A major who was present said: "We would turn his face to the wall and shoot him in the back." On April 28th Professor Black sailed for America on a three-months' vacation, a very inopportune time, as the Y work was in a chaotic state and his more than two hundred subalternate secretaries exposed to personal danger. General Treat, Commander of the American forces in Italy, after an investigation, ordered Saylor stripped of his uniform, and he was sent home. Before he left Italy he was made a Cavaliere. His friends among the Italian officers, who had repeatedly enjoyed the hospitality of his Fiat, dubbed him "Sir Knight of the Highway." He returned by way of France and attended the first convention of the American Legion in Paris. He returned on an American transport with several thousand soldiers. As he looked at these boys he thought of the vast horde returning and how in less than ten years they would rule the nation, and the idea of pushing prominently into the organization of the Legion took deeper root in his brain. Aboard the transport he did not recount his adventures on the battlefields of Italy. He was fearful some officer having knowledge that his uniform had been taken from him, or having private instructions from General Treat, might question the value of his services in the determination of the World War. But when he reached Kentucky it would be a different proposition; he would be a rooster on his own dunghill. He remained a few days in New York and so managed as to make himself conspicuous as one of the founders of the Legion. When he reached home he was a zealous advocate against the League of Nations, and declared himself a political maverick until that issue was settled. It seemed to have been settled when he arrived at the conclusion that Morrow, the Republican candidate, would be elected Governor. Then he found time to discontinue his series of lectures on "Italy in the War" and stumped the Eighth District for Morrow--all the while having his eye on John Calhoun's tomorrow. One of his most interesting lectures was "Personal Experiences at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto," an extract from which follows: "* * * I have heard and seen enough to know that it is to be the final great effort and to commence on October 24th, commemorative of the anniversary, and to wipe out the stain, of the Italian defeat at Caparetto. "For more than a month I have heard the monotonous, familiar, easily distinguished, never-to-be-forgotten sound of preparation--of the tramp of the feet of thousands of men and mules; of the rumble of the wheels of countless moving vans, guns and wagons going back and forth in apparent utter confusion from Tonale and Aprica passes down the valley from Edelo to new assignments, necessary in the organization of the attacking army of nearly a million men.