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May, 1936 Vol. 20, No. 5 LegionMONTHLY

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Indianapolis , Indiana 521 Fifth Avenue, New York * = may write your own title CONTENTS floods began, so we asked for tele- YOUfor Herbert Morton Stoops's graphic reports by Department Ad- painting for this issue. To SAFETY FIRST—AND LAST 4 jutants from all the flood battlefronts By Charles F. Kettering anyone who has ever known the of the Legion. Those reports, on satisfaction of sliding into home page 25, prove that Legion posts, SCHOOLS AND YOU 6 plate a split second ahead of the plop By Agnes Samuelson long organized to conduct rescue and of a baseball into a catcher's mitt, Illustration by Ilanson Booth relief work under the Legion's there is only one title possible. It is national program, have met the test the word "Safe!" Incidentally, this PRIVATE WAR 8 of 1936 magnificently. In a later By Hugh Wiley month of May again sees the mobili- issue will be presented more fully the Illustrations by Wallace Morgan 2ation of a half million boys for story of what was done everywhere. American Legion Junior Baseball. PEACE, THE REDS AND THE Everywhere praise for what posts Many of the boys who began play- REST OF US 12 did. "People driven from their ing baseball under Legion auspices By Frederick Palmer homes by water find quarters com- back in 1926 are now stars of the monly in Legion halls," writes the major leagues. A FOOL AND HIS STRIPES 14 Daily Neivs of Dayton, Ohio. By Leonard H. Nason "Wherever there are floods, there the Illustrations by H. M. Stoops IF you are one of those who started veterans are also, fighting in flood as collecting reproductions of the CROWDS 18 once they fought in war." High Monthly's cover paintings and re- By John R. Tunis praise, coming from Dayton, where gretted the withdrawal of the chance they preserve vivid memories of a GOT A HOUSING PROBLEM? 20 to buy them at ten cents each, here's flood cataclysm in 1913 which taught By John Thomas Taylor news. So many requests have been re- them to build dams and keep danger- ceived for ous waters out of their city—a lesson reproductions of W. J. IN THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO 22 Aylward's painting of Old Ironsides By Frank E. Morse other communities will now heed. on the cover of the March issue that Illustration by Forrest C. Crooks special arrangements have been made Cleveland National Conven- HOOSEGOW HERMAN 24 THE to supply them at the old rate. See By Wallgren tion gets nearer. You are re- the special offer on page 67. We're minded of that by the story "Blow, sorry that the offer can't hold good EDITORIAL: this is the legion 25 Bugle, Blow!" in this issue, the for other covers since the one for close-up story of the national drum December, 1935. SOLDIERS' MAIL 26 corps contest at the National Con- By William A. Kenyon vention in St. Louis last September. in Review!" Field Marshal Each year the corps get better. Uni- PASS BLOW, BUGLE, BLOW! 28 Nature might have ordered. By Sam C. Rowland forms get brighter and grander. Forthwith earthquakes, tornadoes, Music is surpassingly better than it forest fires, droughts, dust storms— FACES TO THE SUN 30 was before trick bugles were legal- whole procession of American dis- By Philip Von Blon ized, adding many more notes to the asters in recent years. Then March, playing range. Marching keeps pace with the skies opening, in the East, HISTORY REPORTS TO GENER- with other improvements. The Cleve- AL HARBORD 34 letting down cloudbursts upon the By Fairfax Downey land National Convention will be melting snow of the mountains, and held September 21st to 24th. If you in more than a dozen States Amer- WHERE SLEEP THE BRAVE 36 have never seen one of these great ican Legion posts mobilize to fight By John J. Noll spectacles, start by seeing the one in the perils created by the worst floods Cleveland's big stadium on the lake- in American history. This issue of BURSTS AND DUDS 40 front. It will be only one high spot Conducted by Dan Sowers the Monthly was far along when the of a great convention.

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MAY, 1936 3 Safety First- and Last By Charles E Kettering

WANT to begin by congratulating all the no direct control over its use and upkeep. I I organizations and individuals who are do wish to assure you that the manufacturer is taking an active part in traffic safety still interested in the car and will do every- work. I believe that we are now obtain- thing within reason to aid the owner to get the ing interest from a sufficient number of sources most satisfaction and use out of it. Naturally to get the active support of those who will have safety is part of this interest. to take the leadership in this work. To my We have all heard much talk recently about mind, one of the most encouraging develop- speed as a main cause of traffic accidents. Pro- ments in the accident situation is that so many posals are therefore made to limit by law the viewpoints are now represented in the groups possible speed of the car. This would make the which are attempting to devise plans for re- job of the manufacturer much easier, but the ducing the accident rate. This recognition of customers demand a vehicle which will ac- the many factors involved is a necessary prerequisite to celerate rapidly, climb hills without gear shifting, and travel any sane, workable plan. at a fairly rapid pace along the road. It is a fundamental However, we have only started the work. The accident urge of human beings to want to move from place to place rate has not been reduced and will not be until we obtain rapidly. We cannot successfully stifle this instinctive feeling the co-operation of everyone—child and adult, driver and by legislation no matter how much we should like to. pedestrian. After all, the problem is largely one in human No one knows to what speed we should be limited. I relations and that is one of the most complicated, unpredict- have seen as much reckless driving at speeds under thirty able problems with which we can deal. miles an hour as I have at speeds over sixty. The speed- Let us look at just one of these problems in human rela- ometer is a poor measure of dangerous driving. The safe tions. Each of us is more or less a two-sided person. We speed is much more concerned with the condition of the are an "instinctive being"—we react, as things come up, roadway, weather, driver, traffic, time of day and car, than without thought. Then we are an "intelligent being" when with the reading on the speedometer. The safe speed is the we analyze and try to determine the best thing to do under one in which the car in good condition is under control and a given set of circumstances. In order to illustrate what I can be stopped within the clear vision distance ahead. mean, let us take an example. You have all probably asked Many of the plans suggest limiting the speed to from someone to drop medicine in your eye sometime in your fifty miles per hour to sixty miles per hour. This would be life; you know it is very difficult to hold your eye open of very little help. A governor limiting the speed to any when you see the drop coming. The desire to shut your of the above rates would be set entirely too high for many eye has nothing to do with intelligence, it is purely an in- conditions. It is entirely above the speeds safe for many stinctive reaction of your eye muscles. of our city streets. Likewise, it is too high for even open However, if you think hard and steadily, you can hold highways when traffic is dense, when the roads are covered your eye open because you know you will not be hurt. I with ice and snow, or when vision is limited by fog or night. mention this because it is exactly what happens in driving. A governor limiting the top speed to a lower value would When we have time to think and analyze we seldom get never be practical. In other words, there are too many into trouble. When the unusual happens, intelligence does variables which affect the safe driving speed for governors not control, it is our "instinctive reactions" that control to do much good. I also question the advisability of any what we do. We want these instinctive reactions to be the device which takes the control of the car out of the hands right ones. This is only one of a long list of variables in of the driver. We do not yet know how to make a machine human reactions which have a large effect upon the accident which can do our thinking for us. It is often just as im- situation. portant to be able to accelerate rapidly and increase our

The automobile industry has tried to design and produce speed to avoid accidents as it is to slow down. as safe a vehicle as possible. Both the driving public and

When the car is delivered to the pedestrian should be edu- FROM time to time, a page of The American the owner it already has a long Legion Monthly tuill be turned over to a cated to use the automobile history of safety behind it. special guest editor—some prominent figure in and roadway in the safest Engineers have designed safety American life, Legionnaire or non-Legionnaire, manner possible. The high- into every feature; road and whose views on problems of present-day concern ways and streets should be proving ground tests have are worth recording and worth reading. Guest improved in keeping with im- checked every factor in the editors, of course, will have the privilege of say- provements in the vehicles ing they choose to say and saying it in design; skilled workmen using what of which use them. Law enforce- the manner they think In this issue the safe machinery have built the fit. ment and the courts may need Monthly takes pleasure in presenting Charles car; and an experienced in- some revision to keep up with Franklin Kettering, Vice President of General spection department has given present day needs. I feel sure Motors Corporation and Director of its noted that mis- that the work going on double assurance no Research Laboratories. An engineer of distin- now takes are made during its guished service, his most recent honor is the will do much to bring about a manufacture. After the car is Washington Award for 19} 6, a prize given worthwhile reduction in our delivered the manufacturer has annually by five national engineering societies. yearly traffic toll.

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—trying to find flaws— trying to break things down. . . . The Ford policy is never to be satis- fied with the work of today. Tomorrow must bring a better way. Nothing just good enough ever gets the go-ahead in the Ford plants. ... It costs more to make a car like this — costs us more for materials and machines and inspections. But it means better service to car owners— has built

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WHETHER or not you have crossed the continent volved. How shall we make good on the educational birthright in an airflow train or soared over it by airplane, you of all the children of all the people in a period of economic have been interested in the exciting new speed crisis? How dare we face the future if we do not do it? records being established by the streamline model. A few months ago the United States Commissioner of Educa- You may or may not be intrigued with the streamline pattern, tion, John W. Studebaker, reported that more than one-eighth but you must admit that it is revolutionizing locomotion and of the school children of the United States were in school districts making transportation history. You have observed also how without sufficient funds to operate schools the customary length the streamline idea is appearing in advertising new styles—the of school term. The full import of that fact and its future im- latest developments in bathing suits, hair bobs, footballs, toys, plications are not to be ignored. What is the risk to democracy hats. Men's shoes are air conditioned and streamlined. if the schoolhouse door be closed? But what has this to do with education? With the profession Recovery programs will not be complete if education is not of teaching? The purpose of streamlining is better performance. included. Reconstruction will collapse unless streamlined with Isn't that in a nutshell just what we are after in education? Isn't education. Education must not, like Ignorance in "The Pilgrim's that just what we are after in every school, home, church? Progress," "come hobbling after." It must streamline the new The question is how to secure this better performance, how to order of things and, in turn, must itself be streamlined for bet- usher in an era of education comparable to the new era in trans- ter performance, in the interest of a better America. portation. What shall the pattern be? How? No small task. It must be done Not so easy when human values are in- Illustration by Hanson Booth both outside and {Continued on page 66)

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MAY, 1936 Private KNEE deep in the chill mud that fringed the Battle of Bo'deaux the Wildcat and the Backslid Baptist and By Hugh Wiley various other members of the Fust Service Battalion floundered around and wondered how much longer pay- day would remain AWOL. Illustrations "Ain't no better off dan we wuz befo' de white folks gralted us into dis war," the Backslid Baptist complained. "Eatin' mo' copious, ain't you?" l?if Wallace Morgan "Kain't say I is et so copious since we landed offen dat old steamboat," Backslid commented. heavily. "Sho wisht us boys had one mo' good feed like dat good "Yo' eatin' organs didn't fluctuate so tremendous on de boat," old liver. Dese rations de Army is puttin' out ain't fit fo' hog the Wildcat observed. feed." "Dey et all right," Backslid returned. "Dey et noble enuff. "Mebbe dat's de reason dey aims 'em at you. You ain't got Ain't got no complaint so fur as dat item goes. Main trouble wuz de sense of a hog—wastin' all dem francs in dat crap game wid dat dem boat rations wouldn't stay et. Boy, when I buries a dem artillery boys. Might know dem white boys git you." square meal in my stummick it grieves me to have it resurrected "Us have lots of francs, come payday." like de boat's whistle wuz Gabriel's horn." "Oh Lawd—how long is payday?" "You sho did resurrect dat boiled liver de fust night out of "Wilecat, whut you gwine to do when payday finally gits Hoboken." here?" Lizard, reclining in his bunk in the corner of the hut, yawned The Wildcat gave this a moment's thought. Then, "Fust

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"Let's git goin'! Dese \ Chinese devils is gone crazy! " the Wildcat cried as the yellow men rushed at them

minutes C Company of the Fust Service Battalion was lined up in the rain moving slowly past the pay table from which three delayed paydays were being dealt out to Lady Luck's neglected legion. Payday used up thirty minutes of the evening but there was lots of time left for a dash toward the pleasures

of Bo'deaux. "Us makes it easy in half an hour ridin' one of dem low-neck hacks. Rally round de office whilst de ser- geant deals out de passes." Rallvin' round the office the eager throng was presently socked with a chilling announce- ment roared from the leather lungs of Sergeant Kinzie. "Cap'n says dey ain't gwine to be no passes tonight! You boys fall in, line up, march over to dat recreation hut. You gwine to be up- *TUE Wildcat and his lifted." Sergeant Kinzie looked at a slip of paper that he held in his right hand. "Marmaduke C. Raleigh—he's gwine to learn an a laden g g> P y and you how to read an' write an' play games. Fall in! Dat up- liftin' man waitin' fo' you right now." denied the pleasures of Facing the Backslid Baptist the Wildcat groaned. "Dog-gone Bordeaux, run afoul it! I thought us wuz set free f'm dem uplifters. Oh, Lawd, wuz of hard luck a rain drop dis Uplifter has cloudbursted right in our

some Annamite brothers- face". . . . The mourner clenched his hand on the reassuring roll of French banknotes in his pocket. "Payday, bide yo' time! at-arms, but finally Right dis minnit de old man-eatin' Uplifter is got you stopped. Xemmine payday, at ease. You gits action mighty soon in make their point spite of dat old Marmalade Crawley."

THE sour-faced Marmaduke Raleigh headed into his uplift problem with a sadistic enthusiasm and a salary larger than that enjoyed by the captain of the Wildcat's company. "Don't pester me about no passes to no place," Sergeant Kin- zie growled on the morning following the Uplifter's arrival. "Old Marmalade aims to learn you field hands to read an' write. Cap'n says rally in de mess hall every evenin' until furder orders." A volley of groans greeted this announcement. Then, tem- pering the freezing winds that howled around the Uplifter's vic- War tims, Lady Luck relented with a work order that distributed thing I does is to git me a Bo'deaux pass f'm Sergeant Kinzie." two-thirds of the able-bodied members of C Company along the "Dat's it! Bo'deaux pass is de fust thing—go on." rough road from Genicart to Lormont. "Den I brushes myself off on de outside an' baptizes myself "Hot dam, men! Nuthin' gwine to stop me f'm edgin' into copious on de inside wid dis yere van blink an' some coonyak an' dat cafe in Lormont when us gits down dat fur toward de river," den I tells de boy in de eatin' house, 'Boy, bring along some Cinder Eye exclaimed when the road repair order was fancy rations an' keep a-comin' double time till you sees my ears promulgated. " stick straight out.' Nothing stopped Cinder Eye, Lizard and the Wildcat and the The Backslid Baptist shook his head. "Ain't gwine to clutter rest of the work crew. In the first hour of their first day's labor up no good old coonyak an' van blink wid no rations de fust time on the road, warming gulps of coonyak were absorbed by one and

I goes to Bo'deaux." all. Sporadic outbursts of crap shooting forthwith inspired a '"Tention, men!" Over by the door, Cinnamon, the captain's desire for wider fields of action with the cubes of chance. striker, grated a harsh command. '"Tention for Sergeant "Ain't no use for one boy in dis outfit winnin' it f'm some other Kinzie." boy an' losin' it back to him right away." Cinnamon ducked out of the doorway to give place to the Top. "Ain't dat de truth!" "You boys rare up outen dem bunks an' lissen mighty close for "Sho is de truth. Whut us craves is outside money." de bugle call," Sergeant Kinzie commanded. "You been lissenin' "Wisht dem artillery boys would show up right now. Only for three months—now it's gwine to blow." thing that kept me f'm cleanin' up dat whole brigade wuz a short "Sergeant, you mean payday?" bankroll." The first notes of the pay call rendered Sergeant Kinzie 's reply "Lissen to me, men. I knows where dey is some outside money.— superfluous. A tumult of activity hit the hut. Within four You remembers dem little old sawed-off Chinee boys whut

MAY, 1936 9 tinseled decorations of gold and silver. Flanked starboard and port by vases of black wine, a roast chicken varnished a golden brown with tempting sauces lay supine at the feet of a tall statue of Kwan Yin. "Eats me a leg offen dat chicken," the Wildcat announced. "Follers it up wid a dash of dat white meat an' den a good copious dram outen one of dem likker jugs." "I divides de chicken wid you," Backslid agreed. "Like as not old Dong Gut got a million chickens waitin' in de back room de way us is been losin' money to him. Looks like he could be mo' liberal wid dis free lunch layout." "Take a-hold of dat other leg an' pull!" the Wildcat ordered briefly, reaching for the roast chicken's left leg. "Grab a wing." He called across to the master of the fantan game: "Lissen to me, Dong, send somebody out to git some mo' of dese chickens. Dey taste mighty noble." Dong Gut poised the slender han- dle of his little ebony fantan hoe in a moment of amazement. A tremor traversed his thin frame. Then at Old Dong Gut's heavy teakwood walking the top of his lungs, "Shui sooey!" stick beat the cadence of sweet revenge on he screeched. "Atone for sin!" Marmaduke's skull The Wildcat scowled. "Don't try to shoo me away f'm dis lunch wid dat Chinee talk." "Dem Annamite boys don't shoot no craps. Dey plays dat "Mo-kuei. Song Huh! Here are men up from hell! Rally for fantan game." combat at the feet of the Living God!" "No matter whut dey plays dey gambles." An answering chorus of threatening yells lifted from the long "Lizard, you sho said a mouthful. How come nobody think line of the Annamites' barracks. As the alarm spread the Wild- of dat Annamite outfit long befo' dis?" cat and his companions heard the first sounds of a stampede "How us gwine to sneak away to dat Annamite camp?" that seemed to be heading in their direction. "Next section of dis road us is fixin' up runs right past dat "Whut's one little old chicken to a big gamblin' house?" Lady Chinee camp." Luck's orphan protested, yelling at Dong Gut in an effort to For the next week work seemed to lag on the half-mile stretch be heard above the growing tumult. Then, realizing the advan- of road that paralleled the long row of Annamite barracks. tage of retreat, "Come along here, Backslid!" he commanded. Dong Gut, preaching in the Buddhist temple in which the "You, Cinder Eye, fetch Lizard an' Cinnamon an' de rest of dem Annamites rendered their devotions to their various deities, ran boys. Let's git goin'! Dese Chinese devils is gone crazy!" a sideline of fantan for all comers. The route to the front door of the hut was suddenly blocked On the second day of the fantan campaign, "Keep away from by a mob of little yellow men. the gambling table," Dong Gut ordered, addressing his country- "Come along out de back door!" men. "The gods of fortune have sent us a golden harvest." The rear exit of Dong Gut's establishment was thronged with At early evening in the brief interval between recall from the a milling mob of Annamites. Trapped, the Wildcat turned to road work and the long march uphill to their camp, the Wildcat the proprietor of the joint. "Lissen to me, boy, keep dat money and the Backslid Baptist and three other members of the brunet on de table dere. Buy yo'self one more chicken. Us boys pays gambling delegation audited their dwindling funds in Dong for de chicken. How much is it?" Gut's joint. "No ketchum money!" Dong Gut screeched. "You allee

"Dogged if I ain't got but forty francs left," the Wildcat com- same devil! Kill my church!" plained. "Wonder where at my payday money is went?" "Boy, you sounds crazy to me. Whut you mean kill yo' "You been hittin' dat van blink mighty heavy all day long," church?" Cinder Eye offered. Quickly realizing the odds against the stevedore delegation, "Ain't hit me no twenty francs worth of van blink. Started "Lemme talk at him in French," Lizard interposed. "Lemme out dis mornin' wid sixty francs." see kin I find out whut is eatin' on him." "You just lose five francs three times to dis old Dong Gut boy," Presently in the calming tumult, "He says does us pay him de the Backslid Baptist suggested. price of fifty chickens for dis Chinee saint standin' dere on de "Mebbe dat's it. Well, here goes twenty francs mo' on dat mourners' bench, he lets us go. Otherwise—lissen, Wilecat, bean-countin' game. I hope old Dong Gut breaks his neck!" us got to hand him de money. Dem Chinee boys outside de door The Wildcat split his bankroll in two. "Keep a eye on de game," is mighty copious when dey begins whittlin' on de human carcass. he said to Cinder Eye after he had made his bet. "Ise gwine to Gimme all de money you got. Pass de hat. Shower down, dive into dis free lunch over here on de church counter." brothers. Old Dong Gut wants a hundred francs. Give it to "I helps you wid de lunch," the Backslid Baptist volunteered. him quick so as us kin retreat in de sunshine of his smile." "Us been too busy gamblin' in dis joint to think about de lunch." "Else whut?" The Backslid Baptist growled the question. The lunch toward which the Wildcat and his companion headed "Else mighty likely de next music you hears after yo' pussonal was a votive offering to the gods, spread on an altar adorned with taps is blowed is a harp solo wid you at de throttle."

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly "Dat's right, boy. Give good old Dong Gut de money," the dey chompin' de bit account of de uplift whut Marmaduke C. Wildcat advised. "Whut do a few old chickens mean compared Raleigh is perpetratin' in dere midst." to a friend in need? Here you is, Dong Gut—here's twenty "Listen, Sergeant Kinzie, that Raleigh man has nothing to do francs. Dat's de last cent I got." with it," the lieutenant said sharply. "Make it your business The retreat of the chastened fantan addicts, accomplished to find out what's going on." under the cover of darkness, brought them presently to the sanc- "Yass suh, Lootenant, I finds out whut's itchin' in de vitals tuary of their quarters on the hill at Genicart. of dem boys does I have to gut 'em wide open to do it." By the time Dong Gut's victims had revived their courage Sergeant Kinzie's investigation, conducted in the direct man- with a cargo of supper rations, plans for revenge on the yellow- ner of a battering ram, concentrated on the Wildcat and the faced highjackers were well under way. other members of the executive committee of the new mystery "Right after dat weasel-faced Marmalade Crawley turns us lodge. "Don't lie to me, boy. Lootenant says find out whut's loose f'm his readin' an' writin' jail you boys rally round de hut goin' on an' I aims to find out. Whut's de nature of de ruckus? an' we riggers out how us kin conquer Dong Gut an' de rest of Tell de whole truth an' nuthin' else but, else you never gits an- dem Chinee varmints. Ain't gwine to let no little yaller monkeys other Bo'deaux pass f'm now on." whut kain't talk English win no fight in de fust round! Rally in "Bo'deaux passes ain't been so copious lately as to bow me de hut jus' as soon as Marmalade lets you go an' us riggers de down none," the Wildcat grumbled. next move in dis private war." "Nemmine how copious dey is been. Come a-runnin' wid in- The first executive session of the Revenge Committee resulted fo'mation on de main question an' don't sweet talk me. Befo' in a water haul. somethin' else ails you mighty bad tell me whut ails you now." On the following day an air of mystery deepening with the pass- "Sergeant, lissen to me. Swear to me by de white rag in de ing hours hung over the road gang as it labored wrathfully in the jaw of de lamb, oath me by de three black hairs in de split stick steady rain. f'm de weepin' willow, an' I tells you whut's agitatin' me an' de At evening to one of his lieutenants, "There's something wrong rest of de hands." with those men," the captain commanding the outfit observed. Sergeant Kinzie nodded. "I swears by my oath," he said.

"See if you can find out what it is. They act like an epidemic of "Proceed ahead wid yo' revelation." the voodoo itch is sneaking up on them." "In de fust place how you reckon us likes to be penned up wid "I'll see what Kinzie has to say," the Loot answered. three paydays, no Bo'deaux passes an' dat Marmalade Uplifter Sergeant Kinzie under direct examination had little to say and puttin' on a prayer meetin' every night consistin' of learnin' to in that little there was no enlightening essence of fact. "Loo- read an' write?" tenant, I be dogged if I see anythin' ailin' wid dem boys. Mebbe Sergeant Kinzie nodded sympathetically. "I knows. Go ahead." "In de second place how you like to be deprived loose f'm de last cent you got outen three paydays by {Continued on page 42) — Peace,^Reds dth ResvcT?

adequate national defense, but they are not in favor of our dis- arming until other nations will meet us at least half way. They try to keep their feet on the ground. Frederick Palmer The largest pacifist organization of this class is the Legion. Veterans know war well enough not to want another and to have many Americans do you know who are for war for practical ideas of the best way to save us from another. HOWwar's sake? How many Legionnaires? The capital P class are the noisy, dreamy, exhibitionist, narrow How many are in favor of abolishing popular elec- and intolerant pacifists. It is they who have given the simple tions? In favor not only of rushing off to join in a word pacifist a false meaning and held it up to derision. European war but even of he'ping to start one rather than wait A capital P pacifist has discovered what he thinks nobody else too long for the adventure? has ever discovered and what all human experience has taught According to red-pacifist propaganda, millions of us are, and that war is a bloody, murderous business. He thinks he has seen the number of us who are longing to be shot at is daily increas- a great truth which others have missed. He joins some society, ing. or perhaps founds a new one, which has a recipe for eternal peace And what alone can stay this growing suicidal and homicidal —a positively new recipe which is as old as human history. American desire to be in the thick of human carnage? Anyone who disagrees with his recipe is a fire-eating militarist. Why, our adoption of the Soviet Russian system under a One of the slogans of the capital P's is to take the profit out Stalin type of dictatorship. of war. The Legion has long advocated the conscription of war There were times when I broke into laughter as I went over industry, labor and capital as well as of manpower, but that does my notes and material before I began writing this article. Then not strike a sympathetic note for the Legion in the minds of the my pride in American intelligence was hurt, and the gullibility capital P's. of some of us gave the ridiculous a serious turn. I dislike to see Haven't the Legionnaires been soldiers or sailors in their men and women who country's uniform? If they preferred peace to war, why want peace keeping did they go to war? Don't they join in patriotic parades company which may and decorate soldiers' graves instead of the graves of precipitate us into war. conscientious objectors or of those who escaped the draft? In previous articles Don't they mass patriotic flags behind platforms at we have seen how sub- public meetings? versive propaganda has Don't they look askance at the slacker who proved spread its influence in his love of peace to the capital P's? Do they refuse to labor, welfare, educa- forget they were in the war when the

tional, youth and re- slacker is always ready to forget it? ligious organizations, These Legion fellows are seen as the and sought to teach glorifiers of war, the racketeers of war. sedition in our Army The capital P's picture a veteran who and Navy; how many was in the trenches in France saying, people were not con- as he pats his son on the shoulder: scious of the prick of "Don't you worry, boy! You aren't the needle which in- old enough yet. You'll have your jected the dope. With chance, yet, to be in a war." His each injection they are mother adds: receptive to a larger "I'm sure you will—just be patient. dose, which will turn Who knows but you will see a bigger their pink into red, un- war than dad saw? Then dad will be less they get wise to jealous when you come home with themselves before it is more wound stripes than he won. too late to break with Maybe you will be killed. Then the habit. think how your grave will be covered the with flowers on Decoration and Now we come to Mere flag wavers these, you think? Not so. Day red influence in pacifist They're "American Legionnaire Vigilantes" to the your name will be on a bronze plaque organizations. There magazine Fight, in which the cartoon appeared in the Town Hall—and how proud I are two types of paci- shall be to be a Gold Star mother!" fists, one without a But it would be all right with cer- capital P and one with. The first seek sound and reasonable tain Pacifists and certain Pacifist organizations if father said: means of preventing war and promoting good relations among "And, son, you will not fight under the dirty old rag of tyranny, peoples. They may disagree as to the measure and method of the Stars and Stripes, that I fought under."

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The League's chairman is Dr. Harry F. Ward. He was one of the original directors of the Garland Fund, founded out of the millions inherited by the late Charles Garland. One of the vice chairmen of the League is Earl Browder, chief of the American Communist Party. On the executive committee are Gilbert Green, chief of the Communist Youth League, and Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, official organ of the American Communist Party. The pacific name of the monthly magazine of the League Against War and Fascism is Fight. I note an article by Waldo McNutt telling how the Youth Congress is rooted in the bases of the "trades unions, churches, Y .M. C. A.'s, Y. W. C. A.'s and student organizations" including the Epworth League as well as the Young People's Socialist League and the Young Communist League. Underneath this article, carrying the caption "Mustering Fresh Cannon-Fodder" is a picture of army recruits taking the oath. Thus, we are told, they "stop thinking for themselves" and be- come the hirelings of American ======^^^ ^^= fascism.

For the main business of Fight is Also from Fight is not against war, but red propaganda this terrifying ar- against fascism, which the American ray of bombing system of capitalism—the private planes. In his cap- ownership of property— is declared to tion, reproduced be fastening upon us. Our Army Navy with the picture, , National Guard and police forces are the editor talks of all seen as brutal exponents of fascism. poison gas and ex- The only alternative to save us from plosives making approaching fascist dictatorship is the country "in- declared to be a soviet dictatorship. habitable" War and fascism are made one. ===== Pictures of our coast artillery guns firing and of our naval ships are titled as the waste of more dollars to make us fascist; but there is no waste of rubles when they are spent on the Russian army, whicli

is seen as the true defender of American as well as of Russian peace. Once all nations are under the Communist International of Moscow the problem of the ages will have been solved. Another contributor to Fight is Jessie Wallace Hughan, Sec- retary of the War Resisters League. This represents the Korean school of pacifists. In 1004 the unarmed Koreans watched as curious spectators the march of the Japanese army columns through Korea, only to be quite surprised to find that the Jap- anese were not on a holiday tour but had come to stay. Then the Koreans talked rebellion, but too late. Jessie W'allace Hughan says she recognizes that "capitalism, fascism and war stand together, that the fight is here and now" — these capital P pacifists— are much given to the use of that naughty word fight "and that for many of us it will be a life- An American military expert has stated and-death struggle." Anyone who owns a house and lot or has a that American airplanes could deluge the savings bank account is, in the view of the reds, a partisan of war cities of Japan with poison gas and explosives and fascism and will be until our system is overthrown. which tvould devastate the country and make But the War Resisters League, says Secretary Hughan, will the valleys inhabitable for months. Other not altogether accept the League Against War and Fascism until militarists demand ever increasing appropria- it declares it favors refusing support to all war. Let all its mem- bers sign the pledge of the War Resisters "not to support wai of tions for battleships and airplanes to " defend" any kind, international or civil and to refuse to yield to conscrip- the possessions American imperialism in of tion or to help make or transport war munitions." the Pacific. Congress has just passed the The directors of the League Against War and Fascism would largest naval appropriation bill in our his- be just about as likely to sign that pledge as a hard-boiled old tory. Organize opposition to the growing sergeant would be to fire blank cartridges against an attacking danger of war with Japan! enemy. That would be disloyalty to the red flag of revolution. Among themselves communist leaders are frank to say that they are not pacifists. They recognize that government is by force, and that by force alone the Soviet Union was formed and is "No," mother, adds in this instance, "you will be a true red maintained. lighting under the red flag of Russia for the cause of the Com- It is an old feud, this between the fascist and Russian dictator- munist International." ships. Mussolini started as a left wing Socialist, sounding all the We know that the manhood and womanhood of America as a conventional jargon against capitalism. He changed sides, or whole are against war, united in wanting to keep out of war, and made a side of his own, as the father of fascism. The success of against fascism in America. There you have two subjects of fascism in Italy was partly in answer to communist disorders. widespread appeal utilized by the League Against War and Mussolini ceased to speak the speech of Lenin and Stalin and Fascism to make people receptive to the prick of the red needle. spoke his own. (Continued on page 44)

MAY, 1936 13 A Fool and

upon a time I ' I 'HE top kick and the ONCEwas at a bridge party, and the guy was other sergeants were out playing opposite me to bust the upstart named got to groaning every time I Nason who ivas a nice played a card, so I told him he could have my cards, and to woolly lamb fresh (that's put them away, one by one, in the right word) from whatever place he thought Plattsburg. best. Then I went into a corner Here's how to get mulled, but my wife had you do it, just in case .... given orders that I wasn't to have more than one highball, so I was out of luck. Just then along came a lady I didn't know. that's all he talks about, but tell me why you 'T don't play bridge either," They were just went in the Regular Army. I know you're a said she, "and so I'd like to talk as wild as the college man. There weren't many in the to you. I hear you were in the recruits that Regulars, were there? I know you were a war, and I wonder why you rode them sergeant, and not an officer, because I heard don't come to any of our club some of the boys call you sergeant tonight. Do meetings. I'm president of the tell me how you happened to be a Regular and ladies' auxiliary of the 26th a sergeant, too!"

Division Club, and I think you "I would do anything for a lady," said I, ought to come down. Why "but you do first one thing for me. I'm for- haven't you?" bidden a second drink, but they'd give you one. You just ask "Well, lady, I haven't come down because I was in the Regular that guy over there behind the table to give you about an inch of

Army, and your club is for lads that were in the 26th." water in the bottom of a tall glass and fill the rest up with rye, "Well, how is it that you seem to know so much about the and I'll tell you the history of my military life. war if you were in the Regular Army? I thought nobody did any "Thanks. Now we'll just take the two sighting shots allowed fighting but the 26th." by regulations, and begin." "I know, I know. The reason for that is that the Regular Army came from all over the country. Lady, I haven't met but THE reason I wasn't an officer was because I got kicked out of three guys that I knew during the war, and there were almost a Plattsburg, where officers were being made. The reason I en- thousand men went through my battery from 1017 until the listed in the Regular Army was because that was the only army outfit came home from Germany. They haven't any news value. there was at the time, and it was imperative that I get in off the

The old regiment is out on the West Coast now, and if I lived street somewhere. The so-called National Army wasn't formed, there, I'd be fried every night, but being as how I live here, I lead the National Guard was being federalized and broken up and a sober life and never go out." shuffled around and was in a state of chaos, and voluntary en- "My! My!" said the lady. "But don't you ever like to live listments had ceased anyway. Nobody was going to this war

over old memories? I know you do, because Mrs. Gushington without they got asked, said Washington. . said you had talked about the war with her, and that you were Now over at Fort Ethan Allen, which was across the lake from funnier than a goat. Won't you tell me a little about it? Of course Plattsburg, they were forming two regiments of cavalry, and I know all about it, because my husband was in the 26th, and the man that had been commandant of cadets at Norwich University was going to be lieutenant colonel of one of them. Maybe they could use a stout lad that knew one end of a horse He ran away and took the broom with him from the other. So I went over there and ap- plied, and they had to telegraph Washington for permission to enlist me. Meanwhile I sat around on my hinder-end for a couDle of days.

I got in, though, finall> , and got chased over to my outfit.

The 1 8th Cavalry had just been issued rifles when I reported for duty. The colonel was out, but my old pal the former commandant re- ceived me, and broke the news to me that he was going to make me a sergeant. "It's a little irregular," said he, "to make a man a sergeant the day he enlists, but I think three years at Norwich is certainly the equiva- lent of a hitch in the Army, so you ought to qualify. I've asked to have you made a sergeant as a personal favor to me; now don't let me

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly His Stripes By Leonard H.Mason

down. The toughest job you're going to have is keeping those stripes!" Huh, thinks I, simple! So then I went over to the troop. It was just about time for chow, and after I'd reported to the first sergeant, he took me into the mess shack and introduced me to the other sergeants at the sergeants' table. Word had come over, you see, that I was to be a ser- geant just as soon as the order could be made out. Huh-huh! Those other hard-boiled old birds certainly gave me the eye! They suspended the sabre-exercise they were going through with their knives and looked at me with horror. "I told you guys war was hell!" said one of them finally. You then, you bunk in Number 8." He lit out for distance, see they all had had two and some of them three or four enlist- "Didn't they like you?" nearly knocking down ments. A couple of them could have been my father, as far as age asked the lady. two men in the front went. No, I guess not. You see, rank as he broke loose "You must be quite a pea cutter to have stripes at your age!" there had been a lot of specula- said the gimlet eye I sat down beside. "What outfit are you out of?" tion over a period of a week or more who was going to get that sergeancy that was vacant in A Troop, and the old timers had thought that the senior corporal, an old sponge with fifteen

years of guardhouse memories behind him, ought to have it. It was a tough job to pry Then in comes this starry-eyed recruit in the tailor-made uniform them apart and grabs off the stripes. "Don't worry," said the top kick, (so I heard), "he won't last a week!" He gave me a platoon to command the very next day, because we were going to have a review, and he knew I'd ball everything up and get hell climbed out of me, because while the lieutenant colonel was a pal, we had an old bearcat of a colonel that busted non-coms on the spot, and had 'em cut their stripes off right then and there, while he gloated. Bah. Running a platoon was simple, because I'd been a cadet sergeant at Norwich and knew more about the new cavalry drill regs than the top did. Oh, lady, better

for me if I hadn't, because the squadron commander came down the line afterward, and barked, "There was only one platoon in this troop that was brought onto line properly, and that was the third." That was my platoon. When we got back to camp every non-com in the troop hated my intestines to the point of mayhem. "You done well with that platoon o' yours today!" said one old leather-tail at supper. "Yeh." said another one out of the side of his mouth, "bright Well, lady, maybe I shouldn't have said it, but I was scared boy!" Then they both executed right stab with a knifeful of of these old boys, and embarrassed, and hadn't had time to mashed potatoes. think, so I just said, "The First." "I think," said the top kick, "that we'll give you Coosby to "Oh, the old First Dragoons. Well, that must be a pretty train. You know anything about wig-wag?" nice outfit." "Yup," said I. Me having no service in, whatsoever, you see, I had to say "Good! Tuhmorrer you begin on Coosby, tuh see if you can something quick. Anyway, I'd been in the First Vermont. I teach it to him!" didn't tell him I'd been in the First Dragoons, he just thought so. Now, lady, the visual system of signaling, or wig-wag as it is That afternoon my service record came over, with the word called, has no use except to take up a soldier's time. It can't be

"recruit" on it. "Previous service, NONE." used in the presence of the enemy, be- Illustrations Along about retreat the first sergeant came wandering down cause the signaler has to be seen, and if to me and said, "Sergeant Nason, you better put up your bunk by anyone else can see him, so can the in Number 8 tent. The sergeants' tent is crowded, a little, and enemy. But it's a good exercise to take next week we're going to have another sergeants' tent, but until Herbert M. Stoops up time. This outfit I was in had been

MAY, 1936 IS going about two months, first as a recruit company, then as A other a Finn, and they were as amiable as a couple of sledge dogs. Troop of the 18th Cavalry, and having no rifles they had spent a At each other's throat all the time. The top moved all these guys lot of time on wig-wag signaling, and had made considerable into my tent, so I could have them under my influence night and progress with it. All except a certain Private Coosby. The next day. These two Russians would sit on opposite sides of the tent day I began to teach Coosby wig-wag, and then I found out why and mutter at each other. Then, suddenly, they'd fly at each he was backward in learning it. He couldn't read or write. I other with anything they could lay hand on! Lady, it would reported this to the top, and told him that it would be a matter of raise your hair to see it. I'd get 'em pried apart just in time. I some difficulty to asked one of them one day what they said to each other, and he teach a man wig-wag laughed. "Choost a game! Choost a game! I tell him what his under those conditions, wife in the old country is doing while he's in the Army. Then he and that the messages tell me what my wife is doing. The first one that gets mad, he he might get would loses!" be meaningless any- "I didn't know either of you two was married." wav. "We ain't! We choost say what the wife would do if we had one. Choost a game. That son of a son, Tataru, he couldn't have a wife. He ain't man enough!" There I was try- "Dot so!" Clonk! Tataru had come up behind, heard his name ing to teach this spoken out of turn, and crowned his fellow Russian with a tent peg. Cracker to under- The three of us are on the ground, me between the two Rus- stand wig-wag sians like the meat in a sandwich, when the top goes by. "Reason with 'em," he said, "reason with 'em. You been to the collich, you ought to be able to reason with 'em." "You heard the Now, lady, in this outfit that I was in we had seven men and order!" said the top a corporal in a tent. The corporal was supposed to get the seven coldly. "If you can't men up for reveille, see that their clothes were always neat and make it, yuh can al- clean, that their rifles were taken care of, and that they didn't ways resign go over the hill. The four ranking sergeants each had a platoon, So I began to teach but one of them was away at some army school or other, and as I Coosby to wig-wag. was the other sergeant in that platoon, I got it to command and He was a willing lad, be responsible for. We had one poor old captain that was in a mild sort of kid, command of two troops, with no lieutenants whatsoever, and he with a sleepy way of talking. He came, he told me, from Jawjuh. had so much paper work to do he didn't have time to shave, let Way back up in the ridge. He had come down some river with a alone supervise the instruction of his command, so holding my raft of logs, and when he got down to the town, he heard tell there stripes in that early period of my ignorance wasn't too difficult. was a war on. Coosby knowed all about the war, because his During the morning we drilled. I didn't mind that, because I pappy had been with Mosby in the last one. Knowed all about knew more about it than anyone. They'd just changed the the cavalry, too, because his pappy had been a cavalryman. cavalry drill regulations, and the old tail-pounders didn't know One of Mosby's men. His pappy was eighty-two years old when Coosby was born, but that was nothin' because his pappy was an old cavalryman and could r'ar and t'ar as good as anyone in that neck o' the pines. We'd gotten that far in the wig-wag lesson when the top appeared, all mad and out of breath.

"Edwards is loose again!" raged the top. "You go get him! There he goes, see? Way across the parade! You take him in your platoon, after this, and when he breaks out, you get him!" Private Edwards was another star. He was a kid about six- teen, with blue eyes and curly hair, and the tenderest feelings of any man I ever knew. If a non-com spoke to Edwards harshly, he'd throw down his rifle and start for home by the quickest route. Lady, an hon- est fact. A shout, a snarl, and Edwards was off. A nice kid, too, but he could run like a deer. Orders were out to humor him, because he had the makings of a soldier, but he certainly would not stand for anyone raising their voice. Well, I lit out after Edwards. I had to chase him half way to Colchester, and when I came back, dragging Edwards by the arm, it was too late for any more wig-wag. Well, lady, now I had Edwards and Coosby to look after, the They went like four rabbits, having top got me a couple more hot ones to keep the first two company. nothing to pull but two wheels, an axle We had a couple of Russians, only one was a Galician and the and a sergeant 16 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly them, whereas I'd drilled under them all the past year at That hard-boiled Norwich. In the afternoon, I had Coosby and Edwards and top sergeant that my two Russians to teach wig-wag to. Poor Coosby. He we had certainly tried awful hard, but he never could get anywhere. gave me the eye "I'm sorry, sergeant," he said one day. "I ain't much good at playin' with them little bittie flags, but wait 'til we get up against them damyanks, you'll be proud of me!" Edwards got up and ran away just then, but I had trained him sweep he ran away the Russians to go after him, so they lit out like a couple of and took the broom dogs after a cat, and I pursued the conversation with with him. This was in- Coosby. convenient as hell be- "What do you mean, damyanks?" I asked. cause it was just before "Why, them damyanks we're fightin'. I know all about inspection and we had 'em. My pappy's told me that many a time. The cavalry to sweep the place out jest rides 'em down." with our hats, and "So you think you're fightin' the damyanks, huh? That's shorthanded, because your idea! You're just going to raise hell with them when my Russians were chas- you meet up with a few, huh?" ing Edwards. "I won't miss it!" said Coosby fervently. "They done a So we decided we powerful amount of harm in Jawjuh." wouldn't make Ed-

I started to tell you about these tent squads, lady, and g^jt^ warc^ s swee Gee, (jj ri^P= $Sm P- got off on another track, but this brings me back to it. It <=-S^ lady, he wouldn't do gets cold in Vermont at night in August, which meant fires anything, that guy! The in the tents, which meant wood cutting. The sergeants, who lived last corporal he had made him clean his rifle before he could eat. in one tent together—all but me—had to make their own bunks Edwards hadn't cleaned the rifle, and had gone for two days and take turns policing up and cutting wood for the stove. Me in without eating, so the corporal had had to back down, and my tent of all nations, I did nothing but lie on my back. The Edwards hadn't cleaned his rifle since. So then they gave him to colonel of the regiment had one orderly, I had seven. There were me to take care of. nine of us, because we had the regular tent corporal, too. so it "But I don't see why those other sergeants should hate you," was a little crowded, but I was just the same as an admiral on a said the lady. flagship. They didn't hate me, lady. I was junior sergeant. So I got all

We stole a tent floor off F Troop, and one of my Russians, who the grief. Somebody had to get it. Then, of course, I was fresh, was a carpenter, made a combination arms-rack, hat-rack, coat- and I knew too much, and some of the old sergeants thought that rack, and shoe-rack out of it that offended their dignity. They did get a little sore, when they was the envy of the troop. Coosby saw the luxury I was living in and not lifting a hand, while kept the woodbox full with an expert they were policing up the sergeants' tent every day just as hand. He couldn't read, but he though they were privates. Then, of course, when they got could swing a mean axe. Each one a chance, since they all ranked me, you couldn't blame them took his turn at sweeping up, except for giving me a bit of the rough side of their tongue, or a me, because I was a sergeant. Also particularly unpleasant detail. Edwards. He couldn't abide sweep- Well, it came on to be September, and Plattsburg was ing. The first time we tried to make over, and we got a flock of officers. Some were West Pointers just out. Some were graduates from Plattsburg, some were enlisted men that had taken an examination for commission the summer before, and had just been commissioned. With a full quota of officers, things began to move faster. We got our full complement of horses, so that we could go out to drill mounted. Swell, only we didn't have any saddles, only blankets and circingles, and no bridles, just cheap iron bits that broke at the slightest pressure, with web reins. The horses were just as wild as the recruits that rode them. We got a troop commander that was a hard bird, with a cold gray eye, and a jaw like a vise. Haha! Lady, to show you what a sap I was in those days, the first morning he took over, he assembled the non-coms, and said, "How many of you men have had military ex- perience before?" Yuh know what I nearly said? I nearly spoke up and said, "I was at Plattsburg for six weeks, sir!" A fact. And the other old leather pounders were waiting for a sergeant we called "The Major" to speak up and say that he had seven enlistments in! Yeh. Came September, and things began to move. We had officers now, and equipment, and we were beginning to look and act like a real outfit. The cantonments for the National Army had been opened and 7 men (Continued on page 56) MAY. 1016 17 Standing, every mother's son of them. They've paid their shilling apiece to see an English cup match in soccer. Playing time, one hour and a half

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the local philatelic society. Even our 100,000 crowds, as at the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Chicago and the Army-Navy game, also in Chicago, are topped by these English sporting crowds. By John R. Tunis Through the kindness of the gentleman who got me into that Cup Tie, here are some interesting statistics of the crowd. They consumed for lunch under the Stadium that cold April day 700 pounds of tea, 50,000 bottles of beer, 35,000 ham rolls, 65,000 ~VT7E'VE had our hundred-thou- sandwiches, and a mile and three-quarters of chocolate bars. Yes, 126,047 were lawfully present. Exactly how many watched sand crowds at events V V shorts the game was never known, because an hour before the kick-off in this country—for instance, the thousands of One-Eyed Connollys (in reality One-Eyed Chol- mondeleys) rushed the gates and the attendants, got inside and Dempsey-T unney fight in Philadel- had a free view of the match. Estimates of the leading sports phia and the Army-Navy football authorities present gave figures varying from 140,000 to 160,000. game in Chicago—but in England Even with 80,000 standing, many thousands of ticket-holders were pushed from their seats. I never saw anything like it, and customers view champion- more a hope never to again, for many people were seriously injured ship soccer football match than pay before and after the match was finished. Was this the biggest of English paying sports crowds? By no for a sport spectacle anywhere else means. For there is a stadium in the British Isles with an even in the world. Both the Derby and larger capacity, bigger than this Stadium at Wembley. Hampden the Oxford-Cambridge boat race Park, Glasgow, must have the biggest capacity of any outdoor sports arena in the world. At the England vs. Scotland soccer outdraw the football matches, but match in April, 1933, the official paid attendance was 136,259. only because they are free That record takes some beating in any land. You may have noticed I called it a paying crowd. Certainly it wasn't the largest crowd to watch a sporting event in the British HAD listened to the roar that greeted the mighty Ruth in a Isles, because they have several free shows over there—why don't I crucial World Series game when he hoisted a homer into the we have them in this country?— that are bigger. Fewer than a center field bleachers, I had watched the Yale stands rise hundred thousand see our own Kentucky Derby, whereas a

in ecstasy as the Bulldog crawled and clawed his way across million, if estimates can be relied on, watch the English Derby. the Princeton goal, I had heard many crowds in all sorts of sport- Of course the Derby in England is a classic. One hundred and ing events, but never a noise like this. One hundred and twenty- fifty-five years old, it is more than a horse race, it's an institu- six thousand voices in unison, one hundred and twenty-six tion, and although the grandstand on Epsom Downs has been in thousand pairs of lungs together—an enormous thunderclap, a existence only about fifty years, I defy anyone to see that ugly single tremendous Big Bertha. Bolton had scored a goal. structure looming through the mists— it always rains on Derby Then, as it was dying down, the roar burst out again with re- Day—without feeling that here is one of (Continued on page 50) newed vigor. "Th' Coop, th' Coop!" the cry boomed forth. The "Coop," the famous Cup, emblem of victory, trophy for which this game was being played, was being brought out from Waiting in line for a chance to see tennis matches under the stadium and placed in view on the touch-line. A score in the famous center court at Wimbledon, England. had been made and tradition demanded its appearance on the In addition to the 15,000 who saw the world's top- field of play forthwith. notchers perform on this occasion, other thousands So far as sporting history is reliable, this was one of the largest paid three shillings apiece for the privilege of being inside the grounds, but seeing no championship play. crowds in the annals of athletics— 126,047 Pa >' mK guests assist- ing at the Cup Tie, the final of the English Cup, the big knock- Stools, the sign announces, are sixpence apiece out competition of the leading pro- to sit in line on fessional soccer football clubs of Eng- land, in the Imperial Stadium at Wembley, outside London, on April 28, 1923. This soccer league, which corresponds closely to our baseball leagues, starts in October and ends with the Cup Tie in April. That par- ticular game was between two famous teams, the Bolton Wanderers, from Bolton in the Midlands, and West Ham United, a London club. We think we know something about sporting crowds in the United States. So we do, too. A World Series opener in the Yankee Stadium in New York pulls in 65,000; the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs attracts .70,000 people; a game in the Rose Bowl is seen by 80,000 fans and fanatics. But the plain truth is that when it comes to sports and sporting crowds John Bull takes first place with something

to spare. Take it from one who has been there, a Cup Tie, a Derby, a boat race or an international football clash get a gang that make many of our best efforts look like a meeting of

MAY, 1936 19 Got^ Housing By \/'0U can build or buy a house or John Thomas Taulor -* make improvements on one you already own if you give the United Director, National Legislative Committee, States Government the word. Here's The American Legion a chance to make your bonus -pay dividends that will continue through the years WITHIN two hours after passage of legislation authorizing payment of the Adjusted Service Cer- tificates in small denomination bonds to be issued as of June 15, 1936, National Commander Ray Among the nearly half million Legion home owners, 163,740 Murphy joined with the President of the United States in issuing have definitely signified their intention of using all or a part of a statement from the White House, where they were then in their adjusted compensation in repairing their homes. An aver- conference, urging upon all veterans the desirability of judicious age expenditure of $222.02 is indicated for this purpose. Another investment of the proceeds of their adjusted service pay. 109,620 will paint their houses, while 53,180 Legionnaire farmers That statement pointed out that the President of the United will buy new equipment for their farms. States, Commander Murphy of The American Legion and the Legionnaires as a whole will spend 26.7 percent of the more commanders of other veterans organizations which had followed than a half billion dollars to be paid them in bonus bonds, for the leadership of the Legion in securing enactment of the law building or acquiring homes and making home repairs. Another were of one mind in hoping that veterans would not fritter away 7.8 percent will be spent for household furnishings and equip- that which they had worked so hard to obtain, but rather that ment such as electric refrigerators, radios, oil or gas furnaces, they would invest it in things of a permanent, beneficial nature for and furniture. Clothing for themselves, their wives and their themselves and their families. children will take seven percent; payment of old debts, 31.3 Especially included in this category was the building of a new percent; investments, including insurance and education, 16.5 home or improvement of an existing home. On this the state- percent; automobiles, trucks and automotive accessories, 6.4 ment said: percent, and miscellaneous items, some four percent. "Immediate and urgent need for funds offers, of course, a The average amount of adjusted compensation to be paid mem- valid reason for cashing the bonds. In the same way paying off bers of The American Legion is $637.77, while the average for all of indebtedness is wholly reasonable, just as using the cash for veterans is $565.17. Certified public accountants who studied something of permanent value, such as a new home, or the the individual questionnaires as they were returned expressed definite improvement of an existing home, would be reasonable." the opinion that the reason that Legionnaires would receive a It is evident from a survey made by The American Legion larger sum than the average veteran was that fewer Legionnaires Monthly that many Legionnaires are of a mind to acquire new had found it necessary to borrow on their Adjusted Service homes with their bonuses. Similarly apparent is the fact that Certificates and that the average Legionnaire had longer war many of those who now own homes are going to improve them. service than other veterans. In the first classification a study of indi- vidual expressions of five percent of the total membership of The American Legion in every State in the Union shows that 28,720 Legionnaires intend to build new homes, 37,140 to buy farms for homes, 27,880 to buy lots for homesites, and

5 7,880 to purchase homes. A previous study by The American Legion Monthly had developed the in- formation that 52.2 percent of all Legion- naires own their own homes. Incidentally this figure is considerably higher than the national average of 46.8 as revealed by government statistics. This is not sur- prising, since the Monthly survey showed 85.5 percent of the members of the Legion to be married, and of these 74.57 percent had an average of 1.68 children each.

Sixty dollars a month, paid just like rent, is sufficient to meet all charges on this $7,750 home in the East, financed with a Federal Housing Administration $6,000 mortgage, and to reduce the principal of the mortgage

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The FHA requires $82.50-a-month payments on this California house, which carries an $8,250 mortgage. The property is appraised at $10,350

Many well informed economists believe that residential con- company, building and loan association or other agency approved struction and repair work is one of the important vehicles that as a mortgagor by the Federal Housing Administration and lay will be useful to this country in riding to new heights of prosper- his plans before an officer of that institution. If the lending ity. It was on this belief that the Federal Housing Administra- agency agrees to make the loan, the veteran may then make ap- tion came into being under the National Housing Act. In the plication for insurance on the mortgage by the Federal Housing past six years, of course, building of houses has lagged. It is Administration. In seeking loans, which will be insured under the from this agency of the Housing Act, the veteran Government that Legion- must have at least twenty naires and all other veterans percent of the appraised interested in building a new value of the property or cost home or repairing one which of construction in cash, land they now own may secure or their equivalent. Bonus substantial assistance in bonds may constitute all or making their bonus bonds part of this twenty percent. accomplish that which might To secure these benefits not otherwise be possible. available through the FHA Considering first those it is only necessary that a who want to build or buy a veteran follow the instruc- new home, it must be recog- tions given in the box on nized that an average bonus page 69. Upon receiving the of $637.77 may not of itself application for the loan, the be sufficient to purchase or Housing Administration will build the kind of house that appraise the property which is wanted. But with the aid he proposes to purchase. If of the Federal Housing Ad- it finds the loan justifiable, ministration it may be pos- it will make a commitment sible to arrange long-term to the bank to insure the A railroad employe in the Middle West is paying financing so that by using mortgage when it is com- $29.51 a month under an FHA mortgage as pay- bonus bonds as the initial pleted. If it finds certain ment on this $3,150 bungalow. In fifteen years payment, veterans will find items not up to its minimum he'll own the place themselves in position to standards, it may suggest buy or build a home of their changes which will permit it own. Likewise, those who already may have invested in a home to insure the mortgage. If it considers the property unsuitable and are now carrying a mortgage on it can avail themselves of the for insurance, or the income of the applicant insufficient to meet benefits of the Act advantageously to refinance the mortgage. the regular monthly payments on the mortgage, it will turn the To secure these benefits a veteran should go to a bank, trust application down. {Continued on page 68)

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In theWay Th ey Should GO

AS FIRST friend to vet- erans' children living un- Frank KMorse der guardianship, the Legion Chairman, Child Welfare Committee, in Minnesota sees that these The American Legion, Department of Minnesota youngsters get a square deal, plus a good many other Illustration things that help build toward btf Forrest C.Crooks a useful, happy adult life

WAS a comfortable farm house. Farm and family were ITgoing concerns. The family consisted of man, wife and two children. The children were both about fifteen. The boy was the man's son of a former marriage and the girl the woman's daughter by her first husband, a World War soldier, de- ceased. The girl was a ward under guardianship, receiving monthly government benefits by reason of her father's death from a service-connected disability. Nothing wrong with this family except that both children, having finished eighth grade, had decided they didn't want to go to school any more. What is more, they weren't going. The parents were letting them do as they pleased in the matter. The man reasoning with the parents was the child welfare officer of the American Legion post in the neighboring town. In our State, Minnesota, the Legion, through its child welfare set- up, has a relation to veterans' children under guardianship which is believed not to obtain elsewhere. The girl in this family was his real interest.

"Think what it will mean to them to have a good education," he pleaded. "It will make them happier. It will help them to earn more. It will—

The father shifted his pipe. "They can go to school if they want to, but we won't make them go if they don't want to."

Then, as to the boy: "Why should he go any more if he don't want to? He will have the farm after me, and he and the girl will al- ways get along. Can't they milk cows?" In the face of this clincher, to which the mother smiled in seeming approval, the post officer could make no progress. Here was a united family, at peace with itself, serene as to the future, its head even taking for granted a closer and permanent relation difficulty of allocating cases to particular posts in the larger urban later between the children. The Minnesota compulsory educa- centers, and to other unfavorable factors. In those cities, em- tion law does not extend to children who have finished eighth ployes of the regional office make all the surveys. Nearly all the grade. wards are children of World War veterans. It may be in order to The Legion man's call was in the course of a duty accepted by recall that dependents are sometimes entitled to government —him to make once a year, as may be requested, a friendly checkup benefits when the veteran's death was not due to a service- "social survey," if one is precise—of minor wards in his post connected disability. They are so entitled if at the time of his area. He then reports findings, with recommendations if any, to death, as from accidental injury, he was disabled to the extent of the chief attorney at the Veterans Administration regional office thirty percent by a service-connected disability. in Minneapolis. Child welfare officers of all posts in the State, Post child welfare officers, equipped with "confidential contact except those in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, assume a like report" forms supplied by the regional office, check on the living obligation as to minor wards in their areas. conditions of the wards—economic, health, sanitary, moral. They Entered into as a volunteered service by the Legion co-operat- also inquire into whether the guardians are giving them proper ing with regional-office authorities, the plan has been in operation care. The latter means whether guardians are spending the since the spring of 1933. Exception of the three cities is due to the money for the sole benefit of the wards and, when possible, are

The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly the purpose stated. The guardian is governed by the probate court as to withdrawals. As individuals and not as repre- sentatives of the Veterans Adminis- tration, the post officers often, how- ever, effect adjustments by personal attention or enlisting local agencies without reporting the need higher. That comes from being right on the ground. They are not limited to see- ing a child once a year, and then only for a short time, as would be a field examiner working out from the regional office. In- stead, they may go to the house as often as needful. They see the wards in the street, in stores, theaters, churches. They talk with their teachers in the school. Their own children play with them. In making requested sur- veys they have a friend-of- the-family attitude. Their calls are in the neighborly spirit. They "big brother" the wards as may seem fitting. A very large number of the reports state that the wards are being well cared for, are in good homes, pre- sent no problem of any kind and call for no recommenda- tion. One such report, made after a visit to a home where there were four child wards, living with their widowed mother, had this typical comment: "House always clean. Children are well dressed and clean. The children help their mother with work about the home. I would say this is a fine family." In such cases of everything-all-right, the periodical checkup is by no means a waste of time. Post officers find that the families like the assurance that the Legion is interested in them. It sug- gests continuance of a bond of comradeship even after death, is expression of a functioning devotion to helpfulness. Besides, a

child not needing attention in one year may need it the next. He practised on that accordion The post officer who made the foregoing "fine family" report morning, noon and night, and found a development within the next year that gave concern to even took it to bed with him the mother and himself. One of the children, a girl in grammar school, had taken to loitering in certain store entrances, os- conserving and properly investing for them any unspent part. tensibly to look at magazines, but in fact to attract sundry boys. Such conserving is to give the wards better educational advan- It came to the Legionnaire that she and a girl friend, older, had tages and a start in life. been seen in a beer place talking to boys who were at the counter In his report a post officer may recommend a wiser spending drinking. New interests and better girl associates seemed the of the monthly benefit, an additional allowance from the reserve need in this case. It was scarcely one for the regional office. in an estate to be spent for a specific purpose, more or better The local Girl Scout troop was being considered as offering a clothing, better provision for sleeping, a physical examination, possible solution. dental care, more wholesome moral surroundings. He does not Issues affecting the children may be important even when not act as a government official and has no authority to do other than serious. Here are a few of the not serious but important kind recommend. No public funds are disbursed in connection with which Legion "surveyors" have discovered and helped adjust. his contacts. His only approach to official status is the privilege A girl about to finish high school was worrying over her of using a franked envelope in mailing survey reports to the graduation outfit. The post officer recommended to the regional regional office. office that the guardian be permitted to withdraw, from the That office, upon receipt of a report, informs guardian or cus- amount on reserve in the estate, funds enough to meet the todian of any poor conditions cited or any recommendation made. emergency. It was done. Her younger sister, soon to be grad- It will try to effect—through the guardian, the court, or local uated, will probably rate a like recommendation. or state welfare agencies—any ad justment it believes desirable. In another town a girl ward was suffering from a sense of in- Remedying ,the condition is its job, not the post officer's. If an feriority because she had no spending money; it put her at a dis-

extra allowance is recommended, the office will notify the guard- advantage among classmates at school. The post officer recom- ian as to whether it has any objection to withdrawal of funds for mended that the guardian make her a (Continued on page §4)

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F-^OLLOfVING is a series of telegraphic reports to the Company, $250. Story Post of Freeport has empowered commander to devote entire post treasury to flood-stricken if necessary. Posts along Connecticut Monthly from Legion department officials in the flood border standing by for service in Connecticut with 150 men, twelve nurses, area which reached this while relief work was at its office twenty first-aid men and five motor boats. Moriches Post, Long Island, is height, before the waters had subsided, and when Legion offering its ambulance. Fort Cralo Post of Rensselaer sheltered fifty people and fed over two posts in numberless communities were too busy to report or were hundred in clubhouse, employing three chefs to work day and night. Maurice Stember, Department Adjutant. so thoroughly isolated that no communications from them had yet NEW JERSEY: Damage not so severe here as States. reached their Department Headquarters. These reports, dramatic other Emergency corps of Trenton Post assisted in removal of families and furniture. All posts and their in very incompleteness and fragmentariness, are herewith units are assisting in Red Cross drive for funds. Roland F. Cowan, Depart- presented without added comment in the belief that they constitute ment Adjutant. in themselves the finest editorial this magazine has ever printed: PENNSYLVANIA: Upon notification of flood conditions Department Head- quarters wired posts in stricken areas to mobilize and render such service as needed. More than 325 posts aggregating between twenty and thirty thousand MAINE: No mail here for nearly a week and publicity on local matters very members in stricken areas rendered heroic work rescuing victims, setting up inadequate. Many Maine posts have been prepared for such emergency for emergency hospitals in post headquarters, feeding and clothing homeless. some time. Definite news ot Legion activity has reached here regarding posts American Legion was first agency to step in in all these towns. Balance of in Portland, Woodtords, South Portland and Westbrook which offered all State not affected immediately. Mobilized Legionnaires here are gathering types of service and collected supplies. Further definite data records activities food and clothing tor transmission to affected regions. Department Head- of posts in Biddeford-Saco, Lewiston, Auburn, Ruintord, Skowhegan, Watcr- quarters became a clearing house and directed movement of hundreds of ville, Old Town and Gardiner. Department Child Welfare Committee raising truckloads of foodstuffs and clothing to every town affected. Edward A. and distributing tunds for communities seriously handicapped. Saturday On Linsky, Department Adjutant. Legionnaires carried twenty truckloads of clothing, food and drinking water into Biddeford-Saco. Owen Post, Saco, sheltered fifty women and children MARYLAND: Legion relief units were immediately in field performing medi- and fed three hundred persons. Staples Post, Old Orchard Beach, cared for cal, rescue, supply, transportation and patrol duty, including Francis Scott Saco victims in town hall in co-operation with Red Cross. James L. Bovle, Key Post at Point of Rocks, Fort Cumberland Post at Cumberland, Harrison Department Adjutant. Post at Hancock, Frock at Williamsport. All these posts were called out im- mediately by the Red Cross and carried field equipment including field kitch- NEW HAMPSHIRE: When it became evident Wednesday afternoon that ens, cots, bedding, medical supplies. By evening everyone in distress was State was about to witness worst flood in its history, all posts this Department housed and furnished food and a patrol squad was immediately put in field to were ordered to mobilize at once in stricken areas. Order sent out by radio, assist National Guard. Legion will continue active when flood subsides to telegraph, telephone. Within hour nearly every post was in action working help rehabilitate refugees. Fort George G. Meade Post, all of its members with Red Cross, and in many places where there were no Red Cross chapters in United States Army, were on duty with Third Army Corps but sent a $25 took complete charge. Base hospitals with nurses, doctors and Auxiliary check tor relief. All posts and units in State have orders to stand by and are members on duty night and day established. Estimated at this time nearly ready to move at short notice and all are soliciting funds to be turned over to two thousand flood victims being ted and housed in Legion New Hampshire the Red Cross. Lewis Williams, Chairman, Disaster Reliej Committee. homes. Legionnaires doing police duty in twelve-hour shifts with state forces. Government has designated Legion posts as repositories for clothing, bedding DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Legionnaires assisted in moving flood victims and house furnishings which will be turned over to Red Cross. Short wave to safety. Department Commander Malloy offered services of five thousand D. radio station operated by Jutras Post, Manchester, did excellent seivice. of C. Legionnaires to Police Department and district commissioners for duty. Frank N. Sawyer, Department Adjutant. All thirty-two posts in the district, totaling six thousand members, are co- operating with Red Cross in raising funds. Thomas Mason, Jr., Department VERMONT: Reports to this office indicate fifteen hundred Legionnaires and Adjutant. Auxiliary members organized for duty in stricken areas. Towns and cities affected this State include communities where thirty posts are located. Offers VIRGINIA: Legion and Auxiliary units Buena Vista, Scottsville, Strasburg, of assistance being received from posts not in flood area to send men anywhere W aynesboro, Harrisonburg and Lynchburg, which were main scenes ot damage, for rehabilitation work. Leslie E. Wilson, Department Adjutant. are on job but little data has come through. Richmond prepared to mobilize its one thousand Legionnaires and services offered to Legionnaire Colonel John MASSACHUSETTS: Three hundred posts co-operating in raising funds to A. Cutchins, Richmond Director Public Safety. W. Glenn Elliott, Depart- be used for relief. Truckloads of supplies, blankets, food, flashlights, bedding — ment Adjutant. and boats sent to stricken area by posts. Over £5000 has been dispatched from Department Headquarters to posts within affected areas. Full contributions WEST VIRGINIA: Annual mid-year conference of Legion postponed to per- by posts will not be known for some time but will probably total $100,000. mit posts to engage in flood relief. Clarksburg Post sent $100 to Wheeling Legionnaires were mobilized by radio trom Department Headquarters four area, and like sum to eastern Panhandle. Ronceverte, South Charleston, days before flood struck and every district commander instructed to organize Charleston gave cash donations and all posts and units in Ohio valley actively his local district. Legion was first in field, and in fact was only organization on job provided cash, clothes, soup kitchens, refugee removal, patrols. Penns- properly prepared in advance to handle situation. Legionnaire Matthew P. boro sent clothing and cash to Wheeling area. Colonel Shingleton and other Scullin ofAmerican Oil Products Company, State Distinguished Guests Chair- members State Police Post in thick of relief work. Legionnaire Governor man, has just sent in his personal check for Jiooo. Harold P. Redden, Kump on scene. Huntington Legionnaires in thick of relief work. Papers Department Adjutant. and local radio stations giving Legion fine recognition. Edward McGraii, Department Adjutant. CONNECTICUT: Trouble came Thursday morning in Hartford. Legion first at work. Boat crews covered unprotected areas. Legionnaires helped raise OHIO: Department Commander Campbell, bedridden in Cincinnati hos- old dike which gave way at ten that night. Legion crew caught on dike but pital, ordered every Ohio American Legion emergency relief unit into action. fought way back to mainland, saving boats. Auxiliary called tor outside unit Elyria Post sent cash, truckload ot milk and bread. Brakeman-King Post, contributions at noon Thursday and had filled two rooms with supplies by Painesville, sent three trucks of necessities Saturday, two more Sunday. nightfall when it opened kitchen and dining room with dormitory for first sixty Dayton Post and Montgomery County Voiture 40 & 8 hauled their box iar homeless while other agencies sought sites. A hundred more refugees spent night to public square where within short time they loaded two trucks with dresses, in Legion home and over three hundred, including workers, were fed hot food cots, foodstuffs and 500 pairs ot new shoes plus $300 in cash. Contributions first night. Over fifty Legion posts and as many Auxiliary units supplied received by Department Headquarters at tour o'clock Monday afternoon in- cooked food, clothing, staple foods, milk to homes. Legion furnished only boat cluded cash gifts from $1 up, which now total, in addition to those already crews in first twenty-four hours. Wethersfield Post helped build dike keeping listed, over $500. Department Auxiliary will add $100. Newcomerstown Post only road open and Auxiliary unit provided food and shelter. Legionnaires in sent $25 to Red Cross at Wheeling. Scores of posts sent food, clothing. Lucas Windsor did same and then sent men to Hartford. Lower valley and eastern County Council sent carload of lime. Joseph S. Deutschle, Editor, Ohio side of Connecticut River still isolated so unable to give details. Total Legion Legion News. and Auxiliary workers eight hundred to thousand. Hartford Legion operated INDIANA: Emergency units are preparing to render any necessary assistance twelve boat stations two days before police and Coast Guard took over entire along Ohio River in southern Indiana. Lawrenceburg Post canceled party, to front of five miles. William C. Murray, Department Adjutant. hold special meeting prepar?tory to establishing levee patrol. Department co- State suffered but slight flood RHODE ISLAND: This damage. Legion and operating with Red Cross in drive for funds. State Radio Committee is putting Auxiliary members here are extending all possible financial assistance toother in spot announcements on American Legion time regarding drive tor funds ana States by donations to relief funds. William Beehler, Department Com- posts in districts are contributing trom their own funds. —William E. Saver, mander. Jr., Department Adjutant. NEW YORK: Members of Binghamton Post, with experience of last sum- MINNESOTA: With well organized emergency set-up, Minnesota is ready mer's flood behind them, reported to clubhouse for assignments when danger for emergency work it conditions become acute. Auxiliary standing by ready threatened. Rescue committee commandeered all available boats and by to cook for and feed sufferers if services are needed.—C. A. Zwiener, Depart- Saturday night had all stranded persons out of flood areas. Board of Educa- ment Adjutant. tion turned two schools over to Legion to be prepared tor sheltering distressed. Detail of seventy-six Legionnaires fed and clothed 700 refugees in single area city. Legion did fine work as messengers and Boy Scout Troop of Sons of In its next issue The American Legion Monthly will publish a sponsored by post did sterling service. Other posts this Department contribut- comprehensive account of the work performed by The American ing funds and collecting clothing. Long Island Grotto Post, Brooklyn, con- tributed ?2oo; Metropolitan Post, employes of Metropolitan Life Insurance Legion during the spring flood crisis.

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military postal organization when and if the war drums should ever roll again. At the peak 4104 officers and men were required to handle mail delivery through 140 army post offices and aboard eighteen (HE fleetest of the canine trains equipped for railway mail service, supplemented by Tifamily was the shoulder Motor Dispatch Service units to bridge gaps in railroad facilities. insignia of the Army Postal Of course that figure does not include thousands of mail orderlies I Service overseas—against down to company units over which the postal organization had a rectangular field of blue, a white no direct authority. Such orderlies, as might be expected, silhouette of a greyhound coursing ranged from conscientious, efficient types to the lax and lazy. at full throttle. In the years which Just why company buglers invariably were selected as mail have passed since the Armistice orderlies it was difficult for us to understand, for certainly musical any reference among veterans that talent alone was a poor standard by which to measure ability I did my particular bit with the for the painstaking task of Postal-Express Service of the A. E. F. has been occasion for supplying correct forward- sarcastic comment on that choice of symbol. ing addresses when the Now I am the first to concede that speed was not, because it addressee no longer was could not be, the outstanding characteristic of mail delivery with a given unit. Civilian abroad. Perhaps a St. Bernard, because of the enduring patience postal workers abroad, and other dependable qualities of that breed, would better have wearing army uniforms served to typify war mail service. without insignia and dis- In any event, on the many occasions when I have addressed tinguished by an arm bras- Legionnaires on the wartime postal service, always when I have sard, numbered between finished a barrage of queries is hurled at my head from the audi- three hundred and four ence, each demanding an explanation why some particular letter hundred. or package was delayed or lost—in the phraseology of the service, It was as a civilian member of the Post Office Department rubber-stamped "Whereabouts Unknown." that I went to France, sailing on July 29, 1917. When I reported Of course in the chaos and movement of war, letters and in Paris on August 15th, the A. E. F. numbered only 15,000 packages went astray or were "lost," hundreds of thousands of troops. Three Post Office Department men had preceded me them. Even in peace considerable mail ends up in the dead-letter by two months as a civilian commission to lay foundations for office, and that, remember, under stable conditions as compared an overseas postal service, and already five A. P. O.'s had been to two million highly mobile addresses on a grand tour of France, established—at St. Nazaire, Paris, Gondrecourt, Valdahon and as individuals, in small units, in great mass movements, with Bordeaux. One of the important duties assigned me before de- trails crisscrossing all over England, south to Italy and even ex- parture was to investigate complaints piling up at home. In tending to the bleak Russian coast at Murmansk. the phraseology of today the heat was on in the States, and Wash- The A. E. F. was a writing no less than a fighting army. Some- ington echoed with stories of delays and failure that indicated a one other than myself may quote the figures to prove high complete breakdown in the service. My investigations revealed illiteracy among our troops. In volume the literates more than only one thing wrong—and that was not with the service. It made up for the shortcomings of the illiterates. Because the was a normal and natural human emotion compounded of im- Army was composed entirely of adults, the A. E. F. to all intents patience and war anxiety by loved represented one hundred percent mail users. In a normal mail ones awaiting replies to letters area in peace, because of minors and other persons who rarely if mailed. ever patronize the mails, postal authorities estimate that only Before we entered the World War two out of every five residents are mail users, otherwise forty such correspondence as lay within percent of the population. Thus, for postal purposes, the A. E. F. the experience of most complainants can be considered as five million strong. involved exchanges of letters with Conduct of the overseas postal service in the World War was relatives and friends generally with- divided into two phases. From the day the first United States in a few days' post. To such, a troops set foot on foreign soil until June i, 1018, the Army's week or a fortnight seemed an eter- postal service was under the complete authority of the Post nity to await answers. They did not Office Department. On the latter date Colonel Thorndyke D. understand, nor can they be blamed for not comprehending, Howe, a wholesale leather merchant of Boston and a highly able conditions as they existed—shortage of transport, inadequate executive despite his lack of postal experience, assumed re- harbor facilities in France, foreign railroad systems not far from sponsibility for all incom- complete collapse, plus a necessary shake-down period before the ing mail on behalf of the postal service could be efficiently organized. Indeed, in the six- military. Civilian postal au- weeks' interval between the arrival of the American Army van- thorities, however, retained guard and my own departure from the States there was barely responsibility for all out- time for a first exchange of letters between a first arrival and his going mail after military loved ones at home. That time-lag, as unavoidable as it was censorship of contents. logical under war conditions, was the basis of perhaps the most That arrangement contin- common criticism of the service. ued until the disbanding My investigations without exception revealed mail contacts of the A. E. F., and that then well established. Moreover, my detailed records illuminate plan remains the model for the intensity of correspondence, once the flow started, in both

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly BY William A. Kenyon

Late Chief Inspector, A. E. F. Postal Service, and Chief, Postal-Express Service, Mail Army of Occupation

directions. Among the soldiers reported as mailless at the time eight boxcars to serve as I left Hoboken—my investigation was completed a few weeks mail cars. later—one acknowledges fifty letters and six packages, another Necessarily, military nineteen letters, another fifteen letters and two packages, an- movements were shrouded other twenty-four letters, another fourteen letters and a package in secrecy. When, as of tobacco. All advised me that they had answered every letter frequently happened, eight received. or ten Divisions moved Three weeks was the average time required for delivery of mail overnight, the postal prob- from home into the eager hands of the addressee—one way only, lem attending may be remember, and like all averages that time-figure represented two compared to the sudden extremes. A missive blessed by close connections at every point shift of a quarter of a mil- of transfer might be read by the recipient in two weeks, or even lion mail users with eight or ten new addresses involved according less. The letter frowned on by fate might be in transit a month to the size of the divisional unit. Often divisional infantry moved or more before some anxious soldier shouted an hysterical "Yo!" without its own artillery or other divisional units. In the exigen- in answer to the mail orderly's call. cies of transport, units always were being broken up. Due to Generally army mail was shipped from the United States on specialization of instruction, artillery and other special units in only one day a week—Friday. Whatever the point of origin, all training invariably were separated from infantry. Therein the mail was concentrated in New York City for shipment to France. same divisional address might involve two or more A. P. O. Letters arriving in New York on Saturday obviously were fated addresses separated by the breadth of France. to lie stymied in a mail sack for six days before starting overseas. The Division leaving the first lines came out of battle with its Until men familiar with the overseas postal organization could be mail list abbreviated by death, wounds and missing. The missing trained and sent back to supervise sorting in the States, such soldier might be dead—one of the truly "unknowns"—he might earl)' sorting as was done often resulted in delays. Army mail be a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. Whatever the fate of the

Long after it was over over there for most of the A.E.F. its soldier, his absence represented a mail problem because the How postal service was still in oper- of mail for him generally continued unabated. ation. Here's the post office at Sick and casuals from units not engaged in action constituted Brest saying fini, on December mail problems no less onerous than letters for battle casualties. 1, 1919 But the greatest collective headache of the postal service was the replacement Divisions. Five or six such Divisions were fated traveled usually in our own transports. to function as depots for refilling depleted ranks wherever Under the convoy system the speed of the needed. The Forty-first Division, arriving overseas in the early entire formation necessarily was limited to winter of 'iy-'iS, sent exactly 295,668 men through its constantly that of the slowest tub in the fleet. A ten-day crossing was con- shifting units—normally more than ten war-strength Divisions. sidered good time under war conditions. Once it arrived at one The Eighty-third Division handled 193,221 men. of the three designated mail ports—Brest, St. Nazaire or Bor- Soldiers sailed for France assigned to specific units of the re- deaux—military mailmen worked tirelessly to speed the mail on placement Divisions. Naturally they supplied their correspon- its way. On eighteen of the twenty-four railroad lines in France dents with those unit addresses. Ofttimes the soldier would be where our mail coaches were part of the trains, we organized at the depot only a day or two before he was included in a draft of sorting systems, in some cases converting the familiar forty-and- five hundred or one thousand men to {Continued on page 48)

MAY, 1936 27 — Blow. Bugle

powerful floodlights of Walsh Stadium in St. Louis C*AN Gabriel {California) Post's THEhave turned the dark, murky night into day; the heavy ^ drum corps, acclaimed national atmosphere is oppressively laden with threatened rain; the beautiful green, smooth carpet of closely cropped champion at the St. Louis Convention grass is rolled to the smoothness of a billiard table. There is an last fall, will defend its title at the electrified tenseness in the air—the excited murmur of 45,000 voices has its own peculiar crescendo—all is seriousness. To- Cleveland National Convention, Sep- night it is the same murmur that resounded to the heavens in tember 21st to 24th, against the most the days of ancient gladiatorial combat—only now the gladiators brilliant array Legion corps are Legionnaires fighting a battle of massed supremacy. of drum The judges assume their places on the contest field. On the ever seen tn the Legion's history far northern side in single line formation one of the Legion's greatest and most colorful corps is awaiting the signal to start. A hand is raised—bugles flash in the diffused lights of the arcs Here are men who have devoted no less than two to four nights

the first notes of the fanfare resound through the stadium . . . a week during the entire year to help the Legion put on its

The Moment is at hand! . . . The contest is on! The murmur is greatest show and to bring honor to their own post, community, stilled—the stadium is silent, then comes the confident staccato section, State. These are the Legionnaires that are imbued with of Elyria's drums and a whip-like crack of the starter's gun, which the real spirit and precepts of the Legion; men who strive to tells the world that the Legion's greatest show is under way. carry on the ideals prescribed by the Legion; men who have fore- There is a silent prayer in each contestant's heart that he may gone their usual hobbies for that of the corps. These are the carry on for fifteen minutes without error. The finals have nar- men who are playing bugles and beating drums—who have no rowed down to the Legion's twelve select corps. One misstep, musical background other than their inherited rhythmical in- one false note, one dropped stick, one error, no matter how stinct, and who today represent units of the world's greatest slight, means the loss of the competition. These are champions marching, drilling, and playing organization. We see them now-

. . tonight . champions of counties, districts, States, and even trained to a hair—their nerves are taut or relaxed, depending areas. Some are even champions of The American Legion. There upon their own physical and mental makeup.

is a sincere hope that the threatened rain will hold up for just a In the morning and afternoon fifty-four corps went through while longer. the competitive paces tor the chance to present their show. Prac- The story tonight will be told visibly as each corps presents tically every organization that appeared had at some time or its contribution to the show, for at the far end of the field is a other held a State Championship. And these finalists repre- specially constructed scoreboard which tells the story that will sent the finest musical units that the world has ever seen; they mark the final culmination of a year's work. Gathered on this know the meaning of tension; they know the meaning of nerve field tonight, fighting desperately to achieve the greatest honor, strain—these men who fought for their country in '17 and '18

are men who in everyday life make up our country's better citi- . . . and now, with taut nerves, await the signal for their zens; men whose walks of life are widely divergent. Side by side first step-off. are doctors, elevator operators, lawyers, street car motormen, The entire day's competition, most capably handled by the in fact every type of human endeavor is represented here. Legion's National Contests Supervisory Committee (directed Captains, majors, colonels of war-time days have shed their by Matty Bain and affiliated with Chairman Tom Coleman in bars, leaves, and eagles to take equal rank with one-time privates St. Louis, and his efficient committee) presented a show for the who perhaps now wear the coveted chevrons of corps officership. Legion that is a perfect example of an efficiently run competition. Tonight, this is a battle of wits, strength, endurance, intelligence. Each corps that came through the famous northeast gate was

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of boards to insure complete elimination of dust. They assumed the well known position of "the corps in the hole." Standing before them was another group of men, probably from the oppo- site end of the country—men whom they must beat, but men just exactly like themselves, trained and qualified to seek the final honor. This was the corps "on deck," and this was the Blow! corps that was receiving the inspection. Standing before that corps was the third organization on the starting line, "at bat" ready to kick off to the tune of honor or disappointment. Btf Before the inspection, the local committee again offered an opportunity for a final check-up. Here they were supplied with drinking water and even nail files, and they were made to realize Sam C. Rowland then that clean fingernails and military haircuts were the order of the day, as many went down on those counts. Their guide met by an aide who assisted in forming the corps in single file stood at the far corner of the field with the name of their organi- and led them to a thick, canvased carpet. Each corps was given zation made into a wooden sign of large golden letters. His ul- right face and a detail of thirty to forty Scouts cleaned, shined timate destination was the score board at the far end of the field puttees, shoes, and boots. From the moment the corps stepped where this name was to be placed and within a few moments the upon the carpet they remained in clean and immaculate sur- score recorded. roundings until the time for inspection. After shoes had been In all of the corps and their years of previous experience, the shined, the men walked before a small army of whisk broom inspecting officers still found opportunities to demerit on things wielders, polishers, tailors, and others who assisted in the policing that were never before considered ... It was the Legion's most of the corps. They were made to feel that this year's inspection severe and minute inspection. Even the cut of collars and shirts would be their most severe. As they progressed, the tension and the uniformity of ties was considered. As the inspecting grew and their own men gave hasty yet careful last-minute officer slowly passed before each man who was standing rigidly checks on ties, tunics, belts, and hands. So efficient was the at attention, he saw in his face and eyes the mental condition committee's preparation for inspection that it has been said, if a that can exist only after a year's hard training. Some were on man wanted a shave they could probably have produced a barber the point of collapse—some were visibly shaking, and others as at a moment's notice. cool, as calm, and as collected as a well seasoned champion of the After the corps passed the police detail, they ascended a cat- ring. walk, placed above the Stadium entrance. They were definitely The corps that were "in the hole" and "on deck" for inspec- on their own, for at this point they dropped their own police tion, now moved up the line. A signal from the judges—a flourish or clean-up detail. As the men passed over the cat-walk, they of the bugles—an exquisite fanfare—a roll of the drums, and they were off. That ceremony was repeated fifty-four times during the day. Because of the terrific nerve tension that comes to the in- dividuals of each corps in com- petition one would naturally and rightfully assume that these men can be credited with more than just the usual amount of horse-play and cam- araderie during the convention. These arc not the fellows that maliciously dump grocer}- sacks of water from hotel rooms trying to dislocate the shoulders of innocent women passing below—but, these same men might decide to build a bon- fire in the middle of street car tracks or commandeer a street car that is trying to crash through a crap-game. They have their fun where they find

it, but it is harmless and it re- laxes them. Their anecdotes must live in their memories and, no doubt, their united experiences help to bind them together in a stronger and more Walsh Stadium in St. Louis during the 193 5 national sincere comradeship. convention drum corps contest. This year 100,000 These are the fehows who, to get to conventions, run fund- will have a chance to see the night contest in the raising campaigns that are a remarkable compliment to in- Municipal Stadium at Cleveland vention. In addition to their many rehearsals, they will strive, slave, and fight to put over ideas that will assist in adding the few necessary dollars to the coffers of the corps treasury. They

could sense the tenseness on the entire field and in the crowd . . . even drive their own cars to conventions to cut expenses; or they were going down into battle ... a battle that would result come in buses, some of which are rented and some they own. And in disappointment, losses, heartbreaks—or honor, glory, fame, only a corps that owns an old, broken down, second-hand bus can national acclaim. This was the "zero hour." As they passed fully appreciate the pleasure in arriving at a competition. Like over the cat-walk and down the steps, they remained on a walk Germantown for instance. While (Continued on page 62)

MAY, 1936 29 Faces to /A* Sun

TT/ITH sun baths and bunk fa- * * tigue, ivithfresh air andgoodfood, the summer camp of Curtis G. Redden Post of Danville, Illinois, has brought strong bodies and happy minds to scores of undernourished children

warm sunshine of May is the prelude to another THEsummer in Danville, Illinois, and Curtis G. Redden Post of The American Legion is now preparing to open in that summer for the third successive season its Sunshine Health Camp, where 160 boys and girls have already found vigor and strength. In 1934 and 1935 they went to that camp, under- weight and undernourished, from homes in which tuberculosis had gained a footing. Almost without exception they came from the camp with tanned skin, many extra pounds of weight and new reserves of vitality—better fitted in every way to carry on the additional facts about the life light which streams upon this fight against the insidious disease. world from the molten ball, 93,000,000 miles away. Those rays For what it did in establishing the Sunshine Health Camp, reach us in only 490 seconds, a trifle over eight minutes. The Curtis G. Redden Post was singled out in 1934 for the Hall of light from the nearest star must travel four and a half years to Fame Award of the Illinois Department. Post Commander Hud reach the earth. Robbins sends the story of what was done in the hope that posts The light of the sun is a growing medicine and a healing re- in other States may take up the work. storative. We permit our cities to handicap Old Dr. Sun in his The post in Danville gratefully acknowledges a debt to the work, for over them hangs a pall of smoke which niters from sun- Kansas Department. Early in 1934, members read in The light much of its lifegiving and healing qualities. We try to American Legion Monthly the story of the Preventorium oper- compensate for our carelessness by making artificial sunlight ated by the Legionnaires of Kansas, and determined to do some- with lamps. thing of the same sort to help the undernourished and under- The Danville Legionnaires placed their camp out in the coun- developed boys and girls of their own city. try, far from their city's smoke curtain. On the edge of a se-

The sun which shines in Danville is the oldest doctor in the cluded bit of woodland, they moved into buildings of a camp history of the world. Science has found out in recent years many once used by the Boy Scouts. The Scouts had gone elsewhere

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly because the little stream which clean sport, with a series of boxing tournaments. It is without /iko*^ ? ^'JS^i flowed through the camp was doubt the most active organization in the city. I consider that not wide or deep enough to any other post could carry out a health camp project such as ours

make a good swimming pool and derive from it good for its own soul." for lusty adolescents. That stream could provide a good American Legion Island pool for smaller boys and girls. Unimpeded sunlight is only ON FEBRUARY 10, 1600, the two thirty-gun frigates and one factor in Redden Post's for- two smaller vessels of Pierre Le Moyne Sieur d'Iberville mula for building healthy bod- were driven by a storm to a safe anchorage between two islands ies. Others are fresh air, a diet off the coast of Mississippi. In this expedition were the first col- of rich milk and fresh vegetables onists to lay claim for France to the Mississippi Valley. While from nearby farms. With all explorations proceeded, a settlement was established near the this goes supervision by Legion- site of the present city of Biloxi. Thousands of today's citizens naires, physicians, nurses, die- of Louisiana and other Gulf Coast States are proud descendants titians, athletic directors and Eagle Scouts. Baseball games are of that original expedition of d'Iberville. Ship Island, near Gulf- balanced by schedules calling for plenty of rest in the daytime port, the scene of the anchorage in a storm, lives in American and strict observance of 8 o'clock bedtime. history with Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. Post Commander Robbins relates that the Vermilion County To insure for Ship Island the place which it deserves in history, Tuberculosis Association has been the Legion's co-worker. It Joe Graham Post of Gulfport is now carrying out plans to make selects the boys and girls from those who have shown positive the island a permanent memorial and playground. Congress findings in the Mantoux Test for incipient tuberculosis. No passed an act in 1933 authorizing the War Department to sell children with the active disease are accepted. Danville physi- to the post the military reservation of Ship Island, which con- cians make regular checkups of the children. There are separate camps for boys and girls. The girls move in for the final period of the summer, after the boys have left, and a Girl Scout director and a corps of Girl Scout helpers come with them. Redden Post spent $500 to establish the permanent camp, and additional sums have been given by the tuberculosis association, the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and other bodies. The Commercial-News contrib- uted receipts from a boxing tournament and helps by publishing news stories and editorials. "To take these children from homes in which tuber- Landing place of d'Iberville in 1699, Ship Island culosis actually exists is alone worth the cost of the camp," near Gulfport, Mississippi, became in 1862 the writes Post Commander Robbins. "The health habits taught site of a fort which still stands with its original the children will pay rich dividends to the community. guns. Joe Graham Post has been authorized by "Two hours a day are given to sun baths as soon as the young- Congress to transform Ship Island into a per- sters are accustomed to them. And each day the children spend manent memorial and playground much time in the swimming pool. There are also handicraft projects with COMfade ,1 awards to those doing the best work. tains Fort Massachusetts, built by Federal troops in 1862 follow- Citizenship is taught by the formal ing plans made by Jefferson Davis in 1856. The Ship Island raising and lowering of the flag each anchorage has added historical importance from the fact that it day, and church services are held each sheltered General Pakenham's British fleet in the War of 181 2. Sunday. "It is the purpose of Joe Graham Post to have on historic "Each child is weighed every day. Ship Island a place where people can play and enjoy a vacation Leaving camp, he is asked to give to his at any season," writes Luther W. Maples, Past Commander of brothers and sisters at home the same the Mississippi Department. "In the 400-acre wooded section instruction in right living which he has of the island the post plans to reproduce in miniature a section received. A follow up program is car- of the A. E. F.'s battlefront, for contrast with the solid seven- ried out in the winter, with Saturday foot walls and the huge muzzle-loading cannon of the old fort." afternoon parties for the camp guests. r Each child is asked to report on how Jf o?nen War Veterans well he is observing his health lessons. many women who served in the World War are now "Public sentiment is strongly behind HOW the post. We had 065 members at the living in your community? The American Legion Auxiliary end of 1035. The post drum corps has wants to know and wants to have their names and addresses so taken national and state honors. The that it may preserve them not only for historical purposes but post has its own clubhouse, with a 0 also that it may acquaint all women veterans with the special hole golf course. It has done much for hospital and other rights which they possess under federal legis-

MAY, 1936 3i lation. The task of completing a national survey to list all the saw the possibilities of a rough field near the municipal water names and addresses is being carried out by the Past Presidents' plant and swimming pool. This was being used as a dumping Parley of the Auxiliary, of which Adalin Wright Macauley of ground. It was low and crossed by two arroyos. But it was only

Menomonie, Wisconsin, is national chairman. two blocks from the high school building. So the post bought Special survey questionnaires to be completed by the women the land and began the work of grading. veterans have been distributed to all Auxiliary units, and addi- "The junk was cleared away, the arroyos filled in, drainage tional copies may be obtained from Mrs. Macauley. Names will ditches were dug and by fall the field was ready for football. be classified in three groups—women veterans in Each year since then has brought new improve- government hospitals and Veterans Administra- ments. In more space was leveled. "~ of fpiee X Sik<3

Football never got a foothold in Montpelier, cause it is surrounded by a high wall of adobe brick and lighted Idaho, until Montpelier Post established this by flood lights. field. Forthwith the high school team won a "Raton is the gateway to New Mexico," writes Mr. Smith. district championship "It is a city of 6,000 lying at the foot of the famous Raton Pass.

Our post decided in 193 1 to forego erecting a clubhouse in order to provide the town with a badly needed play center. The only became football minded. Jerry Taylor, coach of the team, was place available for games up to that time was the fair grounds elected Post Commander this year. two miles from town. Raton lies close into the hills and there The citizens of Brunswick, Maine, give to George T. Files Post were no level spaces of any size. However, a few Legionnaires of The American Legion credit for the completion of the town's

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Vaughan-Moore Post built this athletic field at Raton, New Mexico. The walls are of native adobe brick coated with white cement. Flood- lights permit night games

new athletic field, dedicated on last Armistice Day with cere- Commander of the G. A. R. post. He had traveled 900 miles monies at which special honors were accorded Chief of Police from Arkansas to take part in the adoption ceremony and William B. Edwards, the man who conceived the plan and for turn over to the Legionnaires his post's charter and its whom the field is named. After Mr. Edwards persuaded the town relics. to buy a tract of ten acres of pasture, no work was done for years, "Newspapers everywhere have applauded our action," writes but when the Legionnaires voted to get behind the project it was Mr. Koltenback, "and have expressed the hope that other posts carried through to completion. Four governmental agencies, the would follow our example by adopting the G. A. R. posts of CWA, FERA, ERA, and WPA, provided assistance. The field their own communities with formal appropriate ceremonies." has a quarter-mile cinder track, a "TlV L&dies Arttilery -Hiou^r Sure - +a ke a cfoance gridiron, a diamond, tennis courts -tW boi^s coould Uke +0 Making Motherhood Saf" and a girls' basketball court. Past -fas+e some of -fhi? and SQCam !'. Post Commander J. Zenon Ouel- MOTHER'S DAY will be Mce lette, in whose regime the work how generally observed in May was started, had charge of the Wade Auq by posts of The American Legion Armistice Day dedication cere- Cake and units of The American Legion monies. Auxiliary, according to reports re- ceived by Miss Emma C. Puschner, From Failing Hands Director of the National Child Welfare Committee, and many EACH year for ten years the posts and units will hold joint surviving members of Co- meetings at which will be given lumbia Post of the G. A. R. were programs featuring information guests at special services held in about things the Legion and Auxili- their honor by Forest Park (Illinois) Post of The American ary can do to reduce the number of mothers dying each year in Legion. When the services were held last year, however, the childbirth. The yearly death toll is 15,000 and fully half of these Legionnaires noted with regret that their aged guests were deaths could be prevented by early and adequate care of mothers missing. The G. A. R. ranks had dwindled to two men and neither before births. The Legion's 1935 National Convention recom- was able to attend the services, held at the G. A. R. plot in mended that all Legion posts hold joint meetings with their Forest Home Cemetery. Auxiliary units to consider this problem. On June 17th, Forest Park Post at a meeting attended by May 10th, the second Sunday in May, is the formal date of village officials and representatives of many civic organizations Mother's Day, but most Legion and Auxiliary meetings are legally and formally adopted Columbia Post of the G. A. R. In scheduled for regular meeting nights during the month. Printed impressive ceremonies, reports Legionnaire Harry R. Koltenback, material for use in planning the observance may be obtained by the Legion post pledged that it would keep alive the name and writing to The Maternity Center Association of New York, 1 memory of the G. A. R. post, and in advance of each Memorial East 57th Street, New York City. Day decorate the graves of Civil War veterans and hold services "Every Legionnaire should know what important things he in their honor. It declared that it accepted the responsibility as should do to help his wife," writes Horace Hughes, Director of solemnly as the annual task of decorating its own sixty-three Public Information of the Association. "It is important that she World War graves. Present was Colonel Davis, 93-year-old have maternity care from the very be- {Continued on page 70)

MAY, 1936 33 r Tfistory Reports Tito General

with the benefit of the perspective of the years and the new in- formation they have made available. The author's earlier vol- By ume, "Leaves From a War Diary," was a personal, contem- porary record.

Unquestionably, the hero of this book is John J. Pershing, whom Harbord calls one of the best three generals produced by Fairfax Downeu our nation. That commanding figure, necessarily aloof and seemingly austere to most of us in 1917-18, is presented with that warmth and sympathy we now know he deserves, as the

AT ii.oi a. m. , November n, 1918—or per- bang-up job he did is appreciated. Tribute is paid to the great /\ haps a little later, since it was hard to speak Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, "the one man with an / \ in that sudden, shattering silence at the approximate comprehension of the problems on both sides of the front—some soldier surely turned to an- Atlantic," and so on down through the ranks to privates. On other and said: "Say, remember that time in the the other hand, Harbord is outspoken with criticism where he ." Toul Sector when we— And so on and so on. believes it deserved, and he drops weighty words on some of the From that moment on, the war has been fought celebrated necks which were put out by Americans and our Allies. over and over again. Every veteran, next to his But any individual and his deeds or misdeeds merge into the own memories, cherishes whatever written record narrative of the mighty war effort. How the machine was con- there may be of his own regiment or Division. Yet our interest structed and how its wheels went 'round—there lies much of the has broadened with the passing of the years. We now admit a book's fascination for buck privates, non-coms, and training camp certain curiosity as to what the rest of the Army was doing, and officers, which means most of us in the Legion. It gives you a that curiosity can nowhere be better satisfied than by perusal of new understanding of, a new respect for staff work. Being a Major General James G. Harbord's new book, "The American brass hat was a far tougher detail than most of us used to suspect. Army in France." This is the story of the whole show. Its con- One-time envy of officers who wore spick and span uniforms, ate tent and its quality entitle it to prominent and permanent place regularly, weren't shot at much and could motor into Paris now among the annals of the A. E. F. and then, begins to evaporate. After any war, numbers of generals hear and obey the com- What a terrific task of organization was faced by "Black Jack" mand: "Present memoirs!" In this case the order has been exe- and his staff when they arrived in France! They faced it prac- cuted by one whose service, as Marshal Petain remarks in a fore- tically cold except for advice from our Allies—advice which was word, was such as to fit him particularly for the often invaluable but some- detail. By one who knows the manual of letters as times completely unaccept- well as the manual of arms. By a general who—so able, as witness their bright it can be testified by many of us who saw him in idea of using all our troops action—stayed human after stars had fallen on simply as British and French his shoulders. replacements. That particu- Very properly, at the request of his publishers, lar bit of skullduggery Persh- General Harbord prefaces his book with a brief ing had to fight from the start biography and service record. It reads like an of the A. E. F. and up to outline of one of the old Horatio Alger, Jr., novels within a few days of the —"Bound to Rise," for instance. Son of a cavalry- Armistice, often, be it said to man in the Union Army, he vainly tried for an our shame, without the sup- appointment to West Point. Thereupon he en- port of those upon whom he listed as a private and in two years won a second had a right to look for support, lieutenant's commission. After twenty-eight years and always with a solid bloc of service in Cuba, the Philippines, and the of Allied politicians and gen- United States, he was a Major of Cavalry study- erals arrayed against him. ing at the Army War College when General Harbord traces the course of Pershing picked him as Chief of Staff of the these unfair maneuvers, cit- A. E. F. Thereafter he successively commanded ing chapter and verse in each the Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood, the Second instance. Division at Soissons, and the S. O. S. for the dura- Provision had to be made tion of the war. Up from the ranks and through for everything from liaison to the mill—that was Harbord's career, and it justi- laundries, from war brides to fies his diffidently expressed claim to have been billeting, from tanks to trench somewhat more than other leaders in common feet. Solving the transporta- touch with the A. E. F. and his feeling that he may say with tion problem involved revamping the French railways, and on the Vergil: "These things I saw, and a part of them I was." automotive side we started virtually from scratch. The first So this book is history written from the viewpoint of a man motor trucks ever supplied the United States Army were those who played no minor part in the making of it; history written few employed on Pershing's line of communications in his pur-

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly A Review of "The American Army in France;" by

James G. Harbord, Major General, U. S. Army Retired

List. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1936. 632 pages.

RBORD ft ft suit of Villa. As to communication, at first it took an hour to get a telephone connection between Chaumont and Paris—the Signal Corps linemen and bilingual telephone girls must have saved many a staff officer from the madhouse. In fighting a war in France with an ocean separating Pershing from home politics and the War Department staunchly support- ing him on the whole, the C.-in-C. was greatly blessed. The price paid was of course the difficulty of supply. While that vital matter was imperfectly managed, what with submarines and other obstacles, it is a wonder it was handled as well as it was. Harbord, giving credit where due, does not neglect to mention the dumb plays. How 14,000 tons of sawdust and shavings were shipped from the United States to insulate the cold storage plant at Gievres, not far from where we had forestry troops and saw- mills going at full blast. How it became necessary for Pershing to recommend that no further shipments be sent of bathtubs, cuspidors, floor wax, step-ladders, lawn mowers, settees, sickles, stools, and window shades. Such were the articles which some- times took up cargo space which should have been occupied by shoes. Learning that, veterans—even at this late date—may be willing to apologize to their company supply sergeants for hard words spoken in iqi8.

Sooner or later, and mostly sooner, it was efficiency (a Harbord slogan) that ruled and got results. But Harbord still resents lack of attention at G. EL Q. to one department. "In my opinion," he writes, "the handling of personnel, including promotions and decorations, was the least well done of any administrative detail of the A. E. F." Pershing, he declares, had a psychological blind spot for the sentimental and moral value of bits of ribbon and a cross.

I larbord justly objects that regulations governing the award of the D. S. M. limited it to officers. Not a few men whose gallant deeds were performed elsewhere than in the face of the enemy and who therefore were not eli- gible for the D. S. C. received no decoration whatever. In accordance with Persh- General Harbord as Chairman of the Board ing's policy of rotating staff of the Radio Corporation of America; at left, and line commands, Harbord as a brigadier general in command of the was relieved as Chief of Staff Marine Brigade of the Second Division and sent to command the Marine Brigade of the Second Division. His story of the ness of the cost at which every advantage is won; the combat Hois de Belleau action is reports without place-name or hour of sending and therefore stirringly told. There are il- worthless; the rumors that run; the runners that never arrive; luminating lines on his emo- the agony of the dressing station, and the casualty lists—they tions as a Brigade Com- are all part of the day's work for the Brigade Commander." mander in combat. Having A measure of the man Harbord may also be taken from the had opportunity to watch fact that he spent part of a Paris leave after that battle in visiting him fairly closely at that par- wounded Marines in the hospitals there. ticular time, I know how sincerely the General wrote these words: Leading the Second Division at Soissons, with the Germans in

"Yet it is true that the responsibility for orders that send men retreat before the American and French attack, Harbord met into battle, when it may mean death to men that you know with an incident which might have developed into one of the most personally, when it may maim and destroy men with whom you dramatic episodes of the war. He fell in with the general of a have spoken within the hour, is not lightly to be borne by any French cavalry division who confided his plan to ride in behind man. It leaves invisible scars, and the very recollection of it the Germans and strike them with a smashing surprise charge. brings a spiritual humility of soul that during a varied life has Instantly Harbord—and how his cavalryman's heart must have come to me in no other circumstances. The insufficient informa- leaped at the proposal!—offered artillery and infantry support. tion on which you are sometimes obliged to send men forth todie; It was never called for. The French general changed his mind the decision of whether to go forward or to retire; the conscious- and the opportunity for a dashing exploit (Continual on page 65)

MAY. 10^6 35 Where Sleep

In the prison camp at Rastatt, Baden, Germany, in October, 1918, American prisoners of war attend MEMORIAL DAY, at this springtime of the year, sends thoughts back to those buddies in the war who the burial service and form the funeral procession for failed to return home. While we participated in Roy Schiffern, Company A, 139th Infantry, who had burials under varying conditions—in the training been captured during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive areas, while in the lines, following offensives, and in the Occupied Area in Germany—always foremost in our mind is the only burial at sea from our transport, H. M. S. Pyrrhus. An Iowa died of pneumonia on October 23, 1918. To the best of my doughboy, left behind in Camp Mills because of illness when his knowledge, he was the first American soldier to die in the prison outfit sailed, accompanied our outfit as a casual. A tragic mo- camp at Rastatt. I learned later that his body was returned to ment of carelessness of the I-didn't-know-the-gun-was-loaded the States in August, 1921, and now rests in the National Ceme- kind on the part of a fellow soldier took his life. Although his tery at Arlington, Virginia. body was committed to the waves with full military honors, that "Although the soldiers in the pictures are well-dressed and ap- lad was sadly alone, separated from his own gang. It made a pear to be well-fed, a short time before they looked much differ- difference and every man on board felt it. ent. Like many more, I arrived in Rastatt wearing clothing of Through the interest and co-operation of James T. Valentine all descriptions—a French cap, a German coat minus the but- of Howard C. McCall Post, whose home is at 608 North 34th tons, white hospital pants, and wooden-soled shoes with paper Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we report a burial that was tops, a donation from Jerry. Just where we got the new uniforms equally sad—a burial in the land of the enemy, of which pictures I fail to remember, but I think they came through Berne, Switzer- areshown. Legionnaire Valentineenlistedin June, ioi7,inScran- land, with the Red Cross boxes of food. ton, Pennsylvania, and served as a corporal with Company L, 109th "Those boxes of food were a God-send. As I recall, they con- Infantry, 28th Division to July, 1918—but here's his own story: tained three cans of cooked beef, two cans of hash, four cans of "I was with my outfit until July 15, 1918, when during the beans, one can each of salmon, milk, jam, tomatoes, corn, and enemy's final, unsuccessful offensive across the Marne River peas, a pound each of coffee, sugar, dried fruit and butter, ten south of Jaulgonne—just before the Allies started the push that boxes of crackers or hard-tack, and four sacks of tobacco. Such ended in the Armistice—I received my donations from Jerry in a box came regularly to each prisoner, although a number of arti- the form of two pieces of shrapnel and passed out of the picture. Four days later, without food or water during that period, I was picked up on the iqth by the Germans, more dead than alive, suffering from a mass of gas burns and weak from loss of blood. My experiences until I reached the Gefangenen-lager or prison camp at Rastatt, Baden, Germany, were of the kind that any- one who made the trip wants to forget. In time, most of the American soldiers taken prisoner were assembled at the Rastatt camp. "The pictures I enclose show the burial service and procession for Private 1st Class Roy Schiffern of Company A, 139th Infan- try, 35th Division, who was captured in late September, 1918, during the first days of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and who

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly the B RAVE

cles such as butter, tobacco, coffee, etc., were given only once a haveamongmysouvenirs. Itreads: 'This month and in that way there was no waste. is to certify that James T. Valentine, "Through the efforts of Conrad Hoffman, reported to represent Corporal, Company L, 109th Infantry, the International Y. M. C. A. in Berlin, we received athletic died with honor in the service of his equipment, and also the musical instruments which the men have country on the fifteenth day of July, in the picture. A band was organized. But one man and one man 1918.' It is dated October 19, 1918. only deserves the credit for saving the lives of hundreds of the "All the time I was overseas I re- Americans in Rastatt—from starvation or worse—and that is ceived no mail from home and it was former Sergeant Edgar M. Hallyburton, a real soldier and a man not until October that I could get any among men. Upon my arrival at Rastatt in August, it was a mail out of the prison camp and then regular hell hole. through the Red Cross at Berne, "My capture was officially my death warrant, because the Switzerland. I have a reply that they Government notified my mother in October, iq 18, that I was miss- sent word to my folks at home. Our ing in action and later sent her a certificate of my death, which I release from Rastatt on December 7, 1918, was when I had my big moment of the war. If any of the boys who recognize themselves or others in the pictures would drop me a

line, I'd appreciate it. I'd OFFICERS COLD certainly like to hear from FlEL.0 WEATHER. OUTFIT * 13 some of this old gang and S*R CATALOG NolZ*»5«. swap yarns—and what yarns they would be!" Following the Armistice, all of the American dead in Germany were returned either to this country or transferred to the permanent American military cemeteries in France—principally to the Meuse-Ar- gonnc Cemetery at Romagne. Of the 78,734 members of the A. E. F. who gave their lives in the war, 46,284 were returned to the United States upon request of relatives, 605 were sent to other countries, 128 left in their original graves outside of permanent American cemeteries, and 30,592 are now buried in the perma- nent cemeteries, one of which is in England, one in Permanent K. P. by choice? Here is one (right) with Belgium and the remaining six in France. Through the mess sergeant and cooks of Base Hospital No. 120 the Overseas Graves Decoration Fund raised by the at Joue-les-Tours, France Legion a number of years ago, floral tributes are

MAY, 1936 37 isn't a man of Base Hospital No. 120 who wouldn't take our mess sergeant out for a good time or buy him a drink. I got fat on that K. P. job. "Good luck to all of the cooks and the K. P.'s of the A. E. F. You know an army travels on its stomach.''

J—j largest regiment in the A. E. F., or in the world in fact, the 20th Engineers, Forestry, which num- bered 18,500 men, steps forth E. L. Bennett of Don Stough Post of Lander, Wyoming, to tell us some- thing of what the soldiers who worked in the woods of France accomplished. The pictures of the saw mill and camp on this page came from Bennett also. Ex- logger Bennett takes the microphone: "How about the men who furnished the wood supply for our Army overseas—those fellows who sup- plied everything from wagon tongues and wood for artificial limbs to aircraft spruce, from tent pegs and American energy and enthusiasm railroad ties to bunk more than doubled the rated out- lumber? I was with put of this sawmill (right) in one of the outfits the Foret St. George near Milly, that composed that France. Above, the camp of the huge regiment of 22d Company, 20th Forestry En- Forestry Engineers gineers, that operated the plant —the 2 2d Company of the 20th Regi- ment. placed on each grave in all of the cemeteries "The snapshots I overseas, yearly on Memorial Day. enclose were taken soon after a detach- HERE'S one for the believe-it-or-not ment of fifty men of category: After all the belly-aching our company, under we heard about being assigned to K. P. command of Lieu- duty—which was often used as a form of tenant William L. minor company punishment—we wonder Humphries, had about this story. But you'll have to take gone into camp in the word of Legionnaire Charles A. Mikeloit of 14 Moser Place, the Foret St. George about two miles from the little village of Mt. Clemens, Michigan, who submits as Exhibit A the picture Milly, some forty miles east of Paris. The man in the snap of on the preceding page. All right, Mikeloit, tell your story: the sawmill is Corporal Robert E. Harrell, a good sawyer at a "It certainly makes a fellow feel good to see pictures of some good mill. of his old buddies. In reading the Legion Monthly some time "The mill was rated at five thousand feet but as near as I

ago I ran across a picture and even before reading about it, can recall, Harrell put something over fourteen thousand feet recognized some of my old war- through in a ten-hour day. It took a good engineer and fireman time pals. Now I'm enclosing a to make fog for that sort of operation. Until his death from the snapshot of the mess sergeant, flu, Howard L. McCarthy of Janesville, Wisconsin, handled this cooks and permanent K. P.'s who French boiler so efficiently that the mill never had to wait for served with Base Hospital No. 1 20. steam. Evidently this snap was taken on some holiday, as the I'm the big brute propped up over flag can be seen on the big box toward the right rear of the mill the boxes. I'd certainly like to shed. hear from that gang. "The trailers probably will reca!l to many a truck driver the "Permanent K. P.'s? Sure. good old days when he picked up a string of these self-tracking How come? Well, after the Arm- affairs with their solid steel wheels and went rattling and banging istice was signed I was transferred over the rough cobbles of some sleepy (before he arrived) from the 2d A. I. C. at Tours to French village with an audience of fist-shaking and cursing vil- Base Hospital No. 120 at Joue-les- lagers. Sometimes the trailers tracked when going around cor- Tours. Well, just like all soldiers, ners. If they didn't, it was just too fortunate that the buildings I grumbled on account of leaving were made of stone. my old buddies with whom I had "Wonder how many of the men remember the show that was come across the pond. The old put on in the Theatre Municipal de Blois on March 4, 1919, when saying was that it didn't do any the 2 2d Company was stationed in the outskirts of Blois tearing good in this man's army to down the buildings of the casual camp and quarrying road grumble—and usually it didn't. surfacing? "When I found out that they "The program of the 'Grand Gala Americain,' given for the had good eats at my new station, benefit of French disabled soldiers, included Barney E. Peaker, the first thing I did was hunt up the mess sergeant and get ac- dancer, Emerson with his violin, Private Mann of the 3d A. I. C, quainted. And I got the job I asked for—permanent K. P. who gave a sharpshooting demonstration, Frank Hollester, Was I sorry? Hell, no! While some guys might think it crazy banjo, Sheltry, comedian, Mr. Anselvez of the Opera, and a to apply for a job as K. P., that wasn't true at that mess hall. 'Grande Demonstration de Boxe et de Lutte,'—that last meaning We ate like Pershing himself. boxing and wrestling. The violinist, Emerson, has been a Forest "Many men will remember how they used to eat out in the Ranger on sdme National Forest in southern Colorado for several rain with the run-over from their caps dripping into their mess years. I wonder where Peaker is now? kits. I did this myself and when I saw a good mess such as Base "We had in the outfit an old white-water man from the north 120 had, I wanted to get on the inside. I'd like to bet there woods some place. How he got into the (Continued on page yd)

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FROM Jack Kenyon, "But, dear!" exclaimed his mother. LEGIONNAIRE expansive Boston "A penguin has only two legs." 1 Harry E. Wals- Legionnaire, we learn "I found that out, mother, but the rest worth, of St. Johns, of the doorman who of the class said four, and I was the Michigan, writes that started toward a car closest, so I got the prize." during the winter of which had just pulled 'i7-'i8 several hundred up in front of an ex- officers were in training clusive club, when he tripped down the KARL KITCHEN, Executive Vice at Camp Johnston, Florida. One day a steps and fell sprawling on the sidewalk. President of the Cleveland National group was out on a practice march, and The manager, who had observed the in- Convention Corporation, relates that he while crossing a stream, met a num- cident, called the doorkeeper aside and and Past Department Commander Bill ber of colored convicts working on a cautioned him: Konold of Ohio were visiting a Legion bridge. "Please be more careful—people might post when they were called upon to help "Well, George, how will you trade think you are a member." untangle some knotty problems. The jobs?" one of the officers asked. powers of the executive committee were "Nothin' doin', mistah soldier man," in dispute, and the post's constitution de- replied the convict. "Ah knows where National Commander Henry fined them with this clause: "The execu- Ah'll be a year from now, an' you-all PAST don't." Stevens used to tell this one. It was tive committee has authority to act only during training camp days, and there in case of fire, floods, disasters and other had been a divisional review. The com- grave emergencies." pany had made a terrible showing and FROM R. O. Lytle of Bend, Oregon, the captain was sore as he looked his we hear about the man who was mov- charges over before retreat. THE Bounces had ing to another house in the next block. "Not a man in this company will be been over to meet Everything went by truck except a given liberty this week-end," he said. their new neighbors' precious old grandfather clock, which he From the rear ranks a voice cried: twins, just home from carried himself. The burden was heavy, "Ciive me liberty or give me death!" college. and every few steps he would set it down. "Who said that?" the captain shouted. "Don't you think the Invariably, though, each time he put the clock in And the same voice from the rear ranks boy is a perfect picture down he would step around piped back: "Patrick Henry." of his dad?" asked Mrs. Bounce. front of it to reassure himself that every- thing as it should be. "Yes, and his sister is a perfect talkie was of her mother." Finally a little boy who had been watching him, piped up earnestly: new office-boy asked the cashier THE "Say, mister, why don't you get a for carfare to the post office. watch?" "You don't have to go to the post C. HARRISON, of Martin, Georgia, office to mail those letters," he was T.tells us about the good wife who asked told. her irritable husband if he wouldn't read Wisconsin's Alfred L. Adams "Well then, where do you mail them?" to her while she knit and the old meanie FROM comes one about an evening while the "Downstairs, in the lobby." replied: "We'll just reverse it —I'll read Officers Training Corps at Fort Snelling "Downstairs me eye," replied the boy. and you knit to me." stood at attention listening for the first "The lobby is in Washington." note of retreat. The hush was broken by the clatter of a rifle dropped by a luckless new boy friend was making his THE candidate in the ranks. This was em- had just reached the housewife first call. "Mother," said NEWS the sweet barrassing enough to him, but snickers that her husband had been ap- young thing, "allow me to present my were heard throughout the whole bat- pointed adjutant general of his State's friend Mr. Noodlesnapper." talion when the instructor shouted: national guard. The mother, who was a little hard of "That's it, dammit, throw your rifle From the telephone, she turned to her hearing, placed her hand to her ear and away! We'll get you a spear tomorrow." maid and said: said: "I'm sorry, dear, but I did not "Just think, Mandy, my husband is the quite get the young man's name. You'll head of the state militia." have to little speak a louder, I'm afraid." COMRADE E. W. "Now, ain't dat sumpin," replied the "I said, mother," shouted the girl, "I Pembleton of New- maid. "I alius did think he had de want to present Mr. Noodlesnapper." burgh, New York, grandest malicious look." —- "I'm sorry, dear, but Mr. — What hands us one about the was the name again?" wealthy motorist who, "MR. NOODLESNAPPER!" just out of gasoline, •OL. John C. Willing The old lady shook her head sadly. coasted into a roadside "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid it's use. 1 c is sponsor for the no station and found the attendant to be a yarn about the boy who It sounds like Noodlesnapper to me." slow-moving individual. came home with a set "Here, boy," he said. "Get a move on! of books which he I want some gas. You'll never get any- proudly exhibited to CARL C. BROWN, National Service where without push. It is essential to his family. officer, says that on a highway over success. When I was a boy I pushed, and "And where did you g"t them?" asked in Missouri there is a sign reading as kept pushing and that got me where I his mother. follows: am." "I won 'em as a prize in nature study," 30 MILES TO BUFFALO "That sure is fine," replied the boy. he said. "The teacher asked how many If you can't read ask the black- "I guess you'll have to push some more. legs has a penguin, and I said three." smith at next crossroads. They ain't a drop o' gas in this station."

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Private War

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a Chinee boy countin' little ol' buttons Cinder Eye looked at the Wildcat Dong Gut's unusual duplex establishment. right in yo' face?" in surprise. "Never knowed you played Dong Gut, smiling and nodding at the The verdict was quick. "I'd bust dat no horn. Thought you told me you deafening compliment to his deities, boy right in de nose an' cut him loose kain't play no horn when us organized bowed his gratitude to the Wildcat and awful sudden f'm my money!" de Company band." his associate musicians as they halted The Wildcat winked at Cinder Eye. in front of Kwan Yin's ornate altar. THUS encouraged the Wildcat laid all "Nemmine boy, kin I play dat bass The Wildcat's ragtime band lingered his cards on the table. After twenty horn or not. I kin pack it aroun' an' at the altar for a moment and then, re- minutes during which the Backslid Bap- blow a lot of wind in it even if I kain't suming its march to the inspiring strains tist, Cinder Eye and the Lizard contri- play it." of "Casey Jones," it led the colored con- buted to the data that had dislocated the Sergeant Kinzie nodded at the Wild- tingent of C Company out of Dong Gut's morale of C Company, "Hold dat lan- cat. "Next thing is you got to hypnotize domain and up the hill to camp. guage," Sergeant Kinzie interrupted. Marmaduke." Five hundred feet away from the Anna- "Lissen to me, men, I always been wid "I hypnotizes dat old Uplifter," the mite camp Old Ram halted his slashing you, ain't I, in de middle of every ruckus Wildcat threatened. "In de meantime baton long enough to growl a question when de hand of fate look like it wuz you pave de way wid de cap'n an' de at the Wildcat. "You git it?" aimin' to knock you cold?" lootenant." "Sho did," the Wildcat answered, "You sho is." "Don't worry, boy, I paves de way so thenceforth bellowing lustily into his "I always been yo' friend, ain't I?" slick you gwine to think somebody is ponderous bass horn, whose notes were "Sergeant, de world knows it." soaped de rails fo' yo' march of triumph." strangely muffled. "Dat bein' de case, once mo' does I Following his brunet visitors' depar- snatch yo' brands f'm de burnin', once MILITARY music blasted out of the ture Dong Gut's gaze ranged along the mo' I leads you chillun outen de lion's various instruments of a seven- array of colorful tributes at Kwan Yin's den." Sergeant Kinzie threw out his chest piece band can be a valuable aid to loco- feet. He noticed with quick delight that and took a deep drag at the big cigar motion on the up-grade after a hard day's an offering of roast duck had disappeared. to which his prominence entitled him. work. The band project met with ready Dong Gut bowed low before his deity. "Lissen to me—dis is de fust thing you approval from all concerned; from Mar- "Oh Thou Jewel of the Lotus, ten million got to do." maduke Raleigh and the company com- words of gratitude cannot serve for this The first thing, covering methods of mander down to the somnolent water boy moment. Thou hast deigned to accept procedure, hit the council with all the who served the Wildcat's work detail in thy servant's gift." impact that Sergeant Kinzie's common the Annamite camp. A sense of gratitude to the Wildcat sense and good judgment invariably car- When recall blew, "Hot dawg! Mud- and the other members of the band ried. No sooner had the genius of their larks, rally round!" the Wildcat yelled. welled up in Dong Gut's heart. Kwan salvation outlined his plan than a chorus "Cinnamon, grab yo' drum. Backslid, Yin seemed to smile. "The compliment of approval and admiration smote his drape yo' big mouth around de small end of music inspired the Jewel of the Lotus ears. of dat slip horn. Hand me dat bass horn to accept our unworthy gifts," Dong Gut "Hot dam, boy! Dat's de stuff. Dat whilst I loads its vitals wid a roarin' informed his congregation in an eloquent gwine to fix everythin' mighty noble!" cyclone." explanation of the miracle. "We are "Sho pays us fo' ways f'm de jack!" "Who gwine to lead dis band?" armed against ten thousand devils "Old Sergeant Kinzie an' General "Old Ram leads it—dat's all he good Kwan Yin has smiled upon us." Pershing is got the two biggest brains in fur." de Army." "Whut's de fust piece us plays?" A WEEK later, comforted by the Halting the verbal tributes, Sergeant "Hot Time in de Old Town." smile of Kwan Yin and the fact Kinzie lifted his hand for silence. "Fust The Wildcat draped the bass horn that eight culinary offerings had been thing to do is for de Wilecat to make his around his eager anatomy. "Let's accepted by the goddess, Dong Gut official call on dat Marmaduke Uplifter," go! Lissen to me, Old Ram, de line of gazed benevolently at the Wildcat's the sergeant advised. "Git dat brass march leads right into Dong Gut's gam- band of musicians. band question settled. After dat every- blin' house. Us serenades him on de way "Git ready, boys, wid them music thin' is easy. You better visit dat Mar- through. Dat ought to make him feel tools," the Wildcat ordered. "Whut's maduke boy tonight, Wilecat." mighty pleasant." de fust piece, Old Ram?" The Wildcat nodded. "I visits him. "I leads you right where you got to "Fust piece is slow drag f'm de middle " Dey's one thing us is forgot." go," Old Ram promised. "I remembers section of de 'Beale Street Blues.' "Whut's dat?" whut you said las' night. Git ready. The Wildcat nodded in quick under- "Dey ain't no bass horn in de band." Forward, march!" standing. "Dat's right. I see you "Dat's right." Cinder Eye, who "When you hear dem bells go ting-a- ain't forgotten nuthin'." Then in a played the trombone in the Company ling, all join in—." Within ten seconds hoarse whisper, "Rally round close to band, spoke with authority. "Dat bass the work detail, trailing along in the rear where dat duck is roostin'," he directed, horn got lost on de dock in Hoboken." of the band, had opened up on the words addressing his companions. Sergeant Kinzie considered this prob- of the song with a bellowing chorus that The slow drag section of the "Beale lem for a moment and then, "Don't let almost drowned the music. A hundred Street Blues" finished up with a faster that worry you none. I borrows a bass yards along the route and "Hot Time" movement to whose tempo the Wildcat horn for you f'm dat engineer outfit. gave way to the "Beale Street Blues." and the rest of the band made their exit You ain't gwine to need it more dan a The "Beale Street Blues" went under from the church end of Dong Gut's hut. week does everythin' work out de way the wire a winner as a preface for "Alex- In the darkness the Wildcat escaped us riggers. By de way, who kin play dat ander's Ragtime Band" and it was this from the coils of the bass horn. He bass horn?" classic, rendered with full effect, that handed the heavy instrument to Old The Wildcat spoke up first. "I plays shook the altar ornaments and the tin- Ram. "Be mighty careful wid it," dat horn." seled draperies in the church end of he admonished. (Continued on page 44) 42 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly a STORIES YOU HAVEN'T HEARD

FREDERICK PALMER, with authority backed by unique The B. F. Goodrich Rubber dean of American war cor- personal experience and per- Company were interested in the respondents, saw his first battle spective. following figures — 621,000 * * * in 1897. Saw it with the naked Legionnaires own cars and eye. Stood on a hill and watched The Advertising Man has a average 10,200 miles a year. A the Greek and Turkish armies Ford story you haven't heard! fine market for their advertis- come together. Watched the He says the Ford people make ing message (Page 51) shooting—the retreat. a careful study of readership — before selecting magazines to market that is intensely inter- In 1914 Palmer watched the carry Ford advertising. Here ested in highway safety. birth of trench warfare. Long are interesting facts they range guns discouraged hilltop learned, proving the readers of Still another fact impressed sitting. War went underground this magazine are definitely LaSalle Extension University, —and war correspondents under automobile-minded: 72.87c own the fact that our readership is fire. Palmer learned the new passenger automobiles. 25.7% uniquely concentrated on men technique. own Fords. Note — when you in the productive years the buy a Ford, mention the Ford — solid citizen type, with an above- This magazine is proud to count advertising (Page 5) you have Frederick Palmer among its seen in The American Legion average share of serious am- frequent contributors. He speaks Monthly. bition. (Pages 48 and 63.)

M ' C, iq-,6 43 Private War

{Continued from page 42)

"Git Marmalade rigged up on de duck. opened within thirty seconds of schedule. the Annamites were presently trailing Leave all dat gold paper an' dem red In the yellow light of two coal oil lan- in a race of retreat led by the shattered fixins on dat duck's carcass. Git it on de terns hanging from the ridge pole of the Uplifter. The first leg of Marmalade's table in front of Marmalade prompt at tent, Dong Gut saw the Uplifter accept flight ended in the sanctuary of the de time I told you." a platter from the hands of a brunet officers' mess. Old Ram headed into the coils of the K. P. In the center of the platter there Observing this, slinking into the dark- bass horn. "Twenty minutes after six was an ornate roast duck. Supine upon ness with Cinnamon and the Backslid by Sergeant Kinzie's watch. Us gits his back the duck's wings lifted in futile Baptist, Cinder Eye, Lizard, Old Ram rigged. You sure Dong Gut gwine to supplication. The duck's legs were and fifty chortling stragglers from the come up de hill?" decorated in golden tinsel as befitting stevedore outfit, "Marmalade mighty "I brings Dong Gut, dead or alive." an offering to Kwan Yin. lucky to git safe widout ol' Dong Gut The first harrowing details of the While Dong Gut watched with glaring whittlin' out his vitals," the Wildcat story that the Wildcat related to Dong eye Marmaduke Raleigh desecrated the exulted. Gut via an intelligent interpreter served gaudy sacrifice with a quick stab of a After a shock absorber of red tape had to animate the servant of Kwan Yin to an sharp-edged carving knife. "Compli- been woven around Marmalade's fragile alarming degree. ment the cook on how fancy he does a form, the Uplifter was launched home- "Step ri^ht dis way, Dong Gut," the duck," the Uplifter directed, addressing ward through military channels for the Wildcat directed. "I got a hack out the retreating K. P. good of the service. here all ready an' waitin' fur you. Us The English language gave place to a When the news spread through C boys knowed you would be mighty mad. crescendo blast of screaming Oriental Company, "Guess mebbe we better have Bring two or three mo' Chinee boys does protests. With the yowl of a female Sergeant Kinzie take dat bass horn back you crave to. Dis open-faced hack panther Dong Gut dived into Marma- to dem engineer boys," the Backslid Bap- carries si : folks easy as not." duke Raleigh's tent. Three of his coun- tist suggested. At six-fifteen at the west end of the trymen supported the attack. In the The Wildcat nodded his approval. long company street the party climbed first ten seconds of the battle Marma- "Us is done wid it. Somebody better out of the open-faced hack. "Come duke found himself completely infested clean out de grease on de inside of dat along now wid me, Dong Gut," the Wild- with Annamites. Old Dong Gut, work- horn befo' it is took back—dat old horn cat invited. "Come quiet. Us got to ing diligently with a heavy teakwood sho carried dem chickens an' ducks an' sneak up on dat old Marmalade boy." walking stick, beat the cadence of the roast pork rations mighty noble." The sneaking-up process occupied song of sweet revenge on Marmaduke's From an admirer in the corner of the three minutes. A preliminary word of skull, screeching above an accompani- hut, "Don't tell us you kain't blow dat caution fifty feet from the Uplifter's tent: ment of epithets from his confederates bass horn, Wilecat—you blowed dat "Tell him I hauls back de flap of de tent," and howls of pain from the struggling Marmalade hound all de way across de the Wildcat said to Dong Gut's inter- Uplifter. ocean wid it." preter. "De minnit I hauls back de Into the fray, at the top of his lungs, "Never knowed my strength," the flap of de tent he sees who been stealin' "Sock it to him!" the Wildcat yelled. Wildcat answered modestly. Then, all dem ducks an' a'l dat roast pork an' "He's de boy whut's been eatin' up all smiling under his cargo of compliments, all dem nutritious chickens f'm de pulpit yo' chickens an' ducks an' roast pork. "Blowed a cyclone into dat horn. Sho in his church." Bear down heavy on dat man!" uprooted dat old poison oak Marma- The flap of Marmaduke Raleigh's tent Bearing down heavy on their victim lade!"

^Peace, the T^eds and the T^est of Us

(Continued from page ij)

Observers generally agree that it was Now the only way that the Russian masters of all countries. Therefore, in the fear of Russian communism which dictatorship can make China subject the name of peace, in the next world war, finally led the Germans to accept Hitler- to Moscow is to lick the Japanese army, instead of the slogan to make the world ism. If they were forced to give up con- and it is evident that some of our paci- safe for democracy we should make the stitutional forms they preferred, in a fists would see that as the righteous war world safe for the Soviets, and the desperate case, to accept an independent of the Russian class dictatorship against United States should become the ally home dictatorship to one which was sub- Japanese imperialism. of Russia. ject to a supreme head in Moscow. The You may be sure that there is no kind The recently formed coalition of peace communists create the fascism this com- word for the Legion in Fight or in any societies—including the sane ones with munist-pacifist league fights against. pacifist circles under Russian influence. no brief against reasonable national Another example is China, where The Legion is on record as against Soviet defense—which presented a program for communism is ever boasting of its suc- as well as fascist or Nazi dictatorships. neutrality to the President, did not cesses. Red agitation in China has If it stood for Soviet dictatorship but receive the communist League Against helped to prevent the establishment of against a fascist dictatorship then it War and Fascism into its fold. But any loyal national army and promoted would be welcomed as a noble and heroic evidently all the promoters of the coali- civil war, general chaos and further suf- organization, and every member would tion do not realize the company they are fering, famine and bloodshed. be endowed at once with a spotless keeping in the directors of some of the This may not have been the studied character. societies. These are associated with other plan, but it was the effect in practice It is a peace of force which the com- societies which serve "The Soviet Policy which counts in this human world. As a munists and left wing socialists seek. of Pacifism" as expressed in the Daily result China has been left wide open to This, according to their idea, we shall Worker. That policy is to "carry on the Japanese advance. have when allied red armies have become propaganda among the masses 'toward'

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arming of the proletariat, overthrowing the bourgeoisie and establishing the pro- letarian dictatorship." Again: "Our Leninist position on militarism and war is very clear and certain. We REASURE are not against war and militarism as such. We are against imperialist war; we are against bourgeois militarism. But we are in favor of revolutionary wars." WITHOUT END That warrants the policy of joining in with any movement which will make INSURED BY SEAGRAM'S ACTIVITY IN AMERICA

it easier for revolution by weakening the Army and Navy. The fewer soldiers you have to fight, the lower their morale, Millions of Qallons Ready Now — the better your chances of victory. The reds are unfailing allies and coaches of all the groups which watch Millions of Qallons Aging- for the first faint sign of anything like military training in the C. C. C. camps Millions of Qallons in the Making and our schools and in their violent attacks on the R. O. T. C. of our colleges. It is held that any youth who receives most treasures— the reached full maturity—ready for kind of military training will want With any more that is taken away you now without waiting. to go to war; that any kind of prepared- the less you have left. But ness for war breeds war. The one sure this is not true with Seagram's. The A Treasure Aging way to keep out of war is in their view reason is Seagram's great American complete unpreparedness. In addition every week and every building program. Seven million By this reasoning it must have been year — more and more Seagram dollars has been expended by our elaborate and thorough preparedness Whiskies are "Coming of Age." Seagram for plants in America. which promoted such a thirst for human Millions of gallons are now matur- blood the part of two millions of our Two huge distilleries at Lawrence- on — ing in charred oak casks in both soldiers that they insisted upon having burg, Indiana, and at Baltimore, Canadian and American warehouses. a turn in the trenches in France. As you Maryland have been in operation — Millions of gallons have been pro- look back to the winter of iai6-'i7, don't since Repeal. A third large modern duced in Seagram's American you remember our immense standing distillery is nearing completion at army, our huge ammunition depots, Plants. Louisville, Kentucky. Over 23 ther- colossal stores of artillery and mountain- mostatically controlled and air- ous stacks of rifles ready to hand to our A Treasure in the Making conditioned maturing warehouses millions of trained reservists? Or do In modern distilleries at Lawrence- you? have been erected. burg, Indiana, at Baltimore, Mary- What we do know in cruel realism in This program is the key point in land, and now at Louisville, Ken- this world of realism is that when our assuring for Seagram's a supply of tucky, Seagram is making fine rye people decided for war we had to train rare whiskies that is literally treasure men to train soldiers in mortal haste without end. and Bourbon whiskey—and storing and intensiveness; and to make arms it away for "Time to Work its Won- ." and equipment for them, and it was a A Treasure Ready ders 'Thus Seagram's supply ot fine begin fighting in year before we could As you know, the House of Seagram whiskies remains . . . steady, contin- force. one has as good reason to No holds millions of gallons ot rare uous, unchanging. Thus the Seagram feel the truth of this in their bones as whiskies—aged and ready for use. treasure is actually treasure with- the men who went through the mill and These stocks were distilled in out end. waited for arms. If we had been reason- Canada before Repeal, according Now, and in years to come, when ably prepared the Germans might have to the tradition, to called off their submarine warfare against best American you "Say Seagram's" you can be our ships without our having to make suit American ta«*e, supervised by sure of whiskies that are finer— good on our ultimatum with our blood American experts. Today they have whiskies that taste better. and treasure. And what is this R. O. T. C. against Say which the joint communist-pacifist is savagely militant? Why, merely that in and be Sure the course of their regular education some of our young men should learn how

to train recruits if we went to war again PRODUCTS OF LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA: —the while we have 600,000 youth in the C. C. C. camps of our terrible fascist Seagram s Five and Seven Crown Blended ^Vhiskies country receive no military training who Seagram s Gins and Russia has the largest standing army in the world. However, after our red BOTTLED IN BOND UNDER CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION: revolution, Stalin would probably spare Seagram s "V.O." Seagram s "Ancient Bottle Rye some of his officers to coach us under "83 the red flag as the British and French Seagram s Straight Bourbon Seagram s spared officers to coach us in iqi7-'i8. Seagram s Pedigree Straight Rye or Bourbon Our allies of ioi7-'i8 allowed us to fly Seagram-Distiller s Corp. — Executive OJices : New York the Stars and Stripes, but there'd be none of that {Continued on page 46)

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c c l^eace, the I(eds and the Rest of Us

(Continued from page 45)

nonsense under Stalin, you may be sure. and Nicaragua and sought no indemnity Many earnest and honest pacifist or a square foot of soil in the World War. societies as well as organizations for Imperialist United States, which scrapped other causes are much bothered by the ships to lead in the limitation of arma- way the communist-socialist crowd horn ment in 1921! in to make them their own. Start a We are told that we shall find incidents pacifist parade and there are the reds as an excuse for the war with Japan when in the line of march bearing banners the time comes, but not so angelic Soviet with red legends. The reds like demon- Russia. "Such incidents occurred weekly

ALL I KNOW IS strations, and they are most expert in between the Soviet Union and Japan," WHO TOLD YOU THAT OUR DRUGGIST starting them. says Lash, "and it was only the Soviets' COLGATE SAID IT'S WONDERFUL is will for that RAPID-SHAVE FOR TENDER SKIN Here an example which was the peace prevented them from CREAM IS BETTER? AND HE OUGHT result of the affiliation of the League for becoming the pretext for war." Again: TO KNOW Industrial Democracy and the League "A few conscientious objectors hindered Against War and Fascism: "The Student the war machine in 1917; thousands of League for Industrial Democracy and the students strikers would aid in crippling National Student League, the former it." Further: "The R. O. T. C. is trying socialist in its sympathies, and the latter to foist a fascist ideology on the school communist, are the mainsprings of the system." student anti-war movement." So re- Again, all the while from Lash: "The ports Joseph P. Lash, Secretary of the establishment of socialism in America SO JUST TO PLEASE HER Student League for Industrial Democracy would end the problem of surplus produc- and member of the National Student tion and capital which begets imperial-

S-A-A-Y . . . THAT Strike Committee. And this committee ism, and therefore end the threat of our DRUGGIST KNOWS for the student strike was composed of being drawn into a war with Japan."

HIS STUFF . . . SMALL one representative each of the Student And Lash closes in capital letters: BUBBLES GIVE A REAL "SKIN-LINE" League for Industrial Democracy, Na- "FIGHT WAR ON EVERY FRONT SHAVE... AND NOT tional Council of Methodist Youth, AND YOU FIND YOURSELF FIGHT- A TRACE OF Youth Section of the American League ING FOR SOCIALISM," which is STING OR BURN! Against War and Fascism, Inter-Semin- Leninism and Stalinism. So, boys and ary Movement (Middle Atlantic Divi- girls, do nothing to cripple the Russian

sion), American Youth Congress, and the war machine which alone is the friend PICTURES BUBBLE National Student League. (It is the of peace. long lists of societies with their long So, knowingly or not, the student names and their interlocking directorates strikers were speaking the voice of favoiing the red infiltration that keep Moscow. And college authorities and people who respond to a cause appealing high school principals who opposed to them from knowing the company they students leaving their classrooms for an are keeping. If one society or committee hour at eleven in the morning and sug-

MOST LATHERS are COLGATE RAPID- does not succeed, they organize another.) gested that if they would stage a demon- CREAM makes made of bubbles too SHAVE On April 13, 1934, 25,000 students, stration they do it after school hours big to get to the tiny bubbles that mostly from York City colleges, were classed as militarists and red-baiters base of the beard! get clear down to New Air pockets keep the skin-line. Its were in the strike against war. One in a class with The American Legion. film from rich soap film soaks the soap year later 175,000 throughout the United As champions of free speech the reaching the whis- your beard soft at kers. So the beard the base. Makes your States dropped their books and left striking students at Harvard were out- is only /W/-wilted. shaves last longer. their classrooms for one hour, pledging raged when another lot of students in DINNER THAT NIGHT themselves not to support their country frolicsome mood staged a mock "Down in any war. With Peace—We Want War" counter- President Butler of Columbia Univer- demonstration under the name of the sity, who is also head of the Carnegie Michael Mullins Chowder Club. The peace endowment, said: "To organize striking students saw such tomfoolery a strike against war is to show a strange as another step toward making America lack of a sense of humor, for the strike fascist, but they must have got a kick

itself is a form of violence." This was out of this excuse for pleading that they demonstrated in the way the students were being persecuted. They would fined up to resist the police and authority. have been the objects of another kind of Anti-war? Who is not anti-war? kick if they had been Russian students Against what war? Against a European publicly pledging themselves not to sup- war? Can students on strike in America port the Soviet Union in any war. COLGATE "SKIN-LINE" stay the march of the European legions Anyhow, in striking against war the SHAVES LAST to the front after word is given? Against students had a grand spree. If their HOURS LONGER an American war? I know nobody who communist-socialist mentors find that wants one. the novelty of a strike against war has According to Mr. Lash, the strike was worn off, a change may be provided—per- against the aggressive war which the haps to a strike against the recovery of LARGE TUBE 2Cc United States is planning against Japan prosperity because it has come under the 3* 100 SHAVES imperialist United States, which has American system without our having GIANT TUBE given the Philippines their independence accepted the Russian system in a revolu- 200 SHAVES and withdrawn its Marines from Haiti tion first.

46 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly Anyhow, I have to hand it to the American agents of the Moscow school HOW DID SPLENDID, BUT J HEY _ THE =1 I STILL briaq of propaganda, which is the most skilful YOU LIKE LIKE pipe daddy's MY OLD BRiAR isn't so'old and subtle in the world. They are pupils PIPE BEST except in worthy of their masters. The school is SOUTHERN adept at window-dressing with no trouble FRANCE 1 to show goods, that is, the goods pleas- ing to varying tastes. There is, too, the insidious mass prop- aganda through motion pictures. Not only do the Communists have some small houses where the runs seem exclusively under their control, but all Russian pic- tures, interesting, well-done and allow- r able as they are in our free count y, serve in glorifying the Soviet paradise in contrast with our own "capitalist hell." No picture can be shown in Rus- IN 1849, A YOUNG FRENCHMAN, THEN, AS NOW, ENTII3E FAMILIES sia, much less leave Russia, without the MONSIEUR VASSAS, DISCOVERED WERE EMPLOYED IN THE DIGGING approval of the censor. THE NATIVES OF THE PYRENEES DYEING, AND MAKING) OF BRIAR. Some simple minds may wonder if the SMOKING PIPES OF BRUYERE ROOT, PIPES. SELDOM IS MORE THAt-J OR TREE HEATH -ME American comrades are not disturbed A FOURTH OF THE ROOT DECIDED TO ENTER IMTO USABLE by the latest reports of changes in the THE MANUFACTURING Russian system. Some men are drawing OF THEM higher and still higher pay than others; and those discriminated against may not strike as in imperialist America. The 1,200,000 comrades who compose the Russian Communist party—cham- pions of the class struggle for a classless society—are more and more favored over the 160,000,000 mere citizens. The families of the chosen have fine homes and cars and luxuries, while the citizens IN THE EIGHTIES, M. VASSAS SO YOU SEE, THE LIKE PRINCE take what is allowed them. This is really DISCOVERED IN ALGERIA A BRiAR-, AS WE ALBERT, A H good news for the American comrades. BRIAR. EQUAL TO KNOW IT, IS MODERN SMOKE It shows that Moscow will favor their THAT OF FQANCE, REALLY A TO SUIT MODERN having their reward as the chosen when ITALY, MODERN PIPE a TASTES AND THE our revolution comes. MODERN POCKET- BOOK? EH, JUDGE? My own view remains to allow the comrades in our land of free speech to praise the Soviet system as much as they please, to advocate socialism and any amendment they choose to the Constitu- tion through established peaceful means. May Russia have plenty and progress, and may all peoples. One day may we all be able to reduce armaments, to know eternal peace. © 1936. It. J. Reynolds Tob. Co. Meanwhile, it is easier to stampede the untrained into war than those who EXPECT P. A. TO HIT are trained in its realities and who there- fore stop to think befcre they pick a fight. THE JOY NOTE! The wisdom that goes with preparedness Men, don't put off trying Prince Albert. is the best protection against war. It is mild and mellow—wonderful in flavor And meanwhile it is important that — too good to miss! Note how cool and the red movement and its method of in- long-burning each pipeful is. Enjoy steady filtration be not too much despised when pipe smoking that does not bite the tongue. changes come so quickly in this fast- Join the Prince Albert fans! You risk nothing. moving world; that education to correct P. A. has to please you. "Makin's" smokers: error answer education in error. P. A. makes grand roll-your-own cigarettes. Our Government has the right to pro- tect itself against seditious propaganda in public schools, and especially in its OUR OFFER TO PIPE SMOKERS armed forces, which are its protection " You must be pleased" from within and without—the protection Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don't of our national security, our system, the find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever smoked, return the pocket tin with the rest of the very freedom of speech itself. And what tobacco in it to us at any time within a month from this date, and about that old saying that eternal vigi- we will refund full purchase price, plus postage. lance is the price of liberty? • {Signed)(Signed) R.J. Reynolds Tobacco1 obacco Co., Winston-Salem,Win N.C. 50 pipefuls of fragrant to- This is the last of four articles by Fred- THE NATIONAL bacco in every JOY SMOKE! erick Palmer on radical activities in the prince Albert 2-ounce tin of United States. Prince Albert

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proceed to the front. The army system all got a letter for a boy named Will'um did not provide that the individual Alexander?" LAW should be told where he was being sent. Originating in the South myself, I All he knew was that he was on his way was touched by his anxiety. Inquiry somewhere. Frequently a bloc never developed that he had not heard from nights at reached its original destination if greater home in four months of service abroad need, real or imagined, developed in an- and as a result William Alexander other Division encountered en route. looked like the most lonesome homesick Of the well-known American combat soldier in the entire A. E. F. He assured units, the Second Division had contin- me his relatives could write and he was HCME uous complaints against the mail service. sure they were sending him letters regu- The Army Regulars and Marines desig- larly, but it developed he had not given of men today, who never in- THOUSANDS nated to compose the Second originally them a proper address. To be sure, he tend to practice before the bar, are study- were scattered all over France. Con- was not the colored stevedore ing law. who sup- They realize that the law-trained man is a centrated early in 1918, there attended plied friends with the somewhat confusing leader—that law training makes keen, clear, a long lapse in redirecting mail or before address "Number 4 in the front rank, quick, correct thinking that there is a real — correspondents at home could be in- A. E. F.," but the address given by reason why legally-trained men head many of America's greatest corporations. formed of new addresses. Thereafter Alexander to his relatives in Alabama the Division was almost continuously in was incomplete. In tracing the missing Practical Law Through action on various fronts. Suffering letters of that soldier, the Central Rec- Home Study roughly eighty percent casualties (4478 ords Office revealed that exactly 19,780 dead and wounded), it is little soldiers surnamed Alexander were The home study Law training offered by 17,752 mem- LaSalle has proven itself practical and valuable wonder that mail troubles persisted. bers of the A. E. F., and, to be further far beyond the time and money cost. Letters delivered to proper divisional exact, one hundred and forty Alexanders- In certain permitted states every year units for the wounded then began a to-end-war boasted the given name of LaSalle- trained men pass bar examinations journey short or long through various William. that seem surprising? with high honors. Does But many, many more men, take their base hospitals, recuperative centers or Then know that the Smiths with the LaSalle law training to use in business and find back to the States. American Army overseas totaled 28,137 in it a quicker, surer key to success and leader- In the flux of battle casualties alone, more than a full division. The Johnson ship—to the avoidance of pitfalls and the pick- killed family runner-up ing of the sure and certain paths of progress. the quarter-million and wounded was among combatants, represented only one-half of a postal numbering 26,999. May I shed further A Most Unusual Law Library problem. The quarter-million replace- light on occasional mail confusion by into gaping ranks explaining that there were simple The basis of LaSalle law instruction is a ments who stepped 426 fourteen-volume library compiled by leading meant a total of a half-million address William Johnsons and another 160 Wil- professors and authorities. — changes. The sick, reclassified troops, liam Johnsons possessed of the identical This library might well be called "Law non-combatant casuals, totaled other middle initial W Simplified and Condensed"—for it covers the whole basic field of law in an orderly, classified tens of thousands of changed addresses. Similarity of names was a tribute to and simple manner. In many resident uni- None of such unavoidable changes pre- the preponderance of what we call Library is the versities, the LaSalle Law supposes the supplying of incomplete American stock in the A. E. F. There reference work most used by students. In one or inaccurate addresses by soldiers to were Williamses, Browns, of the greatest resident law schools, fourteen 17,867 16,393 sets of LaSalle's Law Library are at the home correspondents, or the same effect 14,110 Davises, 13,132 Thompsons, 7008 student's disposal and constantly used. caused by ignorance at home. Absence of Harrises, 6873 Jacksons. Lewises, Turn- Supplementing this great library, are lec- the initials "A. E. F." on a letter often ers, Greens and Clarks also fought by tures and personal instruction of the highest resulted in such mail being classified as the thousands. Kellys numbered roughly grade, all under a definite, clear plan involving continual use of the Problem Method, where for delivery through the French civil 4500, Sullivans a thousand fewer. you train in law by dealing with actual legal postal system. There is evidence that When given names and surnames were problems learn by doing the work—not by — many smart soldiers thought they could the same, there was more chance of mail memorizing rules. mail delivery advising confusion. In the A. E. F. there To get the whole story, you must investigate. beat the gun on by were And the coupon below is the easy way to start home correspondents of exact addresses 249 John Smiths, 254 William Browns, that. where they were stationed. Despite 201 William Williamses, 198 John Browns, LaSalle Extension University military censorship it apparently was 179 James Greens, 167 John Davises, not difficult to let a friend know the city 148 James Rogerses, 133 James Jacksons, and department where one was stationed. 118 James Davises, 117 John Kellys, Dept. 5361-LR Chicago fr-S^r"**^^ But most such smarties failed to take into 104 John Sullivans. There were 133 I would like to have full information //^J^^S^yLJ aboutyourlawtrainlng.to^et-herwith // account the impermanence of military John Sullivans (29 more than simple j tft J. copy of "Law Training for Leadership," / I fjljk sjl / all without obligation. station, and French postmasters, trained Johns), 97 John F. Smiths, 91 James A. /D SC^^few/ / in dogmatic school of bureaucracy, held Smiths, H. Browns, John A. Law: Degree of LL. B./^^T^y/ / a 89 John 67 Opportunities: such letters for call. After the Armistice Smiths and 66 Robert L. Smiths. Other LaSalle r~^Si™v I If more interested in one of the fields ^--^^---^"/rr~7 we recovered literally bushels of these So far as my own particular William indicated below, check and mail now. - iltj/ letters from French post offices all over Alexander was concerned, it is enough to Business Management Personnel Manage- Modern Salesmanship ment the republic. say that I finally rounded up his missing Higher Accountancy Business Corre- Traffic Management spondence Similarity of names and initials was letters and the transformation they Banking and Finance C. P. A. Coaching Commercial Law Business English another major problem which I can il- effected was a complete reward for my Industrial Management Stenotypy luminate by an incident which occurred efforts. Name shortly after I was commissioned in the The Central Post Office was located Army Postal Service. At an A. P. O. in at Bourges because the nearest approach

Present Position the Bordeaux area I was approached one to a complete roster of the A. E. F. day by a Negro soldier who inquired in a existed there in the Central Records

Address - plaintive drawl, "Mister Cap'n, is you- Office. The postal service had made an

48 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly abortive attempt to establish an up-to- date mailing list by distributing cards among men separated from their original organizations. It was reported that of 14,000 cards sent to one of the largest hospital centers in France not one card was returned. At another place only 100 cards were filled out from 500 distrib- uted. Maybe because the execution of other forms necessary to family allot- ments and the purchase of Liberty Bonds on the instalment plan had resulted in too many payroll deductions, our troops had become suspicious of signing on the dotted line. Although our main reliance for proper addresses rested in the Central Records Office the files there were avail- able for postal workers only at night. Military duties naturally took prece- dence. I have been asked the extent of theft from the army mails. To the best of my knowledge I am happy to report that such crime was almost non-existent. It is my opinion that the average suspicion of theft might be explained as a strayed or misdirected piece of mail. The peak of mail delivery came at Christmas, 1918. Not counting letters, gift packages for the troops totaled 96,000 sacks. Averaging thirty parcels to the sack, that meant close to three million packages to be delivered—one and a half packages per soldier. The Army Postal Service proved an efficient Santa Claus. Corraling box-cars where we could, most of the packages were delivered on or before Christmas Day. Shortly after the holidays those pack- ages undeliverable at first address began coming back. Eventually 1600 sacks In a Malayan jungle were piled high in warehouses, totaling some 48,000 undelivered parcels. Now 1600 mail sacks is an impressive sight, which, viewed without understanding, I made my Strangest "Find" might be interpreted as a breakdown in the service. Actually they represented by Frank Buck, Author of'Lring 'em back alive" less than two percent of the total volume handled, which would be considered Trapping and handling ferocious ani- and cut into individual blades by machines normal in a present-day metropolitan mals is no joke, but I'd rather face a that are almost unbelievably accurate. I wild shave with a shoddy blade. skilled technicians who supervise the postal area. But it was my fate with beast than met ingenious scientific devices that constant- those 1600 sacks on my hands to be paid That's why it was almost tragic when ly check and double-check for quality. I a surprise visit by an inspection party. I ran out of Gillette blades a few months couldn't imagine such rigid inspection. My explanations were of no avail. I ago up in the jungle of Negri Sembilan. Yes, these blades — in department after was brusquely ordered to get rid of them. But I found them in a little kedai, or native department — seem to be examined as did the simple trading post, located on a bullock-cart That I by expedient of closely as bacteriologist searches trail leading into a dense Malayan jungle. a for shipping them to the Central Post Office. microbes on a slide. And after the final Two days after the shipment had gone, I didn't know then why the Gillette inspection the blades are sprayed with a imagine my surprise to receive orders blade stands head and shoulders above all special antiseptic solution and placed in others for quality — why it gi ves me clean, directing me to duty there—with specific their sanitary waxed paper wrappers. easy shaves under all conditions. That was instructions to dispose of the lot! Now I know why I can shave every before I visited the Gillette factory in day, in the jungle or out, and actually Outgoing mail established a record in Boston, and got the surprise of my life! enjoy it! And that goes whether I buy my January, 191 9. Homesick soldiers await- I never dreamed it took so much care Gillette blades in New York, London or ing transport that month wrote 28,000,- and effort to produce the Gillette blade. Paris — Calcutta, Singapore or Shanghai. 000 letters, or about a letter per soldier I saw ribbons of finest Swedish steel put They're the same, the world over, equally every other day of the month. Moreover, through one elaborate and precise process sharp and smooth-shaving. No wonder anxiety to know when their heroes might after another. I saw them perforated, hard- wild animals can't keep me from shaving be expected home prompted twice the ened, tempered, ground, honed, stropped with Gillette blades. outgoing volume from the States—fifty million letters. This total exchange Here are fhe facfs about razor blades. Why let anyone deprive you of shaving comfort represented a greater mail volume than by selling you a substitute! Ask for Gillette Blades and be sure to get them. that being done by the entire French GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. postal system. (Continued on puge 50)

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Nor should I fail to mention that in attention is published by Dr. H. A. Cole- deniable that the greatest factor in any addition to letters 15,000 sacks of parcels man of New Philadelphia, Ohio. It lists army's morale is the maintenance of went from France to the United States the rarities and makes several valuable individual links with home-folk. To that same month. Always a souvenir suggestions for specialization. have maintained those personal links collector, the American doughboy was There was considerable confusion in against the problems and handicaps in- hastening to ship mementoes for which mail attending the happy homeward dicated was the responsibility of the there might not be room in his barracks voyage of the A. E. F., but letters were postal service. High morale was not bag. Mostly the souvenirs were German of no account when the principal subject only the source of inspiration for Ameri- helmets. of correspondence waved in person from can victories. That contribution over- Often I am asked why American A. P. a transport deck or was wrapped in glad- flowed to rejuvenate the war-weary, O.'s were numbered in the 700 series. some embrace. Once the Army of Occu- dispirited Allies in their hour of desper- In its inception the selection represented pation was shaken down—and twenty ation. the familiar military strategy of an at- late German railway mail cars were To have been a factor in the maintain- tempt to mislead the enemy. When the placed at our disposal—my duties as ing of that morale is an achievement for 700 series was exhausted, succeeding chief of the Postal Service for American which every member of the postal service, serial numbers—with a very few excep- forces on the Rhine were no more arduous both military and civilian, may well be tions in the 800 series—were in the 900 than those of any first-class postmaster proud. sequence. back in the States. A. E. F. Postal Service franks are now Conceding valuable contributions to The cancelations reproduced on pages 26 collectors' items. The most complete the A. E. F. by welfare organizations, by and 27 are from the collection of Dr. H. A. brochure on that subject to come to my entertainers and by chaplains, it is un- Coleman, New Philadelphia, Ohio.

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{Continued from page ig) the historic monuments of Great Britain. bancs from the Midlands and big red Here's one curious thing about sport For surely English history is as much the London buses scattered about too. in both countries. In the United States Derby and the Grand National, Henley Several thousand of these buses churn baseball, which we all look upon as our and Wimbledon, as it is Hastings and down on Derby Day from the capital; national game, draws less in individual Runnymede and the Tower. they are hired by private parties who attendance records than college football. The Derby takes place on a curved bring their lunch and see the race from This same phenomenon is true in the course a mile and a half long in the shape the tops. British Isles. Cricket, the national game of a horseshoe on the downs, or sloping Maybe they get a good view; I don't of the English, draws less than soccer, but hillsides near Epsom, fifteen miles south- know. The majority of the crowd has notice that our biggest sport is an ama- west of London. Notice one thing that just a glimpse and nothing more. You teur game, whereas theirs is a profes- invariably differentiates English sport hear hoofs pounding toward you in the sional. At the leading London cricket from our own: At the Cup Tie only about distance; suddenly the horses swing grounds, Lords and the Kennington a fifth of the crowd sit under covered around Tottenham Corner—foam-flecked Oval, there is accommodation, as the stands, the remainder stand in the rain. mouths, a clump of gay colored jockeys British put it, "for rather more than At our own World's Series, if you didn't with strained faces, a swirl of dust, and 30,000." These grounds are filled for the get at least a seat in the bleachers you'd they're gone, vanished from sight up the Test Match against the Australians, call a cop. This is important, for it goes course. You can't see the finish; you which is the high spot of the cricket sea-

all through English sport. As a people don't know who's won until it's an- son and comes in midsummer, although they never mind standing up all after- nounced over the loudspeaker. strangely the record crowd for the Oval noon to see a football game, a horse race But you don't come for the race. You was not obtained at a Test Match but in or a boat race. A cricket match? Well, come for the spectacle. Thousands of the August Bank Holiday game between that's something else again—after all people are here from all over the British Surrey and Notts in 1925, when 31,224 you can't stand up three or four days on Isles. The Downs are a camping place for paid admission. Old Trafford grounds in end. But as a rule they take their sports gypsies and touts for days beforehand. Manchester holds 40,000 and is invari- standing. The vast majority of the on- On the morning of the race the infield is ably filled for a Test Match. Bear in lookers at Churchill Downs are seated, alive with Derby bookmakers, noisy mind that a first-class cricket match is whereas at Epsom only a minority, the roundabouts, swing boats, cocoanut- played in leisurely British fashion, often King, the Aga Khan, the nobs and a few shies, evangelists predicting the end of taking three days to cpmplete. In fact rich horse-owners get seats under cover. the world, card sharps, stalls selling fried the English vs. Australia Test Matches The rest stand and wait. eels, gin and bitters, half and half or can run to four or five days, in which Or sit on the roofs of automobiles. anything you like. Hundreds of people, event total attendance will reach over The Derby attracts the darnedest ag- thousands of people, hundreds of thous- 150,000. gregation of motor vehicles I've ever ands of people jostle and tramp all over England's greatest sporting show, in seen anywhere on earth. You can park your feet as you mill about. The next my opinion, and like the Derby another your car right by the rail alongside the day the conservative London Times will huge democratic athletic festival, is the course, without any fee, too. Conse- estimate the crowd at about a million. Oxford-Cambridge crew race, popularly

quently you'll find 191 1 Daimlers and Did you ever try to count a million called the Boat Race, which takes place ancient Austins and Citroens and Fords people? I tried to, that misty day back on the last Saturday in March on the interspersed with Bentleys and gleaming in 1920, got as far as 654,783, and then Thames at London over the four-and-a- Rollses and Lanchesters, with char-a- had to stop. It got dark. quarter-mile stretch from Putney Bridge

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to Mortlake. Cockney crowds who have never seen either Oxford or Cambridge, and never will, pack the sides of the river wearing rosettes of light or dark blue, the colors of the two universities. London's slum areas send troops of boys THINK TWICE! and girls who develop violent favorites and become fans for places they know of only as names. Punch and Judy shows go up on each bank; there are coffee stalls, peanut and fruit vendors, merchants selling banners and colors. At the race I saw back in 1031—it was a victory for Cambridge, which has won twelve straight and every contest since t'.e war except in 1923—I remember the crowd was more interesting than the race. There was a man haranguing a gathering on the horrors of Dartmoor prison, from personal experience, I gathered. Another exhibitionist lay on the ground shackled by chains, waiting to burst them when enough coppers fell into the hat by his side. Fiddlers bands, pipers, hurdy-gurdies and concer- tinas were elbowed up and down the banks, especially along the free towing path which follows the winding river on one side nearly all the way on public meadow land. There is no charge for admission except for a few reserved stands scattered along the course, but LIFE-SAVER GOLDEN PLY FOUND riverside gardens, house tops, hotel roofs, garage sheds and apartment house win- dows were informal grandstands, and ONLY IN THIS NEW KIND OF TIRE the Imperial Airways sold places in half a dozen big liners of the England-to- Blow-out Witness: "Cheer up, little under modern driving conditions Good- girl a brave soldier. Nobody's rich engineers India type, which seated eighty passen- ... be experimented, tested. hurt and your daddy will have the car Finally they hit on the greatest tire im- gers and gave an excellent view of the fixed up good as new." provement in years —the Life-Saver Gold- race from above. A quarter of a million en Ply. This specially constructed ply re- persons were said to have seen this event. sists heat. It prevents separation of the Again I lost count before dark. Stop and think this over before you have tread and fabric. Blisters don't form. Professional soccer football is the big a blow-out. Gambling on tires is one of And when you prevent the blister you pre~ attendance game in England. Rugby the riskiest, most expensive chances a vent the high-speed blow-out! football, or rugger, is an amateur game motorist can take. Because today's speedy Silvertowns also have an amazing driving generates terrific heat inside the and seldom gets enormous crowds. "road-drying" tread that acts like the tire. Unless this heat is resisted, rubber Rugger is played chiefly by the expensive windshield wiper on your car. At the and fabric begin to separate. A tiny, in- preparatory schools, Eton, Harrow and first sign of a skid it sweeps away the visible blister forms. Bigger and BIGGER Winchester, and by the colleges. Its water, giving the double outer rows of it grows until, sooner or later — BANG! crowd is classy, as compared to the massy husky Silvertown cleats a drier surface It's a blow-out! grip. that extra one that follows soccer, and contests in to And means safety for build a safer tire that would stand up you on wet, slippery roads. rugger seldom draw more than a few To thousand, although for peak matches No Extra Cost like Oxford vs. Cambridge the grounds These Goodrich life-saving features are of the Rugby Union at Twickenham out- really free— you pay no price premium side London get a gate of 40,000 or more, for the extra safety that is built into these while an international match, England big rugged tires — because Silvertowns vs. Ireland or France vs. England, packs cost not a penny more than other stand- in 70,000. The rugger grounds at Mur- ard tires. When you're buying tires rayfields in Edinburgh holds more, and play safe. See your Goodrich dealer. is always full when the Sassenach from below the border comes north to chal- pppC I A million more motor- rlirr I ists pledged to safe lenge the Scottish lion. I cannot under- " " driving is the Goodrich goal for 1936. Prove that you want stand why this game draws less than soc- accidents prevented. Join the Sil- cer because it is a much more exciting vertown Safety League at your Goodrich dealer. He'll get for you game to watch, in my opinion. When —free—a handsome emblem with red crystal reflector four rugger forwards go down the field a to protect you if your tail light fails. flipping the ball to one another as tackled, you have as exhilarating a sight as you'll get in modern sport. The only sport where we really out- ^GoodrichfflMSilvertown draw England is hockey, although there is now an arena at Wembley and the With Life-Saver Golden Ply Blow-Out Protection t*ame is beginning {Continued on page 52)

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to catch on in London. The goofiest good fathers in Parliament who'd like to crowd in England, in fact the goofiest control them but don't seem able to do crowd I've ever seen anywhere on earth so, despite a good deal of legislation on the (which means, to be specific, England, matter. The biggest dog-racing event the United States and the Continent), is of the year, the Greyhound Derby, takes the Wimbledon tennis crowd. The largest place at the White City in West London paid attendance at a tennis match in this in July each summer. In 1935 this event country, either amateur or professional, drew 87,000, a sizable crowd, fully half of END OF THE MAN is 16,000, but that would be beaten badly whom were women. There are about 7 every day for two weeks at the tennis twenty tracks in operation around the ON THE stadium at Wimbledon in Southfields, metropolis alone, and a fair calculation just outside London. Wimbledon began is that each summer there is a weekly its tournaments in 1877—they are the attendance of a quarter of a million at FLYING TRAPEZE oldest tournament in the world. When these London tracks. you say "Wimbledon" in English sport Don't they have huge crowds in France r you refer to the big championships held or Germany—don't the boys turn out for there every June. bike races and football games on the Once the Wimbledon affair was just a Continent? They sure do, in big num- tennis tournament; now, like the Derby bers, but on the whole, when it comes and the Boat Race and the Cup Tie, to crowds and sporting enthusiasm, day it is a national institution. The stands in day out England has the world licked. about the Center Court (or, as the British By the way, I find I've omitted one sport say, Centre Court) seat 15,000, with room —maybe you've noticed this slip. I for 1,200 standing places. Backed up to it haven't mentioned boxing in the British fell trom the bar with the greatest HE is the Number One Court with room for Isles. The English don't get very big of ease when the fumes from that 7,000 more, and there are one or two crowds out for their prize fights. Need I gooey briar got him. Won't some usher other courts seating three or four thou- explain why? sand each, while probably a couple of Maybe, also, I should have been more please rush out for a pack of pipe cleaners thousand pay three shillings a day just accurate about the word England. Be- and a tin of Sir Walter Raleigh's peaceful to get into the grounds and walk about cause the truth is that when it comes to the exterior courts. sporting crowds, Scotland is to England blend—and let the show go on? Sir Walter Seats for the Centre and Number One what England is to the rest of the burns slower, cooler. The air stays cleaner, Court are in such demand that a ballot world. Yes, they sure do take their sports there in the land of mist your tongue stays calmer, and its delightful is held every year in February and the hard up lucky winners, about half those who and rain beyond the border. I spoke of aroma wins applause from any crowd. apply annually, are graciously permitted that little gathering of 136,000 in Hamp- Sales go up and up as smoker after smoker to buy a book of tickets for the twelve den Park, Glasgow, but one is forced to days at a cost of four pounds. Each admit that crowds of over a hundred finds Sir Walter Raleigh the answer to a February half a million dollars is returned thousand hardly get more than a casual pipe-lover's prayer for mildness and fra- to disappointed applicants who must then nod north of the Tweed. in grance. Sold everywhere. Ever tried it? either bum seats off their lucky friends It's an actual fact that way back or else wait until June and pay a pre- 191 2, Scotland was showing us what mium to a speculator, of a couple of dol- crowds were when 127,307 spectators lars a seat. I have left Wimbledon on saw the international match with Eng- eight o'clock the evening before a finals land on this same ground. In 103 1, in when Bill Tilden or Helen Wills Moody the height of the depression in the British were playing, and seen a long line already Isles, two games in the Scottish Cup final waiting to get one of the 1,200 standing between Celtic and Motherwell teams places to be put on sale at noon the drew 104, S03 and 98,695. The next year SIR WALTER next day! Glasgow Rangers and Kilmarnock took RALEIGH That's taking punishment. Before the in 105,695 in the middle of a week and match starts, probably two or three 111,982 on the following Saturday. thousand nuts will have paid three shil- Maybe there's a reason for this. May- lings just to enter the grounds, watch be the British as a race are more inter- an electric scoreboard synchronized with ested in sport than we are. Maybe, but the one inside on the Centre Court, and I doubt it. My sporting blood refuses to listen to the cheers of a match they let me admit that the English as a whole cannot even see. In the Wimbledon are keener about athletics than Ameri- sing Tobacco fortnight which comes the last week of cans. In fact, I think they are not. MPEaxdCIGARETTES June and the first week of July each year, Don't they get bigger crowds? They do, 350,000 spectators watch the tennis stars but they don't get comparable gates. of the world annually. The total gate Possibly that's because their promoters at our championships at Forest Hills, are smarter (or less greedy) than our own. Long Island, in September will never run Seats for the Cup Tie at Wembley cost much over 50,000. $5, but you can get in and stand up for Tennis attracts the smartest audience; sixty-five cents. And the point is that greyhound racing caters to the cockneys the majority do stand. So it goes all of the East End, who bet their last shil- the way through British sport. You may lings on the dogs, to the dismay of the see the matches on the Centre Court at

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Wimbledon, provided you reach the grounds early enough to buy a standing place, for seventy-five cents. The Derby is free; so too is the Boat Race, so is the Grand National, and most golf tourna- SELECT ments cost only a few shillings. The HOW TO Yale-Princeton game at Palmer Stadium may gross as much as $150,000; the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia A GOOD USED CAR back in 1927 drew a gate of $2,650,000 an astronomical sum in English sporting circles. The takings at the Cup Tie I saw at Wembley when 126,000 officially checked in was £27,776, or about $140,- 000, which figures out around a dollar and a quarter a head. In Scotland—and you know what the Scotch are—the 111,082 spectators at the Rangers-Kil- marnock game in 1932 paid only £5,650, or about $27,500. Contrast that with the $198,976 taken in at the first game of the World's Series between New York and St. Louis at the Yankee Stadium on October 2, 1926, from 61,658 fans, which averages about $3.50 a head. Maybe you get the idea. If the boys on this side would haul down their prices we might have gates at all our sporting events comparable to the British ones, and not just occasional huge crowds at a championship fight every five or ten years. In 1934-5 the Arsenal soccer team, winner of the League, made a profit of —hold onto your chair now—£8,880, or about $44,000. This notwithstanding a season attendance of over 1,000,000, (yes, that's right, a million) at Arsenal games. The profits of Tottenham Hot- spurs, another team, were only £15,800, or $80,000. Under the rules of the Foot- ball Association in England, seven and one-half percent is the maximum divi- dend that can be paid to stockholders, while directors receive no remuneration whatever. Imagine an American pro- moter working under such a system! ** Perhaps I made a mistake in recalling tag to you the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia, because you may throw up at me the fact that it attracted 150,000, considerable customers in any land, and there was also the Army-Navy Game in Soldier Field, Chicago, in 1926 that was these CARS both USED watched by 125,000. But events were exceptions; a hundred thousand crowd in the United States is a rarity in any sport. But they happen GO FIRST to your Oldsmo- which show that Tires, often enough in the British Isles from bile dealer, if you are in the Brakes, Stee~ing, Engine and October to June to be considered the market for a good, dependable Electrical System have been usual thing. used car. He offers Safety- carefully inspected and recon- You'll admit New York is a fairly good Tested Used Cars—cars that ditioned, as indicated by the sporting town, and last Thanksgiving have been checked and condi- dealer's check mark before each watched three gridiron 107,000 persons tioned with special regard to feature. Your Oldsmobile deal- clashes in the city. On that week-end features that make for safe er offers Safety-Tested Used three soccer games in London drew 148,- driving. You can identify them Cars in a wide variety of makes 000, and crowds get bigger over there as by the special orange-colored and models,at prices attractively the season advances and the competition Safety - Tested tags tags low. See them before buy! for first place in the League gets hotter. — you They fill stadiums all over the British OFFERED BY YOUR Isles not for two months in the fall, as in our own football season, but for half the year, ending with the vast gathering which sees the Cup Tie in April. That's OLDSMOBILE DEALER crowds, that is, brother.

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(Continued from page 23) small monthly allowance for her own use, dianship matters in his region, usually suggests that the child's entire wardrobe, if the reserve permitted, and the girl an entire State. He is responsible for meager or extensive, be shown him. Do was made happy. making the surveys. In all cases, the parents object? Not often. It is enough

An amount on reserve in an estate may initial survey, upon a child's becoming a that the Government asks it. Isn't it represent compensation or pension or beneficiary, is made by a trained social on the blank? Again the Legion man is life insurance proceeds or adjusted com- worker of the regional-office staff. Of calling as a friend of the child, of the pensation or funds conserved out of the annual follow-up surveys thereafter, family. monthly payments to the guardian. some are made by regional-office exam- So what wonder if it happens again iners but many by members of private and again that little Susie—as her THEN there was the case of the boy welfare organizations as a voluntary mother, going to closet or curtained-off who knew so well what he wanted. service. corner, displays her outfitting from top At fourteen, he yearned to own a watch. The co-operating agencies vary in the to bottom and from inside out—whispers He pestered everybody in the house for different States. In Minnesota, The a request that gets an understanding nod a watch. He was late to school through American Legion does virtually all the of assent, so that Susie retires and pres- standing before the jeweler's window follow-up surveying, except for the areas ently comes forth proudly arrayed in her gazing raptly at watches. Now a boy of stated and except in cases where there best Sunday or party dress, in her best fourteen can get along without a watch; are adoptive parents. Children under shoes and her best stockings, with a new he cannot eat a watch or drink it or sleep adoption are surveyed in all instances ribbon to be bowed in her hair, all for it. But the post officer, who had never by workers from the regional office. the caller's benefit? Snooping, you ask? quite grown up himself, recommended Where it is represented the Legion is the Not at all. What normal child does not that the guardian be given enough lee- only agency recognized by the regional like to be the center of interest and what way to see that that boy got a watch. office for this follow-up work in Minne- normal mother does not like to have In the regional office hard common sota, and the office testifies to the satis- some one show interest in her children? sense was brought to bear on the rec- factory results of the arrangement. So it comes about that the welfare officer ommendation. Should it approve or not? Surveys of wards outside the conti- hears the child speak her latest piece or Then some one of the force pointed out nental United States are under direction sing her choicest song, passes on the that the boy had a black mark on his of the Field and Insular Attorney's most amazing school drawing or admires record, on file, for petty filching. If he office of the Veterans Administration, the newest cut finger. didn't get a watch the right way, he in Washington. That office supervises, might steal one. He got the watch. through the State Department or other- IN MOST cases the mother or other near A year or two later he wanted an wise, guardianship cases in foreign coun- relative is the guardian. Minor wards accordion—oh, how he wanted one! tries and in the territorial and insular live with mothers who have remained The Legion man big-brothered him again possessions of the United States. Sur- widows, in homes with stepfathers, in by recommending the aspiration be met. vey reports, obtained in various ways, homes where the veteran fathers are It was met. The boy lived with that on little Puerto Ricans, Hawaiians, not dead but are divorced or have been accordion. He took it to bed with him. Filipinos, as well as other children, find adjudged mentally incompetent, with He practised morning, noon and night. their way to the central office. Because aunts, grandmothers, with persons who He neglected his dog for that accordion. of diversity of race, customs and locality, are not relatives at all. The "Cuckoo Waltz" just played itself they often present singular problems— In at least one area the post child and "Ciribiribin" and "Over the Waves." but they are another story. welfare officer has enlisted the like officer Everybody in the house was humming How does a post child welfare officer in the Auxiliary unit to make the sur- "Peggy O'Neil" the second week and the get going in this work? The regional veys for him. At one of her calls, where next the whole neighborhood lay awake office maintains a file of all such post there were two wards, an excellent step- listening to his nightly struggles with officers. Each year, thirty days before father, and no problems whatever, a "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" and the date of an accounting of guardian, proud mother got out the school report "A Tavern in the Town." the office mails to the child welfare officer cards, pointing out that each child was A traveling band playing his city two in the post area of the ward the govern- marked "A" in "Courtesy." Be it years later lost its accordion performer ment form containing questions he is to known that "Courtesy" is that which in there. In a competition to meet the answer after personally seeing the child. an older day was more bluntly termed emergency the boy was first among forty "Deportment" or "Conduct" or "Be- entrants, and won the job. He is now THE questions pertain to the appear- havior"—the tells-all item that caused Number One Accordion in that band and ance of the child, to the kind of home many a home-going foot to lag at the travels all over the country, self-sup- he is in, to any adverse conditions ob- close of school, many an excuse for defer- porting, in love with his work. The post served. Is the child's clothing adequate? ring submission of the report to expect- welfare man says if the boy had stayed Does he appear to be in need of a physical ant and want-to-know-why parents. at home a little longer he'd have had him examination? How about sight, hear- But if children are happy in their home, in a symphony orchestra by now. ing, teeth? With whom is he living? are loved by their parents and merit A's In its responsibility for guardianship What is the home environment? Is he for courtesy—they don't need much of activities under the World War Veterans' exposed to any contagious disease? anything, do they? and Pension acts, the Veterans Adminis- What is the general reputation of guar- Conditions in the community rather tration requires that an annual social dian and ward in the community? What than in the child's home sometimes call survey be made of each of its thousands do you recommend? for righting. The post officer in a certain of minor beneficiaries. There were 43 ,03 7 That question as to the adequacy of small town wrote to the regional office: of them on Feb. 29, 1936, in the United the child's clothing may seem extremely "I have investigated this case from every States and elsewhere. In each of the personal, something close to snooping. angle and as a result do not think Harriet fifty-four regional offices of the Veterans How be sure unless one actually sees all should go back to school this term. I Administration in the continental United the child's clothing? Many a post officer, had several interviews with the school States, a chief attorney looks after guar- acting on the advice of the regional office, superintendent. He maintains that she is

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very backward in her studies. That may- be true to some extent, but from what I can learn outside I suspect the fault is more with the superintendent than with her. He seems to me to be a harsh, bull- NDW NEW CAR PEP. POWER. dozing person. Harriet is of a nervous temperament that does not react favor- ably to his methods. I have been told that some eight or nine students have left high school this term because of him." ECONOMY FOR YOUR CAR BY A change of superintendents took place the next year—one suspects it was en- gineered by interested citizens—and, if too late to help Harriet, it may benefit other sensitive pupils. IG YEAR METHOD Ordinarily, though, the schools are a /MF# welfare officer's first resort and surest post r Today, millions of car owners are abettors. Said one: "When the Veterans BOY. YOUR getting new car performance Administration asked me to report on MOTOR PURRS THAT'S RIGHT, this boy, the first thing I did was to go ALONG NOW. SINCE I HAD new car oil economy— from this to his school. I met the boy and his AND YOU SAY RAMCO PISTON revolutionary Ramco Overhaul teacher, in seventh grade, and got the RINGS INSTALLED. boy's own story before going to see his YOU NEVER THEY CERTAINLY RAMCO—The pioneer expander- parents at the home. I learned the boy NEED OIL MAKE THE OLD type spring piston ring. The ONE had been in school only a few days of the EXCEPT AT BUS RUN LIKE spring ring construction used and first six weeks of the term. At the home, CHANGES ? NEW CAR proved for 16 years in millions I had to show the stepfather the order A of cars. The largest selling spring of the probate court to convince him ring in the world. that the boy had to be sent to school. I went back to the school the next day to make sure he was there. Then I ar- ranged with the teacher to let me know every time he was absent, and I checked up his home at every absence. The school also sent me his grades in all sub- jects at the end of every six-week period, and I talked with him whenever he Costs 50% Less slumped. He is now in high school. The Than a Rebore Job or check has been continual and, after three Motor Exchange years, is still going on." While perhaps most of the minor ward "C* VEN if your car is a hopeless oil-pumper, ' even if it's slow on get-away and knocks Proved In Millions of Cars cases can be dismissed with the annual badly, you can restore it to new car condi- Over a 16 Year Period call, to make the survey in more exacting tion and get from 20,000 to 50,000 more Ramco is the only spring ring construction with a proved ones challenges the post officer to do miles of dependable service, with this sensa- record for 16 years in millions of cars. Today, Ramco is by long odds the largest selling something in addition and often take tional Ramco Overhaul. It's time-tested spring ring in the world. much in time and attention. "I was re- proved in millions of cars. Is as effective as So get a Ramco Overhaul and get thousands more miles care- an expensive rebore job or motor exchange of free service from your car. ferred to this case two years ago," a post But, above all things, don' t have untried spring and at half the cost. piston rings put in your car. Insist upon call worker related, "and have made a Ramco. The sensational success of Ramco has there nearly every month since." Motorists everywhere say that savings on caused the market to be flooded with untried, unproved imitations. oil and gas alone more than pay for Ramco. This was a do-it-yourself person, not Write today for our free booklet, telling the whole No wonder motorists are refusing to give up content with making a recommendation amazing story. We will also give you the name of their cars or to get a costly rebore job. the Ramco Repairman near you. Mail coupon today. to the regional office and going no further. For proof of results listen to what C. C. B., RAMSEY ACCESSORIES MFG. CORP. The family has had constant hard luck. of Kent, Ohio, says: "Before a Ramco Over- 3708 Forest Park Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. soldier's widow, left haul my motor used a lot of oil, had no The mother, a was Pioneers, and By Far the Largest power, smoked terribly. Now the motor with two boys, one and two years old. Manufacturers purrs along—and does she step out." of Spring- Type Piston has had osteomyelitis since injuring One Rings in the World a knee in a fall. The other has an arrested If you want benefits like these simply have Skirt tuberculosis. The mother married again Ramco Piston Rings and Ramco Ex- ^RAMSEY ACCESSORIES MFG. CORP. Forest panders installed in your car. Because these I — mm mm m 3708 Park Blvd., St. and there are five children of that mar- j I r I Louis, Mo., U. S. A. rings are unique spring rings, they expand LJ I Send me your FREE booklet riage. The husband worked one winter | L L L in service to fit worn, out-of-round cylinder which shows how a P II | | Ramco in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. walls—seal wasteful clearances even at high- 111 Overhaul is as effective as a ' * rebore job or motor exchange Oil is Income thirty dollars a month. The est speeds. pumping ended. Power —at a fraction of the cost. family's rent was ten dollars, fuel ten; no longer blows by. And with the help of Ramco Piston Skirt Expanders, piston slap Name. so thete was all of another ten for food is stopped, compression increases. Your mo- and clothing. The mother is in poor Address. tor functions like new. That 's what a Ramco health, requires medical attention all the Overhaul can do for your car I City. .State. time and will have to have an operation soon. The husband is now working, five days a week, on a Federal-aid job t r at sixty dollars a month. The poor com- h°a mission in the town thinks that his time RAM€Oov?r u L > CORRECTS PISTON ROCK OF MOTOR DEPRECIATION and wage should be cut and that the < monthly government allotment to the RAMCO PISTON RINGS RAMCO PISTON SKIRT EXPANDERS two older children {Continued on page 56) PATENTED IN UNITED STATES AND CANADA. OTHER PATENTS PENDING

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should be used in support of the entire of the child welfare officers have more family. The family of nine lives in a than one or two wards in their post areas; three-room flat in a poor tenement house. some of course have none at all. One has "Conditions are considerably im- eight—in a single family. When a post proved," added the doughty post worker. officer fails to return a report within a "The boy with bone disease has been sent reasonable time, as sometimes happens, to a hospital and the boy with arrested a field examiner of the regional office tuberculosis has had his tonsils and ade- makes the survey. noids removed. The Legion auxiliary This Legion service in behalf of the has furnished much needed food and minor wards has had at all times helpful clothing as well as a year's supply of and appreciative co-operation from C. D. milk. The church which the children Hibbard and L. E. Zumwinkle, respect- attend, after being notified of the condi- ively manager and chief attorney at the tions, has been generous with baskets of Veterans Administration Facility. Both food and such other aid as it could give." are Legionnaires. The Child Welfare So much for the never-say-die spirit. Committee of the Minnesota Depart- There are 416 Legion posts and about ment, of ten members, has encouraged 400 minor wards in Minnesota, exclusive the activity and considers it a vital part of the Twin Cities and Duluth. Few of its continuing program.

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. . . unclogs the delicate veins that prevent (Continued from page iy) overheating. You can use Sani-Flush, yourself, for a were going to them every day. The where they went, and the guard had to few cents. Just pour it in the radiator (direc- old milishy regiment that had been run, too. Which tires out the guard as tions on the can). Run the motor. Drain. howling so noisily over on the far side of much as the prisoner. Flush. Refill with clean water. Sani-Flush cannot harm aluminum cylinder heads or the parade ground had gone somewhere, Being all soldiers together, and begin- motor fittings. You'll find it in most bath- and, rumor had it, to France. We drew a ning to acquire a common pain in the rooms for cleaning closet bowls. Sold by couple of French officers and two non- neck from the general run of events, you grocery, drug, hardware, and five-and-ten- coms to be our instructors in the new can see where the guard wouldn't insist cent stores—25c andlOc sizes. The Ilygienic warfare. Last but not least they changed on the prisoners running, once they were Products Company, Canton, Ohio. the regiment from cavalry to field artil- both out of sight of the guardhouse. But lery. the boys forgot about our colonel. Lady, 2- There was a great howl went up about I never knew what hell on wheels meant it, but to no avail. I remember, lady, until I knew him. He wore glasses, but KEEPS RADIATORS CLEAN that it seemed about the last straw. These he could see for miles. He'd spot, some- lads had been in the Army six and eight where, way, way off, some prisoner at a months now, and were beginning to get walk. When the prisoner and his guard BEAN'S CANOE SHOE fed up with it. The band didn't get under came within speaking distance, the colo- Made of high grade tan elk leather with double oil tanned to the moccasin sole, rubber heel and Talon Fastener, It their skin any more, and every day there nel would order the two of them combination "Slipper Shoe," used for many purposes was some new form of misery presented. guard house, and send for the commander around camp and cottage. Colors, brown and black. The guard house began to fill up, and our of the guard, who has charge of the Sizes 3 to 12. Write for Catalog old colonel decided to make it rough for prisoners. Mfd. by the prisoners, which of course makes it "Sergeant," the colonel would say, L. L. BEAN, Inc guards. at Mfrs. Fishing equally rough for the "these two men were not moving and Camping This is all-important, lady, because it double time. Now, have the guard take Specialties 196 Main St. will give you an idea of how a soldier off his belt and go right in the guard- Freeport $2.85 Maine Postpaid mind works. I said it was rough for the house! Violation of orders, violation of guard. A regiment of cavalry has twelve orders! Now, sergeant, you take off your troops, but a regiment of field artillery belt and report to your battery under has only sLx batteries. We went on guard arrest." DoqWorm by organizations, which meant that we "Me, sir?" would gasp the poor ser- were doing a guard now every sixth day geant, he having been half a mile away Capsules instead of every twelfth. And the stripes from the scene all the time. 2 began to fall with the autumn leaves. "You're responsible for this guard. NOW you can be sure of worming your dog cor- First off, we had to get the prisoners Take off your belt. Take off your stripes, rectly. The new "can't-go- NOW wrong" Pulvex Capsules up at four a.m., an hour before reveille, too, while you're at it! Send over another expel Tape AND Round Cominn&d and march them over at double time to sergeant to take your place!" AND Hook Worms, all in the same dosing. No chance in the showers, where they got a cold bath. Well, my well-wishers in the battery to guess wrong and use wrong type capsule. No Lady, that's pretty rugged treatment in saw a chance to get my stripes off me with gassing, gagging or harm- it starts to freeze there ease. wouldn't have to do anything, ful effects. Guaranteed. At Vermont, because They pet shops, along about the last of August. No just let nature take its course. drug and de- Expels 3 Kinds partment kiddin'! Then the prisoners were brought "Did your funny tent-mates go on of Worms stores 75c. back, at double time, and sent over to guard with you?" asked the lady. their troops for breakfast. After that, Sure. That's what made it difficult. Pill \S mm W Grniiirvcdum. W WmW B A WORM CAPSULES taken to work. They had to run every- Edwards would quit post and walk away 56 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly , -

when he got tired. My two Russians would halt everyone they saw, right in broad daylight, and if the victim didn't HERE S HAPPY LANDING" halt, they'd shoot at him, by gum! We had two other regiments in that post, and there were a lot of people didn't know my ON A USED CAR BARGAIN Russians' peculiarities. When they got the order to halt, if they paid any atten- *Jisstpick a dependable dealer/ tion at all, they'd tell the sentry to go to elsewhere. Then when they got the con- of a strewn around their ears, tents .45 IT'S A USED CAR - FROM A imagine their chagrin. HI, KAY. WHERE'D DODGE DEALER. DODGE DEALERS Poor old Coosby was utterly worthless YOU GET THE ARE JUST AS DEPENDABLE AS as a sentinel or anything else. He let a SWELL CAR ? THE CAR . prisoner escape, because the prisoner DODGE said he wanted to go down to Burlington and would be right back. I wasn't on guard that day, thank Heaven. But when I went on, I got plenty of grief. I never used to close an eye for twenty-four hours. I was twice as vigilant up there in Vermont as I ever was at the front in France. Because the old colonel was al- ways looking for whom he might devour. The guardhouse was right beside the main road, and the general commanding the brigade used to go up and down it pretty frequently. We were supposed to AND MORE PEOPLE BUY DODGE EXACTLY! THAT'S WHY DODGE' turn out the guard for him every time he CARS THAN ANY OTHER MAKE - DEALERS HAVE SUCH A WIDE went by. If our old colonel saw the EXCEPT THE 3 LOWEST SELECTION OF USED CARS general first, the sergeant of the guard got PRICED CARS.' put under arrest for failing to turn out AND WHAT BARGAINS / the guard. Regimental headquarters was opposite the guard house, and the colo- nel's tent next to it, and every time he went from his tent to headquarters and vice versa, the guard had to turn out. In between times the O. D. would appear, and we had to turn out for him. The point of the game, you see, lady, was for the colonel or the O. D. to get to the guard house before the sergeant of the guard had time to turn out the guard,

of I LOOKING FOR A GOOD whereupon they'd put the sergeant the M HES SURE TO HAVE JUST guard under arrest. If the sergeant of the USED CAR MYSELF. ME FOR THE CAR YOU WANT, AT THE guard didn't get busted for that, he'd THAT DODGE DEALER.' PRICE YOU WANT TO PAY.' get busted for letting Edwards leave post, or because Coosby let a prisoner escape. Well, thinks all the old leather-bot- toms, it won't be long now before we have a vacancy for sergeant! Meaning me. We'd had three sergeants busted al- ready. Well, they didn't get me. I didn't post Edwards at all. I told you he could run like a deer. I directed him to follow that guy with a pistol—the 0. D.—and every time he headed for the guard house, to run back and tell me. We'd have the guard all ready, hiding, and the minute YOU'RE sure of "landing" safely on a used car bargain if you pick the dealer— the sentry yelled, "Turn out the guard, a dependable Dodge dealer — first! offissa o' the day!" out they'd rush and Because more people buy Dodge cars than any other make (with the exception of the three lowest-priced cars) you will find at your Dodge dealer an amazing into line. selection of used car "buys." Smart buyers by the thousands are flocking to Dodge Same way with the colonel. I posted dealers. Not only because of the amazing "buys" they find, but because they Coosby where he could see through the know the Dodge dealer is as dependable as the Dodge car. No matter what make headquarters window, and when he saw or type of used car or used truck you are looking for — see your dependable Dodge dealer — now! Values at $50 $150 $300 or whatever you want to pay. the old colonel reach for his hat, we'd — — turn out the guard. The other privates ASK ABOUT THE OFFICIAL CHRYSLER MOTORS COMMERCIAL of the guard were sore, because it made CREDIT COMPANY TIME PAYMENT PLAN more work for them, and they were turn- ing out all day long when they should have been sleeping, but no one was going to protect my stripes if I didn't do it my- self, so I didn't have any consideration DODGE for them. (Continued on page 58) DIVISION OF CHRYSLER CORPORATION

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Came October, and colder than an old fessed that the French had taken the maid's heart. We were artillery now, for worst licking of the war that very sum- sure. They called us the 18th Cavalry mer, just before he had come to America, Provisional Field Artillery. Now then, and that his regiment had mutinied and lady, there are four gun sections in a that when he came away three-fourths of battery, and a fifth section called the the French army was in open revolt. If instrument section, which I was given to the authorities had paid no attention command. All the poor old hash-marked the rumor went through the regiment like non-coms were crazy at being put in a flame—we would have just thought he the artillery, and the idea of drawing was stewed, but they sent this lad back maps and figuring firing data every day to France, where he'd keep his mouth was too much for them. But there were shut, and we all knew then that he had some bright corporals, newly enlisted, been telling the truth. So we knew some- that coveted the instrument sergeant's thing was going on over there, though job. It had been decided also that the just what part we'd be able to take with getting of my stripes was a question of our wagon wheels was a little difficult for honor. You know, lady, if you bat at a others besides Coosby to understand. mosquito and swat him the first clip, you Then, all of a sudden, we found out we forget about it, but you miss him three or were going somewhere. We began to draw four times, and you just have to get up clothing and new equipment, and box up and finish him off? Well, that's the way the battery records, and make crates for they felt about me. the horse-covers, and morale went up like The first thing to do would be to break a kite. Also, a mysterious order appeared up my bodyguard. They put Coosby on that candidates would be selected, two permanent K. P. first. Poor lad! You from each battery, to go to officers' train- see, we didn't have any field guns to drill ing camp. with, and as we had to do something, Here, by God, was a way to get rid of ToAnySuits Double the life of your someone had the bright idea to take the me, thought the top. None of the other coat and vest with correctly wagon body off four escort wagons. The sergeants wanted to go, they knew only matched pants. 100,000 patterns. Every pair hand tailored to your measure. thoroughbrace then comes apart, and too well what hard luck an officer was in! Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece you have two sets of wheels, each with a Nobody minds a second lieutenant. Also of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY long pole, that can be used to represent a couple of hundred bucks for initial out- 209 S. State St. Dept. 314 Chicago the gun—the rear axle and wheels, and fit, having to pay for worse chow than the limber that draws it—the front set you get at the battery mess for nothing, of wheels. Two of these wagons made a etc., etc. But I would go, and the K. 0. gun section, and we limbered and un- would be glad to send me, and then limbered, changed posts, and learned Corporal Ildewitz would get the pro- discover tunelne icon standing gun-drill with them. motion he'd been waiting for so long. how Brilliant World-Wide Coosby never could get the idea of just I was willing, lady, you bet your life. Reception Can Really Be! what effect these wagon wheels were I wasn't having any too happy a time War News— European sport newe—symphonies going to have on the damyanks. Being there, and any change would be welcome. from the capitols of the world — with the world fa- SCOTT! Scores of foreign stations— with concert asked as to the duties of Number One at Also the necessary dirt and cold and ,e— full Hi-Fidelity Overtone Range. Bullet-Direct n Separation. 35 watts Power. 30 day tritt in U. S. the command, "March Order" he would promiscuity of nearly every nationality unaii deposit install the fine cuslombuilt SCOTT in home—balance upon bonua pay- stand mute. Being queried as to just in the world were far from pleasant. I'm ment. It's your world—enjoy it to the utmost! Write TODAY for special vet- ||] what the hell he did know, he would no snob, but there's limits, I ain't eran'B payment plan and the magnificent story. "Consistent Foreign Reception." point plaintively at the wagon pole and kiddin'. E.H.SCOTT RADIO LAB ORAM say, "The mules goes on that end, suh!" So then we had the big inspection. 4490 Ravenswood Ave., Dept. 43H6. Chicago. Ill So they put him in the kitchen and gave Some general. We thought we were going him to me for the never-ending wig-wag to France for sure, because it was to be CHEAP OIL BURNER INVENTED drill for the afternoon. our last turn-out, and everybody was to Cooks A Meal For Less "But we were really at war all this be in ranks. Coosby and Edwards, too. Slips Into Your Stove, Range or Furnace; Hotter and Cheaper Than Coal or Wood; No DIRT or Ashes. time!" gasped the lady. "Didn't anyone Since they had been in my old platoon, An amazing new type oil burner which burns cheap oil a new way. without pre-generating or clogging up; gives realize it? Didn't they ever mention it?" they gave 'em to me to get in shape for quick intense heat at HALF COST by turn of valve. One free to one person in each locality who will demonstrate I don't remember lady, I don't think the inspection. The only thing I could and act as agent. Write quick, be first to learn how to end drudgery of coal and wood and make big money, spare so. The papers, of course, had headlines do was try to teach them the pistol or full time—mail lc postcard today to United Factories. E -101 Factory ltldg.. Kansas City, Mo. of Allied victory every morning. To read manual, because we'd been armed with them you'd think the Germans were in a the rifle when they were drilling, and state of collapse. Remember I said we since they'd been in the kitchen, we'd drew some French soldiers for instruc- had our rifles taken away from us, and k_JL. Lei tors? Well, none of them could speak a been armed with pistols. Ex-Service Men Get Preference of English. The French sergeant Well, the review came off, and no ( ) Village Carrier ( ) POSTMASTER word P. O. Laborer Seamstress C ) ( ) my battery had was just so lonesome casualties, except that the Second Caval- ( ) R. F. D. Carrier ( ) Auditor

( ) Special Agent Stenographer ( ) that we sent down to Winooski and got ry, that was still cavalry, stampeded all ( ) Customs Inspector ( ) U.S. Border Patrol City Mail Carrier Telephone Opr. ( ) ( ) him a girl from the cotton mill that could over Winooski County when they passed ( ) P. O. Clerk ( ) Watchman

( ) Matron ) Meat Inspector ( speak French. She had a sister that was in review at the gallop. We were all on ( ) Special Investigator ( ) Secret Service Opr. Typist Clerk ( ) ( ) File married to a mule-skinner in the supply foot, having no saddles to ride in, thanl; "INSTRUCTION SERVICE" Dept. 110, St. Louis, Mo. Send me FREE particul .rs "How to Qualify for company. God. After the review, the general de- nt Positions' mark<-il "X" Salaries, opportunities. stc. r RLE. , ALL SENT Well, they had a family party, and all cides he'll inspect a battery or two, and Name he Address got stewed, and the French sergeant con- picks on mine! Gee Christmas! And The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly — a

picks on my section to stop and ask the state of the instruction! It was all right, the first two lads he struck he asked about map making. I was standing in front of the section, you see, and he stopped in front of Coosby. "My lad," says the general, "have you had any instruction in wig-wag signal- ing?" "Yas-suh!" says Coosby. "What letter is this?" The general makes an M. "Well, suh, it looks like it might be A." "It isn't. What one is this?" Coosby put his head on one side. "Well, suh, I'd say it was B." "Take a good look, my lad! It isn't AorB!" "Well, suh, then I don't know. I ain't KEGLINED been taught but the two letters." "Oh!" says the general. He looks all around, and no one dares to meet his eye. "Instruction not very thorough here, captain! This man doesn't seem to know anything!" If at first you didn't "No, suh," sighs Coosby, "but jest let me get up against some o' them dam- yanks! I c'n show 'em some shootin', 7 suh!" Yeh, maybe you laugh, lady, but you try PABST-^^^' don't laugh in front of a general! "Oh! You're a shot, are you? What did you qualify as with a rifle?" Unless you have treated yourself to Pabst TAPaCan — you do "Expert, suh." He had, too. Coosby could pick your not know how really good beer can be. teeth with a rifle at two hundred yards, and not even jar you. Pour Pabst out of your own personal container. Enjoy the "So you're an expert, hey? I suppose smoothest, most zestful, satisfying flavor you ever tasted — you've estimated distance then. How far would you say it was over there to the purity, wholesomeness and refreshment never before equalled. machine-gun stables?" Coosby took a look. It was about Ninety-two years of brewing experience and modern scien- twelve hundred yards across the parade ground. tific laboratory control makes a difference. You can taste that "Well, suh," he said slowly, "I'd say difference in all its delicate that was about two screams an' a holler." Now nobody dared laugh, lady, be- quality because Pabst Export INSIST ON ORIGINAL cause you don't laugh with a general in Beer is captured at the brewery PABST TAPaCan the vicinity, especially when he's inspect- ing. While we were all holding our breath, —with all its original goodness. • Brewery Goodness comes a hearty chuckle from somewhere. Sealed Right In It was Edwards. He was standing be- Ask for your beer by name hind Coosby, and he thought it was a • Protected Flavor Pabst TAPaCan— the beer that great joke. • Non-refillable "Who laughed?" barks the general. has won unrivaled acceptance "You, there! What do you mean by • Flat Top— It Stacks laughing in ranks?" because of its unrivaled flavor. The laugh left Edwards's face as though • Saves Half the Space • it had been wiped off with a sponge. We'd • No Deposits to Pay been especially careful for a long time Tankard Ale with him, not to yell at him, and we Old • No Bottles to Return were gradually getting him out of his Enjoy genuine Old Tankard • Easy to Carry complex for taking foot in hand and try- Ale — full bodied; full-fla- ing to run away from his shadow. But vored, full strength. Brewed • No Breakage this bellow from the blue was too much and mellowed by Pabst. for him. He wasn't going to stand for that, no sir. He lit out for distance, nearly knocking down two men in the front rank. Away he went, headed for the hills.

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Dept. E-68 East Alton, Illinois i selves warm, and buying oil stoves with ordered to. It was Mississippi. Camp Send your FREE leaflets on Super-X, the cxtra'cUan ' .12 cartridge. their own money because the Sibleys kept Shelby. Wherever that was. I didn't

Name ' setting the tents afire. Lady, when one care much, because I was going to officers' of those tents caught fire from the hot training camp, anyway. So we went to Address stove pipe, a guy just had time to get out Mississippi. Post Office State before the whole thing was gone in one Lady, ask them would they mind WANT a new business puff of flame. giving you another glass of water diluted profession of your own, We had an epidemic of boils about with rye, will you? Because what comes DO YOU with all the trade you can attend to? Then become a then, and the boys were being marched next is going to be tough. Thank you. foot correctionist, and in a few weeks earn to sick call by batteries, where they took That takes the metal fouling out of the big income in service fees—not medical nor prescribed position, and the medico bore! chiropody—easy terms for home training, no the further capital needed, no goods to buy, no just went down the line with a knife. The first thing they did when we got to agency. Established 1894. Address Pretty rough, says you. Well, we tried Camp Shelby was to take us way, way, Stephenson Laboratory, II Back Bay. Boston, Mass. several home-made remedies, one of way out in the pines, or sticks, as they which was a hot bottle, only when the call them down there, and lose us. ITCHING bottle was applied there was no getting Gee, that was a melancholy place! TORTURE STOPPED in one minute it off until it cooled, and as it sometimes The second day we were there the first For quick relief from the itching of pimples, blotches, was most painful, the spectacle of some- sergeant informs me calmly that the eczema.athlete's foot, rashes and other skin eruptions, bottle first of the month I was going to be apply Dr. Dennis' cooling, antiseptic, liquid D. D. D. one running shrieking with a Prescription. Its gentle oils soothe the irritated dangling was not uncommon. During busted. Reduced to the grade of private. skin. Clear, greaseless and stainless—dries fast. Stops the most intense itching instantly. A 35c trial bottle, this excitement, they sent Edwards to "What for?" gasps I. at drug stores, proves it—or money back. Ask for farriers' school. They felt he could do "Because you're going to officers' P.P. P. P/L£AcAl&&xrv>L. his running there for a while, and be training camp. We need the vacancy." damned to him. So the old leather-bottoms had got me "But didn't they do anything else at last! They didn't hide their satisfac- about him?" asked the lady. "Didn't tion either. The next day I lost my job as TIME COUNTS they put him somewhere where he could instrument sergeant, and they gave it to in u[>r>lvine for patents. Don risk delay i protect inc . ... idei S. .,.] -ketch or mode! f. rtioneor write for I KEE BOOK, be taken care of? Couldn't they tell by the corporal who was going to be made "Patent Guide for the Tn and "Record of Invention" form. No charge on how to pr< Prompt, careful, efficient service. the way he acted that he must be crazy?" sergeant in my place. That night CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN AND HYMAN BERMAN Registered Patent Attorney Lady, don't interrupt, please. If they Coosby deserted. I don't know whether 247-P Adams Building Washington, D. C. put everybody in the Army away that rumors of my coming fall had anything acted as though he were crazy, they to do with it or not, but anyway, he wouldn't have much Army left, especially went over the hill. I had explained to in the higher ranks. him, and he had understood at last, that Also during this period I tried to make he wasn't going to fight the damyanks on Coosby understand who our enemy was a prancing horse; he was going to fight Train NOW for thar, hotel, club and In- in the war, and why we were in it. I was someone called German, way over stitutional field. Salaries up to big seen S1.R00 to S5.000 a year, living often a little vague myself as to just why we the other side o' that lake he'd included. Previous experience proved unnecessary. Qualify at suddenly decided we weren't too proud coming down from Vermont. FASCINATING home. In leisure time. National like being P. Back up Placement Service FREE of extra to fight after all, and my own personal He didn't K. WORK charge. Write name and address In passing ridges, that was woman's work. If margin of this ad. and mall today interest in it was the matter of the for Book. Check positions FREE solid geometry, I never could have he wasn't going to fight the damyanks, LUXURIOUS In which you're interested. which Steward SURROUNDINGS ( ) Manager ( ) done, if I had had to take an examination only just fuss around with them ole ( ) Assistant Manager ( ) Hostess ( ) Room Clerk ( ) Housekeeper Auditor Ctshier in it, but I made plain to Coosby that pots an' pans, why then he'd be gittin' SPLENDID ( ) ( ) LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS OPPORTUNITIES Room ME-3313 Washington, D. C. we weren't fighting the damyanks any- off home. He spoke of it to me, lady, way. He got that straight. Saddened before he went, and I told him they'd

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France, and he'd get the death penalty if he deserted now. That's the only time I ever heard Coosby laugh. The idea of any arresting officer reaching his particu- lar ridge alive certainly amused Coosby. Well, listen. The day before I was to go to officers' training camp, I was all packed and ready, but I had to go to drill just the same. We had been issued four real cannon then, that we drove out to the range and fired. Since I had no regular job any more, they detailed me to lay some telephone wire and take it up again when the problem was over. We didn't have a real wire cart, we just had a lim- ber, which is a little box on two wheels, and we put the wire on that. When the shooting was over, the rest of the outfit started back to camp, and I remained to pick up the wire. Hence I got started late. My wire detail went The extra wear of a second pair is built off across country on foot, and I decided into florsheim shoes. That's why Florsheim to ride the limber in, so I hopped on, and sat down on the coil of wire. This wearers keep coming back year after year- limber was drawn by four horses, two why we have built the largest fine shoe busi- and two, each pair driven by a man riding ness in the world. Illustrated, The Rambler, the nigh horse. We were still short of AND saddles, so one set of drivers took the (^) S-JII; light weight and extremely flexible. battery out, and another set brought it back to give the maximum instruction in driving. What to my wondering eyes should The FLORSHEIM Shoe appear but my two Russians driving me home! I learned later that they had had a fight that afternoon. While they had

Edwards to chase, it took their minds off each other, but now he was gone, they'd LATEST begun again. Right now they weren't Start a POTATO CHIP speaking to each other. BUSINESS WORLD'S WONDERS "Move out!" says I. "Trot hoo!" Living proof that truth is stranger than fiction is in IN YOUR KITCHEN and man's latest conquests. Read about them in The horses knew they were headed for Popular MAKE MONEY Mechanics. Every month this big 200-page maga- chow, the Russians were hungry, and we zine is crammed full of fascinating pictures and accounts of daring adventures, astounding scientific clattered down the road at a spanking discoveries, new achievements in aviation, electricity, Potato Chipi engineering, chemistry, physics, radio. Special de- trot. pace began to increase, and I The .I M bui partments for home craftsmen and practical shop or full began to feel like a flea on a shaking dog. buys complete men—easy to follow plans. Don't miss this month% experience needed. issue—a thrilling and entertaining record of the "Hey!" I yelled. "Slow down!" world's newest wonders—25c at all newsstands. Now the nearest Russian, hearing me, POPULAR MECHANICS C. H. HARDT. Dept. 75. 325 West Huron St., Chicago. III. yelled to the Russian on the lead horse to pull down his team, and the lead Russian, being mad, hits his team a lick with the spurs. In a second both teams were running away. Lady, they went like four rabbits, having nothing to pull but two wheels, an axle, and a sergeant. WSmmiM DIAMOND:DS | At a curve in the road, they continued on Our prices are based on amounts across country, over hill and dale, and we loaned-—a mere fraction of original costs. (Diamond banking over stumps, too. At the third stump I 60% is our fundamental business; went off, like an arrow from the bow. world's largest institution of its I of Market Price kind; — nearly 100 years old; — When the Russians got home with no T,M Sr buys Diamonds here rated AAA-1;—nearly $50,000,000 * "eJ loaned). All loans of course are sign of a sergeant, they waited until after to°', NVest Sounds absurd? Hear not repaid; many UNCLAIMED supper, and then set out looking for me. '»a d the logical reason. DIAMONDS are now listed for prompt sale; try to match them So then they sent for an ambulance and Read why! Write us. at 60% more. ACT NOW! I took me away to the base hospital. lo for List "Oh!" sympathized the lady. "Were SEND COUPON Latest Oil. Examine your choice of these diamonds free at our risk. Also other you badly hurt?" f ^ advantageous buys—new mountings, watches, etc. Free, all details: Cash Protection descriptions, exact weights, guaranteed amounts you can borrow, Yeh, badly. I had landed in a sitting in an Emergency other guarantees, etc. With diamond prices rising, your opportunity position on one of the stumps and I was offered here today may never again be equalled. stove in considerable. And so I didn't with Diamonds Diamonds here now as low as $60 per carat. Act promptly! We offer Written Guarantee get to go to officers' training camp, be- of an amount, close to our sell- JOS. DeROY & S0NS.8774 DeRoy Bldg., 311 Sroithfield St., Pittsburgh. Pa. ing price, which we will lend Without obligation, send me, free, latest list of Diamonds, Watches, etc. cause I spent the next three months in instantly on your diamond. Details in latest list; get it Name hospital. Lady, forgive me now, if I before Investing your bonus. . just tell you (Continued on page 62) Address

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a detail, just to show you how things "Oh," said the lady, "I just think that went in the Army in those days. When was terrible." they got me to the hospital I was un- It wasn't so bad. Because they conscious, so' that I couldn't tell what couldn't bust me after all. You see it's was the matter with me, and the ambu- not proper to reduce a man in rank while lance crew, of course, beat it as soon as he's in hospital with injuries received in

they brought me into the receiving ward. line of duty. So there I was safe, and no The doctor that admitted me couldn't chance of losing my stripes for all the AMERICA'S MOST ask me what had happened. He just M POPULAR OUTBOARD four months of the winter. And did I drew his own conclusions. Well, lady, lay in bed and laugh every time I thought 1936 model an even greater on my word of honor, I was admitted to of the value than before. The Sports- top's face when he heard about it! man attaches instantly to any hospital in the shape I was in with a Lady, that was a laughable four months. boat; drives rowboats, canoes, diagnosis of hemorrhoids! There was If you will get me another glass of this skiffs, fishing boats up to 7 m.p.h. a lot of hell raised about it the next day, extract of gas-shell, I'll tell you about it. Runs 3 hours on gallon of because they should have operated on fuel. So simple to operate that a at it all child can easily start and run it. me once, but was right in the end, A further account of Sergeant Nason's Note the handy light weight—only because the operating surgeon didn't wartime experiences will appear in an 24y2 lbs. Extremely quiet — under- water silenced. Write today for new have his evening spoiled. early issue. catalog describing Sportsman and 7 other Evinrude models, including the new Hooded Power Sport- win, only $77. Address Evinrude, 4755 N. 27th Street "Blow, "Bugle, Blow! Milwaukee, Wis. azmzsiEnL {Continued from page 2Q) FREE FOR ASTHMA enroute to Pittsburgh, they decided Before the crack of the pistol has com- unanimously that the bus was strong and pleted its reverberations in the Stadium, If you suffer with attacks of Asthma good enough to get them there. They another mighty corps files silently on so terrible you choke and gasp for were willing to face disillusionment and to the boardwalk. So fine is the drill, breath, if restful sleep is impossible faced it at the foot of a Pennsylvania so beautiful because of the struggle to breathe, the music of this Elyria if you feel the disease is slowly wear- mountain. corps, that the spectators breathlessly ing your life away, don't fail to send Here they were, miles from anywhere, concentrate their entire attention on at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. not even a filling station in sight, and Bill Hruby's great organization. Here for a free trial of a remarkable the order came "all out—we'll push her is Elyria, probably one of the most loved method. No matter where you live over the top." corps in The American Legion and with a or whether you have any faith in any Just about a full hour later, sixty background of traditions that has made remedy under the Sun, send for this perspiring, steaming corpsmen, with the it known from one end of the country to free trial. If you have suffered a determination that they would get the other, on the field climaxing a year's lifetime and tried everything you through, finally managed to push the work. Fifteen minutes elapse and Elyria could learn of without relief; even if you are utterly discouraged, do not disabled bus over the top with the full has passed before the thousands whose abandon hope but send today for this complement of groans and grunts. Ger- eyes now turn to that great little corps free trial. It will cost you nothing. mantown can tell you how heavy a bus from New Albany, Indiana. Address is on a steep incline; they can, also, tell New Albany, like Elyria, is uniformed Frontier Asthma Co., 201-A Frontier you the satisfaction and the sigh of re- in the popular West Point Cadet style, Bldg., 462 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y. lief that comes when the bus is ready to but unlike Elyria's white and gold, coast on the down-grade; they can tell New Albany is resplendent in red, white, you how they all felt when, upon reaching and blue uniforms. As the starting sig- the top, four of the well meaning buddies nal is given the first drops of rain start EmmsTEA AND COFFEE ROUTES nonchalantly stepped out of the bus and to fall. New Albany is on with their soft, 00 PAYING UP TO S60 A WEEK inquired, "Did someone say, all out?" pleasing street beat— their beautifully National company needs more men at once to regular calls on local routes. No experience . . . the gold-bricks had been playing punctuated music, and their excellent eeded. Operate on our capital. I eend everything; give you brand new Ford car as bonus. Rusb name on postcard pinochle. drill. New Albany cannot be demoralized for FREE Facts . . . ALBERT MILLS Monmouth, 1716 Cincinnati, Ohio Each corps has its own way of relax- because of the rain—but greater than ing. One outfit that rides on day coaches, that, so fine is New Albany that not even Unsi ^DANDRUFF opens all doors and windows to create one spectator leaves the Stadium to pro- Stop Experimenting — Use Glover's! a draft and then meticulously slits the tect his clothing. A great tribute to a Glover's is famous for of removing Dandruff.' pillows to let the feathers stream through great corps! The crack the gun, r»i;„„m„ r^u;„„c^t J .1 I.:? the car and into the opened mouths and which signifies the end of New Albany's Falling Hair! Start to- noses of the comrades who are trying to performance, means that Marlboro, the day with Glover's Mange Medicine and fol- catch their necessary forty winks. Tuc- great defending champions, are ready to low with Glover's Medi- son, at the psychological moment, in- go on. cated Soap for the sham- their of bull-snakes to Behind Marlboro . . . silent, ghost-like, poo. Sold at all Druggists. troduces pet bevy Or have your Barber give unsuspecting flapper waitresses, or gives and with a very definite purpose shining you Glover's Treatment. their pet burro a ride on the convention in their eyes, stand the still figures of For FREE BOOKLET on proper Care of the Hair city's fastest elevator with the usual Edison with their white Stetsons, their and Scalp, write Glover's, disastrous results. But, only through white waterproof smocks, and rain 462 Fourth Avenue, New li York City. continuous relaxation can these fellows covers protecting their equipment from arrive fully prepared for the great mo- the downpour. GLOVERS MEDIONE ment. Marlboro gets off to a great start. A 02 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly a a

tremendous cheer goes up from the field. They execute a column movement stands . . . Marlboro is the universally with utter disregard of the fact that the popular corps. Here is the outfit that warning gun has fired. By this time the won two National Championships in the drum majors have been switched, and previous conventions, ably and effi- Norris Green is in command. ciently directed by Harold W. Wheeler. Suddenly the corps is in company Marlboro with their red and blue uni- front—just a few feet removed from the forms, with their drums finished in the finish line. It is a matter of seconds . . . same colors, are on! this the By time there are shouts to "get off" . . . "run grass is reflecting facets of light from the off" . . . "jump off" . . . anything, but arcs. It is damp under foot—the damp- get off the field before they are penalized. ness permeates to the heads of their Nonchalantly bugles are lifted—a fan- drums, and instead of the usual crisp, fare given, and with only about three crackling staccato beats, one hears only seconds left, the corps suddenly executes the dull beats of one of the Legion's a to-the-rear, takes three forward steps, most efficiently trained drum sections. clears the field, and the gun fires! No Here is Marlboro greeted with a tumul- competition in the history of The tuous roar that properly bespeaks their American Legion has ever heard such a while you areyoung popularity. On every difficult maneuver tumultuous roar of acclaim. It is the and from every section, the roar never most spectacular stunt so far. enough to enjoy it subsides. They are the defending cham- La Porte, commanded and directed meeting Armstrong this afternoon at pions; they are the favorites. Again by the one and only Joe McCurdy, is I'M Ingleside— last chance for a little golf be- Marlboro presents their difficult, intri- ready to step off—La Porte, the present ." fore we sail for Europe on the fifteenth . . . cate, fast moving drill . . . again they champions of Indiana, another great Pretty soft for Bob Carrington, you say— present their precision-like performance finalist and another great favorite. The lovely country home, golf on a week-day when the other slaving that won the Legion's greatest show for crowd seem to realize they are about boys are at the office— a six weeks' 'rip to Europe with the famil\—and two consecutive years, and all too soon to witness the proverbial battle between all this wonderful success while he is still young the fifteen-minute gun goes off. a Goliath (Edison) and David (La Porte), enough to enjoy it! But why look with envy upon success well earned Edison, of Chicago, finalist in many for La Porte has only thirty-two men. —especially when it is within your power to attain that Legion competitions, is on the fine. This is the corps that originated the soft, same success? "If young men in business only realized how im- They have removed their white smocks silent, hardly audible cadence beat of mensely valuable are those early years, and how vital drums. With the murmur of tenor it is to get away to a flying start, they would make it an and stand in their white military-cut inflexible rule to devote several evenings every week uniforms, with their white Stetsons and drums (those large, barrel-like instru- to home-study business training." One of America's foremost business men—an active high black boots, as the favorite of the ments) and hardly audible afterbeat, director of a dozen big corporations—made that state- ment recently; and if you have the slightest doubt of is the corps that La Porte comes on the field. Middle West. Here its truth, you need only check it by the actual records of LaSalle-trained of though still preserves and maintains the dignity of Here is a corps that retains the regula- men, many whom, in their thirties, are commanding five-figure salaries. the Legion. A signal—a flash of sil- tion bugle, playing beautifully arranged ver-plated bugles—and Edison's fanfare numbers of the old conventional tunes Send for Free Book "Ten Years' Promotion in cuts through the Stadium. A step— with the exception of one or two, includ- One" crack of the pistol and Edison has en- ing the concert number which McCurdy "I'm determined to succeed," you say—and we do not — deny that hard work and learning through day-to-day tered the field in a straight line forma- himself has arranged. In concert for- experience will eventually win you some measure of success. If success is sweet, however, is it not doubly

spectacular opening! . tion ... a mation . . the crowd is satisfied. They sweet if it comes to you while you are still young enough to enjoy it? The applause is deafening. Again the expect a great performance from Mc- And is it not a needless and tragic waste of years to easy professional eighteen-inch pace of Curdy, as soloist backed up by his won- continue at outgrown tasks, simply because you will not spare yourself the time to master those bigger jobs that Edison causes hearts to thrill in the Illi- derful corps. He carries on! His solos, command the real rnvards of business? Ten Years' Promotion in One is a booklet that shows delegation chills to course and his cadenzas, his modulations, are an nois and up you how you can save years that would otherwise down the spines of the other thousands epic! He is probably one of the greatest be wasted. Sending for it has marked the turning point in the lives of thousands upon thousands of men who eagerly await Edison's performance baritone buglers of all time, and can exe- —and the coupon will bring it to you FREE. With this book we will send you, without cost or finals. again impossible passages covering al' the each year in the Once Fred cute obligation, complete particulars of the training that Specht, their inimitable drum major, nuances of dynamics and tone shading. appeals to you, together with details of our easy-pay- ment plan. steps out with his beautiful, graceful Applause for him and for his corps is Will you wait till the golden years of your life are fast slipping away—or will you set your patli toward stride, leading the corps to a destiny deafening. La Porte traditionally is success while you are still young enough to enjoy it? unknown for the present. Edison's ex- marvelous—they are superb tonight. Prove that you mean what you say when you say that you want to get ahead— by what you do with hibition is strictly along precise military The rain which has temporarily subsided this coupon NOW.

lines, and dignified. The concert num- comes down again. •Find Yourself Through LaSalle! • ber "Light Cavalry" once again causes Miami is on the field. Miami, the LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY the crowd to join in an ovation. favorite of thousands, the only corps in Dept. 5361-R Chicago I should be glad to learn about your this The ominous scoreboard by time this final competition that has won four salary-increasing plan as applied records the score of Elyria, New Albany, National Championships. Again, under to my advancement in the busi- ness field checked below. promotion and Marlboro, ranking respectively 3-2-1. the able commandership of Harvey How- Business Management Higher Accountancy one Edison realizes that the score of 94 per- ard, and directorship of Caesar La C Traffic Management ' Modern Salesmanship ( cent plus, that Marlboro has, will re- Monaca, they are attempting a come- Railway StationMgm't j Railway Accounting m quire every ounce of their energy and co- back. Just before Miami takes the field, Law—Degree of LL.B Commercial Law ordination to equal, let alone better. the score of Edison—95.915—is placed Modern Business Correspondence Modern Foremanship Business English The minutes are slipping by all too upon the scoreboard. Ninety-five per- Personnel Managem't Effective Speaking Banking and Finance Stenotypy- cent, which is an almost quickly . . . the warning gun has fired . . . impossible score Industrial Managem't Stenography Exoert Bookkeeping Credit and Collection the spectators are more tense over Edison to beat or even equal, greets Miami. C. P. A. Coaching Correspondence

than over any corps that has ever en- One wonders if the tremendous ap- tered the competition; they are wonder- plause and ovation can offset the dampen-

ing if Edison will clear the field in time to ing effect of the rain and the demoralizing

avoid overtime penalties, and Edison effect of Edison's high score. Another Present Position. nonchalantly opens up with another fanfare—a soft beat—a crack of the march and strides precisely down the pistol; and Miami {Continued on page 64)

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Life Insurance gives cer- (Continued from page 6j) tainty to your financial is on the field, dressed in their white corps that appear in these finals, comes future. Are you making uniforms trimmed in orange, legs encased Jim Bulkeley's great organization. (By in leather puttees, their bugles in silver, this time the scores of the other corps it work for you? their pure white drums, they present a have been placed on the board. Edison picture that can never be forgotten. stands out first with over 95; Morris- Now to the tune of "The Parade of town is running close to Edison, with the Wooden Soldiers" they execute one practically a 95 score; Marlboro has re- IRANCE COMPANY of the most difficult drills ever seen on a ceived the news they are just a tenth of OF Boston. Massachusetts competition field. In their concert a point behind Morristown; La Porte is number all eyes are concentrated on the close to Marlboro, lacking a mere three- John Hancock Inquiry Bureau graceful direction of Caesar La Monaca. tenths of a percent, and Maiden's 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. score Please send me information Miami's concert selection is beautiful! is in the offing. Miami has dropped to about life insurance. . . . Cleverly arranged, full of effects, and slightly over 93 ; East Orange, to practi- Name rich in harmony. They are doing an ex- cally 94, and so far that mark of Common- Street and No cellent job. As Miami leaves the field, wealth Edison seems impossible to reach City State properly receiving a tremendous ovation, or to equal.) . L. M. 36 the spectators realize now that the battle So it goes as Stratford takes the wet of champions is well under way, for these field. They are the youngest corps in the VtfWell Paid Hotel Position corps are indeed champions—and this competition—just four years old, and Good positions for trained men and their finest show. organized by Jim Bulkeley. It is their women in hotel, club, restaurant and institutional field. Previous With hardly a pause, East Orange first National Convention competition, experience proved unnecessary. Qualify in FOUR MONTHS takes the field. Again the acclaim of but they have a background of winning n on real hotel equipment, under expert in- ors. National Placement Service FREE of spectators, for this beautifully-uniformed their State Championship earlier in the charge. New Day Classes start Sept., Oct. Catalog FREE! corps is another old convention favorite, year and of getting third place in the LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS Division RME-3334 Washington, D. C. dating from Louisville in 1029. These annual competition at West New York, are the past champions of New Jersey, New Jersey. Stratford, both post and directed by Richard Wilte and drilled town, can well be proud of its corps. It makes my blood by Claude Dwyer. Theirs is a beautiful They play like inspired musicians and boil to see money show enhanced by exceptional music they are out there definitely and pos- wasted on Cures' composed by Captain Philip Enger, itively to win. The crowd pays them a formerly of West Point. This is a great great tribute. This is one corps that for BALDNESS corps instructed by a great musician. must be reckoned with at future conven- — says famous Doctor Following on the heels of East Orange tions.

comes Morristown, champions of their (Maiden's score goes up . . . they are Free booklet "Baldness, Its Cause and Preven- tion" is result of twenty years' research and State in 1934-35, directed by Arthur standing directly beneath the score of hundreds of autopsies by B. L. Dorsey, M. D. Linde, resplendent in their black and La Porte, lacking just one-tenth of a Learn truth about temporal arteries and healthy hair. Save money and worry, write now. white Cadet uniforms. New Jersey is point to equal it.)

DORSEY SYSTEM, 624 Fullerton Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. well represented tonight. Morristown, Out of the West comes Bill Osmond's

too, receives a goodly portion of the ap- romantic corps . . . The Caballeros of WRITE FOR FREE BALDNESS BOOK plause, for they were finalists the pre- California. San Gabriel is awaiting the ceding year in Miami and their great signal. San Gabriel is faced with a Peoplt I A ft If I Now Turned music this year promises to put them triply impossible problem, that of equal- LUUH: Into STATUES very close to the top. This is a striking ing Edison's mark, that of marching on What A Seller! Any snapshot or photo of the field, of the adult, child or pet transformed into a life- corps and one of finest trained and a wet and preserving morale like, natural-color, miniature pictorial equipped that has yet appeared. of their organization. They have jour- 'tat ue. 8" high. Shows every detail of natural expreraion. Practically indestructible. Million- r.f prospects. Amaz- ingly low priced. Easily earn up to $55 weekly. Get Morristown is followed by that great neyed a long way to fight for that Yellow Details Free or wnd 75fl for sample A complete outfit. Money-hack guarantee. corps from Maiden, Massachusetts. Here Flag, obtaining funds only at the last Pictorial Statues of America Dept. 9-A JanesvMle, Wisconsin is another outfit uniformed in the popular minute through tremendous efforts in a style of West Point. The colors are fund-raising campaign. It is murmured MANY NEVER similar to those of New Albany—white that San Gabriel is the competition's trousers striped in red, coats of red with "dark horse." SUSPECTCAUSE blue cavalry twill, chrome buttons, blue The spectators take a new lease on life, hats with red top, white visors, and white for the contest by this time is two and a plumes. Maiden is one of the larger half hours old. The romance of old OF BACKACHES corps, having sixty men in line, and en- California seems to emanate from these This Old Treatment Often joys the title of New England champion. gloriously-costumed caballeros standing Brings Happy Relief Of Pain They are drum majored by Ernest at company front awaiting the signal Many sufferers relieve nagging backache W. quickly, once they discover that the real cause Place, formerly of Racine, who has in that will send them to fame or defeat. of their trouble may be tired kidneys. The kidneys are one of Nature's chief ways his own right many trophies which be- San Gabriel's opening is as colorful as of taking the acids and waste out of the blood. speak his ability as a drum major. their uniforms; their music is exquisitely If they don't pass 3 pints a day and so get rid of more than 3 pounds of waste matter, Maiden's music is outstanding and the arranged; it is peculiarly mellow, sweet, your 15 miles of kidney tubes may need flushing. If you have trouble with frequent bladder drum section is one of the finest trained and harmonious and yet never lacking passages with scanty amount which often smart units in the country. That isn't sur- in volume. They have one of the most and burn, the 15 miles of kidney tubes may need flushing out. This danger signal may be the be- prising when it is known that a man like perfectly-trained corps that has ever ginning of nagging backache, leg pains, loss of Bob Parsons is their instructor. achieved mark pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffi- They been seen—they have a ness under the eyes and dizziness. are truly one of the most colorful outfits of perfection that any corps' authority Don't wait for serious trouble. Ask your drug- gist for Doan's Pills — used successfully by in the competition. would deem impossible. It is, without millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief Out of Stratford, Connecticut, to add question, the most phenomenal outfit and will help flush out the 15 miles of kidney tubes. Get Doan's Pills. further honors to the great eastern ever seen in The American Legion. Their

64 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly opening medley of war songs brings tears back and forth across the narrow width EVERY MAN would prefer his clothes custom realized he could afford it. This to the eyes. of the field, and from there to a quick tailored if he just ad tells something about custom tailored clothes From this they pass into a rendition series of platoon movements. They now that may surprise you. Read what it says. of "Nearer My God To Thee" which organize into a gigantic cross, 25 men makes this hymn an epic. It is perfectly wide from tip to tip, 60 feet in length. understandable to those who hear it, From this cross they perform a series of that this is the greatest and most beauti- intricate and exceptionally difficult move- NASH ful rendition of that hymn that can ever ments (with and without music) which be heard. Following that comes, natur- are bewildering to the spectators. Fol- ally, Taps. To the departed soldiers of lowing a number of intricate corps the A. E. F., San Gabriel's tribute is so movements Director Horner brings nine beautiful, so great, that the crowd of 45,- buglers from the ranks, places them in 000 spectators understand the reason for front of the corps, where they play AT YOUR PRICE and the true spirit of The American "Swanee River." The effect is that of a Legion. brass sextette and a trio of trombones. Houston Post of Germantown, Penn- As a portion of this selection nears its sylvania, is on the line. This is the last climax, the whole ensemble joins with a corps of the night. They are elaborately loud crescendo and then diminishes, Olympic uniformed in Oxford gray tunics, dark letting the effect die away to an expiring may have a breeches, black puttees, and shoes, white softness. To the martial strains of You number of variations Sam Browne belts, pistol lanyards and "Onward Christian Soldiers" they take of this popular double-breasted gray Stetsons . . . one of the most color- their triumphal exit. The show is over! model created indi- corps in the finals. Here the decision of the fully-uniformed Nothing remains but vidually for you is corps entering the contest field that judges. . . . to your own a measure and difficult marks at which to shoot: Visibly the score of Edison leads the has two preference. The known score of Edison and the un- field, but the scores of San Gabriel and known score of San Gabriel, but Jack Germantown are yet unannounced. Now Horner, their captain and inspired the resonant voice of the Legion's official leader, is equal to the occasion. He has announcer, Biff Carr of Evansville, military excellence full confidence in their bursts from the loud speakers . . . "A and precision, and their ability to ex- New Champion Has Been Crowned!" ecute perfectly the music that he so It's San Gabriel! Lacking eight one painstakingly arranged for their exclu- hundredths of one percent Germantown sive use. places second, and Edison of Chicago Their entrance on to the field consists third. In order follow Morristown, of a short flourish played while the corps Marlboro, La Forte, Maiden, Stratford, is stretched in single line formation for a East Orange, Miami, New Albany, and m distance of approximately fifty yards Elyria. Out of these twelve finalists only •{-)meticdn and with the colors placed in the center. three point forty-four percent separates As in the case of Edison, Houston Post first place from last. The curtain is Nash tailors clothes in many diflerent steps forward as one man in a full com- ringing down on the greatest show of the styles . > among pany front playing a stirring march. year. The American Legion gives to its them the All American. popular Here is a military outfit with a full thirty- admiring and attentive audience its Young Men's two- inch step, going first to platoon fronts, finest drum and bugle corps exhibition. button, single- company fronts, and then sending the Honor, glory, and the spoils to the win- breasted model. colors to the front for a salute to the ner; disappointments and heartbreaks judges. galore! Now they go into a massed formation Well, you know the saying—"The base, and execute several movements first hundred years are the hardest." You can have your clothes custom tailored ... at about the same price you usually pay for ordinary clothes ... $22 to $45. There's a lot of satisfaction in being able jTistory Reports to (general jTarbord to buy the exact suit you want

. . . individually molded to your {Continued from page 35) measurements and build. Nash Custom Tailored Clothes are sold was lost. After Soissons, Harbord had cess. It demanded high executive ability, by trained representatives from to bid his farewell to arms by an unwel- drive, and not a little diplomacy. Har- coast to coast. Offices in principal come order to take command of the Ser- bord had all three. The Army got its sup- cities with custom tailor fitting vices of Supply. American troops and plies. The experience helped train a presi- service. You take absolutely no material had been pouring into France, dent for the Radio Corporation of Ameri- risk with the Nash Guarantee. causing dangerous congestion at the ca. And the S. O. S., "the forgotten men Visit your local Nash office or docks. Washington proposed sending of the A. E. F.," won an historian. write for the name of the Nash man General Goethals of Panama Canal fame Veterans of other services will find in your community. Style folder to cope with the situation and was ready much of novel interest in Harbord's ac- mailed upon request. Just write. to give him an independent command. count of the workings of the S. O. S. Pershing rightly believed that "the Dock congestion was relieved by a clever officer who directed the Army was the scheme suggested by one of the General's '—X GOLDEN RULE one to control its supply through a mili- aides, Captain Fielding Robinson: A Q tary subordinate responsible to him competition for fastest unloading of sup- v_>uoioin. iajlated. cHotHviL Street. Cincinnati, Ohio alone." He picked Harbord for this plies between the homesick Negro 1914 Elm toughest of jobs. stevedore companies which had been lag- FOR MEN WHO CARE That assignment was a brilliant suc- ging. The prize (Continued on page 66)

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was a promise (faithfully kept) that the the supply and the troop program could winning company would be the first to go be brought back into balance." It was as home when the war was over. Freight, near a thing as that. moved to ragtime music by regimental It is not a cheerful picture that General bands, fairly flew. Harbord paints in his last chapter. If The manifold activities of the S. O. S. there was a common sentiment for which moved forward. Yet toward the last, the Allied millions fought, wasn't it, he through no inherent fault, they almost asks, their belief in the sanctity of broke down. treaties? Present events brand that as a Due largely to French and British in- lost cause. "Unpreparedness," he adds, sistence that American combat troops be "brings excessive losses in lives and Johnson electrifies outboard motor- rushed over in the shipping they (the treasure. After a war we invariably re- dom with news of two brilliant mo- tors, priced to bring genuine John- Allies) furnished, the American program trench at the price of preparedness. In son DEPENDability within the reach of all. Highest official certified pow- was thrown out of balance by the early time the vicious circle completes itself, er ratings in their respective classes! Johnson quality features througboutl summer of 1018. A shortage of supplies and we again enter a war unprepared. FREE HANDY CHART and supply troops developed and grew We have learned nothing from our ex- Write for new illustrated Sea-Horse more and more alarming. As a conse- perience in any of our wars." Such is the Handy Chart of motor sizes and spe- cifications, the most important Handy quence, Pershing was forced into a verdict of a soldier whose heart, as many Chart ever published. Sent FREE I JOHNSON MOTOR COMPANY gamble he should not have had to take. can declare, still is with the Army he has 3200 Pershing Rd.,Waukegan, 111. Canadian Johnson Motor Co., Ltd., "So serious was this situation," writes loved all his life, though he retired from Peterboro, Canada Harbord, "that in the final campaign of it on thirty years' service and has made the Meuse-Argonne the Commander-in- good in big business. 0HNS0N G*£

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Unbeatablefor Bass, inside the school system to be successful. with life and not something that begins Wall Eyes, Jack Salmon. There can be no hard and fast line of de- automatically at the age of five and ends ~ ickercl and Lake Trout. marcation between outside and inside abruptly at the age of twenty-one. Why Also Salt- water fish. responsibilities. The public should move shouldn't the schoolhouse be a service River- Runt- SPOOK" along in its understanding of the need of station for the procession of humanity on Transparent, NOT made changing content and methods to keep up the highway of life, both old and young? of wood, Unbreakable Three models: "Sinking", "Floating". "Jointed". New "Shore-Minnow" Fin- with changing conditions. The school Many more points should be included, ishes (X-Ray effect). Also all other standard ol« people should acquire more finesse in but let's take a look at the inside prob- Catalog with Bait Chart and FREE! "How to Catch More Fish." Send today dealing with finance. On the outside this lems. How shall we as educators fit the JAMES HEDDON'S SONS means attention to the support of public young generation in and out of school to Dowagiac, Mich. education to the end that the training of meet situations as undreamed of as once our children may be uninterrupted and were insulin, rumble seats, skyscrapers? WENCffESTEK educational equality of opportunity be Is not that the direction in which we | guaranteed. This problem is before Con- are moving as we seek to realize the SPEED gress and every state legislature. cardinal objectives of the school rein- In Congress it involves two principles. forced by the home and the church and The one is Federal aid for emergency all supplemental agencies which empha- purposes. The other is a permanent size character? Take the curriculum, for GIVE YOUR .22 RIFLE policy of Federal aid for education. Just example. Much is being done to lop off

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The course of study is being constantly fathers and mothers for their children changed to meet changing needs. To- the hope of all our people for the future day's children must be trained for to- welfare of a nation which depends upon morrow and not for yesterday. Follow citizens who are well enough educated to the developments in music and the govern themselves. cultural subjects. Recently we had a Only through a program of educational state music festival in Iowa where more interpretation which will enlist the sup- than five thousand high school pupils port of all can our schools go forward as participated in the finals. They had been rapidly as their modernized, stream- chosen from 32,000 who took part in dis- lined program of education will enable trict and sub-district performances. Last them to go. Observance of American year we held a state fair music day in Education Week, citizens' conferences, which state-wide massed bands, high school publications, the daily press in a school glee clubs and a chorus of rural year-round program of public relations, school choirs were represented. Did you will bring the school to the people and ever carry flute or violin to school along the people to the school. with speller or geography? The National Education Association in choosing life careers, is especially pleased that The American Guidance HOW WOULD YOU FEEL I wholesome use of leisure time, safety and Legion expressed itself so vigorously on health habits, social understanding, and behalf of Federal aid for education in the international goodwill are among the resolutions which it adopted in its Na- new attitudes brought to importance by tional Convention at St. Louis. We on # Well, your boss thinks of the times. Character is still required. the inside will assuredly always be grate- Nothing that science has perfected has ful for all the help which The American you in terms of so much a definition of the virtues, or Legion, with its program and its high changed the week! You are worth this or the necessity of them. ideals, may be able to give us in our Our young citizenry should come work. that to him. How much you through their educational experiences to are worth depends upon— appreciate the great heritage that is Miss Agnes Samuelson, President of the theirs. The Stars and Stripes symbolizes National Education Association atid Iowa YOU] You decide the amount advance that has ever been Superintendent Public Instruction, the greatest of is an chiefly by your ability— by made in substituting the home for the active charter member of The American castle, the schoolhouse for the citadel, Legion Auxiliary of Iowa, belonging to the your training. Why not the plow for the sword. We have yet a Sergy Post Unit Clarinda through her of increase the amount by in- long way to go, but with thorough un- brother, Legionnaire Dr. Carl A. Samuel- derstanding, appreciation of each other's son. She was Unit Historian eight years, creasing your training? Thou- point of view, and love of country, we has been Department Auxiliary Chairman sands of men have done it by can move forward with confidence. of Education of War Orphans the last three There is no reason why American years, co-operated in her state position with spare-time study of I.C.S. and American Legion Auxiliary the Iowa Department The American Legion of Courses. You are invited to members and members of the National Legion in putting a course on highway Education Association cannot achieve safety in the public schools, and has long earn more money. Mail the progress if they have a definite, construc- exerted her full personal and official influ- coupon. tive program and work together toward ence to the promotion of American Educa- its accomplishment. tion Week. Miss Samuelson's first formal SCHOOLS We do not ask for co-operation simply broadcast after her elevation to the presi- INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE because we are Legion members or lab- dency of the N. E. A. was under the aus- Box 7573-D, Scranton, Penna. orers or teachers, but because the cause pices of the Iowa Department of The Without cost or obligation, please send me a copy of your booklet, "Who Wins and Why," and full particulars is right, because of its importance to the American Legion. It is interesting to note about the subject before which I have marked X: TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL COURSES future. that the National Commander of The Architect Marine Engineer Architectural Draftsman Bridge Engineer Let those of us who are charged with American Legion, United States Com- Building Estimating: Bridge Foreman Q Contractor and Builder Building Foreman the duty of leadership live up to its re- missioner of Education John W. Stude- Structural Draftsman Diesel Engines Structural Engineer O Aviation Engines sponsibilities. The schools belong to the baker, and the President of the National Electrical Engineer Automobile Work Electric Lighting Plumbing Steam Fitting people. They represent the aspiration of Education Association are all Iowans. D Telegraph Engineer Heating Ventilation Telephone Work Radio Air Conditioning Management of Inventions Refrigeration Mechanical Engineer R. R. Locomotives Mechanical Draftsman R. R. Section Foreman Monthly discontinued Patternmaker Machinist R. R. Signalmen THE Reading Shop Blueprints Air Brakes selling reproductions of its Heat Treatment of Metals Chemistry Pharmacy D Sheet Metal Worker Coal Mining cover designs, with the De- Welding. Electric and Gas Q Navigation Civil Engineer DToolrnakern Cotton Manufacturing cember, 193 5 issue. Highway Engineer Woolen Manufacturi But so Surveying and Mapping Fruit Growing Sanitary Engineer Q Poultry Farming many requests have come in Q Steam Engineer Agriculture for the March cover depicting BUSINESS TRAINING COURSES Business Managen Advertising Ironsides, Industrial Management Business Correspondence Old the U. S. S. Traffic Management Lettering Show Cards Cost Accountant English Signs Constitution, by W. J. Ayl- Accountancy and Stenography and Typing C.P.A. Coaching O Civil Service ward, that the Monthly has Bookkeeping Railway Mail Clerk Secretarial Work d Mail Carrier had made up a number of Spanish French Grade School Subjects D Salesmanship High School Subjects these full-color reproductions, D Wr allpaper Decorating College Preparatory Salesmanshi First Year College in a form suitable for framing. Service Station Salesmanship O Illustrating Cartooniug They may be obtained for ten Same Age

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MAY, 1936 67 Be a Radio Expert Qot a ZHbusijig ^roblemi learn ai Home -Make Good Money (Continued from page 21) Mail the coupon. Men I trained at home in spare time make $30. $."i0. $75 a week. Many made $5. $10, $15 a week in spare time while learning. Get facts about Radio's oppor- The income expectancy of the applicant In the home modernization or repair tunities and my practical 50-50 method of home training. Home experimental outfits make learning easy, practical, has a great deal to do with the insurabil- field a total of 860,762 modernization and fascinating. Money back agreement protects you. Use part of your bonus money to assure your permanent happiness. ity of the mortgage, w hich may run for as repair loans for $302,071,648 had been Mail coupon for free 61-page bonk.

I long as twenty years. There must be no insured up to March 6th by the Housing J E. SMITH. President, Dept. 6ES3, ' National' Radio Institute', Washington, D. C. encumbrances on the property other Administration. I Send me your free book, "Rich Rewards in Rad'o." J I I This does not obligate me. (Please write plainly.) than this single first mortgage. The A Legionnaire or other veteran who is

! Name Age i monthly payments, which are paid like the owner or a long-term tenant of any Address rent and are absolutely mandatory, in- type of improved property—residential, clude interest, City State. part payment on the prin- commercial or industrial—may apply to cipal, fire and other hazard insurance pre- any bank, trust company or other insti- miums, taxes, assessments and all other tution approved for the purpose by the HAVEYOU SOME SPARE ROOM fixed charges which can be estimated. In Federal Housing Administration for an a basement or garage where you can do light work? other words, the monthly payment on insured modernization loan. Such a loan We can offer you a profitable proposition for 1936 cast- ing 5 and 10c Novelties, Ashtrays, Toy Automobiles, the loan is the only payment which the must be used exclusively for the repairs, etc., as Branch Manufacturer for a firm of many years standing. No experience necessary and small outlay borrower has to meet. alterations or additions to property al- starts you so if you mean strictly business and are Interested in devoting your spare or full time to profit- A Legionnaire who receives the aver- ready improved or for the purchase and able work WTite at once for full details. age of $637.77 in payment for his ad- installation of certain types of machinery METAL CAST PRODUCTS CO. DEPT. 9 1696 Boston Road New York, N. Y. justed compensation certificate will have and equipment. The maximum sum the necessary twenty percent down pay- which can be borrowed for improvement ment for a home costing $3,188.85 com- of any residential property is $2,000 for WAKE UP YOUR plete with land, house and necessary per- each property. manent equipment. The veteran settles all details of the LIVER BILE- If his present and prospective income loan with the financial institution to through the next twenty years justifies which he applies, within the regulations Without Calomel —And You'll Jump Out such a loan, he should be able to get an of the Federal Housing Administration. of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go insured mortgage for $2500, in round These regulations are, broadly, that the The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid figures. The monthly payment on a $2500 life of the note cannot be longer than five bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just mortgage for twenty years to reduce the years, the payments must be made decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get constipated. Your whole system is poi- principal, to pay interest at the rate of monthly, except where the income of the soned and you feel sour, sunk and the world five percent per year on the monthly re- veteran is received from the sale of agri- looks punk. Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere bowel duced balances, to pay the mortgage in- cultural products (in which case pay- movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these surance premium, and to pay the aver- ments may be made seasonally). The two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you age monthly fee for servicing the loan, maximum charges, including interest and feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little is $18.18. Added to this monthly pay- all fees, cannot exceed the equivalent of Liver Pills by name. Stubbornly refuse anything ment will be one-twelfth of the estimated five dollars discount per $100 face amount else. 25c at all drug stores. © 1935, CM. Co. total of the year's taxes, premiums for of a one-year monthly instalment note. hazard insurance, assessments, and other The veteran seeking such a loan must as- ECZEMA fixed charges. sure the lending agency of his reasonable TORMENTS The payments on taxes, hazard insur- ability to repay it within the time agreed quickly pacified by ance and assessments have to be figured upon. Regulations of the Housing Ad- out for each separately. ministration do not demand collateral, ^^efficieefficient help of mortgage A rough average estimate for the country as security or endorsement by anyone ex- a whole is $7.30 monthly. cept the applicant. The lending agency, PO Thirty-seven percent of the home however, has the right to demand either A CONCENTRATED OINTMENT mortgages thus far accepted for insurance or both. by the Federal Housing Administration And now let's consider that 4.37 per- have been for $2500 or less. Up through cent of certificate holders who have de- March 6th all mortgages insuranced clared their intention of using the pro- US GOVTJOBS totaled 52,762 for a value of $213,036,632. ceeds of their Adjusted Compensation Earn $18SO to $3000 a Year Let us cite some individual cases from bonds for the acquisition of a farm and Excellent opportunities for citizens 18 to 50. No special experience needed. Railway Postal Clerks mav earn $155 first month: Customs records of the Housing Administration: the 6.26 percent who have signified their Inspectors as high as $3000 a year. Send for my FREE BOOK "How to Secure a Government Position." It tells about many good gov- A clerk in Texas was able to build a intention of purchasing new farming ernment jobs and how I help to qualify you for the one you want. Ex-service men usually get preference. Write AT ONCE. Address. home costing $3150 through an insured equipment. The first group includes R. Patterson, PATTERSON SCHOOL 635 Case Bldg., Rochester, N. T. Arthur mortgage of $2500, running for fourteen 37,140 Legionnaires, the second 53,180. years and eleven months—for a monthly These Legionnaires may find in many TamJUNK TIRES Into payment of $27.48. His income is $135 a instances that they can use the proceeds BRAND month. This monthly payment, as are of their bonus bonds as down payment NEW others to be cited, includes all charges. upon a farm and finance the balance over Cash! BUSINESS An assistant chemist in Nebraska an extended period of time through the Responsible men dropping everything to make sensational new Floor Mat. bought a $2775 home through a $2200 in- facilities of the Farm Credit Administra- Simple hand machine sir strips. New patented I sured mortgage with monthly payments tion. If the bonds are not sufficient to them into thick, springy, long FABRIX Mats—Big demand from of $19.45 over a period of nineteen years make the full down payment required, factories, acnools, stores, houses. 10c in raw material makes $2.00 and nine months; his income was $83.50 a conference with a local representative mat. Think of the profit. COSTS NOTHING to get com- a month. of that organization may be helpful in plete information showing how one man in each town can estab- A telephone workman in Texas bought determining just what may be accom- lish local factory and make money from the start. Investment reason- a $2000 home through a $1600 insured plished toward farm ownership. able Write today. All informatioi is FREE. mortgage with monthly payments of Two types of mortgage loans are made FABRIX, Inc., Dept. 255 $14.20 for 20 years. His income is $135 by the Farm Credit Administration. One 325 W. Huron Street, Chicago a month. is the Federal Land Bank loan, which

68 The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly may be made only upon the security of a gage or real-estate contract with the first mortgage, on farm land, including the bank. buildings and other improvements on the These farms are located in every State land. The other is the Land Bank Com- of the Union. A catalogue recently issued missioner loan, which may be secured by listed 296 places available in Indiana. either a first or second mortgage covering They represented an average size of 141 the farm land and improvements. Such acres, at an average price of $40.21 per loans, extending twenty to thirty years, acre, or $5675 a farm. An Indiana may be made to any veteran who is en- veteran will find farms on this list to fit gaged, or shortly to become engaged, in the size of the operation he has in mind, farming operations, including livestock as well as his pocketbook. The list offers raising. farms of from forty acres at $500 to 626 Under satisfactory conditions a vet- acres at $22,500. Similar opportunities eran may borrow from the Federal Land for farm purchase are found in every Bank and the Land Bank Commissioner other State. as much as seventy-five percent of the All of these farms have been acquired normal value of the farm he wishes to during past years in connection with IS LASTING buy. It must be remembered, however, loans made on them by the Land Banks. that loans are made on the basis of the Most of them are now rented but on INDEPENDENCE! appraised normal value of the farm for terms permitting early sale. Owning a good farm assures you a agricultural purposes and not upon sales Legionnaires should understand, how- good job, a contented home life and your future value. In some instances the sales value ever, that these farms have come into the INDEPENDENCE. steadily increasing. may be in excess of the appraised value hands of the Farm Credit Administra- Farm income is During 1935 total farm income in consequently other farmer failed and the veteran would not tion because some to Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Tennes- be able to borrow seventy-five percent of meet his loans upon them. For this rea- see — the states served by the Federal the selling price of the farm he desires. son, they should be sure that the farm Land Bank of Louisville showed a gain 31. 7% over 1934. The U. S. average In determining whether an application they are purchasing is worth the price of was 12%. This means that farm for a loan will be approved or rejected, they pay for it and that its production owners in the States listed above are some of the other factors that are con- will be such as to meet the annual pay- enjoying a greater prosperity than sidered, in addition to the appraised ments for which they obligate themselves. any other section. value of the farm, are the past and pros- Many Legionnaires who want to apply pective earnings of the farm, the credit their bonus to the purchase of a farm are Buy a FARM with standing of the veteran, the equity in the already looking around for suitable your BONUS BONDS farm, his ability as a farmer, his financial property. It is none too early to do this. Your opportunity of a lifetime is here standing, his moral character. The Farm Credit Administration states to insure your happiness and establish For the Legionnaire who is farming that when a veteran finds the place he your future. Invest your Bonus Bonds in a good farm. Today you can pur- and wants to buy implements or equip- wants to buy he may file application for chase a farm with 1 / 5 cash • balance ment, as 53,180 Legionnaires have said it, have it appraised and make applica- payable in 33 years - 4H% interest. they did, there are Production Credit tion for a loan, so that when he receives For complete details mail coupon. Association loans available. his Adjusted Service Bonds with which ——————-Coupon-— —————^ Such loans are made upon the security to make the down payment, the trans- Send me information on a farm in of crops, livestock or, where necessary, on action may be immediately completed. Ky. Tenn. Ind. Ohio other personal property. They may be The cost of these preliminaries and the used for a wide variety of purposes, such appraisal will run about $11. Name as purchase of seed, feed, fertilizer, spray Bert Patterson, Legionnaire of Grid- Address material, machinery or farm supplies, ley, Livingston County, Illinois, is one of purchase of cattle, or to hire labor. these early birds. He purchased a 238- The Federal Land Banks, operating acre farm near Steelville, Missouri, and under the Farm Credit Administration, will use his bonus to provide a large part have upwards of 25,000 farms for sale of the down payment. FEDERAL LAND BANK/ upon the purchase of which veterans may He closed a deal by which he says the o/LOUISVILLE * LOUISVILLE ,KY in many instances use their bonus as a yearly payments on his new farm will first payment; and finance the balance of be no more than he is paying as pasture the purchase with a long-term Federal rent alone on the place he has been rent- Land Bank loan, purchase-money mort- ing for the last few years. MODEL 69 22 REPEATER Yours at Surprisingly IF YOU WANT TO BUILD OR BUY A HOME TO a bank, trust company, building and loan asso- Low Cost GOciation as a mortgagor by rEWEST and lowest in price of or other agency approved the eight different .22 caliber the Federal Housing Administration and lay your plans for rim fire repeating rifles that Win- chester makes. Model 69 stacks up building or buying a piece of property before an officer of wonderfully. Full man's size. Special shooting qualities, con- that institution. If lending agency agrees to make the bolt action with the venience and safety second only to that loan, you may then make application for insurance on the the great Winchester Model 52. Finely accurate 25-inch tapered Winchester proof- mortgage by the Federal Housing Administration. In seek- marked barrel. Covered metal bead front sight ing loans, which will be insured under the Housing Act, the on ramp base; click-adjusting peep sight at rear of receiver. Two regular target 5-shot box veteran must have at least twenty percent of the appraised magazines, one for shorts, one for longs and long rifles. Overall length 42 inches. Weight 5 lbs. value of the property or cost of construction in cash, land or Takedown. Shoots both regular .22s and Super their equivalent. Bonus bonds may constitute all or part of Speeds or Super-Xs. See Model 69 and single-shot Models 68 and 67 this twenty percent. at your dealer's. For folders on all three—FREE— write to Winchester Repeating Arms Co., Dept. 25-C, New Haven, Conn., TJ. S. A.

MAY, 1936 J^aces to the £un Want A C\ U.S. GOVERNMENT / {Continued from page 33) * JOB f * ginning. It will help if every prospective national competition, and presents other father will urge his wife to go to a good information. START doctor as soon as she knows she is to $1260 to $2100 Year become a mother. She may like him to Legion High School Club — — go with her on her first visit to the Ex -Service Men i get preference. ' FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. doctor." • CLARENCE FIELDS POST of Ash- / Dept. J 1 8 1 . Rochester. N. Y. 40 hour postal * Sirs: Rush to me without charge (1) Each post has been asked to create an j land, Kentucky, concluded that week should ^ 32 page book with list of many U.S. mean many ^ Government Big Pay Jobs. (2) Tell active committee on maternal care, with Memorial Day and other holidays gave appointments. ^ nie about Preference to Ex-Service Men. physicians among its members, to con- it all-too-few opportunities to bring to Mail Coupon / Name today sure. / Address duct a campaign to insure adequate com- the students of Ashland's senior high munity understanding of maternity prob- school knowledge of the things for which lems and general observance of the proper the Legion stands. The result was the USEFUL and HANDY principles of maternity care. formation of the Chevrons Club of thirty A BINDER suitable for preserving your copies of The boys, with a Legionnaire advisor for each American Legion Monthly. THIS binder is strong, artistic in design, beauli- boy. Legionnaire Fred Rigsby, a mem- fully embossed in gold, and made of blue artificial School Awards and Baseball leather. Each holds six issues of the magazine. ber of the faculty, directs the club and THE price of this binder is $1.00 each, postpaid, in the I'nited States. In foreign countries, add to is the month of grammar school meetings are held weekly. A principal remittance estimated postage. MAY The American Lecion Monthly commencements. If your post aim of the sponsors, writes Post Adjutant P. O. Box 1357, Indianapolis, Indiana has never bestowed The American Legion V. L. Sturgill, is to help the boys choose School Award Medal upon the honor their life vocations. students of the graduating classes of STOP Your Rupture your own community, this would be a Roll Call good month to establish the custom. The Worries I National Americanism Commission of MISS Agnes Samuelson, who wrote Why worry and suffer any long- The American Legion, in Indianapolis, "Schools and is a of er? Learn about our perfected You," member invention for all forms of re- Indiana, will send your post upon request the Auxiliary Unit of Sergy Post, Clarinda, ducible rupture. Automatic air a copy of the four-page bulletin showing cushion acting as an agent to Iowa . . . Frederick Palmer belongs to S. assist Nature has brought hap- the two sides of the honor medal and Rankin Drew Post of City piness to thousands. Permits New York naturalstrengthening ofthe weak- giving all information about the methods . . . Leonard H. Nason belongs to Cross- C. E. Brooks ened muscles. Weighs but a few Inventor ounces, is inconspicuous and used in selecting those to receive it. cup-Pishon Post, Boston, and John springs or hard pads. sanitary. No obnoxious The bulletin also describes The American Thomas Taylor to George Washington No salves or plasters. Durable, cheap. SENT ON TRIAL to prove it. Beware of imitations. School Plaque, a bronze Legion Award . Post, Washington, D. C. . . Frank E. Never sold in stores or by agents. Write today for full information sent free in plain envelope. tablet for schools, upon which the names Morse is chairman of the Child Welfare All correspondence confidential. of the medal winners may be in- Committee of the Department of Minne- BROOKS COMPANY. 150 State St., Marshall. Mich.

scribed. sota . . . John R. Tunis is a member of If are writing to the National The American Legion you Winchendon (Massachusetts) Post . . . National Headquarters Americanism Commission, you might Fairfax Downey belongs to Second

ask for a copy of the edition . Indianapolis, Indiana also 1036 Division Post of New York . . William

of the booklet on Junior Baseball. This A. Kenyon is a member of Paris Post . . . Financial Statement gives all the playing rules for the new February 29, 1936 year, describes the new plan for the Philip Von Blon Assets

Cash on hand and on deposit $ 391 ,914.88 Notes and accounts receivable ,340-27 Inventories ,126.85 Where ^leep the "Brave Invested funds $1,387,645.35 Reserve tor invest- {Continued from page ment valuation . 9,625.38 1.397 270-73 38) Permanent investments: Overseas Graves Decoration I as was patently Trust Fund 186 947.88 outfit do not know he childhood visits to historical museums Improved real estate, office building, well above draft age. He told me he were the captured battle flags, but know- Washington, D. C. less deprecia- explained to the recruiting officers that ing that in this last war we didn't follow tion 130,220.97 Furniture, fixtures and equipment, he was just growing out of his second the flag into battle we took it for granted depreciation less ,793.86 childhood and so was eligible to enlist. that such battle prizes were things of the Deferred charges ,983.69 My best recollection of him is of a day past. $2,296,599.13 when, more or less under the influence, Legionnaire C. Stewart Peterson of Liabilities, Deferred Income he offered to bet that he could take 149 West 84th Street, New York City, every non-com in the outfit, one at a time who served as a lieutenant during the and Net Worth or all at once, out on a log in the Oise war, has stepped forward, however, with River and drown the crew. Having no some real news. Read what he reports Current liabilities $ S5.462.3 2 Funds restricted as to use 24,046.75 enthusiasm for a watery death, none of us and then perhaps you can help him in his Deferred income 364,798-76 Permanent trust: took him up." search. Overseas Graves Decoration Trust 186,947.88 "Since time immemorial," writes material captured from the Peterson, "the captured enemy battle $ 631,255.71 WAR Net Worth: enemy was shipped to this coun- flag has been a symbol of victory. In Restricted capital. $1 ,31 5,882.36 try in abundance following the World the World War this was changed as the Unrestricted capital 349,461.06 $1,665,343.42 War and there is hardly a community modern warrior leaves his flag behind that doesn't boast a machine-gun, a can- and goes forth to vanquish the foe and $2,296,599.13 non or other trophy. Of course the tro- return victorious without the enemy's Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant phies that always impressed us in our flag.

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"My regiment left for France in the L. of C, and in the zone of the ad- summer of 191 7 and we landed with the vance, no distinguishing flags or HELP A first few thousand Americans there. signs will be used, except that the Since the war I served as a Field Artillery national flag will be displayed, as officer in the Philippines and later in the prescribed in chapter VI of the Reserves in the Second Corps Area. Geneva Convention, appendix 6, Deafened "During the war and in the years since F.S.R. 1914.' then I have made an extensive research "This brief summary is given of my through interviews, correspondence and intensive research for captured battle Buddy visits to museums, for captured World flags. Should anyone have further War battle flags. In more recent years I knowledge of captured flags, I would have received the generous aid of former appreciate the information." HEAR AGAIN! Army and Navy officials, the service Amazingly liberal policy enables departments in Washington and several THE Legion holds its 1936 national deafened veterans to have world's most scientific hearing aid NOW 1 patriotic societies. convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Sep- . . . without one penny's cost until "In my research I found that there are tember 21st to 24th. If a reunion of your the Bonus is paid! three German naval flags in the museum wartime outfit during the convention is IF YOU know any member of the Legion who has at the United States Naval Academy at contemplated, it is time for you to an- lost or is losing his hearing, you can do him the greatest service anybody has ever done him ... By Annapolis, as follows: (1) Ensign from nounce that fact. Notify the Company simply mailing us his name and address, you can the German submarine U. C. 113, taken Clerk of the Monthly so that notices may set him on the road to regaining his hearing! when she came into Brest, France, be published in this column and notify We want to mail him a booklet on the new SONOTONE thefirst portable bone conduction Ensign shortly after the Armistice; (2) also J. M. Sawyer, Reunion Chairman of hearing aid—which has brought the happiness of from the German Cruiser Geier which the convention, 14907 Lakewood Heights good hearing to many thousands of men. We want to explain how he can start to wear a SONOTONE Hawaii, was interned at Honolulu, Boulevard, Lakewood, Cleveland, who today—begin to HEAR again at once without having to pay one single penny until after he November 8, 1916, and later seized by stands ready to help you obtain a reunion cashes his bonus. the United States; Flag from S. M. S. headquarters and to arrange your dinner, (3) We ask you for this man's name because in all Cormoran, salvaged from the wreck of luncheon or whatever entertainment you too many cases, men grow ultra-sensitive when they realize they are losing their hearing, and that German vessel after she was sunk have in mind. won't even give themselves a chance to be helped. at Guam, April 6, 1917. Detailed information regarding the Hundreds of war veterans now using SONOTONE can attest the fact that this astonishing invention' research has not as yet brought following Cleveland national convention "My does give them nearly normal hearing. Give us a to light any captured World War army reunions may be obtained from the chance to lay the same facts before any man you know to be handicapped by deafness. Mail us his battle flags, although such colors may Legionnaires whose names appear: name on the coupon below. be in the possession of Americans some- Natl. Organization World War Nurses— where. Enemy colors might have been Annual meeting and reunion. Mrs. Bertha Welter, natl. secy., Elkhart, Ind. acquired from planes that fell in battle SONOTONE 4th Div. Assoc. —National and Ohio State re- or from some town hall of a captured union. Headquarters and banquet at Carter Hotel. Roy L. Hiller, chm., 418 Burleigh av., Dayton, village enveloped by a mass movement Ohio. 326th Inf., Co. I and M. G. Co. Proposed re- locate — of our Army. Nor could I any union. Jack Steinlen, Clinton Corners, Dutchess captured American Army battle colors in Co.. N. Y. 8th F. A., Btry. C, 7th Div. —Reunion. J. W. Germany, including my search of the Shattuck, 1185 St. Charles av., Lakewood, Ohio. 78th F. A., Btry. F—Proposed reunion. Everett military museum in Berlin during the NAME O. Powell, Salem,— Ark. two visits I have made to Germany since 1 1th Engrs. -Reunion. Send name and address to Carroll E. Scott, 54 College av., Medford, .Mass the war. The lack of captured army for details and monthly paper, the New$. 23d Enors. Assoc.—Reunion. Henry J. Sterk, flags might be explained by the fact that Beey.-treas., 3938 W. 62d St., Chicago, 111. Write to orders were possibly issued by other Bonny H. Benson, 518 N. Cuyler av., Chicago, for official paper. The Engineer Along the Highway of REGULATION WAR MEDALS countries similar to that issued by our Life. Under the provisions of an Act of Con. 2!»th Engrs. Proposed reunion. H. E. Seifert, gress, I am authorized to sell Military own headquarters in France as follows: — 4 Tonkin ct., Kent, Ohio. Insignia. Replace lost medals and rib- " bons. Victory Medal $1.50, Verdun 'G. O. 25, Headquarters, Ameri- M. T. C. Units 301-2-3, Nt;vERS and Verneuil —Reunion. Report to Wm. R. Naylon, 1721 Medal $1.50. World War Service enam- eled lapel bar $.35. Complete illustrated can Expeditionary Forces, August Burgess rd., Cleveland, Ohio. history and price list of all medals and 199th Aero Sqdrn.—Vets interested in conven- 1017- Insignia. SEND $.10 in coin or stamps. 23, tion reunion, write to Lee H. Beers, Northfield " 'In the advance section of the Ohio. (Continued on page 72 GEORGE W. STUDLEY 115 Maryland St. Rochester, N. Y. Past Commander American Legion Post 47 U

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224th Aero Sqdrn. —Proposed reunion. M. V. 166th Inf. vets write to Jack Henry, secy., Marys- Matthews, 2208 Cuming st., Omaha, Nebr. ville, Ohio, for free copy of The Ohio Rainbow 851st Aero Sqdrn. —Vets interested in reunion, Reveille. write to Ralph Krupp, 70 W. Market st., Tiffin, 78th Div. Assoc. —Mid-summer reunion. Camp Ohio. Dix, N. J., July 24-26. John Kennedy, secy., New Air Serv.— All vets who attended St. Louis re- Hope, Pa. union and others interested in reunion-banquet in 82d Div.—Annual divisional reunion, Hotel Cleveland, write to J. E. Jennings, adjt. 1128 S. 3d Viking, Newport, R. I., May 16. R. J. Mc.Bride, st., Louisville, Ky. secy., 28 E. 39th st., New York City. Amer. R. R. Trans. Corps A. E. F. Vets.— 312th Inf., 78th Div. —All-day reunion, New- Annual reunion at convention. Gerald J. Murray, ark, N. J., May 30. Will participate in Newark natl. adjt., 1210 Watson av., Scranton, Pa. Memorial Day parade in morning; reunion dinner Natl. Assoc. Amer. Balloon Corps Vets. — Douglas Hotel with Chaplain George Murphy as Annual reunion. Craig S. Herbert, personnel offer., toastmaster. Make reservations with 312th Re- 3333 N. 18th st., Philadelphia, Pa. union Committee, 620 High st., Newark. Navy—All-Navy banquet during natl. conv., 160th Inf., Co. C (formerly Co. E, 7th Inf., Cleveland. Write to Navy Post, A. L., 4622 Olive Calif. N. G.)—Reunion at Legion Clubhouse, st., St. Louis, Mo. Santa Monica, Calif., June 16. Frank I. Bailey, Naval Aviation Camp, Cap Ferret, France— 1028a 7th st., Santa Monica. Vets interested in proposed convention reunion, First Georgia Inf. Vet. Assoc.—3d annual re- FOOT ITCH Cleveland, report to Charles G. Webb, Jr., U, S union of vets, who served June 20, 1916, to Sept. Vets. Facility, Marion, Ind. 1, 1917 (Mexican Border period) at Augusta, Ga., ATHLETE'S FOOT Boston Naval Prison Guard—Reunion of men June 28. James C. Bush, local secy., 3 Pine Grove who served on detail, 1917-18. John M. Wells, av., Augusta. supervisor, Soldiers' Claims and Records, State of 11th F. A.— Reunion, York, Pa., Sept. 5-7. Send Coupon Ohio, 107 Wyandotte bldg., Columbus. Write R. C. Dickieson, secy., 6140 Saunders St., U. S. S. Hancock—Proposed reunion. Frank L. Elmhurst, N. Y., for your copy of new roster, also Don H Pay Until Relieved Mahoney, 500 Main st., Brockton, Mass. for The Cannoneer, outfit newsletter. U. S. S. Iowa— Reunion. Report your own and 83d F. A. Vets. —Send name and address to shipmates' addresses to Wendell L. Lerch, 420!) Herman Bach, 5921 N. 34th St., Omaha, Nebr., According to the Government Health Bulletin. Post Office bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. for copy of Wanderings and Travels of the 83d. No. E-28, at least 50% of the adult population of 322d F. A. Assoc. — 17th reunion, Hamilton, the United States are being attacked by the dis- U. S. S. South Carolina—Proposed reunion. J. ease known as Athlete's Foot. M. Williams, 800 W. William st., Kendallville, Ind. Ohio, Sat., Aug. 15. L. B. Fritseh, secy., P. O. Box Usually the disease starts between the toes. Base Hosp. No. 136—1th annual reunion. 324, Hamilton. Little watery blisters form and the skin cracks Elmer V. McCarthy, M.D., secy., 108 N. State st., , 12th F. A., Btry. C—Reunion-dinner during and peels. After a while the itching becomes in- Chicago, III. 2d Div. reunion, Washington, D. C, July 16-18. tense and you feel as though you would like to Evac. Hosp. No. 6 Vets. Assoc.—Convention Irving Chayken, Parthenon bldg., Hammond, Ind. scratch all off the skin. reunion. Russell 1. Prentiss, South Lincoln, Mass. 6th Marines, 83d Co. —Annual gathering at 2d Evac. Hosp. No. 10—Proposed convention re- Div. reunion and dedication of its war memorial, Washington, D. C, July 16-18. Write for copy of Beware of It Spreading union. Herman A. Wenige, P. O. Box 448, Jefferson- ville, Ind. The \oble Following, official company paper, to Often the disease travels all over the bottom of Evac. Hosp. No. 22—Vets interested in conven- B. Steve Schwebke, 1232 Bellevue av., Los Angeles, the feet. The soles of your feet become red and tion reunion, report to Paul E. Desjardins, Lapeer, Calif. swollen. The skin also cracks and peels, and the Mich. 3d U. S. Cav. Vets. Assoc. —Reunion in Wash- itching becomes worse and worse. t Prisoners of W ar—Proposed reunion of all ington, D. C, with visit to Fort Myer, Labor Day Get rid of this disease as quickly as possible, be. American ex-prisoners of war. Irving Zolin, Wood- week-end, Sept. 5-7. "Ike" Ed Shoemaker, adjt., cause it is very contagious and it may go to your row Hotel, Beaumont, Tex. Higley bldg., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. hands or even to the under arm or crotch of the Vets, of 13th Engrs., legs. Soc. of Crossed Quills of America— Reunion Ry. —7th reunion, Des Moines, Iowa., June 20-21. Elliott, Most people who have Athlete's Foot have tried of all ex-field clerks at Cleveland national conven- James A. secy.- 721 E. 31st st., all kinds of remedies to cure it without sucoess. tion. Society organized at St. Louis convention. treas., Little Rock, Ark. Ordinary germicides, antiseptics, salve or oint- W. J. Mueller, secy., 3316 N. Ninth st., St. Louis, 31st Ry. Engrs.—8th reunion, Denver, Colo., ments seldom do any good. Mo. Aug. 23-25. F. E. Love, secy.-treas., 104 ,'2 Firi-t Greek Veterans Reunion— Hellenic Post of St., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. the Legion, Cleveland, will act as host to all 309th Engrs. — 13th annual reunion, Fort Logan Here's How to Treat It veterans of Greek extraction who attend national (Denver), Colorado, July 24-25. Claude I. Orr, secy., 678 S. Remington rd., Columbus, The germ that causes the disease is known as convention. Vlahos John Harris, chmn., 1641 Ohio. Tinea Trichophyton. It buries itself deep in the Grace av., Lakewood, Ohio. Co. F 309th Sup. Trn. Soc.— 10th annual re- tissues of the skin and is very hard to kill. A test union, Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 8-9. made shows it takes 20 minutes of boiling to kill C. C. Perry, secy., Bardwell, Ky. the germ, so you can see why the ordinary reme- Announcements of veterans' activities 318th Sup. Co., Q. M. C.—Vets interested in dies are unsuccessful. Chicago reunion, Labor Day week-end, and in H. F. was developed solely for the purpose of at other times and places follow: New York City reunion in Oct., report to Wm. treating Athlete's Foot. It is a liquid that pene- (Speed) Leckie, Wantagh, N. Y. trates and dries quickly. You just paint the af- Yeomen F— Reunion of former Yeomen in New 313th F. S. B.n. — 16th annual reunion, Chamber- fected parts. It peels off the tissue of the skin York and New Jersey area at Rosoff's Restaurant, Moines, where the germ breeds. lain Hotel, Des Iowa, Sat., Oct. 3. For 147 W. 43d st., New York City, Fri., May 15, roster of 400 vets, and particulars, write Dr. Chas. 6:30 p.m. For details, write Airs. Irene Malito L. Jones, secy., Gilmore City, Iowa. Itching Stops Immediately Brown, senior vice-comdr., The National Yeomen 416th Tel. B.n. Assoc. —Vets not receiving Wig F, Room 2307, 26 Broadway, New York City. Wag, write to T. N. Kimmel, secy., 7959 Avalon av., As soon as you apply H. F. you will find that the Society of 3d Div.—Annual national reunion, Chicago, 111. itching is immediately relieved. You should paint Hotel Madison, Atlantic City, N. J., July 16-19. 56th Pioneer Inf. —5th annual reunion, Mon- the infected parts with H. F. night and morning Charles J. McCarthy, secy., Box 137, Camden, N. J. 7. until your feet are well. Usually this takes from roe, N. G, Aug. John Winchester, secy., Monroe. 4th Div. Men of N. Y. Reunion dinner and Inf. Proposed three to ten days, although in severe cases it may — 59th Pioneer — reunion. John J. take longer or in mild cases less time. election of officers. Hotel New Yorker, New York Dugan, P. O. Box 607, Wilmington, Del. H. F. will leave the skin soft and smooth. You City, May 9. For details and application for 4th 329th Field Remount—Proposed letter re- will marvel at the quick way it brings you relief; Div. medal, write to John A. Pierce, care of John union. Sgt. Martin P. Flanagan, 10041 S. Peoria especially if you are one of those who have tried David, 1271 Broadway, New York City. St., Chicago, 111. for years to get rid of Athlete's Foot without 4th Div. — Natl. Assoc. wants to contact vets Co. A, Erie School Board Trng. Det. —Pro- success. interested in organizing 4th Div. chapters in posed reunion, Penn. Legion Dept. convention, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona 20-22. Nevada, Johnstown, Pa , Aug. John D. Kimmel, H. F. Sent On Free Trial and Texas. Report to Carlton E. Dunn, natl. pres., Johnstown Trust bldg., Johnstown. 8514-160th st., Jamaica, L. I., N. Y. U. S. S. Mount Vernon—18th annual reunion, Sign and mail the coupon and 5th Div. Society—Annual national reunion, Boston, Mass., Sept. 5. Send your name and ad- a bottle of H. F. will be mailed Hotel Biltmore, Providence, R. I., Sept. 5-7. dress, also of shipmates you know, to P. N. Home, you immediately. Don't send Walter E. Pears, gen. chmn. 62 Louis av., Provi- Room 501, 110 State st., Boston. any money and don't pay the dence. Copies of 5th Div. History may be obtained 210th Aero Sqdrn.—Reunion, Champaign, 111., postman money, any don't pay from William Barton Bruce, 48 Ayrault st., Provi- in Aug. H. S. Lewis, 107 W. White St., Champaign. anything any time unless H. F. dence. 267th Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion, old University is helping you. If it does help Yankee (26th) Div. Vets. Assoc.— National Club bldg., N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind., you we know you will be glad convention, Worcester, Mass., June 26-28. Edwin May 31. Banquet at Hotel Antlers. L. A. Hessey, to send us $1 for the treat- J. Noyes, gen. secy., Bancroft Hotel, Worcester. secy.-treas., 3557 Kenwood av., Indianapolis. ment at the end of ten days. Soc. of 28th Div. Spring reunion of all Red Air Serv., Essington, Pa., and Lake Charles, That's — how much faith we Keystoners in Philadelphia area, at 11th Inf La. — 17th annual reunion, Essington, in May. S. have in H. F. Read, sign, Armory, Philadelphia, May 8. W. T. Wolohan, H. Paul, 520 E. Gravers Lane, Chestnut Hill, and mail the coupon today. 25 S. 6th st., Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. 30th Div. —A limited number of copies of the 152d Amb. Co.— Reunion with Indiana Legion { GORE PRODUCTS, INC., divisional history are being printed. To obtain convention, Muncie, Ind., Aug. 22-25. Report to copy, file name and address at once with E. A. Earl Phillips, First Natl. Bank bldg., Marion, Ind. 860 Perdido St., Orleans, New La. ^^J^A.L. Murphy, Lepanto, Ark. Camp Surgeon's Office, Camp Merritt, N.J. Please send me immediately a complete treatment 32d Div. Vet. Assoc.— Biennial convention, Mil- —Proposed vets association. Dr. Arthur L. Hyde, for foot trouble as described above. I agree to use it r waukee, W isc, Sept. 19-20. Byron Beveridge, 812 Slattery bldg , Shreveport, La. according to directions. If at tbe end of 10 days my secy., 1148 Florence st., Madison, Wise. Vets, of A. E. F. Siberia—Annual reunion, feet are getting better I will send you $1. If I am not Calif., entirely satisfied I will return tbe unused portion of 37th Div. A. E F. Vets. Assoc. — 18th annual Knickerbocker Hotel, Hollywood, Aug. 11, the bottle to you within 15 days from the time I reunion. Hotel Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio, 6 p. m., during Legion Dept. convention. Claude receive it. Sept. 5-7. For details, write Jas. A. Sterner, 1101 P. Deal, chmn., 920 Chester Williams bldg., Los Wyandotte bldg., Columbus, Ohio. Angeles. NAME Ra nbow (i2d) Div. Vets. —Annual national Hosp. Trains Nos. 1-2-3 and 4 and Unit Car contention-reunion, Kansas City, Mo., July 13-15. Det. —Officers and men interested in proposed Se"d foi free copy of your paper, The Rainbow reunion, report to William E. Powell, care of Police Revei'le to Harold B. Rodier, editor, 717 Sixth st., Headquarters, Rochelle Park, N. J. CITY STATE. N. W., Washington, D. C. Ohio Ra nbow Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- John J. Noll Send For union, Mayflower Hotel, Akron, Ohio, June 5-6. DRUGGISTS Special Proposition Dale F. Powers, 56 Kent rd., Tallmadge, Ohio. The Company Clerk

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