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Americanlegionma274amer.Pdf (9.272Mb) LIGHT UP WITH . that's always a signal for more smoking pleasure All around you, you'll see that friendly white package . that means more and more smokers everywhere are agreed that Chesterfields are milder and better-tasting . .for everything you want in a cigarette, CHESTERFIELD WINS Copyright 1939, Liggetj & Myers Tobacco Co. ..MILLIONS Darkly ByWilliam B.Johnson dnj FORREST C. CROOKS IS the night of the quarterly enter- ITtainment program provided by our Post for the Veterans' Facility. The auditorium is crowded. Prom my vantage point in the balcony I watch the men file in. They come in groups of various sizes, attended by the internes of their respective wards. Noisily they slouch along to the end of the row of chairs, filling the aisles in a manner be- speaking long training. They react, it seems to me, somewhat mechanically. Halfway down the auditorium is a row tilled with women— the patients of Ward Seven. They sit quietly, most of them silent and expressionless. Only one, whom I shall call Ann, displays animation. She, without provocation, laughs long and heartily. A note of hysteria is evident. No one notices, and again all is quiet save for the shifting in their seats of these eight hundred men and women. My gaze wanders around the audi- torium and I see many apparent reasons why these men are inmates of this Facility, which houses and treats mental cases. Some few sit there reading news- papers, which they continue to read throughout the program. Others make weird gestures, repeating them over and over again. Still others get up, walk up Permits his hand to and down the aisle, and finally sit be held through- down again. out the afternoon The lights dim, curtains part, and the Master of Ceremonies for the evening stands on the stage, bowing to the tu- multuous applause of the eager assem- blage. His jokes are received with hearty laughter, high and above all others being that of Ann. She pays no attention to the somber visages of her companions. Some- thing strikes her funny, and she laughs, ance. I notice that not only comedy unashamed. Those of us in the balcony strikes a responsive chord in the souls of laugh, too, but our tones are strangely these men— deep drama reaches through soft and we feel a sharp restraint to our George. A brave woman, who offered and to the understanding of most of them. I gay mood. The seriousness of the situ- gave her all. am intrigued, and determine to study ation permeates our consciousness. We The show goes on. Every act is received further the strange situation. remember the story of Ann. Once a with enthusiasm. The artists react most The show ends and the Master of brilliant, nurse, decorated by King favorably and give a splendid perform- Ceremonies gets {Continued on page j8) OCTOBER, 1939 ; (fforQodandcountry ,u>e associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: (7o upholdand defend the Constitution oftheTdnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent Americanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the CfreafWar; to inculcate a sense ofindividual obliqation to the com- munity,statc andnation; to comhat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood willon earth ; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles tfjustice.Jreedom and, democracy ; to conse- crate and sanctify" our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion. rThe Jimerican October, 1939 Vol. 27, No. 4 LEGIONMAGAZINE Published Monthly by The American Legion, 455 West lid Street, Chicago, Illinois BXBCUTIVB AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis, Indiana 15 West 48th St., New York City Twenty-First Annual Na- CONTENTS of the country this fall. Cunningham THE knows his pigskin, for he was All- tional Convention of The Amer- COVER DESIGN Dartmouth, a great line- ican Legion will be in session as By Paul Brown America at this issue of the magazine is being man at Dartmouth after his return THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY 1 distributed. When the gavel has By William B. Johnson from the A. E. F., and he's been dropped on the final meeting of the Illustration by Forrest C. Crooks writing football, as well as other convention, and the delegates and ONCE A FLAGSHIP— 3 sports, for the Boston Post, for a By Harry Albright visitors start homeward the editorial good many years. But his heart be- SOMETHING TO EAT 4 staff of the magazine will be getting longs to Texas and in his forecast By Leonard H. Nason you'll notice him pointing with pride together the material for the story of Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops the Lone Star State. what will have happened in Chicago. NO EVASION, NO CAMOUFLAGE 8 to It will appear in the next issue after By Hugh S. Johnson this one—November, 1939. Drawing by William Heaslip 1ELAND STOWE'S Eyes Right in READY AT THE WORD 10 J the June issue dealt in forthright By Charles P. Summerall STEAMER NASON takes you back fashion with fascist and nazi penetra- to the A.E.F. and his experiences TEN THOUSAND FRENCH tion in South America. One of the VERBS 12 therein, in Something to Eat. Clar- most interesting passages of his article By Clarence F. Hofferbert ence F. Hofferbert's Ten Thousand Illustrations by Wallace Morgan was that in which Mr. Stowe told French Verbs is a fiction story of BETTER THAN BULLION 16 about how General Carlos Quin- France in that same hectic period, By Albert Thurston Rich tanilla, commander-in-chief of the Illustration by Frank with fact and fancy mingled together Street Bolivian army, entertained him at the GET YOUR WINNING COLORS! 18 to produce a pleasing effect. Albert German Club in Arequipa, Peru, By Bill Cunningham Thurston Rich's Better Than Bul- after the close of the Pan-American BRING YOURSELF BACK ALIVE 20 lion, a true story that starts in the By Burton W. Marsh Conference held at Lima early this Philippines ends in this told me," the article and country, SEE YOU IN JAIL 22 year. "He Stowe will give you a slant on the Chinese By Jack Franklyn went on, "he was on his way to Eu- which you perhaps haven't suspected. Illustration by V. E. Pyles rope; first, to pay a personal visit to Those of you who know their old- THE MUD YOU CAN'T FORGET 24 Hitler and then to Mussolini, after By Wallgren time Navy will get a thrill out of which he'd also confer with General EDITORIAL: America first. 25 Harry Albright's account of the U.S.S. Franco in Spain. The general was a THE LAST EIGHT 26 Baltimore, and every gob, as well as big, finely-built professional soldier By Samuel Taylor Moore landsmen all, will understand how SWIMMIN' POOL—STREAM- of fifty, and he came naturally by his Jack Franklyn felt when the incidents LINED 28 Prussian-like carriage, for he had mentioned in See Yon in Jail were By Boyd B. Stutter taken his commission in the kaiser's in the making. General Summerall's HANDLE WITH CARE 32 imperial army just before the war. Ready at the Word tells you some- By John J. Noll Hitler, he said, was the greatest man thing about the Reserve Officers' BURSTS AND DUDS 36 in the world. ..." When on August CondurUd bv Dan Sowers Training Corps, a mighty important 23d German Busch, dictator of Bol- component of Uncle Sam's defense ivia, died of a gunshot wound said to forces. have been self-inflicted, General Quintanilla assumed the provisional OUT on a limb, in Get Your Win- presidency of Bolivia, by "unanimous ning Colors!, goes Legionnaire- IMPORTANT determination of the generals, chiefs Bill Cunningham, giving his ideas of garrisons and members of the A form for your convenience if yon wish about the order in which college foot- tn have the magazine sent to another ad- Cabinet." Wonder what he thinks ball teams will finish in various parts dress will be found on page 55. about the Monroe Doctrine. The American Legion Magazine is the official publication of The Amencan Legion, and is owned exclusively by the The American Legion, Copyright 1939 by The American Legion. Entered ai second class matter Sept. 26. 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the act of March 3. 1879. Stephen F. Chadwick, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Pub- lishing and Publicity Commission; Members of Commission: Philip L. Sullivan, Chicago, 111.; William H. Doyle, Maiden, Mass.; Phil Conley, Charleston, W. V>.; Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Jerry Owen, Portland, Ore.; Lynn Stambaugh, Fargo. N. D.; Harry C. Jackson. New Britain, Conn.; Tom McCaw, Dennison, Ohio; Carter D. Stamper, Beattyville, Ky.; John J. Wicker, Jr, Richmond, Va.; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; John B. McDade, Scninton, Pa.; Robert L. Colflesh, Dcs Moines, la.; Dwight Griswold, Gordon, Neb.; Dr. William F. Murphy, Pales- tine, Tex. Director of Publications James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Director of Advertising, Frederick L. Maguire; Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler; Art Editor, William MacLean; Associate Edi- tors, Alexander Gardiner and John J. Noll. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 5, 1925. Price, single copy 25 Cents, yearlv subscription, $1.30. 2 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Once a Flagship— By Harry Albright as you scan the tired old A top-ranking cruiser of her day, she EVENcruiser brooding at her moorings boasted a speed of 20 knots, and mount- just off the Pearl Harbor Fleet ing four eight-inch and six six-inch rifles Air Base at the mighty American and fourteen rapid-fire guns, she was a fortress of Oahu, the roar of naval artil- potent unit in the then reborn fleet of the lery seems to hang heavy over the green United States.
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