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| The Invincible Chinese? (Pathfinder Magazine, 1950) "Man, those Chinese are good soldiers... You can't see'em; you can't hear'em. You don't know they're there until they're on top of you... They're experts at camouflage and the best damn night-fighters I've ever seen. We could walk a company over the hill and see nothing. Then we'd look around and they'd be swarming on us like flies. It was just like they'd sprouted from the ground." |
| The Battle Over History 100 Years Ago (Pathfinder Magazine, 1926) What do you know: the same arguments existed in the 1920s, too... |
| Mexican Hatred of the United States (Literary Digest, 1912) This article was penned in 1912 by a Mexican editorial writer who shared his countryman's deep distrust of American motives and believed that the United States is the "natural enemy" of Mexico: "No other people can have less friendship for this hostile neighbor than the Mexicans." |
| ''God and Alcoholics'' (Liberty Magazine, 1939) "Somebody said The Lord's Prayer, and the meeting broke up. I walked three blocks to the subway station. Just as I was about to go down the stairs - BANG - It happened! I don't like that word miracle, but that's all I can call it. The lights in the street seemed to flare up. My feet seemed to leave the pavement. A kind of shiver went over me and I burst out crying...I haven't touched a drop since, and I've since set four other fellows on the same road." |
| ''Film Cannot Be Art'' (The Dial Magazine, 1927) In this article, a 1920s critic forthrightly states that the primitive state of movie cameras renders them unfit as capable tools with which art can be created. He expands on his remarks by pointing out that 1920s film technology generally will never be able to render thought-provoking plots or articulate narratives until some necessary advancements are made in the field. Another anti-silent film article can be read here... -an additional article from the 1920s defaming silent film can be read here... |
| Prohibition Era Prisons Filled with Women (American Legion Weekly, 1924) Four and a half years into Prohibition, journalist Jack O'Donnell reported that there were as many as 25,000 women who had run-afoul of the law in an effort to earn a quick buck working for bootleggers: "They range in age from six to sixty. They are recruited from all ranks and stations of life - from the slums of New York's lower East Side, exclusive homes of California, the pine clad hills of Tennessee, the wind-swept plains of Texas, the sacred precincts of exclusive Washington... Women in the bootleg game are becoming a great problem to law enforcement officials. Prohibition agents, state troopers and city police - gallant gentlemen all - hesitate to embarrass women by stopping their cars to inquire if they are carrying hooch. The bootleggers and smugglers are aware of this fact and take advantage of it." Verily, so numerous were these lush lassies - the Federal Government saw fit to construct a prison compound in which to incarcerate them; you can read about that here... |
| The Border Patrol (Collier's Magazine, 1940) This article lays out the many responsibilities and challenges that made up the day of a U.S. Border Patrol officer stationed along the Rio Grande in 1940: "In one month these rookies must try to absorb French and Spanish, immigration law, criminal law, naturalization, citizenship and expatriation law, fingerprinting, criminal investigation, first aid, firearms and the laws of the open country through which refugees are tracked down in the desert and forest." Click here to read a 1937 article about the illeagal immigrants who came through Ellis Island. |
| The Brutality of Combat (Pathfinder Magazine, 1944) "The shock of modern battle is so severe to nervous systems that the hair color of thousands of young men in the Pacific and European theaters of war has turned gray overnight."
Not surprisingly, the young men in question had no interest in resembling their grandfathers |
| The Great War and It's Influence on Feminine Fashion (Vanity Fair, 1918) The military influence on feminine fashion predates the conflict of 1914-1918 by a long shot and the evidence of this is undeniable. These 1918 fashion illustrations show the influence that the war was having on American designers during the final year of W.W. I. Click here to read about the fashion legacy of W.W. I... To read about one of the fashion legacies of W.W. II, click here... Click here to read about the origins of the T-shirt. |
| The Women's Overseas Corps (The Stars and Stripes, 1918) "Five thousand women are to be brought from the United States to be a part of the American Expeditionary Forces...The Women's Overseas Corps (WOCS) will consist of companies of 50 women each. The members of the WOC will be under soldierly discipline and wear uniforms...It is not expected that they will march in formation or observe the formalities of the salute." These women were recruited by Miss Elsie Gunther of the Labor Bureau in order to relieve the men posted to the Service of Supply of their clerical duties for service at the front; in light of the fact that the war ended six weeks later it is unlikely that the these women ever arrived. |
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