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VISITING soldier hospitals is CONTENTS make it here!' She smiled apprecia- no new experience to Elsie CHRISTMAS Cover tively and came over to my bed and Janis. As in 1937 (see "Pass It By William Heaslip posed. Eventually the picture ap- On" in this issue), so in 1918. For MASTER MARINER 5 peared in a London paper and later By Peter B. Kyne the photo shown herewith we are in the New York Times." Illustrations by Dan Content indebted to Legionnaire Robert H. PILGRIMS—BUT NOT STRANG- Thomas of Sanford, North Carolina, said the New York Na- ERS 10 WHO who is none other than the patient By Alexander Gardiner tional Convention was over? himself. SKOAL, LEGION! 14 Not a day has gone by since the fall By Fairfax Downey of the final gavel without one or PASS IT ON 16 more Legion caps being in evidence By Elsie Janis on Fifth Avenue. The answer, of Decoration by William Heaslip course, is the return from the French- THEY CALLED HIM SPIKE 18 By Leonard H. Nason Italian pilgrimage. That return is Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops likely to continue for some time yet. WEATHER PERMITTING 22 By John R. Tunis COUPLE of years ago Fairfax DOGS OF WAR 24 A Downey made a jaunt to Mex- By Genevieve Parkhurst ico and reported on the Legion there. Illustration by Raymond Sisley Now he is just back from Sweden EDITORIAL: two anniversaries 25 NOW YOU SEE 'EM, NOW YOU with an account of the activities of DON'T 26 Stockholm Post. It gives the home- By William I. Lyon grown Legionnaire a pleasant and KILLING THE NIGHT HAZARD 28 comfortable feeling to realize that, B. By Boyd Stutler the world around, there are little is- AN ECHO FROM THE ARGONNE 32 lands of Legiondom where any of us By John Noll J. could feel right at home. This ought HOOSEGOW HERMAN'S XMAS 36 SANFORD writes: "On Sunday, By Wallgren to be especially true in Sweden, par- September company ticularly as far as the inner is 8, 1918, my BURSTS AND DUDS 38 man —B of the 120th Infantry, Thirtieth Conducted by Dan Sowers concerned, because they begin their Division—was advancing toward the FRONT AND CENTER 40 meals with a tableful of smorgasbord Hindenburg Line when I was hit by (spelling not guaranteed, but hors shrapnel. Two days later I was trans- d'oeuvres or snacks to us) which is ferred to a hospital in Dover, Eng- six or seven meals in itself. When land, and then to Base 37 at Dart- IMPORTANT that is out of the way they get down ford, where I stayed several months. to the really serious business of eat- A form for your convenience if you wish President Wilson, Secretary of War ing. to have the magazine sent to another ad- Baker and other notables visited us dress will be found on page 62. In noti- while I was there, and Elsie Janis fying the Indianapolis address be sure to PETER B. KYNE returns to this include the old address as well as the new came to see us frequently, and often issue with a sea story that is ad- and don't forget the number of your Post sang, danced, and told jokes. One mirable proof of his versatility. That and name of Department. Allow five morning she asked which one of us weeks for change to become operative. An man seems to be at home anywhere would like to have his picture taken issue already mailed to old address will not or else he just puts in a lot of hard be forwarded by post unless subscriber with her. office work and doesn't begin setting one sends extra postage to post office. Notifying "Not being at all bashful, I sang little word after another until he this office well in advance of impending out, 'Come on over, sister, and let's address change will obviate this expense. knows just what words he wants.

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Jim Brandon, master WHENof the ten-thousand-ton freighter Oriole, laid his ves- sel alongside his company's dock at Astoria, the agent came out of the dock office and shouted up to him: "Hi, skipper! I see you've been picking up weather reports." The Oriole had loaded lumber up on the Columbia River and was outward bound; so the agent knew that dirty weather must be the excuse for her halt at Astoria. "I can see storm signals flying from the flagpole on the roof of the Weather Bureau uptown and my barometer's down to 28.40. So I'm not crossing out today," Brandon replied. "Man, it's dusty off the bar. The master of our Phalarope radioed me to get the latest weather report on Columbia River bar for him, so I telephoned the office of the Columbia Bar Pilots' Associ- "I can't bring her ation. One of them brought a Blue Funnel around, sir. She's liner in this morning and he told me that back on the if he had suspected, when he started course she was across the bar, that he'd meet fifty-foot steering" seas and that the wind would blow in gusts as high as seventy miles an hour, he would never have risked it. I reported to and was informed that the latter was the Phalarope so she's lying off the home ill and had been for the past ten entrance waiting for this sou'easter to days; so the private exchange operator abate." switched him on to young Mr. Groat, who When the lines were fast Brandon came upon the death of his father had taken down to the dock office and telephoned the latter's place in the company. Jim Groat & Hillman, his managing owners, Brandon had not been long enough in in San Francisco. He asked for Hillman Groat & Hillman 's employ to know young

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Mr. Groat very well, and from what he deck. Naturally the ship went up by the knots. But that was fifteen years ago and had heard he had a suspicion he was not head and down by the stern—and in on her last inspection the inspectors cut going to relish knowing him. He was order to keep her head down as much as her steam pressure down to a point where certain of this when a sharp voice barked possible I have a forward deckload of she'll do nine. The chief reports she should "Well, well, well, who is it?" lumber sixteen feet high. Naturally I had have been in the shop for a general over- "Captain Brandon, of the Oriole, tele- to keep the hatches clear so I could haul six months ago. The tubes in all her phoning you from Astoria, sir. I dropped remove them to take on that general boilers should be drawn they are all leak- ; in from up river a few minutes ago and cargo, so my forward deck load is in two ing and he has cut Number Four boiler discover the weather here is such that I sections, to starboard and to port of the out. So the vessel's power is down. She'll cannot cross out with safety. Knowing hatch coamings. I have shored up this do eight knots this voyage. Now, I can your anxiety to get me to San Francisco bifurcated cargo as best I can, but such a probably get out to the outer buoy safely, and out of there with the remainder of my deckload is very hard to lash. I feel but—if I lose the forward deckload her cargo before the twentieth I concluded to confident it will ride safely in ordinary bow will come up until her forefoot shows telephone and tell you that if this weather weather, but if I tackle Columbia River and she'll be riding on her tail. With her doesn't abate within two days I will be bar today I risk losing it, because it just bow so high out of water and presenting unable to conform to your schedule." isn't humanly possible for me to cross out so much flat surface to a gale that blows, "What do you mean?" without taking green water over that in gusts, as high as seventy miles an hour, Brandon thought he had been explicit, deckload." do you know what will happen?" but he replied patiently, "I'm bar-bound "The cargo is insured," young Groat "You tell me," Groat urged insolently. at Astoria." replied lightly. "I will be unable to round the outer "Bar-bound at Astoria!" young Groat "My life is insured, too, but I am not buoy and turn south. The ship will fall shrilled. "Why, who ever heard of such a at all certain the lives of the remainder of off, out of control, before that wind, and thing? I understand vessels used to be the Oriole's crew of thirty-eight are in- pile up on Peacock Spit or the North bar-bound there in very bad weather, but sured. Please listen carefully, Mr. Groat. Jetty. Personally, I should not expect to since the Government built the jetties the My ship is down nine feet below her load come home from Peacock Spit." channel doesn't shift in a storm and the line aft and up six feet above her load line "The trouble with you, Brandon," seas are moderate." forward. She handled all right in the river Groat replied, "is that you can't take it. "The channel doesn't shift and shoal as but I know she'll be cranky in a seaway. I told Mr. Hillman, when he insisted on badly as it used to, Mr. Groat, but never- When she was built she could do eleven giving you the Oriole, that he was making theless the Hydrographic Office issued a mistake handing over a freighter to a more notices of changes of buoys in the man who had been raised in passenger channel leading out over Columbia River ships. Such skippers are too conservative." bar than for any other area." The lid blew off Jim Brandon's temper "What's the matter with you?" young at that. "I daresay the aged and experi- Groat shrilled impudently. "Can't you enced Mr. Hillman was highly edified at take it?" your lecture, you impudent squirt." "I can, but the Oriole "What's that, what's that? How dare can't, and I'll tell you you?" why. I was ordered to "I said you are an impudent squirt. load a full cargo of fir You are. Also you are a very stupid lumber at Knappton, squirt. And I'll terminate this conversa- for New York. When I tion by informing you that I shall not got to the mill dock I take the Oriole out until, in my judgment, discovered all of my it is reasonably safe to do so." cargo was not out—and "I order you to take her out today. the next day a local Damn the weather. The Oriole was taking strike shut the mill everything Columbia River bar had to down. When I reported offer long before you hung up your ticket this to your office I in her pilot house. She's got to be loaded received a radio instruc- and out of here by the twentieth, because tion to load that portion there's going to be a strike of the Mari- of the cargo ready for time Federation and she must be at sea me, but not to put any before that strike is declared. If her West lumber under the for- Coast crew walks off at New York we can ward well deck, because ship an East Coast crew to get her back arrangements had been made to have me and by that time the strike here may be touch in at San Francisco on my way to settled." New York and there load a thousand tons "Nothing doing. I'll not risk my life, of general cargo. I— the lives of my crew or my ticket to build "Yes, yes, that is quite right, captain. you up, in your own mind, as a brilliant I issued those instructions." operator. If Mr. Hillman knew what you "I thought perhaps you had, Mr. are up to he would veto that crazy order." Groat. They didn't read like instructions "You will take the Oriole out within that would emanate from an old, experi- half an hour or I'll find a man who will." enced operator like Mr. Hillman." Jim "Good. Now we're out in the open. I Brandon couldn't help hurling that resign, my resignation to take effect the verbal shaft and he waited pleasurably moment my successor comes aboard." for evidence that it had sunk home. In He hung up and glared across the desk the silence that followed he realized ; t at the agent, who said: "I'm had. He continued: "As a result of obey- sorry you 've lost your berth. ing those orders the Oriole has her usual He hauled the line "Oh, I haven't lost it," complement of rough, heavy green fir home as he went Brandon replied lightly. stowed above and below the after well along "Young Groat has merely deck, but only above on the forward well gone hog wild with power,

6 The AMERICAN LEGTON Maga-Jne "Miss Minturn," the old man asked, "is the business of Groat & Hillman very profitable or only moderately so?"

the old man's home ill and the brat's and got his accounts in shape for his said: "I'm Hedstrom. Have the owners wearing his authority like a horse wears a successor, and departed accordingly. His radioed you that I'm to relieve you?" blanket. He may get me out of the Oriole, first action, however, was to radio his "They have, Captain Hedstrom. I re- but he'll have the devil of a time keeping resignation. Within an hour Sparks signed rather than take the Oriole out in me out. Mr. Hillman's a fair man. He'll brought him a reply. It read: this weather." see that justice is done me." "When you're as old as I am, married, "If that Groat had the brains of a Brandon, Master S. S. Oriole, Astoria, and the father of five children you won't Oregon. dickey bird he'd know that a competent ride such a high horse, Captain Brandon. Your resignation received and accepted. skipper isn't picked up and given com- I wish I could refuse to take her out. I Hedstrom, master our steam schooner mand of a ten-thousand-ton freighter on saw, when I landed near here in the plane, Oregonian now loading en route to ten minutes' notice. probably will be that she's badly out of trim. Only two- He Astoria by airplane to relieve you. two days finding your successor, and two Groat & Hillman thirds of a deckload forward and nothing days longer getting him up here. And the under deck, eh?" bar may be down and this sou'easter An hour later Brandon saw an am- Jim Brandon nodded. blown out within twenty-four hours, phibian plane come down in the harbor "Well, she'll be taking green water over when you'll cross out. He's wasting time and taxi in to the float at the tugboat her nose long before we hit the bar proper, when he wants to save it." company's dock. Shortly thereafter a and that will put about five hundred tons Jim Brandon sighed, remarked that it rugged Viking about forty years of age of water down on her well deck, between might be a good idea if he went aboard came to Brandon's stateroom door and those two towering walls of lumber. It'll

DECEMBER, 1937 7 Coming up on the weather bow of the doomed Oriole was a big bar tug. Per- haps ...

stay there because it will come in faster the responsibility of obeying an order senger accommodations. My old mate is than it can run off. That'll put her head that should never have been issued. And in command and I'll radio him to tele- down several feet and she'll handle I've told the chief and he's told his gang. phone you when he docks here, pick you easier and I'll get by." I'm not their keeper. If they care to take up and dead-head you back to San "I hope so," Brandon replied coldly. a chance it's no affair of mine." Francisco. It's a courtesy you're entitled "You're taking a big risk and you seem to "Thanks. Men often resent the fellow to." realize it." who takes over their job. Sorry you've "Thanks. I'll be glad to accept. Tell "I've been running in steam schooners lost. Glad I've won." him to telephone me at the Astoria House." all my years on this coast, and steam He held out his hand and Jim Brandon The steward carried his gear ashore and schooner men have to take chances. This shook it heartily. "Good luck to you," the agent telephoned for a taxi to come is a promotion for me. Means a hundred he added. and carry him up town. dollars a month more salary—and I have "Thanks. I suppose you'll return to five little squareheads and a mortgage on San Francisco." IN THE privacy of his room at the my home. I hope," Hedstrom added Brandon nodded. Astoria House, Captain Brandon sat suddenly, "you haven't put the crew up "Thought so. The Oregonian will be down to review recent events. He was far to walking out on me." here from up river tomorrow night and I from sure now that a reinstatement in his "I'm not that sort. I have told the can save you the price of a railroad fare job was possible, particularly if Hedstrom mates and I have told the bo'sun exactly to San Francisco if you care to occupy a should manage to pass out safely. Merely why I have resigned rather than accept stateroom on her. She has limited pas- because old Hillman had insisted upon

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine sailed the seas to do it." He switched his thoughts from the Oriole and Hedstrom and Groat to Mary Minturn, the girl he was engaged to marry. Miss Minturn was the cashier in Groat & Hillman's office; he had met her when he was mate on an Admiral Line steamer running between San Francisco and Seat- tle. He could see her then at least twice a month and sometimes

three times . . . naturally he had had to work fast. Mary was the daughter of a Groat & Hillman shipmaster who had been

lost at sea . . . old Hill- man thought a great deal

of Mary . . . Brandon had a suspicion her recom- mendation of him had had considerable weight with old Hillman. Just before sailing from San Francisco on his present voyage he had informed Hillman of his engage- ment and the kindly old man had said: "That means Miss Minturn will have to break in her suc- cessor. Well, the Oriole will lay up here for a general overhaul after completion of this voy- age, so you may take two weeks off on salary then for your honeymoon." Then he had smiled slyly and added: "Groat & Hillman prefer married skippers. They're not so liable to go adrift when they have an anchor down!" Well (Brandon re- flected) their marriape would have to be de- layed now. If he had

felt it fair to her to marry giving him the Oriole was no reason why water and bear the head of the vessel her on chief mate's salary they would the decent old soul should quarrel with down several feet, thus making her easier have been married long ago. But he was his youthful partner over a mere master to handle and offering less exposed flat not going back to a chief mate's berth. mariner. The beach was strewn with surface to the gale when the Oriole came Not much. He had been a captain and he master mariners. And the fact that young to round the outer buoy and turn south. would never slip back ... he hoped Groat had been insulting was no excuse Brandon cursed himself for not having Mary would understand and agree to a for the sort of language Jim Brandon had thought of this. postponement. Surely she must realize employed. That outburst to his owner It was something the wretched Groat how much it hurt him to ask this. To keep indicated a lack of discipline. could and doubtless would throw up to his mind off these painful cogitations he He concluded, finally, that he was out him and old Hillman to illustrate Bran- started unpacking his suitcases. of the employ of Groat & Hillman for- don's incapacity as a master mariner and ever. Hedstrom was senior to him in the justify his own wisdom in summarily ABOUT forty minutes after Jim Bran- employ and he wondered now why the removing the latter from command. A don's taxi had rolled out the dock latter had not been given the Oriole "Those Scandinavian skippers will all entrance, another taxi rolled in and up instead of him. The man was capable, for take a chance," he ground out, "and to the foot of the Oriole's gangplank. he had seen at a glance something that they're all smeared with Swede luck. From it two women emerged and when had escaped Jim Brandon's vision— i.e., Hedstrom will probably do successfully the steward of the Oriole saw the driver that space between the two sections of the what I feared to do, but— he'll need all unloading hand luggage he came down on

forward deckload that must fill with of the luck of all the Swedes that ever the dock. "You (Continued on page 46)

DECEMBER, 1937 9 the third time in twenty years FORan American army early this fall captured the Republic of France, invested her chief city of Paris, and spread out by railroad and automo- bile to her farthest provinces. As in 1927, when some 20,000 returned to cement ancient bonds of friendship which two million men-at-arms had ten years earlier convincingly renewed in the stress of battle, these 1937 pilgrims were members of The American Legion, with their kinfolk. Though this year's Legion National Commander Daniel J. Doherty rekindles the flame at the travelers numbered scarcely more than a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier following the Legion parade in Paris fourth of the 1927 group, who were in Paris for a National Convention, the Re- public made them welcome with open- handed generosity, officially and infor- mally through its citizens in hundreds of towns and villages, joined them in honor- ing their wartime chief, General John

J. Pershing, and with him those who served under him, through dedication of two beautifully inspiring monuments, and bade them bon voyage and come again. All of the 5200 pilgrims received lodging and meals free during a six-day period in France, a magnificent gesture of hospitality quite without precedent. Italy, partner with France in inviting the 1937 pilgrims, inevitably saw fewer of them, partly because of her geographic situation but more especially because two million Yanks could say to the French at the end of the war, "We have eaten your bread and salt," as against only a few thousand who served in Italy. At that, excepting France, probably more Legionnaires visited Italy than went to other countries of Europe. The Ameri- Looking toward the speakers' platform during the dedi- can Express Company sold 2800 tours cation at Versailles of the Pershing and Lafayette statues

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to various sections of the Continent and to England. It will be a long time before complete returns on who visited where are available, for some of the pilgrims won't be back in America until next spring.

It was a sentimental pilgrimage, this postlude to the greatest ever National Convention of the Legion in New York City. For in the soil of France, under the beautiful marble crosses a grateful America has erected, lie thousands of those whom we knew as buddies, men we should have been proud to hail as fellow Legionnaires. They died for America, and for us. As the great Aisne- Marne Memorial at Chateau-Thierry

puts it, "Time will not dim the glory of their deeds." The pilgrimage also marked a reaffir- mation by the Legion and the nation it represents of America's belief in democ- racy, that government of the people, by the people and for the people must not perish from the earth. General Pershing

said it in words that everybody could understand in his address at Versailles,

and National Commander Daniel J. Doherty in all his addresses on French and English soil emphasized the essen- tial solidarity of the democratic nations in the effort to bring about peace on earth. Said the General at the close of his Versailles address, speaking directly to President Lebrun of France: "Here in the presence of so many of my country- men, in the midst of our friends, the General Harbord speaking at the Aisne-Marne Memorial French people, I wish to express my firm dedication at Chateau-Thierry. Above, the two sides of conviction, Monsieur le President, that the official French medal commemorating the pilgrimage the three great democracies of France,

DECEMBER, 1937 II Great Britain and the United States will not only endure but will lead the way for all others as mankind marches forward to progress in peace and righteousness." The pilgrims tasted the flavor of Paris

life and found it good. The great side- walk cafes of the Boulevards and the Champs Elysees appealed to them, the Metro subway they found excellent, the Exposition was a delight, and taxicab dodging something of a thrill. They gloried in the architectural delights of the Madeleine, Sacre Coeur and Notre Dame, rubbernecked at the Eiffel Tower, got their letters from home and changed their money at the American Express Company's office, and found Pershing Hall the heart of American Paris. The President of the Republic, Albert Lebrun, her greatest living soldier, Marshal Henri Petain, the well-beloved

In the van of the great parade at Paris, Commander Doherty and Generals Vincensini and Gouraud

auspices of the American Battle Monu- ments Commission was dedicated. Gen- eral Pershing introduced Commander Doherty, who presided; Major General James G. Harbord, under whose chair- manship the great National Convention in New York had so recently made Legion history, was the orator of the day, and Past National Commander Colmery, rep- resenting the Battle Monuments Com- mission, also spoke. It was the final dedication in the series of splendid memorials erected overseas, most of which were dedicated last summer. At the Invalides, where 150 French veterans who bear disabling mementoes of military service find proud sanctuary in

The Legion march at Rome as Past National Commander Col- mery prepared to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

General Gouraud and everybody that is anybody in France contributed to the thunderous welcome accorded National Commander Doherty, his immediate predecessor, Harry W. Colmery, and on down to the youngest pilgrims who knew nothing of the significance of what was being done but realized it was something quite out of the ordinary. At Versailles, where Franco-American friendship got its start in 1777 and where both nations were partners in great proceedings in 1783 and in 1019, France dedicated the model of a splendid equestrian statue of General Pershing which faces, across a main highway, a copy of the celebrated statue of Lafayette in the Louvre. Near Chateau-Thierry, where in May and June of 1018 the American Army operations in which the Allies took the Pilgrims passing through Bel- stopped the great German thrust from initiative of battle that never afterward leau Wood on their way to the the Aisne to the Marne and in a month passed to the foe, the pilgrims had the American Cemetery. A tour of and a half of virtually continuous fight- major share of honors as the Aisne- battlefields and cemeteries was ing set the stage with the French for Marne War Memorial raised under the made available to everybody

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine that the democracy so dearly saved in

10 1 8 is as vital now as it was then in France, Britain and the United States. France does not forget the American doughboy of 19 18—when last Fourth of July, a national committee headed by Marshal Petain asked for contributions toward the cost of the Lafayette-Pershing Memorial at Versailles, all of the 36,000 villages in the nation contributed, and the bulk of the money raised was in the humbler denominations. Before the great New York convention was over, the first of the pilgrims got away for Europe aboard the Cunard Liner Queen Mary, followed twelve hours later by the North German Lloyd's Bremen. The first vessel to leave after the convention was the Washington of the United States Lines, flagship of the

pilgrimage, carrying Daniel J. Doherty, who eight hours before had been elected

The National Commander steps back after laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in London

an institution that goes back to 1670 and Louis the Fourteenth, and where the great Napoleon and Marshal Foch sleep the long sleep, four thousand of the pil- grims were given a luncheon in the famous Court of Honor, and Marshal Petain, on behalf of the Republic of France, made

Daniel J. Doherty a Commander of the Legion of Honor and four other members of The American Legion members of that select society founded by Napoleon the First. The food was superb, the music by a French military band and the Miami Drum and Bugle Corps was all to the good, and the wines provided were the

Commander Doherty, Marshal Petain and General Pershing at the Versailles exercises

National Commander, and 678 other members of the great Legion family. VERDUN V irtually every day thereafter some ves- sel sailed with a quota of pilgrims, up to October first. One of the largest Legion delegations was the 800 who sailed on the Rex of the Italian Line, headed by Past National Commander Colmery, with Phil Conley, National Vice-Com- mander, Chairman Philip W. Collins and Vincent M. Miles of the Pilgrimage Committee, Pilgrimage Director James P. Ringley, Legislative Director John Thomas Taylor, and Past National Vice Commander Salvatore A. (Cappy) Capo- dice, also aboard. The Rex group split up on arrival at Naples, a few of them reaching Paris on the morning of A Legion group arrives for a the Ver- sort that make the heart to sing. Every- sailles celebration, nearly of them tour of a battlefield not un- 500 body was welcome, and everything free, making it in time for the Chateau- known to fame. After that, the as the wartime slogan ran. Argonne Thierry exercises, and some 300 missing These three occasions were the high- all of the official activities but none of the lights of the 1 Q3 7 Pilgrimage, but who hospitality otherwise offered by the shall say they were the most important and England hundreds and thousands French. things? Where sleep the brave in Ameri- knelt in reverent pride that those who National Commander Doherty and can cemeteries in France, Belgium, Italy paid the great price did not die in vain, the rest of the {Continued on page §6)

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Stockholm Post puts on a spread and invites the ladies. Post Com- mander Leonard Bellander is seated third from the right, directly beneath the Stars and Stripes. Post Adjutant H. Al- wert is tucked away in the left- hand corner. On opposite page, the heart of Stockholm as seen from the air

A BUGLE in the barracks across /\ the harbor blew reveille in I % Swedish. It sounds grand in any language to a former sol- dier who doesn't have to do anything about it. I half opened one eye and it was light, but it's light late at night and very early in the morning in Stockholm, with the midnight sun of summer work- ing overtime. I went back to pounding the ear again. Then bang! bang! ba?ig! —something pounded it harder yet. My window framed three warships steaming into port, paying their respects to Sweden with thunderous salutes, port KOAL and starboard. Is there any spectacle more stirring? Well, a battery of field artillery galloping into position, unlim- bering and going into action has its points for some of us, but we needn't argue, sailor. These cruisers were the alert, even if the King was away in who founded Stockholm brought me Britishers, good friends of the Swedes the south playing a spirited, seventy- to my destination, a flourishing cafe. nowadays. They kept banging away nine-year-old game of tennis. It is owned by the Commander of Stock- through twenty-one guns. It seemed to The traffic thickened, especially with holm Post of The American Legion. No, be time to get up. bicycles—more than I ever saw in my life. that isn't why he was elected. He was a Thus turned out, this one-man unit Wartime gasoline at about $10 a quart, man well qualified for the job. marched down the waterfront street of more or less, and also the depression A barmaid, for in Sweden as elsewhere Skeppsbron. Cadenced steps rang out started the Swedes wheeling. Their in Europe the hand that rocks the cradle behind me and I automatically gave way army has a good cyclist corps, by the way. taps the beer, ushered me into the office to the right, though left-hand traffic is of the boss. Leonard A. Bellander, ex- the rule. Somebody sounded off with T PASSED statues of Gustavus Adol- sergeant of Engineers, 85th Division, hep-hep or whatever the word is the -L phus and Charles XII, two of the made me welcome. Swedes have for it. A squad swung by fightingest soldier-kings any nation ever "Have a beer?" he invited. He in- in snappy blue uniforms and as fine, had. Further along was a bust of Captain sisted his English was a bit rusty, but I spiked, German-type helmets as you John Ericsson, the Swedish soldier and understood him perfectly. "Ja," I could have wished to souvenir twenty engineer who developed the screw pro- accepted in perfect Swedish. "Skoal!" years ago. The German army stamped peller and built for the United States hailed my host, which has been the its influence here as all over the rest of that "cheese box on a raft" named the Scandinavian toast since vikings hoisted Europe. At the gates of the Royal Palace Monitor whose defeat of the Confederate horns of mead and ale. I wished him the the squad relieved the guard. It took me ironclad, Mcrrimac, was a crucial episode same, and another Legion reunion was on. back. I could imagine the new sentry in our Civil War. Bellander told me that Stockholm Post repeating that he was to walk his post in A hike of blocks down a street called No. 1 celebrates its second anniversary a military manner, keeping always on Birger Jarlsgatan in honor of the viking in 1938. At the same time occurs a three

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Legion! hundredth anniversary, the settlement of holm Post of The American Legion. Division and fought with that outfit at Delaware by the Swedes, and the latter Born in Sweden—most of them—they Chateau-Thierry. After farming and occasion laid the long train of events joined the tide of immigration to the odd jobs in the U. S. A. he went home to which resulted in the former. United States which only reversed itself take a good position in his father's bag- New Sweden in Delaware didn't last in recent years. They were naturalized gage factory. The saga of these post offi- long as such. Old Peter Stuyvesant and found jobs. In 1Q17 they answered cers is typical of most of the other mem- stumped down on his wooden leg from their adopted country's call to arms. bers. They are glad to be back in their New Amsterdam at the head of an army, native land and are doing well, yet they and the Swedes were too few to beat the AFTER the war not all got their jobs do not regret their American adventure. Dutch. That was left to the English who 1 A. back. The depression made the going In fact, they founded their Post to in turn—but this isn't a Fourth of July hard, and that plus homesickness, which keep memories alive and ties unbroken. piece. The point is that the Swedes you can understand when you see Sweden, Quite a few of these men had been mem- stayed settled, kept coming and founded took most of them back to the land of their bers of American Posts and gratefully re- the sturdy Swedish-American stock in birth. Commander Bellander saw action member services done them by the Le- which our country takes pride. Lumber- at St. Mihiel and the Argonne. He was gion. Some have relatives and business ing, farming, seafaring, invention, ma- a mechanical engineer in the States. On connections in the States. chinery, the various professions—the his return to Sweden, he ran hotels in the Swedes tackled them all and many a one north and now owns that flourishing STOCKHOLM Post now has thirty-four made his mark. There was, for instance, cafe. Gustav Larson, Vice-Commander, members and is campaigning for more, a former member of the Swedish parlia- served as a corporal and acting sergeant as well as encouraging the establishment ment who hewed a homestead out of the in the 363d Infantry, 91st Division, in of a Post in Gothenburg, Sweden's big Minnesota woods. He changed his name the Argonne and at Ypres. His trade as Atlantic port. Post parties, which may of Mansson to Lindbergh, and his grand- a tool and die-maker in the States is still combine the celebration of Armistice Day son, as you've heard tell, became an followed by him as the boss of a Stock- and Thanksgiving so as to miss noth- aviator. In all our wars Swedish-Ameri- holm manufacturing plant. Herbert ing, are real occasions. American diplo- cans have served gallantly as first-class Alwert, Post Adjutant, was only seven- matic and consular officials are invited. fighting men. teen when he eased himself into the Ninth If an American warship is in port, its band Of such is the membership of Stock- Machine Gun Company of the Third is borrowed. {Continued on page 55)

DECEMBER, 1937 — a pass it

ElsieJanis / J, J,

WELL, fellahs, one year has best seller of the year, so why not start at nothing new to me because I was born in passed since I signed up for the top and quote from the best seller of prayer. My Mother prayed for me over the duration of this life and all years, especially when through it one my Father's wishes, and she prayed me the next. My training has has found that peace folks are always into every success I ever had. I know been stiff, I've only been put on K. P. talking about—the Peace that passeth now why I never got the wind up in duty a couple of times, and I haven't all understanding. France—she was right there, asking gone AWOL once. If I keep eyes front Personally, I don't ask to understand, G.H.Q. every minute to see that her and up through 1937 I may rate a cor- I only want to hang onto it. At the time Baby didn't stop one, and so consistent poral's stripes. of going to press, I am not only hanging was her example to me, that I have never Again, your editor has said, "What ya on, I'm swinging and singing! Here is gone to bed without saying my prayers, got to publish, Elsie?" Again, I have no my theme song: even when tight. fiction because I know now, better than // you've had a kindness shown, pass it on. So, what? There are thousands who ever, that truth is not only stranger than 'Twas not given for you alone, pass it on. can say, "Well, what does she think is so fiction, it's a lot more fascinating. So, Let it travel down the years, wonderful about that? I pray every again, I am writing the low-down on my Let it dry another's tears, night, and so does Willie. We go to High-ups to youse guys who rate reading Till in Heaven the deed appears, pass it on. church every Sunday—well, at least this publication, instead of for any purely almost every Sunday. So does Aunt commercial magazine, because you know QUITE a change from the one you Emma." me. fellows used to like best over there I can hear the gently ironic babble, Years ago I used to delight in telling —"Where Do We Go From Here, Boys, but I say, "Patience is the password," a story which I know now must have Where Do We Go From Here?" I still and what I am trying to pass on is this shocked the ultra-religious, but as my sing it when a gang wants it, but for me, bit of inside information—if you have angle on the great Boss of this universe the old question mark is out! Wherever been even faintly God-conscious (and who G.H.Q.—has convinced me that He we go from here, I'm going to make sure could play around in a war and not be?) doesn't give His children a sense of of reservations. I am quite prepared to —if you have even vaguely believed the humor and then ask them to lose it when go steerage if it makes the entree certain. turn over should be much easier—Turn they start serious training for His Army, Everyone who finds this very special Over is just what it is, and turning the I give you the story. It hits my situation brand of happiness wants to write, talk, whole battle over to G.H.Q. is the quint- right on that well-known button. and broadcast about it, so I've soft-ped- essence of buck passing. It is, howevei, A little boy walked in on his parents aled for the past year for fear of boasting a one-track job. You can't say "Thy on Christmas Eve, and when he saw too soon. Now, I know that if I lose this Will Be Done" and add "but please make them trimming the tree, which Santa greatest of all the blessings bestowed it snappy."

Claus was supposed to drag down the upon me, it will be my own fault, and if fireplace chimney (which they didn't one out of a thousand of youse guys gets " ACCORDING to your faith be it unto possess), he said: "Aw, I ain't bein' anything out of my story, I shall not IX. you"—St. Matthew, 9th chapter, fooled. I'm onto that Santa Claus gag, have lived, died, or flopped in vain. 29th verse. I'm just giving you one pri- and I'm goin' to look into this Jesus Hold everything! No, on second vate's experience and there is no money- business, too." thought, you had better open everything backguarantee, but having had everything That is exactly what I have done for —your mind, your heart, and maybe— in every country in the way of luxury, well over a year—looked into it, and be- window. you must admit that I know what I mean lieve me, it's Big Business! Until you To the fellows who have watched me when I say, "This inside happiness is the can handle the next line, you can't know go clanging through the wards of hospi- Top, and that Light we've all read about how big it is. tals this past year, this may answer that makes all the spotlights I ever basked in "Now Faith is the substance of things "what-the-hell-is-this?" expression I saw look like a lightning bug by comparison." hoped for, the evidence of things not clearly in eyes, pain drenched or slightly "Ask and it shall be given you, seek seen"—Hebrews 11, 1st verse. Most gold bricking. and ye shall find, knock and it shall writers quote or snitch tactfully from the I want you to know that this is really be opened unto you" I have learned

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine William Heaslip does not mean a door, a way, or a bag of gold. It means the Book of Books and, through it, the Light by which to read and understand it. Having read the Bible all my life be- cause I thought I ought to, and then only when it pleased me to do so, I can vouch for what happens when one says with sincerity to G.H.Q., "Please show me everything in the old and new rules that will help me to be a good soldier today." I have learned that Bible browsers get blinded looking for high lights and lose the swell lessons, which are there for seek-and-ye-shall-finders.

THE first clue to the Treasure Hunt is when you realize that the Book, both the Old and New Testaments, was written for the world. You are doing your darnedest to stick around in that world, so everything in the Book applies to you. It covers your situation if you want it to. "He who exalteth himself shall be abashed and he who humbleth himself shall be glorified." If you don't think that applies, ask the gal who excelled in exalting herself and has found that humble thing is great exercise. Gratitude eases the stiffness of the knees, and the jump from "Thy Will (and mine) Be Done" to "Thy Will (and not mine) Be Done" is taken with more ease when the knees, mind, and heart get limbered up. Clearly the thought comes—"What a so-and-so I am, to have received so many blessings. Am I obeying those ten com- mandments that Moses had so much trouble getting? Do I have to read all that 'begat and begat' sequence of the Old Testament?" That's the time to ask G.H.Q., and I'll bet all the possessions I have left that the answer will come clearly, as it did with me: "No, you don't have to. That's why the Son was sent, to give you an out." But the set-up is the same as- in any army—you can go to an officers' training camp, learn what an officer should do, even get your shoulder bars, then when the battle starts, wish you knew what being under fire felt like, as the Regular Army guys know it.

THROUGH the training in the old school with prophets, kings, and his- torians, you arrive at the new one in the know. The locale is familiar, the towns are known to you, and best of all, you understand not only what the Son says, but how much simpler and love-laden His new rules are. You meet the original Godsend and understand why He was sent. He is your out from the strict, hard, and cruel training and His rules are simpler than the by-laws of any good club: Love—Love—Love. You realize how that word has been kicked about since the days in {Continued on page 41)

17 were saying, lady, that you "You t'row your pack on dat bunk," The corporal stood up. He was short YOUheard tell that I was once sus- orders Corporal Ambrosio, "an' you take and fat, and must have had rickets when picioned of being a criminal? a holt o' dat broom, an' sweepa de place he was a boy, because his knees seemed Which time do you mean, and out!" to begin at his ankles. This was tough how lately? Oh, during the war. Your "Take a look at my arm, boy!" I re- on his uniform, because the peg of his husband said he read one of my yarns and quested politely. "I'm a sergeant. breeches went almost to his shoe tops, thought he was with me at La Courtine, Regular Army, too. I guess I don't and he only had room enough for about huh? Oh, that time! I don't know about wrastle with any broom!" one turn of his wrap leggins. Quite a telling a lady about that. Gee! Not on "Sergeants ain't no better than anny- soldierly figure! a dry whistle, anyway. Hmmm! Of wan else here!" growls the corporal. "De guy in command here," said Cor- course if you could arrange to have a lit- "You live here, don't yuh? You walk in poral Ambrosio, "is Spike Hennessy. tle bottle of soldier's smelling salts near- da mud, you trampa da mud all over da He naila dem to da cross. You go ask in by, I might go through with it. floor, who da hell you think is gonna orderly room. Whenna you come back,

Ah, that's fine! Well, here's a sightin ; sweep it out for you?" looka where I leava da broom, right here shot! Now, then, lady, in the middle of "Well, corporal, before we get our vocal handy!" France, in a little town where a bathtub cords overstrained, suppose I just step So I went to the orderly room, all con- was as unknown as the Grand Lama of in the orderly room and talk this over fident, just to put this goofy room-cor- Thibet, and the only running water was with someone that's been in the Army poral in his place. Just as I got to the in the gutter, was a permanent camp of since Christmas. Who's in command?" door an officer entered the barracks. instruction called La Courtine. It belonged to the French, they had loaned it to the Russians, the Russians had mu- tinied and tried to wreck the place, and so the ruins had been turned over to the Americans. All the loose artillerymen that arrived in France with no outfit of their own went there. That's how I got there. I went up from Bor- deaux with two newly commissioned lieu- tenants of Ordnance and a hundred and fifty wild replacements from Camp Grant. It was a day in early May, sunny and warm, when I hit La Courtine. I went in to the reception desk, handed in my orders, and was told to go over to the Supply Company and get a bunk. They had big two-story stone barracks there, all pock-marked with machine-gun fire, from the time the French policed up on the Russian mutineers. The kitchens and the latrines were side by side, not to make the flies weary. In the squad rooms were long inclined shelves to sleep on.

And in charge of my squad room was a . . • hit him over sad looking, apple-cheeked, long-eye- the head because lashed Italian boy called Corporal Arn- he didn't pay brosio.

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine By Leonard H.Nason

Lady, he was wide across the chest, I scure lieutenant—Smith or Jones, or never said a word. It seems to me it ain't kiddin'. I've never seen so much something like that. must have been a Wednesday, because expanse from one shoulder to the other "Lieutenant Jones is in command?" everyone was gone except the corporal since. On his overseas cap was the old diapasons the wide man. "What do who was in charge of quarters. We used tin buzzard that meant a colonel. Well, you mean by that?" He beat his breast to get Wednesday and Saturday and all now I paused to estimate the situation. like a drum. "I'm in command here! day Sunday off in those days. If this gorilla-like person was headed for Unnerstand? You know who I am?" "I suppose," I began to the corporal, the orderly room, maybe I'd better wait "Why, er—yes, sir, you're Colonel "that there's no objection to my taking until he was finished. While I hesitated, Hennessy!" a little turn around the town, is there?" he stalked on, clump clump clump. "No. Only hava your dog tag on, boy! BLAM! He kicked wide the orderly COLONEL HENNESSY? Colonel An' you better know your serial number! room door. Hennessy? SPIKE Hennessy! They Spike, he gotta Dodge sedan. Look out

"Who's in command here?" barked call me Spike because I nail 'em to the for it. Whena you see, salute!" the wide man, stalking in. cross! Yuh know who I am now?" Well, I didn't think I'd go down town. Lady, he let out that query from down "Er — yes, sir, —er, Colonel Hen- You see, lady, I didn't have any dog tag, inside him somewhere, and it sounded like nessy!" that is to say, identification disc, worn the bottom bass note of the organ in The wide man sat down in a chair and about the neck. On the way up from Rockefeller Center. Gee, the poor com- rolled a cigarette. Bordeaux to La Courtine, I had made the pany clerk jumped up, almost leaving "You're hopeless," he said very calmly. acquaintance of an Armenian, or a Turk, his skin in the chair, and upsetting a bot- "I just told you who I am and still you whatever he was, that was a carver in tle of glue in the process. The glue don't know. Clean up that glue, now. metal. He wanted to carve some decora- rolled down the desk and fell on the floor, CLEAN UP THAT GLUE! Are you tions on my tags, and I let him have them. and the poor clerk grabbed some paper deaf as well as dumb?" He went over the hill at Perigeux, and to try to mop it up. Well, lady, I thought it wouldn't took my tags with him. Not very serious, "Stand at attention, you!" howls do to go in there and take up the matter except the first thing that an M. P. did Tarzan. of the broom at that minute. I just when he stopped a soldier was to ask for Overhead you could hear feet running, went back and swept out the squad room. his dog tag. Like a cop asking for your where the boys were taking to the dug- Corporal Ambrosio was lying in his driver's license. No license, into the outs. "I asked you, who's in command end of the shelf, smoking a butt. He hoosegow with you. No tag, into the here?" stockade. Except that in civilian life a

Well, the poor clerk let the glue run guy can get out, and in the Army if a down his pants and just gasped. He man got into a stockade, he was likely murmured finally the name of some ob- Herbert M. Stoops to stay there until any such little jobs

DECEMBER, 1937 10 as unloading a trainload of cement, or lugging rails for the new spur-track, had been completed.

IADY, there's no place in the world J lonesomer than a squad room in a barracks on a day when there's no drill. That barracks was like a tomb. Still, it would be better than the guardhouse. Then suddenly down the hall come feet, and the company clerk appears. "Your name Nason?" he asks. "Well, there's two officers want to see you." "Two officers? To see me? What for?" "You're Sergeant Nason, ain't you? Didn't you just come in this morning? Well, they said they wanted to see you. They're outside." I got up and started for the door, grabbing up my hat. "Sergeant!" says the clerk. "Just a whisper in your ear! Better get rid of that hat!" He points to my campaign hat. That hat was a Stetson that I'd paid good jack for, and I was pretty proud of it. It had a red silk cord on it that I was proud of, too. "Whaddyuh mean, get rid of this hat?" "They ain't allowed. You have to wear an overseas cap in this camp." "Is that so?" says I. "What's your head size?" "Seven an' an eighth."

"I thought it might be," says I. "Well, now, just because I swept up this squad room to give myself an appetite, is no sign I'm going to turn in an expensive hat for somebody else to wear. When I get a direct order from a commissioned these two bimboes might not be so good. officer to turn this hat in, I will. Other- "It's only fair to tell you," said the wise not." little looey, "that there will be a certain "If Spike sees you, you'll get it!" grins amount of amateur dog-robbing to be the clerk. "He'll maybe tell you to turn done. Carrying our suitcases, shining in your head with it." shoes, that sort of thing!" So I went out to see my officers. They And me a sergeant in the Regular were the two second lieutenants that had Army, to say nothing of almost being a come up from Bordeaux with me. One college graduate! Fat chance! was fat, not very tall, and the other had "It's very nice of the lieutenant to re- a long solemn pan on him, with eye- member me," said I, "but I've got an glasses, so that the boys called him The outfit of my own somewhere in France, Owl right from the start. I thought they and I think I'd better try to get back to were going to ask me about some papers it before they forget me. A sergeant that had been lost or something. doesn't seem to rate very high anywhere "Sergeant," begins the little looey, but with his own outfit, and as long as "as you know, we were commissioned I'm one, I'd better get back to some place and sent to France because we're ord- where people know what three stripes nance experts. Our purpose is to study on the right sleeve mean!" the French 75, and then go home and So they went away, muttering and take charge of manufacture in the States. looking back evilly over their shoulders. The first thing we have to do is to go up In the morning, under the care of Cor- to the front and observe some 75's in poral Ambrosio, the Supply Company's action. We have just received our order. new recruits turn out and go to the range.

We are going to be allowed one enlisted We coupled up some 7 5 's to a truck and man, and we thought—you have a good mounted in the truck and rattled away. idea of the French language—that you That was the first morning I'd ever had might want to go with us." a tin hat on, and my first experience The Owl nods confirmation. "You're with a gas mask. We had two of them a good non-commissioned officer. You in those early days. One mask was handled those men on the trip very well." American, the other French, the idea

Well, I stood on one foot and then the being that if the American mask didn't "Gas!" Off would go other. To go up to the front would be work, you put on the French mask. I every helmet with a clank swell. On the other hand, to go up with found out, long afterward, that the

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine French mask was a model that had been over and couldn't see anything wrong, so that when anything happens to breech condemned by the French. But it was but this officer was viewing me as though block, bolt, or machine gun in action supposed to be good enough for us. I was a pink elephant. the soldier will know at once there is no "In thisa camp," orders Corporal Am- "Well, how did you get them to let use fooling with the darned thing and brosio, "durin' drill hours, everybody you out so quick?" he asked. throw the whole works into the ditch. gotta wear tin hat an' gas mask. When I didn't understand him at all. I So we went ahead with our breech block. Spike hollers 'Gas!' if you too slow, in da thought he referred to some slight en- Lady, I don't remember much about hoosegow for a week!" tanglement I'd had with the camp regu- it, but there was some gadget you had Lady, that was a busy camp that lations at Genicart, resulting in a short to press down, and then something else morning. Everywhere you could see period of internment in the local stock- turned, and then the whole thing came squads of men marching at a new kind ade. I just shrugged my shoulders. His apart neatly. We'd done it once and got of quick step they'd learned from some jaw hung down. When I went away to it together again, then one lad started to Allied instructor—experts at stitching an where other ignorants were grouped take it down once more. He got the outfit all up—when someone would holler about Corporal Ambrosio and the trail block off the gun, and was fussing "Gas!"and off would go every helmetwith of a 75, 1 could still feel this officer looking around with it on his knees. a clank, and on would go the mask. Most at me. "Gas!" of the time the helmet going off would So then we sat down around the trail Now what the hell? I turned around clank against the dome of the soldier in spade to learn the parts of the 75 while to see who had bellowed that. There front, but there was no time to argue. on a horse was my Spike Hennessy. The mask had to be put on. But when He'd come up through the woods I just the masks came off, it was like a school told you about, and no one had seen him. of seals coming up for air. I thought he'd gone off his rocker, yelling Bark! Bark! Bark! like that. The guy that had the breech "Why'ncha look where yuh knock that block let it drop, or took his thumb off helmet, yuh blankety blank tub o' lard?" the spring, I don't "Stick around fer a poke in the jaw, know what he did, there, Sweeney! Yuh slammed that tin but the thing burst hat into me on purpose!" like a shell, and springs "Hey! Yuh know them things got and extractors and prickles on 'em? How does that feel on cams buzzed in all the back o' your neck?" directions. Helmets So, merry, merry in the morning, we were clumping every- went on up to the artillery range, bounc- where, banging off ing along in the back of the truck like skulls, trails, gun pebbles. shields, barrels, or just The first thing was to report to an the ground. Everyone officer who was sitting at a table right out was putting on his in the open field. mask. Apparently that "What experience have you had was the thing to do. on a 75?" he asks me. But how? I didn't I just went Well, I hadn't had any. Lady, I back and even know how to enlisted to go to war as a cavalry- swept out take mine out of the man, and without consulting me or the squad bag. Golly, they were any of my fellow soldiers, my regi- room confusing! There was ment was made into field artillery. a big tube like a snake, You can make a regiment into any- a pair of pinchers, thing you want to, just by writing strings, tin cans, elas- an order, but you can't make artil- tics to go over your lerymen out of cavalrymen so easily. waiting our turn to go up on the line and head or round your neck, goggles, rubber. When we were at Fort Ethan Allen, take part in firing. There were two prac- I don't know what not. I tried to pull the we had wagon bodies to drill with, a log tice batteries firing, everyone taking cursed thing on over my head, and finally of fire wood representing the gun. turns at being members of the gun crew. let it dangle around my ears, while I put At Camp Shelby we had ancient model The range was on a set of deserted hills, on the French mask. cannon, that would sometimes shoot—so all meadow land, but there were some "You're gassed!" announces Spike, I heard. I was in hospital, anyway, most pine woods that ran from the road up to coldly, pointing at me. Then he blows his of the time. So now, at least, I ap- the top of the hill, where we were. Some- whistle and rides away. proached the French 75 with an open one could come up through those woods "What's he mean, gassed?" I asked mind. I heard later that many a poor from below without being seen. Corporal Ambrosio, after Spike had gone old turkey-necked sergeant in my outfit "Firsta thing," begins Corporal Am- clumping away, licking his chops. went straight for the bottle after his first brosio, "we gonna learn to take down da "You don't go out of camp Saturday!" introduction to the 75, he having worn breecha block!" says the corporal. He turns to the luckless wrinkles in his skull learning all about The breech block on a 75 is the thing brother that had dropped the breech a panoramic sight, parallax, and the like, that closes like the top of a talcum can block. and now having to start all over again and shuts in the shell. It has to be "Whaddell you mean, feather fingers, on a gun that was just as different as pretty heavy, and it's complicated in its droppa da block da pieces all fall in da anything else in France from anything mechanism. However, because soldiers mud? You find him on da payroll!" he'd had acquaintance with. are supposed to be all thumbs, breech Just then a major comes over to our gun. So this officer assigns me to the awk- blocks and bolts and machine-gun "Is your name Nason?" he asks me. ward squad, under Corporal Ambrosio. mechanisms are made so that they can "Yes, sir." "What's the name?" asks the officer, be taken apart without tools, by a little The major walked around and around. writing down. expert pressure on this part and that. "Well, I'll be condemned!" says the

"Nason," said I. Instructors spend an awful lot of time major. "Carry on, I just wanted to see Gee, he dropped his pencil and nearly teaching soldiers all about the taking what you looked like!" dislocated his neck. I looked myself all down, and learning the parts by name, Well, now, lady, {Continued on page 52)

DECEMBER, 1937 21 sun has to shine on some be a handicap to a fast team, decided skidded on the ice terrain, the Giants THEsports. Others are played in any to make weather conditions work for his in their sneakers were able to grip the sort of weather. Football is team instead of against them. ground and ripped through for 27 points one of the latter. Owen measured the feet of his players and four touchdowns. Final score: New It was toward the middle of Decem- carefully, telephoned downtown to a York 30, Chicago 13. It was the Bears' ber, 1934. The Chicago Bears had big sporting goods house while the play- first defeat in 32 games. arrived in New York to face the New ers were out getting ready to take the Football seldom sees a postponement York Giants for the professional football field, and ordered a pair of basketball on account of weather. Games have title of the United States. That morning shoes for every man. been scheduled—and played—in August a suddenWeathercold snap swept over the city, The game began. As was expected, heat waves and Decembei zeroes. Large-

Permitting freezing the gridiron hard. This meant Chicago scored. By the end of the first college teams and professional elevens bad weather for football, but the Bears half, with both teams slipping all over nearly always go through with the game, didn't worry. They had come through the field, the score was 10-3 for the although smaller colleges do occasionally the season undefeated, conquering the Bears. Then, during the period between postpone a contest when the weather is Giants twice, so they went out confident the halves, a breathless messenger ar- particularly bad and the ticket sale of victory and the title. rived at the dressing room with a bulky worse. This fall history was made when But Steve Owen, the Giants' coach, package. The Giants immediately for the first time a major football contest wasn't so sure of it. He had reached the changed from their football shoes into was postponed. Graduate managers grounds just before noon, and seeing the basketball sneakers. In the second half, have always feared putting off a game frozen turf and realizing that it would while the Bears in cleats slithered and because of the ticket sale, and also because

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine But play can be suspended for only thirty minutes, the legal wait. Frank- house during that period paced anxiously up and down inside the clubhouse. By the end of the thirty minutes Ebbets Field had become an inland sea, with islands at home plate and the pitcher's box. So Umpire Ballanfant, peering through the windows at the rain, called the game. The score immediately re- verted to the end of the seventh, when Brooklyn was leading 5-0. The game was a victory for Brooklyn, but that untimely shower washed out Frankhouse's chance for a record. And over at the Polo Grounds, a few miles away in New York, the Giants were engaging the Pittsburgh

Rain began falling as Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey started fighting in Philadelphia in 1926 and Tun- ney became world's champion in a pelting downpour. On opposite page, bleacher fans smilin' through the raindrops

of the expense involved. However, the Frankhouse, Brooklyn pitching ace, of a Pirates and going the entire nine innings. Auburn-Tulane game scheduled for Sat- chance to enter baseball's hall of fame Another game greatly affected by urday, October 2d, at New Orleans was last summer. On August 27th he faced climatic conditions is golf. It isn't too postponed until Monday, October 4th, the Cincinnati Reds and for seven in- much to say that the weather practically because the field was under water. nings held them hitless, not a single won the national amateur golf title for Result: Good weather, a better game, visiting player reaching third. With a Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati back in larger crowds and bigger gate receipts. hitless and runless game almost within 1936 at Garden City, Long Island. This precedent once established, you can his grasp, Frankhouse came to the start of Whipping in from the Atlantic Ocean look for more frequent postponements of the eighth. Hub Walker, lead-off man for late in September came a northeaster important contests on the gridiron from the Reds, was out on strikes. Five put- that made lakes out of the traps along now on. outs to go. Goodman, the next batter, the course and very nearly submerged Baseball, unlike football, demands a grounded and was nabbed at first. Four the greens on the Garden City links. dry field and sure footing. The home to go. One and a third innings from a But golf is a Scotch game and Scotchmen club decides whether the weather is record. Then rain fell. It came down enjoy playing in all sorts of weather, as suitable for play before the game starts; harder. It darkened the diamond and the American Ryder Cup team dis- covered at British in Carnous- if rain comes while the teams are actually descended in sheets. Umpire Lee Ballan- the Open on the field the head umpire alone can fant took one look at the heavens and tie, Scotland, last June. So Fischer set suspend hostilities. everyone dashed for cover. Play was forth in the storm to play Johnny Good- It was the weather that robbed Fred suspended. man. Now Fischer plays with old- fashioned wood-shafted clubs, whereas Goodman uses steel shafts that kept turning in his hands on the last holes

Fire engines pumped off the water in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena in 1934 and Columbia took Stanford 7-0 in the New Year's Day game that is an annual feature of the Tournament of Roses

when the rain had soaked the handles. Fischer believes that deluge saved the day for him. "I never would have controled those low shots into the wind on the day of the

fifty-mile-an-hour gale if I had not had hickory-shafted irons. My clubs are all six or seven years old. The grips are roughened from prolonged usage. They got soggy rather than slippery in that downpour, and I was able to keep a firm grip on them. Little things like this, often unseen by the gallery, decide matches." The big outdoor boxing spectacles have had their share (Continued on page 61)

DECEMBER, 1937 23 Dogs ofWar

Genevieve Parkhurst

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RAYMOND SISLEY

DISPATCH from Harbin, Man- chukuo, says: "Dogs had their A thousand day here when one of them, trained for war, were paraded through the city during defense demonstrations." Another from Ger- many puts the number of Doberman Pinschers, Rottweilers and shepherds being made ready for war at 50,000. Since 1888 a battalion of dogs has been attached to each German infantry regi- ment and has figured in all reviews, parades, and exercises. A complete manual on the training of war dogs, pre- pared by a German general staff member, is followed as punctiliously as the manual of arms. Austrians avail themselves of dog-power to such an extent that every dog is provided with a gas mask. In England Major Richardson's famous war dog school is an established department of military training.

Dogs being groomed for battlefields is not a novelty. From ancient wall-writing we know that as long ago as 4000 B. C. they went forth with the Egyptian armies to repel an invasion. Homer mentions them as dispatch messengers. The Celts armed them with spiked collars and two- edged steel blades and sent them out to attack the enemy. In English history Henry VIII, when Charles V of Spain was at war with France, sent him four hun- dred English terriers, and "so courage- ously did they fight that the French soldiery was most thoroughly routed." Frederick the Great, first to see their value on modern battlefields, ordered the use of collies as sentries, ambulance aides and picket messengers. In 1014, when the troops on both sides The creature was so rest- ^ dug themselves into the trenches, legions less that the picket com- of dogs, both thoroughbreds and mongrels mander ordered him out whose conduct (Continued on page 42) with a sentry

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — 'E DITORIAL* TWO ANNIVERSARIES 1787-1937

United States of America has ob- United States of America. From then to now THEserved this year the one hundred and is a story of progress both spiritual and ma- fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of terial that has made America and its Govern- its Constitution—a document described, ment the envy of the world. Monarchies rise nearly a century later (and not by an Ameri- and fall, dictators come and go on blasts of can), as "the most wonderful work ever struck violence. And America, one nation under one off at a given time by the brain and purpose Constitution, holds fast to its determination, of man." Actually the birthday celebration is expressed a century and a half ago, "to form not yet over—indeed, it has only begun. Not a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure until the middle of 1788 was the Constitution domestic tranquillity, provide for the common duly ratified and established as the basic and defence, promote the general welfare, and se- fundamental law of the land. cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and As everyone knows, it was neither drawn up our posterity." in convention nor approved by the country without a struggle. The first dispute was occa- THE Constitution of the United States is not sioned by the rivalry of the "large States" and the only fundamental pronouncement of na- the "small States," with Virginia heading the tional policy to celebrate its one-hundred and first group and New Jersey the second fiftieth birthday this year. Two months before today New Jersey has a bigger population than it adopted the Constitution, the Continental Virginia. A compromise proposal drawn up by Congress passed the Ordinance of 1787 "for Connecticut, a "small State," was carried, and the government of the territory north-west of the document was submitted to the thirteen the river Ohio." In this noble document appear units which composed the federation. Dela- for the first time under federal sponsorship

ware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey ratified it those great principles which are the very basis before the end of 1787; Georgia, Connecticut of Americanism—civil and religious liberty. and Massachusetts early in 1788; Maryland These provisions were not explicitly embodied and South Carolina in the spring, and then in the Constitution itself until the adoption, in New Hampshire, the ninth and deciding State. 1791, of the first twelve amendments, consti- The Constitution became fact. tuting the bill of rights. That bare summary hurries over a period The States which now comprise what was of strain and stress that has no parallel in once the Northwest Territory have already American history. The new republic was so begun to memorialize the passage of the Ordi- tiny and so weak that any grave dissension might nance and the opening-up to settlement of the have scattered it to the four winds. Only five fertile and far-flung lands beyond the barrier cities, all of them along the Atlantic seaboard, of the Alleghanies—a most redoubtable bar- had populations in excess of ten thousand rier a century and a half ago. The celebra- heading them was New York, with 33,000. tions will continue into 1938. The citizens of There were no great industrial centers—there Sylvania, Michigania, Assenisipia, Illinoia, were barely any industries. The four million Polypatania, Washington, Chersonesus, Met- men, women and children who constituted the ropotamia, Saratoga and Pelisipia, as Thomas people of the United States according to the Jefferson fancifully divided and christened nose-count of the first census in 1790 gained them (we know them today as Ohio, Indiana, their livelihood almost exclusively in agricul- Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota), tural pursuits. Hardier souls were venturing will observe the occasion by ceremonies in down the Ohio from Pittsburgh, a village of which posts of The American Legion through- a few hundred citizens, but the Indians were out the area will have an important part. And resentful and the journey correspondingly haz- both the older America of the eastern seaboard ardous. The Government's annual revenue was and the younger America of the deeper west some four million dollars. will join to render national salute to their fel- From then to now is the history of the low men between the mountains.

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birds and type office buildings and hotels. WILD animals in of fence is wild Back my a main- the cities? "Don't line railroad, and between it be silly!" is the and Lake Michigan extends a usual response to such a sugges- string of industrial plants. The tion. "How in the world could solidly built-up residential dis- any wild animals live in a big trict goes another mile beyond town," scoffs the city man, us in the other two directions. "unless you want to count rats Our city is one of the succession and mice as wild?" of industrial and residential Before we get too far into that suburbs which stretches through subject, let's ease up to it by Chicago well over into Indiana. way of birds. Birds, as it hap- All this is cited to indicate that pens, are my major interest. we live in an urban district. Banding birds, which means Well, there is a covey of bob- catching them, affixing marks, white quail in the neighborhood and releasing them so that if —they whistle in the shrubbery, ever again caught they will be but have been seen only once. identified, is my hobby. It is a This was two years ago, when strange hobby, and is practiced they wandered, nine strong, by about two thousand people into one of my traps. Since a in the United States and Can- quail lives his life usually within ada. Why and how we do it half a mile of the nest where he will be treated a little further along, but was hatched, it may be presumed that right now we are concerned with country these quail are native city birds, reared birds in city surroundings. right among us. They get along very well,

A doctor in Chicago belongs to a bird- The flying squirrel is not un- certainly, for they remain year after year. banding association of which I am an common in built-up areas, but Then there is woodcock, that wildest officer. He lives in a crowded district on his timidity and agility usually of all game birds. I have never seen a the South Side. His yard is about twenty- keep him out of sight woodcock in our yard, except in a trap. five feet square; apartment houses tower We catch about two a year, band them above it. He has one tree, a few bushes, and release them. Never have we had the a tiny pocket-handkerchief of a garden. creepers, flickers, orioles, cardinals, and same woodcock twice. The surroundings are no more attractive so on. Yet probably he would never see Woodcock, incidentally, are responsible to birds than any one of fifty thousand them unless his cunningly hidden traps for the development of bird banding. An other back yards in Chicago, and may be were there to detain them against their English nobleman fell to wondering presumed to contain at any one time will. whether the woodcock on his acres were

about the same varieties of birds as any The point is, of course, that birds from the identical birds year after year. So he other similar city area. wild surroundings come right into our had many of them caught and banded His neighbors would honestly testify thickly populated cities and manage to with a tiny silver ring engraved with the that they had never seen thereabouts any live there successfully and so inconspicu- initial of his seat, an S. Silver was too but the commonest of city birds: English ously that they are practically invisible. expensive for wholesale banding. Alumi- sparrows, robins, starlings, bluejays. Given a terrain just a little more rural num was found to offer exactly the right But the scientific records disclose that and the kinds of birds can be just as sur- material for fastening on a bird's leg

he has trapped and banded in his yard prising. light, non-corrosive, inexpensive. It is just about as many varieties—not as My home is on a street which is a the standard for bird bands, here and many individuals—as have banders with through highway. It is in a manufac- abroad. acres of bird cover to work over. Every turing town of 30,000 population, forty "But why band birds?" I am asked a species of thrush has passed through his miles north of Chicago. Half a mile hundred times a year. The answer is not yard, dozens of varieties of sparrows, down the street are several skyscraper- too involved. Birds are tremendously

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valuable to the world. They keep insects from overwhelming all of us, they eat weed seeds which would crowd out our fields and our lawns and our gardens. The study of birds is a useful science, and the more we can learn of them the better we can aid them in aiding us to live happily upon the earth. But birds have one characteristic which makes them ex- tremely difficult to study: Most of them come and stay for a few days or weeks or months, then depart for other localities.

HOW do we know, for instance, that the bobolink, who is welcomed as a useful citizen throughout the northern United States, is the self-same individual who appears along toward harvest time in the rice fields of Arkansas and Louisi- ana, gorges himself to the imprecations of the rice planter, and goes on to Central America? If it is the same bird, then the rice planter had better suffer his brief maraudings for the good that the bird

does elsewhere in other seasons; if not, then who could blame the planter for ridding himself of this rice-eater? Our only way of ascertaining is to mark the birds in the North, then identify them in the South. This is exactly what has been done. They are beyond question the same individuals; they converge upon the rice fields for refueling, then hop for any- where from the West Indies to southern Brazil. Trapping the birds is the part requir- ing ingenuity. Different types of birds require different traps. Some will walk easily into box traps and close the doors by eating off a trigger. Others will climb up through a hole in the bottom of a cage but cannot be induced to go down out of the same hole. Still others have to be taken by contrivances of Rubegoldberg- ian complexity. One of the most success- ful is a perch placed off-center on a A pair of bob whites wondering who that pivoted floor, so that when the bird man is and what's going to happen to them alights the floor tips upside down and dumps him down a chute into a lower cage where he has to remain until re-

leased through a door. Another is a fenced-over creek bed, open at one end,

so that the bird gets far into it before discovering the fence, then attempts to fly out any one of a dozen attractive openings, only to learn too late that these contain panes of glass fixed at an angle to deflect him down a chute and into a cage where he remains entirely unharmed until banded and released.

EVERY morning before going to the office, and every afternoon before dark, I have to make the rounds of my traps, no matter what the weather, for we pick up a few birds daily even in sub- zero winters. Resetting and rebaiting the traps takes a good deal of time. Each bird must be taken into the hand un- harmed— it is easy, once you learn the trick—where he stays quietly and un- frightened while a tiny numbered band is —but there's nothing to worry about, because as closed around one leg. The bander records soon as they've been banded they'll be as free as ever the number and {Continued on page 44)

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Department of THEIllinois has added a fifth point to the four-point highway safety program—that of eliminating the extra haz- ard of night driving by illuminating the highways.

The program is being vig- orously pressed by the Department Safety Com- Night mittee, and within the first few months of the cam- paign surveys made by competent traffic engineers indicate that by the adop- tion of the Legion's pro- posal the automobile acci- dent record of Illinois, approximating 16,000 each year, will be cut almost in half. This program is outlined by Matthew Murphy, J. Hazard immediate Past Depart- ment Commander of Illi- nois, under whose admini- tration it was initiated. Past Commander Murphy writes: "A form of individual transportation has been developed over the last twenty-five years that has common acceptance and has been placed within the financial reach of most families. The present day motor vehicle has been de- veloped by the manufac- turers until it is a safe means of transportation even when operated by a person of no mechanical A section of the Skokie Valley Highway, U. S. Route 41, near Northbrook, ability. In other words, the Illinois, is being tested with a modern system of night illumination. At top, the motor car makers have highway as it was with the old, inadequate and inefficient lighting system. done their share to make The man inspecting the tire is barely discernible. Below, the same section with the use of automobiles a new lights, showing car and driver clearly visible five hundred feet ahead thing which everyone can enjoy. "The motor car owner, on the other over the entire twenty-four-hour period. quiring hours and hours of night driving, hand, has done his part. He pays license People don't hurry home before darkness can readily appreciate the need of 'safe fees, taxes on the gasoline he uses, and falls, even when out with the family for a highways' as well as 'safe automobiles.' other taxes, the purpose of which is to pleasure ride. The traveling salesman "It seems to me that any discussion of build highways—safe highways. He is does a full day's work, up until the street and highway safety leads naturally given some protection through the estab- evening shadows have lengthened into into the subject of street and highway lishment of highway police patrols and darkness, before he heads his automobile lighting—a highly effective measure traffic rules intended to curb those who for home. Those of us who have held high which may be adopted to eliminate the overstep the bounds of safe driving, but offices in a Department of The American extra hazard of night driving. Lighting these are not enough to constitute 'safe Legion, which necessitates attending the highways will bring about a marked driving.' Use of automobiles nowadays is meetings in every section of the State re- reduction in the number of accidents and

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Daley of THE Illinois Legion Safety the daylight hours. It is the night hazard Representative Richard J. "Lighting of heavily trafficked arterial Chicago, approving the project and call- Committee is attacking the highways for their entire length and ing upon the proper highway authorities highway safety problem from illumination of secondary roads at criti- to give study and attention to the pro- a new angle. Light the high- cal points where accidents are liable to posed system. occur is extremely important. In proof "The Legion has specifically recom- ways and conserve lives, says of this statement may be cited the ex- mended to Illinois authorities that State Past Department Commander perience of Detroit, which recently Highway No. 66 be improved with proper announced that $3,000,000 would be illumination. This thoroughfare was Matthew Murphy, who led J. expended for improved street fighting to selected because it presents an outstand- the crusade for safety last year replace obsolete installations. This fol- ing example of a highway heavily traveled lowed a test installation on three modern and where the night death rate is very street lighting projects. Before the new high. Properly illuminated, it may serve fatalities. Last year the Illinois Depart- lights were placed there had been forty as a model highway. ment Safety Committee, headed by Dr. night automobile fatalities on these "Only recently has much data been Hart E. Fisher, made this program one streets within a two and one-half year available on the effect of adequate light- of the first objectives in safety. At the period. The record for the first four ing on the night automobile accident recent Department Convention, when the months after the modern lighting system rate. But every recent inquiry has shown safety program for the next year was was installed was completely free of that installation of night lighting has adopted, the recommendation was made night-driving fatalities. reduced tremendously the number of that all streets and highways be improved "In Illinois engineering experts have automobile accidents. Arnold H. Vey, with efficient lighting so as to bring day estimated the cost of satisfactory high- traffic engineer of New Jersey, has made visibility to night driving as far as way lighting installation at less than ten a constructive analysis of day and night possible. percent of the initial con-

"It is known that with the coming of structioncost of afour-lane Move, or I'll /^okYeaU!!?- VJo)r a. swell darkness, when highway traffic is only highway. Estimates are J ^ twenty-five percent of the total traffic, cited to show that ade- the accident toll increases. While only quate lighting of public forty-eight percent of all motor vehicle streets and highways is accidents occur at night, the total of not too expensive to con- the night accidents accounts for sixty sider from the viewpoint percent of the deaths. of its value as a definite "Of the total 15,765 vehicle accidents public improvement, on the streets and highways of Illinois when it is realized that last year, 7,531 —approximately fifty per- the economic loss attribu- cent—occurred between the hours of 6 table to automobile acci- p. M. and 6 A. m. Standing alone, these dents each year in the figures would indicate that accidents are State of Illinois runs into happening with equal frequency under the millions. daylight driving conditions, but when it "The Legion's cam- is realized that the volume of traffic at paign for lighting the night is only twenty-five percent of the highways was carried to the State Legis- accidents on a well lighted and heavily twenty-four hour total, it is easy to see lature last year, when the Safety Com- traveled section of Route No. 24 and on a that the ratio at night is all out of pro- mittee petitioned that body to give con- lightly traveled, but unlighted, section of portion. With three out of four vehicles sideration to the subject. The result was Route No. 26. On the first—the lighted off the streets and highways at night, the adoption by unanimous vote in both route—the accident rate per million there still are as many accidents as during Houses of a resolution introduced by vehicle miles was 3.10 by day and 2.61

DECEMBER. 1917 20 of standard procedure by municipalities Legion Hospital Day with reference to methods of traffic regu- lations, police handling of accident cases, HOSPITAL day is observed by hun- and full co-operation of police and courts dreds of Posts of the Legion in their in the enforcement of traffic laws. own way, and in a broader way by all "Hundreds of millions of dollars have Posts during national hospital week, but been expended and hundreds of scientists to the maimed and crippled children in have given years of time to the task of Crawford Allen Memorial Hospital at discovering and developing new means to East Greenwich, Rhode Island, it means prolong human life or to cure those the day when the members of East suffering from disease. When we think of Greenwich Post turn out to give them a this enormous expenditure of time and day of fun. The closest co-operation exists money spent for this worthy purpose, the between the Post and the hospital, but few millions being spent to check the that one day is Legion Day when the annual massacre of thousands in auto- children are feted and the day is topped mobile accidents seems trivial. Approxi- with mountains of ice cream and foun- at night. On the unlighted route the mately thirty-five thousand each year is tains of soda. The event is popular and is average for three sections was 2.50 by day and 8.00 at night. Another striking example is had in the accident records on the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway, which indicated a 250 percent increase in night accidents with lights out of service as compared with the rate for an equal period when lights were used. "The Safety Committee of the De- partment of Illinois carries on a year- round safety campaign with an organiza- tion that reaches into each Legion post and almost every community. Dr. Fisher, chairman, saw to it last year that Legionnaires with experience in industrial or highway accident prevention were drafted for committee service and as speakers at public meetings. Every Legion unit safety committee is a vehicle for the dissemination of safety education. Public discussions were sponsored and encouraged, visomatic sound films were used by Posts or furnished by Legion Headquarters for public showings, motion pictures pertaining to street and highway safety were utilized, safety literature was distributed, and contests for the best contributions on accident prevention were sponsored. "The publicity program of the Illinois safety campaign included radio talks, addresses by safety experts before public meetings, illustrated lectures and wide- spread newspaper and poster publicity. School boys' safety patrols were organized and communities were urged to observe It took a far-sighted vision, willing spirits and a lot of elbow accident prevention day. grease to transform an abandoned freight shed into the "In its legislative work, the Safety splendid building shown in the lower picture. Charles Faust Committee did not confine itself to the Post at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, did it. They now have not only lighting program, recommended to but a home built with their own hands, but in addition a public the General Assembly and sponsored playground for children bills calling for uniform motor vehicle laws among the States, a standard the toll. Human life can just as well be looked forward to by the children who drivers' license conserved by safe highways, made safe by are undergoing treatment at the hospital, law and a stand- mass education of motorists and pedestri- some for a long period of years. ard financial re- ans, including school children, in the safe At the most recent affair the Post pro- sponsibility act. manner of using streets and roads; im- vided a kiddies' review staged by pro-

The program for partial enforcement of trafficlaws ; uniform fessional actors. The junior drum corps the new year traffic regulations, and removal of physi- of William Shields, Jr., Post of Conimi- urges the enact- cal traffic hazards. And, in addition to cut put on an exhibition drill. They ment of a drivers' the four points enumerated, we in the De- were recalled several times by the chil- license law and a partment of Illinois think it logical that, dren. uniform traffic in its nation-wide campaign for accident East Greenwich Post is also a member code for Illinois prevention, The American Legion well of the Club of Ambulance Donors. Their and adjacent may consider the elimination of darkness ambulance, which is now nearing its States, adoption on highways as its fifth front of attack." 700th trip, serves the Crawford Allen

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Queen Silvia meets her loyal subjects at the annual Mountain State Forest Fes- tival at Elkins, West Virginia—the great fall event in the Alleghany highlands —in which the members of H. W. Daniels Post have a prominent part

Memorial Hospital as well as other The old abandoned freight shed to- cubic yards of dirt. The front wall was hospitals in the area. gether with one and one-third acres of removed to the outside of the platform, land, comprising a long, narrow strip ex- the old shed underwent a face-lifting and Before and After tending nearly two city blocks along a pepping up. A balcony was constructed main thoroughfare, was deeded to Charles across the entire length of the rear of the CHARLES FAUST POST of Cuyahoga Faust Post on January i, i<)34- writes building, and stones were hauled a dis- Falls, Ohio, has a new home. It is a Vice Commander L. C. Croy. At the rear tance of fifteen miles real Legion home, one that each member of the property ran a section of the gorge for the veneer. All this can take pride in, because it is a creation of Cuyahoga River which is now, through was possible because of their own hands. It's not a club house the efforts of the Post, a public park. members of the Post built by a contractor. It was an old pack- Soon after the property was taken over turned out to work on age freight shed, a community eyesore and the members of the Post set to work to the club house on spare fire hazard, now converted into a hand- improve it. Excavation for the basement days, holidays, nights some structure. And thereby hangs a tale. required the removal of more than 1,000 and sometimes on Sun- day. The building costs were held to a mini- mum, including both materials and such la- bor as had to be paid for. Like a great many other Posts, the treas- ury of Charles Faust Post was never at any time bulging with funds, but when the Post moved into their new club house it was nearly debt free. Expenses had been met as the work on the building progressed, by hold- ing a number of outings and parties. The new home is a thing of beauty. Its interior arrangement is well designed

to serve the purpose for which it was in- tended. On the main floor is a ball room, which also serves for meetings and large gatherings, with a great stone fireplace at each end. The canteen is in the base- ment, where is also located the room used by the drum and bugle corps, a kitchen Navy Post, St. Louis, Missouri, has a soft ball team that is a large enough to prepare food for a ban- team. It won the city championship for the second time with quet for 250 persons, and the boiler room a loss of but one game during the season. Old timers in ath- for the steam heating system. The letics do their stuff for Navy on the soft ball field grounds around (Continued on page 62)

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Legionnaire, we have been able to end the uncertainty of the wife and children of a Ger- man soldier who for eighteen years had been unable to ascer- tain his fate. The solving of the prob- some of the folks back home, lem began in February FORmuch of the deepest tragedy of the of last year when Le- war was derived from two phrases gionnaire Frank too often contained in official Parks, ex-private in government messages. "Wounded in Battery D, 309th action—hospital unknown;" "Missing Field Artillery, 78th in action"—so they read. Division, sent us a In the turmoil of battle, it had to be small snapshot print expected that errors would occur, but (an enlarged repro- happily many of the men thus reported duction of which ap- were later found and eventually returned pears on this page), to their families. Many of those not so with the following let- discovered rest now, like the Unknown ter: Soldier in Arlington Cemetery, under "I am enclosing a stones inscribed "Here Rests in Honored photo of two German Glory an American Soldier Known But to children found near God." the body of a German A dozen years ago, through the splen- soldier who was buried did co-operation of fellow Legionnaires, with twenty-eight we were able to assist the Office of the others in a single Quartermaster General in locating many grave. Who are the of the then still missing bodies of our war children and where dead and in identifying those that had are they now? The In the fall of 1918 this snapshot was found by an been found. The work of that War German soldiers were American soldier in the Argonne Forest near the Department office is continuing. buried up beyond body of a fallen German soldier. It was successfully As was true of the American Army, where the Lost Bat- returned to his widow in Germany in May, 1936 so it was, tenfold over, with the armies talion was relieved in of our Allies and of the Central Powers. the Argonne Forest,

Now, again through the interest of a and if I remember rightly, the 82d Divi- found near the body of a fallen German sion cleaned up around there. You may soldier in the Argonne? The finder, an How come ^ou Uell.Sarae- use the print as you see fit, as it may clear English front soldier, desires that the up the death of this soldier." picture be returned to the family of the WcmV ck force After I ae+ all large assign- W\k\ sweaters o^l That seemed like quite a German comrade." The "English" ment. This department, however, has should, of course, have read "American." UAifom all Cav\H" bu\W we * 1 frequently received good assistance from of a siAadeA* blouse - a^a me the German veterans' organization in the first steps were taken, but overcoat UJov\+ THUS returning to German soldiers other sou- we figured there was one chance in venirs which our men had picked up on thousands that the picture would find its the battle-fields. We also receive copies way back to its owner. Our surprise of the monthly publication of the society. was great, therefore, when within ten So we wrote a letter to Dr. Alfred Dick, days after receiving the magazine, a let- an officer of the organization, enclosing ter came from Dr. Dick with this good the snapshot print and suggesting that if news: possible he have the picture reproduced "Already Mrs. Hedwig Kling, an asso- in his magazine with the information we ciate worker of our association in Wiirt- had regarding where it had been found. temberg, has sent us a letter in which she That letter went to the doctor in Berlin, enclosed a picture of her two children— Germany, in March, 1936. the same two who appear in the snapshot When the May issue of the German you sent to me. magazine came to our desk, we found that "Thus the mother of the two children a small cut of the picture appeared in has been found. I wrote her immediately the department devoted to helping dis- that Comrade Frank Parks of East abled veterans, with a notice that, roughly Rochester, New York, had found the

translated, was as follows: "argonne picture and where and when. . . . forest. Who recognizes this picture, "Of course, I rejoice with you that it

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wounded, hospital un- that had given him so much happiness. known—then as miss- " T had to get a grip on myself before ing. For years Mrs. I could read more. That was again a Kling sought infor- sad day for me and yet with all my sor- mation about her hus- row, the happy thought came that I band, always asking might now find out something about him. herself, 'Does no one Now I knew that American soldiers had know, for me and my buried my husband and one had found children, anything of this little picture alongside of him and

his fate, the circum- kept it for eighteen years. I am unable stances of his death, to express proper thanks, and I wish I or his resting-place?' were rich enough so that I might visit After eighteen years, this man, talk with him and thank him through the contact personally. Perhaps it may be possible between front soldiers, for my son to do so. once enemies, this has " T want to thank the veterans' been made possible. organization in Let us hear Mrs. America as well Hedwig Kling, herself, as the one in Ber- speak: lin.' " 'On May 1, 1936, "Mrs. Kling im- something wonderful mediately wrote to occurred. I wanted her son, who was to read our Kriegs- living in Canada, onfer paper and like about receiving the all women, I started picture. He in- at the back and my tends to look up glance immediately the American com- fell upon the bold-face rade, on behalf of type notice: Argonne his mother. The Forest. My first honorable enemy Here are the same boy and girl, Theodor and thought was that and the son of a Elfriede Kling, brother and sister, photographed possibly now I could fallen German in the same garden in Germany in 193 5. Theodor learn something about front soldier will today is in Canada, Elfriede in her homeland my husband. I read probably meet further and then im- each other, far mediately recognized from the Argonne was possible to locate the relatives so my children in the picture that I had Forest, in a city quickly. It goes without saying that we sent to my husband in the field and in the United shall always be ready to help you from here." Some months went by and then in the April, 1937, issue of the German veterans' magazine we again saw the picture of the two small children—and alongside of it another snapshot of the same two taken in 1 03 5 when they were grown to young manhood and young womanhood. We learned then that the boy was Theodor Kling, born in June, 1907, and the girl Elfriede, born in December, 1914—a few short months after the World War had started. The pictures illustrated a story of the return of the wartime snapshot, from which we extract the following: "Eighteen years the picture was lost almost forgotten by the family. Taken in 1918, it was sent by Mrs. Hedwig Kling to her husband in the field. His company at the time lay in the Argonne Forest, and it was here during the same A tragic ending to a leave party of Third Division men was this motor year that Hermann Kling fell in battle. truck accident at Mayen, Germany, in the spring of 1919. Local soldiers At first he was reported to have been helped in the rescue from the creek bed into which the truck had fallen

DECEMBER, 1937 33 FOOD and entertainment loomed large in the lives of soldiers no matter where they might have been stationed. That's why we think all of the Gang will enjoy the picture of a post theater and post exchange that Bill Mitchell of Char- lotte (North Carolina) Post, on the staff of The Observer Printing House of that city, sent to us, and which we show to you. Rather a modest layout compared to some of the city-like streets of shops and banks and theaters and movie houses and barber establishments that some camps boasted, but it brings up fond memories. After Bill sent the picture, we asked

him to tell us something about it and about his experiences and he came back

At the end of the carline, the Post Exchange and Post Theater in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, did a capacity business during training days

States! Perhaps they will talk of the of us soldiers were standing on the bridge days of 191 7 and 1018. . . . one day in the spring of 1919, while off "In the meantime, a picture will be duty, when a truck carrying men of the sent to the American veteran of the same Third Division .who were going on fur- two children, taken in the very same spot lough, crashed through the stone railing in the same garden, in 1935. of the bridge and dropped into the 'After eighteen years, a small picture stream. becomes a symbol of the peaceful under- "The truck was coming down one of standing between enemies of yesterday those narrow steep roads that were com- and of the love of peace of the veterans of mon in the Rhineland, the driver failed the World War of 1914-1918." to make a ri^ht-hand turn into the bridge, We learned through another letter from possibly due to some mechanical defect, Dr. Dick that Theodor Kling, the boy and the truck crashed through. We were in the picture, was employed as a brewery within twenty feet of where it went over. engineer (as we interpret it) in Canada, It turned over and landed on its top in while his sister, Elfriede, is now a kinder- the bottom of the stream. We called garten teacher in Brissago, Tessin. for help and then hurried down into the

When and if Theodor Kling visits Com- creek, turned the truck up onto its side rade Frank A. Parks of East Rochester, and pulled the men from underneath. New York, who started this interesting Some other soldiers and civilians carried chain of circumstances, we expect Five-foot-even C.P.O. Ralston to tell you about it. poses with his pal, six-foot-six C.P.O. Butler at the Great Lakes of war cas- CONSIDERATION Naval Training Station, 1918 ualties seldom includes any thought of deaths other than those of actual battle, except possibly with a letter which we should like to deaths from disease. Of the 123,- pass on to you in full if space permitted. 635 American casualties during the Here is a good bit of Bill's letter, any- World War, 62,964 of our men died way: of disease, and strangely enough, "Here's the dope on the canteen and there were 4,53 1 men who lost their picture show at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, lives in accidents. Prominent of which I sent you a picture. My recol- among the accidents were several lection of the Post Exchange is fair but bad train wrecks, while motor frankly I recall very little about the Post truck accidents were also not un- Theater. I did go to this show occasion- common. ally but memory is faint. We always considered it particularly them to the road where they were picked "The setup in the picture was located tragic that so many men who had gone up and taken to a hospital. just at the entrance gate of the Fort—at through battles unscathed met death "I don't remember how many men the end of the carline, the bottle neck through disease or other causes after the were killed and injured because after we through which all troops stationed at Armistice. Emil Schnaider, member of got the truck on its side, as in the picture, Chickamauga 'went to town.' Fort Ogle- Edwin Denby Post, who lives at 7730 and got the men out, we hurried to our thorpe was a nucleus around which were Whipple Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, billets and changed clothes, as we were built several camps in the Chickamauga reports one such accident that he saw. pretty wet. I wonder if any of the men National Park. The Sixth Division was He tells this of a truck accident, of which who were in this accident or helped to get formed there and on its departure that he also sent the picture that is shown on out the injured will see this. I would like portion of the camp was turned into an the preceding page: to hear from them. Our outfit was com- Engineer Training Camp. The Medical "My outfit, the 413th Motor Supply posed of men from almost every section Officers Training Camp, organized early Train, Motor Truck Company No. 432, of our country and from Alaska. We in the war, was located a little to the was stationed in Mayen, Germany, from were organized at Camp Joseph E. Johns- left and back of the buildings in the December, 1918, to June, 1919. A few ton, near Jacksonville, Florida." picture. (Continued on page 63)

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THE young man was ACCORDING to Walter F. Hayes, CHAMBER of Com- winding up a whirl- ±\_ Vallejo Post, California, an old merce Secretary C. wind courtship with a preacher in a rural community decided H. Richardson, of San- final plea. "Dearest," that his church had been all too long in dusky, Ohio, sends us he said, "I love you so a state of lethargy. He decided to arouse the one about a boy much. True, I'm not his congregation and accordingly started who was asked by his rich like Henry Alexan- his next sermon by saying: history teacher to tell der Throttlewad; I have no fine mansion, "Our congregation must wake up! We the storv of Queen Elizabeth and Sir no fine cars, but, oh, dear, I love you! have been standing still long enough. Walter Raleigh. I love you!" We've got to walk!" "Well," said the movie-nurtured mod- The girl edged closer, their lips met. One of the deacons cried out: "Amen, ern boy, "the queen was hopping out of She whispered: parson!" her taxi, and Sir Walter Raleigh spread "I love you, too, sweetheart; but where "But," the preacher continued, "not his coat in front of her and said, 'Step on " is this man Henry Alexander Throttle- only must we walk—we must run." it, baby.' wad?" "Amen, parson!" shouted the deacon. "Thank you, deacon, thank you! I hope all my people feel that way, but IEGIONNAIRE C. N. Frank, of we've got to do better than run we've j Lesueur, Minnesota, writes that he CHIEF of Police James F. O'Neil of — Manchester, New Hampshire, mem- got to fly!" recently took his young daughter to the movies. He occupied a seat near the ber of the National Americanism Com- "Amen! Let us fly!" approved the deacon. middle of the theater, while the young mission, is telling one about a newly ap- all lady went in the front row to join pointed police chief who had been invited "It's right to talk about walking, down some other children. news reel to address the local Parent-Teachers' and to talk about running," went on the The was preacher, if fly, showing a raging forest fire, which evi- Association on the subject of juvenile "but we we've got to in dently frightened the little girl and she delinquency. All day he had been re- have more money the treasury of the came back to take a seat beside her father. hearsing his speech and went home feeling church!" "What's the matter?" he asked. full of authority on the subject until his "Amen!" said the deacon. "Let us "Did the fire frighten you?" wife told him their nine-year-old son had walk." "Oh, no!" she replied. "The smoke had a fit of temper in which he had kicked got in my eyes." a panel out of the front door. Being an FROM down in Bi- old fashioned father, he took the lad to loxi, Mississippi, his room and applied the strap. Between Comrade N. God- J. IEGIONNAIRE G. L. SIX of Cincin- sobs, the young man commented: dard sends the one j nati reminds us that as Christmas is "Just like a cop! Why don't you fight about an old man from approaching it might be well to revive with your fists?" the country buying a the one about the lady who went to the ham sandwich at a clerk in the tobacco store and said: booth at the country fair. When "I want some cigars for my husband Stern handed the sandwich, the old man COMRADE Milton of Reville for Christmas." couldn't see signs of any meat, so he Post, New York, tells the story of "What kind, madam?" the co-ed at the football game. Her lifted the top piece of bread and gingerly "Well, I don't know exactly, but he is a school was losing and the tears picked the sliver of ham between his streamed middle-aged man and always dresses in down her fingers held it to the counter cheeks. and up man, black." "I'll kiss those tears away," said her saying: escort. "Do you slice the ham here?" He did the best he knew how, but the "Sure. What about it?" FROM Brooklyn, John D. McGreevey, tears still flowed on. Finally he asked, "Well," said the old man, "I was just ex-buck of Co. C, 106th Infantry, thinking it "Will nothing stop them?" you darned nigh missed that writes that on the way home in Decem- time." "No," she murmured. "It's asthma, ber, 1918, a bunch of the boys were dis- but go on with the treatment." cussing the hardships of war. One sol- AND in this day and age there are dier in the group had remained silent XA_ stories like the one W. Woodward thru the conversation, until he was asked: T WAS early morn- Cook, former Department Adjutant of "What you been doing, buddy?" ring after the New Maryland, just sent in. Three little girls "Buildin' warehouses." York Convention pa- were playing with their dolls. Their "Pretty soft, eh?" rade, and a tired, weary ages were three, four and five. The five- "Soft hell! I had to sleep outside the Legionnaire sat at a year-old said: warehouse three nights!" table in a Broadway "If I had my life to live over again, I'd restaurant. Approach- never eat spinach." ing him, a waitress said: The four-year-old said, "I wouldn't IITTLE Roy came "Order, please!" ever take any castor oil." j home crying. There was no response. The three-year-old kept busy with her "What's the matter, "Order, please!" This time the wait- dolls and said nothing. Finally one of son?" his dad asked. ress was shouting. the others asked her what she would do. "John hit me." The worn Legionnaire looked up "If I had my life to live over," said the "Well, why didn't through weary eyes and said: little girl, "I would want to be a bottle you hit him back?" "Order, my eye! I'm not making any baby, so I wouldn't get cigarette ashes in "Because," sobbed the boy, "it would noise!" my eyes when I was nursing." have been his turn then to hit me."

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New Legion Poster for 1938

Focuses Public Aiiention on the critical accident front! it It depicts a school patrol lad, typical of the thousands Posters will be ready for thirty thousand outdoor of American boys who are enlisted in this traffic safety panels the first of November, through the co-operation offensive, standing in an automobile lane protecting the of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Inc., lives of smaller children on the way to the schoolroom. if your Post does its part and orders the required number The silhouette phalanx in the background portrays the early. Take this order blank to your next Post meeting strength of the entire American Legion supporting this and get action on it. The National Organization of The program for "Making America Safe. American Legion has officially adopted the above design Such is the message of the 1938 Legion Poster. and has authorized the Morgan Lithograph Co., Cleve- Handsomely lithographed in colors, it tells the story of land, O., to make, sell and distribute all Legion posters, The American Legion forcefully, completely, at a glance. display cards and windshield stickers bearing such design.

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Doughboys and Others We realize we cannot have prophylactic August, 1918, every man was wearing stations, but the druggists can and do a wildcat in cloth on the sleeve of his To the Editor: In reference to the article supply the material at nominal cost uniform." by Past National Commander Colmery twenty-five to thirty-five cents a package. This may be quite true, but I want to in the October issue, beg to call to his at- There should be now in the United States ask: How many know that the 367th tention his statement that "our own eight or ten million sons of veterans of Infantry of the 92d Division, under com- doughboys" stopped the drive in the the World War of an age where there is mand of Colonel James A. Moss, at spring of 1918. As a former member of danger of infection. With them there Camp Upton, New York, adopted the the Fifth Regiment, United States Mar- should be opportunity to tell about pro- buffalo as its insignia early in November ine Corps, which was a part of the famous phylaxis and the avoiding of many infec- of 191 7, and that by Thanksgiving of that Second Division and really stopped the tions of the venereal diseases. Edwin year every man of the regiment was drive on Paris between May 3 1st and July Henry Schorer, M. D., Director, City wearing a black buffalo in red cloth back- 9, 1918, I would suggest that his state- Health Department, Lester Conboy Post, ground at the shoulder of his left sleeve? ment read: "The United States Marines Kansas City, Mo. Well, that is how and when our outfit and doughboys." It is also a known fact became known as the Buffalo Regiment. that the greater number of casualties at Not on the Books And shortly afterward the buffalo, the Chateau-Thierry and in this drive were most typical American animal, was Marines. Leon W. Gould, Brooklyn, To the Editor: I am just a little older adopted as the insignia of the whole 92d

N • Y. than the average Legionnaire (past sixty) Division. On June 10, 1918, when the £ £ (j selling printing To the Editor: Re the remarks under the and have been —match division sailed from Hoboken, every man cards, picture of the Navy Memorial in Brest books, business order books, busi- was wearing this on the sleeve of his ness professional for in the October number, I think you are and stationery— the uniform. year, still first not fair to the men who helped us dough- past but I have my order Hence if we reckon the time from the boys so much. You say "the harbor that from a fellow Legionnaire coming. The date of sailing, the buffalo antedates saw hundreds of thousands of doughboys work I sell is the best and prices are the the wildcat by a full two months, and if arrive in France." I was a doughboy lowest possible; it is something everyone we go back to the time of actual adoption, for some twenty-five years and am glad in business needs, but my books don't it appears that the buffalo has a greater contain single to have them get all the credit they are the name of a buddy. I'm claim for priority. Warmoth T. Gibbs, not kicking, I believe with previous entitled to. But I do think (and am sure but 2d Lieutenant, 367th Infantry; Maceo T. most doughboys, both officers and en- correspondents that Legionnaires should Alston Post, Greensboro, N. C. listed men, will agree with me) that the help each other when and wherever pos- other branches of the service besides the sible, especially if this can be done at no Bouquet Infantry are entitled to some credit for extra cost or inconvenience. Maurice what our Army did in France.—H. F. Hepner, Milwaukee, Wis. To the Editor: I have just addressed the Dorey, Major General Retired, Joe Bo- following letter to the French Govern- land Post, Boerne, Tex. Safety—1918 and 1938 ment : "I wish I knew who originated the Venereal Disease Control To the Editor: Twenty years ago we were thought of inviting the American Legion- trying to make the world safe for democ- naires to France so I could write him per- To the Editor: Eighteen years have racy. Today let's make the world safe sonally my thanks. My wife and I were elapsed since most of us were discharged from the automobile. As you did your bit your guests from October 1st through Oc- from the Army, where G. O. 45 was then, do it now by safe driving—and care- tober 6th and we want you toknowweap- known to all of us. We know how effec- ful walking.—A. L. Potter, Wellington, preciated every kindness. We had a nice tive the method was. Less than one per- Kan. room, nice bath, wonderful food, and the cent of the soldiers returning from over- sightseeing trips out of Paris to the bat- seas contracted venereal infections and Correcting the Record tlefields, chateau country, Versailles, etc., less than one-half of one percent con- were not only handled efficiently but tracted syphilis, while in the general To the Editor: I was very much inter- comfortably. The reception of the population our syphilis rate is supposed ested in reading the account of the adop- French people was most touching. Hav- to be from five to twelve percent. tion of shoulder insignia by the combat ing been to France during the war, I, of Venereal disease control depends solely divisions during the summer of 1918, as course, had a fair understanding of your on acquainting the public with the infor- found in the September issue. Explain- customs, but my wife had never visited mation known to the medical piofession ing how this practice, which became very your wonderful country before and she

and to public health officials. popular in all of the divisions, originated, came home singing your praises . . . We believe the best opportunity for we read: "But how many know that the "In all my contacts with French people case finding comes with the pregnant 81st Division is credited with being I found them most anxious to serve me, mother who presents herself for later mainly responsible for the adoption of whether gratis or something I wa^s buying. confinement; this is accomplished by shoulder insignia?" This query is fol- I found your prices on everything I taking a Wassermann test. lowed with the further declaration: purchased, from entertainment to durable We do not believe in the efficacy of "When the 81st sailed for France in goods, very reasonable. compulsory reporting in this country. "I sincerely hope this letter will be Treatment costs about $80 for material, brought to the attention of the person requires from two to two and a half years Because of space demands, letters quoted or persons responsible for the wonderful in this department (responsibility state- of largely weekly visits, the costs for the for thought and I want everyone connected ments in which is vested in the writers and entire treatment being about $500 to the with the procedure to know that my wife not in this magazine) are subject to income. patient of usual abridgement. and I send our most sincere thanks." Prophylaxis has hardly been discussed. Charles G. Thompson, Thomaston, Ga.

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"Pass It On

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Galilee, but as you start to hang onto the Son's words, Love as he meant it to be starts oozing into your heart. You begin thinking, "Who could I call up that might need cheering?" instead of "Who can I call up that might amuse ME?" "Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest." You can

hear Him saying it, and that's what you want—rest. You don't know yet that when you are doing things for Him with the kind of Love He talked about, you can't get tired. I used to get so tired, just thinking about myself and what I wanted, that I spent half my time resting up so that I could start thinking about myself again. This effusion sounds like I was still thinking a lot about myself, but I know you will believe me when I say that my only idea in writing this example of first person singular is with a hope that some- one will find the happiness I have found. I think of myself in retrospect, only to compare the puniness of everything thrills, success, or happiness—I have ever known, with my life under this New Management. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self" is no longer a joke. I used to think I did a fair job of loving mine, but I see now that I was darned fussy about what neighborhood I was in. "Judge not that ye be not judged" if the average unreligious person knew what a lot of headaches that rule saves one from, many pill peddlers would be selling all-day suckers. It applies to all situations. Try it on your grouch—the phone rings, you're busy, tired, or just going out. "Who the hell is that now?" you growl. Stop and say, "Judge not that ye be not judged." You hear your own voice, saying pleasantly "Hello!" at- and I defy anyone who is calling to be anything but pleasant if, with sincerity, you have quoted Him in your heart. I'm not trying to say how it's done, ~~ I'm saying that it works and I'm repeat- r~ You'll like i ing: "According to your faith be it unto Velvet you." Anyone, adopting His rules, will see magic. The butcher, the baker, the — aged-in-wood candle-stick maker, the tax collector, that Burley tobacco crab next door—in fact everyone who extra has ever annoyed you gets a break, as you — good taste get yours. You suddenly begin to think — for pipe or what a lousy time they may be having cigarette in their jobs and what a troubled heart they may be hiding under that smirk 2 full ounces that annoyed you. The light shines, and in every tin in its reflections are things you never saw before beauty in things that were — '*, -' " > v ugly, interest in things that were dull, peace where once there was plenty of tur- bulence, service where once there was a lot of talk about it. And as for that neigh- bor. In the real light, you can see him with neighborly eyes, instead of through Copyright 1937 Liggett & Myers a haze of ego. {Continued on page 42) Tobacco Co

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Tomorrow becomes another day that Mother and I had put one hundred and blankety-blank top sarge coming by. you meet with faith and a welcoming sixty thousand bucks in that property I call myself Epidemic Janis, but I heard smile. If it seems to be a lousy, rainy one, in complete selfishness, and we had out there that "Pluto" is my pet name. you don't even judge it because you real- twenty years of pleasure there. Why A big Hello! a Cheerio! and a How- ize that you don't really know what good should I be paid back money squandered, you-doin'? to the hospitals I have visited the rain may be doing. If you are big- so that I might now go in for philanthro- in the past year, where I've seen this

hearted enough to go out in it, you can phy? magazine sharing reading honors with see a dozen reasons why it's raining. You see how one self -exalting idea got Wild West hair-raisers, detective stories, None of them will explain why your day abased. Abased, after all, just means and the racing chart. has been spoiled until you can really taken down. When you accept it hum- Greetings! and How-are-they-behav- say "Thy Will, Not Mine, Be Done." bly, it's surprising how soon the glorify- ing? to the doctors, nurses and orderlies Then you become part of the rain and ing starts. at the cut 'em and cure 'em camps in start singing. You remember how I was coming to Washington, D. C; in Newington, Con- "Judge not that ye be not judged" any town that wanted me to play a bene- necticut; in Roanoke, Virginia; in Oteen, may sound ponderous, but in our lan- fit for anything that needed help? Well, North Carolina; in Little Rock, Arkansas; guage it's "Mind your own business and I've flown about the country, trying it, in Waco, Texas; in Legion, Texas; in it will be good." and no dice. The kids of this generation Albuquerque, New Mexico; in Sawtelle I may sound like Pollyanna on a bat, listen to youse guys talking about the and San Fernando and Palo Alto and but you'll never see a miracle until you Sweetheart of the A. E. F. and say, Livermore, California; in Denver and in believe in them. Certainly this genera- "Yeah? What's that? Was the A. E. F. Chicago. tion should be miracle conscious, what the P. W. A. twenty years ago? Let's go When I flew out to Chicago to visit with talkies, radio, television, and tea in and see Clark Gable or Shirley Temple." Hines Hospital I grabbed myself off a California and breakfast in New York, And I'm right with them! I left the hunk of ex-service C. C. C. camps, too. as I had them in May. In a mission on stage at forty to make way for others Hello, you C. C. C.-ers! Hope to be the shores of that same California, thou- and, thank goodness, I have never even C. C. C.-ing you again. Also hope Ye sands of swallows leave on a certain date had a slight yen to go back. I had ap- Editor doesn't mind my using this method each year and return on another certain plause from the time I was six until I of communication. date— the Miracle of Capistrano. Visi- was forty. That's plenty applause, but More hellos to the Legion posts con- tors gape and murmur, "How do they in my first inspiration to help others, tacted, visited, and due to be thanked for

explain it? Isn't it odd?" This visitor that seemed natural, as everyone was being swell, even if we didn't get all the says, "Put a G in front of the O in odd, trying hard to get me to go back on the dough we counted on—posts in Chicago, and all the wonders of this beautiful stage and take a sock. New Haven, Bronxville, Providence, world are clarified." So, fellahs, your town will get along Pawtucket, Bristol, and Kansas City. Well, I guess it's time to tee up my without me unless you live near a Vet- A trip to the last named is responsible halo at another angle, and tell you how erans Administration Facility. I have for me having the Freedom of the Air the old exalted Janis has been humbled. found my job and it isn't a job, because on T. W. A. You remember my plans—I was selling it isn't work—it's pleasure! The song Now that I see the ground I've cov- the Manor House for Charity? Well, in my heart is "I Can't Give You Any- ered in print, I can understand why they the bank got it! If it goes into history, thing But Love, Fellahs," and I had to call me Pluto out at Sawtelle. Maybe the bank will take the bows I planned for spend several fractured weeks in a hospi- there was something to all those gags in myself. tal myself, to know that the one who France about my being the daughter of There is no two-timing in this happi- stops by your bed with love, says "How Hunyadi Janos, after all.

ness. I said a year ago to G.H.Q. : "Take you doin'?" and passes on, is better than I'll sign off now, and I don't wish any

everything from me but leave me that the "I-ought-to-go-up-and-see-Bill" type, of you any kind of illness, but if you make Light I have glimpsed." When that is who makes Bill sit up and go into details one of the hospitals that wears the U. S. said from the heart, which only He can of his illness. on its sign posts you're apt to have to see, all sorts of wonderful, soothing rea- I snap it through the wards at Sawtelle take me just after the ether, or just be- soning sets in. I suddenly knew that in the mornings and they think it's that fore the big black pill.

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under severe shellfire more than com- uniform and deliver it to the kennels. up a record of two thousand saved men in pensated for their doubtful ancestry, Equipped with first-aid kits, they less than a year. were with the Red Cross and ambulance stood patiently by while the injured, The dog is practically immune to the corps. Their senses of smell and hearing when able, helped themselves to the kits. effects of gas. He can carry ammunition —eight times as acute as men's—were Then, scurrying away, they returned up to forty-five pounds. Using a simple found to be infallible in tracing the leading the ambulance workers and attachment, a dog can lay a telephone wounded who had crawled or hitched stretcher bearers. Some of them saved wire. The Airedales with the English their way to safety or water hole in some the lives of hundreds. One sheep dog in forces excelled as scouts and sentries. distant wood or field. They had been the French army, after a two-day battle, From their forbears they had inherited taught, by practice with dummies and nosed out five men who had been such acute noses and ears that they de- live models, to disregard the dead, and wounded in its first hours and who were tected scents and sound half a mile away. not to bark when they came upon the so well hidden that no man would have They could tell the difference between the wounded, but to tear off a piece of the found them. A Belgian police dog piled uniforms of friend and foe. Not afraid

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine of gunfire, they actually reveled in it. So keen were their memories that some of them recognized and obeyed as many as two hundred words. Sent out on reconnaissance, they came back notifying the patrols by low growls that German IifeBeginsM) raiding parties had left their trenches several hundred yards away in the dark. Going out with the scouting expeditions, His"Retirement Age" Came at 65 they guided patrols to enemy machine- gun nests. He Starts a Second Career In the Vosges sector was a soldier, said to be an Alsatian, who assisted in the Alexander S. Kalischer Left Federal Reserve kennels. For some unaccountable reason Bank— Starts in Printing Business the dogs would have none of him. Every night when he left them carrying a lan- tern, they set up a chorus of hate. The IN THE PAST 44 YEARS Mr. Kalischer has probably handled more French had had cause to suspect that the coins than any other man in the United States— first as chief of coin Germans had set up a listening post close department in the U. S. Sub-Treasury, later as head of coin-receiving to the Allied line, but had been unable to section of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. locate it. One night a nondescript pup who had strayed into camp and was What a wealth of experience he has taken on was so restless that the picket built up! And Alexander Kalischer is business. If employers do not seem to commander ordered him out with a not sitting back as many men would. value them enough, it may be because He is starting in on a new career in men often reach their fullest mental sentry. He had not been out long when the printing business — and to it he powers just when many of them are he began to growl and tug at the sentry's — will bring an expertness in judgment, beginning to slip physically. puttees, and gave point toward a spot accuracy in detail, and proof against If you do not intend to be forced into some distance away. Word was passed to being fooled — such as no younger man a back seat, take stock of your health. the line. The listening post was demol- possibly have. could Some adjustment in diet, a little more ished. its ruins was found the body of In Countless men of 40 and up have sleep or exercise may be all you need, the soldier who had carried the lantern. these same qualities in varying de- to start you on a new career— to- Several German police dogs, taken grees. They are priceless qualities in ward a new "top." prisoner by the Allies, soon transferred their allegiance to their captors, aiding They are Winning New Success— YOU Can, Too both French and British in surprising raiding parties, disarming them and hold- ENJOYS HELPING SCOUTS BACK IN REAL ESTATE AT 51 ing them at bay until they were taken. In Flanders, the Belgian forces made Dear Dear use of their shepherd dogs to pull machine Life Begins: Life Begins: guns from place to place, claiming that When I was I am a real-estate about 40 or so, man. Some ten years they were more dependable than horses my health seemed ago, when the bottom under fire because of their flair for evad- to fail and I fell out of Florida ing the enemy and keeping the guns out thought the real estate, I lost dreaded fortieth everything, including of their hands. In Russia, northern birthday was an my business. It was huskies, equipped with gas masks, end to youth. too much for me. I had carried as many as a hundred rounds of My digestion a physical col- bothered me. I lapse—my hair turn- Mr. Ben Small ammunition apiece to the men in the Mrs. George H.Graham, Jr. had very severe ed pure white. field, weaving their way back and forth headaches. Some- The first job I could find was in the hotel one suggested Fleischmann's Yeast, so I through a rain of bullets and shrapnel business. But I had no interest in it and made started to eat it. no attempt to get back on my feet financially. clouds of poison gas. In Italy and dogs Headaches and indigestion disappeared. I Then a friend advised me to eat Fleisch- of several breeds toted food and ammuni- have energy to burn. Recently we moved to a three-story house. Running up and down mann's Yeast, instead of just going along tion to men in the high mountains, taking sapping the little vitality left. I stairs is no trouble with my new feeling of I had tried it, short cuts up narrow, rugged passes, so health. and in a short time not only my health but my morale was completely restored. steep that neither horse nor man could Best of all, I am closer than ever to my children. All four are ardent Scouts. Working Now I'm back in own line real have negotiated them. my — estate for their cause has made me one of them, and —in New York, and have made a definite The A. E. F. took no dogs overseas very young. FLORENCE GRAHAM success of it. BEN SMALL with them—that is, as a part of the Army. But this is not to say that there were no When Digestion Slows Down You Feel Your Age American pooches in the fray. Many a stowaway smuggled himself—or was At 40, or soon after, the action of the Also, Fleischmann's Yeast is rich in 4 gastric juices begins to be less efficient. important vitamins, which give an added smuggled by his master—onto the trans- Not only do they lose their full strength tonic action. Each one of these vitamins ports, and came out of the war with a — they even flow less freely. has its own special share in maintaining crown of glory on his brow. One hound- What your system needs at this time is vigorous health. dog whose hide was marked with the a little help. Start eating 3 cakes of Fleischmann's cross of his mother's sins ran back and Fleischmann's Yeast tones up digestion Yeast every day — one cake l -> hour be- by inducing a fuller and more potent flow fore each meal plain or in a little forth from dark to dawn, night in and — water. of the gastric juices. See how much better you feel! night out, along the line, acting as liaison and getting through tough spots that no WILL BE PAID FOR LETTERS of success after human warrior could have penetrated. JT 40— so helpful to others Ai J we wish to print them. If you can truly credit to Fleischmann's Bing was born in a pup-tent at Camp Yeast some part of the health that made your success possible— write us Sheridan, where, because of his winning — enclosing your picture. (Letters and pictures cannot be returned.) Life ways, he was immediately adopted by Begins, 420 Lexington Ave., New York. Copyright, 1937. Standard Brands Incorporated a machine-gun (Continued on page 44)

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(Continued from page 43) company. When the regiment was Riffs, the latter's strategy was consider- larged to meet new demands. The ordered overseas, word was given that ably strengthened by the sacrifice im- pupils are being taught to go out on Bing was to stay behind. That was posed on their native dogs. Dressed up reconnaissance; to break through lines not, however, his master's idea, and in native uniform, they were sent out at of communication; to transport machine by devious ways Bing was smuggled night along the front, where, mistaken guns, ammunition belts and food over aboard the transport and kept under for Riffian soldiers crawling in the dark, tricky terrain; to overcome the enemy cover until the troops had debarked in they drew fire which revealed the posi- by disarming him. France. Serving on five sectors, he had tion of the enemy guns. Our military authorities thus far have his own special gift for sniffing poison Today canine legions are being swiftly seen no use in submitting our thirteen gas the second an attack was launched. put in trim in Europe. In Frankfort, at million dogs to any such purpose. They Time and again he saved the health and what is the largest dog-school in the reason that, in our present peaceful tem- lives of hundreds of men by giving the world, the rumor goes that the classes per, the only war on which we would en- alarm. Although he was badly gassed, have a total attendance of two thousand gage would be one of defense. With he lived on for several years and received at a time. At Jena the government sup- friendly neighbors to the north and south, many honors. Born an army dog, he ports a hospital for its army dogs on the any attack would be directed at our coast died an army dog, and was given a full staff of which are some of the country's lines, and our defense would be in the military funeral. ablest veterinarians. France, Italy, hands of the Navy, the artillery and the In Morocco a few years ago, when Belgium, Holland and Bulgaria all have air corps—which means that the best France and Spain combined against the training centers with a curriculum en- place for dogs would be in the home.

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(Continued from page 2/) the kind of bird, then releases him. been found in every South American and blowing feathers out of his whiskers. The above remarks apply to songbirds, country as far as Cape Horn. Herring Which may be very satisfactory for the which are the kind I usually handle. gulls are found in the West Indies and animal, but is hard on the bander, not to Other birds may be a different story. A Central America. All these, it may be mention the bird. great blue heron once barely missed advisable to explain, are water birds We catch in this very fashion a con- putting out my eye, for which he had commonly referred to as small gulls. A siderable number of animals every year. aimed with his spear-like bill, as he common tern banded on the Maine coast But rather than wait until the animal wriggled loose from the man who was was found dead in the Niger River by an gets into a bird trap, we have a good holding him while I applied the band. African native. And the Arctic tern is the many animal traps scattered through our Wild geese pack a wicked punch in their classic example of long-distance migra- large back yard. Only the completely wings, and are not to be trifled with tion, for he summers as far north as he undesirable citizens such as rats and mice carelessly. But songbirds are easy fellows can find land and winters 11,000 miles and shrews are harmed in the trapping. to handle, and they yield interesting south, on the farthest outposts of land he The other animals are caught in live returns. can find within the Antarctic Circle. traps. Most of these, even the ones The returns are our reward. When any All birds are not, of course, migratory, generally considered all bad, I transfer other bird bander finds in his traps a and some do not always migrate. But the into portable cages, keep them until I bird already banded elsewhere, he reports great majority of all wild birds chase the have an automobile load, then drive into to the Biological Survey at Washington. sun with the seasons, ignoring inter- the country and release one by one at (A bander is licensed by the United national boundaries and passports. Many spots well adapted to their habits. I have States Government, and is indeed an of the songbirds common in the United too high an opinion of the Creator's unpaid, part-time Federal employe States in summertime spend their winters judgment, and too low an opinion of my officially.) Or anyone who handles a dead in the forests of the Amazon. And there own, to attempt by any acts of mine to bird which has been banded finds right is one bird fairly common in the United disturb the balance of life maintained by on the band the request that he return it States, the chimney-swift, which has Nature. Further, too few wild animals to the Biological Survey. The Survey never been recognized anywhere after remain near our cities, and I prefer not looks up the records for that number and it leaves the North, nor has a single band to destroy those which still survive. informs both the person who sent in the been returned during the winter from the Twenty years ago, when we first moved report and also the person who affixed many thousands of these birds which into our house and the lake shore was un- that band. About three percent of all have been marked. The chimney-swift is occupied, we trapped 150 skunks in the bands yield returns, which means that if the greatest riddle of bird science. first two winters. For the fun of it, we I band one hundred birds today—just But we are wandering away from the kept the blackest—the most desirable about a fair expectation in the spring subject of wild birds and animals which and after removing the scent sacs we migration season—I shall eventually hear prosper in the cities. Probably I would actually raised skunks and made money from three of them. A small return, per- know little about this if it were not for selling their fur. Eventually we had 250 haps, but well worth the effort to the con- banding birds. Unfortunately, birds and of the amusing little fellows. We sold firmed and chronic bander. beasts do not always mix well from the them off and gave up fur-farming on a These bands bob up in the most un- bird bander's standpoint—or, if you pre- city lot. This past winter we trapped expected places. The Caspian tern was fer, they mix too well on occasion. If, for twelve skunks. Incidentally, on acquaint- thought to go no farther south than example, any one of a dozen different ance a skunk is a friendly chap who is Central America, but several banded animals gets into a trap along with a neither timid nor looking for trouble. He along the upper Great Lakes have been bird, by the time the bander arrives he never shoots his scent unless the other taken in Colombia. The common tern has finds only the animal, looking well-fed fellow starts the fight, and will peaceably

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recommend being quiet while he is close to you, however. In the past few years we have trapped OddFadsgftfih Boston three raccoons. Two were very wild, the FREE 1000 MINIATURE REPRODUCTIONS 10 HIGH OF OLD other so tame we suspected him of being SPINNING WHEEL THAT ACTUALLV WORKS FOR IOOO somebody's escaped pet. But they all BEST LETTERS ON WHY OLD MR. BOSTON FINE LIQUORS went back to the country. REFLECT THE QUALITY TRADITIONS OF OLD BOSTON'! Twenty years ago we knew of no opos- OLD MR. BOSTON, DEPT. ALI2. BOSTON, MASS. sums in Northern Illinois. Ten years This offer qood until Dec 25™ but not in states where such offers are prohibited ago we began trapping a very few in our yard, but for a while an opossum was a real event. Now we catch at least a dozen a year. Here is the prize example Foiled of an animal which formerly did not in- Snippers habit the region, but which now has Shilling moved right in, occupying the towns as well as the country. In other words, the k opossum is so adaptable that he can live s 8 «S « 'W " pl>«» "<"""* M , 7*.* right among us city dwellers and be only rarely detected. Our prize backyard catch was a red fox. It would be nice to tell how the sly -chiseling- fox lives unsuspected under the towns- man's feet. Unfortunately for romance, this fellow was wearing a collar and chain, and was eventually reclaimed by a family a mile away. However, last year a red fox was killed on the outskirts of our TenthPmSavesNinePms town. A friend in a suburb seven miles closer to Chicago saw a red fox in the k p,"...l. e woods of the subdivision across from his Among .b.8"»«* ol S f t ;,i n6 home. And in the next town beyond him, last winter three squad cars of policemen ime U.si» Wo»<*'8 byl«d.»6 with two-way radio communication and 6 machine-guns nobly tracked down a coyote and killed him—thus earning a prize for something like farthest south in sportsmanlike hunting. We average perhaps one weasel a year —their larger cousins, mink, somewhat less frequently. We did, however, catch a mink last autumn in the tiny creek-bed Ago ,00 Years in our side yard. Most of our weasels Just are the New York weasel, a good-sized fellow. But we have caught three least weasels, which are supposed to live only «'"°" Of *« IWdy ,;„„-, Am much farther north. Mink, likewise, are tk °£ supposed to be completely trapped out by fur-seekers. Maybe they are all gone in the country, but we get one every couple of years right in town.

Muskrats also come our way, which is rather mysterious because there is no good muskrat country for many miles. They are a great nuisance to us, because we have to drive the trapped muskrats so many miles into the country to find a suitable home. Woodchucks come in Old abundance, and if they get into bird traps they practically ruin these with r OP- their teeth. Anyone who really wants 0FH0H&CABiNerMAKf*f!* KER to know how much wood a woodchuck NO H b SlL\lWS"'l M nRE PROUD can chuck is invited to inspect our heap WAS £ *£}*tHAN *»' lOOPnOOFSTMjMT H,S% THE of bird traps junked because of the un- Of- J *HO 6UARO holy damage inflicted upon them by im- UAL,T • Q ?Jr WHISKY . • " r patient woodchucks who wandered in. STRAIGHT W^ NlGHl RS OLD BOTTLE Squirrels we catch in abundance. 0Uy A Everybody knows that these can live successfully in town. Flying squirrels, however, are not so well known. Com- paratively few (Continued on page 46)

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{Continued from page 43) people, either in city or country, ever pet delphiniums may very well live and to us, beyond all doubt, that despite the see them. They are beautiful little breed under the garage or the back porch. large number of wild animals we trap animals, soft, furry, appealing—and A friend of mine recently saw a wild cot- every year, at least three times as many far from desirable in a bird haven. tontail on a paved street less than a mile pass untrapped through our sand patches. We catch them in tree traps set for from downtown Milwaukee. As for As for the species—well, if I told you of creepers and similar birds. When we gophers and chipmunks, they thankfully my suspicions, if I breathed my belief find one in a trap, all that remains of the dig their homes, their storehouses, and in some of the animals which live under birds is the feathers. As a matter of their intercommunicating subways close my nose but which I have yet to trap, fact, flying squirrels are plentiful in to the foundation of your house because you would broadly dismiss this entire many cities, but their habits keep them the builder thoughtfully drained this article as imaginings. out of sight. In our territory, flying with plenty of field tile. Man is supposed to be the most adapt- squirrels inconvenience many city dwell- And as my final believe-it-or-not, last able of animals. This characteristic is ers by getting into their walls and living winter a three-prong white-tailed buck often advanced as the reason why man there noisily. Larger than most rats, lived close to us and was seen on the rail- is dominant among his fellow animals. the flying squirrels scurry about knocking road track along the back line of our lot. But I arise to urge that the philosophers, off plaster lumps and dropping nut shells. I saw his footprints repeatedly. How did before they accept this assumption of

The householder blames it on rats and he do it, in a town filled with dogs? man's superior adaptability, learn some- wonders why he does not catch them in If you have a back yard and wish to thing of wild animals. Surely anyone rat traps. The reason is that the flying know something of the animals and birds must marvel at their ability to breed and squirrel seldom ventures inside the house which pass through it, let me suggest a support themselves amid a man-made itself; he merely chooses the wall as a fine, trick we use. Along our little creek are a town, where thousands of natural ene- dry, warm home in which to store nuts few sandy patches, which we renew with mies live ready to kill them on sight. and acorns and take shelter on rainy added sand if spring freshets wash them Yet these animals prosper in our midst, and zero days. out. At each sandy patch we leave a unsuspected and undisturbed by most Chipmunks, gophers and rabbits are small board, and use it to smooth the of their human neighbors. If adapt- plentiful. People know this because sand so that it will record any footprints. ability were the answer to the dominance these animals are frequently seen in the Morning and evening I inspect that of humankind, then I greatly fear that suburbs. How closely they live in con- patch on my trap rounds. If you know in a few centuries we might all be living tact with people is not always appre- their tracks, such a record of the passing under the firm, intelligent rule of the ciated. The rabbits which munch your animals will surprise you. It has revealed skunks and raccoons and opossums.

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(Continued from page p) adies," he informed them, "have been proceeded about a mile when Mary suspicion she liked him as well as she did delivered to the wrong steamer. The Minturn came up the back stairs from any skipper in Groat & Hillman's employ. Oriole is a freighter with no passenger the dining saloon and looked into the He had great respect for her. Indeed, had accommodations other than the owners' pilot house. he seen her coming he would have begged suite." "Hello, Jim—look who's here," she her to wait for the Oregonian. The younger of the two women smiled called. "I suppose I'll have to be a sport and at him. "No mistake, steward. I'm Hedstrom, hearing her call, came in congratulate you on securing a well- Miss Minturn, from the office of Groat & from the weather bridge. merited promotion, Captain Hedstrom,

Hillman. I'm their cashier. This is my "Why, hello, Miss Minturn," he even if your gain is our loss. Captain mother. We have an order from Mr. greeted her, not too enthusiastically. Brandon and I were engaged to be Hillman instructing the master of the "What are you doing here? I didn't know married," the girl told him. Oriole to give us passage in the owner's you were aboard." "Indeed! I'm sorry about this mess. I suite; also an order to the master of the "Came aboard with my mother about had no hand in it." steam schooner Oregonian to dead head two minutes before you sailed. And I "Well, such things happen." There was us in one of his passenger staterooms. didn't know you were aboard. Where's emotion in Mary Minturn's voice. We came down here to pick up the Captain Brandon?" "How come you're up here, Miss Oregonian, but I recognized the Oriole at "He resigned this morning and I flew Minturn?" this dock, so we decided to take passage down from Portland and took over." "My mother and I came north un- on her instead." Mary Minturn's face was troubled. expectedly to attend the funeral of her The steward read the order and car- "Know why?" sister in Portland. I— I thought it would ried their baggage aboard; scarcely had "Run-in with Groat, I imagine. He be nice to return on the Oriole with they reached the owners' suite than the didn't discuss it with me." Captain Brandon. We had an order from second mate superintended the lowering "I was afraid that would happen." the office; we're in the owners' suite." of the gangplank and then ran aft to Hedstrom was disturbed, distressed Hedstrom had an inspiration. "Far be superintend the casting off of the stern even, in the realization that Miss Minturn it from me to spoil your pleasure, Miss lines, while the first mate performed a was aboard, because he knew he was run- Minturn. Captain Brandon is staying in similar office up forward with the bow- ning considerable risk in taking the Astoria tonight, at the Astoria House. line. Hedstrom, seeing all clear, pulled Oriole over the bar. He liked Mary He's returning to San Francisco, as the the whistle cord and the Oriole moved Minturn. As cashier for Groat & Hillman guest of Groat & Hillman, on the Ore- slowly out from the dock and headed she had been furnishing his money for gonian, due in Astoria from up river down the channel for the bar. She had payrolls for three years and he had a tomorrow morning. Now I can heave to

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine off the Coast Guard Station at Adams Point, lower a boat and put you and your mother ashore. Meanwhile I'll radio Brandon to hire an automobile, run out to Adams Point and pick you up, and to- morrow you can all start home together on the Orcgonian." He waited eagerly for her consent, and while she pondered he went on: "It really will be the best thing to do, Miss Min- turn. The Oriole is going to have a dirty passage because we're heading into a heavy sou'easter; by tomorrow noon it may have blown itself out and you'll have a bully trip in the Oregonian. And your man will be aboard, remember that." "I think not, Captain Hedstrom. We'll not bother you to put us ashore. Mother and I are pretty good sailors and, after all, a really rough trip will be an experi- ence. So, since the Oriole has no passenger license, put us on the crew list and pre- tend that we're stewardesses or scullions or something." She turned away to hide her emotion and went downstairs. Hedstrom cursed softly, then whistled up the engine room. "Chief," he ordered, "cut Number Four boiler in again. Never mind if it does leak like a shower bath. It'll step up your steam pressure some and we'll need every pound you can give her." He summoned the second mate: "Go aft, with a couple of your watch, mister," he ordered, "and stand by to slip the lashings on the deckload, if you should see the forward deck-load go by the board. Do not wait for an order from me. The instant you see lumber floating to leeward, let her rip. That'll help to keep her on about the same plane she is now." From Astoria to the outer buoy on Columbia River bar is, roughly, twelve miles, and, proceeding at half speed, it was three hours before Hedstrom found himself in the midst of the mile of gigantic seas on the bar proper, the gantlet he must run before swinging his vessel around the outer buoy into the teeth of the gale. It's a present with a future — makes every day a holiday Although the Oriole had taken some big ones theretofore, she was riding so high for the pipe-smoker. Cool as his thought of those gadgets forward that not until she met the first old grand-daddy of the graybeards did he'll get. Smooth as his grin at a pound tin instead! she dive into it. It creamed over her and Fragrant, friendly, full-bodied tobacco that won't bite poured down off the forecastle head into the big alley between the two sections of the tongue — in a tin that won't bite the fingers. Made the forward deckload. Once in this alley there was no escape for the water until by our exclusive modern process including patent No. the space filled and the lip of the flood poured over the deckload into the sea. 1,770,920. Cool and smooth. Smells good. Makes his She had been very cranky and two men at the wheel had to exert all their strength pipe welcome anywhere. Tastes good. His password to to keep her nose into it, but a minute y pleasure your buy-word for smokers! ?„e AmeH«n^baeco company after she had taken the third great comb- — er, the quartermaster looked up at Hed- strom and said: "She's much easier now, sir." Hedstrom nodded his satisfaction. %^ He had counted on that and he wondered HALF HALF if Brandon had. Probably not. Brandon was pretty young; he could do with more The £<*4e 7>u9e - Tcr6cuux> experience. A man could command ships for a hundred {Continued on page 48) FOR PIPE OR CIGARETTE

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{Continued from page 47) years and learn something new every defying the counter-thrust of her rudder; cock Spit before that happens. And if we voyage. in an instant as she turned her head away hit Peacock Spit she'll break her back." Only the presence aboard of Mary from the seas, they slapped against her He laid his great hand on the second's Minturn and her mother kept the placid counter and drove her off until her tall shoulder. "Sorry, lad." Swede from being downright cheerful. deckload of lumber offered a fair target The mate tried to spread a smile over and then a fifty-foot sea smashed quarter- his white face, as he turned to go; then, ACROSS the bar the Oriole pounded. ingly across the forward welldeck! suddenly the smile was real. "Maybe She was riding them well, even Hedstrom saw a chainlashing fly up there isn't so much danger, after all, sir," though the spray was going over her from the port side deck load, flick up onto he yelled, and pointed. Coming up on the funnels as she crept up on the last the weather bridge and tear away eight weather bow of the doomed Oriole was a whistling buoy and, although the seas feet of pipe railing and canvas dodger. big bar tug, and as she swept up to them ahead were formidable enough, the worst Then another huge graybeard came they saw she was pumping fuel oil over- of the passage was now over; she passed aboard, the cargo started to shift and board ; then her Lyle gun roared and down the buoy and Hedstrom said to the another chainlashing flew upward; a the gale came the heavy knotted end of a quartermaster: "Hard-a-port!" As he third wave tossed the port side cargo heaving line. Across the steamer's well- spoke the wind rose in a sudden mad gust across the deck into the starboard cargo deck and over her cargo booms cradled and rain, rattling on the plate glass and the great grinding, shrieking mass against the forward end of the house the windows of the enclosed bridge, obscured went overboard. rope soared, the knotted end dropping far his view. Hedstrom was blessed with the ability into the sea beyond. In the face of that gust the Oriole to think quickly and intelligently in an answered her helm reluctantly and Hed- emergency; he possessed the power of INSTANTLY the second mate slid down strom's brow puckered in anxiety, as he instantaneous decision. He knew the off the bridge to the cradled cargo booms saw his command engaged in her titanic Oriole had already driven a hundred crawled out along them on hands and struggle with the elements. He thought: yards across that all too narrow channel knees and retrieved that heaving line. "The wind has jumped fifteen or twenty and that he could not go astern and stop He crawled forward to the mast, hauling miles an hour, but it will subside again in his headlong dash for Peacock Spit, now the line home as he went, then sat down, a few minutes. If she can't come around just a vast smear of tumbling white water and coiled the bight of it as he clung with

I'll head her straight out to sea, and try off to leeward. He hadn't sufficient power. both legs around the booms, the while he again after this squall subsides. Brandon— He signaled the mate to let go an glanced ahead and up over the forecastle was right. She needs more power anchor—and almost instantly he saw the head; when he had the heaving line coiled "She's falling off on us, sir," the red rust flying from the starboard hawse on his arm, he looked back and up at quartermaster panted, his frightened hole as his right bower went down by the Hedstrom standing out on the weather glance on the binnacle. "Look at that run. The moment it bit the steamer bridge. He smiled. Hedstrom smiled back. compass needle swing." started to swing to it, once more gradually Each understood. Hedstrom, helpless, watched the needle presenting her head to the sea; as the With the Oriole once more heading up defy the rudder. Would the wind abate chain paid out Hedstrom gave the Oriole to the tremendous seas, Hedstrom took and give the Oriole a chance to recover, to full speed ahead. Her bow was so high heart of hope, for he saw instantly that make another attempt at her southing? out of water, now that the weight of the the failure of the second mate to slip the "She's back on the course I was steer- forward deck load was gone, that he chain shackles on the after deckload and ing before you gave me hard-a-port, sir," couldn't make a foot of headway, but let it go by the board was now likely to the helmsman said. with the anchor holding and her screw prove their salvation, for with the forward "Hold her there," said Hedstrom. assisting, her sudden, crazy dash for deckload gone and the steamer riding on "She's holding, sir." Peacock Spit had been arrested tem- her tail, her bow was so high even the

The Oriole wallowed straight out to porarily. tremendous seas could not climb it. To sea, and Hedstrom had no objection to add to this advantage the oil which the that for be wanted searoom. Indeed, he THE second mate came forward over tug had pumped overboard was now would need it desperately if his vessel fell the house, on top of which the wireless drifting down on the Oriole and flatten- off even a little bit, for off to starboard shack was perched, and dropped down ing the seas until they went sullenly by; the North Jetty and Peacock Spit beyond into the pilot house. "I took the liberty of so there would be no danger of losing men it had to be reckoned with. And from the ordering Sparks to send out the S. O. S., off the forecastle head now, when the channel to the shoal water was but a hop, sir," he reported. "And I didn't slip the tug's hawser came aboard and the men skip and jump. after deckload. When I got there her went topside to make it fast. The devil's tattoo of rain on the plate stern was swinging up into the trough and All this the second mate realized; but glass windows moderated and Hedstrom she was just a mess of white water aft he realized, also, that the deck beneath sighed with relief. That meant the wind before my gang could get out on the him was awash to the top of the rail, with was moderating, too. "Hard-a-port," he deckload and cast loose her chain broken pieces of lumber threshing madly ordered—and again the Oriole started to shackles. Later, when her head came up around in the oily scum. Both companions swing, but no faster than the first time. and her stern swung away from the seas, leading from the well deck to the fore- If he could only get her around quickly, there didn't appear to be any sound castle head had been carried away so that so she would take the wind squarely on reason for dumping, so I came forward route was barred to him, nor could he her nose instead of on her port counter . . . to report." expect help topside from the first mate The wheel spun furiously and the "Nothing matters now," Hedstrom re- and his gang because they were im- helmsman spoke. "I can't bring her plied. "Here's where we all go to hell prisoned inside the forecastle head, with around, sir. She's up too high in the bows together." He thought briefly of his wife the anchor windlass. The problem was to and that tall deckload offers too much and five little squareheads. "Poor anchor- get from his perch on the cargo booms surface to the gale." age," he continued mockingly. "Those where they were shackled to the mast, up Again the sou'easter attacked—and graybeards will pick us to pieces in a few onto the forecastle head. before the gust the Oriole fell off sharply, hours, even if we don't drag in on Pea- Quickly he solved the problem. He

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ! coiled the heaving line over his shoulder * * and climbed up the narrow steel ladder bolted into the forward edge of the mast until he reached the crow's nest; at the crow's nest he grasped the steel stay leading from the topmast down to the bow and slid down it. The wild pitching ESSY of the steamer made it a perilous passage, but like the old windshipman he was, he made it safely and presently the boat- COGNAC BRANDY swain and two seamen slid down with a thump beside him. They hauled in on the heaving line until a three-inch Manila line, attached to the light heaving line, came up out of the drink. They passed the bight of this over the drum winch on the forecastle head and the second opened the throttle and turned the winch over; while the four- inch line paid in on the drum the men hauled the other end of it away and coiled it neatly; presently the thimble of the tug's two-inch extra flexible plow-steel- wire towing cable popped into view, fast to the end of the Manila. The steel hawser, too, they hove in on the drum of the winch, passed the bight of it over the two towing bitts on the starboard side, forward, carried the loose end to one of the two towing bitts aft on the port side, passed the bight several times around one and dropped the thimble over the other. "Well, that towing hawser has been made fast to my satisfaction," the second mate growled, and commenced walking up the forestay again, monkey fashion; from the masthead he and his men went back to the bridge the way they had come. Meanwhile Hedstrom had signaled the tug to take up on the hawser; at the same time he shouted to the first mate, who was peering out the port, waiting for orders, to raise the anchor. As the anchor broke water the tug took hold and the Make your Christmas an old-fash- hawser came up out of the sea; fortu- nately the tug was equipped with a tow- ioned holiday . . . with Hennessy ing machine to obviate any sudden jerks Cognac Brandy ... in fashion for which might snap the hawser. Because of her light draft the tug was enabled to almost two centuries for cele- swing in off the deep channel into shoal brating festive occasions. Enjoy water, thus gradually hauling the Oriole back into the channel she had almost left. it in your plum pudding and Slowly the big freighter drew away from mince pies . . . finish the feast danger. Without the assistance of the tug he with an after-dinner liqueur could not have steered the Oriole, so of Three-Star Hennessy, 84 PROOF badly out of trim she was, without dump- ing the after deckload—and this the whose quality, bouquet and Hedstrom would not do while dogged "clean" taste have made it a favorite for generations. And, there remained a ghost of a chance to speaking of "old fashions," try Three- Star save it. Once around, with the sou'easter Hennessy in on his tail and the tug holding up her your next Old-Fashioned Cocktail head so she wouldn't fall off and head for the Spit or the Jetty again, he gave the Insist on HENNESSY in a HENNESSY OLD-FASHIONED chief full speed ahead and presently was back in comparatively calm water under Side Car B randy-and-Soda Dash 1 piece of loaf sugar with Brandy Flip the lee of the headland. Here the towing Morning Glory Fizz sparkling water and crush; add Brandy Daisy Pousse Cafe 1 dash orange bitters, hawser was cast off; presently the tug square piece Stinger Georgia Mint Julep of ice, came alongside and shouldered the Oriole piece of lemon peel and Brandy Sour Fish House Punch 1 jigger Three-Star Hennessy. into the berth she had left that afternoon. As Hedstrom watched the tug slide off Distilled and bottled at Cognac, France. JA? HENNESSY & C? Established 1765 into the darkness he thought of the salvage claim {Continued on page 50) SOLE U. S. AGENTS. Schieffelifl & CO., NEW YORK CITY • IMPORTERS SINCE 1794

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the tugboat company would file against The old man fiddled with his watch Old Man Hillman drew his spectacles the S. S. Oriole and owners and he charm and looked out the office window. still further down his nose and gazed upon sighed deeply. He knew that, in the "The tugboat company hasn't sent in its Jim Brandon as if the latter were one of terminology of his profession, he was on bill as yet, which means they're unde- those strange bugs one sometimes finds

the beach . . . his heart was very heavy cided as to the sum they'll claim; we can't under a rotting log. Then he asked, "Why as he thought of his wife and five little win, so we'll try to settle out of court with did you do it?" Swedish-Americans and his modest mort- the tugboat company. And when we do, "Miss Minturn and her mother came gaged home. Mary Minturn, coming up Hedstrom shall walk the plank." aboard after I left; when Hedstrom told into the pilot house to congratulate him "You will not fire Captain Hedstrom, her I was out but remaining over at the on winning that tight race with death, sir. One swallow doesn't make a summer Astoria House to take a free passage home saw such grief and desolation in his face and one bad break doesn't prove a man a on the Orcgonian next day and urged her that she went downstairs again without hopeless boob. Hedstrom knows his job to permit him to set her mother and her speaking. and he has a wife and five little square- ashore at the Adams Point life saving heads and a mortgage on his home." station, she refused. She sent me a radio. OLD Man Hillman had sent for Jim "Young man," old Hillman said So then, sir, I knew she was aboard the Brandon; when the latter entered quietly, "it's perfectly all right for you to Oriole riding down to Davy Jones' locker Hillman's lair the old gentleman slid out tell that unlicked pup, Groat, where to with that pig-headed Swede. But in the to the edge of his swivel chair, drew his head in, but it's fatal to try your skill on emergency he kept his head. He knew spectacles down over his long, sagacious me. When I'm aroused I'm dirty." what to do and did it." nose, looked over them at Jim Brandon "So am I," Jim Brandon grinned back "It seems you did, also, Captain Bran- and murmured: "God bless my mildewed at him, "so don't you get brave and try don. He swung his old legs up on his desk soul." Following a minute of staring he arousing me or I'll decline to settle my and slid down in his swivel chair. "Well," added: "Remarkable. Ree-markable! In salvage claim against the S. S. Oriole and he said, "now that you have us where the all my forty years in the shipping business owners out of court." hair is short what is it going to cost us?" I never heard of such a thing, so I've sent "Your salvage claim!" "Never having had any experience in for you to find out. Ever since Hedstrom "Aye, sir, my salvage claim. The tug banditry, Mr. Hillman, I do not know. I radioed the bad news about the Oriole, that saved the Oriole was under charter do not presume it is necessary to go to my youthful associate, Groat, has kept to me lor twelve hours. That charter cost court about it, although that is probably away from this office. His man-servant me two hundred and fifty dollars and I the surest way to answer your question! says he's too ill with influenza to talk to had to give her crew a bonus of a thou- However, I've spent considerable money me over the 'phone. Hedstrom has re- sand divided among them in the pro- on law books to read off watch at sea and ported the details of the mishap to the portion which the monthly wage of each I've specialized in admiralty law, because Oriole but what I'd like to know is why man bore toward the total monthly a master ought to be up in that; so I do the devil you are on the beach while payroll. I didn't tell the tugboat people I not have to hire an admiralty lawyer to Hedstrom has the job I gave you." was going out to rescue the Oriole on the assure me that I have a hammerlock on Jim Brandon explained in meticulous bar. The crew thought that I was insane. the S. S. Oriole and owners." detail. Old Hillman listened and his sole They knew that big, powerful tug could "H-m-m!" Hillman grunted. "Eluci- comment was: "You did the right thing. negotiate the bar safely, but they pre- date." Subsequent events prove that. You have tended they were risking their lives, and "The manner in which the Oriole was justified the faith I had in your sagacity, demanded a bonus. I had to give it to loaded, at the express order of her owners, competence and loyalty. Er— ah, by the them." made her highly unfit to put to sea in the way, you're still on the payroll, because "How did you do it?" weather then prevailing. When a vessel you're still a master mariner in service "Sent a taxi for your agent. He met me is salved in the face of such undeniably of Groat & Hillman, although I'm hanged at a local bank, identified me and en- imminent danger and at grave risk to the

if I know the name of your ship." dorsed my check and the bank cashed it." salvor, his vessel and crew, the court not

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5i infrequently finds that the salvor is entitled to a payment equal to one-half the appraised value of the vessel salved. "I am given to understand the Oriole cost a million dollars to build fifteen years ago, and you have charged off to depreci- ation for income tax purposes five per- cent per annum, or seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So she is worth today a quarter of a million—and one- half of that would be a hundred and twenty-five thousand. If the court should award me one-half the value of the vessel it would also award me one-half the value of that portion of her cargo which was saved, and that will amount to about Legionnaires twenty thousand dollars, which the shipper will have to pay. I don't need to tell you the rest of the story, but it Their Boy means plenty of trouble and money for you." Jim Brandon grinned and old Hillman And All 11,500 grimaced. The younger man continued: "You realize, of course, that if I had not American Legion Posts salved the Oriole, her owners would now be facing suits by the next of kin of Ole Olson, Yon Yonson an' Yake Yakobsen Your 1938 program calls for a CONCERTED EFFORT —about thirty-eight suits in all. And to "MAKE AMERICA SAFE"—to stop the wanton waste Groat & Hillman would have so many of human life and, judgments rendered against them, with Your National Legion Headquarters has recognized the their employers' liability insurance voided — VALUE of the SCHOOL BOY PATROL in this humani- because of gross negligence, that tarian and Civic undertaking. "Oh, we'd be busted flatter than a Over 1,000,000 Legionnaires have, at last, been called into flounder," old Hillman agreed. "You did action to combat a shameful record of human destruction a grand job. Am I too optimistic in sur- and, to work with, and encourage the boys of mising that you are inclined to have more PATROL your community; to aid them in the work they are doing. or less mercy on us?" "Well, I'm not very ferocious and I'm The SCHOOL BOY PATROL magazine is designed and awaiting an offer of settlement." edited to aid you and your Post in this worthy cause; to Old Hillman pressed a button and his MAKE AMERICA SAFE. secretary entered. "Tell Miss Minturn to be good enough to step in here," he said. SCHOOL BOY PATROL magazine When Miss Minturn entered: "Miss is founded upon three principles: Minturn, you know all about the business of Groat & Hillman. You were an assist- To build individual character among an outstanding and highly select number of young American boys and girls who, through the ant accountant here for two years before advent of the Automobile, are selected by their Principal to safe- you went into the cashier's cage, so you guard the lives of their schoolmates. Their work, as such, is there- have seen the profit and loss account in fore, a CIVIC DUTY. our ledger. Have you ever seen any red To foster within the hearts and minds of these boys and girls a ink in that account?" greater desire to earnestly and sincerely perform a duty they owe to their fellow schoolmates; to create within them greater "No, Mr. Hillman." a respect for Law and Order and, above all, to appreciate more fully their "Is the business very profitable or only responsibility as guardians of HUMAN LIFE- moderately so?" To help, in an humble way, to bring about a greater consciousness "I'd like to own stock in it, Mr. on the part of the general motoring public in SAFE and SANE driving to the end that Automobile fatalities and accidents will be Hillman." REDUCED. "If you had, say, a hundred and Let me send the SCHOOL BOY PATROL to your Post or to your twenty-five thousand dollars to invest boy for THREE YEARS for $1.00. would you hesitate to invest in the stock SCHOOL BOY PATROL is published ten months in the year; of Groat & Hillman, Incorporated?" September to June inclusive by F. C. Singleton, a trained, practical Mary Minturn shook her head, but safety engineer, a Legionnaire. added: "Of course, with young Mr. Groat in authority here I wouldn't care t5\tail ^Tlxis Coupon 2o

"But if Captain Brandon should super- SCHOOL BOY PATROL, 1444 Farwell Ave., Chicago, 111. A-37 sede Groat, what then?" Please send the SCHOOL BOY PATROL to the following name and address for THREE "I'd be more eager to buy than before." YEARS starting with the next regular issue. Enclosed is $1.00. "Why? Because you're going to marry him?" FULL NAME . "No. Because he knows ships; be- cause, while he has had no experience in ADDRESS. the office of a shipping operator, he is

CITY . STATE. very intelligent and will soon learn that. Because (Continued on page 52) SCHOOL BOY PATROL IS A DEFINITELY SAFE INVESTMENT.

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he is brave enough to say No and for it seems that for the past two years he "I'll not. Groat tempted the poor stick to it; because he is only thirty-two has been angling an alleged gold mine. devil beyond his strength. Must one years old and big enough and healthy The assays inform him the gold is there error of judgment invalidate the reputa- enough to last thirty years more—and in paying quantities, but to open up the tion won by a life-time of non-error? this office requires a blood transfusion. mine, to get the ore blocked out and Hedstrom is a seaman. When his ship You are seventy years old, Mr. Hiilman, equip the mine for operation cost a lot got into trouble he knew instantly what and it is time you retired, but you cannot of money. Groat spent all the cash to do and did it. And he has a wife and do that until you leave this business money his father left him and still he five children. I'll take your job and I'll in the hands of a competent associate." didn't have enough. So he borrowed settle on your terms, but as vice-president "Thank you, Miss Minturn. You are from our bank and gave his Groat & and general manager I'll do the hiring quite right. Please sit down. I'm about Hiilman stock as collateral. He has not and the firing." to make Captain Brandon a proposition kept his promise to reduce the loan and "You win," old Hiilman agreed. "You and, since you are going to marry him, I the interest is in arrears, so the bank have me where the hair is short, you dare say you should remain here to advise foreclosed and the stock is for sale. bandit. The next thing I know you'll be him, and to see to it that I do not sell him "So you'd better see the bank and giving me orders." a pup. Well, to begin, that terrible boy make your deal. Immediately you will "I shall," Jim Brandon laughed hap- Groat is out. He doesn't know it yet but be elected a director and also vice-presi- pily. "Miss Minturn and I are going to he is, because I control Groat & Hiilman. dent and general manager and your be married on Tuesday, the eighteenth "Now, then, to my proposition. Young salary will be five hundred a month. inst., at 8 o'clock p.m. at St. Matthew's Groat tried, some time ago, to sell me his Your duties will also include those now Church in this city. It is an order from stock in our company, but I declined to attended to by our port captain, whom both of us that you climb into the clothes buy it because he set too high a value on you will send back to sea. And that is you wear to funerals and be there to give it and, besides, I wanted him to hold on the last order I am going to give you. the bride away." to it. I knew he could not find a better Oh, yes, one more! You will fire that "I'll be there," said Old Man HiEman, investment. However, he knew he could lunkhead, Hedstrom." "with lilies of the valley in my lapel."

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I found I was an object of attention in He sent Fat a money order for his birth- way sometimes myself, cooped up here that camp. Everywhere I went I was day for five hundred dollars!" all day filin' cards and stuff. Only they viewed with frank curiosity. At first I "Gah!" bump you off if you're convicted, that's thought it was the new hat they'd issued "Well, Fat invited us to a party, and the tough part. Keeps many a man from me. Yeh, they got my Stetson away from he said to ask you to come along, be- forgettin' himself!" me. Turn it in or go to the guardhouse! cause you could speak French and would "You're crazy!" I yelled. "Who started In its place they handed out the first make the arrangements." this? I was never in Clermont Ferrand in model of overseas cap. It was round, "I can't go," said I. "I'd get into my life. I never heard of it!" about an inch deep, and looked just like trouble!" "That's a good alibi if you can stick to an inverted shallow cooking pot. The "Oh, but you ought to come. Fat it!" comforts the clerk. caps were all one size, about a nine, and wants to spend all that money at once!" I went back into the squad room. the only way they could be made to fit "Well, I can't go. I got other things on "I'll go out with you boys tomorrow," was to take up an inch or so of slack with my mind. I got to find out why everyone said I. "Come what may, I need a drink!" a safety pin. The sight of one of those is giving me the eye all the time. You'd There was some error somewhere, things on a man would make a jughead think I was the first soldier they'd ever naturally. But try to explain that to a lot laugh. But during the hours when I had seen." of goofy soldiers. They were all replace- to wear a tin hat I'd see just as many So I went in to see the company clerk, ments in that camp, men taken in the white faces staring at me out of barrack making sure first that there was no chance draft and sent over to fill vacancies in the windows, and just as many people stop- of running into Spike on the way. ranks of the outfits in the lines. They ping to point me out as I went by. "What's the idea," I began, "of every- were trained for three months at La I got to La Courtine of a Wednesday. one peeking at me through the crack in Courtine, with Spike Hennessy at their Thursday I spent on the range. Friday I the door?" heels all the time. Any little diversion drew a guard. When I came off guard "I don't know," says the clerk, and such as a guy that had gotten into a Friday night a couple of lads that I'd met grins. "Maybe they want to see what jam—and what a jam ! —would be highly on the boat, and that had come up from kind of a guy you are." enjoyed by all. My first thought was to Genicart with me, drew me aside. "Why should they be interested in me?" go absent out of there, and try to find my "Sergeant," said one of them, "you "The story was 'round," grins the clerk, own outfit, but I hadn't the faintest idea speak French. How would you like to go "that you was in the mill in Clermont of where it was. Going over the hill out on a party Saturday?" Ferrand, an' they let you out to come wouldn't help matters any. Well, I had "I can't," said I, "because I was gassed over here an' stand trial." Saturday and Sunday to think it over. yesterday. Spike came riding up out of "Trial for what?" As soon as dinner was over Saturday, the woods and I didn't put on my mask "For rape." we gathered ourselves, about seven of us, fast enough!" "Rape? You mean rape? Me? In Cler- and made for the town. Just so Corporal "Yeh, but you can't miss this party! mont Ferrand?" Ambrosio wouldn't turn me in for leaving You remember Fat Rodenhiser was on "Well," comforts the clerk, "I don't camp, we took him along on the party. the boat? His old man is a millionaire. blame you, understand. I get feelin' that "If Spike catches you," said the

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corporal, winding his one wind of wrap leggin around his leg, "you aint gonna GILBERT get any help from me! I don' know you! Get me?" NEW ELECTRIC RASTER KIT "It'll be all right!" said I. Then we started for town to spend the equivalent of five hundred dollars in First and only "slush type" Casting Outfit— makes francs. Lady, what went on after the Armis- life-like figures with fifty percent less metal tice I don't know about, and what went on in garrisons behind the lines I don't know about either, but let me say that the boys that were intended for cannon fodder had their morals looked after much more closely than the young ladies of the seminary. We had to be home by eight o'clock, p. m. The town was full of handsome wenches, but they all worked in cafes. When the boys could get out, the girls were busy waiting on customers, and when the girls could get out, the boys had to be in camp. That's the way it was at Lift the lever and molten metal La Courtine, anyway. This Fat Roden- flows into the mold. Developed by the Gilbert Hall of Science, producing a hollow casting. This hiser was going to get us all wenches, but Kaster Kit is automatic. Heats electrically. Safest, revolutionary improvement makes possible fifty he found right start that that out at the easiest, fastest casting outfit you can own. percent more figures from thesame amountof metal. couldn't be, as explained above. How- ever, he made out to get us plenty of drinks.

I could speak a little French, lady, so when we were seated in one of the cafes, I was directed to do the ordering. The only drink I knew was coneyac, but we decided that was a little heavy to start in on with a whole afternoon and evening ahead of us, so I pointed to a sign on the wall and said to bring us seven glasses of that. Out pops your soldier — " true mold"— correct proportions not "This is kind of syrupy!" said Roden- flat and thin like the ordinary 32 Different Mold; hiser, when it was brought. kind. Color soldiers to resemble all the armies Well, we put it up to Corporal Am- of the world. Soldiers, sailors, Indians, athletes — these are but a few of brosio because he had been in La Cour- the 32 Kaster Kit molds you can get. Set of 4 bondmen, 4 athletes, or 4 military figures, tine since January. He said they had a $2.00 per set. good drink called "cooderooge." So we See the new No. 7 Kaster Kit at your nearest had six of those. It was vinegar, or tasted The A. C. Gilbert Company toy store. Complete with 1 mold, 24 piss like it anyway. So we moved out of there 101 Erector Square, New Haven, Conn. of metal, tools and 2 paints, and went on up the hill to another town $6.50. Other Please send me your Kaster Kit Parade— free I called La Gaine. Gee, the place was Gilbert casting outfits from $1.00. Name. swarming with soldiers by that time. It was like trying can of The Big Kaster Kit Parade— in full to walk through a pp £ £ Street- sardines. Th**y all had on those flat round colors — shows all 32 Kaster Kit City. hats pinned up behind with a safety pin. .State. Molds that make realistic soldiers for you. "Them hats are part of the system," decided one of our gang. "No mamselle would look at a guy in a hat like that." We came to ground out in the yard of a hotel. You couldn't get inside the hotel, DISCARD YOUR OLD AERIAL because it was full of officers, so we sat It Is Most Likely Corroded and Has Poor or Loose Noisy Connections down in the barn, at a plank laid on some Complete No MORE BUZZES, CLICKS and shorts from summer rains and winter snow and Does away with sleet when using an F & H Capacity Aerial Eliminator. Anyone can connect it in a moment's trestles, and ordered beer to see what it Aerial entirely time to the radio set—occupies only IV2 inch by 4 inch space behind the — Just place yet enables your radio to operate without an aerial and tune in stations over was like. It was awful. an F & H Ca- entire broadcast band frequencies. pacity Aerial ELIMINATE THE AERIAL FOR GOOD ask girl if Eliminator "You the she can give us Attach this unit to your radio your set complete (size 1*4 in. x —make in itself—forget aerial wires troubles move 4 in.) within and — your set anywhere—no more roof climbing, un- something fit to drink," suggested Roden- sightly yourset. Simple lead-in or aerial wires. hiser to rrys, "like the song says, Tit for a instructionsfur- NOT NEW—VALUE ALREADY PROVED nished with unit. On the market five years. 100.000 customers in U. S. and foreign coun- soldier of Easily connected the line'." tries. In use from the Arctic Region of Norway to the Tropics of Africa. by anyone to aerial Each factory tested on actual long distance reception. Cannot harm set and ground of set I spoke to the girl and explained the Easily connected to any radio, including radios having no ground or radios Your radio will th for doublet aerial. Note: It will not operate on battery or automobile radios. operate and tune in situation, that we were seven soldiers MaiI at Pav c0U P°n - once - postman $1.00 plus a same manner as if 5 DAYS TRIAL few pennies postage on delivery. If not entirely were connected to with plenty of money and a thirst, but satisfied, return within five days and your dollar will be refunded without question. aerial. Operates on bi that we didn't know the names of any short and lone wa JUST MAIL THIS COUPON — F. & H. Radio Laboratories, Dept. 38, Fargo, N. Dak. drinks. She spoke of a drink called WHAT USERS SAY Send F. & H. Capacity Aerial. Will pay postman $1 plus LaPorte, Texas. After using the Capacity Aerial few cents postage. If not pleased will return within 5 days Eliminator over a year on 7 set coodeblawnk. All right, let's try it. It was mv 1935 small tube for $1 refund. Check here if sending $1 with order can say it brings in reception with fine volume and thus saving postage cost—same refund guarantee. Check the clarity, pulling in stations from Japan. Europe, same vinegar, only white this time. South America, and broadcast stations from all over here if interested in dealer's proposition. the U. S. Efficiency proven, I took down my old NAME "I think," I began, "that maybe we outside aerial. Signed: Davenport, la. Received your Radio Aerial Eliminator ADDRESS could try {Continued on page and it sure works fine. Also works swell on Short 54) Wave band. Wish I had found it long ago. Signed:—

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coneyac by now. If it tastes like this that way, lo and behold, a Dodge sedan I didn't want to be a dog-robber—I'm a other stuff does, we'll know the author- came around the corner. Spike's! sergeant— ities have been putting some kind of Lady, he came out of that door like a "I'll fix that!" snaps Spike. "You're a bleach in the liquor to discourage a shell from a 75, never put on the brake private! Right now, savvy? Now go back guy from drinking it!" or anything, just let her roll. to the hotel, get the officers' bags, and "Da troub' with this," interrupted "Lemme see your dog tags!" said he. hop to the station with them. The train

Corporal Ambrosio, '"is that we gotta When he came to me, I didn't have any. leaves in about an hour. Otherwise I'll man what thinks he can spik French. "Why didn't you salute?" barks Spike turn you over to the military police and Before, we just drank what the girl to me. let them work out on you!" brought. Gooda stuff, too!" "Sir," said I, "I was helping this man That's all. I went and got the bags, that was ill." feeling the way I did, and lugged them A NOTHER mug who was with us looked "Humph!" says Spike. "Ill, he's sick! down the hill a mile to the station. Then A. around and saw some kind of drink Hah! Doesn't taste so good now, does it? I went back to barracks and made up my some French soldiers were having at Been fighting, hey?" This to Ambrosio, pack. another plank. It was a long milky look- who had a bloody snoot. "Drunk, dis- Well, I found out afterward, lady, that ing thing, but it seemed to be having an orderly, failing to salute. You men report these two shavetails of Ordnance that effect on them. They had been singing, to quarters under arrest. You, sergeant had wanted me to be their dog-robber which is a good sign. When they went with no dog tag, wait right here. I'll fix had gone to Spike and asked that I be away, they leaned against each other like you! What's your serial number?" ordered to go with them whether I the rifles in a stack. "Sir, I don't know." wanted to or not, because they didn't "Bring us some of that!" I ordered, "What's your name?" want to plunge into the French army pointing to what the French soldiers had "Nason, sir." without having someone along that could had. It tasted like paregoric. So after Spike's face went blank. "Not really?" order them some chow at least. that we just gave up and began to drink he asked. Then he laughed heartily. Someone has the bright thought, be- coneyac. Ambrosio and the others took heart and cause of this rape case, that that would Corporal Ambrosio was the first laughed, too. Spike turned and looked at be a fine way to whisk me out of the way, casualty. He let out a whoop, all of a them. Just looked. They didn't laugh any and not have any trial and a lot of un- sudden, and began knocking our round more. They staggered away out of there, favorable publicity for the Knights of hats off. holding Rodenhiser up, his toes making Democracy as represented by the A. E. F. "GAS!" he roars at the top of his lungs. long marks in the dust behind him. Then A little further investigation showed that That was a dread word at La Courtine, Spike turned to me. if anyone was raped in Clermont it was account of Spike Hennessy's sneaking up "How did this Turk in Clermont the Greek did it, and in any case, since I on people like he did through the woods Ferrand get your dog tags?" asked had reported at La Courtine at noon and yelling it at them. A lot of the boys Spike, very calmly. Wednesday, I couldn't have been in were a little bit on edge by that time, and "Sir, I don't know anything about it, Clermont Wednesday night, even by there was great scurrying around. Ever but on the train up from Bordeaux a guy airplane. Meanwhile the order had gone see ants come out of a hole when you was going to carve some design on them through, and what was one sergeant thump the ground around it? The officers and I let him have them and he went more or less? boiled out of that hotel like bees. absent with them." "Who yelled that?" "Haha!" laughs Spike. "He got as far THE two looeys were waiting at the The soldiers that had been trying to as Clermont. Some bar maid hit him over station when I got there. I expected find gas masks when they hadn't any the head with a club because he didn't to die any minute. Every one of the many weren't any help either. The consensus have money to pay for his drink, and then drinks I had taken had retired into a of aroused public opinion was that we told the M. P.'s she did it to defend her separate corner of my stomach, and were to get the capital H out of there. honor. He had your tags on him. They glared at the other, like a bunch of Any yelling of gas during a Saturday wired here to say they had Sergeant strange soldiers. Then they began to gang afternoon was forbidden. Some thought- Nason in the cooler, and would we try up in turn and throw one another out. less person poked Ambrosio in the nose, him or leave him to them. Regular non- The fat looey was wild. He thought I'd and knocked him cold. Then Rodenhiser coms get a lot of consideration." His face done it on purpose. When the train came passed out from excitement—not from went hard as a rock. "Why didn't you in they got on, and I climbed into the drink, you understand, just excitement report to Lieutenants Crandall and baggage car and prayed for death. and we decided it was time to be going. Hallet?" barks Spike. Along in the night we had to change The M. P.'s were gathering, too, trying "I don't know them, sir." trains. It was at Bourges. The two looeys to decide whether to pinch somebody or shook me awake and pointed out some not. Yeh, it was time to be going. We GEE, I could see a whole rank of French officer that was waving a paper couldn't leave Rodenhiser, because he colonels there, and the field beyond at us and mumbling. was our host, so we dragged him to his was beginning to start a majestic swing "He wants to know where you're go- feet and started off. I had some kind of to the right. ing!" said I, pretty mad. I had a head on crook in my back, so that when I wanted "They asked to take you with them up me like a drum. to go forward my feet went sideward. to the front. Didn't you get the order? "We're going to Soissons!" says the Funniest sensation. We hadn't had any- Hah? No! Down town getting ossified, fat looey. "There we are to report to the thing" to drink, either. of course. Aren't you the man that I commissaire de gare, and he's going to We got out of the yard and down the ordered to stay in camp? The man that tell us where this battery is that we're to hill, but there were so many soldiers put his gas mask on like a night cap? do duty with." down there, and M. P.'s, we thought Thought so. Why didn't you report? The French officer goes away, and maybe we'd better take a side road that This your war, you think? You're going comes back after a long time with went off across the fields. When we'd got to run it as you please, huh?" another, both of them very solemn. the column straightened out and headed "Sir, I am a Regular. My regiment "Did the officers know," asks the new-

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine comer, "that they can't go to Soissons?" can go. Maybe by the time you get there, "Why not?" you can't get that far." "Because the Germans captured it this "Bah!" said the little looey to me. "If morning!" I'd known what trouble you'd be, I'd "Mon Doo! Well, I'll tell them." have carried my own suitcase!" I turned to the little looey and told The lady I was telling this to showed him what the officer had said. the first sign of interest. National Convention "Bah!" said the little looey. "You're "Tell me," said she, "how far did the drunk! Would I have orders to go to a looey go before he found he was wrong?" place the Germans had captured? Which "Until a German machine gun opened MOTION PICTURES is the train?" up on him; and me behind him with the "There's a train for Troyes leaves at two suitcases!" six in the morning. Change there for "Oh, tell me about it!" 35 mm. in Sound Chateau-Thierry. That's as far as you "Lady, I will. But it's got to wait." By special arrangements between National Headquarters and Universal Pictures, Inc., standard size, 35 mm. sound motion pictures of the New York ^koal, cQegion! National Convention are available for public showing at local theatres, under [Continued from page 15) the auspices of American Legion Posts. * Legionnaire Ernest Ahlstedt, an old shells into the breach. Soon the Spanish Navy bandsman who once played under ships were sinking, burning or beached. The Picture Sousa's baton, chimes in with his instru- The Iowa was hit twice but none of her This special picture has been so ment. The Swedish national anthem crew killed or wounded. Dahlstrom was expertly handled by Universal that it is and "The Star-Spangled Banner" are the nearest to a casualty. After the ac- short enough to be exhibited in connec- sung; also "America," the tune of which tion he was shut in the turret by mistake tion with your local theatre's regular program, yet it is long enough to ade- is known in Sweden, where it was appro- and, his whites black as coal, was forced quately portray this outstanding Legion priated from the English just as it was by to crawl out over the hot gun barrel, National Convention. It captures and us. "Dixie" and "Suwanee River" and feeling like a cake on a griddle. indelibly records in sound, the indescrib- of course "Hinky-Dinky" and other war Besides comradeship and co-operation, able thrills and the high-lights of the songs follow. The Post even crashes Stockholm Post assigns itself other mis- record-breaking New York National through with a song of its own, sung in sions. For one, members are helping to Convention. Swedish to a Swedish air, one stanza of spread in their native land the doctrines which translates roughly: of preparedness they learned as World

Why should we worry? War veterans. Both before and after How to Secure It That's a trouble you pack in the old kit the war Sweden showed a strong trend The picture can be booked only bag. toward pacifism. In the mid-twenties direct from the thirty-one Universal Ex- And merrily we sing together fine regiments four hundred and five changes, located at strategic points "The gang's all here," hundred years old were mustered out. throughout the country. All inquiries for As in the Army days. Traditions and esprit de corps, so impor- play dates, rental charges, etc., should be mailed direct to the nearest The war stories get started. Bellander tant to any army, were sacrificed. Their Universal Exchange by your local theatre manager. may tell about the time the water detail battle flags and trophies were given to Your Post should arrange with one of its of his outfit tapped a French tank car museums. Today, however, cuts have local theatres to exhibit this splendid pic- of vin rouge, and when riflemen were in- ceased and the military establishment is ture in its community. spired to try to wing a German airplane being built up. It is becoming more and whose pilot, annoyed, signaled the Boche more widely understood that merely artfllery down. But the prize neutrality to crack proclaiming may not be A Plan for Your Post yarn is spun by Legionnaire Thure Dahl- enough; neutrality itself must be strongly First, confer with one of your local strom, who is seventy-four years old and defended. exhibitors, who will book the picture twenty-one years in the United served ..nd then Stockholm Post has to do direct from the nearest Universal Ex- States Navy. considerable talking to inform fellow- change. Second, designate the night on Dahlstrom passes over early days as countrymen on the achievements of the which the picture is to be exhibited as master of a coasting schooner, his tour United States in the World War. They "American Legion Night" and with the as Chief Quartermaster of the Presiden- don't state that America won the war, aid of local papers, radio stations, etc., tial yacht Mayflower in the lively days of but they do maintain that the A. E. F. give the event the widest possible public- ity. The above average attendance which Teddy Roosevelt, and action against fought hard and well and that it made a will prevail on American Legion Night a U-boat in 1918. The Battle of Santiago difference. will more than offset the nominal rental in the Spanish-American War was a big Several times during the war Sweden charge, which in most instances, local in twelve- moment. He was loader a almost abandoned her neutrality and theatres will gladly pay for this splendid inch gun stern turret of the battleship joined the Central Powers, chiefly be- Legion production.

Iowa, 1 1 ,000 tons, then the largest vessel cause Russia, her hereditary enemy, was Appoint yourself a committee of one in the United States Navy. With the one of the Allies. Throughout the war to see that your Post immediately avails itself American squadron she lay off Santiago German propaganda flooded Sweden, of this opportunity to bring the high-lights and bottling up the Spanish fleet. Sunday It sought first to prove America would thrills of the New York National Convention to morning the American crews in their never enter the war, and when we did, your city. white were paraded on deck for divine it broadcast assurances that our troops services. Dahlstrom says the Spaniards accomplished nothing of consequence. irreverently planned on that time to The impression made persists and takes NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS steam out to battle and catch the foe some counteracting. For instance, Swed- unprepared, but they were a little late. ish officers, noting Bellander's steel THE AMERICAN LEGION The American tars rushed to their sta- helmet and gas mask in his arms 777 North Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana

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needed them. A man who fought in .the marine-infested water. The Swedish ago invited and received a visit from their Argonne can argue strongly that such Red Cross was of much service in the ex- Swedish foster-parents as a token of equipment came in handy. "We were change of war prisoners via the Baltic gratitude. greenhorns," he admits, "and we never and in their repatriation when war So Sweden has ties today with Ger- knew the goose step. But we fought ended. And that organization and the many and Austria. Kind words passed hard and never retreated." Then he nation can be most proud of a deed of between her and Russia on the occasion shows the authenticated American cas- mercy to child victims of the war. of the recent opening of a commercial air ualty list, and his inquirers, to whom it When peace was made, the Swedish line. Her friendship with England is is often news, are amazed. If any more Red Cross broadcast an appeal for the closer than ever. Common interests bind evidence is needed, there are available salvation of undernourished children of her to Norway and Denmark, with whom today many German admissions that we the war. Many Swedish families re- she fought bloody wars in the past, and were a worthy foe. sponded, opened their homes and took in to Finland, once a Swedish province. On the other hand, some of Sweden's starving children, especially from Austria The current tercentenary celebration war and post-war record is not so widely and Germany. Twenty-one thousand emphasizes the long-standing friendship known across the Atlantic as it should be. were nursed back to health and happiness. between Swedes and the United States. Any sailor must admire the heroism of Some of them still live in Sweden today, The more of such ties in the troubled her merchant marine in mined and sub- but most returned home and not long world of today, the better.

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Washington pilgrims received a tumul- American Embassy, representing Ambas- disarranged schedules to some extent, tuous welcome when they arrived at St. sador William C. Bullitt, who was in and that the exigencies of the motor bus Lazare Station in Paris on Thursday America, and delegations of the various situation on planned battlefield tours evening, September 30th. General Pi- sections of the Anciens Combattants made necessary a certain rigidity of hotel erre Vincensini, Secretary General of the bearing some sixty flags, the Commander arrangements—all these may be offered French government's committee of wel- laid a wreath on the tomb of the Un- in palliation, but it is still true that bad come, and Georges Rivollet, Secretary known Soldier and rekindled the flame management caused discomfort to many General of the combined French veterans' as the Banner of the Flame dipped over of the early pilgrims. societies, had met the party at Le Havre him. As soon as these things came to the and traveled up with them. In the group Meanwhile the arriving Legion groups knowledge of the French government it with the Commander were Dr. William were finding some trouble in securing peremptorily ordered its agent to satisfy P. Ryan, Past Department Commander accommodations, and some of them had everybody who might make complaints. of Massachusetts, the Commander's to pass their first night in Paris at Per- This was done, and the pilgrims were secretary, Michael T. Kelleher, with shing Hall leaning across a counter on given the sort of treatment the govern- their wives, and Rene Silz of Advertising whose other side men using a battery ment had intended they should have. Men's Post of New York City, who acted of telephones sought to unsnarl a tangle National Commander Doherty, guest as interpreter throughout the Pilgrimage. in the arrangements. with a numerous Legion company of the Later, National Vice Commander Conley Perhaps you read in your home town French government at a dinner the last and Mrs. Conley, Chairman and Mrs. newspaper that complaints had been night of his stay in Paris, taking cogniz- Collins and Director Ringley of the Pil- registered by members of the Pilgrimage ance of the complaints that had been grimage Committee joined the party, about conditions in some of the P Is made by some of the pilgrims and had which stayed at the Hotel Crillon on the hotels to which they were assigned. been magnified through cabled dispatches Place de la Concorde, the famous hos- There was criticism and in some cases the to American newspapers, declared that telry at which President Wilson was a complaints were justified. But neither France had been a gracious, friendly host guest in iqiq. the French government nor people were to the Legion pilgrims. "I have no hesi- The following evening the Nationa to blame for the break-down. The tancy in affirming that no nation could Commander was a guest in Pershing government appropriated five million have been more friendly, more solicitous, Hall at a meeting conducted by Paris francs to provide lodging and food during more desirous of making our sojourn Post, made an address, and listened to an a six-day period which began for the pil- pleasurable, than France has been," he interesting roll call of States. At this grims the moment they arrived on French asserted. "The hospitality of France has meeting Elbert Lee Dodds, Commander soil. The French war veterans (the Con- been splendid, the welcome accorded us of the Department of France, and two federation Nationale des Anciens Com- spontaneous and sincere and cordial. other members of Paris Post were decor- battants) supplemented this with a The French authorities, to whom we ated with the French Legion of Honor. grant of two million francs. With this express ardent thanks, have done every- It was brought out that none of the five sum as a guarantee the government en- thing within their power to make us hundred members of Paris Post have gaged a commercial travel agency to ad- happy and to render our stay worth- given up their American citizenship. minister hospitality details. while and delightful. We are deeply In the dusk of early Saturday evening It is true that the Paris Exposition grateful to officials and citizens of Commander Doherty led a parade of had brought into the capital a great con- France." more than ? t lousand Legionnaires, course of people from the provinces, that Philip W. Collins, Chairman of the Auxiliares and Sons of the Legion up the the fall of the franc in the world's money 1Q37 American Legion Foreign Pil- Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe. markets caused many foreigners to visit grimage Committee, and James P. Ring- There in the presence of General Gouraud, the City of Light, that last minute ley, Director of the Pilgrimage, also Edwin C. Wilson, Counselor of the changes in sailing plans by some pilgrims declared that the French government and

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 57 people did more than could have been Franklin was asking Louis XVI 's aid for expected of them. The American Ex- the Thirteen Colonies struggling for in- press Company, which arranged for the dependence. The musicians made a transporting of the pilgrims to Europe brave show in the pelting downpour, and for the steamship passage back to and at the close of the dedication proper, the United States, had nothing to do carried out their part of the program, with the six-day hospitality period in the rain in the meantime having stopped. France. The equestrian statue of Pershing, executed by Joachim Costa, French war AT THE great luncheon in the sun- veteran, will stand opposite a copy of the -/a. drenched Court of Honor of the noted Louvre statue of Lafayette of Make FALSE TEETH Invalides on Tuesday, October 5th, Mar- which the late Paul Wayland Bartlett shal Petain, in addition to the high honor was the sculptor. At the exercises models AND REMOVABLE BRIDGES paid the National Commander, ad- of the statues, which are to be in bronze, vanced John Thomas Taylor from chev- were used. LOOK LIKE NEW! - - alier to officer in the Legion of Honor, Major Rene L'Hopital, known to WITH POLIDENT and made three other Legionnaires countless Legionnaires through his ser- i^jg Even the worst old stains, chevaliers—Vice-Commander Phil Conley, vice as aide to Marshal Foch, and now tarnish and deposits are dis- Paul H. Griffith, manager of the Legion's secretary general of the committee solved away. Simply put plate office in Washington, and Captain Mark charged with the erection of the two stat- or bridge in water, add a

M. Boatner, in charge of the Paris office ues, introduced Mayor Henry-Haye, little Polident — and it is of the American Battle Monuments originator of the idea. Speaking not as a cleaned and actually purified. Commission. Also on this occasion the or Mayor, Henry-Haye de- Senator LOOK MORE NATURAL National Commander accepted from clared, "but as a man who had the great Thousands of dentists rec- Marshal Petain a marble bust of General honor to be attached to the American ommend Polident to every- Pershing executed by George Cordon, Army from April, IQ17 to the end of the one who wears a plate or American sculptor, which will be placed war," he traced the French-American removable bridge. It makes in National Headquarters at Indian- history involving Versailles, beginning gums appear more "live" and apolis. There were speeches by the with the treaty signed in 1777, contin- natural. Dissolves mucin-scum Marshal, General Comte Adelbert de uing with the peace treaty of 1783, and —prevents any chance of "denture breath." Chambrun, lineal descendant of Lafay- that of 19 19 ending the World War. ette, M. Albert Riviere, Minister of Pen- National Commander Doherty in a A BLESSING FOR COMFORT AND HYGIENE sions, and the National Commander. short address paid tribute to the valor of Daily use of Polident makes The following day, which had been the French and of the American soldiers your denture look and feel set apart for the dedication of the Lafay- who served under General Pershing, better and last longer. Just ette-Pershing statues in Versailles, was "whose solicitude endeared his men to leave it in Polident solution cloudy, and just before the ceremonies him and was responsible for that valor a few minutes—rinse and use. started rain began falling and continued above and beyond duty," and to Lafay- No acid or danger. Costs only throughout. The great equestrian sta- ette, "whose devotion, loyalty and ser- 30(f a can at any drug store. stand at the top of a hill and face vice America has always remembered." bOood Housekeepings tues ASK YOUR DENTIST! each other across a main highway whose Marshal Petain, after recounting the name on this occasion became per- fact that the Allies had lost confidence manently LAvenue des Etats-Unis. of victory after thirty-three months of pouDem The President of France and Marshal fighting, said that the American soldier Petain, Cesar Campinchi, Minister of responded magnificently to the demand times. moving con- Marine representing Premier Camille of the In tones he HISTORY of the A. E. F. Chautemps, and numerous other officials tinued: JUST PUBLISHED of the French nation as well as represen- "An untired young nation took its Containing a concise account of America's part in the World War—Major Operations—Final Report of General tatives of all the French veterans' organi- exhausted powers of the Pershing—a condensed history of each of the 43 a.e.f. place beside the divisions with all important dates— Divisional Insignia —A.E.F. medals and decorations— Illustrated—Maps. zations were present, and the Legion Western World. In contrast with the 172 pages of interesting information for CASTELBLED notables included National Commander French soldiers, who by their heavy M. C<* Post- 3305 Broadway * 1 . - New York City JL Pa,d Doherty, Vice-Commander Conley, Na- losses in men and the ruin of their mate- tional Treasurer John Ruddick, and Fred rial resources were frightened by the task

G. Fraser, Chef de Chemin de Fer of the still to be accomplished, the American Forty and Eight. Mrs. Malcolm Doug- soldier brought invincible confidence las, President of The American Legion in ultimate victory ... It is to the eternal Auxiliary, Mrs. Joseph H. Thompson, credit of General Pershing that he knew head of the Fidac Auxiliary, Mrs. Oscar how to create such a soldier and with him W. Hahn and Mrs. S. Alford Blackburn, such an army." Past Presidents of the Legion Auxiliary, General Pershing, obviously pro- and Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDow- foundly touched by the generous words ell, its Secretary, were also present. of the Marshal and by the reception Some six thousand people sat or stood accorded him, referred to Petain as "the during the impressive ceremonies, which greatest living soldier" and said that were opened with music by the 24th when America came into the war France French Infantry Band and the Miami and its Allies had been holding the line Drum and Bugle Corps. Senator Henry- for three years. Paying tribute to the $1260 to $2100 Year Haye, Mayor of Versailles, had had the fine spirit of the French army, which re- Ex-Service men / franklin INSTITUTE get preference Dept. KI8I. Rochester. Y. happy thought of garbing some sixty flected that of its commander, Petain, / N. Over 9600 Ex-Serv- Gentlemen: ltu,li FREE list of

LT. S. Government I > pay posi- Versailles musicians in the style of 1777 he went on to praise Marshal Foch, ice Men appointed i last gov't year. ,v tlons. Send FREE 32-page book describing salaries, hours, work and musical instru- allied generalissimo, and a of Influence © and they had secured number about preference to Ex- Service unnecessary. telling time songs other French military leaders, living and / mm ments peculiar to that and Mall Coupon Kame today, ' which were common when Benjamin dead. Thanking {Continued on page 58) SURE. / Address

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the French government, the city of who finished their terms with the New Versailles and its mayor "for having York convention were present—Cappy

chosen me to represent alongside of Capodice, Jack Crowley, J. Fred Johns- Lafayette the bonds that unite our ton, Leonard Sisk and Leo Temmey. The two countries,' he continued: "It would distaff side of the great Legion family be false modesty to intimate that I am was, as at Versailles, ably represented, PRSMRSTER not profoundly grateful for this honor. although Mrs. Douglas had in the mean- Card Bill Check Cover Pass Case, Case, Fold, But I do not forget and no one else will time a touch of ptomaine poisoning and TVTEW STYLE extra thin model. Just what every man needs. Made of high-grade black, genuine forget that this statue is a symbol. And underwent treatment for some days in calfskin, specially tanned. Tough, durable. Beautiful soft texture, shows real quality. Silk stitched. l/10-14KGold if I deserve the distinction I owe it to the the American Hospital at Paris. Filled corners. Size x 5 closed. You simply can't wear out this quality product. 22-karat gold name, add ress, lodge valor of the American soldiers who en- In the enclosed space directly before emblem!ree.Thisengraving ordinarily costs $1 .50 extra abled me to carry to a successful conclu- the rostrum chairs had been placed for $ 95 Direci-To-You ONLY 4 sion the work assigned to me by Presi- the French and American mutiles, and Enclose $4.95 Money Order or Check. Sent C. O. D. dent Wilson." one noted in the front row Bill Miller, if you prefer. State lodge emblem wanted. All arti- cles fully guaranteed. Your money cheerfully refunded if Ambassador Bullitt spoke from Wash- Past Commander of the Department of not thoroughly satisfied, two weeks' trial. • for ington, expressing the hope that the spirit Connecticut, lost both legs in service, f\ * /) y» jr*» Write FREE card cata- who §1 l°B°i novel, useful gifts. ^W^M*^\\/\OnV ImT\, Merchants, manufacturers, of friendship uniting France and America and a couple of rows back Cappy Ca- insurance men, tailors—with preferred customers—profit by our quantity discounts on personalized gift good- willbuilders. might extend to all the peoples of the podice, who lost a leg within a mile of the 360 N. MICHIGAN AVE. earth. At the conclusion of this address spot where the exercises were being held, LANDON & WARNER Dept. H-156, Chicago, III. Commander Doherty and Alain de Ver- while serving with the Fifth Marines of gennes, great grandson of Comte Charles the Second Division. Of the 1500 mem- de Vergennes, a signer of the Treaty of bers of the Legion party at the dedication A complete training in Fine and Commercial Art. Our two-year course is equivalent to the usual four- Alliance of 1777, together pulled the probably few were as profoundly moved year course and qualifies you as a professional artist. Individual instruction enables you to enroll at any American flag to the top of the pole as Cappy and Past Department Com- time. Intensive practical training equips students to fill positions capably and turn their talents into standing before the Lafayette statue. mander Ryan of Massachusetts, who as money. Day and night classes. Send for free book "Art As Your Career". By this time the rain had stopped and a First Division surgeon performed fVIEINZINGER FOUNDATION the formal exercises being over, French countless operations during the fighting Dept. 61, 4847 Woodward, Detroit, Mich, MjajfijjjH infantry and cavalry did a march past, that swirled around this sector. p^cketADDING MACHINE and the Versailles musicians did their General Pershing had made the happy

s work of more costly stuff. Then, forming a parade behind choice of General Harbord, who com- I0EAL XMAS GIFT \ hine. Counts up tomil- ghs za. Simple, accurate. the Miami Drum Corps, the fifteen hun- manded the Marine Brigade of the Second FREE TRIAL! SEnVnO VOnIIy forder*" ad — not sold in stores, dred Legionnaires present started down Division in the fighting at nearby send name and addres: delivery, pay postman $2.50 ^ Mm* Total Cost toward the city of Versailles. Not in Belleau Wood and the entire Division in (plus postage i. If not satis- back. fied after 10 DAYS' Trial you *et your money Thousands of Satisfied Users. Write for Agents any particular cadence but at route step the subsequent operations at Soissons, as Proposition. Calculator Machine Co., Mfrs., P.O. Box 1118, Dept. 512, Chicago, III. the men, women and children marched the orator of the day. In his address the along, with shouts of "Vive l'Amerique!" general spoke with the authority of one WANTED MEN answering their cries of "Vive la France!" who had had a leading part in the stirring to cast Christmas Goods, 5 and 10

59 forces in the war and who is now an and the row on row of white crosses stand American citizen. mute yet eloquently articulate in their WANT TO MAKE General Harbord traced in vivid words silence." the movements of the 310,000 American Following the exercises the pilgrims troops who had a part in the fighting in were entertained at luncheon at Chateau- EXTRA MONEY? this sector, 60,000 of whom became Thierry and at Meaux, and visited the casualties, from the end of May to the American cemetery at Belleau Wood. Want to get an increase in pay? beginning of the July 18th offensive and As the closing ceremony of the Pil- Get this valuable FREE Book the gruelling struggle that followed. grimage, Albert Riviere, Minister of It tells what others have been able to do YOUR He went on: "The stopping of the Pensions, through whom the French with a Royal Portable Typewriter—both WXKTK1 men and women—in attracting the atten- CHIU m Germans at Chateau-Thierry and on the government had issued the invitation to tion of the boss, in getting ahead and great Paris-Metz highway gave the the Legion, was host at a brilliant dinner winning promotion. True-life stories. Contains money-making tips. opportunity for the later fighting near in the Hotel du Palais d'Orsay on Friday Soissons which is now generally recog- evening, October 8th. M. Riviere and W ONLY A FEW PENNIES A DAY buys nized as the turning point in the World Commander Doherty were the only War. It was practically continuous, with speakers. The bond of Franco-American ROYAL fighting leading up to the operations of friendship was the theme of both ad- PORTABLE the 18th and 19th, which flattened out dresses and Commander Doherty in This special offer is made by special arrangement the salient along the old Aisne line be- addition bespoke for the entire body of with a friendly type- tween Soissons and Rheims. After that pilgrims their grateful appreciation of writer dealer in your own vicinity. You needn't risk the Germans never again went forward. what the French government and people a penny. He will be glad to put a Royal in your home for a FREE TRIAL As a brilliant British historian has said: had done to make the stay in France a 'Four months earlier Ludendorff had pleasant one. •ss^gfc^ FREE Touch Typing Guide stood as the apparent dictator of Europe; FREE Carrying Case four months later he and his master were so the pilgrimage ended officially, AND FREE trial in your own home in exile.' lX. but it only beginning for was some 0/ of the men who answer this ad will be on "Chancellor von Hertling just a little groups of late arrivals. I have had to 68% their way to success. while before his death made perhaps ignore any number of important little HOW ABOUT YOU ? SEND THIS COUPON""" his final reference to the war in saying: details in this crowded summary of what Royal Typewriter Company 'On the 1 8th even the most optimistic went on, but room must be found to say Dept. KA-2, 2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. I should like to know how I can get a Royal Port- among us understood that all was lost. a few words about the two Legion Posts able for only a FEW PENNIES A DAY, with FREE The History of the World was played out in Paris and the activities they carried Carrying Case and FREE Touch Typing Guide. " I would like a FREE TRIAL of a Royal Portable in in three days.' on during the stay of the pilgrims. my home, without any obligation on my part. Past National Commander Colmery Pershing Hall on the Rue Pierre Also send FREE copy of your book, "Your 14% Better Chance For Success." also dwelt on the phases of the fighting Charron, where Paris Post has its home, Name. in this vicinity and recalled that twenty-four 8,312 was open hours a day Address. Americans lie in the nearby cemeteries of throughout the period of the pilgrimage Belleau Wood and Fere-en-Tardenois. He and there men, women and children of went on: "Here the people of the United the Legion flocked to sign the register, States have erected this monument as a buy souvenirs, partake of real American permanent reminder of the last grim cooking, or to effect a change in hotel Tkoniemdi twilight of the war and the final victory accommodations. Commander Dodds of

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RUPTURED? (Continued page from 59) Get Up-To-Date Relief Why try to worry along with old-fashioned trusses that gouge your flesh — press heavily on indefatigably to get things right and tained by the government at a dinner at hips and spine — enlarge opening — fail to hold rupture up and in? You need the Cluthe. No keep them right, and Paris Post Com- Claridge's Hotel. In addition there was a harness. Automatic adjustable pad seals opening mander Bernhard Ragner and members visit to Oxford, a reception by the Lord — follows every body movement with instant in- creased support in case of strain. Cannot slip. of that Post and its Auxiliary were on Mayor and a tour of the Houses of Holds rupture whether at work or play. Light, night. though its Parliament, after which the party were easy to wear. Waterproof. Can be worn in bath. duty day and And Send for amazing FREE 100 page, cloth-bound work for the Pilgrimage was not so guests at a tea in Westminster Hall, the book "Advice To Ruptured" and details of liberal names grateful conspicuous, Myron T. Herrick Post, most ancient building in London, within truthful 60-day trial offer. Also of , Cluthe users (publication permitted) in your neigh- also of Paris, under the able leadership of whose walls Charles the First the borhood. Write today. Cluthe Sons, Dept. 202, had Bloomiield, New Jersey. Commander Carl Berlin also did a splen- trial which cost him his head. did job. Anthony Eden, Foreign Minister, and type CHEAP OIL BURNER The French government had gener- the Opposition Leader, C. R. Attlee, both WHY COOK OR HEAT With COAL or WOOD ously invited three hundred members of ex-service men, gave addresses of wel- Quick heat at turn of valve—hotter, cheaper, no dirt, ashes or drudg- the Legion residing in Europe to partake come, and Commander Doherty re- ery. Borne cheap oil new way—no clogging op or carbon. of the hospitality accorded the overseas sponded. SENT ON TRIAL bills, pays for itself quickly by Pilgrims, and Legionnaires were on hand The National Commander, declaring what it 6avea at our risk. Offer of

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Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund . 194,670.20 1 tUot- DidwV u;ou all YeaM . dud flow Office Building, Washington, D. C, less Depreciation 127,264.30 National Commander's Tour, near about* < tW uxw's ovac-rrvtqoMa Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment 33,168.33 THE tU' Armistice, +¥•4 and wake feai Deferred Cha rges 21,953.40 which began with the departure of 1 Savqiv-f. ? Soljers oaVn. i^oase £2,480,431.65 the party of about one hundred from the Gare du Nord Station in the late after- noon of October qth, traveled to Boulogne by train and landed at Folkestone, Liabilities, Deferred Income England, where a delegation of the Brit- and Net Worth ish Legion gave them a rousing welcome. During a three-day round of activities in London they marched to the Cenotaph Current Liabilities $ 93,525.96 Funds restricted as to use 26,833.81 in Whitehall, where the National Com- Deferred Income 221,650.90 Permanent Trust: mander laid a wreath, and thence to Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund . . 194,670.20 Westminster Abbey, where Mrs. Doherty Net Worth: Restricted Capital 1,558,081.33 placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unrestricted Capital 385,669.45 Unknown Soldier, were received by the 32,480,431.65 King and the Queen, who shook hands with all of the delegation and chatted Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant with them afterward, and were enter-

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6i the Commander saw the place where Captain Campbell's body has never been George A. Campbell, for whom the found. The National Commander's Where There's Food - Legion Post in his home town of Woburn, party sailed on the Queen Mary, arriv- Massachusetts, is named, was killed. ing in New York on November ist. You'll Find Game!

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{Continued from page 2j) of bad luck. Everybody remembers how was left behind in a Mexico City hospital, the rain pelted fighters and spectators a victim of the climate, when the team when Tunney took the title from Demp- journeyed north after eliminating the sey in 1926 at Philadelphia. More re- Mexican team. At Forest Hills he was cently the Joe Louis - Tommy Farr able to play only once, in doubles, SPORTSMEN are placing championship heavyweight bout was and his loss was one of the deciding fac- their faith in this basic principle of game restora- of rain, and when it tors in the victory of the American team, postponed because tion —"Where there's food, was scheduled a few days later the pro- which went on to win the Davis Cup you'll find game." In one section of Illinois, moters almost put the bout on a couple abroad. sportsmen and landowners have planted more than 400 ahead of the normal starting The weather has been responsible for of hours food patches for game. Simi- lar interest in better hunting time because they were afraid of another the invention of several games that are _ is apparent everywhere! It is part of the downpour. popular in this country today. During the WESTERN-WINCHESTER Game Restora. prepared for by experts. five-hundred-mile automobile race early part of the century two men near tion Plan — YOU The Thousands haveenrolled Mailthe coupon on the Speedway at Indianapolis is one New York were dressed and ready for a for "UPLAND GAME RESTORATION" and instructions on HOW to apply the of the classics of American sport. In- game of tennis. As they started to take plan to your hunting area. stituted in 191 1, it has been run every the court, rain fell. The heavens gave no FREE BOOKLET —"UPLAND GAME RESTORATION" year since, except for 19 17 and 1918. sign of lightening up, so they repaired to The weather has generally been good. the barn to knock the ball about and get CARTRIDGE j WESTERN COMPANY. ' Dept. L-68. Eist Alton, Illinois. In 1916, when Memorial Day fell on a some exercise. They chalked out a court I Please mail, FREE, your 68-pige booklet "UPLAND GAME Sunday the race was scheduled for the on the floor, hit the ball against the wall, textbook of game management. | RESTORATION," a complete day before, but the rain came down and and began to play. The ball came back to the promoters postponed the race to them so fast, and the game was so rapid, Address Monday, which turned out to be a sunny that during the winter, when play out- | Post Office State. day. One year the opening of the race doors was impossible, they repaired again I had to be postponed two hours and and again to that barn for this game of another year the rain became so tough an indoor tennis against a wall From tha' obstacle that the race was shortened to start was born the game of squash tennis 300 miles. That's a good weather record with regulation courts, rules, and tourna- Thousands get relief from pain- ful feet and walk freely with for twenty-five years of racing. ments. nctrnLnUFFFKFR ARCH The new Vanderbilt Cup races on In much the same way softball came SUPPORTS(upprrts Write Long Island were to have been held last into existence. In 1036, over 70,000,000 V*. for 3d, Saturday. While the cars were persons witnessed softball league games. FOOT July a FACTS at the starting mark the rain came down Yet softball is only in its third season as Tells how to in sheets and the event was postponed to an organized sport. This game, like aid nature in strengthening weak feet. It's FREE * HEEFNER ARCH SUPPORT CO. ' 90 Lewis Bldg., Salem, Va. Monday, when the attendance was three squash tennis, owes its existence to the times what it had been on Saturday. If weather. One rainy afternoon back in the promoters had known about that 1888, several men were fooling around the they would certainly have prayed for old Farragut Boat Club in Chicago. One INVE NT OR S Do you feel you have a valuable invention? A that rain. of them, a man named George Hancock, novel invention may produce something salable Few sports followers appreciate how suggested a game of baseball indoors, if patented. Are you groping in the dark—getting nowhere? Learn how other men with inventions great a part the weather played in the using a broomstick for a bat and a boxing attained success. Write for our FREE Book, "Patent Guide for the Inventor" which tells you winning of the Davis Cup this past sum- glove for a ball. It was good fun and thev of fields where inventions bring profits if they are good patented ones. mer by the United States. The chief con- tried it again and again. Within a few CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN & HYMAN BERMAN Registered Patent Attorneys tender with the American team was the years the game caught on and was widely 2476 ADAMS BLDG. WASHINGTON, D. C. Australian side, which had exactly the played. By 1932 this outdoor game had same make-up with which they had become so popular that a country-wide beaten America three matches to two in Amateur Softball League was organized. the spring of 1936. Vivian McGrath, The sport has its World Series, which last Be a holder of the singles title of Australia, year drew an attendance of over 160,000. TiyjtmMan No Time Like Now to Get in.. LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Make up to $75 a week It's no trick to make up Peter B. Kyne, Past Historian of the Department of California. to $12 a day when you useyourcarasaMc Ness Leonard H. Nason, Crosscup-Pishon Post, Boston, Massachusetts. "Store on Wheels." John R. Tunis, Winchendon (Massachusetts) Post. Farmers are buying everything they UseYour can from McNess men. Attractive Alexander Gardiner, George Alfred Smith Post, Fairfield, Connecticut. business-getting prizes, also money- CAR saving deals to customers make selling Fairfax Downey, Second Division Post, New York City. McNess daily necessities a snap. This i to Raise William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. business is depression-proof. Herbert M. Stoops, Jefferson Feigl Post, New York City. We Supply Capital— Start Now! Your There's no better work anywhere Raymond Sisley, Pacific Post, West Los Angeles, California. pays well, permanent, need no ex- PAY perience to start and we supply cap- ' Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legionnaires, ital to help you get started quick. You start making money first day. Write at once for McNess Dealer are listed. not Book— tells all—no obligation. (92- B) THE McNESS CO., 503 Adams St., Freeport, III.

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American Legion Magazine {Continued from page ji) INDEX of the building have been improved by competitions between musical organiza- ADVERTISERS planting trees and shrubbery; a picnic tions, and an exhibition of the good old ground has been provided with a fire- medieval sport of tilting, a custom which place and benches, and a parking lot for has been preserved in the Allegheny Albert Mills 58 the convenience of members and guests highlands and the Potomac valley. The American Tobacco Company set apart. The unoccupied section of tilting tournaments are carried out with Half & Half 47 the land owned by the Post will be de- all the courtesy and tradition of the veloped into a public playground. knights of the middle ages, with but Brooks Appliance Company 64 slight changes in the sport. However, Burk, Ben Old Mr. Boston 45 Hail, Queen Silvia! no longer does the knight ride against his opponent to unseat him with a lance, Calculator Machine Company 58 THE great annual event of the Alle- but hurtles down a course spearing tiny Carter Medicine Company 64 gheny highlands is the Mountain rings, all for his lady's favor and the Castelbled, M 57 State Forest Festival, held each year at privilege of crowning her Queen of Love Cluthe Sons 60 Elkins, West Virginia, a city nestled and Beauty. The sport calls for feats College of Swedish Massage 60 down between high peaks in the moun- of horsemanship equal to any in the tains. The festival is held the first week more modern rodeo. Denison, T. S. & Company 64 Doan's Pills 58 in October, timed to take place just when While the forest festival is a civic en- the fall colors are the brightest, just after terprise with many agencies co-operating,

Emblem Division 37, 55 Jack Frost has waved his magic wand H. W. Daniels Post of the Legion at over hill and valley. On the mountain Elkins has a very prominent part each F. & H. Radio Laboratories 53 side great splashes of red from pin oaks, year. Legion posts from neighboring Franklin Institute 57 the deep yellow of maples and the crim- Departments send their best musical Frontier Asthma Company 63 son of dogwood furnish a background for organizations to take part in the compe- Fyr-Fyter Company 59 the city, which is decked in autumn col- titions and to march in the parade. ors. Great throngs are attracted to this H. W. Daniels Post, writes Adjutant Gilbert, A. C. Company 53 Forest Festival this year the attendance R. C. Hall, has full charge of all conces- Gillette Safety Razor Company ... Cover II — ran well over one hundred thousand. sions during festival week and it is from The festival, after a season of pagean- this source funds are provided to carry Heefner Arch Support Company 61 try, competitions and exhibitions of on a very broad child welfare and reha- woodcraft, is culminated by the crowning bilitation program. The Post also is Instruction Service 64 of Queen Silvia by the Governor of West charged with the duty of marshaling Landon & Warner 58 Virginia, and the great parade led by the parade, while individual members LaSalle Extension University 59 the Queen and her maids of honor. At serve on the several committees. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company the recent festival the crown was placed Velvet 41 on the head of "Queen Silvia VIII by The Navy Wins a Flag Governor Homer A. Holt, Legionnaire, McNess Company 61 who succeeded Legionnaire H. G. Kump, Post of St. Louis, Missouri, Media Research Bureau 3 NAVY Meinzinger Foundation 58 who had crowned the four previous won another flag when its soft ball Metal Cast Products Company 58 queens. team won its second straight city cham- Midwest Radio Corporation 63 The events at the festival, which has pionship in the St. Louis American Legion Morgan Lithograph Company 39 attracted nation-wide attention, are Soft Ball League. Other posts competing many and varied, but always include a with strong teams were Postal Service National Tuberculosis Assn 4 horse show, wood chopping and other Post; Atwell T. Lincoln Post; Central feats of skill and strength, a shooting Memorial Post; U. S. Marine Corps O'Brien, C. A. & Hyman Berman 61 match by old timers, using the old muz- Post; Aubuchon-Dennison Post; Walnut zle-loader mountain rifle; fly casting, Post; St. Louis Post; 138th Infan- Packard Shirt Mfg. Company 63 Park Pipe & Tobacco Guild, Ltd 59 Polident 57

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Natl. Assoc. half-pint shipmate who is now instigating Amer. Balloon Corps Vets. — Annual reunion in Los Angeles, Calif., in eon- this search. junction with Legion 1938 National Convention. Richard D. Bowman, personnel offer., 44 Boone st., Here is Comrade Ralston 's yarn: Glenolden, Pa. WANTED "To many ex-gobs, ship jumpers and 305th Supply Co., Q. M. C. —Former members who trained at Madison Barracks, N. Y., contact so on, the accompanying picture will your ex-right guide, L. Schank, care of Collector of AT ONCE! Internal Revenue, 939 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, recall memories of training camp days at Calif., concerning More City and Rural Dealers reunion to be held there during the Great Lakes Naval Training Station the 1938 Legion National Convention. Start your own business with our capi- 2d Div. Assoc., A. E. F.—All Star and Indian during It Head vets invited to attend 20th tal. It pays better than most occupations. 1917 and 1918. shows Charles anniversary con- vention, La Salle Hotel, Buy everything at wholesale sell at retail. Chicago, 111., July 14-16, — A. Butler, chief master at arms, who 1938. Be your own boss. Make all the profits on George V. Gordon, chmn., conv. com- mittee, 5814 VVinthrop av., Chicago. everything you sell. We supply everything stood six feet and six inches and bore a Products, Auto-Bodies, Sample Cases, 27th Div. Assoc.—A special effort is being made — to develop Advertising Matter, Sales and Service weight of 325 pounds, and your corres- an up-to-date roster of 27th Div. veterans. Send name, address, business, grades Methods, etc. 15 Factories and Service and pondent, chief electrician, who towered units to John F. O'Ryan, 120 Branches. Prompt shipments. Lowest Broadway, New York City. freight and express rates. Superior Raw- all of five feet, no inches, and weighed 120 Soc. of 28th Div., A. E. F.—Effort is being leigh Quality, old established demand, low- pounds. made to list all 28th Div. veterans. It is requested est prices, guarantee of satisfaction or no that all men who at any time served in the Division, sale, makes easy sales. 210 necessities for "We two were attached to the outgoing A. E. F., send their names, addresses, grades and home and farm, all guaranteed the best units to Harry J. Ritter, secy.-treas., Soc. of the values. Rawleigh's Superior Sales and detention camps, Camp Ross and Camp 28th Div., A. E. F., care of Natl. Headquarters, Service Methods secure most business ev- Luce, and accompanied outgoing drafts Senate Hotel, Harrisburg, Pa. erywhere. sold Nearly 40 million Products Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets. —National reunion, last year. If you are willing to work steady to the naval stations and bases on both St. Paul, Minn, July 12-14, 1938. National publi- every day for good pay, write for complete coasts. Because of the vast difference in cation. Rainbow Reveille, mailed free to all known information how to start your own busi- Rainbow vets. Write Sharon C. Cover, natl. secy., ness with our capital. our heights, we were also familiar figures 4645 Nottingham rd., Detroit, Mich. War Soc. of 89th Div. Reorganization. All entire — W. T. Rawleigh Co., Dept. l-36-alm, Freeport, III. around the Training Station." veterans are requested to send names, addresses, Bill went on to say that he hasn't seen outfits, etc., to Charles S. Stevenson, secy., 2505 Grand, Kansas City, Mo. A large reunion at some his big friend, Ralston, since the days of central point in the Middle West is planned for the MINSTRELS early fall of 1938. No membership dues; financial service, although he tried to find him at Unique first part? for complete show, support is voluntary. with special songs and choruses. the Legion National Convention in De- 48th U. S. Inf. —Proposed regimental reunion, Black-face plays. Jokes. Gags, Post- Newport News, Va., June, 1938, to include Med. ers, Make-up Goods, Wig?, Bones. troit in 1 1. did scores of attached Tambourines. Lively, up-to-the- 03 He meet Corps and Q. M. C. to regiment. Harry minute plays for McBride, comdr.. Drum Corps Club, 30th st. & dram other former shipmates and would like clubs and lodges. Den Washington av., Newport News. plays produced every very much to hear from Ralston and 308th Inf. Regt. —Annual reunion dinner at where, 60 years of hits. Governor Clinton Hotel, 31st st. Free Catalog & 7th av.. New other men he knew. York City, Sat'., Feb. 5, 1938. L. C. Barrett, chmn., T. S. 0ENIS0N S CO. Wabash, Dept. 89, Cincan 28 E. 39th st., New York City. Co. B, 3d Oregon and 162d Inf.—18th annual SURVIVORS of the National Conven- reunion and banquet, Portland, Ore., Mar. 5, 1938 R. E. McEnany, 2922 NE 36th av., Portland. tion of the Legion in City STOP Your Rupture New York Co. I, 140th Inf. A. E. F. Club—Former mem- bers are requested to report to L. E. Wilson, in September are asked to lend an ear pres.,: 5908 Park av., Kansas City, regarding 1938 reunion. to this plea from James E. McGuire, Hawaiian Division—Proposed 1938 reunion of Worries! all veterans, particularly those of 1st and 9th F. A. Correspondant of Voiture d'lllinois of Harry I. Condon, 346 Claremont av., Jersey Citv. worry and suffer any longer? Why N J. the 40 and 8, who lives in Spring Valley, Learn about our perfected inven- 301st F. A., 76th Div. Camp Devens and all forms of reducible rup- tion for Illinois: A. E. F. — Reunion and roundup at the New and children. ture in men, women Houndup, 277 Huntintrton av., Boston, Mass., with automatic air Support fitted "While a delegate to the National Con- Mon. night, Nov. 29. Thomas L. Thistle, comdr., cushion assists Nature in a natural 30 State St., Boston. strengthening of the weakened vention in New York I had the very bad 302d F. A. Hq. Co. Assoc.—Annual reunion for

i muscles. Thousands happy. made 1938 at Capt. Claflin estate in Belmont, Mr.ss. incon. misfortune of losing my Purple Heart Weighs but a few ounces, is Send corrected addresses for more information. spicuous and sanitary. No stiff medal. Before making application to B. J. Donaher, 370 Quincy st., Dorchester, Mass. springs or hard pads. No salves or . 313th F. S. Bn.-^-433 of the original C.E. Brook.. Inventor the War Department for a duplicate I 500 men of ast rs . Durab cheap. pf f £ Sent On the battalion are signed up on the active roster. If trial to prove it. Beware of imitations. Never sold in thought it would not hurt any if you you are one of the missing, report to Dr. Chas. L. for full information and stores or by agents. Write today Jones, secy., Gilmore City, Iowa. correspondenceconfidential. Free Book on Rupture. All asked the Legionnaires through our Mag- Vets, of 13th Engrs. (Ry.)—9th annual re- State St., Marshall, Mich. union, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 17-19, 1938. Hq. BROOKS COMPANY, 150-D azine if any one may have found it. at Hotel Roosevelt. James A. Elliott, secy.-treas., i,-^ |inm_-|m<_ Little Rock, Ark. | "My name, James McGuire, is en- 721 E. 21st st., 25th Engrs. —Proposed reunions of vets in East, graved on the back of the medal. I hope in St. Paul, Minn., and in Los Angeles, Calif. C. R. McCormick, 2346 N. 6th St., Harrisburg, Pa. Hill I'll get some good news soon." Vets. 31st Ry. Engrs. —Annual reunion, Hot Ex-Service Men Preference Springs, Ark., July 2-4, 1938. F. E. Love, secy.- treas., 10434 First St., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. National Association of American Thousands of openings yearly. Men—Women, age 18-50. THE 50th Aero Sqdrn.—Annual reunion, Washing- Start $105—$175 month. Get ready now for next en- Balloon Corps Veterans has main- ton, D. C, Sept. 3-6, 1938. J. Howard Hill, secy., Tower, Akron, Ohio. trance test. Get our new plan—mailed FREE. Write, 1206 First Central tained its record, established in 1934, of 6th Anti-Aircraft M. G. Bn. —For proposed INSTRUCTION SERVICE, Dept. 110, SI. Louis, Ivb reunion, former officers send addresses to Geo. S. being the first veterans' organization to Minniss, 1701 City Hall, Buffalo, N. Y. Hosp., Camp Grant, III. Former officers, report its annual National Convention Base — nurses and men interested in reunion, write to WAKE UP YOUR reunion. Just before the November issue Harold E. Giroux, 841 W. Barry av., Chicago, 111. Base Hosp. No. 45 Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- went to press, the balloon veterans union, John Marshal Hotel, Richmond, Va., Sat. eve., Feb. 26, 1938. L. C. Bird, adjt., 915 slipped in with a notice that it was fol- aft. and LIVER BILE- E. Cary St., Richmond. lowing the Legion to Los Angeles next Natl. Tuscania Survivors Assoc.—20th anni- Without Calomel —And You'll Jump Out versary reunion, Chicago, 111., Feb. 5, 1938. Arnold year. The dates of the 1038 National Joerns, pres., Suite 2300, 333 N. Michigan av., of in the Morning Rarin' to Go 111. Bed Convention will be published in the next Chicago, Chemical Warfare Service Vets. Assoc. The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid issue of the Magazine. doubt many Organized at Legion national convention in New bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not No York. All former CWS veterans, especially those flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just other outfits will likewise meet again in served in Chateauroux, France, are requested decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. who to report to George W. Nichols, Route 3, Box 75, You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- conjunction with the Legion's 193C con- Kingston, New York. soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world vention. S. S. Illinois World War Vets. Assoc.— looks punk. The 305th Supply Company, U. held at Legion national convention in Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel First reunion Q. M. C, has also lined up. York. All veterans of crew are invited to join. movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those New Write to John F. Handford, 31 E. Tulpehocken st., good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these Details of the following outfit reunions Philadelphia, Pa. two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you and other activities obtained feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing may be in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little from the Legionnaires whose names are John J. Noll Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything Liver The Company Clerk else. 25c at all drug stores. © 1931, C.M.Co. listed The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine U.S.A. THE CUNEO PRESS , INC., /boughta Schick $ot nuf

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