LEGION THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN YOU'RE BUYING

Tortoise Shell

good mattress should have deeply- To tell the genuine tortoise shell from the indented tufts, If tufts are shallow the imitation . . „ rub it briskly on soft and pull out easily* the mattress is not cloth until warm. If it has an odor of the best quality. camphor or celluloid^ it is imitation.

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Luggage Rugs To tell what kind of foundation a Fold an edge of the rug sharply back rigid-type suitcase has, rap it sharply to back and look at the pile. It should with the knuckles. 4. clear sound shows stand up like bristles in a brush. The its foundation is wood or fiber, A dull length of the tufts shows the depth of sound means it is cardboard. the pile and the quality of the rug.

AND WHEN BUYING WHISKEY

GIVE IT THE . . . BEAD TEST How did your parents and their parents make their money go so far? They didn't take any- body's word for the goods they bought. They used their eyes, their ears and their heads. They tested before they spent. Old-timers bought whiskey that way, too. They had a per-

fectly natural test . . . the "bead" or bubbles that form at the top when the bottle is shaken ... a natural characteristic of all whiskeys. Get wise to whiskey. Don't buy blindly. See what you're getting. Shake the bottle. Watch the bead. See how long it lasts.

WHAT IS BEAD? First of all, it's the head of bubbles that forms on the surface of

whiskey when the bottle is shaken. The amount of "bead" and the time it lasts constitute the "bead test."

BEN BURK, r:C, BOSTON, MASS. THE BEAD LASTS LONGER —

GIFT SUGGESTIONS AUTO ROBES— Here is a distinguished group of Legion Christmas gift sug- Pure virgin wool, au- thentic Scotch plaid, fringed ends, size gestions, each of which is an outstanding value. Carefully 52" wide by 72" long. Lecion emblem selected for utility, beauty and acceptability, any one of is beautifully embroidered in colors. Grade 1 (heavy) $9.50 these gifts would provide an almost everlasting source of Grade 2 (same quality but slightly satisfaction, as pleasure and and in addition, would serve lighter in weight) $7.50 a daily reminder of your thoughtfulness and good-will.

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UNIQUE ASH TRAY SUPER-CHROME ASH TRAY

JACKET No. 750-Z—Cossack style, zipper fastener. Made of dark blue all wool heavy Melton cloth, with genu- ine oak leather sleeves. Beautifully tailored and excellent fitting. The Le- gion emblem is beautifully embroi- AL 15 RING AL 5 RING dered in colors. Made in all standard AL-5—Sterling (solid) silver ring of heavy, sizes or chest measurements. When massive design, with 10-K gold Legion em- ordering, be sure to specify size. One blem superimposed on black onyx stone week delivery. Price, complete as illus- trated mounting. An unusual ring. Price. . . .$7.50 LIGHTER L-756 CASE WITH LIGHTER LIGHTER L-B $7.50

AL-15 10-K yellow gold ring with 10-K 4" 3 " — UNIQUE ASH TRAY (upper left) — Approximately square, 2 4 high, midget Legion emblem enameled in colors, mahogany finish, with Legion emblem in colors. Special paper cup with hand-carved eagles. Our most popular fillers treated with deodorant which entirely eliminates odors. ring. Price $12.60 Price, postpaid $1.00 ordering rings, specify NOTE: In be sure to LIGHTER L-756 (lower left) — Watch dial case, non-tarnishing chro- size. mium finish, black French enamel front. Gold-plated emblem enameled in full colors. Price, complete $2.00 — COMBINATION CIGARETTE CASE with Lighter No. W-1200. . .(center) Very thin model, holding 15 cigarettes in single row. Non-tarnishing chromium finish. Simulated burl maple French enamel front and back. Gold-plated Legion emblem enameled in colors. Price complete $5.95

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Price, complete as illustrated. . .$5.75

BELT AND BUCKLE SET No. 40— Sterling (solid) hammered silver buckle with three DIAMOND SET JEWELRY cut-out initials and separately applied gold- plated Legion emblem in colors. Genuine cowhide l ;i s" leather belt. In ordering be sure to specify belt color and size and three initials. One week delivery. No C. O. D. orders. Price, complete $3.50

BELT AND BUCKLE SET No. 201—Sterling (solid) silver buckle with three cut-out ini- tials and separately applied gold-plated Le- gion emblem in colors. Genuine cowhide s l „ " leather belt. In ordering be sure to MEMBERSHIP BUTTON CHARM AL-11 CHARM AL-14 specify belt color and size and three initials. One week delivery No. C.O.D. orders. MEMBERSHIP BUTTON (left)— Midget size, with 3-point diamond in

set, $3.50 center. Price, 10-K gold. . . .$7.00 14-K gold Price per complete $7.75 LEGION SHIRTS AND TIES—Legion CHARM AL-11 (center)— 10-K gold with black enamel background and shirts, military style, with shoulder Grecian border. Small size Legion emblem carries 3-point diamond straps and bellows pockets. Smart, per- in center. Price complete, (white, green or yellow gold—be sure to fectly styled and made of finest quality specify) 10-K gold $11.00 materials. Collar ornaments are silk embroidered and buttons are heavily CHARM AL-14 (right)— 10-K gold, double faced charm, with 3-point gold-plated and beautifully enameled full cut diamond mounted in center of front emblem. in colors. In ordering be sure to specify Price, complete $8.75 neck size and sleeve length.

TIES —Pure silk, with silk embroidered SEND ALL ORDERS TO emblem. White shirt, complete, (without tie) $2.75 EMBLEM DIVISION Blue shirt, complete (without 1236 tie) 2.95 Tie, with emblem, National Headquarters THE AMERICAN LEGION • Indianapolis, Indiana (gold, black or blue) 60

DECEMBER, 1936 I ;

(fforCjod and country , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (Jo upholdand defend the Constitution, <_/ ofthe'LlnitedStates of&merica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent (Tlmericanisrn r topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreat War; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com- munity,state andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses-, to make right the master ofmight; topromote peace andgood willon earth ;to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjustice.Jreedom and democracg ; to conse- crate andsandyg our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution, ofThe American Legion. The Jlmerican

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THERE used occasionally to filter CONTENTS tage in American munitions plants through to us in the A. E. F. during the war. For obvious reasons, HOPI SHEPHERD Cover or the home camps, during By Edwin Earle these narratives will here appear dis- war days, vague rumors of skuldug- guised as fiction— it need only be I BELIEVE OUR LEGION POST gery in factories engaged in said that each one of is the IS TYPICAL 5 them based manufacture of war material of what- on fact. Mr. Kennedy's vivid, tech- By Walter J. Kohler ever sort—stories of very literal at- nically-accurate accounts of the War ON GUARD : GALLAGHER 6 tempts to gum the works. There were By Clifford W. Kennedy Behind the War will go far toward so many better rumors closer to our Illustrations by Frank Street explaining why, on a certain lively day in the immediate concerns that most of us PRISONS ARE NEWS 10 Aisne-Marne sector or in paid little attention to these misty re- By Austin H. MacCormick the reaches between the Meuse and ports—they were the sort of thing Illustration by John E. Costigan the Argonne Forest, some of us one was accustomed to read about, but THE ROYAL ROAD TO NO- cussed the Q. M. C. or the Ordnance they never could occur in any manu- WHERE 12 Department for the non-arrival of By Karl Detzer facturing plant we knew well. something highly essential to the suc- I'VE GOT MY OLD JOB BACK cessful conduct of hostilities, little BEFORE we ourselves entered the AGAIN 16 guessing that the real reason was By Elsie Janis war, and just as we entered it, locked up in the brain of an incon- there had been one or two wildly WITH A RUB-A-DUB-DUB 18 spicuous factory worker who even spectacular bits of sabotage that be- By Fairfax Downey then, perhaps, was trudging past our came and have since remained fa- TROOPS BELOW! 20 own front door, dinner pail in hand mous—the disabling of German By Leonard H. Nason and an ingenious plot in his heart, Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops ships in our ports, the Black Tom down to do sinister and single- explosion. Things like that couldn't THEIR NAME IS LEGION 24 handed battle in the sector which his By Ax P. Nelson happen in the old X. Y. Z. Wire superiors had assigned him—the old Works down below the freight JOYCE KILMER—SOLDIER 26 X. Y. Z. wire works. house. But they did. They were not By Emmett Watson so sensational as Black Tom, but HOOSEGOW HERMAN 28 AUSTIN H. MacCORMICK, Com- enough of them could do us as much By Wallgren l missioner of Correction, New damage. When and if the plots were EDITORIAL: "as well as men 29 York City, makes his bow as a detected and the plotters foiled, little TO FIGHT" Monthly contributor with this issue, but long ago he had his or nothing about the business got HELEN'S COMING-OUT PARTY 30 picture in out. The plots were not always de- the paper. If you have your file of REMEMBER 9x4x3? 34 tected, nor the plotters always foiled. the Monthly handy, turn back to By John J. Noll July, 1934, page 34, and you'll see FRONT AND CENTER 38 MOST of these undercover ac- a photograph of the baseball team tivities, successful and unsuc- BURSTS AND DUDS 40 composed of men of the Ship's Com- cessful, are still under cover. The Conducted by Dan Sowers pany, United States Naval Prison, actual details of how the enemy in- Portsmouth, New Hampshire, show- side worker worked are publicly ing Third Baseman MacCormick at Please report change of address to Indian- known in only a few instances. It is the end of the bottom row. That was apolis office, including old and new ad- a distinct pleasure, therefore, for the dresses. Allow five weeks for change to the official beginning of Commis- Monthly to introduce to its readers become operative. An issue already mailed sioner MacCormick's interest in the to old address will not be forwarded by post Clifford W. Kennedy, whose "On prison problem—a subject on which office unless subscriber sends extra postage Guard: Gallagher," appearing in he has since become more than a to post office. Notifying this magazine well this issue, is the first of a series of in advance of impending address change national authority. He knew baseball narratives detailing attempts at sabo- will obviate this expense. already, having played it at Bowdoin.

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greatest challenge to loyal and thinking Americans and women fit into American life. And the thought immediately THEtoday is the effort that is persistently being made to occurs that we invariably turn to them, as individuals and as a undermine our system of government and uproot our group, when there is need of disinterested public service. fundamental institutions. By serving in the armed forces these four million men and Were the attack always open and direct, were the attackers, women proved their patriotism a little more definitely than the all of them, avowed enemies of the American way of life, there hundred-million-odd who never had the same opportunity be- might be comparatively little cause for concern; for the great cause they were never faced with exactly the same task. majority of our people are resolutely opposed to anything they The veterans may be no more devoted to country than ninety recognize as tending toward Europeanizing the United States. percent of the American people. Yet in peace as in war, their de- But American principles are menaced not so much by any votion tends to take forms so practical and involving so much open major offensive as by a campaign of attrition. Many citizens effort and sacrifice as to raise the question whether any group of are conscious of this only dimly, and some not at all, because the similar size selected at random would be likely to match them in attacking forces are well camouflaged with plausible and noble good citizenship. sounding professions and have even usurped the honorable title They are, for example, as a matter of conviction, on the side of "liberal." of law observance and public order—not particularly because If sound views are to prevail, subserving the greatest good of this attitude is pledged by The American Legion (they are not all the whole people over the years to come, leadership must come Legionnaires), but because they learned in the service that good from clear-sighted, public-spirited men and women who have order is essential not only to getting things done but to giving (to quote from the Preamble to the Constitution of The American everybody a fair deal. As a group they give evidence of being Legion) "a sense of individual obligation to community, state, exceedingly dubious of illegal, disorderly ways of gaining any end. and nation." Having worn uniforms which proclaimed them servants of the A large part of the fundamental philosophy that urgently needs nation, they are less bashful and self-conscious about coming right to be re-emphasized in our day is, in fact, summed up in that out and talking of patriotism than is the average citizen. Preamble, particularly the clauses about upholding and defend- Superficially regarded, the World War veterans are not greatly ing the Constitution, maintaining law and order, fostering different from the rest of the American population, and might Americanism, inculcating a sense of individual obligation. seem a reasonably typical cross-section of the men—and to a Changing conditions require revisions from time to time both lesser extent, because fewer of them were in the service, of the in law and in economic practice. The painful lessons of several women—who were the youth of the nation in '17 and '18. Closer years of depression must not be ignored or shirked. But neither consideration indicates, however, that as a whole they have can we afford to forget the lessons of the centuries when our definite points of superiority—physically, because they had to forefathers suffered under op- pass rather stiff examinations pressive rulers and knew the before they got their uniforms; pinch of that economic scarcity THE Legionnaires of his home town needed a and mentally, because the which history shows to be the clubhouse. So Walter J. Kohler gave them for poorer intellects were strained invariable result of autocratic their post home the family residence which he out in the same manner. Both dictation in the every-day live- tvas about to vacate. ''Mother and my sisters still physically and mentally most lihood activities of the citizens. lived next door, and I wanted to be sure they of them received benefit from Nor should we fail to ask our- would have good neighbors," he explains when experiencing months or years selves whether the nations now asked hoiv he happened to do it. Mr. Kohler is of the rigorous discipline of under dictatorships are happier not eligible for membership in The American military life. It is true that than we. Legion. That is xvhy the Monthly asked him to some bodies and minds suffered Because the problems of the tell what he thinks of service men and women as impairments which would have day relate so closely to the ob- a group, and of their opportunities for greater been avoided had there been no jectives expressed by The Amer- service to the nation today. His own record in- war. But the net balance is on ican Legion, it is interesting to cludes a term as Governor of his State, and the the other side. consider how the service men presidency of Kohler Company at Kohler, Wisconsin In the {Continued on page 44)

DECEMBER, 1936 5 Clifford W Kennedy

FRAN K STREET

A BOUT a week, before Mr. Wilson delivered his /\ famous message of war to the Congress, word I % trickled through the plant that the big scrap was to become a bit more personal; at least a very sober conference of the Works Engineer and the department heads, followed by a snappy huddle which included the whole staff, gave us all more than just an inkling of events that actually did transpire. For proof that we were finally about to line up against the Kaiser's organization, we had only to point out the junior E. E.'s rush trip all over town, where, in one day, he bought up practically everything the city could spare of lights, wire, and electrical fittings galore. That same day of the sober conference we could show you the civils dusting off instruments, to work dili-

gently till dusk, to work late into the night, with carbide bike lamps gleaming on fresh-painted white markers pounded into the ground, one after another, until the entire plant was encompassed with a line of pegs. Who did it, or how he did it, we never found out, but, Guard: starting just before On the noon whistle, gondola after gondola of soft coal moved off the main line onto our siding, up the old Park line; three switch engines chugged A STO R Y, BASED back and forth over our tracks all day—perhaps all night—and next morning every inch of idle track within the boundary of WAR BEHIND white markers was full of coal cars. How many of these were snitched, diverted, cut out of trains, taken from any source within fifty miles of the city, to lay in- definitely in emergency reserve on our tracks, we never counted. another emergency reserve. Police stopped and rerouted all That night every machine on Belgian and French work was traffic into a wide loop around the plant; train traffic was shunted stopped, with the help sent on vacation, until the Tool Division, over to the two tracks most remote from our buildings. Thirty backed by a sudden draft of machinists, had them ready to go or forty sub-foremen, arm-banded as guards, appeared that noon on U. S. A. 30-Springfields. at all gates and doors. The next morning, sure enough, veritable mountains of net Before noon they had set up a row of typewriter desks in the fencing, barbed wire, posts were dumped at strategic points all Employment Office and thereafter slow-moving queues of em- around the plant. A clutter of electric light equipment was un- ployes went by them as the description of each person was loaded on the floor of the old hydraulic building. The line of pounded on a blue card, in turn handed to him, or to her, to use white markers was extended to outline the chain company's as a plant-admittance pass. That afternoon a bunch of us toiled

siding; forthwith a train-load of strip brass was backed onto it, over the old turbines with the intention of cutting them in on the

6 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly His height and bulk meant nothing to men armed with clubs and guns

midnight oil planning paper de- tails of a system which would make the perimeter of the Park a bright alleyway in any kind of darkness. It was our job to so exactly spot the pole locations that no bush or tree could cast concealing shadows on a wide boulevard brilliantly lighted by lamps bracketed on the poles. Incidentally we set the course of the new fence which, erected out- side the old fence right after the lighting was completed, paralleled the light band around the Park, a ten-foot-high wire net roofed with unfriendly rows of barbed wire. The Park, by the way, was a mile-square area of natural field, meadow and woods, uncultivated and unworked save for fire- breaks ploughed around and criss-cross the property, and for a few lengths of gravel road. It contained a pond, a useful reservoir for the tiny powerhouse

beside it and particularly for the big fire pump the powerhouse served. You see, in the Park, all the powder was stored. A stroll along any of the roads took you past four-square clumps of turf- covered earthen walls, each clump about one hundred yards from its neighbor. A footpath into each clump led to a galvanized building, about ON FACT, OF THE the size of the suburbanite's metal garage, hiding down behind the walls. Inside, tiers of hundred-pound drums conserved the TH E WA R stock of powder-making ingredients. The Park contained about a hundred of these would-be volcanoes. But, if any of them did manage to blow up, the earth wall architecture would pull the punch and save the surrounding scenery as well as the detona- line near closing time and darkness. We were told to put all the tion of adjacent storage. Men in rubber tired, canvas covered, plant load on them they would take, and then report how effec- mule drawn carts (the mules were leather shod to obviate any tive they might be; this in the event the outside source of pur- possibility of striking sparks) made hourly rounds to various chasable power should be cut off. Old man Weimer said it out powder houses and brought drums of the several ingredients to loud for all of us, as we slipped by a pair of special police on our the mixing house. The final explosive mixture was never stored. way out the gate that evening: "Look at all the cops—they got In the mi.ang hcuse the different components were stirred to- 'em spotted all round outside, it looks; 'swar all right!" gether under water and poured into felt-encased, lead containers. The front office must have been certain that war, for us, was Powder sufficient only for one hour's production, at a time, was right on the way. The next morning three of us were rushed up made and shipped on a narrow gauge train to the plant. There, to the Powder Park on the first train, there to mark the location one container to a loading machine, the powder was dried out of poles to support a light line. The boss E. E. had burned in vacuum apparatus and poured down funnels to be machine

DECEMBER, 1936 7 One big paw sealing the fellow's mouth, he tamped into each one of a slowly passing line of empty shells. A yelled to Hans to come through to him lot of worthwhile effort in the name of safety! A day of feverish rush disposed of all the pole locations; we even flagged additional poles, for lights, along the roads and at ordinary times we would abuse any boss who allowed less than the fire pipes for, starting in a few days, the Park like the plant three weeks for it. was to be pushed to production limit from midnight Sunday, What an eyeopener greeted us at the Park! We thought a wild twenty-four hours around, till eight the next Sunday morning, west show had moved in. There were tents, a field kitchen, a every week for a year or so. Religion had priority over war corral imprisoning about thirty calico ponies and some mules; preparation; nothing else could stop it. But when it came to there were even a couple of covered wagons like the old forty- guarding, eyes had to be wide open on every foot of the layout's niners. But we stared mostly at a bevy of cowboys sitting in periphery without winking once insix hundred and fourthousand- among a pile of saddles, blankets, ropes and sombreros. We found odd seconds of each week, and every inch of the property had to them to be, individually, just what Tom Mix typifies; they had be visible to those eyes. been selected and hired for ability as range riders. By nightfall We almost missed the clock, next morning. Coming to work we saw them in operation and knew what it was all about. we would always cut down through one corner of the plant, but Working in shifts, fully armed with rifle, revolvers, rope and they had erected enough fence in one day to make us walk all whistle, they rode parallel to the Park fence and then over the way around and show our passes. We found new guards, too, certain strategic roads of the interior; they rode, spaced in single as new as the fence; most of them ex-army men, dressed like file, in such a manner that one rider could always see the tail of Spanish War veterans, with two guns hanging on a cartridge the horse ahead, and everything between, no matter what the belt. We saw some of our gang bossing a crowd of rented electri- twists and turns in the path. All day, all night, every day, every cians so effectively that the boundary lights seemed to spring into week till November, 1918, this procession marched relentlessly place while we watched. A war does certainly speed up operations! without one lapse. One man, who later admitted Austrian birth, While we waited for complete instructions which sent us back up tried to get over the fence, but otherwise no marauder, sneak or to the Park for thirty-six hours of pressure-driving a gang of spy ever tried to get by the barrier of light, cowboy and fence. laborers and wiremen at those poles and lights (and the fence) There were those, however, who intended to thwart our plans, we saw the results of two days' work around the plant. In who did get into the shops and the Park in spite of all barriers;

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly they calmly walked envelopes of specifications and even material requisitions all pre- by guards and es- pared for the Purchasing Department. The few days we waited caped all other sur- for materials and tools to reach the job reminded us of the weeks veillance. And Gal- before final exams at school—it was cram, cram, cram on plans, lagher was a lot to on correspondence, on material lists until the world looked blue, blame. Yet it was crossed with white lines. For relief we interviewed workmen. Gallagher in the end Of course we were to need several hundred men—carpenters, who uncovered a masons, steamfitters—every trade was soon represented on the clever plan to com- job plus a bountiful supply of helpers, laborers and worse. Some pletely cripple our office big-wig's brain child, reared to save us all trouble and worry, whole works, huge as turned out to be an invitation to the several trade unions to

it was, for an in- corral and deliver over to us the necessary skilled help ; a down- definite period. The town agency scrambled and sewed up the laborers. The Army morning he stum- was not alone with a personnel problem; like them we had to bled into the guard adapt what we were supplied with. For this purpose we made house, half stran- such record of each individual as we could before the rush of work gling with his great came on. Among all these came Gallagher, who turned out to be strength three strug- special, for the Union's supplementary reply to our big-wig's gling men and a request was the imposition of walking delegates to co-ordinate woman he dragged with our staff in supervision—also to keep the dues system in in with him, he re- perfect form—and Gallagher was a delegate. deemed many weeks "Yeah, I'm Gallagher, you give me the dope, yeah, I tells of his bullying, of them"—with a—wave toward the electricians he had herded into hard-boiled badger- the stock room "it'll save you a lot of work; sure the job'll go ing, of insolence that fine; when you're ready lemme know, I gotta go down to head-

had made us all rage quarters now. How's 'at? Now? Aw, this aft's time enough, I'll and wish to smash see you then, Chief." He embellished each of the staff with that him one. Only we title. never quite dared to. Thus the big job started to stutter along with Gallagher and Incidentally he his "headquarters" the principal impediment. We tried every saved a let of prop- scheme thinkable to circumvent him to get some real work out erty and people from of the men, but any idea which contained elements of efficiency, being blown sky plus a little sweat, infringed some union rule. We suspected, high. probably correctly, most of these rules to be Gallagher's inven- The day Congress tions. The guards unwittingly helped us for a day or so for there declared war seemed were suddenly issued new passes, with our pictures on them, one no different except of which Gallagher failed to obtain, mostly because he was too

for reading of it in high and mighty to go down to the camera. the extras late that Naturally the guards would not let him by; with their clubs night. The Works and guns his size did not matter to them—he was over six feet Engineer held us all high, we swore he was a good three feet wide, as thick in propor- the evening to check tion (mentally too) and tough as the side of a rhino. Well, he that each const ruc- pulled a strike and then the front office arranged a pass for him. After that success he was insufferable. None of us have since been pulled up in traffic to be bawled out by a hulking, bellicose cop, you know, with plenty of publicity but with no chance of getting a tion detail for emergency guarding of civil word edgewise into the bombastic the plant and Park, was complete. He barrage of the law, but we think immedi- pointed out what was to come, what was ately of Gallagher. Perhaps he has spent to start with a bang the first morning of his time since the war refining traffic po- our war. With one hand we would re- lice into highly specialized bullies. Cuffs model, enlarge and change over power- and kicks, profan- house, shops, storage buildings; with ity and persiflage another, erect new, huge buildings; and were all in his rep- all the time maintain equipment posi- ertoire. tively safe against any breakdown or Our staff ate interruption. There was to be a race with every day at us and the Tool Division, the Ballistic Taffy's. Taffy had crowd and the Production department been blinded in a on the track; the Management and flare-up when he Office would be on the side lines cheer- was a youngster ing helping Army Ordnance planned and the plant was and ; neither to crack the whip behind us. Winning too, and

; knew the safe the race meant jus : so many more million shells sent sooner across to the equipment we now men over there. use. The company Then we discovered why we had set him up in a been on the payroll since 1015; we She had man tiny lunchroom, learned the reason for dull hour after wangle stenographic subsidized the ex- pense thus dull hour of surveying, of drafting, of work in the employment and pensioned (Con- writing material lists. Out of the files office came tumbling dust laden blueprints and tinued on page 46)

DECEMBER, 1936 PRISONS: 1

prisons may have become effective agencies in turning men from crime. Today the prison is interesting to the average citizen because it is No Man's Land, lighted occasionally by a sudden By Austin flare and then shrouded again in mystery. To those who are doing time in them and officials who work in them, however, H.MacCormick prisons are not mysterious, but so deadly monotonous that even the occasional sensational occurrences, tragic as they usually are, (InnmAAdioneSi, ofCaVicctcort seem almost a welcome relief. New York City In these days every progressive prison administrator is talking about individualization of treatment and is trying to get away from the mass treatment that defeats the true purpose of the institution—the rehabilitation of the prisoners. In many prisons lRISON news is always front page stuff," an old news- this is impossible because of their unwieldiness. Ten American paper man once said to me. That is only natural. News prisons have inmate populations of 2,000 to 3,000 and six have p;does not find its way over the twenty-five-foot wall that more than 3,000 inmates; of the latter, five have over 4,000 and surrounds most prisons unless it is so sensational that one has over 6,000 inmates. even the wall cannot hold it in. Dillinger engineers a crush-out The ideal size, from the standpoint of rehabilitation, is prob- for his old pals in the Indiana State Prison and eight desperate ably 500 to 600; even taking economy of overhead into account, men escape. Harvey Bailey and other lifers overpower a guard the maximum defensible inmate population is about 1200. Yet and go over the wall of the—Kansas State Prison. The prisoners we have had, in recent years, a mad rush for supremacy in prison mutiny on Alcatraz Island "The Rock."—but Al Capone is too size. Michigan gave the Jackson prison a walled area of fifty- smart to join them. Loeb, millionaire thrill-killer, dies at Joliet eight acres. Illinois built the Stateville wall to enclose sixty-four in his "private bathroom" at the hands of little Jimmy Day. acres. Pennsylvania split the difference at Gratersford with A strange and exciting world, the prison. Nobody can predict sixty-two acres within the wall, in spite of the fact that both what will happen there, but it will always be front page stuff to Illinois and Michigan authorities, by the time Gratersford was the newspaper reader in the security of his home or office. started, were ready to admit that their prisons had proved to be

Prisons throw out hot news as volcanoes eject lava. So long far too large. It is an exceedingly large vise in which we squeeze as they do, they will be failures. When prison news becomes as our prisoners in most States. dull as ditch water and is of no interest except to the sociologist, One reason for prison riots and other sensational happenings

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is the tension and pressure characteristic of prisons. The life of the prisoner is constricted as though normal life had been put into a vise and squeezed to microscopic proportions. His world is circum- scribed by the high, gray wall. Even the sky is a prison sky. In this shrunken world things that ordinarily seem small take on enormous importance. You turn into an expert schemer and boot-licker to get the better cell, the better job, the extra scrap of soap, the extra towel, all the little things that suddenly mean so much. I once knew a prisoner, doing twenty-five years for mail robbery, who schemed eight years to inherit from another prisoner at release a corner bed in the dormitory where they lived. He had privacy on two sides, at least, when he finally got his corner. The layman naturally does not know how a prisoner lives. Few people know what a cell-block is like, for example, for in movies the)' get only a limited shot, at most. What is it like? Take the coat- closet in your home and put steel bars across the front of it in place of the door. Lay twenty cubby-holes of this size side by side, pile four twenties on top of each other, tier by tier, and lay four more twenties back to back with these. Build a narrow cat-walk along the front of each tier, and run a screen of steel bars from the second tier to the ceiling so that the prisoners cannot jump, or throw their fellows or the guards, to the "flats" below.

Then erect a building around this double-faced cliff dwelling, with the walls about fifteen feet from the edge of the cat-walks. Living in one of these coat-closets imagine yourself and another man, each of you {Continued on page 56)

DECEMBER, 1936 1 I HALTED our truck on a WEridge of bare black shimmering lava and squinted through heat waves down into the valley to the south. And there, after seven hundred miles of hell, we saw paradise. A paradise of trees and flat white houses with a narrow blue pool beyond them. Actually, a sleepy old Mexican town, but in our tired sun- blinded eyes a scene of soft cool loveliness. The bells of El Rosario Shade. Human beings. Water. Shade, after ten parched days of relentless heat and sunlight in an empty desert. We had traveled down into Mexico over a long, ancient road burros to travel abreast; it swung boldly across the most terrify- connecting our country with the republic to the south. Oh, no, ing desert on the continent, named for that explorer, Sebastian no, not the splendid new highway which the Mexican govern- Vizcaino who, so far as history records, never saw it except from ment has just built from our border to Mexico City, paved for all the deck of a ship; it plowed through snow drifts on mountain but sixty-nine of its seven-hundred-odd miles. That highway ranges a mile high; it spanned sand washes; when necessary, to was opened recently with elaborate ceremonies which included accommodate the traveler's needs, it split into three roads in- speeches in two languages, top hats, news reels and radio hook- stead of one; it even touched the outskirts of the present Holly- ups. Editorial writers rilled columns with enthusiasm for hands- wood. across-the-Rio-Grande. Its builders were the exploring padres and frailcs of the Jesuit, Now for the first time, they cried, our two great friendly Franciscan and Dominican missions. They called it El Camino neighboring republics are linked by an international road. Real, the royal road; like the builders of the newer highway, they They happened to be inaccurate by more than a hundred years. encouraged tourists; they set up rest houses and dug wells along For the new road isn't the first. Two full centuries ago, in 1736, the way, and wrote home to Spain that their labors would result a thousand Indian laborers were building a highway northward in "a closer understanding between the two Californias." on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California; a hundred years This highway still exists, but it was entirely forgotten in the ago it extended, not a mere seven hundred miles, but two thou- speeches of the gentlemen who this past summer dedicated the sand, from the pearl fisheries of La Paz on the southern tip of newer road to practically the same high purpose, without once the peninsula, to a mission at the Golden Gate of San Francisco. mentioning the earlier one. That they had forgotten it proves

It was a magnificent road, wide enough for two oxen or two one fact conclusively: None of them ever traveled on it. No man could forget that portion of El Camino Real which writhes those several hundred miles from the little port of El Rosario, on the Pacific to San Ignacio, inland, beyond the desert. Just as easily could he forget being aboard a sinking ship in mid-Atlantic, or permit four months of front-line fighting in the World War accidentally to slip his mind. For a trip down the old King's Highway has many things in common with such experiences. Last spring, at the same propitious momert that plans were made public for the dedication if the » » * of the newer road, I happened to be crossing border for a trip down El Camino Real. Please don't ask why. At the time, viewed Pack train on El from close range, Camino Real—the there seemed to be Royal Road— scores of reasons, south of Ensenada both adequate and

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly thusiastically. "And remember, there's typhoid in all the water south of Santo Domingo. Be sure to take clothes you can discard when you get back, too. That's the only way you'll get rid of the fleas you'll pick up in the ruins at San Quintin." back said encouragingly: "Take plenty of quinine. You'll get "Swell!" we said, and started out to hunt the clothes. malaria. And wear thick high boots with long pants outside. "One thing more," he called. "Take plenty of ammunition Outside, understand, so when the rattlesnakes and sidewinders for your guns." strike, they catch their fangs in the cloth of the pants and not in "But we're not going hunting," we called back to him. the leather." "Who said anything about hunting?" he asked. "How ducky!" we exclaimed. After that we simply had to go. "You have a snake-bite kit, of course," he continued en- My partner's name was not Origal Hags, but you couldn't

DECEMBER, 1936 13 convince the Mexican customs men that it was not after they looked at his signature. So, for the duration of the trip, that's what he became. He was the sort of partner you could search for for a lifetime and then decide existed only in the earlier works of Richard Harding Davis. He had lived his life in the open and knew the north end of the district as few men do. He was my of wickedness and inhospitality, one sometimes can get through. Either beat it, or it Frank Buck. He not only took me in; he brought me back alive. you beats The matter of tourist pcrmisos, of gun permits and camera you, our friend in San Diego said. Did he know permits and truck permits and gasoline permits required time, what he was talking about? Ah, brother, did patience, reams of paper and hours of conversation at the border. he! That the road has a fair batting average is The authorities at Laredo, on the new paved mainland highway, proved every twenty or thirty miles of its already have learned to shrug at the eccentricities of the so im- course by the bleaching bones of some old car. patient Americanos. But not those at Tecate and Mexicali, crossing into the peninsula. "A pleasure trip?" they demanded with real con- cern. "Senor has never traveled on El Camino Real! You should buy you a burro, senor. And you wish to ." go to . . "To Santa Rosalia," we replied, thinking of all we had read of the rich French mines on the east coast, two thirds of the way down the peninsula. "To Santa Rosalia? By all the saints! That is a most filthy town, senores. And the Camino where it crosses the desert! You surely do not go there for pleasure?" But finally our papers were in order and we bounced over the mountains and across the line at Tecate, a delightful little village of a hundred white 'dobe houses which stagger down the hillside under the squinting narrow eyes of an ancient small brown Mexican fort. Our ton-and-a-half truck, with its large body to carry enough gasoline and water to see us through (a hundred gallons of gas and eighty of water at times) at once served to introduce us to the town. For Tecate, like all the rest of Mexico, is The ruined walls of San Fernando motor-minded, and gathers around each unfamiliar car to comment on its points. True, the good citizens were skeptical of our success. "A small carro might get a little farther south," they admitted with vague shrugs. "But such a mam- moth truck . . . ah!" There always was a shaking of heads. After two lazy days in charming, lush Guadalupe Valley, we looked out across the Pacific from Ensen- ada, from which enterprising city a paved highway runs northward along the coast to San Diego. Here the average southbound tourist turns back. For beyond Ensenada, El Camino Real of the padres begins. Don't think for a moment that you can visualize that road. There is none other like it in the world. It is not merely a poor highway; it is astounding and unbelievable. For the six-hundred-odd miles that we followed it, and goodness knows how many miles farther to the south, it assumes every perverse and malicious human characteristic. It is moody, provoca- tive, violent, tricky, acrimonious. It mopes as it shuffles across desert, goes into tan- trums in narrow chasms, it soars in paroxysms of This is El Marmol—it has a schoolhouse fury over mountain ranges, it twists and flings itself from side to side and up and down, and repeatedly in exasperation that anyone should dare follow it so far, it stops The wrecks are frequent in the first two entirely, ending with a gesture of finality exactly in the middle hundred miles beyond Ensenada. Their drivers of nowhere. gave up; an axle snapped, gas and oil lines no You may find it again later, perhaps; perhaps not. Its cunning longer could endure the strain, and how could a is astounding. The traveler upon it forgets that it is inanimate. man replace an axleor repair a gas line ten days' He watches its moods as carefully as one must watch a rattle- walk from the nearest garage, when one can snake or a madman. And if for a single second he allows his carry only enough water on one's back, walking, thoughts to be distracted from the business of driving, the road for three days? The cars lie beside the trail, performs some unbelievable feat of terrorism, lest this foolish stripped of everything worth carrying away, little man have not enough respect for the monster whose back old models chiefly, with high wheels; no new he rides. low-slung type could possibly make it. In a But chiefly the road heckles. For in spite of all its varieties narrow crooked canyon, when cholla cactus

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly swer to our stock question, "How is the road beyond here?" Invariably the native replied: "Poco bueno, poco malo." A little good, a little bad. On those stretches where we found it possible to average ten miles an hour it was "poco bueno." On others, where we were lucky to average three miles, it was sprouted between heaps of black round boulders, "poco malo." Even the "poco bueno" at the upper end of the forty miles from the nearest lonely house, we peninsula we found a little rough. Magnify a washboard a hun- even came upon the remains of an ancient Yel- dred times and drive on it and you begin to get the idea. Then low cab, with all identification marks filed buy a carload of dynamite sticks and hurl them recklessly ahead away. We couldn't tell from what city it had of you, tearing holes in the washboard, and you will add to the been stolen, for stolen no doubt it was, and illusion. Every half mile or so hire a steam shovel and have it

could only conjecture it had been used in a scoop out a hole six feet deep, with steep crumbling sides, and

you will know what a drywash is like. The road of the padres skirts Todos Santos bay for ten or fifteen miles south of Ensenada, until Point Banda, flinging itself westward into the ocean, cuts off the cool sea breeze. Pack trains of burros, their squeaking homemade saddles overladen with firewood, stir a constant dust cloud along this stretch of high- way, and the warm air jingles with the music of small bells as the trains crawl past. Then the road turns inland toward Santo Tomas valley, where, beside three springs of cool water, the Dominican fmiles built a mission in 1791. Photo- graphing of mission sites was one of the objectives of our trip, so we pushed on into the valley, reaching the village in its center on the afternoon of the fourth of May. And arriving, we found a celebration in progress. Three young men stood at the crossroad in front of the village store, seriously lighting firecrackers and tossing them into the street. We remembered, then, that to- morrow would be the Fifth of May, Mexico's Inde- pendence Day, and that we could expect to find celebrations wherever we encountered human beings. Senor Hags explained: "It's the anniversary of the The gay young bloods of San Ignacio day twenty thousand Mexicans defeated two com- panies of the French Foreign Legion. They're very proud of it." The young men in Santo Tomas bowed politely to us, eyed our truck speculatively for a moment, then went back to their firecrackers. Across the way half a dozen young women sat and watched them ad- miringly. Farther up the street several of the older residents of the village sat or lay by the roadside, sleeping. We approached one of the young men and asked where we might find the ruins of the mission. "What mission?" he demanded, looking blankly at us and tossing a patriotic firecracker under our truck full of gasoline. "Mision Santo Tomas de Aquina," we replied. "Who knows?" he asked, and lighted another fire- cracker. We persisted. But still he refused to understand. Only when he ran out of firecrackers and stood looking S^Bf unhappily at the ground, Senor Hags rattled small silver in his pocket and asked the question again. HHP, At the sound of the money a glow of understanding suffused the young man's face. The "trucko" and a giant cardon "Here, senores," he said, "immediately behind this store. I may have the honor of displaying to you the

desperate attempt to escape. The rest is silence. ruin that you seek?"

When one leaves Ensenada, one is told, " The And there it was, not fifty yards away. Nothing is left except first fifty miles are the worst." And the farther the foundation of the ancient Dominican church, and a straw- we went, it always was the same. "The next roofed building which now contains a huge wine cask, but which fifty miles." We discovered the answer at once comprised the sleeping quarters of the missionaries— these length. The men to whom we talked never had and a handful of palms and a gnarled vineyard and the irrigation been more than fifty miles. Wouldn't they ditch. Here, as at San Vicente, El Rosario, San Fernando and naturally assume that nothing else could be the other missions, treasure hunters have practically undermined quite as bad as the section they knew? the old 'dobe walls searching for the lost gold of the padres. The Indians and scattered Mexican peones But here one meets Santo Tomas wine in its native vats. The we met were masters of undei statement. All winery lies at the north side of the fertile valley, beyond the the way down we heard the same story in an- checkerboard of ancient vineyards, kept (Continued on pige 52)

DECEMBER, 1936 15 My Old Job

little late, but Elsie. No one cracked more bad gags about generals and their chateaux. I knew instinctively that riding GREETINGS, Gang! them was an exercise the gang would excel at, if permitted. So, Unless you were spending last July in some "gas" I rode in where the gang couldn't, at least not in full voice. proof abri beyond the lines of communication, you Oh, yes, I had lots of meals with brass hats and lots of fun probably ran into that barrage of Janis bunk which kidding them, but when the day came that I was arrested by the swept all fronts. Whiz-bang headlines, registering "Elsie Janis French and sent back to Paris because they couldn't understand to give away her fortune as reason to go on living." any girl going up to amuse the soldiers, accompanied by her I hope your reaction was, "What the Hell?"—mine was. I'm mother, then did I yell for G. H. Q.? I learned that people might definitely a casualty from the backfire, but am now able to lift laugh, cry, sneer, complain, crab, and criticize, but when magic my nose out of the thousands of letters, asking for everything was to be done, orders had to come from an autograph to donations as high as two hundred and from G. H. Q. My own "magic ap- • fifty thousand bucks, and give the low-down to the only ones I'm plied for" turned out to be passes, Time: 1918; place, sure will understand and believe it —the ex-service men. blue, white, and red, signed by Gen- the Toul Sector; All my life I've been very fussy about taking the name of the eral Pershing, which leaped over present, Elsie, her Almighty in vain, so when I wanted to talk about Him in a letter beards and monocles with equal mother and the to my home-town paper, the Tarrytimu Xcics, I called Him American surety. 101st Infantry "G. H. Q." Refusing to say anything more in explanation to the They said I was to go wherever Band serenading New York papers, I had lines put in my mouth which would there was "an American soldier." I them. Opposite: have left a very bad taste, had I ever used them. never kept a date with that one guy Elsie's 1936 act, Reversing the potent quotation, "Apres moi, le deluge," I say, mentioned, but our "Gen." was far- a high spot of

"Apres le deluge, Moi," which (in case any of youse guys have seeing enough to make it possible for the Cleveland Na- forgotten—the French you used to murder so beautifully) reads in me to follow the olive drab trail, no tional Convention English "After— me, the deluge" and in my case, "After the matter whose front it led to. To me, goings-on deluge, ME" 'cause I'm still here and rarin' to go. the Army G. H. Q. immediately be- Despite all depressing rumors, I have literally millions of came "divine," because it blessed me with the right to carry reasons to live—the same millions I had in 1918, namely, the on the happiest, and by far the most important, role I had A. E. F. as it is today. Get out your cellos now, fellahs, while I ever played. explain a closer connection between my "G. H. Q." and the Now, eighteen years later, the real "Divine Power" which has A. E. F. than any of us ever felt with the Army G. H. Q., which always been asked for aid and guidance by me, suddenly becomes we all kidded and kicked about in France. "G. H. Q." because I have received definite inspiration (now No one had more gags or told more stories about the brass hats called "orders") to join up again. than Elsie. No one ever called the gang up front to sit in the I'm said to have contributed my bit of happiness to the great high-and-mighty officers' seats, because the brass hats were a war, which was supposed to be for Democracy. We found later

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"What's stopping you from doing it?" said "G. H. Q." "Well, I've got so many things I have to have money for, and I've never saved money like some folks do." "Why do you want things? Don't you remember those lines you always loved—'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal'? And," G. H. Q. almost whispered, "'for "Democracy" sounded like Greed. I'm now all set to contribute where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.'" my bit of happiness to the far greater war for Peace, which will Well, I don't have to tell youse guys that with your Army eventually have to be spelled "Love"—not the kind that in G. H. Q. orders were orders, but with mine—they are blessings. movies, plays, on the radio, in novels, and newspapers, gets the They travel on wings of light and don't specialize in the old "take billing and the dough. The kind that its original Sponsor meant it or leave it" speed, but once they hit me, all the lights, of all the when He said, "Love begets Love." theaters, in all the countries, rolled into one seemed like a pocket Here's where the A. E. F. of today enters my future on horse- flash in comparison. back, on motorcycle, on route march, on wings, and on relief. The warmth of the light started to burn out my garland of "Love begets Love"—I went to you fellows in France for love, fractures, which had changed my theme song to "From the Top and with no thought of any reward. Last year when I was of Your Head to the Tip of Your Toes, You're Out of Action." labeled "dying" in Grasslands Hospital after my smash-up, six I had learned what I came out from under that truck for. hundred and ninety-five ex-service organizations wired and wrote While fractures were mending, I sat browsing in retrospect, me because they loved me, and with no thought of reward. and realized that our other war had really killed the theater for "Love begets Love" but only when it is built on unselfishness. me. It was never the same. I didn't know why then, but now I Thanks for the use of the rostrum, fellahs. You can drop the do—I was not giving! I was doing a good job, but I was getting cellos now and get out your kazocs for a community sing. No paid—and how! fooli 1'! I left the stage and started a new career as a writer in Holly- When I was left in this spinning and dizzy world, I knew there wood, still getting paid—and double how!! I refused as high as must be a reason. I started asking my "G. H. Q." for orders. ten thousand bucks a week to return to the stage via the picture "Where do we go from here, boys?" was still my theme song, but theater route. I didn't know why I hated the idea so, but I do with a change of the last word, and a sincere Amen, in place now! of the question mark. In fact, you may have gathered that I had to meet death

When I was being put through the old cjuestionnaire, I could under a truck, dodge it. and face life through seventy-odd yards hear "G. H. Q." saying, "Who do you really love so that you of hospital bandages, to see what a swell assignment it can be if want to help without any thought of repayment?" My heart you ask for "orders," really want them, and then obey them. hopped in and beat me to the trigger: As I'm giving you the low-down, and in case any of you are "The gang, who love me that same way." still rookies enough to believe everything {Continued on page 46)

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A LL is anything but quiet today on the playroom front where THEY COME, /\ the toy soldiers are marching as to war. Armed and HERE I % equipped in modern style, these military miniatures, metal and composition, are being mustered as rapidly THE CHRISTMAS BATTALIONS as the real. It is a striking reflection of the international situa- tion. OF TIN SOLDIERS,

One German factory, the largest in the world, is making toy soldiers twenty-four hours a day. Its heavy output, marking an WITH AN ARMY OF KIDS extraordinary recovery of a trade lost in the World War, has coincided with German rearmament. A strong rival, an English AND COLLECTORS AT THEIR firm, also is extremely busy. Japan has developed its toy troops manufacture, characteristically following western models. Con- HEELS siderable exports of toy armies and arms are being made to South America for a market stimulated by each revolution. For the first time United States manufacturers recently have begun turning out toy soldiers, with the big chain stores serving as mobilization centers and requiring frequent replacements. While we are achieving quantity production, the flower of our toy troops still comes from Germany and England. Like other nations, we largely leave the toy enemy to the imagination and favor soldiers in our own uniform. Our demand is ten to one for Americans to foreigners. Yet the toymakers them-

selves are internationally- boom it caused. One maker stole a march by blacking up the minded and nowadays they are faces of sets of white soldiers. While the Italian conquest ended ready for emergencies the timely demand for that line, its historical interest will in- almost anywhere. crease its value for the collector market, particularly that of an There are no large elaborate set representing the coronation of the Emperor of nations and few small Ethiopia. And the collector market's annual aggregate of or- ones whose soldiers ders runs into thousands of dollars. are not reproduced Small boys everywhere are regarding with enthusiasm the both the famous regi- exceptionally well-stocked martial counters of the stores in this ments on parade and banner year for toy soldiers. This is shared by many fathers and regular troops of the grandfathers after certain qualms experienced in common with line in field kit. chancellors of the exchequer, whether or not they immediately Though caught some- admit to themselves that they are going to have as much fun what unprepared by with the gift battalions as their offspring. Especially good sales the war in Ethiopia, prospects are the sires and grandsires who are World War factories quickly re- veterans, for the up-to-date state of the present toy armies was sponded to the trade a long time coming.

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly When once before, in 1024, this writer con- Nations served. A set costing $100 re- stituted himself an inspector general of toy produced an extraordinary session of the troops, they were found to hark far back into League, with military and naval attaches the past. There were plenty of Roman legion- in full uniform featured and the colorful naires, knights, hussars, dragoons, Indians tlag of each delegation displayed. In those and cowboys. The latest thing in Americans years when peace, for the most part, still was khaki-clad companies and batteries whose held, most of the shooting in the United marching song was obviously "A Hot Time States was between G-men and gangsters. in the Old Town," no matter how deter- Those ununiformed contenders were un- minedly we veterans might whistle "Over suitable material for toymakers, and the There." start of a vogue for toy sub-machine guns Evidence was scant that a World War had for nursery and playroom was generally been fought six years before. Undoubtedly it frowned upon by gift purchasers. Then was a tough situation for a father who had began the rearmament race, with results just managed to work his progeny up to ask- mentioned at the beginning of this article. ing, "Daddy, what did you do in the Great Toy factories ceased to lament the vanished War?" To attempt to demonstrate with the color of old-time warfare and made the comparative antiques the toy stores then pro- most of camouflage and the new me- vided was too great a strain on the imagina- chanical aspects of Mars. tion. A veteran of the A. E. F. or anyone in the service today can Yet, under the World War impetus, sales continued heavy have few complaints of the 1036 toy armies. They reproduce not until r 028, when there was a decided slump. The rise of pacifist only 1914-18 but subsequent advances in weapons and other sentiment caused some stores to cease carrying soldiers. In- material. One is no longer limited to stiffly marching columns geniously the manufacturers turned to the less warlike aspects of and volley firing alignments; the soldiers are moulded in poses of armies. They made sets of the parades at King George's Jubilee. action. You can stage a spirited attack or raid—men charging West Point cadets became a favorite item. Even the League of with fixed bayonets and clubbed rifles, (Continued on page jo)

DECEMBER, 1936 19 LEONARD H. NASON

UPON a magnificent liner's spacious deck, his frame sup- ported by the cane depths of a deck chair, sat a hand- some young man, id est, and to wit, myself. We ain't so young, being forty-odd, and the handsomeness is a Nobody to tell matter of opinion, but anyway, there we sat, and gazed upon the us no as chow frolicking depths of the ocean, stretching blue wave upon blue call sounded wave to kiss the bluer sky way off beyond the haze. Yeh, yeh, stable litter! "I beg your pardon," says a nice lady in the next deck chair to mine. "Did you say something about a horse?" "No, lady," said I, "I don't know of a better ship, but I do "I'm sorry, ma'am," said I. "I'm what our late Britannic know of one I had a better time on. All a guy can do on this allies would call well fed up with this sanguinary boat!" floating movie palace is to stagger from bar to table to bed. Meal "Why!" exclaimed the lady. "Our most modern liner, five time becomes a horror! Steaks, pheasant, wild boar, venison; all short days of rest and enjoyment from port to port, Olympian that stuff gives a man high blood pressure! Then he wanders up Ball Room, Venetian Swimming Pool, Louis Fifteenth Lounge, to the bar to get a couple of stewards to hold his chin up while he air conditioning throughout, and you don't like it? Do you know pours alcohol down himself. That sort of thing palls. of a better ship?" "Lady, I made a trip once, where every meal was an adventure.

20 The AMERICAN' LEGION' Monthly With the help of this guy the little second looey was organizing the company

Sleep was something you looked forward to for days. Yeh, them York to see what would happen. I suppose you think this is was the happy days. And there was no lying around in a deck going to be a yarn about how hard a guy tried to get pinched and chair. When a guy was lucky enough to get his beak out of the couldn't. Not me, lady! I went to the Pennsy station to get a hatchway, aftei having watched his chance for a couple of hours, train for Camp Merritt, and more M. P.'s fell on me than I'd ever that was a day to be marked with a red letter in his diary! We seen before in my life. I had a new uniform on my mother had didn't need any captain's dinner to give us a thrill, nor no movies given me for Christmas, and it didn't have any sergeant's stripes to distract our minds. We just lay in our bunks of a night and on it yet. Well, the M. P.'s crushed me to earth with their might, wondered what minute the whole works would go skyward in one and when I got up, I made out that I was going to get a free trip great burp. When morning came down the ladder and found us to Camp Merritt. Okay by me. Once there, they marched me still alive, that was thrill enough for that twenty-four hours!" into a shack where there was a lantern- "That sounds as if you crossed during the war!" said the lady. jawed sergeant. I knew the breed; my "I've never met anyone who was in the war before. Weren't we outfit was full of 'em. a nation of fools to go into it!" "Whaddyuh doin' in New York?" "Listen, lady. You are an intelligent woman. If we hadn't says Lantern-jaw, looking me over. gone into the war, the Germans would have won it. I was there "I wasn't aoing anything," said I. at the ringside when it was won, so I speak with authority. Sup- "I'd just got off the train from Boston." pose we had held aloof? Today there'd only be three world powers, "Goddah pass?" Imperial Germany, Japan, and ourselves. If you can find any "Well, I had one but I lost it—" pleasure in that picture, then I'm the sucker a lot of people "Puddim in 57!" think!" So we went out, and across the street "Tell me about this ship you were on!" said the lady, holding to a big barbed wire stockade. There up her chin. "Did they send you a ticket, or make a reservation, were two M. P.'s with me, one with a or just how did you know the time had come, or what boat you shotgun and the other with a club. The were going to sail on?" one with the shotgun stayed outside the gate, so the prisoners wouldn't rush him WELL, lady, all I know is my own experience. I will say and take his gun away from him. that there is one advantage to this high-class ferry boat. "But I thought you said you were on All I do is raise my hand—so—and the deck steward will put into sick leave!" protests the lady. it a long glass full of some soothing distillate. I slipped him a case Please don't interrupt. The point was note the day I got on and told him I feared a death by sea-serpent to get overseas. Then when I was bite. Now about getting a ticket in war time, I don't know. I courtmartialed, I would produce my was a sergeant of field artillery in the Regular Army. I was on leave and say that all was a mistake, sick leave, being just out of hospital, and I'd heard rumors that and that would be the end of it. But at every soldier caught absent without leave around New York was that time I'd be in sunny France, see? shipped overseas instanter. Well, theM. P. with the club took me

I wanted to go to France as soon as possible, so I went to New to this barracks number 57, and out in

DECEMBER. 1936 21 front was a line of men having some kind of roll call. There was sergeant. Metzer's the a worried looking officer reading off a list. The bird with the club name, Master Sergeant whispers to him. Metzer! You're rank- "All right!" says the officer. ing sergeant, you, Ake- He was a second lieutenant. Motor Transport Corps, I could ley. Go on, Lieuten- see by his insignia. ant." "Stand down there on the end!" "Anderson, supply That isn't exactly the proper command, but I went down and sergeant! Adagio, mess stood and looked about like the rest of them were doing. There sergeant. Atwater, sergeant!" were about a hundred and fifty men there, a nice looking bunch It occurred to me to speak right up and say that I was a of boys, but they had fallen in according to their own ideas, and sergeant of the Regular Army, with a warrant and everything. not to height, so that their appearance wasn't very uniform. Then I thought I'd better wait. I'd been in the Army seven or Then the little lieutenant began to read. I found out afterward eight long months then, lady, and I'd begun to learn that the he had been commissioned because he was some kind of gasoline- urge for uninvited speech was one to quell. What a guy didn't motor expert, but being a second lieutenant, they'd given him a say never got him into trouble. So thinks I, after lunch I'll go company of casuals to shepherd to France, as long as he was around quietly and explain the situation. So when they got to going that way. my name, I wasn't even private first class. A casual, lady, was "The next command," pipes our little looey, "is that we will all a guy like me, that had adjourn to the house here and I'll give you your tents and no outfit. He'd come things." from hospital, army- " 'Ten-shun!" roars Star-and-Wreath. "Right face! At ease! school, detention by the We're gonna draw equipment. First eight men, follow me!" And civil authorities, absent he takes them into the barracks. withou t leave, sick Now while we stood there in line, and marveled upon the leave, anything. When wonders of the world, we heard bugles faintly trilling the finest they had a hundred call in the Army. I began to remember that outside of a coffee- and sixty like him, a and-sinker breakfast, I hadn't had anything to eat in the last company was formed eighteen hours. Then, from where we stood so patiently, we could and sent to France in see soldiers running, and going in to a long building. Probably accordance with that was a mess-shack, or dining hall. Since those boys carried instructions printed and no mess-kits, it looked as though eating tools would be supplied. I took a kick at him handed around. Those A man behind me looked all around for someone to ask per- were the instructions mission to leave ranks, and couldn't find anyone. Star-and- the little looey had in his hand. He was just organizing the com- Wreath and the little looey were inside, and since they'd taken pany. There was a mug beside him that had about the meanest the first eight men in line, they'd taken all our new sergeants into physog I've ever seen on a human being. This mug had some the building. kind of sergeant's stripes with a wreath and a star on his sleeve. "Whaddyuh say we go eat?" suggested someone. I'd never seen it before. I never want to see it again, either, I "They can't do nuthin' to us," said another. "We're in the ain't kiddin'! mill already." "Please answer to the roll as I call your name!" said the little "Yeh, let's go!" looey. So we went, quickly, before Star-and-Wreath should come out We all laughed. No one says "please" in the Army, lady. again. Imagine his chagrin when he did come out and found his "Cut out that laughing!" barks the star and wreath b'rd. new company gone! He gave a good guess where we were, but

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While the excitement was going on a whole bak- ing of pies for the officers' mess disappeared

"Answer t' yer names when they're called! Go ahead, Lieu- we were all elbow deep in slum when he reached the mess hall. tenant!" Tweeeet! goes his whistle. "Akeley! First sergeant!" pipes the lieutenant. "All the men in my company stand up!" he barks. No one "Here! But I ain't a first sergeant!" moves. "You are now," says the lieutenant. "I'm forming the com- "Stand up!" he roars, "or by God you'll regret it!" pany, and I'm appointing the non-commissioned officers." There were about six hundred men in that mess hall, masterless "He ain't first sergeant!" says Star-and-Wreath. "I'm first men, all of them. Those who didn't know who this mug was

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began to eat again. wall, written by the boys that were on their way. "Mike Taney, T'ell with him. So through here with the 2d Trench Mortar Battery. Please report those who did know be- me." "Tom Topping, 26th Amm. Train. Left here for France." gan to eat, too. No- There were hundreds of them, just scrawled there while the men body could take a full were waiting in line. And the other men, waiting this morning in belly away from them, the half-light, read them to pass the time, and wrote up a few whatever happened. So more. Star-and-Wreath goes They took us down the river in a ferry that nearly sank under out, to the accompaniment of many a rude sound. us, and loaded us direct from the ferry to the transport. We went Of course, feeling the way he must after that lunch, I didn't over the gangplank just like we did coming on this floating think it would be wise to tell Star-and-Wreath that I was a wedding cake. Only instead of stewards to guide us around, we sergeant. You see he would call upon me to explain why I hadn't had a bunch of gobs. stood up, and why I hadn't pointed out other members of the "Go here!" said they. "Go there!" company who had refused to stand. I decided, lady, that I might Gee, they loaded us into th~t ship like they load wheat, filling have to make the trip to France as a private. You see I had a up all the corners nice and tight so the cargo wouldn't shift, and

three months' sick leave in my pocket, and if the situation got then leaving half a hundred boys loose on the ladders, to work tense at any time, all I had to do was to show it and they couldn't their way down as the cargo settled. shoot me for deserting, but maybe the time to declare my real The ship was some former German liner, not a very big one identity wasn't right then. So I held my peace. I was just either. Anyway, the name of it now was the Powhatan. The naval Private Nason, a casual, than which there is no more pitiful authorities knew how many bunks they had available, and when object that roams this earth. Well, well, you'll learn all about that many men had come aboard, the gangplank was hauled in, that! "But what did you do for baggage?" asks the lady. "Where was your suitcase all this time? You haven't said a word about your trunk!"

Well, I was coming to it. We didn't carry much hand baggage. My total was a toothbrush, a razor, and a piece of soap. In the barrack, as soon as we came back from lunch, they issued us what we were to take to France, three blankets to sleep in, a mess-kit to eat out of, two suits of underwear, two pairs of shoes, a tin hat, an identification tag so the police would know who we were when we got arrested, and a tent to wrap all this stuff in. I was stand- ing beside the table with my arms full when Star-and-Wreath parks a great big rifle, complete with bayonet, in my arms. It was a cursed thing, called the U. S. magazine ritle model i g 1 7 officially, but all kinds of things, including the Enfield, by the soldiery.

"Hey," said I, "I'm an artilleryman! The artillery don't carry rifles!" "Move on!" says he.

"Hey, I said I was an artilleryman. What am I going to do with a rifle?"

"Yuh're gonna take it tuh France!" says Star-and-Wreath.

"Yuh think I don't know what artillerymen carry? I was in the Army before you was pupped! If you don't drag yuh frame away from in front of this table, I'll do somethin' with that rifle; I'll wrap it around your neck like a muffler!" "You can't confine him unless he's mentality like that. Well, there's no use trying to reason with a violent," he tells the lieutenant I decided definitely at that time that I wouldn't let on I was a sergeant. After all there wouldn't be any K.P. to do, nor any pits to dig, and maybe the U. S. Army could get along for the next and we were ready. This was about noon. Now at noon a young two weeks without my assistance in my proper grade. soldier's fancy turns to food, no matter where he is. We could We moved fast in that casual outfit, lady, faster than I ever smell slum being cooked somewhere, and soon some chow hound moved before or since. had run the source of the smell to earth. So at once we lmed up They kept us up all with mess kits. Not having any tables to eat off of, lady, and hav- night, drawing equip- ing only one to serve from, every time a guy ate he had to spend ment, issuing service half the day in line waiting to be served. This was so all over the records, getting a shot Army, especially on the transports. That's why we had such good in the arm, and just appetites and didn't have to have our food set out on a table like mucking around. Day- the chef does here, all fixed with fancy designs in sugar. Nah, break we had a show- well, we were all lined up, waiting for chow. Breakfast at day- down inspection, made break gives a guy an empty feeling at noon. The chow line was so up our packs, had break- long—I swear there were six hundred men in it—that it ran fast, and away over the down the deck clear to the stern and up the other side. It went cliffs to a ferry. down alleyways, up ladders, around deck houses. The head of it That last breakfast was just under the forehatch, where there was a table full of hash was a little sad. We and good old navy punk—bread to you, lady. About quarter to were marched to a one it began to move. A cheer went up. The ship began to move, different mess-shack, too. Another cheer went up. Those of us who were around the one apparently used deckhouse could see hash going into mess kits and coffee being only for the last meal, poured, although we were still a hundred or so men away, be- Somehow the 'i Ml like a condemned man's cause the line took a long loop down the port alleyway.

l ast dinner. It had pen- The ship began to move, said I. They had cast off the lines rifle just went ,j if I overboard %/ cil marks all over the and we were backing out into the stream. {Continued on page jg)

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1 A hot summer afternoon in ONGreen Bay, Wisconsin, seven- teen years ago, a former Notre Dame football star entered the sanctum of a high official of the packing company for which he worked. "Will you furnish a bunch of us boys with uniforms?" he asked. "I think we can get a good team together. We'll call ourselves 'The Packers,' and it will be good advertising for your firm." The official looked up bewildered from the sheaf of papers before him. He couldn't understand why his young em- ploye, E. L. (Curley) Lambeau, desired to start a baseball team so late in the season. "I mean football," quickly explained the caller. The official looked surprised, for in those days professional football did not command much public interest. He hesi- tated a minute, then "Come back in a few weeks, Lambeau," he replied, again busying himself with his papers. "This idea is new to me. I want to think it over." So the young man waited, and mean- while remained watchful for promising football material. After several weeks the persistent youth again called on the packing company official. The football season was almost at hand, and other teams had already put in several weeks of practice. A brief conversation ensued. "All right," agreed the official. "We'll take a chance on you lads. You can count Far from home, the Green Bay Packers on us for the uniforms." with Blood carrying the ball in a sweep Young Lambeau then hastened to the home of the local post commander of The American Legion, who agreed to take up the matter of sponsoring birds was a favorite pastime, because the collections were often the team. The idea was enthusiastically received by the Ameri- inadequate even to buy hamburgers and coffee for the players can Legion members, and E. L. Lambeau started on his coaching after the game. Twenty-five dollars was regarded as a mag- career which was destined to attract attention of fans from coast nificent collection for some of those early encounters. to coast, and to give The American Legion credit for backing one But Lambeau refused to give up his idea, and the Legion post of the greatest professional football teams ever assembled. stood by him. The records attained by his team spurred him on. Following a week of stiff practice in the fall of 1919, the Green In their first year, the Packers won ten out of eleven games, Bay Packers made their home debut in an old field adjoining a scoring 565 points and holding their opponents to eighteen. In brewery. Nobody realized then that out of the nucleus of those the following year they won nine games, lost one and tied one. first eleven players, among whom Curley Lambeau was included, The Green Bay Packers today are organized as a corporation would grow a top flight pro football team. and share their profits with The American Legion, which stood In those early days the team and its backers hardly dared to by them so staunchly in the lean years. Curley Lambeau is him- charge admission to its games. Late in each game one of the sub- self a member of the Legion, and a graduate of a hotbed of foot- stitutes would circulate in the crowd with a hat. The spectators ball—Notre Dame. would part with anything from a penny up, or suddenly become In ig32 when the Green Bay Packers played the New York engrossed in a bird flying overhead. Apparently watching the Giants at Yankee Stadium in New York more than 40,000 people

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly palms slap nearby neighbors with re- sounding whacks between the shoulder blades. The crowd resembles a bunch of college boys. Consider for a moment the success this team has had—coming as it does from the smallest city in the pro league. After battling first division teams in the National Professional Football League for many years, the Packers finally came through and won three successive world championships in 1029, 1030 and 1031. The team copped almost twice as many games as its nearest rivals in 1033. but lost the championship to the Chicago Bears, because of the rating system used in the league that year. In 1934 the team also placed high in the standings. Then in 1033 they lost the championship to the Detroit Lions by but one game, after whipping the Lions twice during the regular season. If you were to ask most college foot- ball stars which pro team they would like to play on, most of them would invariably answer, "The Green Bay Packers." There are many reasons for such a choice. Not only has the team one of the smartest

football coaches in America, but it has spirit. And while the players naturally get paid for performing, this spirit is what makes them like to play for Lambeau and his Packers. The Packers have on their roster such famous college stars as Don Hutson, Alabama, Clark Hinkle, Bucknell, Ade show Hawaii a bit of pro football, Schwammel, Oregon, Buckets Golden- around end, Hinkle blocking burg and Milt Gantenbein, Wisconsin, Arnie Herber of St. Regis, Hank Bruder, Northwestern, Roger Grove and Bob witnessed the game. The cash receipts were close to $100,000. Monnette, Michigan State, and many others. In the years that followed the Packers played to many other Coach Lambeau says that many of his men who have been 40,000 crowds. This proves that the Wisconsin pigskin toters are out of the lineup in various games because of injuries, have one of the best drawing cards in the game. Even in their home begged him at crucial points in star games to permit them to city the Packers draw 15,000 in a small stadium, a far cry from play. If these boys were only out for the money, it would seem the meager crowds of 200 to 300 people who witnessed the first most logical that they would not be so magnanimous as to risk games in 1919. further injury. Any fan who watches the Green Bay Packers in Although the Packers had few followers when they first began action knows that the team's will to win is one of the reasons it playing football, they now have the entire State of Wisconsin goes on year after year copping most of its games against the behind them. To mention "Packers" to any Wisconsin football strongest kind of competition. fan evokes the same respect and attention as does the mention Curley Lambeau had the honor of playing half back on one of Allah to a devout Mohammedan, or the smell of fried chicken of the late Knute Rockne's first Notre Dame teams. Rockne at to a colored veteran. When the Packers execute a smart play, this time had just taken over the coaching reins, and was em- and one of their shifty, powerful backs goes racing down the field barking upon one of the greatest collegiate coaching careers in the for a touchdown about $5000 worth of fall felt hats sail high, history of the country. And the young, husky Lambeau, who thousands of throats become hoarse from shouting, and broad packed a sharp, cool brain as well as (Continued on page 58)

DECEMBER, 1036 25 Joyce Kilmer

Emmett Watson

In alien earth, across a troubled sea, His body lies that was so fair and young. His mouth is stopped, with half his songs unsung;

His arm is still, that struck to make men free. But let no cloud of lamentation be Where, on a warrior's grave, a lyre is hung. We keep the echoes of his golden tongue, We keep the vision of his chivalry. —Joyce Kilmer: "In Memory of Rupert Brooke."

FIRST met Joyce Kilmer in the badly-ventilated cubbyhole I which had once been the third-class saloon on the former German steamship Amerika. Renamed the America and converted to serve as a transport, she was carrying to France that early November in 19 17 a large part of the 165th Infantry Regiment, then as now referred to as the "Fighting Sixty-ninth" because the majority of its members were of that famous Irish unit of the New York National Guard. Some enterprising enlisted man had called together a group of eight or ten soldiers with a background of civilian experience to

suggest the establishment of a divisional newspaper. I had been

invited because I was by profession an artist, Kilmer by reason of his having served on the staff of the New York Times. I still can recall him sitting quietly, puffing at the old blackened pipe which he smoked ceaselessly, taking no part in the discussion. Observation post, Rouge Vetu, where Kilmer spent

His war letters, published after his death, make it clear why he many hours of duty in the Baccarat sector. This and exhibited no enthusiasm over the journalistic project. He had the accompanying drawings are from the wartime joined the war to be an active combatant, a front-line fighter. sketch-book of his detachment-mate, Emmett Watson

After all, a devoted family head would hardly leave a beloved wife and four children, sacrificing a fine income from a career which was steadily raising his literary prestige nationally, merely to continue his civilian vocation wearing an army uniform. Nothing came of the newspaper proposal, and I did not see Kilmer again that I remember until he joined the small and select group that was the Intelligence Section of the Regimental Head- quarters Company in the Baccarat sec-

Kilmer's temporary tor around May 1, grave (right), on a 1918. For reasons hillside overlooking presently to be made the Ourcq. The grave clear, I was not alone of Lieutenant Oliver in first resenting the Ames, killed the day circumstances under before Kilmer, is be- which he joined our

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly other reason it took Kilmer a week or two to become a spiritual buddy of our unit. Kilmer had enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of the New York National The Legion Honors Guard, known as New York City's silk-stocking regiment. About September ist a large number of the Seventh were chosen to bring the ranks of the 69th The Memory of to war strength during hasty reorganization at Camp Mills before em- up Joyce Kilmer barkation as a unit of the Rainbow Division. Not until long after the war did I know that Kilmer had originally been accepted for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps but had resigned to enlist as a National Guard private because By John Black he could not spare the time to go to Phttsburg. That he Was not among the contingent from the Seventh on the basis of first selection is indicated by a Founder and Past Commander, Sergeant sentence in "Father Duffy's Story." The beloved regimental chaplain writes, Joyce Kilmer Post, Brooklyn, Nejv York "As he had put the matter in my hands, Kilmer did not come over with the men from the Seventh, but I had the matcer of his transfer arranged after a short delay." JOYCE KILMER, American poet, had he lived, would be fifty years old this Until the tragedy at Rocroi in the Luneville sector in March, when an enemy coming December 6th. He died in ac- minnenwerfer shell wrecked a strong-point dugout entombing twenty-one men tion in France on July 30, 1918. During the and inspiring his poem, "Rouge Bouquet," Joyce Kilmer had not been re- eighteen years that have passed since the garded as a regimental personality. Young poets at best are known only war. Kilmer's reputation has grown steadily. within literary circles, and generally speaking members of the old 6qth were He is our national poet of the World War. not literarily inclined. Although Kilmer's "Trees" had been acclaimed several Yet, in a more intimate and personal sense, he is the veteran's poet. The members of years earlier, I think it had not been set to music then, and in any event the The American Legion, and, beyond the Le- poem lacked the robustness of Kipling and Service, which was the prized gion, veterans everywhere irrespective of af- poetic fare of most soldiers who "went in" for poetry. filiation, have accepted him as symbolic of burial service of the victims, Kil- But "Rouge Bouquet," read at the made the highest type of war's sacrifice. mer an outstanding man in the regiment. The beauty of the thought and Today, half a century after his birth, he lines somehow penetrated to the minds of the dullest among us. Company is honored by a group of posts that are clerks hastened to make copies. Most such copies lacked proper punctuation proud to bear his name. There are five and some errors were made in copying the words. But almost every man in Kilmer posts in The American Legion; these are located in five States, spread half-way the regiment eventually treasured a copy of "Rouge Bouquet." Word spread across the country. The oldest is Sergeant that a famous writer was in the ranks of the 60th. Kilmer became known as Joyce Kilmer Post No. 55, of Brooklyn, "the guy who was going to write a book on the 6qth." New York, which was organized by this Originally a member of Company H upon his transfer to the 6gth from the writer immediately after the St. Louis Caucus Seventh, Kilmer was soon made a member of the Headquarters Company. in 1919; this post received its charter on This was after an invalid daughter had died and a son had been born w ithin June 28, 1919. Four years later, Joyce Kil- the compass of a few days. In an intimate letter quoted by Holliday, he wrote mer Post No. 107 was formed at St. Paul, Minnesota; the charter of this post is dated of the exchange of his duties from hard drill to clerical work that the former February 8. 1923. Then six years elapsed had been "most deadening to the brain, a useful anodyne for one, coming as and on February 4, 1929. a charter was is- it did after my grief." sued to Joyce Kilmer Post No. 25, at New From Mills until some time after we took over the Baccarat sector, Camp Brunswick, N. J., where Kilmer was born. Kilmer assisted the regimental adjutant, a job he performed meticulously, Finally, last year, two more Kilmer posts boring as clerical work must have been to a highly imaginative mind. In were formed—Post No. 780 in Chicago, on another of his letters from France he reported that someone had made the February 1st, followed quickly, on February remark that he had "a bullet-proof job." 21st, by Post No. 316 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. "I had one," he wrote, "but succeeded, after two months intriguing, in Through the commemorative activities of getting rid of it. At that time I was just an office hack—now I am a soldier, these posts, and, more broadly, through in the most fascinating branch of the service there is sheer romance, night — Legion activities as a whole, the heroic im- night. life the finest job in the Army." and day—especially Wonderful — plications of Kilmer's life and death have To the rest of us in the Intelligence Section, our jobs {Continued on page 66) received an ever-w idening recognition. "Trees" itself has lent added significance and im- petus to the use of trees as war memorials to our hero dead. City parks, public squares, even a great national park have been named for Joyce Kilmer. A few years ago Sergeant Joyce Kilmer Post of Brooklyn dramatized Kilmer's "Rouge Bouquet" and more recently pre- sented it in a radio broadcast. The New Brunswick Post has bought Kilmer's birth-

place to preserve it for posterity as a literary shrine. We are growing toward Joyce Kilmei through the years. The future will but bring him closer, quickening us always to a clearer and deeper appreciation of his life, his genius, his sacrifice. Now, as his fiftieth birthday draws near, he stands before us as an im- mortal example of a man who died for an ideal. I know I am but voicing the thought of all of us when I say that we of the Kil- mer posts of the Legion salute Joyce Kilmer on his natal day and dedicate ourselves anew to consecration of his memory as a great -i»ir 7... American heritage. Rainbow O.P. shack, Baccarat sector, vvhere Kilmer wrote his last poem, "The Peacemaker"

DECEMBER, 1936 , — HOOSEGOW HERMAN Proves Another Argument for Preparedness By Wallgren

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The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — * EDITORIAL* "As Well As Men To Fight"

THE weeks since the Eight- but that, like so many beautiful INeenth National Convention THE LEGION'S STAND ideals, it is utterly incapable of being of The American Legion at put into practice. This often-used Cleveland where the Universal ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE reasoning is really based on the the- Draft Resolution reproduced on ory that mankind has not progressed this page was adopted, "the exist- VV7HEREAS, the existing inter- as far up from the monkey as it ing international situation" has national situation is again likes to think, that that Old Debbil threatening the peace of the world tightened up a couple of notches. Human Nature is going to sink us to such an extent that it behooves to peace is all The threat world more this representative gathering of lower than a whale's heels in the insistent, more pressing, than it has American citizens to take cogni- end. Possibly so, but all the more been at any time since the early zance thereof; and reason, then, that we put off that summer of 1914. This, of course, is doleful day as long as we can. The Whereas, The American Legion a truism that everybody knows, rottener we are, the more ideals we has continuously, since its organiza- like most truisms, everybody should cling to to and, tion, advocated a Universal Service and try build into accepts it fatalistically and does Act, providing for the draft of being before the night submerges little or nothing about it. And this capital, industry, and man power, us. particular truism has the unfortu- as well as men to fight, in the The Legion has always conceded event of a national emergency or nate characteristic of getting truer the existence of practical difficul- actual war; and every minute. ties in the operation of Universal Insofar as the United States is Whereas, notwithstanding these Service, but it has maintained concerned (and that is as far as any years of continuous efforts by The equally that no one of these difficul- American Legion on behalf of this of us wants to go or ought to go), ties is insuperable. War itself in- principle, the only favorable action The American Legion proposes to volves considerable practical diffi- to date has been the passing of a get something done about it. The bill by the House of Representa- culties, all of which have to be sur- Legion has been urging for seven- tives of the Congress embodying, in mounted if victory is to be assured. teen years that something should be part, the recommendations of The And in these days of wars in which American Legion; and done about it. It has voiced its every side loses (and every future insistence as national convention war will fall within that unpleasant Whereas, The American Legion followed national convention; it feels that the enactment of this category) victory imposes perhaps has placed its appeal before Con- principle into law will be a most the most practical difficulties of all. gress and before the American effective contribution to the pro- We know that the pendulum cannot motion and preservation of peace, people. It is going to keep right on stop at the highest point of its therefore doing these things until it gets swing. We know that the lavish action. spending, the lavish profits, the Be it resolved, that the Eight- The principle of Universal Ser- eenth National Convention of The lavish wages of wartime find, a few vice is simply stated. War offers a American Legion demands that the years later, their inevitable reac- universal service be glorious opportunity for the profi- principle of tion in tightly-drawn purse-strings presented to the forthcoming ses- in his best licks, which (with precious little in the teer to get sion of the Congress as a major purse), alone is a powerful incentive to war. point in the legislative program of in dividendless stocks, in thinner War, thanks to its feverish industrial this organization to the end that pay envelopes or no pay envelopes immediate action may be had there- demands and its plucking of mil- at all. Not a spree without its on, so that the principle of "equal lions of men from their peace-time morning after. Not a thing that service for all, special profits and jobs for combat service, creates a privileges for none" may be enacted goes up but must come down. labor shortage that sends wages by the Congress and approved by Beware, then, the gentleman with in advance of any skyrocketing. War puts rifles on the President the red herring attempting to drag national emergency or war. the shoulders of the millions whom it across the trail that leads to a it takes for combat service and pays victory for Universal Service. Along each of them a dollar a day. The with his herring, though it may not aim of Universal Service is to equal- be in plain sight, he carries an axe ize this burden (1) as an act of That does not mean that there a special private and particular and obvious and simple justice, (2) for have not been and will not be argu- ready-ground axe which is all set to the more efficient conduct of hostili- ments against it. It does mean that hack down the tree of war profits ties, and (3) as a war preventive. none of this opposition will be direct. any time the opportunity comes. Any one of these three benefits It will be guided gently and skil- The axe-toter likes nothing better would justify the Legion's attitude. fully alongside the issue, not square than a debate, and he runs that de- All three of them together es- at it. The American people and bate just the way he wants to. tablish a case so strong that no The American Legion will be told, Tell him that, so far as Universal man would dare openly argue as they have repeatedly been told, Service is concerned, there is no against it. that the ideal is positively beautiful, other side.

DECEMBER, 1936 29 COMING- OUT

Helen Cieciura talks things over with Service Officer Cornelius Bregoff of James J. Tappen Post, Staten Island, New York. A doctor steps in. Verdict: Helen ought to get rid of her tonsils. P. S. Helen does. At left, operating room in the clinic hospital owned and operated by Wellsville (Ohio) Post

for a dry-dock company. Seems a school nurse discov- ered that Helen and Steve had tonsils that ought to be attended to. So today they have turned up at the big brick building of the Staten Island Hospital.

And now the doctor is about to find out for sure. If he says operations are necessary, it has been arranged with

the hospital to go ahead. James J. Tappen Post of The American Legion will foot the -bill for that. Cornelius Bregoff, the post's Service Officer, with Post Commander Art 0. Hedquist and a hard-working committee, care- fully investigates each case before the Legion's money is to be spent. The Commander told your correspondent that it's one of the "best kind of things a Legion post possibly could do." New York City has a fund to dis- cover what kids ought to have tonsil and adenoid opera- tions—but the city doesn't have a fund to pay for the

operations. When James J. Tappen Post found out about this they got busy. The hospital does its valiant bit by making the price lower than bed-rock. NOCK! Knock!" says the patient. Commander Hedquist dug out the Cieciura applications from "Who's there?" says the doctor. the files. The income for this family of seven—when the father "Helen." has work—is $27 a week. With two of the kids requiring tonsil K "Helen who?" dent would have to in that $27. The operations, quite a be made "Helen Cieciura, doctor." committee voted yes on this application. ("Cieciura" is pronounced almost like "sees-you-'re-a"—we Then the Commander picked up another application. It was oughtn't to have to diagram it for you.) from a municipal employe. Wanted to have an operation on one

The doctor has to ask a few more questions, of course, that of his youngsters and claimed he could not afford it. His claim aren't usually in the game. To these other queries Helen answers was that he had seven children to support and was making less that she is twelve and that her brother Steve is ten. They live than $1800 a year. The Legion committee investigated and found at 368 Morningstar Road, in Elm Park, Staten Island, New York that he was making $2025 a year and had only three children to City. There are three other kids in the family. Their dad works support. The Commander wrote with a green crayon in capital

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly letters "DISAPPROVED" on this ViaM- to fakfe Hdra chance -Tto afraid I'd um Calhoun, once of Evacuation Hos- f " application. ( \>r, I ik2 t|ou did I've tee* +0 so pitals 4, 7, 22 and 16, A. E. F.. The clinic is not confined to the live -tuvKe^ who direct the clinic. children of veterans. It is a com- tor Wfbsts ^ *Mr Th bec\iVminq munity affair for the neighbor- \o qobble in tv\ij We Have the Hill hood. Sleep!.'

Legion recognized the need and this is the answer," declares Upon completion of the Post's new home it was decided to

Post Commander J. Perry Heckel. The hospital adjoins the decorate the walls with three historical murals depicting scenes Legion home proper, to which it is connected by a sun porch. from the battle, the Army in the World War, and the Navy in the

The Battle of Bunker Hill, as depicted by Solomon Levenson—one of three historical murals that lend distinction to the new home of Bunker Hill Post of Charlestown, Massachusetts

The operations themselves come pretty near being all-Legion World War. The work was entrusted to Solomon Levenson as affairs. Included in the post's membership are Dr. E. P. Neitz, a Federal Art Project. late captain, Medical Corps, A. E. F., and Nurse Jennie Perry At the recent unveiling of the murals the Post entertained as

DECEMBER, 1936 31 many descendants of the men who fought at Bunker Hill as it Johnson is Post Adjutant, and Herman W. Johnson is Post could discover. As a result the post and its activities were satis- Finance Officer. No one of the trio is related to any of the others. factorily introduced to a group of Americans most of whom had "Allah be praised," reports Adjutant Johnson, "there are no previously entertained only the vaguest notions of what The more Johnsons in the post." American Legion was all about. Any mention of Bunker Hill should, of course, include a refer- All Present ence to the tolerably familiar story of the American soldier who, in company with a Tommy, was inspecting an exhibit of battle INSTALLATIONS of post officers provide color and ceremony trophies in a London military museum. for post meetings. At the beginning of a new Legion year, "Here," said the Tommy, "is a group of flags which the hard- your outfit might profit by the experience of Navy Post of fighting British Grenadiers captured at Bunker Hill." Chicago, which last October sent out a call for all its Past Post "That's all right," said the Yank. "You keep the flags and Commanders to attend the installation. Result: Eighteen Past we'll keep the hill." Commanders present, none missing.

Plenty, Says Johnson More About Music

STRANGER who was watching a big-time soccer game near LEGIONNAIRE Albert Grossman of Baltimore, Maryland, A J. Glasgow yelled "Hey, Mac, have a smoke!" and was J rises to second the motion of C. D. Locklin of Grand Forks, mobbed by a hundred thousand spectators and both teams. You North Dakota, in favor of more American Legion post choruses. would get yourself into a jam something like that if you attended "Maccabean Post here has a chorus of more than forty voices," a meeting of Naval Post of Philadelphia and yelled "Hey, John- writes Mr. Grossman. "It includes mixed voices, members of son!" Russell H. Johnson is Post Commander, Charles M. the Auxiliary as well as Legionnaires. It was organized in 1933 M

in the pages of the depart- Following the Armistice he became the HERE,ment which he created and paper's authority on the going-home which he had conducted with situation, which threatened to pro- high distinction ever since the duce a crisis in morale owing to the establishment of this magazine more than generally-held and diametrically-op- ten years ago, is a fitting place in which posed theories that everybody could get to wish Godspeed to the spirit of Philip aboard a transport inside the next two Von Blon, Managing Editor of The weeks and that nobody could get aboard American Legion Monthly, who answered inside the next two years. Von Blon, the last roll-call on October 7 th at New with the co-operation of Headquarters, Rochelle, New York, following an illness S. O. S., obtained accurate and authentic of six weeks. data on the troopship situation which, if The factual data of his career have been it dispelled more roseate hopes, was carried throughout the country by the equally effective in raising the spirits of wire services, and need be only briefly re- the extreme pessimists—everybody, at capitulated here, with such additions as any rate, now knew just what to expect, are particularly pertinent to a Legion- and the promises made in the story were naire audience. Born June 16, 1889, at scrupulously lived up to. Upper Sandusky, Ohio (where, on Octo- Early in May, 1919, several members Stripes, was approached by the powers of ber 10th last, funeral services were con- of the editorial staff sailed for America to The American Legion, whose fledgling ducted under the auspices of Wyandot initiate The Home Sector, subtitled "A Weekly, initiated on July 4, 1919, had Post), Philip Von Blon was educated in Weekly for the New Civilian," which failed to achieve any altitude records and his home town and in Ohio State Uni- Von Blon was to join following the furl- was floundering in low spirals. Ross was versity. From here, in 191 2, he went to ing of The Stars and Stripes, an event faced with the choice of attempting to Cleveland to join the staff of the Plain which was to take place (and did) with raise The Home Sector itself off the ground Dealer. In the spring of 191 7 he enlisted the issue for June 13th. Von Blon was in or of taking his whole staff with him to in the Lakeside Hospital Unit, which full editorial charge of these final num- The American Legion Weekly. A staff embarked immediately for England and bers, the last of which included the only vote which he thereupon conducted de- France, reaching Rouen on May 25th as rotogravure section which the army cided in favor of the latter plan. the first element of the A. E. F., some paper ever issued. So the move was made, and the staff weeks before General Pershing's arrival The Home Sector flourished amazingly remained intact until Ross's departure in at St. Nazaire. until the late fall, when it became an in- 1924 to establish The New Yorker. Von The following February The Stars and nocent bystander in the printers' strike of Blon became Managing Editor of the Stripes, official newspaper of the A. E. F., 1919. For four weeks no Home Sectors Weekly, a position which he occupied was established, and three months later appeared; when, late in December, pub- until June, 1926, when, with the change Von Blon (then a sergeant, and subse- lication was resumed, most of the original to The American Legion Monthly, he con- quently elevated regimental sergeant impetus had been lost. Whether The tinued in the same editorial capacity. major) joined its staff. He covered Home Sector would have finally won Von Blon's particular charge, with the numerous assignments at the front, in- through will never be known, for early in founding of the Monthly, was a department cluding the summer fighting along the 1920 its editor, H. W. Ross, late private, of inspirational Legion chronicle and Marne and the Ourcq and various phases A. E. F., first of the 18th Engineers comment which was christened "Keep- of the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. (Railway) and then of The Stars and ing Step." This department was intended

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly and is now giving concerts all over the State. In addition, the later execution. The depression was a powerful factor in halting post has a string orchestra, recently organized, and a drum corps many projects which were well on the way when the country had of our squadron of the Sons of The American Legion. Don't get to put itself on short rations. the idea, however, that ours is a musicians' outfit. Ninety-five Legion posts are again debating and doing paperwork on percent of the singers and musicians are tyros and none are pro- memorial projects, and many of these are getting to the pick and fessionals. The chorus has sung before many critical audiences shovel stage. Out in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, for example, and has won in competitions." Wyandot Post is preparing to erect a 50-foot reproduction of the Washington Monument in a park beside the Lincoln Highway. Legion Hill And in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Burt Foster Post is engaged in carrying out a novel World War memorial project whose cen- THE World War Memorial Roll, the alphabetical list of a tral feature is a mound eighteen feet high and sixty-five feet wide, town's service men painted on the side of a building or according to Post Publicist John J. Rule. framed under glass, multiplied in iqiq and 1920, along with con- "Our Post Chaplain, Ralph Whitehead, an authority on Indian crete or bronze statues of doughboys. The early improvised and other relics, proposed a year ago that we construct a mound memorial roll usually disappeared when a community provided a in Renzihausen Park," writes Mr. Rule. "The post didn't take more enduring tablet of bronze, or dedicated a park, a boulevard it seriously at first, but the Auxiliary conducted a tag day which or a bridge as a permanent memorial to its sons who served in furnished enough money for a start and the WPA listed the mem- 191 7 and 1918. Kansas City, Indianapolis, and other cities set orial as a minor project. high standards for the rest of the country by establishing memo- "Dreamer Whitehead talked the city council and the park rial plazas graced by towers and impressive buildings. In count- commission into giving the Legion a hill in the park comprising less other communities, World War memorial projects were about 600,000 square feet of ground. It was lop-sided and cov- talked of, only to be shelved or postponed for a more propitious ered with oddly assorted trees, weeds {Continued on page 62) Philip Vo n Blon

department in the much-credit-is-due- rated sections of a host city. It was a par- the-entertainment-committee fashion, ticularly brutal irony that his last illness

but with Von Blon supervising it it should have prevented his attendance at quickly became a news department in the Eighteenth National Convention at a finer, broader, more vital sense. An in- Cleveland last September—an affair that stance of its success which he liked to cite would have been to him a double home- was that of a Legion post situated far coming.

from any hospital facilities which in- It became the Monthly's custom, as it

augurated and saw through a campaign had been the Weekly's before it, to pub- for the purchase of a community ambu- lish every year a comprehensive bio- lance. "Keeping Step" published an ac- graphical sketch of the incoming Na- count of the activity and a picture of the tional Commander. The majority of ambulance. Four years later, in 1930, an these were the work of Von Blon. In ad- accurate survey disclosed that 260 posts dition he had written scores of Legion of The American Legion had provided as activity articles, both in the field and in many ambulances for their communities, the busy Washington sector. Two valu- and since that time the number has prob- able summaries of Federal and state ably at least doubled. The gain to com- legislation which the Monthly has pub- to be, and has ever since remained, the munities, the saving of life, that resulted, lished in recent years were prepared under heart of the magazine—the core around cannot be estimated, but they have been his direction and were in large measure which the rest of the book is wrapped. due to two factors—the original idea, the work of his hand. As a result of this Sometime after the establishment of the adopted and put through by one Legion intensive activity, it is wholly safe to Monthly the department heading was post, and the dissemination of that idea in say that there was in the United States abandoned and a distinctive title, based the columns of "Keeping Step." And no person better informed on Legion on the first story in the department, was scores of comparable instances could be and veteran affairs than Philip Von given to each succeeding instalment, but cited. Blon. apart from this single departure the de- With the Cleveland National Conven- How severe a loss his passing is, from partment remains as it was originally de- tion of 1920, Von Blon assumed the an- the point of view of The American Legion signed (and is still, in fact, known in this nual assignment of recording for the and its official magazine, is obvious from office as "Keeping Step"). Weekly and then for the Monthly the the above recital. The war taught all of Under Von Blon's direction, "Keeping chronicle of successive conventions. He us who shared in it the bitter lesson that Step" developed into an ever-flowing reported sixteen of these with no break no man is indispensable. Soon or late, spring of Legion inspiration. It was not in the sequence—reported them graph- the world must get on without us. But concerned with initiating Legion enter- ically, tersely, accurately—a remarkable his associates on the Monthly know that prises (which would have been sheer journalistic record when one considers Philip Von Blon more nearly approached effrontery on the Monthly's part), but the dozens of committee and sub-com- indispensability than any one among with passing word of these along so that mittee meetings, the hundreds of thou- them. From his tirelessness, his con- other posts might adopt worthwhile ideas sands of spoken words, that make a Legion scientiousness, his devotion, his intelli- that had been put into successful prac- national convention, to say nothing of gence, his balance, his thoroughness, his tise by posts four thousand miles away parades, banquets, competitions, and integrity, they may all hope to derive or posts in the next county. The depart- dozens of special features conducted inspiration as the ranks close. ment was never intended to be a news often at the same time in widely-sepa- John T. Winterich

DECEMBER, 1936 33 PEACE on Earth, Good Will toward Men—and the roar of guns in Europe; the Star of Bethlehem —and star-shells lighting up the front lines so that men might see to slay one another. But the spirit of Christmas was not forgotten entirely during the World War. At the time of that first Christmas after we entered the fighting nineteen years ago, there were less than 200,000 American soldiers on the other side. Avail- able shipping even then was a problem, but with no restric- »>•) tions placed on the sending of Christmas packages, most of those men received from three to four packages each, with an average combined total weight of twenty-five pounds. We got to thinking about this subject when the picture ,bct at the top of the opposite page came to us from Legionnaire VO 3« S. A. Rosenberg of Clarksburg, West Virginia. It was taken at one of the piers at the Port of Embarkation in Hoboken, New Jersey, and shows the thousands of sacks of letters and packages that were awaiting shipment to the A. E. F. for the first Christmas that our men spent overseas. If such an acreage of Christmas mail accumulated for the 200,000 men then in Europe, you will understand why the powers- Armistice come six weeks earlier, probably there would have been that-were in the War Department scratched their respective no such restrictions. heads when they contemplated the mountains of Christmas Now, of course, the men of the A. E. F. and their home folks packages that would have to be transported to the 2,000,000 will remember the order which provided that each man overseas troops that had reached the other side by the late fall of 1918. could receive one Christmas package from home, and that that With all available tonnage loaded to capacity with men, with package could not exceed 9x4x3 inches in size and could not ex- food and clothing, with machinery, munitions and other vitally ceed three pounds in weight. As a further reminder, though, we needed supplies, the prospect of shipping Christmas packages in reproduce the coupon, of which complete distribution was made unrestricted quantities —one to a man—so that it might be mailed to the person at was a problem to con- home from whom a package could be expected. For those men sider. with no home ties, the Red Cross played Santa Claus. To deny to the fight- Of course a cry arose as to what could be stowed into so re- ing men the happiness of stricted a container. The Stars and Stripes invited its readers to receiving and to the home submit suggestions for the contents of the ideal 9x4x3 Christmas folks of sending gifts for package. That A. E. F. newspaper considered this "one of the that Christmas of 1918 problems of the war—a major operation, if there ever was one." might have been a serious The consensus of opinion seems to have been summed up in this blow to general morale. letter from a top-kick of an Engineer outfit: "A fountain pen, a After close figuring there wrist watch, a pipe?—well, maybe. But certainly some home- issued forth from G. H. made fudge, some chocolate, some snapshots or pictures of the

Q. the famous General home folks . . . And anything else that brings the atmosphere of Order in which was born home, the joy of Christmas, and a suggestion of the folks." The the 9x4x3. That hap- ideal package, as reported by. cable, contained: Hard candy or pened early in October, home-made fudge; cake, preferably fruit cake or hard, sweet when it was still doubt- cookies; photographs of family and friends; O. D. thread, brown ful if the boys would be buttons, bachelor's buttons, safety pins, to fill the small spaces; out of the trenches by razor blades if desired. No smokes. Christmas. Had the Not to start any more arguments with those fellows who have

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Thousands of sacks of letters and packages at the Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, New Jersey, await- ing shipment to the A. E. F. in 19 17 — America's Christmas greetings to her 200,000 soldiers who were already in Europe

never thought much of the military postal service, but to enlighten /VI I ask is cue Smack Hv some men who—like us—didn't get their packages until a month past louse uMo Vcufed Wc- Christmas, we gleaned a few facts from the book written by Major General David C. Shanks, commanding the Port of Embarkation at Hoboken, through which all packages cleared. We learn that while packages were supposed to be mailed not later than November 20th, many did not reach the Port until long after Christmas; that every package had to be opened to make sure it contained no perishable or inflammable articles; that at the peak of the activity, seventy officers

and 1 160 men were working in three shifts of eight hours each to keep the shipments moving.

NOW let us take another look at the 1017 pic- ture and read what Legionnaire Rosenberg

has to say about it: ''The enclosed picture showing Christmas mail awaiting shipment to the A. E. F. in 1917 was taken by the Signal Corps, for

which branch of the service I was in training in New York City. Our outfit, the Signal Corps photographers, was stationed in one of the chapels at the rear of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which is still in process of construction on Morningside Heights. We had a novel drill field—the stone floor, then without roof, of what is now the nave of this huge church. Our headquarters were located at Columbia University, where in several buildings we were trained in the use of Graflex cameras and Universal motion-picture cameras. Cap- tain Hance of Detroit was in charge of the photographic unit, while Captain Moderhack was at the head of military training. "All of the official pictures overseas—stills and movies—were taken by our branch of the Signal Corps. Photographers of our In Berlin this outfit took some mighty unusual pictures on all fronts, and the wooden figure of results prove that they were worthy of their trust. About Hindenburg was twenty-five percent of the photographers overseas lost their lives used in Red Cross while taking pictures." fund drives. Comrade Rosenberg reminds us of something about which we Nails in the coat have told you several times in these columns, but which bears indicate contri- repeating: Prints of all of the thousands of official Signal Corps butions. Who is pictures taken during the War are still available. Orders may be the trench- placed with the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, 3413 coated captain? Munitions Building, Washington, D. C. Prints 6}4 x &}4 inches

DECEMBER, 1936 35 in size may be purchased for thirty cents each. If your local Division, in the Rhineland, I was detailed with Sergeant William public library does not have a copy of the Signal Corps catalogue, Altman to go to Berlin to deliver confidential documents to tell the Army Pictorial Service in a letter in which outfit's pic- Major General George H. Harries, who was in command of the tures you are interested. United States Military Mission in that capital. As I understand it, the Mission worked in conjunction with the International

AS WE recall it, Berlin and nothing else but was our ultimate Armistice Commission in Spa, Belgium, whose job it was to see l\- goal when we started overseas to join in the big scrap. that the terms of the Armistice were complied with. You recall the slogan, "Berlin or bust!" Well, except for a chosen "We went by train from Coblenz to Cologne and continued by few, we suppose that all of us busted, because the Armistice set train to Berlin. During the five days we remained in Berlin, the Coblenz bridgehead as the limit of our advance into former we were billeted in the Hotel Adlon. While there, we saw a great enemy territory. Some of us got up into the Rhineland and quite deal of the city and of the surrounding country and met many a few of us got a little beyond that stream, but occasionally we German people who had formerly lived in the States, who spoke hear of someone who completed the hoped-for journey all the good English and were anxious to hear the latest news of our

An engineering crew on location? No—soldiers of the C. A. C. out in the swamps of Florida on a truck- and tractor-training expedition in 1917. What, no wool uniforms, buddies? way to Berlin—but too late to get the Kaiser. ^cm) come mou. VJell,So.rc\e- country. Were we guilty of fraternizing? AfVer qet all T. H. Dooling, Legionnaire since igiq and Wcw\V a, AWee I "While our detail to Berlin sounds im- Past Commander of Zane-Irwin Post of San portant, we were probably only couriers, or, U^form T Francisco, California, whose home is at 6150 in civilian language, messenger boys. When - &v\ck -f ^ s^ddev\? blouse we Third Street in that city, was one of the we left Coblenz on this trip, we were given fortunate few. As evidence of his trip, he emergency rations which, of course, we submits the picture of the statue of Hinden- found difficult to handle. We traded most of burg which we show on the preceding page them with the railroad men for hot food, and which he himself took. Here is his which proved more acceptable. The railroad story of the journey: men were most friendly and on the train we "The picture I am sending was taken in met a German artillery officer who before Berlin, Germany, on March 17, iqiq. The the war had been a Harley-Davidson motor- Hir.denb.irg statue was an enormous wooden cycle dealer in Florida. The period we were affair that was erected during the period of in Berlin followed immediately after the the World War. During the various drives disturbances which they had had, and the of the German Red Cross for funds, iron streets were being patroled by German nails were sold for a mark apiece and each guards in pairs, fully equipped to take care purchaser was permitted to drive his nail of any trouble that might arise. into the wooden statue. The nails may be "I hope I'll be able to locate my former seen in the two bands which appear on the Dental Corps friend." skirts of the overcoat. I am unable to re- member the name of the officer in the fore- 1UCKY STIFF" was just one of the more ground and would like to hear from him J polite terms hurled at a motor-truck again. During our travels around the city, I met this man, who driver by weary foot-soldiers pounding along the roads not only was a captain in our Dental Corps and who hailed from New on the other side, but also in camps here in the States. But from England. As I recall it, he was engaged in the repatriation of the story we read in a letter that accompanied the picture of the Allied prisoners still in Germany. Does anyone know him? truck crew that is reproduced, that assignment had its bad "How did I happen to get to Berlin? Well, while serving as moments also. Eugene Velzy, Legionnaire of 3223 Sheffield captain and adjutant with the 8th Field Signal Battalion, 4th Avenue, Los Angeles, California, is the (Continued on page 62)

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — . STORIES YOU HAVEN'T HEARD

rom Miissouri . . He got shown Pfar from a Front Seat

EXCITEMENT was no novelty to War over, he determined to realize a Southwest are said to have been the first Marquis James. Born in Missouri, cherished ambition to write about the Americans to roll their own ? Got the idea he grew up in the unsettled frontier great, too-soon-torgotten soldier of an from the Mexicans, I suppose. Pipe- country of Oklahoma—and dreamed of earlier war, his boyhood hero. Result smoking, of course, they learned from still more exciting days gone by when that stirring, vivid work, "The Raven, A the Indians. And do we keep up those Sam Houston and his handful of embat- Life of Sam Houston," awarded in 1930 old pioneer customs today? I 11 say! tled ranchmen were winning the South- the Pulitzer prize in biography. Now A recent survey shows more than a third west. he's working on the second volume of of our readers smoke pipe-tobacco. Later, as a newspaperman, James investi- "The Border Captain," life of another American brands preferred, too! Guess gated such newsworthy excitement as great fighting American —Andrew Jack- that's why makers of Union Leader fate chose to furnish, at various times, in Smoking Tobacco figured we'd appreciate their story (page 43) of genuine old Ken- Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, New YVe're proud to recall that Marquis James tucky Burley. Orleans, New York, and a few more was once editor of The American Legion places. Weekly; later, National Director of "Hunting comes right down from pioneer Then —the war. He was commissioned a Publicity for The American Legion, and a times too—bred-in-the-bone—a sport en- first lieutenant, later promoted to Cap- member of the staff of this magazine. joyed today by 324,993 of our readers. tain of Infantry, U. S. A. Spent nineteen We continue to claim him as one of our Add 60,563 of us who go in for trap- months with the A. E. F., a first-rate most valued contributors. shooting and you've got a statistic that opportunity to find out whether the war impressed Western Cartridge Company was as exciting as it was cracked up to be. (see page 53) —they take pride, by the Says he felt at home—having learned to "Do you know," queries the Advertising way, in contacting the finest type of roll his own cigarettes in Oklahoma. Man, "that those old pioneers of the sportsmen.

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The Legion at Cleveland We look upon the members of these I am often amused when I hear some To the Editor: Non-Legionnaires, citizens organizations as true comrades—friends one say, "Oh, if we could only go back of Cleveland and Ohio are loud in their who stand by in the hour of trial and to the good old days!" It was my job praise of the splendid convention, the de- greatest need and who follow the com- as a boy to cut the wood and fill the wood- portment of visiting Legionnaires, and mand of our Lord, for he said, "Bear ye box. All through the winter the pump in the new spirit of patriotism inculcated in one another's burdens." the yard had to be packed, the water them as a result of our recent national They have visited us in our afflictions, drawn every night and a pailful saved convention. Hotel men and merchants comforting us with kind words and useful behind the kitchen stove to start it in generally have commented most favor- gifts, thus enabling us to conquer the the morning. We really earned very ably on the utter lack, of breakage and adversities of life and the dread disease little ready money in those days, but we improper conduct. which strives to consume our weak had no way of spending it and here to my As a fellow Legionnaire and citizen of bodies. Their zeal never wavers, never mind is the meat of the problem both Ohio, I am most proud of the fine after- falters throughout the years. They are then and today: We kept our land in math. May I not express my hearty always the same. Leadership, love of good tilth, so it could be farmed economi- congratulations to our leaders and the country and humanity spurs them on to cally. In the last 25 years, due to the entire membership? Arthur H. Day, greater things, which results in building radical changes in farming, I do not be- Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio up a future for America and her institu- lieve that over ten percent of the farmers tions. have kept enough humus in their soils Left, Right, Left, Right We owe a great deal to our hospital so that the farms could be farmed profit- chairman, Mrs. Lillian A. White a Gold ably. To the Editor: After having attended — Star mother who devotes her time to the In studying renting and share-crop- several national conventions of the Auxiliary and to her boys the veterans ping conditions in the South this last Legion, as well as many of our own de- — at Oak Forest. She has served us faith- year, it is a safe bet to say that not over partment conventions, I have come to fully for a number of years, caring for the five percent of the average farms are the conclusion that practically nine- cap- veteran, his family, the dependents and able of producing a living. It will take tenths of the bands and drum and bugle the war mothers. two years of lime, chemicals and green corps have nothing in mind except the Such patriotism reflects the principles manuring to bring them back to a paying showing they make in parades and con- of The American Legion in all its fullness, basis. I did not include legumes in this tests and give little, if any, thought to proving that the practical aims of the because two-thirds of the farms are in those who are marching behind them. organization are carried out in good such poor condition that they could not It seems to be "the thing" these days to works. H. P. Warner, Oak Forest (Ill- raise legumes to start with. man march at half-step and at exceeding fast — No inois) Sanatorium today can make a living from the soil time so that we who are getting along in unless it is kept reasonably full of humus years find it impossible to keep step with and it makes no difference whether it is the music. Farming, Past and to Come sand, silt, loam or clay, the basic treat- To make matters even worse some of To the Editor: I was much interested in ments are practically the same. them stop the parade behind them to Henry Ford's article on Industry and In studying comparative costs between execute some fancy formations for the Farming in your last issue. Having been horses and tractors—and here Henry benefit of those on the sidewalks and much raised on a Massachusetts farm and hav- Ford should be interested—I am con- to the annoyance of the marchers. Many ing studied soils from Maine to Florida vinced that the tractor is far more eco- also commit another nuisance by repeat- and from 'Frisco to Boston, I am humbly nomical, provided you have work enough ing several bars very softly, so softly presenting one of the many angles of this to bring your per-hour cost to a reason- that the marchers cannot hear the music, problem. able basis. Many of the smaller farmers with the result that the marchers are First, I am going to give you a picture could co-operate in groups of two or thrown out of step. of a typical well managed New England three on tractor and equipment and save But the worst abomination of all are farm of fifty years ago when I was a boy. money. Willard Q. Kinsman, South the combined band and drum and bugle We raised our own potatoes.onions, beets, Easton, Mass. corps. The band will play in one cadence cabbage, turnip, squash, etc. Picked our and at the end of the piece the drum and apples and pears early and late, raised a bugle corps will start up, using a faster couple of fat hogs and put them in the Taking Stock cadence. It would seem to that the me cellar. Put down eggs in water glass as To the Editor: A letter in "Front and for and and prime reason bands drum then we did not know how to make hens Center" of the September issue reminds bugle corps is to keep the marchers in lay in the winter time. We dressed off a me that I have wanted to express my this is practically all of step. If so, them fat steer just before Christmas, which we appreciation of two articles which have are failing in their purpose. This criti- divided with the neighbors. appeared in the past year or so. "I'll to the bands so cism does not apply much Those who could go to Gloucester or Soon be Forty-One" by John Black gave as to the drum and bugle corps. Will other fishing port bought a quintal of salt me food for much thought and led me to H. Chase, Riverdale, Md. fish for the winter. A quintal is 112 take stock of myself in a physical way pounds. With a couple of barrels of flour with results that are bound to be benefi- In Gratitude and a hundred pounds of sugar laid in and cial. Another, in the July issue by Dr. To the Editor: On behalf of my fellow pa- plenty of wood in the shed for the kitchen Edison, "Are Your Eyes Right?" ren- tients, I wish to offer this message of stove and air tight, we could laugh at Old dered me a positive service. Dr. Edison gratitude to Man Depression, provided we had ever opened my eyes (no pun) to something The American Legion and The Ameri- heard of him at that time. A careful ro- which had been bothering me uncon- can Legion Auxiliary for their interest in tation of crops was practised and every sciously for some time. I'm now using our welfare and for the numerous bene- bit of dressing was saved and used. We glasses for reading at night, and the fits which they have bestowed upon us knew nothing then of lime, legumes and trouble is gone.—G. B. Milgram, Brook- during our sojourn in hospital. chemicals. lyn, N. Y.

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Troops ^Below!

{Continued front page 23) Then I heard the howl I soon learned to HALF E HALF MAKES hate: "Troops below!" The first time we heard it we all just stood and gaped. "Troops below!" repeated all the flatfeet, beginning to shoo us down the ladders. "Whaddyuh mean troops below?" says ONE SWELL SMOKE! we. "We're just gettin' our dinner!" "Gwan below! Yuh ain't allowed on deck while we're goin' down the harbor!" "Well, whaddyuh mean goin' down the harbor while the cooks is puttin' out?" "Ask the old man!" The gobs would point to a red-faced man way up there "on the balcony," as the Mid-West boys called it. Every once in a while this red face would crack in the middle and out would come a roar. So we went down, and the chow line got al! jammed up with itself, and bent in the middle, and fights started and there was a general tumult. "What kind of a stateroom did you have?" asked the lady. Being buck privates, we didn't have any. They had us bunked three deep in the cargo space. Pipes had been bolted to the deck, and other pipes laid across, and then pieces of canvas sewed on, that made berths. Those were the arrange- ments. I had a bunk near the door, and right across from where the chow was being served, but I couldn't get at the chow table, due to the scrum that was going on, account those there were trying to keep the six hundred coming down from the deck from taking their places away from them. Finally one of the ship's officers came in and blew a whistle, and announced that there'd be no chow Take the right "tobacco road" with served until we got outside the harbor, and that any time there was any dis- Half & Half. Cool as a bailiff serving turbance in the chow line, that would end the meal for the day. When this navy a warrant. Sweet as the proof that officer goes by me I reached out and he has the wrong house. Fragrant, kicked him in the shins. Haah!

Lady, I went to Norwich University, full-bodied tobacco that won't bite which was founded in 1810, to educate the tongue — in a tin that won't bite men to be officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. The only difference the fingers. Made by our exclusive between it and West Point is that you have to pay to go there. And you don't modern process including patent have to go into the Army. You can go No. 1,770,920. Smells good. Makes in the Navy or anything, even civilian life. But what I started to say was that your pipe welcome anywhere. Tastes anywhere in the world you go, if you see good. Your password to pleasure! men in uniform, holler "Norwich For- ever!" and at least one will stick his Telescope Tin, hand up and answer you. Not a bit of bite in the tobacco or the This navy officer I kicked in the shins which gets smaller and smaller as you use-up the tobacco. was a Norwich man. I knew him well. No bitten fingers as you reach for a load, even the last one. He was a couple of classes ahead of me, Copyright 1936, The American Tobacco Company but one of my contemporaries. One night when I was a rook—freshman— this lad and his buddy had taken two girls away %^ from me and my buddy, and taken said ALF HALF girls home, and sat down on a doorstep to say goodnight, and the householder The SaXe - TtrOaaco had emptied water on them from above, 7>if?e so his uniform (Continued on page 41) FOR PIPE OR CIGARETTE

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National Com- was all set to go to a meeting URING the politi- PAST JUNIOR k mander Henry of the Sons of the Legion—as much so D'cal campaign a Stevens is telling about as any five-year-old could be who per- certain Congressman m a lawsuit down in North forms his own toilet. His mother decided who is inclined to over- Carolina which brought to make an inspection before he left the indulge when on speak- to the trial at the house. And sure enough she found ing tours carried some- county seat a lawyer of Junior's knees very black, and told him one along with him to national repute who was known for his he must wash them before going to the prompt him on his subject matter. On elegance in dress. The lawyer on the meeting. He had been in the bathroom one occasion, when he was finding it other side was equally well known quite a while when she called and asked: difficult to marshal his thoughts, his locally for his carelessness in personal "Do you have your knees clean now?" prompter whispered: attire. "No, not clean," Junior replied, "but "Talk about the tariff." The trial went on for several days. I've got 'em to match." "Oh, yes!" said the Congressman. Every morning, the out-of-town at- "The tariff—the tariff, my friends. torney would arrive in court several There's a question we've had with us for minutes late, saunter over to the counsel PAST National Adjutant Lemuel Bolles years. Some want a low tariff, and some table, lay down his cane, hat and gloves. writes us about a thrifty man who want a high tariff. After giving it years of Then, bowing low, he would say "Good awoke one morning to find that his wife careful study, so far as I'm concerned, morning, judge, and good morning, had passed away during the night. He I do too." gentlemen of the jury," and with a curt leaped from bed and shouted to the maid nod at his adversary, "Morning, Brown." of all work: "Quick, Susie! to the stairway One morning toward the end of the Come at embryonic campus orator had once!" THE trial, Brown was the last to arrive. "Good returned from his first effort as a po- is it?" cried. morning, judge," he addressed the court, "Yes, what she litical speaker. "Prepare breakfast for only one this bowing low, and turning to the jury with "Why the dejected look?" asked his a sweep of mock elegance, "Good morn- morning." roommate. ing, gentlemen of the jury." Then, bow- "Well, right in the middle of my speech ing with Chesterfieldian grace to his op- someone hit me with a N A rather sedate base, cowardlv ponent, he said: "Kiss me, darling!" egg-" r night club, the cus- "Now, please tell tomers were playing me just what kind of an is that." the "Knock-knock" egg AN ECHO from Cleveland brings to "A base, cowardly game with the orches- egg," he replied, "is l\. light a new definition of a Legion one that hits you and runs." tra. Guests were sub- convention. Friday, when most of the mitting "knock- Legionnaires had gone home, a native knocks" and all were having a quite was heard to remark: merry time until an incorrigible cried out: FAST express train was roaring by "An American Legion National Con- A "Knock-knock!" the little railway station. Above the vention is what hotels put back their re- "Who's there?" smiled the orchestra noise the station agent heard a yell. volving doors after." leader. Rushing out to the platform, he saw a "Argo!" man sprawled out alongside the tracks "Argo who?" with his face scratched and clothes torn. my practising voice culture DOES "Argo to hell!" A little girl was standing by, looking on make you nervous?" asked the Whereupon three or four bouncers in breathless excitement. young lady who was learning to sing. rushed to the man's table and told him "Did he try to catch that train?" the "It did when I first heard the neigh- he would have to leave, as they didn't agent asked the little girl. bors discussing it," replied the lady next allow any rough stuff. The man became "He did catch it," she replied, "but it door, "but I'm getting so now I don't very apologetic, and promised to behave, got away from him." care what happens to you." and as evidence of good faith, pleaded for them to allow him another chance. It was granted and once more he got the leader's Spence to Jim COMRADE attention and shouted: ACCORDING Eccles, of Ogden, .Hart.of Illi- "Knock-knock!" Joliet, Utah, sponsors this nois, a battalion com- "Who's there?" asked the obliging or- story of a shipment of mander was trying out a chestra leader. mules arriving in the new orderly from a con- "John." army camp. A rookie tingent of Negro re- "John who?" who claimed to know cruits. Just before in- "Argo to hell!" all about horse-flesh was inspecting the spection, he went to look over his quar- animals a little too closely when one of ters, and their condition put him in a the mules kicked him cold. His buddies fury. got him on the rebound, placed him on a IT WAS after a heavy night when a "Orderly!" he raged. "Do you call stretcher and started with him to the in- man called up a friend and said: this place clean? Look! I can write my firmary. Regaining consciousness, the "I understand Jack was at your party name in the dust on top of this desk!" rookie felt the swaying motion of being last night and very blotto." With his teeth flashing in a wide smile carried. He lowered his hands over the "You heard right," was the reply. "He of wonderment, the orderly nodded ap- side and found only space. was here and very blotto." provingly and mumbled: "Oh, Lord!" he cried, "and I ain't hit "Terrible!" exclaimed the caller. "By "Yassuh, Mistah Majah, it sure is nice ground yet!" the way, was I there too?" to be educated, ain't it?"

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Troops Below!c (Continued from page jg) You can.LiveJJ?rwrejeeirs got spoiled and mine didn't. It taught him to leave rooks' girls alone, I hope. Well, I kicked his shins, and he looked down, mad as hell. "Steamer Nason!" he croaks. "What are you doing here?" "I'm carrying a rifle to France!" said

I. "I'm a buck private in this here over- seas casual company." The average Ameri- "Hist!" says he. "When it gets dark, can's life-span has in- come up on A Deck and ask for me. I creased by 11 years run the chow and the staterooms on this since 1900. But these boat." extra years are not a Well, I needn't go into the details. I gift you can earn and went up every night and smoked the pipe enjoy tketn only by sen- of peace, and had a swell evening. No sible, moderate living. lights were allowed, you see, and any Rest. strange officer dropped in, he couldn't Relax o/tener. tell that I was a scurvy buck private by Watch what you eat. my voice. So we'd discuss and chew the And, if you drink, fat, and when I got sleepy I'd sneak to a choose a whiskey that stateroom my old college chum had •w 5ft AGREES with you. given me. I had to be out of it before daybreak, though, and couldn't go into it until after dark. The first morning out to sea, I gal- loped on deck to take a look around. It was stormy. We had five ships with us, the old Martha Washington was the only one I remember, and way up front the cruiser North Carolina to convoy us. Our first touch of war. Lady, it give a guy a slight chill, I ain't kiddin'! Across the sea, convoyed by a warship, and our enemy waiting for us, to send us all to the good soldier's reward maybe any minute! "You!" barks a voice in my ear. "You're just the guy I want! I got a de- tail o' five men to lug pertaters!" Haha! It was Star-and-Wreath. The Navy had AN exhaustive fact-finding inquiry coo- for kindness: they were accorded the right called on the troops for men to carry X\. ducted on behalf of the House of to be called "a most wholesome form of stores from the hold to the kitchen, and Seagram by a group of impartial re- whiskey. our company had to furnish five of them. search men has proved Seagram's Crown Therefore, in seeking fine-tasting whis- "I can't go!" said I. "I'm waiting for Whiskies, blended the special Seagram way, key and whiskey most likely to agree sick call. I've been in hospital for three to be the form of whiskey most likely to with you, follow this guide to whiskey- months. I've got an open incision." agree with the average, moderate man. kindness. Serve Seagram's Crowns regu- Seagram's larly at Golly, Star-and-Wreath got up steam ! Crowns, already enjoyed by home — your guests will appreci- at once, but there was nothing he could millions for their fine, rich taste, were ate your thoughtfulness. thus given the do. Unless the doctor marked me highest possible rating © Seagram-Distillers Corp. Executive Offices: N. Y. "Duty," in which case ugh-huh! But I knew he wouldn't. What I'd been and4e zfube in hospital so long for was that this whittling that had been done on me wouldn't heal, and to make it heal, the surgeons kept cutting it open again. There's something deep about surgery I've never been able to figure out. Well, BLENDED WHISKIES I decided if I was going to get any fun out of this war, I'd better go while I had A some meat left on me, hence my letting MOST WHOLESOME FORM I on was A.W.O.L. l OF WHISKEY \ OSS Would you mind, lady, if I had another glass of this angel's tea? I'm cold blooded, and I'm so afraid if I let the percentage Seagram's Five Crown Blended Whis- Seagram's Seven Crown Blended of alcohol in radiator get too low I my key. The straight whiskies in this product Whiskey. The sttaight whiskies in this might freeze up. Yes, steward. Put some are 5 years or more old, 25% straight whis- product are 5 years or more old, 5TA% key, and 75% neutral spirits distilled from straight whiskies, and 62Vi'% neutral spirits whiskey in it this time, will you, just as American grain. Bottled under this for- distilled from American grain. Bottled 90 PROOF a surprise? (Continued on page 42) mula since May 1936. under this formula since May 1936.

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You know I hoped this wound was papers that have been filed down cellar. in the dark it made a guy's hair stand up. going to keep me from working. Lady, "I'm working for the Navy!" said I, No sleeping in the stateroom either. We can you imagine? When I went up to the with a superior smile. had to sleep in a vestibule off the after ship's hospital and bared myself to the "It don't excuse you from guard. deck, the whole fifty of us, on the deck doctor, the doggone thing had healed There's an order says so. Anyway, you're or leaning up against a bulkhead. By up. Why, I don't know, unless because goin' on, an' no more lip! An' after that morning I was pretty well shot. I hadn't been near a doctor for three you're goin' to be tried for bein' absent I was on post from ten to twelve, the weeks. Oh, boy! I wasn't going to face without leave ever since you got on the next morning. My shoulders felt like two Star-and-Wreath. So though it was day- boat!" footballs, and twice as sore as any boil, light, and any officer might see me and "Aw, how the hell can a man be ab- from lugging that cursed rifle. Never want to know what I was doing running sent without leave on a boat?" said I, mind, up and down the after deck we around the officers' quarters, I went to with scoff. went. Every ten minutes or so, Siar-and- my old Norwich buddy and called for "Yuh don't sleep in your bunk at Wreath would appear. assistance. night! Yuh don't eat your meals at the "Cahman!" he'd say. "Wake it up!" company mess! No one can find yuh! So we'd have to wake it up. I began to SIMPLE!" says he. "I'll detail you to If that ain't bein' absent, what the Sam think being a private wasn't so much fun. the officers' galley. Special guard to Hill is?" Maybe I wasn't so bright. Well, my tour see that no food is thrown over the side "I wish you men would go outside and was nearly over. This would be my last except at the hour set for garbage dump- argue this thing out," says the little two hours, since we'd go off guard at ing. You'll eat your meals there. How looey. "I don't know anything about it four again. The chow line began to form, will that do? Go down now, and be sure at all. If you'd tell the sergeant where so I knew it was eleven-fifteen. The boys to bring your rifle.'' your bed is, Mister Nason, it would prob- had nothing to do, and when they all "Oh," says I, "that will be tough. But ably clear everything up all right." were on deck, there was no room to sit what do you want the rifle for?" "I know where his bed is from now down, so they might as well be standing "You're on guard, aren't you? This is on!" sneers Star-and-Wreath. "It's in line. Below me, in the well deck, some war. Ever hear of a man going on guard gonna be in the brig!" colored stevedores we had on board were without a rifle?" Well, I had to go on guard. It seems singing a few songs and shooting a little Well, Star-and -Wreath was crazy. The they had some order that any work a crap. Then, quite suddenly, came the sick book came back with me marked man was doing didn't excuse him from noon whistle. "Duty" on it. He started out to find me guard, and it was our company's turn to and couldn't, account he never looked in Lirnish the guard, Gee, I hadn't been NOW I was surprised. Gee, that last the officers' galley. He laid for me at the down in the troop quarters at all. We hour had gone fast! So was every- chow line, but I didn't show up, because were twelve days out, and they smelled body else surprised, because I could see I was eating in the officers' galley. He to heaven. There was no ventilating them looking at their watches. Well, you sat by my bunk all one night waiting for system at all, an' the portholes were all know how confusing time is at sea, with me to come to bed. No sign, because I bolted down and painted over, so that it changing every day, so we just figured was sleeping peacefully in a nice airy no light would shine through. Since we we'd skipped an extra half hour some- stateroom on the boat deck. At the end weren't allowed any lights anyway, the where. Couldn't be wrong. The other of the third day, lo and behold I find my precaution seemed a little unnecessary. ships were all blowing their noon whistles, name posted as "Missing." Yow! This "Why didn't you speak to the purser too. I noticed the old Martha Washing- was serious. I didn't want to figure on about it?" asked the lady. ton had a red flag up I'd never seen before. the casualty list and scare my parents to Well, I thought of it, but I decided it "Troops below!" bellowed somebody. death. So quickly I hunted up our nice wouldn't do any good. We weren't pay- A flock of gobs came running along the little looey and said I was okay, but that ing anything for our passage. So I was deck. "Troops below!" they repeated. the Navy had put me to work. on guard, me and my cursed big rifle. If "Troops below!" "Now, Mister Nason," said he peevish- you weren't a lady, I could be more spe- "Below hell!" answers everyone. "We ly—mister to a private, imagine cific about just what I thought of having lost one meal that way, we ain't gonna "Sergeant Metzer has been driving me to lug that rifle. A rifle is about as much lose another one! You mugs always have crazy talking about you. Why don't you use to an artilleryman as a spare tire to this 'troops below' stuff just at meal stay around where he can find you? You a horse, and if it's solely a question of times!" know what you're supposed to do. I transport, some other means is much Then I heard, just as plainly as I can don't. I told those people at Camp more effective. hear you, lady, a hail from the masthead. Merritt that I didn't know anything "Submarine to port!" about soldiers and didn't want to, but STAR-AND-WREATH posted me on I guess everyone else heard it too, be- they insisted that I take command of thij the boat deck aft, where I had to walk cause they all made a break for the rail. troop. Now look at the thanks I get! up and down, up and down, at shoulder I didn't see the sub. I heard Star-and- How do you expect a man to have any arms. Lady, I suffered. I've never walked Wreath bellowing for the guard, and then pleasure if a sergeant keeps bothering post with a rifle since I did punishment yelling at me to get those so-and-so's be- him because the men won't stay where tours as a cadet. The only consolation I low; then I was bowled over by the rush. they belong? I wish this war was at—at had was that I was keeping Star-and- I told you the men were so thick on the the devil! I never knew anything could Wreath up all night. He inspected me deck they couldn't sit down, and when be so much bother!" about every ten minutes. It was a cold they made for the rail, it was like a wave In comes Star-and-Wreath at that night, with showers of rain. Brrrr! Our from the sea. The only resistance was moment. convoying cruiser had turned around and from the guys in the chow line who didn't "Ah!" says he. "At last! You're goin' gone home, and we had a flock of de- want to lose their places. on guard tonight!" stroyers protecting us now. They were "Troops below!" bellowed the Navy. Star-and-Wreath was dirty and un- running without lights that I could see, Whaddyuh mean, below? A submarine shaven. He smelt like last year's news- and when one of them went swooshing by to port and us not get a look at it?

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly There was a big gun on the stern of our ship, and the sailors around it got serious as so many owls. "I see it!" yelled one of them. "I can I see it!" How Cured my Pipe of a "Mark! Mark! Mark!" 11 Blatn! Water spouts up astern. by DR. HOLDEN A. SCALPEL Blam! Another shot. All the boys go Burning Fever Famous Pipe Specialist rushing that way to see the excitement. I'd fought my way to the rail by that time, but it was the wrong rail; the sub- marine was astern. Just at that time, strangely enough, someone knocked my rifle out of my hands and it fell over- board. Goodbye to that piece of heavy artillery! If it hit the sub, it would sink it! I never could And the guy that knocked my arm. Somebody. There was nobody near me, either; they were all at the other rail, but somehow the rifle just went overboard. I couldn't do anything about it right then. Blam! goes another gun. Whoop! go the sirens! Tweet-tweet! more whistles, then a deep-throated roar of excitement, like a crowd at a football game. I heard afterward a sub had come up right between us and the Martha. I didn't see it. Between the colored troops and the white troops and the chow line that wouldn't leave its place for all the submarines this side of Kiel, the deck was in kind of a turmoil. Gee, a guy couldn't see anything. About fifty or sixty soldiers were on each mast, and lined up on the derrick booms like so many crows, and still there wasn't any room on deck. I was the guard, I should have had a look if anybody did, but no- body would pay any attention, and I didn't have a rifle any longer to enforce my authority. Well, that was all I saw of the cele- brated submarine attack on our convoy. There were those that saw five subs, and there were those that saw one, and there were those that didn't see any. Now, lady, there was a torpedo that missed our stern by inches. I didn't see it, but there were a lot of guys who did. You could You too, can cool a Feverish Pipe tell 'em by their faces. They stuck out of the crowd like green apples in a box of THIS EASY, INEXPENSIVE WAY! specially cured to take out bite ripe ones. They saw the torpedo all right, and burn ; and aged-in-wood for never fear. If your pipe gets overheated and perfect, mellow smoothness. After the scare was all over, and the burns your tongue, try this sim- Union Leader makes even a new destroyers had stopped running in circles and dropping bombs that made us think ple home treatment! Fill up pipe cool, fragrant and sooth- we'd been torpedoed at last, we began to with old reliable Union Leader- ing! Any tobacconist will fill take stock of the damage. An entire made of fine full-ripened Ken- this prescription, for only a baking of for pies the officers' mess had Uicky Burley for rich flavor- dime. (Fine for cigarettes, too!) disappeared. We had a company of anti- aircraft machine gunners aboard, armed with pistols. The pistols were gone. One lad broke his arm falling off a cargo boom, and twenty-five had scorched their feet by tipping over a slum bucket full of hot UNION slum in their rush to get food from the Copyright, 1936. by P. unguarded mess table. As for me, Star- Hard Co. .Inc. and-Wreath hailed me right before our nice little looey, leading me by the arm. LEADER FOR PIPE "This guy," says Star-and-Wreath AND sternly, "threw his rifle overboard. I io« seen him do it! Up an' over the rail, CIGARETTE heave!" {Continued on page 44) THE GREAT AMERICAN SMOKE

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"I threw it at the submarine!" said I. Nason in the brig, and now when I say hundred and sixty thousand people. The little looey was mad. He was sick you can, you tell me you can't. I wish That station we were in was at the of seeing me appear before him. I could make you a private." farthest northwest corner and we were "Put him in the brig!" says he, sour as Star-and-Wreath just lifted one corner marched all night, by way of the south pickles. of his mouth. side, to the farthest northeast corner, to It was a tough moment. I'd seen the "You got a hell of a fat chance!" said Camp Genicart. Men ri0 ht off the trans- ship's brig; it was no place to put a snail, he, just like that. So we went out to- port, with their legs cramped from four- and it was full of sailors and dark gentle- gether. Outside the door, Star-and- teen days at sea. And in full pack, that men that had been drinking shellac. It Wreath gives me a sour grin. is to say with all the junk, extra hobnails, seemed the time had come to declare my- "Whynchuh tell me you was a ser- three blankets, etc., etc., that they'd self. geant before?" said he. "I t'ought you given us at Camp Merritt on our backs.

"You can't confine me!" said I. "I'm was just another recruit! We coulda On top of that I had that cursed rifle. a sergeant of the Regular Army." Then took that kid's candy away from him There was a hill a half mile high at the I took my leave out of my pocket and together." end of the march that nearly finished me. laid it on the washstand in front of him. "So you were all friends after that?" I made some tough marches later on, but Lady, you would have thought that said the lady. never one as tough as that one. Star-and-Wreath had seen another tor- So I thought. But listen. We landed At reveille comes around a nice fair- pedo. the next evening at a place called Paul- haired lad to me that I'd noticed in the "What's the grand idea?" he chokes liac, down the river from Bordeaux. We company. He'd had pneumonia and after a while. rode in a dinky train for hours, and empyema and everything, and was pretty "Well," I explained, "you never asked finally got to Bordeaux. While we were wobbly. me. The lieutenant here said this one waiting at the station to march out, "It was nice of you to carry my rifle and that one were sergeants. He has the Star-and-Wreath comes up to me with a for me last night!" says he. "I'd never right to appoint his own non-coms, propitiating grin on his face. made it up here if you hadn't." hasn't he? But he can't bust me, because "Yuh know what that looey's gonna "Your rifle? How come I carried your I've got a warrant, all signed, with the do?" he asks. "He's gonna put that rifle rifle?" American ea^le on it and everything." you lost on your payroll." "Why, Star-and-Wreath told me you'd "Put this man in the brig!" peeves the "But it was lost in action in a fight be glad to carry it for me, me bein' a looey. "What are you waiting for?" against a German submarine." convalescent, an' you not havin' any of Star-and-Wreath shook his head. "Yeh, you tell that to a summary your own. But I'll take it off your hands "No, lootenant," says he, "you can't court, will yuh?" now. Thanks a lot." do it. He's a regular sergeant, an' you Gee. A rifle cost eighteen bucks, which Yes, lady, I will have another little can't confine him unless he's violent!" was about three months' pay, after de- drink, in place of the one I should have "I wish this army was in hell!" almost ductions for bonds and stuff. Hell! had then and couldn't get. I've been weeps the little looey. "You've been "But I wouldn't let an old Regular trying to catch up on those lost drinks after me ever since we left Hoboken, down!" says Star-and-Wreath. "I found for eighteen years, and I figure I'm still night and day, when I was shaving and you anudder one!" He hands me one, fifteen years behind. Well, I squared when I was bathing and when I was read- and hurries away before I can thank him. things with Star-and-Wreath, and as soon

ing and every other time to put this man Bordeaux is a big town. It holds two as my drink comes, I'll tell you about it.

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seventeen years, approximately, since ities and characters of neighbors and as- Sheboygan and Kohler Legionnaires, your comrades in my home community sociates. the two communities being close to- came back from the war, I have been As an individual, the typical service gether, are united in the Prescott- greatly interested to observe how they mar is outstanding among our good citi- Bayens Post, whose high enrolment has

resumed civilian life with its duties, zens. He is capable. He is self-reliant. been about six hundred members. From which must often have seemed prosaic He is co-operative. If all the service men its earliest days, this post has earned after the excitement of war-time service; were to move out, it would so impair the recognition from all as a force for good. how they progressed in their various oc- functioning of the community and of The Legion in Sheboygan and Koh- cupations; how they met their family business that it would take many years to ler has not engaged in sensational under- problems and obligations; and how they restore. takings. There have been no great bore themselves as citzens. During my term as Governor of the earthquakes, wind-storms or fires calling I know personally that a great many State there appeared delegations repre- for sudden organization of relief work of them are members of our business senting many various groups of Wiscon- a task which I have no doubt, however, organization — of Legionnaires alone, sin citizens, often for the purpose of ask- the local Legion would meet in the same probably well up toward a hundred are ing special consideration of some sort. I adequate fashion that has characterized associated with us, though no accurate do not recall, however, any instance the work of posts where such needs have record on this point is at hand. Their when groups of service men and women arisen. jobs vary from corporate officers to al- came to ask anything, though they were But the Legion has been a team-worker most every department of office and notably generous in inviting me to con- of a most effective sort. A few years ago plant. ventions and gatherings which, whenever when there was a big campaign for hos- Over a period of years it is possible to I was able to accept, proved inspiring pital funds, the Legionnaires, as indivi- get considerable insight into the capac- and enjoyable. dual workers, raised much of the money,

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly and the post itself made a generous con- tribution. In our community, the Legion ranks as a social agency. It contributes to the community fund and in turn has the responsibility of administering relief to needy service men, who generally prefer to go to a veterans' organization with their problems rather than to other agencies. The post a few years ago took hold of the problem of organizing a Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, got their members to furnish instruments, and provided an instructor who trained the boys so well that they have won national honors. Other typical activities of the local post that come to mind are their annual awards of medals to boys in the schools, the donation of large framed copies of the United States Constitution to each of the 148 schools in the county, the sending of Legion members into the schools as Armistice Day speakers; participation in a joint council of all veterans' organizations of all wars which handles patriotic celebrations with effi- ciency but with no particular glory to any one group; working in a dozen com- mittees and conferences for the good of the community. The Prescott-Bayens Post has carried on for some years not only a program of athletics for its own members but a base- ball league for young boys. Its service program for the veterans has been out- standing, aiding many a worthy comrade in sickness or other need or in presenting just claims to the Government. Christ- mas baskets, mostly financed by mem- bers' contributions, have cheered needy Since long before the French Revo- families. In sum, non-Legionnaires in lution, the distinguished character- the community feel a genuine indebted- ness to the Legion for its many-sided, istics of Hennessy Cognac Brandy unselfish service. have won its selection for celebrating From observation and information, I am led to believe that this post is fairly happy occasions. For an after-dinner typical of those that can be found in hundreds of places, with variations, of liqueur befitting your Christmas course, according to their size and re- dinner, serve Three-Star Hennessy sources and the local needs of their own communities. . . . enjoy its magic touch in plum The service men and women of this puddings, mince pies, pumpkin country inspire not only liking but deep respect. A better-than-average cross- pies and hard sauce . . . and when * CLe section of their age group, they are more : than ordinarily valuable as citizens. making out your gift list, remember *"TAsTl Numbered among them are many of our that Hennessy is a choice that com- country's ablest and most distinguished citizens, capable of the highest service pliments both giver and recipient. in every field of private endeavor and in the greatest responsibilities of our pub- 84 PROOF lic life. * * The veterans exemplify in a notable degree those characteristics and that spirit which have built this nation, a combination of self-reliance, mutual helpfulness, and devotion to the public HENNESS good. They are a valuable and potent leaven in our national life, and amid the COGNAC BRANDY serious problems of these times, the pres- ence of so many of them, at the height

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you read in the papers, here's the letter explain just what I was going to do, by up generally just like I did in France, and I've had to send to over four thousand so magazines, agents, radio programs, and for the benefit of whatever ex-service far: —most of all, interested friends, whose particular outfits may happen to need mode of query was, "What nut house when I hit town. Friend: My have you reservations in, darling?" At that quiet little get-together out I'm so sorry that through unwanted This is the first time I've explained, in Cleveland, any doubts about my hear- and exaggerated publicity, your hopes and I want you to know that I'm being ing the correct Orders from "G. H. Q." have been raised in vain. I literally paid. After my story "Hollow Laughter" were dispelled. My hearing is good. My have no money—only possessions, mort- the Monthly, I was to write more Faith, already before the gages, and debts. It is my hope to rid made complete Con- myself of all these, and then start out tales, but I couldn't settle down to mak- vention, was given an extra boost when to try and help people to be happier. ing them up or digging them up. I never the gang sang me into my dance, which I am living on borrowed money myself needed money more than at the zero after the smashup, I was never supposed until I can rid myself of possessions. hour, waiting for action. When you start to go into again. Your request is one of hundreds that I to rid yourself of possessions, have a nest This effusion goes into the Legion have to refuse. I would help if I could, egg to sit on while waiting for the buyers Monthly bosses tomorrow. The day believe me, to arrive, is my advice. after, I start for California. Talk about Sincerely. Anyway, it was suggested that I write re-takes—I've found seven hospitals I've read and answered every letter something about myself. Poor, shrinking right on my route already. I've warned received, myself, so I guess it looks like little violet, I hesitated—then heard a the poor guys that they will either have " I muffed some order by talking too much, distinct, Tenshun!" to get out, or get Janis. My route as which you must admit was a common oc- I snapped to it, and heard, "You will I've planned it is southward and my currence in the A. E. F. have to tell eventually what you are theme song Here's a real kick for youse guys—out really up to, why not to the Legion Oh! What has become of Hinky-Dinky of well over five thousand requests for Monthly, that can't even be bought by Parlez Vous? some of the "fortune" the dailies en- the doubters"? What has become of Little Elsie that dowed with: I can count the letters Well, here it is, Gang! And, when I say, me you knew? ex-service hand. Is "I'll be seein' you," it really goes this from men on one She's back again and on the job, that sumpthin'? "Love begets Love!" time, because I expect to run around this With her cartwheel, too, so help me, Immediately after the Janis barrage blessed land, like an epidemic. I'm going , Bob, hit the world-wide lines, I was asked to to lead Sing-songs, crack gags, whoop it Hinky-Dinky Parlez Vous.

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(Continued from page 9) him for the rest of his natural days. We Gallagher, which relieved us still more, back, this scheme was to be hatched, were talking this day, as always of late, for he mopped up the overflow of Galla- apparently, by Kay. Oh yes, there must about Gallagher when the switchboard gher's frequent grouches; incidentally the have been sources of brain above him to engineer mentioned his interest in in- two became friends, as near as either na- originate and to direct but we, inside, strument work. Then and there we ture could. never knew more of the organization pounced on our salvation—switchboard Gallagher added daily walks with Kay than Gallagher's episode disclosed. Any men got about twenty-five a week more down to the main plant to his established others were either quietly mopped up or than master electricians. The combined routine; occasionally they made a trip forever remained unexposed. Fences, staff brains sure could solve any problem; to the Park. It was funny none of us lights, passes, guards all represented the we edged Gallagher into the switchboard suspected anything out of line in these obvious in protection; we were all rather room for instruction and for days he al- safaris of theirs; we were in work up to aware of the presence of secret service ternated between there and his beloved our ears, anyway. Neither did Gallagher though we never spotted an operator. headquarters, while the rest of us and all suspect the sinister mould his shadow The most ordinary outlook revealed the workmen, much relieved, proceeded protected. Between his arrogance and dozens of steps to safeguard, such as the placidly to get the job done. To whip any his position on the union chart he had, exhaustive investigation of the references recalcitrant, we merely threatened a trip more or less innocently, secured as free and habits of each of the thousands of to the switchboard and Gallagher. passage about the whole works as anyone employes, such as the frequent and sud- Across the flickering screen of our in- could; almost without exception each em- den re-issue of passes; there were the tense activity there flashed, close up for ploye moved in a straight line to the job, posts of rifle-equipped, extra guards at the staff, a round face circumscribing and out again at closing, or else the guards the critical points of power house, freight cold, blue eyes and a determined jaw. questioned. And with him moved Kay, platforms, all powder rooms, plus the Probably somebody knew the full name casually, coolly; adroitly setting Galla- roving watchmen in all basements. But but he never let us call him anything but gher into conversation with someone the weakest spot, perhaps, was un- Kay, unless it was "Hey, you." Kay while he maneuvered, unnoticed, a few watched. It was buried underground, was built like Gallagher, only fore- confidential words with a confederate. yet the evidence of its presence was so shortened about a foot or so. With mani- The plan to cripple the plant, the super- common as to leave its vitalness for- fest good nature he plied back and forth sabotage which was to prevent our ship- gotten. It was like the murder, unsolved about the construction, with twinkling ping a single cartridge for weeks, for a for a long time because every possible dachshund steps, and he did keep all period long enough to upset the balance suspect was questioned except the post- varieties of stock piled up right behind of war power, merely from lack of suffi- man, whose routine arrival twice a day the men. Very soon he fastened onto cient bullets to keep the waves of enemy before and after the crime he committed

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saved him from investigation because he was too natural and familiar a figure to be suspected. In our case it was water.

Kay, it seems, had played a tight little game of politics, starting shortly after we had taken the British contract in 1015. He wardheeled through an election and accepted for his reward a post in the water department. His display of en- gineering ability plus his practiced knack of being a good fellow soon shoved him into the yard office and thence to City Hall; his influence in the department was at its height just when we plunged into war and just then he resigned to come with us. He left a trail of water department badges pinned on several accomplices whom he had worked in as foremen, each with a specific task to do at just the time Kay established, or signaled for the trap to be sprung. He brought the prints, firmly photographed in his mind, of that section of the city water mains critical to our plant. Ahead of him someone had sent a woman who managed to wangle stenographic work in our employment office and, later, to squirm her way to one of the desks where she could calmly type passes, among them several that Kay needed. During two years of city residence and political effort Kay must have established a camouflage around his

life that deceived investigators. For the rest of his confederates, we came to be- lieve that he used local politics and Gallagher, first to establish them in union circles and second to impress them onto our job. The plan of ruination needs but few words of description. Buried under- ground and running north and south plumb in the center of our several rows of big buildings was a tremendous water main. Connecting as it did at two points, TIME and distance may prevent your being there in person. with the city high pressure system, it But you can always be there by telephone, with a warm and could, if opened wide, belch forth a veri- table river. Branching from it in regular friendly greeting. For across the miles your voice is you! order were the supply arteries for fire and service. Since this stretch of underground It's easy to do and it can mean so much. A few words main, big enough under top notch pres- thoughtful, kindly, reassuring — may gladden a day sure to outspurt Old Faithful—according to our slide-rule and hydraulic formulae or a life. Somewhere today — perhaps this hour —if its energy were so directed, under- some one is wishing you'd call. lined both plant and Park within its

length, any disaster to it would affect every square foot of property we owned. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM This water system looked very pretty in white lines on its blue print, but, viewed from the angle of almost belated knowl-

edge, it fairly blurted out its weakness. IIP TO $25.00 ON ONE ORDER Kay had the X-ray of this vital system CUM THAT ADVERTISES! down by heart and knew just where to operate. Get into thelUG MONEY! Every filling station, coffee shop, movie The spindles of three big gate-valves of house, tailor, garage, barber shop, in fart every merchant in the city's system were to be twisted, your city needs this unique adver- tising. Merchant's name and wedged and ruined to preclude any hope ad printed oneach flu-wing gum wrap- LEARN AT HOME per. Costs less than He. You take of ever closing them. Our big main was orders and pocket cash on the spot. Are you adult, alert, ambitious, willing to study? explosion. Ex- Single orders run into thousands Investigate LAW! We guide you step by step- to be burst wide open by of sticks. You make the profits. furnish all texts, including 14-volume Law Libra- cept by closing city valves further down FREE! Complete selling outfit. In- fractions and actual samples of ry. Training prepared by leading law professors •wing gum sent free! Hu h town the necessity for which, you see, name and given by members of bar. Degree of LL. B. and address for FREE outfit. would take precious time, there would be Gets you money first day. conferred. Low cost, easy terms. Send NOW no way of stopping the high-pressure NATIONAL AD-GUM CO. for Free,64-page"LawTrainingforLeadership." Dept.A-126 CINCINNATI, o. rush of tons of (Continued on page 48) LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 12361 -L Chicago

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water, gullied in an alley between build- test but it would plug for fair when the for Kay. Someone growled something ings, right into the sublevel of our boiler pump really pulled. No wonder Kay about the new manhole, whereupon he room floor. rambled about a lot. ploughed his way down to the other end, Quicker than any combination of hu- The saddest words, it is said, of tongue intent only on Hans and the overdue mans could check it, our boiler room and pen are these—it might have been. union fee. Kay, sensing danger, met and would become a small lake ten feet deep. But were we glad it never was! Suppose stopped him halfway to the hole. We At the worst, the suddenly submerged Gallagher had slacked at his post of could see Gallagher's arms waving and boilers, running at full blast under forced walking delegate! It is also said that no we witnessed Kay wheedling and nipping draft, would blow up—scattering the crime is so perfectly planned but that it at Gallagher's elbow. rest of the power house about the im- leaves some chance, unintended, for it to A locomotive would have been easier mediate horizon; at best, there would be fail. The twig Kay stumbled over was to stop. At the brink of the hole Kay put weeks of repairing broken fire walls, the failure of one of his men to pay his up a last desperate stand; he agreed to cracked fire tubes and shells, interspersed union dues on time. Kay had with bring Hans right up, to save Gallagher's with an agony of labor connecting tem- meticulous care and infinite patience clothes, it was mucky and dark below; porary steam lines to locomotives, to nearly completed the final step of make- no sir, Hans wouldn't do another stroke steamships over at the docks and down ready. of work till he came up and paid. But the street to our little neighbor's factory As if solely for his purpose, we had the union was sacred to Gallagher, his boiler. Or maybe it would have been sunk, down the same alley parallel to the devotion to it was virtually ascetic. We quicker to have rushed through a whole big main, a trench of tile terminating in saw Kay deliberately block Gallagher new boiler plant. a manhole near the power house. Soon from the ladder; the two talked earnestly we would stretch new, high tension cable for a minute, nose to nose, they argued, JUST as if one explosion would not have through it. It was, by comparison, a they gesticulated. Gallagher pointed been enough, what with no process nasty and slew job, getting dirtied up down into the hole and then at the new steam to use, no turbines to generate, trying to crowd more work out of Italian dirt on the bank. Finally he pushed Kay with a third of our plant minus power and operated shovels and wheel-barrows. So down the opening and leaped after him. in darkness, with, probably, our siding Kay—and it seemed natural coming from Peace prevailed for so long a time that washed out and the main line railbed him—got the works engineer to swing the we trudged away to work, for all the damaged, with a dozen adjacent base- job to him. We even complimented him world like a bunch of kids summoned ments full to street level and stock and for persuading an electrician to tie in a grudgingly to the door when the bell machines submerged in filthy water, terminal box right in the midst of dirt, breaks up a snapping good fight in the Kay and his cohorts had several other brick and cement. And who would no- school yard. They say a volcano mutters, aggravations to touch off simultaneously. tice any extra barrows of dirt dumped puffs and roars before it erupts; if so, We traced out alierward an exceedingly against the siding? You see, the elec- that manhole suddenly put on a perfect ingenious metallic, magnesium short- trician was one of his gang, perhaps some imitation of one. There was a general circuit, connected in a circuit with an of the laborers were too, but anyway roar, a screech from Hans, Kay yelled, unused light socket. When one reached Kay managed to have a tunnel bored you could hear thuds and the grunts from up with a hook and pulled the light chain, through, a few feet, to the big water body blows, the sharper crack of a smack the short-circuit, tucked under the old, main and to have a fair sized room cut across a face, the rip of clothes, boards oil-soaked floor of the loading room, (the out above one of the pipe joints. cracking, feet scuffling, the mad sob for only building—a long, one-storied, cor- The cave went up almost to daylight, breath, and, above all at regular inter- rugated metal affair—where powder was its roof strengthened with boards from vals, Gallagher's bellow. poured and pressed into the cartridge falling in ; around what was to be the open shells) would flare into flame that would mouth of the main they built, with loose STICKS, sand, bricks, popped above the race down a long stretch of powder- brick and plank, a rough flume designed brink, to drop back in, or flew straight coated, oakum tinder, tenderly tucked to carry the water right up. The nitro out across the alley. One side of the ex- up between the joists. charge had not been placed but the lead- cavation caved in, smothering for a few Now remember, there would be no out length of pipe had been hung so as seconds the fury of the struggle below. water within the plant to fight a fire to drop out of the way when the joint By the time our rush brought us directly the exploded main, disgorging below, broke. The exploding circuits, for main above this subterranean melee the up- would suck out all pressure—sprinkler and fires, were to be yanked when the roar was subsiding to someone's moans heads would open, drool a bit and dry up. eleven-thirty whistle blew, on whichever and the stream of Gallagher's breathless City firemen were to be helpless because day Kay set; that was just the instant imprecations. Gallagher tossed the un- someone, doubtless, would reach the when every person of thousands, in good conscious body of a laborer up among us downtown, main city valves, long after true human style, would be breaking in a and pushed up the hardly less groggy the flood had completed its damage, but mad dash for the lunch box or its equiva- form of Hans, so that he could scramble soon enough to shut off water from the lent. up, himself, dragging a limp and dizzy section of the city embracing the plant, Kay by the collar. A G.I. can, disgorg- leaving hose lines lying flat and helpless THEN came that long-to-be-remem- ing a patrol from a muddy shell hole, along the gutters. Long before these bered morning. Absolutely without might leave bloodier, muddier, more events could have transpired the loading precedent, Gallagher showed up just after shredded human forms than that which room would have gone up, or down, in a starting time, startling most of the men Gallagher, in hardly better shape himself, shamble of sisses, pops, big bangs and into a quick finish of their preparation gathered up in his enormous grasp. fire. The whole mechanism we found and scattering them with unusual celerity Gallagher's human portage took its duplicated under the mixing room at the to the job. Loudly he clamored for Hans, way, as rapidly as he could stagger, over Park, its intended effect backed up with the dues-delinquent union member—the to the side door of the employment a cloth slug in the fire-pump suction, so pal Kay had in the manhole—to learn office. Without ceremony it clattered cleverly arranged that the pump would he had departed several minutes before; down amid the desks to Kay's pop-eyed, not balk during the slow-motion, routine then like a bull in the pasture he snorted paralyzed, female agent. She let out a

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squeal—tried to jump and run, but it?). He reached down to seal Kay's Gallagher's big fist circled a series of mouth with one big paw and yelled to GIRLS CALLED HIM finger marks around her arm which were Hans to come through to him—and then to remain a dark blue brand for many the fireworks started. You ask how did weeks. Even with an additional passen- Gallagher find out about the girl of the 'BLUEBEARD'/ ger, Gallagher made surprising progress employment office. That was part of the back out the aisle, wallowed through a general inspiration, for Gallagher re- frightened group of file girls and squeezed membered how readily Kay always his by then struggling, biting, scratching, seemed to cut her away from his bovine fighting, snarling load through the guard attempts at gallantry. captain's door. Not many weeks afterward construc- We hung around, hoping for luck and tion was finished, machinery installed, news, until a guard sergeant took a and then you could see a continuous couple of us on a rush trip to uncork the stream of wooden boxes, bobbing up and short-circuits and fire traps Kay's men down on long stretches of conveyor, had baited, spotting extra guards at the slowly and certainly flowing out onto danger points as we went, and meanwhile branch conveyors, through car doors, we made good use of his company to get right into the agile hands of sweating pretty much the whole story. It seems loading crews. All day, through sun, rain that Gallagher, at first, took Kay's at- or snow, all night under flood-light glare, tempted obstruction as a scheme to let every day, every week right up to the Hans squeal out of paying his dues, as an day of the false armistice the motion of affront to the dignity of a union official, these long snakes of cases never ceased. which made him see red and thrice de- The boxes, packed to the brims with termined to belabor Hans. cartridges primly clipped in bandoliers Fighting mad, his leap into the hole the tin linings and soldered covers for- left him sprawled all over Kay. In- bidding moisture—filled cars which were stinctively he groped both for sight, in shunted into trains destined for seaports. — because every time he let out a the semi-darkness, and a better position Constantly we visualized those boxes blast of murderous tobacco from his for defense should Kay swing at him. piled up in ammunition dumps, then in never-cleaned pipe they couldn't help The effort brought him up to a crouching succession, the cans ripped open, the position with his eyes right level on the clips fed into place, the typewriter rattle thinking of the famous gent who as- hole tunneled through to the water main, of machine gun and the crack of rifle and sassinated six wives. A pity, too beyond which an extension light dis- the final destination of the carefully when women love pipe-smoking done closed the false excavation, the V flume fabricated bullet, perhaps, in enemy in the right way. Which is ? i . Keep reaching up toward roof boards, and, flesh. You would not give Gallagher sole your pipe tidy. z. Switch to the to- peering over the suspended pipe, Hans credit for winning the war, but his one with a cord and terminal lugs hanging scuffle offered an awful lot of help. bacco that burns cleaner and smells from his hand. Towards noon a washed, patched-up more fragrant. We modestly admit Now, Gallagher once had been in on and grinning Gallagher peeked into the that's Sir Walter Raleigh Smokinef blasting work. Like the flash of a blast stock room. "It wasn't nutting, honest Tobacco—an uncommonly mild blend nearly all the truth streaked across —yeah, the job'll go fine now. I gotta of Kentucky Burleys delightful to both Gallagher's mind, leaving him, curiously, go down to headquarters. How's 'at? calm and subtle (an almost insane mad- Now? Aw, this aft's time enough, I'll smoker and audience. How such su- ness sometimes switches that way, doesn't see vou then. Chief." perlative tobacco can be only l 5^ is our worry. Try a tin. You'll bless us. FRITZ

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{Continued front page ig) grenade heavers, flame-throwers, ma- the Maginot line are not good toy ma- Storm troopers, labor corps, women's chine-gun crews firing or changing posi- terial. And apparently the outlawry of auxiliary, boy fifers and drummers, all tion. For $50 and up a lively sector, com- poison gas is still generally observed in parading proudly behind Swastika ban- plete, can be purchased—from No Man's toy warfare. I could find only one piece ners. Der Fiihrer, like as fife, reviews Land back to the Army Corps P. C. of evidence to the contrary: A gas alarm them with arm upraised in salute or Here are trenches with sandbag parapets man about to strike a gong. Otherwise spellbinds them from a rostrum. It has and traverses, barbed wire entangle- nothing—no masks, no projectors. been truly said that being reproduced as ments, dugouts, even shell holes, and Toy navies never have been built up a toy confers a measure of immortality better yet, the explosion of the shell. to limits, since on small-size ships one on an individual, and Herr Hitler has it

That is contrived by a gadget of luridly cannot place toy sailors. But naval in the German toy pantheon, along with painted glass enclosing an electric bulb; battles in miniature can be had; also Frederick the Great and his generals, flash it on realistically and nothing more wooden battleships which fly apart when Napoleon and his marshals, George is needed except saying "Boom!" struck by a pellet-torpedo from a sub- Washington, and the noted commanders marine. Available, too, are the old- of the World War. ARTILLERY of all types and calibres is fashioned battleship-banks. Parents If boys and their fathers temporarily - ready to be emplaced—one-pound- urged to contribute to them frequently should be diverted from toy soldiers, as ers, trench mortars, guns, howitzers, anti- may be sadly reminded of the failure of many were in the 1020's by the rise of aircraft, big naval guns, along with their America's honest effort to limit costly mechanical toys, the factories still could ammunition dumps. Nor are the fire- naval construction by treaty. count on the collector's mania to snap up control instruments, such as B. C. tele- Treaties, by the way, are one of the the best of their output. Few people in scopes and range finders, forgotten. few items not furnished with toy soldier this country appreciate the number and More batteries move up into action along sets. A treaty, one can inform the young, value of toy-soldier collections, since a road marked by a signpost on a shell- is something made possible by soldiers little is said of them by the men and shattered tree. Some of the cannon can and then made impossible by so-called older boys who own them—perhaps be- be elevated and traversed, and some fire statesmen. If one is needed in playing cause they are afraid of accusations of caps. Some of the machine guns actually war, it can as usual be represented by a still being engaged in a childish pursuit. are provided with belts consisting of scrap of paper. Nevertheless they are always in the mar- paper rolls of caps. Most of the credit for the moderniza- ket for new sets, entire or for one speci- Practical, too, are the searchlights, tion of toy armies, American as well as men of each. A large New York store has powered by small electric batteries; like- foreign, must be assigned abroad, espe- on its books six customers each of whom wise the headlights on the motor trucks. cially to Germany. has bought more than $1,000 worth of So are the buzzers, field telegraph, and toy soldiers. Some collectors own as wireless stations with which Morse code TOY soldiers were found in Roman many as 10,000 pieces. Factories execute diagrams are furnished. Tanks, motor- tombs and were made through the special orders. Being sold this year is a cycle-mounted machine guns, automotive Middle Ages. Monarchsof the Renaissance casting kit with which boys can mold batteries, radio apparatus, and field played with toy knights which tilted their own soldiers and arms—officers, bakeries attest to motorization. Chim- against each other. Louis XIV at the age men, cannon, tanks, airplanes, and battle- neys of the rolling kitchen are collapsible of twelve was taught to maneuver troops ships. and their /ats will hold slum and coffee with toy soldiers fabricated at great cost if one insists. To accompany them are by the royal goldsmith. Yet since the ONE of the world's most extraordinary seated soldiers eating from messkits Eighteenth Century, when the famous collections is that of the Frenchman, which patently are full of beans. toy factories at Nuremburg made sol- Paul Armont,which is of first-class museum Aviators stride along carrying pro- diers which "seemed like an echo of the quality. Armont began with the recon- pellers to flying fields complete with victories of Frederick the Great," Ger- struction and repainting of regular types planes and hangars. Nor will you search many has remained G. H. Q. for toy of lead soldiers but abandoned that for in vain for engineers with picks, shovels, armies. In spite of the post-war slump, costly special work in which he employed and pontoons; mountain troops with the Vaterland kept on manufacturing. archeologists, experts on military history, skis; Signal Corps men releasing pigeons More than once the French have accused specialists on arms, armor, and uniform, or operating radio direction finders; their neighbors across the Rhine of giving skilled designers, molders, and minia- musicians, mounted and dismounted their children toy soldiers as something turists. The result was a collection of full bands or a lone accordion player. more than toys—to "kindle patriotism thousands of pieces embodying the his- Never before has so much attention been and foster traditions, honor, and cour- tory of warfare from antiquity to the paid in the toy armies to wounded. age." (But don't we all?) Anyway, the present and including portrait-figures of There are stretcher cases, walking Treaty of Versailles failed to prohibit toy the leaders. Here are Egyptian and

wounded, surgeons bandaging in field soldiers. It is a fair assumption that dis- Assyrian war chariots at full gallop, dressing stations, Red Cross nurses armament reacted to stimulate military Greek hoplites, Persian cavalry, Scythian

(good news for little sisters), and hos- miniatures, as it did other substitutes; bowmen, and Nubian war elephants. pital dogs carrying first-aid packs. and forced concentration on toy troops Cortez and his Spanish conquistadors In all the toy troops mobilized this regained for Germany her lost pre- battle with Montezuma and his Aztec year are only a few curious lapses from eminence in the trade. At the same time hordes, their priests masked as animals. realism. A color-bearer, flag unfurled, is various types of civilian figures were Joan of Arc leads the French to victory. supplied to accompany suicidally a made, ranging from Touristin winkend I'ikemen and halberdiers give way to the

trench raid. Toymakers say boys de- to Herr in knickerbocker ; also well mod- glamorous days of cavalry. Kings meet mand that. Except for field entrench- eled animals and such fine examples of on the Field of the Cloth of Gold; and so ments, fortification continues old fash- the art as the rifle-aiming Indian whose on to modern times. Every detail in ioned, with models of concrete works of right eye clearly is squinting behind the color and form is painstakingly correct the Liege type and plenty of medieval sights. from flags, weapons, and uniforms down castles. Underground defenses such as And you should see the fine of Nazis! to the contemporary style in military

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mustaches and even the shape of buttons. siderable entertainment and instruction. Of course this collection is of immense So it is also, though to a far smaller ex- DID YOU EVER historical value. tent, in our less martial land. A few years Yet Germany, with its seventeen ac- ago an American army officer invented tive toy-soldier factories and many com- an ingenious toy soldier game and wrote TAKE AN munity makers, continues to be the col- a book about it. The game provides for lector's happy hunting ground, both for artillery duels, cavalry charges, bayonet purchase and for display. Once a year a combats, medical corps service, spies, INTERNAL BATH? society meets and with vast enthusiasm map-making, and the award of medals This may seem a strange question. and minute attention to detail stages a for bravery. Every maneuver and com- But if you want to magnify your energy famous battle, such as Waterloo or bat is scored, and victory goes to the sharpen your hrain to razor edge—put Austerlitz, with the toy troops of mem- player who has demonstrated the better a glorious sparkle in your eye—pull bers. In some of them 8,000 or more fig- generalship, both in tactics and the care yourself up to a health level where you can glory in vitality you're going to ures are employed. Germany boasts an of his troops. — read this message to the last line. illustrated monthly magazine for toy This Christmas toy soldiers will as soldier collectors: Der Standhafte Zinn- formerly far outsell sets representing the What Is an Internal Bath? Some understand an internal bath to be an soldat, now in its ninth year. The follow- birth of Christ (made, incidentally, by enema. Others take it to be some new-fangled ing table of contents reveals the strength the same factories), and it will be de- laxative. Both are wrong. A real, genuine true internal bath is no more like an and scope of collector interest: plored that in a season dedicated to peace enema than a kite is like an airplane. The only simi- Instructions on background for a pan- on earth, good will to men, armies march larity is the employment of water in each case. orama of toy soldiers; both through playrooms and nations. A bona-fide internal bath is the administra- tion into the intestinal tract of pure, warm Tables of organization for a full army However, in the case of toy soldiers, as in water, Tyrrellized by a marvelous cleansing corps of toy troops contributed by 145 other questions, causes should not be con- tonic. The appliance that holds the liquid and injects it is the J. B. L. Cascade, the invention collectors; fused with effects. League of The Na- of that eminent physician, Dr. Charles A. An article on pictures of standards and tions avoided doing so when four years Tyrrell, who perfected it to save his own life. Now, here's where the genuine internal bath uniforms of old and modern armies to be ago it tabled a resolution by the Domin- differs radically from the enema. found in cigarette packages (these cor- ican Republic to prohibit the manufac- The lower intestine, called by the great Professor Foges of Vienna "the most prolific source of disease," respond to the chromos of baseball ture of warlike toys. The age-old fas- is five feet long and shaped like an inverted U players and actresses enclosed with cination of boys and their elders for toy thus Q. The enema cleanses but a third of this "horseshoe," or to the first bend. The J. B. L. American cigarettes years ago and soldiers will persist as long as flags fly, Cascade treatment cleanses it the entire length and does it effectively. You have only to read that avidly collected boys); bands play and men in uniform parade. by booklet "Why We Should Bathe Internally" to fully Notes on British uniforms in 1857, Certainly no war veteran, who has understand how the Cascade does it —without pain or discomfort. French in 1870, Russian in 1813, Saxons seen death and suffering, gives toy sol- in 1800, and black officers in the German diers to his sons to make quarrelsome Why Take an Internal Bath? Here is why: The intestinal tract is the waste canal East Africa auxiliaries during the World jingoes of them. It is rather to teach them of the body. Due to our soft foods, lack of vigorous exercise, and highly artificial civilization, a large War; that the profession of arms is an honor- percentage of persons suffer from intestinal stasis News from collectors' clubs; their able one—that our Army and Navy (delay). The passage of waste is entirely too slow. 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green by a canal which the missionaries soul, in black shirt and trousers, with red trees, pomegranates and figs, shaded by built. A cluster of white-walled red- neckerchief and red sash, who introduced date palms, and with English flowers roofed buildings huddles under the side himself gravely: growing in the dooryard, she is the un- of a steep hill, with tall palms and cotton- "I am the jefcoi this house, caballcros, official hostess of Baja California. woods shading it. and I am thejV/e of the ball. Be merry On the wall of her living room are Santo Tomas wine is not a claret, as with us! Dance with beautiful ladies! framed portraits, cut from the Illustrated some inexperienced travelers report; it is And when you have danced, refresh your- London News, of Queen Victoria, King not a Burgundy, as others contend. It self with the aguardiente which I myself Edward VII and King George, Queen has a color, an oily richness, a bouquet, have prepared for the event!" Alexandra and Queen Mary. and a wallop all its own. It is probably The orchestra, which consisted of vio- "I'm waiting now," she told us, smil- the finest wine produced in Mexico, and lin and guitar, played Ranc/10 Grande and ing hopefully, "for a picture of our new it may be purchased at the winery for Adclita, and once, for the benefit of los little king." two pesos—fifty-four American cents yanquis (for Yanks we were, everywhere We occupied a bedroom in her com- a gallon! south of the line), they played an Ameri- pound the night we were at her ranch. can air which Senor Hags recognized as On its walls are covers from the Saturday OX THE evening of the next day we "Show Me the Way to Go Home." Evening Post for the years iqi i and 1016. attended a fiesta in honor of the It was late when we left the mud house, And there's an old copy of Punch on the glorious Fifth of May. This was held at and our host followed us to the truck to table in the living room. Hattie Hamil- the home of the principal citizen of the tell us once more that he was desolated ton seems content there, serving immense Colonia Guerrero, aclusterof 'dobehouses that we would not remain the rest of the meals to occasional travelers, not worry- some eight or nine miles southwest of night. His hospitality was not unusual, ing about the fact that she's the only Santo Domingo mission, and a full day's however. On that peninsula where the woman who speaks English on a thou- drive beyond Santo Tomas. land is so inhospitable, the handful of sand-mile stretch of El Camino Real. The house consisted of one room, a people living along the coasts and in the When we left the Hamilton ranch, two lean-to brush shed for sleeping quarters, mountains and upon the edges of the hundred miles south of Tecate— (only and a grass-roofed, cleared space in front deserts seem determined to make amends one hundred and thirty as the crow flies) which was used simultaneously as a for the churlishness of nature. we set out on a new phase of our journey. chicken yard and a kitchen. The room And nowhere can any traveler find Many Americans have ventured that far. had unwhitewashed mud walls, a dirt hospitality more genuine than at Miss But southward the old road grew les; floor and a roof of tule brush. Benches Hattie Hamilton's ranch. Every desert distinct. In the late afternoon we paused made of plank had been set up around the rat, every prospector, every hunter for at the port of El Rosario. walls, and three small glass lamps on Hon or big horn sheep who ever has brackets furnished the light. The kero- ventured down Baja California below TH IS pretty little town, with door yards sene in one of them was tinted green, in Santo Tomas, blesses the name of Hattie filled with flowers like Easter lilies, and another red, and the third one remained Hamilton. with its mission ruins and its dusty plaza, white. Even the lamps were patriotic. About 1880, when Miss Hamilton was lies on the Pacific and marks the end of Two paper Mexican flags had been a very young woman, she came from the Mexican government's interest in the stuck on the wall, and thin dusty paper England with her uncle to the west coast peninsula road. From this point a mail streamers, also in the national colors, of Mexico. There was a large and hope- carrier takes off northward once or twice were stretched across the room. Old ful colony of these Englishmen; they first a month for Ensenada. We talked to women with plain black rebosos on their founded Ensenada as an outpost of em- him, and he told us that the road that heads sat on the benches, soberly smok- pire, and later moved a hundred miles day was "poco bueno." ing cigarettes and watching their sons, down the coast to build the now deserted He was a young, hatchet-faced citizen daughters and husbands dance. Young town of San Quintin, where the Bay of in brown denim shirt and trousers, and an women, in print dresses very low at the the Five Hills juts inland from the Pacific. old military cap with a dark visor. His neck, very high at the knee, and very broad belt sagged over his hips with the gay in color, danced languidly with men, THEY came to raise wheat on the fertile weight of an immense gun in a holster. young and old. Most of the gentlemen mesas, and the first three years were "Senor should have seen el camino last wore overalls; a few had neglected to seasons of winter rain, and they prospered. winter, in the season of the rains," he bring their shoes. They laid out an ambitious city, built a said. "The first sixty miles required Some of the girls, particularly the hotel of forty-six rooms, which still stands, twenty-nine days to drive my fine car. younger ones, were pretty. Two of them a great flour mill, houses and shops, and Now I can do those sixty miles, or most of had touched their dark cheeks with rouge; even a railroad running back some them, at least, in one day! Or two days, one wore violent lipstick that emphasized eighteen miles. Then for seven years no anyway. Yes, at this time of year it is a the Indian cast of her face. rain fell; the wheat fields went back to good road." Lipstick in a mud hut! It was confus- cactus, the Englishmen to England. To- Senor Hags and I wrote a letter each, ing; it made one slightly uneasy. For the day San Quintin is a ghost town, tum- and turned them over to the postmaster young girls at Guerrero colony were bling away to desolate ruin, w-ithout a and watched the departure of the mail. neither wholly civilized nor wholly un- single human inhabitant, but populated El Rosario posted exactly five letters in spoiled. They were victims of geography. by millions upon millions of fleas. the month of May, including our two. The American border, with its American Of all that English colony, only Miss The mail-carrier put the five into a large ideas, was entirely too close to them for Hattie Hamilton remains. She still official envelope, licked the flap, sealed it, their own happiness. manages the ranch which her uncle and folded it into a wad, which he The owner of the house, however, per- founded, with more perception than his stuffed into his shirt pocket. mitted neither the proximity of the neighbors, astraddle of the irrigation To the postmaster he said: "The border nor his own sixty-five years to ditch which the Dominicans had built so Americanos, they are the most strange spoil his enjoyment of the Fifth of May. long ago. In her pleasant little ranch people. Always they must be writing He was a short, dark, violently hospitable house, set in a grove of lemon and orange letters. Have you not observed that

52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly every American who has ever paused In fact, all we could see of him were his here must at once write to someone far eyes and his rifle. Your Dog Can Find away?" He did not speak when the car halted, Southward from El Rosario there is no but the two Mexicans in the front seat Game In Improved mail service. A car bearing a Mexican greeted us cheerfully. We discussed the Hunting Areas! official and two soldiers had started in road and the fog and the hot day, but the that direction five days ahead of us, man in the rear still remained silent. citizens explained; we might even catch Only his eyes moved. I went closer. up with it before we reached Santa They were gray eyes. Rosalia. Several weeks later, when we re- In English I said, "Well, how do you turned through El Rosario, we found that like it down here?" no one had followed us south; we drove He pulled the blanket away from his back into town on our own tracks. face. Southeast of El Rosario a full day's "Oh, it's quite all right," he answered, drive, beyond the ruins of San Fernando in British, not American, English. "Have mission, a large circle on the map indi- you happened to notice any jack rabbits Too often your faithful dog cates the town of El Marmol. It was on about?" fails to find game in covers which formerly full the way there that we developed car yielded bags. But it is possible to so improve trouble. The road was almost at its worst, WE discussed jack rabbits. Then YOUR favorite hunting areas SO that game will STAY there. and one afternoon we struggled for five they went on, an elderly Englishman Let us assist you by placing at your dis- hours to make a total of fifteen miles. and his two Mexican friends, into the posal the Western -Winchester Game Restoration Plan. First, while El Marmol is the site of an onyx quarry. darkness from which they had come. actually hunting your chosen area this Fall, take a game cen- The onyx is sledged by burro down to the Next day, for ten minutes, we made sus. Then follow the suggestions coast and shipped to Portland, Oregon, thirty miles an hour. in the textbook, "Restoration of Upland Game"— yours FREE! where it is converted into tombstones, That was the only burst of speed on our It is suprisingly easy to put the plan into ash trays, desk sets, and the gay round trip, and it took us across the bed of effect. Requires little time. Mail Coupon for textbook. knobs on automobile gear-shift levers. Chapala dry lake, at the north end of the But there being little market for these Desert of the Lost Ones. We had thought I Western Cartridge Company, Dept. L-68. j products at the moment, the quarry was all the way down that we were in desert East Alton, Illinois ' J I Please send the textbook, not working. country me "Restoration of Upland I —but ah, no. That was only our Came", covering I the Western-Winchester Game I Houses in El Marmol are mostly of Restoration Plan. inexperienced point of view. j

Name ! brush and 'dobe, although several boast Here we met desert in all its ugliness. Address tin sides, but the crowning glory of the little A scrub chamiso or creosote bush I Post Office State... | place is the new schoolhouse, built en- grows to a prickly height of a few inches. L j tirely of onyx blocks. One recognizes a few cholla and occatilla The citizenry came out to meet us as cactus plants; an occasional nopal lifts its CHASE HOLIDAY we approached. For nearly an hour they flat thorny arms, and here and there HEADACHES WITH stood at the top of a long rise while we maguays rise, like huge century plants. BROMO-MINT a trail struggled upward over rough of But these are the lesser flora of this ONE DOSE Bottles for convenience sharp, uneven stones. They all were desert. Giant cardons, of some them lES NOT CONTAIN ASPIRIN. ARCOTICS or ACETANILID. related, brothers being the heads of the sixty feet tall, show what cactus really Buy a Supply Today—NOW three or four families who make up the can do when it takes a notion. Cireo place. trees abound. A cireo? We thought you They seemed astounded at the sight of wouldn't know! Neither did we. But BEAN'S CANOE SHOE our truck, and examined it as if it were a we can tell you what it looks like. It Made of high grade tan elk leather with double )il tanned moccasin sole, rubber heel and Talon Fastener It is a horse. Finally we discovered the reason. looks like a cross between a telephone combination "Slipper Shoe." used for many around camp and cottage. This was the second trucko that ever had pole and an airedale dog. It rises, a single Colors, brown and black. Sizes 3 to 12. managed to enter El Marmol. gray tapered pole, for twenty feet some Write for Catalog "What of the other?" we asked. into the air, without branch or foliage Mfd. by L. L. BEAN, Inc. "Where did it go?" except a tangle of hairy offshoots, about Bffrt. Hunting They pointed. "It remained," they six inches long, around the trunk. and Camping Specialties said. A forest of cardons and cireos, with an 287 Main St. Freeport True enough. There, against the occasional maguay scattered through it, Maine Postpaid mountain side, an old wreck stood. makes one suspect that Baja California "It is the only trucko to reach El Mar- was illustrated by Dore after a bad night. World War Photos mol before yours, except for the tractors Far to the north stretched the gray peaks we use in the quarry," they said. "It of the Sierra San Pedro Martyr, and 50 ACTUAL PHOTOS TAKEN BEHIND GERMAN LINES BATTLE SCENES—VERDUN. VIMY RIDGE, ST. MIHIEL. ARGONNE FOREST. five years ago. Since then, no one comes southeastward the Sierra Giganta, with GAS ATTACKS. INFANTRY. TANKS IN ACTION -KAlSER INSPECT- ING TROOPS ALSOCROWN PRINCE. VON HINDENBERG. CORPSE has tried. Carros, yes. Truckos, no. The the Santa Clara range in dim blue outline STREWN BATTLEFIELDS. ALL FIFTY, $5 00 POSTPAID. SAMPLE two men who come as you do, from here toward the west. SET OF 6 SI 00 DESCRIPTIVE FOLDER FREE PHOTO EXCHANGE. P.O.BOX 2 1 7. AUGUSTA. GA. they walk, leaving the trucko for us." The map showed many towns—Cata- We slept on a mountain that night. vina, Mesquital, San Xavier, Miller's The road writhed over the ridges, nearly Landing, Punta Prieta, Pozo Aleman. 1 a mile above sea-level, and at one of the But where were they? Catavina, we dis- IE L iLLibJ highest points we pulled into a flat space, covered, consisted of a single 'dobe Ex-SEnvioB Men Get Preference broke out our cots, and kindled our gaso- habitation occupied by an Indian family. ( ) Railway Mail Clerk ( ) POSTMASTER ( ) P. O. Laborer ( ) Elev. Conducti) line stove. The day had been terrifically Mesquital was a ruined house. San ( ) R. F. D. Carrier ( ) Auditor ( ) Special Agent ( ) Stenographer hot, but as the sun dropped, a thick gray Xavier has been so dealt with by time ( ) Customs Inspector f ) U. S. Border Pit ( ) City Mail Carrier ( ) Telephone Opr. P. fog rolled in from the distant Pacific and that we passed it without realizing that ( ) O. Clerk ( ) Watchman ( ) Stock Clerk ( ) Meat Inspector the night became too cold for comfort. any human being ever had dwelt there. ( ) Special Investigator ( ) Secret Service Opr. ( ) Typist ( ) File Clerk the A car rumbled up grade toward us Miller's Landing, where the road INSTRUCTION SERVICE Dept. 110, St. Louis, Mo. Send me FREE particulars "How to Qualify for as we were preparing supper. Two once more touches the coast, after Government Positions" marked "X" Salaries locations, opportunities, etc. ALL SENT FREE sat in front and another man, leaving the Llano of Mexicans the Lost Ones, Name partly concealed in a blanket, in the rear. and before plung- (Continued on page 54) Address DECEMBER, 1936 53 c The Royal Road to V^owhere

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ing recklessly across the Vizcaino desert, can boy fill a tin of water from a barrel. Mr. Roberts. We were standing in front may at some time have been a settle- We had expected no town at this point, of his house, while a sleepy Mexican ment. Old maps indicate that supplies but to our surprise we came over a hum- gentleman whom he introduced as Don may be obtained there. But in 1936 all mock, and there a dozen houses lined the Antonio and half a dozen other natives traces of it are lost. We missed Pozo rim of a deep arroya. And over to our looked on and listened. Aleman as well, but at Punta Prieta we right, in a high structure with tin roof and "What," we asked, "could be the met all five families. sides, a great deal of bumping and meaning of the dragon?" The delcgado, as the head of the local thumping indicated the presence of a Mr. Roberts blinked, shrugged slightly, government is called, was absent, but an stamp mill. and glanced sidewise at the dark watch- Indian boy told us that there resided in "Why, you're running a gold mine!" ing faces. Then he replied formally, "I the town "un Americano." we exclaimed. should not be expected to know what it is. ..." "Un Americano?" we repeated in sur- Old man Roberts looked at us very Probably . . . ah . . . some of the boys. prise. coldly. "There's a hole in the ground he glanced around apprehensively again "Si, scnor! Wait!" over that way," he said, pointing in- at the faces and begged us to remain for definitely and dropping the subject. But luncheon. "I'll have the girls put on a WE WAITED. When our fellow- couple of plates," he said. countryman appeared, he was But we dared not wait. Half of the even darker of skin than his companions. broad Vizcaino lay ahead. He spoke no English. And wore no shoes. Should you want a taste of the Viz-

But in the eyes of Punta Prieta, he was caino desert, fill a bin with wheat flour to very much an American. Many years the depth of six feet, to simulate volcanic ago, he explained, he once traveled as far ash; put a half inch pie-crust on top of it, as San Diego, and there had worked for shut the windows and turn on the radi- a Mexican truckgrower for three weeks. ators till the temperature is a hundred After a few minutes we left him, our and twenty, scatter three or four side- faith in the broadening influence of travel winders around within striking distance, much shaken. stick a couple of dozen fish-hooks into The old padres, who, we discovered, your hands to get the effect of cholla knew what they were about, several cactus spines, then drop your ton-and-a- hundred years ago named the wild, blaz- half-ton truck forcibly through the crust ing hot region which separates the and into the flour. Vizcaino from the neighboring desert to Next grab a spade and dig for ten the north "El Inferno," and by that hours, with an ultra-violet ray lamp name it is called today. It fits. It might turned on the back of your neck. That "Look, a needle!" fit the Vizcaino, too. Four families of will give you a fair idea. When you Indians or half-breed Mexicans live on finally have the truck safely up on top this eight-thousand square miles of per- he continued to eye us thoughtfully. of the piecrust again, sit down in its nar- fect hell. Westward along the coast and Were we there to spy upon his operations? row shade and enumerate to yourself the in the waterless Santa Claras, fishing So we talked of the road and he once acquaintances who have the habit of settlements of one or two houses, dry more became hospitable. But he didn't saying "I just love the desert" and wish placer mines with one or two men, are ask a question of us. Didn't seem a bit fervently that they wert there. said to exist; eastward in the mountains curious about where we had come from, a small band of untamed Seri Indians where we were going, what we were doing, WE DUG in the Vizcaino; we admit still roam, and according to local infor- from whom we were escaping, or why. without blushing that we did not mation, are armed with the bow and He listened with courteous skepticism to love it. After leaving old man Roberts arrow. But the desert itself is given over our story of why we were there, and made we drove for more than fifty miles with- to cactus, kangaroo rats, blue lizards, no comment, but we could see that he out seeing a sign that human beings ever prowling coyotes, and heat, heat, heat. didn't believe a word of it. had been there before us. Then we passed At the eastern edge of the Vizcaino we The day before we came to his mine we a brush house which the map called met old man Roberts, and from him had been driving southward across the "Rancho Los Angeles." We had waved learned again that the asking of personal Plains of the Lost Ones. Early in the day to the Mexican in the doorway and questions is very bad form on the lower we too had succeeded in losing our way, relieved ourselves of the rather stale joke reaches of El Camino Real. and had driven straight southward, guid- about a proud California city once more The tourist who delights in prying into ing ourselves by the sun. extending its borders, when we saw a car affairs not strictly his own is advised to Suddenly we halted. Here on our left, bogged ahead of us. stay away. If a man wishes to tell you spread out on the flat desert, was a pic- It contained two American prospec- his business, his home address, his reasons ture made of small stones the size of a tors, on their way from the east to the for wandering in this unfriendly region, man's head. Eighty-five feet long, forty- dry Santa Clara diggings. They already very well. But never seem curious. Too five feet wide, it represented in outline a were short on water. After we had often the chance acquaintance on the great winged dragon or lizard with a lash- helped dig them out, they went on, highway has something to hide; he may ing tail. It was not ancient; the condi- striking westward across the desert. The be staying down where he is until some tion of the stones indicated that it had heat was fearful, the thermometer stand-

unfortunate business up beyond the been executed some time in the past ing at 1 20 degrees.

border is forgotten; he may even be twenty years. The Indians of the region We bogged, too, after they had left. guarding jealously what he believes to be for two hundred years have been Chris- Hopelessly. a pocket of gold. tians, we knew. Yet this lizard harked We got out, finally. But the prospec- Old man Roberts was sitting in front of back to primitive dragon worship. tors? Two days later we met the master his grass and mud hut, watching a Mexi- Naturally we reported our discovery to of a pack train, coming into San Ignacio

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from the Santa Claras. We asked him. "What is the name of the hill?" we No, he had seen no one. No, it would be asked the pious citizens, and they replied: DIAMONDS WATCHES impossible for the prospectors to get "Calvary, of course." through, the way they had gone. How Stark mountain peaks marched around much water had they? the horizon, each named for a saint. m;li!Hff.Hfel ana "Fifteen gallons when they left us," we Eastward towered those forbidding vol- Use the LOFTIS CREDIT SYSTEM. Order direct from said. canoes, the Three Virgins. Cactus and illustrations, or send for FREE CATALOG. ,,-OMta "Ah, that is too bad, then. For they lava hemmed in the restful beauty of San will soon be dead." Ignacio the Blessed. Pay One- Tenth Down. Many other men have died on this des- Hourly we marveled at the church, Ten Months To Pay. ert. Five years ago, the Auto Club of built more than two hundred years ago Southern California sent a party down El by two exploring Jesuits, with five Span- NEWEST WATCHES Whit^o* " low Gold Camino Real to chart it for possible ish soldiers for their aides, the great stone travelers. But somewhere south of El blocks being hewed and lifted into place Rosario, the present trails leave the by savages who never before had seen a 50c wk. "MARY -JO" markers which the Club set up, and in white face or heard a civilized voice. BULOVA "GODDESS OP Solid 18-K TIME' 17 JEWELS, Yellow While or 14-K hundreds of miles we came upon only two But when we mentioned going on to Gold finish. $29.75. Yellow Gold 7 Diamonds. of them. Santa Rosalia, the men of San Ignacio $1.00 a Week "WENDY" beautiful Solita We Sell All Standard There were other signs. The highway protested. solid 14-K Yello Makes of Watches or White Gold. of the padres is marked, from end to end, "Besides the malaria, which you must by lonely roadside graves. Rude crosses surely get there, it is now the typhoid!" SEND $12° WITH COUPON tilt over some of them; some are inad- they exclaimed. "And just yesterday we close $1.00 DOWN PAYMENT <

l Watch or Ring) equately protected from coyotes by heaps hear that the horrible diphtheria is also for which I agree to pay $ on terms of PER WEEK. of stones; others are merely low mounds abroad." Nam* on the flat soil. For every living man we We paused in our packing. Beyond Town- -State met, we passed half a dozen graves. San Ignacio we would find other moun- I aOccupation . -R.F.D.. But we did beat the road, south bound, tains and other deserts, other ruined mis- ^34-No.State St. DEPT. lOFTIS J-1 at least. On a Sunday morning, with heat, sions, other deserted towns and sleeping hm JEWELRY CO . Chicago,///. exertion, fatigue showing on us both, we villages. Nothing new. Nothing which paused on a ridge and looked down on the would not be repetition—except malaria, oasis known as Kadakaman, where the typhoid and diphtheria. MINSTRELS lique first parts for oompleteshow, of lay beside its pool far at foot of th special songs and choruses, village San Ignacio True, down the the pen- ack-face Jokes, (lags. plays, Post- , Make-up G.mhLs, Wik*. Bones, of blue water, under the shade of sixty insula, beyond the forbidding grades of thousand palms. the Sierra Giganta, beyond the feverish San Ignacio, called "the blessed," lagoons below Mulege, a sub-tropical houses nearly two thousand kindly, jungle and a rich coastal plain awaited Free Catalog T. S DENIS0N & CO hospitable souls, who pick dates for a us. But the citizens of San Ignacio Wabasb, Dept. 69, Chicago frugal living from the palms that the pointed out that our great truck could padres planted. Its great stone church, not possibly get that far; and should we Start a POTATO built by the Jesuits in 1728, lifted its wish to go to La Paz, at the tip of Baja white dome and spire through the trees California, certainly it would be wiser to BUSINESS IN YOUR KITCHEN that morning and from its belfry a bell take a ship. MAKE MONEY was calling. So San Ignacio, in the middle of the We bumped down three miles of deserts, became our "farthest south."

villainous road, passed through a deep The royal road of the good old padres Pota > Chips. and sell for 35.

Ideal business, forlor women in spare green jungle beside a little stream, and had taken us nowhere in particular. \\ or full time. Small investment e buys complete equipment. No experience needed. I show you emerged, by an avenue of ancient palms, both were a bit groggy from too much how lo iet stores to sell all you make: tell you how to make profit '"£!"»'»'»"• Pi""'"- P'iees terms into the neat, quiet streets of the town. heat, although neither of us would admit II*!'- i'l and aent free. Send a postal card for rree Pacts on this big "Home Business" Opportunity C. H. HARDT. Dept. B. San Ignacio welcomed us with a rich it. 712. 325 West Huron St.. Chicago, III. cordiality, but it asked us no questions Late one hot afternoon we started back, about ourselves. Other Americans had the way we had come. And three days been there before us; the citizens counted later, exactly in the center of the Llano of MAKE Up To $65 WEEKLY them off on their fingers—-one in 1934, the Lost Ones, a hundred miles from the in new kind of wholesale business. Place famous line 5c-10c merchandise two in 1928, others in previous years. nearest Indian hut and seventy-five miles with stores. Merchants ^rab our FREE AMAZING NEW GOODS Deals. 200 fast-selling pro- Most of them approached from Santa from water, our truck bogged down and ducts — all on sak'smaking Counter BUSINESS Displays, Up to 140% profit for you and Rosalia, on the gulf, a distance of only refused to move. Twenty-four hours merchant. No experience or investment Sell to Stores needed to start. Get big catalog FREE. fifty miles from San Ignacio; not a dozen later, after digging a day and a night, we World's Products Co., Dept. 12813, Spencer, Ind had crossed the Vizcaino to reach the started north again. town. Back in Hollywood a man said to me: Free for Asthma The principal merchant, immense, fat, "You must have had a swell trip! How dignified Jose Maria de Espinosa, whose were the hotels down there? I'm think- During Winter cramped little store bore the name of ing of going to Mexico. You see, I just If you suffer with those terrible attacks "The City of the Cottonwoods or the love the desert." of Asthma when it is cold and damp: if raw, Wintry winds make you choke as if House of the Poor," came to. sit with us To him, and to everyone else interested each gasp for breath was the very last; if restful sleep is impossible because of in the evening, and talked of events in in hotels I reply: "Take the new road the struggle to breathe; if you feel the the world beyond the deserts. Dona to Mexico City. Start at Laredo and fol- disease is slowly wearing your life awav, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Maria Leree, who kept the keys to the low the pavement. You can make seven Asthma Co. for a free trial of a remarkable method. No matter church now that there was no padre any hundred miles in two comfortable days where you live or whether you have any faith in any remedy more, served coffee in a patio, in the and sleep between sheets at night." under the Sun, send for this free trial. If you have suffered for a lifetime and tried shade of fig and olive trees, where a tiny He wouldn't enjoy El Camino Real everything you could learn of without re- lief; even if you are utterly stream gurgled importantly over the anyway. Not only is it the royal road discouraged, do not abandon hope but send today for rocks. to nowhere, but not a single souvenir, this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Address Three great crosses tilted on that hill- not even a picture postcard, can be pur- Frontier Asthma Co., 7.".- II Frontier llhlu. top, dark against the copper sky. chased in San Ignacio the Blessed. 402 Niagara Street, Bnll'alo, New York DECEMBER, 1936 55 Prisons *Are V^ews

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with fifteen or twenty years to do. Your without noticing that the man in Cell 216 crazy prisoner set fire to several buildings, bunks will be hung from the walls, double- was still reading his newspaper with all Danny Daniels shot the last of his fol- decker fashion, and to get to the open the lights out. lowers and then killed himself. toilet or the slop-bucket in the corner In one of the New York City institu- Similarly tragic was the break of six you must squeeze sideways between the tions a prisoner in the hospital ward made prisoners from Leavenworth a few years bunks and the wall. five dummy heads, working behind the ago, when three of the six were killed and screen put up around his bed in the be- Warden Tom White's left arm was crip- ANAKED twenty-watt bulb in the ceil- lief that he was very sick. The heads pled for life by a shot-gun blast. The ing supplies the only light from late were made of sheeting and hair from his plans had been carefully laid by the afternoon on. You cannot read for fifteen mattress, and had features that were con- prisoners, all of whom had long sentences years under such a light, even if you have vincing in a dim light. One night the pa- or bad criminal records. Guns, pur- anything you want to read. So you lie tient and four others slipped out and the chased through a crooked dealer, had on your bunk and listen to the blaring warden had only "a bag of heads" to been smuggled into the prison by a new radio loud-speaker for hours on end. hang in his office as a souvenir. and ingenious method. At a fixed time

When it is quiet you talk to your cell- Prisoners have escaped buried in loads the prisoners made their way to the inner mate about the grocery store he burglar- of ashes and even of garbage, or in empty of two gates that guard the front entrance. ized in Des Moines, or little Mickey that gasolene tank cars where the fumes nearly Guard Kelly opened the gate to let some used to be in the reform school with you killed them. My friend Red, who is doing of the office force pass through and found and was hanged last week, or about twenty-five years at Atlanta and "owes himself covered. A minute later Guard Mamie and the joint on 19th Street, or time" to a half-dozen state prisons, once Dempsey at the outer gate was staring what the boys are doing now, or the Dis- had himself nailed in a case of shoes at into a gun, and the warden and several trict Attorney who double-crossed you by Leavenworth and got outside the walls. civilians were being rounded up in the false promises about what he would do if Another Federal prisoner, an expert offices. There was still the machine gun you pleaded guilty, or the cops who beat forger, got himself out through the front in the armory tower to pass, but the a "confession" out of you. Sometimes gate on a forged writ of habeas corpus. warden and others were used as a screen you go maudlin and talk about your wife The official paper and seal and the signa- and the main highway was reached. and kids, but not often. You keep that ture of the Federal judge were perfect, to yourself, most of the time. but this man was not free long. He was THERE a passing automobile was You are locked in for the night at arrested forty miles from the prison when seized and the prisoners, with the about 5 p.m., when the day shift of he tried to pass a postal money order warden as hostage, began a mad ride which guards goes off duty and the short- raised from six dollars to sixty. soon had the whole county in an uproar. handed night shift comes on. You look In Vermont a prisoner dug his way out Detachments of guards, Sheriff's posses, at the lights in the outer world through of the death cell with a broken spoon and and Federal troops from Fort Leaven- three sets of steel bars, those on the front a small iron rod wrenched from his bed. worth scoured the country-side and air- of your cell, those at the edge of the cat- Nobody knew that under the plaster of planes scouted overhead. The chase walk, and those on the windows. Every the back wall of the cell was brick laid up was too long and involved to describe in once in a while a guard comes padding with soft mortar, until they found the detail. The stolen car was wrecked, around the tier to see whether you or a hole and no prisoner. In Massachusetts Warden White was wounded in a cour- dummy is in the bed, and to make sure a long-termer worked away at the steel ageous attempt to over-power one of his you are not working on the bars with a ceiling of his cell for weeks, prying it up captors, and the fugitives divided. Two little soap and a scrap of hack-saw blade gradually with a handful of junk that of them attempted to escape on stolen acquired from God knows where. If you became a crude jack as soon as he started plow-horses but were captured in a corn- are, he doesn't fool you, for somebody work at night. As cracks appeared he field after one had been wounded. A always keeps watch down the tier with a filled them with chewed paper and bread third, an old Oklahoma outlaw who had hand mirror stuck out through the bars, crumbs. One night the steel plate always been a lone wolf and now separ- just in case No. 44,702 has decided to cracked and the six-inch concrete slab ated from the others, was not caught for take it on the lam. If you have, they over it lifted like a well-cover. He climbed several days. usually do not find out about that weak into the attic, out of a ventilator, down The leader of the escaping party and bar in your cell until the inevitable stool- over the roof, and was soon lost in a two others were finally trapped in a little pigeon tips them off. nearby freight-yard. frame farmhouse. Surrounded by a Sometimes there is a dummy in the heavy force, the house was filled with bed, and a loose bar. Many men cannot MANY of the attempts to escape are tear gas and almost cut to pieces by view twenty years, forty years or life violent rather than ingenious. One bullets. Finally the defenders' fire imprisonment with equanimity. Several that combined both qualities occurred slackened. After a pause three shots, years ago a Sing Sing prisoner rehearsed at Leavenworth nearly thirty-five years first two and then one, were heard; then a clever dummy night after night to see ago, when a group of prisoners seized a there were no more. When they en- whether or not it would fool the guard on locomotive inside the walls and crashed tered the house the besiegers found three his rounds. It did. The dummy lay on through a heavy iron gate with it. Per- dead bodies' on the upper floor. Exam- the bed holding a newspaper before its haps the most tragic attempt in recent ination of the bullets showed that the face and with one leg crossed over the years was that engineered by Danny leader had shot the other two and then, other. As the guard passed the cell the Daniels in the Colorado State Peniten- like Danny Daniels, had killed himself. dummy's leg would move up and down tiary. When the attempt to shoot their Probably it was a suicide pact. in a life-like manner; the prisoner was way out with smuggled weapons failed, But usually there is no such excite- lying under the bunk and pulling a he and a handful of convicts held several ment in a prison, day or night. The night string tied to the leg. One night the guards as hostages and Danny "sent especially wears on endlessly. You can- prisoner made his getaway. The guard them out on a platter" one by one in a not sleep; since you got your number had become so accustomed to the dummy vain attempt to bargain for freedom. you have had more sleep than anything that he made his blissful rounds all night After a protracted siege, during which a else, going to bed at nine-thirty every

56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly night. Over your head, under you, on the Missouri prisoners used to do, you all sides you hear the ceaseless coughing deliberately sew through your hand to of your fellow-prisoners. The cell-house get away from an impossible task, you windows are wide open; it is deathly cold go to special isolation until you know on the lower tiers and stuffy on the upper better. ones. You must sleep with your head Or, more likely than not, you have no toward the bars, so that the guard can work at all and are locked in your cell see that you are really there. The draft for twenty hours a day, or mill around is killing and you pull the cheap cotton aimlessly in the bull-pen or the prison blankets, bought from some favored yard part of the day, killing the time with contractor at a price that would have "jail-house chatter." If you are in a bought honest wool, over your head. prison like that of Washington State at The vermin get to work early. They Walla Walla, one of the hottest cities come out of all the crevices in the cell, in the country during the summer out of the interior of the old locks, their months, you and your cell-mate stand favorite hiding place, and harass you all with your faces pressed against the cell night, in spite of the fact that you have bars, day and night, during the hot sea- PLUTO WATER spent most of the day surreptitiously son. The bars in this prison cover trying to burn them out with blazing eighty percent of the cell-front surface. newspapers. On Saturday and Sunday you go out ad/AotidamAof Six-thirty in the morning comes and in the yard for a while, or, if you are you wash hastily in cold water before lucky, you go out every afternoon in the going to the mess-hall. There you sit summer months for an hour or so. You with 2000 others, all in gray, all facing can play baseball or pitch horse-shoes, DOCTORS DO the same way, all silent, all with the same but most of the time you walk around GENTLE-THO ROUGH thoughts— about the watery oatmeal, the and visit with other convict friends who prunes "no less than four, no more than do not happen to live in your cell-house " five"—and the bitter beverage made of or work in your shop. You talk princi- ! WANTED MEN what was left after the kitchen trusties pally about crime and sex, for you are OPERATE POTATO had stolen all the coffee, condensed milk, living in a world where everybody has CHIP STORE . . . We furnish everything— help fi- and sugar they could use or sell. been convicted of crime, where every- lanceand locateyou. Noexpenenceneeded.

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"VVTHEREAS, The National Law and Order Committee of The Amer- VV ican Legion as a part of its program advocates universal finger printing, and the National Executive Committee has recommended the launching of an educational program through Legion channels, so as to $1260 to $2100 Year create favorable public sentiment on the advantages and desirability of Ex-Service Men universal fingerprinting; be it / f raTTkl in Institute get preference / Dept. S-I80, Rochester. N. Y. Gentlemen: Rush FREE list of Common education O RESOLVED, That this rj. s. Government big pay posi- convention favors universal fingerprinting of usually sjfficient. ^ tions. Send FREE 32-page book de- the civilian .„„„.„,. „© scribing salaries, hours, work, and population. '".""2. « telling bow to get a position. Tell me not neeaea. / all about preference to Ex-Service Men. Mail Coupon /Name. today. / SURE. / Address DECEMBER, 1936 57 Prisons zAre ^ezvs

{Continued from page 57) homosexual; you merely go in for homo- rice, poorly cooked and half-cold when punishment. But we have several hun- sexual practices for the time being. But it reached the tables, so often that the dred years of experience in Europe and finally it may get you for good and all. prisoners were seething with discontent. well over a century here to prove that I have known men who were normal On August first they were given a mess deterrence is not accomplished by sense- human beings to become "wolves" after of unpalatable spaghetti for the noon less cruelty, by the slow destruction of five years or so of prison life, and clean- meal. That afternoon the men in the human personality. On the contrary, cut young prisoners to become "punks," shoe-shop struck but did no damage. we have seen Society's righteous savagery at the mercy of any prisoner who could The evening meal proved to be Spanish turn offenders who were, at conviction, get them a better job or a little extra rice. Then the disturbance became no worse than non-social—non-under- food, or who gave them protection from general and the prisoners had to be driven standing of their duty to Society—into the more merciless wolves. A stiletto into the cell-blocks by armed guards. men who are definitely anti-social. made from a table-knife, pressed sharp Before they were safely locked in their I have not described fife in the worst against the ribs, has kept many a young cells one prisoner had been killed and prisons, which are to be found principally prisoner from yelling for help from the several wounded. It was days before in the South, or in the best prisons. The guard after fights are out. This is a the institution quieted down, but as latter are few enough in number. The dirty picture, but a true one. soon as the prisoners became convinced federal Government and several progres- Men in prison live in a miasmic swamp that they were going to get a fair deal sive States, however, have established of lust, greed, hatred, fear, prejudice, but a firm one from the new administra- programs designed to counteract the and ignorance. When they go there tion, normal routine was resumed as degenerating effect of ordinary prison most of them are surprisingly like "the though nothing had happened. life and to rehabilitate their charges, butcher, the baker, the candlestick- Soon after this the President ordered if possible. These programs include maker"—surprisingly like you and me, the nearby military prison turned over part or all of the following: A well- in fact. to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and all rounded medical service, with emphasis Once in a while, but not often enough, the drug addicts at Leavenworth and on psychiatry; case- work and classifica- a little of a better and a cleaner world, Atlanta were transferred there. Not tion as a basis for individual diagnosis as it seems to them, comes to the prison- only did this relieve overcrowding, but and treatment; education, with strong ers. Visiting days are the big event. it also removed those prisoners who broke emphasis on vocational training and Once or twice a month, maybe only four most quickly under tension, to an institu- guidance; employment for all prisoners, times a year, according to their status, tion where they could be given special preferably on wr ork that has training they are permitted a few minutes' visit, treatment. The prison riots that occur- value; discipline aimed at the develop- under the eyes and ears of a guard, with red in various parts of the country in 1929 ment of self-control in free life rather their wives or friends. and 1930 usually resulted in action that than conformity to prison rules; whole- This is prison fife—tense monotony should have been taken long before. some recreation to promote physical and or monotonous tension, as you wish. Officials ordinarily attributed their riots mental health; and the training of guards Its result is inevitable. The Leaven- to over-crowding, whether that was the and other personnel in the social implica- worth riot of 1929 was the result of ten- real cause or only a contributing circum- tions as well as the technical aspects of sion that got greater and greater until stance, and frightened legislators voted their work. the institution suddenly "blew its top." money for new buildings that had been We cannot be certain, of course, that Sanford Bates had been appointed direc- needed for years. these methods will succeed in any given tor of federal prisons only a month before I do not mean to draw too sentimental case. A man who has never been able to and I had been made his assistant only a picture of the fife prisoners lead. I do a hard day's work because of a physi- a week before the riot came. Neither can be as hard-boiled with them as the cal disability may not be turned from of us had had time to visit Leavenworth. next man, when the occasion demands it. crime by a hernia operation, and the My first assignment was to investigate It is not a question of whether or not men burglar may continue burgling after we the causes of the riot. It occurred during who commit crimes deserve such a fife, teach him a trade. Common-sense indi- an exceptionally hot summer when the but of its effect on them when they are cates, however, that the newer methods temperature had been over 100 degrees released and walk the streets again. If increase the mathematical chances of ref- for a week. The prison was grossly criminals and potential criminals would ormation. If rehabilitation still depends over-crowded. The food had been very be deterred from committing crimes by on the turn of the wheel, at least we meager and bad for months— the steward being slowly boiled in oil, perhaps we have increased the percentage in favor of had been serving spaghetti and Spanish should be justified in imposing that Society, the banker.

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(Continued from page 25) plenty of brawn, was an important cog Carolina State College; Eddie Anderson, his own. Curley was only twenty years in that first great football team of the coach at Holy Cross, and Clipper Smith, old when he organized the Packers. To- Old Master. Lambeau played at one of who has made a reputation as a coach at day at the comparatively young age of 37 the halfback posts. Santa Clara in California, a school whose he ranks tops with many gray-headed Listen to the roster of some of the men teams have frequently toppled proud veterans of the collegiate game. If who were on that team. Heading the list Stanford and Southern California in the Curley has hung up such an excellent was the wing-footed, ball-carrying speed dust. record in his first seventeen years of pro- demon, the great George Gipp. On that It was only natural that Curley Lam- coaching, think of what he will be able team, too, was Hartley "Hunk" Ander- beau should assimilate the tactics of the to do in the next ten years. son, now serving as head coach at North great Rockne and add to them many of The Packers' greatest rivals are the 58 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 2 ——

famed Chicago Bears. Since the early "We try to build our plays each season days of pro football these two teams have around our best players," states Lam- Cross Swords made the fur fly each time they met. beau. "By using this system we find that Back in 1929 the Packers trimmed the inasmuch as our team roster changes with the boy Bears three times in one season, for which every year, that our plays change also. the Bears never forgave them. Then in This helps, of course, to keep the opposi- 1934 the Bears beat the Packers in each tion guessing." of the three games they played that year. Curley Lambeau says that some foot- The two teams met but twice in 1935, but ball players can catch a pass over the the Packers won each time, the first by right shoulder nine times out of ten, but a score of 7-0 on a long sixty-yard pass that they miss most passes they must early in the game; the second by a score catch over the left shoulder, and vice for Health and Fellowship of 17-14, scoring two touchdowns in the versa. Likewise, some linemen are Fencing is swell exercise—a thrilling game last two and one-half minutes of play. better straight-blockers than split-block- where age and skill are yet a match for young blood. Fine French foils, masks— illustrated Inability to beat the Chicago Cardi- ers. A pro coach must know all these course on fencing—at new low prices. Finest nals in 1935 cost Green Bay the pennant. points of his men and map his method of Christmas gift for a boy. Send the coupon. The Cards beat Green Bay three times, play accordingly. American School of S wordplay Santa Fe, New Mexico each by a close score. Green Bay beat the The college coach observes faults like How good is this equipment and how can I Detroit Lions twice, New York Giants this in his players and may be able to learn this great sport by mail? once, and the Bears twice, but couldn't correct them, for he is dealing with grow- Name master the Cards. Things like this are ing boys, states Lambeau. The pro coach Address AL.1 what make football an interesting game. on the other hand is dealing with mature You will see from this record that of men, and any faults they may have after late years, as the competition got stiffer, college will probably be difficult to A RAILWAY BEJSAFFIC INSPECTOR the team representing the smallest city in eradicate. Few pro football players are We Have Been Placing Men in Good Jobs for 18 Yrs. the league didn't become a doormat for perfect in every respect, declares Lam- CONSTANT DEMAND for active reliable men— 19 to 50 as Railway and But Pauenaer Traffic Intptctora. Our Bhort, the big town aggregations. The Packers beau. Knowledge of weak points of op- home-study course prepares you and upon com- pletion we place you at up to $135 per month, have no inferiority complex in going posing players always makes a football to start, plus expenses, or refund tuition. Fas- up cinating work; healthful (outdoor). Travel if you like. Rapid advancement. Write. against the Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions game interesting. Standard Business Training Institute and New York Giants. They can always Pro players who are wizards on offense Div. 2412 Buffalo, N. Y. say, "We've beaten these fellows before; are often weak on defense, or vice versa, let's do it again." And more often than he says. Therefore, the pro coach, if he not, they do. wants to win his games from the other Punch? It's as important in pro foot- highly-trained teams in the league, must

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did not seem to come up to that descrip- French and designated on maps as Rouge On one visit up forward he came back tion, although we preferred our detail to Vetu (Red Vestment). Soon there was greatly excited, bearing a fragment of any others in the regiment that we knew erected our own observation post, which shell-casing he had recovered in an area about. appropriately we proceeded to christen where shells had just fallen. He ex- We failed to see romance, possibly be- Rainbow. hibited the fragment with considerable cause we were not romantically minded, The shack in which we lived was at the pride, announcing that he had made a which is not said in disparagement of base of the observation post some three discovery of greatest importance to the Joyce Kilmer. The rest of us felt we had miles behind the front lines. At Rouge Allied armies. The fragment was very a very cushy assignment and, soldier-like, Vetu we slept and ate in splendid se- brittle and crumbled around its edges we performed our tasks dutifully but tak- clusion, even being assigned a cook to under normal thumb pressure. Kilmer ing no greater risks than were necessary. prepare our meals, and for a time we declared impressively that therefore his Kilmer was a romantic. He made his luxuriously employed a young girl from specimen established that the enemy was

tasks fit the description of them he had the nearby village of Neufmaison to wash reduced to using ersatz material in its written. our messkits. Although at Rainbow we shells, proving a breakdown in the Ger- had a new clean shack, we messed with man steel industry. T^ERE were eight of us in the Intelli- the nearest infantry company. Meticulously, he wrote out a formal gence Section, occasionally augmented The first thing about Kilmer's coming report of several closely-written pages on by men from battalion intelligence units that stirred mild resentment among us that hypothesis and sent forward the sent to us for instruction, when Kilmer was the fact that he was transferred in specimen, which he thought proved his joined us late in April or early in May, and the rank of sergeant—a promotion he had point. We never heard anything further when I say us I include our commanding recently won. The table of organization of that report, and it is my guess that officer, Lieutenant (later Captain) Basil for an Intelligence Section provided for new shells falling had unearthed a frag- B. Elmer, our regimental intelligence three sergeants and five privates. We ment of a shell which possibly had ex- officer. Lieutenant Elmer never stood on thought that one of us bucks should have ploded in the same area at the start of the military formality. He treated us as been elevated rather than that a new- war, and which naturally had suffered the social equals, and winked if we slipped off comer should join us at the top. But that effects of corrosion. to the nearest village without first securing was merely incidental to the other official permission, so long as we did not affront. THAT piece of intelligence work oc- slight our responsibilities. In brief, he Sergeant Kilmer took his rank seriously. curred some time after Sergeant Kil- was the soldier's dream of what an un- That, too, we can understand now. It mer had capitulated to the easy-going derstanding commanding officer should was part of his romantic nature that he comradeship of the section, and I cite it be. visualized himself as a hard-boiled non- merely to illuminate the eagerness with Now except for Sergeant Kerrigan, an com in the best military tradition. He at which he sought to make his able, imag- old-time Guardsman, there wasn't a real first thoroughly disapproved of the easy inative brain of real service to the Allied soldier in the bunch from the standpoint informality existing between us all, and cause. of practise of the School of the Soldier on duty he insisted upon the observance Some others of us might slip away manual. Besides Lieutenant Elmer, of promulgated regulations. further to the rear while off duty to buy Kerrigan and myself, there were Lee, We had all grown careless of our move- an omelette or a drink of vin rouge, but Mott, Titterton, Beck and Levinson. ments about the sector, which was a quiet Kilmer was restlessly determined to make The last spoke French fluently. Because one, ordinarily used by the enemy for rest some major contribution which would re- of my civilian experience I specialized in purposes. If we happened to be bunched flect glory on the American effort and, in maps. But all of us had routine duties together walking along a highway open to particular, credit to the old 60th. Quiet which took us to the front lines, occasion- enemy observation, we thought nothing though the sector was, he haunted the ally out into No Man's Land. A member of it. There was little or no chance that front lines. of the Intelligence Section accompanied the enemy would waste shells on such a Each time it was Kilmer's turn to each night patrol outside the wire. Daily small and fleeting target. But regulations accompany an infantry patrol outside the we visited the battalion and company stated that men would proceed with wire, he could hardly wait for night to posts of command gathering items on proper intervals when moving within oh- fall, but in that he was not alone. Ser- happenings of the day and night, much servation of the enemy. Sergeant Kilmer geant Kerrigan had represented the In- like reporters assigned to cover a desig- insisted upon our observing the estab- telligence Section one night when a pa- nated beat. lished rules of caution, we thought ex- trol gathered in four prisoners. All of us None of us attempted to interpret the aggeratedly so, and when we were not were eager to win a similar honor, but information we thus collected, nor did we provoked we were amused. none more so than Kilmer. try to assay its value. That was done at The incident which brought Joyce Kil- divisional headquarters, where apparent- ALSO, he took with deep seriousness his mer into "the club" occurred on a night ly insignificant items might make im- _ position as leader of a detail, as be- when he was standing watch up in Rain- portant information when properly col- came his rank. I recall one occasion when bow observation post. As I have said, lated. marching with full packs we had paused the post was some three miles behind the In addition to gathering such informa- for a rest. Duly refreshed, several of us front and in an elevated position. In the tion, we kept constant surveillance of the bucks rose to our feet and started to front lines a gas sentry, scenting chlorine, enemy lines night and day from an ob- resume our march without waiting for sounded his siren. As invariably hap- servation post equipped with long-range orders to go on. Kilmer observed this pened, the adjoining gas sentinels re- telescopic sights mounted on a wooden breach of discipline with quick indigna- layed the alarm, on and on over the en- platform high in a tree. Frequently we tion. The command "Detachment Halt!" tire sector. Kilmer heard the commotion located enemy batteries in action by a rang out peremptorily. Followed a brief faintly from his post. The rest of us, special instrument. When we first oc- 'bawling out' for lack of discipline, and off watch, were sleeping peacefully when cupied the Baccarat sector, we took over we were allowed to continue only when the voice of Sergeant Kilmer sternly an observation post established by the Kilmer took his place at our head. aroused us.

60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Ordering us to put on gas-masks, he chiefly anxious for the opinion of his most compelled us to secure our arms and valued critic, Father Duffy. After break- stand ready to repel an attack. Gas does fast, he hastened to Baccarat in search of Money goes farther not hold dangerous density over long dis- the chaplain. it's tances. Moreover, being heavy, it never When we moved to the Champagne when budgeted. Send rises but settles. There was not the sector, Joyce Kilmer embraced enthusi- for your copy of the John slightest indication of an engagement in astically the real action attending. Day Hancock Home Budget the front lines. All the commotion was and night he was up front while the rest pretty ridiculous. Suddenly Kilmer of us were content to perform prescribed Sheet. sensed just how ridiculous it was. He duties. joined in our hearty laughter. The ice Then came the sudden call on the was broken. Constraint between the new Rainbow Division to push the enemy sergeant and the rest of the section van- beyond the Ourcq in Marshal Foch's de- RAN CE COMPANY ished that night. cisive counter-offensive. There was little of Boston. Massachusetts Admiring a perspective map of the work for a regimental intelligence section John Hancock Inquiry Bureau sector I had drawn from Rainbow post, in open warfare. Our routine tasks were 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. he did me the honor of asking me to draw upset once trench warfare was aban- Please send me a John Hancock Home Budget Sheet. an illustration to accompany publication doned. Name in an American magazine of "Rouge From an observation post up on the Street and No. Bouquet." Thereafter we discussed art ridge south of the river, I saw the brave City State and illustration frequently as opportunity assault of the 6qth without artillery offered. If Kilmer had any favorites preparation or support as they crossed among us it was Titterton, who was the stream and moved up the open slopes New Adding Mach literarily inclined. opposite under withering fire, with men Fits Vest Pocket We grew to like Joyce Kilmer greatly, falling everywhere. I did not know that Adds, subtracts, and multiplies, like $300 and what he thought of us he expressed Joyce Kilmer was among the fallen until machine—yet it costs only $2.95. Weighs only 4 ounces. Not a toy—guaranteed in a letter to his home which has since late that day, when the sad news spread workmanship. Perfectly accurate, light- ning fast. Sells on sight to business been published. rapidly through the regiment. men. storekeepers, homes—all who use figures. "Say a prayer for them all, they're Write at once for Free APCUTO n brave men and good, and splendid com- TO the circumstances attending his Sample Offer and Mon-rlUE.11 I O In AS ey- Making Plan. 100% Profit! pany," he wrote. "Danger shared to- death, Father Duffy is undoubtedly C. M. Cleary. Dept. 51. 303 W. Monroe St.. Chicago gether and hardship mutually borne de- the best authority. On July 2gth, Lieu- in a sort of friendship I never velops us tenant Oliver Ames, Jr., adjutant to WAKE UP YOUR knew in civilian life, a friendship clean of Major William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan, jealousy and gossip and envy and suspi- had been killed in action. Sergeant Kilmer cion—a fine, hearty, roaring, mirthful volunteered to serve with Major Dono- LIVER BILE- sort of thing, like an open fire of whole van, who at that time had a post of com- Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out pine-trees in a giant's castle." mand in a hole on the southern edge of the of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go He was a competent eater and an in- Bois Colas. The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not Particularly veterate pipe smoker. was Major Donovan started out to recon- flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your he proud of his mustache, but actually, noiterhis position and Joyce Kilmer began stomach. You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- through a nervous habit of biting its to follow him. Suddenly he dropped to the soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. edges, it developed an under curve over ground. When Major Donovan returned, Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. his upper lip which made most of us wish he found him dead. The bullet of an It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these he would shave it off. Alternately he was enemy sniper had found his brain. There two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in little shack, lead- a gay companion our were no witnesses to his death, on the in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything ing a lively conversation with sparkling field of honor. else. 25c at all drug stores. © 1935, C.M.Co. wit, then sitting silent for long periods in Certainly there was no reason or com- deep abstract contemplation, whether pulsion for Joyce Kilmer to serve with a thinking of loved ones at home or wooing front-line battalion. As a sergeant in the m ToAnySuitT the muse we never knew. At such times Intelligence Section, he was assigned to mm Double the life of your ' coat and vest with correctly roughhousing while / the rest of us could be regimental headquarters, where he could jf matched pants. 100,000 patter Every pair hand tailored to your measure. he would sit there with his eyes unseeing, have remained with complete honor in the Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece his mind unheeding, his thoughts in an- same comparative safety as the rest of us. of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY other world. But complete dominance of the air by 209 S. State St. Dept. 453 Chicago) strafing enemy planes during the action IT WAS during a watch on Rainbow makes the word "comparative" neces- your post that Joyce Kilmer wrote his last sary, and even the rear was no picnic in HOME poem, "The Peacemaker." Through the those hectic days. night we stood four-hour watches from When the regiment had been relieved IN the post. The Germans were methodic in and the Germans pushed beyond the their war-making. Invariably their artil- Ourcq, I went back to the battlefield with STMOUIS lery ceased firing at just about two Father Duffy to make a map, marking o'clock. where each who had fallen was buried. From that hour until dawn, peace Father Duffy was visibly affected as he reigned in the Baccarat sector. On the stood before the graves of Joyce Kilmer morning in question, in June, Joyce Kilmer and Oliver Ames. was on watch from 4 to 8 a.m. When he Of those who lived with Joyce Kilmer came down to breakfast at the completion intimately for three months before his

of his watch , he had in his hand the manu- death on July 30, 1018, 1 am not alone in script of "The Peacemaker." He passed believing that the gallant, eager, romantic

it among the section to read, and he soul of the brilliant young poet would JEFFERSON seemed greatly pleased at our sincere ex- have found pride in his death "in action St. Louis, too. pressions of admiration. But he was before the enemy."

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RUPERT HUGHES and everything, but Whitehead loved it all sections of the 150-acre recreation KARL W. DETZER and went ahead with his beautification center. program. "The Garden Club has volunteered to LEONARD H. NASON "Dirt for the mound was secured by beautify the mound, and the D. A. R. PETER R. KYNE leveling off the many irregularities on and other patriotic orders will erect MARQUIS JAMES Legion Hill. Inside the mound will be bronze plaques. Just now, with the FREDERICK PALMER a hermetically-sealed vault of concrete digging and transferring of dirt and so on, R. G. KIRK containing a copper casket. In this cas- you have to use your imagination. But HUGH WILEY ket will be placed the names of all per- stand on this knob of earth with White- sons within a radius of five miles who head and hear him tell what it will look took part in our country's wars. There like twenty years from now. And be- For Only $1.00 will be many other records also. cause he has more than inspiring vision, "Our city engineer is a tree expert. you know his dream will come true. It is YOU may have some of the outstanding He and Ralph have arranged to have the old story of the courageous pioneer stories by these popular authors at a re- pin oaks, one for each State, planted in a who carries through, despite doubt and

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The American legion T^cmember 9x4x31 national Headquarters indianapolis, indiana [Continued from page financial statement 36) September 30, 1936 contributor, so we'll let him do the talk- one could pound a typewriter. With a Assets ing: year's service already, I smelled a soft Cash on hand and on deposit $ 409,806.47 "While pawing through my box of war job, so being six feet tall and having long Notes and accounts receivable 101,974.94 souvenirs the other day, I ran across the arms, my hand was the highest, so I was Inventories 99,372.14 Invested funds 1,414,949.69 picture enclosed and have wondered chosen Company Clerk. Permanent investment: many times what became of the old com- "The job was soft and one privilege Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 189,883.61 rades. I am the pilot of this 120 H. P. was that I ate with the non-coms and Office building, Washington, D. C, Holt tractor, leaning out from under the officers. The grub the rest of the bunch less depreciation 129,264.31 canopy. The picture was taken down in got was lousy, as you can imagine with Furniture, fixtures and equipment. . . . 36,653.72 Deferred charges 19,273.10 the swamps of Florida while I was a eight student cooks working with wood- member of the 1st Provisional Company, burning ranges, and seventy million as- $2,401,177.98 C. A. C, at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, sorted bugs to fight. No kidding, we Liabilities, Deferred Income about eight miles from Jacksonville. used to make up a pot and the guy that and Net IVorth When I was there it had a population of gathered the most bugs from his grub about 25,000 men, including those at the won it. I distributed the mail each day Current liabilities 73,546.76 Funds restricted as to use 41,077.41 Clerks, Cooks and Bakers School, Negro and that's where the graft came in. All Deferred income 245,138.84 Labor Battalions and whatnot. packages for the men I ditched under my Permanent trust: "The 1st Provisional Company was a bunk and then called in the men later for Overseas Graves Decoration Trust. ... 1 89,883.61 training school for truck masters and the their packages so the angry mob couldn't $ 549,646.62 personnel consisted of all result got Net Worth: men from the pounce on them. As a I my

Restricted capital. . $1,325,061.21 sixty-four Coast Forts, all Coast Artillery- share of the loot—cigarettes, candy, Unrestricted capital 1,851,531.36 526,470.15 men—some four hundred in all. When I cookies, cake and whatnot. $2,401,177.98 arrived from Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, "Now as to the swamps: Part of our California, Sergeant Pitts, an old Regular, training was to master the intricacies of Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant lined us up and wanted to know if any- 45, 70 and 120 H. P. Holt tractors, for 62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly hauling cannon and other heavy loads. records, they pulled out without me. I

We would leave camp with two 45 's, two had dropped forty pounds in the last 7o's and one 120, with three all-steel three months of 1917 and pronounced wagons hitched to them—the first carry- tubercular, but there being no hospital ing our drums of gasoline, oil, grease, there, was under the care of the 9th etc., the second, water and field kitchen Corps Area physician whenever he got supplies, and the last the student drivers there, and was off duty for several months. and their barrack bags. Every so often, I hung around the Q. M. and finally got the crews were changed and the instruc- a job driving a truck and picked up about tor would observe our ability to handle 25 pounds, took the overseas' exam, the tractors in sand, swamp mud, brush, passed and was sent to Truckmasters' over rough terrain and other worrisome School. hazards. At any rate, I then ended two years' "These trips lasted from one to two service in the Letterman General Hos- weeks and, believe me brother, they pital at the Presidio in San Francisco, a STEVENS were plenty tough. When water got victim of double pneumonia, and I am scarce, we were allowed only enough to glad to be alive. A wonderful wife, three HOTEL j drink, and after cleaning the tractors of fine healthy kids and a Vets home in L CHICAGO 1 ROOMS WITH BATH FROM $2.50 FISTULA For fistula or other rectal trou- ble permanent relief Is entirely possible. Read about the mild McCleary treatment, and what It has done for thousands of former sufferers. Address MeC LEAR Y CLINIC C-466. Elms Blvd. Excelsior Springs. Mo. STOP Your Rupture Worries! Why worry and suffer any longer? Learn about our perfected inven- tion for all forms of reducible rup- ture in men, women and children. "THE 5alutiN6 DEMON of -me AE.F. Di5oiJ>Evs oroer5 against Support fitted with automatic air FKA1ERN1Z1N6 ano Salutes a"Kwis krkngul in "we land of. wis cushion assists Nature in a natural strengthening of the weakened Birth , on the. Rhine, Christmas, i [muscles. Thousands made happy.

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of us. No doubt children of Legionnaire and other activities may be obtained from parents will be glad to make report." the Legionnaires whose names and ad- dresses are shown: limited space in this bulletin THE 4th Div. Assoc. of Pa.—Annual reunion, Ritten- board of ours precludes opening a house Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 30, 1937. C. general Lost and Found Department, Roland Gelatt, 4807 Chester av., Philadelphia. Soc. or 5th Div., Tri-State Camp—Organiza- but we feel the circumstances of this re- tion of 5th Div. vets within 100-mile radius of Pittsburgh, Pa. F. P. Dixon, temporary chmn., for aid from Legionnaire quest Max W. 2318 Fairland st., Pittsburgh (10), Pa. Schroeder of 9033 Brandon Avenue, Soc. of 28th Div., New York Post—Yets in metropolitan area are asked to write to Joseph F. South Chicago, Illinois, warrant our Anselmin, 30-23 42d st., Long Island City, N. Y. Rainbow (42d Div.) Vets. Annual national this — violating policy: reunion, Columbus, Ohio, July 12-14, 1937. Frank "While coming home from the national D. Henderson, gen. chmn., Columbus. Ohio Chap., Rainbow (42d) Vets.—Annual re- convention in Cleveland in September, I union, Marion, Ohio, June 5-0, 1937. Fred Miller, chmn., Marion. lost Legion billfold, in color, a maroon 42d Div.—Official divisional history, "Americans trimmed in black, with the Legion All—The Rainbow at War," at three dollars, may be ordered from Sharon C. Cover, natl. secy., 4643 emblem on one side and a girl's head Nottingham rd., Detroit, Mich. Vets, of 23d Regt.— 106th Inf.—75th anniver- bearing sailor the other. a hat on My sary of 23d Regt., Jan. 20, 1937. Write to Gen. Comm., 1322 initials, M. W. S., are under the emblem. Bedford av., Brooklyn, N. Y., giving address and company. "This billfold was lost on a New York 135th Inf., Co. L, 34th Div., (1st Inf., Minn. N. G.)—Vets of period from Civil War to June, Central train en route to Chicago, leav- 1919, are requested to register with organization ing Cleveland at 12:20 a. m., September secretary, Donald B. Miller, 669 Marshall av., St. Paul, Minn. 24th. The billfold contained thirty- 319th Inf., Co. M—Proposed reunion. Report to Oliver K. Fry, 47 Sampson av., Pittsburgh (5), three or thirty-four dollars—one twenty- Pa. Yets, of dollar bill, one ten, and three or four 13th Engrs. (Ry.)—Sth annual re- union, Plankinton Hotel, Milwaukee, Wise, June singles—also a CSS&SB railroad pass 18-20, 1937. James A. Elliott, secy.-treas., 721 E. 21st. St., Little Rock, Ark. and other identification cards, but the Vets., 31st Ry. Engrs.—Annual reunion, Los Angeles, Calif billfold itself is an old keepsake from a ., June 19-21, 1937. F. E. Love, secy.- Ireas., 104 Hi First St., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Polish buddy in the Hines Hospital and 34 th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 5, 1937. George Remple, I hate to part with it. YOU DON'T WANT THIS TO secy., 2521 N. Main St., Dayton, Ohio. "If the party who found it will kindly 109th Engrs. Assoc.—Biennial reunion, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 2-3, 1937. Report to L. O. Tis- HAPPEN, Well, if DO YOU!!? you return it with the twenty-dollar bill, he dale, secy.-treas., 1718 Park av., S. E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. keep on putting it off that is just of the no what may keep the rest money, and 15th Engrs., Co. D—20th reunion banquet, Sat., Apr. 24, 1937. R. L. Knight, 224 N. Aiken is going to happen one of these questions asked. The billfold also con- days av., Pittsburgh (6), Pa. tained receipts bearing my name." Evac. Hosp. No. 4 —Proposed reunion of all SOON. officers and men. Albert A. Pratt, P. O. Box 604, Newport, R. I. But, you're not too late YET!! So YORK CITY entertains the Amer. R. R. Transp. Corps Vets.—Reunion- convention, Scranton, Pa., Jan. 16-17, 1937. Gerald SNAP OF IT and send for one NEW OUT Legion national convention in J. Murray, natl. adjt., 1131 Amherst st., Scranton. today. the U. S. S. Covington—Re-establishment of as- 1937. Even though meeting may now sociation and proposed reunion. Louis Lavena, months away, it is not too early 503a Washington st., Dorchester, Mass. You've got a good excuse—Xmas is be many to make plans to attend and it is cer- coming, and the kiddies will be more "HpHIS is the first time since the tainly not too early to take steps toward than delighted with the Funny soldier J- founding of your department in having your old outfit hold a reunion at the pictures in Legion Monthly," writes Parry, ex- WALLY'S CARTOONS OF that time. Six outfits have already an- Tom 130th Field Artilleryman and member of THE A. E. F. (All the WALLGREN nounced such intentions: Leslie Kreps Post in Salina, Kansas, Comics reprinted from The STARS & Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.— I have ever registered National convention reunion, New York City. "that a complaint. STRIPES in one 10x12 bound volume, offer 117 Seedorf Harlo R. Hollenbeck, personnel , I feel though that enough time has St., Battle Creek, Mich. with revelatory remarks by ALEX- 502d Bn., Cos. A, B, C & D, V. S. Engrs.—Pro- elapsed that you should know how other posed permanent or- of ANDER WOOLLCOTT & JOHN T. ganization and first re- branches the service feel towards your union of officers and continued signature as 'Company Clerk.' WINTERICH. men. New York City. William J. M. Yingling, "No doubt the infantry was much the Send for this Christmas present toot 24 E. King St., Littles- town, Adams Co., Pa. largest branch of our A. E. F., but after sweet. Hosp. Corps., U. S. eighteen years we think that a great Nav. Trng. Sta., New- - port — Proposed reun- many of the red legs and men of other COUPON , ion. Kenneth D. Marks, 1307 W. Susquehanna branches of the service no doubt feel that LEGION BOOK DEPT. av., Philadelphia, Pa. you are being somewhat partial to the U. S. S. Indiana— The American Legion Monthly, Reunion of crew, New infantry. Indianapolis, Indiana. York City. Clark Galla- gher, Monroe, Mich. "Why not rotate the signature of your U. S. S. Wilhelmina— department, either monthly or annually, Dear Sirs: Reunion of officers and men of crew. New York and sign yourself the 'Battery Clerk,' Please send City. Walter G. Peter- me copies of the Clerk,' or son, c/o Joseph thai & 'Troop 'Squadron Clerk,' WALLY'S BOOK A. E. F. CAR- OF Co., 120 Broadway, and so forth. Give us a break. TOONS at $1.50 ea. for the $ New York City. U. S. Sub. O 8, 8th "Let those caissons go rolling along!" enclosed. Div., Sub. Flotilla— O. K., Parry, Proposed reunion of Comrade we appreciate crew, New York City. Name . . your interest and recognize the soundness Albert W. Lawton, Jr., 179 Green st., Fair- of your protest. So we herewith subscribe Address haven, Mass. ourselves .... Details of the John Noll Town . . State J. following reunions The Battery Clerk

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