The American Legion Monthly [Volume 13, No. 1 (July 1932)]

w- lite JImerican LegionMONTHLY J U L Y 193 2 2 5 Cents yjnnouncincjf the "Winner ofthe ZMonthli/'s £mploi/ment Competition * A Messagefrom The National Commander "IF IT'S CITIES SERVICE ... IT HAS TO BE GOOD" HERE'S HOW CHEMISTS KNOW THAT A GASOLENE GIVES QUICK PICK-UP Getting away fast— sprinting when you want to sprint ies, sees that these fuels have pick-up, power, speed — getting out of the pinches when you need to — and quick-starting in the best possible balance for that's pick-up—and the chart above tells the chemist all-round performance under the climatic conditions if the gasolene will give it. of the section where they will be sold. They can, and This gasolene will. The chart above shows the re- do, reject any gasolene which does not come up to sult of boiling gasolene, and noting the percentage this standard. which evaporated at certain temperatures. Horizontal Thus, the Cities Service emblem, whether on oil or your lines indicate temperatures; vertical lines, percent- gasolene, is a definite guarantee of full value for — ages. In this case the shape and position of the curve money. It identifies the products of Cities Service tell the chemist that the gas will respond quickly at and "if it's Cities Service, it has to be good." the throttle; that in the climatic conditions under which this gasolene is to be used, it is neither over- When we wrote that letter in the TO THE LADIES: April issue we were thinking so balanced with light, quick-burning, lower-powered much of the men we met last year, in connection with the Junior elements, nor top-heavy with the more powerful but Baseball tournament, that we overlooked the ladies entirely. We'll never do it again—and meanwhile we want to thank you for more sluggish "heavy ends". your visits to our stations and your kind comments on our products. You've been so nice about it, that we don't mind the way you've Making such tests daily, the group of expert chem- kidded us about our unlucky "faux pas." ists who check every run from Cities Service refiner- CITIES SERVICE - ^ ONCE ALWAYS^ Cities Service—one of the country's ten largest industrial or- PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ganizations—broadcasts Fridays, 8 P. M. (E. D. T.), over WEAF CITIES SERVICE GASOLENE, OIL AND GREASE : KOOLMOTOR GASOLENE, OIL AND GREASE and 32 N. B. C. stations. -says the famous ALEX MORRISON GRANT- RICE,LAND . and he guarantees Editor of The Amer- ican Golfer Gays.••Alex Morrison to Improve Your Golf has been working for years on simpli- tying and fT developing in Just Five Days / a clear pic- ture of what is needed to play better golf. He is something more than a *T LAST Alex Morrison has For Those Bewildered by a fine teacher of golf. He is thousands also one of the few who A\ done what have "Plague of Don'ts" have made a close study urged him to do: put his of breaking up tension. Alex Morrison has just gotten way to learn the correct swing Which is the curse of every out a book which clearly de- game played." within reach of every one anxious to scribes and pictures his simple REX BEACH says, improve his game. " Morrison knows more correct swing. way of learning the about his business than "Alexander the Great" is, as Bob There need be no question in your I will ever know about Davis says, "the Wizard of Golf In- mind about being able to learn mine. He has taken the golf swing apart and struction." His instruction brought It is through a book like this one. examined it, oiled up Babe Ruth down into the 70s—en- sold not on promise but on per- loose parts, re-assem- abled Doug Fairbanks to shoot 72 guarantee bled them and put the formance—on a definite whole thing into (on a par 71 course) in Los Angeles that it will improve smooth running —helped big-framed Rex Beach shoot your game, or cost you order. To watch him execute a shot 154 for 36 holes in tournament nothing. is to realize that :.e play, and slender Clarence Budington has mastered the elu- principles of the Kelland get into the 70s. has If you know Alex sive He «olf stroke to a nice- taught Jack Dempsey, the slight Morrison, you know ty which makt t mos. - Charles Chaplin and the bulky Paul that he is the arch Yon will find sim- Rice, enemy of Golf DON'TS! (lest, the Whiteman, Grantland Rube plest, the moat sensible help Goldberg, Paula Stone, Annette His last fifteen years you have ever found." were spent to "If the Pulitzer Fund Kellermann, and scores of others. have been offer a reward for (rolf in- to BOB DAVIS, Whatever golf lessons he chose to help the man so typical structors." ssys First, he tells >rrison would grab the coin give were given at a charge of $200 of thousands of golfers: y year. He is the most cele- you how to ban- brated golf instructor alive.' for 12 lessons. So many the man who stands "don'ts" are ish mental ten- grimly before his ball He is on the staff of American running sion and nervous through his "concentrating," with Golfer, lias written for Ladies' Home mind that strain, and how to play with mus- MONEY his knuckles white with SEND NO American they show in cular freedom, mental relaxation. /Journal, and the 5 Days' Examination and a Magazine, Popular his knees, his tension, cords shoulders, in his neck swelling Then he analyzes the eight stages Double- Guarantee Science, and others. and his whole with strain. Alex Mor- of the He has given lec- stance. Correct Swing—not "correct" The Morrison Send no money rison is out to help the because it is the way he does it, Golf with coupon tures and exhibitions Guarantee the be- fellow who really gets too little but correct because of the structure low. When the all over this country -'^BSIsk and benefit If In book is handed to Although amusement, satisfaction of your own body. For years Mor- Your and Canada. One you, pay the post- from the game—who merely ex- rison has studied anatomy and Pres- Month th ' s le(t him lit,le man only plus 4H changes business worries for golf mechanics. As he has proven, ent You'll $2. time for tournament Score Score postage charges. worries who is in a constant panic when the proper muscles cease to M'-'JL piny, Alex has dem- — Is Read it for five the wrong thing. onstrated that he can about doing function the wrong ones take 130 days. If you are play the game with charge—and you inevitably get a 120 not "sold" at once OR if you put the best of them. In The Secret of the Correct Swing bad shot. HQ — Mr. Morrison's sug- addition to defeating are "stymied" by your In simple terms and clear photo- 100 into This fellow If you gestions prac- several of the lead- 90 is considerably apparent inability to apply seem- graphs he shows these eight stages. tice and within one worried about ing players he has ingly simple principles, if the usual He proves by actual photographs 85_ month you don't re- his wind-up. duce your score in set many course rec- advisory jargon and generalities there is not even a "pivot" in it! 80 The correct accordance with the swing banishes ords. Recently he tied haven't gotten you anywhere, if you He gives you no such advice as is 75 73 little chart shown all worry a hunt the course record at intense concentra- of realize that mere bewildering and killing the game here, you may return the book and your ANY stage ol Foot (the a shot. Winged tion, will-power, and practice alone the gentleman pictured above. Then, $2 will be refunded. scene of the 1929 is not the real answer—then you having shown you how to get the Clip and mail this coupon—without 68. money now. SIMON & SCHUSTER, American Open) with a He will be interested in how Alex Correct Swing, he shows how easy — INC., 167, Fourth Avenue. and his brother Fred — winner of Dept. 386 Morrison can change your whole it is to put it into practice—in New York City. the winter season's biggest purse viewpoint, in his book, "A New every shot, from at Agua Caliente — recently beat Way to Better Golf." drive to putt. Olin Dutra and Roland McKenzie. / SIMON & SCHUSTER, Inc. / Dept. 167, 386 Fourth Ave., wf New York City Please send me Alex Morrison's / new illustrated book, "A New Way Some ot the Good Golfers Who Have / to Better Golf." When the postman Followed Morrison's System / delivers It I will pay $2, plus postage / charges. / It is distinctly understood that, if I / care to, I may return the book within 5 / days. It is also understood that. If putting M f Mr. Morrison's instructions into practice does not—within one month—reduce my score as indicated in the schedule shown above, I have the privilege of returning the book. In either case my $2 is to be refunded at once. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Formerly in the high 80s. Now in the tow 70s. City.^ State saving Check here If you are enclosing $2 herewith, thus postage charges. Same refund privileges apply, of course. JULY, 1932 I ; CforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (7o upholdand defend the Constitution ofthe UnitedStates of&merica; to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent Americanism topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the (yreat'~War; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obligation to the com- munihf,state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; topromote peace andgoodwillon earth ; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjusticejreedom and democracy; to conse- crate andsanely our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution, ofHie American Legion.

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