Argosy and Railroad Man's Magazine — page 183: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

oe RT eee ? a ~ . = 108 - 3-Book c By the Editor UST fifty-three years ago, that is to say, on April 6, 1866, at Decatur, Illinois, was formed an organization whose numbers are now pitifully few. Indeed, no longer does one hear at parades—as I did some twenty years ago—“ Oh, come, we needn’t wait any longer. It’s only the Grand Army of the Republic,” for someway, somehow, the sentiment attaching to those veterans of the Civil War as they filed past, rank after rank, in their faded blue uniforms, seemed to have flickered out. Is it true that, after all, republics ave ungrateful? There is now a movement on foot to create a body of American veterans of the world war, and thus perpetuate the memories of the greatest fight for high ideals that was ever waged: Will these, too, I wonder, be treated with the same contemptuous disdain as the years go by, and shall they have to wait until their numbers thin and there are only a handful of survivors to hobble along on November 11 to be greeted with the ringing cheers that are showered on the few blue- coated marchers in the Decoration Day parades of to-day? No men deserve more of their country than those who have risked their lives for it, and its gratitude should never die. a a oe We are all heirs of opportunity, but we are seldom among those present at the distribution of fortune’s favors—at least, that is the lot of che average man or woman. ‘‘A CLASH OF IDENTITIES” BY HARRY STEPHEN KEELER a three-part serial beginning in Tur Arcosy for April 12, features every quality to make a story interesting—suspense, characterization, problem. Ward Sharlow’s sixty- eight cents represented his entire worldly wealth—not-a particularly weighty sum with which to fight life’s battle, you’ll say, but—well, from the moment of his meeting with the mysterious Belzar events began to happen with the speed clutch thrown into high, and at the driving finish it was at last given to him to see himself as others saw him— to acquire and hold a treasure that was indeed gold even if it could not be measured in pounds, or rupees, for instance, or mohurs, or dollars and cents. Speed is the key-note of this engrossing yarn. oe & sao A prize-fight story that is ‘ different ’—that’s what I’m going to give you in next week’s Arcosy. And the title: “NOT ACCORDING TO QUEENSBURY ” BY GEORGE C. JENKS is only a faint indication of what is in store for you. Romance and chivalry remain with us even in these prosaic days of modern progress, and if you want a thrill of the good old-fashioned sort, yet with a surprising twist in its presentment, don’t fail to 525 Conmiclooolks.conn