This is the and SHORT of Greyhound Travel!

The BIG MAN and the little girl are pictured Canada and down to Mexico. But it also here to remind you that Greyhound offers just offers frequent local service in nearly all parts

as attractive service on short trips as on long of America . . . convenient trips to nearby ones. Greyhound has gained World fame for towns — to schools, factories and farm com- carrying millions of passengers, in cushioned munities—hundreds of which have no other comfort, to all of the 48 States, up into public transportation.

SHORT trips by Greyhound start on such frequent schedules

that passengers save hours of precious time. There is no driving

strain—no bother of parking or storing your car at destina- tion. Buses used on local trips have the seat comfort and riding ease that distinguish Greyhound long-distance coaches.

LONG trips by Greyhound give millions of people full use of

America's fine scenic highways, at lowest fares in transporta-

tion, and with convenience that's unequaled. You can go two

or three times as far on a dollar as you can driving your own car—while one of America's most expert drivers handles the

wheel. Choose straight-through travel, or plan restful night stops. One ticket, one dependable service goes all the way.

This little girl, traveling with her daddy, showsyou a local Greyhound ticket — while the man holds a U. S. circle tour ticket for comparison.

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VOL. 13 egiion No. 4 MAGAZINE OCT. 1947

Please notify the Circulation Department, Publication Division, Post Office Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana, if you have changed your address. Be sure to give your 1948 member- ship card number and both your new and your old address.

western office • 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois editorial and ADVERTISING • One Park Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. executive and administrative offices • Indianapolis 6, Indiana CONTENTS

Cover By Henry Dravneek Blueprint for World War III By W. H. B. Smith 13 Factories that made your souvenir weapon probably work for Russia today The Hound Called Honey (fiction) By Donn Hale Munson 16 The story of a small boy and his little old hound dog

I Like the Little Posts By John S. Stewart 18 Why Hire Disabled Vets? By Jack Sher 21 Some answers to a question many employers are ducking Dizzy Dean of the Doughs By Robert Ennson 24 Concerning the "meanest, toughest, orneriest and wackiest soldier" Yanqui School for Manners By John Kord Lagemann 26 Learning how to make good in the South American na\ Meet the Timherdoodle By Harry Botsford 28 The woodcock is rough on hunters, but sportsmen love him The Post Behind the Counter By Robert M. Astley 30 Legionnaire students at Michigan State got tired oj high prices, and cut them How to Play Center and Like It By Gene Ward 32 Chet Gladchuck's "extras" make him top center on any gridiron Report from Hollywood By R. Wilson Brown 34 Big doings and little goings-on in the cinema center Science of Hats By Paul Andreivs 70 Departments Super Grain Xn. 21C The Editors' Corner 4 Veterans With Ideas 48 Vest Pocket Poker Shape Sports Varieties Oval Bowl, $5 Previews 6 56 KAYWOODIE Sound Oft"! 8 Parting Shots 72 Postmaster: Please send notices on form 3578 and copies returned backed by the record under labels form 3597 to 777 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis 6, Ind. of tut years The Kaywoodie organization has been mak- The American Legion Magazine is the official publication of The American Legion and is owned exclusively by ing smoking more enjoyable since 1851. For The American Legion. Copyright 1947. Published monthly at 333 North Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, Illinois. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized real pleasure, get a Kaywoodie, the world's fan. 5, 1925. Price, single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.25. Entered as second class matter Sept. 26, best smoking pipe, easier to draw on, yields 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, III., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Roland Cocreham, Baton Rouge. La., Chairman of the Legion Publications Commission; Robert W. Colflesh, a mild, agreeable smoke that suits your taste. Des Moines, Iowa, Vice-Chairman. Members of Commission: Jerry Owen, Oakland, Calif. ; Theodore Cogswell,

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,'t" Frank Lisiecki. <>>0 Fifth A\imie, New 4t^' , 4f ~**+^ Editor. Alexander Gardiner; Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler ; Executive Editor, Joseph C. Keeley; Y..,k :o l.e.iila mi u- fcjrf. V ; Associate Editor, \ \ Art Editor, Al Marshall Robert B. Pitkin ; Assistant Editor. Albert E. Peterson.

Director of Advertising, ; «,ue S t. Thomas O. Woolf Eastern Advertising Manager, Russell Holt; Western Adver- mmk tising Manager, P. K. Babcock. Copr. 1947 T^*V| The Editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts unless return postage is enclosed. Names of DRINKLESS KAYWOODIE $3.50 ^baseball ever produced and did more to change the nature of the na- tional pastime than any other man. Nat Hicks was a catcher. He came upon the scene shortly after the War Between The States, in the days when catchers stood 50 feet behind the plate and caught the pitcher's offerings on the first bounce. The catchers had a very good reason for handling the situation in this man- ner. For although pitchers threw just as hard as they do today, chest and skin protectors, and masks were un- known. And not only that—there wasn't even any such things as a mitt. It took nerve to get 50 feet behind the plate bare-handed and unprotected. But along comes this Nat Hicks and. to the amazement of one and all, de- cides that it is the catcher's business to stand directly behind the plate to receive the pitcher's offerings. People shook their heads. Nat Hicks, they acknowledged, was a brave man. But he'd never be able to get away with it. But Nat Hicks was a determined young man and every day he took his stand right behind the batter. His face set with a heroic resoluteness, in the YOU'LL LOOK LIKE A MILLION manner of a Horatio at the bridge, the IN A MARK TWAIN SHIRT* •ndomitable catcher assumed his stance unflinchingly, prepared for the Poised and assured as the richest man in worst. the world . . . that's the feeling you'll have He got it. At one time or another every finger on each hand was brok- in a MARK TWAIN Shirt. That luxur-

en. Scarcely a day went by that he ious comfort . . . those body- draped lines did not get knocked out at least once. . . . those fine fabrics ... all add up to the But he always got up again and re- sumed playing. His face always looked Million Dollar look. bruised and the way he moved his aching body around sometimes you would have thought he had just crawled out of a train wreck. The opposing batters took no pity on him and deliberately swung their bats far back to make contact with him. Once Hicks had his arm broken while he was behind the plate. In one game, on July 4. 1873, catch- ing for the Brooklyn Atlantics in a game with New York. Hicks, playing with one side of his face twice normal size as the result of a tip ball, was GIVES YOU ALL 4 felled four times. *0NLY MARK TWAIN But despite all these rigors, this rug- OF THESE "MUST" FEATURES ged individualist persisted in his po- sition directly behind the plate for 11 1. QUALITY-TESTED 3. COMFORT-CUT COL- years—and thereby revolutionized the MATERIALS ...for LARS . . .for movement- game. longer wear and last- free ease, yet snug appearance. For, so that their manly virtues ing good looks. would not suffer by comparison, the STYLE-SIZED FIT 4. IRON-EASY FABRICS other catchers had to begin emulating . . quicker ironing . . . for style assurance .for the brash Mr. young Hicks. and form -fitting and that professional Which led to the fact that now smartness. foundry look. pitchers were no longer limited to just throwing a fast ball across the plate, as was the case when the catcher stood MARK TWAIN SHIRTS for M*n 50 feet behind it and caught the ball and TOM sawyer Apparel on the hop. By Harold Heifer for R*«l Boy»

October, 1947 3 Tta liters' <3om&r

"C'mon, c'mon, big boy," says petulant blonde to ex-GI hubby. "We're going to the ferris

wheel, see?" But it never harmed anybody to take a sidelong look.

Henry Dravneek, who took this month's cover photo, says he "has a sane side, but it is only on rare days when there is a total eclipse of my dual personality that you can see it." A lens artist for the past decade, Dravneek is a VP of the Society of Photographic Illustrators and will soon put out a book (co-authored with F. E. Smith) called Hocus Focus.

Pay for Protection

That feather on the cover you'll recognize as the symbol for the Community Chest campaign in your home town, and for 1000 others across the nation. By paying even one buck, you help protect yourself by reducing crime, delin- quency, and the sins of poverty. In one swoop, you contribute to hundreds of services that make your town better to live in.

Report on Worms

Worms have been in the news lately, and we've had our share. Late last spring and early in the summer the eyes of the nation turned, as never before, to the earthworm. First a special plane from the States carried an emergency cargo of several thousand worms to a ship in the Pacific, just in time to save a couple of starving duck-billed platypusses (ornithorhyncusses to some) which were en route to U.S. zoos from Australia, but had devoured their earthworm supply long before reaching a U.S. port. Then a couple of U.S. soil conservationists,

Henry Hopp and Paul J. Linder, came out in Science magazine with the news that the na- tional population of earthworms was shrinking alarmingly. Hopp and Linder warned that the

worm shortage boded ill for a lot of folks who never knew their security rested in part on services performed by the armless, legless, sightless, five-hearted, double-sexed, nervous,

Kentucky Straight Whiskey Bourbon or Rye • 100 Proof • National Distillers Prod. Corp., New York 4 The American Legion Magazine slimy burrower of the earth. Time magazine, ears-to-the-ground, worm-scared, condensed & ndable printed the Science report. Depe But it took the American Legion Magazine

to do something about it. In June we published Selling the Great Outdoors, an article by Out- door Sportswriter Arthur Carhart, of Denver. Carhart indicated various ways (including earth- worm farming) by which veterans might make a living out of the growing amount of money being spent on hunting and fishing. The reper- cussions of the article were terrific, and they were augmented by an error on the part of CHAMPION Mr. Carhart. Worm farming, he pointed out, offers an opportunity to make a fair living off AM ERICA'S FAVORITE SPARK PLUG of an acre of ground or a back yard. He noted further that the worm business requires more know-how than anything else—little capital, little hard work. Worm farming, he added, is one occupation for a disabled veteran to con- template as a means of livelihood. He then supplied the names and addresses of two worm farms to which veterans could write for further information—and there the trouble began. The next thing we knew this office was the recipient of complaints. Letters to Worm-farm

Jfl, said our readers, were returned to them by the Post Office marked, "Gone Over Five Years," while letters to Worm-farm #2 went unanswered. "Check your facts," said some readers. "Please help us get the information," said most. A telegram went to Mr. Carhart, who quickly discovered that although Farm Jl 3iad been in existence when he prepared the article, the

man who ran it when Mr. Carhart knew it better, Mr. George Sheffield Oliver, had died several years ago. Carhart's routine check-up at the time he wrote the article had failed to disclose this fact, and he used Mr. Oliver's name as a reference for readers. Then, after the article was written, that fann went out of business and its clientele and many of its assets were absorbed by Farm #2, the Colorado Earthworm Hatchery—which, said our readers, hadn't been answering their mail. The Colorado farm was still very much in operation, run by former sergeant Frank

The school bus is symbolic of a whole new generation which has never known the necessity for trudging weary miles to school. We are literally a nation on wheels with buses, cars, trucks and tractors playing a vital

part, directly and indirectly, in our daily lives. Engines turn and wheels O'Brien, his mother and other members of the roll. Spark plugs are vital factor in keeping these engines O'Brien family. But the O'Briens were in no a operating position to answer inquiries from readers of efficiently and economically. On sheer merit, Champion Spark Plugs the American Legion Magazine. From June 1st have earned the preference of most users because, in a word, they to July 15th those inquiries numbered some- are dependable. Champion Spark Plug Company, Toledo 1, Ohio. what over six thousand, and at the end of July they were still coming in at the diminished rate of forty a day. FOLLOW THE EXPERTS Apprised of the appalling mountain of mail descending upon the O'Brien family, this DEMAND NEW DEPENDABLE CHAMPIONS FOR YOUR CAR magazine offered to handle the answers for (Continued on page 47)

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SUPPORTER BFir Here ore the things being developed by manufacturers, inventors and scientists for better living now, next month or a year or more from now.

SWEET NEWS FOR PLANT GROWERS. Experiments in which a 10 percent solution of sugar was sprayed on plants promis< great things for farmers and gardeners. Plants sprayed once every 24 hours for three weeks are said to pop up like Jack's famous beanstalk. Sugar experts conducting the tests say that plant growth depends upon the formation of natural sugar in the plants themselves, but sometimes this doesn't come off properly. With a syrupy assist, they say, nature - can really do her stuff.

AFTER-DARK DEPARTMENT. Said to be the greatest step forward in street light- ing since the incandescent lamp first was used outdoors, a new football-shaped 400- watt mercury lamp has been developed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The brilliant mercury lamp with an unusual optical system produces a larger pat- tern of brightness on the street and protects the motorist from glare. The optical system consists of an aluminum reflector and a glass, oval-shaped refractor. When reflector and refractor are put together the unit looks like a two-foot long football.

CLICK. CLICK AND SQUISH. Men who want to save another minute or two in shaving should soon have an- other gadget to speed up the de-bearding process. It's a It tucks your tummy in, your chest goes up, fountain brush recently patented by Frank Bambach, shoulders hack — you feel better and look J. years younger when you wear a Bauer & of Hartford. Conn. The brush has a hollow handle con- Black "Bracer." By its gentle support, taining a storage cylinder which extrudes cream or soap "Bracer" helps relieve fatigue. onto the bristles when the handle is rotated. The brush Newly-designed, all-elastic, two-way stretch, seamless waistband fits you snugly, feeds cream only when pressure is applied, preventing minimizes rolling. Exclusive tubular elas- the accumulation of stale soap. tic leg bands — no crease, no curl, no roll. Ample-size fly-front pouch is self-adjust- ing to any position! CI PEER BOTTLE. During the war a billion and a half For all-day wear, "Bracer" is comfortable, one-way beer bottles were shipped to our troops over- convenient, restful. Ask for it at depart- ment, men's wear, drug and surgical seas. The content'- presumably were consumed and the bottles discarded. Now, for

stores . . . $3.50. the first time, civilians will be getting their beer in these "BRACER* ROYAL" has a wider, cooler, war-developed bottles. The Owens-Illinois Glass Company, more porous waistband that offers you even A them, say their bottles are half the of the . make weight more supportive action . . $5.00. y£ wn0

/I Ly I I standard returnable type, a third shorter, inexpensive and //I plenty tough. 1^ ft

TOE BE OR NOT TOE BE. For people who have a hard SUPPORTER BFir time deciding whether they want open-toed or close-toed shoes, John Hirsch, of Alexandria, La., has provided the answer— two answers. He has invented a shoe that can be & either open-toed or unopen-toed. The toe cap has a right BAUER BLACK and a left flap, joined by a slide fastener. When the slide Division of The Kendall Company 2500 S. Dearborn St., Chicago 16 The American Legion Magazine • October, 1947 fastener is closed the flaps are joined to make a complete tor cap. The flaps, when in open position, are joined to the body of the shoe, adding an ornamental touch.

PHOTO DYE USED IN FILARIASIS. An orange-colored dye, first prepared as a sensitizer for photographic emulsions, is reported by Eastman Kodak Company to hold promise for filariasis sufferers. Known as "compound 863," the dye is known to chemists as a "cyanide." Tests of this dye at Western Reserve University showed it killed filarial worms in rats and further tests were made on human patients at the School of Tropical Medicine at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Scientists conducting the more accuracy research are hopeful that the dye will aid in curing men who contracted filariasis in the Pacific. If not, it at least suggests a lead for future investigations. without winding ONE-HANDED CLOCK. A really new kind of electric clock, designed to make the reading of time easier . \ has numerals which are made of tiny neon tubes, \ * and has only one hand, the minute hand. Each nu- meral, from 1 to 12, remains lighted for 59 min- utes, as the minute hand makes its circuit of the / face for that hour. The hour hand is, of course, unnecessary since the lighted numeral takes its place. Howard D. Werts, LaSalle, 111., thought it up.

NEW CARBINE STYLE RIFLE. Now reaching dealers' shelves is a new .30-. 30 cal. bolt action repeating, carbine style rifle made by the Savage Arms Corporate l.

Known as the Stevens model 325, it has a 21-inch barrel and is ruggedly built. Newly designed action cocks on the opening stroke of the bolt, and the trigger and sear mechanism are said to assure positive, fast action and a clean, crisp trigger pull.

Bolt handle is streamlined and lies close to the frame. Stock is one piece, of ample size for steady holding, and the weapon is priced for the popular market.

FOR THE WELL GROOMED. Your electric light company can become your manicurist when a newly patented power- driven nail file hits the market. Invented by Hyman Harris,

of New York, it's a gadget, small enough to fit the palm of your hand, whose motor runs a nail file, and then operates a buffer wheel which is used for the smoothing-up job. CROTON AQUAMATIC

FIRST AID FOR HANGOYERS. Realizing that people suf- fering from hangovers or headaches are in no mood to bother with the conventional cold pack, Charles F. Slater, of Pitts- You're always on time because you don't burgh, has invented a permanent pack which doesn't have to be refilled. The interior wind your watch! Your Croton Aqua- of the pack is divided into chambers which contain a liquid refrigerant permanently matic keeps itself wound by the ordinary sealed therein. It is chilled in a refrigerator and passes on the comforting coolness motions of your wrist. It can't run down, to the sufferer. can't overwind. It keeps better time — 13.57c better time" than famous hand- JUST LIKE A LOCOMOTIVE. Motorists who get stuck wound watches. A wonderful idea for a when their wheels spin on icy or slippery pave will wonderful gift — or for yourself. some day soon be able to get under way with a simple AQUAMATIC SHEDS WATER LIKE A DUCK! twist of the wrist. Adolf Berner, a Dane, has pat serviceable — Aquamatic is ented a graveling device which automatically Handsome, the certified waterproof, before it goes to your sprinkles rock salt, sand or gravel under the jeweler, by United States Testing Co. Inc. wheels. The sand or salt, carried in a box under Just make sure only your Croton dealer the chassis, is moved hydraulically and (jv^ opens, closes and services your watch. Other automatically deposited when the driver features — dust-proof, shock-resistant, the pushes a handle located near the dash. _ dial's easy to read in the dark, the glass crystal can't shatter! Made oniy by Croton — famous since 1878. Only $57.50, tax included. WALKIE-TALKIE IN CIVVIES. Promised to the public this fall is an FM Handie- Talkie being built by Motorola, Inc., of Chicago. Basically similar to the war-time walkie-talkie, this hand-carried communication unit, weighing only seven pounds, is said to provide reliable communication up to two miles between units. This range can be increased considerably when operating with forestry towers or other high antennae. The FM transmitter and receiver use 18 tubes, 11 in the receiver and seven in the transmitter. The complete unit is designed for carrying in the hand, on the shoulder, or as a back pack. When carried by hand or on the shoulder, a push- to-talk, French style hand set is used. A lapel mike with ear-plug is used when the unit is carried on the back. The cost will be $250. • 3 Aquamatics were tested against the average of 9 famous watches wound by hand, ill a 30-day wearing test by a leading laboratory. Aquamatic proved 13.5% J.C.K. more accurate! Write for free booklet. Croton Watch Co.. Inc. 48 West 48th Street. N. Y. 19. October, 1947 © 1917 Croton Watch Co.. Inc.. New York II ritt-rs must give nanw and address. Name withheld if requested. Address: Sound Off. The American Legion Magazine, One Park Avenue, New York 16, !S.Y.

Eliminate Auto Horns? commissions, or office expenses hidden in its to leave space for the WW3 we hear so much I am a member of the American Legion insurance charges to the veteran, it follows about these days. If the VFW also did this, Post of the Cincinnati Police Department. I that no commercial company could possibly the Cross of Malta would show the Spanish- am also co-editor of the (local) official pub- give the same values. Also GI Insurance has American war and all since—a lot of quarter- lication of the Fraternal Order of Police no charges for hazardous risks. A private com- ing there! (whose) editor, Murray, and T are collaborat- pany could not meet these rates. William Dix ing on a campaign to eliminate horns on autos. (Name withheld) Arlington, Va. It is our contention that the auto horn is tak- Butte. Montana ing the place of courtesy. Myron Stearns, in No WW2 Theme Song? his article, No End To Traffic Deaths? (ALM, iny veterans of WW2 who have held GI In- ... I derive so much from the magazine July), listed eight human failings that make surance in the past but have let it lapse, can and truly enjoy every article. The covers are accidents, among them these: now reinstate their policies without special ex- always so full of meaning and timely. . . . The 1. Overconfidence. (Confident that the horn amination up to January 1, 1948, usually by article. Soldiers Don't Sing War Songs (Au- is loud enough to stop other cars.) payment of two months' premiums without in- gust ALM) , was very good and is always dis- 2. Anger. (Give him the horn. Make him terest. Contact your nearest Veterans Adminis- cussed every time a WW1 song is played. move over.) tration office for details.—editors However, I did like "When The Lights Go On 3. Impatience. (In my opinion, the biggest Again," but I guess that didn't suit us, since fault of the modern motorist, lack of courtesy. 'rithmetic we didn't black out entirely during the war

At a traffic light bang the horn if the driver You asked for it! Referring to "y = ax" in years. in front doesn't move fast enough. I've seen the August issue (Sound Off!), just to be Mrs. Walter J. Dubue 2 cases where pedestrians were in front of a technical, y = ax might be a better parabola. Neiv Orleans, La. car and the driver would bang the horn and However, the magazine is too good to let any- race the motor to frighten the pedestrians. thing like that worry me too seriously! I enjoyed Don Whitehead's excellent article Drivers to the rear will bang the horn without Stuart Dean about war songs. It brought back many pleas- regard to the driver in front, even though the Boonville, N. Y. ant memories of my service while attached to front car vvjas waiting for a pedestrian to cross the British 8th Army in Africa, Malta, Sicily, the intersection.) More work, less griping and Italy. However, I noted what I consider to be an error in his quotation of "Bless 'Em 4. Divided Attention. (Caused by misuse of Too often I hear WW2 vets say they do not All," of favorites. At the the horn. Instead of watching the road in have enough to do at Legion meetings or that which was one our end of line 3, I believe "W.O.L.s" should be front, the driver's attention is divided between WW1 vets are taking all the responsibility "W.O.s." This refers to the British rank of the horn-blowing goon in the rear and the from them. This is not true. I know from ex- warrant officer, roughly equivalent to the highway in front of him.) perience that any WW2 vet belonging to The AUS rank of first or master sergeant. We intend to continue our campaign to American Legion can find plenty to do if he eliminate horns; John P. Baker we feel they are not neces- just tries. . . Soon after I came home from sary, and that they are a definite nuisance. Great Lakes Naval Station, I was asked to Washington, D. C.

Joseph W. Mehmert join the Legion. At that time it was mostly Cincinnati, Ohio WW1 vets. This was early in '46 and to make No Music at the Front

it more difficult, I was Navy while most of In the August issue, I read the article. Sol- We can find no fault with Legionnaire Police- the other vets in my town were Army. At the diers Don't Sing War Songs, and I don't get man Mehmert's specific complaints. What do first meeting I attended I was put on a lunch it. . . . From Whitehead's inference, the boys readers think about his suggestion lor total committee. The next meeting I was put on in the 1st War sang their way blithely into removal of the auto horn?—editors two more committees. When nominations came battle. His passage, "there were few places around I was named Adjutant. This year I (in WW2) for song in all the filth and misery GI Insurance is Best Buy was elected Commander. I have seen almost and pain and seeing men die," is quite cor- I have sold insurance for twenty-three years. the same thing happen in three other nearby rect. But the boys the first time had that, too

I have . all my WW1 government insurance and Posts. . In our Post but one of the elec- —and worse. . . . During the hell's fire at St. know how valuable it is. One company here tive officers are WW2 vets, and they are doing Mihiel and Argonne, I was on special duty in particular renders lip service to the pledge the job. . . So all I have to say to WW2 vets driving a staff car at all sectors. I got around. of helping GIs in retaining and converting is to let the older members know you are But I never heard a column of men marching their government insurance, but privately, in willing to do a little more work and less and singing—either going in or out of the its course of instructions for agents, teaches griping. . . One of the best ways to find out line. Going in, they were too damned scared, all the tricks in the book to "twist" these poli- about The American Legion is to enroll in and they crawled in, at night, not talking. cies. It is particularly partial to employing the Extension Institute. The WW2 vet can Coming out they were too dazed, starved and ex-GIs for this dirty work. Many million dol- h arn in a short time what the first war vet horrified to do anything except to amble along, lars of insurance have been lost to veterans had to learn the hard way over the past 25 on their feet. No transport trucks or jeeps by such tactics—through agents who profess years. those days. Artillery men didn't have the to convert their policies, "proving" that their F. Harold Thornton breath to sing or talk—just to curse; for our company's policies are better and more valu- Ontonagon, Mich. horses, cast pffs from the French army, soon able. ... If e\-GIs had available actual facts died, and the men had to get into traces the) would all keep their GI Insurance. His- Buttons—halved and quartered themselves to move guns, large and small. Only tory proves that NSLI pays off better—in II the suggestion is adopted to design a once did I hear a body of men singing, and term, ordinary, 20-pay life, or 20-year en- Legion button with a "ruptured duck" for they were riding in an ammunition truck far dowment than do mutual or stock companies, WW2 members, then what would be the lot behind the lines. They were singing "Hail!

t The writer enclosed a chart, too extended of us who were in both 1 and 2? Wear an Hail! The gang's all here!" In fact, one lor publication here, which proved his point original one week and next week the WW2 Frenchman I talked to thought that was our in detail.) . . . Since the government has no one? Perhaps a look into heraldry might sug- national anthem—it was the only tune he had taxes, no overhead, agents, managers, salaries. u,c-t the button be "quartered" not forgetting (Continued on page 11)

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* "Spam" is a registered trademark. II identifies a purs pork product — packed only in 12-ounce tint — mad* exclusively by Geo. A. Hormol & Co., Austin, Minn. THEIR DARING CARVED A NATION OUT OF A WILDERNESS, AND AMERICA'S GLORY ON THE PILLARS OF HISTORY! SOUND OFF! least a little bit financially. . . . Seems to me \ n equal Combat Awards this problem so vital to our country right I was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge ( Continued from page 8) now, should he looked into by Legion Head- with $10 each month while in combat. What heard. That was at Bar-le due, after the ever quarters as one more possible service to ren- burned me up was that soldiers in the Marine

been pushed north. . . . Mr. Germans had der America as a whole and to the many young Corps who were infantrymen like me did not Whitehead states: "In 1917-18 our troops women who want to become trained nurses benefit as I did. It's unjust in my opinion, for ships with a brave song on their lips boarded but who cannot afford the usual training. Congress to overlook these Marine Corps sol- and slogged through the mud of France sing- R. W. Fletcher diers who fought as hard as I did in the Pa-

. . . must be very ignorant about ing." He South Hadley Falls, Mass. cific infantry. that movement of troops. There was utmost Rosaire Rajotte secrecy as to time and place of embarkation Sponsored through the war by the U. S. Public Northbridge, Mass.

. . . and who wanted to sing when he knew Health Service, the Cadet Nursing Corps gave he was going out onto the Atlantic in a tub The case presented by Mr. Rajotte shows only young girls a speeded-up, thorough training. for two weeks in submarine infested waters one of many inequities under sectional com- Many of these went to various service hospitals.

. . . often no escort? NUTS. I am surprised mand of our armed forces. A unified command, But since the end of war, the program has been Legion would publish such drivel and if I it is hoped, will put all branches service on the scrapped and no new appointments are being of read any more such stuff in this periodical, I an equal footing.—editors made. With the graduation of the remaining think it about time for myself and all other cadets, this very beneficial program will be good Legionnaires of the first war to drop out It's the System liquidated. At present, there are no signs of I dare you to print this Now, during the lull in fighting, is a good of the Legion. And renewing the Corps.—editors letter. time for the Legion to influence the Navy in Earl R. Kinc a matter of integrity. The Navy demands in- It Can't Happen Here? Tucson, Arizona tegrity from its enlisted men. In return, the Top leaders of a Communist government or Navy's word is not worth the paper it is his article, Mr. Whitehead did not wean movement are usually the only ones who rec- In written on. . . . Sound terrible? I agree. It '17 it did ognize its real purpose. It could not succeed to imply that boys in had easy. He is also too true. A specific case—a man takes if the rank and file members and fellow-trav- say that WWl doughboys had more and better an examination for higher rate. He passes. elers who blindly follow were aware of this songs to sing, when they had time and in- During the time the rate is being processed

real purpose. . . . Most successful effort of clination. EDITORS he is transferred to a new station. At the new this kind has been accomplished by the Soviet station he applies for the new rate he earned. Government of Russia. There, highly intelli- Give the Buys a Year "We're sorry, old man," he is told, "but you gent men unweighted with religious beliefs or I have talked with many groups and we made the rate at your old station. We don't conscientious scruples have been able to sub- have argued the point for many hours and we know you and you'll have to prove to us what jugate the masses under a dictatorship that is still come up with the answer that we do need you can do." ... It is time the Navy stops the most despotic and absolute on earth. The Universal Military Training. I took ROTC in this form of dishonesty, for that is what it old-fashioned absolute monarchies were not high school and it sure helped a lot when I amounts to, and stops operating as though each so efficient. During thirty years they entered the Marine Corps in 1945. If people have been station is a separate Navy all to itself, not able to kill off large part of the tried to see what we may be up against the a minority subject to the regulations at other stations that objected to becoming serfs. Even their so- next time, I'm sure everyone would want it. and bases. called constitution makes frank We are now getting fellows in the Marine now reference Hank Tenny to the "peasant class." The small ruling Reserve who say, "Why wait until a UMT Bill class Dallas, Texas lives on the fat of the land while the peasants is passed? If we don't get ready now, tomor- are required to work hard for a bare existence. As Mr. Tenny probably knows, each Naval row might be too late—and we surely don't The benefits of this system extend as low as Station and ship has its complement rates want another Pearl Harbor, do we?" I myself of plant executives whose pay in proportion to 50 many 3/Cs, so many CBMs, and so on. and everyone I know believe that if you took — SK ordinary is greater it is station the every fellow just out of high school and gave workers much than in The transfer to the new may find this country. They have demonstrated effec- complement there— local boys waiting him one year in the armed forces we would full and tively that a few ruthless intellectuals their rate-openings. the be prepared and they would be able to think can a long time for own If gain absolute control of great masses of people newcomer is elevated ahead of the old salts on their own. . . . Incidentally, I believe our when the indifference and credulity of the already waiting at the base for rates, there Legion Magazine is the best veterans magazine masses permit it. would be squawks all doivn the line. 'Taint there is today. I always enjoy reading it. Glenn A. Butler, USMCR J. L. Allen dishonest; it's an antiquated system. editors 12th Infantry Battalion Ysleta, Texas Treasure Island, Cat.

Cadet Nurses Liquidated Can you tell me what happened to the Cadet Nursing Corps that was so popular and useful during the last war? In my travels I have met several of the young women in this group and could not help but notice that they looked very neat in their red-trimmed gray uniforms. From conversations with a few of them, I'm sure they were happy to be learning the nurs- ing profession and were proud to belong to the

Corps itself. . . . The shortage of trained nurses in this country is constantly becoming more critical. There are high school girls throughout the land that would jump at the chance to join an organization like the Cadet

Nursing Corps if it were possible to do so. Many deserving young women do not enter

nursing because it is necessary for them to go right to work and aid the family income; whereas the regular training could cause too much financial burden on the family. The CNC program provided free uniforms and paid the girl enough so she could assist her family at

The American Legion Magazine • ©ctober, 1947 • 11 A Pioneer in Pensions

Bell System Plan for Employee of the best for employees. The full 1946. During that year, one Bell cost is paid by the Company. The System employee in every seven Pensions and Benefits lias been employee is not called upon to con- benefited directly from the sickness in effect for thirty-four years. tribute anything. provisions alone.

16,967 Bell System employees All of this is in the interest of the Long before there was any (10,769 men and 6,198 women) public as well as telephone em- thought of Social Security or of were receiving pensions at the end ployees. Because for you to have pensions by most companies, the of 1946. good service we must have good

Bell System instituted a Pension people to give it to you. The Pension Plan is part of a Plan for ihs employees. The plan comprehensive Benefit Plan that These Pension and Benefit Plans went into effect in 1913. also covers sickness, accident, dis- are part of the Bell Telephone Com- The Bell System Pension Plan ability and death payments. These pany's responsibility as a good em- was not only one of the first pension were paid to more than 110,000 em- ployer and a good citizen in every plans but it has continued to be one ployees and their dependents in community in which it operates.

BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Blueprint for World War III

German-supported arms plants throughout Europe

lade the recent war possible, and permitted the Germans to export

Najzi ideas with their weapons,

acilities for gun-making

aganda are now the Soviet's

By W. H. B. SMITH

Ever since several million GI's "liberated" souvenir German ri- fles, pistols and ammunition, the gun and sporting editors of this country have been slowly going crazy trying to answer questions about trophies. The identifying code letters printed on the next two pages are a few of those taken from the secret files of the German High Command. They will tell you where your weapon was made—an important factor, since millions were made outside of Germany itself. Whether your particular trophy is just a wall or closet piece to bring back memories as the years wear on, or

whether you use it for hunting, target shooting or protection, the code let-

ters on it may possess an importance you never dreamed of. On the receiver ring of a captured rifle or on the left side of the slide of an enemy pistol you will usually find a series of numbers or letters. If you find any which do not appear in the list given, will you take time out to drop us a line telling what they are and giving a brief description of the weapon? While the code is from origi-

nal secret German files, it is not be- lieved to be complete; and your help may assist in unearthing further fa- cilities which were used by the great German war machine. You may wonder why such informa-

tion is valuable, now that Germany is a shambles, and now that atom bombs,

13 guided missiles and bacterial warfare the vast importance of small arms in setting the stage for the Soviets' bid have taken public attention off the sub- the years ahead. The modern "weapons for domination of the Continent. It will ject of the common military weapons. of decision" are last-ditch arms. For in- be remembered that both Poland and There are several answers to that ternal security and all but the gravest Czechoslovakia were anti-Hitler. Yet question, and all of them have an im- of international situations, improved certain arms manufacturers were help- portant bearing on the future of world versions of familiar arms remain neces- ing the German General Staff perfect peace. The system and the facilities sary. the weapons which were to be turned used by Germany in rebuilding her Right now arms plants in Czecho- against them and their countrymen.

army after World War I are now gen- slovakia and Poland which filled orders Now they're doing it for the Russians, erally available to the Russians. In that for the Germans long before the Cham- as are arms manufacturers in Sweden fact rather than in the direct danger of berlain appeasement at Munich, are and Switzerland and the satellite coun- German re-armament lies the secret of working under Russian direction and tries behind the iron curtain.

1920: Germany standardizes her arms manufacture 1924: Neighboring nations turn out these weapons

14 If the German-type weapon you brought back has one of the code markings shown above you will know where it was manufactured

Here is the way Germany did the cluding all those in South America, are the police and military establishments job—and remember that in the follow- equipped largely with German weapons. were thoroughly indoctrinated, German ing paragraphs wherever the word Ger- Even where the arms themselves are not business interests were soon able to man is used to describe these past opera- of German manufacture, they are prin- enter the economic picture on their own tions you can without doing violence to cipally of German design. In the years terms. truth substitute the word Russian for before War I Germany deliberately After World War I there was a legiti- present and future operations. Because built up military and police contacts mate security need for replacement Russia now has under her control many with all the lesser nations by supplying weapons, spare parts and service by the of the German technicians and the fac- them with first class equipment at low military and police groups of minor na- tories they employed in their march to cost. tions. Germany could not fill the needs power. Wherever the equipment went, tech- directly. The United States Army, then Twenty-one nations in the World, in- nicians and instructors followed. When as now, was {Continued on page 37) Only for the kid, they'd have

drowned the no-account pup. But,

as all dogs should, Honey

too had her day

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By DOW HALE MUNSON the hounds sell for three dollars each. pick of the litter was gone ILLUSTRATED BY J. C. WOODS When the and five thin dogs remained, Lem had cut the price to two dollars each. Three ALL day LONG young Bib Tucker more dogs were sold. w atched the hounds. He was there Lem cut the price again when the sun when they arrived and one by one he was hot and the two remaining pups one saw them sold until now there was only lay panting. He sold the eighth for he could step one left. He kept watching it, as if to dollar. Now, Bib knew, claim the last one for guard it against being sold, against the forward and as little men and the cattle, horses and sheep seventy-five cents, maybe even and the noise and excitement of the as fifty cents. It was nothing—yet it live stock sale. was a fortune when you didn't have it. given With Pa he had risen at dawn and Once he had fifty cents. Pa had carnival loaded the two shoats into the back of it to him last year at the and the rickety pick-up truck and come Bib had made it last all day. It wasn't It was down off the mountain to town. Going that Pa was close with money. there to the weekly sale was usually as much just that in the Tucker household any fun as the occasional carnival which wasn't much. At least there wasn't realized. came to the big hill country of East left over for a hound dog, he They could hear the Tennessee. A dozen times he had gone to the beast's screams and Bib, who was eleven, stood where he truck to stare at the puppies. Lem Honey's growls as the could watch Lem Smalley's truck. The Smalley ignored him. Maybe, Bib tangled in a death remaining hound puppy lay in the truck thought hopefully, maybe he'll get tired two struggle in the cave bed, unprotected from the sun. Lem and give me that ole pup. Smalley himself sat in the shade on So now he waited. Around him the stock the running board of the truck and spat crowd boiled in and out of the into the dust as he talked with friends. barn. The air was full of the chant of He would, Bib heard him say, go home the auctioneer and the hoarse callings when the last hound was sold. of men as they bid. The hound pup lay Bib's hands knotted into fists in his sleeping. Bib knew all about her and overall pockets and wished desperately the litter from which she came. thev held some money. He had watched Walkers and {Continued on page 49)

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I like the little Posts, On this committee Comrades, listen! I like the little Posts,

You can have the big Posts. I'll appoint Olsen, We got a letter. You can have the big Posts.

I'll take the little Posts, Murphy, Campbell, State Headquarters wants money Big Posts have club bars, They make the Legion great. Slefsky, Green, For the Orphans' Home. Big Posts have card members— Rosenberg and Angelina. Mostly card members—

Hickory Center- Comrade Commander! Comrade Commander! / like the little Posts, Johnson's Corners- The 'Xillery's raisin Hell! I move we give ten dollars! They make the Legion great.

Yellow Creek Falls— They say we broke six dishes Second the motion!

Smithville, Jonesburg— Saturday night. All in favor say Aye! Comrade Commander! Elmhurst, Idlewild— Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Good of the Legion! Washingtonville. Comrade Commander! Comin Armistice Day,

We never broke a dish. Comrade Commander! Where do we go to church this year?

Comrade Commander! Them darned women Bill Smith's widow's Well, let's see!

I move we have a social night! Are lookin for a fight! Havin a bit of hard luck Last year Methodist, Comrade Commander! Since we buried Bill. Year before, Presbyterian,

1 move an amendment! Comrade Commander! I move we give her Year before that Synagogue.

Corn's gettin good now. We gotta live with 'em. Twenty-five dollars. Guess this year it's Irish.

Let's have a corn roast. I remember She can use it. This year St. Dominic's. Comrade Commander! Just about two a.m. Second the motion! Here's your committee— 1 accept the amendment. Somebody broke a saucer. All in favor say Aye! McNamara, Epstein, Second the motion! I move we pay 'em. Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Emerson and Harrison All in favor say Aye! Dollar and a quarter. See Father Callahan, Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Second the motion. Comrade Commander! Make arrangements All in favor say Aye! I move next meeting For 11:30 mass.

I like the little Posts, Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! We have a keg of beer.

You can have the big Posts. Let's have hot dogs. I like the little Posts,

They live in mausoleums, I like the little Posts, Second the motion! You can have the big Posts.

I like the little Posts, You can have the big Posts. All in favor say Aye! Big Posts have lots of members— They make the Legion great. Big Posts run restaurants, Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Little Posts have friendship- Little Posts have wiener roasts Little Posts have loyalty—

I like the little Posts, They are America! They make the Legion great. They make the Legion great!

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Red became a bugler It was a sought-after post, since buglers were excused from irksome watch standing duties. As a consequence, anyone who had ever held a horn, and many who 5lfSf£ff ff ff ff ff ^ hadn't, applied for the job. A great majority had long neglected whatever talent they may once have had. Each night the playing of "Taps" was so sloppy as to bring a prolonged chorus of catcalls and hisses. No num ber of official edicts could curb this bedtime horseplay. The first night Red had the duty things were different. The notes poured > forth true and silvery, with never a slip or a second's hesitation. For sev- eral moments after the last echo faded away dead silence reigned throughout A* ^Winthrop's Action -Free the huge gymnasium.

Winthrop's exclusive Action- "Say, who is that guy?" came a Free insole assures perfect flex- reverent voice from one of the aisles ibility from the very first step and Then someone began to clap. Soon will % provide smooth,cushion-comfort I wo thousand hands paid their respects throughout the long life of the shoe in thundering appreciation. FOR FREE STYLE BOOKLET Red has the honor of being the first !! WRITE DEPT. R Navy bugler ever to receive applause 4 i at the end of a performance. By * Winthrop Shoe Co. • Div: International Shoe Company • Saint Louis J Robert F. Welch Why Hire Disabled Vets?

Ignorance and false rumors conceal the fact that

there are more good reasons for employing rehabilitated

veterans than there are for hiring able-bodied

workers. And shockingly enough 170,000 permanently

injured vets of World War II are still unemployed

By JACK SHER

Not long AGO a 24-year-old veteran who had picked up three battle stars and lost the sight of one eye at Salerno, applied for a position in the New Orleans branch of a large firm whose headquarters are in Chicago. The personnel man in New Orleans

told him, "The job is open, but I think our company has a taboo on employing physically handicapped men." He said "/ think." He wasn't think- ing. He was imagining. The disabled veteran was not hired for that job. He

reported it to a State Employment Of- fice. An investigation was made. The executives of the Chicago firm were aghast when they were told what their branch personnel man had said. "We have never had a policj that discrimi- nates against the physically bandi- capped," they stated. And they were right. But because they had not issued any positive statements urging their various personnel men to give the dis- abled veteran an equal chance, their man in New Orleans had "thought" a disabled vet unqualified and turned him away. That is an example of one of the many ways employers are cheating themselves or being cheated of the chance to learn that a disabled veteran, properly placed in the production line or at the right desk, is a sound payroll investment.

In other instances it is the employer directly who does himself out of an op- portunity to learn something to his ad- vantage, who deliberately or subcon- sciously prevents the hiring of crippled former soldiers. Ignorance, abetted by the circulation of false ideas, works to the disadvantage of the employer and the impaired vet. And things are getting worse, not better. Employers and vets got the best break Leonard E. Shelhamnier (two fingers, no eyes) practices hobby of mask-making right after V-J day, when it was good

21 !

Senior Clerk Shelhammer handles 12,000 callers a month without help at the reception desk of USES at Harrison. N.J. Land mine deprived him of eyesight, left arm to elbow and all but two fingers of right hand. His work, flawless

publicity, good news-copy, to do some- By the end of the war. many large Socony-Vacuum hired thousands and. thing, fine for the war's living victims. companies had already estab'ished a what is more important, made certain Bui now. as these words go down on sound policy for hiring disabled vet- that they were placed in jobs they could paper, there is a smell in the air and erans. Veteran counselors were em- do. an uneasy feeling in the stomach. The ployed who supervised the hiring of the The results were excellent. Making "do-good" spirit has faded away, yet handicapped, trained and placed them. exhaustive analyses to find out what far too few employers have learned that Companies like International Har- particular jobs were fitted for the vari- it is sound husiness to hire disabled vester, Ford, Bulova, Westinghouse and ous disabilities of the men they hired, former soldiers. Instead, the falsehoods these companies soon discovered that and ugly rumors, like the insurance lie, properly placed disabled vets stayed have interfered, and a situation that "on the ball" and stepped up produc HOW and WHY started well is deteriorating. tion wherever they worked. Case his- An odd twist to the situation is that to Hire Disabled Vets tories are too numerous to list, but 'oday, more than ever before, the men here's one: John Rensberger, a totally who represent management are empha- They produce more. blind veteran was trained, given special sizing that production is the key to They are more conscientious. equipment and put to work on the car- prosperity-— yet 170,000 disabled vet- They slay on the job. buretor assembly line at Harvester's have proven themselves the WHY Farmall plant in Rock Island, Illinois. erans, who They learn skills better. most production-conscious of workers, Within a month production on the line Personnel turnover is less. are unemployed and many thousands increased fifty percent Insurance rates are NOT higher. more now in training or in hospitals In labor unions, both the AFL and will be looking for work during the next CIO. policies from the top were di- Every disabled vet who few years. rected to help give employment to the receives VA unemployment Unless a little sense is brought into disabled veteran. At Sperry Gyroscope compensation is registered at the picture it is going to be D-Day all now the management okayed a union clause over again for the disabled veteran—his his nearest State Employment guaranteeing to employ all disabled vets chance of getting a job will be slimmer Office. A phone call does it. who had worked for them before the and slimmer, his hope of holding one war. It stated they would be given a job will he. precarious. they could do, at the same pay they

22 — had been getting before military serv- about them began to circulate, false risks involved, ice. The Upholsterers Union, CIO, set a rumors about rising in- rule that all new members must be vet- surance rates. erans with a 10 percent or more dis- The misinformation about insurance ability. The Hotel and Restaurant Work- rules was the ugliest barrier in the way ers, AFL, did an excellent job in cam- of the disabled vet who was seeking a paigning for the hiring of vets and pro- job. It still is. tecting them on the job. "They said that hiring disabled vet- There was no disagreement between erans would increase their insurance labor and management on the necessity rates so much that the company couldn't for hiring the handicapped veteran. And afford it," one ex-infantry soldier who the VA training program under Public- had lost a leg in the Battle of the Bulge Law 16 did a magnificent job of turn- recently reported to a State Employ- ing out skilled workmen. But, in spite ment office. of all this, after the first mass flurry of This same complaint is repeated al- Rufus Rogers learns typewriter repair daily all over the country. The hiring, the picture began to take on at Sawtelle VA hospital. His heart trouble most darker tones. is no stumbling block to skill disabled veteran who is given the "in- By February, 1946, the U. S. Em- surance story" in being turned down ployment Service reported that they him time and ignorance. Time worked for a job is not being told the truth. were only able to place one out of every against him because, in the space of Bluntly, when a company gives this 34 disabled vets who were trained to one short year, gratitude for what he reason it either is unaware of the pro- perform jobs. In June of '46, during a had done in the war had diminished. visions of its insurance policies or is slight slump in the labor market, 20 Ignorance worked against him because putting forward an excuse to cover up percent of the able bodied vets found not enough employers understood what its employment practices. employment, only five percent of the the disabled veteran's basic problems The insurance companies themselves disabled! were, what he could and could not do. are not at fault. They have put out tons The factors then working against the Not enough had been done to show of literature in an attempt to educate

disabled veteran still exist, two deadly employers the advantages in hiring employers. Hiring a disabled veteran factors that will always work against handicapped war vets. Murky notions in no way {Continued on page 56)

Washington baker Theo Maggia trains Okinawa vet Joseph Gibbs in cake-making 23 Dizzy Dean of the Doughs

The story of S/Sgt. James J.

Spurrier, Jr., a one-man task force who specialized

in all sorts of fantastic exploits, including the taking

of a town all by himself

By ROBJ3IIT EUNSON

ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD BRODIE

Whenever VETERANS gel together around a warm comfortable fire- place or a brass rail where small chunks of ice tinkle in short glasses of scotch and soda, talk sooner or later gets around to who was the "toughest, fight - in'est soldier they ever knew. After spending three years following doughs, paratroopers, engineers and hot The sergeant hangs one on the President—the 35th Division pin pilots in both the Pacific and Europe and reporting the exploits of at least a thousand men, you might ihink a re- Major Dick Bong who shot down more various foreign decorations and two porter would not have an opinion. than 40 Japanese planes, I would like Purple Hearts, Spurrier in his time With all due respect to the 32nd to order another round of the same killed more than a hundred Germans Division's magnificent Roltcher whose and tell you about Junior Spurrier. and captured that many more. gallantry brought him a promotion in S/Sgt. James J. Spurrier, Jr., of the Ernie Lieser of Stars and Stripes the fields of Buna from sergeant to cap- 35th Infantry Division was the meanest, dubbed him "Task Force Spurrier" and tain, the late Nathan Van Noy, 2nd toughest, orneriest and wackiest soldier he lived up to the name at all times. amphibs T'fc who kept killing Japs even I ever knew. Little known, although he In fact it was such a task to keep him after they'd blown off both his legs al won the Congressional Medal for tak- out of trouble when company G of Finschhafen and the late celebrated ing a towji all by himself, the DSC, the 13th Regiment wasn't in action that 24 Spurrier shot three Nazis with his M-l, then cleaned out the town with BAR's, bazookas and hand grenades

Lt. Col. Frederick Roecker, battalion outfit up on the line of attack were and the 35th's capture of Venlo and CO, had to take personal charge of him commonplace. Rheinburg on the way to Wesel and during the time between the winning Red tape delayed getting the Con- the Rhine, but during the lull waiting and the awarding of the CMH. gressional Medal formally pinned on. for the Rhine crossing there were more wasn't He as bad as he was unpre- As Spurrier captured Achain as a staff than a few who suggested the colonel dictable. To me he was always a Dizzy sergeant, it would have been not a should have been given a medal too. Dean. Antics such as picking up a tele- little embarrassing to present the medal Some Congressional Medals are phone and putting the whole battalion to him as a buck private. It wasn't so awarded to a one-shot hero, a guy that on "alert" while it was in rest area, difficult of keeping Spurrier . interested in comes through gloriously when the going AWOL to help bring another something during the Roer crossing chips are {Continued on page 42)

25 lomas W. Cooley learns Spanish from instructor Amalio M. Suarez while Mrs. Cooley kibitzes

IT TOOK A long while, but it has finally dawned on American firms doing business in Latin America that

it doesn't pay to be hated. Good will, on the other hand, comes out as a cash asset in the books of our great cor- Yanqui School porations who buy and sell south of the Rio Grande. That's why most of the three hundred young veterans and wives now training at Thunderbird Field near Phoenix. Arizona, are practically certain of foreign busi- for Manners ness assignments by the time they finish their year's course at one of the most unusual of the post-war crop of new schools. It's called the American Institute of Foreign Trade Our Latin American neighbors have never and its purpose is to teach international business man- ners where the need is greatest—in Latin America. cared much for the wise-guy American often Students not only learn the economic background of wished on them. Now, instead of such boors, we the countries to which they hope to be sent, they learn the language as it is actually spoken—with a generous are sending men and women trained admixture of current slang. Even more important, they get the "feel" of the country. in common courtesy in an unusual school They read its leading magazines and newspapers, watch its movies, play among themselves its games and By JOHN KORD LACFM1W sports. Instead of baseball, Institute students play soccer with Latin American rules. At campus dances. American 26

KH BBS Wives of students at the American Institute for the South American way, is being A tango, in Foreign Trade learn etiquette with a Latin accent mastered by students at the Thunderbird Club

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1 I. 1947 Institute for Foreign Trade was graduated Jun The first class of the American

the waltz. jazz gives way to the tango, thejrhumba, and The Even bull fights are part of the training course. of the purpose, of course, is to explain the fine points often felt spectacle, prevent the shock and disgust so by unprepared newcomers. Since bull fights can't very well be enacted on the field, motion pictures of them are shown with a lecturer discussing the technique in Spanish or Portuguese. and a Naturally, it takes more than good manners fund of small talk to do business in Latin America. years The students, all of whom have had at least two of college training, plug hard at finance and banking, accounting, management and international law. Bui most of the 18 faculty members are experts who came in to their teaching jobs directly from experience the field, either with the State Department or private business. They know the importance of personal ad- justment to a foreign way of life, and they never let

their students forget it, in or out of class. In Latin America, the chronic complaint about North Americans and Anglo-Saxons in general is At the Institute, that they don't know how to drink. The Arizona desert seems far away as students and pool one of the first lessons they (Continued on page 55) their wives take time out in the swimming HAL H HARRISON FROM H. A 5. ENOCH R El N DA H I FROM N «.S. "I

The woodcock seems made of spare parts. A "hinge" Woodcocks conceal themselves so cleverly that the hallway down his beak lets him open and close the photographer who took this rare snapshot almost bill underground in search of a juicy worm stepped on several other fledgelings without seeing them

et the Timberdoodle

He whistles with his wings, Rather, I want to measure it by the I found out about the. woodcock from many adventures encountered, by a pri- a generation of hunters who were real dogs can't smell him, true vate box score of how I fared when I sportsmen. One of them taught me where sportsmen love him. That's the tried to match my wit and skill against to find the birds. For years I hunted

the native shrewdness of the game. If in the cover where I thought they would grave, quaint little woodcock, I seek game that is hard to bag, I can naturally be found: in swamps and aristocrat of gamebirds have entire days of misses and still swales, along creeks, close to ponds and return home in great content. lakes. I knew that was where they fed. By HARRY BOTSFORD At the top of all such game, I place I found only a few isolated birds, in- the woodcock. By and large, he's given frequently bagged one. I had reached me more genuine sport than any other the conclusion that only a few wood-

hunting ever ceases to be a personal bird. He is elusive, smart courage- cock existed, a feeling that is shared XF and challenge and an adventure, 1 want ous. today by younger hunters. no part of it. Hunting that is sheer He gives me in superlative quantities Then a veteran sportsman took me in slaughter isn't sport. I want to tackle what I think are the primary requisites hand. The birds, he told me, were noc- game that gives me a run for my money, of a great game bird. He has given me turnal feeders. After they had filled their that the finding of demands a lot of a world of exciting sport: he makes me bellies, they took to the little side hills, leg-work, that the bagging of calls for work to find him—and often he has warm in October sunshine, hills covered extra good and accurate shooting. made a fool of me right at the time I with thick grass, briers, scrub oaks, lit-

I refuse to measure the enjoyment of thought I knew all of the answers. He tle pines and thornapple bushes. a day in the woods and fields by the keeps you humble, does the timber- A new world was opened to me. With- extent of the game I have bagged. doodle! in an hour, under the tutelage of the

23 Audubon Society officials "think" this is a good like- ness of an airborne woodcock, but nobody has ever had a good look, and photographs are a blur

oldster, 1 had flushed eight prime birds I couldn't go with him, but 1 did I accompanied him, tried to tutor him a and bagged two of them. I was all for show him some fine and dependable little. This time his pride was not evi- getting my legal limit. He voted against cover. During the morning I heard dent. it. plenty of shots from that cover. I won- He complained that the birds had an "Let's save some for seed!" he sagely- dered if he had remembered my injunc- invariable habit of rising and flying advised. tion as to the legal limit, whether he was directly into the sun. That is just one That's how I got my first lesson in respecting my own philosophy of killing of the little tricks the woodcock has conservation. I have never forgotten it. no more than half of that limit. learned and used through the centuries. Through the years I have learned that At noon he returned. His face was The tactic literally blinds the hunter

woodcock shooting calls for a technique, grim. He had, it appeared, exhausted his unless he wears dark sun glasses. The an alertness, an understanding, a deft- supply of shells. He admitted, wearily answer is to stalk your birds with the ness and skill with the gun that is not and somewhat stiffly, that he had not sun to your back. true of any other game bird. It takes be"en able to down a single bird. He also complained that the bird was years to discover this, to take advantage "I don't mind missin'—the bird's a virtually invisible on the ground and of your knowledge. tricky beggar," he said fiercely and heat- that he almost stepped on one before it A California friend, a sportsman so edly. "But, when those damned birds rocketed into the air, almost in his face. accomplished that he often scores dou- whistle at me after I've missed, that's He was accustomed to hunting quail, to bles on quail and other game birds, too much! Me, I don't care if I never seeing them run on the ground before came East for his first wookcock hunt- see a woodcock again." they took to the air. Woodcock rose out

ing. He had a fine gun; his shells car- I chuckled, promised to tell him about of nowhere unexpectedly, unnerved him. ried the proper loads. His confidence the whistle. I even prevailed upon him I explained that there was only one de- was almost visible. to try again the next morning. This time fense against (Continued on page 62)

29 The Post Behind the Counter

While food prices elsewhere To Michigan State College students

in East Lansing, Michigan, it was a have been going up, up, very realistic problem. The GI bill up, Legionnaires attending helped, odd jobs filled in more, but there was still not enough to feed a

Michigan State College got them wife and child and still spend twenty hours in classes a week. on the downgrade Something had to be done. Others

talked about it. The American Legion By ROBERT M. ASTLEY took action. In July, 1946, Bob Blett, the* Post Commander of Red Cedar Post No. What to do about the rising cost 402. called a meeting to organize a co- of living? operative grocery on the campus. That This, the question of our day, has was the first in a series of moves that produced a lot of verbal solutions, but today have produced a handy, fully- very little action. equipped store where college house-

Manager James Butts, right, is tin- only full-time employe. He belongs lo Jesse B. Colley Post, in Brighton, Mich. 30 wives can stock their larders at prices below those of local chain concerns. From Blett's original meeting to the grand opening on January 2, 1947, there was a lot of work. The American Legion had to be sure a co-op was what the students wanted. To find out, it sent out questionnaires. Out of 229 re- plies, 208 were favorable. This was all the encouragement the Legion needed. Commander Blett immediately or- ganized a steering committee selected from potential consumers. At this point, the Legion stepped out officially, but Post members were well represented on the committee. Armed with consumer enthusiasm, committee members approached John Hanna, Michigan State College presi- dent. He, too, was enthusiastic and im- mediately stamped his approval on the proposed location adjacent to the col- lege trailer camp. The next step took the committee to the State Board of Agriculture with a petition for the right to incorporate as the Red Cedar Co-Operative Associa- tion. The board also approved and the organization took official form as a non-stock, non-profit corporation with capitalization unspecified. This was the third of September. By the middle of the month, a board of directors was appointed with seven members. It immediately launched a membership drive with an original goal of 200 members at a membership fee of $25. In three short weeks, 160 mem- bers and $4000 were recruited. The board of directors called a meet- ing and got a vote of confidence to be- gin construction. Again, the college president was approached. This time, the directors left his office with more than encouragement. He had handed them a building with 900 feet of floor space at a rent of $25 monthly.

True, it wasn't much of a building,

but it was a start. Michigan State Col- In another ten days, the store was Butts is the only full-lime employee.

lege is undertaking a large construction cleaned, painted and ready for business, He gets $50 weekly. Other employees are program and the prospective building except for one thing. The shelves were students who work part time on an was nothing more than a construction empty. hourly wage scale and a student treas- shack used as an office. Another membership meeting was urer who draws $50 a month. The next problem facing the direc- called and the subject of a manager With a full-time manager on the tors was the matter of laying a founda- considered. It was impractical for a scene, it was only a question of days

tion and moving the building on it. A student to take the job. No one had the before goods began to appear on the construction company quoted them a time. Instead, the members decided to shelves and, on January 2, 1947, with a figure of $815 for the job. They ended hire an outside manager. membership totaling 219, the Red Cedar

up by doing it themselves at a total An advertisement in the local paper Co-op began business. Manager Butts cost of $28. brought 22 applicants and the board took in $115 the first day.

It took longer their way, but with of directors decided on James Butts, A month later, a meat market was 60 volunteers on hand, the foundation the present manager. He's a member of added and the daily sales jumped to was finished and the building moved by The American Legion in Jesse B. Colley $240. Today, the daily rate has reached the first of December. Post No. 235 in Brighton, Mich. $280 and is {Continued on page 36)

31 How to Play Center

and Like It

Chet Gladchuk, the country's

best pivot man, says it's fun

to erase the middle of an

opposing team. And *

he can do it >„

regular on a pro team. Gladchuk was cut out to be a top lineman, but he started his career in the backfield. How- ever, he didn't stay there long. In a sandlot football game long ago on the outskirts of Bridgeport, Con- necticut, the east side played the west side, and young Gladchuk w as at a halfback post. Chester's team received the kickoff. On the first play from scrimmage he acted the part of decoy, faking the role of ball- carrier while the other halfback lugged leather. The play went off far too per- CHESTER Gladchuk, center of the to the rear, and his body thus more fectly for Chester, who acted his man- ]\ew York Giants professional foot- perfectly poised, he is a far more im- with-the-ball part so nicely that a huge ball team, holds a unique advantage portant offensive player than the aver- tackle thundered through and laid him over other centers for he is the only age pivot, who must look back to com- low. one in professional football who shoots plete the conventional snapback. That decided Gladchuk. He made up the pigskin to the right man in the back- That is onv of Gladchuk's many his mind then and there that he would field without looking through his legs "extra" qualifications which have earned rather dish it out as a lineman than take at the intended target. With his eyes and him general recognition as the finest it as a back—and the glory could go concentration directed forward for his center playing today on any gridiron. hang. Since then he has always played blocking assignment instead of aimed Yet this is but his second season as a in the line, has loved playing in the

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line and would never consider playing whistle blows, a throw-back to the old Gladchuk. 'Tin the only one here." anywhere else. His- favorite football ma- days before razzle-dazzle was injected "It fell like you all," muttered the neuver is the old fashioned wedge into what had been a rock-'em-sock-'em back as he shuffled off to the next wherein the center, God willing, smacks game pure and simple. huddle. everybody within reach on the opposing It took a southern gentleman to sum- In saving that situation Gladchuk side as hard as he can, knocks them marize accurately the wallop which Chet demonstrated some of the refinements, down, jumps on them and thus allows —he discarded the Chester long ago in addition to brawn, speed and the love the insignificant character with the ball packs on a football field. It was in the of contact, that a center must achieve to go places and score touchdowns. His Tulane-Boslon College game of 1940, to rise to the top of the heap. The cen- second preference is the dealing out of the year B.C. went undefeated and beat ter, more than any other lineman, must bone- jarring tackles to hapless ball- Tennessee for the Sugar Bowl crown. diagnose plays — for he is actually a carriers of the foe. Tulane had a trick shift and the first back when on the defensive and a line- These cyclonic tactics, plus a number time the southerners used it the entire man at the same time. As a defensive of refinements he has improvised in the Boston team shifted with them except back he has equal responsibility with art of playing center, carried 240-pound, Gladchuk. He diagnosed the operation. the other backs to stop men who have six-fool-four Gladchuk out of the sand- Around came Tulane's ace ball-carrier broken through the line. Yet, like the lots, up through the condition of being on a naked reverse with a clear field linemen, he must also prevent 2-yard All-American center at Boston College, ahead for a touchdown, and up charged gains when he can. Chet can diagnose and on to the top of the professional Gladchuk to bat him to earth. with the best of them, for he has made football heap, as pivot man for the New When the Tulane back had picked most of the mistakes and learned from York Giants. himself off the grass and recovered his them. Then, to nail his man, Gladchuk Soft spoken, and looked upon as a wind he gasped, "You all sure do hit uses a certain formula for open field gentle-spirited giant off the playing hard!" tackles, and considering he is one of field, he is a human catapult when the "What do you mean you all?" asked the best in (Continued on page 44)

33 Report From Hollywood

JfoIIi/tcooff I in antral? By R. WILSON BROWN Is I believe Dane hit the nail on the Actor Dane Clarke thinks not. "I head in his conclusion. It's just that don't say that people here wouldn't out here everything is out in the open

like to be immoral," he says, "but and public domain, so to speak. So it The American Legion there's less of it in the movie business gets into print. As far as the pictures than in most businesses. In the first themselves are concerned, only occa- Magazine's ambassador to the place an actor comes home dead tired sionally is a rumpus stirred up over after working from 6 A. M. to 7 P. M. the moral issue. In the past twelve film capital discusses castles, I've seen those little girls hoofing all months, Howard Hughes' The Outlaw, spiders, lazy authors, veterans, day on the set. I know darn well they in which Jane Russell wears rather don't go out at night." Then he added: scanty garb, and Selznick's Duel in the Britishers and other matters "No matter what you do in Hollywood, Sun, which does get warm in spots, are it gets all over the papers. Then people the oidy films which created much of a related to the silver screen all over the country, who've been doing stir. the same thing, look down their noses In England, however, the art versus and shake their heads and say, 'Aren't morality controversy is booming as a Hollywood morals awful?'" result of a British picture called The Brothers. Americans who have seen the picture say it won't make the American screen. One reviewer described it as a j chronicle of "rape, murder, family curses, floggings, and hand-to-hand fighting" and pointed out that the star's clothing always seems on the verge of falling off, one of the things that caused U. S. censorship troubles over Britain's The Wicked Lady. The London Eve- ning News critic went so far as to label a "sadism" charge against the picture and wrote that one scene shows a man cutting off one of his own fingers with horrifying facial expressions which "ex- ceeds legitimate dramatic limits." Others questioned the flogging of the feminine star and a scene in which a man is floated in the ocean with a fish tied to his head so that seagulls striking at the fish break his skull. As to our stars, people point to Artie

Shaw and his five (or is it six?) wives,

This fire scene, with Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave, was the McCoy

to Arline Judge, who is now married to scribable pain. It's worth seeing. her fifth husband, and Frankie Sinatra's occasional fights, and view us with A Castle of Diake-Believe

alarm. But how many hundreds, or On the Universal-International set of thousands, create worse stirs which we The Lost Moment, which stars Robert

don't hear about because they aren't Cummings and Susan Hayward, I saw well enough known for their escapades the creation of make-believe in grand to be bandied about in print? style. The picture called for an old Italian castle in which Susan and Agnes DeNiille Scores Again Moorehead, who plays her 105-year-old I got a peek at a sneak preview of aunt, live and where Cummings comes Cecil B. DeMille's Unconquered which to reside. In the short space of three took two years and $3,500,000 to make weeks, workmen constructed the castle, and which Paramount will release in entirely of wood and plaster, and there

November with the biggest advertising it stands, appearing at least 100 years

campaign in film history. While I am old, with garden, huge rooms, overhead not one to fall for the usual Hollywood passageways, balconies, winding stair-

adjectives, there is no way to describe cases, patios, bridges, high outer wails, the picture but to use the adjective iron gates and stone walks. To age the "tremendous." It's DeMille's first pic- castle, cobwebs were being sprayed gen- ture since The Story of Dr. Wassel in erously, some walls were only partially 1943, and lives up to the reputation he plastered to show deterioration, tall made with such bygone epics as Ben Hur dried grass and weeds were being set and King of Kings. out to give a "run down" appearance. Top acting is done by Gary Cooper Dried out vines straggle on the walls. and Paulette Goddard, with an excellent It is all a masterpiece of ingenuity. supporting cast. It's the story of a man Incidentally, 250 Latin type bit players who freed a bond slave and found him- were engaged in the cast. self in bondage to her, of another who sought to conquer a country and was So Heaves the Spitler

conquered by it. It tells the story of a Seeing all those spider webs on the people of the pre-Revolutionary era of castle stirred up my energy to go over 1763 who know the cost of winning per- to Warner Brothers to look in on Robert

! sonal freedom in uncharted wilderness D. Martin, the man who gave the spi -i Ex-Commando David Niven, appearing soon in Bishops Wife, and his sturdy sons through heroism, torment and inrle- its first com- (Continued on page 65)

35 THE POST BEHIND THE COUNTER

(Continued from page 31)

increasing steadily. In addition, the mem- bership is growing. The latest figure is 315.

On April 1, the board of directors and members held a celebration and surveyed the results of the Jirst three months of operation. They found their store had grossed $16,827 and that a substantial dividend check for every member was available from the profits. They also found that their markup, low- est in the Lansing area, was still too high. As a result, their prices took a 4 percent drop while those in most of the nation's groceries went up. With the store now financially sound, the board of directors adopted a new membership policy. The original fee stayed at $25, but under the new system, a new member may make purchases at tin store as soon as he has paid $10 of his fee. He collects dividends on a per- cent of total purchase basis like the rest, but thev are held for him until he has paid the full $25. All membership fees, as before, are returned in full to the member when he desires to drop his membership for any Mighty Cusey reason. The co-op has made progress, but the By Gail M. Raphael directors believe there's more to come. They expect to bring prices still lower by Casey, as he was known to the blankety seaman has nothing better increasing the membership total and the of a certain Coast Guard base to tlo with his time send him to sea. men gross sales with it. They also are cutting in Florida, was a rotund Southerner Hearing of this, Casey was both costs by arranging to do all buying pos- in his late thirties who made his hurt and angry. Seizing upon an sible through co-operative wholesale asso- debut among us in a king-size Cad- obscure paragraph in Naval Regu- ciations. illac. lations permitting "aggrieved" per- The future is bright and the members A seaman first-class, he had been sonnel to appeal directly to the Sec- the head of his own insurance com- retary of the Navy, he composed a are confident. They know they'll get every pany in private life, accustomed to long and indignant letter citing his protection possible from skyrocketing ferreting out the meaning of the humble efforts to improve the service prices because they are proprietors of smallest type in the weightiest docu- and commenting bitterly on the way their own store. This gives them a sense ments. Hence he took it upon him- they had been received. In vain of security mingled with the pride of self to handle the endless flow of red Casey's friends urged him not to ownership. tape emanating from headquarters. mail the letter. As one member put it to the world after Soon Casey knew more about official Weeks passed without action. a complete inspection on his first trip to Coast Guard memoranda than any- Then suddenly lightning struck, not the store, "You know, I own part of this." one in Florida. once but twice. First Casey heard Michigan State's American Legion Red Then Casey embarked on a new from Washington. His letter came project. In his spare time he started back from the Naval Suggestion Cedar Post No. 402 is proud, too. Its baby to revise the book of Coast Guard Board where it had finally arrived has blossomed into a full-fledged solution Regulations, which had been un- endorsed by several admirals. The for a problem that others have only talked changed for years. When his volume Board thanked Casey for his "valu- about. THE END was finished, Casey, ignoring the able contribution" and promised to warnings of buddies who suspected consider his amendments when Coast that the tome would not be appre- Guard Regulations were next revised. ciated at headquarters, forwarded But a greater glory was on the

it through channels to a Navy Board way. Via the grapevine from New KIDDIES - in Washington. Orleans came word that Ca-i \ CLOTHES CO In the course of going through nemesis, the captain, had been channels, the book came to the atten- ordered to immediate sea duty. It was undoubtedly TUrf tion of a crusty four-striper at New a routine transfer IN Orleans, who made frequent inspec- but Casey hailed it as a personal tri- lion trips throughout the district. umph. And for months afterwards On his next visit to our base this he was pointed out to awed arrivals captain's first inquiry coneei ned as the only enlisted man who had Casey—to the effect that "if that ever sent a four-striper to sea.

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

36 * T ne American Legion Magazine • October, 1947 BLUEPRINT FOR WW III (Continued from page 15)

hampered by false economy measures and curious external pressures in its endeavor to adjust this situation. So what happened? In 1924 the great Fabrique Nationale plant in Belgium, a firm originally founded by a Belgian-Ger- Shot in the last century, under- w man cartel late took manufacture of Mauser pattern rifles. Interestingly enough, these arms for ^aon Hat-Top Crimp sale to South America and the Orient were practically identical with the improved the German Reichs- rifle as developed by Blown wehr between 1918 and 1924! These rifles -g^wrtes fajfe were made in calibers 7 mm. and 7.65 mm. jjjj as a rule for South America, but were also made for the German 7.9 mm. Inci- dentally, in case of emergency the smaller calibers could be readily changed to the mHiHi larger one. When the Germans took over Belgium in War II, the arms plants and stocks there were easily integrated into the German service. You can see at a glance how the sys- m.Mr tem worked: Since the equipment going to South America from 1924 on was of German design, there was no interference

with the German military, police and com- XI I i f mercial systems as originally instituted there. Also in 1924 a great rifle factory in the The Biggest Advance in Shot Shell newly established Czechoslovak nation Performance Since Choke Boring! undertook large-scale precision manufac- ture. While the Czechs had a formal al- Now, every hunter can have the satis- liance with France, and worked with the fying assurance that his gun pointing, French on some machine weapon develop- nor chance, will decide whether or not ment, the rifles manufactured were again he bags his game. The powerful new charge or cause uneven distribution of very close counterparts of the newly re- Remington Express shell has the New the pellets. You get a perfect pattern Flat-Top Crimp, which designed German service pattern. Some Remington every time . . . maximum effectiveness at eliminates"blown" patterns. of these arms went to South America, completely all ranges. Remington Arms Company, .some to the Near East, some to the Ori- There's nothing to obstruct the shot Inc., Bridgeport 2, Conn. ent. The customary caliber was the official German 7.9 mm. What Causes When Germany entered Czecho-Slovakia, Blown Patterns? once again the armament plants and stock- This spark photo- piles were such that they could be put graph shows how old style crimp causes into immediate service. When you con- obstruction of the shot charge scat- sider that just one of these plants, the tering the pellets (arrow). Game can escape through holes CZ works at Brno, employed 20,000 men in resultant "blown" pattern. and the most improved forms of ma- A Perfect Pattern chinery, the value of the Czech conquest in the Making!

to Germany becomes as evident as a red This spark photo- limited Availability graph shows the un- ... Shortages light against a black background. Of it impossible obstructed flight of of materials have made to enough new Remington Express course the world did not know these things the shot charge re- make the full If unablfl sulting from the New Shells to meet demand. when Germany won the Sudetenland in Remington Crimp. There are no thin areas in pattern for to get them, shoot the fine Remington shells your dealer does have in stock. 1938. game or targets to slip through. If those Czech factories now undertake to fill the legitimate small arms need for security purposes in the twenty-one na- tions still using Mauser equipment, who stort. will deny that it must be with express Rpmin Russian consent? This is no attack on the Czechs. Britain and France were unable to help them in their hour of need. Some collaborationist businessmen had made them a set-up for Germany. Russia is now on their doorstep. If they can export arms to fill legitimate needs they will do so. "If It's Remington—IVs Right!"

October, 1947 37 Express and Kleanbore are Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. by Remington Arms Company, Inc. And if the United States fails to fill the machine guns among other arms. When All these arms, as well as others devel- void, the Czechs under Russian aegis cer- the great German Simson plant supposedly oped in Russia, France and Italy received tainly will be able to. If communist in- manufacturing baby carriages ground out their initial tests in the tragic Spanish fluences follow, can we truly blame any- huge quantities of parts for the German Civil War. By that time the great Mauser one but ourselves? Until the millennium Light Machine Gun 34 known to every and Genschow arms and tool organiza- comes, police and the military must be European veteran, many of these parts tions had rebuilt their South American equipped to preserve law and order. If went to Solothurn for assembly. and Asiatic distributorships, and were that equipment does not come from demo- Rheinmetall, one of the largest machine forming companies "under the direction cratic sources, it must come from those gun makers of War II, was the only plant of men well versed in the methods and dominated by communists. Today there is in Europe to duplicate the Belgian Brown- ideals of the Fatherland," as a Genschow no neutral source. ing automatic shotgun and offer it for catalog of 1934 blandly put it! In 1925 the newly created Poland under- export sale. This fact would indicate Meanwhile the firm of Georg Frank of took large scale small arms manufacture. liaison with great Belgian interests, even Hamburg undertook the disposal of huge Again the German design and calibers though denied. Hermann Goering was a quantities of war supplies as such. If a were used. And Poland too entered the large stockholder in Rheinmetall, by the nation wanted the cheapest used supplies, international arms picture by re-equipping way. this firm could provide anything from some Balkan units at a time when Ger- "The sales office of the firm Bergman 20.000 War I German Model 98 rifles to many herself was unable to do so. and Company," Morawietz continued, "has 450.000 Model 1917 U. S. Enfields! Am- sold an MP since 1932, which is made at munition? 155,000.000 rounds of British When the Germans overran Poland, the the rifle factory Schultz and Larsen. Ot- .303 cartridges was just one incidental. same dismal story was repeated. The terup (Sweden). The Swedish Army Railway guns? They had them from equipment and calibers, the supplies and adopted that weapon in 1937." France. Tanks? You could have French or factories, were all readily assimilated into the German machir.e. Let us look a little further into the By Wally German development system which en- ab'ed that country to rise from the depths of defeat in 1918 almost to the pinnacle of world power in 1940. In a series of frank articles openly pub- lished in Wehrtechnische Mona Tshefte in 1942-'43. Technical Inspector Mora- vvietz of the German Manufacturing Serv- ice took the mask off numerous foreign sources used by the Germans in develop- ing new equipment. If ive keep in mind that this svstem may be used at some fu- ture time to develop atomic bombs or other weapons of decision, the necessity for a close study of the subject becomes alarm- ingly apparent! The first practical submachineguns. or machine pistols as the Germans classed them, were the "MP 18 1" type introduced by the Germans just a= War I drew to a close. Submachine guns were among the most important War II weapons. Morawietz wrote: "The firm Haenel in Suhl and the engineer Hugo Schmeisser had taken out the manufacf urine rights for the MP 18 1. They modernized it and introduced it as the MP Schmeisser 28 II. Since the Treaty of Versailles prohibited the manufacture of all war weapons in Germany. Haenel transferred the manu- facturing rights to the firm Pieper in Herstal, Belgium. This model was ac- cepted by the Belgian Army." Schmeisser later developed the German MP 38 and 40. the familiar and terrifying "burp" guns of War II. His -plants ar.d those of a score of other important manu- facturers at Suhl are now in Russian terri- tory. Morawietz continued: "The firm Rhein- metall also was interested in the construc- tion of machine pistols. Its factory in Switzerland, the Solothurn works, made the MP 'Solothurn' used by the Austrian Army and the Austrian Police." The Solothurn works developed light

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lacturers paved the way for the later alli- ance of the two Powers. So mucli for the past. What then of the present? What of the future? Let us turn a moment to the Code List: (1) "ask" indicates manufactured in Czechoslovakia, a country now under Russian influence. Mauser rifles and a newly perfected semi- automatic rifle are now in production there. (2) "bnz" is an Austrian make. The sections not under Russian control are not able to undertake arms manufac- ture. (3) "ch" is a Belgian make. That country is back in production, but with manufacturing shortages Belgium will not be able to meet the need for security arms abroad for years to come. (4) "guy" was made in Switzerland. Here again short- ages of supplies will prevent large scale

manufacture, though it will not interfere with experimental and pilot production. The Swiss today have developed a new military rifle which many rate as a better arm than the U. S. Garand. M 1. (5)"jhv" was made in Hungary, now Russian-domi- nated. Manufacturing facilities are rather small. (6) "jwa" was made in France. This country is not equipped for large scale production of German type or of other modern armament. (7) "kfk" was made in Denmark. This country makes some of the world's finest low cost equip- ment. Currently Denmark is manufactur- ing the Ljungman system gas-operated centers in the world is the Swedish Bofors, man type arms for export. If Russia per- military rifle, principally for Sweden. This hi organization which during War II mits or desires it! (9) "kwn" is of interest is a 1945 design weapon which utilizes drew tremendous profits from all com- in that it indicates manufacture in Italy. the experience gained in arms knowledge batants, since all nations of any impor- As a source of machine gun and sub- during the recent war. tance were using or manufacturing its "machinegun manufacture Italy could fill While Denmark can draw on Sweden designs under license. The Swedish Riks- an export place; but it is not equipped to for steel, coal in quantity is most likely dag investigations of 1935 showed the manufacture other essential replacement to come from Poland if Russia wishes German Krupp a one-third owner of equipment of German pattern as required to permit it. Sweden itself has facilities Bofors. The principal Bofors plant em- abroad. (10) "kye" indicates Roumanian for manufacturing German-type arms, and ployed 10,000 men during the war, and is manufacture, a country not important if furnished sufficient fuel may become an equipped for tank and aircraft develop- enough to enter the world arms picture. even larger factor in world armament, par- ment as well as arms. Before and during (11) "kfg" is Yugoslavia, a country which ticularly in South America, where she al- the war Sweden sold largely to Germany. has modern equipment for manufacturing ready has extensive contacts. The very Who can say it won't sell in the future to German type arms. Yugoslavia is currently fact of her dependence on and proximity Russia, or sell to others at her instigation? being equipped with Russian arms, a fact to Russia indicates the almost inescapable (8) "kls," another of our codes indi- which can free its facilities for manufac- future of Sweden. cates manufacture in a Polish plant. Po- turing export Mausers if Russia so de- One of the greatest arms-development land is in a position to manufacture Ger- sires. ********** ******** * * The primary lesson of these Codes, then is that only countries under Russian in- the the morning of March 19, 1777, Mo--- For Aiding Enemy fluence or domination are equipped to Dunbar was. hanged from a tree for an maintain the security armaments of South Tall, gray-haired Douglas Chandler, a act of treason. A native of Connecticut. 58-year-old former Baltimore newspaper Dunbar remained loyal to George III American nations as they are currently man, was flown back to the USA last when George Washington was martial- armed. Every place German equipment June to stand trial for treason to his ling his Revolutionary Armies. Because went in the past, German methods and country. During WW2. using the name of his pro-English sentiments. Dunbar ideologies were an influence on the police, of "Paul Revere," Chandler had broad- was imprisoned for a short time in 1776. the military and the commercial establish- cast over Nazi radio stations to allied On release, he made his way to the ments. soldiers in the European Theater. In British encampment of Lord Howe on Today in the interest of Hemisphere De- July, near the spot where the first Revere Long Island, where he enlisted in the fense we have an opportunity to buy up the began his famous ride, Chandler heard service of the King. He was seized after foreign equipment with which South the Boston Federal Court sentence him he had induced a number of young America and even Mexico is armed. If Ave to imprisonment for Life, Americans to join the British army, and This is not the first treason trial that was tried for treason. January, 1777. replace it with standard U. S. equipment, New England has seen, as some reports Two months later he was hanged on the the resulting alignment of our police and would have us believe. On a bleak hill- spot where one of the Trinity College defense systems will be for the mutual top outside Hartford. Connecticut, on buildings now stands in Hartford. benefit of all who favor the democratic ********** ********** way of life. 40 * The American l«f|ion Mogozine • October, 1947 If this opportunity slips away, it can slip only into the hands of the Russians, their satellites or of peoples influenced by them. You may shrug off the matter of Russian trade commissions to South America with the passing remark that the Soviets have no merchant marine with which to deliver. Germany was shrugged off the same way after War I. yet within 20 years she reopened all her foreign con- tacts! What cannot he accomplished di- rectly by Russia may be done by subter- fuge. Our intelligence services should know about the details of all weapons manufactured throughout the world. One of the oldest trite wisecracks is that all we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history! True, we don't seem to learn. Germany learned! Not enough, fortunately for us this time, but she did learn. In the period between the wars she learned enough to come mighty close to pulling down the pillars of civilization. " . . . HOW CAN A MAN expect to be a business success without Russia learned, too. The army of the looking like one? Unruly, lifeless-looking hair . . . and loose dandruff Soviets wasn't the army of the Czars. Rus- on his coat, too . . .Well, he may be a 'wrong number' now— but wait learned enough to introduce a semi- sia till I tell him about 'Vaseline'- Hair Tonic!" auto rifle in 1936 when we did. She learned enough to develop several machine weap- ons, unsurpassed for simplicity, cheapness of manufacture and general efficiency. She learned how to take the American Christie tank when we passed it up. and to build it into the famous T-34 which the Germans rated the best in the world. The arms might of the Russians may be

discounted, unwise though that is. But no one but a fool will underrate her skill at propaganda and political infiltration. We Americans had better face the facts. The unification or the dissolution of this Hemisphere may be in the making right now! THE END

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DIZZY DEAN OF of which 1 am a member, is that Spurrier, 50 yards was already battering his way THE DOUGHS his tummy full of canned peaches that into Achain. he had swiped from the mess sergeant, The 35th Division history records the (Continued from page 25) was feeling so good he just had to fight incident: down and never is called upon to face the somebody. That when he heard it said "Spurrier shot the first three Nazis odds again. Not so with Spurrier. that the attack was going in from the east with his M-l. Then picking up BARs, The tall, shuffling mountain lad from side to Achain, he swung around to the Yank and German bazookas and grenades Bluefield, W. Va., fought like a tiger all the west, secretly hoping there were enough wherever he found them, he systematically way from St. Lo to the Rhine, and was one Germans in the place to give him a fight. began to. clean out the town. He crumbled of the few Dog Faces I have ever known Company G ran into some opposition one stronghold with bazooka shells, killed who actually seemed to enjoy the life. The and held up. Then from down on the three more Nazis with a BAR, cap- more fantastic an exploit the greater be- other side of town the captain could hear tured a garrison commander, a lieutenant came his legend with the 35th and the harder he tried to improve on it. When > Out again. In again there was a river to cross, Spurrier wanted < After Achain, Spurrier launched an to lead the first squad, when there was a < attack on hometown Bluefield, W . Va., to enter, Spurrier was right there town ) where he went into the auto business whether it was his battalion, regiment or ) and joined the local American Legion fin one instance) his division. > post. But things were slow, especially Spurrier won the DSC for his single- ) finding a decent place to—live for him- > Junior's handed capture of a hill at Lay St. Chris- self and ivife Kathleen so I back in the army now. topher, near Nancy. Riding on the top of I In photo, he signs re-enlistment pa- a tank he broke through a Kraut MLR l pers at Charlestown, W . Va., as Major and, shooting from the rear with a BAR, \ Joel Bunch and S/Sgt. Robert Douglas mowed down an uncounted number of \ look on. After 22 months in the Pa- Germans and then accepted the surrender { cific infantry (wounded and— DSC) and of 22. Those killed in this exploit have I a rough time in Europe all with the been variously estimated from 20 to 50. ( foot army, he is now tech sergeant at A couple months later, the day he won i Langley Field with the Army Air Forces. the Congressional Medal he arrived late j to formation because he was in the kitchen eating canned peaches. rifle fire, hand grenades and then ba- and 14 men. Another defense point was The Second Battalion was bivouacked zookas. The captain messaged back to silenced when he killed its two occupants. outside the town and attacked on a com- find out what the other attack was. Rear Out of ammunition and under fire from pany front. Spurrier arrived after Company sent word down that it must be Spurrier four Nazis, Spurrier hurled a Nazi grenade G had pushed off and rear said, "They are hitting the town all by himself from the into the house, killing the four Germans. going in from the east." wrong side. "That night, the one-man army had Spurrier walked on down the hill and The information got back to Colonel charge of an outpost. While checking se- then swung out around to the west. Roecker and he issued his now famous curity, he heard four Germans talking There are three schools of thought on order in a barn. He set fire to a supply of oil how he happened to "hit" the town by "Attack Achain! Company G from the and hay, capturing the four as they ran himself. One is that he misunderstood east and Spurrier from the west." out. Later he spotted a Kraut crawling rear and thought he said "west." Another He wasn't kidding either because the toward a sentry, killed him when there is that he got mixed up himself and cold-eyed, shuffling mountaineer that was no reply to his challenge." thought west was east. The third school. could shoot the eye out of a possum at During this one episode which took place on November 14, 1944, Spurrier was officially credited with killing 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 20 men and one town. On March 6, 1945, while his division was in the rest area after cleaning out the nasty Wesel pocket in preparation for the Rhine crossing, Spurrier was called to Roecker's CP. Standing at at- tention in a tiny German village in the heart of the Rhineland, he felt the Con- gressional Medal of Honor pinned to the shirt front of his doughboy greens by Lieut. Gen. William H. Simpson, com- manding general of the United States Ninth Army. This ceremony almost didn't come off. During the interim from November to March Spurrier had picked up his second Purple Heart while fighting to hammer back the bulge in Belgium. A mortar shell left him unconscious in the snow and

for a time it looked as if there'd be no need for a CMH ceremony. That Spurrier was absolutely fearless cannot be doubted. That he was a kid

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and loved horseplay and playing pranks Spurrier was a doughboy's doughboy in had been arranged at Ninth Army HQ. At may partially be due to the fact that he every sense of the word. A few days after the last minute an RAF colonel showed was only 22 years old when he jumped he received his CMH Major Bob White of up and got himself on the program. Spur- off with the spearhead that cracked the 35th brought him down to Maastricht, rier was saved for last. Sitting in the through St. Lo. He joined the army at 16. Holland, where a special press conference back row listening to the Colonel explain

It is true that he liked to create the with charts and figures and in a very thick impression that he was sort of a Dizzy- British accent how the RAF was winning

Dean of the Doughboys, but like the Great I lie war. Spurrier suddenly rose to his Diz was good out there on the mound feet and announced. "I've had all this with the horsehide in his hand, so was I can stand," and walked out. Spurrier good out there on the battlefield It took a great deal of explaining to with a weapon in his hand. comfort everybody concerned, especially The great secret of his success was his Spurrier. knowledge of weapons and their fire power. The last time I saw him, the Ninth He had absorbed this knowledge during Army press camp was located in a Castle six years of soldiering. He would be stand- across the Rhine just south of Wesel. ing facing a house holding a handful of Hank Wales of the Chicago Tribune and Krauts. He'd canvass the place swiftly, I came home late one night and I saw a then, say, he'd decide to go in through light through a crack in the shade over the door. He'd turn to a companion and my window. Going up the rickety old calmly say, "Bring me a bazooka." Or castle's stairs, I found Spurrier stretched maybe he"d decide to lob in a mortar and out on my bed. riddle the windows with a BAR. He knew He and one of his pals were just re- the capabilities of not only Allied but turning from an unofficial two-man patrol German weapons. This saved his life in — to Paris. Achain by keeping him in the fight long We all sat up and listened to his latest after his own ammunition was exhausted. conquests and from what I gathered he Riding in a jeep with him one day 1 took Paris just like he took Achain. La listened attentively for two hours as he — tneme chose all around and let's explained the difference between compar- "fT ell down the hatch!'' hear about your hero. Spurrier was mine. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ble American and German weapons. THE END

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THE UNITED STATES PLAYING CARD COMPANY • MAKERS OF BICYCLE AND CONGRESS CARDS •CINCINNATI 12, OHIO 43 HOW TO PLAY CENTER had played an ordinal) game at tackle ;d center, where the player's tasks are AND TIKE IT years before. multiple, for he not only touches off the Chet reported to the training camp at offensive play by passing the ball back, (Continued from page 33) Superior, Wisconsin, annual conditioning or handing it, but he always is called upon of the game it is worth the attention up- site for the Giants, in August of 1946. to carry out a key blocking assignment. of sideline and-coming linemen and con- grimly determined to make up for lost No other team in the big leagues has a noisseurs who study the fine points. As the time. He ached for action, craved the center who can see where he's going on ball-carrier comes toward him. Chet regular center berth, and was set on play- the blocking assignments, nor one who watches a spot approximately where the ing himself into condition for the cam- looks forward to the block with more back's belt buckle would be. That is a paign ahead. relish. man's center of gravity, and as it goes, so "For the first few days," reports Steve Gladchuk picked up the blind pass Chet goes the man. With this method Owen, "Gladchuk was just another re- back in college, on a tip from Joe Mc- will cut. anticipates which way the carrier turned war veteran who, because of the Ardle, who was then an assistant coach at on the hips, whereas if he concentrated long layoff, had only a slight chance of Boston College. But it was Chet who spent head, or shoulders he might be swivel- hipped and faked right out of the ball park. Professional football is loaded with for- mer Ail-Americans, and although Glad- chuk was one himself in college that was no guaranty that he would ever be more than an acceptable center in the pro cir- cuit. It takes something extra to be Mr. Center. Greasy Neale. George Halas. Ray Flaherty and Cliff Battles are only a few of the big league coaches who say that a good pro has to love the game more than money, and that a good lineman has to love football more than a back does. Glad- chuk's love of the game is true and ever- lasting. In his very first play in college, a Bos- ton College-Dartmouth frosh game. Chet kicked off and he was clipped from be- hind while going downfield to make the tackle. For several days he could hardly bend and had to be taped almost from head to foot. The records disclose, how- ever, that he played the following Fri- day, and that during four years of college play he never missed a game. making the grade. And then we started hours on the practice field perfecting the ." Out of college he moved up to the our scrimmages. . art, working at it continually until he Giants in 1941, and he found himself Steve shuddered. "Gladchuk almost could sense the time and delivery and it working for an organization where the ruined us before our season even started. became mechanical. standards for center were very high—for He's the most deadly tackier I've ever seen He will tell you that he developed the the Giants had never had to use a bad and he hit our backs so hard they didn't technique only after a long battle against one. Best of all was Mel Hein, who was want to scrimmage against him." under-confidence. In the beginning he on duty when Gladchuk reported. Others, Steve finally took him aside and said, would be afraid to pitch the pigskin back back over the years, had been Joe Alex- "Look here, Gladchuk, these are just there without looking, even when he was ander, of Syracuse, Joe Westpapoul, practice sessions. What's the idea?" certain he had mastered the art. George Murtagh. of Georgetown, Johnnv "Just trying to play myself into shape, "I finally got up enough nerve to try

Del Isola and Lou De Filippo. In 1941 Coach," answered the big boy from Bridge- it in a game and have been doing it ever De Filippo and Hein were the regulars port. "Center's my spot—don't want to be since. Any center who has the confidence, and there weren't two better centers in in such poor condition you stick me in at and wants to work, can do it. But he the National League, so the kid from tackle again." must build up that confidence, and he can't Boston didn't get much of an opportunity "Okay," Owen told him. "You're in start thinking about the terrible mistakes to strut his stuff. But he kept pleading great shape, so take it easy or my team he might make, either." with Stout Steve Owen, Giant coach, to won't be." let him play. Chet made the position with ease, and The center is the jack-of-all-trades of Says Owen, "So I stuck him in at tackle, by the end of the season he was anybody's football, and plays the toughest spot. On a spot he'd never played, and he really model for pivot man. The fact that he's the defense he plays the role of backer- took a shellacking. Yet he always came a rapid behemoth is only part of the pic- up, plugs gaps in the line or nails loose back for more and I knew he had the ture. He knows more and can do more scatbacks in the open field, and at the makings of a great lineman." at the center spot than any coach has a same time he must be on guard against a But before he got to play center for right to ask. A baby of the T generation pass. Like a back, he must be able to feint Owen the war intervened and Chet joined of ball-players he knows the T formation and fake enemy blockers who drive the Navy. When he returned to the Giant inside and out, defensively and offensively, through, sometimes in pairs, to mow him squad in 1946—after missing four full and is considered an expert on it. He down. In the T formation offense, both a seasons—the veterans on the team had loves to block and tackle to a degree just tackle and guard will usually be on the forgotten all about the rookie center who short of sadism. Thai makes him a natural prowl for the defensive center, and the

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m — manner in which Gladchuk handles the Advertisement two of them has earned him special merit. He has a particularly strong pair of hands and uses them effectively, keeping them well in front of him, thus barring the two blockers from obtaining body contact From where I sit while his own main attention is searching for someone else carrying leather. He is seldom fooled by decoys or formations that develop deceptively, and is usually it/ Joe Marsh in at the kill. Because Chet considers the T formation particularly difficult to play against, with its extensive backfield faking and quick- opening plays, he has made a special study of movies taken of games in which it has been used, and he rose to such expert status as a T diagnostician that he was A Grand drafted on a part-time coaching basis at New York University last Fall. Among the theories he taught were special tips American Tradition for defensive centers. "You can spot quick-openers," he claims, "but on other T plays keep your The Martins had a grand old family eyes on the last back to leave the back- field. Nine times out of ten he winds up reunion last week—for the first time with the leather. For instance, on a de- since the war. layed cross-buck, disregard the men in motion or the ones who move out of there, Big and little Martins came, by car and watch the fullback. On this T play he is the one waiting in there to get the and airplane, from as far west as ball. Nebraska and as far east as Vermont. "Above all," he warns, "protect the in- side territory first. You have more time They crowded Lem and Dee's house, to get out and stop plays to the outside." set up quarters in the barns, or stopped But of all the lessons he has learned with neighbors and a jollier gather- the hard way Chet figures the most im- — (Continued on page 46) ing you couldn't imagine!

/ was asked to their final Saturday night supper, when they sang old songs, drank beer and cider, and remi- nisced about' old times together. Dark Martins and blonde ones — Vermont accents and Alabama drawls — all with their differences of taste and politics, yet as close and harmonious in spirit

as a group could be.

From where I sit, it's a great Ameri- can tradition — not just family re- unions, but the ability to get along as one congenial, harmonious family, re- gardless of any differences of taste

whether it's taste for politics or farm- ing, beer or cider.

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"Marry me, and let me take all this away from you." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

October, 1947 45 Copyright, 19^6, United States Brewers Foundation —

HOW TO PLAY CENTER "Ah, well, I'd rather be good center than ******* score a touchdown." Everybody's Car {Continued from page 45) The satisfactions of line-play more than Parking his Army jeep by a parking portant one for the mules up front is this: make up for the lack of scoring opportuni- meter, a soldier got out and started to "A lineman should think like a line- ties. Linemen have their own measures of walk down the street, when a policeman man, and shouldn't look for the glory that perfection, and are apt to collect photos called after him. belongs to the backs. There's plenty of from the Sunday papers which reveal in "Hey, fellow, better drop a nickel in that parking meter," the officer said. satisfaction in line play, so long as you the background examples of holes in the "Put it in yourself," the soldier yelled don't start envying the scorers—-.and line, good blocks or fine tackles—although back. "The jeep belongs to you as much there's a lot of grief awaiting the lineman the sports editors and the readers can see as it does to me." By Harold Heifer. who tries to grab the glory. little more in the pictures than backs "I remember a squad game when I was running for pay dirt. Gladchuk loves to a-** was a Giant rookie. On pass-defense I cut in make a good, solid tackle such as he has The man Tommy Harmon. As I picked myself off front of my own back to intercept an made so many times on Bill Osmanski. Tommy, I saw our end, Jim Poole, throw another aerial, pulled it in and began high-tailing Ins old Holy Cross opponent who continued key block, and Reagan went all the to it ior the goal line. on the rivalry as a Chicago Bear. A prize way score." To the two linemen that '"Suddenly I saw a huge pair of arms picture in his collection is the one at the was one for the books, a work of art like a straight coming at my head, and it reminded me beginning of this article, which was taken — true of running into a clothesline in the dark. while Gladchuk was turning in an out- drive in golf, a game of aces in ten- nis, a perfect score in Somehow I lateralled the ball to another standing performance last Fall against bowling, a difficult lineman alongside me and then found the Bears and his old pal, Osmanski. slam bid and made in bridge. Reagan couldn't myself buried under a pile, my head feel- He nailed Osmanski so often that day have gotten that much out of it. Of course the ing as though it was rolling along the that one of the officials handling the game, linemen like their bit of ground behind me. Tom Dowd, a Holy Cross star himself credit here and there, and don't get enough of it. They really appreciate it "When I picked myself up—the other who has refereed in New England college from the side had scored! The lineman to whom I circles, walked up to the pair of them back who gets the glory on a play like that one, and of lateralled had the ball stolen. If I had and said. "It looks like you two are re- some the headlined touch- downers give let my own back intercept in the first playing one of those old Boston-Holy out with plenty of verbal place the touchdown against us would Cross games." appreciation of the linemen's path-clear- have been averted." Next to tackling, Chet likes throwing ing work. Within Gladchuk's experience Chet almost scored against the Steelers blocks best. The best he ever recalls Tuffy Leemans, former Giant, was one once, though. He got caught out of posi- throwing came against the Los Angeles who did, and so was Charley O'Rourke. Charley, thin and frail, but a wizard with the ball whether carrying it or throwing it, always had a kind word or a pat on the back for one of the linemen. In fact he used to single out one of the mules up front for special "thank-you" speeches four or five times during a game until, as Gladchuk put it, "it became downright embarrassing." Of course, O'Rourke, being the string- bean be was while playing for Boston College, and still is as a pro for that mat- ter, had reason to be thankful, particu- larly on pass plays. No back appreciates a lineman's blocking more than a passer.

He really can get himself flattened if his line lets in those big, pile-driving tackles. The folks up Bridgeport, Conn., way aren't at all disappointed that their Glad- chuk isn't a flashy ball carrier, however. Perfectly content to watch Chet level the opposition as just about the best center in professional football, they come down to the Polo Grounds, 50 and 60 in a group, tion in a fake running play in which the Rams last year in the Polo Grounds when to see the Giant games. One. in particular quarterback sneaks into center territory the Giants had to beat the defending gets a proper peeve on if the Giants lose, to take a pass. Steve Owen yanked him champs of the National League or blow and takes it out on Chet. and scolded him. When the Steelers came their chances for the eastern division title. It's his Dad. But whenever this happens to the Polo Grounds for the return game Gladchuk started the play by whipping Chet always tells his father, "We're firing Chet was determined to spot that play if the ball back to halfback Frank Reagan, the coach, Pop, and I've suggested you it took all day. the former Penn ace. He put a brush block for the job." "Along late in the first half I saw it on the Ram guard and headed downfield. It may turn out that when Steve Owen coming. Sure enough, the quarterback "Out of the corner of my eye I saw hangs up his master-minding cap, some- sneaked through and I felt like a lion who Reagan cutting through the hole behind body will suggest Chet Gladchuk for that had a mouse cornered. The ball was me, so I kept going. The Ram halfback coaching job. Meanwhile, the Bridgeport thrown and I was right there. I could see came over to halt the play and I helped behemoth continues his merry way, whal- six points on the scoreboard and my name him to a mouthful of turf with an in- ing the stuffing out of the toughest oppqsi- in headlines, for there was a wide-open stride block, the kind that seems as if it tion in football, and loving every moment field ahead. Then—I dropped it! were arranged to come off automatically. of it. THE END

46 * The American tegion Magazine • October, 1947 REPORT OX WORMS

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he O'Briens by mimeographing a standard, jenerally-infonnative reply, since that seemed ihe only way. But although they were taken by surprise the O'Briens measured up to the task. After a slow start they quickly devised ways of handling the problem and declined our offer. Frank O'Brien explained to us that many of the letters from Legionnaires asked pointed questions and deserved individual an- swers, and come hell or high water the O'Briens would do their slow best to answer all the inquiries themselves. Frank forwarded to us a copy of a book, Our Friend, The Earthworm, by George Shef- field Oliver, late proprietor of Worm-farm Number 1. It is an entertaining and instruc- tive volume pointing out the multiple uses of earthworms, the. various markets for them, and the methods of raising them. It is what appears to be the standard, if not the only, work on the earthworm as a commercial venture. Sale (one dollar) and distribution of the book has been taken over by the O'Briens. At this writing things are* quieter on the earthworm front. Legionnaires who wrote their names and addresses legibly have their an- swers from the O'Briens. Frank O'Brien's mother has reported to Mr. Carhart the inven- tion of various gadgets which help disabled veterans to handle some of the work entailed What the Tfaw National Guard in worm-farming, and there is as yet no fresh report fr<-m Science or Time that the general

earthworm population is on the upswing suffi- Means to You . . . ciently to consider the danger-point safely past. So there may still be room in the business for

more veterans to fill the gap. A Message from the President of the United States Author Carhart, usually extremely accurate, owe our existence as a nation to all over the country thousands of veterans has expressed his deep regret for the Oliver We error and has settled down to answering vari- the tradition of service of our citizens. and other ambitious young men are finding ous letters stimulated by other aspects of his It was an army of citizen soldiers which the opportunity to study and learn the article, telling Legionnaires how and where George Washington led to victory in the things that help them advance in their to get information on building kayaks, starting American Revolution. At the end of that civilian jobs. They are finding the fellow- ship that is part parcel of America. dude-ranches, building fish ponds on marginal war, the first Congress asked General and They are participating in a sports and recre- lands, selling and manufacturing artificial bait, Washington to give his views on what the ation program that keeps them fit. And they etc. Selling the Great Outdoors was a stimu- military policy of the new nation should be. are receiving the training that helps keep lating article, and for all its headaches we're This was his answer: America strong. glad we published it. RBP "... every citizen who enjoys the Because of the National Guard's impor- protection of a free government, tance to our national defense I have pro- owes not only a proportion of his claimed September i6th as National Guard property but even of his personal Day and have directed that a nationwide services to the defense of it." recruiting campaign be conducted to fill Today the new National Guard gives every its ranks. man an opportunity to give that personal service to his country and at the same time to advance himself. In National Guard units

Here's how

You'll find the few hours each week the National Guard Helps You that you spend with your local National Guard unit pleasant and profitable. Pay * Education Pay is based on new Army pay scale. Fellowship * Training Veterans can obtain same rank held Spoils * Leadership upon discharge. And now young men

I J years old may join the National Write or Guard. For complete information about your comjntlnil^unii of the the National Guard in your community, contact officers of that unit or write the Adjutant General ofyour state. "Honey, how about mashing the oh, never mind." Help keep the Peace! AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE of the United States Help the National Guard in your town

October, 1947 47 reach its recruiting goal . . . now! Camping Trips in Packages

Blending pleasure and business, former battlewagon sailor Cal Heisler, 20, of Glen- wood Falls, Colorado, is improving his bank account by selling 3-day, all -expense camping trips to city dudes who want to rough it in the Rockies. for Singing Supper Heisler reasoned that the average tourist

If you had been stuck in Korea, Japan, Oki- vacationing in the mountains never had a nawa, or the Philippines during 1345, you chance to sleep under the stars in a sleep- might remember the powerful singing of ing bag. His new venture. The Starlite The International Male Chorus, eighty-four Campers of Colorado, Inc., furnishes city hearty-voiced GIs who deployed from oc- Columbia Broadcasting (where he worked escapists with transportation, food, bows cupation camp to camp relieving that prewar) and Westinghouse Corporations and arrows, sleeping bags, tents, fishing li- "browned off" feeling. Organized and led by that his special service could save them censes and even pans to sift streambeds for young Lt. Lewis Bullock (of the Blackhawk money and still do a better job. gold—all for one set price. Division), these men gave 125 vocal con- Along with his public relations-wise wife Four other ex -GIs assist Heisler and at certs to a quarter of a million troops. and nine additional WW2 men and girls, present operate four trips a week, taking Late last year the chorus was halved and Murphy's VIP Service began operations- off from downtown Denver for the rugged sent stateside for a tour of army hospitals, acting as combined host, valet, escort, guide peaks and postcard scenery. Traveling in a visitors the Big but this ended abruptly when War Depart- and friend for designated to large war-surplus truck, the campers ar- ment recreation budgets were slashed. The Town. First experiments made civilian VIPs rive in Rainbow Lakes area by nightfall. group was broken up. But Bullock wanted happy. New clients signed up and Murphy Food is served sizzling hot from a ranch to continue singing and had strong faith in added to his services. chuck wagon and suppers are followed by the ability of his songsters. Getting out of Notified by one of his clients when an a tale-telling, musical powwow around the uniform, he persuaded two dozen of his important person is due to arrive, a VIP fragrant wood fire. husky vocalists to hit the road as a civilian Service expert will meet the train, have During days, the dude campers are on escort the visitor around their fishing, hiking, camera clicking, band of able troubadours. hotel space ready, own— Over the past town, take him to night clubs, secure hard- canoeing, panning for gold, or just sitting in «w months, Bullock and to-get tickets, scotch, or anything they want. the sun. —Dan Valentine. company foots the bill and pays Murphy ^fj his chorus of army, The up to $1000 a month for his service. Used navy, and merchant Clean-up Detail marine veterans, today by many corporations and business ranging in age from houses who want to make friends and influ- While mopping up Japs on Okinawa, Lt. people, VIP Service, Inc., has started ^ \ JjF 18 to 31 and in herit- ence Frank Loughney, USMC, dreamed up an- in Denver, London, Paris, Wash- rajak » j-S age from Chinese, branches other kind of attack— to be launched with Australian, Spanish, ington, and San Francisco. For from ten to brooms, soapsuds, and elbow grease on be- Filipino and An- $150 a year, an individual may now also use grimed households in his hometown Phila- glo-Saxon, have the service. delphia. Discharged, he corralled sixteen performed for Genial host Bill Murphy thinks other other ex-Marines, armed them with dirt- capi- pleased audiences in smart vets in large U. S. cities could chasing weapons, and opened for business VIPs for many states. Calling talize on his idea of gladhanding under the title of themselves The a fee. —Earl Welch. A-to-C (attic-to- American Male Chorus, the bassos, bari- cellar) Service. tones, and tenors match the name by har- Picking Money Off Trees Soon this squad had monizing on patriotic, religious, folk, and established firm spiritual melodies. Down in the lush bayou country of Louisi- beachheads on many This summer they have toured through ana, 28-year-old WW2 veteran Fred Trisler a Philly doorstoop. eastern seaboard states and presently are has gone and proved that a rolling stone, if Finding profes- preparing a concert junket through the rolled right, does collect moss (folding va- sional housecleaning midwest to the Coast. Proceeds from ap- riety). Last year, Trisler made $600 selling less nervejangling pearances come from private patrons as well easy-to-pick Tillandsia usneoides, or Span- and more lucrative as gate receipts. —Sando Bologna. ish moss, that festoons the live oak trees than sweeping out around his native Catahoula Parish. This Nips, the eager vets Rolling Out the Carpet year will net him more. of A-to-C have kept On return from service, this deep south themselves busy the Armed with the psychological fact that gentleman went back to his pre-war occu- past year washing eighty percent of American business runs pation of farming and raising hogs. Helping windows, cleaning on sheer emotion, navy veteran William fill the country's food basket is destiny for flues, swabbing, scrubbing, and polishing Murphy and his VIP Service Inc., have put any man, but Trisler felt his income needed homes all around the City of Brotherly errand -running, hosting and hand -shaking a boost. He heard that the familiar, pictur- Love. Efficient and fast, they often clean into the big time. Last fiscal year, VIP Serv- esque tree-moss had been selling for up to three houses a day at from $40 to $300 per ice grossed $250,000. five cents a pound; that $300,000 annually house, depending on size. An average house- VIP, of course, are the initials for the is spent on moss in Louisiana alone. And wife would spend 3 weeks on the same job. term, Very Important Person, a term de- here he had been nonchalantly walking The seventeen former gyrenes are split noting top brass and government bigwigs right under the stuff every day! in three teams, one team to a house. If a during wartime. Leaving USNR as public From November to April, Trisler harvests crew winds up a job before deadline, they relations lieutenant where he had contact the silvery moss off treelimbs. He packs the win a bonus. But if a crew is slow, or if the with many VIPs, 32-year-old Murphy found long, stringy crop home and spreads it in gimlet-eyed matron finds the job not to her that civilian businessmen around New York the sun to dry, then soaks it in water to liking, the team is gigged and penalized. City also tried to treat out-of-town cus- rot away the outer husk. His final chore is There haven't been many gigs. tomers like kings. But such entertaining to put it through a ginning process. Orders for A-to-C Service have piled up costs a company time and money. Having many of the qualities of horse- four weeks in advance. And as long as Phil- Murphy saw the need for smoother, more hair, the processed moss is much in demand adelphia ladies rebel from the backbreaking foolproof methods of making visiting fire- and Trisler sells his ginned fibers, now black drudgeries of cleaning house, these young men feel important. Analyzing their ex- in color, for use as filler in mattresses and ex-warriors will prove that, for some, a pense accounts, he persuaded executives of automobile upholstery. —Bettye W. Wylie. man's place is in the home.—C. J. Papara.

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THE HOUND CALLED HONEY to raise fifty cents. Pa wouldn't give it to him. He didn't dare ask. And there was (Continued from page 16) YOUR OWN AAF PICTORIAL no way of raising it here by labor. Nor AAF Pictorials each contain over 250 pictures of Ticks crossed and whelped eight was there the Blue on mountain. air combat— bombers — fighters — flak — and other weeks ago, Lem Smalley told anyone in- As he was making a last desperate scenes about the particular air force they cover. terested. Eight believed search men him and of a solution the pig sale broke up. "The 5th over the Southwest Pacific"— From the bought. Others, like Wittmer Davis, Men came out of the bar to stand in the early days in the Philippines to VJ Day. Over 250 scoffed openly. sun and talk. Wittmer Davis and several photographs — Weiwak — The Carolines — The Coral Sea — Formosa — Hollondia "Sorriest dogs I ever saw," Wittmer others walked by Smalley 's truck. — Okinawa — Japan — and many other Davis laughed and hauled two of his own "Lem," young Bib heard Wittmer's spots. Contains Official War Depart- sleek Walker hounds away from the truck loud voice say, "haven't you sold those ment History. where they were attempting to sniff the pups yet?" "The 9th sees France and England"— pups. "Lookit them sorry pups, thin as "Got one left." Your stay in the ETO. London — Col- chester — Cambridge — Paris — France. snakes. What you feed those pups—if Bib edged forward and saw Wittmer Contains Official War Dept. History. anything, Lem?" peer into the truck. Wittmer Davis, whom everybody in the "Sorriest hound I ever saw. What you "The T2fh over the Mediterranean"— — — county knew for the best hound dog run- askin'?" North Africa Italy France— Greece- Yugoslavia. Contains Official War De- ner, roared at his own joke and slapped Several men came closer, small grins partment History. the nearest demin covered back. He hauled of delight beginning as they anticipated "The 20th over Japan"— From India to on the chain which held a brace of hounds Wittmer's next joke. i^Jfj&fc the last bomb— China— The Marianas— fv&mmfjjl and the Walkers danced and yipped, join- "Been gittin' three dollar a head. Sold Japan-THE ATOMIC BOMB. Contains V^Sif ing the chorus of laughter. a couple small ones cheaper," Lem Official War Department History.

"Feed 'em cornbread and buttermilk Smalley admitted, blushing and looking "The 15th over Italy"—Your stay in just like I do my own children," Lem at his shoes. Italy and the Middle East. Rome- Naples— Capri— Cerignola— ssi Smalley, who was recognized as being "What you askin' fer this champeen?" Co no- Cairo— Palestine. Contains Official War somewhat no-account, defended himself. Wittmer Davis asked, winking broadly at Department History. "Then those kids must be poorly too," his friends. Bib worked closer until he was All AAF Pictorials are $3 each postpaid. Send Wittmer Davis laughed again. He ambled between Lem and Wittmer. He waited check, money order, or COD. Specify books de- away behind the stock barn where Old breathlessly. sired by title name. Let us know what other Air Force books you would like published. Man Dandy sold 'shine which made red "Wanta go home," Lem Smalley said. Life-time plastic glass ash trays with crest "Sell 'er faces redder and loud voices louder. fer a dollar." of above air force. 3 for $1.00 postpaid. What Wittmer Davis said was true. The "Dollar! You mean U-nited States AAF PUBLICATION COMPANY hounds were poorly. And the remaining money 6015-37 West 3rd St. Hollywood 36, California pup was the poorest of the litter. Her tiny Wittmer's voice was loud and shocked. bones struck sharply against her black Lem Smalley blushed deeper as the men and white hide. Her eyes were rheumy laughed. in her old, yet babyish face. She drooped "Well," Lem Smalley said in a softer, dejectedly when she stood up. Now she more embarrassed voice, "wanta go home. HERE ARE THE ORIGINAL lay so her ribs showed gaunt, like the You want that dog?" Pqjratroop skeleton of a beached and abandoned boat. Wittmer feigned deep interest. He put Her tongue lolled out of her mouth. Her a massive hand beneath the hound's body. coat was smeared with dirt from the truck The pup blinked sleepily. It wobbled on bed." Bib ached to fetch her water but he its thin legs and collapsed. Wittmer pre-

knew Lem Smalley would detect his in- tended to examine it carefully. Paratroopers . . . ex-para- j^L

troopers . . . sportsmen ! ! ! terest in and thus reason for "Well." he said so his ^ her him a audience could Here are your boots. For W potential customer. hear, "I dunno." duty, for dress, or for hunt- ing, fishing, hiking and all Bib heard the auctioneer chanting pigs. "Tell you what," Lem said suddenly. kinds of outdoor use. The t. ous soft, comfortable In a little while his father would sell the "I wanta go home. Take that bitch for a J very rugged boots shoats. Then they would head back for seventy-five cent." w orn by paratroopers durinc the warare now the mountain. Before then he would have Wittmer Davis threw back his head and available in two styles

. . . one military, the

other, civilian . . . both similar in con- struction, design and high qual- ity standards.

All sizes 4 — 13^; widths from AA—EEE. Not Government Surplus Stock Paratroop Jump Boots The same boots worn by Paratroopers dur- ing war. Comes in tan elk finish. Paratroop Hunting Boots Same features as Paratroop Jump Boots, only made in heavy-oiled waterproof elk finish. CORCORAN INC STOUGHTON, MASS. Send pair of Paratroop Jump Boots Hunting Boots Enclosed find check or money order_ for $9.87. 1 will pay postage C.O.D. Name Addiess_ "Well, how do you like me with the wind and the rain in my hair?" 7Ular shoe size and width AL 10 October, 1947 49 roared. Lein Smalley blushed deeper and sobbing. Then he heard his father. Pa angry. Maybe it was the seventy-five cents. dug his shoe into the ground. said: Or maybe it was because he had broken "Lem, look hyar," Wittmer said. "Make "Here! What's all this ruckus?" down and cried like a big baby. You didn't that fifty cents an' you've sold a dog." "Hello, Tuck." Wittmer said. "This your cry when you were eleven and in the "Gimme," said Lem, whose desire to es- boy?" When Pa nodded, Wittmer said, seventh grade at school and could plow a cape ridicule was as strong as it was to "Guess he's right broken up over this whole acre of the mountainside in a day. get cash. sickly hound dog I just bought from Lem Finally, when they were winding up the Wittmer spun a half dollar in the air Smalley for four bits. Shucks, boy, you dirt road which led off the highway to for all to see and gave it to Lem. He don' wan' this hound. This dog is sick. their farm, Bib said, "Pa, I sure want to scooped the hound puppy up and held it Why don' you buy yourself a good one?" thank you. Pa. I mean fer the puppy." aloft. "Pa." Bib said, sobbing, "lie's gonna His father was silent. "How about that!" he yelled. "Got me kill it. He's gonna drop 'er in Deep Crick. "I sure thank you, Pa," Bib said again, ." a champion foxhound for fifty cents." His Pa, I wanna ... I wanna . . louder. audience roared appreciatively. Bib bit Bib felt his father's fingers dig into his "Just one thing," Pa said then. "I don't his lip. thin shoulder. want no hound dog howlin' around outside "Wittmer," asked one of his friends, "You fixin' to kill it, sure enough?" his all night. Hounds are pure trouble that "what you gonna do with that sorry ole Pa asked Wittmer. way." dog?" "Shore. Leave her run around and she'll "Oh, she won't howl, Pa. I promise." "Do? Do?" Wittmer hollered, "Why, mess up the breed. No tellin' what she'll When Bib burst into the house to show Ma the dog she introduced a new problem. "Bib, you keep that dog away from my chickens. We can't have no hound dog after our flock. You better chain it in the barn, honey." After the puppy was bedded in straw and tied, Bib watered it and fed it corn- bread left over from breakfast. The pup fell asleep as soon as the last crumb was gulped down. All night long Bib lay awake on his cot, listening for the pup's first whimper and making ready to steal out to comfort her. And all night long he tried to think of a name for her. At sun-up he ran out and knelt beside her. "Hello, honey," he said, and a name was created. Under his care the hound called Honey thrived. It grew and there were adven- tures. There was the time he spent an hour in Doc's drug store looking at a sports magazine. He read every advertisement, copied every company's address and sent a penny post card for every free sample of dog food and medicine. man, I'm gonna tie a rock around her neck run with." There was the time Bib dug into a and drop her in Deep Crick. Sorriest Pa looked at Wittmer and then down stack and was about to toss a forkful of dawg I've ever seen. It's a pure shame at Bib. Pa's face grew redder than the hay into the rack when Honey dashed to let a dog like this live. Mess up the sun had burned it. forward and attacked. From the hay came breed. Can't let foxhounds like this one "How much you want for that hound?" a rasping buzzzz. Honey shook the rattler run around the county." he asked and Bib clutched his hand hard. like a terrier and dropped it dead at Bib's look said, Bib's shocked cry made Wittmer "Shucks, 'Tuck," Wittmer Davis feet*. Even Pa eyed her with some respect down at him. Bib felt hot tears in bis eyes. "you don't want to buy this hound dog then. "No, Mister Davis, you can't do that. for your boy. This one is better off dead, Don' do that, Mister Davis." I'm tellin' you." When THE FIRST FROST whitened the Wittmer Davis, still holding the dog "How much?" Pa asked again and Bib mountain Honey was ten months old, no aloft, looked amazed. saw his jaw beginning to thrust out, the longer gangling, no longer clumsy and "Why boy, what's got into you? What's way it did when he was mad. weak. Always, somehow, food slipped from the matter? Don't you want me to end Wittmer scowled, looked again at Pa the table to Bib's pocket. Honey's ribs this little dog's troubles? Sorriest dog and then at Bib. covered over and her eyes brightened. Her Can't see this "Hell," said, "if I've ever seen. you hound he that's the way you ears still drooped, she slouched when she is in pure misery? This is a sickly hound feel, I'll give the boy the dawg." walked and she flopped comically. But price," if I ever saw one. Ain't no use to man "I'll pay your Pa said firmly. at the same time there was an air of herself." "Hell, man, I jus' give four bits." or to majesty about her. Bib beard it in the "No," Bib choked. "Don' you kill that "Make it six-bits," Pa snapped. "You night when Honey left the barn and went puppy. I been awatchin' her all day an' always liked a profit." afield. No longer chained because she ." I. . Pa handed Wittmer three quarters and showed no interest in chickens, the hound "Boy, what's the matter with you? You dropped the puppy in Bib's arms. He said, was free. want this little ole poorly dawg? Was you "C'mon." Bib followed her from his cot. Honey aimin' to buy her?" All the way home he tried to talk with would leave the barn and go afield. Then Bib tried to answer but something had his father, to thank him, but Pa's face Bib would hear her mellow tones. happened to his voice. He stood there was still red and Bib knew he was still From liis bed he could follow the race.

50 * The American Legion Magazine • October, 1947 Now she's on the trail, he would say dog's plain worthless." Can a Man MY Age excitedly to himself. There she goes across Honey was sent to the barn in shame. the ridge. Honey would sing sweetly as she She stayed just long enough for Bib and Become A trailed, her bugle voice lifting as she ran Pa to go to bed and then went out by the fox. Bib would bear her bark "treed!" herself. Bib heard her singing on the Hotel Executive and itch to leave his warm bed and join trail. Honey would hunt, he knew, but not Even the hunt. But Pa wouldn't stand for that, for men. Though He Has No Previous Hotel Experience? he knew. In fact, Pa still ignored her. He He bore her shame painfully but silently Would you like to step into a well-paid position as Hotel or continued to ignore her until Honey her- for a month. Pa ignored her completely Club Manager, Purchasing Agent. Social Director, Restau- rant or Inn Manager, Assistant Manager? Would you like to self brought his attention to her. now . . . until Cal Davis, Wittmer's be able to look forward happily to the future?- The success of Lewis graduates from 18 5(i just as Bib brother, to PROVES you can—though Honey came home at dawn, drove up one evening. Pa and you never had a minute's experience in hotel work. and Pa were performing early chores. Bib Bib walked out to howdy him. Becomes Hotel Manager Although Without Previous Hotel his father stare as he examined the Cal's eyes roved the yard and he and saw Experience

dead fox Honey dropped at his feet. Pa talked crops for a few minutes. Then "For years I worked at routine jobs, none o'i which offered me the promising an- "Pa," Bib cried, "she brought one home. Cal said, "Tuck, you got a big ole black future I was seeking. One day I swered :i Lewis ad. read their hook and at an' decided to enroll. Now Manager of this She's powerful lonesome out there white crossbreed houn' round here?" prominent hotel. I'm happy in my work and. thanks to Lewis training, look for- night, runnin' those foxes. We oughta go "Boy has," Pa said. ward to even more success," writes Louie M. Mueller. with 'er, Pa. Please, Pa, can we?" "Where's the dog at now?" Step Into a Weil-Paid Hotel Position Pa grunted noncommittally. But that "Roun' somewhere," Pa said. "Why?" FREE Book Gives Fascinating Facts explains how night after supper he lighted a lantern Cal Davis chewed his cud of twist be- Our FREE Hook. "Your Bis Opportunity." you can qualify for a well-paid position at home, in leisure strolled toward the door. "Believe fore answering. "Someone seen a big black time; tells how you are registered FREE of extra cost in the and Lewis National Placement Service; shows how you can be a Employee certified to "make good" when we'll see if that old six-bit dog can really an' white arunnin' sheep las' night. Found Lewis Certified — placed in a posiiion. Mail the coupon NOW! run," he told Ma. "Might be she was just two daid in our pasture this morning." Course opproved for Veterans' Training. C'mon, Bib." "Bib," Pa said sternly, "was your ole lucky. IIBIIII invitation. hound out last night?" The boy needed no second Lewis Hotel Traininq School Honey leaped about their legs as they led "Yes, sir," Bib admitted. Room LT-4724, Washington 7, D. 32: Send me the Free Book, "Your Big Opportunity." g her toward the draw where Pa said 'coons "Go fetch the dog." without ohligation. I wish to know how to qualify I for a vvell-naid position at home, in my leisure time. I and foxes ran at night. Bib "G'wan," Pa said to Honey when they could not find her. He whistled and called. came to the draw, "G'wan huntin'." Usually Honey responded at once. climbed the ridge and Honey leaped playfully at Bib. They He yelled her name g City Zone. . . . State , Check here If eligible under G.I. Bill of Rights, down the cove. Honey did not come in. | j waited. When they sat down on a log iiiaia limn -m mm a mm a a a a » m raa» iiad she put her head in Bib's lap. Pa looked When he ran toward the draw he saw her and called again. This time Honey disgusted. came BACKACHE, "You talk to her, Bib," he said. Bib to him. He took her head in his hands. ordered Honey out. But the dog stayed. Honey's mouth was rimmed with dry Bib pushed her toward the brush. Some- blood. LEG PAINS MAY his where in the night a fox barked and Bib For a second heart stopped. Honey was guilty! She was a sheepkiller, low- said. "Now!" But Honey refused the the BE DANGER SIGN est creature on a farm. He knew what order. She lay at Bib's feet and stared Of Tired Kidneys would happen. Pa would load his gun and at him with worshipful eyes. He led her tf backache and leg pains are making you miser, lead the hound out behind the barn. able, don't just complain and do nothing about them. to the brush but each time she refused to Nature may be -warning you that your kidneys need trail. "I don' care," Bib said, half crying. "I attention. kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking excess won't let him shoot you." The "Hummfff," Pa snorted after an hour's acids and poisonouswaste outof the blood. They help pass about 3 pints a day. wait. "Just lucky on that fox. Old dog He strung a length of fishline he carried most people If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't won't hunt nohow." through Honey's collar and led her to a workwell, poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. nagging backaches, rheu- tiny cave he knew in the draw. There he These poisons may start Bib whispered pleas in her drooping matic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting head- ears. tied her and walked quickly away, pray- up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, achesand dizziness. Frequentorscantypassages with "C'mon," Pa said finally. "That old ing she would not howd. Pa was awful smartingand burning sometimes shows there is some- kidneys or bladder. mad when he failed to bring the dog in. thing wrong with your Don't wait ! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, "Hope she's run off our place," he said a stimulant diuretic, used successfully by millions for over 60 years. Doan's give happy relief and will angrily. "Save a I me shell. purely despise help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison, a sheepkillin' dog." ous waste from the blood. Get Doan's Pills. Bib sneaked Honey her breakfast next, WlteX CHEAP OIL BURNER morning and her supper that night. He fflfi FOR-HEATING. AMD COOKING STOVES- FURNACES tlHEAT YOUR HOME, COOK YOUR MEALS replaced the fishline with stout a rope. ^WITH CHEAP FURNACE OIL For three days and nights he kept her tied NO MORE SHOVELING ASHES. in the cave. On the fourth day his lather COAL OR Sensational elizer Starter Vaporizing Sys- t..- returned from a neighborhood errand and l turns Cheap No. 1 Furnace 1 , also Range, Heater, Tractor made an announcement which sent his stillate. Kerosene and like oils ito oil heat —one of the quickest, heart singing. hottest fires known. LIFETIME GUARAN- TEE. $1.00 Bonus Offer for Testing. We "Danged hound killed two more lambs pill let you try it in your own stove or fur- Dace for one month. Get yours for intro- last night." Pa growled. "Boys are getting ducing. Big profits QUICK. Be first. Send in your name today for details and cash in together tonight to run her down with on the tremendous demand for this Amazing Invention. Wittmer Davis' dogs." NORTHWEST MF G. CO. 611-M. MITCHELL, S. DAK. Bib's heart leaped wildly. The killer Time and Oate at a Glance n ri GUARANTEED couldn't be Honey! She was still tied. DlLL CALENDAR WATCH After supper Pa took his gun from the No. JM383 — Day & date change automatically. 17 jewels, water- corner and started out. shock resistant, radium dial- hands, stainless steel case. "Hope it's me that shoots that old THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Incl. tax & postage....$5 5.00 (Continued on page 52) 9 Mail Orders — FREE Soofc/et "JM" BELL WATCH CO., INC. October. 1947 51 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20. N. V. THE HOUND CALLED HONEY Pa. They jogged unevenly over a rise. crouched in the yellow light of the lantern, "Old cat's goin' down the draw," he sneaking forward and no longer yelping. (Continued from page 51) panted. Only a low, intent growl came from her hound," he said. "Never should 'a bought The hounds were louder in the draw. throat. The pack, backing her up, tugged that miserable dog in the first place." Suddenly their trail cries broke and on their chains and drew Wittmer Davis

"Pa," Bib asked timidly, "can I go?" changed to short, excited yaps and barks. forward. Bib and Pa crept closer with him "There's school tomorrow," Ma inter- "Cornered her. b'god," Pa said. In an- and the light grew stronger on the cave. rupted, but when she was busy with the other minute they saw Wittmer Davis' Suddenly Bib saw the red and yellow dishes he sneaked out of the house and lantern. gleaming eyes of the wild cat as it ran to the cave to give Honey food and to "He's in the cave," Bib yelled. "Old crouched spitting in the shallow cover. make sure she was still there. cat's in cave where I had Honey tied!" Honey saw them too. She stalked for- Later he heard Wittmer Davis' pack of Pa stopped short. "What?" he roared. ward, her hackles raised in battle. Then hounds running on a far ridge. He listened "Cat's in the cave," Bib yelled again she flattened, gathered her legs beneath with the knowledge Honey was safe. before he could think. Then he remem- her and sprang. She sailed low and clean It was after midnight when Pa came bered. Now he'd catch it from Pa. through the air. The pack screamed in home. Bib heard him talking with Ma. But Pa didn't do anything then. The unison and bounded forward. Wittmer "Wasn't any hound killed them sheep," Davis pack was crouched around the Davis was pulled off his feet. The lantern Pa said. "Wittmer's dawgs found a moun- cave's mouth, sniffing and yelping while flew out of his hand and went out. The tain cat's track and chased her clean over they trembled with rage. Inside the moun- night was black around them and the air the ridge. They cornered that old cat and tain cat spit back at them. was filled with the yells of the pack, the one of Wittmer's best hounds got after it. "Can't shoot inside because I can't see screaming of the cornered cat and the That ole cat tore up that dawg so bad it her," Wittmer Davis yelled. "And I can't fierce growls of the attacking Honey. liked to die right then. Had to shoot the get no dog o' mine inside there to fight it." "Light the light." Pa yelled. dog before we could get at the cat. By Bib and Pa peered in. Honey leaped "Honey! Honey, hyar!" Bib screamed. then the ole cat got away." excitedly forward. The cave was home to "Get your dog out of there before the cat Bib received the news joyously. He fell her. Inside was a stranger whose scent kills her," Wittmer yelled. asleep planning how lie would return was infuriating. She shouldered through The noise and confusion of dogs, men Honey to her berth in the barn. the Davis pack and joined the chorus of ami boy rose to a frenzied pitch. In an- "Found ole Honey runnin' near the frantic barking. Bib realized the Davis other minute Pa got a match lighted and house when I came from school," he an- dogs were chained and that Wittmer held touched it to the lantern. By then it was nounced at the sup- almost all over. per table. " 'Spect it's The lantern glared aw'right if I keep her, against the rocks. Pa? Heard at school The pack's yelping a mountain cat got took on a new note. them sheep." Honey was shaking Pa kept an affirma- the cat, her long white tive silence and Ma teeth sunk into the contributed more beast's throat and her heavily than usual to own body covered Honey's evening meal. witli fresh blood from Bib was feeding her a dozen deep rakes when they heard the the cat had inflicted Davis pack howling on her sides. on the far side of the "The hound's done ridge and working grabbed it. Shoot!" toward the Tucker veiled Wittmer. Pa farm. Honey's ears jockeyed into posi- twitched. She sat up. tion and raised his Bib arose and listened. gun. He sighted and The pack was com- then slowly lowered ing closer and fast. it as Henry dragged Honey danced excit- (lie wildcat into the edly around the boy. open. The pack Pa came out of the house, sliding into his the chains in both bands. dashed in, pulling Wittmer with them. jacket and working a shell into his gun. "You'd better chain up that old hound But they were too late. Honey stood "Those are Wittmer's dawgs," he said. of yours," Wittmer hollered. growling triumphantly over the dead cat. "He's still running after that old cat." '"C'mere, houn'," Pa ordered, and The pack, moved slowly and respectfully The Davis' dogs crossed the ridge, bay- reached for Honey. The big rangy black back. ing mightily and working toward the draw. and white skittered away, yapping furi- "Gawd a'mighty," Wittmer said rever- Pa broke into a gentle lope. Bib tugged ously and crouching. ently, "what a dog!" once at Honey's collar and then trotted "Shucks," Bib said loudly over the din, Later—when they carried the cat borne away from her. Honey yapped excitedly "Honey isn't afraid. How big's that cat?" to show Ma and Bib was busy washing and ran after him. Pa led the way. "Big enough to kill sheep and one o' Honey's scratches—Pa said: Now the pack was howling in pursuit. my best dogs," Wittmer said. "You bet- "Bib, when you get the hound cleaned Their voices came clarion clear through ter call in your dog, boy!" up you better not let her sleep in the barn. the frosty night. Honey bayed once to tell "Hyar, Honey," Bib called, heeding Too cold out there on a night like this for a Bib she understood. Her black and white Wittmer's advice. After all, wasn't Witt- good dawg." body gleamed as she ran to join the mer Davis the best hound runner in the "1 es, sir," Bib said and looked at his hunt. The hound passed Pa and disap- county? own cot while Honey banged the floor with peared down the trail. Bib caught up with But Honey ignored the boy. She her tail. the end

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A radio direction-finding crew on Saipan whose job it was to locate lost aircraft and bring them home had earned a considerable reputation for their unerring skill. One night, a short time after they had received a high command cita- tion for their work, they had an "alert" telephone call. Upon answer- ing, the crew sergeant discovered a female voice on the other end belong- ing to a flight nurse at the station hospital. One of her patients had wandered away and she thought per- haps the crew could locate him for her. The gag-suspicious sergeant care- fully explained that their business was locating lost aircraft, not hospital patients. Now, if the patient happened to be equipped with a radio trans- mitter whereby they could shoot a bearing, the sergeant continued, the crew would be more than happy to help out. However, the nurse pleaded tear- fully that their plane was leaving soon and she just had to have that patient on board. There was no one else for her to turn to, she claimed. Finally, the sergeant gave in and said that he would send two of his crew out with a good description of the errant pa- tient, but that he doubted very much that they could locate a lost airplane passenger as easily as they did lost airplanes. Ten minutes later the two crew members triumphantly landed the pa- tient in the nurse's waiting arms after having spotted him in the PX beer line! —By Marshall K. McClelland

1947 — RED TOP BRlWING CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO >< >< I manners for South American export? YANtgUI SCHOOL FOR None of these lessons apply to men

"We had to pick it up," she said, "out of Foreign Trade. Money to operate the of respect for the bread." school came from three New York banks At the Institute of Foreign Trade, fac- with interests in South American trade, ulty members who have spent most of their plus smaller loans from Phoenix, Arizona, lives in Latin America believe a deep sense banks. The luxurious, Hollywood-built of personal insecurity accounts for mucli Thunderbird Field with its wide grassy of the bad manners of Americans abroad. lawns, its swimming pools, and its haci- A business man soon discovers he isn't enda-like barracks was acquired as war merely representing his firm. People seem surplus—for cost minus 100 per cent dis- to regard him as the United States in per- count. A Congressional investigation, de- son. Feeling self-conscious and conspicu- manded by retiring Representative Slaugh- ous, unable to penetrate the language bar- ter of Missouri, served only to give the

rier and thus suspicious of what is being new school the publicity it needed. To said, he tends to consider the people open last fall, the Institute had its pick around him queer, menacing, or down- of several thousand applicants. It looks right silly—-and acts accordingly. That's as if the school had uncovered a vital why the Institute puts so much stress on need in post-war education: practical students' ability to enter into the life of a training in world citizenship. all," former General Yount, foreign country—and feel at home outside "After says "Good morning, dear." nations, like the office, where most business is done "good will among good man- anyhow. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ners, begins at home." the end

The Ame. iccn tegion Mcgazine " October, 1947 • 55 WHY HIRE DISABLED VETEBANS? {Continued from page 23) affects insurance rates. Two of the largest insurance associations in the country, the American Mutual Alliance and the Asso- ciation of Casualty and Surety Executives have flooded their policy holders with pamphlets and letters explaining why dis- abled veterans should be hired. Here are some excerpts from one of the many pamphlets. "Let this be understood —there is no provision in workman's com- pensation insurance policies or rates that penalizes an employer for hiring handi- capped workers. There appears to be much misinformation on this point. For many employers have been known to say they could not or would not hire disabled ap- plicants because their insurance costs would be increased as a result. Nothing could be further from the truth." It gets more explicit. "The formulae for What will this month's World Series add 1910. Bender won the opener, 4 to 1, on to the dramatic episodes of series gone October 17. Coombs annexed the second, determining the premium rates makes no by that still live in American sportslore? 9 to 3, the following afternoon, and re- consideration of the kind of personnel Items such as: turned to the mound with but a single hired. Whether a company is staffed with day's rest to win the third contest, 12 to The second, third and fourth games of workers having two legs apiece or one or 5. Bender suffered the A's only loss, drop- the 1915 duel between the Red Sox and none—influences the rates not at all." ping the fourth clash, 3 to 4. Coombs Phillies all ending with identical 2 to 1 insurance companies go on to point clinched the final, 7 to 2. The scores, the Sox on top each time. • out that disabled veterans placed at the • Bobo Newsom, serious and sad-faced, proper job are not only superior workmen, Christy Mathewson emerging as the pitching a masterful 8 to 0 conquest of but that exhaustive surveys have proved pitching hero of the the Cincinnati Reds in that they are less accident prone. Surveys 1912 series although he the fifth contest of the conducted by the insurance companies, the failed to post a victory 1940 post-season clash . in three attempts to in memory of his father, Department of Labor and numerous Safety down the Red Sox. His who passed away a few Education groups have hammered at this first effort was an hours after watching over and over again. eleven-inning 6-all tie, his famous son carve Worse than an employer not knowing four Sox tallies coming out a 7 to 2 triumph in the stipulations of his insurance policy is in on Fletcher's two er- the opening game a few the insurance salesman who deliberately rors. He dropped a days previously in Cin- disabled heart-breaking 2 to 1 cinnati. And the Reds, lies about insurance rates and decision in his second without a catcher in the workers. There are actual records of un- attempt, although it same series because of scrupulous salesmen telling an employer was his fourth post- a succession of injuries, that his rates will go up if he hires handi- season game without calling on the late capped men. They say this because they yielding a base-on- Jimmy Wilson, their think it is the employer wants to balls. His third try re- forty-year-old coach, to what sulted in the loss of again don mask and hear. They want to get "in good" with another extra-inning chest protector. Al- him. These cases are few, fortunately, but fracas, a ten-inning 3 to 2 thriller. though he hadn't caught a game in long they have happened. When an insurance • years, and spent the evenings caring for company is told about such practices it The incomparable Babe Ruth, Sultan of his aches and pains, he emerged the series immediately fires the salesman. Swat, playing left field, first base and hero. the vet- pitching all in a single game of the 1918 • Much more deadly to impaired series between the Boston Red Sox and The late Judge Kenesaw Mountain eran than the uninformed employer and Chicago Cubs. Landis, baseball commissioner, instructing the unscrupulous salesman is the lack of • Umpire-in-Chief Brick Owens to continue "second injury" provisions in more than The Boston Red Sox refusing at first to the fourth game of the 1922 classic be- one-third of the States. In States where play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1903 tween the Yankees and Giants despite a there are no "second injury" funds the post-season series because their contracts downpour of rain which drenched the expired September 30th, prior to the se- crowd from the fourth inning on. Two employer actually has a reason for turn- ries' opening. They agreed later to play, days before. Umpire Hildebrand called ing down a disabled veteran. It is an un- but only after insisting upon and getting the second contest of the same series "on patriotic reason, but it is still a reason. of the club's series receipt. account of darkness" in broad daylight! most Say a veteran has lost one arm in com- • • bat, then loses the other in an industrial The fourth game of the 1911 series be- Howard Ehmke, the "forgotten man" tween the Athletics and Giants postponed who had not even been with the Athletics accident. His employer will be directly for six consecutive days because of rain the last six weeks of the regular cam- responsible under compensation laws for while the nation waited. paign, taking the mound in the initial the worker's loss. If total disability has • clash between the Athletics and Cubs in to be paid, his premium rates will go up. Jack Coombs and Chief Bender doing all 1929 and setting the current world series But, if the State has a "second injury" the pitching for the Athletics in their five- strikeout record by fanning thirteen as- provision, the expense of the loss of the game triumph over the Chicago Cubs in tonished Cubs. By Gordon Atkins. other arm and the resulting increased dis- ability is borne by all employers through-

The American Legion Magazine • October, 1947 nut the State by their contributions to the ed to The American Legion, the VA or the "second injury" fund. The cost to the Department of Labor. Unfortunately, he employer when such expenses are pro- cannot be prosecuted, but he can be made rated among all concerns carrying insur- very unhappy by public exposure. ance is very small. Many States also con- During the war, private industry hired tribute to "second injury" funds with thousands of handicapped workers with direct grants and the insurance compan- amazing results. The records they set, it ies have also made large contributions. would seem, should create a favorable re- In Illinois, which has had such a law action in employers when they face a dis- for twenty years, there have been less than abled veteran across the desk. The Bureau one hundred cases. New York State, which of Labor Statistics recently published a report of se- has had an excellent "second injury" fund based on a wartime survey Talking about football, It's the ball

for 29 years, has had but 185 cases. And verely handicapped workers. The impaired of the foot that lifts 1500 tons in

it is interesting to know that the Canadian men produced 3.6 percent more for every the average man's walking day. If you keep your eye on the "ball", government assumes responsibility for all hour worked than did their normal co- you need AIR-0- MAGIC'S 88 fea- money paid to disabled vets as a result of workers on the same job! Late in 1945. tures! Especially the patented, industrial re- injuries received on the job. checking on absenteeism, an hand-moulded innersoles that port showed 21 percent absenteeism among cannot curl or ridge. You'll In this country the States which have non-disabled, only 2 percent among the enjoy AIR-O-MAGI C's air- cushoning instantly — they not, as yet, passed a "second injury" bill disabled. need no breaking in. High are Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Indiana, And yet, many of the companies who FREEI SPORTS styling! Moderately priced. BOOKLET .... obtained fine results dis- Louisiana. Mississippi (which has no such from the interesting sta- Workman's Compensation Law whatso- abled during the war have now raised r tistics on leading teams, players ever), Montana. Nebraska, Nevada, New their physical standards and barred the and records. Write NOW! Hampshire, New Mexico, Texas (scene of disabled vet from a job. the most terrible industrial explosion in One of the most disheartening things years), and Virginia. Lack of such a law that can happen to a handicapped vet is keeps disabled veterans idle. Employers to be interviewed for a job, accepted, and in these States have the influence to see then rejected after a medical examination. that such a law is passed. It will benefit In a great many instances, the examining them and their employes and the veteran. doctor's reason for turning down a vet In States such as the above listed, there has nothing whatsoever to do with the PATENTED has sprung up the despicable practice of man's ability to do the job for which he HAND-MOULDED an employer offering a disabled applicant was hired. INNERSOLES

a job, providing he will sign a waiver free- There is also in many companies a lack Marion Shoe Division, Daly Bros. Shot Co., Inc., Dept.K, Marion. Ind. ing the employer of any responsibility in of firm directives from the top on their case the veteran is injured on the job. policy in regard to employing the physical- Veterans, disabled or not, should never ly handicapped. And both the U.S. Em- sign such an agreement. This is particu- ployment Service and the VA have been larly true of married veterans whose fam- confronted with a number of employers Legionnaire ilies will suffer unduly in the event that who attempt to hire disabled veterans at they are injured on the job. An employer a sub-standard wage. They reason, falsely, who offers such a "deal" should be report- that since the disabled are being paid a Retailers

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October, 1947 57 certain amount in pension, they can afford better than that of the non-handicapped ployee, although it has been publicized a to go to work for less. Could it be that such worker. number of times, do not know how employers are trying indirectly to pocket It would seem to be "good business" to about hiring a disabled veteran. The dis- the pensions themselves? hire the disabled veteran. It is. It would abled man himself is often handicapped in "I could place three times the number seem that the employers, as a whole, would his ability to travel about and seek em- of men," a Veterans Administration con- open their doors wide to those injured in ployment. It is painful and exhausting for tact man told me, "if we would allow them the war and now ready to work. They a man with one leg to spend six hours a to work for less than the prevailing don't. They still have to be told. With each day climbing on and off street cars and wage for able bodied workers. We won't succeeding month the percentage of dis- buses. There is also the embarrassment of do that." abled veterans being hired has dropped. "selling himself," a job many able-bodied The few concerns that attempt to, or do, The last nation-wide survey showed that hire disabled veterans at sub-standard veteran unemployment had increased 60 JAMES RUFF, a war veteran, stood in wages should be exposed. They never are. percent. line two days at the U.S. Employment finger at is obvious that cannot have a cam- It is argued that pointing the It we Service office in Tacoma, Washington, them would only create bad feeling and paign for employing the handicapped every waiting his turn to file for unemployment do the veteran more harm than good. If month in the year. But what we can have compensation. When his turn came, Ruff true, which is doubtful, it is a bitter pill is a more constant and effective flow of said, "Say, I think you need more help to swallow. information to the employer about the dis- here." Ruff got a job—with Employment — Heifer Also hiding under a protective covering abled veteran. We can let employers every- Service. By Harold are a number of companies which engage where know where the disabled vet is, what

of deliberately done, he can be hired, why ****is easier in the disgusting practice he has how men find difficult. It many times hiring disabled veterans as salesmen for he should be given a job. We can have for a trained employment man to talk up the purpose of exploiting their handicaps more films like "No Help Wanted," we the good points of a disabled veteran and to gain sympathy with a buyer and thus can educate on a national scale and do it convince an employer that he should be increase sales. This gutter practice is constantly, not haphazardly, not just one hired, and for what specific type of job. spiked whenever it is brought to the atten- week in a year. Vernon Banta, head of the Disabled Vet- tion of State Employment Offices, the VA "One industry, the movies, can be ex- erans Section in the U.S. Employment or the Legion. tremely effective," Ralph H. Lavers, the Service, stressed the above points, stating director of the Legion's National Employ- emphatically, "Almost every firm, with very This is not to be construed as meaning ment Committee pointed out. "There is a few exceptions, needs outside stimulation that disabled vets should not be hired in genuine need for honest films on the prob- before it will hire a disabled veteran. They the capacity of salesmen. Many of them lems of the disabled veteran. The picture will often turn down a handicapped man so employed do an excellent job, with no The Best Years Of Our Lives, which in- if he comes to them on his own. Many more embarrassment or sympathy involved. The cluded the problem of an amputee, has competent men are needed all over the Modell chain store, for example, working done a world of good." country to aid the disabled vet in finding with the VA. has entire stores staffed with Education is one answer. It will not do a job." disabled veteran personnel. The men were the job alone. It takes more than a striking It also helps the disabled vet to know specially trained for the job and are more pamphlet, a zingy radio talk, an inspira- that there is someone backing him up, in- than satisfied with the treatment they have tional film to get a disabled veteran a job. terested in him personally, hustling full been given by the concern. You cannot sell a handicapped veteran to time to find him work. And not just any Today, the problem is not keeping the an employer in the abstract. It almost al- kind of employment, but a job that will handicapped veteran on the job he has, the ways takes a personal contact. It takes make use of his highest skill. To illustrate problem is still getting him one. Once on trained men, working on a full time basis, this, Banta told a story. It may seem an the job, the reports issued by the Bureau ringing the doorbells of the employers and unusual story, but in the files of the Vet- of Labor Statistics prove, the disabled telling them why they should hire Bill erans Employment Service there are many veteran stays there. The employment sta- Jones, the disabled veteran. similar ones. bility of the disabled veteran is 2^2 times The reasons for this are numerous. Em- This one concerns an architect. When the war broke out he was one of the most successful architects in a fairly large city Like father, like son in Florida. He hit the Normandy beach- head on D-Day. stepped on a land mine. john lewis smith, Washington, It made a mess of his face. He lost the D. C, after twelve years of continuous sight of one eye, both of his ears, three membership on the National Finance fingers on one of his hands. Plastic sur- Committee, The American Legion, has ears, did they could tendered his resignation to give way geons gave him what to a younger man. for his face, told him to come back for An officer in World War I, he future treatment. was a Legion Founder in 1919, and The man was mentally and physically served successively as Post Comman- in a bad way. He disappeared. He took De- der (George Washington No. 1) ; up residence in a fairly decent hotel, but partment Commander, District of his physical handicap and his bitterness Columbia; National Executive Com- was so great that it affected other guests mitteeman; member of the National of hotel and the management asked Finance Committee, 1935-1947, and the hotel. on some dozens of Post, Department him to leave. He went to a cheaper and National special committee as- He began to drink. Another disabled vet- signments. He was an enlisted man in eran, a man who knew him very slightly, the Spanish-American War in 1898, Smith is succeeded on the National reported him to the Employment Service. and served as Judge Advocate General Finance Committee by his son. John An employment man took over. He found Smith, and Commander-in-Chief of the United Lewis Jr., a Second World War a firm that was looking for a supervising Spanish Veterans. Legionnaire veteran. War architect, a man with ideas. And, without

5R • The American Leqlon Magazine • October, 1947 the firm ever seeing the man, just on the basis of his pre-service record, the gov- ernment employment operator sold the firm on hiring him. The company took the architect on at a starting salary of $5000 a year. Within a six months' period, he was given a raise. Two weeks ago, the man went back to the Walter Reed Hospital for a more complete plastic surgery job. He will be back on the job again very soon—and very happy. "That was a case of letting an employer see a man's mind instead of his body,"

Banta said. "It also shows what is meant by the term selective placement. That is the way a very high percentage of our dis- abled veterans are placed, individually, not on a mass basis."

When selective placement is used, the THE ARMY AIR FORCES OFFER TWO GREAT handicapped vet is almost certain to stay NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO YOUNG MEN on the job. Employment Service and VA men follow up his progress and make sure INTERESTED IN AVIATION that the disabled vet is not treated any differently on the job from the able-bodied You probably know several young men in your community man. He does not want favors. He wants a chance to prove what he can do. who are interested in careers in aviation. If so, you can do "One of the major obstacles to overcome them a real service by pointing out the two great new in employers is the feeling that the physi- programs now open to them in cally handicapped need constant super- the Army Air Forces. vision and help on the job," an employ- ment contact man told me. "That is just The first is the Aviation what they don't want. Because they are Career Plan — available to high uninformed, employers fear that other school graduates between 17 workers in the shop or factory or office and 34 years of age — which en- will waste time aiding the disabled veteran ables young men to select the who works near them. It never happens. It doesn't happen because the well-trained AAF Specialist School they disabled vet can hold his own on any job prefer, qualify for it before they and because he highly resents being pa- enlist, and be assured atten- tronized or helped. That is one of the first dance of it following completion of basic training. things we tell employers. And we tell them second is the recently Aviation Cadet to pass this information on to their em- The reopened ployes." training program, for unmarried applicants between 18 (Continued on page 60)} and 26 lA years of age who have completed at least one-half the requirements for a college degree from an accredited institution, or who can pass a mental examination given by the Army Air Forces. Grad- uates will be commissioned Second Lieutenants, Army of the United States, and assigned to pilot duty with the AAF. Next class begins October 15. These two programs give qualified men every chance to build sound careers in a rapidly advancing science. The training they receive in the AAF cannot be duplicated any- where else at any price. Give these facts to young men you know. By doing so, you can help the Air Forces get the high-caliber men needed in this vital post-war era. Full details are available at any U. S. Army Recruiting Station or AAF Base.

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October, 1947 59 U. S. ARMY RECRUITING SERVICE WHY HIRE DISABLED? 170,000 disabled veterans still have not been able to find work. And the deplorable (Continued from page 59) truth is that with each passing day there In talking to the men who are out in are less and less contact men out in the the field finding jobs for disabled vets, field. you hear these three complaints most On November 16, 1946, after five years often. (1) Not enough employers know of Federal operation, the United States where to go to hire a disabled vet. (2) Em- Employment Service was returned to State ployers have not been briefed properly on operation. In most States, as the figures how best to place them in their shops and show, the Employment Service has not how to treat them, personally. (3) There operated nearly as efficiently on a state to

are not enough employment contact men state basis as it did when it was nationally in the field to reach all employers who controlled and operated. This boils down might hire handicapped veterans. to less jobs for disabled vets. What can be done? The answer to the The House Appropriations Committee

first problem is, simply, more publicity recently made a 34 percent slash in the directly given to employers on where they budget of the Veterans Employment Serv-

can hire disabled veterans. Most handi- ice. At the same time, it reduced the budget capped veterans are registered for em- of the United States Employment Service ployment at the numerous U.S. State Em- by approximately 77 percent. The reason ployment offices all over the country. A dis- given for these drastic reductions was that abled veteran not at work who receives, the employment services were turned back through the VA, any unemployment pay to the States, and large appropriations are must be registered at his nearest State not needed to carry on the work of the

Employment office. He wants work. Em- USES and VES within the Department ployer, pick up the phone. Disabled vets of Labor. seeking work also often go to veterans organizations. An American Legion Post The result of this slash was that hun- Credentials in your town or city can always tell you dreds of U.S. Employment Service men were dropped, were finding Herman Bernhard Ramcke, one of where you can hire a disabled war veteran. men who out Hitler's most ruthless paratrooper gen- The second problem, how to place a dis- jobs for disabled veterans. It has meant a erals, was in command at Brest when abled veteran and how to make certain great reduction in the services given to three divisions of American infantry that he will be an excellent employee can disabled vets from the standpoint of labor attacked in September, 1944. The Ger- be solved by consulting with an Employ- market information in one state to job garrison of soldiers, marines and man ment Service man and also by taking the seekers in other states. It has meant drop- sailors fought viciously inch-by-inch slight trouble of investigating what other ping further studies on selective placement because Ramcke had ordered them to employers in the field, who have success- methods for the handicapped, recruiting die for Hitler rather than give up the fully hired disabled veterans, have done of seasonal labor and specialized person- French city, even though it was al- ready a shambles and wortldess as a along these lines. Every single large indus- nel, and technical research on placement port. try in the country should have a Veterans' methods, which help the handicapped vet. The battle raged for three weeks Counselor on its personnel staff. When the slash was made last April, before Ramcke, himself, was cornered The last problem, more Employment the veteran specialist, Howard Rusk, in a in a bomb shelter. Ordered to surren- Service Men needed, is the most important New York Times article summed it up like der, he emerged arrogantly from his one. It is, unfortunately, the least likely this: "The 34 percent cut in VES will dugout flanked by three generals, an to be solved. Today, the lack of an ade- mean elimination of one-third of the field admiral and a beautiful Irish setter with industry in which he held on a leash. The Nazi quate number of Employment Men is specialists who work de- commander was clean shaven and spot- directly responsible for the fact that veloping job opportunities for veterans less. His camouflage jacket and field- green paratroop trousers were neatly pressed and black boots highly pol- ished. Around his neck hung the Knight's Cross. He stopped momentarily at the dug- out entrance, then led his entourage directly to the jeep where the American general in command of the sector was waiting. The American had no tie. His collar was open, and his combat jacket showed signs of hard use. He was talk- ing with several enlisted men when the German stopped before him, clicked his heels and sputtered, "Are you the general to whom I must surrender?" "Yep," answered the American, casually. "Where, then, are your credentials?" snapped the German. The American smiled wryly, pointed to the group of GIs gathered around him, and said, "These are my creden- tials." —By Earl Mazo

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Director 1500 Lake Shore Drive Chicago 10. III. October, 1947 61 — — MEET THE TIMBERDOODLE ing on a tree or bush. He just doesn't like feathers, a pair of short legs, a squat body, (Continued from page 29) being visible! His long bill is especially an out-sized bill and a world of wisdom. engineered. The upper half is equipped Assembled, they constituted a grave, quaint this: keeping constantly on the alert, with with a flexible hinge, located half way little bird, one with gentility written all nerves keyed not to jump when the little between the tip and the juncture with the over it. with a degree of shyness greater chaps hurled themselves into the air. skull. He can as a result, open the bill than other birds. It wasn't a pretty bird, The woodcock is an erratic flier. Some- while it is buried in the moist ground but it looked intelligent and alert. times he seems to dodge and shift mali- this gives him a non-slip grip on the worm, But and here the Deity was aghast ciously. He is a most elusive target as he — his favorite food. His eyes are set high on there was no song left for a bird that twists and turns. Only years of woodcock the head to provide him with the widest obviously deserved that gracious gift. Ac- hunting ever enables a sportsman to learn possible vision on the ground or in the air. cording to the legend, the Deity immediate- how properly and accurately to hold on a target of this character. It's a trick I"ve never completely learned. That brisk morning my friend learned a lot, expended a lot of shells. He even scored one bird. At noon, when we left for home, he was enthusiastic. "Man, I've learned plenty and I've had more sport and thrills than I ever had in a week of quail hunting," he informed me. "I want more of the same!" Each year since he has returned to Pennsylvania for the woodcock season. There are no woodcock in California, as they are mostly residents of the Atlantic seaboard. Last year he killed an even dozen birds in the two weeks of the sea- son. That's less than one a day, but he was happy. He seems to think that the sport he enjoyed was worth the expense involved. The haunting, taunting whistle of the timberdoodle no longer irks him. He understands it now. The woodcock is the only bird in the world that sings with its 4ERICAN LEGIO wings, and the sound is fragile, a delicate fragment of music that can't be imitated He does his flying at night, keeps to ly hauled off and created a very special or even adequately described. cover during the day. His low visibility is miracle. The woodcock was given the As a matter of fact, there are many amaz'ng. I have yet to see a good photo- priceless and rare quality of being able to elements of mystery about the bird. He graph of a nesting adult bird. I've had sing with its wings, something no other has a passion for privacy that is an ob- farmers swear there were no woodcock on bird can do. session. He possesses unique and distinc- their land, then I've gone to the side hills That whistle, usually heard just as the tive qualities that endear him to those who and flushed many birds. When I showed bird changes direction right at the time have tried to break through the barriers them my kill, the farmers were astonished. when you squeeze the trigger, is caused by imposed by his purposeful obscurity. Apparently the woodcock has no scent. the vibration of the three attenuate pri- against We haven't learned too much. I call him This quality helps to protect him maries on the leading edge of each wing the light-weight champion of American predatory animals. The cat is his worst and it's a memorable sound, a delicate game birds, for he has championship qual- enemy. The absence of scent, usually tracery of heavenly music out of the sky. ities of courage, daring, shrewdness and strong in game birds, drives otherwise fine The timberdoodle—may he long sur- bird dogs to the brink of insanity as they vive! He has given me and thousands of Pork Boom continuously flush birds they think they others, the finest sport we have ever en- should point. A friend owns a fine field joyed. His display of courage when he sits A NEW hunting technique has been in- trial winner, sound, steady dog, blessed almost troduced to post-war France. In the in- a and permits me to step on him terior regions poaching Frenchmen dig with a great nose for quail or grouse. He before he takes to the air, is a never-failing up old German land mines and replant became frantic when he flushed woodcock thrill and an inspiration. His sturdy wings, them in boar-infested forests. Results after woodcock, and we had to take him to beating furiously against pale, smoky blue are said to be sensational. the car while we continued to hunt. It's the (if a crisp October sky, are a pattern of rare bird dog who is good on woodcock. shifting reality that calls for the best modesty. Unlike most champs, he courts no Even such dogs resolutely refuse to re- shooting possible. He wins often enough to publicity, dresses modestly. His feathery trieve a dead bird. rasp my pride, to make the hunting of him cloak is a sober, inconspicuous blending, One of the chief charms of the timber- a constant joy and an adventure. blue-gray, brown, white and tan. His weight doodle is that strange, haunting melody he Invariably, especially when the shooting is a moderate five to six ounces. Males and creates. An ancient Seneca Indian once is good, I remember the lesson given me females dress alike. Further, the female is told me that when the Great Spirit made one morning on a Pennsylvania side hill, the larger of the two, something not true the world, the task was completed and long, long ago, by a slender old man. with of any other game bird. there still remained a small heap of sur- wind-reddened face and twinkling eyes, a When necessary, the timberdoodle swims plus material. Being a frugal and tidy sportsman with the gentle soul of a great

remarkably well, but he reserves this asset Deity. He decided to do something about it. gentleman. for extreme emergencies. His toes can Aside from some elements of standard "Let's save some for seed!" gEasp; but he has never been seen roost- equipment, He had some oddly assorted It's still sound advice. the end

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REPORT FROM Our Vet-of-the-Month pected to reach 13.500,000. The star of HOLLYWOOD This month it is De Forest Kelley the picture, Larry Parks, expects to get the hero in Paramount's 36-star Variety something like $7,000 . . . Bob Landry, (Continued from page 35) Girl who is probably the only young war Life photographer, will combine his pro- petition. He is the man who invented the veteran to land a screen contract entirely fession of photography with his ambition machine that spins spider webs. The head through his performance in a Navy train- of acting when he appears as a photog- of the studio's decorative lighting depart- ing film. Oddly enough, he was in the rapher in Paramount's Dream Girl. He ment explains that in the beginning two Army, and was on loan to the Navy for had already been in G. I. Joe as a war flat boards and a bottle of glue were the the film. correspondent . . . Bette Davis has pre- ingredients for web making and it would After a year as a control tower operator, sented a check for $25,000 on behalf of take a half dozen men a half dozen days his acting talents led to his transfer to the Hollywood Canteen Foundation, of to spin a good size web. In 1923. Martin, the Army film unit at Culver City where which she is board chairman, to Birming- a World War I veteran, was slumming the Navy borrowed him for a spot in Time ham Hospital at Van Nuys, California, for around on the Venice pike (Los Angeles' To Kill, directed by Will Jason, a Holly- completion of a therapeutic salt water pool Coney Island) and there noted how easily wood professional. Jason was jubilant, for the veterans there. This is but one of men were spinning cotton candy on a showed rushes of the film to the studios, several contributions planned by the foun- stick with melted sugar. From that idea and three offers came. Upon his discharge dation that served more than three and a he built a machine to do the same thing in February, 1946, he chose Paramount half million servicemen during the war. with glue and turn out grade A spider and, prior to Variety Girl, made one pic- Greta Garbo is going to Paris to do a

ture, . webs. He never bothered about patenting Fear In The Night, in which he French version of "Sapho" . . Ronald the machine and so it is now in universal appeared as a murderer. Reagan and Jane Wyman, his wife, gave use. One man can now web-in the entire Variety Girl is a lavish romantic musi- $75,000 to Eureka College, Eureka, 111., end of a sound stage in a few hours. A cal comedy in which practically all the his alma mater as one-half the cost of a Midsummer Night's Dream was Martin's names on the Paramount roster appear school of speech and dramatic arts which biggest job. "We spread webs over every- from Cecil B. DeMille, Bing Crosby and will bear the Reagan name . . . Joan thing on the stage and then sprinkled it Bob Hope down to unknown bit players. Crawford, who had adopted two babies, all with glitter to make a fairyland effect," Born in Atlanta, Ga., in 1920, the son Christina and Christopher, now 8 and 4 he says. "Under the old glue-and-board of a retired Baptist minister, De Forest's years old respectively, has just adopted system it would have taken months." boyhood was uneventful. Upon graduation two more from an Eastern institution from high school he went to Long Beach, Cynthia, 3 months, and Cathy, 2 months

Joan Bennett Fired California, for a month's visit with an . . . Mexicans want Mexicans used in But not like you think. At the Universal- International lot the other day I watched Joan run a fire gauntlet for a scene which she and Michael Redgrave (it's his Ameri- can debut) do in Secret Beyond the Door, an October release. The gauntlet consisted of a long corridor some four feet wide whose walls were licked by flames as high as ten feet. Dressed in a flimsy negligee, which had been made fire resistant by chemical treatment, but with no protec- tion for her hair, she made the run half a dozen times before the director was satisfied. No, not all acting is easy.

A Picture for Veterans A picture of special interest to veteran- is RKO Radio's Crossfire, a punch-packed story about bigotry ending in murder. In this venture, one of the first films ever to come out so honestly and power- fully against the forces of intolerance, are three veterans of the service — Robert Til bet most husbands don't have to go through this everytime they're late." Mitchum of the Army, Robert Ryan of EGION MAGAZI the Marines and George Cooper of the Navy. In the movie, Mitchum and Cooper uncle and, like the man who came to Mexican movies — so Mexican President play members of an Army Signal Corps dinner, never went home. He soon got Miguel Aleman was told by his country's detachment while Ryan is an ex-buddy re- into the Long Beach Players Guild and actors, who charge that foreign investors cently discharged. appeared in several productions with suc- are infiltrating the industry by employing The plot concerns the murder of a Jew- cess before he went into the Army. Mexican "front men". ish veteran merely because he is a Jew Eric Johnston, film czar, says the Fed- and is told in staccato terms which call a Quickies in the News eral Government has no more right to spade a spade. The ex-servicemen who Roland Winters, 43-year-old Boston- continue the 20 percent tax on theatre worked on the picture, and there were born actor, takes the place of Sidney admissions than it would have to tax many in the technical crew, felt strongly Toler, who died last February, as the new newspapers and radio. He contends movies about the subject matter because they re- Charlie Chan. He's the third man in this are a form of communication and should membered clearly their close ties with role, the first having been the late Warner be treated as such ... A group of Holly- other men in the service, regardless of Oland . . . Al Jolson's take from The woodites are in Paris (of all places!) race or religion. Jolson Story, in which he sang, is ex- working on a new version of Alice in

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Wonderland which will employ a live IMP-ULSES by Ponce de Leon Alice but use puppets in the animal roles . . . The big set built in 1925 for Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera and since then used in some seventy-five movies, has been remodeled for the Ron- ald Colman starrer. Imagination. John Drew Colt, son of Ethel Barrymore and nephew of Lionel, will make his screen debut in this film, thus carrying on the Barrymore tradition of "they all become actors and actresses." Rip Van Winkle and Tom Thumb are set as full-length color cartoons at United Artists. George Pal, creator and producer of the "'Puppetoon" series at Paramount, will produce. Up to this time the full- length cartoon field has been Walt Dis- ney's with one release a year . . . Russ Columbo was accidentally shot to death thirteen years ago. The mother of the crooner, being ill, was never told. For thirteen years she has received letters and clu cks which she thought were from Russ. The family had furnished the letters. The flMEPICAN LEGION MAGAZINE checks were from Russ' insurance. Two years ago, still thinking her son a Euro- Marshall took the cast to North Carolina joyment on their faces, and the admira- pean success, she died at the age of 79. for most of the filming. tion they have for Lou and Bud. who Just now her will has been filed for pro- Conner, incidentally, spent four years spend so much time there. bate. It shows a share left for Russ. in the Coast Guard, which was my branch "How do you like it?" I asked a 14- of the service. And Author Street and I year-old. More About Tap Roots used to work together in New York be- "It's swell!" he beamed. "I come every Last month we listed James Street's fore the war, and I know the sincerity of night but Monday and it's closed on Mon- "Tap Roots." in production at Universal- his writings. day. Most of the kids come regularly." International, as a picture certainly to be "What did you do before the foundation looked forward to. I had already read Thanks To Memories was here?" I asked. this book, along with the other two of Lou Costello, Jr.. was just a little baby. "Oh. we played in the streets and had Street's trilogy Oh Promised Land and Under a year old. He died in October of our gang." he replied. By Valour and Arms—and knew that 1943. But he was the son of the radio That the memory of two fun-making Producer Walter Wanger and Director and screen comedian, who of course adults for the son of one was taking the George Marshall would make the most of adored him. boys and girls out of the streets and out it. Over on the lot this was proved to me To his memory. Bud Abbott and Lou of the gangs seems to me the perfect when Marshall pointed out that the pic- Costello. Sr.. established the Lou Costello. memorial. ture combines one of the most unusual Jr.. Youth Foundation on Los Angeles' casts in filmdom. In addition to the stars, East Olympic Boulevard, and opened it in Peering Into The Future

May. I went out the other Walter Pidgeon, idle for a year, has the

day to have a look. I was lead in Non Frat at M-G-M, the story of amazed! There was liter- non-fraternization in occupied countries. Adolphe Menjou ally thousands of boys and However, before Non Frat appears, you'll and Clarke Gable girls crowded inside and be seeing Walter in Luxury Liner with show how "huck- outside. Traffic was tied Jane Powell, as well as a picture with sters" worry. Mr. up as the children over- Greer Garson which is yet unnamed and Menjou becomes flowed into the street. // Winter Comes, which has just been a regular contrib- y Something had to be done finished. utor to this mag- and, since my visit, I am Maureen O'Hara is set to do The Quiet azine starting next told, admission is now re- Man in Eire next year, with John Ford month stricted to 3000 members. directing. She also goes to England to do To be a member, one must Foxes of Harrow. be between 6 and 19 years Joseph Cotten and Loretta Young will old and live in a given star in The Harder They Fall, which R-K-0 Van Heflin and Susan Hayward. there area bounding the foundation. bought from Budd Schulberg for $200,000. will be Boris Karloff as "Tishhomingo," The idea of the founders was to honor Joe plays the role of a crooked press agent. the Indian; Ward Bond as Hoab Dabney, the memory of a boy by providing other Schulberg. incidentally, has written for father of Susan; Whitfield Conner, the boys and girls a place to call their own. The American Legion Magazine, but not young Broadway actor who was Horatio Outside there are ball courts, swings, for $200,000. in Maurice Evans' Hamlet and who played -lido and a big swimming pool. Inside Another story which is at least a year opposite Elisabeth Bergner in The Duchess there is a gymnasium, with facilities for off is The Great Snow, Henry Morton Rob- of Malfi, in which lie made his screen about every kind of game a child could inson's story of eight people successfully debut; Julie London and Richard Long. imagine. I was impressed with the orderly fighting the worst disaster in New York And for the sake of authenticity, Mr. supervision of the children, the real en- history but unable to defend themselves

66 * The American Legion Magazine " October 1947 against their own twisted complexities. remarks with a few examples of phenom- Nunnally Johnson will produce for Uni- enal prices paid writers who have sold versal-International. few, if any, of their works to the screen The Long Grey Line, the story of West before. And most of them, of course, are Point, starring Alan Ladd, is being filmed from some place other than Hollywood. in sections. The first section was shot at "Richard Sherman, an ex-screen writer the Military Academy during June week who wrote To Mary With Love and had when the activities were at their peak. It's only moderate success otherwise, just sold by Paramount. The Bright Promise to 20th Century-Fox for $350,000 and that included only screen Picture's To Look Forward To rights," says Gutterman. "Frederic Wake- First on the list is Unconquered, covered man, who had only one novel published elsewhere in this report. previously, wrote The Hucksters, which REEVES FABRICS Sleep, My Love, the first Mary Pickford M-G-M bought for $200,000. He has now production in ten years', with Miss Pick- sold his new novel. The Saxon Charm, to make strong, sturdy of the directing, will pre- Uni versal-International for $200,000 plus ford doing some UNIFORMS. ..WORK AND SPORT CLOTHES sent Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings 10 percent of the gross profits. This one deal and Don Ameche. can make him a million. Producer Ask your dealer for uni- R-K-0 comes in for two recommenda- Edward Gross paid Benedict and Nancy forms, work and sport tions: Memory of Love with Dana Andrews, Freedman $200,000 for the screen rights to clothes of Reeves Fab- rics. Reeves Army Twill* Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore. Hoagy Mrs. Mike, which will be filmed for United , of which Uncle Sam Walter Artists release. Lion Feuchtwanger sold Carmichael. Artur Rubinstein and bought 90 million yards, Reed; and Mourning Becomes Electra with Proud Destiny to Enterprise for $350,000. insures extra wearability and good looks. Rosalind Russell and Raymond Massey. William Wister Haines's Command Deci- Demand Glengarrie Poplin* for matching shirts. * Sanforized— residual shrinkage less than 1% Over at Warner Brothers it's The Treas- sion went to M-G-M for $300,000. Thomas KvQGC ure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Costain's The Black Rose sold for Bogart. Walter Huston, Bruce Bennett and $200,000." I'^fJ REEVES BROS., INC. Tim Holt. All of which reminds me—some day I 54 Worth St., New York 13, N.Y. Cass Timberlane, Sinclair Lewis's story must take time out and write a novel. of an Iowa judge and his marital troubles, Tli«» Shows For The Boys GET BIG DAILY CASH PROFITS is the M-G-M selection. Spencer Tracy. 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It'suse- f ul . . . attractive for home and office, ndcolored to look like the real fire- Grant, Loretta Young. David Niven and tones. Smoke curls out the chimney, ""olds generous supply of cigarettes James Gleason. is interesting to me because nd matches. Has metal fireplace grill cover which lifts out to re- of the last two named. Both Mrs. Niven move ashes. Ideal gift. $1.98— includes a package of incense. and Mrs. Gleason died while their hus- Rush this COUPON bands were working on the picture. And "Stop worrying—it's only a banging ILLINOIS MERCHANDISE MART both David and are real veterans. Dept. 1490, 1227 LOYOLA AVENUE. CHICAGO 26, ILLINOIS Jimmie for shutter." [J Rush Barbecue Ash Tray CO. D. $1.98 on money back guarantee. LEGION MAGA2I NE Gleason spent fifteen years in the Army

October, 1947 67 ADDRESS — over a period of thirty years. He was in p'ctures at Elstree, England, during the and mi did Robert Taylor." Could anything and out several times. He served in the next ten years. be clearer?

Philippines, on the Mexican border, and Alexander Korda is beginning a $4,000,- On the other side of the fence comes was in military intelligence in World 000 film project at Sound City, England. the statement of Eric Johnston that "We

War I. They passed him up for World What's it all about? are determined that subversive propaganda, War II, hut Jimmie and his late wife, old Two things. One is that Rank is trying government pressure or political censor- troupers, couldn't just stand by. They were to establish English films in this country ship will never undermine a free screen. Hollywood's most active USO workers. for the folding money returns they bring. I don't like American communists. They Niven met and married Primula Rollo in He visualizes at least $12,000.0000 a year are a disruptive force in American govern- 1940 while she was serving with the W AAF at the start. The other is that the American ment. American industry and American and he with the Commandos. Niven. a companies want some of the European labor. They would destroy all that we have native of England, had graduated from that money, want to meet competition more achieved. Bluntly, I think American com- government's West Point (Sandhurst) as than half way, want cheaper production munists are treasonable and subversive. costs, want to avoid some of the import- They are potential foreign agents—they export red tape and expense, and want to are dupes and suckers for the fourteen men pep up some of their films with more who sit in the Kremlin and pull the strings authentic old world background. which make communists toe the party line That the English invasion sounds seri- everywhere." Then the Association of Mo- ous to some is due to two factors. First, tion Picture Producers, which Johnston while Mr. Rank has made a fine reputation heads, hired James F. Brynes. former for himself as a great motion picture execu- Secretary of State, to help guide the des- tive, we know he has been abetted by a tinies of the industry. Could anything be superb publicity campaign which was ef- clearer? fective because Rank's visit here and the Net result: regardless of any action the attendant publicity was followed by the Congress may take, the investigation has release of many excellent pictures. Second- brought to light the fact that there is a ly, we must bear in mind that England communist influence in Hollywood that can sends us only its best pictures. We don't become serious; and, it has awakened the see its flops. But we do see Hollywood's industry to take steps to combat such bad ones and a lot of people jump at com- influence. parisons. In fairness to most film executives, pro-

Witli mass production. Rank is bound to ducers and directors it must be said that produce some good films. And he'll see to the charge of communism is not leveled it that they play our theaters, just as today against them. The trouble has been caused his Great Expectations and Odd Man Out by a lot of writers who have injected are making the circuits. But such things as hidden meanings into pictures; to a lot of Beware of Pity with Lilli Palmer. Men of actors and actresses who have the soap-box Tiro Worlds with Leslie Banks and Phyllis speaking fever and will spout off on civil Lovely Penny Edwards becomes an Calvert, and Caravan with Stewart Granger liberties at the drop of a mascaraed eye honorary colonel. Giving her "'the aren't top-notch and may never reach lash; and to an element within the town bird" is Jerry Hall, Commander of American soil. who are not in the movies but would like Hollywood Post No. 43 Another factor is that Americans have to be and try to inject themselves into any- their favorite stars. Unless British-made thing that might put them in good with the an officer and served his country long be- films can offer stars favored by U. S. screwballs. fore he came to America and the screen. audiences, they must stand alone on sheer So. we think, it's good that it all came With England at war again, Niven left greatness of story and presentation. out into the open. THE end Hollywood on Oct. 1, 1939, for his home country, volunteered for the Army and The Pinkish Glow served with the Rifle Brigade, a famous While we must leave it for the daily press to regiment, until after Dunkirk; then in the keep you advised of the stir being Commandos; then to the secret Phantom created as the House Committee on Un- Reconnaissance Regiment; and finally with American Activities continues its investiga- the liberation army. tion into the pinkish glow over Hollywood, Making The Bishop's Wife was not an we do want to pass on a few highlights: easy job for either Jimmie or David. A group known as "Contemporary Writers" has been formed here and. ac- The British Are Coming cording to its own advertisement in the Paramount executives have announced communist newspaper, "People's Daily that their theatres will henceforth extend World," describes itself as "a countrywide more playdates to British pictures. organization of Marxist and anti-fascist

J. Arthur Rank, the Cecil B. DeMille of writers." Could anything be clearer? England, has been making the rounds of A. M. Gerasimov. a citizen of Russia,

Hollywood and New York whooping it up and a Stalin prize winner in 1943 for a for his films. Russian movie, admits that the Song of The luxury liners are generously sprin- Russia, the film that Robert Taylor claims kled with Hollywoodites as they trek he was forced to make, was permeated with abroad to make pictures. And their west- a sympathetic attitude toward the USSR. ward cargo includes a lot of film from the But. he says, "there was a time when it was British studios for American showings. stylish to become enthusiastic in one's "/ don't cere what you say. I still think I'm safer this ivay." M-G-M is scheduling a $125,000,000 sympathies toward the Soviet Union. Holly- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE budget for building studios and filming wood made quite a bit of money out of it

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Hals begin with faces. When you glance over a lot of men in a crowd, the chief im- pression is that the hat and the face are one.

At least, that is the effect achieved, if the two are blended.

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Properly chosen, it can do wonders for the face. Civilization, which has done so much for us in this atomic age, has even evolved a code for hat-selection. A good hat saleman will take stock of the statistics in the structure of your face before

handing you a model to try on. He will if he's up on modern hat merchandising, which requires that he know not only hats but the

70 The American Legion Magazine • October, 1947 ! kinds of heads they have to adorn.

- The truth about hats is that they can do you a big favor or a dirty trick, depending on whether or not you make a wise selec- tion. Basically, it boils downs to this: a big hat with a wide brim for a big man; a smaller hat with a narrower brim for a small man. From here on you're on your own. be- cause style is a matter of individual taste. Take the homburg. (1) In fact, take the pearl gray homburg. There's a worldly air about it that spells savoire-jaire. If you're about six feet tall with a dash of gray at your temples you're a natural for a homburg. Try one and watch the girls execute a dis- creet but admiring double take. If you're a stickler for correctness at all times, a brown snap brim (2) with a fairly wide black band is a sound investment. With it you get an additional individual smart- ness. No hat, however, has a more distinctive and thoroughly American history than the wide-brimmed "western." (3) Here epito- mised in swinging broad lines, is the whole rugged character of our pioneer West. Wide- brimmed to shield its wearer from the tor- rid suns of the plains, it has won friends in States and climates far removed from the region of its origin. Understandably the man who wears a "western" is rugged, athletic and indifferent to criticism. He's at peace with the world. If you're using the GI Bill of Rights to get yourself an education, the pork-pie model (4) is probably one of your favo- rites. Popular with sportsmen as well as on campus, the pork-pie is a favorite with men who like to be well-dressed in their most casual moments. Just as the shape of the hat will bring out traits of personality, so too with other style points—even so small a matter as the width or color of the hat-band. The con- servative citizen, of course, likes to follow the crowd: so he wears the customary wide FIVE FEATURES THAT SPELL FASTER, band, though even there he can add a touch of individuality by selecting a band differ- SMOOTHER SHAVES AT A REAL SAVING ing in color from the hat itself. When you see a man wearing one of the newer very 1 SELF-SHARPENING. Stropping keeps blade narrow hat-bands, however, it's a safe bet * shaving like new day after day. that he is independent by nature. He wants to register his freedom from convention— O ONE-PIECE CONSTRUCTION. You clean and so he picks the hat with the unusually strop blade right in razor. narrow band. 3 STREAMLINE RUNNER-GUARD" protects your All-in-all, a man can be judged by his hat face . . . eliminates drag and pull. Of course, it won't perform a major oper- ation. It won't change the shape of his nose A EASY-OPENING CLIPS make blade changing —and it won't give a World War I veteran the * a cinch. No fumbling. enviable figure of a veteran of World War II. But it can, when carefully chosen, add C VALET BLADES of finest steel are specially a definite smartness to his appearance. And tempered for stropping. that— if we are to believe the psychologists- is a definite factor in creating the self- confidence that makes for success. STROP YOUR RAZOR In summary, a general rule of thumb AS A BARBER DOES may prove helpful; let your personal tastes guide your selection of style and color, but when you come to choosing the width of a brim or the height of a crown, use your head.

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HIcrry-Go-Round Explanation Keeping Their Distance

At a separation center, a corporal was As a should know, if It seems we have a very odd woman her wits are Paradox before us: holding a class on government insurance. at par into detail as the she savvies smile The blunt people come to the point, He went to why men And a from a leer. not but then. should keep up their policies. Noticing Some women are to be trusted too far. that his class about to fall asleep, Some men can't be trusted too near. The dull ones always bore us. was — Richard John E. Donovan the corporal injected some double-talk to by Armour pep up his lecture. Home Boys "This insurance imbilutes the nabutation of any casterooning." the corporal said. The main idea of various entertainment and educational programs instituted by the Reconversion "Too. if you elect to parderize your skimp- army on lonely Pacific islands was to Even the peculiar wartime GI talk ha? tion you'll receive a fraxity." alleviate the boredom and resulting home been subject to reconversion. During War The corporal looked at his class. "Are sickness. II the following unofficial regulations gov- there any questions?" he asked. A GI "Hit Parade" contest was held on erned GI activities: "Yes," remarked a tired voice in the rear. "Will explain one barren atoll by the Special Services If it moves, salute it. you please what a fraxity is?" Stanley G. Grayovski Officer. He wanted to determine the men's If it doesn't move, pick it up. By favorite records so that he could obtain If you can't pick it up. paint it. them from the rear areas and surprise the Recently. Attorney General Tom Clark Safety First GIs some night with a popular music pro- advised a group of veterans in Washing- In the midst of the fierce battle for Oki- gram. He thought that he would really be ton. D. C., that these regulations have been nawa there appeared in the areas held by accomplishing the idea of his program in changed to a peacetime plane, as: the 77th Infantry Division several neatly this manner. If it cries, change it. lettered signs exhorting the men to be The idea was not a complete success, If it's on wheels, buy it. nil M r devoted to their personal health however. The final tabulation showed the If it's hollow, rent it. habits. ten top favorites of the lonelv solders to be: Whichever way the Liberty Division boys (1) Show Me the Way to Go Home Bargain happened to turn, they were faced with (2) Hurry Home A one-time Army captain now back to such slogans as, "Wear your helmet—not (3) Home Sweet Home his peacetime job as midwestern sales tor looks, but for safetv!" (4) There's No Place Like Home manager for a large company, pulled his Another one was, "Bury all cans—not (5) Home On the Range car into a country gas station and was sur- for looks, but for safety!" (6) My Old Kentucky Home prised and delighted to find that the pro- One front line unit aptly expressed their (7) Back Home in Indiana prietor was a former corporal from his old idea of the whole situation with several (8) My Blue Ridge Mountain Home outfit. As they talked over old times the ex- large signs prominently displayed through- (9) My Home in Illinois captain noticed a small two-seater training out their war-torn area stating, "Take us (10) Home in San Antonio plane in a field behind the gas station. home—not for looks, but for safety!" —By Marshall K. McClelland The young attendant proudly admitted that —By Marshall K. McClelland Concrete Information the plane was his and asked Little drops of water. the captain if he'd like to go Little grains of up for a ride. grit. When you want to When they reached 5000 build a house. feet and miles of hilly wooded Cost you country spread out beneath quite a bit! —5. Omar them, the former corporal Barker leaned toward the captain's Tough Luch Lochinvar ear and shouted over the roar The Romeo of the 358th of the egg-beater engine: wasn't getting anywhere with "How do you like it?" his date. "Do you smoke?" he "First rate," the captain an- finally asked. swered. "Nali." she answered. "I got it at a terrific bar- "Do you drink?" gain." the young station at- She shook her head. tendant enthusiastically an- "Neck?" nounced, "It's condemned." "Nope." —By Roger Pet tit "Eat hay?" And Bach "Of course not." Man boasts no trick "Gosh, woman." he exclaimed, Of which he's fonder, "you're not fit company for Than getting quick man or beast." From here to yonder. —By Stanley J. Meyer —By S. Omar Barker Home of the Brave Psychological Note Manv a man has been called "flt \ Buss, any thing else arourul lu re need cleaning? My ego on the carpet for dropping Makes me go. KERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE — ashes on the rug. By A. A. Latimer —A. A. Lattirner u 72 * The American Legion Magazine • Ocfn pr,

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