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Notice for You

The bird above isn't the old company clerk using the H & F (meaning hunt and find) typing system in order to get you away from the company street on a furlough, long overdue

He's using the regular "touch" system—right now he's "tearing off" notices to Post members to get in their dues.

He's at home on a typewriter; for all we know he may be A Federal Board man who has taken a course on the keyboard. But it's a sure thing he's a post officer. If the yearly dues don't reach him according to Hoyle, he'll keep the old mail coaches carrying an extra burden-

Beat him to it

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The dues receipt makes a nice Christmas present to yourself

Pay your dues early and avoid the rush— NOVEMBER 11. 1921 PAGE 3 r $20,000 Do You Want

Within the past few weeks I have paid .$20,000 to Legion Men. Many of them are earning ten dollars for a day's work. The records below show how Legion Men and others $200 a Week? have made a success of this splendid work. I offer to any Legion Man a special proposition that will enable The Amazing Story of Carl A. Rowe and How His him to get started without investing a penny and without a bit of delay. Income Jumped from $200 to $1000 a Month Read the records and then mail the coupon. My name is Rowe—-Carl Rowe. I live in a had cost me a thousand dollars instead of a sma 11 city in New York State. two-cent stamp, it *would still have been I am going to tell you an amazing story cheap. All that I have today*—an automo- about myself. It may seem too strange to bile, mv home, an established business, a believe, but you can easily verify everything contented family—all these are due to the 1 have to say. things I learned by reading that little eight- Two years ago I was a baker. I was strug- page booklet, gling along, trying to make the money in my There is no secret to my success. I have pay envelope meet the increasing expenses succeeded, beyond any dream I may have had of our family. There was no prospect for the three years ago, and I consider myself an av- future. crage man. I believe that I would be crim- Today, just two years later, I am a success- inally selfish if I did not tell other people

Howard Davis of Ohio has made a start by earning $285 a month dur- ing his spare time.

Albert J. Collins made a net profit of $46.50 for fifteen hours' work. He made $10.50 in two hours. He says, "1 don't know where a fellow can And a better job than represent- wanted to buy our own through local ing the Comer Mfg. Co." CARL A ROWE represen- home, but couldn't af- tatives. The local rep- ford that. resentative does not have to buy a stock—he It made me almost desperate to think of docs not have to invest any money. All he what might happen if I became sick or lost does is take orders from Comer customers and my job. I worried about it, and so did my he gets his profit the same day the order is wife. We were living from hand to mouth, taken. Fully half of my customers come to and we didn't know what calamity and hard- my house to give me their orders, ship might be lurking just around the corner. My business is growing bigger every month. And yet—today—I own our nine-room I don't know how great it will grow, but there house. I have an automobile. I have money are very few business men in this city whose for books, the theater, or any other pleasures net profit is greater than mine, and I can see that I may want. I have the cash today to only unlimited opportunity in the future, educate my son and send him through college. * * * * Here is how it happened. One day in If you are interested in increasing your income from 5100 t0 'L"00 a month »nd can devote all your time glancing through a magazine I read an adver- , it, j P , , or only an hour or so a day to this samp proposition tisement, I he advertisement said that any in vour territory, write at once to The Comer Man- man could make from a hundred to three ufacturing Company, Dayton, Ohio. They have a hundred dollars a month during his spare special offer for Legion Men only. They will send or- ithout George Garon of Massachusetts you, w any preliminary correspondence or red Time. tape, a complete selling outfit with full instructions, writes: "Yesterday morning I . . started on the new job and in the I didn t believe it. I knew that I worked samples, style book, order book and everything you need t° get started. Sign and mail the coupon now evening found I had made $40 profit. hard eight hours a day for $50.00 a week, and J v ' l ,i i , , and in less than a week you can bo making that's a pretty good start. I T c u i more I think I figured that no man could make that much am in body and soul to reach the money than you ever believed possible, thousand dollar mark before this during a couple of hours a day spare time. month is out." But as I read that ad I found that it pointed Mail This Coupon at Once to men who had made that much and more. I In the last paragraph the advertiser offered The Comer Mfg . Co ., Dept. F-419, Dayton, Ohio

to cost. I still , . . . . Notice send a book without doubted. T nm „ Legionr •„„ „ „ , 1 am a and start t> j. T,.Ii_™ •! ,, Man want to as a Comer The Comer Manufacturing Com- CUt 1 thought it was worth a two-Cent Stamp, representative. Please send me, without any ex- pense or obligation pany is the largest business of its SO I tore out the coupon and put it in my to me, complete outfit and in- struetions. kind in the world. Any man who pocket, and the next day on my, way home becomes a representative is assured from I mailed it. ' of fair, square, honest treatment work Name and will have reason to be proud of When I look back to that day and realize Address his connection with the company. how close I came to passing up that ad, it sends cold chills down my spine. If the book LEGION WEEKLY PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN

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United States A ir Servici Photo.

The Amphitheatre in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac from Washington, where America's unknown soldier will be buried on Armistice Day

The Soldier Comes Home

"He did not fail in time of war. Do the living dare fail in time of peace?"

By William Slavens McNutt

was night. The Marne-Ourcq With a medical major I walked be- "You've got it pretty bad, but we're IT fighting of July, 1918, was at its tween rows of limp, torn forms under going to do everything we can for you." height. In the dark, cobbled street khaki blankets. A boy on the floor at The boy was not fooled. The naked of a little village near Beauvardes the our feet thrust out an arresting arm terror in his eyes leaped and writhed. sullen grind of heavy motors, the clank and stopped us. He was a slim, deli- His fingers tightened around the major's of harness and the shuffling thud of cate, fair-haired kid of about eighteen. hand. The white face was a twitching booted feet told the story of men and Terror was naked in his distended blue mask of fear. He was just a slim, sen- guns and munitions on the move in the eyes. He grasped the major's hand and sitive kid with all of life ahead of him, night. Overhead the midnight sky was clung to it desperately. and he knew that the end of all that streaked with brassy scratches of sound "Hey, doc," he said huskily. "Listen, life was a matter of hours, minutes, as German shells flew snarling on their doc. Wait a minute, will you?" seconds perhaps. He made a little bloody quest. The major knelt beside him. moaning sound in his throat, a stifled A sharp, thin knife of light slipped "What is it, son?" he asked gently. cry of hopeless appeal against the sen- out alongside one edge of a blanket hung "Listen, doc. Tell me something. tence that he had correctly read in the over the doorway of the gutted village Gimme the straight dope, will you? major's tone, and closed his eyes. church, and stuck in the dark like a Listen. Am I bad hit?" He closed his eyes, but he did not dagger in a wall. Inside a few sputter- The major looked at the tag that was release his grip on the major's hand. ing candles afforded a mercifully dim attached to the boy and hesitated. The major knelt there, waiting. A illumination that suggested rather than There was complete confession in that minute passed. The boy's white face revealed the rows of limp forms on the hesitation. He knew the boy was through ceased twitching. The hint of a smile floor covered with blankets. The air and was searching his mind for the showed on the gray lips. He opened was warm and heavy with the smell of kindest thing to say. his eyes. In place of the terror that medicine and blood and sweating flesh. "I'll tell you, son," he said gently. had been in them there was peaceful PAGE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

acquiescence to the fate with which he from France. They are coming home the world in their work of perpetuat- was at face. He smiled. to work in the minds and hearts of the ing the peace for which all these dead "Well," he whispered. "Anyhow I too easily forgetful millions who live died. guess - 1 made good, didn't I?" to laugh and love in the peace they The road of the world's rulers will The secret of the youngster's whole bought with all they had of earthly liv- be from the grave of the dead to the army life was in that speech; the fear ing and laughter and love. They are council chamber. In the council cham- of fear that he had harbored; the fear coming home to stand silent guard over ber the men who are rulers in the world that he would not be able to go through the threatened peace for which they today only by virtue of the fact that with it successfully when the time came. gave their lives. the soldiers of yesterday's world died And in the last few minutes of his life They are marching, a silent, invisible, will bargain to preserve the peace the the satisfaction in having been able to powerful host—marching on to Wash- death of fighting men won. subdue terror and deliver the best that ington to freshen jaded memories and The American dead are home from was in him took precedence in his mind prod dull consciences that might cyni- France to watch that bargaining. Sym- over fear of the death that overtook him cally waste the bounty for which the bolized by the dust of the unknown within less than a quarter of an hour. dead gave their lives. soldier, they stand guard at Washing- He died, and the army thundered and We have the visible symbol of their ton, a rebuke to the cynical, a threat plodded and rumbled on across the homecoming in the precious dust of an to the selfish, an example to the pessi- Ourcq to the Vesle; on mistic who wail over through Saint Mihiel difficulties, and the and into the long, guiding star of the bloody drag of the Ar- American statesmen gonne-Meuse offensive who seek the permanent to the foggy day in establishment of peace. November when the The Unknown Warrior For if selfish alien guns suddenly became interests attempt the voiceless and the long By Grantland Rice gain of advantages that red sacrifice was over. would ultimately shat- I remembered that Brought home to take his final sleep at Arlington ter the peace of the on Armi?tice night world, the American kid 1 as I came into Verdun How long ago, with busy shovels plying, dead are there as a on my way to Bar-le- They covered him with ground that he had won, grim warning to would- thought of him in b e oppressors, and Duc; There in the darkness and the silence lying, his grave back there above the argument of No more to know the glory of the sun. somewhere between the wealth and size may be Marne and the Ourcq, "Unknown" they wrote upon the cross above him, heard the voice of those and wondered a little if Named for the legion where the dream is past. who paid the price say- he knew of the peace Now he is back among the mates who love him, ing: "What Americans for which he had paid Home from the front at last. did in time of need, his full share; if his Americans in time of spirit rejoiced at the Here is the peace that passeth understanding, need can and will do." The dead, flares of jubilation that The peace that he had waited through the years. American lit the sky in all direc- who fought for peace No more grim captains of the strife commanding tions. in war, are home to hosts to charge the battlement of tears. That boy seemed to Worn guide and guard their endeavor, me as typical of all the No more the heartache of a grim successors in effort who American Army in Into the storm of bitter battle drawn. strive in the peace the France as one indi- Deep falls the night where winds come whispering, dead won, to perpetu- vidual could be. He "Never, ate the victory. The ^asn't a tough guy. ! Never another dawn." American dead did not he wasn't a born fail in time of war. wasn't a With the eyes of the fighter. He Never another dawn where to eyes weary fearless hero of dead upon them, do the The gray light steals upon the sleeper's rest. fiction. He was living dare fail in time feet, call of bugle dreary, just a game, high- The tramp of the of peace? strung kid who went To end the dream or stir the dreamer's breast. [Note: No one will through with all that Never another dawn with Strife's Tomorrow, ever know whether the he had to face in spite The day is done—the last lone couch awaits, unknown American sol- of a desperate fear and Here at the Road's End of all strife and sorrow, dier buried in Arling- found satisfaction in Safe through the twilight gates. ton cemetery came the end in the realiza- from Maine or Cali- tion that he had gone fornia, whether he died through without welch- on the Somme, in Bel- ing. leau Wood, in the I was conscious that Argonne or at St. Mi- Armistice night of a great sense unknown American soldier which will hiel. His body was so chosen from the of soul sickness because that game be buried in Arlington on November graves of all the unknown American kid—and thousands like him—couldn't 11th with the political and military dead in France that these questions can go home to the folks who were wait- mighty of the world at his grave to never be answered. In the hotel de ing. The war was over, but the ones do homage. Pershing and Haig and ville of Chalons-sur-Marne on October who bought the peace that prevailed Foch will salute this symbol of all the 24th four coffins were assembled, one couldn't go home to enjoy the fruits of American dead, come home to the from each of the chief American mili- the victory. They had bought that capital of the nation for which they tary cemeteries—Belleau, Bony, Thiau- victory for others—for others of their died, to stand perpetual guard over the court and Romagne. While a French own generation and the generations to wardens entrusted with the peace for military band played a dirge, an Ameri- come—and the price they paid was their which they are the American dead. can non-commissioned officer walked inability to go home with the luckier The rulers of the Allied nations will slowly past the coffins several times ones who lived it through. They "had stand with bared heads while this and then placed a wreath of roses on won and they lay dead in foreign soil. symbol of the American sacrifice in one of them, the one that is today rest- Their work was done and they were "the war to end war" is interred in the ing in the amphitheatre at Arlington dead. That was my thought that soil for the integrity of which so many Cemetery as the symbol of this nation's night. thousands of American lives were given. remembrance of those who fought and I was wrong. They were not dead He is all of them, this unknown soldier. died for it. The coffin of the unknown and their work was not done. For on He is all of them, and he is home, and soldier rests in the soil of France even November 11th, the third anniversary the rulers of the world are present to though it is buried on the banks of the of that day when the shock of silence do all of them honor through him. And Potomac. A quantity of earth from was first felt on the Western Front, through him all of the dead he repre- the American cemetery at Suresnes has the American dead are coming home sents are home to watch the rulers of accompanied it to its resting place.] NOVEMBER 11, 1921 PAGE 7 The Goal of the J Last Long Miles

How the Yankee Hobnail Slogged Through the Mud of France to the Final Objective

By Joseph Mills Hanson

is recorded that in ITAugust, 1862, when hastening northward to the battlefield of the second Bull Run, the famous "foot cavalry" of Stonewall Jack- son marched a distance of fifty-six miles in forty-eight U. S. official photo. hours. Jackson himself Above, the public square in once said that "the hard- the heart of Sedan adorneu ships of forced marches are with German minnenwerfers often painful more than the by the civil population in an- dangers of battle," and he ticipation of the Allied entry. justly was proud of this At left, an ancient inhabitant crowning performance of of Thelonne, near Sedan, ex- his men, who were probably, pressing to her doughboy de- first and last, the most tire- liverer gratitude at her re- less marchers in American lease from four years of Boche military history. Yet this domination march was carried out alto- gether by daylight, in ideal Kriemhilde Stellung, the weather, over roads which last zone of prepared Ger- were free from obstacles man defenses. Next day and in excellent condition they moved up over the for Virginia roads, while ground which they them- the troops moved out of selves had conquered three sight of the enemy and en- weeks before in front of

tirely unopposed until the very end, Keyed to a high pitch of determina- this now shattered trench system, an 1 when in a trifling skirmish fifteen men tion again to humble the foe whom they going into the woodlands of the Bois were wounded. had already thrice defeated in desper- de la Folie and the^ Bois de Belval, But if the march referred to was a ate struggles, the men, on the night of sodden with the chill moisture of the brilliant achievement, as it unquestion- October 31st-November 1st, lay in the slow autumn rains, made bivouac a "d ably was, what should be said for the woods about Gesnes and Cierges and remained, under conditions ill-calculated march of a body of troops even larger listened to the thunders of the bom- to sustain martial ardor, until the after- than Jackson's, which, in a like period bardment which prepared the way for noon of November 5th. Then orders of forty-eight hours, covered a distance the daybreak rush of the Second and came to push northward by a night only nine miles less, more than half of Eighty-ninth Divisions through the march and relieve the Eightieth Divi- it under battle conditions which re- sion, in line along the Stonne-Beaumont sulted in hundreds of casualties and road, some thirteen kilometers beyond nearly all of it in the darkness of cold, the Bois de la Folic. foggy nights, over roads mined and When the Railroad Went Some of the troops, such as the Six- shelled by the enemy, jammed with the the American official teenth Infantry, under Colonel William varied traffic of a huge army and gluti- FROM F. Harrell, which was far forward in communique of November 7, nous with the of mud many days of 1918 (morning): "At four o'clock active support of the Second Division, rain? yesterday afternoon advance troops though they had less distance to cover Late in October, 1918, the hard-fight- other in order of the First American Army took than the regiments to ing First Division, after short period a that part of the city of Sedan reach the new line, had already been of rest, recruitment and training fol- marching most of the time during the which lies on the west bank of the lowing its terrible battle in the Exer- Meuse. The bridge leading across past five days. But the regiments lying mont sector, during which it lost la had the Meuse into the remainder of in the Bois de Folie were obliged to more heavily than any other American go a distance of fully twenty-five kilo- the city, which is filled with the division on any European battlefield, retreating enemy, has been de- meters over roads winding about was sent into active operations again endless, precipitous stroyed and the valley of the river through hills and as the reserve division of the Fifth flooded; the railroad bridges have dense woodlands to gain their jumping- Army Corps to follow up the attack de- off positions daybreak. Eight- also been destroyed. The enemy's by The livered along the whole front of the Infantry found principal lateral line of communi- eenth these roads First American Army on November slippery, and cut cation between the fortress of mucky up by deep 1st. The men of the division moved to ruts and German shell-fire, "the worst Metz and his troops in northern the conflict once more in firm and con- that had ever been encountered by the France and Belgium is, by the fident spirit with the proud words of regiment in all its campaigning," and success of the American Army, no their commander, General Frank Park- when the troops arrived at last between longer open to him." er, ringing in their ears: "It is well Stonne and Beaumont and, just before American official communique for us to bear in mind at all times, and dawn, passed through the holding ele- of November 11, 1918: "In ac- especially on the eve of active opera- ments of the Eightieth Division and cordance with the terms of the tions, that are the first assault divi- took the front line, the men were so we armistice, hostilities on the fronts sion of the A. E. F. We have gone tired that many of them seemed on the of the American Armies were through best German troops for verge of utter prostration. the a suspended at eleven o'clock this total of thirty kilometers and have morning." But, though they had not a moment never surrendered an inch of ground to for rest, arriving on the line barely in the enemy." time to attack at the zero hour, 5:30 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

a. m., the prospect of battle overcame grim and long-delayed Nemesis worked twenty-four hours most of the men had the effects of fatigue. At the ap- through them when they hurled the enjoyed no sleep, nor had they eaten pointed moment the division front, Germans out of Mouzon and across the anything excepting the cold rations nearly seven kilometers long and com- Meuse. It had been at this exact which they carried on their persons. posed of Colonel William F. Harrell's place in the end of August, 1870, that Yet they took up the renewed march Sixteenth Infantry on the left, the the German Army of the Crown Prince in the darkness as gamely as ever. The Eighteenth Infantry under Colonel of Saxony, pursuing Marshal Mac- officer commanding the patrol in Ville- Charles A. Hunt in the center, and the Mahon's French army from Chalons montry, Lieutenant Leek, objected, it is Twenty-sixth Infantry, Lieutenant- through Buzancy, Yoncq and Beau- true, but it was not on the ground of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., on the mont, had driven the French right wing dreading the march. The messenger right, with Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas northward across the Meuse with heavy sent to him with the order to withdraw W. Hammond's Twenty-eighth Infantry losses, in the encircling movement was killed on the way. When the in reserve, leaped forward into the gray which soon after penned up MacMahon Liutenant was informed unofficially fog of dawn as vigorously as it could in Sedan and forced the surrender of that his regiment was evacuating its have done had the men been resting all his entire army, together with the per- sector, he declined to move until he night, and started toward Mouzon, the son of the Emperor Napoleon III. The should receive a proper order, declaring final objective of the division, seven Americans, reversing that situation, that the First Division never gave up kilometers away on the banks of the were now pursuing the Germans to ground once conquered. Meuse River. what would have proved a vastly great- Moving back to the line Yoncq-Beau- Straight ahead of the Eighteenth In- er Sedan had the Armistice not inter- mont and leaving the ground which had fantry the village of Yoncq, shell-shat- vened. been taken along the Meuse to be oc- tered and deserted, lay huddled in a Shortly after the occupation of Mou- cupied by the extended flank of the creek valley. The weary and dis- zon, the explosion of several delayed Seventy-seventh Division, which had couraged Germans holding the place mines left in the town by the enemy been advancing on the left of the First, were in no mood for a spirited the troops had barely arrived resistance, and by seven near Yoncq when orders were o'clock Yoncq had been left given to continue the march behind by the assault waves toward the city of Sedan, the of the First Battalion of the most important railroad junc- Eighteenth and the whole tion and commercial center in line was advancing across the its part of the country. From last ranges of hills south of Yoncq it lay eighteen kilo- the Meuse, following the metres to the northwest in a general direction of the little direct line, but much further railroad which winds down by the various winding ronds from Autrecourt through which gave access to it. Yoncq to Buzancy. Now began the most pain- The country in the path of ful ordeal in all the experi- the division was now gener- ence of the veteran First ally open all the way to the Division, inured to every Meuse excepting for the mass hardship of warfare, while it of the Bois de l'Hospice, on was, at the same time, the the right flank, and the men most unusual in conception. swung across it at a rapid Owing to the fact that the pace, not even pausing before left boundary of the Ameri- the slopes of Hill 222, which, can Army sector, the valley isolated and forbidding, com- of the Bar River, extended pletely covered the approaches nearly due north to the to Mouzon. The enemy had vicinity of Sedan, while the fortified it strongly for de- Meuse River, which was for fense by numerous machine the moment its right bound- guns, but had hastily aban- ary as well as its final ob- doned it on the approach of Route of the First Division's march on Sedan from Beaumont jective in this region, flowed the Americans and retired northwest toward that city, into Mouzon. High explosive the fronts of the American shells, widely scattered over the country caused fires to break out in a number divisions on the left of the line tended by the German artillery posted along of places. As, moreover, a heavy artil- to grow narrower as they moved north- the heights beyond the Meuse, was all lery and machine-gun fire was playing ward. This naturally produced more or the opposition encountered until the ad- upon it from the opposite shore of the less mixing of the elements of the vance waves of the Eighteenth de- river, the attacking troops were with- Seventy-seventh and Forty-second Divi- scended into the streets in the western drawn to the higher ground to await sions, the latter of which was advanc- part of Mouzon and those of the the fall of darkness before attempting ing on the left of the line with Sedan Twenty-sixth into the eastern part of the passage of the Meuse. While these as the objective of its left extremity. this town and into the village of Ville- events had been transpiring in Mouzon, When the First Division, following the montry, some distance further up the a combat patrol of thirty-seven men of example of the Germans of 1870, came river. Company E, Twenty-sixth Infantry, marching across the sectors of these Though swept by lively machine-gun had gone through a similar brief strug- divisions to extend the American flank fire as they approached the Meuse, the gle at Villemontry, so quickly ejecting further to the left and envelop Sedan, coming of Companies A and B of the the Germans that the latter had to there was still more intermingling of Eighteenth and of the strong combat leave behind a number of French girls units, though fortunately no serious patrols of the Twenty-sixth at about whom they had intended to carry away confusion resulted. the noon hour was so swift that the with them. The units of the First Division ad- enemy holding the portion of Mouzon The cross-country advance of the al- vanced in several columns, the Twenty- west of the river was quickly driven ready weary troops of the First Divi- sixth and Twenty-eighth Infantry out in sharp street fighting. Confu- sion had carried them in six or seven marching by the road through Stonne sion was added to the scene as the Ger- hours a distance of about seven kilo- and Chemery toward Omicourt and St. mans, in retreating, blew up the bridge meters from the morning's line of de- Aignan (which village is not to be across the Meuse, thus halting pursuit parture. It seemed an excellent day's confused with the famous replacement for the time being but at the same time work, but the hardest part was yet to camp on the Cher) ; the Eighteenth by sacrificing a number of their own men come. Lying on the hills under artil- Raucourt on Bulson and Chehery; the who were either taken prisoners by the lery fire through the late afternoon and Second and Third Battalions of the Americans or shot in the river as they fully expecting to have the further task Sixteenth by Autrecourt and Thelonne were attempting to escape by swim- of forcing their way across the river on Noyers, and the First Battalion of ming. during the following night, they re- that regiment through Villers and Though probably few of the relent- ceived, instead, at about seven p. m., Remilly-Allicourt toward Pont-Maugis. less pursuers gave thought to the fact, orders to assemble and counter-march Every one of the roads was under flank if, indeed, they were aware of it, a to the vicinity of Yoncq. For the past (Continued on page 20) — —

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Telling the World 'Court Is Adjourned" T seems a long 1WAS an en- When The time ago, but sign in the I I remember Naval Re- quite well. I was serve. My com- in Dijon, France. mission was new War One night, about e n o u gJi so my a week before, gold braid shone one of the M. P.'s ^prettily. My dig- fired at one of nity was posi- the sergeants of tively kaiserliche. WentWest B. H. 17, and I Having been as- was so close I thought my time had signed to a new ship, I was granted come, and about this time some guy with a five-day furlough, which I spent in brass bars on top of his shoulders took Springfield, Mass. Early Monday morn- "TTOW did you learn the war was ?" my family history and said I'd be called ing I took a train back to Boston. XT over the editors of this maga- on as a witness. So I was ordered 'to As the train slowed down at zine asked the readers. "And what your report at ten a. m., November 11, 1918, Worcester, I noted a huge bonfire in the was the scene photographed on which I did, along with several others. square near the railroad station. A memory, in that instant of realiza- The trial was evidently late second lieutenant from Camp Devens, tion?" *Here are a few of the answers, getting started and I, of course, was wondering with whom I was sharing a seat in told in the words of the men and if it was possible for the the smoker, suggested that Worcester women who helped make Armistice war to end in less than an hour, when all of might be lynching some Ayer profiteers. Day possible a sud- den I heard a noise that deafening Just then two sailors boarded the was and I went over to the window and train. They reeled down the aisle, saw the little French school smelling atrociously of alcohol. Op- children and men and women racing street, posite my looey friend and me they Across the Line down the yelling "guerre guerre stopped, peering at us a moment. Then, fini, fini!" And was while this was going on I was thinking lifting a hand to make a solemnly de- WHAT I doing of mother, home and everything, when risive gesture, one of them said con- on No- temptuously: "Haw, haw for youse someone said, "This is no time for a vember 11, 1918? court-martial, get out o' here." guys, de war's over!" Chester Wil- I got How did I learn tootsweet. H. D. J., lard, Boston, out — JSrwin, Tenn. Mass. that the war was over? Did I think A Kiss for Every Yank it was "just an- Twenty-nine to Go other of those WAS in Eng- rumors"? What 10:30 o'clock on I land, in B. H. finally convinced recover- me that the guerre was really fini? PA' the morn- 37, ing from wounds What was the scene photographed on ing of November received in Bel- my memory in that instant? 11, 1918, I was gium w i t~h the I was lying on my back in Lazaret II sitting, resigned 30th Division, Kriegsgefangenenlager, Beyruth, Bay- to my fate, in a 119th Infantry. ern, Deutschland, and I didn't know the shell-hole on the It was eleven krieg was fertig until nearly a month edge of the Bois a. m. I was wait- later, when I was removed to Rastatt. Frehaut, just east ing in line for my But I suspected that the show was over of the Moselle dinner and all of mighty soon after the Armistice was river and a short distance north of a sudden the whistles started and signed. The Jerry guards and hospital Pont-a-Mousson. Bois Frehaut was one the nurses began running outside. attendants had suddenly stopped slap- of the strong outlying defence centers In five minutes every soul, wounded ping my face as preliminary to carry- of Metz. We had started penetrating or not, was out in the street and the ing me to the hospital operating room this highly-organized and formidable buddies with crutches, about half of for a dressing. I was finally convinced position at 7 a. m. on the day before, the boys, threw their crutches away, when I got to Rastatt and the other and at the end of three and a half and I never saw a happier bunch American prisoners of war were rag- hours had succeeded in establishing in my life. I went to London with two ging their guards and going A. W. O. L. our advanced line along its northern of my buddies, Maxwell and Gardner, —and coming back politely tight. border. Counter attacks, flanking and I know I never will have such a The scene photographed on my mem- movements, heavy and continuous bom- good time again. The English people ory was the sight of a loved comrade bardment had failed to dislodge my in- were just wild. They were kissing who lay on the cot next to mine and trepid colored fighters (I was command- every Yank they saw and parading the who knew he had to go west but wanted ing the Second Battalion, 365th In- streets by the hundred thousand. to live until he could die on decent soil. fantry) and for 24 hours the above William Klabunder, Collins St., He died November 9th.—J. L. S., But- mentioned shell-hole had been my P. C. St. Paul, Minn. ler, Pa. Our ammunition was almost gone, com- —

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munication with the rear next to im- knew we would not have to take any company was engaged in producing possible, wood saturated with gas, ver- more transports over there. forest products for the A. E. F. itable tornado of shells, sides of head- We anchored up the Hudson at about Suddenly from the nearby village the quarters blown in. A most discourag- eight bells and three-section liberty church bell rang out, followed by the

ing predicament. Death certain. . . . was given. As I was among those to boom of a cannon, violent shrieks from Arrived runner: time, 10:31 a.m. I go ashore I spent the balance of the the dinky locomotive on our lumber rail- read, "An armistice will be effective at night in New York and Philadelphia road, and the whistle of our sawmill. 11 a. m.," etc., etc. I sent out the word, and it was "One Wonderful Night." Surely the armistice was signed, for we then looked steadily at my watch. Ar- George C. Fleming, Oscar M. Hykes were expecting that, but, no, it couldn't

tillery fire increasingly heavy. Hard Post, Shippensburg , Pa. be, for the zing of the saw as it de- luck to be knocked off then. A most voured log after log continued to sound hour. interesting and excruciating half Who Stopped the Mill? from the mill. —Warner A. Ross, Indiana Post, Our captain, not taking the respon- Lafayette, Ind. FROM the cloudless sky a mellow sibility of stopping worK, telephoned for autumn sun flooded the plain of instructions but, meanwhile, although On the Quarterdeck the Landes. It was three o'clock the war was over, the night shift was on November 11th, and I was at my to work as usual. However, someone EIGHT hours out from New York usual duty of measuring stacks of cord- removed the main nut from the saw, City on November 11, 1918, and wood in the middle of a large clearing stopping the mill. So the whole com- the U. S. S. Virginia, was mak- in the endless pine forest where our pany put on as large a celebration as ing all possible speed to make port the limited resources of the village before dark. I was a member of the permitted while the home thoughts of seamen's guard aboard her and being The Next Issue of the last fourteen months redoubled in off watch was in our compartment. It intensity. — Clarence Hill Burrage, was located farthest aft on the port formerly 34th Co. 20th Engrs (Forest), side of the gun deck and as that was Burley (Ida.) Post. near the quarterdeck we sometimes heard the orders passed from the Officer "Gott Sei Dank" of the Deck to his boatswain's mate on watch. WHEN the German buglers from Several of us heard the order of will be the the units that held the hills "All hands lay aft on the quarterdeck." across a brook and swamp We soon got there and after it was POST-CONVENTION from us, began to play their version quiet we heard our skipper read an of "Cease firing" or "Home, Sweet official Alnav (all navy) that the fight- NUMBER Home," I was at last assured that there ing had ceased. I suppose the scenes of and will contain a summary of was a good chance to see the Statue home and friends were thought of by the proceedings of the Third of Liberty again. We heard the first more than one. We were doing convoy National Convention of the strain far to our left, then unit after duty and, as we were assured by our Legion at Kansas City unit took it up increasing in plainness captain that it was true this time, we (Continued on page 16)

America's 77,000 Overseas Dead

that short two minutes of silence all bodies requested by the next of kin part in rendering final honors to their INdecreed for this Armistice Day, as almost accomplished. Of America's lost comrades. In the great majority all America quits its busy throb- 77,048 overseas dead only 2,856 remain of instances there have been full mili- bing life to honor one unknown soldier, to be returned. tary funerals, shops have shut down, many American hearts will travel to The dead come home have come from business has ceased and entire com- strange hillsides across the sea, or just many lands. The great host of them, munities have united to honor the dead. around the corner to the churchyard. 37,861, have come from the fields of Of the bodies returned, 37,020 have Three years ago, as the world turned France; but 1,835 have come from Eng- gone to some 10,000 different cities, from the battlefield to count the cost, land, 1,467 from Germany, 607 from towns, villages and communities for 77,048 American dead were strewn Belgium, 160 from Luxembourg, 111 burial, while 5,078 bodies have been across Europe from Sedan to the sea. from Russia, 56 from Italy and one laid to rest in the Government's Patiently the work went forward of from Poland. They have come month national cemeteries. Arlington, the gathering the bodies together into 1,700 after month as follows: largest of all the national cemeteries, cemeteries in France, Belgium, Italy, 1920: March, 233; April, 440; May, and the place where the unknown soldier Britain and Germany; then patiently 450; June, 1,054; July, 815; August, is being buried, holds 4,029 of our over- was carried through the concentration 1,338; September, 2,709; October, 2,181; seas dead, in a beautiful section devoted of bodies by groups until the number December, 2,488. to the purpose and known as "The of cemeteries holding American dead 1921: January, 122; February, 289; World War Section," while 1,049 bodies was reduced to 500. Finally there came March, 1,605; April 1,223; May, 6,463; returned from overseas lie scattered in the time in the fall of 1919 when, all June, 1,669; July, 7,264; August, 7,158; 82 other national cemeteries. this work done, the question of the final September, 1,199; October, 3,138. On the question of the return of the disposition of the bodies, in accordance Many ships, well known to old mem- overseas dead there has been a marked with the wishes of the next of kin, bers of the A. E. F., have been engaged difference of feeling, even among the needed to be settled. The War Depart- in the nation's tender enterprise. next of kin. Public opinion, while in- ment, while the war was on, had given Twelve different boats, making 32 trips clining to the view that it would be its pledge that where the next of kin altogether, have returned the 42,098 a beautiful and gracious thing to leave so willed, the bodies of our overseas bodies. Outstanding among them has the men where they fell, has always dead would be returned to this country. been the Wheaton, which has made six freely acknowledged that it was a mat- It was toward sunset on a windy day trips and brought back 22,187 bodies. ter for the loved ones of the dead to in March, 1920, that the great ship It was this ship which, bearing 5,210 decide. And their decision, while it which had carried so many men to bodies, was met at Hoboken May 18th has resulted in the return of 42,098 France, the Northern Pacific, put into last by President Harding and many bodies, has also left 31,749 American Hoboken with the bodies of 18 dead notables. The ceremonies upon that dead forever overseas. from overseas. Steadily have they occasion on the Hoboken piers made a The 31,749 bodies that are to remain come from that time on, cargo after deep impression on the whole country. overseas, while they are still scattered cargo of heroic dust, until today 42,098 After touching their native soil, the in several hundred cemeteries, are bodies have been brought back and bodies of the 42,098 returned have been gradually being concentrated into what given into the hands of their next of laid to rest in a fitting and worthy will eventually constitute eight per- kin. This Armistice Day finds the manner. American Legion posts have manent Fields of Honor: Belleau Wood, great task of returning to this country played a conspicuous and commendable (Continued on page 15) ! )

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and what he paid, and of what he offered it for. For him, too, the second question is answered—a question which he did not live to ask in the triumph of November 11, 1918. He has EDITORIAL come home. The Camp Followers THE harpies who prey on public sympathy and the vam- pires who attach themselves to every legitimate and worthy campaign for the relief of human distress have been flying in flocks behind the trudging army of job-hunting democratic principle is the I maintain that our not that ex-service men. The police courts are revealing the sordid people are always right. It is this rather; that although the operations of scores of avaricious persons who have been people may sometimes be wrong, yet they are not so likely conducting money-raising campaigns on a get-rich-quick to be wrong and to do wrong as irrepressible hereditary of magistrates and legislators; that it is safer to trust the basis on the pretense assisting unemployed World War many with the keeping of their own interests than it is to veterans. Some of these fly-by-night promoters have formed trust the few to keep those interests for them. —Orville Dewey. large organizations, using as dupes veterans who are them- selves honest but have been induced by urgent need to grasp at the straw of a job which the swindler dangles before them.

I The Youngest Holiday Behind a shield of plausibility, the promoter sends his money solicitors out upon the public. Needless to say, little POSSIBLY one out of every score of living Americans can of the money raised actually is used to assist the unemployed recall the first Memorial Day. Possibly the grandfather ex-service men. The promoter takes good care to see that of that one-out-of-twenty was able to tell his grandson the his account books, if he keeps any, never record the full thrilling story of the first Fourth of July. But not even that amounts which have been grandfather's great-grandfather could have been on earth to extracted from the sympathetic public. And if he makes a pretense of accounting for the tell the youngster of 1776 the story of the hard winter of way the money is expended, this accounting is only a clever 1621-22 and the first Thanksgiving. construction of falsities intended to protect the promoter if Practically all of our holidays antedate our own times. he is made the subject of inquiry by public officials. Some of them go so far back that their origins are lost in The system by which he operates precludes honesty. antiquity, or are survivals of a remote day that have been These swindlers often copy the and methods of altered to conform with a later era. names organizations which are legitimate and have reputable It is quite otherwise with Armistice Day. To hundreds sponsors. The names the employment swindlers select for of millions of living men and women it signifies the moment their organizations only too often inspire public confidence when the world stood still after the greatest clash of nations because they may easily be confused with those of long- in history. To a score of million former fighting men it re- existing public charitable societies. The American Legion calls the vivid silence of a November forenoon that marked is constantly on the watch to detect, expose and prosecute an end of slaughter. organizations victimizing ex-service men. public To the four and a half million men-at-arms who were The should come to that any organization ostensibly for the help America's contribution to this embattled world host, Armis- know of unemployed veterans should be regarded suspiciously if tice Day this year will hold a special significance. The bodies it does not have the Legion's indorsement. of the unknown soldiers of France and England which were brought back in pomp and pageantry to the dignity of West- The Almost Perfect War minster Abbey and the Arc de Triomphe have been lying in their new sepulchres for a year. America's single nameless GERMAN frightfulness is now operating with reverse dead—-the embodiment of all her dead, named and unnamed English. The latest war toy to be perfected in the new —returns a year later to the quiet slopes of the Potomac, to republic is a machine gun which can be operated by a gunner be laid to rest in the amphitheatre at Arlington Cemetery half a mile away. Wrapped safely up in a concrete dugout, with fitting ceremony, and in the presence of as notable a armed presumably with nothing more det.Jly than map, delegation of foreign soldiers and statesmen as was ever compass, and wireless telephone, the new-style machine gathered on our shores. gunner will have nothing to do but wait for the reports sent Those soldiers and statesmen are here primarily not as him by reconnaissance pilots. These received, he will insert simple spectators in the ceremony of the unknown soldier's a couple of switchboard plugs and blaze away. burial, but to participate in a conference whose aim is to But at what? Suppose the other side is also equipped lighten the burden which that soldier bore to his grave. No with machine guns operated by gunners half a mile away? one will have a more intense concern in the proceedings of the Will the guns simply play upon one another, like two garden international conference on the limitation of armaments than hoses trying to drown each other out, until a lucky shot the American veteran. And the veteran's concern will be puts one weapon out of commission? And what happens intelligent; he knows that too much must not be expected of then? the conference, that complete disarmament is not its aim. Anyhow the new invention conjures up a pleasant forecast He knows, as a military expert recently pointed out in this of any future war. If a machine gun can be operated at a magazine in discussing the present armed status of the great distance of half a mile, why not at a hundred miles, a thousand, powers to be represented at the conference table, that weak- three thousand? Why go to Europe to fight any future ness has never made combat improbable. He docs know that European war? Think of the tremendous moral energy saved strength has tended to make combat rather more probable, for the next Yankee host by the utter avoidance of seasick- and for an example he points to the lately beaten enemy—the ness! Think of the mental effort previously devoted to the enemy whose defeat, or rather the defeat of whose militaristic study of Y. M. C. A. French in the home camps made obsession, is the motif in our celebration of Armistice Day. capable of diverson to other channels! In this issue are printed the stories of many veterans re- It all sounds reasonable —except for one minor detail. counting their experiences on the Great Morning three years Who is going to set up the machine guns? ago. statements are Two common to virtually every ex- s»e a« -us perience. One is, "At first we thought it was only another Monarchist sympathizers in Europe may begin to learn one of those rumors"; the other, "When we found it was true, " from recent events in Hungary that it never the first thing we thought of was, 'When do we go home?' was good poker to draw to a lone king. The American veteran hopes that the limitation of ar- ' a>e s»e .«

NOVEMBER 11, 1921 PAGE 13 Keeping Step with the Legion

GREAT many posts have been money should be turned over to The requests are in the form of a certificate A taking steps to obtain the ad- American Legion for the relief of the which is as good as gold. It is a Treas- ministration of wartime funds men it was raised for, and should not ury obligation as much as is a Liberty raised in their communities by public be used for the work of promoting Bond coupon, a War Savings Stamp or subscriptions and now lying idle in an organization's influence or held un- a bank note. Yet some restaurants, banks while interest accumulates. The used. The Legion is most closely in hotels and banks are refusing to accept decision of the Ohio court, noticed in touch with ex-service men and is get- them because they say considerable de- this magazine two weeks ago, that the ting justice and relief for them. Dur- lay is experienced before they obtain Ohio department of the Legion should ing the war the funds raised were to payment on the requests—as if this be made administrator of a $115,000 be used exclusively for soldier's relief. were a justifiable reason. fund raised originally for the men of Those funds were trust funds, to be This excuse of delayed payment the Eighty-third and Thirty-seventh used for a specific purpose. The Le- does not stand up strongly. Not only Divisions, has stimulated Legion inter- gion is now the sole organization that can the requests be cashed if banks est in the many other funds in towns, is giving relief to ex-service men only." forward them through their usual chan- counties and States which ought to be :* ..." '* * * * nels to Washington, but banks can- giving relief to ex-service men, now that and so can hotels and restaurants—have is hard to believe that their need is actually greater than at IT many per- them cashed at any of the District Of- sons the time since the money was raised would, under present condi- fices of the Veterans Bureau. It is for them. tions, permit a disabled buddy to go simply a matter of accommodation. It hungry The Ohio court decided that the Le- and refuse him a place to sleep may involve a little inconvenience on even though they are that gion is the only organization of World assured the the part of those who receive the re- Government will bill. War veterans whose membership is all- pay the Yet Na- quests, but what is their inconvenience inclusive. Any former soldier or sailor tional Headquarters is getting many compared with the trials already under- of the World War whose record of serv- complaints that hotels, restaurants and gone by the men who present them? banks are refusing to accept ice is honorable may join the Legion. the lodging Cashing a meal or lodging request is a and meal requests issued It is entirely fitting, then, that the by the Vet- patriotic duty. The Veterans Bureau Legion should be entrusted with the erans Bureau to its beneficiaries. These is issuing 70,000 such requests monthly. task of putting these publicly-subscribed It cannot compel business men to ac- funds to the use that will benefit vet- cept them. It can only rely upon their erans most. The Legion has already sense of fair play. demonstrated its capacity to act as Legion Calendar Officials of Legion posts, however, can trustee for ex-service men generally. help things along by seeing the man- ARMISTICE DAY: In Connecticut, the State more than a agers of local business concerns which Today! Everybody out! year ago assigned the interest of a refuse to honor the requests. A little $2,500,000 trust fund for the relief of EDUCATIONAL WEEK: publicity will help a lot in such cases. needy ex-service men. The Legion de- Has your post appointed its com- If local conditions prevent satisfactory partment in that State supervised the mittee to arrange for the De- adjustment of requests, a revolving fund distribution of the money. In several cember meetings in the schools? ought to be created by the post, the Watch for details of the plan for other States the Legion has been en- Red Cross and some civic organization the national observance of this relief from which trusted with the distribution of week, now being prepared by a immediate payments of funds among veterans. joint committee of the National these obligations may be obtained with- Educational Association and the out embarrassment to the disabled man. Legion. In this connection, the practice of some was a tribute to the Legion's rep- IT hotels and restaurants and banks of resentative character when the UNEMPLOYMENT: cashing a request at a substantial reduc- Y. M. C. A., a year ago, turned over Cold weather comes. More im- portant than tion from its face value cannot be con- to National Headquarters a trust fund ever to find jobs make them if necessary for those demned too strongly. of a half million dollars, representing — who need them. Keep the public sjt # * :jc the Y. M. C. A.'s unanticipated profits informed of the jobless ex-service who was from transportation and insurance man's needs. ANYONE unfortunate—or fortunate—enough to have found charges refunded by the French and CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN: American Governments. This fund is himself in a hospital in France on Are there any disabled men with to be kept intact, but the interest de- Christmas Day of 1917 or 1918 will have unsettled claims remaining in no difficulty recalling how he spent the rived from it has a most important your town? Let's help make a day, unless he of place in Legion finances. The K. of C. clean sweep. was one those men for also paid a generous tribute to the Le- whom Christmas Day will always be ADJUSTED COMPENSATION: the anniversary gion's representative character when it of a struggle for life The facts are all on our side. by his body while his mind was uncorr- offered to turn over a fund of $5,000,000 Learn them. Spread them. Is scious. Most of the Christmas hospital for the erection of a Legion National your post using the handbook on patients of 1917 and 1918 remember Headquarters building in Washington. the compensation bill prepared The fact that conditions accompanying by the National Legislative Com- now the wards decorated with the mistletoe the offer made its acceptance inadvisable mittee? which their convalescent bud- does not alter the recognition of the RED CROSS ROLL CALL: dies and the nurses had gathered—the mistletoe from the treetops of the Legion's character which the offer af- Armistice Day to Thanksgiving. French forests. They recall those firmed. The K. of C. has since spent Help it along! Christmas dinners, which the mess most of the money on other projects DUES: kitchens had turned out seemingly mi- benefiting veterans. The national per capita tax for raculously—the turkey from home ar- 1922 will soon be payable. Every rived on time at some of the hospitals. T^HE mother of a Nebraska Legion- post can help by remitting promptly. And there were little presents for every- 1 naire—herself a member of the body—the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., SPEAKERS BUREAU: Auxiliary—writes in to urge that the the K. of C, the J. W. B. and the Sal- Has efforts to obtain wartime funds should your post forwarded the vation Army saw to that. Every man names of its best speakers be made strongly at this time. "So to de- in hospital partment headquarters? pajamas or dressed up and many of our ex-service men are out of waiting to go to convalescent camp felt employment and without means of GRAVES: good, knew that he was not forgotten. obtaining the necessities of life," she Grave markers have been reduced He felt that back of him were more writes. "A very large proportion of in price to the cost price of $1.88 than 100,000,000 Americans wishing the P. O. B. factory. Write the Em- money subscribed by the people of him well. Yes, that the it blem Division at National Head- was way was the United States for war work for the in quarters if there are any un- 1917 and 1918. men who were actually in the service marked graves in your community. What is Christmas going to be like still remains in the hands of the organ- this year of 1921 for the disabled men izations which collected it. I think the (Continued on page 21) ; ! " —"

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One Survivor Well, of Course "You seem distressed, sir," observed the Sweet Young Thing (to cavalry ser- young man who had been a frequent caller geant) : "Is it true that when you are at the house. learning to ride it gives you a headache?" "I am ruined, my boy. Nothing left!" Sarge: "Oh, no, miss. Quite the op- the old gentleman declared sadly. posite!" "Oh, don't say that," the young man comforted, edging toward the door. "You "One Good Deed a Day" will at least have your dear daughter left. Good day, sir." Maggie had been awaraed $5,000 for in- juries received in a train wreck and she No Chance was surrounded by her admiring friends. Finally her husband, who was being ig- "What is the proper thing to do," the nored by all present, could stand it no worried young husband inquired, "when longer. a man's wife asks him for money and he "Aw, don't I get any credit at all?" has only as much as he requires for urgent he blurted out. "Wasn't it me that had business needs?" the presence of mind to lift me foot and "There isn't any proper thing to do," give you that belt in the face with me the older man told him gently. "What- brogan when you were lyin' there with ever he does is wrong." r.othin' the matter with you?"

False Alarm "My Home Town" "Good mornin' to ye, Mrs. Cassidy. An' A man rushed up to the information is the likely lookin' young feller in yer bureau in a northern railroad terminal and third floor front a mimber of the church ?" demanded a time-table. "Naw, Mrs. Haggerty, I'm sorry to say he "Where do you want to go?" asked the ain't. He's just an unconfirmed roomer." attendant. "Boston." Not So Simple "My haberdasher has just invented a "Boston, Massachusetts, or Boston, buttonless shirt." Georgia ?" tall timbers and He was fresh from the "Huh, my laundry did that years ago." "Boston, Georgia, you danged fool!" ex- had Blueberry Four Corners written all ploded the traveler. over him. But, at that, he knew a thing (N. B.—And there really is such a place.) or two—or maybe three. seasoned poker addicts, who knew noth- He had scraped up an acquaintance with ing of any other indoor or outdoor sport, The Old Order Changeth a little actress who affected to be greatly stopped to watch. enamored of him. "Wonder what brand of tennis that's John: "They're changing the old say- "I'd go through anything with you," supposed to be ?" remarked one. ings." she cooed. "Looks to me as if they were playing Harry: "What old saying are they "Uh-huh?" he replied, transferring his deuces wild," suggested his companion. changing now?" roll to an inside pocket. John : "They used to say, 'A straight line Working Under Difficulties is the shortest distance between two points.' First to Fight Now it's 'A crooked line is the shortest Movie Usher: "You can't eat peanuts in distance between two pints.' When old Squire Bellows arrived at his here, sir!" office one November morning he found Hiram Dimbleby: "Yes, I kin, young Young America awaiting him a darkey for whom he re- feller, but I could get along a lot better membered tying the knot only a few months if you'd turn on a leetle light." "And so," wound up the Sunday School previously. When Sam asked the squire's superintendent, "we learn that we should influence in getting a divorce the latter Willing, Anyway all be missionaries. If you can't go your- remonstrated. self, what should you do?" "Why, Sam," he said, "you two shouldn't "See here, young man," stormed the "You should send them some money," sug- part so soon. Remember what the Good irate father, descending the stairs at one gested good little Johnny. Book says: 'Whom God hath joined to- a. m., "do you think you can stay in the "Fine, fine," beamed the superintendent, gether, let no man put asunder.' parlor with my daughter all night?" "and suppose you haven't any money?" "Nossuh, Squiah," the unimpressed one "I'll try, sir," replied the imperturbable "Aw, slip 'em a check and beat it," said retorted. "Ez fer de j'inin', ever'body youth modestly, "but I'm really afraid I'll little Bertie, whose father was a practical knows you ain't nothin' but a elder over to have to be leaving about four or five man of business. de Presbumteran chu'eh, an' ez fer de rest, o'clock." Squiah, ef yo' don' get a move on, dat The Interrupter jialler gal 'ull be doin' some partin' and An Unpublished Testimonial sunderin' her ownself." "Why is Betty angry at you?" "Until I took my first Liverhope "Oh, I happened along when young My body ached early and late; Blithers was forcing a kiss upon her." Strain-ge ." "But now. . . (he died while endorsing the dope.) "It's such a hardship drinking soup," Is This So, Girls? Said a man with a mustache long and Signed, "Jones, Executor of Estate." plain A little powder now and then And as he pushed his walrus back, Unmarried Life Is dabbed on by the oldest hen. "I always find that it's quite a strain." Tim: "How are you getting along at Better Hurry home while your wife's away?" Details Required Jim: "Fine. I've reached the height of "When are you and Harold going to be "As you were!" bellowed the captain. efficiency. I can put on my socks now married?" "Cap'n, suh, how fer back?" inquired from either end." "We haven't decided yet, but I want to a dusky recruit hopefully. "Oncet was a be married early enough so that I will first for a new time Ah wasn't in this heah Ahmy a-tall." The Proper Spirit get my alimony in time Easter hat." A couple of colored veterans were talk- Speaking Mathematically ing about unemployment. Survival of the Fittest With the modern styles in women's clothes "And whass more," concluded the elder It's time for drastic action. of the happily jobless, "how offen is Ah Mother: "Willie, have you fed the gold The wife who was once your better half got to tell you dat good soldiers don' fish?" Is now your improper fraction. never work between wars?" Dutiful Willie: "Yes, Mamma, I fed them to the cat." Very Wild The Preference Today Knocking Two amateur tennis players were en- "Better a living coward than a dead gaged in a set on a public court and were hero," said the profiteer. "Pa, what's a death rattle?" devoting most of their time to batting "Better a dead hero than a living one," "That's what you get riding in some the balls far and wide. A couple of well- said the disabled vet. autos." — ! !

NOVEMBER 11, 1921 PAGE 15

America's 77,000 Over- seas Dead Vuelta Arriba (Continued from page 10)

Suresnes, Romagne, Bony, Fere-en-Tar- What have these Spanish words to INVINCIBLE (Foil-wrapped) denois and Thiaucourt, all in France; do with Robt. Burns? 15o Brookwood in England; and either Box of 50: $7.00 Poperinghe or Waereghem in Belgium. Y"uelta arriba pound as any filler The Secretary of War has not as yet tobacco grown in Cuba. determined which of the two Belgian is a section in the Last year it cost more. cemeteries named will be made a per- western part of Cuba manent Americ'an field of honor, but noted for its fine filler In other words, the he has decided that it shall be called tobacco. filler of your Robt. "Flanders Field." Romagne and Thiau- Burns costs as much as court will be by far the largest of the Vuelta sup- Arriba the leaf which is used in permanent cemeteries retained. plies every leaf of The work of moving the overseas dead much more expensive tobacco used in the to the permanent cemeteries is now cigars. ahead with the hope and expec- fillers of Robt. Burns going Let the Vuelta Arriba tation that next Memorial Day will find Cigars. the last interment made, the graves filler of Robt. Burns all neatly sodded and the Fields of Vuelta Arriba of only Cigar (plus special Honor laid out and beautified. Repre- the best selection is curing) show you how the Department and sentatives of War used. This tobacco mild a fine Havana- the National Fine Arts Commission have been abroad and formulated plans costs as much per filled cigar can be for the beautification of these eight cemeteries, plans which are now being considered by the National War Me- morials Council and which are soon to be definitely agreed upon. After several selections and changes in design, the Secretary of War has approved a permanent grave marker for all American World War dead. The headstone will be of white marble, forty inches in length, two and one- half inches in thickness, ten and one- half inches wide at the bottom and tapering to a top ten inches in width. A circle two and one fourth inches in diameter on the face near the top of the stone will contain an emblem de- noting the religious faith of the soldier, a cross for the Christian and a star of David for the Hebrew. These markers have been requested by thousands of relatives of the dead whose bodies have been returned, but so far none have been made available for distribution. It will be several months yet before the stones are ready. Of our 77,000 overseas dead, there are approximately 4,500 bodies not as yet identified. Efforts are still being made to identify 3,000, while 1,500 have been about given up as without hope of identification. Identifications are gradually being made every day among the 3,000 and it is expected that in the end the number of the unknown dead will be far below the 4,500 figure. All of the unknown dead, except the one body selected for Arlington, are to remain forever on the other side. When Congress was discussing the place and manner of Abraham Lin- coln's burial, one senator said, "You might as well be saving your breath. You cannot bury Abraham Lincoln. 5e a Floor Surfacing Contractor r The world isn't big enough to hold him." Make $5,000 to $15,000 or More Yearly ANTED New, uncrowded field. Architects and general So it may be said of those young U.S. RAILWAY contractors know the American Universal and Americans who fell in France. It prefer its work. They prefer to sublet the floor trfacing contracts, as it is a big business in itself. little matters where their dust lies this iVe furnish office forms, advertising, etc., — in day, in what country, under what sky. fact, we, practically set a man up in business, mess comes easily. They are all one, and that one is too Resurfacing 'Old Floors

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PAGu !6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY When the War Went West ™™H0MEYOUR (Continued from page 10) until Earnings our own particular Fritz had though the Boche did show signs of taken a blow at it and then the tune weakening, there was to be no swap- went on until it faded out in the dis- ping of cigarettes with them, and that tance. I sure I will am never hear we were there to fight—not to celebrate. music that will sound any better, at There was no music that day. least until I get up to hear Gabriel So with most of the boys it was "just With blow his horn. another day" with a little increased this Then a German officer came over the anxiety as to our destination. How- little foot bridge that crossed the marsh ever, that night as little lights began to brook, to 25CalregSI? and make sure from our appear and the quietness of night set- officers that we really understood. As he tled down upon us, it gave one a feeling

tionlta steel I started back he turned to a group of men of loneliness; the kind of a feeling one standing near and said "Fini la guerre. has after being used to the hum and AUTOMATIC I Gott sei dank." We were ready to bustle of the city and then suddenly acquiesce in both his French and his finds himself in some secluded little REVOLVER^ German. hamlet where all is quiet and still. The Regular That night we moved ja little way lights and the quietness of it all im- OUR PRICE back in the woods from the edge of pressed upon our minds more than any- While they last which we had looked across at the Ger- thing else the fact that the war was mans in the morning, momentarily really over. Pierson P„ Carpenter, Keep one of these safety brand new expecting the order to attack. There ex-Sgt., 89th Division, Kansas City, Mo. revolvers in your home and be fully pro- we built campfires and pitched our pup- tected against burglars, thieves and hold- tents within a hundred yards of the 11—11—11 up men. It's a terrible fright to wake up front line. Late into the night we in the night—hear noises down stairs or watched the Germans celebrate with all 1 HEARD the news of armistice in the next room—and realize your neg- the Very lights and flashes they could At Barracks Soixante-six, lect has left you wholly unprotected. still muster.—W. H. Banfill, formerly Headquarters of the S. 0. S., 121th Infantry, Billings, Mont. Tours, Indre-et-Loire. Yes, Buy one of these revolvers and I was an American girl be always fully protected How a Mother Felt In France. Handsome steel, blue gun-metal finish. your October I saw HAS DOUBLE SAFETY and is practi- IN number you A khaki snake-dance, cally "fool-proof" against accidents. ask the ques- A merry-go-round French dance, Perfect grip, accurate aim. Rifled barrel, tion, "What was Torches glowing, hard rubber, checkered grips, safety the scene photo- Champagne flowing. lever. Holds 7 cartridges. Small, com- graphed when you Flags flying, pact, lies flat and will not bulge out realized the war Old women crying, pocket. Shoots the famous Colt Auto was over?" I Little children laughing, Cartridges. heard the bells And kissing, kissing! ringing, the whis- And joy in sorrow—la belle France. SEND NO MONEY 1 1 e s blowing. I had retired but asleep. I I heard Order to-day. Just send your name and ad- was not dress and say which revolver you want. jumped up out of my warm bed, ran "Fini la guerre!" "Hail, hail, No. 368 Is 25 calibre, 7 shot. Regulat SQ.75 out onto the frost-covered sidewalk and the gang's all here!" price $22.60. Our price ! jj screamed, "The war is over! My boy "Madelon ! Madelon ! Madelon No. 768 Is larger size, 32 calibre military is coming home!" Then a kindly neigh- "Marchons, marchons!" model Regular price $25.00 Our special price bor stuck his head out of the window French voices singing, only and said, "Mrs. Capron, go in the Cathedral bells ringing, Don't wait. Order this bargain today house and get some clothes on or you And martial music flinging won't live until he gets here." I saw The triumph cry of France, Write clearly your name, address and the Num- ber of the Revolver you want to order. Send no my boy's smiling face just as he smiled ca«h. We ship by return mall. Pay Postman on arrival, our price, plus postage. when he kissed me good-by, for I knew I saw! I heard! I was there! he was thinking of me, too. Then I I did not doubt Send for free catalogue ran in, threw myself on my knees and The "fini" of "la guerre." prayed and cried as never before. I —E. C. W., formerly of Q.M.C., PARAMOUNT TRADING CO. had tried to be brave, but now the ten- A. E. F. 34 West 28th St., New York City sion was broken and I went down- town, everyone hugging me and crying, The News in Flanders "Willie will come home now. We are so happy for you." All over the land THE scene is laid in Belgium within each mother felt the same. Mrs. J. C. two kilos of the onetime busy This Book Capron, 1711 Collins st., Wichita Falls. town of Audenarde. An isolated Tex. battery of the 108th Field Artillery is On Home preparing to ease a few six-inch favors Beautifying Just Another Day over into Hunland. Cannoneers are standing to, ammunition and telephone Sent Free that snappy, frosty morning of men gazing ahead toward the lines of ON November 11, 1918, there were the retreating enemy. The executive Contains practical suggestions on how many rumors afloat that at officer glances at his watch—a few min- to make your home eleven o'clock all fighting would cease, utes past 9 a.m., November 11, 1918. artistic, cheery and despite the fact that the Germans con- The front is strangely quiet, silence inviting—explains how you can easily and tinued to drop "bursts and duds" in and is broken at lengthy intervals by the economically refinish and keep woodwork, around the little village of Stenay, and rat-tat of maxims or the solitary bark furniture and floors in perfect condition. most of the discussion was of the things of some distant gun. A fog is slowly — that would happen if the war really did rising from the Flemish landscape. Building?? come to a definite fini. On the appointed The German lines are plainly seen This book tells how to finish inexpensive soft hour, however, all became silent. ahead. Several hours pass with no woods so they are as beautiful and artistic as hard in village wood. Tells just what material! to use—how A band the was making inkling of the impending joy. The to apply them—includes color card —jiivos cov- preparations to celebrate the occasion rigid censorship of the British high com- ering capacities, etc. shortly afterward, but one of our excluded all rumors. divi- We will gladly send thie book free and postpaid fur the name mand Two of your best dealer in paintfl. Regular Army colonels heard of the sions of American infantry, the 37th S. C. JOHNSON & SON, Dept. A. L. 1, Racine. Wis. "The Wood Finishing Authorities" plan, and immediately called the boys and 91st, together with the 53rd Field together and informed them that even Artillery Brigade are utterly uncon- —! —

1921 NOVEMBER 11, PAGE I'. scious of the grand and glorious news, until the French in the area bubble over with joy and vin rouge and let the dear old cat out. The still dazed soldats are lined up and the official order is read by a cap- tain whose voice shakes with emotion. "Dismissed!" Not a man moved for just an instant, then, oh, man! Somebody even kissed the top kicker. A major dashes out of his dugout blazing away with two automatics turned skyward. A frenzied Frenchman tries to kick the head of a wine barrel in with his beezer Half wild Australians climbed trees and were swinging to and fro at their very tips. Happy Yanks everywhere. Rock- ets at night, millions of 'em. Oodles of joy and happiness. Belgians de- voutly kneeling in the fields giving thanks to Him who had delivered them. Here words fail. Those vivid scenes v ill live in the memory of the A. E. F. az long as a single member breathes. John H. Grant, ex-Cpl. Btry. E, 108th F. A., Oil City, Pa. "Pick Up Your Cards!" REMEMBER the old la—uh! that is, the Army rumors of the cus- tomary origin. Well, our outfit, Kq. Co., 312th F. A., 79th Division, lo- cated at La Courtine, Creuse, at the t:me, had its full share of them—and then some! When, on the fateful night of November 11th, about seven-thirty, v e heard a big racket outside, some- one asked "What's goin' on?" "Aw, the war's over again'!!! Pick n your cards!" said the Skeptic and then proceeded to go "up" for a forty- one bid, spades and "double-doubles." Lllwood J. Hoffmaine, Philadelphia. It Will Pay You to Insist Upon a Good Medicine DURING the first two weeks in No- vember our division, the Twenty- "BIG YANK" WORK SHIRT eighth, was holding the line in the Thiaucourt Sector. On November 10th Many thousand "Yank" legionnaires have adopted "Big Yank" as we began an attack in the direction of Metz and the next day were advancing. their regular pal — for if there ever was a "he-man" shirt, this is it. As we were under orders to advance, Big and roomy through and through — with extra large sleeves — double it was hard to convince us the war was yoke shoulders — double stitched all over — buttons put on for keeps to end that day. fabric that wears like iron — here's a shirt that will stand the gaff. Its At that time I was detailed to the got to make good with you or your dealer will give you a new shirt. Division Personnel Office, which was — situated in an old German barracks, Ask your dealer for "Big Yank." If he hasn't it send us his name about six miles behind the lines in the and we'll see that you're supplied. iirection of Thiaucourt. The Yale Field Hospital was down the road, and head- RELIANCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY quarters of the 5th Division Field Ar- tillery was about three miles distant. 212 WEST MONROE STREET The guns ceased firing at eleven CHICAGO, ILLINOIS o'clock, but still we were unbelievers. That night about eight o'clock, I heard a loud yelling and commotion up the road and then the 5th Artillery Band came into view, followed by about a hundred yelling maniacs, each carrying a lighted candle or torch. We Guarantee to Pay $12 a Day They were on their way to serenade the wounded in the hospital but were Taking Orders for 2 in 1 Reversible Raincoats stopped by a lieutenant who informed One side dress coat, other side storm coat. Tailored seams, sewed them that the noise might be fatal to and strapped. Brand new. First season. Not sold in stores. We several of the severely wounded. Just control the entire output. Take orders from men and women who then i-he lieutenant colonel in charge of object to paying present high prices. the hospital appeared and wanted to Positively Guaranteed Waterproof know why they did not come on up. They informed him of the lieutenant's orders. or money back. Our men and women representatives having wonder- "Fatal, my eye. It's the best medicine ful success. Right now is the big season. No experience or capital take average orders a will mail you com- they can have. Just let them know the needed. You two day and we mission check for $12'. We are paying thousands of dollars to our agents taking war is over," and believe me they did, orders for this new Reversible Coat. We have all of the latest and best styles of to the tune of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All raincoats for men, women and children. Our new, big swatch book, 48 pages, all new and distinct patterns. Write today for agency and sample coat and Here."—W. F. Gilliland, former Sgt., Bhows be first in your territory to introduce this new big seller. Co. D, 112th Inf., James M. Henderson Post, Oil City, Pa. PARKER MFG. CO., \702. Storm St., Dayton, Ohio —

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Illinois New Mexico Aliens: Recommended that aliens in the Americanism: Endorsed work of the United States be compelled to register each National Americanism Commission of the year and on every change of address. Legion. Called for the passage of the bill Americanism: Endorsed Americanism on immigration now pending in Congress. work in general, particularly efforts to Compensation: Urged that Congress familiarize Americans with the national take up immediately and pass the Federal history and traditions. Asked law re- Adjusted Compensation Bill. quiring Illinois teachers to take the oath Constitution: Amended Department of allegiance and cancelling teachers' Constitution to provide for appointment licenses for expressions of disloyalty. of adjutant instead of his election as here- Urged law against any language but Eng- tofore. lish as primary basis for instruction in Hospitalization: Urged betterment of Built to fit every man any school except a school for instruction conditions and stricter food inspections at in languages. Public Health Service hospitals. Recom- IT'S very disappointing to Armistice: Urged making Armistice Day mended increased pay for nurses and for- have a garment too tight in a National Holiday by Presidential proc- mation of a separate nurse corps for lamation. Urged Legionnaires the legs and too bulky around to assist Public Health Service hospitals. Recom- in proper observance of the day. the waist and back. mended an amendment to the Sweet Act Compensation: Endorsed Adjusted Com- regarding hospitalization of ex-service men Wright's Underwear can be pensation Bill. Endorsed National Legis- near their places of residence and com- supplied in most every size for lative Committee's challenge to the Na- pensation. most every type of man tail- tional Chamber of Commerce for a debate Legislation: Recommended that Con- on compensation. Appointed ored to fit snugly and com- a committee gress pass all the bills included in the to work for state and national fortable. compen- program promoted by the National Legis- sation bills. Asked that disabled veterans lative Committee of the Legion. Urged WRIGHT'S be exempted from taxation on their com- the amending of Sweet Act to amplify pensation. insurance provisions. SPRING gCjl NEEDLE Disabled: Endorsed all work for the Membership: Recommended that a bar aid of disabled veterans and urged equal be attached to Legion membership button TRADE MARK efforts in their behalf in the future. En- to show year for which dues have been \J/ dorsed bill to give disabled emergency paid. RIBBED UNDERWEAR officers the same rights as disabled officers Post Activities: Recommended that If your dealer doesn't have our line, write of the Regular Army. Asked that certi- posts make use of educational motion pic- ficates of condition be given men released ture films and encourage athletics and en- WRIGHT'S UNDERWEAR CO. New York City from United States Public Health Service tertainments. Hospitals. Labor: Declared friendliness to Organ- Pennsylvania ized Labor. Provided for investigation by department headquarters of alleged unfair- Aliens: Recommended action by Con- Auto ness by Legionnaires in disputes between gress authorizing the Alien Property Cus- Owners todian late capital and labor. to use enemy property held Legislation: Ordered compilation of ex- by him to settle the claims of Americans WANTED! service legislation in Illinois. Commended against Germany and Austria, or that To introduce the best auto- policy of demanding representation on such property be held as an offset until mobile tires in the world. Federal commissions dealing with ex-serv- these claims are paid in full. Made under our new and ex- ice problems. Ordered distribution of lists Americanization: Recommended that teaching of the clusive Internal Hydraulic showing how Illinois legislators vote on American's creed be a part ex-service legislation. of the curriculum of instruction in Penn- Process thatelimi- Expansion Membership: Advocated that hospital sylvania public schools. Approved the de- nates Blow-Ont—Stone-Bruise corps members who took the oath of alle- partment Americanism commission's plan Rim Cut and enables us to sell giance be admitted to membership in the of school awards for Americanism work, our tires under a Legion. Authorized the department execu- extending the plan to include girls. In- tive committee to make a study of post structed department commander to secure memberships and to revoke the charters of the co-operation of the state department of 10,000 MILE dormant posts with a view to amalgamation public instruction in having instruction with stronger posts. Advocated making given in all schools in the proper respect GUARANTEE American citizens who served with Allied due the national flag and instructed posts countries during the World War eligible to secure "at least the rudiments of proper want an agent in every We to membership in The American Legion. demeanor" in the presence of the flag at community to use and intro- Memorials: Urged that the Emblem Di- military funerals and other public occasions. duce these wonderful tires at vision should not accept profit on the sale Armistice Day: Suggested that in or our astonishingly low prices of grave markers. Recommended granite near any cemetery in which an American to all motor car owners. markers over graves of World War vete- soldier's body may lie, taps be sounded on rans instead of marble. Urged that ceme- Armistice Day between 9 and 10 a. m. or FREE TIRES forYOUROWN CAR tery plots be provided for deceased 10 and 11 p.m. to a representative in each community. veterans. Compensation: Disapproved govern- Write for booklet fully describing this new Military Affairs: Endorsed universal mental action in deferring passage of the process and explaining our amazing intro- military training. Adjusted Compensation Bill. Affirmed be- ductory offer to owner agents. Organization: Ordered that salaried em- lief in justice of the bill. Resolved to make ployes of the Department of Illinois be every effort to show the people of the Hydro-United Tire Co. ex-service men and women. Ordered re- United States the real cost of the bill and moval of Department Headquarters to "remind them of what our Allies have done DEPT. 200 CHICAGO or PHILADELPHIA Bloomington, 111. Asked that National for their ex-service men while America, Executive Committee minutes be mailed to the wealthiest nation, stands by." post commanders after meetings of the Convention: Suggested Philadelphia as £xt'6e committee. the 1926 National Convention City of The Policy: Opposed action by The Ameri- American Legion. Suggested that the BATTERIES can Legion on subjects not directly affect- G. A. R. and Confederate Veterans meet Power Dependability ing Legionnaires. in the same city at the same time with The Publicity: Established a department American Legion National Conventions of Long Life pub- licity bureau. the future. THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY CO. Service: Provided for Legion aid in case Disarmament: Thanked President Hard- 1888 PHILADELPHIA 1921 of public disaster. ing for calling the conference for the lim- Branches in 17 cities Slackers: Commended publication of itation of armaments. slacker lists and asked that publication be Funerals: Requested adoption by The Why Toil at Uncertain Jobs? continued. American Legion of a floral piece for Unemployed: Provided for giving of funerals, the design to be patterned after When you may be selected clothing to needy ex-service men. Urged the Legion emblem. for Gov't Railway Mail that officials of the State of Illinois Clerk. Appointments every take Headquarters: Voted to remove the state. Expenses paid; va- cognizance of the unemployment situation department headquarters from Philadel- cation and sick-leave with and call a conference on unemployment. phia to Harrisburg. pay; No strikes ot shut-downs; Provided for a bureau to give free legal Hospitalization: Recommended that a common education sufficient advice to needy ex-service men. Assured hospital be erected in the western part — COLUMBUS ±1V* Questions free. department headquarters of support in all of Pennsylvania for the care of neuro- INSTITUTE, I- 90 Columbus, 0. •Mtk work for the relief of needy ex-service men. psychiatry patients. —— — — —

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Legislation: Instructed present and fu- Veterans Bureau: Authorized the de- JCeepMusterole ture department commanders to compile partment commander to appoint a com- lists of the names of public officials oppos- mittee of five to confer with the Veterans ing ex-service legislation. Supported Sen- Bureau on the schools in Pennsylvania BatH-room s/ielf ate Bill 1565 giving all disabled officers the where disabled veterans are being trained on the same rights of retirement for disability as and urged that the committee visit such Years ago the old- fashioned Regular Army officers. schools and report its findings to the bu- Memorials: Requested the Secretary of reau and to the department executive com- mustard plaster was the War to permit addition of approved in- mittee. favorite remedy for rheu- Ways and Means: Required each post scriptions to grave markers in the Ameri- lumbago, colds on can military cemeteries in France without to make a financial report to the depart- matism, expense to the United States Government. ment commander each year at least sixty the chest and sore throat. Endorsed a uniform grave marker for days prior to the department convention. right, World War veterans, the approved design Authorized that a complete survey be made It did the work all being that submitted by the Philadelphia of all department real estate and of the but it was sticky and messy property held by the posts in the depart- County Committee. to apply and how it did Military: Approved the training camp ment. my plan as carried out by the Military Train- burn and blister! ing Camps Association in already estab- West Virginia The little white jar of lished camps. Armistice Day: Endorsed Bill before Publications: Urged that The Ameri- Congress to make Armistice Day a na- Musterole has taken the wives and can Legion Weekly be sent to tional holiday. Requested President Hard- place of the stern old mus- mothers of deceased veterans of the World to proclaim November 11th a day of ing tard plaster. War at the same price as that charged rest and thanksgiving throughout the members of the Legion. Urged National country. Keep this soothing ointment on requiring Headquarters to adopt a plan Compensation: Endorsed Adjusted Com- your bathroom shelf and bring it post adjutants to report to The American pensation Bill, urging ex-service every- t men out at the first cough or sniffle, at Legion W eekly the names of all men as where to give full support and activity in rheumatism's first warning tingle. they are enrolled. behalf of the bill. Expressed hearty ap- Relief Funds: Endorsed the work of preciation of action of Senators Elkins Made from pure oil of mustard, the Near East Relief Committee and urged and Sutherland in voting against recom- with the blister and sting taken co-operation with the committee by posts. mitment of the Adjusted Compensation out, Musterole penetrates the skin Christmas seal Endorsed the sale of the Bill. Thanked Legion officials for efforts and goes right down to the seat benefit of anti-tuberculosis cam- for the in behalf of a state compensation bill of the trouble. paigns. which failed to pass. Order Musterole today from your Slackers: Endorsed the seizure by the Constitution: Refused to change de- druggist. He has it in 35c and 65c Alien Property Custodian of property be- to partment constitution provide for ap- jars and tubes; hospital size. $3. longing to Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. De- pointment instead of election of depart- manded prosecution of participants in the ment adjutant. The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio Bergdoll case responsible for his escape, Disabled: Urged Congress to enact a BETTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER demanding that results of investigations law to give disabled emergency offkiers be made public and that the Government equal treatment with other disabled of- make every effort to return Bergdoll to ficers who served during the World War, in- this country "so that stern, unrelenting cluding the privilege of retirement. Asked and swift justice" may be dealt to him. that the National Legislative Committee Recommended that the National Conven- of the Legion be authorized and directed tion of the Legion take action on the ques- to secure prompt and favorable action on tion of prosecution of draft dodgers and this measure. deserters. Hospitalization: Passed resolution re- Unemployment: Authorized an investi- questing unending efforts by The American gation by the department commander and Legion to see that all disabled men and a special committee of the unemployment their families are provided for, the resolu- situation among ex-service men, particu- tion taking the form of a memorial to the larly the dismissal of ex-service persons late National Commander Frederick W. from governmental positions, and asking Galbraith. 75% that preference be given ex-service men and Ways and Means: Limited the size of ex-service women in governmental employ- the department executive committee to six ment. men for purposes of economy.

PRO AND CON A Lamp that Editorial Comment on the Activities of The American Legion Can Never Be Made Again With the tide of unemployment steadily G.A.R. It's all The American Legion, or American Legion are the rising, officials of The Veterans of Foreign Wars, or the This is a lamp so inler- preparing to prevent suffering among for- Spanish War Veterans. It's all right t wined in history with the World War that to future mer service men. At no time does the those boys deserve it I'm not complaining — generations It will be as former service man need a lift as now. —but I sometimes wish there might be cherished as a sword from Hunker Hill. He is the least able to face a period of something about the G.A.R." And what Notice the symmetrical depression, because his war earnings were is the Legion, old comrade of heroes? architectural Tines—see not sufficient to enable him to provide for a What is the Legion but the new i-ecruiting what a look of stalely dignity it has compared with the merely "pretty" lamps you And In the average store. President Harding is the ob- of the rainy day. G.A.R.? What is the spirit of the These are not merely lines of ART. Their very look of stacle to adjusted compensation. When Legion but the spirit of the G.A.R., more power and strength which lends such artistic beauty to the lamp also tells story of the greatest single instru- the nation defaults, the Legion must care triumphant, more determined, in- the more ment of victory in the World War. For the shaft of each for its own. Nashville (Tenn.) Ten- domitable than ever? All that is in the of these lamps is Itself one of the heroic shells for the nesseean. papers, in speech about the Legion, or the famous French-American "Seventy Fives"— the gallant "75" with which the Germans never did succeed in Veterans of Foreign Wars, or the Spanish coping. Many fields of usefulness are being War Veterans, or any other patriotic force The shade was especially designed for the Victory Lamp by that great painter. Franklin Hooth. The whole found for the ministrations of The Amer- of old or new, civil or naval or military, lamp is considered by artists as one of the greatest artis- ican Legion. Not the least of these is in is really in its essence "something about tic achievements of recent years. It is particularly ap- propriate the of a World War veteran educational expression. For instance, it is the G.A.R." Newark (N. J.) Star-Eagle. for home or for your Post's headquarters. Only a few lamps still left. announced by leaders in the American- No more can be made. Price about one-third the cost ism Commission of the Legion that the The Legion is working for the good of of lamps of this class in retail stores. Easy terms to members or Posts. Write today for full particu- intends to see that American his- the Legion Legion soldiers who fought and who were will- lars, sent free. tory and American government are taught ing to fight if they had the chance. It more fully in the schools of the country has made some mistakes, but they can be DECORATIVE ARTS LEAGUE than has ever been the case heretofore. forgiven. It loves its country and is will- 175 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. The American Legion can do the country ing to do what it can to make it worthy. no greater service than to have intel- The Legion has been lied about, but the ligently instilled into the schools, and liars have made little headway with their into the pupils, thor- through the schools lies. They have said that it is a rich man's or- PATENPSENSE oughly understanding and appreciative ganization; that it is opposed to the labor- Americanism. Cincinnati (O.) Tribune. ing folk; that it is against free speech and "dhe Book for Inventors & Mfrs". that one of its purposes is self-exploitation. By Return Mail FREE. Write LACEY b LACEY, Dept. "You don't see much in the papers these The personnel of the Legion refutes all the 1, Waehmglon.D!C days," remarked an old cavalryman of the lies that have been told about it. Chicago Established 1869 Army of the Cumberland, "about the Evening Post, —!

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The Goal of the Last Long Miles Don't Choke (Continued from page 8) artillery fire from the German bat- civilians, came up about five a. m., and your Legs teries beyond the Meuse, though the shortly after there arrived, also, a part Sixteenth Infantry, being nearest the of the Headquarters Company and Com- MAKE sure of comfort in a pair of river and in close proximity to the Ger- pany A of the First Engineers. E. Z. Garters that never bind or slip. man detachments still holding the Without artillery or machine guns The wide, soft webbing "gives" to every shores, was subjected to the most gall- this little force of six infantry com- movement of the leg. It holds snugly ing fire. Moreover, all of the roads, panies, with one of engineers in re- not because it is tight, but because it fits deep in mud at best, had been mined by serve, now organized to attack Hill 202, the leg. No bothersome adjustments to the enemy at frequent favorable spots the formidable eminence north of Pont "dig" the leg. and all bridges had been destroyed, the Maugis which, since it completely com- Whether in the office or on an outing you infantry columns thus being forced to manded Sedan, had been heavily organ- will appreciate a garter that gives fair play make detours through the fields. Every- ized by the enemy with machine guns, to veins and muscles. where were long trains of trucks and while artillery across the Meuse played The genuine has "E. Z." stamped on the wagons and artillery belonging to the upon its further slopes. Starting at Garter; made solely by several divisions, and sometimes the seven a. m., the Americans, armed with men were obliged to work past these their rifles alone, pushed across the two The Thos. P. Taylor Co. Bridgeport, Conn. obstacles or across a hastily construct- miles of open ground, swept by the Dept. 21—9 ed foot-bridge in single file. German machine guns, which lay be- The night was misty, dark and cold. tween them and their objective. It was Numb with fatigue, caked in mud and a long and stubborn struggle. But the clammy from the mist, keeping their gallant engineers, working their way feet in motion onlv by the constant ex- down to the river bank, protected the ertion of will power, the men struggled flank and after a time actually suc- on, many of them staggering, while ceeded in silencing with their rifles the every now and then one collapsed by enemy artillery on the other shore. the roadside from sheer exhaustion. One This enabled the infantry line to con- officer fell asleep on his horse and tinue working ahead, so that about rolled off, into the mud. Another, re- three o'clock in the afternoon they cently rejoined from hospital, fainted gained the top of Hill 202, drove the and lay unconscious beside the road for enemy from it and dug in where they an hour, but on regaining his senses could deliver fire upon Sedan, holding promptly set forth again and rejoined the position until relieved by the French his command. Although the faithful about nightfall. The feat of these men of the supply companies clung as soldiers of the Sixteenth Infantry, al- closely as they could to their organiza- ready wearied to the last degree, who, tions, it was almost impossible to get at a total cost of 167 casualties, con- MOTORCYCLES AND PARTS the hot food to the marching troops, and quered with the rifle and the bayonet Guaranteed rebuilt three speed twin elec- few of them were so fortunate as to positions defended by machine guns and tric Harley Davidsons at $100.00 for 1915 end- models. S125.00 for 1916, $150.00 for 1917, receive any during that seemingly artillery, was one of the finest recorded $190.00 for 1918, $215.00 for 1919, $250.00 less night of weariness that hung on of American arms in Europe. for 1920. $275.00 for 1921. $50.00 deposit with order from this "ad." their limbs like leaden chains. Meantime, in the center, the Eight- Three cent stamp, for this month's descriptive o'clock on the morn- "'Circular G" of Harley Davidsons. Indians, Shortly after one eenth Infantry, more fortunate than I % Excelsiors at $60.00 and upwards. Shipped on ap- 7th, the German ma- in reaching proval. Liberty bonds accepted at full race value. ing of November the rest of the division a Rapid service on 1902 to 1922 Harley Davidson chine guns pounding away at the flank halting place, on arrival at Bulson was parts. One hundred page "Catalog H' 36 cents. WISCONSIN CYCLE SALES CO. of the Sixteenth Infantry were success- ordered to take position there as divi- 726 National Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. ful in causing a break in the column of sion reserve, the Second Battalion only Oldest and Largest Dealers in the Northwest the First Battalion, on the river road. going on a short distance further, to BOOK ON In the black darkness the rupture was Chehery. Ahead of it the Twenty-eighth not discovered until it was too late to Infantry, in the center, pushed on wear- DOG DISEASES close it up. But, although the machine- ily to Cheveuges and the hills a little And How to Feed gun company was with the rear seg- beyond it, which are about four kilo- ment, the two and a half companies meters southwest of Sedan and com- Mailed free t» any address by Patrols regiment halt- the Author in front pressed on undaunted. mand the city. Here the America's of the Forty-second Division, occupy- ed and consolidated its position with the Pioneer H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc., ing the ridges west of the river, were suburb of Wadelincourt, across the Medieines 118 West 31tt Street, New York D«g encountered, but the men of the Six- Meuse from Sedan, almost at its feet. teenth Infantry kept on toward Sedan. On the far flank of the hiking divi- For 67 years these little marchers About three o'clock the point of the sion, the Twenty-sixth Infantry, suffer- band instrument buyers have led to the outskirts of ing all the hardships of the road ex- to better quality and value! advance guard came Allicourt, where, out of the darkness, it perienced by the other units, early on FREE—84-Page was challenged by German outposts. the morning of the 7th reached Chem- BAND CATALOG Instantly the Americans opened fire, ery, in the valley of the Bar River; in contact with Pictures, describes, prices everything killing air! capturing several Germans, where its troops came for the band— from single Instrument to aid, Divi- complete equipment. lF»ed b7 Army and _ and the advance guard, waiting no the right regiment of the Fortieth music merchants everywhere. f>e,trfal..Bug 1Navy Sold by leading todayl village French and In. Write for Book through the sion the Fourth Army pigments. State Instrument Interested rushed into and of in swift re- close liaison with it for the LYON & HEALY, 71-89 Jackson Bhd., CHICAGO and drove the enemy out established treat toward Sedan. Following without further advance. Here, also, they met $500 Secures 195 Acres With halt until they approached Pont Maugis, troops of the 166th Infantry, of the Pr. Horses, Crops, 6 Cows the hills above which fully overlook the Rainbow Division, and joined with them Full implements included; good income and bright future widespread streets of Sedan, they came in mopping up some of the German posi- quickly; convenient RR market town; for him who acts larger bodies of the enemy who tions. Encountering casualty-inflicting 100 acres heavy cropping, loam tillage; 20-cow pasture, upon estimated 500 cords wood, fruit; nearly new bui'-liugs, checked the pursuit, though they could shell-fire from enemy batteries posted all S300L1 only barn valued $3000. To close out now , not prevent the impetuous doughboys among the ridges ahead, the Third Bat- page 27 Big New Catalog Bar- $500 down, terms. See capturing two 77-mm. field guns talion, in advance, nevertheless pushed gains 31 States. FREE. from STROUT FARM AGENCY, and several caissons and rolling kitch- on down the valley to Omicourt. Here 150 P. B.- Nassau St., New York City. ens which were intercepted on the road the attack waves encountered machine- as they were retiring from Thelonne. gun resistance, but in a hot melee they In a ravine east of the latter village drove the Germans from the streets and fSftirfft the First Battalion was assembled and then the First Battalion, passing anxiously awaited the arrival of the through the Third, swept up the hills , of RINGS P£r3RANCH -SERVicE rest of the regiment. The Second Bat- and on to St. Aignan. Finding this Our now Catalog, fully illustrated, free upon re- talion, feeling its way bv compass and place under severe shell-fire, the patrols quest. Agents wanted in each Locality. Sterling glimpses of a few stars along the cqm- moved around it and seized the woods 87.50. 14K Gold $10.00. »2 50. 10K Gold aided beyond. Avenue plex pathways, but welcomed and 131 Bruce following orders to C K. GROUSE CO. North Attleboro, Mats. in every village by joyous French By this time, in —

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Obr Your flank Sedan on the west, the Twenty- Backache' eighth Infantry had crossed the entire sector of the right French regiment, reaching the extreme position attained by the left of the First American Army, und had come upon ground which the Approval French artillery was preparing to sweep with fire preparatory to a fur- ther advance upon Sedan. The Ameri- cans, nevertheless, firm in determina- tion to carry out their mission, we,re about to proceed across the dangerous area when orders were received for the regiment to turn over their ground to Splendid for every sort the French and retire to Chemery. The of external ache and pa\n, rheumatism, neu- decision to take this action resulted ralgia, sciatica, lumbago, stiff joints and sore from the keen desire of the French, •THIS wonderful high grade 21 -jewel muscles, sprains and strains, and the after A effects of weather exposure. though further away from Sedan In watch—the acme of watch production "-universally recognized by owners and Sloan's penetrates without rubbing. At all battle, themselves to take the order of experts as the peer of all watches is now druggists, 85c, 70c, $1.40, — possession of the city of evil memories being sent out on approval. Take advan- Keep it handy for reasons of sentiment. tage of this, opportunity—a rare bargain. So, leaving their Allies to their de- T? T"t 1 The 21-Jewel Sloa served triumphal entry, the men of the tree Bookw^i; First Division mustered the last shreds a very low price and on the very special of their sorely-taxed endurance and terms (after free examination) of only Liniment G£*3 most com. trudged back the long ten kilometers to $5.00 a month. Send for the plete watch book ever produced. Write Chemery. Thence, in the succeeding letter or post card today — it is free. days, by short marches they approached Burlington Watch Company. Dept. 9058 Send for a Complete Catalogue of their former camping places in the Bois 19th Street and Marshall Blvd., Chicago, ill. MASONIC BOOKS de la Folie and about Belval, where, four days after the performance of a <3M Turlington Jewelry and Goods task less costly in blood than many in the history of the division but as bril- REDDING & CO. liant as any in the display of the sheer grit of American manhood, the dawn 11 Jewels Publisher! and Manufacturers of the never-to-be-forgotten Armistice Dept. A ZOO Filth Avenue. New York Day found them. A Sure Pay Raiser for

\ An auto owner la > each locality to you— FREE Tire U:-.J ami introduce Keeping Step with the Here's the point about Drake's Practical Home Meltingof Extra-Ply and Cord Tires. Study Books; every one of them completely covers or full Make big money part time, No its subject. They cover every trade: capital or experience needed. Sample Legion Sections burnished. GUARANTEED Electrical trades. Automobile repairing. Farm (Continued from page 13) Engineering: Shop practtce, wedding, Mill- 8,000 & 10,000 Miles wrtghting: Steam Engineering; Railroading; fNo Seconds). HanrJ made, Finest materials. Painting, Carpentry, RuilJmg; Business; Shipped prepaid on approval. scattered hospitals rnrc* tircsporyourcar in the government Languages, and many others. W **.Kjsui to one user fn each locality. —many of them the men who spent one a Be first to write quick for special Better than correspondence course. You don't Agents Offer and Low Wholesale Prices. of those earlier Christmas days in an have to wade through a whole set of books to MCLLINGER TIRE RUBBER CO. learn A A. E. F. hospital? You know it isn't what you need to fit you for that bigger job. 304 North Oak St., Kansas Cltv* Nfo. The big catalog, listing and describing over two so the public to get concerned easy for hundred of these books for home study, sent free these days about the men hidden away to you, postage paid. Among these books is the MONEY QUICKLY out of sight, the men for whom the war one you want. Send for catalog today. FREDERICK J. DRAKE & FOR AMY POST is still going on. COMPANY 1012 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111. Use a Roger* Local Talent Production But The American Legion will not 161 POSTS INDORSE US forget. A real Christinas for every MINSTRELS MUSICAL COMEDIES man in every hospital is the purpose No expenditure Get particulars now of plans which are now being rounded GIRL IS JOHN B. ROGERS PRODUCING CO. out in every government hospital center. THIS A WONDER Security Bldg. Fostoria, O. Posts are already appointing their com- Do you want more money than you ever mittees to have charge of the Christ- possessed? If so, learn to make nut and m BECOME AN EXPERT mas Day celebrations in the hospitals. fruit bonbons— the business will net you There will be Christmas trees, wards $90 to $300 per month. You can work decorated with holly and mistletoe. from your own home; all who sample your Christmas dinners, music, and gifts of bonbons become regular customers. Mary Accountant Elizabeth started her candy kitchen with Rxeeatlre Accountants command big salaries. Thousands of firms fruits and candies and smokes. Mem- need them. Only 3000 Certified Public Accountants in U. 8. Many $5.00, and has made a fortune. Cannot are earning $3,000 to $10,000 a pear. We train you thoroly by mail in bers of some posts will go in a group •pare time for C. P. A. examinations or executive accounting posi- you do likewise? I will tell you all about tions. Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary to begin. The course to the hospital wards to talk over old is uncUr the personal supervision of William B. Castenholz, A. M. , C. the business and help you start, so you hhiiuid, -, P. A.n .. formermniitfi Comptrollerouuiuii unci andjii'inmuumiiInstructor. Universityuuiyoibh; ofui Illinois; Direc-uutt- times with the mon who lie in the cot of the llllnoia Society of Certified Public Accountants, and of the can bocome independent. Now is the psycho- .tlonal assisted by large staff _. Association of Coat Accountants, a "There but for the grace of God go I," logical time to make big money, as sugar of 0. P. A'a, including members ol the American Institute of Ac- countaota. Low tuition fee—easy terms. Write now for iofovumtiou. each Legionnaire might think in the is cheaper and fine bonbons command phe- LaSalle Extension University. DepA. 11361-H Chicago presence of the buddies who came out nomenal prices. Write to-day. Isabelle Inez, The Largest Business Tratnmit Institution PI ft** Witrtd of the war with missing limb or shat- 48 Morewood Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. —Adv. tered constitution. Each post within walking or easy ZearnloQance traveling distance of a hospital ought to have its Christmas Day plans shap- WANTED? ing up. If there is no hospital near the In • few hour) at home— hy rn-il RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS - —I can train you to hp on p^-, post, there won't be much difficulty in Examinations soon. $1300 to $3300 a year. confident danter ..fall MODERN BALL- Stcttdy life-time job. Common education suf- learning is ROOM DANCES. My Remarkable, where there one in which ficient. Preference given ex-serviee men. No New Diagram Method nan enables v oil '(lull" necessary to learn in i fraction the usual time and men possibly might be forgotten. Gov- (•••••••••••L coupon for at a fraction the us.ut! coat. Simple _ „ \ Mall ernment hospitals of certain types are • faiclnatiruj lessens. Mi.kes fencing as Patterson Civil Service School \ catalog ai.w easy as walking. Nu music or partner needed.. Thousands tauuht suteossfniK- largely concentrated in a few States ROCHESTER. N. V. *# PATTERSON by my wonderful, new eyaterri. YOUR sanitoria, for Sirs: Send me without charge your SUCCESS GUARANTEED. Write today. many of the tuberculosis \ ElrBuirrat Catalog "AIAV," qetcrlbirig this ?V lor Special Lew Offer instance, being in North Carolina, >l,nuuLHnr,, and my FREE BOOK. and other fine U S. Guvornmeiit \ * Roch««f Which tells how to become Texas, positions. Tennessee, Colorado and What - N V an r..|. I. hed dan.rar- popular in any ballr.x.m. would be better than to send a barrel Name Dm. Chanrt.er Peak, M.8.. President , or so of good things to a sanitorium, PEAK SCHOOL OF DANCING, Inc. Studio 367, 4737 Broadway, Chicago, III, even if it is far away? The Women's Ad ircss PAQE 22 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Auxiliary has been doing a great work in France. At any rate, it would be in the different States in keeping in hard to find now many men of the old Flannelette $098 touch with the men in the hospitals, A. E. F. who happened to have served and it may be relied upon to help make with or near a Canadian outfit in = this Christmas Day memorable. Women France who would not say Shirts fci more than 3 have a knack of fixing up the things a good word for the men from north which the hospital patients like best. of the line. r t v t # Most of us have seen the lapel badge OF course Christmas isn't the only which the Canadian veterans wear. day when the Legion turns toward Let's go out of our way to make those the hospitals. Every day in the year who wear it realize that that badge posts and units of the Auxiliary have means something in this country. Let's been in touch with the men still under- make the National Adjutant's general going government treatment. As an invitation personal whenever we see a example of how many posts are carry- buddy from "up above." Of course, the ing on, we can cite the record of same thing holds true for the other Laurence C. Lovell Post of Brooklyn, countries' soldiers whom we knew N. Y., which almost a year ago ap- abroad, but we can't help feeling that pointed a Welfare Committee and they are "guests"—not that we honor adopted a ward in Fox Hills Hospital them the less, of course—whereas the on Staten Island. Canadians just naturally fit in when- A schedule of weekly visits to the ever they are among us. hospital was drawn up. Legionnaires "->,... %f •*•**.* took to the men in the ward news of UNLESS earlier forebodings are the outside world, handed out cigarettes proved groundless, this week finds and other things, arranged automobile Legion posts in most sections of the parties and helped in adjusting compen- country encountering increasing diffi- sation claims. The visitations were first culties in dealing with the problem of financed by appropriations of several the unemployed ex-service man. Cold hundred dollars from the post treasury. weather in the northern States is ex- Then the Welfare Committee gave a pected to reveal many jobless veterans dance at a country club and obtained who so far have not asked for as- THREE wonderful flannel shirts made of an excellpnt grade $1,563 above expenses for the continu- sistance, although they have been trudg- of cotton, only S2.98. Style of shirts identical to those selling for $8 or more. Perfectly tailored. Cut extra full. ance of hospital work. Expenditures of ing pavements endlessly for many Comfortable fitting. Winter weight. Soft turn down collar. Two extra strong large pockets with flaps that button down this sum are on the budget plan. The months looking for work. It is hard to to pockets. Double stitched throughout. For work or post uses approximately $100 a month estimate whether there has been an ap- eemi-dress. An amazing bargain. Send no money. Pay postman only $2.98 and postage after arrival. Then try to aid the 48 men in its ward. Recently preciable improvement in the employ- them on. If not pleased return at our expense. Your money it paid the expenses of one of the pa- ment situation since it began to attract returned at once. State size. Specify gray or blue. Only 3 shirts to .t customer on this special offer tients who made a trip to Washington national attention this autumn. try to get of twenty- Legion posts, however, will SILVERGREEN CO., Dept. SF002, PHILADELPHIA, PA. to adjustments not sub- eight compensation cases which had scribe to the policy of optimism which been pending for a long time. A special would ignore the present hardships of board considered these cases, with the jobless veterans on the theory that they result that twenty cases were settled will be able to get onto a payroll bye- 7 almost as soon as the man returned and-bye. The necessity of maintaining i Ml ICE. GIBBOUS from Washington, and within three post employment bureaus, of individual weeks fifteen of the men had received Legionnaires who remain in their posi- checks totaling $5,415. tions seeking ways to help those who are now on detached service from the your post has discovered a sen- army of industry, is more apparent than Send for mv illustrates' IF booklet telling how to bui!c sible, practicable method of helping ever. The unemployment problem as it yourself up, mentally and the men in hospitals, tell us about affects ex-service men is one which must physically and become a it. We are constantly getting inquiries be dealt with by each post according ' —*<\ scientific boxer. from readers—Legionnaires and others to the conditions and circumstances ex- Enclose 10c for mailing —who want to know how they can isting in its community. The Legion's show that they haven't forgotten the Unemployment Committee at its re- disabled men. We'd like to publish cent conference made recommendations some accounts of what posts have done which will assist posts in dealing with in this work. So if you have anything the problem, but in each town and city to contribute on the subject—shoot it the problem gets down to this: "How in. We'll pass it along. many men are out of jobs and what will we do about it?" \\ J HEN the National Adjutant vis- While we aie making all these efforts THROW YOUR VOICE V* ited Canada recently to learn to soften the effects of the present un- Under the table, into a what veterans' organizations in that employment situation, what are we do- Trunk, down Cellar or country have been doing he expressed ing to avert a recurrence of this situa- anywhere. Our lessons the Legion's sentiments said: tion in the future? city that is vis- in VENTRILOQUISM when he A teaches you. With our "No Canadian comrade need be lonely ited by floods builds levees and walls to where a post of The American Legion protect itself. Society is in the habit VELNTRILO exists." Officials of Canadian veterans' of regarding unemployment as an in- (fits in the mouth and cannot be seen) you societies told Mr. Bolles that United escapable evil. People say pharisaically imitate Birds, Ani- States ex-service men will always be that, like the poor, unemployment is mals, etc. -without welcome if they will make themselves always with us. It certainly will always moving your lips. This outfit and book of known to the branches of the Canadian be with us unless we can do some in- JOKFS by mail for 10c. societies. Such amenities might be re- telligent thinking and agree to deal CO., ARDGE garded as merely formal if it were not with the problem courageously. Means Dept. 108 Stamford, Ct< for the fact that Canadian and Ameri- of preventing unemployment, and rem- can veterans have already demonstrated edies, are being discussed seriously in that they are as much buddies in peace all the newspapers and magazines. For ElegantThinWatch*2.gg as they were in war. the first time, unemployment insurance Send No CO. U. One of the revelations of the war was is being talked of seriously by many who this feeling of mutual friendliness be- formerly opposed the idea as paternalis- tween the men of the two adjoining tic. There are other proposals for ally Money ^^^^m^mm^^^^m^iiuiuu*t& North American countries. Perhaps it avoiding the evil. Posts may well be This 1921 model Men's or Boys' popular 16 size perfect tlm* was because we smoked the same kinds studying on the problem, because keeper for only $2.95. Solid Silveroid thin inodei case, opea up face, stem wind and set. position adjustment, fully tested. A Writ* of cigarettes back home and our flivvers legislatures will be voting on it one of ten guarantee with every watch. Present (riven with each watch. Send no money. Simply pay the pnsiman $2.95 aDd the watch were called by the same names. And these days and ex-service men help elect and present is years. Fine Gold Filled Watch Chain. 41 .00 extra. CONSOLIDATED W«TCH CO. (Dtlt IS B), 10 C. UK II.. CHICtM we used to play baseball with each other legislators. And Now—The "Dry" Shave

A soldat's second best pal in the army was the old shaving soap jn its various forms, frozen, melted, shaped like the mud things modeled in the pre-whisker age.

A bird that was caught in the loose-fingered act of taking shaving material from a buddy should have gone, for punishment, into an inspection line, the commanding officer of which was a barber by trade. And we liked the cream so much that there were times when we were tempted to drop a little into the black cup of so-called coffee.

We shaved under orders, under shell-fire, under falling debris, under murky skies, under shell-peeled trees. We could wear almost anything but whiskers and get

away with it, but an unshaven buck on parade meant a sentence in the same tepee as that inhabited by the well-known guardhouse lawyer.

A lot has happened since those days. We've all had our ups and downs. But there isn't a vet who hasn't somehow kept the hirsute mattress from his chin or at least carved the wildest corners. The only birds whose whiskers are running wild at this moment are the slackers who are trying to hide behind 'em.

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It's so easy to make embarrassing mistakes in public—so easy to commit blunders that make people misjudge you. Can you find the mistake or mistakes that are being made in this picture? Can you point out what is wrong? If you are not sure, read the interesting article below, and perhaps you will be able to find out.

T is a mark of extreme good breeding the music ceases and culture to be able to do at all times and he must return to his original part- exactly what is correct. This is es- ner? Do you know pecially true in public where strangers the correct dancing us by what we do and say. The ex- judge positions ? istence of fixed rules of etiquette makes it How should a wo- to know whether we are easy for people man accept a dance making mistakes or whether we are doing and how should she the thing that is absolutely correct and refuse it? How can cultured. They are quick to judge—and the embarassment quick to condemn. It depends entirely of being a wall- upon our knowledge of the important flower be avoided? many times' may a girl dance with the most cultivated people, in little rules of etiquette whether they How highly the highes same partner without breaking the rules of social circles, and yet be entirely at ease. respect and admire us, or receive an en- etiquette? Is it considered correct, in social tirely wrong and prejudiced impression. circles, for a young woman' to wander away The Book of Etiquette little questions of good In public, many from the ball-room with her partner? There have probably been times when you conduct arise. By public, we mean at the Very often introductions must be made in suffered embarrassment because you did not theatre, in the street, on the train, in the the ball-room. Should a man be introduced know exactly what to do or say. There have restaurant and hotel—wherever men and to a woman, or a woman to a man? Is it probably been times when you wished you women who are strangers mingle together correct to say, Miss Brown, meet Mr. Smith had some definite information regarding cer- and judge one another by action and speech. or Mr. Smith, meet Miss Brown? Which tain problems of conduct, when you won- It is not enough to know that one is well- of these two forms is correct: Bobby, this dered how you could have avoided a certain bred. One must see that the strangers one is Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Smith, this is Bobby? blunder. meets every day get no im- When introducing a married The Book of Etiquette is recognized as one of the most dependable and reliable authorities on the con- contrary. and a single pression to the woman woman duct of good society. It has solved the problems of Do you know the little should you say, Mrs. Brown, thousands of men and women. It has shown them how rules of good conduct that Do You Know— allow me to present Miss Smith to be well-poised and at ease even among the most brilliant celebrities. It has shown them how to meet from the or Miss Smith, allow to divide the cultured how to introduce men and me embarrassing moments with a calm dignity. It has uncultured, that serve as a women correctly? present Mrs. Brown. made it possible for them to do and say and write and wear at all times only what is entirely correct. barrier to keep the ill-bred to answer dinner invi- ball- how a When leaving the In the Book of Etiquette, now published in two circles where they out of the tation? room, is the guest expected large volumes, you will find chapters on dinner eti- em- quette and dance etiquette, chapters on the eti- would be awkward and how to greet a man or woman to thank the hostess? What quette of engagements and weddings, chapters on barrassed? Do you know the acquaintance in public? should the woman guest say teas and parties and entertainments of all kinds. important rules of etiquette how to plan church and house when she leaves? What You will find authoritative information regarding that men of good society weddings? the wording of invitations, visiting cards and all should the gentleman guest social correspondence. The subject of introductions must observe, that women of to use table silver prop- how is covered exhaustively, and the etiquette of travel " say? It is only by knowing good society are expected to erly? devolves into an interesting discussion of correct exactly what is correct, that in England and other'foreign countries. follow rigidly? Perhaps the how to word invitations and form France, one can avoid the embarrass- cover to cover, each book is filled with in- following questions will help acknowledgments? From ment and humiliation of social teresting and extremely valuable information. you find out just how much to avoid blunders at the how blunders, and win the respect you know about etiquette. theatre and opera? Sent Free for 5-Day Examination and admiration of those with Let us send you the famous Book of Etiquette free how to do at all times the whom one comes into contact. so that you can read and examine it in your own Etiquette at the thing that is absolutely cor- home. You are not obligated to buy if you do not rect and cultured? Theatre In the want to. Just examine the books carefully, read a Street page here and there, glance at the illustrations, let conduct When a man and woman There are countless tests it solve some of the puzzling questions of that you have been wondering about. Within the the theatre aisle together, walk down should of good manners that distinguish the well- 5 days, decide for yourself whether or not you want the man precede the woman? May they bred in public. For instance, the man must to return it. expect this new edition to go quickly. The walk arm-in-arm? When the usher indi- know exactly what is correct when he is We books are now handsomely,bound;in .blue; cloth with places, should the enter cates their woman walking with a young woman. According gold lettering. We urge you to send 'for'your, set at first or the man? to etiquette, is it ever permissible for a once. The price for- the complete set is only—$3.50 Many puzzling questions of conduct con- man to take a woman's arm? May a woman after 5 days. But don't send any money now -just the coupon. Keep the books at our expense while of a theatre front the members party who take a gentleman's arm? When walking you examine them and read some of the interesting occupy a box. Which seats should the with two women, should a man take his chapters. women take and which the men? Should place between them or on the outside? Mail the coupon for your set of the Book of Eti- quette today. Surprise your friends with your wide their or the women remove hats— don't they When is it permissible for a man to pay a knowledge of the correct thing to do, say, write and wear any? What should women wear to woman's fare on the street-car or railroad? wear at all times. Remember, it costs you nothing to see and examine the books. Mail the coupon NOW. the theatre in the evening? 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On what occasions should days after receipt I will either return the books or keep the hat them and send you only $3.50 in full payment. tive, or we are looked upon as coarse and ill- be raised? bred. It depends entirely upon how well People of culture can be recognized at one knows and follows the rules of etiquette. once. They know exactly what to do and (Please write plainly) say on every occasion, and because they At the Dance know that they are doing absolutely what is How should the man ask a woman to correct, they are calm, well-poised, digni- "Check this square if you want these books with the beautiful full-leather binding at five dollars, fied. dance? What should he say to her when They are able to mingle with the with 5 days' examination privilege."