: Famous Yachtsman calls Camels—The best cigarette buy" thfy burn longer, cooler, O J AND THAT'S IMPORTANT" SAYS JOHN S. D1CKKRSOX, JK. C Copyright, 1939, R. 1. Re olds ToWro Company. Winston-Sale me,s were fou "J to f . co„ la i„ ] , more '"!'acc° ue'ght than ,7 ^ the a, erage for the other 15 of the largest-selling NATURALLY, a cigarette noted For instance. "Jack" Dickerson brands! Camels horned lor it* generous content of bet- (above, left) in yachting 9 slou>er than , prominent any other brand tested-25% slower ter tobacco gives you better ciga- circles of the Eastern seaboard, says ^ than the avera,e„me„f lh elSo 1 herof,hel ar .„..,. rette value, doesn't it? Especially "Yacht racing is hobby of mine •elhng one brands- „, |„„,„„, „- on ; ^ the when thai same brand smokes longer, and you might call Camel cigarettes average, Camels give smokeSle equivalent of 5 extra slower — gives more smoking — than another. I turned to darnels because smokes per pack! In the the average of all the other 1 5 brands they burn longer, smoke milder. same tests, ^ Camels held their compared in laboratory tests! Yes, They go farther— give extra smoking 7 "*?M2«••«" the average time f'-r all the other brands. there is such a cigarette. Its name is and always have a fresh, appealing Camel. Full details are told at right flavor." Camels are mellow, fragrant MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF — the results of recent searching with the aroma of choice tobaccos in MORE PUFFS PER PACK! tests by impartial scientists. These a matchless blend. Turn to Camels, tests confirm what man) smokers the cigarette of costlier tobaccos, PENNY FOR PENNY YOUR have long observed for themselves. for more pleasure, more smoking. BEST CIGARETTE BUY Camels Keep Out keep By Raymond J.Kelly THE AMERICAN LEGION HE great City of Chicago, squarely upon the shoulders of which has now twice been those whom we as a people have T host to our National Con- elected to guide our destinies as a ventions, apparently pos- nation. sesses the flair for entertaining The means by which peace will the men and women of The Amer- be preserved, the Legion main- ican Legion in years when crises tained, must be determined by of world-wide significance are af- those in high places who possess, fecting our national well-being. through the very nature of their In 1933 on our first convention position, the factual knowledge of visit to Chicago, the country was the international situation. still reeling from the shock of a The Legion in its advice to our tumbling fiscal and economic country—to serve which is alone structure, and to those of us at the primary reason for our ex- that convention the primary pur- istence as an organization—stated pose of the Legion six years ago again unequivocally that in its was unquestionably that of dedi- opinion the answer to the question cating our organizational strength of providing the best neutrality to the task of restoring a waver- insurance is to develop and to in- ing national confidence and to the crease the armed defensive forces job of rooting out and nullify- of this nation to a size adequate ing certain subversive influences to meet any future circumstances which were infiltrating through The National Commander as he which can conceivably endanger depression-weakened joints in our addressed the Chicago Convention our national integrity. fundamental institutions as a free This nation has the money and people. From the reservoir of this war- the manpower to render it invul- In 1939 the Legion, when it time experience, the Legion, nerable to aggression. The means again convened in Chicago, found through the mandate of the con- for protecting ourselves are avail- the martial forces of great nations vention, emphatically informed able. There is but one current once more locked in armed con- the nation and its leaders that our condition which can stultify our flict abroad, after only a twenty- advice was to keep this country efforts to attain a position of de- one year interlude of peace since out of a foreign war. fensive self-sufficiency. It is the the Armistice ended the World It adopted the sound policy of presence of subverters and sa- War. making known to the chosen boteurs within our own boundaries The eyes of the nation were representatives of the people in whose efforts, inspired by the focused as never before upon a our nation's capital that the ex- desire to overthrow our institu- national convention of The Amer- service men of this country con- tions as a free people, have been ican Legion at Chicago this Sep- sidered it the solemn duty of the all too rife in the past, and who tember. The people of our coun- executive and legislative branches will redouble their attacks in the try looked to the Legion for an of our Government to pursue the future. They must be prevented expression of position on the part proper courses to prevent the em- at all costs from demoralizing our of its more than 1,000,000 men broiling of the United States in defensive establishments by weak- and women who had seen war a European conflict. It placed the ening the will of our people to service. responsibility for such a policy defend themselves. NOVEMBER, 1939 l CftorQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: 3o uphold and defend the Constitution,' <_/ the TJnitedStates off^lmerica; to maintain law order; foster perpetuate of and to and a one hundredpercent Americanism ; topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreat'~War; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com- munity. slutc andnation ; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood willon earth ; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjustice.Jreedom and democracg ; to conse- cmte and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion- - <The Jim eric an November, I 939 Vol. 27, No. 5 LEGIONMAGAZINE Published Monthly by The American Legion, 455 West 22d Street, Chicago, Illinois BXBCUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis, Indiana 15 West 48th St., New York City WAS a great convention at CONTENTS IN Geared to Go Past National ITChicago, as you will see from Commander Louis who COVER DESIGN Johnson, the evidence spread before you By William MacLeax is the assistant Secretary of War, in this issue of your magazine. Of tells something of what has been KEEP OUT—KEEP READY 1 course it was really four great con- done to prepare the nation in an By Raymond J. Kelly, National ventions, for the Auxiliary, the 40 industrial way for war. It follows & 0 ommander 8 and the 8 & 40 as usual met at the logically the story in the August issue PANAMA'S NEW COAT OF MAIL 4 same time and in the same city as which was titled M-Day— hen, As By Don Wharton W the Legion itself. There were 1405 and If, which told about how the accredited delegates in the Legion SAGA OF GLORY VALLEY 6 Army, acting on the experience of By Peter B. Kyne convention, representing 1,026,270 1917-18 and studies made since that Illustrations by Frank Street members, as Steve Chadwick told the time, will conduct the manhood draft opening session in the old Coliseum. GEARED TO GO 10 that we shall have to have if we ever By Louis Johnson go to war. Mr. Johnson has some- NOW all Boston's got to do is to BETTER SCHOOLS, BETTER thing to say about the shortage of make the 1940 convention the AMERICANS 12 skilled mechanics in the nation, and By Amy H. Hinrii hs best ever. Just for the record at the suggests how Posts and individual earliest possible moment, the Twenty- FORWARD FOR AMERICA 14 Legionnaires can help remedy this Second National Convention will By Alexander Gardiner and situation. Boyd B. Stutler meet from September 23 to 26, 1940. READY, BUT NOT WAITING 22 THE time this issue reaches By John Noll BY THE resolution adopted at Chicago J. you late in October baseball will demanding that the Panama Canal have shifted from the playing field EDITORIAL: they not be made impregnable gives point to did 25 to the Hot Stove League, but there die in vain the article, Panama's New Coat of will still be plenty of interest among Mail, by Don Wharton, in this issue. Americans in their national game. NOT I BUT WE 26 Every American knows how vital to By Dan Barry Dan Barry's story in this issue, Not our security as a nation that waterway I But We, tells about this year's BURSTS AND DUDS 28 is, and every Legionnaire ought to re- Legion Little World Series, which Conducted by Dan Sowers member how, before it was built and was won by Omaha, with Berwyn, before wireless communication had windbreakers on PARADE 29 Illinois as runner-up. The title of the By Wallgren come into being, the nation won- Barry article expresses the spirit of dered about the fate of the battleship LEGION IN OLD CATHAY 30 Legion Junior Baseball, which has al- Oregon, which on the outbreak of ways stressed teamwork rather than MOPPERS UP OF THE SEA 38 the War with Spain was in the Pacific individual brilliance. It may sound and went around Cape Horn to be strange, but the outstanding players present at the engagement with the are also great team players, and the Spanish fleet at Santiago.