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Vol. 71. No. 0; December, 1901 YOU'LL i,iM;m: SLEEP THE AMERICAN BETTER LEGION MAGAZINE Cover by A | A | exandro Contents for December 1961

SILENT NIGHT 9 ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS.

THE NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION by Robert B. Pitkin 12 MEET THE MAN WHO HEADS THE GREATEST OF VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS.

TRANSFER AT SEA by Walter B. Stevens 14 THE STORY OF A QUICK SHIFT FROM ARMY TO NAVY.

TOJO-JAPAN'S MAN OF WAR by Ralph R. Taggs . . 16 AMERICANS KNOW LITTLE ABOUT THIS MAN WHO DESIRED OUR DOWNFALL.

TV-ARE YOU WATCHING IT MORE AND ENJOYING IT LESS? by W. F. Miksch 18 ... if you learn how to guard MAINLY ABOUT COMMERCIALS THAT UNSELL YOU ON PRODUCTS.

yourself against cancer. HAVE WE THE COURAGE TO SURVIVE? by George Sokolsky 20 Your best long term in- A CRITICAL LOOK AT SOME OF OUR WEAKNESSES.

surance against cancer is to CHRISTMAS GIFTS (picture spread) 22 see your doctor every year SOME BRAND NEW OFFERINGS BY A TECHNICALLY-MINDED SANTA CLAUS. for a thorough health check- up, no matter how well you FOOD IS A WEAPON by Henry C. Wolfe 24 THE REDS ARE WELL AWARE OF ITS STRATEGIC VALUE; WE ARE NOT. may feel. Your best day-to-day in- NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 29 surance against cancer is to Features see your doctor immediately SOUND OFF 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB. .26 PRO & CON . S if you have any one of can- EDITOR'S CORNER.. 4 AMERICAN LEGION ABOUT BOOKS .. .41 PERSONAL AFFAIRS. 11 SHOPPER 49 PARTING SHOTS .56 cer's seven danger signals

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effective job—but unfortunately it was a job that helped to put Castro in power. The New York Times deserves a large share of the credit, for featuring so prom- inently Matthews' words of wisdom concerning the progressive element represented by the Fidelistas. Matthews explains The Times'" contribution:

"I was an editor . . . except when I was HOLIDAY THOUGHT away from New York or having my days off, I have written all the editorials in The day will be observed Thanksgiving New York Times on Cuba. If The Times shortly after you get this copy of had not trusted me to do them ... I would The American Legion Magazine, and not still be on The Times. But, then The therefore a little message may be in order. Times would not be the great institution The following, inserted in the Congres- that it remains if it did not show loyalty sional Record by Hon. Walter H. Moeller to its staff, as it always does." of Ohio on 1959, asked the ques- May 14, We are touched to learn of the great tion: "How Much Aid Did the Pilgrims Let's take loyalty of The Times to its staff, but the Get?" then gave this answer: results in this case would indicate that "They were in a depressed area. one No The Times owes a loyalty to the United guaranteed them high prices for anything. a peek at States and to its readers that ought to Their only roads and schools were built transcend its loyalty to the likes of by themselves. For security they did their Herbert L. Matthews. the gasoline own saving, or starved. "All they had was character. All they did was work. All they wanted was self- BLACK COUNTRY of 1966 respect. Several weeks ago Robert M. Hutch- "The sum of these three traits became ins, the ex-Boy Wonder President of America. the University of Chicago, now Boss In the next 10-15 years, motor-fuel "But what's going to be the sum of the Man of the Fund for the Republic, threw requirements will climb steadily in traits see — traits char- you today the of a dinner in honor of Supreme Court rather, lack of it, that both quality and quantity. By 1966, acter, or, demand Justice Hugo L. Black. more money for less work, put security it will take a 103.5-octane to satisfy Most after-dinner speeches are not above self-respect, pamper self-pitying 95 percent of the new cars. worth reporting to a large audience, but instead of punishing them, give criminals we think you will be interested in some For years, Brand Name oil com- resources desperately to away we need of the remarks made by Hutchins on this panies have used research to bring protect ourselves, listen to weaklings that occasion. Describing the kind of country want Government to take care of them you the best possible petroleum we would have if Justice Black's opinions when they should take care of themselves. products. Yet when they develop a were the law, Hutchins said: of early-American self- "Long years "No test oaths of any sort would be fine, oil, gasoline or new motor lu- respect and hard work built America, but permitted . . . The House Un-American bricant — they don't stop. They go destroy it, the traits you see today can in Activities Committee would be regarded half right back to work to find a product the time." as an un-American activity. Neither sub- that performs even better. Brand way conductors nor applicants for admission Name oil companies spend the to the bar would be declared L-0-Y-A-L-T-Y unreliable because they refused to answer money and the time to give you questions about membership in the Com- Herbert l. Matthews, the "Cuban ex- products you can trust. munist Party." pert" of The New York Times, has Count on Brand Name companies. Hutchins then said: "We ought to written a book. In it, he attempts to ex- make up our minds whether we like the They're leaders — in new products plain why he thought so highly of Cuba's Black country. I like it." —new ideas— and quality (of course). Castro (see "I Got My Job Through The In view of the operations of Hutchins' They're the authorities on style and New York Times'" in this magazine for Fund for the Republic, that last remark March 1961) and is still not entirely dis- fashion. Look closely at the ads in was most superfluous. And, like so many illusioned with the man who poses the this magazine. You'll see of Justice Black's opinions, it was defi- what we greatest communist threat to this hemi- nitely a minority voice. Not many mean. sphere. Americans nowadays are partial to "the Trying to understand what makes a Black country" where the climate is so LOOK FOR Herbert Matthews tick is pretty difficult, salubrious for Reds. and trying to figure out why a paper like The New York Times featured such bla- BRANDJ tant pro-Castro propaganda is a bit more I NAMES I COMING IN 1962 so. However, in his tome Matthews pro- \ SATISFACTION/ vides an assist on both counts. After a Your next issue of The American reference to "the ignorant, the crackpots, Legion Magazine will have a brand BUY LEADERSHIP BRANDS the knaves, the reactionaries," this para- new look. It has been changed from cover gon of journalists states: to cover and we hope you will like it. Brand Names Foundation, Inc. "I consider it almost an honor to be Watch for it, study it carefully when you attacked by the Eastland-Dodd Commit- get it, and please let us know what you

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Buehenwald look like a boys' summer William R. Clark camp. Over one-third of the popula- San Diego, Calif. tion would go into the gas chambers. We can only guess by what whim of MORE MUZZLING some petty Russian official you would Sir: As this letter is being written, be selected to be sent to the liquida- Maj. Arch Roberts, the author of the tion centers, or be "saved" for the Pro-Blue Program for the 24th Infan- slave labor camps. This is how try Division, is being "Walkcrized." Khrushchev plans to bury you. When That is, he is being transferred from you see pictures of the brutal nazi exe- the York City branch of the cution camps for liquidation of other New Office of the Chief of Information, races and dissenters, just remember where, presumably, he could be in that anything horrible the nazis have contact with Pro-Blue elements, and done, the Russians can do better. Jack Hunter he is being sent to a Medical Unit at Fort Lee, Va. The muzzling of anti- Santa Monica, Calif. communist military personnel must be CHEAP stopped. Secretary of the Army Elvis Stahr must be advised, in the strongest Sir: Millions of Americans who would terms, that political revanchism has no blow their tops if a merchant over- place in the Defense Department! charged them 10 cents, won't invest Everywhere patriotism should be four cents on a stamp and letter to the commended and not downgraded, but White House protesting the way the particularly should this be true in the money that comes out of their hard armed forces. UNITED NATIONS earned wages goes down the drain, John B. Coman Sir: Congratulations on the article by through bad administration of our for- New York, N. Y. Emilio S. Iglesias in the October issue eign aid program. entitled "Another Look at the U.N." Ralph Salvati J. SONG YONG CHO The United Nations is not an organi- Middletown, N. Y. zation dedicated to peace. If it w ere, Sir: I have just read the very inspiring- Russia and the other communist bloc SUGGESTION article about Song Yong Cho, now nations would not be permitted entry. known as Richard Douglas Cho, in Sir: Throughout these United States, George W. Forquer the October issue. Although I am a Post Office buildings display a plaque Ashville, Ohio regular contributor to Father Flana- location in the lobby in a conspicuous gan's Boys Town, I sent an additional Sir: I think every member of the Le- honoring the President and Postmaster sum because of the wonderful work gion should read "Another Look at General during whose term in office Boys Town did with this boy and the U.N," I am going to pass my copy such buildings were dedicated. In my hundreds of others. Also as a tribute of the October issue along to a friend, opinion, similar plaques of less expen- to the courage of the boy himself. with instructions to pass it on to sive material should be installed in all Last, but surely far from least, in ap- others. Post Offices, giving the full name and preciation of the wonderful things Hugh C. Aniidon address of our current members of done by Sergeant Harold Douglas and Ely via, Ohio Congress in each respective district. those other great GI's who helped the This would serve as a reminder to Sir: The article attacking the U.N. is kid. best answered by referring to the those wanting to write to the people Name Withheld opening address to the American Bar who represent them in Washington. Hempstead, N. Y. Association by President Whitney Paul V. Smith Sir: In your October issue there is an North Seymour this past August. Clearwater, Fla. article entitled "Song Yong Cho and President Seymour called for strength- the Sergeant." Since this young man ening the U.N. and declared there was IN UNIFORM is now in our employ, we would like every reason to believe most of the Sir: Congratulations to National Com- to have one dozen additional copies of emerging new nations of the world mander Charles L. Bacon. I noticed in this issue for distribution among his will recognize their own self-interest the morning paper that he was wear- friends and associates. lies on the side of freedom rather than ing his uniform when accepting the S. Jedel communism. honors of his new post. This type of I. J. Cohen & Co., Inc. Seymour Blulini leadership may show the way back to Kansas City, Mo. Plymouth, Mass. Legionnaires in uniform. The prac- Sir: "Another Look at the U.N." by tice in recent years of wearing only NOT YET ON TV Emilio S. Iglesias is the best article the cap needs revision. in upper right- against communism and the blunder- John K. Gibler Sir: The picture the ing and incompetence of the United Captain, Infantry hand corner of page 21 of the article "What's Ahead in in the Sep- Nations I have ever read. I am dis- Fort Monroe, Va. TV" gusted with the present trends of that tember issue is not from a television western. It is a scene from the movie organization. I wish our great, power- FURIOUS, FRUSTRATED Country," with Burl Ives ful, Christian country would wake up "The Big Sir: I am enclosing a clipping from not and stop being pushed around by bul- and Charles Bickford, which has our local newspaper telling of the yet been released to TV. However lies and pipsqueaks. muzzling of Ma}. Gen. Edwin A. Fletcher Hodges, M.D. Mr. Grady gets his point across and I Walker. Events of this type make me Indianapolis, hid. agree with him. so furious and frustrated I can't talk. William D. Hobbs It chokes me with bitter gall to think K-PLAN Paris, Ark. that I wasted five years in the Army, Sir: There are people who are mouth- three years of that overseas to protect A BETTER WAY ing the slogan, "I'd rather be Red than such lily-livered people as seem to be dead." How do they know they will running this country. These same Sir: In the "Rod & Gun Club" for have a choice'.'' If the communists took people seem to be so concerned with September, one of the contributors over this country from within, they guaranteeing equal rights to everyone said that, when boating, you should

would set up execution centers across that they will end up cutting all our ( Continued on page 48)

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THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT: Should Supreme Court Appointees Have Five Years' Experience On The Bench?

be unfortunate for (PRO) In recent years the stability (CON) It would nation if the selection of Supreme of the law has been seriously impaired, our Justices by the President were due in no small part to the lack of ju- Court restricted beyond its present compass. dicial experience among the appointees to the Supreme Court. Experience have we in fields related to the law, broadening In over 170 years, what qualities that make though it may be, cannot qualify a learned about the The person for the far-reaching considera- a good Supreme Court Justice? tions and judgments required of this qualities include a profound under- powerful body. standing of the law and a lofty mind, a broad area of information and experience, a feeling deep Of the nine present members of the Supreme Court for the great affairs of state and mankind, a only three have had judicial experience worthy of regard for our national heritage and its constitutional these ideas. mention prior to their membership in the nation's development, and the erudition to expound highest tribunal, and in only one case was this prior experience more than five years. A limitation on the President's choice would ex- clude from consideration groups from which some of It is mandatory that Congress eliminate an out- the greatest judges have been chosen-professors of standing deficiency in our governmental system by law, such as Justices Story, Stone and Frankfurter; enacting statutory qualifications on which eligibility members of Congress, such as Justice Black and Chief for appointment to the Supreme Court would be con- Justice John Marshall, the giant of the Court's history; tingent. I urge that these qualifications include at State Governors, such as Chief Justices Warren and least five years' experience as a judge in a Federal Hughes; and able practicing attorneys, such as Jus- appeals or district court or of any court of a State tices Brandeis and Harlan. Of the 92 named to the having appellate or general jurisdiction. (A prospec- Court, 34 had no prior judicial experience, and 15 tive Chief Justice could count years served as an had less than five years' experience on the bench. Yet Associate Supreme Court Justice, as well.) these men often brought the Court far more of the type of experience which made them distinguished It has been well said, "A government is no better members. than the hands that administer it." No matter how well conceived is a form of government, it will either be Judges say that the bench often deprives a judge its adminis- ineffective, or tyrannical, or both, should of the competitive experience of the law. Nor is a unqualified per- tration fall into the hands of inept or judge in many courts concerned as often with the sons. broad constitutional and juridical questions upon which the Supreme Court is required to act. The pro- Our forefathers properly deemed it impractical to posed requirement of five years experience on the Thus fill Federal judicial offices by popular election. bench does not define the nature of the court, which any criteria for eligibility exists, if it all, in the recesses may be more concerned with lesser civil or criminal appoint, and of the of the minds of the Presidents who cases than major legal issues. members of the Senate who confirm, these high offices. Our nation deserves to have the best possible men The primary purpose for the institution of govern- and women on the Supreme Court, and the President ment is the establishment and maintenance of equi- must, I believe, have the right to choose those who table order in society, and, were it not for the essen- will best serve our people and our nation in these tiality of order in society, men would be foolish to problems of the highest honor and responsibility. subject their liberty to the potential threat of despotic perversion of the institution of government.

Such a threat easily arises when men with great power are just beginning to learn their jobs.

Jacob K. Javits (R) Strom Thurmond (D) U.S. Senator from New York U.S. Senator from South Carolina

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 1. Si lent night! Ho - ly night! All is calm, all is bright 2. Si lent night! Ho - ly night! Shep-herds quake at the sight, 3. Si lent night! Ho - ly night! Son of God, love's pure light

Round yon Vir - gin Moth-er and Child! Ho - ly In-fant so ten-der and mild, Glo-ries stream.from heav-en a - far, Heav* n-ly hosts. sing Al- le - lu - ia; Ra- diant beams from Thy ho - ly face, With the dawn of re - deem - ing grace,

Sleep in heav- en - ly peace. Sleep_ in heav- en - ly peace

Christ, the Sav-iour is bornL Christ, the Sav-iour | is born. Je - sus,Lord, at Thy birth !. Je - sus,Lord, at Thy birth. !

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • BACON, Charles Langston: Att'y; Nat'l Cmdr, American Co., 1952-56. Ptnr, law frm Sebree, Shook, Hardy & Chmn 1947; Dept. Jdg Advct 1948; Dept Sr. v.c. & Legion, b. Marshall, Mo., 10/14/09. s. Chas. B. & Ottman, Kan. C, Mo., 1956 to date. Naval commnctns memb chmn 1949. Dept Cmdr 1950. Nat'l Am. Leg.: Nettie F. Bacon, AB Mo. Valley Coll., 1930. LLB & legl duties WW2, Los Ang. Amphib Commd; Camp memb Nat'l Security Commn 1951-61. Elct Nat'l Cmdr Univ. Mo. Law Schl, 1934. m. Helen Selvidge, 12/41. Peary, Va., CB base; 5th Navl Dist, Norfk, Va. Lt 1961-62, 43rd Nat'l Cnvtn, Denver, Colo. 9/14/61. chldrn: Mrs. Sharon Rule, Chas. L. Bacon, Jr., Law (jg) USNR 1942, seprtd LCdr USNR 1946. Jnd Am. Also memb. Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Phi; Mo. Bar Assn; practice: Columbia, Mo., 1933-34; Marshall, Mo., Leg. Post 191, Marshall, Mo., 1946. 2 v.c. 1946. 1 v.c. Amerc. Bar Assn; Chamb. Comm.; Masons; Bd. Dea- 1934-42; 1946-52. Chf counsel mktng div. Skelly Oil 1947. Adjt. 1951. Am. Leg. Dept. Missouri: Ortrcl cons, Presbyt. Chrch; Bd. Trustees, Mo. Valley Coll. with the pleasing qualities that Legion-

naires everywhere have found in its ul- The NATIONAL timate choice—Charles L. Bacon. Bacon was born on the 14th of Octo- ber, 1909, in Marshall, Missouri, the site of Missouri Valley College — where he COMMANDER got his AB degree in 1930. He is the son of the late Charles Benjamin Bacon (1871-1930), a native of Bourbon, Mo., OF THE who moved to Marshall to go to the college there and remained. His father, says the Commander, never had much money but was "rich in ^American Legion friends." The elder Bacon was in the real estate and insurance business in 1961-1962 Marshall, was a deputy sheriff and served as Postmaster for eight years during the Wilson Administration. In his late forties during WWI, the Com- Charles L. Bacon, Kansas City attorney, mander's father was one of the home- front leaders in Marshall during that war and was chairman of the Saline County Red Cross. is Missouri's first national Legion chief. Commander Bacon's mother, Mrs. Nettie F. Bacon, a native of Louisiana, Mo., in Pike County, passed away last summer at the age of 86, in Pico-Rivera, California. Commander Bacon was an outstand- By ROBERT B. PITKIN Oct. 19, just in time to get to Nat'l Hq. in Indianapolis on Oct. 22 for the regu- ing student in the Marshall Public Schools, graduating from Marshall High £T~^S harles l. bacon, a partner in the lar fall meetings of state and national Kansas City, Mo., law firm of Legion officials and committees. School in 1926 at the age of 16. ^^"H Sebree, Shook, Hardy and Ott- In his wake, Commander Bacon left Bacon's parents were neither rich nor poor. man and a 51 -year-old WW2 Navy vet- at least one witness in virtually every They could not indulge their son, eran, was named National Commander county of the United States to testify but provided him a good home. Besides of The American Legion for 1961-62 that, among other things the Legion's being an excellent student, he was self reliant, had a capacity for work, and shortly after noon on Thursday, Sept. 14, new national leader is (1) able; (2) in- quickly 1961. Bacon was unopposed, and was stantly likeable; (3) sincerely dedicated developed talents that gave him elected to office by acclamation by the to the fundamental principles of The both pleasure and income as a boy. 2,997 delegates to The American Legion's American Legion and American citizen- Bacon played the drums in his high 43rd National Convention, in the Den- ship; (4) endowed with a high order of school and college bands, and in an or- ver Auditorium, Denver, Colorado. organizational ability and basic good chestra for nine years while in high school, There is someone within easy reach sense; and (5) possessed of a personal college and law school, as a of virtually every reader of these words manner that is frank, friendly and reas- source of income. He had, and has, a who has first-hand knowledge of Com- suring. good voice, was a soloist in his college mander Bacon's personal attributes. It was in the cards that the thousands glee club and sang in the Presbyterian In the month following his election of Legionnaires who have met with Church choir. the new Commander made himself per- Commander Bacon personally would During summer vacations while in sonally known to local leaders of the find that Missouri's first National Com- school he worked delivering ice. Legion from coast to coast. mander would be such a man. At Missouri Valley College he tried He traveled more than 30,000 miles Several years ago the Missouri Ameri- out for the basketball and track teams, and held a series of 22 regional confer- can Legion appointed a committee to ended up with a broken leg when he ences that were available to every Dis- recommend which Missouri Legionnaire, crashed into the bleachers in a basket- trict or County American Legion Com- out of nearly 70,000, would be the most ball game during his sophomore year. mander in continental United States. likely to receive the backing of the rest Bacon and some of his classmates found- His purpose: to implement his pledge of the Legion if Missouri should offer ed the Tharsus Club on the college cam- to "work at the business of The Ameri- him as a candidate for National Com- pus. They hoped it would become the can Legion" and to form a unified lead- mander. local chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity— ership team during the first month of his With plenty of talent available, the and it did. year in office. committee had its neck way out when it Bacon graduated from college with By setting a killing pace, East, West, took on such a job, and farther out when top honors in 1930. The death of his North and South he concluded the final it would come up with a final prospect. father that year and the onset of the conference at Aberdeen, S. Dak., on It was careful to suggest a Missourian (Continued on page 37)

13 By WALTER B. STEVENS Sirens shrieked; the "all hands on its steering mechanism, hao wandered deck" signals were given. In all stages of off its assigned path and hit our trans- K ~mr T was a starless, moonless night dress and undress, clutching our "Mae port. The point of impact was just below in the mid-Atlantic. On Feb. 12, West" life preservers, we scrambled out hospital quarters, or sickbay, of our ship. 1943, ocean-going vessels carrying of bunks and came topside in a hurry. There were about 20 patients in sickbay Africa-bound, U. S. Army troops Our artillery battery, like all other units at the time, we learned. weren't using any artificial lights as they on the transport, had been assigned life- Immediately, the same thought came moved through waters that might hide boat stations to take, in the event of to all of us in our battery: We had lost submarines. Four days earlier, our con- emergencies. We went immediately to our first man in WW 2! There was little voy had steamed out of New York har- those stations. I joined the other Battery hope that Sgt. Davis and the others in bor. We were bound—but we didn't find C (77th Field Artillery Regiment) offi- the hospital area could be saved. Deep

The off-course tanker had rammed a huge hole, 70 by 30 feet, in the starboard side of our vessel.

out until we were at sea—for North cers, and hurriedly we checked our men. gloom settled over all of us. Africa to join Allied troops in action Only one non-commissioned officer was You get to know quite a bit about a against the Germans there. missing. He was a young Oklahoman, man when you read his letters to his wife

I had just finished a four-hour tour Sgt. Cecil Davis, who had checked into and parents. I had been our unit mail of duty as officer of the guard. As a first sickbay two days earlier. censor since our overseas orders had lieutenant in a field artillery unit, my Seconds after we had checked our been cut back in the States several weeks job was checking on men from our bat- roster, the announcement came over the earlier. I knew from his letters that Davis tery who were stationed at various guard ship's PA system from the ship's cap- was a devoted husband and father and

posts on the huge transport. It was still tain: There had been no torpedo , no apparently a dutiful and loving son. I quite a task for a landlubber like me to German submarine, but there was dan- knew, too, of his intense desire to return find his way up and down stairways and ger. One of the tankers in our convoy to his family and a normal way of life. through narrow, curving passageways of had veered off course and rammed into I thought about those letters and the the ship, so I was happy to end my night the starboard side of our vessel. A huge people to whom they were addressed, of guard duty when midnight came. hole, some 70 by 30 feet in size, was and I said a silent prayer for Davis. Back in my cabin, I started to take ripped into the side of our ship. Damage Our ship, limping badly from its body off my shoes. Just then a terrific jar was great enough to cause our captain blow, dropped out of the convoy to pre- tossed me off my bunk, onto the floor. to consider seriously an "abandon ship" vent all the other vessels from becoming There was a loud, crunching noise. Like order. Lifeboats were put in readiness sitting ducks for enemy subs. Two de- 5,000 other men aboard, I was sure IT for launching. Only the providential stroyers also left the convoy to serve as had happened—we must have been hit calmness of the night permitted us to protection for us. Fortunately, our by a torpedo from a German sub! In stay on the crippled ship. troopship personnel included a group of the blackness of the night as we stood As we shivered in the darkness of the Seabees who immediately began making guard, this was a constant fear; in sleep, winter night, we learned more details. repairs to the hull of the ship to keep it

it was often a nightmare. The tanker, having something awry in afloat. Our course was changed, and we 14 headed for the nearest friendly port, the port. This is hard to believe, but he's destroyer escorts had moved in snail- island of Bermuda. supposed to have dropped from his bunk like fashion to Bermuda, three days after hours deck, After two on we were or- in sickbay onto the deck of the tanker the ocean accident. dered back to our sleeping quarters. All after got hit last night." we Davis showed up then wreathed in of us knew that the danger was far from hadn't So we lost a man after all! I smiles and some borrowed sailor togs. gone. What little sleep we got was fitful. rushed below to spread the word. "The first thing I remember that night Dawn found most of us back on the Davis himself — he had become v/as picking myself up from a wet, slip- main deck, anxious to see for ourselves "Lucky" Davis then, and for the next pery deck and wondering how I got just what had happened and to learn three years we spent on European battle- there," he told us. how badly our ship was damaged. As I fields—filled in the details later. He re- "Another guy was near me (appar- came on deck, I noticed an exchange joined us after our transport and her ently another GI who had been in sickbay). He got up, slipped, and started stumbling. He grabbed for support but couldn't reach anything to hang onto. I saw him lose his balance and fall overboard." Apparently soon after that had happened, a tanker crewman showed up, Davis continued. "Hey what are you doing up here?" he yelled at Davis. "Where are you supposed to be anyway?" Davis couldn't answer that. Last thing he recalled was lying in a sickbay bed. He'd been treated for an ear infection shortly after our ship left New York. Now here he was, shivering in shorts and undershirt, on a cold, wet deck! He was brought into the tanker's hospital area, where a ship's doctor bent over to examine him and asked: "Well, what hit you, Sailor?" "Sailor, hell!" Davis responded. "I'm a soldier."

"Take it easy, fellow," the doctor advised. "You must have gotten a bad jolt, but you'll be all right. There are no soldiers on this tanker." "Tanker!" Davis was getting more and more confused. "I'm on a transport. Tell me, am I nuts?" Davis shook his head, and the "dog tags" around his neck clanked against each other and cleared up the mystery. ILLUSTRATED BY DOM LUPO The Navy doctor examined them, then exclaimed: "What the devil! You are a soldier, of semaphore messages between a Navy aren't you?" signalman on our transport and his op- Davis was relieved. "In the best out- posite number on the tanker that had fit in the Army," he boasted. rammed into us. The rapidly moving It was the doctor's turn to be puzzled. flags spelled out words I couldn't read, "But where the deuce did you come but I did hear the man on our transport from?" he asked. "Our crew hasn't re- mutter, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! ported picking anyone up after the crash, What do you know about that!" and we carry no soldiers on this tanker." I figured it was time for the Army to That was the first inkling Davis had learn some Navy secrets. I walked up of the crash. When the tanker rammed to the signalman and inquired: "What's into the transport, hitting the spot just the word from the tanker that has you below sickbay area, most of the men in so excited?" that area were washed overboard and He answered my question with one drowned. Davis and his companion, of his own. "Well, Lieutenant, did you however, fell from their bunks onto the ever hear of a man dropping from one deck of the tanker. They passed from ship to another in mid-ocean?" sleep into unconsciousness when they I hadn't, and I wasn't ready for rid- struck the deck of the tanker. Soon dles. "What do you mean?" afterward, Davis regained consciousness "Just this, sir," he replied. "This gob on the slippery deck and met the aston- on the tanker just told me they have an ished crewman who took him below. Army sergeant on board. Name's Davis "I've fallen out of bed before, but al- —Sgt. Cecil Davis. Says he's from one "Sailor, hell!" Davis told the ways stayed in the same room when I of the artillery regiments on our trans- ship's doctor. "I'm a soldier." did," Davis observed ruefully, the end 15 By RALPH R. TAGGS

monument to seven "martyrs" stands on the summit of Mt. Mitsune in Mikawa Ban 3 National Park, in Aichi Prefecture, Central Japan. It faces in the direction of the United States — eastward. This monument to Tojo and six other Japanese war TOJO

criminals was unveiled on Aug. 15, 1960. It is called the Seven Martyrs Monument and was built at a cost of 44,500 dollars; the inscription reads: "These martyrs were executed by an ex post facto law after the nation japan's man of war was compelled to surrender when the U. S. used atomic

Nicknamed "The Razor," Hideki Tojo, as War Minister and Premier, led his

country to destruction through his hatred of the United States and the West.

bombs and the Soviet Union violated its nonaggression pact. Let us cast our eyes in the direction of the Pacific and probe who was responsible for the war." Etsuro Hayashi, spokesman at the elaborate ceremony, stated: "It was the United States who started the war and I will provide material and evidence to anyone who challenges my assertion that America was responsible for initiating the Pacific conflict." The writer, who served in the military arm before and during WW2 and had access to developmental reports of a restricted nature, and whose detached unit was based in the Philippines until October of 1941, has gathered interesting data on the Japanese military, political, and industrial factions. It was strange that, beyond this data, so little Tojo, center, joins in a toast to the new Axis pact at this 1940 Tokyo meeting.

was known about the land, its peoples, cultures, and aim in history. In 1936, Mr. Tojo made himself known to the military and diplomatic world; otherwise, all was hidden behind a veil of oriental secrecy. (I) Beyond a vague readiness to associate Japan with cherry blossoms, fans, Fuji, buck teeth, earthquakes, ancestor worship, silkworms, cultured pearls, and a peculiarly arduous form of suicide (hari-kiri), most U. S. citizens knew very little about Japan before Dec. 7, 1941. From that date until after the war, knowledge of this mysterious empire re- ceded even farther. Aside from a few elementary essays purporting to analyze the Japanese mind, the subject of Japan's Secretary of State Cordell Hull on his way to the White House with Saburo past had been more or less taboo in the Kurusu, Japan's special emissary. This was three weeks before Pearl Harbor. press. With all direct news and photo- 16 seven battleships, three carriers, 12 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 44 submarines, DECEMBER 7, 1941 42 other warships, and 680,000 tons of Twenty years ago Americans came merchant shipping. to know, the hard way, about Gen. Hideki Tojo, the man most respon- In addressing himself to his congress, sible for Pearl Harbor and for other Tojo did not, of course, confine himself defeats and humiliations suffered by to the truth. However, even if he had the United States. But even today stuck to the facts, the itemized account few Americans know much about this Japanese warlord. of the war so far would show (and did) that the United States and England were deeply in the red. Tojo was certainly entitled to a major share of the responsibil- war, the name of the man who not only ity for this state of affairs. Furthermore, ran Japan's share of the Axis war effort if he didn't invent the Pearl Harbor plot,

but who can be considered chiefly respon- he gets credit for perfecting it between sible for its existence. He was Premier, Oct. 17, 1941, when he became Premier, War Minister, Home Minister, and Gen. and the day when it materialized. When Hideki "Kamisori" Tojo, who now has Hitler was stalled in Russia and Musso- the dubious distinction of being with his lini on the skids, Tojo qualified as the honorable ances- most competent and dangerous enemy tors. to the United Nations then currently at After Pearl Har- large. bor, he reached the Tojo's position in Japan was com- U. S. only as a sort parable to that of Hitler in Germany. As of disembodied War Minister and Premier, he had a voice, raucous, practical monopoly on direct access to hostile, but scarce- the semi-divine Emperor at any time ly identifiable with and was thus enabled to formulate na- the particular bug tional policies from face from which it within the palace, emanated. On Mar. Prince free from interfer- 15, 1942, the harsh Konoye ence by his Cabinet and strident voice colleagues. of Premier Tojo made itself heard more As Home Min- In 1941 the Emperor called on noticeably than ever before. In a boast- ister, he bossed the Tojo to form a new cabinet. ful address to the Diet—Japan's puppet omnipotent secret parliament— which was broadcast from fcfe wyPjjjfliBj « police, a job which Tokyo and recorded for future reference ^ii3BL Hitler delegated to in the . U. S., Japan's fierce little war lord k ^QPP'^^j Heinrich Himmler, gave an account of the Japanese victories ™, A A but one for which up to that date. Admiral Tojo's aptitudes Yamamoto Up to March 10, Tojo announced and experience had Jap armies destroyed 1,600 planes on especially suited the ground and captured 210,000 pris- him. As Premier, Tojo, coordinated na- oners, 20,000 tanks, trucks and armored tional policies and national defense. The cars, 2,100 pieces of artillery, 110,000 powers inherent in these positions added small arms, 28,000 railroad and motor up to a total of far more authority than cars, not including the captures made any one man had held in Japan since on the Burma front. Tojo topped this off the country had emerged from feudal- by asking Australia to "rectify her at- ism. titude," advising India to beware of Unlike his comparatively peaceful British "trickery" and warning China predecessor, the hypochondriac Prince that promises of Allied aid were likely Konoye, Tojo, whose nickname was to prove hollow. Tojo's Adm. Shimada, Kamisori ("Razor"), had had few con- the Navy Minister, to round out the pic- tacts with foreigners, except Germans ture, gave out Allied naval losses as with whom he got along amicably. Americans stationed in Japan found his manner disagreeable and his English un- On Sept. 11, 1945, he attempted suicide. intelligible, had little to say about Tojo before he announced to the Sun Goddess his appointment to his new job on the Hideki Tojo's answer was "not guilty." ->I Sunday after he received it. Tojo up to this time had been merely one of the graphic material stopped by the war, several alarmingly truculent leaders of Japan was revealed only by its painfully the highly jingoistic Jap war clique. ubiquitous armies. Before his appointment, Japan had The American reading public at least spent four years trying to bring the knew as much as it needed to know "China episode" to a successful conclu- about Hitler and Mussolini. Only a mi- sion. Germany's military successes in nute proportion of it knew, before the (Continued on page 45) TV) • Are you watching it more

Study of a man getting a message.

By W. F. MIKSCH Hemember when they used to call television our '"window on the world"? Well, by now I'm about ready to pull down the shade. Some of those commercials have all but spoiled the view. Through the magic of the TV "window" which dominates our living room,

1 have been made a hostile witness to such domestic tragedies as stubborn bathtub rings, dog tracks on the clean linoleum, and ice cream dribbled over auto seat covers. I have watched automatic washers choked by suds to the

point where I am ready to do a little choking myself. My reluctant eyes have been forced to ingredients being compounded for TV commercials. spy on people who can't breathe and Laboratory scene showing secret on people who can't stop coughing, on study insomniacs thrashing about in bed, and irritants compared with my biggest gripe three areas that deserve special after even on small babies screaming com- about TV advertising: That is the way and they're going to get it—right plaints from bassinets because their it keeps me personally under attack and station identification. diapers chafe. Night after night, I in a state of constant confusion. I squirm TV's Rule of Three gloomily watch the break-up of the same uneasily at demonstrations purporting Judging by television commercials, teen-age romance because someone for- to prove that the inside of my head is the secret of friendly persuasion is to local repeat just about everything three times. got to gargle. It is a world I'd rather the result of a merger between the fade, fade, fade," not be a part of, but if I'm going to stick Power & Light Company and the Village "Don't let romance, faded, around to find out whether the rustlers Blacksmith's forge. Like a backward they tell us, or, if it already has— faded, that is-well then, better get caught, I haven't much choice. child, I am admonished repeatedly to faded, Much of my disenchantment stems "Brush, brush, brush after meals!" Then "Put life, life, life back in your hair." saying they're wrong. Indeed from the fact that all television commer- as I obediently set out after my tooth- I'm not be onto some- cials seem to have been recorded at brush, I suddenly realize it won't make the TV copywriters may somewhere around 150 decibels—the any difference because the announcer is thing "good, good, good," to quote an- point on the sound scale topped only by shouting that "Glazola brightens the other of their triads. It's just that I'm a sick of hearing every- flat-hatting jet planes. Then when these teeth because only Glazola contains little sick, sick, commercials go on the air, studio engi- ONO-98!" And I don't stock Glazola. thing in triplicate. neers thoughtfully boost station trans- Thus I'm caught up in the unnerving One thing certain—and I'm practically mitting power just to make doubly sure wonderland of implausible anatomy les- bending over backwards to be fair, fair, that practitioners of TV's Rule that I don't miss a single word. Maybe sons, miracle ingredients which would fair— is firm ground they're right in doing it though; at least have baffled Pasteur, and a sort of idiot of Three are on somewhat with plenty of precedent in other fields it keeps me from hearing the neighbors repetition of everything I'd have pre- pound on my walls. ferred not hearing even once. It is these than advertising. But the foregoing are relatively minor ILLUSTRATED BY BOB BUGG Take, for example, the commercial

18 and enjoying it less 1

Many people agree that TV might have

a bright future, but right now it's a waste of time.

Gray's Anatomy was never like this, but here is Homo sapiens as he keeps turning up on TV screens.

which says, "Controls the drip, drip, drip of stomach acid." matter, would a dance rhythm called simply "Cha" ever Too hard a sell? No harder really than Cole Porter gave have become as popular as the "Cha cha cha"? his "Night And Day" with that throbbing line, "Like the Well, well, well. There seems to be no end of precedent. beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom." Just one "beat" wouldn't So maybe I'm just being picayune when I object to some "clean, clean, clean." But have been enough, and Porter knew it, so he put in three. TV announcer telling me to get But how he managed to restrain himself from adding an- I can't help it. I like to think I only have to be told a thing other "torn" to "tom-tom" is more than I can see. Will once. If I am told oftener, then it becomes nagging, and power, power, power, I suppose. "tension, tension, tension" mounts up. Many a football game has been ruined for me by the cheerleaders who, like TV admen, also seem to be firm believers in the Rule of Three. Just when I am trying to follow the play from my seat high in the stadium, these noisy extroverts pick up their megaphones and break into my concentration with a big "Team, team, team!" or "Fight, fight, fight!" One quick "Fight!" might not distract me

much, but by the time it is bellowed threefold, the play usually has been run off and the only way I ever find out who carried the ball is to pester the chap next to me with a "Who? Who? Who?" It is my personal belief that when cheerleaders leave college they become TV commercial announcers, or—if their

lungs have given out—then copywriters. But if it isn't cheer- leading or superstition which has influenced television ad-

vertising on the Rule of Three, then it must be that some Madison Avenue study in (Continued on page 39)

Studio scene showing why your eardrums ache when the man starts telling why you must buy his brand.

Down through the ages, superstitious man has attributed potent magic to the numeral three; incantations and curses, for maximum results, were ever repeated thrice. Whoever worked out the Morse Code distress signal (Dot-dot-dot. Dash-dash-dash. Dot-dot-dot) obviously was convinced that when it comes to getting attention, nothing succeeds like triple-iteration. "Break, break, break," wrote Alfred, Lord TV's rule of three deals with repetition. Here three scien- Tennyson and got to be Poet Laureate of England. For that tists demonstrate how repetition penetrates the human brain. 19 By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY munists in Russia came of well-to-do families. They might have lived com- ^-wr n ancient times, the general stood fortable bourgeois lives, studying in for- I before the walls of the city to eign universities, inheriting family po- which he was laying siege and sitions. They chose to risk their lives for shouted imprecations. In effect, he said: the Revolution. In a word, they lived for "I'll get you and your father and your what they believed to be right and were brother. I shall make prostitutes of your prepared to accept imprisonment, exile, mothers and wives. I shall bury you." death. Lenin came of a well-to-do And sometimes he did. But when a family, but lived in exile and poverty people were conquered, it was because most of his life because he believed. they were so rotten with sophistication Trotsky came of a wealthy family, but and cowardice that they could be pushed he took no advantage of his opportuni- over as a dead birch can be pushed over. ties. When I first met him in New York, The Roman Empire was never con- a five dollar bill was big money to him. quered by the so-called barbarians. These men and their associates were There was no longer a Roman Empire; not afraid. They devoutly believed in it died and its soul was rotting. Who the cause they advocated and through- survived the downfall of this mightiest out their days risked their lives. They state? It was not a conqueror but a asked no personal returns, and, if people who believed in their ideals and Khrushchev today lives in a royal pal- in a faith. Rome did not fall to the bar- ace, it is not likely to mean more than barians, as we are so often told, but by that he accepts what is available. Wretches who hold this view are not the decay of the spirit, bv the intrusion The success of the communists in representative of the American people. of oriental religions. It was Judaism as Soviet Russia is due to three causes: preached by Paul that developed into 1. They believed firmly and uncom- they were called upon to do, and the Christianity and substituted an organ- promisingly in a way of life designed by greatest sacrifices were made when there ized life for the nihilism which decay Marx and amplified by Lenin. To these seemed the least chance of success. produced. ideals they have been faithful, and those Ill

It is impossible for a people to sur- who deviated have been killed. Americans are not cowards. The his- vive emptiness of spirit. Materialism 2. They lived daringly and courage- tory of this country is the tale of cour- provides immediate satisfactions, but it ously. It is possible to differ with a group ageous men and women who dared to is always followed by disillusion. What cross the sea to find for themselves a is another automobile or another re- home where they could worship God ac- frigerator worth if there is no happiness cording to their choice and belief. Most in the home? What is the advantage of of the early colonies were religiously or- modern improvements and inventions if ganized. Pilgrim and Puritan, Quaker parents and children are so distant from and Moravian, Roman Catholic and Jew each other that there is no understand- settled here in the 17th and 18th cen- ing whatsoever? This produces a dis- turies to worship God in freedom. orderly society, but worst of all is the In the years that followed, the de- cowardice of public officials who cease scendants of the early immigrants and to be leaders of their people but live in their successors crossed uncharted fear of pressure groups and personal mountains and rivers, the plain—the antagonisms. Even more damaging to a heart of a continent—through alkali society is the public official who is so desert and over high mountains, in desirous of holding office that he sacri- wagon-trains and on foot. They faced fices the state to his private fears. This enemies—the unknown Indian, the beasts jeopardized by selfish actions. undoubtedly was the cause of the down- of the forests, the diseases of camps, fall of the French Bourbons, who not the heat of prairies, the chill of winter only achieved an apex of immorality but and yet recognize the self-discipline that blizzards. were terrorized by their own people. goes into a life of adherence to a cause. These people knew no cowardice. When Napoleon appeared, France no It is impossible for a communist to be a They walked with God and built the longer lived in an atmosphere of coward- coward, although he might be a traitor. greatest nation on earth. They asked no ice. Here was a man who took his coun- His consent is not asked when it is de- favors, sought no benefits, but gave what try at its lowest moment and by sheer manded of him that he risk his life. We they had of heart and sinew. The last bravery and patriotism made it the first ridiculed Stalin because he had been a words of the Declaration of Independ- nation of the world. We are witnessing bank robber; but then he risked his life ence bespeak the character of these a similar spectacle today in the courage as a bank robber not for private gain but men: of de Gaulle, who. since 1939. has been to provide funds for the cause in which "And for the support of this Declara- France's spiritual bastion, fearing noth- he believed. His occupation had not been tion, with a firm reliance on the Pro- ing, building endlessly la gloire, the glory bank-robbing but studying for the priest- tection of Divine Providence, we mutu- of France. hood. No one could have charged him ally pledge to each other our Lives, our II with private ambition because he be- Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." This we must say about the commu- longed to one of the smallest political Most of the leaders of the American nists: they are not cowards. Between parties in Russia— a poor and insignifi- Revolution made enormous sacrifices. 1903 and 1917, they risked their lives cant party which showed no chance of George Washington was a man of for their cause. Many of the early com- success. But for it men did whatever wealth, closely associated with the ad- 20 ence of God and the law, they risked the their lives willingly. There were cowards Have We in those days; many of them fled before the storm of battle. There were traitors in those days, men like Benedict Arnold, but our history despised them. We think rather of such a person as Nathan Hale who regretted that he had only one life Courage to give for his country and that he gave. Cowardice is not limited to the lowly. As a nation grows opulent and the people grow fat and selfish, cowardice becomes the disease of prosperity. Karl Marx told to the workers on the barricades of Europe Survive? that they had nothing to lose but their chains. Conversely, the rich and powerful, the economic and political leaders Khrushchev and some of our own political leaders of our times fear that they have nothing to gain by service to their country, by sacrifice for their country. We have an of smallness of the human soul are convinced that the American people are cowards. example in the committee of bankers and business men who advocate soft money, the abolition of the protection of our cur- vantages of aristocracy. He might have had achieved world renown as a philoso- rency by a gold base. Each person who become a king but even rejected a third pher and scientist. But when these men advocated the destruction of sound term as President. John Hancock, whose and their associates faced the necessity money knew that he was sending his signature looms so bold on the Declara- of building "a new nation conceived in country into bankruptcy, but then they tion of Independence, was a man of liberty and dedicated to the proposition could argue of the private benefits that wealth position. and Benjamin Franklin that all men are . . . equal" in the pres- would accrue.

Similarly, it must be said that from 1933 to 1961, the United States has been building an enemy because its officials live in terror of the consequences of war. Our officials spend billions of dol- (Continued on page 44)

Our politicians forget this picture of another America as they attempt to coddle us. 21 The handyman of the house will go for this This model plane is unusual in that it packs a new portable electric tool, a Power Plane punch, firing rockets from under its wings. The just introduced by Porter-Cable. It weighs 4*/2 Bell Airacobra P-39 model, priced at $9.98, pounds and can handle dressed stock up to and made by AMF Wen-Mac, is controlled 2 inches, including doors. The price, $54.50. from the ground and comes all ready to fly.

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Lights and sound are utilised in this Swing- Chronizer, engineered by Burgess Battery Co., to improve your golf game. Attached to the club shaft, its audio-visual signaling system is activated by the force of the swing to tell if the practice swing is correct. Price, $12.50. that can mean ap/easanterJ962

Carving is a pleasure with this self- powered electric knife which operates This compact citizens band ra- A sound center for your home, the with small batteries that give the dio transceiver employs 9 transis- NuTone AM/FM Radio-Intercom blade a rapid back-and-forth movement. tors to give a range up to 5 miles. puts music and messages where you The Kent Kordless Electra Nife with an Available from Lafayette Radio, want them. Basic unit is $151.50, 8-inch forged blade retails for $12.95. this new Model HE29A costs $39.95. remote speakers are from $7.50 up.

22 A white Christmas will be more enjoy- of snow in two minutes, tins Toro unit able if Santa leaves a Power Snow- is driven by a lift-oft Power Han- hound to clear walks and driveways. dle. Price of the complete unit. Snow- Capable of throwing more than a ton hound and Power Handle, is $199.90.

The Norelco Continental 100 provides hi-fi quality tape recording though it weighs only 8 pounds. You can keep within the law

Transistorized it runs on flash- with I his Radar-Gard, an elec- light batteries. Price $129.50. tronic device that signals when you approach a speed zone with radar. The price is $39.95.

Erom all indications, Santa's helpers are now gnomes with advanced degrees in all the sciences. The most interesting new gifts for the man of the manor, the lady of the house, the kids, or the house itself, are the items that do things by means of applied power. This year, emphasis is on electronics, and the stores are full of gifts that do amazing things by means of transistors and tiny batteries. All these gifts are designed to give you not just a Skil's All-Purpose Recipro Saw cuts any Merry Christmas but a happy and lei- material, from light plastic to steel, surely New Year. the end and even saws 6-inch logs. At the same time it can handle delicate scroll work. The price including blades is $49.95. Air cleaned of dust and pol- len is provided by a new electronic system offered by Minneapolis Honeywell, and controlled bv this panel. Priced at about $350-$400. Resembling a TV set, this Argus slide projec- tor employs a rear pro- jection system and may be run by remote control. Price is under $406.

The lowest-priced fully automatic electric eye camera ever made is this Fujica Magic For the man who wants to go places Eye 120, just announced. It cheaply, this Mini-Scrambler will sell for less than $20. scooterette may be the answer. With a 2-hp. motor it costs $139.95, and will travel at 25-30 mph.

23 FOOD is a Weapon

Our impulse is to feed even our enemies. This tells what happens when we do.

By HENRY G. WOLFE Committees are springing up in this munist cause. To the Red propaganda country and abroad to promote the idea machine, it's a natural, zealously pro- eople are dying of starvation in of American food for Red China. Some mulgated by fellow travellers, assorted people Pi,V Red China. Here in the United religious groups—and even members of do-gooders, and well-intentioned States our granaries are bursting the Senate—have taken up the cry. who don't realize that they are aiding with surplus grain. Let's do the humane Now food for the starving is an ap- the enemy. And aiding the enemy is just thing and send some of that surplus grain peal that tugs hard at American heart- what they're doing, since the Reds use to the suffering Chinese. strings. The quality of our mercy has the food theme for two main objectives: ) to push us into feeding the militant Such is the tenor of impassioned let- never been strained. But, in its own ( 1 ters to influential American newspapers. subtle way, the appeal serves the com- Chinese communists, and (2) to make

author, The Russian famine of 1921-23 resulted in cannibalism. In The heads of two women who had been eaten. In center is the in Russia. the foreground can be seen the evidence, human remains. with Herbert Hoover's American Relief Administration

a question in his January 25th us look bad all over the world. a weapon. Answering Yet Americans have big hearts. We Obviously, no decent person wants press conference, President Kennedy "are export- have a record of international humani- to turn his back on the starving. If the stated that the Red Chinese tarianism of which every one of us can Chinese and Russians would renounce ing food at the present time, some of it be proud. During both World Wars we the aim of world domination, Americans to Africa, some of it going, I think to factor in voluntarily rationed ourselves so we couldn't feed their hungry fast enough. Cuba, and therefore that is a abroad." could send food to suffering people (In fact, we are constantly sending food their need for food from He other Red abroad. We helped the Japanese earth- to the needy.) But food sent to China could have added Albania and quake victims, the Greek and Armenian would not reach the famine-stricken puppets to the list of recipients. refugees from Asia Minor, and millions peasants. The 43-year history of com- What the advocates of food for Red in fact of European victims of both major con- munism shows what would happen to it. China—for any communist state, —ignore is that in soviet eyes food is flicts. We not only saved millions of Rus- It would help build up the military ma- relief of hunger sian lives during the terrible famine of chine that is meant to destroy us. It not a nutriment for the for 1921-23, but also, in our zeal to relieve would feed the communist hierarchy, but a potent weapon. It's a weapon hunger, we may even have saved the the secret police, the Red army, the the advancement of the soviet universal tottering soviet regime. party members, the government bureauc- state. relate incident of the Rus- But food for Red China is not a re- racy, the militia and police, favored in- Let me an 1921-23 illustrates lief project. Make no mistake about it; dustrial workers. Moreover, it would sian famine of which difference between the American it's a cold war stratagem. Sending food replace food that the Reds have been the would be on a par with shipping guns, exporting. and the soviet concepts of food. When the tanks, and planes to the Chinese Marx- Exporting food in time of famine? Dr. H. Carey Walker, officer of relief administration, reached ists. For, in communist hands, food is That's just what has been happening. Hoover

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Under pressure, we went along with the deal.

U.S. OK's Deal So Canada Can Ship Grain to Peiping

WASHINGTON, June 8 (AP) transfer the grain from their —In a move to smooth If. S.- holds to Vhinese warehouses. Canadian relations, President The U. S.-Canadian dispute Kennedy today reversed a stop- arose after the U. S. Treasury Department heard that a Mon- shipment order on ten Ameri- treal agent for Norwegian and being supplied can grain pumps English vessels had ordered lor ships carrying Canadian pumps, from the Dunbar-Kapple grain to Red China. !M4mifficWiririg Co. of Batavia,

Some of the flood of Canadian grain worth $362,000,000 sold to Red China.

Communism has forced the Chinese to work harder than ever, but he gets a lot less to eat.

rich earth of Russia had traditionally produced good crops. But the bolsheviks plundered the peasants and seized their reserves of grain and seed. They killed off many of the most indus- trious food producers and destroyed the incen- tive to work. The "class struggle" enslaved the peasants. (Continued on page 42)

A Soviet farm delegation in this country to learn our "trade secrets" about the raising of food. We cheerfully tell all. At right is Earl Butz, an official of the Department of Agriculture.

his Leningrad post, he explained his mission of mercy to Zinoviev, local communist boss and chief of the Third International. Zinoviev glowered at him and shouted: "You

have food! Food is a weapon!" Dr. Walker quietly replied:

"Mr. Zinoviev, in our hands food is a weapon only against hunger."

As a bolshevik, Zinoviev thought it inconceivable that anyone would use food merely to relieve suffering. He and

his Red comrades had used it to keep themselves in power. Those who collaborated with the communists got food; those who opposed communism got none. Even during the worst famine conditions—I saw them and they were frightful—the bolshevik hierarchy had plenty to eat; the secret police were well fed; the party members and Red army had sufficient food. Khrushchev calls on the farmers of Kazakhstan for more production. Famine followed communism in the Soviet Union. The 25 EX-MARINE LARRY H. DANIELS, of New Berlin, N.Y., presents an idea that he says he picked up when he was in the Corps. If you carry a sidearm in a holster, he suggests that you also carry a small plastic bag.

When it rains, wrap the handgun in the bag and then put it in the holster. You'll always have a nice, dry weapon that will be free of rust.

CLUB For the man icith an interest in the great outdoors.

TEEN HUNTERS CLUBS, started by the lighting a charcoal fire on top of the sand. Sportsmen's Service Bureau in 1959 to give The fire will burn for three or four hours, young sportsmen a chance to learn how to and he assures us it will keep the boat warm. handle firearms, are now being extensively sponsored. Indeed, more than a few Amer- IMMOBILIZED GRASSHOPPERS arc as- ican Legion Posts are participating in this sured by a little trick that Gregory J. Carr, worthwhile activity, teaching safety and of Franklin Square, N.Y., has worked out. FOR A QUICK HOT MEAL while on the giving youngsters an understanding of fire- As he points out, the insects have an annoy- road or while approaching that hunting arms that may serve them in good stead in ing way of getting loose when the cover of spot, why not use the engine of your car? an emergency. If your Post might be in- a bait box is opened. He foils them, how- David K. Pike, of Rosemcad, Calif., does it terested in sponsoring a Teen Hunters Club, ever, by placing a discarded silk or nylon by putting a can of beans or soup in "one a booklet is now available which gives full stocking in the bottom of the box. The of the nooks and crannies of the manifold." particulars. To get your copy, write Sports- tiny, hooked spurs on the legs of the insects He says that 15 minutes later you will have men's Service Bureau, 250 E. 43rd St., New (we never knew they had 'cm) become en- a piping hot meal without the bother of York 17, N.Y. There's no charge. meshed in the fibers of the fabric and there lighting a campfire or stove. they arc when you need them. SLEEPING BAGS can become damp and MOSQUITOES AND GNATS don't like clammy after a night on the ground, and WE SUSPECT COMMERCIALISM, but the smell of camphor, according to Robert Charles Carroll, of Marion, Ohio, offers a Robert Hamaker of Los Alamitos, Calif., J. Cunningham, of Nanty-Glo, Pa., and he highly practical way of correcting that con- who works for the Diamond Match Cor- makes a suggestion based on that premise. dition. Give it a tumble in one of the dryers poration, says that a match book makes a When you are storing fishing vest and in your local Laundromat, he says. It will fine carrier for hooks with leaders in the shirts, be sure to scatter some mothballs in be dry and fluffy for your next slecpout. tackle box. You open the cover, insert the the drawer. During the winter they will hook around the side of the book of absorb enough of the smell to repel the matches, wrap the leader clear around the pesky insects', come spring. book, and close the cover flap. Not only does this give you a neat tackle box but also plenty of lights for your smokes. And Mr. Hamaker says you don't have to use Diamond matches.

IT'S ONLY MONEY and we seem to be in for more inflation anyway, otherwise we wouldn't mention the suggestion made by Charles E. Kuykendall, of Algood, Tenn. For cleaning eyeglasses, fishing rods, guns, and lanterns, he suggests old dollar bills!

OIL ON ICY WATERS is recommended PICK UP THOSE EMPTY SHELLS when suggests Elsie fishermen by R. Miller, of Lansing, DRY CLEAN YOUR DOG for ice geese, warns Curt M. hunting ducks and Stringer, of Bay Springs, Miss., and keep Mich. When you're fishing through ice, a Kuhn, of High Ridge, Mo. If you leave hole him spic and span during hunting season. few ounces of olive oil will keep the sharp- them lying around your blind, the use baking soda, which for quite some time. Her procedure is to from freezing over shiny brass from eyed fowl will spot the rubs or combs into the dog's coat, the taste of the fish too. she Ought to improve they'll never come near you. miles off, and mixed with your favorite flea powder. the powder is brushed out. Odors dis- THE EX-GI entered into the thinking of Then appear and the dog's hair becomes "glossy the Savage Arms Corporation when they clean." decided to bring out their famous lever action Savage 99 in a carbine version. De- IN an article appeared in this scribing the current popularity of carbines, AUGUST magazine telling that fishing at night was C. L. DuBuisson, of Savage said: "Perhaps likely to mean better catches than during all the ex-GI's who would have liked to daytime. For those who are going aftcr have taken an M-l carbine home from serv- lunkers after dark, Jerry Lordan, of Elma, ice are providing the market." His com- Wash., has a suggestion. If you wrap a pany's entry, the 99-E, has a 20-inch barrel, piece of luminous tape around the first two and handles such potent cartridges as the practice Joints of your pole, it will make it easy to .308, the .243 and the .300 Savage. Stripped CHEAP, FAST-ACTION target Angle- detect any movement of a pole tip. of frills, it sells for $99.95. is promised by Tony Gajewsky, of ton, Texas, if you use small chunks of char- pertains says there's no mis- If you have a helpful idea that WINTRY WEATHER is tne subject of coal as targets. Tony explodes. to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we another idea, this from Frank S. Weaver, taking a hit since the charcoal can use it, we'll reward you with a check for of Williamston, N.C. Observing that boats And he says briquettes are even better. If $5.00. Address: Outdoor Editor, The can be uncomfortably cold at this time of feasible, the targets might be set up where American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth year, he says you can correct this by filling you plan to build a fire. No sense having Avenue, New York 19, New York. a galvanized bucket half full of sand, then the charcoal go to waste.

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A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

RUSH IS ON FOR LEGION'S unanimously passed overdue increases for ANNUAL GUIDE TO COLLEGE AIDS monthly payments of compensation to war- AND CAREER PLANNING: disabled veterans last year, but nothing The American Legion's annual reference happened . . .a hassle between the two houses booklet to college financial aids and prevented their both agreeing on the same career planning for the guidance of high bill and the increase died for lack of school seniors and graduates is rapidly- the same bill passing both houses for becoming the number one sourcebook in its the President's signature. field in the United States .. .Within a few The pension situation was different... weeks of the preparation of the 11th edition There wasn't any notable effort to enact of the booklet ( "Need a Lift?" ) this fall, anything. requests for more than 60,000 copies poured The present pension law was devised by into the Education and Scholarship Division, the Congress two years ago, with the American Legion Nat' l Hq. P. 0^ Box 1055, declared aim of fairly solving numerous Indianapolis 6^_ Ind^ ...Corporations, problems under, and objections to, the universities, colleges, state governors, previous law. . .Veterans already receiving high schools, fraternal and civic orders, pensions at the time the new law was passed churches, labor unions were among the non- were allowed to select the new law, or remain Legion groups ordering the 150 booklet, under the old. . .It was confidently believed while by the hundreds American Legion Posts in Congress that the new law was so attrac- and Auxiliary Units ordered the fl packet tive that it would be the choice of most... of 7 copies, with other educational It hasn't turned out that way, and in many materials for distribution to their respects the new law has failed to do what local schools. its planners said it would do. In another phase of assistance for That should have been no surprise... students pursuing higher education, strong Under the new law, a totally disabled and backing is developing in Washington for unemployable married veteran, with a total passage of the Legion' s bill to extend Social income of $1,000 to $2,700 — or a single Security benefits to age 21 for young people veteran with an income of only $600 to $1400 who remain in school . . .Bill would apply — would lose anywhere from $3 to $33 a month to those already eligible for such benefits by choosing the new law... Even disabled until age 18... The benefit is basically and unemployable veterans with incomes so a dependency benefit . . .Commonest recipients meagre that they stood to gain in monthly are children of widowed mothers . . .Benefit payments, would jeopardize their future actually goes to the mother .. .Legion eligibility by choosing the new law... If believes the extension would be a strong their wives should find future employment, boost toward maximum education for a large their pensions could be wiped out under class of youngsters who have the toughest the "spouse's income" provision. time of all staying in school, and would The Legion, last year, introduced a bill correctly recognize that dependency exists which accepts the basic plan that Congress beyond 18 for those in school. invented, but asks amendments to make the

law do what it was supposed to do . . .Here ' PENSION, COMPENSATION REFORMS what the Legion bill (HR886) seeks: WILL GET NOWHERE IN 1962 1. For disabled, unemployable veterans IF VETERANS ARE SILENT with dependents provide pension as follows : What is the outlook for reforms in vet- (a) If income is $2,000 to $3,000 a year, erans compensation and pension programs a pension of $80 a month plus $5 for each during the looming session of the Congress? depend ent . . . (b) If income is under $2,000 The situation in compensation borders on a year, a pension of $100 a month plu s $5 the fantastic .. .Both houses of Congress for each dependent

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ears will be tuned more than 2. For disabled, unemployable veterans Congressional back home are without dependents, provide pension as usual to what the folks roots is $1200 to $1800, saying — and not saying. .. Grass follows:. . . (a) If income is murmurs will be ignored, shouts will be heard. a pension of $80 a month . . . (b) If income under $1200, a pension of $100 a month. LEGION INSURANCE COVERS 3. For widow, no child, provide pension PEACETIME MILITARY HAZARDS: as follows (a) If income is $1200 to who carry $12-a-year . . (b) If Legionnaires $1800, a pension of $55 a month . Life Insurance and who have income is less than $1200, a pension of American Legion to active duty with their $65 a month. been called are wondering if the insur- 4. For widow with child, provide pension reserve outfits, covers them while on military as follows (a) If income is $2,000 to ance still war, it . . answer is that, short of $3,000, a pension of $65 a month plus $15 duty .The policy has a war exclusion for each additional child... (b) If income does. . .The basic hazards of peacetime is under $2,000, a pension of $75 a month clause... But the including such extra plus $15 for each additional child. military duty — duty - - are fully covered 5. Eliminate the provision that wif e' hazards as flight premium. income will count toward disqualifying a without payment of extra reminded that veteran from receipt of pension. Insured Legionnaires are their American These requests are about the most the normal renewal date of policies is Dec. 31 moderate of the pension reforms sought by Legion Life Insurance insured Legionnaires, when the the various veterans' organizations. . .They for all .Because would remedy exactly those weaknesses in annual $12 payment for 1962 is due. . at the same time the law of which Congress itself is most all payments become due reminder conscious, and within the structure of the it is possible to publish this protection against lapses in addition Congress' own notions. . But the bill got as a American precisely nowhere in the last session of to the annual billing. .. 1962 Legion membership card number is required Congress . 1962. The reason is simple .. .Large numbers at time of insuring for Life Insurance is group of veterans prove their vital interest in American Legion individual the needed compensation and pension reforms insurance in most states, to state by their intense activity in getting insurance in a few states (due year... resolutions adopted by veterans organiza- laws) .. .Annual payments are $12 a It is available only to members of The tions. . But most of them stop there^ "reducing term Too many veterans obviously believe American Legion... It is that the annual the myth that a resolution passed by the insurance" — which means instead of Legion is all that is needed to enact a law payment stays the same, $12, the amount of ...That is, and always was, poppycock... increasing with age, and with age .. .Youngest It is true that the Legion' s influence always insurance reduces much as $4,000 was potent... It has always adopted policies Legionnaires may carry as they grow older that were as fair to the public as to the coverage, which reduces as ...Insurance ends at age 70, is not veterans. . .But even in the days when the condition of disabled veterans was univer- obtainable thereafter. wishing sally acknowledged to be a disgrace to the Uninsured Legionnaires, inquire of The nation, legislative action was paralyzed precise details, should Dep't, P.O. Box until the Legion rallied support behind a American Legion Insurance single thought-out solution... A reasoned 5609, Chicago 80, Illinoi s. competent solution was never enough, and SUPREME COURT DISMISSES until veterans by the thousands told their CHALLENGE OF VETS JOB ACT: Congressmen that what the Legion had refused to hear a introduced was what they wanted. The U. S. Supreme Court constitutionality of the You can be sure that that will be true challenge of the Veterans Preference Act on Oct. 16... this year . . .You may not expect either and their widows compensation or pension reforms in 1962 The Act gives war veterans unless those who are interested in them certain priorities in Federal jobs. . Ohio, convince their own Congressmen with a flood Non-vets at Wright-Patterson AFB, the action. . .In refusing to hear of letters that is impressive . . .That is brought with earlier even truer this year than last... A Congres- them, the high court agreed sional election year is beginning, and lower court action.

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support that the Legion gives to broad Membership Ahead 257,000 national defense policies, and the services it renders locally in joint military- civic problems. "The Legionnaires' job At Time of Fall Meetings as citizens has no end," Zuckert noted.

At the start of the meeting, Mrs. J. The regular fall meetings of American (c) A study, with a possible change Howard McKay (Pa.) National Presi- Legion nationwide officialdom were held in view, of the expiration dates of Amer- dent of The American Legion Auxiliary, in mid-October against a backdrop of ican Legion membership. announced the annual semi-spoof bet American Legion membership for 1962 (d) Plans for a new American Legion between herself and the National Com- that was 257,000 ahead of the compara- history, outlined in the Public Relations mander Bacon, re: the race to see tive date a year ago. report submitted to the NEC by PR whether the Legion or the Auxiliary As the Conference of Department Chmn C. D. DeLoach, (D.C.) would have the greater proportional Commanders and Adjutants met in In- (e) Extension of the temporary dele- membership record for 1962. dianapolis on Oct. 23, and the National gate-housing plan at the Denver conven- "If the Auxiliary wins, I get a Siamese Executive Committee two days later, tion for future nat'l conventions. cat from Commander Bacon," she said. National Commander Charles L. Bacon (f) Establishment of the official Le- "If the Legion wins, I give the Com- lost no time in telling the Legion leaders gion legislative program for 1962. mander a setter. Don't think we're in a from every state, territory and foreign Two speakers high in the ranks of the cat and dog fight. He really wants a set- department that the huge early enrol- U.S. military establishment journeyed to ter and I really want a Siamese cat." ment was due in large part to their early, Indianapolis to address the NEC. Both Commander Bacon, with a quarter mil- organized efforts, and to those of local thanked the Legion for the civilian back- lion early membership increase in his American Legion leaders in their areas. ing it provides the nation's defense set- pocket, just smiled, as if pondering a Past National Commander and former up, and each looked to the Legion to name for his setter. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (W. enlarge that role during the present re- Mrs. McKay, back from an inspection Va.) then told the NEC that Comman- mobilization. of Radio Free Europe along the edge of der Bacon had himself contributed The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Iron Curtain, said that the reality of mightily to the upsurge by his inspiring Staff of the United States, Gen. Lyman the huge communist imprisonment of personal visits with Legionnaires in ev- M. Lemnitzer, spoke to a closed session whole nations was beyond the power of ery section of the country at 22 regional of the NEC on Oct. 25. He intimately news headlines to portray. meetings during his first month in office. outlined the day to day military situation Yet a third factor was generally con- in Berlin, then appealed to the Legion to NEC Highlights ceded to have been a force in earlier- play needed roles of civic leadership re- than-usual enrolment of a quarter-mil- garding the problems of men who are Here are highlights of various reports lion eligibles in the Legion for 1962: ie: called into active service. received and actions taken by the Na- the enormous popularity of the stand As guest speaker that evening at the tional Executive Committee: taken by the Legion at its 1961 Nat'l National Commander's dinner to the Americanism: Convention in Denver in support of NEC, the Secretary of the Air Force, Edmund Lyons (N.J.), Vice Chmn of President Kennedy's facing up to the Eugene W. Zuckert, reiterated the reli- the Americanism Commission submitted threats of Khrushchev. ance of the military on the traditional its report. (To next page).

There is virtually no other organization in the country through which citizens can express what is almost a universal feeling in such unmistakable language as that which came from the Den- ver convention. Of the several meetings held in In- dianapolis in October, only those of the Nat'l Executive Committee (NEC) involved the official conduct of American Legion business and creation of policy. While the NEC adopted 27 resolutions, many of them were routine — the Nat'l Convention having settled most major matters for the ensuing year. A summary of all 27 resolutions appears on page 33. Items contained in them that are essentially new include (a) A new singing contest, to be held at Nat'l Conventions, for quartets. (b) Approval of Philadelphia as the site of the 1965 Nat'l Convention (Aug. SECRETARY of the Air Force Zuckert asks Legion support in military-civic 26-Sept. 2). problems, at National Executive Committee dinner in Indianapolis on Oct. 25.

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He cited numerous Americanism ob- About 355,000 boys and girls in Oratori- that if American children have "less than cal Contest in 1961, and about 5.1 million jectives for 1962, and recent accomplish- the best health, the best education and since 1938. ments. the best welfare," we are selling our 25,065 boys at Boys' States in 1961. Objectives included: Total since Boys' State started in Illinois children short. The Legion will continue A re-evaluation of minimum stand- in 1935 - about 465,000. its major role on the child welfare scene Expenditures Legion Posts ards for Boys' State. by Dep'ts and in the U.S., he said, if only because 40 in operating Boys' States in 1961: $903,- More enlistment of Boys' State grad- million of America's 70 million children 931.97. 98 boys at Boys* Nation in 1961. uates in civic activities. 1,498 total in the 16 years of Boys' Nation are the children of veterans. A survey of the effectiveness of the to date. Convention 18,000 School Medals awarded in 1961. present regional basis of American Le- Though accounting wasn't complete, About 405,000 since the program started in gion Baseball elimination tournaments. Pennsylvania in 1921. it was evident that the 1961 Nat'l Con- A special promotion within the Le- Nat'l American Legion scholarships to vention in Denver was a financial suc- gion of the National Oratorical Contest Oratorical Contest finalists. Used in 1961: cess, Convention Chairman Harry Fos- of $5,925. Balance still to credit of previous during 1962 (the 25th anniversary ter (Calif.) reported. winners $18,725. Awards authorized in the contest), particularly its develop- 1961 to four finalists: $8,000. Total schol- If the NEC would approve Philadel- ment by Legion posts in areas of the arship awards since program began in phia for 1965 (it did) then the next country it is weak. 1938: where $162,000. four conventions would be slated as fol- A goal of 20,000 School Medal lows, Foster noted: Child Welfare Awards in 1962. 1962. Las Vegas, Nevada. Oct. 5-11. Percy Lemoine (La.) reported as Encouragement of more Departments 1963. New Orleans, La. Sept. 6-12. 1964. Dallas, Texas. Sept. 19-24. 1965. Philadelphia, Pa. Aug. 22- Sept. 2. Under consideration for dates beyond 1965 were Portland, Oreg.; Houston, Tex., and Miami, Fla., said Foster, and a bid from New York, N.Y. had recently been received. Internal Affairs Legislative roadblocks have crippled the up-dating of national cemeteries for years, virtually all bills regarding them dying in Congressional committee, according to the Internal Affairs Commis- sion report given by Vice Chairman Max Brents (Calif.). The NEC voted GEN. Lyman Lemnitzer, Chmn, Joint Chiefs of NAT'L Cmdr Bacon lauds Le- support of a Senate Resolution to enact Staff, gives Legion's National Executive Com- gion local leaders for huge early needed new national cemetery laws. mittee a closed briefing on events in Berlin. membership surge. A subcommittee report on Member- to vie for the annual national American- chairman of the Nat'l Child Welfare ship, made by chmn William Brennan ism trophies. Commission. (Ind.) emphasized (1) The value of Lyons cited these winners of such tro- Lemoine stressed the policy adopted early nationwide conferences with local phies in 1961 at the 1961 Convention to support the leaders, such as National Commander Bacon had just completed, James A. Drain Trophy, based on com- President's physical fitness program. (2) The munity service; winner — Iowa. Frank N. The Child Welfare Commission would harmful effect on Legion membership Belgrano, Trophy, Jr. based on Boy Scout "like to interest Legionnaires and Legion and program planning of National Con- work; winner — Wisconsin. Ralph T. O'Neil Posts in working with their school sys- ventions held later than early Septem- Trophy, based on School Medal presenta- ber; The need of a sweeping study tions; winner — Mississippi. Hearst Ameri- tems to provide our youngsters with a (3) canism Trophy — based on total American- minimum of 15 minutes a day of vigor- of the Legion's role in urban and sub- ism activity reported; winner — Pennsylva- ous physical exercise," Lemoine re- urban areas. nia. Spafford Nat'l Trophy, based on spon- ported. Economic soring the Oratorical champion; winner — New York. Howard P. Savage Trophy, The Child Welfare Commission, he Economic Chairman George T. Lewis based on sponsoring the American Legion added, has under review the complex (Tenn.) noted that the Economic Com- Baseball champions; winner—Arizona. Ford matter of strengthening state adoption mission had not met since the National C. Frick Trophy, based on sponsoring the laws to remedy the conditions that have Convention, hence had no new report Baseball runner-up; winner — Ohio. Paid V. McNutt Trophy, based on winning the given rise to what is called a "black mar- to make. Lewis reviewed at length the nat'l Postal Rifle Match; winner — Post 25, ket in babies." status of the Legion's Economic pro- Windsor, Vt. Lemoine expressed alarm at the bad gram as it came out of the Convention Legion 1961 Americanism achieve- light in which many public welfare pro- (See summary of Nat'l Convention re- ments reported included: grams have recently found themselves. solutions, under Economic, page 32 of Substantial support to America's 450 The Legion, he said, strongly supports this magazine.) Lewis stressed the many Boys' clubs. the original purposes of the Aid to De- facets of the employment problems of Sponsorship of 4,302 Boy Scout units, serv ing 186,204 boys. pendent Children section of the Social veterans, and the employment rights of

Approximately Yi million boys provided Security laws. A special 3-man Legion men now going into service, as well as with youth baseball, including the Legion committee is "taking a hard look" to see the job problems of men subject to re- program and Post aid to Little League, if ADC needs reform or is being ma- call to duty if potential employers hold Pony League, etc. Total youths sponsored in baseball since 1925, approximately 15 ligned. their liability to military service against million. The belief of the Legion, he said, is them. The Economic Commission be-

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lieves that every Post of the Legion National Security Investments Policy: W. Bea Waldrip should have an Employment Chairman, Addison Drummond (Fla.), as chair- (Mich.); Overseas Graves Decoration and is asking that the Legion Manual man, gave the National Security Com- Trust: Nat'l Cmdr Charles L. Bacon of Ceremonies be amended to include a mission report. The strong Legion Na- (Mo.). regular Post report on veterans job tional Security resolutions of the 1961 FOREIGN RELATIONS: Emilio S. needs and opportunities, Lewis said. Convention had been hailed by the na- Iglesias (Vt.); Inter-American: Thomas Foreign Relations tion, he said. He quoted a Rocky Moun- E. Whelan (N.Dak.). There was nothing new to report from tain News editorial which said, in part: INTERNAL AFFAIRS: George T. the Foreign Relations Commission, said "It is . . . comforting . . . that a national Lewis (Tenn.); Constitution and By-

Hollis Hull (Oreg.), Commission Vice group of this stature (the Legion) . . . Laws: Halsey W. Stickel (N.J.); Graves Chairman. made up of individuals who have served Registration and Memorial: Herbert D.

Legion Insurance their country . . . can cast aside any par- Black (S.C. ); Group Insurance: Jerome

Jerome Duggan (Mo.) reported that tisan . . . considerations and take a stand F. Duggan (Mo.); Membership and an all time high of more than 45,000 Le- firmly behind the nation's policy of Post Activities: William A. Brennan, Jr. ." gionnaires now carry $12-a-year Ameri- strength . . (Ind.); Pilgrimage: Stewart W. Parker that years ago can Legion Life Insurance (see p. 28). Drummond noted two (D.C.); Resolutions Assignment: Charles He reported further that his commit- the Legion opposed attacks on the re- W. Griffith (S.C); Trophies, Awards tee had looked into the operation of the serve forces and the National Guard. "If

American Legion, the association does mond . . . "One could logically ask where Bush (Iowa); Aeronautics ir Space: not trespass on Legion rights or copy- indeed, would we turn today for the Roscoe Turner (Ind.); Civil Defense: rights, and is neither more nor less "com- military buildup, had we, together with David Aronberg (Ky.); Merchant Ma- petition" with the Legion's own insur- a few staunch supporters both in and rine: Henry C. Parke (N.Y.); Military ance plan for its members than any other out of Congress, not staunchly defended Affairs: William C. Doyle (N.J.); Naval life insurance firm, Duggan told the our position." Affairs: Emmett G. Lenihan (Wash.); NEC. Law and Order: Paul S. Kinsey (Ohio); Appointments Legislation Nat'l Security Training: Granville S. Duggan also reported as Chairman of Numerous appointments to national Ridley (Tenn.); Amateur Radio Net- the National Legislative Commission. committees and commissions were ap- work: Collins Rowe Buchner (Calif.). The NEC adopted the legislative pro- proved by the NEC. Below are those PUBLICATIONS: Edward McSwee- gram for 1962 offered in Duggan's re- who were appointed chairmen. Com- ney (N.Y.) port, based on 1961 Convention man- missions appear in CAPITAL letters, PUBLIC RELATIONS: C. D. De- dates. (Convention resolutions do not committees under each commission in Loach (D.C.) require Legion legislative activity unless italics. Appointments other than chair- REHABILITATION: Robert M. Mc- approved by the NEC). The 1961 Con- men are too numerous to list: Curdy (Calif.) vention committees and delegates were AMERICANISM: Charles F. Hamil- Special Committees: complimented for their work in screen- ton (Mo.); Counter-subversive Activities: Uniform Code of Military Justice and ing legislative proposals at Dr. E. Martie (Nev.). Denver. J. Court of Military Appeals: John J. Finn Rehabilitation CHILD WELFARE: Percy A Le- (D.C); Robert M. McCurdy (Calif.) as chair- moine (La.) Nat'l Commander's Advisory Commit- man, gave the Rehabilitation Commis- CONVENTION: James V. Demarest tee: William R. Burke (Calif.) sion report. He reviewed the failure of (N.Y.); Contests Supervisory: Archie Problems of the Aging: James W. the last session of Congress to enact Pozzi, Jr. (Nev.); Distinguished Guests: Doon (N.H.) veterans compensation and pension in- A. L. Starshak, (111.) Liaison with Nat'l Education Ass'n: surance reforms. (See page 27). He ECONOMIC: Almo J. Sebastianelli D. H. Reed (N.Mex.) expressed special interest in the econo- (Pa.) Employment: Elmore R. Torn Also appointed were Earl Young mic problems of men now called into (Tex.); Housing: Hugh Askew (Okla.); (Colo.) as National Historian, to succeed service, notably the condition of laws Veterans Preference: Raymond E. Mc- Glenn Hoover (Iowa); and Kenneth protecting them in their jobs on dis- Evoy (Mass.) Cruse (Mo.) to be National Sergeant- charge, and their civil debts while on FINANCE: Harold P. Redden At-Arms, succeeding Harry Engelund military pay. (Mass.); Emblem: Julius Levy (Pa.); (Calif.)

MORE than 90 leaders of American Legion Boys' States con- NAT'L Commander Bacon, and Nat'l Auxiliary President ferred in Indianapolis, Oct. 21-22. Here, Lou Babb, Idaho Mrs. J. Howard McKay (Pa.) jointly greet the conference Legion Adjutant, tells how Idaho Boys' State works. of Dep't Commanders and Adjutants as it met, Oct. 23-24.

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RESOLUTIONS: 517. Commends Freedoms Foundation at Val- 562. Endorses whatever action necessary to ley Forge. save Southeast Asia from further communist ex- 520. Opposes weakening loyalty oath and dis- pansion. Convention & NEC claimer in Nat'l Defense Education Act of 1958. Internal Organization 544. Supports the special committee on com- 48. Urges a 20th Anniversary Pearl Harbor munism of the American Bar Ass'n. Commemorative U.S. postage stamp this Decem- Following is a digest containing the Child Welfare ber. sense of every resolution adopted by the 33. Urges a nat'l conference be called by the 64. Urges commencement of American Legion 1961 National Convention in Denver President to study and make recommendations for nat'l conventions not later than September 15 and control of distribution of obscene and porno- no conflict with religious holy days. in September and the National by Ex- graphic literature and pictures. 271. Urges a commemorative stamp honoring ecutive Committee at its meeting in In- 415. Supports measures to improve on the phys- the "first enlisted women" in the Armed Forces, ical fitness of American youth. the Yeomen F of the WW1 Navy and Marine dianapolis in late October. 537. Supports the March of Dimes. Corps. 511. Asks designation of Sons of American Le- Convention Resolutions 538. Asks strengthening of legal procedures relating to adoption of children. gion to be one of the nat'l youth organizations They are arranged alphabetically by 539. Asks Legion initiative in a nationwide eligible to receive certain surplus gov't property. committee headings, and numerically by study of mental illness of children. Legislation 325. Again asks Senate to form a Veterans resolution number under each commit- Finance Unnumbered. Continues nat'l American Legion Affairs Committee. tee heading. per capita dues as in 1961, at $1.50. 371. Reiterates that Legion legislative proposals be limited to Legion's basic programs. Americanism Foreign Relations 52. Opposes weakening Connally Reservation, National Security 5. Supports Congressional investigations of sub- which prevents World Court from declaring its 95. Continues special committee on Uniform version and censures groups and individuals who own jurisdiction over U. S. matters. Code of Military Justice. try to impede such investigations. 54. Asks State Dep't to arrange for Red Cross 114. Opposes proposed reorganization of Class 10. Endorses the principle of establishing a visitors to persons in communist prisons. A Army Reserve Units as one that could diminish Freedom Academy, 68. Asks that all forms of Foreign Aid be re- reserve potentialities. 45. Urges strict enforcement of law requiring stricted to nations which show a willingness to 121. Commends Legionnaires Alan B. Shepard, the Communist Party USA to register as a repre- join the U. S. in combatting communism. Jr. and Virgil Grissom on their historic space sentative of a foreign gov't. 186. Reaffirms support of United Nations, as flights. 97. Asks Federal college aid for children of vets forum that may be beneficial in international re- 148. Urges immediate funds to develop Nike- who are 100% service-disabled. lations. Zeus anti-ballistic missile system. 98. Again asks Congress to investigate Ameri- 188. Opposes payment of any blackmail or 149. Endorses and supports Army Special can Civil Liberties Union. tribute to any dictator or oppressor, such as the Forces activities in psychological and other un- 99. Urges that Armed Forces be unhampered recent Cuban tractor proposal. conventional warfare. in indoctrinating their commands in the nature of 196. Continues to oppose admission of Red 151. Pledges "unyielding" support of President the enemy and opposes censorship of films "Oper- China in UN, and U. S. recognition of Red China. Kennedy's announced policy to deter aggression, ation Abolition" and "Communism on The Map" 200. Opposes any form of anti-Constitutional and of his mobilization and rearmament programs. in our Armed Forces. government. 153. Urges acceleration of rate of modernizing 129. Urges that pro-American and anti-commu- 213. Asks modification of Status of Forces U.S. Army to counter-balance communist man- nistic programs be kept by military and civilian treaties, to assure U. S. Constitutional rights to power bulge. authorities. all our overseas military personnel. 154. Recommends minimum manpower of U.S. 130. Asks Congress to stop flood of postage-free 216. Asks complete travel and trade embargo ground forces as follows: Active Army— 1,000,000; communist propaganda into this country from on Cuba, Army Reserve, paid drill strength-300,000; Nat'l abroad under Section 226, Title 39 of the U.S. 217. Supports House Resolution 279, that would Guard, paid drill strength-400,000. Code. provide a Select Committee of the House of Rep- 171. Supports national policy on fallout shelters. 131. Opposes weakening U.S. immigration law. resentatives to make a thorough and impartial in- 174. Asks labor, management and gov't to co- 158. Asks Congress to recognize communism as vestigation of the personnel and procedures of the operate in expediting naval shipbuilding. an enemy of the American people, and embark on U. S. State Dep't. 189. Urges acceleration of B-70 bomber system a program to conclude the cold war in favor of 251. U. S. maintain its present treaty rights in development and production. freedom. Panama. 265. Commends U.S. gov't attention to mili- 160. Seeks law to bar communists from radio 253. Asks U. S. to vigorously promote declared tary airlift problems. broadcasting in U.S. policy aimed at eventual freedom of Captured 266. Asks broader Federal Civil Defense pro- 179. Urges united support of U.S. citizens for Nations. gram to create local CD facilities and better edu- vital gov't decisions affecting national survival. 283. Asks end of secrecy surrounding Dep't of cate each American in CD procedures in case of 183. Opposes collectivism in American agri- Commerce export licenses of shipments to com- attack. culture. munist nations. 267. Supports compulsory ROTC in all land 201. Denounces American Nazi Party. 313. Asks U. S. to call on Russia for a com- grant colleges. 202. Asks vigorous Congressional investigation plete and total disarmament, fully guaranteed by 268. Seeks law to prevent denying earned re- of communist, facist and nazi organizations. adequate inspection, with former military expendi- serve retirement pay on basis that part of required 228. Asks support of local Chambers of Com- tures on both sides used for the benefit of man- service was rendered while under age. merce in observing Veterans Day Nov. 11 as a kind. 291. Asks Gen. MacArthur be appointed to legal holiday. 357. Backs up U. S. policy to defend Formosa. office of General of the Armies. 236. Asks Supreme Court reconsider ruling that 358. Asks unyielding foreign policy against any 361. Asks Legion posts to enlarge their roles no religious oath be required for an office of public further military or political expansion of com- in local Civil Defense. trust. munism. 374. Commends the President of the U.S. for 237. Commends F. I. B. and its director, J. 420. Disapproves Peace Corps in absence of his recent firm actions in the cold war to main- Edgar Hoover. guarantees of allegiance of members to U. S. tain the dignity of this country. 338. Urges increased education of young Amer- 451. Enforce Monroe Doctrine in Cuba, with 376. Asks that a U.S. Indian Ocean Fleet be icans in basic principles on which the United other American States if possible — if not — uni- formed in the Navy. States was founded. laterally. 377. Supports legislation to let Navy speedily 365. Urges more educational effort in U.S. re: 457. Asks end to all trade with communist- accelerate most modern anti-submarine warfare nature of communism. bloc nations. technologies. 397. Urges Legionnaires rededicate themselves 458. Finds policy of "containment of commu- 378. Asks that diminution of Naval aircraft to Americanism in 1961-62. nism" to be "bankrupt" — asks President to direct program be reversed. 401. Asks that naturalization rights of aliens free world to a new policy of liberation of com- 380. Asks further acceleration of Polaris sub- who served with our forces in WW1 and WW2 munist-enslaved peoples. marine program. be extended to include the Korean War. 468. Supports allied position in Berlin at all 464. Asks all nat'l defense agencies to tighten 432. Declares that U.S. motion picture indus- hazards, commends progress shown in West Ger- their security clearance programs. try has abandoned its united front against com- many. 465. Asks resumption of nuclear testing — un- munist infiltration (The Waldorf Declaration); 488. Broad foreign policy statement of Legion. derground and in space. pledges Legion to publicize reds in our movies; West Europe—No recognition of East Germany. 502. Seeks to rectify inequities in Military Pay commends Warner Brothers, Walt Disney Studios Nothing to negotiate re: our rights in West Berlin. Act of 1958. and John Wayne Productions for continued ad- Middle East & Africa — Join with other free 514. Urges acceleration of U.S. aerospace mili- herence to Waldorf Declaration's principles. nations in blocking communist expansion in, and tary capabilities. 434. Again asks removal of offensive murals arms shipments to this area. 546. Urges retention of all present U.S. Navy from Rincon Annex, San Francisco U.S. Post Far East — Oppose all diplomatic recognition of yards. Office. Red China. 547. Urges unselfish cooperation of manage- 440. Supports Cherokee Textile Mills (Tennes- Miscellaneous — U. S. must again protect its ment and labor to maintain uninterrupted produc- see for refusing ) to surrender a postage meter with citizens abroad. tion and supply of defense implements of war. the message "Ours is a Republic, Not a Demo- 492. Urges passage of the original "Bricker 550. Urges U.S. gov't to continue to make clear cracy." Amendments", to prevent international agreements the Soviet military threat so that popular support 467. Supports Radio Free Europe. without Senate approval. of necessary preparedness measures will not 504. Continues Legion's Education & Scholar- 529. Opposes admission of Outer Mongolia to slacken. ship program. UN, and U. S. recognition of Outer Mongolia. 551. Commends the present space programs of

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 Legion to selected war veterans of the U.S. gov't, supports their acceleration. to be given by sion, that would never appear in print or affairs; supersonic allied nations for ( ) service to veterans 552. Asks high priority for U.S. 1 in verbal quotation. ) contributions to international goodwill and transport program. ( 2 their organization and the this gathering the 553. Asks increase in B-58 bomber force, and comradeship between The outcome of was development of more advanced B-58's. Legion. organization of the Post Mortem Club, Nat'l Rifle Ass'n program for 554. Asks better living conditions and com- 22. Approves of American Legion. composed of past or current holders of missary benefits for those called into Armed Forces. Sons Asks that nat'l cemeteries remain open 555. Asks acceleration of U.S. space missile 23. national office, committees, or employ- until 8 p.m. the day before Decoration Day (May programs. ment in the national organization of The 556. Supports greater development of the po- 29). 24. Reestablishes former name of Legion nat'l tentials of helicopters. American Legion, and past or present membership committee: ie: Membership and Post 557. Asks gov't to review and streamline its Legion department commanders, holders Activities Committee. contractual procedures with defense industries. 25. Supports President's opposition to entry of of Congressional Medal of Honor, 558. Supports increased aeronautical education the Red China in U.N. opportunities for young Americans. Presidents of the United States and Jus- Urges Nat'l Convention Committee to avoid 559. Asks high gov't priority for development 26. coincidence of Nat'l Convention dates with re- tices of the Supreme Court. of nuclear powered aircraft. ligious Holy Days whenever feasible. 560. Supports wide showing of the film "Com- One member has aptly described 27. Empowers Legion executives to negotiate munist Encirclement 1961." : outlet for publishing contract for a new history of The the club thusly "it provides an 561. Broad statement of support of a strong ~ American Legion. to perform once a U.S. Merchant Marine. alleged comedians 28. Asks Nat'l Commander to seek means to 563. Urges updating of military equipment of — but in spite of this they do good improve effectiveness of the Legion Americanism week Air Reserve Forces. publication, The Firing Line, as an instrument to work for The American Legion through Rehabilitation combat communism. 4. Continue to seek a limited reopening of NSLI the establishment of memorial funds and 29. Commends James V. Day (Me.) for his insurance) for eligible vets who hold less (GI service as Legion Public Relations Director be- other charitable works." than the maximum. fore ill-health forced his resignation. talking was this. 23. Asks that seruict'-disabilities cease to bar What he was about 30. Approves delegate housing plan at 1961 certain vets from increasing their GI insurance established Denver Nat'l Convention for future nat'l conven- Eight years ago the club an disability riders from $5 to $10 a month per tions. unrestricted memorial fund to be ad- $1,000. 29. Continue to seek 3-year presumption of POST MORTEM: ministered by The American Legion En- psychosis. service-connection for chronic functional dowment Fund Corporation in the con- 32. Supports outpatient treatment of VA pen- Funds For The Living sioners at VA clinics. duct of the Rehabilitation and Child 37. Seeks law to restore VA medical contract Early in 1946 a group of Legionnaires Welfare Programs of The American in Alaska. facilities Legion. 38. Continue to seek recognition of active lung reasoned that there might be frequent TB as pensionable disability from date of hos- occasion for prominent Legionnaires in Each year since then, the club has pitalization. the Washington, D.C. area, either per- selected one or more names of outstand- 58. Supports legislation to provide for a "mo- dified life plan" of NSLI. manently or in transit, to gather together ing deceased members of the club to be 7-year presumption of service-con- 69. Seeks in utter relaxation, without duties or re- added to the memorial list. nection for multiple sclerosis. the club 141. Legion shall continue to support adequate sponsibilities, to discuss and consider For each name so added, annual appropriations for VA medical program. anything in frank unvarnished expres- contributes an amount of money either 261. Support operation of VA medical services, in both quantity and quality, at maximum authorized level. Oppose diminishing quality or quantity of VA medical services. 343. Seeks $25 increase per child of compensation paid widows for service-connected death of vet husbands. 373. Supports House Bills to increase disability and death compensation. 427. Seeks expansion of VA medical program for aging and chronically ill vets. 471. Continues to seek amendments in basic pension law mandated by the 1960 Legion convention. 540. If peacetime vets GI bill is passed, VA should administer it. NEC Resolutions the flakes Here are the resolutions approved by IN REVELATION, YOU'LL the Nat'l Executive Committee in Oc- SEE FIVE OF THE WORLD'S tober: GREAT TOBACCOS 1. Approval of Nat'l Legislative Program of for — embodying 73 reso- American Legion 1962 Notice the different cuts and lutions adopted at the 1961 Nat'l Convention. 2. Asks Legion state organizations to use their colors in the flakes? Each one influence to prevent communists from speaking at adds its own personality, and U.S. educational institutions. when they're all together, a 3. Asks President to reciprocate Philippine dec- something laration of Nov. 15 as Philippine-American Day secret recipe does by proclaiming it American-Philippine Day in rare for the flavor. Try it soon U. S. and get some new pleasure in 4. Rescinds obsolete resolutions dealing with your pipe. internal affairs of the Legion. 6. Opposes U. S. military aid to Yugoslavia. 8. Affiliates Tokyo Post 38 with the Hawaiian Department of the Legion. 9. Asks Armed Forces to provide firing squads Kentucky Burley— dark flakes, slow burning at burials of deceased veterans. Virginia Bright— bright leaves, even burning 10. Urges adoption of Senate Resolution 113 to overcome legislative neglect of national ceme- Old Belt Bright— slightly darker, good body teries. Latakia—deeper brown, extra mild Resolutions 12 to 16 inclusive: Seek creation of specific new national cemeteries and expansion of Perique— very dark, wonderful aroma others. jEVElATtOHI 17. Seeks expansion of Arlington Nat'l Ceme- I tery. 18. Approves rules for contests at 1962 Nat'l Convention including a new singing contest for REVELATION quartets. MILD SMOKING MIXTURE 19. Approves Philadelphia as site of 1965 Nat'l | \ Convention — dates. Aug. 26-Sept. 2. 20. Authorizes a review of membership expiration dates in the Legion. 21. Authorizes an "International Amity Award" THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • 33 .

to the Endowment Fund or to the Amer- GUIDING LIGHT: similar torch bearing ceremony imme- ican Cancer Society, in memory of that Flame Of Freedom diately preceding President Kennedy's person. address. The flame has become a symbol in It is an idea that could very well be memory of the dead in war. copied by every post and department in At Brussels, Belgium, as at Paris, a OUTER MONGOLIA: The American Legion. flame burns night and day — as in a Today the club membership comprises Definitely, No! sanctuary — on the Tomb of the Collone some 600 members from every state and du Congres. A firm stand against the admission of outlying departments. Colonel J. Monroe Outer Mongolia into United Nations For many years The American Legion the Johnson of Washington has for many has long been the policy of the Lt. B. R. — prior to Veterans Day, Nov. 11 — has years been its guiding personality. Kimlau Chinese Memorial Post 1291, sent a torch to Belgium to be included The late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson New York, N.Y. in the annual Parade of Torches with of the U.S. Supreme Court was the first Recently post commander James R. torches from Paris, Le Havre, London, name selected for the memorial list, in Chinn, directed a letter President Washington and other points around the to 1953. world. John F. Kennedy commending the Presi- Since then, seventeen other names of dent's decision to cancel the United These flames, carried bv veterans, are distinguished Legionnaires have been States' plan of establishing diplomatic added to the Endowment Fund list and — relations with Outer Mongolia. one name to the American Cancer Soci- The letter was translated into the ety list. Chinese language and was published by The most recent name added (to the all the Chinese newspapers in the United Endowment Fund list) was that of the States. late Watson B. Miller of Washington— A copy of the original letter was sent perhaps the greatest figure in the early to General Chiang Kai-Shek, President development of The American Legion's of Nationalist China, Taipei, Taiwan work and influence in the rehabilitation (Formosa) and to the China Daily in of war veterans. Taipei for publication. From 1923 to 1941 he was director of Post 1291 is very active in community the Legion's national rehabilitation serv- service work in the Chinese community ice and later assistant administrator of of New York City. the Federal Security Agency under Pres- Nat'l Cmdr Charles A. Bacon also for- Legion's Freedom Torch ident Roosevelt. From 1945-57 he was warded letters to both the Secretary of head of that agency, forerunner of the brought by converging march — trans- State and the Ambassador to the United present U.S. Department of Health, Ed- mitted from one part of the world to an- Nations in accordance with resolutions ucation and Welfare. other — to the Belgian capital to be ex- adopted at the recent national conven- Miller's importance to The American tinguished at nightfall on Nov. 11 be- tion of The American Legion in Denver Legion and to the world of veterans' af- fore the Tomb of the Collone du Con- opposing the admission of Outer Mon- fairs can best be summed up in the gres. golia and Red China to the United Na- words of past Nat'l Cmdr Harry W. Col- As in former years, American Legion tions. mery, president of the Endowment Fund Post 1 in Antwerp has sent a "Freedom (Editor's Note — In late October, Corporation. Torch" to Washington to be lighted in Outer Mongolia was admitted as a "The American Legion Endowment the name of all American veterans. The member of the United Nations by a ma-

Fund Corporation acknowledges, with torch is then returned to Belgium and jority vote of that body ) grateful appreciation, the donation of is carried in the "Sacred Relay" which the Post Mortem Club in the amount of converges at the Tomb in Brussels. CHILD WELFARE: $100 in the memory of Watson B. Miller, National Commander Charles L. Ba- long a distinguished member of your con lighted the torch for this year's New Guide Manuals club. solemn ceremonies on the steps of the Two new publications edited by The "We are honored to have Watson Mil- American Legion's Washington office on American Legion's Nat'l Child Welfare

ler's name added to the memorial list of Oct. 2nd. Assisting was Major Baudoin Commission are now available for dis- The American Legion Endowment Fund Van Remootere, Belgium's assistant Mili- tribution to departments, posts and Aux- Corporation. It carries with it the sig- tary Attache for Air. iliary units. nificance with respect to The American The torch was returned to Antwerp The American Legion Child Welfare Legion's program of rehabilitation as by air in time for The American Legion Program is a 16-page illustrated and con-

does that of Watson B. Miller. post there to use it in the Brussels' Vet- cise summary of the Legion's 1962 major "For he it was who dared to take the erans Day ceremonies last month. child welfare objectives, purpose, prin- bare earth and mold it into his heart's de- Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., on ciples, methods of operation and specific sire to rehabilitate his disabled comrade Nov. 11, Veterans Day ceremonies were recommended actions to be taken. and care for his widow and orphaned conducted in the amphitheater at the Main topics covered in this new book- children, by plowing the soil, sowing the Arlington National Cemetery with Pres- let are juvenile delinquency, physical seed, and tenderly cultivating and nour- ident John F. Kennedy as the main fitness programs, adoptions, mentally ill ishing the tender sprout of rehabilitation speaker. and emotionally disturbed children, and until he saw it burst forth in full bloom Military Attaches from the embassies physically handicapped children. of maturity and yield a harvest of good of Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, These topics have been featured in works for the veterans of American wars Israel and Mexico accompanied by Rep- order to focus on the particular areas of and their widows and children. resentatives of The American Legion, need in the Child Welfare Program in "The name of Watson B. Miller sym- Disabled American Veterans, VFW, 1962. bolizes the rehabilitation program of Catholic War Veterans, Jewish War Vet- The Child Welfare Guide, completely The American Legion." erans and AMVETS participated in a rewritten, is designed for use as a hand-

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 book by the post and Auxiliary unit child FATHER & SON: welfare chairmen. Exceptional Service Write to: National Child Welfare Post 11, Thibodaux, Louisiana, re- MEN Division, The American Legion, P.O. PAST40 cently gave one of its few life member- Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind., for spe- ship awards to Harvey Peltier, Jr. His cific requests. Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, father, Peltier, Sr., one of only Harvey Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, THE RECORD COLLECTOR: four other members so honored, had the Nervousness, Tiredness. pleasure of making the formal award. An Astonishing Record If you are a victim of the above symp- The Thibodaux post, an exemplary toms, the trouble may be due to Gland- Your collection of 12 inch, 33/3 lp rec- community institution, reserves its life ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- ords won't be complete unless you even- ease for which it is futile for sufferers tually own Americana's pressing of The to try to treat themselves at home. To men of middle age or past this Bells of Peace, a most unusual record on type of inflammation occurs frequently. the any equipment, and more unusual It is accompanied by loss of physical hier the fi of your sound maker. vigor, graying of hair, forgetfulness and often increase in weight. Neglect There's a Legion connection, but it of such Inflammation causes men to grow wasn't the Legion connection that made old before their time—premature senil- this reviewer's wife ask "What is that ity and possible incurable conditions. music? Where is it coming from? I never Most men, if treatment is taken in time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- heard anything like it! More! More!" the CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- first time he blasted Bells of Peace over mation. If the condition is aggravated Peltier, Sr. Peltier, the maze of wires in his suburban shack. Jr. by lack of treatment, surgery may be the only chance. Or that made his musically-inclined son membership award for members who exclaim: "It's as if the house were a have rendered exceptional service to cathedral." A far cry from the usual, The American Legion. NONSURGICAL TREATMENTS "Turn that thing lower!" The younger Peltier, a WW2 vet, has The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat- This record is an expertly done, beau- been the Louisiana Legion's state legis- ments used at the Excelsior Medical Clinic are the result of discoveries in tifully recorded, collection of familiar lative chairman since 1958, and is a recent years of new techniques and pieces played by John Klein on the member of the Legion's National Legis- drugs plus over 20 years research by $56,000, 183-bell electro-mechanical lative Commission. His father, long an scientific technologists and Doctors. carillon that American Legion Post 1, of outstanding leader of the post, received Men from all walks of life and from over 1,000 communities have been suc- Denver, recently gave to the United its first life membership award in 1950. cessfully treated here at Excelsior States Air Force Academy in Colorado BRIEFLY NOTED: Springs. They found soothing and comforting relief and new health in life. Springs. The fantastic carillon, made to • 17.5 percent of the class which en- order by Schulmerich Carillons, Inc., of tered the U.S. Military Academy, West RECTAL-COLON Sellersville, Pa., brings to one of the Point, N.Y. this term were ex-Boys' EXAMINATION Are often associated with Glandu- world's oldest forms of music a new di- Staters. Of the entire corps of cadets AT LOW COST lar Inflammation. there, 16.3 percent are ex-Boys' Staters. When you arrive These disorders, we can successfully © The Oklahoma American Legion here our Doctors who treat for you, at are experienced spe- the same time we THE BELLS OF conducted its first American Legion cialists make a com- treat Glandular In- Leadership College, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, on plete examination. flammation. the North Campus, Oklahoma Univer- Your condition is frankly explained REDUCIBLE sity, Norman. and then you decide HERNIA if you will take the Is also amenable to PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: treatments needed. a painless Non- Billy Anderson, Dep't Cmdr (1956- Treatments are Surgical treatment so that we have de- 57) and now alternate Natl Executive mild hospitalization veloped. Full de- is not needed a con- tails of this treat- Committeeman of the Florida American — siderable saving in ment given In our Legion, elected ehmn of the Florida De- expense. Free Book. partment Veterans' Affairs Commission. The I 'nited States -Ait banc -Atukmy Write Today For Our } John J. Wicker, Jr., an American Le- '•'''' ;:;:;; »"' The Excelsior Med- 'Sr- gion Founder, former Virginia State CARII.I.ON AMI KII ANA" BEI.LS ical Clinic has jjgf pub- Senator and Dep't Cmclr (1923-24) of lished a New FREE the Virginia American Legion, reelected Book that deals with diseases Bells of Peace peculiar to ehmn of the Virginia War Memorial men. It could prove mension, whose recordability astonishes Commission. of utmost importance to your future life. the ear on first hearing it. is of There no Harold A. Shindler, Dep't Cmdr Write today. No ob- notable difference, it seems, between the Indiana American Legion (1938- ligation. playing the recording in your home, and 39) and a present member of the Le- EXCELSIOR standing beneath Pike's Peak as the gion's Nat'l Publications Commission, MEDICAL CLINIC amazing electronic bells roll their rich appointed commandant of the Indiana i Dept. B 1151 music out across the Air Force Academy State Soldiers' Home at Lafayette, Ind. j Excelsior Springs, Mo. and onto the plains. E. Meade Wilson, Nat'l Executive I Gentlemen: Kindly send me at once, your I New FREE Book. I am interested in full The Bells of Peace, John Klein on the Committeeman of the Florida American information (Please Check Box) U.S. Air Force Academy Carillon Amer- Legion since 1946, appointed assistant Hernia Rectal-Colon Glandular I Inflammation icana Bells, 12", lp, monaural, $4.00. to the vice president of International Familiar melodies in a new dimension of Minerals and Chemical Corporation NAME. sound. Pressed by Americana Records, Plant Fla. ADDRESS- Food Division, Mulberry, J Sellersville, Pa. Post 1, American Le- Rodney C. Anderson of Indianapolis, j TOWN gion, 1370 Broadway, Denver, Colo- appointed as a member of the Legion's "ATE_ I rado, distributor. r. b. p. (Continued on page 36)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • 35 POSTS IN ACTION PEOPLE IN THE NEWS mittee (1950-1961); in Sept., in Ra- Items from our 16,753 posts: Those of most (Continued from page 35) leigh, N.C. interest and widest geographical spread general Nat'l Public Relations staff in the In- Joseph H. Edgar, Dep't Cmdr of the are selected, with apologies for the hundreds dianapolis office. American Legion 1932- of others that are so kindly reported to tlie New Jersey ( editors. Brigadier recently. General Joseph J. Foss, a 33); member of The American Legion Nat'l Pearl E. Waite, Nat'l Executive Com- Sports Center-Post 248, Colonia, N. J., conducts a regularly scheduled outdoor Aeronautics and mitteeman of the Missouri American Le-

sports program for family groups at Space Committee, gion (June 1954-July 25, 1954) ; on Aug. Legion Park in that community. elected president of 30, in Jefferson City, Mo. the Air Force Asso-

Navy Memorial — Post 10, Wilmington, ciation. N. C, started off a $250,000 state-wide General Foss, who COMRADES fund drive with a $1,000 contribution, served two terms as to permanently enshrine the famous Governor of South IN DISTRESS WW2 battleship, USS North Carolina, Dakota, was Readers who can help these comrades are in that city as a memorial to all veterans. awarded the Con- urged to do so. Joe Foss gressional Medal of Notices are run at the request of The Prayer Cards -Post 854, Valley Stream, Honor for his outstanding service as a American Legion Nat'l Rehabilitation Com- mission. They are not accepted from other N. Y., has allocated $2000 to pay the U.S. Marine Corps pilot in the southwest sources. cost of printing and distribution of trav- Pacific during World War 2. Readers wanting Legion help with claims elers prayer cards through local service He is now commissioner of the new should contact their local service officers. stations American Football League. and Grace cards through local Service officers unable to locate needed restaurants during the next year. Harry W. Cayce, formerly assistant to witnesses for claims development should the general manager of the Nat'l Em- refer the matter to the Nat'l Rehabilitation Meter Hats - Post 329, Elizabethtown, blem Sales of The American Legion Commission through normal channels, for Pa., sponsored a new approach toward (1958-59), named as Dep't Adjt of the further search before referral to this column. displaying patriotism on Labor Day by New Mexico American Legion. Army covering all parking meters in town with Drew Cloud, Dep't Adjt of the New Hq & Hq & C.T. 83rd Arty Bn, Fort Benning, a paper bag "Patriotic Meter Hat" carry- Ga.—Benton M. Carr. Any member who was Mexico American Legion ( 1960-61) , re- ing the message "Display stationed with this veteran in July or August, Your Flag signed to take a position with the Fed- 1928, and has knowledge of his being injured when thrown from a horse, please contact him Today." eral government. at Rte 2, Box 312, Jacksonville, Ala. Claim R. Laird, pending. J. Dep't Adjt of the Iowa 141st QM Co (Truck)-William E. "Bill" Town- Protection — Post 155, Tchula, Miss., has American Legion since 1925, elected an send. Needs to hear from Frederick W. Dare, leased a fire engine from the city of Donald P. Miller, Frank P. Pulcini, Frank W. honorary Past Dep't Cmdr. Sortwell, William A. Sipe and William J. Jackson in order to provide the com- Meehan who saw diesel fuel drum fall on Town- Ernest A. Rowton, resigned send, injurying his back, in White Horse, Yukon munity with proper fire protection. as Dep't Territory, Canada, Sept. 1942. Write to: John Adjt of the Florida American Legion, to Schreiber, Jr., Concordia Parish Service Officer, be replaced by Nat'l Field Representa- Louisiana Dept. of Veterans Affairs, P.O. Box Juvenile Aids — Post 47, Chicago, 111., 7, Ferriday, La. Claim pending. tive Ralph Johnson. 43rd Div, 169th Inf Regt-Ben D. Daigle. Needs as a community service, is cooperating information from former buddy, Herman with the Illinois Crime Prevention LeClair, Connecticut, who knows nature of his Died: injury. Contact Daigle at: 205 N. Bellard St., Bureau and the Chicago Police Dept., Church Point, La. Claim pending. Thomas B. Egan, Perry Institute, Yakima, Wash.—Marcus David in the distribution of literature to parents Dep't Service Of- Lee. This Army veteran, serial #14 124 072, ficer of the Delaware and children in the area concerning the American Legion enlisted at Ft. Jackson, S. C. Hands frostbitten since 1946 and Dep't Adjt (1950-56); in Nov. 1942, at Yakima while encamped at danger of youth molesters, bicycle safe- Air Force Base there and attending aircraft on Oct. 18, in propeller instruction at above named institute. ty tips, laws and suggestions for Wilmington, Del. youths Later hospitalized at 13th Air Force Field Hos- and parents, juvenile delinquency prob- Charles H. Hudelson, Dep't Cmdr of pital on Biak Island in South Pacific. Needs name of doctor at field hospital and names of lems, and gun safety tips. the Idaho American Legion (1939-40) any comrades at Yakima, who recall the incident. at: Wildwood Drive, and commandant of Contact Lee 2807 the Idaho Soldiers' Greensboro, N. C. Claim pending. Fallout Help - Post in 72, Sturgeon Bay, Home Boise at the time of his death; Air W isc, built a fallout shelter in its new on Oct. 6, in Nampa, Idaho. Sth Installations Sqd (SAC), Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Calif.—James Lee Branson. De- post home to be used for demonstration Walter W. Schnell, member of The sires to hear from a Gayle Hill and a Douglas purposes for local residents. The Door American Schmidt, addresses unknown, who served with Legion Nat'l Emblem Com- him at Travis AFB. These men appeared with County Civil Defense Agency furnished mittee since 1957; on Sept. 14, in Buf- Branson in a photograph bearing the identification "Flight January Parks Air Force equipment for the shelter. 45, 1956, falo, N.Y. Base." Contact: W. H. Ranney, Assistant Di- rector, South Dakota Veterans Dept., c/o Vet- Michael J. Mellett, a nat'l field repre- erans Administration Center, Sioux Falls, S. D. Real Friends - Post 593, Prunedale, Claim pending. sentative of The American Legion since Calif., paid the mortgage on the home 1955 in the Delaware, New Jersey and Spec ial of a post member, cut the grass once a Former P.O.W.s captured at Tobruk, Libya, North eastern New York areas; on Sept. 1, in Africa, in 1943 and hospitalized in Ultra Mura week, and bought groceries for his fami- Brooklyn, N.Y. Hospital—Ian Cameron, South Africa. This ly, while the member was confined to a Sgt/Major, South African Artillery, was Irving M. wounded with the following U.S. Army veterans hospital. Mumford, Dep't Cmdr of in and around Kazerine Pass in 1943 and de- the South Dakota American Legion sires to locate them: Joe Latham, PFC, infantry, born Augusta, Ky., wounded in forearm; Flags -Post 112, Meyersdale, Pa., re- (1940-41); on Oct. 2, in Howard, S.D. "Chuck" Swanson or Swansen, Michigan, lost a leg and several fingers, also wounded in arm, cently presented 20 new American Flags Cale E. Burgess, Dep't Adjt (1920- was in light tanks, later transferred to Stalag to the Meyersdale 344 in Ober Silesia, had been employed by Elementary School 22 ) and Nat'l Executive Committeeman American Express; and "Trapper" Robinson, and will continue to furnish new flags (1922-23) of the North Carolina Amer- believed born in Missouri of Scottish stock, was rigger in California oilfields, wounded by shell to the school district whenever they are ican Legion, and a member of the Le- when in light tank. Contact: Wilfred Smith, Ex- needed. Services "R.S.V.P." Scheme, 118 North Road, gion's Nat'l Distinguished Guests Com- Preston, Lanes, England.

36 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 THE NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 1961-1962 Keep America Fit By (Continued jrom page 13) Keeping Fit Yourself Great Depression left him short of funds a faculty family at the university. Her It's easy! It's fun! A daily 5 minute conditioning break on a to continue immediately in law school. father, Engineering Professor Robert W. Lincolnwood Belt Massager wakes up tired muscles. took a year off and worked for a Selvidge, was the author of a famous He The deep massaging action helps you industrial arts, and while in a clothing store and then as a series of manuals on feel alive— full of zest. Enjoy a health- laborer for the Army Engineers on Mis- a U. S. consultant for European rail- ier action-packed life. Stay in shape. souri Valley flood control projects. roads after WW1. Her mother, the late In 1931 he entered the Law School Mrs. Ivy Harner Selvidge, had estab- of the University of Missouri at Colum- lished the school of home economics at BELT bia, Mo. Purdue. His record in law school was outstand- In 1941, after a career in teaching of MASSAGER ing. Bacon was on the board of editors her own, and studies at universities from of the, U. of Missouri Law Review and California to France, Helen Selvidge re- President of the Law School Student turned to Missouri and in December she Body. became Mrs. Bacon. Write today for free literature. In 1933, a year before his graduation, The Bacons have a daughter, Sharon he passed the Missouri bar examinations (Mrs. Charles Rule) , of New York City; and was admitted to the bar. During his and a son, Charles L. Bacon, Jr., now a final year in law school, he practiced law high school student in Kansas City, one HEALTH EQUIPMENT CO. in Columbia in the office of R. M. Hulen, of whose hobbies is smothering a wall 3637 W. Touhy Ave. • Chicago 45, III. later a Federal Judge. map with pins marking his father's On graduating in 1934, Bacon was travels for The American Legion. NO MONEY DOWN awarded the Shepard Barclay Prize to In 1940, the Missouri National HOME. be given to that University of Missouri Guard's 138th Infantry was called up SITES Law School student '"who, in the opin- "for training." Like many another $395 ion of the Trustees, has attained the "training outfit" in 1940 and 1941, it Lovely V* acre sites in Central Florida hills, is until highest and best grade and scholarship "never got back"—that WW2 lake, grove area $395, no money down, and who has exerted the highest and was over. In 1941, Missouri formed a $10 a month • Suburb of Ocala, high and dry • Roads, utilities • 22 miles to Gulf best moral influence in the school." State Guard to fill in at home for its Coast • Fish, hunt • Invest or retire. folder • Write Dept. 603-J He returned home to Marshall where, absent National Guard. Lawyer Bacon, FREE color Rainbow Park, Box 521, Ocala, Fla. from 1934 to 1941, he practiced general in his early thirties, joined the State and trial law in partnership with Robert Guard and was commanding officer of Johnson. When Johnson was elected to the Marshall unit. the bench in the PAVS BIG! SEND FOB FREE, BIG. ILLUS- 1941, Bacon formed After Pearl Harbor, the Missouri State TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report making substantial Incomes. Start and run youf /epoHW law firm of James & Bacon in Marshall Guard began to lose its younger mem- own business quickly. Men. women of all aires, learn easily. Course covers Sales. Property Manatrement. with A. L. James. bers fast. It lost its Marshall command- Appraislnjr, Loans. Mortgages, and [wow; related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- rooms in leading cities. Diploma awarded. The years 1941-42 provided other ing officer in June, 1942, when the Navy Write TODAY for free book! No obligation. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • 37 questioned the Navy's logic in making a est rating of a lawyer in Martindale low Missourian, former President Harry communicator of an attorney just once. Hubble, the "The Dun & Bradstreet" S. Truman, said that "Next to the Con- "If you think you can learn, the Navy of the legal profession, whose ratings stitution of the United States, the Legion can teach you," was the answer. are based on reports of the judges and Preamble is one of the real documents The Navy, which hadly needed com- attorneys who daily serve in the same for the welfare and benefit of the people municators, was right. The Missouri courts. Today he is certified to practice of this country." lawyer learned communications so well before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1946, Bacon felt exactly the same that he was snatched out of a draft of In 1946, a committee of three mem- way. He took the Preamble home and seven officers for South Pacific duty and bers of Marshall's American Legion read it to Mrs. Bacon. returned to Los Angeles to be an instruc- Post 191 made exactly the right appeal "That's what I'm for, too," he told tor of amphibious communications. to a man with Bacon's proved instincts her. "It's simple, fundamental, true.

There he stayed making new com- for civic duty and leadership. The com- What a spread it has! This is nothing municators until April, 1944 when he mittee called on him, laid down a copy just for the advantage of one group." was sent to the big Seabee base at Camp of the Preamble to the Constitution of Within a year Bacon was second vice Peary, Va., where 70,000 men were in The American Legion, said, "Look this commander (program leader), then first training. over and we'll be back"—and departed. vice commander of the Marshall Post

There his profession was put to use as Bacon read the 1 1 7 words of that 191. He attached himself to Legion pro- he became a legal officer and then pro- document for the first time: grams that would further the Legion as vost marshal at Camp Peary. an agent of its Preamble. "For God and Country we associate our- The nearby 5th Naval District took He was instrumental in accelerating selves together for the following purposes: him on detached duty for of its the basic programs in his post—the some "To uphold and defend the Constitution legal and personnel work. of the United States of America; school programs, Oratorical Contest, The Navy separated Bacon in March, "To maintain law and order; Boys State. Boy Scout work was stepped "To foster and perpetuate a 1946. with the rank of Lieut. Com- one hundred up, and the post brought knowledgeable per cent Americanism; mander. returned to his practice speakers to the Marshall court- He law "To preserve the memories and incidents public with James & Bacon in Marshall, Mo. of our associations in the great wars; house, such as Robert Claggett, who had The Legionnaires in Marshall, Mo. "To inculcate a sense of individual obli- been prosecutor at the Nurenburg trials. gation to the Community, State and Nation; had known Bacon all his life and par- In 1948, Missouri's state Legion called "To combat the autocracy of both the ticularly wanted to enroll in the legal abilities him classes and the masses; on Bacon's and made him Legion, now that his World War 2 serv- "To make Right the master of Might; Department Judge Advocate. That year ice had made him eligible. "To promote peace and good will on he became known from one end of the earth; Bacon was a desirable prospect. He state to the other, and grew in the Le- "To safeguard and transmit to posterity to had always been a part of civic affairs in the principles of Justice, Freedom and gion, thanks to assignments given Marshall. He was the youngest local Democracy; him by Department Commander John Chamber of Commerce president in Mis- "To consecrate and sanctify our com- Jeffries, Hannibal, Mo., newspaper man. radeship by our devotion to mutual help- souri. He was an active Mason, a mem- Commander Jeffries recognized in Bacon fulness." ber of the Board of Deacons of the Pres- a public speaker— for things American— byterian Church, a Sunday School Five years earlier, novelist Mary of unusually persuasive warmth, sinceri- teacher, an organizer of Ban Johnson Roberts Rinehart had said that the Le- ty and sense. Jeffries asked Bacon if he Baseball in Missouri for young men gion Preamble was "a document of ut- would take on many of Jeffries' normal 18 to 21, a trustee of Missouri Valley most importance, whose wonderful speaking assignments and official visits. College. words—which thrill and please—say so Bacon accepted and traveled the length Professionally he stood high. He was a much in so little to express the Ameri- and breadth of the state acting for his member of the Board of Governors of canism that we all still feel." Commander, and pleasing Legion and the Missouri Integrated Bar, Missouri's Fifteen years later, at the Legion con- non-Legion groups alike with his ap- equivalent of a state bar association. vention in Denver which elected Charles pearances. Bacon was and is rated AV, the high- L. Bacon National Commander, his fel- Missouri Legionnaires immediately tabbed Bacon as a desirable future state Commander, and in 1949 gave him experience in a different aspect of state leadership — that of Senior Vice Com- mander and membership chairman. In 1950 Bacon was elected Missouri's first WW2 state American Legion commander. His year was marked by the outbreak of the Korean War and by the need for administrative reforms within the state American Legion. Following WW2, the Missouri American Legion had more than doubled in size, and its internal organization needed readjust-

ment to its new proportions. Bacon appointed a five-man reorganization committee, whose recommendations for overhaul of the state Legion offices and financial and budgeting procedures were adopted by Missouri Le- gionnaires. During the same year, the Missouri American Legion did an outstanding job THE AMERICAN LEGION' MAGAZINE of honoring and dignifying the depar-

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ture from their home towns of Mis- what the photograph of him that accom- souri's young men who were called into panies these words suggests. He is not a EAR NOISES active service in the Korean War. "character" — even in the sense that relieved! In 1951, Post 191 in Marshall stood some great men have been "characters". . thousands reported in need of an adjutant. Bacon, just step- In a roomful of men, he is not the one Wonderful relief from years suffering from miserable ping down from the state Commander- who immediately eye. of commands the ear noises and poor hearing ship, took the job for a year. When he speaks, he does not say the caused by catarrhal (excess fluid mucus) conditions of At the same time he was appointed to things that set epigrammists dancing for the head. For the past 23 years that's what folks (many The American Legion's national Mer- joy. Instead, he is the one who seems past 70) reported after using our simple Elmo chant Marine Committee. to grow on you long after you have Palliative HOME TREATMENT. NOTHING TO WEAR. SOME of the symptoms likely to In 1956 he was named to the Legion's tired of the "characters." go with your catarrhal deafness and ear noises ; mucus dropping in nose or throat every day national Housing Committee, and in Yet there is always something extra- hear — but don't understand words ; hear better noises 1957 to its national Aeronautics Com- ordinary about a man who continually on clear days — worse on bad days ; ear like crickets, bells or others. mittee (later, Aeronautics & Space), on rises in leadership. Charles L. Bacon has Write TODAY for PROOF OF RELIEF and 30 TRIAL OFFER. Pay only if helped. which he contined to serve down to his the ordinary qualities that we look for DAY THE ELMO CO., Dept. 2AL9. 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Rubber StampDiv.. 1512 Jarvis Ave., Dept. R 8 P, Chicago 26 TV: ARE YOU WATCHING IT MORE AND ENJOYING IT LESS? (Continued from page 19) Shrinks Hemorrhoids motivations has revealed that the aver- "Hexa, hexa, hexa-chlorophene." age human hears only every third word Which leads us into Study No. 2 or New Way Without Surgery when he is shouted at. It could be true, The Secret Ingredient I suppose, since the human ear is com- The secret (and often "miracle") in- Stops Itch -Relieves Pain posed of three parts—inner, outer and gredient has been oozing out of Madi- For the first time science has found a middle ear—and so anything like to son Avenue experimental laboratories new healing substance with the astonishing bounce off ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve two of them should be safely for several decades. it But took televi- pain — without surgery. trapped by the third. People say, sion to reveal the full extent of the mad- In case after case, while gently relieving pain, actual reduction "Hunh?" but not many say, "Hunh? ness. "Pinckley's and only Pinckley's (shrinkage) took place. Hunh? Hunh?" Most amazing of all — results were so contains V465-PQ," I am reminded, to thorough that sufferers made astonishing I, however, statements like "Piles have remain in the "I-heard- which my standard reply is, "So what?" ceased to be a problem! you-the-first-time" school. If you have Today it seems that only Brand X The secret is a new healing substance slipped an additive into your product, I contains no secret ingredients, which (Bio-Dyne®)— discovery of a world-famous research institute. will understand when you simply say, may account for the sad state that Brand This substance is now available in sup- "We have added hexachlorophene." It X is in. pository or ointment form under the name Preparation H®. for is not necessary to triple-impress me with we'll squirt Ask it at all drug "Now a tube of Brand X counters. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • 39 . : .

in the right-hand slot," says the TV an- though one Thanksgiving I found a cry. I might have waited until television nouncer, patting a scientific testing de- roach in mine) came along and gotten the straight dope. vice designed especially for the U.S. Air But 1 do have one small concern that Dr. Kildare patently was a fraud with

Force and constructed, it would seem, is growing bigger every day. It is some- his hocus-pocus of sutures and scalpels. out of several old shoeboxes, some thing which occurred to me that may What good are mere threads and razor- clothespins and the dial from a Big Ben not have occurred to all those brilliant like instruments when tinkering with old alarm clock. "And in the left-hand slot," chemical engineers who do the TV com- gear boxes and rusty pipes? he goes on, "we pour a helping of Oma- mercials. (Redstone rocket fuel scien- It is just possible that the scientists dunk fortified with the secret wonder tists, better paste this in your hats) who create these TV ads may be right drug Oompah. And now let's see what Every secret ingredient must contain (At least they can out-shout the medical ." happens. . . other ingredients! profession). Because there are some

Always in sympathy with the under- So it will not surprise me at all if, mornings when, upon awakening, I dog, I pray that for once Brand X will one day, a customer in a suburban shop- definitely hear things go "Clank" inside win. But it never does. ping center will drop a box of Instant me. "Notice how Brand X remains slimy Rice Pudding fortified with Jetsin, and "Aha," I say, "it's that damn hammer and loathsome," crows the demonstrator, —barometric and temperature conditions again!" Then I try to remember what and it does—and so does he. But it's the being just right— it will fission every last the man on TV said I should do about

Oompah in the Omadunk that has done secret ingredient molecule of Illium. it, and, failing in this, simply turn my it again. GL-177, Garble, Polaroidantine 5, Der- eyes to the wall and await the end. I must admit that, as with the Rule of madung, Xylofoam, Activated Subgum, But I can't deny that today, thanks to Three, the Secret Ingredient also en- Stimuclon, Penetroloxydrone, RBI, and television, we can all take a crack at joys plenty of historical precedent. The Glunk Additive in every last tube, bot- being our own diagnosticians. Not only

Borgia family certainly knew a thing or tle, box and handy plastic spray can of that; it is now possible to become one's two about secret ingredients, to judge triple-acting toothpowder, 12-way liver own surgeon. All you need is a simple by the way their guests kept collapsing tablets, foaming detergent, jiffy cake do-it-yourself kit of tools that may be at dinner. So did Mickey Finn. Voodoo mixes, roll-off deodorants, fast-fading borrowed from Joe, the garageman. princesses and obeah men had them by car waxes, all-purpose bug exterminators, The following ailments and treatments the sackful. And while the Good Book healing shave creams, and canned to- will show how easy it is, although I'm doesn't say, it is not unreasonable to matoes that will in turn touch off a chain naturally not telling all since the boys suppose that the hair shampoo which nuclear reaction from coast to coast, in the American Medical Association Samson used was fortified with some- and—Pouf! must eat too. thing pretty special. It is entirely possible that an ingre- Bacteria on the Skin: If you suffer from And while the mind may reel at the dient-happy Madison Avenue will put this, do not despair. You are not alone. televised information that "Dr. Querp's us all on the moon before Khrushchev According to TV medicine men, the Aperient Compound contains not just ever lands a single Russian. human epidermis is crawling with bac- one, but six secret ingredients—670/17. This expectation may cheer some, but teria, and don't ask me how they got AC-DC 115, Cromia, HiPruf, HMS, not me. I rather long for the days when there. You know better than I do what and OPA-PWA," it must not forget that products bore such overt brand names you've been up to. such a prodigal concoction may well as Dr. King's New Discovery Wizard Cure: Skin bacteria may be effectively date back to "Macbeth's" witches who, Oil, Holloway's Universal Pills, and The removed by scrubbing with a black- in their cauldron, boiled and baked: Great Chinese Corn, Bunion & Wart board eraser. Oh yes, it works. I've seen Eye of newt and toe of frog. Remover. Then if there was any ingre- it done a thousand times on TV. Wool of bat and tongue of dog, dient, they would tell you right out, Upper Head Troubles: The troubles in Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting. "This is pure snake oil." Things were the upper head are Tension, Pain and

Lizard leg and howlet's wing. . . . simpler then, and maybe our bodies Jittery Nerves. In fact, each of these

It is such attention to wonder addi- were the better for it (Mine was, be- troubles has its own separate loft or tives that has brought us so far along cause in those days I could tie my shoe- manufacturing plant, and together they today health-wise (as they say on Madi- laces without getting out of breath). take up the whole top half of your son Avenue). It also has made possible Which leads us right into Study No. 3, skull, leaving little or no space for all the NEW IMPROVED products. or brains (But who needs brains for watch- And if you will show me one single Abstract Anatomy ing television?) product—no matter how ancient—which, What Picasso has done for the human The Pain compartment occupies the according to its television commercial, form in art, television commercials have center head and is, in fact, a restoration it not NEW and IMPROVED, then I done for the human insides in anatomy. of Longfellow's "Village Blacksmith" will show you Brand X. If my working parts resemble in any shop where, Nevertheless, while I may be confused way the medical charts that I view "You can hear him swing his heavy by such statements that "New improved nightly on television, then I am going sledge, Zizz calms stomach distress with Up- right off to bed. And don't bother phon- With measured beat and slow, chuk," I am not impressed. ing the doctor. Get the plumber! Like a sexton ringing the village bell, To me, practically all ingredients are The schooldays theory that our bodies When the evening sun is low." secret. There is no product I use of operated on circulatory, respiratory and Tension and Jittery Nerves, to the which I could name a single ingredient, nervous systems is shot, and those frogs right and left of Pain, are substations of with the possible exception of cigarettes I had to dissect were obviously phonies. the Tennessee Valley Authority and are (tobacco), coffee (coffee beans) and Now, according to TV commercials, it plagued by short circuits. booze (booze). Ask me to name one would seem we actually are put together Cure: I don't rightly recall, but if you ingredient in toothpaste, and my guess from old fish bowls and parts from try the wrong thing, it will lead to would be, "Teeth." After all, I am a Junior's Erector Set. Today, when a stomach upset. (See Stomach Upset.) consumer and not a chemist. And if you fighter is said to have a "glass jaw," I Lower Head Troubles: The nose bone want to tell me that cranberries are the am perfectly willing to take it literally. is fastened to the S-zone, and the S-zone miracle ingredient in cranberry sauce, When I think of all the hours I wasted is fastened to the throat bone, and the the I shall be happy to accept it as fact (al- watching Dr. Kildare movies, I could . . . Well, that's the general idea of

4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 lower head. The S-, or Sinus, zone is fish-net float. It is filled with A's and shaped rather like a beer spigot, al- B's swimming about in acid, goes, "Drip, Made though there are no coils for icing. It drip, drip," and is attached to the head "I made about $900 $900 last year with my Foley keeps getting clogged up. by a section of rain spouting that is con- equipment, sharpening Cure: a large 950 saws In my spare IN SPARE TIME Hold mirror to your nos- stantly in need of coating action. That time." Leo H. Mix trils and try to breathe. This is is the known the stomach only upset part of Make up to $3 or $6 an Hour among TV medical men as the Nose- time is a miracle. Remedies aimed at With a Foley Automatic Saw Filer you can file hand, band and circular saws so they cut smoother and graph Test, or something. (Incidentally, the upper head (See Pain, Tension and laster and bring you repeat cash business. No canvas- they used to check corpses this way in Jittery Nerves) sometimes fall down sing—no experience needed. the old days before burying them.) into the stomach and then—Watch out! FREE BOOK "MONEY MAK- ING FACTS" . . . Center Head Troubles: Just as the SAC Cure: Consume 87 times your weight in shows how to start at home in spare is based in the center of the U.S., the stomach acid. ..time. Write today- / no salesman will Cough Control Center is headquartered But educational as some of these call. FOLEY MFG. CO. in the middle of our heads, about level commercials would seem to be—judging 1239-1 Foley Bldg., Minneapolis 18, Minn. with the ears (Ever notice how the by the foregoing, I must confess I am human ear is always ignored by TV's pretty bored with having my innards anatomical artists? I don't think they dragged out before my eyes every time ORGANSsave^ can draw it). Anyway, it is interesting I sit down to be entertained. If I want CHORD

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • FOOD IS A WEAPON — (Continued from page 25) —

The same pattern of "class struggle" China, mind you, is still technically at it were not for the small private plots and famine has followed the communist war with the United Nations. of land (actually gardens) which pro- takeover in China. Mao Tze-tung and Is it any wonder that our good friends vide so much of the food on public sale, his comrades have killed millions (some the Filipinos are aghast? Is it any won- the Soviet Union would be suffering a estimates are as high as 30 million) and der that our SEATO alliance is threat- severe crisis right now. enslaved the rest. They have driven ened with disintegration? That neutral- The Kremlin has desperately tried to the peasants into anthill communes and ism is gaining ground in Thailand, Pak- increase agricultural production. More created a huge police force and Red istan, and other SEATO nations? That food is needed for the growing popula- army to hold on to their power. With Japan is flirting with neutralism and ex- tion; more is needed to provide an in- enormous fanfare they launched their changing delegations with Red China? centive for industrial labor. The soviet industrialization campaign and boasted As if the Canadian-Red Chinese grain leaders realize that, in the face of their of the "great leaps forward" that would deal itself weren't bad enough, our food problems, their claims to creation make Red China invincible. They inter- northern neighbors wanted us to ship of an earthly paradise are absurd. They vened in the Korean war, bludgeoned them equipment to unload Canadian know that hunger in the U.S.S.R. makes Tibet into submission, seized Indian ter- food in Chinese ports. Quite justifiably poor propaganda for communism. But ritory, and are taking over Laos. Their we put an embargo on such exports. The perhaps their most compelling urge to ambitious program calls for the conquest Canadians were highly indignant. So we increase agricultural output is their de- of South Viet-Nam, Malaya, Burma, held out— for about 48 hours! Then we sire to build up a large military reserve Thailand, and all Southeast Asia. caved in and agreed to send the Cana- of food. Indeed, some observers believe But there is one glaring Red Chinese dians the pumps they needed to unload that the Russians' food shortage has weakness—lack of food. Unless the Red their grain in Red China. Never mind served as a brake on their foreign ag- army is well fed, there is always the the Americans still in Red Chinese pris- gression. The soviet food shortage, in danger of mutiny. Unless factory work- ons! Never mind about all the Ameri- other words, has been a factor for peace. ers have enough to eat, they can't turn can soldiers taken prisoner in Korea by Khrushchev has never hidden his ob- out the work. The Soviet Union, itself the Red Chinese and still unaccounted sessive ambition to speed up the pro- short of food, can't help its Chinese ally. for. duction of grain, milk, butter, meat. If In his increasingly critical food crisis, Unfortunately, however, our own rec- he can force or coax the peasants into Mao Tze-tung has had to look to the ord in this food matter hasn't been very giving him the food he wants, he has de- free world for help. And he has found it. intelligent or consistent. So far, it is true, clared, he will have a weapon "more Our neighbors, the Canadians, have we haven't sent food to Red China. But powerful than the hydrogen bomb." responded enthusiastically to Mao's plea. we have given vital help to the Soviet That is the measure of importance he And, sad to say, so have the Australians. Union and have shipped food to such puts on food's role in the cold war. Red China has contracted to buy half communist dictatorships as Poland and And why hasn't Khrushchev been a billion dollars worth of grain from Yugoslavia. Although the U.S.S.R. has able to reach his food production goals?

Canada and Australia. This food will no famine now, it suffers from a peren- Russia has some of the most fertile black be used by Mao to feed the armies that nial food shortage. Although about half soil in the world. The Russian peasants are slated to conquer Southeast Asia. the Russian population is still on the can work hard and know their soil and

Before long, American troops may be farm (against only about 8.7 percent in climate. Why is it that half the Russian fighting Red invaders of South Viet- the U.S.A.) food is in short supply. people can't produce enough food to

Nam or Thailand who are fed on Cana- Meat is often unobtainable even in Mos- feed the other half adequately? dian and Australian food. And Red cow, the show-window capital. And if The answer is the peasant. Ivan loves

his soil and wants to own a patch of it. He wants to own his own cottage and some farm animals—to operate as a free farmer. He hates collectivism. Bolshevik officials used to complain to me that the

peasant is a "little capitalist." And that

is just what he is. Nearly 44 years of soviet tyranny, indoctrination, and propaganda have not been able to change him. When the bolsheviks were bidding for power back in 1917, they used the slogan* "Bread, land and peace!" They promised land to the peasants. A few years later, however, the communists took the land away from them. In that ruthless collectivization drive, the peasants resisted. Many of them were killed in bloody fighting; others died of the starvation which followed; still others were shipped off in cattle cars to concentration camps in Siberia and Central Asia. An American friend who saw this terrifying persecution of the peasants estimates that about four million of them died. The communists won their collectivization drive, because they had the

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 arms and the soldiers. But the peasants sians was our corn production. Khrush- butter, Polish ham, Rumanian and Hun- remained opponents of communism — chev, who calls it the "queen of plants," garian wheat, Czechoslovakian poultry using food as a weapon. wants more corn for Russian stomachs and beer—these were a few of the pre- Although unorganized, the Russian and more corn for hog feed. Enough war items that made the Eastern Euro- peasants have continued their stubborn corn would go a long way toward allevi- pean countries famous for their cuisines resistance to bolshevism — effective re- ating his food shortage. Corn, he tells and their bountiful food output. sistance. Since the collectivization of his audiences, is "sausage on a stalk." Here again the commissars ran up their lands, they have adopted a pas- Bolshevism, he exhorts his party work- against their old enemy, the peasant. sive strategy. They loaf on the job, en- ers, will be more acceptable if accom- Like their confreres in Russia, the peas- gage in sabotage, steal from the collec- panied by "a piece of bacon and a piece ants of the captive nations are free en- tive farms. Last January 12th the official of butter." (And the Red army will be terprisers. Before World War 2 every soviet newspaper Pravda (ironically, an even more formidable challenge to one of the captive countries had strong

Pravda means truth) quoted Khrush- the free world if it is backed up by a peasant parties. Their leaders—men of chev as declaring that half of last year's big food reserve at home.) high intelligence and patriotism like Ukraine corn crop "was pilfered while As this is being written, Khrushchev Maniu of Rumania, Mikolajczyk of standing in the fields." Poland, Matchek of Yugoslavia — were It would, of course, be a damaging respected and followed by millions of admission for Khrushchev to admit to their fellow countrymen. The commu- the world that the peasant population nists seized and murdered many of the hates communism. So he blames his ag- peasant leaders, but others escaped to ricultural failure on scapegoats. When the free world. he and his Politburo comrades wanted However, instead of being able to to shoot their colleague, former secret turn the captive nations into breadbas- police chief L. Beria, one of the charges kets and butter tubs for the benefit of made against him was that he had been the Russians, the Kremlin has had "sabotaging the farm program." Luck- trouble with the peasants right down the less collective and state farm managers line. Peasant resistance has replaced the who can't meet food quotas set by the breadbasket with the breadline. Even Kremlin are accused of sabotage, capi- today there are food queues in many talist plotting, alcoholism, speculation, cities of the captive lands. Indeed, the and other crimes. Meanwhile, Khrush- soviet food plan for these countries has chev has been telling the poorly fed city been such a failure that the Russians people how succulent horse meat is. have had to ship in food from the Although Khrushchev has stumped U.S.S.R., especially for soldiers, miners, the farm regions haranguing the recal- and factory workers. Whereas West citrant peasants, opened up the "virgin Germany is prosperous and enjoying lands" experiment in Kazakhstan, abundant food, the hungry Soviet Zone "I'm afraid that as a Flamenco pledged the peasants more consumer Dancer, Arturo is through." of Germany is on ration cards and goods, and punished scapegoats, the threatens renewed anti-communist out- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE promised food increase has not mate- breaks. The peasants of Eastern Europe rialized. How can Khrushchev get the are still fighting their battle against the added food production which he says is excited about a new type of Ameri- communists. They know that food is a

"will be a battering ram with which we can corn that is said to reach maturity crucial weapon in the cold war. will stave in the capitalist system?" in 60 days. "Our plant breeders must But peasant resistance to bolshevism In such distressing circumstances, why also work at getting such a kind of does not stop at the Iron Curtain. Its not look to America? That is just what corn," he told a Kazakhstan audience. principal rallying point is the Interna- Khrushchev did six years ago. An "in- And experience justifies him in expect- tional Peasant Union, also known as the vitation" to the Soviets came from Iowa. ing American cooperation. Green International. Every peasant in It was, of course, snapped up. Deputy As the U. S. News & World Report the captive nations knows about the

Minister of Agriculture V. Matskevich put it: "In the opinion of those who I.P.U. and the work it is doing. This was headed the delegation of 12 experts who know Soviet agriculture, much of the strikingly attested during the uprising of set out to learn the know-how of Ameri- recent progress traces directly to the ex- Polish workers at Poznan in 1956. The can farming. The project was blessed by change of farm delegations that enabled anti-communist demonstrators carried the White House, the Department of the Russians to tap America's farm two flags, the red and white emblem of State, and the Department of Agricul- know-how in the summer of 1955." Poland and the green banner of the ture. The President of the United States Of one thing we can be certain: if I.P.U. said "only good" could come from it. Khrushchev, with American help, can Thirteen peasant parties make up the While the soviet delegation was trav- solve his food problem, the Kremlin will Green International. All the captive na- elling 12,000 miles in America, visiting begin "dumping" agricultural products tions and Yugoslavia are represented. farms, eating fried chicken dinners, re- on the free world markets in a manner The President is former Prime Minister ceiving gifts and adulation-and learning extremely costly for us. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of Poland; the our most advanced agricultural tech- Khrushchev's farm problem includes Secretary-General is Dr. George M. niques-a party of American farm ex- the captive nations. Right after World Dimitrov, former member of the Bul- perts was touring the Soviet Union. The War 2 the Soviet Union set out to plunder garian Parliament. These men and their latter were busy pointing out to the Rus- these unhappy lands. After all, Estonia, I.P.U. colleagues are our allies. sians where soviet methods could be im- Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, and One of the most significant activities proved, how more crops could be grown Hungary had produced not only enough of the Green International operates in to the acre, how manpower could be cut food for their own peoples but also siz- Asia. I.P.U. representatives visit the down, how fertilizers and machinery able amounts for export. And the Soviet peasants of Japan, India, Indonesia, could boost output. Zone of Germany was the granary of the South Viet-Nam, the Philippines, and What especially interested the Rus- former Reich. Estonian eggs, Latvian other countries. Everywhere they go

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • 43 they urge the peasants to organize along There is much talk these days about U.S.S.R.," explained the Russians, "but democratic lines and fight communism. "food for peace." Sending food to the the Russian people suffered so much The I.P.U. men have a great asset when communists is not helping peace. But we from the war that they didn't have any working among the Asian peasants. can supply food—and supply it gener- sacks left. So they had to pay the greedy They can address them as "Fellow peas- ously—to the hungry people who are the Americans in gold for the sacks to send ." ants . . And now the Green Interna- targets of the Russo-Chinese drive for you this flour." tional is also turning its attention to world domination. Take, for example. Yet we have the Letters to the Editor, Africa. Hong Kong. Hundreds of thousands of the eager-beaver committees, and the In our effort to save the remaining refugees from Red China have arrived well-meaning if unthinking humanitar- free nations of Asia and Africa from there with only the rags on their backs. ians who demand that we send food to communism, what can we do to counter the Red China which exports it. For- the massive Russo-Chinese offensive? tunately, the high command of the The answer has been provided in part Share your A.F.L.-C.I.O. is not among them. On by the Green International. For our part June 27th, meeting at Unity House, we should stress the importance of food (Styrtsitmasi Pennsylvania, the top labor leaders in the defense of freedom. Specifically, urged Congress to mobilize our re- we should show the peoples of the "de- sources in defense of freedom. In a veloping nations" how "hunger follows clear, thoughtful message they called at- communism." We should hammer home tention to our export of food and ma- the truth that the Asian and African chinery to communist dictatorships. peoples, now short of food, can look for They asked the President take steps The Salvation Army to no help from Russia and Red China. to eliminate Government and private Those dictatorships have never been practices "which have tended to help able to solve their own food problems. Many are ill. Why not help these des- the communist bloc alleviate or over- But the nations of the free world can perate people with food and medicine? come its own serious economic and po- help the new countries produce the ad- But let's make certain that they—and all litical difficulties." ditional food the hungry inhabitants the others we help—know where this aid At the very time the labor leaders is- need. comes from. sued their message, a delegation of Red Primitive peoples do not respond to Let me illustrate what I mean. A few Rumanian experts was touring our farm ideological arguments, but they under- years ago in Belgrade, I learned of an states with Government blessing. These stand the argument of the empty incident which took place during the communists were here to learn how they stomach. They should be told what has period of the unlamented UNRRA. can boost their food production, thus happened to North Viet-Nam, once Russian officials were, of course, swarm- bolstering the military economy of the known as a "rice bowl." Since the coming over Yugoslavia making capital of soviet empire. We are, in short, still munists took over, this lush Asiatic land UNRRA aid, although the bulk of it helping our enemies solve their most has been stalked by hunger. We should came from the United States. When a pressing problem—encouraging them in mount a hard-hitting psychological of- shipment of flour was being unloaded their avowed intention to "bury" us. fensive by radio, balloons and, if need at a station, the Russians told the towns- When are we going to learn from the be, by pamphlets dropped in North Viet- people that the flour was a gift from the communists the lesson about food? Food Nam. We should point out to the North Soviet Union. The skeptical Yugoslavs is their Achilles' heel. Let's strike at the Vietnamese that while they are hungry, pointed to the sacks with Minneapolis Reds where they are most vulnerable. the South Viet-Namese have plenty to eat. markings. "The flour is from the THE END

HAVE WE THE COURAGE TO SURVIVE? (Continued from pose 21) lars on popular futilities, but we had admit Mongolia into the United Nations. not have accepted the impudence of no money to push forward an adequate Who gave Lattimore a passport to go to Khrushchev. When we were a young space program to maintain our position Mongolia? What has become of Arturo nation, young and toddling—we dared to as the leading scientific nation in the Montenegro, who, sitting at the Cuban say: "Millions for defense but not a cent world. Our officials are afraid of the po- desk of the State Department under the for tribute." litical consequences of requiring the name of William A. Wieland made it But today we find ourselves being civilian missile workers to safeguard easy for Castro to enthrone communism blackmailed by all sorts of countries, in their country's honor and dignity by not in Cuba? When a Congressional Com- the glorified name of economic or mili- striking while building and servicing mittee sought to investigate Wieland's tary aid. The beggars no longer beg; they these weapons. activities, great pressure was brought threaten, and we accept their threats as

Does this involve a sacrifice? Not as upon it to lie low. And low it has lain, policy. great a sacrifice as will be required of making side-trip investigations which What is this disease that has over- all of us when the Russians fire missiles lead to nothing. Who arranged for this? taken us? What is its name? What is its and rockets at us. Who is the public What cowardly argument was used to diagnosis? It is called cowardice, and official who speaks out against this be- convince this Committee to suppress the cowardice comes from the enjoy- trayal of our country? the hearings of Wieland? What political ment of comforts and the joys of living. Who is the public official who ar- consideration was involved? Our officials are cowardly because they ranged a permit for Owen Lattimore to It is this sort of cowardice which reflect the attitude of the people. Who go to Mongolia? Lattimore's record is a weakens our country and imperils its votes for courage? Who votes for dig- perfect example of the American official future. There is no value in talking big nity? Who votes to bring the boys out who projects his private opinion above and carrying a toothpick. Theodore of the trenches by Christmas? the security of his country. It is not Roosevelt would not have tolerated the Therein lies the diagnosis of our dis- amazing that while Lattimore was in hi-jacking of American planes, by Cas- ease—the disease of cowardice. Mongolia, there was a hearty agitation to tro's emissaries. Woodrow Wilson would THE END

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 TOJO JAPAN'S MAN OF WAR (Continued from page 17)

Europe, with Allied sanctions, finally (H) February of 1936, occupying strategic tipped the balance in favor of a more Hideki Tojo was a frequent visitor at points throughout the capital and shoot- daring course—that of trying to bring not the Kaikosha. He knew, better than the ing venerable liberal statesmen, the 1st only the China episode but also the fellows from the industrial centers and Infantry Regiment played a prominent whole Asiatic order to a conclusion by the sun-bathed South, the meaning of role in the revolt. means of all-out war. Since this war poverty. He would talk, with burning The month previous to this revolt, the was what Tojo had been advocating for eyes, about the half-starved babies, the respected member of Parliament, Secre- years, he was the logical candidate to haggard men and women of the North. tary Shanni Simetsu, gave the following execute the assignment. The others listened to him. Was not the public address in the Diet: "We who op- If Tojo's present status suggested a army of a nation as strong and as pose the use of war as a means of set- return to the feudal pattern, that pattern healthy as its people? Tojo's somewhat tling international disputes urge the sub- stemmed from Japan's original one, stitution of reason for might in deter- which had been overlaid rather than re- mining the course of our civilization. So, placed by its pseudodemocratic consti- too, do educational institutions and the tution. Japan's bloody revolution, like masses. If any one ideal could be said our LAW 1 own Civil War, and at about that It Li to be rare in our military and naval same time, was between North and arms, it is 1 ! 1 1 probably the use of reason

South. In Japan, however, the l North was J and its application to all problems, so- vanquished— and emotionally and eco- cial and worldly. There should, then, be nomically—it never completely recov- a fundamental harmony existing be- ered. tween those of us who oppose fcj. war and Tojo was born 76 years ago in the h America. Yet this problem of war and Iwate Prefecture, in the bleak, poverty- peace, one of the greatest facing civili- stricken plains near the north tip of the zation, has not been dealt with in any main island. There, all day every day, systematic way ." by . our leaders . through the brief summers, rice-field The following night this venerable workers stood knee-deep in the muddy politician was found dead in his room water, the women with their babies tied at home by his wife; he had been be- to their bent backs because there was no headed, and since evidence of a struggle other place to leave them. was lacking, had apparently permitted it The Tojos were samurai, members of without resort to self-defense. Four the fighting aristocracy that had op- weeks later at the height of the revolt, pressed the nation for the last thousand Tojo admitted that his were the orders years, who kept the swords of proud for this particular execution; the reason: ancestors carefully wrapped in the sacred among others Simetsu had boldly quoted corner of the family home. Nonetheless, the words of an enemy, one Tolstoy of "He tinned il all into traveler's cheeks and the ugly surroundings of his childhood Russia, took it with him." who wrote the unforgettable made a deep impression on young THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "War and Peace." Hideki, and his commendable desire to In 1937, Tojo had himself appointed do something about them fitted into the lopsided arguments went as follows: Commander of Gendarmerie Head- less commendable family tradition starving mothers bore weak sons who quarters. As Japan's Himmler, head of which suggested war as the most obvious made a poor army. To get a better army, a vast organization which carried out method. Japan had merely to fight a war which arbitrary arrests and specialized in bru- Young Tojo's father, Hidenori, was a would rehabilitate its impoverished areas tal third-degree, he collected some in- lieutenant general in the Emperor's by adding new sources of raw material. teresting information about people high Army, renowned as a brilliant strategist This line of talk made sense to the other and low— information which made him during the Russian war of 1904-05. officers, went over in great style at the respected and feared. So well did Super- Hideki was just coming of age when the Kaikosha where Tojo became a favorite. Cop Tojo do, that the Kwantung Army victories of Japan over Russia made the When, at the age of 44 (1928), in Manchuria sent for him when a new island peoples drunk with pride. Hideki Tojo was appointed commander broom was needed for its police affairs. Young Tojo graduated from Tokyo's of the 1st Infantry Regiment in Tokyo, As chief of the Kwantung Army's Imperial Military Academy, was com- he got his first chance to project some police, he had agents in every town, in missioned as a sublieutenant, and served of his ideas into reality. The morning every hotel, in the bars and the red-light a short term as military attache in Ger- after he had taken over, he breezed into districts from Tsitsihar to Dairen. His many. After WW1 in which Japan had the officers' quarters unannounced. The secret files grew voluminous, as did his little part—cagily choosing the victors' men were engaged in their morning mental notes of men marked down for camp—peace and disarmament were in toilet. Angrily, Tojo inquired why the promotion, punishment or execution. the air. By 1929 Japan was embarking men did not wash behind their ears. The These came in handy when, five months on a trade offensive, and the army was answer was that there were not enough before the China war broke out in 1937, overshadowed by the influence of pros- facilities. Tojo was not satisfied; he de- Tojo left the police beat and became the perous, international-minded civilians. creed two daily scrubbing periods from Kwantung Army's Chief of Staff. Young officers, heir to the thousand- six to seven a.m. and from six to eight One of his most brutal, if outstanding, year-old samurai tradition, resented be- p.m. and installed additional basins. creations was his Thought Control. It ing overshadowed; they wanted power Only a healthy army could discharge the extended throughout the land; it pitted and attention. At the Kaikosha, the Mili- mission that was fixed in Tojo's mind- son against father and mother against tary Club in Tokyo, they met and hotly fight abroad and rule at home. When daughter and friend against friend. No discussed their grievances. part of the Tokyo garrison mutinied in one knew whom to trust. Arrests were

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 45 made and torture applied only on the hall: the War Minister himself wished The following March (1941), Tojo mere belief that "evil thoughts were en- to address them. Tojo had jumped on a informed the Cabinet that he, as War visioned against the regime." This sys- plane to cover the main garrisons in a Minister, had decided to carry out tem of education was imbedded in the whirlwind lecture tour. sweeping revisions of the imperial ordi- context of their civilization and pre- Tojo well knew the truth of the old nance governing the status of army sented certain aspects by which its na- adage, "Softly, softly, catchee monkee." officers and their promotion. From now ture may be judged. Among its outstand- He could be patient when blitzkrieg on, keen and able officers could be re- ing features were the strings of control methods were likely to fail. As War warded with responsible positions with- over administration; its cruel objectives Minister he sponsored regular liaison out regard to seniority. The new rule, in the control of instruction of youth; conferences between the civilian govern- which went into effect five days after

the principles of procedure in the gov- ment and the military High Command; Tojo had told the Cabinet about it, re- erning of the masses by fear; and the many delicate problems were thus sulted in revitalization of the officers' degree of freedom or supervision al- threshed out. At the same time, Tojo corps. Japan's Supreme War Council, lowed depending on the extent of helped undermine the authority of Par- which was the brains of the army, "thought-control" that was practiced by liament. When the last political party, thenceforth contained no senile mem- the individual. the Democrats, announced their hari- bers. The life and daily behavior of all kiri in August, 1940, "to enable the Characteristically, Hideki Tojo him- peoples, as well as their very thoughts, nation to grasp the rare opportunity of self was the first to overrule his own

were brought within the system of regi- national prosperity knocking at its principle. When he had to send out a mentation. The declared purpose and door," Tojo signed an agreement with new man as Supreme Commander of program of education and control of all Premier Konoye and Foreign Minister the Japanese Expeditionary Force in liberty was to incorporate the Japanese Matsuoka eliminating the practice of China, he decided that all the younger masses into an Asiatic monster for mili- "dual foreign policy." For 10 years candidates were either too inexperienced tary consumption. Its full measure was Japan's young officers had clamored for or indispensable in their present posi- absorbed by these peoples; what oc- a rejuvenation of the army. "His Excel- tions. curred in Germany under the Gestapo lency No Good," was their slogan, He chose 60-year-old Gen. Shonroku and SS Corps was evil; that which the meaning that there were too many aged Hata as the best man available for a Japanese endured under Tojo's thought generals and other staff officers exerting tough job. Hata turned out badly, but control was inhuman, vicious and be- a moderating influence on khaki politics. Tojo's later military selections—Gen. yond rational understanding. It proves Yamashita for Malaya and Lt. Gen. again what may happen when the people Imamura for Java—were brilliant choices. as a whole become stagnant and allow Tojo wanted to see his nation move individuals or cliques to take liberties forward "as one fiery cannonball of reso- with their laws, their rights, and their lution" and liked to talk about "putting very lives. the national policy into execution with Back in Tokyo, as Vice Minister of an iron will." He hated the trappings of War in 1938, Tojo showed an acute democracy and had long agitated for a awareness of the role of aviation in return to that vicious brand of totali- modern war. Aerial activities in China By National Chaplain tarianism which characterized the Japa- had been carried out by the Navy's air nese system for centuries prior to Adm. Rev. ROBERT G. KEATING arm; Army aviation was in the back- Perry's arrival in 1853. He had long St. Jude's Rectory, Derby, Conn. ground. Appointed chief of the Army been an active member of the notorious Air Force, Tojo boarded a large trans- God of A4ight, Power and Justice, Black Dragon Society—a noisy crowd port of plane and went on a seven-day in- enlighten our minds and enkindle in composed fascists, criminals and spection trip of Japanese airports, cov- mountebanks, specializing in political our hearts the fire of Thy love, that ering all of Japan proper, Manchukuo assassination and, later, brotherly love we may use the talents with which (Manchuria) and tropical Taiwan (For- for Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. mosa). His staff officers, exhausted after Thou has blessed us, to a far greater Tojo never relaxed on duty. In par- the fourth day, fell asleep while he was degree than ever before for our God liamentary sessions, which he was com- still asking questions, jotting down pen- and our Country. Aid, from on High, pelled to attend as a Cabinet member, ciled notes, and issuing orders. Tojo he sat at attention between Foreign Min- O Lord of Wisdom, all those work- vastly augmented the air corps, coaxed ister Matsuoka—who scratched his nose, ing to keep our nation ahead in the and goaded heavy industrialists into pro- coughed, and rested his elbows on the ducing more planes, and created Japan's scientific field. May their faith in desk—and Home Minister Hiranuma, first parachute units. Tojo himself never Thee, the Creator of the Universe, who kept rubbing his chin. During his touched stick and throttle: he was too grow and mature along with their off-hours, however, Razor Tojo was a old to fly warplanes. gay blade. He enjoyed parties in the knowledge of outer space so that Tojo's bluntness often shocked Jap back rooms of the more exclusive res- never again may a scientist or mem- politicians and statesmen. The day he taurants down by the bank of the Su- ber of sell was appointed War Minister in July of our armed forces them- mida River. The general then removed 1940, he issued an unorthodox order to selves and our secrets to Thine ene- his tunic (his boots, of course, were

the home forces, exhorting them to stop mies and the enemies of all freedom- checked at the gate) and squatted on disagreeing on fundamental issues of the matted floor, the fly of trousers loving people. May the tragic picture his politics. "If you cannot argue it out with unzipped to facilitate breathing, ex- of these few people who deserted your company commander, take it to changing sake cups with his convivial this lovely God-blessed land of ours your regiment commander. If you can- friends, telling smutty anecdotes, and

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mander, take it up with me directly." A Thee through prayer and sacrifice, He liked movies but was especially fond few hours after startled provincial gar- and then we shall neither desert Thee of Kabuki, the classical drama in which risons had received this message, officers heavily-armored knights—the panzer di- or our nation. Amen. and men were summoned to the lecture visions of the feudal ages—clashed on

4(J • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 the huge open stage. In less turbulent ships endured by front-line soldiers! the Honorable Morning Coats set an all- days, he did not mind watching such Late in the afternoons, when the de- time parliamentary speed record, ap- spectacles for eight hours straight, with- partments had closed, Tojo read Japa- proving the Razor's 13 bills without out food, water, or rest. nese papers and magazines for an hour; debate, and hurrying home—eagerly (Ill) he also avidly scanned all Jap editions demonstrating that they, too, could be Like most educated adults in Japan, of leading American newspapers and little Tojos. Tojo composed classical (telegram- news magazines. He then took a hot Then the War Minister prepared for style) poems. He had three hobbies, all bath, soaping and scrubbing before sub- all-out war. "Nations," he philosophized, of them a hundred percent Japanese: merging to the chin in the bath-barrel of "are never stationary—they must neces- taking snapshots in a general or candid 130-degree water. He dined in a com- sarily expand or shrink, according to manner, collecting swords, and raising fortable kimono, and liked to have sev- their vitality or decrepitude. Japan now a large family. His photography was eral army men as dinner guests. The is culminating; and by the fatal law in mediocre; his sword collection included widely known fact that there was always question it is possible that her statesmen some fine specimens of the Tokugawa plenty of food and good hot sake (hot should not long since have entered with period. rice liquor) on Tojo's board made such extraordinary foresight, upon a vast Tojo had seven children (two are de- invitations extremely popular and a policy of conquest—the game in which ceased) and two grandchildren, at that sought-after privilege. our first moves were wars with Russia time. Reports from Japan now estimate It was as an administrator rather than and China and our treaty with England, his grandchildren as six boys and nine as a soldier that Tojo faced Japan's and of which the final objective is the girls. His oldest son, Hidetaka, having Congress which convened in special capture of the Philippines, the Hawaiian got away with unorthodox disregard for session on Nov. 15, 1941. Taking public Islands, Alaska, and the whole North the family's military tradition, now cognizance of his nickname, Razor Tojo American coast west of the Sierra works for the Oryokko Electric Power said to the Honorable Morning Coats: Passes. This will give Japan what her Co. in Keijo, Korea. The Tojo family "I am the blade and the eyes of the ineluctable vocation as a state absolutely owns a large Japanese-style house in weapon used in this struggle; you are forces her to claim: the entire Pacific Setagaya, a green suburb southwest of the body and the brains, and the blade Ocean and its bordering land masses. Tokyo. The younger children stayed cannot be wielded effectively without "To oppose these designs the Ameri- there— as do the grandchildren today— you." cans have nothing but conceit, igno-

because it is nearer to the big-city To assure effective blade swishing, rance, commercialism, corruption and schools. Mrs. Tojo, who lived with her Congress passed fantastic new appropri- feminism." husband on the War Department com- ations, introduced crushing new taxes Tojo made a minute technical compound, also shared with him the stiff and designed to "lower the standard of liv- parison of the military strength which gloomy Premier's residence. As the ing of the people as much as possible in we at that time could wield in opposition Army's first lady, she was in the habit of order to divert surplus capital to indus- to the military might of Japan. He con- visiting the homes of bereaved families, trial production," forced a member who cluded that the islands, Alaska, Wash- bringing the widows of soldiers neatly had warned against an optimistic view ington, Oregon, California and Lower wrapped gifts of incense sticks which of the nation's economy to resign his California would fall almost without re- they burn before the family shrine. seat, and approved revisions of the con- sistance; that San Francisco must sur- Tojo liked to chat with, drink with, scription law that all men between 20 render in a fortnight to Japanese inva- and ride with younger officers. While and 30 who had been previously re- sion; that in three or four months the at his desk in the War Department, he jected because of physical defects were war would be over, and our Republic, went to the canteen during the lunch to be re-examined for drafting. unable to regain what it had heedlessly rush hour for a 50-sen box lunch and While Hideki Tojo told the House, neglected to protect sufficiently, would

munched it standing up, talking with "I have no intention to dictate to you," then "disintegrate," until perhaps some the staff officers. Riding was Tojo's only exercise. During the war he owned two very fine steeds, which he kept in the stables which were part of his official residence in the War Department. Each morning before breakfast, his favorite horse, Kokuami, was brought to his residence, and he trotted through the silent streets for half an hour. The morning meal, which he took with Katsu, his wife, consisted of miso- shiru (soybean soup), tofu (diced bean curds) and nori (dried seaweed in sheets). He was at his desk at nine o'clock sharp, attending to his mail and receiving reports. Cabinet meetings were held on Tuesdays and Fridays. At a full Cabinet meeting held in January of 1941, he served his colleagues the highly unpalatable "emergency lunch," devised for front-line soldiers in advanced positions (similar to our American "C" ra- tions but less appetizing) : a brick of compressed dried food with vitamins but very little flavor. Tojo explained that an occasional hardtack was apt to make the Cabinet members appreciate the hard-

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • 47 Caesar should arise to mold us again their opportunity, just such surprises as was an all-pervading mist within and into a nation. "The Valor of Ignorance" paints might without the Japanese Empire. Great and It was Hideki Kamisori Tojo who re- lurk in ambush for us. Ignorant as we terrible things were to be demanded of pulsed Adm. Yamamoto's spearhead for were of the innermost recesses of Japa- Army, Navy, Air Force and citizen. A talk and big plans for "a treaty of peace nese mentality, we were foolhardy to powerful but sleeping behemoth was to with the Americans in conquered Wash- disregard such possibilities. be attacked, invaded and conquered. ington, D. C." This type of talk was not It would be preposterous— and it was The stage was now set for the "great part of Tojo's agenda, though even he in 1941— if the only force that could emergency" to which Tojo and other thought and worked big. work ideals of honor and standards of like-minded Japs had been looking for- His plan for the Pacific and North efficiency into American natures shoujd ward with keen anticipation: War with America was a dismal forecast indeed! be the fear of capture or death by armed the United States. Over the antennae of Yet not implausible if the mentality of Japanese invaders. Is the amount of the huge wireless station to the Navy the Japanese statemen had been of the change in public opinion, which our Department in Tokyo came word from Caesarian type of which history created Utopia postulated, vastly less than the aircraft carriers far out in the Pacific: many examples, and which is all that difference between the mentality of they had arrived at their destination. Tojo seemed able to imagine. There was those natives who pursued Stanley's At the very moment when Peace En- no reason whatsoever, in the Razor's party on the Congo with their cannibal voy Kurusu and Ambassador Nomura mind, to believe that women— Occidental war cry of "Meat! Meat!" and that of were enjoying their final audience with or Oriental—could no longer be mothers the General Staff of any civilized coun- President Roosevelt and Secretary of of Napoleonic or Alexandrian warriors, try? State Cordell Hull, the Razor was at our and if such existed in Japan and grasped December of 1941 arrived. Secrecy throats. the end

recently questioned by the House Un- chev thought we were going to give American Activities Committee said up one iota of our treaty rights, he he was a descendant of someone who didn't know who he was dealing with. *AmiuI burned at the stake in Salem But, in view of the he clicked his m A. I • f M ' H had been way in 1692. In view of this fellow's actions heels in the air after his little summit and the fact that sworn statements session, maybe he did know. But any- identified him as a commie, I'm be- way, we're not letting the Domini- ginning to get second thoughts about can Republic get away with anything. Salem witch trials. Seems to me that No country which once had a dictator

the only trouble with them was they at the head of it is going to pull any C Continued from page 6) didn't get around to disposing of some funny stuff with hard-boiled Uncle of those early witches quite soon Sam. We've got principles. punch holes in both ends of cans being enough. Charles Craig discarded, to make them sink. I am Name Withheld New York, N. Y. a Boy Scout, and we have been taught Hazelton, fa. that throwing of cans in a river, pond or other body of water is poor prac- CARL'S CONTRIBUTION tice for two reasons. Someone walking CALL FOR ARMS Sir: Since I am temporarily grounded barefoot in the water may cut his Sir: Viewing on September 4, 1961, and in the hospital for repairs, I feet, and fish sometimes swim into TV am I a showing of Englishmen sur- offering something can't cans and can't get out. The best way saw money buy rendering their personal firearms to — my most sincere prayers for all de- is to save your cans until you get to government had re- sick, all the mainland. the police. The ceased and and for the strong Tim Flint quested that citizens turn in their over the world to help them in ob- I can remember when Eng- taining everlasting peace for all. Janesville, Wise. weapons. land was under threat of invasion and Carl Lemasters WHO CARES? had no guns for its citizens. A call was VA Hospital sent to America for weapons. We re- East Orange, N.f. Sir: If an individual worried as much sponded. The writer sent two rifles about the good opinion of neighbors and ammunition. Now Britain is tak- as our people in the Administration ing up the weapons from its citizens. GET EM OUTDOORS do, he'd be considered a candidate for Who is back of this movement? In Sir: When a boy is 12 years of age, psychiatric treatment. As an example order to conquer a nation, it first be- he is going through a savage state. If of what I mean, I read a newspaper comes necessary to soften it and to you want a boy properly cured, get headline not long ago which said: take up the arms of the people. Let us him out into the woods or rivers. Let "Prestige of U.S. in India declines." not be taken in by the cries of those him build a campfire and smell the But then the story gave the cheering among us who would restrict or con- atmosphere of the budding wood- news that since the U.S. planned to fiscate the weapons owned by our lands. You anglers and hunters should give Nehru another billion dollars we citizens. Too often we have followed start taking young boys with you might expect to find our prestige the pattern of the British. when you go fishing and hunting. The climbing once again. Personally, I Dorrell G. Dickerson, M.D., F.A.C.S. price is cheap for helping to build don't give a hoot in hell what any Los Angeles 15, Calif. character and a man. The great ma- panhandler or sponger thinks of me jority of inmates of our penal institu- when I refuse to cross his palm with tions had behavior problems when silver. The same goes for the mooch- LOUD TALK they were children and 75 percent of ing nations who look to the U.S. Sir: Talk loudly and wield a little them never knew what it was to go taxpayer for billions and who are finger. That seems to be our posture hunting and fishing. willing to cut his throat if he doesn't in world affairs these days. was H. Miller come through. There J. Galena, 111. G. R. Smith much courageous talk about Laos. Don't step across that line, buddy. Greenwich, Conn. Wc weren't going to take any nonsense Letters published in Sound Off! do not necessarily represent the policy of The from the bum Castro. Red China was American Legion. Name withheld if re- LATTER-DAY WITCH your letters short. Address: going to be kept in its place, outside auested. Keep Sound Off. The American Legion Maga- Sir: I read where one of the characters the United Nations. And if Khrush- zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y.

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WHEN A TV or radio repairman makes a home call, first thing he'll do is test tubes, most times the trouble. With this tube check- 1908-1962 er (for picture tubes on down) you can do MONROE the same, save enough money to pay for the THE LEADER $3.95 ppd. it costs. Chabon Co., Dept. AL- FOR 54 YEARS FOLDING PEDESTAL TABLES 12, 122 East 42 St., N. Y. 17. DIRECT FROM FACTORY SAVINGS FOLDING CHAIRS Churches, Schools, Clubs, and all Organizations

If you are on the Purchasing Committee of your church, educa- TRUCKS FOR tional, fraternal or social group, you will want to know more FOLDING TABLES about MONROE Folding Banquet Tables. 94 models and sizes AND CHAIRS for every use. Also, MONROE Folding Chairs, Table and Chair Trucks, Portable Partitions, Folding Choral and Platform Risers. Owned and recommended by over 60,000 institutions. Mail coupon today for catalog and full information. r — — — —- — — — — — ~i MONROE'S THE MONROE COMPANY, 69 Church St., Colfax, Iowa Please send me your new 1962 Monroe catalog, and NEW 1962 | full information on DIRECT- FROM -FACTORY PRICES. . CATALOG CRAZY CLOCK RUNS BACKWARDS PORTABLE PARTITIONS We're interested in: but actually keeps perfect time. Numerals FREE! Group and hands run counter clockwise. Some folks can consume several drinks before figuring Mail to Title.. out it's time to go home. Electric wall clock face. Address _ and 9%" $7.95 ppd. Greenland Studios, Dept. AL, 3735 N\V 67th, Miami 47, Fla. I City Zone.. State..

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$100,000 went into tooling this remarkable kit which contains enough individual and interchange- able parts to construct 6 different truck models. Permits assembly of following, all working models: chain side loader, dump truck, fire engine with rotating and elevating ladder, scoop, steam shovel and logger with cab and body. All gears and parts are steel and mesh perfectly. With complete instructions, $12.95 ppd. Charles Co., Dept. AL-12, 10 East 81st St., New York 28.

...and you'll have a ball convincing your friends when they see these beauties peering out from your shirt sleeves. Hand- molded and hand-tinted, they're real enough to keep the little woman in line just by leaving them on the bedroom dresser. The obvious thing to say here is "keep an eye on everyone from your friends, to your

wife, to your secretary". . . so why don't you? Really eerie, they make quite a gift in a natural suede pouch. Cuff links and tie ppd. 30-POWER TELESCOPE has an achromatic tack set, $3.95 lens for pin-point viewing, is fine for watching birds, animals, ships at sea, stars, planets, ADF Co., Dept. AL-12, 122 East 42nd, N.Y. 17 precision-made LATEST IN A LINE of fine etc. Measures 7W collapsed, \SW extended. imported optics, this monocular is small Comes with pigskin case and strap for $6.95 American enough (2%'" long) to fit into pants watch ppd. Alexander, Dept. AL-12, 140 Marble- Merchandise appearing in The the newest and pocket. No toy, it's a 10-power glass whose dale, Tuckahoe, N.Y. Legion Shopper represents size makes it ideal to pack on any trip. most unusual products available. They are Coated lens. $17.95 ppd. Arms & Weapons, believed to be good values and should Dept. AL-12, 125 East 41 St., N. Y. 17. make worth while gifts for men and women. LIFETIME SOCIAL SECURITY CARD .00 *1 ppd.

At last, a social security card that will last a lifetime! Beautifully crafted of enameled CIGAR SMOKERS can now get $2.38 worth aluminum, it measures a convenient wal- of Silver Rod's best smokes for only $1. These 2". with your come in 4 handy packs, include 5 regular let size 3V2" x Engraved 2-for-25^' centers, Havana blend, 5 regular social security number and full name, it 15(5 centers and 10 regular 10(' centers. A can't be destroyed by fire, water, oil, etc. PRESIDENT PLATE shows all 34 U.S. total of 20 cigars for $1 ppd. Silver Rod Sales, Keep it with you always for positive iden- presidents from Washington to Kennedy in Dept. 1, 14 Journal Sq., Jersey City 6, N. J. tification. Print name and number. color on 10" earthenware plate. President 63S8 Post Office Bldg. and Mrs. Kennedy plate, 9" diam., also in ZENITH GIFTS Brighton 35, Mass. color with gold band. President plate, $1.98 ppd.; Kennedy plate, $1 ppd. Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL-12, 602 Spencer Bldg., Atlantic City, N.J. 3 DWARF Florida PALM TREE GROWS IN YOUR HOME! I Imagine having this true miniature palm tree growing in your home all year! Amazingly I simple care sustains this lovely dwarf tropi- that sway I cal tree with its graceful leaves 4 with the slightest breeze. Watch it grow up I to 3 feet high and give it just a little water and light. It's guaranteed to arrive living, I 3-IN-l POCKET LIGHTER is also a computer already potted. Not shipped into Calif., and a perpetual calendar. Handsome chrome- Texas, Ariz, or La. plated lighter has computer on one side with I 3 dials, measures ground speed, miles, gal- DEPT. AL-12 lons, etc.; calendar on other side covers 1950 I Greenland Studios MIAMI 47, FLORIDA to 1977. $1.95 ppd. S. C. Jacksen Co., Dept. AL-12, 1140 Broadway, N.Y.

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TIRED OF PIN-UP GIRL CALENDARS? HANGOVER PIN-UP REAUTIES 1962 Calendar is the answer. If you're weary of dolls with classic dimensions and come-hither downhill a ]] llle _ relax! Here are a dozen dames who shun tape measures and form fitting dresses. These beauty contest losers give your female a cuddly superiority complex! Un-bewitching 1962 calendar features big week-ends and absolutely no Mondays at all! Count the days as you live 'em. $1 ppd. from RARE JUNGLE BUTTERFLIES are ready GREENLAND STUDIOS, Dept. AL-121, demonstrates the ELECTRIC BARTENDER to mount. Their vivid, exotic colors make the MIAMI 47, FLORIDA. last word in "very dry martinis." Flip decorator originals for table and dresser tops, the whole rou- switch and he goes through trays, wall pictures, etc. Fine for young pouring and tasting. Then his HAVE A PRODUCT TO SELL? tine—mixing, naturalists, too. 12 different imported spec- turns red out of his face and smoke comes imens, $1; 3 sets, $2.50 ppd. Greenland You'll sell more of 'em, and faster in The ears. $4.98 ppd. Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL-12, Miami 47, Fla. Legion Shopper than in any other Studios, Dept. AL-12, American 602 Spencer Bldg., Atlantic City, N.J. magazine. So if you want to boost sales, write The American Legion Shopper, 122 E. 42 St., New York 17 for a rate card and full information. Do it now. -si-* New From flUx$«Mitv£

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bumper-to- LIVE-STEAM ENGINE adds power to any POLICE AUTO ALARM gives thieves. Any CIRCUS CYCLE operating model. Strong l/30th h.p. at 1800 bumper protection against car Just rtily and healthy exercise, too! fittings, hand- tampering sets off a blasting horn to chase Inutcs vou're a star performer. Pedals r.p.m.; has brass boiler, bronze irns armies at a twist of the body. It's grooved pulley wheel. vandals away. Alarm silences and resets it- because throttle steam whistle, ful. Ideal for Christmas giving to hook up. everybody wants his own Circus Uses dry fuel, stands 10". German-made. self when tampering stops. Easy Cycle. Mail orders filled within 48 ppd. Alexander Sales, Dept. AL-12, Only $^»98 hours after receipt. Diners' Club $8.95 ppd. Extra fuel, $2. William Products, $9.95 Express accounts hon- Tuckahoe, N.Y. and American AL-12, 10 East 81st St., N. Y. 28. 140 Marbledale Rd., 6 or more 52.68 ea. ored. Give account number. Send for FREE Gift Catalog.

602 — 538 Madison Ave., N. Y. 22, N. V. KEEPS YOU WARM ON THE COLDEST DAYS! 100% All Wool U.S. Navy TOQUE DICKEY JTIT GUARANTEED NEW NEVER USED A real comfort in Cold and Damp weather. Fits everyone — Men, Women and Children. Keeps ears, neck and chest warm. Soft, Durable, Flexible and Comfort- able. Converts any jacket to a as a head cap too. racing cars are only 4" parka. Wear SCALED FOR FUN — Sleek little imported scale models of Grand Prix Convertible, A Real $3.50 Value! Only 79C+21C long yet scoot along at a goodly 20 mph on a straightaway. They are: BMW 503 are even Postage & Handling ($1.00 even) Volkswagen, Porsche Formel H, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari. These remarkable miniatures SPECIAL 6 for $5.00 ppd. No CODs. detailed, cars have microsensitive adjustment and differential WEAR 2 WAYS being raced in California. Beautifully brake, spring motor, free wheeling, crash absorbers, rubber tires etc. Each is Bowe ry, N. Y. C. 13 for precision steering, , 36 A. L. R0BBINS, Dept. B 7, East 41st, N. Y. 17. $2 95- 2 are $5.95; all 5 are $13.95 ppd. Davis Co., Dept. AL-12, 125 {"Name Address State^. JCity ADDING MACHINE 98 2 *1 $3°69 ea. + - X Add Sunt. Mult. Div. your nails when you coat Easy to use. YOU CAN'T BITE Do all 4 operations. brushing of this 100% accurate. Leatherette carry- them with "Kant-Bite." One ing case included. Perfect for Add 4% completely safe scientific formula forms a dia- or It also Housewife, Student. Engineer Tax in Pa. mond-hard coat that cannot be bitten. entirely CHILDREN'S LICENSE PLATES are per- general home use. Made prevents annoying splitting, chipping and break- of cheapened (up to 8 in America. Beware At work or play, you'll keep your sonalized with name or nickname imitations. Money back Agents ing of nails. foreign instant nail Pro- Letters are embossed on 25-gauge guarantee. Send check or M.O., Wanted nails long and beautiful. Get letters). we pay postage. tection! Now short nails can grow long! steel tag in baked enamel colors. Fine for GUARANTEED! $1.50 ppd. tricycles, bicycles, wagons, scooters, etc. Print P.O. BOX 276 Dept. AL-3, TOM THUMB KANT-BITE CO., name clearly. $1 ppd. Rembrandt Co., Dept. Y. DEPT. D-81, BETHAYRES, PENNA. Box 75, Rugby Sta., Brooklyn 3, N. AL, 285 Market St., Newark, N.J. see for yourself!

more dazzling than diamond* Shopping gfife at 1/30 the cost! FREE BOOKLET Shows How You Con Own A CAPRA GEM For 1/30 the Cost of a Diamond! Get full facts. FREE, on the most amazing discovery by modern science—CAPRA GEMS. A miracle of science described in recent issues of Saturday Eve- ning Post and Reader's Digest. They re more dazzling than diamonds, yet cost much less. CAPRA GEMS' refractive quality is actually higher than diamonds! Brilliantly beautiful, dazzling CAPRA GEMS are hand cut, hand polished and hand selected . . . priced within the reach of all who love fine gems. A 1-carat diamond stone costs you approximately $1000. A com- Durable choice selected. 1-carat CAPRA GEM is yours for federal $27 tax included . . . and can be bought in smair easy payments. „ CET THE FACTS NOW Valuable illustrated booklet shows a wide selection of men's and women's rings. Gives full details. Including prices and settings . . . shows all CAPRA GEMS actual size. Limited supply, so send today without delay. No charge, no obligation. all Get the facts on CAPRA GEMS . . . more dazzling than diamonds. CAPRA GEM CO., Dept. AL-121, Box 5145, Phila., 41, Pa.

WEATHER PROOF COVERALLS are made ROULETTE CUFFLINKS—Here's an ideal of tear-resistant, light vinyl, give complete way to determine who picks up the tab at protection against water, chemicals, dirt, etc. your favorite steak house. Spin the wheel on jiffy. In small, medium Slips over clothes in a these working gold-plated links and the loser WORLD'S CRAZIEST and large sizes with handy fold-away case. pays. A tip—in Vegas, they say the house $4.48 ppd. Alexander Sales, Dept. AL-12, always wins. $4.95 ppd. S. C. Jacksen Co., LIKKER P0URER Tuckahoe, N. Y.. 140 Marbledale Rd., Dept. AL-12, 1140 Broadway, N.Y. Crazy, man, crazy! This weird assortment of pipes looks like the plumber had a long week-end. BUT IT REALLY WORKS. Attach it to your liquor bottle and cause a commotion when you pour through The Plastered Plumber dis- penser. Nuttiest, cock- eyed plumbing ever seen is year's top fun-maker. CLEAN YOUR CAR without dirtying your Add 25«S post. $2.98 LINDE STARS are man-made star sapphires hands. Moto-Mop is a new type of cleaner- and rubies that shimmer and glow like the polisher with chemically impregnated "fibre GREENLAND STUDIOS real thing, but only cost $12 per carat. fingers" that absorb dirt and grime, coat and Dept. AL-123 • MIAMI 47, FIc 2-carat Linde star set in ladies 14-kt. gold polish car at same time. Use it over and over. ring, $45.50; man's ring, from $49.50. Write $4.34 ppd. Spiegel of New York, Dept. AL- for catalog, size chart. Regent Lapidary, 12, 107 West 43rd St., N.Y. 36. Dept. AL-12, 511 East 12th, N.Y. 9. PIECE SURPLUS POWER TOOL SET $2 133 Made to sell for $11.00

NAME AND ADDRESS LABELS are handy to have around, and are perfect for such as letters, cards, packages, checks, etc. Print your name and address carefully and send it Power Tuoi Set Is brand new Surplus, has 133 uicces into these people and they'll print you 1000 Including grinding wheels, sanding cartridges and discs. circulars or blades, etc. gummed labels packed in a plastic box. Steel cutters, wire wheels, CLIP-ON MAGNIFIERS -for wearers of pre- $1 Can be used with any electric drill, grinder or flexible Tower Press, shaft. Onlv $2. GO plus 35 C postage and handling. scription eye-glasses ( except bifocals ) . Get a ppd. Box 591-AL, Lynn, Mass. D mhllCTDlEC 480 LEXINGTON AVENUE new lift with these lenses that clip on. For AO& P INDUSTKIESpept. T-70, New York 17. N.Y. all typos of close work they're wonderful. Light weight, sturdily built. Fit all types of glasses. White metal frame. $4 ppd. Precision Optical, Dept. AL-12, Rochelle, Illinois.

GIANT SANTA & SLEIGH DISPLAY Santa is such a [oily fellow, he's agreed to let us hand letter his sleigh and 8 prancing reindeer with your Family Name and House Number. Brilliantly colored, use anywhere: on lawn, porch roof or indoors around tree or fireplace. Sturdy stakes anchor in soil. Weatherproof plastic. 4 feet long. «J MEN'S FEATHERLIGHT FU 516-P Complete Set (Give personalization) $2.98 ™-"5 STRETCH BOOTS

Illuminated 8-Foot Set: Dazzling lighted display . . . Santa and Big boot protection with none ATTENTION GOLFERS—Tee-Off lets you reindeer complete with 5 bulbs, U.L. approved cord and metal . Z of the weight. Pure gum rub- w see if you are hooking, slicing or hitting reflectors. 22% high x 8 feet long. Give personalization. '-" ber boots slip over all shoes in straight by the way the ball orbits around FU 1508-X Complete Illuminated Santa Set $8.25 ^5 a wink. Non-skid soles can't the arm. Steel unit pushes into ground any- Add 25<_tozo? ro eacheacn itemirem aboveaDove for postage. No C.O.D.'s, please. « tear. 14" high. FU 4821 (Size 6-71/2); FU 4822 [8-91/2); FU where, has solid clubhead feel and click, 2170 SO. CANALPORT AVENUE, 4823 (10-11 Vi); FU 4824 (12- automatic tee. $4.95 ppd. Tee-Off, Dept. DEPT. AL-518, CHICAGO 8, ILL. 13). Pair $5.98 AL-12, Box 6543, Long Beach 15, Calif.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1961 • 53 GIANT THE AMERICAN LEGION SHOPPER GOES PLASTIC TARP 33< F»rmerlr S1.25 Etch Huge 9' x 12' size covers and protects cars, furniture, carpets, etc. Or make Into tablecloths, appll. covers, auto seat covers, etc. Waterproof, durable, transparent. No seams. Mln. order 3 Christmas tarps at 33c ea. Add 26c post. Total $1.25. Money back guarantee.

EXCLUSIVE 3-WAY HEAVY KNIT HOOD, HAT OR UNDER CHIN Storm Hood AW Comparable $2.49 Value Ww plus 12C postage and handling for each hood nyone *ho goes outdoors, when it's cold ind damp, needs this sensational new de- ign. Wonderfully warm, it protects your ,.^head, mouth, neck and ears, keeps out cut- ,4B^h ting wind and biting cold. Available only | I^Sliv mail; fits men, women, children. Money hack guarantee. 4 Wj FREE! $1 Gift Certificate with your order. c, .» .j Barclay Distributors, Dept. 67, $4.80 ppd. . 170 30 j ama i ca Ave j am aica, N. Y.

WINE-SKIN is imported from Spain, keeps UNION SERGEANT'S CHEVRONS - Some l liquids cool for hours. Holds S> gallon of 4,000 of these Civil War chevrons were ac- Civil War Documents! wine, lemonade, fruit juice, etc. Made of quired in the final sale of a famous uniform genuine goatskin, it lias a leakproof plastic company. Include cavalry, artillery, farrier, First Available Authentic liner. Complete with carrying strap, $5 ppd. signal corps, bugler, etc. Colorful; measure Reproductions Leather by Kramer, Dept. AL-12, 968 East 10". Each, $1; 5 different, $4 ppd. C. Bon- 101st St., Brooklyn 36, N.Y. ner, Dept. AL-12, 380 Lexington Ave., N.Y. 17. Exciting Civil War Kit containing priceless pieces of our AMERICAN HERITAGE. Reproduced from the original documents on expensive parchment that looks as old and feels as old as the original I You will prize these documents among your most priceless posses- sions. Kit includes exciting Civil War Recruiting Posters, $100,000 Reward Poster for capture of Lin- coln's assassins. Lee's farewell address to his troops. Battlefield Maps with important data and many other historical documents. Educational and just the thing for the collector. Suitable for framing In their original size. Real conversation pieces! A most unique gift. FREE — for a limited time only, Lincoln's Gettys- burg Address Included free, so hurry. Send $4.95 — check or money order for postpaid Kit. Creative Ink 66S9 COLLINSDALE ROAD BALTIMORE 34, MD.

Shopper's Note on vitamins, drugs and prescriptions. GOLFER'S SCORE COUNTER is a golfer's Merchandise appearing in The American SAVE national like a wrist watch, it regis- Legion Shopper represents the newest and You get 25%-50% discount on best friend. Worn most unusual products available. They are brands. For example, Upjohn's Unicap Vita- ters total for each hole on lower window, believed to be good values and should mins are $5.50 for 250. Registered pharma- total for complete course on upper window. make worthwhile gifts for strap. men and women. cists fill every prescription. Write for free Has gold-plated case, smart pigskin catalog. Approved Medical Supply, Dept. Gift boxed. $3.30 ppd. Alexander Sales, Dept. AL-12, 900 Rush St., Chicago 11, 111. AL-12, 140 Marbledale, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Shimmering Linde Stars Only $12.00 per carat.

ILLUSIBA1E0 COLLECTOR S GUISE

UNITED STATES

lUIrO CflfiRENCf

With all the richness and beauty ot the finest natural star sapphires and rubies ... at a fraction of the cost. Linde Stars are Identical in chemical, physical and optical properties to the natural star sapphire and ruby. Two carat Linde Star set in to. beautifully styled 14 Kt. gold ladies ring only $45.50. Man's jksi mm a?, ring in 14 Kt. gold design from $49.50. Add i0% fed. tax. Writ; hf FREE HMO! RING Sin CHUT am 72 PACE FULL COLOR flWEUtT CAULM MONEY IN YOUR POCKET can be worth a lot more than its face value. What people don't been paid realize is that coins do not have to be old to be valuable. Thousands of dollars have Lapidary Co. Dept. Al-55 worth ^^kH33HD for coins as recent as 1940 to 1956. For example, certain nickels issued prior to 1945 are 511 E. 12th St.. N.Y.. N.r. $6,000, certain dimes prior to 1946, $5,000, etc. Be careful not to spend pocket change that may be worth more. The illustrated 1804 silver dollar is worth $9,985.50 and there are nearly 19,000 coins. ppd. STATE SUPERVISED of them unaccounted for. Is one yours? Catalog lists prices paid for all U.S. $1 LOANS BY j**^ Best Values Co., Coin Dept. AL-326, 285 Market St., Newark, N. J. MAIL *^p-iJ Ugly BLACKHEADS OUT IN SECONDS Borrow $50 to $600 entirely by mail. All loans supervised and regulated by the State of Colorado Department of Banking, your assurance of the highest standards of business ethics. Confidential. No agent calls. 2 years to repay. We will mail free loan application upon receipt of coupon. Keep your | WORLD FINANCE CO. complexion frea of I blackheads — look attractive instantly. I Dept. 121-S | Scientifically designed ELECTRIC FIREPLACE is life-size, has * 620 Symes Bldg., Denver 2, Colo. I vacuum pump gently red brick finish, comes complete with yule safely, without | "lifts" out ugly blackheads flicker, colored bulb, cord • Name logs that glow and pinching or squeezing. Try VACUTEX 10 39%" Address and socket. Measures 43%" wide x t I days — if not delighted return for $1 refund. high x 9%" deep, sets up in a jiffy. Adds joy- Dept. 237 ; City _State_ BALLCO PRODUCTS CO., 73S East State St., Westport, Conn. to Christmas gatherings. $3.61 ppd. S. J. Occupation. -Age- I Enclosed find $1.00, plus 10c postage. Wegman Co., Dept. PF-60, Lynbrook, N. Y.

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Night Delight eventually got around to a comparison of doesn't know much about men or she has a the two states. lot to learn about praying. A mother's joy is often boundless "Honest now," demanded the Texan, — Franklin P. Jones When Junior's bedded, safe and soundless. "don't you think Texas has it all over — Richard Wheeler Alaska as a place to live?" A Few Of My Favorite People "Oh, Texas is a nice place, all right," con-

St ii in peil ceded the Alaskan guilelessly. "And I think No Small Talk mighty I'm going to like it here—once I get over For Sue my admiration's A husband usually understands his wife that cooped-up feeling." She never cutely chirps "all righty" all right. It's just that he doesn't know w hat — David O. Flynn (Or makes my temper hot and smoky to do about it. — Courtney Swensen With that old chestnut, "okey dokey!") The People Who Corner Me Silence Is Golden At Parties Bill's a true friend who never would Point out my faults, "for my own good." Small talk is something I wish they'd eschew Hear Ye! Hear Ye! On account of it With wit Tom's conversation glistens Seems that the "small" has no reference to —He talks a lot, but sometimes LISTENS. The amount of it. _ Hai. Chadwick For These Kind Words— Though Jeanne's not too sincere a gal, The Deceiving End Her flattery boosts my morale. A man gets exuberant over a raise in pay, Pass the Corn, Please.

while his ivife will keep calm and collect it. In taste Pete is my pal and brother, — Joseph Torcaso Who can't tell one wine from another, And thinks French cooking, sauced with Sweet Deceit spices, Can't justify its fame—or prices. When dressed for guests, my wife looks thin — Jeff Matthews Although she's really stout; just how she keeps her figure in, I camwt figure out. — Lee Finley Keep Your Eyes Open A pedestrian who doesn't look sharp may Tape Recording soon look flat. One high school lad to another, about his — L. G. Tennyson girlfriend: "She's sweet 16, going on 35-24-34!" Cake Eater - M. P. Simer "Separate checks'." You can't expect to eat your cake And have your slender figure; To Each His Own Just Move On. Tim«> Forego the extras with your steak see answer a folks won't say how big you're. Forward, turn forward, O Time, in your Sometimes, when you the to And girl either - B. flight! maiden's prayer, you feel the Mary Wall For I sat in with some children last night; Their chatter of fission, fusion, combustion, propulsion, robots, outer space, galaxies, et cetera, et cetera, left me numb.

Would I be a child again? No, I'm too dumb. — Herbert Joseph Mancham

Self Conscious

Then there's the fellow who's so con- ceited, he joined the Navy so the world could see him. — F. G. Kernan

Medicine Cabinet

A crammed and jammed receptacle, Which always has a lot Of remedies for everything, Excepting what I've got. — Stephen Schutzer

.Slight Drawback

A native Alaskan in the Air Force was stationed in Texas. While off duty one weekend, he met a dyed-in-the-wool Texan in a bar, and, of course, the conversation

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