The American Legion Weekly (Volume 3, No. 25 (June 24, 1921)) (1921) (14768573871)

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Title: The American Legion Weekly (Volume 3, No. 25 (June 24, 1921))
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: American Legion. National Headquarters
Subjects: American Legion periodicals
Publisher: American Legion
Contributing Library: The American Legion National Headquarters Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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assenger. It sure is, answered the conductorproudly. Well, in that case would you mind mygetting off to see what it is fast to ? Unfair Advantage In conversation with Muriel, Myrtle con-fidentially announced that the engagementof their mutual friend Melissa to the youngminister was off. She told me he was awfully nice in manyways, went on Myrtle, but he was hor-ribly jealous and took undue advantage ofhis position. How was that? Well, every time she had an engagementto motor with some other man, he would pray for rain. Strength of Will The defendant, accused of stealing chick-ens, had been duly examined in court andat the conclusion the judge said: As I understand it, Sam, you enteredthe henhouse and then, deciding to resisttemptation, left it. Is that correct? ^Yassuh, Jedge. Dass about right. In that case, can you explain how twoof the hens were missing? It was jes dis way, Jedge. I took em.I reckoned I was entitled to dat many foleavin de res. JUNE 24, 1921 —in n pi ii a PAGF. 13
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Communication with Mars is unexpectedly established due to Slug-em-out Crashbo of the Pingleburg Pirates being fed a slow one with the bases full PAGE 4 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY Taking the Joy Out of Life for HerrBergdoll of Eberbach COMPARED with Philip Nolan, thefictional man without a country,Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is amoral Lilliputian, but it may be won-dered at this writing whether Bergdolldoes not feel some of the same emotionsthat overwhelmed the hero of EdwardEverett Hales classic story of Ameri-can patriotism. Even the callousedBergdoll must feel occasional twingesof remorse as the realization of nationalostracism grows upon him, as he be-holds the walls of the world closing inupon him in Eberbach, Germany, as hesounds the positiveness of the taboowhich his native land has erectedagainst him. One by one events have shaped them-selves against Americas championslacker and each new happening bringshim nearer to retribution and the out-stretched arm of Uncle Sam. As heconte