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Finders Keepers by Walter J.Wood Spring Song by Richard Le Gallienne Decoration by W. L. Stevens The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte With a Critical Introduction by John Erskine Illustrations by Lowell L. Balcom Americans Forever by Meredith Nicholson 12 Illustrated with photographs from the Lincoln collection of Harry MacNeill Bland The Broken 3: Part Two by Karl W. Detzer 14 Illustrations by V. E. Pyles Expiation by Marquis James 18

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The Unfinished Battle by Watson B. Miller 28 Keeping Step by Right Guide 3° Then and Now by The Company Clerk 37 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 42 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 44 An April Fool by Wallgren 46 The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Alabama: The 22A State, admitted to the Union December population, 28th in area, 23d in density. Capital, Montgom l 14, 1819. De Soto discovered the region in 1541 and ery (1928 U. S. est.), 67,100. Three largest cities (1928 U. S. other Spanish explorers followed him. In 1702 the French est.), Birmingham, 222,400; Mobile, 69,600; Montgomery. settled Old Mobile, then a part of Louisiana. Georgia under Estimated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), $3,002,043,000. Princi- its charter of 1732, which gave it a corridor from pal sources of wealth (1923 U. S. Census), iron the Atlantic to the Pacific, claimed part of Ala- and steel products and by-products, including coke bama. France ceded a part of this area to Eng- manufacture, $223,324,628; cotton goods, $86,- land in 1763. At the signing of the Treaty of 384,725; lumber and timber, $52,792,121; mineral Paris in 1783, England sold part of the territory products (1925), $77,139,340, in coal, iron ore, to the United States and a part to Spain, but in cement; all crops (1920 U. S. Census), $304,348,- 1795 the Spanish relinquished all claims north of 638 with cotton, corn and potatoes leading. Ala- 31 degrees. By the Louisiana Purchase Treaty bama had 84,109 men and women in service dur- the United States claimed Spanish West Florida, ing the World War. State motto, adopted De- and in 1813 this was added to Mississippi Terri- cember 29, 1868, "Here We Rest." Origin of tory. Alabama Territory was created March 3, name: From a Muskhogean tribe of the Creek

1817. Population, 1820, 127,901 ; 1927 (U. S. est.), 2,549,000. Confederacy in Southern Alabama. The word "Alibamu" Percentage of urban population (communities of 2,500 and is a contraction of the Choctaw sentence "Alba aya mule," over), 1900, 11. 9; 1910, 17.3; 1920, 21.7. Area, 51,998 sq. which, translated, means "I open (or clear) the thicket." miles. Density of population (1920 U. S. Census), 45.8 per Alabama has three nicknames: Cotton State, Yallerhammer, sq. mile. Rank, among States (1920 U. S. Census), 18th in Lizard.

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Commander C. J. McGinly, Some of the eleven hundred Jr., of the New Bern Legion New Bernians who took part lines them up in ig28

.^^^HERE is a fantas- Under the guidance of the Aux- m tic land where little iliary members, the children m children wander in are divided into groups accord- their dreams look- ing to age, and separate areas ing for fairy heroines and good are assigned to the groups. The kings; a land where Santa Claus hunt starts when the mayor of and Old Mother Goose are im- New Bern fires a gun. As the shot mortal; a land of golden moun- echoes, the children, young and tains and silver lakes and deepest old, race out over the grassy hills blue skies where the sublime crea- to find the hidden eggs. They tures of the nursery tales move si- search through the tall grass of the lently in a perpetual pageant foi level stretches and explore the breast- sleepy boys and girls. There the Sar orks and the moat of the old fort, Man has his home, stealing forth nigl and baskets are filled as the hunt at the end of the bedtime story hour 01 radio to put to sleep the world of childhood. Legionnaires offer many prizes to the And there, too, on an endless plain of knee- children of each age group. The prizes are high emerald grass, hopping ceaselessly in en- given to those finding the largest numbers of chanted time, is the Easter Rabbit who ventures eggs and those who find eggs of certain colors. There will be five thousand into the world of living children on one day only A special prize is given to the baby who finds the eggs to look for this year at in all the year. single hidden egg that is dyed black. Into the world of living children the Easter Neiv Bern, and anyone' s guess The annual Easter egg hunt of The American Rabbit comes on the Sunday that separates is good as to how many young- Legion at New Bern is one of many egg hunts winter from spring; the day when the bright- sters will be in the hunt conducted by other posts in North Carolina and ness and freshness of resurrected hope succeeds adjoining States. Another unusual hunt is the the somber and foreboding uncertainties; the day when all the one given annually by the Auxiliary unit of Kiffin Rockwell Post living world throws off its old garments of gloom and penitence of Asheville, North Carolina, for the children of disabled men and arrays itself in happiness and cheerfulness. The Easter who are patients in the Veterans Bureau hospital at Oteen. Last Rabbit is the symbol of the transformation, and his coming is year, at this party, the children hunted for forty dozen eggs and acclaimed by children everywhere, to whom the boundary be- the winner carried off a live bunny as a prize. The hunt is held tween imagination and reality has no existence. on the grassy hills surrounding the log cabin in which a health To the children of New Bern, North Carolina, the Easter clinic is conducted the year round for disabled men's children Rabbit comes again this year on Easter Sunday as in years past, under the direction of Miss Alice Gray and other members of bestowing with marvelous prodigality some thousands of brightly Clyde Boiling Post of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. colored Easter eggs. On Easter Morn while all the children of Shanklin-Attaway Post of Rome, Georgia, is a pioneer among New Bern are in Sunday School and at church, the Easter the many posts giving annual Easter egg hunts. For five years Rabbit pays his annual pilgrimage to the rolling grass-covered it has given its annual egg hunt, making a special effort to enter- hills that mark the site of old Fort Totten, a battleground of the tain children who have not been included in the hunts given by War Between the States. Sometime between dawn and afternoon, churches and other organizations. The hunt is given at the fair the Easter Rabbit comes to Fort Totten and goes, leaving behind ground owned and operated by the post as a year-round amuse- him five thousand eggs of red, white and blue and all the other ment center and the number of children taking part in it has colors that children have learned to recognize as his own. The increased steadily each year. Easter Rabbit hides his eggs. He hides them that the children Joe Carr, Adjutant of the Department of Georgia, recalls that of New Bern may find them. the egg hunt was almost ruined one year because several boys On the afternoon of Easter Sunday this year three thousand started a private hunt of their own after the eggs had been hidden children will assemble at Fort Totten, as guests of Donersen- and before the Legionnaires arrived at the ground to conduct Hawkins Post of The American Legion, to hunt for the eggs the the hunt. In another year, a boy got the hunt started prema- Easter Rabbit hid. With the children of New Bern, the post turely by sounding a whistle, the prearranged signal, fifteen will entertain boys and girls from five counties, under the plans minutes before the time that had been set. announced by Post Adjutant Tom C. Daniels. Last year the "When that unofficial whistle sounded," relates Mr. Carr, "the post was host to twelve hundred children and the party was so hunt began and that was all there was to it. Luckily, however, inspiring that the post decided to enlist the help of other posts I had the official whistle with me and I blew it as soon as I saw in its section of North Carolina to reach more children. the children start racing toward the hiding places."

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HE Luck proof on so indecent a of Roaring By BRET HARTE manuscript. Only after Camp " ap- considerable debate did peared in the INTRODUCTION BY JOHN ERSKINE the publisher of the mag- Overland Monthly for azine consent to print it. August, 1868. It was Illustrations by Lowell L.Balcom But the publisher him- the first picture Bret self always maintained Harte gave us of his special subject, the romantic West in the that there wasn't a word of truth in this yarn—that the story gold period. appeared to the office at first sight delightful and acceptable. At There has long been a debate as to whether the picture is accu- least Bret Harte's myth indicates that he thought there was on rate. Westerners at the time denied that any such lawless society the Western Coast at that time a serious division of opinion as to was characteristic of the Coast. Bret Harte's champions felt that the proprieties, and as to the reputation which it was desirable such protests came from citizens who wished the Coast to enjoy for California to enjoy. a good reputation in the East, and who preferred, therefore, a pic- The great success of this story brought Bret Harte an oppor- ture giving more emphasis to law and order. Whatever the truth tunity to contribute to the Atlantic Monthly, but after his return is, Bret Harte's account became the authentic myth of the mining East, he ceased to maintain the brilliant level of his first work. camps, and it would be hard now for an historian to displace from His reputation among the literary critics gradually collapsed, until popular imagination these rough men, given to hard work and a few decades ago, when he was thought of as rather a cheap and poker and friendship and women. negligible yarn-spinner. Today he is once more valued as a Bret Harte himself started a legend about this particular story. great story-teller, in his limited field, one of the greatest which He said that when it came into the editorial office, some young his time produced. To evoke a new picture of society, and to woman there of Puritan background blushed and refused to read make it permanent in the minds of America and Europe, is the

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achievement certainly of nothing short of genius. The question whether Bret Harte portrayed the mining camps truthfully would concern only the historian. Even if the record were correct, the literary man would feel that the true Americanism of the story lies not in the picture so much as in the emotions which that picture excites. It is a story told from an American point of view. European readers too often accept it as an historical docu-

ment ; from reading Bret Harte and the early work of Mark Twain they prepare themselves to find here on their arrival in our harbors broad-brimmed and high-booted frontiersmen or adventurers with unofficial cards up their sleeve, and guns on their hip. What is American about the story, however, is the type of humor, the type of pathos, the deep vein of sentiment, the sense of accident, of the full- ness of life and the nearness of death. The humor, like that of Mark Twain, is so broad as to be grotesque. The incident of child- birth in such a place, the unusual food-supply for the infant which the miner, acting as nurse, impro- vised, the extraordinary mixture of emotions enter- tained by the miners for the defunct mother, are all in the American mood. Perhaps the humor seems less grotesque than it actually is because of the adventurous world in which the story is located. Anything might happen, the reader supposes, in such a place as this wild mining camp. So well are we prepared for extraordinary events that we ac- cept somewhat easily incidents and facts we might question in another environment. It was to Bret Harte's interest, therefore, as a literary artist to exaggerate the wildness of the miner's life, and the disorder of his society. This fact, perhaps, throws light on the debate over the accuracy of his picture. In such a world, as on a battle-front, the loyalty of friendship is not an uncommon virtue. There men on the same side have a tendency to stand to- gether. The sympathy of this wild crowd, a sort of democratic fellow feeling, is one of the charms of the story, though it pervades the pages so subtly as often to pass unmentioned. It is flavored by the pathos of which I spoke, and by the peculiar kind of sentiment which I think is typically American not that other nations lack it, but that we specialize in it. The tune. He represents them as living very hard and very reck- pathos of the woman's death, the loneliness of the men in a world lessly, taking pleasure and seizing wealth where they can, but not without tender elements, the power of the child over their imagi- estimating either too highly. He shows them always ready for nation, make a total impression which is hard to define, but easily the death which may lurk in the next half hour—in an explosion, a recognized. The feeling produced covers a larger area than the fire, a flood, or a bullet. It is characteristic of us as American story itself. It appeals to that conviction of the tragic in life readers that very few criticisms, if any, were ever made of this which the old Roman poet expressed. It rises also from that con- fatalism. Bret Harte has been thought vulgar and coarse by peo- fidence, peculiar to Americans, in the influence of children upon ple who do not call a spade a spade—who, in fact, even ignore the hardened character, and a faith that in even the most hardened existence of spades. But perhaps because the philosophy is so es- members of society there is a possibility of gentleness, almost of sent ially natural to us, we have not objected to his stoicism, which delicacy. would have belonged to an ancient Greek or Roman, but which The European has often pointed out that the American, accompanies rather discordantly the religion which most of us whether he thinks it or not, is a fatalist. Usually an optimistic hold. I have heard an admirer of Bret Harte in one impulsive one, that is, believing in his own or in his nation's destiny; in any sentence sum up this great story, unconscious that his phrase il- case, fairly resigned to whatever is to be. In selecting the life of lustrated most of those traits of Americanism of which I have been the miner for his subject, Bret Harte found a vehicle for this speaking—the bizarre humor, the incongruity of the emotions philosophy of ours. Nothing is more marked in his stories than and philosophy, the sentiment. He laid the book down with the the calmness with which his men accept their good and bad for- quotation, "A little child shall lead them."

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was commotion in Roaring Camp. It could not extremity, when she most needed the ministration of her own sex. T-^HEREhave been a fight, for in 1850 that was not novel enough Dissolute, abandoned, and irreclaimable, she was yet suffering a to have called together the entire settlement. The ditches martyrdom hard enough to bear even when veiled by sympathiz- and claims were not only deserted, but "Tuttle's grocery" ing womanhood, but now terrible in her loneliness. The primal had contributed its gamblers, who, it will be remembered, calmly curse had come to her in that original isolation which must have continued their game the day that French Pete and Kanaka Joe made the punishment of the first transgression so dreadful. It shot each other to death over the bar in the front room. The was, perhaps, part of the expiation of her sin that, at a moment whole camp was collected before a rude cabin on the outer edge of when she most lacked her sex's intuitive tenderness and care, the clearing. Conversation was carried on in a low tone, but the she met only the half-contemptuous faces of her masculine asso- name of a woman was frequently— repeated. It was a name famil- ciates. Yet a few of the spectators were, I think, touched by her iar enough in the camp "Cherokee Sal." sufferings. Sandy Tipton thought it was "rough on Sal," and, in Perhaps the less said of her the better. She was a coarse and, the contemplation of her condition, for a moment rose superior to it is to be feared, a very sinful woman. But at that time she was the fact that he had an ace and two bowers in his sleeve. the only woman in Roaring Camp, and was just then lying in sore It will be seen also that the situation was novel. Deaths were

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by no means uncommon in Roaring Camp, but a birth was a new ering. By degrees the natural levity of Roaring Camp returned. thing. People had been dismissed from the camp effectively, Bets were freely offered and taken regarding the result. Three to finally, and with no possibility of return; but this was the first five that "Sal would get through with it"; even that the child time that anybody had been introduced ab initio. Hence the would survive; side bets as to the sex and complexion of the com- excitement. ing stranger. In the midst of an excited discussion an exclama- "You go in there, Stumpy," said a prominent citizen known as tion came from those nearest the door, and the camp stopped to "Kentuck," addressing one of the loungers. "Go in there, and listen. Above the swaying and moaning of the pines, the swift see what you kin do. You've had experience in them things." rush of the river, and the crackling of the fire rose a sharp, queru- Perhaps there was a fitness in the selection. Stumpy, in other lous cry—a cry unlike anything heard before in the camp. The climes, had been the putative head of two families; in fact, it was pines stopped moaning, the river ceased to rush, and the fire to owing to some legal informality in these proceedings that Roaring crackle. It seemed as if Nature had stopped to listen too.

Camp—a city of refuge—was indebted to his company. The The camp rose to its feet as one man ! It was proposed to ex- crowd approved the choice, and Stumpy was wise enough to bow plode a barrel of gunpowder; but in consideration of the situation to the majority. The door closed on the extempore surgeon and of the mother, better counsels prevailed, and only a few revolvers midwife, and Roaring Camp sat down outside, smoked its pipe, were discharged; for whether owing to the rude surgery of the and awaited the issue. camp, or some other reason, Cherokee Sal was sinking fast. The assemblage numbered about a hundred men. One or two Within an hour she had climbed, as it were, that rugged road that of these were actual fugitives from justice, some were criminal, led to the stars, and so passed out of Roaring Camp, its sin and and all were reckless. Physically they exhibited no indication of shame, forever. I do not think that the announcement disturbed their past lives and character. The greatest scamp had a Raphael them much, except in speculation as to the fate of the child. face, with a profusion of blond hair; Oakhurst, a gambler, had "Can he live now?" was asked of Stumpy. The answer was the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet; the doubtful. The only other being of Cherokee Sal's sex and mater- coolest and most courageous man was scarcely over five feet in nal condition in the settlement was an ass. There was some con- height, with a soft voice and an embarrassed, timid manner. The jecture as to fitness, but the experiment was tried. It was less term "roughs" applied to them was a distinction rather than a problematical than the ancient treatment of Romulus and Remus, definition. Perhaps in the minor details of fingers, toes, ears, etc., and apparently as successful. the camp may have been deficient, but these slight omissions did When these details were completed, which exhausted another not detract from their aggregate force. The strongest man had hour, the door was opened, and the anxious crowd of men, who but three fingers on his right hand; the best shot had but one eye. had already formed themselves into a queue, entered in single Such was the physical aspect of the men that were dispersed file. Beside the low bunk shelf, on which the figure of the mother around the cabin. The camp lay in a triangular valley between was starkly outlined below the blankets, stood a pine table. On two hills and a river. The only outlet was a steep trail over the this a candle-box was placed, and within it, swathed in staring summit of a hill that faced the cabin, now illuminated by the red flannel, lay the last arrival at Roaring Camp. Beside the rising moon. The suffering woman might have seen it from the candle-box was placed a hat. Its use was soon indicated. "Gen- rude bunk whereon she lay—seen it winding like a silver thread tlemen," said Stumpy,—with a singular mixture of authority and until it was lost in the stars above. ex officio complacency "gentlemen will please pass in at the A fire of withered pine boughs added sociability to the gath- front door, round the table, and out at {Continued on page 50)

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S~ V \ ACK yonder, when presently found that the veterans ^ LJ Hayes; Garfield and Ar- who confessed to having served m 1 thur were taking their in the ranks talked of their ex- -^-—^ turns in the seat of the periences much more entertain- Presidents, it seemed to my ingly than the officers. At any youthful fancy that the Civil rate their point of view was War, of which I heard so con- different and they had more stantly, was the greatest in- humor. One of these was cident in all history. Those John Rankin, a printer. He years are deeply etched in had derived from his ser- my memory. Indiana, my vice as a volunteer a phi- home State, had sent two losophy of life by which hundred and eight thou- he lived. He had done sand, three hundred and a lot of thinking on the sixty-seven volunteers long marches and I can into the conflict, and see now, what I didn't practically all the men understand when I with whom I came in stood by his case in the contact had served in dingy composing room the Union Army. —that he really had a Around the post office good many of Plato's in Indianapolis a hero- ideas. Later on I worshipping lad could enjoyed the friend- find many of the val- ship of an Indianap- iant upon whom to olis lawyer who had lavish admiration. carried a musket for Generals were not four years in a New uncommon — Benjamin York regiment, partic- Harrison, Lew Wallace, ipating in some of the Pap McGinnis, Sandy bloodiest of the Vir- Foster, Fred Knefler, ginia battles, but I had George H. Chapman, known him nearly ten Abel D. Streight, Walter years before he ever Q. Gresham. Good stuff mentioned the fact that for Plutarch, those men! he had been a soldier. He Harrison became President hadn't the slightest patience and Wallace wrote "Ben with the manipulation of Hur," a novel read by mil- "the soldier vote," and I supj lions, long popular on the stage pose it was because of his dis- and more recently flourishing as gust with political soldiers that a screen production. Gresham he was so reluctant to speak of his was a Federal judge and twice a own part in the war. When it was cabinet officer. My generals were all over he set about finishing his educa- successful in their subsequent civil tion, settled in Indianapolis and careers, but to me they always wore the through many years rendered to his glamor of romance. Nothing is so con- community a highly intelligent and cou- clusive as an argument against the phobia rageous service in the interest of good that we might become a militaristic na- government. In his vigorous old age he Robert E. Lee, a hitherto un- tion as the fact that when our wars are from has written a profoundly searching book, ended our soldiers so quickly adjust them- published photograph in the Lincoln "How We Got Our Liberties." Lucius B. selves to civil life. As to the War Be- collection of Harry MacNeill Bland Swift is unique. I write his name here be- tween the States, the transition was often cause of his unselfish, self-sacrificing devo- so abrupt as to be incongruous. tion to American ideals in war and peace. I may add that he General Streight enjoyed a remarkable experience as a volun- estranged some of his best friends and clients by his prompt de- teer soldier. He led a brigade on a dash into the heart of the nunciation of Germany's course at the beginning of the World Confederacy to destroy property and communications. He was War and when America went into it served on a board of draft getting away with it quite handsomely until that brilliant mili- appeals with characteristic fidelity and conscientiousness. tary genius, General N. B. Forrest, interrupted the proceedings. The best story teller in our town was Lieutenant Henry C. Even at that, Streight did considerable damage before Forrest Adams, the star performer at all soldier gatherings. There was stopped him, and when landed in Libby Prison he tunneled out much scandal about pensions, and Adams in discussing the with something over a hundred of his men and after many ad- subject declared that he was one survivor of the war who owed ventures reached the Potomac and rejoined the Union forces. the government money, because he had been given up to die with Yet after these stirring experiences he returned to Indianapolis consumption when he enlisted and the army life had cured him. and, the most unassuming of our citizens, quite unromantically Those were great nights in the hall of George H. Thomas Post engaged in the lumber business. to which my father and mother took me for the campfire enter- While my supreme joy was in these noble generals I did not tainments, when stories were told and the quartet sang "Tent- withhold my adoration from certain colonels; and two majors ing on the Old Camp Ground." My father, a private in Wallace's won my admiration by. the splendor of their whiskers. (Oddly, Eleventh Indiana Regiment for the three months' service, had all the Civil War majors I ever knew were whiskered men!) I changed to the artillery, become captain of the 2 2d Indiana

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with any tolerance or sympathy of Nicholson the Southern people. They were rebels. All Democrats were either rebels or Copperheads. Beyond Battery, and saw hard service to question the sympathizers with the the end. But he never talked of South in all the border States had the war. Something of the hor- lent such aid and comfort to the ror of it had touched him pro- enemy as they dared and in con- sequence were cordially hated foundly ; it was in his eyes to the end of his days. There was a by their neighbors. The box of his papers in the barn Knights of the Golden Circle and among them some orders had been particularly active that had been in the pocket in Indiana and might have of the commander of the been much more mischie- battery when he was killed vous but for the vigilance in the operations around and the iron hand of Atlanta and my father Oliver P. Morton, the succeeded to the cap- war governor. These taincy. A tattered gui- animosities were a part don, a saber, a dress of the inheritance of uniform coat and a pair my generation at the of gilt-fringed epau- North. While I was lettes were among my still in the public first playthings. schools there was a It still seems re- commotion because markable that the he- the text book used in roes I began to con- American history was template with so much too considerate of the satisfaction in my home South. town in about 1876 had I was near voting age been without military before I learned that training when the Civil the questions fought War began, or, as one of out between North and the poet Riley's charac- South ran back in our ters said, "when the history; that the precise army broke out." Some nature of the union of of them had belonged to States had been a sub- military companies, but ject of controversy from these organizations were the beginning of the Re- chiefly social and did not public. Men who were take seriously the science of neither fools nor rebels had war; and their training before held that a dissatisfied State going to the front was very might withdraw from the Union sketchy. When Sumter was at will. New England had been fired on they were young men in restive long before Webster in stores and offices, still at the thresh- 1830 made his famous reply to old of life. It remains a mystery how Hayne. Andrew Jackson, militant they so quickly learned "the iron Southerner, had rattled his saber at game," assumed large responsibilities and South Carolina for threatening nullifica- acquitted themselves with distinction. tion of a Federal tariff law. "The Union War in those days was a simpler affair than it must be preserved," announced Jackson now, conducted with much awkward and with characteristic vigor. "I will die for Ulysses S. Grant, a hitherto un- futile gesturing; but this makes all the more from the Union," he wrote to John Coffee, a glorious the valor and fortitude of the men published photograph in the Lincoln Tennessee friend who had shared the for- of the '6o's. collection of Harry MacNeill Bland tunes of his military campaigns. Beyond my Hoosier galaxy were the In St. Michael's Churchyard, Charles- great planets that revolved about Lincoln—Grant, Sherman, ton, among the graves of many Confederate soldiers, one may Thomas and Sheridan. A hero much to my taste was Custer, read an inscription in felicitous and moving phrases to a distin- the dashing cavalryman, who rode unscathed through many guished lawyer of South Carolina, James Lewis Pettigru, who battles in the South only to be killed in a fight with the Indians had outspokenly supported the Union and never changed his in Montana. I used to go to the Public Library and pore over attitude. He died in 1863, while the cloud of war hung dark the war-time volumes of Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's for above his city. A man admired, loved and honored for his the joy of the pictures. The spell of enchantment was still upon abilities and his virtues, the fact that all business was suspended me when the Century Magazine began serial publication of on the day of his funeral, and that the Charleston bar met later "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War"; articles written by sur- to pay tribute to him as an honorable man and distinguished viving officers. I was now old enough to understand something jurist, speaks eloquently both for him and for the magnanimity of the strategy of the campaigns and the blunders in high places of his people. that had resulted in calamitous defeats. Some Northern men had believed in the right of secession With the atmosphere of the community in which I lived still and some Southern men had held the opposite view, both before vibrating as to the cry of bugles, it isn't surprising that I thought and after slavery became the dominant political issue. I began of the South as an alien country that had been whipped into to realize that the seed of the whirlwind had been a long time subjection and must be viewed with distrust, lest it again re- sowing. The relationship of the several States to the Federal quire chastisement. In those years I never heard any one speak power which had been susceptible of {Continued on page 64)

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Illustrations hy VRPyles

Chapters I—III in Brief O ERGEANT PETE \ BRIGHT, American (~d J D. C. I. attached to S the Paris district, summoned to Bordeaux to help locate a French horse-trader named St. Denis missing in an attempt to smuggle horses in from Spain, is stumped. A man with mismated eyes and thought to be an American had been con- ferring with St. Denis for some time, the missing man's secretary tells him, adding that at the time of his leaving for the Pyrenees the horse-trader had 100,000 francs in his money belt. Search of a Bordeaux house in which the queer eyed stranger lived discloses nothing on which to build up the case ex- cept a circled chalk mark enclos- ing a figure three with its top bar broken off. Bright leaves his as- sistant Corporal Duclose in charge and starts back for Paris, sharing a compartment with an English courier who confides in him that he has important papers for a member of the British delegation to the Paris peace conference and that a swarthy, heavy-set man has been following him. Bright leaves the train for a few min- utes at a small town to send a telegram and when he returns sees a heavy-set figure leaving their compartment. The in- truder runs at Bright's com- mand to halt, and the sergeant fires at him in the darkness of the railroad yard. The shot causes the man to drop some- On the opposite wall the safe thing which a few moments medicines and nothing else. Bright later Bright finds to be the English courier's dispatch case. In the now darkened compartment he finds the courier dead an automatic pistol shell of the calibre that had killed Bathhurst, with a bullet hole through his head. The sergeant's flash-light the identical shell in fact. picks out on the sole of the murdered man's shoe the mysterious He did not look back, dared not. At any moment the body of broken-three symbol he had first seen in the Bordeaux house of Courier Bathhurst might be discovered on the floor of the first- the man with the mismated eyes. class compartment in the Bordeaux train. It would take a lot of

explaining if Sergeant Pete Bright of the D. C. I. were caught IV with Bathhurst's dispatch case under his arm and a newly-fired pistol in his shoulder holster. French police officials naturally O ERGEANT PETE BRIGHT walked hurriedly out of would doubt his story. What proof had he that his own bullet \ the Gare d'Orsay into the early morning bustle of had only scratched the murderer? On the other hand, they would 1 Paris streets. Under his arm he carried as inconspicu- have proof aplenty ... his pistol, the Englishman's body, the ' v ously as possible a leather dispatch case with a bullet hole in the dispatch case, and an astounding ability, because they hole through one corner and a dark brown stain along its under were French, to jump at conclusions. He had a poor alibi. He edge. His own automatic pistol, concealed now beneath his would doubt such a story himself if a stranger told it to him. civilian suit, had made that bullet hole. Besides, in his pocket lay Tightening his elbow on the case, he dodged a street sweeper.

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drive a good man crazy talking art, but he knew how to be vigilant. "Captain Keefe?" Bright de- manded of a clerk on the second floor. His voice was harsh, and louder than he intended. He cleared his throat quickly and repeated the captain's name. "With Colonel Saunders, in his private office."

"Got to see 'em . . . both." The officers listened, without in- terrupting the sergeant's story, Keefe drumming the table occasionally as was his habit, the colonel watching with cool, unwavering gray eyes. "So I beat it," Bright concluded. "Hated to leave him there on the floor. He was a good guv, this Bathhurst. But I figured he'd rather not have the French police ." get hold of this packet . . "Deliver the case to Whitfield," Colonel Saunders directed. He spoke soberly, scarcely moving his lips, yet enunciating clearly. "Find where he is, Keefe. Say nothing about this, Sergeant." "Don't worry over that, sir. I'll be quiet as officers' quarters at reveille." Saunders allowed himself a short smile. "Keefe, you report this di- rectly to the British A. P. M.," he advised. "Tell them everything the sergeant has said. They'll claim the body." "I hated to leave him there," Bright repeated. "Bathhurst, I mean. The frog police turn a corpse inside out for a clue. He was a good fellow." Colonel Saunders nodded. "When you've located Whitfield, send Bright himself with the case," he instructed Captain Keefe further. He leaned forward and examined the leather bag. It was not large, mid- way between a brief case and a postman's sack. But its bellows ends bulged, and to hold it to- gether were three broad buckled straps. A flat brass padlock fitted snugly into a staple that protruded through the center strap. There was no name or identification of any kind upon it. "Looks heavy," Colonel Saunders remarked. He picked it up experimentally by its long musette strap. "It must weigh twenty- five pounds. I'm glad it's locked. Give it to this man Whitfield door gaped open. Its shelves held an array of veterinary personally, Sergeant. Personally. Be sure to get a receipt." gazed at it stunned. He had a new problem on his hands At seven o'clock that Monday evening, Bright, who had dis- carded civil attire for a tailored uniform, drove west out of Paris, the dispatch bag in the seat of the official army car beside him. Two elegant agents civil stood chatting by the curbstone just In his pocket he carried the discharged pistol shell, which was the ahead. Bright turned aside. It would be hard, also, to convince only tangible bit of evidence he could bring with him from the a curious Paris policeman that this simple-looking little leather compartment. Sergeant Murphy of the Paris office had secured bag must be opened only by a certain Sir Harry Whitfield of the news of Whitfield; he was spending four or five days with a certain British delegation to the Peace Congress. American major, Rennels by name, who commanded the Circe The sergeant hailed a taxicab cautiously, and fifteen minutes district of the Embarkation area. later entered the D. C. I. office in the gloomv old Hotel Ste. Anne. Circe, Bright learned from his road map, lay just over the hills He was thankful to arrive. At the outer door he hesitated a mo- from Domfront, where lived (or had lived, for the man undoubt- ment and looked back into the street. So far as he could tell no edly was dead) St. Denis, the horse buyer. He could deliver this one had followed him. Still he was not at ease. He saw no one. troublesome bag to Sir Harry Whitfield and hurry on to the St. But neither he nor Bathhurst had seen anyone following them Denis house . . . Corporal Duclose might even have reached from Bordeaux. And Bathhurst was dead, because they had not there by this time to continue his investigation. Bright welcomed been vigilant enough. Bright scowled, and again blamed himself. that idea. For before he returned to Paris, the sergeant decided, He had an uncomfortable notion that things might have been he must have solved the mystery which linked St. Denis the different if Corporal Duclose had been along. Duclose might horse trader with the fat Blackbird—Turk or Armenian, which-

APRIL, 1929 15 ever he was. And these two in turn with Courier Bathhurst and Sir Harry Whitfield and the man with the odd eyes. Perhaps not clear the case from the books, but at least get a strong lead, something sat- isfactory to work on. The five men were linked. Bright was positive of that now. And it was more than intu- ition persuaded him. For the same figure, the queer broken three that he had seen on the black fireplace in Bordeaux, had been left on Bathhurst's shoe sole at St. Pierre des Corps. "This intuition stuff don't count in my business," he remembered telling Courier Bathhurst. It was a cold night ride, through dark, echoing vil- lages under a starless sky, and with a raw wind blow- ing small puffs of snow down from the Channel. Bright was conscious of a growing depression as he drove westward. He blamed himself for Bath- hurst's murder. The man had been in a funk . . .but it was apparent now that he'd had a right to be. The murderer was imper- sonal in killing him, Bright suspected. Not Bathhurst, but the bag, had been his object. He still wanted the bag. Next time it might be the bag and Sergeant Pete Bright. "And they say the guerre's fini," Bright muttered. ." "Well . . He breakfasted at Argen- tan, and thirty minutes later peered down through the fog on the glistening wet roofs of Circe. He had been thinking less of Cou- rier Bathhurst and more of St. Denis as he approached the native neighborhood of the horse buyer. He was wondering at the moment whether Inspector Gibon of the Bordeaux district had The old ivoman turned on the sergeant and in rapid French discovered the man's body. anxious lest he be forced to tell them its history, fingered the case For half an hour there had been evidences of American occupation; slow-working parties in fatigue clothes, river bank and the house stretched across the rear of the plot, a spades at right shoulder; headstrong Quad trucks, overloaded, hundred yards from the gate. striving to keep the middle of the road; and, in the yard of an old Bright appraised it carefully. Niee, neat quarters for a major, convent, the brown tents of a field-hospital unit. Bright coasted he reflected, even be fair enough for a sergeant. The main door down the steep grade into town. was approached from either side by a flight of stone steps. The center Circe proved to be an unexciting village with a moss-covered portion of the house, which was two and a half stories high, was church shouldering its way boldly into the public square. The flanked by wings extending at right angles across the ends. To streets were clean, with the brisk sharp cleanliness of Normandy. the left, and some forty paces from the main building, a low, A dozen American motor trucks stood in an orderly row in the rambling structure, which some time no doubt had been used for center of the square. A motorcycle rushed across Bright's right a coach house, lay between the stable yards and the garden. Two of way. Soldiers in overcoats wandered about aimlessly. The motorcycles stood before it, and a half-dozen familiar looking village clearly was a center of some importance in the A. E. F. yellow sheets, general and special orders, wet with morning fog, scheme of things. Bright halted his car and asked the way to clung to the bulletin board against the stone wall. Major Rennels's office. A sign over the door of this smaller building announced that it The commander of Circe district lived at the western edge of served as district headquarters and that no passes would be town, in an old house that without much imagination could be granted today. called a chateau; in fact Major Rennels did call it that. Several Five clerks pecked unenthusiastically at typewriters in the acres of gardens surrounded by a high stone wall overhung the room Bright entered. A sergeant major was swearing over an ink

16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The sergeant major tried to look reproving. Bright nodded. "Dryin' up France, eh?" he asked amiably. "Any- body else with 'em? Any- body here who can lead me to 'em?" "Adjutant's along. Major always makes him go. He don't care for fishin'. Name's Grice. Lieutenant. And nobody can't lead you to 'em because nobody can't find 'em. I been tryin'. Got a stack o' orders to be signed. They'll be back sometime. They always come back." Bright sat down patiently on the edge of the desk. The dispatch case weighed like a dozen full packs on his arm. But he did not relinquish it. "Back when?" he wanted to know. "Soon or toot sweet?" "Whenever Grice can get 'em corralled. Today, mebbe. Mebbe tomorrow. Gimme them verbal orders and I'll see he gets 'em. Anything in 'em about us and Hobo- ken?" "No. Besides, it's Whit- field I got to see." The sergeant major grunted. "Well, you'll get an eyeful when you do. Come back after a while. We'll be pourin' 'em into bed soon's they get here." He looked across the room, forgetting Bright, and demanded: "Where's the damn ink eradicator, Pat?" Bright turned to the door. He sought to hold the dis- patch case so the sergeant major would not see the bul- let hole. "Be back later," he promised, and frowning at the case, passed out into the garden. He felt more then ever like an errand boy. Why the devil should a little bunch of papers like this stir up so much trouble? A good scout Bathhurst had been if demanded: "What is in that package, young manl" Bright, he knew anything about men. flung the bag angrily into carelessly, making sure that his left hand covered up the bullet hole He the seat of the car. He'd be rid of it soon, consulted his dab on a consolidated morning report form. He was a lean man thank God! And in the meantime . . . again he with a cold, and his shoulders sagged under the clerical troubles of map ... it was only three kilos on the Route du Finistere to many home-going regiments. Domfront ... he might run up there and get the latest report "Well?" he asked. from St. Denis's secretary. He could ask his way at the gendarm- "Major Rennels." erie in Circe. "Out." He parked in front of the stone police barracks in the Place de "Out where? I got a message from G. H. Q., verbal orders." la Republique and climbed three steep steps to its narrow, in- The sergeant major sneezed. hospitable door. Within men were talking excitedly. Stone "He's fishing up the river. Go find him if you can. I can't." walls and floor set up discordant echoes. An old man in blue uni- "Who's with him?" form faced Bright as he entered; a younger, who wore shabby The sergeant major shook his head impatiently. "What the gray civilian clothes that were wrinkled across the shoulders, hell's it to you?" he demanded, and sneezed again. "Tell me your with the left sleeve tucked empty into the coat pocket, stood with verbal orders and I'll see he gets 'em." his back to the door. This much Bright saw before he caught the "Who's with him?" Bright asked, unruffled. first words of the civilian, begun in staccato French and finished "A feller. Don't remember his name. Some damn Limey." in a cough. The voice had a familiar ring to it. Bright looked "Name Whitfield?" sharply. "Yeh." "I swear it is another assassin. What honest man would prowl "He's fishing with the C. O.? Quite a party?" at night about the house?" It was {Continued on page 67)

APRIL, 1929 17 EXPIATION yf RADIANT baldness and his dignity yj May sun slanted By Miarquis James made him look older than r\ through the bars his thirty-two years. He M of the low-ceil- sat down in a chair next inged room in the old Washington Penitentiary, composing a to Arnold and a soldier stood between them. pattern on the floor. The fragrant spring air of the Potomac Then came Edward Spangler, the scene shifter at Ford's, a neutralized the odor of fresh whitewash that came from the blank loutish, simple-looking fellow in workingman's clothes. He did bare walls. Behind a long table with a green cloth top sat the not appear greatly worried, or to have much capacity for worry. court-martial consisting of nine officers of the Army in blue and Michael O'Laughlin was next—a small man to whom the brass—seven grave-looking men with beards, and two with seventy-five pound weight was an actual burden to carry. He moustaches. had a bright, alert face and a neat black moustache and goatee, In front of the court were other tables. At one three army but his dandified attire had lost its air of spruceness. O'Laugh- judge advocates were busy with books and papers. About lin had surrendered to the authorities in Baltimore. His quick another bent the counsel for the accused with heads together. glance jumped about the courtroom as if he were still eager to At a third table were the newspaper men with pencils behind please. their ears; little of note had happened yet. In one corner of the Except in the case of Dr. Mudd, the parts these four had room was a knot of spectators, whose presence was a mark of played in the great conspiracy were obscure to the popular privilege. mind. That was something to be brought out at the trial. These groups pretty well filled the calcimined chamber, save Vague also was the popular conception of the part borne by for a railed-in platform against the wall opposite the court. On George Atzerodt, who followed O'Laughlin to the prisoner's the platform were eight vacant chairs. dock, but the impression was that Atzerodt had played a des- A door opened and the room was very still, which accentuated perate part, and, though small of build, his fierce-looking counte- the sound of shuffling feet and the clank of iron without. A nance seemed to justify the worst suspicions. He was more civilian entered followed by a soldier. The civilian's wrists heavily ironed than the others. were handcuffed together and he stooped as he walked in order The sixth in the line was the gigantic, scowling Payne, with to carry the seventy-five pound weight at the end of a two-foot extra fetters on. Everyone had heard of the savage aspect of chain that was fastened to his left ankle. He took his place on the assailant of Secretary Seward and a buzz of interest swept one of the seats on the platform, where a good look disclosed a the packed room. He crossed his legs and gazed over the heads mild looking young man about twenty-five years of age, of of the spectators at a patch of landscape visible through a medium size, rather genteel face and a high forehead. His window. brown eyes blinked from the unaccustomed brightness of the Then came young Herold, the companion of Booth in his room, for the bag tied over his head since his arrest had just flight. There was great interest in him. His round, weak face been removed. This was Booth's schoolmate, Samuel Arnold. looked sorely troubled; the muscles of his mouth twitched; and He was nervous and fidgeted in his seat. he had neglected to shave. Arnold was followed by Dr Samuel Mudd, likewise manacled The last prisoner was Mrs. Surratt, a tall woman in her middle and accompanied by a soldier. Dr. Mudd's beard, his premature forties and inclined to stoutness. She was dressed plainly in

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly The execution of the Lincoln conspirators. On opposite page: Adjusting the nooses around the necks of Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold and George Atzerodt. The day was hot—it was July 7, i86j—and the prisoners enjoyed the amenity of sunshades during their final seconds on earth. Above: The trap ivas sprung at i.20 /4l p.m. The bodies were cut down at 1:55

black, with an old-fashioned brooch at her throat. Mary From the first Stanton had believed it to be a Confederate Surratt had never been beautiful, but as a girl she had been plot. The conclusion suited the forces of his busy mind. Mr. undeniably attractive, because she was still attractive under Stanton had been very bitter against the rebels and had shown the least favorable of circumstances. Her chestnut hair was his bitterness in speech and deed. During the feverish small parted in the middle and combed close to her head. Steady hours of the morning of April 15th, the first evidence that in- blue eyes looked from a countenance which, though pale and contestably linked John Wilkes Booth with the deed simul- tense, faced an unfriendly world with a quality of composure taneously supported the theory of Confederate complicity. that came from the well-springs of character—and every eye This was the letter of Sam Arnold's advising Booth to "go slow" turned on Mary Surratt that morning appreciated as much. and take matters up with Richmond. Stanton accepted this Mrs. Surratt was not ironed but was attended by a soldier like as proof. He told La Fayette C. Baker, Chief of the Secret the others. Service, to uncover the facts. Baker was another man of The prisoners stood while the charge against them was read. enormous energy. He was something of a legend. With Severally and jointly they were accused of "maliciously, unlaw- Stanton's complete confidence and power practically unlimited, fully, and traitorously . . . combining, confederating and con- no secret was deemed immune from his mysterious agents, who spiring together with one John H. Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, were everywhere. Almost instantly, it seemed, Baker reported Jefferson Davis, George N. Sanders, Beverly Tucker, Jacob to Stanton that everything was proved. From Canada, from Thompson, William C. Geary, Clement C. Clay, George Harper, Richmond and elsewhere Baker's men brought evidence involving

George Young and others unknown to kill and murder . . . the Confederate President and his personal agents in the murder

Abraham Lincoln, . . . Andrew Johnson, . . . William H. Sew- of Abraham Lincoln. It was asserted that John H. Surratt ard, . . . and Ulysses S. Grant; and in pursuance of . . . said had been in Washington on the night of the murder, and not in

... conspiracy . . . unlawfully and traitorously murdering the Canada, as his friends would have the authorities believe. said Abraham Lincoln, . . . and traitorously assaulting with This beginning seemed auspicious, but Mr. Stanton met intent to kill and murder the said William H. Seward, . . . and obstacles to his passionate efforts to uncover the guilt of the lying in wait with intent to . . . kill and murder the said criminals. John Surratt had not been caught, though he was Andrew Johnson and the said Ulysses S. Grant." hunted throughout the Northern States and Canada, and Surratt To this each prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the court ad- was represented by Baker's evidence to rank next to Booth as journed to reconvene on the following day—May 11, 1865—at the moving spirit of the plot. They had his mother, but the ten in the morning. evidence against her was incomplete. Under pressure John Thus swiftly had the wheels of justice turned. Fifteen days Lloyd, tenant of the Surratt property at Surrattsville, somewhat following the death of Booth and the capture of Herold eight strengthened the net of circumstantial proof against his landlady, prisoners had been winnowed from the shoal of suspects and but pressure on other prisoners produced no such encouraging brought to trial, while the search for others, and in particular results. those named in the formal charge, went forward. The scope In this connection the prisoner Wiechmann became an object and speed of these preparations attested the tremendous industry of especial attention. He was a member of the Surratt household of Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War. With brimming and shared a bed with John. This placed a War Department eyes but a clear mind in which burned the bright blue flame of clerk in an equivocal situation, which other considerations failed revenge, he had stood by the bedside of his dying chief dictating to redeem. Wiechmann's eagerness to demonstrate that Surratt the orders that formulated the pursuit of the conspirators and was in Canada when Mr. Baker was positive that he had been sought to expose the nethermost depths of their iniquity. in Washington at the time of the murder; {Continued on page 56)

APRIL, 1929 19 RED ELK By Samuel Scoville Jr.

mm S y" AR in the north, beyond Doomsday Range and Bald

( Jj Eagle, tower the violet peaks of Seven Mountains, / four around three. Hidden in the inner triangle is Lost Valley, lovely, lonely, unlucky. "Nevaire, nevaire lay your traps in Lost Valley," said old Pierre Lalonde one night in the trading station at Burnt Church. "Once there be man who live over at White Deer," he went on. "Hees name Jake Quiggle an' he ver' good trapper—mos' so good as me. Jake lay out trap-road in the Valley an' no come back, an' no come back. Two, three of us go look and we fin' heem dead in hees shack with marks on hees throat nevaire made by man- or beast. We go for priest to bury Jake an' when we get back, dead man he gone. Nevaire, nevaire you trap in Lost Valley." Sometimes around lonely campfires red men whispered the same warning and muttered stories of the Serpent Tree, that vast white oak which guarded the place. Deep in the living wood was carved a coiled snake, that totem of the Lenape, who once ruled Seven Mountains before the Iroquois swept them away. Still their curse threatens the stranger who visits the valley—so the Indians say. Yet that May the place was very beautiful, all green and rose with unfolding leaves, while the bubbling spring beneath the oak throbbed and fluttered like some living, lovely creature caught among the roots of the great tree. There, when the Elk Moon, whose curved horns always point up- wards, shone in the sky, and the air was full of hyla notes like jangled silver bells, a prince of the wild-folk was born. His mother was the wisest and wariest of all the elk of Seven Mountains and his father the king of the herd himself, a great stag who stood five feet at the shoulder and carried half a ton of brawn and bone as lightly as he swung the six-foot antlers which adorned his royal head. Fit parents for a champion of champions. match with his bed of sun-spotted leaves. When night fell she The princeling was cradled in a hollow beneath the vast boughs came back to him and all through the dark he slept warm and of the Serpent Tree. Clove-black branches of spice-bush safe against his mother's heart. studded with golden flowers were about him and his yellow- Scarcely was he a week old when the little prince was confront- brown coat dappled with white blended with the color of the ed with the first of those tests of life and death which every wild dry leaves on which he lay. From the very day of his birth animal must so often pass. A wild-turkey gobbler had called his mother had taught him that first lesson which all wild-folk to his flock as always just at dawn from his tree-top, and when who would live out their lives must learn—to lie stone-still and the sun rose came the high ethereal notes of hermit thrushes, keep on lying still no matter what danger threatens. Only his nesting on the ground among the pink butterfly-blossoms of lustrous eyes moved, gleaming like black opals, as they followed flowering wintergreen. Coils of mist, white and violet and everything that stirred near his hiding-place. Nile-green, eddied up from the river and melted away before Once every day the elk cow would come to him through the the rising sun. underbrush, silent as a shadow and the little calf would stand "Swe-eet, swe-eet," sang the meadow-larks and beneath a on his wobbly legs and drink deep of the unfailing fountain of bush of mountain-laurel a black duck quacked as she settled warm milk which she provided. Then, as he lay down again, down over her gray-olive eggs in a nest rimmed with down from his body would seem to melt away, so closely did his coloring her breast.

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Suddenly, as the trail made a sharp turn, he saiv for the first time the animal which he had been -pursuing for so many weary hours Suddenly from the underbrush beyond where the little elk lay, came the sound of a stealthy step; his wide-spread nostrils caught a pungent scent and he knew by some instinct, deep as life itself, that Death was coming toward him. A moment later great gray cat sprang for the nearest tree but even as he left the and he caught sight of a round head with black tufted ears, ground one of the cow's sharp hoofs caught him glancingly gooseberry-green eyes and fierce jaws frilled with soft white fur, across the flank, leaving a long red gash across the gray-white the hall-mark of that killer, the Canada lynx. For a moment fur as he fled away through the tree-tops. the fatal gaze of the great cat swept like fire around the Serpent As the weeks went by the calf's long legs became stronger and Tree but before it reached the calf he closed his eyes that there swifter and he began to follow the old cow here and there through might be no break in the camouflage df his coloring. the valley. Sometimes, to teach him speed, she would pretend Then, as he lay motionless, he heard the rustle of padded paws to run away and he would follow her bleating like a lamb, his moving across the dry leaves nearer and nearer to him. At last bob-tail shining like silver in the sun. By the time that his the sound stopped and for a minute that must have seemed tusks, those rudimentary canine teeth of the elk family, began endless to the little animal the lynx stood motionless not six to show, he could run with her at full speed for a short distance. feet from where he lay, yet the young elk allowed no twitch nor Then came a July day when he learned another lesson. Down movement of his taut muscles to betray him. Finally the fierce to a deep pool in the river fringed with striped, dark-green wood-cat drank deep of the spring and was starting to move moosewood his mother led him and tried again and again to away when there was the thud of hoofs behind him and through persuade him to go into the water,

APRIL, 1929 21 until suddenly the old cow, losing patience, pushed him down stags, wandering packs of wolves and now and then a panther the bank and into the river. Snorting and gasping the calf with eyes like pale fire, hung on the flanks of the herd and cut paddled desperately with all four feet and to his surprise, found off careless calves and even some of the younger cows as they himself breasting the water safely and swiftly, for even' elk is straggled away from the main herd. The cow of the totem-tree, a born swimmer. From that time there was never a day during however, always kept herself and the red calf under the protection the hot weather in which he did not bathe in the river, sometimes of the bulls and spring found him with his first horns beginning alone, sometimes with other calves of his own age, scattered to show and the next fall when the stags came down from the here and there throughout the valley. upper peaks he joined them in the circle-dance, which they Through the August weeks, the flood-tide of summer slowly always held the first night of their arrival in the valley, and was ebbed until at last there came a morning when a single branch among the last to leave the patch of torn and trampled turf of swamp-maple flamed crimson against the green. Then, as where they held that mysterious rite of the forest. the frost-fires began to blaze, the sugar-maples became peach- By his fifth year the red prince had attained his full growth red, the beeches gamboge-yellow, the sumacs were badged with and a magnificent pair of many-tined antlers which in spread crimson and gold, the ashes were wine-purple, while the Serpent and size surpassed all of the other bulls of the herd save only Tree itself became the color of shed blood. The elk calves too those of his mighty sire. The same years which had brought changed their colors and put on drab brown coats, all except the him to his full strength had treated his great father less kindly. little prince. Once in a hundred years, so the old trappers say, The old leader's horns had become broader and more palmated, a red elk comes to earth and such a one had been born in Lost his legs were stiffer and his bugle notes in the fall had no longer Valley beneath the totem-tree. the same arrogant blare which had once been theirs. All that summer the stags had been away from the rest of the Then at last there came a September when he mounted the herd among the misty-violet peaks growing the horns which they slope of the hill and sounded his defiance as of old, apparently had shed in March. Then came a twilight in September when the same proud, huge figure which had ruled the elk herd of the grazing cows and calves suddenly saw outlined against a Seven Mountains for so long. Suddenly from a hill opposite to pale-gold sky a great elk with vast, branching antlers. His new where he stood came an answer to his challenge, such a bugle blue coat was sleek and a frill of black hair adorned his mighty call as had never before been heard in Lost Valley. Beginning neck. Filled with courage, desire, and pride, he stood for a with a roar, which blared like a fog-horn, it rose to a mighty moment like a statue of strength and beauty. Then, filling his trumpet-note that was prolonged a half-minute beyond the lungs, he raised his black muzzle and roared like a lion. As the bugling of any ordinary elk. At the sound the mantle of his sound increased in volume, his great voice rang out like a bugle, many years seemed to fall upon the old chief. His whole body one of the most inspiring sounds in all nature. Higher and higher trembled, his antlers drooped and when once again the ominous in pitch the tone rose until it broke into a fierce screaming whistle challenge sounded louder and nearer, he suddenly turned and and died away in a series of grunts. Immediately the cows drove his bewildered herd ahead of him down the slope and pressed forward adoringly toward this fierce figure, while all away from Seven Mountains. Two alone of them remained. the younger bulls coming down from the heights behind him, As the old leader departed, driven away by the certainty of slunk away, none of them as yet ready to meet that challenge. defeat, the red elk took his place on the slope, and the youngest One alone of the herd stood his ground. As the last notes of of the cows, who had long regarded him admiringly, left the those trumpet-tones died away, the red calf braced his legs others and drifted toward the spot where he stood. firmly, bristled his tiny mane and bleated a piping imitation of Then, with the evening star flaring like a lamp behind him, the crashing call, the the Red Frince threw back his head and blared forth a defiance only male of all that to the challenger. Hardly had the notes of his voice died away herd who dared to face when there was a crackling among the bushes opposite to where the mighty bull. he stood and out into the open rushed a huge figure, black as All through the win- the dark which was spreading like a slow stain across the little ter that set in soon valley. Such an elk in bulk and weight had never before been after the return of the seen on Seven Mountains. As he crossed the clearing like a black battle-tank, the red stag with a sudden side-long leap avoided locking horns with him and ripped the curved tines of his left antler through the stranger's side all the way from shoulder to flank. Six inches nearer and the battle would have ended then and there. As it was, although badly gashed, the challenger was not disabled and whirling like a flash rushed again upon the defender of the valley, this time with such lightning speed that it was impossible for the latter to side-step his rush again. With a crash the spreading horns of the fighters came together and almost instantly the strength and weight of the black elk began to tell. Although he struggled desperately the red one was pushed back and back, slowly at first and then more and more quickly until at last he went down. With a quick motion the black bull disengaged his horns and sprang forward to deliver the fatal flank stroke. Even as he did so the younger elk gained his feet and with a swing of his antlers parried the thrust. Once again the horns of the two locked and for a second time the red elk went down, to recover his footing just in time to avoid being gored in the side. W7 hen their horns locked for the third time the black bull, maddened by the other's resistance, drove the smaller stag back so furiously that almost instantly

This time he was slower in his recovery and by a scant inch just managed to parry the other's thrust, while his legs shook as he tried to brace himself against his enemy's charge. The dark fighter recognized these signs of weak- ness and redoubled his efforts to rush his opponent off his feet for the last time. Then, as he locked horns, a He saw the hoof marks strange thing happened. Even as the of a great elk beside red elk went backwards before his rush, his spring the black bull slackened his speed and

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Their tireless canter began to cut down his lead, and now he heard close behind him the closing-in cry of the wolf-pack stopped, while a bewildered look came into his fierce eyes and and a sheer drop of half a thousand feet on the other. In single he swayed and tottered where he stood. The flowing blood file the cow followed the red elk along that perilous path only from the long gash which he had received in the first round a few feet in width, while far below the waving tops of great of this fight to the finish had at last taken toll of his strength. pines showed like tiny bushes. At the narrowest part of the For a moment he stood motionless, then, as he felt his weakness trail she stopped and sniffed uneasily, her great ears thrust increasing, he suddenly disengaged his horns and turning his forward while her soft eyes stared timidly down into the depths. back upon his opponent lurched away in a tottering gallop. The As her mate turned his head to encourage her, from behind a red elk started in pursuit but a wave of weakness seemed to great rock which jutted out half way across the path was thrust break over him as he moved until at last he stood still and a dark, menacing head and the next moment the humped shoul- watched the dark figure disappear among the trees never more ders and long body of a huge black bear blocked the path. A to return. wanderer down from Bald Eagle, he had made his way to that Then, as he turned away weary and bruised but a winner, mountain pasture and finding the hunting bad was coming back there was a little whicker from a nearby thicket and out into to the valley along that desperate road. At the sight of the the open stepped the young cow, her ears pricked forward and grim figure, the stag stopped dead in his tracks and snorted, her soft eyes agleam as she moved toward the new defender of while behind him the cow pressed close to the side of the cliff the valley. For a moment she rubbed her head caressingly with a little whinny of terror. against his battered body and at her touch the Red One straight- At the sound the bear stopped and his eyes gleamed red as he ened up and with head held high moved away into the fragrant looked up at the towering figure before him. The trail at that dusk of the pine woods followed close by his new-won mate. point was too narrow for either of the great beasts to turn nor A few weeks later, just before the winter closed in upon the could the stag move backwards with the cow close behind him. valley, there came a day in which the red elk had to fight again As for the bear, a fierce old male, on a path like that he would for his life against an enemy more dangerous even than the not have turned out for any animal that lived. Slowly his black bull had been. As he led his mate to the river that morning black body slid forward, his claws clamping tightly on the at dawn, the eastern sky was all flame-red and amber and lune- smooth stone. As he came nearer and nearer, the red stag green and the stream was like black velvet stained violet-crimson lowered his armed head and stood on guard behind the hedge by the first rays of the rising sun. of his great antlers. When the bear was within striking distance, After they had drunk, the young elk led his mate along a the black beast sat solidly on his haunches, the favorite fighting cliffside toward a hidden mountain pasture where in the old position of his kind, and for a moment the two great animals days the stags had been wont to feed while they were growing eyed each other. Then, without the slightest warning, the left their horns. For nearly half a mile the trail clung like a cobweb paw of the bear whizzed down toward the elk's muzzle in one to the stark side of a great peak with the rock-face on one side of those terrible crashing blows which (Continued on page 48)

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employes, copper miners, railway men and the parish of a St. Louis church. They arrived from all over the map. They were all important. They were all cause for rejoic- ing. But our Executive Secretary, singling out this pioneer credit union to be organized within the ranks of The American Legion, declared: "Here's the worst news for loan sharks that's popped in a year!" Perhaps his personal interest in ex-service men's affairs prompted this enthusiasm. I recalled that Roy F. Bergen- gren was a Legion man, from the post in the little town of Wenham, near Boston. And that in war time he was a captain in the Ordnance Department of the U. S. A. good training for his present job of helping furnish bombs to drop on loan sharks. He proceeded now to attempt to convince me that his enthusiasm about the East Lynn news was not unduly exaggerated. "We've made a beginning here—a good one, too," he explained. "These East Lynn buddies have an exceptional repu- tation and record for stability. They have never had a member- ship drive; yet their membership is constantly increasing. Their meetings are well attended, and the whole post operates under exceptionally fine leadership. So we've got the ball rolling at who last! To that I only need add that the American Legion now gave him the fifty, and at the numbers more than 750,000 members and the Legion Auxiliary same time hung a millstone over 300,000. Total—more than a million." Next, there something I could do which might help; of usury around his neck was namely, to tell this million of Legionnaires and members of the Auxiliary, in "a kind of familiar radio talk," just what a credit "^AST LYNN (Massachusetts) Post of The American union is and what it does. "Don't let it scare you that there Jt> Legion has just organized a credit union—a vest-pocket- may be a million of them listening in. They're just home folks, / size bank. Such news always reaches me promptly, but mostly. So loosen up and let yourself go. I can prompt you on this news was particularly interesting because I lived in the lingo if you need me. And be sure," he ended, "not to forget Lynn for a good many of the early years of my life, and was born the women. Those stories of mine about the two working girls in Salem a few miles away. might interest them." I did not wear a uniform during the World War, as I was far Those were my instructions. Now, as best I can, I'm going to over the age for active service. Of course I did what 1 could and try to follow them. The first question is this: helped others to help. I feel now about the war as I "What is a credit union?" felt March 3, 1918, when I prepared for the Boston I'm going to answer that Post this statement which was published on the top first query by showing you of the front page: "The man who doesn't spend his how perfectly simple and money and himself in this war will spend the rest of practical the whole idea is. his life explaining why he didn't—or lying about it. A group of people with The after-the-war period will have its tragedies some tie in common—such but none greater than that of the man who finds out as you have as members too late that he has gone through the most meaning- of a Legion post—get to- ful war of human history without taking a man's gether and pool their spare T part in it. He will be a man without a country." change. W ith that capital When, therefore, the news came to me that the first they organize a bank, vest- American Legion credit union had been organized, pocket size. They band I was very happy indeed because I feel that anxious together to keep themselves as I am to be helpful to the Legion, there is no ser- out of the hands of loan vice I could render which would compare in im- sharks in times of stress. portance with this beginning of credit union organi- They form a union to fur- zation in the Legion. Nothing else in which I have nish credit to such of their a hand is closer to my heart than these credit members as need, for sound unions. On this occasion the news came by an ex- reasons, to borrow money cited courier, at top speed. If he hadn't been so at fair (instead of exorbi- nearly breathless, I fancy he might have indulged tant) rates of interest. in whoops of joy. This courier was the Executive That's all on earth it is. Secretary of the Credit Union National Extension "How does a credit union Bureau, reporting, as the movies say, "in person." operate?" In this same batch of petitions to organize "poor To answer that, I'm men's banks" came four from widely scattered asso- The younger girl found herself facing court going to show you by ciations of postal employes, two from power com- proceedings in a suit brought against her for an example. There's a panies, others from groups of telegraphers, laundry seventy-five dollars Legion post in the town of

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Centerville. On its rolls are Jim Brown and Ed Hawkins and Bill Jenkins, Henry Newmarker—better known as Hank the Butcher—and some three dozen other buddies, rich and poor or just "average well off." The typical Legion post, my friend Bergengren assures me, is like that—drawn from all ranks of life, with all grades of financial ratings. At the end of the formal session of the post's regular Tuesday night meeting, in the clubrooms over Charlie Wood's First National Bank, the members draw up their chairs closer to discuss the case of Jim Brown. Jim's a good fellow who's bumped into a bad break of luck. Sometime back an undertaker's bill and a dentist's bill have combined, if I have the phrase right, to "knock Jim for a loop". After he had scraped together every last nickel he had in the world to meet his obliga- tions he still was short a matter of about fifty dollars. Now Jim, like a good many of the rest of us, had his pride. He didn't like to have the news get around that he was strapped. So he went to a loan shark down the street. This fellow gave him the fifty, and at the same time hung a millstone of usury around Jim's neck. The interest Jim is paying on that little loan long ago reached a total far larger than the original principal. Do you think that is an extreme case? Allow me to assure you that it isn't. Here in the Credit Union Bureau we can tell you stories like that all day long, any one of them calculated to make your hair stand on end and your blood boil. About a railway switchman out in Chicago, for instance. He got in the clutches of a loan shark who bled him for $1,008 interest on a loan of only The First National Bank can't ask Jim to thirty dollars, which was renewed from pay day to pay day over come down Main Street leading that cow up a period of four years. Or if you want a really "extreme case" to the cashier' s desk here is one of a Negro farmer who borrowed $10 and paid $130 interest on it during a year's time. That is the kind of problems have something that might surprise you. We have more than a we have to tackle. thousand dollars in the bank. In our bank. Now we'll elect a

But to get back to Jim. The question before the meeting to- president and a vice president ; and for a cashier the nearest thing night is what to do about lending him some aid. He never will we can find to a trained banker. For that I'll nominate Ed Haw- get his head above water again if we don't make some move. kins. He knows how to handle money and keep books; and that Shall our post chip in on a hand-out to him—as if he were a standing desk he works behind, at the hardware store, is all the pauper? That sort of thing is being done every day, I'm in- furniture our bank will need. formed; thousands of you "The two bits we each put up makes us stock- have forked across with holders, all on an equal footing when it comes to tak- your shares of it. Yet, in ing a vote on matters of policy. We not only are most instances, such prac- stockholders; we're also investors to the extent that tice is dead wrong. each of us feels he can afford. Stick in a hundred

Bill Jenkins now gets up dollars if you're well heeled; only five or ten if that's and speaks against it. Bill all you can spare. In any case you won't regret it, used to be a member of a for you're making a sound investment. We're going telegraphers' credit union to loan money out now to any of our members who before he moved to Center- needs it for a worthwhile purpose and who can fur- ville, and vows he'd like to nish good backers for his note or some proper belong to a local union if security. we had any. "And the first business of this bank is going to "There are about forty of be a loan to Jim. He's got a Jersey cow. The First us here tonight," he says. National Bank, downstairs, isn't going to risk mak- "Why not organize a credit ing itself ridiculous by asking Jim to come down union? First, take up an Main Street leading that cow up to the cashier's assessment of a dime or two desk. But Bossy is plenty good security for us. In bits apiece — that makes addition, I'm going to stick my name on the back of us stockholders. After that Jim's note. First, because I believe in Jim. Sec- each of us deposits in the ond, because I hate that lousy loan shark, and I bank—for that's all a credit don't give a hang who knows it. union is, just a small-time "All right. Bank's open for business. Jim comes co-op bank—as much spare into us and borrows enough to pay off that loan change as we feel we can shark. We make the loan to him at a reasonable rate afford to invest. Say an of interest. In a little while, paying us back in in- suicide, every average of $25: most of us // we could trace back every stalments, Jim will pull out of the hole. Meantime won't shy at that. All marriage shipwreck, we should find most of he can stand on his own two feet and look the world right; what have we? We them had just such an economic basis in the eye without feeling {Continued on page j6)

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CforCfod and'country , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (7o uphold and defend the Constitution oftheUnited States of&hnerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent !7lmcricanism to preserve the memories and incidents of'our association in the Cfreatltyar; 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; to promote

peace andgood will on earth ; to safeguardand transmit to posteritg the principles qfjustice.freedom atld democracy ; to conse- crate and'sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion.

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LITTLE more than ten years ago some War, in its elementals, is a simple matter. There five hundred members of the A. E. F., is only one thing to do with a war—win it. The peace including privates, generals, and repre- that follows war is invariably a more complex business. sentatives of grades between, assembled Peace hath her victories, but a thousand different in Paris for a three-day meeting that minds may have a thousand different pictures of the produced The American Legion. The particular victories to be sought. The World War, five hundred met under difficulties. A no less than the American Revolution, was waged on lieutenant colonel and his orderly, delegates both, fared behalf of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We forth from the mud flats of Gondrecourt inspired both may not know exactly what life is, but we share our by the zeal of organization and the delight of getting vagueness in common-—all humanity, in general, away from Gondrecourt. Somewhere along the line would define life in the same terms. But there are they became separated and the orderly fell among dozens of different definitions of liberty, and there are M. P.'s. The colonel, after a futile search, carried on. millions of different and conflicting ideas of happiness. In Paris he did not devote himself to wine and wassail, Complaint has been made that a self-governing people but to a serious, often heated and occasionally tedious can wage a war with a devotion and singleness of pur- discussion of the proposal whether the new society pose that amazes even themselves, and that once peace should be called Veterans of the Great War or some- is declared there is an inevitable reaction—the familiar thing else. At the end of three days of debate in the "moral let-down." Actually there is nothing either unesthetic precincts of the Cirque of Paris he was glad moral or immoral about it—in wartime a nation to depart for the great open spaces of Gondrecourt. knows what it wants, and once the war is over it is

But he and the rest of the five hundred had accom- not at all sure what it wants. plished something. When the lieutenant colonel re- In the mind of the founders of The American Legion ceived his copy of The Stars and Stripes the following —as representative and democratic a gathering as ever Friday his oak-leaves must have twinkled with appre- assembled—burned the purpose to maintain in the ciation as he read a leading editorial which was cap- fine crystallized state of unity that had characterized tioned "In Being": its efforts in wartime the spirit of organized service that had produced and maintained a triumphant The three-day caucus which closed Monday in Paris marks the E. F. inception, so far as the A. E. F. is concerned, of the first authen- A. Service without organization there could not tic, all-embracing association of land and sea veterans that has be, and while the five hundred delegates to the Paris come out of America's participation in the war. Caucus might have had five hundred different con- A score of organizations, in France and in America, have al- ceptions of service, they were as one regarding the ready made localized, misdirected or otherwise unfortunate absolute essentialness of organization. Yes, peace attempts at a similar coalition of America's fighting men— term which honorably includes those American soldiers who did hath her victories, but they are won by the armies of not get to France, but who, as the great reserve, were clearly peace, not by scattered guerrillas faring forth solitarily before the minds of the German armistice delegates. and futilely, like Don Quixote, to ferret out and run These other attempts have failed, in every instance, either because they did not have their roots in, or gain their initial down single-handed the evils that beset mankind. impulse from, the whole American Army. The impetus that has already established the new association on the road to actual organization has come directly from the AS A matter of fact, the five hundred were not Army, and the whole Army. More than that, it has come spon- the taneously. It is something for which no one person, or group l \ gravely divided in their forecast of objectives of persons, can in all honesty claim individual credit. to be formulated for this new American Legion. Fore- There had to be a veterans' association as surely as there had most in the mind of every delegate was the problem to be victory. That it actually started at a representative meet- of the disabled American veteran. Not a man there ing of members of the A. E. F. in Paris on March 16, 1919, is from the of his heart, simply to single out the peg on which history will hang it. It but knew, evidence own eyes and might have been done somewhere else at some other time. But that the problem existed and was paramount—and the happy fact is that it has been done, that it has started, and not a man there who could foresee the desperate that every man in the A. E. F. is a member of it unless—which tangle in which the affairs of the disabled veteran privilege he freely owns—he chooses not to be. would soon become involved, or envisage the truth In that misty spring of 1919 the A. E. F. had a single that only through the unswerving and unselfish de- objective—America. No longer was the battle cry votion of The American Legion was that tangle ever "Where do we go from here?" but "When do we go to be straightened out. Had the Legion been created from here?" In the months before the Armistice, for no other purpose, that purpose alone would have also, the A. E. F. had had but a single objective immeasurably justified its creation, no less than its victory- continuing existence as long as a maimed American

26 Tin AMERICAN LEGION Monthly STRENGTHENING THE HOME NEST

veteran of the World War or anyone dependent on equipment provided through Legion realization of him survives. local requirements, that Legion-supervised and Legion- Neither could any one of the five hundred foresee operated medical and dental inspections would be that within ten years The American Legion would de- shielding the health of thousands of school children, velop into the largest veteran organization in the his- that airplanes would be finding harbors of refuge in tory of the United States, that its eleven thousand far- airports created by Legion enthusiasm and Legion flung posts would dot the map not of America alone realization of community needs, that Legion insis- but of the whole world, that no great visitation of storm tence on the duties and privileges of citizenship would or flood would leave its wake of horror on the help to bring out the largest vote in the history of land without bringing The American Legion into democracy (the Legion meanwhile, through a whole action before the dazed survivors quite realized what eventful decade, maintaining in the fulness of letter had happened, that hundreds of playgrounds and rec- and spirit its pledge of absolute and unequivocal po- reation centers would spring into being as a result litical neutrality). of Legion alertness and the Legion will to serve the The record is open to the world, and it is a record home town as the epitome of the homeland, that that the five hundred of Paris may take pride in, for Legionnaire-manned ambulances would be answering themselves and for those they represented—may the calls of the afflicted, that all-Legion fire depart- take pride in even though the fulfilment far surpasses ments would be responding to alarms with modern anything they dreamed.

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The war over! Nearly thirty thousand men and women are still in government or other institutions receiving treatment for disabilities incurred in service "The Unfinished By WatsonB.Miller

bands and drum corps to help the disabled service man T'HEwere playing farewell marches a clinical cathedral. in San Antonio as they pa- I thus saw for the first time the new- raded toward the trains that est hospital of the United States Vet- would carry them homeward. The erans Bureau—wrought by the peo- American Legion's Tenth National ple in the desert near Tucson for the Convention was over. For five better care and treatment of more days San Antonio's streets and than 260 World War veterans suf- squares and hotel lobbies had fering from tuberculosis. It been echoing with the music of had taken form almost out of the Legionnaire drummers and the thought of most of us as it buglers and assorted bandsmen had out of our sight. Yet its and the revelry of the thousands completion brought the total of other Legionnaires from number of Veterans Bureau North and South and East and hospitals to a half-hundred, and West who had thronged San An- I knew that additional institu- tonio during America's greatest tions were still going up in other annual national pageant. Life and parts of the country. And I re- music for five days. Sunshine and membered that, in addition to the flowers. I reflected as the homeward- fifty hospitals operated by the Bu- bound trains were pulling out of San reau itself, there were another half- Antonio's stations that a new Legk undred hospitals in which service men year was beginning, and I got to thinking are being cared for under Bureau direction. of what the Legion has done in ten years. I wondered how many of the three-quar- Strongest of all to my mind came the ters of a million Legionnaires knew about thought that if The American Legion had this hospital and the other hospitals located The newest (and fiftieth*) United done no more than what it has done to help throughout the country—knew and under- States Veterans Bureau hospital, just disabled service men of the World War, it stood how they happened to come into be- could justifiably take pride in its record. completed at Tucson, Arizona. It ing, how they are being run and how they Two days later I found myself on a des- will care for two hundred and sixty fit with the whole plan of the Legion's ac- ert in Arizona, riding over a smooth road tuberculous veterans tivities of the past ten years. And I won- t hrough sagebrush and cact us toward a chain dered how much the average Legionnaire of serrated mountains. I was still in a reflective mood and was re- knows about the Government's program for disabled service men calling the things I had seen and heard in San Antonio, as I pieced and how importantly related to that program is the Legion's own together the convention's pattern of significance, when I came in rehabilitation work. To be able-bodied is to be busy; and most sight of a long and low building whose red towers and arcaded of us are so busy with our own affairs that the developments of walls seemed magically suspended between the white desert sand ten years in the process of giving to the disabled man all that he and the blue desert sky. That building of shining walls and tiled should receive from a grateful government have taken place roofs set down there in the midst of a desert had not only magni- largely out of public sight and hearing. Even those of us who tude and majesty; it was also a symbol of what the nation is doing have knowledge of some parts of the vast governmental and

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Tuberculosis and mental and nervous diseases account for the largest numbe of veteran -patients still in hospital, totalling twenty thousand Battle Legion programs for ex-service men often do not understand them in their entirety. Here and now I want to set down some facts which may be of more than casual interest to the busy service man who doesn't know much about what the Government and the Legion have done and are doing. I won't write technically of laws and regula- tions—these are available in the documents turned out endlessly by the Government Printing Office and in the somewhat technical reports which the Legion's National Rehabilitation Committee submits each year to the Legion's National Convention. I simply Watson B . want to let a little light fall upon that part of the Legion's every- Miller, Chair- day work which is so well known that, paradoxically, almost man of The nobody knows about it. American Le- First of all, a few statistics. They can't be avoided and they gion''s National furnish the necessary groundwork for understanding of the an Rehabilitation things I want to write about. Committee At the beginning of this year there were more than 27,000 men and women in hospitals under government auspices. Of these, 19,000 were in Veterans Bureau hospitals proper; the others were 260,000 on January 1st, 182,000 claims having been closed by mostly in hospitals of the Army, Navy, United States Public death or presumptive recovery from disability. Health Service and branches of the National Soldiers' Homes. At the end of the Bureau's last fiscal year, monthly payments of More than 1,700, largely men with mental and nervous diseases, compensation were being made to the dependents of 85,634 men were in contract hospitals not owned or operated by the Govern- who died in service or from wounds or disease incurred as a result ment, from which they will be removed to Veterans Bureau hos- of service. The dependents receiving payments included 78,821 pitals eventually, for the most part, upon the completion of hos- fathers and mothers, 192,260 widows and 27,314 children. In pital building programs now under way. addition to the compensation payments, seventy-four percent of Tuberculosis and mental and nervous diseases still account for the dependents were receiving payments of some form of govern- the largest numbers of patients in hospitals. Exactly 6,830 men ment insurance. The total Bureau disbursements run well to- suffering from tuberculosis and 13,161 suffering from mental and ward half a billion dollars each year. nervous diseases were hospital patients on January 1st. General On January 1st, 651,827 service men and women were paying medical and surgical cases on that day numbered 7,046. premiums on government insurance which represented seven During last December 5,779 service men and women were ad- types of policies—insurance of the same general character sup- mitted to hospitals, and in that same month 63,991 men and wo- plied by private life insurance companies. men received treatments under Bureau auspices outside hospitals. Up to January 1st there had been 3,653,579 applications for (It should be remembered that almost any service man suffering adjusted compensation. Of these, certificates had been issued on from any disability, whether incurred in wartime service or not, 3,398,813 applications; cash payments of $50 or less had been is entitled to free care and treatment in a government hospital made to 120,000 applicants, and payments had been made to de- under the present law.) pendents of deceased men in the sum of over ninety million dol- Up to January 1st the Veterans Bureau had received 217,950 lars. compensation claims on account of death and 890,460 for dis- I have given all these figures simply to indicate the immensity ability. The Bureau had allowed to dependents compensation of the Government's operations for World War service men and payments on 105,456 of the death claims and insurance payments their dependents. They represent, of course, only a few phases of on 167,000 death claims. It had allowed 443,765 claims for dis- the Veterans Bureau's many activities. The full statistics are ability compensation, of which payments were being made on accessible to anyone interested in them. (Continued on page 62)

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hardest legislative battle of The American Legion were made available for starting construction of five cruisers rHEin recent years ended in victory when the United within the present fiscal year, and it was evident that Congress States Senate in February passed the Cruiser Construc- favored carrying through the whole program as soon as possible tion Bill and the bill became a law with President Coolidge's signature. The enactment of the measure was a A Nation' s Wome?i complete fulfillment of the hope which inspired National Com- mander Paul V. McNutt to carry to the whole country the THE American Legion Auxiliary, which had shared fully Legion's policy on naval preparedness, as embodied in the San with The American Legion the task of acquainting the Antonio national convention resolutions and expressed on country with the necessity of providing for the construction of Armistice Day in the Legion's national radio broadcasting pro- additional cruisers, contributed an impressive evidence of the gram in which President Coolidge and General Pershing gave country's real feelings on preparedness just before the Cruiser addresses. Construction Bill became a law. In the final days of January The American Legion throughout the country took part in and the first days of February, there was held in Washington, the public consideration of the naval proposal. National Com- D. C, the Fourth Women's Patriotic Conference on National mander McNutt expressed the Legion's viewpoint in a series Defense. Sponsored jointly by The American Legion Auxiliary of addresses in various parts of the country and many other and the Daughters of The American Revolution, the conference Legion speakers also helped convince was attended by representatives of thirty- the American people of the necessity for eight national women's organizations. As the passage of the bill. one of its principal actions, the con- Leaders in the United States Senate ference adopted a resolution expressing gave credit to The American Legion for unqualified support for the Cruiser Con- presenting convincingly the proof that struction Bill. the country favored the measure. Many The presence of the thousand women of them expressed the belief that the delegates in Washington at the time the bill would have failed of passage had it Cruiser Construction Bill was under con- not been for the efforts of posts and de- sideration and the character of the de- partments, which appealed to senators liberations of the conference attracted and representatives to support the bill, national attention. Extended stories of and the Legion spokesmen who appeared the conference were published in most at the hearings held by Congressional of the newspapers of the country and committees. John Thomas Taylor, vice helped focus public interest upon the chairman of the Legion's National Leg- bill before Congress. islative Committee, other members of The conference was held in Memorial this committee and the members of the Continental Hall and many of the cere- Legion's Naval Affairs Committee met monies were very picturesque. At the the united forces of extreme pacifism opening session, Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., and internationalism who poured a stream National President of The American of propaganda upon individual senators Legion Auxiliary, sounded the conference in their efforts to postpone action on the keynote, when she said: bill or defeat it. "Every true-hearted patriotic Ameri- The cruiser construction law provides can woman stands squarely behind an No, not on the Rhine. This castle that five scout cruisers of 10,000 tons, adequate program of self-defense for the was built by Legionnaires at Cha- carrying eight-inch guns, shall be laid United States of America. We are gath- nute, Kansas, as a summer home for down in each of the next three years, ered here to let America know this. A Chanute Boy Scouts beginning with the present year. The noisy minority has endeavored to con- fifteen cruisers will cost, it is estimated, vince American men that American $17,000,000 each. Construction of an aircraft carrier is also women believe this nation should disarm. I want to take this provided for. The law expresses favor of treaty or treaties with all occasion to tell the men of this nation that this is not true. the principal maritime nations, regulating the conduct of bellig- Such a spirit is not representative of the women of America. erents and neutrals in war at sea. It authorizes the President We women have known war, know the suffering caused by war, to suspend construction of the ships in the event of an interna- as well as the men, and we stand back of them in our demand tional agreement for the further limitation of naval armament. that America shall never enter another war unprepared." The law passed the Senate on February 5th by a vote of National Commander McNutt spoke after Mrs. Ficklen and sixty-eight to twelve. It had passed the House last year on explained the Legion's policies on national defense and inter-

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lead for the reduction of naval armaments. National Com- the fortress-like castle is one of the show places of our section." mander McNutt declared, concluding with a plea for the Naval Below the castle, Mr. Curl adds, is Chanute's Boy Scout camp. Construction Bill. Many other notable speakers addressed the Other organizations had provided log cabins for the camp, and conference, including United States Senator David Reed of the Legion's castle was heartily approved by Scout Executive Pennsylvania; Albert L. Cox of North Carolina, chairman of John E. Wilson, a Legionnaire, who was official photographer the Legion's National Defense Committee; Rear Admiral with the American forces in Siberia. The castle provides living Robert E. Coontz, United States Navy, retired; Mrs. 0. D. quarters for eight boys. Oliphant, chairman of the National Defense Committee of the This year the Chanute post plans to conduct a league of four Auxiliary; F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War; junior baseball teams—one sponsored by the Eagles, another by United States Senator Daniel Steck of Iowa, and United States Rotary, a third by Kiwanis and the fourth by the post itself Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. The conference recorded its opposition to "any and all legis- Biggest Air Signpost lation that would interfere with a rigid restrictive immigration policy," and to proposals for postponement or repeal of the PEOPLES Gas Light and Coke Post of Chicago recently got national origins provision of the immigration law. It urged that its chance to co-operate in the Legion's national effort to Congress enact a law that would make easier the deportation of mark building tops for the guidance of aviators. The post's drum undesirable aliens and a law for the and bugle corps and its rifle team had an registration of all aliens. important part in ceremonies which at- The conference delegates were received tended the dedication of the world's by President Coolidge at the White largest gas tank, on the top of which an House at the close of the first session. arrow, 285 feet long, and letters of thirty A banquet in honor of the Auxiliary's feet indicate the path to Chicago's delegates was given by the Eight and municipal airport, two miles distant. Forty of the District of Columbia De- "The tank itself is 416 feet high and is partment of the Auxiliary on the evening topped by a Q2-foot floodlight tower of January 30th. This was followed by which illuminates the air sign at night," the annual ball of the District of Colum- reports Legionnaire T. R. Bogumill. "In bia Department of The American Legion a picture the tank may look like a silo, at which the Auxiliary officers and dele- but you may get an idea of its size by gates were guests. noticing the way it dwarfs the office

building beside it. The lights on top of Kansas Castle the tank are turned on and off automati- cally by a photo-electric cell which is MOTORISTS driving through a controlled by the intensity of natural wooded valley near Chanute, light. At dusk as daylight begins to Kansas, see with surprise a battlemented fade, the photo-electric cell turns the castle looking down upon them from a lights on. At daybreak the lights are cliff top—a castle that looks as if it had turned off automatically." been transported intact to Kansas from the valley of the Seine or Rhine. Those 'What Outfit, Buddy?' who stop their cars and follow a rocky This is not a silo. It is the world' path to the cliff's brow find above the to unusual outfits the name of largest gas tank which a Chicago ADD threshold of the castle a marble slab George S. Lang Post of Minneap- Legion post helped dedicate as an bearing the carved emblem of The olis," requests Charles E. DeLaine, Post aviation signpost American Legion. Adjutant. "We believe we have a claim "The castle, looking more than realis- to distinction and want to know if any tic, was built by Harry E. Boerstler Post because the post other post has a record such as ours. Here it is: Of our present wanted to do something for the boys of our town who were too membership of eighty, we could contribute to the Government young to take part in the Legion's junior baseball games," in case of another war three brigadier generals, three colonels, writes Legionnaire H. G. Curl. "It has medieval walls of solid three majors, twenty-eight captains, and twenty-two first and masonry, frowning battlements, turrets, cross-bow windows, a second lieutenants. In addition, we have one warrant officer clanging drawbridge and all the rest of the things that go to and about a score of old non-coms. We do not specialize in make a real castle. Members of our post did much of the work, brass hats. It just happened. using the rocks from the hillsides, but we had skilled masons "Our members represent the following branches of service do the actual job of rearing the walls and finishing them. Today during the World War: Air Service, 3; Artillery, 5; Infantry,

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42; Medical Corps. 6; Quartermaster Corps. 4; Band Leader, 1. fuel and clothing were assembled for distribution. Physicians At present their military affiliations are as follows: Regular were enlisted to give treatment to victims and emergency hos- Army, 22; National Guard. 22; Officers Reserve Corps, 16. pitals were prepared. How is that for preparedness? And one thing more—I almost For several weeks the post carried on its work until the epi- forgot to mention that thirteen of our members are veterans demic was definitely known to be under control and subsiding. of the Spanish-American War a"! well as the World War." The Memphis Commercial Appeal expressed the gratitude of the whole city in a column editorial which described the assist- ance given by Dimes for the Disabled the Legionnaires to hundreds of epidemic victims. As typical of the work done, the newspaper cited this example: THE dimes of members of The American Legion Auxiliary "On Thursday night Legion headquarters was notified by are going to open the way to dollars for disabled World General Hospital of a case on Poplar Avenue within a half mile War veterans. This thought inspired the Auxiliary's National of Main Street. Coal and food was the immediate need. A Executive Committee at its meeting in Indianapolis late in squad of Legionnaires responded. They found a family of eight January to pledge a gift of $25,000 to The American Legion to living in two rear rooms of an old house. There was one bedroom make possible the speeding up of the work of prov- and two beds. Seven of the family, which consisted ing the claims of disabled men. Contributions ^^/tttk of mother and father and six children, had in- of ten cents a member will make up the fluenza. The children's ages ranged from Auxiliary fund. eleven months to twelve years. The The pledge of $25,000. in the form father was out of work. The mother of a promissory note, was handed and the six children were ill. When by Mrs. Boyce Ficklen. Jr.. Na- the Legionnaires walked in, all were Auxiliary, huddled in tional President of the j the two beds. All had to National Commander Paul their clothing on. There was no V. McNutt at one of the ses- fuel or food in the house. The sions of the National Execu- ex-service men left food and tive Committee. Immediately 1 fuel and saw that medical at- after Mrs. Ficklen made the 1 tention was provided at once." presentation of the pledge, 1 the Iowa Department of the America in Paris Auxiliary presented a check for $2,500, one-tenth of the GENERAL PERSHING whole amount needed, and and so many others other departments pledged have expressed the hope that themselves to raise their The American Legion will hold shares. The full amount is to be its 1937 national convention in turned over to the Legion by April Paris that Paris Post is already 6th. the anniversary of America's looking forward to that event as entrance into the World War. "f it carries on its campaign to raise Watson B. Miller, chairman of the the remainder of the funds needed

Legion's National Rehabilitation Com- for the magnificent clubhouse it has mittee, and Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, of acquired in the heart of its city. But Iowa, chairman of the Auxiliary's Na- Paris Post need not wait for a national tional Rehabilitation Committee, told convention to bring to its threshold Le- Auxiliary's National Executive gionnaire visitors its native shore the Com- Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., National Pres- from mittee that than 00.000 claims of this for more ident, gives the Auxiliary' s promissory — summer and many summers disabled men are in the files of the Le- to come the new clubhouse will certain- note for $2^,000 to National Commander gion's National Rehabilitation Commit- ly be the inevitable center for all Le- McNutt to help finance the Legion's work tee at Washington. These files must be gionnaires among the tens of thousands for disabled men. At right, Mrs. A. H. reviewed in order that many claimants of American tourists who annually visit Iowa, who were unable to obtain awards from Hoffman of chairman of the France. With this thought in mind, Paris the Bureau earlier may obtain their Auxiliary' s Rehabilitation Committee. Post is anxious to have all Legionnaires rights under recent changes in laws and Every Auxiliary member has been asked know all about its new clubhouse. It regulations. The Auxiliary's contribu- to give a dime has prepared an illustrated booklet which tion will speed up the work of reviewing it will send to any Legionnaire who re- all pending claims and of keeping abreast with new claims that quests it. The booklet may be obtained by addressing a request are pouring in daily. Many of the claims, old and new, presen f to American Legion Building. Paris, Inc., 305 Hall of Records, extremely complicated medical and legal problems. New York City. In February it was announced that a memorial to General Flood or Epidemic Pershing would be a prominent feature of the new clubhouse of Paris Post. The memorial, to be known as Pershing Hall, is to IN Memphis. Tennessee, everybody remembered how Memphis be the main salon on the ground floor of the four-story memorial Legionnaires several years ago turned out to save families building. Plans for the inclusion of Pershing Hall were announced threatened by the flood waters of the Mississippi, how Memphis at a luncheon in New York City at which Otto Kahn was host Post after saving the lives of hundreds ministered to their to eighty bankers and business leaders. At this meeting a mes- wants by giving them food and clothing and shelter in Legion sage from Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, was camps. When the influenza epidemic that was sweeping the presented, indorsing the proposed memorial to General Pershing country from west to east this winter reached Memphis, the same Legionnaires who had fought the flood mobilized to fight Still Fightm the disease. Memphis Post's first step in its campaign against influenza 1EGIONNAIRE Alvin C. York of Tennessee, who ten years was to raise a fund of $1,000 among its own members. Addi- ago became a world figure and won the most honored tional funds were given by other organizations and individuals. medals of many nations when, singlehanded, he took a ma- Post Commander W. Percy MacDonald divided the workers of chine-gun nest in the Argonne and captured 132 prisoners, finds the post into three groups, each to work eight hours daily so his present job "lots harder than the little shootin' in the Ar- that the relief work might go on day and night. A supply gonne." He told a big audience in Carnegie Hall in New York station was established in the county court house and food and City in January that his effort to build and finance the Alvin

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Institute in C. York Agricultural the hills of his native State in your wonderful flight. All Pennsylvania is proud of its dis- is a lot tougher than capturing a hillside stronghold of the tinguished son." Germans. He said this at the meeting staged for him by Belvi- Major Spatz's brother, F. W. Spatz, is Commander of the dere Brooks Post of New York City, one of many meetings Boyertown post and Major Spatz himself has always taken under auspices of Legion posts at which he has spoken recently more than casual interest in the post's affairs. Major Spatz in various parts of the country. entered the Army Air Service in IQ15 as the twenty-fifth man "The institute is finally going." Sergeant York told his audi- to enroll at Rockwell Field, California, the field where his ence. "So far we have a grammar school and a high school with record-breaking flight was made. He won the D. S. C. for a total of 418 students and a capacity of 750. The students services over the front lines in the A. E. F. during August of walk from two and a half to four miles over the mountains to 1918. During the war he also commanded for a time the Third get a bus and then Aviation Instruction ride on an average Center at Issoudun, at fourteen miles to the that time the largest school. We're going Jf aviation instruction to dedicate the school center in the world as soon as I get back from lecturing for Free Movies money to complete it. Right now, one of the HUNDREDSofLe- things we want most gion posts which is a dormitory for have profited by show- girls. They can't come ing publicly the mo- as far as the men." tion pictures they have obtained from the His Own Post Film Service of Na- tional Headquarters THE biggest cele- have demonstrated bration ever held that a good picture in Boyertown. Penn- show will always get sylvania, took place in everybody out for a January. It marked the meeting. The Film return of Major Carl Service makes a rea- Spatz to his home town sonable rental charge and his own post of National Commander Paul V. McNutt welcomed to Columbus, Georgia, for its film, an insig- The American Legion. by leaders of the Georgia Department and Charles S. Harrison Post. Later, nificant charge in com- Charles B. Yerger the jive thousand men of Fort Penning, near Columbus, turned out for a parison with the post's of Post Boyertown said general review in honor of their visitor box office receipts when to Major Spatz all the it holds its show in a things about him it had been thinking while Major Spatz's theater and gets the public to attend. The film rental is so plane, the Question Mark, was making aviation history by re- small that many posts have used the film simply to provide good maining in flight over California for a longer period than any entertainment features for regular meetings, making no ad- other aircraft has ever flown continuously. mission charge. While Major Spatz was commanding the plane on its endur- Posts using film as an attraction for meeting nights may also ance flight, made possible by repeated refuelings aloft, he got a obtain free film from Uncle Sam. The Army Signal Corps has message from the men of his Legion outfit back in Boyertown. a big library of film, including many reels showing activities of It had been telegraphed to him. It said: "Boyertown American A. E. F. divisions, which it will lend to posts which will follow Legion Post feels honored in expressing to you and your brave prescribed regulations. These regulations provide that all trans- comrades of the Question Mark this message of encouragement portation costs must be paid by the post and that no admission

Going for a ride in Minneapolis. The police department supplied its special balloon-tired boxcar so that Minneapolis Voiture of the Forty and Eight could give this load of blindfolded goofs the rough journey needed to make them voyageurs

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charge may be made when the film is shown. The full regula- Step Keeper asked Commander David J. O'Leary of Pasadena tions governing lending of film and a list of film available may how about it. Back came Mr. O'Leary with this letter: be obtained by addressing the Chief Signal Officer, War Depart- "Last New Year's Day Pasadena Post entered a float in the ment, Washington, D. C. or the Corps Area Signal Officer for famous Pasadena Tournament of Roses and it won a special the area in which the post is located award because of its impressiveness and beauty. The motive for the float was 'In Flanders Fields.' A section portrayed an For the Post Messkit old battlefield with discarded guns and battle equipment over which two giant spiders had spun their web, while the re- AMERICANS on British rations in the A. E. F. learned only mainder of the float was a glorious riot of flaming poppies in a too well a food delicacy termed Australian rabbit but com- field of wheat. The float was designed and decorated by Legion- monly called frozen buzzard. In a refrigerator ship journey of naire Douglas Fraser, whose father designed and created the some thousands of miles the once fresh rabbit meat from this Busch Gardens. The flowers used in the decoration of the float side of Antarctica acquired a permanent flavor of clover com- were descendants of the flowers which helped make Busch plicated by other flavors, and the result was,, as the Gardens one of America's best known beauty spots. Tommies said, not too good. The "monkey Fraser has developed a very wonderful flower, meat" served with the French ration was a poppy. Pasadena Post has made arrange- reputed to have come from the flanks ments with him whereby we can offer and hams of venerable llamas, the one packet of poppy seeds and five beasts of burden of South American packets (separate colors) of the mountains, and that also was not Giant California Mission Zinnia so good, even when subjected to (balloon flowered) for one dol- the artistry of poilu chefs. lar—really six dollars' worth of When Mesa (Arizona) Post flowers for one. Orders for of The American Legion the seeds may be sent to

recently announced it would Robert M. McCurdy, Adju- put on a buffalo meat feed tant of Pasadena Post. 131 and invited all the boys to North Marengo Avenue,

come and get it. there may Pasadena. Both the poppy have been some misgivings and zinnia seeds are guar- among hardy survivors of anteed to grow in any cli- the buzzard and monkey mate. The zinnia seeds diets of A. E. F. days. But should be in blossom sixty everybody who got his first days from the date of plant- taste of buffalo meat at Mesa ing, so that anyone planting Post's feed is now ready to them before June 15th ought go back for more whenever to have good luck with them. the post is able to get a new Our post prizes the letters it supply of the meat. received from those who got our "The buffalo meat was luscious," seeds last year and it was a satis- reports R. A. Davis of Phoenix. faction to know that many who got Publicity Officer for the Department our seeds were undertaking their first of Arizona. "The meat was donated to venture in flower growing." the post by H. G. Bush, Past Post Well, it won't be Mr. O'Leary's Commander, who got it from Good- fault if 1929 doesn't see some activity night. Texas. It was cooked and served Last year seven hundred Legionnaires goi in backyards by Legionnaires and Aux- in true army style and was as tender Zinnia seeds from Pasadena (California^ iliares who never before took part in obtain- spring and good-flavored as any meat Post and grew flowers like those in the pic- the sport of gardening able. There is just enough of the wild ture. This spring Pasadena Post will sup- taste to the meat, when prepared cor- ply poppy seeds as ivell as zinnia seeds. Summer or Autumn rectly, to give it a very appetizing tang. Legionnaire Douglas Fraser, shown with An Army cook fixed up the feed for SOME thousands of American Legion his the post's Mesa Post and the Auxiliary unit did family, is zinnia expert posts holding weekly and monthly the serving. John C. Phillips, newly- meetings in April will be reminded inaugurated Governor of Arizona, was one of the many guests. by the first warm winds of spring that the time has come to "Incidentally, we have several herds of buffalo here in Ari- plan the things they will do this summer. Last March Fort zona and every year the State game warden draws lots and Madison (Iowa) Post decided to give its community a home- allows twelve citizens each to kill one buffalo out of these herds. coming celebration. Now Fort Madison Post reports that its The drawing is quite an affair and sportsmen are eager to get homecoming week celebration and exposition, held last Sep- one of the lucky numbers. Our meat, as I said before, came tember, produced a net profit of $11,000 for the post after from Texas, where there are privately-owned herds of buffalo." payment of $14,000 for expenses, and brought to its town thirty thousand or more visitors. Past Post Commander George Holt Planting Time expresses the belief that a homecoming celebration will produce for almost any post the results obtained in Fort Madison. LAST spring, when Pasadena (California) Post announced that As the life center of its homecoming Fort Madison Post J it would send a packet of zinnia seeds from the celebrated established an industrial exposition in a huge circus tent. Busch Gardens to any Legionnaire for a dollar, more than seven Merchants and manufacturers of Fort Madison and surround- hundred semi-professional and amateur flower growers ordered ing towns rented booths and placed in them surprisingly good the seeds. Since that time many of those who got the seeds and exhibits. An auto show was conducted as an adjunct to the planted them have reported the luck they had with the flowers. exposition. General admission tickets were numbered, and each It will be remembered that the seeds were for a giant variety of night prizes were awarded. A radio set, a player piano, a zinnia and were from stock produced in the Pasadena gardens, refrigerator and several automobiles were among the exhibits which had been operated by Pasadena Post before the death presented to visitors. A popularity contest, in which purchasers of the owner of the gardens, Mrs. Lily Busch. of tickets voted for young women candidates, yielded a profit Winter snows were still deep in all northern States when the of $1,500 above the $600 spent for prizes awarded to the Step Keeper began getting letters asking whether Pasadena contestants, and increased attendance materially. Post intended to repeat its flower seed offer this year. So the Throughout the week free attractions—vaudeville acts, musi- 34 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly KEEPING STEP cal numbers and such like—were presented. The carnival spirit owns a twelve-room Colonial mansion that was built in 1856 was stimulated also by a large number of wholesome conces- by Emmons Twichell. an outstanding figure in the town's his- sions which added considerably to the revenue. These conces- tory. It got the house from Emmons Twichell, son of the man sions were operated by Legionnaires. who built it, when Mr. Twichell moved to another section of Each day of the week was specially observed. One day was the country. The post paid $5,000 for the house in 1920, gel- Farmers' Day. The Democrats had one day. The Republicans ting with it sixteen acres of land. The problem of paying for had another day. Aviation Day was featured by the the house was simplified when William McLaurin of dedication of Fort Madison's new airp< Brookfield contributed $1,000 to the post and Much of the success of the celebration was made an additional contribution of $500 attributed to the advance sale of season the repainting of the house. The post tickets which provided the post with converted one of the pasture fields of working capital. Individual Legionnaires "ts land holdings into a five-acre play- were given one book of tickets free for ground for the children of its town. three books sold. Posts in surrounding Just now it is busy getting boys lined towns profited by this arrangement, up in many teams for the Legion Y and members of Burlington Post IQ2Q junior baseball season. alone obtained $157 for their post treasury by the sale of the tickets. Utility and Beauty

'Thirty Out of Ninety -three SARASOTA BAY POST of Sara sota, Florida, attained rare suc- ON THE map of middle Iowa, cess when it attempted to combine the town of State Center is as everyday utility with artistic beauty inconspicuous as a shamrock on St. in the erection of a war memorial. Patrick's Day, hard to find among On last Armistice Day the post the sizable cities which appear on dedicated a monument which is a the map in big, black letters—Mar- cenotaph honoring the city's war shalltown, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, dead, a traffic guide, with red and Iowa City, Oskaloosa. The popula- green stop and go lights, and a flag- tion tables show that State Center pole. The memorial stands at Five has 972 persons. Harland G. Pfantz Points, in the center of Sarasota's Post of The American Legion in business district. The cenotaph, State Center has all of 93 members. forming the base of the memorial, Now 93 members in a town of 972 has classic architectural lines. The people is quite a record in itself. lights for the traffic signals at the But that isn't the reason Harland G. top of the cenotaph are unobtru- Pfantz Post thrusts out its collec- sively in keeping with the design as tive chest when it meets the Mar- a whole and the ornamentation is shalltown post, the Waterloo post admirable in its restraint. The flag- and all the rest of them at depart- staff in proportion and design is in ment conventions. The State Center harmony with its base. All the work post has a better claim to distinc- in the erection of the monument, Legionnaires Sarasota, Florida, designed tion. Of its 93 members, exactly of from foundation to flagpole, was done thirty belong to the post's drum and and built this memorial which combines a cen- by members of Sarasota Bay Post. bugle corps. otaph, a stop-and-go traffic guide and a flag- The post started its observance "It's a record, isn't it?" queries staff. It stands in the center of the city where of Armistice Day by attending a J. A. Herring, of Belle Plaine, Fifth traffic is heaviest special service at the First Baptist District Commander for last year. Church on Sunday, November 10th, Sheridan (Oregon) Post may want to dispute the Iowa post's at which Dr. Stewart Long, Past Chaplain of the Department claim, since it also has a post band of thirty pieces in a town of Indiana, delivered an Armistice Day address. On November of 900 persons. Moreover, reports Past Commander Otto W. nth, in addition to the ceremony of dedicating the monument. Heider, Sheridan Post the post sponsored a has 250 members. football game, a box- ing program and an Post Mansion Armistice Dav ball AN American Le Conqueror gion post in a town of 1,500 persons THE fact that Stan - might consider itself ton, North Da- lucky if it owned a kota, has only 250 home of its own—any persons didn't prevent sort of a home. But Vernon V. Isaacs Post when Austin-Tunstall of Stanton from chal- Post of Brookfield, lenging all the other Massachusetts, pro- posts in North Da- vided for itself a club- kota to a membership house its desires were free-for-all in 1928. A not limited by the David among posts, population of its com- with only eighteen munity. That is the members.it conquered reason that today the all the Goliath posts Post Brookfield, Massachusetts, believes it \has the post owns a clubhouse Austin-Tunstall of of North Dakota by in any town persons. which would be con- best American Legion clubhouse to be found of 7,500 increasing its member- sidered a showplace in Its twelve-room Colonial mansion was built in 18^6 by Em?nons Twichell. ship 555 percent. any community. It The post patd $^,000 for the house and sixteen acres of land "There are four

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other posts within thirty miles, but we went far and wide for take a leading part in the celebration but also act as host to our members,'' reports Legionnaire W. V. Jacobson. "This year the visiting Legionnaires from scores of American Legion posts. we are trying to have Congress erect a monument to mark the Conrad Post and the delegations from other posts will take site of the home of Sakaka-Wea, 'the bird woman,' who joined part, with massed Legion colors, in the annual pageant and the Lewis and Clark Expedition when it spent the winter near parade which in motion pictures will be seen by the whole our town. Our post regularly gives movie shows for the public country. Last year places of honor in the parade were held by in its clubhouse." Ashby Post of Bridgewater, Virginia; Alexandria (Virginia) Post, Culpepper (Virginia) Post, Lloyd Williams Post of Ber- Read While Ton Ride rysville, Virginia; Morris Frock Post of Hagerstown, Mary- land; Arlington (Virginia) Post and Warren Post of Front YOU needn't wait until you get home to read the new copy Royal, Virginia. Many Legion bands and drum and bugle of The American Legion Monthly if you happen to be in a corps marched. club or observation car of the Illinois Central or the Wabash Legionnaire J. V. Arthur of Robert Y. Conrad Post is toward the end of any month. When Frank J. Schneller, Past director-general of the festival this year. The post each year Commander of the Department of Wisconsin, on a recent rail- constructs an elaborate float which is exhibited in the parade, road journey failed to find the Monthly on a club car reading and Legionnaires on the float present historical tableaux de- table he sat down at the picting important Co- club car writing table lonial events. and composed a letter which he later sent to Vacation Note railroad officials. He told them that Legionnaires EVERY Legion post would appreciate seeing in New York will the Monthly in the club try to obtain at least and observation cars on one candidate for next their passenger trains. summer's Citizens Mili- From D.W. Longstreet, tary Training Camps vice president of the Il- under the plan which linois Central Railroad the New York Depart- Company, and H. E. ment has been using for Watts, passenger traffic several years, and Mont- manager of the Wabash gomery E. Leary, chair- Railway Company, came man of the department's assurances that here- C. M. T. C. committee, after The American Le- sends word to National gion Monthly will appear Adjutant James F. Bar- in the cars on their re- ton that a new method spective roads. will be used this year to obtain suitable candi- Book of Honot dates. Posts outside New York City, reports HONOR rolls with Mr. Leary, will get in the names of World Paul Claudel, French Ambassador, decorating Past National Com- touch with the industries War dead are inscribed mander Edward E. Spafford as a Commander of the Legion of Honor, of their communities to on monuments through- at a dinner in NeW York City in February, declared that at the same induce them to give out the country but the time he was "decorating the whole American Legion" selected employes thir- Delaware Department of ty-day leaves with pay The American Legion has undertaken to preserve for posterity so they may attend the camps. The posts will also sponsor on the pages of a memorial book not only the names but the "send-off parties" to be given for the young men of each deeds of Delaware's service men who gave their lives in the war. community as they start for the summer camps. "A memorial book has been provided in the library at the University of Delaware in which not only the names of the Trees and Bronze Crosses deceased World War service men of our State but also brief descriptions of their service will be entered." reports Depart- REALIZATION that ten years have passed since the World ment Adjutant J. R. Carey of Smyrna, Delaware. "All the posts War ended comes often as a surprise. Citizens of Minne- of our department are helping gather information for the book apolis who gathered along their city's Victory Memorial Drive under the direction of Department Historian Ira Brisner. Lieu- on last Armistice Day were impressed by the passage of time tenant J. Allison O'Daniel Post of Newark, Delaware, will see when they noted that the thousand elm trees which had been that a new page of the book is turned every day, so that in time planted beside the drive just after the war have doubled in size. the names and records of all men will have been displayed." "On Armistice Day another step was taken to carry out the plans to make our drive truly a perpetual memorial." writes Blossom Time Edwin J. Lindell, Adjutant of the Department of Minnesota. "On that day the wooden markers which bore the names of THERE comes a time in May when all the apple trees are Hennepin County's 568 war dead were replaced by bronze in blossom in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Miles of crosses. Each cross bears the name of a deceased service man orchards take on the beauty of a fairyland. The pink and white and the emblem of The American Legion. petals of a million trees in full bloom, the perfume of the "A monument will be erected at the head of the drive where blossoms burdening the air. the warm sunshine of spring and a flagstaff now stands." the blue skies transform a valley, enchanting at any time, into one of the world's wonder places. Then it is that Winchester, A Leader Passes Virginia, in the heart of the valley, becomes a pilgrimage center for 100,000 persons from other parts of Virginia and other WHEN Asa Warren Candler died in February at the age States. For a whole week Winchester celebrates its Shenandoah of 44 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, The American Apple Blossom Festival. Legion lost one of the foremost exponents of its creed of citi- In this year's festival, as in the festivals of other years, zenship and the principles on which the Legion is founded. Past Robert Y. Conrad Post of The American Legion will not only Commander of the Department of (Continued on page 76) 36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly : N AND Meet the Captain —London Legion Post Rate* Citation — Basketball, Too—Gobs and Gyrenes Want Facts — "The March of Democracy"—Reunions at Conventions

are m 1 ty happy to report that a second member more of these mascots scattered around the country and we'd C~¥ J 'S' ^* m /m / has been added to the roster of the Association of like to hear about them—mules, dogs, goats, parrots are all £/ 9/ Surviving Mascots of the World War, which or- eligible for membership in the association. J " ganization was suggested in these columns in the January Monthly. Vou all remember Mile. Verdun, the famous SPECIAL citations for distinguished service will have to be mule mascot of Battery E. 15th Field Artillery, Second Di- arranged for if the members of the Then and Now Gang vision, which was born overseas, brought back with the outfit, continue the splendid co-operation which they have shown to is still the pampered pet of that regiment of redlegs down in date. And one of the first of these citations would have to be Camp Travis, Texas, and is our first member. issued to Adjutant William Kulka of London (England) Post The average life-span of a mule exceeds greatly that of a of the Legion. From this statement you will see that services dog. so we were surprised to have '"Captain Nuts," pictured on rendered have become international in scope. this page both "then" and "now," presented as the second If you'll remember, Gorman R. Jones of Sheffield, Alabama, member of our newly-organized association. Of course, in requested in Then and Now in the Monthly of November last January we told of "Riker," dog mascot of Company D, 304th the assistance of the gang in locating the owner of a wrist Supply Train, which was also an A. E. F. animal, born in watch belonging to one Lieutenant Marshall, which Jones had November. 1918, but he went west last September. in his possession. At the same time, Jones told of having been But let us or. rather, let Mrs. Ada Heger of St. Joseph, on the torpedoed transport Moldavia, of having been rescued, Missouri, tell about Captain Nuts: landed in Dover, England, and billeted with an old couple with "I am sure that your readers and particularly those readers whom he left his life preserver. Jones was anxious to recover who served with Battery E. 18th Field Artillery, First Division, that priceless souvenir. What happened? Read the following will be interested to hear about a World War mascot dog which letter received by the Company Clerk from Adjutant Kulka is still living. of London Post "The dog, a pure-bred English Bull, was acquired by the "In the November issue appeared an item from Comrade battery mentioned while it was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, Gorman R. Jones relative to a life preserver which he had left in 191 7, and was christened 'Captain Nuts.' His particular with an elderly couple in Dover, England, after he had been master was Corporal Herbert Stanley Jones, a cousin of mine, landed at that port following the torpedoing of the Moldavia but he had the affec- in May, 1918. of all of the tion men ^mmmmmimmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmm 11111— —mi linn 11 iiw iiMiiiiwiiiiMiiiiii " "Comrade Jones in the battery. could remember "When the battery neither the name of sailed for France in the couple nor their January, 1918, Cap- address except that tain Nuts had to be they had resided over left behind and Cor- a grocery store locat- poral Jones expressed ed off the main street him to me and he has about three blocks made his home here from the bay. ever since, sharing all "With such slender my joys and sorrows. evidence I got into While the boys were contact with the overseas, I was kept Mayor of Dover who busy writing letters was good enough to and taking snapshots institute enquiries, of the Captain which and with the aid of were sent to his old the Chief Constable comrades in the bat- of the town he locat- tery. I am sure that ed the elderly couple the Captain has been mentioned by Jones. photographed at least They proved to be two hundred times Mr. and Mrs. James and some of these Wood of 44 Town wall prints I am enclosing. Street, and their son. ''So far as we have Captain A. W. Wood Introducing the second member of the Association of Surviving Mascots of been able to deter- of the Royal Engi- the World War. Left: "Captain Nuts" with Corporal Herbert S. Jones, mine. Captain Nuts is neers, wrote me that Battery E, 18th Field Artillery, in Ft. Bliss, Texas, 1917 Right: the same now about fourteen the life preserver was dog with his mistress, Mrs. Ada Heger, in St. Joseph, Missouri, i()2i) years old, and he is still in his parents' still active. Even now, possession and they more than ten years after the war, the Captain hasn't been would be pleased to send it to Jones upon receipt of instructions. forgotten by his old comrades. Each Christmas he receives "It appeared to me that this was a case where a written greeting cards and occasionally the boys send some money with request for the return of the article would not be sufficient at instructions that 'the biggest bone in town be bought for Nutty all, so I arranged to call upon Mr. and Mrs. Wood to thank " for his Christmas present.' them personally on behalf of Comrade Jones for their courtesy At the time Mrs. Heger sent her interesting letter and the to him and for having taken care of his life preserver for all snapshots, she did not know of our Association of Surviving these years. Dover isn't a great distance from London. Mascots of the World War, but nevertheless Captain Nuts goes "Armed with a handsome bouquet for Mrs. Wood, I called on the roster as the second member. We know that there are on the old folks and was most cordially received by them, but

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< THEK and J^OW H- regret to say I found Mr. Wood quite seriously ill. Mr. Wood, New York City parade. I remember seeing the two banners however, is a tough old soldier who has weathered many a hard- hanging on these trains also, but where they went from there I fought campaign and his voice boomed out to me in cordial do not know. Would like to have the banners for the Second welcome. Mrs. Wood, a thoroughly charming and motherly Division reunion in Boston on May 31st and June 1st next. little lady, handed the life preserver to me and I have now sent "Of course, I'm interested particularly in my picture or it along to Comrade Jones. She recalled the happy hours which painting ('twas a work of art) and I hope whoever has it will Jones had spent in their home and had often wondered whether send it home to its papa." Jones got safely through the picnic in France. Both of the old folks asked about several other Americans whom they had met "DEADING the boasts of veterans regarding the championship in their home, particularly a Lieutenant Farmer. or near-championship baseball and football teams of their "London Post will be delighted to locate any other lost outfits has inspired James F. (Baldy) Wiebel of Hagerstown, souvenirs left in this country, and without question there were Maryland, to file another athletic claim. Baldy served with plenty of them. Just let us know and we'll get right on the job." Company B. 3:15th Infantry. 82d Division, and he ought to Adjutant Kulka's letter was written on January know what he's talking about because he was a member eighth, and on January twenty-seventh, reports of the team he lauds. Here's what he has to say: Legionnaire Jones, the life preserver reached "I wonder if anyone will take issue with me him in Sheffield. Alabama, in excellent con when I claim that Company B of the 325th dition. And at the same time Jones told Infantry in Camp Gordon. Georgia, had us that he had found the owner of the the best basketball team in the Army. wrist watch, former Lieutenant William I base my claim on the following: F. Marshall, 58th Infantry, and now "Company B's team with Louis Spiegel, of Lakeland, Florida, so this double Russell Packard, Edwin Krick, Andy case of lost and found is now fully Lawo and myself, won the Battalion closed. That's what we call real Championship; the same men, rep- Legion co-operation and service! resenting the Battalion, won the Regimental Championship and then of Postal Service later the championship of AS A member . won the »-Post of St. Louis. Missouri, and 82d Division, without losing a game. a close follower of Then and Now," "Our coach, Sergeant Andy Lawo, types Burt Ritchey, "I have de- challenged the Atlanta A. C, which cided to break into its columns. team had star players from Georgia "I was a corporal of Company Tech and other colleges of the A. 138th Infantry, 35th Division, South, and we won from them with during the entire period of the war the same players from Company B. and while at Camp Doniphan, Law- If any team can beat that record, ton, Oklahoma, a small camera was let's hear from them.'' my most prized possession. As a Baldy Wiebel adds that his out- result I have a scrapbook contain- fit boasted also of a good baseball ing scores of snapshots taken in team after it got to France and he camp, mostly of buddies of my wonders what has become of the company. Several of the men were members of that team and also of killed in action and I therefore take some of the championship black- particular pride in having preserved jack players of his outfit. likenesses of those departed com- rades, although I think a lot of all SUPPORTING our statement, of them. many times repeated, that his- "I am enclosing a postcard which torical facts only will be accepted by I found in a dugout in the trenches the critical readers of the Monthly, in the Somme Dieu sector near Commander Harry M. Itschner of A -postcard on which appears the above like- Verdun on October 10, 1018. The Fleming - Jackson - Seever Post of inscription on the back indicates ness of Mile. Louise Laurent was found Atchison, Kansas, offers the follow- that it is probably a likeness of one overseas by Burt Ritchey of St. Louis. It is ing comment Louise Laurent, No. 16, Route de awaiting a claimant "While not trying to discredit la Source. Sermaize, Marne, France. the Navy's part in the war. I can- The writing appears to be that of an American. While this not help but take exception to the statement of H. W. Kittle of memento may have been lost or purposely discarded, yet the Aurora, Indiana, in Then and Now in the Monthly of last July, owner may be able to recall the girl and may want to recover that 'statistics compiled by the War Department show that this war souvenir." forty percent of the entire Fifth and Sixth Regiments of The postcard photograph is reproduced on this page and the Marines were regular Navy men taken off of the battleships and owner may have it if he will write to the Company Clerk. transferred to the Marine Corps.' "I served twenty months with the Sixth Regiment of Marines "DLEAS for assistance in recovering personal property or and I can truthfully say I never met one whom I knew to have -- service souvenirs are arriving in squad formation in our been a Navy man other than the stretcher bearers, doctors and orderly room. If the requests were placed end to end, or set sick bay attendants. Of course I have no manner of making an in type one after the other, they would more than fill the space authoritative statement and no access to the records but I just allotted to Then and Now in more than several issues, and Then can't believe that statement until I see it verified by someone and Now would become a Lost and Found Bureau. We hope of authority in the Marine Corps who can make a correct and eventually to broadcast all of them. Here's one from ex-Marine positive statement which can be backed up by the records. Now Harold D. Pulver of New Milford, Connecticut: that the discussion is started, let's see it settled by those who can." "When my outfit, the Third Battalion, Fifth Regiment U. S. Marines, Second Division, started from Waldbreitbach, Ger- WHILE the rest of Legionnaire Kittle's statement of Navy- many, for Brest, early in July, 1010, to sail for home, I painted activities during the World War was not questioned, this a large cloth sign to decorate our boxcar. My picture showed particular claim of his was, and so the Company Clerk went to a Marine getting a 'shot in the arm' from a Navy medical man. headquarters for confirmation- or denial. Here is what Major Another 'artist' painted a large banner showing a lot of cooties, E. W. Sturdevant, Officer-in-Charge of the Historical Section, with the title, 'One Hundred Percent Pure.' Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps, had to say: "We landed at Hoboken on August 3d and entrained for "The statement that forty percent of the Fifth and Sixth Camp Mills to be deloused further and make ready for the Regiments of Marines of the Second Division were regular 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly :

M TH E K and ^OW )B- Navy men taken from battleships and transferred to the Marine recruiting depot of the United States Marine Corps, has to Corps is incorrect. The Navy had need of all its men in carry- say about it ing out its own job. The only Naval personnel serving with the "The photograph enclosed shows one of the scenes from 'The Fourth Brigade of Marines were medical and dental officers March of Democracy,' an historical pageant staged by Marines and enlisted men of the Naval Hospital Corps. Their numbers and Marinettes of the Marine Corps recruiting force in New were approximately two hundred. York City during the Victory Loan campaign in 1919. "The number of Marines in the Fourth Brigade, which in- "In spite of its high-sounding title, neither actors, audience cluded Brigade Headquarters. Fifth and Sixth Regiments and nor author (who happened to be the writer of this letter), knew the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion was, at its maximum strength, what it was all about. As publicity sergeant for the Marine 9,776. The enlisted personnel of the Marine Corps was com- Corps recruiting office, I was given twenty-four hours' notice by posed of men who were either in the Marine Corps at the the officer in charge 'to get up something for the Victory Loan.' beginning of the war or had enlisted or were inducted in the After putting in about twenty of the precious twenty-four hours Corps afterwards." vainly seeking an inspiration, I finally hired a bunch of cos- tumes, put the pseudo actors and actresses through one rehearsal, RIGHT now, in the midst of house-cleaning when the cellars marched them up to the old Victory Square near the Grand and attics get their annual or semi-annual mopping-up, is Central Terminal and told them to go ahead and do their stuff. the time for members of the Gang to do good deeds. There are "The 'stuff was a series of scenes from every war from the posts of the Legion which are making strenuous efforts to com- Revolution down to the then present time. After it was all plete their files of the old American Legion Weekly. over a newspaper reporter asked me what the title of our So when you run across that old stack of Weeklies—par- offering was. In the hurry I had forgotten this little detail, so ticularly any of Volume I, iqiq, and Volume II, 1920. don't on the spur of the moment I told him it was 'The March of sell them for old paper or burn them. Among them may be Democracy!' just the one or two or half-dozen numbers that some post needs "The pageant nearly resulted fatally for our three 'Boches' for its library. Read Then and Now in the March Monthly. who, by the way, were all veterans of Belleau Wood. Coming Just drop a line to the Company Clerk telling him what away from the performance in their hired uniforms, they were numbers you have on hand and he'll make arrangements so pelted with sticks, stones, garbage, etc., and it took the com- that the posts wanting them can add them to their files. Here's bined efforts of the troupe to rescue them." another real chance to show the co-operation of which we're And McLean's letter gives rise to another question: We have all so proud. read of and heard from "gobbesses," "goblets," or whatever you want to call the Navy ladies, but we didn't know that there LIVE and learn! It has always been our idea that the only were such persons as "Marinettes." Let us hear from some of * place where service outfits were called upon to don the these lady Leathernecks. mask and wig in the interest of the war was overseas. And it us ten to find that entertainment plans being drawn up by William took years out we were wrong—that service IF THE J. theatrical talent was called upon also on this side of the pond. Horrigan, chairman of the Convention Reunion Committee Cast your eyes on the picture on this page and then read what of the National Convention Corporation of Louisville, Ken- Legionnaire Robert A. McLean of Oakland, California, who for tucky, develop as he intends them to, we will have to start a at least a part of his period of service was a sergeant in a sub-head in this Outfit Notices column. ( Continued on page ?q)

amateurs the Corps With Broadway and its stage luminaries only a stone's throw aivay , a bunch of from Marine staged the above-pictured pageant in Victory Square, Neiv York City, in igig. Ex-Sergeant Robert A. McLean produced "The March of Democracy" to help the Victory Loan

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§ikief officer

Harry Manning, Chief Officer, who as a result of his heroism was appointed Acting Captain, "S. S. America"

Authorities at- M/lri?p" • -vWK^ - tribute the enor- mous increase in Cigarette smoking to the improve- ment in the process of Ciga- rette manufacture by the ap- plication of heat. It is true that during the year 1928, Lucky Strike Cigarettes showed a greater increase than all otherCigarettes com- bined. This confirms in no asted uncertain terms the public's confidence in the superiority ion -No Cough of Lucky Strike.

40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly HarryManning says :

"Reach for a Lucky instead ofa sweet? WHEN I climbed aboard the 'America' after those cold, strenuous hours getting the men off the freighter 'Florida/ there was nothing I wanted so

much as a Lucky — 'By George/ it tasted wonderful! A Lucky is always refreshing. My tense nerves relaxed, my aching throat was soothed and the whole thrilling adventure just seemed a part of the day's work. As time goes by, and

I look back to that memorable night, I'll always remember the wonderful taste of that welcome Lucky. As I went around to visit the men we'd rescued, I found many of them enjoying Luckies, too. We really couldn't wait to get back to our ship and 'Luckies/ As an actual fact in returning to the 'America' I noticed one of our men^ rowing with one hand and lighting a Tucky' with the other. There's no flavor to equal toasted tobaccos, and I always prefer Lucky Strikes. There's wisdom in the saying: 'Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet.' It helps a man to keep physically fit and we who follow the sea must always be prepared for any emergency."

APRIL, 19.29 4) —

i A PERSONAL VIEW }

C. J. Agrafiotis, instructor Manchester, New Hampshire, Arthur Ponsonby, British M.P., gives some items. Ten High School, sends a questionnaire. His name indicates that thousand paid British propagandists operating in the

his family did not arrive on these shores United States in 191 7; no Belgian chil- Not a Smith, an as early as some of the Macs, O's, Smiths Nailing War dren with hands cut off could be found O' or a Mac and Joneses. In answer to his first Lies by rich American who sought to care question, "Who is an American?" they for them; Miss" Hume, who was sup- might say, "Look at us! We are!" But Mr. Agrafiotis, who posed to have had her breast cut off by a German soldier in teaches sociology, has an inquiring mind which is out to Belgium, was never out of England; the Lusitania carried learn anything he can in order to make his pupils good one hundred and twenty-five tons of ammunition for the citizens. British; the Kaiser never called Sir John French's Army "contemptible". Treaties that will definitely outlaw war, the universal draft that will make war profitable to no- Here are my own brief answers. No. i. "Who is an Ameri- body, these are the first steps that we must take in our can?" A citizen of the United States who earns an honest progress toward lasting peace among all nations. living and does not expect his neigh- Well, bors to do it all to make this a better Who Is? country to live in. No. 2. "Who is a Three States, California, Texas and Oklahoma, gave us one hundred percent American?" I seven-ninths of all our oil production last year. There is no might say nobody is so perfect except a candidate for office, oil in old Massachusetts, where the but I will say that he is one who acts up to No. 1., as well Lucky textile business is bad; but in one day as talking up to it. The noisiest hundred percenter I ever States a record catch of almost two million knew let his wife take in washing, gabbed and excused him- tons of sea fish were brought into Bos- self from the war because he had a family to support. ton. Oil will be exhausted, but the waters will go on supply- ing us fish, and the soil making crops, and the energy of men making the wheels of industry turn. No. 3 of the questionnaire. "Does naturalizing an immi- grant mean Americanizing him?" Not a bit, or being native born, either. No. 4. "What methods do Lest New Yorkers be too set up in metropolitan provin- heaving it to you suggest for Americanizing the immi- cialism as to superiority in civic excellence, expert George J. Grandpa grant?" Make America what we talk Hecht names other cities ahead of New it to be, make him feel at home in it, Not All in York in particulars of health, welfare, give him a personal example in Americanization so he will New York parks, playgrounds and education. use rightly the instruction which he gets in our schools. These range all the way from Boston to Los Angeles, including Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Gary, Dallas and Winnetka, Illinois. Morning in the irrigation country on the Arkansas River

in western Kansas ! Teachers driving twelve autobuses, ten and fifteen miles, each carrying thirty So they are saying in Italy, where Fascist spies keep watch 'Way Out in children to the big central union school for any breath of criticism against Mussolini. But one Kansas a t Holcomb! Hot luncheons served woman did whisper in answer to the daily! Country children getting all the The Walls dictator's latest command that Italian educational advantages of city children plus the fresh air of Hare Ears women should not keep thin. Being the open spaces! It is a big count for the automotive age fleshy, they can bear more children in which we live. when there is so little room in Italy for them. Said she: "Mussolini is so versatile, why doesn't he do all the child bearing, himself, and see how he likes it?" Said a Frenchman on his first visit to America: "Where do you find all the dogs? Why, when you have so much beef?" Never having heard before of the Again, why join the Legion? Let us look at it in a big way Hot Dogs by national delectable he took its name in answer to a Department Adjutant who asks me why I do The Billion literally. Eight hundred and eighty not say something about getting new million hot dogs were eaten last year. All Right, members. I have said a good deal, but We are a growing country and may reach the billion mark Adjutant I am ready to say more. Some of us, this year. When the Frenchman tried one he said, "No because the Legion has been steadily knife, fork, spoon, table or napkin—joocee, veree good. growing in membership and usefulness, have been riding on Labor-saving American efficiency!" the band wagon, which means (Continued on page 54)

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Colorful Story What's the Use? Matter of Quantity

"Heavens!" gasped the little red Miss Modernette was having a terrible "So you think Harold is twice as big rooster down on the farm. "You're time selecting a hat and was still un- a bore as Ted?" looking pale!" satisfied after the exasperated clerk had "Absolutely. Everything you say "Yes," happily replied the little red brought out the entire stock. makes him think of a couple of stories." hen. "I've finally laid another egg and "I want a hat that's mannish!" she I'm tickled pink." snapped. "Yes, miss, how about this one?" the Bye-Bye attendant replied, bringing out the last He was a slick-haired sheik and he Sisters Under the Skin of the assortment. was superbly conscious of all his mani- On this trip the crack express had "Not mannish enough." fold physical attractions as he drew his been far from living "But, miss," the other sighed wearily, car up beside a solitary girl hiker on a up to its reputation. "it's a man's hat." lonely road. First it would go "How about a ride, girlie?" he forward fifty yards smirked. or so, then back, Keeping Up With the Joneses "Are you going east?" she asked. then stand still puff- "Does Jimpson's baby get off any "Yes," he replied, preening himself ing uncertainly and original sayings?" "Look out for the ocean." then begin the same "Oh, he did, but they were so dumb thing all over again. that Jimpson had to hire a ghost writer At last one of the travelers lost his for him." Wash Days Coming patience and summoned the porter. "So yo' got almost a hundred dollahs "What the devil's the matter with saved up?" ejaculated Amanda in pleased this train?" he exploded. "Backing up Imperfect Record anticipation. "Man alive, yo' kin soon and jerking forward in this awful way." 'My good fellow," said the warden of be buyin' me mah engagement ring." "It's quite all right, sir," the porter the asylum to the inmate he had called "Engagement ring nuthin', honey," assured him in that soothing that way before him, "I'm sure I don't know her devoted fiance corrected. "Ah's done porters have. "I think the engineer is what to do about your case. You've at- gwine buy yo' an engagement machine." teaching his wife to drive." tempted suicide six times now." "I know, but be lenient with me, chief," pleaded Silly Sam. "I didn't Dead Giveaway Propriety succeed onlv twice." A fashionable city tailor had taken "Oh. gosh!" the girl exclaimed. "It's his daughter into started to rain. You'll have to take me partnership with home." Scene : Courtroom high hopes of the "Why, I'd I'd love to," her bashful — "Now, sir," the prosecutor stormed at future upon her escort stammered, "but you know I live the defendant, "I'll ask you if you graduation from at the Y." weren't convicted on the twentieth of college, but the situ- March. 1926, on the charge of boot- ation was distinctly Parley Vous legging?" not so good. Mrs. Newriche had just arrived from "Oh, yes," the prisoner admitted as- "I'm ruined!" he a tour of Europe, and her long-suffering suredly, smiling in a friendly way at the mourned. "What an idiot I was to let acquaintances had no opportunity to jury, "but I ain't got you for my lawyer her get in the business with me!" forget the fact. this time." "What's happened, old man?" asked "And Paris!" she gushed. "Paris is a sympathetic friend. just wonderful! The people are all so One on the Judge "Why, the first thing she did was to well-educated not at all like they are change the name to Ye Olde Clothe? — "Sorry, miss," announced the traffic in this dear! Shoppe." crude country, my Why, cop, impressed de- even the street cleaners talk ! can French spite himself by the pulchritude of The Month's Worst Pun the fair offender. The Home Lover "Judge'll soak it to Lawyer: "So your husband died in- Fearing he had lost his way, a tourist you this time, I'm testate?" leaned out of his car and hailed a sleepy- afraid — probably Aunt Sairey: "No, indeedy. He died looking native of a small village. take away your way down in old Kaintucky." "Hey!" he called. "What's the name license." of the next town beyond this?" "Oh, no, he won't," she giggled in the

"Dunno, stranger," drawled the local tone of one who has the victory won. Ridiculous ! patriot. "I lives hyar." "Huh? Why not?" Jenkins was one of his oldest friends "Because—tee-hee—I haven't got any and entitled to certain privileges, but license." Peterson began to feel a mild resent- Quantity Production ment for his pal's evident deep interest A couple of oranges were talking it in the young and pretty Mrs. P. over at one of those soft drink stands. Business Methods "Say, old fellow," he remonstrated at "Don't you wish you was as big as A couple of rival but friendly shop- last, "I wish you wouldn't keep on kiss- me?" asked the first. keepers were talking things over. ing my wife. Once when you come and "Aw, gwan, you ain't so big!" scoffed "When does your opening sale close?" once when you go is enough." the second. "I bet you won't make asked the first. "Impossible!" exclaimed Jenkins in- twelve gallons more orangeade than I "When our closing-out sale opens," dignantly. "You can't expect me to keep will!" the second replied. coming and going just to please you!"

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly —

"I got so I could see in the dark like a cat says Leonard H. Nason

in relating his sleepless, nerve racked war-time experiences

"HT^HIS has since been changed — I sleep A on a Simmons Mattress and Spring . . . and am very successful catching up on the sleep I have lost," continues Mr. Nason. No need to introduce Leonard H. Nason to any Legionnaire. He's a regular contrib- utor — but if you've never read his novel

''Chevrons" . . . get it, and know him better. His purchase of Simmons Beautyrest Mat- tress and Ace Spring is of interest to you be- cause he's another successful man who has recognized the superiority of these products — even when he could easily afford to spend much more than they cost. And his volun- tary tribute to their satisfaction — to be printed here for other Legionnaires to read +4 — is the strongest kind of recommendation. b Need we say more? The Simmons Beau- tyrest Mattress and Ace Spring (either Box Leonard H. Nason, author of "Chevrons," is back on his favorite or Open Coil types) will deliver more sound, fighting and writing ground. His letter telling us of his satisfaction with untroubled rest per sleeping hour than any Simmons was received from Biarritz, France. other sleeping equipment we know of. There are scientific reasons why this is so. mattress — a middle layer of finely tempered The construction of the Beautyrest, for wire coils extending all the way out to the example, is utterly unlike that of any other edge gives unusual support to the body . . . while top and bottom layers are of finest mattressing. In furniture and department stores Simmons Beauty- rest Mattress, $39.50, Simmons Ace Box Spring. $42. .50. Simmons Ace Open Coil Spring, $19.75. Rocky Mountain Region and West, slightly higher. Look for the name "Simmons." The Simmons Company, New York, Chicago, Atlanta. San Francisco.

Simmons Beautyrest Mattress and Simmons Ace Open Coil Spring — Ace Box Spring — scientifically con- the perfected open spring — won- structed to assure greatest rest per derfully resilient, low in price. sleeping hour. Both have the same Light weight, with coils close to- stitched sides and neatly taped gether, affording individual free- edges. Both covered in damask dom of action. Smooth finished two patterns, six pastel shades. border protects sheets.

BEDS • SPRINGS BUILT FOR SLEEP] M AT T R ESSES SIMMONS [ APRIL, 1929 45 1 AN APRIL FOOL With Incidental Accomp animent of April Showers By Wallgren

Buddies:—"Buck, we're talking about Prohibishun. Buddies: —"KEE-RECT! So you are!" Are you wet or dry ?" Buck:—' '*-/#--* !!!?" Buck:—(Very expectantly) "WET!"

Buddies:—"Haw! haw! haw! April Fool!" Buddies:— "Well, we'll give you another chance. Buck:— "All right, you guys! You won't catch Are you wet or dry this timeV me again." Buck:—(Very loud and confident) "DRY!"

Buddies:—"No, you're WET! You were right tin Buck:—"/ may be all wet, but you birds is soon first time." " gona be a whole lot ivetterer! ! J^ucli 1 *__?*///__***/*//*//"

46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

( INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF NEW YORK ) A MUTUAL ORGANIZATION, FOUNDED IN 1845 EIGHTY-FOURTH ANNUAL STATEMENT

To The Policy-holders: In addition the Company loaned you on the sole security of your policies $52,700,000. Our Eighty-fourth Annual Report has been verified and is being These are round figures, calculated to give you merely an filed with various governmental authorities. May I point out to outline sketch of the Company's activities in 1928. you, the people chiefly interested, some of its salient facts? SAVING YOUR MONEY As policy-holders you paid the Company last year in round figures $256,000,000. How much of the $156,000,000 we paid you or to beneficiaries The Company paid to you and to beneficiaries $156,000,000. during 1928 and how much of the $52,700,000 loaned you during That left us about $100,000,000. that year will be lost because unwisely invested? That is a very Our net reserves increased during the year $100,000,000. important question. It goes to the very heart of the usefulness of We put that $100,000,000 in our reserves. Life Insurance. To save money by investing it soundly is difficult. You may ask, what are reserves? Even men of experience frequently make mistakes. I not overstate the truth I say that Broadly speaking, they are funds set aside from which future do when few people having small amounts of money to invest do it wisely. liabilities are to be met. We put that $100,000,000 in reserves at the close of the year for REMEMBER that specific purpose. A policy of Life Insurance is almost exactly like a bond. It will You can leave the proceeds of your insurance with this Com- mature some day. Nearly all bonds mature at a definite date. pany in trust for your beneficiaries or you can leave any cash due Most policies of Life Insurance mature at an indefinite date, but under your policy and the Company will hold it, guaranteeing less than interest. all will mature, in some form, within a limited period of years. your principal and not 3% all such funds we will A sound bond is pro- On — pay in 1929 (as we have tected by a Sinking Fund ^^===^=^== done for some years) 4.6%. —from which the bond is maturity. In 1928 you left with to be redeemed at Dividends to Policy-holders in 1928 . $58,600,000 the in this way The Sinking Fund is accu- Company mulated by yearly deposits. Dividends in 1929 67,100,000 under various accounts That $100,000,000 was $28,000,000. our 1928 deposit, our addi- Your total under these tion to the Sinking Fund BALANCE SHEET accounts on January 1. 1929. was $70,000,000. for that year. ASSETS LIABILITIES it. If That $70,000,000 is not The law requires Real Estate Owned and First Reserves — ample with future we had failed to make or Mortgage Loans on Farms. premiums and Interest to just a deposit. It is mingled pay all insurance and an- not make that entry Homes and Business Prop with the Company's entire could $564,502,256.85 nuity obligations as they erty ff (deposit) we would soon become due $1,340,100,132.87 assets and is a part of the Bonds of the United States, be declared insolvent by DividendsPayabletoPolicy- Company's liabilities. It is Other Governments, States 67,148,446.00 the Insurance Departments Cities, Counties, Public holders in 1929 backed, as all our liabili- > 641,944,719.68 7,973,047.98 and the Courts. Utilities, Railroads, etc* All other Liabilities .... ties are, by $1,500,000,000. The reserve increase for Preferred and Guarantee Finally study the balance Stocks 31,238,610.00 $1,415,221,626.85 1928 was large, but no larg- Total Liabilities sheet. There you have the Policy Loans, Cash and other - Contingency 1 19. 858, 720. 80 facts about our financial er than the law requires. Assets Z97,394,7bl.lZ General Fund we shall redeem all condition, while above you That TotalFundsforPolicy-*i roe ftQft tAI CC picture of the our bonds (policies) as holders' Protection 1 ,Dj3,U<5U,OH / .DO Total . $1,535,080,347.65 have a new Office: they come due is certain. Home "A Dream You know that. Realized." The other income of the Company was sufficient to pay all the expenses of acquiring $900,000,000 of new business in 1928, the Show the "Dream" and the balance sheet to your neighbor. care of about $6,500,000,000 of old business, taxes, $6,700,000. the care of invested funds, the maintenance of other legal re- serves and a sum sufficient to pay in 1929 $8,000,000 more in divi- New York Life Insurance Company dends than we paid in 1928, and to increase the general surplus by $4,000,000. By DARWIN P. KINGSLEY, President

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only the bear-people can unexpectedly the twilight was all pearl and violet and deliver. the full moon showed a bubble of pale If that smashing hook had landed, the silver just above the horizon. The vast duel between the two would have ended oak bulked black against the snow as the then and there. Fortunately for the stag, young man looked long at the Snake. in his constant fencing matches with When he saw that every twist of the the other young elks of the band he carved serpent was a replica of the one had learned to anticipate their swiftest coiled about his breast he bowed before thrusts. At the first motion of the great the totem of his tribe convinced that paw he threw back his head so that the nothing but good fortune could come to bear's swing missed him by an inch. him in this valley of his vanished people. Overbalanced by the blow, the black As the weeks went by the young tighter tottered at the very edge of the trapper gathered in a rich harvest of precipice just as the elk with a sudden furs, marten, lynx, and mink, and when lunge of his antlers drove one of their at last he drew that grand prize of the sharp tines deep into the angle of his forest, a black fox, whose pelt was opponent's jaw. With a dreadful roar worth its weight in gold, he felt that he the bear tried to free himself from the was indeed under the special favor of curved point with one of his forepaws the guardian of his tribe. while he clutched for a hand-hold with Then came a morning when at dawn the other. Swaying away from the abyss Tahlin saw the fresh hoofmarks of a the foam flew from his gnashing jaws as great elk beside his spring. As he looked he tried to fix his fierce teeth in the he suddenly decided to run the stag stag's neck. Then his claws caught in a down as he had often done with others crevice and he was just twisting himself on his hunting trips, and lay in a supply free of the elk's impaling pringe of fresh meat. Tightening the straps of SmokingIobacco fi when his skis ttPE wo C16ARETTCS with a tremendous heave of his great and leaving his rifle and cardi- I head the stag broke the black beast's gan in the shack, he thrust a few strips hold and sent him whirling out into of pemmican in his pocket and armed space. For a moment there was no sound only with tomahawk and hunting-knife, and then from the dreadful depths came made ready to race the sun out of the WAS a simple enough hunch IT a muffled crash as the dark body struck sky and the moon over the rim of the that a lot of pipe lovers secretly the tree-tops far below. world, as he who would follow an elk craved a milder mixture than they'd A few weeks after that fight with the on foot must do. bear, the longest and coldest winter of As he sped along the trail his breath been smoking. We gave it to them the century set in, to be known all rose straight up in the still air and the literally—a free tin to every man who through that north country by red men snow stretched away in a series of drifts to rise asked for it. And now so many to- and white as the "Wolf Winter." Never which seemed and fall like waves in the memory of the oldest trapper had of the sea as he skimmed over them. bacco connoisseurs are cheering for so many wolves been known. Every- Overhead a sky of melted turquoise over- Sir Walter that we can scarcely make where grim stories began to filter in to hung the somber green of the spruces.

enough of it. Isn t it time you too the trading-stations from snow-bound All that day the Indian followed the settlements and lonely camps, of wolves trail of the elk and his mate with an discovered how good a pipe can be ? which drove deer and killed cattle and easy unhasting gait that yet ate up the even attacked men, in places where none distance like fire. When the winter sun LIMITED OFFER had been known for half a century or hung high in the south the smaller tracks more. suddenly diverged from the larger. No if ( for the United States only ) Red Tahlin. the Indian trapper, just longer could the cow keep up and was If your favorite tobacconist does not carry down from the far north, was not much separating from her mate. At the sight Sir Walter Raleigh, send us his name and impressed by these rumors but then Red the hunter smiled grimly and increased address. In return for this courtesy, we'll was not afraid of wolves nor of any- his speed a little as he followed the great he delighted to send you without charge thing else, as he proved by his plans for hoofprints fully six inches long which a full-size tin of this milder pipe mixture. that winter's trapping. Tall and lithe marked the trail of the stag. Dept. 201, Brown and Williamson with a skin the color of molten copper, The day wore on and at last sunset Tobacco Corporation he had been born on the Seneca reser- came and the black-green pines tried in vation in New York State, but was of vain to bar the glory which streamed in Louisville, Kentucky .1 pure Lenape stock, a descendant of a from the west. Beneath a bar of flaming long line of chiefs and shamans, whose gold the sky showed carmine and crim- children had been carried away by their son and then dimmed to ashes-of-rose, fierce conquerors. All his life long Red changing at last to the black-violet of a had heard the legend of the Totem Tree winter night, while faint and far-away of Seven Mountains and that year he came the disembodied cry of an owl. SlRmLTER had planned to visit the valley and trap while the frozen drops on the trees there throughout the winter— for tat- gleamed like wrecked stars. tooed about his body was the same sym- Little by little the elk's tracks began bol which was carved about the tree. to show that his endurance and speed RALEIGH the Like an opal set in silver was the day were being sapped by drag of the when the Indian came to Seven Moun- snow over which the man's skis moved Who discovered how good a pipe can be tains. In the south the sun burned low so easily. The hoof-marks were deeper through the frost-haze, a mass of soft and here and there spraddled out of white fire, while slim firs thrust their line, as the hunted animal's legs tottered It's milder pointed heads above the hills whose in their stride and to the Indian's prac- slopes were sea-green with pine. When ticed eyes it was evident that the stag at last he stood before the Serpent Tree would go to bay before long.

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Suddenly, so faint and far-away that it seemed hardly more than the ghost of a sound, came a high, quavering cry with a menace in its cadence which even Rocivwcff tells £u+*. M-v^^ the distance could not dim. Louder and clearer it echoed again among the silent peaks and there was in the wild cry that strange horror which from the beginning of time has made the howl of a wolf- pack dreaded by man and beast alike. At first Tahlin paid but little attention to the sound and not until the ululating voices became louder and louder did he realize that the pack was on his trail, and remember with a sudden sinking of heart, the rumors that Arctic wolves, who have not yet learned to fear man, had been driven down by famine to hunt in the lower latitudes. Once again, and this time with terrible clearness, the grim hunting-cry burst out behind him and looking back he saw, rushing towards him, a dozen or so gaunt figures^ white as the snow across which they raced. As he caught the gleam of their dreadful eyes, he shot forward at a pace which for a moment carried him Jim Henry—famous Mennen salesman— is interviewing somefamous users of Mennen Shaving far ahead of his pursuers. Before long, Cream. . . . This photograph shows him talking to Norman Rockwell, the famous painter. . . . however, their tireless canter began to Mr. Rockwell is seen working on a painting for the front cover of the Saturday Evening Post. cut down his lead, until he heard close behind him that half-bark, half-growl, ••1 which is the closing-in cry of a wolf- pack. can put more Chjuchles in my pictures For an instant a black cloud seemed to shut out the jeweled beauty of the when I've had this COOL shave*9 night. Then, like the hunted animal ahead of him, the man began to look — Norman Rockwell: "Sure, Jim, has a "get-up-and-go" feeling to it for a place where he might make a last I'll give you the dope on the that fits in with young ideas. Menthol, stand for his life. Suddenly, as the trail artistic shave. . . I like to paint ho- blended into the cream by a secret made a sharp turn, he saw for the first time the animal which he had been pur- boes, but I certainly don't like to look process, gives your shave a mountain- suing for so many weary hours. Sil- like one. . . That's why I shave care- air coolness such as you never felt

houetted against a cliff, his satin-smooth fully — every day. . . Being a particular before! The minute the rich creamy coat showing rose-red in the moonlight, cuss, I've experimented with shaving lather bubbles up from the brush stood a great elk. Shaking his vast creams almost as much as I've exper- you'll say to yourself, "Here is some- horns, daggered along their beams with " imented with colors. thing different ! sharp tines, he snorted defiance and "I guess I was one of the first to try pawed the snow with his edged hoofs as Dermutation Improves Shaves! man and wolves rushed towards him. In that Menthol-iced of yours. . . I don't Mennen Men thol-icedShavingCream all Seven Mountains he could have found know what's in the cream, but I do is the newest member of the Mennen no better place to make a last stand. know that it gives my face a keen line for Back of him the rock towered straight cool tingle that I've never had from — a modern team-mate the regularMennen Shaving Cream. Both up for fifty feet nor could the Indian any other shaving cream. . . There's creams have Dermutation a three- see any other place in sight where he a real kick to it! Some day, maybe, — might stand off the pack at his heels way shaving improvement — exclu- I'll do a painting of a happy shaver

save beside the very animal whom he . . with his tube of Mennen. You know, sively Mennen's. . Dermutation had been hunting so long. Swift as a Jim — that would be a self-portrait!" 1. Softens the beard. 2. Lubricates the shadow he shot across the snow towards razor blade. 3. Invigorates the skin. the cliff, his knife gripped in his left Mennen Menthol-ieed — The proof is in a trial. Send the coupon! hand, while in his right his tomahawk The Young Man's Shave! gleamed beneath the stars. Behind him ^fter the shave— Mennen Skin Balm. It protects came the ghost-white pack, silent now, There is a dash and a cool invigora- the skin and removes "face shine" . . . non-greasy. their in Menthol-iced that is eyes gleaming like emeralds in the tion Mennen Mennen Talcum for Men the man's powder moonlight. typically young — modern! The lather that does not show. . . Great after a bath, too! As Tahlin neared the elk the beset beast lunged at him viciously. With a swing of his body the trapper avoided the thrust and the next instant was MENTHOL-ICED standing beside the stag, just beyond SHAVI NC CREAM range of his horns, ready to meet with him the rush of the white killers. The leader of the pack was a veteran fully six feet in length and perhaps half Jim Henry's treat— W COOL shaves B-2, as high at the shoulder, a super-wolf JIM HENRY, The Mennen Company , Dept.

Newark , N . . Al 1 right, Jim ! If Mennen Menthol-iced who held his position J had won and by isas good as you and Norman Rockwell say it is, send craft as well as courage. Feinting a me a FREE tube. And a trial tube of Skin Balm, too. spring as he came close, the gaunt beast

suddenly dropped to the ground and Name . . . like the swing ( Continued on page 50) Address.

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of a scythe the elk's antlers passed clear fatal ham-stringing slash which has over him. The next moment he was at brought down many a gallant stag at the red fighter's throat while, with the bay. Beyond the reach of horns or deadly team-work of a wolf-pack, two of hoofs, the red elk had no defense to this his companions closed in on either side last attack and the death-ring moved of the great stag with the others crowd- nearer to him. Gleaming like great ing up just back of them. jewels his agonized eyes turned towards It did not seem possible that any the man and it seemed to Tahlin that animal could survive such a massed at- there was a look of appeal in their tack. The red elk, however, was a cool depths. Then, as the wolf sprang, sav- and experienced fighter and armed with agely, silently, at the stag's flank, the weapons adapted for just such an emer- Indian leaned forward and coolly sank gency. Even as the wolf's black lips the narrow blade of his tomahawk deep curled back from teeth like white dag- into the animal's spine. With a dreadful gers, the stag shattered the grinning jaws cry the beast leaped high into the air and with a pile-driver smash from one of his was dead before he struck the ground. edged fore-hoofs. As the blow fell a Even as the wolves drew back before second wolf rushed inside of the curve this third defeat, there was a glare in of the great antlers, too close for the the east, a flock of cross-bills sang their elk to use his" hoofs again. The red sweet medley-music and the golden ar- champion's swordsmanship, however, rows of the rising sun flashed across the was equal to the test. Snorting fiercely, snow. The next moment, dismayed by he dropped his muzzle flat on the snow, the dawn and disheartened by the death protecting his throat from the other's of their leader the pack slunk away slashing teeth and with a quick turn of among the trees and were gone. his head drove one of the curved tines For a moment red man and red elk at the base of his horn deep into his faced each other. Then the Indian opponent's side. gravely raised his hands, palms up, the Then, as the gashed body whirled peace-sign of every Indian, and started through the air, a third wolf reached the back for his shack, leaving behind him EYE/ elk's other side ready to deliver that the undefeated King of Lost Valley. c RIGHT! The jQuck of Roaring Qamp (Continued from page n) AND your teeth will be right, too, the back door. Them as wishes to con- of the curious procession. As Kentuck if you use Squibb's Dental Cream. tribute anything toward the orphan will bent over the candle-box half curiously, 111 find a hat handy." The first man en- the child turned, and, in a spasm of Right in the crevices where acids tered with his hat on; he uncovered, pain, caught at his groping finger, and it fast for Kentuck start their destruction, Squibb's however, as he looked about him, and held a moment. so unconsciously set an example to the looked foolish and embarrassed. Some- Dental Cream deposits little next. In such communities good and thing like a blush tried to assert itself fighting particles of Milk of bad actions are catching. As the pro- in his weather-beaten cheek. "The d— Magnesia. They kill the acids cession filed in comments were audible little cuss!" he said, as he extricated his and protect the vital Danger criticisms addressed perhaps rather to finger, with perhaps more tenderness and Line, where teeth meet gums. Stumpy in the character of showman: care than he might have been deemed "Is that him?" "Mighty small speci- capable of showing. He held that finger Squibb's is sold at all drug men;" "Hasn't more'n got the color;" a little apart from its fellows as he "Ain't bigger nor a derringer." The con- went out, and examined it curiously. stores. The price is reasonable, tributions were as characteristic: A sil- The examination provoked the same 40c a generous tube. Start using ver tobacco box; a doubloon; a navy original remark in regard to the child. Squibb's tomorrow. revolver, silver mounted; a gold speci- In fact, he seemed to enjoy repeating © 1929 by E. R. Squibb & Sons men; a very beautifully embroidered it. "He rastled with my finger," he re- lady's handkerchief (from Oakhurst the marked to Tipton, holding up the mem- gambler); a diamond breastpin; a dia- ber, "the d—d little cuss!" mond ring (suggested by the pin, with It was four o'clock before the camp the remark from the giver that he "saw sought repose. A light burned in the that pin and went two diamonds bet- cabin where the watchers sat, for ter"); a slung-shot; a Bible (contribu- Stumpy did not go to bed that night. tor not detected); a golden spur; a Nor did Kentuck. He drank quite free- silver teaspoon (the initials, I regret to ly, and related with great gusto his invariably ending with his say, were not the giver's) ; a pair of experience, surgeon's shears; a lancet; a Bank of characteristic condemnation of the new- England note for £5; and about $200 comer. It seemed to relieve him of any in loose gold and silver coin. During unjust implication of sentiment, and Ken- THE weaknesses of the nobler GUARD these proceedings Stumpy maintained a tuck had the silence as impassive as the dead on his sex. When everybody else had gone to D4NGEC left, a gravity as inscrutable as that of bed, he walked down to the river and the newly born on his right. Only one whistled reflectingly. Then he walked LINE incident occurred to. break the monotony up the gulch past the cabin, still whist- 50 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ling with demonstrative unconcern. At 6* a large redwood-tree he paused and re- traced his steps, and again passed the cabin. Halfway down to the river's bank • . . in more he again paused, and then returned and knocked at the door. It was opened by Stumpy. "How goes it?" said Kentuck, looking past Stumpy toward the candle- box. "All serene!" replied Stumpy. "Anything up?" "Nothing." There was a pause—an embarrassing one—Stumpy still holding the door. Then Kentuck had recourse to his finger, which he held up to Stumpy. "Rastled with it —the d—d little cuss," he said, and retired. The next day Cherokee Sal had such rude sepulture as Roaring Camp afford- ed. After her body had been committed to the hillside, there was a formal meet- ing of the camp to discuss what should be done with her infant. A resolution to adopt it was unanimous and enthusiastic. But an animated discussion in regard to the manner and feasibility of pro- viding for its wants at once sprang up. It was remarkable that the argument partook of none of those fierce person- alities with which discussions were usual- ly conducted at Roaring Camp. Tipton proposed that they should send the child to Red Dog—a distance of forty miles —where female attention could be pro- cured. But the unlucky suggestion met with fierce and unanimous opposition. It was evident that no plan which en- tailed parting from their new acquisition would for a moment be entertained. "Besides," said Tom Ryder, "them fel- lows at Red Dog would swap it, and ring in somebody else on us." A dis- belief in the honesty of other camps prevailed at Roaring Camp, as in other places. The introduction of a female nurse in the camp also met with objection. It was argued that no decent woman could be prevailed to accept Roaring Camp as her home, and the speaker urged that Co- a- dwuj hju— "they didn't want any more of the other kind." This unkind allusion to the de- PIPE smokers tell us that Granger is the coolest- funct harsh as it seem, was mother, may smoking tobacco they've ever found . . . the first spasm of propriety the first — That it keeps their pipes sweeter, cleaner and symptom of the camp's regeneration. drier than ever before . . . Stumpy advanced nothing. Perhaps he ", felt a certain delicacy in interfering with That it never leaves a soggy "heel no matter the selection of a possible successor in how steadily they smoke. office. But when questioned, he averred The Reason? Granger's big flakes (Rough Cut) stoutly that he and "Jinny" the mam- — burn slowly, evenly and completely to a dry, clean ash. mal before alluded to—could manage to And "Wellman's Method" an old-time tobacco rear the child. There was something — original, independent, and heroic about secret —mellows this fine old Kentucky Burley to the plan that pleased the camp. Stumpy rare perfection! was retained. Certain articles were sent Packaged in heavy foil (instead of costly tin) for to Sacramento. "Mind," said the therefore ten cents treasurer, as he pressed a bag of gold- dust into the expressman's hand, "the best that can be got—lace, you know, d and filigree-work and frills— —n the cost!" Strange to say, the child thrived. Per- haps the invigorating climate of the mountain camp was compensation for material deficiencies. Nature took the Gran foundling to her broader breast. In that rare atmosphere of the Sierra foothills —that air pungent with balsamic odor, ROUGH CUT that ethereal cordial at once bracing and exhilarating—he may have found food and nourish- (Continued on page 52) Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co

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ment. or a subtle chemistry that trans- enough, nobody saw it and nobody muted ass's milk to lime and phosphorus. laughed. "Tommy" was christened as Stumpy inclined to the belief that it seriously as he would have been under a was the latter and good nursing. "Me Christian roof, and cried and was com- and that ass," he would say, "has been forted in as orthodox fashion. father and mother to him! Don't you," And so the work of regeneration be- he would add, apostrophizing the help- gan in Roaring Camp. Almost imper- less bundle before him, "never go back ceptibly a change came over the settle- on us." ment. The cabin assigned to "Tommy By the time he was a month old the Luck"—or "The Luck," as he was more necessity of giving him a name became frequently called—first showed signs of apparent. He had generally been known improvement. It was kept scrupulously as "The Kid," "Stumpy 's Boy." "The clean and whitewashed. Then it was Feen-a-mint is made Coyote" (an allusion to his vocal pow- boarded, clothed, and papered. The rose- ers), and even by Kentuck's endearing wood cradle, packed eighty miles by like chewing-gum pur- diminutive of "The d—d little cuss." mule, had, in Stumpy's way of putting But these were felt to be vague and un- it, "sorter killed the rest of the furni- posely. For by chewing satisfactory, and were at last dismissed ture." So the rehabilitation of the cabin under another influence. Gamblers and became a necessity. The men who were

you relieve constipa- I adventurers are generally superstitious, in the habit of lounging in at Stumpy's and Oakhurst one day declared that the to see "how 'The Luck' got on" seemed baby had brought "the luck" to Roar- to appreciate the change, and in self- tion surely J quickly, and ing Camp. It was certain that of late defense the rival establishment of "Tut- they had been successful. "Luck" was tle's grocery" bestirred itself and im- pleasantly , . . This is the name agreed upon, with the prefix ported a carpet and mirrors. The re- of Tommy for greater convenience. No flections of the latter on the appearance the secret of its world- allusion was made to the mother, and of Roaring Camp tended to produce the father was unknown. "It's better." stricter habits of personal cleanliness. said the philosophical Oakhurst, "to take Again Stumpy imposed a kind of quar- wide use today . . . a fresh deal all round. Call him Luck, antine upon those who aspired to the and start him fair." A day was ac- honor and privilege of holding The Luck. laxative? No—a new method ANEW cordingly set apart for the christening. It was a cruel mortification to Ken- of correcting constipation: a tuck method to which the whole civilized What was meant by this ceremony the —who, in the carelessness of a large world is turning today. reader may imagine who has already nature and the habits of frontier life, gathered some idea of the reckless ir- had begun to regard all garments as a Feen-a-mint. Apparently a bit of reverence of Roaring which, like mint chewing gum. Yet it contains Camp. The mas- second cuticle, a snake's, one of the most remarkable laxatives ter of ceremonies was one "Boston," a only sloughed off through decay—to be known. noted wag, and the occasion seemed to debarred this privilege from certain pru- And because you chew Feen-a-mint, promise the greatest facetiousness. This dential reasons. Yet such was the subtle this tasteless laxative is carried into the ingenious satirist had spent two days in influence of innovation that he there- intestines gradually. No griping— no preparing a burlesque of the Church after appeared regularly every after- poisoning of the system, either. For service, with pointed local allusions. The noon in a clean shirt and face still shin- laxative is this not absorbed like ordi- choir was properly trained, and Sandy ing from his ablutions. Nor were moral nary laxatives — it passes unchanged Tipton was to stand godfather. But after and social sanitary laws neglected. from the body after its work is done. the procession had marched to the grove "Tommy," who was supposed to spend In a few hours — or overnight if with music and banners, and the child his whole existence in a persistent at- you chew it at bedtime — it banishes had been deposited before a mock altar, tempt to repose, must not be disturbed constipation. Yet there are no weak- noise. shouting and yelling, ening or habit-forming after effects. Stumpy stepped before the expectant by The crowd. "It ain't my style to spoil fun, which had gained the camp its infelici- Feen-a-mint will not leaveyoursystem j to boys," said the little stoutly tous title, were not permitted within weak and shaken, or enslave you man, eye- j dangerous drugs. ing the faces around him, "but it strikes hearing distance of Stumpy's. The men j Ask your doctor about Feen-a-mint. me that this thing ain't exactly on the conversed in whispers or smoked with Over a million Feen-a-mints are squar. It's playing it pretty low down Indian gravity. Profanity was tacitly bought each day by ex-users of pills on this yer baby to ring in fun on him given up in these sacred precincts, and and salts. that he ain't goin' to understand. And throughout the camp a popular form of Children love it, naturally. Buy it ef there's goin' to be any godfathers expletive, known as "D—n the luck!" for the family. On sale at evety drug round, I'd like to see who's got any and "Curse the luck!" was abandoned, store in the United States Canada. and better rights than me." A silence fol- as having a new personal bearing. Vocal lowed Stumpy's speech. To the credit music was not interdicted, being sup- of all humorists be it said that the first posed to have a soothing, tranquilizing Feen-a -mint man to acknowledge its justice was the quality; and one song, sung by "Man- satirist thus stopped of his fun. "But." o'-War Jack," an English sailor from The Chewing Laxative said Stumpy, quickly following up his Her Majesty's Australian colonies, was advantage, "we're here for a christening, quite popular as a lullaby. It was a

and we'll have it. I proclaim you Thomas lugubrious recital of the exploits of "the Health Products Corporation A-4 Luck, according to the laws of the Arethusa. Seventy-four," in a muffled 113 N. 13th St., Newark, N. J- United States and the State of Cali- minor, ending with a prolonged dying Please send free samples and free booklet on fornia, so help God." It was the first fall at the burden of each verse, "On correcting constipation. me time that the name of the Deity had b-oo-o-ard of the Arethusa." It was a fine been otherwise uttered than profanely in sight to see Jack holding The Luck, Name the camp. The form of christening was rocking from side to side as if with the perhaps even more ludicrous than the motion of a ship, and crooning forth Address satirist had conceived; but strangely this naval ditty. Either through the pe-

52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly culiar rocking of Jack or the length of

his song—it contained ninety stanzas, and was continued with conscientious WALK- OVER deliberation to the bitter end—the lulla- by generally had the desired effect. At such times the men would lie at full length under the trees in the soft sum- SIMM'S mer twilight, smoking their pipes and drinking in the melodious utterances. An indistinct idea that this was pastoral happiness pervaded the camp. "This 'ere kind o' think,'' said the Cockney Sim- mons, meditatively reclining on his el- bow, "is 'evingly." It reminded him of Greenwich. On the long summer days The Luck was usually carried to the gulch from whence the golden store of Roaring Camp was taken. There, on a blanket spread over pine boughs, he would lie while the men were working in the ditches below. Latterly there was a rude attempt to decorate this bower with flowers and sweet-smelling shrubs, and generally some one would bring him a cluster of wild honeysuckles, azaleas, or the painted blossoms of Las Mariposas. The men had suddenly awakened to the fact that there were beauty and sig- nificance in these trifles, which they had so long trodden carelessly beneath their feet. A flake of glittering mica, a frag- ment of variegated quartz, a bright pebble from the bed of the creek, be- came beautiful to eyes thus cleared and strengthened, and were invariably put aside for The Luck. It was wonderful how many treasures the woods and hill- sides yielded that "would do for Tom- my." Surrounded by playthings such as never child out of fairyland had before,

it is to be hoped that Tommy was con- tent. He appeared to be serenely happy, albeit there was an infantine gravity about him, a contemplative light in his round gray eyes, that sometimes worried Stumpy. He was always tractable and quiet, and it is recorded that once, hav- ing crept beyond his "corral"—a hedge of tessellated pine boughs, which sur- rounded his bed—he dropped over the bank on his head in the soft earth, and remained with his mottled legs in the air in that position for at least five minutes with unflinching gravity. He T,.he "Boylston" is a shoe that carries was extricated without a murmur. I hesitate to record the many other in- its owner through a day at the office or stances of his sagacity, which rest, un- fortunately, upon the statements of an afternoon at the flying field with feet prejudiced friends. Some of them were not without a tinge of superstition. "I wholly untired. For, concealed deep crep' up the bank just now," said Ken- tuck one day, in a breathless state of beneath its good looks, is the famous excitement, "and dern my skin if he wasn't a-talking to a jaybird as was Walk- Over built-in Main Spring* Arch a-sittin' on his lap. There they was, just as free and sociable as anything you which keeps the wearer's foot arches please, a'jawin' at each other just like two cherrybums." Howbeit, whether and muscles in perfect condition. creeping over the pine boughs or lying lazily on his back blinking at the leaves Comes not only in Black Calf, above him, to him the birds sang, the ^ squirrels chattered, and the flowers in Tan also. The price is bloomed. Nature was his nurse and but mm Tense thousands watched the playfellow. For him she would let slip maneuvers of the flying squadrons between the leaves golden shafts of sun- as they circled overhead* And $10. Geo. E. Keith Company, many a foot throughout the crowd light that fell just within his grasp; she was smartly and comfortably shod would send wandering breezes to visit in Walk-Over Shoes* Campello, Brockton, Mass. him with the (Continued on page 54)

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balm of bay and resinous gum; to him river a lake. Each gorge and gulch was the tall redwoods nodded familiarly and transformed into a tumultuous water- sleepily, the bumblebees buzzed, and course that descended the hillsides, tear- the rooks cawed a slumbrous accom- ing down giant trees and scattering its paniment. drift and debris along the plain. Red Such was the golden summer of Roar- Dog had been twice under water, and ing Camp. They were "flush times," Roaring Camp had been forewarned. and the luck was with them. The claims "Water put the gold into them gulches," Advance o/tSth Inf., lit Div., Oct. II, 1918. had yielded enormously. The camp was said Stumpy. "It's been here once and Photo U. S. Signal Corps. jealous of its privileges and looked sus- will be here again!" And that night the piciously on strangers. No encourage- North Fork suddenly leaped over its The story of a ment was given to immigration, and, to banks and swept up the triangular val- make their seclusion more perfect, the ley of Roaring Camp. typewriter that land on either side of the mountain wall In the confusion of rushing water, that surrounded the camp" they duly crashing trees, and crackling timber, and went to war preempted. This, and a reputation for the darkness which seemed to flow with singular proficiency with the revolver, the water and blot out the fair valley, By a War Correspondent kept the reserve of Roaring Camp in- but little could be done to collect the violate. The expressman—their only scattered camp. When the morning was in 1916. The commander of the July, connecting link with the surrounding broke, the cabin of Stumpy, nearest the ITBritish Flying Headquarters at Saint-Omer world—sometimes told wonderful stories river-bank, was gone. Higher up the took me for a flight over the lines. of the camp. He would say, "They've a gulch they found the body of its un- Holding my Corona between my knees I wrote street up there in 'Roaring' that would lucky owner; but the pride, the hope, the first description of the front ever typed from lay over any street in Dog. They've the joy, Luck, of Roaring the air. During a cruise in a British submarine I Red The Camp typed a complete magazine story while we were got vines and flowers round their had disappeared. They were returning nosing about off Heligoland, a hundred feet be- houses, and they wash themselves twice a with sad hearts when a shout from the neath the surface. A description of the first Zep- day. But they're mighty rough on stran- bank recalled them. pelin raid over London I typed at a shattered win- gers, and they worship an Ingin baby." It was a relief-boat from down the dow by the light of the fires from incendiary bombs. With the prosperity of the camp came river. They had picked up, they said, a Throughout entire period all my at the front, a desire for further improvement. It man and an infant, nearly exhausted, my writing was done on my Corona. Because of its was proposed to build a hotel in the about two miles below. Did anybody portability and dependability, I made it a constant following spring, and to invite one or know them, and did they belong here? companion. Many a story banged off hot in a front-line dugout would never have been written two decent families to reside there for It needed but a glance to show them if I had waited to reachaspotofgreaterconvenience. the sake of The Luck, who might per- Kentuck lying there, cruelly crushed haps profit companionship. and bruised, still holding Luck During my war-time work in Europe I typed an by female but The average of 15,000 words a week. In addition to this The sacrifice that this concession to the of Roaring Camp in his arms. As they I typed the manuscript of four books. Yet, in spite sex cost these men, who were fiercely bent over the strangely assorted pair, of a number of emergency repairs made necessary skeptical in regard to its general virtue they saw that the child was cold and by violent accidents, my Corona was still in highly and usefulness, can only be accounted pulseless. "Dead?" he repeated feebly. serviceable condition when I arrived back in New for by their affection for Tommy. A "Yes, my man, and you are dying, too." York in 1919. few still held out. But the resolve could A smile lit the eyes of the expiring not be carried into effect for three Kentuck. "Dying!" he repeated; "he's The foregoing is only one of many astonishing Corona stories. You owe it to yourself to drop into months, and the minority meekly yielded a'taking me with him. Tell the boys a store where typewriters are sold and see why in the hope that something might turn I've got The Luck with me now"; and Corona is the Champion Portable. The minute you up to prevent it. And it did. the strong man, clinging to the frail lay eyes on it you will realize a million why people The winter of 185 1 will long be re- babe as a drowning man is said to cling use it—why Roosevelt took one to Africa —why membered in the foothills. The snow to a straw, drifted away into the sha- 30,000 Coronas were used in the World War—why lay deep on the Sierras, and every moun- dowy' river that flows forever to the more novelists, more newspaper men, more busi- tain creek became a river, and every unknown sea. ness men, more students in schools and colleges use Corona than all other portables put together. For a small down payment you can take a beau- tiful new Corona home with you today. Don't neg- lect this opportunity. Don't let another day pass without doing something about it. zyi Personal Uiew An interesting illustrated booklet called "Corona Typewriters," which describes Corona in detail ( Continued from page 42 and contains beautiful illustrations of the new harder work for those wheelhorses, the to do with his own business? is color models, will be sent you upon request. No ob- What ligation. Simply mail the coupon below. adjutants and the editors of the post his conception of citizenship? papers. He could not cash in for his ledger I know of a man, very well to do, who account on his honorable discharge, the said: "I don't get anything out of the Cross or the Medal of Honor, a life- Legion. I never go to post meetings." saving medal or what he did to help the When his position had given him respon- local community chest. Nor would he sibilities this was a pretty narrow- think of trying. He would be grouchy Corona minded argument. I see him marching at the suggestion that he was not for law Hie PORTABLE TYPEWRITER all over the United States without getting and order, clean streets and progress. one national thought. He would have all "Patriotism?" we hear him saying. life and patriotism cash-registered. When "Don't talk to me! I proved mine in L C SMITH & CORONA TYPEWRITERS Inc 51 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. he meets a friend, does he think how ioi7-'i8." Please send me the free booklet, '* Corona Typewritert." much he will get out of him? Does he He has heard, or someone has told fail to vote because he does not get any- him, that the Legion is a collection of Name thing out of it? Is voting some kind of professional veterans who fight the war Street _ a government business that has nothing over again in their post meetings and 407 Cltf _ State

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is living in the present and right on the job, fighting the battle of peace. is tire is built As a business man—and life and practical patriotism are a business, if you will—he ought to capitalize his re- sources. One of them is his war service to be capitalized today and tomorrow to stand to abuse. through what war service meant him eleven years ago. War was the rough preparation for present service. He knew why he went to war. Has he considered why he should join the Legion? Let him study that as he would 1 ^BONDED any business proposition; listen to the evidence as a lawyer would. Then he will find that the Legion takes off for against abuse present achievement from that common war service. The Legion is not founded on the G. A. R. model. It is unique. It is in the living battle. He did not fight the war single-handed. Doesn't he want the same company in fighting the peace battle? For a war is always on. a war for sound causes and progress. Let him look up the record of the Legion as a public influence. Has it been on the right or the wrong side of non-partisan and exclusively national issues? Was it there in the Mississippi flood? Is it there in local emergencies? Greater emergencies may come. Is it not a power for public good? If so, numbers and character of membership mean an increase of that kind of power. When he starts an enterprise in which YOU want trouble-free tires. How are Dunlop asked that question and he believes, he wants the right men, all you going to be sure of getting them? thought it through like this: the right men, those who belong in and The public knows that a Surety Bond is cer Suppose you were offered a certainty, by a ought to be in. If they do not come in, tain. The public knows that no company manufacturer who had had a 40-year record he goads them for lack of public spirit. issuing Surety Bonds has a higher rating of of absolute reliability. Then why isn't he, himself, in where he intelligence and reliability than the Amer- Suppose that tire company backed each tire belongs? ican Surety Company of New York. "Is the with the most sweeping guarantee ever In this land of drives, slogans, of so tire good enough to justify such a Surety offered. Suppose this guarantee not only much distraction from so many appeals Bond?" covered your tires against usual tire haz and activities, the Legion, in its part That was the natural question of the bond- ards, but also against accidents, such as today, is not "over" to the public as it ing experts. The fact that they decided to collisions and milk bottles . . . and even should be. Some elders, who were too put the name of the American Surety Com- against ABUSES. old to serve, see it as a reminder of pany behind the guarantee, was the answer. what they missed. They, too, think it is Why Ditnlop Tires can be Bonded. It is sweeping . . . it covers tire hazards from a reminiscence club. If it were just offer Dunlop would be too intelligent to accidents to abuses. It is iron-clad ... a that I would get out. do not They such a guarantee on an ordinary tire. If guarantee in the form of a regular Surety realize how it is serving them as a part brains and materials were not put into Bond, backed both by Dunlop and the Amer- of the national whole. each Dunlop in such full measure as to ican Surety Company. Before you buy an- It is old the posts that keep the mem- make it stand abuse, a guarantee like this other tire, you will want to know about in bers and get the new. They do the would be suicidal. this. Without obligation to you we will real work. I am only writing words. From Egypt, where only the finest long- mail you a specimen Surety Bond FREE. But what the Legion stands for in the Mail the coupon today. staple cotton is selected . . . through Dun- national living battle is the great argu- lop's own spinning mills at Utica . . . from ment, after what the post stands for in the rubber plantations on the other side of its own community. The way is or- . Dunlop . great the globe . through the Send for ganization through the posts and through factories at Buffalo . . . where rubber and the departments in team play, always in cord are transformed into the finished tire SPECIMEN BOND the inclusive thought of all eligibles and by master craftsmen ... at every step this Tree .... not that "our club" is big enough. No question guides all : "Will this make a tire more is it too big now than the Army that can stand abuse?" THE DUNLOP TTRE AND RUBBER COMPANY and Navy were during the War Departmwt 402, Buffalo, N. Y. Dunlop is confident of the answer. Please send me free specimen copy of the new Dunlop

Surety Bond. It is understood this does noc obligate mc This Surely Bond is a seal of confidence. in any way. Daring Minnesota women, descend- A guarantee? It is far more than that. ants of pioneers! The men of Winne- Name "What will make the public SURE that bago Post served a banquet which they " this guarantee will be fulfilled J Address cooked in the post r ooms fo the The Fair , L r niary. I his ^took WereTT Braven nen£ on both sides I await curiously the detailed reports of the casualties.

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the personally conducted wild-goose details of the abduction plot, and it CHAMPIONS chase after Atzerodt and the ridiculous seemed possible that Mudd may have misidentification of the garments of known of this plot. Mudd admitted Payne—these circumstances were dam- setting Booth's leg. Such was the evi- aging. The fact that sometime before dence against Mudd, and the court was the crime Wiechmann had confided his lenient in the admission of evidence for suspicions of Booth and Surratt to an the prosecution and strict in its rulings office mate, but had gone no further, governing the admission of evidence for did not balance the score. the defense. General Lew Wallace, a The officials bore down upon this member of the court, reprimanded one prisoner very severely, and at length of the defending counsel for endeavor- conducted him before Secretary Stan- ing to impeach the testimony of a gov- ton. Mr. Stanton was a hard man for a ernment witness—an elementary right culprit—or for any subordinate—to face. in ordinary courts of law. The Union generals had found him so, The evidence in Mudd's favor was including Grant, who called his superior this. Mudd had repudiated his Southern a blusterer. What Grant took for bluster preferences some months before the most men assumed to be the evidences crime and at the last election had sup- of an extraordinarily forceful personal- ported the Union ticket. His meetings ity, and so it appeared to Louis Wiech- with Booth and his acquaintance with mann. Mr. Stanton subjected the clerk Surratt were not shown to be connected to an examination that lasted for two with the crime. Mudd denied that he hours. Wiechmann was led from the had recog-iized Booth when he set his Secretary's presence a cringing wreck, leg. Nothing was proved to the contrary. but he clung to his story. Pressure was On hearing of the assassination, Mudd not relaxed, and a few days later, given had notified the authorities of his sus- the choice of amplifying his admissions picions of Booth and Herold, though or facing a court martial, Wiechmann not as promptly by some eighteen hours pieced out the story that sent Mary as he could have done. Surratt to the dock. Ned Spangler was a shiftless but After the pleas of the eight prisoners amiable character of low intelligence. had been heard the introduction of evi- For years he had done odd jobs for dence began. The first testimony was Booth, and thought it a kind of honor. by Baker's men, who claimed to have He had cared for the horses Booth ac- proof of the complicity of Jefferson quired for the abduction plot. While Davis and the Confederate agents named decorating the Presidential box at Ford's in the charge. This had been previously on the afternoon before the murder he cars are de- lODAY'S motor announced to the press, and the North was reported to have said, "Damn the signed to give more thrilling accepted their guilt as a fact. All that President and General Grant." When andbetter performance than Baker's men were required to make Booth leaped to the stage after the deed ever before. What most plausible was something that nearly and made his escape through the stage motorists fail to realize is everyone already believed, and in this door, Spangler yelled to another scene that all engines are subject to an im- they were given great latitude. There shifter, "Don't say which way he went!" perceptible though steady depreciation in performance. was no cross-examination and they were The defense of Arnold and O'Laughlin permitted to introduce testimony which was that they had not seen Booth for are de- The new improved Champions ordinarily would not be entertained even nearly a month before the crime and did signed to maintain new car perform- by a military court. Still they failed. not know that it was contemplated. As ance and to meet all conditions of the most advanced engineering. Their evidence was inconclusive, and for the abduction plot —that was not the court turned its attention to the what they were on trial for. Arnold had The far-reaching improvements, the prisoners at the bar. written Booth withdrawing from that time-tested and exclusive superiorities With them the case was different. enterprise, but the letter held out the of the new improved Champions are so great as to warrant immediate equip- Payne had no defense and attempted hope that if Booth would change his ment with new Champions—no matter none, although a lawyer who had volun- dramatic tactics and consult with the what spark plug you may now be using. teered his services went through certain Confederate authorities in Richmond he formalities. Herold might as well have might come back in. Arnold was in Old The new improved Champions will attempted no defense. Atzerodt was Point Comfort, Virginia, clerking in a show actual savings in gas and oil. which will more than offset their cost. little better off. That he made no at- Union Army canteen on the night of the tempt on the life of Vice-President John- crime and was arrested there some days You can be sure of superior perform- son because he had lost his nerve later. O'Laughlin was in Washington on ance with the new improved Cham- amounted to little in the way of miti- the night of the murder. He said he had pions. But to secure the best per- formance results from your engine, gation; Atzerodt knew of Booth's in- come from Baltimore to see the cele- make sure it is equipped with the tention to kill Lincoln in time to have bration of the surrender of Lee. His proper type of Champion. Every forestalled it. At no time was there a time was fully accounted for by wit- Champion dealer has a chart which will doubt as to the penalty these three nesses of unquestioned loyalty. He did show which Champion should be in- would pay. not see Booth, although he tried to find stalled engine for best results. in your The cases against Dr. Mudd and Ned him for a friendly visit. The Government contended that the Remember it is a genuine economy to in- Spangler were not so clear, and the stall new Champions every 10,000 miles. prisoners were skillfully defended by murder conspiracy and the kidnapping General Thomas Ewing, a brother-in-law conspiracy constituted the same offense, of General Sherman. The evidence notwithstanding the fact that no men- against Mudd established that he had tion of abduction appeared in the com- CHAMPION sympathized with the South during the prehensive charge. The defense was un- SPARK PLUGS war. Booth had seen Mudd on his tours able to introduce satisfactory evidence of Southern Maryland while working on that the abduction plan was abandoned, TOLEDO, OHIO - WINDSOR, ONTARIO 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly .

the participants to it had dispersed and the assassination conspiracy was there- after erected on a new basis. Booth's says notebook would have established this, but Secretary Stanton did not turn Booth's notebook over to the court. He submitted everything else that was found on Booth's body, however, and many- ABE things that were found in his trunk. The cases for and against these pris- oners were interrupted from time to time by the introduction of additional evidence against Jefferson Davis and RUTH associates. But proof of their complicity remained elusive. The first witness against Mrs. Surratt was Louis Wiechmann. He testified that Booth had come to the Surratt house the first time in January of 1865 in the to every ball player . . company of John Surratt, and there- after was frequently at the house. He always asked for John, and, if John was absent, for his mother. Wiechmann had

observed Booth and Mrs. Surratt in I" WAS mighty pleased when this Reach outfit asked me to put private conversation several times, but without hearing what passed between my ideas into a line of Big League mitts and gloves. For I knew them. Herold had visited the Surratt they'd do a bang-up job of carrying out my ideas. home once, and Atzerodt once, staying all night. The witness had never seen They did! And they turned out some swell gloves, men. Big and Arnold or O'Laughlin. The witness de- roomy, like you need, yet fitting just right. And they bend and scribed Payne's stay at the Surratt resi- dence, and told of finding Payne and twist as natural and easy as an old shoe — giving your fingers the John Surratt in the attic examining freedom they've got to have. knives and guns. He told of returning home unexpectedly on the day of the Following my suggestion, Reach put a special-formed pocket in attempted kidnapping of the President to find Mrs. Surratt weeping. This each glove — and that's what makes a ball stick in them so well. seemed significant to him, as Mrs. Sur- proud to have signature stamped on these fine gloves. ratt had never wept before when John Fm my was gone on his missions as a Confeder- Believe me, I sure can recommend them sincerely. They're great! ate courier, although the witness avoided an admission of his knowledge that his And they got a pretty low price on them, too, for Big League gloves." roommate was a rebel agent. Wiech- mann described the two trips to Sur- rattsville with the prisoner, the last one being on the day of the murder. He said that on both occasions Mrs. Surratt The BABE RUTH Home Run Specials had held conversations with Lloyd, her tenant, which he did not overhear. There Designed by Babe Ruth Made by Reach was an appearance of furtiveness about the conversations, the witness said. The nearest Reach dealer will gladly show you the Babe Ruth The next witness for the prosecution Line of mitts and gloves. See them. Feel them. Try them was John M. Lloyd. Lloyd told of a out. And you'll know what we mean by Big League gloves. visit to Surrattsville by Herold and John Surratt to stow away carbines after the failure of the kidnapping. He said that To Post Athletic Officers on her first visit Mrs. Surratt had in- quired about these "shooting irons," add- Ij you' It send in the coupon below, we' it send you free, a leaflet de- ing they would be needed soon. On the scribing the individual gloves in the Babe Ruth Line, also a booklet

second visit Lloyd said that Mrs. Sur- "Playing Pointers" . You can hare as many oj these booklets as you ratt asked that the guns be ready as they need for distribution among the junior teams fostered by your Post. would be called for that night. At the These fine gloves are suited perfectly Have your teams play with the Reach same time she handed him a parcel for your teams. Quality of the finest, Official American League Ball, $2.00. which Lloyd found to contain Booth's yet priced moderately. See them at Another good ball is the Babe Ruth field glasses which the assassin picked the nearest Reach dealer's. Reach Home Run Special, the liveliest, long- up during his flight. offers splendid bats and shoes, too. est-lasting $1.00 ball made. Government witnesses related the dramatic story of Payne's return to her Reach will send you free, a booklet giving many excellent pointers on correct play, house and of Mrs. Surratt's failure to also giving a full description of each glove in the Babe Ruth line. Clip the coupon. identify him; also that a search of the premises had disclosed a small litho- graph of Robert E. Lee, one of General Beauregard and a tintype of Booth. A FREE BOOKLET "Playing Pointers" point was made of the fact that when told that she was under arrest Mrs. A. L. M.— 4-29 A. J. Reach, Wright & Ditson, Inc. Surratt did not ask she being why was Dept. J Tulip and Eyre Sts., Philadelphia, Pa detained. Address _ This completed the Government's Please send me, free .your booklet "Playing case against (Continued on page 58) Pointers," which will also describe fully Town- .Slate. every glove in the Babe Ruth line. 1929, A. J. R., W. & D., Inc.

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^y//e Choice of Expiation

SPORTSIViEN ( Continued from page 57) ..for More Mary E. Surratt. The defense sought John P. Brophy, a young college student. to divest it of value as evidence by the Wiechmann asked Brophy what effect COMFORT cross-examination of the prosecution's his testimony had had. Brophy was in- and witnesses and by fresh testimony. dignant. He accused Wiechmann of try- Wiechmann was cross-examined by ing to hang an innocent woman, and PLEASURE United States Senator Reverdy Johnson, Wiechmann admitted his belief in Mrs. Maryland's most distinguished lawyer. Surratt's innocence, but said that he had in Shooting.. Mr. Johnson joined Mrs. Surratt's coun- been forced to give his testimony by sel after the start of the trial, having threats of hanging. He said that the the instant you fi become convinced of the prisoner's in- Government agents told him he had FROMyour first shell in a Brown- The during a conversation with her been talking in his sleep and that if he ing shotgun you will real- 16 nocence ize how enjoyable shooting in her cell. His appearance caused a did not make a clean breast of it there can really be. For with the Gauge marvelous Shock Absorber commotion among the members of the would be no hope for him. "And I did an original Browning in- Browning — vaguely expressed grounds, not want to be hanged," said Wiech- vention— properly adjusted court. On for light or heavy loads, Also made General Harris challenged his right to mann. the ordinarily severe shot- in 13 Gauge Kun kick becomes a gentle appear, implying that during the war Carland advised Wiechmann to make * * * and harmless movement Mr. Johnson had not supported the an affidavit of his statements, but Wiech- No more bruised shoul- Designed by ders or headaches to the Foremost Union as loyally as he should have done. mann did not do so. Brophy, however, spoil your sport —no of Harris was in- reduced them to writing and visited the more flinching to spoil Inventor in The language General your aim ! And yet, Firearms temperate and discourteous. Mr. John- defense counsel, offering to take the that is only one reason for the fast growing History son replied with some spirit that he was stand and swear to Wiechmann's ad- popularity of th shot- eligible appear before the United missions. With a feeling that they had Browning The Browning to is product of Veteran gun a and challenged overthrown the Government's case, Mrs. sportsmen the genius, John M. States Supreme Court have found that rowning—the man the intimation that he had been unfaith- Surratt's attorneys asked permission to no other shotgun who gave the world is so convenient such unprecedented ful to his oath as a senator or to his call Brophy as a witness. The judge satisfying and arms the Browning dependable as obligations as a citizen. He was per- advocates objected and the court sus- Machine Gun and Rifle, performance, famousas standard equip- mitted to appear before the court, tained them. Brophy was not permitted ment in S. Army the U. hostility of several members to testify. He wrote an account of the and proved under fire in but the the World War—the man remained undisguised. Under Mr. John- matter for the National Intelligencer, who invented and perfected declined to publish it. the automat ic pistol and who son's cross-examination Wiechmann ad- but the newspaper is known as "The Father of mitted that Mrs. Surratt was a hospi- The trial dragged on through May Modern Firearms." Noother shotgun than the Brown- table, generous and devout woman. On and through June. The introduction of ing has such a distinguished usually accom- evidence against Davis and his colleagues heritage. Sundays Wiechmann It has such features as a maga- panied her to mass. He admitted that was renewed several times. Witnesses zine cut-out, double extractors, afield, improved safety, barrel guide he had heard no word of any conversa- went far but their testimony ring, forged in one piece, to- tion between her and Booth or Lloyd. missed the point. This spectacular phase gether with barrel, and, of course, the original and re- By cross-examination of Wiechmann and of the promised revelations quietly faded markable Shock Absorber, testimony of several other from the proceeding and interest cen- which greatly softens the re- by the direct coil. Brownings are made of witnesses, it was established that Mrs. tered upon Mrs. Surratt. At the begin- the finest materials, processed taken for and fitted with painstaking precision, Surratt's visits to Surrattsville were in ning her complicity had been in one of the world's largest fire- to attend granted. But when the trial closed on arms factories, where fine crafts- response to urgent summonses manship is a tradition handed down to private legal business. its fifty-third day, something akin to through generations of gunsmithing. The result is a gun that will last a On cross-examination Lloyd confessed doubt had begun to surmount the grief- lifetime. Get the whole story about Brownings, before you buy any gun. that he was drunk when he talked to stricken rage of the North. Mail the coupon today Mrs. Surratt during her last trip to Sur- On June 29th the court met with the BROWNING ARMS CO. testified that Lloyd judge advocates who had conducted the Founded 18 70 by John M. Browning rattsville. Others Ogden, Utah was so drunk as to be irresponsible. Ad- prosecution, to render its verdict. Over ditional witnesses were found to her Herold, Atzerodt and Payne there was conversations in question. They had no debate. They were found guilty and AUTOMATIC SHOTGUNS not heard what was said, but they swore sentenced to be hanged. O'Laughlin was 12 and 16 Gauge that the conversations appeared to be of next on the list. Assent of the six mem- a casual nature. bers necessary to inflict the death penal- 1 Browning Arms Co., Ogden. Utah, AL-2 I your illustrated ty was wanting, and O'Laughlin was Please send me catalog on Brown- 1 The defense produced several wit-

I ing Shotguns. No obligations on my part. 1 nesses who had seen nothing suspicious sentenced to life imprisonment. The 1 M- in Booth's visits to the Surratt house. simple Spangler was found guilty as ac- Address | The defense'brought out that likenesses cessory after the fact and given six I City State- of Grant and of Sherman also were in years' imprisonment. Arnold—guilty and the house and that the daguerrotype of a life sentence. Then came Mrs. Surratt. Booth had been purchased at a gallery The court adjudged her guilty. At least SNAP by Miss Anna Surratt, the prisoner's six of the nine members voted for daughter. Character witnesses testified death, but to the record was appended wiffi a to Mrs. Surratt's good reputation and to a petition to the President to commute PAN-AMERICAN her kindnesses to Union soldiers. her sentence to life imprisonment. The petition signed by five members, or A few short weeks of enjoyable While the defense of Mrs. Surratt was was practice and you'll play popular under way Wiechmann, who had been a majority, of the court. It was now melodies on your beautiful Pan- long, hard, hot American Trombone, Saxophone, released from prison, met a friend named six in the evening of a Trumpet, Clarinet, or whatever day, and the court deferred sentence on Lewis J. Carland. In a sworn statement Pan-American instrument you he choose. Carland later related what happened. Dr. Mudd until the morrow, when Popularity, Friends, Extra Money Wiechmann, he said, declared himself to was given life imprisonment. you will have them all with your fac- of were a tory guaranteed, (moderately priced) be miserable on account of his testimony The first four days July quality Pan-American. Free Trial. against Mrs. Surratt and said that he period of suspense. The verdicts and Easy Payments. Write for beautifully sentences could not be made public until illustrated catalog showing all Pan- was going to confess to relieve his con- American ill. instruments. science. The two young men walked to reviewed by the President, who was PAN-AMERICAN BAND acquaintance, On July 5th Judge Advocate General INSTRUMENT & CASE CO. the rooms of a mutual 412 Pan-American Bldg., Elkhart, Ind. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Holt carried findings to Mr. Johnson, together with a digest containing the salient features, with one exception, of the various cases; there was no hint of the petition for clemency. The Judge Advocate General left the White House with the sentences ap- proved and the date of execution set for July 7th between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m., or less than forty-eight hours. More than twenty-four of these hours elapsed before the public or the defense counsel was aware of what had taken place. At 5 p. m. on July 6th John W. Clampitt, one of Mrs. Sur- ratt's attorneys, was startled by a news- boy's cry in the street, "Execution of Mrs. Surratt!" It was only the signing of the death-warrant, but Mr. Clampitt was so shocked that he hardly knew what to do. With some of his colleagues he hastened to the White House, but two senators and a file of- soldiers guard- ed the stairway to the President's study. Senator King of New York said it was useless to try to see the Executive, but Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, the widow Suddenly, out of a spring sky . . . of the statesman from Illinois, thrust aside the bayonets of the soldiers and An Advertisement of the gained the presence of Mr. Johnson. Her plea for a delay of the execution American Telephone and Telegraph Company was useless. Joined by Miss Anna Surratt, almost hysterical with grief, the lawyers called on Judge Advocate General Holt. The girl fell on her knees as the attorneys All was well on the telephone exchanges were connected and entreated the prosecutor to intercede for 1 front on April 27, 1928. Sud- the 1 ,000 telephones back in three more days of life for her mother. denly, out of a spring sky, rain service. Then, while the tem- Judge Holt promised to do so and made began to fall over central Pennsyl- porary construction carried on, an appointment for Clampitt and Miss vania. As night came on this turned neighboring Bell System warehouses Surratt to meet the President on (he following morning. into a furious storm of sleet, snow poured out ail needed equipment, At eleven o'clock that night Mr. and wind. Inside of 48 hours, 3700 new poles were set, new crossarms Clampitt sent a telegram to Reverdy telephone poles were down. Seven placed and new wire and cable run. Johnson in Baltimore. Because of the thousand miles of wire tangled wreck- In any crisis there are no state attitude of the court Senator Johnson age. Thirty-nine exchanges isolated. lines in the Bell System. In all emer- had virtually withdrawn from the case, Eleven thousand telephones silent. gencies of flood or storm as well as believing his advocacy harmed rather Repair crews were instantly mo- in the daily tasks of extending and than helped his client. Mr. Johnson maintaining suggested a writ of habeas corpus to bilized and sent to the scene. From the nation-wide net- transfer Mrs. Surratt from the custody Philadelphia 47 crews came. Other work, is seen the wisdom of One of the military to the civil courts. The parts of Pennsylvania sent 13. New Policy, One System, Universal papers were prepared and as a church Jersey, 6. New York, 4. Ohio, 6. Service. clock tolled the attorneys pulled the two Maryland and West Virginia, 12. Better and better telephone ser- bell at the home of Justice Andrew In record time, 1000 men were string- vice at the lowest cost is the goal of Wylie of the District of Columbia Su- ing insulated wire and temporary the Bell System. Present improve- preme Court. cables along the highways, on fences ments constantly into effect The justice received them in his night going and on the ground. clothes, took the papers and retired to are but the foundation for the another room. Presently he returned. Within 72 hours the isolated greater service of the future. "Gentlemen," he said, "my mind is made up. I am about to perform an act which "The Telephone Books are the Directory of the Nation" before tomorrow's sun goes down may consign me to the old Capitol Prison." With that he signed the writ. At four Travel On Ex-Service Men Get Preference o'clock Mr. Clampitt placed in the hands I I nolp* ^54mVr Railway Postal Clerks Mail Carriers of the United States marshal an order Postoffice Clerks Prohibition Agents directing him to obtain from General Pay Roll General Office Clerks Bookkeepers Hancock, the military commandant of Stenographers the district, the person of Mary Surratt. $141 to $283 MONTH When day dawned General Hancock Mail Coupon Before You Lose It was at the White House to report the unexpected turn of affairs. Thither also r FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. P186 Rochester, N. Y. hastened Secretary of War Stanton and / STEADY WORK — NO LAYOFFS — PAID , Sirs: Rush to me without charpe —copy of 32-paf-*e Judge Advocate General Holt. While utniTlniie ' book, "How to Get a U. S. Government .!"!>" with VACATIONS 1 list of positions obtainable, and full particulars tellins they conferred with the President, a / how to get them. Tell me all about preference Given soldier from the penitentiary arrived - to Es-Scrvice Men. Your Honorable Discharge Entitles / with a message. You to Special Preference / Name "The prisoner ( Continued on page 60) Common Education Sufficient '

APRIL. 7929 59 THE RIGHT TOOL SAVES TIME DIG-EZY Expiation ( Continued from page 59) This mattock is well named "Dig- Ezy." It cuts fast and digs easy Payne has just told me that Mrs. Surratt Anna was with her mother at the in any kind of soil. For taking is entirely innocent of the assassination parting. Herold was surrounded by his out big weeds, old berry vines and of President Lincoln, or of any knowl- seven sisters. A miserable slattern who breaking plant it up new beds has edge thereof. He also states that she had been his mistress clung to Atzerodt. been voted to be without an had no knowledge whatever of the ab- Payne stood alone, with a slight curl of equal. One blade 3" wide, the duction plot. I believe that scorn on his lip. had slept 3 ". ... Payne He soundly other l /s Fitted with 5 ft. all night. selected ash handle. has told the truth." The note was signed by Major Gen- It was a walk of fifty feet from the It is a Genuine True Temper eral J. F. Hartranft, commandant of penitentiary building to the steps of the tool with the Brand Burned the prison. scaffold in the yard. Mrs. Surratt went in the Handle to mark it as At the hour appointed for their audi- first, on the arms of two soldiers, fol- the best tool of its kind ence with the President, Mr. Clampitt lowed by two priests of the Catholic that can be made. and Anna Surratt arrived. They met Church, and a man who held an um- THE AMERICAN Judge Holt coming from the Executive's brella above her head. FORK & HOE CO. chamber. "I can do nothing," he said. Before the scaffold was aligned a com- 1904 Keith Bldg. "The President is immovable." pany of veteran infantry. In front of CLEVELAND, OHIO Miss Anna threw herself at the feet the soldiers stood a knot of officials and Makers of Farm and of the guardians of the President's door, newspaper men under umbrellas. Four Garden Tools for imploring them to admit her. The broad graves were nearby. More soldiers looked over 100 years. hallway of the White House was filled down from the top of the wall. At the with distinguished persons, not a few of gallows steps Mrs. Surratt hesitated. whom turned their heads. Secretary of "Holy Father, can I not tell these peo- Treasury McCulloch said this sobbing ple before I die that I am innocent?" girl—"an amiable and accomplished The sacrament of extreme unction had young lady"—was "the most pitiable ob- been administered. "No, my child," ject that I ever beheld." She asked for Father Walter said, "the world and all a respite of three days, and for the that is in it has receded forever. It promised interview with the President. would do no good and might disturb the Interview and respite were refused. John serenity of your last moments." Brophy was one of a number of other Payne stepped forward next, ironed callers also turned away. hand and foot. His step was light and Mr. Johnson was closeted with Judge steady, for the great chains on his limbs Holt and "two eminent statesmen" who were nothing to his enormous strength. have not been formally identified, but "His face might have been likened to the accepted presumption is that Mr. that of a builder of castles in the air," Stanton was one of them. Judge Holt wrote the New York Herald correspond- said that they counseled the President ent, adding that the spectators were that clemency for Mrs. Surratt "would unable to suppress a visible show of "ad- amount to an invitation to assassins miration" for one who could face death DIG-EZY MATTOCK hereafter to employ women as their in- like that. This quality of sheer and ab- struments." solute courage had struck all who came The writ of habeas corpus was return- in contact with Payne as one of the re- able before Justice Wylie at ten o'clock, markable features of the dreadful epi- RUE IEMPER the hour set for the execution. The sode. By orders, Payne's confinement justice was in his chambers, but the writ had been more rigorous than that of the was not returned. A crowd stood about others. At no time had he complained the penitentiary, where a high brick wall or asked a favor of his jailors. To their patroled by soldiers concealed the scaf- questions, some frankly sympathetic, he have made it e"sy fold. Those who found points of vantage returned brief but always courteous an- for hundreds of men to 'arn $95 a week by selling AVENUE on the roofs of surrounding buildings swers; the scowl on his countenance did Men's Virgin Wool 100% Suits and the tall masts of ships in not go very deep. had shown no re- and Ram's Head Wool Topcoats the river He at $19. 75. $4.00 a sale for you. could obtain a view. The scaffold was morse for his act, no sense of degrada- Other suits, $13.75 with $3.50 commission. Special bonuses. empty. General Hartranft was taking tion at his fate, no bravado. His one Fifth Avenue styles, union tail- advantage of the latitude permitted regret, he said, was that he should have ored. Every customer's satisfac- by tion guaranteed. I'll send you the death warrant to delay the execution. unwittingly been a party to the convic- the $25 Spring Sales Outfit FREE if you Write At Once to At eleven-thirty General Hancock, ac- tion of Mrs. Surratt. He mounted the Christy Norman. Sales Manager, , companied by the Attorney General, ap- gallows stairs with more composure than Dept. AL4, AVENUE TAILORS. 14 0 Fifth Ave., N. Y. peared before Judge Wylie. Mrs. Sur- the military attendants and with a little ratt was not with them. They reported gesture of politeness bowed his tall head that the President had suspended the to the noose. It seemed incredible. writ of habeas corpus. Herold walked with slight help, though MASONS Jl A clatter of hoofs sounded on Pennsyl- transfixed by fear. Atzerodt gibbered on vania Avenue. A squadron of cavalry the point of collapse and was half carried. Latest style genuine \Jkn wn ii]/j / selected^J^^rzleather.gold MhoMtU WUUIUwould under General Hancock's orders formed At 1.20^2 o'clock General Hartranft trimmings; y win- kpwj4hmrf a line stretching from the White House dropped his sword and the trap fell. The dow card case, Ma- W WitilUUl sonic emblem stamp- f/\r tin In to the penitentiary, miles away, in readi- bodies were cut down at five minutes cd in heavy gold. ' UI ""'S^ ness to transmit signal a notice of a of two. Sent for $i to help cover cost, just by to %et our catalogue sn tbt hands of reprieve. The day was stifling hot, and Masons. The case is a dandy. the H. read of his Your name or other stamping horses pawed the cobblestones. One TOHN SURRATT 35c a line extra. Pin a dollar to hour, two hours, they stood there. At " mother's death in a newspaper in this. Money back if not entirely one o'clock Canada. After wandering about Europe satisfied. Larger and better cases from$: pto $5. Masonic General Hartranft put his Books, Monitors,JcwclryandLodgcSuppliesforover69y machinery in motion. The legal hour he enlisted in the Papal army under the REDDING MASONIC coTnc for the conclusion of the execution was name of Watson. Several times he had 200 Fifth Ave. - - Dept. L.C., New York two. been recognized, but Washington showed

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a singular disinclination to take him in "Will the gentleman who just custody. It was finally done, however, and in 1867 he was brought home for trial. coughed, step to Meantime, a hearing before a com- the box office mittee of the House of Representatives

had revealed the existence of Booth's 5 ' notebook, which Stanton had suppressed. • • . for a package of Old Golds? This caused a flurry. The bearing of the notebook upon the trial of Mrs. Sur- ratt was plain to' all who recalled or "Of course, I have never said should consult the record, but the sub- those words from the stage —

ject slept until John A. Bingham, special but in all kindness I have often to Advocate Holt during assistant Judge wanted to offer this friendly help the trial, and now a member of the to some poor fellow whose eough House, saw fit to direct a shaft of satire at a colleague. Representative Ben F was spoiling the enjoyment of Butler of Massachusetts. Butler had been those around him. a Union general, an advocate of firm "A year or so ago, when the measures against the South and a cham- pion of military courts for the trial of makers of old gold ran some civilians. To say the least, the point of ads on the effect of coughing in ridicule not Mr. Bingham's was well theatres, I was grateful. Iam more taken, but few were prepared for the grateful now that old cold has retort it drew from Butler. invited stage folk to help them "The gentleman has had the bad taste to attack me for the reason that I could bring'firstaid'informationtoour do no more injury to the enemies of my unhappy friends the 'toughers.' country. I did all I could, but the only advice is that victim of that gentleman's prowess that "My prevention is I know of was an innocent woman hung the best aid. Smoke old golds. upon the scaffold, one Mrs. Surratt." They soothe the throat and pre- Reverberations of this sensation vent the 'cough-tickle.'" brought to the ears of President Johnson the report that a petition for clemency signed formed a part of the record of the case against the condemned woman. The proceedings of the trial were in print, with a War Department certification of not a their accuracy. But the bulky volume Why cough contained no reference to a petition for commutation. The President sent for in a carload? the original papers. Among these he found the petition, and returning to his old golds are blended from private secretary dictated the following HEART-LEA F tobacco, the finest communication to the War Minister of Nature grows. Selected for silki- Abraham Lincoln: ness and ripeness from the heart of the tobacco plant. Aged and August 1, 1867. Sir: Public considerations of a high char- mellowed extra long in a tem- acter constrain me to say that your resigna- perature of mid-July sunshine tion as Secretary of War will be accepted. to insure honey-tike smoothness. Very respectfully yours, Andrew Johnson. On your Radio . . . OLD GOLD PAUL WHITEMAN HOUR . . . Paul Whiteman, King of Jazz, and his the etc. To Honorable Edwin M. Stanton, Complete orchestra, broadcasts the OLD GOLD hour every Tuesday, from 9 to 10 P. M., Eastern Standard Time, over entire network of Columbia Broadcasting System. Seven days thereafter the trial of John Harrison Surratt terminated in a disagreement of the jury, which stood eat a chocolate, light an Old Gold, and enjoy both! eight to four for acquittal. The prisoner © P. Lorillard Co., Est. 1760 was released without a second trial.

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^femicide Expiation ( Continued from page 61

brought against him he suffered from in- Michael O'Laughlin died in prison on sinuations, principally the spurious coin- the barren island of Dry Tortugas, off age of La Fayette Baker, the baseness Florida. Mudd was pardoned in 1868. of which have no parallel in our annals. although he would not have been had The crime that elevated Andrew Johnson Mr. Johnson been able to avail himself to the Presidency also destroyed him, as of the accumulation of sixty years of it destroyed others. The two United evidence which indicates that the sur- States Senators who guarded the Presi- geon had recognized Booth when he set dent's door against those who approached his leg. Spangler and Arnold were re- it on errands of mercy killed themselves leased from Dry Tortugas in 186a. And 1 Shampoo at regular intervals with within a year. The Chief of the Secret so closed, with an act of mercy, the . Hcrpicide Tar Soap. Its rich lather heals and cleanses. Service left public life shorn of charac- record of the mad murderer's deed and ter. Hardly anyone escaped. all that came in its train. Massage the scalp daily with New- bro's Herpicide, the world-famed tonic and scalp germicide.

As a final dressing, use Newhro's Herpi- Lay to keep your hair The Unfinished battle in place and give it lustre. ( Continued from page 2Q

They may be found, for example, in the to the Legion for having ascertained Sold at drug counters. Applied by barbers. Send Annual Report of the Director of the through its day-by-day experience what 25c to Dept. D for "1-2-3 Trial Treatment.'* United States Veterans Bureau for the needed to be done, step by step, as the year 1928, a book of 123 pages which Government proceeded to discharge its The HERPICIDE CO. Detroit, Mich. may be obtained for fifteen cents from obligation to World War service men, the Superintendent of Documents, United and it is certainly not overstating the Sold on Easy Terms States Government Printing Office, case to say that the Legiorr and those Washington, D. C. of its officers who appear before the Now it is obvious that the Govern- Congress at its behest are grateful in- Complete Outfit Including Planer, Saw, Lathe, ment operations for which I have given deed to the members of both the Electric Motor and Many Useful Attachments data and those which I have not men- branches of that great legislative body Plane: Sanding, Buffing, Griniiine. tioned specifically involve a vast amount for their attention to our presentations C- Lathe _ Attach of what is customarily called red tape. and their generous responses when we The American Legion since it came into have been found to be right. existence has carried on as its principal In the absence of a large, all-inclusive activity the work of assisting service body of World War service men—such men and their dependents to obtain as the Legion—Congress might have Fast — Accurate — Complete from the Government, through the Vet- been confused by the demands of large Price complete, #89.00. Easy Terms. erans Bureau and the agencies which numbers of groups representing conflict- Write for complete information. existed before the Bureau was estab- ing interests and probably would have J. D. Wallace 8C Co., 2844 Adams St., Chicago lished, the rights and benefits awaiting enacted compromise measures which 11 W.42ndSt., NewYork 268 Market St., San Francisco them. The American Legion has under- would have satisfied none. taken to fill the role of best friend of Every Legionnaire may justly take the disabled man, to act as his repre- pride in the unique relation existing be- sentative in many of his dealings with tween The American Legion and Con- the Bureau. The American Legion has gress. He should recall that it was The mastered the intricacies of government American Legion which presented the PRICE operation and tries to help in the sim- plan that resulted in the formation of

Underwood, Remington. Royal. etc. plest and most direct ways the average the Veterans Bureau after two years of late completely refimshed All models, lfelr service man who would be bewildered if governmental chaos in which the United brand new. GUARANTEED for ten years. Send no money—big free catalog -Vy he were to attempt, unaided, to obtain States Public Health Service, the Bureau ehows actual machines In full colors. Get vt+l oor d!rect-to-you easy payment plan and 10 days* trial offer. from the Government that to which he of War Risk Insurance and the Federal International Typewriter Ex.. 186 W. Lake St., Oept. 410, Chicago, III. is entitled by the laws. Without assist- Board for Vocational Training each ance, the claimant would find puzzling worked independently and frequently at Sticks Free not only the complicated legal verbiage cross purposes. It was The American Drum of the statutes but also the equally com- Legion which pressed insistently until FRANK FANCHER, un ^ plicated rules and regulations which the Congress abandoned the utilizing of disputed World's Champion hospitals Rudimental Drummer, now Veterans Bureau has had to establish. makeshift and authorized a playing and indorsing It should be understood, first of all, comprehensive program of hospital con- S LINGERLAND that American Legion is the struction, the wisdom of which has since Drums. Thousands of The god- Buddies have already formed father of practically all the laws affect- been more than demonstrated. It was drum corps. Keep the good work ing the interests of World service The American Legion which presented going and equip with the new War wonderful SLINGERLAND men. It assumed that role through the logical, workable plan for adjusted Drums. They cost no more. Send necessity immediately after it was or- compensation when such a plan was us the name and address of your Legion Post Drum Leader and ganized in the spring of 1919 and it has needed to satisfy the overwhelming de- we will send you FREE one pai been the godfather of service men's leg- mand for some such legislation that had Champ Fancher Model Sticks. Send us address of new drum corps or- islation ever since. It sought the con- spontaneously developed among all serv- ganizing: or contemplating organ- fidence of Congress at the beginning by ice men in the difficult years immediate- izing and we will send you one pair Champ Fancher Special Gold Sticks. the moderation and justice of what it ly after the war. It was The American Write for complete beautifully advocated for the disabled and I hope Legion which helped to form the World illustrated drum catalog. Frank Fanchet and feel that it has continued to hold War Veterans Act of 1924, an act which SLINGERLAND that confidence. It is not overstating simplified the Government's administra- BANJO AND DRUM COMPANY the case to say that Congress is grateful tion of its operations for service men 1325 Belden Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 62 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly !

and an act which still forms the basis of the rights and benefits now accorded. It was The American Legion which called attention to the need of a separate Congressional committee to deal with affairs. it veterans' Just how does the Legion exercise its influence on legislation? The answer is at the ankle/ obtainable any day in Washington, where the National Legislative Committee and the National Rehabilitation Committee you are one who considers have offices. Both committees are gov- IF the fit of the coat collar as im- erned by the resolutions adopted by the annual national conventions of The portant—what about the "collar" American Legion. These resolutions are of your oxfords?

the outgrowth of the sentiment of service Here are the oxfords that fit at living States. men throughout the United the ankle — when you first put The resolutions are used the chair- by them on, and after youVe worn men of the legislative and rehabilitation them for months. committees in formulating the legisla- tive program which the Legion presents They're Ankle-Fashioned and have to Congress. Ordinarily, the National the "stretch" taken out, an exclu- Commander presents to the President sive Nunn-Bush method of hand a statement of the program following tailoring the uppers to insure snug each national convention. The chair- neat, trim appearance always. man of the National Rehabilitation Committee uses other convention reso- 50 to $13.50. Style Boo\ on re

lutions as the basis for advocating need- quest. . Agencies in all principal cities. Also sold at the exclusive ed reforms in Veterans Bureau admin- Nunn-Bush Stores listed: istrative methods or regulations. Legion legislative and rehabilitation New York, Boston. spokesmen constantly appear before Norfolk, Cleveland, De- troit, Dayton, Chicago committees of Congress and the direct- St. Louis, New Orleans ing heads of the Veterans Bureau to Milwaukee, St. Paul, assist honestly in the compilation of Omaha, Denver, and San statutes and regulations which will Francisco. satisfy at once the requirements of sound law and the dictates of justice and fair play. Both the National Legis- lative Committee and the National Re- habilitation Committee are composed of members representing all parts of the country, and the composite viewpoint Nunn-Bush of the two committees is invariably rep- resentative of the best judgment of ANKLE-FASH ION ED OXFORDS service men everywhere. JVew~ybrk "Milwaukee "San Trancisco The work of studying the operation of existing laws to determine their ade- quacy and of detecting promptly the Mew Kind Of need for new legislation is carried on by Alkali Wat erproot the National Rehabilitation Committee can at the same time as it conducts its huge Silk operations to assist individual service The best Black W. P. !Silk Opener line made. Strength, yard- men to obtain an adjustment of their age and prompt delivery claims. The office of the National Reha- guaranteed. Write for our catalogue of lines for every Works Like Magic I bilitation Committee of The American purpose. We do not claim to ! An Axiomatic, simple little make the cheapest, but we AGENTS can opening machine for the home Legion is separated from the central of- do claim to make the best. Men and Women This revolutionary invention In only a few short months has banished old fice of the United States Veterans Bureau No. Test make $6 to $12 an hour, full or spare ran openers from over 1 0 0, 0 0 0 kitch- in Washington by only three blocks. In time. Big, worth- ens. And no wonder ! Imagine an whilecommissions amazing, lifetime device that holds the office, Legion the chairman and on every sale. Ex- the can and cuts out the top leaving can rim elusive Terri- slick, smooth and clean. Just turn a crank, twenty aides are at work every day and that's all. Approved by Good Housekeeping tories. Send quick Inst., Modern Pnscilla, etc. Write today all day. In the files of the office are P/NUlCOXUtE for FREE OUT- for special introductory advertising offer. FIT and FREE Dept. IAST folders representing sixty thousand AL TEXT Offers. CENTRAL STATES MFG. CO. Dept. 0- 100?. 4500 Mary Ave., St. Louis. Mo claims of individual service men—claims of the sort that present complications Ex-Service Men Get which make it difficult for the claimant Travel at issue to deal personally with the Bu- Preference reau to carry them forward successfully. Railway Postal Clerks Mail Carriers Despite every effort at simplification, Postoffice Clerks Prohibition Agents the laws and regulations are still com- plex. The statutes and administrative regulations affecting veterans' rights are $141 to $225 MONTH so numerous and so involved that the Mail Coupon Before You Lose It Legion experts must be as skilled and FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. P194 STEADY WORK — NO LAYOFFS — PAID I as trained as specialists in marine or Rochester, N. Y. VACATIONS of 32-page hook, patent law. Often in preparing a claim / Sirs : Rush to me without charge—ropy / ' How to Get U. S. Government Jobs," with list of for a board of appeals, the Legion expert full particulars telling how to Your Honorable Discharge Entitles m positions obtainable, and Tell me all about preference to Ex-Service Men. must study previous rulings and sub- I get them. You to Special Preference mitted evidence ( Continued on page 64) Name Common Education Sufficient '

APRIL, 1929 '

The Unfinished ^Battle

( Continued from page 6j) kJRemarkable Opportunity to _ Own 7he Famous 21-Jewel consisting of hundreds of pages. The dependents. By establishing contact with work requires not only a knowledge of the department service officer, the post laws and regulations but also of the service officer may keep open the best 7he Insured Watch minutiae of medical diagnosis and medi- channels for communication of claims There are thousands of Studebaker cal findings of fact upon which claims to the Bureau. He should preserve a Watch customers in every state in the may stand or fall. copy of the World War Veterans Act Union and Canada—men and women who have The claims which come to the office of 1924, as amended, and keep on hand answered these ads and obtained lowest factory prices on one of the highest grade watches ever of the National Rehabilitation Commit- a stock of the most commonly used perfected. Save middlemen's profits! The Stude- tee in Washington are mostly those forms required by the Bureau in sub- baker name today means the greatest watch value which the committee's field workers and mission of claims. of allhistory ! Write for free book and details today'. Cash or Extremely Easy the claims experts of the departments The National Rehabilitation Com- Monthly Payments!, have been unable to press to settlement mittee has published a manual for the in the regional offices of the Veterans guidance of post service officers and Imagine being able to purchase these magnificent thin model Bureau. The Bureau has, in addition to other Legionnaires who assist claimants. watches at lowest factory its central Washington office, fifty-four This manual gives in outline the pro- prices on easy payments out ^^--"(""v 1 '.— of your income, or for cash regional offices located in every part of visions of laws affecting compensation, ^ffi&zffifa'g 1 1 IE* Let us send you one of ^jfj&Zil.V the country. There is at least one Bu- hospitalization and the other usual sub- these marvelous watches — vou are under no / reau regional office in every State. To jects of claims and tells of the steps obligation to keep it. lfry/~j' ' keep in touch with these regional offices which should be followed in preparing You'll agree it is therf •f/.T assist presenting world's greatest watch . -« _ and claimants dealing with them, and claims of each type. By - value. Write for free || <>+~m*0*^^ the committee has twelve liaison repre- the time this is read, a copy of this 6-color book and learn redl- » the true facts! sentatives, each assigned to a definite area. manual should have been received by In addition to the claims experts every post. FREE working directly under the National Re- In all its work of service for the dis- habilitation Committee, there are in abled, The American Legion is carrying 6 'Color Book! many States service officers maintained out the pledge it gave to the American If you write at once we people at the it will send beautiful by Legion departments or through State time assembled The style book, showing appropriations with Legion co-operation. American Legion Endowment Fund of lowest factory prices Half on these lifetime in- Legislatures of twenty-four States have $5,000,000. of the income from sured watches. Thou- made appropriations for the mainte- this trust fund is used for the Legion's sands save money this way. Write TODAY. nance of State service officers and in ten rehabilitation activities, the other half States these officers are maintained en- being used for the Legion's efforts for Write! tirely by appropriations of Legion de- the orphaned and needy children of Luxurious strap and) partments. Thus, in thirty-four States service men. The amount available for bracelet watches at re- markably low prices! there are full-time service officers regu- rehabilitation activities from the income Your greatest oppor- larly assisting claimants. In seven other of the Endowment Fund is hardly suffi- tunity to save! Write States, cient for FREE style book. the Department Adjutants also to meet the expanding needs of STUDEBAKER WATCH COMPANY act as service officers, so that altogether the work being done, but The American Directed by the Studebaker Family—known far forty-one States have trained Legion Legion Auxiliary has undertaken to pro- three-quarters of a century of fair dealing Dept. NF-4 South Bend, Indiana workers giving assistance to claimants. vide a notable contribution which should Canadian Address: Windsor, Ont. These men almost uniformly have offices prevent any lessening of our organized in the cities in which the Bureau's effort. The National Executive Commit- regional offices are located. Regional tee of the Auxiliary, meeting at Indian- PETTIBONE'S offices are able to make adjustments and apolis at the end of January, extended CINCINNATI, OHIO only the most difficult cases, especially $25,000 for the Legion's rehabilitation can equip you with good those involving appeals, find their way work, the sum to be raised by a contri- to the office of the Legion's National Re- bution of ten cents from each of the UNIFORMS habilitation Committee in Washington. Auxiliary's members. Assistance such as vast this affords to those carrying the BAND Write for Catalog MILITARY The majority of claims, of course, on Le- come to the Legion workers at the Bu- gion's work for the disabled surpassing reau's regional offices through the serv- inspiration. It brings the assurance that ice officers of the Legion posts. Every not only in the Legion itself but also in post, regardless of size, should have a its helpmate there is as strong today as post service officer who is in a position it was ten years ago that determination to give the necessary time to the assist- to keep our pledge to the disabled our Big catches ance of the disabled service man or his foremost obligation. with your Bulls-Eye Americans forever

( Continued from page ij ) Level-Wind Casting Reel STRAIGHT, on-the-dot casting o< ts them. Plac- two interpretations had to be clarified 1886. No nobler or more heartening ing your bait right where they'll grab it—and and, deplorably, war was necessary to utterance ever came from the lips of an when! Thrills, sport, real game fish, full of fight and fine eating. Catch your share, thanks the permanent settlement of the ques- American. I reread it the other day with to your Meisselbach Bull's-Eye Level Wind Reel tion. renewed admiration. No apology, no No. 100. Genuine Meisselbach design, precision work- I was groping among such ideas as whimper; but the manly deliverance of manship and quality materials— famous nearly these when Henry W. Grady, editor of a son of the South whose eyes were 40 years. Fine balance, free running, long service. Black, brown, green or red end plates of Permo. the Atlanta Constitution, delivered a turned toward the future without regret Price only $5.00. Fully guaranteed. Sold by best speech on the New South before the for the past. The election of Cleveland dealers, or write us. "Bite Book" and folder FREE. New England Society in New York in 1884 had witnessed the last vigorous THE A. F. MEISSELBACH bloody shirt. In that Division of the General Industries Co. that thrilled the country. That was in waving of the cam- 2931 TAYLOR STREET ELYRIA, OHIO 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ) !

paign. one of the bitterest the nation has known, it was charged that if the Athletic Officer "Eyes Right!" Democrats were successful the Confed- erate brigadiers would again be in the Gangway for the Junior Leaguers, pride of the Post! saddle; the debts of the Confederacy When you had those boys outfitted with the would be paid and pensions would be forthcoming for Confederate veterans. D&M American Legion Junior Baseball League Nothing of the kind happened. Cleve- land, elected on questions remote from REGULATION UNIFORM sectionalism, brought an era of good feeling. The Southern men appointed to You pulled a ten~stri\e! important places by a Democratic Presi- look like dent proved to be soundly American, They champions and Leaguers is the place to go entitled to all respect and confidence. with those DfePM Uniforms, for Dc?M Golf Clubs and And Grady had struck a note so high Gloves, Bats and Balls they'll Balls, Swimming Suits, Base' and touched with so splendid a patriot- play like champions. ball Equipment and other ath' ism that the unforgiving "stalwarts" of And remember this—the store letic goods. You can't go the North were shamed by it. We began that outfitted the Junior wrong on D&M ! '|, to realize that the perpetuation of a sec- tional spirit was a profitless business on both sides. The South had not only suffered in war but had been deeply humiliated by the abuses of Reconstruction. Having whipped the Confederate States back -i into the Union it struck me as poor DsM sportsmanship to continue to harass THE DRAPE RMAYNARD CO.,PLYMOUTH ,N.H. them. The high purpose of the Union NEW YORK—.— -SAN FRANCISCO SUTTON, QUEBEC could only be defeated by the persistent irritation of the vanquished. Grant had said: "Let us have peace." Not the Pep Up With A soldiers, but politicians intent on keep- Be A Railway Traffic ing alive the old animosities the made Inspector ! DRUM CORPS mischief. it It's easy to organize a snappy Drum The South, must be said, Every graduate of this institute is as- sisted to a position, at a definite salary Corps that will make your post a had its irreconcilables and fire-eaters upon completion of Traffic Inspection factor at Conventions, bring in course, or his tuition refunded. who struck back fiercely when provoked. You can prepare for a profitable career in new members, and keep up the this interesting Railway profession in a few enthusiasm of old "buddies." But we began to hear more and more weeks of epare time home study. Hours are regular, promotion rapid . You are practically yoUT own boss. Rapid salary advances to How to Organize A of the New South, and other typical $1SS, *200, $250 per month. Send for fre* booklet— today Drum Corps—Sent FREE Southerners, following Grady, lifted Learn what Traffic Inspection can dofor you. In the last ten years this course has Write for our 48 page book— it's full their voices reassuringly and found raised the pay and given satisfaction to of ideas for the Drum Corps. hundreds. Our booklet shi>ws how your friendly response in the North. future can be made a certainty. LUDWIG & LUDWIG, Dept. 7-4 Standard Business Training Institute, 1611 No. Lincoln Street, Chicago, III. One of the best lectures I ever heard Div. 24 Buffalo, New York. was General John B. Gordon's "Last Days of the Confederacy"—eloquent, graphic, and touched with a delightful humor. Colonel Henry Watterson. the I distinguished Kentuckian, lecturing in FOOT PA NS the North on Lincoln, helped in the work of reconciliation. Such Southern folk as I began to meet seemed quite ENDED in 10 minutes like other Americans; there was nothing the matter with them! I became ac- nothing quainted with two Confederate veterans or costs you who had moved to Indianapolis; they aching, tired feeling in the feet and were perfectly orderly, law-abiding citi- Burning, legs—cramps in toes, foot calluses, pains in zens. A pension attorney, knowing only 1 Trouble starts toes, instep, ball or heel — dull ache in the that one of these gentlemen had been a in weakened mus- ankle, calf or knee— shooting pains from soldier, pursued him for months to get cles. Tiny bones of for- ward arch are displaced. back of toes, spreading of the feet, his application for a pension. It amused Pain follows. or that broken-down feeling — the veteran to encourage his attentions. 2 A super-elastic band assists all can now be quickly ended and strengthens weakened Finally when the attorney's pen was muscles, replaces bones. Pain stops poised ready to fill in the papers he was instantly. flabbergasted by the applicant's smiling 2.000,000 now in use. Specialists, amazed at SCIENCE says 94% of all foot pains result confession that his military service had from weakened muscles that permit the results, urge it widely. it 10 days; if not delighted, your displaced and press Wear been with Stuart's cavalry! foot bones to become money returned. Go to druggist, shoe store Jeb blood vessels. against sensitive nerves and or chiropodist. If they can't supply you use In my own cogitations the war of Now a way is discovered to strengthen these coupon below and pay postman. 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Worn with any style footwear. There BANNER ( medium) $2 WONDER (medium) $1 city. It occurred to me that Lee. Stone- is nothing stiff to further weaken muscles or VICTOR (long) $2.50 MIRACLE Uong) $1.50 cause discomfort. wall Jackson, Joe Johnston, Albert Sid- Pain stops like magic. Soon band may be Money enclosed Send C. O. D. plus postage. ney Johnston, Longstreet and Pickett of discarded and feet are well to stay. Nearly Shoe Size Shoe Width Gettysburg were also of the fine fibre Name of which Americans are made. "Mighty ARCH Address. men of valor, ( Continued on page 66 BRACES City State JUNG'S Canada; Ilia Dutierin St., Toronto. Add 25c to above prices. APRIL, 1929 65 ! — —

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famous throughout the house of their most comprehensive and adequate work fathers." I didn't change my heroes; I yet produced in Stephen Vincent Benet's merely added to the list "John Brown's Body." Here indeed is a No doubt many boys in the South, great saga, a poem unique in method, seeing Confederate veterans and hearing vivid, quick with life and nobly just in # the war discussed, had passed through its appraisements. It has the color and From $1,800 to $10,000 an experience similar to mine, with the movement of a great pageant. It is a in Four Years difference that while political feeling work of genius, not approached by any Thanks to Higher Accountancy was largely responsible for my attitude, other writer of any other period in our "LaSalle training in Higher Accountancy has enabled me in four years to increase my business income more than Southern youth, born in the years im- history. Old John Brown is fittingly the 600%." So writes John H. Lansing. Public Accountant, In- mediately following the conflict, might "point of departure," is come Tax Specialist, and prominent citizen of Amsterdam, but the stage New York. "When you stop to consider that the average well be pardoned for a bitter antagonism alive with characters, only the fa- , not bookkeeper does not receive more than $40 a week " he con- tinues, "it is obvious that $10,000 a year has advantages well due to the fact that the story was writ- mous but the humble. "Old, unhappy, worth the consideration of any ambitious man or woman. Ishall always be grateful to LaSalleforthehelpithas given ten with an iron pen upon the land itself. far-off things and battles long ago" are me in building a greater income." Mr. Lansing was 43 when he enrolled with LaSalle, and at the time was earn- Gratifying it is indeed to have lived to magically evoked. The social picture as ing less than $2,000 a year. see the old sectional prejudices and to both sides is done with amazing skill; Send for This Book— It's Free hatreds obliterated. If any proof were there are stories within the great story Are you ambitious to make a real success in business — to 6t yourself for positions paying $3,000, $5,000. $10,000 a year necessary of the patriotism of the South —interludes with swift changes of key. and even better? Then you will find LaSalle's 64-page book. "Accountancy, the Profession that Pays," of the greatest it was amply given in the unquestioning The effect of the whole is tremendous. help and inspiration — and —LaSalle will send it to you FREE. For the sake of a brighter future, clip and mail response of the sons and grandsons of the Much in these pages could not have the coupon NOW. Confederacy to the call to the colors in been got from other books; the poet Find Yourself Through LaSn lie LASALLE EXTENSION Spk the War with Spain and in the World must have sat at the feet of his elders UNIVERSITY m War. With the portrait of my father in who had tasted the smoke of those The World's Largest Business Training Institution his uniform as one of Abraham Lin- battles and tramped with the great Dept. 4361 -HR Chicago J coln's soldiers before me daily, I would phalanxes. It touches the sublime heights Tell me about your salary-increasing JL_ * plan as applied to advaiu-. mt < t in not have my children think in terms of but falls into colloquialism without loss my , J-MA the business field checked below. Send dignity. copy of "Ten Years' Promotion in disparagement or hatred of the men who of There's no mere prettiness One," all without obligation. fought against the flag that waves now of phrase; no dolling up of the human Higher Accountancy n Business Management Credit and Collection in every part of a united Republic. I beings who cross the broad stage. The Modern Salesmanship Correspondence would rather have them believe that the characterizations of the famous are done Traffic Management d Modern Business Corre- O Railway Station _ spondence war was inevitable and that the men of with sure strokes: D Telegraphy Management the South who engaged in the long O Law— Degree of LL.B. C Expert Bookkeeping Commercial Law O C. P. A. Coaching struggle were as valiant as the men of This Lincoln, President now by the Industrial O Business English Management the North. If I go with them to view grace of luck, O Modern Poremanship D Commercial Spanish Personnel Management O Effective Speaking the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Disunion, politics, Douglas and a few O Banking and Finance E Stenotypy— Stenography speeches the most beautiful monument in all the Which make the monumental booming Name world—or if I take them to Grant's of Webster Present Position tomb and say, "Here was a great soldier Sound empty as the belly of a burst ' Address of the Republic, whose iron blows saved drum, the Union," I shall not neglect to tell Lincoln shambled in to the Cabinet them that the soldiers of the South meeting CROWN UNIFORM CO.. were worthy foes. And sat, ungainly and awkward. Seated 323 Fourth Ave. New York, N. Y. I shall never forget a day when I so stood before that recumbent statue of He did not seem so tall nor quite so UNIFORMS Lee in the chapel of Washington and strange Though he was strange enough. His Lee University at Lexington. I should new broadcloth suit For Your Legion Post be sorry for any son of a Union soldier Felt tight and formal across his big view that figure without emo- Catalogue, Swatches, and Prices on who can shoulders still Request tion. In Washington, standing by the And his new shiny top-hat was not yet august figure of Lincoln and glancing battered ADVERTISE toward the capitol, we thank God that To the bulging shape of the old fa- YOUR SPORTS we are a united people. By the Hudson miliar hat Baseball Posters that pull fill the crowds and He'd worn at Springfield, stuffed with the stands. 8 designs. Printed in two-color we ponder the life of Grant—so amaz- its hoard of papers. combinations on 4-pIy cardboard. Size 14x22 ing in its beginnings, so tinged with inches. Price $9.50 per 100; $85.00 per 1,000. He was pretty tired. All week the of- early failure ; so splendid at last in mag- Write for Folder on All Sports fice-seekers nanimity. It is to be a better American General Poster Service Co. Had plagued him as the flies in fly-time 509 So. Franklin St., to reflect upon that April day at Ap- plague Chicago, 111. pomattox when two American gentle- A gaunt-headed, patient horse. men met to end the war—the greatest soldiers of modern times. One was of Fate, we are reminded, "has a way of Be tlie loin Brown undistinguished blood save as he brought picking unlikely material," and we see it to fame; the other of Virginia's proud Grant of Your Town aristocracy. And the conqueror, so solic- itous for the other's feelings, so anxious Sometime brevet-captain in the old You have heard of Tom Brown of the famous Tom Brown's to be generous! Noble Americans, all! Fourth Infantry, Clown Band. You have prob- A vast literature, still increasing, de- Mentioned in Mexican orders for gal- ably heard his records. You, also, might develop into a Saxophone scribes the War Between the States. Its lant service Wizard and earn a princely in- And, six years later, forced to resign come. At least, you can have a lot causes and the controversies over errors of fun, be popular socially and in from the Army college, and of judgment by the commanders fill earn easy money on Without enough money to pay for a the side. It's easy to learn on a volumes. There innumerable BuescherTrueTone Saxophone many are stateroom home. and easy to pay for it by our spe- biographies of the men of the period. cial plan. 6 days' trial on any Saxo- Turned farmer on Hardscrabble Farm, phone, Cornet, Trombone, Trump- Novelists, poets and playwrights have turned bill-collector, et or other instrument. Mention instrument for Free circulars. found those battle years rich in material. Turned clerk in the country-store that Buescher Band Instrument Co. We have now what strikes me as the his brothers ran, 2757 Buescher Block (505) Elkhart, Indiana 66 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — 4

the W,TH THE The eldest-born of the lot, but the fam- But you could see he was not reading 5J-JIRT ily-failure, them, Unloading frozen hides from a farmer's And, if he thought, you could not read NON-SHRINK sleigh his thoughts, With stoop-shouldered strength, whit- Even as shadows, by any light that COLLAR tling beside the stove, shines. And now and then turning to whiskey to take the sting "You'd know that face among a mil- From winter and certain memories. lion faces," Thought the still watcher, "and yet, his .... A middle-aged clerk, hair and beard A stumpy, mute man in a faded army Have quite turned white, white as the overcoat, dogwood-bloom Who wrote the War Department after That blossomed on the way to Chan- Fort Sumter, cellorsville Offering them such service as he could When Jackson was alive and we were give young And saying he thought that he was fit And we were winning and the end was to command near. As much as a regiment, but getting no And now, I guess, the end is near answer. enough In spite of everything that we can do,

Yet it was he who was to become And he's alone tonight and Jackson's "Unconditional Surrender" Grant; and, dead." looming larger as his star led him East- How thin the lines have grown of the ewf A shirt ward, it was he who ended it all. Blue and the Gray! Discussions of the Lee, on his famed horse, Traveller, with a collar that does comes into the picture now and again, right and wrong of it are profitless now but most memorable is an aide-de- save for the student of law and history. not wash into a choker camp's chance view of him in the last But there is continuing inspiration in hours of the war: the thought of the men of the North ]SJOW, you don't have to buy shirts with horse- and the South who acquitted themselves collar neck size in order to allow for shrinkage. This great age of new achievements has produced He saw, imprinted on the yellow light so nobly, with so fine a courage; who the shirt with NON-SHRINK Collar (attached). That made the tent a hollow jack-o'- were so steadfast and patient under suf- lantern, Thanks to a remarkable new process, this hand- fering and so brave in defeat. They The sharp, black shadow of a seated some LUSTRAY SHIRT comes back again and enriched and strengthened the American man, again from the laundry with the collar always the Spirit for those of us carry on, and The profile like the profile on a bust. who same trim, comfortable size. Lustray is the very Lee in his tent, alone. they wrote new meanings and new glories cream of broadcloth shirts! Its shimmering lustre like silk, it He had some shadow-papers in his hand, into the name of our common country. looks but outlasts any silk made. Because the Lustray sheen is worked into the yarn itself, the lustre cannot wash out or wear off. On Style alone, Lustray would score a victory: ^Broken Tailoring that is stitched in, not sewn together; The 3 smartly modeled cuffs; buttons firmly fixed with extra strong thread; coat style, pocket and 7-button (Continued from page 17) front. To convince you, we want you to

Marcel Rude, secretary to the lost horse "What about prowlers?" Bright re- Wear this Shirt at Our Risk trader, St. Denis. peated. So fine are the materials and tailoring in a Lustray Bright smiled as he recognized the "I have come just now to report to Shirt that we can GUARANTEE it for style, fit one-armed Frenchman; circumstances the brigadier," Rude answered. He spoke and wear. If Lustray is not all we claim, wearing it costs you nothing. If you keep it (as you sure- were his way for once. Of the two, the slowly, almost reluctantly. "Last night ly will after the first washing has proved it) you'll gendarme saw the D. C. I. sergeant first. I was sleepless. M'sieur St. Denis is realize that only our enormous volume could give "M'sieur?" he gave a rising inflection still gone, good Sergeant. The affair is such exclusive features as the NON-SHRINK to the single word. heavy on my mind, and who could collar, such style, such fit, and such wear at the

Rude whirled about. The fright which sleep? It is two o'clock, perhaps, when price of $ 1 .95 . Now, here's how you get in on our amazing offer! . covered his face gave way to recognition. I look from my window. There is a 6 Sena0 , NoT Money "You?" he exclaimed. "The M'sieur person in the garden. He is near the T^'D'E'E1 i So that you may have a Lustray Shirt in your Bright! I did not at once know you in stables when I first see him, then con- .IT IvL -E* • exact size and so that you can seled: the fabric, we offer a FREE LUSTRAY TEST BOX. this uniform." tinues way toward Circe. He has It contains an actual sample to show "Most folks don't," Bright agreed. come from Domfront direction. Have I you the quality of broadcloth in the Lustray line. It alsogives full infor- He went directly to the point. "What told you an old road crosses the farm? mation how you can have a Lustray _^C^W>»^ you mean prowl?" It is now disused. So I think, at the Shirt with the agreement that if you (^OCvAll// are not satisfieditcostsyounothing. Rude hesitated. His eyes rolled up moment, he is just a traveler, perhaps Just mail thecoupon to learn all and down nervously as they regarded a tired soldier going back to his billet. about this offer. the American's face. Bright suddenly But this morning I find evidence that he remembered Inspector Gibon's descrip- has trespassed in the stables. The straw tion of him: "Honest as a kitchen has been pulled down so to make a sleep- clock." Honest and slow. ing place. There is blood on the floor "This is M'sieur, the Sergeant Bright and a sleeve stained with it, torn from a of the American police, the one whom shirt. They are empty, the stalls, except I saw so recently down in Bordeaux," for M'sieur's favorite horses, you under- WIVES,rOK will do your hus- ." he was explaining to the gendarme. stand the war . . bands a favor by clipping "M'sieur, the Brigadier Bonnet, our "I've heard there was a war." Bright the coupon and mailing it in. brave policeman." was watching Rude's right hand. Its Brigadier Bonnet stepped heavily fingers were working nervously, closing LUSTBERG, NAST & CO., Inc., 331 Broadway, New York, Dept. L" from behind the desk, dipping his head and unclosing, picking at the buttons on Please send me a free Lustray Test Box toward his hand in a casual salute. his coat. "What's this baby look like?" containing sample to show me the qual- Bright had time to get out his packet the sergeant demanded of him. "Eyes ity of broadcloth in Lustray Shirts. of cigarettes. The gendarme saluted different colors?" Name twice now, with more vigor, accepting Rude shook his head sadly. "You one from the packet. must under- (Continued on page 68) Address.

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stand, Sergeant, it was dark as a Bor- or fifteen hours. Bright shifted the dis- deaux cask. I could not see the eyes, patch case from his right hand to his only the thick shadow." He paused, left. For the moment he was tempted and comprehension lighted his face. "You to confide in Rude, to tell him of the

Special Features that mean. . . . oh, no. It was not the chalk mark on Bathhurst's shoe, its American who abducted M'sieur St. duplicate in the room which St. Denis's Men Appreciate Denis. This one was shorter, heavier. American companion had occupied. Patented, dust -t He, protector— (1) ... it is not too much to say fat." was honest, everyone said. that SEALS the movement against Rude Dust ! Dirt ! Dampness ! Damage Brigadier Bonnet, who was chewing "It's this way," Bright began. He (2) Vibration-proof movement. Spe- cially tempered steel plates to the end of his unlighted cigarette, put paused without finishing the sentence. withstand jars and shocks. MEN up his hand quickly at this last remark, He remembered suddenly one significant It's TROUBLE PROOF I (3) Silky woven Mesh Strap. Adds and pursing out his lips, exclaimed "La- fact. According to Inspector Gibon it "dressy" touch. It slips ON la-la!" soldier, this and OFF and VP and OYER the hand An old brigadier, had rained the night before Duclose and Without unbuckl ing. No old style possessing a shrewd, round, earnest he arrived in Bordeaux. When con- harness huckles to fumble with and slip out of hand, causing damage. little face and a cherry nose, with bulg- sidered in relation to a piece of evidence Radium dial— (4) extra luminous. ing brown cheeks. typical gendarme. he carried in his that rain Tells time VIVIDLY in pitch A pocket, was darkn ess! Not so smart as Gibon down at Bor- important. No, he would not grow con- (5) Curved back. Lies flat on wrist. Can't catch in sleeves! deaux, Bright guessed, but better na- fidential just yet with St. Denis's sec- Showin? bow Watch ia slipped up fore-e tured. He observed that the Frenchman retary. 10 Days' FREE Trial ..out of harm's w wore the Military Medal, the Cross with "I might look at your dark friend Send NO MONEY in Advance, pay NOTHING on De- livery! We send Watch on 10 Days' approval. Wear it! palms, and the blue, white and red of myself," he said carelessly. "Not that Note how everyone admires it! If satisfied after 10 "honorable service and saving of life." I American, understand. But Days, send check or money order for $3 7.50! Or, if you think him Irish to pay on Budget Plan, send $5.00 each month, "You say short?" the brigadier ex- I advise you to catch him, brigadier. otherwise return it. claimed. "Fat? did not tell me let wild pig run around $5.00 Monthly You Never do to a There is no extra charge for the Budget Plan accommo- this before, friend Rude. Perhaps I, too, loose." dation. The price remains the same, $37.50, as nationally After advertised by the Bulova Watch Company. Just clip this saw the intruder. There was a stranger "Zut!" the gendarme shrugged. advertisement and mail TODAY ! If a new customer, this morning, a pig dark as thunder, and all this was unimportant. Since the war please tell us something about yourself. We will appre- ciate and respect the information. the devil had made his eyes. He paused began Bonnet had discovered the dis- SEAVER -WILLIAMS CO. here in the place and asked an American tressing fact that there were many for- International Distributors 365 WASHINGTON ST., A.L.-4-29 BOSTON, MASS. soldier where m'sieur the commandant eigners in the world who looked like lives. Oui, m'sieur the commandant, the pigs. "It is an hour ago since this per- Major Rennels. This one was Ameri- son was in the place. He is gone by §aire YourFeet can? Non. He was not, for once. Some- now. You depart, m'sieur?" When all else fails end your sufferi- thing else beside American. His French "Got business up the street," Bright ng with the flexible "no metal" was wretched. A pig." answered. " 'Bye, gentlemen." OR FREE BOOKLET "Pig?" Bright repeated. He spoke in- He started the motor and tucked the voluntarily. Pig. That was the word dispatch case in beside him. By rights Corporal Duclose had used in describing he was through with the St. Denis affair. the man they had since come to desig- It rested now with Corporal Duclose, Heefner Arch Support Co, 57 M. E. Taylor Bldg, Louisville. Ky. nate as the Blackbird. Short, dark, fat, and Duclose should be here any day to troublesome business as far $1900 -$2600, Railway Postal Clerk; $1700- the devil had made his eyes, and he wind up the $2100, Clerk-Carrier. Practical Questions looked like a pig. "Pigs in pork butchers' as the A. E. F. was concerned. But and Answers. Ideal Preparation. Averages windows," Duclose had put it. Bright Blackbird or not, this man who asked as high as 101.40 Railway Postal Clerk unconsciously gripped tight on the for Mister Commandant might stand and 105.20 Clerk-Carrier. Write for par- leather bag under his arm and then looking up. Three minutes later Bright ticulars of ex-service men's appointments called himself a fool for doing it. halted again at the staff headquarters after studying my course. "When was that?" he demanded in- of the Circe district. The sergeant major H. F. WARD differently. He suffered a cold, momen- still worked on his morning report. Dept. 113, 160!) W. 9th St., Los Angeles, Cal. tary vision of Courier Bathhurst dead Bright leaned confidentially over the WE on the compartment floor. desk. "An hour ago." "I'm back. General." He brought out |ToAny Suit! "His shirt?" Rude put in eagerly. "It his cigarettes. "Smoke? I'm looking I Double the life of your was torn?" for somebody else this time. Sort of a f coat and vest with perfectly matched pants.100,000 patterns.' Bonnet shrugged. "I have not second half-breed Turk. A fat guy, fat as Every pair hand tailored to your measure; no "readymades." Our match sent FREE for your sight, friend Rude. I cannot see through Fatima. He asked somebody down the O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. street to get here a bit ago." Send piece of cloth or vest today. the coat. I do not notice his arms, ex- how ©'27 SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY possesses two." Bright "That damn pest? Yeh, he come and 115 So. Dearborn Street. Dept. 143 Chicago cept that he found himself looking at Rude's empty went. Turk, was he? Well, mebbe. A all right. In much of a BE sleeve. "But it may be," the brigadier garlic hound was continuing, "may be the very one hurry as you was. And askin' for the Popular you hunt." same man." The sergeant major looked the I'm hunting," up with new suspicion. "Why's every- Play a Conn band or orchestra "And maybe one instrument and you're wel- Bright muttered. He considered the facts body wantin' this guy Whitfield so sud- come everywhere. Win pleas- ure and profit playing part quickly, watching as he did so the un- den and so early in the morning?" or whole time. With a Conn reveille you play tunes the very first easy expression on Rude's dull face. The Bright grinned. "Early? If day. Easy playing features 0' sol- and new instruction methods man had seen someone, unquestionably. was ten o'clock some you paper make it fun from the start. Bathhurst was murdered at St. Pierre diers would still be in bed." FREE TRIAL, Easy Pay- ments on any Conn. Write des Corps, five kilometers out of Tours. "Oh, hell!" The sergeant major for literature, details. Name instrument. No obligation. A division of the Etat railway ran from turned his back. "Pat." he called, C. G. CONN, Ltd. Tours to Le Mans; another connected "where's that damn ink eradicator?" 408 Conn Bldg, Elkhart. Ind. Le Mans with Domfront. It would be "If the dark gentleman strolls in easy for a man to get from St. Pierre again." Bright directed, "keep him. Say des Corps to Domfront by rail in ten you'll get Whitfield. And send to the

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jend-army-rie for me toot damn sweet. was a young voice, younger than the

' THE PERFECT I'm a cop, see? tall, lean, even, well-set up figure made "Yeh, I spotted you first time. You Bright anticipate; young, and with al- was forward like they all are. I don't most a trace of accent. Bright was not CIGAR care for cops." sure, but he guessed German. Duclose would have known. FOR YOUR TASTE "Well, it wasn't love at first sight when I run into you, big boy, but that's "I've a package here for a friend 1$ IN THIS BOX no difference. We're talking about Turks who's with him." and things. If he comes back, you act "What's in the package?" pretty and keep him interested and send "Laundry," Bright answered rapidly. for me. He's wanted." "Clothes of some kind." The sergeant major regarded him The orderly shrugged. "/ don't know morosely and puffed the cigarette. where they are. They go lots of places "I'll call you, soldier," he agreed. to fish, never twice the same one. Can't "Sure. Only hope I don't see him." give an idea where they are this time." He paused. Bright waited. There was V nothing more forthcoming. He prodded the man with another question. Private HpHE village of Circe offered no clue Menz maintained his silence. to the Blackbird, if it had been he, "Bet you make a good dog robber," nor did Whitfield return. All day Bright Bright growled at length. "Don't know waited, making three hurried trips along anything and can't give an idea. Good the river road in search of the fishermen, night." while Brigadier Bonnet in the meantime He started his car noisily. The lights pedaled his bicycle up the road to the of Circe faded out quickly as he drove St. Denis establishment, at Rude's anx- up the long sloping road to the hills, ious insistence, and stood desultory and before he had decided just what he guard. But at six o'clock, when Bright should do or why he had come, he made was hurrying through the gate of the out the glow hovering over Domfront, Circe headquarters, bent on a last in- and the gates of the St. Denis farm on MYON LY£«>50r r quiry, the sergeant major stalked out of his right. the door with information. The horse trader's home was a long, I DON'T want you to order "just "They's a feller here now might tell low, angular building, cropping out of cigars". I want you to smoke and you where Major Rennels is at," he the stony surface of the land. Bright, judge, at your leisure, the luxurious volunteered; "his old dog robber. Major observing its size, remembered the seven- flavors of my complete line of seven specially made brands. used to take him along. Just got back teen years St. Denis was reported to I have put them up in the Sample from hospital today, had Spanish influ- have been victorious at the Bernay horse Case shown above. I have priced the enza a couple of weeks." fair. The dozen gables of the house fol- case far below its actual cigar value. "Send for him," Bright bade. He lowed the uneven contours of the ground That is to help you find the cigar you scraped his feet restlessly on the gravel and were lost in the shadows of a grove will want to smoke for the rest of your and for a moment allowed the dispatch of chestnut trees to the west. On the life.. .When you' ve given these sample case to dangle by its strap. Thick clumps other side a group of tall stables loomed cigars a fair trial, if you don't think you've had double value for your of shrubbery filled the darkness with against the background of bare apple money, I'll send your money backtoyou. deep shadows. He glanced about un- orchards. Bright halted his car on the How can I make such an offer? Be- easily. day so far had lacked defi- drive. The gravel cause I import my own tobacco. Be- nite events, but in spite of that, or be- There were no lights visible at the cause 1 operate the biggest cigar factory cause of it, the disquietude which first shuttered windows, but an oil lamp that sells for cash only. Because every possessed him there on the train with burned in a windproof glass box in the cigar I make goes direct to the man the unlucky Bathhurst had increased entry before the main door. Bright sat J.Y. "Find that fellow Menz, Pat," he from the shadows and started toward heard the sergeant major order. "He's him. Bright gripped his pistol and slid in quarters. Bring him down." the barrel from the holster. Then he It seemed to Bright that Private recognized Brigadier Bonnet. He re- Menz walked with a slight falter as he laxed angrily. approached through the garden from the "Listen, grandpa," he growled, "don't enlisted men's quarters in the farther start out sudden at me like that. You wing of the main house. Even in the was pretty near assigned to patrol duty gloom he made out an unsteadiness to on the golden stairs!" the man's gait, a hesitance. as if he "I do not comprehend," the gendarme could not see or had been released from answered in French. the hospital too soon. "That's the trouble with Frogs," Bright "Menz?" he asked before the orderly persisted in English, "they don't under- had reached him. "My name's Bright, stand, and when they do they don't care

with a sergeant tacked on if you can't . . . Anything going on here?" resist being military. Where's your "It is quiet as a virgin's boudoir." Put Yourself in Shape for Summer! right! Reduce that bulging waistline skipper? I need tonight, START him." "Nobody prowling eh? Guess that's been accumulating: all winter. It's an ." easy, comfortable, practical, and sensible thing The orderly was silent. Bright sensed, Rude imagined. . . to do—and the LITTLE CORPORAL "KLAS- although he could not plainly see any The gendarme bristled, at once de- TEX" Relt will do it quickly. features, that the man was peering in- fended his countryman. Special 12 Day Trial Offer

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be old, but they saw a pig there in the right, sending a streak of lamplight into village." the corridor. "Mebbe." Bright retorted, "mebbe "Cheerful place." Bright murmured. not. Where's Rude?" "Don't blame a man for jumping off the "At the rear. In a room on the north Pyrenees." where the daughter keeps flowers It Two sounds came to his ears. A clock has many windows." was ticking in the room to the left, and Bossert Homes are recom- "There's a caretaker." beyond the lighted door a wood fire mended by scores of the most "He is inside. A man blind as a pump, crackled. But before he had investi- prominent people in the country but he has good ears. He stands now in gated" farther Rude appeared, coughing. the kitchen, with the stove poker in his He carried a hammer in his hand. —quality, experience and con- hands, listening." "It was your car that stopped?" he venience to purchasers are the "And the others?" asked. elements that have built the "Mademoiselle Josephine and her "Why the hardware?" Bright mo- Bossert reputation. sit the fire in tioned to the aunt by the dining room, hammer. t disconsolate. Nearly two weeks the "I must protect myself. You have Save time, worry, work and father has been missing." Bonnet come to assist?" money see Bossert for every- — paused, and shaking his head ruefully, "I'll stick around tonight. I'm just thing from garages to beautiful tapped one finger against a bulging waiting for a friend, as the lady says in homes. cheek. "I tell you this in confidence, the story." m'sieur. The aunt is a hawk. Diable! Their voices brought two other mem- Write for Illustrated Catalogue Did she give me a look! 'Why are bers of the household. A tall, almost police here?' she asks." towering old man in a soiled shirt ad- "Well, why are they?" Bright de- vanced cautiously from a room at the manded. "Somebody sneaks through the rear. He was armed with a stove poker. Bossert yard one night, and the next you put "Chevonnet, the caretaker." Rude ex- out listening posts." plained. "He sees poorly. This is the The brigadier shrugged, and muttered American policeman, Jules. He will something about the American problem. spend the night here." Homes "You have the Englishman you search?" "I would be better satisfied with a he asked politely. battalion," snorted the old man, "and a LOUIS BOSSERT & SONS, "No, but I'll relieve you here. Like priest to offer consolation. I do not see 1375 GRAND ST., to look around. Go home to your wife." well, policeman, but I can hear the BROOKLYN, N. Y. Bonnet hesitated. He was reluctant blossoms fall from the trees." Prohibition Agents to leave, once having been persuaded to He pushed forward his great face, "and Investigators come. "What has your Englishman to which was ornamented by a dyed mus- do with my St. Denis? And this black tache, and Bright decided at once that $2300 to $3400 YEAR devil I saw? Who is he? If he is a half blind or not, here was a capable MEN 23 to 57 ." Turk . . ally in battle. The girl came out more Interesting work. 'Pull' unnecessary. Common education sufficient. Ex-Service men get preference. "He isn't," Bright retorted impatient- quietly than Chevonnet. By the dim Write Immediately for 32 page hook of Government Jobs, with full ly. "He's Armenian. Duclose said so. I light in the hall, Bright could not see description, and particulars on how to pet an appointment. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. P333, Rochester, N. Y. don't know what he's got to do with her features as distinctly as he would your precious horse trader or my bloody have liked, but at least Rude had not Britisher." He had shifted from French exaggerated. If this were Josephine St. 10 Inches Off to English. "But don't you begin asking Denis, and Rude's respectful manner questions, grandpa. I got enough I told him that it was, she was worth a thought up myself to start a puzzle better light. Waistline In works." "Good evening, monsieur.' Her greet- "I have not the English, I do not ing was in short, clipped English that ." 35 Days comprehend. . . had not been learned in Domfront's "Don't expect me to teach you. Not market place. "Did I hear Marcel say "I reduced from 48 inches to 38 at your age. They got to be young and you will remain the night?" inches in 35 days," says R. E. Johnson, of Akron, O., "just by female to call me teacher." Wheel team couldn't pull me off, wearing a Director Belt. Stom- Bonnet shrugged, and muttered again miss. I'd like to look around, see some- ach now firm, doesn't sag and 1 of the American problem. thing of the house." Bright was inter- feel fine." "If I go now," he began reluctantly, rupted by an insistent cawing voice from The Director Belt gets at the ." cause of fat and quickly re "and should be required here . . the room with the fireplace. kneading, moves it by its gentle, I feel massaging action on the abdo- "I'll holler," Bright promised. "Josephine, a draft!" men, which causes the fat to be He let himself into the door after the "That is my aunt." The girl's manner dissolved and absorbed. Thou- sands have proved it and doctors Frenchman had departed, and halted in was apologetic. "She is deaf, and at lecommendit as the natural way to reduce. Stop drugs, exercises a dimly lighted corridor with a stone times very . . . what you call unreason- and dieting. Try this easy way. Trial floor. An unpleasant gloominess per- able." She motioned him toward the Sent on entrance. Bright 's first im- door. "She reads lips," she added in an Let us prove our claims. vaded the We'll send a Director for trial. pression was disappointment. The in- undertone. If you don't get results you owe nothing. You don't risk a penny. terior was bare compared with the pre- Bright nodded. "I've met that kind," Write for trial offer, doctors' en- dorsements and letters from tentious outside. Two rooms opened to he said. •users. Mail the coupon NOW I LANDON & WARNER the right, one to the left, and at the rear He held the dispatch case half con- 332 S. La Salle St., Chicago, III. a narrow, steep flight of steps led up- cealed behind him as he followed into Landon& Warner, Dept. K 4,332 S. LaSalle, Chicago ward. A half-burned candle in a brass the dining room. The woman before the j j

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hand reached out toward the heat. She that she spoke warmly to Chevonnet as turned half about as Bright entered and she passed him in the door, but only "This Great stared at him with small eyes, which in briefly, with an order, to Rude. The youth probably had been blue. latter retreated. Bright chuckled. The Invention Keeps "You are American?" she asked, and secretary evidently was out of good then, without waiting for the admission: grace. "No posies for you tonight, young Me In Razor Blades "More trouble." fellow," he remarked. Bright sighed; he wished he were Rus- Rude shook his head. He did not ask sian ... oh, anything ... at times. what Bright meant. But he recovered FREE" Remembering the amenities, he shut the from his apathy when the sergeant de- flap of his pistol holster. If this were manded the shirt. "I've shaved five years with one razor blade! This amazing de- St. sister, reflected, it "Shirt?" Denis's he was vice has saved me $15 a year!" fortunate indeed that Josephine resem- "Shirt sleeve. The torn one. One the bled her mother. The girl was darker man left in your stable.'' than most Normans, the better light re- "Oh-h." vealed, smaller of build, with little of He was gone a considerable time. He the robust coloring native to the Chan- returned holding a blood-stained piece nel hillsides. of cotton cloth gingerly by one edge. "You bring news of my father?" she Bright looked at it with interest but did asked. Bright shook his head. "I am not relieve him of it. "Turn it over," hopeful," she ventured. he directed. wonder million ^J"0 over a men "No reason not to be. Lots of folks It was half a sleeve, of cheap printed use Kriss-Kross! J. T. Mail gone longer than he's been turn up. fabric, grayish white, with a faded pink (Wisconsin) reports he has bought no razor blades for five years. Any Anyhow, we're not going to have any and green pattern of flowers. It was number of men report a wholeyear's trouble here tonight. I just came along torn off at the elbow, and a black but- shaves from one razor blade. For to give you a hand at keeping awake." ton, too large for the buttonhole, had Kriss-Kross introduces something He was speaking to Josephine, but over been sewed clumsily but securely to the new in blade sharpening. En- tirely unlike ordinary "stroppers." her shoulder he saw Rude and Chevon- wristband. MAKES Now being introduced in nation- net peering through the door. "Any- "Fancy chap," Bright remarked. wide free trial offer. Fits all DAY blades except Durham. thing in the house anyone would want He took the sleeve finally, and after New-type razor FREE! Mail coupon for to steal?" Bright asked. The girl smiled. shaking it twice, he folded it carefully full details without obligation. collecting orders. Rhodes Kriss-Kross Corp., Dept. Learn how you can "Nothing, monsieur. There is nothing and stowed it away in his right blouse make$10to$30 a day, D-413, 1418 Pendleton Ave., St. spare hours or full valuable, or important, here. Not even pocket with the envelope from Bordeaux Louis, Mo. Largest mfrs. of me- time. Check agent chanical line in coupon below. good horses any more. I cannot com- and the empty shell from St. Pierre des stroppers. ." prehend what it means, all this . . Corps. He had a queer notion that his "It don't amount to much," Bright own gun was responsible for this dried ft£KRISS KROSS answered heartily. "The man last night blood. He had shot the Blackbird in the STROPPER was out stealing somebody's geese." He arm; nicked him seriously enough that 1 I Rhodes Mfg. Co., Dept. D-4 1 3 14 18 Pendleton anticipated what the girl would answer. he dropped the bag. Which arm he did | Ave., St. Louis, Mo. I Without obligation, send full description of Kriss-Kross, bottle, like it dark see. free trial offer, free "Cut his arm on a coney-ac not know; had been too to j and razor.

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been poor years. You understand, the snuffed the candle in the corridor. ." war . . "There's worse things could happen to "Guess the horse business in Nor- a certain horse trader than not comin' mandy can't be so prosperous as it's back from the mountains," he murmured. cracked up to be," Bright said. "Ugly He stationed Rude in the flower room house for a nice girl." He nodded up- and Chevonnet by the front door. Since Nary a traffic cop! ward. Rude interrupted the gesture. The Josephine had taken the lamp from the secretary's voice became agitated. dining table, the lower floor was dark You've watched soft fleecy clouds in a blue sky, and wished you could drift upon a cloud bank. "If you mean mademoiselle, it is true. except for the fagots on the hearth that quiet waters in an Old Town Floating over cool She is a nice girl. With a fault." sent up occasional bursts of flame. Canoe is about as near as you can come to realiz- ing that delightful day-dream. No bit of errant "Only one?" Stepping out to the sheltered porch, thistledown could rest more lightly on the stream. "She does not care for the Americans." Bright extinguished the lantern. He Get away from the dusty road! Enjoy the "So?" Bright looked at him shrewd- listened before descending the step. relaxation of canoeing in an Old Town. Old A Town Canoes have the grace and beauty of real ly. "I wonder." The secretary's eyes wind was rising rapidly, sweeping up the Indian lineage. Easy to handle, and perfectly dropped under his hard inspection. hills from the Channel; small black balanced. Priced as low as $67. From dealer or factory. "Don't suppose she would care for patches of clouds hurried overhead, ob- Write today for free catalog. It shows and cops," Bright grunted. "But how about scuring stars momentarily, then passing prices many light, water-tight models. Paddling, sailing and square-stern canoes, extra-safe Sponson all the young officers with their pretty on. Shrubbery rustled in the garden. models, dinghies and sturdy family boats. Also mustaches down at Circe? There must Below to the left glowed the sleepy speedy craft for outboard motors—racing step planes and hydroplanes. Old Town Canoe Co., be a lot of them with nothing much to lights of Circe, while westward over the 964 Main Street, Old Town, Maine. ." do. . . shoulder of the hill a faint luminousness Rude coughed. "If you wish to see marked the more prosperous town of Old Town Canoe the house?" he reminded. Domfront. Bright laughed at his discomfort. "Oh, Bright felt a sudden chill and pulled sure," he agreed. He glanced again his collar closer about his throat. There about the room. "I'm interested in art was a touch of something ominous in forget AerialTroubles especially," he added. the air, the same prediction of danger ^f^T\. GETG ET NEW Sketches of horses covered two walls that he had felt all that night with SELECTIVITY of the parlor. Bright, examining them, Bathhurst. He cursed himself again for OISJANCE thought of Corporal Duclose. He didn't a fool. But as an afterthought, just be- Why put up with electro- ^^BETTER need the little Dutchman this time to fore he stepped out to the gravel walk, | static noise and interference, \ TONE, fading and other roof-aerial nui- tell him the art was bad. he turned back the flap of his pistol siinrrs when you can easily avoid them with the amazing underground "Where next?" he asked. holster. His car stood a few feet within antenna—Subwave-Aeriai? Teats on all types of Radio receivers Im | show marked St. Denis's office, plain, gate, started it quietly, driv- provement in tone, sele 'tivity and clar' a cold room the and he focal and DX stations. R. ducesinterfe with tiled floor and more adequate fur- ing it to the nearest of the stables. The Test Subwave -Aerial FREE Write for details and free nishings than the parlor, jutted out to one in which he suspected the Black- •trial offer to Dept 415-E.W. the west just as the conservatory did bird had spent the previous night lay APPROVED UNDERGROUND 5 fN0OP.SE on the east. Under its front window beyond, on the other side of the old cart BY UCEN~ "AERIAL PRODUCTS RA0IO OPERATORS SUITE 618, ST.CLAIR BLDG. stood a broad desk, evidently for the road Rude had mentioned that after- AND ENGINEERS ST CLAIR S ERIE STS.. CHICAGO, ILL. use of the horse breeder, nearby a noon. Bright locked the car and returned WANT a new smaller one for the secretary. The to the house. Passing through to the business profes- sion of your own, shelves, that lined two sides of the room, conservatory, he spoke to Rude. withall thetrade were filled with tall slim volumes which "Good night to sleep." DO YOU you can attend to? Then be- Bright surmised were account books. A "Sleep? Then your imagination is not come ii foot <'orrectioni*t, and in a few weeks letter press stood just inside the door. as mine." earn big income in service fees—not medical nor chiropody—easy terms for home training, Above the book cases, framed in glass, "Keep yours in hand, boy," Bright no further capital needed, no goods to buy, no collection of prize ribbons over noth- agency. Address hung a and warned. "It and excitement Stephenson Laboratory, 9 Back Bay, Boston. Mats. medallions, with here and there a photo- ing is the two things that make the graph of a horse. On the inner wall, be- French a funny race." He crossed to EADY BIG PAY EMPLOYMENT' tween parlor and office, a small iron the office and prepared for a comfortable OPEN TO MEN & WOMEN door indicated a safe. Seeing it, Bright night. He would stretch out and catch No experience necessary. Easy *3Q. hours and pleasant work bring again felt the weight of Courier Bath- up on some sleep, he decided. Feeling WEEKLY big cash reward to you at once hurst's dispatch case. his way through the unfamiliar foom, forYOV and continuously. Everything you need to start will be fur- WEEKLY "Know the combination to that safety he stumbled over a chair. Chevonnet nished—free. Recognized lead- er in direct to consumer Held box?" he asked Rude. ran in, crying: guarantees this offer. Write ." Carlton Mills 114 Fifth Ave. "To be sure. But it contains only "What in the name of piety. . . NEW YORK Dept 308-J medicines." Rude opened its door in- "Just another antique," Bright an- differently. Bottles and boxes littered swered. He pulled open a window in HowTo Secure A two shelves. A stout, aromatic breath the office and released the shutter. It of herbs and roots floated out. banged noisily in the rising wind and he "I'll get rid of this batch of souve- had to lean out and grope for the fas- Government Position nirs," Bright said. He thrust the bag tening. Doing so, he had an uncom- Why worry about strikes, layoffs, hard times ? Get a into the safe and turned the knob. Ris- fortable sensation at the back of his Government job ! Increased salaries, steady At the work, travel, good pay. I'll help you ing, he saw the thin figure of the aunt neck, as if he might be watched. become a Custom House Clerk, stalking toward him. same time he heard the hum of a car on Railway Postal Clerk. Post Office Clerk. City Mai! Car- "You are in France, young man," she the road below and saw a flash of light rier, Rural Carrier—or any of the poplars. oilier Government job you want. reminded him sharply. "This is not against the bare trunks I was Secretary-Examiner of a America. No night air, understand? No It sped on toward Domfront, and he Civil Service Commission Tor 8 years. Have helped thousands. open windows. I can feel a draft in my shut the glass and searched in the dark Now FREE sleep." for a chair. stair, heels automobile?" Chevonnet whis- My 3 2 -page book tells about the She returned up the her "An jobs open—and how I can help you and cane again tapping precisely on the pered at the door. get one. WriteTODAY. ARTHUR It. PATTERSON, Civil Service Ex treads. When she had gone, Bright "On the road." pert. PATTERSON SCHOOL. C34 Wisner Building, Rochester, N. Y 72 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "One halted?" found himselt almost believing. He "It's the wind you hear." pressed lightly on his flashlamp. Chev- Bright lighted a cigarette and leaned onnet's shadow leaped grotesquely back, thinking sleepily of the problem against the wall. The points of his long before him. He was sitting quietly when mustache stood out like the hair of a the clock struck a lugubrious ten. Had frightened dog. he dozed? He stretched and leaned for- "Skin back your ears." Bright ad- ward. From the corridor he heard Chev- vised, "it won't hurt em." onnet's voice, calling his name. Bright He proceeded through the parlor to hurried to the parlor, pressing the but- the office of St. Denis. The single open ton of his flash lamp. The old man shutter made an oblong gray light stood with his ear to the panel. against the blackness of the walls. He "I heard a car. I am positive this laid the flashlight on the desk and was time. It stopped." feeling forward for his chair when he "Lots of cars stop. Lack of gas does brought up sharply. Something had it mostly." moved in the garden beyond the win- Chevonnet grumbled. Bright, light- dow. There was a slight sound, the na- ing another cigarette, returned irritably ture of which he could not determine. to the office. He was conscious of an He peered out, almost expectantly. What spells increasing sleepiness for the first time was it? An irregular black patch shifted Might

in forty-eight hours. Why was he here? as he looked. Outside he heard the rush Miller Huggins is one of the leading figures in baseball, and one of the smallest in size. Stature furnishes no Search for St. Denis was over so far as of wind in bare chestnut branches. He guide to his powers, however. The great New York he was concerned. That thankless task, advanced one foot. Behind him a board Yankee team, that has finished fir St in the American League six times in the last eight years, is in which Americans might be involved, creaked and he dodged. He took two his develop- ment. He is its manager and its mentor. Huggins or might not, rested now only on Du- steps more. knows baseball; he knows players; and he knows bats! Reason to listen, therefore, when he says: close. True, he carried in his pocket one The silhouette of a man showed ab- tangible bit of evidence. But it took ruptly against the glass less than five "Nearly every Yankee uses more than a dry paper envelope with a feet from the sill. Whoever it was had Louisville Sluggers" heel mark on it to solve the case, more been crawling and suddenly stood up- So do ninety per cent of all other players in professional than the possibilities arising from In- right. Bright eased toward it. The out- baseball. Every Louisville Slugger is a perfectly selected, perfectly designed and finished bat. Hold spector Gibon's assertion that it had line blurred, immediately became dis- one, and swing it; feel at once the trustworthy quality of its good rained the night before Duclose and he tinct again. He recognized a soldier, timber and sound workmanship. Models of leading sluggers, Stamped with arrived at Bordeaux. He had been as- recognized tight little cap, square shoul- their facsimile signatures, are now shown by your local dealer. See them, and send signed an easier job now, delivering a ders, slim waist. The figure stood quiet- the coupon below for a new book that pictures and tells about your favorite batting Stars. It's free. Hillench leather case to Sir Harry Whitfield. To ly, probably listening. Bright loosened & Bradsby Company, Incorporated, Mfrs., Louisville, Ky. be sure, Bathhurst had been killed. He the pistol, drew it from his holster and blamed himself, somehow, for that. But released the safety. The figure moved, Louisville Shi «»•«» so far no one had actually seen an and in so doing was lost for a second in American involved in his murder. a blur of shrubbery. Bright edged for- Bats .... And until someone did, until there ward another step, not taking his eyes was evidence heavy enough to pick up from the glass. An American? It cer- in your hand, it was not an American tainly looked like one. Well, if there case. He'd go back to Rennels's head- were Americans involved, he'd have to quarters in the morning and wait for the swallow a lot of big words. oil expert's return. If he caught the The figure took on distinction. Bright Blackbird, well enough. If he delivered estimated the distance to the window. the packet and got a receipt, that was He could reach it in three steps, jerk good enough, too. If Whitfield didn't open the casement, and be outside in arrive, he'd wire Paris for instructions. three seconds. Lifting the automatic, he "M'sieur!" Rude called sharply at the leaped forward. LILLEY rear of the house. There was alarm in He had forgotten the chair. PRIZE -WINNING his exclamation. Bright doubled back His shoe caught on a rung and he along the corridor. sprawled across it. His right hand, hold- Uniforms "A person is out there now," the sec- ing the gun, crashed through the glass. for American Legion retary whispered. "I have seen him He heard Rude scream nervously in the Bands and plainly." bellow at the conservatory, Chevonnet Drum Corps "Where?" front door. Fighting off the chair, he "By the main gate. The road is gray yanked open the window and threw one Write or Wire for Designs and Prices beyond. He crossed to the right." "leg across the sill. Then he realized that BUY from QUALITY "I see nothing." he had lost the gun. It had slipped TheLilleyCo. UNIFORMS "Nor I, at this moment. He is in the his fingers as his arm went through the Columbus, Ohio LILLEY" shadows by that hedge. He was run- pane. ." ning. . . The figure outside had not stirred. "I see nothing," Bright repeated; then Breaking glass had only startled it into in English: "You poor fish, you give me immobility. Bright catapulted through Any PHOTO a pain." the window. His hands found the cloth "I do not comprehend." of the man's sleeve. The other jerked star- ENLARGED "No?" 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Chevonnet charged yelling around the sistently. "This intruder, did you wound west wing. Rude still shouted indoors. him?" Lights shone on the second floor. Bright "Not enough to cut his speed any. wiped his eyes. It was blood running into His getaway was perfect." Bright wait- them. His forehead was cut, probably ed until she had run up the steps. by broken glass. He dried the blood on "Flashlight, Rude?" he demanded. "I his sleeve, and when he could see more left mine inside. No? Use a match,

clearly went down to his knees, search- then. Help look over the ground. . . . ing for his pistol. Before he found it Who's that? Who's that talking?" Chevonnet was upon him. "My aunt," Josephine replied from Mitchell Backyard Playground Ap- "Pigs!" the old man screamed. "Pigs the open office window. She shouted paratus is better than insurance. It and assassins! Off my rose beds, all of something aside in the old woman's ear. encourages happy, healthy play. It

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"It was ... an American, then?" the evidence needed to make this his selling the new Doublewear work shoe. $5 value selling at only Josephine demanded. "You saw an case. $2.95. A world-beater. Liberal commission. You get full profit- American here by the house?" "It is proof, m'sieur," Rude declared no district managers to split with. Success is sure. Write quick. ." in- "How do I know? No . . he had with satisfaction, "Americans are ZX* DOUBLEWEAR SHOE COMPANY fc*^ 28 £. Lake St.. Minneapolis, Minn. no proof, nor did anyone else, that the volved ! soldier out there was not a Frenchman. "Listen!" The sergeant felt sudden The bonnets de police of all the Allied exasperation. "If that's your idea of VRAIRAISE CHINCHILLA armies were too much alike to recognize good news, you got a lot to learn." He AND NEW ZEALAND WHITE Bie Mone >' in the dark. "No. Maybe it was a rubbed blood away from his eyes. "Go FUR RABBITS -We Supply Stock for all Frenchman." get some water. Want to wash my face." an. I pay vni following prices ^JV |v vou raise: Chinchillas average $3 each The girl looked hard at him. "You He crossed the parlor slowly to the • —New Zealand Whites $2 each. 32-page illustrated book, catalog and contract, also copy of are wounded. There is blood on your office, and making sure that the shutter Fur Farming magazine, tells how to raise rabbits for big profits, all for 10c. Address face." was closed, lighted the hanging lamp. OUTDOOR ENTERPRISE CO. 1042, HOLMES PARK, MISSOURI "A cut. Got it on the glass." Again, with its light, he looked at the BOX "And the other? He is hurt?" collar ornament. It was evidence, all Bright sensed anxiety in her voice. right. He put it down on the table and "Hope so." he answered. "I socked him picked up a piece of the broken chair. NEW SHIRT hard. Who's that now?" He still held it thoughtfully as Rude A high voice arose insistently indoors. hurried back with the water. Inside the LINE FREE! "Josephine! Saints spare a friendless door the Frenchman suddenly stopped. Here's a fine Spring and Summer woman! Josephine! window is open! Above stairs, St. Denis's sister still com- A seller! GRACEFIT SHIRTS — Good I feel a draft!" plained of drafts. Bright turned. The popular for over 30 years — are made in special outdoor colors Income "Come inside," the girl directed. She secretary's face was puckered. The ser- and styles. BIG COMMISSION PAID TO AGENTS! Make up to Guaranteed glanced at the house wall. "You had geant followed his eyes. S5.50 to $7.00 a day as sideline. Costs nothing to get started! to Active the shutter open and someone looked On the opposite wall the safe door FREE OUTFIT in?" She spoke rapidly, and before gaped open. Its shelves held an array of mailed on request. Contains big samples Workers! English broadcloth. Just send name and Bright could answer, repeated: "You had veterinary medicines and nothing else. address. Postal will do. BUT YOU MUST WRITE ACT QUICK! Right now - TODAY! the shutter open?" Courier Bathhurst's dispatch case was GRACEFIT SHIRT COMPANY TODAY! 504 Sixth avenue Oepl. 209 New York City "That's it," he admitted. gone. The girl lowered her voice, asked in- (To be continued) Live Agents Wanted

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( Continued jrom page 36 BRl Elgin or Georgia, former National Executive by four sons and a daughter. Brother Waltham movement, Committeeman from Georgia, the lead- officers of his old regiments were Mr. hand engraved 20 year guar- ing figure of Atlanta Post, of which he Candler's pallbearers. anteed gold NO filled case. had served several terms as Commander, C. O. D. $2.12 a Mr. Candler had throughout his life TO PAY month. California Idea s so been known for his extraordinary devo- Wear this standard x6 American watch and tion to public duty. It was characteris- LEGIONNAIRE LeRoy R. Beddoe of akea lull year to pay — Send $1 with order and this tic of him that he served long and not- J Leon Robart Post of Mountain watch comes to you prepaid lO --noC'.O.D. to pay on arrival DAYS ably in the National Guard before the View, California, sends along the news TO PAY FREE war, giving to public service time taken that his post is using a locally-printed F ree\A FULL YEAR TRIAL After examination ami 10 from his extensive law practice and his leaflet entitled "Fifteen Reasons for New catalog o: day free trial, pay balan genuine di a a i 12 equal monthly payment diversified business interests. After Joining Mountain View Post," to supple- d 9 PlS"„ No interest. No extras. All hlgin wKm\WaHham.\ transactions strictly Mexican Border service, he entered the ment member-getting literature supplied confidential. no H„ J i You take , Illinois officer of Howard risk— satisfaction absolutely World War as an a Georgia by National Headquarters. watches; f guaranteed or money back. jewelry. Write fort \ regiment, the 12 2d Infantry, but fought your eopy now Established 1895 with the 108th Infantry of the Twenty- Illinois Duck Feed DHYA I DIAMOND I* seventh Division as a major through all Macomb, Illinois, an annual duck IVU I ML WATCH C O. its battles in France. After the war, Mr. " IN { ADDRESS DEPT. 14-R 170 BROADWAY. N.Y Candler and his wife spent countless feed is given just before the first of hours and unreckoned sums helping dis- the year, free to all members who have paid for the new year, reports Le- Dressy—Easy abled service men, particularly patients up in Veterans Bureau Hospital gionnaire Frank Lamer of McDonough A stylish shoe, easy on tender- 48. County Post. Charlie Clark Post of est feet. Genuine black kid, Mr. Candler was overtaken by illness the big-dinner dressy, built for hardest service. Scientific Arch Sup- while he and Mrs. Candler were driving Russell, Iowa, also used port eases aches, tiredness, relieves foot troubji from Atlanta to San Antonio last au- idea at the start of its last year's mem- Combination last. Snug ankle fit. Features of it led the shoes selling at twice the^ tumn to attend the national convention bership campaign in which price. Sizes 5 to 12, $5. A of American Legion. Previously in whole Iowa Department by adding 131 ^T^~ little more for sizes 13- The new members to its old guard of twenty- ^^k 1 [-15. Ask your dealer. apparent good health, his decline was increase of per- M. T. SHAW.Inc sudden and tragic. underwent an four members, an 569 Dept. 1 He Coldwater, Mich cent. New members attended the ban- X operation and was a patient in a hos- their families. pital for several months before his death. quet with Mrs. Candler's bereavement is shared Right Guide FREE TRIAL Ti ne In Your Own Home NO MONEY DOWN DIRECT FROM FACTORY A Famous Wing Piano $275 Own Tour Own ±3ank Wins Pianos Players shipped and df<" reet to yon on free trial till Jane 1929. Save 25 to 60 per cent. 40-y. guarantee. Thousands in use. Writ* ( Continued from page 25) at once for new book showing 38 styles. Easy terms arranged If desired. Stvlilt—on* of our ssStpU*

Wing&Soo (Ett. 1868) , Dept. 40-54 9th Ave. and 13th St.. N.Y. ashamed. For now he isn't a pauper de- terest. And the rest of us won't be pendent upon our charity; he's just a peeved, because we'll be making a profit. man borrowing money from our bank. "But suppose that about the same UNIFORMS in his goes out time some other bird I don't dare men- WRITE FOR With our loan pocket he and pays off that loan shark in full. tion by name decides to buy him a new CATALOG No. JO. And then closes that end of the transac- Rolls-Royce instead of a Chewy coupe. ALUMINUM HELMETS QOQ tion, I hope, by planting a good swift He's raised about all he can outside our POLISHED or ANY COLOR yiX ^ family circle, and now he wants to get kick in a place where it will do the most GEORGE EVANS&to good." the rest of it from us. I'm afraid we'll 131 N. FIFTH ST.- A.LDEPT.- PHILADELPHIA. Ed Hawkins takes this in thought- have to turn him down. There's the fully but isn't fully sold. place where the catch comes in when Quick and easy seller. "That's fine in the case of Jim, or of there is any catch. You've got to be firm

PROFIT I Big Re- 500% any other fellow here who is a real with these free spenders who haven't peat business. Write for my Marvellous plan that square-shooter," he observes. "But I'm much to show either in the way of assets will bring you over $100 naturally suspicious of anything that or of personal character. weekly. Samples of prod- the Butch, when he comes uct FREE. Write NOW ! sounds so all-fired easy. Sometimes, "But Hank East 9th St., for loan to buy Ever- Ready, 52 isn't there a catch in it somewhere?" around to us and asks a fc Dept. D-6, New York "Not if our directors use any horse a new body for his delivery wagon sense," Bill Jenkins answers. "Let's have that's a different story. We kick across a look at a few more cases to make the for him, gladly. On his backbone, his Grocery Bills all Paid point absolutely clear. Let's take your character and the way he's out hustling even if his credit at the and own case first, buddy. You're pretty after business, well heeled right now; you've just got First National isn't much to shout about. married; everything's all rosy. But will We believe in Hank. To help out the will stick our it be next year? Next year, maybe, red tape a couple of us besides! you'll have a baby at your house—and John Hancocks on his paper any time Send me your name and I'll show you a me! he asks us. quick, easy way to get plenty of money to that costs aplenty, don't doubt pay all your grocery hills and $8 to $10 and a mortgage falling due on that new "Maybe the First National believes in in a day besides. Van Allen reports profits of more than $10 0 a week. Mrs. Hodges bungalow about the same time. You Hank, too. But Charlie Wood can't very writes, "Never fail to clear $18 to $2 0 a day." tiustav hard-boiled bank examiner Karnath says, "Made $20.35 the first five hours." I'll can't imagine yourself ever being one of well tell a same chance. You don't need experience, give you the that is a safe risk because he's capital or special training. I give you my personal help our customers for, say, a hundred bucks. Hank and tell vou exactly what to do to get this big money. be next year. If you got character. We can. And we do. At our YOU DON'T RISK A PENNY. Devote full time or spare But you might time. SEND NO MONEY—just your name. I'll show you how to make bank character is good for cold cash." plenty of money to pay all vour grocery hills and $8 to $10 in a day be- look O. K. at the time to our directors, sides. I'll tell you how to (ret a new Ford Tudor Sedan without cost. the matter: the Don't wait. Write foday-SURE. you'll get it. And at a fair rate of in- Here is the nub of ALBERT MILLS, PRESIDENT 1223 MONMOUTH AVE.. CINCINNATI, OHIO 76 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly . : —

ANY MAN CAN credit union is a small-time bank, scaled SELL THEM CJRANGEjNVENTION! down to the smallest needs. It's nothing more than that—and it's nothing less. We're such small fry that the larger commercial banks can't possibly feel the Sell only device slightest jealousy toward us. We take in the world that prevents kinking, snarling and tangling of telephone and electric iron cords. the funds of our little banks and de- =»Housewives and business men buy 1 to SO. NEW KIND OF CORD SET FREE posit them for safe keeping in the com- Every Neverknot Salesman is giv- mercial banks. Thus no "First Nation- 111 start you complete Neverknot Switch i en a Plug Cord Set FREE. This new al" is ever out a nickel. In fact, even kind of ironing cord automati- BUSINESS cally coils itself out of tbe way and more money gets into "Charlie Wood's" switch plug prevents [ a new kind of ' scorching and saves electric bills. vaults now than before we came upon This set is a "gold mine" for Kay C. Halm withthisOutfit house-to-house workers. It's dif- the scene, for we put into the credit free if you work for ferent and it's yours aa. I have started hundreds of men in business, and Don't delay! Send now for free offer. union account a great deal of money cooperated with they could succeed. NEVERKNOT CO. them so Dept. 4-0, 4503 Ravenswood, Chicago that otherwise might be spent foolishly. Mr. Andrew Hansen, Minn., writes: "I find tbe Fyr-Fyters easy sellers. In 3 0 days I have taken The plan helps make all of us more orders for GO machines. One day my profits run up to $03.70." thrifty. Mr. C. F. Moore, Kansas, writes: "My experience as a part time worker is: I left home at 8 1*. M. Only one man in town hates us. I one evening and got home 4 5 minutes later. In GOVTPOSITIONS the took 5 of meantime for 0 worth leave you to guess who he is after you've an order $ 0.5 s tgmmwee Kiar Fyr-Fyters and refill fluid. I enjoy the work." heard Legionnaire Bergengren's some- "I have put in about 30 hours. Sold 45 machines, ) Railway Mail Clerk ) Meat Inspector ( with a profit to myself of $245.00. I had never sold ) P. 0. Clerk ( ) Special Agent m what inelegant but none the less force- anything in my life." (Signed) L. P. Calkins, N. Y. ) Post-office Laborer (investigator) ful characterization of him as "a fellow I have a few more unusual openings just like Mr. ) File Clerk ( } Steno-Typiat w Calkins. Mr. Hansen, and Air. Moore had. Fyr- ) Matron ( ) Immigrant Insp. who is lower than a snake's belly in a Fyters are needed and wanted in every home, store, ) General Clerk I City Mail ) Carrier S theatre, garage, shop, school, automobile, etc. Tins ) Chauffeur-Carrier I ) Border Patrol wagon-rut." is your opportunity to join one of the most highly ) Skilled Laborer i Typist ig j paid selling organizations. I am offering to show ) Watchman I i Seamstress Thus far, with the enthusiastic Mr. B. you how to build a business of your own that will

Postmaster i Ste 1 ) ) no- Secretary m put you in the big money class. We give complete ) Carrier occasionally fine points RFD ( ) Auditor prompting me on training, outfit furnished to producers. Full or spare tnstruciion Bureiu, 110, St. Louis, Ma. o of the lingo, I've endeavored to tell you time. We deliver and collect and mail commission Send me particulars about qualifying for positions check each Saturday. A lifetime opportunity. Let marked 1 salaries, locations, opportunitie to X" , what a credit union is and how it works. me prove you how easy it is to start immediately 55 on this road to success and prosperity. Send today A slip of paper upon which your editor for inside facts on our money making plans. Name. . AddrPBB. has written two questions, which must FYR-FYTER COMPANY, 9-R Fyr-FyterBldf;.,Dayton,0. be answered without any evasions, ap- Jtlahe Steculv money pears to be the next business before the house. The always helpful Mr. B. has a Gallon SELfROSECLIFnHIRTS scribbled in pencil some suggested replies. filters Roseclijjf'— a real house — gives: I'm going to pass along those questions 1. One year guarantee Your and answers just as they stand. To wit Emy4Minales 2. No substitutes—we ship exact OWIX 3* Silk embroidered initials Free Question: What, in your opinion, LowPriced-Guaranteed Big commissions in advance should an article the Legion Monthly Amazing new invention i 5* A sbirt for every size and taste for Shirts I —8 More Money-Making Fea- on credit unions help to accomplish? patented Home Filter for tures establish our Leadership. fruit juices and beverages. Noth- FREE Reply: i. sock in the jaw for the Sell The Best! A ing likeit. Removes all sediment, Write for your outfit NOW! loan sharks. pulp, fibres. Filters a gallon every 4 minutes. Perfect re- TneOutfit Roseclif t" Shirt Corp. 2. Elimination of humiliation to some sults guaranteed- No moving parts. Dept. L 4, 1237 Broadway, N. Y. Simple. Practical. Low priced. Lasts Legionnaires who, temporarily down on a lifetime. Thousands already In use. As one of the oldest their luck, have to turn to their buddies FREE HOMETRtAL—Agents Wanted patent firms in Amer- for financial relief. Try free at our risk and return if not satis- ica we give inventors PATENTS fied. and address for full par- at lowest consistent 3. A good investment of spare change Send name TODAY ticularsofthisliberal offer. ActNOW. AGENTS WANTED. charge, a service noted for results, evidenced by money for the better-heeled members many well known Patents of extraordinary value. HOME FILTER CO., 304 CENTRAL AVE., BAVCITY, MICH. Book, Patent-Sense, free. of Legion posts. 4. Let readers know that credit unions JOHN HANCOCK SERIES Lacey Lacey, 643 F St.,Wash D. C. & M are in mere experimental stage in North Estab. 1869 no Numerous Legionnaire References America. That they've been flourishing here for upward of twenty-eight years. DECLARATION of USEFUL and HANDY That Massachusetts, for example, where INDEPENDENCE East Lynn Post is pioneering, has more A NEW binder suitable for preserving your copies of The American Legion Monthly. than three hundred credit unions at the THIS binder is strong, artistic in HAVE issued an design, date of this writing, with assets in the beautifully embossed in gold, and made of WE blue artificial leather. Binders can be pur- total greater than $15,000,000. And that officially approved chased for volumes I, II, III, VI. IV, V, at the end of the last fiscal year twenty- The current volume is No. VI. facsimile parchment copy THE price of this new binder is six other States also have laws authoriz- $1.00 of the famous Declara- each, postpaid, in the United States. In ing credit unions. foreign countries, add to remittance esti- tion, suitable for framing. mated postage. Question : Is it your idea that other The American Legion Monthly posts might follow East Lynn's example You may have one of P. O. Box 1357, advantageously, establishing credit Indianapolis, Indiana unions? these, Free of charge, up-

Reply : Here Mr. Bergengren indi- on written application to cates an emphatic "Yes!" Distributors Wanted For the assistance and enthusiasm INQUIRY BUREAU for New Invention thus far of one who speaks the lan- guage, I acknowledge myself duly grate- Sales Opportunity ful. But now I must go it alone a little Protected Territory further in my own way. "Life insurance Company" We are offering financially responsible Usury—the meanest business in the salesmen an exclusive territory proposi- 197 Clarendon St., Boston, Mass. tion on a specialty of unusual merit. It's world and the most cruel—flourishes in absolutely new and appeals to automo- Please send me FREE facsimile of bilists, garages, housewives, office execu- the land because of the dire need among the Declaration of Independence. (I tives, in fact it has an unlimited market. Accum- enclose 5c. to cover postage.) ulative value of repeat business is enormous. $10(1 at least half of the wage earners of to $500will putyou in a thriving business for your- self if we jueVe you the man capable of handling for credit in small sums. Lack- your district with the jrreatest efficiency. This America Name item is a necessity that has no competition and is too sold at a popular price. Virtrin territory is still ing credit facilities to borrow sums Address open to the man havinK ability to earn So.nOI) to $10,000 per year. Write fur lull particulars, and trifling for the orthodox banking sys- mention territory desired. A. L. Gordon Co. . 1 10 a.l.m E. 23rd St.. New York. tem to handle, (Continued on page 78) —OVER SIXTY-FIVE YEARS IN BUSINESS-

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the borrower has to trust himself all too New Hampshire, (La Caisse Populaire often to the greed of loan sharks. Don't Ste. Marie) nineteen years ago. Its blame the banks for this unfortunate membership today is more than three situation. The amount of risk and super- thousand; its business in small loans vision involved does not permit the nor- runs to more than $500,000 a year. mal banking institution to offer small These facts I mention not in any at- loans to the multitudes. The overhead tempt to dazzle you, but simply to reas- would be too heavy unless very heavy sure you. I hope you won't continue to interest rates were charged. presume that small beginnings are to be Here is where the small-scale credit despised; or continue to harbor any union bank comes to the rescue. In suspicions that the credit union plan is exact proportion to how much it is perhaps a dangerous and untried novelty. needed and how much horse-sense judg- The resources of the credit union bronze tablets ment goes into the management of its banks of the United States now amount HONORROLLS-MaRKERS affairs, it serves and succeeds. These to a sum in excess of $30,000,000. The are the same factors involved in the total membership of these banks is about Arches Building Tablets* successful operation of a peanut stand, 225,000. They are socking loan sharks MEMORIAL FIaGPDLESETG or a shoe factory, or the Standard Oil in at least twenty-seven States. The last Wrifeforfree brochure* Company. It is important to make your state, I hope, will be Unconsciousness. members understand early in the game This is the work of about eighteen years Memorial Department that a credit union is not a charitable of organized effort. We are not unduly Th e RpuhCity Ornam entmJr°n(p boastful Z€31-Z7nfC/Z 50 MfflNIAPOUS MIRK organization, or even a quasi-charity, about it; but we submit that but must be run on a strictly business it is beyond question a promising be- basis. It is a self-help plan, a sociable ginning. way of encouraging thrift. It must be Write to Roy F. Bergengren, execu- J AVC MONEY PAY ONLY if 1» run with sound business judgment, just tive secretary of the Credit Union Na- like any other bank. It must pay divi- tional Extension Bureau, for more de- ^M^w. for this * DURABIIT dends to its investors; and not play tailed information upon how to proceed Ii-lfTr Santa Claus or attempt to supplant the about organizing a credit union in your work of the Salvation Army. Put your post. The address is 5 Park Square, bank on a business footing and keep it Boston. there. Rarely are the directors of a This is the way a radio speaker would Made of durable weatherproof Khaki Tent Fabric : com- plete with awnlne, and door, sod cloth, screened window credit union in any sense "banking ex- conclude. Here is where I intended to metal frame, stakes, jointed poles and carrying bag. 7x7 ft. only ft $13.95, delivered. Same tent 9 V2 n9 H and perts," but wherever the resolve is firm- sign off. But Legionnaire Bergengren other models at lowest prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. SEND NO MONEY—Just same and address. Pay ly taken to operate with sound business throws up both hands in protest: only price of Tent on delivery. We prepay Express. sense the good judgment necessary to "Mustn't forget the Auxiliary! Don't WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG Factory Prices save you Money. make a success is forthcoming. forget the stories about those two work- LE ROY COMPANY I am claiming a lot of virtues for this ing girls!" So those stories now follow. TENT plan, but the records back up every Hear the unhappy one first. Bergengren, single assertion I am making. I should explain, used to be a lawyer; PANTS MATCHED! Yet some of you may still feel dubi- and this tragic case helped draw his at- WHY THROW AWAY THAT COAT AND VEST? ous. such small beginnings as we tention to the credit unions. Save $25 or more! Let us match your coat Can and vest with new trousers and save the have been talking about suffice to start "If someone had loaned this girl the price of a new suit. Each pair tailored to your measure. Over 100,000 patterns. Just anything worth much enthusiasm? They money it cost to bury her," he begins, mail sample of the suit, or your vest, which will be returned together with can—and they do. The largest credit "what good human material might have Sample for your approval. No Originators FREE been salvaged. first d Largest obligations. union in North America, for example, She was one of my M.itche started with the humblest beginnings clients, who came to me in great dis- Dept. 41, 20 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago imaginable; it makes your Centerville tress because a good-for-nothing hus- Legion post look like a crowd of mil- band had deserted her. He left her with TheMusicalSensation lionaires by comparison. A dime apiece a small child to support, and not a was the membership fee demanded by penny in the bank. I got a court order ACC0RDE0N this credit union, and its books after the compelling this husband to contribute to PlayedbyMusic Rolls first deposits had been received showed her support. Pronto, he skipped the State. Without any knowledge of Music or Notes you play in a assets to a grand total of only $26. That few minutes, perfect like an artist, latest hits, songs and twenty-eight years ago (December "She tried dishwashing in a summer dances. No study or practice. Nobody can see the ar- was Entertainers wanted everywhere, mak- rangement. Musical 6, 1900), when a group of French-Ca- hotel. If you've ever tackled that job ing easy money. Three models. Every instrument guar- anteed. Interesting circular No. 23 and roll list mailed free. nadians set up in business in the little as I have—you know what it's like. She Treasure Sales Co., 1690 Boston Road, New York, N. Y. town of Levis, just across the St. Law- slaved herself sick at it; ended in the rence River from the citadel of Quebec. hospital. After a long hard pull she got NEWAUTO LIGHT "La Caisse —Populaire de Levis," they out; then landed a job as a companion STICKS ANYWHERE christened it "the People's Bank." To- for a fussy old lady. By this time she GRIP-LITE has base. Sticks tight magnetized day that pioneer among the little co-op was deep in debt and barely able to to any metallic surface. Ideal Auto "Trouble Light." Leaves both hands freel Attached) in banks of the New World has assets of keep her head above water. 5 seconds by clips. No batteries to wear out last powerful shielded light. Protected more than $1,000,000. And from that "Her job took her away from her bulb. Also serves asemer small acorn a whole big oak grove of home town. Next I heard of her she gency Wight, tail- AGENTS MAKE other "people's banks" of the same sys- had carefully and neatly shot herself in $50 to $ lOO WEEKLY Alight, or flourished. This a hotel in Hartford." I Sella at sight. Every autoiat, tem has sprung up and I garage man, repair man a pros- \ light. 1 pect. Sells at only $3.00. chain in the Province of Quebec today "Now I contend," Bergengren ends \V. Hitler: "Sold 6 in 1 boar!" . H. Streator: "Selling 90 a does a small loan business of more than this tale, "that if we could trace back week easy I " Maoycleaning up D f every suicide, every marriage shipwreck 10 Day Trial ~, $15,000,000 every year. |fe i t 1 Agents price of {2.00 C. O. D. oldest credit union in our own and a lot of other kinds of wrecks which 10 Day trial. Also details of The money - making plan. State I make and year of car. Satiafac country set up in business among French- we find strewing our beaches every tion guaranteed or money bark MAGNO CO.. 6 Beacon St. Canadian factory hands in Manchester, morning that we would find the cause Dept. 184 Boston, Mass. |

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of a startlingly large number of them percent a year instead of the thirty-six An Easter in just such an economic basis as this. percent a loan shark would demand." Too many such honest and willing work- Now, just a last word: You may be ers can't find financial backing any- aware that a campaign to alleviate the remembrance where. Ought to be ways supplied to oppressions of usurers has resulted in

salvage such good human material. It twenty-four of our States enacting laws "I can never forget, nor would I if I set me to thinking, I can tell you.'' prohibiting the licensed money lender could, the packages of ALLEN'S FOOT- for contrast; his case: from charging on small loans (of $300 Now, a second EASE that were sent to us in France from "Two young women, factory workers or less) interest rates higher than from the U. S. A. about Easter time during in a plant near Boston, took an excur- 36 to 42 percent. Does that make you the War. sion down to the Hub just before gasp? These are our two dozen most Easter. They started out 'window shop- enlightened States in this regard. In While we were shaking in our shoes ping'; they ended in a big installment plenty of other places the sky's the limit. this healing, antiseptic powder for the clothing house where they blew $125 in Nor is this all the story; for loan sharks feet, the remark frequently went round: less than fifteen minutes upon new have as many tricky ways to evade the 'It isn't the A. E. F. that's winning this frocks and hats. The younger woman, law as bootleggers have to beat the !' war — it's the A. F. E. Napoleon once somewhat rashly, signed up for the full Volstead Act. The more dire a borrow- said: 'A foot-sore army is an army half obligation. The other said that would er's need is for a small loan, the more defeated.' 'make the accounting easier.' And it likely is that unfortunate person to fall did— for her. into the hands of a greedy shark. You So now, as during the war, Allen's "Shortly thereafter this older woman may doubt me. Then I suggest that you Foot=Ease makes a Satisfying, Soothing, got married and vanished from the start making inquiries around in your Easter Remembrance. At all Druggists scene. The younger found herself facing own home town; among the members, —and a 2c stamp mails a package. court proceedings in a suit brought even, of your own Legion post. It won't (Signed) against her for $75—which sum she be long, I'll hazard, before you'll hear BUDDY ENUF SAYD" couldn't pay. of some oppressions which can't fail to For Free trial package and a Foot=Ease Walking Doll, address Allen's Foot=Ease, Le Roy, N. Y. "There was a credit union in the plant make your blood boil. Why should a where she worked. She went to the di- hard-working upright member of your rectors of it and laid all her cards on post be forced to pay 42 percent a year the table, face up. They listened to her to get a much-needed small loan? If story, sized her up as trustworthy, and you don't know a good answer for this, furnished her the loan she requested. I'll suggest one. Perhaps it is because She's paying that loan back now in small your post has never considered the pos- One device makes window washing weekly installments, with interest at six sibility of starting a credit union 75% easier. Washes, dries, polishes t ^windows in a jiffy. Women wild about it! No more ladders to climb, no mussy rags nor sponges to wring. k , Hands never touch water. MAKE $90 A WEEK EASY it. Fascinating demon- I Every housewife wants

i strator. Sells fast. Make 100% profit. No Then V\(ow show you how. Send for and •'•xperience needed. We big Catalog of this and 47 other fast-selling Quality Robber Products. Direct from Akron the Rubber City. FREE Outfit to hustlers. WRITE QUICK. ( Continued from page 39) KRISTEE MFG. CO., 164 BAR ST.. AKRON. OHIO.

Something to this effect: "The following 322d F. A. —Annual regimental reunion will be held in Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 14th. Tickets World War outfits will hold their 1929 may be obtained from Harry Lowenstein, annual reunions in Louisville, September treas., 322d F. A. Assoc., Third and Ludlow BIG MONEY* sts., Hamilton. 30th, October 1st, 2d and 3d, in con- Co. C, 305th Inf.—Annual reunion and SHOWING samples an.i writing World's in dance at 77th Div. Clubhouse. 28 E. 39th st.. — largest, most complete junction with the national convention of wear line. Shirts, underwear, pajan New York City, April 6th. Address Warren D. The American Legion." waterproof trenrh coats — lumber jar Lefurgy, secy., 2 Irving pi., Yonkers, N. Y. Many earn $75.00 A WEEK, Thus far the 21st Engineers, Light 15th Engrs.—Tenth annual reunion of all send all samples and supplies FR and show you how to make bin? profits, men and officers will be held in Pittsburgh, or spare time. Apply at and we wil Railway, First F., is the once Army, A. E. Pa., April 27th. For particulars address Reere elude men's tie line FREE. HOWARD SHIRT only outfit which reports it will L. Knight, 224 N. Aiken ave., Pittsburgh. that 1213-W VanBuren St.. Dept. 112-H. 18th Encrs., Ry. Annual Central Pacific meet during the — convention. Mr. Horri- Coast reunion banquet at Elks Club, San gan, who may be addressed at the Hey- Francisco, Cal., April 6th. For information address Hal Kern, secy., 190 Otis St., San burn Building, Louisville, Kentucky, Francisco. wants to hear from all other outfits Second Co., C. A. C R. I. N. G., (28th Co.. Boston) Former members interested in pro- which contemplate reunions this year. — posed reunion are requested to forward names Additional announcements of interest and addresses to Harold F. Holt, 68 Flora st., Providence, I., to veterans follow: R. or Earl H. MacKenzie. Soldiers Home, Bristol, R. I. Third Div.—The Society of the Third (Regu- 103d Trench Mortar Btty., 52d F. A., 28th lar) Division will hold its tenth annual reunion Div.— Reunion to be held this spring. All and convention in Philadelphia, Pa., July 11-14. former members report correct addresses to For further information write to Charles J. Daniel G. Snyder, pres.. Reunion Assoc., 204 McCarthy. Jr., chairman convention bureau, N. First st., Lewisburg, Pa. P. O. Box 1621, Philadelphia. First, Second, Third and Fourth Regts., Fifth Div.— There are only a limited num- Air Serv. Mech.— Fourth annual reunion Aug. ber of copies of the History of the Fifth Di- 22-24, in Indianapolis, Ind. Address Thomas vision still available. This is an unusually J. Leary, 7141 Jeffery ave., Chicago. III. fine volume. Frank F. Barth, 20 West Jack- 113th M. O. R. S. —Former members inter- son blvd.. Chicago, 111., will be glad to send ested in proposed reunion, address B. C. Tibbs, information to inquirers and will mail also a 124 S. 15th St., Mayfield, Ky. directory of members of the Fifth Division Richmond (Va.) Light Infantry Blues Society with their latest addresses. Bn.— 140th anniversary of this organization, 42d Div. — Eleventh annual reunion Balti- in continuous existence since 1789. will be cele- more, Md.. July 13-15. Francis E. Shea, ed- brated in the Blues Armory, Richmond. Va., $1260to$3400Year itor. The Rainbow Reveille, 512 E. 23d St., May 10-12. Designated as follows in recent Baltimore, wants Rainbow Chapters to send wars: Co. A. 46th Va.. C. S. A., 1861-1865: EX-SERVICE MEN GET PREFERENCE

news items for the publication. Cos. H and M, Fourth Va. Inf.. Spanish War ;

104th U. S. Inf. Vets. Assoc., First Sqdrn.. Va. Cav., Mexican Border serv- I A. E. F.— I I MEN — 18 UP FRANKLIN HS I ITU Tenth annual reunion at Northampton, Mass., ice: Horse Bn., 104th Amm. Trn., 29th Div.. Dept. (MM April 26-27. Address Lawrence A. Wagner, A. E. F. All former members are requested to STEADY WORK Rochester. N. Y. exec, secy., 201 Oak St., Holyoke, Mass. send names and addresses to Sheppard Crump, / Rush to me. FREE of 145th Inf.—Former members interested in Invitation Committee. Blues Armory. Richmond. Paid Vacations / charge, list of U. S. Gov- the 145th Inf. Assoc. and proposed reunion are Veterans of Indian Wars.—The Legion has I ernmenl big pay positions requested to forward names been requested to assist this older fighters' or- and addresses to COMMON EDUCATION & free ^-page'*! Ic'delcr™ R. S. Ursprung, 97 E. Grant st.. Berea, Ohio. ganization in locating eligible members. Le- U£W*LLY •> ing salaries, hours, work, vaca- 312th F. A., 79th Div.—Association will gion members who know any Indian War vet- SUFFICIENT ti.in and giving full particulars hold annual reunion and banquet in Philadel- erans are requested to have them communi- (j on how to get a position. A'lvise phia. Pa.. April 6th. Copies of regimental cate with Frank Bebber, comdr., 3006 N. / me fully regarding preference to Ex- Service men. history will probably be available for all mem- Sacramento ave., Chicago, III. Mail Coupon / bers attending. Address / Michael F. Torpey, today. / Name chairman, 5729 Springfield ave„ Philadelphia. The Company Clerk SURE / ' Address

APRIL, 1929 79 a MESSAGE CENTER

BRET HARTE'S name is so intimately Wallgren depicted three soldiers of 1776 FIVE new members is this month's associated with the romantic days of whiling away the time in an unspecified total of additions to the roster of the r the California gold rush that at first pastime that required the use of a deck of Society of Legionnaires W ho Have Read blush it seems odd that he should have cards—or at least part of a deck. What Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro- been born in Albany, New York. But was the game? man Empire" Entire. Gene Tunney holds about all of the forty-niners, of course, Card Number One—who will hold Card were born outside of California, and Number One Hundred? For when the Bret Harte was born a little too late to be FEW names in the entire history of hundred mark is reached the society will a forty-niner. He was only ten years old merchandising in America are better become a closed corporation and no more in that eventful year. At the age of known than those of Edward A. Filene applications for membership will be eighteen he was writing for the San and his brother, A. Lincoln Filene. presi- noted for an indefinite period. The so- Francisco press—a training school in dent and treasurer respectively of William ciety will then go into executive session which Mark Twain was to glean some Filene's Sons Company of Boston. For and discuss ways and means (particularly valuable experience a little later. Bret years their commercial genius has been means) of holding a national convention Harte had the genius to appreciate the a factor of tremendous influence not in in Rome, which fell, or in England, where fact that fate had set him down in a day America alone, but wherever goods are Gibbon was born, or in Switzerland, and place that was full of copy, though bought and sold, and their consistent ap- where he finished the book. Already not even he could foresee that he was to plication of the golden rule to all the con- there is a strong division of sentiment become the supreme interpreter of his cerns of life has won for them a respect over the selection of a convention city, epoch, and that the average American's and devotion that transcends all the ad- and it is considered probable that a com- picture of gold-rush California would be miration paid them as two of the out- promise will be effected whereby the the picture that Bret Harte had painted. standing business men of their genera- conclave will be held at Louisville coin- The last third of his life he passed almost tion. Some indication of the many and cident with the Eleventh National Con- entirely abroad, some of it in the consular varied affiliations in which Edward A. vention of The American Legion next fall. service. While being lionized did not Filene is a leading spirit may be gathered This is by no means certain, however, as spoil him, nevertheless he was never able from the following quotation from "Who's the society reeks with inside politics— to match the brilliance of his earlier work. Who in America": "Founder and presi- condition due to the fact- that a great He lived to be sixty-three—and he wrote dent of the Twentieth Century Fund, majority of the members are lawyers. "The Luck of Roaring Camp" before he organized to improve economic, indus- was thirty. trial, civic and educational conditions; co-organizer and member of the Council THE five new members are as repre- of Administration of the International sentative a group as have ever been ' I *HE fame of Bret Harte rests almost Management Institute, Geneva; co- admitted into the society at one time. * wholly on "The Luck of Roaring organizer, now advisory councillor and They are from five different States Camp" (and a few other stories that were ex-officio member of the General Com- stretching, with a couple of considerable published with it) and on a single poem. mittee on Trade Barriers of the Inter- gaps, from the Atlantic to the Pacific This is not to say that he did nothing else national Chamber of Commerce; co- D. C. W. Shier of Arcadia, California, of moment, but posterity has chosen these organizer and ex-chairman of the Indus- a member of Glenn Dyer Post, can be few items to become immortal. The trial Relations Committee of the Boston claimed as a convert to the fold through poem is probably even better known than Chamber of Commerce; ex-vice-president the society's own propaganda. Dr. Shier the stories. Its title is "Plain Language of international Congress of the Chamber began with Volume One in 1023, years from Truthful James", but two gener- of Commerce; co-organizer and former before the society was organized, and ations of Americans have been calling it member of the executive committee of then backslid. In August, 1928, fired by "The Heathen Chinee", and the adopted the Chamber of Commerce of the United the heroic stories of the prowess of other title is certain to stick. Who does not States, and of the executive committee of Gibbonnaires, he applied himself to the know of the duplicity of Ah Sin and his the National Council of Commerce; remaining volumes and came through prowess at euchre—"the same he did not founder and president of the National triumphantly. An attack of flu in 1926 understand"? Credit Union Extension Bureau, direct- coupled with a broken foot in 1927 gave of ing the organization of co-operative D. J. Haggerty, Vice-Commander credit associations throughout the United Bayway Post of Elizabeth, New Jersey, WAS euchre, by the way, the great States; member of the General Advisory sufficient enforced leisure to qualify him stand-by of the mining camps? Council of the American Association for as a Gibbonnaire. Other qualifiers since What other games flourished, and for Labor Legislation; ex-chairman of the the appearance of the last official bulletin what stakes? These are phases of human Metropolitan Plan Commission of Bos- of the society are Kneeland B. Wilkes of activity which too many social historians ton; co-organizer of the Public Franchise Buffalo, New York, a member of Troop pass over, but they are details that are League of Boston; chairman of the I Post, who qualified while an instructor eminently worth preserving. We shall war shipping committee and member of in history at the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut W. Green of Wauneta, be glad to pass on any enlightening data the committee for financing war of the ; John Falls about the problem, not only as it affected Chamber of Commerce of the United Kansas, president of the Wauneta life in the mining camps, but in any other States; served as vice-chairman of the Bank, and Leo P. Peiffer, Past Vice- interesting place or period in American executive committee of the League to Commander of Hanford Post of Cedar life. What did the Colonists do to pass Enforce Peace; organized and financed Rapids, Iowa. the long winter evenings? Was the European peace awards in Great Britain, reprehensible custom of drawing to three- France, Germany and Italy. Officer of card flushes practised by the Confederate the Legion of Honor (France); Great and Union Armies? We recall that in the Gold Cross of Merit (Austria) ; Order of very first number of the Monthly, Mr. the Crown (Italy)."

80 The AMERICAN LEGION M"nthly P^nof/ier ELECTRICAL CITY moves out to sea

THE launching of the Elec and cooled by electricity; elec trie Ship Virginia, sister tricity mans the winches,

ship of the California, adds bakes the bread, polishes the

one more great liner to the silver—surrounds the passen- growing fleet of all electric gers with every luxury of a passenger vessels. The Virginia modern hotel. and California are now in

This monogram appears service on the Panama-Pacific Vibrationless beyond belief on the huge motors which drive the S.S. Virginia Line of the International Mer- —at a remarkably low —both the Virginia and the fuel cost— less, in fact, cantile Marine. than the canal tolls. In California are delighting their homes and factories, as well as on ships, the G-E revela" monogram identifies the These ships are driven by passengers with a new accepted standard of elec trical dependability. electric motors; lighted, heated, tion of sea-going comfort. GENERAL ELECTRIC Don't be selfish Camels Pleasure for all

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