The American Legion Magazine [Volume 47, No. 3 (September 1949)]

STARTING IN THIS ISSUE

I SAW THE Gl BILL WRITTEN

BY DAVE CAMELON . . . PAGE n

there ever such happiness for a group of eager, excited youngsters as that day at the circus! It all started with the telephone girls who had taken gifts to the orphanage at Christmas. Someone said it would be nice to take three or four of the kids to the circus. The idea spread and all the girls began chipping in. Soon there was money enough to take not just three or four but 138!

It was a wondrous day and when it was over it was difficult to say wlio was happier —the young sleepyheads going home on the buses or those who made it all possible.

We mention this because it tells a great deal about the kind of people in the telephone business. They try to be good neighbors and good citizens, as well as good Emmett Kelly, the famous clown, and a youth- telephone people. ful admirer at the Ringling Bros, and Barnum The very nature of telephone work brings & Bailey Circus in Madison Square Garden. them close to the lives and the problems and the emergencies of many people. Their spirit of helpfulness and service extends to many activities beyond the job. ? _m_ Vj BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM It may be a welfare drive. Or being ever-ready to lend a hand in worth-while community affairs. Or just by helping a number of orphaned youngsters have a happy day at the circus. fiair^nJ scalp Vol. 47 Qmd No. 3 THE AMERICAN ^rom SummerSun { POSTMASTER: September, 1949 Please send copies returned CONTENTS under labels Form

to 3579 Post Office I Saw the Gl Bill Written — Part I by david camelon 11 Box 1055, Indian- The inside story telling how this most important apolis 6, Indiana. legislation was enacted

What Army Are They Talking About?, .by henry felsen 14 The Ameiican Legion Moga- According to writers of war stories all GIs zine is the official publico- tion of The American Legion were half-wits and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copy- They Howl for Justice by gabriel pressman 16 right 1949. Published monthly ot 1100 W. Broodway, An eye-witness account of two trials dealing Louisville, Ky. Acceptance with communists for mailing at special rote of posfoge provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. Football Forecast for '49 by ed fitzgerald 18 3, 1917, outhorized Jon. 5, 1925. Price, single copy, 15 What's ahead for this year's pigskin-toters Summer's tough on hair. Sun and water cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Entered os second leave hair dry, brittle . . . scalp parched, Everybody Gets a Break by clarence woodbury 20 class motter June 30, 1948, flaky. That's why you need Vitalis and the ot the Post Office at Louis- Free enterprise as practiced by a famous "60-Second Workout!" 50 seconds' massage ville, Ky., under the Act of American firm Morch 3, 1879. with Vitalis (1) stimulates, refreshes scalp EXECUTIVE AND prevents dryness routs flaky How To Welcome Burglars to Your House (2) (3) dandruff ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES (4) helps check excessive falling hair. BY DONALD B. ROBINSON 22 Indionapolis 6, Indiono EDITORIAL AND Most people make it a cinch for crooks to help ADVERTISING themselves One Park Avenue

New York 16, N. Y. Two More Rooms for Less than $600. . . .by kitty york 24 WESTERN OFFICE What to do with that expansion attic 333 North Micliigan Avenue Chicogo 1, Illinois The Man with the Glass Jaw (fiction) James F. O Neil, Mon- ^''Summer by ALFRED J. CARTER 26 fimf chester. New Hampshire, Chairmon of the Legion He had met the champ before, in a shell hole Publications Commission; Lowrence W. Hager, Owens- boro, Kentucky ond Don W. The Town That Came Back .... by howard m. roshkow 28 Emmett, Venture, Colifor- nio, Vice-Chairmen. Mem- Two veterans made a big change in Buchanan, bers of the Commission: Georgia Vilos H. Whaley, Racine, Wis.; Tom W. McCow, Dennison, Ohio; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, DC; Paul B. Dogue, Dov*ning- ^ The National Legionnaire 29-36 A town. Pa.; Josephus Daniels, Jr., Roleigh, N. C.; George D. Levy, Sumter, S. C; Dr. Chorles R. Logon, Keokuk, FEATURES lowQ; Earl L. Meyer, Alli- once. Neb.; Chorles E. Previews 4 Report from Hollywood. 44 Booth, Huntington, W. Vo.; A. C. Jackson, Lubbock, Editors' Corner 6 Life in the Open 52 Texas; Max Slepin, Philo- delphio. Pa.; Rolond Co- Sound Off! 8 Vets with Ideas 59 crehom. Baton Rouge, Lc; George D. Baron, Bethany, Newsletter 37 Parting Shots 64 Conn., Long Armstrong, Spokane, Wash.; Eorl what 10 seconds' combing does notify the Circulation Division, Now look Hitchcock, Glens Foils, N. Y.; Please Department, Publications P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana, if you hove changed your address, using for your hair! Neat ... set to stay in its hand- Edgar G. Vaughn, St. Paul, Minn.; Harold A. Shindler, notice form 22S which you will secure from your Postmaster, Be sure to place . . . protected from sun and water some Newburgh, Ind.; Emmett cut off the address label on your magazine and paste it in the space pro- damage. No "patent-leather" shine—Vitalis Sofay, Jacksonville, Fla. vided. Always give your 1949 membership cord number ond both your new and your old address. contains no greasy liquid petrolatum—just Director of Publications Jomes F. pure, natural vegetable oil. Get Vitalis at Barton Indionopolis, Ind. any drug counter. Individual application at Ass't to Director your barber shop. Frank Lisiecki September is the month for state and Editor fairs Josepli C. Keeley county all over America, and Cover Artist Wally Richards has Advisory Editor Alexander Gardiner caught the feel of the operations aloft Managing Editor and on the midv^ay in his design. The Boyd B. Stutler annual Kansas State Fair at Topeka Art Editor was the model for the drawing, but Al Marshall fairgoers will recognize the layout as Associate Editors typical of what goes on during Fair Robert B. Pitkin Week everywhere. Irving Hersctibein Advertising Director Fred L. Maguire Eostern Advertising Manager Product of Russell Brislol-Myen Holt Western Advertising PICTURE CREDITS: Acme, INS, 16j INS, Wide World, 18; Sid Latham, Sunny Manoger Gottlieb, 22; Tom Carew, 24. '60-Second Workout Fred E. Crawford, Jr.

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PRICES INCLUDE FEDERAL TAX Serial No. of 1949 Membership Card is. Pkbvikwb ofFivdticts, Inventions, Ideas means PfpeAf^f and A sampling of products which are in process of develoi^ment or are coming on the market CAR CONTROLS FOR PARAPLEGICS. Robert G. Steward, himself a paraplegic, has invented antl is manufacturing a set of mechanical hand controls for others who are Prince Albert disaliled and wish to drive an automobile. These can be attached to any make of car, installation can be on either the right- or left-hand side of the steering wheel, and they are operated with only one hand. The accelerator is worked with a cable, like a motorcycle hand brake. The dimmer switch is built into the control and works with a flick of the thumb. The brake mechanism is so Iniilt that the lightest pressure applies the brakes. There is only one arm attached to the steering column, and the entire mechanism is built inside of one control. A set of controls sells for $65 with complete instructions for installing, and can be obtained fr

ELECTRIC BROOM. A now kind of carpet sweeper in which an electrically driven broom whisks back and forth 3500 times a minute to clean rugs is being inti'oduced by the Davis Manufacturing Co., Piano, 111. Not a vacuum cleaner, the Electro-Sweep, as it is called, is said by the manufacturer to create a strong sucking and pumping action by the brush movement. Another unusual feature is that it does not have a roller brush but one which resembles a broom. In appearance, the sweeper resembles an upright vacuum cleaner without the customary ba.g. The price, $19.95.

SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW. An ornamental device for air refreshing is the Freshaire Lamp being manufactured by Metro Specialties Co., 3C3 Broadway, New York. Made in the shape of an old-fashioned wick lamp in miniature, it carries the deodorizing fluid in the base and it can be regulated by raising or lowering the wick. The fluid is non-inflammable and has a mild aroma, and is said to last from 10 months to a year without refilling. The complete unit including fluid sells for $1.98 postpaid. Heig boundto bepopular SILENT NIGHTS. For those who give out with sound effects ^ while asleep a new device is going on the market which - he!! got is said to end the annoyance for good within a month. f>/^, Called No- Snore, it fits the mouth, resting between the with ;i pipe has an extra mascu- # A man lips and teeth, and it opens when the wearer opens his latlies. with Prince line appeal for the And mouth. Its purpose is to end snoring by encouraging proper yt>u're headed for Albert in your pipe — breathing. Made by the No-Snore Co., 624 S. Michigan comfort. P. A.'s choice, smoking joy and Blvd.. Chicago 5. it retails for $2. crimp cut tobacco is specially treated to insure against tongue bite. Get mild, rich-tasting P. A.—America's largest-selling smoking tobacco! TWO-WAY FAUCET. Now you can make any faucet do double duty by means of a clever device called the GREAT FOR Founcet. This is a simple metal attachment which is "MAKIN'S" pushed onto the faucet, permitting it to deliver a stream r of water for drinking, or CIGARETTES, upward down. A rubber cou- pling allows it to fit any size faucet, and a lever on the TOO! side makes the change from a drinking fountain to con- R.J. KeynoldB ventional down-flow. Made by Handy Ann Products, 104 Tul>acci> Co.. w ton-Saletn, N. First St.. Minneapolis, the Founcet sells for $2 postpaid. N.C.

GET THE HOOK. An extremely simple and versatile device for carrying clothes is the Handi-Hook being introduced by the Gayelon Co., 2848 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles 6. Designed so it can be used at home or in an automobile, it consists of two removable CRfMp back plates — one for home use, the other for the car — together with a hook which CUT holds three coat hangers. It can be attached as a permanent fixture or quickly detached, and can be employed in either a vertical or horizontal position. Made of light-weight cadmium-plated metal, the Handi-Hook retails for a dollar.

• The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 EASY AS PIE. You'd better start ducking, because now your TEO AUEN eitoblishes New wife can throw away her rolling pin. Coming on the market World Record by to supplant this traditional symbol of baking (and author- pitching 36consecu< ity) is a new kind of dough roller that operates somewhat five double ringers

. . . that's amazing like a small tractor. Made of Bakelite, it consists of a cir- DOUBLE ACTION I cular frame, seven inches in diameter, in which are set eight parallel rollers. The housewife, grasping the roller's plastic handle, can spread a lump of dough to perfect pie crust proportions in a matter of seconds. The price of the plastic rolling pin is $1.69 and the manufacturer is Magnus Harmonica Corp., 4."!9 Frelinghuysen Ave., Newark, N. J.

WATER INJECTION SYSTEM FOR YOUR CAR. A device whereby water vapor can be used in automobile engines, a.s il was u.sed in aircraft during World War II, has been announced by the Commonwealth Carburetor Corp., 1940 Addison St., Berkeley. Cal. Called the Octagane Water Injector, it feeds water from a tank into the carburetor, maintaining the correct water-airfuel mixture by means of the Venturi principle. Operation is automatic and (he water vapor is always in the correct ratio for maximum efliciency under any power load or at any engine speed. The manufacturer claims that the device gives an increase in speed, power and mileage using low grade fuels. The Octagane sells for less than $25, and is described by the maker as simply and easily installed in cars, trucks, tractors, and other automotive or marine equipment.

PORTABLE TRANSPORTATION. If you get tired riding you can now walk and carry your vehicle, thanks to Legion- naire K. T. King who is marketing a small, collapsible motor scooter which weighs only 40 pounds. Called the Scooter Cub, the tiny vehicle folds into a small unit 14 by I8V2 by 231/2 inches so it can be fitted into the luggage compartment of a small plane or car. It is powered by a lightweight, high speed motor, has an automatic clutch and ball bearing wheels. It carries an adult at 20 m.p.h., and travels 100 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Retailing for $149.50, the Cub is being offered by the Argyle Manufacturing Co., 600 Coal St., Colchester, 111.

INFANTS WEAR. To keep babies comfortable and free from chafing and rash caused by wet clothes, bedding, etc., a new kind of diaper called Dri-Diap is being introduced by Diapette, Inc., 12720 Lake Shore Blvd., Cleveland. This consists of two elements. One is the diaper garment proper, which sells for a dollar, and the other a disposable insert pad of highly absorbent material. The pads will retail for five cents apiece. The garment is of the pin-on t.vpe made for comfort, easy washing and rapid drying, and it contains a moisture-proof vinyl plastic envelope which holds the pads.

14-CYLINDER ICE TRAY. An ice tray which makes cylinders instead of cubes is being offered by Ivan Scott Bailey, 7 Cornish Road, Binghamton, N. Y. Designed primarily to make pop-sticks of fruit juices, chocolate milk, etc., for in motor oil, too! children, it can also be used to make ices for fancy salads and desserts. Another advantage of the ice cylinders is Sound your *'Z" that they can be readily inserted in thermos bottles and ice bags. The cylinders, two inches long and an inch in for PENNZOIL diameter, can be readily removed from the unit, which fits the tray compartment of an electric refrigerator. Di- mensions of the Cyl-Tray are 11 by 3-'!8 by 2 inches. Re- tail price is $2.50, and Cyl-Stiks to make pop-sticks are availabl instant protection while your engine worms up! WATER-POWERED DISHWASHER. A portable dishwasher which requires no electricity and which is said to wash dishes in four or five minutes, using no more hot water than old-fashioned hand cleaning requires, is being marketed by the Cameron Cor- /rSTAYS poration, 2066 E. 70th St., Cleveland. The unit is powered entirely by water pressure lasting lubrication no through a snap-on hose connected to any faucet. Called the Cameron Portable Dish- matter how hard you drive! washer, it contains a "Stack-Easy" basket which is rotated by four jets of water, and the dishes are washed by water pressure and soaking action. They dry by themselves

after their hot bath. Weight of the machine is 1S\ > pounds, it is made of rustproof metals with enamel outside, and has a transparent pyrex cover. Retail price is $49.95.

TO PREVENT TUMBLING. Window guards, made especially for standard steel casement windows from 341/2 to 36V2 inches wide, are now on the market, made by Gard-Rite, Inc., 37 Walker St., New York City. Designed to keep children or anyone else from falling out of windows, the unit consists of two side supports which fit into place at the sides of the window, together with four bars which are inserted into properly spaced sleeves. The bars are made secure by the expansion action produced by a nut threaded on one end of each bar, and they are permanently held in place by a set screw. All parts are made of cold-rolled steel, heavily nickel plated to resist rust. At beffer dealers, coast to coast They cost $4.95 postpaid. :*r«<] Trad« M&i Mcml>or Penn. Gra

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The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • Adrrj t isn>ifnt

From where I sit Joe Marsh ^ ATTICS, BURGLARS AND FOOTBALL Fortunately, by December you will have forgotten this issue, so you won't remember to wi'ite us a hot letter asking whatever became of our All American team. You see, as a time saver, we're list- ing this year's All America eleven in advance, and while we're at it we're picking all the sectional college champions. No Watch Out For sense playing any of the games now, for the results are all there in Football Fore- cast for '49, on page 18. Don't hang the board of experts. They sent author Ed The Symptoms! Fitzgerald the best information available cind Ed climbed out on a limb with us by putting it all together to spell Laughed right out loud when I c-r-y-s-t-a-1 b-a-1-1. Ya wanna argue? A few months ago we ran a piece telling heard Hoot Davis had come down with how to beautify a cheese-box house, and were gratififed to learn from many readers Chicken Pox. A man of forty-five that they were putting the ideas into catching a kid's disease! practice. Well, here we are again, this time with some suggestions for making America's thousands of expansion attics I went to see him, armed with jokes habitable. If you have one of those un- about "second childhood" but forgot finished second-floors (or even a real them fast when I got there. Hoot attic) take a peek at Two More Roovis jor Less Than $600, page 24. looked awful and had quite a fever. And if you are a home owner, or just learning how to be a burglar, we recom- mend Donald Robinson's How To Wel- While we talked, I thought of how come Burcjlars to Yovr House on page 22. Chicken Pox is a lot like other "dis- HOW COME THE Gl BILL? eases'' —diseases of the character, such It is a long time since we've run a as intolerance, self-righteousness or serial on these pages, but our opening just plain ignorance. They're excus- article is the first of a three-part account -/ Sou; the Gl Bill Written, by David able in children, but when they come Camelon. Mr. Camelon, as a Washington reporter who jDersonally covered the pas- out in adults they're ten times as bad sage of the Gl Bill, describes the full —and can be mighty "contagious." political battle — from long before the beginning to the last thrilling climax. His story may be the first published account From where I sit, we shoxild all of what it takes behind the scenes to watch out for the "symptoms" — little enact a piece of important legislation in the Congress of the United States. You things like criticising a person's prefer- will note that the story is not only for ence for a friendly glass of temperate lawyers and legislators, but for just plain beer or ale. We've seen freedom wither readers, too. In Camelon's account you will find a thrilling, heartwarming, cour- away in other countries, when in- ageous tale — full of heroes and villains dividual intolerance was allowed to and tragic victims, with a measure of con- spiracy, pride and self denial which puts get out of hand and become a nation- fiction to shame. The climax (coming in wide epidemic. November) beats Paul Revere's ride. The Gl Bill was a tremendous achieve- ment. What would have happened without it nobody knows, and we can only guess from the history of apple-peddling heroes after War One, who might have been multiplied by four or six this time. With the Gl Bill, starting in the summer of 1945 close to fourteen million men and women were reabsorbed into the economy of this nation in a matter of a few months. Yet the most concerted kind of action by more than a million of its cham- Copyri/yht. 1949, United States Brewers Foundation g • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 pions was required to create the Bill as law, and at that it was a rough battle. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING The only man who witnessed both the three-day trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary and the marathon trial of eleven American communist leaders in Judge Medina's New York court is Gabriel Stanley Pressman. In They Howl For Justice, page 16, he presents the serious comedy of a comparison of justice on each side of the Iron Curtain. Read it and see how unwittingly our little red brothers have energetically demonstrated that the highest order of democracy the world has ever seen is right here at home. If Abbott & Costello teamed with Lewis Carroll and Groucho Marx it is doubtful they could come up with anything so incongruous as the communist idea of justice, and we are waiting for the day when both the defense and the prosecution in some il- lustrious trial are heavily backed by Marxists. It'll be the darnedest thing you ever saw. Unfortunately, while communist logic is funny, there is nothing funny about being funny with justice or human liberties. You might be interested to know that author Pressman, a 25-year-old traveling Pulitzer scholarship holder, was one of two Americans who saw the Mindszenty trial, and he got inside the courtroom because of a comic error. Having written some news reports which didn't please the reds while he was in Germany, Press- man was placed on an Iron Curtain blacklist. But when Gabriel Stanley Pressman applied for a visa to Hungary,

never believing he would get it, some- body wired permission to issue a visa to "Gabriel Stanley, American pressman." Arriving in Budapest just as an excuse was found to refuse a New York Times reporter a visa to cover the Mindszenty trial. Pressman said he'd cover the story for the Times. They wouldn't let him in the first day because "there was no room." Pressman' story to the Times that there was "no room" although photos showed plenty of empty seats, came back to Hungary via the Voice of America and BBC. Anxious to "prove" that the Car- dinal's trial was open to the world press, Hungarian officials grudgingly admitted him to the second day of the trial. They then tried to discourage him by telling him the Times wasn't using his copy. Left wing publications in this country still try to discredit Pressman's stories by calling him a "youth" and saying the Times itself discredited him and didn't print his stories. This odd piece of propaganda warns people not to believe Press- man's stories in the Times because Press- man's stories weren't in the Times. Pressman says the Times used every word he sent. He is indeed a youth, a graduate of New York University and the Columbia School of Journalism, formerly on the staff of the Newark (N. J.) Eve- ning News, a veteran of three years on a sub-chaser in the South Pacific, recipient of a $1500 Pulitzer scholarship. He was able to walk right into Judge Medina's New York courtroom, as were the reporters of the communist Daily Worker- even though there was little room, r.b.p.

The American Legion Magazine * September, 1949 • y jobs or take a trip, you can consign your- selves to the lower suite of the seventh hell. As for fingerprinting those persons en- tering the country under an American passport, well and good. Just take their fingerprints as a requirement for one of our valuable passports. Henry L. Alsmeyer, Jr. Bishop, Tex. SOUND OFF! I have just read Mr. LaVarre's excellent rendition of the civilian Writers must give name and address. Name with- identification system that is in use in Chile. held if requested. So many letters are being re- It appears to me that the merits of ceived it is not possible to promise answers. Keep . such your letter short. Address: Sound Off, The American a system outweigh the slight inconven- Legion Magazine, One Park Ave., New York 16, N, Y. iences by a wide margin. I have long wished that the United States would SHIFT Robertson, for the White Sox, over De- adopt such a system, but being just an- troit, April 30, 1922. On May 2, 1917 the other taxpayer without connections I have I just read your article Who Wants a Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs op- never aired my views. Car? by Hank Felsen, in your July issue. posed each other. Fred Toney, 235 lbs., With the world leadership now firmly Wonderful. If you have tried to buy a car, pitched nine no-hit innings for the Reds. upon our shoulders and with every indi- new or used, in the last few years as I Jim (Hippo) Vaughn, at 220 lbs., pitched cation of its remaining it have, you would jump up and down with there, follows nine no-hit innings for the Cubs. But that our defense and economy are now, glee. As we were reading the story in my Vaughn allowed two infield hits in the more than ever, of paramount importance office aloud, my local dealer called to tell tenth, including one by Jim Thorpe, and to the survival of civilization. me he had a super sedan for me to try lost 1-0 to Toney, who spun another no- Not least among the problems facing us over the coming weekend. Did I laugh! hit inning in the tenth. Both of these men is the common knowledge that agents of This is now definitely a buyers' market. permitted walks, but in the annals of a potential enemy are filtering into our More power to Hank and let's have more no-hitters the game is a classic. Editors nation at an increasing tempo. articles like his. thoughts are that such nation- John H. Conner My a SHOULD WE USE CHILE'S SYSTEM? wide identification system would bring Seattle, Washington this menace to a fast halt. I do not know The July issue, which arrived this the best method of bringing this to the TWO SYLLABLES, ANYWAY morning, is certainly a good one. Fiction man on the street but if all your readers and fact articles, they are really all right. I question the pronunciation of dengue feel as I do, I'm sure that some veteran You Have To Be Yourself in Chile (Were You Exposed to Tropical Disease?, can offer some concrete suggestion as to brought one question to mind. It is based by Dr. J. B. Rice, July issue) as given the proper plan of attack. Speak up, men upon what I saw of identification cards for dengu. — let's protect our families. the populations of European countries and T. F. McCarthy B. C. Hulsey have read of them. Waltham, Massachusetts Little Rock, Ark. This question is, "Why cannot the Dr. Rice says he has a dictionary which Chilean cards be forged also?" The finger- I have just read You Have To Be Your- says it's dengu (deng-you). Almost makes prints are on the card, of course, but it self in Chile. As soon as I can I will ob- us want to answer, "You're welcome." still seems to me that a smooth operator tain a 2Vi" by 3" portrait of myself. On the However, our office Webster says the would have no trouble unless he should back will be my signature, social security word ought to be pronounced either have his card picked up. number, birth date, birthplace and right deng-gay or deng-ee. Most GIs knew the And, if you want us Americans to be thumb print. This will be notarized and fever as deng-ee. Editors checked upon every time that we change ( Contimied on page 62)

BASEBALL'S BIG MOMENTS

Our family enjoyed your little baseball quiz. Can You Name Your Ballplayers? (July issue.) Now will you identify the player in the enclosed picture for a contest we are interested in? Mrs. Cynthia Russell Philmont, New York The photo Mrs. Russell sent us shows a fuzzed-up picture of a ballplayer, and asks contestants to name him. Clues given include (1) he was one of the first college ballplayers to play in the major leagues and (2) his greatest game was a 1-0 no-hitter in which no opposing player reached first base — a perfect game with no runs, hits, walks or errors. We are told that six such perfect games have been pitched in the majors. This particular pitcher is the late Addie Joss, ex-University of Wisconsin, who perfect- pitched for Cleveland against Chicago on Oct. 2, 1908 - and the first man to tell us so was comrade Fred B. Kunselman, postmaster of Meadville, Pa., who set Jack Mrs. Hilda Abraham, Auxiliare of Fremont, Wis., struck by the similarity between her Martin, Meadville sports editor to work dog Pete and the dog in Tim Henry's cover drawing for our June issue, posed Pete to answer Mrs. Russell's question. Most with her granddaughter, Lynn Helena Abraham, two years old, and the magazine. recent perfect game was a 2-0 victory by Lynn's father, Carl K., and two other sons of Mrs. Abraham served in World War Two.

g • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 What Makes X)^ZZIZ WRlte Like tH is?

BUZZIE is just learning to write. That's why the Payroll Savings Plan and the blessing. And every line he writes starts out with big, Bond-A-Month Plan are such a They are "human-nature-proof." generous letters and ends up with little squeezed- up ones. For you don't have to keep batting yourself

The trouble, of course, is that he hasn't learned over the head to save money when you're on one to plan ahead. He concentrates on making those of these plans. The saving is done for you—auto- big letters, and lets the end of the line take care matically. of itself. And remember, every U.S. Savings Bond you Many grownups have the same trouble Buzzie buy brings you $4 in ten years for every $3 in- has—not with their handwriting, but with their vested. money. So don't let your life run on like Buzzie's hand- They blow it all at the beginning, when it looks writing. Fix up the "end of the line" once and for like there's nothing to worry about, and let the all by signing up today for the Payroll Savings "end of the line" take care of itself. But it prac- Plan — or, if you are not on a payroll, the Bond- tically never does. A-Month Plan at your bank.

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By DAVID CAMELON

. An eyewitness account of the wartime battle in Washington to create the GI Bill of Rights,

First of three parts ^ART One The Fight for Mustering Out Pay

HE FORGOTTEN BATTALION"? Bill Smith could have told you what it was, in that fall of 1943 — Bill Smith, or Troy Lucas, or Lawrence Edward Mahoney. Bill Smith, paralyzed by a Jap bomb on Guadalcanal. Troy Lucas, who left his right leg in Tunisia. And Lawrence Edward Mahoney, who never saw combat, who had both his hands torn off, and one eye blinded by the explo- sion of a hand grenade in a training camp in Texas. Yes, they could have told you the misery, the sick bewilderment of "The Forgotten Battalion" — the legion of the disabled, who had come home in mid-war to delay, neglect and disillusion. But no one knew of them, no one had spoken for them in that fall of 1943 — until CASE 12. Totally blinded. Discharged in June, 1943. No help yet (November 29, 1943) CASE 17. Discharged totally disabled. Claim held up six months by red tape

I SAW THE GI BILL WRITTEN (Continued)

Opposition to Mustering Out PayA^^rns ofTrouble Akead for GI Bill

The American Legion spoke, in a voice of cold, calculated fury that shook America. Those were unreal, complacent days in Washington. War and its harsh truths were far away. Casualties were unpleasant—but we could accept them as necessary. They were statistics; part of the cost of war — and they happened to other people; people far away from the Pentagon Building, the Mayflower Cocktail Lounge, or the House and Senate Office Buildings. We were too busy fighting the Battle of Washington — even many like myself who were newspaper correspondents—to know the truth: the utter loneliness of the battlefield, the tragedy of the human backwash of war. Perhaps we should not be blamed too much — for the myriad interests of Washington were part of the war, too; the easy, comfortable part. The easy, comfortable complacency ended abruptly on November 29, 1943 — the day that National Commander Warren Atherton of The American Legion gave the story of "The Forgotten Battalion" to the Congress. It was a shocking, incredible story of disabled men — their minds twisted, bodies torn in battle — shunted out of hospitals, out of the armed forces into a world of callous reality, of heartbreaking delay and neglect — even, in far too many cases, of actual distress. Everybody was going to "do something" for the veterans "after the war."

CASE 13. Discharged insane, April, 1943. Not even examined eight months later

12 It was a nice thought, but hazy. Meanwhile soldiers, sailors agnosis: hemiplegia, spastic, left." What do they mean? and marines were being shot and discharged. But the pub- That meant that the Jap grenade smashed in the right lic had forgotten that before a war ends it has its vetei"ans. side of Bill's head, messed up the delicate nerves in his It seems impossible to believe, now, that thousands of brain, and left his left side paralyzed. disabled men discharged during the war were forced to Bill was declared "unfit for service" on January 13, 1943. depend upon charity for their very existence for months From that date on, the Army knew Bill would never fight before the country they had fought to defend got around again, and that after his discharge he would need help. He to caring for them. was discharged from the hospital and the Army on July Incredible, too, that no one but The American Legion 3, six and a half months later. spoke for them; that no one but The American Legion un- There were plenty of laws on the statute boks to take dertook to find out what care of Bill after his dis- was happening, and, hav- charge. Every disabled vet- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ )f If. If j^. ing found out, to fight for eran discharged for serv- them relentlessly and un- TREMENDOUS RECORD OF THE GI BILL ice - connected disabilities ceasingly until some meas- was eligible to these broad To the end of 1948 the jollowing number of ure of human justice was benefits, according to his veterans had benefitted from the GI Bill given to them. needs: But the facts forced be- Unemployment compensation 8,543,000 1. Monthly compensation lief — the cold, inescapable Education and training 5,124,000 ranging from $10 to $100, facts marshaled and pre- Home, business and farm loans 1,346,000 with additional statutory sented by the Legion. awards granted in certain ^ "The Forgotten Bat- 1^ * 1^ -V- f ^ ^ ¥ ¥ ^ f- cases — for blindness, para- talion"? lysis, loss of limbs, etc. — Yes, Bill Smith could, indeed, have told you what it which might bring the awards as high as $250. (Today the was. That is not his name. His real identity is contained basic awards have been increased to from $13.80 to $138 a in the Legion files which were the basis of Atherton's month.) report. It is not necessary here. 2. Free hospitalization and medical treatment. Bill Smith enlisted in the Army, July 13, 1940. He be- 3. Vocational rehabilitation and trade school or other lieved that, if there was going to be trouble — and he did educational training up to four years, with monthly allow- not see how America could stay out of war for long — his ances during his rehabilitation. country needed him, even though his aging mother was Yes, the laws were on the books which would have taken dependent on him for support. In the service of his coun- care of Bill. try he went to Guadalcanal, and there met the Jap grenade The trouble lay in making those benefits available to that all but ended his life. Stretcher bearers carried him him. After his discharge. Bill had to make a claim for from the battlefield, and doctors made this diagnosis: disability rating and compensation. Before his claim could "Penetrating wound, right parieto-occipital region; di- be acted upon, his service record and medical record had to be certified to the Veterans Administration, a rating board had to consider his case, and his condition and need had to be determined. You'd think that in the six months Bill lay in the hospital—the six months that elapsed between January 13, when EVEN AFTER Commander Ath- he was called "unfit for service" and July 3, when he was erton presented the 1,536 cases a discharged — someone would have looked ahead; would Congressman cried: "Our boys didn't go to war for money! For have anticipated Bill's needs, and would have assembled dollars! Why when a boy dies all the necessary records so that his claim might be han- we put an American flag on his dled immediately. coffin!" But it didn't happen that way. They handed Bill his discharge — and nothing else. No money, no clothes, nothing but a warning that he could wear his uniform for only 90 days, and after that he'd have to find some civilian clothes. On the day he was discharged, his army pay stopped. So did the allotment he had been sending his mother — the only money she had. They sent Bill home paralyzed, and penniless; sent him home to wait four long months before his claim was adjudicated. He was, finally, rated 50 percent disabled, and vocational rehabilitation was recommended. How did Bill and his mother live during those months? No one seemed to know, or, apart from the Legion, to care. Perhaps he was able to drag his paralyzed body to his neighbor's door for a handout. Bill's case was not an isolated one — not unique in its record of callous neglect. With controlled fury. Commander Atherton presented the records of 1,536 other men — men who had been (Continued on page 46)

13 What ArmyAre Thej

apology to the veterans they insult. A few years ago, when the issue of WW Big was still in doubt, we men in If you want to write a best-selling novel, a suc- uniform showed up in fiction as the cream of America's bright-eyed, in- telligent youth. In every book, story cessful play or a movie with plenty of B.O., forget or third-rate movie it was the gallant PFC who had the striking profile, the the fellows you knew in service. Instead, dream up clear eyes, the enemy code book, the leg of the chicken and the hand of the heroine. a batch of characters from the booby-hatch This honeymoon between the uniform and the typewriter lasted until it was certain that victory was ours. The dust hadn't settled on what was left of Hiroshima before the writers stopped calling attention to G.I. Joe's ILLUSTRATED BY SYD LAND hint that I was a bigger slacker than handsome features, and began point- iNTlL A SHORT TIME AGO I WaS a a pair of size 42 pants on size 32 hips. ing out that his uniform was dirty and

veteran and proud of it. But The reason for my change in atti- there was alcohol on his breath. 2^ that is all in the past. Today tude can be traced to the flood of war As near as I can figure, most of these if anyone asks where I spent books and movies that are being writ- works are being penned by veteran the war years, I wink knowingly and ten and produced without a word of ROTC cadets and former PX Raiders 14 Talking About ? By HENRY G. FELSEN

who never got closer to action than the particular nincompoop you were dur- general is that his wife is the cousin front seat at a newsreel. Personally, ing the war, I will run through the of a civil service employee in Gitchmo, I don't care how many battleships they list, and give you an idea of what the Wisconsin. He is so dumb lie doesn't blow up with hand grenades, but I do non-uniformed people think you did. even know which end of the swagger object when every American fighting To start at the top, the literary com- stick the bullet comes out of. man is portrayed as a sloth or slob. manding general or admiral is the kind All day long the general sits in his The way it is now, current literature of officer who couldn't deploy a troop office looking at maps, muttering he is has just about convinced the civilian of Boy Scouts for a weenie roast. He a lonely old man who only wants to population that the three kinds of vet- has had no military background, and cultivate his blooded turnips and breed erans are not those who were soldiers, the only reason he has been made a his racing (Continued on page 60) sailors and marines, but those who were lazy, crazy, or hazy. In order to make things easy, most writers and movie men have nar- rowed the wartime strength of the United States armed forces to a confused general, two handsome lieutenants, one sadistic sergeant, and five or six foul-mouthed idiots without stripes or bars. If you are a veteran, you au- tomatically fall into one of these cate- gories, accoi-ding to your former rate or rank. In case you don't know which \ They Howl for Justice

THE COMMUNIST lEADERS SMUGLY ANTICII>ATE ACOUJTTAL. USUAUY THEY WERE NOT SO QUIET, BUT JOINEO WITH THEIR LAWYERS IN BADOCRIN6 THC ^UD6|

on all counts. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, stripped of his property and banished from public life. Meanwhile, on January 17, Eugene A reporter who covered the trial of Cardinal Dennis and ten other American com - munist big shots stood in the modern Federal Court building on Foley IVIindszenty and that of the commie leaders before Square in New York in a courtroom packed with reporters from the world press, to face charges of teaching and Judge Medina presents some significant contrasts advocating the overthrow of the government by force. Fifty-six days later, with the jury box yet unfilled, the offense was still firmly in the hands of the defendants as they bombarded judge, prospective jurors and press By GABRIEL PRESSMAN relentlessly. Outside and inside the courtrooms, the contrasts between totalitarianism SAW to trial six other I TWO MEN brought and Hungarian Catholic and democracy were dramatic. this year — Joseph Cardinal leaders stood in a dingy courtroom on Marho Street on the opening day of Mindszenty and Eugene Marko Street in Budapest before a the Mindszenty trial was kept clear of D their historic small, Dennis. To see selected audience, to face onlookers by a patrol of militiamen trials, in Budapest and New York, was charges of plotting to overthrow the carrying tommyguns. Five or six dar- to see the difference between two government, treason and cui'rency ingly curious Hungarians stood silent- worlds. manipulation. Before a week was out, ly half a block from the courthouse On February 3, Cardinal Mindszenty I saw the cardinal convicted — guilty entrance.

16 Foley Square on opening day was IN BUDAPEST THINGS WERE DIFFERENT. WHEN CARDINAL MINDSZENTY FACED A COMMIE MlOtX A SMALL ARMY OF GUARDS MADE SURE THERE WOULD BE NO NONSENSE ABOUT CIVIL lIBERTliS packed with cameramen, 500 pickets chanting pro-defense slogans, scoi-es of newsmen, hundreds of spectators and an outnumbered pohce force. Even Judge Harold R. Medina, to get to his chamber, had to thread his way throvigh a picket line — where some marchers held up copies of the Com- munist Daily Worker carrying black headlines "Frameup Trial of '12', On Today," while others booed and hissed. Inside the Budapest courtroom a score of coi-respondents, mostly fellow travelers, part-time Hungarian stringers and communists, sat alongside government-picked interpreters. The only American correspondents were Ed Korry of the United Press and I. (The western correspondents who knew the country best were refused visas to Hungary for the trial.) In the Federal Courthouse in New York sat 70 of the world's full-time radio and news correspondents, representing every shade of opinion from the Daily Worker and Tass (the (Continued on page 39) Lejl JticLIc — .l/iiMi('.s<»l«

: lEON HART Left Guard — Calil'oiuia

FOOTBALL FORECAST

Li'l't End — Noirt' Dame

Here's a look ahead at the stars and teams that may shine

in college football this fall. It seems like another big year.

r.ack - Southern Methodist

Buvl; — Solic Dtniie

Back — North Caioliiiu

CHARLIE JUSTICE DAN FOLDBERG

Right Tackle — Michigan

Right Guard — Penn State Right End — Army

pick for the player of the year. SMU's chief engineer has looked like the PROBABLE 1949 ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN goods to all the press-box tenants who BACK Art Murakowski Northwestern have seen him in action. Even the re- BACK Doak Walker Southern Methodist doubtable Choo Choo Justice runs BACK Charlie Justice North Carolina well behind the small but compactly BACK Emil Sitko Notre Dame constructed, amazingly versatile LEFT END Leon Hart Notre Dame Walker. Unless the experts are all wet, LEFT TACKLE Leo Nomellini Minnesota Doak will be touring the countryside LEFT GUARD Rod Franz California picking up another collection of CENTER Clayton Tonnemaker Minnesota plaques, trophies, watches and assorted RIGHT GUARD Joe Drazenovich Penn State memorabilia when the banquet season RIGHT TACKLE Al Wistert Michigan starts RIGHT END Dan Foldberg Army in December. Once you pick Walker and Justice, the completion of your "All" backfield AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE'S ADVISORY FOOTBALL BOARD turns out to be anything but a cinch. As is almost always the case, the coun- RECORDING SECRETARY, Ed Fitzgerald, Sport Magazine try is crawling with high-powered EAST, Arthur Sampson, Boston Herald; midwest, Francis Powers, Chicago offensive operatives. Some of them, Daily News; south, Ed Danforth, Atlanta Constitution; southwest, Bill like Ed Price of Tulane, Forrest Grif- Rives, Dallas Morning News; Missouri valley, C. E. McBride, Kansas City Star; far west, Braven Dyer, Los Angeles Times. fith of Kansas, Franny Rogell of Penn State. Jack Cloud of William and Mary, and Arnold Galiffa of Army, have been around for a while and consequently have a familiar look about them. Others, like Vic Janowicz of By ED FITZGERALD this year, although gloomy Frank Ohio State, Kyle Rote of SMU, and Leahy is grieving so loudly over his Harry Agannis of Boston University, chances that the cautious observer is are youngsters of whom great things |HE ONLY THING Certain about inclined to feel that things can't be so are expected. There are the usual the outlook for the 1949 col- bad with the Irish after all. small college representatives, like lege football season is that Less uncertainty exists as far as the Eddie LaBaron of College of the Pa- it is uncertain. probable individual standouts of the cific, Charlie Huntsinger of Florida, Despite the fact that you practically game are concerned. Polling the ex- and Ray Mathews of Clemson — fine never win when you fill out one of perts from coast to coast, you cannot ballplayers who suffer more from a those little cards which promise to pay help but be impressed with the almost lack of publicity than from any defects oflf at 20-1 if you pick six out of six unanimous support lent such proved in their ability to go places. All in all, games right, college football is a sport performers as Doak Walker of South- the crop is heavy and of good quality. that generally runs fairly true to form. ern Methodist University, Charlie Whether or not you agree with the The teams that figure well on paper Justice of North Carolina, Leo Nomel- nomination of Emil Sitko of Notre usually do well on the field. This year, lini of Minnesota, Leon Hart of Notre Dame and Art Murakowski of North- however, almost every major confer- Dame, and Rod Franz of California. western to pair with Walker and Jus- ence leaves the brash expert gasping Each of those boys is a short-priced tice in your "dream" backfield, you for air. Yet backed up by information favorite to make most of the big All- will have to agree that they help form supplied by the Advisory Board listed American teams next Winter. a murderous quartet. in the box above, we offer the follow- Doak Walker, the only athlete in There is no doubt that California's ing peek at the crystal ball. America to give Lou Boudreau a race Jackie Jensen, who became famous on Even Notre Dame, the paladin of for the title of No. 1 Cover Boy in his football ability long before he got them all, might lose a couple of games Sport for 1948, is virtually everybody's his picture in (Continued on page 42)

19 ody Gets a

There's a lot of talk about

the American free enterprise

system. Here's the story of a

company that practices it in

such a way that everyone

^ O RIGHT ARE CASS HOUGH, benefits CHARIEY" BENNETT, THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY

By CLARENCE WOODBURY this nest egg more money than was PHOTOS BY ROY BASH placed in it to his account, and if he chooses to stay with Daisy throughout HE MOST POPULAR gun ever best possible product for the lowest his working career he stands to collect made in America, or any- possible price. a small fortune. where else, is the Daisy air Every one of Daisy's 500 employees If you go to work for Daisy at the rifle. During the last 60 has become an active partner in its age of 30, for example, and work there years, more than 40,000,000 of them operation. The more money the com- continuously for the next 35 years, it have been manufactured, the word pany makes, the more money he is estimated you will have between Daisy has become a synonym for air makes. In addition to top-scale wages, $20,000 and $25,000 coming to you at gun all over the world, and three gen- employees receive twice a year ap- the age of 65, provided the company erations of boys have fired no fewer proximately one-half of the company's has maintained its 1945-1948 rate of than 200,000,000,000 B-Bs out of them. net profits — it amounted to $730 per earnings over the 35-year period. Some of these shots have shattered employee last year — and, knowing Some employers may regard this as windows and stung the hides of stray they are partners in the enterprise, Santa Claus stuff and say they would cats but, speaking generally, the trusty they cooperate with management to go broke if they attempted such prac- Daisy has brought more fun into the an extent which would astonish the tices, but the owners of the Daisy world at the cost of less tragedy than administrators of most industrial con- Company have found it smart busi- any other gun ever invented. cerns. There are no strikes and no ness. Highly practical industrialists Comparatively few people realize, slow-downs. Everybody works like a who built up their enterprise against however, that the company which beaver, yet jobs at the Daisy plant are the fiercest kind of competition, they makes the world's most popular gun so eagerly sought after and so cher- simply discovered that the best way to is also hitting the bullseye with a high- ished that it is probably harder to get gain the cooperation of their em- ly significant plan of enlightened capi- employment there than at any other ployees was to take their employees talism. Under the executive direction factory from coast to coast. into business with them. And they are of an outstanding wartime hero of the The amazingly high morale of em- not going broke by any means. On the Army Air Force, the Daisy Manufac- ployees is attributable not only to the contrary, the prosperity of the com- turing Company has foresworn old- extra cash they receive twice annually, pany is increasing hand in hand with fashioned, grab-all-you-can-get meth- but also to the fact than Daisy's profit- the increased prosperity of the em- ods of running a business and is writ- sharing plan provides them with much ployees. ing industrial history by distributing greater security than is available to While the present retirement plan is profits fairly among everyone respon- most employees. Fifty percent of the only four years old, for moie than half sible for earning them — stockholders, earnings which are set aside for each a century they have pursued a gener- employees, distributors, jobbers and employee are paid to him in cash and ous policy of spreading earnings retailers. No one gets a disproportion- the other fifty percent placed in a re- among employees by other devices ately large bite of the profits and cus- tirement trust fund for him. At any and, while doing so, have become by tomers benefit, too, for the main aim time after he has been with the com- far the most successful air gun makers all along the line is to turn out the pany for ten years, he can draw out of on earth. (Continued on page 55) 20

i PROFIT fc'l"'^ SHARING »Karc of amount i/arlcs PLAN inJkwiiluals one p«<->*'" points

BOSS OR NO BOSS, HOUGH GETS NO SPECIAL CONSID- ERATION FROM HIS CO-WORKERS WHEN HE PLAYS BALL

IE COMPANY LAYS ITS CARDS ON THE TABLE SO THAT EMPLOYES KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH MONEY IS ; ING MADE. HERE CASS HOUGH POSTS THE LATEST QUOTATION OF THE AMOUNT THAT IS AVAILABLE

INDIVIDUAL EFFORT IS CLOSELY WATCHED TO KEEP EARNINGS UP. HERE DURING A JOINT MAN- AGEMENT-EMPLOYE MEETING AN EMPLOYE IS BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT REPEATED ABSENCE

CASS HOUGH, LEFT, EARNED HIS EAGLES AND MANY DECORATIONS. WITH HIM IS COLONEL BEN KELSEY T TOOK LESS than three min- place. He was interested in its de- With burglars on the increase utes for sharp-eyed William fenses against crooks. Rapidly, he throughout the United States, The J. Gomey, the ace detective strode around the outside of the house, Armrican Legion Magazine had asked D who is now Deputy Com- glancing at its doors, windows and Commissioner Comey, a man of 29 missioner of Public Safety for the city walls. The sturdy front door seemed years' police experience, to look over of Yonkers, N. Y., to "case" the little to please him. So did the well-con- a small suburban home — the kind that white house at the end of the West- structed steel door of the garage. He the average Legionnaire buys or builds chester road. stopped short, however, when he came — and see what chances its owners

"A burglar's paradise," he called it. to the side entrance. It had an old- would have of protecting their belong- It was a comparatively new frame fashioned door, the bottom half of ings against thieves. The Westchester house, two stories high, with five fair- wood, the upper part largely of glass, house was selected as typical of such sized rooms, a built-in garage and a and Comey didn't like it. homes. low-slung cellar. There was a tiny "This house is wide-open to burg- The house had its strong points. The lawn in front, a dimutive yard in the lars," he said, pointing to the glass Commissioner thought the front door rear. Situated on a quiet, tree-lined panes in the door. excellent. Of solid wood and strongly- street, it was the sort of a pleasant- "All a burglar has to do to break into encased, it would, he said, put up real looking home that thousands of vet- this house," he declared, "is bust one resistance to a burglar's jimmy. Fur- erans live in today. of those panes of glass, stick in his thermore, the lock was a good one. Commissioner Comey did not waste hand and unlock the door. The people Few burglars would have the skill and any time, though, on the looks of the who live here are inviting trouble." time to pick it, Comey said. 22 I )

HOW TO SIZE UP YOUR HOUSE THE WAY A BURGLAR DOES

A SURE WAY of attracting the attention of WHEN A GARAGE is built into a house, garage COMMISSIONER COMEY shows how a ceUar a burglar is to go away without arranging doors can usually provide easy entrance. In window has been built to foil crooks. In this to stop delivery of newspapers and milk this case, a metal door makes a tough obstacle case a metal sash and wire-glass prove a barrier

THE AVERAGE WINDOW with a catch lock is THE MAN in this case is not a burglar, but THIS SET-UP was described by Commissioner a cinch for even a novice burglar. All he has he is demonstrating how a thief breaks into Comey as a cinch. A dime-store key or a tap to do is insert a blade and move the catch a house with some tape and a wrapped rock on the glass would give the burglar entrance

The garage door also rated praise. simplest sort of latches. The Commis- Comey started for his car. Suddenly It was of the overhead sUding variety, sioner said that a burglar could open he halted. all of steel and set in steel framing. them with a nail file. The second- "I'm going to try an experiment," No burglar, Comey said, was going to story windows were as bad. They had he said. get into the house through this door. no safeguards whatsoever. According He walked up to the front door and There was a side window, opening to the Commissioner, an agile burglar rang the bell. No one answered. He into the cellar, that Comey liked. It could easily shinny up one of the rang it again. Still no one answered. was of frosted, wire-reinforced glass. nearby trees, push up one of the win- Then he put his hand on the doorknob, "That's a good window," he re- dows and climb in. turned it and pushed. The door swung

marked. "It'd be tough to bust it, and Worst of all was the side door. Not open. The owners of the house had besides, a burglar can't look in and only did it have all that glass but, as gone out leaving their front door un- see what kind of a lock he has to cope the Commissioner noted, it also had locked! with." a huge, old-style keyhole. Practically "Is it any wonder," commented After these strong points came the any five-and-ten cent store key would Commissioner Comey, "that burglars

vulnerable spots, and Comey spied open it. are having a field day in America No plenty of these. The framing around "A burglar could get into this house matter how good a police department the back windows was weak. It would blindfolded," Comey declared. "And is, it cannot protect householders who be no problem to jimmy the windows the tragedy is that most other houses refuse to protect themselves." and the frames right out of the wall. are just as vulnerable." That burglars are on a rampage The living room windows had only the The survey over, Commissioner today is a fact ( Continued on page 53

23 Two More

OPENED OUT to show the arrangement of the details depicted below, here is how the finished attic will appear

O Here's a bright corner of the bedroom, with a recessed book shelf behind the bed, and some more shelves at its head. These latter shelves are supported on one side by the wall, and on the other by a good, wide board running to the ceiling. That bed won't cost you much. Buy an Army wooden double-decker and saw it in half. You can get it in a furniture or an Army supply store for about $50, complete with two mattresses. If you look closely behind the bed, you'U see that the lower wall there consists of removable panels. They mask some good storage space decorations, THE TRICK is to do your planning carefully beforehand under the eaves, more than enough for the Christmas tree summer screens, and the letters you sent home from the ETO.

There's no better way to encourage good study habits in children than by g^iving each of them his own big desk. The one at the right car be built into the dormer window. All it requires are two two-drawer| O Here are some shelves, recessed into the wall of the "junior living file cases and a heavy plywood board to go across them. On either side room," which will make an admirable depot for games, athletic equip- of the desk, small shelves — some with old-fashioned pigeonholes — willl ment and the various odds and ends that the younger generation usu- be handy for pencils and papers. The desk at the left is also set on twol ally leaves in the center of the floor. The shelves, of 1" x 12" pine, filing cabinets, but it needs a leg at one end. The built-in cabinet, forj follow the roof line all the way back. games, stationery, paints, etc., runs back to the eaves. Rooms for Less Than ^600

BY KITTY YORK |F you're like most veterans, that dream house you bought a while back is beginning to bulge at the seams. The kids are growing up, you've installed a television D set, and your bride has acquired a healthy collection If you bought a house with an expan- of souvenirs that she wants to store. You've got to have more

space, or else. . . . Well, you can have it, easily, inexpensively sion attic here is how you can turn it into and without too much effort. For less than $600 and some elbow grease, you can take that imfinished attic of yours and turn it into two stunning rooms living space without going broke for the kids, plus some extra closets {Continued on page 58)

This work table, at the stairway end of the "junior living room," will give your boys (or your girls) a place to work and play together. They can use it for painting (the equipment can be kept in the recessed shelf) or for playing with their chemical sets. The top of the @ Here's the other bed, with the same sort of shelves, removable table is made of plywood, the legs of 2" x 2"s. Notice that no wall or panels and storage space that are described in No. 1. The two unfinished door separates this room from the stairs. That gives more spaciousness chests of drawers can be purchased very inexpensively and with no to the room and more light to the stairwell. The poles in back of the trouble at all set in the wall recess designed to hold them. The fronts desk are decorative and what's more will keep the kids from falling of the chests should be flush with the walls. downstairs. That pin-up board on the poles is made of wallboard.

O Here's a way to convert a dormer window in the bedroom into a spot where the boys can take a breather. (If you've girls to contend with, O flere's a tricky closet at the head of the stairs that's no trouble this would be perfect for a buUt-in dressing table.) to build. Four feet wide, and two feet deep, it affords some high hanging The built-in cabinet at the far-left runs behind the stairway closet, space for clothes. Notice its two half-doors; they save precious space on meeting the cabinet in the "living room." The other cabinet can go the landing. In the rear, opening on the kids' "living room," you can through to the eaves. Both cabinets have shelves for sweaters, shoes, build in a cabinet with shelves that reach back behind the clothes closet. roller skates, or if you prefer, your own fishing tackle. The Man With the GLASS JAW

By ALFRED J. CARTER "WELL, JACKIE, it's my jaw," he said. "It's glass.'

admission, and yet no one had ever

found it. I wondered why. I guessed then that it was because he was just The Champ had a weak spot and the challenger too doggone much boxer. He kept his jaw tucked away and he could almost dodge a bullet with it — and that was knew it. But how could he turn the secret against the answer, I suppose. Odds wanted me to say something, so I did. "He keeps his upstairs cov- the man who had saved his life in a shell hole? ered," I said. "And he's clever. I couldn't hit his button with a Smith and Wesson." What Odds didn't know, wasn't going to hurt him anyway. Me, I was ILLUSTRATED BY RUDY POTT use?" because the handwriting was the one who was in for a hurting. \E SHOWED HIS JAW in the fifth, right there on the wall. I looked over at Pete. He had a bat-

but I didn't hit it. I couldn't. But I got up at nine, anyway. It tery of men working in his corner, I shot for the body instead. might as well be clean, I thought. The while he just laid back, his hands on The old one-two. The left bell sounded then. It was like music. the ropes, and his eyes closed. He was and right. I beat on his ribs like a I don't know why, because I was licked breathing hard and I could see the drummer. I might have been slugging and knew it, and knew that the bell red splotches I'd brought out on his a very solid brick wall for all the good would only prolong the thing. But it body, but I knew it didn't mean any-

of it, and I knew it. sounded right sweet just then. thing. He had a body like a redwood His jaw was the weak spot, but I I guess there are a lot odder things tree. His jaw was the thing, but not wasn't having any luck. The glass jaw in this life — like Pete Burrell being for me. was out-of-bounds — for me, anyway. one of the best friends, I, Jackie Peter- It's quite a story. I learned about that It was a confidence that I wouldn't son, ever had, for instance. jaw of his in the cold mud of a shell have betrayed on a bet. It was like "Odds" Bellew swabbed my face hole at Aitape, New Guinea. Pete Bur- that, see. with a towel and then went to work rell, champion of the world at our The Champ, Pete Burrell, and I with coUodion on the chinks where weight, had just gone through a mur- were mixing it hot and plenty heavy blood showed. The Kid held out the derous crossfire to drag me there, and now and the fans were eating it like strap so's I could breath easier and I don't guess either one of us ever peaches and cream. If the wind was took out my mouthpiece — dunked it in figured we'd see Newburgh Garden right, I thought, they could hear that the water bucket. again. roar in Newburgh. I took a bad one "You got a one-track mind, Jackie?" When there was a lull in the firing in the eye then and another on the Odds wanted to know. "You been Pete started to help me back toward jaw, and sat down. blastin' him low all night. He's got a our lines. My left leg was deadwood, The roar that went up was like button, you know, and it might just with two machine-gun bullets in the twisting the volume control on a radio be you'd rattle 'em if you raised your thigh. But the rat-a-tat of Jap machine and the lights went round and round sights. You won't knock him out, mind, guns opened up again and we didn't overhead. I just sat there and watched cause nobody's ever knocked him out, get far. 'em until they steadied down. Then I but you could still win on points." It was a shell hole, smaller than the looked across at Pete Burrell in a neu- No, I thought, no one's ever knocked first, and we were there for nearly a

tral corner and thought, "What's the him out. He had a glass jaw, by his own day when the ( Continued on page 44)

)

THE TOWN THAT CAME BACK

Buchanan, Georgia, didn't

offer much to its homecoming veterans, but two ex-GIs

made it a place worth living in

McCALMAN'S FUND-RAISING WAS THOROUGH. HERE HE CORNERS A MAN IN JIM'S BARBER CHAIR By HOWARD M. ROSHKOW

|forgotten little Georgia The story of this rebirth began on probably take the wife and take oflF for town today stands as a liv- a typical Spring day in 1946. It was the Atlanta," echoed Hardy. "The oil coming symbol of the enterprise day that Dave and Hardy, buddies be- pany will take me back, I guess." and faith of two veterans. fore the war separated them for three "I'm not kidding anybody. It's rough "Buchanan was a kind of 'used-to- years, came home. Little had changed leaving the place you were born and be' town, a little old dried-up county — if anything, the little town of 700 the people you know. Isn't there some- seat town," recalls old-timer C. A. seemed more ramshackle than ever, thing a couple of ambitious guys could Beam, "but in just two years we've and had fewer young people running do to wake it up? If we could figure found ourselves again. People used to around. out a way to show the youngsters that leave our town every year and never "A fine homecoming," said Dave, as there's good reason for staying, I think come back. Now folks come from they walked along the rutted red-mud we'd be on the right track." every part of the State to visit us — and streets. "Spend three years in the The solution wasn't long in coming. lots of 'em are staying for good. I tell Army and you come home to find that Dave and Hardy had done a lot of you it's a miracle, and we've got just your home town has nothing to offer thinking and talking with Hardy's two boys to thank — Dave Eaves and you." father and his partner. State Senator Hardy McCahnan." "I guess I feel the same way too. I'll Claude Moore, ( Continued on page 51 : :

The National Legioivxaire

House Passes Legion Omnibus Veteran Benefit Bill by

UnanimousVote; Increases Payments by $112,000,000

Appropriations Total Disability Raised to $150; The same day the House passed the Review of Vet. Preference, Em- New Rate for Presumptives omnibus bill, the Senate approved the ployment, POW, and Other and Some Dependents Independent Offices Appropriation Bill Bills of Interest to Veterans carrying several appropriations of major importance to the program of BY JOHN THOMAS TAYLOR year. The committee also retained the The American Legion. National Legislative Director contract authorization for hospitals. During consideration of the bill by The Senate not only included the com- Legion and the Ameri- The American the Senate Appropriations Committee, mittee increase, but further amended can Legion Auxiliary scored an out- the National Legislative Commission the bill, adding an additional $16,000,000 standing legislative victory when the presented strong arguments in favor of or $40,000,000 in all. 1st, a vote of 354 House, on August by increasing the appropriations for the The Senate committee restored approved the Legion omnibus bill, Veterans Administration, to 0, including the $2,250,000 to the appropriation for the increase compensation for retention H.R. 5598, to of the $237,000,000 contract Civil Service Commission, which had I presumptive service-con- authorization hospital World War for the veterans been reduced by the House in an amount cases, provide minimum rat- construction program, nected which was at our of $3,520,000. If the reduction had been ings for service-connected arrested tu- request restored by the House. The permitted to stand, it well could have increase certain disability Senate bill, berculosis, committee amended the led to a complete breakdown of the ad- death compensation rates, liberal- making up a shortage in the and Veterans ministration of veterans preference in ize allov^^- Administration requirement for dependency appropriation of $24,- Federal employment and retention, and redefine terms "line 000,000, but did ances, and the of not supply an addi- could even have resulted in creating a tional duty" and "willful misconduct." During $48,000,000 which the Veterans spoils system. The National Legislative Administrator discussion on the floor of the House, not and Chief Medical Di- Commission immediately started a drive a single spoke in opposition to rector testified would be necessary to member to have the Senate reconsider its action passage of bill. activate existing in the beds use and the before a final vote was taken on the H.R. 5598, which had been unani- new beds scheduled the during present bill. Many Senators were personally mously reported by the House Veterans contacted and strongly urged to sup- Affairs Committee, would carry out in port a motion to reconsider and approve whole or in part some of the rehabili- LIBERTY BELL FEATURES the committee amendment restoring tation mandates on the priority legisla- Civil Service funds. The day the bill was tive program of The American Legion 31st CONVENTION BADGE finally considered, on a joint motion covered bills by on which testimony had made by Senators Guy M. Gillette been given by Legion representatives (Iowa), and George W. Malone (Ne- during Committee hearings. Principal vada), the Senate voted to reconsider, provisions of bill the are and by a vote of 51 yeas to 40 nays, re- Section 1 restores the so-called presumptive stored the committee amendment, add- cases of World War I to 100-per cent compensation, instead of 75 per cent. There are ing $2,225,000 to the appropriation for some 20,000 cases involved, 95 per cent of the Civil Service Commission. which are either tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric. There are also some paralysis In connection with the appropriation cases, and a few other diseases, that were , for the United States Maritime Com- covered by the presumptive law of 1924. Section 2 provides additional periods of time mission, the Senate increased funds for in which compensation may be drawn for the Commission by $674,000 and also arrested cases of tuberculosis. It makes mandatory present Veterans Administra- increased funds for Maritime training tion regulations with several liberalizing from the Senate Committee recommen- features. dation of $3,151,050.00 to $6,586,000. Section 3 (a) creates a new disability payment schedule based on $150 for total disability and $15 for 10-per cent disability. Housing This is in lieu of the present schedules of $138 for total disability and $13.80 for Immediately upon signing The Amer- 10-per cent disability. ican Legion-supported National Hous- Section 3 (b) increases the rate for a widow The Liberty Bell symbolizes Phila- with ing Bill (now Public Law 171 — 81st one child from $100 to $105 a month, delphia, just as the Eiffel Tower is and increases the rates for additional child Congress), the President requested the the symbol of Paris. Therefore dele- from $15 to $25. following appropriations from Con- Section 4 amends the Dependency Allowance gates and visitors to the 31st annual Act to provide that those veterans gress to carry out the National Housing 50-per National Convention of the Legion cent or more disabled shall receive an ad- Program ditional allowance for dependents. This sec- at Philadelphia, August 29-Septem- $33,650,000 to begin work on long-rangre tion keeps the schedule of payments at the will not surprised to find "housing program. This money would also same level, but reduces the disability ber 1, be pay re- for a housing census. quirements to 50 per cent in lieu of the a reproduction of the Liberty Bell $25,000,000 in loans to start the farm present 60 per cent. This makes it possible the dominant feature of the i>fficial housing program; and for all veterans 50 per cent or more disabled\ $10,000,000 loan to the Federal Housing to receive additional compensation badge. The medallion is suspended Administration for their dependents. to establish a military hous- from a grosgrain American Legion » ing insurance fund. Section 5 liberalizes the line of duty require- Companion Housing bills ment with respect to a disability incurred ribbon, with concealed bar-type clip have been in confinement under sentence of court at top. It will be issued to all Legion- introduced which are of great impor- martial or civil court where the offense tance to The did iiot involve a dishonorable discharge or naires who register for attendance American Legion, as fol- conviction of a felony, to provide that such at the National Convention. lows: S. 2246, by Senator John J. Spark- veterans or their dependents shall receive man (Alabama), the benefits to which they would otherwise and H.R. 5631, by be entitled. Representative Brent Spence (Ken-

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • payable tucky). The bill, entitled "Housing- Such a transfer would conform to the pensions and compensation by Amendments of 1949" would conform resolution adopted by the 1948 National the Veterans Administration (Public with major American Legion mandates Convention. Legion representatives Law 195— 81st Congress). This law will by establishing a 100 per cent second- stated that the principal concern of the give prisoners of war one year in which ary market on GI loans, maintaining Legion is the location of the Veterans to file claims for veterans pensions and the present 4% interest rate on such Employment Service in the Department benefits, and provides that in cases loans, and providing for a direct Gov- of Labor, believing that such change where such claims are allowed, the ernment loan to a veteran if he is would advance the employment in- award of pension or compensation shall unable to get one from private sources. terests of veterans. be adjusted so as to be effective as of date the claim would have been The bill would increase the amount of the Prisoners of War the GI loan guaranteed by the Veterans allowed if it had been filed within one Administration. At present, the Vet- The Third Deficiency Appropriation year of the death, discharge from the erans Administration guarantees 50% Bill contained an appropriation for the Armed Forces, or the occurrence of age disability or increased disability of a real estate loan to a veteran up War Claims Commission. This Com- or any giving rise claim for pension. to a guaranteed value of $4,000. Under mission, authorized by Public Law 896 to a a — 80th Congress, that Prisoners of War the Sparkman-Spence bill, the Veterans Americanism Administration guaranty could cover would be x'eimbursed. out of Japanese subcommittee of the Senate Judi- 60%, up to $7,500. funds in an amount of $1.00 per day A for each day held prisoners on which ciary Committee approved a revised Veterans Preference the enemy Government failed to pro- version of the Mundt and Ferguson vide proper food. The First Deficiency bills, similar to the Mundt-Nixon Bill The continuous and concerted drive Appropriation Bill heretofore approved in the 80th Congress, which was en- to sabotage veterans preference could contained a small appropriation to set dorsed by the 1948 National Convention seriously affect the employment and the Claims Commission. The of The American Legion. Senator retention rights of approximately up War Third Deficiency Appropriation Bill Mundt stated S. 2311 "sets up special 1,000,000 veterans now employed by originally included an estimate from machinery for preventing the possibil- the Federal Government, as well as the Bureau of the Budget of $525,000 ity that innocent people may be falsely thousands of World War II veterans for the Commission. The House reduced listed in subversive organizations or who are taking education and training this amount to $281,250. In addition, embarrassed through the technique of under the GI Bill in preparation for the House inserted a provision provid- guilt by association." S. 2311 would: Federal employment. 1. registration of all Communist ing that no part of this appropriation Require The Senate Committee on Labor and and Communist-front organizations. could be available for carrying out the 2. Deny Federal employment and passports Public Welfare, by a divided vote, re- provisions of the War Claims Act, to Communists. ported S. 660 which would amend the 3. Require Communist literature and authorizing the Commission to make a broadcasts to be so labeled. Veterans Preference Act to provide study of claims and recommendations 4. Make it a crime to conspire to bring that non-veteran employees with 15 about a foreign-dominated dictatorship in to the Congress. On behalf of The the United States. years or more service would not be in American Legion, Harry V. Hayden, '5. Set a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine competition, in reduction in force, with and 10 years in prison for passing secret National Legislative Representatives, Government documents to Communist or veterans having less than 15 years of testified before the Senate Committee foreign agents. Federal employment. Should this bill 6. Extend the statute of limitation in such on Appropriations urging that the ap- cases to 10 years. be enacted into law, it would furnish propriation be increased and that the The Senate Judiciary Committee has the opponents of veterans preference provision forbidding funds to carry out heretofore favorably reported S. 595, with the opening wedge they have been the study and report by the Commission relating to the internal security of the .seeking whereby they hope to completely be stricken from the bill. United States, which would greatly sabotage veterans preference laws. The President signed S. 811 to adjust strengthen espionage laws to provide During hearings before the Senate the effective date of certain awards of severe penalties for obtaining informa- Committee, the National Legislative tion respecting the national defense Commission opposed S. 660, regardless which might be used to the injury of of how it might be amended. In fact, the United States, or to the advantage the Commission has continually op- GI IS INSURANCE STILL of any foreign nation or who, having posed all proposed legislation which AVAILABLE TO VETS lawful possession of documents or would modify in any manner or form WW2 material relating to the national de- the Veterans Preference Law. NSLI is still available to veterans of fense, wilfully communicates or trans- Members of the American Legion and WW II who served between October 8, mits or attempts to communicate or the American Legion Auxiliary and all 1940, and September 2, 1945, even if transmit the same to any person not friends of veterans were requested to they failed to take out insurance while entitled to receive it. contact their Senators, requesting them they were in the active service. NSLI is Enactment into law of these two bills actively oppose vote against to and available upon application, report of would carry out a major portion of our S. 660 any other legislation that and physical examination, and the payment priority legislative program on Amer- may be proposed which would deprive of one monthly premium. Veterans may icanism. veterans of a single benefit, no matter apply for the five year term plan or how minor it may be, which has here- any one of the six permanent plans. The National Defense tofore been granted in veterans pref- amount of insurance that may be ap- National Commander Perry Brown erence laws. plied for ranges from as low as one appeared before the Senate Committee thousand dollars, up to ten thousand on Armed Services and presented The Veterans Service Employment dollars. American Legion's concept of an over- John Lewis Smith, Jr., Vice Chair- Insurance medical examinations are all, long-range National Defense Pro- man of the National Economic Com- given free of charge at any VA Hospi- gram. The National Commander also mission, and the National Legislative tal or at any VA Regional Office. testified before the House Committee Director, testified before the Senate If you're keeping G.I. insurance — on Public Lands on the Bartlett Bill, Committee on Expenditures in the HOLD ON TO IT H. R. 5008, "to authorize the construc- Executive Departments in support of If you dropped G.I. insurance — tion and operation of a cement plant Reorganization Plan No. 2. This plan REINSTATE IT in the Territory of Alaska." The Com- would transfer the Bureau of Employ- If you never had G.I. insurance — mander had just returned from The ment Security from the Federal Sec- APPLY FOR IT American Legion Department of urity Agency to the Department of Why not write or contact the VA Alaska, where he had made a survey Labor, and vest in the Secretary of office nearest your home for forms and of the defense situation, and presented Labor the functions of the Veterans additional information? a complete report on the entire matter Placement Board and of its Chairman. Don't delay -APPLY TODAY!! to the committee.

2Q • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 }

WAR CLAIMS COMMISSION '50" APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT "Crusades of Gets Under Way

After a full year of delay, the War Claims Commission which will pass upon the claims of prisoners of war of To Enroll Record Early Membership WW2 has been named by President Truman. This Commission will ad- The Legion has launched two ener- from mid-August to Armistice Day on minister Public Law 896, 80th Congress getic national drives, beginning in mid- November 11, 1949. Its primary aim will — the War Claims Act of 1948 — which August and continuing until December be the complete re-enrollment for 1950 provides for payment of $1 per day for 31, to enroll a record advance member- of all 1949 members. Posts are urged by every day prisoners of war were not ship for 1950. This mighty two-part the National Membership and Post Ac- given the food allowance specified in campaign is known as the "Membership tivities Committee to send out their the Geneva Conference of 1929. Crusades of '50." annual statement of dues for 1950 as The members of the Commission are: The objective is to put The American early as possible, not later than October Daniel F. Cleary, Chicago, Illinois, Legion over the top as quickly as pos- 20. "This is to be followed by second and lawyer, WW2 vet, employed in the sible in its self-assigned national quota third mailing of statements to members Legislative Section of the Veterans Ad- for 1950. That quota has been fixed at who fail to respond to the first call. But ministration at Washington. He is a 3,554,540 members — exactly the same as nothing approaches the personal ap- member of Cathedral Post No. 10, Dis- as for 1949. peal, mop-up squads are to be organized trict of Columbia. An elaborate plan of action for the to round up the late renewals and, of Mrs. Georgia L. Lusk, Santa Fe, New crusaders has been worked out and blue- course, to pick up new members wher- Mexico, rancher, teacher. County and printed to tie-in with and supplement ever possible. Re-enrollment, however, State Superintendent of Schools, New the local membership campaigns of the is the theme of the first campaign. Mexico; member of the 80th Congress more than 17,300 Legion Posts through- The second part is set for November and member of the House Veterans' out the nation. Special awards for Posts 12 to December 31 when heavy accent Committee. Her three sons were in serv- as an incentive to do outstanding work will be placed on the enrollment of new ice in WW2, one of whom was killed in have been set up. members. Working under a general cru- line of duty. She is a member of the A complete plan of the campaign out- sade committee, special teams of mem- Auxiliary at Santa Fe. lining the details of the "Membership bership Workers are expected to do can- David N. Lewis, Bay Shore, New Crusades of '50" has been distributed vassing missions. With compiled lists York, lawyer, WW2 veteran, now in the to all Posts — in fact, the whole cam- of eligibles in their areas, it is hoped Office of Alien Property, Department of paign is based on the local Post level. that no veteran of the World Wars will Justice, at Washington. He is a mem- There is where the Legion strength lies. be passed up. ber of the Bay Shore Legion Post. Wherever possible the membership Crusade Details Organization of the Commission has teams should be equipped to advise and not been completed. This magazine will The plan of the crusades is easy to assist WW2 vets in making up their ap- give details of procedure in filing claims follow: plications to VA for the National Serv- just as soon as the information is avail- The first part of the crusade runs ice Life Insurance dividend. able from official sources. Former prisoners of war— this Act is inclusive of all theatres — are warned that sharp- mittees were named and Scout Leaders shooters have devised unofficial forms OKLAHOMA POST WINS FIRST were recruited. Early in the spring, the which they try to palm off on eligible Boy Sco.ut organization and representa- PLACE IN HISTORY CONTEST claimants for a fee. The "forms" will tives of Clarence Hyde Post No. 278, probably not be recognized and, Seven posts in six departments car- besides, John Gilliam Post No. 564 and th« man- no ex-POW need pay a fee for the forms ried off honors in the American Legion's agers of the five housing projects really or for assistance — Legion Service 1949 national post history contest. Re- started to work. Office will be glad to help with the sults were announced by National His- A series of training sessions was paperwork. torian Monte C. Sandlin of Florence, started for the newly enrolled Commit- Ala., following a meeting of the con- teemen and Scout Leaders under the test judging board. direction of the Leadership Training Herbert L. Schall, historian of HufF>- Committee of the Warren District. Minor Post No. 14, Ponca City, Okla- SEVEN SCOUT TROOPS ARE Thirty-three men took the course, and of homa, took first place, and a cita- this number 14 received certificates for $150 SPONSORED BY TWO POSTS tion in the class for posts six years old completion of the basic Scoutleaders and older. One of the really big jobs in the course. Scoutmasters were selected and Legion's participation in Scouting has work of enrollment was begun. Lester Fox, historian of South Foi't just been completed at Warren, Ohio, Five new Scout Troops were organized Worth Post No. 569 of Fort Worth, where two Legion Posts put on a quiet and one was reorganized. Of these five, Texas, placed No. 1 in the class for posts five old campaign that resulted in training lead- including Troop 1, are sponsored by years and younger. A citation ers for the work, then the organization Clarence Hyde Post and two by John and $100 were awarded this entry. and sponsorship of seven Boy Scout Gilliam Post. Each new Troop was Runners-up in the six-year class are: Troops. started with a small group of boys, re- Henry A. Dube, historian of Border It all started last January, reports sulting in the enrollment of 69 Scouts Post No. 73, Sweet Grass, Montana, sec- Edgar W. Wolfe, local Scout Executive, as charter members. The plans are not ond place and $100; W. I. Phipps, his- at a meeting of the Troop Committee of yet fulfilled — the Troop organization is torian of Omaha Post No. 1, Omaha, Clarence Hyde Post No. 278, sponsor of to be followed by Cub Packs and a pro- Nebraska, thii'd place and $50. Honor- Troop 1. It was suggested that the time gram for young men this fall. able mention in this class went to: Dr. had come for the Legion to take a pro- As a contribution to the training pro- Louis L. Shapiro, historian of Edward gram for boys out into the communities gram, formal presentation of $1,800 M. McKee Post No. 131 of Whitestone, where the boys live. Five housing proj- worth of visual aid and projection equip- N. Y.; and George M. Day, historian of ects in the city were pointed out as a ment was made by Clarence Hyde Post Elyria Post No. 12 of Elyria, Ohio. fertile field for action. But, it was also and the Trumbull County Council of the Second place in the five-year and suggested, trained manpower would be Legion to the Western Reserve Council younger class and $50 were awarded necessary to take on such a program. of the Boy Scouts. The gift included two G. E. (Jerry) Edwards, historian of The upshot of it all was that a plan of projectors, a large screen and a com- Excelsior Post No. 628 of Cleveland action was drafted; members of complete library of training films. Heights, O.

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • 3 Nation's Leaders Endorse Legion's COLLEGE GRADUATES AT RECORD HIGH IN 1949 Program A record-breaking. 430,000 Ameri- Community Development can students stepped off college plat- forms in June with diplomas tucked Legion's new national Reed, Chairman of the Board, General The American under their arms. This is more than pub- progi-am of community development Electric Company; Eugene Meyer, treble the figure for 1929-30. What is has received the enthusiastic approval lisher of The Washington Post ; William more important—three-fourths of this of business and civic leaders through- L. Chenery, Crowell-Collier Publishing army of college-trained graduates out the country, according to scores of Company; R. B. White, President of were wearing Army khaki or Navy blue four years ago. letters received at the National Head- the B.&O. Railroad. These names are The Federal Security Agency com- quarters. More than fifty newspapers selected at random from a great num- mented that this highest record re- so impressed that the idea was ber received by Commander Brown. were flects educational benefits under the given approving editorial treatment. New Jobs and Housing GI Bill of Rights. Paul G. Holfman, EGA Administra- tor, wrote to National Gommander The objective of the new program, Perry Brown: the initial announcement of which was "I noted with much interest the story made by National Commander Brown the job. High ranking officials of in the Monday morning (Jvdy 4) papers on July 4, is to create new jobs and Government, including Speaker Sam of the community development program housing in American cities and towns Raybum, Secretary of Defense Louis which The American Legion has under- through the launching of new business Johnson, Attorney General Tom Clark taken. The program has, in my opinion, enterprises. This is to be accomplished addressed the young citizens, and they rich potentialities. If the local Posts by organized community action every- were permitted to interview and even carry it out energetically, a real con- where to fill local needs and wants as quizz Senators, Representatives and tribution can be made to the mainte- determined by local consumer and fam- heads of divisions of Government. nance of prosperity in our country." ily sur\'eys. Vice President Alben Barkley de- Senator Ralph E. Flanders, (Ver- The program is designed to bring livered the commencement address at mont), wrote: back to modern America the old pioneer the Forum graduation ceremonies on "I was very much interested in the spirit of self-reliance through "self help" Thursday, August 4th. newspaper accounts of the community in solving local economic problems. National Commander Perry Brown development program. It seems to me General Robert E. Wood, Chairman and other distinguished leaders of the that The American Legion has em- of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Com- Legion attended the Forum sessions as barked on a very important under- pany, has accepted appointment as speakers or as instnictors in details of taking. Certainly the local approach Chairman of the National Advisory government. provided by these community economic Committee for the new program. The In addition to the practical work in surveys is an ideal method of attempt- Vice Chairmen are Past National Com- Government through simulated organi- ing to solve the problem." mander Franklin D'Olier, former Presi- aztions, the young men were taken on Other letters expressing the highest dent of Prudential Life Insurance Com- tours to historic shrines in and near approval of the program have been re- pany, and Colonel E. V. Rickenbacker, Washington, and were entertained at a ceived from John D. Biggers, President President of Eastern Air Lines, and No. radio-press dinner at the Willard Hotel. of Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Gompany; 1 ace of WWl. Members of the Com- Fred Othman, Scripps-Howard colum- Walter D. Fuller, President of the mittee include top names in the nation's nist; Albert L. Warner, MBS commen- Cuitis Publishing Gompany; Phillip D. business, industrial and civic life. tator, and Sir Willmott Lewis, correspondent for the London Times, were McGINNIS NAMED DIRECTOR (Wild Bill) Donovan. He left the serv- the speakers. ice in 1945 with the rank of Commander. LEGION PUBLIC RELATIONS Legionnaire McGinnis served as Ser- The appointment of Edward F. geant-at-Arms of the United States AMERICAN VETERANS HAVE McGinnis, of Ghicago, as Director of the Senate through the 80th Congi-ess in National Public Relations Division of 1947-48^ LIVE LEGION IN SWEDEN the Legon was announced in mid-July A little spot of the U.S.A., holding by National Commander Perry Brown. FOURTH BOYS' FORUM HELD in social and fraternal bonds veterans He was named to succeed Raymond H. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL of the U. S. Armed Forces in two World Fields, Guthrie, Oklahoma, who re- Wars now in the Land of the Vikings, signed last his The fourth annual Boys' Forum of March to return to is American Legion Post No. 1, Stock- National private newspaper and radio business. Government, sponsored by the holm, Sweden. This outpost numbers Legion to teach me- Director McGinnis, a native of young men the 52 members and has been an active unit Chicago but who now resides in Wash- chanics of democratic government, was for many years. held at Washington July 29 August ington, D. C, is a veteran of both to The Post Commander is Arne World Wars and is a six-star Legion- 4, with activities centering around the Nabseth, prominent Swedish business naire of University. who has had long service in his campus American executive, and the Vice Commander is Post, County, Department and in the Ninety-six teen-age delegates hailing Dr. Gustaf Strindberg, a nephew of National Organization. A member of from evei-y State, all graduates of Boys' Sweden's famed author, August Strind- Chicago's Joseph G. Bi-ophy Post No. States, were enrolled. berg, and who was once upon a time 195, he is a Past Commander of Cook Mike Hammond, 17, of Appleton, Commander of Myi'on C. West Post, County; and has served on several im- Wisconsin, was elected Boy President Beloit, Wisconsin. Nils Widstrand, Post portant National Commissions, his latest on the Nationalist ticket, defeating Adjutant, in private life is a general appointment being that of a member of Robert R. Ball, Jr., Garden City, Kan- staff editor of the Swedish Army. the National Public Relations Commis- sas, Federalist. The elected Vice Presi- Meetings are held once a month at sion on which he has served since 1948. dent is James 0. Turner, of Trenton, the Sture Jarl Restaurant and Club, An Air Forces sergeant in the First Missouri. where, on American holidays, such as World War, he joined up with the Navy President Truman i*eceived the group July 4th, Washington's Birthday and the day after the attack on Pearl Har- at Ihe White House on Wednesday, Armistice Day, there is special observ- bor, and saw the war through to the August 3rd, when he told them that ance. On these occasions the American finish. For a year he was in China and they would soon be responsible for run- Ambassador and his staff are honored India with the O.S.S. under the com- ning this country and that the Forum guests at the Legion dinners. The Auxi- mand of Major General William J, program would help prepare them for liary meets at the homes of members.

32 * The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 eral years ago for a private hunting and fishing grounds for himself and friends.

. . . Marne Post No. 13, Plainfield, Illinois, * * LEGIONITEMS * * . has just completed a community service project of immense importance. An old gravel pit near the city was taken over in 1947, and plans were made for a badly A husband-wife team were the top prompting the attraction is to promote needed park and swimming pool. There brass in Estill (South Carolina) Post the restoration and conservation of wild was a lot to be done by volunteer labor No. 131 and Auxiliary Unit in 1949- turkeys in that section of the Ozark of Legionnaires and friends and last year Nathan J. Johnston as Commander and Mountains which once abounded in this the work went slowly — but as the near- Mrs. Johnston as President. Both the species. . . . Newest Post in South Caro- est public swimming place was nine Post and Unit were awarded the Most lina is Hartei'-Hickman-Hensley Post No. miles distant the need was pressing. Distinguished Service Citation for hav- 159 at Port Royal, organized on July 29th. Speeded up, the beach, swimming pool ing enrolled their quotas before Armis- and park was opened to the public in tice Day. . . . William James (Jim) June, 1949, and has been a great success. Richard H. Fisher is the 1949-50 O'Neil, Harrisburg, Illinois, is the new Legion Park is a real community asset. Governor of Rotary District No. 216. A Commander of Richmond Hill (New York) wife, six-star Legionnaii-e, he helped organ- Post No. 212, and his Mrs. Phyllis Fisher, is The 43 Posts of Kansas City, Mis- ize the Legion in Oregon and was the Commander of Queens County Women's Post No. 1515. But souri, joined together in the purchase first Commander of Coast Range Post service-Legion affiliation goes back an- of the former Scottish Rite Temple, a No. 13, Mabel, in 1919. He is also a Past other generation; Commander Fisher massive stone structure erected in 1920 Commander of Harrisburg Post. . . . and his father-in-law, and 1930 at a cost of Lewis-Wilkinson Post No. 588, Red Oak, George Kuchman, $1,250,000. The Past Commander of Richmond Hill Post, Legion took over the property for $300,- Missouri, is conducting a drive to secure 000, cash down. Government markers for the unmarked served in the 27th Division, the elder in The building will pro- and the younger in Mrs. vide meeting places for all the Legion graves of all veterans in its area. WWl WW2. Kuchman and her daughter served in units; the main auditorium has 2,000

the Navy in the two wars ; the daughter seats and its stage is one of the largest A new recruit for the Boston Braves of the Fishers is an Auxiliare, as is also in Kansas City. More than 1,000 pex-- is 18-year-old Bill Allen, Rochester, New the sister of Mrs. Fisher, Georgine. sons can be served in the basement din- York, for two years an outstanding Family score, four Legionnaires; two ing room, and there are more than 50 pitcher for the Freeman Allen Post No. Auxiliares. . . . John F. Lewert, Jr., other rooms of various sizes, suitable for 1156 Junior Baseball team. In 20 Legion Scranton, Pennsylvania, WW2 vet of 5 a wide range of simultaneous gather- games Allen rolled up a records 'of 1:8 years' sei-vice, took up watchmaking ings. In addition to the local Posts, the wins, losing the other two by one run .after demobilization. He made a skele. new Legion building will house the offices each. He follows another Rocfhester tonized watch of unique design which of the Department of Missouri, and the Legion Junior into the Braves — Johnny captured third prize at the United Horo- Kansas City Legion Central Executive Antonelli, star of Flower City Post No. logical Association convention in Committee. Homer A. Cope, is Chairman 180 team, joined the Boston big leaguers Chicago. of the City Central and Arthur G. Wahl- last year after receiving a reported stedt is President of the American

$51,000 for signing. . . . Frostburg (Mary- Legion Trust Association which holds land) Post recently dedicated a $165,000 i; WASHINGTON NATL. STAFF ii title to the property. Legion home. . . . Carlson-Collister- MOVED TO NEW QUARTERS Gulden Post No. Bertrand, i| 67, Nebraska, United States Bureau of Internal Rev- contributed $500 toward the erection of ',1 Legion's The American National || enue Post No. 39, District of Columbia, a local hospital. At a mass meeting the staif in Washington has been re- \> made the award of Legion School Medals 'i Post 1 offices in the was named as leader in 1 moved to temporary the fund- at the Capitol Page School, located in the raising campaign, working with other the home of Bernhard F. Schlegel Post No. membership of 25 for immediate duty in >', volved in the move. They represent h 134, and one of the show places of the caring for the last rites for returned !| the Legion offices of Rehabilitation, !| Legislation, Economics, Americanism entire Legion. Fine old home, handsome- war dead and for departed comrades. . . . 1 1 \\ ly with its 1 and Public Relations. The old four- \> furnished, 19V2 acres of sur- More than 1,000 people turned out for 1 |i story red brick building the is the annual Memorial Day service con- which rounding grounds, debt-free. Two i', Washington branch of the National >', cannon, formerly the property of Gen- ducted by Roslyn-Ronald Post No. 206, !| Headquarters has owned and occu- eral George A. McCall Post, are Roslyn, Washington, to dedicate the GAR, I; pied since 1934 wiU be torn down. posted at the front pointing toward the new veterans cemetery. It was also the 1 Under present plans, the new build- 1 || Brandywine Battlefield, only five miles 51st annual memorial in which James ] ing to replace it will be ready for away. >'< 1 Bertello, leader of the Cle Elum band, 1 occupancy late in 1950. * participated as a band musician, his first being at the close of the Spanish-Ameri- When Ernest J. Borgna, Post No. can War. Commemorating his 30th anniversary 411, Jessup, Pennsylvania, dashes off as a member of Semper Fidelis Post No. night at School of * * for classes Post 356, Buffalo, New York, Jay T. Barnsdall, Advertising he usually meets son, In November, 1946, Dennis Estes Post Jr., attorney, presented to the Post a Joseph, coming home from a Scranton No. 61, Yellville, Arkansas, came in for home site and recreation grounds in business college. Both are WW2 vets a lot of national publicity when it spon- Wyoming County comprising about 28 and both are completing their education sored its first National Wild Turkey Call- acres. The property is about 45 miles under the G.I. Bill of Rights. . . . George ing Contest and Turkey Trot. The event from Buffalo, and is in an ideal spot for D. Worth Post No. 574, Georgetown, was repeated in 1947 and 1948, each one summer living and sports, boating, fish- Ohio, membership 170 — 40 more than producing an unchallenged Wild Turkey hig and outdoor living, and in winter, home town — has purchased a 72-acre Calling Champion, and is preparing for skating, skiing, coasting, and hunting. lake front tract for a recreational park. the 1949 contest. The serious motive Mr. Barnsdall acquired the property sev- Cost, $35,000.

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • also reached the 5,000-member class by placing fifth with 5,026. : LEGION IS ERECTING NEW BUILDING AT WASHINGTON Pennsylvania reported 8 of the big posts, Illinois, Iowa and New York 7 each, California, Tennessee and West Virginia 3 each and Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massa- chusetts, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas and Washington 2 each. Reporting one each were Ala- bama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon and Wisconsin.

LEGION CHILD WELFARE AID RUNS TO $5,000,000 IN 1949 During the year just ended, the American Legion national organization spent $86,584.71 of its own funds in direct cash assistance to children of veterans. But during the same period the entire organization, including De- partments, local Posts and the affiliated groups of the Auxiliary, the Forty and Eight and the Eight and Forty, brought aid and service to children amounting to $5,067,538.18. This brings the 25-year Legion total for child welfare to the impressive figure of $73,017,202.57, reports Miss Emma C. Puschner, the Legion's National Child Welfare Director. "Even in these days when Govern- ment statistics must of necessity deal in millions and billions of dollars, this is a very respectable sum of money," says Miss Puschner. "As an organization we have every right to be proud of the very real contribution to the welfare of children which this expen- diture represents. Child welfare is, like A 7-story building of monumental de- organization, such as Americanism, all basic Legion programs, fundamen- sign will be erected at the old Legion which maintain personnel at Washing- tally an activity of the individual Posts, address, 1608 K Street, N. W., in Wash- ton. In addition, the building will have and we must all remember that the ington to care for the needs of the branch offices for the National Commander and money, goods and services which the of National Headquarters in the National staff personnel and several conference Legion units are called upon to give Capital. Work on the structure will start rooms for the use of the National Com- are dispensed primarily because there just as soon as the old 4-story converted mittees which meet periodically in the is some lack in our public program. residence can be cleared away, and it Capital. The plans for the structure were "The American Legion's responsi- is expected that it will be completed and developed by a special Sub-Committee bility to children of WWl parentage ready for occupancy in late 1950. on Enlarging National Headquarters is just ended, while responsibilities for The old building has been owned and headed by Past National Commander WW2 children are just beginning," occupied by the Legion since 1934, but Milo J. Warner, of Toledo, Ohio. Archi- Miss Puschner continued. "In 1945 the was much too small to care for the ex- tects for the new Washington building National Child Welfare Division was panded staff made necessary by the in- are Britsch & Munger, of Toledo, Ohio, called upon to help only a handful of creased membership following the close and Giesecke, Kuehne & Brooks, of Aus- WW2 children — an average of 20 per of the Second World War and the result- tin, Texas. month. In 1946 the average increased ant increased load placed upon the to 110; in 1947 it was 223; in 1948, 328, branch headquarters. Even before the 72 LEGION POSTS ENROLL and for the first half of 1949 the month- end of the war, the need for a greatly en- ly average of WW2 children reached MORE THAN 2,000 MEMBERS larged staff could be foreseen and plans 360. When we shall reach the peak in aid to meet the needs were laid. A lot was Seventy-two American Legion Posts to WW2 children depends upon many purchased at Louisiana Avenue and in 28 states have mustered 2,000 or more factors — general economic conditions, Avenue D, N. W., as a building site. members for 1949 during the first six future birth rates, the adequacy or in- Later, when it was decided to retain the months of this year according to re- adequacy of public aid for children, and, K Street location, long associated with ports made by Department Adjutants. of course, the amount of funds available the Legion, this building lot was sold at Omaha, (Nebraska) Post No. 1 again to the Child Welfare Division for tem- a substantial profit. The new building was the pace-setter for the large posts porary financial assistance." will be paid for out of a reserve fund set in 1949. It reported an enrollment by The peak child welfare year for up some years ago for that express pur- June 30 of 15,216. The Leyden-Chiles- WWl was reached in 1935 when there pose. Wickersham Post No. 1 of Denver, were between nine and ten millions of The new structure will provide the Colorado, was second with 10,246 mem- children of veterans. There are today Washington branch of the National bers and Memphis, (Tennessee) Post about 22V2 million children of vets and Headquarters with adequate working No. 1 was third with 9,100. The Harvey it is predicted that the peak will not space and facilities for the Rehabilita- W. Seeds Post No. 29 of Miami, Florida, be reached until about 1962 or 1963 tion, Legislative, and Economic Commis- shot up to fourth place with 5,301 mem- when children of veterans will number sions, and other divisions of the national bers. Lincoln, (Nebraska) Post No. 3 between 30 and 35 million.

34 * The American Legion Magazine • Septenib( 1949 ——;

claim. Write me. William li. Fankell, Clear Lake, Co. F, 329th Inf., 83rd Div.-Silver anniversary Iowa. reunion at Lima, Ohio, September 18. All vets 159th AACS Sqdrn.—Statements needed from invited. Info and reservations from George W. S/Sgt. Thomas E. Dodd and Sgt. Clark who were Keller, Secretary, 1620 Grand Ave., Dayton 7, COMRADES with me in China. Am stymied until their evi- Ohio. dence is given. Write E. W. Prescott, General Co. B. 137th Inf., 35th Div.—Reunion at Hel- Delivery, Hendersonville, N. C. ton, Kans., September 25. Write Floyd A. McGehc, IN DISTRESS Co. B, 4th Engineers, 4th Inf. Div.—Urgently Secretary, Holton, Kans. need to locate Charles W. Norris, last known 178th QM Co. — 2nd annual reunion at Middle-

address Washington, D. C, to obtain statement. town, Ohio, September 3-5 ; headquarters, Ameri- Please write. Charles V. Brown. 152 State St., can Legion hall. Reservations and details from 410th Bomb. Group, 644th Sqdrn.—Isl Lieut. Hamburg, Pa. Mark Anthony, 1306 Eaton Ave., Middletown, R. Brooks is requested to write Clarence Benson, 2nd Bn., Hdqrs. Co., 8th Inf. Regt., 4 th Div.- Ohio. Susquehanna, Pa. Statement needed. Will anyone who served with me overseas or in Majors Army Air Field, Central Flying Train- 372nd Group, Sqdrn. 7, Army Air Base, Muroc, States please write. Am in need of statements to ing Command, 8th Corps Area, Greenville, Tex. Cal.—Need to locate men who served with me, support claim. David Weiss, 1101 King Ave., Annual reunion of Training Command personnel especially Captain Warren Huff, commander. Pittslnivgh 6, Pa. over Labor Day weekend, September 3-5; all ses- Write Niles M. Hansen, sions at former Statement for claim. o 0000000, Officers Club, Majors Field. Res- Stromsburg, Neb. Lfl-O-OJLOJLfl-flJP-P-O-O-O. 0,0 0, ervations from Doyle A. Webb, P. O. Box 866, BIytheville AAB — Will Captain Wilson who Marshall, Texas. treated Marine Private James Wells in 1944 con- USS Ommaney Bay—Survivors and former per- tact him at Leachville, Ark., to aid in establish- OUTFIT sonnel on Task Force 77 ships and units who de- ins: a claim. sire to form association or sectional groups con- Baton Rouge, La., Army Base, 1918—Wanted, tact John J. Cassidy (ex-Ommaney Bay and Mis- to locate Dr. White, USN, Sgt. Baker, and Pvt. REUNIONS sissippi) 64-36c 186th Lane, Flushing, Long Fred M. Naber, who served at above station. Island, N. Y. Need help in my claim for service-connection. XIII Corps Association—3rd annual reunion at Harry A. Bozeman, RFD No. 2, Baton Rouge, La. iVo'tt'o"(irff"o~ oaooaaooa New York City, September 17-18; headquarters. 35th Division— Will Carol Wilson, (born Girdon, 4th Cavalry Association — 2nd annual reunion Hotel Woodstock. For info write IJallas C. Over- Ark.), who served in 35th Div., WWl, and Major at Cleveland, Ohio, October 7-8; headquarters. ton, Chairman, 290 Jamaica Blvd., Carle Place, Edgar Braggs, Air Corps, France, 1918, please Hotel HoUenden. Reservations and details from L. I., N. Y. write Norman D. Ellis, Clarksville, Tex. Needs Charles V. Hunter, Chairman, Radio Station National Organization of World War Nurses help to support claim. WJW, Playhouse Square, Cleveland 15, Ohio. — Reunion breakfast. New Jersey Department, 27th Military Police, Fort McClellan, Ala.— Men 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry Division — Annual September 10, 8 A.M., during Legion Convention who remember Frank Cole, 229 South Broadway, reunion, both WWs, Providence, R. I., September at Wildwood, N. J. Breakfast at Hotel Dayton. Yonkers, N. Y., receiving blow on head in com- 3-5; headquarters, Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel. Con- Contact Mary B. Henley, Secretary, 31 Kenzel ' pany motor pool in February, 1941, and also tact William Barton Bruce, Sr., Secretary, 48 Ave., Nutley 10, N. J. civilians near Shelbyville, Tenn., who in June, Ayrault St., Providence 8, R. I. American Railroad Transportation Corps—Re- 1941, gave him first aid in their home, are re- 6th Armored Division — Annual reunion at union, both WWs, at Buffalo, N. Y., September quested to write him at above address. MP pres- Hotel Roosevelt, Pittsburgh, Pa., September 2-4. 24-25; headquarters. Hotel Statler. Write Gerald ent at Shelbyville also please write. For details write Willian E. Rutledge, Jr., Secy.- J. Murray, National Adjutant, Hotel Sun, Scran- ist Armored Division, African and Italian cam- Treas., P. O. Box A, Yadkinville, N. C. ton, Pa. paigns—Paging 1st Lieut. Elmer E. Davis, whose 7th Armored Division Assn. — 3rd annual re- Task Force 4—Reunion planned; all former per- home was in Ohio. Write James K. Davis, 1161 union New York City, October 8-9; headquarters, sonnel interested write Box 4!, Garrison, N. Y. N. 6th St., Hermiston, Ore. Hotel Shelton, Lexington Ave., and 49th Street. Co. G, 410th Inf., 103rd Div. — Reunion at Base Hospital, Camp Mills, L. I., N. V.—Need For info write Malcolm Mackenzie, President, Chicago, 111., September 16-17. Write A. J. to find George Duke, Wardmaster, GM Ward at N. Y. Regional Chapter, 7th Armored Div. Assn., Thoeming, 2512 Burr Oak Ave., Blue Island, 111. above hospital in September, 1918, also Captain 3 Knollwood Rd., Yonkers 2, N. Y. 791st MP Battalion—Reunion at Atlanta, Ga., Jones, MC, Private Parker, orderly, Sgt. Thomas 9th (Hitler's Nemesis) Infantry Div., Illinois October 15-16. Former members contact Act- Brown, (formerly of Everett, Mass.), Lieut. Chapter — 3rd annual midwest convention at ing Secy. William P. Ryan, 1045 Arden Ave. SW, Wright, MC, and Delia Brew, nurse, all in serv- Chicago, September 17; headquarters, Sherman ice at General Hospital No. 1, N. Y. City, -Hotel. Info from Illinois Chapter, 9th Inf. Div. 141st'Pursuit Squadron (AC, WWl)—30th an- 1'919. October, 1918, until April, Assistance re- Assn., Box 855, Chicago 90 111. nual reunion at Reno, Nev., September 2-4. Write quired to prove claim. L. G. Wilson, 512 Seventh 43rd (Winged Victory) Infantry Division — An- Edwin D. Vaughan, Reunion Chairman, 1644 St., Moundsville, W. Va. nual reunion at Fort Varnum, Narragansett West Sunset Drive, Reno, Nev. 78th Hospital Group, New Orleans Staging Pier,. R. I. September 9-11. Details and reserva- Rhode Island Ex-Service Women—Reunion of Area—Want to locate Lieut. G. M. Wick, Captain tions from George E. Cole, State Armory, Hart- all R. I. women, both WWs, at Narragansett Green, Lieut. Powell or any officer at station in ford 6, Conn. Hotel, Providence, September 10. Meeting spon- April, 1943. Need help to establish claim. Marion 34th (Red Bull) Infantry Division — 3rd an- sored by Rhode Island Women's Post No. 44, R. Canfield, Riverview Hotel, Metropolis, 111. nual reunion at Minneapolis, Minn. September American Legion. Write Miss Alice L. McGrath, U.S.S. Saratoga, 1st Division — Would like to 10-11; headquarters. Hotel Nicollet. Both WWs; General Chairman, 238 Saratoga St., Providence bear from shipmates on board during the torpe- division history will be available at meeting. For 5, R. I., to register and for information. doing of ship off Guadalcanal in August, 1942. info write Brigadier General P. C. Bettenburg, 203rd CA (AA)-Reunion at Webb City, Mo., Need help to establish claim. Walter W. Wicks, National Guard Armory, Minneapolis 15, Minn. September 18. Write Marvin Y. Carver, Mt. 208 West Main St., Valley City, N. Dak. 78th (Lightning) Infantry Division — Annual Vernon, Mo. U.S. Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla. (WWl) reunion, Fort Dix, N. J., September 9-11. Mail USS Thomas Jefferson (APA 30)—2nd annual — H. A. (Whitey) Person, station bugler, needs reservations to John Gehgan, Secretary, 697 reunion at Philadelphia, Pa., September 24; head- help to establish claim, "particularly needs to con- President Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. quarters. Hotel Penn-Sheraton, 38th and Chest- tact Yeoman Jimmy Redding of Capt. Gould's 90th (Texas-Oklahoma) Infantry Division — nut Sts. Contact Michael T. Sullivan, 3926 Lo- office; Yeoman "Dusty" RSiodes, Lt. Gardner, (Both WWs) — Annual reunion at Tulsa, Okla., cust St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. USNMC, or other shipmates in guard company November 4-6. Write Joe T. Parkinson, Secre- 115th Engineers Bn. (C)—Both WWs; reunion on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918. Write Rev. H. tary, Adkar Bldg., 215 West 4th St., Tulsa, Okla. being planned for summer 1950. Write Haiold A. Person, Box 84, Bruceton Mills, W. Va. 91st (Evergreen) Infantry Division — 31st an- Shontz, P. O. Box 566, Crescent City, Cal. Station Hospital, Camp Crowder, Mo.—Buddies nual reunion at San Francisco, Cal., September Co. K, 137th Inf., 35th Div. (WWl)-Annual who remember my fall through a truck bed while 23-25 headquarters, Room 128, Veterans Build- reunion at Independence, Kans., September 25 ; on duty at Fort Snelling, Minn., please write ing. Banquet and show on 24th, Scottish Rite headquarters. Memorial Hall. Write George G. Capt. Clifford D. Schmidt, Box 79, Swanviile, Auditorium. For details write Peter Leffert, Meeske, Secretary, 506 Maple St., Coffeyville, Minn. Chairman, 630 Vienna St., San Francisco 12, Cal. Kans. Hdqrs., 2nd Bn., 354th Infantry, 89th Div. iOOth (Century) Infantry Division — Annual 163rd Infantry (Montana, formerly of 41st (WW2)— Want to locate witnesses to an upset reunion at New York City, September 9-11; head- Div.)—Annual reunion at Helena, Mont., Sep- truck in Germany, when I was injured (but was quarters. Hotel Commodore, Lexington Ave. at tember 16-18. Details from James F. Neely, Re- given only field treatment). Particularly need 42nd Street. All 100th vets urged to attend. Make union Chairman, Arsenal Bldg., Helena, Mont. statements of 1st Lieut. Epstein, Supply Officer; early reservations. For details write the Century USS Butte (APA 68)—Reunion planned to be S/Sgt. Click, Supply Sgt., and S/Sgts. Steiner Association, P. O. Box 86, Hartford, Conn. held in St. Louis in 1950. Interested personnel and Celoni, cooks. Write Alex C. Evaskus, 215 AEF Siberian Association — 27th and 3Ist In- contact Robert Bradbury, 1145 Diaz St., St. Louis West 5th St., Spring Valley, 111. fantry, 1918-20; annual runion dinner at Chicago, 23, Mo. 4th Submarine Flotilla, Azores Islands (WWl) Battery D, 537th Sep. Bn., CAAA-Officers and 111., October 15. Write Wm. A. Thomas, 2625 N. for reunion. men who remember me, please write; was trans- Sacramento St., Chicago 47, III., for details and —All personnel, fall in Contact Jim ferred to combat Infantry in 1943. Need help in reservations. Quinn, 103-58 101st Street, Ozone Park 16, N. Y. a disability claim. Edgar L. Warren, Rt. 1, For- 11th F.A. Veterans' Association — 25th annual Co. K, 110th Infantry—3rd reunion at Monon- rest City, Ark. reunion at Baltimore, Md., September 2-5; head- gahela. Pa., September 3-4. Write to C. L. Co. C, 728th Railway Oper. Bn.,-Camp Hara- quarters. Lord Baltimore Hotel. Further info Chattaway, Secretary, 708 Sampson St., Monon- han. La. — Would like to contact anyone who from R. J. Summers, Secretary, 81 Ampere Park- gahela. Pa. served with me at above station from December, way, East Orange, N. J. 110th Engineers, AEF—31st reunion and banquet at Aladdin Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., Sep- 1942, to March, 1943, who remembers the trouble 36th Engineers, WWl—Reunion planned : for- I had with my feet and legs, and also of me being mer members contact G. H. Swale, 90 S. 7th St.. tember 25. For reservations and info write George sent to hospital a number of times. Write John Minneapolis, Minn., or Ed Weiler, 1430 Vincennes T. Reddant, Secretary, 1708 Baltimore Ave., H. Madine, RRl, Beardstown, 111. Ave., Chicago Heights, 111. Kansas City 8, Mo. Paging D. H. Bloch, ex-New York City — Ur- 2nd Naval District Reserve Band-— 31st annual 40th Engineers Regt. (C) —Annual reunion at gently need statement of Bloch who vs^as in hos- reunion at the Narragansett Hotel, Providence, Hotel Fort Shelby, Detroit, Mich, on September 3-4. Information from D. L. Byrnes, 18307 pital (Haddon Hall) Atlantic City, N. J., with R. I., Sunday, November 6th. Contact William me in September, 1942. He had a sister, Lucy, Hall, 1017 Plymouth Ave., Fall River, Mass., for Winthrop, Detroit 19, Mich. Regt., and a brother, Capt., MC, at Walter Reed Hosp. details. Co. 6, 1st Air Service Mechanics AEF Write Locke M. Boyd, Sr., 1365 S. Ann St., Mo- Hdqrs. Squadron, 58th Air Service Group—2nd Annual reunion at Hotel Piccadilly, 227 W. 45th bile 20, Ala. annual reunion at New York City, September 3-5; St., New York City, October 22. Information from Base Hospital 131—Will Alfred Ralstaed, X-diet headquarters. Park Sheraton Hotel, 7th Ave. and Edwin Lord, 11 Otis St., Everett 49, Mass. cook, at above station from November, 1918, to 55th St. For reservations write Lester Johnson, Co. I, 164th Inf. (WW2)-2nd annual reunion Dak., 22. February, 1919, please contact James H. Walker, 1286 Albany Ave., Brooklyn 3, N. Y. at Legion Hall, Wahpeton, N. October Rt. 1, Box 217, Leeds, Ala., who needs help in 56th Regt. CAC Veterans' Association—31st an- Details fi'om Ira A. Keeney, President, 303 N. proving his claim. nual reunion at Stamford, Conn.. September 4. Third St.. Wahpeton, N. Dak. 52nd General Hospital-Urgently need to locate For reservations write Fred S. Fowler, President, 103rd Med. Regt. and Bn., 28th Div.—Annual Captain Driske, MC, Army, formerly of Chicago, P. O. Box 233, Glenbrook, Conn. reunion at Wellsboro, Pa., October 22. Informa- III., who in 1944 was with above hospital at Kitte- 400th Armored F. A. Battalion— 4th annual re- tion from James McMullen, R2, Wellsboro, Pa. reunion minister, England. A medical statement, is needed union at Fort Wayne, Ind., September 10; head- East Side YMCA, NYC—Old timers tor purpose of record. Write Victor Lane, Vet- quarters. Hotel Van Orman. Write Ray Hartsel, dinner, both WWs, at Turn Hall, Lex. Ave. and erans Service Office, Monticello, Ga. Treasurer, 3751 West 47th Place, Cleveland, Ohio, 85th St., New York, October 5. Send names and 45l8t Bomb Group—Crew members, particular, or Russell L. Harnish, Reunion Chairman, 1007 reservations to Phil Brauneis, RKO Bldg., 86th ly John Dayton: statements urgently needed for Dearborn St., Fort Wayne, Ind. St. and Lex. Ave., New York City. The Ameiiccin Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • 35 is Theme for THE AMERICAN LEGION ''Protect Our Child Life" NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA in September JUNE 30, 1949 Legion's Safety Campaign ASSETS Cash on hand and on deposit. .$1,129,496.46 Receivables 131,631.91 . accident toll is a national dis- Last year 2,400 youngsters ranging The Inventories 645,867.51 in ages from 5 to 14 years made the grace. In 1946, President Truman called Invested Funds 959,266.96 National Conference on Highway Permanent Investments: supreme sacrifice to carelessness and a Overseas Graves Decoration neglect. While 2,400 lost their lives, an- Safety. With the objective of saving Trust Fund 249,728.25 Employees' Retirement Trust injured in varying lives and halting the terrific drain on other 180,630 were Fund 1,041,582.66 degrees. Thousands of these injured are the economic resources of America, an Real Estate, less depreciationT . 273,729.16 permanently maimed or disfigured. Action Program was devised. As an out- Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment, less depreciation 281,342.70 These are startling figures. But they grovirth of the Action Program the Na- Deferred Charges 117,029.80 tell better than anything else why The tional Safety Council sponsors a pro- $4.729.664.31 American Legion interests itself in gram known as "Operation Safety." LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE safety programs—conservation of life is This program is a year-round traffic AND NET WORTH of the utmost importance. To put this safety educational campaign for local Current Liabilities $ 275,676.50 interest intd works, the September communities. Using a different theme Funds Restricted as to use 285,762.60 theme of "Operation Safety"—of which each month, it affords opportunity for Deferred Revenue 1,102,929.14 Permanent Trusts: the Legion is a co-sponsor — is Child maximum co-operation of groups and Overseas Graves Decoration Safety. The slogan for the month is individuals to supplement continuing Trust Fund . .$ 249.728.25 Employees' Retirement of highway and traffic safety. "Protect Our Child Life." programs Trust Fund .. 1.041.582.66 1,291,310.81 The Legion is a part of this move- It is time we call a halt. While the Net Worth: press displays banner headlines and ment and it has volunteered to carry Restricted the Child Safety theme of "Operation Capital 760,128.90 radio commentators are exhausted by a Unrestricted continuous appeal for aid for the in- Safety" through the month of Septem- Capital r.023,866.36 1,773,985.26 jured and relief for distressed families ber. The theme is particularly appealing $4,729.664.31 of those having died, our nation's popu- to the men and women of the Legion, lace seems unmoved by the major dis- and the slogan is one that, with varia- aster and the terrible roll of needless tions, has been used by Legionnaires for FRENCH UNDERGROUND CHIEF Protect Our Child Life." deaths. thirty years-" FLYERS HE HELPED How many of your neighbors are This is a "must." HUNTING bowed in grief because of the loss or September is a special time of the After the fall of France in 1940, injury of a child in an accident? What year for parents as well as for the chil- Lieutenant Bretegnier went under- is being done in your community to avert dren of the family. Youngsters are re- ground and was one of the chiefs of the further tragedies? turning to school. Many of the little ones maquis unit "Cesario". Through his Within the past several years, espe- are starting off to school for the first assistance some 30 Americans were re- cially during the summer months, we time. All need to be reminded again of turned to their units from the forests have witnessed near panic in several of the importance of safe habits. The Sep- of Verneuil sur Indre and Baugerais via our States. For months thousands of tember program of "Operation Safety" the Underground, writes Commander parents were bordering on hysteria in places special emphasis on the child's Charles Denby Wilkes, Commander of fear of a virus-polio. Millions of dollars own participation in safety activities Paris Post No. 1. have been raised for research in an at- and his responsibility for learning safe Lieutenant Bretegnier is trying to tempt to develop preventive measures. traffic habits. get in touch with some of the American While some 25,000 (National Founda- The American Legion is co-sponsor of Air Force officers who were shot down tion for Infantile Paralysis estimate foi* the September "Operation Safety" pro- in the Loches, Chateauroux region, in 1948) individuals, mostly children, were gram. Thousands of Legion Posts will France in August, 1944, and whom he afflicted with this dread disease the fa- bend every effort toward the reduction helped to escape. Commander Wilkes talities average 5 to 10 percent, for an of the accident toll. Other organizations, asks that these men write Paris Post, overall average of 7.5 percent, or 1,875. as vroll as individuals, will also be ac- The American Legion, 49 rue Pierre Compare 1,875 polio victims with tively engaged in the promotion of safe- Charron, Paris, France, or direct to 2,400 accident victims, or 25,000 stricken ty. This will be to no avail—unless the Lieutenant Bretegnier, 12eme RD, SP with 180,630 injured. people of the nation awaken to the ne- 50010, BPM 519, TOA, France. In the light of public reaction to the cessity of teaching and heeding preven- accident toll when preventive measures tive measures. BETHEA, NATIONAL are known, what can we expect after a Protect our Child Life—Parents, teach RUFUS preventive or cure for infantile paraly- your children the basic fules of safety, FIELD SERVICE, IS DEAD sis is found . . . the same carelessness or neglect may well lead to a sacrifice Death has taken Rufus H. Bethea, and neglect? to carelessness! National Field Representative of The American Legion. Ill but a short time, he passed away at Atlanta, Georgia, on July 19. A thirty-year Legionnaire, he WEST VIRGINIA POST GETS for $1,905.75 to pay for 847 Post mem- had been attached to the Legion's Field berships for 1950. Department Adjutant Service since 1945 with headquarters at EARLY START FOR MEMBERS Bud Tesch announced that this was a Atlanta, serving the area including record for early memberships in Adkins District Post No. 38, Gary, new Georgia, Alabama and Florida. West Virginia, located in a mining com- West Virginia. Legionnaire Bethea was Department munity in the southernmost part of the Allen G. Thompson, Ji*., Post Adju- Commander of Alabama in 1931; Na- that Mountain State — is setting a pace that tant, reports that the membership teams tional Executive Committeeman for will keep other Posts in that Depart- completed the record enrollment on Department, 1932-34, and a member of ment humping. The Post had an enrolled June 29. important National Committees con- membership 1,336 for 1949, a record that Among its notable works in 1949, Ad- tinuously from 1932 until he entered the was away above its quota. When the kins District Post paid over $10,000 to employ of the National Organization in 31st Department Convention convened Washington and Lee University to set 1945. Funeral service and interment at Wheeling on July 3rd, R. H. Moore up a scholarship in memory of Lt. James took place at his former home at Bir- and Andrew H. Hamlet, representing the Robert Howard, of Gary, who was killed mingham, Alabama, July 21, He is sur- Gary unit, were on hand with a check in action in WW2. vived by his widow and two children.

3g • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 . . , .. . . . Veterans Newsletter A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

September, 1949

hired to NSLl BLANKS COjMING AUGUST 29: Application than 5 , 000 new employes were blanks for the $2,800,000 National Service handle the refund operation and they, with Life special dividend will be available the regulars assigned to the job, are work- on August 29 VA Administrator Carl R. Gray, ing in staggered shifts to produce and , the millions of punched cards from Jr., has announced. . .Government Printing process Office ran off 70,000,000 of the forms, which later will be computed the amount which will be distributed through post- of dividend to which each one of the Posts and other vet organi- 16,000,000 WW2 policy-holder vets is offices , Legion . benefit or a zations in every community ... .Application entitled. . .This is not a forms are short and simple and few vets grant from the Government - it is a refund will need assistance in filing their claims of overpayment on insurance from a vast will come - but in any case Legion Service Officers surplus. . . Nearly every WW2 vet will not only supply the forms but will in for a slice of the melon.

. . . .VA warns gladly give any needed help * * * >'f made in special that application cards are NO NSLI DIVIDEND FOR AIR CADETS: The Senate size and printed on type of paper to fit Appropriations Committee voted down computing and recording the installed payment of GI insurance dividends to war- machines .... Over-zealous outfits that time Aviation Cadets who , during period of in order to have their own blanks printed training, held policies on which the speed up applications will hinder and delay Government paid the premiums . . . .VA Admin- distinct processing, thus rendering a istrator Gray had held that the wartime veterans. . . Such off- disservice to Cadets were entitled to receive refunds the or off-size cards will have to be standard same as if they had paid the premiums them- thrown out of the production line. . . .Rest selves . . . .Comptroller General Lindsay application is filed - the easy after Warren held that the dividends should of such tremendous proportions program is revert back to the Government which orig- that time is required to work things out. . . inally paid the premiums . . .Senate Com- inquiry sent to VA will only Any letters of mittee upheld Comptroller Warren and delay, withou t doing the claim serve to recommended that the VA be barred from any good . . . .When the checks start flowing making such payments ... .VA estimates that in January , the mail- out some time 1950 500,000 Aviation Cadets are affected by expected to reach maximum of ing is a the decision, involving more than daily. 200,000 $20,000,000 The ruling, of course, * * >>f * does not affect the right of the Cadets to Administrator Gray has announced that the receive their share of the dividend on first phase of the huge insurance dividend policies taken after they entered general service and on which they paid their own operation has been completed . . . .High- speed microfilming machines have completed premiums the job of photographing the last group of * * * * more than 22 , 000 , 000 premium record DELAWARE VOTES WW2 VET BONUS: At a special cards . . . .Only the V-Mail program during election held in Delaware on July 19 the the war topped this VA pro j ect in volume . . . voters approved a "yes" or "no" referendum

These cards were drawn in from 14 cities to pay a bonus to the State ' s WW2 vets — b^ across the country and processed so that a vote of more than five to one . . . .No there would be no interference with the specific provisions were included in the daily use of the "live" cards in the referendum, which was intended to be ad- . Distric t offices. . "Operation Dividend" visory to the Legislature of the wishes now enters into the phase of setting up of the electors ... .Governor Elbert N. master files at Washington so that the Carvel has announced that he will convene applications may be handled promptly when the Legislature in special session "soon" received at the Central Office. to take the necessary action in setting The entire operation is a mechanical one, up rates of payment, rules governing with more than 5,200 intricate machines - eligibility, and to provide for the payment

keypunches, sorters, collectors, inter- of such a bonus. . . The Legion' s proposal preters and posting units - being used in made to the last regular session of the one of the largest single concentrations Legislature calls for $15 per month state- of such machines in the country .. .More side service and $20 per month for foreign

37 " " , . . . ,, . . , ,

. compensation for non-regulars injured service t_o a maximum of 15 months . . This rate would fix a maximum of $225 for while in active military service of less all home service and |500 for foreign, or than 30 days duration. ... It is known as mixed home and foreign. the "les s than 30 days law" . . . .Under this Act the Government assumes an obligation * * * * for death or injury to Reservists while INDIANA STARTS BONUS MACHINERY: The first serving in or training for the Armed Forces steps in the payment of a bonus to Indiana's irrespective of the length of the duty WW2 vets was taken on July 14 when Governor period. .. .Obvious injustices are ironed Henry F_._ Schricker drew the first appli- out by this law and it is expected that, cation from a mail bag. ... Governor with this protection for self and family, Schricker came up with the application of the morale and efficiency among the civil-

, Hammond ex-Army Private Daniel Holom. 28 ian components will be raised. . . .Most Re- Indiana, veteran of Normandy and Northern servists who are engaged in civilian France campaigns and winner of the Purple occupations for a livelihood find it in- Heart and two bronze stars. .. .Work of convenient to take more than 15 days active processing the flood of applications duty training during the year in addition started immediately after this initial to their Reserve training. ceremony. ... It is expected that 400,000 * * * * applications will be received before the VA HOSPITAL INTERNSHIPS: Veterans Ad- ... Though deadline on December 31, 1950. ministration will offer 259 internships to claims will be processed as received, no qualified graduates of recognized medical sufficient payments will be made until schools in 13 of its hospitals beginning funds have accumulated to pay all vets at . July 1, 1950 . . . "Pilot" programs for which . is being built one time . . .The bonus fund prospective internes have already been . . . Ap- from increased gross income tax accepted have been started at the hospitals proximate date of payment is 1954 . . . at McKinney, Texas, and Chambles, Georgia, Hoosier vets living out of the State get affiliated, respectively, with Southwest- Depart- their applications from Indiana ern Medical College and Emory University. t Affairs, 451 North Meri- men of Veteran s * * * *

dian Street , Indianapolis, Indiana. IN THE NEWS: Ernie Pyle, No. 1 war reporter * * * * who died on le Shima while writing the COMMUNIST TRICKERY: A thorough-going GI's story of the war, was given permanent handbook of the ways and wiles of commu- burial on July 18 in the National Memorial nists in infiltrating and dominating labor Cemetery of the Pacific, near Honolulu. and other similar groups is provided in the This cemetery is located in the Punchbowl, 3rd revised and enlarged edition of Karl extinct volcanic crater, which looks down

Baarslag ' s Communis t Trade Union Trickery on Pearl Harbor. . . James A. Hard, oldest

Exposed . . . .Readers of this magazine will veteran of the Civil War and oldest member remember two highly informative articles, of the Grand Army of the Republic, quietly "How to Spot a Communist . (January, 1947) celebrated his 107th birthday at his home and "Slick Tricks of the Commies, (Febru- in Rochester, New York, on July 15. He

ary, 1947) , which were condensed from this spent the day making plans to attend the handbook. ... The new edition, expanded final encampment of the GAR at Indianapo- and revised to meet new conditions, with lis.... Fred G^ Condict 65, St. Louis, illustrations and a bibliography, can be Missouri, newspaper man who was National had from the Argus Publishing Company, 55 Publicity Director of the Legion from 1926

East Washington Street . Chicago, Illinois, until 1935, died at the Jefferson Barracks at $1 per copy or 5 copies for $3. VA Hospital on July 13. * * * * * * * * BATTLE OF BULGE MEMORIAL: Belgium will VA SAYS : The new 399-bed general medical erect a huge memorial overlooking the and surgical hospital opened at Providence ground near Bastogne where 76,890 American Rhode Island, brings the total number of VA hospitals to soldiers lost life and limb in the Battle up 129.... Less than one- fourth of the WW2 veterans holding NSLI of the Bulge . . . .The shrine will be dedi- have converted their policies from cated on May 30, 1950 The Belgo-Ameri- term can Association has, through National insurance to one or more of the half-dozen available permanent plans . . . .More Commander Perry Brown, invited a pilgrim- than 202,000 WW2 vets have either exhausted age of WW2 veterans and their families to their entitlement to GI Bill training, or attend the event . . . .The Belgian Government have completed their Public Law 16 train- has started to make plans for the e nter- ing and have tainment of the American veterans which been declared rehabilitated. . . .WW2 veterans between 25 34 will include visits to Brussels, Antwerp, and years of age had a median incom e Bruges, Ghent, Liege and other cities oFl2,401 in 1947, compared with for non-veterans in where the visitors will be guests of honor. $2,585 the same age group. . . Salisbury, North * * * * Carolina, has been selected as the site for RESERVISTS GET DISABILITY PROTECTION: the new 1000-bed neuropsychiatric hospi- President Truman has signed S. 213, passed tal » Construction costs are expected to by 81st Congress, removing the bar to reach the neighborhood of $17,000,000. 38 THEY HOWL FOR JUSTICE (Continued from page 17)

Russian news agency) to the Chicago now obviously beaten and humiliated ZAKAR: Yes, sir. Tribune. cardinal, Olti elicits a countless number Now Olti asks Zakar for some detail but In Budapest the people were not ad- of apologies. About the book Mindszenty Zakar cannot remember (a common fail-

mitted to the People's Court. Trusted had written: "If I drew on the wrong ing with all the defendants) . Zakar is Hungarian communists, plainclothesmen, sources, I am very sorry about it." About mute. Olti takes the police minutes and a few relatives of the defendants were the letters allegedly addressed to the reads from them. admitted by special tickets issued by the American Legation: "I accept these evi- "Yes, sir, those are the facts," says political police — after passing six check- dences against me. I am sorry for having Zakar. points of tommygun-toting guards to sent this material." And when Olti asks: OLTI (in a very kind voice): You only reach the courtroom door. In New York "Do you admit the manipulations of such couldn't remember every word. it was "first come, first served" for the exorbitant sums of money and severe at- ZAKAR (eagerly): Of course, sir. general public as the trial became one of tacks on this country's economy?" Minds- Somehow Zakar, despite Olti, manages the sights of the big town. zenty says: "I do, and I am sorry for it." to stammer through to one true conclu- I didn't see the defense lawyers take a This is the man who shortly before his sion. Olti wants Zakar to say a priest single note at the Mindszenty trial. Most arrest said: "Hungary has degenerated named Zsamboki, who allegedly arranged of the time they spent twiddling their an interview between Prince Otto and the mustaches, looking up at the murals de- cardinal in America, had belonged to the picting the evolution of justice or just ACME MILK COMPANY royal entourage.

looking bored. They did not consult each SALES CHAE.T zakar: This priest was . . . other once. Cardinal Mindszenty's lawyer, olti: With the royal family. Kalman Kiczko, a communist for 30 years, zakar: Yes, sir, with the royal family

concentrated in his remarks on praising or better . . communist Hungary and its justice. olti (kindly): You are trying to say he Meanwhile in New York a defense bat- belonged to the entourage of the royal

. . tery of five clever lawyers, strongly sym- family . pathetic to the communist defendants, had zakar: Yes, sir, to the entourage, or seized the initiative on opening day and better, he stood near to them ... or bet- still gave no signs of surrendering it. They ter, he was a priest in different Hun- took notes copiously, they consulted each garian-American churches. other endlessly — keeping the court wait- The trial runs on like a well -rehearsed ing. Dozens of times each day, they leaped but poorly produced play. It seems hardly to their feet objecting to everything from necessary to have the proceedings at all, the American judicial system and the very since all the defendants had confessed basis of the trial, to the judge's "hostile" even before the trial began. Vishinsky habit of scratching his head. quoting Lenin has declared that a Soviet Vilmos Olti, the renegade Nazi who court is "an instrument to inculcate dis- served as communist chief judge at the cipline," and that is certainly what this is. Mindszenty trial, spent most of his time Soon Olti is satisfied the defendants have directing witnesses, lawyers and the de- incriminated themselves enough, so he fendants themselves into attacks on the decides to let Cardinal Mindszenty's law- "When you talk about 1948, 1 toish you defendants. guided them in "yes" and yer take the floor for final remarks. He wouldn't say thafs the year we some "no" answers, as he constructed the case reached the high water mark!" The cardinal's lawyer, Kalman Kiczko, against them. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINK has been a communist since 1919. He is the In New York Judge Medina spent much man Mindszenty chose, the court wants of his time defending himself against un- the world to believe, over such outstand- into a gigantic chamber of horrors, a den relenting attacks by the defense of "judi- ing Catholic lawyers as Joseph Groh, ex- of robbers and thieves," the man who felt cial misconduct." By reiterated charges pelled from the lawyers trade union on no compromise was possible with the of bias and prejudice, by goading Medina the eve of the trial for insisting on de- communists. Today his readiness to con- through defiance of his orders and rulings, fending the cardinal. fess at once is too much even for the by quarreling with his right to preside — Kiczko gets to his feet, removes his court. The cardinal rises to his feet to read the defense attorneys tried to construct spectacles and almost cringing before the a statement repudiating his pre-arrest a case against the judge. microphone at his desk, says: client warning to the world that any future con- "My chosen of his free will." Then, Consider a typical day at each trial. In fession would be the result of "human has me own — the balding, obsequious lawyer tells the Budapest Olti sits on the dais his eyes frailty." The cardinal starts to read but court devoted he, Kiczko, is to the cold, his voice staccato. He hardly looks the judge says: "I don't think you want how the hurls Hungarian government, how much the up from papers on his desk as he to read that now." So the cardinal sits questions at the defendants. people's democracy has done for the Hun- down, there is a recess and he reads it at garian Once, Kiczko mentions that Down beneath the dais sit the defend- the next session. people. his client is naive, but mostly he just ants. . . . Cardinal Mindszenty, his head Now Olti turns to a questioning of praises the government again again. cocked slightly to the right, as it was dur- Andreas Zakar, the cardinal's boyish- and denounces the foreign press: "They ing all the trial, his eyes big and full. looking secretary. Of all the defendants, He have written numerous calvimnies against Alongside him — the other defendants, all the whitefaced Zakar seems most eager to Hungary." He disputes that the trial is cowed or dazed or indifferent. They don't please. And Olti, in contrast to the tough unfair: "No one either at home or abroad follow the proceedings with any interest attitude he adopts toward the others, is restricting freedom." and they don't talk to each other. They benign and fatherly with Zakar. The can accuse us of And "I thank couldn't if they wanted to, since a militia- judge prods Zakar gently when he forgets the coup de grace: the prosecution for bringing up the charges against man separates each defendant from the his lines. Zakar acts like a little boy kept client." Kiczko sits down, and even next. after school to write something on the my Olti smiles. The defendants don't talk to their blackboard a hundred times. lawyers either. The lawyers look down at Zakar, in answering a question, uses the And now shift the scene to a typical day their shoes. Only Olti, who is prosecutor word "democratic" in the western sense. at the trial of our "American" commu- and jury as well as judge, relishes the Olti interrupts sternly: "Liberal bour- nists. proceedings. He has allowed the prosecu- geois democratic or people's democratic?" The atmosphere is different here. Un- tion seven witnesses, and today the de- ZAKAR (searching): Er — liberal. like the stern -faced ex-nazi who presided fense asks to call just one. Olti refuses. OLTI (with fatherly severity): That in Budapest, Judge Medina, rocking to From the once stubbornly courageous. means against progress. and fro in his red leather chair, seems

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • 23 more like a judicial version of Adolphe me. I don't see why you get so excited. From the defense tables lawyers and as-

Menjou. As Medina rocks, the defense SACHER: Well, Your Honor . . . sistants gather up the volumes of testi- lawyers take turns jumping to their feet MEDINA: Let's let these little incidents mony, tens of thousands of pages and mil- to object. They resemble reciprocating evaporate and not occur any more. lions of words. The defendants take their pistons in a well-greased machine. A sacher: May I respectfully ask that you briefcases and notes, and leave the court- prosecution witness identifies a defendant tell the government to desist from facing room. They stop in the corridor for a and the defendant screams: "You rat!" the defendants counsel. Their backs are smoke, chat gaily with admirers. They These defendants seem to be very aware supposed to be turned to me and I prefer walk down the steps of the courthouse, of what is going on, and they don't like to see that part of them. hail three taxis and drive off. That night it. They even express their opinions - in MEDINA: You see how one thing may they will appear at a rally denouncing the such undiplomatic language as "mockery lead to another without profit to anyone. "infamous frame-up trial." of justice," "frame up," "you two-bit We get into a dispute as to whether some- By contrast, at the end of a typical ses- stoolpigeon!" (shouted at a government thing was said or not. I think the wisest sion of the Mindszenty trial, the defen- witness) and "a Hitler trial." course to pursue is, let's forget it. dants are ushered by tommygun- toting It took nine weeks to pick a jury be- But they don't forget it. The defense militiamen to their cells. Correspondents, cause the defense protested the jury- lawyers are gunning for the judge. "You who are not permitted within 20 feet of picking system was based on racial cind scratched your head and pulled your ear," the defendants during the courtroom pro- economic discrimination. After scores of says Sacher at one point, attempting to ceedings, don't even know the location of witnesses and millions of words, they prove the court was trying to prejudice their cells. The defendants are held in- failed to prove their case. the jury against defense statements. communicado until the next session of Now the trial is under way but how Medina laughs: "You've called me cor- court. Of course, this routine is short- strange it seems to a visitor fresh from rupt and everything else you could think lived — the trial lasts only three days. Budapest! Instead of constantly confessing up. ... I want you gentlemen to under- The difference between a typical day (and competing with each other to con- stand that when I scratch my head I'm in Foley Square and a typical day in fess the most, like the Budapest defen- just plain scratching my head." Budapest is the difference between de- dants), these defendants are constantly Gordon, a stocky, serious-eyed young mocracy and the police state. That is why consulting — with one another and with man, continues the examination of Bu- I was amazed, on returning to the United their lawyers. (No policemen bar the way denz by reading part of the constitution States from Budapest, to find that the — in fact, they go home every night to of the Communist Political Association. loudest denunciations of "police state their families and to speak at rallies in Then Gordon says: "Is that right, Mr. methods" were coming from the attorneys their behalf — except for the four who Sacher?" of the men who want to set up a police

were temporarily remanded for contempt. sacher: Yes. state here! , There is a definite feeling in the court- This brings Abraham Isserman, another When the outnumbered police patrolled room that they actually aim to fight the defense lawyer, bristling to his feet: If the streets on the trial's first day, as much prosecution, and win the case. the court please, I see that Mr. Gordon is for the protection of the 500 pickets as the The government is questioning a wit- in a mood to carry on controversy. I move hundreds of spectators, defense lawyers

ness, Louis F. Budenz, former editor of that he be directed . . . protested violently inside the courtroom. the Daily Worker. Budenz mentions the MEDINA; Of course, not you? You just They attacked the police detail as "a "ninth fioor of the Daily Worker" and hate controversy. I understand about that. Hitler trial," "an armed mob in uniform." Prosecutor John F. X. McGohey asks: GORDON: I thought we were getting on Richard Gladstein, defense counsel, said "Do you mean the ninth floor of the Daily very well. Mr. Sacher smiled at me and "trigger happy" men were spotted among Worker building?" said that is right. the police. Harry Sacher, fiery little defense at- MEDINA: It was a pleasant interlude but "Do we have to wait," Gladstein de- torney, jumps to his feet: "I object to that let's call a halt and get back to sawing manded, "until we've been intimidated so as leading to the witness, obviously so." wood. we're too paralyzed to speak?" jtn)GE MEDINA: Well, I tried to indicate The defense lawyers do everything but Medina denied a defense motion that a little while ago that as to some matters, saw wood. There is constant stalling to the police guard be removed and the trial I will permit leading questions. It seems prevent the prosecution from introducing be adjourned for three months: "That's to me fairly obvious that this is what the evidence on the central issues of the trial the most absurd thing I've ever heard of. witness meant. — almost obscured by petty argument — You gentlemen don't act intimidated, but sacher: I don't know that anything can did the defendants advocate the overthrow I recall picket lines that made it difficult be taken for granted as obvious with this of the government by force? The defense for me to get into the courthouse." witness. lawyers continue harassing the judge. At (In Budapest the militiamen wouldn't MCGOHEY: I move that that remark be one point they charge him with "prejudi- permit any of the Hungarian people even stricken out. cial misconduct," at another point one to stand in the vicinity of the courthouse, sacher: Your Honor, this man, Mr. stands up and continues arguing after much less picket or protest.) Gordon (McGohey's assistant) just turned the judge has ruled against him. The judge Sacher objected on the first day to the around and pointed his finger at me and calls a recess, and leaves the bench for lack of spectators: "The Nuremberg war said "Sit down." I want to call this to the five minutes — the only way he can silence criminals were given more seats than we court's attention. I will not permit myself the attorney. get here." Actually, 62 seats in the black to be terrorized by counsel for the govern- A sense of humor is what saves Medina marble courtroom went to newspaper re- ment. — proved when court reconvenes. A wit- porters, 20 to defendants' relatives and 65 MEDINA: I see you are returning to your ness points out that the Workers School to the general public on a "first come, old role. in Chicago was run by the communist first served" basis. sacher: I object to Your Honor's re- party. Medina asks: "How do you know (In the Hungarian police state, no one ." mark and I ask Your Honor to instruct it was run by the communist party and . . entered the court without a ticket. Among the jury to disregard your statement. ISSERMAN interrupts: I object to that Hungarians, only trusted communists and MEDINA: Mr. Sacher, I dislike shouting question. a few relatives of the defendants received and disorder and I will not tolerate it. I MC gohey: May I ask a question? tickets. The people formed no lines to get don't know what little passage may have sacher: May we have a ruling. Your into the People's Court.) occurred between counsel here but that Honor? There was much irony in the protests of does not jxistify your carrying on this way. MEDINA: I'd better keep my nose out of defense lawyers in Foley Square that SACHER: Your Honor, Mr. Gordon turned this for the time being. Medina was rushing them. The Minds- around and he faced me and waved his sacher: May we have a ruling on those zenty trial was over in less than a week finger at me and said "Sit down." objections? while the Foley Square process has dragged GORDON: That is not so. MEDINA: Yes, I will sustain the objection on for many months. Yet, one day when DEFENDANT JOHN GATES: You're a liar. to my question. Medina complained of delays, Sacher MEDINA: You have waved your finger at (Laughter) warned: "While speed is a commendable me, Mr. Sacher, and that doesn't bother So ends a typical day in Foley Square. objective, justice is more important."

40 * American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 MEDINA: It's nice to have you remind me The "Progressive Theatre" of New York the verdict, an editorial in the official of that. - strongly sympathetic to the communists communist newspaper Szabad Nep sacher: Let it not be said that the court - even put on an operetta called "Trial shouted of the cardinal: "a pitiable worm was impatient in hearing all the relevant in Holey Square." A parody on Gilbert and — a scared scoundrel — an unmasked Tar- testimony. Sullivan's "Trial by Jury," the operetta tuffe — stands before the court . . . one MEDINA: No matter how much time was slandered Judge Medina and Prosecutor who puts aside his principles and aims, given the charge would still be made. But McGohey (they called him O'Hooey) and does not care for anything except his if anyone thinks I'm conducting a trial in vehemently. In one scene the judge says: wretched life." The Hungarian radio a way to rush people and to prevent them "While I'm on this bench I won't have called the cardinal "a bloodthirsty beast having sufficient time to present their anybody else obstructing justice." The of prey." And the government's press chief case, it is my opinion that the record will climax comes when a mob of enraged told correspondents at nightly press con- refute any such charge. "workers" storms the courtroom and ferences: "Tell your readers that the car- What the record won't show is how the drives the judge and jury out, ending the dinal is not a brave man or a hero of free- defense carried on outside the Foley "phoney" trizJ. dom but a weakling, a coward." In the Square courtroom — and how different this It may not surprise the reader, but United States it might be considered con- was from Budapest! As soon as the trial Cardinal Mindszenty had no press secre- tempt of court — in communist Hungary was announced, not only picket lines but tary at his trial. Neither did he or the it goes with the judicial system. nationwide protest meetings, petitions and other defendcints speak at rallies. I was Over here most newspapers during the "People's Freedom Committees'' were or- not permitted even to chat with the car- Foley Square trial took a heinds-off atti- ganized. A "People's Freedom Crusade" dinal for a few seconds — the police never tude in editorializing about the defen- of several thousand persons and thousands allowed the press closer than 20 feet. In dants' guilt or innocence. They reported of telegrams descended on the President contrast to the defense propaganda mill the proceedings objectively. Even those and Congress in Washington. in Foley Square, in Budapest it wasn't newspapers which were less than objec- The 12 defendants — national chairman even possible to get informal aid. The tive were paragons alongside the Daily Worker. Sample Daily Worker headlines: "McGohey Fishes Another Filthy Speci- fiVfP.ULSES By Ponce de Leon men From Cesspool." "Frame up Indict- ment of the Twelve." "C. P. Statement on Medina Outrage." (When Medina sent Gates to jail for 30 days for contempt of court for refusing to answer a question when so directed by the court.) A British journalist visiting Foley Square for the first time was astonished that newspapers were permitted to sound

off like the June 6, 1949 Daily Worker: "This travesty of justice must arouse the whole American people ... a storm of

protest must go forth. . . . Demand that the indictment be dismissed and the defendants freed!" "You are truly the land of the free," said the British journalist as we sat in the courthouse while the shouts of pickets outside could plainly be heard through the windows. "Your police are not to protect the public but the pickets," he mar- veled. That same day I went up to defendant Eugene Dennis and asked the communist national secretary to compare his trial with the trial of Mindszenty. Dennis told me to see his press secretary. Gerson, the secretary, said Dermis wouldn't make the

AICBRICAN lEOION MAGAZINE comparison. But outside the courthouse, one of the chanting pickets, who said he was a com- William Z. Foster was not bi-ought to trial secret police saw to that. Terror was ap- munist, was quite willing to talk. I walked with the others because of illness - en- plied to cut off Hungarians from all con- alongside him as he paraded his sign. gaged a public relations officer, Simon tact with Americans and British. During How would he compare the trials? "No Gerson, and a staff. Gerson's organization those tense days, many Hungarians were comparison. These men are innocent. Car- bombarded the newspapermen covering arrested and toi'tured for no greater crime dinal Mindszenty confessed." Did he think the trial with press releases under a let- than having an American come up to his Hungarians should have been permitted terhead "Trial of the Twelve," carrying house one night for a cocktail. to picket the Marko Street courthouse? photographic portraits of the defendants Many Hungarians you met on the street "Of course." But did he know they at the top. refused to talk about the trial, but some weren't, and that patrols of militiamen At night, after trial sessions were over, had the courage. They made their senti- kept the courthouse clear of everyone, "mass protest" meetings were held. Just ments plain - that, despite what the gov- even just the curious? "Well, the Hun- four nights after the trial began, at the ernment and defense attorneys said, they garian government was right. Who would Brooklyn Academy of Music, defendant believed the trial was unfair. And they want to picket anyway? Only reaction- Robert Thompson, New York State com- said this in the face of a unanimous news- aries, and they don't deserve any rights." munist chairman, said that at the trial paper and radio barrage against Cardinal "Is a person who is anti-communist a re- I thanked him, "the constitution is torn up and simple Mindszenty. actionary?" "Of course." democratic rights wiped out." Gilbert The contrast in the attitudes of press and watched him swing around at the street. I Green, Illinois chairman and another de- and radio in the two countries is worth corner, to march back down the the sign gradually fendant, echoed: "Justice in America is noting. Long before the Mindszenty trial saw the lettering on class justice and the very system under began, the Hungarian newspapers, which fade out of sight. which the juries are .selected is a sham are entirely government-controlled, had The sign read: "Free the Communist and a mockery." convicted the cardinal. Two days before Leadersl Defend Civil Liberties!" the end

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 '41 FOOTBALL FORECAST FOR '49 ( Continued from page 19) the papers as diving star Zoe Arm Olsen's crowd like the Empire State and Chrysler monsters in action assures us that Tonne- boy friend, would be there instead of Buildings stick out above the New York maker is our boy — a bruiser who is also Murakowski, except that — alas for Cal — skyline. They're both big, fast, experi- a real swifty. Jackie took to pro Baseball with Oakland enced, and tough. Smart strategists, sav- So much for the individuals. It's just as of the Pacific Coast League this summer. age blockers, and blocks of cement on important, if not more so, to view the Sitko's nomination is hard to dispute, defense, they put the ice cream on the national football picture from the teeun although the space he occupies has prob- cake by the way they take off down the standpoint, which had best be done sec- ably more candidates than any other on field. With Nomellini and Wistert man- tionally, to wit: the team, including even such Ivy ning your tackles, you'd sleep soundly no EAST Leaguers as Levi Jackson of Yale and matter what league you were playing in. Ever since Red Blaik took over the di- George Sella of Princeton, along with the Other good tackles worth mentioning are rection of West Point's football fortunes, strong backs already mentioned. Paul Lea of Tulane, Ernie Stautner of it has been perfectly safe to lead off any Fortunately for the harassed prognosti- Boston College, Gordon White of Stan- Eastern survey with the advice that Army cator, the going is a little easier when you ford and Ray Krause of Maryland. bears watching. That is just as true this start setting up your line. At the ends, Things aren't quite that simple when it year as ever. The Cadets lost a lot of for example, there is one sure thing—the comes to choosing the guards, although talent last year but they still have plenty powerhouse Leon Hart of Notre Dame— Rod Franz of California is a fairly wide- left. They have to get by tough Penn State and a couple of hot possibilities, Don spread choice for one of the berths. Rod, in their second game and tougher Michi- Foldberg of Army and Art Weiner of an Ail-American last year, operated like gan in their third, but it wouldn't pay to North Carolina. The consensus of the a bulldozer in front of such Cal backs as bet much against them. scouts is that Foldberg is the better bet Jackie Jensen and Jack Swaner, and As for Navy, the Middies are confronted to team with Hart. Younger brother of played a mighty role in putting the Bears by another of those murderous schedules, the Ail-American Hank who was such a in the Rose Bowl. There's a lot of com- but should do better than last year as big cog in West Point's all-winning ma- petition for the guard slot on the other civilian coach George Sauer goes into his chine of the Blanchard- Davis era, Dan side of the line, the candidates including second season at Annapolis. Pittsburgh is broke his collarbone against Stanford last Vem Sterling of Santa Clara, Ed Bagdon also improving, but it too hcis a suicide fall and missed the games with Penn and of Michigan State, Joe Drazenovich of schedule. On the upbeat is Boston Uni- Navy. But while he was in there, he Penn State, Jim Crawford of Ole Miss and versity, sparked by the sensational sopho- showed plenty. He's a member of Army's Al Tate of Illinois. No matter whom you more Harry Agganis, but unfortunately offensive platoon. settle on, you're bound to stir up a lot BU doesn't face any stronger opposition There simply isn't any doubt about of arguments, but at least you're sure that than Maryland and West Virginia. Notre Dame's boy. Hart. Co-captain this any one of these boys would give you a In the Ivy League, the defending year along with the other Irish end, Jim lot of strength at the position. Our choice champions from Cornell figure to do it Martin, he is boomed by all hands as one is Drazenovich, the Penn Stater, with again, with their toughest argviments of the best ends the game has seen in a Bagdon breathing hotly on his heels. coming from Harvard and Dartmouth. long, long time. Weiner, as indicated, is After last year when good centers Cornell, a surprise winner in '48, has un- a close third, followed by such sterling abounded with men like Alex Sarkisian of dergone a resiu-gence iinder Coach Lefty wingmen as Ellery Williams of Santa Northwestern, Bill Walsh of Notre Dame James, and can count on such stalwart Clara, Ben Proctor of Texas, Jack Odom and Chuck Bednarik of Penn, the center ball-movers as Hilary Chollet, Lynn Dor- of Minnesota, Bobby Folsom of Southern situation looks a mite thin in '49. Far and sett and Jeff Fleischmarm. Cornell rates Methodist, and Dick Harvin of Georgia away the top choice is Clayton Tonne- high nationally. Dartmouth suffered from Tech. maker of Minnesota (those Gophers seem the loss of Dale Armstrong and Joe There is more agreement about the to have a lot of stuff this year) , with Sullivan, but still has Johnny Clayton and tackle selections than about any other honorable mention going to Tom Novack Hal Fitkin. Harvard, in its second year performers on the squad except the in- of Nebraska, George Maddox of Tulane, of using Art Valpey's version of the evitable Walker and Justice. Leo Nomel- George Schreck of Dartmouth, Jimmy Michigan offensive, is making noises like lini of Minnesota and Al Wistert of Michi- Kynes of Florida, Gene Moore of Clem- a comer. It's hard to see much in the rest gan are the boys who get the nod here, son, and Bob Fuchs of Missouri. Every of the Ivy group, even from Lou Little's and these Big Niners stand out above the observer who has seen Bemie Bierman's perennially good but graduation- riddled forces at Columbia. Lou had a solid fresh- man team last year, but it will need sea- soning before it can replace the great Kusserow-Rossides team which was entirely swept away with sheepskins. SOUTHERN CONFERENCE

With the astute Carl Snavely pxilling the strings and wriggly Charlie Justice carrying the ball. North Carolina should breeze through this conference despite heated opposition from Wake Forest. Carolina is taking on a non- conference tartar in Notre Dame this year, at New York's Yankee Stadium, but has the depth to make even that a close gcime. In its own league, only Peahead Walker at Wake Forest seems to have the material to fight Carolina on even terms. Peahead has two lettermen for every position except quarterback and he's loaded for bear. North Carolina State is improving and Coach Beattie Feathers is optimistic, an astonishing state of affairs for a gridiron mastermind; but the objective observer is forced to conclude that he can't hope to finish higher than third and is just

^2 * American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 whistling to keep himself company. Wil- since almost anybody you care to name. Frank Leahy can be relied upon to get the liam and Mary's principal reason to be If Janowicz produces, the Buckeyes may most out of it. happy is that its powerhouse fullback, be hard to beat. Wes Fesler has veterans On the eve of its entry into the West- Jack Cloud, has completely recovered two deep at all the line positions and you ern Conference, which thus will become from last year's knee operation. Clemson, can't laugh that off. the Big Ten again, Michigan State is the 1948 conference winner (without This is a year of crisis for the veteran building what looks like a powerful club.

meeting North Carolina and Justice) , ap- Bernie Bierman, distinguished Minnesota Biggie Munn has nothing to be ashamed pears to have lost too much to stay up coach. Bernie's great reputation has kept of here, with guard Ed Bagdon and back there. the wolves from his door up to now but Lynn Chandnois particularly outstanding. Minnesota, winner of six Big Nine cham- SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE MISSOURI VALLEY pionships in the eight-year period Tulane, under Henry Frnka's efficient through 1941, hasn't won since — and the Missouri, which licked Southern Metho- coaching and spearheaded by the offen- alumni are restless. Bierman's big hopes dist in 1948 by a 20-14 score in a shock- sive skill of Ed Price, will be pointing are Leo Nomellini, a tackle of unques- ing upset, is consistently good under the for the title here and could make it. The tioned AU-American caliber, and center coaching hand of Don Faurot, and this Green Wave has been building seriously year doesn't figure to be any exception. and Fmka knows how to build. Georgia's There is always plenty of competition in Bulldogs, who won the conference title the Big Seven, however, and Kansas, with last year, lost a lot of talent, including Forrest Griffith; Oklahoma, whose Dar- their fine quarterback, Johnny Rauch. A rell Royal may make the Sooners forget strong threat is Vanderbilt, which finished the great Jack Mitchell, and Oklcihoma its 1948 season by winning seven games in A. £ind M. are hoping to give Mizzoo a run a row, numbering Yale, Louisiana State, for it. Auburn, Maryland and Tennessee among its victims. Bill Edwards, the Vandy coach, PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE has installed the Cleveland Browns' The general opinion is that California, T-formation and seems to have an inex- which finished in a tie with Oregon for haustible supply of jack-rabbit backs on the championship last year, then lost to hand to make it go. The Commodores cer- Northwestern in the Rose Bowl game, will tainly seem capable of pressing Tulane fight it out with Southern Cal. for the to the wire. PCC crown. But loss of Jensen may put SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE a crimp in the Bears' challenge. Even without Jensen, Lynn Waldorf will field Although the oldest settlers would re- an experienced team headed by Rod miracle for gard it as nothing short of a Franz and Jim Turner on the line and three the same school to romp off with Jack Swaner in the backfield. straight championships in this notoriously Braven Dyer, our West Coast advisor, tough conference, it's hard to look beyond leans toward USC, which has Art Battle, Bell's Southern Methodist. Matty Mus- Jimmy (Mystic) Powers and Bill Martin tangs not only have the brilliant Doak to weight its backfield, and a fine end in Rote, Gil "Does anybody here know how Walker, they also have Kyle Bob Stillwell. Dick to team to demonstrate a car?" Johnson and McKissack Stanford expects to install a gang of with him in the starting backfield — and AMERICAN LEOION MAOAZINE young sophomores in most of its starting that's a lot to have. End Bobby Folsom is jobs even though Marchy Schwartz, the handicap, either. chances are that Clayton probably wUl no The Tonnemaker, who coach, is on something of a spot with the is best halt join this Rice equipped to SMU's Nomellini on the honor squad alumni. A damaging blow was the loss of streak, with Texas Christian, Texas, and Fall. Billy Bye sparks the backfield, which Emery Mitchell, who was hurt in the like for- Baylor the long shots; but it looks as a unit may not stack up to the Army game last year and had to quit the another dose of Doak and Southern ward wall. The wise and witty Roundy sport after his injury was aggravated in Methodist for all hands. Coughlin of the Wisconsin State Journal '49 spring practice. says that Minnesota's linemen are so big BIG NINE Oregon, the co-champ last year, lost a that when they bend over they're still six great deal, including backfield ace Norm Traditionally the roughest, toughest feet tall. Van Brocklin. Howie Odell, trying hard conference in the whole country, the Big Illinois, which lost to Michigan by only at Washington, has to face the likes of Nine certainly seems ripe for one of its 28-20 and to Army by 26-21 in 1948, will Minnesota and Notre Dame in addition old-fashioned gang fights in '49. Michigan be nobody's pushover but probably will to his conference rivals, and will do well probably deserves to be rated the popu- be lost in the shuffle. The best guess: to get an even split. lare favorite here, but Ohio State, North- Michigan again. Incidentally, neither western and Minnesota are all well Michigan nor Northwestern can go to the FAR WEST INDEPENDENTS manned and hungry. Rose Bowl this year. That five-year pact Santa Clara seems to be the best of the The Wolverines lost such operatives as between the Pacific Coast Conference and lot, with Vem Sterling at guard and Pete Elliott, Dick Rifenburg, Dominic the Big Nine forbids repeaters within a Ellery Williams at end possessing distinct Tomasi, Dan Dworski and Gene Derri- three-year span. So the race for the Bowl All- American possibilities. The Broncos" cotte, but will not be forced to subsist on bid is as wide open as it could be, with big game is their very first, with Cali- short rations this time out. Still arovmd Minnesota right up there. fornia on September 17. San Francisco, are such worthies as Wally Teninga, with Negro track star Ollie Matson lug- MIDWEST INDEPENDENTS Dick Kempthorn, Charley Ortmann, Leo ging the ball, has a good club, as does the Koceski and the stalwart Al Wistert, last Despite the assurances of Frank Leahy College of the Pacific, sparked by Eddie of the great Michigan Wisterts—every one to the contrary, Notre Dame has enough LeBaron, one of the section's more pub- an All -American. material to win them all. But the Irish licized backs. Northwestern, improving steadily under are taking on rugged foes in such as Bob Voigts, has to get along without big North Carolina, Tulane, Navy, Southern ROCKY MOUNTAIN Alex Sarkisian and back Frank Aschen- Cal. and Southern Methodist, and could Colorado is now in the Big Seven brenner, but should do all right with Art conceivably get hurt somewhere along (formerly the Big Six), but you won't go Murakowski and Ed TunniclifT to carry the way. Bob Williams should be a good far wrong if you stick with Utah to come the ball with tackle Fatso Day to help quarterback for the Notre Dame T, but home a repeat winner here. clear a path. there is no reserve strength behind him— The chances are, for that matter, that Ohio State is raving about its spectacu- an unusual situation at quarterback -rich the only way you can go wrong on any of lar sophomore, Vic Janowicz, boomed as South Bend. As usual, however, there is the information dispensed in the foregoing the greatest player the State has seen lots of talent under the Grolden Dome, and paragraphs is to bet on it. the end

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • '^^PORJ FROM HOLLYWOOD; THE MAN WITH THE GLASS JAW Film Fare for September (Continued from page 26) Japs got between us and the beach before our gang pushed them back in that sector and we got out. Anyway we talked a lot of fight that day. The good old days, you know? And then, like the dope I am, I bubble over about how nobody's ever found his weakness and ask him if he really did have a weakness that nobody's ever discovered. I guess I was half delirious, with my leg and all, and I remember now that Pete looked at me kind of sharp when I asked him. But then he grinned. "Well, Jackie," he said, "to tell you the truth, it's my jaw. It's glass, though there's

very few know about it. I've learned to protect it pretty fair, too, but it's there just the same. And it is a weakness." That's all he said, but it's the one really clear thing about the war that has stuck in my mind. Pete Burrell had a glass jaw. The Champ had a weakness. And I, a punk on the way up, was the only one who knew about it. I'd never use it, though. I swore then

I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE - A 20th It is perfectly cast, even to the point Century-Fox film starririg Cary Grant of a West Point graduate (Bill NeflE) in and Ann Sheridan. the second male lead. It is authentic in background, having been filmed in Many vets know at first hand the Germany, England and the U. S., the complications of conducting war and locales of the story. And—most impor- romance at one and the same time and tant—it entertains from start to finish. then of bringing their brides home. It's the kind the entire family can en- Imagine the acute complications in- joy together. volved if the American soldier is a The story has Grant, of the French pretty red-headed WAC by the name Intelligence, on a special mission in of Ann Sheridan and the alien spouse Germany with Miss Sheridan, of is a tall, lanky French soldier by the American Army Special Services, act- aame of Cary Grant and you'll have a ing as his interpreter. They get into good idea of what to expect in / Was A all sorts of trouble, but Miss Sheridan Male War Bride. always handles the situation.

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that I'd never tip his hand and that if I ever fought him I'd shoot at everything but his jaw, and I knew I'd stick to it. If he made hamburger out of me now, I still wouldn't hit him in the jaw. I may be a punk, but I'm no heel. And there's no doubt that Pete Burrell saved my life that day at Aitape. YES SIR, THAT'S MY BABY- A Uni- RED, HOT AND BLUE -A Paramount The buzzer sounded. Jackie," Bellew versal-International Technicolor film film with Betty Hutton, Victor Mature "Stick with him, Odds with Donald O'Connor, Charles and William Demurest. said, "and try raisin' your sights once. Coburn, Gloria DeHaven and Barbara Won't hurt a thing to try." From the Betty Hutton standpoint, Brown. "Sure, Odds." And I smiled. it's a good picture. She sings and The bell clanged and I shuffled out, We've contended that movies are dances, rants and raves, fights and is wanting to get it over with now, hoping primarily to entertain yet too few do. fought. Best scene is where she tries it was quick so's I could go get a beer and Here is One that does. It is the story of to phone police after three thugs have lie down and sleep somewhere. four ex-GIs in college. out. dials, one be- Each is mar- been laid As she Pete came right out swinging. He was ried and each has a baby. conflict gins to regain consciousness. She The going for the big one, swinging for the between classes, football and helping hits him but before she can finish her count, and I wasn't sorry. I'd give the fans the wives with housework and baby call another staggers up and she has a show, though. I'd go down slugging. tending creates good clean fun. to bop him. It's Hutton all the way. ! -

We traded a lot of leather there in the next minute. Something exploded in my head and I went down. I saw the canvas under me and the hard white ring lights were as hot as the sun on my back. I was on hands and knees, trying to lift my head. Pete's black boxing shoes came into my line of vision then. I wondered why he hadn't gone to a neutral corner and I looked up and saw him standing

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start of II, been . the World War who had comfort him . that. The picture was tragically clear. forced to wait for periods ranging from "Case No. 13. This veteran was dis- "The American Legion feels," he said, three to eleven months before compen- charged insane, unable to sign his dis- "that all governmental agencies concerned sation was allotted to them. charge. Claim was filed April 12, and we should coordinate their activities, to the "This list is far from complete," he said. have not yet been able to get this veteran end that men and women released from "It is only a quick sampling, compiled as examined. While it is true that the Vet- the service should not be subjected to in- a result of telegraphic inquiry among erans Administration wrote his sister and convenience, embarrassment, and at times Legion service officers in 34 States." a service officer, no letters were written distress. At the time he spoke, more than 600,000 to either, or to anyone else, in September "While they were in service, they made men and women had been discharged or October." allotments to their dependents to which from the armed forces, many of them dis- April to December. That was eight were added the governmental allowances. abled. The Legion's investigation showed months — months in which a boy whose Those benefits were discontinued in each that, almost without exception, the dis- mind was shattered by war was left alone, case upon discharge. abled veterans had been forced to under- without help, money or encouragement "Having no other income, the disabled go similar delays. from the Government he had served . . . dischargee must rely upon financial as- "The situation," Commander Atherton "Case No. 17. This veteran was dis- sistance from private or charitable said, "is all the more tragic because it is charged from service July 27, 1943, with sources. Such a situation, especially for preventable. diagnosis of dementia praecox, paranoid. the combat disabled, should not be toler- "The report is a shocking indictment of The handicap estimate by the rating board ated. lack of foresight and preparation for the is 100 percent. Action toward releasing "Even a convict who is discharged from inevitable casualties already here, and payment on the veteran's claim is not ex- prison is given some money and a suit of those yet to come. If, as a 'high official' pected until the character of his discharge clothes. The veteran, when he is dis- recently predicted, we may expect tre- is officially attested. It seems quite evident charged from a hospital or separation mendous casualties in the next ninety that served honorably, but the au- he center, is given neither." days, have no for we excuse dilly-dally- thorization unit has refused to release The Legion didn't ask much for them. ing any longer. until officially informed the dis- payment Just some money to live on, enough to "I should not like to face the wrath of charge was honorable." buy clothes, to insure them something to 11,000,000 veterans after this if Surely someone, in all months, war our those eat and a place to sleep: enough to bridge treatment of their disabled has been as might have taken the time to speed up the gap between discharge and adjudica- shabby, indifferent lax attestation of the boy's discharge, and as the story the tion of their claims or re-employment. of the last two years would indicate." so that he could get the help he needed . . Specifically, Commander Atherton the In fairness He presented details of many of to the Veterans Adminis- asked Congress to provide miistering-out those 1,536 cases: tration, it should be pointed out that the pay for every discharged man, to be paid "Case No. 12. In this case, the veteran, delays were caused, in some degree, by in amounts up to a total of $500, depend- totally blind, was discharged from an the immense volume of work piled on the ing upon length of service. army hospital on June 30, 1943. The army VA, and the shortage of manpower. But, He asked that it be voted before Christ- service records in while that might explain in large meas- were not received the mas, that year — 1943. regional office (of ure of the cases of delay and ne- the Veterans Adminis- some "There'll be no Merry Christmas for tration) until the of 22. glect, it in no way excused them. Regard- week November thousands of these boys," he warned, Therefore the veteran has not yet less of fault — whether or not any indi- "unless something is done for them im- organization given (November 29) received the pension vidual or could be a mediately. check to which he is entitled, and prob- major part of the blame — the situation "Time is of the essence here." ably will not for 30 days." itself was intolerable; and though there He also recommended a program to As he spoke, thought was a way to correct it, it was not to be you of the con- eliminate the red tape, the inefficiency and fused corrected until the Legion acted. bewilderment that boy must have indifference responsible for the condition felt, blinded in action, left penniless for Commander Atherton did not read all his report revealed. The Legion's program included: "1. Every serviceman whose disabilities were reparable should be retained in the armed services to receive maximum benefits of hospital and medical care. If there is need for further convalescence or in- stitutional care, the liaison between the armed services and the Veterans Admin- istration should really function. "2. The Veterans Administration hospital bed capacity, especially for the nervous and mental cases, and the tuberculosis patients, should be enlarged, so that all those released from service and in need of further care can be accommo- dated. "3. The Veterans Administration should have contact representatives at the larger discharge centers, especially those handling combat troops. Ratings of discharged men should be made there. "4. The furnishing of medical and clini- cal records, and all other 'bottlenecks,' should be speeded up. "5. Records and reports should be sent promptly to the Veterans Administration office in the man's home State. "6. The lack of sufficient trained personnel in the adjudication field is a cause

• The American Legion Magazine • Septembei. 1949 of delay in lumdlinii these cases. The Vet- Yes it was the Legion's bill. I was erans Administration should authorize there. I had a share in the fight. I know. additional help, and step up recruitment The principles of the GI Bill had their and trainin,^ lor this purpose." roots deep in the mandates of more than

The report was siiocking and infuriat- one Legion conventinn. On September 2.3, ing. But it was only the opening gun in the 1943, the 25th National Convention au- Legion's light for justice for the veterans thorized the naming of a special commit- of World War II — a fight not alone for tee to develop an over-all program for mustering-out pay, but for the broader, the complete aid to the veteran from the more sweeping benefits of what was to be time of his discharge until final rehabilitation. The convention also declared, in various resolutions, that any master plan should include education and vocational training for every veteran; employment aids, unemployment compensation, home and farm loans, and for a system of "furlough pay" to cushion the transition back to civilian life. BEAT That was the Legion mandate. Those HIGH COST OF were the basic elements of the GI Bill of Rights. And those were the things that TRANSPORTATION WITH the Legion won for every veteran. On November 18, 1943, at a meeting of HARLEY-DAVIDSON 125 11919 the National Executive Committee, for- LIGHTWEIGHT MOT-O-RIDE mer Governor John Stelle of Illinois — a Why wait for crowded buses and trolleys? big, fighting bulk of a man — proposed the Why wear out your car — and your nerves, resolution which resulted in the appoint- in daily traffic coni^estion? Why stru^;;le for ment of the Special Committee on the GI parkint; space? Here's a way to ride that's

Bill. more convenient, and lots more fun ! And it "I took action after I received a letter saves you real money. Owners report 90 miles from my son, who had been through the per gallon, pennies for upkeep, no parking African and Sicilian campaigns," Gov. problems. Easy and safe to handle. See your Harley-Davidson dealer for a FREE ride. Stelle, later to serve a term as National Write for folder and complete information. Commander, wrote me recently. NtltEr-PAVIBSON MOTOI COMMNY. DipLAl, Mllwiikii 1, Wis. "His letter was based upon what the "First they used to vaccinate on the men he knew over there were saying. He Built for SAFE riding arms, then on the legs—Now where?" wrote that all they wanted was an oppor- • Brakes on both wheels • 3-speed transmission AMEItlCAN LEGION MAGAZINE • Bij; wheels, bi); tires • Brilliant night lighting tunity from their Government to make • Hasy steering and handling good when they returned from war; an lEAlEIS: VALIAILE FIANCHISES «V«IL«ILE. WIITE TStAY known as the Legion's "GI Bill of Rights" opportunity to get education or training, — the greatest, most effective, most care- and to find work." fully prepared veterans' program ever The idea behind the GI Bill was as enacted. simple as that: to give the men who were That fight was to last for seven months, fighting the opportunity they deserved — MAKEIOO'-' SELL against the toughest kind of opposition. to restore them, as nearly as possible, to XMAS CARDS Full or Part Time To win it, the Legion pledged its the position they might have held if they FREE every Imprint NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! resource. had not been called to serve America. SAMPLES Soil only UilJ »n<.cial Xmas card di-als. SO for %l up Your cost only 75c «arh reKard)es5 of niiantitv ordered at one time ! Your "We didn't organize The American The Executive Committee designated on each and every deal! F R E E 1 PROFIT »1 Write U.day for details of complete line. Legion to be a savings bank to finance post-war planning for veterans of World Bonus Boxes Make More Money with Creative. Costs with ord"ra nothing to trv! Feature boxeh on ap* a last man's club," Commander Atherton War II as a major legislative objective proval. Inc. said. "The best to in for the Legion in 1944, with emphasis upon CREATIVE ART PUBLISHERS, way use every dime 45 W.irbiirton Avi-., Dipt. H2. Yonkcrs 2, N. Y. our treasury is in assistance to the vet- two points: support of a resolution al- erans coming out of this war." ready pending in the House to refer all Later, after the fight had been waged veterans' legislative proposals to the and won, many organizations and individ- House Committee on World War Veterans uals were to claim credit for originating Legislation, and to concentrate the ad- SIZE WIDTHS the GI Bill of Rights, and for insuring ministration of all veterans' functions in 'ts passage. the Veterans Administration. "lOtolB-AAAtoEEE" • ^iitii.iHze in l.iritf .,i/.i's But the truth is that it was the Legion's "If we are to avoid the 'run around' that nlv_si2es II) to 10: Wliltlis AAA to EEK. WlliK Tips, bill. President veterans got after last the oafers. Moccasins, H;ili(l Roosevelt and many others the war." Woven Oxforils. IJress had O.vfords, Work Shoes, talked about what should be done Legion said, "then one government .SO.X. Slyllns speci.TlIy 'lesipnecl for iarjro for the vetei-ans — but nobody integrated agency alone must be placed in charge of Salisfaotinn piiai-- <1. ohi II a working plan or rolled up his sleeves all functions for veterans. That agency is 1.1 lip. KING-SIZE INC., 102 Brockton, Mass. to put one over until the Legion drew logically the Veterans Administration." up the GI Bill. The Legion conceived it; The stage was thus set for the GI Bill the Legion drafted it, and fought for it — campaign. MAKE MONEY- fought, indeed, against early opposition But it was apparent that the Legion CAST METAL TOYS & NOVELTIES of other major veterans organizations. faced two problems. One was the imme- Big wholesola ond chain store demand for Omar B. Ketchum, national legislative diate needs of veterans already being dis- CAM] cost metal Autos, Soldiers, Ashtroys, Banks, representative of the Veterans of Foreign charged: the other was long-range plan- etc. keeps manufocturers busy. Production

Wars, stands as a witness to that fact. ning for the rehabilitation of all veterans. moulds furnished for up to 100 and more Testifying before the House Committee Formulation of such a comprehensive j^jjt costings per hour. Spore or full time. No TIIM3 on World War Veterans Legislation on master plan for veterans i-ehabilitation experience or special, place. necessary. Tuesday, January 12, 1944, at a time when would take time. Enactment of such a ' Cash-in" on holiday orders now being ploced. Write for full information and illus> he was not in sympathy with the bill, he program could not be achieved overnight. frations of patterns needed. said that it "has been drafted, and I un- Yet the problems of the discharged dis- ^^^^^^ derstand will be presented to Congress by abled could not wait. Their need was metal cast products CO. Depf.9 men TflUCKS The American Legion." pressing, and immediate. Post-war plan- j^^^ Boston Rood New York 60. N. Y.

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • ning for all veterans was a Legion goal — Detroit banker; R. M. McCurdy, then as- the unrelenting, consistent fighting drive, but for the disabled men who had been sistant city manager of Pasadena, vice that insured victory. It was public under- discharged the post-war world had al- chairman of the National Rehabilitation standing of the justice of the bill that ready arrived. They could not be asked Committee, who in his own person had made its passage inevitable; and it was to wait for months for their rightful com- defied the crippling effects of combat in- the Legionnaires in every community in pensation — they could not be subject to jury; Maurice F. Devine of Manchester, the nation who made certain that the still further delays, while the program New Hampshire, chairman of the Na- people understood the GI Bill of Rights— for all veterans was being worked out. tional Legislative Committee; Lawrence and why our fighting men needed it. The Legion throughout all its history J. Fenlon of Chicago, chairman of the But, as we have seen, while the Legion had placed the demands of disabled vet- National Employment Committee. prepared for the tremendous task of draft- erans first. And this time the Legion did Working closely with the committee ing the master plan for complete i-ehabili- not wait. were Francis M. Sullivan, then acting as tation, the other fight was in full swing; On November 26, Commander Ather- the Legion's National Legislative Director the fight for mustering-out pay, for ade- ton sent his telegraphic i-equests to the while John Thomas Taylor, who had quate treatment for the discharged, dis- Legion's department service officers, ask- championed the Legion's causes before abled men. ing them for the records of men dis- Congress since the beginning of the On December 1, National Commander charged for disabilities, and a report on Legion, was absent on active duty with Atherton appeared before the Senate the length of time they had been forced the Army; T. O. Kraabel. National Re- Military Affairs Committee to repeat his to wait for compensation. habilitation Director: Bruce Stubblefield, demand for immediate enactment of mus- Within 24 h GUI'S, the records of more then executive secretary of the Rehabili- tering-out pay. The committee had before than 1,500 disabled veterans who had been tation staff' in Washington; Carl Brown, it a bill, sponsored by Senator Barkley. forced to wait for periods up to 11 months then chief of claims in the Legion's Wash- calling for a maximum of $300. Com- before receiving compensation were in ington headquarters; and Jack Cejnar. mander Atherton asked that the pay bo the hands of Commander Atherton in Acting National Publicity Officer, who in "adequate"—and urged that the maximum Washington. The Rehabilitation staff at an inspired moment gave the bill the be placed at at least $500. the Legion's Washington headquarters name that was to sweep the country — the The Legion's publicity division, headed worked day and night to compile the tele- •GI Bill of Rights." by Cejnar, sent the Commander's report graphic reports, to coordinate them into Frank Sullivan and Bob Sisson, in par- on the 1,536 cases of delay and neglect to a single report. So within three days, on ticular, were to turn themselves — to use every daily newspaper in the United November 29, 1943, Commander Atherton Sullivan's phrase — into "Fuller brush States — together with a letter from the presented those cases in his historic salesmen." going from door to door in the Commander which called the situation report. Senate and the House Office Buildings, "a national disgrace." On the following day, he appointed a insuring support for the measure. The report caused a nation-wide sen- special committee to draft the master plan "Frank Sullivan's praise has never been sation. Hundreds of newspapers backed for the readjustment of all veterans into properly sung." John Steele wrote me not the Legion's demand with editorials and civilian life-the plan which would "avoid long ago. "He deserves as much of the news stories. At the same time Com- a repetition of the tragic mistakes of the credit for the accomplishment, so far as mander Atherton telegraphed all depart- demobilization following World War I." the passing of the bill is concerned, as ment officers to "leave no stone unturned" This became "The GI Bill Committee." any other person." to bring all possible pressure on Senators It was a committee composed of many I know that was true. But I also know and Representatives to put an end to the of the Legion's outstanding leaders, that without John Stelle's fighting heart, deplorable condition the Legion had dis- headed by former Governor John Stelle without the qualities and determination closed. as chairman. Named with him were Rob- that every man brought to the fight, it Within a matter of hours, the tremend- ert W. Sisson of Little Rock, chairman of could never have been won. It was an ous forces of the Legion began to mobil- the National Rehabilitation Committee, effective, fighting group. ize. Department officers contacted their who served as executive director of the But above and beyond that, it was a Posts; and telegrams, letters and phone special GI Bill Committee; Harry Col- Legion victory—a victory in which every calls by the thousand poured in on mem- mery. Past National Commander; Sam Legion Department and Post had its share. bers of Congress. Seldom, if ever, before Rorex of Little Rock, then United States It was the Legionnaires throughout the had any organization spoken so force- Attorney in Arkansas; W. B. Waldrip, country who supplied the grassroots drive, fully, and so frankly, on behalf of the disabled veteran. The effect was immediate. "I never realized that anything ap- OKIVERAL MI.Sf'llIKF lly K. II. STKVEXS proaching this situation existed," said Senator Johnson of Colorado, chairman of a subcommittee of the Senate Military Affaii-s Committee studying veteran's legislation. "It is almost unbelievable that this nation should permit those boys to go for months without money, food or clothes, except what they can beg. "You can't explain away a situation like that. You can't brush it off, or forget it. We must act immediately to put money into the hands of every man who is discharged, the instant he is discharged. "I am informed we are discharging as many as 75,000 men a month, and that the totals will steadily increase. All of them face an immediate problem on discharge, when they feel lost and alone. And that apparently, is just the time we have bee' neglecting them—when their need is the greatest." Senator Johnson's indignation was sin- cere, as his actions were to show, and reflected the opinion of a vast majority ot the Senators and Representatives. But others in Congress — in AITKUKAN LEGION MAGAZINE there were some positions of influence — who rendered only

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lip-service to the cause of the disabled them. Why, when a boy dies, America men. gives him a flag to drape over his coffin!" — "This is incredible!" said Andrew Jack- But that, as 1 say, was later when a STETSON of Congressmen, with vitu- son May of Prestonsburg, Kentucky, small group Paneiela Chairman of the House Military Afl'airs peration and ridicule, blasted all hope for Committee. "Shocking is the only word the enactment of any really adequate to describe it. The sick and wounded from mustering-out pay; at a time when those the battlefields are the very men who are of us sitting in the House press gallery most entitled to expect every assistance wei e astounded by the signs of what could the nation they have defended can give only be interpreted as an incipient "econ- them." omy wave." directed only at the veterans. Those were line and noble words. Wc At first alter Commander Atherton had made his report, we could not expect, we could not dream, that any such opposition would develop. His request seemed an utterly reasonable one—and the Senate Military Affairs Committee confirmed Labor Paij' that thought. On December 10, it rewrote the Barkley mustering-out pay bill, to conform with the Legion's request for a $500 maximum. The bill, as the Senate committee drafted it, provided payment of $500 to Cigar That The Country all men who served more than 18 months overseas: $400 to men who served over- Needed seas more than one year and less than Available at your dealer. If not, send $2.50 for a 18 months; $300 for less than one year box o< SO to Pennstate Cigar Corp., Phila. 34, Pa. overseas, or more than one year in the United States, and $200 for less than one year in the United States. On the House side of the Capitol, mean- STETSON while. Chairman May had started public hearings though at first that did not dis- turb those fighting for an adequate bill. On the same day that the Senate group IMMEDIATE OPENING Imniediute opcnintj for reliable man with was drafting its bill, Mr. May heard a to call on farmers. No experience stirring plea from a handsome, dark- car necessary. $15 to $20 in a clay. Permanent. haired "Tech" Sergeant who had lost a McNESS COMPANY leg when he stepped on a land-mine in Dept. 167 P'reeport, 111. Tunisia ~ "Buck" Hendricks of Council Bluffs, la. "The boys I'm speaking for have been Here's a Profitable through battle," he said. "They have re- BUSINESS §:MiC£ ceived wounds, just as thousands of other YOU MONEVMAKm OPPORTUNITY fOR / ] boys and girls will receive wounds. We've WITHOUT INVeSTMEHTy ^ No eiperience needed to «c il D«aler for still got to get word to the boys over there MASTER Work Uniform germerti. conc«m a

. big proipect. Adveriijing embroidered _ mUi l'J3-l that Congress is taking good care of their commiiiioni (From Si-pu-mbcr, A.L.M.) (eetore. Eeiy. pleaient work. You (h of dollei per deily. You cann eply ell_ Selei_ _ Equipment FREE. must not let them think that their bud- GEO. MASTER GARMENT CO., Dept. 94 Ligonier, Indiana were to remember them v/hen, a few days dies who have been wounded have suf- later, Mr. May almost singlehandedly fered delay and neglect. That will not help prevented the enactment of mustering- their morale." out pay before Christmas. Mustcring-out He said that the $300 mustering-out pay I YOU MAKE $50.00 i linest Robinson Cbrist- pay was not presented as a veterans' mat- bill was not enough—and many members \t for sellint; 100 boxes jjj ^ mas Cards. An excellent opportunity tor k ter. It dealt with an extension of military of the House agi-eed with him. At least 5(f vourself. club or organization. 4 0 other > ffi fast money-makers. Write quick lor samples ?S pay, and Mr. May's Military Affairs Com- two, Walter Ploeser of Missouri, and jL o.T approval. mittee was in a key spot to boost it or William Lemke of North Dakota, had % ROBINSON CARDS % 5« DEPT. F-8 CLINTON, MASS. block it. introduced bills calling for the extension ^ Three and a half years later. May was of the veteran's service pay, after dis- convicted on a charge of accepting bribes charge, for periods ranging ujd to a year, New 1950 LfNE of in the amount of $53,634 from the Garsson depending on length of service. brothers to help them seek favors for their It seemed certain that the House could MIDWEST enterprises from the War Department. As not, would not do less than the bill which TELEVISION and I write these words, he is in Prestonsburg, the Senate committee was prepared to Kentucky, on bond pending further appeal report out—and many of us believed that RADIO of his conviction. the House committee might improve it. I RECEIVERS Mr. May's attitude represented a hard I, for one, was convinced that some New Giant core of opposition, within the Congress, more adequate provision, some provision 16 Picture to doing anything for the veterans — an more closely tailored to the needs of dis- • TUBE attitude that was, at first, beyond the or- charged men. might be enacted — and I dinary citizen's comprehension. It was an said so in my reports for the Hearst news- attitude that was to be reflected, not much papers, for which I was a Washmgton later, in the speech of one Congressman, correspondent. who arose on the floor of the House to But there were certain signs by which, Dept. X102, 909 Broadway. Cincinnati . Olilo oppose adequate mustering-out pay with if we had been alert, we might have an- rirat* l*nii n,« your flcw FRIE )9S0 Cohiteg. the words: ticipated the hidden, yet determined, op- "America's boys didn't go to war for position. There was, for instance, the story money — for dollars! They went out of of Troy Lucas.. patriotism. And America is grateful to Troy Lucas, too, had lost a leg in Tu- Vhe American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • 4g nisia. He came from Kentucky, from the study a proposal on which the evidence "Is there any chance at all that we can town of Southdown, in Mr. May's Con- of need was so clear could only resvilt in have a mustering-out pay bill on the floor gressional district. With the Army Signal delay. before we go home?" Coi-ps, he participated in the African in- On the following day. National Com- John McCormack of Massachusetts, vasion, and had fought in several engage- mander Atherton presented the case of Majority Leader, who had favored action ments before he was wounded. He had disabled veterans over a national radio before Christmas, had to answer: been discharged from Walter Reed Hos- hook-up from San Francisco and, in a "I am sorry, but there is no chance." pital — and was trying to find enough press statement, said: A few members of Congress protested. money to keep himself alive until he "There'll be no Merry Christmas for Edith Nourse Rogers called it "cruel and could receive compensation, find a job. these men unless Congress moves speed- callous" for Congress to go home without His case was finally called to the atten- ily to help them. providing for the disabled veterans. John tion of Walter Ploeser, who carried it to "Some mustering-out pay must be Rankin, chairman of the World War Vet- the floor of the House as another instance made immediately. It must be done be- erans Committee, said he would oppose of the heart-rending neglect to which dis- fore Congress adjourns for Christmas. any adjournment until mustering-out pay abled heroes of the battlefield were sub- "Whether or not Congress does do that had been considered. jected. will mean the difference between a Merry Their efforts wei-e futile. But the pro- "The post-war period for this man has Christmas and no Christmas at all to the test that his failure to act inspired was have returned, sick and for December 20, started," Rep. Ploeser said. "It is here men who too much Mr. May. On now. Not tomorrow, not next year, not wounded, from the war fronts where they from his home in Prestonsburg, he tele- the after the war, but now. have been fighting to preserve a safe, free phoned Sam Rayburn, Speaker of Christmas for every other American." to that his committee would "To Troy Lucas—and the millions of his House, say But there was to be no action before report out a bill "within two or three days buddies— I say that the Military Affairs Christmas. On December 15, Mr. May after the House reconvenes January 10." Committee of this House, under its pres- went back to his home at Prestonsburg— Mr. May came back to Washington ent leadership, is too busy to give con- back to his own Christmas in the moun- January (it was now 1944), inwardly sideration to the human affairs of the men 4, tain district that had returned him to seething from the lashing he had taken who are fighting to keep America free. Congress by a scant 540 votes in 1942. from public opinion, generated by The "What if our men in Italy were too busy "And in May's absence," I wrote for all American Legions plea for adequate to fight and kill the enemy? Hearst newspapers at that time, "went mustering-out pay. "What if our fighting men in New all hope that decent mustering-out pay "We are going to dispose of this matter Guinea were -too busy to fight the battle for could be enacted this year; all hope that in very short order," he said. "Our com- preservation of democracy in America?" there will be a little money, a little hope mittee holds its first regular meeting on Walter Ploeser, and a few others, saw and cheer, this Christmas, for the vet- Tuesday, January 11, the day after Con- gathering opposition for it was. the what erans who have been mustered out of the gress reconvenes. We will report out a believe it— not until it But many could not Army without a cent in their pockets, mustering-out pay bill that day." was suddenly demonstrated a few days without a suit of clothes. His committee did report out a bill — later; Mr. when, on December 13, May "May slipped out of Washington. Few a meager, inadequate bill with a maxi- said on floor of the House: the knew he was leaving. And, in his absence, mum of $300 -$200 below the figure the "I do not know if we will be able to no member of the House Military Affairs Legion had asked, and the Senate had draft a veteran's mustering-out pay bill Committee can call a meeting or report adopted. and get it to the floor before Christmas!'" out any legislation." The measure was sent to conference be- He announced, at the same time, that The Senate committee, meanwhile, tween representatives of the House and he had appointed a sub-committee, unanimously passed the bill agreed on Senate to compromise the difference in headed by Rep. John M. Costello of Cali- by the Senate Military Affairs Committee, the figures. On the first day the conferees fornia, to "study and draft legislation." with a $500 maximum. But all efforts to met, I was waiting outside the committee That announcement, in itself, was a death- force action in the House failed. On the room in the Capitol with Frank K. Reilly, sentence to any action prior to Christmas. 18th, Republicai;- Leader Joseph W. Mar- correspondent for the Boston American. The appointment of a sub-committee to tin, Jr., of Massachusetts, asked: As May left the room Reilly and I went up to him to ask what progress had been

Ailvrrtisrlnrnt made. "What is your name?" he asked Reilly. Reilly told him. May said: "I just wanted to know if David Came- lon was here." I told him my name was Camelon. "I'll give no more interviews to you," he said. "Why did you say that I sneaked out of Washington?" "Because," I told him, "you left without notice, and because you left the Mili- tary Affairs Committee without authority to function. Mr. May, you consider yourself a powerful figure in Washington — a big man who can deprive the veterans of proper mustering-out pay." "I am a big man in Washington," May retorted. "I'm sufficiently big to tell you this: "// you say any more about me sneak- ing out of Washington, you make arrange- ments with the undertaker before you dor "Jean's the most popular girl on the beach since With that threat. May turned, and she started eating Wheaties." strode off down the corridor. Twenty feet Never underestimate the power of a and coaches for years! 100 % whole away, he turned, and repeated: Wheaties eater. Wheaties, milk and wheat flakes. Nourishing. Second- "Remember — before you mention me fruit, has been a favorite training helping good, too. Wheaties — again, you consult the undertaker — be- dish with many top-flight athletes "Breakfast of Champions!" cause, brother, you'll need him!" (Continued Next Month)

• The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 THE TOWN THAT CAME BACK (Continued from page 28) before the day was over. They decided that trip to a nearby town, they stopped in for the only way to fight fire was with fire — a cup of coffee in Bremen, seven miles the only way to keep people in town was from Buchanan. Seated at the lunchroom to make it able for them to prosper at counter was an old friend of Hardy's, home. They decided to build a factory! Henry Bell, manager of the Arrow shirt "What kind of a plant? Who's going to factory. pay for it? And who'll operate it?" asked "Hello boys," he said. "We've been hear- hardware merchant Charles Newton. ing about that white elephant of yours. "I don't know yet. We'll worry about Have any takers yet?" that later. Meanwhile we've got to lay "Sorry we can't say yes, Henry," an- the most beautiful^ comfortable back our ears and go at it," answered swered Hardy. "Incidentally, we haven't Hardy. gotten a bid from Arrow yet. Interested?" and economical trailer coach! They started the ball rolling by forming Henry Bell laughed. "I wish I could the Buchanan Building Company with say yes. But it seems to me that you're up W. O. Strickland, a retired merchant, as against a tough problem as far as we're president. Hardy, who had been an ac- concerned. We'd need at least 200 people countant before the war, found himself to run it — almost a third of Buchanan." the star salesman of the outfit. Dave, a "I'll tell you what, Henry. Let us get machinist before his SeeBee days, was up a list of people — 200 of them — and pressed into service as his adjutant. Their bring it to you. Give us just 24 hours to

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minutes. Operation Salvation was under 1828 WEST KINZIE STREET • CHICAGO 22, I lllNOIS way. Dave cajoled the jallopy along aaiEB broken down back-country roads and P. rang Says — Before I started the doorbells of sleepy farmers and SPORTFLEX support I looked and felt like an old man. = Make it do at least double = their shotgun-toting wives. Hardy sent out Today, with this wonderful figure id, I look lO years younger and feel E duty by letting others read 5 postcards to nearly everybody in the I like a million! 1 it. They'll enjoy it and it § county. And by sundown the next day, I I RegAppd = will give them a better up- 1 they had put together a list of 500 people preciation A wonderful way to control those I E of The American ^ bulges! SPORTFLEX simply e-a-s who wanted to work in a shirt factory. you into upright, perfect post E Legion and the work it does. E without any restraining stays to dig I When Bell saw the list, he shook his into soft flesh! Wide 2-way stretch _ band of qual i ty lastex can ' t rol 1 , bu..cii or uind . Soft, head and something unintel- smooth detachable crotch gives sanitary super-support. ^llllllllllt]milllllMI[]|IIIIIIIIIIIC]IIIMHIMIIC]IIIIIIIIIIIIC]llllllllllll[]llll.^ mumbled A sturdy, resilient figure aid for porous non-chafe rontrol; ligible, shook his head again, and picked launders like magic! Please specify waist & height siie. Send check or money order. C.O.D.'s ac* < cepted. Sizes over 48 made to order, ^ OO up the phone. Two days later, Arrow offi- $5. «3' Post Paid job — to sell shares in the future of Fxtra Crotch 7 5. cials lease. Buchanan. signed a «;PORTEX FOUNDATIONS w vIVk 1"% .*V!' What they lacked in finesse, they made Today, some two years later, few can up with dawn-to-dusk plugging. Ordinary recognize the face of Buchanan. It has citizens found themselves chipping in with doubled its population. It boasts a brand- WASHES DISHES whatever they had, and large blocks of new laundry, a sewage disposal plant, a movie theater, and a paved highway. It $100 to $4,000 were bought by business BRAND NEW Nothing else like it. has over 18 new businesses, and the town Amazing: "Sponge** Dish Cloth washes and professional men. After a few weeks, disheslightnini; fast. Replaces messF dishra^s. square has been freshly manicured. A Suctionaction works like maeric. Dishes pleam hite Dave and Hardy found that they had li Godsend to busy tiouseunvea. — mirror. Truly a raised the astonishing sum of $35,000! 30-bed hospital takes care of its sick SAMPLES FOR AGENTS and the newborn will never wander Sample offer sent immediately to all who "There's nothing to stop us from start- who at once. penny postal will do. 6end name A YOUR NAME. off as their parents did. Alta Vista SEND NO MONEY-JUST ing our factory," they announced, and The KristeeCo., 1453 BarSt., Akron, Ohio within a few days plans were drawn for housing development is adding to its 35 a one-story structure that would have homes each month, and the county court- 16,000 square feet of floor space. Before house gleams in a new coat of paint. Every day, the townspeople gather around the the dumfounded gaze of hill-country d'ss pants farmers, the foundations were dug, and iron railing at the courthouse and gossip Genuine 100% GABARDINE the walls started about the new fire truck with its 3000 feet rising. And now came Imporfectlor ery llpht — hardly noticeable— of hose — there are lot of youngsters positively di ect wear. Ideal for dress the hard part — how were they going to and a school, play Firm hard finish. WrinkI Retains neat press. Zlppo get a tenant to fill their cement shell? among them who speak with the same ay. Waist: 28 V kind of quiet pride. They piled into Dave's mud -spattered .Send name. w. SEND NO MONEY size. 1st, 2nd and jallopy and systematically made the There was a big celebration the day the 3r(1 color choice, light or dark. Pay postman only $4.95 plus small postage rounds of the firms in the vicinity. The plant was opened. Arrow shirt executives send money and our utmost to ship d or. Money- first outfit they approached turned them flew down from New York to pay out the Back Guarantee. LINCOLN TAILORS Dept. AM-9 Lincoln down flatly. first week's wages in silver cartwheels, the "We aren't interested in Buchanan — first installment on the largest payroll that and what's more, we can't see who would Buchanan had ever seen. There were POWER TOOL COSTS "S*" be," snapped the manager. parades, parties, dances. And taking only f^. Get This 5-in-l Machine Still not discouraged, they set their the same part as the rest of the villagers, ... Do the Work Yourself sights on another company which had in- were Dave and Hardy. Dave, as an official Save money; have fun! Make your own furniture — handle dicated interest even before the plant was of the plant, did a lot of handshaking. hundreds ol home repair jobs. Emnck 5-in-one Workshop includes in oil started. This too petered out by the time Hardy drove his folks over a new big capacity Laihe. Drill Press. contract- signing rolled delivery truck, the latest addition to an Saw Arbor, Grinder and Sander. around. For three Only $39 95 cash, or Time Pay- months this string of failures stretched. expanding oil distributing business. ments. (Separately such power tools often cost up to $160.) Send for They were about ready to admit defeat. They both spoke about how big their FREE Catalog and Free Trial plan. One day, on their way home from a town will be some day. the end EMRICK, INC., 1844 Clinton, Kalamazoo, Mich.

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 * ^\ Not as big as a whale, the white whale is big enough for you (the record is about LIFE 1I\ THE OPEI\ Sept., 1949 20 feet in length) and you can catch one quite inexpensively and no less com- fortably than you can do off-shore fishing along our sea coast. And today you Cein start from any point in the United States, take the family along, harpoon a white whale in Hudson Bay, and be back in two weeks. This snowy creature, known to Eskimos as the mukhuk, appears in Hudson Bay in the summer months. There, if your marksmanship with a harpoon is any good at all, you ought to make a catch, since the white whale is readily visible above or below the surface. Your destination is Churchill, on the western shore of the bay. This country isn't as forbidding as it used to be, although its inaccessibility hadn't entirely vanished when I first visited the neighborhood and saw the railroad under construction twenty years ago. But now you can fly, or you can go by train — even in the winter — and you can go as far as The Pas by auto, and take a 510-mile train trip from there to Churchill. There is a $113.50 all-expense round-trip vacation- ists' train from Winnipeg, available in mid-Augu.st, especially intended for the white whale catch. Winnipeg is the focus by car or rail from the U.S. and Canada Highway No. 10 goes to The Pas from Winnipeg. At Churchill, one of the oldest settle- ments on this continent, and now a modern terminus and port, all equipment may WANT TO CATCH be rented on the spot for any kind of fishing or hunting expedition. For the mere touring visitor no special clothing is needed, other than an overcoat for nights. A WHITE WHALE ? In midsummer you can bask under the long northern sun in a tropical swim suit. On Hudson Bay you may find white whales traveling in schools of hundreds, You can harpoon one from a small with one, two or three leaders. The boat in Hudson Bay "whales" periodically leap out of the water after the manner of dolphins. They By A. R. PINCI The white whale which sports in Hud- may not lead your boat far afield, but will son Bay and in shallow northern waters give you a zigzag course to toilow. Aver- "IMfHiTE whaling" may be regarded as along the Alaskan coast, and sometimes age specimens range from ten to fourteen the newest big-league sport. By in the St. Lawrence River and in Whale feet in length and weigh about 100 pounds taking you to Hudson Bay it offers a novel River, Maine, is not a true whale. It is per foot of length. vacation. And, if you hunt or fish, the so- related to the dolphins and porpoises, You will see the white whales swim- called white whale is an unusual quarry. which are distantly related to the whale. ming in an irregular roll at an hourly !

speed of six to eight miles. You may stalk leather soft as kid. Cooked, it is of de- them from a light-motored canoe or boat, cided shrimpy flavor, because shrimp is painted snow white so as not to alarm the white whale's pet food, for which it WANT TO EARN the quarry. Being a mammal, the white dives to great depths. Sir Leopold whales must come to the surface at least McClintock, a noted traveler, and Hans SgOOO A YEAR? once in three minutes to breathe. This Egede, a Danish missionary, lauded the Then here's your chance to enter a business gives you twenty chances an hour to take qualities of "mukhuk steak" when mari- offering an opportunity for unlimited earnings aim. And beneath the surface, the game nated with vinegar and salt. . . . plus the satisfaction of rendering a worth- presents an even better target, when rest- Although its existence has been long while service in your own community. Many of ing in the extremely clear water a fathom known, detailed facts about the white our representatives earn $4000 to $9000 a year and more! or two down. whale are incomplete. The United States To find out more about the opportunities Your first step, after choosing a partic- Fish and Wildlife Service has little infor- offered to you in a life insurance selling career, ular "whale" is to harpoon it. You sta- mation about it. In prewar Russia the send for our free booklet, "The Career for Me?" Fisheries rection yourself at the bow or the stern and People's Commissariat of For those who qualify our program includes when the guide gives you the nod you ommended after prolonged studies and an excellent on-the-job training course, and the provides heave the harpoon. The kill is done with counts that these dolphins, now outside Mutual Lifetime Compensation Plan liberal commissions and service fees, with a a high-powered rifle. The catch is then international whaling agreements, be comfortable retirement income at 65. For com- secured to a rope and towed ashore. It is, suitably included and protected against plete information send for booklet today. of course, too big to take home or stuff possible extermination. The Hudson Bay for a mantelpiece trophy, but very little sport is well within protection limits. THE MUTUAL LIFE of the animal is wasted because it is com- There are two authentic instances of the INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW YORK mercially important. white whale in captivity. One, in London, Street New York 5, N. Y In profile the white whale has a curi- in 1878. The other was kept at an Atlantic 34 Nassau ously human appearance. One sportsman, City pier in 1908 and studied by Frederick FOR FREE BOOKLET "THE CAREER FOR ME?" upon looking at his catch sideways, said W. True, then curator of the United ADDRESS DEPT. 4

it reminded him of his first boss when States National Museum. It recognized NAME ^ AGE the latter angrily protruded his lower lip. its keeper, responded to feeding signals, You'll see a creature with a blunt head, and liked being stroked. It was very play- eight or ten teeth, and a neck devoid of ful, tossing about the stones at the bot- vertebrae. The eyes are small and the tom of the huge tank, and when a very Does GARLIC ears are very minute. Dark at birth, with- small shark was put in with it the white in four or five years the mukhuk turns whale carried it about in its mouth much Relieve GAS? ALLIMIN relieves distressing symptoms of milky white. as a cat carries a kitten, releasing it un- heaviness after meals, belching, bloating and Indian and Eskimo tribes have sus- hurt, and starting all over again. colic due to gas in stomach and intestines. ALLIMIN has been clinically tested by doctors tained life with mukhuk. It has been their So there is novelty, diversion and edu- and found highly effective. ALLIMIN is the food, their cover, their fuel. Its rich oil cation in a vacation or sports outing largest selling garlic tablet in the world. For sale at drug stores everywhere _ when refined makes a superior salve. either to hunt or just look at the closest only 69(t Once known to traders as "porpoise hide," known things to a race of Moby Dicks. ALLIMIN Garlic Tablets the inch-thick skin is smooth and makes THE END

HOW TO WELC 9ME BURGLARS SHINE WITHOUT 'POLISH' ^Newlnvention!* Sells Like Wild (Continued Tom page 23) Replaces messy pastes, liquids. ':i\iT\- \ ui^^ ^ WW ^ \ply glide over snoes — and PRESTO borne out by official reports of the is as a "cat man," climbing in the \^rrC^^^. O/ Fed- known — y*^" have a lustrous, I / ^ O \ I / / eral Bureau of Investigation. upstairs windows of suburban homes, Uii*^^^ O i I III long-lasting shine. No mess. \ A \k/^ ^ rx O ^^^^^ Nomuss. Nosoiled The F.B.I. 's statistics are frightening. ransacking them and making off with furs ^ ii^mtsZ' y M^^^ hands. Clean. Handy. — IIvBK^ /J^g WORKS LIKE MAGIC ! They show that, on an average, more than and jewelry. " yB^^^^^/^^J^S^^^^^^ Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes . Low 1,000 burglaries are committed every day. It didn't matter to Dennis whether the ^ vQBm«^^ I — priced. Lightning seller! Almost 400,000 burglaries, the F.B.I, owners of a house were at home or not SAMPLES FOR AGENTS SfeT^tei'^""M'iho send name at once. A penn; postal will do. SEND NO MONEY—iu»« says, took place in the United States, last when he paid them a visit. The entire Vour name. KRISTEE CO., 14S2 Bar Street. AKRON, OHIO year, an increase of over 100,000 since family of Jules M. Gorlitz was in their 1944. Mamaroneck, N. Y. house, for example, Recently, the F.B.I, made a study of when Dennis came to call. burglary in some 344 cities with popula- While the Gorlitzes played cards in their Profitable Hobbies tions of over 25,000. It found that in these living room, Dennis scaled a trellis and

or cities alone there were J how .•ly iilul I ^tful thin I 173,047 burglaries jimmied open a bathroom window. In the LIQUID PLASTICS. LIQUID MARBLE. LIQUID IVORY. LIQUID GLASS,

. «i no.ilii.i, in 1948. The loot amounted to he and on to the bedrooms. CERAMICS. ETC. . . <«.» [""•"S ""<' s'«le $22,055,563, window went jrwclrv. Rifti. jr(w4re. lovs. (ooU. dtct. gadgets, (erimics . . . a mir/ion uiffi./ INSTRUCTIONS and BUTERSi Srnd an fhinf,-'' We supply tycrythmg—MATERIAtS. average of $127 for each burglary. Working in his stockinged feet, he care- only 25c (or I. Big citilog of 300 casting nmtrialt. molds and acceuotics. 2, A bcauiiliil CAMEO Irn (to ihoi. you »hat you can <

money you colled. I winter for thefts of send vou the over a half-million did most of her marauding between three 24 tobies. No risk — nothing to pay, dollars from homes in California and New and five in the afternoon, a period when not even shipping charges. SIX different plans — CASH and tobies York. many housewives are at the movies. Guaranteed by CHAIRS and tobies. Write lo Good Housekeeping Dennis's phantom-like activities baffled Last March, for instance, Maureen F. W. MATHERS Dept. AL , Mt. Ephraim, N. J. police for over three years. He was what dropped in on the Russell Dill home in

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • Bronxville, N. Y. Smartly-dressed, she George Feld was arrested, he proudly told 220-pound Harlem resident, whose real attracted no attention as she walked up the New York City police: name is Peggy Townsend, has made a to the back door and rang the bell. No "I am exclusively a burglar. I don't go science out of duping careless housewives. one responded so she rang it again and in for heisting." Early last May, for instance, "Madame again. Finally, convinced that no one was By "heisting" he meant armed hold-ups. Queen" answered a help-wanted ad for at home, she picked up a small rock, Among night-time burglars there is a a maid inserted by the wife of a New York wrapped it in a towel she had brought small group known as "pants men." Be- City department store magnate. She made with her, and broke a window. cause four out of five American males such a good impression that the lady Inside of seconds, she was in the house. keep their wallets in their trousers and hired her on the spot without bothering According to the Bronxville police, she for the most part drape the trousers over to check a single reference. got away with "several thousand dollars' a chair at night, your "pants man" con- That very afternoon, while her new em- worth of jewelry." centrates on these. ployer was out of the apartment, "Madame When it comes to the techniques of Right now, the Yonkers police are hunt- Queen" absconded with over $50,000 worth apartment house burglars, New York City ing a "pants man" who has pulled off a of furs and jewelry. police still talk about George Feld, the dozen or more such thefts in recent "My wife and I were completely taken fabulous "Celluloid Burglar." months. The New York City police are in by her," another of "Madame Queen's" Feld, whose career goes back decades, after him, too. victims has stated. "What especially at- once committed 50 apartment-house Working between one and four a.m., this tracted us was her most angelic voice." burglaries in two months. Most of the "pants man" has in most cases been get- The "angelic voice" cost this couple time, he merely used a simple strip of ting away without even being seen. He over $5,000. stiff celluloid to gain entry. First, he tele- ignores jewelry, but now and then does Fortunately, "Madame Queen"—angelic phoned or rang the bell to see whether take a lady's handbag. Incidentally, police voice and all—now has a prison address. anyone was at home. If the coast was say that women are as careless about The reason why burglars like "Madame clear, he slipped the celluloid between the where they lay their purses at night as Queen," George Feld and the others get jamb and the door, pulling it down toward men are with their wallets. away with so much, so easily, is a simple the lock. With his adept hands, it was Twice, the Yonkers "pants man" has one. The experts say that it's due to the easy then to manipulate the celluloid be- been spotted. Not long ago, a woman incredible carelessness of most Americans. tween the strike of the door and the awakened to find the "pants man" in her Listen to J. B. Franklin on the subject. tongue of the lock. One twist and he could bedroom. The room was dark and she An old-time "private eye," Franklin has open any spring lock. couldn't see his face. been investigating burglars and burglaries He had another system, too. The police "Who's there?" she asked. for the past 36 years. He now is in charge say he occasionally would wrap his fist "Just me," the figure in the shadows of the burglary department of the Globe in a handkerchief and strike a door in said. Indemnity Insurance Company. such a manner that the lock tumblers Thinking it was her son, the woman "The truth of the matter is," he says, would momentarily loosen. went back to sleep. She later discovered "that people not only fail to take proper By the time the New York police col- that a wallet with $40 in it was gone. precautions against being burglarized but lared him in 1948, Feld had pulled off jobs Another time, a couple came home later they actually help the burglars to rob totaling close to $500,000. from a party to find the "pants man" in them." Don't think that it's solely the swanky their house. They notified the police who Franklin lists three principal ways in places that draw the intruders. Actually, quickly arrived and threw a cordon which householders help burglars. They nine out of ten burglaries are committed around the block. are: in the smaller middle-income and poorer While the police were making a house- The average person doesn't even trouble homes. to-house search of this block, the "pants to install good locks, let alone buttress There are even burglars who steal from man" was calmly breaking into a house weak doors and windows. their starving tenement dwellers. on the next street. Most people practically advertise Burglars rarely stray from their field. Some women burglars make a specialty absence from home. When they are out The man who goes in for burglary doesn't, of masquerading as domestic servants and for an evening, they turn off their lights as a rule, indulge in safe-cracking or con- then cleaning out their employers. One of and leave the house in conspicuous dark- they a trip, they allow fidence games. When the ill-reputed the best of them is "Madame Queen." This ness. When go on piles of newspapers and rows of milk bottles to accumulate in front of their doors. And a score of other equally fool- ish things. Most people keep their valuables in the most obvious places, the very spots that burglars always look for — like jewelry in the lingerie drawer or money under the mattress. Says Franklin: "People just don't realize how serious is the burglary threat and how large are the odds that a burglar will soon be breaking into their homes." In this connection. The American Legion Magazine asked F.B.I. Director Hoover for his suggestions on how people can best protect themselves against burglars. This is what he said: "Those who live in city apartments, in houses in a residential area, or on farms in rural areas might well consider following these suggestions when leaving their homes for the evening: (1) leave a light burning in some room; turn off the porch light; (2) leave no notes indicating time of returning; (3) do not pull down win- "What a -perfectly delightful breeze!" dow shades; (4) do not leave your key AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE under the mat, over the door or in the mailbox; (5) securely lock all windows

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and doors; the latter should be double- sure your residence is adequately secure; locked if possible; (6) close garage doors; (2) consider whether there are outstand- open garage doors reveal absence; (7) ing doorkeys in the possession of former suggest to your neighbor that he keep an tenants or servants; if you have any eye on your house or apartment, and tell doubts, install new locks on all doors, and him how long you will remain away." avoid locks of such simple construction Hoover continued: that they are easily opened." "On leaving your home for an extended To these suggestions, Captain Ray Ma- period, (1) do not have the newspapers guire, the ace burglary specialist of the publish the fact that you are leaving; (2) New York City Police Department adds be sure to advise the milkman to stop one point. He urges each house and apart- milk deliveries, and ask the newspaper ment dweller to rig up an alarm system carrier to discontinue service; (3) ask the for every door and window. mail carrier to hold or forward your mail; "No matter how Rube Goldberg-like a (4) arrange with a neighbor to remove contraption it is," Captain Maguire says, any articles of advertising matter which "it will chase burglars away." may be left on your porch or before your Mr. Franklin contributes another idea. door; such material advertises an unoc- "There's nothing like a dog to help keep cupied house and invites burglaries; (5) burglars away. Not necessarily a savage leave the key to your home with some re- dog, but any kind of pooch that will bark sponsible person so that entry may be loudly at strangers. Burglars hate noise made to your property without damage more than anything else." in case of emergency; (6) all money, All experts advise, by the way, that the valuable jewelry and other articles that man or woman who finds a burglar in the can easily be taken by a burglar should house keep very quiet and never, never be removed from the home and appropri- attempt to tussle with him. While bur- ately stored; it is not wise to attempt to glars rarely use guns, they often carry secrete money or other valuables behind blackjacks and knives, and will wield Free for Asthma pictures, under rugs, in the crockery or them to avoid capture. The best thing to If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke in mattresses because these are the first do if you awaken and hear a burglar in and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to places a thief will search; (7) again make the house is to stay silent and in bed. send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for certain all doors and windows are secure- If your house is burglarized notify the a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- ly locked and fastened; (8) notify the police at once. The scene should be pro- tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. police when you are leaving and the ap- tected and everything left exactly as you No matter where you live or whether you have faith in any medicine under the sun, send today proximate date of your return. found it. The moving of any article in for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. "Other precautionary to valuable evi- measures be your residence may destroy Frontier Asthma Co. 954-C Frontier Bldg. taken by the home renter, home owner dence the police may develop later. 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. or the apartment dweller might include Taking proper care of your home will the following: (1) carefully examine the save you money. It may save your life. defenses of the house or apartment; make THE END BECOME AN EXPERT I EVERYBODY GETS A BREAK l>U U Jtive Accountants and C. P. A's earn $3,000 to $10,000 a year. Thousands of firms need them. We train you thoroly at home in spare ( Continued from page 20) time for C. P. A's examinations or executive accounting positions. Previous experience unnecessary. Personal traininK under supervision Write for free Other American firms have often 77, Vice-President and Treasurer, of staff of C. P. A's. Placement counsel and help. com- Hough, book. "Accountancy, the Profession That Pays." peted with them tooth and nail, and Ger- is known simply as "Ed"; and the latter's LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St A Correspondence Institution Dept. 936I-H Chicago 5. III. man and Japanese manufacturers have cousin, Charles H. Bennett, the 87-year- fought them for world markets, but most old President of the company, is just plain of their competitors lost their shirts. Due "Uncle Charley." Gorgeous SatinVeiour&Plastic to the spirit of enthusiastic teamwork These men are the Big Three of Daisy, J Show Rich New Cards never before f which they have stimulated in every but even the newest employee doesn't offered. Amazing Value! Gets Easy/ orders FAST! Pays up to 100% Cash I branch of what is often called "The Happy hesitate to swap jokes with them or ap- Profit. FREE SAMPLES of Gor- geous Christmas Cards With Name Daisy Family," they have been able to with suggestions on how to proach them 50 for $1, Imprinted Stationery, Floral Charm- out-distance all rivals by the simple but run the business. When they stroll ettes. Napkins. 50 other assortments 60e to $1.25. Samples on approval. Write today for Samples and money-making facts. unbeatable expedient of turning out a through the plant they are stopped con- PURO CO., 2801 Locust, Dept. 929-L St. Louis 3, Mo. better product for a lower price thein any- stantly by employees who want them to DESIGNS FOR I one else. look at snapshots of their children, have COMPLETELY NEW AND | This happy family spirit was the first a cup of coffee with them or just chat. ORIGINAL WAR MEMORIALS ROLL thing which impressed me when I visited This same informal family atmosphere AND HONOR TABLETS PRESENTED ON REQUEST the Daisy plant recently. Located at Ply- pervades the whole Daisy operation. | mouth, Michigan, twenty miles west of There are no high pressure production FLOUR CITY ORNAMENTAL downtown Detroit, it is housed in a experts on the payroll, no driving super- IRON CO. DEPT. L MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. sprawling assembly of buildings which intendents or tough foremen. They just "just grew," but there is no fence around are not needed. Since every employee it and no lynx-eyed company cop barred knows that the employees' share of the my approach. The ivy-covered main earnings are roughly equal to the com- LEARN RADIO building looks more like a college than a pany's share, he realizes it behooves him & TELEVISION factory, employees eat their lunches on not only to accomplish as much work as picnic tables outside in the summertime, he can but to see to it that his fellow- Train at Home-Moke Good Money and some of them like the place so much employees do the same. As a result, the Get Saniiile Ix.ssdii and t)4-iiage bonk, "lie a Success in Uadic-Televisioii.'' both KKEE. See huw 1 train you that they get to work ahead of time just seemingly easy-going Daisy plant turns at liomc for good jobs You learu by building Kadio Tester, Receiver, etc., with parts I send. Make money to loaf on the friendly front steps. out more work per man hour than most while learning, fixing Radios. Mail Coupon NOWl Inside, not even a secretary challenged of the factories operated on high-pressure g.i.bill y.!JR?.f!^l^*.A?.'!?9.yi9.!'j.^.9J^^ me when I entered the office of lines, it regularly exceeds its own Cass S. and • MR. J. E. S.MITH, Pres., Dept. iUJX Hough, Nat'l Inst., the war hero I mentioned, who is production standards by from 10 to 15 I Radio Washington 9, D. C. Executive Vice-President and the most percent. * Mail me Sample Lesson and book FREE. active administrative chief of the com- One of the problems of the manage- I Name Age I Address pany. Mr. Hough's door is always open ment, in fact, is that of keeping some em- to everybody. He is called "Cass" by all ployees from being too hard on certain City. Zone State. Check if Veteran the employees; his father, Edward C. other employees. If a man or woman

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • 55 shows signs of soldiering on the job, he or This policy has paid large dividends not Even in small things, Daisy employees she is apt to get "called" by some other only in increased effort on the part of are constantly on the alert to save money worker. Anyone who requests anyone employees but in ideas which they have for the company and, consequently, for else to punch his time card for him is contributed for time-saving and material- themselves. They turn off electric lights frowned upon. If an employee is guilty of saving practices and devices. so assiduously that stock rooms, corridors wasting company material or of dis- Until a few years ago, for example, the and toilets are virtually always in total honesty of any kind, his fellow employees production of the shot tubes which go in- darkness, and they even worry about the may demand his dismissal. side of air rifle barrels was often delayed plant's water bills. This occurred a few months ago when because the tubes got stuck on the arbors "Aren't we spending a terrible lot for a man attempted to carry a few pounds or forms around which they were pressed. water?" an employee asked Vice-Presi- of B-Bs out of the plant in his lunch box. When this happened, the operator had to dent Cass Hough one day. The lunch box popped open as he was go- stop his machine and pull the tube off by Cass admitted the bill was large, the ing down a flight of wooden steps, the hand. A bright employee devised a me- employee said he figured it was because B-Bs cascaded after him in a noisy chanical hand for snatching the tubes off the drinking fountains were kept running Niagara, and other workers who witnessed the arbors and, as a result, girl machine constantly to keep the water cool, and the incident were so indignant that they operators now turn out many more shot suggested electric water coolers. The cool- brought up the matter at a meeting of tubes in a day than men operators used ers were installed and, in less than a year, their independent union. Since the man to produce. paid for themselves in water bill savings. was an old employee, the management in- He was rewarded for his idea, of course, It was an ingenious employee of the sisted on overlooking the affair but many as workers are for helpful suggestions in Hough family, as a matter of fact, who was employees felt the company was overly- many other industries, but Daisy employ- responsible for the birth of the whole lenient in letting him get away with ees are more prolific with money-saving Daisy enterprise. Nobody seems to know filching their B-Bs. ideas than those in most places. exactly who invented the first air rifle, Realizing they're much better off than In addition to air rifles, the company but in 1888 wooden air guns were already most industrial workers, the employees builds millions of smaller toy guns and being manufactured on a small scale in display no desire to become affiliated with water pistols every year, and in these de- Plymouth by William F. Markham, a a national labor group. Once, in 1937, they partments, too, the suggestions of em- colorful character who was known as accepted an AFL charter and went on a ployees have resulted in substantial econ- "Captain" because he maintained a sporty sit-down strike in sympathy with other omies. The welding of an inner part launch on a local lake. L. C. Hough, the workers in the Detroit area, but the inside of water pistol casings formerly grandfather of Cass, was then in the busi- strike fizzled in a few days and the em- required two complete operations. A ness of manufacturing iron windmills in ployees rejected their charter. That was welder got to thinking about it one day, Plymouth, but had no thought of making the only strike which has ever occurred decided the practice was wasteful, and air guns until one of his employees, a in Daisy's 60-year history. worked out an improvement for the weld- Clarence Hamilton, approached him one Besides virtually supervising them- ing machines which now makes it possible day. selves in the production department, to perform the whole job in one operation. Hamilton, a born tinkerer, had for- Daisy employees take an intense interest In the department where B-B shot are merly worked for Captain Markham; he in other matters concerning the com- made, the savings effected by employee hated him heartily for personal reasons, pany's prospects. Twice a month, top ex- ingenuity have been even more spectacu- and, to get even with him, designed a bet- ecutives of the firm invite union repre- lar. In former years, the machines used ter type of gun than he was manufactur- sentatives to discuss general distribution for grading shot were only partially effi- ing, built a model of it, and offered it to and sales problems with them. Proposed cient and 5 percent of all the good B-Bs Hough. Hamilton's gun incorporated the advertising layouts are placed before manufactured had to be discarded. A same basic mechanical principles that are them and if they have suggestions for group of employees designed a new type used today and when Hough saw it he changing or improving the ads, as they of grading machine— it works on the sim- was so impressed that he described it in often do have, these are carefully con- ple principle that a perfectly round ball current slang as "a daisy." Then he called sidered. In every branch of the Daisy will roll down hill faster than one which a meeting of his windmill company di- operation, the employee is made to feel isn't round—and, as a result, more than rectors and they voted to manufacture it he is not merely an employee but a part- a quarter of a ton of B-Bs are saved every as a sideline. ner as well. day. These first Daisies were introduced to the public by the present president of the company, Uncle Charley Bennett, while traveling through the Michigan countryside as a young salesman of Hough's windmills. He would toss a few air guns into the back of his buggy and often give one to a farmer in exchange for bed and board. Uncle Charley doesn't quite remember how many eggs one gun entitled him to for breakfast — or whether the farmer's daughter had a Daisy rating — but in 1889 he went to Chicago and put over a big deal. He sold 10,000 air rifles to a distributor at one crack and that transaction started Daisy on its way to greater things. But the budding company had to fight for its existence. Rival firms sprang up in New England, in Grand Rapids, in Saginaw, and the stiffest competition of all developed right next door. Enraged by what Hamilton had done to him. Cap- tain Markham appropriated some of the best features of the Daisy, put up a large plant in Plymouth and started turning out the "King" air rifle, which was sold to millions mainly through mail order "1 knew I'd ruin the tire if I fixed it so I drove it home for you to fix." early in the century. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE houses The Daisy and King companies fought

5g • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 bitterly in court over patent rights and creased production by making "A B-B their rivalry became so intense that Ply- Gun for a Buck" and advertising it widely mouth's population was divided into two in the comic books which were then first factions, like the Guelfs and Ghibellines becoming popular. Isreody of medieval Italy. A large and choleric Young Cass Hough, just out of the Uni- man who wore a silk hat and yellow suede versity of Michigan, was largely respon- for you gloves, Captain Markham would become sible for this program. He made mer- NOW! so impassioned at times that he would chandising tie-ups with famous comic grab one of his King air rifles and take artists, started turning out a "Red Ryder potshots at Cass's father, Ed Hough, when Carbine" and a "Buck Rogers Pistol," and Furnished complete, ready for you and your family to live in and travel in. he walked past his office. organized a program through which the With living room, bedroom, kitchen- company entered into chummy correspon- dinette and lounge. dence with literally millions of boys. These tactics increased production to such SEND FOR CIRCULAR Travelite Trailer Co. VlhCK are an extent that, before the depression Mou 4013 Wentworth Avenue place - uue jwsf keep ended, the plant was operating 24 hours Chicago 9, Illinois ^ a day. The war brought a halt to this bonanza LOOK WHAT SANTA HAS w by drying up Daisy's sources of sheet metal and calling Cass to the colors. A fighter pilot in the reserve, Air Force he There's big money entered the service in the summer of 1940 for yon in selling Artistic ' Christmas Cards. Lovely FEA- as a second lieutenant and came out in TURE Assortment of 21 Folders is stand-out seller at $1 retail. Up to the summer of 1945 a full colonel with 100% is your profit on each FEATURE seven battle stars, the Distinguished Fly- box you sell! 32 other money-makers -Silvorelo.-Evervday. Gift Wraps. Religious. ing Cross, the Legion of Merit, the Air NewestPlastict'hristmasGreetings. etc. Name- IniDrinted Chrlsltnas Cards, 50 for $1 op. FRI with Clusters, the Belgian Samples. Other new selections: complete line Im- Medal Three printed StHtionerv. Decorated Personal Napkins. Start money-makinc at once. Send for FEATURE box on December, 1933 Croix de Guerre, and other decorations (From A.L.M.) approval and FREE Imprint Samples. Do it NOW I too numerous to mention. ARTISTIC CARDCO.,lnc.. 266 Way St..Elmira.N.Y. Right from the start, however, the Daisy Cass collected most of these honors MEMORIALS • PLAQUES Company pursued a policy of being more while serving as an officer and, later, as HONOR ROLLS generous with its employees than the co-commander of the Technical Opera- SOU© Special designs to fit any need. King Company or any of its other tions Group of the Eighth Air Force. This com- BRONZE Also stock designs in many styles group, which was variously known as petitors. In addition to paying top wages, TABLETS and sizes. Quality work. 35 years it introduced the then almost unheard of "The Twenty-oneth Air Force" and "Mur- i experience. Write forcatalog"L" practice of paying employees sizable an- der Incorporated," served in a guinea pig GENERAL BRONZE CORP. nual bonuses. The day before Christmas, capacity for the Eighth Air Force. When- Stewart Ave., Garden City, N. Y. a large Christmas tree would be set up in ever anything went wrong with a new the Daisy plant, and on the tree would be type of aircraft in combat, or when a par- NEW hung a little bag of jingling $20 gold ticular tactic failed, Cass and his pals SUIT YOURS PLAN were assigned to repeat operation and pieces for every man and woman who the Earn CASH Showing to Friends! worked for the company. discover what had gone wrong. Write at once if you want this fine made-to-measure suitf You can get it by taking a few orders Due to these practices, which enabled In this anything but dull job, Cass was from friends, and cam op to $10.00. $12.00 in a day. Yoar bonus suit helps you take more orders with latest style, Daisy to procure and keep better employ- among the first fighter pilots to fly over made-to-measure guaranteed suits at amazingly low prices. Also complete line of Ladies' Tailored Suits. No experience, no money needed. Write today for FREE SAMPLES ees than its rivals, and its policy of plow- the Berlin area and flew on more than —telling about yourself —age, etc. No obligation—act now I ing a large amount of cash into ad- fifty other combat missions. He was the PIONEER TAILORING COMPANY back III. [ Congress and Throop Streets, Dept. W-1005 Chicaso, vertising every year, Daisy slowly but main force behind the development of the surely forged ahead of the field. One by "droop snoot"—a new nose for the P-38 one, it bought out air gun companies in Lightning—and played a part in develop- other places and steadily broadened its ing the so-called Disney penetration Get into BUSINESS markets in the United States and all over bomb which was employed tc omash Ger- the world. man submarine pens. Also, he and his for ^t?u^

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the island again, more white flags ap- been given this vested interest in the At a get-together in a local theatre, peared, and they encountered no re- concern. company activities are reviewed and di- sistance. In addition to sharing profits, everyone vidend checks distributed. This usually Upon observing this, Cass and Kelsey on the Daisy payroll is the recipient of a takes most of an afternoon. Then the communicated by radio with the Army on group life insurance policy and receives imion has a party for its members to the mainland and ground troops were hospitalization coverage for himself and which members of management are in- rushed over in boats to ocupy Cezembre. his dependents. Also, under a group invited and at which Uncle Charley is usu- Thus, for the first time in history, and the centive pay plan, every worker receives ally prevailed upon to recite "Darius last so far, the Air Force was given credit extra money during everj- week that pro- Green and His Flying Machine." for actually taking territory away from duction of the plant as a whole exceeds The problems that confront many in- the enemy. the established production rate. Since dustries are different from those that After the war in Europe ended, Cass production invariably exceeds this stand- Daisy has to cope with, of course, but after and his outfit were slated to go to Oki- ard, as I have said, the average Daisy em- visiting the Happy Daisy Family I won- nawa, but while they were awaiting orders ployee takes home from S4 to S6 more dered if hundreds of other companies at Hamilton Field the Japanese surren- every week than he would if he were do- might not do well to follow the path which dered. Shortly afterward. Cass received ing comparable work at almost any other Daisy has blazed in labor-management a cable from Doolittle who was in the factory in the Detroit area. relations. If they did, we would certainly Pacific theatre. "Go home.'' the cable said, While members of the Hough and Ben- have less industrial strife and there would ''and start making B-B guns." nett families own 87 percent of the stock be no danger of communism getting a Cass obeyed orders. He took back to of the Daisy Company, they have never serious foothold in this country. Plymouth with him three Air Force com- drawn large div-idends out of the business In newspapers and magazines, in books rades who are now working up to im- and do not live on a much more elaborate and on the radio, we are constantly told portant jobs in the Daisy Company, and scale than their employees. Cass and his that capitalistic enterprise is a fine thing. one of his first acts was to work out with department heads take their mid-day The Daisy Manufacturing Company has his father and Uncle Charley the retire- meal in a small lunch room where many actually proved it can be a fine thing. ment plan which gives every employee a of their employees also eat. They bowl This firm which makes air rifles for your chance to accumulate a fat nest egg. Pre- and plaj' Softball with the employees, and kids and mine offers one of America's viously profits had been shared with em- twice a year, on profit-sharing days, two very best examples of capitalism in action. ployees on a cash basis but they had not big parties are staged in Plymouth. THE EXD

TWO MORE ROOMS FOR LESS THAN $600 (Continued from page 25) for you and your wife. And that S600 in- batts are the finest and can be readily set hind the walls, of course. In some areas,

cludes all the furniture I in between the rafters. They come in the local authorities may insist upon an It's really a cinch. And a lot of fun, too, standard sizes and require very little inspection of such wiring. for both you and the Mrs. All you have nailing. Just remember to line the entire None of this work is complicated. It to do is some careful planning, a little roof right down to the floor. may take time, but it demands neither sawing, hammering and wiring, and then Next come the walls. Those under the skill nor experience. The carpentry con- a bit of judicious shopping. Some of your eaves should be placed at a point where sists merely of measuring, sawing and free evenings, a few weekends, and your the roof is four feet from the floor. The fitting. (Never forget that old adage: kids will have a bedroom of their own, walls along the stairway can be eight feet measure twice and cut once.) Lumber and a private living room, too. high. You'll need a stringer (a 1" x 3" yards carry all the necessary materials Just look at the sketches and you'll find spruce board will do) at the bottom of and. as a rule, will cut them to size for how simple it is. The first thing to do is the studs, and the same kind of a board only a slight additional charge. to survey your attic and see what you can (it's called a header) at their top. The You can get a wealth of advice from do with it. Most attics have a stairway studs for the side walls should be of 1^4 your lumber yard, from the wide assort- at or very near to the center, which makes X 3" spruce and be spaced 16 inches apart, ment of very inexpensive bulletins put a natural dividing line for the two new from center to center. In plotting their out by the Government Printing Office, rooms you want. On the right of it, you location, be sure to leave space for room Washington. D. C and from the Car- can have a double bedroom, fitted out in doors, closet doors and the various built- penters' and Builders' Guide, a four vol- these sketches for boys, but just as easily in units. Heavier studs of 2" x 4" spruce ume set published by Theodore Audel & laid out for girls. On the left, you can have must be used for the stairway wall, and Co.. 49 West 23rd Street, New York, N. Y. a combination study-game room, with for the doorways and other openings. You can paint or wallpaper these rooms every inch of space used to give the ut- Cover the studs with wallboard. Your as you wish. However, you can get weJI- most in facilities for homework and ceilings should be of the same material. board with a finished side which, left un- homeplay. In the center, between the two You'll want to finish off your rooms touched, makes a nice-looking tain wall. rooms, you can have a clothes closet. with baseboard of 1" x 4" pine, and with This is approximately^ what the con- By using unfinished furniture, or sec- very thin strips of Va," x Ts" molding over struction work and the furnishings should ond-hand items, the cost of furnishing the the cracks between the wallboards. These cost for a 20' x 30' attic: two rooms will scarcely dent your bank same strips should be used wherever the Insulation S 77.00

account. wallboards jut against door or cabinet Lumber ( for studs, stringers, fram-

When you're marking out the bound- frames, and where they run into the ceiling, baseboards and shelves) . . . 58.00 aries of the two rooms, you want to re- ing. It probably will be cheaper for you Wallboard 63.00 member that it's not only the length and to buy the door to the bedroom; you can Flooring 51.00 width which are important. Height counts get a standard size plywood door at a Wiring and 8 outlets 16.00 just as much. In the average attic, the lumber yard. You'll have to build the 1 Prebuilt Door 15.00 sloping roof makes at least one-third of seven smaller doors yourself. Use •'4" Plywood for cabinet doors 25.00 25.00 its area unlivable. The thing to do is to plywood. This same plywood is what Extras, hardware, nails, etc convert the space under the low eaves you'll need for the desktops, too. 2 beds from 1 bunk 50.00 into effective storage space. Cabinets, You're going to want floors in your 2 chests unfinished 40.00 chests of drawers and bookcases can be rooms. Regular pine flooring will ser\'e 4 files 80.00 built right into these low spaces. In this admirably. The more carefully you nail 2 stools 6.00 10.00 way, the rest of the room can be kept it down, the less creaks you'll have. 2 desk chairs 28.00 relatively free of furniture and give an One more thing. Do the wiring before 2 upholstered chairs 50.00 illusion of spaciousness. you've completed the carpentr>', and be 6 lamps Now, as to the construction work it- certain to provide for plenty of convenient Total S594.00 self. First comes the insulation. Rock wool base outlets. Use BX cable and run it be- THE EM)

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The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • WHAT ARMY ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? (Continued from page 15)

cockroaches in peace. In fact, he is so filled with planes. Millions of enemy sol- tenant Harry can borrow money from him. lonely that nobody ever comes in to tell diers march into action, and not one is out Lieutenant Harry is the real hero of him his map is upside down. of step. Every enemy soldier is stalwart, the war. Everybody loves him because he At night, when the general returns to erect, with gleaming eyes and uniform. It does such cute things. He has a moustache, his forty-room villa, he is plagued by seems impossible that anyone could de- a ready laugh, a convertible, beautifully more troubles. He finds that his lovely feat these supermen, and some of our tailored uniforms, an apartment, servants, but headstrong daughter Millicent has authors aren't yet convinced they were money, unlimited freedom and no respon- been galloping her Arabian jackass beaten. sibilities. He is seldom, if ever, on duty, through the PX, and has hoofed down In contrast to the spit and polish in the and spends his time making love to beau- two peons of the sixth pay grade. A new enemy camp, everything is dismal in the tiful women while the rest of the Army lieutenant, who didn't know she was the American ranks. When our kindly old is on maneuvers. He is familiar with general's daughter, tried to stop her, and general stumbles along a dirty trench and senior officers, shoves all the dirty de- she slapped his face. This caused them asks his army how things are going, he tails on others of his rank, and has the to fall in love over the prostrate bodies gets a story that would make a chaplain enlisted men wait on him hand and foot. of the enlisted men. But Congress is swear. As a result of these fine qualities, every- threatening to investigate, and the kindly The guns are rusty, the men are sick, one loves Lieutenant Harry, and he is old general must put aside his plans for the tanks are broken down, the machine forgiven little trespasses like showing up court-martialling three infantry Divisions guns are jammed, the supply trucks are at the POE drunk, dirty, out of uniform, to soothe his daughter's nerves. She is al- stalled, and the weather is too bad for with four or five floozies in tow. ready engaged to the other lieutenant in flights. The dank air is filled with com- The duties of Lieutenants Harry and the United States Army, and D-Day can- plaints, whines, sobs and excuses, and Roger are always vague. One minute they not be decided until Millicent's problem our general drags himself back to look are platoon leaders, the next minute they is solved. at his map again. For once his map is right are both aides to the general, or his As soon as our book general goes over- side up, but alas! the general is upside daughter, and then they are in the cavalry seas, life becomes pretty grim. Althougli down. long enough to canter around the park. he was supplied with a mansion and In addition to the kindly, lonely old Although our lieutenants do all their Cadillac in this country, the moment .he general, the United States was also de- close order drill on the dance floor when crosses the ocean he gets nothing but fended by two lieutenants, Roger and they are Stateside, they wind up the war dysentery. He has to establish Head- Harry. It makes no difference what in a hurry once they are overseas. Since quarters in a cave he shares with five branch of service the authors put them they know that Millicent, the general's hundred Rocquefort cheeses, and his only in, they are the same Roger and Harry lovely daughter, will probably marry the light is a broken plumbers-candle. in every book. boy who wins the war, victory becomes While our lonely old general sits among Lieutenant Roger is a steady, solidly a personal matter. Lieutenant Roger fights the cheeses, shrugging rats off his shoul- good-looking young officer who is always until his blouse is ripped, and Lieutenant der straps and staring at his map, which neat and on time. He is always OD, and Harry wades through fire and shot until is still upside-down, the. enemy generals from dawn to dusk he makes inspection his face is dirty. have it very fine indeed. All the enemy tours. In his spare time he studies mili- For a while it looks as though it will be generals live in palaces, wear spotless tary manuals. As soon as Lieutenant a dead heat, with both boys winning the uniforms, and drink champagne all day Roger is introduced it is made obvious war and Millicent. But nobody is sur- long. Even their maps are right side up. that he is a grind, a schmoe, and a wit- prised when the last shot in the war nicks When General Hermann von Zimple- less fellow who doesn't know anything Lieutenant Roger for the count. Roger shnood strides to the door and bellows, except how to command men. He has a dies, Millicent cries, Harry sighs, and the "Gangengehenstehenabervonderuberstal!" kind but stern heart, he is fair to every- war has been won except for the drive the joint begins to jump. Thousands of one, possesses a strong sense of duty, and across France and the surrender of the stalwart troopers leap into action. Motors nobody likes him. The only reason he is German army. Harry goes home with roar, tanks press forward, and the sky is allowed to stay in the Army is so Lieu- Millicent to become a general, and the rest of the U.S. Army does the necessary mopping-up. When the authors get down to the enlisted men, the going really gets rough. No matter what kind of book comes out, the same handful of enlisted men are in it, to make the jokes, swear, complain or die. In the literary novels they are all psychopathic, in the adventure novel they are all heroes, in the romance they are all lovers, in the farce they are all come- dians, and in the tragedy they all die. But no matter in what guise we meet them, they are old friends, and they are always thei-e. The Kid From Kansas, the comic relief from Brooklyn, the rebel from the South who still wants to continue the Civil War, the sadistic sergeant who hates everybody, and the Negro, Jew, Italian, Irishman, Mormon or Eskimo who thinks everybody is against him because of his race, religion or color.

The sergeant is a grim, cruel, tough, two-fisted fellow who makes the men under him perform dirty, menial tasks like cleaning their rifles when they would much rather be playing cards. The sergeant never eats, sleeps, gets a pass or relaxes. From the moment he gets his stripes he is on the prowl twenty-four "

hours a day looking for some enlisted man into battle gripping his rifle like a base- TINY RADIO- REALLY WORKS! to torture. He is never without his steel ball bat, as shells and bombs drop and FITS IN YOUR HANOI Work^ on helmet, pistol, pencil his UMA ' K\ .STAI.' .so It and pad, and whine, he remarks that it certainly is dif- Ai;Ji \J.HIS TltOI'HMvSOMK II'IJKS, MATTKItlKS l)K vocabulary is limited to profanity and the ferent from life on the farm in Kansas. ihk; "i'i.u(;-ins"1 i;asy to use — I'lays for printable words, "You! Shaddap! Yah! When the sergeant yells for everyone to nolhlnB— Shoulil last for Years. Beautiful Red Bah!" take cover as there is a sniper ahead, the Plaatlc Case. No work of typewriter or camera is Kansas Kid, a tribute to American train- GUARANTEED TO WORK complete without The Homesick Kid ing, sticks his noggin in the air to see From Kansas. When this lad appears at what sniper the sergeant is talking about.

camp, he brings with him wide blue eyes. He promptly gets his cerebral fossa ven- stpal.l il.-liverv. SKNT lOMPI.KTK UKAPY TO I'LAV .ill siiiipli- aliai l.iiH'm. lias personal phone. WONDKH- tilated, which, he murmurs in dying, never I III. Gll'T.S rem >Ut\S &

ride in a General Sherman tank. The Patent laws encourajje the development of inven- other soldiers kid about wearing tions. Our firm is re>,'istered to practice before tne Reb U. S. Patent Office. Write for further particulars as union suits and make other funny jokes. to patent protection and procedure and "Invention Record" form at once. No obligation. In return, Reb puts his shoes on back- McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON "Fill Vpr W wards, tries to pretend he can read, and lte<;iAtere(l Patent Atturneys AiMEltRAN' M;ciIllX MA<;\Z1M; 1 Vinc.r Ititildin-: Wasliin^ton 1, 1). T. goes into action screaming like a high school girl at a basketball game. a butch haircut, a shy, shingle-eating Reb is the source of much amusement ''Was a nervous wreck gi-in, and a firm convictioia that no real when he sits around the barracks and from agonizing pain bullets will be used. The Kid wanders wishes for boiled lêet hocks and pork about telling the others how different greens, but in action he turns out to be until I Army life is from life on the farm in found Pazo!'' the only enlisted man who knows how to says Mrs. A. W., San Antonio, Texasr Kansas. He confides that he has joined up fire a rifle. Reb soon helps clean up the Speed amazinft relief from miseries of to fight for Ma's apple pie and an ice enemy army after he is convinced that simple piles, with soothing Pazo*! Acts relieve cream soda at the corner drug store. He the gray-clad German Army is not a new to pain, itching instantly—soothes inflamed tissues — hibricates dry, hard- fights in vain, howevei', since the pie is Confederate force come to drive Grant out ened parts— helps prevent cracking, sore- sent to Okinawa by mistake, and there of Richmond. It is Reb who captures ness— reduce swelling. You get real com- are no corner drug stores where his General Goering after a chase across Ger- torting help. Don't suffer needless torture from simple piles. Get Pazo for fast, battles are fought. many. "Shucks," Reb grins as he gets a wonderful relief. Ask your doctor about it. The main thing about the Kansas Kid medal, "'twere all a mistake. Ah heerd Suppository form — also tubes with per- is his inability to learn anything. He is sumbody yell 'Thar goes Hermann,' and forated pile pipe for easy application. the only person in the world who can go Ah thot he said Sherman." *Faso OiiUnient and Suppositories lu) through a year of intensive training and The last member of the Army or Navy come out with his blue eyes as wide and is the lad who comes from a minority blank as when he started. He never learns group. Everything that happens to him - OR NO COST!—Try Dr. Barron's CENU- the simplest facts Cushions lor quick foot r«hfl! of military life, and is he blames on the fact that his race is not X^.*^*.* jff^ INE Foot // ^ ^ Thfy take painful i»r**ssuri? olV calhmfifs, het'ls, aichf.s — absorb vague, dreamy, confused, stupid and the same as the general's, or he has a X/ ^^,<ûîncss. No canvassing. pie crusts. free book "inhk- "Looks like it's all over," the minority im;m>kn(k aftkh If American faim boys grow up with boy's mouth drops open in wonder. "You start at home ii fi pa ri- a sheep dog in one hand and time with sm, ll in- a shotgun mean . . . you . . . weren't shooting at me!" ve.stment. Wrlt< today for Free Book. in the other, you wouldn't know it from exclaims. he "Oh, America is the best FOLEY MFG. the CO. actions of the Kansas Kid. He goes country in the world, and I am as good 939-9 Foley BIdg.

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • as anybody else!" As he shouts this the their sweethearts along on submarine tough sergeant comes over and floors him! patrols. All the enlisted men in my book "You're three stripes worse than I am," will be able to read and write and walk the sergeant growls. "Come on, get busy erect. In the end, my American forces are and clean up these cities you just devas- going to win because they had more and tated." better equipment than the enemy, were These characters, multiplied several better trained, fought harder, thought better faster, million times, are the stock in trade of and and were better fighting men all the way around. most of the people writing war books. I've been told that I'm wasting my time, They appear in many long, dreary, dii'ty and that it's too late to buck the trend. scenes, weeping, creeping, illiterate and I've been told I can't sell a book that isn't incompetent. Their conversation, to prove about the Kid from Kansas, the comic them soldiers, is always dull and dirty. relief from Brooklyn, and Lieutenants FROM D-DAY "Whud's duh kissin' day?" grunts one. Roger and Harry. I've been told I must "It's duh twenty-huggin' third of Oct- fill my book with obscene talk so it will muggin'-tober." answers the other. And sound "real." so on for five hundred pages. TO YE-DAY Well, I won't do it. I won't compromise I think the answer to these books and by using those fake characters, and my movie versions of the war is to write an conversations are going to sound the way SOLDIERS' ALBUM honest book about the men who fought men really talked. Every huggin' word in By Col. R. Ernest Dupuy and and won. I might do it myself. my kissin' book is going to be the fas- Lt. Col. Herbert Bregstein In my book all the officers will have cinating, loving, hugging, erotic truth. Save $3.00! military training, and will seldom take THE END

The vivid, pictorial hisfory of the v/ar in Europe — from Normandy to VE-Day. A running > OFF! commentary of text and nearly four hundred (Contmued rom page 8) photographs show you exactly what happened sealed in plastic. Why should I wait for and rattlesnakes. I imagine these girls do in the ETO and capture all the drama, violence, Congress to act? Why not urge all good also. pathos and fatigue of war. Americans to follow this lead? I'm cer- Sorry "to be so critical mining is a The original $5.00 edition for only $2.00 but tain all credit agencies would like the idea. serious business. MY THREE YEARS WITH EISENHOWER Even the Legion membership card could Mrs. O. Wilkinson be changed into a carnet. However, I like San Francisco, Calif. By Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR this quotation: "Instead of forming com- Capt. Harry C. Butcher, naval aide to General mittees and planning investigations to THE 1949 HOLLYWOOD Eisenhower, has written new kind of history a solve the housing problem, the birds are of the war. It is a combination of history-making I scanned with a great deal of interest building nests." This can be applied here events, grand strategy and intense human in- your article in the May issue by R. E. without waiting for Congress to act. terest—providing countless intimate glimpses of Combs titled How Co7nmiLnists Make the key Allied leaders. 876 pages, illustrated. Will. Kueter, Jr. Stooges Out of Movie Stars. Formerly $5.00. Now $2.00 Yakima, Washington It contains some very readable material. But I don't think it is entirely fair to the DAY WITHOUT END To use the cliche that is often tossed at Hollywood of today. The article is a pretty By Van Van Praag Fellow Travelers, if William LaVarre good report of the situation in 1947. But thinks he can't do without the police -state Here is one of the great books of infantry this is 1949! Unfortunately the article methods of Chile, why doesn't he move warfare, a book about one platoon during one makes no recognition of the tremendous there? The United States is doing perfect- bitter day in the Normandy hedgerows. Here progress that has been accomplished in are the sights, sounds, smells — the terrible fear ly all right without importing anything the anti-communist fight in Hollywood in and equally terrible courage — of infantry in like that. Why not use comparable meth- the past couple of years. For instance, the battle. Day Without End is fiction, but it is fic- ods of the Gestapo or the Russian security article features a picture of Herb Sorrell, tion that two million foot soldiers lived through. system? They are probably even more head of the C.S.U., captioned, "He Has A $3.00 efficient than anything South America has Remarkable Ability To Follow The Line NEW UNIT HISTORIES to offer. If anything like that were put in Of Stalin's Favorite Party." But nowhere Fiflli Army $6.00 120tli Infantry Re9l...$6.50 effect here it would probably be as un- in the article is any mention made of the 27lh Infantry Di*. ..$10.00 376th Infantry Re9t...$3.S0 popular as the Volstead Act. smashing triumph over Sorrell achieved 4Sth Infantry Di«. ...$5.00 504lli Paracliute Regt..$S.00 Donald De Long 85lli Infantry Brewer, anti-communist leader of Oiv. . by Roy ...SS.OO 3f0th Bomb Group. .$14.00 Cottage Grove, Oregon 106th Infantry Di«. ..$5.00 2nd Marine Div $6.00 the A.F.L. Film Council, who in the past couple of years has emerged as one of the Write uj for complete free list of unit histories PROSPECTOR'S NOT A HAPPY LIFE industry's top labor leaders. Nor does the OYailable Re Robert M. 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The American Legion Magazine • September, 1949 • A MAN AND A MAID

Since the seats of new cars Are built wider and wider, What's become of the thrill Parting Shots When you squeezed in beside 'er? — By Emily I. Alleman GOOD SAMARITAN MODERN WOMEN What's happened to old Atlas? What once was lack of chivalry is noio He took it on the "lam", known as equality. And left his ivorld- supporting job —By Rex Peterson To good old Uncle Sam. — By F. G. Kernan COLLECT BEFORE DELIVERY It is a proved theory than successful USELESS ADVICE men are likely to show resourcefulness at translation in the parentheses. Understand an early age. This story concerns a wealthy his technique, a stout, Discussing tennis it and you will live happily ever after. man who, when he was a boy, walked brain im- amiable, bald man panted, "My "I'm tired tonight, dear." (Help me with into a farmer's melon patch and asked the to mediately barks out a command my the dishes.) price of a fine big fruit. body. Run forward speedily! it says, start "The car was acting up today." (I hit a "That's 40 cents," said the farmer. the ball gracefully over right away! Slam water plug.) "I have only 4 cents," the boy told him. the net, then walk slowly back." "My but prices are high." (I need more "Well," smiled the farmer and winked happens?" he "And then what was money.) at his hired hand as he pointed to a very asked. "How's your new secretary?" (You'd small and very green melon, "how about "And then," replied the bald man, "my better not show too much interest.) that one?" body says, WHO, ME?" "What do you want for dinner, dear?" "Fine. I'll take it," the boy said, "but — By Aletha Whaley (You're getting eggs.) don't cut it oflE the vine yet. I'll call for "The maid didn't show up today." (Roll it in a week or so." PICNIC SITES up your sleeves, buddy.) — By Toby Weems "The bank called." (I overdrew the The earth is bare beneath that pine, checking account again.) And hotter than the deuce. MUD "Mother was asking about you." (She's I see a poison ivy vine It messes up the new-washed car. coming for a visit.) Too near that spreading spruce. It keeps the golfer over par. "You're her favorite son-in-law." (She's The oak? A boulder interferes; It spatters out from road to curbs. going to live with us.) So let's select this ash; Evoking walkers' choicest verbs. "Those cigars smell good." (Why don't It's here we ate in other years; It sticks to shoes, and with each stride you quit smoking?) I recognize our trash. Comes off upon the rugs inside. "Alcohol is very harmful." (Why don't — By William W. Pratt Then, when it dries, as dry it must, you quit drinking?) It troubles us again as dust. "You're very quiet tonight, dear." (Did KEEN MISUNDERSTANDING — By Richard Armour something go wrong, huh?) Our idea is that men and women don't "Why don't you say something?" (Now ANY SUGGESTIONS? understand each other. Especially in the you're afraid to talk.) "Doc, I get awful pains when I bend early years of their married life. This is tongue?" (Afraid you'll "Cat get your over, put my hands below my knees, something that should be corrected. A give yourself away, eh?) straighten up and bring them above my married person, especially the female of "Oh, you want to read?" (I'm wise to waist." the species, never says what she means you.) "Well, why make such silly movements, and life must be lived accordingly. "In that case I'll go to bed." (I know then?" We are attaching herewith a liberal and the answer.) "Silly, my eye! How else do you think literal translation of the things that are "Goodnight, dear." (I'll have that blonde I can get my pants on?" said after from the husband comes home fired tomorrow.) — By Henry A. Courtney work. Study the actual dialogue and its — By L. J. Ruber TRY NOT TO! A man wouldn't be so hahdy if he didn't stay around the house. — By a. a. Lattimer ir THIS NEVER HAPPENED With a grim look the customer settled himself down in the barber's chair and let the man put the towel around him. "Before we start," he said curtly, "I know the weather is terrible, I don't know A- anything about the races, I don't care who wins the next big fight, and I'm aware that I'm getting thin on top — but it suits me. Now get on with it." 3f "Well, sir," replied the barber, "if it's all the same to you, I'll be able to con- ¥ centrate on cutting your hair better if you don't talk so much!" ¥ — By Brad Crandall

OLD ONES -NO DOUBT There are two kinds of dances: the formal kind and the kind at which you ^¥ . . . and he's asking, 'How's business?'!" wear your own clothes. — By T. J. McInernev

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