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products of every description . . . trucks that must get through regardless of the weather.

Multiply this picture a thousandfold and you'll get some idea of the huge job performed by highway maintenance trucks on almost Joseph B. Eastman, director of the Office any winter day. And snow removal is only a small part of the story. of Defense Transportation, recently stated: ' 'A utomotive Transportation is absolutely es- regularly Throughout the country, 175,000 to 200,000 trucks are sential to the winning of the War. Goods must engaged in road maintenance, construction and repair ... in order reach their destinatio nsand workers must get to

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The Message Center CONTENTS AN ILLUSTRIOUS COVER DESIGN TS a WHEN you read Reflections of By William Aylward amily— this bour- J. Retread in this issue, please re- bon family — with member that the WAC needs thousands LABOR AND THE LEGION 6 By Warren H. Atherton many distinguished of volunteers to do the job which the National Commander members. But Old Grand- Army has entrusted to it. Of the 625 specific types of work which the whole THE BONER 9 . heads Dad heads it . . By Duane Yarnell U. S. Army has to do the Women's it unmistakably. Illustrated by Bettina Steinke Army Corps is grooming itself to do 410. The Air Forces alone have asked 37 DAYS OF HORROI 10 By Norman Lodge for 375,000 women. The Corps is cur- J. Illustrated by Hamilton Greene rently serving in every State and in OJV£ TASTE WILL three foreign theaters of operation. AFTER V-DAY: JOBS 12 TELL YOU WUr First Lieutenant Rita Bedell, who By Jay Hormel Please be pa» wrote the Reflections, was a yeoman ASSIGNMENT IN AMERICA 13 (f) attached to the Brooklyn Navy By Paul V. McNutt tient.We're do- Yard in the First World War. She was HOW TO WIN THE PEACE 14 ing our best to for some time secretary to the late By Henry J. Taylor spread our pre- Major William F. Deegan, who was an Illustrated by John Cassel early Commander of the Legion's De- war stocks of REFLECTIONS OF A RETREAD 16 OldGrand-Dad partment of New York and later became By Rita Bedell Commissioner of Tenements in New fairly—as we're PATTERN OF DESTINY 19 York City. Comrade Bedell belongs to now engaged in By Robert Ormond Case Nassau County Women's Post of Free- Illustrated by Herb Stoops

war production port, New York. . . . Another Legion WHAT S MY NAME? 20 of alcohol. member who is enrolled in the WAC, Conducted by John J. Noll also a yeoman (f) last time, is Private THUMB FUN 24 Quinn, who has been an ac- Edith W. By Herbert M. Baus of U.S.S. Post tive member Jacob Jones Illustrated by Hugh E. Kennedy of Washington, D. C, since its start. TRUCKING RATES ITS E 26 By a. D. Rathbone, IV THE following poem, titled To Dad Across the Miles, was written by OUR ANNUAL SERMON 27 By Wallgren Elmer L. Thomas, RM 3/C, U.S.N.R., while training at the University of Wis- OLD DRUMMERS NEVER DIE 28 (Conti?iued on page 4) EDITORIAL 52

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THE MESSAGE CENTER (Continued from page 2) consin, and was sent to his home town newspaper in Killingly, Connecticut. The first his father. Legionnaire George H. Thomas, and Mrs. Thomas knew

about it was when they saw it in the paper. Subsequently, other newspapers

used it; it was broadcast nationally and by local radio stations on a number of occasions, and was used on posters to boost sales of war bonds. Meanwhile Sailor Thomas moved from Wisconsin north by west and took part in the fighting at Attu and Kiska in the Aleu-

tians. He is now somewhere in Alaska.

You were in the Navy, Dad: 'Twas not so long ago, You wore the uniform I wear. And knew the things I know. You fought for things that you held dear. Just like I soon will do That sort of makes us buddies. Dad, Wearing Navy blue

Sometimes at night, when I'm alone, I think of all you've meant. Thu lines of time upon your face. That show the years you've spent To give me things you never had. I wonder if you'll know How grateful I will always be. Mere words can never show 'Pretty special!" women say I know you'd like to bp along To see the battle through, about the man who smokes a pipe. But, Dad, you've done your little bit.

Now I'll do mine, for you ! S'«/?«'r-special— Prince Albert's when Your sacrifice- gave us the chance this land so fair in the bowl. They go for its delight- To know ; So now I'll fight the best I can ful fragrance, aroma. You'll go for To keep the things we share. rich taste that through so its comes Sometimes at night when I'm alone mild and mellow, so easy on your The years reverse their flight And tht'n I see us as we were tongue. Crimp cut for prop- In the days of sunnier light. ^ When I was just a little tyke ^er packing, smooth, even And you were not so gray ; drawing—and such surpris- You took me hiking in the woods And Joined me in my play. ing coolness! Even helps a picked the spring's first willow buds pipe cake up better. No We And searched for water cress. other tobacco like P. A. for You and 1 nnd brother George The world's best pals, I guess all-round PIPE APPEAL! 'Twas you who taught me how to love * The fields and shaded wood And not to fear the lonely trail, "Cause, Dad, you understood

There is a Lone Trail I may walk Before the Peace is made. But, Dad, I've learned your lesson well,

I'll never be afraid ! A"d if, in heat of blazing fray. pRiNLE Albert The Master calls my name, I'll answer smiling-—-you know that: I'll never die in shame.

.So-ne day. Dad, we'll do again BUY The things we used to do. WAR We'll tramp the painted autumn woods That years ago we knew. BONDS We'll breathe the clean, sweet country AND I hope it soon may be ! T'-°se simple things are why I fight. STAMPS To keep them ever free

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THE NATIONAL by William J. Aylward, noted marine CRIMP CUT artist who belongs to the Post at Port JOY SMOKE shows L0N6 BURNING PIPE AND Washington, N. Y. The picture CIGARETTE fOBACCO two American cargo vessels unloading war equipment at Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia, with Sydney Br'dge in the background. Circular Quay han- pipefuls of fragrant tobacco in every Try dles American cargo e.xclusively. The handy pocket pack- naval officer in the left foreground is 50 age of Prince Albert ^ typical of the armed guard commanders tnofs pienfy who head the gun crews on all American fine roll-your-own cigarettes in every merchantmen that sail the ocean blue. handy pocket pack- Comrade Aylward has taken the artistic age of Prince Albert 70 side license of turning up the wrong of the hat of the Aussie who is standing J beside the ofik-er. The Editors

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;T'S AN OLD CHINESE CUSTOM tO Settle scores, balance books and start the New

Year with good will toward all.

It's a good custom worth trying. Somebody has been sicking a fight on

labor and the Legion. We won't sic. Such a fight would help Hitler and tickle Tojo. In common, labor and the Legion want: To win the war and win the peace. To preserve freedom of person, of speech, of religion and of the right to join any lodge, post or union.

To make life in our country better and

safer.

To be a helpful neighbor to the world. To do these things we must beat the

Axis. The more ships, planes, tanks, guns Union members are severely punished if

and ammunition our sons get from us the they don't strike when called out. Striking

more Japs and Huns they'll kill. The faster against orders should merit the same treat- our sons kill Japs and Huns the sooner ment. we'll win the victory and the more of them We commend the great majority of loyal will live to come home. Americans in organized labor who are Work stoppage in war industry by em- buying bonds, building better and making

ployer or employe keeps MacArthur and more. Their work is doing much to win Eisenhower and our Allies from getting the the war. weapons they need, hampers our men and We condemn the minority who have helps the enemy. Giving aid or comfort to blackened labor's record, prolonged the

the enemy in time of war is treason. war and brought death to American sons, If a soldier gives his gun to a Hun that's by striking in defiance of our President and

treason. If one refuses to make a gun for a their President.

soldier, that gives the Hun one more than Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the brave we have. That aids the enemy in time of men who fought for our independence were

war. We say it's treason. We commend loyal. Benedict Arnold gave aid to the en- Presidents Green and Murray for labor's emy. He was a traitor. no-strike pledge. We will commend them We wish our nation internal harmony,

more if they see it's kept. an early Victory and a Happy New Year.

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8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine WHEN Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine GUESS this will show you what I a funny guy the general is. I guess it will show you quite a lot of things about him. The first jeep I wrecked, they turned me over to a young lieutenant. Two days later, when I wrapped my second jeep around a smashed F-W that Doo- little's boys had left lying around, they turned me over to a major. He did quite a job on me, the major. He made me stand there and listen for half an hour. And when he got through with me, he took my sergeant's chevrons. The day I put the third jeep out of action, there weren't any colonels around so the general did the honors himself. I remember the way he looked that day, his shirt soiled and open at the neck and his face under a two-day growth of whiskers. He was scowling and shifting from one foot to the other, and it seemed that half the enlisted guys in uniform were waiting to hear me catch it. The general said, "Soldier, how can any man wreck three jeeps in five days?" "I was in a hurry, sir!" I said. For no good reason, the general grinned. He hunched his left shoulder and polished his star against his stubbly cheek. "I like soldiers who are in a hurry," the general said. "From now on, Sergeant, you're driving me wherever I go." So I guess that explains a lot of things. It shows you how I got my three chev- rons back and how I happened to get transferred to Headquarters as the gen- eral's private chauffeur.

And I guess it also explains what a sense of humor the general has, the kind of outlook on things that makes every man under him willing to go to hell for him. I got the other side of the story after I started hanging around Headquarters. I don't mean that the big shots with two and three stars were jealous of the general. It wasn't that. They just didn't see how a guy like the general could get such amazing results. The Boner They said the general's methods were unorthodox, and when the general was By DUANE YARN ELL out of earshot, they said his methods were screwball. They liked him, but he was only 33, the youngest one-star gen- eral in service, and sometimes I could sir; it's an important hill and my men this failure to dislodge the Germans hear them betting how long it would haven't taken it. But leave it to them, from that hill was getting under his skin. be before those unorthodox methods got sir, they're the best damned soldiers in Late the third afternoon, the general ." him caught up in a lawnmower. service. . was sitting by the telephone. He wasn't And after they heard how the gen- And sometimes, I could hear the other talking, but was holding the receiver eral had chosen me to drive his favorite end of the conversation. Stuff like, half a foot from his ear and the look jeep, two would get you one that the "From any other man, General, this on his face was not a pleasant thing to general would pull some horrible boner failure might be excused. But from you! see. Finally, he said, "I'll have a look before the month was out. We'd counted on you and your magnifi- myself, sir!" He put down the phone ." The general pulled a boner all right. cent men. . and picked up his field glasses. Not nasty stuff, understand, but with "Sergeant," he said, "take me up to And I was right there to see it. . . The Germans were holding a high a point that the general had no trouble the front!" hill south of Rome. They'd been hold- getting. He'd been pretty cocky. He'd That was the general for you. He liked ing it for three days. The general was said a lot of times that he had the best to be up there where the shooting was spending a lot of his time close to the outfit in Italy. He loved his men and going on. And especially, he liked to ride telephone, saying stuff like, "I know, he knew they loved him and I guess {Continued on page J2)

JANUARY. 1944 9 —

the people we facetiously call savages sit by and wonder just what civilization is fighting about. 37 Days And if you don't beheve that is so let me digress a moment to give you a true copy of a notice pasted on a certain mess hall bulletin board on Guadalcanal. It reads: of "American soldiers are requested to please be a little more careful in their choice of language, especially when na- tives are assisting them in their unload- ing of ships, trucks and in erecting Horror abodes. American missionaries spent many years among us and taught us the words we shouldn't use. Every day, By J. NORMAN LODGE however, American soldiers use those words and the good work 3'our mission-

aries did in our midst is being under- mined by your careless profanity." The campaign +ha+ brought the The notice was signed by one of the capture of Munda on New "talking" chiefs of a Polynesian tribe, Georgia was a stinkeroo to quartered on Guadalcanal but gathered from Malaita, Florida and Tulagi Islands. every Yank that took part in it. But, to return to the present war, Here's how, by an AP war especially in the Pacific, let's first pe- correspondent who fought with ruse World War One during which I was an infantryman in the 26th (Yankee) the 26th Division in 1918 Division—the Division that saw more front line action than any other, and YOU want to see a hell of a war to forestall arguments from the First, IF— and a warring hell — follow Second or Fourth, I'll cite my authority Horace Greeley's advice, young as official War Department documents. man, and go west. Go west all the Officially my Division was ten months way until, by the paradox that is true, and four days in action. That action you arrive half way around the world included five major engagements and into what we call the Far East. There, took us from Soissons to Toul, Chateau- gentlemen of World War One there. Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, — begin to fall, and the machine-gun bul- General, is a war that IS hell. among other sectors. lets begin to sing by, it's solace to have Our World One trenches were Of course we had rain. War a buddy nearby. Paradise! Our watery days and our mud Of course we had a modified type of Not so in the Solomons. You pick the were at least clean. And even our aerial bombing. nearest jungle growth, or the nearest cooties were trivial things. In a few Of course we had such things as mud, bomb crater or shell hole, and that, words, the war of 1917-1918 wasn't as cooties, as lack of steaks and tem- brother, is your front line. Your pal, such a hell of a war or such a warring porary sessions when hot coffee wasn't who started off from the beach-head our kids are exjDeriencing "down brought up through the communication hell as with you may have a foxhole nearby, under."' lines. but when those aerial bombs start I know. I've been in both wars and Of course we also had trenches and screeching down you don't have that in I'll a foxhole for a trench any time. I've been on every front this second swap feeling of being able to reach out your is least in the trenches you have the unexpurgated edition—that waging in At hand and feel someone else with you. practically every civiHzed country. Only benefit of company and when the shells He just isn't there. And, most likely, he's feeling the same as you do insecure. Remember those dehcious dugouts? Nothing hke that when you're fighting the Nips. It's still a shallow hole, and when night casts its eerie shadow over the jungle you know exactly what Gen- eral Sherman meant, although he didn't know, when he coined that expressive term, what a hell of a war this war of hell was going to be.

Cooties! Forget it, brother. How'd you like to be in a none too deep fox- hole, the jungle reaching out millions of imaginary gremlins toward you, with Japs making unearthly noises either by mouth or with equipment especially de- signed for the purpose, and then feel the gradual tightening of throat muscles.

They stormed the slight rise that For the moment you know it's a Nip. characterizes every Solomons beach Automatically you draw your trench

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Automatically you draw your trench knife—you don't dare fire your gun in the jungle at night large bomb crater dug deep enough to

have seepage in it. In the latter case you'll fill your knife—you can't fire your gun in the veteran of the practice World War, canteen, iodize it with five drops of the jungle at night, because it gives away you'll wish a thousand times over that vile-tasting black liquid and just pray your position. you had on multi-seamed underwear, that death isn't too far away. Then you realize, as you grow chilly cootie filled, in preference. Japanese infiltration—and the Nips in the tropic night, it's an iguana, seek- But lizards aren't your greatest worry. are trained night jungle fighters—also ing his nightly meal of insects. Remember the Amophele mosquito? gives you the "jimmies." And then, Relief? Brother, you'd even have been He's the pesky KtLie fellow who carries after the night of a million hours has satished if it had been a tiger or other malaria. You'll get stung hundreds of passed, you know that with the first wild an'mal. times a night whether you have on a daylight stretch—to get the sciatica

In addition to iguanas, weighing up head net or not. And you "11 have a dry pains eased, to let that arm you've been to 14 and 16 pounds, using your throat for, especially in New Georgia, lying on all night drop off, to hear your cramped body as a boulevard, you'll there isn't any water to be had unless knees snap back into place with an echo find chameleons using your trouser legs you gather it from the huge, leafy plants like a 16-inch gun—you'll drop right as garages and, if, like me, you are a during the nightly rainstorm or find a {Continued on page 44)

JANUARY, 194+ II After V-Day: JOBS

By JAY HORME^

L-^nA*RM.A. "L EMPLOYMENT COMMITTtcnt A'^w >.t;..i^

of these days Herr Schickl- What is post-war planning? It is just ONEgruber and toothy Hirohito the ordinary sort of planning which The Legion's program for post- are fold going to up and call war employment as set forth in prudent people always do. They try to it a day. Exactly what con- resolutions at the Omaha National think before they are forced to act. Convention: ditions will obtain after the war is fin- Post-war planning is extraordinary only • Continued cooperation in post-war ished is as good a guess for one of us planning studies to avoid mass unemploy- in that we all recognize that the end ment and provide full employment in the as another. But we do know what the of the war will bring real changes post-war period and support of the free situation was the last time, and we enterprise system with government con- into the lives of more people more know that the scope of reconstruction trol limited. • Extend to all veterans of the armed suddenly than ordinarily happens. And problems this time is going to make forces The American Legion's complete while we may not be exactly clear about aid in securing proper employment upon anything that has gone before look hke what these changes will be, we do know their honorable separation. penny ante. • Urge the Federal Government to pro- that the signal for them will be the vide means for a continuation of school- This time we are playing for keeps good word that the war has ended. ing, where interrupted by war service, —a finish fight for the rights, privi- and vocational training for all unskilled Post-war planning is no more mys- leges and freedoms which constitute or physically handicapped veterans. terious or complicated than the thought- • Complete preference, when qualified by our American way of life. There is not passing a competitive examination, in fulness with which any man, in any the slightest doubt on the part of any actual appointment and retention in Fed- walk of life, may undertake to keep eral Civil Service for all honorably dis- of us about our winning that fight. his affairs in order not only for today, charged veterans, their widows and the — However, there is the post-war game waves of disabled veterans. but for tomorrow. • Urge the Federal Government to as- to come which we must play out to a Of course, if you are thinking in sume its proper financial obligation by winning finish, too, a game in which adequately providing for all veterans until terms of government projects, your post- all of us must take a hand, because it they are placed in permanent employment. war planning will be for government • Urge the extension and improvement only in can be won by concerted enter- of unemployment compensation coverage projects. If you are thinking terms prise. I am talking about jobs. and benefits; oppose its federalization; of social reforms, your conclusions will support experience ratings, continue to From whatever angle contemplate have to do with social reforms. On we study methods of employment stabiliza- the coming post-war situation, a pri- tion and insist that State funds be main« the other hand, if you are looking ahead mary conviction must be that freedoms tained to adequately protect the worker. in terms of your own business, your • Utilize all facilities available in pre- will in terms of your own toward living a normal American life senting to the public and to all now in the planning be are empty privileges without opportu- armed forces the Legion's aims in aiding business. But if you are thinking in in securing job opportunities for them. nities for work. terms of your own job, your post-war Job opportunity for the O Urge that the facilities and personnel individual must be created, and that of the Veterans Administration, Veterans' planning will have to do with the kind Employment Service, Re-employment Di- is something that you I of job you want and can do, as com- and and the vision of Selective Service, United States innate business initiative of the coun- Employment Service and all rehabilita- pared with the kind of job you can tion, vocational training and placement try can do something about. We know get. It will be simply trying to think agencies, be promptly and adequately that the problems are coming and we expanded to assure that veterans will get of the best means of making the know that we must start to plan and the jobs to which their talents entitle them. most of your own private, personal prepare to meet them. opportunity.

If it rates a patent it will prob- Showing appreciation for a job The man who furnishes a weapon- ably provide a good many jobs well done helps boost morale speeding idea rates recognition

12 Tht AMERICAN LEGION Magazine In short, it is just that simple act of giving some thought to the morrow, to the plans of the people—the com- posite of our individual plans. Actually,

all we are fighting for is that one privi- lege—the privilege of individual self- expression. When we talk about the freedoms, we mean simply the free- doms of the individual, the freedom to act. If we expect to get much sat-

isfaction • from it, we shall have to give some thought to what those acts shall be. Post-war conditions under Axis domi- nation would mean having someone tell us what to do. The American way of post-war planning is for each of us, in What the Government proposes +0 do for full recognition of the rights of the our nnen and women returning from the war other fellow, to decide what he himself

is going to do. General Electric, General Motors, General Foods, General Mills—all of have assured our men in the as he fights today, and hence they are them—w'ill find themselves faced with armed forces that the American part of our fighting strategy. If our changed conditions after this war ends. I people will not let them down soldiers and sailors are plagued with The management of those companies when the war is won." doubts and worries over their future had better start now to do some plain In these words uttered recently, Pres- well-being and security, which means and fancy guessing as to what those ident Roosevelt voiced what is in the also that of their famihes, they cannot changed circumstances will be and de- mind and heart of every American. For, give their maximum will and zest to cide what they are going to do about regardless of any other commitment, their fighting jobs; if they know that them. this country is united in the determi- we are at work building toward eco- If you happen to be a distributor for nation to underwrite its gratitude with nomic security at home for themselves one of them you will be tremendously affected by their decisions. If you work for one of them, you will likewise be affected. However, I want to make two points clear. We must not let all planning be done by big business. Nor should all business planning be done in the front office. We should not leave all the planning to big business because, regardless of the large number of people to whom these big companies give employment, we must not forget that the rest of us furnish the customers who make that employment possible. If you and I don't get our planning done so that we can be good customers, all the plans the various companies make will fail. And all that planning should not be done in the front office because, much as those who sit in front offices would like to think so, the fact is that front Even now the fighting man is dreanning of the offices have no patent on brains, on in- day when he'll get a good job back home genuity, on that resourcefulness which American freedoms foster. measures designed to assure our defend- and their families their hearts will be Post-war planning is a job which ers a good life in a homeland worthy that much freer and bolder to do their should be undertaken by every Ameri- of them, once the gunbarrels cool and task of winning a victorious peace for can with respect to his own niche in the bombers are grounded. us on the battlefields. American life. Every man with a job Such measures should not be labeled At the same time we know that when should be mapping out his own sav- "post-war planning," much less pigeon- these millions of fighting men return ing and spending program, and should holed for future action. For they af- from war they .will have economic se- be contributing what he can to the fect the service man's peace of mind (Contimced on page 48) planning that surrounds his job. Every man in business for himself should be charting his course to make sure that In addition to the provisions of the National Employ- he remains in business and that per- ment Program given on the opposite page, The Amer- haps he may make a job for a man or two besides himself. Every man who ican Legion has requested the Congress to amend has one or two or eight employes the Social Security Act as to Old Age and Surviv- should be devising means of protecting ors Insurance and to provide suitable credit dur- that employment and, if possible, of (Continued on page js) ing military service for all in the armed forces

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UR military leaders are human nature and the short dis- conducting the war tance we have gone along the magnificently. Their road to universal education. o strategy has been or- Americans who propose to re- derly, thorough and far sighted. How fo Win make the world overnight, as a Our equipment, and the use of result of this war, will in their

it, has been imaginative and ef- haste end by disgusting our own ficient. And the fighting quality people with the rest of the world of our armed forces, officers and the Peace and the rest of the world with us. men of the ranks, is something Americans may take our to make every American proud. By HENRY J. TAYLOR global-planners lightly. Peoples The question is not, "Will we abroad do not. Sit, as I have, in

win?" The question is, "What foreign lands and hear America's will we win?" And that is not promises come in over the short- a military question. It is political. A Noted Author and Radio wave radio. See the impact on the peo- I am convinced that if our political ple, the look in their eyes, the expression Commentator Points Out Some leadership at home does not mend its in their faces, then think of these faces reckless ways the military victory will Mistakes the U.S. Is Making and when our promises prove false. lose its real meaning. For if the ex- Some It Seems About to Make We are piling hope on hope, dream tremists continue their policies, our na- on dream, building up an airy structure tional character will be so politically to America's future—and to the world's that will collapse after the war, bring- that and economically undermined future, too—because a healthy world is ing disillusionment to the world and to should the next war come we would impossible without a healthy America our own people. And in this disillusion- actually face the prospects of losing- it. lies in the reckless promises of our open- ment we are sowing the seeds, not of Among our dangers are these: handed leaders. They conjure up a world peace, but of continual war. 1. The belief that American generosity Arcady—peaceful, prosperous, and uni- I am convinced that some measure can bring the world prosperity Beyond versally in love with America. This of international cooperation can be the most immediate and temporary re- vision, in itself, is not evil, of course, achieved after the war, and I hope and lief, the other countries of the world but that fact makes it none the less pray that our country may be the leader must do many things for themselves be- dangerous. For when primitive peoples in it. But this effect must be rooted fore America can help them very much. throughout the world are solemnly told in such promises as we can keep, and 2. That a world built on arbitrary America will and can breathe freedom it must then be extended gradually by Anglo-Americanism (for that's what our and prosperity into their lives, they make evolutionary processes. policy of exaggerated internationalism is) their own definitions of freedom and World power politics will remain an will be a peaceful world. Our policy prosperity and then get ready to hold evil after this war as before. The prob- of exaggerated internationalism is as us to our impossible promises. lem of world peace must be approached war-provoking and fool-hardy as is nar- Dreams tempered with practicality are with this in mind. Russia will speak first row isolationism. the signposts of progress. But promises for the Russians and then for the world. 3. That we can dole out freedom, as which none can fulfill do lasting harm. So will Great Britain and China. We though it were some commodity, to all For example, the Atlantic Charter, in- must not be resentful when they do this. the peoples of the world. Eighty per- terpreted abroad as America's promise They believe many of their problems and cent of the people of the world simply of freedom to the peoples of Europe, their hopes are their own. They do not are not ready for what we are talking Asia and Africa, is a stirring document. expect to stand up for America's rights about. Eighty percent of the world's Freedom has been fought for and died or the general rights of the whole wide people would not use universal freedom for by the heroes of the world since the world. We should not be ashamed to to maintain universal peace. world began. But the Charter is a false insist on our own rights too. And to the 4. That the distinctive qualities and proposal, for it is not rooted in the facts, extent that our present policy weakens virtues which made the United States and its "promises" will not be kept. our ability to do that is an injustice to what it is are outmoded. We cannot solve, overnight and from our participation in the war. Reward for individual initiative, self- afar, the complicated, centuries-old prob- In the domestic field, our leaders faith, reliance on the guidance of Chris- lems of the Old World. These are prob- weaken us further by daubing a masterly tian principles, integrity and courage are lems of races, religions, superstitions, camouflage of spoken morality over the the immutable foundations on which customs. They are problems that are grim reality of politics. Abusing the America was founded, grew and flour- complex beyond all measure. Their solu- spirit of old laws and passing new ones ished. Yet our leaders sap these at home tions he in recognizing the limits of for purposes other than those which are through a flimsy appeal of paternalism, a apparent, they have entered into a vast low appeal to human weaknesses which pretense of making democracy work. Henry J. Taylor, author the best are the reverse of the high virtues in of Actually, their special theories, their selling book, "Men in Motion," was a the men who are bringing us victory ukases and directives, their witch-hunts witness to the Gertnafi invasion of against our mortal enemies overseas. and purges, their kitchen-cabinet con- Poland in igjg and since that time Our service men, the old and the new, spiracies do not operate in the interest has traveled more than 65,000 miles will comprise our most, influential group of democracy. They operate for the pur- as a war correspondent. He had two when the war is over. This will be the pose of ruling our nation as they in their successful business careers, in the corn group which should have the most to wisdom see fit. products industry and in paper, before say about national and international They do not believe that ordinary he decided, some years ago, to con- policies. Yet, at a time when the veterans Americans like you and me can be centrate on world economics and pol- of tomorrow are inarticulate, their Gov- trusted to act wisely and in the national itics. As this article was written he ernment saps the strength of the U. S. interest if we are told the truth, the had just begun a two months' visit to ideal by political boondoggling at home. whole truth and nothing but the truth. Portugal, Spain, Italy and Northwest Good government is a pre-requisite to Individual men and women are the es- Africa, after which he was planning winning this war in such a way that sential element of the nation, which will to resume his nightly commentary something more than disillusionment can be precisely what they are for better over the Blue Network — come with the peace. The direst threat or worse.

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This is what these men fail to see: of government paternalism. "The state Illustrated by JOHN CASSEL That the destiny of our nation lies with- owes you a living" is good politics, but in our people. The forces that made this its abuse by the politicians themselves past; an America of American individ- nation the envy of the world sprang from to their own advantage is a profound uals and American homes, motivated by the individual American. These forces indictment of their interest in the Amer- our traditional forces of morality and flow from the individuals to the family, ican way of life. self-faith; an America which meets the the community, the state, the nation. Moral principles, and moral principles changing of this bewildering world by The health of the whole—the nation alone, should limit any individual Amer- making boldly such promises as it can depends on the health of the individual. ican's accomplishment. We need no of- live up to, and only such promises, and America's unique strength, written in fice-holders to tell each man how far then lives up to them come what may; the chronicles of the past, points the he can succeed in our land. Who are an America so militarily strong that no way to a glorious future if our peoples they to put a "ceihng" on us and then one can ever fail to j'oin us in any are free to work and free to succeed. claim that they will be our keepers? coalition—that is an America which can They must not be denied the right to An America protesting against govern- meet its glorious destiny for its own believe in their own powers. They must ment omnipotence; an America holding people and for ttie world. And that is not be taught to lean on the false crutch f.rm to the highest human truths of the (^Continued on page 44)

JANUARY, 1944 15 Members of the Second WAC Training Center on parade at Daytona Beach, Florida, show they can handle an army car as well as any man. Inset, Legionnaire Rita Bedell

buddies, I am a Re- allowed ten mmutes of the main YES,tread and with the other session. There before me were my veterans of World War buddies, every single one of them One who through good ReHectiotts "retreads" at heart. They always fortune are able to serve our listened to my plea as a recruiter country in active service again, I for our Corps. They always helped. hope we travel many more miles They understood. Indeed, they did. before we blow out. of Retread Yes, in the last war we had en- To us Legionnaires the last war a listed women. They had little to is still a clear recollection. By RITA BEDELL do with recruiting. How different My double-breasted Navy blue it is in this war, with its far FIRST LIEUTENANT, WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS uniform with its brass buttons, greater demand upon manpower! its hard hat with chin band and ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES It now becomes a recruiter's military cape, has through chang- duty to say to American women, ing circumstances become the "This is your home; this is your Army's olive drab. In the last war flag; this is your war; we need I was a Yeoman (f) USNRF, and The WAC need thousands of you and need you badly." It interferes now I am a member of the Women's with my sense of comfort, if I may call women to perform the 1 55 spe- Army Corps of the Army of the United it that, to hear our service in the Wom- States. cific tasks which the Army has en's Army referred to as "doing a man's For us of the Legion the years fol- set for the Corps as its mem- job." It is true that wherever we can relieve men from jobs. It is true we lowing World War One were lean years, bers release men for the fighting we were they not? I recall too well when I want to feel that by our service some overseas. Every Legion Post and was secretary to Major William F. Dee- other woman may keep her husband gan, Commander of the New York De- every Auxiliary Unit is an un- home with his small ones, but buddies, partment of the Legion. Many of you official WAC Recruiting Center can you call our service "A man's job"? will remember that then we had little to Why does a mother robin protect her offer an indigent veteran. Many times nest? Why is the mother bear with her I saw tears in the major's eyes and felt It means a lot to us, and now with cubs to be so feared? Now, why? humihation and shame myself as we pride and satisfaction we offer our May I ask, where on earth do women dug into our own pockets to help a beg- family to all those veterans of this great live with such rights and privileges as ging veteran. Perhaps it was a shave, or war. we women of America have? We can carfare to look for a job, or a pair of During the past year I have spoken vote; we hold office; we own real estate; shoes. As "we gulped came the determi- before two Department Conventions of we do pretty much as we please. Statis-

nation that, if we could help it, this our Legion at Jacksonville, Florida, and tics prove that the greatest share of the must not happen again. Buddies, you Atlanta, Georgia. At the latter place, nation's wealth is either owned or con- and I have helped build this large family they had streamlined their program trolled by women. Is it then strange of ours. We call it The American Legion. from three days to one and yet I was {Cont'mued on page 34)

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EVERY BUMP is a spring-board when the "iron ponies" roafiJ They've Got What it Takes! into action

• They're the hard-riding scouts of the mechan- ized forces— the motorcycle troops who ride their "iron ponies" into action over the toughest terrain! They're specialists, every one. And like their brothers in the other services, they have some very special preferences about the cigarettes they smoke. Let the two motorcycle rough-riders

below tell you why their cigarette is Camel.

If you haven't smoked a Camel recently, give them a try today. Compare them criti-

cally . . . for taste . . . for your throat . . . for your "T-ZONE." That's the real test of a cigarette. On the basis of the experience of millions of steady Camel smokers, we believe you will like the extra flavor that only Camel's blend of costlier tobaccos can give. We believe your throat will confirm the findings of other Camel smokers. So try Camels today!

DOROTHY CANAVOR, war plant worker like the men in the service, Aer cigarette is Camel. COSTLIER "I like Camel's delightful mildness," she says, '-nd their rich flavor is always a fresh treat." Camels TOBACCOS ATOfv A inii tsmii or goon tastje'

Those robust gentry of the past wanted a whiskey to flatter the tastes of their house guests. So Kinsey was blended. Its fame spread like an explor- er's tale until today, instead of being the cherished cache of the favored few, Kinsey has become the people's preference. Still blended under the personal supervision of the original distiller, Kinsey has the same good taste today as in the Gay 90's. Kinsey Distilling Corporation, Linfield, Pa.

"EyjOY THIS DISTINGVISHED WHISKEY, SIR". . . SOW AS /V 1892

BLENDED HASTEN VICTOKY BUY MOKE BONDS KINSEY WHISKEY —

Illustrated by HERB STOOPS

They shambled the length of the col- umn, heads bowed and eyes on the ground

By ROBERT ORMOND CASE

WERE heavy artillery, WEsupporting a French divi- one passed a stair landing, blocked off sion at Verdun. This was by two suspended blankets. You pushed in late October, 1918. Be- aside one blanket and let it fall behind fore we went up to our gun emplace- you, then pushed aside the second and ments, north of the ruined city, our went on down. It was a simple but ef- captain lined us up in a shivering col- fective gas-trap. umn. It was a raw, blustering day, our An Episode of Verdun, Unfortunately, since there had been thirty-fifth at the front. Complete on This Page no gas at Verdun for eight months past, "Men," the captain said, in his de- these blankets had been pinned aside. ceptively soft Mississippi drawl, "this It was more convenient, if contrary to is ouah toughest position. I want only was our toughest position, as the cap- regulations. It was unfortunate because well men up yonder. So if any of you tain had promised. And yet, through two long-range gas shells—one of Fritz's is sick, let him stand fo'th now. I don't those two hundred consecutive, reverbe- last, shoddy devices—burst at the door mean sick at heart—because that don' rating hours in which we were constantly leading to the lower level. The gas count!" exposed to enemy shell-fire, drenched spread out, rolled down like sluggish I would personally have bet that no with rain and slept soddenly in mud, water pouring into a rat-hole; and be- man in the outfit capable of standing on we lost not a man! There were no fore the alarms began to squawk and his feet would accept the humorous but wounded, no dead. Two hundred and scream through battle-scarred Verdun, hard-bitten challenge. Yet—incredibly thirteen of us came safely back to the entire lower floor of the hospital three quitted the ranks and took that Verdun. was filled with lethal fumes. Every man long step forward. there was gassed — not fatally, but The captain's face did not change MEANWHILE—and we thought of enough to give them acid-impaired lungs expression, though I am sure he was them often—our three sick men for the rest of their natural lives. more staggered than we. Impersonally, down at the base hospital were cozy and Included were our three. They might he gave them their orders: report to the warm. They slept between clean sheets have been sick when they stepped forth hospital. We had been standing at ease, in a spotless room, ate three hot meals from the ranks that day and asked to be but now we drew erect as the three each day and played many games of excused. We never knew. What im- shambled the length of the column, pinochle to while away the pleasantly pressed us, being realists and gamblers heads bowed and eyes on the ground. tedious hours. They were two floors un- and believers in destiny—as all fighting Nobody spoke to them. They might have derground, remote even from the sound men must be—was that 213 of us came been sick. of war, as snug as a bug in a rug, as safely back from our toughest position. The rest of us—213 of us—went on your grandfather would have put it. The three who remained behind were up to the front. And that paved the way for a curious listed—and are listed today—as the out- We stayed there eight days, and it thing. To descend to this lower level fit's only casualties at Verdun.

JANUARY, 1944 19 POSITIVELY not! This new department, dedicated to the young men and the pages of this department title bor- The above— women now in uniform, is still awaiting a title. To that guy from the magazine and en- rowed, with a nod of or gal who submits the best name—o name which indicates close these pages in letters to grateful appreciation, your offspring, The Company generally all branches of the service—will go fifty dollars. from the NBC radio quiz Clerk knows he will be flooded Entries must be submitted on or before February 1st. No program with which it is with title suggestions and with entries will be returned. Address The Company Clerk, The identified—has no reference contributions. How about to the postman or The Com- American Legion Magazine, One Park Avenue, New York all of you lending a hand? pany Clerk cleverly car- City 16, and be sure to give your service serial number tooned by our old friend, ONCE before we sug- Wally, premier cartoonist of gested in this depart- the ist A. E. F. and of this magazine. It each issue of the Legion Magazine are ment that the retreaded Company Clerk stresses the fact that we are still waiting distributed to Army and Navy and Ma- who conducts it, is more than a bit to find a proper title for this department rine and Coast Guard posts and stations, befuddled by all the new nick-names, which, as announced in our November and to general hospitals throughout the slang words and expressions and such and December issues, is a clear- like that have superseded ing-house for unofficial snap- those he learned to know dur- shots, service stories, humor, ing the First World War, and gag cartoons and similar mate- he invited you young fellows rial of the millions of young and girls to put him wise. men and women who comprise For instance, we are assured our present armed forces. that some of the following are

Entries in the title contest definitely passe : Belly-robber are beginning to roll in—not in meant a mess sergeant; bully the proportion we had hoped beef was the field (and some- for—and eventually some guy times garrison) ration of canned or gal will receive a check for beef; bunk fatigue indicated fifty bucks for the best title loafing in barracks or billets; a submitted. The contest ends on dog robber was an officer's February ist. And pictures and orderly; a pill roller was a guy stories and cartoons are also assigned to a medical detach- coming to hand—some, we'll ment or hospital; to "salvage" admit, from retreads. any equipment or other mate- If you'll take a squint at the rial was the polite term for

Wally cartoons spread across swiping it. the bottom of this and the op- We know, of course, that in York, posite page, you'll grasp more At a Women-in-+lie-War show New war our old "canteen" on a Post is quickly just what we should workers of World War I end enlisted girls of now the "P. X."; that being like to have in the way of con- today line up. Can you identify their organiza- "gigged" or "burned" means tributions to fill these columns tions from the uniforms? See story on page 21 company punishment for some that have been turned over to misdemeanor; that a Buck Pri- our successors-in-arms. vate is now a G. I., a Dogface Here is how the Legionnaire Dads and country. But those 25,000 copies cannot or a Jeep; that latrine rumors are now Moms of the more than 300,000 uni- begin to take care of the eight or nine "latrinograms." But there's no getting formed sons and daughters can lend a million men and women in uniform. So if around it—K. P. still means just that hand; Twenty-five thousand copies of you older-generation veterans, will clip . . . K. P. ! It requires no translation.

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne uniform today have only one tradition of service on which they can base their much-needed aid in this war, and that is the tradition established by thousands of women who in a civilian status served our armed forces as volunteer workers in the welfare organizations—the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Y. W. C. A., the National Catholic War Council, the Red Cross

and similar organizations whose work is now consolidated in the United Service Organizations—the U. S. 0. Their ac- tivities, barred from service posts and stations, are restricted to nearby cities or towns, or places where service men visit on furloughs, and, except for the Red Cross, confmed to this country. Even though the veteran workers of A company of WACS in North Africa pass in review before Gen- those welfare groups are not eligible for eral Henri Giraud and a troop of Spahls of the French Forces Legion membership, they have been car- rying on their aid for the needy and dis- So how about enlightening the Com- after they receive their honorable dis- abled veterans of World War I and their pany Clerk, and the more than a million charges can join the Legion. Pleasant families through their own organization, Legionnaires who read this magazine? prospects for future Legion Post meet- the Women's Overseas Service League, We may be oldtimers, but we should like ings, and Department and National Con- which has branches in fifty-five cities to know what you youngsters are talk- ing about when you come home on fur- loughs or shore leaves! Come across!

DON'T get the impression that The American Legion during its twen- ty-five years of existence hasn't been "co-ed," as it were. Several thousands of women are proudly claimed as active members, there are numerous all-women Posts, many Posts composed largely of men have had women Commanders and other officers, and the girls are num- bered among the delegates to Depart- ment and National Conventions. But the Legion membership eligibility require- ments—that a man or woman be regu- larly enlisted during the period of the First World War and that an honorable discharge from service be presented —^. restricted the women members to ex- Army and Navy nurses, to Yeomen (f) who were the WAVES of 1918, and to Marines (f). The less than a hundred Sergeant Robert Lucal, center, with two fellow-Marine grease women who were engaged by the Army monkeys, helped Iceep Major Foss' planes flying on Guadalcanal and served as telephone operators in the A. E, F. under the direction of the Sig- nal Corps, had only a civilian status. ventions—particularly for the old vets throughout the country, and are now ac- Now, however, all of the tens of thou- of 1917-1919! tively engaged again in giving full sup- sands of women in the auxiliary groups So, except for the Army and Navy port in the present war. of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and nurses, and the Yeomen and Marines From one of them. Miss Mary Frances Coast Guard are enlisted personnel, and (f) of the First World War, the girls in Hall, an officer of the New York Unit of

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truly high regard and respect that our in Philadelphia; Alice M. Donovan, present-day war women have for us. Seaman 2/c., U. S. Coast Guard Re- Our booth depicting the work that is be- serve, Salem, Massachusetts, stationed ing done by our W. O. S. L. units in New York; Ruby Harriet Mulvihill, throughout the country, through posters Spec. (R) 3/c., Portland, Oregon, sta- and exhibits, was a center of attraction. tioned in New York City; Earline A. "In the group you will find five women Langford, Spec. (C) 3/c., Little Rock, of the First World War and seven girls Arkansas, stationed in New York; Ser- representing the four branches of service geant Gloria Gluckman, WAC, Long in which they are enlisted. It is hardly Beach, New York, at New York In- necessary to state—as time will tell! duction and Reception Headquarters; which of them are of the former conflict Corporal Margaret E., Gargan, WAC, and which of the present. Regularly uni- Greenwich, Connecticut, at same Head- formed, starting at the left, you see a quarters, and Jacqueline Chase, Yeo. representative of the American Red 3/c., U. S. Naval Reserve, Pasadena, Cross, a WAC, National Catholic War California, stationed in New York City. Council, a MARINE, Y. M. C. A., a "The girls were on the job all day let- Letters home should mean more WAVE, Knights of Columbus (your for two weeks and we all became good ters to our fighters. Private Joe Flem- correspondent), a SPAR, American friends. Often, girls interested in join- ing, New York City, pens a message Nursing Corps, another WAC and two ing one of the services would come to before embarking for overseas more SPARS." our booth as they thought the word After looking at the picture. The Com- 'Overseas' in our organization's title pany Clerk asked Miss Hall if these meant they would sail almost at once, the League, who served with the Knights girls were bona fide enlisted members of if they signed up with us! We could of Columbus in the ist A. E. F., we only say the very best for the women received the photograph on page 20, in our present military services, and which gives an interesting comparison give advice based on our own experi- between the now-mature women vet- ences. It seemed we could really tell erans in their First World War uniforms, whether or not an applicant or 'recruit' and girls of the WACS, WAVES, SPARS would make good if accepted. and MARINES who are now regularly- "In our vast and varied program in enlisted members of our present armed the present war, our fifty-five units forces. Mary Frances Hall, incidentally, throughout the country are engaged in has long been active in the American every sort of work. The New York Legion Auxiliary, as have hundreds of Unit's major project is located at 40 her fellow members in the W. 0. S. L., Worth Street in New York City, where her eligibility being based upon the mem- our members are busily engaged in bership of her brother, M. F. Hall, in helping to fill the heartrending demand Bill Brown Post of the Legion in for garments for the families of our Sheepshead Bay, New York, and she is service men. All finished garments are a Past Chairman of the Kings County turned over to the Bundles for America Organization of the Auxiliary. organization for distribution through the wealth of material sent to From Army and Navy Relief and the Red Miss Hall, we extract the follow- us by Cross. Afghan lap-robes have been fur- ing: nished to Halloran General Hospital of "There is so much discussion today the Army on Staten Island. about women m service—that is, about Gyrenes, Macs and C. G. I.'s—Hit "Just recently our New York Unit those enlisting in the various branches the deck! Thar's gold in them thar received a beautiful gold certificate that I thought of our armed forces— plays! Contest closes February 1 5th. from the U. S. Marine Corps in appre- these thousands of young women might See the rules on page 42 ciation of our help and services in en- like to learn something about the 20,000 listing women in the Corps." women who, in a civilian capacity, served To show where some of the girls in during the First World War, have con- the several services or Power's models tinued their service to veterans during who had donned the uniforms for the oc- the intervening quarter-century, and are casion. You will agree they're not hard

still on the job! And perhaps even the to look at! Miss Hall came back with old vets of (hat war would enjoy know- this: ing what became of those thousands of "They were all very wholesome, seri- women who served them 'Over There 1' ous-minded, sensible girls in regular "The enclosed photograph is evidence service who had been detailed by their that our patriotic young girls who are in respective outfits to man the Procure- uniform today already know something ment or Recruiting Booths during the about our organization, the Women's 'Women-in-the-War' show. That wise re- Overseas Service League. In fact, in all mark of yours brought back memories communities where the older women of the 1917-1919 days when people used workers and the girls have met, the lat- to say of us: 'How is it that such fine- ter refer to the former as their 'God- looking, smart young women like you mothers' or 'Big Sisters.' The picture never married!' I am sure this was said was taken at a 'Women-in-the-War' to every girl who went over. show which was held at Hearn's depart- "Further proof?—Here are their ment store in New York City last names and home towns as they wrote August. I may sound boastful, but we them in a guest book I kept: Sergeant A sailor writes his letter to the home- women of the First World War stole Agnes Cashman, U. S. Marine Corps, land in the restricted bunk quarters the show, though only because of the Midland Beach, New York, stationed on a YMS minesweeper 22 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine '

throughout the Guadalcanal campaign.

"He is Sergeant Robert Dav>' Lucal of 49 Euclid Avenue, Willoughby, Ohio, at present in a Naval Hospital here for malaria which he picked up in the foxholes around Henderson Field. "Young—he's just 19—and hand- some, Sergeant Lucal has the cool poise of a veteran twice his age. And he knows airplanes from propellor hub to tail assembly, for he and other Marine grease monkeys on Guadalcanal learned the hard way—rebuilding the battered Grummans from spare parts, under fire. "In fact, following the heavy shell- ing of the Henderson fighter strip one ni,5ht in November, 1942, the sergeant and his buddies blossomed into heroes of the unsung variety. When the Japs had tossed in their last shell, only 15 of approximately 40 Marine fighter planes were flyable! " .* 'If those Japs had only known. . . It's a natural! A child and American service men, brass hots or enlisted, soon the sergeant remarked wr>'ly. But they are pals. Orphan Freida Neil is officially adopted on her second birthday by didn't, and within 36 hours the sergeant the staff of U. S. Army Headquarters in North Ireland. See page 42 and others like him had 35 of the Grummans ready for combat. The crisis over. unifonn are now located, we reproduce Ohio Legion Department's Boys State. was an Army Official Photo of a Company Just at the time of our correspond- "Their only tools were pliers, ham- of WACS, under command of Captain ence with Comrade McHale, Bob ar- mer, screwdriver, and Yankee ingenu- Frances K. Marquis of New York City, rived home on a furlough after being ity! passing in review before the famous shipped back to the States from the "But Bob never thinks of himself desert Spahis and General Henri Hon- South Pacific for hospitalization. Ma- as a hero. He's too occupied with his ore Giraud, commander of the French laria had caught up with him in the own idea of a hero—Major Foss, of Forces, in North Africa. Solomons. But Bob's war experiences course. He knows the number of everj-

Now, you girls - of the WAVES, had traveled ahead of him. With a plane the major ever flew. For instance, SPARS, MARINES and WACS, after salute to Staff Sergeant Gene Ward, Old No. 33 was the one with all the all that laudation from your women Combat Correspondent of the Marine bullet holes, and he ought to know. predecessors in war work, how about Corps, we take the liberty of quoting Didn't he patch her up enough telling our readers about some of j'our extracts from his UP dispatch from times? .... own interesting or amusing experiences Pearl Harbor, dated August 15th, which "He remembers that five planes flown in your particular branch of service, and appeared in The' Cleveland Press of by Major Foss were so shot to shreds permitting them to see some of your September ist: they were dismantled for spare parts. unofficial snapshots? These columns are "I met the man behind the ace to- . . . 'Some were in such wretched shape open to you. day—a Marine grease monkey who kept when they came in,' he remarked, 'none the planes of Major Joe Foss flying {Continued on page 40) NOT only men Legionnaires are proudly puffing out their chests these days about their sons and daugh- ters in uniform, but there are plenty of women Legionnaires (as distinct from Auxiliaries) equally qualified to do the same thing. Remember, we mentioned up ahead in these columns that Army and Navy nurses, and Yeo- men and Marines (f) are full-fledged Legionnaires? That's the answer. Through the cooperation of Legion- naire Mary C. McHale of Edith Work Ayers Post of Cleveland, Ohio, an all- woman's Post, we are permitted to in- troduce one of these sons. He's the fine-looking kid in the center of the picture shown on page 21. Sergeant Robert (Bob) Davy Lucal, U. S. Marine Corps, is the son of Mrs. Mar- garet Lucal, Past Commander of Miss McHale's Post, is a member of the "Buddy Club," an organization fostered by the Post, is a former member of the Soldiers of a railroad unit in Alaska, scattered along 500 miles Sons of the Legion Squadron of Brook- of track, have a unique PX. It rolls around to them every two lyn Post in Cleveland, and attended the weeks on the tracks they ma intain. Read about it on page 42 2% JANUARY, 194* Hitchhiking has saved many a man from getting

busted in this man's Army, but sometimes its Thumb Fun triumphs go sour unexpectedly. Then too it

offers Adventure, as PFC . . . By CORPORAL HERBERT M. BAUS Hoolihan found out

THE hundreds and thousands, does not interfere with the travels of Before the first trolley came by a BYwe soldiers have adopted hitch- resourceful Yankee fighting men. We motorist picked up PFC Pepper. Before hiking as the cheapest and the find other ways to woo rides. A good he had a chance to get that pass back best way to "get there," whether smile outweighs a big thumb. out of his pocket once, PFC Pepper re- a few miles to the nearest town for a Effective tactics that we can practice ceived three successive rides leading beer or from CaUfornia to New York with both results and impunity include directly to his destination. for a furlough. walking close to the traffic stream, elo- Signals and boulevard stops are stra- Hitchhiking has grown by our mass quent glances with our eyes, cultivation tegical vantage points. Lonely stretches usage into an important contemporary of slight limps—or anything to win of highway are almost hopeless, particu- social phenomenon. sympathy. A timely salute is useful larly at night. Sometimes they're in- We hitchhiking service men do not when the customer is an officer. teresting, though. Sergeant Leo Wolfo feel that we're bumming or even bor- There are lots of little things to re- and Tech Sergeant Ed Cielinski were rowing. We are servants of the Repub- member. Hitchhike alone or at most being whizzed over the desert from a lic. We appreciate transportation by a with one partner. Carry a satchel to camp on the vast Desert Training Cen-

Often the big, sleek. cars won't stop

private citizen as a personal favor to look like a substantial citizen-soldier. ter of California and Arizona. On one which we are entitled because we're Avoid sloppy manifestations like letters of those Saharan stretches unmterrupted giving that citizen "so much for so or magazines in pockets. Don't smoke; by even the ruin of a prewar gas station little." particularly don't smoke cigars, at least they were dumped at a dirt sideroad Hitchhiking is one of those unsanc- until securely ensconced in somebody's 50 miles from nowhere. tioned popular customs practiced en automobile. "There goes the last ride we shall masse, like drinking during prohibition. Watch hours and remember that the ever get," Cielinski fretted. Only the thumbing is verboten. We best time is early mornings. Then mo- Conversation was unhelpful. They sat shouldn't "solicit" rides, but we may torists are lonely and think they can on a hot rock. They melted beneath the "accept" them. Thus the Government assume that the soldier isn't drunk. glare of a sun that didn't care. Nothing precludes liability for both the accidents When possible get out of camp before happened, and probably wouldn't. and the possible misdeeds of us uni- closing time to avoid mass competition. Then Sergeant Wolfo began desert formed hitchhikers. During rush hours people are in such daydreaming. "I can just see a big A mere injunction against thumbs haste to get to work on time or get limousine looming with two gorgeous

away from it ahead of time that they blondes in it. I can imagine it speeding won't bother to be gener- us directly to our destination, with ous. When caught in any maybe a desirable delay en route." traffic vortex, board a tram, "Shut up. Quit torturing us," muttered taxi or bus. Sergeant Cielinski in realistic despair. Even in jams the Ameri- At that moment one of those huge can public can be generous. old eight-passenger landboats of the My friend, PFC Peter Twenties highballed down the road. Pepper, learned that when Cielinski thought how sometimes drivers dumped once at a busy in- with plenty of room in their cars have tersection. none in their hearts. The mirage-minded "Say, soldier," hailed a Wolfo immediately responded to the stranger, "why don't you challenge. take my streetcar pass? I'm He jumped up, waved his hands, The driver wants to impress his girl finished with it anyway." yelled, "My dream girls! My dream

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne Illustrated by CORPORAL H. E. KENNEDY

blondes in their dream car! Hurray! My dream ride has come true!" He was heard. The car protested to a noisy stop. Cielinsici looked up from his despond to observe two venerable white- haired blondes. Wolfo's dreamride had indeed materialized, without the delay en route. We military knights of the road like the big, sleek cars but find that they often won't stop for the common flesh of a soldier. Sometimes when a dilapidated jaloppy lurches, pants, chugs, smokes and knocks noisily down the highway we find it prudent to look the other way, hide behind a bush or pluck a clover from the grass until the offending vehicle goes by. Corporal Charlie Chisum learned this 'The driver took my soldier friend to Man and wife will frequently stop, the hard way. He accepted such a ride. Earl Carroll's for dinner and the famous man and sweetheart almost never. An Too late he noticed that his host was girl show. They covered many of Holly- interesting exception is that cornfed a white-bearded farmer with body frozen wood's noted night spots. At no cost adolescents in hopped-up Fords will bolt upright behind the wheel. His arms to himself, the service man had all he often show off to their girls by picking could eat, drink and see. up a soldier. Many a pimpled youth has Single girls usually pass up soldiers stopped his mechanical grasshopper and of making the headlines. Older jauntily invited me, "Hop in, bud. Meet

women often stop "to do Matilda. How's the war goin'? I'll be their part" or seek tips as in the Air Corps myself in a few inonths. to how son Jimmie can get It ain't bad, eh? This is gonna be a ahead in the Army. Middle- tough world for us men." aged women in pairs will Big families, often a bevy of big often stop and invariably hearts, have a tendency to stop and chatter for the duration of squeeze the supplicating soldier into the the ride. last remaining square inch. At times that Two women once invited will lodge the warrior by the side of a my friend, Private Abe chic under circumstances combining the Avitable, into the back seat maximum of temptation with the mini- of their car. They had mum of opportunity. already picked up another Some rides give to us soldiers an soldier. Private Avitable ob- education about our national Two hours of mutilation for a ride way of served that the girl beside life. We never know when we'll be the driver was what he ushered into some back seat with chick- were two long, stiff pipes whose extrem- called< a "choice morsel." He sensed a ens, rabbits, children too young to have ities gripped the wheel so tightly that fragrant foursome. Before reconnoitering restraint, clothes aromatically in need his knuckles were white. the driver, intent on her steering wheel, of cleaning, portable victory gardens in- Being a little late, the corporal grew the private suggested to his chosen pros- cluding cacti, dogs in various stages of Zeke's perilous pace pect, "Say, how would you like for us unwash, cats, trunks, and innumerable uncomfortable at \ of 20 miles per hour. Corporal Chisum all; to stop down the road and have impedimenta of the American nomad. diffidently ventured to his beanpole a; little drink?" I had my experience one day when driver, "Boy, a lot of the cars are really The sweet young thing turned to her isolated in the back seat with a young stepping out today." companion.< "Mother, would you mind man of about four summers who couldn't "Yep. It's danged fools they be," the if we accept that invitation?" {Cojitinued on page 46) testy Methuselah sputtered. "Waal, they goes awhizzin' by aiv'ry day. That thyar is all raight with me. Aiv'rybody aridin' in this hyar cyar is agoawin' 20 miles an hour, and that is that, by heck!" .Men driving alone are the best pros- pects for rides. Several times they have bought me a meal, a drink or a sand- wich. Not unusual is the good fortune of one soldier who struck a bonanza when picked up by a single man near Los Angeles. "What are you doing this week end?" quizzed the driver. "Well, I've never been here before. I'd like to take in the town, I guess." "How would you like to do it with me?"

JANUARY, 1944 The S+ory of a Magnificent War+inne Job

WEARY, haggard, dust-be- grimed, the truck driver clung tenaciously to the wheel of his huge Diesel- powered tractor. Behind him in the enormous trailer was food for soldiers Trucking companies get the stuff to the point where the Army and the —tons upon tons of it. It jniist get Navy want it in the continental U. S . A., no matter what the difficulties through, for 75,000 fighting men are in rapid action over a 10,000-square- mile area, and they've got to have food ing. He climbed onto the tractor only "G'wan—scram!" comes back the to keep going. And what an area ! Larger after the driver had brought his load driver. "I ain't in on this business." than Sicily, it has its mountain ranges, some 200 miles from the food supply "Oh, yes you are! This here's cap- its endless miles of desert wastes, and base, but it is the guide's 24-hour-a-day tured equipment and we're impounding one river. It's hotter than "Blue-Billy- job to see that each particular load gets it for the next 24 hours." hell" in the daytime and bitterly cold to the particular truckhead to which it "You are like hell! If you take me out in the pre-dawn hours. And ever>' day is assigned; from there smaller army of circulation, you army boys just won't the 45 pieces of trucking equipment on trucks fan out with the food to many eat tomorrow." this assignment grind snarlingly up over field kitchens. However, with all manner That was a clincher, for after all these the mountains and boil down through of combat units constantly on the move were only mock battle maneuvers out in the alkali flats to bring in 210 tons of within this vast and rugged terrain, the the great and arid "backyard" of Oregon, food and enough wet ice to protect it. guide and driver often literally must and the truck driver was a civilian, Beside the tired driver sits* an army catch their destination point on the run, operating a civilian-owned vehicle. Al- guide who, also, has been taking a beat- and there's always the possibility of though, during maneuvers, all supplies meeting opposing forces. move through the rear to simulate true Finally the long-sought truck- combat conditions, and although the

head is sighted, the ponderous sergeant could have impounded his prize, tractor - trailer combination both "captors" and "captives" agreed groans to a stop, bronzed and the driver was a "non-belligerent" en- dusty soldiers swarm out of an gaged in a service which, in this unusual arroyo where their own vehicles instance, contributed to the welfare of are hidden, and the transfer of both sides, so they let him go. food begins. Suddenly, dramati- But whether it's mock battle or the cally, and with an attendant real thing, Oregon's vast combat maneu- crescendo of racing motors, a ver area or the plains and mountains

heavily-armed mechanized patrol of Iran; be it the Burma Road, the swirls out of the nowhere and Alaskan Highway, or America's sprawl- a cloud of dust to surround the ing network of vehicular traffic lanes, unloading crew and all the the virile, irrepressible trucking industry

vehicles. The guide swears, the is in this war with all its dynamic force, truck driver grins, and the men with every ounce of its seemingly in- of the food detail cease their exhaustible energy, with its amazing feverish activity. ability to transport things when and "Okay, driver, climb down out where your Uncle Sam wants them, and A huge ten-wheel h-uck takes a "long of it," commands a burly ser- with a patriotic zeal excelled by no other Tonrj" and its crew over a nrioun- geant of the attacking patrol. segment of American industry. tainous section of the Road to Rome "This truck's ours now." (Continued on page 50) 26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magaziiit ,

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The Indians of St. Paul, Minnesota, turn out in full war-dress for Legion and patriotic gatherings. They're Forty and Eight national channpions, and have hod twenty-two years of active service as a Legion outfit

SUd Drummers Never Die

TIME was, and not so long ago, the New York parade the whitewings bers are active in Post work. Though when parade day at .a Legion picked up 22,000 tons of paper that had pressed by individual obligations and National Convention was the na- been showered down on the marchers war service, the corps made thirty-three tion's big show. Unfolding from from the tall buildings that line Fifth appearances during the year ending feeder streets, the parade marched on Avenue. November ist, including attendance and on through the principal streets of The impact of war has pressed heavily at the Department Convention at Fari- the convention city, marching all day upon these hundreds of Legion musical bault in August, and for all of the and far into the night. Longest on rec- and marching corps. Many have lost patriotic and civic demonstrations in its ord was that big parade on Fifth Avenue, heavily of their personnel to the armed area. New York City, in 1937 when the pa- services and to war plants; many have The immense importance of a post rade marched north in a continuous suspended for the duration. But there drum and bugle corps cannot by any stream on the nation's most famous are hundreds that are keeping on, wait- means be measured by its appearance thoroughfare for a full eighteen hours ing for the war to end, when infusion of in a National Convention parade. —bands, drum and bugle corps, march- new blood from the ranks of the vet- Rather, its community service—just ing units, uniformed Legionnaires and erans of the Second World War will the thing the surviving corps are doing Auxiliaries, Forty and Eighters, Eight again fill the corps to maximum strength. now—justify the time, the cost, the and Forty and Sons of the Legion kept Then, on the return of happier days, worry and trouble expended by the their ranks filled and lines moving until we shall again see the great parades un- sponsoring Post and the individual the early dawning of the day after the fold, the lines filled with gayly- members. Honors are won at conven- parade started. uniformed men and women playing tions and in competitions; the real serv-

Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Mil- lustily such old favorites as "Old sol- ice is performed waukee, San Antonio, Miami, Cleveland, diers never die, never die, never die; in the home com- 'tUis is my Aiew St. Louis, and many other cities have they simply fade away." munity and State, seen the same show, with variations, A case in point is the drum and bugle where the Legion and in each city the street cleaners were corps of St. Paul (Minnesota) Post, corps have given (ot*^^^ put under the same strain. The day after known from Maine to California as so freely of time "The Indians." With twenty-two years and effort. A lot of heavy service behind it, with its of good things can traditions of four wars, and in spite of and should be said the drain made upon its manpower re- about these mu- serve, it is still bravely holding on with sical outfits, most an all-Legion membership of forty-two, of which have and—as a corps—is doing its part to served as pepper- win the war. uppers of public The Indians are Legionnaires first as well as Legion eleven of its forty-two members are morale. Past Commanders and all of the mem- But to get back

28 Thi AMERICAN LEGION Magazine to the Indians. That outfit has won its share of honors, too—honors worn proudly, to become a part of the tradi- tion of the younger men who will fill the ranks as the rheumatic old knees of the First World War vets refuse to take the long pulls, or the lips of the wind- jammers become too stiff to coax sweet melody from (he bugles. Organized on

November 7, 1921, the Indians—of course the outfit had not taken the name or dress of the first Americans then—won their first honors at the 1922 Department Convention at Virginia when it turned out in Army 0. D. uni- forms and came out first. Successfully defending that championship in 1923 and 1924, it lost first place in 1925, but made a come-back for the top depart- ment honors in 1926 and 1927. The Fort McHenry Post of Baltimore, Maryland, made another record in corps has not missed a Department its record-collecting campaign—and won another national citation Convention since it was organized, and has a record of twenty-two attendances in a row. The Indians have not done so From 1921 until 1934 the headache Chicago, Boston and Milwaukee, three badly in National Convention attend- band had operated strictly as a drum years in succession, the Indians won ance; marched in the St. Paul National and bugle corps, and confined itself top honors as the champion Forty and Convention parade in 1924; won second strictly to drum and bugle corps music. Eight corps—an honor it still holds and place in the national competition at It had plenty of push, pep and vigor, will hold until competitions are resumed. Omaha in 1925; dropped to fourth place but was not too well equipped. Then, at Philadelphia in 1926, and though the in 1934, Adolph Bremer, president of More Records corps was in attendance at Louisville in the Schmidt Brewery, offered to care 1929 it did not enter the competition. for some of the pressing needs as a sort CAN any one tell us what great event Tradition of the Civil War of the of co-sponsor—and then the fellows did occurred at Fort McHenry, near i86o's was given the corps in the per- go to town. The musical program was Baltimore, on the morning of September son of its first drum instructor, Sam expanded to a wide selection of popular, 14, 1814? Sure, Mike! It was there that Badger, who had served through that jight opera and old-time tunes as new Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star conflict as a drummer boy in the ist equipment was added. Snare, tenor and Spangled Banner," our national anthem, Minnesota Infantry. That old warrior bass drums, glockenspiels, cymbals, trom- almost as much revered as is the flag kept the drummers eternally at prac- bones and valve trumpets became a part itself. tice on synthetic drums—or ersatz, if of the standard equipment. Fort McHenry Post of The American the word fits better—made of pads the In 1935, National Convention attend- Legion is alive to the tradition of its size of a drumhead fastened on long ance was resumed at St. Louis. The hallowed namesake, and in its Legion boards. The buglers, using army regula- corps was at Cleveland in 1936, New program and war effort is doing its bit tion bugles, tooted away all winter and York in 1937 when it first appeared in to keep our flag flying. An instance of it was not until Memorial Day of 1922 its striking American Indian dress; Los its activity is found in the campaign that the directors permitted the outfit Angeles in 1938; Chicago in 1939; Bos- for the collection of old phonograph to appear in a public parade. ton in 1940, and Milwaukee in 1941. At records made to provide material for new records to be sent to men on the fighting lines. The Post, says Adjutant William R. Allen, was given a quota of 4,120 records; it collected and shipped 6,304 to the receiving depot at Scranton, Pennsylvania, duplicating its feat in 1942 when the Post was cited for being the only Maryland unit to reach its quota within the prescribed time limits.

Fort McHenry Post is a youngster. It was organized in 1937 with twenty charter members, but has now grown to 206. An old church was purchased and remodeled to make a splendid club house.

Sound Projector A COMPLETE sound projector for both auditorium and classroom was the gift of Bridgeport (Ohio) Post to the public school system in its home city—a contribution that will benefit every child in the district, and will ma- terially advance the visual education Supporting the visual education program in the public schools of its home project in regular classroom work, and city, Bridgeport (Ohio) Post gave its schools sound projector equipment 29 lANUARY, 1 944. —

year-old boy out of the way of a speed- ing express train. On October 30, in the presence of Dick Rasmussen, whose life he had saved, then a school boy now a seaman in Uncle Sam's Navy, Hennig was given a bronze life-saving medal by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Legionnaire Hennig is a Past Comman- der of Chicago Board of Trade Post and for the past eighteen years has served as its Service Officer.

Legion Sells Bonds

CITING a few typical Bond selling campaigns conducted by organized groups in New York City during the Third War Loan drive, the War Finance Committee announces that the Civil Service workers employed by the city lead with a total sales of $7,867,396. The American Legion was close on the heels of the Civil Service lads with reg- istered sales amounting to $7,297,236, East Side Post of New York City puts its new members to work as soon as they join up. A color guard of new war veterans is one of its activities W0V5- "TVou saidl b^gdra sKck

' .CO\f°ee? Jk vour resolutions fe'* of giving general information about cur- of the American fighting forces of today, rent events in the auditorium. The pres- and of its Post, whose members are entation was made by Commander Tom drawn from an area in which are living Ochsenbein to C. H. Ross, Superin- men of nearly all the racial groups that tendent of Schools, at a ceremony held go to make America. Reading from left at the Legion home on October 17. to right in the picture on this page are The Legionnaires gathered for the Legionnaires Robert Rosenthal and Wah picture on page 29 are, left to right, Sun Lou, Commander Phil Reuling, New York County Commander Stephen. My-NAlol- a bee-qooli'flil H. Kearns, Vice Commander Anthony and w.'th the Society of Restaurateurs •He I! ^your* ooiffe Pid Letini, Marine Private Lctini, and Le- running third with $1,561,174. The 1 dive if-fo you ?or gionnaires Dominic Hakjo and Louis F. 4, X'mas.'.^' ^'eterans of Foreign Wars' recorded Klarich. sales amounted to $1,075,500.

Carnegie Medal Death Record ON his forty-seventh birthday PAST Commander Oliver T. Deling- March 5, 1943—August C. Llennig ham of Van Buren Post of Chicago, of Maywood, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, Illinois, has compiled a complete list of at the risk of his life pulled a sixteen- {Continued on page 37) E. W. Bertran, Commander Tom Ochsenbein, John Wilson, School Su- 1-1 n.vlnr perintendent C. H. Ross, William Lenz, 7Rt« 13. Homr.f, 'dnyUf.n' precision bombnr Harris Schrader, Past Commander Philip Thu Boolnc Hyinc I'ortrosB h feet. It >ifiS a tO]i Bfryd w- Lenz, Lawrence Michael, Vice Comman- der Lee Bannan, Robert Hurd, Trustee James Gretzinger, Past Commander William Fell, Floyd Richardson, George Lacock, Adjutant W. H. Windscheimer, Trustee Me'.vin Delbrugge, and Past Commander H. E. Tucker.

New Vet Color Guard

IEADING off in a program of partici- pation of veterans of the Second World War in Post affairs. East Side Post of New York City has organized a color guard composed of young men who have served in the current war. A new set of colors were purchased for use of the new guard drawn from more than forty young men who have affiliated themselves with the Post. In its personnel, the color guard is A giant four-motored Flying Fortress sent to the fighting front, paid for out truly -representative of a cross-section of War Bond sales made by Community Post of Culver City, California 30 The AMERICAN LEGTON Maga-Jne Full color reprints of this illustration will be sent free on request

. . and I often think of Elm Street"

". . . I'm a long way from home out here, want into ofHce— and throw them out is, it sneaks up on you. You don't realize and when I'm alone at night. Dad, I often again — with ballots instead of bullets. that it's got you till it's almost too late. think of Elm Street with its big trees, "I think most ordinary Americans are its neat houses, the church bells on "This mess is a fine example of what dictatorship regimentation can just like us— plain, practical, hard work- Sunday morning. It's the peace and free- and do when they really get going. talk ing, thrifty people— blessed with a lot of dom and decency of it all that gets under And about bureaucrats—you ought to see what good common sense. Most of us aren't my skin—and it makes me a bit home- very strong for fancy political sick now and then. the ones over here are doing to what we theories. call 'the common people.' You can't do We know by experience that the Ameri- "There's nothing like Elm Street over' anything on your own. You just take can way of getting things done, even with here—and never will be till these folks orders—and like it. its short-comings, has brought more real change their system. happiness, prosperity, progress, educa- "We ordinary folks at home always had a tion, health and general "The trouble lies with the men who rule good to more feeling of independence and self respect. —and with the people than any other system in the world. people who let them get You and Mom were always looking ahead away with it. to better things— for yourselves and for "And that's something to think about..." "Over here the wrong men have been us kids. That sort of thing is missing here. * running things too long. They have been Dad—and I think it's the result of years Millions American boys in crazy with power. They gradually took of being pushed around. These folks have of the armed services are doing a lot over more and more, and when the people been told what to do and when and how of thinking. They are writing home anxiously these days. Many of finally woke up— it was too late. These to do it for so long that they don't know them are worried—wondering ivhat is hap- folks can't throw out their officials the anything else. They've forgotten how to pening to America while they are away. They way we can. They have to have a war to think for themselves. realize now. more than ever, what real get rid of their so-called 'new order'. "Don't let this system get a toe hold at freedom 7neans — and we at home must "Thank God we can still put the men we home. Dad. It's bad stuff. And the trouble guard it for them as well as for ourselves. BUY REI»tiDLIC SXEEL WAR BONDS GENERAL OFFICES: CLEVELANDl, OHIO AND Exporf DeparlmenI: Chrysler Building, New York 17, New York ALLOY, CARBON, STAINLESS STEELS • COLD FINISHED STEELS • PLATES • BARS STAMPS SHAPES • STRIP • SHEETS -PIPE • TUBING • TIN PLATE • NUTS • BOLTS* RIVETS NAILS • PIG IRON • FARM FENCE • WIRE • FABRICATED STEEL PRODUCTS

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THE BONER

(Continued from page g) for taking chances, but I'd learned that were paying off their bets when we ar- up there in my jeep. We hit a rut in it was no use tr\-ing to stop him. I lay rived. the road and the general bounced half there in puddles of my own nervous "Lucky you." a three-star guy grinned. out, but when I slowed down, he yelled, sweat and watched him crawl around "If we hadn't taken that hill. General, "Dammit, Sergeant, can't you drive any a boulder. A lot of Jerries began to you'd have spent the rest of the war in a faster?'' shout and one of them yelled, in "gut- German prison camp." We got right up to where our infantry tural English, "Good afternoon. Gen- That was only a sample. The general ." was crouched and waiting, right up there eral. It is a pleasure. . took an awful razzing. He'd pulled a where the land began to slope upward So there it was. I saw the general boner and it was going to take a lot of to the enemy-held hill. stand up and hold his hands aloft, saw living for him to live it down. He didn't The general said, "How is it, boys?" the Jerries surround him and disarm say much. He just shrugged it off and "They've beaten us off four times," him. They were so excited at the cap- I felt plenty sorr>' for him. a perspiring colonel answered. "They're ture of a general that I got up and ran Finally, the general yawned. "Ser- pretty well dug in, sir." downhill without drawing a shot. geant, drive me over to the shack. I'm The general looked at me. "Sergeant, Down below, the officers were already sleepy." we'll give the jeep a rest. Let's have a talking about it. They'd seen it through "Pleasant dreams," somebody yelled, look." their glasses. "Of all the dumbbell and then ever>-one was laughing again. "But, sir," the colonel protested, "it's tricks," a colonel iiluttered. "Walked I'd driven half way to the shack when ." dangerous up there." into it like a rookie. . it struck me. I stopped the jeep. I looked "Wars are funny that way," the gen- With the men, it was different. They at the general. "Sir," I said, "no guy eral said, and you could see the way the had a tight, angr>' look about their eyes. could be that dumb. You got yourself men were loving him for saying it. And when dusk came and they got the captured on purpose. You knew it v.-ould "Are you coming up with me. Sergeant?" order to attack, they went helling up make the men mad. You knew they'd We crawled up the slope on our bellies. the side of that slope and I just sat hit the Jerries so fast you'd probably We kept getting higher and higher and there in my jeep thinking what a whale be recaptured before they could send now and then a sniper would peck away of a sight it was. The second wave went you back of their lines. You took an at us and we would have to hunt for over and the next waves went around awful razzing back there when you didn't cover. the flanks and within an hour we had have to." Suddenly, I felt myself stiffening. I the hill and the prisoners were starting The general looked straight ahead. He grabbed the general's arm and pointed to come in. looked ver\' stern. "Sergeant, do you like frantically to our left. "The Jerries," I At midnight, a couple of guys came to drive this jeep for me?" whispered. "I can hear them talking." walking in with the general. He looked "Yes, sir," I said.

"I'll have a look." the general said. embarrassed, kind of. He didn't say any- "Then drive it and keep your big "You'd better stay here. Sergeant." thing as I drove him back to Head- mouth shut, Sergeant!" Me, dammit, •! could have brained him quarters. The two- and three-star guys "Yes, sir!" I said.

AFTER V-DAY : JOBS

{Continued from page 13) a bit of philosophy from the head of business enterprises are charitable in- adding to it, to make a place for one a very large manufacturing corporation. stitutions formed for the purpose of or two or eight people who will be He does not intend to go out of his promoting the general welfare. Let's be coming back from our armed services way to make his own company contrib- candid and admit that in the economic or from our war plants. ute to the general welfare. If I were sphere the ruling principle is and should If each of us. operating on a small a stock-market speculator, I would sell be selfishness. When ever>-body looks scale, should succeed in so shaping his his stocks short, because here's a man out for himself, the general welfare is own activity as to maintain his own with the wrong idea. Listen to what he promoted as a by-product." job and buying power and in addition says Now, I believe what he says is in should find places for our share of the "It is pure h\-pocrisy to assume that the main true: When ever>-body looks people whose jobs must change when out for himself, the general welfare will

the war is over. General Electric. Gen- be promoted. My complaint against the eral Motors and the rest of the big gentleman is that when he said it, he boys won't need to do any planning was tr>ung to separate himself from at all. We shall automatically make for the direct purpose of contributing to them more business than they can the general welfare. If he continues in handle. that attitude, he will miss a lot of op-

There is no question that the Gov- portunities for his company. ernment should be planning for proper His company should be looking for government activities. States should be new gadgets to make, and should be doing state planning, and municipalities striving to provide those gadgets at should be planning the things that they lower prices in order to get more cus- may be able to do. There is also no tomers, not only because of the profit doubt about the fact that business motive, but because of the additional should be planning for jobs. If we don't urge that wider distribution of gadgets have non-governmental jobs, plenty of will provide more jobs. We believe in them, national, state and municipal jobs the profit motive, but we also believe must fail. strongly in doing jobs that need to

There is a school of thought which be done. undertakes to dodge individual respon- Right now a good way to help is to sibility in these matters. I have in mind make a manufacturer who gets the

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JANUARY, 1944 33 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Mag.\zinb Army-Navy E feel that the people of of what someone else may want (or can services are needed most, that, indeed, his community appreciate the fact that be induced to want), and somehow will give us the opportunity for the such an award indicates he is doing an bring the two together. greatest individual profit. outstanding job of providing the tools On the receiving end of the trans- Thousands of things are presented in for victory. Similarly, when a workman action we have a customer, on the giv- the course of a year to the Government's furnishes an idea which helps to speed ing end we have a job. If you don't Patent Office, and most of them never the weapons to our fighting men and have a job, you can't be a customer. get into production. But those which those of our Allies, the Legion Post If you can't find a customer, you don't make the grade very often provide a and his community generally ought to have a job. That is how we arrive at great many jobs and thereby promote do him honor. the idea that jobs are basic to the the general welfare.

Let us see what business is. Let us whole situation. But there is a negative side to it, see how it succeeds and, therefore, how Now, whether you be the man with too. The mere fact that you and I one can best look out for himself. Busi- a job, the man with a small business, have a place in business, whether it be ness is the means by which we exchange or the man with a large business, a job or control of a small business goods and services with one another. your problem is the same. The one ac- or a large business, puts on us the ob- Whether it be public or private busi- tivity which has the greatest cash value ligation to make business work to pro- ness, that is its function. It is success- today is that which results in develop- duce the thing which people depend

ful when each of us can get what he ing something new to make, something upon business for. That thing is jobs wants, when he wants it and as he new to do or making existing goods —steady jobs. If we don't make busi- wants it. That means business is per- and services available for more people. ness function that way—if that is not forming its function when it provides Under the American system of com- our definite purpose—we shall find that a market in which each one of us may petitive individual enterprise, the man in bad times fewer and fewer of us trade our energy on a fair exchange who does that is sure to be paid, and have jobs ourselves, and the jobs that basis for the product and energy of paid well. To that extent we can agree are available won't pay off so well. others. with our friend who says that the man That will cause us to turn to all sorts The function of business, then, is who looks after himself promotes the of un-American devices—controls, reg- threefold: First, to find out what peo- general welfare. ulations, boondoggling and every un- ple want done and find someone to do However, when he says that business American procedure to which distress it; second, to find out what someone isn't a charitable institution, he misses can drive us. can do and then find people who want part of the point. When jobs are scarce, As long; then, as The American Legion

it; or if those two don't work, third, there is an extra premium for the fel- believes in the essential American liber- to do a little advertising and promoting low who can think of something new ties, the Legion will believe that each and find a market for the goods or ser- to do or who can find a wider market one must have a job opportunity, and vices you have to offer. In sum, it is for the thing people already are doing. that each of us must live and plan the finding out what someone can do Therefore, if we as individuals take the his life in such a way as to make the (or can be taught to do), the discovery attitude of trying hardest when our other fellow's job more secure.

REFLECTIONS OF A RETREAD

(Continued from page i6) Buddies, you know we recruiters are in other places. There are the women of that American women should want to called "unsung heroes." Well, perhaps the Motor Corps and so many others. protect all this? Again I say, "Is pro- we are. Now that I have been relieved All these keep the home fires burning. tecting one's own home only a man's from recruiting duties I like to feel that They are the backbone of our nation job?" way. Recruiting is far from being that and to them I offer a big salute.

This is Sunday; I shall be on duty all glamorous detail most people would As the casualty lists grow larger and day. As I sit here in Atlanta, Georgia have it. larger and the call upon manpower writing this I am reminded that exactly In the WAC, it is she who looks the grows more frequent, we women of one year ago today and at this very hour women of America in the eye and thinks, the various services clasp hands tightly in Fort Des Moines. Iowa, I was com- "Sister, for mercy sake, for the sake of together and hang on. missioned a third officer in the WAAC, womanhood, come on with us. Can't you The Women's Army Corps is new, as we were then designated. Since then see we need you right now?" And so, yes, and like all other things which came I have gone a long way as a recruiter. come rain or shine, also come recruiters. into being and grew rapidly, we suffered I wish I knew how many thousands of Frankly, I often wonder why we need growing pains. We have been attacked miles I have traveled; how many good recruiting. I can think of so many rea- by stagnant minds, haven't we? Well, folks I have spoken to, and to how sons why women with no dependents we can take it. many fine women I have administered should be with the WAC. I remember The WAC will endure in history long the oath. I like to think of these women that boy who lived up the street. He after the dust of war has settled, be- as "my girls", and scarcely a week goes isn't there any more. The last his mother cause it is made up of American women by without bringing me letters from heard he was on Bataan. who can and will take it on the chin. I some of them. Many of them are carry- Yet, she has hopes. And, there is that can think of no place where one sees ing out assignments overseas. They all lieutenant in the Navy. His wife had a more action. We go places, do real seem to feel toward their recruiting baby last week while he was out on that things, and move on and on. officers, much as we felt toward our dark, deep water protecting his home. In a preceding paragraph I wrote that first school teachers. They write of We of the Women's Army Corps and I was in Atlanta, Georgia. Well, I was, their duties, their fun, their gripes, that those of the other uniformed services but this is a week later and here I am company commander of whom they are realize we are not the only patriots of sitting on my bunk in Daytona Beach, so fond, the colonel for whom they our sex. We realize there are thousands Florida. It is Saturday afternoon. I wish drive, and other things. They tell me, of women in the United States who I could explain to you exactly how I too. of their promotions and many times struggle to rear their families in these feel at this moment. Overhead we hear of their romances. Last week one wrote most difficult times. There are others the hum of many plane motors, while asking for advice before becoming en- who spend long, weary hours working in outside a WAC company is passing, gaged. Yes, they truly are "my girls." USO clubs, in canteens, in hospitals and (Continued on page jy) 34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine AUTAHLJTE

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{Continued from page 34) We of the WAC love our homes too. singing "Hand me down my silver We miss our families, as well as other trumpet, Gabriel." They sing it very things we cherish. But, we are in this well. It is their cadence. Now in come thing to see it through. So, buddies, this several of the younger girls. They are old recruiter says to you : Send us more quick and full of smiles and very pretty, women—send them now. Tell them we and as I look up at them from this are together looking upward and going machine I say to myself, "God bless forward with faith. them all." I am afraid I am still an old I realize as I write this that I have recruiter. These girls will launder some said little in these reflections about my clothing. They will write home. They service in the last war. Some of you will prepare lessons and on Monday, who read this were also Yeomen (f). their basic training over, they will go You will remember the good ship "280 their several ways. Broadway in New York City." Ah, me, as I close my eyes and meditate I see MANY ask me why I enlisted. Well, before me people and things, parades frankly, I can think of no word and more people. I hear those old songs except patriotism. That seems to cover of World War I, yet unequaled. I live Private Ruby Newell, In WAC train- it. I couldn't sit on the sidelines. Oh no, again those two Armistice Days. ing at Daytona Beach, Florida, peels we of the WAC must be a part of it. Ah me, buddies, do I remember! spuds while on K. P. When our men come marching home, so There were the boys as they came home, too will the women. We will return to- the tears and smiles. And there was our gether for we too will see it through. We satisfaction. Remember the way you is real. I wish for you all to know it women will stand behind your husbands felt when it was over? When we get to- better and I ask that you send us your and brothers. We will not let them gether in our Legion uniforms, and women. We are grateful to the Legion down. If they can wade in anguish over when we parade, don't you still feel and to the Legion Auxiliary for the help there, if they can go down in submarines proud that you were in service for God they have given us. I should also like to and up in planes, if they can man the and country? And, when we have our acknowledge the assistance given us by tanks and guns and carry our flags in reunions and re-live those days in serv- the Women's Overseas Service League. battle, by golly we of the WAC can well ice, is there not something between us To them and to all the women of Amer- afford to disturb our private world to that no one can describe? ica, this old recruiter says, "Help us take our humble places behind them. I love the Women's Army Corps. It carry on."

OLD DRUMMERS NEVER DIE

{Continued from page 30) "and on the following day," continues other civic groups, and each group the members of the Post who have Commander Whiteford, "I received re- furnishes manpower to keep the depot passed on, together with date of death newal dues from 26 members by mail." working seven days a week. Sometimes and place of burial. Included in that three or four troop trains of from five to list is Sergeant Edward F. Younger, Troop Train Service twenty coaches, sixty to a coach, are known to fame as the sergeant who serviced in one day. The men are pleased LEGIONNAIRES of Shawnee, Okla- selected the Unknown Soldier for burial to get the items handed out by the i homa, have established a depot to in the shrine at Arlington National workers, but according to Commander care for service men passing through on Cemetery, who died on August 6, 1942, Arnold, magazines and playing cards are troop trains and for other transients, and is buried in Arlington near the tomb snapped up eagerly as the things most whether traveling under orders or on fur- of the Unknown. A total of seventy- desired to break the tedium of travel in lough, that has won nation-wide recog- two members are listed, with burial crowded cars. Thank-you letters have nition in service circles. In addition to places scattered across the continent been received from service men from other services, more than two carloads from Brockton, Massachusetts, to Los dozens of distant points. Angeles, California. New Name Initiation JOHN RAYMOND CANFIELD POST THE first public initiation of veterans of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, has by of the Second World War by Harold formal vote changed its name to Canfield- Byrd Post of Decatur, Georgia, was Chase Post, thus honoring the first men staged before a crowd that jammed of Cedar Grove to lay down their lives the courtroom of the DeKalb County in the first and second World Wars. The Court House on the evening of Sep- Post has borne the name of John Ray- tember loth, writes Commander R. K. mond Canfield for a quarter of a century Whiteford. The class included Carroll and now, with the admission of the vet-

A. Voight, Virgil Hopkins, Jr., George erans of the current w'ar, the name of W. Stovall, R. S. Laurens (holder of Sergeant John E. Chase, who gave his the Purple Heart), Burton Hazelrigs, of magazines have been handed out to life in this war, has been added. Ad-

Hugh D. Nash, Jack Cowan, Thomas men passing through since the depot was jutant G. Budd Meade, Jr., reports that

Barnett, Fred S. Dale, Angelo Crantos organized last November, reports Dis- Canfield-Chase Post is the first in New and Don T. Collier. trict Commander John P. Arnold. Jersey to so honor a comrade of the war The Atlanta Journal told of the affair Sponsored by the Legion, the project now raging. in its edition of Sunday, September 12, has the full cooperation of a half dozen Boyd B. Stutler

JANUARY. 194+ 37 .

Announcing an important POST-WAR

SEVENTEEN AWARDS TOTALING $50,000 WILL BE MADE AS FOLLOWS

A First Award of $25,000 (Purchase Price) in United States War Bonds A MONG AMERICANS today, there is a single aim /\\ and a single, overwhelming purpose: Victory, final A Second Award of $10,000 and complete. (Purchase Price) in United States War Bonds

end the war is not yet in sight. one knows The of No Fifteen Additional Awards of $1,000 how long its costly course will run. But its outcome, at (Purchase Price) each in United States War Bonds last, is certain and inevitable . . . Victory will surely be ours. Winners will have the privilege of naming the particular And yet even Victory, itself, will bring a new crisis and series of United States War Bonds they prefer. a new challenge to America . . . a challenge which we must be ready to meet . . . Post-War Employment.

Providing jobs for the millions of men and women now Members of the faculty of the Economics Department serving in the Army, Navy, Marines, and the Coast Guard of Columbia University will serve as consultants to the

. . . providing kinds all the others now em- new of work for judges, and wdl also assist the judges m supervismg pre- ployed in war industries. liminary judgmg to select those entries which merit con- sideration by the Board of Judges. In recognition Pabst Post-War Employment Awards of the critical importance of the Post-War Employment problem; to stimulate intelligent planning for the lives will be paid by Pabst Brewing Company of Milwaukee, and the futures of Americans everywhere; to foster and Wis., and Peoria, 111., in observance of the 100th Anni- encourage constructive thinking for the fullest measure versary* of the founding of its business, in the hope and belief offering will of employment after Victory . . . Pahst Post-War Employ- that the of these Awards encourage ment Awards have been established. the American people to give serious thought to a prob- lem which is vital to the future of our Country. Their purpose is to provoke mature and respon- sible discussion and to develop and assemble practical and The judging of entries and all related matters will be workable plans and ideas for meeting one of the greatest completely independent of Pabst Brewing Company. single problems of the peace to come . . . and to make The administrative details will be handled by the Pabst these plans available for the benefit of all Americans. Post-War Employment Awards Committee, under the

supervision of George V. Denny, Jr., Moderator, Amer- The Awards ica's T^wn Meeting of the Air. will be made by the following Board of Judges: CLARENCE DYKSTRA *Since 1844, the Pabst Breweries have grown

President. University of Wisconsin and prospered under the American demo- cratic system. We are grateful for our suc- WESLEY C. MITCHELL cess and would like to do our share in Professor of Economics, Columbia University searching out solutions to the problems which BEARDSLEY RUML will face our nation; so that all of us may Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank York of New continue to live in a prosperous, peaceful, A. F. WHITNEY active and advancing country. President, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine series of Awards for EMPLOYMENT PLANS

'Biubmissions a prize the amount of the prize will be divided equally among those persons. •

must be mailed not later than February 7, 1944. 4. By submitting an entry in this competition, the entrant agrees to be bound by all of the provisions of these rules. Manuscripts submitted should present a workable and All manuscripts and plans submitted shall become the practical basis for the solution of the broad problems of Post- property of Pabst Brewing Company, which shall have the War Ernployment in America. right to publish the manuscript and author's name, but not to the exclusion of the author. No manuscripts will be The Awards are to be made solely on the basis of the returned.

value of the plans presented . . . not on literary merit. 5. Entries tvill be judged on the basis of the practical contribution they

After the winners have been announced, copies of the offer to Post- War Employment i?i the United States and not on winning plans will be turned over to responsible officials literary merit.

of the Government. In addition, copies will be made 6. Prizes, as listed elsewhere in this announcement, will be available for study by any other agency— public or pri- awarded as determined by the Board of Judges. The deci- sions of a majority of the judges shall constitute and be the vate—which concerns itself with the problems of Post- decisions of the Board of Judges and shall be final, conclu- War Employment. sive and binding upon all persons entering upon the compe- tition. If the Board of Judges shall determine that two entries T^he Rules are tied fi)r a particular award, each of the two entries will receive the full amount of that award. In the event of the of the competition are as follows: death, resignation, inability or refusal to act of any one or more of the judges, the remaining judges may but shall not 1. E^very citizen of the United States of America, including be required to select a successor or successors to fill any members of the Armed Forces at home and abroad, is eli- such vacancy. gible to compete for the Awards, except officers or employees of Pabst Brewing Company or its subsidiaries, or its adver- 7. Entries, to be eligible for consideration, must be mailed and

tising agency, instructors, administrators or students in the postmarked not later than midnight, February 7, 1944, and, Economics Department of Columbia University. Likewise, regardless of postmark, must be received not later than no member of the immediate family of any of these groups March 27, 1944. Neither Pabst Brewing Company nor any-

is eligible. one connected with the competition will be responsible for entries delayed, damaged, undelivered or lost. Address and 2. Each entrant shall his plan for stimulating submit own Post- mail entries to: War Employment in the United States. Each plan shall be stated in not to exceed 2,000 words. The plan may be sup- Pabst Post-War Employment Awards ported by such additional material as the entrant may 551 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York decide to furnish. Be sure to affix adequate postage.

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(Continued from page 2,?) plant installed by the defeated Japs.' under new management. Jap soldiers, of us thought they'd ever tly again. But "The three men in the picture are who were the mainstay of the old firm, " were forced to leave the island. The we fixed 'em, and they flew 'em.' members of the two companies of Sea- new owners, the United States Marine To which account, The Cleveland bees which arrived in the Solomons the Corps, Inc., stated today that they in- Press added: last of August, 1942. tend to keep the old name. "Sergeant Lucal, who kept Major Joe "Chief Genung, whose name appears Foss flying, never did anything of on the Tojo Ice Co. sign, is a refrigera- We passed on our water-tight alibi to mechanical value around the house. tion man from Chicago. Seaman Hillinger in a letter—inci- 'Why, when he was home, he couldn't "In addition to the ice plant, our dentally razzing the Marines a bit—and even repair my vacuum cleaner,' men operated the Jap power house, asked him if he might be a retread from the earlier laughed his mother, Mrs. Margaret Lu- known among the men as the 'South war. He hurriedly and wor- Sea Light and Power riedly replied: cal. . . 'The only time he had his fin- Co.' "I afraid I gers in grease was during his second "I wish your new department every am gave the wrong im- year at Willoughby High School when success." pression in my letter re Tojo Ice Co. he spent some time at Western Reserve As an ex-infantryman, we take our I had no intention of taking any of the Academy putting automobile engines hat off to the Marines. They have done credit from the Marine Corps and I together.' and are doing a hell of a swell job in am the last person to resent any pub- "Mrs. Lucal, a nurse at the Ohio this war—but letting our memory trail licity given to them, especially to those Rubber Company, served as an Army back to '18 and the old A. E. F. in kids of Guadalcanal. Those of us who nurse in France during the last war. France, we rather recall that early in were there from almost the first are She said her son started out to be a the American participation in the fight- the ones who can testify to what so gunner in the Marines, but he was too ing, releases from over there gave the few did and the conditions under which they fought and lived. tall. . . . impression that the two regiments of "Sergeant Lucal enlisted with the Marines, brigaded with the Second "I am very proud that our battalion Marines in October, 1941, and went Regular Division, were winning the war of Seabees was attached to the ist overseas in August, 1942. singlehanded. And those two regiments Marine Division.

"His father, J. J. Lucal, who works were the only Marines that got into the "Getting back to the reference to our in Detroit, served with the 308th Field scrap! We know it wasn't the Marines' sense of humor, I guess we had to make Signal Battalion in the First World fault that they got such publicity, but our own fun. Some of the captured War." rather the fault of the Press Censor- equipment which we used included Jap Legionnaire Mary McHale informs ship Bureau at GHQ in Chaumont, trucks. Soon all but a few of them bore us that the two Leathernecks with Bob France. Anyhow, we still enjoy kidding roughly-lettered signs such as 'Piellet Lucal in the photograph which shows veteran. Marines about it—and here Bro. Junk Co., Hindsdale, 111.,' which them doing a repair job on a propellor we're at it again! was operated by Arthur of the same hub, are Eugene A. Gentile, on the left And we're not blaming the Marines company; 'Guadalcanal Sand & Gravel and William H. Haviden, on the right or the Marine Corps in its entirety for Co.' and so on. For several weeks I both of Cleveland. taking the limelight in connection with drove a Jap truck with the name 'Chi- the Solomons picture. Evidently the pho- cago Surface Lines,' of which I am a tographer of this "Official Photo, former employe, painted on its side. KICKS may be infallible—to U. S. TOP Marines Corps" in his hurry, took for Later, down there, we set up an oven hear 'em tell it—but not so with granted and I worked as baker. Company Clerks! And pity the poor that the Marines had landed a and had everything under control, Company Clerk, when he pulls a boner. and "Our battalion in addition to build- so mis-captioned the photograph as fol- roads, bridges We, as the so-called Company Clerk ing and maintaining such of Then and Now, speak from sad ex- lows: units as the ice plant and powerhouse, perience. Those old vets of the First The Tojo Ice Company, Guadal- also can claim credit for building Hen- Islands group, is Field and the World War were hawk-eyed in catching canal, Solomon now derson — not Army En- errors in our columns, although now and then we'd pull a fast one and credit a certain regiment or other unit to the wrong Division just to see how alert they were. They were! Well, your young gang seems to be right on its toes, too—although this time your Company Clerk has an out. The error was not his, but he was glad to be told of it in a letter from John R. Hillinger, S i/c, who wrote on Red Cross stationery from the Naval Hos- [)ital at Great Lakes, Illinois. Seaman Hillinger, and rightly so, puts in an oar for his own branch of service, the Sea- bees, as follows: "In your new department, titled 'Come On, You G. I.'s and Mac's' in the November issue of the Legion magazine, you used a picture of the 'Tojo Ice Co.' It had this caption: 'Even the toughest fighting can't down the American sense of humor. In the "Phwhat else could thlm Russians do but Solomons, Marines take over an ice win wit' a ginerol named Tinn O'Shenko?"

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can troops are stationed or ships put fare and Recreation Office, Third Naval forces Members of the armed into port, when kids in distress are District, Room 1303, 90 Church Street, are continually asking for reading found. New York 6. matter. After you have finished The sweet, shy little girl is Freida Prizes of $500, $250, $125, $75 and with this copy of your magazine Neil whose Dad gave his life in this $50 await the winners. send it to a service man from your present war, and the officers with her Better get busy! home town, either in this country or abroad. Under postal regula- are, left to right, Captain McCartney, Captain D. R. Kenzie and Major E. department wouldn't call Alas- tions it may be sent for three F. THIS cents to any address in the con- Sauer of U. S. Army Headquarters in ka exactly a vacation land, even tinental United States if it is North Ireland. though it may have its moments—or wrapped, or enclosed in an un- The occasion was Freida's second two or three months each year—when envelope. For overseas it sealed birthday, when the officers and men it might be nice to visit. But our fight- must be sent in a sealed envelope of that Headquarters officially adopted ing men up there haven't much choice carrying eighteen cents postage. Freida and startled her with the pres- in the matter—they're year-'round resi- ents they gave her. dents, some of 'em. And how about the soldiers of a rail- gmeers, as one newsreel commentator Mind a bit of reminiscing? Back in that road unit who are scattered along five said last year. other war, France was overrun hundred miles of the Alaska Railroad, "I always found the Legion Maga- with waifs whose fathers had been a vital transportation line for our sup- zine interesting reading, although I am killed in action or had been taken prisoner or plies and ammunition and other re- not a veteran of the last war, having had come home blinded or quired material of war? No Service been too young at that time. A large totally disabled or who were refugees Clubs or Day Rooms or U. S. O. Clubs majority of the Seabees are veterans from the invaded districts of France from which the mothers and fathers, in the isolated wilds of their numerous from all branches of Army, Navy and sectors and not even a PX, that G. I. Marine Corps, most of whom because able to work, were shipped to Germany, — and the kids turned loose over the department store where necessities and of age, families, etc., were not subject lines into Allied territory to shift for minor luxuries, such as candy and cigar- to the draft. themselves. ettes and magazines, may be bought. "In case you should see the Marine Well, the Army met that condition, Corps Public Relations Ofificer there in The staff of The Stars and Stripes too. As Exhibit A, take a gander at New York, tell him for me he cannot of those days, early in 191 8 hit upon the photograph on page 23. It's a PX give enough publicity to the Marines the plan of having these orphans that goes to the soldiers instead of the in the Southwest Pacific. adopted by various A. E. F. outfits. soldiers having to hoof a couple of, "You ask about my hospitalization. The cost to keep one child fed and clothed and in comparative comfort miles to it! And no kidding about it, My condition is nothing much other as it's an Official Army Photo. than something caused by the climate for a year was 500 francs—not much The perambulating consists of a where I served and I hope to be going when split up among a company or PX motor truck, mounted on rails, which back to duty soon." other organization. It was put up to draws a trailer in which supplies are Now, have any of your Leathernecks the readers of that official A. E. F. carried and sales made. Whenever the anything to say in rebuttal? And how newspaper in March, 191 8. PX of the Alaska Railroad shows up about Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Was it a success? Fourteen months you Army Engineers? Let's get a nice, later, when the A. E. F. was rapidly friendly scrap started! dissolving through shipment of troops P. S. A postcard from our friend, back to the States, the neat sum of Hillinger, just came to hand and in it 2,177,362.82 francs had been contrib- he says: "I, too, hope to enter the uted, and 3,567 orphans had been ranks of the Legion one of these days, adopted. and enjoy some of the National Con- The collected funds were handled ventions I've heard so much about." through the Red Cross which also se- lected the children to be aided. All an IT'S the same old Army and Navy outfit had to do was to provide the and Marine Corps as far as kids money and designate whether it wanted are concerned. What if in North Africa, a boy or girl mascot. And hundreds of as it was in France during the time letters of gratitude were received by of the ist A. E. F., a guy got tired of the parrains, or godfathers, and some having swarms of kids lining the road of that correspondence continued up with outstretched hands, asking for until France was again overrun by the "pennee" or "bisquee" or "cigarette" same enemy. when it came to a showdown, those Perhaps we're not keeping current kids got what they wanted, and, per- with present actions along those lines haps, needed (with the exception of the but if such a movement hasn't been cigarette, which was presumably for the started thus far by Yafiks or the new "Would any of you genflemen Stars and Stripes, we'd like to lay a old man.) You couldn't see kids, un- be Interested in a musicale?" dernourished and in rags, without doing bet it will be, when the proper time something for them. And—we can re- comes around! about every two weeks, time is called gret it now, perhaps—the same thing from whatever duties are being per- held true in the Occupied Area in Ger- LAST announcement of the one- A their the do shopping, many. Those kids we fed are probably act play contest being conducted formed and men and then return to their jobs. fighting our kids now! under the sponsorship of the Third That outburst was inspired by the Naval District and John Golden, noted We are told that at: the stop pic- tured, a gravel pit, about soldiers official Army photograph on page 23, producer: 70 bought over worth of merchan- which proves what we say about it The contest ends on February 15th. $300 in less than an hour. being the same old Army and Navy, Only plays running from fifteen min- dise That's a quick half -hour will considered. turnover! John Noll etc. It is the beginnmg ot what we know utes to a be J. 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J.^NUARY, 1944 43 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ; HOW TO WIN THE PEACE

(Continued from page 15) "inevitableness" of national socialism, will not stay, suspended, in the mid- the America which we've got to rebuild. requires a courage which is the equiv- point where it is today. When President Roosevelt said, "We alent of the courage of America's pio- If our ability to rule ourselves grows do not need to abandon our democracy neers. worse, we and our children's children to match the strength of aggressors," he For, as I attempted to point out in will descend the path of Dante's be- spoke the truth. We do not need to "Men In Motion" their principle of wildered traveler, who, "worn by dread- abandon it, but we do need to go back self-faith and integrity is the only hope ful trials of the past, turns from the to it. of our country this side of intermittent dangers which beset his life's course." The immediate war measure and the war and permanent national distress. We shall face the rule of a chosen group primary post-war task of the United And in our country's accomplishment of of militarists after a sufficient number States in behalf of itself and the world this goal rests the only hope of a world of wars. is to return to its moral and intellectual caught in spiritual liquidation and writh- Conversely, with the support of the foundations and believe in them again. ing in the distortions of the post-war principle of self-faith, and in the Amer- It will take a new honoring of first world. ican spirit, our future and our ability principles to get back to self-faith and The lopsided development of Amer- to help the world are boundless, praise to re-establish the integrity of our na- ican government in the face of astound- God, in uncoerced dedication to the tion. To do this, to turn our backs on ing technological improvements will grow common and lofty cause of the individ- political opportunists and to resist the either more lopsided or less lopsided. It ual strength of American men.

37 DAYS OF HORROR

{Continued from page 11) equipment. We had to set up command dized water to wash it down, because back into your cramped position. For, posts, run wires to the foxholes which the "C" ration was too cumbersome to with daylight, your own bombers will served as temporary front lines, and carry. drop their morning calling cards too dig every one of those foxholes. Thirtyrseven days in which a majority damned close for comfort. That 37 days was tougher than the of the boys never had hot coffee be- Hell, Sherman, hell, brother World entire 10 months and four days I spent cause the kitchens, back on the beach- War One veteran, neither of you knows in the front-line trenches of the Little heads, did NOT know where their com- what hell really is. But your kid fighting World War! Thirty-seven days of rades were and if they did, sending in the Solomons, in New Guinea and guerilla warfare against gorillas. Thirty- hot food up would probably have re- in other sections of the Far East knows seven days of no known front line; of sulted in the death of the marmite can- and he's taking it far better than we absence of communication with divi- toters. Well-camouflaged snipers would used to take such sissified things as sional command post; thirty-seven days have seen to THAT. deep dugouts and six-foot trenches. during which every bush hid potential That, General Sherman and World Let's consider, as typical, the New death; where every depression in the War One veteran, is what our kids took Georgia campaign in which we won ground and every leafy treetop hid the on New Georgia, kids ranging mostly

Munda airport. The Argonne is the slant eye bent on killing you. from 18 to 23 years of age, many of only comparable World War One cam- Thirty-seven days of emergency ra- them still able to shave their chins with paign. New Georgia took us 37 days. tions, mostly the "D" ration of choco- butter knives. The Argonne lasted approximately the late and hard biscuit with rancid, io- That was thirty-seven days of what same span. You thought the Argonne we had believed would require 19 days; was bad, and for 25 years you have thirty-seven days in which advances of been kidding the public that it was For God and Country, we asso- 50-100-200 yards were as much a mili- tough. ciate ourselves together for the tary success as a lo-mile advance in New Georgia had to be stormed following purposes: To uphold the desert sands of Algeria, Tunisia, or on the Italian mainland. frontally. From Rendova Island, six and defend the Constitution of sea miles away, and under perfect visi- the United States of America; to That was thirty-seven days and nights bility, we had to make our landing in maintain law and order; to foster in which American boys never took off small craft. Overhead, Mitsu Bishis, not and j)erpetuate a one hundred their fatigue uniforms; never had their Fokkers with their trivial load of 500 percent Americanism; to pre- shoes off; never washed their faces or pounds, dropped tons of bombs down serve the memories and incidents hands because of the scarcity of W'ater. on us. From small islands through of our associations in the Great Thirty-seven days of hell, of stench, of filth, of bombing from the sky, which we had to wend our way, Nip Wars; to inculcate a sense of in- and snipers with mortars, and with Nambu dividual obligation to the com- artillery pounding from the coveted light machine guns, peppered away. munity, state and nation; to Munda airport. From the shores of New Georgia itself, combat the autocracy of both And those thirty-seven days were withering machine-gun fire raked our the classes and the masses; to matched with thirty-seven eerie jungle craft. it nights during which sand fleas crawled And through all came shells make right the master of might; from island-based artillery into nostrils, ears away back in to promote peace and good xoill your into your and the islands. on earth; to safeguard and trans- into your mouth. Finally, we reached the beach-heads mit to posterity the principles of Thirty-seven nights during which you and stormed to the slight rise that char- justice, freedom and democracy lay still in your foxhole smelling the acterizes all the Solomons. Never once to consecrate and sanctify our stinking, rotting Jap dead and listening to did the terrific fire cease. Not once did comradeship by our devotion to the moans 01 your own and the Nip we have a breathing spell. And in addi- mutual helpfulness. — Preamble wounded. Listened to pleas in perfect tion to landing the combat troops we TO THE Constitution of The English, pleas for water, for assistance, also had to land our supplies, our muni- American Legion. pleas you had to ignore, for many of tions, our artillery and our medical the Nips, products of our school sys-

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine- ...OUR BOYS ARE BETTER PROTECTED AND CARRY MORE PUNCH THAN WE DID

2 Reasons Why U. S. Casualties Will Be Held to the Minimum

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of the Irish. After several polite at- "San Bernardino," I said. "Sixty tempts to brush the interloper aside, miles." Hoolihan jumped up and confronted our "What a coinshidence. That's my town. for fun, I have TEETH tormentor. "Scram, feather merchant! home Just a hunch FALSE We have something to talk about." to drive you there." "Well, how do you like that?"' re- "Wonderful," I said, with misgivings. wearers monstrated the civilian, affronted that What kind of games did this man play? his friendliness was countered by feroc- "Why don't you let me drive? I'm a ity. "I try to be nice and then you get G I chauffeur," I lied. tough. Well, lishun here. I'm about to "Why sure!" be commissioned a senior lieutenant in So I drove. My host scrutinized me the Navy. Then you'll be sorry. Then closely. Here it comes, I thought. ." you'll have to salute me, you little— "Why, you square-jawed son!" he re- Hoolihan was little, but whiskey made marked. "I like you. Put 'er there." him bold. "Why, you civilian puke!" he Freeing one hand, I put 'er there. screamed. His eyes were dancing. "Pull "That's fine. I like you, too," I lied. your rank on us before you even get it. "You know, a couple of shavetail Why. I've a notion to slug you one." shrimps just fluffed me off in a bar. I I withdrew my inflamed comrade from was tr>'ing to be friendly. There was a WHY RISK THESE TWO trouble. I reminded him that an irregu- little shavetail with a loud mouth. He ''^"'("'e Breath larity in our pass situation would make called me a 'feather merchant.' Why, nAKIPPDC a scene here too dear i luxury. The bar- that little pipsqueak. Why, I'm going UnllULllO and Loose Plates keep pacified the boracho. to be a Navy senior lieutenant soon. by brushing withMakeshiftCleaners ? Midnight closed the bar. We took to Then he'll have to salute me. He'll have BRUSHING your plates with makeshift the road. "Wouldn't it be wonderful if to get off the sidewalk when I walk by. cleaners, such as tooth pastes, tooth our friend picked us up?" I smirked. If I ever see that little monkey again, powders and soap, may scratch the denture " The clarifying cool night air recalled I'll tear him in half. Why, the. . . material which is 60 times softer than natural teeth. These scratches cause odorous film, to bantam Hoolihan that his near-ad- "He must have been a damned fool food particles and stains to collect faster, cling versary gentleman admirable to insult a nice chap like you." was a of tighter— resulting in Denture Breath. Be- physical proportions. "You can say that again," bugled the sides, such brushing may wear down the deli- "A remarkable possibility," he ap- stiff. cate fitting ridges and thus loosen your plate. praised. "Some ofificers are like that," I said. black sedan pulled in It was my job to keep this A up. Just as man occupied PLAY SAFE-SOAK YOUR the story books, our friend was therein. until we reached San Bernardino. "Their PLATE IN I joined him in the front seat. His late commissions go to their heads. I've POLIDENT needier slid into the back seat. There known plenty just hke him. I don't . Do This Every Day! Place denture in was no immediate indication of recog- blame you." Polident solution for ." nition. The drinking steered his "Why, that little. . man 15 minutes, or longer car from side to side down the road This conversation continued to de- If convenient. Rinse until we came to a red flare where there velop for about 55 of the 60 miles. Our and it's ready to use. had recently been an accident. host announced that I should stop the No Brushing "My God, we've all been drinking car so he could respond to the pressure and here are the cops!" I said. that drinking builds. I stalled him NO BRUSHING/ no danger when you soak your plates in Polident. No worry about' "Don't worry about that, old boy," through two towns, because I could scratching or wearing down the plate. Yet, blandly slobbered our driver. He cut imagine some unpleasant circumstances the daily Polident bath keeps your plates off into a dark byroad. A perfect setting of stopping the car at that hour, in case sparkling clean and odor-free. Polident is for adventure. the dawn of recognition illuminated his approved by many leading dentists and the leading makers of modern denture materials. "Where do you boys think you are brain. going?" he interrogated. Just as I had the car's owner re-

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JANUARY, 1944 47 When Answering Advertisements Pleasf Mfntton The American Legion Magazjnr signed to finishing the trip before stop- smells I roll down a window, I'm always SHAVES FROM 1 BLADE ping, Hoolihan awoke from a deep careful to restore it to position. When 730• AMAZING NEW slumber and grumbled, "When are we his machine is left in disarray the driver BLADE SHARPENER ^ New sharpener for all makes of gonna stop? I can't control myself much naturally reacts, "All soldiers are boors; \doubIe-edge razor blades 'performs miracles! "Not' longer." therefore I'll pick up no more of them." necessary to change blades," writes one user. Another says, I still made the post gate without Many times by engaging a driver in

, "Have used Ibladeover730times/'RAZOROLL really sharpens blades because it strops on leath- stopping. At that point the feather delightful conversation I have managed er. Gives keen, smooth shaving ede-es. No gruess- work. Blade held at correct angle and proper merchant shook hands with us both. to induce him to suggest deviating from Rressure—automatically . Just turn crank to sharpen fo gears. Well made. Handsome, compact, sturdy. Weighs few ounces. Will last years. Makes ideal gift. I "Yoush are grand guys. I'm gonna be his route and to bring me closer to my 'send no MONEY! f^lTJt^'clYs^oilZr^ll in the shervice soon. Navy lieutenant. destination. Of course, I protest, "Oh, RAZOROLL for 5 days and if you're not delighted with smooth, velvet shaves you get, return RAZOROLL and we'll return your dollar. Hurry-order today. RAZOROLL COMPANY Then that goddam skinny shavetail will you shouldn't go out of your way." 620 North Michigan Avenue* Oept* 631 ChicagOi Illinois have to salute me. And if I ever see "But I want to." ." " him again. . "But with the gas situation. . . dl^WOMENI EARN MONEY "Forget it; it's my pleasure." WITH GORGEOUS EVERYDAY GREETING CARDS try to keep up a conversation This little tete a tete may proceed Everyone uses Greeting Cards! Earnextracashin WE spare timeshowing friends, neighbors, actual sam- when single individuals accommo- as long as it gives both parties pleasure. ples gorgeous 1 6-Card All-Occasion Assortment nclQdfriK Birthday, Get-Well. Friendship, Baby Birth, date us. If alone in a back seat we feel Like all rides, this one should be cul- Sympathy, Anniversary, others. Thrilhns new designs. SEND Also fc.aater, tells on sijght. Low priced—bie profits. free to sleep or read. In conversation minated with profuse expressions of NAME irthday, Gift- Wrapping. Get-Well. Sympathy Assort- ments. An easy sellers, big money-makers. Personal : FOR Stationery. Ejtperienee annecessary. Samples on ap- with itinerant natives, we strive, sincerely gratitude. "Thanks" costs nothing, gives SAMPLES proval. WALLACE BROWN 225 Fifth Ave. Dept. 0-142 New York 10. N. V. or otherwise, to praise the countryside. joy to the recipient and paves the way If for relief from the car's heat or for another soldier's ride. Weary Feet Perk Up With ASSIGNMENT IN AMERICA

{Continued from page 13) Government gratefully made some pro- Ice-Mint Treat curity only if the entire nation has vision for- your immediate and more When feet burn, callouses sting and every step is torture, don't just groan and do nothing. Rub on that security. No matter how intelH- desperate needs, but there was no pro- a little Ice-Mint. Frosty white, cream-like, its cool- gently to for vision for a secure future, either for ing soothing comfort helps drive the fire and pain we propose provide the right out . . . tired muscles relax in grateful relief. returning soldier, we cannot make good you or for the nation as a whole. The A world of difference in a few minutes. See how Ice-Mint helps soften up corns and callouses too. on our intentions if our land is wracked country slumped back to "normalcy" Get foot happy today, the Ice-Mint way. Your and the result near-disaster druggist has Ice-Mint, by inflation, by unemployment, by so- was —infla- cial confusion. We cannot build an island tion, depression, unemployment, soup of security for our returning heroes kitchens, breadlines. Ex-service men felt PSORIASIS under such circumstances. the hard times as much as anyone. Just Each one of these fighting men is as we are fighting a total war, we must PIXACOL ha.s brought relief to p.soriasis sufferers when everything el.se failed. A liquid, it is applied dreaming of that day when he will re- plan a total peace and a total recon- externally, dries quickly, is non-greasy, convenient to use. Use only as directed. Try a regular $1 turn to his own blessed America. And struction. bottle of PIXACOL without investing a cent. Write for FREE details. what he dreams of is the good old What should we do, then, to build PIXACOL CO., Dept. AL-5 Box 1298, Cleveland 3, Ohio farm he left, or the home town, his a homeland "worthy of heroes"? That friends, his neighbors, his job and, above is a brave and big question and I will MAGNOLIA TREES all, his family. These things are part attempt to answer it only in the broad- With Flower Buds to bloom for you this Spring. Write for Free Catalog. of him and they are a part of his se- est terms. It seems to me that the STERN'S NURSERIES. Dept. S, Geneva. N. Y. curity. If they suffer, he must suffer, Good Life which every American—ser- too. His Government does him scant vice man and civilian—wants depends EUROPEAN FILBERT NUTS service if it plans for his security only upon three major social objectives, all Produce nutritious Food for Table and in terms of an individual pay-off or of which can be won under our sys- Kitchen. Write for Free Catalog. STERN'S NURSERIES, Dept. S, Geneva. N. Y. reward that leaves out of considera- tem of free enterprise. These are: tion the economic health of the com- 1. Full production—the maximum use The American Legion munity where he finds the very roots of our amazingly efficient, wealth-pro- National Headquarters of his well-being and happiness. ducing plant of machines and man- Indianapolis, Indiana You men who are veterans of World power. This means full employment, a Financial Statement War One know what I am talking job for everyone able to work. October 31, 1943 about. You know that job priorities 2. The highest possible buying power Assets and other adequate provisions and rights —efficient distribution of the wealth of Cash on hand and on deposit 726.651.30 § for veterans are the least a grateful goods we can and should produce. This .^ccounts receivable 158.625.33 Inventories 137.145.43 nation can give. But these alone are means good wages, reasonable prices, Invested funds 2,931,530.77 Permanent Investment: not enough. When you returned from cooperation on the part of labor, in- Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 222,866.23 France you wanted a good job, but dustry and agriculture, wholesome for- Office Building, Washington, D. C, less depreciation 122,142.67 not at the expense of someone else, eign trade. Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 43.358.79 perhaps your friend or your father or 3. Social security—a nation-wide, com- Deferred charges 23,842.21 you brother. prehensive system of contributory social §4,366,162.73 You wanted hospital care, of course, insurance under which workers, employ- Liabilities, Deferred Revenue but you also wanted other sick and ers and the Government will cooperate and Net Worth ailing people about you to have the to guarantee some income to all work- Current liabilities 83,759.17 ? care they needed. Certainly you wanted ers and their families whenever the Funds restricted as to use 60.665.59 Deferred revenue 488,310.28 your country to make some return to breadwinner cannot work and earn. Permanent Trust: OverseasGraves Decoration Trust Fund 222,866.23 you for what you had lost by reason Plans are afoot now by far-sighted Net Worth: of your service. But more important leaders of industry, labor and Govern- Restricted Capital .. .$2,898,792.19 Unrestricted Capital.. 611,769.27 $3,510,561.46 than that you wanted opportunity to ment to provide for a quick and orderly

54,366,162.73 earn a lasting security for yourself and reconversion of our gigantic productive Donald G. Glascoff, your family in a secure society. plant from a war to a peace basis. National Adjutant Well, you know what happened. Your The goal of these plans is continuing

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full production and full employment. sons, particularly those in jioorcr States. This has been a matter of major con- Several times the President has pub- cern to the President and to the lead- licly urged that' we build a more ade- ers in many fields. In facing a task quate social security structure and that so huge and complex we are starting we start building it now. I have sub- none too early, no matter when the mitted to the Congress the proposals end of the war comes. And we have of the Social Security Board for changes well-considered plans for implementing in the Social Security Act—proposals that third principle bulwarking the Good that have grown out of years of study Life, social security. and operation of the present system. We already have a sound and work- If adopted, those proposals would go able social security system. It was born far toward closing the gaps in our pres- out of the travail of the depression, ent system and toward correcting short- but it has proved itself by eight years comings which could be discovered only of efficient operation. Millions of Amer- as we gained more experience. We would icans have felt its boon in greater fam- then have protection against all the ily security, better health, improved major economic hazards which threaten opportunities for children, a more con- our daily lives. Actually we would tented old age and sounder community thereby have abolished destitution in life. Our present programs provide: America. Monthly payments for life to work- Special social security measures are ers insured under the Federal old-age necessary to meet our obligations to and survivors insurance system when members of the armed forces. We must they retire at the age 65 or later; not only secure to them the provisions monthly payments also to families of for which patriotic and honorable mili- retired workers or of insured workers tary service certainly makes them eligi- who have died. More than 60 million ble, but also to make certain they do persons have earned wage credits which not lose the protection they had earned count toward these benefits, and some while in civilian life. Recognizing this 700,000 persons now receive payments need, the President has urged, in addi- totaling about 12 million dollars a month. tion to trade-training, disability and Weekly payments to unemployed death compensation, pensions, medical workers insured under the state unem- and hospital care for the disabled, the ployment insurance systems. More than following:

40 million persons are covered. While 1. Measures to provide a regular in- less than 100,000 are now drawing these come to ex-service men and women dur- benefits, as many as 1.2 million work- ing the period of readjustment and ers received them during weeks in 1940 job-finding after demobilization.

when jobs were less plentiful. 2. Allowance of credit to all service Monthly cash payments to the needy men and women under unemployment FALSE TEETH KLUTCH holds them tighter aged, the needy blind, and dependent insurance and old-age and survivors in- KLUTCH foi-ms a c^mfm-t cushion ; holds (icntal children. Some three million persons surance for their period of service, plates so much firmer and snui^ffer that one can

eat and talk with greater comfort and security ; in now receive this assistance, which is regardless of whether they were in- many cases almost as well as with natural teeth. given by the States with the Federal sured under those systems before they Klutch lessens the constant fear of a dropping, rocking, chafing plate. 25c and 50c at druggists. . . Government sharing the cost. entered the armed forces. If your druggist hasn't it, don*t waste money on substitutes, but send us 10c and we will mail you These are impressive facts. But an Who among us will be satisfied, how- a generous trial box. (T) i. p. !nc. honest look at our social security sys- ever, once we provide these special KLUTCH CO., Box 3152-A, ELMIRA, N. Y. tem will reveal its gaps and weak- services? As the President pointed out, nesses as well as its achievements. When such provisions represent the least to DWARF FRUIT TREES we appraise our system as an ade- which members of the armed forces Many of them bear fruit the first year planted. Write for free catalog. quate tool to ease the shock of post- are entitled. I would not venture to STERN'S NURSERIES, Dept. S, Geneva, N. Y. war adjustment, as well as the effects define the "most" to which they are of economic misfortune which threaten entitled. But foremost among our ob- EVERBEARING RASPBERRIES all of us at any time, its shortcom- ligations to them I would place the as- and other Berry Plants which will fruit this summer. Write for free catalog. ings are apparent. Chief among them surance that they will return to a STERN'S NURSERIES, Depi. S, Geneva, N. Y. are: Exclusion of some 20 million homeland better than the one they left. persons from the protection of the old- As Walter Lippmann wrote recently, age and survivors insurance and un- we can repay the debt we owe the Tired Kidneys employment insurance systems; lack of men of Salerno Beach only by keep- insurance protection against sickness ing strong and certain in our hearts Often Bring and disability and against the costs of the meaning of their deeds. ''You can- medical care; difficulties in our unem- not pay," he wrote, "a soldier in dol- Nights ployment insurance system because the lars, in votes, in hours of pleasure, or Sleepless Doctors say your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny rates the same con- in tangible thing, same benefit and any other because tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and tired and don t tribution rates do not apply to work- those are the very things he gives up. keep you healthy. When they get work right in the daytime, many people have to get ers and employers in every part of our It may be forever, when he storms up nights. Frequent or scanty passages with smart- sometimes shows there is something provide bene- ing and burning nation, and do not always the beaches at Salerno. He has not •wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don't neglect this condition lose valuable, restful sleep. fits adequate to meet the needs of job- been paid at all in the only coin which and _ When disorder of kidney function permits i

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(Continued from page 26) of these vehicles are the men who com- And, when you come to think of it, prise what is generally known as "the things could hardly be otherwise, for trucking industry." among the 3,000,000 owners of the It was to them, therefore, that your 4,600,000 trucks in this country are Uncle said, in substance: "Boys, you're thousands of men who, from personal going to have to perform a few trans- experience in a certain other fracas of portation miracles. Not only is there world renown, know what it means to going to be an unprecedented number of soldiers, sailors, and marines to have tons of freight to be moved over the Your Watch with a Broken Crystal Is Useless food, clothing, and munitions where highways — and fast! — but you can't Exposed to Damage from Glass and Dust. they are needed, when they are needed, have any appreciable increase in trucks PROTECT YOUR WATCH— Avoid and in quantities that insure defeat of with which to do it. There won't be costly repairs—Go to any jeweler—ask for a G-S FLEXO CRYSTAL 100% an enemy. Take that trucking job for enough tires to go around; gasohne will BREAK-PROOF — Any size — Any the Oregon maneuvers. That was Con- be rationed, too; you'd better dig up shape. Can be fitted while you wait. solidated Freightways, whose normal some old bailing wire and mucilage, for Mfgrs. of military water-proof watches, gauges, instruments now use G-S FLEXO made of fleet of trucks already had more than repair parts will be scarcer than a rail- GOV T APPROVED PLASTICS. Same mate- they could haul. Yet, with a job to do, road man at a truckman's convention. rials are used for all G-S FLEXO crystals. GERMANOW-SIMON MACH. CO. Rochester, N. Y. in three days the boss and his staff And I'm gomg to take a lot of your men set up a whole new truck line of 45 into my armed forces." pieces of leased equipment, including Whew! Men of the trucking industry TRAIN-SICK organization, personnel, billing and re- are pre-eminently fellows who can take cording procedures. Then, under simu- it on the chin and come right back for Nausea, dizziness, stomach ^ lated, but nonetheless grueling, battle- more. They've had to be tough to make distress may lie prevented front conditions, they hauled food night their industry grow from the sprawling, and relieved with the aid of and day for those 75.000 hungry soldiers unruly, undisciplined, fast-growing brat Moih for a period of two months. that it was in the early 1930's to the Also, there are the two Overseas Truck orderly, well - conducted, government-

Regiments, recruited entirely from vol- supervised young giant that it is today.

unteers in the trucking industry back However, they've done it, and they If You in November of 1942. The War Depart- are continuing to do it, but just how, in ment wanted 200 applicants for officer- the face of the obstacles, they probably Get Up Nights ships and 1800 for enlistment in sub- don't exactly know themselves. Indica- ordinate capacities, all with truck trans- tive of the increase in freight trans- Feel Right portation experience. The destination ported by trucks are the figures an- You Can't was unannounced, the mission was secret nounced last October by Brigadier Gen- If you have to get up 3 or more times a night your rest is broken and it's no wonder if you feel and described as "vital," so the Army eral Robert H. Wylie, Acting Chief of old and run down before your time. Functional rather than organic or systemic Kidney and Blad- put it up to The American Trucking Transportation, Transportation Corps, der trouble often may be the cau.se of many pains and symptoms simply because the Kidneys may Associations, Inc., which is national Army Service Forces. He told the truck- not working fast enough in filtering be tired and headquarters industr>' with and removing irritating excess acids, poisons and for the of- men at their annual convention that blood. So if you get up nights or wastes from your fices in Washington. the total outbound tonnage of motor suffer from burning, scanty or frequent passages, or swollen ankles, due to non- leg pains, backache, The ATA wired 305 members of its carrier traffic from all installations for organic or non-systemic Kidney and Bladder troubles, why not try the prescription called Trucking Service War Council, and five the War Department for six months Cystex? Because it has given such joyous, happy relief in so high a percentage of such cases, days later the necessary personnel was ending December 31, 1941, was 139,800 Cystex is sold under a guarantee of money back on return of empty package unless completely lined up. As the top age limit was 45, tons. In the next six months, ending satisfactory. Cystex costs only 35e at druggists. quite a number of "retreads" found their June 30, 1942, it expanded to 559,000 way back into service in an entirely tons, while the ensuing half year saw WE new capacity. That was over a year a rise to 1.890,000 tons. But, for the ago, and they've since been heard from period ending June 30, 1943, the figure ToAnySuit! in Iran, in the shadow of the Pyramids, reached the astounding proportions of Double the life of your coat and vest with correctly and in other places where American 3,305,000 tons! And this in addition to matched pants. 1 GO , OOO patterns. Every pair hand tailored to your measure. truck operators never dreamed they the millions of tons of civilian freight. Our match sent FREE for your O, K. before panta are made. Fit gruaranteed. Send piece would have to "keep 'em rolling." "So far as the Army is concerned," ©f cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY But those aren't the only nor biggest said General Wylie, "the job could not 209 S. State St. Dept. 454 Chicago problems that have been tossed in the have been done without you." And then general direction of the trucking indus- he told them that they'd have to shoul- niCADI CnO COYNE has trained try since Pearl Harbor, and even before. der more of the increasing burden the UIOHDLLII : Hundreds of IVIen with By far the toughest have been right Army would be under in 1944. Physical Disabilities for Good Jobs i here at home. In the first place, accord- From the July, 1943, report by Joseph ing to Office of Defense Transportation B. Eastman, Director, Office of Defense estimates, out of all the trucks in this Here's an ideal future for fellows with Transportation, came a realistic summa- physical di^.'\bility — pleasant, easy bench work winding armatures, re- country, only about 600,000 are classed tion of what that means to the motor- pairinp home appliances, radios, elec- tric refrigeration, power plant control as "for-hire" vehicles. little ". A over four carrier industry: . . for the past year work. etc. "Leam-by-Doing" on real equipment at Coyne. Excellent facili- million are privately owned; three mil- and a half the ties and years of experience helping to country has been de- rehabilitate hundreds of men. Get big lion-odd are in commerce and industry; illustrated book and full details. State pendent on a supply of new trucks equal you prefer. Radio or Electricity. Mail coupon today! which and farmers operate slightly over a mil- to less than one-tenth H C. LEWIS, Pres., COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL of normal sup- i SOO South Paulina Street. Dept.l4-13H, Chicago 12, III. Send Hig FREE Bock on Coyne Training and tell me about lion. Although all these trucks today ply." The report stated 5 your disability.) that in contrast I yoor plans to help me. (Attach letter explaining are in manner in the [ 1 RADIO [ 1 ELECTRICITY engaged some war to rail cars and locomotives, trucks "are effort, the burden of what is known as distinctly short-lived property. Many ADDRESS "commercial hauling" falls wholly with- are now being operated which would in the "for-hire" group. The operators otherwise long ago have been replaced."

SO The AMERICAN LEGION Magaz^nf When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine Eastman's ODT did its best by re- open ... for greater motor vehicle questing the War Production Board for conservation," and congratulated the in- TH£MOKE WAR BONDS a minimum of 79,625 truck units dustry on its Joint Actions which brought you Buy TODAY during the first half of 1944, but the about an annual saving of 39,600,000 WPB knocked that idea flat with ap- truck miles. ...THE SOONER proval of but 47,919 units. Even the As to the continuance of the man- YOU'LL ENJOY 7500 heavy-duty vehicles that were power shortage, however, ODT Direc- authorized last June for production dur- tor Eastman says; "The conditions PEACE, ing the third and fourth quarters of which produced it will almost certainly PROSPERITY 1942 haven't come off the line, and only grow worse for some time to come. On about 100 of them were expected to be the other hand, there are ways and one/a NEW ." completed by the end of the year. Mean- means of obtaining relief . . One of while, as of October 2d, the reserve them, as anybody these days should stock pile, which contained 9100 heavy- know, is American womanhood. In Ches- duty jobs on May 23, 1942, was down ter, Pennsylvania, for instance, is Mrs. to 105—approximately one week's sup- Alma Dyke who, up to last October, had ply at the average rate of rationing. trained 150 girls between the ages of 21 Meanwhile, also, the "must" freight to and 35 to drive for Nu-Car Carriers, be hauled increases daily, particularly Inc., and—heaven bless 'em! —they're in the Far West which, more than any doing a grand job, as are their sisters other part of the nation, is dependent in comparable work all over the nation. on trucks. In California alone, some And yet, with constant demand for MIDWEST'S. two-thirds of all freight traffic moves by speed of delivery, with necessity for famous truck; in Nevada, more than 265 com- long hours at the wheel, with out-moded munities, containing over half the pop- equipment, the motor carriers have set FACTORY-TO-yOUPRICES ulation of the State, are dependent upon themselves an enviable record of safety truck transportation. For that matter, on the highways. Highway truck fatali- a/^ SAV/NOS ¥S 50% 54,453 communities in these United ties decreased 14 percent in 1942. and 30-DAyFRiE TRIAL States are serviced solely by motor Today, trucks haul 18 percent of all vehicles, and 20 of our larger cities re- freight—including that traveling by SEND FOR ceive all milk by truck. Mind you, it's rail, water, and air—and 25 percent as CALENDAR FREE* Send us 10c in stamps or coin for a War/ not just wartime traffic that has the much as the railroads. Motor carriers J /Savings Stamp and receive in addition an/ motor carriers running in little circles: pay more than a million a day in special /attractive 4-color calendar with Interna- It's milk for the nation's babies; it's 25 highway taxes, besides their regular busi- /tional Time Calculator absolutely FREE./ million tons of coal shipped from mines ness taxes. The industry's flexibility, in- MIDWEST RA DIO CORPORATION by truck; it's 98 percent of all live poul- genuity, and will-to-win has completely DEPT. WrW^mm: CINCINNAT4,-0HI0 try and 66 percent of all eggs received nullified the carpings of former critics. in 16 of the nation's largest markets. One of them, no less than Petroleum Now Many Wear As to manpower, the motor carriers, Coordinator Harold L. Ickes, once said: like every other sector of American in- "I have promised some day to give my- FALSE TEETH dustry, have lost some of their best self the pleasure of driving down a men to the armed services but, char- truck-infested road in the biggest ar- With More Comfort acteristically, they've been doing things mored tank that I can find and bumping FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline (non- acid) powder, holds fal.se teeth more firmly. about it. Between Pearl Harbor and those pests off the road." Today, it is: To eat and talk in more comfort, just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. No August I, 1942, the trucking industry "Your contribution has been so substan- gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. suffered a labor turn-over of 48.8 per- tial [in meeting oil transportation prob- Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug store. cent. That figure covered a 12.4 percent lems] that I should like to take this drain by the armed forces; 16.4 per- opportunity of acknowledging it pub- cent to war industries; 20 percent for licly." "Queen of the Market." Big Money Maker, reasons directly traceable, be- America's trucking industry certainly Large Solid Fruit— Excellent Canner not but To introduce to you our Viuorous Northern GrowD "Pure Bred" Garden Farm and t'lower lieved largely due to the latter cause. rates an Army-Navy E. Seeds, Bulba, Strawberry PlanU, Fraite and NurserF Itema we will mail you 125 Seeds of Condon's Giant Nothing daunted, the industry set out, EVERBEARING Tomato I f WWr I" iind our big 1944 Catalog. m Bm Im Jloat Complete ?>eed and Book — with aid from ODT and other organiza- . Nursery 600 pictures, many In color. Low Prices* tions, to lick this problem. Vocational OUTFIT NOTICES _ Write Today. Send Sr Stamp to cover Postag** CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN Roc".°.^r'd%...„.» training classes in automotive main- REUNIONS during this war period tenance have been established in 32 are few in number, but again we States and the District of Columbia, want to stress, as we have from time with more to follow. Larger trucking to time for years, that this office must concerns conduct their own classes, be advised at least five weeks in advance turning some drivers into mechanics as of the month in which a reunion is to be Frame a short cut to that profession, and hiring held so that announcement may appear. Single or Double 18 exp. 75c 16 exp. Split S5c new people to be drivers. • Soc. OF 3d Div.—Vets not receiving copies of 12 exp. Split 45c 8 exp. Roil 35c obtain sample copy _ • Through what is known as "Joint The Watch on the Rhine may by writing to Harry Cedar, assoc. editor, 4320 All miniature and split size film finished In our Actions," huge savings have been made Old Dominion Dr., Arlington, Va. famous 3 1/4 X 4 1/2 Beauty Prints—decided, em- Btry. a, 124th F. a.—25th annual reunion, bossed margin and embossed date. not only in manpower, but also in con- Springfield, 111., Jan. 8. Write L. E. Head, When mm is scarce and every anapshot ia doubly precious servation of equipment, tires, and gaso- Reisch Bldg., Springfitld. or Emmett Rebok, makeeveryahot count! Don' t takea chance and spoil good 800 S. 9th St., SpringHeld. film by poor developing and printing. Today, more than line. Essentially, "Joint Action" means 71st Regt. Vets. Assoc. (NYNG) and 54th ever, our careful, efficient, prompt service is your best pro- Pioneer Inf., AEF—Testimonial dinner to Gen. wasted film your best assurance of pride that where two or more truck lines cov- tection against — William G. Bates and reunion of N. Y., Phila- and satisfaction with your pictures. Send roll and money ered the same territory, duplication of delphia and Minnesota Chapters, Hotel Roose- or write for FREE mailers and samples—also complete velt, New York City, Jan. 22. Write Philip G. Price List. • • • • service has been eliminated to the point O'Connor, secy., 54th Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc., Artistic Contact Finishing. 8 exo. rolls com- wide- 3224—149th St.. Flushing, L. I., N. Y. plete set of deckled-edge, embossed, where there are enough trucks to do the margin prints. Credits lor failures. FREE En- 302d Engineers—Silver Jubilee Dinner, 77th largement Coupon witli each roll. job, and no more. The ODT believes Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St., New York City, Sat,, Feb. 19. A. Avignone, chmn., c/o Club- MAIL-BAG FILM SERVICE this to be "the most fruitful field now house. Dept.. 23 • Box 5440A • Chicago 80

JANUARY, 104+ 51 When Answering Advertise mi.nts Please Mention The American Legion M.^gazine 1944 -VICTORY YEAR The Editorial Viewpoint THE meetings of political and military leaders amazing personnel to implement the striking power of the United Nations in Africa and Asia point made available through this circumstance and the up a fact of the utmost importance: The war steadily growing Soviet war industry, will go forward can he won in 1944, and we'll be to blame, all of toward Berlin. us of the Allies, if it isn't. The pattern of victory We have the utmost faith in our military leaders' IS fairly clear. It envisages more and more of the judgment as to the proper time for the invasion of hammer blows from the air on German war pro- the continent from the west and/or through the duction which Alexander de Seversky and other Balkans. The casualties implicit in such invasions are Americans sincerely believe will by themselves per- sickeningly heavy. But every American who has a suade the Germans to quit. But it also plans for son or brother participating in them may be certain ground smashes at various points in the Fortress that every effort will be made to hold down our Europa. We count on the Russian pressure against bloodletting, consistent with the capture of the nec- the Hitler horde to continue and to grow throughout essary objectives. The Flag which was hauled down the winter, while the British and Americans hurl the at Ehrenbreitstein by General Allen on January 24, Germans out of Italy and get airfields which will 1923 will go up again in German cities in 1944. bring every factory in Roumania, Hungary, Austria, In all this we do not forget Japan. Not for nothirig Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Germany within five has Chiang Kai-shek participated in the historic con- hundred miles of our air bases in Russia, Britain ferences of November. The Australian and American and Italy. forces will continue to shrink the Nippon sphere of

The average German is frightened stiff at what is influence in drives from the East and South, while happening to Hitler's New World Order, and the the Chinese, British and Americans increase the pres- average member of the Nazi party is going to share sure from the Asiatic continent. When the Nazis that fright as the winter nights bring more and more fold the whole weight of an outraged civilization will devastating raids. The R.A.F. in Britain and the fall on the Japanese mainland, with such a devastat- Near East will pulverize the strategic areas of more ing thoroughness that even the Nipponese monkeys and more German-held territories, while the Amer- will realize the jig is up. Let's wind up the entire ican bombers in Italy and England, with strong mess before New Year's, 1945. fighter escort, do their daylight precision blasting as Now is the accepted time. Near is the day of a mop-up operation in the same cities. Russia, with salvation for the peoples who have sat these many the air and tank support of her allies and her own years in the darkness of a barbarous tyranny.

Major General Henry T. Allen hauls down Old Glory at Fort Ehrenbreitstein, January 24, 1923, symbolizing the end of the American occupation of German territor-

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