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Volume 1 NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919 Number 10

Labor Contractor Maru^icturer Consumer Retailer Middleman Farj»er

Prices, Profiteers and Patriotism

An Aroused Nation Demands the Cards Face Up on the Table

WHY the continued high cost of The rising tide of prices, which Sam- President Wilson to Congress. "And yet living? Who is responsible? uel Gompers calls a greater menace to prices have risen." What is going to be done about it? the nation's weal than Bolshevism, sweeps The weapons which an aroused country on. Particularly it the These questions have framed them- does smite newly is now sharpening to do battle against selves in the universal mind for many returned ex-service man and beset his this condition afford the best clues as to months. They had their origin in that uphill road to industrial reestablishment what, in the opinion of those supposedly stressful time when the purposes of all with almost insuperable difficulties. He best qualified to know, are the causes of honest men were addressed sternly to the finds the cost of living for American the phenomenon. When the railroad unselfish aim of putting the military wage-earners has risen 71 per cent, since brotherhoods delivered their ultimatum victory across. It was considered the July, 1914, the month the war began. about three weeks ago, demanding either legacy of patriotism to shrug one's Clothing has doubled in price, food has higher wages or lower living expenses, risen shoulders as he dug deeper into the dimin- 85 per cent., fuel, heat, and light the nation awoke almost overnight to the ishing family gold reserve, and say, "Oh, 57 per cent., rents as high as 45 per cent; imperative necessity of instant action. well, list. it's the war. When that's over and and so on down the Even since last Accordingly, the President addressed a the boys get back prices will come down March clothes have added ten cents to joint session of Congress on August 8, all right afterwards." every dollar they cost. laying the general plans for the great "Afterwards" is here. The boys are battle of People against Prices. He made back. Lower prices are not. The public, GRAMMAR SCHOOL knowledge of eight suggestions for Congress to act freed the now from the necessity of uncom- law of supply and demand tells upon, and explained five steps which the plaining toleration which silenced criticism us that when supply is small, prices rise. executive departments of the Government in war time, is demanding answers to these Therefore, you assume, supplies must be would take. The suggestions were: questions; and it is going to have them. very low, because prices are very high. 1. Extension of the present Food Con- matter fact, The President has been moved by the As a of the supply of many trol act so as to be effective after peace force of situation to a necessary the address pointed commodities has never been so has been formally declared and so as to Congress, drastic large. Excluding message to demanding Army stores, June 1st include in its scope not only food, but legislation of this year greater enforced by a drastic hand. saw a supply of food- clothing, fuel, and other necessities of stuffs That body has snapped out of its dream in this country than the same date life. and responded with five remedial bills. last year, the increase running from ten 2. Enactment of a law regulating the A few seizures of horded stocks have per cent, in fresh eggs to 298 per cent, length of time goods may be kept in cold taken place. Army supplies worth mil- in frozen poultry. Yet eggs have risen storage and the manner of their disposi- lions have been thrown on the market at 33 per cent, in price*, and fowls have ad- tion, if kept beyond the legal time. the lowest possible figures. An arrest or vanced ten per cent. Almost twice as so has been recorded. Investigating bod- much canned corn is now stored away 3. Enactment of a law prescribing that ies, national, state and city, are probing, in American warehouses as there was a goods released from storage for interstate prying and talking. year ago, but the price of canned corn shipment bear on each package the selling Into the crystal of these activities the has not changed. "In the combined total or market price at which they went into public is required to gaze to read the of a number of the most important foods storage. answer to its questions. It does—and in dry and cold storage the excess (over 4. Enactment of a law requiring all finds little solace. last year) is quite 19 per cent," says goods destined for interstate shipment to —

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY hear the price at which they left the from the plans of the President and ment is proceeding against those who hands of the producer. Congress, there are virtually only two hoard and those who profiteer. Much 5. Federal licensing of all corporations causes of much importance, one innocent of the former, thinks the President, is engaged in interstate commerce. enough in intent, the other black beyond doubtless due to the speculation which

6. Passage of the "blue-sky" bill now belief : hoarding and profiteering. Other always accompanies uncertainty. Sur- before the Capital Issues Committee. voices offer other causes. Alfred McCann, pluses were accumulated before dealers 7. Appropriation by Congress of money food expert of the New York Globe, as- could see which way the market was going to enable the Departments of Agriculture, serts among other things that the Demo- to swing. No one, however, except those Commerce, Labor, Justice, and the vari- cratic Shipping Board's "disguised Re- who have been and are guilty of it, dis- ous Federal trade commissions to pursue publican high tariff" keeps out of this putes the fact that profiteering has been the subject effectively. country Argentine beef which sells in the going on. "The prices the people of this 8. Providing the existing laws with ade- Argentine at 12 and 14 cents a pound, while country are paying for everything that quate penalties. on American markets beef is listed at 36 it is necessary for them to use in order cents. Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, Herbert to live," says the President, "are not FOR his own part, the President in- Hoover's European lieutenant, asserts pro- justified by a shortage in supply, either formed Congress that the administra- duction is small and out of proportion to present or prospective, and are in many tive departments of the Government consumption and must be increased at cases artificially and deliberately created would take these steps: once. Leather traders, through the trade by vicious practices which ought imme-

1. Limitation of wheat shipments and organ, The Shoe and Leather Reporter, in- diately to be checked by law." Which credits, in order to lower is a polite way of describ- the price of flour. ing profiteering. 2. Sale of surplus stocks in the hands of the Gov- HAT is profiteering? ernment. W Technically, it is 3. Drawing from storage Prices and Profiteers taking unreasonable prof- plac- surplus stocks, and its. In practice it has ing them on the market. " TJ/'HY are prices high? There are only two causes turned out to be a process 4. Prosecution of com- of much importance, one innocent enough in of playing the coward, binations of producers and intent, the other black beyond beliej: hoarding and staying at home during trades formed for the con- profiteering." the war, and stabbing trol of supplies and prices. America in the back. The 5. The utmost use of "What is profiteering? It is playing the coward, profiteers have seen their publicity. staying at home during the war and stabbing America chance while the eyes of Congress cleared decks in the back. Did it bother him that America was strug- the nation were focused for action. Absent mem- gling with a desperate joe? Hardly; he had better on the battlefields of bers were recalled to use of his time than jrivoling it away in his country's France, and right well Washington, the proposed service. Milk for the baby, bread for the poor, shelter have they seized it. Every recess cancelled, and vari- for the homeless—what did these count in the scales energy of every American ious committees com- against the profiteer's own gain?" was bent on slaying the menced with the consid- $ s|[ % s(t wolf in Europe; we had in line eration of five bills "The country is in no mood for idle gestures of pati- no time to stamp on the with the President's sug- tomime patriotism. Hunting down profiteers is a snake at home. There- gestions. The War Depart- pleasant pastime and is sure to meet with popular ap- fore, the snake has been ment announced its allot- proval. But let not Congress think the nation will be busy. Did it bother him ment by States of surplus satisfied with surface treatment. Less thought for the that America was strug- Army food at prices far elections of 1920 and more for the job in hand might gling with a desperate foe? below the best retail conceivably produce different methods." Hardly; he had better use prices. When retailers cut for his time than frivoling their prices to meet the it away in his country's official competition, the service. Milk for the War Department accepted baby, bread for the poor, the challenge and slashed shelter for the homeless its figures still further. The Attorney sist that it is European buyers who are did these count in the scales against the General telegraphed the State heads of the responsible for the prices of footwear, be- profiteer's own gain? Not enough to former Food Administration to appoint cause even at $20 a pair, good shoes annoy the profiteer. Hysterical mothers "Fair Price Committees" and investigate would not seem dear in Europe. One of might mob stores in New York's tenement any instances of prices above those set up the State Food Administrators attributes district, pleading for their babies, as they by the committees. Violations of the Food the present prices to the fact that people did many weary times during the winter Control Act he ordered the Committees have lost the co-operation they displayed of 1917-18—6,000,000 American children, to turn over to the United States Attor- during the war and have adopted the says the Department of Labor, are under- neys for prosecution. Requests for ap- slogan of "Every man for himself and the fed—but it means cash to the profiteer, propriations began to appear in Congress: devil gets the hindermost." Farmers good American dollars. A little blood on $175,000 to enable the Secret Service to proclaim the Government's fixed price them didn't lessen their value. Tory and hunt down violators of the Food Control for wheat as the source of all trouble, Copperhead pale beside our modern speci- Act, $500,000 for the Federal Trade Com- clamoring for the $2.26 limit to be re- men, outkaisering the Kaiser with his "Me mission to use in publicity, and and Money." Truly $1,500,000 moved, in order that they may sell wheat, my proud they can for the Department of be of the record they written after Justice. some say at $1.50 a bushel, others say at have their names on the pages of their coun- $4 or $5. Landlords blame it all on the States entered all try's history. *TPHE the fight with cost of building materials and taxes; * the machinery at their while command, contractors and manufacturers pass the One or two have been caught already. the press of the country more than ful- A sugar dealer in Binghamton, N. Y., onus on to labor, a«d labor throws it filled the President's hopes for full pub- sold sugar at four cents a pound above back to capital. It's the old army game licity. Rarely have we seen such sudden, the published "fair price." He was fined of passing the buck. Every man dodges intense activity and interest on the part $500. Another in New York City was the blame and asserts that every one but of every governmental agency, of the making two cents blood money on each himself is a "crook,' whereat it becomes press, and of the people as has been dis- pound of the same article. Stores of evident even to the most credulous that played during the opening skirmishes of food have been seized in Florida. But some one is lying. the new offensive. these are little cases, insignificant dealers. And what is it all driving at? Where is One fact at least stands out from the Big ones there are, who are the real prof- the nigger in the wood-pile? Judging confusion, namely, that the Govern- iteers. Suit has been started by the ;

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Government against the "Big Five," the ministration, to occupy official attention. must disappear, or the boat will be rocked, Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson, and Cu- As far back as 1912, both parties dealt and that right vigorously. dahy companies, whose control of the with high prices in their platforms. The But, say some, it is acting on a wrong packing industry the Federal Trade Com- country is in no mood for idle gestures principle to permit the Government to mission has declared to be "in violation of pantomime patriotism. Hunting down interfere with business and prices. The of the law." Within a week after the profiteers is a pleasant pastime and is sure function of the Government is to gov- Government announced its intention of to meet with popular approval. But let ern, it is aserted, and not to act as a going after them, a Senator warned the not Congress think that the nation will be paternal fix-it-all. Next, we shall have

House Agricultural Committee that the satisfied with surface - treatment. Less it regulating our hours of eating and hand of the packers could plainly be seen thought for the elections of 1920 and more sleeping. Better let business get back into in attempts to thwart the legislation that for the job in hand might conceivably its own ways. Possibly this is quite true would prevent them from wringing fur- produce different methods. but the fact remains that the powers that ther tribute from America. be have flung out an open challenge to all THE public is not unfamiliar with that the causes of the high cost of living and /^EREAL companies made 400 per cent. tendency on the part of politicians to have declared a vigorous war on whatso- ^ profit while the war was on; let us give as much attention to their own ever and whomsoever is responsible. The hope their turn is coming. Nineteen careers as to the purposes for which they country has been led to expect much eastern cement concerns are on the list were elected to office. It is nothing new from this well-advertised onslaught; it is for prosecution, charged with conspiring to the human race, and it is not difficult expecting to be satisfied. It will be a to double, if not treble, the price of the for the people to see through. Given two curious political phenomenon if those commodity of which homes are built. alternatives, one of inconspicuous but ef- who have undertaken the leadership in this Did their officials hesitate when they read fective action and the other of showy and war on high prices in the hope of playing in the daily papers last spring of the superficial "grand-stand play," it is not to the galleries have nothing substantial emergency plans to house the homeless difficult to prophesy which one the to offer; for then their desire to appear of the big cities in tents borrowed from politician will select. The millennium has before the public in the role of effective the Army, while investigating commis- not arrived yet, and it is unlikely that legislators will have opened a pit before sions discovered that building could not men in public life will refuse to follow the their own feet. go on with materials costing what they old ruts. Profiteers are not alone responsible for did? But what has arrived in this country is high prices. Dangerous diseases require A fine of $10,000 is proposed as punish- a vast impatience with any further unpro- drastic remedies, and high prices are em- ment for these gentlemen. The resource- ductive talk and soothing promises. The phatically a dangerous disease. The ful profiteer can easily recoup that small war is over now. During the past two country demands action, not talk—and sum by raising the price of his commodity years the country was willing to be told lower prices. a fraction of a cent. Verily, these men that it must be patient and pull together should have real service stripes for their and not act or talk in such a way as to part in the national emergency; and the obstruct the winning of the victory. stripes should be laid on with a double- "Don't rock the boat" was a ready and thonged lash. potent answer to murmurs of dissatisfac- How many other causes of high prices tion. But times have changed, and with there are which Congress could assail, them the temper of the people. The wise and how much truth there is in the as- ones at Washington will have made haste sertions made by not a few experts that to change also. Certain practices must the Government is not sincere in its stop; certain elements in our national life efforts and is only dragging a herring across the trail—those are also inter- esting subjects for public attention. Inflation of currency, foreign trade regulations, rates of exchange, fixed prices, laws with real teeth to deter the profiteers, each of these phases of the situation has its champion, who believes he has located the real evil. Doubtless, Congress could approach all of them with benefit. There is little to lose and much to gain. But the Government has chosen to raise the hue and cry on the trail of the profiteers. Congress will spend many days in investigating and talking, while those are not few who insist that there is enough and more than enough material on hand, gathered by the Food Ad- . 1

10 THK AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

The Million Member Drive is On Every State, Every Local Post Responds to the Call

THE big drive is on. sylvania has 226 chartered posts; Mas- Nearly 1,200 individual cases have been It began September 1 and the sachusetts reports 170 chartered and handled at National Headquarters by the

objective is one million members forty-three organizing, a total of 213 ; Iowa War Risk Insurance Division, which was for the American Legion by Legion Day, and Nebraska each have 151 posts; Texas created to offer expert and legal assist-

November 1 1 has 131, including many posts in process ance to ex-service men in all matters of National Headquarters are sanguine. of organization; New Jersey has seventy insurance, back pay, allotments, and other The last communique from the P. C. chartered and thirty-one organizing, a total forms of financial transactions with the

showed 3,232 local posts on the books of 101 ; California has chartered thirty- government which had become compli- with a membership of something like three and is organizing forty-five more, a cated or entangled during the war. An in- 350,000 distributed among all the States total of seventy-eight. ventory of this division's activities fol- of the Union. That was on August 23. High total statistics do not tell the lows: Liberty Bond cases, 340; insurance The figures now are beyond that. complete national story of the American claims, 25; bonuses, 76; insurance con-

Each of these 3,232 posts have their Legion. Several New England States versions, 211; travel pay, 42 ; lost bag- scouts out in No Man's Land where there gage, 15; personal effects, 176; allotments are still four million odd veterans eligible and allowances, 181; compensation, 75; to membership. A flying squadron of re-enlistment pay, 2; vocational training, speakers is covering a great part of the 10; naturalization, 5; arrears in pay, 13; country spreading the slogan. Going Up! lost discharge papers, final pay, a "Join Up" 2; 4; New posts are springing up everywhere, total of 1,177 cases. This summary does Legioti Posts and the new Million Member drive has not include, of course, any statement of July 8 1371 caught the attention of the country. the thousands of ex-service men and their July 137 A million is a lot, but we can make it. 9 relatives who have visited National Head- July We've got to make it, and it's up to every 137' quarters during the last three months to Legionnaire everywhere to lend a hand. July 1371 obtain information and advice, whose cases A world-war veteran has no business out- July 137* did not become a matter of official record. side of the Legion. Put it across to him. July H 1 371 Convince him. Get his name on the July 15 1 341 THE policy of the Re-Employment dotted line. You all know buddies of July 16 1755 Division has been to limit the activ- yours who do not belong. They're just ities of the American Legion in this July i 7 .. . 1756 putting it off. "Some day," they say. Get July i8yf IQOO sphere of service to veterans, to co-opera- them in now. Today. Sign 'em up. tion through State branches and local July IQOO When Marshal Foch mounts the rostrum posts with the existing re-employment July 1970 to address the national convention at . service inaugurated by Colonel Arthur July ig8i Minneapolis, November 11, he must be Woods in the office of the Secretary of

July 3...... iq88 speaking to the representatives of one 2 War. Employment officers have been ap- million men. July 25 2382 pointed in each State to work with Take a look at what the Legion has July 28 2382 Colonel Woods' field representatives in done in four months. July 30 2439 stimulating public works contracts to pro- Early in June when National Head- July 3i 2562 vide additional employment for ex-service quarters was established at 19 West Forty- Aug. 9 2657 men. fourth Street, New York City, and the Aug. 2759 Organized to provide effective speakers St. Louis delegates and temporary State Aug. 2798 to expfein the plans and purposes of the officers had settled to work, the American Legion, the Speakers' Bureau at down Aug. 13 2849 Legion had high prospects. But it could National Headquarters has divided the Aug. *4 2880 deal only in futures. Early in July officers country into fifteen zones under zone Aug. 15 2935 " at National Headquarters were amazed to chairmen. For example, Bronson Cutting Aug. 1 6 2941 learn that 1,371 local posts were either is chairman of the tenth zone which in- Aug. 18 chartered or in process of organization 3142 cludes New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and and that active branches had been estab- Aug. 19 3186 Oklahoma. Any requests for Legion lished in every State of the Union. Since Aug. 20 3216 speakers at meetings held in any of these

then applications for charters have been Aug. 21 ...... 3232 States are referred to Mr. Cutting who, arriving in a steady stream until, on through his zone speaking organization, August 23, the records of the State Or- has speakers available for assignment on ganization Division show 1,906 charters short notice. granted and applications received for an have adopted a policy of organizing a re- National speakers have also been sent additional 1.236, making a total of 3,232 stricted number of local posts, each post out by the Speakers' Bureau. Theodore local posts. From reports just received in to have several thousand members. States Roosevelt started on August 26 to make connection with the distribution of new which now lead in the list of number of a four weeks' tour of States in the Middle color design posters through members of posts organized would not hold their high and Far West in the interests of the Na- local posts, National Headquarters are positions in a table which showed inten- tional Executive Committee. Chaplain positive that the membership of the Amer- sive organization, the percentage of na- John W. Inzer, of Alabama, is making ican Legion is more than 350.000. tional service men from each State for speeches through the South and South- each post organized. But, apart from west. John F. J. Herbert, of Massachu- NEW YORK is leading all State statistics and percentages, everywhere the setts, head of the Speakers' Bureau, is branches with 288 chartered posts American Legion is organizing. Veterans taking care of speaking assignments in and 185 in process of organization, a total in Anchorage, Alaska, have sent in for New England. Eric Fisher Wood, of of 473. Chairman Ogden Mills, Secre- the necessary forms to apply for a charter. Pennsylvania, secretary of the National tary Wade Hayes and the other officers In taking advantage of opportunities for Executive Committee, has been addressing of the New York State Branch aim to service to discharged soldiers, sailors and meetings in the vicinity of New York. have five hundred chartered posts in their marines, the Legion has kept pace with At Washington, the legislative com- organization before Legion Day. Penn- its phenomenal membership growth. CCofitinuedvn Page 28) September 5, 1919 11 The Greaseball Gets an Apology By JOHN A. LEVEL

ONE of these days be- the Jerries with minor wounds fore the world is fed were on the train. At Na- up on war stuff en- mur we were each given a tirely, it might be a washbowl and a spoon good plan for some and these comprised ex-infantry cook who & our permanent mess plies a ready pen to equipment. At first the give us a good, sym- bowl was partially filled pathetic, inside treat- with coffee and when ment of "The Life of a we had drunk this we Greaseball." Not until got barley soup and a then will the tribula- hunk of bread. In ad- tions of the boss of the chow dition to this ration, however, limber ever be fully appre- the Jerries on the train had ciated or understood. Before it is chow in their packs, but they gave late and his is in too name sunk us none, although one German eternal ignominy let someone tell of the Life in "the block," at Dulmen, was a did throw some hardtack to a French- insults that befell him when something monotonous affair man, much as if he were tossing it to went wrong with the transport the and a dog. Our ration after the second chow didn't get up, or the menu carried After dining out with Jerry as a night consisted of soup, a piece of bread only the despised willy goldfish or a lit- prisoner of war, Mr. Level con- and coffee at night. At Liege we were tle hard punk. When the beans were tinuing his reminiscences in his also given a piece of bologna sausage, spilled, no matter if Pershing, Hoover, the third article of the series, "Cap- and the Germans got bologna after that mess sergeant or who was to blame, the tured by Jerry," pays his respects once a day. One Jerry, however, always wrath of the gods came down on the to the makers of A. E. F. chow. divided his bologna among the Allies, re- cook, who trailed the steaming boilers of fusing to eat any of it himself. stew for many a weary kilo, and tried to washed them down, for the sake of good We crossed into Germany at Eupen make fricassee out of the canned remains manners, following the example of the and reached Cologne about 3 o'clock one of a Texas steer in the mud, the rain others. If this had been a Yank dressing morning. We were taken from the cars and sometimes shell-fire. station, I might have ventured a quizz and placed on stretchers on the depot After dining out on the products of platform. as, "When do we eat?" but here I didn't The Germans went to the Jerry greaseballs I am there with my think it advisable. waiting rooms and were given hot coffee, apologies for everything unkind I have From Catillon we were taken but we were left on the platform and a ever said about an American army cook. to Avesnes, about twenty miles away. large crowd gathered about 7 o'clock to At least they had to eat their own chow. The journey occupied two days. look over the wounded Allied prisoners Jerry greaseballs weren't ever observed We made it in a little German transport wagon and greet the Jerries. One woman darted eating their own black bread and soup drawn from the apple. by two ponies. At the hospital in Avesnes crowd and handed me an Just how substantial was this black bread I was assigned to a ward in charge She also gave one to a Frenchman. The was well illustrated at the prison camp of several Tommies who had • poilu insisted that she shake hands with at Dulmen, in been prison- Westphalia, when some him. After ers for a couple of years. They were sur- some hesitation the woman English officers burrowed out of the prised to see a Yank and one returned to the stretcher and shook his prison underground and used the bread of them eagerly asked me where I was from, hand. as a retaining wall to keep the tunnel say- "Merci, merci," repeated the ing he wanted the address of the first French from caving in. They softened the doughboy he had seen. soldier and clung to the woman's hand. loaves and stuck them together to dry. Presently a German offered This attracted a guard, but the woman It rivaled concrete. Barley and cab- me a large slice of bread and jam. I didn't managed to break away before the guard bage soup, with a few thin threads of feel like reached the scene. eating, so I declined it. The meat, black acorn coffee and the hefty Tommies showed plain One German, a man evidently of some "brot" disgust. It was evident to was Jerry's festive gamut. I wealth, asked them that I was a new prisoner. I should me how many Americans got my first whittling of black bread at there were in France. have taken the bread and ate it when I the town of Catillon. There was an "Drei was hungry* I didn't get another chance million," I replied to his ques- advanced dressing station there and I to eat that night or the next day, tion, determined to make it enough. was brought back from the front line and the following night were "Amerika gross, gross!" he said, along with a number of wounded Ger- we well into Belgium. with a gesture of despair, and walked mans. We had been loaded on box away. The place was already crowded with cars suddenly during Leaving Cologne we made wounded Jerries when we arrived, and the night when orders several trades for food along they were nipping off little hunks of were received to evacuate, the way. We stopped once bread with a knife. When I had been "that the Yanks were com- near a field and I peddled a duly deposited on the floor among the ing." At Maubeuge we Jerry blanket for some carrots followers of the blood and iron policy, dropped the body of a which a young girl standing by a greaseball sauntered my way, un- Tommy who had died on the the tracks had in a basket. A bosomed himself to a kamerad with journey. Jerry Frenchman gave eighty francs a series of questions about my national- for a loaf of bread and ity, place of capture, etc., and then gave "FOR five days and nights another traded his overcoat for me a piece of the punk and some black " we rode the box cars and two heads of cabbage. At Co- liquid. But he was a corporal only the — death rode with us. At logne an American negro who Jerry non-coms were intrusted with the almost every stop the had been serving in the French important mission of guardian of the staff body of some Allied army joined our party. His of life. prisoner was re- name was Forbin and Forbin I took knife whittled out my pocket and moved from the The Germans called him was a big drawing card. The off pieces as the Jerries were doing, train ; no Germans Roosky—we called him little Jerries along the way soaked them up in the liquid and then died, because only Rusty {Continued on Page 26) 1 2 THE AMERICAN IsEGION WEEKLY THE EDITORIAL PC. POLICIES—NOT POLITICS

The First Step Let us establish and maintain liaison with the Grand Army, the Veterans of the Confederacy, and CONGRESS docs not appear to be especially the Spanish War Veterans. While each organiza- enthusiastic or active at this moment in the tion has its own intimate ties and proud traditions matter of providing a law to expel the alien slacker which could never be pooled, yet all veterans have from America. If we arc correctly informed the one great common meeting point —the best interests alien slacker is organizing for his own protection and of America. is going to use every effort to hold on to the rich privileges of a country in which he is only a draw- The Legion Is Watching back. INSTRUCTIONS have been issued to the Ameri- But we will venture to predict that organization can Legion's representatives at Washington to and propaganda will not save the alien slacker. The inquire closely into the several agencies that are American Legion is determined that the alien slacker charged with duties pertaining to the welfare of the shall go. It believes his expulsion is in the best returned soldier. Is the care of wounded soldiers interests of America and is not going to forget or being efficiently handled? The re-em] jloymcnt weaken for a moment in its fight on this menace. problem, war risk insurance, the investigations and Early action through Congress is earnestly to be adjustment of injustices in courts martial' What hoped for. But if the struggle lengthens into a is going to be done with the higher-ups in proven necessity for providing some new personnel in Con- cases of mistreatment of soldiers? gress even that obstacle will not deter the united Investigation of these matters necessarily must be men who were in service in effecting this first step painstaking and thorough. Where abuses arc in the new-Order-of-things. found, where inertia or incompetence are found, the facts will be disclosed and the strength of the Legion The Weekly thrown into the cause of correction. Washington AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY uses necessarily is going to be one of the active sectors for THE American Legion observation and activity. its first color pages with this issue. It is con- templating using color regularly in the future. Amend War Risk Insurance Four additional pages are also added this week and a couple of new departments for readers. CONGRESS has been asked by the American This is the tenth issue of the publication. It Legion to write a few necessary and vital began modestly with the issue of July 4 and the aim changes into War Risk Insurance so that it will con- has been to make it bigger and better with each suc- form more nearly to the wishes of those who are ceeding week. It must grow with the Legion, which insured. The demand is for (a) an increase in the it represents. Every dollar it makes goes into bet- payments for disability to $65 a month when total terments—better text, better pictures. The actual disability is temporary and to $100 a month when direct circulation is now more than 100,000. It will the total disability is permanent; (b) an increase in be several times that number by November, even the beneficiaries to include uncles, aunts, nieces, discounting the present rate of increase. nephews, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law and persons The American Legion Weekly isnot a commercial in loco parentis; (c) the payment of converted in- enterprise. It belongs exclusively to the American surance when desired by the insured, in a lump sum Legion. Its one mission is to serve those who were or in thirty-six or more installments; (d) an increase in service during the war—whose property it is. in the period of automatic insurance. It will undertake to be as aggressive as they are ag- These provisions are embodied in the Sweet Bill gressive in the social, economic and political growth, H. R. 8288, amending the War Risk Insurance Act, reform and readjustment of the country. and the American Legion regards this bill favorably There is every reason for a belief that The Ameri- with the one reservation that it be amended so as to can Legion Weekly is taking an important place permit lump sum payments for term insurance as among the vital publications of the country. well as for converted insurance and so as to place term insurance on exactly the same basis as converted Federation insurance so far as payments are concerned. This will enable the man who cannot convert his insurance MR. C. E. ADAMS, head of the Grand Army at this moment when he is lean from long service to of the Republic, in accepting the invitation of have that opportunity later. Otherwise only the the American Legion to be present at the Minne- service man in sound financial condition benefits by apolis Convention, takes occasion to suggest that all the act. veteran bodies strengthen their position by federa- These changes manifestly are necessary in the tion. The suggestion is timely. In these days interests of equity, justice—and the continuance of when the unity of action upon which the country war risk insurance. When the changes have been was founded appears to be wholly cast aside by an effected, thus adjusting war risk insurance to a peace- alarming number of individuals, a sterling Ameri- time basis and the wishes of the insured, the present canism, forged in the red sacrifices of war and apathy and even antipathy of former service men to organized to maintain those principles of right and War Risk Insurance will disappear Let us hope justice for which the sacrifices were made, is the that Congress will act in this instance without un- mainstay of the country. necessary equivocation or delay. 13 September 5, 1919

The Last Squad Returns From France 14 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

S PO RT—Edited by Walter Trumbull

The Reds lizards. That is to say it used to be con- man and, among the boxers, Willie Rit- By Frank Graham sidered so by those who never had played chie plays a good game. Other golf it. The truth of the matter is, that a devotees may be found among type- THERE was nothing about the at- man has to be in better condition to play setters, plumbers, farmers, football play- mosphere of the Cincinnati Reds' tennis than he does to play baseball. ers, prominent clubmen, women and training camp at Waxahachie, When New York Yankees were train- children. In some families three genera- Texas, this spring to presage the success ing at Bermuda some of the newspaper tions may be found traveling the links which ultimately was to crown the ef- correspondents with the team used to ex- together. forts of Pat Moran to weld the group ercise on the courts. Their efforts pro- of players under his command into a duced loud laughs from the baseball Time Changes winning team. It was, as a matter of players. The latter would inquire feel- Royalty is not what it once was. The fact, the most gloomy training camp ingly why the tennis players did not royal family of the gridiron once con- that ever a major league team has adorn themselves with pink ribbons and sisted of Yale, Harvard and Princeton, known. whether their mother knew that they but football, like everything else, ap- In the first place, Moran, engaged were out. Finally some of the diamond pears to have gone Bolshevik. just a month or two before as the suc- stars were induced to try the game. In the old days the smaller colleges cessor of Christy Mathewson to and the larger ones outside the the management of the club, had pale were merely stepping stones much to learn about the players for the big three. The Cham- he inherited, and they, in turn, pionship never went outside the knew very little of the methods family, or if it did was consid- of the new leader. Getting ac- ered a very shocking state of af- quainted with his men was, how- "Pat" Moran fairs. ever, somewhat of a simple task Now there isn't any real foot- for the grizzled Pat, who is, be Old Hercules could heave a bit. ball championship. There are They say he was the guy it known, an excellent "mixer." too many good teams that never The squad was limited to sixteen Who subbed for Atlas for a time meet. Preliminary games used holding the sky. men throughout the training trip, In up to be affairs in which the little for a number of players were And Other lifters of renown fellows took great pride- in being holding out, and injuries to some (We think we have it right) kicked about by the big fellows. of the players who reported fur- Were Jesse James, who lifted Now larger colleges have to be ther reduced the size of the band. Almost everything in sight; very careful indeed about those At that time, too, Walter Rue- Tenors, who lift their voices high; early games. They are apt to ther, who has been developed by Golfers, who lift their heads; catch some small team that will Moran into a formidable box art- But it took Pat Moran to lift put all their available material Cincinnati Reds. ist, was on the market and Moran The in the hospital. retained him largely for the rea- son that no one else seemed to The land beyond the twilight is want him. Among the missing Uncharted country still; In completing arrangements athletes was Jimmy Ring, who We know even less of spirits since for the 1920 Olympic Games to has been a consistent winner for The prohibition bill; be held in Antwerp, the Belgian the Reds this season. Last spring So we can't explain why furniture Olympic Committee has called Pat didn't care whether Jimmy Can shimmy round a room. Elwood S. Brown, director of all reported or not. Or fiddles, all untouched by hands, Y. M. C. A. athletics in the A. E. To add to the other handicaps Play fox trots in the gloom; F., to help them in systematizing imposed upon him, the weather, But when the records of the their organization along the lines normally delightful in that sec- Supernatural you scan the A. E. F. adopted for the in- Just add another miracle tion of Texas in the spring, was t e r - A 1 1 i e d tournament. Mr. vile. Rain fell almost every And call it "Pat Moran." Brown with Major Wait C. day and the condition of the Johnson, directed the games at field on which Pat sought to whip Joinville. his players into shape, soon be- In recognition of his services came horrible. In desperation, the French Government recently Pat finally abandoned the rain- conferred the rank of Chevalier soaked diamond for a section of rail- After that they wouldn't make fun of it in the Legion of Honor upon Mr. road track that stretched under a cov- any longer. As a matter of fact, they Brown and a few months ago he was ered bridge and there, for the last few used to practice it over in a corner of decorated with the Order of the Re- days of the stay in Waxahachie, the Red the baseball yard after their return from deemer by the Greek Government. It players worked out. the training trip. was Elwood Brown who introduced the This dismal beginning failed to take In a similar manner golf has fre- Far Eastern Games in the Philippines, the heart out of the plucky leader and quently been referred to as an old man's China, Japan and the Malay Archipel- he retained his faith in himself and his sport. The present amateur champion, ago. Soon after the Spanish-American players. He believed that he could win however, is a two-hundred-pound young- War he began athletic work with the and he inspired his players with the same ster and his job is that of a puddler in United States Army in the Philippines. belief. This confidence is in no small the Pittsburgh Steel Mills. There is It is the plan of the Belgian Commit- measure responsible for the gallant fight nothing either very ancient or very effete tee, for this first post-war Olympic, to which the Reds have made for the Na- about S. Davidson Herron. The runner- make a special effort to induce Central tional League championship., which now up to the champion was Bobby Jones, an and South American countries to. send seems to be within their grasp. eighteen-year-old kid from Atlanta. entries to Antwerp. Formerly; Brazil Among those who are very partial to and Guatemala have been the only Latin- Gentle Games golf are such baseball men as John Mc- American countries which have really Tennis used to be considered a game Graw, Christy Mathewson, Bob Shaw- striven for honors in the world cham- fit only for women, children and lounge key, Fred Mcrkle and Heine Zimmer- pionships. September 5, 1919 15 Fingers and Finger Bowls

is no school of manners. And boys, this is my daughter, and my WAR the bivouac, RIIS friend, Vickers." The mess at camp, By R. WILLIAM Miss on the march, the hurried gob- bling of emergency rations in a shell the wide and long-starved put it in my pocket and keep it handy. BEFORE it is not in these places that one eyes of the doughboy stood a smiling hole— Then there can't anybody swipe it." eating character- girl whose like he had never dreamed of. learns the niceties of "Will you step into the drawing room? istic Chesterfield. The ac- Without stopping to take in any details of a Lord Mrs. Van Schuyler will be down di- the fact that her hair had a cepted method of dining in the A. E. F. rectly." beyond most the "corned willy" in one alluring wave and that her eyes were was to seize "Sure," said Jim, a bit put out by the the other, gray and friendly, he stepped toward her. hand and a chunk of bread in strictly business manner of the other. then to get as much as possible of "Oh, boy!" he breathed as he held out and Taking a stiff and uncomfortable seat on into at the time. his hand. "Say, believe me, this is fine. both the mouth same a long piano stool, he gave himself over If I'd here I This system is rarely seen in the dining to wondering whether he had got into the known you would be Fifth Newport. wouldn't have wondered if I wanted to salons of Avenue and "drawing room" the proud one had in- Mess kits are not made of delicate white dicated, because there were no drawing come." "Did china, and they do not include linen nap- materials about. As he sat there two you wonder about that?" laughed rea- the girl. "Well, I kins and salad forks, which is one other timid doughboys were ushered in hope we won't disap- son why the doughboys easily slipped point you." out of the habits of eating in which they "Fat chance," asserted Jim, as he pro- had been carefully trained by hopeful ceeded to annex Miss Van Schuyler as mothers. thoroughly as though they were alone in It was not without forebodings of the room. "Do you live here?" trouble that Jim Potter accepted Mrs. So engrossed did Jim become in his Van Schuyler's invitation to Sunday din- charming companion that when dinner ner. But his perturbation was due solely was announced Mrs. Van Schuyler al- to the fear that he would get a fancy most had to shout in his ear. At table, dinner, all frills and Jim found himself seated next to his furbelows, with noth- hostess and across the table from ing really substantial the daughter, which did not seem to stay the hunger that right. raged in him about "Hey, you, Hilder, I'll swap meal time. He had seats with you," he offered. been invalided back "Oh," protested Mrs. Van from the A. E. F. with Schuyler, laughing, "you hurt my three service stripes, a feelings. Don't you want to sit bullet in his leg, and a next to me?" confiding good nature "Why, sure I do, that had made him ma'am." Jim was con- much liked at the camp. fused. "I — I — only Therefore when the wanted to finish what I woman in charge of was telling your girl the Hostess House received Mrs. Van before mess." Schuyler's invitation for three doughboys Three observant and for Sunday dinner, she turned one of expectant doughboys them over to Jim, with the remark that then lapsed into that he would have "some" meal. silent state of prepara- It was that which worried Jim as he tion that usually comes strode up the neat Avenue to the Van over the possessor of a Schuyler house. Did "some meal" mean The array of implements before him would healthy appetite just be- good, honest food, and lots of it, or did have done credit to any dentist's drawer of fore dinner. Jim found it mean lamb chops with lace papers horrors. somewhat of a distraction around their wrists and lots of waiters when he snapped out his in full dress hanging around taking things and took seats beside him. Perched like napkin, for a roll which had been placed away before you had a chance to finish three gloomy crows on a fence, they within its snowy folds was hurled across them? Well, he was in for it anyway, fumbled for easy conversation. the room by the action. he decided, and if he didn't get enough "Must be something wrong about Mr. "Here, how did that get in there?" he

he could cut away early and go to a Van," volunteered Jim. "He don't act exclaimed, and rose to go after it. restaurant. natural, somehow." "Oh, don't bother, please," protested

Just then a swish of skirts in the hall Mrs. Van Schuyler. "Cecil will pick it HIS forebodings received some justifi- warned them of the entrance of their up and bring you another one." cation when a thin, cadaverous in- hostess. "No bother, ma'am, and I don't need dividual with dress clothes and a forbid- "How do you do, boys?" she greeted another one. It didn't hurt this none," dingly proud bearing opened the door a them warmly. "Now, I don't know any answered Jim. * "Gee! Say, this is soft few inches in answer to his ring. It of your names, will you help me? What bread! If it had been the kind of stuff looked formal. But with the ready com- is yours?" This to the last arrival. we got in France it would have made a radeship learned in the trenches Jim "His name is Hilder, ma'am," an- hole in the wall." stepped forward. swered Jim, won at once by the gracious "How do you do?" he asked politely. and friendly manner of the hostess. AS he took his seat again he noticed "I'm glad to meet you. I guess your "And this is Kearns, and mine is Potter, the lines of knives and forks and wife is expecting me to eat with you." and we're all right glad to come," he spoons which surrounded his plate, and Not a word came from the proud one; continued cordially. for the first time a chill struck him. This he got a bit red about the gills, however, "And so am I to have you," said Mrs. dining out might not be so simple as he as he closed the door behind Jim. Van Schuyler, with a smile. "My had thought. Instead of merely display- May I take your hat, sir?" he mur- daughter and her friend will be down soon. ing general friendliness and a cordial mured, deprecatingly. Here they come now. Alice, this is Mr. readiness to overlook small mistakes on "Naw," replied the soldier, "I like to Potter, Mr. Kearns, and Mr. Hilder. the part of the hostess as well as of his — 16 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

friends, it seemed that a fellow must also "Well, it tasted so good I thought she bone resisted their first efforts.

show a technical knowJedge of intricate must have made it herself.*' defended "My. ain't it tough.'' said the boy, implements which Jim had completely Jim, rising to the occasion. This drew "heave-ho!" forgotten. Fingers and a spoon had forth from the girls an applause that With a playful exaggeration of effort served him well for many months, but made Jim expand. he hauled away with a vigor that split here he felt their use for such purposes "You see, ma'am, anything tastes fine the wish-bone and brought his elbow would be frowned upon. after the slum and canned willy we been back strongly against a plate of jelly that Here were forks, long and short, wide living on so long now," he explained. Cecil was about to offer him. and narrow, and knives of curious pat- "Good gracious! What is canned "Ah, Monsieur, pardon!" blurted out tern, which the Q. M. C. certainly did willy?" asked Miss Vickers. the waiter, saving the jelly by a clever not dispense to the soldiers. Before "Canned willy? That was about as acrobatic feat. Jim's inward eye rose a picture of his frequent as goldfish," volunteered Kearns, " 'S all right, Cecil. No harm done." company "dining" at the end of a week by way of definition. This did not help Jim's attention, caught by the waiter's in the Argonne; the sprawling khaki fig- the explanation much. words, was temporarily deflected from ures of famished troops strewn over the "Once in camp over there," stated Jim, Miss Van Schuyler. little open space, some of them gulping "we came to mess and found the cook "You Fransay?" he asked, seizing the down their "Manchurian" beans directly had already dealt out the bacon and it opportunity to show the assembled com- off the plates, others proving definitely was all cold and stuck to the plates in pany that he was at home in the French that fingers- not only antedate forks but the grease. You couldn't shake it off tongue. are far more versatile, while the rest even when you did this to it." The harassed waiter murmured some- clamored about the rolling kitchen as a Seizing the butter plate, he turned it thing unintelligible and hurried out. pack of wolves would attack a couple of upside down and shook it. The butter "Yes, he's French," put in the hostess. fat sheep. Then, he had sat on his pack ball dropped to the table cloth. "We have always liked the French since and eaten off his dirty khaki knee. But "Oh," he gasped, "I thought she'd our visit over there before the war. Did now he was sitting on a fine specimen of stick." you get to Paris, Mr. Potter?" old Colonial, eating from Royal Danish "Now you're shouting," agreed Jim. porcelain set on a spotless white cloth, And so the conversation turned to new with an array of implements before him fields, wherein the doughboys waxed that would have done credit to any eloquent. In his eagerness to make good dentist's drawer of horrors. Not that in the conversational line what he feared Jim knew or cared anything about, the he had lost in the conventional. Jim was pedigree of the chair or of the china; only faintly conscious that the rest were but he did see the knives and forks, and eating their artichokes with their fingers, he felt impending disaster. The ques- implements which he had determined to tion, "Will I get enough to eat?" which avoid at all costs. He had some trouble had caused him to hesitate about accept- with a spoon, but plenty of good-will ing Mrs. Van Schuyler's invitation, had finally triumphed. now given way to the question, "Will I be able to eat it with these darned tools?" FINGER bowls and bonbons appeared He was wondering whether his year at the end of the hectic dinner. The and a half of eating at army mess had fact that they appeared together prob- stood him in good stead for this sort of ably saved Jim from more trouble, as the ordeal, when the ordeal began. candy drew so much of his attention that A cup of a shaky, jelly-like substance the problem of the finger bowls was was set before him, something he did not avoided. Indeed, he found the choco- remember ever having seen before. The lates so satisfying that, with an eye to cup had two handles, which, of course, future scarcity, he managed to slip sev- were meant to be used, he thought, so he eral into his pocket without detection. grasped one and lifted the cup to his lips. "You men were all wounded, weren't But the jelly-like stuff refused to leave you?" inquired Miss Van Schuyler, as the cup, nor could he dislodge it, shake The accepted method of dining in the they were sipping coffee after dinner in the cup as he would. A. E. F. is rarely followed in the salons of the drawing room. "It was so hot yesterday I suppose the Fifth Avenue. "Oh, yes," Jim affirmed, striving to cook thought jellied soup would be nice," keep the winsome lady from talking so spoke up Mrs. Van Schuyler. "The "Cecil will take care of it," said Mrs. much to the room at large. "I was shot weather often upsets one's cooking Van Schuyler. "It's quite all right." right here." plans." "Making you earn your keep to-day, He slapped his hip smartly. Cecil," said the doughboy, as that "Bullet's still there," he added proudly. worthy was removing the butter, under "Yeh," spoke up Hilder, peeved at JIM put down the cup. So it was soup, eh? Then it must be a spoon the disapproving glances of Hilder and Jim's proprietary attitude toward the affair. The girls were using spoons, too, Kearns. girl, "you can see the lump of it under so he selected one that looked about the "Now, I got to watch my step, that's his blouse pocket there." right size and started in. all," Jim warned himself severely, and Now Hilder had not the slightest idea "Say, that's great," he said, smacking devoted himself to concentrating on the that contraband chocolates caused that his lips appreciatively, "I never tasted next course. lump, but when he saw Jim redden a lit- tle the subject. soup like that before. How does it get he kept on "Ain't that it?" he inquired. "Let's that way? I wish you'd tell me how you THIS silent frame of mind carried him his make it, 'cause my mother would like to safely through the dinner until he feel." And before Jim could deposit coffee in a safe place and know. She never does it that way." once again became intensely interested teetering cup "It's quite easy," answered Mrs. Van in the girl opposite. He did not like the defend himself, Hilder's hand crushed Schuyler with a smile. "The cook books engrossed way she talked to Hilder. down on his pocket. A battered choco- tell you how." Then he noticed that he had the turkey's late popped from under the pocket flap "My mother don't use a cook book" wishbone. Seeing in it an ally, he and fell to the floor. Red and aghast in mechan- Jim was scornful. "She can do most grasped one end of it and held it across the sudden silence, Jim obeyed everything by herself, 'cept maybe these the table to Miss Van Schuyler. ical instinct and set his foot on the funny things. Do you go by a book?" "Grab and yank!" he ordered gaily. candy. "Why, no," Mrs. Van Schuyler hesi- "And wish. Turkey bones never lose in "Oh, the rug!" exclaimed Mrs. Van tated a little, when Hilder interrupted. this game." Schuyler, starting up. "She don't cook herself, you dummy," Nothing loath, the girl fook hold of "Oh, thunder, I guess I'd better go!" he scoffed. "She has a cook to do it." the other end and they pulled. The muttered Jim, disgustedly. And he did. September 5, 1919 17 Painted at the Front

Prisoners and Wounded

1776 the "embattled farmer" of ancient peasant ladies and "billet life INstepped into a permanent niche in By CAPTAIN W. E. MOORE in France." The authorities at home the martial history of his country. wanted some thrillers for propaganda The "embattled artist" had to await the purposes. World War of 1914-18 before winning Not only did they want them but they his spurs. Spurs is no term of fancy Americans who weren't there demanded them, and in one notable in- in this case, for the eight well-known may see war as it was in paintings stance sent a scenario of what was thought American illustrators and painters who which are the result of brush and desirable in the way of scenes at the front. went to the front with the troops of the palette plied on actual fields of Since the kind of front they dreamed of A. E. F.j as official historians of brush fire. They were made by eight did not exist it resulted quite naturally and pencil, actually wore spurs. They great American artists. There is that they did not get their pictures. The were commissioned as captains in the nothing like them in the world. interchange of cables and letters that Engineer Reserve Corps. Forty of the best of these pictures, ensued, however, did result in a better- loaned by the War Department to ment of conditions for the artists, and It is told—though not vouched for by the American Legion Weekly, therein an improvement of their the writer—of the eight American official output, will be reproduced in these pages. artists that when they arrived in France for an order was issued from G. H. Q. The pictures the series and presented their orders at G. H. Q. first of requiring them to confine their activities were painted by Harvey Dunn. they were accepted as bona fide engineer to the combat area. Armed with this Captain Moore, who was there, the officers, sent down to the S. O. S. and order artists went through the St. writes something the trials given a job building railway switch tracks of of Mihiel and Argonne drives. the embattled artists. at a base port. Before they had begun as it really looks when met face to function, however, as Cubist and Im- WAR to face, and war as painted in one's pressionist track layers, their real status All were men whose names were fancy after a full course in the was discovered and they were ordered known "movies" to the public. and fictional literature are about as far back to headquarters. Whether or not apart as the sun and the moon. the track laying story is true there can. TDECAUSE in an army it is impracti- But if it is wellnigh impossible be no denying that General Pershing's for an " cable to have officers wandering around artist to see and paint troops at grips staff was considerably puzzled over the at will—and incidentally unsafe for the with the enemy it is possible to portray question of how to handle the official wanderers^—the official artists were at- all the activities of army life in the front artists. Art does not readily lend itself tached to the Second Section of the Gen- areas right up to the moment the infantry to army orders and "first indorsements." eral Staff, colloquially known in the waves launch their attack, and this the Five hundred paintings and drawings A. E. F. as G-2. Two great difficulties official artists of the A. E. F. have done. in black and white represent the work of the artists faced were the questions of They have shown troops on the march, in the artist-officers in France. These pic- transportation and information. They billets, in trench and fox hole, at rest and tures recently were turned over by the couldn't get automobiles to take them play, and as much as possible, in actual Army to the Institute Smithsonian where where they wanted to go, and they didn't combat. they will be preserved. These, with the know where they wanted to go. They These artists have done for the Ameri- 40,000 photographs and half million feet didn't know where things were happen- can army and the late war what never has of picture motion film taken by the U. S. ing. The army was pretty stingy with been done before. They have depicted Signal Corps Photographic Division in its information during the fighting period. war as it really is, as the soldier knows France constitute a pictorial record of As a result of these conditions there it who has been through it and while America's effort in the war to be handed arose back home some criticism of the the public may never fully appreciate down to future generations. official artists. Illustrators working in these war pictures, the American war The Artist Corps—if one may invent New -York studios were filling the maga- artists of the A. E. F. will have the satis- a comprehensive name for the eight—was zines with thrilling pictures of "our gal- faction of knowing that they have handed composed of Captains W. K. Aylward, lant heroes" going over the top in dense on to succeeding generations a faithful W. J. Duncan, Harvey Dunn, George masses, with "Old Glory" in advance, reproduction of Armageddon. Members Harding, Wallace Morgan, Ernest Peix- while the official artists who actually of the American Legion will value the otto, Andre Smith and Harrv Townsend. were in France were sending back studies war paintings at their true worth.

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No Man'8 Land September 5, 1919 21

The Hand Grenade (A hand grenade has been thrown through the doorway of an "abri" into the midst of a party of Germans. An incident of {hi cleaning out of the town.)

The Tanks at Seichprey — — : , —

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A painter of the Tom and Joe, two small boys aged General (question- impressionist school is eight and ten, were talking about condi- ing recruit sentry) now confined in a tions of the day as they saw them. Said "What is the rank of a lunatic asylum. To Tom, "What do you mean by the days brigade commander?" all persons who visit of barbarism?" Sentry: "D u n n o, his studio he says, "Why," answered Joe, "that was sir." "Look here, this is when they cut their necks instead of General: "Well the latest masterpiece their hair." what rank is your regi of composition." mental commander?" my The voice of an anxious mother was and see nothing but an ex- Sentry: "Dunno, sir." They look heard as the doctor's voice answered the canvas. They ask: "What General: "What the devil do you panse of bare telephone. does that represent?" "That? Why that know? Do you know your own rank?" "Please, mam, is the doctor in? My represents the passage of the Jews through Sentry: "Yes, sir; rear rank, sir." Willie is so sick he can't stand, he can't the Sea." Red set, nor he can't lay, and I'm that worried is sea?" A certain well known transport had "Beg pardon, but where the about him." driven back." among its list of various mascots a nice "It has been "Well," answered the doctor's wife, "And where are the Jews?" black and white cat. When the ship "let Willie roost till the doctor arrives." "They have crossed over." reached Brest with a ship-load of sol- "And the Egyptians?" diers, the "Exec." ordered liberty for the starboard watch. One of the gobs had "Will be here directly."— Tit-Bits. The American Legion Weekly a happy thought and took the cat ashore will use jokes and pay for those on his honeymoon en- with him. The young man that are acceptable. For the best car with his On the return trip Kitty was found in tered the crowded street printed each week, not exceeding wife. the ward room surrounded with a whole fifty words, five dollars will be suppose we can squeeze in family of newly born mascots. The gob "Do you paid; for the second best, three here?" he asked, looking doubtfully at the who made the discovery stood looking dollars; for all jokes accepted, at Kitty in awe and then was heard to crowd. one dollar. Manuscripts will not "Don't you think perhaps we had bet- exclaim, "Why, Kitty, we gave you shore be returned. This offer is limited get home, dear?" was her leave, and look what happens." ter wait till we to those eligible to membership in embarrassed reply. the Legion. It was a very rough fight that Pat and The prize winners last week One winter's day a bowlegged soldier Ike were having, but Ike was finally were: Augustine Carlson, Camp was warming himself before a fire in a knocked out. Merritt, N. J.; W. T. Marrs, farmhouse. The young lad in the home "Here, Pat, that's not right; you struck Peoria Heights, III.; 0. N. Gump, surveyed him a few minutes and then him below the belt!" said one of the by- Warn, W. Va.; Eldon W. Wool- volunteered: "Say, mister, you better standers. folk, Portland, Ore.; E. E. Keller, stand back; you're warping." "Sure, an' how cud Oi help it when the Everett, Pa. spalpeen wears suspenders?" replied Pat. Sailor: "What do you call this stuff?" Landlord: "Victory ale." In a newly mustered Irish regiment a Tom and Bill were buddies, but Tom Sailor: "Then we 'ave lorst the conscientious lieutenant was haranguing was at one end of the barracks and Bill bloomin' war arter all." Passing Show. his men before starting for the front. called to at the other. One day Tom "It all depinds on yez byes," he ex- Bill, "Can I use your manual book?" A very lazy Southern negro, drafted horted. "Will yez fight or will yez run?" "Sure," replied Bill, with a caution and sent to camp, arrived in France in a "We will!" learned in the must use few weeks. After a long time his mother Army, "but you "Will what?" it on bunk." received a letter from him, and calling my "Will not!" responded the men with few days later Bill mislaid his razor his sister, exclaimed: "Here's a letter A one voice. and was badly in need of a shave before from dat lazy brother o' yours. Jes' "I knew yez would," said the satisfied inspection. listen! 'Somewhere in France!' Ah dun officer proudly. Asyouwere. "Oh, Tom, can I use your razor?" he tell yuh dat nigger 'd git lost when he called. Druggist: "Take this. It will pull you git dere!" "Yes," came the reply, "but you must around." Judge (to a man just condemned to use it on my face." Dizzy Officer: "Pull me around? I'm going around already. Can't you give me death) : "You have a right to express your last wish, and if it is possible it shall He was a big, raw-boned, healthy something to anchor me down?" Passing be granted." looking specimen of manhood, a typical Show. Pennsylvania "Mountaineer." But na- Prisoner (an ex-barber) : "Then, sir, I mountaineer stood should like just once more to be allowed ture had wasted none of her beauty up- The tall Kentucky doctor. to shave the District Attorney." on him. before the examining He stood before the recruiting officer's "Yuh say the Army cain't take me?" desk. he inquired. He: "Why is Adel- "No, we can't use you," said that dig- "Certainly not. Why, with your flat ine so angry with the nitary brusquely, "physical disability." feet you couldn't walk a mile without photographer?" "Whut's that?" he asked. resting." "Doc, I'm right She: "She found a "Nothing doing," answered the officer. "Flat feet and cross eyes." sorry tuh hear that. label on the back of Silently he stood for a moment, then: I just walked eighty her picture saying: "Wull, I can't see why that'd matter. miles over the hills 'The original of this With flat feet I'd make good tracks for tuh git here, and I picture is carefully the man behind me; and with cross eyes, hate tuh think o' ! " preserved ' — Edin- while I wus shootin' one Hun I could walking back again burgh Scotsman. pick out another." without enlisting." September 5, 1919 23 Saying It Poetically

y Salt o the Earth

Nick, he was just an Italian, Oh I Many a night on the outposts And he lies where he fell in battle, Stocky and broad of girth, We lay in the forest damps, In a little French village lane, And they used to call him a dago, Watching the front line rockets, Where the water stinks in the shell holes But he proved to be salt o' the earth. When the stars were like harbor lamps. And the corpses are washed by rain.

He was willing and strong and my striker, While he told of his Roman Campagna, Nicolali de Sa?ito de Saza, He cooked and he pitched my tent, Brown girls, and the chestnuts and wine, Your country should know your worth, And he dug me a hole from the shell fire, And the moonlight on milk-white oxen They called you a "wop" and a "dago," And he followed wherever I went. When the priests came blessing the vine. By God! You were salt o' the earth! —Hervey Allen.

Strike Up the Band

News Item: The Port of Embarkation Band Number One, stationed at the Army Piers at Hoboken, was mustered out yesterday noon after having played for 1,250,000 returning soldiers.

Forty men on a wind-swept pier, Strike up the band, the transports come Trumpets and horns and the boom of drums, Up from the sea to the welcoming shore. Fluttering flags o'er the harbor drear— (Four silver stripes for pounding a drum— ("Has the States gone dry, boys? We want beer!") Can you blame the lad that he's looking glum? Strike up the band, the transport for comes. But it's all in the game called war.)

They warp her in through the muddy tide L'Envoi. As the bandsmen toot at "My Belgian Rose," Some played their parts with a Browning gun Five thousand faces line her side, And some on a typewriter's keys. Yelling and cheering, and laughing eyed. Some walked the deck where the freighter's wreck ("Hey, where can a guy buy civie clothes?") Lies deep under storm-tossed seas. Best played all is that bugle call Gangway's down and H. Q.'s ashore. of shore ("Vin rouge et cognac," comes the cry.) That comes from Hoboken's the pier stand And Hoboken is "Home, Sweet Home" once more, Where the boys of the band on heads And "Ja-Da" is jazzed by the bugle corps. To welcome us home once more. ("When do we eat? Bring on that pie!") —Otis Peabody Swift.

The Makings and a Light

Tracing a path through shell-holes in a road, This is a song of doughboys and the War, Where night is blacker than the Kaiser's soul, Advancing, resting, halting, in retreat, Where seven fives are dropping still, and every shade Always the same old tune no matter where Seems meant to hide another deeper hole, You find them, iti what hour you meet— Bouncing alofig with messages of weight, A company comes marching down the road, Suddenly a cry bursts from the breast of night, "Comp'ny halt! Fall out there on the right!" The sidecar creaks down to a groaning halt— A crash of arms, a burst of talk, and then, "Hey, Buddy, got the makins' and a light?" "Hey, buddy, give me seconds on your light." —Robert Wilson McKnight.

PLACING THE BUGLE ON A PEACE BASIS —

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY BULLETIN BOARD

So many inquiries have been received The morning after you got your shot Vice-Admiral Gleaves has been assigned relative to the regulations concerning in the arm perhaps you had your doubts to the Asiatic fleet with headquarters at the wearing of the uniform that the fol- about the value of the anti-typhoid treat- Manila. He left Hoboken on September lowing is printed: ment. But figures now available show 1, on the battleship North Dakota. The act of Congress approved Febru- that there were less than 500 cases of ary 28, 1919, provides that any person typhoid among the 2,000,000 men in the Lost for twelve years and mourned as who served in the United States Army A. E. F. Had the disease raged as it did dead for three, and now back with his during the present war may wear the in the Spanish War, there would have family—Jacob Ginsberg has actually been uniform after discharge provided that it been 384,113 cases and 29,266 deaths through that. He enlisted in the army shall include some distinctive mark to as many men as there are in a division. in Kansas in 1906; then his family be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Who says a democracy cannot learn by moved and he lost track of them, and he The red chevron has been prescribed to experience? was transferred, so they lost connection be worn by discharged enlisted men as a with him. Three years ago the War recognition of duties performed in the Department informed the family of Gins- service of the country. This is now also berg's discharge, and they decided he was designated as the distinctive mark re- dead. Now he has turned up with the quired by the before-mentioned act and Army of Occupation in Coblenz. will be worn by discharged officers and enlisted men alike. This also applies to You won't be able to take your won- discharged officers who accept commis- dering family over the great battlefields sions in the Officers' Reserve Corps, un- this year. The Department of State has

til called to active duty, when the red decided it is wiser not to permit swarms chevron will be removed. A chevron of Americans to over-run France just yet. will be worn point up midway between Paris is quite disappointed, it is said, as the elbow and shoulder on the left sleeve the shopkeepers were looking forward to of the coat and overcoat and on the a harvest. shirt when worn without the coat. It is unlawful under the National Defense Act The war must really be over now. The for the uniform to be worn by discharged Victory Arch on Fifth Avenue, New officers or enlisted men without this dis- York, has echoed back the tread of the tinctive mark, and the offender renders veterans of half a dozen divisions, but himself liable to civil prosecution and now it is getting tired. Two of the six punishment by a fine not exceeding $300 champing steeds on top of the arch gave or by imprisonment not exceeding six up the ghost in the steady rains of months or by both such fine or imprison- August and crumbled into a mass of ment. A supply of these chevrons will shapeless plaster. be kept on hand at all demobilization camps and at all quartermaster sales- Submarine chasers set a new record rooms for sale to honorably discharged for gasoline-driven craft over the seven- officers. hundred-mile Bermuda-New York course recently. S. C. 131, commanded by

"Help wanted" advertisements filled Lieutenant J. L. Day, crossed the finish sixty-seven columns of a New York news- line after a run of fifty-seven hours. The paper the other day, while "situation old record was eighty-eight hours. wanted" advertisements filled only six Eugene C. Boom, State Com- columns. Incidentally, sixty-four per mander in the American Legion of The Liberty Motor is being improved cent, of the "help wanted" columns called Idaho, was formerly a private in the on and experimented with continually. for women, while all of the "situations Engineers Corps. He enlisted at the Now reports from Washington state that wanted" called for men. age of 46 and was wounded as early the War Department has successfully The same day's advertising in that as November, 1917, while attached tested a Liberty twenty-four cylinder paper carried half a column of demands to the Canadians. motor, producing 673 horse-power and for riveters. One ship-building firm is in weighing slightly over two ounces per need of fifty extra gangs of this class of horse-power less than the Liberty twelve. labor. The American Flag is coming When the steamer Caronia last docked back to its once proud place in the When the British entered Jerusalem in New York she brought back two hun- world's shipping. they issued some postage stamps bearing dred repatriated Americans who had en- the initials E. E. F. (Egyptian Expedi- listed and fought in the Canadian ranks. Guides to the graves of those who gave tionary Force). These stamps are now There was also on board Capt. Alfred their lives in France will be furnished by said to be worth $250 each. Beaver, R. F. C, who, say the news- the Y. M. C. A. in Paris. Americans papers, made his proposal of marriage who will visit the battlefields where their The two soldiers, Sebastian and Cook, during an airplane flight. At any rate, relatives fell will find ready aid at the who were sentenced to death for sleep- Mrs. Beaver, who was an automobile Y's office. ing at post and who were later pardoned driver in the air service, does not deny it. by the President, have justified his judg- Shooting that was good enough for the ment. Sebastian was killed fighting at A. E. F. will "pass in a crowd" almost The French are making a bid for wire- the front. Cook was twice wounded and anywhere. Lieut. L. S. Spooner, of Port- less supremacy by erecting at Bordeaux honorably discharged. land, Ore., won the individual pistol a station with a 12,000 mile range and a match in the Caldwell, N. J., matches in capacity of 72,000 words. This is double The German submarine UC-97 is now August, tiring sixty shots at twenty-five the strength of the famous Nauen sta- at Chicago. It is a safe bet that Von yards and scoring 293 out of a possible tion, from which Germany sent out her Tirpitz never foresaw that she would 300. propaganda during the war. get to that city. September 5, 1919 25 SPEAKING OF THE WEEKLY

Iowa Approves Governor Praises Weekly America First

To the Editor: At a meeting of the To the Editor: I have read with inter- To the Editor: I think that the Weekly Executive Committee of the Iowa branch est your issue of July 4. As the official is getting better with every issue. The of the American Legion, held on the 15th, organ of what I think is destined to be cartoon on the cover page of the August the secretary was directed to write and the greatest fraternity the world has ever 8th issue is a dandy but does not go far compliment you on the excellence of your known, namely, the American Legion, a enough. It should include not only the publication. vast field of usefulness has been opened undesirable alien slacker but also the We look upon it as a valuable means of to your journal and will undoubtedly be allied slacker, of whom there were myr- assisting in the work of organizing the of inestimable good to the soldiers and iads in this country, especially Canadians, American Legion posts. to the public. English and Italians. They were very The formation of the American Legion patriotic with their John MacVicar, mouths but did not marks a distinct period in the history give much of their time or money. Des Moines, la. Secretary. of this nation. The day the Legion was If we are going to have 100 per cent. formed, all fear of abuse of law and Americanism, we must begin to teach the More Approval order in this country disappeared. The American language in our schools, do To the Editor: I am enclosing the American Legion will stand like the Rock away with English, German, and all other names of seven new members who desire of Gibraltar and will resist any infringe- foreign rhetorics and grammars and start to receive the American Legion Weekly ment of the inalienable rights .of the citi- our children off as Americans, letting at your earliest convenience. The boys zens of this country to pursue life, liberty them know that we have a language of generally are heartily in favor of our and happiness in an orderly fashion. our own and not a borrowed one. Make every child attend our public Legion Weekly and I think that most Frederick D. Gardner, schools from the age of five or six to the age of them will be lined up for a yearly sub- Jefferson, Mo. Governor. scription in the very near future. of sixteen and teach them 100 per cent. Americanism. Merle C. Green. Very Interesting P. H. Schaefer. Toledo, Iowa. Burlington, Iowa. To the Editor: Being a member of the Legion belonging to the Riverside Post, Gets New Members No. 51, I wish to state that I receive It's the Thing your magazine each week and find it very To the Editor: We have your subscrip- interesting. I hope that as the member- To the Editor: Enclosed find one dol- tion Bulletin No. 1, and are very much ship of the Legion increases the size of lar for an annual subscription to your pleased with the idea of your sending the the magazine does likewise. most valuable paper, starting with your Weekly to our members. We look upon Harry F. Kier. first issue. It's the thing. It is full of the Weekly as one of our best aids in New York City. punch. "Let's stick together" and com- securing members and have used all the bat all those who are opposed to the extra copies we could get each week for principles for which we fought. Good this purpose. Will Go Like Doughnuts luck to you. Hyde Park Post. To the Editor: Please send me six George Schulman. Chicago, III. copies of your great magazine, as I am New York City. sure they will go as the Salvation Army Coming Along Great doughnuts went on the firing line. I am Wonderful Magazine To the Editor: Please send me one also a veteran, honorably discharged. Siegel. copy each of the Weekly, Volume I, Joseph To the Editor: In compliance with sub- New York City. Numbers 1 to 5, inclusive. We are now scription bulletin No. 1, I am enclosing a leceiving the paper regularly but as post temporary list of the members of this historian I would like to have a complete The Breezy Paper post and hope that these members will file. The American Legion Weekly is receive a copy of your wonderful maga- coming along great! Here's success to To the Editor: After reading the spe- aine at an early date. The post desires you! cial inducements you are offering to sub- to express its gratification and apprecia- A. S. Garrabranto, scribers I have decided to take advan- tion for the many helpful suggestions, Kinderkamack Post No. 41. tage of the opportunity. Therefore, I and especially do we commend its splen- am sending the names of the additional did editorials. New Miljord, N. J. members. I feel certain that the boys Alphonzo Sproul, Jr., will appreciate the breezy paper, for it Secretary Post No. 65. Pictures Help contains numerous valuable and impor- tant topics. I was greatly pleased with Landsdowne, Pa. To the Editor: I want to congratulate my first copy. you upon the fine appearance of the H. W. Smith, Weekly and the many interesting news Making The Legion Secretary Post No. 104. bits and articles which appear in every Montoursville, Pa. To the Editor: At present there is be- issue. Having formerly been connected ing formed a post of the American Legion with the reportorial end of a newspaper in this city. They are taking to it with and being now in the photographic busi- Wonderful Impression vim and already more than two hundred ness, I want to say that you can not To the Editor: The Legion Weekly have enrolled. What with more than have too many pictures in the Weekly. has made a wonderful impression in this three thousand ex-service men in this city, They are the life of any sort of publica- State. We have circulated copies broad- we have a big field to work in. It is my tion and help to make it more attractive cast throughout the State, and the ex- opinion that your magazine can do more and interesting and will go further to- service men and others eagerly await the for making the American Legion what its ward building up a large circulation than advent of the coming issue. high ideals and its organizers hope it to anything else that can be done. be than any other medium. Leo A. Spillane, R. Pierce Van Vlack. State Secretary. D. P. Moran. Poughkecpsie, N. Y. Boston, Mass. Bayonnc, N.J. ' —

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went wild when he stuck his black head themselves and poison the wound with a to watch over a delirious patient or rush out of the window of an old Red Cross coin. This was especially true when a for a doctor. train to which we had been transferred. party was being formed to be sent to He first came into the ward as a pa- Forbin enjoyed the fun until a youngster Poland or the Balkans to dig spuds. tient, but as soon as he was able to walk at Dusseldorf heaved a brick at him. the Germans put a broom in his hand and he got the title of orderly. For him lives of hundreds of prisoners in THE this was the last word in happiness; out- we reached Camp Dulmen the big camps in Germany were saved WHEN side in the block his comrades shivered we were thin, ragged, bloody and by the French and English Red Cross around poor fires, worked daily and ate half starved. Fifty had died on the way. parcels. These were furnished weekly at little. In the hospital there was better We brought the glad tidings to the Allied the camps, but never reached the men food, cheerful companions, now and then prisoners that the Germans were being back of the lines. They were shipped in a cigarette butt tossed to him by a pa- pushed back daily. In the German hos- from Holland ports in carload lots. As tient, sometimes potato peelings or "buck- pital we had a fair place to rest and fresh soon as Tommy reached a camp his shee" (seconds) soup. dressings were applied to our wounds. name and regimental number was taken Rusty was short and round, with close- Our hospital ration was far better than by the chaplains and forwarded to Eng- cropped hair and a stingy mustache. that given in the general camp, known land and this prisoner was put on a reg- His head was flat and he had a short nose as the block, and consisted of a 450-gram ular mailing list. The Germans co-oper- and a retreating chin. His working slice of bread in the morning, with coffee, ated with the English in the delivery. clothes consisted of an undershirt and a soup at noon and soup at night. The Tommies treasured these parcels above pair of tight-fitting pants that sometime soup was always made of cabbage, maca- everything else. They contained stuff un- must have been given him by a German roni or barley. Once a week we got obtainable in Germany and were valued by supply sergeant. When he sprinkled the boiled potatoes. This was a big event. the Germans at at least a thousand marks, floor heavily with water in order to sweep On the night spuds were given out the but despite this, as near as I ever could he wore wooden shoes, but when he ration party, which consisted of four men, learn, they were honestly handled. The swept dry he had a pair of slippers which sometimes all French or all English, was French received a regularly issued parcel he had made from canvas; socks he split up so that there would be two of corned willie and biscuits, but their scoffed at, for I have seen a pair offered poilus and two Tommies as a guarantee allowance from their government was not him. Of his Russian uniform only the that no favoritism in the potato distribu- up to that of the Tommies. I was reg- cap was left, and he was very proud of tion would be shown. Sometimes a little ularly issued the English packet. this. honey was given in the morning to spread After the armistice, when the English When the German doctor entered. on the bread, but we used it to sweeten prisoners began to leave for home, the Rusty stood rigid as a pole. Sometimes the coffee. English Red Cross representatives gave he would not hear the command of "ach- After each meal the Russian orderly parcels to the French, Russians and even tung" attention and would continue to called Roosky by the Germans, but we the Germans. English clothes and English — — sweep. On these occasions the officer called him Rusty—brought around a food were distributed liberally. v ould walk over to him and half frighten bucket of water into which he hurriedly Tommy traded considerable of his food him to death. The German officer, how- dashed the mess gear, a wash basin and to the Jerries for fags. Among all the ever, would usually walk away smiling spoon to each man. When the German Allied prisoners there were continual and all the patients would laugh. I have officer entered the ward while we were bickerings over food and cigarettes. A seen him call Rusty and examine him as eating, we had to come to attention. dead man's parcel was always divided if he were to be sent from the hospital Sometimes a man was so hungry he among his countrymen. When I first to the block—the main camp—and Rusty would take a chance and keep on eating. reached the hospital, many of the men would make motions at his legs and try Rusty was caught a couple of times in the ward were half starving. I have to explain that it was hard for him to gurgling cabbage soup. The noise he seen them gather around the bed of a walk because of some disease. made gave him away. companion who was pegging it and divide The thin soup caused a disease known up the eats practically the minute life was as oedine, which turned the blood to extinct. THE first time I got a parcel I gave water and sent many a prisoner to the The German civilians would pay almost Rusty a few fags and some biscuits burying plot. Men coming in from work- any price for meat and the little Jerries and beef, but a Canadian who had known ing behind the lines as patients looked would always ask for "ein biscuit," in- him for a long time told me never to give like ghosts. Out in front they were given stead of a cigarette, as the French chil- him anything, because he always neglected a bread ration of 450 grams a day, and dren did. I met a Yank from the 106th his duties toward those that did. This soup and coffee every twenty-four hours. Infantry who had given a diamond ring seemed very strange to me, but it proved The bread was issued at night and was to a Jerry for a loaf of bread, and many true. He was no longer as attentive in supposed to last the entire next clay, but an Allied prisoner subsisted partially on bringing me things and turning over the was always eaten as soon as given out. grass before reaching the prison camps straw mattress, but continued in his old Potato peelings from the Germans' mess where conditions were made endurable industrious ways with the Tommies. were considered a luxury—peelings were only by the food distributed by the Red After I had ceased to give him anything always eaten even in the hospital. Vege- Cross. for a number of days he was around my tables stolen at night by men who vol- bed oftener and stepped lively when I unteered for the task saved many lives. asked for water or anything. Then I Prisoners working near the front had DESPITE the poor food there was one would soften again toward him and offer happy prisoner in to cut the flesh from horses, knocked out our ward—Rusty, him some little thing from the package, by Allied artillery, and then bury the the orderly. From early morning until the which he would take and hide hurriedly lights at night a bones. One Tommy who had done this went out he was on dog- in his undershirt, and at once forget that work for months said they were often trot, sweeping the floor with his home- I was in the room. For a long while I required to gather the bodies of German made broom, making fires and beds, carry- swung back and forth in this manner, but soldiers, put them into wire nets and ing water and coal and last, but not least, finally ceased altogether to give him any- load them on wagons to be taken, he said, lending the dying in their last minutes. thing and he became friendlier than ever. to vats where the bodies were "rendered" The rough hands of Rusty lifted the When I was ordered to the block, how- and the fat extracted. Many "swung the corpses from the straw mattresses, wrapped ever, to get ready to be shipped to Eng- land, I thought it lead," as Tommy says, by forcing sick- i hem in a blanket and laid them care- would be nice to give ness on themselves to get into the hos- fully on a stretcher. He was called at all Rusty a souvenir, so I gave him the pital. Sometimes they would wound hours of the night from his humble bunk {Continued on Page 33) :

September 5, 1919 2 7

Doing it Dramatically

France was a Stage and All the A. E. F. were Players

members of the far-flung A. E. An instant later a French General and FEWF. were graduates of any recognized By GERALD B. SPIERO staff drew rein at the car. The Ameri- or unrecognized dramatic school. cans scrambled out and gave an inter- ever appeared preter their names, rank and organization, Most of those who had Allies feared the next operatic season in regretted it five later, as requested. visitors left. on the stage minutes Rome might be entirely Viennese. Con- The "Court-martial," sighed the guard. "If when Fanny saw the magician grab Ed's sequently, the Supreme Inter-Allied War only kept the engine fedora and extract from it a corkscrew Council decided that the presence of we'd running—and something us underneath the truck night!" and a bottle of ammonia, or American soldiers in sunny Italy would be —good the of "doing it "Aw, shut up; let's deliver this junk stronger. Yet knack of tremendous moral value, even if they five-starred feature of now," snapped the driver, petulantly. dramatically" was a were of no vital help in offense or defense. profuse returned their with the overseas contingent—and a It was resolved that one United States They to company men's portions trembling. little contingent it was, too. regiment in France should shift from a two of fear and certainly the big- Nothing happened that day, The A. E. F. was corned-willie to a sphagetti diet. The however. Nothing gest and most dramatic outfit that played 332d was chosen for the job of bolster- happened for many days. Event- ually the European circuit. The doughboys ing up Italian morale. came a summons, of a bright au- theatrical, were dramatic. tumn morning, to the Adjutant's office. weren't but they Almost from the outset, this regiment major There's a difference. Theatrical implies was marched back and forth and hither The beamed upon them. Still, if accused the pivot "The formal presentation will take pose. you had and yon in Italy. By strategic change in man in squad fifteen of being either one costume, the Americans soon made the place soon, boys," he said, "but the cita- probably would have got a well-laid tions were issued by Gen. of the you Italians believe that the Yank force was , hobnail barrage. French Army. both get the Croix ten times as great as it really was. You part of it all is that the de Guerre for repairing truck The funny One day the soldiers would appear in your under had chuckled for years at shell-fire!" American, who woolens and canvas leggins. A fortnight the effervescence of the the effusions and afterward, upon returning to the same didn't realize for a two soldiers Latin temperament, place from their "missionary work" else- 'TpHE had given the Gen- tick his wrist-watch that when it came *• eral an impromptu exhibition his- of where, they would be clad in slickers and of piker himself. trionic talent it. to dramatics he wasn't any wrap puttees. Another week and a multi- and had never realized It wasn't the privates or the acting With such tremendous dramatic ability tude of Americans in overcoats and hel- corporals or the full-fledged Sam Brownes to the square soldier, it was small wonder mets would pass by. Thus it went until on this particular that the A. E. F. could who had a monopoly the Italians were convinced that between produce such an strain unusual number legiti- Quality. The George M. Cohan themselves and the thousands of Yanks of vaudeville and was to be found in every representative they (thought they) had seen they could mate attractions in the "apres les Armis- citizen of America, and America's army tice" period. It is no secret that the knock the "i" out of Austria and dot the sol- representative of nothing else. diers surprised themselves with their fine was two in William II. A certain wearer of the globe and performances. Sometimes the audience anchor part of the Second Division won't THE 332d knew that they were playing was too surprised. forget how dramatic his Colonel could a role and they made their part of There was one showing of "A Buck on be, if the occasion warranted. the Big Show a splendid hit. But it re- Leave" in Bordeaux that was historic. Our hero was a sergeant in the Fifth mained for two members of the 77th Shortly after the curtain rose an M. P. Marines, detailed as orderly to the C. O. Division to do a bit of artistic and un- strode majestically down the aisle of the of the regiment. Shortly after the armis- conscious acting. vast auditorium and told a soldier, he tice, when the troops began to move On the muster rolls the two were pro- would have to sit elsewhere—that the Rhineward, the Colonel sent Sergeant saically entered as a truck driver and a row in which he sat was reserved for Matthews on a mission into an advanced guard. At heart the boys were thespians officers. Everybody sh-h-h-d the M. P. area in Germany. The Colonel knew of distinct merit. and the undesirable. The audience wanted that the task should be finished in three They were detailed to take a load of to hear the dialogue on the stage. It days. He failed to count upon Mat- ammunition to the lines, and they were didn't know that the little affair in the thews' fondness for Teuton scenery. Any- proceeding nicely along the comparatively pit was part of the plot and that the un- how, Matthews stayed away almost two even tenor of their way when the German desirable was the hero, A. Buck, himself. weeks, while the Colonel fumed over his artillery began to set off some fireworks. As the plot further demanded, the al- absence. The most painful part of the entertain- tercation between Buck and the M. P. Finally, he returned. A chap can't be ment was that the hour was high noon became loud and louder, while the actors A. W. 0. Loose forever. He stepped and broad daylight, and the Huns had the behind the footlights stopped their work. jauntily into the orderly room, saluted range. The truck ambled on, a little By this time the audience was yelling and began according to Hoyle and the more slowly, until Zowie! and a shell wildly for quiet and threatened impartially Manual struck within a couple of hundred yards. the life of the objectionable and the " "Sir, Sergeant Matthews reports That nearness brought decision to the M. P. As a climax to the realistic skit, A shout from the C. 0. halted him. chauffeur's mind. He halted the car and the M. P. raised his club and seemed "Sergeant, hell!" the Colonel screamed. sat silent with the guard. Together they about to let it rest on the soldier's skull. "Private Matthews!" watched the intermittent explosions, This was too much for the crowd. In If the French demote 'em any more puzzling the while whether the insurance last analysis, a buddy is always a buddy, dramatically than that they must do it in was paid to the family in a lump or in and an M. P.—well, he has to do his a darkened room, with a spotlight. instalments. Another shell, ominously duty, etc. close, cut off these reflections. In twenty seconds the hall was in an THE masterpiece of 0. D. stagecraft "Let's get out of this—quick!" cried uproar. It took the combined efforts of was, of course, the handling of the the guard. Beneath the truck they the entire cast to assure the audience single infantry regiment that the United crawled. that it was "all in the play." States sent to Italy. Judged from a Gradually, the bombardment grew less The O. D. management determined dramatic viewpoint, David Belasco him- violent. The two men lay prone. They that the dramatic action should be con- self could not have wished for a more weren't going to emerge until they were fined to the thespians and not be allowed perfect success. sure the Kaiser's minions had ceased their to break forth in the audience. Maybe The Austrians were hammering the disgraceful behavior. Suddenly a cloud the "M. Pi's" threat to quit had something Italians with such dire results that the of dust flew down the road toward them. to do with it. —

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To the Editor: I am in receipt of copies of the initial issue of the Ameri- can Legion Weekly, and upon sugges- tion from our state commander I am writing you for additional information on how to handle subscriptions for the members of this post. Please advise just how these subscriptions should be han- dled ^t your earliest convenience. I am hopeful that every member of the Com- merce Post will subscribe for the paper. Many favorable comments have been expressed upon the style and care with which the first issue was printed. Leon W. Rutland, Adj. Commerce Post No. 1, Texas.

Three months' subscription to the CWE BELIEVE in American- Weekly is provided for every man who ism first. has paid his dues to a local post. The which each man pays twenty-five cents Editorial CWE BELIEVE in the Patrio- as national dues has been designated by tism and Prosperity of the coun- the National Executive Committee to ap- try and that the highest duty of ply as an initial quarterly subscription to Creed gf a periodical is to strive to secure the magazine. Every post should see them for all. that National Headquarters has a list of Leslie's the post's paid-up members, whose names CWE BELIEVE that a publi- are entered upon the Weekly's mailing cation holds a great power for rolls. public benefit in interpreting the news and thought of the day in Disability Pay a broad, informative and con- To the Editor: Having read some ar- structive manner. ticles in the post paper in regard to CWE BELIEVE that a peri- Army regulations and orders I thought odical fulfills you may be able to enlighten me on some its highest func- tion questions if you will be so kind. I en- when it guides thought, listed June 22, 1899, and have been in broadens vision, rouses a higher the Regular Army ever since. I lost my patriotism, intensifies civic pride leg below the knee thirteen months ago and stimulates education. and put in for discharge yesterday, but was only allowed thirty-five percent dis- CWE BELIEVE that the worst ability. enemies of American prosperity I also .understand they refuse to pay are the selfish demagogues to the regulars travel pay. I enlisted at whom everything is wrong and Fort William H. Seward, Alaska, June who will not see that anything 19, 1913. Now, how am I expected to is right. get back there? Walk, I guess. I en- listed in 1910 under the old four-cents- CWE BELIEVE that the men per-mile plan, was discharged in 1913 who build up, whether in hum- under the two-cents-per-mile plan, there- ble or exalted station, are by losing $36. This time they seem to worthy of praise and that the want it all. men who pull down are deserv- I did ten years' foreign service and was ing always paid twenty per cent on the money of censure. I drew. But in France, in the front CWE BELIEVE that Capital line trenches, we got it on the base pay, and Labor can meet on common a measly $3 apiece. ground to their I also would like to know about this mutual advan- tage. insurance, as I am still carrying $10,000. Discrimination in favor Between June 19, 1913, and June 18, of either by the law-making 1917, I saved $30 clothing allowance. power is unjust to the public, al- Now, will I even get that, I wonder? ways the principal sufferer from James E. Quinn. such injustice. Fort Des Moines, la. CWE BELIEVE that today is In regard to compensation, proposed better than yesterday and that amendments are pending to the War Risk we should try to Act. It has been requested that for total make tomor- itemporary disability $65 a month be row better than today. granted. If this increase is granted, back Leslie's compensation due any man will also be Illustrated Weekly Newspapet paid. Etlabluhed m '8}^ 0.. The Act of Congress, approved Febru- 225 Fifth Avenue, New York Edilo- ary 28, 1919, provides that an enlisted man honorably discharged from the (Continued on Page 32) t

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Who Knows Them?

Find Your Buddy? Few members of the Legion will read the incident of Lieut. Butcher without recalling a par- allel in their own experience. It may not be as gripping, but all of us, at one time or another, in France, on shipboard or at home, /^LORIOUS play have met men and then passed —and the glori- on. Those were not times for ex- change of names, telephone num- In Peace and War Use ous fun of thirst- bers and addresses. Now you would like to hear from those men ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE quenching with again. Old buddies have drifted A prominent British Government officer, in a speech about the war to a large body apart since they left the service Clicquot Club Gin- of business men in N.Y. City recently said, and woidd like to get in touch "After the tired soldier has returned from ger Ale. It's on ice again. The American Legion a 12 mile tramp, with swollen and aching Weekly can help them out. Send feet, is there a mother, who, if she knew, now, waiting till would not go out and get some Foot-Eate us stories. will print your We to send to her boy?" dry and dusty little them. Someone you know will People everywhere should realize the com- read them. fort derived from Allen's Foot-Ease, the throats clamor for antiseptic, healing powder to be shaken into the shoes. It takes the friction from the refreshment.There shoe and gives instant relief to tired, aching, little infantry sergeant, looking at down swollen, tender feet, corns, bunions, blisters is noharm in giving him. The sergeant was standing in full and callouses. view of the Boche gunners, who were get- The Plattsburg Camp Manual advises all the kiddies all they men in training to shake Foot-Ease in their ting their Maxims go a belt at a time. Shoes each morning. Try it yourself and if want ofthis safe and "Get out of here," Butcher said. ("A you have a son, brother or friend in the army man will say some crazy things sometimes or navy, why not mail him a package now. pure ginger drink— Sold by drug and dep't stores everywhere. when he thinks he's done for," is his ex- an incomparable planation of the remark.) blend of purest "Not until I fix you up a little more comfortably, lieutenant," said the sergeant. Saved$6420 juices oflemons and He called two men. They were a trifle limes, gin- nervous under the terrific fire, but the On a Diamond Jamaica sergeant was cool as a cucumber, and $186.00 diamond appraised at $200.00. Sold It for $185.00.—[Name on requestJ talking ger, cane sugar and kept and steadying his men as This firm nearly 8/4 century old, rated over 11,000,000.00, lends money on hiirb gradu jewelry.

they bent down and carefully gathered Amazing ^ bargains Id unpaid loan diimooda, crystal-clear spring the wounded officer in their arms and car- Why Pay Full Prices ried him for fifty yards across' open water. Buy by the Prove for yourself that it's unnecessary. Send your name for wonderful lists free. Every jewel accurately ground exposed to a rain of small-arms described in detail. Radically different from catalogs. case from your 8ee tbsse prleea before you buy. fire, to a place of safety. They propped Send for Latest List grocer or druggist. him up in a shell hole, where hospital men found him eventually and bore him monds far under market prices. Free exatni nation. Amazing bargains proved by Serve whenever away to the rear. tomcrs' letters. W-"<- today. Jos. DeRoy & Sons, 8751 DeRoy Bldgr. The last Lieut. Butcher saw of that hnlv Opposite P. O. Pittsburgh, P«, thirst puts in an Re rrenc«e; Dun'tor Bradxtrret sergeant and his men was when they left Marin* National Bank: Union Trust Company Bank of Pitts* appearance. him and vanished over the rim of the burah, N. A., Piltmburgh fox hole, doubling it back to their outfit. THE CLICQUOT CLUB CO. Mr. Butcher, who is now a lawyer in life. He thinks they belonged to the Petersburg, Va., would like to know the Fourth Infantry, Millis, Mass., U. S. A. but is not certain. He names and whereabouts of that sergeant would appreciate word from anyone who and his men, to whom he feels he owes his recalls this incident. September 5. 1919 31

U. S - U. S N - U. S. A. R. O. T. C. - U. S. M. C JUST INITIALS, LETTERS, TYPE - BUT THEY MEAN A LOT ARE OURS, AND THEY MEAN GOOD PRINTING Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. WH PRINTERS and BINDERS, 80 Lafayette Street, New York 32 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY 1 INFORMATION {Continued jrom Page 29) Army, Navy, or Marine Corps since November 11, 1918, or who may here- after be honorably discharged, shall re- ceive five cents per mile from the place of his discharge to his bona fide home or residence, or to the place of his original muster into the service, as he wishes. For sea travel on discharge transportation and subsistence only shall be furnished Packed only to enlisted men. Insurance is payable in the event of in TIN to Keep death or permanent total disability of the insured. It can be converted into ordi- - the Flavor in nary life, 20-payment life, 30-payment life, 20-year endowment, 30-year en- dowment or endowment at the age of 62. Safe- The clothing allowance 'mentioned in Tec Tea the above letter is being investigated by the Legion to ascertain reason for its Tirst non-payment. I lb. V%Vb.-y* lb. and 10* Sifos

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The ancient keys to the Lord Mayor's mansion in London have appeared in the OFFICIAL kit of an Army officer at Camp Devens. It is said that when General Pershing was AMERICAN LEGION received in London he was presented with BUTTONS the keys as a token of the freedom of the city. But when the time came to return are being made by them they could not be found. THE D. L. AULDC0., Columbus, 0. A ho manufacturers and d"siqnersof the'Rainhou> Commissioned personnel in the Navy Division and other Military Buttons, should have a pay increase of 109 per Medals, Rings and Insignia. cent., in order to make the pay tables of Write for Designs and Prices today compare with those of 1908, when Worn the IM\ World Over the cost of living was so much lower. This is the opinion of Rear Admiral Quality First "APRES LA GUERRE!'* McGowan. In the Army also the same has been started, in a bill sent Buddy, you want to forget it now, but, in a few movement years you will want some remembrance that will to Congress, fostered by Secretary Baker, day you crossed the old herring pond. re all the and commutation of What vou want is a beautiful photograph, 14x20. to increase the pay Boston suitable for framing, of the Leviathan, the ace of officers. He would give the officers an in- troopships, heavily laden, steaming by the Statue flat. of Liberty. $1.00 prepaid. Get your orders in crease of $500 a year "toute de suite." is now Garter EDDIE DeVINE, 3344 Third Ave., New York City Port of Debarkation at Hoboken the sole place of landing for home-coming soldiers. Newport News and Norfolk They are going to stay in Germany. have been closed recently, while all others for them, but they have were closed some time ago. Ceorge Frost Co., Makers, Boston It is hard luck been elected, according to press reports of General Pershing's cablegram to the Realistic sniping was one of the events War Department. To constitute the Amer- at the rifle matches on the Caldwell, N. picked range last month. A ruined village TEN-SHUN! AT EASE! ican force on the Rhine he has J., the Eighth Infantry, Seventh M. G. Bat- was set up; in the center of it stood a The beat place for your Army Discharge la In one of our frames made especially for Discharge Papers. Both sides talion, Second Battalion, Sixth Field Ar- house with five windows. The target ap- of the frame are alike, for a double class, so that either tillery, Thirty-fifth Field Signal Battalion, peared at any one of the windows every side of the discharge can be seen. Ordnance eight seconds, remaining in sight for three Beautifully finished In weathered oak or mahogany. First Supply Train, First Mobile Snipped P. P. without the glass On receipt of a dollar Repair Shop, Co. A, First Engineers, seconds. The sniper was posted one hun- bill or money order. Special sl7.es 50c. extra. Field Hospital No. 13, and Ambulance dred yards away, with a twenty-two H.M.CJEER, 1 15 Henry Street. Binfthamton, N. Y. caliber rifle. Member of The American Legion Co. 26. September 5 1919 ; 33 GREASEBALL {Continued from Page 26)

Yankee blouse I had and a German knife, which I had purchased at the canteen with money obtained by selling some of MILLETT, ROE & HAGEN my rations. Rusty was very proud of Stock, both, but I came over to the hospital ward Members New York Exchange one night from the block to boil some water for tea and he ordered me away from the fire. To the Tommy who had refused to give him anything, however, he was very friendly. On one occasion one of the Tommies INVESTMENT SECURITIES gave Rusty some foot powder that had come in a parcel, thinking that it would be good for his feet when he wore the heavy shoes. The Russian had seen the Tommies and French boiling oatmeal at believe the present offers an un- the fire, so he boiled up the foot powder WE and had started to eat it when a Tommy usually favorable opportunity for discovered that he was applying it in- increasing incomes without lessening the ternally. He took great pride in his broom, integrity of investments. We shall be which was made by tying small twigs pleased to consult with investors as to around a heavy branch. These twigs were brought in from the nearby woods by the most advantageous means to put into details from the prison camp, but some- effect such a readjustment of their holdings. times it was not done and Rusty's broom would get worn down until it would gather little of the dirt. On his rounds then every morning he would exhibit it to each patient, saying "nix gut," or "kaput," which were the only German words he knew and he never knew a 52 WILLIAM STREET single word of English. When the Ger- man doctor would come in Rusty would NEW YORK get near the door so that the officer would notice the poor broom and order more branches brought from the woods nearby. As straw was always falling from the beds and Russians and patients from other wards were around visiting or bar- es-te? ® tering for food, the floor had to be swept AN ETCHING EVERY ONE SHOULD OWN six times a day in order to be or seven it records an event both historic and of personal significance in fit shape for inspection, as the German officer might come in at any time of the THE NATIONAL WAR PICTURE day or night. HISTORICAL MEMENTO i RUSTY made little attempt to keep ' himself clean, but he would get a angry if things were left lying on the little tables between the beds and he made heroic efforts to keep the ward spic and span at all times. When we would go out at night stealing the "spuds" which the Germans had buried in the 9 sand, Rusty would make out as if he were asleep, because he was afraid to be a witness to anything not in line of duty and that might lose him his title and send him back to the monotonous routine in the block. ? Frequently he got into little tilts with the patients. Night after night he would CD go around to the French and try to get them to take off their caps, as many of §? them slept with them pulled down over OUE BOYS OTES THEIE.E. their ears in order to keep out the cold * 6 and other things. SIZE OF PICTURE. 24x34 Sometimes at night the Tommies would + put a long black English overcoat on PLATE MARKED ON SPECIAL ANTIQUE PAPER him, pull a cap down over his eyes and o ® ETCHING IN BLACK, $3.00 - ETCHING HAND-COLORED, $6.00 get him on a table to do a Russian clog dance to the tune of a mouth-organ. ARTISTS PROOF SIGNED By F. MATANIA, R L. $25.00

His side-splitting antics when he danced Send Postal Money Order or Check to drove all gloom from the ward and ® * brought forth cheer after cheer, but R. R. ROWE, Publisher Rusty, always sober as the proverbial lH-t-lse West 4tii Struct New York City ® judge, would not take much time off (Continued on Page 34) W ®A m, ill 1 H JLA & © § 34 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY GREASEBALL {Continued from Page 33) from his work, even to entertain us. As a "lead swinger" Rusty was far from stupid. Sometimes he would show us For a pictures of his wife and fa nily who lived in Russia and whom he had not heard from during the three years he was a delicious prisoner. As nearly as we could find out, he was about forty-five years old. With Breakfast his hat off, he reminded one of the de- scriptions of one of Attilla's men, with their round bodies and close-cropped hair. Rusty's biggest daily task and one that taxed all his ingenuity was that of dis- tributing the bread ration. Promptly at 5 a. m. every day he went to the cook- house and received the bread allowance for the entire ward, which he carried over in a sand bag. Between the beds were little tables, but sometimes two beds were placed together, and this necessitated placing a table so that two patients were required to use it. while perhaps at the next adjoining beds there might be a table to a bed. It was Rusty's problem to lay a ration of bread on a table for each man, but if he were not exceedingly careful, or his brain were not working just right on certain mornings, he found him- self at the finish of his rounds short sev- ~ Toasted eral hunks of bread. As he neared the these Corn Flails end of the last row of cots every morning with theNATURAL CoxnUavor~ he would always begin to worry and I often awoke early in the morning to watch him battle -with the problem and see if he struck a balance. When there were four or five more tables on which to Washington CRISPS lay bread, Rusty would count the hunks and then count the number of cots. Asl^jfbrtheRed White andBluePaclode Those were exciting moments for him; if ° he were "shy bread he would make the ALL GROCERS rounds of the tables again, checking up, but if this failed to divulge the missing "punk," Rusty would go to the sack and shake it out several times, despite the fact that the bread is nearly as heavy as lead and could not be concealed in the corner of a sack. He would then look under the tables, retrace his steps out of the building and through the sand to the Telephone [ Rector J cookhouse. If the search was still with- Moore out reward he would go round the tables again and lay a slice on each bed.

Batcheller & Adee Leonard & Lynch WHEN we were ordered out to the block preparatory to departing by train to Holland, a Tommy suggested Bankers and Brokers 62 BROADWAY that it would be a good idea to take Rusty along. He was quizzed about the NEW YORK CITY matter through a Russian interpreter and 111 Broadway was anxious to go, so we rigged him up New York, N. Y. in a British uniform and he was smuggled Frick Bldg. Ritz Carlton Hotel out of camp with the bunch. Through Pittsburgh, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Holland, where we were met by repre- sentatives of the Red Cross, Rusty head- STOCKS lined. But at Southampton, where we had gone from Rotterdam on the Panama, an English hospital boat, a flock of girls AND •ijl? met the Tommies and Rusty tried to slip away unnoticed. But the Tommies got BONDS him on the train bound inland and that Members night the little non-Bolsheviki "saw the lights of London gleaming like a dreary New York Stock Exchange dawn." He was turned over to the War Pitts nu rgh Stock Exchange Department, and if he were fortunate Philadelphia Stock Exchange enough not to get back to Russia he may Chicago Stock Exchange still be longing for home, as many of his Members New York Stock Exchange companions, still in the German prison camps, are doing. P

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