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AN IMPERATIVE nvitation TO THE FROM THE WORLD'S LARGEST STORE OF COURSE you're coming to . 10,000 people to welcome you the greatest convention of to Herald Square them all . ... a special Free Tour Behind store . So. America's foremost the Scenes awaiting you and/or 17 wonders of the big one of the your family, ranging (guided) town . extends to you now its from sun-roof on the 20th, to heartiest invitation sub-basement, via Macy's famous ... a real World's Fair of Mer- Bureau of Standards, pioneer and chandise largest store-quality laboratory ... a million square feet of selling . five cool-cool air-conditioned with over space loaded 300,000 floors different articles from 'round the world ... so just tell Dad that whenever he gets tired of marching, and ... a 1 7-million-dollar stock of resolving, and hunting for Elmer, them you'll all meet him at Broadway ... in 168 departments and Thirty-Fourth, at Macy's . serving 137,000 people a day . welcome, welcome . wait till . (or during the Convention you see the show we're putting on shall we say 637,000 a day?) for you! AUGUST, 1937 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine Cforfgodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor thefollowing purposes: Oo uphold and defend the Constitution. «_y ofthe'Zfnited States ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent !7lrnericanism ,- to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreatfWar; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com- autocracy both the classes andthe masses; to right the munity, state andnation; to combat the of make master ofmight; to promote, peace andgood will on earth; to safeguardand transmit to posterity the principles offusticejreedom and democracy ; to conse~ crate andsanciiff our comradeship bu our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legion. <The Jlmerican August, 1937 Vol. 23, No. 2 LEGIONMAGAZINE Published Monthly by The American Legion, 4;} West zzd Street, Chicago, Illinois SECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis, Indiana IS West 48th St. , New York City CONTENTS WON'T be long now. Less Hudson Hawley's article on French THE OLD than sixty days. And then Na- GRAY MARE Cover and Italian cooking has recalled to IT By Arthur Mitchell tional Colmery will old A.E.F.-ers Commander BIG DOINGS AT DOBBS DEPOT 3 many the fact that bring down the gavel with a bang By MacKinlay Kantor German cooking likewise goes to the that will resound through Madison Illustrations by Paul Chapman right spot. Not that this Third A.E.F. DON'T TAKE AMERICA FOR Square Garden and the Nineteenth is going to travel exclusively on its GRANTED 8 National Convention of The Amer- By Harry W. Colmery, stomach. The 1937 tour will be a ican Legion will be on. National Commander sentimental pilgrimage if there ever Cartoon by John Cassel was one. THE STATE THAT HAS will find considerable about YOU EVERYTHING 10 the New York meeting in this By Governor Herbert H. Lehman OLD subscribers will recall that it issue. The president of the Fifth LEGION RAISED 12 is the annual custom of our By Franklyn Adams Avenue Association, himself a Le- YOU WOULDN'TJ. KNOW THE Wally to forecast, in every pre-con- gionnaire, throws that famous thor- vention issue of the magazine, just OLD PLACE 14 oughfare open to you. The governor By Thomas Henry Boyd what the next convention will be all of New York State, himself a Le- CODES—FACT AND FALLACY 18 about. On these occasions Wally is By Leah Stock Helmick gionnaire, suggests you bear in mind allowed to spread himself to the ex- Illustration by Forrest C. Crooks there is considerable tent of two pages. He's all set to do the fact that SOUVENIRS DE LUXE 20 more to his commonwealth than the By Robert Ginsburgh the right thing by New York in the metropolis at the mouth of the Hud- SCRAP HEAP, OR— 22 September issue. Pretty liberal of By Forrest G. Cooper son, and invites you to come early him, considering that he's a Phila- Illustration by Herbert Roese and loiter by the way. Next month CAREERS ALOFT 24 delphian. we hope to bring you a greeting from By Horace S. Mazet the mayor of New York City. Right EDITORIAL: round-up 27 AND while we're on the question UP FIFTH AVENUE AGAIN you took the words out of our J-\- of arts and crafts, may we an- — IN 1937 27 mouth—himself a Legionnaire. nounce that the September cover By William J. Pedrick WANT TO BE A SOUSA? 28 will display the most ingenious de- By Capt. Taylor Branson AFTER New York: Paris, Rome, sign that ever greeted a magazine FOURTEEN MILLION TREES 30 dT\. thereabouts. reader. don't say one of the most and points The By Boyd B. Stutler We number of Legionnaires who plan to NAVY TO THE RESCUE 34 ingenious designs—we say the most take advantage of the 1937 Foreign By John J. Noll ingenious design. If you don't agree HOOSEGOW HERMAN 38 Pilgrimage is mounting daily. Al- with us after you've seen Forrest By Wallgren Crooks's handiwork, write us an in- ready a plan is forming whereby BURSTS AND DUDS 40 some of the pilgrims will enter Eu- Conducted by Dan Sowers dignant letter. It (the design, not rope via France and some by way of FRONT AND CENTER 42 your letter) will have to do entirely Italy, swapping places half-way with the New York National Con- through the trip and, for all we PLEASE REPORT vention, too. know, holding a kind of postponed CHANGE OF ADDRESS convention somewhere at the foot of SPACE and time are almost gone, the Alps. Or perhaps even on top. to Indianapolis office, including old and so kindly permit us to note once new addresses. Allow five weeks for more the fact that the Nineteenth change to become operative. An issue al- a few pilgrims are plan- National Convention of The Ameri- OUITE ready mailed to old address will not be ning to revisit once familiar terri- held in forwarded by post office unless subscriber can Legion will be New York tory along the Rhine—Coblenz and sends extra postage to post office. Notifying City, September 20th to 23d, both this magazine the rest of the old Third Army area. well in advance of impending dates inclusive. address change will obviate this expense. The American Legion Magazinb is the official publication of The American Legion, and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1937 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. Harry W. Colmery, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Pub» lishing and Publicity 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, Charleston, W. Va.; Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., San Francisco, Cal.; Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Frank L. Pinola, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Jerry Owen, Portland, Ore.; Ben S. Fisher, Wash- ington. D. C.; 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. General Manager, James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Business Manager, Richard E. Brann; Director of Advertising, Herbert R. Schaeffer; Editor, John T. Winterich; Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler; 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, authorized January 5, 1925. Price, single copy 25 Cents, yearly subscription, $1.30. 2 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Mac Kin lay Kantor Dobbs Depot Paul Chapman dusty sun of a Virginia after- THEnoon slid drowsily through the open window of the warehouse, and Barney Ullman slid just as drowsily into his chair. It was a huge chair, and needed to be, for Barney Ull- man weighed as much as a small howit- zer, even without his high boots. Into those smooth leather casings he had squeezed his gigantic extremities, at the onset of the war. According to irreverent superstition at Dobbs Depot, he had not taken them out since. "Barney," called Sergeant Hewitt from the doorway. Ullman grunted, without turning his pink head. "Telegram came from the Junction. No train today. They couldn't get hold of an engine." The sutler mumbled a blas- phemy; his boots crashed to the littered floor. "Now, how do I go to Washington?" "I reckon," said the sergeant, sweetly, "that you can walk.