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2 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 The old lady
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An old lady living near Henderson. N. Y. in 1859 was shocked at the way the four men had arrived — and said so. Such sensi- ble-looking men in such an outlandish vehicle! But John Wise and his crew, perched up in a tree, were far too happy to listen. Caught by a storm, their aerial balloon had almost plunged beneath the angry waves of Lake Ontario. Then, after bouncing ashore, they had crashed wildly through a mile of tree-tops before stopping in one. Now, his poise regained, Wise stood up to proclaim: "Thus ends the greatest balloon voyage ever made." He had come 1200 miles from St. Louis in 19 hours, setting a record un- broken for 60 years. He had also proved his long-held theory of an earth-circling, west -east air current — and that was far more important to him. For Wise was no carnival balloonist. He was a pioneer scientist of the air, a man whose inquiring mind and courageous spirit helped start the vast forward march of American aviation. In America's ability to produce such men as John Wise lies the secret of her real wealth.
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The U.S. Government does not pay for this advertisement. It is donated Plan where you work. And hold on to them. by this publication in cooperation n ilh the Advertising Council and the Magazine Publishers oj America, fered for sale. Among them are 18 EARN MORE MONEY pigeons which gained fame by saving lives. The Signal Corps hopes these will find special homes in zoos. Is the
U.S. Army getting so poor that it can't keep a few pigeons, for the very- few years they have to live? In the same paper that told of the pigeons was a story that the U.S. was giving a
"Huge Fund to Britain." It is well and
good to help other countries, but I say let's have some of the help here at home first. Russell E. Culp Kansas City, Kans.
Astound your boss, your HOW TO... customers, your friends tvith a Sir: I am a member of the best little BETTER MEMORY Post in the Legion, Oliver Ashton Post 343, Northbridge, Mass. We are in a drive for new members and are AMAZING NEW METHOD doing fine because we are going from OF MEMORY TRAINING house to house to get them. I have proven to my Post that new members now available to you FOREIGN PRISONS FOR Gl's are right at our door. A great many right in your own home Sir: Until reading CtHigressman Frank boys to whom I have talked were sur- Here are just a few examples of what T. Bow's "We Learned About Jap prised at what The American Legion this surprisingly will easy course help Prisons from the Inside," I was strong- means to them and their families. you do A ly compelled to feel that The Ameri- • Recognize people long after you great many did not know the real meet them and remember their can Legion was being sonie\\'hat pas- work we are doing. Some even told names. sive about those nefarious sci^aps of me that they had not been asked to • Remember telephone numbers, dates parchment commonly known as the and figures without looking them join. If we are to increase our mem- up twice. Status of Forces Agreements. As you bership we must get out and be a • Remember every magazine or news- probably know, these agreements are "blabbermouth." When it comes to paper article you wish to keep in championed by the exponents of the mind. the Legion I can be the biggest "blab- liberal left, inasmuch as these vicious, • Remember the wishes and even the bermouth" in my home town. habits of your customers, friends or unconstitutional agreements are inti- Joseph A. Moussette employers. mately tied up with the concept of Northbridge, Mass. • Feel at ease and so- self-confident Brother cially and in public. One Worldism and the Big Era of 1984. I sincerely hope that through the efforts of such patriots as ENCOURAGEMENT DR. BRUNO FURST Bow, Dean Clarence Congressman Sir: Thank you for publishing my let- proves that any Manion, Senator Jenner, ct al., the ter about our son missing in Korea. average person can American people finally recognize We have heard from Legion members achieve tremendous the extreme dangers and injustices of meyyiory from all parts of the U.S.A. and from these agreements and demand their improvement. one soldier in Germany. The soldier I that revocation forthwith. might add in Germany was in prison with our I grateful that American Member, National am most The son in North Korea in June, 1953. Study Home Council Legion passed a resolution against this This is the first word we have had New York, N. Y. Licensed by the dastardly scheme at the 1956 National and World-wide State of New York from a prisoner who actually saw him Branches Convention. and talked with him in prison. This Regardless of your age or education Robert W. Van de Walle is very encouraging to us as we have . . . no matter how poor your memory Culver City, Calif. is now . . . the Dr. Bruno Furst Course never given up hope of seeing him in Memory and Concentration will help again. If the communists have not you improve your memory until your Sir: The article about foreign prisons family and friends will say it's almost killed him since then, he must be held not being for our should concern miraculous. The subject of feature ar- GLs somewhere. If there are others who ticles in such national magazines as every GI who served on foreign soil. Reader's Digest, Mechanix Illustrated may have seen our son we'd appreciate and many, many others, this amazing I believe The American Legion man- hearing from them. course is sent to you by mail. The cost date adopted at the Los Angeles Con- R. H. Shaddick is small, the benefits so great, you simply can't afford to suffer the earn- vention should be strictly adhered to. Coral Gables, Via. ings loss that goes with a poor memory Constitutional rights should be given any longer. Write today for full de- back to every as in II. tails. There is no obligation whatsoever GI World War and no salesman will call. The NATO Status of Forces Agree- LOVE RUSSIA ment should be abolished as soon as send for descriptive Sir: As a veteran of \A'\\'II, and a possible. Also, the names of the 19 spectator at the compulsory films we memory booklet now! members of the House Foreign Af- FREE had to attend then, namely Why ll'f fairs Committee who voted against re- DR. BRUNO FURST COURSE Fight, I often wonder who edited porting H.J. Res. 309, should be IN MEMORY and CONCENTRATION them. Looking back, never did I see 1B-2 published in the next issue of The Dept. anything that had more "love Russia," 365 West End Ave., New York 24, N. Y. A)iierican Legion Magazine for any than those films put out by the War Please send me Free Booklet with com- C()ming elections. plete details on how I can improve my Department. However, that seemed to memory and powers of concentration in Jack Holmes be the style in those days. the privacy of my own home. Rocks, Pa. McKees L. Carter Arlington, Mass. NAME NOTHING FOR THE BIRDS
ADDRESS Sir: The Army recently announceil ADVICE IGNORED that the last of its thousands of mes- CITY STATE sage-carrying pigeons wouKl be of- Sir: In > our Newsletter and in all the
4 • TIIF. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 current newspapers the theme "what should we do, wliat should we have I Til ere cjoes that call again. . . done" is of course paramount. But 4^^^, ringing in my ears is a speech I heard llutt friendly, cheerful call again delivered b>' Herbert Hoover in 1941 in which he begged with all his heart for the President and Congress to al- low Stalin and Hitler to expend them- selves on each other. And he foretold Mabel... our present trouble with Russia, ex- ^ actly as it is, if we insisted on building her up to a first-class power. I had thought he was one of those "isola- tionists," but he was a true patriot, and is today. Philip F. Deaver, M.D. Blacic Tuscola, III.
WANT MATCH COVERS?
Sir: I have been saving match covers for some time and have nearl)^ a bushel Label basketful from all parts of tlie coun- try. I do not intend to sa\ c them any longer; so I thought I would like to The give them to some veteran who is mak- premium beer ing a collection of them.
J. Y. Webtr at the Falls Church, Va. popular price
DISSENT
Sir: I am writing you in regard to an article "So You Want to Write a Have you tried Carting Black Label Beer? Song," by George H. Waltz Jr., which It's a pleasure to drink . . . and it's appeared in your January issue. I do priced for your pleasure, too. Next time not like the insinuation that every you buy, give Black Label a try. The best breivs in the world come from CARLING music composer and arranger who charges a fee for his services is to be CARLINQ BREWING CO., Cleveland, O., St. Louis, Mo., Belleville, III., Natick, Mass. considered a crook. I compose and ar- range music as a part-time profession, but I do not claim to make anyone a million dollars or to have their songs published or printed. For my services ajiTo-fn HOMES CUT buiidwo costs
I charge a reasonable fee. I do, how- Build your own home and save house complete with all lumber, ever, agree with Mr. Waltz to the the builders' profit — plus savings roofing, nails, glass, hardware, in lumber and labor with Sterling paint, doors and windows, marked extent that misleading advertising by Ready -Cut - Homes. Anyone can ready to ere«. Freight paid. song sharks makes it look as though assemble with simple, easy to Complete building plans ready for follow plans furnished. Every filing at low cost. Sold separately all music composers who charge a fee if desired. Write today! for their services are in the crooked ORDER NOW category. Donald R. Olby SAVE UP TO Alilivaitkee, Wis. PRICED FROM $2150 Five Easy THANKS _Poyment Plans Send 35c for NEW INTERNATIONAL MILL AND TIMBER CO. Sir: The boys at the Veterans Hos- COLOR CATALOG DEPT. AL-37 BAY CITY, MICHIGAN pitals throughout the U.S. certainly appreciate the beautiful Christmas presents they receive each year from
The American Legion. I think I am speaking for the entire VA patients IWnCUMIHAnNGArHOME! group when I say thank you so mucli Get ORDERS and CASH from your mail- for the beautiful gifts. Boys here each man—do work in SPARE TIME ot home received this year a beautiful pen and -—or expand into FULL TIME business. Send coupon for Free facts about pencil set and a warm woolen cap. the newest and most fascinattne of all home operated businesses. For canvassing — no selling. We even supply the cir- May God bless you well. the first time a simplified machine culars you mail to bring baclc cash and orders. t)rinfrs fabulous John G. Leon the profits of Plastic Don't waste a minute. Rush your name. We'll Soaling and Plastic Laminating send you FREE anChicago 26, Ml.
Sir: I want to add my protest to the many Make lliousands of Beautiful Art Creations WARNER ELECTRIC CO., 1512 Jorvis Av. you must receive at the release Dept. Chicago III. COSTUME JEWELRY • CIGARETTE BOXES L-22-C 26, cost please rush complete of the notorious . . . is takiiii: t.{ TRAY S « CANDLESTICKS • At no to me. murderer of our sol- ••ui COASTERS, under the machine a Plastic aKl LAMP BASES « BOOK ENDS. ..ALL IN details postage prepaid. I am diers in the Alalmedy /Massacre in SfaliiiK Job — ordered flB^SPARKLING COLORED PLASTIC no oblit^ation. by mail—only 11c in 1944, nazi Col. Joachim Peipcr. material c"St brings He bacit $2.58 in cash by mail. Capacity Address » should have been hanged with other machine: $25.00of profit per hour of City Jk>ne State... f Continued on page 26) operation. .J
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • g EDITOR'S
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POLITICAL DIVERSION FOR EIGHT years the taxpayers of New York State have been digging down deep to pay for a bonus for vet- erans of World War II. They've been paying an extra 10 percent on their State Income Tax, which in the Empire State
is considerable, and they've also been paying an extra penny tax on every pack of cigarettes they've smoked. Unfortunately, much of this money isn't going to veterans. A recent article in the New York World Telegram and Sun pointed out that almost a third of the taxes obtained under the pretense of helping veterans has been diverted to
other purposes. And the diversion is be- ing increased rapidly because the pay- ments to vets are down to a trickle. As an indication of where the veterans' bonus money is going, a Department of Audit and Control report shows that as of the end of October a $153,900,000 "surplus" "Telephones are ubiquitous?" had been diverted to other things. While the State's record budget re-
quires all the tax millions it can get, it's "Yes, telephones are ubiquitous" hardly fair to continue to collect money from taxpayers under the subterfuge that it's going to help deserving veterans.
PERSECUTEES
Robert Day, the well-known tions! At airports, bus depots and MILLIONS of words have been writ- ten—at so much a word—proving cartoonist picture, who drew this railroad stations! Out-of-doors! beyond pcradventure that fascist beasts was a little afraid there might be and superpatriots have persecuted and Throughout the country, there hounded a lot of fine people just because some people who wouldn't know are hundreds of thousands of these these fine people don't hate communism. what meant by ubiquitous. "It's Still, even though man\' renowned au- wc public telephones handy. thors promote this propaganda, the phoni- a pretty big word," he said. So the next time something ness of their cries of persecution is evident to anyone who reads the papers. "Don't worry," we told him. comes up when you're away from Look what happened the week before "We'll just put in a little reminder home or the office, or there's some Christmas. In the papers we read big an- nouncements proclaiming that Hallmark, that the dictionary says ubiquitous news you'd like to share with some- a manufacturer of greeting cards, was means 'existing or being every- one, just step up to one of those splurging on a big TV^ production of Lil- " lian Hellman's The Little Foxes. This de- where at the same time.' nearby telephones and call. pressing play about a vicious, hateful There's surely no better way to You can save yourself a lot of family seemed an odd choice for a holi- day honoring the Holy Family, and there describe telephones! They're not running around, be a number of were many who wondered why Hallmark only in millions of homes and places in a few minutes, and get was willing to sponsor a Hellman crea- tion. Lillian Hellman has had quite a rec- offices but just about everywhere things settled while they are fresh ord of commie front affiliations, but ob- you go. In stores and at gas sta- in your mind. viously that doesn't seem to keep her from making a handsome living. In fact, when her play about nasty people was Working foge/her fo bring people together on the airwaves she was taking in quite BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM a few additional American dollars with a new theatrical offering, Candide, writ-
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ceil by Hcllrnan with an assist from V'oltaire. Another Broadway opening, Good WoiihV] of Setziiaii, starred two more notewortliy characters, Uta Hagcn and Zero iMostei, both of whom liave com- piled lengthy records as joiners of organi- zations officially cited as communist fronts. Incidentally, their vehicle, glori- fying a prostitute, was written by Bertolt Brecht, winner of a Stalin Peace Prize.
In the field of motion pictures, the lioly Christmas season was ushered in with a grand opening in New York of an opus called Baby Doll, described by Time as "just possibly the dirtiest Ameri- can-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." Other reviewers
discussed its degeneracy, depravity, and bad taste; and responsible film leaders de- plored its release b>' Warner Brothers. By some sort of coincidence, or happen- stance, the producer, Elia Kazan, used to be a communist. Despite all this, the lavish opening of the smutt>- film was graced by a number of distinguished personali- ties, presumably parading their liberalism, including several clergymen...... Turning to literature, one of the sea- More and more and more son's offerings was another book of poems ECHO SPRING answers the call compiled by Louis Untcrmeyer, whose collections of other peoples' poetr\' have for truly smooth made a lot of money for him o\ er the years. In addition to collecting poems to Kentucky Straight Bourbon sell, Louis has also collected a lengthy finer ever came Bourbons. For a record of commie front affiliations, but No bourbon Kentucky out of Kentucky. And yet truly smooth bourbon call for this doesn't hurt the sale of Untermeyer Echo Spring comes to you at Echo Spring again. ..and anthologies. a price lower than most other again ...and again. Soon Alger Hiss will join the literati
STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. . . 86 PROOF. . . ECHO SPRING DISTILLING COMPANY. LOUISVILLE. KY. with a book which Knopf is graciously publishing. Both Knopf and Hiss should make a pile of money on this venture, and they'll be aided b>' Alger's many Bass Fishermen will friends w ho will bu>- and boost the book to a fare-thee-well. And, the theater and related media being what they are, we Say I'm Crazy . • may expect to find Alger's "I wuz robbed" bleat being turned into a Broadway pro- until they try duction, a film epic, and a TV spectacu- lar—with sponsors waiting in line. my method!
trial, if IT'S ONLY YOUR MONEY But, after an honest you're at all like the other men to whom I've SINCE WE'LL soon be making out our income tax returns, we were ex- told my strange plan, you'll guard it with your last breath. ceedingly interested in a proposal recent- Don't jump at conclusions. I'm not a manufacturer of and pull in ferocious big ones while they come home ly advanced by Americans for Demo- any fancy new lure. I have no reels or lines to sell. I'm empty handed. No special skill is required. The met hod a professional man and make a good living in my pro- is just as deadly in the hands of a novice as in the cratic Action, a Icftwing outfit which fession. But my all-absorbing hobby is fishing. And, hands of an old timer. My method will be disclosed only attempts to manipulate politics by manip- quite by accident, I'vediscovered how to go to waters to those men in each area who will give me their word that most fishermen say are fished out and come in of honor not to give the method to anyone else. ulating impressionable politicians. with a good catch of the biggest bass that you ever Send me your name. Let me tell you how you can saw. The savage old bass that got so big, because they This time the "experts" try out this deadly method of bringing in big bass from ADA have were to every ordinary fishing. "wise" way of your local waters. Let me tell you why I let you try cooked up an eight-point program w hich This METHOD is NOT spinning, trolling, casting, out my unusual method for the whole fishing season they'd like to sec Congress adopt. Most fly fishing, trot line fishing, set line fishing, hand line without risking a penny of your money. Send your fishing, live bait fishing, jugging, netting, trapping, name for details of my money-back trial offer. of it is the usual ADA stuff, but probably or seining. No live bait or prepared bait is used. You There is no charge for this information, now or at any the most revealing point concerns foreign can carry all of the equipment you need in one hand. other time. Just your name is all I need. But I guar- The whole method can be learned in twenty minutes antee that the information I send you will make you aid. Our handouts to foreign countries, — twenty minutes of fascinating reading. All the ex- a complete skeptic—until you decide to try my method! the ADA'ers say, should be administered tra equipment you need, you can buy locally at a cost And then, your own catches will fill you with disbelief. of less than a dollar. Yet with it, you can come in after Send your name, today. This will be fun. on the ability of the recipient country to an hour or two of the greatest excitement of your ERICA. FARE, Libertyville 7, Illinois use the money we give them, vot on U.S. life, with a stringer full. Not one or two miserable 12 or 14 inch over-sized keepers — but five or six real budgetary considerations. beauties with real poundage behind them. The kind . Eric A. Fare, Libertyville 7, Illinois ' that don't need a word of explanation of the profes- I Dear information Certainly no one can ever accuse the Mr. Fare: Send me complete | sional skill of the man who caught them. Absolutely without any charge and without the slightest ob- i legal, in I ADA of being America Firsters, and too— every state. ligation. Tell I learn method of ' j me how can your
This amazing method was developed by a little I catching big bass from waters many say are their generosit)' with j'our money is of | group of professional fishermen. 'Though they were ("fished out," even when the old timers are report- a high order indeed. But most regrettable public guides, they rarely divulged their method to their ing "No Luck." I patrons. They used it only when fishing for their own is the fact that their proposals to give I tables. It is possible that no man on your waters has Name away this countr>-'s substance to their ever seen It, ever heard of it, or ever used It. And I j when you have given it the first trial, you will be as friends overseas can usually find sympa- I Address j closed-raouthedasa man who has suddenly discovered thetic listeners among certain officials. a gold mine. Because with this I..... , „ . method you can fish with- City Zone State I in a hundred feet of the best fishermen in the county J THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • .
d new sensation in Cusliioned Comfort RNAPP 11 Information that will help you with your everyday problems.
If you're dreaming of building or buying a house this year, you're in luck so far as materials are concerned. They're in good supply. Money isn't. with anmiini Nevertheless, plenty of new homes will go up, and they will be bigger and better dwellings. Here's why: Hack 1. Family size is increasing. That means a demand for roomier houses— RIPPLE usually with three bedrooms and at least IV2 baths. Even if you don't need a house that size right now, it may be wise to build big enough to insure SOLES future resale value. 2. More and more Americans are thinking of their home as an invest- Style 302 ment—not just a cheap shelter. With our huge growth in population, a house Brown Boarded has lasting value—even pi'ofit possibilities. Calf Oxford The kind of dwelling most commonly built these days has about 1,300 5 fo 12 A to EE sq. ft. of floor area and costs $15,000. Merritt & Harris, New York consultants,
The ultimate in comfort and advance say that the way to calculate costs is $12 to $15 per sq. ft. of livable space styling! Original, Patented Knapp (this does not include basement, baths, or other space not regularly oc- Flexible Aerotred Construction plus cupied). If you want to figure still more exactly, use 60^ to 80( per cu. ft. amazing new Hack RIPPLE SOLES. On the other hand, if you're adding to an existing house, the costs cited Soft - resilient - completely different above are apt to be too low. That's because the job is smaller, and usually - they absorb heel shock . . . add spring to every step. Flexible "ripples" involves some demolition work to begin with.
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REPUBLIC OF PANAMA AT OUR
We may yet lose the Panama Canal, thanks to the internationalists. By MAURICE RIES
PANAMA CANAL is One of the four or five most THEvaluable possessions on earth — the most valuable possession of the United States. For our interoceanic waterway to fall into communist hands would be fatal. But don't think that can't happen. It almost did. Or per- haps you haven't heard how Alger Hiss, not only a high official of the U. S. Government but also a communist, tried in 1946 to give away the Panama Canal—plus Alaska, Spruille Dean Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Braden Acheson Puerto Rico? With a direct assist from Secretary of State As Assistant Secretary of State, S|>ruille Dean Acheson and the indirect help of President Truman, Braden tried to warn Secretary Acheson he came terrifyingly close to success. of Hiss's move to give the U.N. jurisdiction Hiss was checkmated for the moment, but international over our Canal. Acheson backed up Hiss. communism still is determined that we must put the Big warships allowed except for police pur- Ditch up for grabs. The Soviet Union's latest gambit has poses." been to use the Suez crisis as a lever: the U.S.S.R. has is the Truman's biographer, proposed that the Panama Canal, along with the Suez, That way Jonathan Daniels, quoted the former be "internationalized." And, as usual, the communist con- President half a dozen years ago. spiracy finds ready ears and servile tongues among our States, one-world liberals. The President of the United however unwittingly, had carried the What the Kremlin would control, it first is willing to long-range ball for the communist con- make everybody's business. "Internationalization" of our spiracy—even though the Truman-Daniels canal would be a long step toward accomplishing the aims of world communism. quotation concludes with the odd bit of information that "The Russians would Let's get this straight : the Panama Canal belongs to us. not agree." We foresaw its importance, dug it, paid for it, and, by the Nevertheless, the Kremlin has wanted terms of a treaty between the United States and the Re- (Continued on page 40) public of Panama, secured de facto sovereignty until the end of time. Any move to upset that treaty is strictly a Alger Hiss with the U.N. Charter he later two-nation affair. No other country has a right to get into tried to use as an instriunent to pry con- the act. Neither does the U.N. trol of the Panama Canal from the U.S.A. But this is a fact which seems to have escaped most liberals and even a Presi- dent of the United States. After the U.S.S.R. made its infamous proposal to "internationalize" our canal, Harry Tru- man grabbed the nearest newspaperman and wanted everybody to know this wasn't a Soviet idea at all; he had made the very same suggestion, and 11 years earlier than the communists had voiced it! Truman boasted that at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 he had pro- posed to internationalize just about all the world's really strategic passages for ships, including, by name, the Suez and the Panama Canals. "I suggested that the Rhine, the Dan- ube, the Black Sea straits, the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, the Straits of Gibraltar be made free waterways
for international traflfiic. . . . The
United Nations would make such President Theodore Roosevelt helj>cd dig the Our waning nfluence at Pai charges as to maintain them, but no Canal. "Teddy" recognized its importance. shown by this Hag-lowering
13 4. "Don't give up the ship."
that? Shown here are nine events in American history which evoked these famous fighting words. Can you describe the circumstances?
SEE PAGE 46
5. "Stand your ground. Don't iire unless fired upon; but if they mean to have war, let it begin here."
M RCHANTS
By TOM MAHONEY TYPHUS BROKE OUT along the Peru- Bolivia border in South America late in 1947. Scores were stricken. By December many had died, and the General Hospital at La Paz, Bolivia, was crowded with typhus sufferers. Gray-haired Dr. Eugene H. Payne then arrived by airplane from the United States with a new drug. There was only enough to treat 22 typhus pa-
tients. Four chosen, it was noted, "pre- sented signs and symptoms of probable death." Case 10 and four others "gave evidence of certain death." A death certificate, complete except for date, had been made out for Case 10, a man named Gregorio Zalles, and arrangements made for his burial. Zal- les, who had been in coma three days, was given an injection. Forty minutes later, he asked for water. In a few days he was well. The drug was Chloromyce- tin, the first of the broad spectrum anti-
thorities, and others. Dr. Hewitt admin- dle West are Eli Lilly & Co., Upjohn, istered Hetrazan to virtually all of the Abbott Laboratories, Mead Johnson, inhabitants. Soon 85 percent of them Wm. S. Merrell, G. D. Searle & Co., were free of filariasis, and it is on its and still others. Together they had sales way to being stamped out in the area. of $1,600,000,000 in 1955. Who were Dr. Payne and Dr. Hewitt The importance of the pharmaceuti-
who arrived so providentially? Did they cal industry, however, is that its multi- represent the World Health Organiza- farious new products literally add years One of the newest drugs, Releasin, tion or some philanthropic foundation? to your life and also life to your years. .saves babies who might he stillborn. Nothing of the sort. Both were research- No other industry spends such a big ers for American pharmaceutical manu- part of its income on research. This is biotics, so-called because they cure a facturers. Their dramatic adventures wide range of maladies for some of indicate the enterprise of the industry in re- which no remedy previously was known. cent years. More recently Dr. Redginal Hewitt, Dr. Hewitt has circled the globe for the a tropical disease expert, took a new Lederle Laboratories division of the American drug called Hetrazan to St. Croix, one Cyanamid Co. at Pearl River, N. Y. Though
of the Virgin Islands, where the inhabit- usually far from there. Dr. Payne is employed ants have been infected for generations by Parke, Davis & Co., of Detroit. with filariasis. This is an insidious dis- Similar companies in the East include ease transmitted by infected mosquitoes. Merck & Co., Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc.,
One form causes blindness. Another is Squibb, .Schering. Warner-Chilcott, National elephantiasis in which lower parts of Drug, Ciba, Smith, Kline & French, Wyeth, the body swell to huge proportions. Hoffmann-La Roche, Bristol Laboratories, With the help of his wife, school au- Burroughs Wellcome, and others. In the Mid-
16 You'll live longer because of what has
happened in pharmacy in recent years.
as high as 10 percent for some com- Lizard flesh, crocodile dung, and panies. No other industry has produced the blood of bats were among the so many products so rapidly — 60 per- remedies of the ancients. As they cent of the current drugs have been tried everything imaginable, it was available less than a decade. Nine-tenths inevitable that they should stumble of the prescriptions now written call for on quinine and a few other worth- these new drugs. while drugs, but development of More remarkable in a time of ad- an industry was slow. vancing costs, competition and advances Merck & Co., now of Rahway, in production methods have brought N. J., began in 1668 as a chemist's down the prices of these drugs at all shop "At the Sign of the Angel" levels. While the retail druggist receives in Darmstadt, Germany. Mass a third or more of every dollar you production of drugs started in spend for drugs, the markup on drugs 1671 when the Society of Apothe- is less than on appliances, bar drinks, caries of London established a books, flowers, furniture, jewelry, res- factory to supply the British Navy. taurant meals, shoes, and men's and America's industry began with a women's wear. Profits of stores selling "general laboratory" opened in only drugs dropped from 8.6 percent in 1778 at Carlisle, Pa., to furnish 1952 to 4.6 percent in 1955. And the medicines to Washington's army. druggist is the only retailer who must Various Philadelphia firms then invest years in professional training. began to make drugs, and in 1841 While the cost-of-living index ad- George K. Smith founded there vanced to an alltime high, prices of what became Smith, Kline & In 1849 immigrants broad spectrum antibiotics have dropped French. two Hormone therapy treatment for rheumatoid arthri- 65 percent since 1948. Penicillin, once from Wurttemburg started Pfizer tis has given Arthiu Sabatini a normal boy's lile. worth its weight in gold, and cortisone, which at first cost $200 a gram, have his Chicago kitchen, and in 1906 Dr. been reduced so sharply as to force Ernst J. Lederle, a former New York some makers out of business. Vitamins City health officer, founded Lederle are made by chemistry so cheaply that Laboratories to make an improved they are added to many foods without diphtheria antitoxin which helped cut the increasing the price. death rate from the strangling disease Most important, the new drugs save from 40.3 to 0.3 per 100,000. lives as well as money. Treatment of a These pioneer firms established stand- case of pneumonia used to cost around ards of strength and purity for drugs $1,000, and one patient out of three and sent expeditions abroad in search died. Thanks to antibiotics the expense' of medicinal herbs, but they lacked re- today is only $100, and the chances are sources for research. Some also suffered 25 to 1 in favor of recovery. Accidents from the scorn of the scientific world. are now a greater hazard to children Many medical schools barred faculty than germs. The new drugs plus a post- members from work with drug houses. war boom in births caused the 1950 In a novel written as recently as 1925, census takers to find 10,500,000 more Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. a bacteri- Americans alive than expected! ologist who joined a drug house was Achievements of this sort are new, Use of wonder drugs in Korea cut deaths termed "gone wrong" and "dead." but the drug business is centuries old. to all-time low in U.S. military history. In consequence, the industry advanced little, and many continued to agree with in Brooklyn; the firm is still located there. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in his belief Dr. Edward Robinson Squibb, a Navy sur- that only a few drugs were valuable and geon, resigned from the service in 1857 and "that if the whole materia medica . . . founded the firm that bears his name. The first could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, product was ether, and Dr. Squibb's eyelids it would be all the better for mankind— were burned away in an explosion of the anes- and all the worse for the fishes." thetic. Wyeth, Inc., and Parke-Davis began in Oddly enough, one of the first impor- the sixties. A little later Eli Lilly, a druggist and tant American drug contributions was Civil War colonel, founded his firm with $700 made by a Japanese. Dr. Jokichi Taka- cash after drought ruined his cotton plantation. mine, the chemist who gave the famous Dr. Wallace C. Abbott began to make drugs in cherry trees to Washington, D. C, iso- Safety tests on Salk |)oIio vaccine lated Adrenalin from the adrenal glands make possible quantity 2Jioduction. (Continued on page 52) By GEORGE LAYCOCK There's nothing wrong with cat- fish that catching them won't cure. You'll hear the angling purist talk of trout and bass and salmon, but the
fact is that the catfish is also one of the most sought-after fish in the country. If you can't travel long distances for trout, and bass are scarce in your neighbor- Catfishing hood or don't bite often enough to keep life interesting, don't give up fishing— at least not until you've tried catfishing. The catfish comes in several equally ugly but sporty varieties. Some of them can be are found in practically every part of lot ex- PUN the country. It doesn't take a of pensive equipment to get them nor a lifetime of know-how. It's true that he would never win a beauty contest, but Some sportsmen have the naive idea
it's not beauty you're after. Catfishing will give you a constant challenge to get out into the open and test your skill at that there's no fight in a "cat."
tricking him into biting — something Burble worked the monster blue cat in that's not always easy. closer to his boat. Then the fish saw
There are experts, men of long ex- Burble Knight, and that was all it took. perience, in catfishing just as there are The big cat turned his tail toward the in other types of fishing. And by follow- boat and went hellbent for the bottom ing a few of their tested ideas you'll of the lake, and even the 150-pound- bring home bigger strings of catfish and test line wouldn't hold him. | have more fun catching them. Knight still thinks Old Jim can | " The catfish is a tough customer. Some be caught. It'll take some special of them can survive drought for a time gear, something better than the * by burrowing in the mud. They've been regular gear the old catfish has | to revive after being frozen. One been tearing to pieces around that known | Build a campfire, put on a pot of Congo River species goes up to 700 end of the lake for some years.
ft coffee and fish the night away. pounds, and the South American elec- And Burble is working on that tric catfish generates enough voltage to gear. Meanwhile Old Jim grows stun a cow. Tales of monster catfish, like more famous, and another legend Old Jim, have become part of American is added to the American story. folklore. But don't be discouraged by AFTER YOU CATCH 'EM Old Jim lives in Kentucky Lake, and the fact that there aren't enough the best catfishermen on this big lake Most experienced catfish fanciers con- have been trying to bring him in out of Take along a variety of baits. sider the smaller ones the best eating. the wet. But Old Jim has thus far proved LAKE BAIT Some of the best catfish I ever ate were himself a match for all of them. One cooked in a Southern State. Here is how fisherman who came close to landing the they are prepared and cooked. big catfish—they're guessing his weight Choose catfish from six to 12 inches at a recordbreaking 200 pounds— is A. B. Black Roach long if possible. Skin them and clean "Burble" Knight, who is a husky 35- them. Wash the dressed fish in cold fishing guide Kentucky Lake water and let the excess water drain off. year-old on Then roll them in cornmeal and drop and a catfisherman of note. Knight has Soft ? them into a kettle or skillet of boiling landed many a large catfish, including crawfish fat or cooking oil. They come to the top one of 1 10 pounds. And now his sights when they're cooked and fried brown are set on Old Jim. on the outside. Then you scoop them Burble had him hooked not long ago out and let them drain. Serve them im- and he thought for a while he was tied mediately, with hush puppies. to a submarine. For three and a half Hush puppies, it is said, were named hours they wrestled and, bit by bit, when Southern slaves on clandestine fish fries in the dark of night would toss the dogs bits of dough, rolled and fried, and say, "Hush, puppy." You can make the Knead all these ingredients together and delicious hush puppies with 2 cups corn- form them into pones the size of golf meal, a teaspoon of finely chopped balls, then drop them into the same boil- onion, 2 teaspoons of baking power, one ing fat the fish were fried in. Leave cup of milk, and one teaspoon of salt. them there until they're brown. 18 ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARIA NONNAST
bullhead fishing are the cool nights of spring and early fall. But they'll bite all summer long. Bullheads begin to feed at
dusk and keep at it until daylight. This
is the fish that bring parties of fishermen out along the river on Saturday night. They build a campfire, put on a pot of cofTee, and fish the night away. Catfish have probably been taken in a bigger variety of ways than any other fish. Some of my catfishing friends still take them by a primitive process called "tickling." Their fishing tackle for this
adventure is nothing but bare hands. The time for "tickling" (where it's legal)
is in late spring when the catfish begin to spawn. They'll clear out a bed in the mud beneath a rock or log and there deposit from 2.000 to 10,000 eggs in a mass. Then the male catfish stays to guard the eggs and even the young for a while after they've hatched. While he's on the nest, the "ticklers" simply go into the river and feel around under the rocks with bare hands until they feel a catfish, then they capture him and throw him out on the bank. They get their hands bitten occasionally but seldom let such minor mishaps worry them.
Jug fishing (where it's legal) is an- other good catfishing method. Jug fisher- men tie a string to the handle of a jug or airtight can and dangle a hook and bait from the string. Then as the jug drifts down the river, the fisherman goes along in a boat and waits for a hooked fish to make the jug bob. Bank fishermen also use throw lines
Burble thought he was hooked to a submarine. catfish Hke Old Jim to go around. tail, and his head is small and narrow. There's a lot of fight in a two pounder The bullheads and the shovelhead cat- and there are plenty of two pounders, fish all have square tails. Most of the yes, and five and six pounders too. And "monster" catfish you hear of are catfish of this size can put up a real shovelheads or blue cats. Trotlines in the battle when you take them on light Mississippi and its tributaries often hook tackle. They're powerful and stubborn, shovelheads of 40 and 50 pounds and and more than once I've worried about bigger. the safety of my fishing gear when I You'll find the channel cat and the tied into a sizable catfish. The catfish is blue cat most plentiful in the Mississippi a fighter. Valley. The brown bullhead, also called The male catfish stays It's no trick to tell a catfish from the the pout, is caught in practically every around to guard the eggs. other fish you're likely to catch. Catfish State. He's at home in the slow-moving have no scales. They have broad heads, streams and the mud-bottom lakes. tied to a springy willow sapling which wide mouths with rows of small teeth, One of the beauties of catfishing is wears the hooked fish out and holds him and whiskers—which, incidentally, are that they'll thrive in water that's warmer for the fisherman's coming. But the best harmless. But they carry spines in their and muddier than that tolerated by most way to have fun catfishing is to use light dorsal and pectoral fins which can, and other fish, and much of the year this is tackle for them, a spinning rod, fly rod, often do, punch holes in the unwary the kind of water that many fishermen or even a good cane pole. Then it be- angler's hands. have to contend with. comes a contest between man and fish, The commonest catfish and the ones Catfish season in the Midwest comes and that's when you get the full measure most important to anglers are the chan- about the last of March and lasts until of sport for your effort. nel cats. The channel cat has a forked the last of October. The best times for (Continued on page 45) 19 arlboro
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TRACKING MADE EASY: "\Micn track- LOTS OF REACTION to the tip one of ALERTED BY THE Game Commission ing deer or other game on snowlcss, hard our readers mentioned of using the steel that natural foods will be in short supply ground," says Gordon L. Strobeck, 707 end of a shoelace to repair a sheared pin for forest game, sportsmen and farmers in the State are cooperating Short St., Irwin, Pa., "always keep tiie track on his outboard motor. G. C. Funk, Crivitz, of Pennsylvania between you and the sun so shadows will AVis., comments: "A simpler method would by building and stocking wild turkey feed- show up strongest to emphasize the track." have been to remt)vc the propeller, push ers in out-of-the-way forest localities. the sheared pin that remained in the dri\ c Numerous sportsmen's clubs, farmers, MOST OF THE States are stud> ing sug- siiaft out halfway, plug the other half \v ith and individuals have put out ear corn in gestions and recommendations that all deer rags, wood, or paper to prevent the pin feeders to supplement what natural foods seasons should be stretched and part of the from shifting. Replace the propeller and are a\ ailable. This service will be especially season opened to the shooting of "any be on your way." Ernest McGuire, 421 valuable in late winter when unseasonable deer" regardless of sex. It has been proven Allen St., New Bedford, Mass., sa>s, "On late freezes destroy the nut and wild cherry that deer populations ha\ e grown so large my first encounter with the problem of crops, retarding production of game foods. and so quickly that they are now over- being witiiout an extra shear pin, all I found PICK UP almost any newspaper tliese browsing, and thousands of them are dying it necessary to do was to reset the longer days and you'll read of the deaths of men of starvation during the w inter months. end of the broken pin and bring the nut up who have ventured on ice-covered ponds Game experts agree that hunters would be snug and run the motor slowly on my re- and lakes with heavy automobiles. Ice fish- doing deer herds a favor by thinning them turn. A pin seldom shears in the middle, ing is fun, but it is wise to know the ice out so that a natural balance would be once thus can be reset to shaft and one side of you are fishing, how long it has been more effected. prop, but I caution against speeding under frozen, how deep the water is, how thick this condition. Why not solve the whole the ice is, where the weak spots are, etc. thing by taping a couple of extra pins to the steering handle where you can always see them and know you have them before leaving shore?" AVilliam Overdeer, R. D. 15, Fort Wayne, Ind., solved his sheared pin accident this way: "We solved the problem b>' cutting the shanks from several long fish hooks," he says, "and inserting them in a bunch in THE MELVIN COWART Post #274, of place of the pin." Ingenious people, these Fort Alyers Beach, Fla., is sponsoi-ing a outboard men. WHAT'S YOUR GUESS as to America's Tarpon Fishing Tournament to be held top game bird? Duck? Pheasant? Quail? Apr. 1 to August 31, 1957. It's an annual MERLE E. PORTER, Blissficld, Alich., Wrong on all counts. It's the Mourning affair, held as a community service proiect has one for ice fishermen: "If your feet Dove. The year before last 19 million were to afford pleasure to vacationists. Prizes are don't keep warm and your boots slip on killed by hunters in 29 States. During the hefty. First: for the largest tarpon regis- ice or snow, just pull a large pair of socks same period only a little over 12 million tered during tourney, $600; second, S300; over your boots. This will not only keep ducks were bagged in the entire country. third, $150; and many other prizes. Anyone the cold out, but will take the grease out interested in entering this hook-and-line of that ice." PROBABLY SPEAKING of warmer contest or in any further details should Another sock tip Frank Mihalcik, from months, but a good tip nonetheless, Dick write Joe Friedcnthal, American I.cgion 6 Brown St., Ashley, Pa. "To keep wool Kilpatrick, of Ccrro Gordo, 111., passes this Tarpon F'ort Tournament, Ahers Beach, socks from bunching and misfitting in your on about dove shooting. "When the weather Fla. fishing or hunting boots, here is a simple is too warm for a game jacket or shell vest, solution," he says. "Put the wool socks on buy a nail apron and wear it to carry both THE ARMY IS testing a new rifle offered first, then pull on a pair of srretch\- nylons. doves and shells. It will hold the limit in b>- the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. The nylons will fit any size foot and will doves and all the shells you need." It's a lightweight automatic and has an keep tile heavy wool socks perfectly in aluminum barrel with a stainless steel liner. place. A'lakes those expensive wool socks "LAST FALL while I was deer hunting," The stock is made of fiber glass and plastic last longer too." says Dexter Lockwood of Summer St., foam. The rifle, called the ARIO, weighs Springfield, Vt., "I had to keep taking my
6.85 pounds. It has a 20-round clip and THE SECOND LARGEST manmade lake rifle apart and cleaning it because water fires 700 rounds per minute. in America (it's in \'irginia and Nortli kept getting between the stock and barrel,
Car{)lina), the John H. Kerr Reservoir, is causing it to rust. I found that I could pre- CLAUDE LARD, manager of the Aransas now open to public fishing. For a map and vent this from happening by taking a piece National W ildlife Refuge in Texas, reports complete information on this wonderful of beeswax, melting it and adding linseed
that an aerial survey shows that only 23 virgin body of water, write to James C. oil and letting it cool. When it is cool take
whooping cranes — including two young Cooper, vice chairman of the Kerr Reser- the paste and rub it in between the barrel ones — have returned to the refuge. Last voir Development Commission, Henderson, and stock. This not only will keej) the year there were 28 birds. Thus the whoop- N. C. It could be your big fishing ad\ en- water out but also makes a nice polish."
ers are only a breath awa>' from extinction. ture for 1957. (Contiviied on pafic 5) i
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 21 Ambassadors ^^^^ Bats
How sixteen American Legion Junior Baseball players scored
in Latin America for Uncle Sam. By IRVING HERSCHBEIN
EOR MANY YEARS our good neigh- bors to the South have been visited by hordes of high-powered press agents, cultural missions, planners, and persons and groups whose well- intentioned purpose was the bettering of relations between the United States and the republics of Central and South America. Needless to say, some of the results left much to be desired. Last fall The American Legion, with little fanfare, sent a small group on a month-long tour of six countries in the Caribbean area. The group very quickly succeeded in reaching the man in the street, and, as one American who has lived in Central America for more than ". 30 years said, . . did more to better VENEZUELA: The Ambassadors CANAL ZONE: Dick IVIontee, left, relations with the average person than line up before a statue of Simon and Merlin Nippert with a pytlion at anything I've seen in all my years in Bolivar, liberator of his country. the Army's Jungle ^Va^fa^e school. Central America."' The project was nothing more than tion of almost two year's planning on Brissie visited each of the countries one of the Legion's own programs pack- the part of Lou Brissie, American Legion in June to work out the details. When aged for export. A team of American Junior Baseball Commissioner. The he returned, each Legion Department in Legion Junior Baseball players toured U. S. State Department asked seven the U.S.A. was asked to recommend El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Ven- Latin American countries if they would four boys for the Ail-American Legion ezuela, Puerto Rico, and Cuba playing be interested in having a junior team team. They were to nominate an infield- local teams and holding baseball clinics visit their countries to play against their er, a pitcher, a catcher, and an outfielder for youngsters. teams and to hold baseball clinics. All on the basis of his scholarship, leader- The tour, which began on September responded enthusiastically to the sug- ship and citizenship qualities and ball 26th from Miami, Fla., was the culmina- gestion. playing ability. 22 —
Sixteen players were chosen — only one from a Department — and two coaches — Gil Archuleta, Albuquerque, N. Mex., and Pete Palumbo, Maple- wood, Mo. — and a team physician — Dr. Alfred J. Suraci, Washington, D. C. were selected to make up the contingent that would take Legion Junior Baseball south of the border. 1' The team got together for the first time on September 21 in Miami where they began daily workouts under the MIAMI: The Ambassadors board CANAL ZONE: Some of the team dur- direction of the coaches. The Ambas- their plane for the first leg ing tlieir tour of the Mirafiores Locks sadors, as they were nicknamed, were of the Latin American tour. on the Atlantic side of the Canal.
Ronald Peterson, Morris, 111.; Ronnie Spillers, Spencer, La.; Frank Carpin, Richmond, Va.; Earl Kennedy, Powell, Tenn.; Richard Montee, Billings. Mont.; William Strait, Concordia, Kans.; Walter Engle, Tucson, Ariz.; Merlin Nippert, Mangum, Okla.; Frank Davis, Miami, Fla.; Jerry Berg, Scappoose, Oreg.; George Wilhelm, Jr., Vineland, N. J.; William Roman, Detroit, Mich.; June Raines, Whitmire, S. C; Wallace EL SALVADOR: This was the EL SALVADOR: Gil Archuleta, Palmer, Portland. Maine; Jan Dawson, scene as a baseball booklet was Spanish-speaking coach, explains Buhl, Minn.; and Fred Walker, Dover, distributed to enthusiastic fans. a play during a baseball clinic. N. H. After the Ambassadors boarded Pan American Clipper Flight 505 on the morning of September 26, they received the first of many surprises they were to experience during their trip when Com- missioner Lou Brissie read them the telegram he had received the night be- fore from President Dwight D. Eisen- hower. The President said: "To the young men on The PANAMA: Lou Brissie, left, presents CANAL ZONE: The Ambassadors American Legion baseball team and an autographed ball to President have lunch in 350-year-old dun- to their coaches as they begin their de la Guardia during official visit. geon as guests of the U. S. Army.
goodwill tour of South America I send greetings. As representatives of the American people, I know you will enjoy the hospitality of the countries you visit and you will exhibit the highest standards of American sportsmanship both on and off the playing field. In so do- ing you will serve your country well in the cause of international CUBA: Lou Brissie accepts pennant from COLOMBIA: Dr. Suraci, right, accepts peace and understanding. manager of Havana Junior Baseball team. cup from Amateur Baseball Association. "Congratulations and best wishes for a great adventure." Dwight D. Eisenhower The first leg of the nearly 5,000-mile aerial tour went from Miami to San Sal- vador - capital of El Salvador - via Havana, Cuba. When they arrived in San Salvador, the Ambassadors were greeted by officials of that country and members of the American Society in whose homes the members of the team stayed.
Late in the afternoon of their first day in San Salvador the team conducted the first of a series of baseball clinics at the Estadio Nacional. An enthusiastic crowd of baseball fans was present as the Legion players and their coaches PUERTO RICO: Legion Ueparimcnt officials met the team on its arrival in Puerto Rico. demonstrated some of the finer points (Continued on page 48) 23 > > HEN YOU ARE Called on to make I II II a speech — ^""^M, Does your heart drop to your stomach, wind itself into a tight coil, then skyrocket into your throat? Do butterflies flutter through your in- sides? Howe to Win Does your mouth get dry, tongue cleave to the roof, and voice become squeaky? Yes? Fine, that means you are per- APPLAUSE fectly normal!
Yes, it is natural to be scared when faced with having to make a speech, but it's still unpleasant. The best device for Anybody can make a speech, but this is controlling stage fright is confidence born of the inner knowledge that you have a well-prepared talk that should how you can make one that people will like. interest your audience. This confidence won't eliminate your nervousness, but- like oil on a choppy, turbulent sea— it By THOMAS F. STATON will smooth off the breakers of panic and permit you to talk like an intelli- gent, sensible person.
Preparing your talk so it will be a success isn't difficult if you remember one simple idea and plan your speech
in terms of it. This master key to pre- paring to talk will work for all the many situations in which you may have to of scouting. You'll want to concentrate speak—Legion Post meeting, the PTA, on those aspects of your subject which Sunday School class, garden club, civic will make your listeners believe that they club or what have you. The reason it need scouting and scouting needs them. will work everywhere is that everywhere We'll talk later about ways of doing you speak you are talking to PEOPLE, this. Now we are only trying to pinpoint and this key unlocks the secret of catch- the purpose of your speech. ing and holding people's interest. What- Always figure out what is the exact ever the material you have to cover in purpose of your speech. Determine what your talk, if you plan it in terms of you want to use your speech for— to in- P-E-O-P-L-E, you'll be on the road to form, to persuade, to arouse interest, or becoming a successful public speaker. whatever. Having decided this, you are How do you prepare a talk in terms ready for the next step, where you start of PEOPLE? figuring ways and mean* Cf accomplish- Just follow this simple guide: ing your objective. 1. Pinpoint your purpose, first of all. 2. Examine your audience. What kind This is how your audience will The subject on which you are to talk of people are you going to be talking look it you don't take steps. is usually pretty well settled for you, to? Businessmen? Young matrons? since you are not being asked (presum- Parents? People interested in music, of group that will be listening to you. ably) to make a speech just because civic affairs, home beautification? Since 3. Orient your talk to their interests. your audience has a desperate yearning the only purpose of your talk is to pro- Here is the way to make sure you get to hear your voice. You have been asked duce some effect on them (which you off on the right foot in your speech. If to make a report on the results of the have already determined), at this point you have correctly diagnosed the com- charity drive, the need for a new com- you will want to answer the question, mon factor that brings your listeners munity house, or some other specific "What is the common bond or interest together as an audience, you can make a topic. But think beyond just "talking that brings these people together as a shrewd guess as to what they are inter- about" your subject and ask yourself, group? Their age, their marital status ested in. Let's consider a sample situa- "What do I hope will happen as a result and age combined, their occupation, tion. Suppose your assignment is to of my talk?" This is what you want your their recreational interests?" The answer speak to a PTA group about the need speech to accomplish, and you direct it to this question tells you the kind of for popular support of the upcoming toward that end. people you are talking to. If you stop citywide garden show. How do you Suppose you are to speak to your to think a minute, you will realize that know they are interested in your city's church circle on the need for more Boy your speech on the same subject, with having more entries in the show than
Scout troop leaders. The chances are exactly the same purpose behind it, have other cities of similar size in the your purpose is not really to tell them might be completely different for two United States? You don't. As a matter about this need; you really want to per- groups, because the people in those two of fact, you tell yourself grimly, you suade some of them to become troop groups are different. have an idea they couldn't care less. leaders. Your intent is to persuade, not Let's now move on to Step 3, in which What are they interested in then? Their inform. This makes a din"erence in what we consider what you do about it after children, of course! If you can talk to you say. You won't spend much time you have given some thought to the kind them convincingly on the relationship talking about such things as the history ILLUSTRATED BY KEN CLEMENTS between children's growing up with an 24 makes it much easier to understand. It's a good rule not to have more than half a dozen points. It's also good to state each point in a short, simple sen- tence. If you feel you can't get all your material under a few points, cut out some of the material. 5. Limit your material. Don't bog your listeners down in detail. Remem- ber how bored you have become as speakers droned on and on, filling the air with meaningless names and a hazy cloud of detail about which you com- prehend little and cared less? Don't make the same mistake. Ask yourself how little detail you can possibly get by with, then arbitrarily eliminate a third of that, group the rest under a few sim- ply stated points, and you'll be reason- ably safe. (To be even safer, eliminate half the details.) As a final admonition on this point,
here is one rule that I can guarantee will make you a popular speaker if you
follow it. BE BRIEF. It is not that people dislike hearing YOU speak; it's just that America today is a nation of people accustomed to 15-minute pro- grams and 30-second commercials. It appreciation of beauty and growing up as a whole, and at the end their listeners takes a good speaker to hold a group's in a city proud of its grounds and gar- have only a big, foggy mass of words interest for half an hour. (You will find dens, you will succeed because you are and ideas in a scrambled confusion. Or that you can't go into details if you are appealing to their interests. they have so many points it would take really brief.) In preparing a recent talk I was to a memory expert who is also fast at 6. Examples, and plenty of them. Put give to a civic club on human relations shorthand even to remember them, in plenty of real-life examples or humor- in business, I constructed and discarded much less relate them to each other and ous anecedotes related to your points. six outlines. The seventh I kept and the subject. Or they express their key You'll do well to spend as much time used successfully. The subject of all ideas or points in such long, rambling thinking up or digging up illusrations of sentences that they are obscured from the principal ideas your speeches as the listeners. of you spend researching their subject You have to cut a cake into pieces matter. before you can eat it very well. Similar- Even the presentation of a club's ly, unless your talk is mighty simple and financial statement can be brightened if short (hardly to be called a speech) it you start out with an anecdote— for ex- needs to be partitioned into slices, each ample—"For a while last night I thought
I was going to be in the situation of the bank cashier whose boss asked a fellow
worker, 'Where is Jones this afternoon?' and received the reply, 'He's gone to the
Pep up your remarks with some racetrack. He said it was his last chance wisdom available in books. to get his books in balance!' But you seven outlines was the same; the con- will be glad to learn that my error was tent was basically the same. It took me in reading as a three what was really a seven outlines to get one that dealt with hole punched by Junior's first tooth, and human relations in a manner that was everything finally balanced out right." oriented to successful, middle-aged busi- (Continued on page 47) nessmen. Talk about the history and development of the art of human rela- tions? Nope— all right for a teachers' meeting, but not for these Kitarians. A carefully prepared outline Human relations programs in the na- will keep your talk on the track. tion's big corporations? Possibly, but there aren't any big corporations in their one clear and simple, for your audience town. Human relations in terms of the to be able to take it in. Think how much small businessman, his employees, and more difficult this article would be to his customers? Aha! That's my orienta- grasp if it were not broken into sections, tion! Now to outline it that way. each one keynoted by a short summary- 4. Partition your material into a few type sentence. Now remember that you briefly worded ideas. cannot "paragraph" a speech as I have
Right here is where many speakers this article, but you can partition it into This is the kind of audience go astray. They talk about their subject homogeneous groups of ideas. That you can have — if you really try. 25 Products "Sound Parade ( Contimied from page 5)
What is it? Rakaid. war criminals. The American member What does it do? Spring-loaded bar strips sampling items which are in process of A of of rake of leaves with a light tap. the International Board, Spencer development or are coming on the market. Phenix, of Chocorua, N.H., who rec- Mention of products in no way constitutes an How much? $1.69. endorsement of them, since in most cases they Where available: Bonine & Co., 1408 Rol- ommended clemency, and any other are described as represented by manufacturers. lins Road, Toledo 12, Ohio. Americans involved should be brought back to this country immediately, thoroughly investigated, and never again be allowed any job on the Fed- eral payroll. His is evidently one of the worst appointments on record. Name Withheld Yonkers, N. Y.
Sir: Enclosed please find a clipping from a recent newspaper. It states that a war crimes parole board made up of one American, one Frenchman, and one Englishman, plus three West Ger-
mans has freed Col. J. Peiper, com- What is it? mander of the nazis who slew 142 What is it? Stamplift. E-Z Way Adapter. What does it do? with a quarter-inch American prisoners of in the What does it do? Separates stamps from Used war paper objects or each other. drill, it starts power mowers without use Bulge. This article is worded to give How much? $3.00. of pull rope. Not available for all makes. the impression that the U.S.A. was Check with manufacturer before order- Where available: General Designing Serv- powerless to stop his release. But who ing. ice, Box 167, San Francisco 1. set up the parole board in the first How much? $3.95. place? Kindhearted us, of course, or Where available: Norwood Sales, 2025 E. Main St., Columbus 5, Ohio. should I say softheaded? What would the nazis do to a U.S. soldier in the same position? Peiper served 12 years of a 35-year term. "Nuts."
Ray J. Peil Toixer, Mimi. The American Legion, through the voice of its National Commander, regis- tered strong protests both before and subsequent to the action, but to no avail. The Editors.
What is it? Rolleiflex 3.5G. What does it do? Permits even casual pho- NEHRU FAN tographers to get professional results by Sir: Because Nehru represents millions means of ingeniously coordinated con- of people and because Nehru has a trols. Has built-in exposure meter. Light What is it? Metal Woodworker's Vise. huge influence in Asia, Russia docs not Value Scale system, visual depth of focus What does it do? Holds material in hori- scale, etc. zontal or vertical position with L-shaped want Nehru to like America. America How much? $289.50. jaws. Portable, easily clamped for use. needs tiie friendship of this wise man. much? $4.75. Where available: Burleigh Brooks, Inc., 10 How I beg j our magazine and every maga- available: Stanley Tools, Brit- W. 46th St., New York City, and camera Where New zine in America to treat this great ain, Conn., and hardware and appliance dealers. statesman witli the respect and under- stores. standing that Nehru deserves. John Xinos Gillette, Wyo.
UNFAIR TO DOC HUTCHINS
Sir: You do not appear to be quite fair to Dr. Robert i\I. Hutchins and
his Fund for The Republic. I do not think that this Fund ever claimed to be The Fund for The Republic of the United States of America. Carl Shuster
Trenton, N. J, What is it? Relief Map of World. What is it? Twi-lite Safety Smoker. What does it do? Three-dimensional Bake- What does it do? Permits you to smoke in lite vinyl shows starting fire map physical features of bed without danger of a Letters published in Sound Off! do not land masses. from lighted cigarette. necessarily represent the policy of The How much? $47.50. How much? $3.50. American Legion. Name withheld if re- quested. Keep your letters short. Address: Where available: Aero Service available: Corp., 10 Where American Machine & Sound Off, The American Legion Maga- E. Courtland St., Philadelphia 20. Tool Co., Station B-Box, Dayton 7, Ohio. zine, 720 fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y.
26 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 : : : : : : : : :
LEGION DRAFTS WWl PENSION BILL AGAIN; details for applying now pending in legislature and applications The American Legion has drafted a WWI veterans expected to be ready about May 1 this year . . .
pension bill, in the exact form that HR7886 passed Applications when ready from American Legion Dep't of North Dakota, Box 1748, Fargo, Dak., or Adj't General's the House last year . . . New bill's number is HR4221. N.
Office, Fraine . Barracks, Bismarck, N. Dak. . . Ohio: WW2, * * * * yes, but expired. Korea, yes, final application date Jan. 1, SUMMARY OF WW2 AND KOREA 1959. For applications write American Legion of Ohio, Station
BONUSES IN ALL STATES t E, Box 6867, Columbus, Ohio or Bonus Commission, 293 "Newsletter" constantly receives queries for information E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio.
on State bonuses paid for both WW2 and Korea -period Oklahoma none . . . Oregon: WW2, yes but expired. But applications service. . . . Below is a state-by-state summary, based not closed for WW2 bonus if applicant proves on reports of American Legion Dep't Adjutants, showing he was hospitalized or out of the U.S. during expired filing whether or not a WW2 or Korea-period bonus was awarded, period. If so, contact: Director of Veterans Affairs, Stats Finance Bldg., and is still available. . . . Amounts, requirements for Salem, Oreg. Korea, no, but bill now in
eligibility and basis of payment vary, but in every instance, legislature . . . Rhode Island: WW2, yes but expired. Korea, residence in the State at the time of entering the Armed authorized at polls last Election Day, but method and forces, and for various periods of time before then, mechanics of payment not worked out yet.
is a necessity. Pennsylvania WW2, yes but expired. Korea, no, but bill
Alabama: none . . . Arizona: none . . . Arkansas: now in legislature . . . South Carolina : none . . . South
none . . . California: none . . . Colorado: none . . . Connecticut: Dakota WW2, yes, but expired. Korea, yes, but expired. WW2, yes but expired. Korea, yes, last date for applying Legislature now considering reopening Korea bonus. Inquiries
is July 1, 1957. Write: State Bonus Division, State Treasurer's on final action later in year to: South Dakota Veterans
Office, State Office Bldg., Hartford, Conn. Dep't, Pierre, S. Dak. . . . Tennessee: none . . . Texas: none.
Delaware: WW2, yes. Korea, yes. But both expired . . . Utah: none . . . Virginia: none . . . Vermont: WW2,
Florida: none . . . Georgia: none . . . Idaho: none . . . Illinois: yes. Korea, yes. No terminal date for applying for either. WW2, yes but expired. Korea, no, but bill now before Write: Office of Adj't General, State Office Bldg., Montpelier,
legislature . . . Indiana: WW2, yes. Korea, yes. But both Vt. . . . Washington: WW2, yes but expired. Korea, yes with
expired . . . Iowa: WW2, yes but expired. Korea yes, not yet Dec. 31, 1957 last date for applying. Write: Application
available, probably about July 1, 1957. Last date for Division, Division of Veterans' Compensation, Office of State
applying Dec. 31, 1960. When ready, about July 1 this year, Auditor, 114 Columbia St., Olympia, Wash. write WW2 Bonus Division, State House, Des Moines, Iowa. West Virginia: WW2, yes, but expired. Korea, yes, but
Kansas none . . . Kentucky: none . . . Louisiana: WW2, applications not available until about July 1, 1957 . . .
yes but expired. Korea, yes but expired . . . Maine: none . . . About then write: West Virginia Dep't of Veterans Affairs,
Maryland: none . . . Massachusetts: WW2, yes. Korea, Bonus Division, State Capitol, Charleston, W. Va. . . . yes. No application deadline for either. Write: Korean and Wisconsin: none . . . Wyoming: none. WW2 Bonus Division, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ^ ^ ^ ^ 15 Ashburton Place, Boston 8, Mass. Michigan: WW2, yes but expired. Korea, yes and will WHAT VETERANS PENSIONS ARE expire March 7 this year. Write: Adj't General Military Pay AVAILABLE?:
Section, . Box 1401, Lansing 4, Mich. . . Minnesota: WW2, If "Newsletter" gets plenty of queries about State bonuses expired. yes but Korea, no, but bill now before legislature . . . (see above), queries about pensions for living veterans are
Mississippi . . . none Missouri: none . . . Montana : WW2, as frequent in the daily mail. . . . There is no need here to go yes expired. but Korea, no, but bill now before legislature . . . into the precise details of eligibility for a veterans pension, Nebraska none, but state has Veterans Aid Fund to apply since any experienced American Legion service officer knows to and WWl, vets . . WW2 Korea or dependents in certain the fine points. . But it is evident from "Newsletter's" financial emergencies . . . Nevada: none. mail that many Legionnaires and other veterans are confused New Hampshire WW2, yes. Korea, yes. Both still open. about the essential facts of veterans pensions. . . . Following Pending bill proposes cut-off for applications for both on are essential facts:
July 1, 1958. Write: Adj't General, State Military Reservation, 1. There is no pension payable to vets of WWl, WW2 or
Concord, N.H. . . . New Jersey none . . . New Mexico: Korea on reaching a certain age, based on age alone. none . . . New York WW2, yes. No expiration date for 2. Pensions are payable to veterans of any age based on applying. Write N.Y. State Veterans Bonus Bureau, 1875 four conditions, the exact terms of which should be
North Broadway, Albany, N.Y. Korea, no, but bill in hopper discussed with a service officer. . . . The basic conditions: this year . . . North Carolina: none. (a) Total and permanent disability (after age 55, age counts North Dakota: WW2, yes but expired. Korea, yes, final in part in determining total and permanent disability.) . . .
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(b) Inability to pursue a "substantially gainful occupation" The wife of a retired worker will, if she elects to receive
due to the disability . . . (c) Limited other income . . . (d) benefits at age 62, receive monthly payments for life that
Adequate non-dishonorable military service (90 days with are 75% of what she would get if she waited until age 65. . . . part of it in wartime, less than 90 days if discharge was for If she starts receiving benefits at age 63, she gets 83>/2% of
service-incurred or service-aggravated disability.) the rate at 65. . . . If she starts at 64, she gets 91%%. 3. Veteran must meet all four conditions. A woman drawing benefits based on her own coverage 4. Pension payments may be deducted from Social as worker would get 80% of the rate for age 65, if she starts Security benefits paid for disability, but not from Social drawing benefits at age 62. ... If she starts at age 63, she Security benefits paid for retirement at age 65 (men) or 62 would get 86^3%. ... If she starts at age 64 she would get (women). 93"3%.
5. Amount of pensions: Basic rate $66.15 per month . . . Each woman has the right of election as to the age, past If veteran is 65 or has been in receipt of pension continuously 62, when she may receive benefits. for 10 years, rate is $78.75. ... If veteran is so helpless as ^ ^ to require constant aid and attendance of another person, rate VET BENEFITS NOT TAXABLE INCOME:
is $135.45 per month. That time is drawing near again. . . . 1956 Federal income
tax reports must be filed by Monday, April 15. . . . Vets are NEW SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS reminded that benefits paid by the VA need not be included RAISE SOME QUESTIONS: in statements of taxable income. * * * * Readers have asked "Newsletter" to clarify certain points HOUSE regarding the two basic changes in Social Security enacted NEW MAKEUP OF VETS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: last summer. . . . Questions revolve around (a) the law permitting women to draw Social Security benefits at age 62 Members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee in and (b) the restrictions governing the new proviso that the new Congress are as follows: permanently and totally disabled persons under Social Democrats: Olin E. Teague (Tex.), chmn: W. J. Bryan (S.C.); Elizabeth Kee (W. Va.) George S. Long Security may draw disability benefits after age 50. Dorn ; (Colo.); ; (Ala.) N. Aspinall By now, it's pretty well understood that those who (La.) Frank W. Boykin ; Wayne Christopher (Mo.); qualify for the new Social Security disability benefits after George A. Shuford (N.C.) ; George H. age 50 may have any other payment received from the Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (Mich.); B. F. Sisk (Calif.); James
Federal gov't based on disability (or state employees A. Haley (Fla.) ; Walter S. Baring* (Nev.); Basil L. compensation benefits) subtracted from the Social Security Whitener* (N.C). Republicans: Edith Nourse Rogers (Mass.); Bernard benefit. . . . This includes, of course, both compensation and W. Kearney (N.Y.); William H. Ayres (Ohio); E. Ross pensions paid to veterans. . . . We have commented here before on the dubious justice of this provision, here we deal Adair (Ind.); Paul A. Fino (N.Y.) ; Phil Weaver (Nebr.); with the fact. John P. Saylor* (Pa.); H. Allen Smith* (Calif.), and Florence P. Dwyer* (N.J.). Two questions have been asked repeatedly by readers. . . Question: Is the reduction based on other disability benefits Names followed by an asterisk are new members of the also applied to Social Security benefits drawn at age 65 Committee. Members of the Committee last year who are still in (62 for women) for retirement? . . . Answer: No. Question: If a person starts drawing disability Social the House but are no longer members of the Committee Security benefits before age 65 (62 for women), and has include veterans' pension or compensation benefits deducted from William H. Avery (R Kan.); James A. Byrne (D Pa.); them, will that deduction continue when one reaches the age Leo W. O'Brien (D N.Y.); Eugene Siler (R Ky.) ; Charles where he would be entitled to the payments as a retirement, M. Teague (R Calif.) ; and E. Keith Thomson (R Wyo.).
^ 'i' rather than disability, benefit? . . . Answer: No. ARMED FORCES MAY ABANDON FOGEYS; Women's benefits at 62 : The Congress provided last year MERIT: that a woman who is entitled to Social Security benefits at SEEK PAY SYSTEM RELATED TO age 65 could, if she wished, start drawing them at age 62 Armed Forces are planning to scuttle the "fogey" system of pay increases based on present grade and total length of instead. . . It was not the intent of Congress to increase the a new pay total amount paid to women, but to permit them to receive service. . . . Instead, will seek a changeover to plan for of Armed Forces based on time-in-grade benefits at an earlier age. . . . Many women have written members "Newsletter" questioning the fact that when they applied at and merit. age 62 for benefits they were offered a lesser monthly rate Legislation to start the changeover now being readied. of other of payment than they would have received had they elected . . . Any such change may require a reshuffling to wait until age 65 to receive them. legislation such as PL881, which pegs benefits for survivors Answer: Since the Congress did not intend to increase the of deceased servicemen to a scale related to the present total amount paid, it was necessary to reduce the monthly Armed Forces pay plan. rate of payment, otherwise all claimants would have received New pay thinking is based on studies of the so-called up to three years additional benefits. ... A woman who Cordiner Committee, headed by Ralph Cordiner, pres. of in Armed applies for benefits before age 65 will have her monthly benefit Gen. Electric. . . . Motive is to attract and hold the
reduced for life, on a scale related to the additional years Forces the growing number of needed technicians, who find over which she would be expected to draw benefits. better rewards for their skilled services in private industry Actually, there are two scales, one for women who receive and whose present pay is based solely on grade and length
benefits as the wives of retired workers and the other for of service, rather than on value of their skills. . . . Switchover women who receive benefits based on their own Social from long-established fogey system is contemplated in Security coverage as insured workers. gradual steps. 28 NEWS /^^^merican Legitwn and Veterans' Affairs
from Legionnaires into American Legion Huge Legion Europe Tour to and American Express Company offices across the nation, indicating that when Converge on Paris, Sept. 27 bookings begin soon, the 1957 Pilgrim- age may surpass the trek of 5,000 mem- Thousands of American Legion mem- late September and early October, will bers of Legion families across the At- bers and their families, and members of find nearly every important city in lantic in 1937. The American Legion Auxihary, touring Western Europe acting as simultaneous Starting in the early days of the
Europe at the invitation of West Euro- hosts to large parties of Legionnaires Legion, it was planned to revisit Europe pean nations, will be in Paris on Sept. and their families. on a large scale every ten years after 27 this year. For three full days (Sept. Tentative itineraries for the big 1917. The Nat'l Convention was held in 28, 29 and 30) the 4th decennial Ameri- Legion tour, ranging from 17 to 41 Paris in 1927, attended by 20,000. can Legion Pilgrimage to Europe will days, tailored to every taste and pocket- That was the only Nat'l Convention be fully concentrated in the French book, include in their points of call held abroad. The post-Convention Pil- capital, as touring Legionnaires, follow- Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, South- grimage of 5,000 to Europe in 1937 was ing upwards of a dozen different itiner- ampton, Plymouth, Le Havre, Cher- the largest non-Convention trans-At- aries, all converge on that city. bourg, Paris, Nice, Grenoble, Montreux, lantic visit. The big three day concentration in Killarney, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels, The third big tour, set for 1947, was Paris was one of many announcements Luxembourg, Rome, Venice, Florence, kept down in size by the inability of that emerged from a joint meeting of Genoa, Milan, Naples, Lugano, Lu- WW2-ravaged Europe to accommodate Legion, American E.xpress Co., steam- cerne, Lausanne, Interlaken, Zurich, a Legion-sized tour. ship and airline officials in New York Basle, Geneva, Berne, Cologne, Wies- So 1957 emerges as the first oppor- on Jan. 17-18, as planning for the huge baden, Baden-Baden, Heidelberg, Bonn, tunity for a full-fledged Legion pilgrim- 1957 "American Legion Pilgrimage for Frankfurt. Munich, Stockholm, Oslo, age since 1937, with The American Peace" to Europe moved into its final Copenhagen, Seville, Madrid, Cordoba, Legion tripled in size since then. stages. Algeciras and Gibraltar. Nearly all the necessary facts of the The convergence on Paris will be the Mere announcement of the big Euro- 1957 Pilgrimage emerged from the high point of a Pilgrimage which, for a pean Legion tour had already brought January meetings in New York, although period of from three to five weeks in thousands of queries for specific details details sufficient to begin accepting
PILGRIMAGE SCENES TWENTY YEARS AGO
Shown above are scenes from the Legion Pilgrimage to Eu- crossed ilic Atlantic. A visit to Belleau Wood battlefields, and rope in 1937, as 5,000 Legionnaires and family members official ceremonies in England, Italy and France are shown.
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 29 bookings were subject to a few weeks or numerous points of call, but all will THE LEGION AT WORK: dek^y, in order that the most advantage- converge on Paris Sept. 27-30 except ous prices and detailed itineraries coukl tho.se noted in (4) below. Vets in Gov't Jobs be worked out. 3. Departure dates for the main Pil- One of a series of thumbnail sketches Meanwhile, The American Express grimage will follow the Nat'l Conven- of littJe-known daily operations of The Company, official agent of the Pilgrim- tion in Atlantic City, leaving New York American Legion. age, had already received queries from during the period Sept. 17-20 if east- A small Legion staff in Washington, more than 2,600 interested Legion- bound by ship—and up to as late as working under the Legion's Nat'l Eco- naires, all of whom were earmarked for Sept. 26 if eastbound by air. nomic Commission, helps protect the personal notification of precise itinerar- 4. A few itineraries will be offered rights of veterans in government jobs ies and prices the moment the final de- for pre-Convention European tours in and of members of the Armed Forces tails are affirmed. mid-August and early September, for and their dependents to certain bene- Express ad- In January, the Company Legionnaires who wish a pilgrimage tour fits. The staff handles about 800 cases vised that all others interested in full but cannot make the later date of the a year, wins a goodly proportion, loses travel details as soon as they are avail- main Pilgrimage. some. able would also be registered for per- 5. Steamship travel on major trans- In one classic instance, by winning a sonal notification by theirnearest Ameri- Atlantic liners is available in three case for one warrant officer, the Legion can Express Company office if they classes: first, cabin and tourist. won it for all warrant officers and their loould mail a request for such notifica- 6. Trans-Atlantic air travel is avail- dependents. tion to: American Legion Pilgrimage able in two classes: first and tourist. The law in this case gave peacetime Committee, The American Express 7. Some air tours will be 17-day tours, "officers and enlisted men" and their Company, 65 Broadway, New York 9, giving benefit of special, reduced, dependents certain death and disability N. Y. round-trip 17-day air rates. benefits. What It Means 8. All itineraries offered will be es- The agency that handled the bene- The Pilgrimage is open only to mem- corted throughout Europe. They are fits denied them to all warrant officers bers of The American Legion and the one-price package tours including trans- and their dependents, claiming that Auxiliary, and their families. The tour portation throughout, hotels, meals, warrant officers are neither officers nor is undertaken at the official invitation of sightseeing, escort services, etc. (Din- enlisted men. many of the host nations, extended ex- ners in London and Paris not included, The Legion challenged this narrow pressly to The American Legion. for convenience of the tourists.) view in a test case before an appeals Both the Legion and the host nations board, and won the case. Thereafter, look upon the Pilgrimage as a tremend- 9. Side trips at the conclusion of tours can basis. so long as that law continued to apply ous good-will visit of that unique group be arranged on an individual to servicemen, all warrant officers and of American citizens who have person- 10. Rail travel in Europe will be first their dependents enjoyed its protection. ally taken part in world conflicts that class throughout. All hotels of good were the common experience of Europe class. Many of the cases handled for vet- and America. 11. Foreign exchange of money, han- erans by the Legion Economic Com- mission staff deal with the rights of That the 1957 journey is a peace and dling of mail, and other services will be good-will mission, with Legionnaires available throughout Europe through veterans in government jobs to death disability compensation the acting as unofficial American ambassa- American Express offices. and under Federal Employee's Compensation Act dors, and not a belated victory jamboree, 12. Local sightseeing and hotel-to- and with GI mortgages. However, most is highlighted by the fact that among station or hotel-to-airport transportation cases, and the most interesting ones, the nations extending its invitation to by motor coach. the deal with the rights of veterans to get touring Legionnaires is West Ger- 13. Final quotation of prices was not and hold government jobs under the many. available at presstime,but will be, simul- Veterans Preference Act. To Legionnaires, is the Pilgrimage taneously with notification of all appli- indeed Veterans have marked preferences in an important opportunity for cants of precise itineraries. For general getting gov't jobs and in being kept in person-to-person contacts with the information, the price range of the people of a lay-off, which Federal agencies must friendly nations in arduous dozen or so itineraries projected in mid- times—and more too. observe—and firings of veterans, based January is in the general neighborhood It is also a revisit of old battlefields on charges brought against them, must of $900 for the shortest to $1500 for not be capricious, unreasonable, or and shrines and a unique opportunity- the longest (minimum). afforded few Americans—to tour Europe falsely based. 14. Individual choice of mode of with thousands of friends from back Vicious crossing Atlantic and of class of travel home, as official guests of the host na- The viciousness in some agencies is chosen, and other individual preferences tions—and as citizens, not soldiers. appalling. In one case a gov't-employed will affect prices. To countless Legionnaires whose war \eteran chaplain with an in\'alid wife 15. The official travel agent will ad- service was in non-European theaters, was fired b\' his agency on charges that vise individually on passport details, etc. the Pilgrimage is also an opportunity to his denomination had withdrawn its see and know Europe and its people 16. Certification of Legion or Auxili- endorsement of him. The Legion got under auspices never available to the ary membership of head of a family his job back when it showed that agency independent traveler. party, by a Post or Unit official, is re- officials had gone out their way to co- Basic Facts quired before agent may make a Pil- erce improper persons in the denomina-
1. More than a dozen different itin- grimage booking. tion to withdraw sanction of the chap- eraries will be offered. Each of them 17. All Pilgrimage members will be lain, simply to provide a "legitimate" will be part of the official Pilgrimage. officially registered, and registration in- excuse for firing him.
2. They will be of difterent durations, cludes a Pilgrimage fee for group insur- Whene\er there is evidence that a offering individual choices of long or ance, registration, official tour certificate Federal agency has failed to hire a vet- short tours, ship or air crossings, limited and badge. eran or has laid him off or fired him for
3Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 until a new staff charges, in violation of the Veterans side the merit system and under the work singlehanded in December— Preference Act, the Legion Economic spoils system. member was acquired the capacity for Commission may interest itself in put- Similar devices are concocted by vari- another example of of The American ting the facts together and making a ous agencies when it becomes neces- dedicated sei-vice case for the veteran in hearings, exam- sary to lay off a certain number of Legion in action. inations and appeals for redress before people. An agency official wishing to the Civil Service Commission. protect his friends and favorites in the POLIO: which veterans If the agency has clearly complied face of the preference The Job with the law, or where its charges have in being kept on the job in a lay- Legion On against a veteran in a case of firing are off, may reclassify various jobs in ad- American Legion Dep'ts, Districts, convincing and sufficient, there is little vance of an impending layoff, so that County organizations and Posts once hope of winning the case. The basis of his friends and favorites are in classifica- again gave great sei-vice to the annual appeals must be on the merits of the tions that won't be touched by the March of Dimes drive against polio in case and on correct application of the layoff. January. At the request of the March law. The result is that others, who would of Dimes, Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel served Yet the instinct toward patronage and normally be kept on the basis of merit as chairman for the Points for Polio pro- cronyism in gov't jobs has not been re- or veterans preference, are successfully gram in which spectators at basketball moved by the Civil Service and Veterans let go through the technical trickery of games pledged a cent for the March of Preference Laws. It has simply been reclassification, while the favorites are Dimes for each point scored at many brought under some control. So cases of kept secure in their jobs. college court games. violation occur eveiy year in which Similarly, in order to install or pro- In 12 States, The American Legion agencies have flouted the laws, either tect a favorite, an agency may "abolish" and/or the Auxiliary sponsored the openly or through devious devices. a job, and thus get rid of a veteran or statewide Blue Crutch Tag Days (Ala.; Easiest of all cases to win for vet- other employee who has the job. It then Calif.; Kans.; Ky.; Maine; Mass.; Miss.; erans in gov't service are those in which recreates the same job—as far as its Mo.; N. H.; N. Y.; Vt. and Wash.) In the letter of the law has not been fol- duties are concerned—under another 11 other States where the Blue Crutch lowed. Where this is clearly shown by job-description, and fills it with the pal campaign was not sponsored statewide the Legion staff, the Civil Service Com- who has been standing by to jump in if by a single organization, many Legion mission may order the agency to reverse the incumbent could be successfully Posts and Counties did the job locally. its action. The order of the Commission "bumped." They frequently get away Special American Legion anti-polio is binding on the agency. with this on the basis that it is not the projects were conducted by the Depart- Cases come to the Legion staff in "same" job. ments of Kansas, Louisiana and Mary- which charges against a veteran em- Of several hundred veterans prefer- land. ployee of the government are found to ence cases handled by the Legion's In several States, the March of Dimes' be trumped up, stretched, exaggerated small national staff in 1956, all of which special Teens Against Polio drive was or misrepresented. had been lost at every lower level of organized around the boys and girls of Nearly always, such injustices happen appeal, 36/2% of those concluded during the Legion's Boys' State and the Auxili- when an agency official has a strong the year were won. ary's Girls' State. personal reason for trying to oust the This case work was handled by a staff Exceptional support of the March of veteran. Frequently he wants to ease of two WW2 Legionnaires working un- Dimes last year earned the Legion a a candidate of his own into the veteran's der Nat'l Economic Commission Di- special award of a huge, golden hypo- job. The Legion, through diligent work rector Clarence Bird, as the year began: dermic needle, tendered Nat'l Cmdr on such cases, is often successful in ex- John Mears and Austin Kerby. Mears Daniel in November in recognition of posing such phony charges and having left Legion employment in April, after the anti-polio work that was done in the the veteran restored to duty with back which Kerby handled the bulk of the Legion Departments in 1956. pay- Evasions Much harder to win are cases in which agencies have used tricks that are within the law to evade the Veterans
Preference Act. If the agency is techni- cally correct, even though its action has
violated the spirit of the law, it may succeed. Thus, in Postmastership appoint- ments, it may happen that the Post Office is required to hire one of three veterans at the top of the competitive register, but actually has another can- didate favored for personal or political reasons. It may get around the difficulty by failing to appoint a Postmaster at all, and by installing the favored candidate as Acting Postmaster and waiting—per- haps years— to exhaust the legitimate candidates before making a permanent appointment. TELLING THE LEGION'S STORY effectively is the store window display shown above, The Post Office Dep't is usually suc- recendy arranged in a window of the Penelec BIdg in Altoona, Pa., by Posts of the 21st cessful in such evasions, and thus keeps District of Pennsylvania. Legion insignia and uniforms attract attention, while the many many Postmastership appointments out- placards tell the story of the Legion's aims and programs. Display stirred up wide interest.
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 3 J Congress All Nat'l Most of these bills called for sums in Legion Asks Review the neighborhood of $1 billion to be furnished by the government or to be Credit As GI Mortgage Funds Dwindle borrowed from the National Service Life Insurance trust fund—to be lent directly The American Legion, on Feb. 1, vide the Administrator of Veterans' to veterans, or to buy VA mortgages asked the Congress to re-examine "the Affairs with the same authority to regu- from private lenders. nation's financial and credit structure to late interest rates on VA loans as the The demand for VA loans from quali- determine the adequacy of our banking FHA administrator now exercises over fied veterans has recently been running system to support today's economy." FHA loans under the National Housing in the neighborhood of $6 to $7 billions Hearings were held by the House Vet- Act." yearly. Since WW2, nearly $40 billion erans Afl^airs Committee to consider the It was at this point that he intimated in veterans' home loans have been guar- problem caused by the drying up of that it would be better for the Congress anteed by VA. Not all the WW2 demand funds for CI mortgages. Past Nat'l Cmdr to attempt to correct the "unwelcome has been met, while the VA home loan Seaborn P. Collins (N. Mex. ), who realities " on a broad scale, by re-examin- program for Korea vets has its years of headed a special Legion committee to ing the total adequacy of the present na- biggest demand ahead, with 1965 as the study the trouble veterans are having tional credit structure to support today's present terminal date. getting private loans for GI mortgages, economy, because "the basic disturbance At the hearings on Feb. 1, Past Nat'l advised the House Committee that the occurs outside the field of veterans' Cmdr Collins emphasized that above "basic disturbance occurs outside the affairs." all the Legion seeks "an assured flow of field of veterans' affairs." Background funds which will adequately meet the Collins expressed doubt that reme- the hearings was the Background of demands of those veterans having home- dies which "focus narrowly on VA home diminishing, over a period of more rapid loan entitlement whose financial respon- loans to the exclusion of the total na- than a year, of available mortgage sibility is comparable to that of the mil- tional credit situation" would be effec- 4/2% veterans' homes, in money at for lions of veterans who have already used tive. of intense competition from the face their entitlement." The entire field of housing, particu- other sources seeking credit, and capable larly low cost, low-down-payment and of paying much higher rates. While the LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: is "pro- billions in long-term-payment housing VA approved about $5.6 The citation of an individual Legion- foundly disturbed" by what almost nominal 4^2% loans on veterans' homes in naire to life membership in his Post is to the rate of lending to veterans amounts "runaway premiums and 1956, a testimonial by those who know him charges for on the open market," dropped rapidly during the year, as it money best that has has served The American Collins said. Veterans of modest means did for all housing. Legion well. are "inordinately affected" by the bur- Meanwhile, in nearly all areas of the Below are listed some of the previous- den of tight money, he added. country, veterans were actually paying ly unpublished life memberships that Meanwhile, Collins told the House total charges much higher than 4/2% in have been reported to the editors. They Committee, credit continues to flow in order to get their loans. Discounts at the are arranged by States. "record-breaking amounts " into indus- source, without which the loans would Frank E. Heple (1956), Post 31, Salinas, Calif. trial expansion and into shorter term and not have been forthcoming, were obli- F. Don Hunt (1956), Post 106, Redlands, Calif. Wallace W. MacKay (1955), Post 276, Los An- higher yielding consumer loans. gating veterans to pay back principal geles. Calif. Leiand G. Kimlau and Mon Spencer Owyang Conventional home mortgages now amounts that were not actually lent, as (both 1954), Post 384, San Prancisco, Calif. command 6% interest in most areas of well as interest on such amounts. Un- Nelle Tanzey (1956), Post 498, Pasadena, Calif. C. A. Carlson (1956), Post 10, Boulder, Colo. the country, while the FHA rate was told tens of millions of the $5.6 billion Adolph P. Zimmerman (1935) and Paul A. Han- kins (1936) and Wesley W. Howe (1938) and recently raised to rate in vets' mortgages reported for 5% and the VA by VA Charles J. Sutka (1939), Post 422, Berwyn, 111. remains at 4/2%, and it is "this situation 1956 represented debt contracted at in- Lee J. Orth and William T. Roser (both 1956), Post 753, Highwood, 111. which is drying up GI loan funds at their terest by veterans, but not sums actu- George W. Martrick (1947) and Ad J. Save source," Collins (1948), Post 830, Chicago, 111. pointed out. He added ally lent. John Leavitt (1956), Post 443. Sharpsville, Ind. that "the veteran has found himself un- The same difficulties beset the govern- Anton Sorensen (1956), Post 115, Storm Lake, Iowa. able to bid competitively for mortgage ment's huge FHA insured mortgage pro- William A. Link and Donald H. Wells and Charles C. Kidwell and Alfred J. Owens (all 1956), money within the framework of the pres- gram, which during most of 1956 stipu- Post 108, Cheverly, Md. ent national economy. lated a 4!2% interest rate. Having author- Raymond A. Burke (1956), Post 196, Suitland, Md. "We would prefer to see FHA inter- ity to do so, the FHA raised its interest Fred C. Chick (1955), Post 110, Medfield, Mass, Gustave A. Anderson (1947) and John W. est rates rolled back to 4/2%, if by doing rate to 5% on Dec. 4. This was an at- White, Sr. (1950) and Frank W. Neale (1955) and this both the VA and FHA could suc- tempt by FHA to attract more funds for Fred W. Butler, Sr. (1956), Post 210, Saugus, Mass. Philip W. Caporale (1946), Post 326, Springfield, cessfully compete for funds in the mort- FHA mortgages, and to get the costs of Mass. Walter M. Smith (1956), Post 401, Weymouth, gage market," he testified. FHA mortgages back on top of the table. Mass. Unwelcome Realities The step taken by FHA worsened the Arthur Leonard (1952). Post 148, Kansas City, Mo. However, Collins intimated that in already poor bidding position of veter- Clyde F. Cochran (1956), Post 16, Norfolk. Nebr. the Legion's opinion little for mortgages, as joined there was ans GI FHA K. O. Knudson and Stephen DaCosta, Sr., and prospect of either the FHA interest rate the many credit-seeking sources that Myron G. Browne (all 1956), Post 8, Las Vegas. Nev. being rolled back, or of such a step re- could outbid the VA program. Anthony Nasdeo (1956), Post 25, New Bruns- wick J lieving situation of in Various bills before the Vet- the those most House W.' Preston Lindeborn (1955), Post 84, Oaklyn, need of housing on easy terms. erans Affairs Committee, at the time N. J. Bernard Maxwell (1955), Post 184, Wildwood. "Recognizing the unwelcome realities Past Nat'l Cmdr Collins urged the Con- N. J. Jessen and Ralph O. Williams (both of present conditions," he told the Com- gress to re-examine the entire national Richard A. 1954), Post 273, Keansburg, N. J. mittee, "the Nat'l Executive Committee credit structure, proposed priming the Joseph A. Jacobi (1952), Post 335. Atlantic City. N. J. of The American Legion has recently VA home loan program by injecting Ross R. Miller (1946) and Louis G. Soles (1946) adopted a report appro- government-owned or government-held and Willis A. Kiggins (1948). Post 194, Rochester. recommending N. Y. priate legislation being enacted to pro- funds into the VA program. (Continued on page 34)
32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 Chicago, l»-
" Tobacco B. Blackwelder R. is our middle name" BOX -175 Dobson, ©A. T. Co. LIFE MEMBERSHIPS standing membership achievement by rrunVuye folding (Coitliiiucd BANQUET from p. 32) March 15-17. John Rush (1955), Post 253, Bronx, N. Y. Auxiliary Cake Contest JTABLESI Philip W. Cohen and James F. Finley and Louis American Legion Brandenberg and William O. Jaconetti (all 1953), Late in January The Post 272, Rockaway Beach, N. Y. Auxiliary announced a nationwide cake- Chester A. Naugle (1951), Post 329, Pearl River, N. Y. baking contest in connection with the James Cover and Francis Gaynor (both 1956), birthday. Plans, to be an- Post 336, Glenwood Landing, N. Y. Legion's George W. Haigh (1956), Post 390, Hempstead, nounced fully by the Auxiliary, include N. Y. William J. Dwyer (1953) and William M. Dowd community cake baking contests, co- Post Cortland City, N. Y. (1954) 489, General Mills, makers of Gleeson E. Hupp (1953) and Paul J. Muth sponsored by school or If you are on the board ot your post, Post 665, BufTalo, N. Y. commit- (1954), Betty Crocker cake mix, with local, church or on the house or purchasing James E. Hall (1946) and Nathan Pollard (1947) your chib, you will be interested in tee of Joseph Small Post 1017, Yonkers, Dep't and national winners. modern. Folding Pedestal Banquet Table. and (1955), this N. Y. Write for catalog and special discounts. national winner will make off Joseph F. White (1955), Post 1062, New York, The 69 Church St.. Colfax, Iowa Monroe Co., N. Y. with a prize of $1500 toward a trip Otto H. Fichtcr (1954), Post 1229, Penfield, N. Y. abroad for two with the 1957 American William A. Steinacher (1955), Post 1786, Long Legion Pilgrimage for Peace to Europe Island City, N. Y. Joseph W. Grier, Jr., (1956), Post 262, Charlotte, in late September. N. C. FREE FOR Edwin W. Yeieh and Jack Shapiro and Ralph S. Johnson and Leon H. McCall (all 1945), Post RELIGION: 12, Reading, Pa. John L. Brennen (1951) and John L. McShea ASTHMA (1953) and Edward F. Hueston (1954), Post 153, Back to God Telecast If yoo suffer asthma ottocks, choke and wheeze, find Philadelphia, Pa. Joseph Stofko (1953), Post 212, Donora, Pa. sleep impossible because of the struggle to breathe . . . The American Legion's annual "Back Ferrari, Sr., Gustav Sieg (both try FRONTIER ASTHMA MEDICINE nowl Get immediate, Edward L. and to God" telecast was carried over CBS- blessed relief from the dreaded symptoms of bronchial 1955) and R. H. Munn, Jr., (1956), Post 785, asthma. Over 1,000,000 bottles sold — FREE TRIAL Glenshaw, Pa. TV network Sunday afternoon, Feb. 3. bottle by return mail. You pay nothing. Send name Post Commanders or Adjutants are ond address now to: FRONTIER ASTHMA COMPANY, The program dramatized the sinking to life membership awards 608-A Frontier BIdg., 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo 1 , N. Y. asked report of the Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in to "Life Memberships," The American which four chaplains sacrificed their Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave., New lives, giving their lifebelts to American York 19, N. Y. Date of award is re- 40 ACRE GOVERNMENT soldiers. quested in all cases. OIL LEASES-$100 Will Rogers, Jr., narrated the pro- You do no drilling, pay no taxes, moy reoMze a gram. Secretary of State John Foster king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write for free mop and literature. LEGION BIRTHDAY: Dulles appeared as President Eisen-
American Oil Scouts, Depf. I, 7321 Beverly Blvd. representative. Nat'l Cmdr Dan in hower's Los Angeles 36, Calif. Big Doings March Daniel and top-ranking chaplains of the The three days from March 15 to 17 Armed Forces also participated, as did mark The American Legion's 38th birth- friends and relatives of the four chap- day. The formative caucus in Paris in lains: Clarke Poling, Alexander Goode, RUPTURED 1919 convened on those dates, and from George L. Fox and John Patrick Wash- BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY the caucus The American Legion ington. Now there is a new inodern Non-Surgical treat- ment designed to permanently correct rupture. emerged. These Non-Surgical treatments are so certain, Legion Nat'l Hq reports widespread BRIEFLY NOTED: that a Lifetime Certificate of Assurance is given. Write today for our New FREE Book that celebrations planned by Posts through- The American Legion Child Wel- painful and expen- gives facts that may save you out the country to mark the birthday. fare Div. has announced that eight sive surgery, and tells how non-surgically you may again work, live, play and love and enjoy life in Thousands of Posts have set aside one Dep'ts plan to back State Legislation to the manner ycu desire. There is no obligation. the occa- for Excelsior Hernia Clinic, Dept. 720S, Excelsior Spgs., Mo. of the three birthday dates as establish State scholarship funds sion for special dinners, dances and teachers and nurses in an effort to help other celebrations. relieve the critical shortages of person- RELIEF IF YOUR FALSE TEETH Says The American Legion Netos nel in those professions. Service: "While many Posts are planning HURT!. ..SLIP!. ..DON'T FIT! to entertain neighbors at their birthday ^ The Veterans Administration is tak- parties, countless others will honor their ing extraordinary precautions to insure charter members. These plans include tb.at widows, guardians of children, and dinners and dances keyed to a Founders dependent parents make the correct Program, Charter Members Night, Jubi- choice when electing death benefits pro- lee Ball, Legion Cradle Days and Loy- vided by the Servicemen's and Veterans' alty Rallies." Survivors Benefits Act (Public Law 881, Many Posts are arranging to "cut 84th Congress). Care and consideration birthday cakes on television screens with are required because Public Law 881 is local bakeries as sponsors" and "almost extremely complicated. Legionnaires everywhere The American Legion Aux- who are questioned on the subject
iliary is planning to bake big birthday should refer the questioner to a Dep't NEW— fhe ONLY soft, plastic-coated cakes, each with 38 candles." Service Officer in order to be sure that DENTAL CUSHIONS AVAILABLE! he gets the right answers. Comfort and perfect fit guaranteed Caps Membership Drive just place pad on plate! The birthday celebration marks the ^ On Jan. 7, the Dep't of Pennsylvania Soothing to gums made sore hy loose terminal date of the special mid-winter opened a Veterans Information Booth pla tes... these on sli ions give hisliiig bless, eti rehef. Loo.se plates fit tighter. Chew "Ask Your Neighbor" membership drive, in the John Wanamaker department all kinds of foods. Enjoy oomforlahle initiated by Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel in store in Philadelphia. In the two weeks platesa//r/ietime.' lOasy touse. Nopastes, January. Membership had crossed the that the booth was open more than 400 no powders. Satisfac lion or money l)ack. two million mark on January 1, the high- veterans, sewicemen, and members of Send $1.00 for 8 uppers—$1.00 for 10 lowers est enrollment at that time of year in their families sought the Legion's coun- Trii-.\id I'rodiK ls Co., Dcp't 411 Box 9398, IMiila. 39, Pa. the Legion's 38 years, presaging an out- sel from members of John Wanamaker
34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 Post 611, who manned the booth. Wide, ceremonies were conducted by the Ken- Jap Prisons From the Inside," which ap- favorable publicity given the booth tucky Legion Dep't, and the name for peared in the Jan. issue of this maga- called Legion services to the attention the hall was provided by Miss Charlotte zine. At the 1956 national convention in of thousands of Philadelphians. Owens, of Louisville, prizewinner in a Los Angeles The American Legion re- Legion-sponsored contest to select a affirmed its position "adopted at the last ^ A cooperative advertisement promot- name. national convention to urge the repeal ing the 38th birthday of The American of the Status of Forces Treaty." Legion is available in matrix form. The ^ A colorful, 240-page history of the the Legion in co-op mat, in three-column and five- 8th Armored Division in training and ^ The biggest Post in Nebr., peren- column sizes, can be obtained without combat has been written by Capt. 1956 was Post 1, Omaha, Omaha charge by Posts. Write to Membership Charles R. Leach, who served with the nial membership champion. The Runner-up, and Post Activities Section, The Ameri- division. Entitled In Tornado's Wake, Post had 10,903 members. years, was Post 1, can Legion, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapo- the history is available for five dollars as it has been for Denver, Colo., with 10,690 members. A lis 6, Ind. from the 8th Armored Div. Ass'n, Suite of 1300, 134 N. La Salle St., Chicago 2, 111. total of 49 Posts reported membership ^ Senate Resolution No. 23, which more than 2,000 each. would establish a Veterans Affairs Com- ^ The American Nat'l Red Cross re- Introducing: Scout Master Willis M. mittee in the U.S. Senate, was intro- ports that thousands of hospitalized serv- ^ Boyd, who, at age 80, still makes over- duced by Sen. Dworshak (Idaho). The icemen while away the long hours in with Boy Scout troop, American Legion has long recom- bed building models. In the last 12 night hikes his been scouting since 1914, is 37 mended the establishment of such a months the Red Cross distributed 6,635 has Legionnaire, recently completed committee. model kits to bedridden patients in Eu- years a rope, North Africa, and England at a his 426th overnight camp-out, is chair- man of both the Legion's Seventh Dis- ^ When Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel vis- cost of more than $7,000. Most popular trict and the Dep't of Georgia Boy ited the Area B Child Welfare Confer- models: airplanes, automobiles, and ships, in that order. Scout Committees, is chaplain for life ence in Atlantic City, N. J., in Jan., Mrs. and past cmdr of Post 245 in Adairsville, Bess Harrison, National Chapeau of the volunteered for war service at age 8&40, presented him with a check for ^ A three-page question and answer Ga., created in 1917, won the Purple Heart and $2,500. Child Welfare Div. will use explanation of the problem by 35 the status of forces agreements is avail- Silver Star in France, is a grand old this money to provide direct assistance free from Frank T. man of the Legion and of Boy Scouts, to dependent children of veterans in able Congressman and is a religious leader in his commu- "tubercular-contact" families. Bow, New House Office Bldg., Wash- ington 25, D. C. Congressman Bow nity—an American. wrote the article "We Learned About (Continued on next page) ^ Iowa is the second Dep't to attain its 1957 membership quota.
^ Dep't of Missouri's new Hq will be dedicated on Mar. 24. Nat'l Cmdr Dan- iel will speak and formally dedicate the new Hq. tach Daily C. F. Capsule Contains: Vitamin A ^ American Legion's new Emblem 12.500 US? Units Vitamin D Catalog for 1957 is off the presses. Cata- I 000 USP Units Vitamin C 7.5 ms. log lists and illustrates a wide variety of Vitamin Bi 5 mc. Vitamin B2 2 5 m:;. emblems, flags, insignia, and other 30 DAYS SUPPLY Vitamin Bo 0.5 mi;. items Posts, in addition to High-Potency Nutritional Formula Vitamin B12 1 mtj; needed by Safe Niacin Amide 40 mt:. many personal items such as rings, foun- Calcium Pantothenate 4 mc. tain pens, jackets, wallets, etc., bearing Vitamin E 2 I.U Folic Acid 0.5 mi;. the Legion Emblem which may be pur- Calcium 75 rag Phosphorus 58 mc. chased from The National Emblem Sales VITAMINS Iron 30 mB. Cobalt 0.04 mg. Div's, American Legion Nat'l Hq, P. O. Copper 0.45 tnf.. MINERALS AND AMINO ACID Manganese 0.5 tng. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. Striking Molybdenum 0.1 nig. 25 proven ingredients — Iodine 0.075 mg. four-color cover of new catalog portrays 11 Vitamins (including Potassium 2 mg. Zinc 0 5 mg. a meeting of Post 18, Bloomington, Ind., Blood-Building B12 and Magnesium 3 mg. Choline home Post of the late Past Nat'l Cmdr Folic Acid), 11 Minerals, Bitartrate 31.4 mg. Choline, Inositol, and Methionin? Inositol 15 mg. Paul V. McNutt. dl-Methionlne 10 rag. YOURS FRE Compare this formula ^ The Veterans Administration reports NOW with any other! Yes. we want to send you FREE, a 30-day supply of that 94 percent of the compen- 610,000 high-potency Vitasa/e C.F. Capsules (a $5.00 value) rVITASAFE CORP., Oepl. 8-3 healthier, EO you can discover for yourself how much 43 West 61st Street, New York 23, N. Y. sation and pension claims which have feel after a few days' happier and peppier you may supply of the proven body with well over Please send me free a 30-day trial! Each capsule supplies your OF (Comprehensive Formula) Capsules, undergone a comprehensive review have the minimum adult dally needs of the 11 Important VITASAFE full Information about the VITASAFE plan. vitamins, plus 11 minerals, choline. Inositol and and required no adjustment. The review was I am not under any oblliatlon to buy any additional amino acid. vitamins, and alter trying my free sample supply, begun in 1954 to doublecheck WW2 Potency and Purity Guaranteed 1 will ACCEPT OR REJECT the benefits and Tou can use these Capsules confidently because strict substantial savings offered by the VITASAFE Plan. and peacetime disability compensation U. S. Government regulations demand that you get In any case, the trial month's supply of 30 exactly what the label states - pure Ingredients VITASAFE Capsules is mine to use free. (service-connected) claims for those un- beneficial effects have been proven time and whose I ENCLOSE 25« (coins or stamps) to help pay for time again! der 55 and all disability pension claims packing and postage. Amazing New Plan Slashes Vitamin Prices In Half for the same age group. With your free vitamins, we will send you complete Nome details of an amazing new plan that provides you 30-day supply of vitamins every month for with a Address coliseum, called Freedom Just $2.00 — 60'/r less than the usual retail price. ^ A new But remember — you're not obligated to buy from us 7one Sfote Hall, on the Kentucky State fairgrounds noio or ever! The supply of free capsules is limited Ciry — 60 mail coupon today! This offer Is limited to those who have never before at Louisville was dedicated by Nat'l taSen advantage of this generous trial. Only one VITASAFE CORPORATION trial supply per family. Cmdr Dan Daniel recently. Dedication 43 West «1si St., New York 23, N. T. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 35 )
BRIEFLY NOTED ^ Discussion of the Bradley Commis- RECENT POST DOINGS: Coiiliiuicd ( sion recommendations on vets benefits ([ POST 146, Sayre, Okla., has made a Harold P. Redden, of ^ Chmn The was at the top of the agenda as the "patient lift" available to residents of that American Legion Nat'l Finance Com- Legion's Nat'l Rehabilitation Conference community. Post had the device, which mission, member of Post 21, Springfield, got under in Washington, way D.C. is used to lift invalids from beds to Mass., and long an outstanding un- and Feb. 26, attended by service officers chairs, built in a local machine shop. selfish leader in the Legion and in the from every state. Little Falls, has C POST 121, N. J., cause of veterans, was honored at a din- LEGION ABROAD: qualified 90 boys in the Hunter Safety ner of 100 Massachusetts Legionnaires Course of the Nat'l Rifle Ass'n, a course at Springfield, Jan. 22. Posts Everywhere required by N.J. law of all youths ap- Among those who paid tribute to Not only will touring Legionnaires in plying for their first hunting license. Redden were Leo Harlow and Robert Europe next fall run into other traveling Three Post members ha\e been certi- (Sam) Murphy, the first and the present Legion members wherever they go, but fied as instmctors by the N.R.A. and the Massachusetts Dep't Cmdrs; Past Nat'l they will never be far from a local Amer- N.J. Div. of Fish and Game. Post's reso- Cmdrs Dan Doherty and Jim O'Neil; ican Legion Post. Of the hundreds of lution recommending such projects to Past Nat'l Vice Cmdr Frank Kelly, Nat'l Posts outside of the continental U. S., other Posts throughout the State was Executive Committeeman Charles Col- many are located in Europe. adopted by the Dep't of New Jersey. latos. Past Dep't Cmdr John Walsh, Past Posts are found in the fol- European POST 51, Hubbard, Ohio, had en- Dep't Chaplain Rev. Fr. Twist, and Dr. f[ lowing cities: Be/g;i/?7i—Antwerp, Brus- rolled its 1957 membership quota of 77 Thomas Powers of the Nat'l Legislative sels, Roulers; Denmark — Copenhagen, by late Dec. 1956, and Post member Comm'n. At Redden's request, a gift — Odense, Vedbaek; England London Harry Summerville was largely respon- fund collected for him was diverted to (two); Frajice—Paris (two), Marseille, help the education of a survivor sible; he signed up 59 members. of a Verdun, Boulogne, Chateauroux, Dreux; deceased Legionnaire. ^ THE 15 CHARTER mcmbcrs who be- French Morocco— Casablanca; Germany gan Post 11, Mount Holly, N.J., on —Berlin, Frankfurt-am-Main, Kaiserlau- ^ Dep't of Alabama, in conjunction July 18, 1919, are all still alive, and 10 ten, Schwabisch-Gmund, Ludwigsberg, with oudoor advertising companies, ini- of them have held continuous member- Hanau, Munich; Greece—Athens, Tripo- tiated a statewide billboard campaign ship in the Post. Post feels that this lis, Patras, Canea (Crete), Thessaloniki in January (see pic.) Posts get basic must be a record. If you can top it, (Salonica); Grand Diichij of Luxem- write to Cmdr James H. Dowdy, Post bourg—huxembourg; Ireland—Cork, Kil- 11, The American Legion, Mill and But- lamey; Italy— Rome (two), Giovinazzo, tonwood Sts., Mount Holly, N.J. Palermo, Naples; ScofZa/t(i— Glasgow; POST 132, Kearns, Utah, was char- SuJcdcn-Stockholm. f[ tered only two years ago, but it is doing CONSERVATION: a membership job that older Posts could Our Homeless Critters well copy. Its membership quota is 50, but as of Jan. 1 Post had enrolled 96 The Nat'l Wildlife Federation ob- members. serves Nat'l Wildlife Week this Mar. POST 501, New York, N.Y. (conv 17-23 with the theme "Housing short- H posed of veterans of the air services, age for wildlife." and said to be the oldest Post of its What people have done to the natural kind in The American Legion), pre- shelter of wild animals "shouldn't hap- Alabama billboard campaign sented its William McGough Award pen to a dog," says the Federation. In J. to Mrs. Josephine Doolittle, wife of Lt. poster for $15, and $5 additional for fact, the dogs are OK, it notes, because Gen. Jimmie Doolittle, USAFR, "for her Post imprint. Additional posters cost they live in people's homes—but deer, contributions to aviation throughout the $16. Outdoor advertising companies bear, rabbits, squirrels, quail, grouse, years." She is the second woman to win provide billboard space without charge. fish, etc. find their homes cut, drained, the annual award; the first was a\ iatrix Dep't estimated that 100 such posters filled in, cleared or polluted by man. Jacqueline Cochran. emphasizing "To better serve Alabama, The Federation asks those who have POST 295, Wollaston, Mass., dedi- join The American Legion," would be a heart for America's native wild crea- f[ cated its huge banquet hall to the late on view by March 1. tures to take some of the many steps that are possible to make our lands and Col. Warren E. Sweetser, long a leader of the Post, on Feb. 14. Post gave Col. ^ A testimonial dinner at Newburgh, waters more habitable for wild things a life membership on his 50th N. Y. on Jan. 19 honored N. Y. Dep't this year. Sweetser anniversary in 1951, then Cmdr Martin B. McKneally, Past Cmdr Even city dwellers can make homes wedding never to gi\ e another— as a meas- of Judson P. Galloway Post in New- for birds, and the Federation lists nine voted burgh. Past Nat'l Cmdr Donald R. different courses of action by which ure of its respect for Col. Sweetser. Wilson, now President of Oglethorpe Americans can make more "homes for f[ DETAILS OF Christmas parties and University in Atlanta, Ga., gave the wildhfe." Christmas gifts for the needy continue principal address. Many Legion leaders The Federation, an association of to be reported: from New York, including Past Nat'l state and local conservation clubs, has POST 6, Cheyenne, Wyo., joined with (>mdr Edward N. Scheiberling, as well nat'l offices at 232 Carroll Street, NW., Auxiliary Unit 6, the 4()&8, and local as Newburgh neighbors of McKneally, Tacoma Park, Washington 12, D. C. It business and ci\ ic organizations to pro- joined in the tribute. raises funds through the sale of beauti- vide a community Christmas basket for ful outsize four-colored Nat'l Wildlife the needy. The project collected $7,000 ^ Increase in auto traffic in Libya has Conservation Stamps, portraying Ameri- in food, clothing, toys, and cash dona- led that country to request the Legion's can wild creatines. The 1957 sheet has tions, and distributed 276 baskets of safety film "Teach Them to Drive." 36 such brilliant adhesive stamps. food to the needy of Cheyenne.
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POST 17, Richmond, V;i., conducted boro pitched in to build a living memo- ber ol the Supreme Court of Oliio. a Christmas party — complete with rial — in the form of a 53-acre park — to c;. K. LiNKOus, Past Dep't Cmdr of movie, magician, clowns, band, ice residents of that city who served in Virginia (1944-45), named "Outstand- cream and other goodies, and gifts — WW2. Post contributed money and ing Citizen of 1956" by the Danville, for 700 underpriviledged children in work to the project — cleared land and Va., Kiwanis. that community. built a Softball diamond. CHARLES F. HAMILTON, Climn of TIlC POST 507, Newhall, Calif., sponsored U POST 430, Springfield, Mass., col- American Legion Boys State Committee, a Christmas party for 675 children. En- lected $1,888.32 in the recent drive to appointed to the youth advisory group tertainment was provided by such per- raise funds to fight muscular dystrophy of President Eisenhower's People-to- formers as Legionnaire Gene Autry, and $966.50 in "Operation Blue Crutch," People Program, a movement to en- Jimmy Wakely, Merle Travis, Johnny part of the campaign against polio. courage international contacts by inde- Bond, Monte Montana, Vern Goodrich, ([ THE CONTINUING existcuce of the pendent private groups and institutions. Barbara Bards, Carl Cotner, the Fron- Gen. Frederick Townsend Ward Post 1, ORVEL T. SHONK, Adj't of the Dep't of tiersmen, and a local group, the Melody Shanghai, China, which lists itself as Hawaii, resigned, perry cook is his Squares. operating in exile, is an act of defiance successor.
POST 1, Hamilton, Bermuda, distribu- aimed at Communist China. The Post, JAMES F. DANIEL, JR., Chmn of Tlic ted Christmas baskets containing turke\', composed of veterans who have resided American Legion Nat'l Americanism ham, fruit, candy, and other foodstuffs in China, had 53 members enrolled for Commission, elected President of the to a local poorhouse, a society of the 1957 by late Jan. (among them: Gen. Greenville, S. C, County Commvmity blind, and a needy family. Post also Claire Chennault of Flying Tiger fame) Council. gave a check to children's hospital, and Post Cmdr C.A.S. Helseth, now living SUMNER G. WHITTIER, of Post 176, held a Christmas party for approxi- in Encino, Calif., reports that the Post Everett, Mass., and former Lt. Gover- mately 60 children of Legionnaires and will continue to function in exile until nor of Massachusetts, appointed Chief their friends. it can again open its clubhouse in Insurance Director of the Veterans Ad- ([ POST 1276, Syracuse, N.Y., spon- Shanghai. ministration. sored the settlement of Hungarian refu- PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Died: gees Mr. and Mrs. Elemer Czeh and THOMAS W. MILLER, Nat'l ExCCUtivC CHARLES MccAMic, Secretary of the their two young children in that com- Committeeman from Nevada, retired meeting called to organize The Ameri- munity. Post provided a furnished home from his position as Representative of can Legion in West Virginia in 1919, which tire Czehs occupied by Christ- the Veterans Employment Service. He and the first Adj't of that Dep't. mas. By early Jan. the father was work- was Vice Chmn of the Paris Caucus. JOSEPH K. CARSON, JR., Past Dcp't ing as a cabinetmaker, the school age THOMAS J. HERBERT, longtime Legion- Cmdr of Oregon (1941-42), and former child had started to go to school, and naire, and Chmn of the Subversive mayor of Portland; in Portland. both parents were attending night Activities Control Board, elected mem- (Continued on next page) school three times a week to learn English. f[ THIRTY BOYS from age 12 to 18 learn how to shoot and how to handle guns safely in the Junior Rifle Club of Post 93, Trenton, N.J. Their instructor, former Lt. Frank Jury of the N.J. State Police (he retired from the police in Jan.), emphasizes good manners, citi- zenship, and responsibility as well as how to handle weapons. C POST 628, Cleveland, Ohio, has achieved outstanding membership suc- cess in the 1956-57 Legion year. It had reached its 1957 membership quota be- fore the Ohio Dep't Convention was held last July, and it had enrolled more than 200 percent of its quota by last Veterans Day. Then on Jan. 3 Post 628 added still another feather to its mem- bership cap when it initiated Marine Maj. Carl Sitter, who won the Congres- sional Medal of Honor in the Korean War. ([ POST 513, Mt. Healthy, Ohio, hon- ored five young men of that community at a Christmas party and awarded them The American Legion Medal of Hero- ism. The youthful heroes — Fred Hutch- inson, Robert Grant, Kenneth Schultz, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Winalon-^^iik-m. N. c Daniel Jones, and Jerry Stormer — ig- nored their own personal safety to save the lives of three young children. C[ POST 5, Brattleboro, Vt., helped its community to win a 1956 "All-America City" award sponsored by the Nat'l Municipal League and a national fort- nightly magazine. Citizens of Brattle- AMERICA'S LARGEST-SELLING SMOKING TOBACCO
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Become an Died: Howard, Grapeland, Tex. Claim pending. 354th Ord Maint Co AA— In Germany in June (Continued) 1946 my late husband, T/5 Buck W. Ku-by, suffered a serious back injury in a truck wreck when Y. w. SCARBOROUGH, Past Dcp't Cmclr he was thrown from the back of the ntiounTnnT- truck into a ditch. The truck was driven by of South Carolina (1943-44), and mem- a sgt, and there were 7 other men on it. They had been in convoy for several days and Auditor-C,P,A. ber of The American Legion Rehabilita- were to move to Munich shortly. They had The demand for skilled accountants men who really tion Insurance Advisory Committee. been on a 225-mi. drive and were almost back to know their business— is increasing. National and state the company when the accident occurred. legislation is requiring of business much more in the BRIG. GEN. HEBER LOWREY MCALISTER, My husband and Clarence Hess were the only way of Auditing, Cost Accounting, Business Law, ones injured. They were taken to the hospital and Income Tax Procedure. Men who prove their Past Dep't Cmdr of Arkansas (1945- by two men in a jeep. Hess was kept in the qualifications in this important field are promoted to hospital, and my husband was sent back to 46) ; in Conway, Ark. responsible executive positions. the company after being X-rayed and given a shot of morphine. He suffered serious JOHN J. o'brien. Past Nat'l Execu- SEND FOR FREE BOOK muscle injury. T/5 Kirby was in charge of tive Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary. We train you Committeeman from Washington; ofiScers quarters at the time of the accident and for several months. He was discharged in from ground up, or according to your individual in Los Angeles, Calif. needs. Low cost: easy terms. July 1946. Need to hear from anyone who recalls the accident, especially the two men Send name and address on the lines below for L. L. THOMPSON, wlio presided over free in the jeep and the doctors at the hospital. illustrated book describing the LaSalle Accounting the first caucus of The American Legion Write me, Mrs. Buck W. Kirby. Box 486, training and the opportunities in this highly profitable R.D. 1, Lenoir, N. C. Claim pending. field. in Washington; in Tacoma. He attended 362nd Engr Regt, Co F— I served on New Cale- lIQIIir EXTENSION UNIVERSITY the Paris and St. Louis Caucuses. donia in 1943-45. 1 was in a truck wreck while going to duty in Oct. 1943, and I now c. WAYLAND BROOKS, member of The need to hear from anyone who remembers 417 S. Dearborn St., Dept. 3361H, Chicago S, III. Legion Distinguished me. especially S/Sgt King and Sgt Loung H. American Guests Pernell. My nickname was "Mac Fats." Write Name. Committee since 1941, and a former me. Freeman Caradine, Jr., Box 207, Route 3, Grenada, Miss. Claim pending. Address U.S. Senator from Illinois. 1125th Armored FA Bn, Battery C-During a counter-battery firing mission at or R. GRAHAM HUNTINGTON, Past Nat'l near City Zone State. Poretta in Northern Italy about Mar. 16, 1945, Vice Cmdr (1945-46), and Past Dep't I was going out of my dugout when the top of it gave way and hit my iielmet. The helmet Cmdr of New Jersey (1944-45); in tipped forward and across the bridge of my OPPORTUNITY Newark, N. nose. The dugout gave way as a result of J. enemy shellfire. Battery first aid men took me to the bn medics for treatment; the bn doctor New lur-bearing ani- mal now being bred bandaged the injury. Need to hear from any- m U S. Offers huge one who served with this outfit, especially: profits to breeders. This James Farrell (a medic from N. Y. State); fur is next to Mink NOW Philip Caruso (Jamaica Bay, N. Y.). Robert in price and will soon sur- Gorhman (N. Y.), Art Shaeffer ( Voohreesville, pass it. 15 to to 20 young COMRADES year. Most easily and N. Y.). Harry Rosmarin (N. Y.). Robert economically raised animal Shea (N. Y.). Donald Brady (Pa.). Write me, nown. l'/2C per day to feed. Sgt Ic Jack Pettrone, U. S. Army Recruiting ANY CLIMATE, disease resist- IN DISTRESS ant. The Cabana Marrone strain Office, City Hall, Batavia, N. Y. s obtainable ONLY through Space does not permit notices to contact Cabana Nutria. Inc.. and its au- thorized dealers and distributors, persons for any purpose except to assist in free booklet and address of Navy Cabana ranch nearest you write: establishing a claim for a veteran or his de- 1st Marine Div, 5th Regt, Co F, 2nd Platoon- CABANA NUTRIA, INC. pendents. Statement to that effect should Need help on claim from men who were near DEPT. A accompany notice. the cave at the mouth of the causeway on 636 West Lemon Ave. Peleliu Oct. 1-6, 1944. 1 was in the Send notices to: Comrades in Distress, about bomb ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA crater near the road a short distance from the The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth bend in the road and the cave. 1 was the Avenue, New York 19, New York. 2nd Platoon runner, and 1 was separated from Lt HoUingsworth (the officer in charge) dur- ing the night. I was suffering vomiting spells ASTHMA symptoms! as day broke, and the It and a sgt from Army Ohio came up and sent me back for treat- When asthma symptoms attack— 54th Coast Artillery— Need to hear from anyone ment. After a few days treatment I went light up a Dr. R. Schiffmann's who served willi me at Sand Island. Hawaii, back to my outfit, and the next morning my ASTHMADOR Cigarette! Feel where I suffered a back injury. Write me, left leg was injured by a piece of mortar Gordon K. Erby, General Delivery, Las Vegas, shrapnel. I was a Pfc at the time. Write me, better with the first soothing puff! Nev. Claim pending. Robert E. Craig, 1208 Sonoma St. Chow- cigarettes 71st Div, 14th Inf, Co L-In 1945 my back was chilla, Calif. ASTHMADOR injured in Germany. Now need to learn the 2nd MP Bn, Co C, USMC-When we stopped to ASK YOUR DRUGGIST whereabouts of my company commander, Mile permit a group of soldiers to cross the road. D. Krischbaum (or Crischbaum). who was 1 was injured when a truck struck my jeep on Make $5 an Hour CASH PROFIT from Chicago, III., area. Write me, John Guam in Sept. or Oct. 1945. 1 was taken to Schelinski, 84 Hudson St., Slovan, Pa. Claim the sickbay; Pfc Piggly, whose skull was frac- THE DAY YOU START! pending. tured in the accident, was taken to the naval hospital. Need to locate Piggly, Harry Rans- Start your own busi- 77th Div, 3n6th Inf, Co M-Need help on claim from men who served with me in WWl in the ford (from near Indianapolis, Ind.). Herb ness at Home . . Argonne Forest where I was gassed. I recall: Green (Miamisburg. Ohio). Col. Brocco (pro- Sharpen Household, Capt Siebert (company commander); Mess vost marshal), Lt "Swede" Anderson, and Garden and Shop Sgt Choen; Platoon Sgt Mike O'Grady; 1st anyone who served with me or who recalls the Tools in Spare Time. Sgt Frank; James Conti (chief cook); and accident. Write me, Clarence H. Ditton, 300 Pvts Harry Gittle, Rosetti Ferrori, Hagen, Holland Ave., Muncie, Ind. Claim pending. Turn spare time into Big Cash Profits with new Belsaw Archie Gillmore, John Wachacovitz, and 51st Tank Lighter Crews, Base "Roses" (or sharpen knives, scis- Sharp-All. No experience needed to Charley Hunt. The last three men were gassed "Rises"), Efate, New Hebrides—Need to con- sors, shears, ice skates, mower blades, hedge trimmers, when I was, and both Pvi Hagen's eyes were tact Lt. Proudy, who was in charge of the how easily axes, chisels and circular saws... Learn you swelled shut by mustard gas. Write me, Albert engine room while we were sailing open low cost can start your own spare time business. Amazing H. Fisher, Spirit Lake, Idaho. waters (interisland) carrying supplies and easy-payment plan. Send Postcard for FREE BOOK. 79th Div, 315th Inf, Co B-On July 12, 1943, my ammo to ships Feb. -Nov. 1943. Write me, BELSAW SHARP-ALL CO 741? Field Bldg., Kansas City II. Mo. rifle jammed while we were on the range, John Rudy, LISNS Blue Jacket. T-AF 51, and my eye was injured. Need to hear from FPO. New York. N. Y. Troubled with GETTING anyone who served with me, particularly Lt SS Cornelius Vanderbilt— From Feb. to Sept. 1944 I was quartered with S Ic Bennie Marvin UP NIGHTS, Pains in BACK, Gray (company commander) and Lt Lock. Write me, Luther W. Milcy, Box 88, R.D. 1, Pharris and S Ic Ovideo Ray Martinez aboard HIPS, LEGS, Tiredness Ouincy. Fla. Claim pending. this ship in the Pacific. When we returned to shore duty. I was stationed with Pharris at If you have these symptoms 79th Div, 79th Sic Co-While laying wire during Port Calif., where I had frequent troubles may be a problem at night when on maneuvers in Chicago. then your attacks of stomach trouble. After we were traced to Glandular Dysfunc- Tenn. in 1943, 1 suffered a back injury. Need discharged, Pharris and 1 went to Dallas, lex., constitutional disease. Medicines to hear from anyone who remembers me, tion ... a together, and 1 suffered an attack on this relief will not remove especially Capt William A. Schiotti or Capt that give temporary I dis- Foster (of S. Carolina). I also served with trip. 1 was a Painter 3c when was the cause of your trouble. Neglect of Gland- this outfit at Camp Blanding. Fla.. in 1942. charged. Need to locate Pharris and Martinez. ular Dysfunction often leads to premature me, PuIIiani, Somerville. Tenn. I may be remembered as a boxer; I fought Write John H. old age and sometimes incurable malignancy. under the name Lewin Williams from Jackson- Claim pending. The past few years men from over 3,000 ville. Fla.; (Detroit, was U.SS Brownsville and USS Nellwood-Need to communities have been successfully treated Sgt Gornick Mich.) my trainer; several men from my company locate Harvey Ray Hoffman who served in here at the Excelsior Institute. They have saw me box in Jacksonville. Write me. James these ships in WW 2. Also need to hear from soothing relief and a new outlook in found L. Williams, Sr., VA Domiciliary, Thomas- anyone who served with him or who knows future of life. the ville. Ga. Claim pending. of his hospitalization at U.SCG base Point The Excelsior Institute, devoted to the 82nd Div, 326th Inf, Co (WWI)-Need to hear Loma, San Diego, in early 1944. Write me treatment of diseases peculiar to older men D from anyone who remembers when the Ray W. Hoffman, 8357 Latty Road, St. Louis by NON-SURGICAL methods has a NEW bomb dropped on the corrugated bunkhouse and 21, Mo. Claim pending. that tells how Glandular Dys- FREE BOOK Union-In 1952 my late son. BM 3 Harry T. corrected by proven NON- killed Pvts Edwards, Kline, Paridec, and USS function may be Young, jumped into sea off Korea to res- SURGICAL treatments. This book may Bosier, and wounded Cpl Brodie of Cumber- the land, Md. Sgt Phelam may recall the inci- cue a friend who had fallen overboard at utmost importance in your life. prove of dent because he gave me his bunk when he night. Both my son and the other man lost today. There is no obligation. Write left to go to training school. Write me George their lives. Need to hear from anyone who Excelsior Institute, Dept. B 3532, Excelsior Springs, Mo. 3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 "
knew my son or who knows of the incident. 308th Inf Rcgt, Co I (AEF)-(Apr.) Jerome Stein- Write me, Mrs. W. H. Smith, 10446 Wal- hardt, 2425 Kings Highway, Brooklyn 29, N. Y. brook Drive, Houston, Tex. 35I.st Inf, Co I (WWI)-G. T. Larson. Willis, Kans. 364th Ord Maint Co (AA)-(Apr.) Anthony Cos- Tense, Nervous tello. 178 Ave. P, Brooklyn 4, N. Y. Air 366th Ord Maint Co (AA)-(Sept.) Lonnie E. Baker. 111. 1st Combat Cargo Group, 1st Combat Cargo Sqdn Westfield. Headaches Need —Need help on claim from men who served 385th AAA Bn-(June) Theodore R. Stepp, 2015 in the CBI with my late husband, Capt Hart- Woodleaf Road, Salisbury, N. C. zel D. Hess. He was serving in the CBI with 406th AAA Gun Bn and 367th Combat Engrs- (July) Norman F. Hedglin, 128 E. Pine St., This Relief this outfit on July M. 1944. He suffered severe headaches which began while he was in the Dunmore 12, Pa. Inf, A survey shows 3 out of 4 doctors recommend the CBI; he wore dark glasses on all flights. 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Americal Div— (May) Alex Mitchell, 20 Rochelle Alaska, Nakek Nakek, 2129th Engrs (also 57th St., Worcester, Mass. Airdrome Group, Installations Sqdn)— In Sept. 1948 I was injured while loading fuel oil Shrinks drums on a truck. Need help on claim from Navy Hemorrhoids anyone who remembers me, especially Berle 8th Scabees-(Sept.) Edward Sanford, 15 Elliott E. Andler. Calvin Dunn (Mass.), Herbert Road, Trumbull, Conn. New Way Without O'Conar or O'Connor (Boston. Mass.), Joseph 17th Seabees-(Aug.) Kent H. King, 103 Thayer Surgery R. Sumrall (Mobile, Ala.), Willie M. Reeder Ave., Mankato, Minn. Science Finds Healing Substance That (Charlotte, N. C), Clarence O. Shofield, and 24th Seabees-(Aug.) G. G. Fitzpatrick, 16 W. Relieves Pain— Shrinks Hemorrhoids Capt Raymond E. Larson. Write me, (former 10th St., New York 11. N. Y. For the first time science has a Cpl) Paul W. Murray, 331 Oakwood Ave., 45th Scabees-(June) Ray Nesbitt, P.O. Box 3, found new healing Marietta, Ohio. 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our canal for a long time, and intends the State of Illinois. His name was Adlai and he could vouch for them abso-
to have it. That's where Alger Hiss came Stevenson. lutely. I further checked and found in. And all of this was going on despite that Mr. Justice Frankfurter would And who was Alger Hiss? A self- the fact that Whittaker Chambers, a give them an exactly similar en- ." effacing young attorney who had en- brilliant Time editor, disillusioned with dorsement. . . tered Government through a side door. the communist apparatus he had been So Comrade Hiss stayed in his sensi- During the heyday of the New Deal he serving, long since had blown the whistle tive State Department post, as did had been one of the proliferating legal on Alger Hiss. As long ago as 1939 brother Donald, and the United States eagles in Henry Wallace's Agriculture Chambers had gone to Assistant Secre- of America wheeled nearer that brink Department—and, in that post, a mem- tary of State A. A. Berle, then in charge over which nations plunge into oblivion. ber of a communist cell. The story of of State Department security, and had Nevertheless, the whistle went on Alger Hiss is the story of an almost un- revealed to Berle—with names—the exist- blowing. In due course another State believable climb to power. A man of no ence of two red spy rings operating at Department official, Julian Wadleigh, remarkable ability. Hiss for some mys- stratospheric levels within the U. S. confessed that he too had been a mem- terious reason had the backing of the Government. One of these networks, ber of the Soviet spy ring Chambers ex- very highest echelon in Washington. said Chambers, functioned in the De- posed—the one in our State Department. This was so true that by the time he was partment of State. The man knew what Wadleigh's sworn testimony solidly tried in 1950 for lying while under oath he was talking about; he had been a backs what Chambers said under oath. he could produce character endorse- courier for that very ring. So Alger Hiss was thrown out of the ments from the mightiest figures in the Amo)ig the names Chambers gave State Department, arrested, and every- land. President Truman had obliged with Berle was that of Alger Hiss. one except Hiss lived happily ever after? the famed "red herring" remark. Secre- Hiss then was a State Department Not a bit of it. Let a then Congressman, tary of State Acheson publicly had pro- officer. So was his brother Donald, and Richard Nixon, tell— in an excerpt from fessed undying friendship for Hiss. Two Chambers said Donald, like Alger, was a 1950 speech to the House of Repre- members of the United States Supreme a communist. He did not say Donald sentatives—what happened to the traitors Court (Justices Frankfurter and Reed) was engaged in espionage. and communist spies Whittaker Cham- broke all precedent by appearing, of In time Berle was to claim he had bers had identified so many years before: their own volition, as character witnesses relayed Chambers' astonishing revela- ". . . the only thing that was done at the trial. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt tions to the White House, only to have to them was to promote each one more than once served as apologist for an irate Franklin D. Roosevelt snap that of them eventually to higher posi- Alger Hiss in her nationally syndicated the bearer of these unwelcome tidings tions of power and influence within newspaper effusion. Government officials (meaning Berle, not Chambers) could the Government." elbowed each other for the privilege of "go jump in the lake, only in coarser Hiss had beaten the rap. He had pro- testifying in the defendant's behalf, language." tection on high, and now he was free among them the President's ambassador Chambers never heard from Berle to carry on his subversive work in the at large in Europe, Phillip K. Jessup— again. Nearly a decade later, however, topmost levels of our Government. who has an odium of his own as one of Berle informed the House Committee on Small wonder he played for high stakes. the clique that made possible the rise of Un-American Activities that And taking the Panama Canal away "... Red China. Another first-person testi- I checked on the two Hiss boys from the 160-odd million of U. S. citi-
the purity . . . with . . . Ache- monial to of the Hiss character Dean Acheson. zens who own it was big business in came from a former Government em- son said he had known the family any gambler's language. ployee who had become Governor of and those two boys since childhood Mr. Ricardo Alfaro, president of the Panamanian delegation to the U.N., arose one day in 1946 to inform the Political Commission of the General Assembly of that wordy organization that, "The strip of land known as the Panama Canal Zone has been neither purchased, conquered, an- nexed, ceded, nor leased, nor has
its sovereignty been transferred by Panama to the United States. The United States administers this strip of land by virtue of a very specific stipulation in article II of the treaty concluded between the Republic of Panama and the United States on the ISth of November 1903, which reads as follows: 'The Republic of Panama grants to the United States the use, occupa- tion, and supervision of a zone of land covered with water for the construction, maintenance, opera- tion, sanitation and protection of " .' the said canal. . . That 1903 treaty (by which the U. S.
4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 also recognized the existence of Pana- that Acheson's favorite was disarmingly ma) was a gentlemanly agreement, boyish-looking Alger Hiss. beneficial, as was the odd custom of Hiss had become director of the De- diplomacy in those days, to both sides. partment's exceedingly influential Office Later came the disastrous new treaty of of Special Political Affairs. Influential? 1936, which saw the now more "pro- It should be enough to state that this gressive" United States hard at work nation's relations with the U. N. were handing back vital prerogatives obtained grasped firmly in the hands of Alger in 1903. One of the privileges the origi- Hiss. nal treaty had given us was the right to At this juncture, while communists construct defenses outside the Canal were agitating against us on all fronts
Zone, if necessary, for the "protection and the U. N. was getting its suntan in ." of the said canal. . . In 1936, how- the heat of Soviet anti-U.S. oratory, the ever, we insisted that this was all rather Governor of the Panama Canal Zone — silly; we would be absolutely charmed an American appointee — chanced to to give up that right, along with a lot of transmit to the Department of State his
others, if Panama thought it was rude routine annual report.
of us to retain it. In due course that report reached
Panama thought it was. We gave it the desk of Alger Hiss. With dedicated
up. fingers Hiss transmuted it into a time For which bit of hemispheric cooper- bomb. He decreed the report must be ation and good will Uncle Sam was transmitted to the United Nations. going to have to pay through his big The bomb began to tick. generous nose — and soon. Into his order Alger Hiss had slipped When the Americans entered World a word more explosive than a nuclear War 11, Panama allowed herself to be weapon. He'd stated that the U. S. was persuaded, for a price, to give the "required" to turn the Canal Zone re- United States "the temporary use for port over to the U. N. Required. Giving defense purposes" of acreage in various his authority for that stand, Hiss cited parts of the Panamanian isthmus. On Article 73(e) of the United Nations that land we planned to establish U. S. Charter. This article directs U. N. mem- bases for the protection of the said bers canal — and for the incidental protec- "which have or assumed responsi- tion of the Republic of Panama. In ail, bilities for the administration of 134 such bases were to be built. territories whose peoples have not Having agreed to buy the leases, the yet attained a full measure of self- keepers of our Federal purse went on government ... to transmit regu- to promise that we would stop occupy- larly to the secretary general . . . ing those bases one year after the statistical and other information of signing of the definitive treaty of peace a technical nature relating to eco-
which, it was expected, would terminate nomic, social, and educational con- the war. Under Secretary of State ditions in the territories for which Sumner Wells took the precaution of they are respectively responsi- " saying that when we referred to a de- ble finitive treaty of peace that is exactly And who had written the U. N. what we meant — not a truce, armistice, Charter, or most of it? or cease-fire arrangement. Alger Hiss! Relax-and be content Nazi Germany collapsed, and after a The charter's words about autonomy due interval Japan surrendered. But the were a steel trap. If Hiss led the State ONLY HALF and HALF GIVES YOU first anniversaries of these events came Department into the snare, our Govern- SUCH COMPLETE CONTENTMENT and went without the slightest sign of a ment would be on record as proclaiming treaty of peace, definitive or otherwise. to the world that the people who lived Relax — and be content. Enjoy the pleasure Never one to let a technicality stand in in the Canal Zone "have not yet at- of a bowlful of aromatic HAIF and HAIF.
the way of its schemes, international tained a full measure of self-govern- Each puff of this matchless tobacco brings
communism now loosed its dogs on us. ment," as Hiss and his fellow plotters you deep-down satisfaction . . . helps you Panamanian reds went at the United had put it when they were writing Arti- feel at ease. Even the aroma carries content- States hammer and sickle. "Americans cle 73(e). And what is the corollary to ment. Contentment for you and everybody go home!" they screamed in two lan- this idea? Why, that the people of the near you. Enjoy a wonderful feeling of well- guages, each with a Moscow accent. Panama Canal Zone are on their way being. Buy HALF AND HALF in the pocket tin— In a neat if not gaudy parallel, the to self-government. U.S.S.R. delegation to the U.N. chose They aren't. They can't be. Self-gov- this moment to proclaim, from the ernment is not in the cards for the Canal world forum of that Tower of Babel, Zone; the U. S. and Panama settled that that the bases in Panama only proved point in 1936. The only persons who the U. S. was a dirty warmonger. may reside in the zone are officials, em- In those days, even as Under Secre- ployees, military personnel on duty and tary, Dean Acheson was calling the their families. If you are not occupied shots in our State Department. Every- in work relating directly to the canal one in State's old dusty wedding-cake you can't live in the zone. Panama's building next door to the White House own Mr. Alfaro underscored the status was aware of this. Everyone knew, too, of zone inhabitants in his November ©The Amcriciiii T<»l);icr() Company THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 4J —
1946 U. N. speech: this special poison Hiss was distilling '. . . . in the gloomy recesses of the an- useLUBRIPLATE . . the population has no deep building. But if MAKES BIKES RUN DANDY . . . political aspirations for inde- cient State Department STOPS SQUEAKS-STOPS RUST pendence or self-government." he cried the alarm would anybody ITS CLEAN ANDHANOy But if Mr. Hiss could trick our nation listen? His previous warnings about sub- into affirming, as official U. S. policy, version and penetration had fallen upon the wobbly premise of Article 73(e), deaf ears. Yet Braden knew, as he was the United States was going to find itself to testify, that the Hiss proposal to hand saddled with having identified the Pana- the Canal Zone report to the U. N. ma Canal Zone as a full-fledged U. S. under Article 73(e) or any other pre- Territory. Now, Hawaii and Alaska are text was "a thoroughly bad move" Territories of the United States, and so which would bring "the United Nations was Puerto Rico at the time Hiss was into something where they had no right
TRY LUBRIPLATE! It s a new, white maneuvering to get the Canal Zone to be." semi-fluid lubricant that stays and clean, similiarly categorized. Today Puerto "Mr. GRIMES. It might give them put. Tops for sprockets and bearings. somewhat more independent in Rain won't wash it away. Rico has a a claim to some stake the opera- • In handy 25<, 50< and $1.00 tubes at existence, halfway between that of the tion of the Panama Canal? Goods, Hardware, Marine and Sporting Alaska-Hawaii Territories and the en- Mr. BRADEN. Exactly." Auto Supply Stores. • Dealers writetoLuBRiPLATE Division, tirely free Philippines. Today Puerto A "stake in the operation" of the Bros. Refining Co., Newark 5, N l iske J. Rico is a self-ruling "commonwealth," world's crossroads was putting it mildly LUBRIPLATE and is associated with the United States indeed. Braden realized that if Ache- THE MODERN LUBRICANT in much the same way that common- son's fair-haired boy won now, the U. N. wealth Canada is associated with Eng- was quite likely to wind up running not STOPPED land. only the Canal Zone but everything in to this IN A JIFFY Enters now a character new it — locks, stocks, and waterway. ITCH or money back soiled drama: a genuine American. In Meanwhile, in New York, the United Very first use of soothing, cooling liquid D.D.D, October 1945, after 14 years of service Nations General Assembly had declared raw red itch Prescription positively relieves as head of delegations to pan-American itself in session. This automatically in- caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- confer- ing— other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. commercial conferences and volved our State Department — which back. 45^ trial bottle must satisfy or money ences of American nations, with hitches is to say that during such times Alger Ask your druggist for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. betimes as U. S. Ambassador to Ar- Hiss was more important than ever.
If you ore the talented author gentina, Colombia, and finally Cuba, For our State Department deliberate- of an unpublished manuscript, this man became Assistant Secretary of ly to give the U. N. an opportunity to FREE let us help gain the recognition deserve. We will publish American Affairs. It is and Booklet you State for Latin get its hands on the Canal Zone your BOOK— we will edit, design, in the latter capacity that we shall know the zone's defenses was, Spruille Braden on print, promote, advertise and
sell it I Good royalties. is Spruille Braden. decided the Publishing him. His name knew, colossal folly. He Write for fRt£ copy of For years Braden had been warning best plan was for the Panamanian chief Your How To Publish Your Book BOOKS, Dept. At-3 increasingly pinkish Government delegate, Mr. Alfaro (who was Book COMET PRESS our U. N. 200 Varitk St., N. Y. 14 that commies were penetrating the other also a former President of Panama and
American republics, but nobody in the its Foreign Minister) to come down to Department of State would listen. Washington, where the matter of those
They'd ignored Whittaker Chambers, bases could be treated as what it was: PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, BIG, ILLUS- TRATED CATALOG NOW Graduates report too, when Chambers revealed the exist- the private business of Panama and the ni.-ikini,' .suhstdiitial incomes, Start and run your own business quickly. Men, women of all aees. net within the De- learn easily. Course covei s Sales, Property mis// ence of a Soviet spy United States.
ManaKement. AppraisinK, Lo , Mortgages, and how// related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class partment itself. Still trying to stop Hiss from forward- rooms in leading cities. Diploma awarded. Write TODAY lor free bonkl No obliKation. assistants — the United Apr.rove.l for World War II and Korean Veterans It was two of Braden's ing the dangerous report to WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Fst. lli.iOi of the Assistant Se- Assistant Secretary of State 2020A Grand Avenue Kansas City, Mo- William Cochran Nations, cretary's office and Murray Wise of the Braden found himself with no course GOVERNMENT 40 ACRE Panama desk — who were the first to but to report the move to the man next OIL LEASE $100 learn that Hiss was scheming to present above him in the administrative hier- report to of State. Act of Congress gives citizens equal rights with Oil that Canal Zone Governor's archy, the Under Secretary Go's, to obtain Govt, leases. You do no drilling, yet the U. N. Protesting, the two found "The CHAIRMAN. Who was that? may share in fortunes made from oil on public lands. (Poyments if desired) licensed & Bonded Oil Brokers. themselves involved in a furious argu- Mr. BRADEN. Mr. Acheson. i Free Information & Maps of booming areas. Write: ment with the Ofiice of Special Political remember very vividly that I went NORTH AMERICAN OIL SURVEYS division headed by see Acheson. 1 think Mr. 8272-L SUNSET BLVD., LOS ANGELES 46, CALIF. Affairs, the key in to Mr. Alger Hiss. Wise and Cochran went to Hiss had already been there for
the legal division of the State Depart- some time . . , When I tried to SHORTHAND in ment for advice. There they conferred state my case. Mr. Acheson, as a Fainous SPEEDWniTING .shorth.ind. 120 words per minute. No s\'mboIs: no machines. with Miss Ann O'Neill (under oath, lawyer, agreed with Mr. Hiss, and Uses ABC's. Easiest to learn, write, tran- scribe. Lowest cost. Over rl.m.onr) pradu- her "a very I a chance to state . TvnlnK .^v.^Lible. :!lth Year. Write Braden later was to term didn't even have FRKE bookl.t to: competent lawyer, and a very sturdy my case. I remember that I came soul"). The lady lawyer said the two out of that meeting boiling with
were entirely right; Hiss shouldn't for- rage. . . . ward the report. Senator WELKER. Mr. Hiss was OWN a BIG FALCON LAKE But when this was duly reported to present there? ." ...TEXAS HOMESITE the Oflice of Special Political Affairs, Mr. BRADEN. Oh. yes. . . NO DOWN PAYMENT— Only $7.50 per Month! the legal division's opinion was simply The infuriated Assistant Secretary At Falcon I.ake.Texa.s. 497mik'3 of shore line. Kx- cellent huntinj? and fishinpr. Averaije temp. TJ?. Fine schools, brushed aside. Cochran and Wise were emerged from Acheson's office with one stores, churches, low taxes. City wafer, electricity, phones. Adjoins city limits of thriving town. Perfect for vacationinK up against a blank wall. They turned piece of new knowledge, for what it or year around livinK. Buy to aseor forinvestment. Full price had made the re- only J149.60. TKAILKKS AKE WKLCOME I Write today for to their chief, Spruille Braden. might be worth. Hiss FKEK map, photos, other details. No oblieration. Address that the Canal Zone report was HUGH MATLOCK, Dept. 1113, Pipe Creek, Texas The Assistant Secretary could smell mark
42 • THt AMtRICAN LIEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 being submitted to the U. N. only "on other hemispheric neighbors with their a pragmatic basis," as Braden phrased poppycock about an occupied territory. it in his 1954 testimony before the Furthermore, the two old friends Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. were engaged in awarding the U. N. a Fishin'-Fun for Everyone our "What that means, 1 don't know," controlling hand in the conduct of WITH Spruille Braden observed, "but that was foreign affairs. pUSH- BUTTON supposed to take care of our objections, "Mr. GRIMES. This was a matter which needless to say, it did not." under your jurisdiction as Assistant Pragmatism, by name, is an old fav- Secretary of State for Latin Ameri- orite of the Marxists. It is the philos- can Affairs? ophy of self-interest, laced with the lack Mr. BRADEN. Exactly. of moral principles. "Whatever works Mr. GRIMES. You learned about for me is good," is about the way a com- it for the first time in the news- munist puts it, "and whatever is good papers? is true." This means that to the com- Mr. BRADEN. I learned about it munist or the communist's twin, the for the first time in the newspapers. socialist, there can be no absolute Mr. GRIMES. What did you do? truth. It happens that this is a viewpoint which denies, among other things, the e,\istence of God. Yet even a self-pro- claimed atheist like Nikita Khrushchev calls upon God when invoking a Diety is THE JOB convenient. To your pragmatist (and ON pUSH- BUTTON Karl Marx intended all communists to be pragmatists) a thing becomes true WonderCast it is useful. whenever, and while, push of the button— s-w-i-s-h of the rod While Hiss and Acheson were being — PRESTO-you're Push-Button Fishing. Bait casting AND spinning advantages. pragmatic, Braden was being practical. Ask your dealer about inachined gears, He checked with the Pentagon, to find smo-o-th drag, non-reverse crank, rug- ged construction— other outstanding out just how important those bases in WHEN IT COUNTS features. No. 1775 with line, S 19.93 Panama really were. The answer was Send tor 5 new fishing booklets — FREE startling: the bases "were vitally neces- SHAKESPEARE COMPANY KALAMAZOO, sary for the security of the Panama 1957 RED CROSS CAMPAIGN MICHIGAN Canal—therefore, of the United States." The words were Braden's but the opinion was that of our top military thinkers. Mr. BRADEN. I dropped the Alger Hiss was using pragmatism as newspaper, and I tore down to the NEURITIS • SCIATICA • LUMBAGO • ARTHRITIS a weapon, and it threatened to drive the State Department. I called in the Why continue to suffer agonizing pains when American Armed Forces from the Re- Director of the Office of American usual remedies have failed. Learn how thousands have been successfully treated by public of Panama. Republics Affairs . . . and my first an amazing new method which is fully ex- plained in our FREE Book. Don't wait. With cold fury, Braden's testimony special assistant . . . and . . . the New Write todav. No obligation. went on: officer on the Panamanian desk. I Excelsior Institute, Dept. C8G06, Excelsior Spgs.. Mn "You can, therefore, imagine my may say I was using some pretty utter astonishment when one morn- strong language around the place COLORFUL 32-PAGE ing I picked up the Washington at this outrage. None of them knew
Post at my apartment and here on any more about it than I. They also SHOOTIN' the front page was an announce- had read it in the newspapers. We BOOK ment that we had reported to the then tried to run it down, and we Family fun! United Nations on the Canal Zone found that this report had been Target games! as an occupied territory." submitted and the employment of Regulation shooting This was even worse than Braden had the words 'occupied territory' by tips by a world champion! "Do-It- Yourself" tips on building an indoor and feared. He continued, the Office of Special Political outdoor range and many other tips on shooting. "When I read that, I realized that Affairs, that is to say, Mr. Alger Real shooting indoors or close-to home, all year ." 'round—the safer, accurate, quiet, odorless, was really putting the fat in the Hiss. . . "power without powder" way. fire in our relations with Panama Braden had protested when Hiss first WRITE today for "Shootin's Three Times More in the substantiation of the Russian proposed to transmit the Zone Gov- Fun With A Crosman Pellgun"—supply limited. Crosman Arms Co., Inc., Dept. AL-3, Fairport, N. Y. allegations and in our relations ernor's report to the U. N., and Acheson with all of the American Republics; had sustained his protege. Emboldened it was ... a nasty situation. by this victory. Hiss had gone a reveal- RUPTURE-EASER Mr. In GRIMES. other words, our ing degree farther. Not only was he (.iPlper lir.ice Truss) ® State Department had officially re- telling the world the Panama Canal ported it to the U. N., that Panama Zone was a U. S. "territory," but he was
was one of our occupied territo- identifying it officially as an occupied Double 5.95 ries? "territory." Right or left " No Mr. BRADEN. Yes The Assistant Secretary's testimony Side 4: Fitting M 95 Required The guileless-seeming Mr. Hiss had continued: A strong, form- fitting washable support laid this nation's neck squarely the "... 1 on immediately went from my for reducible Inguinal hernia. Hack lacing adjustable. groin U. chopping block. office Snaps up In front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, flat N. Not only was office ... to the of the Acting pad. No steel or leather bands. Uneicilled for comfort. Also used as after oihTation support. For men. women, he trying to give away the Panama Secretary of State with fire in my children. Mall orders give measure around the lowest Canal, part of the abdomen and state right, left tide or but he and Dean Acheson were eye. double. We Prepav I'oslaKi' eici pt C O.D.'i. PIPER BRACE CO. arrogantly insulting Panama and all our was that? The CHAIRMAN. Who 811 Wyandott* Dept. AL-37 Kansas City 6. Mo. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 43 Mr. BRADEN. Mr. Dean Ache- charming about it. He said that he U. S. at Alger Hiss' word? Hiss and
son. I went down to demand this was oh, so sorry; that, of course, Acheson gave the U. N. a legal right to report be withdrawn from the this should have been submitted to insist that the Panama Canal Zone is United Nations. Mr. Acheson said, the Office of American Republics exactly what our State Department said that 'We can't do anything about Affairs. We should have been con- it was: a territory occupied and held " it. Where is Mr. Hiss?' sulted before this was submitted to by the United States. If that happens, Where, indeed, was Mr. Hiss? the United Nations, but it was just the next step is for the U. N. to want to With ferocious restraint, Mr. Braden one of those things that happened mandate the zone away from us and went on with his testimony: ... a mistake somewhere, and he control it in its own fashion. "Mr. Hiss was not to be found that was very regretful about it." Then the United Nations may expand day in Washington. He had left his Dean Acheson, as usual, agreed with that vicious concept created for it by home. He had not come to his Hiss. And when Hiss went on to assert Alger Hiss so the U. N. can control office. He was presumed to be in that the report could not possibly be actual territories of the United States. some meetings, but his office said withdrawn from the U. N. now, Ache- The Senate subcommittee noted gravely that he had not come in, that they son concurred once more. that if Article 73(e) could be distorted had telephoned to the places where The Acting Secretary of State had by our State Department to apply to the
he was presumed to be but they spoken. The decision was final. Canal Zone, it can be twisted to apply couldn't find him anywhere. That So, testified Mr. Braden, to Alaska and Hawaii, and possibly even whole day went by without the ap- "That is where the thing rested. We to Puerto Rico. ." pearance of Mr. Alger Hiss. . . did subsequently get Mr. Alfaro In an annual report published in
As the subcommittee was to put it down to Washington. We did have 1955, the subcommittee made what
nine years later, and put it magnificently, negotiations that were carried on might be the understatement of the "Alger Hiss seemed to have opened a for some time. We kept the bases as decade. "Alger Hiss," observed this Pandora's box of trouble for the United long as I was Assistant Secretary Government document, "exercised re- States and then vanished from his office of State, up until June 28, 1947, markable ingenuity in applying Article so the bo.K could not be closed." but I think it was the fall of 1947 73(e) to the detriment of the United The hours wore on. Still no Mr. Hiss. that I read that we had to give up States." Spruille Braden knew the State De- those bases which our military said Is the Panama Canal really so im- partment was letting the ball go by with- were highly essential for the de- portant that high officials of our Gov- out taking the bat off its shoulder. As fense of the canal and of the ernment will commit treasonable acts to
he put it to the senatorial subcommittee, United States." help our sworn enemy gain control of
"We ought to have hit it and we didn't." Communist agent Hiss, allied with the Big Ditch? The answer is almost too
By 5 p.m. the Department's business Dean Acheson, had handed the United simple: The Panama Canal is our jugu-
day was concluding. Now Alger Hiss States a major military defeat by caus- lar vein, our lifeline. Cut it and the could safely show himself, and he did. ing the loss of 134 bases— intact and United States dies. Wrest it from our He went directly to Acheson's office. operating— in a single catastrophic rout. control and in matters of seaborne com- Braden didn't happen to be present at Even more important than the sur- merce and naval defense the U. S. east the time, but one of his assistants was. render of those bastions, Hiss — with and west coasts again become, as once Thus Braden was able to outline the Acheson's backing — had established a they were, months instead of days apart. scene to the Senators: diplomatic precedent of the gravest pos- Block it and our foreign commerce ". . . Mr. Acheson had sustained sible danger. Who can say the United strangles. Take it away from us and we Mr. Hiss and Mr. Hiss had been Nations will not decide some day (and have no further right to establish de- very apologetic. He had been very that day could be tomorrow) to take the fenses so far to the south. The result will be that then our hemispheric rela- tions will change, and our foreign policy must change, and no man on earth can say what might happen to this nation
once that chain reaction is set in motion. Christopher Columbus recognized the need for a transisthmian waterway in Panama. A few years later Spain's em- peror tried to start such a canal, but was deterred when his governor re- ported that "All the gold in the world
would not suffice for its construction." Simon Bolivar, the Latin American lib- erator, was the next who sought to dig the canal, but even Bolivar could not get the cooperation of the other Ameri- can governments. French engineers who had created the Suez Canal spent nine years and 300 million dollars in Panama in actual excavation and failed. There was no canal until the United States of America undertook the job. Within the limits of a ten-mile-wide strip of swampy jungle and rainforested moun- tains we did what no other individual, ruler, company, country, or combina- tion of nations had been able to do. We dug the Panama Canal.
44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 .!
Now our foe wants to 'international- CATFISHING CAN BE FUN ize" our interoceanic waterway — which (Continiird from page 19)—— is another way of saying the worldwide Not long ago I stopped along the bank finally worked out a method of catching communist conspiracy, from its head- of a southern Ohio pond to talk with them in lakes that almost always pays quarters in the Kremlin, wants to trick Art Newdigate, a famous catfisherman off in fish. us out of our most precious and most in his locality. Art has long since for- When Art goes catfishing on the lakes, strategically valuable holding. And there gotten how many cattish he has caught he leaves his spinning gear at home. In- are blind men and fools who — together in recent years. A good day is one in stead he takes along a heavy lO-loot with the conscious agents of the U.S.S.R. which he takes from 40 to 60 pounds bamboo pole. This rod is equipped with — are willing to let this catastrophe hap- of catfish. Not long ago Art and his wife a casting reel and 100 yards of 20- pen. took 268 pounds of catfish from one pound-test line. "You don't need a line Alger Hiss didn't altogether succeed small pay lake in three days. He and a that strong to bring the fish in," he says, in giving away the Panama Canal, companion took another 127 pounds "but the line takes a lot of pressure when Hawaii, Alaska, and the rest. But with from the same lake in one 12-hour you make long casts." And Art tries to the aid and backing of Secretary of period. It's no wonder the other fisher- cast about 200 feet out into the lake. State Acheson he sowed the tares of men watch Art and make use of his He uses a large hook and heavy sink- evil. It is probable that Hiss would have techniques to tempt the cats. er. He also threads his line through a succeeded, back there in 1946, had it When I found Art, he already had 16 large tubular floater to keep the bait off not been for the light put up by Spruille fine channel cats on his stringer, the the bottom. He can adjust the floater to Braden and a few other loyal Ameri- fruits of an hour and a half's fishing. any depth, and this, he explains, is im- cans. This nation had better thank God And every so often he'd take time to pull portant in fishing lakes. that there are a handful of patriots man- in another one. "I like to go catfishing You never know when you start fish- ning the front line of our already be- in either a stream or a lake." Art said. ing in a lake what the catfish would most leaguered defenses against communist "Lot of fun either way. But catching like to eat and at what level in the lake engulf ment. cats in streams is not the same as catching they would like it served. So the expert Hiss the last laugh. may yet have 'em in lakes. You have to know the catfisherman first learns these things, Western diplomats quip wryly that "Dag difference." then settles down to serious fish catch- Hammarskjold is now America's Acting Art Newdigate likes to fish for cats ing. Art starts out fishing at six feet Secretary of State." Acheson and Hiss in the small lakes. He has fished for 20 deep. He makes a long cast and begins gave Hammarskjold's United Nations years, and once spent most of his time to move the bait back toward shore with the lever by which that mischiefmaking trying to outwit bass. Then after return- very slow turns of the reel. He'll move organization can pry our canal and our ing from his tour of naval duty in the the bait a few inches, then stop, then territorial possessions away from us. Pacific during World War II. he turned move it a few inches more. And he it can't happen here, you say? It can to catfishing. He studied catfishing and keeps an eagle eye on the floater so that happen here. It is happening here. Ig- norance, naivete, wishful thinking, and our shameful groveling at Geneva, to- WATCH THAT BALL . it's worth the loss gether with our current happy collab- OR I'll TAKE YOU PAL IF I WIN THAT GAL! oration with the Kremlin over the Suez crisis, are making us sitting ducks. The i same old enemy still says he will destroy us, and we assure ourselves that this can't happen either. The communist half of the world is staking its life upon the bet that it can.
Alger Hiss no longer is an officer of our Department of State. But Hiss left his boobytraps behind him. He didn't work alone. Others took up where Hiss left off. In a speech in April 1956, and more recently in a book, Mr. Bryton Barron, for a quarter of a century a responsible official of the United States Department of State (until he was forced to "retire" for protesting to his superiors about some of the strange things he saw going on around him), put his finger on the key fact: men once cl()\e !o Al^er Hiss remain in positions oj power in our Department of State. Still no one has bettered Edmund Burke's wonderful words of two cen- FREE! turies ago: "All that is necessary for the 2^ -PAGE BOOKLET triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." ON PIPE CARE . JUST WRITE TO: So long as we are content to smile SIR WALTER and smile and co-exist, the Hisses will RALEISH, go on working. They will carry their on DEPT. 185-C treason until Americans are slaves, and LOUISVILLE, KY. God and country exist for us no more. THE END
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH ly.^7 • 45 .
you he'll be ready to set the hook fast if the current and leave the bail on the reel floater disappears. up so the monofilament line strips off But it he brings the bait all the way smoothly. This permits a fish to take the
in without a bite, he sets his floater so bait and carry it off without realizing the bait rides about a foot deeper on that there are strings attached. the next cast. He tries every level all the In most cases the weight of the bait
way to the bottom, then tries it above is enough to keep the bait on or near veteran six feet. If by that time he hasn't had the bottom without using sinkers. Cat- a strike, bait starts fish . . . can now secure hospitaliza- he changes and over do most of their feeding on the tion insurance for yourself and again. This businesslike approach is the bottom; so that's where you let the bait your family at cost — through main reason for Art's reputation as a drift. You can use a bobber if you want AFMAA, your own, non-profit catfisherman. to, but it's not a necessity. organization. When you go catfishing, take along a The best baits for catfishing in the You'll agree: the policy you variety of baits. Art Newdigate carries streams include heilgrammites, min- black roaches, soft craws, nightcrawiers. nows, crawfish, and especially worms get as an AFMAA member is the best deal anywhere. Write dead minnows, and smelt. Many a con- and nightcrawiers (which probably take today for details. firmed catfisherman has invented his more catfish than all other baits com-
own bait. These are usually doughbails bined ) ARMED FORCES MEDICAL AID made of flour and cornmeal and flavor- Whatever the bait, remember that if ASSOCIATION ing, and the stronger the flavoring the you want to catch catfish you have to USAA Building— Dept. AL better. Oldtime catfishermen who have hide the hook, if a catfish feels the hook 4119 Broadway, San Antonio 9, Texas concocted their own smelly catfish bait when he picks up the bait, you'll never
usually get secretive about its contents, see him. He will usually take the bait D. FALSE TEETH and until you have experience enough and try to carry it back to his favorite Rock. Slide or Slip? to invent your own bait you'll have to corner of the stream. Let him run with rely the it don't put any pressure line. FASTEETH, an improved powder to be on more common ones—and the and on the sprinkled on upper or lower plates, holds false common ones are usually sufficient. When he stops, set the hook with a firm teeth more firmly in place. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feel- Some fishermen offer the catfish chicken twitch of the rod. Then is when the fun ing. FASTEETH is alkaline (non-acid). Does entrails, chunks of fresh liver, or even starts, for a catfish is a stubborn and not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture
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V, 1206 Maple Avenue, los Angeles IS. California THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 47 ) AMBASSADORS WITH BATS ( Coiiihiitiil froin fxige 23 of baseball to a junior team from San On September 28 the Ambassadors This team is made up of Americans liv- Salvador. had a long and busy day. It started with ing in San Salvador and of some Sal- That evening the players and coaches a tour of four schools in San Salvador. vadorans. The Ambassadors won by a were officially introduced to the Salva- The first was a local high school, then score of 5 to 3, with George Wilhelm, dorans and Americans living in that city a teachers' training school, a private Merlin Nippert, and Frank Davis all at a reception in the U. S.-El Salvador Salvadoran school, and finally the sharing the pitching duties. During their Center. Gil Archuleta, the Spanish- American School run by the American extended stay in San Salvador the team speaking coach of the Ambassadors, Society in that city. members were the guests at a reception acted as master of ceremonies and in- That afternoon the Ambassadors in the United States Embassy at which troduced all the players to the enthusi- played their second game, this time Mrs. Thomas Mann, the Ambassador's astic crowd. Walter Engle, of Tucson, against the junior team from San Sal- wife, was hostess. Ariz., one of the catchers on the team, vador. The Ambassadors won by a score On Tuesday, October 2, the Ambas- got a particularly warm welcome when of 7 to 0 behind the strong pitching of sadors flew to Tocumen Airport at he responded to his introduction in fluent Frank Davis. Approximately 8,000 fans Panama City in the Republic of Panama Spanish. The biggest hit of the evening, filled the Estadio Nacional to see the where they were greeted by Professor was the distribution of a booklet pre- Legion play against the home team. In J. Ferra Garboa, representing the Pana- pared by Commissioner Lou Brissie on this game June Raines got the team's manian Department of Physical Edu- fundamentals of baseball. second home run. cation. The booklet had been translated into On the evening of the 28th the team It was in Panama that the team got its Spanish by the United .States Informa- and coaches were the guests of the first look at the heavy tropical rains tion Service, and its distribution at the American .Society at a dance given in which were to cause postponement of reception was a hectic process. Several their honor at the American School. several games during the course of the thousand Salvadorans mobbed the dis- The Ambassadors also had an oppor- tour. Of the four games originally sched- tributors of the booklet and then spent tunity to visit the beautiful national park uled for Panama, the first two were the rest of the evening busily gathering at Cerro Verde and still later made a trip rained out. autographs of the team players and up a very rough mountainous road to While rain was washing out the ball coaches for their copies. the volcano at Izalco, one of the few games, the Ambassadors were able to On September 27 the Ambassadors active volcanoes in the Western Hemi- do a good deal of sightseeing. One of traveled to the little town of Santa Ana, sphere. their first visits was to the office of some 45 miles from the capital. Here The team had been scheduled to leave Sehor Angel Lope-Casis, the Minister of they played the first international game San Salvador on Saturday, September Education for the Republic of Panama. in American Legion Junior Baseball his- 29, for Managua, Nicaragua, but the They also met Sehor Gil Gonzalo Gar- tory; a local junior team furnished the death of Nicaraguan President Somoza rida. Chief of Physical Education within opposition. The Ambassadors piled up (after an attack by an assassin) caused that department. Commissioner Lou an imposing lead and won easily by a this leg of the trip to be canceled. With Brissie presented American Legion score of 15 to 0. June Raines, who Nicaragua in a state of mourning, it was Junior Baseball Medals and an auto- played shortstop, got 4 for 4 in this first decided to skip the series originally graphed baseball to the minister. game. Dick Montee, playing left field, planned for that country. Instead, the The team then went to the presiden- got 2 out of 3, one of his hits being the team spent three additional days in San tial palace, known as the Palace of the team's first home run — a long blast to Salvador and played one other game Herons, where they met Senor Ernesto deep center field. with the team known as the "Gringos." de la Guardia, Jr., the newly inaugu- rated President of the Republic. Presi- dent de la Guardia turned out to be an ardent baseball fan. and his first ques- tion to Commissioner Brissie was "Who do you think will win the World Series?". Brissie explained that as an ex-Ameri- can League player he would have to back the Yankees, who were then trail- ing in the Series by 2 games to 0. Presi- dent de la Guardia smilingly disagreed and continued the baseball discussion for some time. Following brief ceremonies in which The American Legion Junior Baseball Medal was presented to the President, Brissie asked Sehor de la Guardia to at- tend that evening's game at the national stadium. Sefior de la Guardia, in perfect American English, explained that he could not do so because of a prior com- mitment but that he would "send the old man" to see the game. President de la Guardia's command of the Ameri- can idiom was explained by one of his assistants, who said that Senor de la Guardia was a graduate of Dartmouth College. 4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 — . Following the tour of the presidential Ambassadors had the opportunity to were brief ceremonies at meet Brigadier General W. C. Potter, palace there Finest the statue of Manuel Amador Guerrero, Governor of the Canal Zone. The Gov- Men! lather Bomb the first President of the Republic of ernor briefed the team members on the Panama. A wreath bearing the name of Canal's management and operation and COSIS ONIY 594 The American Legion Junior Baseball then turned them over to the Army, team was placed at the base of the statue which conducted them on a tour of the while Taps was played by a bugler of the Miraflores Locks. Panamanian National Guard. A tour of The Ambassadors visited the control both the old and new city of Panama tower and saw several large oceangoing followed. ships make a transit of the locks on the After lunch at the Hotel El Panama Pacific side of the Canal. Then followed five of the players and two coaches were a trip through the famous Gaillard Cut, taken to Fort Clayton in the Canal Zone, named for the Army colonel of engi- where they appeared on the Armed neers who was in charge of the digging Forces television station CFN. The tele- of this passage through the Panamanian cast originally had been scheduled as a mountains. That evening the Ambassa- prelude to a game at the national sta- dors played their first game against the dium, but that game was one of the two Panamanian All-Stars. This game was 79e Not . Not 69« which had been rained out. It was at the first loss for the Ambassadors; they Fort Clayton that a series of unusual were shut out by Jose Ortega by a score coincidences occurred. First, Wally of 4 to 0. That night the Ambassadors AERO SHAVE Palmer discovered that the Army pho- were guests of the Panamanian Depart- tographer was a classmate of his from ment of Physical Education at a recep- Portland. Maine. Then Coach Pete tion in their honor. Senor Gil Gonzalo- I OWN a BUSINESS! Palumbo received a telephone call from Garrido, Chief of Physical Education, ^^'^/^ Earn $8,750.00 Your First Year! Start part time if you like. We locally train you, one of the viewers of the program who presented Commissioner Lou Brissie furnish everythin^^ to clean & mothproof rugs, upholstery on location by world-wide process. had played on an American Legion with the oflScial pennant of his depart- Quickly established. No shop needed. Just 2 average jobs a day bring $8,750 net profit in Junior Baseball team under his direction ment. This pennant and several plaques year. Employ others multiply profits. You get Nat' 1 Advertising, Parents 'Seal. 25 other reglr. services. several years previously, and it was and cups presented to the team will be- Eaj^v terms. Send for free booklets. Duraclean Co., 7-193 Ouraclean BIdg.. Deerfteld, HI. learned that the announcer had played come part of the American Legion against his team. Coach Archuleta also Junior Baseball display at Baseball's discovered another soldier who had Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y., UPTURE played on one of his teams in New and eventually, along with other tro- Mexico. phies, will be put in the Legion's ar- Finally, on the morning of October 5. chives. ENJOY NEW FREEDOM / after two games had been rained out. On October 8 the Ambassadors had ot action, peace ot mind and ' ENTIRELV different! comfort at work or play, Coaches Archuleta and Palumbo, to- a day which many of them rate as the rroven. patented MILLER holds your rupture back Day gether with several of the players, held high point of the entire Latin American and XiMlit— will bring you last- ing; lelief, lias heliied thousand^ It an indoor baseball clinic at the National tour. began with a visit to the Head- For FREE facts in plain wrap- Gymnasium. Nearly 300 young Pana- quarters of Lieutenant General William per. Send Name and Address to FRED B. MILLER. Dept. 53-C manian ballplayers kept Legion coaches K. Harrison, Commander in Chief of Exclusive rvianufacturer and players busy for some two and a the entire Caribbean area. After a brief L not etftl/one docs a» well, but E. O. Lockin, who A half hours explaining and demonstrating visit with the general they crossed the ^ started a business of his own, reports . . some of the fine points of baseball. On isthmus in the "scooter" — a gasoline- for 12 months I've averaged the morning of the 6th the coaches held driven trolley car — which was put at two clinics in the Canal Zone for U. S. their disposal by Governor Potter of the eOAAPER MONTH youngsters living there. Canal Zone. ^OUU INCOME- On the evening of October 6 the Am- They crossed from the Pacific to the most ot it cfear profit tor moi bassadors played their first game in Atlantic side in 55 minutes, which, as Panama at the Albrook Air Force Base their guide explained to them, was the # Many men have discovered how to be Stadium. Dick Montee got credit for fastest time that anyone had gone coast independent, to be free of bosses and lay- the win over a V.F.W. team. Major to coast. offs. L. A. Eagles grossed more than $200 his first week. Others report gross up to General Thomas L. Harrold, Command- Colonel Gines Perez, the Army Com- $12,000 per year. How much you make need ing General, United States Army Carib- mandant of the Atlantic side, and Lieu- depends largely on you. You no special skill, no large investment. bean Forces, tenant the and Colonel Ramage, the Colonel Leroy Glodell met No shop neeessary. Our electric rug Commander of Albrook Air Force Base, Ambassadors at Colon on the Pacific WASHER cleans rugs, carpets right on floor to show their natural color ar . . . helps were present in side. toured the the stands. General Har- The team Army Jungle beauty. So efficient and safe, used rold came down to the Ambassadors' Warfare Training Center at Fort Davis, largest hotels and railroads You take no risk. dugout after the to greet where they were given a glimpse of the game each of Machines fully guar- the players rigorous training idea of the anteed, and compliment them on and some fcifc. (MB^^^^^^™^ ~ i» Write for full infor- ' '^ their victory. Al Gauvin, Vice Com- conditions under which troops operate r . mation including how f^jj^*^^^^^^ "Jfr'^'y^ ^'^ mander of The American Legion De- in tropical areas. From here the team to make big profits in YOUR OWN business. partment of Panama Canal Zone, and went to Fort San Lorenzo, the oldest TODAT FOR FRII ROOK George Black, the National Executive fort under the United States flag. The MAIL COUPON "R" PL. Committeeman from that Department, fort, built in 1597, had been in ruins ; VON SCHRADER MFG. CO., 317 Racine. Wis. • Without obligation, send your f RH booklet contain- were part of the near-capacity crowd for more than 100 years until two years • ing iaformation about your Kl.ECTRlC RUG wa.sher and • how 1 can etart my own permanent, pro6table businetn. that enjoyed the game. ago when U. S. soldiers working on their • Ngm« • The game was broadcast over the own time reclaimed it from the jungle • Aiirm Armed Forces radio station throughout which had grown over it. • Clly. Zon« Slot* the Canal Zone. Still earlier that day the Lieutenant Colonel Glodell, who is THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 49 the authority on the history of the area, Legion team suffered in the eleventh to 3, in a game in which all of the squad gave the team a briefing on the bacic- inning. except Davis, who was scheduled to ground of the fort and the reclamation The new stadium in which the Am- start the next day's game, got in the project itself. He led the team on a tour bassadors played was quite a revelation lineup. of the fort, and, while climbing through to the visiting team. It featured a canti- On October 12 the Ambassadors were one of the lower dungeons, pretended to lever roof over the grandstand. This scheduled to play a doubleheader at the be amazed when he discovered a room eliminated all poles and there were, stadium in Barranquilla against an All- fitted for an elaborate lunch. This unex- therefore, no "dead" seats in the park. Star team from the Colombian state of pected treat in a 300-year-old dungeon The game was broadcast over local Atlantico. However heavy rains at the deep under the fort was the high point Colombian radio stations because of the end of the sixth inning of the first game of the day. The Army, which held the interest in the visit of the American caused the umpires to call a halt because luncheon in honor of the American team. of wet grounds. The score at that time Legion Junior Baseball team, explained On the night of October 1 1 the Am- was 0 to 0. That night the Ambassadors that only once before had it used the bassadors played and lost their second were guests of the Colombian Baseball room for this purpose and that was upon game in the same stadium in Cartagena, Association at a dance and dinner in the completion of the reclamation proj- this time to a team from the Colombian their honor at the Officer's Club of the ect. On that occasion Ambassadors and Naval Base. They lost by a score of 4 Army Training Center at Barranquilla. Ministers to the Republic of Panama On October 13 the Ambassadors flew had been invited there for a formal to Caracas, Venezuela, where on Sun- dinner. day morning, October 15, they played On October 9 the team flew to Bar- against an All-Star Venezuelan team at ranquilla, Colombia, where they were the National Stadium. Although they met by a torrential downpour which managed to overcome a five-run, first made it impossible to play their first inning deficit and tie the score at seven scheduled game in that country. The all in the seventh inning, they lost 8 to heavy rains, worse than anything the 7. On Sunday evening the Ambassadors ever Americans had seen, put the city By Past National Chaplain played the same team in the modern in a flooded condition. The Colombian University Stadium, a part of University Rt. Rev. JOHN F. McMANUS guides explained, however, that the city City in Caracas. This game, under the Post 262, Wilson, Kans. was built to take care of such rains; they lights, was lost by a score of 6 to 3. pointed to several streets with extremely O almighty God, Creator of the Earlier on the 15th the Ambassadors deep gutters and heavy cement bases universe and Father of all nations, look went on a sightseeing tour of what has which acted as runoffs for the tremen- with pity upon Thy children. Witness been described as the most modern city dous rainfall. how the peace which Thy Son brought in the world. Caracas, which is enjoying The Ambassadors arrived at the Hotel to earth lies shattered about us. See boom times, is rebuilding the old city in Del Caribe in Cartagena at about 1:30 how war has cut down our ranks and fast order. During their sightseeing tour in the morning. The next day they went ravaged fair lands. Rvcn more direful, the team members placed wreaths on brief on a sightseeing tour of the famous regard how it has perverted the minds the statues of Simon Bolivar, the great walled city of the Caribbean, which was and hearts of men so that, in revenge, liberator who was born in Caracas, and attacked several times in its early his- they would serve Thy archenemy of George Washington, who is greatly tory by pirates. Satan. admired by the Venezuelans. The sightseeing tour included a visit O most loving Father, Who has be- Another one of the rare treats which to La Popa, an ancient stone structure stowed peace upon us at the cost of the Ambassadors enjoyed as representa- some 350 years old, located high on a Thy Son's life, protect, wc beseech tives of The American Legion and the hill overlooking the city and harbor. It Thee, the lives of these. Thy other United States was permission to ride the was originally built as a lookout and sons. Send Thy Hol>' Spirit upon them, funicular railway which has recently signal point but later used as a convent. and nourisii their souls with hol>' ciiar- been constructed to take guests to the Following their visit to La Popa the ity that, cherishing Thee, they may Hotel Pico del Abila. the city's newest boys were taken to the Fisherman's Club honor Thee in their fellow men. ^^'hilc hotel, which is perched on a mountain by officials of the Colombian Associa- sending in defense of their countr\-, let 4,000 feet above the city. The ride in tion of Amateur Baseball Teams. At the them be mindful of the words of Paul, cable cars swinging high above the Fisherman's Club— really a yacht club— "Put \ ou on the armor of God, the rugged mountainside gave the team pho- they were served a luncheon of native helmet of salvation and the sword of tographers a bird's eye view of the city fish and other native dishes, during tiie spirit, which is the word of God." and the surrounding terrain. which the team listened to the broad- .May they understand their true cncnu' On October 16 the Ambassadors casts of the last game of the 1956 World is deceit and wickedness, and that tiieir again played the All-Star team from Series. task is to preserve truth and justice. Venezuela and this time won by a score That night, October 10, the team Enlighten the minds and strengthen of 5 to 0 behind the skillful pitching of played in the sparkling new stadium re- the hearts of those who, under Thee, Merlin Nippert, who threw a two-hit cently opened in Cartagena. They played guide tile destinies of nations. Give shutout. them the virtues humility before a crowd of more than 1 0,000 ex- of and prud- On October 17 the Ambassadors flew cited fans who saw the Ambassadors ence, with the realization that they to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where because play the closest ball game of their tour must render an account to Thee. of the tremendous local interest in the against an all-star team representing the O most tender Father, pity our pov- American team an hour-long interview state of Bolivar. erty and weakness. Infuse into our for radio, TV and newspaper reporters Frank Carpin, who started for the failing sight some vision of Thy eter- was held at the Hotel Normandie. Ambassadors, struck out 22 men and nal home. Loving this vision, may na- On October 18 the Ambassadors gave up no hits in the ten innings he tions and homes create ethereal beauty, toured the city of San Juan and visited pitched. He was relieved by Frank Davis loveliness and peace, where men may some of the historic spots within its in the eleventh inning, and Frank was glorify Thy name. Amen. borders. Again rain washed out the charged with the 1 to 0 loss which the scheduled game, but it was rescheduled 5Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 . as part of a doubleheader to take place rains. Earlier that day the two teams on the 19th of October. had been guests of American Legion REMOVE CALLUSES Ambassadors were On October 19 the Post 1, Havana, Cuba, at a luncheon. CORNS i"^^^y the guests of the Puerto Rican Depart- The Ambassadors were presented with ment of The American Legion at break- alligator wallets as mementos of their MOLLIS SAFE fast. Later in the afternoon they went, trip to Cuba, and in turn the Cuban WAY .vr^L.j*^'' postage prepaid with the All-Star Puerto Rican team, on team was given Legion Junior Baseball Scientinc speed trimmer EASY AS SHAVING! at Luquillo Beach as guests of Medals by Brissie. a picnic Commissioner Lou Just glide blade surface, callus or corn "peels" off. the Department of State of the Com- On October 23 the Ambassadors No pressure! No pain! No preliminary soaking! monwealth of Puerto Rico. traveled to Matanzas, some 40 miles Don't cut into your callus or corn and risk blood poisoning and other infections. Use Safe Way with In the doubleheader played that after- east of Havana, to play the Cuban blade encased in safety shell to protect skin. Accident-proof . . . quick, easy, absolutely safe: at Sixto Escobar Stadium the Am- School Champions. Prior to the game noon Uses regular double-edged blade-easy to clean, bassadors found out why the Caribbean they were the guests of the Department easy to replace. Precision made of chromium plated surgical steel . . .colorful hand-shaped handle. area has become a happy hunting of Education of the Republic of Cuba Guaranteed to Satisfy or Money Back. ground for big league baseball scouts. at the Technical and Military School MOLLIS Co., 1133 Bway., New York 10, Dept. C-35 The Ambassadors suffered their worst located at Matanzas. The Ambassadors defeat of the tour; they lost both games tied this game 2 to 2. The game was SAFETY FOG FILTER a score of 13 to 1 and the other called in the seventh inning to permit —one by Gives greater visibility than by a score of 10 to 2. the team to return to Havana in time any known devise in Fog, Snow. Dust or Rain. An On October 20 the Ambassadors to begin packing for the departure for amber lens instantly at- tached, instantly removed. journeyed to the town of Caguas, where home. On Wednesday, October 24, the For emergency use. Imi- tated but never equaled. they played against a local juvenile team. Ambassadors boarded a plane at the U.S. Pal. 2530685. $1.00 per pair, prepaid in U.S.A. The Ambassadors squeezed out a 1 to 0 Havana airfield for their last flight as a SAFETY FOG FILTER win by playing errorless ball behind the group. One hour later they landed at Dept. L, 116 S. Pritchard Fullerton, Calif. pitching of Frank Davis. The Legion Miami. players made the longest flight of the If there was any doubt that this good tour on the 21st when they flew from will mission had done its job, it was soon San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the airport dispelled. Letters and citations from offi- at Havana, Cuba—a flight of about five cials of the countries visited, from hours. Americans living and -working there, On Monday, October 21, the Ambas- and from the U. S. State Department all WANTED sadors played their first game in Na- praised the conduct of the team and the MAiif tional Stadium at Havana, Cuba. Behind wonderful impression the Ambassadors WiTH CAn the four-hit pitching of Frank Carpin, had made. the Americans won by a score of 5 For the team and the Legionnaires NO TIME LIKE NOW TO to 2 over a team representing Miramar who accompanied as chaperones and GET IN McNESS BUSINESS Yacht Club of Havana. coaches the tour had been a memorable It*9 no trick to make good money when you use your ear as a McNess The second of the Cuban series, enjoyable experience. game and For The . "Store on Wheels." 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MERCHANTS OF LIFE —(Continued from page 17) — of animals for Parke, Davis & Co. It tance. The late President W. B. Bell, a children suffering from leukemia, can- stimulated thousands of failing hearts lawyer with a love for bold research, cer of the blood. and created the stock gag, "Quick nurse, expanded the facilities. Dr. Wilbur Mal- Other Lederle research projects were the Adrenalin!" colm, a University of Maryland bacteri- as successful therapeutically but more World War I forced American com- ologist, became manager, and Dr. Yella- hazardous financially. When serums panies to duplicate drugs developed in pragada SubbaRow, an unusual scientist were developed to combat pneumonia, Germany, until then the center of phar- from India by way of Harvard, became then the No. 1 killer, Lederle assembled maceutical research. Of urgent military medical director. a herd of 350 horses at Pearl River to importance was Salvarsan, the famous Dr. SubbaRow was interested person- manufacture the 33 different serums German remedy against syphilis. Dr. ally in the anti-anemia substance in liver identified. Rabbits were found better, Roger Adams and Dr. Ernest H. Vol- because his brother had died of sprue, and the horses gave way to 24,000 rab- wiler, of the University of Illinois, suc- a tropical anemia prevalent in his native bits in the world's largest rabbit warren. ceeded in developing an improvement India. The substance was called folic "And then," reported the late Presi- on Salvarsan for Abbott Laboratories. acid because it is found in foliage as dent Bell, "One of those things happened After the war, the newly established well as in brewer's yeast and liver. Un- that so few people take into account. . . American pharmaceutical industry be- der Dr. SubbaRow's direction Lederle Along came the sulfa drugs. They cured gan to give serious attention to research. men spent two years isolating a third of pneumonia and replaced the sera. With- The discovery of the hormone insulin, a gram of folic acid from a ton and a in a few months the rabbits and their which allows diabetics to lead a normal half of liver. In 1943 they found that hutches disappeared. . . . Every dollar life, was no sooner announced in folic acid was a new member of the of the millions spent in research, facili- Canada than Eli Lilly put 100 men to B-complex family of vitamins. A 16- ties and rabbits was written off. Lederle work isolating it from the pancreas of man team synthesized it in 1945. By the was left with little . . . except glory . . . slaughterhouse animals. It was tough time the first five-milligram tablet was and the satisfaction of having saved work. A half hour's delay in refrigerat- sold for 52 cents, American Cyanamid countless thousands of lives." ing the glands reduced their value. But had spent $1,000,000 on the project. Sulfa drugs were a dramatic advance, by the spring of 1923, after less than a The price was soon dropped to 26 cents, stemming from rediscovery in a Ger- year's work, insulin was on the market. then 13 cents and much lower. A new man commercial laboratory of an old Since then, its price has come down 13 Cyanamid-backed chemical plant near dye formula. They made the front page times and it has saved a million lives. Bombay makes enough folic acid to pro- by saving the life of Franklin D. Roose- Thanks to it, diabetics can even buy tect millions of Indian women from the velt, Jr. Fortunately for American life insurance. anemias of pregnancy and stands as a Cyanamid's stockholders, the company One of the million saved was Dr. memorial in his native land to Dr. was one of the first to produce the new George R. Minot, of Boston, a physician SubbaRow who died soon after the tri- chemical wonders. Cyanamid developed who found eating outlandish quantities umph of his project. sulfadiazine and sulfaguanidine (which of liver as effective as blood transfusions As a daily supply of folic acid is es- prevented dysentery epidemics in World in restoring the red blood cells of vic- sential for all cells, it occurred to stu- War II armies) and became the world's tims of anemia. Dr. Minot won a Nobel dents of cancer, which is a wild growth largest producer of sulfas. Prize for his discovery, and Eli Lilly of cells, that a variation of folic acid The sulfa drugs were and are of great and Lederle Laboratories began manu- might be employed to starve or other- importance in themselves. And they also facturing liver extracts which saved wise halt the growth of the cancer cells. inspired renewed research. In hundreds anemia patients from a diet of liver al- By substituting other chemicals for vari- of laboratories, new compounds were most as bad as the disease. ous parts of the chemical structure of tried and old experiments reviewed. Purchased and rejuvenated by Ameri- folic acid, folic antagonists have been One was an observation made by a can Cyanamid, Lederle grew in impor- produced which prolong the lives of gentle English doctor, the late Alex- ander Fleming. Back in 1929 he had been working with some culture plates of organisms when a mold from the air blew into it. When Fleming returned, he noticed that the organisms immedia- ately around the mold had been de- stroyed. This was penicillin. It cured dis- eases no drug had ever cured. After a decade of neglect a Rocke- feller grant brought the delicate wonder from England to America and govern- ment funds started development. But 17 companies, starting with Merck, Squibb, and Pfizer, spent $25,000,000 before penicillin began to ferment in huge tanks. "The American chemical and pharmaceutical industries have never been given enough credit for the tre- mendous efforts they put forth in the development of penicillin," says Dr. Henry Welch, director of the Food and Drug Administration's antibiotic divi- "Got the idea from an old tugboat captain." sion. AMKRICAN LEGION MAGAZINE The war triumph of penicillin 52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 launched a worldwide search for other antibiotics and notably free of side molds and microbes that might produce effects. It now has the largest sale of Zemo Great For similar medicines. Streptomycin was any broad spectrum antibiotic, and sev- found even before the end of the war. eral firms make variations of it. This mold was discovered in the throat A sizable book is required merely to hchy Skin Rash of a New Jersey chicken by Dr. Selman list all of the hormones, vitamin prod- Zemo, a doctor's formula, promptly re- Waksman and two of his assistants at ucts, drugs for the control of blood pres- lieves itching of surface skin rashes, the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- sure, tranquilizing drugs, and other new eczema, prickly heat, athlete's foot. Zemo stops scratching and so aids faster heal- ment Station. For drugs of this type Dr. products produced by drug manufactur- ing and clearing. Buy Extra Strength Waksman, who received a Nobel Prize ers. Since 1948 about 500 new pharma- Zemo for stubborn cases. Greaseless! in medicine, coined a new word, "anti- ceutical products have been produced biotic." each year. Catalogs now list about 8,000. Every important drug manufacturer One of the newest of these is Releasin, began a frantic search for new antibi- a new Warner-Chilcott drug which saves otics. One firm sent its stockholders en- the lives of babies who might other- velopes and asked them to mail back wise be stillborn because of prematurity. soil from their cellars and gardens. Twelve years and more than a million Others arranged for explorers, oil com- dollars were spent on the research. As panies operating abroad, even deep sea it is obtained only in tiny quantities divers to send them molds. Several spent from the ovaries of pregnant sows, a millions of dollars without result. But treatment with it costs $150, but in for a few there were triumphs. nearly every case a life is saved. Hyn- Getting Up Nights son, Westcott Dunning, Inc., a In earth from near Caracas, Venezu- & has If worried by "Bladder Weakness" (Getting Up ela, Dr. Paul R. Burkholder, a botanist preparation somewhat similar in action. Nights or Bed Wetting, too frequent, burning or itching urination) or Strong Smelling. Cloudy then working at Yale under a Parke- Developments like this have raised Urine, due to common Kidney and Bladder Irri- Davis grant, discovered the organism immensely the scientific standing of the tations, try CYSTEX for quick help. 30 years use prove safety for young and old. Ask druggist for from which ultimately was produced drug houses. "They have advanced," CYSTEX under guarantee of money-back if not satisfied. See how fast you improve. Chloromycetin, the antibiotic which says one observer, "from peddlers to was flown back to South America where discoverers." Roughly half of the profits it saved the life of Gregorio Zalles after of the industry in recent years has gone CAN PUT YOU IN A his certificate had been out. into plants and laboratories. The A |P0S1CARP] death made new FINEpi'Jj^ BUSINESS! Its history since then is a vivid example more than $100,000,000 a year now Rush Card TODAY for FREE OUTFIT! Get in hlfrhly proti table, repeat -order shoe of the risks and competition of the spent by American drug manufacturers businessi Sell aniazins- line of Alr-Cushl ii Innersole comfort shoes to friends, ne' bors, fello'w workers. Dress, sport , wc industry. for research is greater than the total safety shoes for men, women. Never so In stores. Just 2 orders a day— In spar' A research team, including Dr. Mil- outlay for medical research in Great -brings In $168 EXTRA Incoi nth! No Investment. iird TOPAY for FKEE SELLING OUTFIT! dred Rebstock, a blue-eyed blonde Britain and is second only to the gov- MASON SHOE MFG. CO.. Dept. 516 Chippewa Fails, Wisconsin woman chemist, determined the formula ernment in the U. S. By grants and fel- and synthesized it chemically. But be- lowships, manufacturers underwrite fore mass production could be achieved, much university research. GET RESULTS! Lederle produced a rival drug covering Dr. Leonard A. Scheele recently re- rupture relief GUARANTEED! the same spectrum of infections. The signed as Surgeon General of the Public RESULTS — OR YOUR MONEY BACK Write now for free booklet and late Dr. Benjamin Duggar, a 74-year-old Health Service to join Warner-Chilcott pictures of rupture care. You botanist who joined that firm after re- Laboratories. "The drug houses now can be helped . . work steady, with low cost, easy-to-wear Web tiring from a teaching post, found the have some of the best medical men," Truss. Thousands satisfied. WEB TRUSS CO. Dept. Hagerstown, Maryland golden mold of Aureomycin in loam says Dr. Austin Smith, editor of the AL-3 , from a University of Missouri timothy- Journal of the American Medical Asso- field. Lederle rushed Aureomycin into ciation. "It is a good thing, good for production. In 1950 from a bit of In- them and good for people who need FOLDING CHAIRS diana soil, one MlllillllllllllllllllB of 100,000 samples, drugs." In steel orWood ^ Pfizer researchers came up with another The atmosphere of a drug company ' FOLDING TABLES broad spectrum antibiotic, Terramycin. is a combination of a university and the 4 Wm£ FOR CATALOG J Wand low dircct prices In the face of this competition, Pentagon Building. There are precau- ( Chloromycetin 39 the tions against revelation J.P.Redington&Co.IT won percent of danger and of broad spectrum antibiotic market, and secrets. The plants of Merck, Lederle, DEPT. 197 SCRANTON 2, PA. in 1951 Parke-Davis was first in sales and Parke-Davis are arranged like volume among pharmaceutical compa- campuses and vines cover the walls. At nies. But the next year there were re- noon girl technicians bask in the sun INVENTORS ports of a few patients treated with like coeds between classes. Inside are If you believe that you h; ive an Invention, you should Chloromycetin developing anemia. The blackboards on which scientists, many find out how to protect it. We are reElstered Patent At- torneys. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to American Medical Association warned of whom have been college professors, Protect Your Invention." and an "Invention Record" form. No obligation. Thcv : fo the sklntJ. against "promiscuous" use of the drug, write chemical formulas. McMORROW, BERAAAN & DAVIDSON and the Food and Drug Administration, While Dr. Casimir Funk, who coined KeKlstered Patent Attorneys 146-Y Victor Building Washington 1, D. c. though finding little risk, ordered a the word "vitamin," at 72 is doing re- warning label attached. Sales of Chloro- search for the U. S. Vitamin Corpora- mycetin plummeted. Parke-Davis tion, it is largely a business of youth. ARTHRITIS-RHEUMATISM dropped from first to fifth in sales rank Tall L. D. Barney became president of in the industry, but Chloromycetin sales Hoffmann-La Roche at 38. John VITAL FACTS EXPLAINED are now rising, and the company has McKeen, a chemical engineer who rose FREE DESCRIPTIVE BOOK How crippling deformitu's may Iw avoided. This amazing regained much of the antibiotic market. from the ranks, became head of Pfizer FREE HOOK explains why ordinary methocLs give only temporary relief— if that. Dt'scribes a druKless method In the meantime Lederle brought out at 45, and sales increased 65 percent in of treatment .successfully applied In thouiand.s of ca.^es. Write for this .•Jli-pace VllKK BOOK today. No obligation. Achromycin, first the tetracycline single year. Francis Brown, of a At 40, C. BALL CLINIC. DEPT. 560 Excelsior Springs, Mo. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 53 an attorney, was placed in charge of tests for all sorts of qualities. A drug is heaviest users of air express service. Schering. The firm was overdrawn often proved on five kinds of animals Only a tiny fraction of all drugs $25,000 at the bank and its key men before being administered to a human studied develops as expected. Thousands had been fired as enemy ahens. Brown being. Radioisotopes now oermit a fast- of sulfa drugs, for example, have been hired researchers and expanded from er study of some drug effects. All com- created, but only a score of the best hormones to antihistamines and other panies use isotopes in research, and continue in use. Some 5,000 antibiotics fields. In 1952 investors were happy to Abbott in a laboratory at Oak Ridge have been found, but only 17 are of pay $31,000,000 for Schering. compounds radioactive products for thy- enough worth for commercial produc- Age levels are even younger in re- roid therapy and the detection of brain tion. Fortunately some compounds search, and about 40 percent of the em- tumors. worthless for their intended use prove ployees are female. "Women are much There is always some drama in the valuable in other fields. Schering dis- more conscientious than men about rou- first human test of a drug. Rats and covered this in seeking a new drug with tine work," explains an executive. Dr. men, as some women contend, are much cortisone qualities. Leon A. Sweet became research director alike, and after animal tests it is pos- "Oh, doctor," said a girl one day, "all at Parke-Davis when 39. Dr. George sible usually to calculate both human of these mice are going to sleep!" Rieveschl, Jr., now of that firm, devel- dosage and effect. Investigators often Thus was discovered Dormison, oped chemical phases of benadryl, one first test new remedies on themselves. Schering's non-barbiturate sleeping pill. of the first of the antihistamines, when Powerful, entirely new drugs are admin- Dramamine was made by G. D. he was 30. Dr. Hilary Koprowski, whose istered first to desperate cases or vol- Searle & Co. as an anti-allergy drug but work with rabies and polio viruses at unteers. The latter are sometimes con- found its niche as a seasickness remedy Lederle has attracted wide attention, is victs. The manufacturer supplies the when a Baltimore woman under treat- still in his thirties. Dr. Lewis Sarett was ment for hives reported that she no 27 when he synthesized cortisone at longer suffered motion sickness on her GIVE 'EM Merck. THE WORD ride to the Johns Hopkins Clinic. Besides chemists, drug development Most non-Legionnaires have little under- Promin and Diasone, sulfone com- .standing of The American Legion. requires physicists, bacteriologists, mi- pounds first explored by Parke-Davis Much criticism of our organization is due crobiologists, physicians, pathologists, to this. and by Abbott as drugs for tuberculosis, pharmacologists, mathematicians, engi- You can counter this by getting copies of for the first time provided effective Legion neers, animal handlers, and glassblow- The American Magazine into as weapons against leprosy, properly many hands as possible. ers. Lederle for years a staff artist known as Hansen's disease. After hav- had A year's subscription costs only $1.50. Ad- who painted pictures of 2,000 molds in dress: ing been treated with these drugs many color. The American Legion Magazine patients formerly considered doomed Circulation Department Most new drugs result from planned have been released from the National P.O. Box 1055 projects initiated with the of ob- Leprosarium at Carville, La. aim Indianapolis 6, Indiana taining something more effective, more There are now drugs to deal with economical, or maybe just better tasting virtually all of the sizable bacteria, also than an existing drug. A review in the drug free. If results are favorable, it is the smaller rickettsiae, that beset the library of past efforts is usually the start. manufactured. human body, and the battlefront has A promising formula is chosen and New drugs are announced at medical advanced to the invisible viruses. "In- made up in a series of slight variations. meetings and in medical journals. Doc- fectious diseases are rather well under Then come tests. The American tors also are advised of them by mail. control," says one research director, "but Medical Association since 1905 and Abbott. Lederle, and Ciba publish for important research on the chronic and Federal law since 1940 have required physicians magazines that are master- degenerative diseases is just getting un- that these be thorough. While many pieces of color printing. Every firm der way." manufacturers opposed enactment of mails sometthing. Merck also publishes But it is under way with great re- the Wiley Food and Drug Law 50 years the Merck Manual, a thick pocket ther- sources. At Pearl River Dr. Herald Rea ago, all now support it and its amend- apy reference work of which 200.000 Cox. who developed typhus vaccine, ments. When a drug has to be recalled copies are sold at $6.75 each. Ships' presides over a staff of 96 in a big new from the market because of some mis- doctors use it as a medical Bible, and a laboratory entirely devoted to virus re- hap, the Food and Drug Administration paratrooper jumped into the Battle of search. There are also new virus labora- frequently first hears of the matter from the Bulge with one in his hip pocket. tories in Detroit, Philadelphia, and In- the manufacturer. Of 32 such recalls in Backing up the printed matter are dianapolis. All study the mystery of the 1954, 15 were initiated by the makers 12,000 specially trained salesmen, usu- living cell. Some are even hopeful about involved. Manufacturers of antibiotics ally called "detail" men because they the wild cancer cells. "Someday, we will have paid the FDA more than $5,000,- supply details of new products to doc- find what makes them tick," predicts 000 to test their products. But such tors, druggists, and hospitals. A sample one researcher, "and where to throw regulations have helped America win 75 of a new drug left with a Philadelphia the monkey wrench to make them stop percent of the world's drug business. physician by a Squibb man once saved ticking." New drugs are tried on germs and the life of a woman a few hours later. "As mother nature fails to create and tissue in glass tubes or dishes. There A switchboard operator had to rush maintain perfectly functioning bodies," are better microscopes than ever before some more of it to the patient's hospital. says Dr. Theodore C. Klumpp, who be- for studying what happens. A device Switchboards of most drug houses, came president of Winthrop-Stearns, enlarges and throws the image on a incidentally, are open around the clock. Inc., after government service and screen. The kymograph records tissue A call to Lederle from Saudi Arabia teaching medicine at Yale, "she will reaction as a wavy line. A promising once ordered anticholera vaccine to in- need the help of the pharmaceutical in- drug moves along to animal tests. oculate 300,000 pilgrims en route to dustry. The important thing is that we It is first tested for toxicity. Almost Mecca. A call to Lilly from stricken have at long last learned how to go anything can be toxic if taken in a large Texas City dispatched plane loads of about unlocking her mysteries. Give us enough quantity. The new drug is first drugs. Lederle speeds drugs from Pearl time and enough profits to do research, given to rats; if it is hopelessly toxic, it River to New York airports by heli- and some day we may at least under- is abandoned. Otherwise it proceeds to copter, and the industry is one of the stand them all." the end 54 • THE AMERIC AN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 a ROD AND GUN CLUB JOHN C. HAYICK, 163 Franklin Ave.. Palmerton, Fa., offers: "When building an {Comilined from pane 21) POST EXCHAIVGE ice fishing shanty don't cut the window s st) For advertising rotet write Combined-Classified, 1227 Loyola Ave., Chicago 26 Box 516, Depue, STANLEY J. SPOLAR, high that you can't see through them while SALESMEN WANTED 111., advises you not to discard those old sitting down. A low window saves you Will you wear new suits and topcoats without one penny cost and agree to show them to friends' You can make up to $30.00 monofilament fishing lines. "That tough, second to see if from jumping up every in a day even in spare lime, without canvassing. Stone-Field, hard-wearing line lias plenty of uses for your flag has sprung." 532 South Throop Street, Dept. F-925, Chicago 7, lirinois. $1,000.00 a month (or making dramatic 3-second demonstration he says, and lists them: (1) the sportsman," Eddie Zavecz, 407 N. Penrose St., Quak- of amazing lightweight Presto Fire Extinguisher. New chemical used by Airforce snutfs out fires instantly. Only $4.95. Terrific For attaching weights to duck decoys, (2) ertown. Pa., is another dedicated ice dunk- commissions. Millions want it. Free Kit. MERLITE, 114 E. 32nd. as leaders on fishing line, (3) as tough cr. "When you sweep the snow from [lept._X-72T, New Yorkje^ ^ MAKE EXTRA MONEY—Cash commissions. Easy-to-scll ADVER- thread for sewing buttons and tears in around your hole in the ice," he suggests, TISING BOOK MATCHES. UNION LABEL. Full or part time. Power- your hunting clothing, (4) for sewing "make a cleared circle no less than ten feet house selling kit free. Superior Match, Dept. J-357, 7530 Green- wood, Chicago 19. in car seat covers, (5) for tying foli- in light tiiat shines tlirough seams diameter. The BIG MONEYMAKING OPPORTUNITY. Exclusive line uniforms, age at your duck blind. the clear ice attracts fish to the spot. But jackets, pants, shirts, coveralls, sportswear. Advertising em- broidered- Every business prospect. Outfit Free. Waster Co., B-I9 you must avoid casting moving shadows; Water. Ligonier, Indiana. FOR OUTBOARD motor transportation, winter fish are just as shy as summer fish, FOR INVENTORS INVENTORS— If you believe you have an invention, you should will G. R. Graeber, 8705 Calder Place, Tampa, and any undue moving spook them." find out how to protect it. Send for copy of cur Patent Booklet "How to Protect Your Invention" and "Invention an idea: keep an outboard Record" form. Fla., has "To No obligation. McMORROW, HERMAN & DAVIDSON, Registered Patent Attorneys, Victor i motor from being badly bounced in the ON THIS POPULAR subject of fishing 146 X Bu Idin g, Washington 1, D.C. LOANS BY MAIL trunk of your car," he offers, "lay it on a sleeping waters. Dj nie- through the Wash BORROW $50 to $500. Employed men and women over 25, eligible. Confidential— partially inflated inner tube. This will keep w icz, 4030 N. Sacramento Ave., Chicago, no co-signers— no inquiries of employers or friends. Repay in monthly payments to fit your income. Supervised by it off the jouncing floor of the trunk and 111., has a gimmick. "There comes a time," State of Nebraska. Loan application sent free in plain envelope. Give occupation. American Loan Plan, City National BIdg., give it a safely cushioned ride." he saj's "when weed worms are scarce and Dept. 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Free on your person so that it won't freeze. I Sample kit furnished. MATCHCORP., Dept. EX-17, Chicago 32, III. found that bluegills and crappies went FREE CATALOG. Lowest Wholesale Prices. Nationally Known Merchandise. NORRIS 487-CC Broadway, New York. crazy for it." THE 1957 LINE of Arkansas Traveler MEN—WOMEN! START MONEY-MAKING PLASTIC LAMINATING BUSINESS at home in spare time. Material that costs 11c Aluminum boats has been announced. The gun fans: "Simple trick brings back $2.58. No canvassing or selling but mail orders ONE FOR THE bring in $20 a day. Write for full particulars FREE. Rush name 9-ft. Little Fisherman weighs 75 lb., has a III. to keep shotguns from rusting," sa> s John on postcard to WARNER, Room 4-C. 1512 Jarvis, Chicago 26, can carried in car trunk; EDUCATIONAL blunt bow, and be Edwards, 317 E. Franklin St., Richmond MECHANICALLY INCLINED MEN needed for Careers in Jet In- costs Other models include: the 12-ft. 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However, alu- 120 West 31. New York. LAND BARGAINS THE IOWA CONSERVATION Commis- foil does lose its antirust qualities minum Texas Resort-Site, at Falcon Lake, adjoining city. Excellent fish- sion tied in the national hunting ing! Utilities, with and after it becomes dull— in about ten months." Full price $149.50. Payments $7.50 per month. including CITY WATER. Ideal vacation or retirement. Write for fishing survey sponsored the S. Fish by U. Free Photos, Benton Matlock, Box 7487, Fort Worth, Texas. and Wildlife Service by asking Crossley, WHAT CHANCE has a poor duck w ith S-D Surveys, Inc., to conduct a concur- people like Airs. C. A. Neville of 605 N. rent study in the State of Iowa. Washington St., Marshall, Tex.? Here's her The results are published in an interest- scheme: "Tie hook, line, and bait to your ing supplement to the November 1956 Iowa duck decoys. Fish ^\•ill hit your bait and Conservationist. bob the decoys giving them a lively look For example, 48.9 percent of the house- and bring ducks bouncing in. At the end holds in Iowa have at least one fisherman of many a ducking day I've come home or hunter. In these households 525,000 witli my limit of both ducks and fish." lowans 12 years or over fished, and 359,000 hunted during 1955. (In some households JUST HEARD that Vermont's capable more than one member took to the out- director of Fish and Game Service, George doors to play, and some individuals both Davis, has announced that there wasn't a hunted and fished.) single fatal accident in that State during The favorite fish was the pan fish, pre- deer season, though more than 90,000 hunt- Look for This Emblem ferred by 41.7 percent. There was a tie for ers were in the woods. We don't know- second choice between the catfish and what how Vermont docs it, but other States Legionnaire dealers stock and they called "predators," meaning pike and should find out. bass. They rated 21 percent each. Trout promote the products that are and rough fish were last, at 4.4 percent TALK ungrateful. After young ABOUT advertised in The American Le- each. red squirrels are weaned, they drive their Among the hunters, pheasant was the mother away and occupy the home nest gion Magazine. Our advertis- favorite game with a 59 percent vote; cot- for a while until they are old enougli to er's brands are the products tontail rabbits were second. The report separate and go on the tow n. makes good reading. that you see and read about in If you have a liclpriil idea that pertains your magazine. THE FISHERMAN magazine came out in to hunting or ri.shini>, send it along. If we new dress starting '/> in January. Size now 8 can use it, we'll reward you wiili a liunting THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE X 11 U. Same editorial staff. Still published or fishing accessory. Address: Outdoor E THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 • 55 MlTINO •HOTS glasses, told him to watch the customer's A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY face when quoting prices. "When he asks how much, smile at him and say, 'Only ten Dollars!' then pause." "If he grins like it's a bargain," the father continued. "Say, 'That's for the frames, the lenses are ten dollars extra,' then pause again." "And then," he went on. "If he doesn't flinch, say—'each.'" — Charles Carroll Ova Eating He had hen-fruit for breakfast And spilled quite a lot, As you'll spy on his tie Where eggs marks the spot. — Berton Braley naffyiiitioii Bigamist: Proof that two rites are wrong. — Jack Herbert Lines to a Doparted One / dripped from the tub and grabbed for a tou'el; I raced to the door in high. But you'd hurried off and couldn't be seen, Least not by the naked I! — Dorothy Brenner Francis Just A Littlo Worse MATERNITY WARD "I wouldn't worry too much if your son makes mud pies," the psychiatrist consoled the woman. "And the fact that he some- times tries to eat them is also quite normal." "Well, I don't think so," rasped the woman, "and his wife doesn't either." — Harold Helper Timely Puri'liase The chair that ive purchased Is colored light brown. The cushion's foaiii rubber; The payment is down. — Harry Lazarus On Cooling .Soup When I've blown it and I've stirred it, And the heat still won't abate, I've a method that's absiud it Is so simple— I just wait. — Richard Armour Higher Edueation Carrying on a classroom flirtation is a case of putting the heart before the course. — George Hart Hard Fact "But," tlie friend protested, "everyone ^fedieal Core thinks lie's cracked." When it comes to tax reductions, never "He may be cracked," the girl answ ered, // an apple a day before has so little been done for so many. "but he certainly isn't broke." Keeps the doctor away, — W. L. Hudson — Maurice Seitter It's neifs to //i/v doubling old cynic; For the doctor today IV«t Too C'rai-koil Seldom comes, anyivay— Tli4> Il4>if«>r to Soo . . . to his clinic. A girl confided to a friend that she was You have to go doivn going to marry an eccentric millionaire. A father, teaching his son how to sell — Arthur Wild 55 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1957 B A M E R I C A N LEGION M A G A Z I N E RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL Attention Legionnaires! More than 20,000 Legionnaire owned retail stores from coast to coast are now proudly displaying the emblem of The American Legion Magazine Retail Advisory Council shown above in full size and color. The stores displaying this emblem are owned and oper- ated by fellow-Legionnaires who deserve your support. 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