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Show Gives W. LEGION for This Department Supplied the American Legion Newa Service.) by Copy MAKES MOVIE PICTURE life saving others Gsntry Escaped Injury in World War, Dies Rescuing Texas Flood Victims. Tex., without having been injured. During the NOW Roger Sullivan, Former Engineer, in World War, Successful in Camera Work. war. Sullivan was wounded while operating with the United Naval forces In France. After the war, young Sulll. van found that his injuries were such that he could not successfully carry on as an engineer. Under the supervision of the U. S. Veterans bureau, be entered a school of photography In New York and has completed a course in motion picture making and still photography. at flood Dis-able- d The fact that he was tfn engineer before the war may help him to understand the mechanism of a motion picture camera, but the knowledge of proper lighting effects and other things Incident to the successful production of motion pictures had to be learned by Roger Sullivan, after he was seriously disabled in the World HER YEAR OFF C. After serving with the colors In the Infantry, field artillery, motor transport corps and the navy, W. CL returned Gentry from the World war to his home at Fort Worth, Worth In the 1922, Fort April, Ameri- can Legion called upon Its members to do rescue Young Gentry was one of the first to present himself at the Legion office. During the first few hours he was In the flood district Gentry rescued six While swimming toward the persons. levee, after carrying a woman to safety, he became entangled In a barbed-wirfence which had come to the surface of the water. He called to a companion for help, but the companion was too nearly exhausted to save him. The surging waters from which he had saved others soon ene gulfed him. Mayor E. R. Cockrell of urged his fellow citizens fitting memorial to the who had unselfishly given his fellow men. Fort Worth to erect a young man his life for ALWAYS TIDED NO AUDITION "People By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD (5. Hit, Brig. Gen. Sawyer vs. American Legion Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, President Hardings personal physician and chief of the federal board of hospitalization (portrait herewith), appears to be in bod with th American Legion. Anyway, Col. A. A. Sprague, chairman of the legions national rehabilitation committee, charges him with standing in the way of proper care for wounded shellshocked veterans, and holding up hospital plans voted by congress. I recognize the fact, Colonel Sprague wrote to the President's phythat before becoming chief sician, of the federal board of hospitalization, you had no contact with the men and women who were serving In the army and navy during the war and no experience either In the field or in government service that would give you a chance to really know how men feel who lose their nerve, their health and their minds In devotion to duty, or now tlieir families lonk upon these men who went out in the strength of their youth to Invest their lives in their nations service. Appealing to General Sawyer to stand aside, Colonel Sprague said over 4,500 mental cases are still confined In contract institutions, and that of the remaining 4,715 victims of mental disorders only 3,500 are in government Institutions devoted entirely to their care. by SlcClur Newspaper Syndicate.) Emma Browns classmates were all agreed that she had drawn the plum from the pedagogical pie when, the September after she graduated from college, she received an appointment to teach In the high school at Montrose Highlands. Not only would her work be under the most delightful conditions of splendid equipment and Inspiring surroundings, and draw, even at the start, a very fair salary, but she would In time be eligible for Curtis Hunts Sabbatical Year. Curtis Hunt was the comparatively new superintendent of schools of Montrose Highlands. He had Instituted many reforms, none of them, however, more popular than his Sabbatical Year. High school teachers, as well as college professors." he stoutly maintained, should be allowed a year off, every seventh year, for re cuperatlon and study. In tlifle we hope to grant this years vacation with full pay; at present, all we can do is to allow a small bonus and hold the position open. Emma, strange to say, was not vitally interested In this feature of her Job. Seven years! Why, by that time she hoped to be married and have three children at least. Y'et one year passed, then several, And still Emma reported faithfully at a quarter of nine In Room 206 on the third WHEN ONLY FOUR HOURS OLD Miss Rosalie Carol Larson of Worthington, Minn., Probably Youngest Auxiliary Member. Fortunately, there are no age requirements for membership In the American Auxiliary. ber of dmothers Legion A num- gran- were among the charter members of the organization In Minnesota. On the other hand, there are several women young who may say that :hey have Sullivan to the and His Camera. Together with James E. Pelkey, another disabled veteran who took the same course, Sullivan Is producing a Another Chance." picture entitled The picture depicts every stage through which a disabled veteran passes from the time he leaves the hospital until he has been completely rehabilitated In some school of vocational- training. The film closes with the picture of President Harding. The photograph of Sullivan shooting the President was taken by Pelkey. and Pelkey spend their spare hours In the club rooms of the Washington Heights post of the American Legion In New York City. Sullivan WANTS BEST COOKIE RECIPE American- - Legion Plans to Have Auxiliary Cookie Jar" for the Sick A-l cookie recipe The best, In America Is wanted by the American Legion auxiliary for use In Its welfare work with veterans In hospitals. This recipe may be a modern, cooking school's latest piece de resistance, or It may be a family but It heirloom must be good. The more It resembles the cookies that mother used to bake, the happier It Is going to make a lot of sick soldiers. The auxiliarys plan Is to establish In each hospital, where there are veterans receiving treatment, a cookie Jar, which will he kept filled with a fresh supply of delectable cakes, made by auxiliary members. The plan is that of Mrs. V. H. Cudworth, of Milwaukee, W'is., chairman of the hospital and welfare committee. The recipe should be sent to the national auxiliary headquarters, Indianapolis, Ind. A widely known baker will be asked to judge them and select the best. top-hol- GERMAN CROOK DUPES YANKS Report Is That Escaped Belgian Uniform and Obtained Money. Unconfirmed Prisoner Donned The story is carried by a Brussels newspaper of the duping of the American army In the Rhine area by a clever German crook. The story was confirmed bv Americans at Cob- - 6 erman prisoner of war effected his release from a prison camp, donned the uniform of a Belgian army major and the name of Otto Debeny, accordHo presented ing to the report. forged credentials at Coblenz where he is said to have been royally received the American army. Before the assembled American e troops, he pinned the medaille mill-talr- on Major General and after getting considerable of numerous loans amounts from Major General Allen'a taff, departed for Paris. of Belgium Allens breast Auxiliary all their lives. Little Rosalie Carol Larson of Worthington, Minn., was admitted to membership when she was exactly four hours old. No, she didnt apply for the honor, It was just conferred upon her. Rosalies father, Warner Larson, division, served with the Twenty-nint- h and her mother received her diploma as a graduate nurse after volunteering for service with the American Red Cross. Crissinger and State Banks Fall Out The feud between state and national banking institutions over branch banks has just come to a head as a result of Comptroller of the Currency Crlssingers policy. In which national banks, to compete successfully with state institutions, are allowed to maintain additional offices. The fact that there was such a policy came to light when the comptroller sent a letter to Senator McCormick (111.) In answer to a protest from the Chicago and Cook County Bankers association admitting frankly that he had found a means of getting long-standin- g around the law against national bank branches, and that he had no hesitation In resorting to such an evasion if evasion it be in order that national banks might survive the competition of state Institutions. In this communication Comptroller Crissinger agreed that the national banking act forbids national bank branches except In the case of state banks having branches at the time they may be nationalized. Twenty-tw- o states, on the other hand, permit state Institutions to have and to operate branches, and the result has been, as the comptroller points out, that state banks and trust companies with their branches scattered over a given community have reduced the national banks in some cities to a negligible number. THE FLOWERS OF THE LEGION Daisy and French Poppy Official Posies of Both Branches of the Organization. American There has been some eonfuslop In the minds of Americans In general as to the status of the daisy and the poppy in connection with the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary. The daisy Is the Legions official flower; the poppy is the Auxiliarys memorial flower. The misunderstanding arose In the first place, because In its early days the Legion did adopt the poppy of France as Its flower. But at its Kansas City convention the American Legion adopted the daisy as Its official flower on the grounds that the daisy is an American flower and the poppy of Flanders Is available for use only in artificial form. The Legion Auxiliary has taken advantage of the very fact that the poppy Is not available as a real flower to buy artificial flowers made by disabled solThe Massachudiers in hospitals. setts Legion and Auxiliary netted something over S4G.000 from the sale of artificial poppies, last winter. This money was used to better the conditions of sick and needy veterans of the World war. The Legion is making every effort to interest the children of America in the cultivation of flowers by appeal. Ing to their patriotism and to their natural affection for such a flower as the American Legions American Smoot Will Head Finance Committee lieed Smoot, Republican, of Utah, will be the next chairman of the senate committee on finance. This comes about through the defeat of Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota for the Republican nomination for senator. Senator Smoot, now In his twentieth year in the senate, under the rule of seniority will succeed on March 4 next as chairman of the committee whose deliberations and decisions directly concern every man and woman in America. Senator Smoot was born In 1862 at Salt Lake City, and got his education in his native state. He Is a banker and woolen manufacturer. lie lives at Provo City. His father was a Kentuckian and his mother of Norwegian stock. He is an apostle of the Mormon church. When he was elected in 1903, the fight to unseat him lasted three years. Senator Smoot Is of that group of the Republican party, sometimes rererred to as slandputters and more often as the Old Guard. Senator' Smoot is a regular watchdog of the treasury. He is also admitted to be one of the hardest-workinmen who lias ever sat in the senate, a man who begins bis days labor almost with the sun and who ends It as a rule lie Is a master long after most other senators have culled it a days work. of statistics, to whom the study of financial history is a pleasure; a senator to whom vacations when congress is in session are unknown. g it MttiiMimiimH mmlintiniHMHIItUKIMIIIUMlIttIUlllllUUtIUMt'tUMtHtttMUIIIWnilMUIIiniHMUItMIIHtW Kansas Het Up Over Henry and Me Antsy. Carrying On With the American Legion j In t Former service men In Pennsylvania received $40,000 In claims from the government In one month through the efforts of the Pennsylvania American Legion. A giant new bridge Ulstoric Charles river at serving as a memorial chusetts dead who lost the World war. will span the Boston, Mass., to the Massatheir lives in Australias heroes of the World war were honored on Anzac day, when religious services, soldiers reunions and public meetings were held throughout the commonwealth. freak pretending to be half baboon and half woman, giving America as her home and declaring that there are many more like her In this country, f.ttracted considerable attention In a Constantinople (Turkey) street carnival, until American Legion member had the act suppressed. A Whats the matter with Kansas? Nothing except that the state is all het up over the fact that Henry and Me have fallen out over the railroad strike and nenry had Me arrested and the courts will settle it in October. Henry" is Gov. II. J. Allen (portrait herewith), sponsor of the Kansas Me Court of Industrial Relations. Is William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette and author of The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me, a book written after the return of the two chums from overseas. Both have reputations as publicists and editors. Bill stuck a placard up In the Gazette window announcing that he sympathized with the strikers. Attorney General Hopkins said the placard was section of against the the law. Bill refused to take It down, saying It was tyranny an attack on free speech. Ilenry had him arrested and he gave bond. Then Henry made a public speech in Emporiu and Bill Introduced him. among other things: If trouble should arise in Emporia, Will White would he a brigadier general In the posse which would go out to protect law and order. The only time Bill Is dangerous is when he sits down lief ore a double-actiotypewriter and writes out his emotion. When Bill put up that sympathy card he became dangerous because of the faith so many have in his judgment. His arrest la a great compliment to him." anti-picketi- n floor. And so fler Sabbatical Year came And at Its close, back In school, she appeared at the first teachers' meeting of the season, where she knew from experience she would be called upon for a report of what she had done during her absence. When her opportunity came Emma In arose and, grasping the chair-bac- k front of her, swept her audience with a brave glance. Some of my Sabbatical year," she told them, was spent at the university; some of It was spent taking a course In Phoenician archaeology, the rest of It I put in making myself ready for for marriage ftudylng how to be a com; panion, a thrifty helpmate and a home maker, She sat down amid a silence that tfas audible. Then smoothly, tactfully, under John Wentworths hand, the meeting flowed on in the usual channels. Emtna had unconsciously accomplished a strange thing. She had focused upon herself the attention of every fellow teacher, man and woman. And that attention, once captured, remained riveted. For It was Impossible not to observe that Emma wore different clothes and wore them In a new way, and that her personal appearance had grown more youthful, yes, more beautiful. The women would have understood had they known that a course In dressmaking and weekly visits to a. reliable beauty specialist had been a part of Emmas past year. The men accepted the change at face value, but were none the less Interested. John Wentworth, walking home with that she was Emma, discovered womanly, alluring, provocative. He began to regret bis many years of bachelorhood and to wonder how soon he could bring them to an end. Here was a woman, drawing a good salary, who bad come out bravely and declared she wished to marry. What a treasure and a marvel such a woman was, these modern days! If Emma cared for Wentworth she gave no outward sign of It that winter, but pursued her pedagogical way serenely, accepting equally the attentions of the principal, the head of the the science history department, teacher and the young Instructor In A trifle bitterly the other English. women teachers compared notes and laid little bets among themselves as to the final outcome. And every one privately resolved at a try for one of the unsuccessful competitors. Emma had blazed a trail they condemned In public but secretly longed to pursue. Then came the spring vacation, from which Emma returned with a radiantly happy look in her eyes and to Emma. Nervous and Dizzy EveryMe. thing Seemed to Wonfy How I Got Well . My back was so Larwffl, Indiana. was al bad I could not do my washing. Iout and ways tired had no ambition, was nervous and dizzy everything and seemed to worry me and I had awful pains in my right side. I felt badly about four years and could not do my work as it should have been done. I saw Lydia E. Pinkhams Vege- table Compound ad vertised so much and it did so many people good that I began to take it myself. I am feeling fine now and everyone tells me they never saw me looking so well. I live on a farm, do all my work, and have three little girls to take care of. I am recommending this medicine to mv friends and know it will help them if Mrs. Herbert they use it like I do. Long, R. R. 3, Box 7, Larwill, Indiana. Many women keep about their work when it is a great effort. They are always tired ou and have no ambition. Whn you are in this condition give it prompt attention. Take Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, for it is especially adapted to correct such troubles, as it did for Mrs. Long. Why, of Course. The Visitor You poor man! Did they put those bars In your window to keep you in? The Inmate Nom. They trust to me honor. Thera bars was put there to keep the mosquitoes out. 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But, as a matter of fact, they were, and crowded about her with ejaculations and congratulations. Come, Emma, loosen up! begged My year off Is Mabel Soutliwkk. due. Tell us what you did that, got f all the men interested. Well, said Emma, twisting her ring with a whimsical glance I studied up clothes and I studied up the gentle art of conversation. I made the most of my looks and I took a correspondence course in houseinterior decorating hold economics, and cooking. But, well, to be frank about it. Ill have to confess that Phoenician archaeology did as much for me as anything ! The two Phoenician archaeology! words were uttered in chorus. You see, I Exactly, said Emma. knew Curtis Hunt was going to take that course, ton !" Cuticura Talcum is Fragrant and Very Healthful Soap 25c, Ointment 25 and 50c, Talcum 25c. PARKERS HAIR BALSAM RemovenDanaruH-StopsUairK.nin- e Restores Color and and Faded Hail Beauty to Gray 0c. and si "0 M J TuiTsrists. jffltXNYX Chrm. V s. 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