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. ...Mil.I.Ilillliliiltltllllllllllilllill * i I Rams >? i | By "riT9|*|i|||||?||i|tt|||fifiilllllllllll ? RAMSEY1" Synopsis.?With his grandfather, small Ramsey MUholland la watch- j ing the "Decoration Day Parade" j in the home town. The old gentleman. a veteran of the Civil war. endeavors to impress the youngster with the significance of the great conflict, and many years afterward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a^ few years afterward. Ramsey is not distinguished for remarkable ability, though his pronounced dislikes are arithmetic, "Recitations" and German. In sharp contrast to Ramsey's backwardness is the precocity of little Dora Yocum. a voung lady whom in his bitterness he denominates "Teacher's Pet." In high school, where he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey continues to feel that the girl delights to manifest her superiority, and the vlndictlveness he generates becomes alarming, culminating In the resolution that some day he will "show" her. At a class picnic Ramsey is captured bag and baggage by Milla Rust, the class beauty, and endures the agonies of his first love. Ramsey's parents object to Milla and wish he'd taken up with Dora Yocum. Ramsey kisses Milla. ? Then Milla suddenly leaves town She marries. Ramsey enters the state university and there is Dora Yocum again. Ramsey meets Dora in a World War debate and is Ingloriously vanquished. Ramsey gives Liftskl "a peach of a punch on the snoot"?Why% ? l CHAPTER VIII.?Continued. r?10? "Well. I'ni glad you gave that Llnskl a tine little punch. Brother Milhol land." he said at the door. "It won't do you any harm In the 'frat,' or with the Lumen, either. And don't be discouraged about your debating. You'll ham. Anybody might have got rnttied by having to urgue against as clever and good-looking a girl as that!" , The roommates gave each other a look of serious puzzlement as the door closed. "Well, Brother Colburn Is a mighty nice fellow," Fred said. "He's kind of funny, though." Ilamsey assented, and then, as the two preparer! for bed. they entered into u further discussion of their senior friend. They liked him "all right." they said, but he certainly must be kind of queer, and they couldn't just see how he had "ever managed to get where he was" In the "frat" and the Lumen and the university. + + *** Ramsey passed the slightly disfigured Linskl on the campus next duy without betraying any embarrassment or making a sign of recognition. Fred Mitchell told his roommate, chuckling, that Linskl hud sworn to "get" him, and, not knowing Fred's affiliations, had made him the confidant of his oath. Fred hud given ids blessing, he said, upon the enterprise, and advised Linskl to use a brick. "He'll hit you on the heud with It," said the light hearted Fred, falling back upon this old joke. "Then you can catch it as it bounces off and throw it back at iiira." However, Llnski proved to be mereJy an episode, not only so far as Ramsey was concerned but in the Lumen and In the university as well. His suspension from the Lumen was for a year, and so cruel a punishment It proved for this born debater that he ? noisily declared he would found a debating society himself, and had a poster printed and distributed announcing the tirst meeting of "The Free Speech and Masses' Rights Council." Several town loafers attended the meetlug, but the onJy person connected with the university who came was an oriental student, a Chinese youth of almost Intrusive amiability, Llnski made a tlery address, the townsmen loudly applauding his advocacy of an embargo on munitions and the distribution of everybody's "property,' but the Chinaman, accustomed to see students so madly In earnest only when they were burlesquing, took the whole affair to be Intended humor, and tittered politely without cessationexcept at such Mmes as he thought II proper to appear quite wrung witt luughtcr. Then he would rock him self, clasp his mouth with both hands and splutter through his fingers Llnski accused him of being in the tm> of "capital.' Next jay the orator was unable tc Show himself upon the campus with cut caching demonstrations; whenevei he was seen a rtJe of quickly gathering students marched behind him chanting repeatedly and deafenlngly In chorus "Down with Wall Street! Hoch dei Kaiser! Who loves l.inski? Who who. who? Hoo l.un! Who loves l.inski? Who, who. who? Hoo l.un!' l.inski was disgusted, resigned fron Ihe university, and disappeared. "Well, here It isn't midyear Exams yet. and the good nie class of Nineteen Kighteen's already lost a member.' said Fred Mitchell. "I guess we car hear the break-up!" "1 guess so." Ramsey assented "That l.inski might Just as well stayed here, though." "Why?" "He couldn't do any harm here. He'l prob'ly get more people to listen tc him in cities where there's so menj new immigrants and all such thai don't know anjihiny, "oojin' iU all tfc( time." "Oh. well." said Fred. "What dr we care what happens to Chicago Come on. let's behave real wild, anc go on over to the 'Teria and get us t couple of egg sandwiches and suss prlll.v." Ramsey was willing. After the strain of the "mld-yeat Kxams" in February the chums liver a free-hearted life. They had settler into tlie ways of their world; they ha< grown used to it, and it hail growt used to them: there was no longer an] Ignominy in tir ing a freshman. The] 11111111111111111II11111111II! 11111111II11111111111111 ey Milh BOOTH TARKING' lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIII romped upon the campus and sometimes rioted harmlessly about the streets of the town. In the evenings they visited their fellows and brethren and were visited In turn; horseplay prevailed, but collegiate gossip hud its turn, und sometimes tliey looked so fur ahead as to talk vaguely of their plans for professions or business? though to a freshman this concerned an almost unthlnkably distant prospect. 'I guess I'll go In with my futher, in the wholesale drug business," said Fred. "My married brother already is in the firm, and I suppose they'U give me a show?send me out " *"* -1 ? ? ?? * ftnt'f mnt'Kn uij 111 r tuuu u ,>nu ui i?i? iuoi, muj w, to try me. Then I'm going to marry some little cutie and settle down. What you golu' to do, ltamsey? Go to i law school, und then come buck and go in your father's office?" "I don't know. Guess so." It was always Fred who did most of the tnlking; Ramsey was quiet. Fred told the "frat seniors" thut Ramee.v was "developing a whole lot these days;" und he told Ramsey himself that he could see a "big change" In him, adding that the Improvement was probably due to Ramsey's having passed through "terrible trials like that debute.'' Ramsey kept to their rooms more than his comrade did, one reason for this domesticity being that he "had to study longer than Fred did. to keep ? up;" and another reason may have been a greater shyness than Fred possessed?if, indeed, Fred possessed any shyness at uJl. For Fred was u cheery spirit difficult to abash, and by the coming of spring knew all of the bestlooking girl students in the plnce? knew them well enough. It appeared, "Who Loves Linski? Who, Who. Who/ Hoo Lun!" to speak of them not merely by their first names but by abbreviations of these. He had become fashion's sprig, a "fusser" and butterfly, and he reprouched his roommate for shunning the ladies. "Well, the truth Is, Fred," said Rami sey one day, responding darkly?"well, you see the truth is. Fred, I've had a ?a?I've had an experience?" So, only, did he refer to MUln. > Fred sa'd no more; and it was com prehended between them that the pnst I need never be definitely referred tc ugain. but that it stood between Ram[ sey and any entertainment to be ob > mined of the gentler but less trust , worthy sex. And when other brethrer . of the "frat" would have pressed Ram 1 sey to Join them In various frivolous > enterprises concerning "co-eds." or tt ' be shared by "co-eds," Fred thought il > better to explain to them prlvatelj - (all being sacred among brethren) how ? Ramsey's life, so far as Girls went I had been toyed with by one now s Married Woman. This created a great deal of respeel i for Ramsey. It beci me understoot everywhere that he was a woman > hater. CHAPTER IX. That early spring of 1915 the twc > boys and their friends and brethrei . talked more of the war than they hat - in the autumn, though the subject was ; not at all an absorbing one; for th( ; trenches of Flanders and France wert : Still or II1L* lUUIIf uatr, iriumr uisiuuic By no stretch of imagination con I c! , these wet trenches be thought great I.t i to concern the "frat," tlie Lumen. 01 the university. Really important mat i ters were the doings of the "Tracb Team." now training In the "Gym' i and on the 'Varsity field, and, ntort vital still, the prospects of the Nine But in May there come a shock whlct i change<Lthlngs for a time. The Lusitanla brought to evert American u revelation of what hac 1 _ ! 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Page & Company E 1111111111111111111111111111111111111 i 1111111111111) ir lain so deep In his own heart that ? often he had not realized It was there, i When the Germans hid In the sea and sent down < the great merchant ship, with American hubles and their motht ers, and gallantly dying American gentlemen. there came a change even to girls and boys anc^ professors, until then so preoccupied with their own little aloof world thousands of miles from the murder. Fred Mitchell, ever volatile and generous. was one of those who went quite wild. No orator, he nevertheless mnde a frantic speech at the week's Jim iiiex-Liu&a, iuc viumuuo In the simple old English words that their performance had demonstrated to he applicable, and Ruing on to demand ' that the fraternity prepare for its share in the action of the country. "I don't care how insignificant we few fellows here tonight may seem." he cried; "we can do our little, and If everybody in this country's ready to do their own little, why, that'll he plenty! ' Brothers, don't you realize that all over the United States tonight the people are feeling just the way we are 1 here? Millions and millions and millions of them! Wherever there's an American he's with us?and you bet your bottom dollar there are Just a few more Americans In this country of ours thnn there are big-mouthed lobsters like tlint fellow Linskl! I tell you. if 1 congress only gives the word, there ! could be an army of five million men in this country tomorrow, and those dirty baby-killin' dachshunds would hear a word or two from your Uncle 1 Samuel! Brothers. I demand that something be done right here nnd now, and by lis! I move we telegraph the secretary of war tonight and offer him a regiment from this university to go over and help hung their d?n kaiser." The motion was hotly seconded and instantly carried. Then followed a much flnsfprpd discussion of the form and phrasing of the proposed telegram, hut. ufter everything seemed to have been settled, some one ascertained by telephone that the telegraph company would not accept messages containing words customarily defined as profane; so the telegram had to be rewritten. This led to further amendment, and it was finally decided to address the senators from that stute, Instead of the secretary of war, and thus in a somewhat modified form the message was finally dispatched. Next day, news of what the "frat" had done made a great stir In the university, Other "frnts" sent telegrams, so did the "Barbarians." haters of the "frats" but joining them In this; while a small band of "German-American" students found it their duty to go before the faculty and report these "breaches of neutrality." They protested heavily, demanding the expulsion of the "hreachers" as disloyal citizens, therefore unfit students, but suffered a disappointment, for the faculty itself had been sending telegrams of ' similar spirit, addressing not only the senators and congressmen of the state, , but the President of the United States. ? Flabhergnsted, the "German-Americans" retired ; they were confused and ' disgusted by this higher-up outbreak , of unneutrality?it overwhelmed them that citizens of the United States should not remain neutral in the dispute between the United States and j uermuny. ah unj mc ?.<uui>u7 >?u-j >u ferment. At twilight, Ramsey was walking . meditatively on his way to dinner at the "frat house," acrnjs the campus > from his apartment at Mrs. Meigs'. Everything was quiet now, both town . and gown; the students were at their . dinners and so were the burghers. , Ramsey was late, but did not quicken . his thoughtful steps, which were those i of one lost In reverie. He had forgot> ten that springtime was all about him t and, with his head down, walked unr regardful of the new gayeties flung r forth upon the air by great clusters of . flowering shrubs, just come Into white i blossom and lavender. He was unconscious that somebody t behln.. hira. going the same way, came I hastening to overtake him and called - bis name, "Ramsey! Ramsey MHhol' land!" Not uptll he had been culled j three times did he realize that he was being hailed?and in a girl's voice I > j By that time the girl herself was be) i side him. and Ramsey halted, quite 1 taken aback. The girl was Dora Voi j cum. ' Slie was paie, a nine nreatmess, and her eyes were bright and severe. "I want t?> speak to you," she said, I quickly. "I want to ask you about ' something. Mr. Colburn and Fred " Mitchell are the only people I know In your 'frnt' except you. and I haven't ! seen either of them today, or I'd have nsked one of them." y==================== i Dora trie* to impress Ramsey with her pacifist views. ' II ?I I tTO BE CONTINUED.) )W THEIR YOUNG dart through the slit and Into the pouch, and this Is what has led peo 1 pie to think they take refuge in the | mother snake's stomach. It requires careful and skilled dls e . section to detect the pouch, because ^ I tiie skin shrinks when a snake Is killed. When the poison gland is re? moved It tightens the skin under tlu . I neck, and the youngsters can't gel . Into the pouch. In the female snake : between the pharynx and the gullet p there is a peculiar, lid-like vulve, s and anything passing this valve cau l s possibly return. saving of money generally. almost certainly will result In tlie scrapping of some of the Island /defenses of the United States in the Fur liust. So it would seem that so far as the great defense works are concerned tlie.v are to go (lie way of things warlike, hut war-like only in so much us they represent defense preparations of the United States. Corregldor island on which the United States lias constructed fortiticntions Ht the gateway of Manila Is said to he second only to CJlbrultar in Its defensive possibilities. It Is one of the places which has been culled impregnable. The United States, ufter the work of years concerning which little news had been given to the world, placed Corregldor in a condition to defend the City of Manila against the tleet of uny one enemy und perhaps against the deets of the There were prirmiries In Ohio prior to the Inst convention. President Harding tr.nde a speaking campaign In his own behalf In his own state. The result was a division of the delegates chosen between Harding and Wood. In fact, Wood succeeded in capturing one of the delegates-at-large. Nobody has suggested that the President's pnlmosIty to primaries Is based In any way on his experience In Ohio. Doubtless It is based on real belief that the primaries have been a failure. It has been known to men who are not presidents that many Republican und Democratic politicians throughout the country have favored for a long time a return to the convention system. There will be a fight on this matter, however, If it Is made an Issue In the coming political campaign. Opinion here Is that the President's affection for the convention system means that no effort Is likely to be made, for some time at any rate, to secure federal legislation providing for the nomination of candidates for President and vice president by direct vote. Thus far this has been a state matter and not a federal matter. It Is as true today as It was two years ago. when certain senators were stirring up trouble for some of the candidates ror tr.e presiueimai nomination, that a sentiment exists In congress In favor of national prlmnrles under federal direction. Tills sentiment dwells mclnly with the progressives and with the so-called radical In congress, but It also hus lodging In the breasts of some few of the representatives and senators who are called conservatives, not to say reactionaries. Progressives for Primaries. Last year there were attempts made In several states of the Union to do away with the primary system. In Indiana there was a hard fight to secure the repeal of the primary laws. It was sharply Intimated at the time by a few men that the Indiana attempt was In behalf of the political fortunes of a certain man who soon was to measure his popularity In the primaries against an admittedly strong opponent. This may or may not have been true. The primary law was not repealed. 1 Little or no success met the demands to repeal state primary legislation elsewhere. If President Harding actually will press the matter It Is probable that repealing propositions will find their way Into the legislatures of virtually all the Northern states ' when next they meet. This does not mean, by a long shot, however, that the repeal attempts will be success1 ful. Next year about thirty-six state legislatures will be In session. A year Is a long time, and there will be umpie opportunity to determine during , the months If there is a genuine sentiment In favor of the old convention 1 system. Under the convention uiethi ods party responsibility Is estab : llshed. Under the primary methods i the people's responsibility Is established. The conservatives, like Mr. Harding, prefer party responsibility. Whatever else the President has accomplished by his pronouncement lu favor of conventions as opposed to primaries, he certainly has given the politicians something to talk about. It i Is u thing for the politicians to talk I about and for the people to think ' about. What the outcome of their thinking will be Is In doubt. To Scrap Island Defenses. Treasury for reduction of the ( strength of the army, and for the ! ODD POST BOX "Mother Carey's post box" Is a \vai tertight barrel hooked to a long stout i chuiu hanging front a lonely dill of a . rocky promontory known as Cape Yir, gin, lu tlie Strait of Magellan. This barrel is a post oflice, but the postal 1 authorities of no government in the 1 world have authority in that rocky ' waste. Kvory ship going through the Strait of Magellan sends a boat to this 1 ouk barrel. The letters in the barrel ure looked over to see if there is any I SPEAKS FOR CONVENTIONS PRESIDENT THINKS THAT THE PRIMARY SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL. STIRS UP MUCH DISCUSSION Many Politicians of Both Parties Agree With His Opinion, but Reversion to the Old Plan Would Be Strongly Contested. By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington.?President Harding. In a recent speech to the members of the Itepublicun clubs of the District of (\\llllllhln vmwlo u olmoiri/t .IlwIci mi f ifllt IUUUU U OJ-?tV iiiv. UVVIUIUU^II In favor of a return to tlie convention plan of making nominations for office. This means, of course, tbut the President thinks the primaries huve been more or less a fuilure. Some comment naturally was Instunt on the declaration of the President, but political leaders who are inclined to give matters study before speaking delayed the utterance of their opinions on the matter. During the campaign preliminary to the Republican convention of 1.912 the presidential primuries came so near to naming the Republican candidate In udvunce that politicians and many others were led to believe that In the future nutional conventions would be nothing more than ratitiers of the people's choice and makers of platforms. The thought on this subject later was proved to be In a large measure fallacious. It is only necessary to read the histories of the conventions of the purties in 1916 and 1920 to And proof that the primaries did uot In any way make it certain in advance who were to be the nominees for the presidency. It was said at the time, however, that later on the prophecies of the yeur 1912 would be fulfilled and that the national conventions would become merely ratification gatherings. Many Prefer Convention System. The intention of the War department goes to show that the ad ministration has faitii in tlie strength of the four-power treaty to maintain peace In the Orient without regard to armies and navies. Of course if wur shall come unexpectedly, the United States will be in a bad wuy so far as its eastern possessions are concerned. but probably no secret Is disclosed when it is said that the belief always has been that if war with a certain country should come It would he Impossible for the American government to tiold tlie Philippines against an attack which should come from coast points removed from Manila bay. The United States could hold the Philippines agalust and attack if It hud a sufficiently strong fleet In the Orient to overcome an enemy's fleet, but under ordinary circumstances with the ships scuttered as they have been, the fleet of one possible enemy could cover the landing of enough troops to overrun the islands. This lias been recognized by the military authorities for some years. Subig Bay Plan Discarded. There was much of a controversy twelve or fourteen years ago in American military and naval circles over the matter of strengthening the defenses of the Philippine islands. Subifi bay, which is seventy miles from Manila, has many natural features which would make It an ideal naval base. The proposition was to make it such and to command the entrance by great batteries emplaced upon the surrounding hills. It was held, however, by some of the experts that the hny could not be fortified proper 1> without the expenditure of millions upon millions of dollars, and that even then the fortifications would be defenseless from the land side. The result of the controversy was that Suhlg bay was not made a greal naval base und Corregldor Island took first place In the affections of the majority authorities. Army officers and navy officers too, said that Cor regidor, which Is a huge rock wltt precipitous sides rising to a greal height from the water, could be mudf i a second Gibraltar, und so In a wuj it has been made. It was mnny years ago that th< work began to prepare Corredlgor foi the emplacements of the great guns The plans called for a strong garrison with sufficient supplies to stand ? siege of years. The original plan for Corregldor ei the main was car rled out. One of the fruits of the ' recent cor.ferfme will he a virtual ! abandonment of the great fortlflea j tion. Few Troopt to Be Left There. It Is expected that the American troops in the fViillpplnes largely will j be decreased In numbers in a shorl : time. One student of present con ! dltions has said that "the posslbilitj | of aggression against the Islands bj ! any nonsignatary power is regarded ! as so remote as not to deserve con slderution." This means also that the faith In the powers which did sigr the treaties is so great. that the main tenunce of defense i gainst any pos sible breaeli of fnita no longer Is considered necessary. There will be some troops left ir the Philippines, Juy enough, however to aid the local focjes In preserving order and to form atfinll expedltlonarj forces In case trouble should breali out anywhere In tie Islands. The United Stfu.es, Great Britain Japan and Frno?\'y us parties to tlu four-power Pacific treaty, have agreec in a general way to respect the rights of the different nationals In the Orient and to engage It no acts of aggres slon. If these promises are kept Cor regldor Island might Just as well b< mined and its rocks shattered anr tumbled In fragments Into the sea ; but If these promises are not kept It h probable the United States will b? sorry that faith In pledges spiked th< guns which once commanded the ap proaches to the Bay of Manila. Steel That Will Not Rust. Noncorroslve steel was made foi use In stamp mills at least forty years ago. Some of these parts are still Ir use In the Itocky mountain mining dls trlcts. Originally chromium was used solely, because It hardened ami tough ; ened the steel, so that Its tenslU I strength became tenfold. Steel stem? ; from stamp mills that had lain In the weather over thirty years did nol show any signs of rust or corrosion Since chromium was first used com merclally \wrlous new burdening proc esses with new alloys have bcec brought out. such as molybdenum manganese, tungsten, vanadium and sr All nf fbpqp will prpntlv nilrl ti the tensile strength of steel but none J has been found that will cause steel to resist oxidation and even corrosion ' from salt water and the like as sue' cessfull.v ns chrome-nickel alloy pro! vlded the proper percentage of each j Is used. I mail for the men on hoard, and othei | letters are placed In the barrel for sen men on hoard ships headed for the Ilorn. Money and valuables have been sent through this barrel post office and there has never been a violation of confidence placed in Mother Carey's post oliice.?Dearborn Independent. Philosophic Solemnity. I Low does Nature deify us with a few cheap elements! (live me health and a day, and I wiil make the pomp ( of emperors ridiculous.?Emerson, ^gfican #,Mion (Copy for Thla Department Supplied by the American Leelon New* Service > | HE LOST BOTH HANDS IN WAR Paul Bazaar, Rochester (N. Y.) Legion Man, Given Special Consideration by President Harding. "My boy." said Senator Harding, In October, 1918, "If there Is ever any1 thing I can do for you, write me or Bk ask,me." So Paul Bazaar, of Ro t senator became the Preside n t, ' ding suspended the civil service rules, making a special case of It, and Bazaar Is now 1 employed by the Veterans' bureau, ' and Is punching a typewriter (Hunt system) nt a great rate of speed with ! his artificial hands. In a letter t? comrades In the 1 Amorlcnn Legion, Bazaar said: "I have taken my draw with a grin; 1 that same grin is still with me. I have ' found the sledding exceedingly rocky at times, hut my philosophy of a smile and no worrj, coupled with an insatiable desire to get somewhere have helped me surmount most of ray difficulties." Premature explosion of a defective hand grenade nt Fort St. Mange, France, was responsible for the loss of Bazaar's hands. He is equipped with a complicated double hook nt' tnched to the stump of his right arm 1 which enables him to write legibly, 1 drive an automobile, nnd attend to 1 all his personal needs unassisted. > I LEGION POST AT WEST POINT s Andrew Rheude, a Sergeant, Heads r Organization in- the Country'a i Greatest School for War. ? j In the heart of the country's great! est school for war, a post of the Ameri J lean Legion flour: Ishes and cele: i b r a t e s peace. f nw West Point Is the fftk home of the Stew- Bf * *? ; art Whiting Hooi ver post, which Is ' : I under command ) of one of earth's Mm r : glorious species, a h i g h-ranking v-ggH Andrew Rheu- iJ^|S de, a sergeant, f^PI was chosen from *U i a roster of 75 officers and 3U0 enlisted i : men to lend the post, and under his guiding hand it Is being built up into ? an organization which promises to beI come one of the lending Legion units of the Empire state. Named for Stewart Whiting Hoover, the first officer from West Point to i uiuke the supreme sacrifice in the war, I the post was organized in 1920 by ent j listed men. The retiring commander - is also a sergeant?Joseph' Grady?and ' he claims credit for having built up r the post from 15 members to its presi ent enrollment of 375. I ; CENSUS OF EX-SERVICE MEN | Five Million Questionnaires to Be Used , i in Obtaining Views on Compensation Drive. I A nation-wide census of ex-service j men will be taken by the American | Legion, live million questionnaires have been printed for use in the Legion's "service and compensation" drive, which will aim toward the com| pilation of vital statistics and which I should afford a definite Indication of 5 the exact cost of providing coinpensat tion to all veterans. Tho ?-arlr>no afnfo r?PCMTlizatloriS Of . j the Legion will conduct their drives , separately, and at their own date, j Every man Interviewed by the census c raker will be Informed of the five op, tlons of the pending condensation bill j and be asked to signify his attitude , toward the mensure and his choice of the five features. He will also record whether he was ever wounded, gassed, or suffered an Injury in service. Assistance will be provided in filing com, ! pensatlon claims, and all ex-soldlers , I will be urged to carry government ln, i suranoe. . j The Legion's plan for a rotating loan I j fund will be explulned, and every man . ' Interviewed will be asked whether he ? would he willing to turn over his com, pensatlon toward such a fund for the , relief of needy service men. I True Talk. It was during the Impuneling of a Jury In a New England town that the i following colloquy occurred between , the magistrate and a talesman: 'Vrwii oru a nPnnertv holllpr?" ' . AVU M,v * *" vrv* v -----?> "Yes, your honor." > "Married or single?" I "I have been married for five years, ' i your honor." "Have you formed or expressed any opinion?" i "Not for five years, your honor."? American Legion Weekly. Post Saves Adjutant's Home. While American Legion men in Kel logg, Minn., were busy formulating ' membership plans for 19'_'2, word came i that their adjutant's house was on fire. I ! With army precision they swung into formation, double-timed to the scene of the blaze, and saved the house. Technicality. He?Can I kiss you? i She?No, that's wrong, i He?Hanged if I see why. ? She?You should say, "May I?"? American Legion Weekly. FRIEND OF THE LEGION MEN Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of V 1 Illinois Demands Square Deal for the Ex-Soldiers. "The life of a Judge Is not all rosewater and violets," Kenesaw ?? Mountain Lnndls, who recently rest g n e d, swears. , The virile Illinois ex-Judge was used to being "between the devil and the deep blue sea," so many were the decisions he was compelled to give. ^ Much of the latter day vitality of this sturdy pioneer is thrown ^ toward getting a square deal for exservlce men. Judge Landis has appeared before scores of American Legion posts to speak for the cause of rehabilitation and reconstruction. "During the war I thought the peo pie or America were maue over, ne ? said recently, addressing the Bloomington, III., commerce body. "Everyone got his feet off the ground. Everyone wanted to know, 'How can I best v serve'? They gave so that the soldier 1 in the trench could strike his heaviest blow. But with the armistice, all this ? went down in cold-blooded selfishness. If this Isn't corrected, we will have won the fight but lost the war!" \ Judge Landls, as baseball commissioner, reinstated Joe Harris of the Cleveland Indians, ruling that his being gassed in the war caused him to . do things that he otherwise would not have done. \ HEADS POST OF WAR NURSES Misa Wilhelmina Weyhiog, Also Head Nurse of Roosevelt Hospital, ? at Camp Custer. I Many years of unselfish service? years which have whitened her hair and softened her smile?have won for Miss Wllhel- /j* ' m i n a Weyhlng, ' . M recently made head nurse at the t?, dCSllj Roosevelt Amerl- . ii? can Legion Me- W?\; morlal hospital at 1 Camp Custer, M' .. Mich., the un true reverence and devotion of her many patients. Miss Weyhing is the first comman- # 1 der of the American Legion post composed entirely of war nurses In Detroit. Upon her appointment as superintendent at the Camp Custer hospital, she resigned her position as director at the receiving hospital In Detroit. Dr. F. B. Broderick, department welfare officer, said of her: "Nursing has been her life work and she lias a war record which cannot be equaled by any woman in the United States." In 1914 Miss Weyhing went to Ser- ? bla to aid in the typhus epidemic. She labored there unceasingly amid terrible conditions, and contracted the disease herself, which forced her to re- ? turn in 1915. On her recovery, she was made chief nurse of Base Hospital No. 17, with which outfit she served * at Dijon, France, for 21 months. Today, all her efforts are bent toward making the new Legion hospital a real home for tubercular veterans and as unlike a hospital, in atmosphere, as possible. WILL COPY HOTEL-DF.-VILLE Reproduction of French Village la Planned at Medicine Park, Near Lawton, Oklahoma. Stored somewhere in the A. E. F. doughboy's mind is a picture of a French village?the church, the hotelde-vllle, the estamlnet. Very soon it will happen that the unsuspecting doughboy, rounding the base of the Wichita mountains in prosy Oklahoma will stumble upon this vision in real life. - - - ? * 11 ? 0 ? HVivn/iK ^ A raitnrui reproduction ui naiw village is planned at Medicine park, near Lawton, Okla., as a recreation ground for members of the American Legion. Its hotel-de-vUle will have an * auditorium seating 1,000, and plans are under way to have Legion posts throughout the state erect their own cottages where members may spend their vacation^ Water and electric lights have been donated toward the project by a citizen of Lawton. and the native stone, . which is abundant at the foot of the W mountains, will make the cost of erecting the cottages small. ' | Carrying On With the ? . ? American Legion * A free skating rink has been built by the American Legion post at Lake City, Minn. ft John J. Payne, missing since his refuse from a German prison in 1918, Is being looked for by the American Legion. ? ? For proficiency "both In studies and In athletics," high school students are awarded cups and medals by Legion * posts In Minnesota. * October 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, have been set as dates for the fourth an- ? * nual convention of the American Legion, which Is to be held at New Orleuns. Cnpt. Eddie Rickenbacker, famous American "ace," has Joined the Legion ut Omaha. Neb., although busy making automobiles in Detroit. * A $30,000 memorial is planned for Jane A. L>elano, one of the greutest of war nurses. Many Legion posts, com- j posed of women, bear her name. When they learned that 40 prnspec- * tlve citizens were to be naturalized, American Legion members in Grand Rapids, Mich., arranged an Impressive ceremony. * / '