round, as nary reel. it. Rogan understood. "God bless ye, in the case of a cold-blooded horse, or Many fishermen who for used only crank reels lad!" he called at the battery com- flat as in the case of a thoroughbred. merly are now Martin users. They' mander. "God bless ye and bring ye "Good gracious," he murmured, "this tell you it makes fishing more

sporty . . .it gives real honors an' quick promotion, dhry is a horse and a half. Is he broken, more fun when bait or fly casting. camps an' good rations, an' may the Rogan?" There is a Martin reel for every pur- pose. Take one with you on your next poultice wallopers never get their hands "Perfectly, sir. Walk, running walk, fishing trip. Priced from $4.50 to $10.00. on ye." a trot so soft ye need hardly post whin Ask your dealer or write for free booklet. Sam just waved his hand without riding him, a little cat-hop of a canter Martin Automatic Fishing looking back. Then all the men said and a gallop that can cover a mile whilst Reel Co., Inc. goodbye to Ern and Rogan and climbed ye'd be (Continued on page Q2) 800 Main Street Mohawk, N. \' )

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( Continued from page gi) Same Way wondherin' what'd gone by ye, sir. The major grinned and looked at Em Bankers Do As sweet a disposition as a saint, Givens. "Your horse is making army Thousands of bankers lawyers .mer- , life chants — others — continually sat Dia- not flighty and as full of fun as a cir- plain hell for you, isn't he, Givens? monds at radically low prices here. Yoa can do the same. A Condition you seldom cus clown. A bit of a high-school Well, as Rogan says, we can use your think of makes possible here — offers on Kerns of even highest Quality—at 60 per horse, sir." horse here very nicely. It's wholly il- " >f Market Prices. See this 8 /4 less "How interesting. I hadn't seen him legal, but I daresay he'll be worth his

This or any of the many other barea . latest list sent on approval. Offers Decked in the corrals heretofore." board and lodging." by thoroughly responsible guarantees. Examination Free. Use blank below. "He's just arrived, sir. He's the "The major might care to ride him Why Pay Full Prices? property av Private Givens, sir, an' occasionally," Em Givens suggested World's oldest, largest diamond bank* ing institution of 76 yearn, rated over Givens had a notion the major might artfully. $1,000 000 00, must sell the DIAMONDS on WrllCH MONEY waa LOANED BUT NOT wink at maintainin' here,' sir, on "The major might. Thank you, Pri- REPAID. Diamonds, too, from BIO CASH him EUROPEAN DEALS. Send NOW. Lists limited account to the bhoys vate Givens. Well, stable him pri- . Free — all details,— Exact descrip- of the use he'd be tions. —Guaranteed amounts you can borrow. Examine Diamonds free, at our risk. that have to ride the rough ones, sir. vately, son. It won't do to let him run Low Unnald«1.11»i-lU Loans as 560 » Ct.- Offers Now Ready. The Professor is a champeen hazin' in the corrals with these broom-tails. -UWHHS—Send tor Free Listi Uso B , anl4 Belolj. horse, bar none, an' what we need here They might injure him. And, by the Name. is just that kind of a horse." way, you two. You were both non- At this juncture O'Malley interrupted coms before you were transferred to Address. to ask me what a hazing horse might be. me, and you should both have been A hazing horse, O'Malley (I ex- made non-coms again here if I had any plained), is sort equine policeman. vacancies. I've been watching for For Free List clip this ad, fill in above and mail to— a of a Jos. DeRoy & Sons, Opd. P.O. .8756 DeRoy Bids. Pittsburgh, , Pa. When a wild horse is being saddled for legitimate opportunity to bust some WE the first time the hazing horse walks lesser men and give you their chevrons, up to him very close and the men, haul- but a letter I received today from ToAnySuit! ing on the halter-shank, swing the wild Washington has altered my plans." He I Double the life of your coat and vest with perfectly horse's head and draw it across the haz- looked both men over humorously. matched pants. 100,000 patterns. ing horse's neck. Then the hazing "Which one of you two privates has a Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no "readymades." Our match sent FREE for your horse's rider leans forward, grasps the pull long enough to reach clear into the O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece of cloth or vest today. wild horse by the ears and holds him, office of the Adjutant General of the ©'27 SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 115 So. Dearborn Street, Dept. S3 Chicago while the saddle is adjusted. After the Army?'' rough rider the wild horse "God knows I hate to brag, sir," EanT$250 to mounts and said is cast loose to do his stuff, you get an Rogan, "but there was a shavetail once $1000 Monthly exhibition of bucking, pitching and sun- that could tell a good man whin he saw New ! Different fishing for anywhere from thirty to him." Teaches you Big Tricks, Il- lusions, Stage Stunts, "Patter" sixty seconds. If the wild horse does The major looked at Rogan's ribbons. and the Principles of magic. Learn at in policing his rider, in that long home. Earn $250 to $1000 a month. Write not succeed "Hum-m! That was a time ago. today for special offer. period, he starts to run, pitching at the Old soldier, old rascal! Well, an assist- Tarbell System, Inc., ^£SS®&S£ia. same time. ant adjutant general writes me a per- Now, of course, the rider cannot sonal letter, asking me to send you 0U CAN OIL PAINT stick on forever, and if he stays too two to France with the next shipment of long he will become exhausted and be animals. He says he'll be there by that H I Amazingnewmethod teaches men orwomento earn ' thrown. Besides, the wild horse, blind time and can be reached at H. in H I after first lesson. OIL PAINT photos at home G. Q. portraits, landscapes or art subjects. Many earn with rage and half crazy with excite- a town called Chaumont. As soon as MM gi8 to $ioo and more a week. OIL PAINT OUT- FIT GIVEN at No EXTRA COST. Graduates furnished ment, may run into a fence with him you land you are to notify him by tele- employment. Send now for free illustrated book. and both horse and rider may be in- gram where you are and what unit you PICTORIAL ART STUDIOS, INC. jured. So at this juncture the hazing are attached to, and he'll see that you Dept. B. A. 2926 Broadway, Chicago, III. horses and their riders take after the are transferred to your old battery." runaway, dart in alongside of him, and "Ya-hoo!" Ern Givens tore loose the herd him to a walk; or else one rider yell he'd been wont to use on the range will lean down, grasp the runaway's when he was feeling full of pep and he head and jerk it up across the hazing and I were giving a coyote a run. PAYROLL horse's neck and stop him. The hazing "Hoo-roo! Glory be to Gawd!" horse on the other side will then press roared Rogan. Ex-Service Men the runaway over against the first haz- "And that's why I'm not going to Get ing horse, whereupon the rough rider make you two non-coms," said the scrambles off and over onto one or other major. "What would be the use, since Special Preference of the hazing horses—riding double, you you're going to leave me?" $1140 to know. This is done to avoid being "Oh! So the major's going to let us kicked when dismounting in the usual go. then?" $3300 Year way. "The major's going to send you to "And you were a good hazing horse, France with the first shipment of ani- Become Railway eh?" mals, and if you don't come back that'll Mail Clerks I had a trick of running my head not be my fault. I hate to lose you two ~ under the runaway's neck and lifting men, but you have been badly treated Steady Work /' F n~nn 7n~ut~u7e~ him. I explained. I could stop him like and—well, I'd like to get to France Dept.J190 Paid / shot. Rochester, N. Y. he'd been myself, and there didn't appear to be Vacationsv / aca Lions Rush t0 free ot charge Taffy sniggered. He was thinking any prospect of getting there until to- mc entirely , Common 32 page book with (DA full description j what a task it would be for to stop day. Rogan, pull education «^ of the position checked below: (21 A me can you work your list of S. Government sufficient U. Jobs obtainable: a little runt like him by such methods. again?" (3) Send full information describing pref- Mall <0 erence to ex-service men. In his mind's eye he saw me bending so "Can a cat ate liver? Consider yer- & ----Railway Mail Clerk. _ ($1900 lo $2700: lad??- low to get under* his little neck that I'd self in France, sir." SURE / - Postoflice Clerk $1700 lo $23001 . ... City Mail Carrier I $1700 lo SZlOOi fall on my nose. "Thank you, Rogan. After all," the Rural Mail C3rner .1 $2100 lo $3300: y Bookkeeper ($1320 lo $20401 "Go on wit' ye're story," O'Malley major added as he went smiling back / — begged. "What did the major say?" into his ( Continued on page Q4)

92 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Here's the official route of the Second A. E. F. to Paris! This chart indicates the line, the official steamer on which your State delegation will sail, the port and the date of sailing. Go over it carefully. Write your France Convention Officer today for full details of the trip. This information is free. But act quickly, as the number who can go is limited.

Sails Sails State France Convention Officer Line Steamer Port Sept. State France Convention Officer Line Steamer Port Sept.

Ala. S. C. Crockett, P.O. Box 433, Montgomery SEE FOOT NOTE N.H. Frank N. Sawyer, State House, Concord Cun. Scythia B. 8th

Ark. E. H. Vonderau, 623 Pecan St., Helena SEE FOOT NOTE N.J. Geo. F. Fleming, State House, Trenton Frs. Savoie NY. 9th Ariz. Robert H. Dickson, Box 422, Jerome Frs. Chicago G. 1st N.M. Herman G. Baca, Santa Fe Fts. Chicago G 1st

Cal. Al Chase. 417f> Montgomery St.. Oakland 1 N.Y. Robert C. Lee, 5 Broadway, New York City Cun. Caledonia N.Y. 8th prs DeGrasse N.Y. 8th M. A. Bessolo, Jr. ,347 Pac.Elec. Bldg., Los Angeles/ N.C James Leonard, Lexington I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th /Arabic N.Y. 2d Conn J. Frederick Collins, c/o Allen Bros., Greenwich. I.M.M. N.D. Jack Williams, Fargo CP. Montnairn Que. 9th \Celtic N.Y. 8th /Arabic N.Y. 2d Colo. E. C. Calhoun, Rm. 14 Capitol Bldg., Denver. . . U.S. Republic N.Y. 7th Ohio J. J. Saslavsky, 335 S. High St., Columbus I.M.M, \Celtic N Y, 8th D.C. Joseph J. Idler, 2135 4th St., N. E., Washington I.M.M. Pennlaud H.R. 8th Okla. Fred W. Hunter, 418 State Capitol, Oklahoma City Cun. Antonia N.Y. 8th Del. Lester P. Hudson, 2618 Van Bureu St., Wilmington Frs. Savoie N.Y. 9th Ore. Carl R.Moser,207ChamberofCommerce, Portland CP. Montnairn Que. 9th fl.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Pa. James J. Deighan, 903 City Centre Bldg., Phila. Cun. Tuscania N.Y. 8th F!a. Rice King, 516 Graham Bldg., Jacksonville { SEE FOOT NOTE I N.O. 2d /Arabic N.Y. 2d I R.I. Joseph Crump, 7 Weybosset St., Providence I.M.M, ICeltic N.Y. 8tb C-a. Joe M . Carr, Rome SEE FOOT NOTE S.C Sam L. Latimer, Jr., 1224 Green Stre et SEE FOOT NOTE Idaho Lester F.Albert, 316 Capitol Bldg.. Boise CP. Melita M. 9th U.S. Harding N.Y. 9th III. Floyd J. Heckel, Bloomington Cun. Caronia N.Y. 8th S.D. Walter S. Travis, 452 Broadway, Pierre ! Arabic N.Y. 2d Tenn. Guy H. May, Memorial Bldg., Nashville I.M.M, Pennland H.R. 8th

Ind. Kleber Hadley, 777 N. Meridian St., Ind'pTs. . . I.M.M. Celtic N.Y. 81 h Texas Allen C. Ater, 1116 Commerce Street, Dallas. . . Frs. Chicago G 1st Arabic N.Y. 2d Iowa R.J. Laird , 1003 Reg. and Trib. Bldg. , Des Moines I.M.M. Spencer Eccles, Logan U.S. Republic N.Y. 7th Celtic N.Y. 8th Utah Arabic N.Y. 2d Va. J. A. Nicholas. Jr.,201 State Office Bldg., Richmond I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Kan. Ernest A. Ryan, Memorial Bldg., Topcka I.M.M. \Celtic N.Y. 8th Vt. Robert McCuen, Federal Bldg., Burlington . . Cun. Scythia B. 8th Ky. PaulJagielky.Cmtcher&StarksBldg., Louisville I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Wash. Jesse W. Drain, 599 Third Avenue, Seattle CP. Montroyal Que. 9th La. R. L. Mouton, Royal and Conti Sts., New Orleans Frs. LaSallc N.O. 2d W.Va. Jackson Arnold , Weston I.M.M. Pennland H.R. 8th Me. James J. Boyle, 108 Main St., Waterville Cun. Scythia B. 8th Wis. Howard Dessert, Mosinee CP. Melita M. 9th Md. Kenneth A. McRae, Riverdale Frs. Savoie N.Y. 9th /Arabic N.Y. 2d Wyo. E. A. Froyd, Midwest I.M.M. Mass. Henry Nicolls, 158 State House, Boston Cun. Scythia B. 8th \Celtic N.Y. 8th All Mich. Robert J. Byers, 214 Lincoln Bldg., Detroit CP. Montroyal Que. 9th States U.S. Leviathan N.Y 10th Mont. O.C.Lamport, Helena CP. Montroyal Que. 9th

Minn. Edwin L. Lindell, Old Capitol Bldg., St. Paul. . . CP. Montnairn 9th Key to the points of embarkation and official steamship lines: Miss. John Anderson, c/'o I.C.R.R. Sta., Jackson SEE FOOT NOTE Ports—M., Montreal; Que., Quebec; B., Boston; N.Y'., New York; H.R., Hampton ' Arablc N.Y. 2d Roads; N.O., New Orleans; G., Galveston. Mo. Jerry F. Duggan, 3709 Broadway, Kansas City . I.M.M. \Celtic N.Y. 8th Lines CP., Canadian Pacific; Cun., Cunard and Anchor; Frs., French; I.M.M., Neb. Nels E. Johnson, Valley U.S. Republic N.Y. 7th — /Arabic N.Y. 2d International Mercantile Marine (including Royal Mail, White Star and Red Star); U.S., Nov. F. W. Egelston, Reno. I.M.M. \Ccltic N.Y. 8th United States.

NOTE—SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ARKANSAS, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. On account of the elimination of the Charleston sailing, Legionnaires and other eligibles from Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina have the privilege of sailing on any official line and from any official port they desire, but the same official line must in all cases be used both ways.

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office, "I haven't raised any objection ing the rookies come out of the stock to your dog. And I'll breathe easier cars and run down into the corral, when when you two are gone. You make me suddenly a horse came to the car door, break the law. Right now I could be paused, looked around at the outside Enchanting realms that only court-martialed." world and then walked leisurely down the canoeist can know "Thank the major," the two buddies the chute.

It's great to paddle up some slow meander- called after him. And then Rogan "Be the great gun av Athlone," Ro- ing stream in a sturdy "Old Town Canoe." leaped into the air, tore loose another gan yelled, "if here ain't The Profes- great to get away from the noise and It's wild Irish yell and came down with his sor's brother!" confusion of the highway, to travel slowly and easily amid the cooling shade of over- fists up, in an attitude of attack. "Ya- There was no doubt about it! I hanging trees. On streams and lakes there hoo!" yelled Em Givens, and landed a couldn't be deceived. The new arrival are enchanting realms that only the canoeist smart slap on Rogan's blue-black jowl. was a brother or a half brother of mine can know. Rogan countered with an equally smart and I would have bet a sack of black Why not plan to buy an "Old Town" this summer? Truly you cannot get a finer poke in Ern's ribs and then they fell oats on it. He was my double. I could canoe or a better looking one. For "Old into each other's arms and danced have allowed for such a thing as coin- Towns" are patterned after actual Indian around together and banged each other's cidence in size, weight and color scheme, models. They are sleek, fast and remark- ably light in weight. And "Old Town backs and cursed scandalously. I tell but not in bearing and temperament. Canoes" are low in price. $58 up. From you, my friends, they were two happy He came down that chute as my father dealer factory. or men. But I was not happy. I was would have come, head up, eyes mildly Free illustrated catalog gives prices and wondering what was going to become of curious, ears erect, nostrils gently dis- complete information about sailing canoes, square stern canoes for outboard motors, me, which was disloyal, of course. I tended, tail arched. An aristocrat, dinghies, etc. Write todav. Old Town Canoe should have known my beloved master every inch of him. Co., 765 Main St., Old Town, Maine. would not forget me. (Here that dirty little Taffy inter- "What'll we do with The Professor rupted my story.) "Old Town Canoes* and Demmy when we start for France, "You hate yourself, don't you. Prof?" Match Your Coat and Vest Pat?" Em asked when, presently, they "I know what I am. Taffy. I have had settled down to normalcy after their self-esteem but not self-conceit." With New Trousers. Free Sample % joyous outburst. O'Malley reached over and gave Taffy DON'T DISCARD YOUR OLD SUIT. Wear the coat Pi and vest another year by getting new trousers "Do?" that blessed Rogan roared. a severe bite on the neck. "Let me to match- Tailored to your measure. With 90.00U patterns to select from we can match "Do? Why take thim wit' us. av hear another peep out av ya, ye little almost any pattern. Send vest or sample of coorse. else I've Welsh scrub, and I'll kick to smith- cloth todav. and we will submit FREE best match What would we do? ye obtainable. hearrd there's grand partridge shootin' ereens!" he roared. "Ye base born AMERICAN MATCH PANTS CO., in France and I've a mind to enjoy a pygmy! Sure if ye had a spoonful of IB. Dept. H. N., 6 W. Randolph SI. Chicago, III. DEAFNESS IS MISERY shoot or two bechune battles. Attany- thoroughbred blood in ye, 'tis life size rate, I'll bring me shot-gun. And sure, ye'd be! Crack on, Professor." Millions of people know that, but Multitudes of persons with defective hearing and Head Noises whot could be finer than reportin' back I resumed. are again enjoying conversation, go to Theatre and to the ould batthery wit' The Professor Ern Givens stood up in his stirrups l££S¥\ Church because they use Leonard Invisible Anti- l^^jtjj septic Ear Drums, which are Tiny Megaphones for our dear Sammy to ride agin at the and gazed at that horse. "By Judas httingin the Ear entirely out of sight. No wires.no head of his command?" priest, Pat," he yelled, "there's truth in batteries, piece. They arc Unseen Comforts i no head and incipensivc. Write for booklet and sworn "That's jake with me, Rogan. How- what you say! I know the breed—and statement of the inventor who was himself deaf. ever, talk is cheap but it takes money this lot of horses comes from California. A. O. LEONARD. Inc. Suite 321, 70 5th Ave, New York to buy whiskey. You can smuggle What's his brand?" Demmy aboard a train or transport, but "A Triangle!" Rogan shouted. The Professor can't be carried in a blue "From the Triangle ranch in Modoc denim barrack bag." County. California, Rogan. Ranceford . Be the life of the party. Xylor- imbists make $5 to $25 a night. "Lave it to me, ye gossoon. I'm as Dane owns Sir Nigel, the palomino No knowledge of music required. Wonderful for home. Free, easy full av thricks as a dog is of fleas. thoroughbred that sired The Professor. lessons; five days' trial; a year to is thorough- pay. Write for big FREE Book. D'ye think I've been sogerin' twinty That horse three-quarters J. C. DEAGAN, Inc years to be as dumb now as the day I bred and a quarter Percheron, and the 1625 Deaean Building Vf 1- CHICAGO V firrst held up me hand?" family all have the same coloring. Keys Duplicated "How will you work it, Pat? The job Ranee Dane must be dead, otherwise 2 for 25c is up to you, understand. I'm just a none of that get would have been sold ANY TYPE KEY recruit." to the Army." Send key or keys with order. Don't "How do I know how I'll wurrk it? Rogan and Ern rode into the corral wait until you lose your key and then We'll cross that bridge whin we come and looked the stranger over. "Whin Special have to call in a locksmith, have one or two extra ones made now. Always to it. All I ask ye is not worry. he's thrimmed groomed an' shod Rates to carry an extra auto key. to and Clubs & Philadelphia Key Company Love'll find a way." the divil himself couldn't tell him from Legion Posts 5472 Berks St., Phila. Dear old Rogan! Within the week The Professor," Rogan decided. "Very he found a way. well, Ernie, me lad. Whin the shipment WhyPayMore^ A trainload of horses had come in for Europe is made up we'll have this from California and Ern Givens and lad included in the lot, and at the last Buy direct from factory ^ ^ about forty other ex-cowboys in uni- minute we'll turrn him back in the This finely made Umbrella form saddled up and went down to the corral an' substitute your horse. Or we Tent has every qualityand spur-track to drive them up to the Re- may take thim both and if the officer practical feature of the mount corrals. I observed that all the that checks off thrans- highestpriced tents. Win- them on and the dow. Screen and storm doors. men were using stock saddles, so I in- port axes questions we'll say we got the Sewed in floor. Very strong ferred that while you can put a cowboy twins mixed. We must be careful. Re- waterproofed fabric. Awning into a uniform you can't get him to member, a government horse carries his gruysand poles. Packs tosmall bun- dle. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. break horses under a McClellan saddle, brand on his hoof, and is kept track of Allstyles andsizes of Tents and which may be all right for pleasure rid- as carefully as a man in service." camp equipment at proportionately low prices ing but not for practical work. "The Lord is our shepherd, we shall ^5r E MURRAY & COMPANY Em was riding me, of course. We not want," said Ern piously. catalog 924 W. Huron St., Chicago stood by the side of the chute watch- I walked up to the recent arrival and Manufacturing Tents Since 1871

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nosed him. "Hello, brother," I saluted one likes to see the members of his own him. "What's your breeding?'' family do well in this world. "Sir Nigel out of a half Percheron A month passed, and then one day named Rosemary. Are you one of us?" the major came over and for a week "I am your half brother," I informed all hands were busy cutting out horses him. "I'm coming six years old." and mules, giving them a strict phys- Read and Heed the "I'm five." ical examination and putting the ones "You were born the year after my that passed it in a corral by themselves. lycos Fever mother and I wandered off the Triangle Ern and I were pretty busy from Rev- Thermometer range. Are you broken?" eille till Retreat. The advance warning of a change of temper- "I should tell a man!" One day who should I bump into in ature should never "What's your name?" the mule corral but old Tip. "Well, be neglected. A Tycos called buddy." he said, "we're off at last. "Booby," he answered. "They Fever Thermometer should me that because I didn't seem to have They've passed me for arduous over- be instantly available in every home, ready tell as much common sense as others of seas service. My luck holds." to whether the "hot" feel- our family. I was harder to break. We rubbed noses and had a li.tle ins; which Jane com- However, I've settled down." he added chin-chin over old times in the battery. plains of is just a cold or something more serious. humorously. "What sort of proposition Tip had been over with the mules three am I up against here?" days getting along the best he could, TyccOS "You're in the Army now, and it's which wasn't half bad, in view of the FEVER THERMOMETERS the life of Reilly if you keep your nose fact that Rogan had visited him daily are the same reliable thermometers carried by clean. You'll be the commanding offi- and groomed him, which attention had physicians everywhere. cer's mount, if I've learned anything earned him derisive brays from the For sale at the druggists. Send booklet, since I've been in the service, and you'll rookies an unkind fate was forcing him for free "Childhood, Youth and have a box stall and a striker to look to associate with. But he was in high Old Age."

after you. Welcome to the outfit and spirits and his faith in being assigned to TaylorInstrumentCompanies see that you don't disgrace the family." overseas duty had never faltered. He Rochester, N. V., U. S. A. I to (Rogan the job. Canadian Plant introduced him Dandy knew Rogan was on Tycoa Building. Toronto. was riding Dandy) and presently when "I'm sorry for you. Prof," he said as A148 the new arrivals had been detrained we we parted. "You, being a civilian, will herded them up to the Remount corrals miss all the fun." and turned the grateful lot into corrals "Don't be too sure of that, Tip, my Immh where there was plenty of good clean boy," I assured him. "Rogan swears water and hay. and fine soft silt to roll he'll get me across." in. And how those rookies did roll Tip eyed me seriously. "In that and groan with pleasure after their long event. Prof, I withdraw my condolence. first train ride! A great many of them, in- If Rogan says you'll go, go you will cluding Booby, were car-sick and the and what's more, you and I will be on week rolling did them a world of good. the same transport. I notice that he Since then 1 have earned over £100 every It," says S. L. Patterson, of Iowa. After Booby had rolled three times and Ern Givens are buddies now. A GRAB THIS FREE he got up and shook himself, took a common misfortune has made them NEW! OUTFIT QUICK! Many others making big money. No won- drink at the trough, went over in a cor- such. And, of course, since Ern Givens der! Millions of interested prospects. A quality product. Puts lasting—crease in ner and lay down. He was too ill and will not be separated from you and trousers. Takes out bagginesa smoothes entire surface—demonstrates in 40 seconds. tired to get up when Rogan strolled Rogan will not be separated from me, Sells quick toeverymao. Quick, easy profit! Selling Outfit over to him, looked at his teeth and will not be separated FREE and those two I Tour profits paid in advance. Simply write "We'll orders. We deliver and collect. Test it eyes and took his temperature. from each other, the prospect for us _J without cost, full time or side line. Send Folds to postcard for offer of free demonstrator. take no chances on you, me lad," the looks extremely elegatish. By the way, 15 inchea Join the big money-makers. Write today. COMPANY, E 74 G-J Bldg., Cincinnati. Ohio ex-stable sergeant decided. "Up wit' do you know why we were separated THE GETGEY-JUNG you, me jewel, and it's into a box shtall from the battery?" EARN UPTO *250mponthSALARY we'll put ye, wit' six inches of shtraw so. I did not and said AS A RAILWAY TRAFFIC INSPECTOR Many men are needed in this permanent, to rest in. avic." "The three-inch guns we trained on pleasant and profitable profession, where you are practically your own boss, see new So Rogan led him away and when I are obsolete, and we're leaving them be- faces and places each minute and arerapid- advanced. Tra 1 saw him again a week later he had been hind. In France we're going to have 1^ up per month—upon comple clipped and shod. But I noticed that they're won- spare time home study, or refund your 75's, I hear - the French and tuition. Write V '24 today for free booklet his mane and foretop had not been derful ordnance. Horses and mules will giving full details. STANDARD BUSINESS TRAINING INST. Buffalo, New York roached; like mine it had been carefully be furnished from the Remount Depots combed out and washed; likewise his over there, and if our luck holds we may Celebrate 4th of July tail, which, like mine, had been plucked be assigned back to the old outfit. I Get our catalog of fireworks and trimmed neatly at the root. Still, satisfied He doubt it, however. I'm and 1001 novelties for any was feeling quite fit again, so Ern to get back into the Artillery again, no sort of celebration, now. It's free for the asking. We ship Givens saddled him and rode him matter what regiment they send me to. same day orders received. around the breaking corral a few min- I'll have to stick around for orders, of Brazel Novelty Mfg. Co. utes, then set up a three-foot hurdle course, but you, you lucky dog. are a 1880 Ella St., Cincinnati, O. and put him over it. I saw that Booby civilian, so all you have to do is to go could jump quite as well as any of the over the hill, once you get to France. family and I was immensely proud of You'll not have any government brand NEW VEST POCKET him. so they can't hold you when Sam Bur- ADDING MACHINE "He'll do. He's a cow-horse," Ern well comes along to claim you. The MULTIPLIES, DIVIDES decided, and rode him over to the com- big job is to get you there." ADDS, SUBTRACTS, Does work of $300 machine. Guaran- manding officer's quarters. When he re- "My brother is here," I confided. teed 5 years. NOT A TOY. BABY CALCULATOR Made of steel and indestructible. Million turned, afoot, Rogan said: "You couldn't tell him from me. He's . CHICAGO. U.S. dollar capacity. Fits in pocket. Will not make mistakes. So Bimnle child can operate it. "Well, what did the major say?" in the service brand and all and Everybody should carry one for figurine. —hoof — II I I I I I "He said 'Thank you. Private Givens, Rogan's going to work up some scheme FREE for the duplicate'." .6 0 .8 « . H to make me double for him." •1 -7 -2 ~1 TRIAL :t :t :i :! :| — I was right. Booby was too fine a Tip whistled. "If that Mick ever •4 -4 -4 .4 -4 SEND NO MONEY Just name and address. 3 r5 -3 -3 -a We will Hhip Calculator immediately. de- *2 On horse to be issued to Cavalry -2 -2 -a "Z livery pay postman $2.50- (plus a few cents a troop goes to hell he'll wheedle Satan out of postage). If not satisfied after in day trial you get. your money back. THOUSANDS OF or a battery, and the major was going to a furlough. Prof. Well, I suppose we'll addition SATISFIED USERS. Subtraction ThiBin lowest prion! praft]>;t1 cal ruin for made. keep him for his private mount. And meet on the train. Adios, amigo." Multiplication "Why pay more for inferior imitations?" division Order from this ad. I was very proud of that, for naturally (To be continued) BABY CALCULATOR SALES CO. P. O. Box No. 1118 Chicago. III. Dept. 15 AGENTS Write for big commisaionand territory proposition.

MAY, 1927 95 L,iegion caps have solved the Me- The 1927 Legion catalog not only morial Day uniform problem for illustrates and describes Post caps, thousands of Posts. They will enable but grave markers, banners, flags, your Post to make a splendid appear- arm bands and everything your Post ance this year at a very small cost. will require for Memorial Day. It No orders accepted for delivery prior is the one and only official catalog to Decoration Day after May 14. of American Legion supplies. Your

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call a special meeting of your Post. today. It's free to Legionnaires.

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Gentlemen : Please forward me a free copy A'a me of the 1927 Legion catalog which describes fully everything which will be required by my Post in Street

fittingly observing Memorial Day. It is to be un- Town State- derstood that this does not obligate me or my

Post in the least. Post No Dept. of 5-27

96 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The Official Transports

of the Second A. E. F.

Paris, France

September 19 to 23, 1927

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The official transports of the second A. E. F. are all de luxe ocean-goingliners. Each one is a floating palace! No bunks, mess lines or restric- tions. Instead—spacious staterooms, beautiful dining saloons and full freedom of the ship. There will be no CUNARD class restrictions on the transports of the 2nd A. E. F. AND Write your state France ANCHOR LINES Convention Officer or com- municate with your local rep- resentative of any of these official steamship lines for full details concerning the Ninth Annual Convention of the American Legion, Paris, France, September 19-23, 11927. M