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Panaj V I I 4 S"^7T ^ 9,000-ton Unite< stralia line freighter *?Captain Charles A, A days out from Brisbi Vy arrived In New Yorl t,e(* UP at tlie nrnjy ^ foot of Fifty-ninth s 'yn* ^st,DS to por from keelson to funi ship's log tells a fas of adventure in the S Her officers say she is lucky to be aflo? The West Wind steamed 1,000 ml bunkers aflre, the record shows, drove cable lengths of the rocks after an all gle, when her anchors dragged in a Newcastle, N. S. W., clawed out of I bor half an hour uhead of a quaranti tlon for bubonic plague and had to s mid-Pacific to tinker her tail shaft, say naught of being luid up two wee repairs at Panama. An entry in the log dated August 1 the ship was joined that day at Pulpi ney, by one Slnbad. An elaboration reveuls that Slnbad is a tabby torn < ship's mascot and supercargo of t freighter, Canastota, also flying the house flag, which mysteriously vanis hands between Sydney and Welling week in June. The advent of this feline marine ad of a vast and mysterious void ensl fate of 50 men and officers who coi Canastota's complement, appeared t< considered an event of rare signiflcanc say he's the luckiest cat afloat. Hund seumen are ashore in world's ports hard times in the ocean carrying trt bad, rover of the Seven Seas, can minute anywhere. All he's got to aboard. Both the Canastota and West W1 tween New Zealnnd and New South carrying benzine for the Vacuum Oil New Jersey. The Canastota had aboard when she left Sydney bound ton to take on more cargo. This vest en of up and down the Australian a: land coasts as "the bomb ship." Her Captain A. W. Lockie, a capable oflic known in New York, Montreal, Havri Mersey. He ran the submarine blocfc Montreal and French ports through t The West Wind, probably in recogi ards inseparable from the benzine ca is referred to alongshore in Sydney Wellington and Auckland as "the coif commander, Captain Abbott hails fro: His home Is at 9110 Simpson street, f Among officers and men of the We are without mementos, such as burns of a terrific hurricane that kept the ing full speed ahead into her anchor < a thirty-hour fight to prevent pilinj "Nobbles" off Stockton Bight, Newca During that storm everything loose r overside. When day dawned the We close enough to have tossed a biscuit only three fathoms of water under h< typhoon had blown Itself out. Since the Canastota signaled "All c! ney harbor that June afternoon, no has been found. What happened tc tl probably never be fcnown. Australlar hold that benzine from punctured cont Into her bilge, mixed with the water Ing an explosive gas and blew her sk u lantern was carried Into the hold h work on shaft bearing. It is a suflicl able hypothesis, hut that Is all. W pened must have taken the ship's awares, because, although equipped wireless outfits, the Canastota sent aid. All any one really knows Is t Ished?spurlos versenkt. Far out at sea the West Wind pic less nlarms sent out by Dalgetty's, Au ping agents, und by Captain William; navigation at Sydney, llalf a dozen the radio chattered: "Report Cann ing this later to "Report Canastota wr West Wind laid off her course and vainly seeking the missing vessel. II ance constitutes another deep sea mys able as that surrounding the fate o States naval supply ship Cyclops. Th headed for Newcastle. It was three days later that Sinha tota's mascot, hounded up the gangpli Point. William Hodgson, able seainai Wind, spotted the old cut, having mutes with him aboard the Canasto was known as "The Falls of Orkney out of a British port. Hodgson Ins nlzed Slnbad's cinder-scarred body, vent was followed by serious dlscussk below decks. Why had Slnbad quit the Canaj WAS NOT THAT Friendly Traveler Meant Well, but H Rather Misunderstood the Clerflyman'8 Statement. There Is a certain good minister f the gospel who does not make n parad of his piety or even mention his cal Ing unnecessarily, particularly wlier such an announcement might tend t dampen the spirits of a gathering. It* cently, In the smoking compartment c stain: i nps?^ 7M * i? ] Stntes-Au, West Wind, J , Abbott, 60 / xne, N. S. W., / i harbor and / base wharf, I treet, Brook- I t and rusty VJS I jel cap. The M I dnatlng tale I South Pacific. 1 les with her \ within three \ t-nlght Strug- ^JJr Vvv\ typhoon off ~^L%7 * Jrlsbane har- ^ ne proclama hlft cargo In v All this, to I I ^ ks for boiler enough to any sallormai records that sailors have Into the \\ t Point, Syd- son, present custodian of this entry sailors have much in .'at, formerly and a sailor's hunch a he 8,500-ton clares, only the cat ci U. S. & A. wl>en dissatisfied and a bed with all seaman has to consider ton the last w'hivh dou't bi to a craft he'd like t< [venturer out judgment. Slnbad lei irouding the warned by instinct of istltuted the an(1 went ashore nt Sy ) have been bound vessel?so the bl e. The crew 1,u? " Ireds of good ,?"e h"?^ ""?d "i ; because of oi rJewcastle. the "Nohl . hnt Sin taIn Ahbott rnn Into bt sign on any intermittent squalls fr, do is walk in? t0 a as ,the, * last assuming cyclonic nd plied be- bei,1S ln U*ht trira was Wales ports. * m~, . There was a seven company of , , ? .. 00,000 cases .1,c?arrlv^ for Welling- 2i- n"rra'c'1 t, c ,"esl sel was s,?,k. 1 "'^f8 nd New Zea- went about Jllst before commander. '? <*? ^ """j8 whe er, was well " e> U, p"w e and up the ""ch a Mow. The Wes ... ? during the war. Later cade between , ? . .. . coal burner. The boile he war .i?i .. v.00. enough to properly su litlon of haz- _ . . . : * , . . . , the best to be had out rrying trade, _ . . , . - Newcastle a matter of six knotS" wewcasue, ?We heuded into the " v?X: v steam we could ral i" if" ?? ?f water most of the ti t wVn.t fpir The vessel wouldn't ob st >\ Ind few . , . ... . . . slammed about like an < and bruises, . ... . . sea I ever saw. \\ e we vessel steam- , ,, . , , , , at a lively clip, so at r" ,Ur\lB hooks away. The anc stle JulV ?4 abcut durk b0th bPKn tie juij -4 again for the honey >n deck went , * * . .... . "From that time on S st D "itf steaming full speed in er keeT' The ?*"* ?>' 81 minute she was buryln stern ln the air and tin lear" off Syd- jier tun with the bow trace of her "We weren't ulonc ln ie vessel will ou^ jjew zeuiand and 1 sea lawyers for Sydney were the on mners leasea a dozen other crafts w< there, form- selves. The Century, :y high when amj QCean island was y an oiler at rockets every minute o: ently reason- ntd gun> she seemed t hatever hap- jt company un- "The pilot steamer A with modern t0 the Century's assist! no calls for after some trouble. S hat she van- after an all-night sera were mighty sick folks ked up wire- nmde port. Other ship stralian ship- the Armagh and Port s, director of out of Newcastle for S times a day her fires out of the fui stota." vary- She made port safely, eckage." The "Ours was the wors swung wide. short holler capacity, er disappear- hundred tons of coal pi itery, lnscrut- broke, having been com f the United bunkers because of fire, e West Wind benzine stowed all aro' comfortable comblnatic d. the Cnnas- worry long over thut c unk at Pulpit time we shipped a gre 1 of the West ping most of the Sout served ship- between 2i? and T?0 tons ta, when she the scuppers. By daj and sailed swept clean, tantlv reeoir- "One imnnrtant thini The cat's ad- Wind through was a go >ns above und stood by sailor fashion kept steam on her, stai itota? Plain share of the time, I gu KIND OF SPIRITS -v e a Pullman, he fell into conversatlo with a friendly traveling man, wh presently observed: "Pin in the hardware line. What' >f yours?" e "Well," the minister responded wit 1- a twinkle in his eye, "I might say thu e I'm In the spiritual line." o The other looked about hastily, an ?- laid a cautioning hand upon the minis >f i ter's knee. 1 Sbcdhe Bjr REHl/RJAMES PEELER y /yew yorx rmame f tlie responf instance, h firing rock ney. He v Here's nnoi ?i<1. Knov Good luck. "Also th< n with insight such as most stroyer sqi ays of ships' cats. Hodg- *"'tness: of Sinbad, Insists cats and " 'Abbott common. A cat's Instinct sistance D, re the same thing, he de- sen? Are in go ashore at any port 8ltl?n. wait another ship, while a "These a pay losses and other trifles froni sh'P* Jther cats, and so he sticks w,|en we " > leave, against his better wanting to t the Cunastota because ing, which the ship's Impending fate, thing to tin dney to await a homeward 1,1 at night, ack gang of the West Wind "About n the worst ty miles off the "Nobbles" the hardesi files" being headlands, Cap- ln*er 11 wt id weather, beginning with deck that sm tlie southeast, increas- "Above j 'arbor was neared, and at the screw violence. The West Wind of water, a on her beam ends half the we cou'd * dicular roc ty-mlle gale blowing when too darned tie, the afternoon of Julv "Under s t Wind's big bronzed skip- $ , orders to keep off, so we . , dark and tried to beat out " (rn re our worst trouble was. 8 ^ r to make headway against T!e>\i >nrS,v t Wind was a turbine boat s nK they converted her Into a 10 jj.l ^ r capacity wasn't Increased '' pply her main engines, so ^ "J* of her In fair weather was fnoug l , bouncing li it storm with every pound ^V^hntl" se, but our screw was out me and the engines racing. sn e" py her helm and was being fa\?,U* ?i jinpty barrel in the nastiest ? 1 re crabbing It for the rooks cn ' 4:30 p. m. I ordered both close on hors held for a time, but "esneakec n dragging, and we were anL "We tool It was n ding-dong fight. to our anchor chains and ^ ('[e , >ite of all we could do. One ns 1 "'l!K 1 g her bows and slinging her a\ ^rlsb',n i next she'd be Btanding on e(* (,r 1011 pointing skyward. quarantine our troubles. The Knlnpol . ur " er I the Chronos from Adelaide f,v '?r6 ly ships to make port. Half ere ordered to sea like our- ^ere over> plvlng between Melbourne outwai _ . frlnnr civ tn 5 to leeward of us. Bring ?" ? ?? " r so and exercising her slg- an(' so 'on' o be making heavy weather isfied. We and the t Jnx out of Newcastle, went monkeys fi ince, and got a line aboard "Ive hon he came through ail right descended nible. I understand there people say aboard her when she finally rlage and s that had close calls were s'^e, but * Nicholson. The Mncuiuba, smart lot c lydney, went by us blowing ersinels under forced draught. "The Pit too. for them b< t plight of all because of Rims heave On top of that I had five InP tl,e shl led on deck when the storm home from ipelled to clean out the port Boston on , Fire in your bunkers with home. Th< and Isn't what you'd call a when she'll in. Well, I didn't lm\e to Over at oal on deck, because every gathered it en one, and we were ship- on providir h Pacific about that time, pending in went over the lee rail or out ship again, flight our main deck was and Lyons forming a ; that helped pull the West chopped lh od cYew. Every man aboard Mennwhi and the black gang below cushion en iding on their heads a good luxuriously ess. There's a lot in being warmth an ' "You know, I kind of suspected you ' were keeping something under cover," - he said. "It's all right with me, of n course, but you want to he n little o more careful with strangers, old man. Why, for all you knew, I might have 's been a federal agent."?Philadelphia Ledger. h it Surely Do! Philosopher says clothes give a man d confidence. Sure. He'll go a lot of s- places in clothes he wouldn't dare to go without 'em. r sy x/fW&tJO* flACHAMER ir backing In n situation like that. The a fine thing to have, too, but It adds to ilbilities of the man on the bridge. For ere are a few messages." Captain Abbott dug a sheaf of papers dispatch box and handed over a batch messages picked up at the height of West Wind?Are you standing by ship ets? Answer forthwith, request Rear istrallnn navy. PARKES." is agent of the U. S. & A. line in Sydvas busy with the wireless thut night, ther: , West Wind: Radio at hand. Cannot 0 you. Daigetty, Newcastle, in comwlth navigation department seeking r you will do all possible to hang on. PARKES." 1 executive officer of the Australian deladron wanted specific Information, as , West Wind: Are you In need of asestroyer? Can boats live in prevailing your anchors holding? Send your poEXECUTIVE FLEET," re merely the official messages. Others i in our area asking us to stand by ere driving ashore at top speed and all know whether our anchors were holdthey d ned well weren't, added somee tang of life on the West Wind's bridge nidnight there was a lull, and I thought was over, but in those cyclonic storms t blow is toward the end. Half an hour is worse than ever, and everything on could be jarred loose went away. :he roar of the wind, the screaming of when she lifted her stern 20 feet out nd stamping of big seas on her counter, lear the surf crashing on those porpenrks. That was notice enough we were close for any good use. iuch conditions one doesn't relish carryadio .conversation with every shore offeels like asking a few questions. What me Just then was how we could save the ur own lives rather than in answering uch as 'Are you standing by?' We were herever we could get hold and that was icarlous. nit an hour I thought we might turn minute. You see, we hadn't cargo oard to hold her down and she was ike a rubber ball. I had pumps rigged nd began shooting oil over the bows, much tp do with our coming through ept the seas from breaking aboard and chance to get about on deck. We were nve the oil. lawn broke the storm died. We were he rocks. With the wind moderating 1 up on our anchors, got 'em both aboard ;d In over the bar. It was certainly a el a level deck under our feet again, c on cargo and made for Sydney. That's had came aboard acting as Important he owned the boat. Our last call was e? where we finished loading and stortne. We just missed a bubonic plague order at Brisbane. If we'd been un the West Wind would have been lyyet. ig minute we left Brisbane our troubles We made better time than any on *d voyage, although we were only logseven knots, but It's steady as does It g as she kept plugging along I was sathove te for an hour off I'ltcalrn Island raders tried to swop two ring-tailed ;>r Sinbad. rd a lot about these Pitcairn Islanders, from the mutineers of the Bounty. Some they're all half crazy from Intermortoo little contact with the world outrom what I've seen of them they're a if folk, mighty religious and sharp tradenlniers are short of cats and pay well ecause of the rat plague. Our flre-room d clinkers at the boat crews for lnsultp's mascot. The remainder of the route i Panama was uneventful. We made November 8 and later came on down ; West Wind is laid up. I don't know 1 go to sen again." the Port of Cnli in Jane street, foreist night a council of sea lawyers bent ig for proper care of Sinbad the Sailor at temperamental traveler's decision to Present were Scotty, Mac. Lee, Walsh of the West Wind's fire-room force, fund to supply the family cat with er and grade A milk this winter, le, Sinbad, recumbent on a red silk nhroidered with gilt fringe, stretched before the hearth fire's grateful d blinked and blinked and blinked. Many Races Claim Boone. From any investigation of the legends ar\d facts of the past it now appears that the identity of an Individual even so well known as Daniel Boone is not to he ascertained easily. There was apparently an English Boone, a pure Irish one, a German one. and two or three more representing other nationalities. It is just a question of time and a little more invest! gation and we may hear of a Scuudi, navian Daniel Boone, a Greek, an Arubj iun, und what not. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTiXNATIO! SimdayScho ' Lesson (By iti_?. i'. L>. L Teacher of English Bible in the A Bible institute of Chicago.) Copyright, 1922. \Ve?tern Newnpaper 1 LESSON FOR FEBRUARY ELISHA'S HEAVENLY DEFENC LESSON TEXT?11 King? 6:8-23. GOLDEN TEXT-The angel of the encanipeth round about them that Him, and delivereth them.?Ps. 34:7. REFERENCE MATERIAL?Dan. 1 Heb. 1:14; 11:27. PRIMARY TOPIC?God Takes Ca Ellsha. JUNIOR TOPIC?Ellsha and the A of Jehovah. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR T ?Our Unseen Defenders. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT T ?What Faith In the Unseen Can L Us. 1. The Syrian King Sorely Tro (vv. 8-12). his plans miscarried. II. The Syrian King Tries to Eiisha (vv. 13-18). 1. He sent an array t<\captur (vv. 13, 14). Upon learning Eiisha was making known hi tions, he determined to put an t the matter by trapping him and ni him a prisoner. IIow foolish t human cunning against divine dora. Horses and chariots are u when God is against us. God's poses cannot he thwarted. If G for us, who can be against us' 2. Elisha's servant frightene 15). When he awoke one in< he saw that an armed host wj camping about the city. Viewed the humun standpoint, we d< wonder that he was affrighted. 3. Elisha's encouragement (v He assured his servant that, t they were surrounded by the i array, there was a mightier or heavenly defenders round them. Eiisha did not shut his to the real danger, but looked 1 helpers of God watching about 4. Elisha's prayer (v. 17). He that the Lord would open the e, his servant so as to see sp! things. When the Lord opene eyes <ff the young man he saw "the mountain was full of horse chariots of tire round about El Itound about us all the whil angels guarding us from danger, reason we do not see them is th lack spiritual sight. Christ oti fender is neurer than hands and Let us trust Him. True religl a belief In the supernatural, open our eyes! The Holy Splrl reality and Is ever with us. 5. The Syrians smitten with ness (v. 18). The same God opened the eyes of the young blinded the eyes of the Syrians, deals with men according to moral attitude. When men wl have the light, God sends darkn III. The Syrian Army Tr (vv. 19-23). The would-be trappers are trapped. 1. Army led by the man soug them (vv. 19, 20). Eiisha led to Samaria and asked the Lo open their eyes. When their eyes open they saw the man whom hut nnt nf tlid nlnpp U'llPPi nVU^IUl ?'U?. MVfc MV fc..V J'.MVW ...... sought hiin. Instead of seeing Ii Dothnn as they expected, they him in Samaria. 2. The generous treatment o Syrians (vv. 21-23). The king of wanted to smite the captives, Elisha forbade him and ordered in that they should be fed and sent to their master. 3. Peace between the nations (\ Tiie mtycy shown to the Syrian! such a profound effect upon then they came no more to make war Israel. What a fine thing if we have such humanity shown today! The Harvest of the Earth. And I looked, and behold u cloud, and upon the cloud one sa unto the Son of Man, having oi head a golden crown, and in Ilis a sharp sickle. And another ' nine out of the temple, crying u loud voice to hiin that sat on the < Thrust in thy sickle, and reap; fn harvest of the earth is rl Revelation 14:14,15. Infinite Protection. When thou passest through tin tors, I will be with thee; and tin the rivers, they shall not ove thee; when thou wulkest througl lire thou shalt not be burned; nc shall the llames kindle upon th Isaiah 43:2. 1. The King's plan. (v. 0). method was a kind of guerrilla \va ?armed bands made Incursions the enemy's territory. lie deteri as to where camps should be lo r.o us to intercept Israel's army plan was clever, but his greut take was that he left God out c calculations. There Is one where all plnns unci movement: known (Heb. 4:13). 2. The enemy's movements closed (v. 9). The man of God, 1 Ing the enemy's movements, was to tell the king about them. El advice was more than a matcl the wily plans of the shrewd hadud. Israel's sufety lay mo the man of God than In their war 3. The king of Israel heeded El word (v. 10). This was true wi By obeying the prophet's wore saved himself and army many I Those who are truly wise heed tl vine warnings. Great blessings 1 come to men If they would bee warnings of Scripture. 4. The Syrian king's perp (vv. 11, 12). In Ids perplexity 1 sembled his servunts and demi that the traitor be made known believed that some were pluyln* the hands of the enemy; thei he would put an end to the trea< This was denied, and one of hi: vunts declared that the king's ments were reported by Elishi prophet, even telling to the kl Israel what Ben-hadad spake 1 bedchamber. Ben-hadud was wi honnncu nf lila slnS hut he <AL LEGION POST PICKS BEAUTY \ MIm Edith Patterson Crowned by Ac. /"Il kansas Body as Most Beautiful ' Girl in America. T Arkansas conies forth with Miss Edith Mae Patterson to prove that, as >ER^ QuentIy been ^ y* crowned the most L01"11 beautiful girl In F fettr America by critl5:1-23; ^ Jl ca\ members of 7w the Itoy Klnard re ot ~ pOSt 0j tj,e Amerrmlea 'can Le*ion- Arkunsas stands ready a to stake her against all comers. OP1C Digging around in oyster flats in the ,opIC Arkansus river, assiduous citizens pro^ for duced a beautiful pearl which they bestowed on Marshal Foeh during his visit. And picking around in the Arubled kansas diamond mines other citizens uncovered an Arkansas diamond, Ilis which was presented to Hanford Mac- ? rfare Jfider, commander of the Legion. Per- f hd? sistently refusing to be "mlsunder- I uined stood," this hearty state Is manifest- ! cated jng surprising fertility of soil, with - H's its diamonds und pearls and women* mis- ' 'JJ'* PLANS GREAT MOUNTAIN CAMP ' s are d American Legion In New York to Pro- c dls- vic*e Hunting Lodge for the Tu- I j (now. bercular Ex-Soldier*. t] i able , isha's Curing tubercular ex-soldlers by giv- .< ii for 'nR them a bunting lodge In the Ad- j. Ren- ,rondacks ls the most recent plan of t re in the American Legion In New York * riors 9tate- A mBnimoth mountain camp, 30 t isha's m"os trom Saranac lake, has been se- c sdoia cured- ,ts doors to be opened to the j ls he tO,000 service men who cannot now Limes, dnd a bed. In the adjoining forest, j lie dl- comprising 12,000 acres of state pre- e would serve> w'll soon be scattered lean-tos ^ j tl)e and shelters, where disabled men will t bunk In solid comfort, breathing the ^ it air which can restore them to health. ^ ie as- Permission to use the preserve as inded a bunting ground has been granted bf X He the state; and at the main camp on I ' jnt0 Big Tupper lake there will be bowl'efore ing al,eys' motor boats and athletic I herv delds at the displosal of the patients. ? Each Legion post in the state has been ve. given the chance to put up its own ^ tlie lean-to, men of that post to be given n (jj precedence In occupancy. Twenty < llg .. thousand dollars has already been sub- j "rrled scr,bed to the fund. ( icause CHIEF FIJN-MAKER BUSY MAN < Trap President Elver* of "40 Homme* et 8 e him Chevaux," Forced to Resign at ( that 8tate Adjutant. s ac :nd to Edward J. Elvers, national presiiaklng dent of "40 homines et 8 chevaux"? 0 put fun-making sowis clety of the Amerseless lean Legion, flnds \ t pur- that the duties as 1 od be head of a "funny" j ' f organization are IB? . ' j d (v. more pressing fg* >rnlng than any serious vt :*Wf , is en- .work. Making fun J4 % *&/ from took so much of / ' j not his time that he 1 was forced to re. 16). sign his former ll hough position as state J Syrian adjutant of the host Legion in the state of Oregon, about One of the proud moments in Elver's 1 eyes life was when, before a crowd of 7,000 to the people, he presented Marshal Foch them, the little gold badge of the order?box- 1 asked car, horse and all. yes of Kivers began his military career In [ritual 1010 In the National Guard. During d the the war he served 1-5 months overseas r that as captain of the machine-gun corn's and pany of the One Hundred and Sixtylisha." second infantry, which was not, as he e are says, a fun-making society. The at we A Footles* Hunt, r De- "Whoof!" panted Dottle Dimple- ) I f?et- knees as she sank Into a chair in the J Ion Is theatrical agency ortice, "I've simply ' Lord, rUn my legs off trying to see the manat is a ger of this show about a Job In the chorus." blind- "Lady," said Otis, the office boy, "I who ain't seen the manager, but if that's ' mun, the case yon might's well go back 1 God home."?American Legion Weekly. 1 their ? 1 II not 1 apped S Carrying On With the j t American Legion j j now i ht bv Twenty hospitals in three years is them lbe reconl of one dlsubled fighter disr(1 tl) covered by the American Legion. j \wre * * 1 C ? .Ji I.~ l?ot they tX-SOIQierfj WIIW IIUYC IU.11 men u,0ethey charge papers will be able to obtain j, Ira at duplicates under a bill now before s saw congress. * A sum of 850,000,000 has been raised 1 . 1(^ by Australia for the use of her un- * sr'le employed former soldiers. Another ' u great sum has been raised to buy lS.ea. land for farms to be cultivated by back i them. 1 v '. 23). Frederick P. Peters, Fort Worth, t * had Tex., was unconscious when he was c i that handed over to the American Legion J upon p0St in thut city. Diagnosis revealed j could that what he needed most was ham s : and eggs. p t t Marshal Foch was made an honorary vvjlite member of the Cambridge (Mass.) f |ike Post of the Grand Army of the Ite- t i ills public. A delegation of Civil war j, hand vetePans PlQU?d a bronze meddl on ^ angel "l6 chcst' ... F Posts of the American Legion ara r flie helping stem the crime wave by put, _ ting their unemployed Legionnaires to v *,e' work as special police officers. t( ? * Fifteen per cent of vocationalIzed r ex-soldiers of the Pacific northwest ? ? wa- have gone "bnck to the farm," pre ongh ferrlng agriculture to other vocations, rflow i the Easterners will be given a "view of 'Ither America" when they join the second n ee.? annual ascent of Mount Hood, to be conducted by the Hood River (Ore.) post of the American Legioy. u Mwm urn . <. ?opy for Thli Department Supplied Vt the American Legion News Service.) ? i VOODFILL WON HIS EMBLEMS ??? ' lonors Everywhere for Sergeant Who . Exterminated Machine Gun Nesta and Many Germans. ?? ' ; i * ' When Sergt. Samuel Wobdflll pays < casual call on a friend nowadays, ' he Is given "tlj^ * y ^11 ^ freedom of the v~jPJT longer possible mm for hl:n to travel merely as a "person." The man ^ ** w'10 cleaned out * ^ree machine gun nests and fv *Ult:u JLt' \JKT* lsscmo( dS a morning's :' job found Jersey >J City. N. J., walt. Uig for him with trass bands when ne dropped In to Isit the American Legion. The utext lay he charged over to Nevy York Ity where, as guest of Supreme Court rudge McCook, he was welcomed from tie Bronx to the Battery. Woodflll says of his soldler-fatfcer that he learned about shootln' from ilm." And he shifts all the credit for lis heroic deeds to the government. It was Just the efficient training of he regular army," he explains. He , . laims that his twenty years as "regu- , ar" should qualify him to speak. The sergeant wears his laurels well. Je Is striking In appearance and. omewhat serious in manner. He nlues even more highly than decoraions the tribute of his vivacious little vlfe, who claims he Is "peerless at iltchen police duty." * 'LAYS PART ?0F UNCLE SAM rormer Private in Civil War Needs No Makeup to Participate in Pageants and Parades. Uncle Sam. long the product of mrtoonlsts, exists In the flesh In the >erson of George private in * the pending his lat- f V er days at the |^|^psKS^L ' United, States | Soldiers' Home In Washington, D. C. V1 With his steel )lue eyes, white oatee, Campbell s such a perfect ncarnation of the |||f j||| Artist's conception W&Mw uf Uncle Sam that he needs no makeup to make him the most attractive figure In a pageant or a parade. To keep up with the times, Campbell has adopted the George Washington post No. 1 of the American Legion, the first post to be organized. He 1* , j rhp offlrial erandfather of the unit, and takes great pleasure in fighting ? over the Civil war for the benefit of his younger buddfcs. Born in Ireland, Campbell was brought to America as an infant. During the Civil war he served with the Seventeenth Infantry. Now-a-days nothing pleases him more than to don his red, white, and blue costume and lead a parade. * Announces French Nativity. Maurice (Jimmy) Brocco, who with his partner has for the past two years won the Madison Square Garden bicycle race, has announced his French nativity after reports had him an Italian. He was born In Fismes, on die Vesle river, Department of the Marne, 33 years ago. Fismes was ecaptured by American troops in July, 1918, in a desperate encounter. ?????-? * Post Is Thanked. Official letters of thanks from Lord ^urzon of Great Britain and the Britsh ambassador have been received by :he American Legion post at Soinerrllle, jN. J.,-which held a military fuleral over the body of a Bri|ish army :aptaln. As the captain had no rel-* itives In this country, the city wa? ibout to Inter the body In the potter'a leld. Armistice Day Casualties. There were 3,912 casualties in the I. E. F. on Armistice day, November II, 1918, according to the adjutant cenernl's office. Of these, 268 were . tilled, 2,769 severely wounded, 466 ilightly wounded. 177 slightly gassed md 232 wounded and gassed, degree indetermined. The Fifth division^ bore he brunt of this day's -casualties. Foch Would Have Big Staff. "If there ever is another war," said rerdlnand Foch, marshal of France, hit* anpnlflnc nt Ills trio of 16.000 ulies through 42 states as the guest if the American Legion, "those In the Lmerican Legion responsible for or;unlzlng this Journey shall be on my / taff. I compliment the American peoile on its American Legion." Would Hold Training Camp. General Pershing has recommended he retention of the nine main trainlg centers?(Jumps Devens, Dix, leade, McClellan, Kno* Custer, Fort Uley, Travis, and Lewis. Back Home Again. Alice?Have you written to that ronderful man you hecam^ engaged o at the seaside? Virginia?I've been trying to get ' ound to it. but I can't think of his ame.?American Legion Weekly. Anticipation. "You look dejected." "Yes. Married life gets on my erves." "lleen married long?" "No. The wedding takes place to .orrow."?Amerlcun Legion Weekly,