The American Legion Monthly [Volume 18, No. 4 (April 1935)]

The .America |ODE Legion APRIL 1035 M O N T H. L Y 2 5 CENTS /mi ^ISQCARf MBit 1 i 700 /WtfflF STRAIGHT RYE WHISKY ROTTIED FROM THE BARREL DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION, PHILADELPHIA. ALSO DISTILLERS OF DIXIE BELLE DRY GIN THE NEW FORD V • 8 "Say! Has this road been repavea1 ?" You will think a lot of the old roads and streets have been repaved when you ride in the New Ford V- 8. There have been many favorable comments about its comfort. Frequently you hear an owner say — "This year's Ford is the smoothest, easiest riding car I have ever known." . Such enthusiasm is not due wholly to the way the car rides. The way it runs is equally important. There's a definite increase in smoothness and comfort when you drive a V-8 engine. ... Its quiet, effortless operation means greater relaxation for driver and passengers. You are at ease mentally because you are always sure of V- 8 power and dependability. ... It is comforting to know, too, that you are driving an economical car. There is no doubt about that. Abundant proof is furnished daily by the 1,600,000 Ford V-8's now on the road. They show that the Ford V-8 costs less per mile than any other Ford ever built. APRIL, 1935 1 ; (fjfortfodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (7o uphold and defend the Constitution •-softhe UnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofosterandperpetuate a one hundredpercent Americanism r topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreatTWar; to inculcate a sense of indivuiiial ohliyation to the com- munity,state andnation; to comhat the autocracy ofhoth the classes andthe masses; to make right the masier ofmight; to promote peace andgood willon earth; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjusttcefreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship hy our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to tke Constitution, ofTrie American Legion. April, 1935 Legion Vol. 18, No. 4 MONTH L Y Published Monthly by The Legion Publishing Corporation, 455 Wist 22d Street, Chicago, Illinois EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES EXECUTIVE OFFICES WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE 521 Fifth Avenue, New York Indianapolis , Indiana 307 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago Editorial and Advertising Correspondence Should be Addressed to the New York Offices, All Other Mail to Indianapolis Cover Design: the trapper by J. W. Schlaikjer Not This or This But This by William H. Garrigus 3 by War Gas and Hokum H. L. Gilchrist 5 Illustration by William Heaslip Escape Into Eden by Peter B. Kyne 6 Illustrations by Grattan Condon- The Navy's in High by Frederick Palmer 10 The Constitution Among Friends by Dean Herbert F. Goodrich 12 Cartoon by John Cassel Spirit of St. Louis by Mayor Bernhard F. Dickmann 14 Away From Pain by Willard Cooper 16 Drawing by Herbert Morton Stoops Come and Get It—Sugar on Snow! by Charles Phelps Cushing 18 Memories of M.I.D.: Conclusion by Rupert Hughes 22 Illustration by Frank Street Major Leaguer by Rud Rennie 24 What Is This Fidac? by Rev. Robert J. White 26 On the War Path Again by Thomas J. Malone 28 The Destruction of the Cormoran by Louise M. White 30 By the Legion—For the Town by Philip Von Blon 32 Too Much Is Plenty by Wallgren 36 Bursts and Duds Conducted by Dan Sowers 37 Turn Out the Guard! by The Company Clerk 38 Security Spells Peace by John J. Noll 41 News of Veteran Interest 72 THE American Legion pearing on this issue by Monthly has been re- sending ten cents in stamps ceiving many requests for or coin to the Cover Print reproductions of its cover Department, The American paintings in a form suitable Legion Monthly, Indianapo- for framing. Arrangements lis, Indiana. The print is in have been made to supply full color and of the same them. You may obtain a re- size as the cover design, but production of the cover ap- is without lettering. The American Legion Monthly is the official publication of The American Legion, and is James G. Harbord, New York City; A. Stanley Llewellyn, Camden, S. C; Raymond Fields, owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1935 by The Legion Publishing Cor- Guthrie, Okla.; Frank L. Pinola, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Ed. W. Bolt, San Francisco; General poration. Entered as second class matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Postoffice at Chicago, 111., under Manager, James F. Barton; Assistant General Manager, Richard E. Brann; Eastern Adver- the Act of March 3, 1879. President, Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind.; Vice-President, tising Manager, Douglas P. Maxwell; Western Advertising Manager, Frank H. Tyson; John D. Ewing, Shreveport, La.; Secretary, Frank E. Samuel, Indianapolis, Ind.; Treasurer, Editor, John T. 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In reporting change of address (to Indianapolis office) be sure to include the old address as well as the new The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly NOT this or This ZN Part-Time Farming on the Edge of Industrial Communities Connecticut Foresees Security for the Worker, Plus the Extermination of Both Town Slum and Kural Slum Because of this vital interest and because I realize the necessity of careful planning, I am going to try to set clown some of my personal observations and experiences in a survey conducted in my home State of Connecticut 1>ut THIS- % ^^William 3^.Cfarricj[us to determine whether we could set up a subsistence homestead SINCE the handle fell off the full dinner pail, back in 1929, plan for the relief of the unemployed in a certain area. all manner of schemes have been brought forth to solve My part in this survey was not important. We tried to put our social and economic problems. EPIC plans and Uto- men where they could handle some phase of the survey that they I pian dreams have flashed across the sky, to sputter into were familiar with. I was detailed to an industrial survey and fading light and finally into darkness like a flare over No Man's land procurement. Land. I stood on a hillside the other day, looking off over a stretch of Last July our American Legion Monthly printed an article land where the Connecticut Plan will be put into actual oper- in which this writer set forth his idea of how the individual might ation. This land is located in a low-tax area, within less than five work out his own problem by the subsistence homestead route. miles of a live industrial center where we hope many of our part- If mail is any indication of interest (and mail still comes), there time farmers will obtain part-time employment. Off to the is an active interest in the back-to-the-land movement among south an engineer was busy mapping the property. To the east veterans. There are in actual operation at this writing several the smoke of factory chimneys could be seen. The blue waters types of rural-industrial communities. There are many more in of a little lake sparkled through the trees to the north. the works, and increased appropriations for subsistence home- Part-time farming has long been a part of the scheme of things steads are forecast for the present year. in Connecticut. Early settlers here {Continued on page 48) APRIL, 1935 3 99 UNIFORM" QUALITY by Vfe Have you tasted America's Favorite? When you sit around talking over quality of Seagram's Crown Whis- old times, bring out the Seagram's, kies have made them favorites with A mellow story grows mellower Legionnaires from coast to coast. with Seagram's at your elbow. Say Seagram's and be Sure The warm, full taste and uniform Seagram-Distillers Corporation, New York FINE WHISKIES SINCE 1857 And you will enjoy SEAGRAM'S "V. O.". SEAGRAM'S "83". SEAGRAM'S "ANCIENT BOTTLE" RYE . SEAGRAM'S BOURBON . Bottled in Bond under Canadian Government Supervision 4 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly WAR GAS HOKUM Wen- the shafts of invisible MACAULAY visioned the death. day when a far Formerly Major General U. S. Army, Chief of Chemical Warfare Service So, too, many take it for traveler from granted that any future war New Zealand would stand will bring with it the use of upon the ruins of London a new gas incredibly more Bridge and survey the deso- poisonous than any known lation about him which had during the World War, that once been London. And re- this gas, a purely imaginary cently another writer, H. G. one conceived in the minds of Wells, has drawn for us a pic- men with over developed ture of the ghost metropolis bumps of imagination, will be of New York, a deserted city, so expertly used and on such a whose once busy thorough- large scale that what World fares are piled deep with debris War armies did with poison gas of years, a city full of tottering, will seem by comparison the rusty skyscrapers, from whose crudity of children's play war- sides and cornices tumble death- fare.

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