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What Are the Movies Up To?
Knock Them If You Must—But Remember the Bathtub, Bessemer Steel, and the Steam Gars While You Do It By Ralph Hayes
WEEK-OLD copy of the London unnecessary bui'den who would label it A sizable Christmas party was given Daily Mail's Continental Edi- a panacea for flat feet, Bolshevism and at Cincinnati in 1842; the Big Idea was A tion, torn and wrinkled, passed scarlet fever. to show the guests a contraption re- through many hands to mine in It's that way with a new thing under cently made by the host—a bathtub,
January, 1919, somewhere north of the sun ; however sound it may be in the probably the first in the country. The Baccarat. It was a badly damaged center, lusty-lunged extremists gather next day the Cincinnati newspapers thing, but it did bring news of the around its edges rapturously to praise right roundly denounced this preten- States. There was, for example, a or viciously to condemn it, whatever It tious, undemocratic vanity. Other story headed "In Bone Dry America," may be. cities took up the anti-bathtub crusade. quoting a prominent divine describing That's been true as far back as the In the Philadelphia town council there just how America was since it had taken eye can reach. was serious consideration of an ordi- on the Eighteenth nance making bathing Amendment. This was unlawful between the his conception of what first of November and had happened: AMERICAN LEGION has a special interest in motion pictures the middle of IVEarch. rain of tears is THE "The because it is represented in the councils of Will H. Hays, former post- Boston debated a mu- over. will The slums master general, now head of all motion-picture activity in America. nicipal regulation pro- soon be only a memory. Three months ago, at the invitation of Mr. Hays, representatives of many hibiting bathing except We will turn our pris- civic, educational and welfare organizations met with him to express their when prescribed by a ons into factories and views and co-operate in the improven.ent of the movie. Out of this meet- physician, and Virginia our gaols into store- ing grew a permanent general committee which will include representatives taxed the tubs $30 a houses and corncribs. of more than one hundred organizations. Its purpose, among others, is year. Men will walk upright "to establish and maintain the highest possible moral and artistic standards Unoffending things now; the women will in motion-picture productions and to develop the educational value as well like railways, too, took smile and the children as the entertainment value" of moving pictures. The central body of this some stiff wallops from •will laugh. Hell will general committee is a Committee of Twenty, and The American Legion Antonio Vox Populi be forever for rent." has the distinction of being represented on this committee in the person of while on their way to I have no disposition National Commander MacNider. Ralph Hayes, author of the accompany- respectability. At a to criticize prohibition ing article, is a former assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and meeting of the school —I do suggest that is now assistant to Will H. Hays. They are not related. board of Lancaster, those of its proponents Ohio, in 1826, the busi- place upon it a wholly ness before the house —
PAGE 4 THE AR3ERICAN LEGION WEEKLY was the framing of an answer to a Statistical demonstration or expert traced directly to motion pictures." request to use the school building for testimony in support of some of the From his court in Denver Judge Ben a public gathering to discuss whether most prevalent of these opinions has a Lindsey says: "All of my experience railroads were practical. The board way of hiding itself altogether or of in the juvenile court is that movies are saw its duty and didn't flinch. bobbing up on the wrong side. positively in the interest of morality "You are welcome," it replied, "to There is, for example, the conviction and good citizenship." use the schoolhouse to debate all proper that a juvenile mind plus a motion pic- As a "school for crime," the motion questions in, but such things as rail- ture equals a life of crime. From picture seems a bit inefficient. roads are impossibilities and rank listening in on adjacent conversation, Or take the item of admission re- infidelity. There is nothing in the it once seemed plain that a cinema ceipts. One has no difficulty here in Word of God about them. If God de- theater was a dark place filled by finding an opinion to suit him. A signed that His intelligent creatures droves of children impatiently await- Saturday Evening Post article sug- should travel at the frightful speed of ing a chance to go out and become gests an annual income of $750,000,000 fifteen miles an hour by steam. He yeggs. The motion picture might have from admissions. The Annalist, citing would have clearly foretold through His been supposed to be a kind of National the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, holy prophets. It is a device to lead Academy for the Training and Propa- estimates $767,000,000 for the year immortal souls down to hell." gation of Felons. ending in mid-1920. A story in the A committee of Massachusetts legis- But witnesses have come along to Wall Street Journal raises the ante to lators wrinkled its brows in 1848 over cast some heavy doubt on what seemed $806,000,000; and the Federal Trade a resolution which would permit mar- perfectly clear. It won't do, either, to Commission, according to the Neiv York ried women to hold as their own "prop- fling back at them "Is that so?" in Herald, puts its figure well beyond erty acquired from parents, friends, or answer, for these people are in the $1,000,000,000. the"ir own labor or thrift." The com- business of dealing with juvenile de- Now Columbia University, in com- mittee reported the resolution adversely. linquency and children's courts. mon with some other interested parties, reason—"it would destroy started a while back in pursuit There was a What the Experts Say of the their sensibility, weaken their de- facts. It hasn't caught many of them pendence on man and thereby take THE presiding justice of the New yet, but it's gaining on them. Most away one of the loveliest of their York Children's Court is Judge of these previous estimates, it finds, charms." Franklin Chase Hoyt. In his opinion, seem to have been based on returns Henry Bessemer described to a con- "Countless cases of juvenile crimes from the Federal amusement tax, cover- vention of British steel men the pro- might be cited which superficial inves- ing not only motion pictures but vaude- cess now called by his name. When tigations would attribute to the influ- ville, baseball, circuses, and amuse- he had finished, the convention ex- ence of the movies. If all the facts ments generally. The result of the punged his remarks from the record, connected with these cases could be new research is likely to indicate a that it might not appear ridiculous. ascertained, however, it would doubt- figure probably not exceeding $400,- Throw any old hat into whatever less be found that the offenses were 000,000. ring; the seers of visions will come, due to a complicity of causes, havin:'; It used to be held pretty generally forecasting the millennium, and the their sources in heredity and environ- that what the movie would do to litera- calamity-howlers will gather, prophe- ment." ture would be certainly serious and sying damnation. Pointing With Dr. Herman Adler, Illinois state probably fatal. If one wanted to know Pride and Viewing With Alarm have criminologist, is a national authority "The Tale of Two Cities," "The Three come to be pretty robust institutions; on juvenile delinquency. Without hav- Musketeers" or "The Four Horsemen," they aren't infant industries any more. ing made an extended investigation would he, we were asked, prefer to At the moment, the fairest target "we looked through our records," he struggle through six hundred pages or that offers itself for the shafts of the writes, "and were unable to find a to watch six reels? extremists among the dogmatists is single case whei-e delinquency could be Strictly speaking, that isn't a new motion pictures. If I owned question. In slightly differ- a newspaper it shouldn't be ent form, the same thing caught flat-footed every time was asked about music motion pictures are lauded concert music—when phono- to heaven by their friends graphs began to show them- or damned to hell by their selves all over the place. critics—it should keep Not only has hand-made standing the headlines, music stood the assault, but "Playwright Praises Pic- it has succeeded in making tures" and "Fossil Flays itself known to thousands Films." who, except for the phono- It's natural enough that graph, would never have we should feel strongly about heard more than a rumor motion pictures, that some about its existence. of us should be busy eulo- It happened again when gizing them and others of public libraries began to pop us as busy exorcising them. up in every town. Who They're new; there is about would pay for books when them the attraction of nov- they were handed out gratis elty. The finger of romance around the corner? Book- has touched them, too; they sellers prepared themselves come out of the West, made ^ for a lingering death. It al- by persons to whom legend most turned to a sudden clings. And they are so in- death when they discovered to expensive and accessible that their surprise and profit that it is easy to get familiar the libraries were making the with them; for a few cents reading — and owning — of one may purchase a con- books a great indoor sport. trolling oratorical interest That process is going on in them. He gets for his again. There isn't on the money a participation in the screen any death sentence to adventures of Mr. Fair- literature; what is there is banks and an intimacy with an agency for bringing new the accomplishments of Mr. millions to the classics. The Chaplin that is limited only one branch of literature in by his eyesight and his im- which the motion picture ap- agination. So it comes to pears to have put a crimp pass that none among us is is the dime novel. That can so poor as not to have a be borne. ready opinion about any The newspapers right roundly denounced this It is a fast worker, too, phase of motion photography. pretentious, undemocratic novelty this motion picture. It is OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 5
still less than half a century since they wanted to be when they grew up. that has yet entered this young world." Governor Leland Stanford of Cali- Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale and Increasing at that rate has brought fornia, standing beside his private race Jane Addams were distanced: so was on growing pains. That spread of in- course, instructed a photographer mother. Not even teacher finished in- fluence, that spiraling in size have named Muybridge to take pictures of side the money. Pearl White and Anna raised problems affecting not one com- a horse until he knew whether pany but the whole industry. it ever had its four feet off the There are questions within the ground simultaneously. The trade concerning the contract- governor, it appears, had made ual arrangements between pro- a little wager. ducers, distributors and exhib- Muybridge waited for clear itors; concerning the attitude weather; he shifted from a of the industry on exports; browTi to a white horse; he concerning the relationship of painted a dark background the film industry to the public; about a part of the crack; he concerning specialized output set up twenty-five cameras at such as religious films for intervals; from the shutter of churches and pedagogic ones each he ran a silken thread for schools. across the track; he ran the A group of leaders among horse through the thrends; as the picture men resolved to each was broken a picture was form an association for doing snapped. jointly the things in which He took thousands of photo- they were interested mutually graphs that way. Then, one and non-competitively. They day, fingering through a num- sought a leader and chose the ber of them taken consecu- then Postmaster General. He tively, he was surprised to get accepted their invitation. So the effect of a running horse. started the Hays organization If the movies had a birthday —the Motion Picture Producers that was it. and Distributors of America, There will be objection to Inc. Articles of Association calling any date the movies' were filed specifying the princi- birthday. Perhaps it is a just pal objects of the undertaking: objection. For a good many \ \ centuries before that time and 1. Establishing and maintaining for a quarter of a century after the highest possi'ole moral and ar- it, experiments by various tistic standards in motion picture people in diverse places went production. on before the shadow drama 2. Developing the educational as finally flashed upon the silver well as the entertainment value screen. The "birthplaces" of and general usefulness of the mo- motion pictures are as legion as tion picture. the "Headquarters of General George Washington" that one That was in March. During finds throughout the country Mr. Hays found a bitter dispute raging about who the intervening months a staff of the Revolution. should be Doug, who Charlie and who Bill has been gathered; its tasks In times before history itself are unfolding; its operations had become coherent man began to utter Case had the distinction of tying for are beginning; so are its results. sounds—to talk; his words died in the first place. The Hays organization is formed by air and the recollection of them faded Will Hays took home to Sullivan, a group of producers and distributors from memory. Eventually he learned Indiana, three cowboy suits for his of films—a group small in number but to fashion crude symbols which took son. Bill, aged six, and the boy's two including most of the larger companies. on a meaning and preserved a trace of cousins. The three youngsters went It is not representative of the exhibi- his thought. Long ages later those into a bedroom to put on their new tors, the dividual theatre owners. symbols were elaborated — on clay, suits. In a few minutes sounds of The position of the association with re- stone, papyrus, paper; that was writ- fierce quarreling arose. Mr. Hays in- gard to non-members, however, has ing. The printing press followed, and tervened; he found a bitter dispute been made clear by Mr. Hays: the typewriter, to keep a record of raging aljout who should be Doug, who "We are organized for the purpose of man's mind. The phonograph came, Charlie and who Bill. helping the motion picture industry, not and the songs of other days were saved. any particular company; while nat- Photography was perfected and the A Universal Appeal urally our first duty is to our members vision of a moment became the prop- THE motion pictures' appeal isn't —we would r.ot have existence if it perty of the ages. Finally, to photog- merely to children—the Cleveland w^ere not for them—we are at all times raphy motion was added—and history Foundation, making a recreation sur- anxious to help anyone in the industry." lives again. To assign a birthday and vey there, found a man who hadn't been This tendency toward selecting guild a birthplace to the motion picture is a the original wearer of a pair of shoes spokesmen becomes increasingly popu- job for Three Wise Men or more. since the birth of the first of his eleven lar. It represents, perhaps, the cur- But despite the uncertainty about children. But in all that time he and rent industrial application of Thales's where the movies came from or when his wife had missed few Saturday ancient injunction, "know thyself," in they started coming or when they nights at the movies. combination with the modern maxim are going or how quickly they are Nor is their appeal simply to th "tell the world." getting there, it is agreed that they are United States. While they've been Under differing names and with moving—moving powerfully fast. We covering America intensively, they've varying duties the baseball magnates may not know where they are going been covering the world extensively. and the dramatic producers have ac- but they are on their way. I've heard Charles Merz writes from the far off quired group representatives; so has after - dinner speakers say they've Vale of Kashmir: the construction industry; the restau- grown like the green bay trees; but I "Ever since (one torrid afternoon rateurs have discussed it; in sectional don't know how fast green bay trees when the cobras were sunning them- areas the women garment industry has grow. selves on my bedroom window sill) I chosen "impartial chairmen" repre- The Muybridge horse scenes were saw Charlie Chaplin featured in a sentative loth of employers and em- taken in 1872. When the present Burmese village where carpet sweepers ployees. generation of Master Minds began to and Mennen's Talcum Powder have The men who fill these places tread be, there were no movies and no word not yet won a foothold, I've been tre- upon new ground. No paths are cut, in the language describing them. Now mendously impressed with these here no highways built. The public, seek- —well, the children in the seventh and movies. Say what you will of them ing a shibboleth, has called them "over- eighth grades in a New Hampshire today, they are the biggest potential lords" and "czars" and "dictators." In town were asked a short while ago who force for good, bad and indifferent (Continued on page 28) PAGE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY The Logic of the Barred Gate
the years life pleasant to the peoples DURINGthat have elapsed Definite Restriction of Immi this article seems to criticize. since the signing of But considering the future the Armistice stu- gration Would Offend No of the white race as a whole, of the United States world affairs have . ' and dents of l-Vir 11 T T poured upon us proof after especially, there are certain j^ation, and W oulcl Lrive Us a in mind. proof that the war was not facts we should bear to Stock The first is that our char- ^:!'£ i^s^Z^f Chance Take acter of government appears made safe for democracy"; to be suited to our original and to the type of im- in fact, that the war was one By C. E. Kilbourne stock of the worst blows that the migrant reaching our shores white peoples, and the civili- up to the eighties. A gov- zation built up by them, have ernment in which each citi- ever received, and that the zen takes a personal interest world, as a whole, is far from seems never to have existed safe. among Asiatic peoples, of Many of these writings whom there is a consider- have been analyzed and co- able strain in eastern Europe into central ordinated i n "The Rising and even well Tide of Color," by T. Lothrop Europe, v/hile those democ- Stoddard, which is com- racies established in south- mended to those willing to eastern Europe when ethnol- face unpleasant truths. ogists state that portion of Even those unable to accept the world was "nordicised" his conclusions in toto will have not endured. Nor do not be able to deny the proof we find, in the colonies estab- that white domination of lished by any of these na- world affairs is threatened tions any tendency toward today as it never has been the system of government since the rise of Moham- we have established in the medanism. This short article Philippines. The instinct of is intended only to point out democracy does not appear the salient facts of the trend to exist. of population as it affects The second significant fact the United States, its insti- is that, among the north- tutions, and our controlling western Europeans and their position. descendants, there appears Prior to the beginning of to be an instinct of purity the industrial period the pop- of race that does not exist in ulation of the United States the same marked degree was of northwestern Euro- among those peoples sub- pean stock. The bulk of jected to wave after wave of our Revolutionary f o r e - alien immigration and con- fathers were from north- quest. This is natural, as it western Europe and our is not to be expected that a early trade and immigration people overrun and governed Basic stock of the foreign-born population of the was confined largely to those for generations by Tartar, United States from 1860 to 1920 (in millions) nations bordering on the by Turk, or by Moor would North Sea. As trade ex- have the same instinctive tended and we began to develop in- ulation; they are, however, sufficiently shrinking from intermixture with the dustriallys first the people of central accurate for the purposes of this yellow, the brown and the black that and eastern Europe and then those article. characterizes the northwestern Euro- from the south began to flock to our In what follows there is no intent to pean. Nor can these people or their shores and were welcomed. It was not appear unfriendly to any people. The descendants be expected to feel so noted till later that the al- strongly the necessity for re- most immediate effect was a stricted immigration. Aus- checking of the immigrants tralia closes her doors to kindred to our original stock, all but the whites; Latin nor has the real result be- America does not. come evident until the past The third fact is that only few years. the northwestern European From the accompanying proved himself able to meet diagrams showing the for- The Chinese exclusion law really excludes; the and throw back the Asiatic the eign-born population of the gentlerr m's agreement with Japan does not, as and African invasions of United States can be com- this chart proves Dark Ages. The Alpine and p u t e d approximately the Mediterranean peoples suc- ratio of newcomers of Nordic stock, rise of Greece against the overwhelm- cumbed, with a few isolated excep- of which class our early settlers and ing might of the Ottoman Empire in tions; it was only when faced by Nordic the pioneers of our western expansion the latter part of the eighteenth and peoples that the hordes were defeated. largely consisted. The Nordic races the early years of the nineteenth cen- With these facts, really known to all are still predominant in northwestern tury shows that the ancient spirit of but apparently little appreciated, let Europe, and the aristocracy of many that people could not be subdued. No us turn to another side of the question. of the central and southern European one could witness the reaction of the It is a peculiarity of the human race peoples is largely of Nordic type. Italian inhabitants of the devastated that a people accustomed to certain But the traces of Nordic migrations war zone as soon as they were free to standards of living will tend to disap- or original occupancy of these last return to their farms and withhold pear if brought into immediate com- have been lost in the masses, which admiration. The position of little petition with those satisfied with a are predominantly of Alpine or Med- Switzerland as the citadel of democ- lower standard. This is true of com- iterranean stock. These curves are racy in central Europe is freely ac- munities and it is true of trades. The not strictly accurate, as all European knowledged, as is the debt of the world higher type will either seek new fields countries are more or less mixed in pop- for music, art, and much that makes (Continued on page 26) OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 7
A Story of the North Russian Campaign The Defense of Ust Padenga
By Daniel H. Steele
village of Ust Padenga is THEsituated on the low bluffs formed where the Padenga River empties into the Vaga. It is north of the Padenga and west of the Vaga, and consists of the usual scramble of log houses set close to- gether along the north and south road, with scattered barns and outbuildings on either side. The usual clearing s-ur- rounds the village for a distance of less than a verst (the Russian kilo- and four eighteen-pounder guns "Kolvassa has been over on that lis- meter—about two-thirds of a mile), manned alternately by Canadian and tening post on the right, and he says. and to the north, on a big knoll over- Russian artillerymen. The engineers Lieutenant, that he heard men talk- looking the entire countryside, is a and two infantry platoons not on out- ing a little ways out in front of him, large two-story schoolhouse of squared post were billeted in the big school- and that once a spot of light appeared logs. At this point the forest swings house, while the Russians and artil- over in the woods." in sharply to the road, framing the lerymen occupied the main village. Mead jumped up and the two men building against a background of Nijni Gora, with sandbag defenses went out at once, walking rapidly along sombre pines. Across the Vaga the only, was outposted by a single pla- the deserted street to the last house, dense forest slopes down to the river's toon and covered by the artillery. and crouching low along a drift-cov- edge. Judging from the former clumsy at- ered picket fence, entered a deep snow To the south the road dips abruptly tempts of the Bolo farmer-soldiery to trench which zigzagged off into the to the Padenga, crossing on a narrow take it, the place was strongly held, open. They found Kolvassa lying bridge made of logs, and winds around but lately, since Lieutenant Cuff's pla- curled up in the nestlike hollow which to the right parallel to the Vaga for toon had been slashed to pieces in the had been scooped out of the snow and several versts across a low river flat, woods in front of Bereznik and Cuff filled with pine branches, his white fur bare of trees, but dotted with three himself killed, their front had been cap scarcely showing against the ir- smaller villages. At the southern end growing more and more aggressive. It regular rim of the place, and crawled of this flat, marked by a tiny white v/as reported that the Bolos were mov- in beside him. Kolvassa shifted enough church with its characteristic gilded ing troops to this front. A Company to pull the fur flaps away from his dome, is the little village of Nijni Gora. patrols had repeatedly clashed with face and whispered excitedly: And at the edge of this village, almost their patrols within the past week. "Men out there. Lieutenant. One surrounding it, is a deep irregular gully And the few peasants remaining in Ust guy he say, 'Damn cold here, what time several hundred yards wide, which loses Padenga were becoming more sullen is it?' Other guys speak, I not under- itself on the other side in the intermin- and restless. Bolo espionage was per- stand. Listen!" able forest. fect through such sources. Kolvassa was Polish and under- This briefly describes the southern- Mead's platoon had taken over Nijni stood a little Russian. A period of in- most position held by the Americans of Gora at dusk on Saturday, January tent observation, however, failed to the North Russian Expedition in Jan- 18th, prepared for the usual round of reveal any more than the distant swish uary, 1919. The main body and head- guard. The men did not mind this of the pines and the innocent noises of quarters of the Vaga column was at outpost, as their duties were not unus- the night. Satisfied that the sentry Shenkursk, a town of three thousand ually hard and occasionally Red, the was mistaken, they withdrew, but spent inhabitants twenty versts to the north. cook, could find a potato pit or a few the next hour visiting all the positions. The Bolshevik force, indefinite in chickens, which were very scarce in the Everything seemed quiet. numbers but growing in strength and other villages. At three o'clock Mead was roused boldness, lay sprawled along the Vaga This night, however, nothing seemed again. This time the sergeant himself to the south, with its outposts at little to go right. Fires had gone out in had seen two rockets at short intervals, Bereznik, five versts from Nijni Gora, some of the billets, and it takes hours one out of the woods in the direction and its base on Velsk, which was con- to heat a Russian stove in such bitter of Bereznik and the other from across nected by a winter trail with the rail- weather. The machine gunners had to the river. Several of the posts had road. thaw out their water jackets and movements to report, so all of them Captain Odjard, in command of the scrape the congealed oil off the working were warned to double their vigilance, Allied position, had been most energetic parts of their guns. The Russian ar- and the relief in the billets was held in strengthening its natural defenses, tillery observer had not shown up yet. ready to stand-to. An hour passed and had the main village ringed with A biting wind numbed fingers and and their uneasiness persisted, but still blockhouses and trenches, and particu- toes, made the sentries dance and there was no tangible sign of an enemy. larly on the right flank, because of the squirm with the cold and, to make mat- The principal emplacement of the de- dangerous nearness of the forest, fir- ters worse, blew the surface snow in fenses of Nijni Gora was a small bath- ing lanes were cleared and barbed wire clouds across their front, making it house, better built than the ordinary, knife rests laid. The villagers of Ust difficult to see to the edge of the woods. with embrasures on three sides for Padenga had disclosed several trails Even the rum ration didn't help as it firing, and sandbag reinforcements. leading into the forest to woodcutters' should. This housed a Vickers gun squad, a shacks or hay clearings, and these were Shortly after midnight the sergeant Lewis gun squad, and two or three carefully blocked and patroled. of the guard came to Mead's billet and riflemen. It had under observation the The position was garrisoned by Com- lighting a lamp, touched the latter other positions in front of the village, pany A, 339th Infantry, a platoon of lightly on the shoulder once or twice, and could be approached from the vil- American engineers, a medical detach- so that he sat up suddenly. lage under fair cover, and the gully ment, a company of Russian riflemen. "What is it, Sergeant?" sloped away from it in a great sweep PAGE 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY
giving a perfect field of fire more ing advance, but as fast as gaps were road. Now the first of the white front than halfway to the woods. made they were filled by others from was showing at the edge of the village. It was nearly five o'clock and the sky the rear, and the marching fire of their A handful burst out on the left and to the east was taking on the grayish automatic rifles was not without its almost enfiladed Kernan's group. A tinge peculiar to the Arctic dawn. The deadly effect on the handful of de- larger party had broken through on lightening gray of the dancing field of fenders. And the question passed back the right and was threatening to cut snow out in front tempted the sentries and forth, and they waited agonizingly them ofl^. More than a score of the to more detailed observation. Mead, in vain for the answer, "Where the stricken platoon were dead or wounded standing beside the bathhouse, raised hell is our artillery?" For a few among the houses. The few remaining his field glasses and peered intently at bursts of shrapnel could soon have rallied and fell back as quickly as they the fringe of trees. If he could only broken that unprotected mass out in dared along the road. The Bolos, too, trust his eyes, but the distance and bad front. had been badly cut up and now seemed light created dozens of moving figures One hundred and fifty yards away disposed to content themselves with to mock him. "Thank firing from the houses the Lord," he muttered, they had taken. "it'll soon be day- Along the road the light." last dozen retired, too A moment later a worn and stunned to rocket soared high care much whether above the trees to the they were followed or south and hung, a ball not, till a rattle of fir- of pale fire against the ing just behind them starless sky, then was showed a relief party followed, as it faded, from Ust Padenga by another and an- covering their flight. other, while across the And the tardy Russian river, where was noth- gunners, as if in mock- ing but the forest, an ery, opened up with answering red one rapid fire on the lost flared. And directly to village of Nijni Gora. their front, startlingly The garrison of Ust close, a Very light went Padenga was alert and up. Then Rogers standing-to as the re- crawled from the ma- mains of the first pla- chine post on the left toon dragged back into and pointed with his town, too dazed as yet mittened hand. to comprehend what "There they are, had happened. The Lieutenant; see 'em?" Russian guns were now Then Mead saw them ranging on the church indeed. The edge of in Nijni Gora and ham- the woods seemed alive mering away at the with moving figures. few houses which shel- As he watched it looked tered the Bolos. Their as though the entire glasses showed the vil- mass of black under- lage a s w a r m with brush was extending troops. .About ten toward them, reaching o'clock, however, Bolo out slowly and noise- patience seemed ex- lessly directed by some hausted by this stra- resistless force. It was fing, and with a roar weird and uncanny and that made the eighteen- puzzling, this method- pounders sound like ical progress of a silent, toy guns, a battery of mysterious body, larger four and six-inch guns by many times than opened up from a new any they had yet seen position, apparently on the Vaga. two or three miles back Mead turned to in the woods across the Rogers. "Tell them not Vaga. to fire until they hear The heavier arma- us open up here," he ment of the Bolsheviki, ordered, then started which was increasingly into the blockhouse. evident at every stand "That's the last belt!" he gasped The men at the guns from this time on, was were chattering excit- the most serious ob- edly to each other as they watched the attackers still pressed on. One stacle the Allies had to combat. They the advancing wave spread out a lit- hundred yards, and the desperate were outranged and battered by heavier tle. They were now several rods out of defenders could see the dark, order- guns which seemed prodigally supplied the woods, but the deep snow made ly ranks of the troops in the back- with ammunition despite the difficul- heavy going. Suddenly, much nearer, ground. The Vickers gun in the block- ties of transport. from the very bottom of the gully, house stopped. Nye, the gunner, The heavy log houses in the Rus- with hoarse cries and commotion, com- turned around. "That's the last belt," sian villages were fairly good protec- pany after company of spectral figures he gasped. tion against rifle fire and shrapnel clad in all-concealing white rose up to Mead groaned. "We'll have to pull when troops stood on the side opposite meet them. out," he said. "Bring that Lewis gun to the shelling, but they were worthless "Fire! For God's sake!" Mead and work back along the road. You'll against high explosive shells or started to shout, but his words were have to cover those other posts as they larger calibres. And in the intense swept away by the deafening crackle come back. Lord! If only the artil- cold the men could not remain long as a hundred machine guns opened up lery—" out-of-doors. Bolo practice, therefore, along that ghostly line. The inside of But the other posts did not need was to demolish the billets in a town the shack they were in seemed alive orders. They were in the same plight, by high explosive and incendiary with the spitting crack of their fire. and back they fell, firing from around shells. Then the Allies were forced to The Americans' guns played madly buildings, now each man for himself. retire to the next village where billets against that overwhelming fusillade Sergeant Kernan was making a stand could be had providing some sort of and ripped and tore into that flounder- with his relief along both sides of the {Continued on page 24) OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 9
The Legion Leads The League
It's true of the American League, anyway, and Legionnaires played a big part in almost every big-time con- test, National or American, during the last baseball season. Behold a few Legionnaire big leaguers.
Harry Heilman, De- International. troit, teammate and postmate of Ty Cobb
Sisler of St. Louis and Duncker Post, premier hitter of the Ameri- can League
International. Oldham, likewise a Tiger and a Learned Poster Sam Rice, Washington, star outfielder and member of 312th Machine Gun Post
Leon Cadore (above), Brooklyn, of the member of Post 500 Woodall Tigers and (you of that city guessed it) Learned Post
Hank Gowdy catches for the Braves summers and goes to International. Benjamin Franklin Post meet- ings in Columbus winters PAOK 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY
similation. And even while he is being assimilated, the alien must live. EDITORIAL America has in no way abridged the high principles which underlie her government (always allowing for the opposition to prohibition, a factor which has for sometime been operating to check immigration). But principles go on forever, whereas economic cycles, like human careers, have their ups and downs. From the standpoint of the immigrant himself, the times are not propitious for his coming. When the Individual Counted ANY day you choose to pick at this season is the an- How to Live to Be One Hundred niversary of the deadly, little-sung "second phase" of SheflSeld, of the Meuse-Argonne battle. Grand-Pre, St. Juvin, MRS. ANN HAYKINS England, cele- Sommerance, Romagne, Cunel, Brieulles, Bantheville, brated her 103d birthday recently by taking her Consenvoye—these and a score of other inconspicuous first automobile ride. Newspaper reports say she attrib- plain French villages were being smashed off the map of utes her longevity to living, but as any one thou- France and onto the map of America just four years sand individuals will have exactly one thousand ideas ago. of what plain living is, that doesn't help much. Mrs. Haykins is more specific when she says that smoking "Second phase" sounds rather simple. But it is only another way of saying that, other things being equal, tobacco also had something to do with it. She has smoked a pipe for seventy-six years, which indicates the advantage is with the defender and against the attacker. The surprise element had vanished weeks she started the practise at the flippant age of twenty- before; the idea behind the American effort was as seven. That was in 1846, when you would have had plain as a billboard; the enemy had the advantage of to walk a mile for one and then go without. battling for terrain which he knew with the familiarity Anyway, Mrs. Haykins's rule of life, added to by- of four years' acquaintance, and which he had prepared laws and amendments previously submitted by other centenarians, puts longevity within easy reach of all of during all that time for just such a thrust as this. In such a situation the fighting must ever narrow us. Compiling all the known regulations, it is at once evident that the only successful way in which to attain down to a strict man-to-man basis. In the Argonne it was American infantryman against German infantry- the five-score mark is (1) to avoid tobacco and strong drink, to avoid strong drink but not tobacco, to man, American artilleryman against German artillery- (2) (3) avoid tobacco but not strong drink, (4) to drink and man, and so on throughout. It is no mere coincidence moderately, to drink or smoke (or both) that of the seventy-odd Congressional Medals of Honor smoke (5) immoderately. awarded to men of the A. E. F., practically half were thing is certain: If you get to be a hundred, for exploits performed in the Argonne between the One you have a right to lay it to anything you choose. But fifth and thirty-first of October. that won't prevent somebody else from picking it up making a Movement out of it. From the Immigrant's Side and Statue of Liberty in New York harbor has to THE Some Thoughts on the East stand for a lot of sentiment for which she is in no way responsible. A few years ago, it must be admitted, THE army of the Greeks, who were our allies in she stood for one hundred percent sentiment. Going the War, has been beaten by the independent Turk- and coming, two million and more doughboys and gobs ish forces of Mustapha Kemal and ejected from Asia saw in her the bronze personification of all that America Minor, a slice of which territory, anciently Greek, the meant to them. war had restored; and they have lost also a part of We all like to think that she means just as much Thrace, which is old Greek soil. This seems hard to the incoming alien with the ordeal of Ellis Island lines for the Greeks. It is hard lines, and with just still ahead of him. Perhaps she does. Perhaps the one mitigating circumstance. They have got rid again, alien really comes here with love of liberty, the right and this time certainly for good, of their pro-German, to a unanimous pursuit of happiness and the brother- anti-war, anti-Ally King, Constantine. He was never hood of man welling up all over him. And perhaps he much use to Greece. Greece has made its sacrifice. It doesn't. is a painful sacrifice, but there is this one consolation, More likely he comes here because he thinks he can which is better than no consolation at all. make a better living here than he could at home, to The eye of the world has been on, and much space avoid military service, to escape from a fluctuating in the front or parlor pages of the newspapers occu- currency that may reduce a bank account of years' pied by, the recent events in the East. British, French, standing to the worth of a dollar, to emulate the example Italians, Americans have their especial concerns. An of Stanislaus or Gregor or Demetrios, who left the Italian expeditionary force was in the zone of the Straits home sod ten years ago and is now passing rich. looking after Italy's interests and spheres of influence. Somehow we are prone to credit the immigrant with French troops were there, and British troops and war- all the high-flown motives in the world and then to find ships made moves and maneuvers which looked like busi- fault with him because he proves as human as the rest ness. Above thirty thousand Tommies, Ypres and of us. He came here to find liberty, we complain, and Somme men among them, are again, as this is writ- now we discover him getting into ward politics with ten, living in trenches behind barbed wire, "much more all the skill and sometimes more than the influence of effectively equipped for battle than at any time during the native. Well, liberty itself is not the least unselfish the World War." In what particulars, one wonders motive in the world. We, as Americans, are for it parenthetically? — because we like it, not because it is a pretty word or American tars and marines are there "protecting because its symbol, the eagle, is a beautiful bird. We American interests." How? What interests has like it because it is practical, because it works, because America under these far skies? Well, our forces have it suits us. Can we blame the alien for entertaining rescued refugees, fed the hungry, served the sick, trans- the same homely sen^ment about it? ported the homeless to shelter. Thus America serves Exclusion of all immigrants for five years would its "interests." They are the disinterested interests mean as much to the alien himself as it will to America. of humanity. No man is happy when he represents a problem. More The nature of our participation in the near-East in- aliens mean a greater problem, a harder task of as- cidents is worth thinking about. —
OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 11
AROUND THE WITH THE COM- COUNTRY MANDER He never missed a Sioux who killed chance to visit a Sitting Bull, at Bis- hospital — the one marck, N.D. Right, shown here is on the Commander in the Pacific Coast. the four-gallon hat Left, the C o m - presented to him by mander meets Chief the Legion in Chey- Red Tomahawk, the enne, Wyo.
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jEOPLE used to think highly of kind of a guy was he? Mac (excuse Marco Polo as a tourist. They the familiarity, but I've practically had a notion that Christopher MacNider lived with him for a year) wanted them P Columbus was a globe-trotter. to know. He let them, all right. He Magellan and Sir Francis Drake were By George Harvey didn't want them to get the idea that set down as men who had been prac- the National Commander was a Big tically everywhere and had seen prac- If Mac could have worn a speedometer Chief sitting back in a swivel chair tically everything. all this time, I'll risk a bet he'd be issuing orders. He was one of the I hate to obscure the reputations of registering a year's total mileage in gang, and he wanted to tell the world four such worthy gentlemen, but I must. excess of the hundred-thousand mark about it. So he got out and traveled. In their day they were pretty fair his longest one-trip record would show He took me along, and I took along travelers, as travelers go, but their day about 3,500 miles. Just about the time a field desk (trunk), typewriter (not is done. Right now they rank with the you'd got that speedometer working a baby typewriter, either, a regular oldest native of Snake Holler, who has perfectly for railroad trains, you'd have Goliath of typewriters), and a full pack never seen a trolley car and knows not to change it around to fit automobiles. otherwise. Right away we went on the odor of the locomotive. And when you had it all fixed up for the Foch tour. The Legion took the In the gentle art of taking a given automobiles, you'd have to put it into marshal and toted and touted him all point and getting away from that point gear for an airplane. And the next day over the nation—twenty thousand as far and as often as possible, the you'd have to hitch it onto the rear miles, all told—and made life for every pride of Mason City, Iowa, takes first wheel of a buggy, most likely. Then mile one sweet ovation. The train prize. Hanford MacNider is his name. it would come off the buggy and become .stopped fifteen minutes at the smaller About the time you'll be reading a pedometer, because he walked con- itowns and from an hour to half a day this MacNider will be at New Orleans, siderably, too. at the larger ones. After each stop Louisiana. He'll haul off with a gavel There was a reason for all this trav- 'Mac went back to the train and back and give said gavel to some other chap. eling. Mac wanted to co-ordinate all to work on purely Legion matters. The other chap will become National the eleven thousand posts of the Le- Along about the nineteenth thou- Commander of The American Legion. gion. The great mass of Legionnaires, sand mile Mac left the party. But he The next day, very likely, he'll start he felt, had only a vague idea about didn't stop traveling. He started a traveling. And MacNider will go back their organization. They were curious tour of his own, visiting posts and to Mason City, climb into bed and about the National Commander. What hospitals and spreading the good gospel sleep for thirty-six days. of Legionism from town A year ago MacNider to town and city to city started out from Kansas and State to State. City, which is mostly in That's what he's been Missouri. Every now doing practically all the and then from now on time ever since. If the he'll probably sigh, be- train wasn't fast enough cause since he left Kan- he tried something else. sas City he hasn't visited Example A: He was New Hampshire or Ne- in Mason City one morn- vada. He had planned ing at 7 o'clock. He to tour those two States, had to be in Iowa, Min- but urgent business nesota and South Da- called him away. He kota, all on that day, and has visited all the rest. back to Mason City the He has skimmed a few next day. He did it, international borders. covering 509 miles in an He has yet to travel by automobile, and driving submarine, but the sub- himself.
marine is the only known ' Example B : He had s. (£j Ilarr means of getting some- date with the North Da- where that he did not try The Commander shoots a few letters at Secretary George kota Convention at Devil's during his term of office. Harvey, the author of this article (Continued on page 21) PAGE 12 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY
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A Failure The Leading Lady The Army of Occupation man had "I am going to kiss you as soon as married a British welfare worker I stop," he said as he prepared to and was proudly bringing her back slow up at a secluded spot. across the Atlantic. It was her "I know it," she giggled. first sea trip, however, and things Later he wondered why the brake weren't so good. The ocean ap- linings were burned out. peared to be moving around too fre- quently. The Silver Lining "Julius," asked the bride, as the great liner rolled and pitched, "Has anyone seen my b-b-blan- "Julius, do you love me?" ket?" demanded a shivering buck "More than ever, darling," was on one of those typically sunny Julius's fervent reply. French mornings. There was a moment's silence, Nobody had — for purposes of after which the young woman said publication, anyway. feebly: "Has anyone seen my b-b- ?" "Julius, I thought that would blouse make me feel better, but it doesn't." Nope. "Well," said the buck, after a moment's deliberation, "I'm g-g- Use or Abuse? glad I've g-g-got on a nice warm b-b-belt, at any rate." "Henry," said a mother to her ten-year-old, "haven't I always told you to use your napkin at the Almost Saved ?" table "Hi, Pat, did the fall hurt you "Why, I am using it, mother," much?" cried Tim, as he ran to the protested Henry, with an air of in- foot of the scaffold. jured innocence. "I've got the dog "Divvle a bit," groaned Pat, "but tied to the leg of the table with it." I stopped so dom sudden I busted me leg." Mistaken Identity Cause for Suspicion An American soldier had wan- dered away from his outfit and had * Between stations in Pennsylvania bunked for the night with a colored a certain train came to a sudden regiment. While he slept, some- stop with a tremendous grinding of brakes. Immediately a worried- body as a joke blackened his face. By George I This wrist watch Priscilla gave me looking man rushed down the track In the morning an orderly was is a great convenience" sent to wake him early in order and demanded of the brakeman the that he get back to his own com- reason. pany without loss of time. He started off I have only a twenty-kronen gold piece "What is it?" he asked. "An accident?" in a hurry, but stopped suddenly as he with me." "Somebody pulled the bell rope," was caught sight of his face in a mirror. "That's all right," returned the driver. the reply. "The engineer put on the brakes "I'm goin' back to bed," he announced. "Hand it over. You'll get 35,000 paper too quickly, and one of the cars went off "They've woke up the wrong guy. 'Tain't kronen in change." ihe rails. We'll be tied up about four me." The passenger scratched his head. hours." "Hold on," he said. "I guess you'd better "Four hours!" exclaimed the passenger. Eastern Standard drive me back to the asylum. I think they "But I'm to be married today!" made a little mistake in my case." Instantly the brakeman turned on him "Johnny, don't you know it's Sunday? with suspicion. You mustn't play marbles out there on the "See here," he ejaculated, "you aren't the sidewalk. Go into the back yard if you Suggestions of a Doughboy guy who pulled the bell rope, are you?" want to play." Being the "All right, mother, but what day of the Suggcstiovs a Doughboy on the Manner of Make It Snappy week is it in the back yard?" of Covducting the Next War, Together with Certain Rcflections on the Conduct of the Clarence was bringing his sweetie home Scene, a Restaurant Last One. from the theater in a taxicab, and, as she in receptive mood, he decided he 39. That the Artillery be instructed see,med a "But how on earth, Holmes, could you as.any that the Infantry does not object to having might just as well have it out then deduce that man was a slacker during the other time. ?" an occasional shell from its supporting guns war yes, darling," he urged, after he had fall in its ranks. Such incidents serve to "Say "At times, my dear Watson, your stupid- his impassioned plea. But she was remind the Infantry that the Artillery is made ity is positively childish. Can you not see to over too easily. still behind it, and give a feeling of com- not be won that he has ordered canned salmon and is panionship that would otherwise be lacking. "Give me time to think it over," she said. actually eating it with evident enjoyment?" Under such circumstances any indications "Heavens! Not in here!" exclaimed that other branches of the service are also Clarence. "Consider the expense, my dear Guilty taking part in the war will always encour- girl!" age the Infantry and remove to some ex- The deaf buck to the sentry cried: All Set tent that feeling of splendid isolation. "I didn't get your word of warning; Huyler: "So you're to be married next I'm deaf, you see," but the guard replied: week. Got the house all fitted up." "You'H get your hearing in the morning." Business Only Cuyler: "I guess so. I've got a radio Riggs: "That Dr. Sims is quite a wit, outfit, a still, a cocktail shaker, a corkscrew Who's Crazy? isn't he?" and a chafing dish. No, I haven't forgotten Higgs: "Yes, but there's a sinister mo- a thing." in An Austrian who had been confined a tive behind his humor. His idea is to make Vienna insane asylum just before the war his patients laugh themselves sick." and whose mind had been a blank during Otherwise the ensuing years of depreciated money At Least a Chance Lawyer: "Is this your last will and testa- value was released the other day. A sanity ment ? board had passed upon his condition and A small boy in a Chicago school refused Client: "It is if I die." pronounced him cured. to take part in a sewing lesson on the Joyfully the man hired a taxi to take him ground that it was beneath his dignity. It With Flowers home and when he arrived there inquired "George Washington sewed," said the Say the fare. teacher, taking it for granted that every Mr. Justwed: "I want to get a nice "Fourteen thousand kronen," replied the soldier has to do it at times. "You don't bunch of roses for my wife. How much chauffeur. consider yourself better than Washington, will they cost ?" "Fourteen thousand kronen!" ejaculated do you?" Florist (married man himself) : "I can the indignant passenger. "You're a rob- "I don't know; time will tell," replied the tell much better if you'll describe the nature ber! I'll pay nothing of the sort. Anyway boy. and violence of the quarrel." —
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Keeping Step With the Legion
sidered pertinent to the subject. Slo- projects and children's games, and also gan: educate the Education Week "Visit the schools today." will try to public in the Wednesday, perhaps, is the biggest conservation and development of for- day of the week. That will be School ests, soil and roads. The slogan will and Teacher Day. It will have as its be: "A sick body makes a sick mind." THE call for American Education Week, to be held from Decem- purpose the teaching of the necessity All this promises a lot of work. It of schools, the lot ber 3d to 9th, inclusive, this year, the worthwhileness of promises a of work for a lot of got a different reception from the teachers, the power of the schools and people. But the work will be worth it. ones accorded the approximately fifty- their influence on coming generations. After reading the 1922 call for Educa- one other weeks of the year. Amer- The slogan, again: "Visit the schools tion Week, we went to the files to find today." last ican Education Week is a different out what had been done year week. Most every other week has Thursday will be Illiteracy Day, and what it was that got the event across been pre-empted by somebody with will have for its purpose the teaching so big. We found out, all right. We to America of the facts of illiteracy in nearly five pounds of letters an axe to grind. The florists have a found and America and the remedies at hand for clippings, all devoted to constructive week in which they ask you to buy illiteracy. It will have a bearing on activities. first thing that struck flowers. The apple-growers have a The immigration, and will to spread letter week when they try to stuff you with hope our eye was a from Department the should F. apples. Probably somebody will in- Legion policy that America Adjutant James Barton of Iowa. receive until it vent National Dill Pickle Week next. no more immigration He admitted that Iowa had put the can care for its own people and those across in big style, paid But Education Week is purely un- week and a who have adopted it. There will be a great deal of the credit to publicity. selfish. It was first observed a year slogan, too: "Let each citizen teach an the loiva Legionnaire and ago, and was an instantaneous suc- Through illiterate to read and write." The through Legion news supplied other cess. The American Legion's 'National Americanism Commission and the Na- slogan is a bit long, and probably every daily and weekly papers all over the citizen find an illiterate, but of the tional Education Association hatched cannot State, the aims and purposes the message goes, just the same. week were brought to the attention of the idea and fed it and brought it up. Friday will be Equality of Oppor- in This year, with the aid of the United practically every person Iowa. tunity Day. It will be dedicated to the in States Bureau of Education, they are "When meetings started the schools promotion of equality of opportunity and colleges and before scores of re- going to put it over again. for education in America and to help ligious, fraternal and civic organiza- A call has gone out from National which Headquarters of the Legion for co- remedy the handicaps under tions," Mr. Barton's letter says, "the pupils in rural communities must operation by the Legion down to its some whole State was keenly interested. start. Slogan: "A square deal for the delivered smallest unit. The week has been or- Hundreds of Legion speakers ganized by days, and the routine of country boys and girls." addresses to large audiences, as many Physical Education national observance has been taken Saturday will be as thirty veterans appearing in Des Day, and will probably be the most pop- care of to a great extent. But the Moines alone. In many of the schools It will have Americanism Commission points out ular with the youngsters. patriotic programs were put on in the object of promoting playground children gave flag drills, can- that after all the great bulk of work which the must be done by posts, and for that tatas and the like, sang patriotic songs, reason they have asked us to pass the delivered recitations and talks about word along. some of our great American leaders and to reverence and The first day of the week (Sunday, Legion Calendar pledged themselves of course) will be devoted to quiet ac- respect of Old Glory." complishment. The day's slogan will National Educati on Week That's part of what they did in Iowa. be: "A godly nation cannot fail." Listen now to what Milton D. Camp- Education in the home, in the school The call is out for the second an- bell has to say about the celebration year: and in the church will be the themes. nual National Education Week, Decem- they had in Cincinnati, Ohio, last to preach on the ber 3d to 9th inclusive. Every post Ministers are going Flags were ordered and placed in the either morning or of The American Legion will be asked subject of education schools of Cincinnati and in Newport and in every to co-operate in this event for the in- evening, the commission hopes, Covington, Ky., too. They were given by the culcation of American ideals and the town and city of the country. But a large department store, but Robert dissemination of information, instruc- E. commission wants posts to make sure Bentley Post distribu+od them on Friday ob- tion and inspiration for the schools. that the ministers know about the of Education Week. Each school was vis- Further announcements later. servance in time. And the commission ited by a member of the post and the also wants posts to have their speakers Armistice Day presentation was formally made by the vis- ready for meetings on that day, to be itor, who took occasion to make some ex- able to fill in wherever necessary. November 11th will be the fourth planation of flag etiquette, so that now Monday will be known as American anniversary of the ending of the each morning in every school the flag will Citizenship Day. That day will be de- World War. Members of The Ameri- be unfurled and saluted by the pupils, and voted particularly to the people who can Legion already know how to cel- each evening they will have a regular Re- are yet to become citizens, to the chil- ebrate that event; they have taken the treat and the flag will be furled. dren who will be the citizens of to- lead in all celebrations of the day morrow, to the aliens who seek natural- since the original. This program had been planned a ization, to immigrants just arrived, and long time ahead, but it was a vast suc- in general to the teaching of the duties Thanksgiving cess, and gave a splendid opening for of citizenship. Like any good day, it future Americanism work. It had not Falls on November 30th. Every has a slogan—"Americans all by 1927." been intended originally as part of the disabled veteran should have some- Tuesday will be Patriotism Day and week, but the idea was the same. thing to be thankful for. He will have will have for its purpose the inculca- We passed on to the next letter. It The American Legion to give him tion of patriotic ideals. The flag, our was from Paul Davis, Americanis™ cause for thanks. national music, our national language Chairman in Idaho. He said: and the duty of voting all will be con- (Continued on page 23) OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 15
W. E. Richards, J. M. Hodges, of George C. Neff, E. J. Brucher, John L. Allen, New York City, Norfolk, Virginia, Harrisburg, Pa., Waterloo, la., $50 Ind i an a p ol is, $500 prize, 280 $250 prize, 262 $100 prize, 209 prize winner, 206 Ind., $40 prize, members members members members 170 members
The Five Leaders in The American Legion Weekly Membership Contest How the Go-Getters Got 'Em Being the Story of the Prize Winners in the Weekly's National Membership Contest
WILLIAM E. RICHARDS, a New The contest established the point that more not in the Legion than I thought. York City letter carrier, won the average veteran can be brought The more new members I got the more the first prize of $500 in The into the Legion fold by the application eligibles I found. Each time I would hear of American Legion Weekly's July-to-Sep- of a little properly directed individual some fellow that didn't belong I would tember individual membership contest. solicitation. Personal contact is diffi- make out an application card for him, get Richards was an aviator in the Service. cult. It is practically impossible to his address and hunt him down. Almost When he entered the contest Richards establish with large numbers. When a every new member I found would tell me decided that his own post—Dan Tallon man, as a side issue, approaches indi- of two or three buddies of his that didn't No. 678—should be the sole beneficiary vidually and signs up one hundred belong and I would then proceed to get of his efforts. Tallon Post is composed members of The American Legion in a them. It wasn't until after I had passed entirely of employees of the New York short summer season the performance the hundred mark that I felt I had a general post office. This restricted speaks well for the individual, and also chance in the national contest and began Richards's efforts largely to one roof. well for the organization and for the to work for the highest number possible. But it is a large roof, and it now method of solicitation. The reports of After it became known among the mem- shelters 280 more Legionnaires than it some of the contestants are interest- bers of the post that I had entered the did before Richards began his solicita- ing, and the fact that they all agree contest they would call me on the phone tions. that the easiest and best way to get or stop me on the street and tell me of As stated, Richards entered this con- Legion members is to go out as skir- some new prospect they had found and test not with any great hopes of win- mishers and individually buttonhole thought I could get. ning a prize, but to benefit his post by your prospects is an item that should My experience in getting new members increasing its membership. When in- be useful to departments and posts during the past two and one-half months formed that he had won the first prize which have member-getting enterprises convinces me more than ever that Gal- of $500 he was the most surprised man in contemplation, braith's plan of "every member get a mem- in New York. J. Mason Hodges, the go-getter from ber" is the way to double our present "Give the money to my post," he Norfolk, who came in for second money, membership. said. "The treasurer needs it for our did so against strong local competition. disabled welfare fund." Collecting membership prizes, however, Johnny Allen, who tilled the field in Indianapolis, but has traveled and Richards came out at the top of a is getting to be the order of the day who observed conditions among veterans in list of eight prize winners after a spir- with Hodges. He pulled down first all parts of the country since the war, ited tussle with J. M. Hodges of Nor- honors in his post, winning a trip to are not Legion mem- folk, Virginia. As returns were re- New Orleans and first honors in the says veterans who bers fall largely into three classes: ceived at the Weekly office, this pair Virginia Department, which meant $75 ran nip and tuck until the latter days to his savings bank account. As a The negligent man, who at heart is for of the race, when the New Yorker sent regular thing Hodges sells life insur- the Legion but is too busy with his per- in slips enough to net him a plurality ance. Sometimes when he can't sell a sonal concerns and who in all probability of eighteen. The prize winners are: buddy a policy he sells him a Legion never has had the question of joining put membership, but more frequently he personal talk. Prize Name Address Nkw squarely up to him in a Members sells him both. The selfish individual who wants to know $500 W. E. Richards, New York, N. Y. 280 E. J. Brucher is a railroad man, "what I will get out of it." 250 J. M. Hodges, Norfolk, Va 262 working for the Illinois Central. Here The man who says he doesn't care 100 George C. Neff, Harrisburg, Penn. 209 is his letter on how he got 206 new for the Legion's officers (usually a local 50 E. J. Brucher, Waterloo, Iowa.. 206 members. grievance) or its policies. 40 John L. Allen, Indianapolis, Ind. 170 three situations are easy tc 30 R. W. Hobart, Cambridge, Mass. 154 At first I had no intention of entering These if you go at it right 20 Charles Gelher, Los Angeles, Cal. 145 the contest, but after getting a dozen or solve, Allen says, 1st I found there were many {Continued on page 21) 10 J. A. Shiro, New York, N. Y. . . . 144 so on July PAGE 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLYi Going to Europe—and Going Strong
Which of these two men has learned the secret of 15 minutes a day?
The secret Is contained In the free book offered below. Until you have read It you have no Idea how much 15 minutes a day can mean In growth and success. Send for your copy now HERE are two men equally good-looking; equally well-dressed. You see such men in every social gathering. One of them can talk of nothing be- yond the mere day's news. The other brings to every subject a wealth of side light and illustration that makes him listened to eagerly. He talks like a man who has traveled widely, though his For two miles a crowd like this lined the streets of Brussels to wel- only travels are a business man's trips. He knows some- come the Legion tourists thing of history and biography, of the work of great scien- to Belgium. King Albert helped in the tists, and the writings of philosophers, poets and dramatists, welcoming, too Yet he is^ busy, as all men are, in the affairs of every day. How has he found time to acquire so rich a mental background? When there is such a multitude of books- who tour Europe enjoy could not be chronicled in ten times to read, how can any man be well-read? PEOPLE themselves in The answer to this man's success—and to the success, one of two ways. this space, so nobody but the voyagers of thousands of men and women like him— is contained Either they see a lot of famous themselves will ever know just how in a free book that you may have for the asking. In it people and places, or they go good a time was had by all. is told the story of Dr. Eliot's great discoveiy, which, as on their one man expressed it, "does for reading what the inven- own, seeing what chances Not that they forgot duty. They re- tion of the telegraph did for communication." From his across their field of vision. The crowd membered their Allies; they laid a lifetime of reading, study, and teaching, forty years of that went on the Second American Le- wreath at the central flag pole in Su- as president of Harvara University, Dr. Eliot tells just it gion what few books he chose for the most famous library in European Tour this summer en- resnes Cemetery ; they laid a wreath on the world; why he chose them, and how he has arranged joyed themselves both ways. the graves of the unknown French and them with notes and reading courses so that any man Everybody knows they sailed in July British soldiers. But also, they can get from them the essentials of a liberal education were in even fifteen minutes a day. on the S. S. President Roosevelt, that banqueted by great people, received by The booklet gives the plan, scope and purpose of they visited France, Belgium and Eng- men like Joifre and Foch and the King land, and came back by way of Mont- of the Belgians. They were met, real. But the other things they did too, by Allied veterans' organizations. Dr. Eliot s
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Name , Ex-Privates Carl H. Zorn (left) of Gibsonburg, O., and Charles Kirk- wood of Columbus, O., veterans of the First Division, place a wreath Address. on the grave of the Poilu Inconnu at Paris. John J. Wicker, Jr., S7I-HCA L director of the Legion tour, is standing at the right, a little ahead of the rest of the Legion party —
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They were the talk of the town when they went to London and became the guests there of the British Legion. They reviewed famous old British regi- ments, and were entertained by famous old British, French and Belgian bands. They met buddies in Legion posts in London and Paris and were entertained by them. They did a lot of good for America and for the Legion. And they never stopped having a good time. Being feted and feted doesn't interfere with having a good time if you are with friends while the feting is going on, and still with friends between fetes, and if the feteors are also your friends. And this crowd was more than a crowd; it was a gang —^just the same sort of gang you used to play with in school. We could tell a lot more about the trip, but we won't. The pictures can tell more.
A Delightful Test To bring you prettier teeth
This offers you a ten-day test which Now we combat it will be a revelation to you. It will show Dental science, after long research, you the way to whiter, cleaner, safer teeth. has found two film combatants. Many Millions of people of some forty races careful tests have proved their efficiency. The Legion party on the march. now employ this method. Leading den- Leading dentists everywhere urge their Uniformed men went ahead, the tists everywhere advise it. You should women of the party went after daily use. learn how much it means to you and yours. them, and the rear was brought A new-day tooth paste has been created, up by more uniformed men. They film called Pepsodent. It complies with are going to the Cenotaph in Clouded by a London to do honor to Britain's modern requirements. And these two Your teeth are clouded more or less Unknown Soldier great film combatants are embodied in it. by film. The fresh film is viscous you'^can feel it with your tongue. It Two other effects The Legion Projector clings to teeth, enters crevices and stays. Pepsodent brings two other effects interesting explanatory lecture to be of brushing leave much AN Old methods which authority now deems essential. delivered during the showing of the of that film intact. The film absorbs film "Flashes of Action" has been prepared It multiplies the starch digestant in by the Speakers' Bureau of the National stains, so the teeth look discolored. Film the saliva. Publicity Division. Copies of the lecture is the basis of tartar. will be supplied by the National Film Serv- It multiplies the alkalinity of the saliva. ice to posts and units booking this film. That is Nature's neutralizer for acids The service reports an increasing demand How it ruins teeth which cause decay. for the picture, which thus far has been exhibited by more than 500 posts. That film holds food substance which Send the coupon for a 10-Day Tube In nearly all the Minnesota towns where ferments and forms acids. It holds the and watch these effects for a while. Note "Cardigan" was shown under Legion auspices last spring, schools were dismissed acids in contact with the teeth to cause how clean the teeth feel after using. to enable the children to attend special decay. Mark the absence of the viscous film. matinee showings. "These matinees," Millions of germs breed in it. They, See how teeth whiten as the film-coats writes Bill Pierce, who exploited the pic- ture for the Minnesota Department, "were with tartar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea. disappear. not only a forward step in Americanism, So most tooth troubles are now traced to Then judge the benefits by what you but were profitable to posts." A free community moving picture show that film, and they are almost universal. see and feel. You will be amazed. was given by the post in Irvington, Indi- ana, in connection with a three-day sum- mer carnival. Efforts are being made by the Film Serv- 10-Day Tube Free ice to have the picture "A" Man Without a Country" distributed direct to posts on a low rental basis. This plan will eliminate THE PEPSODENT COMPANY, financial risk on the part of Legion de- The New-Day Dentifrice Dept. 392, 1104 S Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. partments or state distributors, who Mail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to foxmerly have been required to buy state Endorsed by modern authorities and rights. now'advised by leading dentists near- Inquiries about available Legion motion pictures, about projection machines and ly all] the world over. All druggists movie cameras should be addressed to The supply the large tubes. American Legion Film Service, Indian- Only one tube to a family apolis, Ind, PAGE 18 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY
Department Conventions
erans Bureau be given full authority to proceed Delaware with hospital program.
Armistice Day : CaUed upon General As- Immigration: Recommended restriction of sembly to set aside November 11th as a State immigration for five to ten years. RELIANCE holiday. Military Affairs : Deplored reduction of the Education : Approved movement to raise national defense.
$300,000 for erection of library at University Politics : Urged that no man use his affilia- of Delaware. tion with the Legion for furthering political
Rehabilitation : Condemned interference with ambitions. work of rehabilitation. Soldiers' Relief: Requested State appropria-
Veterans Bureau : Commended work of Dis- tion to assure proper hospitalization of Okla- trict No. 3, Veterans Bureau, and especially homa's disabled.
manager and personnel of sub-district office at Veterans Bureau : Demanded thorough in- Wilmington for efficient care and treatment of vestigation of Fourteenth District office of Vet- disabled veterans. erans Bureau and removal of certain district officials.
Weekly : Recommended that The American Kansas Legion Weekly be given strong support and that each member endeavor to secure new sub- legisla- Americanism : Emphasized need of scribers for magazine. tion forbidding teaching of any but English language in grammar grades of any schools in State and requiring that all schools be under Pennsylvania supervision of public school authorities. Admission to Bar : Protested against action AFine Star organization Auxiliary: Endorsed Gold of American Bar Association recommending that within department auxiliary and recommended candidates for admission to the bar have at idea be considered by National Convention. least two years' college education. 7Jewel CHARrrY: Endorsed Near East Relief organi- Compensation : Endorsed and approved State zation. compensation bill. Reaffirmed support of Fed- Compensation: Expressed appreciation and eral adjusted compensation legislation. Con- Watch approval of work of Kansas Compensation Com- demned those who make political capital of bill. mittee. President Harding to approve Urged Education : Unanimously endorsed State's Federal Adjusted Compensation Bill. is a re- educational program. Recommended depart- RELIANCE per capita THE Dues : Department dues set at $1 ment school award for meritorious work of of markable watch. A lasting for 1923. Provided a 50 percent reduction students be endorsed by all other departments 1922 department dues for new members after of the Legion. proof of success in applying October 1st if department and national dues for Hospitalization: Demanded that General Ingersoll economy in 1923 accompany same. Sawyer stand aside and allow completion of methods Bur- Legislation : Recommended support of Federal hospitalization program. the fine watch field. Bill providing for retirement of disabled sum Memorial Day : Urged more sacred and com- emergency army officers. plete recognition of Memorial Day. Outwardly, as handsome a all posts Organization : Recommended that Military Affairs: Condemned limitation of watch as men wish—the thin- elect officers in January of each year. colored troops in citizens' military organizations Service: Approved Ninth District Hospital to pioneer infantry. nest 1 6 -size, 7 -jewel watch program as proposed by Ninth District Legion National Convention : Invited National Con- Rehabilitation Committee. vention to meet in Philadelphia in 1926. made in America. Inwardly, as Welfare : Approved idea of Auxiliary to Publicity : Recommended that each post elect care for pretty a 7-jewel movement as establish department welfare fund to member to handle its publicity. veterans and dependents not in hospitals, joint Post AcTivmES : Recommended that each any man could ask. It has the Legion-Auxiliary committee to work out plans. post have policy committee to map out pro- Weekly : Recommended assisting The Ameri- grams for year. same solid bridge- construction can Legion Weekly to build up circulation and Officlal Flower : Recommended substitution you find in expensive watches. advertising. of poppy for daisy as official Legion flower.
Scsqui-centennial Exposition : Endorsed ex- A thorobred, and looks it. position to be held in Philadelphia in 1926 and Maine extended vote of confidence to Past National Americanization: Urged that American flag Commander D'Olier, president of exposition be displayed in all court rooms in State. commission. Recommended that Legion con-
Civil Service Preference : Urged that bill struct building at exposition.
providing Civil Service preference for veterans Uniform : Urged adoption of distinctive be followed to letter. American Legion uniform by National Conven-
Compensation : Reaffirmed stand in favor of tion.
Federal adjusted compensation. Veterans Bureau : Demanded thorough Con-
Hospitalization : Insisted that a modern gressional investigation of District No. 3. De- sanatorium for tuberculous veterans be located manded that a veteran declared physically unfit in Maine. for vocational training be rated one hundred
Legislation : Demanded immediate passage by percent disabled ; that veterans applying to Congress of Bursum bill to retire disabled emer- bureau "be treated as men and not as mendi-
gency officers. cants" ; that immediate investigation be mado
Military Affairs : Pledged support to Na- of statements by bureau that "eighty percent Ingersoll tional Guard and Citizens' Military Training of the claimants are imposters." Condemned Camps. system of examination- and laxity of bureau
Organization : Recommended organization of in answering correspondence. Recommended a EVERYONE should have county councils with provision that department that no employee of bureau hold office in Legion Yankee—the sturdy, reasonable, executive committeeman of each county be chair- through which he may come in official contact reliable, best-known watch. Nearly man. with bureau.
Political Prisoners : Reaffirmed stand that War Risk Insurance : Recommended legis- everyone has. war criminals shall not be pardoned or receive lation to permit veterans who had no War Risk commutation. Insurance or did not take maximum to secure
Service : Recommended amendment of War policies or raise amount of those held to maxi- Risk Insurance Act to permit proof of claim by mum. statements of official investigators and reputable Civil Service Preference: Instructed depart- authorities as to physical and mental condition ment officers again to introduce into State Legis- in lieu of medical proof when medical proof can- lature bill seeking preference for veterans in not be obtained. civil service.
Ritual : Recommended that official Legion Nebraska Auxiliary ceremonial be used in all meetings and in initia- tion of members.
Welfare : Urged all posts to support local Preference : Requested that any Civil Service welfare movements. disabled service man who has had governnient training and passed civil service examinations be given preference over all others in appoint- Rhode Island ments for government positions. to State General Community Work : Voted support of cam- Armistice Day: Appealed paign for better homes in America. Assembly to petition Congress to declare Ar-
Compensation : Favored continued and earn- mistice Day a national holiday. est support of a bill for adjusted compensation. Athletics : Favored act by General Assembly Commission to Education : Endorsed Education Week. providing for State Athletic supervise school, college and profes- Uniform : Adopted official uniform. amateur
Vocational Training : Urged development of sional athletics. additional schoolc similar to Bellevue (Neb.) Burial Expenses : Requested that provision Describes and illustrates Vocational School for disabled ex-service men. be made from State funds for burial of deceased every known musical instru- indigent widows of service men. ment. Many of them shown Oklahoma Compensation : Requested state action to in full colors. Over 3000 permit payment of .$100 state compensation to musical articles a veritable to re- certain men who through no fault of their own — Dues : Recommended efforts be made musical encyclopedia! duce both national and department dues. failed to file application in time. Extended Also tells how you may Historical Records: Urged co-operation with thanks to the state's senators and representa- have any instrument for free State Historical Society in collecting records, tives in Washington for their support of the trial in your own home. relics and historical properties of the war for Federal Adjusted Compensation Bill. Write today for this book. permanent possession of State. Discharges : Favored bill before General honorable discharges of Sent you free: no obligation. Hospitalization : Demanded that General Assembly to record Sawyer be removed as chief co-ordinator of veterans in permanent state records. Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Dept. 2257 establishment by I Federal Board of Hospitalization and that Vet- Relief Funds; Favored I Cincinnatii Chicago New York San Francisco OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 19
State of a permanent fund for relief of veterans in distress.
Vocational Training : Urged an investiga- tion into situation of vocational training of veterans in State. The Tie to make South Carolina Auxiliary I District Conferences : Authorized annual you look your best conferences in each district.
Eligibility : Petitioned National Convention to adopt uniform eligibility rulings.
Finances : Recommended that traveling ex- penses of department chairman for hospital t your haberdasher's in wonderful vari- relief be paid to permit visit to all hospitals in department. A fund for this purpose was ety— Bengalines, ondule crepes and crepe raised on floor of convention. Hospitalization : Expressed indignation at failles in designs General Sawyer's interference in hospital pro- that truly sparkle and gram of Veterans Bureau. show neither Memorials : Approved giving assistance only wrinkles nor pinholes, tubu- to such memorials as will serve living until living are provided for. lars that wear for seasons, four-in-hands Poppies : Recommended sales of poppies made by disabled veterans on Memorial Day for bene- and bow ties,smart in both cut and pattern. fit of disabled.
Publicity : Authorized publication of a de- partment year book for distribution to units. Choose the tie that helps you look your best. Welfare Work : Recommended state-wide campaign for sale of articles made by disabled service men.
West Virginia Americanism: Recommended that every teacher in public schools swear allegiance to State and National Governments.
Compensation : Endorsed Federal Adjusted Compensation Bill and adopted resolution of thanks to State's members in Congress who sup- ported bill.
Finances : Directed that yearly financial statement of department be prepared and pre- sented to each annual convention. Authorized department commander to invest surplus de- partment funds.
Hospitals : Urged every effort be made to secure a Federal hospital in State. Recom- mended construction of institution for feeble- minded in State.
Legisl.ation : Commended National Legisla- tive Committee for help to disabled. Thanked State Legislature for providing fund for desti- tute veterans.
Memorials : Recommended that new State Capitol or allied structure be dedicated as me- morial to State's soldier dead. Urged that each post work for the county memorials for which provision has been made by West Virginia Legis- lature.
Politics : Authorized suspension by depart- ment commander of any member who uses Legion for political purposes, such suspension to be effective until following department con- vention, when accused can appear in own de- fense. Automatic expulsion from Legion for life follows his failure to appear at department convention.
Press : Condemned papers that print er- loneous items about West Virginia and en- dorsed society established to disseminate true facts about State.
Service : Recommended that each disabled man be rated by doctor who examines him and not by central office of Veterans Bureau in Washington and that such rating stand until fui-ther examination.
War Trophies : Urged that distribution of war trophies be made at expense of Federal Government to all posts in West Virginia de- partment. o^nd if you wish a positive assurance Weekly : Urged support of The American Legion Weekly. not only of real wearing qualities but up- \ y t to-date colorings, patterns and cut in the \^ Outfit Reunions and neckwear you buy, look for the name CHENEY on the neckband. Sewn
Notices throughout with silk thread. CONTRIBUTIONS for this column must be received three weeks in advance of CHENEY BROTHERS, NEW YORK thi events with which they are concerned. Mahers of Cheney Silts Battery A, 55th Art., C. A. C.—First annual reunion at Boston, Mass., Armistice Day (No- vember H). Address Leo F. Doble, 27 Wood- ward Park St., Dorchester 25, Mass.
The Slot Machine
By Thomas J. Murray
I like this penny slot machine, That holds the chocolate and the gum; I here secure refreshment keen Kor trifling sum. Hfour dealer will gladly help I seek relief from dread fatigue That in my system often lurks; I drop my coin, but doubt looms big— you choose correctly I hope it works. PAGE 20 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY WITH THE AUXILIARY
bounty should be cut short. The Texas Hospital Fund I would rather give Andy the shirt he does not deserve than to run the chance "XT OT even General Lee's army after of adding one more embarrassment to the IM surrender could have surpassed farmer from Oklahoma, or the many other in shabbiness some of the World War real heartbreaking cases which abound. veterans who have applied at Texas for care." That is the state- hospitals Texas asked her units in May, 1921, Mrs. E. C. Murray, Depart- ment of for a state hospital fund; Ma Burdick's Texas, who has writ- ment President of unit at Wichita Falls was among the us about the excellent work being ten to first to contribute. Since then $6,500 her department in the hos- done by has been deposited in the fund; $4,200 pitals. has been spent on the disabled soldiers, several departments which We have and a balance of $2,300 is ready to central bureaus for have established meet further emergencies. Thomas Dis- such as Minne- their hospital work, muke Auxiliary Unit of Houston alone Hielscher Fund, Montgomery Newest sota's Helen Hughes has contributed more than to "^''Tflteliiitiiiiiiiift $2,000 Dial ^imaffigglL-^ Designs and the Texas Hospital Fund. the fund. Writing of the hospital at Camp The fund is devoted entirely to the that in the Logan, Mrs. Murray says needs of men who are not receiving No men Money three hundred summer there were compensation. Ma Burdick, the Salva- receiving compensation. who were not tion Army worker, is in charge of the Down The problem of clothing these men was hospital work. She is also National one, but it was Wbile other watch dealers are raising their prices, an especially trying Chaplain of the Auxiliary. asking you for larger monthly payments, and making solved when an Austin merchant agreed payment terms harder for you to meet, we are offering you our new model Santa Fe Special, no to sell the Auxiliary suits which he was advance In price, no money down, easier terms and retailing at $40 and $50 for $11 each. "What to Do!" smaller monthly payments. WE realize the war Is over and in order to double our business we MUST tell about the need Let Mrs. Murray you got a radio outfit for the give you pre war inducements, better prices, easier the disabled, which HAVE terms and smaller payments. for clothing for boys in your hospital? Iowa, Texas is meeting in such a fine manner: » ^\ Adjusted to Positions Nebraska, South Dakota and Connecti- I Adjusted to Temperature I 11 iK A man is here from Oklahoma—one cut units have bought them for their ^^^^^^J^ Adjusted to Isochronism Adjusted to the Second among the many from that State. He had T.B. and smaller hospitals. Why not Thin Model. All Sizes. begun to buy a farm, but the piece of buy the materials and let the boys in Without one penny of advance payment let us place German shell which tore away the muscles your ward, if you've adopted one, make in your hands to see, to examine, to inspect, to ad- mire, to approve, a real masterpiece in watch creation. of his neck and shoulder left a terrible their radiophone? Watch rigid A which passes the most inspection and which affects all the nerves of that Florida units gave two box-ball alleys measures up to the exacting requirements of the great wound Santa Fe Railway System, and other great American side of his body. When he came here to be to the T.B. hospital there. trunk lines. treated he wore the remains of an old Indiana units sent 1,800 boxes of Page 12 of Our Watch Book is of uniform. His wife is at home trying to candy to Fort Bayard, New Mexico, Special Interest to You put in a crop, milk, do chores and make a and 162 folders for cots to Camp Logan, Aak for our Watch Book free —-then select the Watch vou would like to see. either the famous Santa Fe payment on the place. If she cannot raise Texas. To Rockville hospital in their Special or the 6 position Bunn Special, and let us ex- due soon, they will lose every- State they send flowers, fruits and plain our easy payment plan and send the watch the amount express prepaid for you to examine. No Money Down. thing they possess. fresh eggs. Remember— No money down—easy payments buys a arrived in the hospital wearing installed master timepiece—a 21 Jewel guaranteed for a life- A boy Kansas women bought and time at about half the price you pay for a similar an ill-fitting suit of light purplish-blue 125 bed lamps in hospitals; made more watch of other makes. No money down—a wonder offer. clothes, cheap and soiled. The color was than 500 pairs of pajamas and fur- SANTA FE WATCH CO. so hideous that he soon became the target nished bathrobes and slippers. Dept. Alll Thomas BIdg., Topeka, Kan. for gibes and witticisms. After he had One unit in Ohio has the exclusive (Home of the Great Santa Fe Railway) been there about ten days he confided to right to furnish any veteran in the A Letter, Post Card or this Coupon Will Bring My the workers that he must leave and get a "dying anything that he asks Free Watch Book ward" SANTA FE WATCH CO.. job. The purplish-blue clothes had been for. Dept. Alll Thomas BIdg., Topeka. Kansas lent him by his brother and he needed "Aloha from Hawaii" to men in Colo- Please send me yonr New Watch Book with the understanding that this request does not obligate them. What then? rado went with 67 pairs of pajamas me in any way. Men arrive in bed garments, recuperate made by the women on the beach at Name and walk about the halls in pajamas and Waikiki. Address bathrobes, waiting to be discharged. But South Dakota women bought a com-
=5tate they cannot go on the train like this again plete baseball outfit for boys at the —they are no longer ill enough for that. state hospital in Jamestown. So many pathetic cases, it turns the Tennessee spreads the gospel of heart sick and then rebellious because no cheer by means of the phonograph and MADE TO VOUD provision has been made for this part of has provided all hospitals with one. ORDER their welfare. Nevada, having no soldiers in hos- The checks from the State Hospital Fund pital in the State, sends ten dozen of The American Legion Auxiliary permit cookies a week across the mountains to the fitting out of some men every month, veterans in hospital in California. but we could take care of many more and These are but a few high lights from mNO EXTRA get only the worst cases at that. department reports. CHARGES One case has attracted a great deal of We attention. They call the man "Andy , Send no make this special Getting New Members "^"'^ 30 days, to Gump" because he is thin, tall, bald-headed, ^f^y^fW Money' prove the wonderful and talks and talks. He has worked every you thinking of starting a mem- value, style and fit of Proeress Tail- ARE oring. We will tailor to your Gpecial known ruse to gain money, clothes and bership contest? It is a lively fall order, a pair of these stylish, $6.00 pants, is very ill either. —guaranteed to wear like iron—and send sympathy; he not He and winter pastime, and is strongly them to you postage prepaid for only owes money and has worked all of his recommended by National Headquar- $1.95. Send no money or measure- ments until you receive our samples. friends. Not long since he made a claim ters. Assuming that all units are just Write for Samples Today. for additional compensation on account of waiting for the word to go, we submit Our falK free sample outfit will be sent you the two children. When the investigators wrote a unique plan for getting in new mem- eamo day your request Ks received. AGENTS WANTED— to the wife, she indignantly replied that bers which Marshall (Minn.) Unit fl'ISlf,^ $25 would cover the entire amount of "pro- worked a while ago. tra every week, taking orders from your friends and neighbors for our high- vision" he had made for the family. The unit was divided into two teams, clasa tailoring'. No experience necessary. Suits at $12 46 up and pants at $1.95 op make Now there are Andy Gumps and others, with a leader for each. Regular at- orders come easv Full details will be sent free. Write now. but they are rare. However, they stand tendance counted one point, a new 7h»Progress^ailorlngCo.,D3pt*K102» Chicago, I31« out and are used as reasons that the member five points and an old member OCTOBER 20. 1922 PAGE 21 who paid her dues after the beginning of the contest counted three points. It %g FLORSHEIM SHOE was agreed before beginning that the losing side stood a dinner to the win- ners. Mrs. Homer Blanchettc of the unit writes of the result as follows: On the evening when the contest was closed, twin slips of paper bearing names of a kind—such as neighbors, children, hens, goats, cats, pies, etc.—were passed out to the winners in the contest. Partners for lunch were found by comparing slips, i.e., two cats, two pies, etc. Before lunch was over each winner was required to make a speech, taking for the topic the name on her slip. The speech-making afforded much merriment and the winners went home feeling they were the losers after all. The Go-Getters
(Continued from page 15) THE PARKWAY—STYLE M-IOO and he believes the right way is by in- dividual solicitation. The first man the finer things in Hfe preferred admits he approves of the Legion and Among what it is doing; tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself that he isn't by the man who cares are Florsheim lending a hand. There is no answer. He usually signs. Tell the second man Shoes; their excellent quality and attrac what the Legion has done in a legisla- tive way for veterans, point out that tive style justly deserve this distinction about every consideration a veteran has thus far received has been due to Le- ^ Florsheim Most Styles $io gion effort. Stress the disabled. There The Shoe— are none so selfish or hardboiled as to BOOKLET "styles OF THE TIMES" ON REaUESI refuse to lend a hand to help those bud- Look for Name in Shoe dies. As for the man with a griev- ance, tell him the majority rules in the Legion. If he doesn't like things, let THE FLORSHEIM SHOE COMPANY him get in and help change them and Manufacturers - CHICAGO not stand on the outside and beef. Allen is silent concerning our request for his military record. Well, here's part of it, anyway. He was a runner for Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose- velt in the Twenty-eighth Infantry. He carried Roosevelt in when he was hit at Cantigny. Later a shell got Johnny, FOR "WCARES whose broken neck is now held in place by a steel frame. With MacNider New Mint Vending Machine Dental Makes You $10 to $20 a Day (Continued from page 11) Laboratory Work Fx-5crvice men are mak- mechanical dentist a high Be a — ing slO to $20 a day from Lake, and a date in Massachusetts im- cl ass, agreeable occupation for Silver King Mint vending mediately after. The only train that men or women. Course is inex- machines. Buy a sample pensive. Takes only short time to machine and install it on a would take him to the Bay State on complete. Experience or entrance profit sharing basis In your requirements unnecessary. No li- legion post, a drug, candy time left while he was addressing the cense required. McCarrie gradu- or cigar store, billiard or North Dakota convention. But he ates make biR successes and are soft drink parlor. Profits in great demand everywhere. Largest and will pay rent for store spoke right on, met all the delegates, best equipped school laboratory and clinic owner and give you a steady fn America; individual practical instruction, income. Be your own was made chief by a tribe of Indians, modern up-to-date methods. Write for trial scholarship offer. Find out how easy boss. Get this easy money. ?If for this highly paid and dignified pro- Small first payment. Ma- then got into a waiting airplane, over- the McCarrie way. It pays. chinel will pay its cost in took the train, got aboard, and kept his ten days. Write us today. date in Massachusetts. No blanks; mints with each Mc CAIIfll£^ nickel played. Mints S1.5 He had to figure close connections SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL DENTISTRY per case. 1000 5c packages. V ar>d 36 w. LAKE STREET. CHICAGO. ILL. all hit almost the time. As soon as we SILVER KING NOVELTY CO., 600 Williams BIdg., Indianapolis, Ind. a town we would get a room at a hotel, I'd unlimber the typewriter and set Why Burn Ceal up the office, and we'd start in on cor- When you can get twice the respondence. Then we'd take care of heat at half the cost, by in* the reporters. Mac would outline a stalling, in 6 minutes time, Uni-Hete Oil-Gas Burner n few policies and make a lot of decisions, your range or heater. Th u* This illustrated, instruct. _ sands of homes now ending book on how to select, train and and probably he'd make a speech or coal expense! Uni-Hete g n- feed your dog will be mailed two. He finished every day's work that erates gas from commo n kerosene—cheapest fuel you FREE with a 3 months' day. Once he answered three hundred known. Red hot fire in-^ introductory subscription , letters in one afternoon. stantly. Cooks, bakes, America's most popular DOG heats. Sets in fire box of HUNTING and FISHING any stove. FREE TRIAL. Then we'd catch a train. We caught Magazine. Send 25c (stamps or Saves its small cost in 30 days. Lasts for years. Made it, too. Once down in New Orleans we by factory making heatin^r devices for 33 years. coin) today. were kept so busy that I didn't get to Agents—Special OCSer^Act Quack SPORTSMAN'S DIGEST PUBL'G CO. the station until the train was moving. High coal cost makes Uni-Hete a big profit maker for agents. Write at once. 366 Butler Cincinnati. 0. I crashed the gate, and a porter threw A Building Acorn Brass Mffe. Co., C24 Aeom BtilK..Chlcasa. ill. the luggage into a vestibule. I chased PAGE 22 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY
the train up the platform, but I would La Salle by motor. He rode in a big have been lost if a cook hadn't reached car and— a Ford with all our impedi- a hand out of a diner and dragged me rnenta "baggage," according to the aboard. Mac had made the train by dictionary, but it means baggage plus, just about the same margin, and he baggage that is an impediment—the was expecting me to miss it entirely. Ford carried me. It had been raining Once we were in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, hard. The roads were quagmires. and had tickets on an early morning Both cars got stuck frequently. Finally train for some place in the East the Commander's car got out ahead when Mac got a hurry call from John and kept going. Mac stopped several Thomas Taylor of the National Legis- times to help haul other victims of the lative Committee to come to Washing- mud out to better going. ton on important business connected He reached La Salle and found the with the compensation bill. We had train had gone. He chartered a sea- just time to get our trunks out of the going taxicab and set out for Dixon, baggage car of the train we had ex- Illinois, forty miles away. But he pected to take. Then we had about didn't know Dixon, and had to hunt TTiis perfectly cut 3/4 — 1/16 Ct. half an hour to get tickets and a berth for the station so long he missed the diamond; a snappy, handsome blaz- on another train East. We left at train again. The hotel at Dixon was ing solitaire, at $42.65, among bargains in our 2.15 in the morning. crowded. lists. See the many big amazing values, some as He sat up in the lobby all low as $60 per Carat, other higher per Carat bar- Mac always went to the place where night. In the morning he started out gains. This 75 year oldest largest Diamond he thought he could be of most use to after an airplane to take him to Daven- Banking firm in all the world lends money on diamonds. Thousands of unpaid loans and the Legion. He never missed a chance port, Iowa. The aviator he finally lo- other bargains. Must sell NOW. to visit a hospital, no matter how hard cated said his bus had broken down the it was to get there. Right after his day before and wouldn't stand the trip. Why Pay famous trip to Bluefields, West Vir- So Mac mounted a Ford and started Full Prices ginia, by special train which the post for Davenport. More bad roads. More stalling. Costs Nothing To See there had hired, he started for Nash- ville, Tennessee, for a con- Any diamond sent for department A homely interurban trolley car absolutely free exam- ference. A Legionnaire boarded the saved the day. It came along just as ination at our risk. No train and persuaded the Commander to the flivver took to another obligation. mudhole visit the hospital at Johnson City. Mac climbed aboard and reached Dav- Latest Listings Mac changed his plans on the spot and enport on time. Then he found that Unpaid Loans visited the hospital, although the side the train for Des Moines was two hours trip made him work like a beaver, late. He borrowed a razor from th Sent Free changing his whole schedule and put- station porter and shaved. He scraped ting in some hard walking and autoing the mud off his clothes. He was sched Unlike the ordinary so as not to miss another engagement. uled to address the Caseys at 8.30. At catalog. Hundreds of Diamond Bargains de- But the trip was worth it. It gave 8.20 his train pulled into Des Moines. scribed in full detail him the idea for the bedside clean-up At 8.30 he entered the banquet room. with exact weight, color, quality, etc. You know of the hospitals—the Legion's Christ- It was typical that at ten o'clock he what you're baying before mas gift to the disabled—which the was back on a train again. I arrived you buy. Besides it tell of Guaranteed Loan Value, Commander put through by a wire to in time to join him. unlimited exchange privi- lege at full price paid, and the Veterans Bureau, asking an im- That Illinois visit was particularly complete details of iree mediate adjustment of all claims pend- hard. He made two or three examination offer. towns ing in hospitals right at the bedside. each day he was in the State. In New Use Coupon A whole book could be written about Jersey for awhile he was called on to NOW/"io3?DeRoy" the trip Mac made to Kalispell, Mon- make an average of ten speeches a day. Btriain ^ & Sons tana. He made it by air. Legionnaire That was one of the big troubles. Liil ^ 9091 DeRoy Bldo. Stevenson was the pilot. They set out If Mac was out West, he had to travel Fr«« * "P"- offiM ^ Pittsburgh, Pa at 4.10 in the afternoon, crossed a lot hard all the time to keep his dates. If ^ Gentlemen ; Please aend he ^ me free and prepaid, your of snow-capped peaks and bumped was back in the more densely popu- ^ latest bargain list of dia. V monda, watchea and other through a lot of canyons. Mountain lated part of the East, he had to travel ^ iewelry. It la underatood 1 all ^ aaaume oo oblljlatloo of aov flying isn't the easiest kind of travel- of the time just the same. If the ^ kind. ing, and about half way up Flathead towns were nearer together, Mac didn't Jo8. De Roy & Sons .* Lake the engine began to act nasty. profit; the proximity just meant so 9091 De Roy Bldg. .f Onj; Ojjp. Pott Office f Name - They had to land, and to land either in many more dates for him to fill. More- Pittsburcb, Pa. Jl«f»rence8 by permia- ^ the lake or on a snow-topped mountain, over, you never could tell whether you tion: — Bank PitlB- of S least, would full / Address and right on the top, too. At have a day or a half day u^cJ^PiiiibSrih./ Guaranteed Cash Loan! that's what they thought. But by some in one locality. The trip from Cedar Diamonds 4 ™er" bought hero are like Insurance lucky chance Stevenson coaxed a couple Rapids to Washington was a good ex- •' - policies. You know what you can borrow bt fore you decide to buy- SEE OUR CASH BACK GUARANTEE. more coughs out of the motor and got ample. Mac had to set out for Wash- around one more hill, where they lo- ington and disarrange all his other AUTOMATIC PISTOLS cated a potato patch. They came down plans. He had to do that on several Rush your order. Prices advanced to S12.50, S15 and in the patch—the only non-snow-cov- occasions. The fight for adjusted com- !520 by new tariff law. ered landing place in ten miles. And pensation frequently required his serv- Christiansen, who owns the ices. He had to go to Washington to 25 Cal. Barney patch, wasn't even angry. He turned see John Thomas Taylor from points out to be a member of the Legion. literally thousands of miles away. 7 Shot With Barney's help (he tore down a Some of his visits to Washington were few fences so they could get away) official, some were unofficial. He got to Sf\ 7 the fliers repaired the motor, took off be almost an intimate of the President, again and reached Kalispell on time. he was called into so many conferences Then there was that other trip be- at the White House. Only about six tween Bloomington, Illinois, and Des weeks ago, for instance, he spent an $1 1 for the 32 cal. 8 shot Moines, Iowa. For rough going it was evening at the White House, although 32 eal. Military Model. The Steel Mule. A hard hit- I don't remember reading about the ting heavy gun. has the strcnKth and kick of a mule. 32 in the same class with crossing the cal. 10 shot, with extra magazine, making 20 quick shots. English Channel. On a Sunday the meeting in any of the papers. That Suitable for detectives and to keep at home and C5|e trips to In business. It commands respect. iUlw Commander helped dedicate a me- evening was taken off between Our guns are the best In the markei, regardless of price. morial at Bloomington. It took him Massachusetts and Ohio. Indianapolis, ORDER TODAY, BEFORE PRICES ADVANCE. until late at night. He had to address too, had to be a port of frequent call. Send No .Money gYfr a'^J^ a Knights of Columbus convention at But wherever MacNider was, he had AUTOMATIC Pistols, shooting standard cartridges, Moines the next night. to work hard to get there. Train, air- and be fully protected. Satisfaction guaranteed, or Des money refunded. Simply send us your name and ad- only train that would get him plane, automobile, trolley, steamship or and calibre desired. We mail The dress, stating GUN to immediately. You pay postman on arrival, our to Des Moines on time would leave stagecoach—they're all the same price, plus few cents postage Order today. NOW long, as they La Salle, 111., at midnight. After a Hanford MacNider. So THE UNWIN TRADING CO., H^iS"%TR\ banquet in Bloomington he set out for get somewhere, he's for them. OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 23
Keeping Step with the Legion
(Continued from page 14)
Letters were written to all school-teach- ers in this State, to all school superintend- ents and county superintendents of schools. In this work we had the hearty co-opera- tion of the state superintendent of schools and the commissioner of education. The drive was taken up with every post and a letter was forwarded to the post officers every other day commencing November 21st, telling them what was on foot and offering suggestions. We are very well pleased with the results obtained. Churches and ministers throughout the State gave us their very hearty support.
Next in the file was a circular letter which the West Texas Chamber of Com- merce got out to help Vernon D. Hart Post of Stamford, Texas. The letter asked members in different towns to give the following service to direct at- tention toward Education Week. 1. Urge ministers of all denominations Can You Solve This Mystery? to preach on the subject of education on Sunday. Who i$ America's sweetheart? I'U give you just one guess. Why, of course—it's "^ip cy for 2. Urge the mayor to issue a proclama- mark,"—the first funny sentence above, only we've rearranged the letters in her name. tion setting aside American Education Her name is really Mary Pick/ord, the great movie star. Now that you know, you have 10 Week. points to your cretlit in the Mary Pickford Mystery Puzzle. The ten funny sentences above are 3. Urge the newspapers to give as much the names of ten movie stars with their letters rearranged. space as possible on educational matters, If you can straighten them out to spell correctly the names of the movie actors, you bav« the space to include both articles and edi- solved the mystery. You will get 100 points and can win the $1,000 reward. torials. More than likely you know the names of most of the Popular 4. Urge merchants to use educational Movie Stars, but to be fair to everybody we are mentioning below the names of some of them just to refresh your memory: window displays and to use references to Mae Murray, Agnes Ayres, Theodore Roberts, Harrison Ford, BilUe Burke, Lita Lee, Buster the week in their regular advertising. Keaton, Will Rogers, Bryant Washburn, Alice Joyce, Dorothy Oalton, Douglas Fairbanks, Wal- 5. Ask the motion picture houses to flash lace Reid, Mary Pickford, Thomas Mcighan and Alice Brady. slides to promote the purposes of Educa- tion Week. 6. Have speakers at all public meetings 185 Points Wins $1,000 to talk on the necessity of education. If you can correctly rearrange the ten nances of the movie players 111 give you 100 points 7. Co-operate with educators and with all toward winning the $1,000. You will gain 60 mere points by proving that you have shown a patriotic, civic and fraternal organizations copy of The Rural Weekly to five of your friends. This will give you 160 points in all. The final in the promotion of the week. 25 points will be awarded by the judges cf the puzzle to the person who sends in the lai'gest 8. Advertise Vie week on letterheads and number of correct words made up from the tetters in the name of the great movie star, "Mary envelopes. Pickford."
Send in your names of the ten movie stars and your list of words together. Send them in We found a lot of other posts that NOW.
had secured similar co-operation. Not In making up your list of wo^dt from the name, ''M ary Pickford." only letters that appear in her name can a few posts had got out circulars of be ueed. A letter can be used m a single word only as maoy times as it appears in the name of the movie «tar. Only words found in the mam body of Webster's Dictionary can be counted. their own to business men and to other organizations. Posts in Gentry County, Abbreviations, proper nouns, proper adjectives, prefixes, suffixes, obsolete, archoio and foreign words cannot be counted. Words spelled alike, but with different definitions, can only be counted as one w«rd. By jutt look- Missouri, did a lot. They had printed ing at the name "Mary Pickford" you can see such words as "for." "pick." "my," "or," etc. Number each word a neat folder with a calendar for the alphabetically on your list. week and quite explicit instructions on The winning answer or the one earning 1S5 points will receive $1,000 m cash. how to observe the week. Moreover, There are 25 prizes and in case of a tie each tying contestant will receive identical prizea. the posts all took steps to encourage the educational improvements sought by local county superintendents of Send No Money—You Can be a Winner
schools. Remember, fciks, you don't have to spend one penny of your own money to win, and you won't be asked to Posts in Crosby and Ironton, Minne- subscribe to our paper. All you need to do is Introduce The Rural Weekly to five of your friends, but first send your answer the puzxie, and if it is correct. I will give you 100 Points. Then I'll show you how easy it is to sota, to practiced similar strategy. They gain the other 85 points necessary to win the $1,000 prize. Write the names of the ten Movie Stars correctly even went a step farther and held a On a piece of paper and send it in right away with your list of words. Contest closes for solutions, Nov. 4th. community concert in the Crosby Address Answers to H. J. Scott, Dept. 9 The Rural Weekly, St. Paul, Minn. Armory which had for its first purpose the promotion of education but which was sufficiently entertaining otherwise Workers have the best opportunity to bring out people who might not have Word Puzzlers to win a prize when equipped with come merely for the purpose of lending support to the week. WEBSTE R'S Then we found another good letter from the office of the St. Paul Depart- ment of Education. It outlined the purposes of education and said, among NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY other things: The "Supreme Authority " A cordial and urgent invitation is ex- It contains over 400,000 words including the new world War terms. tended to the public to gain first-hand in- WRITE for specimen pages and prices. formation concerning the public schools FREE, a set of Pocket Maps if you name "American Legion Weekly." through the personal observation of as much of the regular school work as pos- G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Mass. sible, and also through personal calls upon the principals, supervisors and other officers Why Not Win a Prize? for information, consultation, etc. PAGE 24 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY
The letter contained a complete sum- meetings of other organizations where mary of the public education facilities they would be welcome. of St. Paul. This letter is quoted, not Space alone forbids printing scores so much because its compilation was a of similar suggestions—and of sugges- Aspirin Legion activity—on the other hand, it tions just as applicable although dif- was an activity by the schools them- ferent. Space also prevents publica- selves—but because after the letter had tion of all the suggestions the Ameri- been printed the Legion helped give it canism Commission will make. How- Say "Bayer" and InsistI circulation. ever, we have it on the authority of Then our eye fell on a newspaper Garland W. Powell, the Legion's As- clipping which told the plans of Rainier sistant National Director of American- Noble Post to bring Education Week ism, that enough newspapers will de- home to the people of Seattle, Wash- vote whole columns to the subject to ington, last year. Plans, the clipping help in no mean way. For instance, said, were being made to hold a down- Mr. Powell recently met with President town mass-meeting Sunday afternoon Harding and John J. Tigert, United at the opening of the week, to be fol- States Commissioner of Education. lowed every evening by community ral- The President pledged his heartiest lies in different parts of the city. Sixty co-operation and promised to issue a rallies were to be held. The post had proclamation which he hoped would be arranged to send speakers to com- followed by similar ones from the gov-
munity meetings in schools and to all ernors of the States. ,
The Defense of Ust Padenga (Continued from page 8)
shelter. Night came. With it artillery to redeem itself, around Unless you see the name "Bayer" on swung and ceased, with the exception of poured its fire at short into package or on tablets you are not get- firing range the probably intended to keep filed ting the genuine Bayer product pre- stray shots, woods. A large body of troops freezing up. They out of Nijni scribed by physicians over twenty-two the guns from Gora and developed a years and proved safe by millions for seemed anxious not to show too many frontal attack from many irregular reveal their gun Colds Headache flashes which would skirmish lines. The Russian guns; Toothache Lumbago position to Ust Padenga. The day's wheeled again and met this new of-s Earache Rheumatism shelling had had little real result, for fense furiously. The attack from the Neuralgia Pain, Pain apparently they were unable to time woods spread around to the rear and their shell bursts properly and a good their fire came from as far back as Accept "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" deal of their shrapnel burst on con- the road. And Odjard, in phone com- only. Each unbroken package contains It very hard to do accu- with Shenkursk, found his proper directions. Handy boxes of cussion. was munication the guns stiff with twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug- rate shooting with wires dead. Once a mob from the point cold the oil in the buffers con- closest tried to gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. the and where the timber was the temperature was in there. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer gealed. And rush the blockhouse But they Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of the neighborhood of forty below. had not reckoned with the Americans' Salicylicacid. The defenders of Ust Padenga saw gunnery', and the assault wasted away the next day dawn as calm and peace- before it reached the knife rests. Hand ful as a Sunday at home. Smoke arose grenades and rapid fire were soon lit- from the chimneys of the villages in tering the snow with Bolo wounded and slim gray wisps, and men could be seen dead. 5' walking unguardedly about. Even yes- These Bolos did not lack bravery and terday's guns were still. About nine even a certain training and discipline, o'clock a convoy of stores pulled in but the defenders had their back to the from Shenkursk, escorted by a dozen wall. They knew nowhere to turn for mounted Cossacks and several supply help. They could not retire, and they # GREATEST Watch Value at eleven returned to Shen- their positions with a savage mvJ New. men, and clung to Since The War! A sleighloads Genuine Elgin; Thin Model, kursk taking with them tenacity that the Bolos could never 12 or 16 size; complete in of wounded soldiers. Orders from pierce. Till late in the afternoon they 20-year gold-filled case. Shenkursk were to continue to hold this threatened Ust Padenga, sniping at A beautiful $20 Elgin, SPECIAL This Month, position. the loopholes and surging back and ONLY At noon the Bolo artillery started forth to new assaults. Then the hush again and there were several more of evening fell and the firing died. guns in action. And from directly Shortly after dark came a ringing south on the west side of the river four challenge from the Shenkursk road, field pieces opened up. They ranged and a strong detachment of Cossacks We Have Trusted in the main vil- Wage Earners Every- on the lower houses under Grabovski clattered into the vil- where for more than lage and when they secured a hit, lage. They had repaired the wires to 20 years, and we will raised their elevation twenty-five yards Shenkursk and brought word from and that all trust you: one, and on our friends may have and picked off the next headquarters. advantage of this new they came. Several longer range guns The attack on Nijni Gora, they re- offer, we have made the on the schoolhouse and tore up ported, was part of a general thrust terms Only $2 a Month. played the ground around it. The Russian on all the Allied positions to drive Write Today for full details and Big Free But silent, as they had no wish these invaders back to the White Sea. of of at new guns were Catalog hundreds BarKains the prices. SEND NO MONEY — just your to expose themselves in such a test of Since the first of September, 1918, name and address. skill. Allied force in North Russia had been Odjard sent out a patrol into the able to push southward on the rivers HARRIS-GOAR CO. woods on the right and they came hur- and the railroad practically at will, Dept. 594, KANSAS CITY.MO. rying back with the report that they for the Soviets had not yet obtained had run into the enemy in force. A sufficient control over their internal fronts little later came firing from that direc- enemies and more threatening in ava- much over the limited activi- 800 IN 2 HOURS! tion. The attack swept an to worry lanche from the neighboring woods. ties of a handful of Allied troops in wbat your Genuine Chinese Deniken, Wrangel, Good Luck Tins brought me." saya This time the Bolos were careful not to the frozen north. Fannie Brice. Hundreds tell us our could be Semenoff, Koltchak, and other counter- in lore, come into the open, but they rine brought success busi- kept them too ness and financially. Ours ia the seen massed among the trees, firing revolutionary leaders genuine and original ring, stamped than a inside with the t . Believed by Indian fashion from behind cover and busy for them to spare more Ancients to bring Good Luck . Health Con- Happiness, and Prosperity. Solid jumping back and forth. The block- regiment for Archangel province. Sterling Silver. Price. Postpaid, Cash soldiers of ith order $1.60, or, C. O. D. $1.60. houses replied whenever they had a sequently, the well-trained E ZANZIBAR CO. Dept. tl3 the^ artillery, anxious the Allies were able to drive back 109 Wast 42d St. Nev/ York CKy target, and now the OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 25 peasant mobs regardless of their num- bers. Now, however, the Armistice had been signed, thousands of their troops were not needed on other fronts, and they began to pay serious attention to the situation in the north. Lettish regiments were transferred from the Riga front, detachments of sailors from the Baltic fleet. Communist Red Guards from Central Russia, and even units of Chinese were moved into the opera- tions against the line of Allied out- Get 8% Through posts. They realized that they were Systematic Investing losing territory here and sent divisions instead of peasants to regain it. This The surest road to success is to invest a part of your fighting at Ust Padenga and the other income, each week or each month, in safe securities outposts marked the turning point in paying a liberal rate of interest. Your interest, added to your own accumulations, 'worka for you the North Russian campaign. From day and night. this time on the Allies were pushed To aid you In working out a plan of Investing on Install- slowly back, holding like grim death menta. we have published a story called "Mr. Bunner's to all their positions, since they knew Budgvt. " which explains the trouble one man had (and which you have probably had) In accumulating money, that no help could reach them until the until he discovered a simple, easy, regular system o( putting a part of his earnings, every week. Into Miller spring, and that they must hang on un- First Mortgage Bonds, which pay 8% and which have til relief could come. Their operations an unbroken safety record. from January to July, 1919, were a Mail the coupon today for a copy of this story. It will furnish you the inspiration and show you the method of series of defenses of unfortified vil- accumHlaling»moncy in a safe, convenient way. lages, evacuations and rear-guard ac- Bonds of $500, $1,000 tions, although they did not as yet 8% $100, dream that they would not be able to 8% First Mortgages'from $1000, up Electrically Equipped $285 hold Shenkursk. The village of Kodima, on Shen- Was $400 a year ago. G.L.Miller kursk's left, the Cossack detachment All Indian prices down to bed BOND & MORTGAGE reported, had been captured and half rock. the White Guards defending the place The Indian Scout is different from average motorcycle. It's litjht. Company the had gone over to the Bolos. More than low. easily handled, economically Florida's Oldest First Mortgage Bond House a thousand Bolos had been reported operated. 708 Miller BIdg. Miami,' Florida moving on Shenkursk from the other 60 to 75 miles per gallon—60 miles side, along the trail from Nyandoma on per hour. carfare, and the G. L. MILLER BOND & the railroad. These movements in the Cheaper than greatest sport in the world. No MORTGAGE COMPANY I rear of Ust Padenga placed that vil- garage, two small tires, all other 708 Miller BIdg., Miami, Florida. lage in a dangerous position. How upkeep correspondingly low. Dear*Sir3: Please send me the story, "Mr. Bunner's Budget. " and description of Miller First Mortgage or long would Shenkursk expect them to See the nearest INDIAN Dealer Bonds, explalning'the safeguards surrounding these hold out against such a force? write Dept, L for information. securities. All during the night the restless de- Hendee Mfg. Company Name ... their anxious fenders maintained Manufacturer Largest Motorcycle Addr watch. The forest was full of strange in the World sounds; the swish of sleighs, the Springfield, Mass. City and State. crackle of branches, human voices, cries and groans. The Bolos were searching the frozen woods for their lost. Wounded men could not live long huddled in the snow in the Arctic winter. Great Diamond At daybreak they continued their methodical shelling, and for two days pounded the helpless village with a Ring Bargaixi dozen guns, which, in that small area, literally wiped the village out of the Perfectl.v cut, genuine blue-white Dia- clearing. As two sleighloads of mond held aloft on six white gold prongs. wounded were being evacuated out of Gentleman's 14K Green Gold, hand- carved mounting, trimmed with artistic the little shack which served as emer- scroll designs of W hite Gold. gency dressing station, a shell burst among the group, killing the doctor and Send No Money I REE lor your approval. If entirely three others. The men in Ust Padenga satisfied pay only $10, "THE HOUSE OF QUALITr" ' ,' then .$,') a month, for ten months until total price living in their blockhouses. the were now of $60 has been paid. Even the Bolo infantrymen had recov- shows thousands of other ered some of their morale and now IT7voorHK yjljlfZift Tlnn U LWSWEET INC MJUOK bargains in Diamonds, showed themselves more and more Watches and .Tewelry, Send for copy No. 1092-R. J650-I660 BROADWAY, NEWYORliG^^ boldly. They could not understand how men could hold a position which had literally disappeared under their shelling. And in truth, the garrison was nearly done for with cold and shortage of food and fatigue. Then to the relief of everybody came orders that they were to fall into night. BECOME back Shenkursk that They got ready their* meagre kit and waited. At eleven o'clock the artillery cut loose for fifteen minutes in the direction of the Bolo gun flashes. Then, as the Bolo replied, they limbered their guns Civil Service Employe is earning good, steady pay in a pleasant occupation of his own selection. Let train you to pass the U. S. Civil Service Examination and caissons and pulled out onto the EARN $1600 to $2300. me with Patterson high rating so you can get a position quickest at Jl6oo to $2300 a year. I have road. At a signal the outposts with- Semice Scliool drew and hurriedly took their places Rochester. N.Y in the formation. A brief inspection showed everything ready and they filed away to the north. '
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So tired were they, and so heavily tain Mowatt of the Canadian Artillery burdened because of the shortage of with a single eighteen-pounder sent sleighs, that it was daybreak as they out to help cover their retirement, and were pulling into Shalosha, a tiny vil- they turned in for a little time, plan- lage buried in the woods about halfway ning to go on into Shenkursk at dusk. to Shenkursk. They mounted a sentry The Bolo pursuers, however, had post at each end of the road and made up lost time, and shortly before dragged themselves into the houses to noon the first of their guns ranged on drop down and snatch some sleep. Spasko. At two o'clock infantry fire That evening, as the men were going broke from a ridge in the woods near- New wholesale taMoring over their gear and getting ready for by, and Odjard again formed his ex- house makes this sensational the night's march, they were alarmed hausted men in a skirmish line along ' introductory offer—good for30 to hear a sudden volley of firing from the side of the houses. Mowatt dragged only. Perfect fitting days his excellent wearing pants of fine the southern end of the village, and gun into the open and with mag- quality weave Worsted, guar- tumbled out into the street in confu- nificent disregard of his exposed posi- anteed $7.00 pre-war value or sion. In the dark dozens of figures tion helped clear away the Bolo front. MONEY BACK. Any style or size, no extra charges. Parcel were rushing madly about, and at the The superb handling of this one gun Post or Express PRE- end of the street a score of rifles were made it possible to hold back the ad- PA!0. Write today for] firing into the woods. vance, as the infantry was now work- eOcloth samples Free. Onepairtoacustomer. Odjard ran out into this rabble and ing mechanic;ally and without spirit, gave his men a sharp fall in. His too worn out by its elforts to do other- Agents p-pM Big Wanted Money company lined up as on parade. The wise. Send orders foryoarrelativeB.frienda firing continued and the Russian officer Behind them, beyond Shenkursk, the end neierhbore. Nice easy spare time work dashed up to say that his men thought Bolo shelling had reopened, and long J that payf J $20 to $40 a week. Send us ! today. Handsome cloth sample _ _ _ yoiir n( Free. today. that they had seen the enemy, and it shells were flying over the town and t and full Informati Infiratmall. Write STRAND TAILORING COMPANY was they who were firing. Odjard bursting above the river. Several timore, IWd. Pept- %Xl dismissed the company and told them buildings, set afire by the shelling, to remain indoors until they were were sending up long columns of smoke. called. He strode down to the firing Shenkursk, worried about Odjard's out- line, gave the first of the prone fig- fit and unable to get word from them, ures a savage kick, and ordered them sent out a platoon as support. A piece to cease firing. Some paid no atten- of shrapnel struck Odjard in the back tion to this, so he tore into them, curs- of the neck so that he had to be lip-On ing them for panicky fools, and, smash- rushed back to the sleighs. Another ere'B an almost tmheard of bar- ing them with his fists and revolver shell burst in front of the Canadian n . Ju3t the thine for those work- g outdoors or for skating, etc. butt, drove them back into their billets. gun, putting it out of action and tak- very handy garment to wear inder coat before overcoat One of the gun crews, unfortunately, ing off Mowatt's leg at the knee. He ireather sets in . Made of all wool process fine quality yam. Guar- had shared the same panic and in try- and Odjard were hurried back to Shen- anteed to please or money back. Color, khakionly. Sizes 34 to48. ing to harness their outfit lost their kursk, and Mead, who was left in com- Send No Money heads, so that the horses, running wild, mand, withdrew the skirmish lines Ju3t rush yonr name, ad- upset the gun in a deep ditch where gradually, until they met the fresh dress, size and mention No. AH941. Pay postman on they were unable to pull it out. They platoon which was deployed covering arrival $1.49 and postage. took out the breech lock, broke the their withdrawal. Then, forming in FREE wheels and used the horses they could column, they straggled painfully back catch to help the other gun teams. across the flat where the irregular road The march to Shenkursk was re- ran through the low scrub timber, sumed, and they trudged on through spread out a little as they crossed the the night, thanking Providence that Vaga, and climbed up the steep twist- they were not niore closely pursued. ing road which cuts the high bluff and Paramount Traaing Co. 34w,2*fih^VY. From time to time, in the distance to- winds into Shenkursk. Then this, the ward which they were going, came the only entrance to the town on the west, indistinct sound of shelling, like the was blocked and guarded, and the bat- night drums of an Indian war dance. tered column, with a feeling of abso- Came another dawn and they reached lute safety in gaining the most EX-SERVICE MEN Spasko, a small village on the river strongly-fortified place on the two riv- flat just around the bend of the Vaga ers, fell into the billets and dropped in from Shenkursk, but still within sight sheer exhaustion where they could find of its church tops. Here they met Cap- room around the stoves. The Logic of the Barred Gate
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or will cease to produce offspring, or American family of the first hundred both. The old idea of the "melting pot" years of our independence with the has exploded. Different races do not American family of today. We cannot blend into one homogeneous race the lay the loss to lack of space—we suffer characteristics of which are determined from no crowding. Let us compare the by the environment. The lower type families of those of our original stock gradually absorbs the resources of the with those of our immigrants since the community. Its own standards may eighties. The conclusion is obvious. It rise somewhat, generally do, but the is claimed by many that our popula- net result is a loss—a lower standard tion today would have been nearly as ecome Railway Mail Clerks than if the higher type had been per- great by natural increase even if we mitted to develop normally. Again the had not had the flood of immigration intermixture of high and kindred types from eastern and southern Europe. $1600to$2300Year tends to produce variations superior to These immigrants were willing to ac- HUNDREDS NEEDED both, while the intermixture of non- cept a lower standard and to raise fam- kindred types tends to the reverse. ilies under conditions deterrent to the Every Ex-Service Man .Should Frankiinlnstitute, life. original Write Immediately Depl.Kl$6. This is true in plant and animal Americans and their kindred Steady Work No Layoffs Rochester, N. Y. The pioneers who fought the Indians stocks. These last are gradually being Paid Vacations and irresistibly forced their way across crowded out of the great industries Common education lination 3,000-mile continent in little over half except transportation, lumbering and suflici pla a „ „ . „ , Schedule showing Ex-Service Men Ket coming U. S. Governmer a century would seem to prove that the agriculture, and the Orientals will soon Brst preference. f-VJ tions; (3) List of many Send coupon / jobs now open; (41 Informati rule holds for the higher type of the crowd them out of agriculture on our ^TnrT inK preference to ex-service men. SURcl. human race. The results of blending west coast unless drastic action is ^ Name mixed types need no examples. taken.
A OCTOBER 20, 1922 our government. No one can deny the strong tendency toward centralization, toward paternalism. Forty years ago we were a true democracy, with per- sonal liberty and a burning and uni- versal determination to hold it. The Suspenders and Garters English now claim that, though they Unequalled for Comfort and Long live under a monarchy, they are far Wear. One Year's Lasting more democratic than we are. A lit- Stretch Guaranteed. Thousands get two and three tle retrospect will show that the tend- years wear. ency toward centralization follows a Suspenders, 7Sc. Garters, little later than the wave of immigra- 50c. Ask Your Dealer tion central, eastern, and south- If he hasn't them, send from p>UD DOYLE viade his fight ^ coincidence, direct Eiving: dealer's name, ern Europe. It may be a '-^ and won. But there are thou- for "NU-WAY" on buckles. but it is worth thinking about. Note substitutes. other men, not ex-crimi- Accept no that in this period these peoples have sands of ^Nu-Way Strech Suspender Co. increased six millions, not counting nals or gangsters, who went in with Dept. E .4810 Adrian, Mich. their offspring, while the foreign born a clear record, zvho need a helping of type kindred to our original stock hand. They do not seek charity, have actually decreased by nearly a but only ask to he remembered aVear million in the past twenty years. to mmo by a land to which they offered moo Even if we had no one to consider but ourselves, even if Asia were still vol- their bodies and blood. for min untarily isolated and the brown races RADIO still asleep, the rapidly dwindling ma- This is the closing title of "Skin New uncrowded field jority of our original and kindred stock Deep" and this is the message ' trained men needed now for of work. Thousands of should wake up and call a halt. The land and sea work. Travel tlie world over if you Thomas H. Ince conveys to the wish or locate at home. Learn by mail in spare lime. time has come when they should de- Complete course given by America's oldest and larjest American public in his latest government recognized Radio-School (e.stablished 1914). termine whether the future citizen of Four Quality for commercial license in few months. this country shall be of the type that photoplay, a verile, red-blooded practice Radio instruments loaned free teach you at home. Our Employment Bureau helps graduates to colonized the continent from shore to regular He-Man story Endorsed by the Veterans Vocational drama. A pn,sitions. shore or of a mixture the possibilities Bureau. Write for Free bool^, "How to Learn Radio of how Bud Doyle made good at Home." which tells the story of success for over of which no one can contemplate with graduates. Be sure to give full I 0.000 students and "over there" and afterward went name, address and age. pleasure. National Radio Inslilule, Dept. 1265 N. W.. Washington, D. C. But there is another reason, stronger "over the top" in civil life. even than the appeal of "America for Filled with thrills, romance and the decade there Americans." For past a melodramatic punch. have come increasing evidences of the /CALIFORNIA STATE LAND BOARD has for sale ^ desirable irrigated farms, twenty and fort.v acres, in resurgence of Oriental peoples. Vastly San Joati liu Valley, only rcciuirini; five per cent of pur- outnumbering the whites, the yellows, chase price: remainder in st mi-annual installments ex- A Photoplay Every tondint' overSBH years with live per cent interest. Money browns and blacks have been held in for improvements and dairy stock. Splendid advanced check for five hundred years by white communities beint; established. You can farm all year in California: all deciduous fruits profitably grown; al- genius and solidarity. The white sol- falfa paying crop. Ideal conditions stock and poultry. Legionnaire Will Nowhere else such a combination of winterless climate, idarity was broken as never before by sunshine, seashore, mountains, fertile valleys, paved htgliwavs, the World War. In that war yellows, efficient marketing associations, excellent schools. Illustrated folders mailed free on request. C. L. Seagraves. General Coloniza* browns and blacks fought side by side tion Agent, Santa Fe Railway. 950 Railway Exchange, Cliicaeo, 111. with whites against other whites. From Want to See all sides come proof of the unrest of the colored races under white political THOMAS H. INCE control and of the wistful eyes cast on rich territories predominantly white but presents sparsely populated. They still fear the A'ltomobilo decorations, Po-.t ba whites, but the fear grows less with r'u^mbership buttons, seal press... ^ithletic emblems and a score of othe the evident separation of the white na- nve items incorporating the Legion had from the Emblem Division. tions. The question daily grows more SKIN DEEP" WRITE FOR A COMPLETE CATALOGUE pressing, shall the white areas remain Ernblem Division, Na^onal Headpuar-tepp for the expansion of the white races, or By Marc Edmund Jones The Americ^in •• • Legion, Indisnapolir shall they become yellow, brown or Directed Lambert Hillyer black? We may be sure, for example, by if the yellows are given a foothold the whites will cease to breed; we may be Distributed by Associated PAIN'S FIREWORKS equally sure that the gaps left in yel- First National Pictures, Inc. BOTH DAY AND NIGHT FOR low lands, through emigration, will be promptly filled by increased births. Witness Hawaii and Japan. ARMISTICE DAY Now throughout history peoples have ^^'^ •'i^'^'' "ew York gained and held territory only by ramPain'cS nreWUrKSFirpufnrkc UO.Pn „, Monroe St., Chicago w^t ability and willingness to fight for it. Modern war calls for more than man power and organization. It calls for B^ook \i TRAPS-FURS* " materials colors, most com- possession or control of the Why Good Dancers plete catalog of Trapping Supplies ever issued. and means for making munitions of Will help you become expert trapper and earn big war. Much is written of the "vast re- money. Also fur lists giving highest market prices, and shipping tags. All Free. Deal direct with sources of China," and many writers, Are Popular America's Greatest Fur House and get highest otherwise apparently sound, believe T7 VERYONE admires and i ts to dance with the person i ho knows grades for your furs and big money quick. Write that a coalition of Japan and China the latest steps. There Is no need of being a wallSower! By ray re- F. C. TAYLOR FUR CO. would form a great threat. China's markable new easy method, anyone 850 Fur Exchange BIdg. St. Louis, Mo. resources are great. But even when can learn the newest dances at home in a few hours. Much less expensive combined with Japan's they are not of than from a personal teacher. No music or partner needed. So a nature to permit either great indus- simple even a child can learn AGENTS-$5to$15 DAILY trial development or great war making quickly. (iO.OOO have, learned (lanci'io by mniL Your own suc- EASY— Introducing NEW STYLE power as long as the steel age endures. cess fs guaranteed. GUARANTEED HOSl ERY prove I quickly easily — Must They are pitiably deficient in high- To can and wear or replaced free. Big Profits. Re- make you an accomplished dancer, I peat orders bring you regular income. grade iron ore. So long as coal and will send you FREE, in plain cover, a in Fox Trot, Secret of Leading You write orders— DELIVER lesson WE AND iron form two of the major essentials and How fo Gain Confidence. For COLLECT. No capital or experience for munitions of war the United States, mailing of free lessons. Rend 10c. needed. Outfits furnished. All colors Learn in private —surprise your friends. and grades including finest silks. with reserves greatly in excess of those Act now and be a good dancer soonf HAC-O-CHEB RILLS CO., Desk Ciadiiati, Studio 480, Ave., 3713 a I of any possible coalition, holds the bal- ARTHUR MURRAY, 100 5th N. Y. PAGE 28 ance of power. And as long as the States passed the Constitutional amend- United States retains such a spirit that ment that the right of suffrage shall its strength will be thrown on the side not be abridged by reason of race or of a threatened white race, there can be color. The old melting pot idea still no repetition of the great Oriental in- held. But we are beginning to doubt; vasions of ancient and medieval history. it now seems that the future of our It is this that makes it so vital that country and possibly of the white race we maintain our people of a type that demands that, for a time at least, the will uphold a democratic government, right to immigrate and to acquire citi- of a type that will not blend with col- zenship shall be limited to those whom ored races, and of a type that has never experience shows can live apprecia- bowed the head to the Asiatic. If we tively under a democratic government do this the whites may have to abandon and can be depended upon to stand some of the outposts of political con- firm so that our great resources shall IWEWRITER trol, but need give up no territory pre- not pass into the control of aliens, dominantly white and climatically fitted either through war or through infiltra- SENSATION for white occupancy. tion. We must consider either our own Free Trial— Use as You Pa^'\ We have the right to determine v»'ho grandchildren and great-grandchildren shall and who shall not share our citi- or those of alien peoples. It seems cer- Send us only $4.00 a month until the low zenship. We can exercise this right, tain that one or the other must give total price of $48.85 is paid, and the apparently, only through laws duly en- way and that the decision as to which machine is yours. This is absolutely the acted. The second set of curves shown it shall be lies now, and for a little time most generous typewriter offer ever made. Do with this article evidences the differ- longer, in our own hands. not rent a machine when you can pay $4.00 a ence in effectiveness of an agreem.ent Why not act? Why not close the month and own one. Cash price $44.00, just a and of a law in controlling immigration. little less than half its originaJ price. doors definitely to all immigration till Our industrial leaders must give up we can make a thorough investigation the idea of cheap (and inferior) labor. —until we can determine definitely the Its effect is to be seen in the industrial classes that do accept and absorb our situation of recent years, in which it ideals and standards, and the classes Perfect machines, Standard size. Keyboard of Universal is generally conceded that the workmen who secretly hate or are indifferent to arrangement, writing 84 characters. The entire line of writing completely visible at all times, has the tabulator, of our old-time stock have alone held them and have an ear ever open to the the two-color ribbon, the back spacer, in fact every late back radicalism and serious disorders. style feature and modern operating convenience. Comes appeal of the anarchist or the whisper to you with everything complete; tools, cover, operating We are only in the beginning of our of the bolshevist? Why not prepare an book and instructions —nothing extra to buy. You can- not imagine the perfection of this beautiful recon- troubles if we do not control immigra- organization with the governing rule^ structed typewriter until you have seen it. We have tion. As an e::ample of what can to control immigration sold thousands of these perfect Cate style machines when we shall and every one of these t^^oucands of satisfied cus- happen, again witness Hawaii. One again open the gate, and in the mean- tomers had this beautiful, strictly up-to-date ma- chine on five days' free trial before deciding to planter imported Japanese. His profits time determine the educational qual- buy it. We will send it to you F. O. B. Chicago for five induced others to do the same. Within ifications necessary for the officials who days' free trial. It will stll itself, but if you are not satisfied that this is the greatest typewriter you ever twenty years the population of Oahu shall be appointed to administer this saw, you can return it at our expense. You won't want became predominantly Japanese; in important matter? offend to return it after you try it, for We no na- you cannot equal this wonderful value another decade the majority of na- tion if the door is closed to all. And anywhere. 85 tive-born Americans in the Hawaiian if, in future, any people feel that we Send No Money AFTER Islands will be of pure Japanese par- have unjustly discriminated against TRIAt: entage. Cheap labor of an unassimil- them, they have the obvious salve of Put in Your Order Now able type, or even only partially assim- enacting identical legislation against When the typewriter arrives deposit with the express for five days' trial. If ilable, is a Frankenstein. our citizens—an action which we should agent ?1.85 and take the machine you are convinced that it is the best typewriter yon ever It seemed a noble thing when our be prepared to accept with equanimity. saw keep it and send us .$4.00 a month until our bargain price of $48.85 is paid. If you don't want it, return it to the express agent, receive your $4.85 and return the machine. We will pay the return express charges. This machine is guaranteed just as if you paid SlOO.OOforit. It manu- is standard These typewriters are samples the What Are the Movies Up To? facturer had at their branch offices throughout United States and have never been used except for demonstra- tion purpose. Just like new but at extremely low price. {Continued from page 5) The supply at this price Is limited, the price will nsxi advertisement probably be raised when the case of motion pictures, at least, perrnanent personnel. appears, so don't delay. Fill in the coupon today— It has adopted the typewriter will be shipped promptly. There is no there isn't any such. Mr. Hays has de- measures which promise an end of the red tape. We employ no solicitors— no collectors—no chattel mortgage. It is simply understood that we retain scribed his relationship to the indus- recurring thefts of films for export. is paid. You cannot title to the machine until full $4S.85 try as "a partner in service." That It has sent to its member companies, lose. It is the greatest typewriter opportunity you will ever have. Do not send us one cent. Get the coupon may overstate the fact, but it describes for transmission to their various stu- today—sure. In the mails the spirit. (A youthful and diminutive dios, the demand, devoid of weasel Smith Typewriter Sales Co.. sMLG^dAv. Chicago water carrier for one of the carpenters' words, that filth be omitted from pro- crews at Hollywood listened to Hays ductions now under way. Smith Typewriter Sales Co., Felfs.&ldAv. Chicago saying during the address in the great "These pictures now being made," Ship me the Standard visible Smith Model No. 6, F. O. B. bowl there that they were all partners. this manifesto said, "will come out soon I will pay Chicago, as described in this advertisement. "That partner stuff goes with me," the and they will be the proof either you $4.00 monthly as rent until the $44.00 balance of the of Special $48 85 sale price is paid. The title to remain in you water boy said. "I'm ready to split our honesty of purpose or of our fail- until fully paid for. It is understood that I have five days in which to examine and try the typewriter. If I choose not with you, Bill.") ure; they will be the proof either of our to keep it I will carefully repack it and return it to the This development of industrial or- ability to correct our evils ourselves, or express agent. It is understood that you give the stand- ard guarantee. ganization is still too young to be ap- of our inability to run our own busi- Name. praised. Its results may be evanescent ness." and unsubstantial. Or they may con- It has offered its facilities to the Street Address ceivably point toward a way of avoid- National Education Association, which ing the economic extremes of laissez has agreed to designate a group to as- City .State. faire and of nationalization. sist the industry in making pedagogic The task of Will Hays is one of years; productions. Occupation or Business. his Eome won't be built in a day. But It has begun the building of a line these first months of his organization of communication between the public Elegant 7-Jewel Watch chow gains. It is at the point of com- patrons and the private producers of pleting, by common agreement after motion pictures—the establishment cf long negotiation, a standardization of machinery both for consulting and stim- contractual relations between distribu- ulating the nationally-federated groups tors and exhibitors which should go far of the country in the interests of bet- C O-^ _ toward removing what has been here- ter films. This handsomely designed thin inodel 7-iewel watchforonly $6.95. Genuine gold filled case; tofore a prolific source of discord. It This last is significant. On a morn- open face: screw back and bezel; stem wind and in certain unusual instances, ing in June of 125 representa- eeS— A dandy watch and fine timekeeper of exceptional has moved, upward value. Guaranteed to wear for years. the public exhibition of tives of civic, religious if yoa act at once, beaatiful knife and chain to prevent and educational tiP'RPRMLiCl order. SEND NO MONEY. Pay on arri- It val only $6.95. If not deilehted, return at once and specific productions. has approved societies met in New York on the in- Cet your money back on our ironclad guarantee. Jewelry and gun catalog free. and aided the efforts of producing com- vitation of Mr. Hays. They remained naitedBuTingAssB., 220W.Qntu!oSt.,Dcpt, 107,CMcaeo panies to secure and retain high-class until six o'clock in the afternoon, tell- — OCTOBER 20, 1922 PAGE 29 ing what they thought of motion pic- tures. Before adjourning they selected their own committee and instructed it to carry on from that beginning. It devised a permanent organization, centering in a group representative of —Oie world's greateat WhoWon induEtry. Millions of cars, tires, twenty of the major civic associations batteries, etc., nped constant Thousands of trained men needed. Wonderful of the nation, including the American opDortunities open to men who "know how." Come Legion. This group has begun holding to .Michieon State Auto School and Ect this Irainlnit now. ifrn.luates Our course fits vou to fill any automotive job. Our world periodical meetings with Mr. Hays, and .iKvays in demand. More than 18.0110 gradunles thruout themselves. u>ldin»r Eood jobs or in business for the has employed an executive who is lo- War? $2.000 to $10.000 Yearly Make course com in Fit voiirself t.> till one of these big-pay jobs. Our cated the office of the federated pro- pomt in auto const, uc The .\u,s.sies — the Limeys— the ,,lote in every particular. -covers every aul os, trucks, traclora. tarn, ducers but who is responsible to the tion repair, anil upkeep. Includes Frogs they all made a good i — liirht plants, easencincs. etc. Instructions intense y Ceurncs o" tiros. buMerle.^ iinK. committee of twenty. It had drafted, and practical. Special fight. But it took the Americans machine shop work. etc. Nothinu ..nutted. welding, following its first meeting, a Declara- Learn in Detroit—the Auto Center to deliver the knockout. Ath- Our School located in Heart of Auto Industry Eives tion of Purpose, stating: our students best opportunitie.^ and advantages, h ully letics—before we joined the Serv- endorsed by Biggest Auto Factories. Factory execu- tives and Service Managers helped outline ourU)uraca ice—while we were in tlie Ser\'ice They give our students fullest co-operation. IT I'AY.S The purpose of the work of the several TO COME TO M.S. A. S, and learn the Auto Busin. —made the A.E.F. betlcr flglit- right, in the Auto Center of the agencies here named shall include: world. ers. Keep up the good work Get the facts. Write for free a. The establishment of a channel of catalog. See what others have keep fit today—by athletics in done.—then get busy. Show your inter-communication between the agencies grit. "Buck up" and get in the your Legion Posts, And u.se game. Be a winner. We'll help instrumental in forming and interpreting you. Write today. WILSON equipment— the .siime public opinion and the motion picture in- that made such a service record Michigan State dustry. in army and navy camps four increased of Automobile School b. The use motion pictures years ago. citizenship a in 3490 Auto BIdg., Detroit, Mich. as a force for and factor social benefit. ^ /A /7 c. The development of more intelligent co-operation between the public and the motion picture industry. d. The aiding of the co-operative move- Thos. E. Wilson Co. ment instituted between the National Edu- & cation Association and the motion-picture New York Chicago San Francisco producers to direct the making of pedagogic films and their effective employment in the schools. You've heard your e. 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MONOGRAM LETTER CO. Universal Co., Box 504 Ptamford, Conn. Desk G. 196 Market St. Newark, N. J. Fine pictures don't, Tops.y-like, just PAGE 30 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Three Talented Artists grow. Some kind of a noise audible in a box office must precede or follow them, Joined in Designing and box office acoustics are peculiar. "Reforming" pictures too often has This Lamp meant simply carping about the ones we disliked and preserving a death-like silence when one came along deserving to call on garages, stores, factories, approval and longevity. To get and Bchools, hotels, homes, auto owners keep getting better pictures, the folks and demonstrate and take orders for must snap into it. Meanwhile the killers of joy and the hangers of crepe Super Fyr-Fyter Approved by Underwriters, makes epeotaculor who sob at the decadence of the screen damonstrfltion. Sells easily may save their tears. That the tend- Blaik made $50.60 first week, DePriei has averaged S7000 per year for last 3 years. W« ency in the quality of motion pictures can train you, without cost, so you can do as is upward is neither a promise, a prayer well or better. No esperience necesaary. Write at once for free details showing how you nor a prophecy. It is a fact. can earn (2,000 to $10,000 a year In 1916 the National Board of Review THE FYR-FYTER COMPANY ,1212 Fyr-Fyter Bldg. Dayton, Ohio classified twenty-six percent of pictures produced as especially good for the The linps, proportions and The price of this artistic colorinc of most of the gem is $3.50. Think of family and sixteen percent for young lamps you see in these days iti In the few shops people; in according to the board, of commercialism are the where lamps of this char- 1921, work of designing depart- acter can be found its equal these percentages had risen respectively AGENTS: $12 a Day ments of large factories. would cost from S15 to They are the fruits of a S20. Only the Decorative to 63 and 28. NEW KANT-KLOG COAL OIL BORNER deep knowledge of what Arts League could offer The Cleveland Foundation's Survey makes a "popular seller" such a price and such a in the stores. lamp. of Recreation found that "no one who But —this exquisite little "Aurora" is 16 inches high, studies the motion picture theatres at lamp "Aurora" as it has base and cap cast in s^lid been named by an artist MedalHum, shaft of seam- Cleveland fails to see that the action because of the purity of less brass, finished either of an enlightened public opinion is con- its Greek lines—was de- in rich statuary brjnze signed by the united talents with adjustable parchment stantly raising, the standard of pic- shade of neutral brown or of an architect and interior tures exhibited." decorator, a painter, and a in ivory white, shade golden famous sculptress yellow. Inside of shades who were In Mayor McClellan's administration Most perfect burner ever invented. Can t clog up. Burns working not to make old rose to give mellow a pic- 85% air and 15% gas. Turns any coal or wood stove into "cheap" lamp light. Equip- he threatened to close all motion a gas stove. Pays for itself in a short time. Cheaper than or a ped for elec- "big in because of coal Big seller. Write for Agency terms and territory seller" for the tricity, wire, ture houses New York stores, but socket, etc.. general disapproval of the films—many PARKER MFG. CO. 202 Coal St. DAYTON, OHIO solely to de- everything sign a lamp of but bulb. of them imported—then being shown. truly artistic Send no critic of the screen remains to ad- proportions. money, sim- No AUFOta ^$3.50 with I r e a 1 ply sign and vocate any such heroic measure to com- grace, symmetry and beauty mail the coupon to yet thoroughly durable and Decorative Arts League. bat what evil there may be. practicable. 175 Fifth Avenue,New York Ten years ago, the Nickelodeon was an abandoned storeroom with an un- Hundreds big-pay DECORATIVE ARTS LEAGUE, kempt interior, foul air, and jumpy, of aoto jobs open in California. J3e an auto 175 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. mechanic, electrician or demonstrator salesman. Learn by actual eye-racking pictures of a train robbery shop practice—earn living expenses while learning. Write today Send nie at the League members' special price, an "Aurora" for Bi^ FREF auto book— explains everything. Lamp, and I will pay postman S3. 50 plus the postage when and a man-hunt. Today the motion- delivered. (Shipping weight only 5 lbs.) If not satisfactory picture theatres rival the "legitimates"; I can return lamp within five days and you are to refund my money. they are well ventilated, well-lit, well- NATIONAL*"s'?lKi" Jjos Angeles. Cal. Check finish desired Statuary BronzcQor Ivotu Whiter] kept. Eye strain is eliminated. To- (CD morrow we shall find tinted and talking Signed pictures in them. The trend is upward. CIVIL SERVICE Address Perhaps it may not stay in that di- Courses for Postmaster. Railway Mail Clerk, City Cily Slate rection. Carrier, P, C). Clerk, Rural Carrier, etc., by former civil service employee wltli 15 years experience in the Postal Perhaps Vachel Lindsay was wrong: service, and 13 years experience In preparing for Gov't positions. Our students have made GO.SO^'o in Gov't "No longer is the fire escape the only exams. Our unexcelled S15 courses only $5 for short time. Several sample lesson sheets, valuable illus- summer resort. . . . Here is more fancy trated catalog and full particulars FREE. and whim than ever before blessed a OlArmvaTShoe CIVIL SERVICE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL, PHILA., PA. Made of pliable Chrome ither. Broad, Solid hot night. . . . Our democratic dream Oak Leather Heels, has been a middle-class aspiration built Thick Double toil-soddened Soles. Dirt and on a bog of minds. The Water Proof. piles beneath the castle of our near- democratic arts were rotting for lack of folk-imagination. The Man with the Hoe had no spark in his brain. But now a light is blazing. We can build the American soul broad-based from the foundation. We can begin with dreams the veriest stone-club warrior can understand, and as far as an appeal to the eye can do it, lead him in fancy through every phase of life to the apoc- Pay Postman alyptic splendors. ... 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V E N T O Ft S Represent the American Legion Perhaps it can't fulfill its forecasts. iwho derive largest profits know and heed certain Weels^ly Still the effort would be supremely simple but vital facts before applying" for worth the making. Still the game SEE PAGE 2 would be worth the candle. JPA TENTS - Sense Inventors and Man- For it is just possible that it might Our book Patent . for Write CIRCULATION BIRD, ' ulacturers, gives those facts-. fVee. Write succeed. I think it can. ^^1 Lacey&Lacey. St.,Washington.D.C AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY And that would be a great thing to 643 F 627 West 43d Street, New York City have done for America and for men. ESTABLISHED 1869 . Rally round, ye heroes of the dark The Flashlight that places of the combat zone. Relate the story of your favorite flashlight, and how it saved Europe. State on the dotted line Failed your favorite make. Turn the pocket spotlight on the In le guerre, the flashlight never failed Buddy. The coupon—flash Buddy the message that you Stave Hero used it for the dot and dash, used it on dark night§ are with him stronger than army mustard. to quiet a mule rumpus, thereby saving himself from being The coupon makes a big branded with the order of "horseshoes." flash on the advertiser's desk. Buddy flashed a mean light in a dark dugout, when some Dealers and salesmen and every- bird who had been "selected" to aid him in a No Man's Land body— help Buddy prove to adver- detail crawled off in a corner to dream he was there. tisers that Legionnaires aren't still The Coupon Skirmisher saved the beans with his flash- in the dark ages. light on many moons, when blockaded in some mud hole along the rations-route where the guns spoke not mildly. Without a flashlight, Buddy could never have made up his To the Advertising Manage-. 627 West St., hunk, which consisted of removing his shoes and shifting his 43d New York City I would like to nee the following of flashlight pack, down there in a ship where it took a formula to get sleep. make and batteries adve-- tised in our weekly. "Lights out —Jerry up!" After the candle had been swept aside. Buddy always saved the day —or rather night —by touching his flashlight and restoring heaven's first law —order. Has the flashlight become one with the animated dandruff Glue and cubes? Buddy so believes, after a careful perusal of the advertising columns of his Weekly. No flashlight whatso- This coupon is for all Legionnaires and Auxiliary Members to fill out. ever is advertised therein. But if you are a dealer or a salesman handling this line, please indicate Over there. Buddy read the old shirt by the light of the by check mark dealer salesman flash. And he read 'em and wept — the freckled hand organs — by the same light. Name. A bird turning into the flax in a dark billet might have Address. cuddled up to a cow if his flashlight had been hors de combat. Now the flashlight has failed. Post "BB IT REHULVEI). that loUh a firm hcllcf In Hit OUR DIRECTORY nine of our magazine—The AMElurAN Leuion of ADVERTISERS Weekly—ns a national odrertising medium: with the These Advert iMcrs support u.s— Let's reciprocate. And tell our American Legion Weekly." 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Denlson & Co VHart Schaffner & Marx VRussell's Inc First National E.\hibitor.s' Circuit, Inc 27 VHoleproof Hosiery Co Thos. E. Wilson -29 Pain's p'ireworks *J7 VThe Joseph & Felss Co STATIONERY AND WRITING MATERIAL FIREARMS VVKahn Tailoring Co WWEaton. Crane night during the war I was sitting Since the war, the "Daily Dozen" has been are taking them. The children are fascinated ONEin the smoking compartment of a making busy men and women fit and keeping with them and bring the neighbors' children to Pullman sleeping-car when a man them so—and the exercises are now proving do them." Mrs. Charles C. Hickisch, 828 came in and said, "Mr. Camp?" more efficient than ever—due to a great im- Vine St., La Crosse, Wis. I told him I was, and he continued, "Well provement in the system. This is it: The Health Builders' improved system now there is a man in the car here who is in very bad With Mr. Camp's special permission all the includes the entire "Daily Dozen" exercises, shape, and we wondered if you could not do twelve exercises have been set to music—on set to specially selected music, on large 10-inch something for him." phonograph records that can be played on any double disc phonograph records; twelve "What is the matter?" I asked. disc machine. handsome charts, printed in two colors, with "This fellow is running up and down the In addition, a chart is furnished for each over 60 actual photographs illustrating each aisle in his pajamas," the man said, movement of each exercise; and a little "trying to get them to stop the train to book by Walter Camp explaining the let him get some dope because he hasn't new principles of his famous system. slept for four nights." Any man or woman who exercises I went back in the car and found a with this system regularly, even if it is man about 38 years old, white as a sheet, only six or seven minutes a day, will feel with a pulse of 110, and twitching all better and have more endurance and over. I learned that he had been man- "pep" than they have had since they aging a munitions plant and had broken were in their 'teens—and they will find down under the work because he had those few minutes the best fun of their transgressed all the laws of nature, and day. given up all exercise, and had been working day and night. Try the Complete System "For God's sake," he said to me, Free— For Five Days "can't you put me to sleep? If some- body can only put me to sleep!" He You cannot fully appreciate the real was standing all bent over. joy of doing the "Daily Dozen" to "Don't stand that way, stand this music until you try it. So we want to wayl" I said, and I straightened him up send you, absolutely free for five days, and started putting him through a few the "Daily Dozen" on phonograph rec- exercises to stretch his body muscles. < irds and charts illustrating the move- Pretty soon the color gradually began to ments. These full-size, ten-inch, double- come back into his face, and the twitch- disc records playable on any disc ma- ing stopped. Then I said to him, "I am chine contain the complete Daily Dozen going to put you through the whole set Exercises, and the 60 actual photographs of 'Daily Dozen' exercises once. Then accompanying the records show clearly I am going to send you back to your every movement that will put renewed berth." vigor and glowing health into your body So I did that and didn't hear any —with only ten minutes' fun a day. A more from him, but the next morning he WALTER beautiful record-album comes free with came to me in the dining car and said: CAMP the set. "You don't leave this train until originator of the Famous "Daily Dozen" System No need to send any money. Simply you've taught me those exercises. I slept mail the coupon below and get Walter last night for the first time in five nights." Camp's "Daily Dozen" on phono- I taught him the "Daily Dozen" and two exercise—showing by actual photographs the graph records. Enjoy the records for five months later I got a letter from him, saying: exact movements to make for every one of the days, and if for any reason you are not "My dear good Samaritan, I am back on the "commands"—which are given by a voice satisfied return them and you owe nothing. job all right again, and I am teaching every- speaking on the record. So now you can make But if you decide to keep the records, you can body those exercises." your phonograph keep you fit. pay for them at the easy rate of only $2,50 The "Daily Dozen" was originally devised as With these records and charts a man or down, and $2 a month for four months until the a setting-up drill for picked young men—the woman can keep himself or herself fit with only sum of $10.50 is paid. Thousands of people boys who were in training during the war. But a few minutes' exercise a day—and it is so much have paid $15 for the same system but you can its greatest value is for those men and women fun that some of the "Daily Dozen" fans go now get it for only $10.50 if you act at once. who are hemmed in between four walls most of through the whole twelve exercises to the Simply mail the coupon and see for yourself the time and are beginning to realize that their spirited music twice every morning—just as a at our expense, the new, easy, pleasant way to bodies aren't as fit as their minds. matter of sheer enjoyment. keep fit. You'll feel, better, look better, and I applied it to middle-aged men, and men past Mr. Camp says that the place where we must have more endurance and "pep" than you ever middle age too, during the war—including mem- look after ourselves is in the body or the trunk had in years—and you'll find it's fun to exercise bers of the cabinet in Washington—who simply muscles. to music! Don't put off getting this remark- had to do much more work than they were used This is so, because we are all in reality "caged able System that will add years to your life and to doing, without breaking down. In the "Daily animals." When a man stops hunting and make you happier by keeping you in glowing Dozen' ' I soon found I had something that would fishing for food and earns it sitting at a desk he health. Mail the coupon today. Address actually increase their reserve power. They becomes a captive animal—just as much as a Health Builders, Inc., Dept. 1710, Garden grew progressively more fit as we went along. lion or a tiger in the Zoo—and his trunk muscles City, N. Y. can take an orgy of deteriorate People think that they because they cease to be used. FIVE DAY TRIAL COUPON exercise and make up for a long period of neg- Then comes constipation and other troubles lect when they do not take any exercise at all. which savage men never have. Inc. You can not do that. Do not go to a gym- The remedy is to imitate the "cxcBcises" of HEALTH BUILDERS, Dept. 1710, Garden City, N. Y. nasium. That tires you to death. That is caged animals. They know how to keep them- Please send me for five rl;i\ Free Trial at your expense old-fashioned. We do not have to do that any selves fit and they do it too. — the Complete Healtfi Builder Series containing Walter more. A man or woman can keep himself or How? Simply by constantly stretching and Camp's entire "Daily Dozen"' on five double-disc ten-inch photographs; and the beautiful herself fit with six or seven minutes a day. turning and twisting the trunk or body mus- records; the 60 actual record-album. If for any reason I am not satisfied with There is no reason why a man at 50 or 60 or 70 cles! Mr. discovered that When Camp men the system. I may return it to you and will owe you should not be supple; and if he is supple, then and women can imitate the caged animal with nothing. But if I decide to keep it, I will send you {2.50 first payment) and agree to pay $2 a he grows old very slowly but the place where he enormous profit to their health, he devised the in five days (as the month for four months until the total of Jio.so is paid. must look after himself is in his body muscles. — "Daily Dozen"—to provide this indispensable Waller Camp. exercise—the only exercise people really need Name Mr. Camp is famous as a great Yale foot- to keep in proper condition. (Please Write Plainly) ball coach, and athletic authority, but few Many people have written to the Health Address - people know that he is also a successful business Builders telling them of the benefits they have man. Although sixty years old he is stronger received. Here is part of one letter: State and more supple than most younger men. and "We wish to express our satisfaction and City If you prefer to take advantage of our cash price send he uses his own"Daily Dozen" exercises regu- delight with our set of records and exercises. only Sio.oo. larly in order to remain so. Our entire family of eight, including the maid. Price outside U. S. $12.50 cash with order.