ITS Folks who risk their lives as a matter of course are careful in their choice of a cigarette. They say: MAN THROWS LION! Mel Koontz, noted lion and tiger tamer, CAMELS schools " big " cats for Hollywood films. Sketch (left) shows Mel meet ing the lunge of a savage 4 50- pound NEVER GET ON beast. That's where nerve -power tells — as Mel knows! He says this: "Camels don't jangle my nerves — my mind is at rest as to that ! Camels YOUR NERVES' are milder— the natural mildness that's grown right in the tobacco. We animal tamers stick to Camels!" (Above) THREE TIMES Lou Meyer won the Indian- apolis auto-racing classic — only driver in history to achieve this amazing triple- test ofnerve control. He says: ( Right) CRASHING A PLANE "My nerves must be every bit through a house is the spectacu- as sound as the motor in my lar specialty of Stunt Pilot Frank racer. That's why I go for Frakes. And, at this writing, he's Camels. They never get on my done it 53 times — on movie loca- nerves a bit. Camels take first tions, at exhibitions. Time after place with me for mildness!" time, with his life actually in his hands, it's easy to understand why Pilot Frakes says: "I take every precaution to keep my nerves steady as a rock. Natu- (Left) THRILLING STUNTS rally, I'm particular about the for the movies! lone Reed cigarette I smoke. And you can needs healthy nerves ! Naturally, bet my choice is Camel. I can Miss Reed chooses her ciga- smoke as many as I want and feel rette with care. "My nerves," fresh;never a bit jittery or upset." she says, "must be right — and no mistake! So I stick to Camels. Even smoking Camels steadily doesn't bother my nerves. Infact, Camels giveme a grand sense of comfort. And Camels are they taste so good! Stunt men a matchless blend and women favor Camels." of finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS PEOPLE DO APPRECIATE THE COSTLIER TOBACCOS IN CAMELS — Turkish and Domestic THEY ARE THE LARGEST-SELLING CIGARETTE IN AMERICA Copy Hunt, 1938. R. J. Reynolds Tobi " Most tobacco Planter David "I ought to know planters I know E. Wells knows finer tobaccos Meet these men who preferCamels," every phase of make finer ciga- says grower tobacco culture rettes," says live with tobacco from mm Tony Strick- . the "inside" grower John T. planting to marketing— land, "because Camel buys story of tobacco quality. "At Caraway. "I've been smok- the fine grades of tobacco — sale after sale," he says, ing Camels for 23 years. and note the cigarette my own and those of other "Camel buys up my finest Camel pays more to get my growers. And Camel bids grades at top prices. It's finest tobacco — many 's the they smoke high to get these finer lots. natural for most planters year. Camels are the big fa- It's Camels for me !" like me to smoke Camels." vorite with planters here." ; C for(godandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: £7o uphold and defend the Constitution. ofthe'ZfnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order,- tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent &rnericanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in the Cjreat'~War; to inculcate asense of"individual obligation to the com- munity,staie andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood will on earth ; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles ofjusticejreedom and democracy ; to conse- crate andsanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution, ofThe American Legion. The Jlmerican November, 1938 Vol. 25, No. 5 LEGIONMAGAZINE Published Monthly by The American Legion, 455 West 22d Street, Chicago, Illinois EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis, Indiana 15 West 48th St., New York City AND so to bed, to begin to catch CONTENTS dog was his own dog tag, with his h\ up on lost sleep and to dream COVER DESIGN own name and serial number. Wag- of the Twenty-First National By Herbert M. Stoops ner took the tag and the police took HOMECOMING 3 Convention of The American Legion, the dog, and at last accounts hadn't By R. C. Worthington to be held in CHICAGO, September THE LAST PRISONER 5 found out who it belonged to or 25-28, 1939. By Clarence C. Conklin where it had picked up the tag. You WE'RE NOT ASHAMED OF IT 6 figure it out. By Frederick Palmer DR. GEORGE T. MAHAN of BEFORE THE ARMISTICE—AND St. Louis is one Legionnaire BEHIND IT 8 THEY gave Wally a party down in who will be a long time forgetting By Thomas M. Johnson Philadelphia the other night as a DUCKS the Los Angeles jamboree. He was 10 send-off for his daily strip, which will By James A. Drain on one of the trains which figured be initiated in many newspapers up Illustrations bv Forrest C. Crooks in the collision near Niland, Cali- WHAT MANNER OF MEN? 12 and down the land on October 10th. fornia, in which eleven persons were By John G. Emery Give a look—maybe it'll be in your Illustration bv V. E. killed. The crash aroused Dr. Mahan Pyles home-town paper. The Philadelphia NOW SHOWING: LEGION 14 in its account of the party, along with everybody else. He soon By Alexander Gardiner and Boyd Record, had the dining car converted into a B. Stutler quotes Wally as reminiscing in this temporary hospital which treated be- ONE ISM, AND ONE ALONE 23 vein regarding his Stars and Stripes By National Commander Stephen tween sixty and seventy of the in- days: "I arrived in Paris right in the F. Chadwick jured. Then he went on to Los THE WOMAN WHO COULDN'T middle of an air-raid. The streets Angeles. During the war Dr. Mahan COME HOME 24 were dark and I spent hours hunting commanded the 15th Ambulance By Jerome Beatty for a Y. M. C. A. hotel. I never "A RIGHTEOUS MAN WELL Company, so it was all in the day's did find it—but I had one swell time ARMED" 27 work. By Admiral William D. Leahy trying." YOURS TO COMMAND 28 By John Noil ALSO among those present at Los J. ALREADY manuscripts are being EDITORIAL: What Was at Stake 31 Angeles were Mr. and Mrs. submitted in this Magazine's CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT 31 Lisle O. Wagner of Ossining, New TWENTY YEARS AFTER 32 $1500 Prize Contest for Legionnaires, York. Wagner is Grand Commissaire By Wallgren which moves us to point out once Intendant of the Grand Voiture de BURSTS AND DUDS 33 again that there is no point at all Conducted bv Dan Sowers New York, 40 and 8. And the Mys- in submitting material so early. The ARMISTICE ETERNAL 34 tery of the Dog Tag is still unsolved. By The Step-Keeper contest closes January 16, 1939, and About a year ago a stray dog walked THIS WAY TO WAR'S END 38 you might almost say that it begins into a filling station in Wagner's By The Company Clerk on that date as well. If you've com- TWENTY YEARS AGO 41 home town on the shores of the Hud- pleted your story or article, set it son River bearing on its collar not a aside to jell and then look it over a regulation license tag but the regular month from now. You'll probably old-fashioned dog-tag of war days. find important changes you want to The tag was inscribed: "L. O. Wag- IMPORTANT make. Make them and see that the ner, U.S.A., 1061188." The filling manuscript reaches the Magazine's A form for your convenience if you wish station attendant knew L. O. Wagner to have the magazine sent to another ad- New York office not later than Jan- and called him up. Wagner declared dress will be found on page 74. In noti- uary 16, 1939- It goes without saying fying the Indianapolis address be sure to he had never owned a dog and went (but we're saying it anyway) that include the old address as well as the new it all about. There only original and previously unpub- to see what was and don't forget the number of your on the neck of a perfectly strange Post and name of Department. lished material can be considered. The American Lecion Magazine is the official publication of The American Legion, and is owned exclusively by The Ametican Legion, Copyright 1938 by The American Legion. Entered as second class matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the act of March 3, 1879. Stephen F. Chadwick, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Pub' lishing and Publicity Commission; Members of Comtr'es'on: Philip L. Sullivan, Chicago, 111.; William H. Doyle, Maiden, Mass.; Jean R. Kinder, Lincoln, Neb.; Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Va.; Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Jerry Owen, Portland, Ore.; Ben S. Fisher, Washington, D. O; Lynn Stambaugh, Fargo, N. D.; Van W. Stewart, Perryton, Tex.; Harry C. Jackson, New Britain, Conn.; Tom McCaw, Dennison, Ohio; Carter D. Stamper, Beattyville, Ky.; John J. Wicker, Jr., Richmond, Va.; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. O; John B. McDade, Scranton, Pa. Director of Publications, James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Director of Advertising, Frederick L. Maguire; Editor, John T. Winterich; Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler; Art Editor, William MacLean; Associate Editors, Alexander Gardiner and John J.