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^AMERICAArmistice Day Number LEGIO From "I Was There": Drawings by C.'LeRoy Baldridge, verse "All we did was stand and stare and stare. by Bilmar Baukhage. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Just stare and stand and never say a word." ——— — — — Beat Him to It He's Typing a 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 Dc this little job of shopping early Get your dues in before the holiday rush at Post Head- quarters — 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 1897—1921 Autocar Wherever there's a road The Heavy Duty Autocar eliminates waste in gas consumption in oil consumption in time of goods in transit It is the economical motor truck $4350, 120-inch wheelbase chassis (weight 7,000 pounds) $4500, 156-inch wheelbase chassis (weight 7,150 pounds) (F. O. B. Ardmore, Pa.) The Autocar Company, Ardmore, Pa., Established 1897 AutocarWherever there's a road Official publication of EDITORIAL AND tnd owned exclusively BUSINESS by The American Le- OFFICES gion. Published hy the Legion Publiphiitp Cor- 627 West 43rd Street, poration. New York City. NOVEMBER 11, 1921 Copyright, 1921, by the Legion Publishing Corporation. PAGE 5 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.