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By Karl W. Detzer
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Experiences in the A. E. F. by the Divi- sion of Criminal Investigation of the American Army in dealing with the most accomplished criminals the world has ever known. Baffling mysteries- - fascinating horrors tinge the pages. Criminals with and without shoulder straps do their stuff and the D. C. /. goes them one better.
NUMBER 52, RUE NATIONALE
"Remember the riot in Rue Nationale, Le Mans?
Some five thousand of you former doughboys recall it . . . that pleasant summer evening in 1919 when everyone seemed crazy, when Frenchmen and Americans milled in the street, glass was crashing, pistol shots echoed across the town, and finally, two
hours late, a battalion of French soldiers came charging down on us. Perhaps you remember the house at Number 52, which was the center of that mysterious turmoil.
Weird tales you heard, astound- ing tales of murder, of execu- tions, of spies. They couldn't be true, all those thousand float-
ing rumors. At least you won- dered. ..."
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From what port shall we sail? How much will it cost to get there? How long is it going to take? What steam- ship line shall we use? These are questions that Legion- naires from Puget Sound to Key West have been asking with regard to the entrapment and embarkation for the 1927 convention of The American Legion in Paris. They are answered completely and graphically by the map appearing on pages 10 and 11. The map, the result of months of re- search and investigation on the part of the France Conven- tion Travel Committee, tells at a glance the first and last chapters of what will be the greatest peace-time pilgrimage in the history of the world. The map is accurate, complete and authentic. By reference to it the Legionnaire will be able to calculate almost to a two-dollar bill the amount that will be necessary for the entire trip, from home to home. From the map he may determine the railway fare in America, add cost of Pullman and meals neces- sary to and from the boat, add the cost of his trans- atlantic ticket, on the basis of the rate he selects, two meals a day in Paris and whatever pocket money will be needed and he will have the whole story.
more quickly and conveniently from Oklahoma than can either of the Texas ports, strange as the fact may seem. .
IN most cases, special trains, or at least special cars on regular trains, will be used to transport Legionnaires to their ports. Delegations will go as State units, under the supervision of department France Convention Committee offi- cers. The fares quoted in each case are those from the State capitals. The exact fare from any town can be obtained from local ticket offices. It will be proportionate to the fare from the capital. Not at all complicated arithmetic.
Study this map with care and make your plans and calculations accordingly. Do you live in North Dakota? You see that from your State capital of Bismarck it will cost $62.66 to the port of embarkation and return, and will require fifty hours for the journey each way. You see that the line which passes through North Da- kota leads to Montreal, your port of embarkation. You see that you will be conveyed abroad on a ship of the Ca- nadian Pacific Line, and that from the same port will sail delegations from the States of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The squares on the map indicate the officially designated ports of embarkation, seven of them, with New Orleans as an auxiliary port of call serving Legionnaires from the State of Louisiana only. In every case the port selected for any State has been designated with a view to giving the quickest and most economical service. The harbor facilities and accessibility of New York means that twenty State dele- gations will sail from that port. It would appear at first glance that Legionnaires from Oklahoma could more profit- ably embark from Houston or Galveston, Texas, than from New York. This is not the case. New York can be reached
Table of Contents
Cover Design by Emmett Watson
The Doubting Dollar at Last Puts the
Plane to Work. .By Samuel Taylor Moore 4
When the Lights Went Out Everybody
Wondered — . . . .By Frederick C. Painton 6
Just Like a Man! By Wallgren 7
Editorial 8
The how-Down on the War Now for Everyday Flying A Wallop at the Housing Shortage
A Personal Page By Frederick Palmer 9
The Lines of Advance for the 1927 Paris Convention Pilgrimage 10
Radio 12
Outfit Reunions 17
Bursts and Duds 18
IT should be borne in mind that the lines shown in the map do not indicate rail- way lines, but are merely lines linking all States which embark from the same port. Kansas Legionnaires, for ex- ample, will not travel to Oklahoma City in reaching New York. But Legion- naires from both Oklahoma and Kansas will embark from New York. In esti- mating his probable ex- penses for the trip, a Le- gionnaire can approximate the cost of Pullman by al- lowing twenty percent of the actual fare for an upper. The number of meals re- quired enroute can be de- termined from the hours set out for the trip.
IN working out the plans for railroad and ocean transportation of the thou- sands of Legionnaires who will constitute the Second A. E. F., the France Con- vention Travel Committee has been guided by the advice of the country's recognized travel authorities. General Frank T. Hines, Director of the United States Veterans Bureau, who was in charge of the movement of the original A. E. F. to France during the war, recently approved the tentative arrangements the committee had made and expressed surprise at the thoroughness with which they had been prepared.
Bowman Elder, of Indianapolis, Indiana. General Chair- man of the Committee, and John J. Wicker, Jr., National Travel Director, have been assured by all travel experts that the Paris Convention pilgrimage presents no unusual difficul- ties and that with the preliminary organization handled prop- erly, the whole movement should be carried out in strict con- formity with the schedules prepared long in advance. In making arrangements, nothing will be left to chance.
The American Legion Weekly Is the official publication of The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright, 1926. by The Legion Publishing Corporation. Published weekly at 2457 E. Washington St.. Indianapolis, lnd. Entered as second class matter January 5. 1925, at the Post Office at Indianapolis. Ind., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price $1.50 the year. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917, authorized January 5, 1925. In reporting change of address, be sure to include the old address as well as the new.
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The Doubting Dollar At Last Puts the Plane to Work
ALONG the hangar line of /% Henry Ford's model / ^ airport at Dearborn, Michigan, one morn- ing last September a varied assortment of flying machines "toed their marks" to take off on a flight the like of which had never before been held in America. It was known as the First Annual Commercial Air- plane Reliability Tour.
Light two- and three-passen- ger biplanes looked like grace- ful swallows beside the lum- bering low fuselages and wide-spread wings of the metal monoplane entries. The larger clean-lined biplanes in turn appeared small compared to a Pullman - cabined monoplane with its three engines roaring as propellers idled.
The sky was overcast and from the sidelines of the field it seemed as though the top of the 210-foot mooring mast for dirigible airships touched the clouds. The threat of rain was in the air. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford were prominent among the spectators and by the side of the runway Edsel Ford stood as official starter with a small flag in his hand. Promptly at 10 o'clock the flag dipped and the first airplane roared down the runway, zoomed sharply, cir- cled and headed south toward Fort Wayne, Indiana, the first stop in a 1,900-mile round trip flight which was to cover eleven cities in six days. At two-minute intervals other airplanes followed until seventeen were in the air, the large ships overtaking the smaller ones in a disorganized line of
By SAMUEL TAYLOR MOORE
Paul P. Scott flies every day over the Rocky Mountains. He is one of the government's transcontinental air mail pilots who have brought every- day flying nearer for all of us. Below, the Aviation Committee of Paris Post on an inspection trip at the Paris terminal of the London-Paris air line, an indication of the Legion's interest in aircraft development
flight. Forty-five men and one woman were pilots or passen- gers in the planes.
For the next six days vari- ous citizens of the Middle West were treated to the un- usual spectacle of a long flight of vari - shaped mechanical birds speeding at various alti- tudes overhead through all va- rieties of weather. The sun was obscured for most of the tour. Fog, rain or cloudburst were experienced in some measure every day. Yet on only one leg of the flight did the referee order an overnight halt because of bad weather.
The following Sunday after- noon under lowering clouds sixteen of the seventeen en- tries glided down on the Ford airport at brief intervals after fighting their way through blinding thunderstorms for two hours. Ten of the finish- ers had achieved perfect scores. Motor trouble had forced the others to make tem- porary landings for adjust- ments at other than designated control points. Of the seven- teen planes participating but one was damaged beyond re- pair. A rain-sogged emer- gency field at New Castle, Missouri, so slowed up the starting speed of the plane that it failed to clear a line of trees bordering one end. The pilot received minor hurts.
In competitive American life a con- test which is not a race fails to at- tract wide attention. The Detroit sponsors emphasized that the reliability tour had but one object — to demon- strate the dependability of commercial
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aircraft. Its significance cannot be overestimated for it marks a new na- tional trend in aeronautics. Previous- ly, every public aviation event was dominated by military planes or fool- hardy showmen. The commercial air- plane tour is comparable to the Glidden automobile tours of a generation ago — and the part played by those adventur- ous pioneers in popularizing the auto- mobile is too well known to need com- ment. Glidden tours were an impor- tant factor in developing good high- ways, better machines mechanically, new markets, making possible mass production, with lower prices.
Eleven types of commercial airplanes were represented in the reliability tour, of which two were of foreign manufacture. The nine American- built planes failed to fully represent all of the strictly commercial airplanes turned out by American aircraft mak- ers. There are several American com- mercial planes of high performance which were not entered. As this is written at least six different types of commercial planes are ready for test flights preliminary to being advertised in a highly competitive market — a mar- ket that did not exist a year ago.
It is not a sharply defined field for which these new commercial airplanes are being manufactured. Some part of actual demand is prompted by ap- proved and projected new air lines traversing various sections of the con- tinent in extensions of the United States Air Mail system, to be private- ly operated under the supervision of the Post Office Department. Ten postal airways totaling some 5,000 miles in length will be in operation by June 1. Bids for further extensions are being invited.
Another factor of demand is the vir- tual exhaustion of surplus war stocks
of military airplanes which in the past have been utilized for taxi service and pleasure flights, heretofore our only semblance of commercial flying.
The market for which aircraft builders are really planning, however, is now merely potential.
Events of the past year have indi- cated a change from public indiffer- ence to a genuine interest in commer- cial aviation. For the first time since the war, or for that matter since the Wrights flew at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the aviation industry has been encour- aged to look beyond its star and only customer, the Federal Government, for the promise of civilian buyers.
The constructive use of aircraft is at hand after having been a dream of ne- bulous prophecy for seven years. Amer- ican commercial aviation is sprouting wings. True, they are fledgling wings with the weaknesses and uncertainties of the untried. Experimental flutter- ings by their nature will be attended by many a fall. The predominatingly important fact is that the machine- bird of commerce has at last divorced its martial nestmates, the destructive hawks of Army and Navy. It will fly or fall alone.
And it is with pardonable pride that every Legionnaire must regard this most hopeful progress. For the Na- tional Aviation Committee of The American Legion, of which Reed Lan- dis of Chicago is chairman, has been striving for such an ideal for the past four years in spite of every discour- agement. While bureaucratic contro- versy has raged (and the writer is a partisan) Mr. Landis has insisted from the first that the keystone of national air defense is primarily a thriving civil aeronautic industry, supplementing the military and naval forces as the mer- chant marine supplements our Navy.
A patriotic body of aviation enthu- siasts is frankly gambling its time and money to determine whether commer- cial flying in its present development can be made to pay its way, indepen- dent of government subsidy such as characterizes commercial aviation in Europe.
The fibre of these fledgling wings of commerce is rooted in economics. The final test is this. Can commercial fly- ing hope to earn a profit? If trial and error evolve an affirmative answer the next five years will witness a swarm of aircraft, great and small, flying in the heavens above our continent.
Indirectly, every individual has an interest in the experiment of commer- cial aviation because if it is successful it will relieve the taxpayer of a tre- mendous burden in supporting a huge aerial defense force. For, if it is proved that airplanes are suited only for military use, the Government must maintain reserves of planes and trained pilots and an aircraft industry as well.
The great unknown factor which makes the commercial experiment un- certain, is how much traffic will be available: mail, freight or passengers. Will superior speed command a fair cash premium from sufficient patrons to earn a profit, thus attracting new capital for expansion?
The operator has a service to sell. He must offer four requisites to his prospective patrons: first, safety; sec- ond, reliability of schedule; third, con- venience and comfort; fourth, moder- ate cost when the time-saving element is considered.
Commercial flying is safer than casual newspaper reading would indi- cate. The Curtiss Flying Service, In- corporated, in five years of operation (Continued an page 13)
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In the pitch dark of a crowded Aurora (Illinois) theater flashlights threw out tiny glares, revealing a number of men walking up and down the aisles and turning the lights on those in the seats. The men disappeared, the organ rolled out "Over There" and on the screen people read "These are members of The American Legion looking for the unknown soldiers." It was one of the many stunts that Aurora Post put over to gain an increase
of 600 percent in membership over last year
When the Lights Went Out Everybody Wondered^
THE motion picture theater at Aurora, Illinois, was well-filled just as the second show of the evening began. Upon the sil- ver sheet a comedy flickered, its situa- tions and climaxes registering through- out the audience in occasional gales of laughter and the excited whoops of children. In the half-darkness the rows of white faces strained forward. Over the organist's seat gleamed a faint light. The pipes were playing "Red Hot Mamma."
It seemed just the regular crowd, the week-night audience, peacefully going about its business of getting enter- tained via the screen.
Then suddenly the screen went dark. All the lights in the house grew black. Impenetrable darkness settled over the theater. The organ ceased to thunder. For perhaps thirty seconds there was no sound. The audience squirmed in suspense and a growing buzz of whis- pers indicated its excited curiosity.
Then, just as suddenly, tiny lights gleamed at several points in the the- ater, winking here and there like flit- ting fireflies. People in the audience gasped as they found helmeted men bending over to peer into their faces. They found themselves temporarily blinded as the globes of light were turned lull in iheir faces. In the re- flected glow the people saw a number of men, trench-helmeted, the chin straps giving a granite-like expression to the clean-shaven faces. Up and down each
By FREDERICK C. PAINTON
aisle the lights moved, their holders gliding along like ghosts of fallen soldiers.
Perplexed laughter charged with curiosity greeted the quick inspection of the house. Then, just when it seemed the suspense was unbearable, the glows of light winked out. A hush settled over the house to be suddenly dissipated by the music from the or- gan. The theater lights again were lighted.
Then upon the screen there was flashed the following legend:
"These are Members of The American Legion Looking for
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIERS."
The organ thundered "Over There" and in the rear of the theater a squad of khaki-clad men gathered with dis- ciplined swiftness and marched out.
The next day the residents of Aurora who are listed in the telephone book received a phone call. Upon taking the receiver off the hook, they heard a pleasant feminine voice ask: "Are there any World War veterans living in your house?"
If the answer was yes, then the pleasant voice inquired for the name
and with a pleasant "Thank you," hung up.
Meantime, the city began to buzz with concentrated curiosity.
"What's it all about, anyway?" "Those fellows in the theater?"— "The girls always asking questions about veterans?" and so on.
Then the newspapers announced that the Roosevelt-Aurora Post of The American Legion was conducting a city-wide search to locate all World War veterans living in the town. The newspapers editorially commended such a move. The feminine voices continued to inquire for veterans all week.
Then it was finished, and the news- papers said no more about it. The Au- roraites temporarily wondered about it, and then business went on about its usual swing.
But while outwardly everything was as usual, the headquarters of the Roosevelt-Aurora Post was a hive of industry. Preparations were being completed for the biggest membership campaign the post had ever under- taken. In three days it would be un- der way, and the organizations chair- man and the stunt chairman and the publicity chairman were plotting out concentrated activity as carefully as Pershing plotted out the Argonne bat- tle. As you have probably guessed the theater and telephone stunt were the prelude to the most successful member- ship campaign ever reported in detail (Continued on page 15)
MARCH 26, 1926
Just Like a Man!
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By Wallgren
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EDITORIAL
FOR God and country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the Ufiited States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism ; to pre- serve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the commu- nity, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to pos- terity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy ; to conse- crate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness. — Preamble to Constitution of The American Legion.
The Low-down on the War
1 don't know what this war's about, but you bet, by gosh, I'll soon find out." So ran one of the popular songs the doughboy sang in 1918. If he didn't find out all he wanted to know, he now has a mighty good chance to fill in the blank spots of his war knowledge. Colonel House's intimate papers, published in the newspapers and in book form, con- stitute a reasonably complete history of the war period. House gained his knowledge by poking about quietly among the stage settings of the war while ponderous personalities of all the combatant nations were thundering diplomatic sophistries in the glare of the footlights. Now he is pass- ing out the inside stuff — the low-down on the war.
Now for Everyday Flying
This spring, if signs may be trusted, the airplane is go- ing to work for a living. In this country so far it has worn sport clothes and uniforms; now it is about to put on overalls. As Samuel Taylor Moore's article in this issue explains, a dozen commercial air lines are to begin oper- ations on regular schedules this month. Instead of bomb- ing and pursuit planes, buzzing about Army and Navy bases, we shall see freight planes hurtling through the skies between our larger cities. The commercial plane spreads its wings to join the government mail plane. And so, with all auspices favoring, the United States enters a new era.
Doubt and misgivings up to this time have held back commercial aviation in the United States. Capital has de- manded tangible evidence that the airplane could provide reliable, safe and economical transportation. It is not yet fully convinced that the airplane will do all that aeronaut- ical engineers claim for it. Only partly convinced, it has watched the operations of the government's transcontinental air mail service. But once the dozen new commercial air lines now being started prove successful, tremendous ex- pansion may be looked for.
Those who have faith in the aircraft industry expect that the airplane will repeat the history of the automobile. They expect skeptical finance to come into this new trans- portation industry with a rush as the last remaining doubts vanish. The motor truck placed the final stamp of permanence and financial stability upon the automobile in- dustry. Just so will the commercial airplane be the guar- antee of the nation's aircraft industry.
No one can deny that this country has been a laggard among nations in developing the possibilities of aircraft. Commercial air lines have been operating regularly in practically all the countries of Europe for several years. Our own aerial undevelopment has justly concerned those who are in the best position to understand how important the aircraft industry is in its relation to plans for national defense.
It is necessary, of course, that the Army and Navy keep abreast of other nations in developing aircraft needed in warfare. But equally necessary is a vital, progressive air- craft industry, which would have to be the country's main reliance if the United States were involved in another war. In the World War we were forced to the expedient of using airplanes made by men trained primarily to make auto- mobiles. Experience has proved that the design and con- struction of planes calls for specialized training.
The best example of foreign airplane development is the passenger line which operates every day between London and Paris. Thousands of American tourists make the air trip between the two capitals each year, and the percentage of accidents is wholly negligible. Not quite so well known is Germany's peacetime air development. On April 1st forty-two separate air lines will begin operation under a new merger of German air concerns. Seventeen lines will radiate from Berlin — seventeen passenger planes starting from that city and landing in it each day.
In this country the commercial freight plane seems des- tined to lead the way for the commercial passenger plane. But the development of multiple-engined planes, the con- stant improvement in designs and operation methods, the growing margin of safety will inevitably win passengers. And when passengers are won, without reservation, the United States will truly make up for all the time it has lost in competition with other countries. For the indis- pensable factor for enduring development of our flying re- sources is popular confidence.
A Wallop at the Housing Shortage
ONE of the most important and significant developments in the recent history of the United States is the pro- posal for the solution of the problem of city housing which Governor Al Smith submitted to the New York State Leg- islature on February 22d. One may so view this proposal, whether he favors or opposes the remedy which New York's Governor has advocated to eliminate the admittedly growing evils of overcrowding and consequent lowering of standards of living for a large percentage of the population of big cities. For the Governor's message to the legisla- ture marks the beginning of a new approach to one of the most puzzling problems of modern America.
Governor Smith called attention to the fact that, despite previous attempts to improve housing conditions in New York City, fourteen of twenty-three old tenements clas- sified as a public menace in 1885 — forty-one years ago — are still occupied wholly or partly for residential pur- poses. He stated that 70,000 new apartments of four rooms each are at this time urgently required in the metropolis.
The Governor advocated creation of a State Housing Bank, clothed with the power of condemnation of sites for suitable building projects, this bank to loan money at a low rate of interest to privately-organized, limited dividend corporations formed for the purpose of carrying on the building operations at a reasonable return on the money invested.
Profits to stockholders in the limited dividend corpora- tions would be restricted to cumulative six percent on the? stock held. A draft bill, submitted to the legislature with the Governor's message, restricts monthly rentals to a maximum of $12.50 a room in Manhattan, less than this sum in other boroughs of the metropolis and $9 a room elsewhere in the State.
The housing problem of New York's cities is largely the same problem which faces rapidly-growing cities every- where in the United States. Millions of Americans will want to see what happens to Governor Smith's proposal and what comes of it.
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It is predicted that the radio will soon be used to trans- port heat waves but most of us probably feel that we are getting enough hot air now through our sets.
Cincinnati has imported a kangaroo from Tasmania that can hop forty feet. The animal will be used, it is un- derstood, to teach a course in rudimentary pedestrianism.
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A PERSONAL PAGE by Frederick Palmer
The Bears slammed stocks down five to thirty points the other day on the New York Stock Exchange, and some
Bears made quick fortunes which Hard Come, were lost by speculators who were
Easy Go forced to sell as their margins were
swept away. The next day stocks shot upward and the Bears, who turned Bulls and bought low, made another killing. Meanwhile, we all went to Work as usual and received our pay for our labor; facto- ries and railroads kept running and stores were selling food and clothes. "Easy come and easy go" the quick fortunes. The tragedy is when hard come is easy go. To prevent tragedy, leave stock gambling to the experts.
The price for tickets to the football games of the Big Three of the East, Harvard, Yale and Princeton, which
only graduates and undergraduates Remember the can get, has been raised from three to Millions hve dollars. More dollars, hundreds
of thousands of dollars, are needed for coaches and training. If the cost of college football continues to rise the graduates will have to begin saving money as soon as one football season is over in order to see one game the next year. But we approach the base- ball season. Have the boys of the countryside — tillages, towns and cities — balls and bats and a place to play? There is an army of millions of them and only a platoon of players and substitutes in a college football game.
Walter Johnson, veteran league pitcher, says that he feels that he is going to pitch as good ball as ever this
year. May he, and better! One day Hail, Walter, age must take the cunning out of his Old Master! great right arm; one day he must
yield to youth. We shall rejoice in one more year for him, because we rejoice in his clean living, his steady temper, his spirit in giving all he has to the game; the spirit which will hold off the time when he will have to give way to the youngsters who will the sooner be Walter's equal if they emulate his spirit.
Richard Wainwright is dead. His spirit has gone to that other land to join Paul Jones, who will welcome him.
Never had the founder of our Navy To Join a truer disciple than Wainwright.
Paul Jones Our battleships were engaging the
Spanish squadron, as it came out of Santiago in 1898, when his converted yacht Gloucester faced two Spanish torpedo boats which had much superior gun power. He closed in; he had a battle of his own while the big battle was raging in the distance. He sunk one torpedo boat; the other surrendered. Wainwright was a timid man to meet; but he was not timid in action.
The august rule has been waived for Admiral Togo, aged eighty. He is the first man permitted to walk with
a cane in the presence of the Japa- Togo Keeps nese Emperor. Japan could do
the Cane hardly less for him when he did so
much for Japan. In 1905, in the Russo-Japanese War, he beat the Russian fleet at Tshu- mima. Had he lost the Japanese army would have been
cut off from Japan as effectually as the A. E. F. from home if German submarines had mastered the sea; Russia would have won the war; there might have been no Rus- sian Revolution; there might have been no World War for America to be in; Japan would not be a mighty world power; the Sun-Emperor, supposed to be a direct de- scendant of the Sun-Goddess, might not have a throne.
There is no ruler who should not be proud to receive Miss M. M. Colcock if she used two canes. She, too, is a great warrior — a peace warrior. Her No Cane Yet weapons are textbooks and a black- for Her board. Some of the army of chil-
dren she has trained are now grey haired; they form the Court that honors her. She began teaching in the public school of McPhersonville, South Carolina, fifty years ago and is still teaching there. When she needs a cane a solid gold one won't be too good.
"Gold is where you find it, and still there is plenty of it to be found." This is the lure that calls the prospector;
this his plea for a "grubstake" to set The Call his restless feet on the rough trail to
of Gold the rainbow's end. When it seems
as if all the gold has been found, grubstakes are hard to get, another "strike" is made and he is proved right. I am glad to have known his zest as I panned for "colors" though I got none.
The latest rush to "discovery" is across the frozen ex- panses of Northern Canada to Red Lake. Was the ro- mance of the race to "stake" increased or lessened by air- planes that made in less than two hours the distance that took hard mushed dog teams six days? Consider planes at one hundred and thirty miles an hour flying over the covered wagons on the way to California in 'Forty-nine!
M. G. of Glasgow, Montana, has the sound view. "Only as long as the foreign language papers help the new ar- rival to adjust himself to his new A True Note surroundings and teach him loyalty
From Montana to his new country are they a bene- fit," he writes. "I speak from nine- teen years' experience, first as an alien, second as a citi- zen and third as an ex-service man. Had I continued to read papers printed in my language, and been influenced by them in favor of another country, would I have been able to be a real citizen of the United States and to wear the American uniform honorably? I should say not."
We want French democracy, the wisdom of French de- mocracy, to triumph for the good of the world. France
has to face her present troubles as Another Verdun she faced the enemy at Verdun. It for France must be "They shall not pass" to
financial inflation, to scheming poli- ticians afraid to face facts, and all the elements of dis- traction. She has won through other crises. She will win through this one. Those who know the industry and thrift of her people are confident of the outcome. We do not forget that she lost 363,000 dead in the war, 669,000 from her farms, 235,000 from industry and 40,000 from the professions.
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THIS week we can report an ad- dition to the list of "firsts" in Legion radio activities — in oth- er words, to the fast-growing collection of original stunts being thought up and put over by Legion de- partments and posts which have adopt- ed the radio for letting the world know about the Legion. Our collection con- tains the first initiation of Legion members by means of a microphone staged by Tioga Post of Philadelphia, followed closely by Calhoun Post of Minneapolis, the first radio patriotic pageant broadcast in 1925 by Fort Cralo Post of Rensselaer, New York, followed by a similar pageant on Wash- ington's birthday this year. In March, 1925, the Department of Ohio cele- brated the sixth anniversary of the founding of The American Legion with a Legion-Air Birthday Celebration placed on the air from Station WLW.
The Department of Virginia was first in line with its official department radio program, under the national plan adopted at the Omaha convention, broadcast on January 19th. The Go- phers of Minnesota, Legion and Aux- iliary, went on the air with the first suppositional trip to the 1927 conven- tion city of the Legion with their "Back to Paris" revue, and Oklahoma Legion- naires took a similar advance trip via the air to Philadelphia, where the Le- gion will hold its national convention this coming October. Oklahoma scores again with its first officially-chartered radio post whose meetings are held from Station FKFJ each Saturday night, Oklahoma Radio Post of Okla- homa City.
Now we are in receipt of a letter from William G. Murray, past com- mander of Daniel C. Gibbons Post of Chicago, stating that his post claims the distinction of broadcasting the first installation of post officers. On De- cember 19, 1925, the 1926 officers of Daniel C. Gibbons Post were installed in a meeting held at Rainbow Gardens in Chicago, and the entire ceremony, presided over by Past Department Commander Charles W. (Daddy) Schick of Illinois was sent out on the air through the Calumet Baking Pow- der-Rainbow Gardens Station WQJ.
FORT Wayne (Indiana) Post advo- cates the plan of picking members out of the air. On February 5th, Fort Wayne Post broadcast a program con- sisting of war songs, bugle selections, patriotic airs by the orchestra and a four-minute talk about the Legion, from Station WOWO. Read what Chairman A. H. Welker of the post's Radio Committee has to report regard- ing results of the broadcast: Reports were received from practically every section of the country, many from ex- soldiers who had never affiliated with
The American Legion and expressing their intention of applying for mem- bership . . . The membership of the local post was increased by several members and we feel that the Weekly should strongly advise every post with a radio broadcast station available to take advantage of this splendid medium of letting the world know The Amer- ican Legion.
While on the subject of getting members via the air route, we want to broadcast some additional in- formation from L. W. Hamm, chair- man of the radio committee of Gilbert C. Grafton Post of Fargo, North Dar- kota, whose success in Legion radio ac- tivities has won for him a recent ap- pointment as State radio publicity man for the Department of North Dakota. Brief mention of the plan of Gilbert C. Grafton Post and its Auxiliary unit to invite prospective members of the Le- gion and the Auxiliary to remit their dues through Station WDAY, from which the two organizations broadcast programs for three successive Sundays, was made in this department last week. The names of all who thus remitted dues were placed in a prize drawing for a radio receiving set and other gifts. With the assistance of Mrs. Hamm, this plan received much publici- ty. As the Legion post had recently completed a campaign for members in Fargo, new members were obtained only from the surrounding country dis- tricts and from small towns which had no Legion posts. But read what hap- pened in the Auxiliary unit. At the end of 1925, the total membership of the unit numbered 97. When the radio campaign was announced, the 1926 membership stood at 55. Now, follow- ing the three weeks' radio campaign, the unit boasts of 192 members.
ON THE AIR
Brief announcements of radio programs to be broadcast by Legion posts will be published in this department. Notices of proposed programs should be sent to the Weekly at least four weeks in advance of date of broadcasting. Be sure to give the wave length.
Castle Williams Post, Decatur. Illinois, will broadcast its regular monthly Legion program from William Gushard Department Store Sta- tion WJBL (270 meters) , on Monday, March 29, from 9:30 to 11 p. m., Central Time.
Captain Belvidere Brooks Post, New York City, is on the air every Monday night froia Station WFBH (272.6 meters), at 6 o'clock. Eastern Time.
Robert E. Bentley Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, broadcasts a program every Monday night from 9 to 10 p. m., Central Time, from Station WKRC (422 meters).
Following Legion programs will be broad- east at 2 p. m.. Central Time, on dates shown from Station WMAQ (447.5 meters), Chicago. Illinois: Forges Post, March 26: North Shore Post, March 29 ; American Legion Aux- iliary, March 30 ; Frederick Galbraith Post, March 31.
MARCH 26, 1926
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has carried some 22,600 passengers a distance of 450,000 miles without a single fatality. W. F. Poorman, actu- ary of the Farmers' National Life In- surance Company of Chicago, after a national survey covering the period 1921-1923 found that the average in commercial flying is but one fatality for every 350,715 miles flown. In that period chiefly surplus war planes were in use commercially. It is only in the last year that airplanes designed whol- ly for commercial service have ap- peared on the market in numbers. Such commercial ships mark a significant change. The military airplane is de- signed primarily for performance, maneuverability, speed, or weight-car- rying; safety is a secondary considera- tion in military science. The prime req- uisite of the commercial airplane is safety — all else is secondary.
If safety depended wholly on the modern commercial airplane itself the average of miles per fatality might be multiplied tenfold. But there are oth- er factors. The new plane may become weakened through hard service. The pilot may be incompetent. The motor may be in need of overhauling. Again, the vital necessity of proper ground organization and adequate weather in- formation is apparent.
The Air Mail has established fair re- liability of schedule in flying mails through the night and in all varieties of weather. Fog remains the greatest enemy of the airman. But even now that blinding foe is about conquered. A group of scientists of national repu- tation have evolved a plan for guiding planes by means of a wired wireless system. An electrically charged wire stretching along the route to be flown will communicate vibrations to the head-set of a pilot so that he may fly safely through the thickest blanket of fog. With ears once attuned to the volume of humming he may guide his ship entirely by the tune of the vibra- tions. With the wire stretched over the loftiest mountain peak he may find safety by maintaining the pitch of the hum for as the noise grows louder he will know that he is flying nearer and therefore more dangerously, towards earth. The benefits of this system of navigation are almost incalculable and it is entirely within reason to foresee in the near future when the illuminated airway will no longer be a necessity other perhaps than floodlights to mark landing fields.
There is little comfort or conveni- ence in the open type airplane. The roar of motor and propeller, the blast of wind in the slipstream of the pro- peller and the need of goggles and a parachute pack do not permit true ease. Enclosed cabin planes are now on the market, however, and refinements will accompany development as they have in the history of the automobile.
The most significant power plant progress from the viewpoint of com- mercial aviation is in the field of air- cooled motors.
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market or completing final tests. Wright, Curtiss, Ford, Fairchild, Rick- enbacker, Pratt and Whitney, are a few. Air-cooled development cannot be truthfully described as an invention because it is really refinement of the motorcycle engine.
In Europe commercial aviation is chiefly confined to passenger carrying. Mail and freight are of secondary im- portance. The American development of commercial flying may be defined in three phases, as follows:
1. Aerial merchantmen designed to carry mail, freight or passengers on regular schedules over permanently es- tablished routes.
2. Aerial taxi service and airplanes for sport and pleasure, the latter anal- ogous to the automobile.
3. Mechanical employment, as in aerial photography and map-making, cotton-dusting, sky writing and mes- senger service.
All of these services have one com- mon interest — ground organization. Be- yond the demand for safety in frequent and satisfactory landing fields is the necessity for convenient fuel supplies and repair and overhaul service, gen- erally a duplication of the service ren- dered automobiles at filling stations and garages. Already such conveni- ences have begun to appear, chiefly in the Middle West.
Much has been written of the two major airways systems in the United States, the transcontinental airway of the Air Mail and the Army airways extending from New York to Hampton, Virginia, and westward from Wash- ington to cover the principal cities of the Middle West, thence southward to San Antonio, Texas.
The truth is that neither of these systems can render real service to a civilian flyer. He can purchase neither gasoline nor oil, nor can he employ the expert government mechanics to weld a leaky water jacket or replace a cracked propeller. It is not that the Federal agencies would not like to help. It is merely that the government ac- counting system prohibits such aid be- cause revenue from outside sources cannot be applied to a given item of appropriation. The money received for gasoline, oil and service must be re- turned to the United States Treasury. However, a bill recently passed by the Senate would correct this situation by authorizing aid for civil flyers at all Federal landing fields. Nevertheless, it is certain that the Government will never be able to run aeronautic filling stations as a business, rent hangar space and provide reliable mechanics for hire. Such service must be fostered by independent enterprise.
The municipal airport and perhaps the county and state airports is the apparent answer to this problem. On the other hand, one of the leading fig- ures in the new aviation development foresees in the near future the private- ly-owned landing fields, analogous to the automobile garage and filling sta- tion.
In two small rooms of the rambling Munitions Building in Washington is quartered the only complete aerial touring information bureau in the United States. A young lieutenant of Air Service and a trio of clerks occupy one room. The balance of the staff consists of two draftsmen. Every
landing field in the United States is listed there with printed sketches to scale and information of the service available. Looseleaf descriptions of landmarks covering every established airway are on file in printed form, com- parable to information in an Automo- bile Blue Book, but necessarily in less detail. New maps are being perfected, printed on cloth that will not tear or fade. The immediate goal is to achieve a map which will reproduce the terrain photographically, since contour lines and symbols are difficult to translate in the mind.
Time lost to air voyagers in traveling to and from flying fields from the busi- ness sections of large cities is always emphasized by aviation skeptics. The time required to reach Mitchel or Cur- tiss Field on Long Island from Times Square and the journey from Boiling Field to Pennsylvania Avenue in Wash- ington, plus the time of flight, about equalizes train time from the central railroad terminals of the two cities.
The development of commercial fly- ing may force the building of airports more conveniently located for prospec- tive patrons. For instance, to serve New York City it has been variously recommended that Governor's Island, at the extremity of Manhattan, be util- ized. Already an airport more acces- sible to New York than the fields grouped about Garden City, Long Island, is being built.
A group of air enthusiasts recently acquired a tract of 200 acres at Has- brouck Heights, New Jersey, construct- ed a drainage system and this spring the Teterboro Airport will be ready for business with two cinder runways 3,000 feet long. Modern equipment will be provided and passengers arriving and departing by air will find themselves a 20-minute motor ride from the West Forty-second Street ferry.
New airports are being designated so fast nowadays that the Army Air- ways draftsmen, whose duty it is to make sketches of each new landing field, are far behind in their work. An- other indication of the public interest!
Through the interest of a group of St. Joseph, Missouri, flying fans, in- cluding many Legionnaires, a 1,500- mile airway in the Middle West is be- ing prominently marked. Over that territory pilots may find their way as easily as though they were following the color bands which line our national highways.
Such is the bright horizon for civil aeronautics. We have before been told of aviation lines which were to honey- comb the continent. They did not ma- terialize. Is this another dream to van- ish in the vacant element above us, in a phrase, hot-air? Not this time! In a second article I will describe the new extensions of the air mail. It is possi- ble that your town or city is included in the new air routes. I will relate something of the men who are promot- ing the new sky-lines and you may judge of their financial responsibility for yourself. You will want to know who they are for they are conspiring to get you into the air, exactly as your dubious parents were made to purchase their first automobile.
The second and final article by Mr. Moore on commercial flying prospects will appear in an early issue.
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When the Lights Went Out
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It is with the stunt and publicity aspects of this membership campaign that this article deals. For from the minute that the lights blinked out in the Aurora movie houses until the final announcement of results was made in the local newspapers, the Roosevelt- Aurora Post publicity campaign was well nigh a perfect model. Its original methods of obtaining city-wide (and as it happened, nation-wide interest) from beginning to end constitute a model publicity and stunt membership campaign that will become a classic in Legion circles.
The results speak for success. When Aurora went into the campaign it had eighty-two members on the roster. At the close of the membership drive it had a grand total of 431, a gain of 349, an increase of 425.6 percent that has since passed 600 percent as addi- tional members have come in as a re- sult of the impetus.
And, it may be added, the campaign plan is one that any of the 11,000 posts of the Legion can use with equal success, providing they go at it with the determination and hard plugging shown by the Roosevelt-Aurora gang.
Aurora is a city of 40,000 population, forty miles west of Chicago. It has car-manufactui-ing shops and some fac- tories. Its one daily newspaper, the Beacon-News, is a seven-day publica- tion with a circulation of 18,000. So you see, it is not an extraordinary city. There are thousands like it.
Once a membership campaign was decided upon, the post went to rock bottom to build. Under the supervision of the stunt chairnlan and the publicity chairman and the organization chair- man the first problem was to get a list of prospects other than those already known. Then it was that the "Find the Unknown Soldiers" campaign started.
The whole city was made to be in- terested in this idea as a real civic as- set. Mayor Charles H. Greene, him- self a veteran, was chairman of the citizens committee which was formed to carry on the city-wide survey for veterans. The local civic associations such as the Chairman of Commerce, Building Trades Council and the like enlisted alongside the Legion.
As the lists of veteran names came in the Beacon-News printed them. In addition a blank coupon was carried daily, so that any citizen interested
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might fill in the name of a veteran ac- quaintance and send it in. The stunt chairman figured out the idea of send- ing a squad of men into the movie the- aters with flashlights to arouse the in- terest of the fans.
The publicity used in this survey other than that gained through the creation of "spot news" such as the theater stunt came as follows: One article announced the survey together with reasons why it would benefit the community. The second story an- nounced the chairman and citizens' committee. Statements from prominent persons were printed and there was also editorial commendation.
In a column called "street comment" persons were asked to give their views on "What do you think of the Legion's survey to locate the unknown soldiers of Aurora?"
Occasional articles dealing with lo- cal Legion activities, and departmental and national Legion news help to swell the grand total of the preliminary stage.
When the "unknown soldier" survey came to an end the total number of names received as eligible prospects passed the 1,200 mark inside the city limits. And, it may be added, the list was exhaustive. Which you might say is what is described generally as "get- ting results."
With the organization side of solicit- ing these prospects this article does not deal. Bill Mundt, organization officer of the Illinois department, can tell you all about that phase.
What we deal with here is the pub- licity and stunts of the big member- getting week, the big public hurrah that kept the interest of the citizens concentrated on the Legion and pepped up the team spirits.
This is how it was done. , After a brief announcement of the forthcoming drive, after the chairman, teams and workers had been printed up one side and down the other, came the big stunt.
"WORLD'S LARGEST CHECK TO BE SIGNED TOMORROW" said a story in Monday's newspaper, Monday being the opening campaign day. And sure enough, on Tuesday, Mayor Greene paid his Legion dues on a huge check, twenty-four feet long and ten feet high.
While the mayor wielded a pencil four feet long to sign this huge paper, the movie cameras clicked, the photograph- ers used plates and plates to get the nhotos for the picture pages.
Then the biggest check was rolled up, placed on a military caisson and became the head of a big parade from the city hall to the Aurora Savings & Trust Company. In the parade was the high school band in uniform, two machine guns drawn by mules, two officials of the bank, Mayor Greene and Legion officials. The next week five million people in movie theaters saw the biggest check in the world in the news reels. The make-up of the pa- rade is reported in detail to show that most any post could get up one just as comprehensive.
Aurora looking for a Wednesday stunt held a mutt dog contest and pa- rade for school children with three prizes. The prizes were $3, $2 and $1. The children entered their pet mutts at a given place, paraded down the street to the hall of judgment and again cameras clicked wildly and the newspaper gave reams of space to the activities of a go-getting post.
A special Forty and Eight wreck was held on the fourth day.
All these stunts, it must be under- stood, had plenty of preliminary pub- licity, and follow-up.
While on the fifth day, the post was holding its Back to Paris Nite, the newspapers announced the results of the Forty and Eight promenade, and so on.
In connection with the Back to Paris Nite, it is interesting to note that the post was original enough to send 1,000 invitations to the affair, typed on tele- graph blanks and delivered by Boy Scouts in uniform.
The Back to Paris Nite was simple but effective. On the evening of the fifth day, a huge floa^ was mounted on an electric flat car, to represent the Leviathan. It sailed through Aurora streets and docked at Paris (the armory or some other large suitable building). Here a get-together meeting was held, with local girls putting on a show and free "eats" served by "The Salvation Army."
While this great event was being re- ported, the announcement was made
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the evening of the last day. At this banquet everybody was thanked, the re- sults announced and everybody made to feel that a real job had been put over.
The above hasty outline of the high points of this campaign cannot be said adequately to cover it. There is no space to refer to pictures, cartoons, editorials, window cards, posters, auto stickers, street banners, trolley car streamers, a thermometer device in front of cam- paign headquarters. With most of these latter devices you are all familiar. They added to the grand total and ac- counted for the constant repetition of the name American Legion until every- body in Aurora had heard about the drive and knew something of what the Legion was doing locally, department- ally and nationally. That post has mil- lions of dollars' worth of good will.
Not all membership campaigns play on the thundering drums of publicity so successfully. That is why the Roosevelt-Aurora Post with its ingenu- ity, originality and everlasting work has laid down p classic campaign that can be a model for other posts who want to go over big in this "million- member year."
OUTFIT REUNIONS
Announcements for this department must be received three weeks in advance of the events with which they are concerned.
101st Eng. — Seventh reunion at Cadet Ar- mory, Boston, Mass., April 10, 6 to 11 p. m., under auspices of women of 101st Eng. Wel- fare Assn. Address Miss Charlotte M. Flynn, 11 Paisley Park, Dorchester, Mass.
.80TH Div. — Third annual reunion of Phila- delphia Post, in McCallister's Blue Room, 1811 Spring Garden St.. Philadelphia, Pa., April 22. Address Russell Mahon, 1808 N. Newkirk St., Philadelphia.
104th Inf. — Seventh annual Apremont re- union at Springfield. Mass., April 23-24. Address Earle F. Bliss, Secretary, 534 Main St., Spring- field.
Co G, 137th Inf. (35th Div.)— To complete roster and make plans for reunion at time of convention of Kansas Department of Legion at Fort Scott in September, former members of this outfit address Frank W. Harpold, Box 178, Fort Scott, Kas.
128th Inf. — Annual reunion at Fort Atkin- son, Wis., Sept. 4-6. Address Gerald Hyde, Fort Atkinson.
71st N. Y. Regt. — To complete roster former members address Col. Stanley Bulkley, 71st Regt. Armory, Park Ave. and 34th St., New York City.
BttV C, 28th Arty. — Members of this outfit as well as of any of the batteries stationed at Fort Andrews, Mass., at the close of the war, interested in proposed reunion in Boston. Mass., during spring or summer, address Frank "Abie" Vancini, Plymouth, Mass.
Base Hosp., Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. — Former members interested in proposed re- union at Legion National Convention in Phila- delphia, Pa., Oct. 11-15. address Theodora R. Converse, Pennsylvania Hospital, Eighth and Spruce Sts., Philadelphia.
305th Supply Co. — Members of this organi- zation planning to attend Legion National Con- vention in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 11-15. ad- dress Harry Feldman, 4151 Girard Ave.. Phila- delphia.
SUPPLY Co., 108th F. A. (8th Div.)— Former members interested in proposed reunion during Legion National Convention in Philadelphia, Oct. 11-15. address J. M. DeWitt. 514 City Centre Bldg., Philadelphia.
Naval Railway Btty., A. E. F. — Former of- ficers and personnel of this organization, com- manded by Rear Admiral C. P. Plunkett, inter- ested in proposed reunion at Philadelphia dur- ing Legion National Convention, Oct. 11-15, ad- dress H. H. Gawthrop, 29 N. Montgomery St., Trenton, N. J.
7th Div. — Official divisional history to be published in early summer. Former members of division desirous of obtaining copies ad- dress E. T. Fell, 1405 Citizens National Bank Bldg., Baltimore, Md.
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Bursts and Duds
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Tact Before Truth
"I suppose you want a suitable inscrip- tion on the stone?" inquired a tombstone worker of the bereaved husband.
"Hmm, n-n-no," was the reply. "Just something conventional."
Still More Leisure
"Your son still a patrolman, Si?" "Nope. They put him in plain clothes so nobody knows when he's loafin' now."
Truth Will Prevail
[Ad in Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff-Xeics] CHEST OF DRAWERS — A number of antique pieces just being finished.
The Reasonable Explanation
A negro laborer had just fallen from the heights of a tall building being con- structed. Head first and like a projectile he crashed downward and disappeared through an opening in the sidewalk con- necting with the basement. The foreman rushed down, expecting to find a mangled corpse, but instead discov- ered Jazzbo reposing in a mass of waste paper.
"Man !" gasped the fore- man, "how did you manage to escape being killed?"
"Boss. Ah dunno." groaned Jazzbo, rubbing his head. "Ceptiu' dat cement side- walk must of broke inah fall."
Kindness Indeed
The bride had but recently returned from her honey- moon and her mother was paying her first call ou her since the wedding.
"Well, daughter," she asked, "is George good to you?"
"Just darling, mother !" exclaimed the young wife. "Only yesterday he showed me how to open a can of milk with a nail and a hammer."
Natural Assumption
"My neighbor's lot," sighed the soft- hearted Boggs, "is a most unfortunate one."
"Where did he buy?" asked the prac- tical Biggs. "Florida?"
Waving
We can recall the battle cry,
Enunciated by the brave, When to the gales the flag would fly :
"Long may it wave!"
But now in beauty shoppes we hear From maids who latest fashions crave :
"This permanent is quite a dear ; Short may it wave!"
— Thomas J. Murray.
A Gay Bird
Patricia : "Did Agnes marry that mail plane pilot?"
Felicia : "No, he proved to be a fly-by- night."
The Reward of Valor
[From Dearborn Independent] On September 23, 1880, when Wash- ington's Monument was under construc- tion at 160 feet, a cat jumped from the
top without being killed, and as a result is now stuffed and in the Smithsonian In- stitution museum.
An Offer
"What could you give my daughter that she doesn't have now?"
"Well, sir, I could give her something to worry about."
Trained
"What makes that child so quiet?" "His mother's a bridge fiend and his father's a radio fan."
Cruel Justice
"Did you hear," asked Dolly, "about the terrible way the judge acted in Helen's di- vorce case?"
"Yes," replied Polly in disgust. "Im- agine barring her very best friends from such an interesting affair !"
When Peace Is Necessary
"You seem to be awfully sweet with Marvin lately," remarked Lucille.
"Yes," answered Lois, sighing. "If we. quarrel he might ask for his ring back, and I can't get it out of pawn till Satur- day."
Evolution
"What happened to the little boys who used to read 'Diamond Dick' behind their geographies in school?"
"Oh, now they're reading the college comics behind their opera programs."
Ride 'Em, Bookworm! [Ad in Beloit (Wis.) 'Neics] GAS HEATER— For sale; also com- bination bookcase and saddle.
THE ADVANTAGE OF A TRICK MIRROR
Salesman: "That's the new spring 'true-form' coat." Customer: "Simply grand — I'll take it."
Not a Blow
"Gracious, but time!" exclaimed out?"
"No !" replied Ada never spent a cent !"
you were gone a long Nell. "Have a blow-
in disgust. "He
Difficult to Answer
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Ambition
Kindly Mrs. Henderson had taken an in- terest in the tramp who appeared at her door one morning.
"So you can't read or write?" she said to him. "Dear, dear!"
"No, mum," replied the tramp. "But I'm thinkin' of takin' up a correspondence course in readin'."
Shock Proof
"It's no use," said the farmer despond- ently. "I can't shock that corn in the south forty next to the picnic grove."
"Why not?" inquired his wife.
"Well, first there's been too many hikers all summer and now there's an aesthetic dancing exhibition going on."
A Regular Picnic
It was a hot summer Sunday afternoon and the tired motorist was weary of the heavy traffic of which he was a part. He stopped at a village oil station.
"Can you tell me," he asked the pro- prietor, "where T can find a nice quiet road away from the traffic?"
"Well," replied the oil man, "that fork down to the left's where I been sendin' all the folks that's asked me today."
A Logical Request
The house telephone rang and the hotel clerk an- swered. Came the query :
"This is Room 444 and will you please ask the pro- hibition enforcement officer if I can have a pitcher of ice water?"
Still Submerged
File : "What do you sup- pose they did with all those duckboards overseas?"
Closer: "I didn't even k n o w they'd unearthed them."
"Pioneer Life"
(A school composition by Helen Moritz, age 8) Once upon a time man went to get ready to go to town, he got his gun, and his food, and his cloths, and went out to get his hours, and he got his satell and satelled his hours, and saed good By to his wief and started of.
he saw a deer he started to shoot it But Mised it.
and wen he got to town he got his gro- creis and started Back home.
he saw a rabbet and shot the rabbet and took it home and lived happy ever after.
Mixed Foursomes
There was a man in our town ;
We called him Prying Bill. He jumped into a bramble patch
And found his neighbor's still.
— B. C. B.
Smile and the world smiles with you,
According to convention, But you will often have to kick
To get some close attention.
—J. A. S.
Anything But
The newly married man had been pi- loted into a restaurant by his old friend. He studied the menu for a moment and then rose abruptly.
"Let's get out of here," he gasped. "Let's try another place."
"What's the matter with this place?" asked his friend in wonderment.
"Man, don't you see what they have at the head of that bill of fare?" answered the benedict. "Home cooking!"
Selective Immigration
By
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JAMES J. DAVIS
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"SELECTIVE IMMIGRATION or NONE at all" should be the motto of every Ameri- can voter. (Extract from "Selective Immigration".)
SECRETARY of Labor J ames J. Davis, presents in this book our immi- gration history and policies in such a clear and interesting style that the reader cannot help but understand the situation as it really is.
Immigration affects us not alone as a matter of economics and of political benefit, but as a direct and lasting effect on the life blood of America.
There is a longing almost univeisal in our alien population to become part and parcel of this great Republic, to join in the life, language and customs of this country. It should be our purpose and responsibility to foster this desiie; to make clear and easy the way to true Americanism; and to see to it that these people are given the opportunity to know America, to learn our language, and to embrace our customs and our ideals.
It is with the full knowledge of the feelings of our alien population that this book has been prepared, and with the hope that it will serve in some small degree to awaken a deeper interest in the stranger within our gates.
America Should Have the Best
A strong feeling is being kindled in the breasts of responsible men of affairs that the time has come for America to "Hand-pick" her immigrants!
Mr. Davis, insisting that we should have only the BEST of immigrants for the further perpetuation of American ideals and America's destiny among the nations, voices this feeling from the depths of his experience and from exhaustive research into crime, insanity and other social evils resulting from a too lax system of immigration. His book will be an eye-opener to you. Get it today!
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4. Deportation
5. Enrollment of Aliens
A Look Into the Future Immigrant Groups In Our Cities 9. Criminalistic Aliens 10. The Quota Law
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