september 19 3 6 25 cenHp LEGIONMONTHLY Designed for Dependability The Ford V-8 engine has established an outstanding record for efficiency and reliability. Millions of owners know about this from personal experience — it is revealed in cost and performance figures. The Ford V-8 engine was developed for the motor car and truck. We designed it and we build it for this purpose alone. It is interesting to note, however, that this engine has been drafted for other uses where the service is far more severe than in a motor car. Ford V-8 engines are now operating air compressors, generators, industrial loco- motives, irrigation pumps and feed cutters. This business has not been sought. Manufacturers of this equipment have selected the Ford V-8 engine because of its power, efficiency and ability to stand up under long, hard use. Here is further proof of the dependability of the Ford V-8 — added to the experience of millions of motorists. An engine that can make a record like this is a good engine to have in your car. $25 A MONTH, after usual down-payment, buys any model 1936 Ford V-8 car, from any Ford dealer, anywhere in the United States. Ask your Ford dealer about the new Universal Credit Company y2 % per month Finance Plans CONVENTIONEERS... LEND YOUR EARS Your buddves uull v\evev ifecoq^e vpu** old " Convei*fiov\ 4vaftsporH-<a.-riov\ 14 Special onee ljoia Switch +o, and l<feep he<> filled upuAHt KOOL MOTOR Radio Concerts — Fridays, 8:00 p.m. E.D.T. over WEAF and --IVve Custom- biM IV qasolevse* forty-five N.B.C. stations. THERE'LL be a big time in Cleveland are cheerful, pleasant, helpful fellows who when all you fellows and your families will do anything in their power to make get there. And here's best wishes for the your trip a swift, happy one. greatest convention you ever had. And All along the way use KOOLMOTOR here's hopin' your trip to and from Cleve- gasolene. ..the gasolene that is custom- land will be just as enjoyable . just as built to give you perfect performance and trouble-free ... as the days you spend there. A Longer Run for Your Money. Cities Ser- And it will if you follow the Cities Service vice experts tested 750,000 running motors trail coming and going. of all makes and models in perfecting this The Cities Service trail is the safest . great gasolene. the most pleasant. .the one that will So start out with a tankful of cost you less. It's the trail lined with CITIESS KOOLMOTOR and a Cities Service clean, neat Cities Service and dealer ERV1CE/ Road Map to guide you and you'll be stations, manned by attendants who in Cleveland on the dot. CITIES SERVICE OILS AND GASOLENES SEPTEMBER, 1936 1 — (fforffodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: Oo uphold and defend the Constitution order; foster perpetuate ofthe'ZlnitedStates of&merica; to maintain law and to and a one hundredpercent (Tlrnericanisrn ; topreserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreaifWar; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com- munity,slate andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; topromote, peace andgood willon earth ;io safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjustice.Jreedom anademocracy ; to conse- crate andsanctyy our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion. n~he Jlmerican September, 1936 Vol. 21, No. 3 LegionMONTHLY Published Monthly by The American Legion, 4;; West zzd Street, Chicago, Illinois EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis , Indiana 521 Fifth Avenue, New York YOU live in one of the Eastern CONTENTS eral hundred thousand Legionnaires IFStates and are going to the Cleve- and other guests arrive in town on ROLLIN' land KEEP 'EM Cover National Convention, you By Harvey Dunn September 21st. It is a highly mod- will have to pay regular railway fare, ernistic affair, with countless exhibits WELCOME TO CLEVELAND 3 which, of course, is quite a bit lower By Harold H. Burton in big buildings scattered among than it was last year owing to the TERM OF ENDEARMENT 4 plazas with fountains and flower- and general lowering of all rates to a two- By R. G. Kirk tree-covered plots. The exposition Illustrations by James E. Allen cents-a-mile basis for coach travel. grounds front on the piers at which Legionnaires of Western and some HENRY FORD DISCUSSES THE will be moored the lake liners which FARM SURPLUS PROBLEM 8 Southern States, those bring to Cleveland big delegations of included in Decorations by William Heaslip the Southeastern, Legionnaires from other lake ports. Transcontinental, THESE CONSTITUTE A STATE 10 Western and Southwestern Passenger By Stephen F. Chadwick Associations, will benefit this year as THE ART OF MAKING MEN 12 ALLY'S two-page prevue of usual by the right By Irving Bacheller W the in to buy round-trip Cleveland Convention Illustrations by Forrest C. Crooks tickets at the one-way rate to specified this issue represents days and days AGAIN 14 "gateway cities." The usual identifica- HOME of hot-weather research as well as By Kayre .Leeds tion certificate pencil and pen work. must be presented by Illustration by Harry Townsend Mr. Wallgren, those buying these tickets. EDITORIAL: when the band in making the annual convention city BEGINS TO PLAY 15 cartoon, has to become a Baedeker of THE New England, Trunk Line ONE HIT, ONE ERROR 16 the host city, and like Legionnaire and Central Passenger Association By Barron C; Watson Walter Winchell he has to lay in a Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops roads are not granting special reduced stock of knowledge about local celeb- UP AND COMING 18 rates for the convention. Since Cleve- rities before he starts making the first By Franklyn J. Adams land lies in the no-reduced-rate zone, CLEVELAND'S LATCH-STRING aimless marks on his drawing board it will be necessary for those coming IS OUT 20 which eventually turn into a mosaic from the reduced-fare territory to pay By Wallgren such as you behold in this issue. regular fare to Cleveland from the UNFINISHED BUSINESS: IV 22 Wally is the world's most amiable "gateway cities" mentioned in the By Karl Detzer citizen and there is only fun in his Illustrations by J. W. Schlaikjcr paragraph above. These cities are ink bottle—never a drop of malice. WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER 26 St. Louis and Chicago for Western By John Thomas Taylor Lines, Cincinnati and Louisville if anybody, qual- for YEAR AFTER YEAR IT'S YORK 28 HENRY FORD, the Southeastern lines. It may sound By Philip Von Blon ifies for the role of American complicated, but your Department FARTHEST NORTH 32 sage. The article embodying his sen- Headquarters will see that you get By John J. Noll timents, in this issue, is a reminder additional information through your BURSTS AND DUDS 35 that the man who made this a motor post if you are in doubt. Incidentally, Conducted by Dan Sowers America embodies more than anybody A SAFE DRIVER? 38 find out what your Department is WHAT MAKES else perhaps our American quality of By Dr. Herbert J. Stack offering in the way of special trains. horse sense, which is synonymous FRONT AND CENTER 39 New York, for example, gives you a with common sense. Incidentally, choice of three all-expense tours at word comes from Vic MacKenzie, Please report change of address to Indian- $36.05, $42.25 and $79. National Convention Director, that apolis office, including old and new ad- the Legion this year, as in other re- dresses. Allow five weeks for change to CLEVELAND is justifiably proud become operative. An issue already mailed cent years, owes its gratitude to the of the Great Lakes Exposition, to old address will not be forwarded by post Ford Motor Company for provid- unless subscriber sends extra postage which, on 150 acres fringing the cool office ing a fleet of automobiles as official to post office. Notifying this magazine well shores of Lake Erie, will cars for the Cleveland Convention be at the in advance of impending address change peak of its attractiveness when sev- will obviate this expense. one for each Department and others. The American Legion Monthly is the official publication of The American Legion, and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1936 by The American Legion. Entered as second class matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under tne act of March 3, 1879. Ray Murphy, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Publishing Commission; Members of Commission: John D. Ewing, Shreveport, La.; Philip L. Sullivan, Chicago, 111.; William H. Doyle, Maiden, Mass.; Jean R. Kinder, Lincoln, Neb.; Phil Conley, Charles- ton, W. Va.; Edward A. Hayes, Decatur, 111.; George L. Berry, Pressmen"s Home, Tenn.; A. Stanley Llewellyn, Camden, S. C; Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., San Francisco, Cal.; Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Frank L. Pinola, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Ed. W. Bolt, Oakland, Cal.; Jerry Owen. Portland, Ore.; Ben S. Fisher, Washington, D. O; Lynn Stambaugh, Fargo, N. D.; Van W.Stewart, Perryton, Tex. General Manager, James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Business Manager, Richard E. Brann; Eastern Advertising Manager, Douglas P. Maxwell; Editor, John T. Winterich; Managing Editor, Philip Von Blon; Art Editor, William MacLean; Associate Editors, Alexander Gardiner and John J. Noll. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorised January 5, 1925.