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Ullllllliilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll OWNED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE AMERICAN LEGION From the Retiring National Commander To the Delegates at Cleveland and to All Legionnaires: IT is but eighteen months since a few hundred and establishing precedents which would affect American soldiers met at Paris and brought the whole life of the Legion. The making of these forth the idea of The American Legion. It is but decisions, we have felt, is for the Legion itself, as ten months since, at Minneapolis, that idea was represented in its national convention. crystalized, committed to paper and made imperish- This second annual convention at Cleveland able in the constitution of this organization. finds The American Legion an organization which The last ten months, like the eight that preceded already has behind it a creditable record of accom- them, have been crowded and eveatiul in the life plishment. We can review with satisfaction what of the Legion. They have seen it continue its we have done in our infancy for the disabled, for growth with the spontaneity which marked its all ex-service men and for our country. It finds it birth. They have seen it become a great organiza- also an organization which realizes that it has heavy tion, carrying its doctrines and policies into every obligations and much more to do in the future. city and town in this land and into other lands In many respects this convention is of extreme They have seen it test and learn its power. importance. Decisions are to be made which will They have seen this country come to look upon it affect the whole future of the Legion, which will, as the highest exemplification of patriotism and in a large measure, determine the usefulness of the citizenship. organization for the rest of its existence. The dele- The convention at Minneapolis left to each of gates will have behind them, however, what the the officers of the Legion, local, departmental and delegates at previous meetings did not' have, a national, a vast amount of work and responsibility. year's practical experience, with many lessons Ours was the job of completing the task of organi- learned, with less uncertainty as to the wisdom of zation, of perfecting the machinery to co-ordinate measures to be adopted or avoided. With implicit the Legion's efforts and to carry out its purposes confidence can we leave the future of the Legion and policies. Ours also was the job of executing a in their hands. comprehensive program of accomplishment. To attain the highest measure of success we must It was not an easy job. There was no precedent ''make use of two strong inherent American charac- to guide us. Never before nad there been an organi- teristics—common sense and tolerance. More and zation like this. There was a heavy burden of more must the Legion be the friendly meeting place responsibility in the interpretation of the constitu- of Americans of diverse but sincere opinions. The tion and by-laws, in the formulation of rules and West, the East, the South, the North must con- methods of procedure, and in making decisions to tinue to unite in our membership to exchange ideas meet situations which the convention could not and transmit ideals. Of each member only this foresee. That the Legion has succeeded, that it must be required—that he has served America, has come to fulfill the expectations of the men who has faith in America, and cherishes her institutions. visualized it eighteen months ago, is due to the This convention is one of those milestones to wonderful spirit of service to our country and our which we will all look back proudly. It is not a comrades evinced by the entire membership and pause in our advance, but a starting-point for new to the unselfish leadership and untiring work of its progress. Tolerance, common sense—let these be local and departmental officers. our watchwords as we go forward. And that we Speaking for the staff of National Headquarters may better serve our country and our comrades, —the men who have been associated with me dur- let us continue to assure ourselves of sound and ing these last ten months— I can only say that they unselfish leadership on the part of our post, depart- have worked hard and conscientiously. At all mental and national officers.- times it has been our policy to submerge our per- sonal viewpoint in that of the Legion. We have carried out the work outlined by the last national convention to the best of our ability. Likewise have we met unforeseen situations, made decisions and executed them. Always, however, we have re- frained, whenever possible, from making decisions Retiring National Commands • "Soldier's Mail"-

From Lexington to the Argonne

The Last Letters Home of Four Americans, Representing Three Generations of One Family and Three Wars

B first to take care of your. Selves I have just returned from drill THEfamily and as you have money by bred have drilled one hour and % and of Massa- where you can git it and Dont Slip have got to be on dress parrade in

' chusetts does any oppertunity for that artakle 1 % hours. We "went out on parade I not trace its Bread, for as wee hant but won Vz hour sooner than they told us New England Life to Live So let us Live today for so I did not get fairly to writ- antecedents back as tho wee new that we wase to ing before I was called off, while on to the M ay - dy tomoro my dear Children I parrade there was one man in Co. flower, but it would have them remember you D had a fit and was carried to the does rightly Crater in the days of your youth Hospital. claim that its forebears came over in indever as much as in you Lize to I can hardly realize that I am one of the earliest convoys. At least obay all god commandments in So in Virginia but the Country does

the family goes back to that period in Doing you will obay your parence. not look the same. It looks like I American history when every able- So I pray god to Direct you in war. There is hardly a spear of bodied male carried a blunderbuss, when all your ways and protect you grass to be seen it is all troden every cornfield might be converted on threw your, youthfull days and keep under foot and the trees are cut an, instant's notice into a front-line you in his Richus ways So I Sub- down all around we are only about trench and every hearthstone into a scribe mySelf your Loven husban 10 or 12 miles from Bull run and strongpoint. and to my children your tender can hear cannon from there, did The B family records do not and afathunat father. yesterday. John Nichols came regard those early days as "war- E. B. here yesterday and is here now his time." Life in Massachusetts then Reg't is encamped about 6 miles wa§. too entirely a state of suspended THE striking fact about the above from here. Albert West was here or active hostilities to make it neces- letter is the omission of any ref- yesterday he cgme horse back h'e erence to Christmas, despite its having sary to draw fine distinctions be- is only about 5*or 6 miles off. He tween war and peace. been written on December 24. Christ- under him last | had his horse shot But treasured in the B archives mas in those days was regarded as an Saturday and has got a new one are four intensely human documents of unhallowed Popish invention, and its now, he said he saw the boys in the other wars—of the three greatest wars observance as a feast day was frowned 11th Reg. a few weeks ago. The in which American blood was ever shed. on by the remnants of the Puritan Stafford boys were all well. There theocracy, whose traditions were still The documents are letters from four is no very sick men in our company. all-powerful. members of the B family, one a C. West is Complaining a little and soldier in the American Revolution, E. B. died of fever in Roxbury camp one or two others that you do not one in the Civil War, and two in the a few days after this letter was written. know, the rest of our boys are World War. The letter in each case He had left his farm and his large tough and don't give way to trifles. family the day after the battle of Lex- represents the last word of the man in It is getting rather late and I ington, eight months before, and very uniform, were it Continental or Union must close so goodby. Please ex- probably fought at Bunker Hill. blue or 1918 olive drab. For all four cuse all mistakes and bad writeing The author of the second letter the soldiers were killed in action, died of — for I have to write on my knapsack wounds or died of disease within a Civil War letter—was a boy of nine- and lay on the ground. few days after writing what proved to teen, and a rookie of the first water. Write soon. be their farewell messages. He wrote: J. W. B. The first letter was written from a Continental camp at Roxbury, Massa- B. did not stay long in camp which JW. chusetts, just outside Boston, . With a mass of untrained troops, was then in British hands. It must be he was thrown into the maelstrom of spelling in those days remembered that Antietam and fell, badly wounded, on } was not one of the fine arts, that the September 17, 1862. For two days he wealthy Boston merchant with a dozen lay on the battlefield, receiving more ships away to Jamaica for cargoes of wounds, before he was finally picked up. rum, and the backwoods farmer alike Washington, Sept. 5th, 1862. He died October 11, 1862. wrote in their own way, and that either Dear Sister Carrie: The third soldier, born in the United was as likely to be right as the other. As I have nothing else to do, and States, went to Canada with his family letter follows: j The thinking that you would • like to before the outbreak of war in 1914, hear from me I thought I would and enlisted in one of the early Cana- ! Roxbery, December the 24, 1775. write and let you know how I am dian contingents. His letter follows: Loven wife after my love and getting along. We are encamped tender regards to you and the rest now about 10 miles from Washing- Somewhere in France, of family. Hopen these Lines ton. We came here last Monday June 12, 1916. my g will find you as well as threw the and have not had any tents since My Dear Folks: great goodness of god they Leave we left Hartford, so you see we At last I have a little time for me at this time. have to sleep on the ground, but the writing letters. Big things haVa I have no news to Right you the most of us have built cabbins of happened since I wrote last. The cannon play on our army every day brush to keep off the dew. Canadians have been through the but they hant plaid on Roxbery any When we got here Monday it most intense bombardment that has sense we com down hear but they rained all night, and some of us ever been put on, and have lost very drove out the man of war out of stood up around the fire and some heavily, as the Harbor this day week and they of us laid down on one blanket and the p a p e rs wounded too of our men and that got another over us and. went to will tell you. is all they have don by firen Last sleep wet as though we had been in Our battal- week. Western men are all well at the pond. When I got up in the ion had two present and I hop that they will morning the sun rose in the west companies in Remain so there is nothing Strange or it looked as though it did, but it the front to camps that has happened to us. looks right to me now. line. On the I should be glad that you wold We have not drawn a ration of morning o f

take as good car of the catle as potatoes for four days it is almost ( Continued you can I mit have charge you time to drill so I must go. on page U3)

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The Second A. E. F. This Year's Anticipated Battlefield Tourist Rush Failed to Develop—and There Are Many Reasons Therefor By Timothy Vane

THERE is an idea in this country that the battlefields of France and especially those of the Marne, the Argonne and St. Mihiel Dugout life these days has all the ingrained placidity of French rural existence are fairly swarming with American hundreds of kilometers back from the old front line tourists. It isn't true. There is a notion that smartly dressed men and the war. As for any man who had as the train wheezes through Amiens women fall over each other in a rush bought a cabin and then decided at the on its way to the port. to inspect each remaining shell-hole last minute not to use it, he could sell Then of the more leisurely travelers, and sustain an occasional casualty his reservation at a sufficient profit to many are the old habitues of Europe tumbling down the old dugout stairs; himself to enable him to buy a fine, who had been going over every year that large, larcenous hotels Have sprung modern, twelve-room house in the coun- until the war put an inconvenient end up near such eternal shrines as Rheims try and retire to it for the rest of his to an agreeable custom. Now once and Montfaucon, that the slightest halt life. Ever since the first warm days of more the ocean lanes are free of sub- in the traffic on the La Ferte or spring, there has been a stampede to marines and the ocean liners back at Varennes road immediately creates a Europe all right. But it has been no their old game of charging for the string of fuming sight-seeing buses as stampede to the battlefields. Many of privilege, with nothing more to show long and indignant, if not as profane, the travelers have not been near them. for their transport days than many new as the queue of cussing trucks which Probably most of them have not. tricks of making two passengers sleep used to block these roads two years ago. where only one slept before. So the There is this notion. But it is a de- THERE are a good many reasons for cosmopolites are traipsing over to their lusion. this. In the first place many of the old haunts, motoring down shady Sur- It is true there have been Americans voyagers are business men, going over rey roads, visiting the English lakes*, hurrying to Europe this summer in as such. They are in a hurry. They mooning from chateau to chateau in numbers sufficient to constitute almost have just ten days between the time rich Touraine, and winding up at the a second A. E. F. Certainly by Sep- when they dock at Southampton and Swiss consulate in Paris, there to seek tember there were more of us over there the time when they must catch the passport visas for Geneva and Lucerne. than there were when the old First homebound boat at Boulogne. They This last phase of their activity is a Division slid into the sector northwest have nine appointments in London. matter of intense exasperation to the of Toul. Every boat that has put out They have three men to see in Paris. French government officials, who never from New York has been loaded like a This last takes at least a week. It have been able to get it into American transport with Europe-bound, passport- leaves them perhaps one free Sunday heads that the highest (and some of laden passengers. afternoon, which they proceed to blow the loveliest) parts of the Alps are not The wildest prices have been asked on the races at Longchamps, and gives in Switzerland at all, but in France. (and paid) for berths and meals of them time to see just as much devasta- These experienced travelers, who a quality at which most sea-going tion as can be glimpsed through the know just where the mellowest wines Americans would have scoffed before compartment window (tightly sealed) are cellared and just what unsuspected village in France boasts the finest cooks, are more interested this year in finding how many of their old haunts have been left unimpaired by the war than they are in surveying the great, silent stretches of devastation, in gaz- ing at the still twisted trees of Belleau Wood or the house-stumps of Verdun. They know that the richer food, the more comfortable hotels, and the smoother roads—above all, the better roads—invite them to the parts of France unscorched by the war. Be- sides, many of the smartest and rich- est of them are from South America, and never were wildly interested in the war anyway.

THEN, in- the mind of many an American whom the summer or fall may find in Paris within such easy distance of the great scenes, it must be admitted there is an unanalyzed and often unconscious, but none the less real and determining desire to forget the war—or let us say a desire not to poilu sets his in order the A demobilized house from rubble of a wrecked be reminded of it. Perhaps he is one village, and caps it with a tar-paper roof who served in the Army back home and SEPTEMBER 24, 1920 PAGE 7 "

of whom the still-smashed bridge at A-Winding." She didn't finish it. No "We just stopped in to say we think Chateau-Thierry would be a reminder one did. It was probably the first in- your work is simply great and per- of the greatest disappointment of his stance of a ship's concert breaking up fectly fascinating. We all lost our life. Perhaps he is one who was too old in tears. brothers in the war, and now we're to serve, and whom the magazines and I try to write lightly of these tour- seeing the sights. Well, we must run newspapers so saturated with the war ists, but somehow I keep remembering now. Olive oil." at the time that he long ago reached dusk at the edge of an American battle- I even try to write respectfully of the point where he could hold no more. field graveyard. A car is waiting in the the tourists, and then I remember the Perhaps he is one who evaded service, road outside. The weary chauffeur, the snickering that goes on in a certain who, deep in his heart, wishes to father and the mother are searching up village northeast of Soissons when the Heaven he hadn't, and to whom each and down the rows of sentinel crosses. natives look up from their work long blasted tree, each crumbled home, would Somehow, they have become confused enough to watch the great twenty- point a finger, and at seated automobiles go whom each murmur of booming by. They no- rebuilding France, each ticed for a time that clink of a hammer and these cars, or some of whirr of a saw, would them, drove boldly to- be a voice of stinging MEUSE-ARGONNE ward the famous reproach. So he, too, Chemin-des-Dames, but goes to the Swiss con- — always, at a point still sulate and hurries on. September 26 November 11, 1918 some five or six kilo- But, you say, what meters from the real of the returning men of Two years ago today an American army was deploying scene, turned off toward the A. E. F.—don't Fismes and Rheims, be- : in the devastated region near Verdun to initiate the decisive tlsey all want to go back cause the • road up to over the old ground? battle of the World War. The task and the ordeal con- the real battlefield was Well, no, not all of too bad for comfort- fronting our soldiers exceeded all past experiences in our them'. They think they able riding. Appar- do, till they hit an history. The fate of the world hung iii the balance. Through ently the guide would M. P.-less Paris and forty-seven days they maintained the battle until the wave vaguely over the then—and then—well, landscape and shout: the thought of travel- enemy was completely defeated. To the fortitude, gallan- "There, ladies and gen- ing a sacred road in a try and devoted patriotism of those men, we owe the vic- tlemen, is the famous rubber-neck wagon or Chemin - des - Dames." the thought of hiking tory. Our dead and broken wounded discharged in full But it seemed rather a alone to a well-remem- their duty to mankind and left a greater obligation to the short-weight thrill to bered village without give folk who had paid ' any of the old gang at living. Let us celebrate this anniversary with renewed good money and come all Paris. hand to say: "Don't resolution to do our whole part as. citizens of our great the way from you remember when— Then, after a time, either thought is a dis- country. the natives noticed that mayingone. So'theyslip these cars did not rush into a seat at some cafe past the point of turn- on the Boulevard des ing, but halted while Italiens, order a coffee all the people piled out and cognac, and drows- and disappeared into ily watch the world go the bowels of the earth, strolling by. Then they from which they later go back over the battle- emerged thrilled to the fields—in memory. core. The puzzled Of the folk who do natives knew there had actually go to the bat- been no cave or quarry tlefields, there are sev- just there, and eventu- eral classes. First among them are the in the directions given them from the ally went over to explore. They found, fathers and mothers with graves to neat card-catalogue of dead that is kept at a convenient distance from the visit at Romagne, or at any of the so efficiently in Paris. crossroads, fortunately placed so that several austere little cemeteries which Dark has overtaken them in their the cars could reach it before the driv- mark the land, from the edge of Belleau quest, and they must needs bend low ing became difficult, a great dugout, Wood to the side of the railway track over each cross and strain their eyes to heavily shored with lumber and strewn that passes by Juvigny. They are all read its name. The chauffeur is impa- with helmets and bits of old gas-masks, that your best dreams of them would tient to put his car up for the night. left lying there just as they might have describe, these graveyards of the The father counsels their going on to been dropped when the Armistice was A. E. F., so pure, so plain, so silent, Soissons for the night and resuming signed. It interested the natives row on row of ungraded crosses, look- the search in the morning. "Come, mightily, j,his dug-out, because none of ing in the moonlight like some ghostly Mamma," he says gently, "you're all them remembered having seen it there legion drawn up for the Last Inspection. tuckered out, and you'll be fresh and before. strong for it in the morning." But the I try to write fondly of these sight- mother, who has come from the other seers, and then I remember a woman the fathers and mothers—some- AND end of the world, feels she is too near on the boat coming home, who was all how you recognize them even in the end of her quest to give in now or of a flutter because she didn't know the Place de l'Opera in Paris, by the let another night of dreams come in what her husband would say in his look in their faces, by their very between. So she stumbles along row declaration to the Custom House about beings. They may .quality as human on row, and then suddenly she stops. a certain trophy they were proudly jiot wear black. They may even be They see her bend low, bend lower, bringing home as a gift to a friend of laughing as they pass you by in the push back her veil the better to read theirs—a dentist. The gift was a care- 'street. know them. But you the name before her. Then the quiet of fully polished human jaw-bone. They As it happens, there .were many of descending night is torn by a woman's had picked it up on a field by the Ourcq. these pilgrim mothers in the cabin list cry, a cry never to be forgotten. of the boat on which Elsie Janis crossed to England this summer. In- IT was for such as these that the stinct told her this when it came her I TRY to write good-humoredly of the great tourist agencies, the auto- turn in the program of the ship's con- tourists, and then I remember a mobile companies in Paris and Brus- cert, and she suggested that all hands day when some relief workers—mem- sels, and many a guide, prepared their join in singing a song she and her gang bers of the C. A. R. D. (Comite Ameri- cars and their maps and their booklets had often sung together in France. She cain pour les Regions Devastes) —were this year, only to find that the traffic started forth bravely, and soon a lot of toiling in their bureau, when in bounced was less than half their expectations. quavering voices took up the melody. six rambunctious girls from the States, The real pilgrims of the old A. E. F. It was "There's a Long, Long Trail of whom the leader gushed as follows: (Continued on page 42) AMERICAN PAGE f» THE LEGION WEEKLY —

B' Steuart M. Emery I'll Say It's Music Illustrations by WALLGREN

There's lots of kinds of music on this pleasant, earthly ball, Some say there's even music in the spheres; I've been around a tidy while, I must have harked to all, And only one of 'em enthralls my ears. I hear Chopin with pleasure and Beethoven with a grin, I laugh in glee at Mendelssohn's "Spring Song," But grand pianos haven't got the music that is in A little pair of bones a-going strong.

"Rake 'em up and break 'em up, Put 'em doivn and take 'em up, Wake 'em up and shake 'em up—a dollar's on the floor!"

The strumming of a banjo tune can stir the dumb to sing, A ukelele calls to wander-dreams, A mandolin in tinkling tones is very apt to bring Old, tender memories where moonlight gleams. A violin can cause the tears to overflow their dike, A drum- can speed the heartbeats in a trice, Still, none of 'em can rouse me to unleashed emotion like The music in a bounding pair of dice.

"Rake 'em up and break 'em up, Put 'em down and take 'em up, Wake 'em. up and shake 'em up—a dollar's on the floor!" A hurdy-gurdy in the street on ancient, battered wheels Revives my fainting spirits if they droop, A jazz band's wild and raucous din has something thai appeals I cannot hear my neighbor eat his soup. Orchestral concerts, also, get due justice from my pen, I'm fond of wedding bells upon the breeze, But not a melody compares with that which greets me when I listen to the dulcet ivories.

"Rake 'em up and break 'em up, Put 'em down and take 'em up, Wake 'em up and shake 'em up—a dollar's on the floor!"

The old "Suwanee River" is most beautiful to heed, I really hate to hear the last verse stop, And "Silver Threads Among the Gold" sounds excellent, indeed, Upon the stage or in the barber shop. A good duet's delightful and a quartet's twice as fine, I love the chorus in the music shows, However, for real harmony, the sort that is divine, I'll take the animated dominoes.

When the War Movie Comes Back

How About a Little "Reelism" Instead of the "Forward, My Brave Lads" Features of Yesteryear?

By John A, Level Cartoon by HELFANT

WORLD-FAMOUS moving picture and fifty slum-satiated hopefuls trying nocent bystanders; the dog with a note A producer has just made the pre- to dip their eating irons; the pompous in his mouth which would have saved diction that the war film would greaseball at the goldfish counter; the the long-suffering heroine has dashed do a come-back within the next four little cootie in his various and sundry from the fixed course, lured by the smell or five years. He was so sure of this, maneuvers; the husky trench rat bath- of a weinie shop ; the villain has entered he stated, that he was garnering scen- zing in the flare of a Very light. Even a swinging door wearing a red necktie arios against the day when the dough- the flash of a French bathtub during and come out with a natty bow. boy would hfve seconds out of the dish a period of tragic crisis might be used of glory. effectively for comedy contrast. ALL we have to do to find out how When these "over there" screen In running back over the war pictures little many Americans know about dramas do come back—and they will that have so far appeared, we must ad- the war as it really was up until the come back—let's hope we see the "reel" mit that errors in our new art have not time the home boys first got the short thing—including the old greasewagon, been confined alone to the battle-ground end of the exchange system at Brest the line-up at the alleged pail of hot and its environs. Custard pies have and inland, is to scrutinize some of the and sparkling water, with two hundred gone amiss and showered down on in- films rushed to print in the days when

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simply as I.'s. These two I.'s had a philosophy that is well worth repeating. In looks they both resembled the tramp in the old soap advertisement, who was seen making a testimonial "that he had used the soap once thirty years before and had used none other since." Both had traveled afar; both had stirred up trouble along their journey. One alleged that Frisco was the best town in the world. Why? Because in the Golden Gate city there existed a dishwashers' union, to which he be- longed. These beetles pulled down thirteen bones a week, whereas the dishwashers of all other cities in which he had tarried grabbed a measly ten or eleven iron men per. The other bird played Sheridan, Wyoming. In Sheridan, he swore by the gods of his fathers, you could get a schooner of beer for a five-cent piece greater in height and width than any schooner on any other bar in any other country. The two I.'s finally came to blows over the relative merits of the two centers of population, both being picked up and carried to the rear on Let's hope we see the "reel" thing, including the little cootie in his stretchers. In the Battle of Two Weeks various and sundry maneuvers these two and a party who let a smoke rocket go off in his wing were the only the Crown Quince twitched a careful trenches were some four hundred yards casualties. mustache. Even in 1916 our screen apart, and No Man's Land was a doughboys were hopping the cushions as veritable beehive of planted dynamite. THE artillery was made up mostly if they were going out on a college The cameras were set—they were off of a National Guard unit from a cross-country run, manicured, shaved Over the sandbags and into the jaws of neighboring city, reinforced by two big and powdered, bowed down by no pack, death. The director had casually men- company-owned guns, made of wood. iron rations, extra water bottle, hand tioned along the trenches that some of Both wooden gats suffered direct hits grenades, bombs, wire cutters, helmets, the attacking force must needs fall during the heat of battle, and were blouses, shovels, canteen checks, dog along the wayside, giving a kick to the blown to smithereens—rather extraor- tags or gas masks. The unvanquished battle that would live long thereafter dinary in warfare, but a knockout in bucks of the celluloid always rush an in the minds of the movie fans. Di- the movies. opposite line at a brisk trot, firing con- rectors make mistakes, even as newly- For thrill stuff there were a blimp tinuously the while they look for a soft made noncoms. After a run of a few and two airplanes. Every time the place to do a Brodie. A little thing like score yards the soldats began falling in action was set the planes were signaled, a machine gun had no place in the droves. the infantry skidded forth and the blimp seven-reel thriller, and rain and mud Only one man staggered, midst shot was freed. But the air-sack refused were far from the madding crowd. and shell, the entire distance. The re- to mount, even after the planes had re- Lives he who hath witnessed in the mainder of the force afterward con- ported for action five times. Finall; movies a downhearted buck running a tended that he was a ringer. Complaints the breeze caught her, a plane soared, lighted match deftly over the seams of were lodged by many about the dis- low and dropped a firecracker for a his o. d. shirt? I'll say not. tance; others pointed to the fact that direct hit. She caught fire, and some of In the fall of 1916, when the Yanks breakfast had been postponed until the troopers stopped the battle Ion", were crossing the Canadian border in after the set-to, and still others merely enough to watch the overhead action increasing numbers and our first war admitted they were too lazy to fight for and spoil the set. books were horrifying the uninitiated, one smack a day unless it was a close- Unlike the real Army, these screen there appeared in a Los Angeles daily up battle. The soldiers struck for two extras were paid off daily. Those who an appeal for one thousand "soldiers" beans a battle, and won after a power- cleaned up with the ivories promptly to mingle in a bloodless battle for the ful word-barrage. left the surroundings, going AWOL and enlightenment of the hundred million. The war proceeded. On the very good-by forever. When it came to tak- The picture was to portray the fall of next charge buttons were pressed and ing the night scenes the hired hands a great nation, whereas it later proved the dynamite in No Man's Land kicked walked off the field because extra pay the fall of many shekels, a couple of up the turf. The many who had was refused them. directors and some financiers. tumbled jumped to escape the shower All the battlers were supposed to be The pilgrims came from far and wide, of debris. The wounded sprinted for perfect physical specimens, but a num- all colors, creeds and classes, glutting shelter, and the dead made an equally ber with major handicaps got by the up the street car lines, thirsting to get hurried exit out of the firing zone. examination and flung tnemselvesfrnto at the villain's throat, and eager to eat. Thousands of dollars were sunk in the fray. All those who had to be'tem- They assembled in a sector in the quiet trying to make these birds stay dead. porarily buried alive insisted on time of the California hills, assured of a The scenes were photographed many, and a half, while those who dashed simoleon a day and flax to snooze in at many times, and only an extra reward through a thick smoke screen in the night beneath the silvei-y southern encouraged the screen soldiers to play vicinity of the planted dynamite hung moon. possum alongside a piece of dynamite out for double time. When the slum The management, not the general, controlled by an expert on the side- was all wrong, the soldiers refused to had planned to send the boys into the lines. act, retiring to the dressing-rooms and fray happy, and three pie wagons sending forth a spokesman who in- started in file across the field of battle THE German dummies suffered be- sisted on a new bill of fare. toward the hungry combatants. In- yond repair. When not blown up Will the war movie of the future stead of awaiting the cafeteria-style by shell they were stripped of clothing the one the big director is sure will service, the great uncleaned and unfed and shoes by the hard-driven and down- come back—be this tyn^ of battle dashed at the supply train. In passing and-out participants. Many a bo travesty? There is good reason to think it may be truthfully said that the three emerged from the encounter fitted out it will not. If it is, let the producer drivers recovered later in a hospital. with the best suit of clothing he had beware. There will be a whole lot of worn since he took his feet from under experts in his audience who are going A T dawn the next day the sun arose, the festive board at home. to make themselves heard as soon as the r\ as per usual, except in France, Among the heroes were a couple of hero starts over the top with the colors and glistened on the field of honor. The I. W. W.'s knov/n on the field of action in one hand and a sword in the other.

PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY First Generation Heroes

Not a Few Medals of Honor Were Won Near the Spots Where Some of the

A. E. F. \s Fighting Ancestors Had Carried On in Earlier Wars

By Philip Von Blon

Louis Cukela, whose Czech fighting ful on home tables. But these were only Jake Allex, hero of Chipilly Ridge, is blood won hint fame near Villers-Cot- echoes of the anxious days. Nortrand spending a vacation at his home town in Serbia before returning to his former terets, is still with the Marines, and is for the most part kept evenly at its ac- job in a Chicago stockyards office now in Haiti helping maintain order customed tasks. For a whole year the postman had been delivering strangely marked en- British launched their combined attack, DURING the months when all velopes at the home of Thornlief America was rejoicing over the Waaler. The envelopes did not bear which was one phase of the beginning ending of the war and every postage stamps, but in a lower corner of the end of the war. In that hour. of the 105th Machine town in the land was welcoming its re- each one bore the blue-inked impres- Sergeant Waaler, turning sons, the village of Nortrand sion of a rubber stamp and undecipher- Gun Battalion of the Twenty-seventh Division, crawled forward under in Norway maintained its unruffled pla- able writing, all in a strange language. had fire to burning British cidity. True, the momentous develop- And the man who received them some- heavy enemy a ments of Europe's readjustment were times showed his neighbors parts of the tank. He had rescued two wounded safety. reflected in the discussions of the Nor- letters where heavy blurs of ink had men and carried them to He wegian newspapers and figured in the obliterated parts of the message. In had then returned to the tank and talk at the inns, and every villager who several of the letters whole lines had searched until he was sure none of the others in the alive. His returned from a voyage to the late been snipped out by the scissors. The tank crew were belligerent countries was called upon Norwegian householder made no secret act was an epic of supreme unselfish- ness. to tell what he had seen and heard. And of the fact that they came from the everybody in the town hoped that prices fighting front in France—from the After the Armistice, Waaler became would be lowered and that the greedy American front—and evidences of the manager of the New York office of an demands of the hungry fighting nations all-embracing censorship were not new import and export house doing business countries, and his would end arid food become more plenti- to Norway. with Scandinavian Then one day Nortrand awakened to find that it had a real homecoming of a real war hero. The village had never forgotten Reidar Waaler, who, several years before, had left his father's home to become a trader in that fabled Bag- dad on America's eastern shore, the city of New York, where men of all coun- tries buy and sell things amid marvel- ous artificial surroundings. The boy who had lived among the hills that fall sheerly away to deep, silent fjords had been transplanted to a skyscraper. And now he was back, with the mantle of heroism upon him. The let- ters he had sent from France had told something of a hard fight, but it was not until the sturdy, light-haired young man, standing beside the hearth he had known as a boy, had shown the medal and ribbon he had received for his part in that fight, that the town knew that it had produced for America one of its greatest heroes of the war. For that medal was the Congres- sional Medal of Honor, and Reidar Waaler was one of only fifty-four American soldiers who had received it for supreme gallantry, and had lived to wear it. Reidar Waaler, one of the fifty-four Louis Van lersal, born in Holland, won greatest living American heroes, was THE medal recalled a deadly hour on the Medal of Honor by swimming the born in Norway, and is now in the the Hindenburg line at Ronssoy Meuse under close enemy fire. He is Scandinavian import and export trade on the day that the Americans and now a bank watchman at Passaic, N. J.

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return to his old home was a part of a volunteered to cross the bridge and Then he swam back across the river. tour through Norway, trade Sweden reconnoitre. He started out under ma- And now—well, a bank watchman is and Denmark. He and his bride are chine gun and rifle fire from the Ger- most efficient when he is least conspicu- starting this week on a honeymoon mans, who were less than seventy-five ous. The depositors take him for voyage to his boyhood home. yards distant. Half-way across the granted the same as they do the fix- bridge he came upon a tfap. A section tures. He is as impersonal as the WAALER is not the only Medal of of the bridge gave way and he tumbled traffic policeman. The perspiring fat Honor man who was born in into the'water. While American watch- man who comes into the bank and finds Europe. The record of the whole ers believed he had been killed, he kept lines standing in front of the tellers' seventy-eight awards of the medal show on swimming, despite a strong current, windows may turn impatiently to the that first generation Americans figured and finally reached the opposite shore. affable young man who stands near conspicuously in heroism in proportion There he observed how the enemy was the entrance and ask him to send a the to their numbers on roll of the distributed for the defense of the bridge. message to an official behind the grat- A. E. F. And the names ings. He would not know ; on of the men who appeai that he is addressing the that l'oll illustrate the hero of Mouzon on the truth that America's Meuse. The Medal of Army in France was com- TWO YEARS Honor rosette in the lapel posed of men sprung from AGO of the watchman's coat even all of Europe's races, By Grantland Rice has no rating in the money though the majority of market. But Louis Van them, of course, were Iersal knows that it stands "later generation" Ameri- for something in his own cans. The Army was the Through the crowded streets where the arc lights bum, heart—the something fusion proof of the perfect Or perhaps apart from the toiling band, that was a part of the of all people which had in a while old return will of the A. E. F., and great Once dreams made America gives to every hero a life of the fact that Of another life in another land; peacefully, heritage that is beyond the a marching this nation has created Old dreams of bugles and men power of bank balances to homogeneous citizenship Where a sergeant growls "Fall In" again. buy. of undivided loyalty out of csH so many different elements LOUIS CUKELA won which had come to her The world drifts by as I watch once more fame and the Medal from across the sea. The doughboys slog through an old French town, of Honor in the Fifth Jake Allex, formerly of With its shattered walls that are red with gore, Regiment of the Marine the 131st Infantry, Thirty- Corps near Villers-Cot- Through its muddy streets as the rain beats down; third Division, who won terets at the beginning of grim faces rifle and pack the Medal of Honor at Their young — the Second Division's his- Chipilly Ridge by leading Hiking on to the next attack. toric thrust toward Sois- a platoon after all its of- sons in mid-July of 1918, ficers had been killed, and and by his deed a Czech I see them now as the chow lines form, personally advanced thirty name is emblazoned on the Pal and buddy and fighting mate, yards in the face of in- nation's record of her tense fire, killed five of the Ready again for the next day's storm bravest men. Cukela, enemy with his bayonet From the Hun barrage where the big guns wait; however, was born in Min- and, using his gun as a Where the muffled roar through the flaming night nesota, and to him Bo- club, captured fifteen pris- hemia is only a land of Has sent them word of the next day's fight. oners, had to go all the tradition. way from Chicago to Ser- The fighting instinct bia, to get a homecoming Through St. Mihiel and the Argonne drifts. that had come down to him welcoming in his native Waiting word for the next advance, through generations of town. Incidentally, his fighting ancestors in Eu- As the mist rolls up and the gray fog lifts triumphal journey was rope showed itself on that made possible by the fact I can see them now in the woods of France, July day in France when that his old employers, Knee-deep still in the muck and mire, Sergeant Cukela crawled Morris & Company, Chi- Working their way through the tangled wire. out alone toward an enemy cago meat packers, gave position under heavy fire, him a vacation and $3,000 disregarding the warning linger still for expenses. He is still Ghosts in khaki— they of his comrades. He suc- in Serbia, but some day As each drifts by with the old platoon, ceeded in getting behind he will be back at his old Holding a dugout on some hill the German lines and job in the stock yards. Where only machine gun bullets croon rushed a machine gun em- placement, killing or driv- VAN IERSAL In the last big drive the of hell LOUIS through maw ing off the enemy gunners is day watchman at That took Sedan as the curtain fell. with his bayonet. Then he a bank in Passaic, N. J., used German hand gre- but when he is sure there nades to bomb the are no pickpockets or hold- There's a long trail that is winding back enemy out of the adjoining por- up men about he probably towns with their mud and rain, Through the battered tion of the offensive sys- dreams of dykes and wind- Where the world has forgotten both man and pack tem and captured single- mills and brilliant tulip for gold and gain; handed two machine guns fields. For his birthplace In the older struggle and four prisoners. is Dussen, Holland. The world has forgotten—but now and then Anyone seeking Cukela Few of the incidents of We dream that the bugle has blown again. now will have to take a the war are more thrilling boat for Haiti. The ser- than the story of this bank Is it only hear once more geant of Villers-Cotterets watchman's big deed. At a dream when we is still in the Marine Mouzon, on the Meuse, two The caissons rumble across the hills? Corps, but he is a lieu- days before the Armistice, When the howitzers bark with their ancient roar tenant. Van Iersal's regiment, the In the life that carried a thousand thrills? Ninth Infantry of the Sec- could be se- Only a dream for the fallen mate THERE ond Division, was pre- lected no handful of vented from advancing by Who sleeps where the wooden crosses wait! American heroes without deadly enemy fire. A half- at least one Irish name in wrecked bridge spanned it. The name of John J. the river between the Kelly, formerly of the American advance guard Sixth Regiment of Ma- and the enemy. Van Iersal (Continued on page 42)

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The flags that hung over Nicollet Avenue at Minneapolis last November will float next week above Cleveland's Euclid Avenue as the Legion parades to its Second National Convention The Service Record of the Legion

A Digest of Eighteen Months of Definite Accomplishment in the Interests of the Ex-service Man, His Community and His Country

CIVILIZATION that moves so The pages that follow are At the close of the Minneapolis Con- A fast that it may no longer vention, few Department headquarters record its progress by the old devoted to summarizing in were equipped for the administrative figurative paintings of history, but brief space the accomplish- functions which they are now carrying, must see its own unrolling past as the and a great share of the early burden swiftly-changing pictures of the cine- ments of The : American of organization was born at National matographic film, finds in the growth Legion during the fiscal Headquarters. The extent of National - of The American Legion a headline! Headquarters' whole task is indicated on the program of modern times. year that will end with the by figures showing that between No- From its first flicker as an idealistic Second National Conven- vember 13, 1919, and August 31, 1920, dream, down through eighteen months, 112,448 letters, 4,238 packages and the picture of the Legion's growth tion at Cleveland next week 4,303 telegrams were received at the flashes on the screen of the present as Indianapolis offices, while in the same a world-wide panoramic spectacle in period 160,877 letters, 25,447 packages which 2,000,000 men and fifty thou- uted through fifty Departments. On and 3,321 telegrams were dispatched. sand women are seen marching for- August 28 last, there were 9,709 posts On December 1, 1919, there were 29 ward under a common banner of in seventy departments. In nine and persons at work in National Head- American nationalism to an inspiring one-half months 5,700 new posts were quarters. In the following March, un- destiny. organized. In the same period, also, der pressure of new work, this number The flashes which come between 1,259 units of the Women's Auxiliary had increased to 51. At present the the first and latest pictures record were formed. National Headquarters personnel in- eighteen months of tremendous ef- cludes forty persons, drawn from the forts and great accomplishments, and THE new posts were organized and States as follows : Connecticut, 1 as the reel unfolds simultaneously with chartered at the rate of 150 a Georgia, 1; Indiana, 23; Maine, 1; Min- time the audience of America looks to week, twenty-one a day—almost" one nesota, 2; Missouri, 1; New Mexico, 1; the future for the fulfillment of the an hour. To keep pace with this New York, Pennsylvania, ; 7 ; 1 Ver- promise which it sees in the efforts of growth required the expansion and mont, 1, "and Washington, 1. Of the the vast army of veterans Of the World building-up of the early, rather loosely- yearly budget of $150,000, allowed at War. knit mushroom growth of posts within the last National Convention for the The spectators know that the plot the United States into a compact or- operation of National Headquarters, a of the future national drama is a com- ganization. The departments gradually portion will be unexpended at the end plex one that will require successful forged ahead into full efficiency and, of the fiscal year. acting on the part of the whole nation working with National Headquarters, Only ten percent of national dues of 110,000,000 people, and, arguing established those necessary lines of collected from members was made from the past performances of the co- communication which have made the available for the operation of National hesive army of organized veterans, it organization homogeneous in spirit and Headquarters. The sale of more than knows that The American Legion will action. 700,000 articles of merchandise, such continue at the front and center of the From the borders of the United as flags, insignia and similar articles, national stage. States the organization had spread out all valued at $320,000, has yielded The future, of course, is unknown. to the corners of the world. In such profits which have gone far toward But the last eighteen months of the widely separated lands as China and. meeting expenses. picture have been run off and their Poland, Argentine and Canada, the pictures—the record of the first traveling Legionnaire from the United THE accomplishment in which The eighteen months of The American Le- States may find himself among com- American Legion may take most gion—may now be reviewed. It is the rades. Forty-three posts of The Amer- justifiable pride is its special service purpose of this review to select and ican Legion are distributed through rendered to all ex-service men and describe some of those pictures, to American possessions and foreign women, and particularly to the sick show what The American Legion has countries. and disabled veterans and their de- already done, to show how important This growth has added significance pendents. the organization has become in the from the fact that, both in the United The American Legion realized from daily life of the whole nation. The States and abroad, new posts were the start its obligation to assist all actual increase in membership is in formed without the assistance of na- former soldiers and sailors to obtain itself an index of the accomplishments tional organizers, although in a few settlements for any claims arising out of The American Legion. At the close States, notably Illinois, Department of war service. Thousands of men, of the Minneapolis Convention, less representatives did notable missionary unacquainted with official formalities, than a year ago, the organization had work in bringing new posts into exis- returned to civil life without receiving approximately 4,000 posts, distrib- tence. Army pay due to them, without receiv-

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ing the $60 bonus given on discharge and made recommendations to Con- and with their Army accounts relating gress. Within forty-eight hours the to Liberty Bonds and War Risk In- The Convention Program Sweet Bill was passed by the Senate surance badly tangled. Thousands of under suspension of the rules and dependents of those service men wjho Following is the tentative program without a roll call, the first time any- lives failed to obtain lost their had which will be observed by the delegates thing of the kind had occurred since payments due them under War Risk to the Second Annual National Con- the Civil War. The bill increased the thousands of dis- Insurance. Many vention of The American Legion at monthly allowance for disabled men abled and partly disabled veterans were Cleveland from $30 to $80 a month. struggling to readjust themselves in More recently, through efforts of civilian life and proving a burden to Monday, September 27 The American Legion, Congress voted their relatives, unaware of the proce- to increase the compensation for dis- 9 A.M. -"-Caucus of each Department dure necessary to obtain financial as- abled men taking vocational training Delegation at the Depart- sistance from the Government. from ment Headquarters. $80 to $100 a month, in the case The American Legion attacked these of veterans in city districts where the 10 A.M. —The Convention is called to problems energetically. At National cost of living makes the rate in- order. $80 Headquarters a Service Division was adequate. Invocation by the National established, which kept in closest touch Chaplain. with all Government agencies and com- Addresses of welcome. municated all information to Depart- EQUALLY conspicuous success at- Report of the National Com- £ posts of the Legion. A great tended the efforts of The Ameri- ments and mander. majority of the posts elected or ap- can Legion to induce the Federal Board Report of Executive Com- pointed a special officer, often known for Vocational Education to change its mittee on Convention Pro- as the Risk Officer, who was old system of dealing with the dis- War gram. charged with the duty of helping all abled veterans from its central offices Naming of Convention Com- veterans to obtain justice from Wash- at Washington to a system under mittees. ington. In posts which did not select which representatives of the Federal Announcement of time and a special officer for this duty, the post Board are distributed through districts place of committee meet- commander or post adjutant rendered which cover the whole United States. ings. assistance. The former delays have been elim- Report of the National Ad- In almost every community not only inated, for disabled men now may have jutant and the National Legionnaires, but veterans generally, personal contact with agents of the Treasurer. came to rely upon The American Board at convenient distances from Reports of committees. Legion as the agency through which their homes. Since the decentraliza- The afternoon and evening will be they might obtain settlement 6i all tion of the system, the work of en- devoted to the parade and entertain- their claims. The War and Treasury rolling the disabled has proceeded ment by the city of Cleveland. Mem- Departments gave special attention to rapidly, until today between 40,000 bers of committees will meet with their claims submitted through Legion of- and 50,000 are wards of the Board. respective committees. ficials, and the handling of correspon- The Departments and posts of The American Legion are working in close ! dence by these Legion officials who de- Tuesday, September 28 veloped expert knowledge of insurance harmony with the Federal Board in and compensation affairs tended to 9 A.M. —The Convention assembles. seeing that each case is judged on its produce quick results. Reports of committees. merits. The Legion also has brought about Wednesday, September 29 1N many cities, posts carried on revolutionary improvements in the campaigns of education to acquaint 9 A.M. —The Convention assembles. system of providing hospital treatment [ veterans with their rights, and many Unfinished business. for the veterans who still require it. men were reminded of the value of New business. In. all parts of the country, posts and carrying their War Risk Insurance Election of officers, Departments have kept in close con- and of taking steps for medical ex- Adjournment. tact with the patients, often making aminations so that they might obtain Preliminary to the opening of the a practice of having delegations visit Government treatment for slow-devel- Convention, a meeting of all delegation the hospitals Weekly to offer their serv- oping ailments resulting from their secretaries will be held at The Hol- ices to the convalescents or the bed- service. lenden at 10 A.M., Friday, September ridden. The volur 1 of assistance of this 24, when each secretary will receive all In certain sections, hospital accom- character rendered by the posts and instructions, badges, tickets for enter- modations proved unsuitable for the Departments is incalculable. 'The Le- tainment, etc., necessary for His dele- classes of patients assigned to them, gion; is still maintaining this service gation. On Saturday, September 25, and the Legion has succeeded in hav- and is finding that, in spite of the time the National Executive Committee will ing men transferred to hospitals more brought which has elapsed since the Armistice, meet at The Hollenden at 1 A.M., with adapted for their care or has thousands of new cases are being old and new members and the chair- about reforms in the. hospitals. The brought forward. men of the delegations present. continuing importance of this work of Directly related to these efforts The new Executive Committee will hospital supervision is emphasized by as a whole are the special efforts meet at 10 A.M. in The Hollenden on the increasing number of veterans who made to help veterans entitled to hos- Thursday, September 30. are being compelled to seek treatment pital treatment and to rehabilitation for old wounds or ailments. Public training under the Federal Board for health officials have estimated that it Vocational Education. These men, in will be seven or eight years before the great part, had a hard time fighting need for hospital accommodations for the battle of red tape. In the maze of War Risk Insurance and the Federal veterans decreases. Government regulations they often be- Board for Vocational Education. came confused to the point of despair, On December 15 the Legion con- ASSISTING the wounded and dis- and many of them were abandoning centrated its efforts to obtain action, abled has been the first thought efforts to obtain any help. It had been and particularly the consolidation of of The American Legion, but all the apparent for some time that amend- the three Governmental agencies which time it was rendering such assistance ments to the War Risk Insurance Act deal with the disabled. On that day it has been engaged also in a country- were being unduly delayed in the Sen- there was held in Washington a con- wide movement to obtain just com- ate, causing unnecessary want and pri- ference attended by the national of- pensation for all veterans. It has ap- vation among thousands of men and ficers of The American Legion and the pealed to Congress and the nation to women for whom the measure should department commanders of all the equalize the financial sacrifices which have provided. States or their representatives. R. G. the overwhelming majority of service Attention was focused on the in- Cholmeley-Jones, director of the War men made by leaving homes and trades adequacy of official provisions! for the Risk Insurance Bureau, made all ar- and businesses. It has argued that it disabled and their dependents when rangements for holding the conference is the nation's duty to compensate in The American Legion Weekly pubi and provided transportation for the some measure those who served in the lished an expose of conditions and the men who attended. Army or Navy with small pay, while press of the country followed up with The conference considered the Sweet men not called to the colors were profit- verbal bombardments of the Bureau of and the Wason Bills, then pending, ing by the abnormal prosperity of war-

PAGE 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY V / LEGION QUARTERS THE COUNTRY OVER time, piling up huge profits or draw- fourth option providing for cash com- fluence in national sentiment be over- ing unusually high wages. pensation. On the final vote, however, looked. In the last eighteen months it At the Minneapolis Convention, the all but eight States withdrew this op- has been the Legion which has insisted Legion declared in unmistakable terms position and joined in the endorsement upon official punishment of the draft that it desired compensation for all of the four-fold legislation plan. Sev- dodgers and deserters when the ten-? veterans, but refrained, at that time, eral Departments, notably Florida and dency to "forget" seemed growing. from making a definite request. It South Carolina, among the smallest in The organization, by its meetings and stated that it "left, with confidence, to point of membership, continue to op- parades, has existed as a constant re- the Congress, the discharge of this ob- pose the cash option feature. minder to the country of the necessity ligation." This four-fold plan is already em- of keeping alive the spirit of devotion bodied in a bill which has been adopted to country—and by performing this THE Legislative Committee, conform- by the House of Representatives and service alone it has more than demon- ing to this resolution, appeared is now pending in the Senate. The strated the reason for its existence. before Congress and advocated the pas- report of the National Legislative Com- sage of some form of beneficial legisla- mittee, appearing elsewhere in this jH . actual service rendered to mu- tion. In February, .however, it became issue, covers in more detail the Legion's THE nicipalities during public disorder apparent that the sentiment of Con- effort to obtain passage of the bill. cfc other emergencies also ranks among gress was apathetic, and to some extent The results achieved so far have only the organization's accomplishments. At hostile, toward any such legislation. been possible through the joint work Youngstown, Boston, Denver, Omaha, There was reason to suspect that, in of Legionnaires throughout the United and Melrose Park, 111., The American the words of the National Commander, States in letting the public know the Legion has come forward when it Franklin D'Olier, there was being made justice of veterans' claims and thereby seemed that public police authority was a deliberate attempt to "kiss adjusted contributing to the consciousness of incapable of handling conditions which compensation to death." Scores of bills the justice of the Legion's proposals, were menacing life and property. On had been introduced in both houses, which has already produced results in all these occasions, the Legion has at- involving many different principles of one great legislative branch. temped to act purely to protect the in- compensation and creating a situation terests of the general public, refrain- as confusing as wily legislators could activities summarized in the THE ing from taking sides in the contro- have been expected to make it. In ad- foregoing paragraphs cover, of versial labor questions which led up to dition, there was a difference of opin- course, only a part of the Legion's critical situations. ion as to the means of raising the work during the last eighteen months. money which boded ill for the pros- In the space available it is possible only Passing over without mention scores pects of the passage of any legislation. to mention other accomplishments, of other general accomplishments of On February 10, the National Execu- such as the distribution on Memorial the Legion, there ought not be over- tive Committee of the Legion met in Day of thousands of French Memorial looked what is perhaps the broadest Washington and started aggressive Certificates to the next of kin of measure of the success of the organiza- action to carry out the spirit of the American soldiers who died in the war; tion—the extent in which it has gained Minneapolis Convention recommenda- the raising of a fund for the decora- the confidence and respect of all the tion. The committee informed Con- tion of the graves of American soldiers communities in which its posts have gress that the Legion favored the pay- abroad; the formal honors extended by been carrying on. ment of a $50 bond for each month of posts at the reinterments of the bodies The general public has become service to each person who had served brought to the United States from familiar with Legion aims and ideals in the Army. Navy or Marine Corps. overseas; the starting of a campaign through the work of the individual .At another meeting of the National for the adoption by posts of French posts, and it is the firmly-estaklished Executive Committee in Washington war orphans, and the arrangements friendship of people generally toward on March 22, 23, and 24, the Beneficial made for the distribution of Vrctory the Legion which indicates how it has Legislation Committee recommended Medals at special ceremonies to be con- lived up to its possibilities for useful- that the Legion center all its efforts ducted by all posts on November 11^ ness. for the adoption of the four-fold plan the anniversary of Armistice Day. 1 Membership in the Legion has come of beneficial legislation, which was There should also be mentioned the to have definite advantages from the later introduced in Congress as the work of the National Americanism public viewpoint, largely because Le- Fordney Bilk Every State was repre- Commission of the Legion, with its gionnaires have shown everywhere that sented at tins meeting. chairmen in all the Departments, and they may be depended upon to give There was no difference of opinion its representatives in most of the posts. their support to all activities for the over the first three features of the bill This body's activities are described in public welfare and have -shown that —providing aid to enable veterans to detail on another page. they have no narrow, selfish interests obtain farms, homes or vocational edu- Nor should the importance of the as ex-soldiers which outweigh their cation, but several States opposed the Legion's function as a stabilizing in- broader interests as good citizens.

The Legion's Mouthpiece at Washington National Legislative Committee Has Put In a -Busy Year Close to the Nation's Law-making Councils

political party in this country Therefore the National Legislative civil service preference for veterans; NO ever adopted a more pretentious Committee of The American Legion, with reference to liberalizing amend- platform than the one the last the Legion mouthpiece at Washington. ments to laws governing the three American Legion Convention put forth Provided for by resolution, appointed great ex-service bureaus, the War Risk, at Minneapolis. It covered everything by the National Commander, and func- the Federal Board and the Public from War Risk Insurance to Army tioning as an essential cog in the Health Service; concerning the vastly nurses, and passed resolutions on prac- Legion's national machinery, this com- important matter of adequate appro- tically everything and everybody in the mittee during the last year has made priations for ex-service purposes; in then known ex-service world. the voice of The American Legion and the fight for the Legion four-fold plan to realize on a the ex-service man heard in the coun- of adjusted compensation pertaining; To have attempted ; declaration of principles and policies cil chambers of the nation where the to the matter of legislation on slacken-;, so varied and comprehensive without a law is made, in the executive offices enemy aliens and immigi'ation ; in re- Legion megaphone down at Washing- where it is enforced, and in the hun- spect to the reorganization of the ton, through which the voice of the dreds and hundreds of dingy little de- Army; on all questions and phases of great ex-service man's organization partmental bureaus from which the questions relating to hundreds of bills might be made articulate, would have actual administration is directed. covering a wide range of subjects of been to copy after those builders of On the great question of the vital interest to ex-service men, from Babel who sought to raise a tower to war's disabled and their compensation something as important as the S'weet the tune of a thousand tongues.% and rehabilitation; in the matter of Bill to something as small as the re- PAGE 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY AS THE LAST OF THE A. E. F. COMES HOME —

modeling and refitting of a single small corporated in the Fordney Bill, the one service at Washington was when the hospital, and with hundreds of details great comprehensive measure for all recent order concerning the removal looking toward an efficient and favor- ex-service men, and the Wason bill to of ex-service patients in an effort to able administration of the many laws buoy up the Bureau of War Risk In- centralize them first went into effect. on the statute books dealing with ex- surance—both outstanding pieces of Although not disapproving of the policy service men and ex-service problems legislation backed by the Legion to the as a whole, the Legion was quick to pro- on all these affairs of high import The limit and pressed through the lower test against its enforcement in indi- American Legion has spoken out House only to be held up in the Senate. vidual cases where it was against the through its National Legislative Com- If the Legislative Committee could wishes and not to the interest of the mittee at Washington. The result has have folded its hands and rested on ex-service men affected. Modification been telling, the effect remarkable. its oars, legislation once on the statute to suit the idea of the Legion has been The task of the Legislative Commit- books, its job at Washington would promised. tee with reference to Congress, alone have been a vastly simpler one. Legis- Not long ago, to cite another case was stupendous. The Sixty-sixth Con- lation, however, and especially, > it of service, the Comptroller of the interest ex-service gress opened on December 2, 1919, and seems, that in the of Treasury handed down a fine-spun

PAGE 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY A MISCELLANY OF LEGION ACTIVITIES

Just kids —little guests of Claude Peltz Post (above) at a picnic at Dravosburg, Pa.

2 Havana' s new life-savers (left): r""**n Morrie Heller, Tom Wheeldon and Harry Chemidlin of Havana Post

'And I'll see you in C-U-B-A" —Legionnaires and Senoritas (above) on the beach at Havana

A mopping-up party at parade rest: Legionnaires of Roger White Post, Fayette, Mo., snatch a minute off from the job of cleaning up the streets of their community \

read, and yet there is no better reply a privilege of buying Quartermaster supplies at Legion's attitude and policy represented in member of the Legion can give to the cost. investigation of Federal Board for Vocational Law passed providing use of National Homes Education. next skeptic who asks what he is going for disabled volunteer soldiers for ex-service Recommendations of Legion's Committee to get out of joining up, than to point hospitalization. on Military Policy written into Army Re- him to the following brief outline of Law passed authorizing War Department to organization Act. ex-service victories of a year at Wash- lend rifles to Legion posts. The American Legion insignia and The ington, won largely, though of course Law passed including revision of Articles of American Legion Weekly copyrighted. not wholly, by The American Legion: War and Army courts-martial. Patents obtained for American Legion em- Law passed increasing pay of men in Army blem and Women's Auxiliary emblem. Law passed incorporating The American and Navy. Arrangements made with Bureau of Com- Legion. Law passed giving relative rank to Army mercial Economics to supply to all posts of Sweet Bill made law, raising monthly allow- nurses. The American Legion motion picture films free ance of disabled soldier in training from $30 Law passed providing the privilege of re- of charge. to $$0, and making increase of $90,000,000 in tirement for disabled officers of the Naval Legion's policy with reference to draft appropriation for disabled men. Emergency Corps. deserters and draft delinquents pressed on War $125,000,000 voted to Wai Risk Insurance Law passed authorizing War Department to Department and Department of Justice with Bureau for death and disability claims. lend tents to veteran organizations during promise of ultimate success. $46,000,000 voted for hospitalization of ex- encampments or conventions. 10,000 acres of land, open to soldier settle- service men. Amendments to civil service law and rulings ment, in Oregon, saved from being turned over $550,000 voted for Mt. Alto Hospital for giving certain rights and privileges to ex- to a public corporation by Legion protest to ex-service men. service men and women. Secretary of Interior. $250,000 voted for one cent a mile furlough Law passed giving ex-%ervice men and women Arrangements for the re-adoption of French rates for disabled men. in Army and Navy preferential right of sixty days to file on all War Orphans by Legion. Posts handled and hospitals. public lands. perfected with Red Cross. $295,000 voted for remodeling and refitting Law passed opening up to ex-service settle- The Legion's Fourfold Plan of Beneficial Army and Navy hospitals for ex-service uses. ment 30,000 acres of land in Oregon. Legislation, embodied in the Fordney Bill, $7,000,000 appropriated to cover increased Law passed authorizing Secretary of Interior engineered to victory through the House of monthlv allowance for disabled men in training. to count time spent in vocational training as Representatives. $90,000,000 voted to the Federal Board for residence on homesteads filed by disabled men. The Wason Bill, amending the War Risk Vocational Education. Law passed granting ex-service men deduc- Insurance Act in the interest of efficiency, $8,463,000 voted for twenty-six land settle- tion of their length of service, up to a maxi- successfully pushed through the House of ment projects for ex-service men. mum of two years, from the three years' resi- Representa tives. $21,549,000 voted for care of A. E. F. dead dence necessary to establish homestead rights. Complete and indexed file of the 473 bills in keeping with policy recommended by the Law passed to exclude and expel from the affecting ex-service men prepared. first Legion Convention. United .States aliens who are members of Complete and indexed file of all laws en- Law passed authorizing transfer from War anarchistic and similar classes. acted affecting ex-service men prepared. Department to Public Health Service of Army Law passed to deport certain undesirable Thousands of claims and communications hospitals at Fort Henry, Whipple Barracks, aliens and to deny readmission to those con- from members of the Legion and from Legion in Cook County, 111., pro- victed of conspiracy and already deported. posts requiring specific assistance in various Fort Bayard and t viding 2,000 additional beds for disabled ex- Circular Letter No. 345, issued by War Government Departments taken care of. service men. Department, discharging large numbers of* Liaison maintained with Legion headquar- Law passed giving disabled ex-service men disabled men from Army hospitals before ters and service rendered in all matters having receiving hospitalization from the Government cured, modified and practically repealed. Washington end.

The Legion Committees at Work Groups on Whose Shoulders Much of the Burden of Administration Has Rested Have Put In a Busy and Fruitful Year ANY summary of the Legion's or- tion known as the Legion Fourfold new members, J. G. Emery of Michi- ganization and its work in the Plan;, and finally on May 18, also at gan, George F. Tyler of Pennsylvania last year would be incomplete Washington, when the final touches and Judson Hannigan of Massa- without at least brief reference to were put on the Fourfold Plan, and chusetts. the efforts and accomplishments of the the whole matter laid before Congress The committee was set to the task of Legion committees. with all the power and persuasion the framing the Legion Fourfold Bill. The These groups of active workers, Legion's representatives could exert. members performed their delicate and upon whose shoulders rested much of Hundreds of important matters, in difficult job with such dispatch and the burden of Legion administration, addition to those mentioned, came be- efficiency that they won to their bill policy and performance, were on the , fore these five sessions of the National the almost unanimous commendation job from convention to convention Executive Committee. The advice and of the National Executive Committee, putting Legion words into action. < wishes of the committee also were and after making slight changes in it There was, to begin with, the Na- frequently sought by the National at the second Washington conference tional Executive Committee of the Commander and National Headquar- in May, saw it passed by the House Legion—its legislative branch of gov- ters by mail and telegraph on practi- of Representatives. ernment between conventions—com- cally every question of importance If things have begun to run along posed of representatives from every concerning which there existed doubt more smoothly between the disabled Legion Department. This committee or difference of opinion.' ex-service man and the Federal Board met five times during the twelve for Vocational Education, the result months: the day following the close of THE drawing of the Legion Four- is partially due to the activity of The the Minneapolis convention, when it fold Compensation Bill, as it was American Legion • Committee on Voca- gave its approval to certain appoint- finally committed to paper and print, tional Education. ments of the new National Com- was the work of the Legion's Commit- Since this committee began to help mander; the middle of December last tee on Beneficial Legislation. The the Federal Board the last week in at Washington, for a conference on members of this committee, with the April, more than 16,000 disabled men War Risk Insurance, when by a long, guidance, instruction and approval of have been placed in training, condi- hard vweek of labor many recommenda- the National Executive Committee, put tions have improved several hundred tions for improvement in the handling the Fourfold Plan into words. When percent, the morale of the men in train- of ex-service insurance, allowances and the National Executive Committee met ing has gone up appreciably, an official allotments were worked out; on Febru- in Washington, March 20, this work of the Board has been placed in Legion ary 10, at Indianapolis, when a definite was delegated to the already existing National Headquarters for liaison pur- stand was taken for adjusted compen- Committee on Land Settlement and poses, and on the fifteenth of this sation, farm and home aid, land set- Home Aid, the members of which were month the Board's docket of cases, tlement and the extension of vocational A. A. Sprague of Illinois, David P. once full, overflowing and beyond con- training; on March 20 at Washington, Barrows of California, J. G. Scr,ug- trol, had been absolutely cleaned up. when the four features indorsed at the ham of Nevada, Galloway Harrison This remarkable accomplishment was previous Indianapolis meeting were in- of Arkansas and Gilbert Bettman of brought about by an exhaustive study corporated into a scheme of legisla- Ohio. To this group were added three (Continued on page 29) PAGE 20 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY COMPANY CLERKS AND CHIEFS OF STAFF

G. H. Rennick (left), Assistant National Adjutant and Robert H. Tyndall, National Treasurer^ Indianapolis

Lemuel Bolles {above), National Adjutant, Indianapolis w

Russell G, Creviston (above), Director of Organization, Indianapolis On the job at Washington (left): John Thomas Taylor, of Washington, D. C, chairman of the Legion's Legislative Committee (at left) and H. H. Raege, of Texas, committee member So successful has been their work that from little more than a vision when its representatives met in EDITORIAL national assembly less than year it a ago, has become, and Country, we associate ourselves For God together for the following as th3 representatives prepare to reconvene a second purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one time, a great cohesive union of two million men, well per cent. Americanism; to preserve memories hundred the and incidents organized, deeply inspired, keenly alive a mighty of our association in the Great War; to inculcate a sense of individual — obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy association tremendously proud of its traditions of of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; service in war and throughly awake to its possibilities of to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate service in peace. and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution of the American Legion. Prohibition of Noises AS if the Island of Guam were not paradise enow, D Day the governor of the island, who is also a captain THE first National Convention of the Legion at in the Navy, has issued a decree forbidding whistling. Minneapolis last year opened on November 11. The decree specifies that it is "an unnecessary and The Second National Convention at Cleveland will irritating noise

open on September 27. i To some of the residents of Guam the order may The dates are historic and significant. The one is seem severe. To others it cannot but be a cause for the anniversary of armed America pausing for breath rejoicing. At any rate, the residents of Guam have no on the completion of an appointed job. The second is other alternative than observance. The governor has the anniversary of a job just begun—the second day absolute authority to make laws and enforce them. of a battle which was to last forty-five days longer, a If the governor of Guam can suppress with a few- battle in which there was to be more than a month of taps of his typewriter such an ancient and substantial gruelling fighting before the full fruit of arduous en- evil as whistling, what might not be accomplished in deavor could be harvested in the rupture of the Kriem- the interests of worn and debilitated nervous systems hilde line. by American officials at home cloaked with like author- In more homely and civilian metaphor, the one anni- ity? The mayor of a city then, assuming his office not versary conjures up the picture of a man straightening elective, could not only snap his fingers at the whistlers' his necktie and putting on his coat after doing up the vote but could suppress the tenor on the floor above town bully, the second the picture of a man with his and appropriately penalize the man next door who coat already off, his necktie trailing over his shoulder, plays saxophone records on his phonograph at 11 p.m. with the fight against the bully only fairly under way. He could declare an outlaw the man who runs amuck The' Legion at this date is already such a hard- telling everybody what his grandfather did, and he hitting, tough-muscled body that it has perhaps no could turn over to the police the chronic pessimist who need to hitch its convention to a glorious date in its own constantly asserts that the world has gone to the dogs infant history. But having done so, whether for senti- and predicts a panic next week. mental reasons or for more practical considerations, Such an official, however, would probably be even- it may well reflect on the coincidence. tually the only law-abiding resident of his community, The Legion this year meets on the anniversary of a all his constituents being at liberty on bail bonds, con- day on which it did not stop, but went ahead. At ditioned on their keeping quiet. Cleveland it must do more than consolidate its gains; it must plot out new objectives, and its record of Globe and Anchor Discipline patriotic utility in the year ahead will be measured by WHEN a few Prussians rftisclothed in American uni- its ability to reach hold and them. forms were held up to public condemnation after the Armistice, the scorn they received only em- The Reckoning phasized that the late war was no field day for the AS The American Legion approaches the close of its martinet, the slave-driver wearing spurs, the iron- fiscal year and its representatives gather for its fisted autocrat accidentally given a commission .with Second National Convention, it is fit that an accounting which he could not be trusted. Even with the Army's be made of its activities and accomplishments to date, code of unquestioning obedience to every higher author- that members of the Legion may know what their ity, the capricious tyrant was always in hot water — membership means and counts for, that other ex- always on the defensive against retributive fair-play, j service men may have made plain to them the value of Not many hard-boiled officers were able to violate membership in the Legion, and that the public at large long the fundamental American conception of how one may come to have a better understanding of the Legion's man should treat another. For the most part, the war- place in the national life. time Army arrived at a sensible, workable code in the Such an accounting has The American Legion relations of officers and enlisted men. The Head- Weekly attempted to make in this pre-convention quarters of the Marine Corps at Washington seems to number. Much of the space in this issue is devoted have condensed that code in a recent General Order, to summarizing the efforts and results of the national which reads, in part: administration of the Legion. As impressive as such a "The relation between officers and enlisted men summary may be, however, it can but chronicle the should in no sense be that of superior and inferior nor smallest fraction of the Legion's total achievement. that of master and servant, but rather that of teachei For what has been done by the national officers and the and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature national staff of the Legion is as nothing in comparison of the relation between father and son," with the collective accomplishment of the thousands Which does not mean, we conjecture, that if the upon thousands of earnest and sincere men and women scholar plays hookey he would be any less an AWOL, who have worked untiringly in the fifty-six state and or if the son should stay out after-hours he would foreign Departments of the Legion and in its 9,700 escape parental discipline. The rod would not dis- posts. ' place K. P., nor the woodshed the brig.

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SEl'TEMBEH 24. 1020 PAGB 23 Reprinted from the February 8th, 1919 The Honor in

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^/E ARE PROUD, not that we We forged thousands of tons of anchor devoted the eleven plants of the chains, chains for the steering gear, for American Chain Company to war work the hoists, needed for the fighting ships for the government, but because we were and the emergency fleet. able to do more than the government We made chains in quantities never asked us to do, and there is no taint of heard of for logging camps, for ship- profiteering on our escutcheon. yards', for steel mills.

We are poorer in pocketbook because We made a million and a half or we took the government contracts. more pounds of chain for our 100,000 freight cars in France. We would have made more by meet- ing the regular commercial demands for Seven million pounds of towing chains Acco products. were needed for our motor trucks abroad, to say nothing of the chains for the artillery, are richer in honor. But we for transport wagons, for the repair plants.

Every member of the Acco family In addition we had to meet the de- was glad to give his or her best to win mands of the railroads at home, of chains the war. needed to harvest and move crops.

BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — ONE O F THE ELEVEN FACTOR I ES~"ffl Issue of The Literary Digest Our Discharge

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Therefore it was impossible to meet Chains are the only chains that protect and the regular trade demands for Acco conserve tires instead of destroying them. products. But Weed Chains, vital as they are For Weed Tire Chains alone among our to motor cars and motor trucks, repre- products were we able to meet the needs sent only a small part of the activities of of both the government and the public. the Acco family, measured by tonnage or money value. Foresight in providing a reserve supply, cooperation on the part of the public in Now that we are honorably discharged conserving Weed Chains, and recognition from war work, we are directing the on the part of the government that they increased output of the Acco family to are an essential in times of war, made meet the public's demand for the Acco

it possible to avoid the calamity of a products, which it was impossible to shortage. supply during the war.

Every intelligent man and woman These Acco products are made and knows that only tire chains can make motor- sold according, to the same code of ing safe on slippery roads. Every motor honor that marked our dealings with the car and truck owner knows that Weed government.

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Back to Nature BUCKEYE CORNERS NEWS ITEMS "Mandy," said the philanthropic vis- itor as he put a two-dollar bill in a little black hand, "your little girl looks hungry, so I'm giving her some money so that she can get a nice chicken for your dinner." "Mandy, Jr.," said her mother as the door closed behind him. "Yo' gimme dat two dollahs. Now yo' go get dat chicken like de kind gemmun told yo', only yo' get it in de way what God meant yo' to."

^ Reasonable Request "May I offer you some refreshment?" asked Boreleigh at the dance. "Yes, thank you," replied Miss Caus- tique. "You might give me a few mo- ments to myself."

The Lesser Evils "Now, just as a matter of curiosity," began the lawyer's friend, who was seeking free advice, "what would be the best way for a man to avoid paying alimony?" "There are two good ones," explained the legal luminary. "He can stay sin- gle or he can stay married."

Applied Anatomy Where can a man buy a cap for his knee, Or a key for a lock of his hair? Or can his eyes be an academy, Because there are pupils there? In the crown of his head what gems are found? Who travels the bridge of his nose? Does the calf of his leg become hungry at times And devour the corn on his toes? Can the crook of his elbow be sent to jail? Where's the shade from the palm of his hand? How does he sharpen his shoulder blades? I'm hanged if I understand.

Expert at It "Private Johnson," yelled the top kick on the returning transport as he discovered the recalcitrant lying on his Constable Wheelright accidentally sets fire to his celluloid collar bunk during the fire drill, "didn't you hear me yell, 'Everybody inside, out'?" Smart Alecks The Cyclone Habit "Yeah," groaned Private Johnson, from the depths of gloom, "but what Slick City Feller: "See that hill over "But," declared a German prisoner difference does that make to me? I've there? Well, it's all bluff." at Chateau-Thierry, "I don't see yet been that way since this boat started." Just as Slick Farmer: "See that how you took me a prisoner. I was one cow over there? Well, it's all bull." of the Storm Troops." Hark, Hark, the Lark "Storm nothing," answered. the Yank, Per Queensberry "I come from Kansas, i'm used to it." Here's a letter received by an at- tendant in the Red Cross chapter at "Do you think," asked his teacher, "it's The Direct Hint Lancaster, Ohio: right "Dear Miss Blank: What is this, With your playmate in that way to Colonels, like everyone else, need a anyway, an Army or a school for fight?" bath now and then, but colonels, like chorus girls? Here I got a letter from "It's the best way I know," everyone else, do not like to be re- Washington about this here Vocal Said diminutive Joe, minded of the fact. The Y. M. C. A. Training and I can't tell one note from "Teach me how. I'll sure make him a had opened a swimming-pool at a cer- another." sight." tain Army camp, and as a compliment THB AMERICAN LEGION WttEKLY :

sent tickets to all the officers. After the No Alternative Then arrived the colonel sat second one In the present recruiting campaign and relieved his mind in the fol- down the Army spares no pains in display- lowing letter: ing, the attractions it offers. In Den- : first pleased "Gentlemen Your ticket ver a man wearing the service button greatly. As to your second, I'm a me stood thoughtfully in front of a glaring little surprised. If a third arrives 1 sign which read: consider it an insult.** shall "Chances for service in eight differ- Rest Is Right ent countries. The sergeant will tell you where you can go." Lured by the promises of the bril- ; "I wonder," ruminated the button- recruiting signs in the Army's liant wearer dreamily, "what the seven are new drive, a lank Arkansas youth had besides the one he used to mention so let himself in for three years and was often." taking his first third degree from the sergeant-. "D'ya know what the command 'Rest' Matter of Concentration means?" bellowed his mentor. "Young man, are you thinking- "•Sure," replied the rookie. "You can very seriously about marrying my talk, you keep one foot in position, and daughter?" you got to remain somewhere in the "Wow! How 'bout a nip, Bill? "I wasn't, sir, but, believe me, I vicinity." Where'd you get it?" would before I did." "Right over there in the garage— Stop, Look and Listen only drinks by the quart my flivver The Literary Q. M. In a moment of carelessness the with gas so high." salesman had crawled into the village The new quartermaster on the good taxicab. First it punctured a tire. freighter Sioux was at the wheel and For the Safety of the Public Then it narrowly avoided a post. Then was rattled. First the ship swung it just escaped collision with a passing- First New Cop: "'Tis very strange. madly to port, then to starboard, and buggy. Then, as a final treat, it Why do the capt'n have us out here for then back again. The old skipper stood avoided annihilation with a locomotive pistol practice when he warns us that her antics as long as he could, and then by a fifth of a second. whenever we shoot off our guns in the burst forth. "Say," ejaculated the salesman, as strate we must do it in the air." "Say, son," he shouted, "I don't mind he gratefully climbed out, "thank Second New Cop: '"Tis to learn as your writing your name in the old pond, Heaven, you ain't running a merry-go- to strike the target so as we can hit but for the love of Mike, stop going round." the air when we aim at it." back to read it."

6* r3 THE VOICE ofihe LEGION

The Victory Medal Legion see what it could do. I put my case up to our State Adjutant, and, To the Editor: The reason why some behold, last Wednesday I received three ex-soldiers are not applying for the beautiful Liberty Bonds. Victory Medal goes back to the original Edward C. mistake in providing for them. There Dozyk Formerly Co. B, 26th never should have been any difference Eng. Doitora, Pa. in these medals, except for those of wounded men. I know dozens of old soldiers who were crazy to get in the The Croix de Goof fighting, after years of peacetime serv- To the Editor: Several weeks ago, ice, who were compelled to soldier in D. Harrigan, of Glenns Ferry, Ida., the United States while newly-drafted said through "The Voice of The Le- recruits were sent, often against their about two billions of surplus war and gion" th t he still had some Gorgonzola wills, direct to the fighting front.. Can peace profits. This swag is now being- Cheese Medalos, 2d Class, for distribu- you blame these old heads for not distributed daily as stock dividend tion in worthy cases where the recip- wanting a medal which publishes their 'war melons' and goes to swell the ient had ventured far beyond the call hard luck? Also, the basis of award capital of the corporations declaring of duty, good taste or plain crust. I is faulty. I cannot understand the them." want to recommend for this decoration ridiculous ruling which denies at least About as fair a way as any to get a bird I saw in Cincinnati, O., wearing a defensive sector clasp to every man money to compensate veterans is to a Victory Ribbon on the front of his who served in Siberia. We were on extract it from the newly-made mil- civilian coat. the defensive there all the time against lionaires who piled up their fortunes I am gathering the facts on another three different treacherous enemies. on fat Government contracts. man I think is worthy of nomination, a If the other Siberian vets feel as I do Watertown Post No. 228, G. H. R. goof who pretends he almost forgot they won't accept a Victory Medal Watertown, N. Y. how to speak English while he was in which camouflages the really hazard- the A. E. F. and now rings in dough- ous service every Infantry outfit saw Help That Counts boy French words while talking to his there. J. L. Bell non-veteran friends on any subject and To the Editor: Having read a few Rock Spring, Wyo. in any place. His goofiness certainly letters in which ex-soldiers have in- deserves a medal and when I get quired regarding actual benefits of be- to enough incidents to form the basis of a Where Get the Money longing to The American Legion, let citation I will recommend him for the To the Editor: United States Sena- tell you own experience. me my decoration. tor Capper, of Kansas, declared in a After returning from the A. E. F, Columbus, 0. A. R. T. speech on August 30 that one-third of I found that nobody at Washington the twenty-six billions spent by the seemed to have any record of the Lib- Americans in France Government during the war was graft, erty Bonds which I had bought in 1917 extravagance, etc. He also said out of my Army pay. After having To the Editor: So many requests are "Recently the Supreme Court re- filled out three affidavits I received no coming to the Employment Bureau of lieved the vested interests of the cruel reply from Washington. After wait- the Paris Post from young men in necessity of paying income taxes on ing a whole year, I decided tc let the America who desire to come to work

SEPTEMBER 24, 1920 PAGE 27 — ; ; — —

To a Congressman To the Editor: The following lines are dedicated to a Congressman who opposed veterans' compensation:

Before we ventured over there You smote your knee, you tore your hair; You swore by your granduncle's beard That every lad who volunteered To do his meek and humble share To drive the Teuton from his lair Would earn undying gratitude; With honeyed phrase and platitude. You lauded us unto the sky As saviors of humanity.

But now that all the world is safe. With nothing left for us to strafe.

We find, alas ! that you are prone To use the calm, judicial tone. You say to us that duty's sense Should be sufficient recompense You hoped you'd never class the see the" day Disabled service men in the carpentry of New England Vocational That patriots would ask for pay School, Rutland, Mass., build poultry brooder houses as a part of their course Why, we've a monumental gall under the Federal Board. When they have mustered the knack of building To ask for anything at all! hotels for chickens they will graduate to the building of houses Moral A man may pat us on the back And spout the old familiar clack, in France that we request that you in the Regular Army and he has a And smite his knee and tear his hair, And twist his digits in the air. home and a good one in give this letter publicity. Maysville, Ky. But words of gold soon turn to dross For a man to succeed in making his Therefore, it would have been better to We get for ours the double-cross. living in France, it is absolutely es- leave the "poor, homeless Regular" out French of the argument. William Lossone sential that he speak and write ( Melrose, fluently and also that he have a trade. Jesse R. Harney Mass. While we have succeeded in finding em- Ex-Sgt., Co. G, 46th Inf. ployment for a great number of men, Maysville, Ky. Why a "Doctor"? the sources will surely be exhausted To the Editor: In your issue of very shortly. We suggest that men Who Can Tell Him? August 27, under the caption, "Pro- who desire to work in France come To the Editor: I wonder if perhaps Insignia," appears a letter signed by F. here only after having made a con- among your readers there is somebody D. Pilkham, Boston, Mass., in which he tract with American concern with an who can explain a phenomenon that discusses the question of whether for- branches in France. occurred, I believe, on October 10, 1918, mer officers should wear their insignia Ben C. Hershfield over the battle front, looking from the of former rank in American Legion Chairman, Employment Committee highway between Jouy-en-Argonne to parades or on other occasions. Paris Post No. 1, Nettancourt. He takes exceptions to the remarks Paris, France We were passing through a little of one signing himself "Comrade" in town (I forget the name) where a lot your issue of July 30, in which "Com- The Garden Spot of colored troops were unloading sup- rade" deprecates the wearing of insig- nia by a former officer. I quite agree To the Editor: In your issue of plies from the train, when we noticed three thin parallel lines with Mr. Pilkham's views, but I take August 27, a letter from Mr. Tewson, of clouds or smoke sky. exception to this sentence, viz., "If our of Toledo, O., mentions an artificial stretching far across the friend (I suspect he is a doctor) takes lawn in California and ordinances They looked as if they had been made off his oak leaves and nothing more, prohibiting the carrying of umbrellas by three planes passing, throwing out smoke and cutting stunts, for the lines what does he look like?" because it never rains in California. far straight. these I want to ask, why a doctor? I'd like to have the recipe for the par- were from Through I wish Mr. Pilkham had been present ticular brand of home brew which must lines were waves which ran perpen- at a dressing station near Nantillois, have inspired his comments. dicular to the earth, with a drift from left to right. They looked most like France, October 1, 1918, where the We all realize that the United States waves of heat one sees rising from the writer, who is a doctor, had two of his is a fine place to live in, but let me tell doctors killed by one shell and two you that you can't get away from the earth, but they traveled with a shifting motion somewhat like the flickering of others wounded, while two D. S. C.'s fact that California is the garden spot the northern lights. were won by doctors for bravery under of it. Hundreds of troops were watching fire. Why is it some Easterners hate to this display, and wondering what had Robert B. Shackelford, M. D. own up to it? Is it ignorance or jeal- caused it. Somebody suggested a mir- Warrenton, Va. ousy? If it's ignorance come out and age of the, front. Others thought it look us over. If it's jealousy—well, might be something new the Ger- we can't blame any Easterner for that. by Anybody Remember It? mans. I never heard more of it, but When you come, buy only a one-way the Editor: While in the Hospi- I have continued to wonder about it. To ticket. It will save you the trouble of else remember it, and tal Horace at Epinal, the only Ameri- getting a refund. Does anybody particularly, can anybody tell me what can soldier there, I was often given a Charles H. Cutter sol- it was? treat musically by four English Davis, Cal. George B. Vaughn diers of the Middlesex Regiment. I Hysham, Mont. have tried often to recall one of their A Regular Replies favorite songs, but can remember only these words of it: To the Editor: In answer 'to C. M. R., who referred in a recent issue RISE AND SHINE! Pity the poor civilian sitting beside his fire to the "homeless Regulars," I want to Who wouldn't be a soldier Oh, oh, oh, it's a lovely war. say that I well know he wasn't a Regu- To the Editor: What is all this What do you want with eggs and 'am lar. The Regulars on the whole are dope we have been reading about When you've got plum and apple jam? not homeless, and furthermore, if it "Improving the Infantry"? Of For us right turn, and what do you do with "•the money ^you earn? hadn't been for the Regulars the course all we ex-gobs read it—but For, oh, oh, oh it's a lovely war. United States Army would have been it doesn't mean anything! short of officers and wouldn't have had Wouldn't we rise and shine, It's a snappy tune and I should be any National Army. They are the though, if some gold-braider much pleased if any of your readers ones who trained the new soldiers and should ask for suggestions to im- could give you the whole of it for taught them that they were not behind prove the Navy? What say, gobs? publication. the counter and behind the plow. I CLATE S. SPECK Harry P. Davis was a Regular and will be again if ' Ex-5th Division Freedom Post, Pemberville, O. there is another war. I have a brother Houston, Tex. in Siberia who has spent thirteen years 1127 Jackson Boulevard

. PACK 28 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY THE LEGION COMMITTEES AT WORK (Continued from page 20) and analysis of the whole vocational surance, and to make him responsible THE publication of The AMERICAN rehabilitation situation. Gerald J. for its use. They have also, with much Legion Weekly has been the job Murphy, head of the Legion's Service help from National Headquarters and of the Legion Publication Committee. Department, Lemuel Bolles, National Legion State officials, made a thorough The annual report to the national con- Adjutant, and Marquis James of The investigation of conditions in nearly all vention of this committee will show American Legion News Service, were of the 1,000 hospitals in which ex- that the official organ of the Legion, the members of the committee. Men- service men are being treated. despite serious labor troubles, trans- tion, too, should be made of the repre- portation difficulties and other handi- Federal sentative of the Board, Walter THE resolutions of the last National caps affecting the entire publishing in- F. Shaw, assistant to the head of the Convention with reference to the dustry during the first few months of Board, who worked with the committee reorganization of the Army and a per- the magazine's existence has already and who did much to make the commit- manent military policy for the nation come to be generally recognized as an tee's program of cooperation between have been pressed upon Congress by important national publication. It the Legion and the Board a success. the Legion Committee on Military also will show that the magazine has Policy, with the result that in the new not only been self-supporting ever NO committee of the Legion has had Army Reorganization Act there are to since, because of enormously increased a harder job and none has acted be found many of the features indorsed costs of production, it went into fatigue with more determination and purpose by The American Legion. garb, but has been returning a profit than the Legion Committee on Hos- This committee, as it was at first com- upon each issue published. The fact pitalization. This committee, of which posed, consisted of Allan A. Tukey, of that more than $250,000 worth of Abel Davis of Illinois is chairman, and Nebraska, first vice-commander of the future advertising space has already which includes Dr. T. Victor Keene of Legion, chairman; F. W. Galbraith of been contracted for is indicative of the Indiana, Mrs. Wendell Phillips of New Ohio, Milton J. Foreman of Illinois, confidence which advertisers are plac- York, Dr. Harry E. Mock of Illinois, Henry L. Stimson of New York, ing in the magazine. H. H. Raege of Washington, D. C, and Thomas W. Miller of Delaware, and The members of the Publication A. A. Sprague of Illinois, was not R. W. Llewellen of Washington. The Committee are George d'Utassy, New authorized until the May meeting of committee appeared twice before the York, Chairman; National Commander the National Executive Committee, and Senate Committee on Military Affairs Franklin D'Olier; National Adjutant of course did not get down to work in December, 1919, and was repre- Lemuel Bolles; National Treasurer until some time thereafter. sented by Mr. Miller before the House Robert H. Tyndall DeLancey Kountze, It at the instance Committee on January 16. ; was of this com- of New York; Frederick B. Wells, of Representatives of all the Depart- mittee that the conference was held Minneapolis; David M. Goodrich, of representatives ments were called together in an in- of from the Bureau of New York; Matthew H. Murphy, of Risk Insurance, formal conference at Indianapolis on War the Vocational Birmingham, Ala.; G. Edward Buxton, Board, the Public Health Service, the February 9, and the status of military Jr., of Providence; Frank Knox, of Medical Departments of the Army and legislation in Congress thoroughly gone Manchester, N. H. ; G. Henry Hatha- Navy and the National for into. Following this the committee was Home Dis- way, of New York; F. W. Galbraith, abled Volunteer Soldiers, which re- reorganized to include H. L. Opie of Jr., of Cincinnati; Benjamin Dibble, sulted in the establishment of much Virginia, L. R. Gignilliat of Indiana, of San Francisco, and Milton J. Fore- closer liaison between all these govern- William J. Donovan of New York, man, of Chicago. ment agencies in the handling of hos- Horace C. Stebbins of New York, Ben- The members of the Publication Com- pitalization for ex-service men. son W. Hough of Ohio, Frank A. War- mittee comprise the membership of the Members of this committee, too, act- ner of Nebraska, Ransom H. Gillette ing with and through the National of New York, and E. L. Logan of Mas- Board of Directors of the Legion Pub- Legislative Committee, used their in- sachusetts. This committee appeared lishing Corporation. Mr. D'Olier as fluence in persuading Congress to make before the Senate Committee on Mili- National Commander is ex-officio presi- the appropriation of $46,000,000 for tary Affairs on March 1, and explained dent of the corporation, Mr. Buxton is hospitalization to one man, the Direc- the views of the Legion Army Reor- vice-president, Mr. Bolles is secretary tor of the Bureau of War Risk In- ganization Act as then framed. and Mr. Tyndall is treasurer.

The Americanism Commission and Its Task

Originally Acting as a Clearing House for Policies, It has Grown and Rendered Constructive Service Throughout the Country

National Americanism Com- promise success have been launched. help, such as showing the newcomers THEmission of the Legion, which One of the most recently undertaken where they can learn English, how to was formed at the last conven- campaigns is that for the welfare of take out their first papers, and so tion "to foster and perpetuate a one the 17,000 disabled veterans still in forth. hundred percent Americanism" in ac- hospitals. Posts in hospital towns have cordance with the terms of the pre- been called upon in the move for the ORIGINALLY the National Ameri- amble to the Constitution, closes its wounded men, and have been directed canism Commission acted as a first year of service with a smoothly- to provide them with visitors and with clearing house for policies, and infor- functioning organization at work. advice and aid on their discharge from mation aftd bulletins suggesting activi- With headquarters in full operation the institutions. ties were issued to Departments and in New York City, Americanism chair- A second nation-wide project calls posts. Eventually the bulletins were men at the helm in each State, field rep- for obtaining the names and destina- collected into a pamphlet, 10,000 copies resentatives who have toured every de- tions of all immigrants at the Port of of which were distributed. This pam- partment on the job, and Americanism New York. This information is to be phlet dealt with such subjects as the committees actively serving in many forwarded to the Americanism chair- formation and aims of the Commission; posts, the enterprise of forming a men of the States to which the immi- organization of Americanism work by nation-wide Americanism organization grants are going. Posts in the locali- posts; getting the support of the com- within the Legion is well on its way to ties where the immigrants intend to munity for Americanism; co-operation completion. settle are to be informed of their com- with Community Service, the Red A survey of the activities of the ing, and arrangements made for mem- Cross and other organizations; educa- Commission shows that much work al- bers of the local Americanism Com- tion of aliens; better schools and better ready has been accomplished, and a mittee and of the Women's Auxiliary to paid teachers; parent associations; number of beneficial movements that call upon them and extend practical public school athletics; formation of a SEPTEMBER 24. 1920 PAGE » speakers' bureau j citizenship cere- requiring the teaching of Americanism ley, Jr., secretary, as his right-hand monies and celebration of national holi- in schopls; supplying speakers for man. Also working from New York days; the policeman as a factor in schools on patriotic and other occasions; are the field representatives, Robert Americanism; assistance to the Boy agitating the extension of rural educa- W. Searle, P. Churchill Goettel, Lowell Scouts, and the advantages of the pub- tional facilities; helping ex-service men R. Dulon and Clifford N. Baker. lic library. to become naturalized, and engineering Other members of' the Commission The activities set on foot by the Com- local "clean-up" campaigns. besides Mr. Woods and Mr. Finley are mission are varied. Legion members J. Ward Arney, Idaho; Edgar W. in Washington, Oregon, Montana and THE work of the Commission natu- Baird, Pennsylvania; Philip R. Bangs, Idaho were appointed on a committee to rally has differed in separate North Dakota ; Hiram Bingham, Con- fight the dissemination of disloyal States according to existing conditions. necticut; Edson K. Bixby, Oklahoma; propaganda in the Northwest. A plan In some States the problem of Ameri- Edward A. Fitzpatrick, Wisconsin; was worked out to help ex-service men canizing the foreign-born has been August H. Gansser, Michigan; Peyton in the State prisons of New York to the paramount issue, and in others the H. Hoge, Jr., Kentucky; Charles F. H. start life anew on their release through educational problem has been foremost. Johnson, New Jersey; Frank Knox, putting them in touch with the Legion. Arthur Woods, chairman of the Na- New Hampshire; ' Rogers McVeagh, A partial list of the activities of tional Americanism Commission, is di- Oregon; John MacVicar, Iowa; Fraser the Commission in the various States recting its .activities from the New Metzger, Vermont; Frank L. Sieh, includes: Securing the passage of laws York headquarters, with David E. Fin- South Dakota.

THE LEGIOlSf LIBRARY Through the medium of The American Legion Weekly, The American Legion expects to assemble a com- pute library covering the field of American activity in the great tear. It is intended ultimately to assemble ths library in a room of its M, preferably at National Headquarters. Bnoks received in the office of this magazine for inclusion in the library are listed on receipt, and thereafter in most eases noticed in reviews.

Books Received

Forging THE Sword. The Story of Camp Devcns. By William J. Robinson. The Rumford Press, Concord, N. H. Yank—The Crusader. By Earl C. Van Zandt. Walter C. Erickson, 1S36 York Street, Denver, Colorado. Books IN THE War. The Romance of the Li- brary War Service. By Theodore Wesley Koch. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and Netr York. With the Y. M. C. A. in France. By Harold C. Warren. Fleming H. Revell Company, Netc York and Chicago. First Reflections on the Campaign of 1918. By R. M. Johnston. Henry Holt and Com- pany, Sew York. American Guide Book to France and Its Bat- tlefields. By E. B. Gary, O. O. Ellis and R. V. D. Magoffin. The Maemillan Company, New York. Ninth Company, Twentieth Engineers For- estry. Its Story by Its Men. Printed by Lodi Printing & Rubber Stamp Co., Lodi, Cal- ifornia. Ranging in France with Flash and Sound. By Sergeant Jesse R. Hinman. History of the Second Battalion, 2S>th Engineers, in France During the World War. Press of Dunk+m Printing Company, Portland, Oregon. The Story of the First Gas Regiment. By James Thayer Addison. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. The War Romance of the Salvation Army. By Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill. J. B. Lippineott Company, Philadelphia. Official History of S2nd Division, A. E. F. Written by Divisional Officers designated by the Dirision Commander. The Bobba-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. American Engineers Behind the Battle Lines in France. By Robert K. Tomlin, 'Jr. McGrate-HOl Book Company, Inc., !St West 39th Street. Sew York. Twelfth U. S. Infantry. Its Story by Ita Men. The Knickerbocker Press, Nev York. A History of the S05th Infantry. By Frank B. Tiebont, Capt. SOStk Infantry, V. S. A. Published by Ote SOSth Infantry Auxiliary, ISS Madison Avenue, New York.

AA Credit

SCAkC Or Mil "QOMETIMES paydays were far O apart." That .sentence might stand in any A. E. F. outfit history (except that a motion to eliminate the word "sometimes" could be in order in BATTLE LINE MARCH 21. 1918 —» NUMBERS INDICATE DIVISIONS. most cases), but in this instance it NUMBER IN PARENTHESIS INDICATES happens to have been written by Chap- NUMBER OF TIMES IN LINE. lain Evan Alexander Edwards in • STARS INDICATE DIVISIONS OPERAT1N6 IN ST-MIHlEL OFFENSIVE, "From Doniphan to Verdun," the offi- THE DIVISION WAS NEVER ASSEMBLED AS A DIVISION. 333 cial history of the 140th Infantry, Thirty-Fifth Division. "Sometimes," is. as the chaplain rightly has it, "pay- The A. E. F.'s fighting record on the Western Front. —From •Our Greatest Battle" days were far apart—or the men were by Frederick Palmer (Dodd, Meed <£ Co.) not lucky—and the soldiers asked for

PAGE 50 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY •'••>.WA credit. Thousands of francs stood in the regiment at times 'jaw-bone,' ex- pressive slang. There were times when $2,000 was owed by the men. If is a splendid tribute to the honesty of the 140th that $15 will cover the unpaid bills of the men who came home."

All About Brest CHARLES M. TOBIN was,a major in the Twenty-seventh Division who, after the Armistice, was sent to Brest and made, among other things, historian of Base Section No. 5. "I received permission from the command- ing general," he writes, "to write the history of Base Section No. 5. Find- ing the public fed up on war books, however, I could make no better ar- rangement with a publishing house than the promise that they would put out the book if I could get a thousand sub- scribers. To date I have had two hun- dred replies. "The thought occurred to me," he says, "that you might be willing to help me get the knowledge of this fact before the Legion, for I am sure that many of the men who were at Brest will be glad to have a history of the war where they took an important part. I am seeking no profit from this book; my one idea is to get it in print, that something may be said for those men who served in the line of communica- fighting tions, and to whom little glory came he comes—six hundred" pounds of wounded, raving, HERE j in form." Mr. Tobin's address is eyes • any grizzly! Wicked, pointed head stretched out—evil little pig 561 Spreckels Building, San Diego, long yellow tusks snapping in bloody foam—high shoulders Cal. glaring hate— they drive the ten-inch hooked chisels of claws rippling So far as the Legion Librarian is rocking with effort as here he comes! concerned, Brest is a better place to through the moss—smash through the witch-hopples— read about than to be at, particularly with the war going on. Easy does it—take your time! The little .250-3,000 Savage rises easily, against the stock- smoothly, into line.. Squeezing the pistol-grip-face frozen holding Where the War Was Won seeing bofth sights—following that slavering chin with the bead— Bang'! A GOOD guide book is something your breath and shutting down steadily with your trigger-finger. more than a street directory and hotel again. catalogue of the region it de- Fingers racing, before the echo of the shot you're reloaded and ready scribes. If it is written rightly, it vicious little But he's down. Crumpled and over end in his stride. That should hiake interesting reading for feet per second, smashed through the man who has to do his traveling in .87 grain pointed bullet, traveling 3,000 and splashed them through nis arm-chair—a method that is not his jaw, shivered his neck vertebra to splinters, altogether hit the ground. satisfactory, but which has his lungs. Never knew what struck him—dead when he its compensations in the speed with which the sedentary voyager can cover Only seven pounds of rifle—the .250-3,000 Savage. Six shots—in two sec- the ground, the minimized expense, his fast—and each of them with a gilt-edge target freedom from every social convention onds, if you need them that enough to (including dress) and the utter impos- accuracy that will hit an 800 yard military bullseye—and punch sibility of tipping. slam through half-inch steel boiler-plate at a hundred yards. Now sup- pistol-grip and Of such a sort are the Michelin II- plied in both Lever and Bolt Action, with checked extra-full ustrated Guides to the Battlefields, forearm and corrugated steel shotgun butt-plate and trigger- See either published, with a legitimate eye to he can supply them or write. Dept. H-l for complete business, by the manufacturers of the one at your dealer's— tire of that name, and "dedicated to description. the memory of our employes who died gloriously for their country." Of the Savage Akvik Cora»oRAaaaN ten volumes in this series which have been published to date, the three deal- PA. UTICA, N. ,Y. CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. ing with the part played by America SHARON, in the war will naturally be of chief Executive and Export Offices, 50 Church Street, N. Y. C. interest to former members of the A. E. F. These three deal with the Owners and Operators of

' ', second battle of the Marne, the battlt. J. Stevens Arms Company, of St. Mihiel, and the battle of the Chicopee Falls, Mass. Meuse-Argonne. The purpose of a guide book is to tell where to go, how to get there, and what to see, and this the Michelin Guides do without waste of space and take down model, 23-inch tapered with many visual helps. Photographs .250-3,000 Savage Rifle, round barrel with integral eight base. Checked extra and maps are used not so much to full pistol-grip and forearm, checked trigge'. Corru- shotgun buttplate. Commercial silver Jiead illustrate the text as to amplify and gated steel front and flat-topped wind gauge sporting real sights. clarify it. The Michelin Guides are by Weight about 7 lbs. far the most satisfactory battlefield handbooks that have yet been pub- lished. CARRYING ON 5ft

Post correspondents: What is your Post doing? Tell it here. Copy for this department supplied by The American Legion News Service, 627 West isd Street, New York City * "

last two months have been THEconvention season in The Ameri- can Legion. During this time most of the Departments have held their meetings, transacted their busi- ness, elected officers, chosen delegates to the National Convention and given these delegates the instructions which will guide their actions at Cleveland. In each of the forty-eight States has one of these conventions taken place, and in several places outside the ter- ritorial United States. Those Depart- ments which have not held their meet- ings within the last eight or nine weeks did so earlier in the year. A high note of enthusiasm was the predominant characteristic of all these meetings. Without exception they were as successful as have been all big Legion gatherings. They exhibited a wideawake interest in affairs affecting the ex-service man and affairs affect- ing his country. - They threshed out and decided problems affecting their Department organization, administra- tion and activity and cast their votes upon matters of activity and policy which will be decided by the National Convention. by A. H. Blackinton It is upon the resolutions gassed by "I'll say it's chow!" Four hundred disabled buddies from the hospitals in these State conventions that the work and around Boston Were guests at a horse show given for them under the aus- of the National Convention will be pices of The American Legion of Massachusetts on the estate of Louis K. based. The recommendations made by Liggett, Chestnut Hill. Automobiles were provided to bear the wounded each Department will be considered by soldiers and sailors to the scene the representatives of all the other De- hibition partments, and if they meet with the successful was the Post's latest minstrel drill at an indoor Chautauqua approval of the majority will become show that it has been decided to give held for the benefit of the Post. The the policy of the Legion as a whole. one annually. This affair netted the affair was such a success that the town The problems decided by the various Post $2,700, and a block dance brought intends to hold it every year. conventions differed widely in various in $500. A drive will be started early A sham battle, depicting scenes sections, but several subjects, sucb. as this autumn for funds with which to from the Champagne-Marne defensive, assistance to the war disabled and purchase or build a home for the Legion. was put on by the Floyd Minch Post, of beneficial legislation for the ex-serv- The Argonne Post Weekly, published Worland, Wyo., at the county fair. ice man, were universally considered. by the Argonne Post, of Des Moines, Legionnaires showed the work of the A tabulation of the thousands of reso- Iowa, has joined the rapidly mounting doughboys, and artillery fire was por- lutions passed which affect national list of new Legion publications. Its trayed by fireworks. In addition to policy is now being prepared at Na- policy is to promote the interests of Ar- staging the sham battle the Post took tional Headquarters for the considera- gonne Post, ex-service men, the Legion, over and operated all the concessions tion of the National Convention. and all patriotic organizations in the at the fair. The formation of a The lessons learned from the practi- vicinity. Frank F. Miles is editor. Woman's Auxiliary is adding to the activities of the Post. cal experience of the past year were Through the distribution of pamph- It is safe to assert that there was unquestionably of great value in en- lets and posters the J. W. Person Post, talk of C. C.'s and iodine when the abling the delegates to the conventions of Brooklyn, N. Y., expects to boom its Reese Davis Post, of Scranton, Pa., en- to make decisions and formulate new drive for new members. The Post tertained the Lackawanna County plans, and the value of these con- bowling team is challenging the best Medical Society at Lily Lake Farm, ventions in promoting efficiency and teams in New York and Brooklyn. cooperation is already becoming ap- Dalton, Pa. The Post was organized parent. in July, 1919, to keep together the "Soupee, soupee, soupee Although much business was trans- CHOW! medical, dental and veterinarian veter- without a single bean, porkee, acted at all the conventions, the dele- ans of the county. The re-adoption of porkee, porkee without a bit of lean." gates found time for amusement. several French orphans is planned. It was Army stuf. all right at the ban- Many excursions, picnics, entertain- quet . th'. Richard L. Briscoe Post, of ments and reunions were staged. Lo- "/COMRADES of the Legion," the Pecos, Tex. Cast your eyes over this cal Legion posts invariably acted as latest march of John Philip menu: official hosts at the State meetings and Sousa, composer, has been dedicated veterans of other, wars frequently were Celery a la Seldom to The American Legion. During the entertained as guests of honor. Baby Shrapnel Cal. 45 Redhot Bullets war Mr. Sousa served as a lieutenant Young Weepers commander in the Naval Reserve. Ox Tongue a la Camouflage r5art of its plan for a great Vic- Army and Navy Christmas Dinner, Special Published reports that a post in Marine Spuds AS Har- Au Bronx County, N. Y., intended to tory Medal celebration, the Bayonet Points old H. Bair Post, of Hanover, Pa., Red Cross Salad with Salvation Army Sauce "picket" meetings of Socialist candi- hopes to have Armistice Day made a Week End Pass Dessert dates were pronounced unfounded after American Punch intends to get medals investigation by New York Depart- holiday. The Post (That beat the Hun) for all veterans in the vicinity regard- Cigars Cigarettes ment headquarters. "The American less of whether or not they are Legion- Legion," said Hugh W. Robertson, as- naires, and to provide them for the Legionnaires of the Richland Post, sistant to the Department commander, relatives of deceased service men. So Olney, 111., did "squads east" in an ex- "does not intend to impair its greatest

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asset, namely, goodwill and public con- fidence, through any reckless or overt acts." A membership record "thirty percent is now, better than perfect" the modest Sure claim of T. P. Johnston Post of »Mt. Gilead, O. Preceding the nation-wide membership push, officers of the Post made a cursory investigation and de- cided there were approximately one hundred ex-service men and women in the community. But in "going out and getting 'em" the membership commit- tee discovered one hundred and thirty eligibles and enrolled every one in the Sergeant Legion.

The former home of the G. A. R. Post in New. Paris, 0., has been turned you were more than welcome to the hun- over to the Clarence Teaford Post of The American Legion as a permanent dred dollars' worth of brush for a dollar clubhouse. and a quarter, but we won't take that bet. know you MANY interesting features are on We the program of the carnival ar- RUBBERSET boosters ranged by the Windsor Terrace Post, of Brooklyn, N. Y., which opens to- too well morrow at Park Circle, that icity, to run until October 2. In a girls' popularity contest, the winner will be crowned Queen of the Carnival, and will receive a diamond ring. Two other rings also will be given for second and third places in the contest. In order to assist the Americanism program of the Legion, the Post will award a prize to the child submitting the best essay on Americanism. The proceeds of the i carnival will go to the Post's building fund.

To crystallize the sentiment of its members on various controversial is- sues, the Moultrie County Post, of Sullivan, 111., held an extensive discus- sion and then adopted resolutions de- MS signed to serve as instructions for the Post's d^egates to state and national conventions. The resolutions favor the Legion's four-fold optional compensa- Yes, this is tion plan and recommend that the right be'given the State and National Legion the place organizations "to use their power ju- where the diciously in non-partisan support of political candidates who are both cap- picture of 1 able and friendly toward the great theSer- principles for which The American Legion stands." geaxit's &brush, Several posts in the Department of Massachusetts wrote State Head- would quarters as to the advisability of pay- havebeen ing out of their own treasuries an amount sufficient to cover the per ifthebold This is capita tax for their entire enrolled bad Number 19 of membership, in order to present their maximum strength at the recent De- burglar a series of advertise" partment convention. While not en- hadn't ments NOT WRITTEN tirely approving of the idea, Depart- )beat- ment officials interposed no objection, BY OUR AD MAN. in view of the fact that the different enns posts taking this action expressed their NOTE It's that everlasting grip of hard vulcan- to it! — confidence in being able to gather in ized rubber— original in RUBBERSET brushes the dues of delinquent members prior that builds these everlasting friendships to the National Convention, and the ,,4 also original with RUBBERSETSl payments were made to avoid possible m4 delays that might reduce the post's representation. At their recent convention, Legion- naires of the Department of Panama voted to interrogate the Governor of the Panama Canal regarding the pro- motion policy with respect to Canal LATHER TOAOf MARK PAINT employes who were furloughed to the HAIR VARNISH military or naval service during the TOOTH Li riUW STUCCO war. If Dft W the Governor makes a ruling unfavorable to ex-service men, the every bristle gripped EVERLASTINGLYin hardrubber/ Secretary of War will be appealed to for relief, according to the convention's decision. The Big Sister of the Legion

She Knitted Our Socks and Sweaters When We Were at War- Now She's the Women's Auxiliary

VERILY, the old order changeth! of Massachusetts and Minnesota are in That phrase, far from being a neck-and-neck race for first place enlisted to introduce an unex- among the States, having the largest purgated discourse on "The Future of number of regularly chartered units, America and Other Problems," is Massachusetts, with 104, having a shade merely a' commonplace expression the edge on Minnesota, which, after hooked up with the distinctly modern having held the lead for several months, trend of development in The American recently was passed by the New Eng- Legion. For a review of one phase of land commonwealth. At this writing, dis- there are 100 chartered auxiliary units its growth during the last year I closes that what many undoubtedly at in the Department of Minnesota, 85 in Illinois, in first regarded as The American Legion 69 New York and 68 in and the is not alone The American Legion. Michigan same number in The same thing applies to the nation. Pennsylvania. The word "voters" formerly meant some thirty millions of men, more or less. PRIOR to the first Legion convention After the smoke cleared from Tennes- at Minneapolis, several wom- see's legislative battlefield, it meant en's organizations made proposals to those men and some twenty-seven the temporary executive committee for million women, too. affiliation as the official women's or- Similarly, what was, in name and in ganization of the Legion. But the con- fact, The American Legion a year ago, vention decided none was sufficiently today is that Legion plus more than representative of the relatives of ex- fifty thousand women compactly united service men of the World War, and eligibility clause for the within it, and constituting its Women's drafted an Auxiliary. Distinctly, in the public formation of- the Legion's own affiliated mind, the Legion has been pictured as Body. The present National Executive organization. record of Committee has provided for the holding a man's The [i] Harris a Ewing of State organization meetings in each 71 jfISS JULIA C. STIMSON, State as soon as one auxiliary unit has lyi superintendent of the Army been formed for every two posts. Nurse Corps, overseas vet- Both within Departments and posts, eran of twenty-four months' serv- the establishment of auxiliary units ice, and an active member of Jane has been handicapped through inability A. Delano Post of The American to give this work the attention it de- Legion, Washington, D. C, is the served by reason of the vast amount of first representative of her sex to detailed effort attending the vast growth take her place as an officer in the and development of the older branch of military organization of the United the organization, and so far %o State States. The Secretary of War re- has chartered a sufficient number of cently gave her a commission as units to permit of the holding of a de- major under the provisions of the partmental auxiliary caucus under the army reorganization bill granting committee's ruling. rank to army nurses. Major Stim- Official recommendations on the sub- son was chief nurse of the Ameri- ject of the auxiliary caucus, however, can Red Cross for the seven months prior to the Armistice, when she was made Director of the Nursing Service of the A. E. F. Upon her return to the United States in June, 1919, she was made first acting superintendent and later superin- tendent of the Army Nurse Corps.

[c] Brown Bros. of September, there are approximately Mrs. George Alexander Wheelock, com- 1,300 chartered units attached to Legion mander of Barbara Frietchie Post, posts in all parts of the world, including Manhattan, who was elected county one in Alaska, one in Paris, two in treasurer by the New York County Hawaii and one each in Panama and Executive Committee Cuba.

the year just passed reveals that a con- THESE units have a combined siderable portion of the Legion struc- total enrollment of 50,000 wives, ture rests on women's shoulders. mothers, sisters and daughters of ex- Through circumstances beyond its service men, and their organization has own and everyone else's control, the come in recent months to be affection- Legion auxiliary was figuratively born ately referred to as "The Big Sister

wearing hobble skirts. She ' made a of the Legion." What the auxiliary valiant effort, but inevitably lagged be- units have done, especially in a social hind Big Brother, who reeled off mem- and economic way, to contribute to the bership miles at the rate of 25,000 to success of Legion activities and the 50,000 a week. civic betterment enterprises of the Posts But considered in any other light to which they are attached, is indelibly except that of comparison with the mas- written on the minds and hearts of the culine Legion element, the Auxiliary's hundreds of Legion posts enjoying their Mrs. Frank Moore, president Women's record of growth during the year has organized assistance. Auxiliary, Thomas Dismuke Post, been stupendous. Now, toward the end As this is written, the Departments Houston, Texas LEGION WEEKLY PAGE 34 THE AMERICAN : — —

based upon experiences of the year just ending, will be made to the Cleve- land convention, and it is believed that plans soon will be executed to make the auxiliary, in membership as in every other way, the really big "Big Sister of Boston Garter ,he Legion" by the time the next con- /ention rolls around.

of the members of the SOME Boston Garter Women's Auxiliary, it would seem, always scores with the man—young are born and not made. From W. R. or old—who really wants to be correctly dressed. Knapp Post, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., Why ? Because it is a Quality Garter comes word that its auxiliary has taken in the youngest member of all, five- When in need of garters ask your dealer for the Boston Garter. Most weeks-old Miss Patricia Mary Tierney. men do as a matter of course—the two words go so well together. Two young ladies, aged ten and eleven GEORGE FROST months respectively, were enrolled re- COMPANY, MAKERS, BOSTON

cently by the auxiliary of the Gothen- Our clocks in all the leading burg, Neb., Post, while the auxiliary Ball Parks may serve as a of Austin E. Hanscom Post, of Will- gentle reminder of when it is man, Minn., signed up a member eleven Time for a Clean Pair months old. What the women's organization 1 i stands for is well expressed by one of its members, Mrs. Figg-Hoblyn, who at the installation of officers of the auxiliary at a meeting of the Santa Bar- bara, Calif., Post thus outlined its aims "The exact meaning of the word, auxiliary, is, I believe, 'helper.' What- ever you plan to do, we stand here ready to help, ready to respond to your call. "In the preamble to your Constitu- tion, which is also ours, among other things, you say, 'We associate ourselves together to make right the master of might, to promote peace and good will on earth, to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, free- dom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devor tion to mutual helpfulness.' s "These are stirring words that strike an answering chord in the hearts of

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TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT THE LEGION How The American Legion News Service Is Keeping the Organization "rang of .. p. C. CRAYTON, L. M. GLENN, Adjutant. Daily before the Public Commander. T. E. HORTON, 'W. F- MARSHALL, Finance Officer. Vice-Commander.

BROWN, late of A. P. 0. 764 10 e 14. W/WSZSK ". ,hthe J< ?aj-fM~ BILL A. Hudoens Post No. «ffijgPT5,. f "Ami and now of Kewanee, 111., picks By W. up a copy of his evening paper before supper and runs his eye up AMERICAN LEGION AIDS I*' its Pretty and down columns. soon IN SOLUTION MYSTERIES they light on an item that interests j and Sailors Bill. It tells how The American Le- Mora Than 2,000 SoWiers gion is planning to distribute the Vic- Disappeared. ON OIUOWNllilrf tory Medals on Armistice Day with i celebrations in thousands of posts. GOLDSTAR MOTHERS THE ONES SEEKING FACTS How American Legion Bill isn't a member of the Legion but

he'd like to get in on the celebration Stories Ever Routed Lawless. Greatest Human .nterect he's entitled so. Cryptcc Re and to do He drops Written Are Told In the around to the local post to put in his 'TEXAS VILLAGE IS~REFORMED nnrt P'CAN LEG.ON application for and comes out ENGAGED the medal IN GREAT in Tumult Till Ex-Sol- of the office a Legionnaire. Le Hope, 1 Desdemona TASK A. B. Smith, of New York City, aver- Foch, Beatty diers Take Charge. that «°P'e citizen of age, American Legion Should age American middle iflj'ii^aow 'i fjpst of thJic Und Han town in Texas 81 Will Visit America 1 booro Aid In buys his morning paper on the way to and order had be- This Worthy business. In it there is the story of a By The Associated Pf«tt. Undertaking Legion post that brought order out of INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 25-—National jfflcers of the American Legion are chaos in a little Texas oil-boom town. hopeful that MarsK'al t*och and Ad- [American miral Beatty will accept the Invita- Lecinn i. Mr. Smith hitherto had the vaguest tions of the United States government idea of what the Legion stood for. and the Legion to Tisit America next dividual morel 1 death the second annual and month and attend "osieriee am, dis- he understands. convention of the Legion to be held In* - ms soldier Now American ."- Cleveland, September 27, 28 and 29. ; //PAfAfi//. Joe Jones, on his farm in Kansas, J Lemuel Belles, National Adjutant o *""(///(/{ organization has recently re lifts his favorite weekly out of the , the who bin* j. turned -from. Washington where he coi »/l>C? /wfl/J mail box by the gate and sits down on the front porch to see what's up in 2 the world. He finds two columns of GET news about The American Legion and If) AID MEN L ^ *h BASIS a picture or so. This is pie for Joe, ,% BUSKS who belongs to the post in the next MEDftL/ Ameri! VICTORY , \„ 9T—The town. He spends an interested half Not . / om hour reading about what other posts tan Legions ' lhe War Dept. Expects New uy are doing and comes across some War Facilitate Distributio/^; Will —' work Risk Insurance information that is _ _ — ^^nizatlon Washington. To-day.—To fac/ b 3 ^ Medals. Uv 29 very important to him because he hadn't rtis.rlbutlon of Victory an BaU1 ice puts it there. And it is being i.han 2,000 pe L,eu,. printed . M., by editors because it is real «?A^^^of 3^-lnf . Co M cases of Nov. news about real men. The News Serv- . ,TheseTt a« ^ LTW'J* i U!2 ice, in the two months of its existence, has developed into a great agency for Friendship That Will Endure placing the activities of the Legion A before millions of newspaper readers. Even After-the-War Disillusionment and the Struggle to Live Also, it provides The American Legion Cannot Destroy It. Weekly with Legion news and features. The headquarters of the News Serv- The American Legion' Weekly tells this story: ice are located at 627 West Forty-third "The time is 1918, the scene Major General Harbord's Street, New York. Branch bureaus are special train, bound south from Tours forlui an inspectioni.iauceuoil Iters * in Indianapolis and Washington. To trip of the hummingHung uuiumuaBordeaux area.aita. In one of the cars a Du,i »g W< '..brigadier "general1 and a colonel are discussingc the fact that headquarters correspondents appointed Of, in every post of the Legion send the the A. E. F. has thus far contributed a millionmillioi f rancs for the support of two thousandnniioinn French*-* ron f n waruior orphansArnhint news and gossip of their activities, and "'IA thinkiiiiuiv I'lli. ii haveimtc toiu wiuc.MUuoacome. across withwiLii tWei VC t llOU Sand from this mountain of "copy" the ma- francs or so.'so,' remarks the brigadier. terial is culled for releases to be sent " 'Good idea,' seconds the colonel. 'I'm with you." " LicLicr idea,'iuc«i, comestunics backujua over the country. 'Better theinc singlesmgie. siarstar. 'Let's match the ' tiir»nfir-rt«r« f Vii-in c r% nA Af tor it., Loser to.. pay twenty-five thousand.' her(H of these stories -£tie.. Some are' sent out i ^.TTi illWiliWiifHHWWftlBfliiiiaffllMWMBiPlllBI PAGE 36 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY over the great wire services of the Associated Press, the United Press Association and the International News Service. Others go out through the Newspaper Enterprise Association Health and Strength and other news and picture-distribut- ing syndicates. Still others are mailed direct to the editors of newspapers in come from living in harmony with natural law—and that every State and in alpiost every town means good, nourishing food, clean habits, interesting work that boasts a newspaper. Legion pub- lications also are supplied with news and plenty of outdoor exercise. by this service. A special Legion de- partment, two columns long, is pro- vided each week to the smaller news- SHREDDED WHEAT papers by arrangement with the West- ern Newspaper Union, which serves 1,000 of these influential local journals. is a natural food made of the whole wheat steam-cooked, shredded and baked in the cleanest, finest food factory in IT is the aim of The American Legion the world. Two of these little loaves of baked whole wheat News Service to reach a news- with milk or cream make a nourishing, satisfying meal. paper in evei-y town in which there is a post of the Legion in order to pro- Delicious with fruits. vide the people of that town and the Legionnaires with news of the activities MADE: ONLY BY of the organization. The direct serv- ice is provided without charge to 2,500 THE SHREDDED WHEAT newspapers. If you would like to see COMPANY your home town paper printing this NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. news of the Legion it is simply a mat- ter of asking the editor to apply for "copy" from The American Legion News Service. To the Legionnaires acting as post correspondents the thanks of the News Service are due. Besides the local pub- licity they obtain their posts, theirs "Safer than Gash" are the stories, photographs and ideas which go out to the great and the small newspapers of the country from GUARANTY TRAVELERS CHECKS New York headquarters. Out of the Made to your measure, payable after received, with the clear understanding mass of stories submitted only a few that If the fit ia not perfect are a safe and convenient each week, of course, are selected for or if you axe cot satisfied in every way, if you are not carrying instant telegraph and mail distribu- convinced you have received method of funds when a Cna, high grade, stylish, tion, those few are read by millions. but perfect-fitting tailored suit traveling. They are accepted as Others go in the weekly newsletter, and nade to your measu res and have saved $15 to $20, you still others are released once every three are not under the slight- money — everywhere — and are weeks in a special page of "plate." est obligation to keep It. Don't hesitate or office is readily cashed by banks, here Every line that comes into the feel timid, simply read with a view to publication in The send the suit back, no cost to you. You are not and abroad. Yet, if they are lost, American Legion Weekly. out one penny. Any money you may have paid The efficiency of the News Service OJ ia refunded at once. their value can be replaced. ut-pends, of course, upon the support SAMPLES FREE Any manyoung or and cooperation it receives from the _ old interested in Bay- Get them at posts. If your post has not yet ing money, who wants to dresa well and not feel extrav- your bank agant ia invited to write us for our free book of appointed a correspondent it is missing samples and fashions explaining everything. Please an opportunity to help the rest of the write letter or postal today, just say ''Send me your samples" and get our whole proposition by return Guaranty Trust Company Legion and it is overlooking an op- mail. Try it—costs you nothing—juat a postal, get the free samples and prices anyway. You will learn portunity to" get publicity and atten- some- thing important about dressing well and saving money. of New York tion. Park Tailoring Company A story for the News Service may Pept374 Chicago, ILL. come from a post of twenty men in the Arizona desert just as easily as from one of a thousand in New York or San Francisco, and once put out on GET MORE MILEAGE the Legion News Service it travels from coast to coast. 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(c) Underwood & Underwoud Amid scenes such as this the Legionnaires of Honolulu wander NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST B & L BINOCULARS ALL Americans don't, live in Ameri- and you can drop in on another pos^t PRICE ! ca. Some of them are in England, meeting. Call a corporal of the guard HALF ! ^&5fcS others in France, and still others at Coblenz will likely New U. S. Army Bausch & Lomb Binoculars at and he be, as as $35. Sell regularly at $65-$70. Full Military with bayonets on their rifles are patrol- not, a member of some post, Mak'' model (not the Victory model) 6 power pris- ing the bridgehead at Coblenz. . The call your way to shattered Poland and you matic 30 m.m. large field of vision, double of country is ever strong individual focusing device, harness- leather case in their can shake hands with the war-worn and straps. Passed by Army inspectors, cleaned breasts, but still they must dwell for a Legionnaires of the Kosciusko Squad- and guaranteed absolutely by us. time on foreign shores whither the ron. Move on to the Far East, and in You know you need them for traveling, motor- varied job in hand called ing, hunting, yachting, racing, at football, base- has them. Shanghai, Tokyo, Yokohama, Manila ball games and other sports. Here's the oppor- Then, too, there are sturdy young and Cavite a greeting is waiting for tunity you will never have again. Get a pair Yankees whose business it is to see that you from the men who wear the blue now, enjoy them the rest of your life. American trade is carried to the far- and gold emblem. Write—Send no Money thest outposts of their land Just send us your name and address—no money. native —to We will ship you, express prepaid, for Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands STOP off awhile at Hawaii and you examination. Look them over, give expressman and the Isthmus of Panama. And will be hailed by buddies of nine $35. If you can duplicate them at less than $65, others, filled with the wanderlust, have posts, and then steer north to Alaska, or if you are not perfectly satisfied, send them back collect within 10 days and we will refund set themselves up in the Land of the where thirteen posts from Anchorage to your money. Rising Sun and in China, in Mexico, in Nome and from Juneau to Fairbanks Write now. Don't delay. They are going fast. Cuba, and in the republics of South have a bunk and chow waiting for hik- BLUE RIBBON PRODUCTS, Inc. America. Wherever you may wander ing Legionnaires. And then, if you find Dept. A 50 Union Square New York, N. Y. over the face of this terrestrial sphere, Alaska in the throes of winter and the above or below the equator or east or tropics are calling, a' Legion welcome is World War Souvenirs west of the meridian, in every land and awaiting you in Mexico City; Cristobal, clime you will find them. Canal Zone; Santo Domingo or Buenos We have secured from the Ordnance Dept. a large num- ber of fibre containers, made during the war for protect- They are the ambassadors of the flag. Aires. ing artillery shells during transportation. These we have converted for use as Waste Baskets, Um- And many of them fought for the flag Forty-three of these posts outside the brella Stands, Towel Receivers, Drinking Cup Recep- at Cantigny, at Chateau Thierry, at St. limits of the United States have been tacles, etc. They are strong and durable, well-made, smooth surfaced, have a metal bottom and are water- Mihiel and in the wire-mazed wilder- formed since the last convention. Their tight. Finished in a rich dull mahogany color. ness of the Argonne. These men are enrollment is in the neighborhood of the ones who, now that the war is over, Paris Post, with a mem- A DURABLE and ARTISTIC ARTICLE 12,000. The are perpetuating the memories of their bership of 1,000, is the largest. And it for Household or Commercial Use days of service at the meetings of the is only one of three posts in France. Stand from 14 to 2% ins. high and 6% in., 8J4 in., and Legion posts that they have formed The others are at Gievres and at La 10 in. diameter. thousands of miles from home. Rochelle. Sent prepaid for $1.50 each Go to Paris and you will find a Legion It is wholly logical that Paris should city When ordering, specify for which purpose desired. post in the Rue de l'Elysee. Pick your have a post of the Legion, for this way through the fog of London and you is the birthplace of the Legion. Here Roy A. Faye, Dept. L. will stumble on a Legion post there. it was in the middle of March, 1919, 15 Exchange St., Rm. 22, Boston, Mass. Cross the Channel again to Brussels that officers and enlisted men of all I'AGE 38 THE AMERICAN LEGION WBEKLV —

A. E. F. organizations assembled to sistance to former service men who are * draw up the plans for the veterans' or- ill and needy. ganization. It was in September, 1919 For veterans who become entangled —six months after the Paris caucus in legal difficulties in France because that Charles Beale, demobilized A. E. F. they are more or less unfamiliar with veteran, and Barris Katz, who was still the laws of the country, the Post has its in the service, started the machinery of Legal Committee, composed of Amer- the Paris Post. On Sunday, November ican lawyers, members of the Post. 10, 1919, the first meeting of the Post These lawyers, working with French at- was held. torneys, extend to American veterans The Paris Post had its full share of unusual assistance. The Post does not the tribulations which a new organiza- aid men to evade justice, but its aim is tion may expect. Early it lost its orig- to assist the innocent. inal home and got an office in the The Women's Auxiliary of the Post Elysee Palace Hotel, which was an A. now has more than fifty members and E. F. headquarters during the war. new applications are being received Later it moved to its present quarters daily. in the building of the American Li- brary Association at 10 Rue de l'Elysee. England, the land of tea, jam This building was once the home of the IN and Woodbines, the London Post, Papal legate. Now the Paris Post oc- as might be expected, is flourishing. cupies the entire second floor. Made up of members from the Ameri- Located in the capital of our ancient can Embassy, American Consulates, the ally, the Paris Post has realized that it 1 U. S. Shipping Board, American Relief stands for America and all that the Administration, U. S. Army Liquidation word means. It has declared a prin- Arrow Commission and Graves Registration ciple of strengthening the friendship Service, and numbering in its ranks between the two republics. One of its students from Oxford and Cambridge, first works was to provide a memorial COLLARS lawyers, chemists, journalists, engi- to the love of the American soldier for neers, salesmen, valets and chauffeurs, HE"quality that won for Arrows the children of France, by establishing r it stands as a representative post of the premier place in Collardom a fund f)pm which yearly prizes" will be 110 Legionnaires. is exactly the same quality that you awarded for the best essay written by get today when you buy an Arrow. One woman is a member of London any boy or girl in a Paris lycee upon a Post. She is Miss Alice Emerson subject which links the history of Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. Troy N. Y. Findley, who, first with the British and France and America. Makers of Arrow Shirts and Gotham Underwear with the American Army, saw The Post has conscientiously carried then service as a nurse under fire on several out its obligations to its members and of the big fronts. In recognition of her to all former service men. From time Victory Medal-Case service she holds decorations from to time ex-service men whom Fate has Great Britain, France and Belgium, A permanent case for display not treated too kindly have been as- and preservation of your medal, stars are on her Victory Rib- sisted in obtaining employment. At and two made of the finest materials, cov- bon. ered with silk velvet. the outset it was not easy to extend Post considers it is the Victory Model, $2.50 this assistance. But American busi- London that Liberty Model, $4.00 quick to understand that first unit of The American Legion in ness men were (Postpaid in U. S. A.) the Legion had a real purpose in Paris Europe, Beginning in September, 1919, and their doors began to open to Le- American ex-service men in Great THE VICTORY MEDAL-CASE CO. gionnaires. Business men were told Britain were enrolled in the American P. O. BOX 581 the names of honorably discharged ser- War Veterans Association. This asso- BUFFALO, N. Y. vice men who were seeking work. In ciation gave place to The Ameincan the first seven weeks of its operation, Legion of Europe on October 17, 1919. the Service Bureau of the Post obtained The Legion of Europe continued until of a charter ROM positions for more than 100 men. the receipt from The SEND FOR FREE BOOKLET OF DESIGNS From its own funds the Post has American Legion in the United States given assistance to ex-service men in on November 25, 1919. Under the di- John • Polachek. urgent need. The loans it has made rection of the Post, 2,500 American have been regarded as debts of honor graves in England and Ireland were bronze, &• iron • <§ by those who received them. Some of decorated on Memorial Day. 492.HANCOCK Sf. LONC ISLAND CITY. HY. the loans have enabled men to start in TT business on a small scale. The Post has thousands of miles of ocean also aided men who wished to return tt ACROSS LEARN PIANO! from London Post on this side America but had insufficient funds. This Interesting Free Book of the Atlantic is another typjcal unit shows how you can become a skillet! Transportation was provided to a port player of piano or organ at quarter us- of The American Legion. In the per- ual cost. It shows how one lesson with and the men were helped to obtain con- an expert is worth a dozen other les- petual summer of tropical America sons. Dr. Quinn's famous Written cessions for their voyage home. The Method includes all of the many import- where the narrow strip of the Isthmus ant modern improvements in teaching music. Brings right to your members of the American colony have home the great advantages of conservatory study. For the beginners of Panama joins together the continents ox experienced players. Endorsed by great Artists. Success for Lo-operated with the Post in lending as- graduates everywhere. Scientific yet easy to understand. Fully illus- of North and South America, the De- trated. All music free. Diploma granted. Write today for free book. partment of Panama has been created, QUINN CONSERVATORY, Studio Z9. 598 Columb ia Road, Boston 25 Hast with Panama Canal Post at Balboa Heights and Cristobal Post at Cristobal, to Dance • A. White, of Learn George Canal Zone. The men of the Canal You can learn Fox-Trot. One-Step, Two-Step. Oregon, one of the founders of The volunteered freely for the war, and Waltz and latest "up-to-the-minute" society dances in your own home by the wonderful American Legion, is preparing a saw service in all branches of American Peak System of Mail Instruction. series of highly interesting articles New Diagram Method. Easily learned; armies. They were on land and sea, in no music needed; thousands taught success- dealing with the earliest history the air the water. fully; success absolutely guaranteed. and under They Write for Special Terms. Send today for of the organization. The articles came back with almost every medal and FREE information and surprisingly low offer. will be published in forthcoming WILLIAM CHANDLER PEAK, M. B. decoration of America and the Allies. Room 318. 821 CflKlM PUMi ChlSMW. "> issues of THE AMERICAN LEGION In September, 1919, a few of these WEEKLY. Mr. White was one of veterans met to form a Post of the the group of twenty men who Legion. One had recently been an launched the Legion in Paris at an aviator in France, another only a few informal conference. He was also short months before as a lieutenant of the secretary of the Paris caucus. engineers had done things in No Man's TRENCH KNIFE His articles will reveal the inside Land which high British officers said ONLY A FEW HUNDRED LEFT of the large facts quantity of new Trench Knives recently sold us by the of all these early efforts and were impossible. A third, after months then trace the U. S. Government. This knife has a triangular blade development of the of volunteer ambulance driving before with walnut grip and heavy studded guard. It is the Legion from an idea to a powerful model carried in France and we have sold thousands tA America entered the war, had won a them to ex-soldiers for their collections. organization. commission in the French artillery. The Sent Prepaid on Receipt of $1.00 Post grew, another Post became neces- C. B. DRAKE, 34 S. 17th, Philadelphia SEPTEMBER 24. 1920 PAGE 39 : — ;;:

times of Victory and Peace, as INwell as in times of War, the re- sources of the executive, manu-

facturing, and service departments

of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation are instantly and con- tinuously available for the shoe manufacturers of the country. No American industry depends for its success upon machinery more than the boot and shoe industry. Nor has the efficiency of this industry ever been greater than it is today.

This is contributed toby the exist- ence of a highly perfected system

of shoe machinery, auxiliary and essential and accompanying ser- vice—a system and a service which Officers of London Post: left to right, R. L. Bland, finance officer: L. E. Anderson, commander: W. H. A. Coleman, adjutant are the result of years of intensive development and business genius Post, sary, and finally a Department Head- Evans Post, Seward ; Merlin Elmer Parlin Wrangell ; John T. Bossi Post, Fort Liscum constructively applied. quarters was chartered. John W Jones Post, Cordova ; Nome Post,

In July the Canal Legionnaires held Nome ; Davidson Post, Haines ; Dorman H. their first annual department conven- Baker Post, Fairbanks: Sitka Post, Sitka; UNITED SHOE Petersburg Post, Petersburg. tion on the Island of Taboga. There Department of Hawaii: Honolulu Post, Hono-

on a shelving hillside near an ancient lulu ; Kauai Post, Lihue, Kauai ; Hilo Post, Hi!o MACHINERY fishing village, within sight of the spot Post No. 4, North Kohala ; Waialua Post, Waialua, Oahu ; Schofield Barracks Post, Scho- where Vasco Nunez de Balboa in 1513 CORPORATION field Barracks ; Col. Elmer J. Wallace Post, Fort discovered the Pacific Ocean, they as- Kamehameha ; Maui Post, Wailuku, Maui. sembled and elected officers for the com- Department op Philippine Islands: Manila BEVERLY, MASS. Post, Manila ; Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt PoBt. ing year, adopted amendments to the Manila ; Cavite Post, Cavite ; C. Perry Rich Department constitution, and arranged Post, Fort William McKinley; Philippine Scouts to send delegates to the Cleveland con- Post, Fort William McKinley. Department of Canada: Yankee Post, Mon- vention. treal.

Department of France : Paris Post, Paris

Loire et Cher Post, Gievres Camp ; Standard in Yankee- AND another outpost of Post, La Rochelle. land the Legionnaires are much Department of Panama: Panama Canal Post, Cristobal, awake and stirring. In the Department Post, Balboa Heights ; Cristobal Canal Zone. of Hawaii, which enrolled nearly a thou- Germany : Amaroc Post, Coblenz. sand members within the first six England : London Post, London. SPALDING months, the boys are going strong. Belgium : Brussels Post, Brussels. Poland : Kosciusko Post, Warsaw. There, the flag waves at the where Japan : Tokyo-Yokohama Post, Tokyo-Yoko- crossroads of the Pacific, the O. D. is hama. plentiful in barracks, and far-flung China: Gen. Frederick Ward Post, Shanghai. Mexico: Tampico Post, Tampico ; Mexico City pickets and the one-time service men Post, Mexico City. and women of the Legion who know Cuba: Havana Post, Havana. Santo Domingo: Edward C. Fuller Post. soldier as well as civilian life are work- Santo Domingo, R. D. ing steadily to further harmony be- tween the military and civil population. A tremendous military fete and tourna- ment was staged to this end at Honolulu on July 4. BASKET BALL "The complete Americanization of these islands so that they shall be in AS a winter indoor at- truth as well as in name an integral traction there is no part of the United States and a real better means of sustaining mission station for the ideals of liberty, democracy and humanity which the member interest and ob- fathers builded into the foundations of taining continuous favor- this republic," is the aim of the Legion- able publicity than a repre- naires of Hawaii as expressed at their sentative basket ball team. convention. Their delegates who left for the Cleveland meeting did so with This has been the experience instructions to vote for the exclusion of already of many posts who Japanese immigrants from the United organized teams last season. States. Spalding Equipment will insure Paris, London, Panama, Hawaii, satisfaction — Quality always Tokyo, Montreal, Brussels, Havana the Legion spirit in one and all is the For information address same. The list of Departments and A. G. SPALDING & BROS. posts formed outside the United States NEW YORK CHICAGO in the last year follows SAN FRANCISCO and all other large cities of the United States Department ok Alaska: Jack Henry Post.

Anchorage ; Valdez Post. Valdez ; Ketchikan

Post, Ketchikan ; Bradford Post, Juneau ; Isaac Miss Alice E. Findley, of London Post

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This department is Inquiries should be Inspection placed at the disposal addressed ROLL CALL. Stands ex-service men and The of ROLL CALL American Legion For twenty-five years 3-ln-One 1 the their relatives for Weekly. Photographs Oil bas stood inspection by friendships formed in the war cannot be printed. Send replies renewal of direct to the strictest of all inspectors information about casualties. the person who asks for the and in getting information. the manufacturers of firearms. For twenty-five years 3-in-One has helped Soldiers and Sailors to stand the strictest of all inspections, by keeping tbeir guns free from rust and Adamson, Dova W., wants Slolnicker, Harry, formerly 9th Inf. Hq. Co., always working right. to hear from friends, officers write Armine Young, Independence, Ore. of 3d 3 - in - One penetrates the and enlisted men, the Sowder, Charles A., formerly Co. D., 6th Inf., or 29th Co., microscopic pores of the Bn., 59th Inf., write Anton Kirkemeyer, 270 Chestnut st., metal and excludes all Camp Gordon July Aut. Repl. Breese, 111. Draft. Address 1325 W. 37th moisture. The more it's Taylor, Bty. F, 42d R. A. write used the Place, Los Angeles, Cal. R„ Aloys more impervious Volk, Harvey, N. D. to moisture the metal AvRITT, C. V., formerly 15th Teegarden, Carius, Co. K, 148th becomes. Never gums Service Co., Fort Leaven- Inf. In- formation sought by Ben McElfresh, or dries out. See Moss' write W. S. L., ex- Georgetown, worth, Ohio. Manuals. Tr. Bn., Box sgt.-maj., 6th For sale at Post Exchanges and 309, Salem, Ore. Ten Eyeck, Jimmie, Co. A, 128th Inf., write Ships Stores. Prices east of Theo M. Crary, Red Cross, Viroqua, Rocky Mountains, 15c 30c and Wis. 60c In bottles. In Bandy oil Baines, Willie R., formerly 104th Ord. Rep. ToMLlN, Roy cj, formerly Co. F., 2d Eng. Cans, 30c. Shop. Information sought by Leo A. Spillane, Address wanted by Frank S. Pvaa Generous Sample and House, Boston, Summers, Mexico, Flee Dictionary of Uses. American Legion, 158 State Mo. Mass. Three-in-One Oil Co. Tucker, R.. formerly 104th Co., 8th Marines, Barrow, Alvin, formerly Lt., Co. A, 352d 165 KG. Bdwy., New York write Cyril Tapager, Lake Mills, Iowa. C87* Inf., write P. H. Kingmus, 90 Lemon st., Du- buque, Iowa. ' Weaver, David and Leroy, Co. M., 148th Inf., write Ben McElfresh, Georgetown, Ohio. SERVES THE SERVICE BEST Bertant, Heslin H., formerly Co. C, 156th Inf., write E. F. Warren, Canton, Miss. Whitman, Benjamin, Y. M. C. A., St. Oven en Belin, write Eric Gustavson, Scandia,- Kans. Cameron, Francis P., formerly 2d Eng., write Harlan L. Shattuck, Glockner, San., Col- Whitworth, Robert, formerly 70th Co. orado Springs, Colo. Marines, write Paul H. Nelins, Fornfelt, Mo. Caplan, Samuel J., formerly 51st Inf. M. G. Wooley.'Paul V., formerly in A. E. C. at the Sorbonne, Co., write Donald G. King, 4531 Royal ave., write Henry D. Hopkins, 8057 Indianapolis, Ind. Drexel ave., Chicago, 111. Carter, Phillip, 306th Am. Tr., write Mar- Wray, George, formerly of the Prince Fred- erick tin Farmer, Marshall, Mo. William, write John H. Bunning, Hatha- way Inn, Deal Beach, N. J. Cline, Elbridge P., formerly Co. B, 133d Evac. Hosp. No. M. G. Bn. Whereabouts sought for grandmother 27, Annex, Treves—All mem- by Commander, American Legion, Maiden, Mass. bers are asked to send their present and perma- nent addresses to Dr. James W. Davis, States- Information desired ~by CRAUGHAN,* VerniE. ville, N. C. father, L. H. Craughan, Old Exchange Bldg., 23d Inf., Co. John Sioux City, Iowa. H.— R. Phelan, Brown- Potter Apts., Saranac Lake, N. Y., wants to Brooklyn, N. Y., write L. Cuperman, Isidor, hear from buddies of this outfit. Goldstein, Solen, N. D. Damon, Samuel L., 23d Eng. Information wanted by John Barley, Gen. Del., Palo Alto, In the Casualty List Cal. Sage, John, Co. I, 363d Domes, Barney, formerly U. S. N., write E. R. Inf.—Relatives may obtain Hatfield, 921 Jefferson, Toledo, Ohio. photograph of his grave from Phil Katz, 71 Elton, A. S., and others of old 302d Bn., Hq. V .StmBSaV ^ Parker ave Tank Corps, write Jay H. Metcalf, 933 ifBj aBa^saav m " San Francisco, Calif, Co., S ttg - A - R D- Co. G.— Pvt. Cherry st., Grand Rapids, Mich. V\l H^HPPH I Otto Troester died of pneu- Esty, Roy T., Formerly 104th Co., 8th Marines, l W m monia at Camp Morn Hill, Lake Mills, ^ Galveston, write Cyril Tapager, k I MM Winchester, Eng. Infor- Iowa. ms*. •> mation wanted for rela- Halfacre, Leonard J., TT. S. M. C, write tives by Adjutant, Ameri- Gail L. Speith, 922 Fifth ave., Seattle, Wash. can Legion Post, Gutten- Hileman, Floid N. and Jesse C, brothers. berg, Iowa. Information wanted by sister, Mrs. Dessie Riggs, 5TH Marines, 2d Bn.—Wheatley D. Lewis re- ported killed in action in October. Box 196, Rawlesburg, W. Va. 1918 ; later reported missing in action: Information sought Hill, Jack, formerly Magazine Guard, 35th by mother, Mrs. L. Lewis, 2033 S. Cecil St., Co., Marines, Mare Island, write Cyril Tapager, Philadelphia, Pa. Lake Mills, Iowa. 18th Inf., Co. K.—Edward H. Kuhnle killed Hoover, G. G. W., Hq. Co., 12th Eng., write in action July 18, 1918. Particulars of death 601 High St., GET THIS SUIT C. W. Leavitt, Ex-14th Eng., and burial and photograph wanted by sister, Dedham, Mass. Mrs. H. F. Huber, 238' 31st st., Oakland, Calif. made to your own measure. Johnson, G. Y., Co. C, 47th Inf., write Stuart 23D Inf.—Pvt. Elmer Hughes last heard from It won't eest you one single cent, B. Walther, Y. M. C. A., 215 W. 23d st., New in hospital in France. Information desired by We will give it toy ou so you can York City, concerning death of Karl Morandi. mother, Mrs. Mary Hughes, Carl Junction, Mo. show it to your friends.lt will be a big advertisement for Johnson, Harry E., formerly 79th F. A. Sup- 23d Inf., Co. M.—Selva S. Hensley died of us. You ean easily make from ply Co., 36 Falcon st., East Boston, Mass., would wounds at Hospital No. 8 or No. 31 on Sep- like to hear from other members of this outfit. tember 9, 1918. Details wanted by sister, Mrs. $35 to Every Week Johnson, William, formerly Co. A, 536th A. 0_. Williams, De Queen, Ark. $50 besides that be the best dressed Eng., write James F. Dolan, 438 Second st.. 28th Inf., Co. K.—William Lehwald reported and man in your town. It's an oppor- killed in East Newark, N. J. action on Nov. 7, 1918. Men who were tunity you cannot afford to overlook. with him at time of death are asked to write to Kennedy, John F., formerly Co. D, 106th Even if you only want to order a suit his sister, Miss Martha Lehwald, Route Day- for yourself, don't fail to Inf., write W. V. Paul, 115 John st., Port Rich- 3, ton, Ohio. mond, N. Y. Write For Our Bis Offer 28th Inf., Co. M.—Frank R. Matthew wounded Don't delay minute. Drop as King, William E., last heard from in Co. A, your on a post- Oct. 1, 1918. Whereabouts sought by Mrs. C. C. a line or send us name 8th M. O. R. S., Camp Lee, Va. Information card, and we will send yon absolutely Matthew, 750 Kelly st., Zanesville, Ohio. wanted by sister, Mrs. Edward A. Lyon, Lewis- f our wonderful style book, con- Inf., taining beautiful samples to choose ton, Idaho. 58th Co. E.—JValter R. Manette died of wounds Oct. 6, 1918. Details wanted by Miss from. Write now. Cook, formerly Co. F., 2d Eng. Ad- 1 McHasen, Sarah Monette, 280 Third ave., Duluth, Minn. The Progress Tdferijj Co.. Dept507 Chicago dress wanted by Frank S. Summers, Mexico, Mo. 60th Inf., Co. C. —Members of this outfit who Martin, Mech., and Menard, formerly 3d Bn. were in action near Cunel, France, on Oct. 14, Hq., 313th Inf., write Robert F. Jean, Route 3, 1918, are asked to write to Mrs. Marie C. Thune, Salem, N. J. De Lamere, N. D. Meeks, DelbERT A., formerly in S. O. S., 101st Inf., Co. D.—Chester R. Howland re- Tours, write J. A. Erskine, 1330 Marine Trust ported as having died in B. H. No. 70. Particu- Bldg.. Buffalo, N. Y. lars wanted by mother, Mrs. Emma W. How- Moore, Leo J., 568 Pavone st., Benton Harbor, land, 7 Spring St., Plymouth, Mass. Mich., wants to hear from buddies of Co. M., 128th Inf., Co. M.—Daniel Harder killed in 34th Inf. action at Cantigny, May 28, 1918. Details de- Rankin, Walter A., Q. M. C, formerly Camp sired by brother, Michael Harder, Almyra, Ark. TT7RITE for our bulletin describing our 48 week Fayetteville, James D. Grist, Bragg, N. C, write 307th Inf., Co. M.—Ambrose J. Cunningham courses in Automobile Repair, Tire Vulcan- Yorkville, S. C. killed in the Argonne on Oct. 4 or 5, 1918. izing, Machine Shop, Storage Battery and Igni- RoGEns, "Mary," formerly Corp., 90th Div., Particulars wanted by brother, Eugene M. Cun- tion, Starting and Lighting. Also special 12 week Garage Course. Enter any time. Government Cross, Viroqua, Wis. ningham, 1646 43d St., Brooklyn N. Y. write Theo. M. Crary, Red approved. A Real Trade School on a College Sherwood, Arthur, Co. K, 327th Inf., not 328th Inf., Co. L—Charles L. Carr killed in Campus. heard from since Sept. 13, 1918. Information Cornay, Meuse, offensive on Oct. 8, 1918. In- DES MOINES COLLEGE, SCHOOL OF TRADES wanted by S. D. Schuyler, 207 Schultz Bldg., formation wanted by wife, Mrs. Madeline A. Highland Park, Dm Moines, Iowa Carr, Newbury, Mass. t Columbus, Ohio. West

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rines, is only one of the names SuiS'coat on the Medal of Honor roll which show the contribution of the Gaelic clans to American valor. At Blanc %3f Bj I Men—look here! Mo need for ou to wear ready mades. No Mont Ridge, on October 1918, Kelly J | HF 3, ^tteed for you to stand for high ran forward one hundred yards through prices and pay all the money down for made-to-measure the American barrage, attacked an clothes. America's big enemy machine gun nest, killing the tailor shop will make you a gunner with a grenade and shooting suit or overcoat of fine fab- ric in latest style to your another member of the crew with his exact measure, guarantee the fit and send it on pistol, and returned through the bar- approval for SI down. Get our big Style Book and see for pourself that we are world beaters on style, quality, rage with eight prisoners.

:v. . sonable prices and terms. liberal Th» free Style Book Kelly is also still in the Marine explains our plan and shows how y< it the snappiest styles and save money. Cloth sampies also sent fraa. Corps. Former service men in any western city may see him one of these days if the "Roving Marines," the special recruiting detachment, should 5 Months to Pay come into their town. They may know Yourcredit is good here. We him by his ribbon, the one with the blue trust you. Wear the suit or sgfflRg^ OtJffM overcoat while paying for it. fPnlpOl^ £*%wt background spangled with gold stars. No risk to you. If not eatis- k ffiM (Or ::; And they may verify the identification fieii return the clothesand we W ]^^^S f»i,,|A refund your Jl. That shows Ofylt? by his smile for is that — he known among our garments and work \ *a fWirw*\t' must be best— otherwise we yZ^o&s:'::;! mM%M%Mw\ his buddies as "Smiling Jack." could not make such an offer. Could any house be more liberal? Still another Medal of Honor man whose bravery was a reminder that Save America was repaying what she had obtained from Europe is James C. '15 to '25 Dozier, formerly of the 118th Infantry, Thirtieth Division. Although prac- Yen, you ke-p$I5 to $25 (or more) in your tically all Dozier's life before the war James C. Dozier, who became a hero at pocket when you or- in in der a suitor overcoat had been spent his native town of Montbrehain the land of his ances- from us- See our Rock Hill, S. C, his remote ancestors tors, is now a wholesale grocery sales- stunning styles and classy tailoring and lived in France. And it was fitting man in South Carolina learn how to save a that, in addition to winning the Medal lot of money. Get in on this now, and save of Honor, he was made a Chevalier of an example to a whole army by refusing that cash for yourself the Legion of Honor by the President of You send only $1.00 and to be taken to the rear after being your measurements and the French Republic. tell us which cloth you wounded in the shoulder, and pressing want. We make the suit Perhaps several hundred years ago on at the head of his platoon, to break and ship quick—no de- the forbears of Lieutenant Dozier lays. Send clothes back down enemy opposition. With a sergeant If not all or more than fought in France near the very same you expect. at his side, Lieutenant Dozier attacked town of Montbrehain, where on Octo- a machine gun nest, creeping up on the ber 1918, the South Carolina man set 8, defenders under intense fire and killing FREE the entire crew with grenades and his pistol. Then he captured a number of Styliie Book prisoners who had taken refuge in a Send for your copy of dugout. our wonderful FREE South Carolina, his native State, did StyleBook. Shows pictures of latest styles in suits and overcoats and a biff not overlook the fact that Lieutenant collection of fine cloth samples to select from. Mail cou- Dozier had distinguished himself. pon, letter or postal tpday—no charge—no obligation whatever. When Lieutenant Dozier last June mar- ried the girl who had been waiting for Stanley-Rogers Co., 1015 Jackson Bl., Dept. 931 Chicago him all during the war, the towns- Please send me FKEE your new Style Book showing latest Metropolitan Styles.also Cloth Samples and full par- people presented as a wedding gift a titulars of your $1 down with Five-Months-To-Pay Offer silver service which was inscribed with a tribute to his war heroism. His old company also presented to him a me-

AddreBB . morial gift, a silver table stand. The hero of Montbrehain is now staging a single-handed advance in the The little matter of 10 eta. will brine you the Pathfinder eight weeks on trial. The business field. Although urged by his pub- Pathfinder is an illustrated weekly, friends to run for the office of adjutant What lished at the Nation's center, for all the Nation; an Independent home paper general of South Carolina, he preferred that prints all the news of the world and tells the truth: now In its 28th to join the selling staff of a wholesale a Dime year. This paper fills the bill with- j"-*' grocery company. In this civilian Will bring it costs Pathfinder Election Guide Q. M. C. service he expects to drive mm but $1 a year. If settles all election dls~ his objective, a store in which If a|| you want to keep putes: chock full of facts ahead to posted on what Is and figures* 32 page vest' he will rank as C. O. I VM going on in the pocket pamphlet free with Crnmtha world, at the every trial subscription. ITUIIIwan IIIC mastleast exexpense of time or money, this is your means, [This is the fourth of a series of articles If you want a paper in your home i has become some the which is sincere, reliable, entertain- telling what of of Nations!1 lng, wholesome, the Pathfinder is Smiling Jack Kelly, who showed re- fifty-four living men who won the Con- a a yours. If you would appreciate a pa- |I AM|JiaI per which puts everything clearly. markable daring at Blanc Mont, is now gressional Medal of Honor for sur- I I HI strongly, briefly—here tt Is. Send with the Roving Marines, getting re- passing coifrage during the A. E. F.'s Villi' lOo to show that you might like such m a paper, and we will send the Pathfinder on cruits through the West battles—Editor's Note.] probation eight weeks. The 10c does not repay us. but we are glad to. Invest In new friends. Address The Pathfinder. 591 Lanido n Sta., Washington, 0. C. Send for Complete THE SECOND A. E. F. Catalogue of MASONIC BOOKS (Continued from page 8) Jewelry and Goods go forth on their own, a-foot by twos a car and drives her out himself. These and threes, save, perhaps, when some all dodge the sight-seeing buses. REDDING & CO. quondam major of Infantry, fufilling Some others succumb occasionally to Publishers and Manufacturers an old promise to show his wife the hill such alluring ads as "Go Over The Pepl. A. 200 Fifth Avenue, New York she had heard so much about, hunts up Top With A Blue Devil. Every Modern —

Comfort." But for the most part, even a drunken doughboy on pay day night, these confine themselves to the swift buy six or seven of everything, and re- trip through Soissons, Rheims and turn to America loaded with more gor- Chateau-Thierry, which starts from geousness than she can possibly sneak * Paris in the morning and lands you past the Customs. This puts her in a back there again in time for a real bad humor. dinner the next evening. * After that, "Oh, they just robbed us over there," of course, they can say they have cov- she complains. "I know the French ered the battlefields. To be sure, there cheated me at every shop I went into. remains the Argonne and all that, but I often used to tell them frankly I by this time, they have had enough, didn't see how they could be so un- most of them. As the man at the tour- grateful after all our boys had done for ist agency says, with a shrug: "After them. Answer me? But, my dear, all, there's very little variety in ruins." what would there be for them to say. But your real out-and-out tourist does They charged me a hundred francs a not take even the shortest of trips. She day for the most appalling room in is too busy in the tempting Paris shops, Paris. Of course, I'll admit they're where, thanks to the rate of exchange, pretty crowded. Indeed, the dear old j she is«abte to elbow all the natives out place was quite spoiled for me. So | of her way, throw her francs around like many dreadful tourists." Here's Free Proof That You Can Hear! SOLDIER'S MAIL" The wonderfully Improved Acousticon has enabled more than 400,000 deaf persons (Continued from page 6) now to hear. We are sure It will do the same for you; arc so abvMutely certain of it that we the 2nd I took over the company after the battle of St. Mihiel. The ate eager to send you the and we held the line for six days. writer was killed in action in the 1 920 Acousticon The Huns attacked us three times Argonne a month and a day later. He For 10 Days' FREE TRIAL and we gave it to them every time was twenty-four years old. He wrote: and succeeded in holding the lines. No Deposit—No Expense

I was right in the famous town of With the A. E. F. Tfeere Is nothing you will have to do but Hooge. This line is generally held Sept. 16, 1918 ask for your free trial. No money to pay. no fed tape, no reservation to this offer. Our for two days only, but we held her Dear Cousin: confidence in the present Acousticon is so for six. Your letter at hand. Was mighty complete that we will gladly take all the risk The R. C. R.'s are now highly glad to hear from you. You say il^proving- beyond any doubt that regarded for holding on, and our you hope I came out 0. K. after the The Joy of Hearing Can be ' brigade is now considered the best slight wound I got. I couldn't come F, Yours Again Canadian brigade out here. I can- out any The Acousticon has improvements and not go into details at all, but I tell other way. patented features which cannot be dupli- you it was hell, and I thank God I I am feel- cated, so no matter what you have ever came through safely. Hope you got ing fine tried, just ask for a free trial of the Acousti- — con. You'll get it promptly, and if it doesn't my cable worded correctly "out and still go- make you hear, return it and you will owe safely." The regiment had luck ing strong. us nothing—not one cent. which was uncanny. We should Stopped a Dictograph Products Corporation have been in the part of the line mac h i n e Candler Building, New York which was completely wiped out, gun bullet 1449 but changed with another battalion with my at their request for this tour. right arm Better keep the following to three or yourself until I get more details. four days ago. Just a slight When I was relieved at Hooge, scratch. I took the A. T. S. SEND HO MONEY C. M., K. J. and a lot of boys took shot and had the arm done up at Write quick for this amaz- ing shirt bargain. Only over the trench. We left there the dressing station and didn't go limited lot. Wonderful to the hospital. quality fine count per- about 2.30 a. m. and at 8 a. m. the There was no need cale. Record breaking Huns blew two mines into this Coy. of it. If they don't get me any cut price. Guarantee $8.00 value for only of the 28th Battalion. We have no worse than they have so far I won't $5.00 C. O. D. details yet but it is almost certain complain a bit. Send No Money N just your name and that very few came back. They We're mighty busy at present neckband size on postal or letter for these three may be prisoners, so keep quiet till and most of us are having the time wonderfulpercaleshirts. you know. of our lives. Chasing Huns isn't a Cut extra large, roomy armholes. This season's The general impression is that very bad job if you use a system. latest black, blue or laven- the war is in its last stages. The main trouble is they go so fast der stripe effects on white Some background. Guaranteed of the old generals who have been that we can't catch up very well. fast color. Best quality pearl buttons, soft French very pessimistic are now abso- Of course they don't all run. turn back cuffs, finest lutely changed. Two months should If they don't lose their breath workmanship. We guarantee to refund your see something definite. I guess they will forget to stop money if yoD can match these 8 shirts for less than $8.00. I expect to be here as long as a when they get to Berlin. We Save money— write today be- fore this astounding offer fa month. Had a letter from Dad last should worry. The faster they run withdrawn. We pay, delivery chargrea. Vou pay 'only $6.00. night and I was indeed glad to get and the sooner they are ready to Just send your name, address and neckband sfze. it. If possible we will finish up admit that they are licked, the BERNARD, HEWITT & COMPANY our work here soon and then me for sooner Uncle Sam will say, "The Dept. R- 1410 900 West Van Bureo Street Chicago, IHInolc

home, home, home. boats are ready, men ; go to them." My but we were terrible sights We don't want that till there is no LOCKHART when we came from the trenches. 1 more Germany but all are working None of us had shaved for six days, hard to make it happen soon. Spiral Puttees Patented. M»de in U. S. A and we were dirty, and talk about After this war is over I hope you ' "Known throughout the Service" bugs! Think I have some of can get a chance to take a trip over them Smart— Comfortable— Efficient 'yet. the war-swept area. It will surely Olive Drab, Marine, Cadet Gray. Must stop now and have supper. be a liberal education for anyone Post Exchanges, your Dealers, or write Will write again very soon. Much, who can make the trip. Person- 195 Broadway, Brooklyn, M. Y. much love to you all. I am still ally, I'll be very well satisfied to Mfrs, te> the Gov't, Military Schools and Organizations. very well and feel top hole. stay right in God's own country As ever, your son and brother, when I get back to it. R. B. Love to all, Your cousin, J. C. B. RB. fell in action on October, 1916, Cpl. A Co.— U. S. Inf., A. E. F. . during the first battle of the Beautiful photographs of all troopships taken during the Somme. His body was never found. So the record stands—and who can war. Send name of troopship you want. Sizes 10 in. by 14 In., SI. 00. 20 in. by 24 In. enlargements, J5.00. Th i fourth letter is by a doughboy show a more sterling chronicle of one ARMY TRANSPORT PHOTOGRAPH CO., of thJ A. E. F. It was written just hundred percent Americanism? 206 Broadway, New York. N. Y. Delivery Prepaid

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The Legion building The Indiana State Legislature, at a is to be constructed under the control special session just closed, voted that of a Board of Trustees appointed by Have You Yours? the Indiana State War Memorial should the Governor, one to be selected from take the form of a structure for this each congressional district in the State. The American Legion Weekly is purpose. The Legislature voted to dedi- All members of this body must be men still supplying the many calls cate to the project a tract of land owned of The American Legion. No definite for that by the State in the center of Indianap- figure on the cost of erecting the War Adjustable Back Binder olis, 900 feet long by 450 feet wide, Memorial has been set. The appropria- made expressly for The American and made a tax levy which will yield a tion of a little more than $3,000,000 is Legion Weekly. This Binder little over $3,000,000. The city of In- regarded merely as an evidence of good holds 52 issues or one year's dianapolis also was authorized to asso- faith and intent on behalf of Indiana to volume of "The Weekly." It is ciate with the State enterprise a pro- redeem its pledge adequately and hand- made in posal the city had made to include two somely to house and equip National additional city blocks adjoining the Headquarters. With the funds in hand, Full Book Cloth (Red) at $1.75 each—Postpaid State properties, about 900 feet by 450 the Board of Trustees, following its Fabrikoid Covered (Black) $2.25 each—Postpaid feet. These two tracts of land adjoin organization, will be able to get definite with The American Legion a city block 450 feet square, making plans and estimates before the next Weekly embossed in gilt on cover. a magnificent plaza, five full city blocks regular session of the Indiana General Send check, postal or express long and one wide, or a total of 2,250 Assembly in January, 1921, at Which money order to feet long by 450 feet wide. The land time the State is expected to make the BINDER DEPARTMENT is worth about $12,000,000. appropriation necessary to complete the The American Legion Weekly The American Legion Headquarters project. 627 West 43d St. NEW YORK ARE OUR ORPHANS FORGOTTEN? AMONG the issues to be brought up at the" Cleveland convention Regarding Circulation and is one which is less of an issue than a responsibility. This is the re- Editorial Matters adoption of 3,000 French war orphans and destitute children, former mascots SUBSCRIPTIONS : Annual subscription facing price, $2.00. Postage free in the United of the A. E. F., who now are States, its dependencies, and Mexico. Add another winter with every prospect of 50 cents a year postage for Canada, and going cold and hungry. $1.00 a year for all foreign countries. Once the A. E. F. acted as a pro- The annual subscription rate to members vider for them. Now the A. E. F. is of The American Legion is $1.00, payable as National dues through local posts only. back in civilian life, three thousand Single copies, 10 cents. No subscriptions miles from battlefield and billet, and commenced with back issues. the suffering children of France to whom Yankee generosity in wartime Changes op Address: The old as well spelled food and shelter are looking as the new address mus^be given with request for change. Legion members again to their O. D. parrains for rescue should give name and number of post to from their hardships. which they belong. At least two weeks is The Americanism Commission of the necessary for a change of address to Legion has entered the campaign for become effective. readoption of the children on a large No subscription agents are employed, scale. Fifteen hundred letters have but regular newsdealers will accept sub- been sent to State Americanism chair- scriptions from persons other than mem- men, State adjutants, and to the vari- bers of The American Legion. ous posts in New Jersey, New York and Andree Colin, formerly adopted by the Address all correspondence to 627 West Connecticut, by Arthur Woods, chair- 103rd Supply Train, Twenty-eighth 43d St., New York City. man of the National Americanism Division Commission, pleading the case of the EDITORIAL OFFICE: 627 West 43d little unfortunates. Field representa- for a year's support of an orphan. st.. New York City. The American Checks for the children's support are Legion Weekly is always glad to con- tives of the Commission also have been sider articles, jokes and cartoons, and making a personal canvas of the posts oeing sent to the French Orphan Fund, to receive letters and suggestions from its in Eastern States, asking a representa- National Treasurer, American Legion, Manuscript should readers. be accom- tive of each post to assume personal Indianapolis, Ind. The money is then panied by postage and an addressed en- responsibility for collecting from turned over to the Red Cross, which velope for return if unaccepted. sources, either inside or outside the assigns the children and supervises all Legion, at least $75, the sum required expenditures.

PAGE 44 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY ers and friends of the war veterans of Johnson lay or red tape in obtaining treatments. City THE City, who indignantly repudiated the action and state health officers can inform inquirers of their so-called leading Ex-'S e rv/ce citizens and Mayor, of thfc location of the neaiest venereal clinic and assured the Government that they did or, inquiries may be made direct to the U. S not regard these nicu who had been "broken Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. <, RE in health and happiness in defense of their country, including Johnson City" as "lepers or things unclean." "We pledge you," ran W*hisky Is No Longer one set of resolutions, "that these men whom you send to fight for, health, happiness and Medicine in the Afavi/ home among us shall have our most friendly After being outlawed by Secretary Daniels concern, our most neighborly help and our long, long ago, one John Barleycorn recently most loyal support in all things." was discovered leading a quiet life in the sick bay of the Navy, but John has now walked the gang plank. The splash of his naval tak- Venereal Clinics off Are ing was heard in Washington last week when the Surgeon General of the Navy issued Free to All Veterans an order forbidding the use, save, under the most drastic restrictions, of distilled spirits, Veterans of the World War are entitled to winea-or alcoholic preparations. Whisky is lee treatment for venereal disease A Digest of News of Interest to in the "striken from the supply table ot the medical ' clinics of the Public Health Service, Hugh department," in the wording of the order. For ^the Former Soldier and S. Cumming, Surgeon General of the Service, Sailor f_ extreme cases of necessity, ethyl alcohol will announces in a statement issued to clear up be employed instead of whisky, under the new misunderstandings on the subject caused by regulations. a confusion of the "line of duty" provisions All alcoholic preparations now aboard ships Veterans Speak When of the War Risk Insurance Compensation are being denatured by the addition of sub- system. stances which make them unsuitable as bev- Town Fights Hospital The treatment of venereal disease by the erages. They are being placed in containers Public Health Service clinics, located in all labeled, "Dangerous to Drink." , Preparations are being made for the trans- the principal cities, is accorded without refer- formation of the Soldiers' Home at Johnson ence to where, when or how the disease was State Party Favors Compensation- City, Tenn., into a sanitarium of 1,000 beds contracted, the statement says. The only Passage of a four-fold national compensation for tubercular ex-soldiers of the World War, Question is whether a person has a venereal law to aid Veterans of the World War is rec- despite protests* made by the Johnson City disease. If so, its treatment is considered a ommended in the state platform of the Re- I hamber of Commeroe, Kiwanis and Rotary measure of public welfare and no one is denied publican Party of Missouri, adopted August Clubs, the Mayor of the city, and city public- the privilege. 31. In part, the plank on this subject says: health officials. All these, acting together, Early in the war Congress authorized the "While the men who were with the colors, got the State Public Health Officer of Tennes- Public Health Service to begin a natipn-wide whether injured or- not, can never be paid for see to take the mattei up with the Government ' campaign to eradicate venereal disease in civil- their services, we believe that insofar as pos- through Senator McKellar of that State. ian communities. This was done after in- sible, ' 'k grateful nation should adjust their Senator McKellar merely laid the letters of vestigations showed that syphilis was in a class compensation to help in some measure to protest before the Bureau of War Risk In- with cancer and tuberculosis, from a stand- equalize the financial losses which they sus- surance, the Public Health Service and the point of number of victims and the gravity of tained, To that end, we recommend to the Vocational Board, without comment. It was the disease. Other venereal disease was shown favorable action of the United States Senate not long, however, until he had other letters to be scarcely less of a menace. the bill which passed the House and which was and resolutions to present. They were from Service men do not have to exhibit discharge framec!< largely along lines recommended by the indignant fathers, mothers, sisters, bioth- papers or service records, and there is no de- The Aifteiican Legion."

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