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The Ladies of Rum RowMore Than 25,000 Women Have Been Fined or Sentenced to Imprisonment for

Violating the National Prohibition Taw

JUDY O'GRADY and the Colonel's

lady have tossed their bonnetsinto the bootleg ring.

They—more than 50,000 of 'em—have closed their kitchens, shops anddrawing rooms to engage in the manu-facture, transportation, smuggling, saleand distribution of booze in technicallydry America.They range in age from six to sixty.

They are recruited from all ranks andstations of life—from the slums of NewYork's lower East Side, exclusivehomes of California, the pine clad hills

of Tennessee, the wind-swept plains ofTexas, the sacred precincts of ex-clusive Washington.Some are bold, brainy and beautiful,

By Jack O'Donnell

some hard-boiled, hard-headed andhomely, some are white, some black,some brown. All are thorns in the sidesof Prohibition Enforcement officials.

There's hardly a city of importancein this country which hasn't turned up—or out—at least one "queen of thebootleggers" in the last four years.There's hardly a Federal or State courtwhich has not been called upon to deal

with at least one "fair defendant"charged with violations of the Vol-stead Act. Out of every 100 cases ofalleged violation of the prohibition

statutes twenty-five women are either

defendants or witnesses. More than25,000 women have been fined or sen-

tenced to jail for fracturing the Na-tional Prohibition Act.Prohibition Commissioner Roy Haynes

says that the queens of bootleggery area real problem and menace. His de-partment has watched the developmentof the female bootlegger with anxiouseyes. Special tab is kept on the num-ber of cases in which women figure,

and his agents have been warnedagainst showing quarter to them be-cause of their sex.

"The fact that they are womenmakes it easier for them in the courts,"he says. "Juries are inclined to be

PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY

lenient with them, but, fortunately,some judges insist that they pay thefull penalty of law-breaking. Many ofthe women caught by the Federal of-

ficers are just silly persons who thinkit smart to peddle booze, but others areof the venturesome type who go into it

for gain and excitement."These venturesome women have writ-

ten lurid chapters in prohibition his-

tory on land and sea. They have takentheir turns at the wheel on rum smug-gling schooners plying between the Ba-hamas and the United States; theyhave piloted high-powered motor carsover the booze trails between theUnited States and Canada; they havestood shoulder to shoulder with their

brothers in trade and fought off hi-

jackers, prohibition agents and "reve-

nooers"; they have been jailed only to

turn and laugh at locksmiths as theymade their escape down drain pipes

and improvised ladders. And theyhave amassed fortunes while playingthe bootleg game.

In the big cities of the country theyare highly organized. In New YorkCity, for instance, more than a thou-sand "queens of bootleggery" are regu-larly employed by booze operators assaleswomen. These women make maxi-mum profits with minimum risks. Theydo not handle booze; they merely takeorders for it. Here's the way theywork.

THE most powerful rum baron in

New York—a man recently indicted

for alleged conspiracy to violate theVolstead Act—employs fifty saleswom-en. Federal officials who have been onhis trail a long time recently caughthim with the goods. His methods areknown to John Holley Clark, AssistantUnited States Attorney for the South-ern District of New York. This oper-ator divides the city into zones andgives each woman a slice of territory.

Each woman has a number which is

used instead of her name. Number 37,for instance, is a girl from the MiddleWest, well-known to the writer. Shecame to New York to study art, butgave it up when her funds ran low.Her territory lies south of FourteenthStreet, in the Greenwich Village sec-

tion. She is up and doing every morn-ing (except Sunday, which she sets

aside for church-going, letter writingand recreation) about the time theaverage business man is going to hisoffice. She has a wide acquaintanceamong artists, writers and other Vil-lagers, and makes her rounds or tele-

phones her customers every morning.This done, she looks over the list ofoffice buildings in her territory, finds

one which she has not "worked" re-

cently, makes her way to it and startsto work. She generally starts at thetop floor of the building,

going first to a customershe knows and trusts. Be-fore she leaves, Miss 37asks about the occupantof the adjoining office. "Is

he all right?" she queries.

This question reducesthe risk the saleswomantakes. As a general rule

men in office buildingshave a fairly accurate line T*~~ AjJ^'

on their neighbors, andare in a position to give Dryreliable information con-

cerning them. If Miss 37 is told thatthe man in the next office is a prohibi-tionist or a stickler for law enforce-ment she passes him up and goes to thenext safe prospect.

SOMETIMES, however, saleswomenenter buildings they have not worked

before. This h called "going in coldturkey," which is slang for unprepared-ness. When this is done the sales-

woman picks the office of a man witha foreign name, going on the theoryprevalent among bootleggers that menof foreign extraction take a more lib-

eral view of prohibition enforcementthan do their Anglo-Saxon brothers.

Once she gets an audience she is

brisk and business-like, but not toobrisk nor too business-like. She tem-pers these qualities with her mostcharming smile. Then

:

"Good morning! Have you seen ournew price list?"

If her potential customer is wise tothe ways of bootleggery—and mostNew Yorkers are—he'll probably admitthat he hasn't, but that he might beinduced to look it over.

Number 37 then hands him a neatlyprinted list of imported wines, liquorsand cordials, together with quotationson domestic goods. While he glancesover this list Miss 37 tells him all

about the "latest shipment received"and how it was brought in. "And weguarantee the purity of every drop wesell," she adds. "If you are not satis-

fied with our goods we'll gladly refundyour money or give you other stuff.

Our firm is one of the oldest and mostreliable in the business."

If her prospect is a drinking man

—

and there are a number left—and hisstock is low, he probably will give heran order. Men—big booze operators in-

form me—like to deal with womenwhen purchasing liquor. They like,

too, to take a woman bootlegger to

their friends and say: "Meet mybootlegger!"

If the order is for a case of Scotch,which at the present writing is sellingfor $65 to $80, Number 37's profit willbe from $15 to $25. She works on aflat rate of so much per case, depend-ing upon the price she gets for it.

"The business arrangement com-pleted, Miss 37 asks about "safe pros-pects" on the same floor and moves on.When she has received three or fourorders she goes to a public telephoneand calls up her office, gives the ordersand directs when and where to deliverthe goods. The main office in turncalls the warehouse, repeats the ordersand delivery is made by a special mes-senger.There are many pitfalls for the

woman who employs the "cold turkey"method of approach, however, as Miss37 will testify. One day recently shedecided to visit her old home in theMiddle West. Business at that timebeing none too good in her own terri-

tory, consequently profits being small,she determined to go off the reserva-tion so as to make more money for hertrip—invade one or two buildings fur-ther uptown. Accordingly, she left theVillage and strolled up Broadway look-ing for a promising point of attack.

AT Madison Square she sat on a„ bench and gazed across Broadway

at the buildings between Twenty-thirdand Twenty-sixth Streets. Her eyesrested appraisingly on a tall-gray-stoned structure over the entrance ofwhich was the number 1107. Thatnumber would have sent terror to theheart of a more experienced bootlegger.But it meant nothing in Miss 37's

young life. To her it was only theOnyx Building, and pregnant with pos-sibilities.

She crossed the street and entered.(Continued on page 12)

sleuths are ready to admit that women bootleggers present a grave prob-

lem to the prohibition forces

MAY 16. 1924 PAGE 5

Stumbled, at thebottom, across aprostrate fig-

ure bound andgagged

With Privilege

of Stopover

THE three whoheard BillPatter son'sannouncement that they were

trapped exclaimed at the news."Cheest!" said Chuck. "And that's

that!" said Wayne. And: "I'm gladthat's over!" came from Bai'bara.

"All right about getting out, too,"said Wayne. "But we're not in yet!""No—but we're on our way!" said

Bill. "And—I don't believe they're soall fired cheerful—yet! They've foundour car. They can make a pretty goodguess that we're inside the reserve

—

some of us. But they've got a lot ofground to cover—and they've got toscatter their forces pretty well. Whenyou come right down to cases Horna-day can't have so many people in onthis play—couldn't afford to let themin, unless he wanted to be paying black-mail the rest of his life."

"That's so!" said Barbara. "And

—

they don't know just where we are, dothey?""Not within miles—that's just the

point!" said Bill. "There's no suchthing as tracking us, either—not in amess of stuff like what we've beenthrough. I suppose an Indian in aFenimore Cooper book might do that

—

but I don't believe anyone else could!No—we've got a lot of cards to playyet!"

"Oh, sure!" said Wayne. "I wasn't

for giving up, you know, or anythinglike that. It's good hunting, if you askme—and I'll swear it's a fifty-fifty

proposition yet! Or better."

"Sure it's better," said Chuck, in hishusky voice. "We got a right to bedoin' what we are—and they ain't

—

see? And take it from me it makes awhole lot of difference in the way a guyworks, what seein' a bull means in hislife!"

"Good man, Chuck!" said Bill. Heturned to the others. "He's right, youknow. As he's just said, in his ownway, all the imponderable forces are onour side. Right is might

—

E PljuribusUnum—and all the rest of the tosh!Just the same—there's a lot in beingright. We can take chances that it

would scare the life out of Hornadayeven to think about—now.""Sure!" said Wayne. "Say—I don't

want to be gross or material, or any-thing like that, but did anyone in this

crowd have sense enough to bring somechow? I could do with breakfast.""Beast!" said Barbara. "Of course

we didn't! Breakfast—I could eat porkand beans this minute—and I hate'em!""We live on the country," said Bill,

with decision. "There's another regi-

ment for us! Wasn't it Napoleon who

By William Almon Wolff

Illustrations by Walter de Maris

kidded an army across the Alps bytelling them about the polenta and all

that in 'Sunny It'?"

"Meaning that Hornaday's asked usto breakfast? Score one for him—andlet's go eat!" said Wayne.Morning had quite definitely come by

now. A permanent twilight prevailedunder those great, old trees, but it waslight enough now to see clearly. Theroad stretched, long and empty, andperfectly straight so far as they couldsee in both directions. Not a living

soul appeared along it—but a sentry,naturally, would have taken some cover,especially as it grew light.

Bill thought hard and fast. The situ-

ation was one plainly in which bruteforce couldn't be used—or could, andwould, be used exclusively by the otherside. For their part, brain had to takethe place of brawn and supplementwhatever brawn could do. One sentry,

of course, needn't bother them. Butthere had been evidence already thatthe other side had a system of codesignals by means of whistles. Theremight be, for daylight use, some visual

code, too—and a sentry who spied themmight easily bring the whole hornet's

nest down upon them without beingcaught before help came to him."Got it!" he said suddenly. "Chuck

—can you manage a limp?""Me? Sur?! Wouldn't have to try

hard either—twisted my ankle a waysback here—

"

"Good enough! Get out on the road—walk as if every step was the last

you could take. If any guy tries to

hold you up—

"

"Drill him?""Not on your life! Stick 'em up

when you're told—and keep them up!Ever go duck shooting, Chuck?""Naw! Used to go after rabbits in

the snow—

"

"I have! Chuck's the decoy—goodeye!" proclaimed Jerry Wayne.

"Right the first time! While anysentry who happens along looks Chuckover we cover him and reason with him—behind three army automatics! Unlessthese birds of Hornaday's are a lot

tougher than I expect, they'll turn out

to be darned reasonable, too."

"I gotcha!" said Chuck."All right. Go to it. Not too fast

—

got to be lifelike. And we want to

keep up with you, too, back here."

THEY watched Chuck delightedly as

he began to play his part. The mak-ings of a pretty fair actor were lost in

Chuck. He walked lame. His shoul-

ders drooped. He gave an exhibition

of sheer weariness and utter disgustwith life it would have been hard to

(Continued on page 14)

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EDITORIALJ^OR God and country, xvc associate ourselves together for the-» following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitutionof the United 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 GreatWar; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the commu-nity, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classesand the masses; to make right the master of might; to promotepeace 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 mutualhelpfulness.—Preamble to Constitution of The American Legion.

A Move for Peace

IN the most significant formal speech he has made since

he assumed the Presidency, Mr. Coolidge told the mem-bers of the Associated Press in New York on April 22d that

the United States should take the lead in proposing another

world arms limitation conference to try to end the com-petitive race for supremacy in air, submarine and land

forces. The success of the Washington conference, called

in 1921 by Mr. Harding to end the competitive race in

capital ships, gives the President hope that a new conference

might achieve as much as the old one did, though with char-

acteristic caution the Executive warns us against the exer-

cise of undue optimism.

"I do not claim," declared Mr. Coolidge, "to be able to

announce any formula which will guarantee peace to the

world. There are certain definite things, however, whichI believe can be done, which certainly ought to be tried, that

might relieve the people of the earth of much of the burdenof military armaments and diminish the probability of mili-

tary operations."

Forthrightly spoken, Mr. President! Such a conference

might succeed in large or in little measure, but "it cer-

tainly ought to be tried." This was the contention of TheAmerican Legion Weekly when nine months ago it putforward the proposal of a conference to limit air forces,

which, of the three unrestricted arms of combat mentionedby the President, are the most dangerous and the most pro-

vocative at this moment of distrust and suspicion amongthe nations of the world. In these columns on September7th last we said:

As is bound to happen in all undertakings of any account,

obstacles to the successful issue of the proposal of a confer-

ence to restrict military air armaments by international

agreement have manifested themselves. ... If certain nations

object to a conference to end this foolhardly and dangerouscompetition, what other means, if any, for ending it, havethey to propose? The answers to these questions should be

spoken in the open and not whispered behind the sound-proofdoors of diplomatic secrecy. If America can obtain those

answers she will have done a service to the world. Is it not

America's business to try?

The proposal the Weekly voiced last summer attracted

wide attention. It was commented on by leaders of thoughtnot only in our own country, but in other countries whichwould be affected by such a move. It was considered bythe President himself, who, while expressing every sym-pathy with the aim, said that he felt the time was not ripe

for the trial. The state of Europe, he said, was too un-settled, and while the President refrained from adding that

no satisfactory settlement of European questions whichmade this peace move impossible then seemed to be in sight,

that disappointing feature was quite apparent.

Within recent weeks, however, a salutary change hasmarked the snarled European situation. The work of anAmerican, who is also a veteran of the World War and aLegionnaire, has had much to do with this. The report

of the committee headed by Charles G. Dawes of Chicagohas been accepted by Germany and by the principal Allied

powers as the basis of a solution of the outstanding diffi-

culties which last year would have made a conference onlimitation of armaments premature. The President broughtthis out in his New York address. The time is not yet, hesaid, for the actual calling of a conference, but "with acertain and definite settlement of German reparations" hewould favor a conference, and he intimates that he is pre-pared to take the initiative as Mr. Harding did.

By this means Mr. Coolidge has deftly provided Europewith a new incentive to settle its problems in accordancewith the formula Mr. Dawes has provided. With this newarms limitations parley, and the great blessings to civiliza-

tion which it can bestow, awaiting only the ratification ofthe Dawes program, it would seem that few statesmen in

Europe or elsewhere would dare to risk public censure bydeliberately placing obstacles in the way of the consum-mation of the plan.

Thus the chances for a real limitation of armamentsseem less remote. The restriction of air forces, of subma-rines and of land armies would be a truly effective steptoward the goal aimed at by the Washington meeting threeyears ago. As it was, that conference merely halted themad race for supremacy in one direction and encouragedit to break out with renewed vigor in three others. Theresult has been triply unfortunate. Franco and Englandin particular have been bending every effort to see whichcan build the most and the deadliest war aircraft and under-seas craft. Millions have been added to the tax burdensof already oppressed peoples. The old militarist feeling

has been kept alive. Suspicion and distrust have grownbetween old allies.

America is directly concerned. If these nations andothers arm the air and the sea beneath the crest of the

waves, so must we. Any other course would be foolish.

We are not far behind in aircraft and submarines. Wemust ascertain soon whether the other nations are readyto arbitrate a reduction of these forces or whether wemust build and bring our own forces on a par with theirs.

But the conference way out is the best way, and as Mr.Coolidge says, it "certainly ought to be tried." There is

no gainsaying that. To fail would be no disgrace.

a>e s& &eThe president of Columbia University has come out

squarely against the prohibition amendment. A like decla-

ration from the head of an equally well-known educational

institution might at least result in the restoration of that

noble but suppressed anthem:

Drink a highball and be jolly,

Here's a health to dear old Penn!

iSC J*??

"Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model" has been done into

the fillums, and a host of persecuted heroines out of the hey-

day of the great American melodrama may be expected to

follow. The villain still pursues her, though the long, long

trail has led him all the way to Hollywood.

&e s&e

As yet we haven't heard the name of Jack Dempsey's

first picture in the movies. But somehow or other we have

a hunch it is going to be "Pug o' My Heart" or "GetRich-Quick Walloping."

3& <2&

The fellow who brags about stepping on the gas is the

same one who used to take both hands off the handlebars.

&>6 Se&

It now appears that Firpo's talk of retiring from the

ring was just a lot of Wild Bull.

MAY 16. 1924 PAGE 7

A Personal Page by Frederick Palmer

The Things That CountRAKE is the man who is not hipped <>n some subject. He

may not have much to say until you touch him on that.

Then he heroines a spellbinder.

Friends overlook liis weakness. Readers of this page are

asked to overlook mine. They will soon find that I am hipped

on the Meuse-Argonne battle. Some five hundred thousand

other Americans who wen- in that battle are hipped on it, too.

^To each one it means what he felt, endured and saw in his

part. He thinks in terms of his battalion, his regiment, his

division. But closer to him than these is his company. Closer

still are the buddies at whose side he fought. He saw some

killed and others wounded. When he meets those who survive

it is the memory of their comradeship which brings the battle

back vividly to him.

It happened that my duties took me going and coining over

the field. I saw all the divisions at one time or another. So

I think of the battle as a whole. It is typified to me by the

common manhood which won the victory. Yet when I meet a

vet( ran of this or that division the part that his division played,

as I saw it, reappears to me.

There was hot rivalry between divisions and the units of

divisions as to which made the most progress. We have all

heard that remark, "If the fellows on the right, had been up,"

or, "If the fellows on the left had been up." This stands for

the competitive spirit which wins battles and which wants its

.-hare of credit for deaths, wounds and hardships.

One group got a crest and was blown off by shell fire? Thenanother group got the crest. Perhaps one arrived on one side

of the crest about the same time as the other on the other side.

Whose was the honor? AMiat counts is the success for the

whole. The men who were not in on the taking of a position

may have helped just as much as those who were. Buddy whowas killed in the charge which had to wait on reinforcements

did his part as surely as buddy who fell when reinforcementr

rolled over an enemy strong point.

V^7HEN you read battle orders in relation to maps after the

battle is over you may wonder why one unit got aheadof another, why the line bent there and why the tanks and gunswere not up. It is easy to ask such questions, easy to point

out mistakes on paper.

But the fighting was done under fire and, in conveyingorders, wires were cut and messengers killed. You have to

consider not only what is the strengtli of the enemy and yourown strength but all kinds of other handicaps. Theory is very

different from practice in war, as different as dodging powderpuffs is from dodging daggers.

I heard of a man who studied in theory liow to drive anautomobile in the days when automobiles were not as foolproof

as now. Then he tried to drive one without any training. Hewas ditched. There was nothing wrong with his theory, buthe was a little off on practice. "That was worth all the theory,"

he said, when he had the car out of the ditch, and then hedrove the car all right.

A broken road may hold up a gun. A tank may be stoppedby shell fire. Enemy guns may concentrate on one part of theline and not on another. An officer who was a wonder on thetraining ground may not be quick to think under fire, howeverbrave he is. One determined machine gunner in place of onewho prefers to live to fight another flay may force an advancingcompany to reform. A hundred other stern realities, not to

mention mud, fog, hunger, thirst and exhaustion, must bemet in the face of death.

All these factors, I repeat, the man who studies plans and

orders must have in mind if he would write real history. This

I realized afresh the other day when a talk with a veteran of

the 79th brought the 79th 's part in the Argonne fresh to mind.

This veteran realized that no c ns can appreciate a battlefield

situation unless he has seen it himself. I think that I under-

stand his point of view, for I saw the 79th on its advance that

first day of the battle.

Men of other divisions will understand it. It expresses the

wonder of the battle in what inadequately trained soldiers

achieved by main force and will. All Americans should under-

stand it. They should understand it well enough so that they

will not be saying, "It proves that American resourcefulness

and drive will always pull us through although we are unpre-

pared," but that they will be saying, "We are not going to

submit brave men's lives to such unfair handicaps."

VAOU may bring the most willing lot of ball players together,

but that doesn't make a major league team. You may even

have them all stars and if they have had no chance to develop

team play in scrub practice, not to mention actual games, they

may be beaten by bush leaguers who have team play. Teamplay on the ball field is pretty tame compared to team play

under fire. Yet in the Meuse-Argonne untrained men fought

and commanded with the confidence of major leaguers.

Sixty-five percent of the 79th's men had had only six weeks'

training when they were sent overseas. Before they went into

line in the Argonne they had had altogether from sixteen to

eighteen weeks' training, including the time on transports and

railroads. They had had no trench experience until they were

put in the trenches from which they were to jump off in that

great offensive against German veterans in their powerful

system of defenses. And the 79th was given the deepest objec-

tive of any division. It was to take Montfaucon on that first day.

This is the big fact that ought to lead off and close any ac-

count of the 79th's action. Our command would have liked

to have all trained divisions in line. But the allied plan called

for us to strike quickly with all our forces as soon as we could

get them in position, and we struck. "You have got to do it!"

was the order. And they did it.

That is the thing—they did it—which is the test of fighting

powers and of generalship, too.

The marvel to me was that a division with so little training

kept its formations through the first German line; a greater

marvej that, with broken communications, orders failing to

come up, some units in their eagerness getting ahead of others

and making openings for the Boehe, the 79th swept on for all

the gain it made that day. Had the 79th been as veteran' in

its initial attack as it was in later stages of the battle, it might

have reached Montfaucon—I doubt it—on the first instead of

the second day of the battle. But to me that would not havebeen a greater tribute than its conduct in its baptism of fire

And this tribute is not just to one division. It is to all the

fresh divisions and all the men with brief training who were

shot from transports to the front to fill the gaps made by the

killed and wounded in that final winning drive of the war.** It

is a tribute to the manhood of the whole. The achievement of

the Meuse-Argonne is the achievement of the whole from the

commander-in-chief down through the ranks. I shall not be

able to keep off the subject of that battle or mentioning other

divisions. And if we must have war I hope that we shall be

better prepared next time for the sake of the men who do the

fighting as well as for the people at home.

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MAY 16, 1924 PAGE 9

Picking

MembersOut of

the Air

THE embattled patriots of Con-cord and Lexington one hundredand forty-eight years ago hadto rely upon a poet's imagina-

tion to make the shot they fired "heard

round the world," but when a modernMassachusetts minuteman blew a bugle

call in Boston on April 6th this year,

that call was heard by flesh and blood

ears, and not merely figurative ears, in

every state in the Union. At 8 p.m. onApril (Uh, seven years after the day the

United States entered the World War,a bugler in olive drab sounded assemblycall in front of a microphone in the

Shepard stores in Boston, and at the

some instant radio listeners in SanFrancisco and Seattle and San Diegoheard the musical notes. That buglecall also sounded sharp and clear in

the clubhouses and clubrooms of all theMassachusetts posts of the Legion,where Legion members waited in battle

formation to go over the top in a four-

teen-day membership drive, planned to

increase the Massachusetts Depart-ment's rolls by many thousands.

BEFORE the bugler blew assembly to

the radio listeners, Legion officials

and special committees had drawn up acomplete plan for the fourteen - daycampaign. Preparing for assemblycall, each post which had not alreadyinstalled a radio receiving set in its

meeting place rigged one up for thedrive. The members of the posts, mobi-lized before the radio receiving sets,

heard not only assembly call but also

a radio barrage that lasted until five

o'clock the following morning. With-out intermission, a program of music,speeches and specialties was broadcastby three powerful radio stations whichhad been taken over by the Massachu-setts Department. Station WNAC ofthe Shepard store in Boston, StationWBZ at Springfield, and StationWEAN at Providence, Rhode Island,flashed the messages inviting all serv-ice men in Massachusetts to enroll in

the Legion, and for good measure pro-vided one of the most remarkablebroadcasting entertainments ever heardin the United States. More than onehundred persons lent their voices inthis program. They included the de-partment officials of the Legion, publicofficials and stars of the stage. Wholecompanies from Boston theaters sangfor the Legion air program. Legionbands traveled a hundred miles or moreto play for the country-wide audience.Special long distance telephone wires

A miniature battlefield on Boston Common was used to register each day's

advance during the Massachusetts Department's membership raid. In the

photograph above, Department Commander C. R. Edwards of the Legionand G. A. R. veterans are shown choosing the path which a Legion tanktook through the barbed wire obstructions to the objective that was to showthe gain of the first twenty-four hours of the drive, a total of 1,700 new

members for the department

were installed to relay the programsfrom Boston to the Springfield andProvidence stations. A fleet of taxi-

cabs was used to hring the entertainersto the Boston radio studios in a con-

tinuous stream so that there should beno lull in the aerial barrage.

AS one feature of the barrage, hon-. Legion service men listeners were

invited to send in their applications forLegion membership by telephone ortelegraph, and while the air was still

humming with the barrage more thaneleven hundred applications were re-

ceived at Department headquarters,where special telegraph operators wereon duty.

In addition to the radio barrage, thestart of the membership drive wasmade notable by Legion parades all

through Massachusetts. In Bostonmore than 2,300 Legion officials andmembers traveled through twenty-sixmiles of streets in a fleet of automo-biles, while red fire and torches illumi-nated banners which told the story ofthe Legion's drive for members.

All Massachusetts learned of the Le-gion's effort on the night of April 6th,and on the following morning the in-fantry forces of the Legion posts inevery county went into battle in terri-tory which had been thoroughly coveredby the air barrage. The campaignplans had been published in advance.Department Commander C. R. Edwardsled the raid, with Department AdjutantLeo A. Spillane. Vice-CommanderFrancis J. Good, as chairman of theraid committee, rated the two stars ofa "major general," and the GeneralStaff included "colonels" and "lieuten-ant colonels," some of whom had beenexalted buck privates in the A. E. F.Each county organization during theraid was headed by a "colonel." A"major" commanded each district com-mittee, and a "captain" led each postcommittee. Battle orders had been dis-

tributed through the department andeach post knew just what to do whenit started out to make the gains as-

signed it.

Boston Advertising Post had chargeof the radio night, but nearly all posts

in the State contributed talent for the

program. Every post had definite

duties for its shock troops and bombersin its own sector, and instructions woreto raid every house. Every post wasasked to make sure that every eligible

non-Legionnaire was interviewed andthat an intelligence report was pi-e-

pared giving names of those who wouldnot join, together with the reasons for

not joining. Open house by every post

during the progress of the raid wasanother rule. Band concerts, red fire

illumination, open air rallies and otherattractions were recommended. Ar-rangements were made to follow upevery application for membership re-

ceived, to insure that applicants wouldbe enrolled promptly.

TO mark the progress of the drive, aminiature battlefield was laid out on

Boston common, with sandbags andbarbed wire marking a trench system.The morning of April 7th happened to

dawn with a drizzling rain, but it didnot prevent the registering of the first

advance. Department Commander Ed-wards and his staff, in the presence ofa large crowd, watched a fleet of tankspush through the barbed wire and overthe sandbags to the objectives whichhad been set for the day. A large dele-gation of G. A. R. officials added in-

terest to this event. Preparing for thenational G. A. R. convention to be heldin Boston this summer, the Civil Warveterans rallied in uniform behind theLegion, and all through the drive theG. A. R. veterans gave the Legion not-able help.

In addition to the daily advance ofthe tanks, registering the membershipgains, Boston common was the scene

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each <lay of an entertainment staged bya different Boston post. The prize-win-

ning rifle team of the Cambridge Postheld an exhibition of marksmanshipeach dlaj\ Especially notable were the

special i\ay celebrations of Boston Po-

licemenv'Is Post and the Forty and Eight.

The foWty and eighters went over the

top behsind Julian Eltinge in all his

stage mmke-up.On April 19th, always observed in

Massachusetts as a general holiday,

fiesh faame was added to the Legionwhen Cla rence De Mar of Melrose Postcrowned a series of amazing victories

by winning the annual Patriot's DayMarathon Race, a twenty-six mile

event, in the sensational and record-

breaking time of two hours and twenty-nine minutes. All Boston hailed DeMar as ''its hero as he flashed across

the finish line, wearing the Legionemblem and the name of his post uponhis jersey,. He was carried on Legionshoulders to Boston common, and here

he registered another victory by riding

a tank ovor the trenches to the final

objective in the membership drive.

More than a half million lines of

newspaper publicity were recorded dur-

ing the two weeks of the drive, and 126newspapers were listed as helping withall the means at their command. Thisco-operation was an important help to

a number of posts which succeeded in

enrolling every service man in their

communities. Motion picture theaters

also helped notably by showing "join-

the-Legion" slides.

The Massachusetts department, count-ing up the reports at the end of theraid, figured that it had enrolled 21,363new members, and it was confident thatthe fourteen days of continuous effort

would continue to produce new mem-bers for many months, so that beforethe next Department convention thetotal enrollment of the department will

pass 50,000. Eut more than the newmembers gained, the department rates,

as the highest proof of victory the newunderstanding of Legion spirit and Le-gion activity which the raid has givenits State.

How Pennsylvania Does It

BASED on the experience of the or-

ganizations of veterans of otherwars, the Legion still has some fewyears to go before eligibles are goingto rush into its ranks without invita-tion or without work on the part ofposts. The time will come when a vet-eran who isn't in the Legion will beasked "Why?" by everybody. But inthe meantime, work and still morework is the answer to the membershipproblem. R. J. Sagerson, of Johnstown(Pennsylvania) Post and DistrictDeputy Commander of the Legion in

Pennsylvania, writes:"Johnstown (Pennsylvania) Post had

about 700 members in 1923. A majorityof them were signed up in August and

September when we put on a campaignwith a free picnic in the offing as anadded attraction. This drive late inthe year we found a mistake, as I willshow. So this year we started earlyin February and we now have 600 paidup. We signed up more than 150 menwho had never before belonged to theLegion."The deficit in 1924 membership so

far is due to the members signed uplate last year. The new members paida full year's dues and thought theirmembership would cover a year fromthe time they signed up."For our campaign we purchased ten

of the big posters from National Head-quarters of the Legion and had themprominently displayed for two weeksfree of cost. These posters are goodbut are not clear at a distance and canbe improved upon. The lantern slides

we got from headquarters were veryclear and we had no trouble in placingthem in twelve picture theaters here.They brought the idea before the publicthat the Legion existed and it was thenup to the members to bring verbally toinquirers the ideals of the Legion."We also used small cards in the

banks and a few business houses. Thesecarried the message of the large posterswith a line stating, 'Dues may be paidhere.' The most prominent local ad-vertisers also carried a line in theirads calling on eligible men to join theLegion."

France?No-Ironton,

Ohio/""^NE who walks through the

cemetery at Ironton, Ohio,

comes at length to a row of w hite

crosses where ten graves recall

the fourteen thousand graves in

the A. E. F. cemetery at Ro-magne-sous-Montfaueon. The ten white crosses at

Ironton have been placed on the ten graves byFrank J. Goldcamp Post of the Legion. They are

symbols the more striking because of their setting in

a peaceful American cemetery, with no other re-

minders near of the battles American soldiers foughtfour thousand miles away. They are symbols of

the thoughtfulness of living service men for their

comrades who have died. As in Ironton, so through-out the United States. The Ohio city's graves are

multiplied by thousands in cemeteries in all parts

of the country. Hardly a cemetery in the UnitedStates today is without its white crosses and theaccompanying bronze grave markers of The Amer-ican Legion. Those who visit France now are

overwhelmed at first sight of the ranks of white

crosses whereon the sunshine falls dazzlingly. Butin all the American cemeteries of France and the

rest of Europe the graves number only somewhatmore than 30,000, while the dead of the World Warin our cemeteries at home number 220,000. Fromthe declaration of war by the United States until

July 30, 1919, 12.5,000 American service men died,

and 125,000 have died in the five years that haveelapsed since the demobilization of the armies. Morethan 26,000 World War service men will die during

1924. The American Legion on Memorial Day will

decorate the graves of all World War service men,both those at home and those abroad, and the Legion

at the same time will render its honors to the deadof all our wars. The Legion has a sacred national

responsibility in its Memorial Day task.

MAY 16. 1924 PAGE 11

A Wheel-Chair BuddyTurns Business Man

TEN years ago Ralph Grimmstood before the forge of ablacksmith shop in Coloradowatching a horseshoe turn to

white heat on the glowing coals. Heseized the iron with a pair of tongsand carried it to the anvil. Then the

clangor of his hammer resounded and,amid flying sparks, the iron took newshape. The blacksmith plunged theheated horseshoe into a tub of waterfor a sizzling and steaming moment.Then he turned to a horse that hadbeen waiting with apprehensive eyes,

raised a reluctant hoof against his

smithy's apron and fitted the horseshoeto place. At that moment the Germanswere marching through Belgium.

Three years passed. Ralph Grimmwas no longer in the blacksmith shop.

In a narrow tunnel far below the sur-

face of the ground, in the dim reflec-

tion of widely separated electric lights,

Ralph Grimm groped his way toward ashattered seam of coal from which theacrid odor of dynamite rose heavily. It

was Ralph Grimm's job to gather theshattered coal and load it into the carswhich waited on narrow tracks, so thatit might be hauled away by electric

locomotives to the surface above. Grimmwas a miner, and the powerful muscleshe had developed at the forge helpedhim in his heavy work. At that mo-ment the United States was enteringthe World War and President Wilsonwas calling upon the country to rally

to the cause of civilization.

Nineteen months later— The 355thInfantry of the 89th Division waspressing forward in the Argonne, andCompany I was finding the going hardto the west of Stenay. A high-explosiveshell from the guns of the retreatingenemy burst close to a doughboy. Thedoujrhboy crumpled and lay still,

stretcher bearers found him, living butwith both his legs mangled, and they

read the name of Ralph Grimm on his

dogtag.Today in a little shop across the

street from Walter Reed Hospital in

Washington, D. C, Ralph Grimm sits

at a bench of the kind used by jewelers.Before him are hammered silver dishes,candlesticks, spoons, ladles and manyother articles that are used on fashion-able dinner tables or as ornaments.Grimm has made all these with his ownhands. As one looks at him, the first

impression is of great muscular power.In his perfect-fitting uniform he loomsbig behind the top of his bench, andthis impression of size and force is

accentuated by his hands—large, stronghands they are, with fingers symmetri-cally perfect. Only upon second glancedo visitors realize why Grimm does notarise to greet them. It is because hecannot arise. Both his legs are miss-ing. He spends all his waking hoursin a wheel chair.

Uncle Sam never tried to dodge theresponsibility of helping Grimm afterthe bursting shell in the Argonne hadrobbed him of his legs. There weremany months in hospitals, at first in

France and later in the United States.While in Walter Reed hospital in Wash-ington he took up the occupationalcourse which has enabled him to becomean expert jewelry craftsman.The former blacksmith and coal

miner has developed in his new workgenius that might never have been dis-

covered had it not been for what hap-pened in the Argonne. He owns the

shop in which he works across fromthe hospital, and in this shop at nighthe designs many of the valuable articles

he sells. He spends six hours of eachday in the workroom of the jewelryshop attached to the hospital, where hedoes work of his own as well as thatassigned him as a part of his training.

The compensation he has been receiv-

Ralph Grimm lost both his legs in theArgonne. After a government coursein vocational work he became an ex-pert jewelry craftsman. Now he owns

his own shop in the nation's capital

ing from the Government is now not so

all-essential as it once was, for Grimm'searnings would afford him a comfort-able income were he on his own.No one ever would say Ralph Grimm

has been lucky. But he need ask noodds of the world today.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICETHROUGH the efforts of Syracuse (New

York") Post, Ludwig Szymanski, a vet-eran who was wounded four times at Cha-teau-Thierry and whose disabilities are suchthat he is unable to work, was granted anincrease in compensation from $44 to $80per month. The post's service officer is

continuing his efforts to have Szymanskigiven a permanent disability rating by theVeterans Bureau.

Saratoga Post of Clear Lake, Iowa,has opened its clubrooms two nights a weekfor the boys of the community. Any youthwho was too young to register for the draftin 1917 is invited. Athletic equipment hasbeen bought and books and magazines havebeen provided. There are short talks oncitizenship, health and clean living.

Veterans' Hall in Great Falls, Montana,was packed to the doors recently whenGreat Falls Post entertained all of theBoy Scouts in that city.

Raymond Pellington Post of Pater-son, New Jersey, has set aside special funds

for the use of the Tuberculosis_League

which is directing the rehabilitation oftuberculous World War veterans in its

city. Thirty of these men were cared forby the post and its Auxiliary unit during1923.

The Rotary Club of Charleston, SouthCarolina, followed its endorsement of theproject of Anderson Post to erect a memo-rial athletic field by voting $3,000 towardthe fund.

Through the efforts of Thomas B.Wanamaker Post of New York City, the

decorating staff of the Wanamaker de-

partment store took time during its busiest

season to decorate the five ballrooms of

the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the Legion'sVictory Ball recently. This service wasrendered without cost to the Legion forthe second successive year.

Merchants and prominent citizens ofBartlesville, Oklahoma, have agreed to do-

nate funds with which to furnish the club-

rooms of Bartlesville Post in the newCivic Center Building. The cost of fur-nishing the rooms, which will be open to

all veterans, is estimated at $4,000.

Clemson College (South Carolina)Post has a peace award contest of its own.It has been seeking suggestions for set-

tling wars by a poll of school pupils andhas offered a prize to the author of the

best plan submitted.

The popularity of the athletic club in

Cheboygan, Michigan, organized by F. A.Barlow Post has grown to such an extentthat it has been found possible to cut the

original dues in half.

A silver loving cup presented by the Le-gion has been offered in Easton, Pennsyl-vania, for the most proficient guardsmenin drill and attendance in Battery D, thelocal National Guard unit. The Legion menare also continuing presentation of medalsto the school children of the city who havethe best averages during the year.

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It was Jakewith the

ICRs"Many a"K.P." made thecommandment, "ThouShalt Not Steal" look asthough it had been bustedby a Big Bertha, when hecould get a chance at someKraft Cheese.

O boy! Remember the de-liciousness of the Kraftflavor, back in those serv-

ice days? Well, it has thatsame delicious flavor now,perhaps even better, be-cause there is more cheeseto choose from to producethat Kraft quality.

That's the big idea in KraftCheese—always the same,always good.

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At intervals of twenty-five feet throughout the business section of Anthony,Kansas, are sockets in which Anthony Tuttle Post will insert a staff andlarge American flag on Memorial Day and every other patriotic holiday

The Ladies of Rum Row{Continued from page 4)

As she waited for an elevator two mencame in and stood beside her. She paidno attention to them and all enteredthe lift together.

"Floors, please?" invited the oper-ator.

"Top," answered Miss 37.

"Fifteenth," replied one of the men.Miss 37 was standing back of the

pair, but there was something familiar

about that man's voice! She figured hemight be an old friend. She movedover so she could see his face. Shelooked at him and his companion out of

the corner of her eyes. Then she al-

most squealed! She recognized themas Moe Smith and Izzy Einstein!

Moe and Izzy—two of the most ver-

satile and enterprising clown-sleuths in

the Prohibition Department—had con-

ducted a raid one night on a Green-wich Village cafe in which Miss 37

was a patron!The pair got off at the fifteenth

floor. Miss 37 rode to the top andthen back to the street level. Whenshe got out of the elevator she said to

the starter: "Where is Prohibition

headquarters?""Fifteenth floor, Miss."

But Miss 37 decided she'd hang on to

her horseshoe. She went back to her

own territory.

"It was a close call," she told mesubsequently. "I don't know Yellow-

ley or Herrick (two high Prohibition

enforcement officials) and if I'd ever

got to that floor I probably would have

solicited business from one of them!""Women make the best salesmen,"

the employer of Miss 37 told me. "I

have some who have made as high as

$350 a week. Men like to deal with

them, especially if the girls are pretty

and have a good line of talk.

"Where do they come from? Oh,

everywhere. Lots of 'em got their

training in cabarets or on the stage.

Some are regular saleswomen who havedeserted the book game for the bigger

profits to be made in booze. I have

one former school-teacher in the office.

She can sell more Stuff over the tele-

phone than most men can on foot.""Do they ever get caught?" I asked."Not if they're smart. Thirty-seven

has been peddling the stuff for sevenmonths without a slip!"

The Rose of Mulberry Street, as oneof New York's most successful "queens"is known, hasn't always been as for-tunate as Miss 37 in her dealings withProhibition officials.

A few years ago Rose and her hus-band walked out of the Municipal Mar-riage Bureau with a marriage certifi-

cate and 25 cents between them. To-day, according to her friends, she is

worth $300,000.Rose started in the bootleg game on

a small scale, as a saleswoman. Shesaved her earnings until she was ableto "go on her own." She began bybuying one case of Scotch. With theaid of water she made two cases growwhere one had grown before. Gradu-ally she built up her business until shewas able to employ salesmen andsaleswomen.But despite the growth of her busi-

ness she kept to her original methodof making two cases out of one. To-day she buys from 200 to 300 cases ofScotch a week. For this she pays theminimum market price. The goods aredelivered to her "factory" which is afew blocks from her four-story apart-ment house—the house that booze built

—where it is cut, doctored and re-

bottled.The Rose of Mulberry Street em-

ploys 30 agents who comb the lowerEast Side for orders. These ordersare telephoned to Rose, but unlike themajority of dealers in booze, she takescare of her own deliveries.

But The Rose's path has beenthorny. She has been arrested andfined, and forced to pay lawyers big re-

tainers, six or seven times. But she

isn't worrying. She has sent approxi-mately $100,000 back to her folks in

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MAY 16. 1924 PAGE 13

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The woman who loves adventure andis willing to take a big chance for abig profit gets into the smuggling busi-

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beat. Wayne was a little jealous,

though."I could do all that—and it wouldn't

be acting, except for the limp!" hesaid.

"You?" Bill laughed unkindly. "I

wouldn't trust you for a minute; youcouldn't keep a straight face if youwere caught. Could he, Bab?""Of course he couldn't!" she said.

"Come on, Jerry—at least you can see

what's going to scrape your shins andput your eyes out now!"There was something infinitely thrill-

ing about their advance as they re-

sumed it. To know themselves hunted—to know that about them, seeking

them, of necessity converging uponthem, were men who regarded them as

fair game— here was something to

tempt the most jaded of palates! Withthe coming of the day, for all the addeddanger, something of the stark terror

of the darkness had vanished. A fall-

ing branch, a sudden jarring noise of

any sort—and to the night's silence

there seemed all at once to have si

ceed a cacophonous din like thatultra-modern music—was still enou;

to make them start.

And it was easier going certair

now that they could pick and chootheir way. Ever and again for a n>

ment they lost sight of Chuck, plu

ging gamely on, conscientious to a far

in his part. But for a good mileclear gain nothing happened. Fahead now they could see the light

a clearing of some sort; they must,seemed to them, be nearing their goi

Just what lay before them at the roai

end they didn't know; Marion Hornadhad described the place only in t

vaguest way—her memories of it weprobably quite as vague as her descri

tion had been.What Bill was hoping was that Hor

aday had flung out the greater porti

of his force as a cordon about t

place. If that were so the odds mignot after all be so great when the tf

came. Of one thing he was certain

AY 16, 1924 PAGE 15

s was the last cast. If Hornaday.n now he won for pood and all. Forile Bill had tried to establish someall reserve he had little faith in it.

-if they lost now Hornaday wouldgive them another chance before

le was up.

it was Barbara who saw the manstepped out into the road twenty

:es before Chuck. She saw him evenore Chuck did — Chuck, who wasIking head down as if every stepre the last he could hope to take,e man wore woods costume, mack-w and high boot3; he carried a short,ible-barreled gun ; with his roughrd he was an ugly-looking customer,

-eed.

i They heard the growling note in hisce, but not his words, as he halted

[tick. Chuck's hands went up; stayedfirmly as the other advanced andsed his hands over his pockets.Gun?" said Chuck, conttmptuously.<in? If I had a gat I'd have croaked1 and I'd be eatin' you now!"Is that so? You march ahead of

tt

Jill's voice, suave, smooth, low-hed, sounded — five feet from theazed woodsman's ears.Drop that gun! Hands up—and notord or a move out of you ! Chuck

—

that gun!"?here wasn't, there couldn't be, anyument. Even without the venomousl that backed up his words, there

a note in Bill's voice that com-nded obedience to orders like that

—

I obedience prompt and sure.Bring him here!" Bill ordered,

jelp Chuck, Jerry."ipullen, defiant in manner, the beard-i one was brought before Bill—that

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i?"

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—

Its. Remember that—or I'll altercr face before we get down to realliness. Think you'll remember?"Barbara looked at him curiously. She

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All right, then. Know who I am?",No." There was a perceptible

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You'll do. What do you know?"pon't know nothin'. Wouldn't telli if I did—sir."

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didn't you—?""Who the hell are you, givin' me

orders— ? I ain't no damned sissy to

be wavin' a couple of handkerchiefsaround—

"

Bill's laughter, low but exultant, rangout.

"Tie him up, Chuck!" he said. "Takehis mackinaw first—we'll give it backlater. There ought to be a couple oflittle flags about him somewhere—onewhite, one red—

"

"Check!" said Wayne, producing themfrom the mackinaw.

"Fine! Let's see, now—

"

Bill stood still, thinking aloud.

"Let's see now—it's a short cut, andif it works—but it'd be pink hell if I

slipped up somehow! Like revokingjust as you're making a little slamrather—because there's game in sightnow— But—oh, the devil—they mustuse Morse—no one could work out anew code—who'd bother, or figure any-one would gum the works this way—

?

Give me that mackinaw, Jerry—

"

He slipped it on; pulled the collar

well up about his face; looked so notunlike the prisoner—at a distance.

"Bill—what are you going to do?"asked Barbara."Chuck a bluff!" he replied cheer-

fully. And he walked straight out to

the road and stood in the middle of it,

wig-wagging with the small red andwhite flags. First he looked east; thenwest. And he faced first one way, thenthe other, as he did his signalling.

Until, at last, he nodded, satisfied—andsat down, smiling, to wait.

Barbai a crept up through the mattedundergrowth to the very edge of theroad and called to him."Did you get an answer?" she asked."Sure—from both sides!" he said,

and grinned. "They're coming just asfast as they can travel, too. They thinktheir little pal here needs help—and hesure does!"

"Bill! You're—almost bright—aren't

you?""Get an idea once a year—today's the

day!" he admitted. "Been saving it

up. Figured this was a good time to

have it. Tell Chuck and Jerry to beready—I'll wait till I see them close

up and then wave to them and comeoff the road—

"

Precisely as it was planned the trapwas sprung. In a moment after Bill

dropped from the road two more ofHornaday's woodsmen were standing,hands stretched above their heads, whileChuck relieved them of their weapons.

"That's better," said Bill. "Anymore of you lads between here and thelake?""You—I mean—you!" He blazed out

in sudden ferocity upon the one of the

two new prisoners who had been near-

est the lake. "Come through now

—

quick! Want the top of your headblown off—?"

"N-n-o—" stammered the man. Hewas younger and smaller than the

others; Bill had not miscalculated the

effect upon him of a sudden, fierce de-

mand. Given a moment to adjust him-self, as in an ordinary interrogation,

and he would have lied with a stony

face, or, had it suited him, kept still.

But that touch of the third degree

worked."He's telling the truth," Bill decided,

and Chuck, no novice in such matters

either, agreed. Bill stood, frowning.

"I hate to do it," he said, "but we've

got to leave you bozos tied up. We'll

try to get back to turn you loose—butyou won't freeze, anyway, and yourpals will come along—sooner'n we wantthem, probably.""Want 'em gagged, too?" asked

Chuck."No—" said Bill. "Got to give them

a chance to call if they hear anyonecoming. Won't do any harm—just holdthe rest up. Now—let's mush! Some-one's bound to have an attack of brainsto the head and start coming this waysooner or later! Only wonder to meis they didn't see from the start theirgame was to concentrate back at thelake and let us come as far as we likedbefore they rushed us!"

"Bottle neck at both ends, really,"said Jerry. "Guess they didn't realizeanyone could run a car along that roadwe took—that was the mistake theymade."

"Straight down the road now," saidBill. "No need to be so careful anymore. Keep an eye out for one of thosetelephone holes—might hear somethingif we listened in."

XXI

WITH the coming of morning therecame to them all except probably

Chuck that curious, disintegrated feel-

ing that civilization exacts as a penaltyfor sitting up all night— being up,rather, for heaven knows they hadn'tsat for hours! They were cold with themorning chill; they were wet, for thedampness of the woods was soakingthrough their clothes to their shiverine:

skins; they were hungry. They wantedfood and warmth and comfortable,usual things. And still the spirit ofadventure filled them

;they tingled with

it; Bill and Jerry, too, could not look

at Barbara without a feeling of exhil-

aration.

About her this morning there was a

new and robust magnificence, Bill

thought. A new sort of color was in

her cheeks. Wind and mist and excite-

ment had tinted them; the blood ranhot and fast through her veins now;the same flash that lit her eyes leapedfrom her cheeks. Under her man's hatthe loosened tendrils of her hair slipped

out, curling up closely beside her neck.

She was all vibrant eagerness and life.

To have solid ground under their feet

again was much, and on the road theymade good progress, swift and sure.

Steadily now it grew lighter; the mist

that had risen with the dawn began to

vanish as the sun rose and grew strong;

before them, too, the signs of the thin-

ning of the woods grew more and moredistinct. Until at last Chuck, in thelead, threw up his hand for a warning,and they closed up and stood together

staring through thinned trees at the

misty surface of the lake.

They had to spy out the position nowas it lay before them. They could see

Hornaday's camp—two buildings, low,

and well spread out. From one a chim-ney rose, well made of .brick, and fromit smoke curled upward—and that wasalmost more than they could bear.

Comfortable, solid -.looking buildings

these were of Hornaday's—but he wasthe sort of man to do himself well,

always.Open ground lay between the edge of

the woods and the camp. There wasnothing like a fence, but the openground held no cover at all for a rush.

And—on the low veranda of the camp,his feet resting on the ground, sat a

MAY 16. 1924

man, a shotgun across his knees. Tothat extent at least then, Hornadaywas ready—as they might have guessedhe would be. A shot from the coverwhere they stood might have disposedof this man. But it was too soon, withall they knew, for work quite so desper-ate as that.

For after all their situation wasanomalous. They knew much — andcould prove just half of nothing. Thisland on which they stood was Horna-day's; they were trespassers; in lawthey had no sort of standing. The tale

they had to tell was one no one wouldbelieve without stark proof to back it

—

and in Winston, their best witness. Bill

Patterson at least had a certain lack

of perfect confidence.

Once more, plainly enough, strategywas called for. But the devices ofstrategy were almost, it seemed to Bill,

if not quite exhausted. He was whollyand utterly ready for the final clash

—

but he wanted to be as sure of winning,when it came, as was humanly possible.

And he still lacked, as matters stood,information it was vital for him to

have. He dreaded a fiasco—a frontalattack, as it were, delivered upon whatmight prove to be an impregnable posi-tion, and should be indeed just that if

Hornaday had displayed any real pre-vision and foresight at all.

They had marked, fifty feet back, oneof the telephone openings, and he wentback now and got the cable out againand tapped the wire. Silence. Hemeditated calling Hornaday; hesitatedthough and sat on the ground cross-legged, waiting, thinking, while theothers stood and looked at him. Andthen he was rewarded for his momentof patience. He became conscious of asignal passing through the wire; an-swered, in a moment, with a shot atGarvin's high-pitched and squeaky voice.He held his breath; relaxed, then, ashe heard Hornaday.

"Garvin? Good*? What's new?""No luck yet, chief," he said. It had

done him a lot of good to hear thatconversation during the night.Blasphemy from Hornaday. What

sort of a lot of sweeps were they notto be able to find a whole crowd ofpeople careering around in woods theydidn't know? Did he have to come outand hunt for them himself?"Perhaps you'd better

—" Bill took

a chance that Garvin might have estab-lished precedents for turning sulky. Itseemed likely—with an employer likeHornaday, over whom after all Garvincould hold a threat, of sorts. "We'resure of this much, anyway— they'resomewhere near you this minute.They've managed to put the men downthe road out of business—we've justfound the three of them tied up—

"

Even in the tenseness of awaitinpHornaday's furious reaction to that halftrue statement Bill could enjoy the con-sternation with which Barbara andWayne regarded him."What—?" Hornaday's voice came

roaring over the wire. "Come on, then—we 11 beat up the road to meet you "

The wire was dead. Bill grinned"All right!" he said. "They won't

need this line any more. Not vervsoon."

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pantomime was plain. Another mancame from the other house, putting ona heavy coat. Then Hornaday himselfappeared, talking and gesturing. Amoment later he led the way acrossthe open space. Four men were withhim, heavily armed. Bill hesitated. Asurprise attack now might win thegame.

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crowd up the road. He'd be back—butby that time anything might have hap-pened. They crouched, waiting. If

they were seen—that would be differ-

ent. But they were not. Hornaday'sparty spread a little, but it was a per-functory search they made at the edgeof the woods; in ten minutes they wereout of sight and hearing. And by thattime Bill and Chuck, leaving Wayneand Barbara to watch, had begun aflanking movement, designed to bringthem to the house from the rear.

They swung along the edge of the

woods for a hundred yards, following

the semi - circular fringe they madeabout the cleared land. Gradually nowas they advanced the lay of the landbecame clear. The lake stretched awayto the southeast; Hornaday's camp wasbuilt upon a sort of bay at the veryhead of the lake, the length and size

of which it was hard to determine.

Into this bay, or, rather, out of it, since

the slope of the land was the other way,to the north and west, there ran astream, thirty or forty feet wide for

a space, but narrowing swiftly; this

stream, Bill supposed, was the connect-

ing link between this lake and the next,

which must be in the state park 01

forest preserve of which he had heard.

Beyond the stream and bordering the

lake was the forest itself. Save for the

way they had come the stream repre-

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means of getting away from the camp.The lake itself, undoubtedly navigablefor boats, of course, would in all likeli-

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posed, the forest surrounded it com-pletely, except for Hornaday's campclearing, it would be useless to ventureout upon it.

So with the forest beyond tfee stream.

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make a way through it; it couldn't ex-

tend for many miles. But withoutguides the effort would be hopeless

—

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on the range itself a huge coffeepot

was simmering, and the aroma that

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sistible. Through the whole house wentBill and Chuck. And not a soul wasin it!

From the kitchen they entered a vast

l'oom that took up almost all the rest

of the ground floor. It was such a liv-

ing room as camps of the sort haveeverywhere, its walls of rough hewnlogs, with a great stone fireplace. Tro-

phies were all about the walls; antlered

heads, skins of bear and mountain lion

and wild-cat. A table was spread; the

remains of breakfast were still upon it.

Stairs led to a balcony; from this onthree sides sleeping rooms and porchesopened ; and three beds, unmade, showedthat these rooms had been used duringthe night.

Bewildered, vaguely troubled, Bill

and Chuck stared at one another. Insilence they went over to the otherbuilding. This was by the water; its

lower floor, it turned out, was a boat-house, opening on a float. Half a dozenboats were inside, and two or threecanoes— fine craft all of them, andseemingly in good repair. But thisbuilding was as empty as the other;not a soul was to be found. Of Win-ston there was no trace at all!

"Cheest! Don't that beat hell?" saidChuck.

Bill, without a word, went down andcalled to the others. They came, ex-cited, full of questions, and in few curtwords he flung the tale of his discover-ies at them."But—he must be here!" said Bar-

bara. "Bill—Jerry-—he simply must!It's all too impossible if he isn't!"

"We've searched every inch of bothhouses," said Bill. "Unless " Hebrightened. "Of course! There's someshack off in the woods! Because you'reright—he's got to be here! Hornadaywouldn't have pulled all the stuff weran across last night and this morningunless he were!"Barbara stood very still. Suddenly she

swayed; Bill caught her just in time,and she leaned against him weakly.

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—

thought I was going to—faint—neverdid that in my life—won't now—I can't—I can't—"

Bill, scared, appalled, stared at heras she lay against his arm. But JerryWayne, smiling, spoke up.

"First thing we do is eat!" he said."I smell coffee—and there ought to bebacon— Get her on a couch, Bill.We'll have her round in no time!"

XXII

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—

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said Wayne. "And, anyway — wehaven't found the Governor yet."

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to get far enough away to be out ofhearing. Try it."

She sounded the police whistle he gaveher, and he nodded, satisfied.

"All right!" said Bill. "Now—let's

divide up the country as well as wecan and get to work. We've no time to

waste."Yet wasted it was—the time they

spent in the search. One by one theycame back, halted, in the three direc-

tions they had taken, by natural bar-riers that obviously limited the searchc—Bill by a ravine it would have takenhours to cross, so steep were its sides;

Chuck by the stream, grown wide anddeep; Wayne by a long indentation of

the lake shore. They stared at one an-other. Barbara faced them, all three,

her cheeks white, her eyes desperate."If we've just been led on—if all the

time, when we thought we were fool-

ing him, Hornaday had the laugh onus!" Bill said. It was the thoughtthat had come to all of them. Andthen, suddenly, Chuck threw up his

head and stood poised, listening.

"Heard somethin'—" he said. "Likesomeone gruntin'— listen— there 'tis

again—

"

And now they all heard. A groan

—

unmistakable. Stifled, hard

—

"Dad!" Barbara cried. Her voicerang out in the great room; an un-controllable excitement had seized her."He's here—I know it! I've known it

all the time—I've known I was nearhim! Dad! Dad!"

Once more the strange sound came.But now Bill dropped to his knees;head down, he listened.

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—

"

It was Chuck who, methodically,starting at one corner, began tappingthe floor. Then all fell to the sametask, catching his idea. Rugs wererolled back; furniture pushed aside.

Until Wayne gave a sharp cry. Thenext instant he was prying at a board,and a whole section of the floor rose.

Down steep dark steps they almost fell

;

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who had pushed him from the car plat-

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he was freed from the gag; Hornaday'sname, Marion's, Barbara's, Galloway'swere repeated, again and again.

Bill straightened up and looked

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ing Bill looking for him, spoke.

"He's watching the woods and the

road—" he said. "We don't want to

be taken by surprise."

Barbara sat still, her father's handheld between both of hers.

"He's getting quieter," she whis-

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citement at being tied up as anythingelse—shock, you know."

Bill shook his head."We've got to make a start," he said.

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Wayne went to obey. Suddenly Win-ston cried out in alarm:"Hornaday? Where's Hprnaday?"

His voice rose again. "I've got to getback—veto that bill—"

"He's coming—but we won't be here,"said Bill. "Bab—if we wrap him upwell—take plenty of blankets—he canstand being out for a while, can't he?We've got to start down in a canoe—

"

She nodded. From the door cameChuck's voice.

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—

they're nervous—just one lad showedhis f-.ce so far

—

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wish to ruin the other boats. But theywere off—unseen!

(To be concluded)

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deaths. Please give name, age, military record.

Thomas F. Barnett, Erwin McQuirkly Post,Lewisburg, Tenn. D. Apr. 16, aged 29. In for-

eign service, U. S. Navy.

Orland D. Brown, Tonawanda Post, Tona-wanda, N. Y. D. Apr. 24, aged 27. Servedwith Battery B, 7th Regt., 3d Brigade, at CampJackson.

Edward Buskey, Carl Romulus Bcrcns Post,

Stevens Point, Wis. D. Apr. 15, aged 37. Servedwith Battery E, 121st F. A.

Benjamin C. Fisher, Argonne Post, Enid,Okla. D. Apr. 11. Served with Demob. Det.

No. 1, 162nd D. B.

George V. Frezdell, People's Gas, Light &Coke Post, Chicago. D. Apr. 6. Served with77th Balloon Co.

John N. Full, Mendota (Illinois) Post. D.Apr. 7 from injuries while switching train,

aged 33. Served with 468th Engineers PontoonTrain.

William G. Gilds, Lester W. Pfeffer Post,Easton, Pa. D. at Saranac Lake, N. Y., Feb 16,

aged 24. Served with S. A. T. C, LafayetteCollege.

Floyd O. Gilrie, B. Leo Dolan Post, Lock-port, N. Y. D. March 2, aged 36. Served with105 Aero Squadron.

John B. McHugh, Cobbett-Wclty Post, Cedar-edge, Col. D. Apr. 13 of injuries from beingthrown from horse. Served as fireman aboardU. S. S. Agamemnon,David N. Murphy, Norfolk (Virginia) Post.

D. Apr. 19 at sea. Served as naval officer dur-ing war.

Gilbert Nordyke, Carl Romulus Bcrens Post,

Stevens Point, Wis. D. Mar. 21 at NationalSoldiers' Home, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 34.

Served with Btty. A, 150th F. A.

Jeff M. Parker, Tift County (Georgia) Post.

D. Mar. 31, aged 26. Served with 6th M. G.

Bn., U. S. Marines.

JACOB C. Schrantz, Dunkirk (New York)Memorial Post. D. Mar. 24. Served as sergeant,

Co. B, 108th Inf.. 27th Div.

William Wigfield, Johnson-Tapager Post,

Tliompsor>, la. D. Apr. 21, in automobile acci-

dent, aged 27 years. Served with Co. F, 16thInfantry, First Div.

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Floyd Gibbons, official correspondent of the Chi-cago Tribune, accredited to the A. E. F. Anepic story of the American Army in France andBelgium told by a man who preceded the A. E. F.

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turned home. 15 illustrations. 410 pages. Re-duced price: $1.65.History of the First Division in the World

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Prices listed are net and include packing andmailing charges. Send order with remittance to

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OUTFIT REUNIONS

Co. F, 332nd Inp.—Annual reunion, May 31-

June 1, at Brady Lake, Akron, O. White toJohn W. Campbell, Box 191, Barherton. O.82nd Div.—Reunion, Savannah, Ga., June 7.

30th Div.—Reunion, Charleston, S. C, Aug.12-13.

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A Pursuit

Black: "You say Smith's wife cr.ught

him at the stage door?"Brown: "No. That's where she discov-

ered him."

Perfect GentlemenThe buck private with shoes several sizes

too large for him at last angered the sup-ply sergeant."Say!" bellowed the latter. "This makes

five times you've complained about themshoes! Why can't you complain just oncelike the rest of the guys and be satisfied?"

I lis Loss

Lady: "Throw down that cigarette youjust picked up! You don't know who'sbeen smoking it."

Small Boy: "Aw, I don't care if it wasDempsey himself! It's mine now."

She Who Hesitates

—

Daughter: "If he proposes, shall I con-sider him, mother?"

Mother: "No—take him."

The Silver LiningTwo itinerant colored cooks had been

lured from their homes and regular jobs

to take service at a so-called winter resort."Huh!" grunted the pessimistic one.

"An' dey calls dis a winter reso't! Jes'

look at all dat snow fallin'."

"Chuff, boy!" retorted the optimist."Dat ain' snow. Dat's frozen sunshine!"

With AddendaHusband: "I'm telling you this in strict-

est confidence, and I don't want you torepeat a word of it."

Wife: "My dear! As though I merelyrepeated!"

Consulting the ExpertThe confused old lady stood bewilderedly

at the busy corner until a kindly cop wentto aid her."Have you been stationed here some

time?" she asked him."Three years, ma'am.""Well, it looks so familiar here. Could

yon tell me if I've ever passed this cornerbefore ?"

Mule Joke 11,248Rastus: "Wot d'ye call yer mule?"Sambo: "Is dere any ladies widin ear-

shot?"

Fatal OmissionCity Editor: "This story of yours is

no good."Reporter: "What's the matter with it?""You say the man was found murdered,

but don't hint a word about past loveaffairs."

TransformationInnocent, guileless and handsome was

KittyWhen she left Hicktown for the big city.Soon she began using lipstick and paint,Eyebrow pencil and other things quaint.

Now—well, dammit, she's just twice aspretty!

—T. A. D.

Oh, Well, Here You Are!Bursts and Duds Editor: "I turned

down this fool joke once. Why do youbring it again ?"

Humorist: "I thought maybe your tastehad improved."

The IJest Customers"What's tickling Hickey so?""A bootlegger offered him a commission

for new customers, so Hickey, by way of ajoke, gave him the membership roster ofthe Civic Dry Enforcement League.""Well?""Today Hickey got a commission check

for $550."

Well, You See by the Papers

—

A certain New Yorker, an advocate of(ieep breathing, is accustomed to takemorning walks, during which he at inter-vals raises his hands high above his headand then lowers them.A visitor from out of town watched this

performance in amazement for a time andthen, approaching him timidly, said:

"Is is possible, sir, that affairs havereached such a state in this city that resi-dents have to practise what they shall dowhen they're held up?"

"I've just been left a hundred thou-sand dollars, sir, so I'll have to leaveyour service."

"Not a bit of it. I've just lost a hun-dred thousand—we'll simply changeplaces."

Dear Little Things!Lois's and Dora's joyous shrieks from

the yard attracted their mother's atten-tion. Running out, she asked them whatthey were doing."We're playing fire," cried Lois, almost

breathless from excitement."Fire?" apprehensively. "And how do

you play that?""Oh, it's heaps of fun! Dora makes be-

lieve she's a door and I knock her down."

Not ForgottenBlackstone: "Was he mentioned in the

will at all?"Webster: "You bet; and he's still sore

at the names he was called."

Carefully ConstructedTourist (paying fine): "You have the

strangest motor laws in this town I everheard of."Mayor: "Thank you. They are rather

clever, I really believe."

The Reverse TwistShe was a pretty chorus girl.

Her Ma went with the showTo look out for her daughter;The papers said 'twas so!

Daughter had a wealthy JohnnyAnd got her Ma another.

I should call it daughterLooking out for mother.

Her MeaningThe Heiress: "You'll have to handle

father with gloves."Count de Duste: "But, I assure you, I

have had no pugilistic experience what-ever!"

No Comeback"The first thing you know some of your

customers will get sore and tell the au-thorities where they bought the hooch.""Ha, ha!" laughed the bootlegger. "Dead

men tell no tales."

HungryHe: "If you feel like dining I'll buy the

dinners."She: "You said a whole flock of mouth-

fuls."

Advt."Did you give the job of razing your old

building to a contractor?""No. I stood in front of it, read a cou-

ple of Bursts and Duds, and they broughtdown the house."

Full Circle

The Joneses have a saxophone;The Jenkinses a radio own;A phonograph beguiles the Flynns;Revenge is sweet. We now have twins!—M. A. 0.

AmbitionYes the suburbanite has his troubles,

But not with the end seat hog.He's trying to make his garden agreeWith the art in the catalog.—c. c. s.

As Far as it WentThey were through for good, so she

said, but the judge, a kindly soul, wasdoing his best to patch up the maritaldifferences."Now your husband says, in his answer

to your divorce suit," he began amicably,"that he always allowed you to have yourslightest wish. Is that a fact?""Oh, certainly, judge," replied the fair

witness. "He never objected to mywishing for anything."

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Low Stuff

The train had just come out of a longtunnel. The sheik, who had seized theopportunity to steal a kiss from his

inamorata, leaned over to her trium-phantly."Now what have you to say to that?"

he asked."I'll say," was her indignant reply,

"that I don't approve of your under-ground methods."

That WinsThe laziest man in town was driving

leisurely down Main Street in his new car.

His wife, who was slightly deaf, was re-

clining on the rear seat. Suddenly therecame the hail from across the street:

"Hey, there, you've got a flat tire."

The driver stopped the car, got out andwalked over to the man who had called.

"Not so loud, not so loud," he cautioned."If my wife should hear you she'd makeme get out and fix it."

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In order to make their campaign prom-ises good, a certain administration in

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Said one member of the gang who hadbeen absent from the proceedings:

"I hear as how the boys shot one oftheir own witnesses in court the otherday."

"Yep," was the answer. "The lawyerswas a-gittin' him rattled, so we just hadto shoot him."

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