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The Message Center by The Editor

Think Ahead! by Robert W. Chambers

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving With a Critical Introduction by JOHN ERSKINE Decorations by Lowell L. Balcom An Enemy Debt by Perceval Gibbon 14 Illustrations by V. E. Pvles

America—From the Inside On by Hugh Walpole First Families by Marquis James Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel

Here's Luck ! third episode-. Entente Cordiale and Other Drinks by Hugh Wiley Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops

High Water by Alexander Gardiner

A Personal View by Frederick Palmer

Speaking of Cherries by Wallaren

Bursts and Duds with cartoons by Matthew Greene

Keeping Step i, y Right Guide Then and Now by The Company Clerk

Telling the World by Grover F. Sexton

Saving Trees and Men by Franklin Stetson Clark THE STARS IN THE FLAG New Jersey: One of the original thirteen colonies. First population, 45th in area, 3d in density. Capital. Trenton, settled by the Swedes along the Delaware River, and by (1926 U. S. est.), 134,000. Three largest cities (1926 est.), the Dutch in northwestern part who had migrated from Newark, 459,000; Jersey City, 318,000; Paterson, 143,000. Holland via New Amsterdam. In 1655, Peter Estimated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), $11,794,- Stuyvesant gained control of the entire region for 189,000. Principal sources of wealth (U. S. 1923), the Dutch. In 1664, the Dutch surrendered the silk industry output, petroleum re- $183,389,001 ; colony to the English. On June 24, 1664, the fining products, $242,304,887; chemical products, Duke of York granted it to two noble friends, $121,301,321. Natural products: In IQ20, the Berkeley and Carteret, as a proprietary province. state's 29,702 farms yielded crops valued at $87,- Divided into East and West Jersey under the jur- 484,000 in corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, rye, buck- isdiction of Pennsylvania, it was reunited into a wheat, hay, fruits, cranberries, strawberries and Mngle colony in 1702, when it became a royal garden truck. New Jersey had 145,995 men in province of England. Population 1700, 184,139; the service during the World War. State motto, 1026 (U. S. est.), 3,680,482. Percentage of urban popula- adopted 1776, Liberty and Prosperity. Origin of name: Car- tion (communities of 2,500 and over), iooo. 70.6; 1010, teret one of the proprietary owners named it for the Isle of 75.2; 1920, 78.4. Area, 8,224 sq. miles. Density of popula- Jersey, one of the British Isles, which he had administered. tion (1925), 426.3 per sq. mile. Rank among States, 10th in Nicknames. Jersey Blue, Garden State, New Spain, Mosquito.

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sort of thing that everybody was expect- A. E. F. University at Beaune—the only Gibbon . . . The photograph of Goring- ing, but a pure melodramatic thriller college in the world where the students on-Thames which appears with Hugh called "The Green Goddess" which en- never wore coonskin coats. As a result of Walpole's second article on America was joyed the double advantage of being an his services he was awarded the American furnished through the courtesy of the

excellent play and a financial success. Distinguished Service Medal and was Great Western Railway of England . . . made a chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur Alexander Gardiner is a frequent con- by France. Moreover he is an honorary tributor. Grover F. Sexton is a Chicago DOUBTLESS much the same sort of citizen of Beaune. "Who's Who in newspaperman with a notable record. unreasonable argument had often America" lists nearly thirty books which been directed at John Erskine: "Here he has written or edited, which shows you've been devoting practically a gen- that he has been doing something with WITH the concluding article of Rich- eration to telling college students what's his spare time these many years. ard Washburn Child's series on the wrong and what's right with English and problems of national defense—"Un- American literature, publishing some armored America," which appeared in critical essays and a little poetry and IT IS a happy coincidence that the first the December number— there appeared a editing a lot of books that other people story which Dr. Erskine has selected is photograph showing Clarence Chamber- wrote. Why don't you do something Washington Irving's "The Legend of lin's airplane on the point of taking off yourself and let those other people have Sleepy Hollow." For in an issue record- from the deck of the Leviathan. The cap- a chance to say what's wrong and what's ing the anniversaries of America's two tion said this was "the first ship-to-shore right with you?" So Professor Erskine greatest February children, it is pleasant flight ever made." Legionnaires Harlan sat him down and turned out three— phe- to find represented a great American G. Foster of Manchester, Ohio, and nomenal best sellers in a row "The author who was named after one of the George E. Hornby of Valentine, Ne- Private Life of Helen of Troy," "Gala- two. Washington Irving, like Dr. Ers- braska, call our attention to the fact that had" and "Adam and Eve." "Helen of kine, was born in New York City—on as long ago as 191 1 Eugene Ely flew off Troy" has got herself into the movies April 3, 1783, not quite a hundred years the cruiser Pennsylvania in San Francisco (just as "The Green Goddess" did, by previous to Dr. Erskine's original ap- Bay and then flew back on it. The re- the way), and the world won't be startled pearance—and died at Sunnyside-on-the- turn trip to the Pennsylvania on that day if the other two follow. The movie mag- Hudson, near the scene of the legend, on seventeen years ago was all the more re- nates know what the public wants. November 28, 1859. markable for the reason that in those days planes were not equipped with tail skids, and a crude arrangement of ropes THE series of famous American short ROBERT W. CHAMBERS is an- weighted down with sandbags which en- stories—or, more properly, short sto- other native New Yorker—rather he gaged grapplers attached to the plane ries by Americans—which is inaugurated was born in Brooklyn, and Brooklyn has was employed to bring the machine to a in this issue, each of which will be chosen since become part of New York City. stop. The daring aviator's plane carried and supplied with a critical introduction He began his career as an artist, studying along all of these ropes but the last one. by Dr. Erskine, has not been selected on in Paris from 1886 to 1893. His first book The error in the caption is not on Mr. a competitive basis. The series will not appeared in the latter year, and at least Child. Neither is it on Mr. Chamberlin. include the ten or twenty or hundred one book by him appeared every year It's on us. "best" stories, but representative stories from that time until 192 1, with the ex- representative of the best American ceptions of 1904 and 191 1. The total, literary traditions (many of them, of principally novels or collections of stories, THE March issue will contain articles course, have themselves established the with a few on outdoor life, now exceeds by Meredith Nicholson, Clarence traditions), of the proved and substan- fifty. Mr. Chambers is intensely de- Budington Kelland and C. E. Scoggins, tial elements in American literature, voted to the cause of conservation of and short stories by William Slavens many of them presenting definite pictures natural resources, as will be evident to McNutt and Parkhurst Whitney. Be- of an America of another day. the reader of the powerful argument he ginning with March, also, an extra ration presents in "Think Ahead!" of Bursts and Duds will be issued to all customers. The March cover design will JOHN ERSKINE is one of those really be the work of Harvey Dunn. rare individuals who were born in AN ENEMY DEBT" is one of the last New York City. He was graduated from 1- stories written by Perceval Gibbon Columbia University in 1900, and took before his death a few months ago. He his A.M. and Ph.D. there—subsequently was one of the best-known English short he has received an LL.D. from Norwich story writers, and was possessed of a

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A sorry heritage to our children. the fields which grow our crops and feed our cattle. It takes God a hundred years to grow a white pine. It takes Early in 1700 Admiral Sir Peter Warren wrote from New a jackass ten minutes to fell it. York to his nephew, the great Sir William Johnson, who was It requires centuries to clothe a mountain with noble foliage. superintending Sir Peter's vast estate in the Mohawk Valley, A fool and his cigarette can set it afire and destroy it in a day. warning young Johnson to respect trees, never to fell one without We Americans are accustomed to look facts in the face. It may reason, and to see that every field and meadow was bounded by take us time, but, ultimately, we come to it. rows of trees. The nation is already looking; but it sees nothing. When it does see it is going to be shocked. THE old admiral knew, in the eighteenth century, what we Now we are a people reputed to be homeloving and fond of our have not yet learned— trees help fertility, conserve moisture, wives and children. Yet do we live for our children? We think temper climate, and purify the air. we do. No parents are so indulgent as American parents. To our forefathers the vast black forest was a menace—a giant The truth is that we live for ourselves and for the pleasure of to conquer, and from which to wrest a little stretch of sunny land being indulgent and self-sacrificing. Stupidly so. on which grain might be grown to keep alive the pioneer. Not one in ten thousand among us has thought to build for It is, possibly, for this reason that a national disrespect for the remote future and for the good of children, their children forests still prevails among us. We, perhaps, inherit it. for the general good. The time is come when we must alter our opinion and behavior. That prudence, that good citizenship, that human obligation How to begin? few of us ever have considered or practiced. After us the deluge. Every farm has upon it land unsuitable for crops or pasture Thai's what it amounts to, though we don't admit it. idle, fallow land not worth fertilizing and working. Let us sup- Well, we must be educated in a wider humanity, and learn a pose that two young people, children of farmers, arrive at mar- nobler wisdom; or let our race weaken and perish. riageable age, marry, and prepare for life together. Pure water, pure air, fertile fields, perennial forests, flood-con- You can't expect them to realize, unless told, that their duty trol — these rightfully are our children's heritage. Upon these to unborn children begins at the altar. But it does. Perhaps depends the virility and power of our nation. It is for us to guard they themselves have had little or nothing with which to begin what remains to us; to recover what has been lost to us by our married life. It will be a hard grind and heavy. Well then, let own folly. them see to it that their children have a nest egg to start with Somewhere, and immediately, a beginning must be made. We something with which to begin life in their turn. have already national forests, state forests, a few city, town, and Perhaps they can lay aside nothing—no savings for their chil- communal stretches of woodland —a few game refuges, bird dren or even for themselves. Yet there is an instant investment sanctuaries—all these make but a pin-point on the denuded map they can make for themselves and for their children—an invest- of North America. ment which ultimately will give them an income, and leave the Every State should own and control its own revenue-producing principal and further income for their children to inherit. forest. The United States should control and guarantee the What is it? Trees. Trees planted by the thousands upon that purity of all interstate waterways and coastal waters. They waste and otherwise useless land now given over to weeds. belong to the people; who poisons them poisons the nation. For a few dollars they can purchase ten or twenty or thirty Today fish and game are one of the important items of the thousand pine transplants, and set them with little trouble. people's food supply in Great Britain and on the Continent. White pine is best and most valuable. Red pine is next. Today the sale of game is prohibited in the United States. Swampy land can be set with larch—tamarack, acorns and nuts, Forests gone, waters poisoned or dried up— these are the shame- maple, ash, can be drilled in. Their children—if not they ful reasons why the New World forbids traffic in its wretched should live to see good oak and hickory from seed—trees offering remnants of wild game. a revenue in fruit—as well as timber. A hundred years ago the markets were glutted with wild game But the main object is the pine, costly, useful, in vast demand, —grouse, quail, wild turkeys, wild pigeons, venison, hares, and swiftly disappearing from America. Ask your lumber dealer rabbits. For a few cents a family might dine as wholesomely and what white pine or red brings—what he {Continued 011 page 68)

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Beginning a Series ofRepresentative American Short Stories Selected and with Critical Introductions hy theAuthor of "THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OFTROY/"GALAHAD"AND ADAM AND EVE" The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ByWashington Irving INTRODUCTION BY JOHN ERSKINE

- Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' like the feeling of the landscape that his readers T.HEIrving's other well-loved story, "Rip feel as though the characters had always been Van Winkle." appeared in "The there. He gave us the Headless Horseman

Sketch Book" in 1819. This unforgettable and Ichabod Crane galloping down the little story of Ichabod Crane and his unhappy love valley. He set Rip Van Winkle among the affair, and the Headless Horseman, illus- Catskills, where he still lives, and he created trates most of the qualities which made Irving the figure of Diedrich Knickerbocker, the an international writer as well as one of the Father Knickerbocker who still haunts the first American masters. imagination of New York City. Quite aside

"The Legend" is a ghost story, but you and from Irving's ( harming style and his ability

I no longer believe in ghosts; neither did to arrange his plots effectively, this genius for

Irving. We Americans are said to have an creating a myth is alone enough to make irreverent manner toward antiquity, and toward the high him a great writer. seriousness of much old literature. Irving was one of the Perhaps because of this myth-making faculty, Irving first to put our manner into writing, and yet, like all of us, seems to have another trait which has always been recog- he liked a ghost story at times, liked even the mood of terror nized as a sure sign of greatness in literature. He can tell a

which a devout believer in ghosts ought to feel. Before he vivid story saturated with his own humane love of life and

wrote, it had been the habit of most authors who dealt with his delicious humor, and yet leave out all the special inci-

this kind of material to make the spectre as convincing as dents of his own experience. Any one of us, it has often been

possible, and afterwards to explain to the reader the rational said, could write one book— that is, the story of our own cause of the illusion. Such a method fools you to start with, careers. Many writers, unfortunately, never get beyond that and comforts your intelligence afterwards. Irving's method perfectly natural and elementary subject matter. The test was far more difficult; so difficult, in fact, that few writers of greatness in literature comes when the writer occupies

have been able to repeat it. He lets us know from the very himself with life in general, with the experiences of other

beginning that it is Brom Bones, the rough rival of Ichabod, people, or at least with his own experiences so transmuted

who is playing the trick on him, and yet so imaginative is the that they seem no longer peculiar to him. When you have story, even when told humorously, that we really see the read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," ask yourself what in-

Headless Horseman, and to this day feel something of his dications there are in it of Irving's life, education and private spooky presence when we revisit the greatly altered district fortunes. There really are none. Our knowledge of his biog

around Tarrytown. I should say that the most conspicuous raphy may make us think there is some essential connection American trait in Irving generally is illustrated here—his between his residence in the Hudson Valley and this story, ability to deal in a familiar and humorous manner with but Irving might have written that story, and in fact he

highly imaginative material, and yet to leave the imagina- probably did write it, at a great distance from the scene, and

tive effect unspoiled. before his life was associated with the place. The part of his

If we can still feel the presence of the Headless Horseman personality which the story reveals is the imaginative rather

in the Tarrytown landscape, it is because Irving, in the than the biographical, and for a writer to confine himself to second place, had one of the rarest of gifts—he could create a the imaginative part of himself is a sign of greatness. figure which would seem to be the product of an ancient In this story the reader will not be deceived by the de- myth. Wherever landscapes are haunted, as the Rhine Valley scription of the Dutch household, nor of the thin and awk-

is haunted with gnomes, giants, or lorelei, the mythical ward Yankee schoolmaster. Irving was a good deal of a poet, figures have usually been built up by the folk imagination and the account of the overwhelming feeding and hospitality

that is, by a long process' of story-telling which has associ- in the Dutch farmhouse is given for its own sake rather than

ated the characters of fiction with an actual spot. Irving had with an eye on historical accuracy. It is much like the way the ability to create characters which so truly interpreted Keats names over candies and rare dishes in "The Eve of

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St. Agnes"—for the sake of luxury and exquisiteness rather was from the earliest days of the republic spreading New than to furnish a list of things actually to be eaten. As for England culture, even in those neighboring States which

Ichabod Crane, he is a vestige of the kind of fun New York thought they could get on nicely without it. The New writers liked to poke at Connecticut. Irving gave us Yorker used to say that the Yankee mixed the profes- Ichabod, Cooper gave us David Gamut in "The sion of high ideals with some mean or shrewd Last of the Mohicans." They are really the jOg^m practices. He was both schoolmaster and trader. same character portrayed by two New A Irving states the pre] udice more kindly. Ichabod Yorkers. No doubt Irving understood the may be a scarecrow, but his worst faults are idealism of the Yankee schoolmaster, who only his timidity and his love of good food.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE STORY: LOWELL L.BALCOM

|N THE bosom of one of those the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems spacious coves which indent the to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. eastern shore of the Hudson, at The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this that broad expansion of the river enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in- denominated by the ancient Dutch IRVING chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a navigators the Tappan Zee, and where figure on horseback without a head. they always prudently shortened sail, and im- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose plored the protection of St. Nicholas when they head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless crossed, there lies a small market-town or rural battle during the Revolutionary War. and who is ever and anon port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more seen bv the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. if on the wings of the wind. His haunts are not confined to the This "name was given, we are told, in former days, by the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate to the vicinity of a church at no great distance. Indeed, certain propensitv of their husbands to linger about the village tavern of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been on market days. Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been authentic. buried in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there battle in nightly quest of his head; and that the rushing speed is a little valley, or rather lap of land, among high hills, which with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a mid- is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook night blast, is owing to his being belated, and in a hurry to get glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; back to the church-yard before daybreak. and the occasional whistle of a quail, or tapping of a wood- Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, pecker, is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that uniform tranquillity. region of shadows; and the spectre is known, at all the country I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel- firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side Hollow. of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have men- nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my tioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was pro- is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a longed and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should time. However wide awake they may have been before they wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to in- its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a hale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imagina- troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley. tive— to dream dreams, and see apparitions. From the listless repose of the place, I mention this peaceful spot with all and the peculiar character of its inhabi- possible laud; for it is in such little retired tants, who are descendants from the Dutch valleys, found here and there em- original Dutch settlers, this sequestered bosomed in the great State of New York, glen has long been known by the name that population, manners, and customs, re- of Sleepy Hollow, and its rustic lads main fixed; while the great torrent of mi- are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys through- gration and improvement, which is making out all the neighboring country. such incessant changes in other parts of A drowsy, dreamy influence seems this restless country, sweeps by them un- to hang over the land, and to pervade observed. They are like those little nooks the very atmosphere. Some say that of still water which border a rapid stream the place was bewitched by a high Ger- where we may see the straw and bubble man doctor, during the early days of riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolv- the settlement; others, that an old In- ing in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by dian chief, the prophet or wizard of his the rush of the passing current. Though tribe, held his powwows there before the many years have elapsed since I trod the country was discovered by Master Hen- drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I drick Hudson. question whether I should not still find the Certain it is, the place still continues same trees and the same families vegetating under the sway of some witching power, in its sheltered bosom. that holds a spell over the minds of good In this by-place of nature, there abode, people, causing them to walk in a con- in a remote period of American history, tinual reverie. They are given to all that is to say, some thirty years since, a kinds of marvellous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions; worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose in the air. of instructing the children of the vicinity. He was a native of with pioneers for The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted Connecticut ; a State which supplies the Union spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its of tener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and legions of frontier woodsmen and country schoolmasters. The

10 The AVTFRTCAN LEGION Monthly cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers, whose children tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and he instructed. With these he lived successively a week at a legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might time; thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief. together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had vari- way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a ous ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. He hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine de- farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences; took the horses scending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn- to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut wood for the field. winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He patched with leaves of old copy-books. It was most ingeniously found favor in the eyes of the mothers, by petting the children, secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle of the particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom door, and stakes set against the window shutters; so that, though so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some em- on one knee, and rock, a cradle with his foot for whole hours barrassment in getting out; an idea most probably borrowed by together. the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot. In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing-master The school-house stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by in just at the foot of a woody hill, with a strutting the young folks in psalmody. brook running close by, and a formid- It was a matter of no little vanity to able birch tree growing at one end of it. him. on Sundays, to take his station in From hence the low murmur of his front of the church gallery, with a band pupils' voices, conning over their les- of chosen singers; where, in his own sons, might be heard in a drowsy sum- mind, he completely carried away the mer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; palm from the parson. Certain "it is, interrupted now and then by the au- his voice resounded far above all the thoritative voice of the master, in the rest of the congregation; and there are tone of menace or command; or, perad- peculiar quavers still to be heard in that venture, by the appalling sound of the church, and which may even be heard birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer half a mile off, quite to the opposite- along the flowery path of knowledge. side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday Truth to say, he was a conscientious morning, which are said to be legiti man, and ever bore in mind the golden irately descended from the nose of maxim, "Spare the rod and spoil the Ichabod Crane. Thus, by divers little child."—Ichabod Crane's scholars cer- make shifts in that ingenious way which tainly were not spoiled. is commonly denominated "by hook and I would not have it imagined, how- by crook," the worthy pedagogue got' ever, that he was one of those cruel on tolerably enough, and was thought, potentates of the school, who joy in by all who understood nothing of the the smart of their subjects; on the con- labor of headwork. to have a wonder trary, he administered justice with dis- fully easy life of it. crimination rath?r than severity; taking The schoolmaster is generally a man the burthen off the backs of the weak, of some importance in the female and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, circle of a rural neighborhood; being considered a kind of idle that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accom- indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting plishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad- learning only to the parson. His appearance, therefore, is apt skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and and sullen beneath the birch. All this he called "doing his duty the addition of a supernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats, or, by their parents"; and he never inflicted a chastisement without peradventure, the parade of a silver tea-pot. Our man of letters, following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting therefore, was peculiarly happy in the smiles of all the country urchin, that "he would remember it, and thank him for it the damsels. How he would figure among them in the churchyard, longest day he had to live." between services on Sundays! gathering grapes for them from When school hours were over, he was even the companion and the wild vines that overrun the surrounding trees; reciting for playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or saunter- convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have ing, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers, noted for the com- mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheep forts of the cupboard. Indeed it behooved him to keep on good ishly back, envying his superior elegance and address. terms with his pupils. The revenue arising from his school was From his half itinerant life, also, he was a kind of travelling small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip from house to with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and though lank, had house; so that h.s appearance was always greeted with satisfac- the dilating powers of an anaconda; but to help out his main- tion. He was, moreover, esteemed by the women as a man of tenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts. great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and

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was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's history of New England All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of Witchcraft, in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many believed. spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put credulity. His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been in- life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had creased by his residence in this spellbound region. No tale was not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mor- too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow. It was often tal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put his delight, after his school was dismissed in the afternoon, to together, and that was—a woman. stretch himself on the rich bed of clover, bordering the little Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in brook that whimpered by his school-house, and there con over each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of the evening Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes. Then, as he farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina- her vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette, as tion: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill-side; the boding might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms. of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great- frightened from their roost. The fire-flies, too, which sparkled great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, stomacher of the olden time; and withal a provokingly short petti- as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; coat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart toward the sex; and blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a morsel soon found up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's favor in his eyes; more especially after he had visited her in her token. His only resource on such occasions, either to drown paternal mansion. Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture thought, or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes; of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted farmer. He seldom, it is and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doois true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of an evening, were often filled with awe, at hearing his nasal of his own farm; but within those every thing was snug, happy, melody, "in linked sweetness long drawn out," floating from the and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with his wealth, but not distant hill, or along the dusky road. proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance, Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long rather than the style in which he lived. His stronghold was situ- winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning ated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along fertile nooks, in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling. the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and gob- A great elm-tree spread its broad branches over it; at the foot of lins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest w^ater, in bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless a little well, formed of a barrel; and then stole sparkling away horseman, or galloping Hessian of the Hollow, through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that as they sometimes called him. He would delight bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows. them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that of the direful omens and portentous sights and might have served for a church; every window sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with times of Connecticut; and would frighten them the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily wofully with speculations upon comets and resounding within it from morning to night; shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the world did absolutely turn round, and that the eaves;, and rows of pigeons, some with one they were half the time topsy-turvy! eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some But if there was a pleasure in all this, while with their heads under their wings, or buried snugly cuddling in the chimney corner of a in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the and bowing about their dames, were enjoying crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no the sunshine on the roof. Sleek unwieldly spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly porkers were grunting in the repose and abund- purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk ance of their pens; whence sallied forth, now and homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining —With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were streaming across the waste fields from some distant window! gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!—How often cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping heart—sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then close behind him!—and how often was he thrown into complete generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered. idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly The pedagogue's mouth watered, as he looked upon this sump- scourings! tuous promise of luxurious winter fare. In his devouring mind's

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly eye, he pictured to himself every had any thing but giants, enchant- roasting pig running about with a ers, fiery dragons, and such like pudding in his belly, and an apple easily-conquered adversaries, to in his mouth; the pigeons were contend with; ami had to make his snugly put to bed in a comfortable way merely through gates of iron pie, and tucked in with a coverlet and brass, and walls of adamant, to of crust; the geese were swimming the castle keep, where the lady of in their own gravy; and the ducks his heart was confined; all which he pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not matter of course. Ichabod, on the contrary, had to win his way a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and whims and caprices, which were for ever presenting new difficul- even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a ties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful side-dish with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living. who beset every portal to her heart; keeping a watchful and angry As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause his great green eyes over the fat meadowdands, the rich fields against any new competitor. of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards Among these the most formidable was a burly, roaring, royster- burthened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tene- ing blade, of the name of Abraham, or, according to the Dutch ment of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round, to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood. He was idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces hair, and a bluff, but not unpleasant countenance, having a in the wilderness. Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, mingled air of fun and arrogance. From his Herculean frame and and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family great powers of limb, he had received the nickname of Brom of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with house- Bones, by which he was universally known. He was famed for hold trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath; and he great knowledge and skill in horsemanship, being as dexterous beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, on horseback as a Tartar. He was foremost at all races and cock- setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. fights; and, with the ascendency which bodily strength acquires When he entered the house the conquest of his heart was com- in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes, setting his hat on one plete. It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged, side, and giving his decisions with an air and tone admitting of but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the no gainsay or appeal. He was always ready for either a fight or a first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza frolic; but had more mischief than ill-will in his composition; and, along the front , capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under with all his overbearing roughness, there was a strong dash of this were hung flails, harness, various utensils waggish good humor at bottom. He had three of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neigh- or four boon companions, who regarded him as boring river. Benches were built along the sides their model, and at the head of whom he scoured for summer use; and a great spinning-wheel at the country, attending every scene of feud or one end, and a churn at the other, showed the merriment for miles round. In cold weather he various uses to which this important porch was distinguished by a fur cap, surmounted might be devoted. From this piazza the won- with a flaunting fox's tail; and when the folks at dering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed a country gathering descried this well-known the centre of the mansion and the place of usual crest at a distance, whisking about among a residence. Here, rows of resplendent pewter, squad of hard riders, they always stood by for ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In a squall. Sometimes his crew would be heard one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be dashing along past the farmhouses at midnight, spun; in another a quantity of linsey-woolsey with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cos- just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and sacks; and the old dames, startled out of their strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry- festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud scurry had clattered by, and then exclaim, "Ah, of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a there goes Brom Bones and his gang!" The peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed neighbors looked upon him with a mixture of chairs, and dark mahogany tables, shone like mirrors; and irons, awe, admiration, and good will; and when any madcap prank, with their accompany ing shovel and tongs, glistened from their or rustic brawl, occurred in the vicinity, always shook their covert of asparagus tops; mock-oranges and conch-shells decor- heads, and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it. ated the mantelpiece; strings of various colored birds' eggs were This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the bloomin;,'

suspended above it : a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries, and though his of the room, and a corner cupboard, knowingly left open, dis- amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and played immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china. endearments of a bear, yet it was whispered that she did not From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these regions of altogether discourage his hopes. Certain it is, his advances were delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study signals for rival candidates to retire, who felt no inclination to was how to gain the affections of the peerless daughter of Van cross a lion in his amours; insomuch, that when his horse was Tassel. In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties seen tied to Van Tassel's paling, on a Sunday night, a sure sign than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom that his master was courting, or, as it is (Continued on page yj)

FEBRUARY, 192S 13 AN ENEMY

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AVE no fear; this is e/z;not a war story. But it does identify one nameless hero of the Chemin des Dames, the private of the French Foreign Legion whose last words were spoken in German. The wounded men who lay with him in the ruins of the shell-crumbled trench are the witnesses of how, when the Ger- man bombers, backed by their bayonet-men, came blasting their way along from tra- verse to traverse, one among their own num- ber arose, roaring, and charged over their broken bodies. Two bombers and a bay- onet-man he killed with his bayonet and shot an officer before he himself was shot through the chest; then as he lay he shot another. "And at each lunge and at each shot," testified one witness, "he cried aloud in German: T owe you that! " I owe vou that!'

AT dawn he found a rest- - ing and hiding place on the brow of a little hill; and here he lay in the shel- ter of the great flat green fronds and looked out northward over a pleasant, farm-dotted plain of Algeria, Little white houses, iron-roofed or France was at peace with the world he would not have to face a thatched, each with its barn liongside, stood among the crops; tiring squad if he were caught. Hut he had a burning need to be and from the nearest, scarce half a mile away, the smoke of the free of the iron discipline, the terrible labor, the unending fear hearth was already rising. That night he must make shift to and pain that were the staple of his days. He did not know his pass among them, for the road that ran straight as a taut string way t<> the coast; even his escape had been an accident. He had down to his left as he gazed was patroled by mounted gendar- been one of a fatigue part}' unloading a train-load of stores at merie; and by day his uniform —he had not been able to get rid Sidi Hafiz, and by a chance he was actually in one of the trucks of it—was a clamant invitation to the first passer-by to help when it had pulled out. It had carried him some thirty miles be- himself to the reward which was paid for the capture of a deserting fore he dropped off, lest it should be stopped by telegram and Legionary. searched; and since then for fourteen nights he had blundered He had no food, no money—soldiers of the Legion were not northwards, living on fruit stolen in the dark from orchards and allowed to have money— no plan and no real hope. Because occasional eggs raided from hen-houses, and for fourteen days

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feet first, deeper into the shelter of the prickly-pear. He gathered two or three of the fruit and expertlv sucked the ice-cold, water- sodden pulp from them; his three years in the Legion, during brief halts in man-killing marshes, had taught him at least how to do that. The air grew warm as the sun mounted, and the cool- ness upon the bare black earth under that low green roof was not unpleasant. He turned upon his back, his hands under his head, and presently he slept—slept like a babe and dreamed of his home in soft, simple Saxony, whence he had fled from the consequences of a poaching adventure. And by degrees his posture as he slept betrayed him and he began to snore. He awoke suddenly at the touch of something wet on his face and started upon his elbow, rigid with terror. At his abrupt movement the dog which had reconnoitered him fell back with a rending snarl and stood at guard a couple of yards away. It was one of those nondescripts one sees in such lands as Algeria, as big as a collie, with the head of a de- generate sheep-dogand wool like a sheep. He stared at it in a stupidity of fear till his heart gave over pattering; but the dog continued to growl. And then, from without the thicket, a voice called clearly. "Qu'est ce que tu as trouvc, Maxi?" it said. "What have you found, Maxi?" It was a woman's voice, but for the deserter women were as dangerous as men. Yet even in his renewed anguish of fear he marked something, a bluntness and thickening of the pronunciation, an unhandiness in the use of the sharp French consonants, which sounded familiar. He found bin/self looking up from under the The dog was yet bristling and growling. He held out a timid skirts of the prickly-pear at a girl of about hand of conciliation to it and it effervesced at once into a tearing his oivn age, tall and golden blond, with a crescendo of snarls. And the voice spoke again. "Also, bring's heraus!" it said. And repeated the call: "Bring face as regular as that of a clock. The dog, it out and let's have a look at it." held in leash, made a white-fanged grimace His very senses reeled; a sudden almost overwhelming hope of hate at him took possession of him. The German tongue and its accent, sweet and suggestive to him as the breath of kine, the mere he had lain hidden where best he might, trembling and sleeping, sound of it without its significance—for the speaker merely called cursing, praying and weeping. And he was twenty-five years of to and bantered the hobgoblin-dog -were like promises and age. words of sore-needed comfort. The dog began to yield to the The face that looked out between the grass-edge and the heavy call and retired with diminishing growls; the deserter got to his green curtain of the prickly-pear was marked with more than hands and knees and tried cautiously to get a glimpse of the grime and tears. Lines that belong to age and bitter experience speaker through the intervening twenty feet of tangled dull were graven there; they overlaid and qualified, like a figured veil, green. a certain commonplace comeliness, a compliance of feature with And of a sudden he saw her. Prickly-pear branches, leaning the ordinary standards of acceptable outwardness. And the this way and that, stood yet aside from one narrow avenue of stone-blue eyes that beheld that wide vista of comfort, security vision. As through a long pipe he was aware of the shape of her and freedom had a touch of that vacuity which comes when a head, the shape only, black against the sunshine and realized that man's soul is no longer his own. while he was looking out against the light, she was looking in He groaned and spoke aloud to the deaf world. "Ach, Gott!" with the light at her back, to see what had attracted the dog. he said. "Ich kann nichts mehr!" He dodged down again in a panic, but too late. Life began to show itself in the plain below. Figures moved on "Comment done!" he heard her cry. "It is a man!" the farm, and on the long straight ribbon of the road a trickle of He was discovered. But she was German, and the crazy hope traffic—camels, Algerian peasants on donkeys, a recklessly- her language had lighted in him refused to be quenched all at driven automobile—was gathering volume. He crawled back, once. He crouched, shivering.

FEBRUARY, 1928 "Come out!" she called next, but in the French which is the She strolled apart a while, pondering. The "dear little dog," official white language of the country. "Come out that one may more offensively hideous than ever in the full light of day, made see what you are! Else I will let the dog go! You hear me?" a white-fanged grimace of hate at Egon Weiler and followed her. In any case there was no escaping; it was surrender to her or The deserter waited, his soul swinging like a pendulum between to the help she would summon. exultation and despair. "I come at once!" he answered in German, and began to crawl She came back at last. towards her. "That is our house," she said, pointing down to the nearest He found himself looking up from under the skirts of the white dwelling. "My father is away, and I am alone there with prickly-pear at a figure that symbolized for him all the power my grandmother. So today you had better stay here; and and all the homeward draw of his yearned-for fatherland. A girl tonight, when it is fully dark, you can come down. I will have of about his own age, tall and buxom, golden-blond, with a face some food for you and you can sleep in the loft. My father comes as regular as that of a clock and eyes of chill blue! The hill fell back in two or three days and then we can see what to do with away behind her, and she stood in a splendid high relief against you." her background of cloudless sky, and the great sweep of plain. "But even then you will not give me up?" he flustered. She retreated only a single pace at his appearance and stood "You do not know my father," she replied. "He does not love looking down at him with no least sign of fear. He knew she was the French! They have been very hard on him." making an inventory of him—his filth, his uniform, his presence He burst into a rhapsody of thanks, the tears streaming down in that particular place at that particular time. on his face, and this time she did not stop him but watched him He had risen to his knees. He hastened to speak, that she with an interest that had a scientific touch about it. might know yet one more thing about him than her eyes could "I must go," she said, when he choked into silence at last. tell her. "Some one may see from afar. Tonight then; but not until it is "Gnadiges Fraulein!" he implored. "Gracious young lady! quite dark. You understand?" You will not betray me? See!" He spread his arms abroad with "Perfectly, gracious young lady!" a manner of exhibiting himself and his plight. "I am nearly "Also, auf wiedersehen!" And she swung off down the hill dead already. I am starving. I am all but broken down. And followed by the irreconcilable dear little dog. —and I heard you call the dear little dog in German. Say you And Egon Weiler, prone in his hiding-place, was aware of a will be merciful, for God's sake!" sensation of physical sickness. He was not used to happiness "So!" she said, and surveyed him further. Then she cast a and good fortune and he had had an overdose of both. A colossal swift glance round. "We can be seen from the road," she said pride had likewise a place in his emotions, a pride in his country next. "Go back among the pear a little way." and his race. It had answered to the touchstone. He was He obeyed in piteous haste; the great hope flared up within solitary no longer, but a member of a great and powerful free- him. And when only his face was to be seen she came closer. masonry, reaching forth even into Algeria tentacles of succor and "You are German then—and a deserter from the Legion?" reassurance. All would yet be well with him—and that evening "Yes, gracious young lady!" he answered. there would be food. "And what is your name?" He was even nearer to a breakdown than he had told the girl, She had a crisp, authoritative manner of questioning to which, for the spirit had been sapped from him and only fear had re- broken as he was to obedience, he would have deferred anywhere. placed it. When the slow-footed day had limped to its close and "Egon Weiler," he answered. "At your orders," he added, in the hateful dimness of evening had yielded to the benign and the slavish German formula. welcome dark, he found it all he could do to drag himself down She continued not so much to stare at him as to scrutinize him the slope and discover the path that led to the house. Much and seemingly to estimate him and the situation. precaution was out of the question; he was an easy capture for "If any of these French or natives see you," she said suddenly, anyone by the time he found the gate in the fence about the "you will be done for. There is a reward for catching deserters." house; his efforts to open it brought the girl out swiftly to the "I know," he said, and sighed. "But vou, gracious young veranda. lady—" "Hush!" she whispered, sharply. "Do you want everyone to She shook her head. "You are a landsmann—a compatriot!" hear you?" she made answer, and stilled him with a lifted hand when he But she quickly perceived the state of the case, and took hold would have frothed of him with a firm hand under his arm-pit. Thus supported, he into a hysteria of tottered up the three steps and on into the kitchen and living- thanks. "Now let room, which was the main room of the house, and there she let him me think what we sink into a wooden chair. His head flopped down upon his breast; must do!" he was all but fainting. He was aware of her standing before him and of her voice. "Here! Drink this!" she ordered. It was harsh, tongue-stinging Algerian brandy, half an en- ameled mugful. It hurt his mouth and his throat tried to refuse it, but when he had succeeded in gulping it down, it spread about within him like a revivifying fire. "Ha!" he breathed loudly, and sat up in the chair. The girl was watching him. "I think you have saved my life," he said. She nodded carelessly. "You ought to wash now," she said. "But perhaps you'd better have some food at once and after- wards you can wash and go to bed." There was a table, with a blue-and-white checkered cloth on it and eating utensils laid in readiness. There was coffee, wheaten bread and butter and a platter of cold veal. He was able to restrain—the Legion had taught him re- straint, too—a desire to fall on the food and wolf it in He looked down great mouthfuls. He sat the from hill down decorously, trembling over a pleasant, a little. He leaped up again jarm-dotte in alarm, for from an ad- plain of Algeria jacent room, whose door stood ajar, came a series of loud strangling groans.

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A series of loud strangling groans from an adjacent room whose door stood ajar startled him into action

"What is that?" he cried, half afraid that he was being trapped. woman will see you and betray you. I will bring you up some The girl half-smiled at his fear. "It is only the gross mutterchen food in the morning." —grandma," she answered. "She is old and ill and she always He wanted to kiss her hand but she would not suffer it. does that. Sit down again and eat." "No," she said. "Here is your candle. There are no windows He obeyed. The sound, clean, palatable food, the sweet savory up there so you can safely burn it. And here are some more coffee, were a delight as well as a restorative. For years he had cigarettes. You must make yourself comfortable while you can." lacked these decencies, this comfort. He looked about the big He looked down from the top of the ladder and saw her at the room with a romantic appreciation of its scrupulous cleanliness bottom, still watching him with her tranquil face under her crown and order. The copper pans, the horsehair sofa of state, the side- of gold-glinting hair. table with a zither on it, the tall, robust girl with her doll's face The almost forgotten luxury of a bed! She had been better and her man's eyes—here was Germany itself, orderly, com- than her word, for besides the blankets and the pillow there was fortable, decent, established in the wild. a mattress. In shirt and trousers, wrapped in the blanket he lay, When he had done eating, she gave him a cigarette of rank local smoking blissfully, the candle burning steadfastly at his elbow, tobacco, and sat and watched him while he smoked it. She did savoring to the full the new and wonderful sense of safety. not talk with him or question him. Later, she showed him where "She saved my life!" he said. It was his good-night prayer. to wash and then it was time for him to climb to the loft and go He carefully put away the butt of his cigarette, blew out his to bed. candle and turned to the business of sleeping. "I have put some blankets and a pillow there for you," she It was some hours later that he was awakened by sounds from said. "And you must not come down in the daytime or the Negro below. He had no means of telling the (Continued on page eg)

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America: Fishhawk Mountain, near Franklin, North Carolina FROM THE AMERICA INSIDE OUT /TRIED in my first with Bolshevism, ruined by article to analyze my By HUGH WALPOLE an effete Upper Class who are own experience in my too foolish and reactionary to encounter with America keep pace with the needs of and I must apologize for the egotism in that attempt, but it is modern times, slow, ignorant and decadent. impossible to avoid if one is going to be honest. This honesty is It wouldn't be fair to say that this pink formless creature is the trouble; honesty with a friend is always so much more difficult allowed no virtues; he has integrity, is rather foolish at times

I han honesty with an acquaintance mainly because one has prob- about keeping his word, he is cleanly in person and has beautiful ably achieved relations which are partly beyond analysis and manners if he wishes to have them, his country is charming partly confused by the very intensity of one's feeling. although it rains there continually, it is very old and romantic if I had better begin here by trying to summarize the typical you care for such things, he has pluck and courage although in- current points of view that the man of one country just now has clined to attribute all the success of a conflict to himself. of the man of the other. This point of view resembles a picture On the other hand, what is the pink and formless American? that one has of somebody of whom one has heard a great deal The Englishman who thus encounters him at second hand thinks but knows very slightly. Of course in a way this is fallacious. I of him as coarse and vulgar and noisy, he is dressed in horrible think of a little sketch written by Logan Pearsall Smith in one clothes with impossible lifted shoulders, wears a ridiculous form- of his books describing the feelings of someone who overheard a less hat and is never without a cigar in his mouth. The spitting conversation about himself. These talkers seemed to him to tradition still lingers although it is not so strong as it was; he is create a strange pink formless animal, someone absolutely unlike abominably conceited and abysmally ignorant; his visits to himself, and he lived after that with a sense of this third dread- Europe are so hurried and so ridiculously ignorant that he has fully unreal personality. Well, what is this same pink formless become the laughing stock of all beautiful places. He is over- creature that the English create out of the American and the hurriedly familiar, deluges strangers at the first instant with Americans out of the English? family confidences, is desperately sentimental about things like The American who has been but little to Europe has, I fancy, mothers, home towns, the American flag, American cooking, all when he thinks of the Englishman, someone like this in his mind the virtues like chastity, quick business, family life (in reality he a man rather strictly and officially dressed, his head held at a is notoriously a sinner in these respects), is fearfully arrogant haughty angle, his accent vaguely born at Oxford; he is unimagi- about his own country and especially about his Government, native and conceited, very self-opinionated, eager to dogmatize which as everyone knows is the worst in the world, has no notion about anything or everything; fearfully insular, believing that of law and order, stinks with corruption, and, although he talks there is no place like England and that there are no people like about the arts, has no critical intelligence and is naively simple in the English, ready, indeed eager, to put anyone right about any- those matters. Above and beyond all else he is greedy and grasp- thing and especially about America, rude and ill-mannered in his ing, exalting money success above everything and estimating conceit, keeping to himself, suspicious of everyone, and if he people only by that standard. comes to America comes only because he is in need of money, I think we can go no further in this difficult and important thinks that he can snatch it quickly from those fool Americans question without realizing both these pictures. Those of us who and return to his dear country again, delighted with his have had some intimate experience find them, of course, ludicrous country although it is notoriously tumbling to pieces, riddled but, and here is one of the great problems in the matter, we are in iS The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly England: The River Thames, with Goring in the distance

an absolute minority. Not only are we in a minority but certain and until you have you shall erect no abiding house." The fact newspapers in both countries foster for their own purposes all of this almost feverish movement implies great vitality and a these delusions. Here is an element really heart-breaking; I say perfectly natural emphasis on the thing that is apparently the with all seriousness that there are no deeds more criminal in this most rapid solidifying element, and that is money. stage of the world's development than the action of certain news- Of course the Americans care for money; it has been the most papers in Anglo-American affairs. Both countries are equally powerful element in the young history of every great nation. responsible; it is of no use for an American to curse our own Why do we in England pretend that it is a disgraceful occupa- Daily Worm when in America the Daily Crawler, its contents tion when in our own young days, Elizabethan especially, we were syndicated throughout the continent, is issuing lies every half the greatest pirates in the world and dreamed day and night of hour about England, and the first thing that any intelligent adding to our riches? More romantic, yes. Drake drawing up Englishman or American has to do is to oppose these lies with all his boxes of jewels and Spanish ingots out of the dark holds of the the force that he has. enemy's ships and some gentleman discreetly dressed going down Let us for a moment examine these pictures that I have drawn to Wall Street of a morning—a considerable external difference, and see whether there is any truth lying there. Of course there but very little of a spiritual one. is some truth; that third personality created for us by our ac- And of course it is clear to anyone who visits America at all quaintances has always something true. The Englishman is in that the race for money is being run for the power it brings a certain degree complacent, arrogant and unimaginative, he has rather than for the money itself. The American in his own lived on an island for many hundreds of years, he has fought for country is the most generous of God's creatures; about what he every inch of the ground that he occupies, his character is strong, is in the country of other people I shall try to say something in a self-reliant and self-confident, he is shy and filled with sentiment, moment. The all-important question that rises from this is the which every moment of training that he has had teaches him to direction into which this power is drawing its possessors; that is conceal, he is brave but terrified of making a fool of himself, he becoming indeed the one supremely dominant question in is warm-hearted but distrustful of strangers, he makes the best America, and everything else in the end must surrender in im- friend in the world. portance to that. The American, and here of course one is disgracefully gener- I have arrived then in my first article and this one at this point, alizing, has both the advantages and disadvantages that belong that from early associations, from temperamental affinities and to the citizen of a country that is not only new in history but new from certain later experiences I have acquired something of Amer- in national composition. It has long been a platitude to say that ica in my blood of which I shall never again be rid. I am, however, America is a young country; it has been said now continually for deeply English. I am prejudiced then on neither side, I love both some hundred years; the comments of Mrs. Trollope and Dickens countries and the people of both countries, I have become fully and Thackeray made in the forties and fifties are exactly the aware of the pictures that each has made of the other and I know comments that are being made today, and because they have that these pictures are false, prejudiced and harmful. I believe been made over and over again in the knowledge of everyone then that I have some claim to speak of America exactly as it alive today it is felt that the time has come for comment to seems to me to be, and this impresson is personal and confined change. by all the limitations of the personality of someone who cares for But what are a hundred years in the world's history? Less the arts more than anything in life, who cares for life itself more than nothing at all. America is a new country and the Americans than any of the arts, who believes deeply in the necessity of are a new people and because they are a new people they are tolerance, mutual kindliness, intelligent broad-mindedness and a impatient of the past, eagerly sensitive to the present and any sense of humor, who wishes that he himself had these qualities criticism of their position, anxious to acquire a poise, a certainty, more often than he has. a definite character that the short time of their creation inevitably— I would divide then the American into a tripart animal—social, forbids them. They are forever attempting to stand still "Look, esthetic and spiritual. I would like to consider him in these three this is what we are like"—but the country behind them laughs at so different relations to the universe and his own soul. their stability and answers, "You have not conquered the soil, As a social animal the American is not, {Continued on page 641

FEBRUARY, 192S 19 FIRST one observer from the States wondered if By Marquis some mistake had not been made by those in authority when they named it the City of the Holy Faith. Now Santa Fe was—well, interested — to see an eastern lady smoking in the Plaza. Having mulled over this proof that the world moves I changed to a shadier bench and reopened the book I was reading, en- titled "A Relation of the Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Yaca," and written by the same. As a regular thing, Don Alvar followed the profession of arms rather than that of letters. Thinking that Mr. Sabatini, for in- stance, might have sharpened up the latent drama of the nar- rative in spots, my momentarily disengaged eye picked up a parcel of school children crossing the Plaza on their way from their lessons. They were genteel-looking little boys and girls. They carried English textbooks, for instruction in the public schools and in nearly all parochial schools in New Mexico has been in English since 1889. But when they passed me, swinging their English readers, I heard them conversing smoothly in Spanish. Reflecting that possibly the world does not move so fast as I thought I returned to the chronicle of Don Alvar, who was the first white man to set foot in the region of New Mexico. Don Alvar's American travels began in April of 1528 when three hundred Spanish infantry and forty cavalry landed in Florida after many adventures, including shipwreck, to do a little local exploring. They marched inland, fought thirty battles with the Indians, got out of touch with their ships and never saw them again. By fall the expedition was on the Gulf coast near the present site of Pensacola, reduced by righting and disease. Most Seiiorita Ramona Luna all of the survivors were wounded or ill and dressed up for la fiesta de all were starving. They were hemmed in la ciudad de Santa Fe de by Indians and the only hope of escape San Francisco de Assist was by boats. But first they must make the boats. "This," says Cabeza de Vaca, "seemed impossible. We knew not how to construct, nor were there tools, nor iron, nor forge, nor resin, nor rigging, nor any man who had a knowl- edge of their manufacture; and there was nothing to eat." "'"" 5 r - crazy boats were [E young lady in the straw-colored roadster j^fSTJSdfc Nevertheless five to sea in them, fol- parked in front of El Palacio Real was evi- J \ made and they put T-?I with the hope of dently waiting for someone, and to kill time lowing the coastline in Mexico. she put a cigarette in a long holder and lighted reaching Spanish settlements were driven ashore by storms or by thirst the it. The roadster was from New England and presumably the Every time they After forty-one days of incredible hard- young lady was also, if one were to judge from the poise with Indians sprang at them. which she dusted the ashes from her smoke in the presence of an ship they passed the mouth of the Mississippi and were carried the boats. audience as appreciative of novelty as that occupying the green to sea by the current. A storm came up and separated his boat well enough to benches in the Plaza. Leastwise she was not from Santa Fe. Cabeza de Yaca was the only man in four days he beached the boat on an I hope I am not rude about the cigarette. The young lady manage sails or steer. In Presently he found would not have been overlooked in any event. She was extremely island off the Louisiana or east Texas coast. boats. All in the three attractive. The little hat recalled Paris, and, all told, she seemed some survivors from one of the other to belong in the aristocratic automobile the like of which you do remaining boats perished. slaves by the not see in the far Southwest every day. Cabeza de Vaca and his comrades were made during which death Nevertheless, in Santa Fe the cigarette was noticeable—per- Indians and spent five years in captivity, the company from forty in number haps as much so as it would have been in Boston ten years ago, in various forms diminished companions for the ladies of Santa Fe do not smoke in public. But they to five. After three attempts, De Vaca, two white started westward. They smoke in their homes if they like, and have done so for three and a Negro made their escape and tribe to tribe, earning their hundred and twenty years, which is longer than anyone has been lived by their wits and traveled from jugglery, healing, smoking in Massachusetts, excepting the Pequots and so forth. keep and often forestalling death by feats of the natives. Cabeza After the Santa Fe trail was established in 1882 an occasional black magic or whatever seemed to entertain that he Yankee got out here with a pocket notebook. Sometimes the de Vaca got so he could raise the dead so convincingly traveler was invited to a ball at the Royal Palace. In any event believed it himself. they passed the note takers were charmed by the New Mexican ladies The exact route of the wanderers is in doubt, but the wherever they found them and wrote appreciatively of their over the whole breadth of Texas and possibly traversed rate eventually beauty and the language of their fans. They were fascinated or southern part of modern New Mexico. At any Miguel de Culiacan shocked, according to temperament, by the dexterity with which they reached the Spanish settlement of San April, the they rolled brown paper cigarettes. After attending a fandango on the Pacific Ocean, arriving on the first day of 1536, 20 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly FAMILIES first white men to cross that part of James the American continent which became the United States and the only sur- vivors of the confident army that had landed in Florida seven years, eleven months and sixteen days before. What particularly interested me in this recital was the fact that on the bench beside me as I read was a camera borrowed from a descendant of the narrator, so that I might take some pictures of New Mexico as it looks today. Thus between two generations of the De Vaca family, spanning a gap of more than four hundred years, my appreciation of the country was, so to say, brought down to date. The camera belongs to Herman Baca of Santa Fe. I have known him for years, but not until my suspicions were lately aroused by the books in the State Museum did Mr. Baca admit that, given a flair for punctilio in the matter of Spanish names, he might subscribe himself Herman Cabeza de Baca y Chavez. Baca instead of Vaca is a colloquialism of New Spain by which the b and v are interchangeable in many words—note Havana and Habana. There are old maps and manuscripts that give the explorer as Cabeza de Baca, which means the Head of the Cow. Y Chavez denotes that Mr. Baca's mother is of the Chavez family, which was related to Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of Mexico. He welcomed Cabeza de Vaca to Mexico City at the end of his travels. The stories Cabeza de Vaca told were the talk of Mexico City. The}' started a tide of exploring expeditions northward, the best known of which was that of Coronado; it reached the neighbor- hood of Concordia, Kansas. But Juan de Onate founded the first colony and organized the first government in what is now the State of New Mexico, in 1598. The settlement was called San Gabriel. It was Senor Esteban Vallejo, ballad abandoned in 1600 and the seat singer, in action. He doesn't of government of Nueva Mexico know the weaning of jaZZ moved thirty-five miles south to a new town called La Villa Real de Santa Fe de San Fran- colonies and made the beginnings of a cisco de Assisi. commerce with Europe. They had The Royal City of St. Francis transplanted not only a civilization of Assisi's Holy Faith is still but a culture which the Atlantic sea- the capital of New Mexico, board was not to equal for a genera- and the Palacio Real, which tion or two, and in some respects has was begun in 1609, was the never surpassed. Generally speaking official residence of the viceroys, the Spanish colonists of the Southwest captains-general, governors un- were higher in the social scale than til 1910. The Palace was built their Anglo-Saxon colleagues in the over the ruins of an Indian East and South, and better provided pueblo and a part of a wall of with this world's goods. Spain was the prehistoric structure was the leading nation and had the best incorporated into the later one to send. to save labor. The stranger to Santa Fe punctu- Irrespective of its history the ates his walks about the town and countryside with frequent Palace is an imposing building stops in the Plaza to rest under the trees. His breath is short. today. It must have been more Santa Fe lies in a cup rimmed by mountains. The Plaza is seven imposing three hundred years ago, especially when the three hun- thousand feet above the sea and the snowy summits of the Sierra dred foot portal facing the Plaza was festooned with Indians' Sangre de Cristo look down from six thousand feet on top of that. ears as a suggestion to the natives to be more careful where they Santa Fe was meant to be inaccessible. Ohate had Mexico City shot their arrows. Still, in the building of the Palace the Spaniards in mind when he picked the site. displayed more good judgment than vanity. It was policy to do It is pleasant to sit in the Plaza and nibble pinones and watch something noteworthy in the way of architecture if they were to the people go by. They do not hurry. In Albuquerque they impress Indians who had five and six-story pueblos of their own, hurry, for Albuquerque is Anglo-Saxon, excepting the Old Town. including the city of Acoma, perched on a perpendicular rock But seventy percent of Santa Fe's seven thousand people are of rising three hundred and fifty feet out of the plain, and inhabited Spanish blood, notwithstanding a fairly strong tide of Anglo at the present time very much as it was when Coronado first saw it. Saxon immigration during the past ten years. This tide is moving Santa Fe grew. When the Pilgrims were shivering on shore at faster than ever before, and the next decade will bring more- Plymouth, dependent for existence on the uncertain favor of changes, but the Santa Fe now is much the Santa Fe of old. Six Captain Jones and his May flower in the harbor, Nueva Mexico had thousand inhabitants are enumerated by the census of 1799 when adult white citizens who were born there. In 1620 these citizens the stumpy towers of the same yellow cathedral watched over worshipped at eleven churches and missions, and they had con- the same hovering adobe sky-line and the evening was charmed verted 16,000 Indians to the Christian faith. They had ex- by the same Spanish bells. plored territory greater than the area of the original thirteen Two burros, with pack saddles laden with provisions in ex-

FEBRUARY, 1928 21 Augustine Torres, leading junk dealer of Santa Fe, and his two-burro-power equipment. Just bow the contraption holds together with Augustine on the seat is a problem that troubles Augustine not at all change for fire- wood brought down from the hills, clop-clop past General Kearny at the Palace. The Mexican official's manner the Palacio, the master trudging behind. A group of Tesque was reserved but courteous. He observed that the American Indians in bright garments, a cowboy walking stiffly in high commander and his officers must be weary and invited them to heeled boots, a vender of piiiones, newsboys with a choice of refreshments. Just at sundown the flag of the Mexican republic English and Spanish reading matter, decorous senoras in sombre was taken down and the Stars and Stripes run up. It was the topelos. Topelos are black shawls with long fringes; shawls of beginning of a new era. bright colors are called mantillas. But one seldom sees a mantilla In the morning the Plaza was filled again. General Kearny in Santa Ft any more these days. They are for Sunday in the and his staff appeared on the roof of the portal of the Palace. country. The general spoke through an interpreter. The attention of the courtly little custodian who keeps the "We have come," he said, "to take possession of New Mexico, walks and the grass tidied up is attracted by a gentleman who which we do in the name of the Government of the United States wishes to ask a question. The custodian touches his broad hat . . . We come as friends . . . Your families shall be safe . . . and bows. "Si, senor?" But he answers the question in English My soldiers shall take nothing but what they pay for ..." and the gentleman rejoins the lady in the straw-colored roadster Governor Vigil made the response. from New England and they drive off. A Pierce Arrow limousine "General: The address which you have just delivered . . . sweeps in from Palace Avenue. It is the Taos stage, John Dunn gives us some idea of the wonderful future that awaits us." But driving. Thirty years ago John Dunn sat on the box of the "do not find it strange if there is no manifestation of joy in seeing horse stage that took one to Taos over a scarier road than you'll this city occupied by your military forces. To us the power of the find now even where it is chiseled in the side of the Rio Grande Mexican Republic is dead. No matter what her condition, she canon. was our mother . . . We are cognizant of your kindness . . . The conquistadores camped on the Plaza. Battles have been We know that we belong to the republic that owes its origin to fought and men have died there under a variety of circumstances. the immortal Washington ... In the name, then, of the entire The flags of a kingdom, an empire and of three republics have Department, I swear obedience to the Northern Republic and I flown over it. It was the terminus of the Santa Fe trail, the render my respect to its laws." greatest trade route in American history. That was the conquest of New Mexico by the United States. "Los Americanos! La entrada de la caravanna!" The cry New Mexican soldiers have supported the Stars and Stripes in went up from the streets as the wagons came into view over the every war that has since been fought. Two descendants of crest of the hills. Everyone dropped what he was doing and Governor Vigil lost their lives in the World War and two others rushed into the Plaza. Down came the caravan through the pink are post officers of The American Legion. dust, every teamster and bullwhacker in Kearny came eighty-one years ago, but store clothes and a new cracker on the if one were to learn of New Mexico from the lash of his whip. Caravans halted just New Mexicans and could speak only one out of sight for the personnel to rub up language he would get farther with Spanish and comb their beards. While in Santa than he would with English. This is true by Fe the senoritas dived into their ward- a small margin, but it is true. Of the robes for their brightest mantillas. 400,000 residents thinly distributed over On the afternoon of the eighteenth this fourth largest of States sixty percent of August, 1846, however, Santa Fe speak Spanish, most of them gathered in the Plaza to receive a cara- habitually. Allowing for the large van of a different sort. A regiment Indian population the Anglo-Saxon of Missouri cavalry was filing down contingent shrinks to about one- the sloping trail. Silently the fourth of the whole and is con- throng in the Plaza made room for centrated in a few cities and in the the column to pass. Governor Juan northeast section of the State, and Bautista Vigil y Alarid received in the southeast section, or "Little

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly El Palacio Real— the Royal Palace— ivas the official residence of the viceroys, captains- general and governors of New Mexico from 1609 to igio. It is now the state museum

Texas." Both languages are officially recognized on the floor of has its own Thanksgiving in June—De Vargas Day, in honor of the State Legislature. Diego de Vargas, the "reconqueror" who in 1692 won back Santa With the old language linger old manners and methods. Many Fe for the Spaniards after the Indians had chased them out. New of these have a long life before them yet because they express the Mexico also observes the Thanksgiving of Pilgrim origin, Wash- natural genius of the country and of the people. Take the adobe ington's Birthday, and the rest, perhaps with more spirit than house. It is the sensible house for New Mexico. It is most Anglo-Saxon communities display. The New Mexican easiest to build, involving no transportation dearly loves a fiesta and from experience knows materials in a mountainous country where th how to conduct one. are few roads and fewer railroads. The of race, pride of family, pride of his- and the low build adobe houses. One mi rical past hold these people together. up soil and water and wheat straw on th These feelings are as strong with them building site, moulds them into bricks as they are in Back Bay, Boston, or the about a foot square and four inches Tidewater of Virginia. Yet ask a well- thick and lets them dry in the sun. informed person to name a half dozen Then build your walls, exterior and famous American families and the interior, anywhere from two to five chances are he will call off a few New feet thick and coat them inside and England and a few Southern names. out with adobe plaster. Nature pro- Baca, Chavez, De Vargas, Montoya, vides tints for this plaster running Jaramillo, Padilla or Tafoya will not anywhere from brick red to yellow occur to him. Nevertheless, each and gray; the artistic builder may of these had established its place take his pick or introduce artificial in American history when—except- colors if he likes. The roof is laid on ing Spanish St. Augustine and Port flat—sleepers of round logs, then Royal—the Atlantic coast was a boards and a covering of earth. wilderness without a white man on That is the way to build an adobe it. They were the conquistadores. house, whether a hut of one room or Baca has been mentioned. The a hacienda of twenty. original Chavez was an officer under Religion is another factor not De Vargas. Jaramillo and Padilla susceptible of modification. It is were lieutenants of Coronado's. A the foundation upon which the old Montoya was the first alcalde of Southwestern civilization is built. Santa Fe and a Tafoya the second The first Protestant congregation one. These families have been con- in New Mexico was organized, I spicuous in every generation of New believe, in the latter fifties. The Mexican history for from three to feast days and fast days and fete- four centuries and are prominent days of the Roman calendar are as now. The list is not complete, but as much a part of New Mexican life for purposes of illustration was as the crystal air they breathe. checked off in five minutes' time by Each town and hamlet has a patron a man who knows New Mexican Jesus and Herman Baca, last year s Depart- saint to honor, and anniversaries genealogy from an incomplete ros- ment Commander and Acting Department concerned with the days of the con- ter of local officers of The American quistadores are observed as else- Adjutant of The American Legion in New Legion. where we observe Thanksgiving and Mexico. Their American ancestry goes back Without the courteous assistance Washington's Birthday. Santa Fe a matter of four hundred and one years of my Santa (Continued on page 60)

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j (fforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (Jo uphold and defend the Constitution 1 <-s ofthe Tinited States of!7lmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent !7lmericanism r | to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreat War; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com-

| munity, state andnation; to comhat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote

1 peace andgood will on earth ;to safquardand transmit io posterity the principles qfjusticefreedom and democracy ; to conse- | cmte and'sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion.

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. . . are duties enjoined by fundamental maxims of T NTERWOVEN as is the love of liberty with true liberty. every ligament of your hearts, no recommenda- Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. J_ tion of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and 1 the attachment. morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good The unity of government which constitutes you one policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy 1 people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real inde- great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous S3 1 pendence; the support of your tranquillity at home; and too novel example of a people always guided by 1 your peace abroad; of your safety; of your pros- an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt 1 perity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. that in the course of time and things, the fruits of But, as it is easy to foresee that from different causes, such a plan would richly repay any temporary ad- 1 and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, vantages which might be lost by a steady adherence 1 many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds to it? Farewell Address, 1796. 1 the conviction of this truth—as this is the point in 1 your political fortress against which the batteries of The United States ought not to indulge a per- | internal and external enemies will be most constantly suasion that, contrary to the order of human events, Efi 1 and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) they will forever keep at a distance those painful 1 directed— it is of infinite moment that you should appeals to arms with which the history of every na- 1 properly estimate the immense value of your national tion abounds. There is a rank due to the United to collective individual 1 _ Union your and happiness— States among nations which will be withheld, if not 1 that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and im- absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If 1 movable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel 1 think and speak of it as of the palladium of your it; if we desire to secure peace—one of the most 1 political safety and prosperity; watching for its powerful instruments of our prosperity— it must be i 1 preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing known that we are, at all times, ready for war. whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in Address to Congress, 1793. any event abandoned, and indignantly frowning jj be upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate jj any portion of our country from the rest, or to en- Lincoln jj m feeble the sacred ties which now link together the 1 various parts. \\ WASHINGTON is the mightiest name on earth For this you have every inducement of sympathy VV —long since mightiest in the cause of civil 1 and interest. Citizens by birth or choice of a com- liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. . . . m mon country, that country has a right to concentrate To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name 1 your affections. The name of American, which be- of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt I longs to you in your national capacity, must always it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its I exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.— Address, Washington's Birthday, 1842. appellation derived local discriminations . . . j from I To the efficacy and permanency of your union a j government for the whole is indispensable. No alii- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought 1 ances, however strict between the parts, can be an forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in E H adequate substitute. This government, the offspring Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all I of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted men are created equal. I upon full investigation and mature deliberation, com- Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing I pletely free in its principles, in the distribution of its whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and I powers, uniting security with energy, and containing so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a within itself a provision for its own amendment, has great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedi- I a just claim to your confidence and your support, cate a portion of that field, as a final resting place

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for those who here gave their lives that that nation which they gave the last full measure of devotion might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not we should do this. have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we have a new birth of freedom—and that government can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here perish from the earth. Gettysburg Address, 1863. have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long re- With malice toward none; with charity for all; with member what we say here, but it can never forget firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, what they did here. It is for us the living, rather to let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish task remaining before us—that from these honored a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all dead we take increased devotion to that cause for nations. Second Inaugural Address, 1865.

FEBRUARY, 1928 25 HERE'S LUCK! By Hugh Wiley

'EARING Paris, the Gang con- templated the You're mighty close to home, delights sweet home," a trotting orderly and perils from the colonel's car an- of that wicked city. Fol- nounced to each carload of lowing a rumor that all-day 40 hommes. passes would be issued the moment the "Where do we go from here?" train stopped in front of the Eiffel Tower Shorty Goodwin, the com- there came a sudden demand for a few pany cook, volunteered an essential words of the French language. answer. "You birds go straight "How do you tell a girl it is a fine day?" from here to a square meal if I somebody inquired. can get a fire going," but there "You wait a couple of weeks till the sun shines and then point was a delay in the square meal due to some complicated arrange- to it. Where do you get that fine day stuff!" ment whereby, after backing and filling for half an hour, the "What do you say to a French gal when you ask her if she Regiment straightened out in its march up a long hill to where, craves to take a stroll along the boulevard?" according to an optimistic French liaison officer, some of the best "That ain't what worries me—what do you say to her when barracks in France awaited the welcome newcomers. you get fed up on strolling?" "The barracks—of what perfection! It is as the officer com- "Say boy—don't let that worry you neither. Just tell 'em manding this region, General Goizet-Diderot, has said, that 'Ah oui, Sister' to everything and you're bound to win every bet." nothing is perfect enough for these brave American friends of "I aim to duck these madamsells," Jugger announced. "I aim France." to devote myself to likker. You don't need no language for Well, for one thing the barracks at Genimont were not perfect likker over here. All you say is Vang Blank, Yang Rooge or enough for these friends of France. Shower baths existed—but Coonyak, and when you get so you can't say neither one they there was no water for them. The barracks had roofs over them,

keep bringin' it anyhow . . . Wish I had me another bottle of to be sure, but the roofs leaked. There was straw for a motley Shorty's vinegar." assortment of bed sacks, but these sacks swarmed with animal All of these visions of delight gave way to a cold realization life and the straw was mouldy. of the fact that collectively the Gang was out of luck when the "The most modern and elaborate culinary arrangement for the train turned southward from Paris without stopping. All day kitchens," the French liaison officer explained, "is contemplated. long and steadily through the second acutely uncomfortable Alas, at the moment perhaps—what you call it?—the campfire night the Regiment was hauled toward an unknown destination. will suffice." In the late afternoon of the second day of the journey, arriving Hearing this, "Then again perhaps not," the Loot amended, at one of the suburbs of Bordeaux, the train stopped. "All out! aiming his remark at Spike Randall. "Get a detail and limber up

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brass-bound life consecrated to ENTENTE I ALE French officer whose had been CORD the project of free pick procuring a million dollars' worth of and shovel work from the brave friends of war-torn France. and "The sewer, the latrine, the system of water and the road for wagons—she must be done all of a velocity," the Frenchman ex- plained. "First, the farewell physical of the troop—then the in- spection of his health—after that can come the words of friend- OTHER DRINKS ship. That is the best—is it not so?" It was not so, but nevertheless the Frenchman had his way. "Assemble the companies and let the company commanders arrange the work details," the colonel conceded. "My order relative to the necessity for establishing and maintaining the Entente with the French can be read at Retreat tonight. These first impressions are strongest, and the French are a sensitive people." When the companies were lined up some time after the news of the impending call for volunteers in the pick and shovel campaign had spread, it de- veloped that nearly all of the men in the construction regiment were at that moment first- class clerks and ste- nographers. "There

don ' t seem to be any roughnecks left in the outfit, Loot," Spike Randall reported. "Forty ways. That simpli- fies everything. Every one of those shorthand experts gets himself a pick and a Number 2 muck-stick." "What about the Gang? The}- didn't try to dodge any- thing." "Hold 'em in camp for what- ever soft jobs may come up. Maybe next time after the rest of the outfit get through manicuring that sewer job down at the Chinese camp by the river they won't try to duck the rough stuff." At this moment an orderly from regimental headquarters ap- For a fleeting moment the mayor and the colonel peared with a sheaf of orders and his little book. "Sign for 'em upon the celebrating and then, in response to ga^ed here, Lieutenant." NLiller, a belloived invitation from old Joe pledged The Loot signed his name. Then, turning again to Spike, "I'll each other's health with a bottle of champagne go down the hill with you and see what the job is as soon as you get the outfit equipped with its weapons. Hit the ball. What- those field kitchens so Shorty can get to work," the Loot directed. ever the job is, let's get at it." "Bust out two or three scouting expeditions and see what we The first order on the stack was a summons to all of the can do for some clean straw. Ball those damn bed sacks up and officers of the Regiment to report immediately at regimental get 'em outside the huts. Hang onto those lanterns—looks like headquarters. Here, when they were assembled, the colonel we might have to play another night shift and there are no lights addressed them briefly. in the damn camp." "Gentlemen," he said, "the officers of the Regiment have been The Regiment dined on goldfish and coffee. Taps at ten, and honored by an invitation to dine tonight with the mayor of a check revealed a platoon or two of absentees from each company. Genimont-Lowzac, Monsieur Aubre Tiffonet. Ladies will be "Cawpril Badger is missing again. He got off at Paris." present. General Goizet-Diderot, the French commander of this "Fair enough," the Loot commented when the Top brought in region, will be the guest of honor. The general will be accom- his report. "I expected it would be a lot worse. Who's running panied by his staff—perhaps ten or fifteen officers. We will the guard?" assemble here tonight at eight o'clock. The quartermaster will "Lieutenant Gregg." provide transportation." "He's a good head—blind as a bat when he has to be." The colonel, after a brief contemplative pause, launched forth F/ntil long after midnight a light burned in the colonel's tent into a resume of the theme of the long order which he had com- where, with his adjutant and a shorthand expert who yawned posed during the previous night. considerably over his notes, a three-page typewritten order was "Gentlemen, a house divided against itself must fall. This being assembled for the company commanders. will be your first social contact with officers of the French army. The results of the colonel's labors showed the next morning at Much depends upon these first impressions. I need not direct an hour when the regimental surgeon, inventing a superfluous your attention to the fact that harmony of effort and co-operation inspection, collided head on with the colonel's project whereby, are the fundamentals without which the union of the French and on parade, each company of the Regiment would have an oppor- American forces must mean no added striking power against our tunity of listening to a long essay on a visionary dream called common enemy. Friction and internal strife between the French the Entente Cordiale. and ourselves cannot fail to nullify much of the sacrifice which our French at a Glance showed that this pair of words was not a country is making. You will conduct yourselves accordingly, and fancy drink, but long before the cross-pull had destroyed the I trust that the event will strengthen the unity, will increase the company commanders, both the colonel and the regimental friendship existing between the United States and France." surgeon had surrendered their personal ambitions in favor of a The bonds of friendship, had the colonel but known it, were

FEBRUARY, 192S 27 receiving considerable attention from the newcomers even as he In the Cafe de Poisson in Lowzac, helping papa behind the bar, spoke. Patsy and Red Walker, seeking recreation in the midst of labored the lovely Fifi. Sighting Fifi, "Stick here a moment, idleness, led half a dozen members of the Gang on a scouting ex- mon cheery," a member of the gang said to the girl who accom- ." pedition around the camp which resulted in an affiliation with a panied him, "I got to parley avec a man . . roving group of the local French population that had turned out But presently the deserter, discovering ice under Fifi's external to satisfy their curiosity concerning the Americans. warmth, sought his abandoned companion. The Gang's vocabulary increased at the rate of a word a "Bokoo beer!" minute, and within an hour a good time was being had by all. Then, into the group, accompanied by an American girl, came "Listen, Cheery," Red Walker informed a comely girl, "you make the Uplifter. "Any time you boys get down to Bordeaux there is a bokoo hit with me. Voolayvoo promenade pour vang rooge writing paper and cigarettes at our place. Come in whenever with me?" you're lonely and we'll try to cheer you up. When did you men Yes, of a certainty, if such were the wishes of the brave soldier. get to France?" "Listen, Sister, cut out that lookin' sideways at that bird. "We just got in this week. Do you give them cigarettes away He ain't no B Company man. He don't belong—savvy?" down at your place?" "Oui, M'sieur." It was remarkable how readily they under- The Uplifter smiled, but before he could speak the American stood English. girl answered. "We charge merely enough to make the place "Voo ist married, Cheery?" The questioner, playing safe, self-supporting," she said. looked over the trail ahead before he ventured to march upon it. A frown settled on the male Uplifter's face. As a matter of "Non, non, M'sieur." That is to say, the fair one was as good fact, the uplift business was all new stuff to him. A man of as single, her husband being somewhere in the front line trenches wealth, a good American, volunteering for army service the first at the moment. day after the United States sat into the Big Game, this Joe Miller "Bong. Venay together avec me and j'ai will buy you une tray had been turned down by the army surgeons on account of his age

cher present . . . Leggoaher! What the hell! Me and her been and his weight and his heart and his eyes and five or six other walkin' for half an hour together. N'est-ce paw. Cheery?" things. Yes to everything. Liberie, Egalite,Fraternite thrived mightily. "That's my name—honest," he explained to a member of the While the Gang enjoyed the companionship of congenial resi- gang who, looking sideways at the American girl, was suddenly dents of the locality, the pseudo-stenographers who made up the strong on introductions. "Joe Miller—but I didn't write the work crew, having marched three or four miles down the hill joke book. This is Miss Gay Winning—she can play the piano from Genimont, came finally to the scene of their labors. Behind something fit to make your feet migrate! You retreat into the high walls stood forty acres of ammunition factories. Outside of billiard room over there, Miss Winning, and tear into that piano these walls, strung along the bank of the Gironde, were long rows I see against the wall. Maybe we have songbirds with us." of huts wherein the French had housed three or four thousand Followed by a covey of music cravers, Miss Winning, the lady Anamites who had been imported from the French colony. Uplifter, began her exit toward the piano in the billiard room of These little brown men, many of them turned a bright yellow the Cafe de Poisson. now from the fumes of the acids which rose about them in the When she had left the group, Joe Miller heaved an honest sigh powder plant, were utterly indifferent to'sanitary affairs. of relief, and then, "What'll you boys have?" he asked. To Fifi Dogs and garbage littered the streets fronting the huts of the back of the bar, "Encore the beer if you please, Mademoiselle. camp while, on the river bank behind the huts, festering filth Let these soldats Americains have anything they want and all invited dormant epidemics of disease. of it they crave. Give me the check." Here, clearing away the accumulated filth, opening clogged The Gang decided that here was a man who was white folks. sewers and repairing broken drains, labored the best construc- Bitter experiences yet to come with other Uplifters were to stand tion talent imported from the United States. black against the bright background of the party launched that Due to a slip in the program, only a third of the work afternoon by Joe Miller. crew was equipped with "Encore la beer, Fifi—bokoo beer!" tools. "Vang rooge!" The rest, standing by for a "Coonyak!" while, commented bitterly The party began to become a real ruckus within the hour. upon the nature of this first Amateurs seeking to steady a local world which had suddenly outlet for their patriotic begun to skid sideways every so often, fell back on footwork. energies; and then, having Some of the health seekers, starting along the high- nothing better to do, the way which led down the river bank toward the am- idlers were presently engaged munition factories at Bassens, established contact in a verbal warfare with some with the outposts of the work crew. of the little yellow Anamites In a flash the news spread down the line. "There's who, encouraged by their a grand celebration down at Lowzac. Free beer! droves of barking yellow Rich bird down there buyin' all the beer in the dogs, screamed their resent- world for us soldiers." ment at the invasion of their Hearing this, lacking orders, fearing two or three premises. vigilant officers, a bright sergeant destined for One of them, gnashing a set higher things formed the outfit and marched them of teeth blackened by betel in a column of squads to the scene of revelry. nut juice, was foolish enough Overflowing presently, the Cafe de Poisson to augment his tirade with a display spilled some of its customers into the open square of cutlery. It left him swimming of Lowzac around which five or six other cafes lived in the turgid Gironde along with and had their being. fifty of his fellows almost beiore his A complaint reached Joe Miller's sympathetic gleaming knife had hit the ground. ears. "Joe, that bird over across the way there In more than one sense that sec- won't sell us anything." tion of the camp was cleaned out, "Hell, kid, show him to me. I'll bet a steel mill to a centime and then, seeking further pleasur- he'll sell us something. If he doesn't we'll buy his place and have able relief from their distasteful him wrap it up. Come along and show him to me." labors, the work crew moved on When six cafes around the public square of Lowzac were flowing downstream to another section of the freely as all good cafes should, Joe Miller, millionaire patriot, camp where new adventures, along stood alone for a moment and observed his handiwork. with new work, might be found. "Goin' pretty good," he commented. "If I could only sidestep In the meantime, on the hill Miss Vinegar-Face Gay Winning the rest of the afternoon I might around the Regiment's camp at Genimont, prowling in ever put on a real show for the boys." widening circles, Patsy and Fat, Jugger and Isadog, Tex, Rex Late in the afternoon, when news of the celebration had spread and Mex, along with the rest of the students of romance, drifted throughout the district and when practically all of the Regiment finally out upon the broad highway which led down the hill to the had joined forces with the local French population in celebrating pleasant river town of Lowzac where, as some bearer of glad the cause of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, Joe Miller again sized tidings reported, "Bokoo beer can be had—and they got real ice." up his handiwork and found it not so bad. "They didn't let me The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "Listen, Cheery," Red Walker informed a comely girl, one of the roving group of the local French population that had turned out to satisfy their curiosity

about the Americans , "you make a bokoo hit with me" into their private and exclusive Army, but the Army seems to we open up another keg and show these babies some real stuff." like me just the same," he protested to three or four sympathetic members of the Gang. WHILE the next keg and yet other kegs were being opened by "You're damn right, Joe!" nearly all of the enlisted personnel of the Regiment, up the "Show me the fella that wouldn't let you into the Army and I'll hill, after their mess in a camp which seemed to be strangely de- break his damn neck." serted, the officers of the Regiment began their preparation for "Joe, what's that uniform you got on—what's that three- the dinner party to which they had been invited by the Mayor cornered thing there on your arm?" of Genimont-Lowzac. "That stands for Libertv, Equality, Fraternity. Whichever The Loot devoted himself to a twenty-minute review of the

way you look at it you can see the point. Come on with me while French language, adding perhaps a dozen (Continued on page 52 )

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HIGH WATER ^""^ARLYlast Novem- sengers in Springfield a I Alexander ber was talking By Gardiner couple of hours late. It / with the adjutant was still raining. What's of a Legion post in a city of southern New England about that joke about people always talking about the weather but that particular post's opportunities for service to its community. never doing anything about it? The adjutant, happy to hold forth on his favorite topic, pointed Next morning, newspaper headlines, which had been given proudly to the Boy Scout troop which the post had organized, over largely to stories of the Fall-Sinclair oil trial in Washington, equipped and still guides now that it is through the swaddling- had a new sensation in ninety-six point type. That hard driving clothes stage; he showed me the record of service in behalf of rain of the evening before had put the finishing touch on earlier disabled and unemployed ex-service men and their families and rains in northern New England. So the papers of November 4th told in detail of a dozen other things the Legionnaires had told of dozens of communities in Vermont, Massachusetts and done to make their town a better place to live in because a small New Hampshire that had been swept by high water. Dams proportion of its citizenry had banded together for service in had given way, hundreds of bridges had gone out, railroad peace as they had given it in war. It was the common, garden, tracks had been swept away, thousands of people were homeless, run-of-the-mill recital of achievement that almost every post can there were rumors of heavy loss of life in Vermont. That part recount. The adjutant, at its conclusion, evidently felt that per- of Vermont lying east of the Green Mountain range was cut off haps I had expected something a little different, for he said: from the rest of the world. More than seven inches of rain falling "Now that's what we're doing. It isn't spectacular, but it's the within thirty-six hours to smash records of fifty years' duration kind of thing that makes a man proud to belong to the Legion. had done it. I know in other parts of the country they've run into emergencies New England, it appeared, was face to face with an emergency. that gave Legionnaires a chance to show some stuff, but who ever And how would the Legion in these States react to it? heard of an earthquake or a tornado or a flood in New England?" Being a native of Western Massachusetts, I might have told WATERBURY, Vermont, is a pleasant little town of some him of the Mill River flood of the seventies that cost scores of twenty-five hundred people lying on the banks of the lives and did immense property damage in the vicinity of North- Winooski River twelve miles northwest of Montpelier, the state ampton. But that was so long ago I didn't try to convince him. capital, also on the Winooski. On Wednesday night, Novem- I thought that speaking generally he was right. The greater part ber 2d, the rain started to fall in this section. All night and all of New England consists of rolling hills and dipping valleys which the next day and into the evening the rain fell in the streets of carry small streams into a few large rivers that in turn flow peace- Waterbury. The river was rising, but it had been low and there fully along to lose themselves in salt water. The land isn't flat was no occasion for worry, it appeared. enough to offer aid and comfort to an incipient tornado. The Suddenly, at about 6.30 Thursday evening, the rushing water rivers sometimes in the spring and fall get out of their banks and rose quickly to the first floor of houses in the lower part of the carry a chicken coop a couple of miles downstream, but rarely do town. A dam on the Mad River, which empties into the Winooski more than force a few citizens living in the lowlands to substitute about six miles above Waterbury, had gone out and the raging rowboats for automobiles for a few days. As for earthquakes torrent swept into the larger river and burst another dam. Pick- but perhaps we'd better rap wood. ing up momentum the water swept onward, making new channels That night, traveling by motor bus into Springfield Massachu- wherever a dam held fast against the pressure of its debris- setts, I ran into a driving rain that forced the bus into reduced cluttered mass. Tearing into embankments carrying railroad speed. There was nothing remarkable about it; that type of rain- tracks and wiping out the sturdy supports of ties and rails the storm is fairly frequent everywhere. The bus deposited its pas- flood moved down upon Waterbury, now aroused to the danger.

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Pittsfield, Massachusetts , Legionnaires on fatigue duty in the nearby town of Becket, whose center, swept away following the bursting of a dam, they helped rebuild. At the left is shown the two hundredfoot suspension bridge over the White River put up in thirty-six hours by a gang many of whom are members of Bethel, Vermont, Post of the Legion

Darkness had fallen in the meantime and in their homes along what had been the north bank of the river people were planning to wait out the flood, climbing up to the second floor and pre- paring to go into the attics if the water should continue to rise. By this time telephone service had been given up, so that there was no opportunity to send out calls for aid. The two bridges which span the usually placidly winding Winooski between Waterbury and the state capital were picked up by the berserk waters and tossed aside. Farmhouses, fences and chicken coops, garages and outhouses broke up in the surge of waters which, dragging along telegraph poles jerked loose from their wires, bore down on the clustered houses with a roar that struck dismay into the hearts of the little clusters of watchers waiting in the ever widening path of the terror that rode the waters. Periodically a house would give way, swing off its foundations and start on a crazy journey across what had been a street and smash up against Legionnaires of Springfield, West Springfield a tree, to stay there until the waters went down. Occasionally and Agaivam in Massachusetts , besides assist- people set forth on improvised rafts from upper windows in the ing hundreds of persons imperiled by the swollen hope of reaching the higher ground in the western part of the waters of the Connecticut River, saved a number of town. It was in this manner that most of the twenty-two who valuable horses quartered in the EastemStates Ex- died in the awful struggle of this never-to-be-forgotten night position grounds at West Springfield. Here' s how met their fate. George E. Carpenter, commander of Waterbury Post of the Legion and postmaster of the town, took in the seriousness of the near a second story window and got ready to launch them if the situation late in the afternoon. Warning his neighbors, he and necessity should arise. The rescuers in the flat-bottom boat and Legionnaire William Collins, chief of the fire department, and the canoe were busy in other streets and would have found it Carl Miller among others cast about for boats to carry to higher exceedingly difficult to take off the Cutting family had they tried ground those trapped in their homes. From 6.30 Thursday eve- to reach the house. The hours slipped by and the water kept ning until Friday noon these Legionnaires spelled each other rising while the little family waited and watched by the light of in manning an old flat-bottom rowboat and a fragile canvas candles, hoping the waters would start to go down. But at three canoe that they used in getting people to safety. o'clock in the morning, when the water was seeping on to the Harry Cutting, service man of the post and untiring worker in floor where they stood Mr. Cutting decided that he had better the cause of disabled veterans, went to several houses warning launch his raft and not wait for a possible break-up of the house. people to get out before it was too late. As a result he did not Putting the six doors outside the window, and lashing them reach his own home until his wife and three children, ranging in together, two deep and three wide, he helped Mrs. Cutting and age from two to seven years, were leaving the first floor for the the children get safely aboard. He himself swam at the back of bedrooms above. Mr. Cutting started constructing a raft as soon the raft, with the intention of steering it. Down what had been as he had assured his wife and the children that there was no im- the main street of the town, past houses almost submerged, the mediate danger. Taking down half a dozen doors he placed them queer craft shot along. Less than half a mile away was higher

FEBRUARY, 1928 31 When other means of transport became out of the auestion Legionnaires of Northfleld, Vermont, used pack horses to carry sorely needed supplies to flooded Moretown. Here's one of the detachments that made the trip of nine adventurous miles over washed-out roads

ground and safety. It looked as if they were going to make it. come into the town, it was necessary for automobiles to travel And then in a moment stark tragedy reached up through the over back-country roads seventy miles to reach Montpelier, twelve roaring water, upset the raft and threw its human cargo into the miles away in a straight line. maelstrom. Mrs. Cutting and the three children disappeared in the darkness of the flood. Desperately, vainly, Legionnaire Cut- HAVE gone into some detail concerning what happened to ting fought to get hold of at least one of his loved ones. For a T Waterbury and what its Legionnaires did because on a smaller few minutes his own plight was desperate. Finally he caught hold scale the work of rescue and rehabilitation went on in the same of a tree and was later able to make his way to safety. Besides way in a hundred towns scattered through four States—Con- the four members of the Cutting family, eighteen people in Water- necticut joined the others early the following week. Wherever bury died that night in trying to reach high land. life or property was in danger the Legionnaires mobilized for At four o'clock Friday morning the water started to go down. action and stayed on the job until it was done. And one of the Forty of the eighty-five members of Waterbury Post had lost most warming things about the whole relief situation was the their homes or had had their business places inundated, but they way in which Legionnaires scattered over the country sent in joined other Legionnaires who assisted in getting people out of money and food and clothing to relieve distress. The places in the houses where they had spent a night of horror, and New England that mercifully had been spared the experience brought them up to the Congregational church, of fighting water on a rampage did work that was where under the direction of Rev. Chauncey notable, and in general lived up to the Legion's A. Adams, a member of Waterbury Post, creed of service in the hour of need. Some the women of the town were setting up posts sent money, others carried food a community mess. In the school house and clothing. It is impossible in the and in homes that had been un- compass of this article to mention touched by the flood lodging was more than a couple of them. The found for those whose houses had Auxiliary Unit of Derry, New been swept away or were being Hampshire, Post and Melrose, disclosed as silt-mired hulks Massachusetts, Post each sent as the mad waters dwindled. trucks into Montpelier loaded Hut rescuers and rescued were with warm clothes, canned not to sleep. Men, women and food and medicine, and Derry children set to work with a Legionnaires went along in will to dig out the town, gather four other cars loaded down up the dead, and get things as with things calculated to bring near normal as possible. A cheer. When you see your train carrying eighteen car- home swept away and the fu- loads of milk to Boston had ture looks black as you eat at a been marooned in Waterbury, community mess and have to but luckily was on ground not boil your drinking water, the affected by the flood. Eight hun- kindly helping hand of a more for- dred inmates of the State Hospital tunate neighbor is an inspiring for the Insane and two hundred at- thing. Blessed indeed are those who tendants who had cared for them dur- come with aid in such circumstances. ing the nerve-wracking experiences of the night, were given a good portion of THE property loss in the flood is believed this milk, and the rest was distributed to be little below a hundred millions of throughout the town. dollars and the toll of lives was about one There was absolutely no communication hundred and fifty. Not until late this Part of the waterlogged section of with the outside world. There was no spring will it be possible to calculate Montpelier, the capital of Vermont, water for drinking purposes, ironically finally the full damage to the most seri- iv here Legionnaires gave valuable as- enough, and no electricity. Six days were ously hit communities in Vermont and sistance in rescue work, and in rehab- to elapse before the lights came on, and it Western Massachusetts. Several hundred ilitation the water went down was not until November 13th, three more after bridges went out during the course of the days, that the water system resumed flood and while some of these were of operations. Even after the postmaster had succeeded in getting wood and along roads that have so little traffic that the bridges mail out to Burlington and soldiers from Fort Ethan Allen had will not be rebuilt the vast majority of (Continued on page 48)

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly i A PERSONAL VIEW

Out of All the ideas and information poured into my present desk to the White House desk. Washington knows eager ears the idea of most widespread interest came from him. It also hears that Al Smith, Dawes, Lowden and talking with the education experts. It Ritchie are easy to get acquainted with.

The Idea is a message to all parents, the clergy, "That Stuck and every citizen. The past tendency has been to take the schools out of the Whoever Becomes the big boss, the permanent officials home, to leave all education and direction to the- schools. will remain. They are the ones with whom you conduct Now we must get the schools back into homes. True detailed business. They keep the education and character building begin there. The Men machine running behind the fronts of Behind the cabinet officers. From the experts of the State Department on through to The Legion Does not ask for things just for the sake of those of public health, commerce, finance, and all others, asking for something and keeping itself before Congress. what they ask is an understanding boss of big calibre, be Three important things at this session: he Democrat or Republican. Under Three the National Draft Law, calling for Heads equality in war sacrifice; the Emer- Officer's Bill which would give gency The Most Courted and damned of men in Washington officer in action an officer's retired pay; and an disabled is the Director of the Budget, Gen. Lord. You must have all Veterans. so free hospitalization for World War Not his favor to get appropriations you seek much, but sound. Courted and for your department. After you have Damned pleaded your best he may leave you sore by lopping off what seems a vital I Have Been looking things over in Washington, where item. It is complained that he chooses the items instead politics are boiling. Politicians are asking how "the little of granting so much money and leaving the choice to the fellow" back on the side roads and side Department. He never expects to meet a Department that Asking the streets feels. Easy to forget him in has all the money it wants. year. Little Fellow °^ years. This is Presidential Does he think that he is getting his share? Will he stand party-hitched? His vote counts With the Searchlights blazing on it, the great dome of as much as the big fellow's and there are more of him. the Capitol stands forth even more dominant by night than by day. There is no escaping its ma-

But There Is always more than politics in Washington. Keeping the jestic suggestion which holds you in While parties plan and factions groom candidates, the Light on It supreme national thought. The haunt- government goes on. A visit to Wash- ing majesty of it ought to make narrow Bigger Than ington always takes you out of the men nation-broad, little men nation-big; and shrivel up all sections of the the rawhide souls of those who got a seat in Congress by Politics ruts - ^ou meet false political tricks. country, feel the pulse of national life. money purchase, promises, and cheap You drop into the Treasury Department where they talk of eight billions of war debt paid off; into the Agriculture Very Important in their districts which sent them forth, Department where all reports are not so rosy; into the like the off to from his village, are the new State Department where minds are on missions and con- man war home members of the House of Representa- sulates under the flag at the ends of the earth; into the Labor Department where minds are on settling a strike; They tives. But they are rookies to the el-

ders °f ' on service, to the top sergeants into the office of the Commissioner of Education where Press On S of legislative experience who assign minds are on millions of school children. So, you get the to of minor committees. they are parts of the whole. them the bottom Then reminded that if they are wise they will work and drill hard, salute their superiors, and never kick at being put The Man in the White House has to co-ordinate the on fatigue duty. Then maybe, bye and bye, they will whole after Congress has had its say. Who will have the amount to something in the legislative battalion. hardest job in the world after March So it was with the early squad of war-service youngsters, A New Boss 4th, 1929? The question of who the who came from the trenches where they had learned more D0SS wil1 De s as mtense t0 tne than legislative discipline, and took their seats in the back Is Coming new * departments as a similar change in row with the Speaker in the distance on his throne looking their arrangements would be to the workers in an office as formidable as a corps commander.

or factory. It is only a few minutes' walk from Hoover's They played the game, drilled, ( Continued on page 72 1

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The Professional Viewpoint The Divine Spark "By Any Other Name" The cowpuncher was viewing the "I hope you tuned in WZQX this Simpkins reached the gate just in time Grand Canyon for the first time. Speech- morning, Willie," hoped Aunt Martha. to see his train dis- less, he stared into its awe-inspiring "There was a wonderful church service appearing in the depths. on the air." distance. "Well, what do you think of it?" asked "I sure did, Auntie," replied Willie "Sorry you a bystander who was impressed by the enthusiastically, "and, say, I got thirty- missed her, sah," puncher's silence in the presence of the seven other stations between the Dox- sympathized the stupendous spectacle. ology and the Benediction!" Red Cap. "I was just a-thinkin'," drawled the "Oh, that's all cowboy, "that it would be a hell of a place right. That train to get cattle out of." When Loving Sons Get Together was going to take me to my wedding in A couple of mammy singers from Chicago." musical comedy met on the street. "Shuh, you ain't missed yo' train a- Absolutely Foolproof "Hear from home lately, Jack?" asked tall. What you wants is the Fight Special. Leaves in half a hour." The chairman of the banquet com- one. mittee of the Doggy "Yeah," snorted Jack. "The old lady

Club buttonholed wants money again ! An' after me sendin' on ^ -^^fllM Brown just before her a five-dollar bill only last Mother's One Him the festivities were Day!" "What do you think of a guy who to start. would marry just for the fun of it?" "Jones is un- The Good Provider "I'd think he was a pretty good prac- tical joker." conscious at home A couple of neighbors were discussing as a result of drink- their respective husbands. ing some bootleg "Is your husband generous with spend- liquor," he announced, "and you're ing money?" asked Mrs. Slab. Satisfactory elected to serve as toastmaster. I'll give "I guess he must be," returned Mrs. "Is this skirt too short?" asked Mrs. you the names of the speakers in a Drab tartly. "I never see any." "Great heavens, woman!" cried Mr. minute." "Of course it is!" "But all this gang know all my stories; "Good!" they've heard them a thousand times!" Synthetic Times protested Brown. "So you'd like to marry my daughter, Literal "Oh, I'll fix that. I just got Jones's eh?" asked the girl's father. "What do They were newly married and here bootlegger on the phone and he's furn- you make?" and there a rift was already showing in ishing the drinks." "Nothing, sir," replied the suitor the lute. proudlv. "I don't ever, touch the "Here," he snapped one morning. stuff."' "What are you reading my letter for? Scotch Joke No. 2,000,002 Can't you see it says 'private' on it?" It seems there were a couple of Scotch Desperate Case "Well," she responded with suspicious aviators. A couple of veterans had been im- sweetness, "I'm reading it privately, "And what did ye give your navigator mersed in a scien- aren't I?" for helping the race?" inquired you win tific magazine. Sandy. "Believe me," Chance to Aid "Why," said Angus in surprise, "I cried the first, "Poor man!" ejaculated the prison gave him the ride." emerging from the visitor. "I wish I could do something to pages, "with all get you out of here." these new inven- "Well, mum," suggested the convict The Insult tions, the next war hopefully, "if you wouldn't mind chang- "Has Ted ever kissed vou?" asked is going to be hell in' clothes wit' me when de guard ain't Ida. on soldiers, or I miss my guess." lookin', I could do de rest." "I should say not!" denied Ina in- "I'll tell the world," agreed the second. dignantly. "Why?" "In the next war even a field clerk's life "Oh, he just happened to tell me the won't be safe." Progress other night that he hadn't." In 1Q18: "Close the saloons and save "The liar!" the boys!" Social Error In 1928: "Close the garages and save "I certainly wish I'd thought twice the girls!" Pomdetair Fineesh before marrying you," snapped Wifey. "They grinned when the waiter spoke "I'd be satisfied if I'd thought just In 1057 to me in French." once," retorted Friend Hubby. "John, dear," said the wife, "look at "But why? They knew that you speak that smoke ring! it fluently." Wouldn't you say "Ah! He was a Greek waiter and Natural Error I was improving spoke A. E. F. French." A farmer was trying out his new auto- my technique a matic shotgun at the expense of a hawk whole lot?" that had been getting a bit too rough "Yes, my love," Prepare for War with the chickens. Just as he started his he countered, "but Janet: "How do you know she is sure bombardment, his wife in the house you should have of getting a husband?" turned on the radio. seen the ones Janice: "I just now saw her sneak a "Well, what do you know about that?" mother used to make in the good old gun into her hope chest." she exclaimed. "I've got Chicago!" bicycle days!" 35 FEBRUARY, 1928 KEEPING

That 'Million-Dollar Clubhouse a clean-up campaign in which the post gathered 1,890 tons of scrap metal and sold it at a big profit. Welton A. Snow, Past OE FRANK. Adjutant of Harvey W. Seeds Post of Miami, Adjutant of the post, was recently elected City Manager of Florida, gave the Step Keeper a bit of a jolt by referring Miami. Past Post Commander C. H. Reeder, who was chiefly oft-hand to his post's "million-dollar clubhouse.'' That seemed instrumental in getting the site for the post clubhouse, was a bit thick until the Step Keeper looked at the photograph elected a City Commissioner. Incidentally, the land on which which Mr. Frank sent. A glimpse of the clubhouse and its the clubhouse is located was presented to the post by the city. surroundings made the million-dollar stuff sound plausible. The It is one of the most valuable tracts along the boulevard. That

Step Keeper, however, recalls the Florida story which was million-dollar stuff isn't stretching it much, if at all. current about two years ago. the one about the allotment expert who boasted to his friend that he had just sold his Everything But Vote Buying thousand-dollar dog. "What." exclaimed the friend, "you got a thousand dollars in cash for him?'' "Well, not exactly that." R. FRANK didn't tell everything about Harvey W. Seeds the realtor returned, "I traded him for two $500 cats." But we Post in Miami. Opportunely there comes to the Step leave it to anybody—if Miami's clubhouse and the boulevard Keeper a letter from J. F. Dunlap, once of Bakersfield, Cali- fronting it do not look like a real million dollars, the Champs fornia, but now selling real estate in Miami. Mr. Dunlap Elysees is an alley. Take a look at the photograph. Besides. remarks casually that "Harvey W. Seeds Post held its election Harvey W. Seeds Post lives up to the million-dollar stuff. of officers last week and over six hundred ballots were cast." Mr. Frank says his post hopes to enter- "Our polls were open from 9 a. m. to 9 tain many visiting Legionnaires when the p. m.," Mr. Dunlap added. How many Elks and Shriners hold their national con- other posts hold elections that way? Mr. ventions in Miami this year. Forty other Dunlap didn't say whether any of the can- national organizations will also hold con- didates handed out free cigars or played ventions in Miami in 1928. up to the Auxiliary for the home vote by kissing the babies. The Cracker Champs Elysees Before signing off on Miami, the Step Keeper declares that the Legion Travelog QUALIFYING as the Legion travelog- is still open. Anybody want to say a few ger for this issue. Joe Frank supplies words for Detroit or Hot Springs, for Louis- some other facts that explain why Miami ville or Los Angeles. Boston or Seattle, or is hoping to obtain the 1029 national con- for any other city which hopes to get the vention of The American Legion. "We feel national convention in 1929 or later? that Biscayne Boulevard will provide a better setting for the Legion's annual con- They Were A/raid to Die vention parade than any American city has so far provided." Mr. Frank says. "Our HTHE road leading to the cemetery at boulevard is seven miles long. It is the Buffalo, Wyoming, had been a disgrace continuation of the Federal Highway to for years; dusty and rutty in the best of Mia mi which starts in Montreal. Canada. weather and a perfect quagmire after a In the photograph, the roof garden of rain. Moreover, to add to its drawbacks, Harvey W. Seeds Post's clubhouse appears there was a rickety and dangerous bridge A glimpse of the roof garden of in the foreground. During every month on this rudimentary highway. Nobody Harvey Seeds Post's clubhouse in the year we hold dances and entertain- wanted to die in Buffalo if for no other and Biscayne Boulevard in ments in the open air." reason than because they shrank from a Miatni, Florida Right here the Step Keeper wants to last ride over that road. So Powder River remind everybody that Harvey W. Seeds Post of Buffalo decided to live up to its Post ended 1927 with more than 1,850 members. If that doesn't historic and dynamic name by doing something for the benefit give a Post Adjutant a reason for sounding off, there are plenty of the community, even if it was only in smoothing the way of other reasons. For example, there is the post's drum-and- to the cemetery. Though about three-fourths of its ninety-three bugle corps of fifty-two members which dazzled all Paris as it members are farmers on irrigated lands, a goodly proportion had dazzled a string of American convention cities. As an of them got together on an appointed day and proceeded to example of the post's resourcefulness, the Step Keeper recalls reconstruct the bridge, after which they hauled gravel and 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly STEP surfaced the road from the town clear out to the cemetery. Now Buffalo can thank its Legionnaires that the last long mile isn't the hardest any more. Legionnaire Joseph Mills Hanson of Yankton. South Dakota, told us this. He told us also what some other Powder River had endorsed the principle of the bill in an address at The country posts have done. Watch Keeping Step! American Legion's national convention in Omaha in 1925 and in another address at the dedication of the World War Me- When Vermont Met Vermont morial in Kansas City in 1920. The other four proposals are: the bill for the retirement of Disabled Emergency Officers on CALVIN COOLIDGE of Vermont met Edward E. Spafford the same rights as those already possessed by eight of the nine of Vermont at the White House in November. When the classes of officers who served in the World War; a program rotogravure sections of the newspapers published photographs for additional hospital construction to provide approximately taken at the meeting, a lot of analysts commented on the 5,000 new beds, mostly for patients suffering from tubercu- personal resemblance of the President and the National Com- losis and mental and nervous diseases; legislation to effect the mander, and some were reminded of the influence of climate transfer of operation and control of the National Soldiers' and geography on physical characteristics and habits and Homes to the Veterans Bureau; adequate financial provision speech. Here were two men who had grown up in sight of by Congress for the maintenance of the Army and Navy at mountain peaks, in neighboring towns, in a section in which sufficient strength to meet any emergency which might reason- people speak with a twang and drawl but ably be anticipated at this time. practice conservation of conversation. Both National Commander Spafford's sum- A had left mountain neighborhoods as boys, mary also included facts on many other but each today has retained at least recog- measures favored at Paris. nizably the distinctiveness in manner and speech which Vermonters acknowledge with Everybody's War pride. It is not on record whether many or few words were spoken at the meeting ATIONAL Commander Spafford pre- in the White House. The only other person sented to President Coolidge the follow- present was a New Yorker with Virginia ing statement on the Universal Draft Bill: education. Donald C. Strachan of New York "The act we propose provides that the City, Chairman of the National Legislative entire man-power of the country, without Committee of The American Legion. Mr. stint or limitation, must be subject to the Strachan is a lawyer and a Past Com- call of country for military or industrial mander of the Department of New York. service without distinction as to wage for National Commander Spafford and Chair- similar classes of effort. There must be no man Strachan called upon the President exception under the basic law. All the ma- to present a summary of the main legisla- terial resources of the nation must simi- tive objectives of The American Legion in larly be subject to the call of the nation the present session of Congress. They pre- without stint. Production must be con- sented to Mr. Coolidge an outline of the tinued as in peacetime and at peace prices. proposals which the Legion is advocating. Prices must be so fixed that no one makes profit reason of the war: which They explained to him that those proposals National Commander Spafford a by had been American Le- profit would necessarily be at the expense drawn up at The and Chairman Strachan of the gion's national convention in Paris by more of those who are giving their services and National Legislative Committee than a thousand delegates representing blood. Those who will not work must call on the President three-quarters of a million Legionnaires. A be made to fight —and those who cannot cross section of the whole American people fight must do the highest type of work National Commander Spafford explained to President Coolidge for which they are fitted." that The American Legion is particularly anxious that Congress The Universal Draft Bill has been given public hearings by take action on five major proposals. The foremost of these, the Military Affairs Committees of both houses, but it has he said, is the Universal Draft Bill, which The American Legion never been reported out of committee, National Commander has been consistently advocating for five years. This bill is in Spafford pointed out. He added that sentiment in Congress is accord with the President's expressed views, as Mr. Coolidge overwhelmingly in favor of the principle of the bill but that.

FEBRUARY, 1928 37 KEEP I N G STEP because of the many interests involved, strong leadership will of members, but it would have meant hardship for some. A be necessary to make the proposed law a reality. "The Legion, drastic economy program would have meant the elimination of aided by the powerful influence of the Chief Executive, pro- things which all the members knew were worth far more than poses to supply this leadership, so that the measure may be the cost of maintaining them. So the post did the sensible it it enacted before the termination of the coming session/' Com- thing— found a way to get the money needed . mander Spafford said. Right here it may be stated that Binghamton Post has never passed the hat in its city. It made the money it needed for Qlistening Stones its clubhouse expenses by giving the citizens of Binghamton a vast return in pleasure and entertainment in a single social TALL shafts of stone bearing statues carved by noted event which was one of the most popular entertainments ever sculptors commemorate the valor of American service men held in the city. It gave a Mardi Gras Ball. Keep on read- in the World War. They have been erected in hundreds of ing! Old stuff, somebody may remark. But don't feel too sure communities. Cities have striven to surpass one about that. Hear what Vice Commander Charles F. another in the beauty and magnitude of their war Philley of the post tells of the way Binghamton memorials. But in a pleasant little valley in Post conducted its ball. And remember that California stands a World War monument the post made in clear profit just $3,500 which deserves to rank with all the costly from this one dance. Isn't that a record? pillars which have been erected, all the "Attendance means success or failure massive piles of carved and orna- of a Mardi Gras," Mr. Philley says, in introduction, mented stone—although it cannot and adds: "Our post sure rival them—because it represents made of attendance. When the handiwork and the loving trib- the night of the ball arrived, the ute of one man and his wife. It post had to use two of the largest rises twenty-two feet in a tapering J dance floors in Binghamton—the column composed of beautifully State Armory and the Shrine colored little stones gathered in Temple. There were orchestras Monterey County. It is situated in both places. More than 7.000 in Carmel Valley among the trees, persons danced in fancy costumes. and since its dedication several The Binghamton Press helped years ago by Salinas Post of The make this possible. It helped the American Legion it has been a post by conducting the post's ticket shrine for the Legionnaires of a wide selling contest. Fifteen girls, each section of California and from afar. representing a leading Binghamton in- The builders of the monument are dustry or store, entered the contest in Frederick Ponciano Feliz and Nellie Feliz. the names of the companies for which they his wife. Grateful for the return of their worked. The tickets sold for one dollar a two sons from the war and wishing to pay a couple and each ticket entitled the buyer to all served their country, Mr. cast 100 votes for the seller. Each night tribute to who The four winners of Binghamton began collecting stones for there appeared in the newspaper a ballot and Mrs. Feliz (Neiv York) Post's Mardi Gras the monument soon after the war ended. good for one vote. The contest began contest and their chaperon start In their spare time—Mr. Feliz is a lawyer October 20th and ended November 10th. for Bermuda —they sought out the stones they needed Every day the newspaper published an in all parts of their county, stones that article on the contest and gave the tabu- glistened in the sunlight. With their own hands they erected lated vote standings of all the contestants. the monument's base and the shaft that surmounts it. On one "The post offered as rewards ten-day trips to Bermuda and face of the shaft is a carving of George Washington; on the return to the four girls polling the highest number of votes. It other is a carving of General Pershing. And upon the monu- paid all the expenses of the trips and provided a chaperon, ment is this inscription: selected in a separate contest conducted by the post's Auxiliary "This monument is erected to commemorate throughout the unit. The chaperon, incidentally, was Mrs. Ann Seymour, Past ages, the valor of the American Legionnaires—preservers of our President of the New York Department of the Auxiliary, the liberty and upholders of the honor and glory of our Army and wife of Dr. Charles Seymour, Vice Commander of the Depart- Navy. God grant that they and their children, unto the last gen- ment of New York. eration, keep Old Glory waving above, untarnished. unconquered." "The young lady who won the title of 'Miss Legion' repre- sented the Endicott-Johnson Corporation, nationally known Binghamton and Bermuda shoe manufacturers. With the assistance of her organization she polled over 130.000 votes. 'Miss Fowler's,' who was TN 1919 the citizens of Binghamton. New York, gave to second, represented a Binghamton department store and polled * Binghamton Post a clubhouse of twenty-two rooms, a beau- over 101,000 votes. 'Miss Security Mutual.' representing the tiful building architecturally. Today the clubhouse has an Security Mutual Life Insurance Company, polled over 90.000 auditorium annex, with seats for many hundreds. The club- votes. 'Miss Happiness' was fourth. Representing the local house is furnished throughout with period furniture and orien- store selling Happiness Candy, she polled 60.500 votes." tal rugs. It has a fully-equipped grill and dining room, music Vice Commander Philley sent the photograph on this page and radio rooms, card and trophy rooms, pool and billiard as an entry in the Monthly's Prize Photograph Competition. rooms and bowling alleys, shower baths and other features of an up-to-date club. The clubhouse library, a gift, is valued at A Citation for Johnson Creek more than $25,000. In 1027 Binghamton Post had 954 members. Its annual dues ID REAR the news to Bolivar that Johnson Creek is in Wis- are $5, of which the post itself retains $3.50. For a clubhouse consin and that no New York town is going to take away burning ninety tons of coal a year and having a staff of a paid from Johnson Creek the honor of having sent to the Paris con- secretary, chef, steward and janitors, the post's share of dues, vention the largest delegation in proportion to population." amounting to $3,330, would not meet the expenses. The operat- writes Dr. Winfred M. Johnston, Adjutant of Herbert W. ing expenses are $10,000 a year. Schlesner Post of Johnson Creek. "Mister Step Keeper." Now, Binghamton Post might have raised dues or it might added Dr. Johnston, who had put aside his prescription pad have started trimming down on expenses all along the line. A for his typewriter, "please tell the Bolivars that we have them large increase in dues might have been approved by a majority beaten by arithmetic. Johnson Creek has a population of only

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4Q3 persons and we sent four members of our post to Paris. forts completed by Lake Placid Post and the Essex County That figures out one person to every 123 of our population. organization of The American Legion. The success of those By using the same arithmetic you will find that Bolivar. New efforts was marked when the voters of the State last November York, a town of 1,377 which sent eight persons to the conven- approved by a two-to-one majority an amendment to the state tion, sent only one person to 173 of her population. We claim constitution which will make the undertaking possible. The the record for the United States." The Step Keeper, tenta- New York legislature, which has twice gone on record as favor- tively awarding a temporary certificate to Dr. Johnston and ing the project, is expected to appropriate funds for the work his post, is in doubt as to a suitable prize. Will some of the at its present session. The road will begin at the Roosevelt assistant Step Keepers please come forward with suggestions. Memorial Highway in Wilmington and will rise to a height of Nothing fur-lined, please! 5,872 feet above sea level on the peak. National Commander Spafford, shortly after his return from More in Sorrow Than in Anger the Paris convention, planted the first tree of a forty-four-mile Avenue of Trees which Lake Placid Post will complete as an THE Step Keeper wants to whang the rumor that he is approach to the memorial highway. Last autumn Lake Placid suffering from a defect in sight which prevents him from Post conducted a series of Marathon races over the proposed seeing anything good in the work done by big posts. Ben route to the top of the mountain. Kallis, editor of Chipilly Chips, the paper of Chipilly Post in Chicago, relays a whisper from one of the seven hundred The Qrandson of the Qrandstand members of his outfit to the effect that "every one-horse post gets a write-up and a live, large big-city post, such as ours, is AN old grandstand collapsed during a football game in Rich- never heard from." More in sorrow than in anger, the Step -mond. Virginia, last October, and several hundred persons Keeper readjusts the twin microscopes he wears when reading were hurt, many of them seriously. The accident called at- letters from assistant Step Keepers and takes a look at No. 10 tention to Richmond's need of a community stadium. Over of Volume 5 of Chipilly Chips. There, right on the first page, in Greensboro, North Carolina, an American Legion post had is what he has been looking for—something new and novel, shown just how The American Legion can supply this kind of something the rest of the outfit will want to hear about. In a community need. So the Richmond Legion Luncheon Club, the account of the post's September meeting is this paragraph: composed of the members of the five Richmond posts, set "A motion was passed ordering our financial budget to in- about to provide its city with a stadium while the memory of clude an item of $75 for three blood transfusions, or one such the accident was still strong in the minds of all citizens. treatment at $25 and one radium treatment costing $50. for At a meeting of the luncheon club, President John A. Cutch- ex-service men in need." ings presented an entirely new plan for erecting a stadium and It is explained that ordinarily the Government will pay to a paying for it out of receipts from games and other events. This service man offering blood in a transfusion operation the sum plan, which eventually will give a city of 200.000 persons a of $25. Where the blood is supplied by a hospital attendant, community athletic center with seats for 15,000 persons, is one the recipient must pay the attendant $25 out of his own which might be worth considering by hundreds of other posts. resources. "When the plan has been carried out." writes J. A. Nicholas, Chipilly Post's action is certainly worth the telling. The size Jr.. Adjutant of the Virginia Department, "it will be the great- of the post and the size of the city doesn't count one way or est service any organization has ever rendered to the city." the other. It happens, of course, that there are a hundred Mr. Nicholas will send an outline of the plan to any post small posts in small communities for every big post in a big wanting it. Just send him a stamped envelope. city, so naturally the doings of the small posts buy into this The Richmond Legionnaires propose to sell athletic certifi- sector conspicuously often. But big or cates to the amount of $150,000. These small, every post gets an even break on certificates later will be redeemed with contributions which are genuinely interest- money received as receipts from events ing to everybody. held in the stadium. After all certificates have been redeemed the stadium will stand A Road and a Light fully paid for, with no bonded debt or other debt, and will provide continuous WHITEFACE Mountain, in the Adi- revenue for athletics, education and charity. rondacks. overlooking Lake Placid, is The stadium will be managed by a board the fourth highest peak in the State of of trustees elected by the certificate hold- New York. Its splendid isolation has long ers. The site of the stadium will be de- ermined by majority vote of the certificate made it famous as a place from which to view the entire Adiron- holders after an expert dack Park. non-partisan committee has submitted recom- Soon, it is hoped, a of three or road will zig-zag its way mendations suitable six and one-half miles to more sites. the top of the mountain, The Step Keeper would and thousands of persons like to pass on to the who have never consid- rest of the Legion the ered themselves moun- experiences of Legion- tain climbers will be able naires who have procured to motor to the peak of stadiums for other cities. glorious views. Eventu- What other plans of fi- used? ally a perpetual light will nancing have been shine out from the sum- Richmond hopes to ded- icate its stadium on mit, visible from all di- rections for forty or Armistice Day this year in other cities still fifty miles. Posts time to a sta- The road and the light have get dium-building movement will be memorials to the completed men and women of New started and road will rise six miles to the top of Whitejace before next autumn's York who served in the A Legion-sponsored the mountain-top finish a football season. post World War. They will Mountain in the Adirondacks. Below, of Any modify the Rich- take form because of ef- Marathon race conducted by Lake Placid (New York~) Post may 30 FEBRUARY, 1928 KEEPING— STEP

mond plan to conform with the needs of its own community the dike stood completed, its top four feet above the river bank. and the practicability of raising a large or small sum of money. The total cost of the dike was less than $5,000. "On June 13th the river reached its high mark of 30.1 feet, Keeping Rowboats Off Main Street the highest it had been since 1916. Only the dike prevented the water from sweeping through the town once more." TN Virginia a post erects a stadium. Elsewhere posts go on year by year meeting the urgent needs of their home towns. They Don't Qo Home Till Morning The friendly mountains look down upon Bonners Ferry in Idaho and the Kootenai River, descending swiftly and tur- .OILBERT C. Grafton Post of Fargo, North Dakota, has 850 bulently. rushes peacefully by the town during most of the members and at least half of them turn out for every post months of the year. Occasionally, however, peril has brooded meeting. One reason they turn out is Past Commander Bill among the mountains, the menace of the melting Stern, the Will Rogers of the Legion. The same of deeper-than-average snows, and the qualities which have made Bill Stern friendly river has turned enemy to the famous at every national convention community. Twice in the last have kept his post buzzing like an thirty-five years, melting snow airplane motor. But there is in the mountains has sent the another reason why the gang river raging out of its banks k turns out in Fargo—Gilbert to flood stores and homes. wBKL C. Grafton Post considers When the water rose over HBkt itself the best entertained the town, it stood ten post in the United States. feet deep on the grounds When you add Post

of the court house in j Commander Ed Kraus

Bonners Ferry. Even in | you have the key to years when the river did Grafton Post's enter-

not overflow, it invari- tainment. Kraus is the ably rose threateningly in Fargo manager for the its banks while citizens American Amusement looked on apprehensively. Company, which operates For thirty-five years citizens the five leading theaters and of the town talked about build motion picture houses of the ing a dike to prevent another flood city. He is also chairman of his as disastrous as the remembered post's entertainment committee. floods of 1894 and 1016. but the dike Post meetings in Fargo start much as had never been started. For one thing, they do elsewhere. There is a business A menace years vanished in Bon- the cost of the dike was a barrier—esti- flood of session followed by a meal served army mates were from $20,000 to $30,000. ners Ferry, Idaho, when Boundary Post style. But the outfit doesn't sound taps Last spring snow piled up deeply in Legionnaires worked six weeks to build the after the chow has been put away—the the mountains and all the signs forecast mile-and-a-half-loug dike shown below evening is just starting. Appears Kraus a flood for Bonners Ferry with a wand. He waves it when the summer sun should and the Legionnaires have a melt the snow. Citizens de- show set for them—usually manded that the town coun- the best features of the best cil do something, but the show in town or a combina- council couldn't agree upon tion of all the best features a method of raising the $>c - of the best shows. The show 000 or $30,000 which it was is given in the clubrooms believed the dike would cost. usually, but sometimes every- It looked as if everybody body marches to one of the would keep on talking until theaters so the actors may do the flood arrived. Then 'i S/ti their stuff with real scenery. Boundary Post of The Amer- Actors like those get-to- ican Legion decided that it could build the dike. Building a gether shows for the Fargo Legionnaires. They are free and dike would be better than mobilizing later in boats to save easy affairs with a lot of impromptu stuff—a chance for the lives and property. stage folks to relax after the tenseness of their regular acts. Post Commander Glen G. McBride appointed a committee And everybody gets to know everybody else.

- to work with the town council in procuring the right of way The midnight shows were jeopardized when the post's a strip of land a mile and a half long between the river and Auxiliary unit got the idea that it was poker and not dramatics the main section of the town. Earlier efforts of officials to that was keeping the Legionnaires up late. So one evening acquire the right of way had failed because of refusal of some Chairman Kraus provided a show for the Legion and the property owners to make the concessions necessary. The Auxiliary jointly. Other shows for the whole family have been Legion committee succeeded in getting every property owner given regularly since that first one. to sign up. Legionnaire W. B. Scott tells what followed. "The mayor empowered the post to take full charge of build- Statistics Ahead! Drive Slowly ing the dike and promised every official help," writes Mr. Scott. 'The post voted unanimously to go through with the job. T EONARD P. AYRES is a prophet of finance and a sooth- Engineering advice on construction problems was procured. A sayer of industry. As a member of The American Legion's committee of five Legionnaires was given active management National Finance Committee, he helps prepare the yearly of the whole effort. A budget committee was also appointed to budget of receipts and expenditures and makes sure the outfit's raise and spend the needed funds. money is spent wisely and according to rules, but he is not "The county commissioners loaned the post a steam shovel and known so widely for this as he is for his work outside the two motor trucks. Seven other trucks were borrowed. Earth was Legion. He is Vice President of the Cleveland Trust Company excavated with the steam shovel from a hill near the river front. of Cleveland, Ohio, and is one of the country's foremost Rock was hauled two miles. For five weeks a steady line of statisticians. During the World War, Ayres was head of the loaded trucks was kept moving from the rock piles and the puff- statistical branch of the War Department, and before going ing steam shovel to the site of the dike. At the end of six weeks back to his daily work of peacetime (Continued on page 70) 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly AND ]S Sidelight on the C.-in-C.— Gob Airmen Steal Army's Thunder— Last Shot Echo Refuses to Di — Wolverines and Hawkey es, Attention!— Outfit Notices

^^"»EMORY sometimes plays strange tricks on a too late. Both the front wheels and rear wheels ran over him.' \\{m fellow, especially after nine or ten years, but "I surely would like to learn through Then and Now if any fa J A m if the Company Clerk's old bean is hitting on man from the 23d Engineers could let me know who the man 1/ % all six this morning it seems to recall that back was who was run over, and if he is all right." in the days of the old squabble, an unusual incident occurred. Due to the thoughtlessness—we almost said heartlessness—of TT will be remembered that the Company Clerk has com- an editor, and it may have been the editor of the Stars and plained before in these columns that he has been unjustly Stripes, a photograph of the spick-and-spannest and snappiest- accused of favoring certain branches of service and slighting dressed soldier of the entire Army, showing him guilty of a others. All of which accusations have been answered by the cardinal sin, appeared in a publication. Looming up in the fact that representatives of the outfits objecting have failed to picture was an unbuttoned pocket on his blouse. And did the come across with any information concerning their service ex- gang jump to the opportunity of handing their Commander-in- periences. Among the chief complainers were former gobs, and Chief a good-natured razz as a result? We'll say they did! the Company Clerk was just about to bawl 'em out again, when In uniform or out of it, our old boss of the A. E. F. is still a couple of them decided to ship over as active members of just about the neatest-appearing man going. One secret of his the Then and Now Gang. So now Past Commander George E.

always neat appearance is disclosed in a letter from A. L. Sprague of Saugus ( Massachusetts) Post is introduced to have O'Brien, First Vice Commander of Vincennes (Indiana) Post, his say in the important discussion of the "first over": who sent also the picture on this page as Exhibit A. O'Brien "From time to time I have read in Then and Now claims has this to say: that this or that outfit was the first over. I have known that "I am enclosing an unusual snapshot of our Commander-in- most of the claims were at least greatly exaggerated but I Chief in '18. I thought that it might interest the Gang. have never taken the trouble to join in the debate. [That "On July 4th last, the guest of honor and the principal seems to be the trouble with too many gobs.—C. C] speaker at the laying of the corner- "But in the November number. I stone of the immense memorial build- find that Lieutenant Colonel C. A. ing which is the central feature of the Bach of the Historical Section of the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza War Department has 'settled the argu- in Indianapolis, was General John J. ment for all time' as to which was the Pershing. A parade preceded the cere- first combat outfit to arrive, naming mony and cameras were clicking right the First Division Headquarters and and left. elements of that division which landed "Just as the General was entering at St. Nazaire on June 26. 191 7. the speakers' stand, used also as a re- "Now I hate to see a good argument viewing stand for the parade in which ended, especially one that has possi- he had ridden, our Post Commander bilities of lasting for years. I'd like R. G. Hennis got busy with his camera. to re-open it. The enclosed print is the result of his "Colonel Bach says 'The first com- photographic effort. bat outfit of the A. E. F.. etc' Well, "Here we see our old Chief care- well, do you know that there was an fully removing from his blouse the expeditionary force of American com- wrinkles which his ride in the parade batants organized in the United States had caused. He wanted to look his and shipped to France before that fa- snappiest —as he always does look." mous A. E. F. was created? "The First Aeronautic Detachment, RECENTLY I found a letter." re- United States Navy, sailed from these ports Norman P. Legendre of shores about May 23, 1017, one sec- Paul Lentz Post, Allentown, Pennsyl- tion as passengers on the U. S. S. Jupi- vania, to the Company Clerk, "in my ter, from New York, and one section mementoes of the war. This letter I on the U. S. S. Neptune, shoving off had written while I was a member of from Baltimore. The first section of Section 602. U. S. Army Ambulance The camera of Commander R. G. Hennis this outfit landed at Bordeaux on June Service, billeted at Sivry-la-Perche. a of Vincennes (Indiana) Post caught a 5. 1Q17. The second section, of which I a landed at S.t. Nazaire small town southwest of Verdun on prominent Legionnaire in an unconven- was member, the road which ran to Clermont. It is on June 1017. A few days later we tional pose. Need we introduce the subject 7. dated December 3, 1018, and it has were all in training with the French. of the above picture taken in Indianapolis to do with something that has been "If we were not an A. E. F. in last July fourth? on my mind ever since. It reads: miniature, why did we carry seven " T am rather upset since the awful years' supplies, which I helped load accident that happened this morning. I drove to Clermont for into and out of every box car in France? If we were not a provisions. The ambulance was loaded rather heavily when combat unit, some of the Jerries who pumped lead at me later we arrived in Vraincourt where the accident occurred. The 23d were taking their pay under false pretenses. Engineers are billeted in this little village and it seems we "Although I'm in the Army now, as the song goes, my first passed through there just as they were having mess.' love was the Navy which not only took them over but beat " 'We were coming down a hill round a curve to enter the them there with a combat unit as well—beat them by about village when of a sudden one of the boys came into the road three weeks as I reckon it. How about it? immediately in front of our car. There was a truck parked "While setting up claims, here's another: on the roadside which prevented his seeing me and my seeing "The first American killed in France after the Americans him. I used my foot brakes and the emergency. But it was came was a member of this same First Aeronautic Detachment,

FEBRUARY, 1928 U. S. N., Tommy Barrett, a student pilot, and I think he came by members of the Then and Now Gang in this discussion: from Cleveland. He was killed at the French Army air station at "Just reading over the last number of your fine Monthly," Tours, either June 26 or June 28, 191 7, when his plane crashed. writes John E. Wilson, Executive of the SeKan Area Council "While I'm at it, my service record was unique. Who can of the Boy Scouts of America, residing in Chanute, Kansas, match it? I served successively with the French Naval Air "and note in Then and Now a communication from a member Service, the French Army Air Service, the U. S. Army Air of the 339th Infantry in which he lays claim to the honor of Service, the Royal Air Forces and the U. S. Marine Air Force, 'firing the last shot in the war.' I had not thought of this though a member of the U. S. Naval Air Service all the time. before but since he has called our attention to the matter, I feel "In looking through my archives, I came across a newspaper that I am called upon to ask you to listen to another 'last shot.' clipping from the Boston Globe of June 8, 191 7. I guess old "Far be it from me to pluck one leaf from the laurels of Josephus settled the argument by making this announcement: that ill-fated 339th Infantry which made such a fine stand at Archangel, but in the interests of historical accuracy I feel " '100 U. S. AVIATORS IN FRANCE READY FOR ANY DUTY they will have to relinquish their claim, if, as the writer in the December Monthly affirms, that shot was fired in April, 1919. 'First Fighting in France U. S. Forces "Comrade Albert E. May seems to have forgotten or never 'Washington, June 8.—One hundred American aviators known of the North Russia Transportation Corps Expedition from the Navy flying corps have arrived safely in France which came up to help get the boys out of Archangel. We for any duty that may present itself, according to a state- operated on the Murmansk front and were in actual combat ment issued today by Secretary Daniels. with the Bolsheviki long after the 339th Infantry had sailed 'They are the first of the American fighting forces to " reach France.' for home. As my records have it. they sailed from Archangel on June 10, 1919. And the Company Clerk claims, without much possibility of "We had an armored train rigged up which we sent to the argument, that now that the former Navy men have awakened, front on June 18, 1919. It fired the first shot on June 27th they have done it with a bang. The statements of Comrade when it poured a barrage of over two hundred rounds into the Sprague do not affect in any way the claims of Base Hospital enemy trenches. In the capture of Kyapeselga on the west No. 4 of being the very first over—sailing as it did from New shore of Lake Onega the latter part of June, this armored train York on May 8, 191 7. lent its assistance not and arriving at Rouen, only from the tracks France, after a period but in sending ma- in England, on May chine gun crews into

25, 1 q 1 7 . But his the line. The train statements do very carried two Vickers positively take away three pounders and the honor of being the twenty-two Vickers first combat unit over- machine guns under seas from the First the command of Lieu- Division and from the tenant C. B. Tuttle. Army. Unless, of "I happened to be course, as Sprague the Historical Officer suggests, some other with this unit and Army outfit can sub- have on file all data mit definite data that as well as the official it put foot on the soil report published and of France prior to on file in the War

June 5, 1917. Department." Sprague's further claim that a Navy man CO much for the was the first Ameri- O NorthN Russia Ex- can killed while on Famous rather than -prominent ivould best describe this street in far-off pedition. Legionnaire overseas service was Vladivostok, Siberia. Several former Wolfhounds of the A. E. F. in May's letter brought substantiated by re- Siberia suggested that the lvords "Kopeck Hill" would recall memories responses also from ferring to a volume some of the former to men of the expedition. H. A. Whittaker of Duluth, Minnesota, in our reference li- "Wolfhounds," men furnished the print brary entitled "Offi- who served with the cers and Enlisted Men A. E. F. in Siberia. of the United States Navy Who Lost Their Lives During the Ex-Sergeant William A. Turner, now of Media, Pennsylvania, World War," in which we found the following paragraph: refers to May's statement and then adds: "Thomas Winch Barrett, landman for quartermaster. United "I think I can go Albert E. May one better. Company M,

States Navy. Enlisted: Cleveland, Ohio, April 5, 191 7. Died: 31st Infantry, A. E. F. in Siberia, of which I was a member, Tours, France, June 28, 191 7. Cause: Result of injuries re- comes closer to claiming the distinction of firing the last shot, ceived in airplane accident. Next of kin: Father. D. S. Bar- as it was engaged with the Bolsheviki at Puyatina, Siberia, on rett, Mentor, Ohio." July 9, 1919. "Company M left Vladivostok on April 1, 1920—one of the npECHNICALLY speaking, the actual fighting in the World last companies to leave. If any of the old gang see this, I -- War ended, of course, when the referee blew the whistle would like to hear from them." at eleven o'clock in the morning of November 11, 1918. But. Another former soldier of the 31st Infantry, but of Com- as a matter of fact, all fighting in which American troops were pany A, H. A. Whittaker. member of David Wisted Post of involved did not come to an end at that time. While the Big the Legion of Duluth. Minnesota, reports the last shot as being Show ended officially on the date mentioned, there were a fired almost a year later than the dates heretofore reported. number of side shows, off-spring of the main event, which He says: continued on their way. with resulting discomforts and casual- "With all due credit to the 339th Infantry, I would say ties. Prominent in these comparatively minor operations were that Comrade May is mistaken. Just when and where the those of the A. E. F. in Siberia and the North Russia Expedi- last shot was fired by American troops will probably never be tion of which American troops were a part. known, but on June 25, 1919, at Romanoffka, Siberia, Com- All of which is introductory to the fact that the discussion pany A, 31st Infantry, lost the following men killed in action: relative to the last shot fired during the World War continues Sergeant Henry P. Casey, Corporals Thomas B. Mason and merrily on its way. Eventually, by a process of elimination of Herbert Toll, Privates icl Brooks Lee, George Love, James R. the claims advanced, this much-mooted question may be defin- Love. Cecil T. Parsons, William Roberts, Albert Simpson and itely settled. And necessarily the claims of our comrades who Louis A. Schlichter and Privates Dart H. Balsh, Wesley Cole, did battle in Siberia and Russia must be considered. Wesley David, Dave Ivie, John Janzen, Guss Johnson, Harry Let the Company Clerk submit the latest evidence sent in Lambert, Nestor Lopez, Walter (Continued on page 6q)

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FEBRUARY, 1928 13 This poster will be displayed in sixteen thousand towns and cities in February. It was designed by Chester C. Bratten and won second prize in a nation-wide poster campaign begun by the Chicago Voiture of the Forty and Eight TELLINGEWORLD

>^^NE hundred million By Grover F. Sexton Legion—the spirit of youth feel- m \j J Americans learned more ing its strength—rising magnifi- | m about The American Le- cently above the farms, the fac- V_^^ gion last September than they had ever learned in tories, the schools and the life of our cities. the nine years of the Legion's existence. They saw The Ameri- If a count could be kept of the persons passing the posters can Legion emblazoned on the consciousness of the whole world interpreting the Legion's ideals and its purpose for existence, while The American Legion's national convention was enthrall- it would undoubtedly reach a total of 175.000,000 daily. ing Paris. Paris was a shining screen on which the United This nation-wide educational campaign is largely the result States saw reflected the vastness of the Legion, its ideals and of the visit by National Commander Edward E. Spafford to the promise of its future. With the clearness which only the the annual convention of the Outdoor Advertising Association perspective of three thousand miles could give, the folks back of America, Inc., in Atlantic City last October. Acting as home realized that the Legion had grown up so quietly in their spokesman of the Relations Extension Committee of The midst and had been taken so much for granted that they had American Legion, National Commander Spafford presented the never formed a true and rounded estimate of what it is, what cause of the Legion, what it has done and what it proposes to it is doing and what it wants to do. do, with such conviction and such effect that the advertising There has been little of the evangelistic appeal in the Le- men attending the convention voted to conduct, in co-operation gion's growth. Although it started as a movement, there has with American Legion posts, a poster advertising display been a tendency perhaps to let it become simply an organiza- throughout the whole United States. tion. This despite the fact that far-seeing men have pointed The poster to be shown is one of the three selected by an out that The American Legion is bound to become with each eminent jury as winners of the Legion's nation-wide poster passing year a stronger national force—that its career will contest among artists, many of whom are World War veterans, expand in parallel with the careers of its individual members, a contest which ended as the delegates sailed for the Paris con- as they pass from youth to maturity and assume the front vention. Almost one thousand artists entered the contest and ranks of leadership in business, in farming, in the professions, designs were submitted from thirty-eight States and Canada. in civic affairs. The poster contest and the national poster display that has Perhaps The American Legion has lived too closely within grown out of it both owe their existence to an idea that came its own shell. Perhaps it has never sounded as vigorously as to a Legionnaire and Voyageur of the Forty and Eight. Burton it should the appeal to all the citizens of its country to join Harrington of Chicago is that man. The idea came to him with it for the great tasks of citizenship and national progress. during a meeting of Voiture 220 of the Forty and Eight in Certainly the Legion has never been selfish, but it has not Chicago. At that meeting Voyageur Harrington remarked that conveyed quite clearly enough just how earnestly it wants the if Voiture 220 wished to perform a notable service for The country to join with it in its purposes. American Legion it could do nothing better than help it obtain In this year of 102S The American Legion is going before a new poster which would convey to the people of the United the country as it has never gone before. In sixteen thousand States an understanding of its purposes and objects. The towns and cities of the United States The American Legion voiture took to the idea. A poster competition committee was will present to the American people a message they will both appointed, with Mr. Harrington as chairman. see and understand In those sixteen thousand towns and Mr. Harrington and his committee selected the members of cities huge many-colored posters, displayed where millions and a jury of award, a notable group of artists and men prominent millions of citizens may see them, will call attention to The in public life and the affairs of the Legion. The help of the American Legion as a dignified, sincere, unselfish organization National Poster Art Alliance was enlisted with the result that seeking to serve the nation. it agreed to conduct the competition. Pershing, "In peace, as in war—we serve," will be the message those The jurv of award was composed of General John J. posters will proclaim. And above the words will stand an chairman;' Admiral William A. Moffett; Hanford MacNider, inspired artist's conception of the spirit of The American Assistant Secretary of War; National (Continued on page 46) 44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ANOTHER PAY-RAISE for FYR-FYTERMEN IncomesBoosted300 byAmazing Discovery*fi>

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FEBRUARY, 1928 45 Telling the World

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Commander Howard P. Savage; Charles A. Mills, Chef de tising Association of America a flag in recognition of the

Chemin de Fer of the Forty and Eight ; Adalin VV. Macauley, Association's splendid service during the World War, and a National President of The American Legion Auxiliary; Kerwin document explaining the ideals and aims of The American H. Fulton, Chairman of the Board of the General Outdoor Legion and expressing the desire that the Association co-operate Advertising Company; Lorado Taft, Norman Rockwell, Alon in exhibiting those ideals and aims to the American people. E. Bement, Charles Dana Gibson, eminent sculptors and artists; Allen Frost. Counselor of the Association, responding, said: William MacLean. Art Editor of The American Legion Month- "The Legion is a guaranty of our future security and pros- ly; Willy G. Sesser and George Ihnen, art directors for adver- perity as a nation." tising companies. The jury was asked to select three posters Kerwin H. Fulton, Chairman of the Board of Directors of to be awarded the prizes of $1,500 offered by Voiture 220—the the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, in a statement first prize to be $1,000—and to designate ten other posters issued after the meeting, said: "The American Legion is for honorable mention. destined to play an important part in the economic and social

The jury awarded the first prize of $1,000 to J. M. Mitchell, development of the country during the coming years, and it is a young free-lance artist of New York City, whose composition a pleasure to be of assistance in the selection of a poster which was striking in its simplicity and powerful color effect. It typifies the purposes of the Legion." awarded second prize to Chester C. Bratten of Chicago, who The color bearers of Atlantic County Post of The American submitted a design that symbolized the Legion's all-inclusive Legion at the beginning of the ceremony entered the convention character, its living force hall and were stationed on the farms, in the on each side of the plat- cities, in education, in in- form. Taps were sound- dustries. William Heaslip ed in honor of the de- of New York was award- parted and then the new ed the third prize for a American Legion poster striking poster depicting was unveiled. James E. the helping hand of the White, Vice Commander Legion. of the Department of The ten posters which Illinois, recited the Ode were given honorable to the Flag. Frank A. mention were submitted Mathews, Jr., Past De- by: R. Fayerweather partment Commander of Babcock, Chicago; Carl the New Jersey Depart- H. Georgi. New York ment, in an address said: City; Harry R. Howchin. "When the curtain falls Toronto; Fred C. Good. upon the Twentieth Cen-

Chicago; J. S. Hallam. tury the achievements of Toronto; Rafael M. De- The American Legion soto. New York City; during the two years of Carl A. Paulson. Chi- the W'orld War will un- cago; Batiste Madalena, questionably be deep- Rochester. New York; ly engraved, and rightly Reg. Willis. Berkeley. Cal- so. upon the pages of ifornia, and R. C. Webb. American history. But Seattle, Washington. somewhere there will be The plan for distribut- another record even more ing the Legion poster in important than this, in 1028 is being prepared which not so much credit by the Relations Exten- will be given to the num- sion Committee of The ber of the enemy it /. M. Mitchell Qn the light suit) with the 1927 leaders of the American Legion, of helped to injure as to the Legion, the Auxiliary and the Forty and Eight who congratulated which Burton Harrington number of our own com- him on his -poster ivhich icon first pri%e is Chairman. National rades it assisted in re- Adjutant James F. Bar- habilitating; where not ton and the representatives of the Outdoor Advertising Asso- so much account will be taken of the number of German ciation of America. The members of the Relations Extension widows and orphans which it made as to the number of Ameri- Committee include Asa W. Candler of Atlanta, Georgia, Coun- can widows and orphans which it saved; where not so much sel for the Coca-Cola Company; General James G. Harbord. consideration will be given to the cities which it destroyed by President of the Radio Corporation of America; Walton Hood. artillery as to the communities which it built by character: V ice President of the Texas State Bank and Trust Company. where not so much thought will be given to the empire which San Antonio, Texas; Rufus Rand, Vice President of the Min- it helped to destroy abroad as to the republic which it helped neapolis Gas Company, Minneapolis. Minnesota; and Perry to build at home; where its standing will be determined not Thomas, the Victor Girard Company. Los Angeles. California. so much from the number of officers of high rank who came The poster to be displayed in February is the one which was into its membership as by the number of great statesmen and awarded second prize. It is expected that later use will be good citizens which emanated from the body of its members: made of other posters, including those given honorable mention. and where its glory will shine not so much from the light of The National Headquarters will communicate to departments its brilliant part in ending the last World War as from the and posts all necessary information regarding local participation radiance of the magnificent part it may play, consistent with in the poster display. our national honor, in preventing the next one." The kind of co-operation which will make the display of the The Atlantic City ceremony recalled the fact that Voiture Legion's poster the most successful national undertaking of its 220 of Chicago had been awarded the Charles A. Mills Trophy kind ever attempted was evidenced during the Atlantic City for performing the most notable service rendered to The convention of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. American Legion in 1027 by a voiture of the Forty and Eight. The regular business proceedings of the convention were sus- The award was announced at the Forty and Eight's national pended while all the delegates attended a special session in promenade in Paris. honor of The American Legion. At the conference of Department Commanders and Adjutants, At this special session National Commander Spafford pre- held at National Headquarters in December, plans were outlined sented to President Harry F. O'Mealia of the Outdoor Adver- for co-operation of all posts in the poster campaign. 46 The AMERICAN I.EGTON Monthly Retail List Completely Assembled MAGNIFICENT TONE-SUPER SELECTIVE-POWERFUL DISTANCE GETTER or Battery Set/

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^".••";ir.:v" them must be put up again. Railroads pelier had outwardly at least almost in Vermont have had to abandon for wholly recovered. The Legislature took this winter all idea of service to certain measures to provide for rehabilitation of communities, and it is quite possible the various communities hit by the dis- that not until July first will Vermont aster, carrying out to the last item the get back to normal. The Green Moun- recommendations made to it by Gov-

tain State has a long, hard pull, but it ernor John E. Weeks. has gone doggedly at the business of In the little town of Bolton, six miles working out its own salvation. For- below Waterbury on the Winooski. tunately a couple of weeks of warm twenty-one people in one house were weather succeeded that trying week-end carried to their death. Most of them and although there was more high water were members of a road construction in December there was no such crisis gang of the state highway department. as that of a month earlier. Three other people in Bolton perished in the raging waters and the town was AIRPLANES from Boston, Mitchel as completely isolated for a time as

• Field on Long Island, and Albany was Waterbury. from which finally it appearing above the badly flooded got food through the medium of a rough Winooski in the first few days of the raft made from undertakers' boxes. ©Ulnar catastrophe found it extremely hard to At Northfield, where Sorrell-Maynard TOBACCO find a landing field. The airplanes car- Post distinguished itself in numerous ried medicine and yeast and other need- ways, Legionnaire Clifford E. Gregory ed supplies and were the one possible directed the laying out of an aviation — Enjoy the field Now link to the outside world between Mont- at the fair grounds. The hard rains pelier, Barre, Waterbury and other dev- had transformed the few long-established Genuine Pleasure of astated towns of the valley. Realizing landing fields in the central part of the this, Barre Post appointed a committee State into marshy wastes, and in try- Pipe Smoking to work under the chairmanship of ing to land at one of these in Mont- Alex Straiton, and in a single day vol- pelier Reuben B. Sleight, an assistant of A few strokes of your pen at the bot- unteers cut down trees, spread one hun- Secretary Hoover in the Department of tom of this column will bring you more dred and fifty truck loads of crushed Commerce, lost his life. solid smoking comfort, satisfaction and stone from the nearby quarries, and had Two converging torrents that had been cheer than you've ever gotten out of a landing field in readiness at nightfall. the Dog River and Union Brook iso- your pipe before. Thousands of men Barre itself had suffered great damage lated a portion of Northfield on the first have said thisabout Old Briar Tobacco. in the flood and seven people there had of those terrible nights of the flood. lives, Your own enjoyment will confirm it. lost their including Lieutenant Thursday, November 3d. Legionnaires S. Hollister brother used frail canoes Light up your pipe filled with Old Governor Jackson, a two to get members of H. Nelson Jackson, of Burlington, of some ninety families to safety. John Briar. Draw in the fragrance of its slow- who is founder of the Legion in Ver- J. Finnessey, high school principal and burning, flavory leaf. Then notice how mont, Past National Vice Commander past post adjutant. Legionnaires Gelsie extra cool and smooth Old Briar is. and a leader in many national activities Monti, William M. Jackson and H. C. It has taken years of scientific of the organization. Hamilton, the latter one of the profes- knowledge in the art of mellowing and Marcell Conway of Barre, Depart- sors of Norwich University, were in blending and generations of tobacco ment Child Welfare chairman, headed charge of this phase of the post's efforts. culture to develop and perfect Old a party which made two trips through Other Legionnaires took charge of the Briar Tobacco. And by the application the flooded area and saw that all ex- homeless at the Legion's headquarters

of quantity production methods, it is service men's children received proper and saw that they had food and were first it comfortably quartered during the next possible for you to enjoy Old Briar care. On the trip was necessary to build two good-sized bridges and re- several days. Major Charles N. Barber, at such a reasonable price. pair numerous stretches of road. past commander of the Department of Of All the Pleasures Man Enjoys Montpelier, the capital, found itself Vermont, was made administrator of Costs the Least Pipe Smoking pretty well submerged on Thursday food, fuel and gasoline supply at North- In sizes at 25c, 50c, $1 and $2 evening as the Winooski got under way. field because of the shortage of these Almost every business structure in the necessary commodities. United States Tobacco Co. city with the exception of the State The Norwich University cadets gave capitol flooded, the water rising valuable assistance in the work of re- Richmond, Va., U. S. A. was \ lief and rehabilitation. If I may be fourteen feet above the level of the principal street. Due to the quick mobi- permitted to digress a moment, the real- lization of Legion and other aid there ly excellent work that the young student was but one death from the flood, but soldiers accomplished was paralleled by several people had to be rescued through high school and college students through- Sir roofs that had been hacked away. Le- out the stricken region. Dartmouth Col- Offer gionnaire Arthur Ellis in his motor boat lege sent a thousand students over to To make you acquainted with all of the genuine found opportunity to rescue several. White River Junction and they worked pleasure of pipe smoking, we will send you, on re- railroad ceipt of this coupon, a generous package of Old Briar Others under the leadership of Joseph in and about that important Tobacco. Send 10c— Coin or Stamps— for postage Jay, who had just taken the command- center under the direction of Major and mailing expense. ership of the post, worked like beavers. James Brown, commander of Hartford Tear out and Mail this Coupon with 10c For several days after the flood waters Post and member of the National Re- coin or stamps— to had gone down the Legionnaires assisted habilitation Committee. The University United States Tobacco Co., Richmond, Va., U.S.A. in clearing out debris, pumping water of Vermont, Middlebury College, Wil- Print Name out of cellars and in bringing the city liams College in Massachusetts and oth- Address back to a "business as usual" state. er institutions sent out labor battalions When the Legislature convened in spe- that gave a good account of themselves City and State in the pick-and-shovel work that un- A. L 2-28 cial session on November 30th Mont-

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seasonably warm weather in the two weeks following the flood made possible. Commander E. R. Britain of the post at Northneld gave his entire time for three weeks after the flood to directing relief work, pitching in himself at times. The entire post co-operated, but perhaps the most picturesque job was done by four members, Harold W., Elliott, Rob- ert G. Sanborn, Arlington S. Kerr and Frank S. Marino, who assisted Captain Charles E. Dissenger, U. S. A., in bring- ing relief by pack horses to Moretown, a little village nine miles away in the Mad River valley which was completely cut off from outside communication. The largest city to suffer severe flood damage was North Adams, Massachu- setts, western end of the famous Mo- hawk Trail. The swirling waters of the Hoosac River's north branch destroyed property worth two million dollars and made hundreds of people homeless. Commander Richard F. Brown of Frank The plate glass test —This glass was pressed against a Goodrich Silvertown till the R. Stiles Post sent out a call for Le- tread flattened as it would flatten against the road. Note how the center grooves can gionnaires to assemble as soon as it was close up, when the tire is under load. seen that the river was becoming un- manageable, and during the feverish night that followed twenty-five Legion- naires, working as volunteers under Fire Chief John Saulnier, himself a Le- gion member, did noteworthy work get- ting people out of their flood-swept Happens homes. Other Legionnaires did effective SeeWhat work in outlying districts, and it was through their untiring work that the police and fire departments were able to 'when Goodrich Silvertowns carry the city through the crisis without loss of life. The city was forced to get along without gas and running water for meet the T^pacL several days. Some twenty miles south of North Balloon tires are soft. They yield. Massive ' shoulders." No crowd- Adams is the city of Pittsfield, county

seat of Berkshire County. Fortunately Their tread flattens against the road. ing. No distortion . No piling up" there was no flood crisis there, but when The center compresses, letting the of rubber can cause premature wear. the little town of Becket, twenty miles shoulders" of the tread come down You get the full service which cor- southeast, sent out a call for help Com- to the ground. mander Fred N. Cummings mobilized rect design and skillful curing have Pittsfield Post. An hour after Miss Simple facts — but what a tremen- put into Goodrich Silvertowns. Caroline E. Cooper, Executive Secretary dous effect they have on mileage! They are bonded together by Water- of the county Red Cross, had appealed Cured rubber toughened to re- to Commander Cummings to get hold Suppose the center could not yield. — of cots for the homeless Becket folk Suppose it had bulky masses of rub- markable uniformity by application the cots were on the way. A fifty-foot ber vvhereitshould beflexible. Then of heat from outside and inside both, wall of water rushing down the valley it would crowd the surrounding rub- instead of from outside only. after a swollen reservoir burst an ber out of shape. It would distort Added to this extra toughening proc- ancient dam, had ripped a vast canyon through the very heart of the town, the shoulder rubber. And uneven, ess, there is the equalized strength of wrecking the village's industries, post choppy, wasteful wear would be the 5,000stretch-matchedcords. Three office, stores and nearly a score of dwell- result. vital features combine to give you ings. only one person was Fortunately long and carefree mileage. drowned in the flood. The cots Pitts- But Goodrich Silvertowns have the The B. F. Goodrich Rubber field Post supplied filled a vital need. successful hinge-center tread design Company Established 1870 Akron. Ohio Later, an appeal was sent out of Becket Triple-grooved, easy-flexing center. In Canada: Canadian Goodrich Co., Kitchener. Ont. for seventy-five volunteers to fill in a gorge forty feet wide and fifteen deep so that one of the houses which was inhabitable but inaccessible might be returned to duty. Seventy-five Legion- naires worked tdl one Sunday on the job and when they stopped work the Goodrich ravine had been filled in and the ap- proach to the house was safe. Both Miss Cooper of the Red Cross and the people who lived in the house com- mended the post for this work, and well Silvertowns others praised the Legionnaires as as the post's official Boy Scout troop, BEST IN THE LONG RUN which in connection with the Dalton Listen In every Wednesday night, Goodrich Radio Hour 9:30 P. M. Scout troop set ( Continued on page 50 Eastern Standard Time, over WEAF and the Red Network.

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up a field kitchen in Becket and for iliares were sent over the road to the several days fed the inhabitants of the Junction and there loaded on the train, stricken village. Dalton Legionnaires with several members of the post going also contributed labor to the rehabilita- along to distribute the articles. Later it tion of Becket, and furnished money was found that additional supplies were and supplies. necessary and these were collected and sent along to West Hartford, and a THE White River, which meanders whole truckioad was dispatched to Sha- Tinnouncing down the eastern slope of the Green ron. Posts in Keene and Claremont, Mountains and joins the Connecticut New Hampshire, also sent supplies to River at Hartford. Vermont, brought White River Junction. W&eft grief to several small communities and Posts all over the State of Vermont MODELS opportunity for service to Legionnaires. sent money, food and other supplies to Randolph, in almost the exact geographi- the afflicted communities. From St. Al- RUDY WlEDOEFT-wizard cal center of the State, became isolated bans and Burlington on the north to of the saxophone, compos- early in the flood. Luckily there was no Brattleboro just a few miles above the loss of life, but when the waters sub- Massachusetts line Legionnaires were on er; radio, stage, concert sided there were bridges to build, houses duty in person or vicariously with hall and record star. Frank to shore up. railroad right-of-way to be money or supplies. Department Com- riolton, master builder constructed, homeless people to be cared mander Carleton Lawrence of Ludlow of band instruments. for. The Legionnaires took a leading appointed relief chairmen in the various the Randolph These two dreamed a part in this work, and districts, and other officers, including Auxiliares were active also. National Committeeman Crowley dream of a super-saxo- Jack At Bethel, a village of about a thou- of Rutland, were active. In general the phone. Their genius ful- sand people, a few miles south of Ran- towns and villages in the western part of filled it. The new Holtons dolph, the flood struck almost without the State suffered less than those in the in the Wiedoeft Model warning. Three Legionnaires—Dr. G. I. east, and communities along the Con- are as outstanding in tone, Abbott. Dewey White and Frank Hart necticut River, which marks the divid- tune, ease of playing and carried several aged people from their ing line between the State and New homes on River Street through raging Hampshire, had an easier time of it lightning response as Rudy waters that came waist high, to higher than those served by the smaller rivers. Wiedoeft's artistry itself. ground and safety. Officers of the post Burlington Post, besides contributing Free ten day loan. Write did similarly effective work in another money and goods in quantity, sent a big for Application Blank. section of the village, and in the days delegation in trucks and automobiles Frank Holton 8c Company following the flood the members did ef- into Waterbury and Montpelier within 1329 Church St., Elkhorn, Wis. fective work in the rebuilding of bridges forty-eight hours of the disaster. They and roads. Three truckloads of food and carried necessary medical supplies, a clothing sent by the post at Bradford thousand loaves of bread, yeast, bed- helped the flood sufferers forget their ding and a thousand-pound radio send- woes. The loss of two bridges which ing outfit in charge of Charles Worthen Atnert"ca's (Wih (greatest went out early in the flood presented a which sent out the first direct word from ""fr Jnatrumeut* problem, which was met in part by a Waterbury to the outside world, and suspension foot bridge put up in thirty- stayed on the job to help put Water- six hours. bury back on the map. Farther down the river, at Sharon The log of Brattleboro Post's activi- and West Hartford, the swelling tide ties during the flood period may be Grown by had raised havoc with roads and bridges, regarded as typical of posts in communi- a Woman houses and meadow land. Commander ties that suffered little damage: Brown of Hartford Post at White River November oth. took three cars of Everybody is delighted with my new Flower Seeds 5 Packets. Easy to Grow. Bloom A f\ r Junction got up to West Hartford over food, blankets, medical supplies to Lud- all summer. Mailed Postpaid for t- I \J the hills before the water went down. low and Cavendish; ioth. benefit dance, One packet each of Petunias 89 varieties, Calliopsis 27 kinds. Poppy 56 sorts, Garden At this time it was possible to get into proceeds turned over to Red Cross; Pinks 58 kinds. Snapdragon 75 best varieties. Guaranteed to Please the towns only by boat. But two days nth. transportation furnished for 1,000 Order today. Send 10c to help pay later Commander Brown got a train- pounds of flour, five hundred pounds of postage and packing and receive the above 5 pkts., (305 varieties load of Dartmouth students up to West cereal, thirty pounds of yeast to Mont- over 20(H) Heeds) and my new bar- gain Seed and Plant Book. Hartford and Sharon and they continued pelier for Red Cross; 12th, Auxiliary Charlotte M. Haines to work there for several days. Arthur food sale, seventy dollars turned over Dept. 831 Rockford, Illinois G. Geyer Post of Lebanon, New Hamp- to Red Cross; 21st, three boxes of cloth- shire, was especially active in providing ing sent by Auxiliary unit to Auxiliary relief for these towns and for the less Department headquarters at St. Johns- seriously stricken town of West Lebanon bury. in its own State. White River Junction had its own troubles with homes in the THE cities along the Connecticu 1 New FREE lower part of the city under water and River in Massachusetts had time to book auotes Reduced Factory Prices. 5-Year damage of a million dollars to its new prepare for the flood, which began to Guarantee Bond on Stoves^ Ranees, Furnaces. 200 styles and railroad yards. There were five deaths assume dangerous proportions on Satur- sizes. Beautiful porcelain enamel ranges and combinat on gas and in this vicinity. day, November 5th. At 6:30 that morn- coal ranges. Mahogany porcelain enamel heating stoves. Cash or easy terms. 24-hr. The Lebanon Legionnaires made ar- ing Commander Edward L. O'Brien of shipments. 30-day free trial. 360-day test. Satis- rangements with the Central Vermont Northampton Post called upon the mem- faction guaranteed. 26 years in business. 650.000 Railway to transport a special train bers to secure boats to get people out customers. Write today for FREE book. carrying boats, food and clothing to the of their homes in the lowlands. Most Kalamazoo Stove Co. Manufacturers stricken towns up the river. Twelve of these people had to be taken from 2066 Rochester Avenue halamazoo. Mich. large truckloads of material collected their homes in these boats. They were s then taken to the Legion rooms, and Ranges by the Lebanon Legionnaires and Aux-

50 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly later removed to Memorial Hall in the Tune in on that same building and to the Elks Home, where cots procured by the Red Cross were set up. The Legion rooms were prize-winning used as headquarters for the refugees and were kept open continuously for Weymontli Post No. 7 9 nine days. Smith College girls came to the rooms daily and supervised the games of the refugees' children. The American Legion Northampton Legionnaires also helped secure the dike protecting the city when it threatened to give way and assisted BAND in pumping out water from cellars and in various other work that had to be performed before people were allowed on the to go back into their homes. Mayor Legionnaire, gave warm wsai Welch, himself a air praise to the post for its work. wrc At Holyoke, nine miles south, there was no such emergency, and Legion- weei naires there were not called upon for wiic help in their own community, but co- operated with a committee appointed by wjar Department Commander John W. Reth. every wtag This committee, whose chairman was Eben S. Draper of Hopedale, was ac- Sunday wcsk companied by Department Adjutant wgr Dennis H. Haverty in a tour of the evening communities affected by the flood, and wcae did excellent work in co-ordinating Le- 6:30-7:20 wtam gion relief activities. (Eastern Standard Timet Eight miles south of Holyoke, on op- posite banks of the Connecticut, are in the Springfield and West Springfield. Emer- gency conditions enlisted the services of Stetson Shoe Parade the West Springfield Post first. During the night of November 4th the Legion- sponsored by naires helped patrol the dike which or- The Stetson Shoe Co., inc. dinarily protects the Merrick section Liberty Square of the town from the river. On the fol- South Weymouth, Mass. lowing evening at six o'clock when this dike gave way Legionnaires took the Stetson Shoes are sold in all principal cities families made temporarily homeless by the flood to various places in Spring- field and West Springfield. Springfield Post had been on duty since one o'clock that afternoon, using sandbags on the dike at the north end of the city. By the time the dike in West Springfield gave way Springfield Loosen Up Does writing pay in Cash? Post had one hundred automobiles and Here is what three hundred men on duty. So when three Palmer students say: "I just received a hundred dollar prize for a

help detail story." . . . West Springfield called for a Chest Colds Mrs. C. Y., Atlantic City, N. J. received word of the acceptance of was sent across the river. With the one "Just Judge Just Rub Not', a short story. The price was $100." hundred members of West Springfield E. M. P., Maplewood, Mo. . . . "During August I wrote two advertising booklets which Post and its Boy Scout troop they went Away Danger brought $50 and $100 respectively." R. A. McL., at the work of rescue in vigorous fash- When your lungs are Oakland, California. ion. When a call came from the barns congested and you The Palmer Institute courses are endorsed by Jesse Lynch Williams, author of the Eastern States Exposition, where havea hacking cough watch of many stories in The Satur- more than a hundred valuable saddle, out! RubMus- day Evening Post and other terole on the sore magazines, who says: "The polo and race horses were floating in spot. There's nothing Palmer course ... is better their stalls, Commander Arnold P. than any system of teaching better for quick, safe the writing of fiction in any Post got in Estelle of West Springfield relief. Musterole of our colleges or universities touch with Commander George V. penetrates the skin I have personally investigated, jBasE Lynch although it may be they have bringing Williams Blackburn of Agawam Post, and mem- a soothing, relief improved since my day." Former president assisted in getting cooling sensation and bers of all three posts Write stories that sell! Use Authols' Leauue the horses to safety. welcome relief. the coupon. of Amerien. Recommended by doctors and nurses, In the meantime Springfield Post had Musterole relieves cold in chest, sore throat, sent out call over radio station PALMER INSTITUTE OF AUTHORSHIP a WBZ bronchitis, aches and pains in the back and Dept.lll-B, Palmer Building, Hollywood, Calif. for its entire membership to assemble joints. Keep Musterole handy. Please send me, without any obligation, details at Springfield Post is the post rooms. To Mothers: Musterole is also made about the course I have checked. the largest in Massachusetts, with a few in milder form for babies and small Short Story Writing more than a thousand members. Fully children. Ask for Children 's Musterole. English and Self-Eiprestion Photoplay Writing eight hundred of these were on the job by nine o'clock and worked under the Name direction of Harold P. Redden, county Address., commander. James P. Boland, com- All correspondence strictly confidential No salesman will call upon you mander of the post, and Earle F. Bliss, its executive (Continued on page 52) BETTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER Learn to write short stories

FEBRUARY, 1928 SI — wapors v ffigh Water ~ stop (Continued from page 51) secretary, who had been attending a bridge and Grafton helped in rescue meeting of the Department's relief com- work in their own towns and in Sutton, mittee in Boston, arrived at post head- where extensive damage was done. Colds quarters at eleven o'clock night Saturday Lastly, the State of Connecticut felt and superintended APORS reach the securing of cots the force of the flood waters. East and food for refugees who had been Hartford and Hartford suffered most, colds direct V: placed in the state armory. Meanwhile but by this time preparations for com- because they are breathed right in- the National Guard had been called out bating the high water had been made, and the work of transporting the guards- and although there was considerable to the air passages and lungs. It men was allotted to the Legion, which property loss there was no danger to is for this reason that Vicks Vapo- also patrolled the north end of the city, life. Legionnaires in these communities Rub brings such quick relief. where the water was still high. gave service as individuals in taking care Colonel E. Slate of the 104th In- of those whose homes had to be aban- throat and chest J. When rubbed over fantry, Massachusetts National Guard, doned temporarily. at bedtime, it is vaporized by the was warm in his praise of the Legion- body heat and inhaled, while you naires for the efficient aid they gave in LIKE the larger-scale Mississippi flood transporting the guardsmen. At the J of last spring and summer the New sleep, right to the affected parts, armory, clothing was accumulating for England high water of November, 1927, loosening the phlegm and easing the refugees as they were brought in. given the same conditions, can recur any the difficult breathing. and Legionnaire doctors and nurses year. Such phenomena as these are 'ooked out for their comfort styled "acts of God" in the quaint At the same time, Vicks is absorbed Westfield Post joined with other posts phraseology of the law to show that man through and stimulates the skin in its vicinity in caring for refugees at has not yet learned to order all things Chester, a small town a few miles south- as he would have them in his little like a poultice or plaster, "drawing east of Becket. where Pittsfield Post world. As the ancient Hebrew seer ex- out" the pain and soreness. did such valiant work. Other Legion pressed it, man is born to trouble as posts in the western part of the the sparks fly upward. Fire, air, wind Most colds yield by morning to this State also co-operated in the relief work, and and water are no respecters of persons double action of Vicks. one Legionnaire gave five thousand dol- or communities. But wherever there is Mothers especially appreciate lars and two others a thousand apiece. an American Legion post within calling In the central part of the State, where distance, the community overwhelmed Vicks, it is externally because the Blackstone River overran its banks, by disaster knows that its call for aid applied and avoids constant posts at Uxbridge, Millhury. North- will not be in vain. "dosing," which so often upsets children's delicate stomachs.

TEACHING I A NATION ways jTeres J^uch! TO AVOID ' once SEVERE ( Continued from page fOLDSi 2q) words to the meagre vocabulary which "You'll eat plenty. The banquet will remained as a residue of an abandoned be a mile long and six feet deep in the WICKS "I can say finest line of drinks you ever tasted." We/ Vapo rub ambition of his school days yes and no, and that's about all." he "Lead me to it ! Where's all that Million Jars Used Yearly Over & confessed to the captain of the Gang's transportation the feeble quartermaster company. was to have rounded up?" "That's twice as much as you'll need "Here it comes. Never mind the —say yes to everything," the captain guard. All out, you birds, and don't advised, "and when yes won't work, fall drink out of the finger bowls." EAST/ back on gestures. Personally, kid, I aim At nightfall the great and beautiful to lean heavy on a little sign language chateau which was the residence of You Can Learn I learned down on the Arizona desert." Aubre Tiffonet became the setting for a Evenings 'That ought to get you by. Cap. with brilliant scene. Beautiful women and ThisWinter a casual wink thrown in at the right brave men of France, arriving late, moment." someone called through a greeted the American officers who had 3 lessons given on re- quest with each new mask of lather. "Holy buzz-saw, these come early to avoid the rush around Saxophone, will give the flowing bowl. you a start. Thousands razor blades got rusty!" of boys and young men A cry for help from an adjoining sec- Equipped with an average of three —also girls—have quickly French phrases apiece, and forbearing learned to play this easiest tion of the long building wherein the of all instruments officers were quartered: "How in hell to parade them more than once or twice do you say the female word for beauti- for the edification of their fair com- ful—that is, how do you say, 'You are panions, the younger officers of the Reg- c c ladies True Ibm beautiful'?" iment milled rapidly among the SAXOPHONE "You are cuckoo. You don't have to seeking to favor each one with a full say it; just look it or hand her a bou- list of compliments. Helps you to be popularsocially.to earn extra money on the side,'' besides affording great quet of garlic." "I gaze upon you charming tonight." pleasure throughout life. Any Saxophone sent "Think beautiful thoughts and the "I am very fortunate for you to make on trial and easy payments arranged. girls'll get vou safe enough," another my acquaintance." FREE Sax Book comforter assured the inquirer. "May you wish have me with a cock- sweet-scented tail." Contains first lesson chart and "To hel! with all that pictures of full line of Buescher jabber about love's young dream—what Twenty-four ladies meant a perfect r Saxophones. Sent FREE — just score of twenty-four appetizing drinks, 402 send a post card. I want to know is when do we eat and and to the credit of the Regiment is Buescher Band Instrument Co. how?" 22U7 Buescher Block, Elkhart, Ind. 52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly !

recorded that some of the gentlemen made perfect scores. On the crest of the seventh wave an owl-eyed major came stiffly to attention before the Loot, who was at the moment conversing fluently in some unknown language with the lovely niece of Aubre Tiffonet. "Lieutenant," the major in-

quired, "when do we eat? . . . Bong nude, Senorita." "How droll, is it not?" "Ah oui, mon cheery," the Loot be- gan, but his finer phrases were smoth- ered by a sudden silence which spread through the brilliant throng. "The general!" Announced with due formality by a cheer leader in livery, M. le General Goizet-Diderot rendered a graceful sa- lute to the company from where he stood immediately behind his stomach in the arched doorway of the great room. At the rotund general's side, completing the picture of a side view of an old- fashioned bicycle with the little wheel and the big wheel, stood Miss Gay Winning. Miss Gay had sidestepped the Genimont ruckus in favor of the bigger and better things of life. "Hello, peo- ple!" Miss Gay called to the company, and then to the general, who was her escort, "Oh, Guzzy, isn't this just the damn loveliest party!" Forthwith, after five, ten or fifteen drinks had splashed into the ponderous Commander of the Region, dinner was announced. After a momentary period of confusion during which the younger officers of the Regiment sought to side- step a sudden epidemic of elderly ladies and dignified aunties who had unexpect- edly appeared on the scene, the company paraded into a dazzling crystal cave and Its friendly aid sat down to dinner. to teeth, appetite and diges- The Loot closed one eye and read an engraved wine list which lay on the tion will help to keep the glow of table before him. "A threat or a prom- health on little cheeks and on yours, too. ise," he thought, "but either way I'm sure programmed for a flood of likker." From across the table his captain, m reading a duplicate of the wine list, spoke quickly to the Loot. "Never mind the cock-eyed guard!- Boy, this looks

like the best war we ever fought! . . . Here's luck!" J I ST what you have been AT the Cafe Poisson in Lowzac, Tex, / looking for to preserve L Rex and Mex batted the music for *J photographs, clippings, Miss Gay Winning after her departure, putting on an impromptu entertainment programs, passports, and which presently subsided into a riotous miscellaneous souvenirs of dance. the Second A. E. F. Here was jazz! Heavy hands banged the keyboard of the swaying piano, and WHILE THEY then outside the cafe a skidding auto- UST— $3.00 will buy this beauti- mobile delivered a cargo of band in- struments. The music changed from bad ful TRAVEL-LOG. Get it Contents to worse and from worse to a wild blar- NOW! Mail coupon today ing rhythm that Space for 200 Identification galvanized even the Photographs Page oldest native inhabitant who heard it. Convention Data Space for Badges Page Passenger List Hilaire, Plutarque, Ovide, Corneille, Passport Map of Paris Autogrr! phs The American Legion. Dept of Penna. rheumatic and ancient Itinerary Diary veterans of the in N. Broad St., Room 903, Lowzac Fire Department, reacted in Gummed pages for newspaper clippings, Philadelphia, Pa. ticket stubs, labels, trunk tags, special send me. charges spite of rheumatism and were dancing I enclose $3 .00: please American Legion stamps, foreign money prepaid. Second A. E. F Travel -Log. presently with French flappers of sev- or what have you. enty and less. Name

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booming of the big bass drum came the for help, he dwelt at length upon the rumble of a northbound train. demonstrated ability, the unquestioned

Along one side of the open square of courage of America . . . Lowzac, bounded by the elevated struc- M. le General Goizet-Diderot, sitting ture of the railway above, and by a row in the place of honor, held his bulging of round tables fronting the Cafe stomach in his lap and struggled to Chemin de Fer, the dancers looked up- stay awake. ward at the incoming train, noting that "For Gawd sake when is he coming it was crowded with French soldiers. to the toast?" An agitated brother of- Then, amid a frantic exchange of greet- ficer whispered the hoarse question to ings between the traveling troops and the Loot. the dancers in the open space below "Before this insane ambition for the Visit the new them, the revel was resumed. career political claimed him, dear LT ncle Contributing his bit to the gayety, an Tiffonet was never like this," the charm- PRINCEofW&LES envious French soldier leaned far out of ing niece of the mayor confided to her HOTEL the doorway of his car. After taking dinner companion, who nodded his head careful aim he dropped an empty wine to indicate a complete understanding of Lovely Waterton Lake, site cf bottle fair upon the cluttered top of a her words. this luxurious new hotel, is table below him. "Ah oui, Sister, oui oui, mon cheery." half in the Canadian Rockies He scored a five; and in addition, Winding up for his supreme effort, of Waterton Lakes National Park and without knowing it, he had fired the the mayor indulged in a preliminary half in the Montana Rockies of Glacier first gun in a new war. gesture which knocked over two long- National Park . . . Come out this sum- Around the table when the bottle necked bottles of wine at his right, and mer and enjoy the thrills of an inter- crashed in its center sat then: "I get the honor of national vacation in these two great half a dozen of the Gang. to propose the health in scenic playgrounds . . . Mail coupon the hell!" that distinguished what today for full information. "What Plans for retaliation and you have said in bon mot revenge bloomed on the the Roughneck Rider, and GREAT instant; but, save for a of himself a true friend to harmless return volley of France, none the less Wood- beer bottles, revenge at row Roosevelt, President— NORTHERN the moment was not en- of the United States ROUTE OF THE NEW ORIENTAL LIMITED joyed because the train "Psss-s-s-t — Wilson Mail the Coupon — — — — — was under way and the Wilson!" A. Dickinson. " J. Passenger Traffic Mgr. originator of the quaint —who preceded that Great Northern Railway, St. Paul, Minn. jest could not be located thrice amiable M'sieur Please send me free books about the new Prince of wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park and among the derisive French- Wilson, the present holder about Glacier National Park. I am particularly inter- men who grinned and of that high office!" ested in: grimaced from each pass- The amendment carried, General Tour of the Parks Pacific Northwest Coast Tour ing car on the tracks above. and the Americans present Burlington Escorted Tours Except for the members of the Gang drank two drinks apiece. In some con- Name. around the bombarded table the en- fusion, justly doubting the adroitness Addr counter passed almost unnoticed, save with which he had masked his ignorance A dependable railway that the station-master, telephoning of American politics, the mayor sat from his elevated perch above the square down. of Lowzac, relayed distorted news of There followed a pause during which the affair to his fellows in Bordeaux. the younger American officers snaked "Upon the railway carriages the soldiers another two or three drinks apiece; of America have, with empty bottle and and then, with a smile in his kindly Carat Elite Diamonds. M; their dazzling rainbow bri other missies, committed an assault." eyes, the colonel of the Engineer Regi- I'll be delighted. Elite Ric sail others. Stand acid and otber section of the ment nodded to one of his officers, a testa. Handsomely Engraved Ring, Enough. The second _ ...xe Guaranteed. Looks like 1250.00. 1'roiid owner olFered troop train, leaving Bordeaux twenty major who possessed no small talent $85.00 6 minutes after buying one. Collar and Cuff Links Given With each ring order, we give free minutes later, carried four hundred men, for Bourbon and its contingent oratory. beautiful combination Set. Set with small Elite Diamonds. SEND NO MONEY. Just send name. were resolved to avenge The major got to his feet with the addr.___ On arrival pay postman $3.«9 ami postage. most of whom Satisfaction Guaranteed, Write today. Cash with Canadian or foreign orders. the insult offered to their comrades dur- assistance of a tactful servant. For a ELITE Dept. 405. 609 S. Paunna St. JEWELRY nUUOtHOUSE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ing the brief moment while the train little while the major stood gazing, owl- halted above the throng at Lowzac. "The like, as if hypnotized, straight before egg, the vegetable, regardless of expense, him into the round red face of General I POSITIVELY GUARANTEE the discarded sock—these will serve for Goizet-Diderot. that you can produce wonderful, the barrage! How admirable!" The face of the general appeared to sweet music in three days and While the attacking forces were ac- be an obstacle to the major's oratory. quickly play popular and clas- ammunition and while their Then suddenly, while the company sical selections. cumulating intended victims were making up for waited for the flood of eloquence, the Complete Outfit Sent on Aubre major hiccuped slightly and pointed his Trial lost time in the square at Lowzac, Tiffonet, addressing the dinner party as- finger at the red face of the ponderous sembled in his chateau, launched forth General Goizet-Diderot. In good voice profe I- on a speech calculated to cement a little the major began his speech: "Look at clan. Amaze your friende of radio, . vlth this sensation more firmly the ties which bound that fat bird—he's sound asleep! . . vaudeville, orcliestm and lodge Entertainment. Send 10c lor America to France. I thank you!" phonoirrnph i pcord of two beautiful - sical Saw «.ln S which also entitles The major sat down. you to complete information about my The mayor, accomplished in languages, special introductory offer of Saw. Bow, ammer. and Resin. FREE with Course of spoke in what he thought was English. "How droll these Americans, is it u-uction. reviewed the plight of France, he not?" MUSSEHL 61 WESTPHAL He 805 West Water St. Fort Atkinson, Wis. echoed the call which had gone forth Taking up the speech where the dis-

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abled major had left off, the colonel did the best he could while, from the far end of the banquet hall, a troupe of six lieutenants, suddenly realizing that they were trained bears, slid to the floor and began an exit on hands and knees toward the drawing-room adjoining. Presently the colonel's speech was ac- companied by strains of music, while a singing voice which was suddenly choked to silence announced that there would be a hot time in the old town tonight. Surrendering to his personal desires,

to the dictates of ' common sense and to overwhelming odds, the colonel picked up his oration and carried it boldly to the place where the President of France waited eagerly for his bit of tommyrot. "Here's luck!" a junior officer volun- teered while the toast was being drunk. "Hooray for us and France!" The music from the drawing-room swelled to a louder strain. The dancing consisted of a high-pressure course of instruction wherein a score of the love- liest ladies in France learned a lot less "Get the message through" than they craved to know about the style of dancing just then in vogue in the United States. An Advertisement of the By bending his beribboned chest over and above his stomach, General Goizet- American Telephone and Telegraph Company Diderot was enabled to get near enough to the hypnotizing little Miss Gay Win- ning to accompany her through the con- tortions of a daily dozen. "Come home or writhe! Hoop-la!" In the Sixties the "pony Bell System is the lineal Faintly echoing the dizzy general's express" carried the mail descendant of the pony exclamation of delight, far away at express. Lowzac the locomotive of the second over mountains and Indian section of the French troop train wildernesses from St. Joseph, It is this spirit of responsibility whistled for that station. Missouri, to San Francisco. The that causes operators to risk "Let your aim be made with a de- liberation, my braves," a platoon com- express riders and station their lives by remaining at their mander advised his comrades on the keepers won undying fame for switchboards in the face of fire, train, and then, firing at will after the first volley, the vegetable barrage of re- getting the message through, flood or other great danger. The venge was hurled by eager patriots regardless of hardship or danger. same spirit calls linemen or re- toward the Americans in the open square below. Today, in the city of Denver, pairmen to go out, even at the After the first flight of missies had there is rising on the site of one risk of their lives, to repair the been launched, quickly realizing the na- of the old pony express corrals lines in timeof accidentorstorm. ture of the attack, the Engineers came back with an impetuous enthusiasm that another splendid structure dedi- There are no instructions re- evened the score with the second volley. cated to the service of modern quiring Bell System employees Beer bottles, hurtling upward, moaned plaintive notes from their open necks message-bearing — the new to endanger their lives. It is and showered broken glass upon the oc- headquarters building of one of the spirit of communication that cupants of the train. the companies of the Bell Sys- bids them, "Get the message With the honors even after the first minute, seeking to quell the riot, here tem. In fact and in spirit, the through." and there in the open square peace-lov- ing Frenchmen laid hands upon aroused Americans and then, as the troop train J pulled out to the tune of the station master's penny whistle, the second phase of the Battle of Lowzac had begun. RAILWAY WCet Into Observing this. "Mon Dieu!" the spy- » The Shoe Business ing station master exclaimed, "the com- POSTAL bat international !" He leaped to his ^Without investment Innex- 1 W / We start you. Innex- l^m^ ,' telephone. "Alio! Alio!" he began, and, v / perienced workers earn ji-fjfrj ; ^ CLERK $5,000 yearly with our di- following a vituperative torrent poured 'rectto wearer plan. Easy totake orders. Just show the famous into the exchange operators, r ears of the Tanners line of shoes and hosiery to a year for Men, Women and Children. We he was connected presently with police H900 $2700 r tell and where tosell. Pat- r how headquarters in Bordeaux. "Reserves to Lnns vacations with pay. Work easy. ented measurement system in- Travel on fast trains with all expenses 'sures perfect fit. Big facilities You collect your Lowzac! Rioting has begun which is paid, including hotel. No worries about mpt deliveries. tarnish $40.00 outtit containing the future. Ex-service men pet preference. actual hosiery—a larger variety three times terrible. Make haste!" r TELLS of styles and sizes than anystore. Send lor Iree MY FREE BOOK HOW book "Gi'ttmiT Ahead" and full particulars This accomplished, Get my big free book about the Civil Service which the chef de gare Write now ! trIN .ill nhniit ih.- R.-ulwav C.^tjil S.-rvjc sin. I ..tl.t-i sought the aid of more appropriate au- positions, and bow 1 can help yoa. Write today. PATTERSON SCHOOL Experience Unnecessary/ thority over the ( Continued on page 56 Arthur R. Patterson, Civil Service Expert Tanners Shoe Manufacturing Co. 632 Wisner Bldg. Rochester, N. Y. 2202 C Street Boston, Mass.

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copper circuit which led to the chateau been injected into the station master's of M. Aubre Tiffonet. description of the riot. About the To that personage. "A deplorable af- square, French girls were dancing gaily fair is approaching its crisis in this place with the American soldiers while in the of your jurisdiction!" Explaining the brightly lighted cafes which edged the nature of the affair. "The citizens of open space enthusiastic groups of Lowzac are engaged in combat with the Frenchmen drank to the health of the troops American." the station master an- Americans amid cheers and loud song nounced. "It is three times plus ter- and broken phrases of two garbled rible! Summon the commanding colonel languages. of the Americans— before his men are From the Cafe Poisson, blaring into overwhelmed the night out of the brass throats of a In a bright circle of light cast by a dozen band instruments, came music and street lamp the chef de gare saw one discord which thrilled the calloused of the threatened Americans plow his hearts of the amiable Bordeaux police way through a group of his French op- reserves—and they fell. ponents, leaving behind him half a dozen In the billiard room adjoining the bar

prostrate forms . . . of the Cafe Poisson. on an impromptu "Ah—the boxing! The Americans throne which had been erected upon a make to kill with the fist. Monsieur billiard table, sat Joe Miller. The Up- Tiffonet! Summon their commanding lifter's perspiring brow upheld a silker officer, I implore you, before his men crown while draped about him clustered are destroyed!" a concentrated group of feminine youth In some haste and suffering from no and beauty. little apprehension, monsieur le maire "I'm old man Bacchus!" the Uplifter sought the colonel of the Regiment. "We announced, catching sight of some of will go at once to Lowzac if you please, the police reserves who had entered the mon colonel." the mayor said with some cafe. "Give those noble gen-darmeys a formality. drink. Open some more champagne The colonel considered taking an hooray for France!' escort with him and then, thinking bet- When the echoes of the cheering were ter of it, he bowed to the mayor of Geni- drowned in gurgles the ancient Plu- To break a cold harmlessly and in a mont-Lowzac. "At your pleasure, sir." tarque, enjoying the moral support of hurry try a Bayer Aspirin tablet. And the colonel agreed, and a moment later, Hilaire, Victoire, Ovide, Corneille, Bar- for headache. The action of Aspirin i> in the low rakish limousine enjoyed by tolemy, veterans of the Lowzac Fire very efficient, too, in cases of neuralgia, the mayor at the expense of the muni- Department, raised another cheer' for neuritis, even rheumatism and lumbago! tion works, the two gentlemen began the land of the strangers: "Huzzash

And there's no after effect : doctors give their dash to the scene of conflict. pour l'Amerique!" piped old Plutarque. Aspirin to children—often infants. When- For a while along the level river bank holding his gnashing false teeth in place ever there's pain, think of Aspirin. The the automobile ran smoothly. Then, by means of an extended thumb, "Hoo- genuine Bayer Aspirin has Bayer on the failing to function, the car sneezed roosh pour lesh Americains!" box and on every tablet. All druggists, harshly. Deep within its hot mechanism Then, while a gratifying response an- with proven directions. a fife-and-drum corps began to sound, swered him, the old man removed his and the car stopped. ialse teeth and applied himself diligently Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; The mayor's chauffeur, cheerful and to the task of emptying a bottle of it does NOT affect the heart optimistic, judged that one little minute champagne without the aid of any inter- would be sufficient time in which to re- mediate glassware. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture nf Monoaceticacidester of Salicylic-acid pair his gargling pet. The little minute In upon this scene, some time after lengthened into five, into ten—to the Bordeaux police reserves had en- twenty, while with increased formality joyed their seventh round of drinks, marking his silence the mayor sat in marched the mayor of Genimont-Low- I ft \hl free one corner of the car and devoted him- zac, M. Aubre Tiffonet, together with Book self to turning purple in the darkness, the colonel commanding the Regiment LAW laboring with superhuman effort to con- of Engineers. Write today for FREE 128-page book, "THE LAW-TRAINED MAN", which shows how to learn law in spare time through the trol an exploding vocabulary of naughty, For a fleeting moment the pair gazed Blackstone home-^tudy course prepared by 80 prominent legal authorities, including law school deans, lawyers, and U. S. Su- cuss words. upon the scene before them, and then, preme Court justices. Combination text and case method of naughty instruction used. All material necessary furnished with the course, including elaborate 'Jo-volume law library, which is de- Near him. braced comfortably into in a smiling response to a bellowed in- livered immediately upon enrollment. Many successful attorneys among our graduates. LL.H. degree conferred. Moderate J the other corner of the limousine, the vitation from old Joe Bacchus Miller, tuition, low monthly terms. Money-Back Agreement. Write for free book tociay colonel drew evenly upon a long and the mayor and the colonel pledged each mrMINlDj 4753 Grand Boulevard Mam, BLACKSTONE INSTITUTE, Dept. 132 Chicago \ J comforting cigar, the while reviewing other's health with a bottle of cham- the phrases of the three-page order pagne and, bowing to the company, with- which he had composed in an effort drew to where the limousine awaited toward strengthening the justly cele- them. The fog of formality dissolved brated Entente Cordiale. into the airs of the riotous night. Some minutes later, when the colo- "Return to my residence." the mayor nel's cigar was half consumed and while directed. Then, countermanding his to be:beautiful the fuming chauffeur had begun to blame order, he got out of the car and hurried proportions-* while you sleep! a long line of paternal ancestors for back to the Cafe Poisson. He returned accomplishing the sorry event of his a moment later carrying two open and nOSE flPJUSTER (f^/HUTA birth, the Bordeaux police reserves ar- foaming bottles of champagne,' one of ' is SAFE, painless, comfortable. Speedy, permanent results guar- rived upon the battlefield in the square which he presented to the colonel. Doctors praise it. No anteed. "Permit me, Colonel, to the you. Small cost. at Lowzac. my have d M.dal metal to harm Won 192a Write for FREE BOOKLET bcfodi-afieb It appeared that some imagination had goddam honor of drink to your health

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. . . W'uf! ... It is, as you say in your most admirable language, always making weather when goddam good boys get altogether." To the chauffeur. "Hasten, my child—return to my residence where as host I have been so neglectful." Before he entered into the scene of revelry at his chateau, M. Aubre Tif- fonet whispered some hurried directions concerning a reserve store of champagne which he had laid down twelve years before. "Not one case, fool!" he re- In Colt's forging department plied to his servant's question, " batteries of giant hammers — rainmanytonblowsonbars of dozen cases—six dozen cases—all of it glowing, red-hot steel, beating —as long as these brave gentlemen take into shape and knitting /irmly the fibres of the special steels. pleasure in its bouquet." Then, arm in arm with the colonel, the mayor re- turned to his drawing-room. The two gentlemen halted for a mo- ment in the doorway of the main salon. Before them, perspiring freely and dying a martyr's death, the red-faced, In what a forge and what a heat, ponderous General Goizet-Diderot, elec- trified by some momentary and miracu- Were lous vigor, whirled through the violent shaped the anchors of thy hope LONGFELLOW termination of an Apache dance with the sprightly Miss Gay Winning, who. castings are used in COLTS. When you real- in complete abandon, had discarded most NO of her early training and part of her ize that the normal load of a modern revolver costume under the spell of the wild develops a pressure of fifteen thousand pounds per music of the dance. square inch there is an added satisfaction in know- At the conclusion of the exhibition ing that COLTS are made to withstand this terrific General Goizet-Diderot sat down with strain with an extra fifty per cent safety margin. his stomach in his lap, giving place to an enthusiastic company commander Hence you can readily appreciate why a drop-forged who, light on his feet, slapped the floor COLT "stands up" and gives years of honest service. with a preliminary patter of soft-shoe That's why a COLT costs more and is worth more. dancing which spread until it reached the colonel of the Regiment. The same exacting care, plus expert craftsmanship "Boys will be boys." the colonel re- extends to all COLT manufacturing processes. The flected. Then, gracefully removing his production of one COLT alone requires 564 ma- spurs and regretting the slight impedi- chine operations, 124 hand operations and 332 ment to perfection imposed by his pol- ished boots, he took up the pattering visual and gauge inspections. footwork which had developed in his old If you would like to start or join a local Every act performed in the manufacture of every Kentucky homeland. Forthwith he af- Revolver Club, send forded his delighted audience a whirl- us yourname.Wom* COLT is on the side of safety—your safety! en, too, may enroll. wind exhibition of what a young man of COLT has but one grade of quality —the highest sixty could do when he spread himself. "Hot dam! Look at the colonel go! possible to attain. Boy, he's buildin' a fire with each foot!" The Loot, forgetting his French, COLTS PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. CO. poured his admiring criticism of the HARTFORD, CONN. colonel's performance into the little pink Phil. B. BeUeart Co., Pacific Coast Representatives, 717 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. ears of the niece of Aubre Tiffonet. "Lord, Lord, lady—was fancy hoofing * a dewdrop, our colonel is the Mississip'. OLT The World's Right Arnil Sand the rail—I'm slipping. C'mon, baby, let's go!" The mayor's niece felt a strong arm about her waist, and a moment later she DRAWING was deep in the mazes of the dizzy jazz Nexolnvention $ $ whose 2500 fury, inspired by the colonel's ex- Banishes • COURSE for ample, had claimed Haven't you often wished that you cou every member of cartoons, illustrate some idea, sketch some the applauding company. CAN OPENERS! face, etc.? One of America's most fa Cartoonists and illustrators has developed No more stabbing and hacking great, simple system for success in all with branches of Commercial Art. This syster T N the cold gray dawn, riding obsolete can openers! Amaz- up the ing simple new machine opens any means that drawing can he as easy f -1 you as writing much simpler tha hill to Genimont in the can at the turn of a crank. — limousine Holds learning shorthand, bookkeeping or can for you. lifts lid placed at his service by his admiring out slick, typewritingi We are now placing smooth, and clean in 3 this original system for learning host, the colonel spoke briefly to his seconds, automatically '. Drawing, Ait and Cartooning, con- adjutant A revolutionary, lifetime sisting of :M lessons with over 500 illustr; who sat beside him. i inns, u Ithin reach of every one. If you will di device. Beautifully nickled "The order and rote a feu hours each ueeU to t he Course \V which you suggested rela- handsome as a piece of ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE thai you wi Pne cutlery. Simple in tive to the necessity for promoting in learn draw and draw we II before you have ha the Guaranteed for 5 years. finished the Course. If we fail to make this Approved claim good, we will refund every cent paid us. Entente Cordiale—if you have sent it to by Good Housekeeping Inst.. Modern Priscilla, the etc. Writ' Send company commanders, cancel it! today for Special Introductory No Money Advertising Just order the course and OO QO If it hasn't gone out, tear it up! Forget Offer. on arrival pay postman s»^.IfO it! And in the future. plus a few cents postage, payment in full Captain, avoid AGENTS:— for the entire Course and Draw-ins Outfit. all such superfluous details." nd women make $6 to $12 If not entirely satisfied, return with- full in five days and we will Kefund ssions on every a Money. (To be continued) Exclua Territorie Central States Mfg. Co- Address: uick i Dept. B-tOOl, 4500 Mary Lederer School of Drawing, Oepl. 6338-R, Chattanooga. Tenn REE TEST < ill,. Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Orders from outside the U. S. A. are payable S3. 28 cash witb order.' FEBRUARY, 57 — —

zAn Enemy "Debt Most men accustomed to making three to six themselves into believing dollars a dav. hypnotize ( Continued from page ij) that a $20.00 to $40.00 a day proposition is beyond their ability. It's all the bunk ! You don't have to have a fine education, a pull and a lot of business hour; but he cast off his blankets and o'clock now; you must go up again at experience to make $20.00 to $40.00 a day. All you need is unbeatable desire, determination and crept to the head of the ladder. It six. If she wakes after that I shall opportunity out of this world what others to set where her. are getting. was yet dark, but from the room hear This is the medicine—six he had supped there shone the feeble drops in every cup." Two-Thirds of Success Is light of a candle. The grandmother They do and suffer strange things in Making a Decision was groaning again, horrible long-drawn the Legion; they gain strange knowl- If you actually want to make more money—more senile pain am! self-pity. And than you have ever made in your life — you can groans of edge and pay strange prices for it. do do it. Write to us and we'll show you how to then he heard the girl speak. But they endure nothing stranger than it with the "Oh, all right, then!" she was saying that vigil of the deserter by the grand- Universal Floor Sur- American and there was no mistaking the resent- mother's bedside, with the cuckoo clock facing Machine ment in her tone. "I'll warm some milk in the big room ticking like a tack- No special training nor large at once, if that will keep you quiet!" hammer, the old woman groaning capital is necessary. We show you how it's done in a couple More groans, and the sound of the heartrendingly in her sleep and the of hours. Floor surfacing has grown to be a bis. important girl's footsteps coming from the bed- candle burning down to a tall-flamed healthy, business. It's a clean, scratch of inside job. not dependent on room into the big room, the ruin of grease. Twice he fed her weather conditions. No dull a sulphur match and a tinkle of ves- gently and patiently, and when the seasons— always plenty of work. Every new floor has sels! Egon Weiler carefully descended cuckoo clock struck the hour of six. he to be surfaced. Thousands of old marred and scarred the ladder. rose and stole aloft with the feeling of floors need re-surfacing. The girl in a flannel night-dress, was one who wakes from the grotesqueness Think what thai means 1 The "American Universal" Hum sur- stooping over a lampstove. a jug of milk of a dream to the sobriety of reality. facing machine takes the place of slxhand scrapers. on the floor beside her. Her hair hung He was asleep when the girl came Works by electricity. Simple, easy, quick. down her back in two long plaits. She up at nine o'clock with food and cof- Write today for full par- but with inquiry, ticulars, and special live looked up. unstartled fee, but woke in the accustomed panic dav free trial plan. Clip ' as he tiptoed in. it ^ and sign the as she laid down beside him. 'I heard," he said. "I wake easily "It's all right," she said. "I have nowadays. Let me do that for you." senl the Negro woman out on an er- She considered as usual before reply- rand. Light your candle." ing, gazing at his face, now washed and He obeyed. He looked up at her comely. and saw that she was smiling, really 'Very well," she said, rising. "Do smiling for once. not let it boil, and bring it in when it "You must have done wonders last is ready." night." she said. "This morning the He nodded understanding^ ; she went grossmutterchen keeps asking for the bent to back to the old woman and he man.' 'Las' den Mann mich pflegen!' AMERICAN FLOOR SURFACING MACHINE CO. his task. 52 7 South St. Clair St., Toledo, Ohio. let the man take care of me! —she Please send me at once, full particulars about floor sur- minutes later, he tapped gently Five says it again and again. must facing as a profitable business the American Universal You and was bidden to Way." on the bedroom door go in and see her when you come down square room, half Name enter. It was a small this evening." old-fashioned bed. A Address filled by a big "Gewiss!" he assented. City State- German feather bed quilt mountainous "And." she produced a printed pa- was upon it, and over the curve of it per, "there is this that you would like there appeared, propped upon pillows, to see. You can keep it as a souvenir." an emaciated old face framed in the FOREST RANGERS She gave it to him and departed. He in the Do you enjov outdoor life close (o Nature ? Get Forest frills of a nightcap. The eyes candle to it. mouth and furnished; leaned close to the read Ranger job; salary $125-1200 home face glittered strangely in the candle- plenty fishing, hunting, trapping; no strikes or shut- It was the official handbill offering a downs; vacations on full pay. Fur further particulars, light; the toothless mouth writhed con- write reward for his capture. Height, age. tinually, and as Egon Weiler paused to 20 n distinguishing marks—all the rest of stare, it opened to emit a deep an- norton ^l::i%fr the inhuman catalogue of his dimen- guished groan. sions—and, in blacker letters, for a The girl had been sitting by the bed- " sure inducement to all patriots: Na- LEGIONS OWN .A side. She rose and took the jug, and 9fe &v tionality, German! Then the penalty poured some of the contents into a cup. for aiding or harboring him and last From a medicine bottle she added a the reward! few drops of some drug. — All they had left out, it seemed, was "Here!" she said to the old woman. what they meant to do to "Here's your milk!" him when they got him. That might have made a6ak6ft. long 1ft. wide The invalid drank. The girl turned the most bigoted would-be reward- to Egon Weiler. "You'd better go back This Great Picture Sent Postpaid-Only gleaner hesitate the months of black to bed." she said. "She'll go to sleep — Also Pictures of All Parades During cell, of semi-starvation, of long drawn- little but I'll have to sit up Paris Convention for a now, of with her in case she wakes and wants out punishment drill and fatigue, Every Legionnaire should have this great picture. Only added years of service. But Egon panorama of Paris made during ihe Convention Show more." the folks exactly what you saw and where you went with Weiler hesitated. "I can sleep all Weiler knew it all. It soured his cof- this great picture Price of $} for this great 6-foot picture for his is for Legionnaires only Take advantage of this special day," he said. "If I were permitted fee him, embittered meat and offer now' We also have pictures of Every National if of giving her to spoiled his cigarette. Legion Parade by Stales, Size 7x11 inches Price. 75c it is only a matter each. 3 for $2 00. Just tell us the States you want. Also drink—could I not save the gracious At midday the girl brought him food 40 most interesting photographs taken all over Europe during Legion Tour. These 40 picrures selected from over young lady the trouble of sitting up? again, and with it a bottle of beer. 1000 negatives. Price of entire 40 only $10 00 Money — — S'ou er " gulped foolishly "you "But you are spoiling me," he pro- back if you are — he not satisfied when you see our pictures. We know what you want because we've photographed have been so good to me." tested. "Gnadiges Fraulein, it is too every National Legion Convention. Order today Send check or money order. Again that pause of watchful con- much and I am ashamed." sideration. She shook her head. "No," she an- national Photo Service "Verv well." she said. "It is four swered. "It is nothing. You must be SAMtUVTONIO, TEXAS.

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"I would like to kiss your hand very \T7HAT more powerful magnet to draw to " humbly and gratefully," he said. * your home congenial friends— to keep "No," she replied. "No! There is the young people happy and contented under no need for that!" <\heir own roof-tree — than a billiard table? In the evening, when she called him Dull evenings vanish. In their place a con- to the big room, she had news down tinuous round of fun, laughter, excitement father would return the for him. Her and the absorbing interest of one of the greatest six following evening and she must go of all sports. Giving you as well mild exercise miles to the railway station to meet that you need — twisting, turning, stretching him. and walking. "And while I am gone, you perhaps Brunswick Home Billiard Tables would sit with the grossmiitterchen? From $15 Up She has been asking for you all day." There's a beautiful Brunswick table for bil- "Of course I will," he agreed. "It liards or pocket billiards to fit any home and makes me happy to think I can do any- any means. They come stationary, portable or thing for you. I wish there were only convertible in a number of sizes. No extra something more difficult." space or room needed with portable or con- Her eyes were on his face, thought- vertible styles. ful and calm. "Do you?" she said. "Well, perhaps Send for pictures and full descriptions. No obligation. Convenient there will be soon." Prices as low as $15. terms. Mail coupon today. She gave him a half-mug of brandy after supper and sent him to sit with her grandmother while she cleared away the table things and washed them up. He was eager to do it all for her but she refused. "Men do not wash dishes," she said

conclusively. He could not make it clear that men did—and many worse and meaner things than that —with the death penalty hanging over them if they refused. In the bedroom, the old grandmother lay WMatds recognized him forthwith and uttered a queer little crow of joyful welcome. The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company "Der Mann!" she croaked. "The Dept. H-236. 623 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. man again. Ach. you are good; you Gentlemen: Please send me complete infor- mation about your Home Billiard Tables. will take care of me now—nicht wahr?" "Yes, yes!" he soothed. "I will take t^ame THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO. care of you, gracious lady. Have no ^Address - fear!" Est. 1845 Branches in All Principal Cities City -State. He sat down by the bedside and a skinny old claw of a hand struggled As one of the oldest forth from under the counterpane and patent firms in Amer- ica we give inventors groped toward him. He met it with BROWN'S PATENTS at lowest consistent his and was forthwith clutched. Bronchial TROCHES charge, a service noted for results, evidenced by "The man," murmured the old many well known Patents of extraordinary value. Promptly relieve COUGHS Boole, Patent-Sense, free. woman, contentedly. "Der guter and THROAT TROUBLES Mann!" Lacey & Lacey, 643 F St.,Wash., D. C. Samples mailed Free. Address Dep't. F-i Estab. 1869 And, holding to his fingers she fell I. BOSTON. MASS. JOHN BROWN a SON Numerous Legionnaire References into a doze. He settled himself comfortably in the bedside chair, crossed his legs and A Ring You Will Be Proud to Wear dreamed. He had had a bedridden SEND NO MONEY Here you are, Buddy! grandmother of his own once; he won- Genuine Full Cut Diamonds—No Chips ;/,// No. 6132—Solid Gold Stir them with a dered if she were still alive. If so. 't?^ a-*^*^ P43 > *» '///AO Men's Initial or Em- there was a possibility that he would ^<-blem Ring. 2 Genuine Diamonds "Keystone State" see her again before long. There were 4 100 $25 all kinds of possibilities; life had en- each. PARADE BUGLE 14 -Kt. White Gold Top larged from the single dreadful di- Emblem fany Lodge) or any The new long-model Legion Bugle initial (Old Knglish) yellow especially for Legion and mensions of the Legion to a universe or white Gold, inlaid in American made, designed I- musical units. Long, rakish lines—gives Gen ratrrnal of possibilities. His reveries broke off vou thai stirring, full trumpet tone. Remark. .hlv casv HOPE RUBY l.. hlow. 28 inches l..ng, built in G with slide to F: chords with Military Band. Beware of imitations. as the girl looked in at the door. or Black Onyx Mention if desired in solid "Ach, poor grossmiitterchen," she white gold or green gold. Single Bugle, Prepaid .... $8 said. "She doesn't want to lose 'her This ^&&> Reg. Trade Marfc man.' But she must have her medicine fuaraatoee you genuine diamonds. T SPECIAL OUTFIT 1 now and go to sleep properly." No. 6746. Genuine Double Head I Complete musical equipment $107 20 I Cameo I raised hand carved heads) ISM L for unit of 27 men J The old took her medicine 1-piece stone. Heavu Shank, in woman White solid gold or Green Gold. Write today for Bugle folder and Genuine Stone — onyx, ( nicely docilely enough from Weiler's hand, shaded ) Special Outfit particulars Send number of ring, size of and even crooned something in the way finger, initial or emblem desired and ring will be sent for inspec- H.A.WEYMANN & SON, Inc. of thanks. She was already sound tion. Ash for Free Jewelry Catalog. Dept. L Terms asleep when he tiptoed from the room. 6 Months to Pay 1108 Chestnut St. Philadelphia. Pa. Buffalo Jewelry Mfg. Co. American Musical Instrument Manu- No noises ( Continued on page 60 "The Mail-Order House" No> 6746 facturers for 63 years Dept. AL 'or at your Jewelers') 501 Washington St.. Buffalo, N V Exact Size of ring

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SMOKERS (Continued from page sq) DIRECT FROM FACTORY TO YOU '1 from below awoke him that night and That sounded better. "Yes, Herr," the next day passed much as the last. he answered again with alacrity. 15JUAUTY$e00 The girl had to leave by mule cart be- "And your name is Egon Weiler. uarantee fore it was safe for him to descend, but Legionnaire of the Second Battalion?" G d fj*^ his supper was laid out for him on the "Yes. Herr." Our Customers call 'em table. He ate it in comfort, then heated The big man nodded slowly. "Volk- some milk and carried it into the Diamonds:. RougH grand- ommen—perfect!" he said. He turned mother's room. THREE REASONS WHY and spoke apparently to the girl. Once more he had the pathetic glad we can afford to sell these "You heard?" he asked in French. wonderful cigars at this price welcome. "Der Mann; der guter "Very well; you can come in now." rinCTNo Fancy Boxes, Mann; he has come to take care of And there entered forthwith, as the llrwl Bands or Labels me!" big man stood aside, not the girl, but Production SECOND-Mass "That is right," he said gently. "I a fully accoutred sergeant of the Le- TUIDn No Charge Accounts iniKIS Losses, etc. have come to take good care of you. gion, swagger, curled moustache, arro- With, your first order And first you shall have a good cup gance, power and all. will send you we of warm milk without any medicine "Eh ben, mon petit!" he said with in it." a hangman's jocularity. "And art thou OF CHARGE "Ah, you are good," quavered the quite ready to go home with papa?" OUR VARIETY grandmother. "A good man!" She Behind him were two other armed SAMPLE CASE took the milk willingly and murmured men who entered at his back. They Containing a selection of gratefully. came forward and laid hold of Egon. 1Z of our Biggest selling The skinny hand found his as before He had stood like stone till then, but up to*30. a 100 cigars priced when he took the chair by the bedside as they grasped him he spoke. ft£ "(SttAcquainted" and again he settled himself to con- "Careful," he said. "Don't wake This Special Offer is limited tented dreams. It was plain to him her." I to one order and holds that without wise help he would not He drew his hand away gently and until mar. 15* Good only get much further. There were clothes held forth both his wrists for the OUr G uarante e to be obtained, the need for identifica- shackles. Smoke as many as you like tion papers to be eVaded, and from The girl was in the front room and if vou do not receive Algiers there was the sea to be crossed whither they took him; she was at the

I AT LEAST DOUBLE VALUE we will cheerfully refund to Spain or Italy. A man's help, a table pouring brandy into an array of YOUR MONEY IN FULL. German's—that was the way out. And glasses. They placed their prisoner We have been established since 1901 then against the wall while they stood about In these 25ycars wc have made many thousands of satisfied customers It was not long after that that he and drank. who buy from us regularly We refer .you to any bank in U S or Cuba. heard the hooves of the mules and the "He may have one?" she asked of Send check or pa> postman on arrival squeal of the cartwheels at the door. the sergeant. Wc pay all delivery charges The girl's voice was distinguishable "Why not?" consented that demi- Inaddition wc will include without charge front carelessly. "It will be a memory FACTS EVERY SMOKER and immediately the door god SHOULD KNOW/ opened. Then boots clumped across for him." Half a century with Tobacco" the floor, the bedroom door was pulled Egon Weiler took the glass between A most interest inc. 178 pagr book, just published by wide and Egon Weiler. not disengag- his chained hands. His soul was ice. Charles Rcnard.NY facts heretofore withheld from the public arc now disclosed' The inner workings ing his left hand from the old woman's He looked at her over the raised glass, of the tobacco industry fully explained A valuable chill addition loyour library, particularly if you clasp, rose to confront a burly bearded but he could not abash those blue

are a smoker It wi 1 1 save you a ny a m man. overcoated and still wearing his eyes. Nevertheless he spoke. dollar on your tobacco purchases leather hand atpus onsak at principal book stem hat. For some seconds the newcomer "I will pay for this in full some stared formidably without speaking. day," he said. liFDT I EDWIN CIGAR CO. I/Lll. Li. 2338*40 THIRD AVE . N EW YORK "You are the deserter?-" he de- She shook her head indifferently. manded suddenly. "It is paid already," she answered. STUDY AT HOME Weiler quailed, but the habit of "The reward covers all." lawyer Legally trained win high positions and bi« prompt reply had been ground into And presently they took him away

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your innocence of your country's his- tory, but he will say nothing. He will not speak of Gringos or, in your presence, of an Anglo, which is With This the Spanish-speaking New Mexican's short way of saying an Anglo-Saxon. NEW Mexicans have never used the term New RED JACKET I Gringo extensively and now they do not use it at all. That is a Mexican word HOMEWORK derived, I have heard, from a Mexican War song our soldiers sang about home SHOP "where the green grass grows." New Only Mexicans have almost no intercourse with the Old Mexicans, as they call them, and little to do in a social way with the migratory Mexican laborers who wander the Southwest. Their lan- guage is different, and the New Mexi- cans are purer racially. One can imagine the chagrin of the New Mexicans when one of the ob- stacles the Territory of New Mexico had to overcome in its sixty-six-year fight for statehood was its name. 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GROUP INSURANCE table at the Hacienda de los Cerros, and All necessary forms for Home and comes to work on horseback, sees in Family Protection issued by a Strong each tip she slips into her pocket a new Mutual Company 64 Years in Business. Liberal as to Contract. Safe and splendor for the costume she will wear Secure in Every Way. in remembrance of San Francisco de For information address Inquiry Bu- reau, Assisi whose fiesta will soon be at hand now—in September, that was. She in- forms me she will have a fine peinitas high Spanish comb. Bueno. Bueno how 'Life insurance Company- come, say I, since she has bobbed her 197 CLARENDON STREET M. T. SHAW hair' and the peinitas will not stay put. BOSTON, MASS. INC. COLDWATER "You have no ( Continued on page 62 A. L. MICHIGAN

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If I were a motorist Jurst families (Continued from page 61) I'd be primed for chang- imagination," says Romaulda. "I shall Post would be awarded the annual prize ing tires along dark wear a wig." for membership and commendable com- to country roads, ready Romaulda was not alone in laying munity activity. Mr. Barela regretted pick out road-signs at great store by the fiesta. The young his inability to call a special meeting of dark intersections, ready ladies of the feudal aristocracy were the post to receive this good news. But quite as much on tiptoe, and a great the Commandante (Mr. Baca) knew for all those jobs that deal was said at tea-time that was Greek how that was. Only four members of come to the man who to an outlander. But the previous year. the post in Costilla at present. They drives a car at night. I gathered, the fiesta was an affair of were always away in summer, herding Not only ready, but great magnificence. It was "sponsored." their flocks in the hills, and some of colony got in- them working on ranches as far off as Eveready, if you get me, The painters in the Taos terested. Wealthy patrons of music and Wyoming. with a good flashlight. the dance who spend their summers in I regretted this, too. Santistevan- I'd that flash- And keep New Mexico contributed of their means Baca Post is one of the sixteen of New light hitting on all cylin- and their talents. Outside artists were Mexico's eighty-four units of the Legion ders by using genuine engaged and came long distances to that conducts its meetings in the Spanish language. The ritual is followed me- Eveready Batteries — the help put the fiesta across. The result was good, but it wasn't ticulously. The Post Commander seats kind that lasts and lasts Santa Fe. But the thing was done and the meeting with the prescribed rap of and lasts. St. Francis's day was water over the the gavel and the Adjutant reports that Get the flashlight habit. dam. There was, however, a way out. "all present are members in good stand- ing." The Commander directs: That's my tip to motor- Without assistance from abroad, Santa Fe organized a fete of its own and held "Los Porta Estandartes avanzaran con ists, and no foolin'. la Bandera de Nuestro Pais." it a few weeks later. It would not have been proper to have called this the The colors, accordingly, are advanced. fiesta of San Francisco, so with Latin Though optional, the singing of a candor they called it simply pasa tiempo stanza from "America" is never omitted. or a pastime. At the pastime Santa Fe The New Mexicans have their own translation which is a favorite at pa- sgQ enjoyed itself in its own way. It sang m ^ $100 weekly "Adelita" and "La Cucaracha" and triotic gatherings. Every school child New plan makes it easy. We danced La Endita. Some of these songs knows it. start you in business and help you succeed. Sell Madison and dances are very old and are known Oh, patria mid bendita, "Better-Made" Sliirt6 for lar^e nowhere except in New Mexico. Some manufacturer direct to wearer. Tierra de libertad, Spare or full time. No capital or of the songs have never been written A ti dirijo, experience needed. down. The themes are not new but the Todos los dias, las armonias Write for Free Samples airs are seductive and the words, like MADISON SHIRT MILLS, 564 Broadway, New York De mi cantar. those of "La Luna," often have a vague charm in Spanish. This is not a literal rendition of the opening lines of the ode. For purposes Commander of The ToAnySuit! THE Department of meter it has been changed a little J Double the life of your American Legion, Mr. Jesus Baca, and into the transposition has crept vest with perfectly Iff coat and trip on business of the matched pants.100,000 patterns. was taking a something of the inherent poetry of the If no If Every pair hand tailored to your measure; organization and I went with him. tongue. "readymades." Our match sent FREE for your Spanish Literally the Spanish H guaranteed. O K. before pants are made. Kit The sun was setting behind Ute Peak version would read in English: Send piece of cloth or vest today. ©27 SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY when we drove into Costilla, one hun- 145 So. Dearborn Street. dred and thirty miles away. The houses Oh, my blessed country. Liberty, of Costilla form three rectangular plazas Land of —the Upper Plaza, the Middle Plaza and To thee I direct Every the the Lower Plaza. The Lower Plaza is over day harmony song. the line in Colorado. Some of the houses Of my are slit with narrow windows, shoulder Following the invocation by the chap- high, which Mr. Barela, the elder, ex- lain, the meeting rises and recites to- plained were constructed in the old days gether the preamble of the Legion's convenience against Indian attacks. as a Constitution: The Middle Plaza is the principal one. the The public school is at one end and Para Dios y pro Patria church at the other. Across from Mr. Nos asociamos Barela's is the clubhouse of the Legion. Para los siguentes fines: We put up at Mr. Barela's, whose resi- Para sostener y defender dence is the most pretentious in Cos- La Constitucion de los Estados Unidos should say, seven or tilla, containing, I de America. . . . Get Preference Ex-Service Men eight very large rooms. After supper $1140 to $3300 YEAR we sat on the portal and smoked and And so on to the end, after which STEADY WORK talked with Mr. Barela, his son and the meeting is ready for business. The family of four who live with him, and meetings of Santistevan-Baca Post are No Layoffs Except- always well attended and every ex- * Franklin Institute with Mr. Allerano, a neighbor. Paid Vacations Dept. W185 ing the necessary translations for my service man in the region belongs. The Common education Rochester, N. Y. cted with everything was in Spanish. case of an absentee from any meeting sufficient s benefit, without Mr. Jose Barela is Commander is investigated by a standing committee Or' Sirs : Rush to me, Young Information tellins charce, (1) of Santistevan-Baca Post of The Ameri- and if no valid excuse appears for his Mail coupon ^vV how to get a U. S. Government ' job of Government jobs After an hour's having stayed away he is fined twenty- today— : (2) List can Legion of Costilla. — Information SURE. f now obtainable; (3) re- Mr. Baca mentioned the five cents for the first offense, buf the / tsanlins preference to ex-service men. conversation penalty may run as high as $1.50. There Name object of his visit. Santistevan-Baca Address- 62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ! ! — — —

is never a dearth of business on hand. The post is raising a fund of $3,500 to build a new clubhouse which will be a community center and the finest one in that part of New Mexico. The post takes care of its sick and provides medi- cal attendance for those who cannot

afford it. On Memorial Day it decorates graves for forty miles around. It buries its dead with elaborate ceremonial and sees that the bereaved dependents of no veteran suffer. It keeps tab on a vet- eran's rights, as accorded by the Gov- ernment, and sees that its members are acquainted with them. The day of our visit Commander Barela had packed off 365 Keen Shaves Jose Vigil to the Federal hospital at With One Blade El Paso. r want to say Hint Kltlss-KRoss Stropper is the best thing I ever saw. Lincoln's On Washington's Birthday, Inventor I have been using one blade continu- ously for one year anil nine months Birthday, the Fourth of July and Armis- and have no idea bow much longer it tice Day the post takes charge of the will last." V. ST. Stephensottj Okla. local observances. Things start off with Discovers a flag raising at the clubhouse at dawn at which every member must be present, Amazing NewWay to Shave/ which means that many ride in from the ety shaves forever and Strops from heavy to light. Adjustable, auto- hills the night before. The post has a blades to buy matic jig flies up and notifies you when your blade is ready ready with the keenest cuttinri- lively Auxiliary unit which joins in with wonder rev- No KRLSS-KROSS has rdfjc that steel ean take! the menfolks on auspicious occasions. olutionized shaving traditions! It is so sensational that it seems hardly post and the Auxiliary form the Sensational Free Offer The fair to call it a stropper. Rather it axis about which the community life of is a sttper-stropper or blade-rejure nator! Pro- And now for my surprising offer. To introduce duces unbelievable sharpness and prolongs the KRISS-KROSS. I am giving with it a remark- the section revolves. In fact they have life of any blade for months and even years. able guarantee and a new kind of razor FREE. Instantly adjust- Actually you can take a blade right out of n Possesses remarkable features. created a community life, American pat- — able 3 ways. Gives a sliding instead of pulling fresh package and improve it beyond belief in tern, in a mountain cove which never stroke. Simply zips right through the toughest eleven ! seconds with KRISS-KROSS crop of whiskers. This generous offer is limited. before had known such a thing. This surprising: invention utilizes the famous Send for details and information on amazing KRISS-KROSS inventions today. They are even "Perhaps." said Barela. diaponal stroke, same as a master barber uses. Commander more remarkable than I can tell you in this short "you think some of our by-laws a bit space. Clip the coupon now ! money with KRiss stringent, but our membership is small ATCMTCI Make big rtuLll I J- KltdSS—$75 to $:>00 a week. r~Rh odes Manufacturing Co., Dept. B-412, and scattered and it is necessary to FOmil Hani made $50 iiis very first day. J. C. Kellogg made $'20n in 7 days spare time. Others I 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. adopt means that would are making $6 $12 extra a day showing KRISS- be unnecessary — Without obligation, please send me illustrated de- KROSS to friends, etc. We show you how. Send cou- I scription and details of your special introductory offer in cities to bring the membership to pon for details. Cheek bottom line and mail at once I on KRISS-KROSS stropper and FREE 3-Vfay razor. meetings. We try to provide an occasion so that no one will regret that he has come. "The Monthly is the only thing in Town RHODES MFC. CO. STROPPER |

Dept. B-412, 1418 Pendleton ) Check here if interested In becoming representative English many of us read. Now I par- Ave. ( St. Louis. Mo. u ticularly liked that article about the people who live in the mountains of the BCT\V LEGS? South. I had no idea of the existence THIS GARTER (Pat'd) restR\ngers of such people, on which point I con- Makes Trousers Hang Straight Men, get Forest Ranger job; $125- fess that I did not know my own coun- // Legs Bend In or Out $200 mo. and home furnished; perma- try. But many of us, sir, are thus ig- Free Booklet— Plain Sealed Envelope nent; hunt, fish, trap. For details, write norant. Having exposed my own ig- THE T. GARTER CO. 2040 Temple Court norance I shall, with your permission, 9 K.TAPTAM Dept. INv^Tvl V-JIN Denver. Colorado relate an incident which opened my Belmont Ave., South Rend. Ind eyes. "I was working on a ranch in Wyo- ming. Two young ladies from New Jersey 9 had stopped there on their way to Cali- here are! fornia by motor car. They asked me y where I lived and I told them in New Mexico. They immediately inquired rUIXK of it — ;i complete official motion picture his- where I had learned English and what I and authentic OFFICIAL tory of the never-to-be-forgotten Paris thought of the United States. I tried to Convention! A solid one-half hour's explain without causing them embarass- entertainment (two full reels), which ment that New Mexico is in the United MOVIES you will long remember. The trip States, but they thought that was just over the celebration in Cherbourg— some ignorant notion of mine. — — "bin of the gay Paid the Convention the "I have so seldom to speak English parade"—and then the pilgrimages to here sometimes I express myself badly the battlefields and cemeteries—all before you in an absorbing at first. I shall be glad when my chil- PARIS unfold and highly entertaining fashion. dren are all in the school speaking Eng- Every Legion Post should exhibit this lish. My wife and I try to teach it to CONVENTION exceptional picture. them but at their play with the others The rental charge is $10.00 per day. plus carrying- charges, which applies only to 1h< they speak Spanish always and it is days the picture is in use and does not include transportation time. You are urged to difficult for parents to correct every act submit three choices of play dates immediately. Tor the picture is in great demand. of a child." It was 10:30 o'clock. Mr. Barela's three little children had long ago been LEGION FILM SERVICE put to bed and ( Continued on page 64) THE AMERICAN 777 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis, Ind.

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belieffrom SPINAL TROUBLES Thousands of Remarkable Cases families A soldier suffering with spinal ffirst tuberculosis for six years found mmediate relief and benefit. (Continued from page 63) He can now walk more than two miles without pain and is Mrs. Barela had retired. Every lamp rapidly getting back to his for- Mr. Baca and I breakfasted late the erself. The Philo Burt Ap- in Costilla, save ours, was out. As there next morning at seven. The members of iance is a distinct improvement was no moon, the Plaza was quite dark. the post who were in town were on over the leather j ackets and steel braces he had formerly used with The only sound was the tink of a bell hand to meet us. Each one pressed us no benefit. Many other af- the flicted Soldiers have had wonder- about neck of a burro we could not to remain longer. Mariana. To depart ful cures. see, though we could hear him eating so soon. One day! 30 DAYS' FREE TRIAL grass. In New Mexico the burros run But a tire was changed and amid a TO PROVE ITS VALUE TO YOU loose like dogs. A flock of them were chorus of good wishes we were on our matter what the nature No rounded up in Santa Fe and put in the way. of your spinal trouble, the Philo Burt Method offers you quick pound. The city administration tried to The little road turns off from the relief, greater comfort and pos auction them off but few bids went as Upper Plaza and the oasis sharp- sibly a complete cure. Ove comes fifty thousand cases success- high as fifty cents. In the country, ly to an end. The trail enters a limit- fully treated in past 25 years. though, a burro is less sea of gray-green sage The Appliance is light, good work worth shimmering cool, flexible, easily ad- more. in the sun, and the pleasant houses justed and gives perfect j plazas, support. It is especially Mr. Allerano, the acting Post Adju- about the three with the invar- made for each case. Price tant, as it developed, rose, shook hands iable lithographs of the Blessed Virgin is within reach of all. You owe it to yourself to in- around and said buenos noches, and we and several of General Pershing, fade vestigate. all went to bed. against the mountains. Send for our Free Book. Describe your case fully sowecangiveyou definite information at once. PHILO BURT MFG. CO. 92-14 Odd Fellows Temple JAMESTOWN, N. Y. ^America \^rom the Inside Out

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open and without walls, considers'some- he sees outside his own home. These times that a lock with a key in it is a other families have beautiful things that personal insult to himself; he discovers he has not got, that he would love to after a time that when the key is turned have, that he takes from them when- for himself and not against him he is ever he can, but he is surprised too by admitted to a richer and more enduring the splendid things that he possesses intimacy than he has ever known be- and, like all of us in our own private ? • ? • *&® ' V 'SR. fore, and that simply because a room estimates, he feels that he is both rated K<* into which he is invited contains only too highly and not rated highly enough. a few people. His excitement, his social kindliness, His social contacts he wants to be his generosity of heart, his inability to immediate, complete and universal; he apply real critical standards, the haste has no time to pick and choose because of his movements, his attention to the every moment is so exciting to him that opinion of others and his passionate that after all he knows best, he has time to live only for that mo- conviction Savagely he fought the ment. He gives all his confidences to lead to a medley of experiences that are in that of course bewildering. He returns home the immediate stranger order Sea Wolf to save her! this momentary contact may be exciting with his sense of contempt and a long- for not and full of color, but of course the con- ing something that he has yet A/tADDENED at the sight of her fmn- tact is for that very reason evanescent got both confirmed. And so, made un- J- tic struggles, Weyden sprang to save her! But the Sea Wolf hurtled him back crashing and unimportant. He doesn't in reality comfortable by the present, he con- through the door. AU appeared lost when . . . expect it to be anything else, and there- tinues to fling himself with ardent hope Here is an extraordinary situation. A beau- fore the foreigner, who gives no con- into the future. tiful girl of gentle breeding on a rough ship at t he mercy of a fiend incarnate! How could she fidence unless it is important, is either Turning to the esthetic side of con- escape? What happened to her secret lover? himself life critic suspicious and withdraws into temporary American any must To learn the answer to this and a host or responds and is afterward bitterly be limited seriously by his own estimate of equally gripping tales, send today for disappointed at the meagre results. of the things in life that stand for truth A foreigner's social experience when and beauty. There is for many men THE WORLD FAMOUS he first comes to America is bewildering nothing more beautiful than efficiency, oc because he finds that everyone treats while for others carelessness is the high- WORKS JACK LONDON him with equal warmth and eagerness. est divinity. I remember Conrad saying At a Bargain That May Never Be Repeated "Can these all be really my friends?" to me once that there were two kinds THESE are not ordinary tales, but the he asks himself, knowing from his own of art, the art whose value was static World's Greatest Stories of raging ad- European experience that friendship is and immovable and the art whose value venture, flaming conflict and daring romance! one of the hardest and most difficult changed with every breath that blew; Nevera man lived as Jack London and as he lived he box, perfect- of the arts. He learns at last that nine here you have a carpenter's wrote! So vivid, so realistic out of the ten Americans he has en- ly constructed, sound and proof against are these absorbing pages, you feel yourself actually tak- countered have intended nothing more all accident; no one, whatever his view HBHninBL. part in every situation. than to make the immediate instant of esthetics, will ever be able to deny 46OO Gripping Pages warm and happy; they live for happy that that is a good box, and every critic One moment you are a ship- moments, whereas the European has of art beholding it will say, "What is wrecked sailor battling two hun- learnt to distrust happiness profoundly. the address of that carpenter?" A book, ched man-eating blacks in the jungle. In the next you area city Then socially the American has a deep a picture, a piece of music on the other weakling plunging int o the jaws of vein of cynicism; he recognizes that his hand has two esthetic qualities, one the hell to save the woman you love. In breathless succession you own enthusiasms are rarely permanent; beauty of its own content, which is race from one thrilling episode to to obtain the greatest excitement out of unalterable, secondly, the sense of another —from arctic Siberia to the greatest possible number he exalts beauty in the eye of the beholder, which torrid Africa; from the South Sea Islands to England's misty shores his hero to a melodramatic height, and changes with every twist of personality, —for t hese are extraordinary tales then, to maintain the excitement, knocks of period, of fresh taste and the rest. you will never tire of reading. him over as quickly as may be. In esti- As the years pass that original amount They help you relax and increase your efficiency. No other form of mates of prowess is socially always clearly he of beauty can be more and more entertainmentofrersyou so much a schoolboy; he loves to win and he estimated, and there are certainly artists for so little money! loves his hero to win, but he is shy so great that their position can at length Priced for Quick Sale after his own exaltation and recovers be finally assured, and these artists can By eliminating editorial and his self-repute by knocking his hero be counted on the fingers of one hand. plate costs and manufacturing the books in the dull season down. The contemporary American, I think, we are enabled to offer you this uniform library edition His cynicism of course extends to his is in general not as yet anxious enough new of Jack London far below A view of himself, and this is a fact sel- to discover the quality of this uncertain the regular publisher's price. But act f are going fast ! dom realized by Europeans. The whole beauty. 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short cuts. "There must be some way," nation; but on the other hand it is made he says, when he considers the Euro- as difficult as possible for the artist to pean masterpieces of painting and lit- develop quietly with his mind intent erature, "of producing these things only upon his work. No young writer easily; we have the energy, the money can make a mark in America without and the power, and all these to a greater being at once overwhelmed with the extent than Europe has them." He babel of the market place; large sums

looks at. we will say, a painting by of money are offered to him ; he is 10 Rembrandt in the Louvre; he is moved tempted to produce work far too swift- DAYS by it, he does not know why; he realizes ly, and exhorted to repeat himself again TRIAL The; that it is something of value in the and again. And at every other moment world if only because it is rare and is at the contemporary American novel is dug once convinced that his country, which up to discover how it is growing and New PHONIC can produce wonderful buildings, as- whether the great American novel is in tonishing railways and supreme meat full bloom yet and if not why not. factories should also, if the trick could The position is quite different in Eng- Reproducer be discovered, be able to produce land; the average Englishman has no Rembrandts. There he is right ; that interest whatever in the great English Makes an UP-TO-C vitality and energy that there is in novel, and the critic is for the most THE-MINUTE ? the American spirit must in the end part concerned with proving theoiies of 385 produce great art. but it is moving too his own which leave him little room for PHONOGRAPH Direct quickly; the desire for art produces general enthusiasms. With the other out of your old one Factory artists in abundance, but great art can arts in America the same thing can be come only after long spiritual experi- seen the money is there but what to Now at last you can say goodbye to the squeaky, — nasal, rasping, metallic tone of your phonograph. ence, and that is a stage in America's do with it? Well, one of the things to Yet you need not buy a new phonograph. The development that is not yet reached. do. as we don't as yet produce these reproducer is the HEART of any phonograph- anil the Ne w PHONIC reproducer makes your old This whole impulse of hurry and in- masterpieces ourselves, is to bring over like an entirely new one. Based on phonograph sistence on commercial values is ex- as many as possible from Europe; pic- the New PHONIC principle. Makes you think the orchestra or artist is in the same room. 1 remely dangerous. Take for a moment ture galleries in America are rapidly be- Never Before Such Tone the present condition of American let- coming the finest in the world, and no Tones never before heard are clearly distinguished ters. In the novel at least America is foreigner can visit them without aston- reproducer is used. Test when the New PHONIC rivaling now the younger generations ishment at the large and excited crowds it on an old record. Hear the difference yourself. Listen to the dee]) low notes and the delicate of all the other countries of the world. that pass through them. But why are notes. Hear how plainly and clearly_ the high Take a dozen of the more interesting the crowds at present large and excited? voice sounds. Note the natural tone of the violin and the piano, and the absence of "tinny" music. American novelists under fifty or so; at Because they believe that there is some- You'll amazed. The New PHONIC repro- be a hazard I might name Sinclair Lewis. thing here of great value, but what it ducer is ideal for dancing or for home entertain- ment. Its volume is almost double that of the Willa Cather. Joseph Hergesheimer. is they are not quite sure. ordinary reproducer. Sherwood Anderson. James Branch America has now the finest orchestras 10 Days' Trial— Send No Money Cabell. Elinor Wylie. Louis Bromfield. in the world and its musical audiences wonderful the New PHO- You cannot realize how Zona Gale. Ernest Hemingway, Carl van are the most enthusiastic There is NIC is until you hear it. That is why we want in to send it to you on 1(1 days' trial. Send no Vechten. Elizabeth Roberts and Scott something a superb orchestra which the postman money now—just the coupon. Pay Fitzgerald: this is a very remarkable can be appreciated by a quite uncritical only $3.85 plus a few pennies postage when the New PHONIC arrives. Then if you are not de- list. Take twelve of the most interest- mind: nevertheless the enthusiasm for days and your lighted, send it back within 10 ing English novelists under fifty. I music in America is one of the very money will be refunded. If sold in stores the price would be at least $7.50. Our price only might name at a venture Virginia Woolf. finest elements in contemporary Ameri- people have dealt with us by $8.85. Over 350.00(1 E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence. Rose can life, but I cannot call it very criti- mail. You take no risk. 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««1 eventually be able to qualify as forest rangers. This much of the plan is sure. The Legion is going to select the veter- ans, a mere handful at first, who will be the first to launch out in the under- taking. At a meeting in Philadelphia the Citizens' Committee and the Medi- cal Aid Committee appointed sub-com- mittees to select the veterans, to look into the problem of supplying them cabins in which to live, and to work out the entire program. Chairman Hassrick says that some cabins will be provided for the veterans, "I reduced from 48 inches to 38 because several of the larger posts in inches in 35 days," says R. E. John- the State have already agreed to see son of Akron, O., "just by wearing a this of the through. much program And Director Belt. My stomach is now whatever else happens, the Legion al- firm, doesn't sag and I feel fine." ready has 258 acres of cut-over land in the which has been Pocono region dedi- LET us prove to you, without you risking a penny, that cated to it as a laboratory for testing -* you can quickly, easily and surely rid yourself of a and working out the plan should it de- bulging waistline. Let us prove that you can instantly re- velop that the land is suitable for the distribute the excess fat in such a way that the pulling- the purpose. The first men selected for for- down weight is removed from muscle structure of the stomach and properly placed where it is correctly supported, est work probably will go to this tract. giving you freedom of movement and natural grace you have not known for years. Slip the DIRECTOR On—That's All FREE TRIAL Then a?id U^Qrw The Director is made to your measure all in one piece, of finest mercerized web elastic. There are no buckles, OFFER ( Continued from page 42) laces or straps to bother with. It is light and compact and Mail Coupon is worn with perfect ease and comfort. You are not troubled Roberts and Frank Schwab. Twenty with sagging trousers, vest creeping up and wrinkled coat battle deaths in one engagement. in business hours. It improves any man's appearance in a "As a result of this same action, four dress suit. of the wounded died, making a total With every step you take, with every movement of the casualty list of twenty-four men killed body, the Director gently kneads and massages the ab- and twenty-four wounded. dominal muscles, dispersing the fatty deposits until they are finally absorbed. The tension on the stretched and ''Sometime about the last week in flabby muscles is relieved, for the heavy abdomen is actu- February, 1920, the 27th Infantry had ally supported from the back. The muscle structure in No need of carrying some men killed in Siberia. I have the front is held firmly, strengthened and restored. con- The excess fat like this names of these men somewhere but stant, gentle massaging permits no more fat to form. cannot locate the list at this time. Per- You Take No Risk Whatever haps some buddy of the 27th Infantry can furnish detailed information regard- "It's comfortable and I like it," is a statement made in hundreds of letters in our files. Let us prove our claims. ing this action. As our troops were not We will send a Director for trial. If you don't get results you all withdrawn until from Siberia April owe nothing. 1, 1920, there may have been later en- Use the coupon below, or just write a postcard asking gagements. for our free trial offer, and we will include descriptive litera- "From the facts I submit, it is logical ture, doctors' endorsements, instructions for self-measure- Waistline is inches thinner to last fired assume that the shots by ment and letters from Director wearers. tvith Director American troops were no doubt fired by some 'Wolfhound' of the 27th or 31st Infantry Regiments. LANDON & WARNER "I am enclosing some pictures taken Dept. 2-K, 332 S. LaSalle, Chicago in Siberia of places which will be fa- ^y. . Gentlemen: Without cost or obligation on my part please send details of your trial offer and miliar to former 'Wolfhounds' par- >5w'>&6/^V. me — " free booklet - ticularly one of Kopeck Hill which has lllte-'-*

been mentioned several times in Then Name.... . and Now in connection with activities Street of the E. A. F. in Siberia. At the time This coupon brings details this picture was taken, Russian roubles, Sendforthis booklet today City State. normally worth about seventy-seven cents, were down to about eleven cents, and many a rouble was spent in this locality for refreshments and enter- tainment." The picture of far-famed Kopeck Hill S E PI O N EER mentioned by Comrade Whittaker is 23^/1 Wool Tailori. reproduced on page 42. A kopeck, by Learn toDance FULL OR PART TIME the way, was also a Russian coin, worth This New EasyWay You can learn all the modern dances- Make $12 a Day from Start a hundredth of a rouble. Charleston. Black Bottom. Valencia. Can- ter. Irench i'ango, St. Luuia H"p, Latest Part time men $5an hour selling Waltzes. Fox Trots, etc . at home easily and quickly. New chart method makes famous Pioneer tailored attention! dancing as simple as A - B-C. No music or IOWA and Michigan men, partner required. Learn anywhere, any- ^ to-measureall- wool suits time. Win new popularity. Be in demand at 23 50 - Commissions Paid Thomas D. Wilson, Executive Secre- at parties. Same course of lessons would f <1V $ cost $20 if taken privately. n&*J jnadvance.Strikingleathji tary of the State of Iowa Bonus erbrief casecontaininglOO ^ Send No Money large"?watchsamplesfurnished—other Board, reports that a number of Iowa equally remarkable Just send your name and address. We'll values at $29.50 and $34.50. We traintheinexperienced. bonus warrants or original discharge ship the complete course— 323 pages, 49 U lustrations— without one cent in advam Menwith determination and willing- When package arrives, band postman o nees to work for euccesswrite for this certificates of veterans whose homes SI .98. plus delivery charges, and this w<. big derful course is yours. Try for 6 dayL. money making opportunity , today. ( Money back if not delighted. Send your were in Iowa Continued on page 70) Pioneer Tailoring Co., Congress & Throop Sts. Dent, p 1005 FRANKLIN PUB.C0.800 N.CIarkSt.Oep. a 100 Chicago

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Buy a BULOVA WATCH —the Modern Way Then and J\(ozv WHAT YOU DO- You pay the ( Continued from page SEND A DOLLAR with Name and Ad- Nationally 6g dress, end'brief note telling us some- thing' about yourself. Advertised when they entered service, are being designations as the Simply state: fli how long at address. Cash Price — names of the posts. <2t age, (3) married or single, J name held unclaimed. list of these and address of employer, (5) nature of No More A Iowans Some of these posts are interested not work. (6) how long in employ . or former Iowans. with the last known All information held strictly confiden- 50 only in getting as members all of the tial--no direct inquiries $28 to employer, addresses for them, is listed below and men of the old outfits who reside in or $1 with order, are WHAT WE DO- $2.75 a month they requested to write to Mr. Wil- near the city, but also in keeping up to Upon arrival of your order, we will open a 10 month CI,ar Ke Account and aend se- son at his office in Des Moines: date rosters of all former members of lection for approval and 15 ^--^s* DAY TRIAL. If satisfied. ^ZZ'^i the outfits. pay $2.75 monthly: Bolton, James, Ottumvva, la. : Bradburn, otherwise retun John L., New Orleans, La. ; Bunting, James and dollar will One such outfit in the 304th Field be E.. Philadelphia, Pa. ; Casey, John R., Fort refunded Artillery Post and David D. Levinson Missoula. Mont. ; Coyle, John J.. Sheldon. Ia. : Cuuiert, John, Jackson, Mich ; Don- has requested the Company Clerk to

NIGAN, Joseph J., Blytheville. Ark. ; Evans, broadcast an appeal to all men who John. Marshall. Minn. ; Fortner. Clair V.. Los Angeles, Calif. . ; Grunert, George E served with the 304th Field Artillery

Ames, Ia. : Harrison, Clarence L.. San Fran- during the World War to send their cisco, Calif. ; Hool. James C, Aberdeen, S. D. : Hokacek, Ladis, Lincoln, Nebr. ; Jensen. names and addresses to the 304th Field

Chester S„ San Francisco, Calif. ; Jurgensen. Harry Artillery Post. 27 West 25th Street. J., Clinton, Ia. : KlDD, Thomas M.. Tu- lare, Calif. ; Lampman, Charles E.. Portland. New York.

Ore. ; Lee, Ivar M.. Duluth. Minn. ; MONROE, Other notices of interest to veterans Clarence K., Lake View, Ia. : O'Malley. Laurence. Nevada. Ia. ; Owens, Carrie, Oak- follow

land. Calif. ; Palutzke. Minnie, Glendalc, Fourth DlV. — It is planned to revive the Calif. ; Rasmussen, Jens E.. Fairfax. Ia. : Schmurr, Frank divisional paper, Ivy Leaves, and to hold sev- LWSWEEHtic B.. Crookston. Nebr. : Self, eral functions including a reunion this year. Frank A.. Omaha, Nebr. : Smith, Rendon V.. S5= Dept. 1098-G ^3 New All former Fourth Division men are requested Orleans. La. ; SoiTIIWORTH, Fred, Silver To Anv Adult to write to Benj. Getzoff, chmn., membership interested in the pu City, New Mex. : Wilson. George F.. Madison. chase of Diamonds. \jl660 drodAw&y Wise. comm., 10 North Clark st.. Chicago. 111. Watches or Jewell 104th S. Inf. All we will send withoi U. Vet. Assoc.— former i bh.Mtioris our beaui NEW YORK I members of the 104th Inf. are requested to Jul booklet illustrated From R. S. Dean, Chief of the Bonus send in colora. their present addresses and present status Division. Adjutant General's Office. to Lawrence A. Wagner, adjt., 201 Oak st.. Y Holyoke. Mass. State of Michigan. Lansing, we are fur- 328th Inf. Assn.—Members who have lost The nished with the following list of men contact with former buddies write to Arnold Slomka, secy.-treas., 16 Bav 29th st., Brook- AV»0l whose original discharge certificates lyn. N. Y. Lighter have been returned unclaimed. These 312th F. A. Assoc. —Second reunion and banquet Feb. 11 at the Stephen Girard Hotel. men are requested to report their pres- MEN. here's a real lighter that 20th and Chestnut sts.. Philadelphia. Pa. Ad- you will he to own. proud Ab- ent addresses to Mr. Dean : dress M. F. Torpey. 5729 Springfield ave.. solutely dependable— lights in- Philadelphia. stantly every time— never fails. BlSEL, William : - James BRAZEAU, Joseph : Btty. C. 64th Art., C. A. C.—Annual r The "MAGIC WHEEL" is a Emery. Nelson B. : mechanical masterpiece. Highly Ferkel, Henry G. ; Fresh- union Feb. 18-19 at Chicago, 111. Address H. polished silver finish. Ideal man, Jack; Kimmer, Earl: McLaughlin. E. (Sudds) Sutherland. 434 West 43rd st..

"All-year round" gift. : James O'Riorhan. Joseph P. : Pribor, John : Indianapolis. Ind. SFNP Nil MONEY!—only name.'De- Reinelt, Fred : Steger, Fred J. : Sosit $t.;»7 plus postage on delivery, Wall. Thom- Naval Aviation Forces at St. Inglevert, atisfaction fully traaranteed. as : Wilson, Winfield, R. France, and Field A.—Former members in- UNITED PREMIUM CO. terested in a proposed reunion address H. C. 321 B way Oepl. 101 New Tork Carpenter. Southern Pacific Co.. San Miguel. TAST month we mentioned in these Calif. ' >3comm,ss,on- -L/ columns the fact that a number of C. P. W. E. No. 1, St. Pierre pes Corps— ME N S SUITS Former members of this prison camp outfit Legion posts in New York City are interested in proposed reunion, address Boas composed largely of men all from one E. Bigson. Hoxie. Ark. FREE service outfit and bear the old service The Company Clerk. SALES KIT \% our representative Up-to-date Single breasted style. Variety of beautiful patterns. THE 888 COMPANY Dept. B-16. Fort Wayne, Ind. Keeping Step

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he wrote a book which is possibly the tween, iq; hours spent standing with most useful and most compact source of heads uncovered. 26: days spent on trip. general information on America's part 31; kings and queens met. 5; audiences in the World War. with Pope. 1; palaces paraded through. Ex-Service Men Mr. Ayres is Commander of Army and 32; troops passed in parade on review. Get Navy Post in Cleveland. He went to i8,qoo; bands listened to, 118; rainy Special Preference the Paris convention and was one of days, o; presents purchased. 26; number the 250 Legionnaires representing all of toasts drunk, 11 1; presidents met. 1: $1140 to departments who took part in the Na- prefects and mayors met, 22; generals tional Commander's Tour after the con- met, 58; generals looked at. 216; mili- $3300 Year vention. Mr. Ayres gave a statistician's tary medals and decorations seen, 11.- Become Railway description of his trip, at a luncheon of 428; meals at which chicken could have the Reserve Officers Association in been served, 62; meals with chicken Postal Clerks Cleveland and Legionnaire James P. served, 53; meals at which coffee was Steady ~" ~7~7\~7 Harrell told the Step Keeper about it. served, 88; meals at which coffee was Work f/ Franklin Institute Here is Ayres' summary of his trip: good, 1; number of persons tipped. 310; Paid / Dept. W190 Rochester, N Y. (Not connectedwith.U.S. Countries visited. cities visited, 16; regrets on sailing for home, many. VaCatiotlS / Government; 7; / Rush to me. entirely free of charge. times "Star-Spangled Banner" listened Common j 32 page book with ( 1) A full description education of the position checked below; (21 ^ A to, 74; times other national anthems lis- TeH It With Photos sufficiently^ list of U. S. Government Jobs obtainable: .% (3l Send full information describing pref- tened to, 74; number of wreaths laid, Mall erence to ex-service men. coupon of welcoming speeches, T N this age of specialization. The , 0; number > Railway Postal Clerk 53; to. ay — S 1 300 to S2700 SURE / Postotl.ce Clerk iSI700 to S2300 answers to welcoming speeches. 41 American Legion post which doesn't / City MailCarner (SI700 lo S2I00 Rural Mail include its officers a Post Pho- / Carrier (S2I0O lo S3300 yards of red carpet walked on, 1,762; among .General Clerk.. (S1 140 lo SI860 / pairs of red plush draperies passed tographer is overlooking a chance to let / through. 23; sets of palms marched be- the rest of the world know what it is

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doing. A Post Photographer can help them develop, and to compile lists of along any post's activities in countless physicians and hospitals. ways—by taking photograph? of all im- The indorsement of the National portant post events, for example. Emergency Plan was only one feature The Monthly's $250 Prize Photograph of the three-day conference in Indian- Competition has brought in hundreds of apolis. Other features were; the out- pictures from posts scattered throughout lining of concerted membership cam- the whole United States, but there is paigns in all departments designed to still a chance for any post to make a bid give the Legion in 1928 the largest en-

for the main prize of $ico for the best rollment it has yet had; the presenta- photograph submitted before April 15. tion of reports indicating that most of 1928, for publication in the Keeping the Legion's major legislative objectives Step department of the Monthly, or for at this session of Congress probably will one of the fourteen other prizes ranging be attained; the proposal of a national from $50 to $5. plan under which the graves of all World War veterans shall be registered; the Squadrons for Relief adoption of a resolution urging that Congress make mandatory the provision r ATIONAL Commander Edward E. of law entitling any veteran to free hos- Spafford submitted a plan for na- pitalization regardless of whether dis- tion-wide disaster rescue and relief work ability is service-connected; and the to the Commanders and Adjutants of adoption of a resolution expressing op- all departments who met in conference position to any raise in national dues. at Indianapolis in December. The plan, Walton D. Hood. Commander of the which carries out the terms of a resolu- Department of Texas, explained to the tion adopted by the Paris convention, TF YOU like to draw—an almost. conference the plans of the whole State * sure indication of talent —don't calls for early organization by posts, of Texas for the 1928 national conven- fail to make the most of it. Lift yourself above the ordinary routine departments and National Headquarters tion at San Antonio. One unusual fea- jobs—train your ability and be- of a system under which every com- ture is a concession from the railroads come a Commercial Artist. munity, state or national disaster will permitting special American Legion Good designs and illustrations are a necessity to modern business and find the Legion ready to meet it. Such trains to enter the State by one route advertising. Bip; prices are paid to a system would be founded upon the and leave by another, making possible artists who have properly trained themselves. Many Federal Students formation of a local emergency unit by entertainment in Texas cities. many are earning $3500. $4000, $5000. each Legion post and the correlation of and $6000 yearly—some even more. the work of local units under depart- The Federal Course is practical Legionnaire Contributors from A to Z, and jrives you per- mental and regional leadership. Under sonal criticisms on your lessons. National Commander Spafford's plan, A NEWCOMER among Legionnaire the country would into five contributors to the Monthly is be divided to areas, each composed of a group of Grover F. Sexton, whose article, "Tell- How Test Your States and each under the leadership of ing the World," explains a national en- Artistic Ability a National Vice Commander. terprise initiated by his own outfit in The local emergency units are expect- the Forty and Eight, Voiture 220 of Here is an interesting, easy way to learn if your talent is worth developing. ed to assemble immediately upon pre- Chicago. Illinois. Mr. Sexton is a Past Send for our Art Ability Questionnaire, prepared by successful artists to test your arranged signal—ordinarily a bell or Commander of Sheridan Post of Chi- natural sense of design, proportion, color, perspective, etc. whistle in smaller communities—and the cago. He was one of the organizers of Yoti can do this without obligation, and you "ill he frankly told what your score is. We will aiso send von members are automatically to carry out The Am°ncan Legion in Illinois and "in I k, "YOUR FUTURE," showing work by Federal Students and describing the Course in detail. the tasks assigned to them individually took part in the St. Louis caucus. Investigate] Send coupon now for in advance, depending on the character Marquis James, author of "First your questionnaire. Please state age and occupation. of the emergency. Each unit is expected Families." is a member of S. Rankin

to enter into an understanding with the Drew Post of New York City . . . Alex- public authorities of its community, so ander A. Gardiner is a member of Rau- that the whole community may know Locke Post of Hartford. Connecticut.

just how the Legion will come into . . . The illustrations for "The Legend action. of Sleepy Hollow" are the work of Each local unit will be asked to com- Lowell L. Balcom. a member of Fitz- C/of Commercial Designing pile a list of owners agreeing to con- simmons Post of Kansas City. Missouri. I 1359 Federal Schools Bldg., Minneapolis. Minn. tribute automobiles should a need for Right Guide Please send me your Ability [ Art Questionnair and hook, "Your Future."

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SPARE TIME TRAINING z/f Personal U/ew (Continued from page v'?v thatleads'to 33) ®» studied, kept their eye on the top ser- Those in Appointive offices. It is no BIGGER PAY geant, not to mention that they may surprise that "Fighting Bill"' Donovan Do you want a better position and a higher salary? You can have kept their thoughts to themselves. is making good as assistant attorney have these if you can do tne work. LaSalle experts will show you how, guide you step by step to success and help solve Some of the pioneers are now in their general. ' He was an your personal business problems through the time-saving LaSalle Problem Method. Our salary-increasing plan en- second and third terms. Such men as *ble law er befor( ables you to y prepare during your spare hours, without inter- There Are ; fir. rice with.vour present duties. Simply mark on the coupon Royal Johnson and Lamar Jeffers and went to war and the field in which you desire success, and we will mail you a Others valuable book describing the opportunities in that field, to- Clarence McLeod (who was the young- did not forget how gether with an outline of OUT salary-increasing plan. Also est member ever elected when he first to copy of "Ten Years' Promotion in One." There is no cost or be one while he obligation. Find out how the salary-increasing plan starts came) begin to count in going over the was fighting in France. He has the average men and women on the high road to success and financial independence. Check and mail the coupon NOW. legislative top. Tydings of Maryland D. S. C, the D. S. M., and the Con- Find Yourself Through LaSalle LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY has been promoted to the Senate, of gressional Medal as you may find out The World's Largest Business Training Institution which he is next to the youngest from the records. He never mentions Dept. 2361-R Chicago member. Past Department Commander it. Davis and MacNider at the War Tell me about your salary -increasing plan K9§ for my advancement in the l>n-in. [idd r >-) J. Mitchell Chase of Pennsylvania is Department. The Democrats say they Wn,ij( r checked. Send also copy of "Ten Years' - mint,,, among the newcomers this year. Legion- Promotion in One," all without obligation. ' "'"%>UO/ have just as good men to take their

Business Management DPerson- 'Bankingi _. andj Financet-- dstenotypy ranks where they learned, in harder h th e rmy air U Modern Business Corre- n Telegraphy The Ball \ spondence , ^ UCreditnr-nJ'-* and„ Collectiou , than political campaigning, what the big r> ,1 t? schools when there Modern Foremanship Correspondence Rolls Fast dome under the searchlights stands for. is room for Qnly If they can't do a better job than their two hundred. All Name predecessors then something has slipped towns with airports rejoice in their

Present Position in them since iqi y-'iS, and the top ser- foresight. Now is the time for other geants will feel that they trained tho^e towns to get in line for the summer Address rookies in vain. with provisions for the coming air fleet. SAVC MONEY PAY ONLY if *95 _ for this T|J» s^~~! DUR A BUT otunm The J^egend ee follow fl^ of S^ py Continued from page 13) Made of durable weatherproof Khaki Tent Fabric : com- plete with awning, screened window and door, sod cloth, metal frame, stakes, jointed poles and carrying bag. termed. sparking'' within, all other manage her poultry; for, as she sagely 7x7 ft. only J13.95, delivered. Same tent 9 j ;xfl W ft. and Other models at 1 cstnrices. Satisfaction "guaranteed. suitors passed by in despair, and carried observed, ducks and geese are foolish SEND NO ..lONEY— .Ttist name and address. Pay the war into other quarters. things, and must be looked after, but only price of Tent on delivery. We prepay Express. WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG Such was the formidable rival with girls can take care of themselves. Thus Factory Prices Money. save you whom Ichabod Crane had to contend, while the busy dame bustled about the and. considering all things, a stouter house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one tr T.lqiJU, Mo. I 3947 McUu»AU)**W W W \ 9 S man than he would have shrunk from end of the piazza, honest Bait would sit a wiser man would smoking his evening pipe at the other, Match Vour Coat and Vest the competition, and have despaired. He had. however, a watching the achievements of a little With New Pants—FREE SAMPLE happy mixture of pliability and perse- wooden warrior, who, armed with a DON'T THROW AWAY YOUR OLD SUIT. Get new verance in his nature: he was in form sword in each hand, was most valiantly trousers to match your coat ami vest. Tai lored to your measure. 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Liberal commis- ness; for he was not a man to be hearts are wooed and won. To me sions and bonuses. Men and wo- men, full or spare time. 1000 sam- thwarted in his amours, any more than they have always been matters of riddle ples furnished. Write quickly. that stormy lover, Achilles. Ichabod, and admiration. Some seem to have IOOO ACTUAL The National Importing Co. FABRIC SAMPLES Oepi e-84, 573 Broadway, N.Y.C. therefore, made his advances in a quiet but one vulnerable point, or door of PHOTOS and gently-insinuating manner. Under access; while others have a thousand cover of his character of singing-master, avenues, and may be captured in a ENLARGED he made frequent visits at the farm- thousand different ways. 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moment Ichabod Crane made his ad- clattering up to the school door with vances, the interests of the former an invitation to Ichabod to attend a evidently declined; his horse was no merry-making or "quilting frolic," to be longer seen tied at the palings on Sun- held that evening at Mynheer Van Tas- day nights, and a deadly feud gradually sel's; and having delivered his message arose between him and the preceptor with that air of importance, and effort of Sleepy Hollow. at fine language, which a negro is apt Brom. who had a degree of rough to display on petty embassies of the chivalry in his nature, would fain have kind, he dashed over the brook, and was carried matters to open warfare, and seen scampering away up the hollow, have settled their pretensions to the full of the importance and hurry of his lady, according to the mcde of those mission. most concise and simple reasoners. the All was now bustle and hubbub in knights-errant of yore—by single com- the late quiet school-room. The scholars

bat ; but Ichabod was too conscious of were hurried through their lessons, with- the superior might of his adversary to out stopping at trifles; those who were enter the lists against him: he had over- nimble skipped over half with impunity, heard a boast of Bones, that he would and those who were tardy had a smart Learn Piano Ji&ZfU "double the schoolmaster up. and lay application now and then in the rear, him on a shelf of his own school- to quicken their speed, or help them Quickly by Ear house;" and he was too wary to over a tall word. Books were flung Beginners and advanced students learn quickly at home in spare time. Wonderful give him an opportunity. There was aside without being put away on the — Niagara Method clearly shows you how. something extremely provoking in this shelves, inkstands were overturned, Complete course 20 lessons. 10 years obstinately pacific system; it left Brom benches thrown down, and the whole successful teaching. no alternative but to draw upon the school was turned loose an hour before By R. C. JAMES funds of rustic waggery in his disposi- the usual time, bursting forth like a How I used to wish that I could sit down at the piano and pour out the golden syncopation of American tion, and to play off boorish practical legion of young imps, yelping and rack- melody, like the jazz piano players I had heard. How I jokes upon his rival. Ichabod became eting about the green, in joy at their used to wish that I could be the popular one in every crowd. But I could not play a note. the object of whimsical persecution to early emancipation. Niagara Method Showed Me The Way Bones, and his gang of rough riders. The gallant Ichabod now spent at Then somewhere — just as you are reading this — I read They harried his hitherto peaceful do- least an extra half hour at his toilet, of the Niagara Method which makes piano playing wonderfully simple. I sent for Director Wright's book mains; smoked out his singing' school, brushing and furbishing up his best, "The Niagara Secret." I read the book, and I knew it by stopping up the chimney; broke into and indeed only suit of rusty black, and was right. I followed Director Wright's principles, and in no the school-house at night, in spite its arranging his looks a bit of broken of by time I had caughfon to his ideas. formidable fastenings of withe and looking-glass, that hung up in the school- So Simple— So Easy— So Delightful window stakes, and turned every thing house. That he might make his appear- And the best part of it all is that there is nothing hard about the Niagara Method. In a short time, by follow- topsy-turvy: so that the poor ance before his mistress in the true style school- ing Director Wright's principles and by devoting a part master began to think all the witches of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from of my spare time to the practical application of his course, 1 soon learned to play. in the country held their meetings the farmer with he domi- there. whom was No tiresome scales —no arpeggios to learn—no weary But what was still more annoying, Brom ciliated, a choleric old Dutchman, of the hours of practice — no do-re-mi —no meaningless ex- ercises. If you know the Niagara Method, you can sit took all opportunities of turning him name of Hans Van Ripper, and. thus down and reel off any popular 6ong which the high- into ridicule in presence of his mistress, gallantly mounted, issued forth, like a priced o chestra leaders play in cabarets, clubs, hotels, dance halls, or theaters. and had a scoundrel dog whom he knight -errant in quest of adventures. Clip Coupon Now— Play In Few Months taught to whine in the most ludicrous But it is meet I should, in the true If you have never played a note, or if you do play manner, and introduced as a rival of spirit of romantic story, give some ac- no matter how well— you too may become a master of jazz and melody by learning the simple, wonderful Ichabods to instruct her in psalmody. count of the looks and equipments of _„.. B AA1S Niagara Method, In this ' wait ani ,tner t ' av the way matters went on for some my hero and his steed. The animal he f H.EE BOOK - Send coupon now for the ''Niagara Se- time, without producing a broken-down plough- any material bestrode was cret." This book is yours absolutely effect on the relative situation of the horse, that had outlived almost every FREE. If 10c (coin or stamps) is contending enclosed you also receive wonderful powers. On a fine autumnal thing but his viciousness. He was gaunt booklet'Tlow to Entertain atPiano" afternoon, Ichabod. in pensive mood, and shagged, with a ewe neck and a head Ronald G. Wright. Director sat enthroned on the lofty stool whence like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail Niagara School of Music 258 Cleveland Ave., Niagara Falls, NY. he usually watched all the concerns of were tangled and knotted with burrs; his little literary realm. In his hand one eye had lost its pupil, and was CLIP THIS COUPON NOW! he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of des- glaring and spectral; but the other the NIAGARA SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 258 Cleveland Avenue Niagara Falls. N. 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This new self-massaging The J^egend ^leepy jTollow belt not only makes you of look thinner INSTANTLY — but quickly takes off (Continued from page j$i rolls of excess fat. T")IET is weakening — almost indescribable kinds, known only fore you in person. He was the admi- '-'drugs are dangerous- to experienced Dutch housewives ! There ration of all the negroes; strenuous reducing exer- who, having cises are liable to strain was the doughty doughnut, the tender gathered, of all ages and sizes, from the your heart. The only safe oly koek, and the crisp and crumbling farm the method of reducing is mas- and neighborhood, stood form- sage. This method sets up cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ing a pyramid of shining black faces at a vigorous circulation that seems to melt away the sur- ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the every door and window, gazing with de- Weil Reducing plus fat. The whole family of cakes. And then there light at the scene, rolling their white Belt, made of special ri ducing rubber, produces ex were apple pies and peach pies and eye-balls, and showing grinning rows of actly the same results as pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham ivory from ear to ear. could a skilled masseur, only How the quicker and cheaper. and smoked beef ; and moreover delec- .logger of urchins be otherwise than make Every move you plums, causes the Weil Belt t table dishes of preserved and animated and joyous? The lady of his gently massage your peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to heart was his partner in the dance, and abdomen. Results are rapid because this mention broiled shad and roasted chick- smiling graciously in reply to all his belt works for you ens; together with bowls of milk and amorous oglings; while Brom Bones, every second. cream, all mingled higgledy-piggledy, sorely smitten with love and jealousy, Fat Replaced by Normal Tissue pretty much as I have enumerated sat brooding by himself in one corner. From 4 to 6 inches ol them, with the motherly tea-pot send- When the dance was at an end. Icha- flabby fat usually van- ing up its clouds of vapor from the bod was attracted to ish in just a few a knot of the weeks. Only solid, normal' midst—Heaven bless the mark! I want sager folks, who, with old Van Tassel, tissue remains. The Weil breath and time to discuss this banquet sat Reducing Belt is endorsed smoking at one end of the piazza, by physicians because it nut as it deserves, and am too eager to get gossiping over former times, and draw- only takes off fat. but story. Happily. Ichabod helps correct stomach dis- on with my ing out long stories about the war. orders, constipation, back- Crane was not in so great a hurry as This neighborhood, at the time of shortness of breath, ache, justice to and puts sagging internal organs back into placi his historian, but did ample which I am speaking, was one of those Special 10-Day Trial Offer every dainty. highly-favored places which abound money. Write for detailtd description Send no He was a kind and thankful creature, with chronicle and great men. The and testimonials from delighted users. Write at once. Special 10-day trial offer. The Weil Com- whose heart dilated in proportion as his British and American line had run near pany. 582 Hill Street. Haven. Connecticut. New skin was filled with good cheer; and it during the war; it had, therefore, I 1 whose spirits rose with eating as some been the scene of marauding, and in- I The Weil Company, 582 Hill Street, New Haven, Conn. men's do with drink. He could not fested with refugees, cowboys, and all Gentlemen: Please send me complete de- j help, too, rolling his large eyes round kinds of border chivalry. sufficient scription of the Weil Scientific Reducing Belt, Just | | and also your Special 10-Day Trial Offer. him as he ate, and chuckling with the time had elapsed to enable each j story-

j Name i possibility that he might one day be teller to dress up his tale with a little Address j lord of all this scene of almost unimagin- becoming fiction, and, in the indistinct- City State able luxury and splendor. Then, he ness of his recollection, to make him- J thought, how soon he'd turn his back self the hero of every exploit. upon the old school-house; snap his There was the story of Doffue Mart- ringers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, ling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, and every other niggardly patron, and who had nearly taken a British frigate kick any itinerant pedagogue out of with an old iron nine-pounder from a call him breastwork, Sterling Silver, $2.50 each. doors that should dare to mud only that his gun ltt-K Culil. $7. SO. In 14-K comrade burst at the sixth discharge. And there Gold, fin. Folder showing Army and Navy Hin^s sent Old Baltus Van Tassel moved about was an old gentleman who shall be gladly. Become our Legion Post representative. among his guests with a face dilated with nameless, being too rich a mynheer to GROUSE CO. 131 Bruce Av.. North Atlleboro. Mass content and good humor, round and be lightly mentioned, who, in the battle jolly as the harvest moon His hospitable of White-plains, being an excellent attentions, were brief but exoressive. master of defence, parried a mu c ket America's Greatest Tailoring Line being confined to a shake of the hand, ball with a small sword, insomuch that , |"[jr r 130 large Swatch Samples a slap on the shoulder, a loud laugh, and he absolutely felt it whiz round the - A1] Wno1 T;|i|omi a pressing invitation to "fall to, and help blade, and glance off at the hilt : in I Ktt hhhhhb to-Order—Union Made themselves." proof of which, he was ready at any And now the sound of the music time to show the sword, with the hilt a —sensational low price, (iet outfit from the common room, or hall, sum- little bent. There were several more at once. Address Dept. 338. GOODWE AR 844 Adams, Chicago moned to the dance. The musician was that had been equally great in the field, an old grayheaded negro, who had been not one of whom but was persuaded the itinerant orchestra of the neighbor- that he had a considerable hand in hood for more than half a century. His bringing the war to a happy termination. very Man instrument was as old and battered as But all these were nothing to the tales himself. The greater part of the time of ghosts and apparitions that succeed- has the he scraped on two or three strings, ed. The neighborhood is rich in leg- accompanying every movement of the endary treasures of the kind. Local Selling tales in bow with a motion of the head ; bowing and superstitions thrive best almost to the ground, and stamping these sheltered long-settled retreats; but Instinct with his foot whenever a fresh couple are trampled under foot by the shifting I can show you how to start earning' $100 a week immediately. Salesmen are were to start. throng that forms the population of happy and prosperous—there is no limit Ichabod prided himself upon his most of our country places. Besides, to their earnings. I have started thou- sands of men on the road to financial dancing as much as upon his vocal pow- there is no encouragement for ghosts in independence. big money YOU can make ers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him most of our villages, for they have selling all wool quality suits and over- coats at $23.50 and $31.50 — cannot be was idle; and to have seen his loosely scarcely had time to finish their first duplicated at $40. commission:: Liberal hung frame in full motion, and clatter- nap, and turn themselves in their graves, paid in advance—extra bonus money steady income from repeat orders. I can ing about the room, you would have before their surviving friends have make vou a successful salesman—let's thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed travelled away from the neighborhood; start NOW — write for FREE selling outfit nnd full instructions. patron of the dance, was figuring be- so that when they turn out at nkiht to

W. Z. GIBSON, lac, 500 ThroopSt., Dept. p. 405. Chicago 70 The AMERICAN' LEGION Monthly walk their rounds, they have no ac- quaintance left to call upon. This is You CAN Save Your Hair! perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our long-estab- DYING HAIR like dying plants lished Dutch communities. MUST BE CULTIVATED The immediate cause, however, of cultivation the prevalence of supernatural stories in of any living cell is essential to proper THEand normal growth. Modern these parts, was doubtless owing to the science ha* definitely determined that there is no excuse for baldness if vicinity of Sleepy Hollow. There was you will treat your scalp properly before the mother roots a contagion in the very air that blew of your hair have starved and died. from that haunted region; it breathed Nature has ways of warning when certain parts of our forth an atmosphere of dreams and fan- body arc sick or under-nourished. In the case of our Professor cies infecting all the land. Several of hair, the danger signals arc falling hair, dandruff and Maurice the Sleepy Hollow people were present Scholder, D.G. itching scalp. If neglected, these conditions will re Tassel's, and. as usual, were at Van suit in thin, lifeless hair—and eventual baldness. doling out their wild and wonderful You must act now—in time to save the mother roots. legends. Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning HOME TREATMENT cries and wailings heard and seen about in a few minutes a day the great tree where the unfortunate Having reached advanced years, Professor Scholder Major Andre was taken, and which is retiring gradually from clinical treatment, and stood in the neighborhood. Some men- has devised, therefore, his Home Treatment also of the woman in tion was made System, whereby his services have been made glen at white, that haunted the dark available to people all over the country, instead Raven Rock, and was often heard to of being limited only to those who could come to shriek on winter nights before a storm, his Clinic, as in the past thirty-two years. having perished there in the snow. The Professor Scholder will accept no chief part of the stories, however, case that is hopeless. In order to de- turned upon the favorite spectre of termine what can be done for you, Sleepy Hollow, the headless horseman, fill out the coupon below and write who had been heard several times of him any additional details which will help with the analysis late, patrolling the country; and, it was of your case. You will then receive a said, tethered his horse nightly among Pres. Roosevelt personal letter from Professor the graves in the churchyard. One of Prof. Scholder, advising what can be The sequestered situation of this Scholder's many famous patients done for you. There is no charge to have made it a church seems always for this analysis and report. favorite haunt of troubled spirits. It stands on a knoll, surrounded by locust- trees and lofty elms, from among mail tins coupon NOW/ which its decent whitewashed walls PROFESSOR MAURICE SCHOLDER. D.G. The Professor shine modestly forth, like Christian Scholder Institute, Inc. 101 West 42nd Street, New York, N, Y. purity beaming through the shades of I am checking my most noticeable ailments for your guidanc e ' retirement. A gentle slope descends iu_ analyzing the condition of my hair. Please send me without your special j obligation report and analysis chart ! from it to a silver sheet of water, bor- "While my forehead is Falling Hair? still Dandruff? slightly higher than dered by high trees, between which, when I was Itching Scalp ? Bald Spots? a ' youth, your treatment has peeps may be caught at the blue hills A. L.-2-8 been very satisfactory, Xame and I j " of the Hudson. To look upon its grass- be pleased to recommend

Address i grown yard, where the sunbeams seem it to any needy friends." 1 E. L. T , Big Arm. to sleep so quietly, one would think that City state I Mont.. there at least the dead might rest in and there are thousands more peace. On one side of the church ex- tends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees. Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge; the road that led to it. and the bridge itself, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it, even in the daytime; but occasioned a fearful darkness at night. This was one of the favorite haunts of the headless horseman; and the place where he was most frequently encountered. The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts, how he met the horseman re- turning from his foray into Sleepy Hol- low, and was obliged to get up behind him; how they galloped over bush and 18 brake, over hill and swamp, until they MEN-WOMEN- -55 -EARN £35 -$75 WEEKLY

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The startling discovery of the almost bowl and have won ing of the watch dog from the opposite magic effect of Infra- Red Rajs on the hair-growing tissues too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse was made by a leading surgeon. Two years ago he was him- shore of the Hudson; but it was so self bald. Today his hair is full and thick. all hollow, but, just as they came to vague and faint as only to give him an FAMOUS SURGEON'S DISCOVERY the church-bridge, the Hessian bolted idea of his distance from this faithful Here is his own personal, home treatment, called Dermo- vanished in flash of fire. Ray. At last a home method endorsed by science. Guar- and a companion of man. Now and then, too, anteed to bring you these results same in 30 days All these tales, told in that drowsy or you pay nothing. You can use Dermo-Ray in any the long-drawn crowing of a cock, acci- home with electricity. The warm, soothing Infra- Red Rays undertone with which men talk in the dentally awakened, would vitalize the scalp while you rest —a few minutes each day sound far, is all the time required. dark, the countenances of the listeners tar off. from some farmhouse away e f ab U only then receiving a casual SEND NO MONEY u°™alfo U ndin S n° w now and among the hills—but it was like a scientific discovery, opinions of authorities, incontrovert- gleam from the glare of a pipe, sank ible evidence, and details of special trial offer sent free, dreaming sound in his ear. No signs of if you mail the coupon below. To end your scalp and ba-r deep in the mind of Ichabod. He re- life occurred near troubles, act at once. Print your name and address plainly him, but occasionally —and mail the coupon NOW ! paid them in kind with large extracts the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or FREE TRIAL OFFER from his invaluable author. Cotton perhaps the guttural twang of a bull- The Larson Institute Mather, and added many marvellous frog, Michigan Ave. at Lake St., Dept. 192, Chicago, III. from a neighboring marsh, as if Send me at once, without obi i Rat ion. full particulars — la events that had taken place in his na- sleeping uncomfortably, and turning plain envelope—of your 3(J-dav Free Trial of DERMO- RAY. tive State of Connecticut, and fearful suddenly in his bed. \r ame sights which he had seen in his nightly All the stories of ghosts and goblins Address walks about Sleepy Hollow. that he had heard in the afternoon, City State The revel now gradually broke up. now came crowding upon his recollec- AMAZING NEW The old farmers gathered together their tion. The night grew darker and dark- families in their wagons, and were heard er; the stars seemed to sink deeper in for some time rattling along the the sky, ADDING PENOL J> machine and hollow and driving clouds occasionally ADDS pencil combined. roads, and over the distant hills. Some hid them from his sight. He had never MULTIPLIED Abeautiful, valuable, SUBTRACTS lifelong companion that of the damsels mounted on pillions be- felt so lonely and dismal. He was. DIVIDED Is ever ready to do your writing and adding. hind their favorite swains, and their moreover, approaching the very place MONEY MAKER ^Al'i^^^&^SS light-hearted laughter, mingling with the where many of the scenes of the ghost HOUK ADDING PENCIL CO., Dept. 49 , St. Louis. Mo. _ clatter of hoofs, echoed along the silent stories had been laid. In the centre BE AN OIL EXPERT woodlands, sounding fainter and fainter of the road stood an enormous tulip- until they gradually died away—and the tree, which towered like a giant above TRAINED MEN NEEDED!" late scene of noise and frolic was all all the other trees cf the neighborhood, Geologists, Drillers, Refiners, silent and deserted. Ichabod lin- and formed (Chemists and Still Men) OH only a kind of landmark. Its Salesmen, earn from 2 to 10 gered behind, according to the custom limbs were gnarled, and fantastic, large times more than in other fields. of country lovers, to have a tete-a-tete enough to form trunks for ordinary Write today! FREE Booklet! Petroleum Engineering University with the heiress, fully convinced that trees, twisting down almost to the earth, Dept. 142, Fort Wayne, Ind he was now on the high road to success. and rising again into the air. 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has to pass it alone after dark. was soon fearfully accounted for. On As he approached the stream his heart mounting a rising ground, which brought figure of his fellow-traveller in re- WEEKLY IN began to thump; he summoned up. how- the SPARE TIME! ever, all his resolution, gave his horse lief against the sky, gigantic in height, half a score of kicks in the ribs, and and muffled in a cloak. Ichabod was Men, here is a wonder—the most sen- horror-struck, on perceiving that he was sational invention of the age! If you're attempted to dash briskly across the looking for a rapid lire seller —an item that nets you bridge; but instead of starting forward, headless! —but his horror was still more 100% profit—an item that sells itself to 7 out of 10 men on demonstration —I've *tot it in Ve-l'o-Ad. the the perverse old animal made a lateral increased, on observing that the head, amazing new vest pocket adding machine 1 movement, and ran broadside against which should have rested on his shoul- Sells for $2.95—You Make $1.65 most carried before him on the This remarkable invention does all the work of the fence. Ichabod. whose fears in- ders, was a $300 adding machine, .vet fits the vest pocket and sells pommel of the saddle: his terror rose for only $2.05! It sells on sight to storekeepers, busi- creased with the delay, jerked the reins ness men. and everyone who uses figures— and makes you to desperation: he rained a shower of over 100% profit on every sale! Ve-Po-Ad does any on the other side, and kicked lustily kind of figuring in a jiffy, yet weighs hut 4 oz. Counts up to a billion. Shows total visible at all times. Per- with the contrary foot: it was all in kicks and blows upon Gunpowder, hop- fectly accurate, lightning fast. Never makes a mistake to give his of order. 100.0(10 vain; his steed started, it is true, but it ing, by a sudden movement, or gets out Over in daily use! was only to plunge to the opposite side companion the slip—but the spectre Get Your Machine FREE then Live wire salesmen arc dropping everything else and of the road into a thicket of brambles started full jump with him. Away flocking to Ye-Po-Ad. Ve-Po-Ad brings them quick they dashed, through thick and thin: money and lots of it. Shapiro out in California made and alder bushes. The school-master $475 in one week! You can "clean up" too! Only 10 stones flying, and sparks flashing at sales a clay in spare time will bring YOU over $95.00 now bestowed both whip and heel upon a week ! You need no previous sales experience—Ve- the starveling ribs of old Gunpowder, every bound. Ichabod's flimsy garments Po-Ad sells itself! If you are really interested in earn- ing a. steady, substantial income, write at once for full who dashed forward, snuffling and snort- fluttered in the air, as he stretched his details of my MONEY-MAKING PLAN and FREE VE- PO-AD given to it horse's new Agents. T)o NOW—TODAY! ing, but came to a stand just by the long, lank body away over his C. M. CI EAR Y, Dept. 732 head, in the eagerness of his flight. bridge, with a suddenness that had 184 W. WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO, ILL. nearly sent his rider sprawling over his They had now reached the road which head. Just at this moment a plashy turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gun- Match Your Coat and Vest powder, who seemed possessed with a tramp by the side of the bridge caught With New Trousers. Free Sample demon, instead of keeping up it, made the sensitive ear of Ichabod. In the DISCARD YOUR OLD SUIT. Weai the coat an opposite turn, and plunged headlong vest another year by pelting new trousers dark shadow of the grove, on the mar- latch. 'tailored to your measure. With gin of the brook, he beheld something down hHl to the left. This road leads > patterns to select from we can match t any pattern. Send vest or sample of huge, misshapen, black and towering. through a sandy hollow, shaded by trees today, and wc will submit FREE best match table. for about a quarter of a mile, where it It stirred not, but seemed gathered up AMERICAN MATCH PANTS CO., in goblin in the gloom, like some gigantic monster crosses the bridge famous Dept. A., 6 W. Randolph St. Chicago, III. ready to spring upon the traveller. story, and just beyond swells the green The hair of the affrighted pedagogue knoll on which stands the whitewashed church. rose upon his head with terror. What As yet the panic of the steed had was to be done? To turn and fly was given his unskilful rider an apparent now too late; and besides, what chance irn SZO to ?50 a week RETOUCH- was there of escaping ghost or goblin, advantage in the chase; but just as he ING photos—men or women. No sel npr or eanvassins. We teach you at half the hollow, if such it was, which could ride upon had got way through home, furnish WORKING OUTFIT and employment service. Write today. the wings of the wind? Summoning up, the girths of the saddle gave way. and Artcratt Slurhos. Dept. I. 3900 Sheridan till Chicago therefore, a show of courage, he de- he felt it slipping from under him. He manded in stammering accents—"who seized it by the pommel, and endeavored ^l/ou Can't J are you?" He received no reply. He to hold it firm, but in vain: and had OurLowPrices clasping repeated his demand in a still more just time to save himself by agitated voice. Still there was no an- old Gunpowder round the neck, when swer. Once more he cudgelled the sides the saddle fell to the earth, and he of the inflexible Gunpowder, and, shut- heard it trampled under foot by his ting his eyes, broke forth with involun- pursuer. For a moment the terror of Hans Van Ripper's wrath passed across A 3/4 CENTURY HOUSE offers tary fervor into psalm tune. Just then this 3/4 less 1/16 carat, snappy, solitaire just $00.50. Try tomatch the shadowy object of alarm put itself his mind— for it was his Sunday saddle; at $115 00. A reason you rnrelv but this no time for petty fears; think of make possible RADICALLY in motion, and, with a scramble and a was LOW PRICKS, even for FINEST QUALITY DIAMONDS. 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the road. Though the night was dark and (unskilful rider that he was!) he gain lists . use tbe blank below. and dismal, yet the form of the un- had much ado to maintain his seat; Why Pay Full Prices World's oldest, largest diamond bank known might now in some degree be sometimes slipping on one side, some- ins institution of 76 years, rated over 11,000,000.00, must Bell the DIAMONDis , n ascertained. He appeared to be a horse- times on another, and sometimes jolted WrllCH MONEY waa LOANED BUT NOT REPAID. Diamonds, to... l r..m other Advan- man of large dimensions, on the high ridge of his horse's back- tageous Sources. Send Now. Lists I and mounted Free - all details - Exact descriptions — C teed amounts you can borrow. Examine D on a black horse of powerful frame. He bone, with a violence that he verily monds Free. AT OUR RISK. made no offer of molestation or socia- feared would cleave him asunder. ltM«aiil ¥ AaMc Low as $60 a Ct.— Otters Unpaid LOanS — send lorl-ree List. Use I bility, but kept aloof on one side of the An opening in the trees now cheered road, jogging along on the blind side him with the hopes that the church of old Gunpowder, who had now got bridge was at hand. The wavering re- over his fright and waywardness. flection of a silver star in the bosom Ichabod, who had no relish for this of the brook (Continued on page 80) For Free List clip this ad, fill In above and mail to — JOS. OeRoy & Sons, Opp. P.O., 8765 DeRoy Bids'., Pittsburgh. Pa.

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told him that he was not mistaken. He children no more to school; observing, | saw the walls of the church dimly glar- that he never knew any good come of ing under the trees beyond. He recol- this same reading and writing. What- lected the place where Brom Bones's ever money the schoolmaster possessed, ghostly competitor had disappeared. "If and he had received his quarter's pay Only years I can but reach that bridge." thought but a day or two before, he must have 28 old Ichabod. "I am safe." Just then he had about his person at the time of his $ heard the black steed panting and blow- disappearance. and earning 15,000 ing close behind him; he even fancied The mysterious event caused much that he felt his hot breath. Another con- speculation at the church on the fol- a year vulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gun- lowing Sunday. Knots of gazers and the bridge; he in W. T. Carson left school at an early age to take a powder sprang upon gossips were collected the church- "job" in a shoe factory in Huntington, W. Va., at thundered over the resounding planks; yard at the bridge, and at the spot where $12 a week. side; He worked hard and long and he had greater handi- he gained the opposite and now the hat and pumpkin had been found. caps than you will ever have. But he refused to Ichabod cast a look behind to see if The stories of Brouwer. of Bones, and quit. He made up his mind that he was going to get ahead in a big way and nothing could swerve him his pursuer should vanish, according to a whole budget of others, were called to from that resolve. rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone mind; and when they had diligently con- Today W. T. Carson is owner and manager of one of the largest battery service stations in West Vir- Just then he saw the goblin rising in sidered them all, and compared them ginia with an income of $15,000 a year. his stirrups, and in the very act of with the symptoms of the present case, He gives full credit for his success to the Inter- national Correspondence Schools and says he still re- hurling his head at him. Ichabod en- they shook their heads, and came to the fers to the I. C. S. text-books. Just a few months deavored to dodge the horrible missile, conclusion that Ichabod had been car- ago the faculty of a large college in West Virginia called him in to demonstrate the principles of battery but too late. It encountered his cranium ried off by the galloping Hessian. As construction to a class in electricity. That shows with a tremendous crash—he was he was a bachelor, and in nobody's debt, how thoroughly he understands his work. If the I. C. S. can smooth the way to success for tumbled headlong into the dust, and nobody troubled his head any more men like \V. T. Carson, it can help you. If it can Gunpowder, the black steed, and the about him. The school was removed to help other men to win promotion and larger salaries, it can help you. goblin rider, passed by like a whirlwind a different quarter of the hollow, and At least find out by marking and mailing the cou- The next morning the old horse was another pedagogue reigned in his stead. pon printed below. If won't cost you a penny or obligate you in any way to ask for full particulars, found without his saddle, and with the It is true, an old farmer, who had but that one simple little act may be the means of bridle under his feet, soberly cropping been down to New Vork on a visit sev- changing your entire life. Surely, W. T. Carson wouldn't be earning $15,000 the grass at his master's gate. Ichabod eral years after, and from whom this year today if he hadn't found out about the I. C. S. a did not make his appearance at break- account of the ghostly adventure was when he did. Ichabod received, brought the intelligence Mail the Coupon for Free Booklet fast —dinner-hour came, but no home The boys assembled at the school-house, that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS "The Universal University" and strolled idly about the banks of the he had left the neighborhood, partly Box 7577-B, Scranton. Penna. brook: but no schoolmaster. Hans Van through fear of the goblin and Hans Without cost nr obligation, please send me a ropy of your booklet, "Who Wins and Why," and full particulars Ripper now began to feel some uneasi- Van Ripper, and partly in mortification about the course before which I have marked X at having been suddenly BUSINESS TRAINING COURSES ness about the fate of poor Ichabod. and dismissed by Business Management Salesmanship his saddle. An inquiry was set on foot, the heiress: that he had changed his Industrial Management Advertising Personnel Organization Better Letters and after diligent investigation they quarters to a distant part of the coun- Card Lettering Traffic Management Show his In one part of try; had kept school and studied law Business Law Stenography and Typing came upon traces. Q Banking and Finance English the road leading to the church was found at the same time, had been admitted Management Civil Service Clerk AccountancylincludlngC.P.A.inRailway Mail the saddle trampled in the dirt : the to the bar. turned politician, election- Cost Accounting Common School Subjects Bookkeeping High School Subjects tracks of horses' hoofs deeply dented in eered, written for the newspapers, and Illustrating Private Secretary the road, evidently at f-irious speed, finally had been made a justice of the Spanish French Cartooning and TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL COURSES were traced to the bridge, beyond which, Ten Pound Court. Brom Bones too. 3 Electrical Engineer Architect on the bank of a broad part of the who shortly aftT his rival's disappear- Electric Lighting Architects' Blueprints Mechanical Engineer Contractor and Builder brook, where the water ran deep and ance conducted the blooming Katrina Mechanical Draftsman Architectural Draftsman Machine Shop Practice Concrete Builder black, was found the hat of the unfor- in triumph to the altar, was observed Railroad Positions Structural Engineer Gas Engine Operating Chemistry Pharmacy tunate Ichabod. and close beside it a to look exceedingly knowing whenever Civil Engineer Automobile Work the story of Ichabod related, and Surveying and Mapping Airplane Engines shattered pumpkin. was Metallurgy Mining Agriculture and Poultry The brook was searched, but the body always burst into a hearty laugh at the Steam Engineering Radio Mathematics of the schoolmaster was not to be dis- mention of the pumpkin; which led some Name covered. Hans Van Ripper, as executor to suspect that he knew more about the Street Address of his estate, examined the bundle which matter than he chose to tell. City State contained all his worldly effects. They The old country wives, however, who Occupation consisted of two shirts and a half: two are the best judges of these matters, // tiott reside in Canada, send this ennpnn to the Interna- tional Correspondence Sehools Canadian. Limited, Montreal stocks for the neck; a pair or two of maintain to this day that Ichabod was worsted stockings; an old pair of cor- spirited away by supernatural means: duroy small-clothes: a rust}- razor: a and it is a favorite story often told book of psalm tunes, full of dogs' ears: about the neighborhood round the win- PIN A DOLLAR BILL TO THIS and a broken pitchpipe As to the books ter evening fire. The bridge became and get this fine 5 and furniture of the school-house, they more than ever an object of supersti- card case. Genuine t 1 leather. Masonic or belonged to the community, excepting tious awe. and that may be the reason Shrine TO m b 1 e m stamped on in gold Cotton Mather's History of Witchcraft, why the road has been altered of late free. (No other era a book of years, so as to approach the church by blem supplied on this a New England Almanac, and case.) Your 1 name r dreams and fortune-telling: in which the border of the mill-pond. The school- other stamping 35c ex l tra per line. (Cask must. a* 1 last was a sheet of foolscap much house being deserted, soon fell to decay acrompnny order, ) scribtied and blotted in several fruitless and was reported to be haunted by the We carry 1 ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue: EVERYTHING MASONIC attempts to make a copy of verses in the ploughboy, loitering Send forfvee catalogue No. lOAl honor of the heiress of Van Tassel and homeward T of Books, Monitors, Jewelry; A < 'Yi These magic books and the poetic scrawl of a still summer evening, has often It Af. of Lodge Supplies. were forthwith consigned to the flames fancied his voice at a distance, chant- by Hans Van Ripper; who from that ing a melancholy psalm tune among the REDDING & COMPANY time forward determined to send his tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow. Dept. A. L. 200 Fifth. Ave. New York

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