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Who Got the Money? III. CAMPS, POWDER, SHELLS, GUNS

By Marquis James

Our sixteen National Army cantonments cost $206,000,000—ex- perts say they should have cost $128,000,000. We spent $827,- 450,000 for American-made shells—and fired 20,000 in battle. Altogether to outfit our wartime Army we spent some $15,000,- 000,000 worth of public funds—your taxes. What became of it ?

of the Sergeant Samuel Woodfill on their re- HISTORIANS are fond sonal request, was checking over cer- maxim that great oaks from spective careers. tain transactions between the Ordnance little acorns grow. They revel Now, it transpires that back in 1919 Department and contractors who had in tracing large events to a junior officer of the Army, whose received large sums for furnishing identity undisclosed trifling beginnings which, in some mys- remains at his per- munitions to the Army. The officer's terious way, set in motion researches developed that a chain of events which quantities of raw materi- presently are to lead to als and components which the real thing. were the property of the Carlyle cites an occa- Sample Problems from a Government had been sion in 1775 when a band furnished manufacturers of starving wretches pre- Profiteer's Arithmetic for use on their contracts sented themselves at the and that the system of gates of Versailles peti- (With Solutions) accounting then in force tioning a revision of the did not insure the return corn laws. The current A manufacturer had two contracts for the same to the Government of all Louis listened with toler- product. In one he was to use government mate- such materials which ant amusement, muttered might remain unused. rial, in the other his own. In "what nerve," and had a fact, there was good evi- couple of the impertinent He used government material in both, docketing the dence that such materials on scalawags hanged difference of $700,000. to the value of hundreds "new gallows forty feet of thousands of dollars high." All of which actually had not been used A contractor purchasing supplies and delivering started the wheels under or returned. The officer a train of happenings them on his own contracts with the Government wrote a memorandum that drifted into what we was reimbursed on the basis of certificates made by suggesting a procedure of know as the French Revo- a government inspector at the point of purchase. accounting which he be- lution which dispatched lieved would be a paying the ci-devant Louis, not The contractor suhstitued forged certificates for the proposition for the Gov- to new gallows forty feet originals furnished him by the inspector, thereby in- ernment. high, but to another creasing the amount paid him by the Government The suggestion was w e 1 1-conditioned instru- adopted, and the War ment which did the work Department undertook a quite as well. A contractor manufactured copper shell-bands chock of records looking We have all read of the from government material under a contract speci- toward a more accurate mad Serb student with an fying that all scrap should become the contractor's accounting of materials unpronounceable name property. thus supplied contractors. who oiled up the old six- When this work was un- shooter and in an unspell- The contractor rolled the copper into sheets and der way it was found that able Balkan town bumped punched out the circular bands like doughnuts. In in many cases supplies off the visiting heir to the had been delivered and this zvay each sheet yielded more scrap than it did Austro-Hungarian throne, paid for which later in- and how this started the metal for the shell-bands. spection revealed to be world war, the A.E.F. and worthless. So a separate . . —

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Army as a sort of left-handed invest- ment, paying dividends only in event of disaster we hope to avoid, like fire insurance. The contract audit section, which is a part of the Army, upsets this tradition by being one of the best revenue producers at this moment work- ing for Uncle Sam. On an investment of about $230,000, which is what the section has cost, it has brought in $15,138,000 and established claim to another $30,086,000 which is beginning to look more like real money all the time. In fact, collections are reported to be brisk since a group of Congress- men and the Department of Justice have started to outdo each other getting after the war profiteers. Not long ago a firm without waiting for a statement of account sent in a check for $200,000. The auditors presently will inform the firm in question whether their contribu- tion is too much or too little. There has been an intimation from unofficial sources that it is about $600,000 shy of what may ultimately be requested. Everyone except the contractors who are trying to cheat the Government is interested in the welfare of the con- tract audit section, and was gratified recently when it was granted an appro-

(r) Underwood and Underwood priation of $500,000 which will enable it almost to double its facilities. corner of one of the sixteen great National Army cantonments as it neared A This increase was sorely needed and completion. The Graham Committee charges that each camp cost an average it is not half enough. The section now of nearly $5,000,000 above "proper cost" has 150,000 contracts in hand, which is not all it hopes to have by any means. activity was established to check deliv- the audit section. Its job is to examine It took two years to audit 15,000 of eries and determine what contractors contracts and ascertain if money is due these, selecting generally the simpler had been paid for useless products, and the Government. This done, it writes and smaller contracts. At this rate it to request that they reimburse the Gov- the contractor, stating that an audit of would require twenty years to finish ernment. Work on these two leads the books reveals so-and-so and will he the job. At the pace the section is disclosed such startling losses that in kindly kick in. If the contractor is going now, though, it has only fourteen June, 1920, the activity was broadened obliging that ends the incident. If he years' work ahead of it. Doubling the to embrace a systematic check of all cares to carry on a little correspondence force might cut this to seven years. War Department contracts. For this General Walker will accommodate, but But if we wait that long legislation purpose the contract audit section of after a reasonable exchange of views, will be necessary to lift statutes of limi- the finance department of the War De- if the contractor holds out, the case tation or debtors will go free of pay- partment was established. goes to the Department of Justice, when ment and crooks free of jail. The fraud is suspected, or to the general principal Air Service contracts are not Without Benefit of Publicity accounting office if it appears to be a in the hands of the section, though a fanfare of publicity heralded the simple case of a stubborn debtor. concerted move is gathering to place NOcreation of this inquiring branch We are accustomed to look upon the them there. At present they are being of the military service, which sent corps of experienced contract lawyers, audi- tors and accountants to the four corners Co.sts deter- of the country to delve into the dusty mined by Loss to tax- Name of camp committee from Proper cost. ar-chives which contain payers of files and musty War Depart- United States. the million documented record of the ment records. war's financial history. In fact, with Camp Lee $19,060,020 811,817,771 such secrecy did they work that when $7,243,149 Camp Meade . . 18,614,020 11 ,,540,693 7,073,327 section mention of the contract audit Camp Upton. . . I,^j,370,820 9, .529, 909 5,840,911 cropped out in the recent Congressional Camp Grant. . . 14,689,620 9,1 19, .544 5,570,076 •13,.'')05,320 Camp Pike. . . . 8,373,299 .5,132,021 broadside against the Department of ( 'amp Custer. . 13,38,5,920 8,299,271 5,086,649 Justice, which was charged with tardi- Camp Sherman 13,247,620 8,213,52.5 5,034,095 Dix 13,109,220 ness in the prosecution of war prof- Camp 8,127,717 4,981,503 Camp Jackson. 12,710,720 7,886,227 4,833,493 iteers, not one person in a hundred in Camp Dcvens. . 12,311,420 7,630,081 4,681,339 Washington officialdom knew what it Camp Funston II, 71.';,.'-)20 7,263,623 4,451,897 first authorized Camp Gordon. . •11,639,420 7,216,441 4,422,979 was about. In the ( 'amp Dodge . . . 10,.'J6,'5,120 6,426,375 3,938,745 statement ever made of the ac- public Camp I^ewis. . . •9,231,420 5,723,481 3,507,939 complishments of this organization, Camp Taylor. . 8,861,120 5,473,895 3,387,225 Brigadier General Kenzie W. Walker, Camp Travis. . . •8,805,720 5,459,547 3,346,173 chief of finance of the Army, furnished Total. $206,632,920 8128,101,399 $78,.531,.521 the writer with these figures: With only 17,000 out of 150,000 war •Southern construction estimated to cost 6 percent less than northern. contracts audited approximately $46,- "Costs determined by committee" were found in the Annual Reports of the Construction Divi- for published in 1920, plus freight and audit-force charges as been found to be due the sion 1919, furnished by the Construction 000,000 has division, not included in costs shown by their report. United States from war contractors. "Proper cost" was calculated from estimate and bid furnished by a reliable contractor witness, Of this sum $15,138,000 has been col- of high standing and responsibility, to which has been added an amount to cover those items of machinery and equipment which are properly a part of the construction cost, which returned to the Treasury by were not included lected and in his bid, and the rifle range not shown on the camp map. the War Department. The "Loss" shown represents an average based on above factors, ayd must be so understood. Claims totaling $4,400,000 have been In fact, the actual loss on some was undoubtedly greater than shown, and on others obviously less. But the aggregate should not bo far from correct From Gralinm Committee Report. referred to the Department of Justice and the general accounting office. The balance of $26,000,000 is in pro- What the National Army cantonments cost, what the Graham Committee says cess of effort at collection by the audit they should have cost, and the loss to American taxpayers represented by the section. Collecting is a side-line with difference SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 PAGE 7 checked by auditors in the Air Service. It is urged that the audit section, which was not concerned with the mak- ing of any contracts, should take over the Air Service transactions as well as all records of the liquidation period during which the Government's losses were greatest. With this additional work coming on the budget allowed the section leaves much to be desired. In addition to recovering millions for the Treasury the contract audit sec- tion's work throws a penetrating light on the situation which surrounded Uncle Sam, the world's greatest, richest and easiest customer, when he strode into the marts of his citizens and spent fifteen billion dollars. It was not an idle shopping tour. It was a buying expedition forced by war, a war which meant life or death, a war in which victory alone could stand between the keepers of those marts and ruin at the hands of a German indemnity collector. One would think that common decency, and if not that the instinct of self- preservation, would have prompted those who sold war materials to ask a fair price and nothing more. Such was not the case—and to what extent the findings of the contract audit section is evidence that requires no inter- pretation. The Government paid extor- The dam at Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee River built to provide water power tionate prices and the contractors reaped for the $70,000,000 nitrate plant on the Alabama side. Henry Ford has made exorbitant profits, as everyone knows, the Government an offer of $5,000,000 for the dam and that was bad enough. But now we learn that on top of that, either by are being made almost daily. Names The contract provided that all scrap accident or design, Uncle Sam was of firms are not given because the col- should be the contractor's property. mulcted for many millions more. Sev- lections have not been made. The contractor adopted a novel method enteen thousand contracts, closed and A manufacturer had two contracts of manufacture. He rolled the metal settled, are reopened as if by chance, for the same product. In one contract into sheets and punched out the cir- and $46,000,000 is found to be due the he was to use government material, in cular bands like doughnuts. Each sheet Government. Pick up almost any con- the other contract his own material. yielded mpre scrap than it did metal tract almost anywhere, shake it and He used government material in both for the bands. money rolls out—the public's money. contracts, pocketing the difference of A contractor who had been furnished "The findings of the contract audit $700,000. The case is now a subject material for use on a contract had a section," said Congressman Roy 0. for correspondence between the audit surplus on hand when the contract was Woodruff of Michigan in a speech in section and the contractor. completed. He "sold" the Government the House, "form a positive and tangible A contractor purchasing supplies and its own material for a good stiff price basis for action by the Department of delivering them on his own contracts and then purchased it back at a figure Justice." This statement has been with the Government was reimbursed considerably less, thus getting the ma- borne out by the subsequent indict- on the basis of certificates made by a terial for nothing and a good little ments in the lumber and Old Hickory government inspector at the point of nest egg besides. powder plant sale cases on evidence purchase. The contractor substituted The Story of the Cantopments produced by the contract audit section. forged certificates for the original ones Mr. Woodruff went on to predict that furnished by the inspector, thereby in- SO much for a few contracts that there ultimately would be recovered by creasing the amount paid him by the have come to the notice of the Army the army auditors "$750,000,000 which Government. auditors. Let us look now at a few was wrongfully and fraudulently taken A contractor drew large quantities other contracts which have not as yet from the Government by those war con- of material from the Government to be been favored with the attentions of tractors whose operations have, inci- accounted for in finished products. An this clean-up squad. Let us turn first dent to the audit of their contracts, audit revealed $1,371,368 worth not ac- to a group of contracts with whose re- indicated unmistakable criminal dishon- counted for. The case is being pre- sults every soldier and nearly every esty." pared for transmittal to Department citizen is familiar—the sixteen great A few typical cases handled by the of Justice. cantonments in which the National contract audit section will disclose the A contractor manufactured copper Army was mobilized and trained. nature of some of the revelations that shell bands from government material. These cantonments cost $206,632,920, which figure has been subject to most searching investigation by the House Amount Shells Shells Shells Shells Committee on War Expenditures head- produced produced reaching Type of shell paid fired in ed by Representative William J. Contractors before after firing action Armistice Armistice line Graham of Illinois. The evidence fills thousands of closely printed pages, and ,S7 mm $9,134,583 3,944,074 903,880 None None concludes with the finding that waste, 75 mm 301,941,4.59 12,082,350 3,713,954 No data 0,000 3 inch 44,841,844 809,120 144,647 None None extravagance and graft in the construc- 4.7 inch 41,716,051 340,376 207,437 No data 14,000 tion of these cantonments robbed the C inch 24,189,075 60,549 12,466 None None taxpayers of the United States of $78,- 135 mm 264,955,387 665.181 1,124,555 None None 8 inch 51,371,207 107,257 70,195 None None 500,000, or an average of close to 240 mm 24,136,867 1,495 44,568 None None $5,000,000 per cantonment. In other 9 .2 inch 54,389,377 132,3.37 41,646 None None words, what the committee figures the 12 inch 9.507,878 100 2,900 None None 14 inch 1,266,477 No data No data None None sixteen camps should have cost is in the neighborhood of $128,100,000. 20,000 Totals $827,450,201 18,143,4.39 6,206,251 Before we touch on the details of some of the cantonment, powder, ni- One-fourth of America's entire war-time shell output was produced after the trate, ammunition and other contracts, Armistice—"to keep labor employed." Of more than 24,400,000 shells manu- it may be worth while to sketch in a factured, oiJy 20,000, or one in every 1,200, were fired in action word the means by which the various :

PAGE 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY industries were able to run "corners" declares "removed every hazard from a wagon and was told it "is going to the on their particular commodities and the contractor" and "placed the inter- bone pile." . . . Talked with a secret serv- activities when Uncle Sam entered the ests of the United States secondary ice man about the waste. . . . We esti- market as the world's greatest cus- and made the interests of the contrac- mated one of those bone piles . , . 400 or tomer. When the war came the Cabinet tors primary." 500 feet long and perhaps 20 feet high. was designated as the Council of Na- His judgment was there were 1,000,000 feet The War's Greatest Mistake tional Defense, and under it operated of good lumber in the piles. ... A great a large advisory commission which was THE cost-plus contract system was deal of that lumber was burned. . . . When charged with establishing contact with probably the war's greatest eco- we had 14,000 men on that cantonment the the various industries. The leaders of nomic mistake. In this instance it gave same amount of work could have been per- all lines were approached. These in- the builder a fee—up to $250,000—of formed more efficiently with 3,000 to 4,000 dustries had powerful and compact or- from seven to ten percent of the cost men. There were carpenter foremen that ganizations, and their job was to sell. of the work embraced by his contract. joined their men in idleness. The story The Government had no such organiza- The more it cost to build anything the was going that the more money that was tion, and in the stress of war was able more the contractor got for building it, spent in the construction the more money to form only the merest makeshift; and and to contend that the transparency the Bentley Construction Company would the Government's job was to buy. of this situation escaped the lowliest realize out of it. I reported one fore- Hence the advantage was with the laborer on the job is a challenge to our man who was always loafing on the job seller with his vastly superior organi- native intelligence. If a thousand feet to J. B. Kelley, general carpenter foreman zation, and close groups of lumbermen for Bentley, drawing $15 a day, and asked controlled the lumber problems, con- him why he didn't fire him, and Kelley struction men the construction prob- replied, "Oh, well, now, I will tell you a lems, steel corporations the steel prob- secret; the more money we spend here the lems, powder plants powder, meat more money my boss will realize." There packers meat, leather dealers leather, were men on the job as carpenters who and so on. Competition gave way to bought most of their tools at the five-and- the closest combination, directly con- ten cent store. I put it up to them. They trary to the legal economic policy of answered, "Anyway to get the money." the United States since the enactment of . . . These inefficient men delayed and in- the first of the anti-trust laws in 1890. terfered. I asked one foreman how he An unorganized and unprepared Gov- was handling his men and he said, "I am ernment stood at the mercy of an or- not handling them. I am keeping them on ganized and prepared series of indus- the payroll." trial groups; a war was on, we had of F. Gunther, to take what we could get; there was From the testimony W. carpenter and contractor of twenty no way out—and there you are. years' experience, a foreman at While official criticism has been Camp visited upon those in the government Sherman service who handled the cantonment Too many men on tha job, fifty or sixty construction, which the Graham com- percent too many. It delayed (the work) mittee says cost the tax-payers $78,- and increased the cost. The waste in 500,000 more than it should have, lumber was enormous. ... I think you whatever the waste, whatever the ex- could come very nearly building another travagances and fraud, whatever the cantonment as large as that one with the unreasonable concessions wrung from material that was wasted. . . . They asked the United States by an organized us to buy Thrift Stamps and we did it industry, in this instance the fact re- for a time, and to see it thrown away mains that with some few exceptions went against the grain. ... I have salvaged the camps ivere built and built on nails enough myself from a building to time. If as much could be said for build another one. ... I do not think some other war efforts these pages there is a contractor in the land that would (c) Earns and Ewing would tell a different story, perhaps. stand for it on his own hook. I noticed The draft law was enacted in May, Brig. Gen. Kenzie M. Walker, head it all the time to a certain extent, both 1917, and the Government's camp con- of the contract audit section of the under Bentley and McGrath. . . . The struction committee went to work. It finance department of the War De- waste was continuous all the way through. spent $206,000,000, and the Graham in- partment, which on an investment . . . I have seen three men hold an or- vestigators says this is $78,500,000 too of some $230,000 has so far brought dinary door trying to put it on hinges. If much. Nevertheless when the first of the Government a return of $15,- that thing would occur in an ordinary September rolled around there stood 138,000 by unearthing discrepancies contract they wouldn't last fifteen seconds. the camps and the new Army had a in accounts I could have taken fifteen men qualified place to sleep. It was the same Army, and put up one of those barrack buildings let it be said, that fought in France in a couple weeka. It took that long but of lumber were consumed where five without an American fighting plane they had 150 to 200 men on it sometimes. hundred feet would have sufficed, and over its head, though a billion dollars . . . The plumbers loafed. ... In one room if two men worked four days nailing was spent to provide such planes; the were forty or fifty plumbers shooting this lumber in place when one man same Army that advanced to battle craps or playing poker. should have nailed it in one day, the under barrages Allied shells fired from contractor, the lumber dealer and the Joseph E. Poole, carpenter foreman Allied guns though the Liberty Bond workmen all profited the more. The under the contractor, Bentley, reports buyers gave up three-quarters of a upshot was that destructive methods, gangs of laborers quitting in a body and billion dollars to the shell makers and extravagance and recklessness in the rehiring as carpenters to get more half a billion to the gun manufacturers. handling of materials was countenanced money. Poole was working on the hos- The chairman of the Government's with a callousness which impels the pital at the time with "no laborers, all emergency committee on camp con- conclusion that they were deliberate. carpenters." The weather was "20 or struction was William A. Starrett, a That this condition should dull the edge 28" below zero: New York architect, later commissioned of husbandry, placing a premium in colonel. When told to take charge In the wards they had absolutely no heat gold on idleness and work-shirking, was Mr. Starrett's committee did just that. except from oil stoves. I have seen boys inevitable. The sum of the whole was According to testimony, it "simply suffering in there and the steam-fitters that organization, morale and discip- pushed the Army and the army engi- shooting craps and cooking hot dogs i:i line flew out of the window and graft, neers off the map." After a series of those diet kitchens. I reported it to peculation and fraud came in at the hearings and controversies at which Aarons, the block boss . . . and he told me door. W. C. Bowman, chief time- disagreements were frank and some- afterwards, "It was the worst I have ever keeper of a section working under A. times bitter, the famous cost-plus con- seen." They would shoot craps and they Bentley & Sons, contractors, at Camp tract was determined upon, which form would play freezeout and then eat hot dogs Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, testified of contract, notwithstanding the fixing standing around a gasoline torch, while before the Graham committee: of a contractor's maximum fee at the soldier boys were sick in those wards $250,000 per job, the Graham committee Inquired about material being hauled in (Continued on page 21) SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 PAGE 9 The Argonne~1922 omme Carries on Where John W. Doug^hboy Left off

By Alexander Woollcott

Three Argonne American history. Any three would do churches: Top, Ro- —any three in that tormented country- magne church on fire side that reaches from Verdun and following direct shell Dun-sur-Meuse on the east to Les hit, October 29, 1918; Islettes and Grand-Pre on the west. center, ruins of church So let us go back to Montfaucon and at Montfaucon; bot- Varennes and Romagne. tom, the present tem- Of all these, it is only in Montfaucon porary church at Var- that no restoring hand has yet been ennes, with the shat- lifted. In that hill-top town, around tered arches of the old which (and later about which) the 37th edifice just visible in and 79th Divisions fought so fiercely, the right background everything is as we left it—the stark skeleton of the church, the deep, heav- ily-walled German dug-outs, the ob-

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was in the misty morning of Sep- ITtember 26, 1918, that the largest number of American soldiers ever assembled in the field began that slow, costly, painful advance which lasted through six ugly weeks, led to the gates of Sedan and was written down in history as the Battle of the Argonne. Now, even after four years, for the people whose homes and fields

V. S. official photo

servation posts, everything. Every- thing looks precisely as it did in No- vember, 1918, save for the rank cloak of weeds that has been spread over the tumbled walls, with here, perhaps, a streak of golden-rod blazing away in the sun and there a rose bush blooming defiantly—all that is left to show that at that point there was once a garden. Montfaucon is as dead a city as Pompeii. In all the American battlefields it is the only one so forsaken. Elsewhere, even in the little hamlets so completely obliterated that we all used to tramp through them without knowing that we were passing anything more than a crossroads, homes are now rising, how- ever slowly. But the French govern- ment has drawn a circle around Mont- faucon as a reminder of the Argonne that fighting swept across, the battle to the panorama you can see from ordeal. is not yet over. The Argonne is still Montfaucon the same look of ordered Except for this one instance, senti- half-wilderness, still a dismal patch- peace and plenty and contentment ment seems to play no part in the re- work of fields fresh tilled and other which is the message that comes up construction of the battlefields—neither fields through which the plow has not from all the more fortunate valleys tenderness nor anger nor revenge. The yet ventured. From the bleached, stretching westward from Chateau- peasants—always logical anyway and smashed villages, the old familiar Thierry to the sea. now much too hard-pressed for any houses of stone are just beginning to To know how the battle is progress- nonsense—tend strictly to business. So thrust up once more their poppy-red ing, let us revisit for a few moments long as barbed-wire still litters the roofs. It will take many another sum- three of the fifty villages that have fields, so long as a capsized American mer—five, perhaps ten—to give back found their way into the pages of truck lies there on the edge of the road PAGE 10 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

U. S. official photo The waterfront of Varennes, "metropolis" of the lower Meuse-Argonne region, as it looked just after its capture by American troops. The view here is due west across the river Aire

and a smashed American tank remains September 26, 1918, when nine young the gutters of Paris for the work of to be carted away and a deserted American divisions slipped into the old reconstruction. American prison pen remains to be French trenches for the last push of These men drop down in the barracks torn down—why, the Argonne folk have the war. Even then its name was one at night or even crawl into some of the no time for the mere sentimental satis- to conjure with—not for anything it dugouts that can still be found on the faction of expunging all the traces of had ever done or for any child of edge of the town. There is in Varennes the German occupation. Varennes that had ever shaken the a sort of cliff that was once, I think, They have, it is true, demolished world—but because of the things that the wall of an old and forgotten utterly the neat bungalows which had befallen it. Through Varennes the chateau. In its shelter the Germans nestled on the safer side of Montsec Prussian troops had marched to their dug in till they had a Pueblo village for the German officers. They have great defeat at Valmy when the French of small, cosy stone huts with neat torn up and carried away all that Republic was new. At Varennes the steps that scaled the wall. When the rustic construction — walks, benches, fleeing French king and his Austrian Americans attacked in 1918, those snug cottages and all—which were found in queen were caught, held and turned shelters served for a time as dressing the woods below Nonsard and in the back to Paris, prison and the guillotine. stations for the receding Germans. As Argonne Forest itself. For these, Through its streets, one hundred and the push continued, they came in time mark you, were made of wood and twenty-five years later in the strange to house the brigade headquarters that could warm an old French couple of a whirligig of history, young soldiers supervised the few gaudy tanks which winter's evening. from Pennsylvania charged forward cruised about with the Americans in But the things the Germans built of with American tanks rumbling tipsily that wing of the battle. When the war concrete, these still stand. The French ahead of them and German soldiers was over and the 23rd Engineers came have not bothered to touch the extraor- scattering in every direction. Its ruins plodding in to straighten out the litter, dinary quarters which quite uninten- witnessed the confusion and break of some Quaker women from the other tionally the Germans built in the forest the 35th Division and, with a sigh of side of the world took possession and for the subsequent convenience of the content, saw the level-headed, seasoned turned the dreary cubbyholes into cosy, 77th Divisional Headquarters. They troops of the First come marching inviting homes, where they spread beds have not bothered to touch the elaborate steadily to the relief. and brewed coffee for the first falter- fountain built by German engineers as ^ ing villagers to attempt a return. Now Everything but the Gusher a memorial to their dead along the road those huts are homes for the riff-raff to St. Mihiel—the handsome fountain WHAT is it like today? It is a bedlam of laborers who are rebuilding Varen- where the advancing Americans paused of a hundred jabbering tongues. nes. of one accord to brush their teeth. By day its air is full of the rasping At present the spectacle is cheerless They have not even bothered to rub of saws, the scrape of shovel on earth, beyond description—the din, the dirt, from the walls of Thiaucourt and Fere- the clink of hammer on stone. Slowly, the ructions intolerable. As you sit in en-Tardenois the "Ortskommandatur" painfully, out of the ruck of old founda- front of Madame Harreng's cafe, the and "Fliegerkeller" signs which the tions and capsized walls, the new homes prospect of living in such a slag heap Germans painted there. are emerging. Sprawled over all its seems unutterably dreary. Yet even as But the French government (which squares and plots of ground is a wild you look, there, scampering around a is Paris) is more given to gestures than growth of shanties until, seen from the pile of fresh-quarried stone, come a the French peasant. So the circle is bend of the road that runs down from throng of youngsters on their way to drawn around Montfaucon and on its Cheppy, Varennes looks now like one school, where, though the schoolhouse outskirts a tavern (boldly announcing of those mushroom towns which spring is only a barracks, the wisdom im- its ability to feed three hundred people up out of the earth in Oklahoma when parted is as stout and as fine as ever. at once) counts it a good day when fresh oil is discovered. These huts The cure, a jovial old chap whose genial twenty sightseers pass that way. must house not only the old folk of squinting smile is in itself a benedic- Now come to Varennes. Varennes Varennes who came back to resume life tion, goes scuflling past on his way to is the little town which lay just north there but also the laborers raked to- vespers in the little temporary church of the line as it stood that morning of gether in the ports of the Midi and (Continued on page 28) SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 PAGE 11

Cabot Ward Charles Bertrand Ezio Gioja Arthur W. Kipling United States France Italy United States FIDAC—What's That?

It Stands for the United Allied Veteran Voice—the Great Idea of Men of War That War Shall Be No More

By Robert J. Casey

lights of Southampton were Of the six only one, an English ma- forget that an American once helped THEdropping astern. There had jor on his way "back to France to visit him to fight Fritz and the trench rats. been tense excitement in Eng- old Jacques Routray, who used to run "The cooties made more and better land that day. Another inter- an estaminet in St. Quentin," showed treaties over in this neighborhood dur- national conference, "destined to bring no signs of heat. ing the past few years than our foreign back peace to the world," had come to "What difference does it make offices could patch together in a cen- an impasse and there were well-authen- whether they tear up the treaty or tury. And a lot of gab isn't going to ticated reports that Great Britain and not?" he inquired. "It's all bally tosh. alter the situation. France were to end their alliance. The The real alliances between nations have "These politicians who go out on a prospect of further antagonism be- nothing at all to do with a lot of funny golf course and decide at the nineteenth tween the two nations was the sole hen tracks on a sheet of white paper. hole that they're going to let some- topic of conversation in the smoking Whatever the diplomats figure out isn't body else fight a little war remind me room where six men, five of whom had going to make a Frenchman forget that of the bull that disputed the right of seen service in the late war, were en- he hung in tlie wire out there with an way with the Glasgow express. I have gaged in impromptu debate. Englishman, or make an Englishman {Continued on page 24)

Roger Marie D'Avigneau, Henri Holocek Dr. Vergile Serdaru Julian David France Czecho-Slovakia Roumania Belgium :

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that if the enemy was to hold on anywhere, it must be in the Argonne. Elsewhere he might yield jround lavishly; between the river and the forest ground must EDITORIAL not be yielded. To give in here was to acknowledge defeat. That is why October of 1918 will go down in history as the bloodiest month in the annals of American arms. One comparison will suffice. It is supplied by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, Chief of the Statistics Branch of the General Staff during the war. In "The War Whose Problem? With Germany: A Statistical Summary," he declares: In some ways the Meuse-Argonne offers an interesting resem- "T TNEMPLOYMENT," a composite newspaper story blance to the Battle of the Wilderness, fought from May 5 to ^ from every State in the country probably would 12, 1864, in the Civil War. Both were fought over a terrain cov- inform us today, "has ceased to be a vital problem." ered with tangled woods and underbrush. The Wilderness was Then the story would go into details. An accom- regarded as a long battle, marked by slow progress, against panying editorial probably would discuss the "revival obstinate resistance, with very heavy casualties. Here the point either to help or hurt of prosperity," making a ' similarity ends. The Meuse-Argonne lasted six times as long the Administration according to the paper's politics. as the Battle of the Wilderness. Twelve times as many troops Unemployment undoubtedly has ceased to be a vital were engaged as were on the Union side. They used in the problem. The nation as a whole is more prosperous action ten times as many guns and fired about one hundred than it was a year ago. But before credit is given times as many rounds of artillery ammunition. The actual anybody for the alleviation of conditions, the public v/eight of the ammunition fired was greater than that used by might examine a little into the causes which have led the Union forces dur'ng the entire Civil War. Casualties were to that alleviation. perhaps four times as heavy as among the Northern troops What ended unemployment? The American Legion in (he Battle of the Wilderness. The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne ' can tell what ended unemployment for hundreds of was beyond compare the greatest ever fought by American troops, thousands of ex-service men. They found jobs because and there have been few, if any, greater battles in the history the Legion asked business men many of them Legion- — of the world. naires—to furnish the jobs. Hundreds of thousands of jobs being found, hundreds of thousands of new buyers went into the market, and hundreds of thou- Shakespeare on Adjusted Compensation sands of other workmen went back to mill and factory to supply the buyers' needs. MUCH flippant newspaper comment resulted from During the period of hard times probably no single Senator Lodge's quoting Shakespeare in his able agency placed so many deserving men in jobs as did plea for the Adjusted Compensation Bill in the recent The American Legion. The Legion took it upon itself Senate debate, but none of the comment that reached to supply what amounted to a nation-wide employment this magazine took the trouble to publish the quotation bureau. Its activities alone may not have solved the which Mr. Lodge used. Here it is, from "King Henry problem of unemployment, but its activities helped. the Fifth"—the King himself is speaking to his men All of which is not aimed so much to boost The before the battle of Agincourt American Legion as to show that organized aid for We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; the unemployed has proved one of the easiest ways For he today that sheds his blood with me out of times of financial difficulty, and to inquire why an Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile organization like The American Legion has to furnish This day shall gentle his condition. the organization and the aid. Recognizing that the is glad to offer such service, the question of Legion Vile means here, of course, of plebian blood ; good King nation's duty to all its citizens remains unanswered. the Hal's "bonus" was to take the form of social advance- ment—as Mr. Lodge says, "It meant the recognition The A. E. F.'s Battle of the Wilderness of a rank which most of them did not hold, and, of course, was of pecuniary value to every recipient." SO much was going on four years ago this month, The men who fought at Agincourt were the first so many fronts were flashing into activity, so def- troops who ever came out of the west to give battle on initely had the tide of battle turned in favor of the French soil. The A. E. F. is (so far) the last. History Allied Armies, that it is doubtful if anyone save the repeats itself. man who was actually in it even now understands to the full the significance of the Battle of the Meuse- Champs Argonne. St. Mihiel was a romp. Tactically a complete success, it was over and done with in forty-eight hours, VyiLLIAM T. TILDEN, national tennis champion; with every objective reached. Sharp fighting broke out » » Walter Hoover, world's greatest individual oars- on the new line established by the victory, but there is man—these are only two of the splendid athletes who nothing sensational in a stabilizing front, and here, too, will participate in the Legion's national athletic con- only the man who was left in to hold it appreciates what tests in connection with the Fourth National Convention an evil sector it became after September 13th. at New Orleans. The same is true of the Argonne. A splendid jump- Tilden and Hoover may not be champions ten years off, followed by misty, muddy weeks of tooth-and-nail from now, but it's dollars to doughnuts they'll both be battling and inch-by-inch gains—that was the Argonne. Legionnaires. We all were in the championship class Meanwhile the French and British were counting their four years ago, and all hope to be Legionnaires ten years advance by the kilometer, dashing ahead into ground hence, even if we aren't able to stand watch-an'-watch, that had been in hostile hands from the start of the war. or do our thirty kilos a day with full pack. Several reasons were responsible for their splendid, vic- But ten years from now, we all and Tilden and torious dash. Their morale was high; they knew that Hoover will be able to say to the youngsters of America,

Jerry had his wind up ; at last, after a grinding Argonne "We once made records. Now we're in a position to of their own that had lasted more than four years, they help you make records. We are at your service." were in the open again. But making their advance And what we say will be li.stened to. And the de- possible more than any other condition was the fact mand for our service will be heavy. —

SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 PAGE 13 Why the Contract Hospital Must Go

WTtlGHT months ago Dr.Thomas W. Salmon, who had been 3,800 new beds for nervous and mental patients. At the J2j chief of the medical section dealing with mental and time Dr. Salmon testified there were i,500 mental patients nervous casualties m the A. E. F., gave the accompanying iyi contract hospitals. Today, after eight months, i,500 testimony to a committee of Congress considering the hos- neuro-psychiatric patients are still in contract hospitals pital appropriation bill. Largely on the strength of Dr. and the hospital-building program has been whittled down Salmon's testimony and that of other experts Congress to a point where it has evoked the Legion's protest. Dr. passed the second Langley Act, appropriatiyig $17,000,000 Salmon's testimony below is as powerful and applicable to- for hospital construction and providing specifically for day as it was last January.

ELLIOT. Doctor, may I rather liberally supported have an al- additional beds for mental patients, MR.ask you a question? Is there lowance of 22 cents a day for food and but very few of those beds will be in substantially less insanity 16 cents a year for medical and surgical specially-constructed institutions. Most among the ex-service men supplies. That means if a patient re- of them have been secured by enlarging than among the civilian population? ceives one dose of very expensive medi- some of the present makeshift places, Dr. Salmon. No, sir. A very dif- cine he has used all of his allowance or by buying institutions, such as the ferent situation exists than v^^ith re- for a year, and has also used up the one at Norfolk, or an old hotel at gard to tuberculosis. As has been said, allowance of several other patients. another place, which they are enabled the percentage of tuberculosis is about Those are the institutions in which to use. When that money has been the same among the ex-service men the insane of the World War are cared expended and those provisions have as it is among the young civilians of for today, in the majority of instances. been made and facilities extended, there the same period. No other country did anything like will still be 3,380 men unprovided for In spite of the inadequate facilities that. In England you can not send an in government hospitals. for the treatment of insanity, and in ex-service man to a hospital of that Now, no problem seems simpler than spite of a policy which deters men from kind. If an ex-service man is sent to that of meeting this need. Those the charity care provided, the ratio of a hospital it is not for charity, and you 3,380 men have to be provided for in insanity under care among ex-service can not use the same sort of commit- real hospitals and it has to be done men is practically three times what it ment in getting him to a hospital. In- quickly. If you gentlemen had these is among the civilians of the same age. stead a special military order is issued hospitals instead of being the custo- And that is the result of every war. in order to save him even that little dians of the money to buy the hospi- The French had a saying long before injury to his pride. He is not com- tals, I am sure it would not take you the war that "military life is the touch- mitted by a semi-criminal procedure. five minutes to decide whether you stone of insanity." Every war results In France, which has suffered im- would keep the padlocks on their doors in an enormous increase in insanity. measurably more from the war than or whether you would, with these men Noyv, the present situation with ref- we have, mental reconstruction is being actually before you applying for admis- erence to the hospitalization of mental carried on in special hospitals located sion, take the padlocks off the doors and patients is that 48 percent of these men in different parts of the country near open the doors. That is exactly what are now being treated in contract in- the men's homes. we are requesting today. You do not stitutions. have the hospitals, but you have the But in America These contract hospitals deserve means by which those hospitals can be your careful consideration. Some of BUT in this country, with our enor- constructed. them are better than any government mous wealth, we are the one among It has often been said that we do not hospital that ever will be provided. the civilized nations of the world which need any additional beds, that if you These are private, endowed institutions has seen fit to farm out the care of its will search through all the government- like Bloomingdale Hospital and the insane ex-service men. I have visited owned institutions of different kinds mental department of the Pennsylvania those hospitals in nearly every part of you will be able to find in the hospitals Hospital. Such contract hospitals have the country during the last three years. not only the 3,380 beds needed but a few cases, not more than one hundred I have never before had an occasion to several thousands besides. Such an all together, who by very good fortune be ashamed of the fact that I am an argument is an evasion of the question. have been able to get an assignment to American, but when I have come out A hospital bed in the post hospital at those hospitals. Those men are well of some of these hospitals where I have San Antonio or at a naval hospital in cared for. The other men for the seen these young men who have just Brooklyn or at an abandoned army most part are in the public state hos- been admitted looking around with ap- post in the West is not a hospital bed pitals being paid for by the Govern- prehension and seeing these demented for a mental patient who lives in Chi- ment. Some of the state hospitals are faces, many of them permanently in- cago, or El Paso, or in Philadelphia. very good. Some of them are nothing sane, and begging me to take them out, These hospitals would not receive him but custodial asylums. Our boys are and asking why the Government had there as a mental patient. They do in both kinds. placed them there, I felt ashamed, as not have the doctors or nurses who The majority of our ex-service men I said, of being a citizen of this coun- understand the care of mental cases in contract hospitals are in places that try. The request before you, gentle- and they do not have the facilities for are utterly without resources to treat men, today is to supply the means for caring for him. If he were received the diseases from which they suffer. taking care of these mental cases. he would have to be practically made a These asylums keep body and soul to- I did not mean to speak in this vein, prisoner in such a hospital. The only gether. They are maintained at a per- but to confine my remarks solely to thing they could do would be to keep capita cost averaging less than $300 a figures. Public Act 384, which appro- him from roaming the streets. That year. Some which are supposed to be priated $18,600,000, will provide 2,860 is not treatment. It is custody. 4,500 Patients—2,450 Beds

CHAIRMAN A. A. SPRAGUE of the second Langley Act virtually destroy tee of Neuro-Psychiatric Consultants, National Rehabilitation Commit- the effectiveness of that act and will whose recommendations were followed tee of The American Legion has sub- not permit the removal of an apprecia- by Congress in enacting the second mitted to Director Forbes of the Vet- ble number of mental and nervous Langley Bill, in order that the whol^^ erans Bureau figures showing that the patients from contract hospitals to gov- situation may be reviewed before it is reductions which have been made in the ernment hospitals. too late—before contracts have been let number of beds to be provided for Mr. Sprague urges Director Forbes and erection of buildings started. neuro-psychiatric patients under the to reconvene immediately the Commit- (Continued on page 30) ^ I

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SEPTEMBER 22. 1922 PAGE 15 Keeping Step With the Legion

less they feel that the action will be popular and convenient, and the New Making the Mare Go Orleans Convention will undoubtedly current year. But that is another story, act only along the lines most likely to or argument, and we'll bring out some appeal all posts. there are of the questions involved in another " ONEY," people used to say be- to the But A.A so to feed the regu- issue. The question of the hour, many lyi fore Henry Ford and John D. many ways mare larly that it's to choose one officials believe, is that of continuous Rockefeller combined to spoil the axiom, hard which should go for the whole stable. If you meynbership in good standing. "makes the mare go." People were let the Commander know how the idea Past Commander D. W. Ogilbee of right. It took money to buy oats and of life memberships has worked with Wyoming, is one of the advocates hay to feed the mare. And the money your post if you've tried the idea of helping permanency of membership. had to come in at regular intervals, be- — you'll help a lot. You could also let us "This matter of getting new members cause the mare was a stubborn crea- know, without hurting our feelings a in every year is a tiresome thing," he ture who would lay her down and die bit. says. That's an opinion echoed by a before she'd go a year without food. We rather more than half suspect, lot of posts. Also by Austin A. Peter- The worst of it is, the mare is not too, that any attempt at making mem- sen, adjutant and finance officer for the alone in requiring money. No person bership Department of Wisconsin, who writes to and no country ever got along happily continuous will be along the lines of our present membership ar- the National Commander: for any length of time without money. rangement. For instance, we some- Witness Russia ! A post of The Ameri- I agree with you that we must adopt times receive queries from post officials can Legion, apparently, is no exception. some plan for keeping our Legion member- who ask if it could not truly be said, Of course, every post gets money, and ship from one year to the next, and not be "Once a Legionnaire, always a Legion- generally gets plenty of it, but lately obliged to start with nothing on January naire." Their point is that a man does we've begun to notice an inclination on 1st of each year. Although I have not been not cease to be a Legion member merely the part of our correspondents to in- able to work out the details of any plan as because he has not paid his dues re- quire why the mare can't be fed at yet, I believe that in addition to some form cently, that only expulsion by his post weekly or monthly intervals, as well as of life membership, we should make ar- can put him out of the outfit, and that once a year. rangements so that a man becomes a mem- we really to distinguish between It all goes back to the question of ought ber for the period of one year from the mere in good dues and the method of their collection. members and "members date on which he joined The American standing," the latter classification in- All kinds of plans have been advanced, Legion. That is, if a man signs up in eluding the ones who have paid up to the ranging from schemes to let members June, he is a member until the following pay at any time of the year when their June; if he signs up in October, he is a dues should be collected to letting them member until the following October. This pay for life, all in one lump. National will do away with the prorating of dues, Commander MacNider has been par- Legion Calendar which is cumbersome, and which does not ticularly interested in the question, and fill the need for which it was intended. I he probably will be even more inter- believe from what I have learned that there ested in whatever discussion may come The Fourth National will be a meeting of some kind of all de- at New Orleans on the subject. Re- partment adjutants just prior to the Na- up Convention cently he sent out a questionnaire to tional Convention, and I believe at that department commanders, asking them time that the department adjutants will be Reduced fares, the biggest time on what they thought about it. However, able to work out some sort of a system record, one of the finest cities in the it's no easy problem, and even the de- which I hope will be recommended to the land. partment officers who give a lot of time Convention. and thought to Legion problems, were Right there, of course, is of the puzzled. Thanksgiving one difficulties. The department What the National Commander and adjutants Is just about two months away. who are among the hardest working other high-rankers in the outfit are — Time for you to prepare to give the men in the world even they don't know driving at is well expressed in a letter — disabled men of your town the biggest all the best schemes in the world. Al- to the Commander from Philip R. feed they ever had. though they will if tell Bangs, past department commander of you them. The idea being, of course, that you can tell North Dakota, who gave his conception them between now and the time when of the problem this way: Essay Contest they go to New Orleans, if your post In my opinion, the time is ripe for mak- Only about two weeks more before has evolved a practical life member- ing a change in our plan of organization. every essay must be in the hands of ship plan, or a plan for the payment of To all intents and purposes, the Legion is the County Superintendent of Schools. dues for the full year following the a lodge, and there is no reason why the The winners can go to college on their signing up of a new member. membership of the Legion should not be on prizes. For instance, writes Commander W. a lodge basis. Possibly in the beginning B. Miller of Washington, there are two it was necessary to organize on a one-year Winter Sports posts in his department that are fram- basis. However, I do not believe that it is ing up a plan to offer life membership a good policy to continue that plan, for Is your post to have a basketball cards to their members for a payment there is nothing about such a plan that team, or a hockey team? It's getting of SlOO for each card. The hundred suggests the permanency of the organiza- late to start things, but not too late. draws enough interest per annum to tion, and if the members are not imbued pay the post dues and national and de- with the idea that the organization is per- Us partment dues. The scheme also in- manent, the organization is going to suffer. cludes repaying the entire $100 to the A continuous membership—that's the The editorial Us. We're looking for member's estate when he dies. Most idea. The National Commander and constructive incidents of post activi- posts don't require so much money, ties. has post to offer that scores of department and national offi- What your however, information we've received in- will help other posts ? •cials are wondering about it. Of course, dicates. It's all depending on how much they don't want to take any action un- {Continued on page 28) PAGE 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY WITH THE AUXILIARY

A Big Year Coming edly at the thirteenth hour, and will have just concluded a singing competi- conspire to do dreadful things to the tion and a needlework competition PLANS made at the recent Execu- innocent "goofs"—that's what the men which aroused much interest in their tive Committee meeting of The call 'em, but it is hardly ladylike—who ranks. American Legion Auxiliary encompass desire to penetrate to the inner circle work in many additional lines for the of the 40 Femmes et 8 Chapeaux. Substantial Aid women and promise a big year of It has been darkly hinted that the is hardly service. ceremony will take place in French- IT fair to slip up on Mrs, In prospect are: town, either at Patio Royal, the old Rose Spencer of the Winona, Minn., Paul Morphy home in Royal Street, or unit to Leon J. Wetzel Post No. 9, when Creation of a national hospital fund. in the Quartier Club in the old Pon- she is not looking, but she wrote this Nation-wide adoption of orphans of vet- talba Building in the Vieux Carre. If letter, and without permission, we re- or children left homeless through erans, you hunger for further information, produce it: broken family ties. we might add that both places are his- Even it Organization within the Auxiliary of all though has been warm and un- toric, and that Paul Morphy was a comfortable gold-star wives, mothers, sisters and (in Minnesota) we have been famous chess player. But the Forty doing daughters. something worth while during this Femmes et Eight Chapeaux will not Co-operation with the organizations of post month's Auxiliary program. How is play chess. They will dine sumptu- this? war mothers and wives of all of the allied — ously. The Baroness Pontalba de Al- nations of the world. Well, we gave the local post $100 to help monaster, a Spanish grandee, built the Extension of the Auxiliary into an hered- furnish the new club rooms that they are dwelling bearing her family name. working itary organization. on at present. We have organized The Forty Femmes et Eight Cha- a sewing bee grouped to add comfy Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, national peaux, according to Mrs. Ada Sangster, touches to the Legion club rooms. We president, explains the status of the president, will be a completed organi- have ordered a post banner for our boys, has new plans, as follows: zation by convention time. She which will be presented to them as a sur- drafted the constitution and by-laws. prise. We have sent three bathrobes to When the move was started at the com- Following the convention, she plans to Asbury hospital patients. We have been mittee meeting to create the national hos- push the organization so that by 1923 sending fruit, flowers, candy, letters and pital fund, many committeewomen pledged all states will have voitures, or magazines to our three adopted buddies, as contributions from their departments. The branches of the central millinery estab- well as keeping in personal touch with our is intended to be a clearing house for fund lishment. The Femmes, of course, are Winona sick boys scattered about the it assumes national hospital work when devoted only to fun-making. country. proportions. Many states have few hos- Oh, yes, last, but not least. After giving pitalized veterans within their borders; Cash in our gold-star mother of Winona a party, other states are overcrowded with men Coming we sent every one of our twenty-six gold- from all over the country. To equalize the THERE are many ways for a unit star mothers a bouquet of flowers as a little work between the auxiliaries in each, the to make money—the M. M. Eberts token of love. Really, is wasn't done with national fund is created. Mrs. W. H. Cud- Post Auxiliary of Little Rock, Ark., the purpose of soliciting new members, but worth, national chairman of the welfare adds a new one to the list. During the four gold-star mothers who had not be- and hospital committee, will be in charge of recent election, the women served a longed to the Auxiliary, joined at once! administration of the fund. noontime dinner, a 6 o'clock supper and I had the privilege of helping to distrib- Mrs. Donald Macrae, Jr., of Iowa, was a midnight lunch to the judges and ute these flowers, and I shall never forget chairman of the committee to draft named clerks of election, stationed in the vot- how deeply touched these dear mothers a plan for the adoption of the orphans of ing precincts. And think what a chance were; I can't explain the feeling I had, but veterans of the World War. It is proposed the women had for a liberal political somehow I caught a glimpse of that won- first that Auxiliary units shall list such education also. derful altruistic spirit brought out in that orphans, and that some plan be outlined famous little poem "Abou Ben Adhem," for whereby they can be given scholarships. Allied truly that is the spirit of The American Kansas first organized the gold-star Women Legion Auxiliary. Heavens! I guess I'm women, within the Auxiliary, and the com- to war veterans' or- AUXILIARIES sermonizing—finis! mittee endorsed their plan. The wives, ganizations fashioned on identical mothers, sisters and daughters of men lines with our Auxiliary are being or- And with this she enclosed a check whose lives were given in the service, or ganized in Canada and in England, for $200 to her state secretary for the who died from disabilities incident to serv- and we have even had word of one in Helen Hughes Hielscher Hospital ice, are eligible to this order, but they must Australia, but as yet no definite facts. Fund. We'll say that Winona unit had first be members of the Auxiliary. The Canadian women have not yet a busy month. Dr. Kate Waller Barrett of Virginia completed their national organization, proposed that steps be taken at the New but have their provincial groups in Personal Shoppers Orleans convention to organize a world working order. They are called the alliance of war women, such as that being Ladies' Auxiliary to the Great War ]\/f RS. MARGARET B. SIMON, sec sponsored by The American Legion for the Veterans' Association of Canada. I'l retary of the Department of men. Their program is much the same as Colorado, is operating a personal shop- Hereditary organizations such as those ours—visiting the veterans in hospital, ping service for the men in hospital patriotic groups of women who are keep- aiding their families, providing com- in that state. When the hospital com- ing alive the memory of the men who forts for the disabled, and encourag- mittee women visit the patients they served in the Revolutionary War, the In- ing and leading in observation of pa- list the men's requirements. The per- dian Wars and the War of 1812 will be triotic days. It is likely that we will oonal shoppers make the purchases in studied with relation to plans for forming have a representative from this group town and deliver them during the men's such an organization within the Auxiliary. of Canadian women at our New Or- rest hour. The women also leave post leans convention. cards with the patients, and if they The Auxiliary to the British Legion, desire anything between visits, they Ici Food of which Field Marshal Earl Haig is send the printed card to the personal 1"^ HERE'S a great mystery brewing, president, is called the Women's Section. shopping service and the purchase is and even your appointed and paid- The eligibility clauses are the same as made and immediately taken to the for sleuth has not unearthed more than in The American Legion Auxiliary. hospital. If the patient can do his own an inkling of what it's about. But The activities of the women, accord- shopping, he is given a card introduc- those forty ladies with eight hats are ing to reports in the British Legion's ing him to a designated clerk in the going to have a big time in New Or- official publication, are largely social, store he wants to visit, and every con- leans. however, and no mention is made of sideration is given him. Mrs. Simon They will meet on gloomy Friday hospital work. Titled women are pa- reports that the merchants co-operate the Thirteenth of October, undoubt- tronesses of the branches. The women splendidly. .

SEPTEMBER 22. 1922 PAGE 17

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Down In the Park When summer's solstice comes around While other watch I hasten to the welcome shade, dealers are raising their Where green and branching trees abound, prices, asking you for And watch the shadows that parade. larger monthly payments, and making payment So pleasant, time I scarcely mark. „ terms harder for you to I like the benches in the park. meet, we are offering you our new model Was ever such a lovely breeze Santa Fe Special, no To cool the urban dweller's brow, advance in price, no far-off Hesperides? money down, easier terms and smaller From some monthly payments. WE realize the war is But caterpillars from the bough over and in order to double our business Look on me as their special mark we MUST give you prewar inducements, They like the benches in the park. better prices, easier terms, and smaller pay- —Thomas J. Murray. ments. Without one penny of advance payment, let us place in your hands to see, to examine, Status to inspect, to admire, to approve, a real masterpiece in watch creation. Barr: "Did you say he is a bosom friend?" Carr: "More than that; he's a hip friend." Kitty, Kitty Defined Left: "A man tried to kiss me once." Pres. Santa Fe Watch Co. "What is a modernist painter?" Right: "Once—not twice." Adjusted to Positions "An artist who would paint Paul Revere Adjusted to Temperature riding through Middlesex in a Ford." Adjusted to Isochronism A Bit Skeptical LOOK Adjusted to the Second All Size Country Doctor (after using stethoscope model. Scene: Courtroom A watch which passes the most on patient) : "Well, I've located the seat rigid inspection and measures up "How long were you acquainted with of your trouble, William." requirements of to the exacting Old Bill Jones the great Santa Fe Railway your husband before you married him?" (heretofore healthy, man System, and other great Amer- demanded the attorney of the fair peti- and boy) : "I hope so. Doc, but to tell ican trunk lines. tioner for a divorce. * truth I ain't got no faith in divinin' rods, Page 12 of our Watch Book is of Special Interest to You. "Oh, I didn't know him at all," she re- be they old-fashioned or new-fangled." Ask for our Watcli Book free plied with emphasis. "I'll say I didn't!" — then select tlie Watch yo;i would like to see. either the Not Noiseless famous Santa Fe Special r at the 6 position Bunn Spe- Taught Home Alleyton: "An' did Dooley's big wife cial, and let us explain our Teacher: "James, who was the greatest make much noise when she knocked him easy payment plan and out?" send tlie watch expn'ss man in the world?" O'Toole: "Noise? Sure, prepaid for you to ex- James: "Mamma's first husband." an' I cud hear amine. No Money Down, a pin drop." Remember—No money down Alleyton: —easy payments buy a master "A pin?" time-piece—a 21 Jewel guar- Why Disenfranchize Them? O'Toole: "Yes, a rollin' pin." anteed for a lifetime at about half the price you pay for a similar watch of other makes. "I think there ought to be a law requir- No money down—a wonder ing every woman voter to be over thirty The Surprise offer. years of age?" SANTA FE WATCH CO.. He'd seen the geishas of far Japan, for ^ "Why such a law?" Toptka. Kans. 9111 Tlliim»i Bldg . he'd sailed the seven oceans; he'd seen the Railway) "Because none of them ever passes that ^ (Home of the Great Santa Fe beauties of Yucatan, all dressed in funny age." notions. In Turkey he'd smoked a water A Letter, post card or this Coupon will bring my pipe as he watched the dancing fairies; Heautirm Watch Rook FREE. Still on the Hoof Egyptian damsels, early ripe, likewise in SANTA FE WATCH COMPANY. 9111 Thomas BIdg., Topeka. Kans. Farmer: "I don't suppose you run Buenos Aires. Years since he'd left the Please send me your new Watch Book with the brindle with a white face old home nest, though then the girls dressed obligate acrost a cow as understanding that this request does not jaunty. He left them dressed in their Sun- me in any way. you come along the road?" Motorist: "Not quite, brother, but I day best and returned to find them scanty. Name judge she's suffering some now from nerv- He'd seen women galore on every shore, Address ous shock." from Turkestan to Thibet. But when he state got home he roundly swore: "Prohibition Far from Regular does not prohibit." It was probably the most conservative Consolation for community in New England. A stranger by the name of Wilkinson had come there Private George Washington Lincoln Botts Legiionnaires SPECIAL TOUR and set up shop and, although he seemed a held all laurels as being the laziest darkey in the Umpty-steenth Stevedores. His idea Ten days through Mexico, two hun- good business man, his neighbors viewed him with a certain amount of distrust. of work was that it was something that dred dollars round trip, includes ev- "That man, Wilkinson," declared one, wasn't done and his idea of real life was a continuous erything. Special Pullman train. "ought to be expelled from our chamber of round of food. But one day commerce and ostracized besides. He's too at mess he did raise a howl. Your Buddy is going. Mail your darned radical." "Lawsy me!" he bellowed. "Ah's done reservation today. Inducements to "In what way?" queried a second. swallered a worm." "Well, for one thing, he won't concede "Swallered a worm, is yo'?" demanded adjutants. that every strike is a Bolshevist move- his top sergeant in deep disgust. "Cheer AZTEC TOURS AGENCY ment." up, big boy, mebbe dat'U put some new life in yo'." 600 Queen & Crescent BIdg., New Orleans REFERENCES FURNISHED Absence Makes the Mind Go Wander Oh—Well—

The professor was taking his wife A young woman, having decided that it through the museum of natural history and was just at present the fashionable thing she, although bored almost to tears, was to know all about business and town in- heroically trying to appear interested. dustries, was being shown through a garter Goodyear Mfg.Co.,i037.RDGoodyear BIdg., They halted before the reconstructed image factory. the dinosaur. Kansas City, Mo., are offering to send a of "Goodness!" she exclaimed, "ninety thou- "Do you realize, Agatha," he asked; "that Goodyear Combination Top and Rain- sand pairs in one week! I don't see where it is eight years since our last visit?" they all go!" coat to one person in each community "Indeed I do, Horace," she answered, "Neither do I," replied the young man who will recommend it to friends. If you "and how that beast has grown since that guiding her, coloring slightly. want one, write today, who was time!" " — !

Wasn't Needed Twice Not three months had elapsed since the death of his wife before old Dick Gooch began to take notice of the Widow Tilly. Suddenly, however, the affair broke off for no apparent reason. A friend demanded an explanation. quit," said Dick tersely. rope "We've Eu "How did that happen ?" "Well, by jinks, when a feller asks a woman to marry him and she comes at him with a dipper of hot water to throw over him, and sicks her dawg onto him, and calls him nine different names and threat- ens to hoss-whip him, he'll take a hint and leave, if he ain't a idjit. Some folks can't take a hint, but I can, by jinks." Write today

A Summer Bargain for full infor- It was a Sunday evening, the month was mation about August, the place was New Orleans. A heated gentleman of color was weaving his an unusual way down the street when his attention was distracted by a lighted bookshop win- dow. He sidled up and carefully read the opportunity inscription: " 'If Winter Comes'— Special Next Week —$1.50." "Mpf!" he ejaculated, mopping his drip- ping brow. "Ah'U gib mo'n dat. Ah'll gib fi' doUahs if wintah comes special next week." IF YOU have planned to go to Europe in the near future you Loyal to His Company can't do better than go in late November or December. London Continent are at their gayest during The village cut-up approached an insur- and the brilliant capitals of the ance agent and informed him that he was the winter months. The tourist season is over and "tourist prices" in the market for a fifty-thousand-dollar prevail. Central European currency is so far down in accident policy. When questioned, he ad- no longer mitted that he was a bad risk. He owned value that your dollars will buy you a princely living there. Full- and drove several high-powered racing cars, cabin passage on a splendid United States Lines ship costs only he said. ships of the line may "Don't believe I'd be doing the right S120, although de luxe passage on the larger thing in writing you up," the insurance

thinks what it is Ise gwine to do." send without obligation the U. S. Government Please Send the information blank today Booklet giving travel facts and also information regard- ing U. S. Government ships. I am considerine a trip for your Government^ s author- to Europe . The Orient , South America . No Introduction Needed itative travel booklet and full My Name Pa-in-law: "Well, son, how's everything? information about the U. S. Having any trouble meeting expenses ?" Business or Profession Government ships. You will be Son-in-law: "Good Lord, no! I meet them at every turn." under no obligation. My Street So. or R. F. D

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PAGE 20 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY PREVENT VCRIME" The 40 Hommes Calls PROTECT YOUR HOME AND Promenade FAMILV with THE official call for the Third Prom- vention roll will be made up on Sep- enade Nationale, or national con- tember 16, 1922, and membership of vention, of La Societe des 40 Hommes each locale will be computed on the et 8 Chevaux has been issued by E. J. basis of reports and remittances re- Eivers, Chef de Chemin de Fer, the ceived at National Headquarters on or ." national chief of that organization. before September 16th. . . This The general plan of procedure for the direct representation of locales, or 25 Cal. Promenade, which will be held at New county units, is due to the fact that Orleans, October 16 to 20, simultane- Grand Voitures, or state organizations, Automatic ously with the fourth annual Legion have not yet been perfected in a num- Pistol National Convention, follows that of ber of departments. Every the parent body's meeting. The call "Voting," the statement says, "will LAW-ABID. states: "The Promenade Nationale is be by states. Delegates from each SING Citizen should be armed called for the purpose of electing of- state, whether or not the state has or- and prepared to ficers for the ensuing year, amending ganized a Grande Voiture, will arrange meet, the burglar, thief, and hold-up man ! ! ! ! You will be fully protected with this brand new 25- the National Constitution and for the to hold a caucus prior to the opening Cal. regulation Blue Steel "Spanish Bronco." Su- perior to any 25-cal. gun made, regardless of name, transaction of such other business as of the convention, and organize a state make or price. Fires 7 shots in 3 seconds; accurate may be brought before it," delegation, electing a chairman to case and powerful; guaranteed not to jam or miss fire; dou- ble safety lock prevents accidents; flat model, extra The basis of representation provides the vote of the delegation. A delega- perfect grip; get one now! No. 146 light weight: at Grande Voiture in good tion secretary should also elected." this bargain price $7.45 that "Each be standing will be entitled to five dele- As Voyageurs (members of La 10-SHOT MILI- C 32 Cal. 25 five alternates._ local Societe) are necessarily TARY MODEL AUTO- ^ gates and Each active mem- ONLY Voiture in good standing will be en- bers of the Legion, registration of MATIC FOR 10 titled to one delegate and one alternate delegates will be in connection with A MAN'S GUN. Built for hard service: just like they used "Over There." With EXTRA MAGAZINE FREE. for the first hundred members, and one the registration of The American Le- 32-Cal. No. 246, while Safety lock prevents accidents. additional delegate and alternate for gion delegates. A man who is a dele- they last $10.25 each additional one hundred members gate to the Legion convention and also OLD or major fraction thereof. The con- to the Promenade will be required to SLEUTH register twice, both registrations to be handled by the same clerks. The business sessions will be held in the Shrine Auditorium. All sessions On With the Play! will be secret, although any member of La Societe in good standing will be curtain on the 1922- admitted to the gallery. THE23 theatrical .season of the Legion will soon be The Legion Projector An excellently finLshed and substantia! arm rung up. From reports, clip- a chance to make your own —perfect in e\'ery detail CSpanL^h" top- HERE'S break style), .32 or .38 cal., S-shots, 3H and 4-inch- pings and photographs sub- movies. The National Film Service barrel; wt., 16 ozs., safety lever prevents accidents; advises that a number of motion picture equipped shell extractor; steel or are inclined to be- with automatic blue mitted, we cameras are available for purchase nickel. No. 546 $9.85 from Furnished with Pearl Grip. $3 .00 Extra. lieve that a goodly majority the Fiscal and Sales Section of the U. S. These Guns are used by many Police of posts have at one time or Signal Corps, The cameras are of the 400- Officers and Government Employees on foot Universal type with either 30 or account of their absolute dependability. staged home talent ALL TAKE STANDARD AMMUNITION another .50 m.m. lenses, extra magazines, sun shades QUANTITY LIMITED—GOING FAST plays of some sort—comedies, and carrying cases. The price is $125. These cameras were purchased by the gov- Order direct from this advt. to insure prompt delivery. musical shows All charges prepaid when accompanied by Check, Money straight dramas, ernment for use during the World War, Order or Bank Draft, or, if you prefer, These have but were never used. SEND IMO MONEY or minstrels. Pay postman on arrival. Our price plus postage. Ex- the post in helped establish John Griffith Wray, one of the directors amine merchandise carefully and if not as represented just return same and get your MONEY BACK. BANK the community, in building of the Thomas H, Ince Studios in Culver REFERENCES. City, California, has gone to Klamath Illustrated Catalogue of Field Glasses up a proper spirit of sociability Falls, Oregon, and Eureka, California, in and Guns at Bargain Prices on Request. EDWAROS among members, and in in- a preliminary hunt for location for scenes IMPORT TRADING CORP. creasing post finances. in the first big Legion motion picture. The 258 Broadway, New York Legionnaires and Auxiliary members in the How many Legion posts are two cities are co-operating with Mr. Wray interested in producing a play in his search for atmosphere. Burn Coal this coming season? The Why A musical cue sheet for use in connection American Legion Weekly is When you can get twice the with the showing of the film, "Flashes of heat at halt the cost, by in of the source of plays Action," has been arranged the National stalling, in 5 minutes time advised by Uni-Hete Oil-Gas Burner ii adaptable' for use by Legion Film Service. Included among the familiar your range or heater. Thou- service songs interpolated in the score are sands of homes now ending be of service in coal expense! Uni-Hete gen- casts and can "Good-by, Broadway, Hello, France," "Over erates gas from common suggesting and procuring There," "Keep Your Head Down, Fritzie kerosene—cheapest fuel Boy," "Madelon," and "Tipperary," known. Red hot fire in-' for post produc- stantly. Cooks, bakes, proper plays heats. Sets in fire box of tion. want to hear from any stove. FREE TRIAL. We "The American Legion put on a motion days. Lasts for years. Made Saves its small cost in 30 activities committeemen, picture that was real picture in every by factory making heating devices for 33 years. the a sense of the word," says the Ankeny Offer—Act Quick adjutants or official play di- Agents—Special (Iowa) Times, in commenting on an open- profit maker High coal cost makes Uni-Hete a big posts this sub- for agents. Write at once. rectors of on air community celebration staged by the

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SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 PAGE 21 WhoGottheMoney? {Continued from page 8) When suffering from the cold. Actually pinched blue, their lips were blue, their fingernails blue. ... I asked Aarons what they said the to him and he said, "They told me to go to hell." The Graham reports contain a letter World from. Dr. William J. Say of St. Louis, former captain, Medical Corps, confirm- ing Poole's statement. The doctor re- Forgets marks that "these profiteers couldn't have carried out their dishonest pur- pose if the contracting firm had not E. Tolman East been in collusion with them." Colonel from one point to another that I of the construction division Couper enjoyed them mightily. Finally I "frankly admitted full knowledge, both passed my exams, was placed on steps of on his part and the part of the con- THE broad the the ex-service men's preferred list and Federal Building Dick Ormsby tractor, of extravagances and wastes," almost before I realized it I was appointed leaned against a pillar and but sought to lay the blame "entirely ON and assigned to the run that I've held watched a marching line that, ever since. to profiteering employees." Seven thou- the followed a band down "It's clean, high-class work, it gives sand dollars in carpenter labor was street. me a chance to see the world, it insures witness spent on one building which a On the sidewalk below him he heard the respect of everyone and best of all all said could have been built for $800; one man say to another, "What's the I've a job for life! So long as I behave another said he could build in a day a excitement?" and the reply, "Search me. myself I don't need to worry about pulling some sort of tool shed the labor payroll for which Aren't the women strikes, hard times, unemployment or stunt up in the Park? W. C. T. U. or was $525. John H. Barnes, forty years 'pull.' I'm Uncle Sammy's own pet Salvation Army or something?" child and proud of it!" a carpenter, said the slogan was "Get So that was all the world in general and more "I don't like to see you bitter and while the getting was good. The business men in particular knew about worried, Dick," he added, "I know just you spend the more you get." Barnes, the Gold Star Mothers Exposition and the what you're going through but we've who had two sons in France, thought efforts they and the Legion were making got to face the fact that people are un- "the work amounted to disloyalty." on behalf of those who had gone overseas! grateful and forgetful. However, they wonder Congress and the President Major A. N. Besnah, in charge of No are willing to pay for needed service, couldn't get anywhere when the nation it's us it military transportation, testified: so up to to give to them and was as apathetic as that! reap the reward. I'll give you the name Bentley's transportation was under his In a sudden frenzy he turned and struck of the firm that put me on my feet—The own supervision in charge of a man named the great pillar against which he leaned Franklin Institute, Rochester, N. Y. Tragelis. It consisted of 200 to 400 trucks. as though the huge building, erected by and you write them today. I want to people, symbolized the heartless They hired a lot of trucks of two and the see you in the Government service again throngs who went their way in a dearly three ton capacity, paying the same as for and I'll tell the world that the peace bought safety they failed to appreciate. service beats the war service a thousand three to seven tons, ranging from $20 to Below him loaded mail wagons came ways." $35 a day, the Government furnishing oil, and went through a burrowing subway, He hurried off to make his train and gas and driver; $12 to $25 would have been uniformed carriers hustled back and forth, Dick followed thoughtfully. Across the a fair price. After Tragelis left I had a while in and out of doors leading to street rose the great Federal Building conversation with the representative of different departments filed a steady which had seemed to symbolize "the hurrying humans. To Dick Kissinger & Schullman Company, which fur- stream of people" to him. But as he looked a Ormsby, jobless and well-nigh hopeless, smile nished trucks. He said, "I have had a broke over his face and he lifted it seemed that all the world was busy and his hat to the giant pile with a gesture of great many trucks on at different times" happy but himself. apology. "Forgive me, old scout," he trucks and that he would like to put some And he wanted to work—for months said. "People may forget what we did streets on as they were being discharged from the he had tramped the looking for the in the past but I'll take mighty good Bentley work, and he said, "I could pos- coveted "steady job." But he was not care that they respect what I do in the sibly make some arrangement with you for trained and everywhere they demanded future! As soon as the Franklin In- the expert, whether it was a bookkeeper putting them on the same as I did with stitute can manage it, I, too, will be or a bricklayer. Uncle Sam's boy again and this time it Tragelis." I said, "Well, how much did you — Slowly he went down the steps, edging will be for life." allow Tragelis?" and he replied, "We al- his way through the workers released by Needless to say, after completing his lowed him $5 to $10 a day." I said, the noon hour. Suddenly the grim lines Franklin Institute Course, Dick received "Would you make me the same proposi- in his face relaxed and he sprang forward quick appointment. He was entitled to tion?" and he said, "Yes." I said, "Well, with a greeting that was almost a shout. the special preference given to ex-service "Bill, you old chicken-thief!" "Dick, I am in the military service. I am not in men and with his thorough coaching, the of all people!" Then the silent gripping easy. it for graft. I don't want your trucks." rest was Hundreds of men have of hands and the short explosive breath been placed in U. S. Government posi- Sworn testimony of this character that told how deeply the former "buddies" tions through these wonderful courses. could be introduced almost without end, were stirred by the unexpected meeting. They are now assured of big pay, short Bill his friend across lending to show why it was that it cost Then drew the hours, steady work, and paid vacations to a quiet lunch place where they $13,247,000 to build Camp Sherman street for the rest of their lives. could talk undisturbed. "My treat," he men, with honorable when, according to the Graham experts, Ex-service dis- said, with a glance at Dick's threadbare charge are given special preference on the $8,213,000 is what it should have cost. suit and when the "coffee and" had been examinations and in the making of the We must, however, pass on. There is served he answered Dick's eager questions appointments. Every ex-service man not space even for a glance at the con- as to what he was doing. should fill in the following coupon and struction of the seven seaport terminals "I've the best job in the world," he send it at once for free sample lessons which cost $141,000,000. The details said, "but for a year or more I couldn't and full information. Do not postpone seem to find myself or locate anything of the one at Charleston, South Caro- as you might forget and lose this oppor- I was fitted for. You and I went to war tunity altogether. lina, are before me. We spent $17,- just when we would have been taking 116,000. One Japanese ship with up something special and we came back COUPON lumber for Honolulu sailed from there. restless and unfitted for the old jobs. I Franklin Institute, Depl. J301, Rocheitcr, N. Y. One American ship put in with a broken did first one thing and then another, Kindly send me at once and absolutely propeller and unloaded. One consign- always broke, always miserable and un- free of charge, sample lessons from the course ment of troops disembarked there. certain. Then one day I saw an ad checked, give me full information regarding telling of a study course that would fit the special preference to ex-service men, and The Government built two powder all ex-service men for U. S. Government a full description of U. S. Government Positions now obtainable by ex-service men. plants, one at Nitro, West Virginia, position's. There were a lot of different which cost $60,100,000, and one near ones, but I'd always had the wanderlust Railway Mail Clerkl iPostoffice Clerk

$ 1 600 to $2300 year I ^ $ 1 400 to S 1 800 year Nashville, Tennessee, the cost of which and it seemed to me that I was cut out City Mail Carrier Rural Mail Carrier | is estimated to be between $90,000,000 to be a Railway Mail Clerk. So I wrote for | $ 1 400 to $ 1 800 year I I $ 1 800 to $2600 year and $143,000,000. On October 25, 1917, the information, liked the free sample les- sons and finally sent for the whole course. contracts of the most liberal sort were Name. "From the start the lessons were so let with E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & interesting and progressed so naturally Address Co. for the erection of the plants. A few hours after these contracts were PAGE 22 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

signed the one for the Nitro plant Explosives cannot be made without was peremptorily cancelled by the Sec- nitrate, which is largely imported from retary of War. Subsequently it went Chile. Foreseeing our possible entry to the Thompson-Starrett Company, into the war, Brigadier General Wil- which received a fee of $760,000, plus liam Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, in 1916 "very heavy" engineering, field, ad- recommended laying in a large supply. ministration and other charges. The If his advice had been followed the reasons for the Secretary's sudden de- nation would have saved the $116,000,- cision to deprive the Du Fonts of this 000 which was spent on nitrate plants lucrative engagement have not been that produced nothing. When the war made public, but Graham hearings dis- came the Government was lobbied into close incidents which may or may not this nitrate-plant building program on have had something to do with it. the theory that German submarines Before signing the contracts the War might interrupt communication with Department informally asked the Du Chile. Boards of experts were told Fonts to build the two plants. Daniel to recommend suitable locations. Dr. Cauffiel, an agent of the Du Font En- Charles L. Farsons, chief chemist of the gineering Company, a subsidiary of the Bureau of Mines, went to Europe to powder concern, began acquiring op- study the problem. It was decided tions on West Virginia land. His first to erect an experimental plant. operations, remarks the Graham report, J. W. Worthington of Sheffield, Ala- Memorial Tablets in Bronze seem to have been "tinctured with bama, was early in Washington push- Send for Free Book L. fraud," and the Department of Justice ing the claims of his home town, and Flour City Ornamental Iron Co« is asked to ascertain. He is charged contrary to the advice of every board 27th Ave. and 27th St. Minneapolis, Minnesota with having made an agreement with which had considered the matter, Fry & Moore, a real estate firm of Flant No. 1 was located at Sheffield in Charleston and Dunbar, West Virginia, September, 1917. whereby Cauffiel was to tip this firm Before the location of the experi- in advance as to what properties would mental plant had been determined the Dental be required, in return for which service campaign for a larger plant was al- five ready Laboratory Work Fry & Moore were to pay Cauffiel vigorously in hand under the percent of their gross business for the leadership of Mr. Worthington's busi- Be a mechanical dentist—a high class, agreeable occupation for year. Among other transactions Cauf- ness associate and fellow-townsman, men or women. Course is inex- fiel is said to have taken an option on Frank S. Washburn. Mr. Washburn pensive. Takes only short time to complete. Experience or entran'.e a tract for $20,000 which he sold to was urging the advantages of the requirements unnecessary. No li- Fry & Moore for $120,000, who in turn Muscle Shoals Rapids in the Tennessee cense required. McCarrie gradu- ates make big successes and are sold it for $146,125. River at Florence, Alabama. He met n srreat demand everywhere. Larg-estand best equipped school laboratory and clinic But Nitro was built, and most ex- stiff opposition from experts, but Mr. in America; individual practical instruction, modern up-to-date methods. Write for travagantly, say the Graham findings, Washburn got the ear of Bernard M. trial scholarship offer. Find out how easy It !8 to m yourself for this highly paid and dignified pro- which cite, among other things: Baruch, a New York stock broker fession. Learn the McCarrie way. It pays. whom the President had made chairman Men were employed at fanciful and ex- of the War Industries Board. With SCHOOL o^fj4»:^hani(:ai.^ DENTIST^ orbitant wages. Boys received carpenters' this powerful friend at court Mr. HICACO, ILL wages. Men were paid to carry refuse Washburn's cause began its ascendancy. from one part of the work to another and Opposition dwindled. When Dr. Par- back again. Good lumber was destroyed sons continued to oppose he was by the wholesale. Great masses of hard- dropped from the conferences and ware were destroyed wilfully. Immense Muscle Shoals was chosen as the quantities of California redwood pipe was location. put under ground to convey water. The Thus the triumph of Messrs. Wash- western engineer who recommended its use burn and Worthington, of Sheffield, -^GUARANTEED S8 VALUE! got $100,000 for his advice. Trees stand- Alabama. It was not so easy a tri- ;atest bargain of a lifetime. Shirts are of neat ored stripes, made.of highest quality percale ing on the reservation were moved at a umph as perhaps I have made it appear. and madras material, with soft cuffs, finished

i Bakor ' of each. When Secretary twenty years these men, both beautifully. All sizes from 13 ^ to 17 ^ . Ties cost $3,000 For are made of finest silk knit material, fast colors, out to make a Liberty Loan speech heavily interested financially in cor- full length, and closely knit to give long wear. came SEND NO MONEY! $2,500 in labor was spent to clear a place porations that would profit by such Just your name and address, and size of shirts. for his speaking stand. disposition, had been appealing to Con- When shirts and ties are delivered, pay postman $3.99 plus a few pennies postage. Money cheer- gress for government funds to develop refiindod not satisfied, fully if Muscle Shoals. But success had not ^npp A dandy pair SNAP-ON CUFF The Hercules Powder Company got W t BUTTONS. FREE to the first prospered their toil and hope had • t 500 ordering this great bargain. the contract for operating the plant. Rush Orders Now Mention Size of Shirts $14,349,000 waned when along came the war and Send lor Free Catalogue of Bargains The Government advanced PUBLtC TRADING CO. for it to begin work on under a con- the nitrate issue, which gave them 404FourthAve. Dept.lOl. NewYork City tract whereby Uncle Sam took all the another chance. It proved to be the loca- risk. Before the Armistice four and chance they needed. When the a half million pounds of powder were tion of Plant No. 2 at Muscle Shoals Agents-$6 a Day produced. In August, 1919, the plant was cinched Mr. Washburn was at the moment pi-esident of the American Taking Orders for and $6,500,000 worth of materials were Cyanamid Company and was connected Clark Glare Shield sold to Charleston capitalists for $8,- with several other companies interested Latest auto necessity- 500,000, one thirty-fourth cash down, Kills glare of sunlight and the rest on easy payments. in the development of the Shoals. It approaching headlights. the Cyana- Keeps you out of the Old Hickory, the plant near Nash- was first contemplated that ditch. Anyone can at- built at a mid Company Should build and operate tach it in five minutes. ville which the Du Fonts Fits any car. Neil took cost to Uncle Sam between $90,000,000 the plant, which in effect was done orders for 02 shields in of the Air Nitrates one week. No competi- and $143,000,000, produced about 20,- under the name tion. No capital required. of powder during the Corporation, of which Washburn also wanted. Write for sample and territory. 000,000 pounds County agents was president. The organization of CLARK PRODUCTS CO.. 622 Arcue BIdg., Springfield, O. war. Old Hickory was sold for $3,500,- 000—a story that will be told in a this subsidiary company enabled the later article in this series. To sum up, Washburn interests to dodge taxes, ALL WOOL the two plants cost between $150,000,- boost construction profits from $1,000,- 000 and $203,000,000 and produced less 000 to $1,500,000, and increase pro- SUITS $16.35 than 25,000,000 pounds of powder. It spective royalties on nitrogen from $12 to note that during the to $30 a ton, the Graham report ob- Fall and Winter prices on tailored to order suits are now is interesting being mailed by the Chicago Tailors Association, Chicago, war the Du Fonts built for themselves serves. Illinois. An example of their remarkable values for Fall is three powder plants at a total cost of The plant was built at a cost of $69,- all wool serge, for $16.35 per suit. This same fabric for- an in produced 985,000 plus $5,167,000 spent on the ashigh as Other fine fabrics are priced $35,900,000 which 1918 merly sold $35.00. adjacent property of the Alabama at $19-95, $24.95 and $29.95. Readers of this paper may re- 399,078,659 pounds of the same kind ceive free samples by addressing a card or letter to the Chi- of powder made at Nitro and Old Power Company, of which Worthington Association, Dept. Chicago, Illinois. Men cago Tailors 136, was president and in which Washburn with spare time should ask for their great offer to agents. Hickory. -

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owned a $100,000 block of stock, and agents in some of the subcontracts, but all plus $13,170,000 for an unfinished dam such accounts were allowed in full. across the Tennessee river, long a pet A member of the War Claims Board at project of Washburn and Worthington. Washington wired to know if the claim Waste and extravagance with which we had been audited. He received an answer have become familiar prevailed in the from a member of the Chicago board to execution of the contracts. A Depart- the effect that it had. The answer was ment of Justice agent reports the Ni- false. All this time the government ac- trates Corporation "took advantage of countants were protesting against the al- the war situation and the weakness and lowance of it. The company stole a carload of small tools from this plant and removed credulity of officials . . . and proceeded under the cover of patriotism to build them clandestinely to their own plant. The WillBuy a permanent commercial plant for the wonderful machines which they took from sole benefit of the American Cyanamid the Government as junk they have since Company." sent to their subsidiary factories for use. DIAMONDS Henry Ford is now trying to buy the The War Department, instead of following whole layout for $5,000,000, and the the usual course, sent a couple of men to Here Department of Justice has been asked Chicago, and there the whole affair was This perfectly cut 3/4—1/16 Ct. to sue the Air Nitrates Corporation. closed up speedily and safely for the com- diamond; a snappy, handsome blaz- record shows that the chair- I have implied that our part in the pany. The ing solitaire, at $42.65, among bargains in our fought with Allied artillery man of the Chicago claims board had before lists. See the many big amazing values, some as war was Carat, other higher per Carat bar- that time written to the military intelli- low as $60 per and Allied shells. Here is the arith- gains. This 75 year oldest largest Diamond gence telling them he wanted no further metic of it. We let 3,014 contracts for Banking firm in all the world lends money on and munitions, paying contractors $827,- investigation of fraud in this contract. diamonds. Thousands of unpaid loans other bargains. Must sell NOW. 450,204 for the actual delivery of 24,- Col. Hughes wrote an order directing that no complete audit be made, at a time when 700,508 shells, of which number 20,000 Why Pay such audit was about to be made. He also were fired in battle. One hundred and Prices eleven contracts for guns costing $478,- demanded that the government auditors be Full 828,000 produced 9,252 weapons of taken out of the plant. Costs Nothing To See which 72 reached France. One fourth By the settlement the company got Any diamond sent for exam- half of $3,000,000. absolutely free of these shells and more than ination at our risk. No the guns were delivered after the war The $3,600,000 Claims Board settle- obligation. ment with the Jones & Laughlin Steel was over. The Armistice did not Latest Listings dampen the ardor of the munitions con- Company was "fraudulent per se," de- tractors. "They desired to complete a clares the Graham committee, which Unpaid Loans great many more materials than the sums up the case, in substance, as fol- settlements called for," reports an lows: Sent Free Ordnance officer. They wanted to The company contracted to build 300 by- Unlike the ordinary "keep labor employed." Profits, we are catalog. Hundreds of product coke ovens and over a period of left to imagine, were merely incidental Diamond Bargains de- two years sell to the Government 1,620,000 scribed in full detail to the fatherly interest so many large exact weight, color, gallons of toluol at $1.50 a gallon and 48,000 with corporations exhibit toward their work- quality, etc. You know tons of ammonium sulphate at $90 a ton. what yoD're buyiDg before men. you boy. Besides It tell of The Armistice came before anything was Guaranteed Loan Value, The most superficial review of Ord- produced. In January, 1919, Claims Board unlimited exchange privi- nance contracts brings one to the post- lege at full price paid, and agents met representatives of the coke- complete details of free Armistice settlements which involve the examination offer. oven industry in New York and fixed the War Department Claims Board, men- current price of toluol at 17^^ cents a gal- tioned in the first article of this series. Use Coupon lon and ammonium sulphate at $60 a ton, Claims went through this board at the Now/' Jos. De settling with Jones and Laughlin on the Roy rate of $35,000,000 a day, and the con- Birgain ^ & SoBS basis of full production for two years at Lilt / 9090 DeRoy BIdg tractor held the whip hand. The 0"'» Opj>. Poll OJict the difference between IIV2 and $1.50 a gal- Fr»« Graham committee report remarks that / Pittsburgh, Pa lon and $60 and $90 a ton. ^ Gentlemen : Pleajs MDd "if he was honest there was an honest ^ me free and Drepeid, your ^ latest basgkln list of dia. settlement; if he was inclined to take ^ monds, watches and other ^ Jewelry. It is uoderstood 1 advantage of the Government he did Another quarter of a million dollars y asBuina oo obllffatloo of uf ^ kind. so." There was "palpable fraud" in was lost on the settlement with the of the claim of the Joa. De Roy & Sons / the settlement American Can Company, says the 9090 De Roy Bldg. ^ „ Standard Steel Car Company of Chi- Graham committee. The company Only Opy. Pott OMa ^ Name • Pittsburgh, Pa. ^* cago, charges the Graham report, which landed contracts for 89,000,000 bread R4f4r»nceg by ptrmU- f tion: — Bank of Pitta- t tells the story in these words: cans at 5 1/10 to 6V2 cents each, though bursK-N.A. Afarim J^ AddreM .— — other makers were trying to get the iiilitco''pM^rlhJ Guaranteed Cash Loan! Pa. Yonr bank can £ Diamonds boairht here are like insurance This company contracted to build nine job for 4 to 5 cents apiece. When the look ua Kp mtr- ^ policfea. You know what joa can borrow Mnlil* agenc%*t. ^ before yoa decldo to boy-SEfi OU B CASH hundred and sixty-four 9.5-inch howitzer Armistice came the company had $867,- ^ BACK GUARANTEE.

carriages. . . . The War Department spent 700 woi'th of tin plate on hand which in this venture $18,582,428.88. After the the Government permitted the company Armistice the Ordnance Department had to keep at 68 per cent of cost price, LOCAL RADIO REPRESENTATIVES WANTED: them finish 200 of these carriages. The though the market price of tin plate Remarkable opportunity for men and women of vision! company placed in the record a statement had fallen only nine per cent. Ma- Get proflts out of the radio game without investment on your part, without buying a large stock of goods, or of car- chinery costing for that the cost production of these $165,700 and good maintaining a store or Investing In shares of stock. We riages was about $23,000 each. At this twelve years was sold for $35,600. are a company distributing the highest grade radio re- rate the total cost of production was about Henry Moss & Company sold the ceiving sets. Seize the opportunity. Represent us in your community and add to your Income by dignified $4,600,000. The balance of this vast sum, Government 195,000 branding irons, or work In the great game of radio. We sell direct through or about $14,000,000, was used in overhead one. for every three horses and mules you to consumer. Our novel sales methods will make success easy and' certain for quallQed workers. No and in building an immense plant, filled the bought during war. The Govern- special radio knowledge required; we train you. with costly machinery, all of which the ment also bought 20,000 pounds of contractor now has. The company was copper from this contractor at 39 JONES-McKEE Incorporated permitted to take buildings and machinery cents a pound and sold it back to him 20 West 34th Street Dept. A New York City that cost $2,987,200 for $600,000, and ma- at 11 cents. terials that cost approximately $5,558,000 The list could be continued greatly, for $300,000. There was a bid for this but this would add little to what is THE POST CAP tECHAPEAU LECiONMAIRE latter material of aboufr $700,000 from apparent, namely, that when Uncle OU another reliable firm, which Col. E. S. Sam went into the market to buy what You rate this Buf]dy, whether you have been over- seas or not, because it is the Legion's own "Cha- " Hughes, negotiating officer, concealed from he required to win the war the organi- peau. l^otonrtaires all over the court Iru will wear them to New Orleans. Made in the overseas ntvle his associates. The arsenals of the United ized of handsome dark BLUE material with GOLD industries of the country saw him trimmings. States were clamoring for this raw ma- coming from a long way off. When Send $2.00 for a eample cap with your Post numer- als and State abbreviation embroidered. Moneure- terial and machinery, but they were handed our Uncle Sam met these industries turnedxf not satisfied. State sizeandORDER NOW. over to the contractor. There was fraud there was enacted a scene which recalls 5% Discount on orders two dozen and over. and bribery admitted by the government the story of Little Red Riding Hood. '^l.ASinrth£Ca,54'40WoodlamlAv«v.Phifa.,P4:^ : —

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—tbe world's greatest, every reason to believe that the bull dreds of British veterans how they cars, tires iodostty. Millions of to his lights. found employment rail- etc.. ne«d constant service was acting according on French batteries, Wonderful Thousands of trained men needed. "Let me tell you something. The roads when there was no work to be men who shared this bloody mess know had at home. Ask the thousands of to MicK^rS^JIlSo .|PS^aS ra^ri^de^rJln^- *Mo«ll tM?i||S|j£- things about each other that no senile British war orphans and widows what ;^S°UtoSS^';o'$to OOO Yearly old duffer in a plug hat can tell them, influence makes it possible for them to ^jfy'juTselftfffo^fJfth^^^^^^^^^ and some of these days they're going visit French war areas without the every particulai Clete in -f^^,"LJ'^allstTmk3. tractors, farm to stand up en masse and tell some of usual passport formalities. Ask gov- Ins?ra"ctiois intensely interesting fShiliKhtplants.nlaMs- easISs eZlr.s-engines etceiL . 1 batteries, brazing. these decrepit old busybodies that they ernment officials of some eight different NStfi'ng Emitted, t"etdPn'g^^'rIhine's'hoT^vo?^:'e??! to their affairs." nations international in Detroit—the Auto Center intend run own what machinery Learn gives Our School located in Heart of Auto Industra And there, without embellishment, they have found the simplest and opportunities most our students beat >"i<„«'st theXmas gift that will go big. in London, Frangois were up against his Write forspeclal Xmas Assortment Ofler ot cases in Nickel. Sliver and Gold plate, and Ster- discusses it with his organs in countries ling silver and Gold Filled, retailing Irom S1.50 to S16.00. former companions that most needed THE LYONS MFG. CO., 342-A York St., New Haven, Conn. of the trenches as music. Trade agen- they sip their wine cies and consular of- in the Place de I'Opera. Even Heinie, fices sympathized with him and wished demobilized and more concerned with him a safe journey through bank- the collapse of the mark than with ruptcy. But Casimir had been a sol- prospects of war, views it with consid- dier. Most of his employees had borne erable interest. Many a mother in arms. He knew that other soldiers many a country of Europe is coming would appreciate his plight. So he took to look upon it as the only guaran- his troubles to the international council tee that personal animosities and am- of FIDAC. bitions will not cause other wars more Quite at the same came Marcel Monet ^ To prove our unbeatable values and terrible than the last. of Brussels with a similarly sad story get your steady trade, will make 3-piec,e. euit consisting of coat, pants and vest The men who carried the bayonets about clocks. Marcel made the clocks. to your measure for only $13.45. Style in the recent argument with Germany He had not quite a million of them in ebown In the picturo or any one of 185 ety)e combinations to ^^elect from. AbsolotA BBtla- are combining in an association that a storage warehouse in Brussels wait- factloD^araDteed or everypenoyback—quick. NO EXTRA CHARGES steps over frontiers without passport ing for the franc to rally enough for You pay just what we Bay. not one penny of or visa, that shows no respect for in- him to pay some of his debts. All in extras for anything. We even pay airpostage and express. You save one-bal£—like before ternational meddlers, that overlooks all all a situation quite the same as that tile war. differences of race and language, that of Casimir. The FIDAC council dis- Earn $60 Cash Weekly settles its difficulties as soldiers would cussed the matter for all of twenty min- You can take orders easy for these clothes la settle them. Eight million have utes. spare time and make 53000 a year and up at men home. Friends and neighbora buy on sight. raised their voices and Europe is lis- Then one day, greatly to the surprise SEND NO CftSH. faL\^vgoTee"odTi! tening. The "New Europe" is coming of international chambers of commerce - BIG SAMPLES into its own, and it is a Europe that and similar trade agencies, Belgium FREE New samples show latest styles and 80 real cloth samples. Buy at Inside Whole- has studied war from the firing step and Czecho-Slovakia simultaneously esle prices. Write now for Big Free Outfit. and doesn't think much of it. announced the completion of a recipro- WASHINGTON TAILORING CO. So far the accomplishments of the cal arrangement whereby Czech organs Wholesale Tailors Oept.J.302 Chicago association have been far from theo- were to be admitted to Belgium duty BECAME AN EXPERT retical. During the first two years of free and Belgian clocks were to receive its existence there was a disposition on a similar courteous reception in Czecho- the part of many politicians to treat slovakia. it as an organization more vocal than Other plans' of reciprocity, less spec- effective, a beautiful typification of tacular but no less important in their ;b. Thousands of firms ^untantB in U. S. Many comradeship and the abstract beauties results, have made it possible for arniDg S3. 000 to SIO.OOO a year. We train you thoroly by mall in spare time for C. P. A. examinations or executive accounting posi- of the brotherhood of arms, a lovely French veterans to receive all benefits tions. Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary to begin. The course is under the personal supervision of William B. Caetenholz. A. M., society of flag wavers that would never given ex-service men in Belgium and C. P. A., former Comptroller and Instructor, University of Illinois; also former Director of the Illinois Society of C. P. A. 's. and of the upset any good political berths or do .vice versa. Through this arrangement National Association of Cost Accountants. He is assisted by a large staff of C.P.A. 's, including members of the American Institute of Ac- any good for its members. But the a Belgian whose wooden leg wears out countants. Low tuition fee—easy terms. Write now for information. LaSalle Extension University, Dept. 9361-HA Chicago politicians are doubting the worth of in France has only to report to the The Largest Business Training Institution in the World their diagnosis just now. Ask hun- nearest French army medical depot to SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 PAGE 21 obtain a new issue. American soldiers bring the vast American membership to and former service men in trouble are as active a participation as that of the assured of legal and medical advice in other units, and for this reason look either of these countries entirely free upon the coming session as vital. of charge. Plans are now afoot to make Probably because the Federation was these agreement common to all of the still busy with problems of organiza- Allied nations. tion, little propaganda was done after Very recently one of the great pow- the first international conference was ers wished tabulated information con- held three years ago. For this reason, cerning the nature and action of all some Americans, full members through legislation relating to veterans The American Legion, view the asso- What $10 Can Do throughout the world. A harassed ciation with a certain skepticism and diplomat in Paris received his instruc- debate the possibility of its existing Ten dollars spent is just that much tions and looked about helplessly for when it is already in operation. The money gone forever. Ten dollars saved some machinery that would enable him New Orleans Convention will do away is that much to the good. Ten dollars to obtain the information during the with a lot of that and bring the addi- saved and invested at 8% each week or next five years. There was just one tional strength of moral support to an each month will start you on the road to agency through which the iViaterial for entente as practical as it is potent. success. The problem is, how to save this tabulation could be obtained with- Because of the fact that each nation and invest regularly, for without some out months of inquiry, labor and grief is allowed five delegates to the directing outside help your money will almost —FIDAC. He laid his problem before council of FIDAC but only three to the certainly "get away" from you. the council and get his report in a week. convention, the men who will come to Invest your savings on the partial payment plan It was not so long ago that two New Orleans from Europe have not in Miller First Mortgage Bonds, which pay 8%. Interest at this high rate, if you use it to help Americans found themselves in a Rou- yet been named as this is written. But pay for j'our bondp, will accumulate very fa^t. manian jail in circumstances entirely from the personnel of the council it is \V'e ha\-e figured that in sixteen years, on this outside of diplomatic control. The men possible to forecast that the delegation plan, you would accumulate just twice as much were native Roumanians, resident in will be one of the most notable features as you actually saved out of your salary. Write today for a story, "Mr. Runner's Budget," which America, who had fought in France of the annual Legion meeting. will sl'ow you how one man worked this plan. the United States Army from Jan- Important of the new Europe are with men 8% Bonds of $100, $500, $1,000 uary, 1918, to the finish. While fight- on the FIDAC directorate, men who 8% First Mortgages from$l,000 up ing this war they arrived at the age have already made felt the unasserted Partial payment accounts invited that should have seen them in the mili- strength of the ex-service man in Eng- tary service of their native land. Ob- land, France, Belgium, Italy and the G.L.Miller viously there were extenuating circum- new countries. Charles Bertrand, stances when they failed to appear for president of the Federation, is a power BOND & MORTGAGE this period of drill. in the French Chamber of Deputies, Company After the war both young men went and through his connection with the Florida's Oldest First Mortgage Bond House back to Roumania and were promptly soldiery of all the countries that fought 706 Miller Bldg. Florida arrested. Then there was a pretty side by side in the late war is a figure Miami, mess. The prisoners appealed to the of international importance. He at- G. L. Miller Bond & Mortgage Company United States, which was unable to in- tended The American Legion Conven- 706 Miller Building, Miami, Fla. tervene because of their very patent tion in Kansas City last year and it is Please send me the story entitled, "Mr. Bunner's Budget" Roumanian citizenship. The Rouma- nearly certain that he will be one of and detailed description of your latest 8% bond offering. nian government would not listen to the representatives of France at the Name their plea that they had done their mil- New Orleans session. Address itary service in the war It was only Great Britain's choice of delegates is when one of their former companions wide and remarkable. Ernest B. B. City and State in arms took their appeal to other com- Towze, one of the founders of the Brit- panions in arms that they found them- ish Legion, and active in the formation selves released with apologies, through of FIDAC, was blinded during the I.N V EN TOR, S the machinery which FIDAC, by means South African War and awarded the who derive largest profits know and heed certain of its international character, was able Victoria Cross. In 1914 he resumed his simple but vital facts before applying" for to put at the disposal of diplomatic uniform and with the special permis- the INT authorities. sion of the War Ministry went to the J^T E T, S Inventors There is no limit to the Federation's front to give in the promotion of a Our book Patent -Sense , for and Man- opportunity. Through Paris, just now, morale a service that he could not give ufacturers. gives those facts: flree. Write Lacey&Lacey. F St,Washington.D.C the rumor is being circulated that the under arms. At his side on the FIDAC 643 Federation Interalliee des Anciens board sits Major General Sir Fred- ESTABLISHED 1869 Combattants is to be given a voice in erick Maurice, K. C. B., who also has the Inter-Allied Conference. The been mentioned as a possible repre- FIDAC directorate denies such ambi- sentative of Britain at New Orleans. tions and reasserts its platform of no Frank Dudley Taylor, active in the TRAPS-GUNS political interference. British Legion and already a man of Hunting Search Lights, Animal Baits, and all But the new influence in world af- note in England, is favored by a large Trappers' Supplies at lowest prices. Write for Trappers Guide, Catalog of Trappers Supplies. fairs the veteran voice in the govern- group of veterans because of his — out- Game Laws, Fur market information. All sent ment of France, Britain, Belgium, and standing ability as an organizer. An- Free. the other nations of the old alliance—is other who may be chosen for the Amer- E. W. BIGGS & CO. clamoring for a new deal. Wherever ican mission is Lieutenant Colonel 190 Biggs Bldg- Kansas City, Mo. one travels one may hear the ex-service George R. Crossfield, who lost a leg man discussing his probable lot should during the war and wears a D. S. O. Ho there be another war. The man who is still active in British military circles Use Insyde Tyres fought realizes that any war within the despite his physical handicaps and is Positively prevent punctures and blow- next twenty years must be fought one of the most popular men on the in- outs. GivedoubletlremlleaBe, any largely by the men who bore the brunt ternational board. He attended the tire- old or new. Use over and over will I again. Old worn-out casines of the last one. That being the case, 1921 National Convention of The Amer- ' give three to five thousand miles he is not modest in his demand for a ican Legion. more service. Car owners save S.'jO ^ -e * ' • Tear. Over one hundred tiloasand satisfied cna- vote on any new and improved plan for Ezio Gioja, whose name comes natur- /MS^^ryP* tomers. Low priced. Special representatlveo wanted. ACCESSORIES CO., B-1206 Cincinnali.Ohio disrupting the peace of Europe. ally in connection with that of Colonel AMERICAN And it is a safe bet that he is going Crossfield, is president of the Italian to get what he wants. delegation and quite the most remark- HOW DOES YOUR WIFE DRESS? able man on the directorate from the are no longer dependent on expensive Dress- Something That Works Women viewpoint of ingenuity and persistence. makers for well fitting, becoming gowns. Any girl, 15 OR OVER, can In 1(1 weeks, using spare DELEGATES of the Federation His right leg was shattered by a shell moment-s, learn to DESIGN AND MAKE gowns, waists, skirts, lingerie, coats and suits. Interalliee des Anciens Combat- in the attack at Vodice. Two amputa- Over 13.000 women are doing it. Your wife can do it. tants are coming to Orleans this tions necessary Gioja dis- Many women start "STYLti SHOPS" in their own New were and was homes making year prepared to demonstrate the prac- charged, a helpless cripple, beyond the $35.00 to $75.00 A WEEK ticability of their organization, its aid of any ordinary artificial limb. S«mp1« lesBODB and full inf^rrrtdtmn fr**. R^nA us the name of yo'ir wife or iw^ethfurt for *hnpi* strength and efficiency. They hope to In this situation he passed a profit- Franklin Institute, Dept. J700, Rochester. N.Y. , —

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able week designing a leg to fit his own In Paris, representing United States requirements. He supervised its man- former service men on the FIDAC di- ufacture in an Italian surgical goods rectorate, are Mr. Ward, vice president WILSON house, donned it as soon as completed of the society, Benjamin H. Connor, and put his best foot forward in a ser- commander of Paris Post, American Athletic Equipment ies of laborious exercises. As a result Legion, and Mr. Kipling. Gioja today not only walks as well as France's delegates are elected by a For your track meets or ball teams, for your he did before the war but plays an large number of societies : Union Na- sports and your gymnasiums you can indoor — tennis can run tional Combattants, of which Gen- get Wilson equipment which exactly meets excellent game of and des the requirements. Designed by experienced with considerable grace and speed. eral Leon Durand is president—800,- sportsmen, built in Wilson factories, guar- During a recent meeting of the direc- 000 members; Union National des anteed by the Wilson name—this equipment Colonel means service and accuracy which will help torate at Strasbourg, he and Mutiles et Reformes, an association of your game. Crossfield marched for two hours with soldiers authorized to wear the wound troops and only their intimates knew chevron, represented on the FIDAC Get this new book of of their lack of normal marching executive board by M. Teutsch—500,- equipment. Gioja was wounded four 000 members; Ligue des Chefs de Sec- "Inside" Baseball times before his discharge from the tion, M. Binet-Valmer, president over 200 pages, 40 illustrations aid 17 Italian Army and thrice decorated. His 50,000 members; Poilu de France, M. chapters of real inside stuff which will help place on the Italian delegation to New Blum, president—100,000 members; the player, the coach, the manager, the fan. Recommended by the most famous "big Orleans is virtually assured. Association de Sphinx, a society formed leaguers"—written by a man who knows the Roger Marie d'Avigneau, general by former army interpreters, M. Kohn, game. Your money back if you don't feel it's secretary of FIDAC, who probably president 10,000 members; Camarades worth twice the price. — At your dealer's or use the coupon. will be among the three chosen to rep- de Combat, Captain de Senechal, pres- resent France, is active in politics ident—50,000 members. The present despite the fact that he is carrying delegation to FIDAC consists of Pres- E. CO. THOS. WILSON & seventeen bits of H. E. shell in his body. ident Bertrand, MM. Pierre Meyer, 707 N. Sangamon St., Chicago D'Avigneau, wounded in seven places Blum, Beauregard, and Ternisien. Enclosed is SI for the Science of Baseball. It is un- derstood that If I am not entirely satisfied I can return on the first day of the Crown Prince's the book within Ave days and get my money back. attack at Verdun, remained in the line Italy's Strongest Society Name. three days and assumed full charge of ITALY, like France, has distributed his company, which had lost all its of- its former combatants through sev- Address.. ficers. He refused to accept the Me- eral societies of which only one, the So- daille Militairo for this feat on the Italiani, City State.. cieta Combattenti e Reduci done more than Send only SI. 00. ground that he had no has completed organization sufficiently the other men of his unit. to gain a voice in the international con- Cabot Ward, vice president of the ventions. Admission of at least two Federation, is commander of The other societies is now under considera- lenty of American Legion Department of Con- tion. Dr. Cappabianca is president of tinental Europe. At various times the Societa Combattenti and shares PEP here! after his graduation from Harvard with Signor Ezio Gioja the vote of "Three Blind Mice'" is one of the Law School he served as general audit- Italy in the conference. Snappiest. I'eppiest art pictures on the or and governor of Porto Rico, mem- of veterans market. An unusually interesting con- In Belgium most the war ception of a pretty girl in a captivat- ber of the United States Argentine belong to the Federation Nationale des ing pose. Handsomely lithographed in of warm, attractive colors on fine card stock, Commission, park commissioner New Combattants under the leadership of 10 X 27 inches. Suitable for hanging or York City, captain of artillery. New M. Janne. Other FIDAC delegates framing. York National Guard, major of avia- from Belgium are MM. Julien David, 50c each postpaid—stamps or coin tion, and lieutenant colonel, Intelli- Scoutteten, Paradis, and the Belgian TOLMAN PRINT. INC.. BROCKTON. MASS. gence Section, General Staff, A. E. F. Deputy Van Remsortel. He has been awarded the United States Roumania's veterans have only one D. S. M., the British D. S. 0., and the society, the Uniunea Nationala a Fos- Serbian Order of the White Eagle. He tilor Luptatori. Their delegates are is also a Commander of the Legion of Dr. Vergil Serdaru, the president, and Honor. Trajan Oliva, F. Constantinesco, Julius

Legs will appear Straight if you wear Arthur W. Kipling, another Amer- Yanculesco, and K. G. Glod. ican, to whom is due much of the credit Serbia's society, the Udruzenja Re- Straightleg Garters for the basic idea and organization of jervnich Ofl^cira i Obvenika Einovierog Great improved invention. Combination FIDAC on its present businesslike Reda Ministartvo Pradde, i? represented hose supporter and pantleg straightener. lines, has a war record that began while the president, M. Milan Dj Rados- Quickly adjusted to fit various degrees by of bowlegs. Easy to put on and to wear Big Bertha's forerunner was still talk- savljevitch, and M. Yourichitch-Stourm, as ordinary garter. No harness or pad- ing to Liege. He was one of the foun- secretary of the Serbian legation in ded forms. Improves appearance won- in derfully. Write for free booklet, mailed ders of the American Ambulance Paris. in plain envelope. France, and finished the war on the Czecho-Slovakia is given a voice in S-L GARTER CO., 604 Davies BIdg., DAYTON, 0. general staff of the A. E. F. He has the council through the Society Dru- been decorated by half a dozen nations zina by President Henry Holecek and with orders which include the Amer- MM. Podraski and Gindra. ican D. S. M. and the French Legion The unwritten treaties that made of Honor. corned willy common property in the The international character of trenches are the basis of FIDAC'S con- "ee Catalo; FIDAC becomes evident to anyone who stitution. The forty men who take their 'of Money S avin^ cares to read its roster of delegates. seats about the table of this interna- Eight nations have been admitted to tional council differ in dress, speech, Bargains full membership so far: France, appearance, customs, manners and Bargains In automatics, shot ^jtf Great Britain, Italy, United States, of thought, but they have one sruns, fiahlnff tackle & otlier t»' mode sporting Items awatt those vV^ less fa- who send for this CA. Czecho-Slovakia, Kingdom of the Serbs, community of interest which , bit. beauti-X O,^^ 4 Ifully illustrated free catalog. \V -Ont Croats and Slovenes, Roumania, and vored but more famous diplomats can 5njoy sensationally low prices. \ A^rlte now for your free cop7.\i- /lO^ |Paramount Tradtns Company Belgium. It is probable that Poland never have—the comradeship of arms. will have made formal application for They have arguments, these men. admission before the New Orleans Nationalism cannot be forgotten in Convention. such a polyglot assemblage. They fight I5IIEATEST All of the British delegates are mem- with all the vehemence once seen in WQND£R> bers of the British Legion. T. F. Lis- the French when they used to deny the J THE ONLY GENUINE INSTRUMENT \Late&t European invention ter, an enlisted man, is chairman of the heaven-sent right of the Americans to \become Popular Play jfhwJAIZYFLUTA!^^, _ -.^^-^..—^ Legion and a delegate to the executive steal their horses, or in the British i^^Required. Great council of FIDAC. Major William Bar- when Tommies thoughtlessly expounded ntertainmeni forf^rhn is question of the POPULAR FREE low another delegate. The other heresy on the who won ^CND NOMONEY Pay Poitman on arrival British representatives are Lieutenant war. But the fights begin and end in E ORIOL CO. l5PARKR0W.N.Y.C^i'2''s5 Colonel Crossfield, vice president, Gen- the council chamber and the final vote V5 ^ PL*r IT WITHOUT LCAttNlNt^ eral Maurice, and Mr. Taylor. restores the council to solidarity. SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 PAGE 27

TAPESTRY Cannes fails, Genoa fails, the Hague RUGS fails—unrest in Germany, acrobatic The Whole Story currency in a dozen countr-es, mount- Special Offer ing taxes, careening prices, riot, revolt, SEND assassination and rumors of war—the for$22Z world is in a sad mess with no favor- at a Glance NO able reaction to the one time infallible MONEY political paregoric. But behind it all often in LONG WEARING little rugs for a is an influence entirely new to history, You have been arguments about hundred and one places in your an organization of Frenchman and certain phases of the Great War and have home. Size 4 feet by 2 34 feet. wished that you had a book that would give Just right for in front of the bureau, Britisher, American and Belgian, Ital- dresser, piano, sofa or the threshold. you (|uickly the real facts- Y'ou have been Easy to Clean. Made especially for ian and Czech and Serb and Roumanian, called on to discuss the war among friends, U3 of a fine, strong quality of tapes- unbound by the red of perhaps in public; your family has wanted try that will withstand wearand tear. tape precedent, Good desitrns in a variety of colors. to know the inside facts. People naturally Send No Money, pay postman $2.97 unused to wire-pulling and blind to pluapostageon arrival. SendOTdersto expect the veteran to know the inside story of THE TREASURE.CHEST surface indications—men whose inter- Ave.. N.Y.C. the great campaigns Dept. 73. 842 Madieon ests have been welded in fire. Send for Free copy oj The Treasure Paris, September 1st. Y'ou need the official information—the Chest government's own story of the thirteen Amer- ican Battles and the recruiting, training, Department Conventions equipping, transportation, finances, health and casualties, divisional records, names of honor New Hampshire men, incident to our army of four million. That book is Finances : Insti-ucted the department adju- tant to submit to each department convention HUNTING COATS a financial statement as of December 31st and also a semi-annual statement as of June 30th. The Official Record of the

Hospitalization : Highly commended the at- of 8 oz. olive tan Made titude of the National Rehabilitation Committee United States' part in the duck; lined, front opening in its exposure of the opposition of General pockets, corduroy collar, Sawyer to the hospitalization program. Great War Land Settlement: Favored government three flap pockets, double land grants in New Hamphsire to ex-service men in stitched, strong and serv- order to further the wetfare of the veteran and It is just the book you have been waiting to .stimulate agriculture iceable. Sizes 36 to 46. in the State. for—the real facts of your own part in this Si:uvirE : Recommended that post officials who struggle—with diagrams, tables, maps, pre- fail in handling Veterans Bureau cases to ob- GET OUR LOW PRICES pared direction of the Secretary of tain the desired results communicate with de- by War. Other outdoor clothing general for wear at partment headquarters for action. It cost your government a million dollars to similar low prices. Write for FREE big cata- Tercentenary Celebration : Opposed the ac- prepare the material for this volume. You logue 141 and winter supplement. tion proposed to celebrate the tercentenary of can get it for $3. This Official Record is RUSSELL'S. Inc. the founding of New Hampshire the last full covered in khaki and contains 320 pages. ARMY—NAVY—CAMP— SPORTING GOODS week in August, 1923, on the ground that it 245 W. 42d Street New York interferes with the Veterans' Association Week, It should be in every American Legion Post which has been celebrated during that period in and Auxiliary library—every Legionnaire and at August The Weirs since 1883. Auxiliary member should have it in their Panama home— it will settle all discussions and argu- ments about who was who and what was what Americanism : Endorsed the National Essay in the greatest of wars. Contest and recommended that it be given wide An opportunity for a legionnaire with sales publicity in the Canal Zone. owe it to yourself to send for and organizing ability goes to You this who the Con- Legislation : Endorsed H. K. Bill No. 4 which book. Do it now, and %ve will forward vention to realize a big profit on investment provides for pensions for the widows and chil- dren of Spanish-American War veterans. you FREE a great collection of official of time ONLY. No money necessary. Write, Casualty Pictures for which the Signal Publicity : The Atlantic Observation Post, BORY OSSO, Agent for Reni-Mel, painter of publication of Elbert S. Waid Post, was adopted Corps would charge you $4.50. You won't as the official department paper. "AIMERICA," 1457 Broadway, New York, N. Y. regret ordering this book. Your money Reunion Day: November 11th .was desig- back if you are not entirely satisfied. A nated as an annual reunion day for Legionnaires medallion of captured gun metal goes in the department. No business will be trans- acted at these yearly gatherings. with each copy: Just sign below and mail to US: PATENTS Secured Constitution : A new department constitu- Prompt service. Avoid dangerous delays. Send for tion was adopted. Hospitalization : our "Record of Invention" form and Free Book Favored home treatment of many of the disabled veterans now in hos- telling to Obtain a Patent. sketch or National .\lumni Association How Send pitals. model for examination. Preliminary advice with- 30 Church St., New Y^ork, N. Y. Legislation : Recommended that the State out charge. Highest References. Write TODAY. Legislature pass a bill legalizing boxing con- Please send me your Official Record of the L. Co., Ouray Bldg.. tests under certain conditions and permitting J. Jackson & 312 United States' Part in the Groat War. Washington, the playing of Sunday baseball in the state. D. C. Within five days I will either return this Urged President Harding to sign the Adjusted volume or send you $3 in full payment. Compensation Bill as soon as it was passed by the Senate, a copy of the resol' tion being tele- MONEY graphed to the President. Name. Arkansas FOR YOU Address. BUDDY! Military Affairs : Opposed reduction of The American Legion Weekly wants your U. S. forces and petitioned Congress to put the spare time. Buddy, and will give you a big army and navy on a more substantial basis. pile of it. money for Publicity : Endorsed the work of the depart- ment publication. The Arkansas Legionnaire, Rabbit Only Legion and Auxiliary Members Can Profit! and declared that same should be given whole- Our money goes to Legion and Auxiliary hearted support. FREE members is Book only. This projiosilion not U. S. Veterans Bureau : Approved the work offered to others and none need apply. of the district rehabilitation committee which Members of the American Legion and the pointed out the evils existing in the government Illastrated. Facts afioat tbeeasy, Auxiliary are the owners of this magazine. treatment of disabled. profitable borne industry — grow- ing domestic bares for meat, for, Through their loyalty to it . nd their efforts fancy. Little space—cheap equip- to make it grow, it has become the fourth Outfit Reunions and Notices ment. Big demand. We boy all largest weekly magazine in the United you raise at $7 to $18 per pair. States. That is reason are spare into cash. the we now /CONTRIBUTIONS for tins column must » Turn your time offering Legion and Auxiliary members the Book free — write now. he received three teeeks in opportunity to make money in making their ^ advance of the events with which they are concerned. magazine first-ahead of all. "standard food & FUR ASS'N Company L, 308th Inf., Drv. Third an- Your Dank Account Will Grow With Your Magazine 77th — 403-B Broadway New York City nual reunion at the Hotel McAlpin, New York The demand for The American Legion City, evening of Nov. 11. Address Jerome Weekly is great. It is easy to sell and the Kaufman, 173 East 124th St., New York City. profits are generous. You will be sur- 317th Field Signal Battalion —Annual meet- prised to see how rapidly your sales will incT, reunion and dinner at Boston, Oct. 14. Ad- come in and your earnings increase. Sell us dress John J. Doyle, 32 Rose St., Somerville, your spare time to sell The American Legion Mass. Weekly. Write and ask us what will be 14th Engineers—The publication committee paid you for your spare time. Use a penny of this regiment has finished preparatory work post card print your name and address and on the regimental history and wants to know Automnbilp decorations. Post banner on it plainly. Just say on the card: "How how many former members of the outfit desire memhprship hiittona, seal presses, much will you pay me for my spare time?" athletic emblems and a score of other copies before publication is begun. Address H. stin^ the LeKion Address : R. Wheeler, Treasurer, B. & M. Railroad, Boston, The Circulation Bird Mass. AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY 69th Balloon Comp.'VNY—Former members Emblem Division, Na^onal Headpuarlcri» G27 West 43d Street New York City interested in holding reunion write Ian F. The American Legion, •• Howell, 016 Miller av., Columbus, O. Indianapolir PAGE 28 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY IfstheDiumtKat PutsthcKick Added Starters for the in aBand r»OUR PostBand National Athletic Meet needs a good drum to put the punch in- National Athletic Commission has extended the time limit for filing marches or dance to THEentries for the championship events at the Fourth National Convention music. Leedy Snare in New Orleans from September 15th until October 1st. Applicants Drums and Bass should send their entries to the commission at the Grunewald Hotel, Drums are used by New Orleans, so they can arrive by the latter date. Heretofore, applications military and circus bands for entry have been made to the commission at Indianapolis. and dance and phono- If you plan to enter the championships in any of the events track, swim- graph record orchestras — ming, boxing, wrestling, rowing, tennis, shooting, golf—fill out this form, name because they're made right by peo- the events, and mail to James R. Murphy, chairman of the commission, care ple who know their stuff. The of The American Legion National Convention Committee, New Orleans. new Leedy Catalog of Drums, Xylophones and Drummers' Ac- cessories shows you just the drum vour Post Band needs. Sent FREE. Name Address Write TODAY. Post Department ...... LEEDY MFG. CO. ff^orld's Largest Drum Factory Record Hotel Reservations. 1013 E. Palmer Street - Indianapolis, Indiana

pALIFORNIA STATE LAND BOARD has for sale Events ^ desirable Irrigated farms, twenty and forty acres, Id San Joaquin Valley, only requiring five per cent of pur- cliase price; remainder in semi-annual installments ex- tending over 36 H years with five per cent interest. Money advanced for improvements and dairy stock. Splendid communities being established. You can farm all year in California: all deciduous fruits profitably grown: al- falfa paying crop. Ideal conditions stock and poultry. Nowhere else such a combination of winterless climate, Signed sunshine, seashore, mountains, fertile valleys, paved highways, efficient marketing associations, excellent schools. Illustrated folders mailed free on request. C. L. Seagraves, General Coloniza- Mail to James R. Murphy, care of The American Legion National tion Agent. Santa Fe Railway. 950 Railway E.xchange, Chicago, III Convention Committee, New Orleans, La. BUSINESS MAN WANTED to supervise distribu- tion of auto specialty. Right opportunity for hustler; will back you Keeping Step with the Legion with local advertising; small capital required. (Continued from page 15)

MOTORLIFE MFG. CO. the post charges for dues. The two able to pay the entire membership fee at 115A South Daarborn St., Chi cago Washington posts are apparently play- one time. We allow him to pay one dollar ing the game dead safe; the hundred- and then we execute a note for the balance, Why Toil at Uncertain Jobs? dollar memberships they sell will easily payable at the rate of fifty cents a month. When you may be selected pay dues every year, and with no pos- We are finding this method very satis- for Gov't Railway Mail sible chance of losing any part of the factory and helpful to the posts. Our mem- Clerk. Appointments every principal, which will give the holder a bership fee was $3.50 a year, but has been state. Expenses paid ; v.i- cation and sick-leave with sort of insurance policy, all paid up. reduced to $2.50. pay: No strikes or shut-downs', But a few posts are trying the game out common education sufficient That's another opinion which prob- on $50 payments for life, and we have Questions free. — COLUMBUS ably will arouse some discussion. Well, Columbus, 0. heard of one in Tennessee that's get- INSTITUTE, I- 90 that's what we're here for—discussion. ting only $25 for a life membership. If any post adjutants or commanders, to This particular post's dues are only Take Me Your Dealer or non-adjutants or non-commanders, $2.50 a year, however, and it also fig- think differently, we'll be glad to hear Mr. Dealer: I am Buddy ures the life payment on an insurance from them. in the Barrel. Legionnaires basis, calculating to eat into the prin- And don't think that contrary sugges- and Auxiliary members make cipal, and still keep the money holding tions won't be in order. The life mem- me prove to advertisers who out until the last life member is gone. bership plan got some. Doubts arise, use our Weekly that they are This post has pretty good surety that for example, in the mind of Commander buying products advertised the scheme will go over, because enough Edward S. Anthoine of Maine and Ad- in our columns. The Buddy of the members have paid up for life to jutant Boyle of the same State. "In who brings you this coupon avoid the possibility of financial embar- is purchasing the following articles as a rassment through a big proportion of my opinion," says Mr. Anthoine, "the direct result of advertisements running in proportion of eligibles who would take — them happening to live longer than the our magazine post insurance experts figure for the such membership would be very small. average. Furthermore, I see many difficulties {Please fill m\) dolled lines and mail me to the the problem of dues re- which such classification would involve Advertising Manager, 627 W. 43d St., New By the way, letter National Yorl{. Thanli y)ou.) minds us of a the Com- in dividing the money with the several mander has forwarded to us which he posts." Mr. Anthoine, however, was Articles. got from Commander Q. C. Taylor of willing to be convinced, and in his let- Travis Post, Austin, Texas. We quote: ter mentioned that Past Commander Our post has created a rotating fund Greenlaw of Maine was not wholly in whereby we help the comrade who is not accord with his views.

Name of dealer. The Argonne— 1922 (Continued from page 10)

already new bells are tolling and goes off down the street to some Name of purchaser. where sweetly. A door of a bleak shanty sundown rendezvous on the bank of the opens and out steps a chuckling Aire. It is the eternal Addr across the way girl—seventeen, pretty. She swishes miracle of the renewal of life you are (Mr.Adoertiser: Readers of The AM ERIC. IN LEGION her pink skirts saucily and enjoys the watching there from the table in front Weekly use this coupon to prove to advertisers that they swing of her gold locket as she picks of Madame Harreng's cafe. Varennes are a loyal bunch arid live up to the magazine's slogan— '•They advertise—let's patronize,") her way through the litter of stones in 1922 is not so bad. —

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Nor is madame's creme de menthe to be sneezed at. She is a buxom lady with suspect hair, too rosy cheeks and a voice that can be heard in Grand-Pre when, as sometimes happens, she de- velops the notion that one of her clients is trying to evade the settlement of his just score. Her cafe, a neat barracks, was built for her by the 23rd Engi- neers, who were still fighting the battle iy else is worrying about his job or looking for work, the U. S. of Varennes when she came ambling Civil Service Employe is earning good, steady pay in a pleasant occupation of his own selection. EARN $1600 to $2300. Let me train you to pass the U. S. Civil Service Examination with * back to it. She points with pride to at high rating so you can get a position quickest $1600 to $2300 a year. I have FaKerson its concrete foundation and to the trained thousands to successfully pass tlic examination. Money refunded if un- civil Service School in a position. Write today. Service men given pref- Dept. 639A, Rochester. N.Y, to the 23rd Engineers which successful securing monument erence. MailjMau coupon forlor cai-aiut;.catalog. sir: Send me without chartre of that fine regiment left your catalog, deacribins this and other one company PATTERSON CIVIL SERVICE SCHOOL U. S. GoverDiDent positions. out in front. It is funny—isn't it—that Dept. 639A Rochester, N. Y. NameNa of all the outfits which had something Address to do with Varennes, it should be the 23rd Engineers that left a memorial. No, Varennes in 1922 is not so bad. It is no place to dwell in just now, Great Diamond but come back again in 1930. Then the alien labor will have drifted back Ring Bargaixv to the four corners of the earth whence the churning of the war had sucked them. The wooden shacks will have Perfectly cut. genuine blue-white Dia- mond held aloft on six white gold been broken up and made to heat many prongs. Gentleman's 14K Green Gold, hand- $ a winter's kettle. The town will once carved mounting, trimmed with artistio 500 more be just a cluster of white-walled, scroll designs of White Gold. red-roofed houses hugging the River Send No Money'^^^^^Zl A Month Aire. The Angelus will sound across your approvaJ. If entirely satisfied pay only $10, "THE HOUSE OF QUALITr the fields at twilight and out of the then $5 a month, for ten months until Jhe total price meadows the sheep will come jostling of $60 has been paid. sleepily back for the night, each to shows thousands of other LWSWEET INC Free Gift Book bargains in Diamonds, break away from the fold and turn in - Watches and Jewelry. Send for copy No. 1092-P. 1650 1660 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. of his own accord as he passes his own front door. Come back to Varennes in 1930. It would be well, too, to wait—if not that long, at least a little while—before revisiting Romagne. It stands now THIS IS THE battered, grimy, cheerless—little altered in aspect or in spirit since that chill November morning when the American corps headquarters parked in its cel- CHEVRON lars and remaining homes received word over the wires that the firing would cease that day an hour before It is the newsstand sign of Legion noon. Service awarded only to dealers There, too, as at Varennes, swarm the hapless drifters from the ports of who are carrying The American Africa and the Adriatic and the Far Legion Weekly. East who have been caught up as in some monstrous giant's net and pitched as far as this Argonne town to do the Do your newsdealer a service by heavy and dispiriting work on the telling him that he must boost American cemetery which lies outside. It is like a sleepy Berkshire village in- your magazine to get your busi- for a time by a howling gang of fested ness. If he doesn't carry The hunkies—uncomprehended and uncom- prehending. Four American oflScers American Legion Weekly register supervise them—four marooned Amer- a kick with him and send us a living with their wives in ican officers NEWSSTAND little frame cottages that look like the THE FLASHY RED postal card or the coupon. summer camps on some far-off Amer- DISPLAY CARD AND HOLDER ican lake. Everything has conspired—quite un- successfully—to make that cemetery Director Newsstand Service, ugly. The wreckage of the war still lies strewn around it. The ceaseless The American Legion Weekly, shifting and shrinking of the cemetery 627 West 43rd Street, New York have left the acres upon acres of graves brown and bare. And even now, after four years, a peasant will come gesticu- Dear Comrade: lating into Romagne every few days to report that he has come upon an- I've registered a kick with other American body in the woods perhaps a soldier hastily put under ground by his comrades who left a whose mall address is_ little cross of two twigs tied together to mark the spot. Then the rains in the city of State of would press the mound down till it showed no more and wild pigs rooting for their food would knock away the because he doesn't sell The American Legion cross set up as a signal. But soon Weekly. there must be an end to all this, and to all live Sign your name here spring should see the graves green and Free dealers peaceful. PAGE 30 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

Play Well in 4 Weeks Why the Contract Hospitals Must Go {Continued from page 13)

The figures submitted by Mr. Sprague and nervous eases and that on comple- show that although the Committee of tion of the $18,600,000 hospital building Neuro-Psychiatric Consultants, ap- program of the spring of 1921, an ad- pointed by Director Forbes and com- ditional 3,010 beds would be available, posed of eight of the country's most It estimated that by authorizing 3,950 —Ten months to pay eminent mental scientists, had recom- new beds under the bill then pending, Write for Free Catalog Folder telling all about the mended that a minimum of 3,950 new the second Langley Bill, Congress would Masterbilt— tbe worid'e finest Saxophone outfit. Price now lowest ever quoted— 5 days' trial—very easy monthly PByments. beds be provided for neuro-psychiatric be only providing for minimum addi- No interest to pay—no extras. Outfit includes finest nickel trimmed and richly lined ('aae. Instruction Book, Album of patients, the number of new beds now tional requirements, for it foresaw the Popular Saxophone Solos. Masfc Lyre. Carrying Strap, Mouth, piece and three fine Reeds. contemplated for men suffering from necessity of authorizing later, perhaps, "Masterbilt" Saxophones mental and nervous diseases is only 2,260 more beds. Used hy leadind Bands and Orchestras. Highest aasMtv, bollt 2,450, a reduction of 1,500 beds—this The members of this committee were In perfect tune, assembled and tested by experts. All latest k#>y imDroveraents, liirht. quick action and beautiful finish. at a time when 4,500 men with nervous Drs. W. A. White, A. M. Barrett, Sam- Write today for FREE Catalos FoWer fully doBcribinff these handsome Masterbilt outfits. and mental disabilities are confined in uel W. Hamilton, Frank F. Hutchinson, The Saxophone Shop, 423 S. Wabash AveMChfeaeo contract hospitals. George M. Kline, William F. Lorenz, Largest Exclusive Dealers in Saxophone Supplies In the World Director Forbes, in asking Congress Thomas W. Salmon and E. G. Zabriskie. for the appropriation under the second Six of these experts served in the Army Langley Bill and for sole authority to and all but one of the six served in AGENTS: $10 a Day proceed with the construction of the France and dealt with mental casualties NEW-KANT-KLOG COAL OIL BURNER new hospitals as rapidly as possible, as they came back from the front. Of had pared the estimate of the experts the other two members, one is superin- . Intense Blue Ilk |y to 3,800 new beds, and until recently it tendent of St. Elizabeth's, the great Flame W was the general understanding that this government hospital for the insane in was the number of new beds to be pro- Washington, and the other is commis- vided. The reductions since made, how- sioner of the Department of JVTental ever, have been shown by the National Diseases of the State of Massachusetts, Rehabilitation Committee to have been having under his direction hospitaliza- due in part to the interference of Brig, tion of 400 disabled men who served Gen. Sawyer, Chief Co-ordinator of the with New England units. These au- Pederal Board of Hospitalization, who thorities are the men to whom General counsels a policy of further delay in Sawyer refers as outsiders, hospital construction on the grounds of Nothing else like It. New-patented. Not sold in stores. Veteransveterans uureauBureau i'oucyPoUrv Big seller. 100% pront. Most perfect burner ever in- economy and has shown himself to be . vented. Absolutely safe. Can't clog up. Turns any out of sympathy with the provisions of Chairman Sprague, in his letter to coal or wood stove into a, gas stove. Cheaper than coal. Popular price. Write Quick for agency and territory. the second Langley Bill. Director Forbes, placed great emphasis PARKER MFG. CO, 108 COAL ST., DAYTON, OHIO The figures submitted to Director upon the necessity for reconvening this Forbes by Mr. Sprague show the reduc- experts committee while there is still tions in the numbers of beds for neuro- time to save the original program, AGENTS: $44 a Week psychiatric patients by districts of the "It will be too late when the contracts Selling our guaranteed hosiery for men, women and Veterans Bureau. The following table are let and the buildings are under con- children. AU styles, colors and finest line of silk hose. shows, first, the number of beds contem- struction," he stated. "It would give the Guaranteed ONE YEAR • plated for each district under the rec- Legion a great deal of satisfaction and 12 months or replaced free. confidence to know that the situation Pleasant work. Handsome ommendations of the consultants' com- profits. Sell every day Id the year. mittee as slightly reduced by Director was being handled adequately and well. Often sell dozen pairs tc one family. calling together this Make permanent customers. Forbes, and second, the number of beds By committee com- Everybody Buys Hosiery to be provided under present plans, fol- posed of men who know what they are Mrs. SchurmaD averaeee $60 a montb lowing the revision of the original pro- talking about, you can assure yourself, Mrs. McClure worliine suare time. as well as the Legion, that maiceE ovei S2.000 a year. Price Bold gram by Brig. Gen. Sawyer:3,800 progress is 60 boxes in 12 hours. Noble made $35 being made in the right direction." ID one day. Act auick. Thie is the best season oi the whole year. Write Original Present Director Forbes, in a letter to Mr. ioi Asency and S^pleB* Program Plan Sprague on August 14th, makes the fol- Co.,H-4901, TbomasMig. DajtOS.O. J^istrict 1 500 400 lowing statements of policy: "The recommendations of the Com- ^lllll'^l 7 III mittee of Neuro-Psychiatric Consultants District 8 1 000 400 We Pay $8 a Day concerning the provision of additional District 9 ...... 500 400 taking orders for Aluminum Handle Cutlery Set. District 10 ...... 500 250 hospital beds are being closely followed New. Handles made of pure aluminum. Brand District 12 250 250 and in each district where they recom- Will not hold heat. Can't come apart. Written °^ District 14 . guarantee with each set. 200 . . mended that a new government hospital You take orders. We be constructed, a new government hos- deliver and collect. T°tals 2,450 pj^al is being constructed. When our PAY YOU DAILY program is completed, will have in No experience or cap- we In presenting these figures, Mr. ital needed. Big money every district a thoroughly-equipped for spare time. Write Sprague declared that the Legion will neuro-psychiatric hospital of permanent today for agency and not stop the fight until it is satisfied with construction which will sample. be capable of the care given neuro-psychiatric pa- easy expansion. JENNINGS MFC. CO., Alum. 104 DATTON. 0. tients and urged Director Forbes to "Under the terms of the second Lang- stand by the original estimates of the ley Bill the funds made available by number of new beds needed as prepared that bill must provide hospitals of fire- by the committee of expert consultants, proof construction and must include the It was the estimate made by this com- entire equipment of the hospital. With mittee and the testimony of members the money made available by the second of the committee which were largely Langley Bill we are advised by the responsible for the passage of the sec- most competent authorities that the ond Langley Act by Congress. total number of beds recommended by The Consultants Committee, after a the Neuro-Psychiatric Consultants in thorough, study of all the factors affect- fully equipped fire-proof hospitals can- CASH VALUE $165. 30 DAYS TRIAL ing the hospitalization of neuro-psychi- not be provided. If it is possible to pro- Genuine blue-white perfect cut diamonds now sold atric service men, had recommended in vide them with the sum made available, direct to you by DIAMOND IMPORTERS at wholesale February that the prices on credit at 40'7c. discount. ISKt. solid, white, program adopted be I assure you that I will do so. With ring included free. Vicarat only $49.00; y4carat feold based on the estimate that eventually this thought in mind it has $147.00; 1 carat $195.00. If satisfied, pay h down seemed ad- and balance in 10 monthly payments We guaratitee to the Government would require 11,940 visable, however, to proceed with the please you or refund your money Order direct from this beds for men suffering from nervous ad. or write for 128-page bargain catalog of other jewelry. construction of the total number of hos- $1,000,000 and 43 years experience back our guarantees and mental disabilities. It reported pitals with a smaller bed capacity in irv^3f7"iiE5r\"5IJ' that beds already ^ B.GUTTER6S0NS §. 3,122 were in exist- some rather than to eliminate certain ence in government hospitals for mental districts entirely." Say It With Menus

Nobody ever chased the festive Navy bean across a mess table and forgot it. Navy beans were beans! You liked them because you haJ to Hke them, but they filled the old hold, just the same, and fortified the gob against a midwatch on the fo'c'stle deck. Sometimes, when the hooker got to rolling, your beans would slew from side to side (of the table) like the captain's gig in a fifty-knot blow, but you chased them, and caught them, and ate them, and came up for more.

Oh, where is the bean of yesteryear? Gone, but not for- beans too, and the ham. Do it with your little pen, on the gotten. It may have taken you six months to persuade the dotted line! wife that the stove-pipe in the kitchen was really Charley Put a thousand coupons on our office plate and name the galley, Noble, reaching up out of the and now that she's in flower. " ham that won the blue ribbon when mess gear was persuaded, what good did it do? Neptune answers "None! Charley Noble ain't Charley Noble unless he totes aloft a bean smoke-screen. And (we have no beans. To the Advertising Manager. 627 West 43d St., New York City. Beans for breakfast, beans for dinner, beans for supper, like have on our family menu (name the brands): too. That used to be the idea. We used to cuss out beans I would to as the root of all evil. If a sea cook got hit on the head, all the rest of his trade might be forgotten, but he'd never forget Be how to cook beans. Qive reason. And now, beans ain't. Now that we're willing —yep, anxious — to take another bean in tow. we can't find it. Beans Ham are off the menu, and so is the old ham bone.

Somewhere along the deep-sea advertising route, 'am Qioe reason | has been knocked for a row of Eskimo goldfish bowls. With-

fill out it, Legionnaires are going to find the festive gamut a la This coupon is for all Legionnaires and Auxiliary Members to out. But 1 this line, please indicate by check the iron rations. if you are a dealer or salesman handling salesman mark dealer J We're consoled because we've got Jello, and although we're all Jello hounds, even Mr. Jello himself wouldn't ask us to Name . . , live off his chow exclusively.

The impression has gone forth that beans are no more. Address . The last bean, it has been rumored, was recently hanged for up a mess-cook. the blowing However, . . Legion has brought Post . more than one dead town back to life, so let's resurrect the

"BE IT RESOLVED, that with a Jinn belief in Ihr — Legion ADVERTISERS OUR DIRECTORY value of our inngnzinc The Amehican of Weekly—as a national advertising medium: with the These Advertisers support us—Let's reciprocate. And tell our American Legion Weekly." Or tell the same thing to realization that due to limited subscription price and them so by saying, when you write— "I saw your ad in the salesman or dealer from whom you buy thsir products. constantly Increasing cost of production, the improrc- ments which we desire to .sec in it imll only he made AND INSTRUCTION AUTO ACCESSORIES —and SCHOOLS VVVVVIOlectric Storase Battery Co possible through increased advertising revenue VVAmerican School that increased advertising revenue depends primarily I-il)erty Top & Tire Co — American Technical Society DOCKS AND PUBLICATIONS upon our support of advertis.ers in the Weekly ive VVVChicago Engineering Wks VVAmerican Pub. Co hereby pledge our support and our patronage, as indi- Civil Service Correspondence School viduals, and as an organization, to those advertisers National Sportsman THE VColumbus Institute '28 National Alumni Association 27 who use the columns of our official magazine— VFederal Schools. Ine VNelson Doubleday. Inp Back Cover American Legion Weekly." VVVVVFranklin Institute 21, 25 VVVThe Pathfrndcr Pub. Co Resolution passed unanimously at the Second VVAlexander Hamilton Institute 24 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES National Convention of The American Legion. VVVLa Salle Extension University Acorn Brass Mfg. Co 20 McCarrie School of Mechanical Dentistry.. . 22 VAir Friction Carl)uretor Co Michigan State Auto .School 24 VAmerican Accessories Co 25 VtfVPatterson Civil Service School 2!) VVVAmerican Products Co VVBurlington Watch Co VPelman Institute of America 3 Chicago Tailors Ass'n VConsoUdatpd Watch Co VVM. L. Quinn C^on.servatory Clark Products Co 22 VVJos De Roy & Sons 23 VVVVStandard Business Training Institute < 'onverse Tire Co VVFlour City Ornamental Iron Co 22 VVVVSweeney School of Auto-Tractor-Avi;iii(in . . I' Cderal Pure Food Co VVVVC. K. Grouse Co VVVTulloss School VFyr-Fyter Co VVB. Gutter & Sons 30 VVVF. W. Tamblyn VVGoodyear MJg. Co 18 Ingersoll Watch Co VVUnited Y. M. C. A. School VJennings Mfg. Co 30 J. M. Lyon & Co SMOKERS' NEEDS Jones-McKee. Inc ! . . . 23 VVVSanta Fe Watch Co 18 VVVAmerican Tobacco Co Inside Front Cover VVLightning Calculator Co VVVVL. W. Sweet, Inc 29 VVLiggett & Myers Tobacco Co Mac-O-Chee Mills MEDICINAL VLyons Mfg. Co 24 L. Mitchell & Co VBauer Black Motorlife Mfg. Co 28 & SPORTS AND RECREATION Bory Osso 27 MEN'S WEAR VVVHarlev-Davldson Motor Co 22 Park Tailoring Co 20 Chicago Tailors Association Marble Arms & Mfg. Co VParker Mfg. 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Garter Co 26 TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION VVVVHartman Furniture & Carpet Co Tolman Print. Inc 26 Aztec Tours Agency 18 Rat Biscuit Co MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS VU. S. Shipping Board 19 The Treasure Che.st 27 VVVC. C. Conn, Ltd TYPEWRITERS INSURANCE Leedv Mfg. Co 28 VOliver Typewriter c;o 20 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.. .. <)riolC:o VVSmith Typewriter Sales Co INVESTMENTS The Saxophone Shop >U VVTypewrller Emporium C;. L. Miller Bond & Mortgage Co 2.5 PATENT ATTORNEYS VVVVVLacev A Lacey 2j VARNISHES, PAINTS AND STAINS JEWELRY, INSIGNIA, MEMORIALS VS. C. Johnson & .Sons VVVAmerican I.c^-ioii Knililcm Division 27 VJ. L. JackFon & Co 27 TllE TWO. VVVTHUKE ANn ER^IC^^STRI^PF.^^AW^RD^.D_^STRIPF ADVERTISER.^ WITH US RE(!ULARLY FOR OVER SIX MONTHS. VV V.V^FRVICF —AWAUDKD BE.iINNIN(i TO AlM'EAR. GROWING IN NUMBER, AND THE VVVVV FIVE STRIPER.S ARE THEY THEY or any adyertislng of an objectionable nature ADVERTISE, We do not knowingly accept false or fraudulent advertising, - ADVERTISE, promptly any failure on the part of an advertiser to make good ^'fany r( pre is.suc of February (i. 1920 Readers are requested to report LETS LET'S sentation contained In an advertisement in The American Legion Weekly. PATRONIZE PATRONIZE Adtertising Manager, 627 West 43d Advertising rates: S3.00 per agate line. Smallest copy accepted 14 lines (1 inch). The Street, N. Y. City. —

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The man in this picture has reason to His friend has just introduced him to be ill at ease. He has attended an in- the young woman. Instead of waiting formal dinner in conventional full dress. for her to offer her hand and make the The Book of Etiquette would have told acknowledgment, he has extended his him how to interpret the word "informal" hand first and mumbled confusedly some- on the invitation—and would have thing about being "Glad to meet you." revealed to him important things to By telling yovi how to make and acknowl- know regarding an informal social func- edge introductions, the Book of Etiquette tion. The Book of Etiquette tells you prevents a great many_ embarrassing what to Wear on all occasions. blunders.

realizing his mistake, She has just signed her name in the Without the man followed the hotel register, and glanced at the names in this picture has head waiter, preceding It above. She sees, in these other signatures, the young woman. that she has made a mistake —that she is the wrong order of precedence, and he has registered incorrectly. Mistakes such discovers it to his embarrassment only as these can often be very embarrassing when he notices the entrance of another indeed. The Book of Etiquette prevents couple. The Book of Etiquette tells you the mistakes that might be made them, as it covers the whole subject about theatre, the street car, of hotel etiquette completely and au- when entering the thoritatively. the drawing room. And it tells you how to avoid these humiliating blunders.

Every one knows that table manners The gentleman at the right does not are an- .index to breeding. ' The man in know how to dance. Instead of doing this picture has taken olives with a fork, what he should, under the circumstances, and has just realized his error, as the he is making himself conspicuous by others have taken them with their fingers. standing alone while the others dance. Too bad he didn't refer to his Book of The Book of Etiquette would have told Etiquette. It tells all about table manners him how to avoid this embarrassment —how to eat corn on the cob, lettuce, and would have told him also the com- asparagus, frozen pudding. plete etiquette of the dance and of danc- chapter. ing. It is a most fascinating .

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