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Show THE BIXLETIN UncUPkilCw Sap: That Gets the Crowd A steam shovel always seems to do its work so a:r.ply. It was Ed Howe who said that This year t!:e American l otion 'comes of ai;e" in nwiv re- Nut only is it Plans for the 1939 American Legion Convention In Chicago's Famed Coliseum Bring to Light a i New Chapter in Nation's Presidential History "every man shou'J be arrested about two times in his life for what he thinks." spects than oiuv anthe oi'Kanirut inn's twrnty-rirs- t nual convention, lut, according to National Commander Stephen K. Chadwick. the 1939 assemhly of the veterans will have a more serious tone than ever before. It will be provided by 'American first convention Democracy." keynote in Legion history. Moreover, convention program plans call for large-scalparticipation by the wives, sons and daughters of the Legionnaires who will accompany them to Chicago. The history of the American Legion goes back to the year 1919 and to Paris, France. That story is told by Col. Theodore Itoose-velone of its founders, thus: "No one man can claim to be the founder of the American Legion. I got the idea from a wounded sergeant in a hospital. He said we should form an organization of veterans of the war, adding, "we have stuck together in the bad times; let's stick together in the good ones.' "After that. I talked with numbers of people, many of whom had been thinking on these lines. The problem was to get the organization under way. The Armistice had been declared. I asked some regular army friends at G. II. Q. if soldiers from each of the American divisions then in France could be ordered to Paris to discuss the idea. They told me they could not do that directly, but that they could order such a group of men to meet in Paris and discuss the morale of the American troops. "We held the meeting on morale. Afterwards, at a dinner, we discussed plans for a veterans' organization. All agreed on certain principles. The first was that no difference should be made e Real love seldom makes beautiMce often it is ful speeches. dumb. Then They Sober Up People always lauh at the fool things you try to do until they discover that you are making money t, at it. Tradition should be treated with respect. It is often worth follow- ing. We Average Humans We sadly contemplate our bad habits, and then reconcile ourselves to them. There would be but few mysterin this world if people looked into everything as closely as a woman looks into a mirror. ies Life First Interior of the Chicago Coliseum, where the American Legion 1939 national convention will open 25. The view was taken during the Republican national convention of 1912 when a plan to September Life comes before literature, as the delegates with the appearance of Theodore Roosevelt, who was later named as me stampede the material always comes before National candidate, was abandoned. The plan to smuggle "Teddy" to the speakers' plat Progressive the work. The hills are full of form is told here for the first time. marble before the world blooms of 1893 were under way, a move with statues. Phillips Brooks. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ment was started to purchase Released by Weatern Ncwipuper Union and move it to the work of preparing for the 1939 national convention Libbyonprison lake as a Civil war the city American Legion, which meets for the first time museum. Prominent in this dnlispum. scene of the nomination of three movement was the Chicago hisPresidents of the United States, has brought to light a new torian and collector, C. F. chapter in American presidential history. It is the story of a The work of the prison plan to smuggle "Teddy" Roosevelt into the regular Repub- from Richmondmoving to Chicago belican convention back in 1912, which, if it had succeeded, gan in December, 1888. Each might well have changed the course of events in this country board, beam, timber, and block r tVio laot 9.5 vpnrs of stone was numbered and lettered and the task of transportdeclared whom to Phil Collins, for the told was The story ing these and the 800,000 bricks inciMr. Hall was the relating first time recently by Charles dent. "I remember what hap- in the main structure required the R. Hall, veteran manager of pened at that convention a wom- use of 132 n cars by the Chesthe Coliseum, while he and an delegate mentioned Roose- apeake & Ohio railway. The prison was rebuilt on the site of the name and it started a demPhilip W. Collins, executive velt's present Coliseum and two onstration for which lasted vice president of the Legion hours before it could be as a war museum on September convention corporation, were stopped." 21, 1889 (just 50 years and four By burning 25 slower than making arrangements for the "There's not a doubt about it," days before the opening of this Apthe average of the 15 other big gathering of thousands of agreed Mr. Hall. "I've often year's Legion convention!) meetits first propriately enough, nevwondered was the all from plan why parts brands Legionnaires of the largest-sellin- g ing was a G. A. R. reunion. of the country in that historic er carried through. All I know is Meanwhile a massive battlement, tested slower than any of convention hall on September that George Porter and his which was designed to provide a friends dropped the matter. I them CAMELS give smok- 25. The incident has addi- never asked him why and he nev- flashy "front" for the museum, built along the Wabash aveof the volunteered er because the information. was tional interest ers the equivalent of nue of the transplanted prisside fact that a prominent figure . . . But I wish they had gone on from stone that was quarried I was ahead. for my part within the ready at the 1939 session will be in it." Chicago city limits of that time. "Teddy's" son, Col. Theodore As the Coliseum manwho Thousands of visitors, before an Roosevelt, helped organ- ager fingered in his tie, he continued: and during the 1893 World's fair, ize the Legion just 20 years scarf-pi"Maybe if they had gone ahead I were attracted to the museum ago. Bearing his credentials wouldn't have had this pin. You and its historical relics. However, as a delegate he will walk, un see, it was this old prison museum was given to me by 'Tedhampered, into the very hall dy himself. But that was six torn down in 1900 to make way which his father was kept weeks later when the 'Bull Moos- - for the present Coliseum but the ! i THE Gun-the- r. HiiT-inr- Showing the Latent Buttim-Fn- St ylcs I m button - front WONDKlt dresses are so popular for midsummer! They go on without mussing your hair or getting mussed themselves. They look so smart, crisp and tailored, and they are easiest of nil to press! No. 1787 is un unusually pretty version, so easy to make that even beginners can do it. Inside pleats make your waistline small. Gathers give a nice round bustline. Make this of gingham, linen, pique or sharkskin, and trim it with lace or braid. Buttons to the Waistline. A new und delightfully different version of the button-frois No. 1790. It has buttons to the waist- nt 1790 line only. wide lap-ove- r, The skirt is cut with a and a pretty, circular swing. For this, choose gingham, percale, linen or pique, with snowy frills to make it the more 20-to- and becoming. 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Although the logical thing for the Republicans to do was to renominate William Howard Taft, who was just completing his term as President, there was an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the record which Taft had made in the White House. And there was repeated talk of 'Teddy' Roosevelt still a So magic name for the sessions dragged along while the delegates debated in their minds whether or not to renomi nate Taft. "While the convention marked time, I was approached by the late George W. Porter, a Chicago capitalist, who was a strong Roosevelt supporter. " 'Roosevelt is in Chicago,' he whispered to me. 'Could you get him into the convention unseen?' "My answer was: 'Of course! I'll put him on the front of the platform, right beside the chairman of the convention.' " 'What'll you charge?' Porter wanted to know. '"Hell's Bells!' I answered, 'You don't think I'd charge for giving those convention delegates the thrill of seeing Teddy, do vote-gettin- YES, Camels, with of I'ulf aacdileu finer, i.:".rc expensive rniokin; and a lot more of it in eve? pacL Recent tobaccos, mean luxury impartial laboratory 15 of the largcst-fdli- r of brands show: coir.r-arison- s CAMELS were ruvj to contain MORE TOBACCO EV VEIGHT !5 ct!:er of than the average for 1 the ;'; braaJi. largest-sellin- g id CAMELS BUR! slower THAN ANY OI iit.r b2and SV. we?.. 25 TESTED THE AVERAGE TK :i cf is OTHER OF THE U w J A ING BRANDS I Ty 25ro slower, on the ayera; ; Game's pivc smokers the equivale. cf 5 EXTXA SMOKES PER PAC r 2 t:ln the lag In die same tests, f .1' in.S I IVLT) THEIR ASH r.'.H LOSCEZ than the average tii::? far a'.I tha other brands. Try Camels. Enjoy the cocLr, rni'iir Camel;... smoking of for VinAmerica's No. 1 cisr.-tfiIong-bur..:- n e son and Economy. cosjuEwnmtcQS hore Pleasure , tv Fuff- - g. Charles R. Ilall, veteran manager of the Coliseum, looks over the official badges of some of the national nominating conventions held in that building. He is wearing a scarfpin presented to him by Theodore Roosevelt after the National Progressive convention in 1912. you?' "But the very next day I found ers' met in the Coliseum and out that news of our 'plot' had nominated Roosevelt and Sen. Hileaked out. The sergeant-at-arm- s ram Johnson of California as of the convention ordered me to their candidates on the Progresstretch rolls of barbed wire along sive party ticket. In addition to contributing this the footlights in front of the to item speaker's platform. I guess they thought we were going to have American political history, the Teddy planted on the floor of veteran manager of the Coliseum the convention, start a demon- is also an authority on another stration and then rush him up story which links this building the center aisle and on to the with another historic structure. That was the famous Libby prisplatform. "They didn't know that their on in Richmond, Va., of Civil barbed wire wouldn't have war days which was moved to stopped 'T. R.' if we had gone Chicago, piece by piece, 50 years through with our plan. I was go- ago, and rebuilt on the present ing to admit him through a secret site of the Coliseum. outer door, rush him into a tunnel During the Civil war Libby was entrance a few feet away and then known as the "Palace Prison of through the tunnel and up a short the Confederacy" where 40,000 d" stone wall which was its "front" still faces on Wabash avenue. Relics in the museum became scattered, some of them being given to the Chicago Historical society where they are still preserved. "Bricks of the prison were distributed to G. A. R. posts throughout the country and some of them were sold for a dollar apiece," Mr. Hall recalls. "But even in recent years, when we excavated to provide a pool for the diving horse of a circus or for other purposes, some of those old bricks from Libby prison came to light The floors and other fea tures of the Coliseum have been altered dozens of times to meet the needs of special events. But flight of steps. When he hit the Union soldiers, most of them offi- one distinctive feature remains The main unchanged. Our outside walls. top step, he would have been be- cers, were confined. hind their barbed wire, directly prison was originally a tobacco with their turrets and observa tion posts, today are exactly as made of facing every delegate in the warehouse, bricks which were brought to this they were when they surrounded building. "If he had done t:at, it would country from England. While the transplanted historic Libby have stampeded thu delegates," plans for the Chicago World's fair prison." 13-in- COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT between those who had served overseas and those who had not as the desire to serve was what counted. The second, that the Legion was to be a democratic in which there organization, should be no question of rank, and privates would get a full chance to tell the generals what they thought of them. Third and last, the organization should concern itself with policies, not with partisan politics. Next an organization committee was appointed. Eric Fisher Wood was named secretary, Bennett Clark, today senator from Missouri, vice chairman, and I, chairman. "We decided to hold two meet ings, one in Paris and the other practically simultaneously in the United States. Bennett Clark, Eric Wood and a number of others took the responsibility for the Paris caucus. I had been ordered home, and agreed to arrange the caucus at home. "The Paris meeting went off in splendid shape. Everyone was interested and enthusiastic. All units were represented, and privates as well as generals were delegates. Incidentally, there was no trouble in getting delegates to go. Paris was a lodestone. This group adopted the name, American Legion. The name had been used by my father before the war, when he formed a group of Americans who had experience which qualified them to serve in the army in case of need. "Meanwhile, I returned to this country, and with some other veterans, arranged for a caucus. We rented an office in New York city and got in touch with men in every state, asking them to organize the soldiers and sailors in their community, elect delegates and come to St. Lsuis on May 8, 1919. "The first order of business was the election of a permanent chairman. We selected Col. Henry D. Lindsley of Texas, a Southern Democrat, thereby giving the lie to those who said it was to be a Republican organization. Next, we confirmed the actions taken by the Paris caucus, such as the selection of the name, American Legion, and adopted a declaration of faith and a temporary constitution. We provided an organ ization to carry on until the fall. when the first real convention was called in Minneapolis. There representatives of both Paris and St. Louis meetings would be, and the American Legion could take final form. "At Minneapolis on November 10 our convention assembled. We elected as commander Franklin K. D'OIier, of New Jersey, adopted a permanent constitution, a. id the Legion came into being. ' ce Jlsk Me Another A General Quiz Q The Questions What is the difference be tween an eclipse and an ellipse? 2. What is an ampersand? 3. Is black a color? 4. Does practice make perfect? 5. Which extends farther south. Texas or Florida? 6. What is the white part of the 1. eye called? The Answers Eclipse means to obscure, el lipse is a geometrical figure. 2. The symbol for the word "and," as follows: St. 3. No, black is the absence of color. 4. Possibly, if you are practicing the right way. 5. The most southern point of the United States is Cape Sable, Fla. 6. The choroid, which is seen through the conjunctiva, which is the transparent membrane over it. 1. DASH IN rfATHEsTv MUCH fUaTTHfES kWm JuM Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL 1MI Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE Oppodt HIGHLY i's Mormon Tcaip!a KECOJDIKN'DED Rjtej $1.50 to $3.00 to Ska ' S milk of distinction ar thif beautiful hoitclry KKXEST C. KOSSITKK. Kft. |