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KEEP this issue of the Monthly CONTENTS customs, change her allegiance. where you can reach for it Never in my life have I chosen so anytime somebody tries to fire well as the day I moved my family a few rounds of grape into the A MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGE 5 to this country." By Ernestine Schumann-Heink Legion. Show that somebody the Ellison and Brock, au- record of what the Legion did during MESSRS. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 6 thors of "Keep Away From the 1936 flood-and-tornado season. By Karl Detzer That Hook," know the rackets racket Ask that somebody if he would have Illustrations by J. W. Schlaikjer all the way from the galloping pea chosen any of the particular places to the big-time eight-figure swindles. mentioned in that story to get up on WATER, WIND AND A HELPING They are the authors of "The Run a floating soap-box and tell the world HAND 10 for Your Money," a fascinating ac- what was wrong with the ex-service slickerdom jolts man. KEEP AWAY FROM THAT HOOK! 14 count of that your By Jerome Ellison and Frank W. faith in human nature. Brock LEGIONNAIRE W. Lester Stevens's Cartoons by Art H elfant EQUALLY, Marquis James knows * cover portrays country that was his Texas. His "The Raven: A pretty close to the New England A CENTURY OF TEXAS 16 Biography of Sam Houston," won flood belt—the hills of Western By Marquis James the Pulitzer Prize in biography in Massachusetts that lead up to the 1930. More recently he has published sublimity of the Berkshires. Mr. GLAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN! 18 "They Had Their Hour," a collection By David S. Ingalls Stevens has a right to stick A. N. A. of vivid and authentic chronicles of after his name, which means that he American history all of which ap- is an Associate National Academician STRONG BAIT 20 By Wallgren peared originally in these pages. —an honor that signifies as much to a painter as an All-American nomi- month, weather permit- EDITORIAL: The Ghost of NEXT nation does to a right halfback. ting, Elsie will be re- the Old Bugle 21 Janis introduced to her old A.E.F. buddies never again will an post- PROBABLY KINGS FOR A DAY 22 with a fact narrative out of her American Legion National Con- By Philip Von Blon war experience that exhibits a dif- vention open with the singing of ferent Elsie from the song bird of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by SAILOR MEETS SAILOR 26 Is-sur-Tille and points east; Wythe Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink. By John J. Noll Williams, internationally-known com- "A Memorial Day Message" marks mentator, writes on "Time, Space, her second appearance in these pages. OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT 30 and the United States;" Ted Mere- By Mickey Cochrane The first was in the issue for No- dith of 880 fame discusses the tribu- vember, 1927: "Why I Love the lations of training an Olympics team 32 United States." Her concluding senti- BURSTS AND DUDS (he's been toning up the Czechs). Conducted by Dan Sowers ments were such as any of us might take to heart: "America—-sane of TODAY'S best thought: Don't forget the Cleveland National judgment, loyal of heart, warm of Please report change of address to Indian- sympathy, considerate to everyone apolis office, including old and new ad- Convention. The dates are Septem- dresses. Allow five weeks for change to — no wonder I loved her from the first! ber 21st to 24th. Easy to remember become operative. An issue already mailed nation ever merited the affection it begins on the last day of summer, No to old address will not be forwarded by post or, if you want to be reminiscent of a foreign-born citizen as does this office unless subscriber sends extra postage one. So the United States won me, to post office. Notifying this magazine well about it, five days before the eight- in advance impending address change made a German-speaking citizen de- of eenth anniversary of the opening of will obviate this expense. cide to learn the language, live the the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne.

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The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A Memorial Day Message

AS MEMORIAL DAY are confined to hospitals should I \ draws near, I want be visited. All of our citizens / % to send a special generally should be impressed word of greeting to with the suffering these men my friends in The American and others who wore the uni- Legion and to my buddies of forms of their country had the World War wherever they to endure, not only during the may be. I do this with a heart war but in the years following. full of love for them and for Second, Memorial Day their families who now depend should signify a time when upon them, share their re- we as a people appraise our sponsibilities of domestic life, plans for staying out of future and inspire them to the highest in community wars. Through the press and every other medium life and citizenship. of information, the attention of our citizens

I want to point out to these friends and com- should be called to the fact that we are definitely rades of mine that Memorial Day should now take erecting barriers against future conflicts. In on an increased and important significance. In sponsoring a program looking toward the taking this good but troubled year of 1936, Memorial of profits out of war, I feel that The American Day must mean more to us than it has in recent Legion is exactly right. years. I believe very strongly that all of those re- I do not need to point out to my boys, who sources and materials needed for war should be called me Mother Schumann-Heink and whom I furnished to the Government at actual cost; that wish now I could gather to my heart, that the salaries and incomes should be so regulated that World War brought suffering to me, even as it no one can make material gain from the human did to so many countless mothers, to so many un- misery war brings. May we never again permit numbered relatives and friends of those in the the sad profiteering of the last war! service, on both sides. I had five sons in the war. Third, Memorial Day should call our minds Four served in the American forces and one, my and hearts to a better sympathy and understand- eldest, as a navigation office" in German sub- ing with the peoples of other nations. Ours is a marines. August, this oldest boy of mine, had common task with citizens of other lands, this lived in Germany all his life, and was on duty as building of an enduring structure of international first officer on the Hamburg-American passenger amity. I believe it true that the common people liner President Lincoln when the war broke out. the world over want war no more. They feel that He was content to follow the ways of peace, but civilization should now abandon war as a his country brought him into war and placed him method of settling disputes. in the submarine service. Since the bitterness of Yet we cannot shut our eyes to realities. When the cruel conflict has now dissolved somewhat the rights of the people of a nation are violated, into feelings of understanding and sympathy one it is natural and proper for those people to seek toward another, I feel safe in mentioning that justice. There still lives the spirit of aggression.

August served with bravery and distinction. He So the problem is not an easy one. But it received the unusual honor of being decorated presents a challenge to American leadership. with two Iron Crosses and also was given the Examples of differences being settled without highest Austrian decoration for a feat of mine- resort to war are multiplying year by year. laying off the Italian coast. Then he gave his life Perhaps the opinion of my humble self is —killed in action near the close of the war, lost worth nothing, but here is my suggestion for with all his comrades on board. strengthening the principle of arbitration: Of my four boys in the service of the American When differences arise between nations, let a forces, three were in the Navy. George, the board of strictly neutral countries consider all youngest, and the only one born in the United phases of the disagreement and weigh the claims States, saw foreign service on transport duty as of both sides. Let them consider how the matter fireman, making twelve trips across. Another might be settled with greatest possible justice to son, Ferdinand, was in the Field Artillery at both. Such a board could decide upon proper Camp Funston for a brief time and received a indemnities and remunerations for losses sus- medical discharge. tained, and other matters involving property, Yes—I think I know what Memorial Day jurisdictions and rights—those judgments to be should mean. solemnly announced to the world. Let me suggest three things for my friends who saw the service Should a nation then refuse to abide by such decisions, then all of training camps and battlefields, and for any who may be in- other nations should act in a body to bring proper pressure upon fluenced by their wishes in the matter, to ponder over and con- it with complete embargoes, stoppage of exports and cancellation sider: of credits. Military action would be the last resort. First, I feel that Memorial Day itself should be given wider Too idealistic? Perhaps so. Perhaps so long as there are greed, and more carefully planned observance. The day should never aggression and selfish personal or national interests to be served, be considered a holiday for celebration purposes. Memorial this method, and other methods, will prove impotent. But I be- services should be held by peoples of all beliefs and creeds. In lieve that inevitably the world draws toward peace. Those who other meetings, at other times during the day, patriotic, civic, gave their lives in past conflicts have not died in vain. and fraternal organizations should meet in solemn observance of Let Memorial Day be sacred to the honor of their achievement honors for the nation's heroic dead. On this day, veterans who —and the worthiness of our task.

JUNE, 1936 5 "Oh, there are two Part One 1^4 cried. "I don't give to keep me in jail Chapter One W T WAS afternoon as John Breen entered In fact, his employer, Mr. Manny Murtzer, just three weeks I Le Havre again. ago had called him the most unreasonable man in Hollywood. The same Le Havre. Here was Breen, at the top of his stride, with four smash-hit The same chalky cliffs pictures under his belt, the best-paid camera man on any lot, 22 rising mistily out of white walking out on his career. water far to the right ; the "Regardless of what I pay?" Manny Murtzer had asked. same brown and white "Regardless of anything," John Breen had answered. sails of fishermen's boats He was fed up on motion pictures, he tried to tell Murtzer, bobbing slowly toward who didn't understand at all; fed up on Art for box office sake, the Manche; the same on glamor, on female stars. Fed up on pretense, too, which he rows of elegant white houses, wearing their gay tile roofs like had learned to recognize in its every form through the lens of his new spring millinery. camera. Was there any reason in the world why he shouldn't Off in the distance that same white road, bending backward slam the studio gate behind him, hop the night plane at Burbank and forward up the heights of Ingouville, staggering left and right and the boat at New York? as if it could not make up its mind, a road once pounded by a No reason at all. And already he felt better. Immeasurably. million pairs of American hobnails on their way to Rest Camp His nerves were firmer, and he no longer was easily enraged at Number 2. little things. If it had been impulse that brought him, then Yes, the same Le Havre. The same ships of many nations, good for impulse. the same gulls screaming greedily for a meal, the same rich smell He stood now with the collar of his ulster pulled up, his soft of land after those quiet days at sea. The same Havre as in hat drawn down over his dark, sultry eyes, and peered across

191 7, but not the same John Breen; although as he stood on the the misty harbor at the hills of France. Rain dropped without deck and watched the ship nose cautiously into the harbor, he vigor out of a drab November sky, and hissed against the cold looked no more like a detective than he had looked eighteen gray water. Men in wet smocks hurried along the glistening years before when he came rollicking into this same port on a pier, traffic on the streets facing the harbor splashed through troopship. And felt even less like one. A detective, he knew, puddles, and farther away, beyond the steep roofs of the town, must reason things out, and he was in no reasonable mood. spread the rain-soaked hills of Normandy.

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of you, are there?" he a damn. You tried served his present purpose, and that in his time he had been once. Try again!" w around. He was about Breen's own age, a year or two from forty, one side or the other, and in spite of the scowl, his light, wide blue

"Sunny France," a husky voice at his elbow said. eyes were as disarmingly blank . . . empty might be the word . . . "Toujours," Breen answered. He didn't turn. It was as his round, florid face. Breen had read his advertisement in the Kernan, the driver he had hired in New York. One couldn't New York papers the day he arrived from the Coast. mistake the voice. "I rather like the rain," Breen said. "After "Expert driver with car. Wants travel. Speaks French. Go ." the California sunshine. . . anywhere. References." "Oh, yeh, I been there, too," the fat man beside him inter- Breen had not even listened particularly closely to his story be- rupted. "Sunny California. Liquid sunshine. You could get fore he hired him; hired him impulsively, for no particular rerson, drowned in it." except that Kernan wanted very much to go, and Breen could "Why, I'm afraid you're a cynic, Kernan," Breen said. use a driver. A stranger, looking at Breen himself, might have guessed the "There's a dame wants to marry me," Kernan had confessed. same thing. He was an uncommonly tall man, and uncommonly "I got to get away in a hurry, so's to give her a chance to change lean. His lips were thin as paper and his face might have been her mind." a mask, for all the emotion it betrayed, except for his smoldering "By this time tomorrow," he said to Breen now, and his face eyes. He looked older than his years, too, and the hair on his brightened, "we'll be in sweet old Paris. Then leave 'er rain. I temples was almost white. know a lot o' good dames in Paris." "You can't be fed up on travel already!" he Breen turned questioningly on him. He said. hadn't made known all his plans to Kernan yet. Kernan scowled. He scowled often, Breen llluSi For one thing he hadn't told him that they were had noticed in the few days at sea. Just a facial not going to Paris. At least not now. mannerism, perhaps; not indicative of char- J.W.S "We're hitting the small towns first," he acter. It didn't matter, either way. He'd explained. "Villages, wayside inns, quiet rather the man would scowl all day with his fat lips shut tight places where you can hear yourself think. I want to take some than yell the way Manny Murtzer had. He didn't know much pictures." about Kernan yet; but he would find out. He always did, about "You don't have to think in Paris," Kernan pointed out with everyone, and enjoyed it. Knowing people well was his favorite unassailable logic, but Breen rejected the idea. experiment. All he knew about this man now was that he "That's where the film stars go. We might meet some of them."

JUNE, 1936 7 "Well, that'd be swell," Kernan said. Breen laughed. "Oh, much worse than that, Kernan. One of Breen dropped the subject. He was managing this trip, not the D. C. I. —American secret police." He added quickly: "That Kernan, and it was no use trying to make anybody else under- was after the Armistice, though. Same time you say you were in stand how he felt about . . . oh, any number of things. He might the delousing service." even get over it. Sometime. He glanced down along the dock. Kernan growled so fiercely this time that Breen turned to look A gendarme was tramping outward on its concrete floor, with an at him. Was he about to lose his chauffeur at this late hour? immense, fat dignity. That would be inconvenient, perhaps. He tried explaining: "It "What you grinning at, boss?" Kernan asked. was a case of murder. Two murders, in fact. I arrested a fellow "The gendarme. I've known a lot like him. Forgot how im- but had to let him go. Not enough evidence." portant they could look." A steward hurried along the deck, bowing politely; their hand "Don't look important to me," Kernan objected. "Look mean. luggage was ready, they had better prepare to go ashore. Like any cops." Neither Breen nor Kernan mentioned the police again that day. Breen continued to watch the policeman on the dock. "You They found their shore legs in a little inn on the outskirts of the don't like cops?" city, and the next morning, the rain having ceased, they climbed Kernan said emphaticallv. "I don't like 'em one hundred per- into Kernan's car, Breen with a camera in his lap; crossed the cent!" estuary of the Seine to Honfleur, and turned westward over the "I was a cop once," Breen told him, adding, "not a verv good hills of Normandy. They would pause first at Pont l'Eveque, one." Breen decided, and then at Lisieux. In Lisieux, particularly, His driver snorted. "There ain't any good ones." he remembered, there were some good old houses and streets. "I was worse than most," Breen admitted. "Lost my only case. They'd make stunning pictures. Flopped it completely. It was here in France, too. Just after the "Postman on a holiday," he admitted a little sheepishly to war." Kernan. "This kind of shooting's fun, though. Not like that in The boat was moving slowly toward the pier, and already the Hollywood." excited chatter of voices lifted to the deck. Other passengers were "We all got our idee of fun," Kernan replied. "Me, I'd ruther hurrying to disembark, but Breen lingered, watching the scene take a pitcher of Mae West ..." below him. He liked this coming back; even more than he had "Than of all the houses in the world, I suppose. Well, we dis- ." anticipated. agree on several points. Police, pictures . . Breen paused. He "You don't mean you was one of them dirty M. P.'s?" Ker- had not intended to bring up the subject of police again. One nan demanded, and Breen saw that instinctively he drew away. need not probe into sore spots. But having done so, he went on: "We'll stop off for a day in the town where I proved myself the world's worst cop." "A cop's head's just as big as his feet," Kernan said. "What town's that?" "Timon-sur-Huisne, it's called. Small place, but picturesque.

I'll get some good photographs." It was three days later that Kernan halted his car at the top of a rise and Breen peered down expectantly into the deepening shadows in the valley of the river Huisne. All afternoon they had traversed that range of rocky hills which separates the grapes of Touraine from the apples of Normandy. It is a wild and sparsely peopled land, with roads none too good, even today, and the local folk refer to its rugged hills, affectionately, as "our little Alps." The village of Timon-sur-Huisne lay be- low the height where the car paused and was half-concealed by the shadows of early evening.

He stepped out from the bushes, an old army auto- matic in his hand

"Ain't much to look at," Ker- nan complained.

Breen did not argue it. In his

mind, it was decidedly something to look at. It was the scene of his first sleuthing. How young he had been! He had worked hard, with an earnestness he rarely had possessed since, but in spite of that earnestness and everything else, he had failed on his big case. "I was a sergeant on outpost," he disclosed to Kernan, "alone,

too, which put it right up to me. There were lots of nice people in the place then, I discovered. I'd

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A man sprawled, face down- ward, on the carpet. He was moving slowly forward, with small hitches of his lej

like to see one or two of "W them again." "Looks deader'n tinned salmon to me," Kernan said. "One hundred percent." Shapes in the village cut with mys- terious vagueness through the deep black

shadows, with the river winding through it like a crumpled black velvet ribbon. On the high horizon to the west, a single streak of orange accentuated the blackness of the trees which stood out in feathery silhouette. "Let's go on down," Breen suggested at last. He was conscious of enthusiasm in his voice. All right, why hide it? Why pretend? Hadn't he decided that he was through with pretense? Admit the truth, he was enthusiastic. Timon-sur-Huisne, he explained to Kernan, might look like just another sleepy town, but it was really remarkable for some fine sixteenth century timbered houses and for two ancient stone bridges over the river, which . . . even back in 1017, before he was a camera man by trade . . . had caught his sense of photographability. "If you know what I mean by that," he told Kernan. The castle, concealed in shadows now on the opposite hillside, was the seat of the counts of Ruban. The villagers all worked in the automobile factory of the rich M. Geoffroi Pavie, and the fortunes of the citizens varied according to the market for cars.

"Wait . . . you can see Ruban's castle from here!" Breen exclaimed as the car reached the valley floor.

"Over there, against the hill. See it? It's Norman, if you want to know. A perfect example. In good preservation, too." Kernan grunted. He looked at the view. But what about it? There were all sorts of freaks in the world, he reflected. But he hadn't guessed when he hired himself out in New York to this smooth-acting guy that he'd turn out to be this kind of a crank. He'd seemed like a regular fel- low, and now he talked

Norman architecture . . . "a perfect example!" "The counts of Ruban Brigadier Renard are an old, old line," Breen was saying. "This one ... by George, I wonder if he's still alive! . . . he was a queer fellow. Hipped on the subject of family trees. Always talking about his ancestors. Had only one boy. A good looking kid. Captain in the French air forces. Killed while I was here." "Flying?"

"Oh, no. Been better if he had. It was one of my two murders. Never found who killed him." The light was failing rapidly {Continued on page j8)

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members of the Staff TWO Legion of The American Monthly, Philip Von Blon and Alexander Gardiner, herewith report on the fine achievements of Legion posts arid Departments in the spring flood zone. The material on southern tornadoes has been supplied by A. B. Bernd of Macon, Georgia, and Department Adjutant Robert D. Morrow of Mississippi. This com- bination of disasters proved far and away to be the gravest natural cmer- gencywhich hasfaced the Legion. Any attempt to recite the story of the Le- gion's great effort in full detail

would fill several years' files of this magazine. Instead, the authors of this symposium have treated the his-

toric crisis as if it were a series of Big Moments—which is what it was

The Susquehanna goes Main Street at Sunbury, Pennsylvania. The $50,000 clubhouse of Milton Jarrett Norman Post (with tower, at left) was damaged so badly it must be rebuilt

pour. Word spread that the water was coming up rapidly in the Cone- maugh and Stonycreek Rivers. Steep hills rise on both sides from Johnstown's valley-floor level. On St. Patrick's Day the mountains behind those hills were weighted with the unmelted snow of an un- precedented winter. Johnstown had had its great flood of 1889 in which 2,200 persons died. But, reflected Legionnaires as they shuf- fled tables and chairs, that couldn't happen again. Might be some

flood water in the streets though if it kept on raining. Afternoon brought more than the ordinary flood to which Johns- town is accustomed. When the water rose in Main Street, it kept coming up so fast that the Legionnaires who had carefully arranged chairs and tables turned to hastily to carry those chairs and tables to the large post meeting hall on the floor above. Days later, when the furniture was carried back to the lounge, there was a different decora- tive motif on its walls. When Pennsylvania Legionnaires come to Johnstown for their Department Convention, August 20th to 2 2d, they will see on those walls the high water mark of 1936's flood highest a flood had been in the city since 1889. • "The dam has broken!" This report reached the American Legion

At the Legion relief depot in Columbus, Ohio, where truckloads of food and clothing re- ceived posts State from throughout the were HSilbur ffl. CSuntPan ^aat. 2fo. 4 routed to stricken Ohio River towns. Below, SIjp AntPriratt Efntott a Massachusetts post says thank you HaoprljiU, iHansarfiMBrtta

evening of March 17th was to have been a gala THEevening in the $65,000 clubhouse of Johnstown (Pennsyl- vania) Post. On that evening of St. Patrick's Day the 850 Qlljr (Dffirrra ani) mrmlirrn of lliia $Jnat an writ aa tljr rttiznta of llaorrhill crrnlu feitto aFBiatanrr anb bnna- members intended to gather for the opening of a new apprrrfatr unnr tinna rrrriuro anting thr tniitifl. ottttja nf thr flnnb urrinb. Hrratt !ounge first floor. on the In the large room stood scores of new trnl;( Bag that tl;r mnroa in thr Jtrramblr tn mir (£on8tittiluin."©n tables and chairs of modernistic design—gleaming chromium- ronarrratr anil santlifu ourrnmrabfihin hi| onr bruotion to mntual hrlufnlnrBB" maa thanks. plated metal tubing and red leather upholstery. An oval bar, fully r.vnnnliftrb. ft'ann like an island in the center, reflected in polished mahogany the glow of many lamps. Chairman. Srltrf (Enmmiltrr Tt rained in the morning. Toward noon the pattering of rain- drops on windows had become the steady drumming of a down-

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Helping Hand clubhouse, as it came to all Johnstown, with an accompaniment of screaming fire sirens and the shouts of flood workers. Instantly the dripping city was astir. Car and truck motors roared as drivers took aboard all their vehicles could hold and, with whining gears, careened off for the near- est hillsides. Men, women and children ran up every sloping street, wild-eyed, breathless—all with the vision of death riding a new torrent from the supposedly broken ramparts of the enormous Quemahoning Dam a dozen miles away.

The Legion's building is only three blocks from the foot of Westmont, a suburban height, reached by an inclined plane—a slanting elevator. Toward this inclined plane ran Mrs. Patrick Brady and her two children, Edward McVeigh and others who had remained at the Legion's building after the several-score refugees had been taken to their One Legion rescue boat of a thousand. This is homes when Johnstown was getting back to normal life. boat at Wethersfield, Connecticut. The house, Mrs. Brady and her children got on the elevator, Women and was built before 1700, but home was never children only was the rule. McVeigh and other Legionnaires like this in any earlier flood joined the hundreds of men who dug and clawed their way up the steep sides of the high hill. It took them forty-five minutes to gion's appeal. Donations were made so quickly that many givers reach the top. Almost exhausted by the climb, they found that failed to empty pockets of garments. At the Legion's clothing the rumor had been false. The dam stood the flood test un- center the clothing was searched as it was classified before being impaired. It had demonstrated it could stand any future test. given out. Commander Boyle succeeded in restoring most of the property to owners. After the first days of the emer- gency Johnstown Post, un- der an arrangement with the Red Cross, had sole charge of clothing distribu- tion, while the Red Cross distributed food. • When District Com- mander Curtis Paessler made his way by boat to the home of Post Com- mander Charles Boyle, at the corner of Walnut and Lincoln Streets in one of Johnstown's low areas, he discovered on the porch a grim symbol of disaster. It was a coffin, a flood- scarred roughbox. • Wheeling Post went into action against the flood like an army thrown sud- denly into a major battle. Post Commander M. W. Bodey, a funeral director, To tornado-stricken Tupelo, Mississippi, became generalissimo. appointed Edmund L. Jones, a lawyer rushed scores of Legion emergency units He carrying medicines and bandages, food and and West Virginia Alternate National Executive Committeeman, and Roy Guess, Post Adjutant and head of a milk company, to clothing. Here is a corner of Tupelo Post's regiment of Legion volunteers who responded to central relief depot where hundreds of storm command the victims were helped radio calls. Jones and Guess established their P. C. in Wheeling's police station on March 18th. • This Legion headquarters for more than a week was the heart

Commander Charles J. Boyle of Johnstown Post was in the and brain center of Wheeling's organized flood work. From it jewelry business for several days after the flood. His stock was in came and went messages by telephone, radio, motorcycle rider two boxes, one containing gold watches, the second rings and and boat detail. With rare thoughtfulness, Mr. Jones supervised other valuable ornaments, all found in the clothing which Johns- the keeping of a minute-by-minute typewritten record of all the town citizens donated for flood sufferers in response to the Le- activities conducted from the Legion station. Stenographers

JUNE, 1936 Hot coffee delivered. Truckload of sandwiches ar- rives. Ambulances wanted. Government launches show up. Directions for traffic on federal and state highways. Urgent call for first aid kits. And so on, page after page for nVe exciting days. • Hardest and most dangerous work of Wheeling Legionnaires was on Wheeling Island. The island is in the center of the river between Wheeling aad Bridgeport, Ohio. Two bridges lead to Wheeling's business district, one a suspension bridge dating back to Civil War days, which was the longest sus-

pension bridge in the world at the time it was built. Tragedy followed the completion of a similar bridge on the same site a year before the present one was

built. Improperly braced against the wind, it was blown over and many lives were lost. Engineers of seventy-five years ago did a good job on the present

The Auxiliary in Easton, Pennsyl- vania, as everywhere. No refugee went hungry while Legion kitchens operated night and day

made notes of every telephone report received, every appeal brought in by breathless messengers. Auxil- iary volunteers assembled these on typewritten pages showing the hour and minute of each report and action. In five days the record grew to forty- three typewritten pages— 1200 separate entries. Entry No. 1 was made at 9:10 p.m. on March 19th. It read: "Commander Bodey to Red Cross to send nurses and food 16 South Street. Woman having baby." Five minutes later a notation showed Legion- naires Dan Jones, Otis Prettyman and Martin Elmwood sent to end of Steel Bridge to row. From

One solution of the auto parking problem. A mid-flood look at the clubhouse of Gordon-Bissell Post in Keene, New Hampshire

structure. It came bravely through the recent flood, although the Legion workers who used it as a base for their boat operations were fearful when a string of heavy pontoons swept beneath it and sheared away braces of the understructure. There was a big moment in Legion police head- quarters on the night of March 19th. The minute- by-minute log records it thus: 8:30 P.M. Report fall of Suspension Bridge. Major crowd of all men available sent to scene. 8:32 p.m. Report of fall of bridge false. • The home of the Reverend Byron Benchea, Chap- lain of Wheeling Post, was on the upper tip of Wheel- When Jutras Post at Manchester, New Hamp- ing Island, which narrows to a width of a quarter of a shire, was host to all the homeless of a wide mile. This section was first to receive the pounding of the on- neighborhood coming water. At the extreme tip of the island stood a large wooden tabernacle which for many months before the flood had then on, for five days, a succession of reports at intervals of five been the scene of revival meetings. At the height of the flood, or ten minutes. Donations of automobiles and boats. Blankets when the water was fifteen or twenty feet deep over all the island, available. Legionnaires coming and going. Rescues. Emer- the tabernacle floated from its foundations. Like a battering ram gency calls for extra oars. Lanterns wanted. Rescues of ma- it was borne by the flood against the side of Chaplain Benchea's rooned hotel guests. Broadcast appeals. Details for candles and house. His house and two neighboring houses were battered a oil lights. Insane woman taken to hospital. Bulletins from from their foundations and, with the tabernacle, converted into bridges and other danger points. Drownings. Explosion dan- single great mound of wreckage. gers. Mysterious lights. Houseboat drifting down river. Drunks • disturbing women in refugee shelter. Bread distribution. Miss- Everywhere along Wheeling Island the Legionnaire rescue ing persons. Arrival of Legion trucks from neighboring towns. crews steered their boats, taking householders from windows and 12 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly rooftops. Scores of lives were saved by the timely arrival of the rescuers. Prize story of the work on the island concerned a house overlooking the river chan- nel to which boats proceeded after hearing loud cries for help. Holding their boat against the houseside with difficulty because of the current, the Legion- naires called to those within urging haste. A full minute elapsed before a woman appeared at a win- dow and calmly surveyed the tugging oarsmen. "Would you mind coming back in about an hour?" she asked. "We're not quite ready." There was an equally funny moment one night at the telephone switchboard in Legion police head- quarters. Calls for help had been coming in every few moments. "Probably somebody else who wants a boat," thought Post Adjutant Guess as the phone bell rang at his elbow. "Hello!" said a voice. "Will you please tell me what time it is? My watch has In Lowell, Massachusetts, the Amer- ican Legion relief depot served flooded communities on a long stretch of the Merrimack XT T^K^Svsfe

ing, careening in the flood, they had to shoot at top speed into the main channel of the river, menaced by a tangle of charged wires and debris. At another time, in pitch darkness, with a load of passengers, they almost capsized when they ran at fast speed onto the slanting roof of a derelict garage. They tell of the man who forgot his rubbers and wanted to go back after them, of the woman who insisted on taking a package with her (contents, a fur coat and a grip containing six bathing suits), of

the 7 5 -pound dog carried as a passenger upon his owner's insistence, of the woman who smuggled aboard a bird cage, wrapped in clothing. • Massive Grecian columns adorn the age-stained stone building at 116 South Third Street in Phila- delphia, only a few blocks from Independence Hall. In 1795 it housed the Bank of the United States and later it was the center of the famed banking ac-

Legionnaires were stopped and I can't see it anyway." tivities of Stephen Girard. Now it is the Headquarters of the first on the job in • Pennsylvania Department of The American Legion and of tornado - swept Harrisburg Post, with 950 members, Philadelphia County. Gainesville, Geor- organized its emergency relief unit in Within those walls many exciting moments in 141 years. Five gia. This is a post- February. Its baptismal mobiliza- wars, many financial panics, frenzied years of booms. No more storm view of the tion came only a month later, and a exciting times than during the third week of March when De- City Hall half hour after the first call by phone partment Commander John B. McDade, Department Adjutant and radio 130 Legionnaires <^iarence ror«*. .../-coming ii-om uBasiBr were at post headquarters ready for duty. School. 11:00 PK Santos and 2 Legionnaires to Windsor Hotel to jet One rescue detail alone transported per- 351 crazy woman. sons to safety. Another group took care of 11:05 m Request by Chamber of Commerce for 2 strong men — Mr. thirty babies and their mothers. One Le- Lockyer and Stanley Schlatt sent. gionnaire carried out sixty rescues. The 11:10 FM Broadcast SWVA - Doctor urgently needed at 91—45th Street. Legion first aid station was first started in a 11:10 Ft,'. Robert Patterson-McDonald-delivering mattresses Center School reports Chevrolet coach ?62444 crashed truck, tent. When rising water forced its aban- tearing front fender. donment, members of Edith Cavell Post, all 11:15 FM 450 Gal. soup arrives from Waynesburg, Pa. — to be wartime nurses, opened a field hospital at stored at Cloverdale Dairy. post headquarters. Twenty-eight posts in 11:20 m Arner. Legionnaire on duty 22nd. Just arrested man — other Pennsylvania communities sent truck bringing him to jail. convoys to Harrisburg Post. '1:30 m Our patrol ran away 3 men trying to break in Alvin **>marooned residents from homes at the tip of the island immediately behind Wheeling Tabernacle. They were Edward Linsky and National Executive Committeeman Vincent almost trapped when the Tabernacle was swept from its founda- A. Carroll worked night and day, days on end, bringing to flood- tions and bore down upon them. To escape the collapsing build- stricken communities the organized {Continued on page 54)

JUNE, 1936 13 l //WHOOK! ByJerome Ellison and Frank WBrock

adjusted compensation PX-SAILOR, beware, THEbonds will soon be in the "*—/ soldier, hands of the World War and marine veterans. What will become and nurse too. The racke- of that money after it has been paid teers, the slickers and fake over? One thing is certain—organized stock salesmen'll get you racketeering will make a strong bid ifyou don't watch out. Al- for it. Each veteran, the minute he ready they are planning gets his bonus money, becomes a live target for the most aggressive and in- how to separate three and genious array of swindles that ever one half jnillion people from set out for a share of a two-and-a- half-billion-dollar melon. two and a half billion Just as gulls follow a ship, so racke- dollars of adjusted service teers follow the money. There are This swindle dem- tt > 1 r / > Here s how to elaborate, cross-indexed sucker lists, onstrates how court- fool em some of them carrying 100,000 names, wise crooks are able and there are the "bird-dogs," specialized practitioners whose sole to operate flagrant occupation is tracking down and delivering people with ready rackets with scant danger of ever being caught on criminal cash. Every time an obituary notice appears, the name is clipped charges. According to most laws governing partnerships, it is and survivors entered on the sucker lists—racketeers close on impossible for one partner to steal partnership funds, for these the trail of the possible legacy or insurance check. Every time belong to either or both partners jointly. Therefore, if one part- sweeps or bank night winners are announced, down go their ner decamps with the funds, he is legally not stealing, but merely names. Such lists are evolved from auto license records, stock- taking what is his. The most the other partner can do, if he can holders lists, any compilation of names that might represent catch the absconder at all, cash. And now the racketeering industry has handed to it what is sue him in a civil court is, on the basis of pure statistics, the biggest potential sucker list and get a judgment—and a of all time—a list of 3,500,000 names. judgment against a fly-by- The Federal Trade Commission tells us that the ten-year night crook is about as valu- take of stock rackets alone was twenty-five billion dollars— able as a third mortgage on proof enough that the easy-money profession, if unrestrained, is an acre of ocean bottom. capable of wolfing down the bonus appropriation at a gulp. In the remote event that

The racketeers won't get all of it, of course, but they'll get part the victim can prove a of it. It might be your part. To confuse the 1936 model swin- scheme to defraud, and dles with such old-style transparencies as the gold-brick racket catch the criminal to prose- is to underrate them. Modern racketeering is so smooth you cute him, the crook uses can't hear the wheels click, so plausible that some of our shrewd- the sucker's money to de- est business men fall for them every day. fend himself. In either

This two and a half billion dollars, the most powerful magnet case, the money is gone. ever constructed to attract the confidence boys, will see all the eld And so the partnership rackets trotted out, greased, oiled and thrown into high gear for racket flourishes, usually the rush. New ones will be devised. It is an excellent time for starting with a "business veterans to familiarize themselves with some of the rackets most opportunity" ad such as likely to be used as bonus bait. Most of these schemes are this one, which appeared in "within the law." Once hooked, you have no recourse, for your an Ohio paper: chiseler has either broken no laws, or he has taken precautions ANTED Quick — Partner W , that you won't be able to prove he has. as local manager for theater. You may have been wanting to take advantage of one of the $50 week and half profits; many "business opportunities" which are constantly advertised, $1000 investment; this theater part to buy a partnership in some profitable little business, work hard, — of chain of 30. Address and become independent of depressions and capricious bosses. FB 28. if ne phones you long

Anyone with this desire in his mind is a ripe prospect for the "part- The man who ran this ad distance hot tips at mid- nership racket," which claims thousands of victims every year. is an impressive, white- night, look out

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly wide activity of his business. Post- Cartoons btf marked envelopes and letterheads of well-known business companies were ArtHetfant part of his sales kit. So—if you've got that bonus money earmarked for a "busi- ness opportunity," check up on your new partner. Ask banks, attorneys, Chambers of Commerce, Better Business Bureaus, and references. Get the lowdown. Suppose the new addition to your available funds means you're going to have some extra money to invest. It is in the general field of "investments" that the genius of the easy- money boys shines brightest. When you think of investments, you think first of stocks, and here you encounter three perennial rackets that have flourished since well before the turn of the century—the ordinary bucket shops, which sell you stock they haven't got; the sell-and-switch houses, which sell you a well-known stock, then switch you to a phoney; and the tipster enterprises, which high-pressure you into buying phonies in the first place. Your protection against all these is absurdly simple: Don't be high-pressured. Reputable brokers sometimes suggest, but never insist. The minute your new-found stock salesman begins to phone you long-distance at midnight, pepper you with excited telegrams, and swamp you with market news and "hot tips," he Modern racketeering is so plausible gives himself away as stocketeer, for that some of the shrewdest business a these methods are not used by legiti- men fall for it mate brokers. And when he talks of oil royalties and whiskey warehouse re- haired gentleman who has been operating partnership rackets ceipts (investments in aging whiskey), since 1899. Like others of his stamp, he is no stay-at-home, and be doubly cautious, for these two fields is as likely to turn up in Spokane as in Newark. He has worked have been racketized to death. profitably in Toronto, Columbus, New Orleans, Seattle, Mem- Since the advent of SEC, the going phis, San Antonio, Charleston, New York, Illinois and Iowa, and has been harder in the stock gyp field, has served prison terms at way stations. and many once ingenious stock promo- Another promoter, reported in Baltimore, advertised for a ters have descended to the most ele- partner to invest $2000 for a half interest in a proposed restau- mentary form of crime—theft. But it rant. While the answers were accumulating, he rented a store, is elaborately embellished theft, known bought fixtures on the instalment plan, and had a proof prepared to the trade as "the switch," which is a by a local newspaper of a large advertisement announcing the new development in scientific gyping. opening. These props were sufficient to convince prospective Two cases recorded in Chicago this "partners" that they were investing in a going business. The year will show how it works. Stock- Sadder but wiser promoter sold an even dozen "half interests" and netted, after holders of Central Commonwealth Ser- dickering, nearly §2^,000. When the opening day arrived he vice Corporation, whose stock had greatly declined, were vic- was far away, leaving his victims not only cleaned, but shoulder- timized by a group of swindlers who falsely represented that the ing a sorry tangle of unpaid debts. concern was to be taken over by American Radiator. The vic- Other promoters sell partnerships for cash, and proceed to dis- tims were offered an opportunity to exchange their shares for courage their partners as to the future of the business. After American Radiator stock, but were required to pay the difference two months of lugubrious propaganda, the new partner is pretty in market value of the two stocks, share for share. It sounded down-in-the-mouth about the whole proposition, and is willing good to the suckers—swapping a non-paying white elephant for to withdraw. The promoter buys back his interest with a pro- a live issue with an income. They fell. The swindlers collected missory note which, of course, is worthless. The only redress in cash wherever they could, departed and were heard from no is a civil suit, and this, as we have seen, is no redress at all. This more. The same proposition was made to stockholders of the technique is continuous—get a part- Public Service Holding ner, take his cash, buy him out again Corporation. Falsely His partner took everything, with a worthless note; then get an- claiming to represent the but in the eyes of the law it other partner and repeat indefinitely. General Electric Com- was not a criminal offense A versatile Boston promoter oper- pany, these swindlers ated under 28 aliases in all, and once 1|| stated that they were entered into partnerships with six authorized to exchange careless Bostonians at the same time. General Electric shares A Chicago operator sold a partner- for those of the Holding ship in the Jiff-0 Chemical Corpora- Company on a share-for- tion for $250, continued to advertise share basis. The investor for partners, and clipped another for was allowed to deduct $750 on the same scheme. A Minne- the original price of the apolis citizen paid $250 for an interest Holding Company stock in a "going" real estate business; next from the current price of day the business was "gone." A New GE shares, the swindler England sharper, veteran of hun- collected the balance and dreds of partnership swindles, set him- disappeared. So here self up in the grand manner, with again if you have some swank offices and impressive scenery old stocks in your till that to overwhelm his victims with the haven't paid dividends importance, prosperity and world- (Continued on page 52)

JUNE, 1936 15 A Century TEXASof J3if Marquis James

THIS year Texas cuts a birthday cake with a hundred Texas and resent the large and spacious way Texans had of re- candles on it. Every one is invited to go there and have garding the world in general. A slanderous toast was circulated, a piece of cake and a good time generally. I have been somewhat as follows: asked to write something supposed to give prospective Here's to the grand old Stale of Texas, visitors some notion of what to expect of Texas. Where there arc more rivers, They should expect a good deal. A nd less water, As a boy I used to wonder more about Texas than any other More cows, place on earth. My first conception of the universe consisted of And less milk, the Cherokee Strip bounded by Kansas, Arkansas and Texas— Where you can see farther, the Strip being the part of Oklahoma Territory in which I had And see less, been brought up. Than any place else in the Union. This idea of geography was gathered from conversations over- You can stand on the T. P. Depot in Fort Worth heard in the "boys' house" on our farm, where the hired men And see the International Bridge at El Paso: slept, and at Frank Hodgden's grocery on E Street in Enid, the There is nothing to obstruct the view. county seat. By rapt attention to these instructive discourses Even in these critical lines the reader will detect a note of I learned to tell the difference between a Kansan, an Arkansaw- grandeur, a concession of majesty. This seems unavoidable. yer and a Texan. Gradually I formed my own opinion of the In any situation, however unpleasant, there always exists a nature and shape of things and the manner of fife in the remote happy alternative without stepping outside the boundaries of lands from whence they had come. Texas. For instance, a man may stand in snow a foot deep on Kansas was pictured as the home of droughts and grass- the plains of the Panhandle and warm himself with the reflection hoppers, Arkansas as a place of razor-back hogs, hills and poor that at Point Isabel the oleanders are in bloom and fishermen crops. I heard that a native of Arkansas could be distinguished casting their lines into the subtropical waters of the Gulf. Point by the fact that one leg was invariably longer than the other Isabel and the Panhandle corner northwest of Amarillo are one from plowing hillsides. thousand miles apart by road, which is the distance one travels My own boyish inability to verify this definition was attrib- to get from Toronto, Canada, to Savannah, Georgia. uted, of course, to a deficiency in my powers of observation rather So upon closer acquaintance I have reached the conclusion than to any flaw in the definition. This did not trouble me very that my early impressions of Texas were not so far off as a fellow much, because my thoughts were so busy with the riddle pre- might think. sented by Texas and the Texans. What other State imparts such a feeling of empire? For surely they were a race apart and their country different Texas is a good deal larger than France. It has seacoast where from any other. Texans came to us with no complaints against summer is twelve months long, and snow-capped mountains or apologies for the land of their nativity. Settlers from Kansas and Arkansas moved into the Strip to homestead claims and thus better their lots. Neighboring Texans emigrated for the same purpose, but EMEMBER THE ALAMO!" is again with this difference: They came to better our lots. This was re- R a rallying cry, this time a sentimental flected in their bearing, words and manner—the air and the flair with which they confronted every situation and every problem slogan reminding all America that the that might arise. largest State in the Union won its inde- It was counted an important day in Enid when Temple Houston drove across the Salt Plains from Woodward to argue a pendence from Mexico just a hundred years case in the little court house that stood in the center of the dusty ago. They're celebrating the anniversary square. with a great exposition in Dallas that will I can see Houston yet, the center of an admiring circle, with his broad hat, his long hair and his trousers tucked into run through the summer and fall high-heeled boots. I remember the first time Temple Houston visited our home. I remember the Chesterfieldian courtesy of his greeting to my mother. I remember, too, his thoughtful notice of me, and that he spoke in a low, pleasant voice and nine thousand feet high. On the prairies the blue bonnets and seemed interested in everything I had to say. At this some of my Indian blanket form natural flower gardens that may be meas- awe, though none of my admiration, left me. This man I knew ured by the mile. Each year people cross the country to see to be a son of a legendary creature named Sam Houston, the them. Texas has desert and it has rice country where the rain- greatest of all Texans and therefore the greatest man who had fall averages an inch a week for the year. It has St. Helena ever lived. Canyon where the Rio Grande passes through a gorge a third of a Yet there were people who would make out to run down mile deep. It has the Staked Plains, (Continued on page 46)

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Glad to See

You Again ! By /CLEVELAND, the Legions host ^ in 1920, will welcome David S.Inqalls you back in September to help celebrate the glory its remade greatnesSj to see President, The American Legion if}6 Convention Corporation of the of Cleveland exposition of its hundred years of progress—and just because you're you WRITING in Collier's on June 13, 1914, just sixteen days before a mad young Serbian student fired the shot that sent American youths to the firing line three years later, Julian Street, in one of his travel courtesy, is always ready, smilingly, to confirm this further series, "Abroad At Home," offered a whimsical comment on the observation of Mr. Street: hospitality he found at Cleveland. "She can raise more bushels of statistics to the acre than other So eager were members of the Chamber of Commerce that he cities can quarts. And the more Cleveland statistics you hear, see everything, he wrote, they nearly wore him out rushing from the more you become amazed that you cannot live there. It place to place, and then, to be sure he would be on hand the next seems reckless not to do so." day, they locked him in his hotel room and put a guard on. He But this is not meant to be a statistical story. Some figures added: "If boosting is a western industry, Cleveland is not in will be rationed out, of course, to form a background, but in the Ohio, nor even a Pacific slope city, but an island in the Pacific." main an attempt will be made to set forth a simple, unvarnished description of what Legion visitors may expect to see, in the hope that they may look forward to the enjoyment of enough entertainment and remi- niscence as to make the trip to the busy community on the south shores of Lake Erie This well worth is one of while. Cleveland's momentous years, more significant, per-

haps, than 1896, when it celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding by Gen. Moses Cleave- land (correct) and a company of other surveyors from Connecticut. This year marks the centenary of Cleveland's in-

corporation as a city, and there is aris- ing on the lake front, as you read this, a glittering, modernistic series of exposi- tion buildings to house the exhibits that mark the tremendous progress made by the eight States bordering on the Great Lakes since the day, early in March, ico Of course Mr. Street was exaggerating when he was putting years ago, when a little group of earnest gentlemen laid aside Cleveland in a ballyhoo class by itself but the fact remains that their signed articles of incorporation, leaned back in their chairs, when members of The American Legion gather in Ohio's metrop- and tried to visualize a time when their thriving town would olis in September for their eighteenth annual convention they become one of the queen cities of the West. will be assured of as hearty a welcome as has ever been accorded Throughout the summer and fall Cleveland will act as host to a them in any city in which they have met, not even excluding ceaseless tide of visitors. Already this year it has entertained the grand greeting they received in Paris in 1927—and that, by scores of conventions. In June comes that imposing quadrennial all reports from those Legionnaires who went, was a tremen- drama, the Republican National Convention. Later in the month dously gala affair. the Great Lakes Exposition, with its acres of magnificent build- Those Legionnaires who attended the 1920 convention in ings, its informative displays and colorful gardens, and its ex- Cleveland will find, if they visit it again in September, a city tensive Midway, throws open its gates, to run until October 4th. greatly improved in many of its physical aspects, and one whose In September, The American Legion stages its spectacular party, hospitality will be even warmer than sixteen years ago— if such with its hundreds of bands, its pageantry, its reunions, its parade, a thing is, indeed, possible. For Cleveland, with its traditions of and its general air of good fellowship. Already there is noticeable

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It is a new Cleveland now, towers and halls and Its diverse group of nationals are preparing to lay great open squares proclaiming the changes since out communities similar to those in their native you saw it in 1920. Above, an air view from the lands a Street of Paris, a Street of Italy, a Street of lake front showing (in circles) the locations of — Belgium and each so closely approximating the the Public Auditorium, where the convention ses- — original abroad that those Legion men and women who sions will be held, and the Terminal Building were overseas will well able to imagine themselves back overlooking the Public Square be in the days when they wangled a pass out of the top sergeant and set forth in their a stepping up in tem- 0. D. best to give the town the once over, po of that peculiar put a bottle of wine or a mug of beer under electric tension which their belts and no doubt exchanged badinage marks the advent of with the smiling young women they en- something unusual, a countered in the church square. tension which will So rapidly does the ingenuity of the reach its climax when American advance that features will be trains, automobiles, found in these transplanted villages which ships and airplanes were not even dreamed of in that classic of disgorge their thou- all recent expositions, the Century of Pro- sands of Legionnaires, gress in Chicago only two short years ago. all set for a glorious Obviously, such huge developments that get-together. have taken place along the shores of the Its feverish but Great Lakes, and especially Cleveland, were orderly activities not even remotely foreseen by General mark Cleveland's Cleaveland and his party of fifty men as he challenge to the was rowed quietly into the mouth of the croakers who can see Cuyahoga River, which cuts the city in two, nothing but more hard and made his way to a landing at a point times and gloom where the high bluffs sloped precipitously to ahead. For its expo- the beach. All he and his companions saw sition it has borrowed on that warm July 22, 1796, was dense from the arts and sci- forest stretching interminably eastward and ences in great measure westward along the shoreline, and perhaps to lay at the feet of a few roving Indians whom he doubtless its guests the very watched warily to ascertain whether or not best the world can offer in progress and entertainment. To men- they had obeyed the dictates of their powerful New York chiefs, tion just one, there is to be another Radio City in Cleveland's Red Jacket and Brant, who at Buffalo a month previous had sold vast Public Auditorium, where stars of stage and screen will come their claims to territory east of the Cuyahoga for 500 pounds to broadcast special programs before the eyes of all who care to (New York currency in trade), two beef cattle and 100 gallons of step inside to see and listen. whisky. (Continued on page 34)

JUNE, 1936 19 STRONG BAIT A Tale of the Pickled Fish By WALLGREN

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly 20 * EDIT O R I A L * The Ghost of the Old Bugle

ITS issue for October 15, 1920, The American pivot marks in the advance of the years which there INLegion Weekly worked itself into a good fluffy was no need to worry about, because from the point lather concerning "the greatest demonstration of view of 1920 they all looked alike anyway. Any The American Legion has staged, the most im- one of them designated an old man, so why worry posing manifestation it has made of the character, over hair-line distinctions? strength and solidity of its ranks." The commenta- Those tens of thousands of Legionnaires who tor undoubtedly meant solidarity—the solidity has journey to Cleveland this coming September for come since. But whatever he meant, he was referring the Eighteenth (dear, dear!) National Convention to "the impressive defile of 20,000 Legionnaires" will view this age business from a new, a somewhat through the streets of Cleveland on September 28, more acute angle. Sixty-five is now no longer in the 1920—the "great spectacular feature" of the Legion's dim distance, and from there to seventy-five is, Second National Convention. happily, a long stretch. If the Legion visits Cleveland It was not, viewed in perspective, just another yet again after a comparable interval— in 1952, that Legion parade. There were elements in it now for- is — there will be a considerable number of snowfaces ever impossible of duplication. For example, ninety- of sixty-five and worse in its own marching ranks. five percent of the marchers wore "the old uniforms There will be a number of them in its own marching of service." Just try that on your 1936 solidity. ranks in 1936. They will be just about as common, And there were forty bands— think of it! One of probably, as Legionnaires under forty. them, all unintentionally, precipitated a rather nerv- ous moment when it burst into something from ALREADY the average Legion age— forty-three "Tannhaeuser" right under former Ambassador or so—must be well in advance of the average Myron T. Herrick's nose. But Mr. Herrick, being a in any social, civic, or fraternal order with which true diplomat, merely chuckled, and the crisis logical comparisons can be made. True, the Elks, the passed. Masons, the Knights of Columbus, Rotary and Ki- Thirty-one wearers of the Congressional Medal of wanis undoubtedly could show a heavier proportion Honor, won for valor above and beyond the call of of graybeards if this were a beard-growing era, but duty during the World War, headed the parade. let it not be forgotten that on the other side of the Their presence, plus the general excitement, proved average-age divide in those organizations is a large too much for Leroy Williams, one of the three group of men who were wearing knickers or even hundred thousand Clevelanders who lined the side- rompers in 191 8. There is no fountain of youth walks. Mr. Williams, a sixty-five-year-old veteran wherein the Legion may dip and bring up buckets of of the War Between the States, had himself won the bright young eligibles who can remember as if it Congressional Medal of Honor at Cold Harbor. were yesterday the thrill of casting their first votes. Suddenly he burst through the lines and joined step Here is one factor which has not yet risen to annoy with a marching delegation. "Why, I just couldn't The American Legion Auxiliary or The Sons of The stay out," he reported later to the Weekly's cor- American Legion, both of which can confidently look respondent. "Somehow it seemed to me as if all my forward to swelling their rosters with members who old comrades who have gone before were marching are yet unborn. there, and the ghost of the old bugle sounded in nu- Well, the wear and tear of the years is inevitable,

ll .-art." and the only thing to do is to accept it in that spirit. And something more. Now is the time for all good ITT IS now rather late in the day to correct an error Legionnaires to take thought for the morrow— to made sixteen years ago, but Mr. Williams ob- consider ways and means, while the Legion is yet in viously was somewhat past sixty-five when he the full glow of maturity, for establishing and main- marched with the Legion at Cleveland. To have taining the security of its old age. been then only sixty-five, he must have been born in Go to Cleveland this September and see how the 1855, an d, as the nine-year-old hero of Cold Harbor, Legion wo^ks. Go for the good time you will be certainly would have merited not one but two bound to have. National conventions are actually Medals of Honor. In 1920 he was, one may safely getting more enjoyable as the years pass. If some of assume, well on the further slope of seventy, and the hurrah-for-our-side spirit has been tamed, a today, if he is still one of the thin line of the com- mellowness has taken its place that is even more rades of '6i-'65 who linger on this side of the Great pleasant and easy to take. Go to hear the ghosts of Divide, he is close to four-score and ten. old bugles blowing, to revive the memory of great But from the point of view cf the average Legion- days, to meet old friends again. Go, and give a naire who attended that "greatest demonstration" thought to the glory of the past, the joy of the pres- at Cleveland, sixty-five was practically the same ent, the necessity of making sound and adequate thing as seventy-five or even ninety. All three were provision for the future.

JUNE, 1936 21 KINGS

The Junior Governor, Arthur Jenkins, and SEVENTY honor students of Central Arizona high schools, his Junior Cabinet in the Arizona good-citi- who once shared the average American citizen's view that zenship experiment at Phoenix in which high practical politics is a pretty messy field of human activity, school students filled state offices and acted as made in March under the auspices of the Arizona De- legislators. Also, Legionnaires W. B. Town- partment of The American Legion a Gulliver's Travels pilgrim- send (left) and J. K. Wyllys. On opposite page, age to Phoenix, capital city of their State. District Commander W. H. Miller address- After meeting at the capitol the Governor and members of the ing a Joint Session of the Junior Legislature House and Senate, they found themselves kings for a day. Student Arthur Jenkins found himself Governor. His fellow students had elected him in a spirited campaign. The fulltime _ Governor, B. B. Moeur, gave him his own big chair in the ex- ability in line with enlightened policy to help bewildered p esent- ecutive offices. The others found themselves Senators and day youth get sound political bearings in a world torn by propa- Representatives, engaged in deliberations in the respective ganda and confusion. chambers at the capitol. They not only confronted but worked As evidence of Legion soundness in undertaking to reinforce out solutions to a batch of legislative proposals calculated to give democracy by practical education of youth in public problems, nightmares to grownups who regularly occupy the Senate and the Arizona experiment ranks with two other Legion innovations. House seats. No attempt was made to sidestep controversial Following the lead of the Department of Illinois, the Legion in a questions. The boy and girl legislators tackled problems of large number of States this summer will sponsor Boys' States, in citizenship, education and finance which would give political which boys from scattered communities will assemble at camps shellshock to a Congressman seeking re-election. and carry out the duties of public office. The Kansas Department It was all part of a program worked out by Dr. W. B. Townsend, originated an American Legion Schoolmasters' Club, composed of Director of the Educational Activities of the Arizona Department, Legionnaire educators, teachers and others interested in youth. in conjunction with Dean J. R. Murdock of the Social Science Arizona, California and many other States now have these clubs. Department of the Arizona State Teachers College, and in keep- Such Legion activities, Dr. Townsend believes, tend to preserve ing with a resolution adopted by the St. Louis convention of public confidence in a period of uncertainty caused by recurrent The American Legion. As a test tube experiment in political controversies involving academic freedom, teachers' oath bills affairs it worked marvelously, reports Dr. Townsend, himself and propaganda by extremist groups opposed to our form of an educator. It was moreover, he adds, proof of the Legion's government. Unfortunate byproducts of popular misunder-

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standing of the problems which the country faces are a tendency Legislature," in which high school to distrust teachers as a group and a tendency by teachers to students should legislate on con- react unwholesomely to ill-inspired attacks made upon them. temporary problems of state gov- abour wearinq a _ S There is in many places the teacher's natural resentment of un- ernment, so that the school men Uv\i form- deserved stigmas. Even more harmful is the effect of paralyzing might know the sort of program er- fdaf-I classroom effort, when super-cautious teachers fear to permit their -uM? the Legion had in mind. pupils to discuss phases of political and social problems freely lest "To make sure that controver- any inadvertent thought uttered be misinterpreted, distorted or sial questions would not be side- placed out of perspective. stepped but discussed," writes Dr. "The Legion," writes Dr. Townsend, "wants the schools to Townsend, "a list of problems develop citizens who will help maintain and improve a demo- was sent to each high school and cratic form of government—not a static form but one suited to teachers were urged to use it as the the needs of the times. basis of the work to be done. The "At first it was thought that the only thing necessary was to list included such problems as keep students from discussing other forms of government. This these: was based on poor psychology. When a person is forbidden to "Shall the State Superintendent discuss a topic, he does it just to show that he can. Repression be elected or appointed? fails to concede that a topic may be discussed for the purpose of "Shall a school for the mentally- gaining information, without a person taking one side or the handicapped be established? other. "Shall large fortunes, excess "The St. Louis convention resolution expressed a different profits and intangibles be more point of view. It placed responsibility for constructive action on heavily taxed? the school people themselves. Behind it is the feeling that our "Is a saies tax a fair plan? Government can stand comparison with any other. The final "Shall Arizona have a one-house legislatuie? clause of the St. Louis resolution said: 'Resolved, that the schools "Should teachers have a pension system? and colleges be encouraged to improve both their curricula and "Should old age pensions be increased? methods of teaching, to the end that such studies be made more "Should unemployment insurance be carried?" effective in developing better citizens.' The Legion, in submitting these topics, asked only one thing "The Legion Schoolmasters' Club of Arizona felt strongly of the teachers—that they themselves not take sides on any issue that teachers should be encouraged to discuss controversial and that they give all available information on each topic to the issues such as current forms of government (constitutional students. Teachers were told their local posts of the Legion democracy, limited democracy, dictatorship, communism, etc.), would stand back of them as they tried to make their teaching municipal ownership of public utilities, a one-chamber legislature, functional. state and federal support of schools, and local and state election In each school most-interested students studied the problems, systems. They felt that the best place for our future citizens to prepared their own political platforms and appealed to fellow get unbiased information was in the public schools; that it would students as candidates for their support. In Florence a hot be much better for them to find out about communism in the campaign was waged and the whole community got interested. school room than in a radical 'Youth Camp'." After the school elections, the successful candidates were allowed Arizona school teachers looked with suspicion upon this pro- to choose the legislative committees upon which they would gram at first. Some feared they would lose their jobs if con- serve, and they prepared bills to meet the wishes of their "con- troversial issues were discussed in their classes. Others surmised stituents." the Legion was trying to use them to promote a fascist form of Many educators and distinguished visitors were present when government. It was suggested that the Legion sponsor a "Junior the Junior Legislature assembled for the opening session in the col- lege auditorium at Tempe. After bills were introduced they were referred to one of four committees. A later session was held in the Sen- ate and House chambers at the capitol. After a busy day in which joint sessions and conference committees were found necessary eight bills were passed and signed by youthful Governor Jen- kins. These called for: A school for mentally-handi- capped children; consolida- tion of all school districts in each county into one dis- trict; one board for all col- leges in the State; sixty days' notice to teachers at end of school year concern- ing re-employment; increase of old age pensions; in- creased unemployment in- surance; free text books for high schools, and an increase in the state levy for schools. The Governor vetoed one bill—a sales tax measure on the ground that a sales tax does not tax wealth

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An echo of the Gay Nineties in the 193 5 horse show of Peabody Post at South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Below, Fred and Jean and Billie Rauscher on the sidelines. Jean wishes she had a Sons of The American Legion cap too

where it is but shifts the burden to the group known as the middle class, which is already loaded with tax burdens. "The primary result of the Junior Legislature experiment," concludes Dr. Townsend, "was the interest in public affairs com- municated to students generally. Some of those boys and girls pick of their schools today—some day will be sitting as duly elected members in those same seats which they held in play for a brief period during their plastic years."

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Brandy WHEN the fourth annual dinner of The Society of the Last Man of Forty Veterans was held in Philadelphia on April 6th, the suspicion got around that President Harry Tully was trying to kill off a lot of bon vivants quickly. So good was the chow, at $2.50 per issue. All members—forty originally, thirty- eight now—were selected from Voiture Locale No. 1 of the Forty and Eight, each chosen for convivial accomplishments. This on the word of one of them, Abian A. Wallgren, your cartoonist, no mean convivialist himself. despite his protest that he didn't trust nobody, let alone for Wally writes that $1,000 will await the last man. With it a three years. He promised he would balance the society's budget. bottle of Napoleon Brandy, now put away in a safe deposit box. Toasts are drunk before each course of the dinner, and the Tally Ho! business session is short. Voyageur Wallgren was elected trustee IT IS a versatile Legion, all right, holding county fairs, home ex- positions, rodeos and auto races, operating flower gardens and us le?|--VAJcrt-san we motion picture theaters, running contests to promote the raising opew +te boiHe, and of better calves and better potatoes. And lest we forget about it, spliV- ttve here comes H. A. Daley of Augustus Peabody Gardner Post of South Hamilton, Massachusetts, after several years' silence, to remind us of his post's annual horse show. The post's 1936 horse show will arrive in July on schedule just as it has arrived in eleven preceding Julys. It has become a great social event for a fashionable section of Massachusetts, and the post has been

building up with the proceeds a fund which it hopes will maintain it years hence when its members have passed the hard-riding age.

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Open once more under American Legion auspices, the celebrated Busch Gardens in Pasadena, Cali- fornia, with miles of walks bor- dered by rare plants and trees

"Legionnaire Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., the head of our show, is also the president of the Eastern Racing Association and one of the foremost figures in Suffolk Downs, Massachu- setts' new $2,500,000 pari-mutuel racing track," writes Mr. Daley. "He is nationally known as a gentleman jockey and is a Past Commander of the post. "Mrs. Florence Dibble of Oldtown Hill Farm in Newbury provided a colorful note for the 1935 horse show when she drove over the road to our show in her four-in-hand coach a sort of revival of the Gay Nineties. A foot- man, dressed in the traditional red costume, sounded his long horn as the equipage rolled through towns. With a picture of this coach I am sending another one taken on the side- lines during the show—Fred and Jean and Billie Rauscher, as they watched the coach and their father, Frederick S. Rauscher, in his official role of show announcer. Note the caps of Fred and Billie. The Sons' squadron sold the show programs." Pasadena Wonderland SOME time ago we checked up to see how often the sovereign State of California busted into this department with stories and photographs. The State of the Golden Gate has had a batting average about twice as high as any other commonwealth. Not our fault, though, for what can we do to keep the balance right when California posts insist on doing so many things and doing them pre-eminently. What can we do lished by Mrs. Busch, was restored this year in her memory. when Adjutant Albert Engvall of Pasadena Post sends along another flock of pictures of the Busch Gardens with the good Flivver, Stay 'Way From My Door news that these celebrated gardens, closed since the death of Mrs. Lilly Busch, are once more open to the public under American MONKEYS, ducks, guinea hens, pigs have all been circulated Legion auspices. as unwelcome guests by posts to boost their membership Some years ago we published an extended article describing the quickly, but Loveland (Colorado) Post had the happy idea of dump- gardens. Since then almost every out-of-town and out-of-State ing in front of the home of a man who had not paid up, a decrepit

Legionnaire visiting Pasadena has made it a point to see them. motor car bearing the legend'T Can't Move Until Your 1936 Dues

Like the Magnolia Gardens of Charleston, South Carolina, and Are Paid." There it stayed until themanpaid up, whereupon a post the DuPont Gardens near Wilmington, Delaware, in which detail coerced the auto wreck to another unpaid member's home, William W. Fahey and so on. The wreck was pointed to as an example of what a few Post of Kennett trips over the highway leading into Estes Park would do to a car. Square, Pennsyl- The post raised its membership to the highest mark in its history, vania, holds a got the highway improved and won from National Headquarters pageant each sum- first prize for the most novel and successful post membersh'p plan. mer, the Pasadena gardens belong to Roll Call all America. They contain rare varie- LESTER STEVENS is a member of Edwin A. Peterson ties of trees and W.Post of Rockport, Massachusetts . . . Madame Ernestine plants from distant Schumann-Heink is an Auxiliare of Stevens Point, Wisconsin . . . parts of the world, Karl Detzer is a member of Bowen Holliday Post of Traverse which can be seen City, Michigan, and J. W. Schlaikjer of Winner (South Dakota) in no other place in Post . . . Marquis James belongs to S. Rankin Drew Post of New the United States. York City, Albert Curtis to Louis Halphen Post of Legion, Texas, The estate is di- David S. Ingalls to Army and Navy Post of Cleveland, Ohio, vided into sunken Alexander Gardiner to George Alfred Smith Post of Fairfield, parks of fifteen Connecticut, Philip Von Blon to Wyandot Post of Upper Sandu- acres, each with many miles of walk-bordering plants and trees. sky, Ohio, A. B. Bernd to Joseph N. Neel Post of Macon, Georgia

Throngs attended the formal reopening of the gardens on . . . Robert D. Morrow is Adjutant of the Mississippi Legion

September 28, 1935, and on last Armistice Sunday 10,000 persons Department . . . Herbert Morton Stoops is a member of Jefferson attended an outdoor church service sponsored by Pasadena Post. Feigl Post of New York City, Art Helfant of Advertising Men's The Easter party for the children of Pasadena, a custom estab- Post of New York City. Philip Von Blon

JUNE, 1936 25 AILOR

"THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING!" Several months ago that cry resounded throughout the far-flung British Empire, when the wartime ruler of one of our Allies in the World War, His Majesty George V, passed away. Notwithstanding the general repudiation of monarchies in Eu- rope as a result of the war, the British throne stands fast, and as a symbol of its empire has gained influence. America's sympathy flowed across the seas to the parent country. But the passing of the King was more keenly felt by those soldiers and sailors and marines and nurses who served overseas during the war. To many of them, he was more than a mythical figure on a foreign throne—he was a man they had seen and had learned to know. This was true, particularly, of our veterans who served with the British, had seen King George when he visited American hospitals and ships, and those who, passing through England on their way to the A. E. F., had re- ceived individually a greeting card from the King. These incidents were recalled in many letters from Legion- naires following the King's death. Representative of most of these communications is the story which came from Carroll L. Wilson of Shaw Post of the Legion of Weldon-Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Wilson, editor-publisher of The Roanoke Rapids Herald, sent us the picture shown alongside, and here is his story:

ABUNCH of us had met over at K. Lewis's home for a taste of clam chowder like we used to get at Newport and Boston during the war. We were on our way to an oyster roast at the Legion Hut and just stopped by when we found that K had the clams and his wife knew how to serve them up just right. We Southerners have never forgotten some of those Yankee dishes, and Down-East clam chowder is still a favorite. The main topic of gab around the table was about King George who had died that same day. Being the wartime King of En- gland we felt we knew him a lot better than other European long while and took it over to K, asked him the how and the why rulers. One of our gang was not so hot for kings of any kind and of the occasion. we had a nice little set-to over that. "Yeah," said K, "I was thinking about that picture when Getting through first, Alf walked over to the living-room table George here was arguing about kings not being so hot. Let that and began looking through K's pictures. He stared at one a chowder settle before we go to the Hut and I'll tell you about it. "I was on Admiral Hugh Rodman's ship, the New York, and we had just convoyed a bunch of our troops over. On my ship was a runty little Chief Bosun's Mate known all through the Navy as 'Shorty' Schirm. How long he'd been in the Navy I don't know, but he'd grown wrinkled in the service. "Everybody on board kidded the life out of Shorty be- cause he claimed to be a personal friend of King George. They'd get his goat by yelling, 'How's your old palsy- walsy, Georgie?' and such, but Shorty stuck to his story and said the King was a regular fellow. "One day we got orders to get set. King George was paying a visit to our ship. "We gave Shorty plenty of Hell that day. I kinda felt sorry for the little old guy after a while and quit kiddin' him, but there were plenty on board who had heard him chant about himself and the King and they wouldn't lay off. Now would come the showdown. "Shorty got At the U. S. Naval Training kinda worried Station, San Diego, sailors as the day wore and soldiers join in a memo- on. He didn't rial service for President have the usual Theodore Roosevelt in 1919 snappy COme- TV AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Sailor

Rodman hastily returned to his side. " 'Admiral, who is that man?' asked the King. "The Admiral told him. " 'Have him step forward, please,' said King George. " 'Hello, Shorty,' said the King as he grasped the little fellow's hand. 'Have not seen you since we were together off the Philippines back when I was just the Prince of Wales and was a guest on your boat.' "For several minutes, this great King talked to the most thankful lit- tle man in the whole fleet while the rest of us wanted to throw our hats in the air and yell—we felt so good. "And just about that time, one of the boys up above snapped the pic-

ture and there it is, boys, showing the King and Shorty talking—the rest of us trying to take it in, and that's me right there.

' You ask me. Well, I'm telling you all. King George was a regular fellow and I know one ship crew that will never forget him. I don't know

where Shorty is now but I know he's The Sailor King, George V, pauses to greet the late feeling mighty bad about the King Chief Boatswain's Mate Frederick J. Schirm on dying and to tell the truth, I don't feel so good about it. He the sovereign's visit to the U. S. S. New York in — was a 1918. The King and the gob were old-time friends. great guy. "Let's have a drink before we go down to the oyster roast." Admiral Hugo Rodman smiles his approval

WELL, we did a little inquiring after getting Legion- backs. You could see he was worried as if he knew years had naire Wilson's story and we must regretfully report to passed since, as he claimed, he had buddied around with the Shorty's friends in North Carolina and the thousands of gobs

King, and there wasn't a chance in a million the King would and marines who knew Frederick J. Schirm, Chief Bosun's recognize him. Of course, he couldn't step out and accost a Mate, during his thirty years of service in the Navy, that Shorty king. Yeah, Shorty was in one hel- wasn't here to grieve the death of his friend, the King. Because luva fix and was due to be razzed out Shorty went West in October, 1927, at his home in Elmhurst, of the Navy. Long Island, New York. "I think every eye on the boat was We learned, too, that Shorty had been retired before we got on Shorty as the King and Admiral into the World War after twenty-seven years of honorable Rodman came down the deck. I was service in the Navy, but he re-shipped as soon as his services where I could see him good and were again required. With such a record, it seems quite natural Shorty's face was red awhile with that he and King George V, known as the Sailor King, should the sweat dripping off, and then he have been friends. would go white like a ghost. When George Frederick Ernest Albert, second son of King "You could almost hear that sigh Edward VII, was but twelve years old he and his elder brother of a thousand gobs as King George became naval cadets in 1877. Prince George remained in the strolled past Shorty, giving him the naval service, advancing through the grades of midshipman, same smile he gave all the rest of us. sub-lieutenant, lieutenant, commander, captain and rear-ad- "Somebody snickered. The Ad- miral, until in 1903 he became a vice-admiral. During that miral and other tops glared. The period he went on many long cruises and served on the North King stopped and looked back. His American and West Indian station of the Royal Navy. Follow- eyes flicked over the line—stopped ing the death of his elder brother, he was created Duke of York on Shorty. The King turned, came in 1892 and the following year married Princess Mary Adelaide, back, stood before Shorty. Admiral who on his accession to the throne in 1910, became Queen Mary.

JUNE. 1936 27 Two Belgian refugees, two American officers and a French non-com demonstrate inter- Allied amity in front of this huge coal pile at Base Section No. 1, S. O. S., A. E. F.

It was immediately after his father's accession to the throne in February 10, iqiq, which is shown in the enclosed picture. After iqoi as Edward VII that George, then Duke of York, with his a parade through San Diego, the soldiers and sailors marched up princess made a tour of the British colonies, landing in Mel- each side of the plaza toward the stand which housed the giant bourne Australia, in May, iqoi. It was no doubt on this cruise organ that was used in the services. that Shorty Schirm met the future King of England in the South "As a seaman of Company F, I served about nine months in Pacific. It was not until November, iqoi, that George was training at the camp in Balboa Park. Evidently I wasn't such created Prince of Wales—so that probably is the only slight a good sailor, as I remember much special duty because of un- discrepancy in the story that K. Lewis told the assembled Legion- clean uniforms, talking in formations and being out of step at naires in Roanoke Rapids last January, when drill. One experience I'll never forget: the King died. While on the rifle range we fell out for rest and got the command to stack arms, some- EARLY in iqiq, more than four million thing all soldiers and sailors know. I was Americans were still under arms, scattered the last man to add my rifle to the stack and throughout the world. But wherever those instead of completing the stack, I knocked troops were—in the A. E. F., in home camps, the whole thing over. That spelled extra on ships at sea, in North Russia, Italy, in our guard duty. possessions, Siberia, England—special formations "I am sure all the gobs who served there and ceremonies were held during the weeks fol- will remember Balboa Park—the plaza lowing January sixth to honor the memory of a where dances were held, the Y. M. C. A., great American. "Teddy" Roosevelt—former the picture show, the boxing matches—and, President, former Colonel of the Rough Riders of course, the drills. If any of the men who of San Juan Hill fame in the Spanish-American served there will write to me, I'd be mighty War, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, happy to hear from them." and outstanding advocate of preparedness even before we entered the war—died on that date. ON OUR travels in these columns through Denied the privilege of participating in the the A. E. F., we are always glad when war himself—his offer to raise two volunteer we get an opportunity to take a look at the divisions was refused—he gave his energies to areas that some of the Then and Now Gang such war activities as a civilian could. All four may not know so much about. Hence this of his sons were overseas, two of them were tour will take us into the S. O. S.—that wounded, and the youngest, Quentin, a lieuten- huge organization, the Service of Supply, ant in the Air Service, was killed in combat without which the combat troops would over the enemy lines near Chambry, France, on July 14, 1918. have been impotent. You bet the S. O. S. helped win the war! The picture on page 26 shows the Roosevelt memorial services Take a look at the picture on this page which its contributor, held at the United States Naval Training Station in Balboa Park, an ex-Engineer captain, captioned, "The Allies in the S. O. S.," San Diego, California, and was loaned to us by Claude D. Litton and added that it is a first-class view of the conglomeration of an of Kinne Slauen Post of Stearns, Kentucky. Ex-gob Litton also S. O. S. detachment. It was taken toward the windup of the

sent this report: A. E. F. at Base Section No. 1, located in the Vendee Department "I am sure that all ex-soldiers and ex-sailors who participated of France on the Bay of Biscay, which was Premier Clemen- will remember the memorial for ex-President Theodore Roosevelt ceau's home country. Lined up in front of the coal pile are two at the Naval Training Station in Balboa Park, San Diego, on Belgians, Messrs. Sampers and "Pete," (Continued on page 48)

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my opinion of Ameri- WHAT'Scan Legion Junior Baseball? Well, it's my belief that no finer contribution could be made by an organization such as The American Legion than to see that whole- some habits of recreation and living play a prominent part in the growing years of American youth. Real citizenship and the right kind of teamwork which holds this nation together can best be taught on the diamonds of American sandlots. I have been told that since 1926, when the Legion first started upon a nation-wide baseball program for boys up to seventeen years old, the scope of the program has in- creased from some 60,000 boys participat- ing a decade ago to more than 500,000 in the summer of 1935. Each one of these 500,000 playing Junior Baseball is a potential big leaguer, at least in his own mind. "There's one thing which matters about playing baseball, whether on a vil- lage gieen or on the manicured sod of Navin Field, the home of the Tigers play your head off and play heads-up baseball every minute of the game. I've played many other competitive Michigan Department Commander David V. Addy and Bud sperts which a lot of folks think are more Shaver, sports editor of the Detroit Times, talking it over with than baseball, but don't let any- grueling Mickey Cochrane (center) at the entrance to the Detroit dugout. one mislead you in this respect. In order Cochrane usually runs his team from the catcher's position but really to play the game of baseball, you an injured hand kept him temporarily out of the lineup must be in the best possible physical shape. Some jobs on the diamond may be appar- ently less arduous than others, but all of them demand the com- sportsmen—which, as I understand the Legion's program, is its plete attention of a finely trained and alert athlete. primary objective. The very fact that hundreds of thousands of American boys I know that a considerable number of major and minor leaguers are keeping in that fine physical shape through playing on Legion today are graduates of Junior baseball. One recent example of sponsored ball clubs is going to mean that these youths are get- this sort which comes to my mind is the case of Phil Cavarretta, ting off on the right foot in their later struggles to make their young first baseman of the Chicago Cubs. Just a little over two way in the world. They are going to be better citizens and better years ago Phil was a member of a cham- {Continued on page 52)

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are now go- now comes M. "Chief" "TT7E AND J. Meyer, THE lecturer was VV ing to study AX. active Ohio Legionnaire, with a yarn talking to a group the signs of the zodiac," he has made notable at sports dinners. It of boys and girls on the announced the teacher. is about a certain college which required Wm evils of strong drink. "James, we will begin of its athletes a passing grade of fifty per- To get over his point, with you and you may cent on each scholastic subject before he made an illustration be the first member of they could participate in inter-collegiate with two glasses, one the class to name one." competitions. This particular college had filled with water, and the other with "Aries, the ram," was the prompt a fast stepping baseball team that was on whiskey. Into the glass filled with water reply. the way to championship honors, and the he dropped a fishing worm. The little "Right. Now, Frank, you name one." star player was one "Homerun" Arm- worm wriggled around in the glass of "Leo, the lion." strong, whose mighty clouting was the water as though highly pleased. The lec- "Correct. Samuel, it is now your biggest factor in the team's success. Just turer then put another little fishing worm turn." before the most important game of the into the glass of whiskey. Immediately Samuel was at first confused and hesi- season, there was an examination and it shriveled up, apparently cooked. tant, then he smiled and said: "Homerun" Armstrong failed to make the "That goes to show what, children?" "Mickey, the mouse." required fifty percent in chemistry. he asked. When the coach got word that his star "I know, sir," one youngster replied. slugger had flunked in his exam, he called "It shows that if you drink enough DEPARTMENT Adjutant Bill on the president of the school. The presi- whiskey you'll never have any worms." Mundt, of Illinois, once told about dent saw the chemistry professor. In the a young wife who exclaimed to her hus- ensuing examination, Armstrong got a band: passing mark and showed his apprecia- LEGIONNAIRE J. S. Dickmann, of "Just think, John, it's just about a year tion by winning the big game single j Brooklyn, New York, relays the since our wonderful honeymoon to the handed. A few days later the president one about three men having some time Legion Convention in Miami—remember met the chemistry professor on the to kill at a railroad station who dropped the glorious day we spent on the sand?" street. in to a convenient bar. In the course of "Yes, I remember," said the glum "By the way, what sort of an examina- an hour one of them realized that he had husband. "But little did we think then tion did you give Mr. Armstrong?" he just two minutes in which to make a that we would be spending our first anni- asked. train, and the three of them dashed to versary on the rocks." "I gave him an oral examination," re- the track gate. One was a fat man, and plied the professor. "I asked him only his pals soon outdistanced him and two questions." boarded the train, which he missed by a HONEY, I hardly know how to tell "Indeed," said the president. "And nose. As he stood at the closed gate you," said the young wife, "but pray what were they?" panting, a porter said: soon there will be a third in our little "The first question I asked was 'What "Too bad, boss, you missed that." home." is the color of blue vitriol,' and he an- "Yes, but think of those guys," said "You don't tell me!" exclaimed the swered 'red.' Of course, he was wrong on the fat man. "They just came down to husband. "But are you sure, dear?" that one. The next question I asked was, see me off." "Positive. I just received a letter from 'What is the meaning of H2O' and he mother saying she will arrive tonight." answered T don't know.' He was right on that one, and that gave him one miss THE barber-shop patron had settled and one right for a passing mark of fifty back comfortably in the chair. The DURING the European pilgrimage of percent." barber was applying the brush with the Legion in 1927, a certain lady, generous gobs of nice, fluffy lather. The who was a great enthusiast about door to the shop opened and a small boy Shakespeare, went to Stratford-on-Avon. THE great symphony stuck his head in and yelled: She was in raptures over everything she orchestra was to "Your house is on fire, Mr. George- heard and saw. At the railroad station give a concert under wink!" she was worked up to the point of gush- the direction of a guest The customer leaped from the chair, ing, and exclaimed: conductor. The first dashed out the door and madly up the "This affects me most of all! Just rehearsal was in prog- street for about three blocks, when he think, it was here the great writer came ress, and the famous came to a sudden stop and exclaimed: to take the train to London, just as I am maestro noticed a most pained expression "What the devil am I running for doing!" on the face of the first violinist, who had my name isn't Georgewink!" been concert master of the orchestra for nearly twenty years. FROM Jimmy Hart, The guest conductor was annoyed by THE young sales- of Joliet, Illinois, this circumstance, but said nothing. But man, traveling for comes the incident of each time he looked at the first violinist the first time in a back- the colored soldier who he noticed the continued expression of woods section of the had been peeling po- suffering. Finally it got on his nerves, country, came down to tatoes until his hands and he stopped the rehearsal. the proprietor of a ached. Turning to a "My friend," he said. "For why have country hotel, after a fellow K. P. he said: "What dat sergeant you such a look of terrible misery at this wakeful night, with a complaint. mean when he call us K. P.?" time? Have I done something perhaps to "I saw two rats fighting in my room "Ah dunno," replied his co-worker. make you so very unhappy?" last night," he said. "But from de look on his face, Ah think "No, maestro," replied the violinist, "Well," said the landlord, "what do he meant 'Keep peeling'." "I joost don't like moosick." you expect for six bits—a bull fight?"

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But the swarthy-complexioned leader Western Reserve. Second, there was the ning on top of the pavement from the old and his party were not molested and they recently discovered iron ore deposits in Superior Street viaduct to the Public immediately set about their task of sur- the Lake Superior region. Cleveland Square, the trolley poles being set into veying portions of the three million acre became the meeting place of coal from barrels of dirt and stone along the curb. tract which their employers, the Connec- Pennsylvania and southern Ohio, lime- The Ohio metropolis, because of its ticut Land Company, had purchased stone from northern Ohio, and the ore geographical location, enjoys many ad- from the Nutmeg State. A word about that came down from Lake Superior; vantages. It is a healthful spot, neither this purchase is in order here, quoted and where ore, coal and limestone meet too cold in winter nor too warm in sum- from a pamphlet, "The Origin of the you at once have a potential steel center. mer. It has Lake Erie to thank for that Western Reserve," by Donald F. Ly- In 1840 there were two cast iron furn- because the waters fend off icy blasts in barger, recorder, Cuyahoga County: aces in Cleveland. Progress along this the colder months, while in the hotter

line was slow but gradually others were ones a cool breeze is always blowing " A FTERthe Revolution the new republic built by far-seeing men and today the shoreward in the evenings. A was confronted by the critical prob- city is the leading steel center of the The fall seasons are pleasant, especially lem of disposing of the western domain. Great Lakes, as well as the headquarters about the time of the annual Legion con- The logical solution was for each State to of a very thriving shipping industry. ventions. The days are warm and sunny, cede its western lands to the United While such men as Samuel L. Mather, the nights not too chilly; in short, typical States and thus do away with conflicting Amasa Stone and William Chisholm were Indian summer prevails. claims and dangerous rivalries. Connec- laying the foundations and developing Superb motoring roads lead out of ticut's claim to western land was ceded their steel interests, other future million- Cleveland. It has one of the largest, best to the United States by a deed dated aires were working in different fields. equipped and busiest airports in the Sept. 13, 1786, and signed for the State John D. Rockefeller, shrewdly watching world, being on the direct line between by its delegates in Congress. But it re- the growth of the newly fledged oil in- the eastern and western airways stops. served from the conveyance a strip of dustry, forsook the commission business A visit to the airport is a revelation, for land extending westward 120 miles from in which he was engaged in Cleveland planes are constantly streaming in from the Pennsylvania border and lying be- and, in 1865, entered the oil business all points of the compass. New York is tween the 41st and 426. degrees of north with a partner, Samuel Andrews, later three hours away by air, the Pacific latitude. This land became known as the taking in Henry M. Flagler, who was Coast fourteen hours, or less. And here,

Connecticut Western Reserve and over it afterward so closely associated with the too, at the end of each August, the Na- Connecticut exercised not only owner- vast real estate and railroad projects in tional Air Races are held. ship but sovereign jurisdiction of a State. Florida. On the Public Square stands the mon-

"By deed, dated Sept. 2, 1795, the By 1869 more crude oil was being re- umental Van Sweringen Terminal sta- committee (appointed by the State) fined in Cleveland than in any other city tion, being utilized now by three rail- deeded approximately three million acres and in 1870 the Standard Oil Co. was in- roads; and towering more than 700 feet of land in the Western Reserve to thirty- corporated, with headquarters there. above it is the Terminal Tower, from the five individuals or groups by means of an As in steel and oil, so also in chemicals, top of which one can see in any direction equal number of quit claim deeds. It is clothing, bicyles, automobiles—a host for more than twenty-five miles on a clear interesting to note that the price paid for of other industries. day. The Tower is open all day to visitors this vast parcel of land was $1,200,000 In 1870 the population was 92,829; in and it is well worth the trifling price of just about forty cents an acre." 1900, 381,768; and today Greater Cleve- admission to take the triple elevator ride But this price was deemed too high by land, which includes its many suburbs, to the top of the structure and gaze down the Connecticut Land Company and so has well over a million people. Parallel to on the teeming traffic below. Up there it sent General Cleaveland into the tract its development along industrial and one can easily see why the Indians called to find out if the buyers had gotten a real business lines was its steady growth in the Cuyahoga the "Crooked River," for bargain or had bought a pig in a poke. independent political thought, due to the it winds like a snake through the flats. So, here where the Cuyahoga flows into influx of immigrants anxious to escape Lake Erie, the general laid out a town European monarchial tyranny and to THOSE who attended the 1920 con- and called it by his name (the "a" in make a better living for themselves in the vention saw but a scattering of build- Cleaveland was later dropped), and on New World. The soil was being prepared ings rising on its celebrated Mall. Today his return east he wrote: "I believe the for the coming of enlightened civic that Mall is virtually finished and in its child is now born that may live to see leaders like Tom L. Johnson, Newton D. largest building, the Public Auditorium, that place as large as old Windham," his Baker, and many, many others almost will be held the business sessions of the home town in Connecticut. equally prominent. Legion. It seats 14,000 in its main arena, The founder's prediction seems to have The city has had some fine administra- and has more than a score of other halls been eminently justified, although the tors but it also has its bosses and its in which committees may hold their ses- settlement grew slowly and appeared selfish interests. Mr. Johnson was mayor sions. When the public address system destined at first never to exceed the 1,500 for eight years and many were the battles is all hooked up it is estimated that no population figure of Windham, now he fought in behalf of the common people, less than 50,000 persons, gathered in the Willimantic. In 1820 there were only notably his spectacular fight for a three- various halls and underground chambers, 1,600 residents, but more people moved cent fare. Hundreds of Cleveland war can hear the speaker in the main arena. in following the completion in 1827 of a veterans can still easily recall his street The Mall is one of the most ambitious canal between Cleveland and Akron, railroad controversies with firmly in- undertakings ever attempted by a munic- thirty miles to the south, and in 1840 the trenched interests, and they can remem- ipality. This plan, originating in 1895, population had grown to 6,071. ber, too, the famous stratagem which en- consists of grouping $40,000,000 worth Then two things happened that sent abled him to link up his West Side lines of buildings around a spacious, 17-acre the figures upward. First, there was a with those east of the river. He put a big tract overlooking the lake and extending tremendous rush of pioneers westward gang of men on the job one night and in into the heart of the downtown busi- and many of these remained in the the morning there were his tracks run- ness district. {Continued on page j6)

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«£WAS It is made up of seven beautiful struc- It must not be forgotten at this junc- tures, the Public Auditorium, the former ture that the first Americans to reach MAKING A main postoffice, Public Library, Board France came from Cleveland. The Lake- of Education Building, City Hall, County side Hospital Unit, organized in one day «it, UNTIL- Courthouse, and the magnificent stadium, under the direction of the famous sur- the last word, according to leading geon, Dr. George W. Crile, left on the architects, in construction of its kind. next (May 6, 191 7) for New York, and

The Great Lakes Exposition will embarked on the 8th. On May 18th it occupy the lake front north of the City disembarked at Liverpool. It reached Hall and will extend from the stadium France a week later. on the west (W. 3d Street) to E. 17th Aside from the exposition on the lake Street on the east, covering, in all, some front Legionnaires can be assured of an 100 acres. Like the Mall proper, the endless variety of other entertainment. grounds will be charmingly landscaped, Veterans from Chicago will have an op- and at least one of the buildings, that portunity to root for their home team housing the horticultural exhibits, with at League Park inasmuch as the White its transplanted trees, 30 feet high, and Sox open a two-game series in Cleveland; its fountains, hedges, walks and flowers, and if they remain until Saturday they will remain a permanent feature of the will see the world's champion Tigers. lake front development at this point. Those who come with their families The main line of march of the Legion might like to take the youngsters to parade will be down Euclid Avenue, the Cleveland Museum of Natural His- once known as the most beautiful street tory. There the children will find an in the world. It has had a colorful and extensive display of Ohio birds, speci- picturesque history, one that is wrapped mens of fossil fishes 400,000 years old, up inseparably with the city's advance- insects, African, Indian and Eskimo ment. One stretch of this noted thor- exhibits, and some natural habitat groups. oughfare, that extending from E. 21st At Euclid Avenue and E. 107th Street, where the Cuyahoga County Street is the Western Reserve Historical Legion Headquarters occupies a spacious Society building, with its tremendous lot, to E. 40th Street, was once known as collection of material relating to early BUBBLE PICTURES SHOW WHY "Millionaires' Row," for it was bordered Cleveland and Ohio pioneers. Not far on both sides by the luxurious mansions away is the Museum of Art, facing a of Cleveland's business, professional, and lovely lagoon. It is one of the most industrial leaders. Legion headquarters beautiful buildings in the country and its itself was once the home of United States equipment for handling and preserving Senator Henry B. Payne. its almost countless treasures has no So powerful was the influence wielded superior in America. by the millionaires whose mansions Near it is the recently completed MOST LATHERS are COLGATE RAPID- fronted on the avenue that for many Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland made of bubbles too SHAVE CREAM makes big to set to the tiny bubbles that years no street car tracks were laid there Symphony Orchestra, and across the base of the beard! get clear down to and those wealthy citizens who loved street from that is the imposing group of Air pockets keep the skin-line. Its were wont to engage in cutter buildings that comprise Western the soap film from rich soap film soaks horses Reserve reaching the whis- your beard soft at races on the hard packed snow between University, Case School of Applied Sci-

kers. So the beard th e base . Makes your E. 21st and E. 40th Streets. ence, and the University Hospital units, is only A<»//-wilted. shaves last longer. Cleveland takes pride in its beautiful which together rank among the great MORNING AFTER NEXT PARTY park system, much of the land having medical centers of the world. been given the city by Mr. Rockefeller, As has been stated, Ohio's largest city YOU'RE RIGHT, JIM. THESE LGATE SHAVES SURE after whom one of the parks is named, is one of diversified industry, but the

LAST . . AND ARE AS and by Jeptha H. Wade, another multi- chief reason for its progress lay in its SOOTHING AS A millionaire, whose home, now razed, convenient location to the rich Lake LOTION rose across the street from his fellow Superior iron ore region and the coal and philanthropist, Mr. Rockefeller. limestone fields. This happy choice of It may be interesting to Legionnaires location has made Cleveland the capital "DANCING CHEEK TO CHEEK' to know that present housing plans for of a great trade empire. Its plants SEEMED TO BE THE FAVORITE 2,500 TUNE WITH YOU AND < the convention call for the erection of normally employ 140,000 wage earners CONNIE LAST NIGHT, TOM. spacious tents at Gordon and Edge- and more than a billion dollars' worth of water Parks. Others, probably, will products are manufactured each year. in the Pullmans in which to conclude, is no COLGATE "SKIN-LINE' "keep house" Cleveland, boom SHAVES LAST they come, the cars to remain on spur town, drunk with its own good luck, and HOURS LONGER tracks for the duration of the gathering. taking the wealth that poured in as Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland evidence of the blessings of destiny. It is the county seat, has more than 30,000 grew chastely and minded its manners veterans within its confines and there is and its morals, and its civic leaders had 54 LARGE TUBE scarcely a Division of the A. E. F. which kindliness and foresight. It is proud of 100 SHAVES did not contain men from the Cleveland its traditions and its liberal heritage, and Af\

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Hospitalization — enforced lei- ing their own business—the kind -and pretty soon art editors of folks to appreciate Buick's began talking about Helfant, the story of Action, Style, Value artist. "He's a find!" they said. (page 1.) "His stuff packs a laugh." "But the manufacturers of Union This in its magazine takes pride Leader Smoking Tobacco prefer early recognition of Art Hel- this interesting discovery— 292,- every fant's genius. You have 579 of our readers smoke pipes ight to share that pride because (computation based on impartial, this is your magazine. nation-wide, cross-section sur- * * * vey.) And it took no formal EXAS, 1917-18. Regiments A new—story from the Advertising survey to see that this audience T of khaki tents. Man "The Buick people have has a shrewd sense of values— discovered something. Looking will listen to a real value story In one of them, Art Helfant, for a market for a good family (page 45.) doughboy. car they found a good family market (729,315 married) in "Bell Telephone System (page An electric storm brews—breaks. the American Legion. Our mari- 59) has its own pet statistic Lightning picks out Art's tent. tal status is 25% higher, propor- over 590,000 of our readers have tionately, than for the country at telephones. (We know how to One flash —and Art Helfant, large. Substantial citizens, too appreciate the prompt efficiency doughboy, became Art Helfant, —92.9% of our readers are gain- of the American brand of tele- ) disabled veteran. fully employed, over a third own- phone service !

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by the time they reached the village; the "Brigadier!" he exclaimed. "Why, soda, please! headlamps of the car bored mysteriously Brigadier Renard! I meet you, too, as along the narrow dirt street. soon as I get here! I am Sergeant Breen, They found the respectable looking of Division Recherches Criminal. You Hotel du Lion d'Or at a corner of the tri- must remember?" angular Place de la Republique, and The fat man repeated, "Breen? The brought the car to a halt in front of it. Sergeant Breen? Ah, of course, of course! The empty public square was illumi- You have grown mature, too, my ser-

nated by three dim electric lights on an- geant ! I shall remember always how hard cient iron posts, one of them close to the you work!" He turned his back on the inn door. angry Lascher. "A most kind welcome to A man was approaching as Breen Timon-sur-Huisne, my friend. Come, a neared the inn door. Breen glanced at drink. Pay this swine no more attention. him, spoke, in French, a civil, cordial He is only a madman." good evening. Kernan, at mention of a drink, moved But to his surprise the fellow answered forward. in natural enough English. "Ain't you going to make me ac- "What do you want?" he demanded. quainted with the general, Mr. Breen?" The voice, emerging weakly from his lips, he demanded.

was as hollow as if the throat it came from "He's a cop," Breen said. were an empty bottle. "What are you Lascher retreated, but he still growled. ." doing here? Have you come back . . "Let me alone this time!" he muttered. Breen cried, "Are you Lieutenant "All of you. I'll not stand any more of it." Lascher? Still here in Timon? Man, I With that he set off across the square, scarcely knew you!" his head bent and hands in pockets. "But you came to work on me again, "What a fine reception!" Breen said. did you?" the other demanded. His voice He listened until he no longer could hear was lifting and now had a shrill, arresting the footsteps; then, uncomfortably, he note, so loud that the door of the inn followered Kernan and the brigadier into opened and a woman thrust out her head. the buvette of the hotel. Far across the square a man, too, began The buvette was a snug room. As the

running as if he had heard the shout. three men sat down at a table, a young "Go away, go away!" Lascher screamed. girl with blue eyes in dark circles ran ." "Don't you . . quickly to get their order. Kernan had climbed down from the car "One hot grog," the brigadier demand- . A TALL, COOL and was coming toward them rapidly. ed. "For my rheumatism, my pretty "Hey, you punk!" he barked. "Who wench. Fifi, here are two friends of mine." glass of Teacher's you think you're talking to?" Breen exclaimed, "Fifi! You're not the Scotch and soda! With He bore down on the man belligerent- little Fifi that lived here at the hotel?

the wonderful flavour ly, his fists lifted. Breen, astonished as You were just . . . why, you were only he was Lascher's attack, perceived his seven years old then!" and smoothness of this by amusedly. So he had a bodyguard, The girl smiled, showing firm, even world-famed Scotch driver did he, as well as a driver? Well, Kernan teeth. combined with the looked the part, suddenly. But Lascher "Ah, American, are you? One of the Teacher'5 "snap" of the soda, was undaunted. soldiers? Surely, I remember the soldiers. "Oh, there are two of you, are there?" All of them. That was fifteen, sixteen there is nothing like he retorted. "Two bullies. Well, bully years ago. I remember well. You wish > V it to beat the heat. away. I don't give a damn! You tried to cognac?" WM. TEACHER & SONS, keep me in jail once. Try again!" She went to prepare their order, and Ltd., Glasgow and London. Breen answered quietly, "I locked you at once Kernan said, "H'mm, there's a Est. 1830. up because you killed your wife, Lascher, nice little number," but Breen cut him and Captain Ruban. Only, I couldn't short. He had discovered one thing about prove it." Kernan. He was a fly on honey about 86 PROOF Lascher came forward another pace, women. his own arms lifted now, but before he "What's Lascher still doing here?" he

could strike, if that had been his thought, asked Renard. CHER'S a big voice commanded in certain French The Frenchman shrugged. "Non, non! Desist, you! Do not strike! "Ah, going most fearfully mad, my "HIGHLAND CREAM" Get away, get away!" sergeant. Wandering the streets, threat- A man in a gendarme's uniform ening vengeance and drawing his pay Perfection of waddled rapidly into the circle of light, each month from M. Pavie, as if nothing waving pudgy hands. had occurred. But the villain does not SCOTCH WHISKY "Shut up!" Lascher dared cry at him, use the old workshop where he assassi- too. "I've told you never to speak to nated his wife and our poor Capitaine A BLEND me!" Ruban. Since that day he has never SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: Breen was peering at the gendarme. entered it. To me, it proves his guilt." S chieffel in & Co., New York City He was so enormously fat that his uni- "That poor little shrimp killed some- Importers since 1794 form did not meet in front. body?" Kernan asked. 38 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "He's changed in looks," Breen ad- mitted. "Used to be quite a good looking fellow. Came over from Detroit with an engineering outfit. A specialist in internal combustion engines." "Just another poor guy you cops couldn't prove it on!" Breen answered Kernan a little tartly. "No, I wouldn't say that. I had to re- lease him, but I was sure he was guilty. Feel sure yet. Lascher was a lieu- tenant of engineers, discharged here in France to take this job with Pavie. Pavie thought he was a genius. Well, he married a local girl, the way they do. That was just a couple of weeks before I got here. The town didn't like it." "Why should they?" the brigadier in- terjected. "She and the Capitaine Ruban had been sweethearts from childhood. Then one night my sergeant here, in his billet next to their house, hears the thiev- ing Lascher and his bride quarrel." "No, I didn't exactly hear them quarrel," Breen put in. "I heard someone yelling—about two a.m. And next morn- ing she was dead, on the floor of his Shaving with a laboratory, across the town from their dwelling. It was . . . well, rather gory. Beaten with a model of an engine Lascher had been working on. Wooden model. Piece of Mind Smashed to pieces. Lascher had his story. Said he'd worked late—till three o'clock, by Walter B. Pitkin, Author of " Life Begins at 40" came home, slept downstairs so as not to disturb his wife. In the morning he hur- YOU ever shave with a piece of Piece of Mind. And that Mind is so sharp ried back to the laboratory when he didn't DID mind? I've been doing just that for that it produces blades of inconceivable find at the her home, and came upon twenty-five years, but I didn't know it sharpness. The Mind inhabits half a body." until a few weeks ago. dozen tiny rooms adjoining the great ma- "More likely the guy she jilted did it," I went to Boston to satisfy my curi- chines. It is a Multiple Personality— nine Kernan objected. osity about a tiny strip of steel. I ex- of them, in fact. It is a Mind that thinks "Non, non, he is killed too!" Renard pected to watch raw metal turn into a physics, chemistry, metallurgy, and ma- wiped an imaginary tear from his cheek. razor blade. But I saw something more chine designing. "The poor brave capitaine! A few morn- wonderful. I saw the transformation of Gillette spends more money od this Mind (far from raw) into public utility. i nd&nd its laboratories than other ings, and we find his body, too, on the a M many companies might spend on their entire same floor!" Having removed some 47 feet and odd inches of whiskers from my shining counte- factory payroll. And that's why the "Hell," Kernan cried, scowling, "that's nance in the course of a quarter-century Gillette blade, studied through a micro- murder one hundred percent, all right. with the Gillette razor blade, I was eager scope even by an eye as untrained as mine, wonder the cops couldn't it." No solve to see how this public utility was made. looks hke a razor edge, while other blades He paused, looking toward the bar, and I expected that such a small thing would look hke fever charts and buzz saws. Can the scowl left his face quickly. Fifi was be made in a small factory — perhaps a you imagine an edge only 1 /80,000th of bringing the drinks. Behind her was the two-story affair on a couple of city lots. an inch thick and absolutely invisible to the naked eye? Probably not. I can't. Yet woman who had opened the door when Somewhat bewildered, I entered a huge there the darned thing is! Lascher began making a disturbance. eight-story plant spreading over two large Breen got up. city blocks —only to find that it was Before you buy anything, study well merely one of eight Gillette factories scat- the Mind Behind the Goodsl If it is a "If it isn't Madame Broussard!" he tered around the earth. The place was dishonest Mind, the goods will probably exclaimed. quiet and clean, almost like a hospital. be dishonest. If it is a dull JVIind, the razor "Oh, sergeant!" my she panted, and Immense semi-automatic machines, at- blade will be dull. If it is an ill-tempered kissed him twice. "A thousand, thousand tended by one or two men each, were Mind, the steel in the blade will go soft times I have inquired of my soul where devouring great rolls of steel in prepara- on you. But if it is a keen Mind that is you were! Your hair is turning gray, tion for further processing. determined to master every fact and to apply fact to factory, regardless of cost, m'sieur! So time also passes in that far An engineer would revel in the ingeni- then buy its product, even if it costs America! You liked when you were here ous devices for checking up continuously double the price of Half Wit Goods. ... let me see, was it the rabbit in wine on the quality of the blades as they flow The real invisible edge of Gillette is sauce? Ah, non! The poulet in butter! through the various production processes. But the Average would be more im- Mind, which cuts through error and grows You shall have it! With my own hands Man pressed, as I was, by the ind Behind the sharper as it cuts. I prepare!" M Blade. And he would discern that, when I hope that some day you, too, may make When she had scurried away to start he buys a Gillette Blade, he isn't buying this psychological pilgrimage to the home the meal, Breen asked of the brigadier, merely a scrap of steel, he's buying a of a Mind that is sharper than any razorl "Her husband's still living?"

Renard pulled his mustaches and Here are the facts about razor blades. Why let anyone deprive you of shaving comfort puffed his fat cheeks angrily before he by selling you a substitute! Ask for Gillette Blades and be sure to get them. announced: GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. "That lazy (Continued on page 40)

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swine will never die. Still he is drinking He paused at the next dimly lighted up his wife's hard earned money. But for street corner, trying to recognize where him we should have convicted the assas- he was. As he did so, he thought for a sin Lascher." moment that he detected a footfall on the "What'd he do?" Kernan asked. uneven pavement behind him. For an "Said he'd been drinking with Lascher instant he even backed up cautiously at the moment Ruban was picked off," against the damp wall of a darkened Breen offered. "The American consul at house and peered back, listening. Then Tours came up and went to bat for him, he chuckled. too, and we had to let him go." He went on, his own feet stumbling "But we shall get Lascher yet," the noisily now and then, until shortly he brigadier broke in. "A young gendarme emerged into a small and irregular square. is now attached to my post, named It was in this square that he had lived. Preux. He is from Paris and has devoured This was Place St. Martin. The shapes of my proces verbal regarding the affair. the houses revealed themselves faintly. He believes he is about to solve the case. In that tall one just opposite, with the The count, proud gentleman, has never overhanging roof which shut out the set shoe in this tavern. You do not scant light offered by the sky, had been blame him, do you?" his billet. He remembered the high bed, Kernan wanted to know all about the with its comfortable balloon of feathers, case, and Breen told of how the body of and the single shuttered window. The young Captain Ruban was found in the window stuck always, and when he did laboratory by his father, Count George get it open, squealed. de Ruban, after an all night search. On the left, over there, was the house Neighbors remembered hearing the sound in which the American engineer, Lascher, of a gun in the vicinity at 3 o'clock in the and his pretty French bride had lived, morning. The count didn't know how he prior to the two murders. There he had had happened to go to the laboratory. heard the quarrel that last night before

first . it, EVEN Fate, or perhaps the blessed saints, he the crime . . odd, wasn't how had said. violent Lascher had been, tonight, on The meal was ready. Brigadier Renard seeing him again? suddenly excused himself. Breen lighted a cigarette, and starting BETTER'N "My most fearful regrets, m'sieurs! forward again, crossed the square at an But the wife awaits me with dinner. I angle. Ahead of him here a lighted cafe THE ONE THAT shall be late already, and that woman, made a brief splash of gaiety in the drab street. what a tongue ! I shall send a message to GOT AWAY! m'sieur the count that you are here, my Breen was glancing at his wrist watch by sergeant." the light which poured through the cafe window, when the town clock on the old, THE stoutest fellow that ever They finished the meal. Kernan, with slipped your hook wouldn't taste no w:iries at all, went at once at the stubby church tower, a few squares over, as good as a heaping, steaming plate- business of entertaining Fifi. Breen began to boom the hour of ten. ful of Heinz cooked spaghetti! So paused for a moment, listening to them. The town sloped away suddenly to the stock up your grub-pack with some river bank, where the bridge lifted its of the 57 Varieties and laugh at luck! He'd been a Brooklyn taxicab driver You'll eat— and eat hearty—no matter once, he heard Kernan say. back like a frightened cat above the what's in your creel! "That's news," Breen thought. water. He sensed the forms of the houses. Make a note of these Heinz foods next His driver's French was more sketchy Off to the left, in fields still muddy with plan a trip into time you the wilds: than the girl's English, but between the fall rains, must spread the automobile two, he conveyed to her ably the im- plant owned by M. Pavie. It remained Heinz Oven-Baked Beans pression that Brooklyn was the loveliest invisible from this point, however, and Heinz Home-Style Soups town on earth. Breen turned and started toward the east. Leaving them, Breen stepped out into Once more he thought he heard foot- Heinz Cooked Spaghetti the dimly lighted square. He stood for steps behind him. He waited, this time. Heinz Puddings a moment, peering through the darkness, He had discovered a few old friends al- turned to the left, and walking slowly, ready tonight; he might meet still an- They're all ready to heat and serve. waded into the fog. other. But no one overtook him. No fussin' or fixin* required. Just As soon as he was out of sight, a second He started on again. Following the heat for a few moments and presto! — you've a whole meal ready — good man emerged from the darkness and street which edged the river, he came to as you eat at home! silently followed him. the narrow dead-end of a byway where And just in case you do happen to the laboratory of Lieutenant Lascher had land a few keepers, take along a bottle Chapter Two stood. He turned in, because what Briga- of Heinz tomato ketchup — grandest dier Renard had said tonight wasn't sauce for any fish! BREEN walked slowly through the sensible. The brigadier had asserted that dark, narrow, uneven street, feeling Lascher never had opened the door of his way with the toes of his shoes, over the this laboratory since the murder; that it HEINZ unfamiliar cobblestones. Unfamiliar, yet remained exactly as it had been that last familiar, too. Often enough, on those morning, sixteen years ago, when Breen (g) nights back in 1919, he had prowled this and other police surrounded Captain same darkness; on business usually. Ruban's body there. 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Breen reached the end of the street and halted before the low building that made TOO BAD THAT HORSE OH, I DONT KNOW. STEPPED ON YOUR PIPE, JACK only a flat patch of blacker darkness. ORR ONCE JUDGE. A MAN'S SORT OF "TOLD ME ABOUT This was the place, all right. There was LOST WHEN HE HASN'T A 'PlPELESS' the door, up two stone steps. He had a A PIPE HANDY, ISN'T^ SMOKER HE SAW devilish notion to try the lock himself. HE? And this time, perhaps because he was cautious himself, he overheard caution, too, on the part of another. Distinctly, definitely, the sole of a shoe scraped on the paving stones behind him. He turned quickly. This was a bad place to be caught, at the dead end of an alley. What was he doing, snooping around here, anyway? He tried quickly to flatten himself into the shadow of the doorway, and in so doing, leaned against the panel. PAUL, I WANT TO REWARD t GIVE IT LOOK, he's building a clay ) THIS BOY FOR HIS SERVICES. ' To his astonishment, the door gave TO HIM MOUND WITH A 5 under the pressure. So it hadn't been BUT HE WANTS TOBACCO. and CAVITY IN J- DONT SEE WHY- HE locked all these years! Hinges squeaked J. HAS NO pipe and it suddenly opened wider and Breen, y seeking to press himself against it, was overbalanced and started to fall back- ward into the room. Instantly a man leaped out of the dark- ness of the street, shouting unintelligibly.

He carried a stick. Breen saw it as it lifted, but before he could do more than duck his head, it had come down across his neck and face. The blows fell heavily and rapidly. They knocked the breath from him, but between them he shouted once, striving to rise to his feet. Somewhere a shutter opened and an angry householder asked the reason for the disturbance. At this demand the man wheeled quickly. He was back in the byway and running down it toward the broader street before Breen could get to his knees. He started to follow him. But the darkness, and something ... it must be blood . . . in his eyes, confused him. No one else was abroad upon the streets. He reached the inn at last. But what should he say? He had had no business around Lascher's old laboratory. How much should he tell these people here at the inn? 1988. R. J. Reynolds To!.. Co.

Kernan and Fifi still sat before the fire. P.A.'s Forecast: COOLER SMOKING HI At a distance, presumably knitting, old Pipe temperature goes 'way down pipe pleas- Madame Broussard watched them. — ure goes 'way up . . . when Prince Albert is Asleep near the door, a small, scrawny in the bowl. P. A. is "crimp cut." It burns old man sprawled on a bench with his slower, cakes evener, and stays cooler . . . bald head drooping on his chest. right down to the last draw. It's smoking "Who the hell slugged you?" Kernan tobacco at its best. Choice tobacco — mild, cried, starting up. "I say, who slugged mellow, fragrant tobacco — that does not bite ." you? If I catch the frog, I'll . . the tongue. Meet this princely tobacco, "Remove yourself from my way," gentlemen, and get on the joy road for good! Madame Broussard ordered in French, Prince Albert mild and tasty "makin's" for cigarettes too. pushing him to one side. She had brought hot water already, and from the kitchen a towel, and began at once to wash Breen's OUR OFFER TO PIPE SMOKERS head. Fifi poured a glass of cognac. " You must be pleased" Half an hour later, Brigadier Renard, Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever with only one of the buttons of his tunic smoked, return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco fastened, waddled into the inn and in it to us at any time within a month from this date, and listened gravely to Breen's story, clucking we will refund full purchase price, plus postage. pipefuls of to himself and shaking his round head. (Signed) R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N.C. 50 fragrant to- "Oh, non, non!" he ejaculated when THE NATIONAL bacco in every Breen mentioned the unlocked door. JOY SMOKE! LBERT 2-ounce tin of "You are positive, m'sieur, that it was Prince Albert not the home of {Continued on page 42) JUNE, 1936 41 "HOLD YOUR Unfinished business HARPOON (Continued from page 41) some citizen here, jealous over his wife." that time, he should have procured in- "Positive!" Breen said angrily. "I was formation on the subject, should he ...I GIVE UPr' at Lascher's old laboratory." not? The old man who had been asleep at "Gal loves her papa, all right," Rernan the door cackled. Breen had recognized said as she went downstairs. him at last as Madame Broussard's hus- She returned, directly. Brigadier band. He looked no older than he was in Renard had come again and would speak 1010, a trifle shabbier perhaps, but that to Sergeant Breen as soon as possible. was the only change time had made in A thin young officer, whom the briga- him. His watery eyes blinked at the dier introduced as Gendarme Preux, was brigadier and he cackled again. waiting with Renard when Breen came The brigadier snorted: "Lazy swine! down the narrow stair. Learn to hold your tongue when your "You are recovering, my sergeant?" betters are about!" Renard asked politely. He still had neg- The old man laughed contemptuously. lected to button the front of his uni- "I do hold silent when my betters talk. form. "The town is devastated that it But I make sure they are my betters. Is should have met you with such fearful it my betters who let the murderer of lack of hospitality. Even Monsieur the Captain Ruban and another still walk the count, when I awaken him to tell him the streets of our town and make no attempt story of the villainous attack and seek

to halt him? Bah! / know who killed his advice . . . even he sheds a tear! He those two unfortunate persons so long requests that you and your friend come to the castle at once to reside." ago! And since you . . . you," he spit the word insolently off his tongue, "do not, Renard went on to ask if the sergeant

CLAMMY pipe full of seaweed tobacco if the Americans want to know the truth thought his assailant could be Lascher. A "The wretch has disappeared from his I shall tell them!" . is a weapon that will overpower any now, "Go to bed!" his wife commanded. residence," he went on seriously. "He innocent whale. if you're fishing But the !" "To bed. before I take the broom to you was not in his own house the entire night. stream of life for pleasure and companion- She handed Breen a candle that she had And you were correct. I would have dis- ship, here's bait worth that: Sir two of lighted with a fagot from the fire. He covered it myself today, I promise you!

Walter Raleigh in a pipe kept dry and took it and climbed the stairs. Fifi and The door of his old shop was unlocked." The younger gendarme said: "Per- shipshape. Sir Walter is a cleaner, cooler, Reman already had gone ahead to pre- pare his room for him. As he reached the haps it was the American madman who milder smoke that raises no dark clouds upper floor, he saw them. They drew performed this time. I do not deny it. anywhere. Instead, this sunny blend of ." apart rapidly as he approached, and the But in my opinion . . well-aged Kentucky Burleys spreads only girl stood aside, a picture of propriety. Renard silenced him. a winning fragrance that gains respect for "Good night, m'sieur," Fifi bade him. "You are too young to have opinions!" he cried. "I know what you are about to all who pufT it. In a modest way it's become "I will bring you coffee promptly. One say. To other business! Monsieurs, you the sensation of the smoking world. So hour after dawn, m'sieur." She closed the door. will accept the very gracious invitation of try a tin; you '11 be the catch of the seasonl "You're a quick worker, fellow," Breen monsieur the count? I most earnestly said to Rernan. "But you'd better watch advise it. You will leave this poor inn your step. She may have an admirer and be his guests in the chateau? He will among the town boys. He might resent come for you." you." "Not me!" Rernan objected. "Me, right glanced at "I got to fight women off all the time," I'm staying here!" He Fifi, smiled in reply. "Castles al- Rernan replied. "Say, who hit you? The who guy that give us the keys to the city ways give me the gout," he added. when we drove in?" "The idea was," Breen put in curtly, "that were working for ..." "Same size and weight. He didn't you me ." "Oh, okay, boss . . speak. I couldn't distinguish his voice." "However," Breen said, "I don't need FIFI brought news with Breen's break- you there. I'll wait for the count," he told the brigadier. fast. Brigadier Renard had remained up all night, questioning citizens, but he still had no proof to connect anyone with SHORTLY after noon, the count drove the attack on Breen. Fifi's own father, down to the village, in a long, low, an- however, claimed that he knew well cient model of a car that Breen mistook enough who was guilty of this, too. at first for the same one he had been Talking, she filled Breen's cup with driving in the war years; but no, it was coffee. Her mother gave them a wrong slightly later, 1923 maybe. He honked idea about her father last night, she told his bulb horn at the door of the inn and them. The male Broussard was not Madame Broussard, curtsying heavily, said. Truly, he admitted him. FREE booklet tells bow to make actually so lazy as people your old pipe taste better, sweet- was working. For fifteen, sixteen years Years had told on the count, too. He er; how to break in a new pipe. Write for copy today. Brown & now, the elder Broussard had engaged in was still a large man; he weighed almost Williamson Tobacco Corporation, hundred pounds, Breen guessed, and Louisville, Kentucky. Dept. A-66 no other labor except to solve the wicked two Lascher-Ruban killings. Certainly, in most of it bony frame. But his shoulders 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly !

were bent forward, and his thin hair, as he took off his plaid cap, was pure white. He wore a long woolen overcoat, tightly buttoned, but in spite of it, he looked cold. He smiled as Breen approached, his right hand extended, and grasped it PLAY SAFE and shook it vigorously. "Of course," the Frenchman said in English only touched with accent, "I re- member you most vividly, my sergeant. It was in the time of my vast trouble you were here. Always, I have held your efforts with deepest gratitude." "I fell down completely on your case, sir," Breen answered. "Always have been sorry." The old man shrugged. His lower lip curled at the right corner, and Breen realized how colorless the lips were, as cold looking as the hand had felt. He renewed the invitation to come to the chateau and Breen promised to come in the late afternoon with his driver. "I have a camera," he added. The old man replied: "Ah, photogra- phy. It is a hobby of mine, too. We shall get along famously." Before he left the village, Breen halted at the door of the gendarmerie. The brigadier had just returned from another unsuccessful search for the American NO OTHER TIRE GIVES Y00 resident, Lascher, and was looking spent, as, Breen asked himself, who wouldn't be, GOLDEN PLY BLOW-OUT PROTECTION carrying all that weight around on two Driver: "It was a blow-out! I couldn't extra legs? your car and makes you safe on steer — I couldn't stop!" wet, slippery roads. "When I have the man safely locked in a cell this time, I shall send a mes- Policeman: "There ought to be a law If you're looking for tires that will give extra trouble-free senger to you," Renard said. "A mes- against gambling on tires." you months of mileage and greater riding comfort in senger, running, m'sieur. The assassin * * * the bargain, then Silvertowns are the will confess many things now, I promise." If you could only realize the damage to tires for your motoring dollars. Kernan started the car. Breen sank limb, life and car that one blow-out might Equip your car with the safest, toughest, down beside him, looked briefly into the cause, you'd never take chances — you'd longest-lasting tire that money can buy. driver's mirror at the patches on his head start right in to ride on Goodrich Safety See your Goodrich dealer about a set of and neck and the bruise over his left eye. Silvertowns. Goodrich Safety Silvertowns. Remember Now that the pain was gone, the sight Why? Because Silvertowns have some- they cost not a penny more than other stand- delighted him. thing that no other tire has — an amazing ard tires! "It might be," he told Kernan, "that invention called the Life-Saver Golden we're in for some fun here. I've an idea. Ply— the first major improvement in tire It would be swell to turn up a murderer, construction in years. after sixteen years." Bear in mind, the Golden Ply is not "We all got our idees of fun," Kernan an ordinary ply with a fancy name but a answered, putting the car into low gear. special, scientific invention developed "You got yours, I got mine." by Goodrich engineers to meet today's Breen nodded. "Yours is named Fifi?" hectic driving conditions. By resisting the "One hundred percent," Kernan re- heat generated inside the tire by today's Ply keeps plied enthusiastically. breakneck speeds this Golden the rubber and fabric from separating The car groaned as it climbed the steep, — it keeps dangerous heat blisters from narrow roadway, cut out of the side of forming. Thus, the high-speed blow-out the rocky cliff. Below, on the left, the that might have caused serious trouble town spread in the waning daylight, and never gets a start. the hills to the east still reflected the gold Remember these two facts: of the late afternoon sun. 1 Prove that you want "How's that for a background?" Silvertowns are built | 1. Only Goodrich FRFF ^ to prevent accidents. Goodrich Breen demanded. "Perfect. There isn't with the Life-Saver Golden Ply to protect Go to your dealer. Join the Silvertown Safety a special-effects man in Hollywood could you against high-speed blow-outs. League—sign the Goodrich Safe Driving Pledge. Asamarkofdistinc- make anything like it." 2. Goodrich Safety Silvertowns also tion your Goodrich dealer will get for you absolutely free a Safety "Scenery's all right for them as like it," have an amazing "road drying" tread League Emblem with red crystal re- wiper Kernan answered. "Me, I can take it or that acts like the windshield on flector to protect you if your tail light goes out. leave it."

The car slid around a turn. As it disappeared noisily up the steep incline, the brush at the roadside parted. Former ^Goodrii Mt£j7Silvertown Lieutenant Lascher, U. S. Engineers, With Life-Saver Golden Ply Blow-Out Protection thrust out his {Continued on page 44)

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Tn the great- head after est memorial producing and looked the machine. His The words were hospitable. But there center of the world, mouth was drawn down taut. His clothes was something in their manner . . . Barre craftsmen enjoy were rainsoaked and torn, and his eyes Ruban was leading him into the castle, many exclusive advan- were bloodshot. meanwhile, and the servant followed. tages clearly reflected in the superiority of de- In his right hand he carried an old The door gave upon a square entrance signs and workmanship. army automatic pistol. As the car drew hall, with a stone stairway leading out of That is why Select Barre away from him, he laughed, a short, hys- it, and a broad door, covered by a thick Memorials — created terical laugh, dropped the weapon into drapery, on the left. from the world's finest granite — are the most a shoulder holster under his left arm, and "Henry will take your bag to your beautiful and enduring ducked back into the brush. room," the count said. "Meanwhile, of all memorials. Insist my sergeant, come sit by the fire. We upon a Select Barre Me- Chapter Three shall have weesky morial identified by the and soda, non? Most trade-mark below. Send certainly." He held aside the drapery for a free copy of: "The KERNAN dropped Breen at the main for Breen to enter. Book of Memorials." gate of the castle, and refusing even The room which Breen entered was THE BARRE GRANITE to pause a moment to look around, im- immense but comfortable. A dozen ASSOCIATION, INC. mediately started back toward the inn. candles burned in tall sticks on old Dept. A Breen did not argue the point. tables of dark wood and sent a dull, Barre, Vermont The place interested him more than he flickering glow far upward to the beams had expected. The castle itself was a of the high ceiling. In fireplace to a at the huge heap of heavy masonry, with the other end blazed the largest fire Breen central part distinctly Norman, from its ever had seen in France. Actual billets small windows to its flat roof. Two wings of wood, instead of fagots, were burning spread from this older part, one swinging in an iron basket, and the flames crackled SELECT BARRE GRANITE out to the right, its stonework lighter and sent out a cheerful light. than that in the more ancient portion, "As you see, my friend," the count BARRE *This word (Sdect) identifies VERMONT BARRE GRANITE of the and its roof pitched steeply. But like the continued, "we do not dress for dinner finest quality, selected and "The Granite main bulk of the chateau, this was un- tonight. is sponsored by over one hundred It most informal. I have Center of the World" leading manufacturers and used, and shuttered windows pointed invited some friends to dine with us at quarried by J. K. Pirie Estate, blindly upon the setting sun. seven. You remember Monsieur Pavie, E. L. Smith & Co., The Wells- Lamson Quarry Co., and the That portion to the left, however, was the manufacturer of automobiles?" Wetmore Granite Co. & Morse busy with life. Candlelight already shone "Very well," Breen said. "Little out against the waning day, and long short fellow. American wife." FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION! An strings of smoke were blowing away from "What a memory you have! It is interesting and educational sound film tall chimney pots. This wing was two true, his wife is American. And most \"Surviving The Test of Time," depicting stories in height, and had borrowed charming. With her tonight is sister, [ her f the evolution Memorials the begin- of from architectural ideas from both the older also American, of course." ning of civilization, is available without i parts. But in comparison with them, it "I don't remember her." charge. Provides one-half hour of absorbing I entertainment. To secure this film consult looked almost new. "No, after the war she came here. Her your local Barre Memorial dealer. It was here that the old count had re- name is Anne. Mile. Anne Harrison." sided in the war years, too. He had not "I'll be glad to see them," Breen said, exactly restored the interior since, Breen and in spite of himself, his feeling of dis- at had heard, but he had modernized it. comfort came back. MAKE THINGSHome Before Breen was halfway across the "I regret extremely what happened last It's real fun to make things at home and it's easy, — court to the main door of this night, friend," the count said as he too, if you'll follow the crystal clear plans in Popular flagged my Mechanics. Articles show how to build furniture, left wing, the door opened and the count poured the whiskey into the tall glasses. boats, toys, novelties, models, etc. And every month this big 200-page magazine is crammed full of fasci- stepped out. He was followed by a thin, "It is not a happy welcome to the town. nating pictures and accounts of daring adventures, livery, astounding inventions and new discoveries in avia- bald, elderly man in servant's who Most unfortunate! The brigadier, how- tion, engineering, electricity, chemistry, physics, passed him at the bottom step and hur- ever, informs me that he soon will arrest radio. Written so you can understand it. Don't miss this month's issue—a thrilling record of the world's ried forward. Breen tried to remember the criminal. It was . . . this . . . newest wonders—25c at all newsstands. him but failed. American?" POPULAR MECHANICS "Good evening, sir," the servant spoke Breen hesitated, then said, "I have no respectfully. He was obviously British, way of knowing who it was hit me." his speech and his manner and his mut- The other retorted, "But you guess! ton-chop whiskers proclaimed him for Who was the beginning of all our trou- & FISHING what he was, a gentleman's servant proud bles? He never was wanted here! He of his station. "H-allow me to carry the was an outsider from the start! If l/mut ItcMiflT luggage, sir. Thank you, sir. The Pavie only had not encouraged him to camera? Very well, sir." remain when his duties as a soldier were SEND FOR THIS 100- Breen had handed over his single hand- over! And then the creature married PAGE FISHING GUIDE bag, but swung the camera by its strap to . . . and then killed! And killed again!" 1 NOTED anglers 1FREE • as Courtney Riley his shoulder. He passed the servant, and The two glasses rattled together in Cooper.OzarkRipley and oth- "I the old man's hand as he picked them ers helped edit it. Identifies fish walked to meet Ruban. make you incolors. Baitandfly casting les- drink," the held his glass, sons. Fishing hints. Every angler welcome," the count said in that precise up. "We count wants this book. Write today ! English of his, almost without accent. "to your health, my friend." He lifted SOUTH BEND BAIT COMPANY 5 1 High St. South Bend, Ind. Gets it. "For half an hour I have been waiting, it higher. "And to . . . our ... to those fearful that you had decided not to pay in whom we held great pride." His me the compliment of a visit, after all." voice faltered and his glass touched 44 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Breen's. At the same instant a car rumbled under the tall windows. The Frenchman set down his drink quickly. "The other guests," he said, control- ing himself. "Henry!" The servant already was standing in the wide doorway to the hall. He came for- ward now, and Breen glanced at him again. He had noticed the man's eyes when he took the bag; they were still the same; more than a little troubled. "If you wish, sir," he said politely to Breen, "your room. It is ready now." "Ah, yes, yes," Ruban agreed. "Show my friend the way. I shall open the door to the others." As Breen mounted the stone stair behind the servant, he heard the voices of the arriving guests in the porch. Ruban was greeting them jovially, with no hint that a moment ago he was swallowing hard, trying to speak of his dead son. "I 'ave laid out your things, sir," the servant was explaining as they stepped into the room. Breen paused and looked around. It was a small, pleasant apart- ment, and the window gave on the hill- side. "If there is something you wish, sir." "Nothing, thanks," Breen answered. "Your name, maybe." " 'Enry," the man said. "Nothing else? Thank you, sir." He bowed himself out and closed the door. But a moment later he opened it. Breen still was standing, peering about, admiring the old paneling on the walls." "Yes?" he said. " "I . . . Henry looked back into the corridor over his shoulder. Breen stared at him. The fellow was badly frightened over something. Martin Branner, Union Leader smoker, and famous creator of "Winnie Winkle" "What's the trouble, 'Enry?" Breen asked. X7"OU'RE right, Mr. Branner, Union packed a pipe. For downright smok- "Why, sir. I 'ate to trouble you, " * Leader's got everything it takes ing satisfaction, match it against but . . . to any smoker feel he's sittin' any expensive brand know. He paused, once more looked back make you But quickly. Then he said, "Nothing, sir," pretty. Here's a tobacco fit for a king, we warn you, Mister, the odds are all and stepped back into the hallway and yet priced for every man. The most in favor of Union Leader at a dime a closed the door after himself. mellow old Kentucky Burley that ever tin. (Swell for cigarettes, too!) The mirror over the dressing table was © P. Lorillard Co.. Inc. a long plate affair, in a gilt frame. Breen shrugged, seeing his own reflection in it. His face was twisted with surprise at the servant's behavior. UNION LEADER He had retied his cravat, rinsed his hands, and was turning back toward the door when his eyes fell upon the window. He halted abruptly. Through the glass, a face was peering in at him. Hardly believing what he actually saw, he stared back at it. It disappeared. But not until Breen recog- nized it. It had been Lascher. So the fellow still eluded the pursuing brigadier! Breen crossed quickly to the window. For perhaps twenty seconds he stood, wondering what to do, whether to spread the alarm . . . and look like a fool in the eyes of everyone here ... or bide his time and say {Continued on page 46) JUNE, 1936 Unfinished business

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nothing. "Wait," he decided. Pulling "Who hit you? Who's that yelling?" back on the heavy panel, he realized that "Careful!" the servingman warned. the corridor outside, which had been illu- His breath was thin, and the word hardly minated, when he came in those few passed his lips. "Careful! He'll . " minutes ago, by two large candles in kiU silver sticks, now was dark. But the shriek arose again from below He felt his way along it. The stair stairs, and Breen ran out of the room and lay only some thirty paces down the down the stone steps. Two women and corridor, as he remembered, but it, too, a short man were peering out through the was dark. He reached into his pocket curtain to the huge livingroom. Breen for matches. At his right hand stood the did not take time to notice them. The table with the candlesticks on it. He cries had come from the back of the could see that much—and more—in the house. He found his way through the reflection of firelight from his own room. diningroom, with candles already lighted A something that moved ever so slightly, on the table. there in the dark. Instinctively he reached At the same instant, a woman, the for the nearest candlestick, but his hand cook he judged by her cap and apron, touched the candle at its top, instead, and ran from a door which, swinging open, If your radiator gets clogged and over- hot wax clung to his fingers. He caught disclosed a pantry. heats, you can waste a lot of time and money it farther down, quickly struck a match. "There!" she pointed back. "There! to it. trying clean Let a lady help you. She A man sprawled, face downward, on Assassin! He kills monsieur the count! uses Sani-Flush in her bathroom to clean the carpet, close to Breen's feet. He Stop him! Stop!" the toilet bowl. She can show you how to was moving slowly forward, with small The pantry was a large one, with a remove rust and sediment that choke the hitches of his legs. His head, bald on door leading from it to a courtyard. cooling system of your car. top, was bleeding terribly. Here, too, in the doorway, a man lay Pour Sani-Flush in the radiator. Run the "What's this?" Breen cried, and bent upon his back, his feet in the room, his engine. Drain, flush and refill. Sani-Flush over him. It was 'Enry, the British man- head on the stone flagging outside. The cleans out the harmful sludge and lime servant. He was gasping, trying to lamp, hanging from the ceiling, shone deposits for ten cents. Keeps the water speak. Breen picked him up in his full on his face. circulating and cool. Use it at least twice a arms and quickly started toward his It was the count himself, with trickle year. Sani-Flush is safe. Cannot hurt alu- a room. minum cylinder head, block or fittings. Sold own of blood running from the corner of his by grocery, drug, hardware, and five-and- A voice lifted suddenly in a fearful mouth. Breen went down to his knees ten-cent stores — 25c and 10c sizes. The scream. beside him. But at once he glanced Hygienic Products Company, Canton, Ohio. "Assist!" it shrieked. "Assist!" up, startled. Out there, not half a Breen put 'Enry down on his own bed, dozen paces away, someone was moving gently, but without wasting a second. through the shrubbery. Sani-Rush "Back in a minute," he promised. End of Part One KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN

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JUN I0R LEGION as level as a table and as treeless. Early at Austin burned in 1881 and the legis- travelers marked their routes with stakes, lators decided to erect in its place the BAND hence the name. It has forests and lum- largest state capitol in the country. They ber camps whose production is surpassed appropriated a million acres to meet the by that of only three or four other States. bill and then to make absolutely certain Texas raises a third of America's cotton increased the grant to three million and one-fifth of the world's crop. It raises acres. more mules than Missouri. Texas has oil camps that look as if Every Post should sponsor a band for Sons of the Legion. Wonderful train- Texas is the cradle of the western they sprang up over night, and it has ing for boys; spurs interest in all Post aciivities. Any interested individual cattle industry. The ranch is a Texas the beautiful city of San Antonio built can putitover. Buescher will help you Btart, show how to organize for cer- creation. Cow-puncher is a native Texas around a cluster of missions that are tain success. Write or send the cou- pon for details. word. So is maverick, meaning an un- more than two hundred years old. Of FREE TRIAL on any Buescher True- Tone instrument for band or orchestra. branded calf; it comes from the Maverick these the Alamo has become a national Easy playing features mean fast prog- ress. Send coupon now for details of family, still in the cattle business in shrine. On the day the declaration of trial offer; easy payments. Mention in- strument which interests you— cornet, Texas. The longhorns of fifty years ago independence was signed and the Re- trombone, saxophone, etc. have been replaced by less picturesque public of Texas proclaimed, March 2, stock. The ranges are under fence and 1836, the 183 defenders of the Alamo many of the old ranches split up. Yet were in their ninth day of battle. On

the largest beef-on-the-hoof institution March 7 th the Alamo fell. Santa Anna, BUESCHER BAND INSTRUMENT CO. is into with a well- 637 Buescher Bldg., Elkhart, Ind. in the country the million-acre King who had marched Texas Without obligation please tell i Ranch near Uvalde where Vice-President appointed army of seven thousand men, r Legion Band [ ] Send details of trial offer on Garner comes from. then wiped out the three remaining de- t 1 Father [ J Son Instrument Name The time was not so long ago when tachments comprising the military estab-

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The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly created government and the civil popu- lation in flight toward the Louisiana border one man, with three followers, faced the other way to confront Santa Anna. The man was Sam Houston. Rallying nine hundred men about him Houston fenced with Santa Anna on a retreat that lasted forty-eight days and covered half the breadth of Texas. Then, with the Mexican forces unwisely divided, Houston fell upon the army commanded by Santa Anna in person, crushed it and captured all the survivors. This was the battle of San Jacinto, terminating a military operation that defies explana- tion except that it was the work of Sam Houston, himself an enigma. After San Jacinto, Houston's object was to annex Texas to the United States, by that means regaining his American citizenship and resuming a career he had abandoned in mystery and heartbreak seven years before. In 1829, as governor of Tennessee and a friend of Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston was looked upon as one of the country's rising men for whom the presidency did not seem beyond the pale of possibility. Then he married a Tennessee belle and a few weeks thereafter left his bride, resigned his office and disappeared as from the face of the earth. This act Houston declined to explain, whatever the occasion or the cost. Once John H. Regan, later Confederate post- master general, thought he had prevailed on him to break his silence. "Can you keep a secret?" "Yes," said Regan eagerly. "So can I," replied Sam Houston. Turning up in the Indian country beyond the Mississippi, Houston joined the Cherokee Indians, became one of their leaders and for years led a wild and dan- gerous life. As the fevers of disillusion- ment burned themselves out he drifted into Texas. Casting about for an auspicious return to the land of his birth, the exile embraced the idea of wrenching Texas from Mexico and laying it at the feet of the United States. 84 PROOF Thrice Texas offered itself and thrice was refused because of the objections The tropical strategy for an orderly retreat from the heat of New England to an extension of slave calls for austere coolness of brandy-and-soda, a refreshing territory. Houston broadened the scope the of his diplomacy. Texan ambassadors long cool drink that quickly takes the temper out of temper- trod the carpets of Whitehall and the lofty corridors of Versailles. This fron- ature. And the mint julep, too, will be a revelation if you tier republic, with a white population of make it with Three- Star Hennessy. hardly more than fifty thousand, became the pivot about which world affairs SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: revolved. With a treasury so bare that Schieffelin & Co., New York City. Importers since 1794 members of his diplomatic corps pawned their watches to meet hotel bills, Hous- ton contrived a secret alliance with * * France and England. His plan was that Texas should conquer northern Mexico, including what are now our mountain States and the California coast, and raise the Lone Star over a nation, friendly to Europe, which would rival the United States in size and resources. Before taking steps to execute this design, Houston (Continued on page 48) COGNAC BRANDY JUNE, 1936 A Qentury of Texas

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permitted the secret to leak to the Gov- degree to any other State. George ernment in Washington. The effect was Washington is no longer a Virginian but electric. New England came down from an American. Illinois does not bear, her high horse and a treaty of annexation especially, the stamp of Lincoln, Penn- But ice didn't take was signed by which Texas entered the sylvania of Franklin, Massachusetts of fit seriously in those days (except the Union on flattering terms, for one thing Webster or Tennessee of Andrew Jack- time they gave us a receiving a privilege no other State en- son. But the heritage of Sam Houston 48 at the delouser). joys—that of sub-dividing its territory remains the peculiar property of Texas. into four separate States. Texas came Not long ago in New York a group of under the flag in 1846. Two years later people were diverting themselves by • CUSTOM northern Mexico was annexed to the trying to answer this question: United States, not to the Texas Republic. "If you had to spend the rest of your TAILORED The altered arrangement made quite a days in one State which would it be?" The clothes you wear difference in the map of the New World. The man who picked Texas said he today must compli- Texans keep green the memory of the did so because he could spend an ordi- ment you . . . that's achievements of their grandsires. Those nary lifetime exploring the different en- the law of society and business. Nash achievements form an integral part of vironments it offers and be about as well Custom Tailored the culture of that commonwealth today. off for variety as if a continent were at Clothes, made of fin- I do not believe this applies in the same his disposal. est pure wool fabrics, give you the ultimate in good appearance. The Legion's Share in the Centennial

By Albert Curtis

NASH THE 450 Texas posts of The American of them started early. For example, l9!4ElmSt..Cinti. O. Legion have an important role in San Antonio on March 6th opened her 60 branch offices, the Texas Centennial Celebration. Two share of the general celebration by ob- principal cities. Have years ago they began to sell Centennial serving the one hundredth anniversary a Nash representa- half-dollars, charging for them one of the Fall of the Alamo. The five San tive call. Or visit our local office. Authentic style folder mailed upon request. dollar. The coins were minted by the Antonio posts of The American Legion Federal Government under authority joined other veterans' societies to present granted by special act of Congress, and reproductions of the thirteen battle flags the Legion above which the Texans carried to Silver Trailers the amount realized by victory Moon the intrinsic value is to be used for pur- a century ago. These flags now decorate poses in keeping with the Centennial the Alamo, "Shrine of Texas Liberty." observance. November nth, Armistice Day, has Money derived from the Legion sale been tentatively set aside as The Ameri- of coins is being used in building the can Legion's own day at the Centennial Texas Museum on the campus of the Exposition in Dallas. It is almost certain University of Texas at Austin. This will also that there will be on the exposition A home wherever you may roam. give a fitting setting for the rich historical grounds a booth in which will be sold un- A lightweight trailer of airflow design. Ideal to accommodate four. and archeological treasures of the State. der Legion and Auxiliary auspices a Prices as low as $350 complete. Each of the 450 Legion posts of the wide variety of articles made by patients ALMA TRAILER CO. State is expected to sponsor a centennial of the Veterans Administration hospitals ALMA MICHIGAN celebration in its own community. Some in Texas.

jailor ^Meets jailor FREE {Continued from page 28) GIFT BOOK refugees from their country, two Ameri- railroad workers, and prisoners of war cans and a French staff non-com. under custody of the French. 176 pages We learn that Major James Duffy, Equipment included four cranes, a lo- 10,000 GIFT Q. M. C, hailing from Pennsylvania, was comotive and American trucks, and the IDEAS the officer in charge; that a former Second biggest day's loading totaled 990 tons Choose your gifts Division man, Major Shaeffer of West of coal, almost all of which was handled DIAMONDS-WATCHES this easy way. Saves Virginia and of the Southern Railway, by man power. Some record! time, saves money. Officer, while Lieuten- High cost of living? How about the JEWELRY-SILVER Over a million sat- served as Medical isfied customers ant W. H. Baxter from Tennessee was the high cost of fighting? Although this coal LEATHER GOODS since 1870. All de- livery charges pre- Railroad Transportation Officer. To came from British mines, probably two Write today NOVELTIES -GIFTS paid. add to the confusion, the outfits func- days' sailing from Base Section No. 1, it SIX MONTHS TO PAY for FREE Gift Book. tioning at Base Section No. 1 included is recorded that something like $21.00 a JASON WEILER-9AIRD NORTH CO. units of the Motor Transport Corps, the ton was paid by an American mess for 385 L WASHINGTON STREET Railroad Transportation Corps, American supplies from this pile. BOSTON, MASS. colored pioneers, French stevedores and Somewhat sketchy, this account of 48 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ours, but we're sure that some veterans of Base Section No. i, after seeing the pic- ture, will step forward and add many HERES HOW TO GET A facts to the story. Everyone's invited. ENJOY two major attractions for the REAL USED CAR BARGAIN price of one railroad fare!—that might be the rallying cry of those outfits For YourBonus Money which will hold their reunions during the Legion national convention in Cleveland, September 21st to 24th. Better get busy

if you want your wartime gang to hold a SO YOU RE BUYING A reunion there and then. Write to the USED CAR, JOE?... WHERE Company Clerk of the Monthly so that ARE YOU GOING TO BUY IT? announcement may be published in this

column, and also to J. M. Sawyer, Re- union Chairman of the convention, 14907 /IM TAKING NO CHANCES, ED Lakewood" Heights Boulevard, Lake- FIRST, wood, Ohio, who will help in arranging )...l PICK THE DEALER 1 for headquarters and such entertainment / 5EE7...A DEPENDABLE DODGE as you may contemplate. ( DEALER. ..THEN I KNOW I'LL Detailed information regarding the \6ET A REAL BARGAIN following Cleveland national convention reunions may be obtained from the Legionnaires whose names appear:

Natl. Organization World War Nurses— Annual meeting and reunion. .Mrs. Bertha Welter, THAT'S RIGHT... NEVER X natl. secy., Elkhart, Ind. National Reunion. The Yeomen F— Margaret THOUGHT OF THAT.. . D0DGe\ R. Wellbank, adjt., 2548 Diamond st., Philadelphia, Pa. ALWAYS HAS BEEN FAMOUS 4th Div. Assoc.—National and Ohio State re- j union. Headquarters and banquet at Carter Hotel. FOR DEPENDABILITY/ Roy L. Hiller, ehmn., 418 liurleigh av., Dayton, Ohio. YD (26th) Div.—YD men in Cleveland and vicinity are needed to arrange for YD reunion dinner and placing of memorial tablet on Gen. YES SIR. ..AND A DODGE Edwards' birthplace in Cleveland during Legion national convention. Write to Len Maloney, natl. DEALER'S THE PLACE TO pres., Y. D. V. A., 208 State bldg., Hartford, Conn. - 80th Div.—Proposed reunion and dinner. C. D. GET A REAL SELECTION Ackerman, ex-lst It., 317th Inf., 2170 Atkins av., Lakewood, Ohio. EVERY MAKE AND MODEL AT 320th Inf., Cos. I and M. G.—Reunion by mail, and plans for Cleveland convention reunion. Jack R0CK-B0TT0M PRICES Steinlen, Clinton Corners, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 8th F. A., Btry. C, 7th Div.—Reunion. J. W. Shattuck, 1185 St. Charles av., Lakewood, Ohio. 78th F. A., Btry. F—Proposed reunion. Everett O. Powell, Salem, Ark. /^OUSEE, ED, MORE PEOPLE 14th BNORS. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion. Al Grant, dir. of publicity, 823 E. 78th St., Chicago, 111. Write ( BUY DODGE CARS THAN ANY C. E. Scott, 54 College av., Medford, Mass. for the News. V OTHER MAKE -EXCEPTING 2 1st Enors. L. R. Soc.— 16th annual reunion at Cleveland, Sept. 20-22. F. G. Webster, secy.-treas., THE THREE LOWEST-PRICED 6819-a Prairie av., Chicago, 111. CARS.. 23d Enors. Assoc.— Reunion. Henry J. Sterk, .SO DODGE DEALERS secy.-treas., 3938 W. 02d St., Chicago, 111. Write PLENTY TRADE-INS B. H. Benson, 518 N. Cuyler av., Chicago, for copy HAVE OF of The Engineer Atony the IHf/hway of Life. TO CHOOSE FROM 29th Enors.—First national reunion. H. E. Sei- fert, 4 Tonkin ct., Kent, Ohio. 307th Engrs., Co. B—National convention re- union. Send name and address to M. H. Binkley, 7403 Dellenbaugh av., Cleveland, Ohio. SOUNDS LOGICAL TO ME ... M. T. C. Units 301-2-3, Nevers and Vernevil GUESS ILL SEE A DODGE DEALER^ —Reunion. Wm. R. Naylon, 1721 Burgess rd., Cleveland. COULD USE A CAR MYSELF M. T. C. Unit 310—Proposed reunion. Frank Florea, Route 1, Bridgeville, Del. 199th Aero Sqdrn.—Proposed reunion. Lee H. Northfield, Ohio. Beers, of wise motorists the country over are turning to Dodge dealers 224th Aero Sqdrn.—Proposed reunion. W. V. THOUSANDS Matthews, 2208 Cuming St., Omaha, Nebr. to buy their used cars and used trucks. 851st Aero Sqdrn.—Proposed reunion. Ralph Krupp, 70 W. Market St., Tiffin, Ohio. Here's why— first, they know that more people are buying Dodge cars than Air Service Reunion-banquet of all air service — any other make, with the exception of the three lowest-priced cars. As a result, veterans. J. E. Jennings, natl. adjt., 1128 S. 3d st., Louisville, Ky. Dodge dealers everywhere have an amazingly wide selection of fine trade-ins. Amer. R. R. Trans. Corps A. E. F. Vets. — Annual reunion. Gerald J. Murray, natl. adjt., Second—these wise buyers know that the Dodge dealer is dependable. Every 1210 Watson av., Scranton, Pa. Dodge dealer knows his reputation for dependability is his greatest asset. Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets.— What's Annual reunion. Craig S. Herbert, personnel offer., more, these dealers have the kind of cars you're looking for—because they've 3333 N. 18th st., Philadelphia, Pa. Navy—All-Navy banquet. Write to Navy Post, made it their business to obtain cars that are both economical to buy and American Legion, 4022 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. economical to operate. Naval Aviation Camp, Cap Ferret, France— Proposed reunion. Charles G. Webb, Jr., U. S. See your Dodge dealer now! Under Commercial Credit Company easy, low- Vets. Facility, Marion, Ind. cost terms, he can arrange suited to Boston Naval Prison Guard—Reunion of monthly payments best your budget— 1917-18 vets. John M. Wells, Ohio Soldier's Claims whether the payments are $10, $15, $20, or any other amount. and Records, 107 Wyandotte bldg., Columbus, Ohio. U. S. S. Hancock—Proposed reunion. Frank L. Mahoney, ex -sparks, 500 Main st., Brockton, Mass. U. S. S. Iowa and U. S. S. Rhode Island— Reunion. Report your own and shipmates' addresses to Wendell R. Lerch, 400 Front st., Berea, Ohio. U. S. S. South Carolina—Proposed reunion. J. DODGE M. Williams, 806 W. William St., Kendallville, Ind. (Continued on page 60) DIVISION OF CHRYSLER CORPORATION JUNE, 1936 49 — —!

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Base Hosp. No. 136 4th annual reunion. Elmer ""^ — has announced a change in the dates of Dome! V. McCarthy, M. D„ secy., 108 N. State St., Chicago, 111. its annual national reunion to be held at Evac. Hosp. No. 6 Vets. Assoc. —Convention BONUS DOLLAR the Hotel YOUR reunion. Russell I. Prentiss, South Lincoln, Mass. Madison, Atlantic City, New Evac. Hosp. No. 10—Proposed reunion of entire Jersey. Instead of July 16-19, this re- Goes Farther staff. Herman A. Wenige, P. O. Box 448, Jefferson- ville, Ind. union will be held July 9-12. For par- Buys Real Enjoyment Evac Hosp. No. 22—Proposed reunion of offi- cers, nurses, enlisted men. Paul E. Desjardins, ticulars, write to Charles J. McCarthy, Lapeer, Mich. secretary, When You Choose a Camp Surgeons Office Assoc., Camp Merritt, Box 137, Camden, New Jersey. N. J. —Reunion. Dr. Arthur L. Hyde, 812 Slattery For particulars of the following, write SILVER DOME Trailer bldg., Shreveport, La. Prisoners of War—Proposed reunion of all ex- to the Legionnaires listed: The Recognized Leader prisoners of war. Irving Zolie, Woodrow Hotel, Beaumont, Tex. Second Div. —Banquet and reunion in conjunc- Join the parade of happy families trav- Soc. of Crossed Quills—Ex-field clerks. W. J. tion with Calif. Legion Dept. Conv., Hollywood, eling and seeing the country in Silver Dome Mueller, secy., 3316 N. Ninth St., St. Louis, Mo. Calif., Aug. 10-12. E. M. Lewin, secy., 650 S. Spring Trailers. Invest your bonus in real enjoy- Greek Veterans Reunion—Hellenic Post, st., Los Angeles. ment. Legion, Cleveland, will be host to all veterans of Society of Third Div. —Annual national re- Greek extraction. Vlahos John Harris, chmn., union. Hotel Madison, Atlantic City, N. J., July See new horizons every day ! Thrill to 1641 Grace av., Lakewood, Ohio. 9-12. C. J. McCarthy, secy., Box 137, Camden, new experiences that add zest to living N. J. Here is the finest of all modes of travel Fourth Div., Calif.—Annual state reunion, yet it is surprisingly inexpensive. TO VIMY!" is the rallying cry during Dept. Conv., Aug. 9. Register at 4th Div. Complete living, eating, and sleeping ac- ON Dugout, Hollywood Post, A. L., 2035 N. Highland commodations. Four new 1936 models. 16 of thousands of veterans of the av., Hollywood, Calif. Special entertainment. to feet long, separate bedrooms and Canadian Corps who on Easter Edw. J. Maire, secy.-treas., 1170 N. Cummings St., rear dinette—also private bath and lavatory Monday Los Angeles. accommodations. The biggest coaches at morning of 1917 added glory to Canada Society of Fifth Div.—Annual national re- lowest prices in Silver union, Hotel Biltmore, Providence, R. I., Sept. 5-7. the ». , ' Dome history. Send lOtf for 7 in the capture of Vimy Ridge. The pil- Walter F. Pears, gen. chmn., 62 Louis av.. Provi- 20-page illustrated catalogue. dence. Copies of 5th Div. History may be obtained *465 grimage to France, to be made in five DEALERS: send for attrac- . from William B. Bruce, 48 Ayrault St., Providence. equipped tive sales plan. "troop" ships that will sail from Montreal Yankee (26th) Div. Vets. Assoc. — National convention, Worcester, Mass., June 26-28. Edwin SILVER DOME, Incorporated in July, will include all who served with J. Noyes, gen. secy., Bancroft Hotel, Worcester. 441 York Street, Detroit, Michigan Society of the 28th Div., A. E. F. Sixth also all — the Corps and ex-"Imperials." annual convention, Wilkinsburg, Pa., July 30-Aug. Many of these veterans are Americans 1. Wm. G. Blough, secy., P. O. Box 11, Homewood WANT a new business Sta., Pittsburgh, Pa. and many more are Canadians now living 30th Div.—To obtain copy of limited edition profession of your own, divisional history, write to E. A. Murphy, Lepanto, in the United States. DO YOU with all the trade you can Ark. attend to? Then become a To Boulogne, France, and then three 30th Div. Assoc.—Reunion in Nashville, Tenn., foot correctionist, and in a few weeks earn Sept. 29. Warren A. Fair, Lincolnton, N. C. will be spent "up the line" Assoc. Biennial big income in service fees not medical nor days in an 32d Drv. Vet. — convention- — Milwaukee, Wise, Sept. 5-6 (changed from tour the reunion, chiropody—easy terms for home training, no extended of battlefields, climaxed Sept. 19-20.) Byron Beveridge, secy., 1148 Florence further capital needed, no goods to buy, no by the unveiling of the two-million-dollar ct., Madison, Wise. agency. Established 1894. Address 37th Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc.— 18th annual Canadian War Memorial on Vimy Ridge. reunion. Hotel Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio, Stephenson Laboratory, II Back Bay, Boston, Mass. Sept. 5-7. Jas. A. Sterner, 1101 Wyandotte bldg., Then "Blighty" — England — where Columbus, Ohio. plans are being made for King Edward Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets. —Annual national convention-reunion, Kansas City, Mo., July 13-15. VIII to review the veterans. Captain Eric Send for free copy of The Rainbow Reveille, to Be a Radio Expert Harold B. Rodier, 717 Sixth st., N. W., Washington, Acland of the Toronto Evening Tele- D. C. Learn gram, Toronto, Canada, will be glad to Ohio Rainbow Div. Vets. Assoc. —Annual re- ai Home -Make Good Money union, Mayflower Hotel, Akron, Ohio, June 5-6. Mail the coupon. Men I trained at home in spare time make supply detailed information upon request. Dale F. Powers, 56 Kent rd., Tallmadge, Ohio. $30. $50. $75 a week. Many made $5, $10. $15 a week in 78th Div. Assoc. Mid-summer reunion, Camp spare time while learning. Get facts about Radio's oppor- — 24-26. tunities and my practical 50-50 method of home training. Dix, N. J., July For particulars and mem- Home experimental outfits make learning easy, practical, to get back to our country, we bership in Assoc., including subscription to The fascinating. Money back agreement protects you. Use part NOW Flash, write to John Kennedy, secy., New Hope, Pa. of your bonus money to assure your permanent happiness. find more outfit activities sched- 38th U. S. Inf., 3d Div.—Vets, desiring roster of Mail_coupon for free C4-page book. company, send name, address and company to uled. The Society of the Third Division J. E. SMITH. President. Dept. 6FS3, A. H. Zindel, 558 W. 193d st.. New York City. J National Radio Institute, Washington, D. C. ' Send me your free hook, "Rich Rewards in Radio." 1 This does not obligate me. (Please write plainly.)

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312th Inf., 78th Div. —All day reunion, Essex House, Newark, N. J., May 2,id (date changed from May 30th.) 312th Reunion Committee, 620 High st., Newark. 355th Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Kearney, Nebr., Sept. 20-21. C. W. Hill, pres., Kearney. First Georgia Inf. Vet. Assoc.—Third annual reunion of vets of period June 191(5 to Sept., HERE'S 16 1917, YEARS SUCCESS at Augusta, Ga., June 2S. James C. Bush, 3 Pine Grove av., secy., Augusta. 110th Inf., Co. H—Annual reunion, Washing- ton, Pa., July 12. Chas. Bauman, pres., 80 Victoria St., Washington. 160th Inf., Co. C (formerly Co. E, 7th Inf., Calif. N. G.)—Reunion, Legion Clubhouse, Santa Monica, Calif., June 10. Frank I. Bailey, 548-15th GIVING WORN MOTORS NEW St., Santa Monica. 56th Pioneer Inf.—5th annual reunion, Mon- roe, N. C, Aug. 7. John Winchester, secy., Monroe. 11th F. A.—Reunion, York, Pa., Sept. 5-7. Write R. C. Dickieson, secy., 6140 Saunders St., Elmhurst, N. Y., for copy new roster and The Cannoneer. 322D F. A. Assoc.— 17th reunion, Hamilton, CAR PEP. Ohio., Aug. 15. L. B. P0WER.EC0N0MY Fritsch, secy., Box 324, Hamilton. 12th F. A., Btrt. C—Reunion-dinner during 2d The pioneerexpander- Millions of cars in millions of miles of Div. reunion, Washington, D. C, July 16-18. RAMCO— | Irving Chayken, Parthenon bldg., Hammond, Ind. type spring piston ring. The ONE 64th C. A. C, Btry. D and E—Reunion, Toledo, actual service have PROVED, beyond the Ohio, June 27-28. T. E. Watson, secy., 605 Ogden spring ring construction used and av., Toledo. shadow of a doubt, that proved for 16 years in millions the revolution- 5th Regt. Marines, 49th Co.—Reunion, Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C, July 16-18, of cars. The largest selling spring ary Ramco Overhaul is as effective as during 2d Div. reunion. A. L. Geist, Newark, Del. 6th Regt., 82d Co., U. S. Marine Corps ring in the world^^^ss^ Assoc. costly —Reunion and dedication of memorial with 2d a rebore job or motor exchange Div. Assoc., Washington, D. C, July 16-18. Send to D. N. Harding, 119 Applet on st., Cambridge YET! COSTS 50% LESS Mass., for free copy Company News. 6th Regt. Marines, 83d Co.—Annual reunion, Washington, D. C, July 16-18. Write to B. Steve Schwebke, 1232 Bellevue av., Los Angeles, Calif., YOU SURE YES. MY for copy of The Noble Following. 6th Regt. Marines, 75th Co.—Reunion, Wash- WERE WISE TO REPAIRMAN ington, D. G, July 16-18. Send name and address to C. L. Kelly, Patton, Pa. GET RAMCO RECOMMENDED Marine Det., U. S. Nav. Radio Sta., Tucker- ton, N. J. —Proposed reunion. Arthur V. Waldron, RINGS RAMCO. ANDTHE Socony Vacuum Co., 230 Park av., New York City. Vets, of 13th Engrs., Ry. —7th reunion, Des installed, OLD BUS SEEMS Moines, Iowa, June 20-21. James A. Elliott, secy.- treas., 721 E. 21st st., Little Rock, Ark. everybody LIKE NEW AGAIN. Vets, of 31st Ry. Engrs., A. E. F.—8th re- they're OIL union, Denver, Colo., Aug. 23-25. F. E. Love, knows NO MORE secy.-treas., Wi]/2 First St., S. 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Whitest., Champaign. 225th Aero Sqdrn.— Letter reunion. Write to eliminated. Oil pumping stops instantly. L. J. Ford, 628 W. York st., Philadelphia, Pa. For example, E. V. Blackman writes : "I have 313th F. S. Bn.— 16th annual reunion, Chamber- lain Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 3. Dr. Chas. a 1931 Tudor Ford. In June I had a Ramco L. Jones, secy., Gilmore City, Iowa. Overhaul and started a long trip. I got 2643 things, don't have untried spring piston rings 309th Ammun. Trn.—Annual encampment-re- put in your car. Insist union, Shakamak Park, Jasonville, Ind., Sun., miles on one quart of oil when the car for- upon Ramco—the Sept. 6. Free rations and quarters to buddies. merly used a quart every 40 to 60 miles." only spring ring construction road tested H. E. Stearley, 403 N. Meridian, Brazil, Ind. and proved for Co. F 309th Sup. Trn. Soc— 10th annual 16 years. Coupon brings re- And this is all you have to do to make the union, Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 8-9. 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pionship Chicago Junior Baseball team, Junior Baseball program for the State and here he was bobbing up against the is another fine ex-major leaguer, Doc Tigers in World Series competition last Lavan, of Grand Rapids, who for ten fall. years shortstopped for the Athletics, I have a first hand conception of what Browns, and Cardinals. And every so it means to be a member of a world often I notice by the newspapers that championship baseball team. It's a this or that former big-timer is keeping thrill which will never be forgotten by his hand in by managing or coaching a any member of the 1035 Tigers. For a Junior Baseball team in his own com- boy to be a member of a national cham- munity. pion Junior Baseball club must be an- I know Johnson electrifies outboard motor- that the major leagues through dom with news of two brilliant mo- other unforgettable experience, and the tors, priced to bring genuine John- when medium of the annual inter-league son DEPENDability within the reach these 000 young teams start the sea- all-star of all. Highest official certified pow- 35, game make a sizable financial er ratings in their respective classes! son this under Legion auspices, contribution Johnson quality features throughout! June to the Legion's national the championship will FREE HANDY CHART bug be biting the program of Junior Baseball. This is boys of each club. well Write for new illustrated Sea-Horse money spent, not only upon a basis Handy Chart of motor sizes and spe- This desire to excel is a healthy of popularizing cifications, the most important Handy good the sport, but also as pre- Chart ever Sent FREE! published* American habit. We need all we can get senting the possibilities of a career JOHNSON MOTOR COMPANY in 3200 Pershing Rd.,Waukegan, 111 of the competitive winning spirit in this professional baseball to thousands of Canadian Johnson Motor Co., Ltd., Peterboro, Canada country. American youths. A lot of boys who weren't more than Each year during the season at Navin OHNSON Ga-teut seventeen years old had what it took back Field, hundreds of junior players from OUTBOARD C_^/ MOTORS in 1017-18, and reaching middle age throughout the State of Michigan are now, they are trying to pass on a heritage the guests of the Detroit Baseball Club of a winning competitive habit to up and at Navin Field games. And speaking as AIRO MATTRESS coming youngsters of this generation by I may as manager of the Tigers, we have giving them the opportunity to play this every desire to continue our support of in Trailer Bunks grand old game of baseball. this fine program of The American OH on the Ground Here in Michigan, as head of the Legion.

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for years, beware the gentleman with the "boneyard" salesman would do well to spats who offers to swap them for a live- remember this: A survey recently con- lier issue. ducted by the National Better Business Other one-time stockateers have fled Bureau revealed that of all the memorial the stock field altogether, to devote their park promotions sold in the last ten • TIME COUNTS talents to brand new conceptions of "in- years as investments, only one has been Do sk delay in prutecl kik your ideas, vestment opportunities." These successful, and that only moderately so. oena Bn.er.cn or moae! lor instructions or write for FREE BOOK. may "Patent Guide for the Inventor," and "Re ord of Invention" form. No charge on how to proceed. Prompt, careful, efficient Bervice. emerge with this patter: "Don't put The "share-breeding" set-up is one of CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN AND HYMAN HERMAN in stocks, if the slickest devices (on Registered Patent Attorneys your money buddy. Not money-making 247-R Adams Building Washington, D. C. you want a real return on your invest- paper) ever offered to a man with a little ." To Buy Cartridges ment. I have here some shares of . . spare cash. One plan provides that the It may be "memorial park lots," "breed- investor purchase a trio—two females for ing shares," or "home-grown fortunes." and a male—of silver foxes, to be left Your Judging from recent trends, one of the in charge of the promoter on a ranch or propositions most likely to make a bid breeding farm. The promoters agree to .22 for your bonus money is the "investment" buy the progeny at $500 each. These in a "memorial park," i.e., a cemetery. ranched animals may cost $3,000 with regular all-'round use on JOR The build-up is elaborate. "Statistics" an offer of $500 for each of the progeny. shooting holidays, at average ranges, askforregular Winchester concerning the annual deaths as related The promoter unreels an endless chain Staynless, with greased lead or Kopperklad bullets. Clean—won't rust the rifle, and so accurate they're to the available burial space in your com- of profits—on paper. Your first trio, he popular for fine target practice. Kopperklads can be munity are produced, making it appear says, produces ten little foxes; you sell carried loose in your pocket, won't muss fingers. . . . For quicker, harder hitting at long range, get that, due to an acute shortage of space, seven for $3500, and now have two breed- Winchester Staynless Super Speeds. They're 25% faster, have 60% more power, than regular Stayn- there's going to be an immediate boom ing trios. Next year these trios produce less, yet no more. . . . For serious match shoot- cost in cemetery lots a dollar invested now 20 foxes, and you start your third year ing, of course you want Winchester Precision Spe- — cial Target cartridges. Used by the three shooters will become twenty in a year. It is not with $qooo profit from sale of offspring, winning highest rank in the three big 1935 Inter- national team matches at Camp Perry National Rifle unusual for these promotions to be geared and three breeding trios to carry on

. . all sure to get Win- Matches. . For your shootingbe for a $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 take. profits multiplying each year. chester .22s. At your dealers. . . . For new 64 page catalog of Winchester World Standard Guns and The racket started some years ago in the But after he has your money, you learn Ammunition— FREE—write to Winchester Repeating silver fox, Arms Co., Dept. l^C, New Haven, Conn., U. S. A. Midwest, and has more recently moved how frail is the health of a eastward—Cleveland, Boston, Philadel- how high the birth mortality, and how phia, Baltimore. Those who feel them- manifold the factors conspiring to keep TVmCH£ST£R selves slipping under the spell of a your fox family from multiplying. You

52 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly learn that your first litter produced only two young foxes, one of which died and the other of which must have a mate for breeding—another $1000, please. This same formula is followed with other projects—rabbits, muskrats, bull- frogs. HALF E HALF MAKES Gold mines in your basement are pre- dicted by sellers of mushroom spawn who predict a brilliant success for any grower. Again the Department of Agri- culture pricks the bubble. They say mushroom growing requires temperature ONE SWELL SMOKE! controlling equipment and expert knowl- edge. Numerous experimenters who have tried to raise them under the direc- tion of the spawn sellers are inclined to agree. One amateur grower reports suc- cess. He raised three pounds of mush- rooms—at a cost of $14.75. Maybe you had in mind using the bonus cash to fix up the old homestead. If so, there's the "home repair" racket to contend with. One firm, operating out of Pittsburgh, sends crews to many other cities. A crew consists of a pair of glib salesmen and a "hurry-up" gang of slapdash workmen such as recently whisked through Akron. Small home owners, with property clear, were offered brick veneering jobs under the old some- thing-for-nothing appeal. They were told their places would be used as "model homes" for advertising purposes, and that they would receive $50 for each job subsequently done in that section. Sales- men "guaranteed" not less than $600 in such bonuses the first year. In other words, the veneering jobs would "really cost nothing, and might net a profit." Won over by the promises of the sales- men, home owners signed. Before the signature was dry, the "hurry-up" gang of workmen arrived and began applying lath, plaster and tile to the house, thus Just add 'em up, Mister, and you legally "commencing operations" and have what it takes. Cool as a "ticket" irrevocably binding the bargain. The scheme gave the owner no chance for for overtime parking. Sweet as the rational thinking, price comparison, or proof it was all a mistake. Fragrant, possible change of mind. When he finally found time to read his contract, he full-bodied tobacco that won't bite learned he had signed a first lien on his the tongue—in a tin that won't bite property—amounts ranged up to $1 600. The salesmen's promises bore no relation the fingers. Made by our exclusive to the cold provisions of the contract—no including patent "guarantee," no "bonus." And home modern process owners paid up—an object lesson for the No. 1,770,920. Smells good. Makes text, "read before you sign." your pipe welcome anywhere. Tastes But possibly it's only a job you want. Here again there are quagmires—the good. Your password to pleasure! "cash bond" and "advance fee" employ- ment rackets, in which the promoter Not a bit of bite in the tobacco or the Telescope Tin, which promises you a job after you put up cer- gets smaller and smaller as you use-up the tobacco. tain sums. The promised jobs never No materialize. bitten fingers as you reach for a load, even the last one. One Detroiter who advertised for Copyright 1936, The American Tobacco Company "expert drivers and helpers with bond" demanded a $200 cash bond as protec- tion for his $70,000 truck fleet. Investi- gation disclosed that he had no trucks, ALF HALF slept in his office, and owed a restaurant bill. TAe Safe Pipe - Ter6aaao But the really dangerous cash bond schemes are {Continued on page 54) FOR PIPE OR CIGARETTE

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' 1 CMari Repealing Pistol .25 those which have a semblance of soli- employment, the purveyor of vending 5 Boxes Roll Caps .25 72 Cannon Crackers 72 darity. One such venture was a chain machine routes paints a rosy picture. 120 Flashlight Crackers 30 5 Strings Lady Crackers.. 10 of sports shops which advertised for Twenty machines on an exclusive route 15 Flash Salutes 15 2 Sky Bombs .10 managers who could post cash bonds costing $1000 will provide him a weekly 2 Pes. Ves Fountains 2 Pes Aer.al Bombs from $250 to $1000. When the New $50. All he has to do is cover the route 24 0 K. Flash Salutes 20 Sparklers York headquarters of the chain went to every other day, replenish his machines, Pkgs Chinese Crackers 10 Ball Roman Candles receivers it was found that the entire and collect the profits. That's the 6 Sky Rockers I Colored Box Fire assets of the firm amounted to $879. promoter's story. But profitable vending 5 Marble Flash Salutes .... I Wh.rl.ng Demsher The cash bonds, what remained of them, machine routes are not ordinarily sold 1 Volcano Eruption 12 Pes Assorted Fireworks were among those assets. to suckers. If, inadvertently, the pro- Flower Pot Cats Brand Crackers The "advance fee" racket is first moter does sell a route which proves Total Retail Value cousin to the cash bond. Many of these profitable, there are ways to correct the reworks for the whole family hold out the lure of employment which mistake. One method is sabotage. Your dollar buys TWO DOLLARSworthat is to follow the payment of a fee in ad- Machines are broken and robbed. The BaltimoreCireworks vance of a service supposedly to be per- route owner becomes discouraged, and AND SPECIALTY I COMPANY, INC. formed. Payment of any fee in advance the machines revert to the seller. An- CAJTERN Ave.at 45t-bJt.BaltimoreMd. is always dangerous, and is rarely if other method is almost as simple. De- ever asked by an employer or employ- spite the fact that the seller has given ment agent who is on the level. Three his sucker an "exclusive" route, he simply midwestern entrepreneurs will supply forms another corporation and, under the and Make up to $12 in a Day! examples. The petty larceny member new name, duplicates the machines on FREE nd yo ne all-wool ... OF of this trio promised jobs as signtackers to the profitable route and sells them to COST. y eiwy plan and show the auit a. Make up to S12 in a day mily. NO experience—no canvassing necessary. all who paid him $3.10 for a hammer. another customer. A slicker operating Send for Samples—FREE of COST The second racketeer was a bit more this racket in Iowa clipped his customers Write today for FREE dctailB. ACTUAL SAMPLES and end expensive. He specialized on unem- for $3000 apiece on some of the larger H. J. COLLIN, Progress Tailoring Co.. Dept. F - 1 OS, SOO S. Throop St., Chicago, III. ployed truck drivers, promising a re- routes. The Chicago branch "let them munerative hauling contract to each go" for as little as $195. man who bought a truck. Following the There will other rackets polished up HAPPY RELIEF payment of $500 down, the truck and and set in motion for the advent of the contract were delivered to the victim. bonus—old ones that haven't been cov- FROM PAINFUL The truck was seemingly in good order, ered here, and new ones that have never but the "hauling contract" was just a been worked before. BACKACHE piece of paper with scribbling on it. There are fifty-four Better Business Caused by Tired Kidneys Job seekers learned that unless payments Bureaus to give to the public, free of Many of those gnawing, nagging, painful back- were made in accordance with a sales charge, advice and information based on aches people blame on colds or strains are often contract they had unwittingly signed, years of experience in battling and expos- caused by tired kidneys — and may be relieved when treated in the right way. they lost truck and $500 together. The ing questionable promotions. Through The kidneys are one of Nature's chief ways of taking acids and wastes out of the blood. A healthy last member of the triumvirate pre- co-operation with other Bureaus, refer- person should pass about 3 pints a day and so tended to be authorized to hire chauf- ences can be traced to other cities. If get rid of more than 3 pounds of waste matter. If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't feurs, and collected various sums "to there is no Bureau in your city, consult work well, this waste stays in the body and may become poisonous. It may start nagging back- cover the expense of a uniform." your Chamber of Commerce or bank. aches, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting This formula has infinite variations, And if any new bonus rackets are abroad up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Don't let it lay you up. of course. in your community, report them. You'll Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills — used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They For the vet who is seeking outdoor be doing somebody a good turn. give happy relief and will help to flush out the 15 miles of kidney tubes. Get Doan's Pills. Watery Wind and a ^Helping ZHand

There's a Life Insurance (Continued from page 13) answer to every financial power and resources of Pennsylvania's the Legion offices on the second floor were problem. Have you found 625 Legion posts. Here was the greatest huge maps heavily marked with colored the answer to yours? center of Legion flood activity in sixteen crayons, showing flood areas and points States. where help was urgently needed—the By telephone, telegraph, the news- flood situation at a glance. papers and radio, these three men and • others directed mobilization of all posts, Post Adjutant Guess of Wheeling util- Life Insurance Company" started dollars rolling in to build a flood ized his experience as a milk company OF Boston. Massachusetts relief fund, directed movements of 2000 executive to solve the difficult problem of John Hancock Inquiry Bureau truckloads of food and clothing and other providing pure food for the flood refugees. 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. supplies to flooded areas. As rapidly as trucks arrived from Legion Please send me your booklet, The rotunda of the bank building on posts in surrounding communities, their "Answering an Important Question." the first floor was piled high for weeks loads of fresh vegetables and other per- Name with stores of canned goods, crates of ishables were placed in the cold storage Street and No bottled water, boxes of shoes and wearing rooms of the Cloverdale Dairy Company, City State A. L M. 36 apparel, mattresses and blankets, every- to be taken out as needed. The Legion thing imaginable of use to refugees. In post in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, made

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scores of gallons of soup in the kitchen of its own clubhouse, loaded the soup on trucks and dispatched it over U. S. High- LAW for SUCCESS way 40 to Wheeling, an hour's drive. Upon arrival, it was put into cold storage BUSINESS MEN everywhere recognize one equip yourself—either for the degree of in the dairy company's plant as if it had formula. It consists of three words LL. B. or for a greater success in busi- been ice cream or butter. "LAW FOR SUCCESS." ness, whichever you prefer. • And it isn't necessary to practice law to Law Training—at Home— Pennsylvania has marvelous east-and- get this success. In fact, probably most in Spare west federal highways, such roads as U. S. of the men who study law today have no Your Time Highways 40, 30 and 22, which leap over idea of taking the bar examination or There is no investment in the world likely the Allegheny Mountains, and equally becoming lawyers—they want law train- to pay a higher return than an invest- good highways traversing the valleys be- ing to give them mastery of men and situ- ment in law training. ations in business fields. You know that In otherwise wasted hours at home tween the mountains and paralleling the — (1) —the man with legal training is a —nights—with LaSalle guiding you State's rivers. The Legion's flood mo- leader—not a follower. working with you—step by step you bilization of motor trucks afforded a good — (2) —legal training keens your mind can acquire a sound legal training. lesson in national defense. clears away the problems that stump In every state in the Union, you'll find Chester County Posts sent out 35 the ordinary fellow and makes you law-trained men who came up through trucks. Reading sent more than 40 and master instead of man. LaSalle. What others havedone you can do. Norristown 35. Lebanon had 21 and (3) —knowledge of law simplifies the And LaSalle offers either a full law course leading Clairton 15. Uniontown, Cherry Tree, complexities and complications of to LL. B. or a shorter executive work. business law training whichever Corry and Bradford each came through — you (4) — many, possibly prefer. All text material with ten. Procedure approximated this: most, top executive including valuable 14- 1. "In flooded area. Condition serious. places in business to- A Salary of "$10,000 volume Law Library. blankets, shoes, Need boots, underwear." day are filled by men Training comprises the or More" Wire from Leechburg Post to Depart- whohavestudied law. most effective features of ment Adjutant Linsky. No matter whether "In looking over the field," modern law instruction. writes a prominent Eastern 2. "Delivered one truckload Vander- you're in a big corpora- manufacturer, "1 find that Cost very low—terms grift yesterday. Will have second load, tion or a small business nearly all the positions com- mighty easy. manding a salary of $10,000.00 —in a great city or a lit- Send us your name to- mostly food, Wednesday. Wire where or more are filled by men who tle town a practical 64- needed most." Wire from Norman Hull, — have studied law." day for our valuable knowledge of law cannot Many great corporations, for page "Law Training for Commander Bucktail Post, Smethport, instance the C. & N. W. Ry. fail to be of real and vital Leadership" and "Evi- to Department Adjutant Linsky. Co., International Paper Co., help to you in making a Standard Oil of New Jersey, dence" books—they're "Proceed Leechburg Packard Motor Co., Anaconda 3. Post. Sup- more successful career. free and enable you to Copper Mining Co., Mutual plies needed there." Wire from Depart- At home— in spare Life Insurance Co., are headed adequately judge for ment Adjutant by men of legal training. Linsky to Norman Hull, time — you can acquire yourself. Don't put it off Commander, Smethport. legal training—properly —every day counts. •

Long at the head of the list of Pennsyl- vania's prominent Legionnaires was W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad. Up until his death a year ago he gave great assistance in the Legion's national transportation prob- lems. In his spirit, two Pennsylvania Railroad Posts of The American Legion rendered invaluable help in the flood emergency. Notable example was the hooking on of special American Legion baggage cars, loaded with food and other supplies, to the first passenger trains to get through from Philadelphia and Har- risburg to the flood areas about Pitts- burgh. Posts in flood towns all along the This fourteen-volume law library is the basis of LaSalle legal training. Prepared by outstanding law line of scheduled stops met the trains and professors, supplemented by all necessary material and backed by a thoroughly competent and got supplies. experienced staii of law instructors. •

Everywhere in the flood areas the dis- aster brought evidence of the help which LaSalle Extension University is continuously rendered the Red Cross —————————————— pi n(l Yourself Through LaSalle! ————"————»—- by The American Legion. In New Ken- LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY, Dept. 6361-LR CHICAGO sington, Pennsylvania, a checkup "~| would like to full showed La\V Degree of LL. B. J have information about your lawtrain- UJ " ins, together with copy of "Law Training for Leadership" nine of the ten members of the Red Cross and your booklet "Evidence," all without obligation. Other LaSalle Opportunities: LaSalle opens committee handling relief activities the way to success in every important phase were of business. If more interested in one of the fields indicatfd below, check and mail now. Legionnaires. Commercial Among them was J. Guy Law Modern Foremanship Business Management Personnel Management Griffith, rehabilitation chairman of Penn- Q Modern Salesmanship Expert Bookkeeping sylvania, who with Roy Keitzer, Higher Accountancy Alle- Traffic Management Business Correspondence gheny County Commander, directed the Railway Station Management C. P. A. Coaching Banking and Finance Legion's efforts in the whole Pittsburgh Industrial Management Business English Effective Speaking Railway Accounting district. New Kensington Post, starting Stenotypy Q Credit and Collection Correspondence Office Management its own activities with $100 from its treasury, got an additional $1549 when Name Present Position Warner Brothers (Continued on page 36) Address City JUNE. 1936 55 'Water, Wind and a ^Helping ZHand

(Continued from page 55) For YOUR Theater gave a benefit performance the thrilling rescue of 225 homeless flood SHOOTING charging one dollar a seat. refugees from the neighboring pottery HOLIDAYS • town of Stratton. In a blinding cold In Sunbury, Pennsylvania, the river rain, over flooded valley roads and ^OR all-'round enjoyment bank gave way at seven o'clock in the through snowdrifts on the high places,

. and convenience no fire- arm can surpass a fine, fast- evening on March 18th, the already-deep Williams and Legionnaire Andrew Gus- handling Winchester slide-action flood waters on business streets raised an kea drove toward Stratton to learn the .22 rim fire repeating rifle, shooting short, long and long rifle cartridges additional three feet in twenty minutes fate of its people. To complete their interchangeably. The beautiful hammer- less type Model 61 is a special favorite. So and four-fifths of the city became a part of journey they had to walk several miles right in design, action, balance, size, weight, the Susquehanna River. The $50,000 over the icy ties of a railroad. They ' and a grand shooter ! Great for quick shots. In the hammer type, Model 62 is similarly sure, clubhouse of Milton Jarrett Norman Post could hear the crash of falling houses. 'smooth and snappy, with the famous Winchester r action proved dependable by over 1,500,000 shoot- of The American Legion, a former armory, They found most of the residents of ers ! Same ample magazine capacity. Fine Winchester suffered more damage than any other Stratton herded in sewer-pipe kilns. A accuracy. Both have quick, handy takedown. Fine walnut stocks. Winchester proof-steel barrels, 24- building. school bus with the motor running to and 23-inch respectively. Same weight, lbs. See 5Vi • provide warmth filled with small them at your Dealer's. For FKEE folders describing was them completely, please write Winchester Repeating Dan R. McKinney of Northumberland children. Many women were carrying Arms Co., Dept. 25-C, New Haven, Conn., U. S. A. Post, Commander of the 17th Pennsyl- babies, and one woman was expecting to vania District, long rated as totally and give birth to a child momentarily. 2i/ permanently disabled, ignored doctors' "Guskea turned to me and said there 2 ACRE FARMS $45, Total orders and warnings of fellow Legion- was only one thing to do," writes Wil- $5 down $2 month. Near Gulf beaches, St. Peters- burg. Raise chickens, vegetables. No city taxes. naires in order to take personal charge of liams. "These people could not walk Established farm-home center. Ideal climate for Legion relief work at Sunbury. With down that icy railroad track in the rain. health and happiness. Write for particulars. Acting Commander William Keithan of We must return to Toronto and obtain LIQUIDATOR, 806 Fla. Theatre Bldg., St. Peters- Milton Jarrett Norman Post, McKinney a switch engine if we have to man it our- burg, Fla. speedily started a ration and clothing selves. John Hommell, Toronto station dump in a large garage on a hillside on agent, hurriedly got the engine crew out YOUR CHILD DESERVES the edge of the flooded district and es- of bed. Several box cars were hooked to THIS CHANCE. TO BE A SUCCESS tablished refugee stations in churches and the engine. When we returned to Tor- in school, in business schools. Sunbury received 100 truck- onto with the 225 homeless men, women . . . popular with associates. Piano training gives it. Experience of loads of food and supplies sent through and children, warm meals and good places successful people proves it. Our new FREE booklet State Headquarters in Philadelphia and to sleep were waiting for them." explains the many important by posts near and far. As the waters • advantages of being able to -foot stage play the piano . . . also went down, the Legionnaires established When the flood at 55 reached describes the marvelous relief headquarters in the Municipal the level of second-story windows in NEW BALDWIN -BUILT flourarl* Building. A score of boys and girls from Bridgeport, Commander Melvin Del- Sunbury High School operated typewriters brugge of Bridgeport Post decided to try telephone call through to Radio NEW PIANO SENSATION and helped with the paper work. to get a • Station WWVA in Wheeling, requesting Amazing new Acrosonic Scale, per- fected tone balance, several smart Legionnaire Louis Haas of Milton Jar- an appeal for Legion workers needed to designs and prices. Convenient terms. ret Norman Post of Sunbury was ac- unload trucks. All phones were out of Visit your Baldwin Dealer. Send Get this today for" Planning for Your Child.'' claimed by fellow Legionnaires for his order but a telephone lineman was work- THE BALDWIN PIANO CO. FREE single-handed rescue activities. A black- ing on top of a pole in front of the un- 1801-A Gilbert Ave., Cincinnati, O. BOOK smith, Haas borrowed a boat while the flooded post clubhouse. A Legionnaire flood was at its height and in two days climbed the pole and with the help of the moved to higher ground the residents of lineman finally got the radio station on OTHER MEN But the connection was bad. have read and PATENTS two whole blocks. He had moved to the wire. profited by our free books, safety eighty persons before he finally The listener in Wheeling misunderstood "Patent HAVE YOU AN IDEA ? Pro- request. In a few minutes, to the tection" and "Selling an Invention." Fully explain found time for rest in the Legion the many interesting points to inventors and illustrate im- of Commander Delbrugge portant mechanical principles. With books we also send commissary. He dropped off to sleep amazement free "Evidence of Invention" form. Prompt service, over the air the message that reasonable fees, deferred payments. Write Immediately instantly, and awoke to find sleeping there came to: Victor J. Evans & Co., Registered Patent At- of a telephone pole in front torneys, 736-G, Victor Building, Washington, D. C. beside him a police dog and a great Dane, a man on top also tired by flood service. of Legion Headquarters in Bridgeport was • calling to be rescued. Before the Legion At McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, 3 2d volunteer could descend from his perch District Commander Charles P. Grimm, on the pole, Legionnaires and other citi- A DOG SOAP in a rescue boat, heard loud cries from a zens were swarming to the clubhouse, house and sighted a colored woman beck- anxious to help rescue the man on the 6- tAo/' PTJLVEX frantically from a second-story pole. USE, the new .» oning 0/U5»^ medicated health • window. She was all alone, she said, but • soap for dogs, stops -r- f itching by oiling m'cmJ» she was expecting a visitor—by the stork The soup kitchen established by the dry skin. Promotes m./ih~~~.+ American Legion post and its Auxiliary hairgrowth.hidehealth, •

everywhere, but not a drop to quench the thirst of the 15,000 people of Bellaire or to keep our soup and coffee making going. A call was sent to nearby hilltop towns. In only a few hours appeared Legionnaire Joe Brown of St. Clairsville with a 1000- gallon tank of pure water. For days and nights Joe hauled water into Bellaire, resting only while the tank was being emptied by eager and thirsty flood sufferers." • Dawn of the morning after the flood brought a sensation to the weary watch- ers of Johnstown Post. At 4 o'clock, in

5* the first light of day, there loomed into tftfS* sight a train of five motor trucks and two touring cars loaded with Altoona Legion- naires, medical supplies, fresh milk and other food, clothing and bedding. The

first relief expedition, its arrival cheered the stricken city tremendously. Other expeditions followed swiftly—from Ebens- burg, Ligonier, Cherry Tree, Indiana, Conemaugh, a score of other surrounding towns. Later trucks from faraway De- troit and Philadelphia. Absalom Post of Atlantic City sent three trucks. Tremendously cheering also was the arrival of the first money contribution $50 wired by Memory Post of San Jose, California. Closely following, another $50 from 3regg Post of Reading. Then from the United Mine Workers of Punx- sutawney two contributions, one for $100, the other for $122, sent in response to VfiSg an appeal by William F. Smith, Vice- Commander of the Pennsylvania De- partment. Other checks, totaling more than .$1,000. • When George H. Johnson, founder of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Corporation, OIDSMOBILE DEALERS presented large and beautiful clubhouses to the Legion posts in the three up-State New York communities in which his RECOMMEND factories are located, he expressed his appreciation of the Legion as an all- round community asset. The March floods afforded the posts just one more opportunity to serve their cities. Else- where is told what Binghamton Post did. Similar work was performed by Endicott- Union Post at Endicott and Frank A. Johnson Post of Johnson City. Each USED CARS threw open its entire clubhouse to refu- to of gees. At Endicott the shoe corporation TF YOU want be sure top value gine and Electrical System— as indi- JL for the money you invest in a used cated by the dealer's check marks on prepared food in its large kitchen and car, go to your nearest Oldsmobile the reverse side. Among the Safety- trucked it to the Legion building. At dealer and examine his offerings of Tested Used Cars recommended by Johnson City Auxiliares worked in three used cars that have been Safety- your Oldsmobile dealer, you will find shifts for five days preparing meals for — Olds- refugees. Tested. Each Safety-Tested Used Car many 1934 and 1935 models • in your Oldsmobile dealer's stock is mobile and other makes. Many have identified by a special orange-colored been driven but thousand Lincoln Post of Shamokin, Pennsyl- a few Safety-Tested Tag. This tag specifies miles. Many offer such modern features vania, is proud of two distinctions. First that the car has been carefully in- as Knee -Action Wheels, Hydraulic is its $250,000 American Legion Building, spected and reconditioned with regard Brakes and Solid-Steel "Turret-Top" with swanky stores on the first floor, a to the features that contribute to safe Bodies. All are priced attractively big auditorium and clubrooms on upper driving low. before floors. —Brakes, Tires, Steering, En- See them you buy Second distinction is Donald J. Zimmerman's service as Post Commander GOOD TIRES EQUALIZED BRAKES for fifteen straight years. * Lincoln Post converted its big audi- TRUE STEERING TUNED-UP ENGINE torium into a dormitory for flood ref- DEPENDABLE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM ugees which (Continued on page 58) JUNE, 1936 57 Water, "Wind and a ^Helping STand

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it brought from nearby Sunbury, and ares stood in water up to their knees while used its post kitchen to feed the cold they cooked food in the kitchen. There and hungry sufferers. Commander Zim- were bad hours caring for 500 fearful merman, who is Shamokin's police head, flood victims in a building without light Renew old buildings. Make new construction more permanent and attractive. Plastic Col- leaped into action in Sunbury with his or heat. orcrete fuses with any masonry surface. It Legionnaires, posted guards at • waterproofs and fills all cracks. It can be Shamokin applied in any thickness and in 30 colors. all roads leading into the town and al- Howard Gardener Post of Tyrone, Fully proven by over 12 years actual use under all conditions and every climate. lowed nobody to enter without a special Pennsylvania, was confronted with an Colorcrete enhances present values and offers permit. also untangled traffic tangles immense cleanup job at its post clubhouse builders greater permanence, beauty and sal- He ability in new construction. Operators report on highways and kept moving to destina- when the waters went down. The flood cost of 2(* and up per sq. ft. and sell up to 7$. Some have paid for their equipment from first tions the scores of Legion trucks coming rose five feet in the clubhouse, deposited few jobs. Machine capacity up to 1,000 sq. ft. all the State. several inches of mud on rugs, ruined the per hour. from parts of Get the facts. Colorcrete books tell the whole • post pool table. A desk with the records story. Write today. It may mean business in- dependence for you. Nowhere did Legion rescue and relief of Commander Richard Waingate and more smoothly than at Adjutant Paul Keinzle floated about the COLORCRETE INDUSTRIES, INC. work proceed assembly until its contents 350 Ottawa Ave. Holland, Mich. Binghamton, New York, where Legion room became emergency relief units which had per- waterlogged. Valuable records were de- A BUSINESS OR HOBBY with fected their technique in the big flood of stroyed. The West Point uniforms of the "BOICE-CRANE" Power Tools July, 1935, mobilized swiftly when Radio drum corps were saturated with mud, Real profits and pleasure can be yours for a small sum invested in practical Station WNBF broadcast the call at drumheads were ruined and bugles filled B-C Woodworking Machines. Have a shop at home. Assure yourself steady 10:30 a.m. on March 18th. At 10:30 with sand and silt. income and constant pleasure from • hard-earned bonus $$. A.M. Binghamton Post asked for mobili- Write for Free 32 Page Catalog zation of the post's Boy Scout troop and the call for business was BOICE-CRANE TOOLS When new Dept. LG 6, Toledo, O. twenty-seven minutes later thirty-one reached in the St. Patrick's Day regular scouts of Troop 19 were at the Legion meeting of Garrett Cochran Post in (yi£m/9360nodef clubhouse. The post's squadron of Sons Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Comman- south of The American Legion, mostly boys der Shay said there was pk ity of new BEND t HTurCl LmXXX II below scout age, were also called in. business. Biggest flood in Williamsport Write for details on this 9 in. x 3 ft. Workshop Precision, back-peared, screw- Most dramatic effort of the Legion's history was in the making, he said, and cutting Lathe. Made in 8 different drn __. 4 bed lengths. Easy Payment Terms ar- ranged over extended period of time. Com- work was a battle with sandbags to pro- members living across the river had plete information on request. tect a 249-foot-high gas tank storing better start home immediately or they'd 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. The high never get there. Members whose homes water pressure caused a leak 150 feet are on high ground left the meeting to long and escaping gas threatened to cause spread warnings and conduct boat res- a panic throughout the city, writes cues. The next morning, as the city's Franklyn E. Livernoche, Post Executive gas supply failed, Legionnaires ran a race Secretary. with the advancing flood to gather from SOUTH BEND LATHE WORKS • stores every obtainable oil cook stove. EQil E.MADISON ST. SOUTH BEND.IND. U.S.A. The Kiskiminetas River broke up the Two feet of water stood in the Legion St. Patrick's Day party of Apollo (Penn- club-house where the post had met. AMERICA'S Ttn£A±-f sylvania) Post and its Auxiliary unit, and • left the dance floor to find them- ROYCRAFT 59ACHES guests If you didn't know it, there is a town th taking bei — j selves in a nightmare. Houses were it forts, harmonious appointments and of Indiana and is in Pennsylvania. It precision craftsmanship make Roy- craft Coaches America a mosl Luxur- crashing into a bridge built fifty years is a key point on highways leading into lOdels— $450.00 to $3.0011.(10! Free Catalogl ago. huge gas main was on that bridge. ROYCRAFT COACH CO. A Johnstown and other flooded districts. 456 Main St. Chesaning, Mich, The bridge went out at 4 in the morning, Indiana Post Legionnaires, in addition to ROYCRAFT COACH CO. CHESANING, MICH. but before that the Legionnaires saw rescuing scores from housetops, trees and whole rows of houses, dozens at a time, bridges, helped during the emergency by Let us help you disappear before their eyes, carried down- setting up a station to give food and road stream. Post Adjutant Quentin D. Bellas directions to the drivers of the scores of RAISE YOUR PAY/ says it was an indescribably weird night Legion trucks. For hours the town —lights going off and on again, tremen- looked like a crossroads in the Argonne, dous crashing and crunching sounds with motor expeditions lined up in all above the roar of the flood, rescue boats directions, all manned by Legion-capped capsizing, heroism on every side. The volunteers. town was entirely isolated. • • W. G. Stathers, Commander of the Black Diamond Post of Kingston, West Virginia Department, found in his Pennsylvania, had excitement aplenty own city of Clarksburg an example of If you have a car. are ambitious to own and build a permanent, profitable and growing business with a good all during the flood in its beautiful club- Legion spirit. Clarksburg was not di- steady cash income you can start at once on our capital. We furnish big stocks—200 food products, cosmetics, house of Colonial architecture, reports rectly in a flood path, but a Clarksburg household necessities, etc., for farm and city homes—to worthy persons, on credit. Big combination bargains. Adjutant Osborne A. Thomas. The post shoemaker, with little cash at his dis- Samples, advertising matter, special deals furnished for quick sales and profits. Wonderful opportunity for good cared for 3,000 refugees, sheltered hun- posal, offered to repair twenty pairs of living and extra money to save each week regardless of previous experience. Many of our leading dealers were dreds in its ball room after hastily erect- shoes as his contribution. "That kind of formerly farmers, teachers, mechanics, etc. Now make big pay every day with increasing sales every year. During ing partitions. On March 19th the flood spirit can't be licked," writes Commander 46 years unparalleled progress we have put many that thousands on the road to success. Let us help you make amazed everybody by surging up to the Stathers. "I have figures showing good money right from the start. Write today. No obli- refugee-filled clubhouse, filling the base- sixty of posts, units, voitures and gation. W.T. RAWLEIGH CO. Box F-84-AIM, Freeport. ILL. our

Largest industries off their kind in the world ment grill room and boiler room. Auxili- salons, took part in flood relief work.

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Out of the Legion's experience in this period will come a better realization that we are a service organization, and I am sure all steps will be taken in West The Service Representative Virginia to organize for future emergency in the telephone business purposes." office greets a young • couple who want to have New England's $300,000,000 damage a telephone installed. was largely concentrated in New Hamp- shire, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Vermont, heaviest sufferer in the 1927 floods that beset the western part of New England, and Rhode Island were affected but slightly. Maine, whose high- banked streams offered a preview of the great flood picture a full week before its southerly neighbors had to make shift against raging torrents, came back into the picture along with them when its Saco River, running at flood tide, ripped out dams and carried away bridges, houses, factories and drinking water mains. The 1927 flood gave New England a forceful lesson in nature's ability to strike quickly and brutally. Up to that time this generation of Yankees had known no cataclysm of nature comparable to those which have at various times ravaged other sections of the nation. When coal mines collapsed, when the Mississippi and Ohio overran their banks, when earthquakes, cyclones, tornadoes, hurri- canes and dust storms brought death and desolation to distant communities New Englanders had generously contributed to the funds for rehabilitation, feeling thankful and perhaps just a bit smug about their immunity. But the 1927 flood was an eye opener, and by no section of the citizenry was its lesson seized upon more avidly than by posts of The American Legion. Whether The Bell System serves the whole and night their activities bring operating as service committees, disaster country, yet it remains close to the friendly aid to those in need. relief units or under other name, groups people. The people use it. Their To every one — to the newly- were organized in virtually every post in savings built it. "It belongs to the in the grand the six States and were equipped for weds, to man emergency of every conceivable kind. Main Street." house or the little lady with the Telephone and courier service were set The 270,000 employees of the shawl— the Bell System offers the up and tested, liaison was arranged with Bell System live and work in your same full measure of service. police and fire departments and with the neighborhood and in similar And seeks to do it always with National Guard. As a result of this fore- neighborhoods in every section of courtesy and sympa- the waters on the loose this handedness the country. They are good neigh- thetic understanding spring had haidly struck when Legion- bors. Thousands of times each day in the manner of afriend. naires were in action. • BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM The Connecticut, longest and largest of New England's rivers, is the boundary line between Vermont and New Hamp- shire and in its 450-mile progress runs through western Massachusetts and central Connecticut to the Atlantic. The most northern of the river's Government three important dams impounds the + JOBS' Jf water at Vernon, Vermont, and Hinsdale, START New Hampshire, where the river is more than a quarter of a mile wide. The dam $1260 to $2100 Year is owned by the New England Power As- Ex-Service Men Get / FRANKLIN INSTITUTE sociation. In the afternoon of March / Dept. K 1 81 . Rochester, N. Y. Sirs: Rush to me without charge. tie at any lake that yo Preference (1) 32-page book with list of many 1 8th the rising water was striking at the visit. It may be rented ^ - - Government Big Pay Jobs. (2) er" cottage. Complete r-„ m ™n„ >

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Train for NOW it still rising. The dam's offi- at the abutment as the sandbags were hotel and institutional was field. Salaries up to 51,800 to cials realized that their small force was thrust against the concrete, sought to S5.000 a year. Previous experience proved unnecessary. Qualify at utterly inadequate to cope with the drive a channel back and around the home, in leisure time. National Placement Service FREE of extra emergency in the offing. If the waters supports. Before the men could meet this FASCINATING charge. Write name and address in WORK margin and mail this ad today for should breach the dam or find a channel new menace effectively a fissure devel- FREE Book. Check positions in which you are interested. back of it a solid wall of water would oped and it was necessary to let down a LUXURIOUS Steward ( ) Manwer < ) Hostess ( ) Aanutant Manager ( ) the Falls, establish SURROUNDINGS Housekeeper sweep down on dam at Turners man by rope, a line and pass ( ) Auditor < ) ) Room Clerk ( ) Cashier ( Massachusetts, carry it away and bring bags from man to man and down to him SPLENDID HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS LEWIS cities in. Washington, D. C. to the larger industrial to the south as he threw them Half a dozen times , OPPORTUNITIES . Room MG-3313 the kind of stark tragedy that Johns- during the evening radio stations warned town knew in 1889. that the dam was crumbling, and on at Rain Insurance With all this in mind, the Vernon Dam least two occasions made the bald state- Many Legion Posts, Churches. Lodges and Promoters of officials allied the office of Ernest L. ment that it had given way, but it held. Public Events now carry "Rain Insurance" indemnifying against loss of income or expense. Bell, Jr., at Keene, New Hampshire, The Legionnaires saved it. /ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY • INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA some twenty-two miles to the northeast. SPRINGFIELD FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE Mr. Bell is Legion Department Com- COMPANY Manchester's three Legion posts found Applications must be filed seven days prior to event. mander of New Hampshire. He at once in the flood situation an opportunity for Loral Agent in your town, or address See got officers of Gordon-Bissell Post of Rain Department. 209 W. J ackson St.. Chicago, Illinois. service that they were quick to grasp. Keene on the telephone, and four bells on The Merrimack River, conqueror of the city's fire alarm system sounded to numerous bridges to the north, swooped Free For Asthma tell the Legionnaires they were wanted and swirled down on New Hampshire's at the post home. largest city, one of the great textile Arrived at the post home, they learned Fever centers of the world. The river, filled and Hay the critical situation of at the dam. Mr. with debris of trees, houses, garages, of Asthma so If you suffer with attacks Bell had in the meantime phoned about terrible you choke and gasp for breath, if large gasoline storage tanks and planks you sneezing and snuff- Hay Fever keeps town and secured promise of the loan of that had once picturesque covered ing while your eyes water and nose dis- made trucks was arranging for de- charges continuously, don't fail to send and now bridges, smashed against the Amoskeag at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for livery of sandbags and rubber boots. His a free trial of a remarkable method. No Dam and the three bridges connecting live or whether you nine-year-old boy, an enthusiastic mem- matter where you the east and west sections of the city. faith in remedy under the have any any ber of the Sons of the Legion, happened Sun, send for this free trial. If you have Red Cross headquarters were es- suffered for a life-time and tried every- to be in the office when the call came in thing you could learn of without relief; tablished in the home of Henry J. Sweeney from the dam, and ran out into the street even if you are utterly discouraged, do not Post in the business section, on the east for this free abandon hope but send today to tell a truckman to get his gas and oil trial. It will cost you nothing. Address side of the city, and farther north Man- Frontier Asthma Co., 268-A Frontier tanks filled and to report at the post N. Y. chester Post threw open its fine home to Bldg., 4«2 Niagara St., Buffalo, home. refugees while its members and those of Highway officials warned that the Post went into action with t?me Sweeney MAKE MONEY spare" roads into Hinsdale were in danger of In Your Own Vending Machine Business sandbags, helped patrol the flooded sec- vend- crumbling and when told that the Legion Hundreds now making big money operating tions, and furnished medical and food ing machines. Start as a sideline. Build up a big, party was going through anyway supplied fulltime business. Small investment starts you. supplies. brand new vendor idea taking implements for repair of sections that Now introducing people country by storm. Good locations now open Before the bridges were closed might be in process of disintegration. everywhere. Write or wire for details. from the low-lying sections on the west ARTEE CO., Dept. AL. UPPER DARBY. PA. Within fifty minutes of the emergency side found quarters in the commodious call twenty-seven Legionnaires equipped home of William H. Jutras Post, which with boots, shovels, picks and other housed and fed 300 men, women and chil- tools were on their way, atop trucks which dren. Three nurses and two doctors, carried some 4,000 sandbags. In places members of the post, operated a hospital ITCH...STOPPED IN ONE MINUTE... the trucks ran through more than a foot in its quarters. There was free entertain- Are you tormented with the itching tortures of eczema, of water, and over most of the twenty- local talent each night, and free eruptions, or other skin afflic- ment by rashes, athlete's foot, two miles it was necessary to throttle tions? For quick andhappy relief, use cooling, antisep- tickets were provided at a nearby movie o'clock tic.liquid D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. Its gent le oils soothe down the engines, but before six house while the electric power lasted. the irritated skin. Clear, greaseless and stainless—dries they had arrived at the site of the dam. fast. Stops the most intense itching instantly. A 35c With the help of its Boy Scout troop the It impossible for the trucks to ap- drug stores, proves it—or money back- was trial bottle, at post operated a field kitchen on its lawn proach nearer than three-quarters of a when the gas supply failed. mile of the dam, and horses and wagons • WAKE UP YOUR were used to bring up the sandbags. Soon after the party's arrival the road over At Concord, Department Adjutant had sent out telegrams which it had come was completely washed Frank H. Sawyer LIVER BILE- of the Department of out in several places and when it was to the 79 posts Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out necessary to bring in reinforcements of New Hampshire and had arranged with of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go men and more thousands of sandbags, four broadcasting stations to call Le- The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid gionnaires to service. Posts far outside the bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not back roads were used, and at some places doesn't digest. It just food and flowing freely, your food where it was impossible to patch up or flood area collected clothing and decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. and You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- detour by roadway, fences were knocked sent them along to distressed towns soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world cities. Robert G. Durgin Post in the looks punk. down and trucks went cross country. Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel They got through. small town of Newmarket, hearing that movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those fifty miles good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these The sandbagging went forward busily houses and bridges at Hookset, two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you through the night as the waters rose away, had been swept aside by the flood feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little higher and higher. It was touch and go. and that the Congregational and Cath- Liver Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything churches, across the road from each else. 25c at all drug stores. © 1935, CM. Co. The swirling waters, temporarily balked olic 60 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly other, were virtually marooned, sent to the pastors of the churches a fund of eighty-two dollars they had collected, dividing it fifty-fifty. • From Boston, before the waters of the State's rivers had risen to flood fury, Massachusetts Department Commander John H. Walsh and Department Ad- jutant Harold P. Redden sent out a radio call to posts to stand by for emergency service. When the floods came Depart- SPORTSMAN ment Headquarters in the State House 241/2 pounds. became a clearing house for information Hooded Power design with mo- on the situation in various communities, tor, carburetor, ignition en- advised inquiring Legionnaires just and closed and pro- where the need was greatest. As a re- tected, Flexo- rubber steering, sult of these arrangements Legion boats Co-Pilot.«re from Gloucester on the Atlantic did res- Price *0D cue work at cities on the Merrimack and Connecticut; hundreds of truckloads of food, clothing and medicine zoomed out of the cities and villages untouched by flood, and in a matter of hours delivered their cargo and started back for another. *-« The Merrimack, which did havoc to cum up «^*I5 fertsU'SS dozens of communities in New Hamp- shire, turns east soon after it crosses the Massachusetts border flows north SPORTWIN •h ch°°S and If VO»'« '2 „d <'«"

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Good positions for trained men . y women in hotel, club, restaurant and institutional field. Previous experience proved unnecessary. {Continued from page 61) Qualify in FOUR MONTHS learn on real hotel equipment, under expert in- structors. National Placement Service FREE of extra charge. New Day Classes start Sept.. Oct. pair of tethered Catalog FREE! mules in stalls, the floor of the town building in which the LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS Division RMG-3334 Washington, D. C. water up to their necks. He released post has its quarters. them, turned them around and led them • out. They swam to safety. ave YourFeet Springfield, nine miles below Holyoke ^When all else fails end your suffer- • ing with the flexible "no metal'' and on the opposite side of the river, had ARCH On the Connecticut below Vernon SUPPORT four thousand homeless people quartered Dam, the turbulent waters were sweep- FOR Ffi££ BOOXllT in its three high schools during the flood ing through Turners Falls and over its emergency. Most of the 900 members of dam on the 18th at the rate of 185,000 Springfield Post were on the job early, cubic feet a second, compared with 172,- Heefner Arch Support Co., 83 M. E. Taylor Bide., Louisville. Ky 113 of them in executive jobs under the 000 feet in the 1927 crisis. The posts in Red Cross, the rest supplementing the Turners Falls and Greenfield were active fire, police and National Guard services. If You Act

Bnef Cue Purchased over $1 25. Mall your Order before Una offer t To the south of Greenfield the waters facilities failed, with only candles avail- CVARA^TtEO FOR 5 > F. AKS Again t S-ul?m« and Peeling spread out turbulently over choice to- 13" X 10V Brown or Black $1.00— Rr-friilur Value $2.00 able for lighting, the telephone remained 15 ill 130— Regular Value 3.00 bacco and onion meadowland, took farm- in 17"XllV 2.00— Regul.r Value 4.00 service, and from here boatloads of 19 »13 _ 230— Regular Value 5.00 houses ruthlessly in their sweep, smashed Legionnaires set out in their rescue SAVE Send Cash. Check orM.O. We pay P P. of f railroad MONEY TOO . and ln> Sent C O D tl desired 25c extra. tracks, uprooted trees, knocked more and more marooned persons as W. M. LONG CO. 422 NORTH CLARK ST. CHICAGO, ILL. word down telephone poles and ripped gaso- came in of their plight. In the higher line tanks from their concrete bases. ground up State Street the High School Northampton Post on the west bank of HAVEYOU SOME SPARE ROOM of Commerce was used to house the a basement or garage where you can do light work? the river not only rescued people in its We can offer you a profitable proposition for 1936 cast- greater part of the refugees. Earle F. ing 5 and 10c Novelties, Ashtrays, Toy Automobiles, own community but upriver in Hatfield, etc., as Branch Manufacturer for a firm of many years Bliss, executive secretary of Springfield standing. No experience necessary and small outlay where a dike gave way and the main starts you so if you mean strictly business and are Post, took general charge of the refugees interested in devoting your spare or full time to profit- street became an ice-filled river. Between able work write at once for full details. here, and Legionnaire doctors and nurses METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. DEPT. 9 Amherst and Northampton lies historic saw to it that proper food and water were 1696 Boston Road New York. N. Y. Hadley, whose onion farms are more than furnished, and immunized the refugees locally famous. It was necessary to close against disease. to traffic the bridge from Northampton T0$50awSk ZANOL • over the river to Hadley, and Amherst Steady cash for you in full or spare ti Across the river, Commander Clayton Over 250 household necessities—tbiDgi Legionnaires transported the refugees people must buy. Proven fast sellerE E. Bigg of West Springfield Post, a cap- steady repeaters. Big; earnings very first from both Sunderland and Hadley to the day. FORD TUDOR SEDANS GIVEN PRO- DUCERS. I'll show you how to start at once: tain in the organized reserves, got in touch eend you everything—Big Display Outfit ana Amherst Post's home, where full facili- quick cash plans. Details FREE—no obliga- with Fort Devens, known to thousands tion. Just send name on postcard. ties for caring for them had been pro- ALBERT MILLS of Legionnaires as Camp Devens nine- 1780 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati. Ohio vided. The American legion • teen years ago, and secured supplies of food and clothing for the refugees. National Headquarters Eight miles below Northampton and Thirty-two hundred homes in this town Indianapolis, Indiana on the same side of the river Holyoke had to be abandoned as the waters rose, Post performed the same sort of rescue Financial Statement and approximately half of them were un- March 31, 1936 work for the people of its own and neigh- fit for occupancy when the danger had boring communities. Dr. William P. passed. Of the 167 members of this post Assets Ryan, Department Vice-Commander, more than 70 were themselves refugees. active charge of the Legion effort in Cash on hand and on deposit 389,050.28 in • Notes and accounts receivable t>3>°~3-33 Western Massachusetts, early in the emer- Inventories 100,280.81 Legionnaires of West Springfield going gency encouraged posts to lay in supplies Invested funds } 1 ,3 87 ,964.24 from one house to another in boats no- Reserve for invest- of food, clothing and medicine on the ment valuation 11,098.66 ,399,062.90 ticed a ten-year-old boy mooring his boat promise that the Department of Massa- at one house and disappearing within, to Permanent investment: chusetts would reimburse them for any

Overseas Graves Decoration Trust f come out a couple of minutes later. 187,009.55 outlays that might be beyond their Office building, Washington, D. C, Thinking the youngster might be doing less depreciation 130,054.31 powers. The Legionnaires assisted in looting in a small way, they rowed Furniture, fixtures & equipment, less sandbagging abutments of the Holyoke some depreciation up to him and asked him what he was up Deferred charges 22,160.08 Dam and of the bridge across the river to to. The youngster said: "You men are South Hadley Falls, which at the height taking care of the human beings, but of the flood had water pounding across nobody's taking out the cats and dogs, Liabilities, Deferred Income its roadway. I'm doing that." A party of Holyoke Legionnaires so and Net Worth • headed by Frank Shaughnessy journeyed Current liabilities $ 54,797.68 to Smith Ferry, four miles up the river, Hartford, insurance center of the world, Funds restricted as to use 16,693.80 small felt the fury of the spring flood more than Deferred income 365,104.01 and with stout ropes lashed a dozen Permanent trust: cottages together, securing them to trees, any other large city in New England. Ac-

Overseas Graves Decoration Trust. . 1 87,009.55 while the waters were still rising. Those customed to high water each spring in the River in $ 623,605.04 houses didn't go down river. At South meadows across the Connecticut Net Worth: Hadley Falls the entire business section East Hartford, the insurance city has Restricted capital. .$1,316,215.97 the inconvenience of flooded Unrestricted capital 385,562.50 $1,701,778.47 was battered by huge cakes of ice and itself known debris. The Legion post there took care streets. This year, however, in addition ?2.3 2 83-5 I S.3 of many of the town's refugees, though to the damage inflicted by the lordly Frank E. Samtjel, National Adjutant the water flooded the basement and first Connecticut, Hartford's own little Park

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River, ordinarily a harmless little brook worth-Cornell Post took over the detail. winding tortuously through a park on the • DID YOU EVER grounds of the Connecticut State capitol, Vice Commander Bill Miller, placed in boiled over its banks and did more actual charge of Legion activities in the flood damage to the business center of the city area by Department Commander Morgan TAKE AN than the larger river. B. Haven, was indefatigable in his energy. William C. Murray, Adjutant of the Bill lives in Wethersfield and his home Connecticut Department, had sent out INTERNAL BATH? town post caught his infectious spirit. warnings to the 130 Connecticut posts on By Friday evening there was only one March 12th, that floods were likely to This may seem a strange question. But road open between the center of Wethers- if you want to magnify your energy develop, and asked that each post's dis- field and other towns. Under the direc- sharpen your brain to razor edge—put aster relief committee prepare for action. tion of Past Department Commander a glorious sparkle in your eye—pull On the 1 8th the dam at New Hart- yourself up to a health level where you Kenneth Cramer, twenty Legionnaires can ford on the Farmington River, a tribu- glory in vitality—you're going to labored all night using sandbags to raise read this message to the last line. tary of the Connecticut, was washed out. this road three feet. At 6:30 in the morn- An hour after the alarm was sounded, What Is an Internal Bath? ing it was seen that this dike would be in- Commander William C. Kruser of Tor- Some understand an internal bath to be an sufficient, and the group, with other enema. Others take it to be some new-fangled rington Post and thirty Legionnaires laxative. Legionnaires, citizens and a detail of Both are wrong. A real, genuine started for New Hartford, where they true internal bath is no more like an enema inmates of the state prison pushed the than a kite is like an airplane. The only simi- assisted in the work of rescuing refugees level of the road up an additional thirty larity is the employment of water in each case. from the marooned houses and in salvag- A bona-fide internal bath is the administra- inches. This withstood the flood. tion into the intestinal tract ing property. That night members of of pure, warm • water, Tyrrellized by a marvelous cleansing Hartford's Rau-Locke Post, who had tonic. The appliance that holds the liquid and injects been working since noon to strengthen Maine's flood waters were confined al- it is the J. B. L. Cascade, the invention of that eminent physician, Dr. Charles A. the old Colt Dike on the Hartford water- most wholly to the Kennebec, Andro- Tyrrell, who perfected it to save his own life. front, could see that the three feet they scoggin and Saco Rivers. Ice and log Now, here's where the genuine internal bath differs radically from the enema. of jams, plus the high water, helped to com- had added to the height the dike would The lower intestine, called by the great Professor Foges not stem the flood. Department Vice- plicate matters in a State whose rivers, of Vienna "the most prolific source of disease," is five feet long and shaped like an inverted U ordinarily kept in course because of their thus Commander William J. Miller, who de- fl. The enema cleanses but a third of this "horseshoe," or to the first bend. The J. B. L. spite the loss of two legs in the war can high banks, boiled over and sent a Cascade treatment cleanses it the entire length and operate an automobile with the best of hundred bridges down stream. Jim does it effectively. You have only to read that booklet "Why We Should Bathe Internally" Boyle, Department Adjutant, saw the to fully them, had been checking on the work of understand how the Cascade does it—without pain or discomfort. the Legionnaires, having taken over the main bridge over the Kennebec in his job of co-ordinating rescue work in the home town of Waterville go out, but his Why Take an Internal Bath? to Here is why: The intestinal tract is Hartford area. He got his car off the dike warnings posts found them ready for the waste canal of the body. Due to our soft foods, lack the emergency. of vigorous and back into the dry section of the city exercise, and highly artificial civilization, a large Rumford, on the Androscoggin, was percentage of persons suffer from intestinal stasis just before the waters breached the dike. (delay). The passage of waste is entirely too slow. Kesult: Germs When the Park River's waters put the marooned for two days, and its Napoleon and poisons breed in this waste and enter the blood through the blood valiant vessels in the electric lighting system of the city out of Ouellette Post did work in pro- intestinal walls. These viding quarters in the post home for poisons are extremely insidious, and may commission Southington Post sent in a be an important contributing cause of the headaches you get—the portable gasoline generator, along with refugees, in standing guard, distributing skin blemishes—the fatigue—the men- tal sluggishness—and susceptibility to colds boiled water to sections in which water —and the necessary thirty-volt bulbs, and this countless other ills. They may also be an important mains were broken, in marking out a factor in the cause of premature old age, rheuma- furnished light at the Legion home. tism, high blood pressure, and many serious maladies. field near the town so that planes Thus it is Candles which had been collected at the large imperative that your system be free of these poisons, and might drop serum, yeast and other nec- internal bathing is an effective post's home were thereupon sent to the means. In fifteen minutes it flushes the intestinal essaries. The posts at Norway, West- tract of impurities—quick hygienic action. And each city hall and the municipal hospital. The treatment tends to strengthen the intestinal muscles brook and Farmington and Caldwell Post so the passage of waste is hastened. first hot food—savory beef stew—given Woodfords sent truckloads of pro- the refugees was provided by the Legion at Immediate Benefits visions, clothing and water. post in nearby Berlin, which continued Taken just before retiring you will sleep like a child. You will rise with • a vigor that is bubbling over. to supply this needed food throughout Your whole attitude toward life will be changed. All clouds will be laden with the emergency. Other posts sent men and Harold T. Andrews Post and Ralph D. silver, you will feel rejuvenated—remade. That is the experience of supplies. Jane A. Delano Post of Hart- Caldwell Post, both located in Portland, thousands of men and women who faithfully prac- tice the wonderful inner cleanliness. Just one inter- ford and Newington Nurses Post oper- were active in assisting the people of nal bath a week to regain and hold glorious, vibrant health! To toss off the mantle of age, nervousness, ated inoculation and first aid stations. Biddeford-Saco, on the Saco River, and dull care! To fortify you against epidemics, • after that river had climbed to an all- colds, etc. Is that fifteen minutes worth while? Every spring East Hartford's meadows time high mark and had wiped out Send for This Booklet overflow and the families whose homes sections of the two towns, across the It is entirely FREE. We are absolutely convinced are inundated take refuge in the high river from each other. More than twenty that you will agree you never used a three-cent truckloads of water, clothing and food stamp to better advantage. There are letters from school. The members of Brown-Landers many who achieve results that seem miraculous. As Post always take over the job of caring were sent into the two communities by an eye-opener on health, this booklet is worth many, many, many times the price of that stamp. Use the Morrill for them on the first floor of the school. these posts and by Stewart P. convenient coupon below or address the Tyrrell's Post of South Portland and the West- Hvgienir Institute, Inc., Dept. A. L. 66, 152 W. 65th This spring the usual program was fol- Street, New York City—NOW! lowed until rising water made it impos- brook Legionnaires. Richard C. Owen i -TEAR OFF AND MAIL AT ONCE j Post of Saco cared for fifty women and sible for fires to be maintained in the Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute, Inc. I children at its home, and fed 280 people. J building. Then everybody had to move I 152 West 65th St., Dept. A.L.66, New York. N. Y. of Orchard floor. field kitchen outfit C. Fayette Staples Post Old Semi me without cost or obligation, your illustrated to the second A I [ booklet on intestinal ills and the proper use of the ! to fifty-two families , was obtained from Manchester armory, Beach ministered famous Internal Bath— "Why We Should Bathe 1 J Internally. ' and Legionnaires and Auxiliares from driven from Saco by the floods. j • I that city and from South Windsor as- I Name | sisted in the work. By Saturday the Solomon Crasnick, Commander of 1 I I Street I waters had risen so high that everybody Andrews Post, was summoned to the I | while dozen City State was ordered out of the school. Buses took door of the post home a J J the refugees to Manchester, where Dil- trucks were being {Continued on page 64) I

JUNE, 1936 03 DIESEL POWER Water, Wind and a ^Helping 3hCand

A Coming American Industry (Continued from pag" 6j)

loaded for dispatch to the stricken areas. No better demonstration was ever pre- A girl of seven and her little brother, sented of the Legion's disaster mobiliza- perhaps five years old, both poorly tion system. Several thousand Legion- dressed, wanted to see the "Boss Man." capped workers, 100 truckloads of Legion The Commander asked what he could do food and supplies, ready cash—all in the for them and the girl said she wanted to stricken city within forty-eight hours. give her doll, which she had brought • The infernal-combustion engine represents man's along, to some girl who had lost hers in of machine power. Diesel engi- supreme triumph Post Commander J. M. Savery, follow- great demand. are acquiring the flood. The boy opened bis little neers are in Many ing the Tupelo tornado, introduced speed necessary knowledge through spare-time study fist to disclose thirty-two pennies which into the system of getting bandages and I. Course Diesel engines. of this modem C. S. on he had taken from his bank. Free bookletl other medical supplies to the injured. No • time for red tape. "Give it out and charge INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS At Old Town, on the Penobscot, Tedd- it to the Legion," Savery told drug Lait Post's did job of stores. Box 7574-D. Scranton, Penna. members a grand Food tickets were also issued by Explain fully about your course in the relief, and at Skowhegan, on the Kenne- the Legion post, good at any restaurant subject marked X: bec, Simon Peters Post, using the city or hotel. The post was ready with the DIESEL POWER Mechanical EngineerinoQ Architecture fire alarm system to summon its mem- cash when drug stores presented itemized B Automobile Course Radio Concrete Construction Q Chemistry bers, established headquarters in the bills and owners of restaurants came Civil Engineering Aviation Engines Gas Engine Operating Air Conditioning candle lighted store of Vice Commander around with the Legion meal tickets. Electrical Engineering Refrigeration Pooler to High School Subjects U Civil Service and proceeded do guard and • rescue duty in the town. Kame Age.. Your American Legion first aid squad- • ron is likely to move with the speed of a northeast has Tupelo, in Mississippi, city fire department—or faster. For 9,000 persons, and Tupelo Post has 156 example, Corinth (Mississippi) Post's IVERSAL TRACTOR members. It is a charming city of fine unit, through to Tupelo—sixty miles, homes along wide streets shaded by giant of Power at Low Cost fifty-four minutes. Houston Post unit, oaks. p.m. on Sunday, April 5th, a Plows, discs, seeds, cultivates, At 9 forty miles away, but one of the first in digs potatoes, landscape work, tornado struck without warning. In a ivel trailer wheels and cul- Tupelo. Units from the towns of Gren- ttivator lift for easy turning, 200-mile wind, houses, churches and ada, Winona, Macon and Philadelphia, Over 4 h. p. on belt work. Mov- f torn pieces, timbers ing parts fully enclosed. Write schools were to all on the scene in Tupelo before the dust All is. Pioneer Mfg. Co., Dept. L-6, West Wis. twisted to bits, trees snapped off. In had settled. Others? Simply call the roll fifteen minutes the tornado created a of the Mississippi Department. mile wide and three miles long. STOP Your Rupture shambles a • More than 200 were dead or dying. Many Within a few days tornadoes brought Worries! had been picked up bodily and hurled destruction to two widely-separated Why worry and suffer any long- into a lake to drown. Telephone, tele- er? Learn about our perfected Georgia towns. On April 2d a trail of invention for all forms of re- graph, light and water systems were ducible rupture. Automatic air wrecked buildings marked a tempest's down. hard rain was falling. cushion acting as an agent to broken A path along the lower edge of Cordele, a assist Nature has brought hap- Mobilizing in minutes, Tupelo Post piness to thousands. Permits railroad and farming town in the flat naturalstrengtheningoftheweak- went into action, headed by Post Com- C. E. Brooks pine-lands of south Georgia. Four days ened muscles. Weighs but a few mander M. Savery. Everywhere Le- Inventor ounces, is inconspicuous and J. later a more devastating storm rushed sanitary. No obnoxious springs or hard pads. gionnaires searched for the injured, No salves or plasters. Durable, cheap. SENT through the main streets of Gainesville, ON TRIAL to prove it. Beware of imitations. breaking through tangles of debris to save Never sold in stores or by agents. Write today important textile manufacturing center trapped families. At the same time the for full information sent free in plain envelope. of the Piedmont region. All correspondence confidential. Legionnaires sought desperately to send BROOKS COMPANY, 150 State St., Marshall. Mich. Immediately following both disasters news of the disaster to the outside world. local and neighboring posts of the Legion One Legion messenger traveled miles be- went into action. Twenty members of fore he found a telephone in working YOU CAN N. Neel, Post of Macon were NOW/ order. A line from Tupelo to Birming- Joseph Jr. hand to offer their services to Com- PROVIDE FORA STEADY ham, Alabama, carried word finally to the at mander Ed C. Pullen of Cordele Post IN state capital at Jackson. Legionnaire CASH INCOME within three hours of the tragedy. In Jimmie Bonner, phone official at Jackson, YOUR OWN BUSINESS caught Commander Savery's message Gainesville, where Fayette Norton is of Paul E. Bolding Post, from among hundreds and shoved it Commander aid was given by posts from a through to Department Adjutant R. D. active Winder, Com- Morrow at Department Headquarters. Cornelia, Habersham, BE YOUP and Lawrenceville, Ga., BOSS Back to Tupelo went word that Legion merce, Jefferson OWN as well as from Franklin, N. C. Supplies Look to the future! If you are dissatisfied with your posts in cities and towns nearby were also present job or are unemployed, here is a mighty fine op- and funds for relief were sent by other portunity. Right now you can establish yourself in a in action—help was on the way. They profitable, independent business of your own where you posts near and far. can be your own boss and make a good steady cash in- knew what was needed. It would arrive come every day. was endless work —man-power, doctors, nurses, ambu- In both cities there Use Your Funds or Our Capital supplies. Department to perform. Removal of debris, clearing Manufacturer established almost 50 years, confident that lances and medical you can succeed as a home service retailer, will furnish B. B. Allen personally called of passages and roadways, recovery of complete stock of fast-selling, fairly-priced, profitable, Commander quality products on credit. Or. you can use your own lost children had to all posts into action. Those within 200 lost property and cash for special discounts. Stock returnable If not sold. the same selling helps which job of We will furnish you with miles of Tupelo were urged to send relief proceed along with the sorrowful are enabling others to secure a good steady cash income offers, combination ar- every day—sensational premium expeditions swiftly. Posts farther away feeding and housing the homeless, deals, unusual selling plans and advertising helps, as experts. Look to the future! injured well as the advice of selling were requested to gather supplies and ranging hospital facilities for the Be a successful business man. For permanent, pleasant Ostrom, Secretary and profitable work, write G. A. to in when practicable. and removing the bodies of victims. McConnon & Co., Desk 130FY, Winona, Minn. food be moved 64 THE CUNEO PRESS, INC., U. S. A. V-8 Is The Mark Of The Modern Car

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