The American Legion Magazine [Volume 56, No. 2 (February 1954)]

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THE AMERICAN WHAT STATE LEGION PUTS r MAGAZINE SAFETY Contents for February, 1954 Cover by HOMER HILL

A WAHINE FOR THE CAPTAIN (fiction) by Harry A. Burns 11 FIRST? THE GAG BACKFIRED BUT THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES.

THE BOOTLEGGER GETS A BREAK by Clarence Woodbury 14 HOW UNCLE SAM IS FOSTERING A CROOKED INDUSTRY.

WHICH CONSTITUTION DO WANT? by Ray Murphy 16 Con$t$tul$tion$ to WE WHY THE BRICKER AMENDMENT IS A MUST.

MINNESOTA... BOATS FOR EVERYBODY by Robert Scharff 18 MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE TAKING TO THE WATER. first State to protect the lives of its motorists from THE CONNELL STORY by Alexander Gardiner 20 hazards of inferior brake CONCERNING OUR NATIONAL COMMANDER. fluids by public law. HOW TO TRACE YOUR FAMILY TREE by Harold S. Gilbert 22 A HOBBY THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE BLUE BLOOD.

THEY'RE WORKING ON YOUR "JET" AUTO NOW by R. B. Pitkin. . 24 BOWES THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE 1970 „ OF WILL BE QUITE A BUGGY. "ALL JOIN HANDS" by Jack Denton Scott 26 i ) WHAT EVERY YOUNG MAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SQUARE DANCING.

NEWS OF THE LEGION 33 Features BRAKE FLUID SOUND OFF! 4 PRODUCTS PARADE . 8 NEWSLETTER 31 EDITOR'S CORNER 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB. 28 PARTING SHOTS . . . 64

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tention to the fact that in that same program is concerned, in final aim."

Turkey today thousands of Christians The only difference is in methods of are being oppressed and abused. The attaining their common goal which is SHAKESPEARE COMPANY progress Turkey has made in recent the destruction of our free constitu- Dept. AL-2 Kotomoioo. Michigan years has been due to the money that tional form of government. I Please send me 3 BOOKS and 1954 POCKET FISHING CALENDAR — FREE our government has spent in that Julian E. Williams | country. Mt. Rainier, Md. Name Baxter D. Hagopian Address^ Modesto, Calif. I VERIFICATION City^ _State_ | BREAK Sir: As a former Guatemalan, now an citizen, I wish to commend It's easy to . . American Sir: The National Executive Commit- you highlyr on the manner in which tee of The American Legion has OWN a Business you have called to the attention of finally come out and broken with the thinking Americans in the article . . . Cven if NOW Employed American Medical Association. This Caribbean Cancer in your November We'll personally train and help decision, which was expected, certain- . . issue, the critical situation now exist- you get established . starting part or full time. ly didn't come a minute too early. ing in my native country. Recently I Looking back at the dispute, one be- returned from a visit to Guatemala Clean & Mothproof gins to wonder for whom the AMA City. The situation as described in is claiming to speak. In its long fight Rugs & Upholstery this article is that which I observed. The American Legion has repeatedly The incidents and personalities dis- shown that claims made by this or- • No Shop Needed cussed are both quite familiar to me ganization are baseless and unfounded. • $5 Hourly Gross Profit and were described with convincing May the National Executive Commit- • No Experience Needed clarity. Guatemala is our neighbor; tee keep up the good work. • Nationally Advertised the United States went to war to stop Gerhard G. Ruben • World-Wide Service communism in Korea. Can nothing be Everett, 1 1 'ash. done to abort the threat right under It' reliable and diligent, you can become financially independent in a growing lifetime business of your own. T The points at issue are the AMA's our nose? Alert dealers can gross $5 hourly gross profit on service they render Plus on K.U'H serviceman. Nationally Ad- attack on all VA care lor veterans with Mrs. George R. Doty vertised services rendered iN homes, offices, clubs, in- non-service disabilities and some lea- Petersburg, Ind. stitutions, etc.

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4 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 American Legion Post (Ross-Wood #20) meets bodies current issue of The Magazine is in very bad taste. When at the train with the Post colors and a glamor to the Legionnaire escort to the funeral you advertise and add procedures by a Legion false and un-American home. This is followed Look for this are standard in Las Vegas, you funeral service if the family so de- which arc chipping aw ay at the influence of sires, and is done for any former serv- churches and other iceman, Legion member or not. We the schools and of worthwhile agencies which seek to know it's appreciated and in cases make America better. I think you owe small or scattered families often turns emblem to the vast number of out to be the only observance. It seems an apology Legion members who believe in de- the least that can be done to show that someone remembers and honors their cency and order. L. Snook service to their country. J. David S. Cassedy Portsmouth, Ohio Woodsville, N. H. Sir: Joseph Stocker's article Las Vegas' Golden Boy was silent on one point should be of particular interest to WANTS KIDS DISARMED that Legionnaires. Nothing is said of any

Sir: May I express my keen disap- war or defense participation by this proval of the cover on your December man, even though he was of the proper issue? In these times of turmoil and age to either be in uniform or, if not stress, no child should have a gun eligible, to be making a contribution until he is old enough to be trained to the defense effort. I was a recruit- LEGION to use it properly. ing officer in Nevada and would have Mrs. James S. Eastham welcomed an interview with Clark at Andover, Mass. any time during my assignment there. MAGAZINE George O. Hackett picture RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL Sir: How can you publish a Detroit, Mich. such as that used as your December cover? You moan and groan and swear and tear your hair over the problem LETTERHEAD OUTFIT? of juvenile delinquency. Yet they receive training as portrayed in that pic- Sir: I continue to see statements in ture, and then you expect them to print quoting people who say they arc grow up as good and clean citizens. If officers of the American Veterans A Guide to Courteous

that picture is typical of America, all Committee. I know there was such an I can say is, God help America! Now, organization but I thought it had gone Service and Better Buying let's see if you have guts enough to out of business several years ago. Cer- publish this letter. tainly I have never met a veteran who for the Whole Family. H. Timothy Dean belonged to it, but the AYC, from Aitkin, Minn. the stuff I've read, would have you believe that they speak for millions of From coast to coast, in the windows veterans and that every veteran is a of thousands of stores and other re- PROOF OF ATROCITIES left-winger. you'll find S. G. Wingfield tail establishments, the Sir: While I was in Korea, I was a New York City emblem of The Ametican Legion member of the War Crimes Investi- Magazine Retail Advisory Council. gation Team on Koje Island at the The AVC recently held a meeting T Shop where you see it, and you'll United Nations Prisoner of War in Atlantic City so presumably it is still be supporting a veteran; a fellow Camp. I would like to comment on in business. The outfit claims 10,000 Legionnaire. the current report being submitted to members but there are those who in- matter what your needs, food, the UN concerning the war atrocities sist that this is a highly inflated figure. No committed by the North Korean However, all members seem to own drugs, clothing, liquor, appliances, Peoples Army. I can personally state typewriters in view of the volume of automotive goods, or any other

that the confessions obtained from the statements issued in the AVC name. product, the place to buy it is where communists were obtained without have been calling lor a Lately they this red, white and blue shield is any threats or violence. These confes- "thorough reappraisal of all existing displayed. Your whole family can sions received by different questioners veterans benefits," maintaining that be sure of fair treatment and courte- from different prisoners were checked veterans are not entitled to "unlimited ous service. against each other and they confirmed privilege." Editors each other. Afterwards, teams were Remember this shield and the sent to the spots reported where Legionnaires who display it, and be bodies of UN soldiers were actually REQUIRED sure to Shop The Legion Way — found (unburied as well as buried) Every Day. Sir: Varney's article just as originally reported to us by Harold Lord should required the prisoners. There can be no doubt Russia's Big Bluff be reading for our Senators, Congressmen about it, these atrocities actually hap- and the State Department's policy- pened. The shame is that very prob- officials. Iron Curtain ably the men who committed these making The conceals Russia's weakness not only crimes will go unpunished, but at least 'Retail in military ability but in unrest among the world will know what happened. George Nims Raybin its peoples as well. It is not yet too late for United and the rest New York City the States Advisory of the free world to demand and get freedom for many of the enslaved — in and Council LAS VEGAS STANDARDS people notably Germany Korea. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Sir: In my opinion, the article Las C. B. Berry Vegas'' Golden Boy appearing in the Ocean Drive Beach, S. C. 580 Fifth Avenue. New York 36, N. Y.

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Isn't it unfortunate that Simon & Schuster in editing the Harold Ickes LAST LONGER book left out the most revealing sentence in the entire volume? We had to go to Look Magazine to find it: "He [Secre-

with super whisker-wilting action of any Mennen Shave cream! tary of War Dcm ] thinks as I do that we are working toward a society of modified communism." We may not have their "modified communism" yet but recent events arc certainly proving that a lot of the folks mentioned in Ickcs's book •** and enjoy didn't mind having a lot of ^//modified communists around them. easier shaving HARVARD TO THE RESCUE! even in the In the midst of the newspaper strike in New York City a few weeks ago, word was flashed from Cambridge that the Harvard boys were coming to the rescue of New Yorkers with a few bales of Harvard Crimsons. The bins announced that in this way they were bringing needed mental fare to the big city.

Whether this is a form of scabbing we aren't prepared to argue. However, we couldn't see any real need for the Crim- son, since the Daily Worker was available throughout the strike.

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• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 gcthcr free. If you, for instance, want to hire a publicity firm to persuade Ameri- cans to eat more sardines or drink vodka or buy British bikes instead of American makes, you'll probably have to spend from $25,000 to $50,000 a year. If you want an especially elaborate campaign you might have to invest $100,000 — but for that you'll probably get a vice president or two thrown in. What brought all this up? Well, we've been reading more material about the way in which some of our rich foundations spend money on projects that are neither more nor less than glorified publicity campaigns. However, when a foundation sets up a budget to sell the public a bill of goods it doesn't think in terms of $25,000 or $50,000. That kind of money is peanuts to them. We have forgotten how many millions the Institute of Pacific Relations got, not to mention Columbia's Teachers College and other centers of mental gymnastics. We must admit though that the foundations certainly got—and still get— plenty of propaganda for their millions. If you don't think so, consider some of the left- wing or outright communist propaganda Ifyour car feels like this . . . it's time that keeps turning up in print— in some of our most respectable newspapers too. Think of some of the blatant distortions for MARFAK chassis lubrication that have been thrown at you from your TV screen or radio speaker. And think of some of the stuff that kids bring home from certain schools and colleges!

A'laybe this sort of poison is not what the foundations think they are buying, but the sad fact remains that that is what they are getting for their vast publicity outlays.

WORTH READING The Rosenberg Case by S. Andhil Fineberg, Oceana. $2.50. This book started with Dr. Fineberg's article on the subject in our July 1953 issue. An excellent study of red propaganda in action. The Turning of the Tides by Paul W. Shafer and John Howland Snow, Long House. $2.00. Documentation of the col- lectivist infiltration of the schools. Unconditional Hatred by Capt. Russell Grenfell, R.N., Devin-Adair. $3.75. An Englishman takes a critical look at his That cushiony'feeling country's diplomacy. Our Secret Allies by Eugene Lyons, lasts longer with - Ducll, Sloan and Pearce-Little, Brow n. $4.50. One of our contributors urges an Even in wet and slushy winter driving, you alliance with the Russian peoples over the heads of their dictators. can count on Marjak. It's built to last. It resists wash-out, squeeze-out and jar-out for 1,000 NO COMMENT miles or more. Alarfak really stays on the job,

"TT'vents are now moving toward ad- fighting wear and friction . . . gives you that mission Jjj of Red China into the UN. cushiony feeling. Drive in — today — for Our diplomacy is laying the groundwork. longer lasting Marjak chassis lubrication. See Dulles is sounding the keynote, with many ifs. Bait to tempt reds to behave your Texaco Dealer, the best friend your car in Korea, Indo-China, etc. Congress won't has ever had. like it, but can't block it. Will UN do it? Probably yes." THE TEXAS COMPANY From Kiplinger Washington Letter, November 14, 1953. TEXACO DEALERS If you have your July 1953 issue handy, in all 48 states read The Big Sellout in Editor's Corner. Texaco Products are also distributed in Canada and in Latin America The pattern described there is being fol- j lowed precisely. TUNE IN: METROPOLITAN OPERA radio broadcasts every Saturday afternoon. See newspaper for time and station. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 7 !

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The skipper's order was a strange one.

but even stranger was what resulted from it.

has a funny way of reversing Now through the grace of an addi- company. Not much time to see the T[me the roles we play in the Navy. Ten tional decade of service and purported place in proper perspective, but enough years was sufficient in the case at experience gained thereby, I was senior hours for all hands to make Waikiki hand. enough to be riding herd on another once . . . and send home some of those In 1942, as a young, gullible junior such group of young, gullible junior fancy colored postcards. officer in the destroyer Barkhurst, I officers as the destroyer Dagger nosed I sat in my chair on the starboard visited Honolulu for the first time. Our toward the entrance buoy off Pearl wing of the bridge as the Dagger business in those days had to do with Harbor. The Dagger had business far- headed for the channel, still a few miles the Jap fleet farther west, and conse- ther west also . . . Korea. We had about ahead. There was no traffic to speak of quently our initial stay in Honolulu had forty-eight hours to load stores, refuel, standing in or out of port, plenty of been brief ...but, for me, unforgettable. and be on our way with a cruiser in water on both sides, and one of my 11 It took me less than two minutes to grab some clothes and reappear at shipside. The cab was waiting.

<*onliiiuoil miration at the "astuteness" of his AWAHINE FOR THE CAPTAIN juniors, and a put-on air of unconcern and disinterest in our affairs. We juniors knew by now that among best ODs, Don Adams, had the duty. as the Navy itself, and realize that be- other attributes "The Tiny One" (as his back) could I relaxed and sipped on my third cup fore him you went through the same we called him behind of coffee since breakfast. Glancing to my paces and gestures and motions. I draw uncannily well to an inside straight, drink untold martinis without right I took a long look at Diamond watched Lt. (jg) Hoyt Neal work his Head. Majestic as always, it looked the men in the eyes of the ship and knew visible effect at functions ashore, handle same as it had on a similar day years that he was a natural for the trap. a destroyer in any situation, and better before. My eyes drifted to the left seek- Should I work the gimmick on him as any other skipper in our Division when ing that half-moon of sand and coral my old Barkhurst skipper, Captain practical jokes or Navy humor were on called Waikiki. There it was, shimmer- "Tiny" Robeson, had done to me? the agenda. In short, we thought he was ing and sparkling in the brightness of I was at the mental "heads or tails" one helluva guy. I did especially, for the morning sunlight. Hard by was the point when I definitely called it off. I he was from Kentucky and I from Ala- Royal Hawaiian, then the Moana, and was not as astute a showman as one bama. Somehow he seemed to under- finally the Halekalani. "Tiny" Robeson, and furthermore, this stand me and my particular way of

It was easy to close my eyes and let kid Neal might not take matters as I doing things. memories come back. had. He might get a warped, perverted We had headed in that day years ago,

There I was ten years ago, steaming feeling about Navy humor. He might fresh from transversing the Panama into Pearl Harbor. Lieutenant Larry get mad, or hurt, or worse still, get the Canal. For most of us it had been our Douglas, proud first lieutenant of the better of me in the screwy deal. That first look at the fabulous place known Barkhurst. A kid, and not at all unlike wouldn't do! as Hawaii. I could still remember the the youngster standing up there on my Captain Robeson had been an inspira- thrill of having Diamond Head and forecastle now ready to see that his tion to all of us youngsters on the Bark- Waikiki pointed out to me as we neared deck gang handle their mooring lines hurst. He was a giant of a man, men- the entrance. Then came the mooring, correctly and smartly as we tie up. It's tally as well as physically. His good and afterward I had gone below to easy, through half-closed eyes, to watch nature and great store of wisdom were shower and clean up prior to going another follow a work pattern as old supplemented by a naive, childlike ad- ashore. As I shaved in my room a few

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The expanse of his smile listen. It's spelled w-a-h-i-n-e, and pro- " was beatific. I relaxed. nounced wa-he-knee. Got it? "Send for me, Cap'n?" I nodded, rolling the word around

"Why, yes, Larry, I did." on my tongue a few times. He paused and examined his "Use your judgment. I'll be satisfied cigar ash before continuing. with whatever you select." "Got a few things on my "Yes, sir. I'll try to select a nice one, mind before you get lost in Cap'n. I'm going ashore in a few min-

one of those tourist traps out utes, so I should have it back to you this on the beach." afternoon before evening chow."

I waited. "That's fine." He sat down once again

"Your boys did a nice job at his desk and I made my exit.

out there while ago. I saw Down in my room I found a note what went on. Nice job." from my roommate telling me he had

I started a perfunctory gone to play tennis and would look for

"Thank you, sir," but didn't me later ashore. I stopped by the ward-

get it all out. room long enough to see that my as- The old man had some- sistant, Ensign Culpepper, was lining thing else on his mind. up "in port" work schedule. Our req-

"What I really wanted to uisitions for needed stores had been

see you about is this. Looks prepared and submitted to the supply like your paint locker man officer hours before, so that little re- and his assistants really mained to be done except get the ship's spruced up this place." He sides cleaned and painted. Culpepper indicated the deck and bulk- was equal to supervising that job. He heads of his "in port" cabin. was checking a stores working party "Looks 4.0 to me. That dark list with the Chief Boatswain's Mate

green deck paint sure goes when I left and headed for the Exec's well with the pea-green bulk- room to get permission to go ashore. heads. No 'holidays' and they With business off my mind, clean cut in all the edges very neat- khakis on my body, and most of a ly, too. It looks like to me month's pay in my pockets, I "hit the you're making a salty outfit beach." As I walked the half mile or from all those 'boots' you so from our berth to the main gate, the started with. Keep it up." din of chipping hammers and Navy I smiled my appreciation Yard work diminished, and by the time and this time got out a sin- I had settled back in a taxi and was on cere "Thank you, sir" be- my way into Honolulu proper all fore turning to start for the thoughts of the ship had slipped my

door. mind. I was enthralled at the beauty of "Larry, before you go," the the place. Battle damage, sustained dur- old man rose from his desk ing the previous year's bombing, had minutes later a rap sounded on the bulk- and moved over to a point near his been apparent in the immediate Navy head outside. bunk, "there is one thing more. A small Yard area; but now that we were cruis- "Yeah?" favor." He paused and turned his head ing along the main highway there was Hairston, our steward's mate, stuck to look at me. verdancy and beauty to satisfy the im-

his head in through the half-opened After the nice compliments and re- agination of anyone. I relaxed and drank curtain. "Cap'n wants to see you, marks about my deck gang, I was ready it in. Here I was in Hawaii at last! Lootenant." to do anything the old man wanted. I glanced at my watch as we neared "Okay. Thanks." "Hawaii, especially Honolulu, is noted the downtown area. It was already past

I finished the unshaved portion of my for its 'wahines'," he continued. "Since lunchtimc but 1 wasn't hungry. Instead right cheekbone and did some mental your boys have done such a fine job I told the cab driver to take his time

calculating. What the hell had gone of getting my cabin painted, I was and show me the sights . . . including wrong uon:? Sure we had parted num- thinking that all I need now to complete Waikiki. He took his time — and my ber one line, but that damn surge was the project is a colorful wahine for my money — but it was worth it. Nearly an too much for old mooring lines. In fact, bunk." He glanced at the deck, the hour later we were back in the heart

I had been particularly proud of the bulkheads, and back to his bunk, ob- of the city again and I figured it was way my "deck apes" had reacted when viously deciding on a color. "A light time to get my shopping done.

that line had gone sour. Hennessy had brow n wahine would be best, I think. The taxi driver knew the White gotten over another heaving line with- Yes, definitely ... a light brown one." House and deposited me by the front ?" out being screamed at and Jacobs had "Where . . . I started to ask him door. I walked in and headed for the thrown a quick bowline into the re- several questions, but his black cigar elevators. A directory board listing arti- mains of number one and bent it on to was waving me down. cles and items, and w here to find them, the bitter end of the heaving line with- "I'm getting to that. Now, here's ten was positioned near the elevator bank. out benefit of advice from the chief or dollars. I think that'll be enough. Go Glancing down it, I looked first for myself. Good work. But maybe not down to the center of Honolulu and "wahine." No luck. But I did find "bed- from where the old man watched topside. ask someone to show you how to get spreads." Third floor. Wahine must be I hurried into a shirt and started up to the White House. That's about the some special type of Hawaiian bed- the ladder to his room. biggest department store in town. spread, I said to myself. If not, then He answered my knock with a "Come They'll certainly have wahines. Now, certainly some type of bededvering! in, Larry." So in I went. ILLUSTRATED BY KEN WICKS (Continued on page 41 13 Thanks to Uncle SVt#*#... THE BOO¥LEGCER

Liquor taxes have been pushed so high (hat everyone loses except the crook.

By CLARENCE WOODBURY

rfM a native of Missouri, the Show-Me State, and I was "Two bucks, mister," the kid said, and when I gave him I skeptical when a friend of mine in Washington, D. C, the money he instantly produced two half pints of whiskey told me recently that the city was teeming with boot- from a loose windbreaker he was wearing. He handed them leggers. I visit Washington pretty regularly and not since to me and then disappeared in the darkness as mysteriously Prohibition days had anybody there tried to sell me liquor as he had come. The whole transaction didn't take more illegally. "I'll have to see it," I said, "before I'll believe it." than half a minute.

"Okay," my friend replied, "if you want to see a 'legger I was pretty flabbergasted. I had read articles about an in action, just hire a taxi tonight and drive to any one of upswing in bootlegging, but I hadn't dreamed it was that the street corners I'm going to mention. Tell your driver easy to buy booze illegally in the heart of Washington. How to pull up to the curb and turn off his lights. Then see what long, I wondered, has this been going on? If I could buy happens." the stuff that painlessly within hollering distance of the My friend rattled off half a dozen locations in downtown Bureau of Internal Revenue, what about the rest of the Washington, none of them more than two miles distant country? Was it the same everywhere? from the Capitol of the United States. Since that night, I've spent the better part of a month

Still skeptical, 1 chose the location closest to my hotel seeking the answers to those questions. I have talked with and drove there at 1 1 that night in a nighthawk taxi. It was bigwigs of Internal Revenue's Alcohol Tax Unit, which is in a quiet residential neighborhood. Two cars containing responsible for enforcing Federal liquor laws, and with top occupants were parked down the street but there w as no- officials of the legal industry. I've studied voluminous police body else in sight. reports on still seizures, speakeasy raids and bootlegger ar-

Within five seconds after my driver cut off his lights, rests. On a 4,000-mile motor trip which I made from New however, a boy who looked to be about 14 years old stuck York to Nebraska, swinging back east through several of his head into our cab. "Yes, suh," he said cheerfully, the southern States, I interviewed state and local enforce- "What'll it be?" ment officers in many places, talked with scores of people in

"A pint," 1 told him, trying not to look surprised. the know about conditions in their own communities. 14 pictures above had a capacity of 1,000 gallons a day. Through it the Government stood to lose $1,000,000 a year in taxes.

This investigation has opened my eyes much wider than Uncle Sam himself is largely responsible for this shock- did the discover)' of open bootlegging on the streets of ing development. In November, 1951, you may recall, the

W ashington. The popskull industry, 1 found, has come back Federal excise tax on legal liquor was boosted from the with a vengeance. It was never entirely dead. But during already staggering figure of $9 a gallon to $10.50 a gallon. the last two years it has boomed as never before, is en- Under the $9 tax, the illicit traffic had been spreading by trenched as big business in many parts of the country, and leaps and bounds for several years, but the additional $1.50

is threatening to engulf the whole nation. put it almost completely out of control. Millions of people can't afford to pay the prices asked for legal spirits and have turned to the bootleggers for cheaper goods. As a result, big operators have returned to the racket and

it has now reached proportions rivaling those of Pro- hibition days. If you think that's an exaggeration, just look at official figures on still seizures. Last year, 20,694 of them were raided by Federal, state and local authorities. These stills made and sold 33,000,000 wine gallons

of moonshine during the year. And for every still raided, the authorities estimate, there probably were two others which remained in operation. Even if we are ultra-conservative and assume that only one still kept bubbling for every one grabbed by the law, this means that total moonshine production amounted to 66,000,000 gallons, or approximately 27 percent of all the hard liquor consumed in America! Law enforcement officials and agencies are deeply aroused. The two principal organizations of control authorities — the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Association — have appealed to Congress to curb grow - The bootlegger isn't fussy, and filthy equipment and ing lawlessness by cutting excise taxes to a realistic surroundings are the rule. The upper right hand picture figure. The legislatures of Indiana, Maryland and shows the dead hotly of a dog taken from a mash barrel. Nevada have taken similar action. Even the top en- Below, "revenooer" smashes a quantity of illegal stufl. forcement officer of the ATU, Dwight E. Avis, one of the Treasury's staunchest defenders of high liquor taxes, admitted recently that large criminal syndicates have invaded the bootlegging field and said enforcement is becoming increasingly difficult. Yes, you may say, but you personally see no evidence

of the tidal wave of illicit red-eye which is sloshing over the country. Perhaps not. A4any law-abiding citizens are not aware of it because that ole debil popskull has snuck up on us in a somewhat different guise than he wore during the so-called "Noble Ex- periment" of the 1920's and early '30's. The elegant speakeasy of those days has not returned, and com- paratively few 'leggers ply their trade in the better

residential areas of most communities. That is because the majority of well-heeled (Continued on page 59) Which

What is behind the growing movement — exemplified by the

so-called Bricker Amendment — to limit the treaty-making powers

of the President and the Senate? One of the Legion's leading legal

minds gives the background of the dangers to the Constitution of

the United States when agreements with other nations are used to

override our laws and our legislatures.

By BAY MURPHY PAST NATIONAL COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN LEGION

BS0LVED: . . "O That The American Legion favors . immediate amendment to prevent our rights under the Con- w€ amendment of the Constitution of the United States stitution from being dangerously weakened by the UN

by including therein a provision that no . . . treaty, Charter and other international treaties and agreements. contract or pact with a foreign power shall ever operate or The Senate Judiciary Committee a year ago held extensive be considered to adversely affect or diminish in any way hearings on Senator Bricker's proposed Amendment and the the rights of any citizen or citizens of the United States problems involved. The hearings grew to 1,267 pages of guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States." testimony and exhibits, in which is recorded plenty of Res. 48, adopted May 5-1, 1952 by the National Executive sounding-off both for and against the proposed Amendment. Committee of The American Legion. In the end, the Committee made some changes in the Bricker Amendment and recommended its passage, as I— THE QUESTION changed, by the full Senate. What is the meaning of the above resolution of the More than 70 national organizations, besides the American Legion's National Executive Committee, and of similar reso- Bar Association and The American Legion, have asked for lutions passed by the Legion's National Conventions in 1951, such an Amendment to the Constitution. They include such 1952 and 1953.? representative cross-sections as the U.S. Chamber of Com-

Why, after 165 years, is there a grow ing demand that our merce, the Kiwanis International, the National Grange, and Constitution be amended now to protect the rights of Ameri- the American Medical Association, and such expert bodies can citizens from adverse effect l>y the txeatymaking power as the association of the attorneys general of all the States. of the President and two-thirds of "those Senators present"? The background of this tremendous movement to change The question is, first, a monumental one — perhaps the a basic law that has stood since 1789 is so vast that hardly most provocative of our times, and cuts deep no matter more than a glimpse, and some of the flavor, can be had in which way you slice it. this little space. Under it all, of course, is the broad fact that Clarence Manion, former Dean of the Notre Dame law events and trends of recent years place our Constitution, our school, favors such an Amendment and says: "It is the hottest constitutional form of government, and our traditional liber- issue since the Civil War." ties in serious and unnecessary danger. Arthur Dean, New York lawyer who opposes such an II -THE LAW Amendment, says it involves "the greatest debate about the constitutional ordering of our foreign affairs since 1788." Treaties ratified by the United States become the supreme Senator John W. Bricker, of Ohio, has proposed an law of the land under our Constitution. Amendment to the Constitution to prevent treaties that we There is no requirement that treaties conform with the make with foreign powers from violating the rest of our rest of the Constitution.

Constitution, and 64 Senators have jointly added their names Though treaties, as our supreme law , are "understood" to

to it. involve international affairs, and to affect our internal affairs The American Bar Association, fearing that there were only as a by-product of necessary international agreements, widely unseen legal dangers to our Constitution in the United there is no definition of what is a proper subject for a treaty Nations Charter (a treaty), made a seven-year study of the and what is not. matter, and concluded that the U.S. Constitution needs Until 1916, the lack of definition of a proper subject for

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a treaty had raised no broad question of treaties undermining When the State of Missouri challenged its loss of power

our Constitution or our rights under it. The national officers in this manner, the Supreme Court read the letter of the of the United States had used their treatymaking powers treaty law in the Constitution, ignored the artifice, and in with enough restraint to prevent the question from becoming 1920 upheld the shift of Constitutional powers under the a serious one. treaty that had been written for that purpose. From that day on, a school of thought developed in our Ill -THE END OF RESTRAINT country which favored the shedding of all restraints as to In 1916 a treaty was written for the purpose of giving to what was, and what was not, a proper subject of treaty. our Congress a power that until then had rested in the States This new school of thought eventually penetrated deeply under our Constitution. An agreement was made with a into our own Government, especially into the Executive foreign power (Canada) as an artifice for changing the branch. More especially into the State Department. The internal law of the United States. Department of State stood to gain the ( Continued on page 52 17 Boats for 1:11: R¥-

By ROBERT SCHARFF

When you break open the kit for a 12-foot runabout, this is what you find.

Last year 1 (>.()()(). 000 Americans went boating. Next year you may join them.

Everyone loves boats. The city kid sails a paper boat in car top and trailer carriers along with a stepped-up program the gutter after a rain. The country kid builds a raft of launching ramps has made boating more flexible and and sails it on a nearby creek. When the kid — city or appealing, particularly to city dwellers. country variety — grows up, he never forgets those "boat- 3. Better motors. Weight has decreased as horsepower, ing" experiences. Until recently, however, the average per- cruising range, dependability, and ease and versatility of

son's boating w as limited just to dreaming about it. It's been operation have increased. only in the past few years that boat ownership has come 4. New waterways resulting from government (and pri- within the reach of practically all economic classes. For vate) dams for power, conservation, flood control, irrigation, example, you can now own a cabin cruiser — suitable for etc., like Lake Mead, have created hundreds of thousands fishing, weekend cruising or a two-week marine vacation — of new boating enthusiasts. You now see boats being trailed for less than the price of an automobile. across the Texas plains and Arizona deserts. Boating had its biggest year to date in 1953 and the sky 5. Millions of returning war veterans have shown a strong is the limit in future years for the expansion of this outdoor desire to be outdoors consistently and participate in sports sport. The National Association of Engine and Boat Manu- rather than be spectators. This fact is borne out by the facturers records show that in 1947 there were 2,437,000 increase in hunting and fishing licenses and the decrease recreational craft in use. At the end of 1953, this figure in football, baseball, hocke\- and fighting attendance. was nearly doubled, to about 4,764,000. Incidentally, of this 6. Another indisputable fact — probably the most impor- 4,764,000 boat total, 3,462,000 were outboards of all types. tant reason for the boating boom — is that it's a family sport. Further figures compiled by the association showed that Weekend and vacation cruising of the country's lakes, rivers in 1947 about seven million Americans were using boats for and coastal points has all the aspects of a new outdoor recreation. Last year, more than sixteen million went boat- family vogue, similar to that of motorcycle and automobile

ing, a gain of about 1 30 percent. tours so popular years ago. Many reasons have been advanced for the tremendous Manufacturers of small boats want to meet the demands

increase in boats since World War II. Most experts in the of the rapidly growing family market. But the\r also want field agree that the following are some of the chief con- to give hunters and fishermen — 88 percent of all boats pur- tributing factors to this continuing and increasing post-w ar chased are primarily used for these sports — the boat im-

sport. provements they desire. The result is a series of roomier,

1. The new leisure that goes with the 40-hour week (or safer, all-purpose craft. less) has found more people taking to the water — a better The improvement most common to all the new boats is place to relax than on dangerous, crow ded highw ays. They w ider beam. This not only provides greater safety and more have learned that with a boat they can get to uncrowded stability of operation, but it also results in added comfort. picnic coves, beaches and fishing spots, and have pleasure There's plenty of "leg room" for everyone on a family getting there. cruise; and there's also lots of room to stow hunting and 2. Better boats. Fishing craft, runabouts, the new out- fishing gear and still be able to move around. boards, cabin cruisers — all have been improved. The com- Stronger construction materials and techniques have been paratively new "kit boats" — home built from prefabricated combined with new hull designs to cut the cost of family- kits — have placed boating within the reach of new hundreds sized boats. For instance, the development of phenol-resin of thousands since their price is about one-half that of fin- waterproof glue just before the war was the big factor in ished craft. They come in everything from 8-foot dinghies the present boom for plywood boats. Earlier types of ply- to 31-foot cabin cruisers. Also the development of light- wood w ere completely impractical for boats or any outdoor weight plastic, plywood and aluminum boats and improved use. Pre-fabricating a boat and shipping it inexpensively

18 e long the boat takes shape as you follow the plans. Not many hours later you are able to move it to the nearest body of water.

was out of the question before marine plywood came into sander will help a lot with one of the more tedious chores.

the picture. The advantages of waterproof plywood con- You can assemble a boat kit wherever there is enough struction are many. It is stronger for its weight, split-proof, room to take the completed boat out. Even if your work- weatherproof, guaranteed against ply separation, easily shop door is too small, it is sometimes a good idea to do machined, won't chip or warp and above all, it is far easier much of partial assembly there and then complete the job to work with in building faster, smoother boats. outside in yard or garage. When using the back yard, A small but safe ready-made boat and motor combination cover the boat with a tarpaulin between working sessions. can be bought for as little as $250. While this type of boat The time required to put a boat-kit together, of course, it not suited for open water, it could be used for fishing, depends on her size. Some little proms and dinghies can swimming or exploring in inland waters. An outboard-type be built in a weekend. A typical 21-foot outboard cruiser boat for four people can be purchased for $500 to $550. For takes about 135 hours — 80 hours for {Continued on page SI) fast runabouts, suitable for fast cruising, aquaplaning and water-skiing, the price would run about $900 to $1,200, fully equipped. For the average-sized family which wants to use the boat for overnight and vacation cruises, the 18 to 24- foot outboard cruiser is ideal. This type of boat generally costs anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000. But you can slice these prices roughly in half by assembling a boat kit. This saving often represents the difference between having and not having a boat. Kit boats have been successfully completed by women, youngsters and men who had never built a thing with tools in their life. In a kit you get all the parts that go into the boat, ready for you to put together. The pre-cut materials

have all necessary bevels cut and every piece is numbered for easy assembly. Included in the kit are all fittings, bolts, screws and complete plans and illustrated instructions — everything needed to complete the boat except the paint. Kits are available in every type of boat from eight-foot proms, outboard racers, rowboats, dinghies, duck-boats, The main reason behind the boom in boats is the outboard motor. speedboats, and runabouts to a queenly express cruiser complete with cabin space and suitable for traveling. The prices range from under $50 to over $1500, with a lot of in-be- tweens to fit every budget. Typical figures F.O.B. the factory are as follows: 8-foot, $45; 12-foot rowboat, $80; 14-foot runabout, $175; 17-foot speed boat, $450; 21-foot outboard cruiser, $750; 26-foot express cruiser, $1,700. To this cost you must add the price of the motor. This varies from $150 for a 3-horsepower motor suitable for 14-foot rowboat to $400 for a 25-horscpower one capable of driving a 26-foot express cruiser. Freight charges must be considered, too; but they are much less on a kit than on completely

assembled boats. Shipping weight for a 14-foot rowboat is around 190 pounds, while a 26-foot express cruiser may run as high as 2,800 pounds. Manufacturers say that their kit boats can be built with just ordinary home tools like screwdriver, hand drill and saw. Although this is true, a couple of power tools are worth their weight in sweat. For instance, a % -inch electric drill with a screwdriver blade attachment: there are some Modern outboard motors have features which make them far different 4,000 screws in a 26-foot cruiser. And a portable power from models of a few years ago. One such feature is remote steering. 19 e TOKT

Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut had the major share in

(lie development of the first National Commander from the Nutmeg Slate.

By ALEXANDER GARDINER graying. He uses glasses to read. His speech reveals his Boston and Harvard background principally in use of the

Devotion to Americanism in all its eran. Connell made them eat their words. broad

Arthur J. Connell was elected National a memorial to John J. Connell. The Commander of The American Legion, father was for many years Eastern Sales he and the delegates who chose him Director of the w holesale clothing house faced up to a grim fact: The fighting of Schwartz & Jaffee of New York. in Korea was halting, but no man could There was a strong bond of affection be certain that it was over, over there; between father and son, and Art as a the new leader of the largest and strong- boy accompanied the elder Connell on est veterans organization in the world many of his business trips throughout counseled his fellow citizens that only the Eastern Seaboard. The Com- a powerful America could insure sur- mander's mother, Mary Dever Connell, vival for itself and for the free world. a distant cousin of former Governor It was as a resident of Middletown, Paul Dever of Massachusetts, lives with Connecticut, w here he has been a suc- one of her three daughters in Dor- cessful merchant for more than 24 chester, Mass. years, that Connell was chosen to lead the Legion. In those years his Legion of hush extraction and a devout service saw him rise through the grades Catholic, John J. Connell preached to of responsibility to Department Com- his children a broad tolerance of be- mander, National Vice-Commander, liefs other than their own. Young Art Mrs. Arthur Connell and National Executive Committeeman J. served as an altar boy at St. Peter's representing the Nutmeg State. In the Church in Dorchester while attending last three years, while holding this office nomical spending of the organization's the Mather grammar school. Former and serving on national committees, he money and asked for a strong, early schoolmates recalled recently he was a carried on his campaign for the top membership effort to convince friends serious student who nevertheless was job. Some of his best friends through- and foes alike that the Legion is the au- popular with his mates. From grammar out the Legion told him he'd never thentic voice of 20 million American school he went to St. John's Prep at make it. They argued that four succes- veterans of all wars. Danvers, Mass., a well-known Catholic sive War Two Commanders spelled out A two-fisted six footer who at 55 school, where he spent two years. It was the fact that never again would the scales close to 190 pounds, Connell has at his father's suggestion that he then en- Legion give the nod to a WWl vet- a full head of black hair, though it is tered Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, 20 The National Commander in the parade at Middletown, Conn., on Homecoming Day early last October. Governor Lodge of Connecticut headed a distinguished group honoring the Legion's leader.

N. H., a non-sectarian private school was a pleasant one that entailed few re- in the fall of 1917. In the next few established in the eighteenth century sponsibilities. There were four boys and months, after recovering from a severe and drawing its student body from three girls in the family. W hen Middle- attack of pneumonia, he enlisted in the every section of the nation. town held its truly magnificent home- U. S. Navy, and was called into service Earlier, young Connell had his in- coming for Commander Connell last in June, 1V18. He took his boot training troduction to American history through October Art's family were all on hand, at the Hingham (Mass.) Naval Station, the glory-studded shrines of Independ- except one. The youngest brother, Dick, and subsequently was at the Wakefield ence in and around Boston. Across the lost his life on Omaha Beach on D-Day, Rifle Range outside Boston and at city in Charlestown stood the Bunker June 6, 1944 while participating in the Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor. He Hill Monument. Nearer, Old North cross-channel operation. was discharged as a second class sea- Church, w here the lanterns told their Connell entered Exeter in September man at Boston in December, 1918 after story to Paul Revere; Faneuil Hall, of 1913 and graduated in 1916. He took service at the Bar Harbor (Maine) "Cradle of Liberty"—and Boston Com- a full share in the extra-curricular ac- Naval Base. He had volunteered for mon, below the famous State House tivities, besides acting as correspondent service with a naval unit being raised which the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes for a couple of Boston newspapers. In for service in Siberia, but nothing came dubbed the Hub of the L-ni verse. his senior year he was Managing Editor of this. Across the Charles River was Cam- of the The Pean, school yearbook, and Before January, 1919 he was back at bridge, seat of Harvard University, and Assignment Editor of the twice-a-week Harvard, where he accumulated enough the place where Washington took com- newspaper. The Exonian, under Man- credits to win his degree in February, mand of the Continental Army in 1775. aging Editor Thomas S. Lamont, who 1921. Since the formal award would in Nearby, on Dorchester Heights, no is Executive Vice-President of J. P. have to wait until Commencement longer a part of Dorchester, Washing- Morgan & Co., New York. June, he attended classes on an informal ton had planted the cannon captured In 1916 Connell sought to enter Har- basis that spring. The most rewarding at Ticonderoga and had driven the vard as a candidate for the bachelor of of these were the English literature- British out of Boston. That happened arts degree, but found that he didn't courses of "Copey," the famous Prof. on March 17, 1776. Ever since then the have sufficient credits. During the en- Charles Townsend Copeland, but he re- Boston Irish have seen no inconsistency suing year he studied with the "Widow members also some of the economics in celebrating the twin holidays of St. Nolan," a Harvard man who had a fab- lectures of Harold Laski, who until he Patrick's Day and Evacuation Day. ulous career for some forty years as a died a few years ago was England's The Connell family was in comfort- tutor in Cambridge. With this help foremost theoretical Fabian Socialist. able circumstances and Art's boyhood Connell was able to enter the University (Continued on page 62) 21 w to trace j?our FAMILY TREE

You never know what you'll find if yovi go back

a few generations, and it's a lot of fun looking.

By HAROLD S. GILBERT

" et's see now, wasn't that Lizzie Gilt- do if you are willing to give of your bond a second cousin or something time, and can manage to "run the rec- to our Great Grandpaw Hiram ords" personally. Don't expect to profit Gizzard — the one who distinguished financially. Most family histories are himself fighting river pirates during published at a loss, but the ultimate sat- those terrible bygone days, y'know?" isfaction of achievement will more than Have you ever listened to similar repay you for efforts expended. And conversations, with wild-eyed curiosity you will render a distinct service to fu- as a child, or with natural interest when ture generations. of birth ... so remember, bear down grown up? Can you stand a little ridicule? Some for the facts. Worthwhile records must Although lots of folks won't admit it, of your nearest relatives will think you be based on facts! Strangers, other than family ties come first. Blood is thicker are plumb crazy, or, at any rate "jest a professional researchers, or those with than water! Each generation has the bit tetched," when you commence quiz- kindred inclinations, will not be inter- same number of ancestors, but all too zing them for desired information. ested in your undertaking. Don't bore few have a record of their own par- Some of 'em, especially the women, may them with recitals of your family rec- ticular lineage. be reticent about disclosing actual date ords and glorious accomplishments. Daniel Webster said: "Those who do Start going backward. First off get not look upon themselves as a link con- a looseleaf ringbinder. Label it "My necting the past with the future do not Family Records." Then go to work. perform their duty to the world." Most people know when and where You need not aspire to be a so-called they were born. Also names of parents, "Blueblood" to discover family records and usually of their grandparents. Ob- are highly interesting and very worth- tain birth, marriage dates and places while. .Millions of persons in the United from all living ancestors, as regards States today can, if they so desire, trace themselves and their offspring. Discuss their descent and secure names of pa- these matters in person, or mail ques' rernal and maternal forbears at nominal tionnaircs to all known relatives. cost, and add a fascinating spare -time Public libraries generally have a hobby. genealogy department. Some have many There are numerous reliable profes- volumes of interesting data. Early sional genealogical researchers. Many church records provide an outstanding will undertake to search and report source of information with reference to upon known sources of authentic family births, marriages and deaths. Don't records on an agreed per diem basis. Your family may have kept good overlook the Library of Congress at But there is much that you yourself can records. Try the family Bible. Washington. Then there are national

22 ties paid to veterans of the Revolution originally it comprised a much larger and subsequent wars. area than at present, or that portions When you are ready to broaden your of it in the past were under the jurisdic- search for family connections, you may tion of an adjacent county, or under a find the answer through records avail- different name. Hence some of your able in privately operated genealogy search should be directed elsew here. exchange organizations — where family Then, finally, comes the day w hen histories and other pertinent informa- you have compiled a justifiable amount tion is mailed to members upon pay- of family material. Maybe you'll w ant ment of nominal membership fees and to have it mimeographed or printed postage. and bound for distribution to all w ho

Most States and many smaller politi- may be interested. Set it up as best suits cal subdivisions, such as counties, have your individual inclination. There long-established historical societies. doesn't seem to be any set pattern. It's Some of them have been organized more your baby. recently. If no such society exists in Don't expect to "tie-in" your lineage your community you may render an everlasting service to posterity by helping organize one. Officials of existing societies will doubtless be pleased to advise you on procedure and offer many valuable suggestions. Most counties as well as the larger cities maintain vital statistics and other records, and have been doing so for a long time past. You may be surprised to find how far back in some cases. Many early-day families kept accu- rate records of births and deaths in the family Bible. You will be fortunate if you gain access to such records in your own family. See that they are preserved. Deeds and wills for many years past may be found indexed, filed and/or recorded in most counties in the United States. Therefore, once you have ascertained the community where relatives, perhaps long since departed, have resided and from whence they likely

passed into the Great Beyond, you may Don't be disappointed if you don't frequently find substantiating proof of find a tie-in with riches or royalty. your "chain of descent," and perhaps even uncover, particularly in wills, with royalty or forbears of worldwide names of relatives hitherto unknown to prominence or imposing w ealth. Every your own immediate family. man is a king! Remember the saying of

At the outset make it a point to find the English statesman, Edmund Burke,

out just when the county, where you to-wit: "A man who is not proud of his intend to make a search, was organized ancestry will never leave anything for or incorporated. Check the boundaries which his posterity may be proud of of this county. You may find that him." THE END

ILLUSTRATED BY GORDON HAKE and local offices of the Society of May- flower Descendants, Daughters of the American Revolution and other groups, where examination of volumes of historic and genealogical records may usually be consulted. The first Census of the United States was made in 1790. If you have reason to believe that your ancestors are numbered among the pioneers of America, refer to this or later census reports. Your public library most likely has copies. Check government records in connection with Pensions and Gratui- Your research is likely to take you to old buryin' grounds. 23 They're working on

The big auto companies mean business in their research to make a gas turbine auto at popular prices. Here's how and why they're tackling the job.

By ROBERT B. PITKIN Chrysler is working at it on an undis- closed scale. Turbocars work on the same prin- The young scientist shown above is light, simple, powerful, superspeed ciples as iet airplanes—except that they w orking at a machine that tests new "windmill" engine to take the place of do not push themselves forward w ith a materials for auto engine parts. He the piston engine in your car. It would blast of hot gas rearward that would is part of a team at the Ford engineer- need no radiator or cooling system, no curl the hair of the driver behind. In- ing staff's Scientific Laboratory in Dear- timing system, have no limits within stead, the blast of continuous burning born, Michigan, that is looking for reason on its speed, have no pistons or gases is used to spin an internal wind- cheap materials that will stand up under cylinders, and would give better fuel mill—or turbine wheel—at high speeds, engine speeds, pressures and tempera- performance the faster it went — quite and deliver that spin to the rear wheels. tures that would turn the cylinder block the opposite of the piston engine. Because of this feature, the engine is of your present car into flying chunks If they or their rivals in other big not properly a "jet" engine, but a gas of soft, w hite-hot mush. auto companies succeed, you will un- turbine engine. Other members of the team include doubtedly own a "turbocar" someday. There is not the least trouble in in- mechanical engineers, metallurgists, Both Ford and General Motors are venting a turbocar today. An experi- chemists, physicists, electronics special- spending money on turbocar research mental British Rover has already

ists. The\ arc trying to make a small, as if they expect to succeed, and zoomed down a Belgian highway at

24 152.69 mph. In the State of Washing- inevitability of rapidly accelerating sci- The theoretical intensity of heat, devel- ton, Boeing has been running a big entific progress. speed and pressure that can be Kcnworth trailer-truck along the high- When he arrived on the Ford scene oped in a continuous-burning machine ways for a couple of years, carrying in 1951, his job was to think of the on the pinwheel principle exceeds any- full payloads, with a gas turbine en- day-after-tomorrow's autos. "Ford thing now visualized for automobile engine 3,000 pounds lighter than the diesel placed its thinking about the future of gines. The hotter and harder you make the wheel engine it replaced! the w heeled vehicle in my lap," he says. the flame blow, the faster the other But it is one thing to make a turbo- "There has been no flattening out of turns. The piston engine, on a circle car where cost is no object, and quite the upward trend of wheeled vehicle hand, beats a crank around with another to mass produce one for every speed. The future offers us a projection a series of explosions. It has a lot of heat left garage. If this can be done, it will be of the recent upping of road speeds and unusable and undesirable over the first break away from the original upping of engine pow er. from the explosions. As you ask more limitations of the piston engine of the "Nobody know s what speeds we will and more from it, it poses more and one-lunged horseless carriage. hit in the future, nor on what broad, more mechanical problems and compli- Neither Ford, General Motors nor straight superhighways we will drive cations. Without getting into the dif- see Chrysler will tell what progress they under new and better safety conditions. ference too deeply, one need only are making toward a low-priced, prac- what happened to the airplane w hen tical gas turbine auto, for obvious trade it switched from conventional (piston) reasons. However, Andrew A. Kucher, engines to jet (continuous burning) en- head of Ford's expanding Scientific gines. Some performance factors were Laboratory, frankly discussed the pur- doubled overnight. poses and problems of turbocar research Part of the "bait" offered by the gas with this writer recently, in a special turbine, says Kucher, is the unlimited interview for The American Legion horizon for w heeled vehicles that con- Magazine. tinuous-burning engines offer. "If you

Kucher is a big, rangy, imaginative could get one that had steady tempera- man of 55, with a lifetime of pioneering tures of 1800 to 2000 degrees, with a industrial research behind him, chiefly power wheel that whirled at 75,000 in aircraft and refrigeration work. The rpm," he says, "you could drive a car present form of the household electric with an engine that you could put in refrigerator, with its sealed-in cooling your hat." He'd settle for a superspeed

unit, is based largely on work that engine about the size and shape of a Kucher did, independently at first and small umbrella stand, with constant then with Westinghouse and Frigidaire. temperatures of 1200 to 1500 degrees His background in aerodynamics and and engine-speeds around 50,000 rpm. refrigeration is a happy one for turbo- Kucher, like many scientists who look far ahead, loves a challenge. gas car research, since airflow and heat con- Andrew A. Kucher heads up research The trol are basic factors when you spin a at Ford that seeks ways to make turbine engine offers plenty of chal- windmill with hot gases. "turbocars" at popular prices. General lenges that must be overcome before Ernest R. Breech, Ford's forward- Motors and Chrysler are on same trail. it can be adapted to everybody's car. thinking executive vice-president, brought Kucher to Dearborn to organize and direct the company's growing exploratory research in May, 1951. The men of the Ford engineering staff's new Scientific Laboratory, under the direct administration of Earle S. MacPherson — vice-president in charge of engineering— are in a unique position to tell, from scratch, the story of turbocar purposes and problems. The Ford company, just 50 years old, is starting its second 50 years in a burst of imagi- British Rover (left), first experimental turbocar to appear in public, hit 152.f>9 nation. Changes in management at Ford mph on Jabbeke Highway in Belgium. Similar to jet plane, it uses jet to spin have brought changes in outlook and power wheel. Critical engine parts are 9{)% stainless steel, far too costly for aims. From a standing start in 1951, popular cars. U.S. auto makers seek cheap materials that will stand the internal Ford has sunk several million dollars heat and speeds of turbocar engines. At right, an inexpensive test material took into long-range auto development ex- its own picture as it flew apart at 48,000 rpm in Ford's new Scientific Laboratory. ploration. This has gone into a pilot lab under Kucher. Most of the first several But no matter what happens, the only Some of the challenges look formidable million dollars is aimed right at the sensible future for the auto engine is to an outsider. Their total makes an spot where the turbocar happens to be to deliver more power with less ma- imposing list of hurdles to clear. In fact, standing. The company is so satisfied chine. Kucher looks at himself and his prob-

with its beginnings in this direction that "The piston engine has been rapidly- lems like a man who know s he's chasing it is by way of getting out of the pilot developed from the horseless carriage a will-o'-thc-w isp, but expects to catch

stage and sinking considerably more in- days to a point where additional im- it. It is his own idea that the theoretical to bigger, long-range labs where the provements wring very little more out potentialities of the small, infernally lu>r, turbocar would still loom large. of it. For more power with less ma- whirling-dervish engine represent "bait"

Andrew A. Kucher is a man with chine we must look to engines running that leads him and his associates onward. a lively imagination, a vast hard-headed at higher internal speeds, under higher He is further intrigued by the fact that optimism and a staunch belief in the temperatures and pressures." (Continued on page 47) 25 All Join Hands'

The square dances our fathers enjoyed have millions of Americans healing their feet in happy rhythm. The Terryville Harvesters, in costume, try out a routine.

By JACK DENTON SCOTT dreamy tune, they sit and moon over Eddie Fisher and the like. It's no good. It's unhealthy." fine summer evening not long ago, of the One one coun- "What's the answer?" I asked. try's best-known television newscasters and his wife; a "Square dancing is the answer. It's a bit of the old-time former United States Ambassador and his wife; a ship- clean, wholesome, community entertainment, yet it has ping clerk from a large twine manufacturing company and variety and demands enough skill to command respect from his missus; an ash collector from New York City's Depart- old and young alike. Floyd Woodhull put square dancing ment of Sanitation and his girl friend, gathered in a circle on the map in these parts. For me it's taking your partner and clasped hands. by the hand and doing something. Not just sitting and They were not members of a secret religious sect, nor listening and watching someone else do something." were they agreeable guinea pigs in an unusual type of socio- Since then I've talked and w ritten to leading square-dance logical experiment. They were enjoying themselves in a experts of the United States, but none of them have come type of entertainment that is currently sweeping the country up w ith a better description. — square dancing. Like many another foible of our forebears The exact beginnings of these dances are lost in the — long dresses, short collars, tapered trousers— square danc- obscurity of the middle ages. The quadrille seems to have ing has conic into its own again. And it is nor a fad. Ir is been introduced to England by William the Conqueror, here to stay—as much a part of America as The Star Spangled and the country dances of later centuries which became a Manner. feature of English life went back to France under the name Educators and social workers call it "the great leveler." contredanse, reversing the usual procedure of language bor- Social standing, class distinction, and other manifestations rowing. The stately minuet and the contra were popular of pedigree don't enter into square dancing. People from in England and in the early days of some of the Colonies. all walks of life simply join hands and have a time for The first contra is thought to have been the Sir Roger de themselves. Coverley, which later became known as the Virginia Reel.

Recently, while researching this article, I talked with a Today the word contredanse is translated as quadrille, so leading citizen of Elmira, New York. A distinguished man w e're back to 1066 and all that. in his fifties, he gave me this line of reasoning: Whatever the derivation of the country dance or the

"Back when I was in my teens," he said, "in that age of square dance, it is a form of recreation that gets lots of life when character is being put together, we used to go out people together in a happy and cooperative mood. on dates, run up to Rorick's (den and listen to the orchestra Because of its grow ing importance in our daily life, square and dance. There or Rock Springs, or any number of places dancing is being taught by an increasing number of profes- where the emphasis was on music and dancing. Now, what sionals. It has even been introduced as a part of the curricu- do the kids do? They go sit and hold hands in some saloon, lum of many of our schools. juke joint or restaurant, and push nickels in a juke box. A square-dance expert, Edward Durlacher, has put a rec- Once in a while they dance, but usually they just sit — sit ord on the market called Honor Your Partner, which is a and drink and neck. Now I'm not saying that the younger simple teaching aid for the square dance as it enters the generation today is any better or worse than we were. But educational picture. In addition to this, Durlacher travels it seems to me that the participation angle is fast disappear- the country conducting Square Dance Workshops, where ing from human relations. Where we used to swing our he gives personal lessons to thousands of teachers and rec- partner at a barn dance, w altz or dance a slow foxtrot to a reational instructors. 26 COURTESY OF MARGARET MAYO AND NEA SERVICE.

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The most common variety is the square .set, with the four The best-known call, this Round we go, but soon we'll partners facing inward, but the circle and longway pat- one often goes so fast it try something else. There's terns shown above have their devotees all over the U. S. leaves us all breathless. variety and action always.

Hand in hand each couple- The "gent" and his "corner" This is a cinch, till he They pass each other walks, around the circle give each other a hand and offers the wrong hand. back to back, to meet to their starting point. walk out a complete circle. The mix-up's soon over. and face once again.

Schools feel that square dancing is important as a recrea- (if you're a man), and then both of you swing around as tional activity, because of its almost universal appeal and its fast as you can without moving from home base, or home ability to develop a warm feeling of fellow ship, even among position. If you want, you can also place your right feet very large groups. Up to one thousand can participate in together and use your left feet as pedals, increasing your any given square dance. That's a lot of hand holding. But speed as you swing around in a circle. This is called a "buzz." hand holding of this kind seems to be good for what ails Already you've picked up two steps. people. The United Nations, an organization which is dedi- When the caller says "Corner lady," he means the person cated to better understanding among all peoples, has a to the left of the gent. One of the facets of square dancing special folk and square dance program which they are put- that lends it special attraction is the fact that you don't dance ting into effect in their Folk Festivals programs. with the same partner all night. During the course of an Square dancing swept the city parks of New York City evening you dance with every member of your set. Jealous last summer and was considered the main reason for the mates don't make good square dancers. big swing back to the wholesome habit of "going to the In some sections of the country, the dancers form a ring park" — a tradition which seemed to have been dying out. rather than a square. The males count off to identify the Approximately 285,000 people flocked to these parks to odd and even numbers. The caller then makes his sonorous learn and enjoy square dancing. At Jones Beach Park, on dance-and-figure directions by referring to the odd and nearby Long Island, the Thursday night square dances were even numbers. the big event of the summer. The famed "Honor your partner" step is a simple and Square Dance Associates of Freeport, N. Y., an organi- graceful one. When the caller says, "Honor your partner," zation formed by the aforementioned Mr. Durlacher, has each person steps back one step. The man bows, the woman placed the square-dance routine in more than 23,000 schools, curtsies. Simple? That's one of the pleasures of square danc- hundreds of recreational departments of big industrial con- ing. The only thing you have to keep in mind is that you cerns, the Army and Air Forces Special Service Depart- have a right foot and a left foot. ments, and thousands of youth and adult organizations. Probably the most important person at a square dance, should What you know about square dancing? Short of even more so than the orchestra, is the caller. Most callers going to a dance and having the fun of learning in one easy seem to have been in the business for decades and are kept lesson, it's possible to pick up the rudiments via the writ- busy seven nights a week. One of the leading square-dance ten word. callers in New England told me that within one month he As one the of country's square-dance authorities said, if made two television appearances, went on a tour of one of you've ever played "The Farmer in the Dell" or "Ring- the southern States, and instructed his regular classes. Around-the-Rosie" when you were a kid, then you auto- Some of the talented callers in the sw ing-your-partner matically know how to square dance. Actually, a square business are Floyd Woodhull, Benjamin Lovett, Ralph Page, dance is really a game set to music. It's this simple: Follow Lloyd Shaw, Bob Osgood, Ed Gilmore, Ed Durlacher, the directions of the square-dance caller, keep in time with Billy Foster, Chris Sanderson, Ray Smith, Doc Alumbaugh, the music, relax and have a good time. Herb Greggerson and Les Gotcher. Probably the first step you should learn is the one called Woodhull, called by many "one of the dadburned best," "Swing partner." your In this you hold your partner, some- says he got his start with his father, w ho was an old-time what more to the right than you would in a waltz position fiddler. He feels that good callers (Continued on page 56 ) 27 LEGION ROD & GUN DON'T FORGET!

By JACK DENTON SCOTT

You might call February "put away and signed nickel knob for calming cantanker- make ready" month. Most honest-to-good- ous fish; horizontal and vertical gun racks You can provide ness shooting is behind and the full fishing you can put together yourself, to fit any season lies ahead. corner, in 4 and 6 gun sizes; imported Rifles and shotguns that are to be stored Swiss sportsmen's knives with special scis- Luckies by the case should be thoroughly cleaned and oiled sors and a combination scaler-disgorger; before they go into the gunrack. Some handsome handmade gun cabinets, in case TAX-FREE (less than recommend the further protection of a you don't like racks, in knotty pine, wal- plastic bag especially designed for the pur- nut, mahogany, hand-rubbed in natural fin- pose and available in most sporting goods ish, storage shelves, double glass doors and 8^ a pack) for stores. sturdy locks so children can't tinker; Eng- G. C. Stringer of Mize, Miss., has a gim- lish and Italian pigskin shell bags, and mick for gun storage that works well for tricky tackle boxes with large, balanced, shipment to one or him: free-swinging drawers. And much more.

"After hunting season is over," he But look for yourself. This year the sports- says, all of the following "cover your gun completely w ith a clear man is going to have it better than ever. white Vaseline. It should film all of the trigger and breech mechanism as well as service groups: Seeing that this is the slow down month the exterior of the gun. Vaseline does not of February, you still have time to put rub or drain off as oil will; therefore its together some homemade, fish-taking flies. protection is stronger. Also there is no V.A. HOSPITALS Fly-tying gear is available in most sports danger of the Vaseline impregnating the stores, and books like Art Flick's Stream- ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY stock as oil will do." side Guide to Naturals and their Imitations, AND MARINE HOSPITALS published by Putnam, and The Complete Fly Tier by Rube Cross, with the Dodd- U.S. ARMED FORCES IN Mead imprint, arc well worth having. KOREA They'll help reduce the thumb ratio to two. Cases available in two sizes: • 500-PACK CASE.. $3930 Did you know there arc now man-made

• . . . lakes and reservoirs in nearly every State 100-PACK CASE $7?6 available for your fishing pleasure? Check (Price subject to change without notice) with your conservation department in the Some call February, "Nature's Slumber capital of your own State and ask ques- Send today for your Month." If you've been wondering about tions. This can mean a new fishing experi- the animals that curl up and sleep for the Lucky Strike order blank ence for you. Query if boats are allowed winter, here's a check list: (with or without motors) and where avail- Eight North American animals hiber- able, if special license is needed, or if there nate during the cold winter months. Those is any tackle regulation. Many of these Mail this coupon arc the jumping mouse, badger, bat, gopher, manufactured lakes, such as the great TVA woodchuck, chipmunk, raccoon and bear. lakes in Tennessee, offer some of the country's best fishing. Don't miss the fun. And if you want to take that fishing rod our for a once-over before the season starts but seem to have sticky-ferrule Out Michigan way, the high school stu- 111 Fifth Ave., New York 3, N.Y. trouble, W. F. Wood, from Savannah, Ga., dents are working on a campaign to eradi- Dear Sirs: has some news for you. cate careless shooting. The State Conserva- Please send me Lucky Strike order blank(s) with He suggests that corroded or sticky fer- tion Department sends skilled instructors which I may provide TAX-FREE Luckies by the rules can be easily separated by applying to the various schools, w here they select case for shipment to.

a few drops of carbon tetrachloride in and a dozen or so students, train them in their (Check those desired) around the joint. Allow it to penetrate for roles, then put on dramatic gun-handling ( ) Veterans Administration Hospitals about 20 minutes, twist the ferrule, then plays in the auditoriums before the entire Army, Air Force, Navy & Marine Hospitals with a light pull it's out. It's also a good school. Results have been excellent. Other ( )

idea while in inspecting the rod to go over States could profit by imitation. ( ) U. S. Armed. Forces Korea any rust spors with a fine piece of emery Incidentally, carefully culled statistics cloth; then before putting the sections from several of the major insurance com- Your Name

back together coat the ferrules with a light panies prove that hunting is actually one oil. of the safest of sports; the companies also

state that it could be even more so if the City or Town Checking the sporting goods stores, we juvenile factor in accidents could be cut State discovered .1 tew handy items gracing their down. shelves: A trout knife w ith a specially de- < Continued on page 46) J 2ft • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY. 1954 IT'S ALL A MATTER OF TASTE

"I DON'T HAVE TO SMOKE LUCKIES," says ROBERT MONTGOMERY

You may know— at least I hope you

do — that I am producer of a television program called "Robert Montgomery

Presents . . . Your Lucky Strike

Theatre," which is sponsored by The American Tobacco Company.

That means I work for Lucky Strike. No question about that. But let me

assure you that there is nothing in my contract, not even in the small print,

that says I have to smoke Luckies or

sell Luckies. However, I do smoke them— have for years — and for a good

reason. At least it seems good to me.

I like the way they taste.

Quite frankly, I think this business

of smoking cigarettes is all a matter of taste. You either enjoy a cigarette or you don't — because of its taste. Lately I've heard a lot about why people smoke this or that brand of cigarette. Most of the reasons given

sound a little silly to me. I smoke Luckies because they taste better. That's my story. Not a very exciting

one— but to me, and I hope to you, it makes a lot of sense.

Lucky Strike's Story

There are just two reasons why Luckies taste better to Robert Montgomery and several million other people. First, L.S./M.F.T.—Lucky Strike means fine tobacco — fine, light, naturally mild tobacco. Next, Luckies are made better. Always round and firm to draw freely and smoke evenly. So, Be Happy— Go Lucky. Remem- ber, Luckies are made by The Amer- ican Tobacco Company, America's leading manufacturer of cigarettes.

COPR., THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY CLEANER, FRESHER, LUCKIES TASTE BETTER SMOOTHER! Stable as the alphabet! Go out today and buy any product of any

good manufacturer's brand . . . ask for the same thing tomorrow, or

weeks from now . . . match 'em up, and they're uniformly good, or better.

This uniformity is no accident. Every manufacturer works hard at

it because he knows that only un- failing goodness will keep you buy- ALWAYS THE SAME ing his product. So he's mighty sure never to let quality slip. If he

changes his product at all, you can ...today, tomorrow bet it's a change for the better.

This goes for everything from a and tomorrow bobby pin to an automobile — just another reason for staying with your favorite brands for years and years.

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A total of $190,000,000 will be distributed to some 5,000,000 from $100 to $300. . . . This applies to servicemen who were NSLI policy holders, while 375,000 older veterans will share discharged under honorable conditions between June 27, 1950,

a dividend of $21,000,000 on their permanent plan USGLI and mid-July, 1952. . . . Men separated since mid- July

policies. ... As in past distributions, checks for the amounts received their mustering-out pay on discharge. . . . Rate due will go out about 60 days after the anniversary date fixed under Korea GI Bill is $100 if serviceman had less of the policy. than 60 days active duty between June 27, 1950 and mid-

July, 1952 if he had more than 60 days service and no NSLI dividend covers all types of policies , and will ; $200 have the same formula for computing as for the 1952 and foreign duty, $300 if he had more than 60 days service and

1953 payments. . . . Holders of term policies who are less served outside the United States. . . . Benefit must be applied than 40 years old — which includes the bulk of WW2 vets — for before July 17, 1954. . . . No printed form is required; will get 50 cents a month for each $1,000 of insurance for a letter on ordinary-sized letter paper is sufficient. . . . Be each month the policy was in force during the year ending sure to give the name under which you served and present

on the 1954 anniversary date. . . . Rate of payment to address, printed or typed; service number; statement that

veterans above 40 varies according to age. . . . Top check you were not released to accept employment; statement to holders of the full permitted sum of $10,000 will be $60. that you are not now serving on active duty and that you

. . . Policies must have been in force three months or longer, have not received mustering-out pay, and that you have not except for vets on active duty during the Korean hostilities and will not make any other application for this pay for

who have now returned to civil life. . . . Vets who filed service after June 26, 1950; statement as to foreign requests for payment of their 1952 or 1953 dividends in service and date of return to U. S., and your signature,

cash need not file new requests. . . . Unless request for cash plainly written. . . . With the letter, inclose the original of payment is on record the amount due is credited to the your Report of Separation (DD Form 214) .... For Army, account of the policyholder. . . . Vets who wish to change mail to Finance Center, U. S. Army, St. Louis 20, Missouri, payment election may do so by writing their VA District Attention MOP Branch. . . . For Air Force vets, Air Force

Insurance Office. Finance Center, Denver, Colorado. . . . For Marines, Com- USGLI dividend for WW1 policyholders will be paid mandant of the Marine Corps, (CDD), Washington 25, D. C.

. . . only to vets who hold permanent type policies. . . . About For Navy, Field Branch, U. S. Navy, Bureau of Supplies

24,000 WW1 veterans who have held on to their term and Accounts, Cleveland 14, Ohio. . . . For Coast Guard, insurance will not share in the dividend, even though the Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington 25, D. C. present cost to policyholder is in many cases higher than a permanent type policy. . . . Payment to the eligibles will, in DRAFT QUOTA CUT FOR as . . FEBRUARY: the past, be automatic. . Checks will be sent out about 60 days after the anniversary date of the policy Defense Department has announced that the draft quota held. . . . figures can No . be given on the range of dividend for February will be cut to 18,000. . . This is a drop of 5,000

payments. . . . Permanent plan policies could have been from the recent monthly calls. . . . Defense Secretary Wilson taken out at any time between the end of WW1 and 1940, said the reduced number in the February call is in line with resulting in wide variance in individual policy reserves. . . . the order to the Armed Services to cut their manpower

Factors of age of vet, type of policy and number of years totals 10 percent in the year beginning next July 1. in force must be considered in computing on each individual * * * * policy. NEW JERSEY Just for the record — the dividends announced will in- TO AID VETERANS' WIDOWS: crease to $357,148,886 the payments made to WWl USGLI The State of New Jersey has a new law, signed by policyholders. ... It will make a total of $4,035,000,000 Governor Driscoll on December 21, which extends the Con- paid in dividends to WW2 and Korea vet holders of NSLI stitutional $500 property-tax exemption to widows of all war

policies. . . . Actually, since 1950, when VA declared a special veterans, including those of the Korean conflict. . . . The 1948 dividend disbursement, WW2 vets have received bill was approved by a special session of the Legislature refunds of 50 percent on their NSLI policies. following a favorable referendum in the November 3 elec-

31 tion. . . . New Jersey Legion pushed state-wide campaign soon—the spring school term, starting early in 1954, marks

to get overwhelming approval at polls. the last enrollment opportunity for thousands. . . . The

cut-off date of August 20, 1954, applies to all Korea vets VET Gl TRAINING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES: separated from service before August 20, 1952. ... If they want GI training, they begin the 1954 deadline in Veterans who wish to take their GI Bill training in must by

order to continue afterward. . . . Vets left service after foreign countries are cautioned not to leave the United States who August 20, 1952, need not concern themselves with the 1954 until full authority has been granted by VA. . . . Too many

cut-off date. . . . of their vets have gone abroad only to find that the courses they They have two years from the date

separation in to training. . . . Vet expected to take were not offered; were not approved; and which begin GI must actually enroll begin his training before the deadline — in some cases, too, the vets were notified that they were and the mere filing of an application with intention to start not eligible. . . . Result, the vet was stranded in a foreign afterward, is not enough. country, to his discomfort and the inconvenience of the Government. No prospective foreign trainee should leave the U. S. COMPENSATION CUTS NOT DUE TO FUND LACK: until (1) He has received complete information from the Many veterans say they have been informed that re-

Washington VA office. . . . (2) He has ascertained that the ductions of their disability compensation or pension were course is approved by VA, the school will accept him, and due to reduced appropriations for VA. ... In a letter to all

that he has the language ability to pursue the course. . . . Regional Offices VA states that Congress has indicated that (3) He has in hand a certificate of training, showing general sufficient funds will be available to meet all compensation approval of objective, course applied for, and the extent and pension claims payable under existing law. . . . VA has

of entitlement. . . . Complete instructions for applying, selec- no authority to either deny or reduce compensation or pen- tion of courses and institutions, and how to plan, can be sion to which a veteran is entitled by law. . . . Tightened had by writing Veterans Administration, Veterans Benefit ratings and readjustments in former ratings may reduce Service, Foreign Education Division, Washington 25, D. C. payments — but the law fixes the rate of payment for the degree of disability found, for which funds are provided. VA RIDS ITSELF OF BAD SECURITY RISKS: During the first six months' operation of the Employees Security Program under Presidential order, 134 employees AVERAGE VET INCOME TOPS NON-VET:

of VA have been separated for security reasons. . . . Softly War veterans form a big segment of the national popu- spoken, VA says that 108 "had their services terminated" — lation— 12.6 percent — and therefore a considerable slice of

which means they were fired — and 26 resigned while under the tax-paying public. . . . Recent Government census reports

investigation. . . . No names were made public. show that the average annual income of veterans in 1947

was $2,401. . . . That year the income of non-veterans was NON-PULMONARY TB CASES REVIEWED: higher — $2,585 — but by 1951 the average annual income of veterans had risen 40 percent to $3,359, while non-veterans' VA is reviewing its record to determine whether certain

incomes had gone up only 10 percent to $2,875. . . . The living vets, or dependents of deceased veterans, may be Census Bureau explains the rise in this way: "The higher entitled to compensation for active non-pulmonary tubercu- income of these veterans during the past three years may losis that developed within three years after separation reflect the combined influence of the increase in work ex- from service. . . . Public Law 241, 83rd Congress, effective perience and the higher level of education which veterans August 8, 1952, provides for service-connected presumption

have achieved as compared with non-veterans." . . . Another if veterans develop this disease within three years after evidence that the WW2 GI Bill is paying off in sound values. separation from active wartime service. . . . Prior to the passage of this law only pulmonary (lung) TB could be presumed to be service-connected if developed within three PROTESTS CLOSING OF MARINE ACADEMY: years after separation from wartime service. . . . New law National Commander Arthur J. Connell of The American all adds other types of TB. . . . WWl vets are not included Legion has protested directly to President Eisenhower the because they are covered by another law which has been on threatened closing of the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy at

the books for some years. . . . VA's review for living vets Kings Point, New York. . . . Plans to close the institution involves those WW2 or post-Korea cases of compensation as an economy measure are under consideration, with the or pension which have been terminated or disallowed on or thought of distributing the academy's students to State-run after August 8, 1952, or which are now pending, or which schools in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, and California. are in an appeals status. ... All cases which do not fall within . . . Protests point out that 15 percent of the graduates of

these three categories must file a new application. . . . Vets Kings Point eventually see active duty with the Navy, and who are found eligible under the new law and whose total that its annual graduating class is as big as the combined disability rating is 50 percent or more may draw addi- output of the four State schools. tional compensation for their dependents — wife, children, * * * * or dependent parents. . . . VA will notify veterans of their additional entitlement and allow them one year in which LAST CALL FOR NORTH DAKOTA BONUS: to submit evidence of relationship and dependency where Deadline for filing applications for the North Dakota necessary. WW2 bonus is February 17, 1954. . . . Pays $12.50 for each * * :!: ;|: month of stateside service and $17.50 for foreign service

CUT-OFF DATE FOR SOME K-VETS Gl TRAINING: between January 1, 1941, and January 1, 1946. . . . Application Early K-vet dischargees who intend to take educational forms from Adjusted Compensation Division, Office of courses or training under the Korea GI Bill must get started The Adjutant General, Bismarck, North Dakota. 32 NEWS LEGION

and Veterans' Affairs asim

Ike's Commission Again Asks TERMS USED IN THIS REPORT For Universal Training Soon A National Security Training: Mili- tary training for 6 months. Trainees Once again, on Dec. 14, a special "c. The Ready Reserve is not a unified would then return to civilian life as Commission appointed by the President Reserve. The title merely describes the Reserves, subject to call in an emer- greater vulnerability of certain Reservists immediate adoption of universal gency for seven and one-half years. urged to recall in the event of an emergency. NST does not now exist. military training. The President's Na- "d. The only effective Reserve we can Nonveteran: Today, any man tional Security Training Commission possibly have under the present system is has never had active duty in a veteran Reserve. Since many veterans who stressed that UMT should operate con- are understandably refusing to join units, military service. NST trainees would currently with the draft, to stabilize na- this means our Reserve is inadequate. be trained, nonveteran Reserves. tional security inexpensively and mini- [4] A Ready Reserve: Those Reserves to in military service. mize unfairness "At least one million men are avail- be called first in an emergency. In- endorse- tended to consist mostly of NST The report got immediate able for a National Security Training trainees. In absence of any NST ment of the head of Selective Service, program between now and 1960. and on trainees, most Ready Reserves today Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, "a. Service is not required of all today. are Korea and WW2 vets. Chief fresh Dec. 15, Nat'l Cmdr Arthur J. Connell About 1,600,000 fit young men of military source is draftees when they have wired President Eisenhower endorsing age have not seen service as of now, and by 1960 this number will have increased served 2 years. the report in the name of The American to about 2,200,000 if the armed forces are A Selective Principle: Calling men Legion. maintained at 3,360,000 as now officially into service under the draft, with ex- projected. emptions, deferments and classifica- Findings Summarized "b. At least one million fit and qualified tions. Applies to nonveterans. men will be available for National Security A summary of the Commission's find- A Stand-by Reserve: Those Reserves Training between now and 1960 after all ings and recommendations follows: supposed to be called last in an service requirements are met. If the forces emergency. "The Commission finds that: are reduced to about 3,130,000 men in Unselective Principle: Calling ci- [1] fiscal 1955 at least 1,500,000 men would be vilians to active duty by military "All should share equally the obli- available for National Security Training through I960. When allowance is made orders. Applies to Reserves. Draft ex- gation to serve the nation. for the men who would be added to the emptions, deferments, classifications [2] available pool by decreasing the age of don't apply. "Our present reserve system is unfair. liability for training to 18, the number of "a. About two and one-half million of the men available for training increases to be- three and one-half million fit young men tween one and a quarter and two million beforehand, we will not have time to who became 18 between World War II and men between now and 1960. These figures men train afterwards. the start of the Korean emergency saw no do not include the over one million men them "d. In peacetime we cannot possibly service before June, 1950. now classified as exempt from service. maintain active forces large enough to in- "b. Consequently, when Korea came, [5] sure victory in war. more than 600,000 veterans of World War "Inductions for training and service "e. Nevertheless, we cannot lapse into II were involuntarily recalled to duty for can and should operate concurrently. unpreparedness. must be trained to their second war. They were put in double Men "a. The Director of the Selective Service only against rifle fire, but also jeopardy, with no consideration for their survive not System officially confirms our bslief that bazookas, tanks, artillery, bombs, family lives or careers, while younger men against inductions for training can and should be radiation. Our century's Min- went entirely unobligated or were inducted and perhaps conducted concurrently with inductions for skilled as well as brave. according to selective standards. Serious utemen must be morale problems developed. service. "b. The impartial drawing of lots to de- "c. If another local emergency like Korea Summary of cide who will serve and who will train erupts, it will be the older veterans, not ions would fairer present se- Recommendat the younger men who have not served, who be much than the lection of some for service and Reserve ob- "Accordingly, the commission recom- will have to bear the first brunt of the ligation of eight years, with no obligation conflict. Veterans might again have to be mends that: whatsoever for those not needed for service. recalled unselectively while young men in [1] similar status would be deferred. [6] "All fit young men of 18 should enter "d. This unfair policy has been not only "Present rejection standards for mili- the National Security Training pool rrorally it wrong, has also been socially tary service are not realistic in light of and financially costly. upon registering with the Selective the nature of twentieth century warfare. "e. We cannot with justice continue to Service System. place our veteran Reservists in double [7] [2] jeopardy while excusing our non-veterans "Our defense posture must be well from service or training. "The trained nonveterans should adapted to the long-term Soviet danger. [3] serve ahead of the veterans to the ex- "a. The immediate crisis is part of the tent practicable if there is another "Our present Reserve is inadequate. continuing crisis, and the immediate crisis "a. About three-fourths of our Reservists five years from now will be only another emergency. are veterans of Korea, World War II, or chapter in the same crisis we face today. "a. After six months of basic and techni- both, and the non-veteran reservists are "b. In all our past wars we have sent in- cal training, National Security trainees relatively untrained. adequately trained men into battle. should be transferred to the Reserve for "b. Only 32 per cent of our Reservists "c. If there is another world war, we will seven and a half years and should be liable are participating in Reserve units. Units are probably be attacked first or early in the to recall ahead of veterans. seriously under strength. conflict. If we do not have trained fighting "b. As the implementation of National THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 33 L

Security Training r>roceeds, veterans of the prerequisite to the continuation of exemp- their jobs if they wish within thirty days present emergency who have served two tions of nonveterans from induction for after their release from the corps. years or more and who are not voluntarily service because of participation in organ- "e. With two reservations, trainees should participating in Ready Reserve activities ized Reserve units, including the National be subject to the Uniform Code of Military should be transferred out of the Ready Re- Guard. Justice of 1951. serve to Stand-by status upon their request "g. Permissive deferments now author- "f. Instructors in nonmilitary subjects as the national security permits. ized by regulation for men liable for in- should strive to present the broadest and [3] duction for service should be disallowed for most generally accepted principles of our "The trainees should become the basis induction for training. society and should encourage individual "h. The induction of young men in agri- discussions after formal lecture. of a realistic nonveteran reserve. culture and industry should be delayed for "g. Instructors should have the highest "a. Trainees should be allowed to satisfy seasonal work, although such delay should moral and ethical standards. their Ready Reserve liability by choosing not continue for extended periods. "h. Local citizen advisory committees insofar between several options as the mo- "i. Young men in high school should not should be formed to help improve the off- bilization base permits. Ready Reserve li- be inducted for training until they grad- duty environment of the trainees. ability upon should be shortened depending uate, cease to pursue their studies satisfac- "i. The commission should be consulted the extent of participation by the individual torily, or reach their 20th birthday, which- by the Department of Defense about the Reservist. ever occurs first. budget estimates for the operation of their "b. In addition, inducements to join units "j. The induction of young men in col- corps before they are submitted to the should be offered to trainees to encourage lege should be delayed until the end of the President and should be required to submit voluntary unit participation. current academic year or until they cease cost studies on the program to the Congress. "c. The troop basis of Reserve forces pursuing their studies satisfactorily, which- "j. The commission should establish an level should be fixed at an appropriate ever occurs first. inspection system to carry out the super- based on requirements ot the world situa- "k. As an interim measure, young men visory and reporting responsibilities im- tion; unorganized Reservists should Ready who, at the time of registration, have signed posed upon it by the Congress. remain in a pool, subject to recall. There R.O.T.C. contracts committing them to [7] should be no effort to move all graduate " trainees, either basic, specialists, or officers, 'Basic military training' should be into organized units above the required redefined in the light of twentieth cen- troop basis. tury warfare. "d. Each trainee upon his entrance into "a. A careful, specialized study of pres- the corps should be screened and classified ent physical and mental rejection standards as soon practicable to determine his as should be made by an independent, non- aptitudes, future work plans, and probable military group. future residence and its proximity to ex- "b. Basic literary courses should be of- isting Reserve facilities. He should be fered to trainees who have not learned to trained as near his home as possible. He read and write, and every effort should be should be encouraged to pursue through made to utilize otherwise limited personnel existing reserve training facilities special- in the Corps. ist skills acquired while in the corps. [8] "e. Graduates of the program should be DRAFT CHIEF HERSHEY LEGION CMDR CONN E L classified distinctly as members of a non- They approved NST Report "National Security Training would veteran Reserve, not intended to go on ac- add these specific values to our defen- tive duty unless the alternative is the re- liability for two years or more of active duty sive posture and ability to survive: call of veteran Reservists. if a commission is tendered upon gradua- "a. The nation would not again have to "f. The Reserve obligation of young men tion should be considered to have fulfilled recall veteran Reservists ahead of nonvet- who undertake certain professional and their obligation for training. Should they erans, removing the present deplorable in- technical training should be held in abey- subsequently fail for any reason to fulfill equity which has created a class of privi- ance until the completion of such training their contract commitments, they should be leged deferees, while multiplying the bur- if they so wish. inducted for training or service as appro- den on those who volunteer or are drafted "g. In an emergency the Selective Serv- priate. to train and serve and then are the only ice System should recall Reservists who are "1. Present statutory deferments should trained reserve for any future emergency. not participating in Reserve activities and continue for divinity students, conscien- "b. The steadiness of our long-term pre- who do not have specific mobilization as- tious objectors, sole surviving sons, and se- paredness might help deter war. signments in accordance with the selective vere dependency hardship cases, but the "c. Our voung men would be trained to standards applying to young men liable for number in these categories at age 18 will survive, so we might expect fewer military service. be very negligible. casualties in the event of war. [4] [5] "d. The trainees could be of value to "Young men should draw lots upon "National Security Training should civil defense, especially those who joined registering with Selective Service to de- their local civil defense units. begin on 1, 1955, or earlier, with Jan. "e. We would be better prepared to con- termine whether they will be liable for at least 100, 000 trainees. This number tend with local aggression; to hold or seize training or service. should taper upward as manpower avail- vital surface areas; to protect our sea and "a. They should be notified of the result air bases; to aid our allies before ability and the size of the armed forces they were immediately. overrun; to use or refrain from using power permit. "b. Young men who desire to enlist in weapons in accordance with moral and the corps should be required to draw lots [6] practical considerations; to follow up aerial to determine whether they will be liable "In the training program, trainees blows against an enemy; and to contend lor training or service. with fifth activities should receive not more than six months column in time of war. "c. Volunteering for the corps by those "f. The military establishment would be and not less than 1,050 hours of actual under 18 should be restricted to young men assured of the continuing existence of a who have graduated from high school or training. training plant, manned and equipped, so who have lelt school for good reasons and "a. Existing training facilities should be that regular forces would not have to be have parental consent. utilized for this program to their fullest broken up for training purposes in an emer- "d. Young men should be allowed to capacity. No new major construction should gency. specify the month of the year following be authorized unless absolutely necessary. "g. The civilian Reserve components their 18th birthdays during which they pre- "b. Support personnel should not exceed would be vitalized by a steady How of train- fer to be inducted, with priority being giv- the number authorized for similar training ees with 1,600 hours of training, or about en to college students, farm workers, and in the regular components. 60 per cent ready, instead of 600 hours, or industrial workers. "c. The trainees' rights to speak, to dis- less than 20 per cent ready as at present. "e. Young men should be allowed to sent, to believe as they choose, to equal This can be accomplished in no other fea- specify the service of their choice and justice under law, and to economic protec- sible way over the long run. should be accommodated to the extent pos- tion and good health should be maintained "h. Regular forces would be immediate- sible within the over-all quotas. to the highest possible level. ly available for duty in the theatre of opera- "f. National Security Training should be "d. Trainees should be reinstated within tions, and Reserves could complete field

• • 34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 1 JRUARY, 1954 MEMBERS OF NATIONAL SECURITY TRAINING COMMISSION

Kincaid McLain Adler Com ] > ton Atherton The President's 5-man Nat'l Security Training Commission caid (Ret.), WW2 commander of United States 7th Fleet; comprises: Chmn., Julius Ochs Adler, vice-president and gen- Dr. Karl T. Compton, chmn. Massachusetts Institute of eral manager, The New York Times; Warren Atherton, Past Technology Corp., and Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain, the Nat'l Cmdr. The American Legion; Admiral Thomas C. Kin- only National Guard officer to command a corps in WW2. training by the time shipping was avail- available, would be less than $2,700 per nonveteran Reserve, more of our young able for their transportation. trainee. Under certain specified circum- men would have time for civilian pursuits, "i. Machinery would be created for stances, National Security Training might giving us a stronger national economy. classification and aptitude determination save the nation's taxpayers several billions "n. Present uncertainties about military so that potential specialists could be en- of dollars. status would be reduced. couraged to take further training in their "1. Disruption of civilian life and the "o. National Security Training would be status. civilian economy would be reduced be- compatible with the best elements of our "j. The disadvantages of crisis psychol- cause the trainees would take the train- national heritage. It would not yield mili- ogy would be replaced, to some extent, ing at the natural break between high tarism under the provisions of law which by a calm sense of strength. school and college or a career. require continuing general supervision of "k. The over-all investment, less camp "m. To whatever extent our active forces the operation of the corps by this inde- sites and buildings which are already could be safely reduced because of a strong pendent, civilian-majority commission."

MEMBERSHIP: have to provide mantle clock carved out Jesse W. Barrett, Past Dept Cmdr of of coal dug by him for Cmdr Burke. Missouri 1932-33, suddenly of a heart Still Growing Selecky gets ton of oranges if Pennsyl- attack, in St. Louis, Mo. At Christmas Legion membership vania wins. Birney Kent Farnsworth, newly ap- Post 39, Arlington, Mass., came pointed to the Nat'l Public Relations was 21,609 over last year. through with a membership card and Commission, of a stroke in Salt Lake Not all posts could report, as did Post Christmas gift for each son-in-service City, Utah. 293, Potter, Ark., that they had ten of a Post member. Lester G. Block, Past Dept Cmdr of times more members than the town had ]> Post 1, Denver, Colo., lets paid-up New Jersey 1938-39, after a short ill- residents. The reason: Post drew paid- members participate in drawing for ness, at Trenton, N. up membership of 449 from all of its J. 1954 Studebaker or other prizes includ- Verne R. Taylor, Past Dept Cmdr of home county. Their claim: that they are ing TV set and deep freeze unit. Nebraska 1936-37, after long illness. the largest rural post in the Legion. Fred B. Winter, Past Dept Cmdr of Many Posts were coming through PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Nebraska 1934-35, of injuries incurred with interesting ways to attract new Jobs, Honors, Activities in auto accident in Florida. members and encourage early sign-ups Richard C. Patterson, Jr., one of the by old ones. Legion's founders, was named New York POST DOINGS: ]> Post 13, Colorado Springs, Col., City's official greeter replacing Grover As one of its rehabilitation programs found door knocking paid off with a Whalen. (the principal activity to which the Post 104% increase thus far over 1954. Immediate Past Nat'l Cmdr Lewis K. has dedicated itself), Post 807, Chicago, ]\ Post 245, Cross Plains, Wis., reported Gough, who is convalescing from an 111., works with mentally disturbed ex- that by Armistice Day, for the 25th con- ulcer operation, elected to Board of servicewomen. After one affair in which secutive year, it was over its quota. Trustees of University of Southern Cali- Post members danced with convalescing ]> Post Atlanta, Ga., boasts of Albert 1, fornia. women, one of the patients wrote, "I I. Almand, who for 30 years has signed Air Force Major Charles (Chuck) don't suppose you realize what it means up a minimum of 100 members per year. Yeager, Post 111, Hamlin, W. Va., the to know that there are people like the His top year— 179. first man to break through the sonic ones who entertained us last night, who \\ Members of Post 40, Vinita, Okla., barrier, recently set a new world's speed are not too big or too busy to think of who don't make their quota have a goat record by flying at 1,650 miles per hour. the women who served in the armed left at their homes. Died forces ... it gives a little extra courage ]) In Mississippi Dept Cmdr Sam W. NOVEMBER to those of us who must be here." III, Waggoner has a Brahma bull to be John J. Sullivan, after a short illness, ]> Post 56, Bloomington, 111., provided given to the District Cmdr who reports in Seattle, Wash. A founder of the Le- a walking device for 6-yr.-old Martha the largest percentage of increase by gion and one of its incorporators, he was Jane Dickerson, polio victim. With the year's end. Bull was one Department got one of the first Nat'l Vice Cmdrs(1919). device, Martha Jane walked for first time from Past Nat'l Vice Cmdr Joe Adams, Joseph W. Finley, Past Dept Cmdr of in her life. of Florida, in 1950 membership contest. Minnesota, of an acute respiratory ail- ]> Post 79, Ulysses, Kan., collaborated

!> Departments of California and Penn- ment, in St. Paul, Minn. with Boy Scout Troop of La Junta, Col., sylvania have a contest going. If Cali- DECEMBER in presenting a program of Indian dances fornia loses, a ton of coal will be dumped Monte C. Sandlin, Nat'l Historian to raise funds. Money went for special on Dept Cmdr Burke's lawn; if Penn- 1948-53, of a heart attack at his home schooling for Joan Keister, deaf since sylvania loses, Dept Cmdr Selecky will in Florence, Ala. infancy.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 35 }) Odessa, Minn., Post rented and cleared Dept Hq at the War Memorial Build- two days prior to Child Welfare Con- 20 acres of stony ground. Will farm it to ing in Jackson, Miss., has established a ferences. earn money for Post activities. Vicksburg Disaster Relief Fund which Rehabilitation Conference, Area "A", '} Post 15, Crowley, La., staged an ama- is accepting contributions from Posts, Boston, Mass., Hotel Touraine, Feb. teur production to raise funds to pur- Legionnaires and others. Among early 19-20. chase a new-type isolation incubator for contributors was Post 121 of Waco, Tex., Boy Scout Week, Feb. 7-13. premature babies. which was hit by a tornado a few months Child Welfare Liaison Sub-committee

]> Post 1060, Brooklyn, N. Y., has dis- ago. of Nat l Executive Committee, Indian- tributed thousands of match books pro- apolis, Feb. 12-14. moting the Back to God movement. AMERICANISM: Rehabilitation Conference including Bearing religious messages on the cover, Rehab Executive Section, Area Chair- the books have had such wide distribu- More Front Groups men, Vice Chairmen and General mem- tion that inquiries concerning them have The U. S. Attorney General's office bers; Nat'l Executive Committee Liaison come from as far away as British Hon- has recently added 42 groups to its list Sub-committee; Nat'l Vice Command- duras. The Post has also distributed of subversive organizations, bringing the ers; Nat'l Chaplains; Field Representa- thousands of postcards appealing to total listed to 236. tives and certain District Rehab Repre- parents to teach children to pray. New designees include "Committees" sentatives, Washington, March 1-5.

]> Post 33, Beaumont, Tex., wonders if for Constitutional & Political Freedom; Department Oratorical Contest Win-

it is the only Post to include quadruplets for Defense of the Pittsburgh 6; for ners must be certified to Nat'l Ameri- in its membership. The Perricone Quads Peace & Brotherhood Festival in Phila- canism Commission on or before March — Anthony, Bernard, Carl and Donald — delphia; for Protection of the Bill of 22. vets of Korea, joined at same time. Rights; to Uphold the Bill of Rights; for BRIEFLY NOTED: ]> The' Deise brothers, Clarence, LeBoy, World Youth Friendship & Cultural Ex- j) Legion's indorsement of 1954 Red and Thomas, all former officers of Post change; to Defend Marie Richardson. Cross drive for funds and members gets 61, Sacramento, Cal., were presented Also "Councils'' of Greek-Americans; for strong support of Simon H. Schneider. lifetime memberships by Dept Cmdr Jobs, Relief & Housing. A member of Post 678, New York, N. Y., William R. Burke. Also "American Committees" for the he came through for 14th consecutive }t Mr. & Mrs. Horace Dearborn are Settlement of Jews in Birobdijan; to year with 5 pints of blood for Red Cross Commander and President respectively Survey Labor Conditions in Europe. Blood Bank, (the maximum allowance of Post and Unit 38, Lexington, Mass. Also American Poles for Peace. for an individual). His total to date: Their son, Murray, is Senior Vice Com- Others include Baltimore Forum; 70 pints. mander of the Post, and their daughter- Bridges- Robertson-Schmidt Defense ]i Department of South Dakota had its in-law, Mrs. Murray Dearborn, is Vice Committee; Bulgarian-American People's tenth annual pheasant feed for patients President of the Unit. League of the U.S.A.; California Emer- in VA Hospitals. Post at Artesian sup- H Including near relatives, there are 17 gency Defense Committee; Chopin Cul- plied most birds—397. Pheasants from members of the Haskell family who are tural Center; Frederick Doulgass Educa- 46 Posts weighed two tons. Frozen members of Post and Unit 12, Beverly, tional Center; Harlem Trade Union locker plants and S. D. Dept of Game Mass. Council; Jewish Culture Society; Joint and Fish assisted. }i Since 1919, Post 385, New York, N.Y., Council of Progressive Italian-Ameri- !> Chief Nganga died Oct. 29. Nganga, has spent $229,000 for rehab work. cans; Labor Council for Negro Rights; chief of Mele Village on Efati, New Projects include: birthday and Christ- Maritime Labor Committee to Defend Hebrides, was known to many WW2 inas gifts to vets in hospitals; air-condi- Al Lannon; Maurice Braverman Defense servicemen. His death was reported in tioning equipment for paraplegic and Committee. a letter to Arthur C. Adams, USNR, of quadriplegic wards at YA Hospital, Also, Nat'l Committee for Freedom Post 585, San Carlos, Cal., from Chief Bronx, N. Y.; TV project at VA Hospital, of the Press; Nat l Labor Conference for Nganga's son, Joe Edwin Nganga. Sunmount, N. Y. Peace; North Philadelphia Forum; ]i Members of Post 13, Woodbury, N. J., Peace Information Center; People's were guests for their regular meeting at TORNADO DISASTER: Drama, Inc.; Philadelphia Labor Com- home of Major Alexander R. Lawson, mittee for Negro Rights; Political Prison- Post 3, Yieksburg, Miss., got warm AUS (ret.), whose collection of 400 ers' Welfare Committee; Provisional praise from city and state officials for slides from original paintings showing Committee of Citizens for Peace, South- its work following the tornado disaster uniforms of American history has been west Area; Puerto Ricans United; Quad which hit the city on Dec. 5. called outstanding Americana. City Committee for Peace; Santa Bar- Legionnaires worked at rescue and ]} Amy Patmore, 90, longtime Legion- bara Peace Forum; Tri-State Negro salvage operations, with the Auxiliary naire whose ship was torpedoed on way Trade Union Council; Union of New helping at hospitals and Post headquar- to France in WW1, was presented a York Veterans; United Committee of ters which was opened to victims of the Life Membership by Post 344, N. Y. A Jewish Societies and Landsmanschaft disaster. chief nurse of one of the largest AEF Federations; Voice of Freedom Commit- More than 300 members put in over hospitals, her post-WWl rehab work tee; Washington Committee to Defend 21,000 man hours in restoring the city to includes getting a floor set aside for the Bill of Rights, and Yugoslav-Ameri- near normal operations and over $1500 women patients at VA Hospital, Bronx can Cooperative Home, Inc. of Post funds were spent. County, N. Y.

The Legion was praised by Mayor ]> Post 185, Denver, Col., presented Life COMING EVENTS: Kelly, State Adjt General W. P. Wilson Membership to "Hershey" Miyamura, and Miss Ruth Gilmore, administrator of Child Welfare Conferences: Medal of Honor winner of Gallup, N. M.

the Lutheran Hospital who said, "We Area "B" Washington, D. C, Shera- ]> In Ridgely, W. Va., Post 136 is giving could not have operated our hospital ton Park Hotel, Feb. 5-6. Area "A" Bos- high school a bronze plaque in honor of

had it not been for the heaters, food and ton, Mass., Hotel Touraine, Feb. 19-20. William Shuck, former Post Historian, laundry service furnished by Legion- Auxiliary will hold an Area Rehabilita- posthumous winner of Congressional naires and Auxiliary members." tion Conference in each Area on the Medal of Honor.

36 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY. 1954 !

Franklin D'Olier Dead Insurance Company as vice president capacity of the enemy to resist." Among and became president of the company the recommendations made in the report in 1938. Under his direction the com- of the mission were those asking for a pany was converted from a stock cor- separate Air Force and creation of a poration to a mutual company owned Department of Defense. entirely by its policyholders. At various times he had been called In 1946 D'Olier became chairman of upon to serve as chairman of the New the board of directors of Prudential and Jersey committee of the U. S. Treasury continued to serve actively as a director War Finance Committee; state chairman of the company until his death. He was of the USO; Civilian Defense director also a director of the Howard Savings of the 2nd Corps Area and as member of Institution of Newark, N. J.; National the New Jersey State Economic Com- Biscuit Company; Pennsylvania Rail- mission. He was a life trustee of Prince- road; General Refractories Company; ton University. American Enka Corporation and the His wife, the former Helen Kitchen of Morristown Trust Company. Philadelphia, died in 1950. He is sur-

In 1941 he accompanied then Nat'l vived by his son Franklin, Jr. of Wynne-

Cmdr Milo J. Warner to England. His wood, Pa., and two daughters, Mrs. Esty

study of England's civil defense pro- Stowell of Convent, N. J. and Mrs.

gram during the blitz attacks was incor- Mahlon Pitney of New Vernon, N. J. porated in the civil defense handbook Funeral services were held at St. produced by the Nat'l Security Com- Peters Episcopal Church, Morristown,

mission. When war came to the U. S. in N. J., on December 12. In attendance December of 1941, The Legion's manual were Past Nat'l Cmdrs James F. O'Neil,

was the only thing of its kind in exist- Harry Colmery and Milo J. Warner; mm ence and millions of copies were printed Nat'l Vice Cmdr Herbert M. Walker; and distributed. Past Nat'l Vice Cmdr Thomas E. Para- 1st Commander D'Olier In 1944 in answer to a request by Sec- dine and Nat'l Executive Committeeman retary of War Stimson, D'Olier organized H. Armand deMasi of Italy. Franklin D'Olier, first National Com- and directed the United States Strategic The official delegation from the Dept mander of The American Legion and Bombing Survey. This group of observ- of New Jersey was headed by NEC long-time head of the Prudential Insur- ers and technicians worked in both the member William G. MeKinley; Alternate ance Co., died on December 10 in Mor- European and Pacific theaters of war NEC member Albert E. McCormick; ristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, gathering data on the effectiveness of Dept Vice Cmdr M. J. Hennegan and N. J. He was 76 years old. His home was air bombardment "upon the will and Past Cmdr Judge Richard Hartshorne. at Basking Ridge, N. J., and he was a member of Post 59, Morristown, N. J. A founder of The American Legion, IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RIGHT D'Olier was one of the group of 20 who attended the dinner at the French Military Club on Feb. 15, 1919 to make plans for the caucus to be held on March 15-17 in Paris. He began his state-side Legion career at the Post level and was one of the organizers and first Commander of Post 136 Ardmore, Pa. He served as chairman of the Pennsyl- vania delegation to the St. Louis Caucus in May, 1919 where he was appointed to head the State Organization Division of Nat'l Hq then in New York City. During WANT AROMA WITH A LIFT AND IT PACKS SO NEAT this time he prepared plans for the 1st MAN, HERE'S HOW IT RATES A BOW Natl Convention to be held in Minne- apolis, Minn., where he was elected National Commander.

Born in Burlington, N. J., in 1877, IT SMOKES SWEET IT CANT BITE Franklin D'Olier was educated at Van Resselaer Seminary and Princeton Uni- SIR WALTER RALEIGHS BLEND OF CHOICE versity from which he graduated in KENTUCKY BURLEYS IS EXTRA- AGED TO BITE. 1898. Entering his father's textile busi- GUARD AGAINST TONGUE AND SIR WALTER RALEIGH NEVER LEAVES A SOGGY ness in Philadelphia, he was president HE-EL IN YOUR PIPE. STAYS LIT TO of the company at the outbreak of WW1. THE LAST PUFF. Commissioned a captain in the spring of 1917, D'Olier was in France three months later. His assignment at GHQ was the organization of the salvage service of the AEF. He received successive promotions to major and lieutenant colonel and was awarded the Distin- guished Service Medal and the French ITS THE PIPE-BLEND CHAMP you MUST ALLOW Legion of Honor. In 1926 he joined the Prudential

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 37 MORE VETER ANS WHOSE REMOVAL FROM VA HOSPITALS IS SOUGHT

The House of Delegates of The American Medical Asso- On this page, The American Legion continues to cite case ciation is leading a nationwide campaign to end all care in histories of VA patients who would be denied care if non- veterans hospitals for veterans with non-service-connected service-connected care for broke veterans is ended. All told. disabilities. Dr. Edward J. McCormick, President of the Legion Field Service men have summarized 5,000 bedside AMA, said in Oklahoma City recently that care of these interviews so far. 43 cases were listed here last month. More veterans by the VA is "a threat to private enterprise." will be listed in future issues. case no. 44 expenditure of funds for private expenditure of funds for private age: 60 treatment: $100.00 treatment: $225.00 disability: Diabetes — Cancer of pan- remarks: Veteran unemployed for over remarks: Korea veteran — has been hav- creas a year. Daughter and 6 children living ing seven or eight seizures a month and expenditure of funds for private in veteran's home while son-in-law is in unable to work on account of condition. treatment: $500.00 military service. Has no income other Dependent upon his father for support. remarks: Forced to give up employ- than Part III pension. case no. 56 ment in 1950 on account of disabilities. case no. 50 age: 32 Was in private hospital twice in 1952. disability: Leukemia — Anemia disability: Hepatitis Exhausted savings — has no income ex- expenditure of funds for private expenditure of funds for private cept Part III pension. treatment: Unknown treatment: See Remarks case no. 45 remarks: Has been suffering from ane- remarks: Veteran was in private hospi- age: 58 mia condition since 1929. Has no funds tal before VA admission. Bill paid by disability: Hypertension — Pneumonia to pay private doctor. Private physician miners welfare. No income now. Wife EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR PRIVATE advised veteran to go to VA. and 4 children living on credit. treatment: None case no. 51 case no. 57 remarks: This is a female veteran whose age: 49 age: 24 husband is seriously ill and unable to disability : Bronchiectasis disability: Separated fracture left ra- work. Cannot pay private doctor. Only expenditure of funds for private dius income is Part III pension. treatment: $2000.00 expenditure of funds for private case no. 46 remarks: Spent all savings in private treatment: $560.00 age: 61 hospital before going to VA. Has not remarks: Veteran spent all money disability: Sigmoidectomy — Hemor- worked since 1951 because of physical saved in service for care by private doc- rhoids condition. tor and hospital before going to VA. expenditure of funds for private Is a Korea veteran. case no. 52 treatment: $2,000.00 age: 77 case no. 58 remarks: Had extensive private hospi- disability: Cardiac age: 43 talization. Formerly owned small feed expenditure of funds for private disability: Malnutrition store but forced to sell in 1950. Wife treatment: $75.00 EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR PRIVATE works occasionally at odd jobs. Part III remarks: Veteran unemployed for 20 TREATMENT: $30.00 pension is only income. years. Formerly worked as railroad flag- remarks: Veteran unemployed for 2/2 case no. 47 man. Living with brother. Only income years due to industrial accident. Only age: 73 is Part III pension. income is $23.00 a week from work- disability: Rheumatic heart disease men's compensation and service-con- case no. 53 expenditure of funds for private nected compensation of 10% for eye age: 26 treatment: $1200.00 condition. Wife also ill. Part III pension disability: Stricture of colon remarks: Veteran was in private hospi- expenditure of funds for private denied. tal four times in 1952. Exhausted all treatment: See Remarks case no. 59 savings. Not employed for 20 years. remarks : Veteran has been in private age: 38 Lives with sister. hospital 12 times since 1946. Bills paid disability: Stricture of bowels CASE no. 48 by miners welfare fund. Health forced EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR PRIVATE age: 63 veteran to give up mining and now no treatment: None disability: Emphysema longer eligible for miners welfare bene- remarks: Could not pay private doctor EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR PRIVATE fits. Has wife and 2 children— supported who recommended VA hospital. Has TREATMENT: $50.00 by veteran's mother. service-conection for asthma evaluated remarks: Veteran was formerly a coal- case no. 54 at 60%. Only worked 6 weeks in two miner — unemployed for 6 years. Re- age: 24 years due to physical condition. ceived miners welfare until 1948 and disability: Fractured spine case no. 60 since that time has received miners pen- for private expenditure of funds age: 33 sion and Part III. Has to support blind treatment: $25.00 disability: Cardiovascular disease son and pay medical expenses for sick remarks: Korea veteran discharged expenditure of funds for private wife averaging about $35.00 a month. from service less than month when in- treatment: $65.00 Received small medical benefits from from private jured in accident. Moved remarks: Veteran was taken to private U.M.W. Union. hospital because of no funds. hospital. When private doctor learned case no. 49 case no. 55 veteran had no money, doctor imme- age: 64 age: 21 diately called VA and arranged for ad- disability: Cancer of prostate disability: Epilepsy, Grand Mai mission. Veteran is a plumber apprentice.

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 FUND RAISING: Legion Not in Scandal Time to SWITCH to Fund raising for veterans got a black eye in December. A N. Y. State investi- something BETTER? gating committee revealed that the Dis- abled American Veterans had raised more than $21 million from the public in 3 years in the name of disabled veterans, of which about $17 million went to pay for fund-raising and for general administrative expenses. Legionnaires are advised that gifts to the Legion Endowment Fund are not subject to either fund-raising or general Legion administrative charges. Income from the $7,147,493.12 Legion fund is spent only on (a) veterans rehabilitation and service, (b) child welfare, and (c) actual expenses of administering the fund itself. The Legion Endowment Fund Corporation officers serve without charge. Of $167,514.76 income from the fund in 1952, $4,288 met all fund administration costs—or $6 (out of income) for every $10,000 in the fund itself. 100% of gifts go into the capital of the fund. $5 million of the fund was raised in 1925 by public subscription. A little over $2 million has been added from Legion operating surpluses since, and from occasional gifts. Recently the Post Mortem Club of Washington, D. C, gave $100 in memory of the late Chief Jus- tice Fred M. Vinson. On that occasion, Past Nat'l Cmdr Harry W. Colmery (Kan.), fund corporation president, noted that further gifts to the fund could TF YOU'RE ready to switch to new FREE WHISKEY TASTE TEST KIT! be put to good use. 1 and better things — we'd like to Contains 2 glass jiggers, instructions The Legion Endowment Fund in- make this suggestion. and "Whiskey Expert" cards. Write come meets only a fraction of annual Calvert, Room 1321 AL, 405 Lexing- Test your present whiskey against national Legion Rehabilitation and tion Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. — whiskey that is made Calvert the where local regula- Child Welfare costs. Members' dues pay (Offer not good still and in a modern million-dollar tions forbid.) biggest part of yearly bill. Substantial blended to the taste of modern additions come from gifts of the Legion Americans. Auxiliary, the 40&8 and the 8&40. A of Calvert major source of Auxiliary funds is an- Sniff Ji-ounce samples nual poppy sales. The disabled vets who and your present brand for pleasing make the poppies get part of the pro- aroma. Taste each whiskey criti- ceeds. Poppy sellers are volunteers, and cally to judge flavor, smoothness— no part of poppy sale proceeds are and freedom from bite. Choose the charged to general administration costs. one that really pleases you more. The Legion, with the biggest veterans' See if it isn't time for you to service program in the country, has a switch to something better—a better national Rehabilitation budget for 1954 whiskey like Calvert! of $806,200. Members' 1954 dues will account for $700,000 of this item. Dues from prior years will add $1,200. En- dowment Fund earnings will account for $80,000, and a $25,000 gift from the Auxiliary will provide the balance. Compare,*, and you ll A 1954 national Child Welfare Budg- et of $148,000 will come from (a) En- downment Fund earnings, $80,000, (b) Auxiliary gift, $15,000, (c) 40 & 8 gift, switch to Calvert $50,000 and (d) 8 & 40 gift, $3,000. Departments, Districts and Posts will, SPIRITS. in total, spend more on these same pro CALVERT RESERVE BLENDED WHISKEY-86.8 PROOF-65% GRAIN NEUTRAL grams. CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP., NEW YORK CITY

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY. 1954 • 39 QB3EL him and/or the circumstances of his disap- jeep driver please write Roger Lambert, 5745 MISSING pearance please contact his parents, Mr. & Magnolia St. (North). St. Petersburg, Fla. Mrs. Shellie Peake, RFD 1, Ridgeway. S. C. Ulcer history dating back to service in Eng- land. IN KOREA Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Station Hos- Air pital—Need to locate Helen Maystrovich (2nd 13th Bomb Squadron— A/ 1c Jerome (Jerry) Karpo- Lt. Army Nurse Corps, 1945) to establish Army wicz bailed out of B-26 around Kaesong May claim. Anvone knowing her whereabouts write 17, 1953. Reported not to have been injured. John W. Davis. Hidden Acres. Dahlonega, Ga. t st Cpl. Walter V. Jensen missing Cavalry Div.— 168th Station Hospital, England— Anyone who re- knowing anything Missing from same flight and also not heard since Nov. 2, 1950. Anyone members Alfred Anthony Gemma with this please write his mother. Mrs. from is Lt. Clifford Sellman. Anyone having about him unit in early 1945 please contact him at 237 Miriam Jensen Kynell. Box 56-A, Homer, any information about Jerry Karpowicz please Ives Road. Warwick. R. I. Claim pending. Alaska. write Mr. & Mrs. Barney Karpowicz, Crivitz, Wis. I64lh Supply Co., Camp Green. N. C Aug.-Sept. 3rd Inf. Div., 7th Inf. Regt., Co. I -Pvt. William 91st strut. Recon. Sqdn.-S/Sgt. Clifford H. Mast 1917— Conrad J. Pederson was Wagon Master H. Johnson missing since December 3, 1950. missing over Sergeant during this period. In order to sub- Anyone knowing anything about his disap- North Korea July 4, 1952. Last seen preparing to bail out His stantiate a claim, affidavits are needed from pearance or his whereabouts please write his of airplane. father, A. Mast, P. O. Box 5051, Sta. C, persons who served with him. Write John E. parents, Shulie Johnson, R.R. 1, W. Mr. & Mrs. Aspholm. Service Officer. Veterans' Welfare Ind. Spokane 21, Wash., would like to hear from Otisco, anyone Commission, P. O. Box 848. Anaconda. Mont. Airborne Inf. Regt., Co. K, 2nd Platoon- who knew his son or who has any I87th 484th AAA Bn.— Legion Service Officer wishes to Cpl. Arthur Richard Musgrave reported miss- information about him. 5th Air Force, 8th Fighter 80th contact former Capt. Martin H. Carswell for Nov. 1950: last seen at Hajoyang-ni. Bomber Group, ing 29. information to assist a veteran. Last known Anyone having any information about him Fighter Bomber Sqdn.— 1st Lt. Jerry D. Binga- reported missing Jan. 1952 address: River Park Apartments, White Plains. please write his mother, Mrs. Mildred Mus- man 24, near Kunu- ri. Anyone knowing anything or N. Y. Write Ralph W. Hills. CSO. Box 306, grave, P. O. Box 2532, Tampa, Fla. about him the of his Georgetown. S. C. 7th Div., 32nd Inf. Regt., Co. C-Lt. Richard M. circumstances disappearance please write Base Area Command, Base F, Finschhafen, New missing 1953, on Old his parents. Mr. & Mrs. Douglas J. Price reported March 25, Guinea— Statements needed to establish claim. Baldy. news since then. Any information Bingaman, 6521 Julian Ave., St. Louis 14, Mo. No Need to hear from office staff of Base Area about him would be appreciated by his wife, Command; particularly recall Lt. Cosby, Mor- Price, Ave. No., Mrs. Richard M. 415 3rd rison. Tyson. Write Walter Kostolecki, 2219 Clinton. Iowa. Maynard Ave., Utica, N. Y. 7th Cav. Regt., Co. A-Pvt. Wayne K. Floto miss- COMRADES Ft. McClellan, Alabama, 1944-45— Anyone who ing since Oct. 12. 1951. Any information about remembers Frank Watson suffering a head in- him would appreciated by his parents, Mr. be jury while on a night patrol during basic train- & Mrs. Charles Floto, R.R. I, Mt. Morris. III. IN DISTRESS ing in early 1945 please write him at Cou- 7th Inf. Div., 17th Inf. Regt., Co. I-PFC Gerald shatta. La. Need help to establish claim, Whiterock reported missing July Benson 9, especially from Leroy W. Littlejohn or Frank 1953. having any information about Anyone Army Loory who were with him when he was hurt, Mrs. him please write his mother, Mamie or from Capt. Merriel who had charge of the Thomas, Owyhee, Nev. Camp Lee, Virginia (WWD—James Milton Wilcox was struck by lightning while at the rifle dispensary. A Sgt. Brown or other members 3rd Inf. Div., 3rd Med. Bn., Ambulance Co.— Sgt. range Aug. 31, 1918; he was subsequently of the 1932 G. S., Co. A, 3rd Platoon in Albert Mintz missing Nov. 27, 1950. Anyone hospitalized. who England may recall his being on the sick list having any information about him please write Anyone remembers this accident please write Wilcox at Saunderstown. there because of the same complaint. his mother, Mrs. Elina Mintz, Salisbury Road, R. I . Claim pending. Sheffield, Mass. 38th Div., 139th Field Artillery (WW D- Anyone 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Regt., Co. F-PFC Keith K. Navy who remembers Lawrence I. Baker being car- Clark reported missing Jan. 7, 1951 in vicinity ried from the barracks to the infirmary at of Wonju. Aug. 27, 1953. he was reported to U.S.S. Lakeside (WWD-Whilc on convoy dutv. Pleurmell, France, and his hospitalization at have died June I, 1951 at Camp No. 2. North Gunner's Mate 1st Class Robert D. Rhodes. Hospital 15 because Korea. Anyone who was with him when he Camp of head and eye received head injury as he was rescuing men trouble, please write him at General Delivery. died or who knew him in Korea please write from torpedoed oil ship. Those who served Brooksville, Fla. Claim pending. his mother, Mrs. Myrtle J. Clark, Angie, La. with him please write his widow, Mrs. Robert Motor Transport Co. 351, Fort Sill, Okla., 1919- 24th Div., I9lh Inf. Regt., Co. E, Motor Pool- D. Rhodes. R-l, Box 161. Sanford, Fla. Necd to contact anyone who remembers my Cpl. Eugene (Bud) Helms last seen July 20, Baren Field, Pensacola, Fla., 1943-44- Widow of cough and bronchitis after having scarlet fever. 1950, driving supply truck at the withdrawal veteran needs help. Anyone who knew Edward Especially need to hear from Lt. of Tajon. His parents, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Young, Sgt. Louis De Curtins, AOM 3/c, and/or who has Lloyd Buss, and Randolph Apperson, or from Helms, 46 N. State St.. Rittman, Ohio, would any information about the accident which be- anyone appreciate hearing from anyone who knows who can furnish the address of any or fell him, please contact Roy Keller, 1451 anything about him. all of these individuals. Write Lyman A. Car- Edward L. Grant Highway, Bronx 52, N. Y. penter, 1515 2nd Ave., So., Denison, Iowa. 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Regt., Co. K-PFC Joseph E. 1261st Engr. Combat Bn., Co. A, Co. B, Hq Miller missing Feb. 12, 1951, north of Wonju. & Service Co., Motor Pool— Doctors, nurses, and Air His father, R. C. Miller, Sr., Route 4, Box other servicemen who remember Major Ryan's 494, Kannapolis, N. C„ would appreciate re- 15th Air Force, 99tb Bomb Group, 348th Bomb ceiving anv information about him. Sqdn.-Need to contact S/Sgt. Louis P. ("The 34th Inf. Regt., Heavy Mortar Co.-Pvt. Walter E. Lug") Desaulnier, right waist gunner with Thomas missing July 20, 1950. Anyone know- THE AMERICAN LEGION whom I flew missions from Foggia. Italy, ing the circumstances of his disappearance or during 1944. Write Edward C. Gaumer, Box having any information about him please write NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 96, West Lafayette, Ohio. his mother, Mrs. Ardo Thomas, Bainbridge, NOVEMBER 30, 1953 926th Quartermaster Boat Co., Army Air Forces- N. Y. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Joseph 8th Cav. Regt., 3rd Bn., Co. M-PFC Joseph W. ASSETS Rapp, who was a T/Sgt. in the Canal Zone Mick missing Nov. 2, 1950, at Unsan. His Cash on hand and on deposit. . . .? 744,224.62 1943-45, please write John L. Galatas, Rte. 2. parents, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mick. Sr., 213 Receivables 397.141.13 Box 148. Slidell. La. Galatas suffered a fall Clark St., Tomah, Wis., would appreciate Inventories 386,060.05 while serving under Rapp (last known ad- hearing from anyone who knew him and/or Invested Funds 659.1 93.03 dress: 3157 Tilton St., Philadelphia, Pa.) and from anyone who knows what happened to Permanent Trusts; needs Rapp's testimony concerning this fall. him. Overseas Graves Decoration Claim pending. 57th Held Artillery Bn., Battery B-Cpl. Earnest Trust Fund .? 256,340.89 R. Robertson reported missing Dec. 6, 1950. Employees' Retirement Anyone knowing what happened to him please Trust Fund 1. 3(15, 593.94 1,621,934.83 write his mother. Mrs. Beulah H. Robertson. Real Estate Box 243, Narrows, Va. 973.972.65 OUTFIT Furniture, and Fixtures, 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Regt., 3rd Bn., Med. Hq. Co.- less depreciation 261,184.82 Cpl. Leslie J. Jones missing Nov. 30, 1950. Deferred near Kunu-ri. Anyone having any information Charges 61,427.68 REUNIONS about him please write his mother, Mrs. James $5,105,138.81 43rd Inf. Div. Veterans Assn.— 8th annual conven- A. Jones, R. D. 1, Waterville, N. Y. tion, Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 11-12; Went- 9th Inf. R.C.T., Co. K-Cpl. Oscar H. Hargrove LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE worth-by-the-Sea Hotel. For details write the captured Feb. 12. 1951. fellow prisoner Any Assn's Nat'l Hq, State Armory, Hartford. having any information about him please AND NET WORTH Conn write his mother, Mrs. Hyacinth Stevenson, Current Liabilities $ 324.369.45 78th Div. Assn.— Mid-winter reunion. North Ber- 4126 Tuscarora St., Baton Rouge, La. Funds restricted as to use 77,217.31 gen, N. J., Feb. 20; Schutzen Park. Info from 31st Inf. Regt., Co. M-Paul E. Latond missing Deferred Income 1,732.862.08 Seymour Cohen. 620 Hieh St.. Newark, N. J. since the withdrawal from North Korea, Nov.- Permanent Trusts: 308th Infantry Post. 77th Division-35th annual Dec. 1950. Anyone knowing anything about Overseas Graves Decoration reunion dinner. New York. N. Y., Feb. 13; him and/or the circumstances of his disap- Trust $ 256,340.89 Grand Street Boys Club. For info write Sal pearance please write his parents, Mr. &. Mrs. Employees' Retirement Dacci, 308th Inf. Post, 28 E. 39th St., New Louis I. Latond, 10 Burhans Ave., Warrens- Trust 1.376.989.44 1.633.330.33 York. N. Y. burg, N. Y. Net Worth: "The Fighting 60" (WWl)-36th annual reunion. Restricted Capital: Chicago, 111., Feb. 20: Sherman Hotel. Write K. N. Pollard, 2713 Sterick Bldg.. Memphis, Navy Reserve Fund . . 23,852.20 Restricted Fund 17.978.7:: Tenn. lighter Squadron 74— Ensign Ronald D. Eaton Reserve for construction 302nd Engineers (both WWs>— Annual reunion

reported missing June 25. 1952. southeast of Wash. Office. . 44.699.18 dinner. New York. N. Y„ Feb. 20: 77th Divi- Wonsan. Anyone having any information Real Estate 973,972.65 sion Club. Info from Louis E. Herborn. 302nd about him kindly write his parents, Mr. & Reserve for Rehabili- Engineers Post. The American Legion, 28 Mrs. Bernard H. N. Eaton, 80 Main Street, tation 317,941.07 East 39th St., New York 16. N. Y. Wilmington, Mass. Reserve for Child Persian Gulf Command Veterans Org.— 7th annual 1st Marine Division. 7th Marines, Co. H-PFC Welfare 20,627.54 convention. Puente. Calif., June 26-27; La Shellie Peake, Jr., last Pucnte Handball Club. Auxiliary "Gookettes" heard from Dec. 2, Unrestricted Capital: 1,399.071.47 1950, during lighting also invited. For reservations info write around Chosin Reservoir. Excess of Expense over and official Greek. 235 E. Caldwell. Calif. No record of his death or capture; Income 61.711.83 1.337,359.64 Bob Compton, he was not returned with the other POW's. 5th Air For e, 309th Bomb Wing-Chicago, III., Anyone, especially ex-POW's and those who $5,105,138.81 Feb. 20-21; Conuress Hotel. Write Jim Hor- served with him, who knows anything about kan, 100 Seward. B-3, Detroit 2, Mich.

4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 A WAHINE FOR THE CAPTAIN (Continued from page 13)

The old man had said he wanted one for his bunk. The elevator girl was of some help.

When I asked her if they had "wahines" on the third floor, she exhibited two or three gold teeth in a nice smile and said, "Yes." There was only one other passenger in the elevator and he was a sleepy old man of indefinite origin. I decided against asking him anything. Cruise vast lakes and inland waterways, Swim, sail, camp, play in nature's most trace sunny sea coasts, explore modern spectacular settings, meet new friends at We stopped and gold teeth said, "Third, cities, historic sites. carefree resorts. please." I got out.

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Stopping and lighting a cigarette, 1 let my eyes rove over the stacks of mer- Here's a "foreign" holiday that's refreshingly new, chandise before me. Before I had spied conveniently near. Here you'll make the most of your a the object of my shopping, a voice from vacation time and dollars, choosing from Canada's inviting two points abaft my starboard shoulder j^, said, "May I help you, sir?" variety the sights, the sports, the relaxation you prefer. I turned around. No passports, no elaborate preparations needed — just She wasn't particularly bad looking— take off for Canada's friendly spaces! See your travel or late twenties, maybe—but too hefty for WHl me. She did have a nice smile, though. - An insistent one that just stayed there — _ r: ::: and smiled some more at you. Cow-like. r: 01-3-05-54-01 ___J§ I "1 "Why, yes," I said. think you can CANADIAN GOVERNMENT TRAVEL BUREAU, OTTAWA. CANADA

show me what I'm looking for. I want f!f| Please send your 48-page, full-colour book on vacation i attractions in all a wahine . . . preferably light brown parts of Canada Tell travel . . . something nice for around ten me where 16 mm sound 61ms on Canadian subjects are available in the U.S. A dollars." Check V as required "Ooh," she said, and the smile

seemed a little uncertain, but remained. I Name ?" *'®™5SflSfc "What did you say, sir. What . . . PLEASE PRINT finally she got out. lililress | "A wa-he-knee." I pronounced it slowly and positively. limn Stair

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I stood looking at her for several sec- hind my head. biggest office on the fourth floor. The

onds. This grinning, giggling creature I told him. I told him I wanted a sign read: "Air. Malcolm Ferguson, w as some saleslady! It was none of wahine; a nice light brown one; one Manager." her blankety-blank business what I that cost no more than ten bucks; one Outside the heavy oak door sat a desk

wanted the wahine for, but telling her that my captain would like on his bunk. with a good-looking female behind it.

seemed the easiest way out. I told him more. I told him I had al- She was something special. Black hair, "For my captain's bunk, if you must ready asked two salesladies to show gray eyes, and a white off-the-shoulder know. Now, how about showing me me something; that neither had; that I peasant blouse. That was all I could something." was getting impatient and the captain see, but enough to be able to evaluate This time she added "Lieutenant" was probably getting impatient, too, the rest. Yummy! alter the "Ooh" and her smile almost sitting there waiting for his wahine. After adjusting his tie, Crimmins

disappeared. Before I could explain Mr. Crimmins's face took on a famil- spoke to the girl at the desk. about how the old man's cabin looked iar reddish color. His lip quivered. He "We would like to see Mr. Ferguson, 4.0 except for a w ahine on the bunk, bit on it and glowered at me. He didn't please. A personnel complaint by this and why he wanted a light brown one like me. His expression said, "I smell naval officer." to go with the two shades of green paint something bad" and he was staring She looked at me for a moment with in his cabin—she was gone! straight at me. He inhaled deeply and real interest. Then she flicked a switch But not for long. Back she trotted his words were no longer cool and and told Mr. Ferguson that Crimmins with a graying, dignified lady in tow; quick. He spat venom. Slowly, and and a naval lieutenant were desirous of the type that has "career woman" writ- straight ahead. seeing him.

ten all over her. "Lieutenant, I guess you think you're "Send them in," he boomed. "May I help your" Softly and profes- cute. Very, very cute." He emphasized Crimmins timidly knocked on the sionally put. that. "Well, the game's over! You've large door and sidled in. I followed, but

I repeated word for word what I had had your little joke, crude as it is. with more assurance. Mr. Ferguson told number one. Slowly, so that each You've insulted Miss Otis and Miss didn't scare me. I was a customer, not word was spread out before her. Summers. You've taken my time. an employee. She let me finish. Just barely. You've ... I suggest you get out of "Good afternoon, gentlemen." The "I'm sorry, Lieutenant. I'll have to here and take your juvenile games else- voice boomed again, even in a thickly summon Mr. Crimmins." She turned where." carpeted, all-paneled room. Mr. Fergu- and stamped off with furious strides. Just in time I got my temper under son wasn't a big man; he was short and This was getting to be a routine. Tell control. A warning buzzer sounded in knobby, but his voice was big. He rose

'em what you want and watch 'em re- my skull. Hold it, Hotshot! You're in from his desk and moved out into the treat! Nuts. the Navy now. Naval officers don't slug room to meet us, extending his hand Mr. Crimmins came striding into people. Remember? to me. view, resplendent in attire and, at once, 1 looked at the fancy bird in front "Ferguson's my name, sir." repulsive. Something about him — his of me and made up my mind. "I'm Lieutenant Douglas, Mr. Fergu- silly-looking mustache or the high gloss "Take me to the manager, Crimmins. son. Glad to know you." of his nails—riled my blood. He looked I have a complaint to make, and he's He nodded at my antagonist and said, like a pompous, overdressed sissy to me. the one to hear it. Either that or I let "Good afternoon, Crimmins. Now, /'// bet he wears ... I thought to my- the air out of your tires right now and gentlemen, what can I do for you?" self. right here." "Air. Ferguson," I said, "I'm disgusted. I came to this store to buy something. All I've gotten so far is the silent treatment by two salesladies and a lot of guff from this character here. He even told me to leave the store and go elsewhere. I'm going to do just that! But, before I do, I want the top brass around here to know what a discourteous, pompous pipsqueak they've got down there on the third floor." Crimmins was livid. Air. Ferguson saw his color and, as a cover-up for his embarrassment, asked me to sit down in a large leather chair near the window. "Now, then, Crimmins. What's this all about?" he said after a decent inter- val.

"I . . . this officer was downright in- sulting to both Miss Otis and Miss Sum- mers. He told them he wanted 'a ten- dollar wahine,' and to show him what we had. Miss Summers finally came to me.

I thought she must have misunderstood him. But no! He even had the gall to say the same thing to me. Said he "Oil, no! Here comes another 'First Haircut'!" wanted one for 'his captain's bunk." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Now, Air. Ferguson, I don't tolerate that

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 ." kind of talk ... I don't condone . . He stopped, and that lip w as quivering again. Mr. Ferguson laughed. His laugh was

as loud as his booming voice. I liked that laugh. I liked Mr. Ferguson and his red face and the shock of gray hair that hung down over his forehead. It reminded me of my grandfather. "Crimmins," he said, when his guffaw had finally ended, "you can go now. I

think the Lieutenant and I can take it from here." Crimmins drew himself up—vindica- tion personified — and gave me a tri- umphant smile as he slithered his way to the big door. Once it was closed, Mr. Ferguson looked at me and started chuckling again. This humor, at my expense, was getting a little thick! He finally wiped the edges of his lips with a handkerchief

and looked at me. "You know, laddie, 1 don't blame Crimmins one bit. After all, he was being complimentary in a way." He paused and smiled at me. "At least, laddie, he gave you credit for some intelligence."

That did it! "Now look, Mr. Ferguson. I don't understand this tommyrot. What do ?" you mean . . . "Simply this, son. Crimmins thought you were playing games—being crude and vulgar—when, as a matter of fact, you were just being . . . ignorant. You don't even know what 'wahine' means! Now, do you?" He looked at me and though my mouth must have been open, Miles Apart nothing came forth. Inner doubts were stirring deep inside me.

"Well ..." I said. "Well, what?" yet Heart-to -Heart "Nothing. I guess, to tell the truth, I

don't know! I thought it meant some fancy type of bedspread. Now I don't know what it means." Mr. Ferguson was chewing on the stem of a gnarled pipe and smiling at me with kindly eyes. "Lieutenant, someone has played a bit of a joke on you. Aye, a good one! You When you're far away from 40^; Chicago to Omaha for only see, laddie, 'wahine' is the Hawaiian someone, there's nothing like a 85^; New York to Los Angeles for word for 'woman'." telephone call to bring you near. only $2. (These are the 3-minute, I jumped to my feet and banged a The sound of a warm, familiar station-to-station rates and do not fist into the palm of my other hand. voice and the eager exchange of include federal excise tax.) "Well, I'll be go-to-hell ... to think personal news is almost as satis- the skipper promoted me into a situa- Somewhere today there is fying as an actual visit. tion like this! What a sucker I am. I'll someone who would like to hear or far, they bet the whole wardroom is sitting there Near wherever your voice.

laughing at me this minute." I hit the are, friends appreciate your call-

." SAVE TIME . CALL BY NUMBER palm again harder. "I ought to . . ing. Long Distance calls cost

"That's just it, laddie," he interrupted. little—especially after six every When you're calling out-of-town,

"What's 'just it'?" I asked. evening and all day Sunday. it's a good idea to give the operator "You ought to do something about Then you can talk from Cleve- the number. Helps to speed your

it!" The voice boomed again, and this land to Detroit for as little as call. It's easier, too. time full of enthusiasm.

"But what can I do, Mr. Ferguson? The whole thing looks one-sided to me. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM

I'm the patsy. The joke's on me. I got

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY. 1954 mouse-trapped into this thing and the "That's a wonderful idea, Mr. Fer- lit a cigarette and sat down in my chair.

old man has won." guson. Splendid. But I'm afraid I She perched herself on the edge of his

"Well, now. That's fine talk coming couldn't . . . after all, a naval officer desk as he paced up and down talking.

from a lad bearing the name of Douglas. just doesn't go down on the streets I noticed the graceful curve of her leg

I ." figured you for stronger stuff. Haven't and . . as it dangled back and forth. The white you the Scottish blood of your name, "But you don't have to. That's the peasant blouse I had admired before lad?" beauty of it," he interrupted. "I have was tucked into a wine-colored linen

"I've that, Mr. Ferguson. You're an excellent candidate in mind. I feel skirt. She wore no stockings and her darned right I've got Scottish blood and certain that we can prevail upon her legs were as brown as her shoulders. I'm proud of it." to play the part. Though she's an White spectator shoes completed that "The time has come to put it to use, American girl she is sunburned enough portion. A charm bracelet on her left laddie. We'll exercise our hereditary to qualify as 'light brown', and she's arm complemented the rest. stubbornness and see if your esteemed certainly most attractive. Left college There was no doubt in my mind on captain can outwit two Scotsmen." This and came out from the mainland to live one score. Either by the grace of pure time when he laughed I joined in. with us two years ago when my brother luck, divine providence, or the "cute" "So far it looks like he's got me, Mr. died. But, then, you must have seen her sense of humor of one Captain "Tiny"

Ferguson. How do I get back in the when you came in! She is temporarily Robeson I had just met one of the best- ball game? I want to get even with that rilling in as my secretary." He pushed looking females in Honolulu. guy! But good." on the buzzer with vigor. I tuned in to the final part of Mr. " 'Even', nothing. Let's put the mon- Presently the door opened and the Ferguson's oration. key on his back completely, lad! You've pretty girl at the receptionist's desk "So, my dear, what do you say? Will got a wonderful opportunity." He moved in, pad and pencils ready. you be our 'wahine' for the next hour roared. "Wonderful opportunity. A "No letter, my dear. Something bet- or so?" perfect setup." ter. Gloria, 1 want you to meet a new- "Of course I will. You knew that

"But, how?" It might have sounded friend of mine, a lad in distress. May I before you called me in, didn't you?" like ." anguish, but by now I wanted to present Lieutenant Douglas . . She eased herself off the edge of the know. "Larry," I injected. desk and turned to me. "Carry out give so?" your orders, laddie. Your "Lieutenant Larry Douglas . . . my "Will you me a moment or ioke-playing captain asked you to bring niece, Gloria Ferguson." she asked. him back a light brown wahine. Well Her smile, though obviously one of "Of course." I walked to the door

. . . do it! Do it, lad!" curiosity, was impish enough to settle with her and opened it. She touched The old Scotsman was bouncing up all doubts in my mind as to her attrac- my hand on the doorknob as she passed. and down. His pipe trembled as he tiveness. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy! "Be right back," she called, and was filled it from the top of a jar of rough While Mr. Ferguson filled her in on gone. During the five minutes she was gone, cut tobacco. He was more excited than I. the details of what had gone before, I Mr. Ferguson and I went into our final plans. All the alternatives and likely

Oft 0tvnets-%?emerti6e/:. . 1 situations were gone into. I was warm- ing to the task as I had never warmed

to one before. Not only did I have my own face to save; if I failed now I would be letting down a new and real friend. That w ouldn't do! The ride in the taxi betw een Hono- lulu and the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard

was more interesting than it had been SAVE I GALLON OF GAS before. After a few blocks it was "Gloria" and "Larry." Halfway there

we were conversing and laughing as if we had known each other all our lives. She was not only beautiful, but fun to IN EVERY 10 HHP be with. At the Navy Yard gate a Marine sen- 7^// Just add a pint of Wynn's to your try stopped us. My ID card and uni- crankcase every 1000 miles. Result—better than form were sufficient for me, but he was a free mile of driving in every 10. (Actual driv- profoundly interested in where Miss ing tests covering over 200,000 miles show an Ferguson was going and why. I ex- average miles-per-gallon increase of 11.6% plained that after adding Wynn's.) she was the guest of the Commanding Officer of the Barkhurst,

My Wynn's Friction-Proojs your and that I had been sent to escort her engine— it doesn't change your oil. It's an amaz- to the ship. With assurances that I I WYNN'S FRICTION-PROOFING ing chemical compound that is carried by your would be responsible for her, were motor oil to friction points, actually penetrat- we 1. Increases Engine Life ing and smoothing the microscopic sawteeth saluted through. that cause wear, reduce power and mileage. 2. Cuts Start-Up Wear As the cab rolled toward the pier P. S. For complete Friction-Proofing (besides where the Barkhurst was moored, adding Wynn's to crankcase every 1000 miles) 3. Costs less than a hair-cut Gloria reached into her bag and brought add a can of Wynn's Ring & Valve Additive to out a large filmy scarf with a Hawaiian your gas tank regularly . . . tell your serviceman to put Wynn's Bearing & Gear Additive in *The name jor Wynn's exclusive motif. transmission and differential every 5000 miles. power-adding maintenance junction. "The cheapest we sell," she said, ty- Dealers At Service Stations, Garages. New Car ing it around her head. Next, she took WYNN OIL COMPANY • AZUSA, CALIFORNIA out a lipstick and 44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 drew large, exaggerated lips. Then she Advertisement added unnecessary rouge to her cheeks. "Like me?" she asked.

"Ugh," I answered in mock disgust. "Just wait." She quickly pulled a pair of hose From where I sit from her purse and slipped them on her bare calves, rolling them to a point about one inch below the hem of her Joe Marsh skirt. 6y Finally, she dabbed gobs of mascara on her eyebrows and eyelids.

"Horrors!" I winced aloud. "If I'm going to play the part, I'm going to look the part!" She was having fun.

"Better hurry," I said. "Almost there." She popped two sticks of gum into her mouth, chewed vigorously for a A Case of moment, then swished her hips sitting down.

"How'm I doing . . . big boy?" she "Moostaken" Identity asked in that famous drawl.

Before I could answer that, the cab had slipped to a halt by the quarterdeck brow. Curious eyes peered at its Slim Smith never had a chance to occupants from the quarterdeck area. use his moose call until a trip north "Here we go," I said under my this year. Visited him yesterday to see breath. "See you in a few minutes." "Luck," she whispered. what he'd bagged.

I walked up the brow, saluted the "7 colors aft, and met the inquisitive smirk "First day out," he told me,

of one Lt(jg) Presgrove, as I threw picked up a sure trail. I sounded the him a lukewarm salute. "Keep your eye on that cab for me, call and waited. Then I heard a moose huh, Pete?" call. Sure enough, something came "Okay, Larry. What's up?" "Nothing. Where's the old man?" crashing through the brush. But it "His cabin, I reckon. Or maybe the was another guy with his moose call. wardroom. He's aboard." get the trig- "Thanks." I walked up the starboard Boy, did I my finger off side. ger in a hurry! From the strong smell of cigar smoke in the vicinity, I knew he was in his "My last day there I picked up an- cabin. I knocked. other trail. This time I got me a real "Come in. Come in."

I mustered all the composure I had moose. But you can bet I took a real in stowage and walked in. good look before I started to do any

"Well . . . Larry! Come in . . . sit shooting!" down. How was Honolulu? Tell me about things ..." He was trying hard From where I sit, we could all learn to keep a grin off his big, fat face but it was starting to form around the edges. a little from Slim's experience. Most "Your wahine. Captain. Remember?" of us are guilty sometime or other of "What? Oh, yes . . . mmm . . . well,

now. Actually, Larry, 1 think we can being too quick on the trigger. Like ." just let that . . the fellow who would deny me the "But, I have one for you. A light brown one. She's waiting for you in a right to an occasional glass of beer

taxi out by the quarterdeck." I blurted with my dinner. I say that kind of it out as smoothly as I could, and w atched nature take its course. "aim" is way off! The heavy legs that had been crooked across the edge of his desk hit the deck with a thud. The cigar he dropped lolled down the front of his shirt and fell between his feet.

By the time he had flicked all the ashes from his tie and shirt front—with exaggerated motions—and retrieved his cigar, he was ready for me. Copyright, 1953, United States Brewers Foundation THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 45 — "

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When substitute materials are found, Turbocar engines are smaller, lighter they must not only be cheap, but must than piston engines, have far fewer lend themselves to mass production. moving parts. The car buyer need pur- Last Week HHS- Seventh, today's gas turbines have a chase no radiator, radiator fan, water shorter life than piston engines. Gas jacket or water pump. Carburetion is I Mode turbines are ready for the shop after simpler. Only one spark plug, or equiv- 1,000 hours. This follows naturally alent, is essential. There is no timing when speeds, pressures and tempera- system. Cruder fuels can be used. The $25922 Ray Barta tures to which parts are exposed are gas turbine lends itself to much simpler with Science's New Midget Miracle, vastly increased. Corrosion and erosion gear arrangements than modern autos PRESTO Fire Extinguisher are stepped up as the combustion prod- have. So reported RAY BARTA of Wisconsin. Many others "cleaning up" - so can YOU! ucts impinge on nearly all the vital in- As a saver of auto space and weight, AMAZING new kind of fire extin- ternal parts. fields for guisher. Tiny "Presto" does job Temperatures in piston the gas turbine opens new of bulky extinguishers that cost 4 engines are the times as much, are 8 times as heavy. equal to any envisioned for body and chassis design. Probably Ends fires fast as 2 seconds. Fits in gas turbines today, but in the turbines most fundamental advantage is one that palm of hand. Never corrodes. Guar- anteed tor 20 years! Sells for only the intense heat is constant while it oc- is based on a reasonable faith in the $3.98! Show it to civil defense workers, owners of homes, cars, boats, curs only in flashes in piston engines. future, which Kucher has in unlimited farms, etc. and to stores for re-sale — make good income, H. J. Kerr re- Eighth, new forms of controls must quantities. The gas turbine engine is ports $20 a dav. C. Kama, $1,000 a month. Write lor FREE Sales Kit. No be worked out for the gas turbine auto. an infant. As an infant, it stands where obligation. MERLITE INDUSTRIES, Dept. 292. 114 East 32nd Street, It has "runaway" characteristics calling the piston engine stood 25 and more Science's New York 16. N. Y. IN CANADA: Mopa New Midget Co., Ltd., 371 Dowil St., Montreal 1. P.Q. 1 If you want a regular Presto to for instantaneous controls. Electronic years ago, yet is ready in most respects Miracle "PRESTO" use as a demonstrator, send Money back If you wish.) controls are called for, it appears. A (except cost) to take up soon where flame-out might require automatic de- the piston engine leaves off, with po- DoYou Make These tection and correction in less than a tentialities for future development not hundredth of a second, for reasonable now possessed by the piston engine. Mistakes in English? safety. But first the problems we have listed It is obvious that ( 1 ) the possibility must be solved. MANY PERSONS say "between you and are I" instead of "between you and me" -j/ of solving these problems and (2) the The Ford labs, and many others, use for "whom." or "who" Every time I advantages that will follow give a prom- working in an exciting direction to find you speak or write you show what yon W are. Mistakes in English reveal lack of 'sp** ising picture. cheap materials that will stand the gaff education, refinement. Real command of \/h English will help you reach any goal._j0xL General Motors, Ford and Chrysler of the turbine. They are exploring the Only 15 minutes a day with Sherwinl invention — are not likely to be spending various use of of the commonest stuff on Cody's famous and you can j some actually SEE your English improve. It sherK|n Cody large turbocar earth's surface which to teaches by HABIT— makes it easier to do amounts on research the with make the RIGHT way. Wonderful self-correcting lessons. without reasonable hope of a long- engine parts—ceramics, the silicon sub- FREE BOOK. Lac k of language power may he costing vou very year. See what Mr. Cody's range return. in various in dirt, method can do lor you: it nothlni The advantages of the stances found forms Write now for free book, ' 'How You Can Master Gt English in 15 Minutes a D. y." Sherwin Cody Course turbocar are know n, and none of the rock, and clay that we make cups and English, 1032 Central Dr., Port Washington. N. Y. solutions seems to be out of reach of saucers out of. patient, imaginative work. Ceramics are cheap and laugh at tem-

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WHICH CONSTITUTION DO WE WANT? (Continued from l>age 17

most power over our internal affairs if guage that: "No person . . . shall be . . . State Department, now shared even by those affairs could be controlled and deprived of . . . property without due many people who are not familiar with altered by making agreements with for- process of law." Though the three Jus- the law but have nevertheless sensed eign countries with diminishing re- tices were a minority and the steel mills and resented the increased power and straint. were handed back to their owners by a pow er-seeking of this Executive branch

In 1923, President Coolidge and the majority of the Court, it is significant over our internal affairs. Senate gave more encouragement to that the President had not made a strong It would take notice of the encom- this school of thought when they en- point of his right to seize the steel mills passing nature of developing world tered into a secret treaty w ith England under treaty powers. Despite that fact, forces not dreamed of when the Found- that overrode parts of the 18th (Pro- the three Justices in the minority opin- ing Fathers wrote our Constitution. hibition) Amendment to the Constitu- ion went out of their way to stress the Such an Amendment might well serve tion then in force. argument that the UN Charter should to check the growing resentment to- The scheme of abusing the treaty override the Fifth Amendment. ward the United Nations in our coun- power to control our internal affairs has try. Much of this resentment stems from V-MORE LAW NEEDED only come to popular attention in re- our weak defenses, under our own law, The matters considered above par- cent years, but it was developing in the against the less desirable features of the tially explain the present movement to twenties. The late Chief Justice Charles UN. Evans Hughes wrote, 25 years ago, that One of the great dangers to the UN's there are no limits to the treaty power. survival is that, today, the American

"Now," he added (1929), "there is a people are widely offered a choice be- new line of activity which has not been tween their Constitution and the United very noticeable in this country, but may Nations — a choice that was not implied be in the future, and this may give rise w hen they so willingly accepted the to new questions as to the extent of the UN in 1945, but is now — in the middle treaty power." Those new questions of the game. have now risen. The American people cannot accept

In a climax of unrestraint, the Depart- the thesis that it is our Constitution ment of State of the United States is- which blocks world peace through the sued a pamphlet in September, 1950, UN, and which must be sacrificed to with a foreword by the President, that that cause. Unquestionably, if com- opened with the statement: "There is pelled to choose, they must choose their no longer any real distinction between own Constitution and reject the UN. ." 'domestic' and 'foreign' affairs . . The But if our Constitution is amended to

7 President and the State Department thus protect it from mischief by treaty , then answered — for the Executive branch of it is quite possible that we could safely the government — the historically unan- enjoy the benefits of both the Constitu- swered question as to what is the proper tion and the United Nations. subject for a treaty — and the answer This leads to the second broad area was "anything." of affairs that has caused the widespread "Help! ! ! They're gonna boil me alive!" movement to amend the treaty making IV-NO BRAKES AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE provisions of our Constitution. With the spectacle of a President and his State Department pursuing the thesis put clear language into the Constitution VI -INVOLVEMENT that our domestic and our foreign af- to limit the treaty powers. Because treaties that we ratify become fairs are now one and the same, the Nobody wishes to itemize for all time the supreme law of our land, our par- Constitution and the people would have the exact affairs that should, and should ticipation in the United Nations, and to look to the Supreme Court to pro- not, be subject to treaty. So the basic our ratification of its Charter as a treaty, tect our internal affairs from unre- Amendment to our Constitution that is and our consideration of many of the strained regulation by treaty. desired is one to make provisions of a agreements coming out of it as proposed

The Supreme Court has never an- treaty inoperable if they conflict w ith treaties all have a markedly different swered the question as to what is the our Constitution, and thus end all ques- effect upon us than upon most of the proper subject for a treaty, and in 165 tion on that score. other members of the United Nations. years has never gone beyond saying that Such an Amendment would replace, In nearly 7 all other nations treaties go there must be some limits somewhere. by law, the restraints that have been through the usual legislative process be- The Court actually has no clear guid- abandoned by men. fore having internal effect. This differ- ance to answer the critical question as It would preserve our Bill of Rights ence and defect is due to the nature of to whether a treaty can completely un- from all danger of infringement by our own treatymaking law, and not to dermine the express language in the treaty. the United Nations. Constitution. In 1952 it was within two It would preserve the essential nature Though few of us gave it a thought justices of saying that one could. Then, of our Government as one of three or inquired into its meaning at the time three Supreme Court Justices, including balanced pow ers. (except for the American Bar Associa- the late Chief Justice Vinson, cited our It would check the tendency of the tion and two of our Senators) the UN agreements with the United Nations as Executive to write internal legislation Charter became the supreme law of the factors that would permit President by agreement with other countries, United States when we ratified it. Truman to seize the steel mills by presi- usurping by pretext the powers of the Proposals coming to us from the dential order without due process of legislature and threatening the integrity United Nations also come as treaties. law. of the Constitution. They have the unusual and heretofore The Fifth Amendment in the Bill of It would probably check the growing unexpected effect of being proposed Rights provides in unmistakable lan- resentment in our country toward the legislation for us, which can be passed

52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY. 1954 by the President and two-thirds of those present in the Senate. Thus we now have bodies made up of delegates from many nations writing 5-R00M HOUSE legislation for us, which need not com- ply with the Constitution nor be considered by the House of Representatives nor by a quorum of the Senate in order to become the law of our land. This is an entirely different legislative process FREIGHT PAID than is provided for in the Constitution. Slightly Higher West of Missouri River Our own representatives in the many UN treaty-writing bodies are in a mi- YOU CAN BUILD THIS ALADDIN READI-CUT nority. And they are not elected legislators but are appointees of the Execu- HOUSE YOURSELF. . . and Save Hundreds of Dollars! tive branch of our government. Imagine receiving A COMPLETE HOUSE IN ONE SHIPMENT—ready to erect! You In many instances our appointees in get everything needed. The lumber is the finest—every piece THOROUGHLY DRY. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 53 move to make treaties conform to the regard to or study of the Constitutional altered them in accordance with the Constitution also applies to all manner implications. The Senate has more than political considerations of the partici- of international agreements. once been pressed to ratify a treaty that pating states. By their sheer numbers, and their cuts across the Constitution in order "to The danger of this practice was well remote origins, many of the interna- show our faith in international coopera- expressed by Justice Jackson of our tional agreements coming out of the tion." Supreme Court in 1943 when he said: UN are today too much for the Senate, "The Bill of Rights was to withdraw VII — HUMAN RIGHTS if it must guard our basic rights in de- certain subjects (basic human liberties) There is a major conflict between ciding on all of them. Such agreements from the vicissitudes of political contro- what the United Nations is attempting are often prepared out of the sight of versy, to place them beyond the reach to do in the field of human rights, and people in our country whose legitimate of majorities and officials. . . . One's our own Bill of Rights. The conflict is interests are involved. right to life, liberty, and property, to so profound that the UN activity rep- Says Mr. Charles S. Rhyne, speaking free speech and free press, freedom of resents a positive danger to human lib- for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: worship and assembly, and other funda- erty, rather than an assist. And so long mental rights may not be submitted to "It has been estimated that there as our signature to the UN document ." are some 200 affecting vote . . treaties U.S. on human liberty would make the doc- businessmen in one w ay or another In short, human liberties reside in the ument our law, our own Bill of Rights - now either proposed or under active individual. But the UN has placed them is placed in jeopardy by our participa- consideration by the UN and its squarely within "the vicissitudes of tion in the UN efforts to define human specialized agencies. . . . Last year political controversy" and has been the US. was represented at more liberties. "submitting them to vote" in its own than 3,000 international conferences, Meanwhile, we have seen our own councils since 1946, with the hope of committee meetings and discussions representatives misrepresent the UN submitting them to vote of the nations . . . held all over the world under human rights activity to us, and defend at a later date. circumstances and arrangements the proposed UN document without The results of this practice bear out which are not too well known. . . . warning us of its vast inferiority to our Creation of an effective watchdog our worst fears. The present draft of the own Bill of Rights. We have sometimes in this field is an almost impossible Covenant of Human Rights would vest received better warning from officials in task. . . . Many of these conventions control over human liberties in the state. (international agreements) will be other lands than from our own repre- Political scientist Felix Morley has sentatives and national officials. sprung full-blown upon us . . . with- drawn a striking, article-by-article out an opportunity to oppose, in the Our Bill of Rights was written by parallel between certain segments of the drafting stage, any provisions believed men who did not sit down to grant Covenant and the Soviet Constitution. to be injurious or destructive . . . liberties to humanity. Liberties were not Article 7 of the Covenant says that reached a point . . . "We have theirs to grant. They sat down to pro- where the great increase in inter- no one shall be required to perform hibit the state from taking liberties with national treaties and the broad scope forced or compulsory labor. It goes on and from the people — to place human proposed for them makes it wise to to say that the term "forced or com- rights outside of the political arena. pause and consider whether our pulsory labor" shall not include "any treaty-making machinery is adequate The UN Commission on Human work or service which forms part of to cope with the problems created Rights has pursued an opposite course. normal civic obligations." Thus, as in by this accelerated type of legisla- Since 1946, its basic assumption has been ." Russia, the state need only determine tion. . . that it, and through it the heads of the what services are "normal" and "civic" Meanwhile, there is a great deal of states, have the power to grant liberties. and then, under the Covenant of Hu- carelessness in putting pressures on the The Commission has debated which man Rights, it may resort to compulsory Senate to ratify this ascending spate of rights people should have, voted on labor to see them carried out. treaties. Emotional lobbies and propa- human rights, defined them, redefined In another section, the Covenant says ganda campaigns apply heat without them, expanded them, limited them, and that people shall not be subject to medical experimentation against their wills.

But it doesn't stop there. People shall not be subject to involuntary medical experimentation involving risk, or un-

less it is necessary for their health. Thus, a person can be experimented on medi- cally against his will if a determination

is made that no risk is involved, or if in some official opinion the experiment is necessary for his health.

It is the pattern of the Covenant to guarantee human rights only to follow them with exceptions which may be taken when officials judge that exceptions are warranted. The exceptions for withholding human rights include just about every pretext that any dictator has ever used for denying freedom to mankind. Under the Covenant, basic rights may be denied for reasons of public health, public morals, public safety and "special circumstances." Secret trials of persons charged with crimes are forbidden, says the Covenant. To this, the Constitution of the United

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States says: "Amen." But the Covenant defeated, or never fought for a true bill our own officials to protect our basic of Human Rights doesn't say: "Amen." of rights. As an example, they had the liberties. It says: "However." U.S. Bill of Rights, recognized as the When Dr. Malik was head of the However, it says, "the press and the foremost document of its kind in the Commission on Human Rights, the head puhlic may be excluded from all or world, whose protection has been of the United States delegation was part of a trial for reasons of morals, sought by oppressed people all over the Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. In the spring public order, national security, when globe for nearly two centuries. of 1952, at about the time that Dr. Malik the interest of the private lives of the But the Western delegates were en- issued his warning about the work of parties requires, or to the extent strictly tirely on the defensive and were able to the Commission on Human Rights, Mrs. necessary in the opinion of the court in achieve nothing of merit. Roosevelt issued her own report on the special circumstances where publicity There is not one word in the Cove- Covenant of Human Rights as it then would prejudice the interests of justice." nant of Human Rights that separates stood. In short, a public trial is guaranteed basic human liberties from the control Mrs. Roosevelt reported that the all persons charged with crimes unless of the state. Covenant does not "contain any provi- the court or the state (or perhaps one As an international debate, the work sions which depart from the American of the parties to the trial) decides other- of the Commission on Human Rights way of life in the direction of commu- wise. could be a healthy procedure. By a nism, socialism, syndicalism, or statism. Dr. Charles Malik of Lebanon (not process of debate the nations, in discuss- When any such provisions have been to be confused with Jacob Aialik of ing human rights, might eventually hit proposed, the United States has opposed Russia) wrote, in 1952, a pessimistic upon the proper formula. The impact them; every proposal of the Soviet view of the proceedings of the Commis- of the debate in the Commission might Union and its satellites to write statism sion on Human Rights — over which he send some delegates home with better into the Covenant has been defeated . . . presided as chairman. Dr. Malik report- ideas on human liberties than exist in the U.S. delegation has been guided by ed that the whole work of the Commis- their own countries — and this is one of our Constitution and by existing statutes sion had shifted away from assuring the values of the United Nations. and policies approved by the legislative human dignity and was placing its main But the United States must be pro- and executive branches of the Federal emphasis on Marxist materialism. This tected from adopting these inferior Government." was due, in part, he added, to the "amaz- ideas as its law. We must be protected And on June 7, 1952, the U.S. State ing persistence of the Soviet representa- either through a law of our own, or Department issued a bulletin on the tives in harming on their views," and to through firm reliance on our own rep- Covenant, defending the Covenant and the "apparent unimaginative helplessness resentatives and officials. quoting Mrs. Roosevelt's assurances as of the Western World" in the face of Part of the question today is whether its assurances. the Marxist pressure. we need this defense by law, or if we The State Department bulletin listed The Western delegates were either can, under any Administration, rely on the "rights" offered by the Covenant

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 55 but gave no warning of the exceptions the rights set forth in the Covenant to Murphy was National Commander of The Legion in 1935-36. native of that destroy the rights and are con- the extent such measures have not al- American A Iowa, he is at present General Counsel of trary to every single tradition of human ready been enacted. Such . . . measures the Association of Casualty and Surety liberty in America, Mrs. Roosevelt's as are enacted would, of course, be Companies, in New York City. He is chair- opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. enforceable in the courts of the United man of the Legion's special study commit- The bulletin offered no positive reasons States." tee on the Covenant of Human Rights, for adopting the Covenant, mentioned VIII which is also the Legion's liaison committee part of it that value to the Association's Stand- no would be of These are some of the reasons — all with American Bar ing Committee on Peace and Law Through the United States, did not say why a involving threats to our Constitution — the United Nations. The report of that matter of this kind should become su- that have led The American Legion to committee of the bar association, urging preme law of the United States through subscribe to the tremendous movement a Constitutional Amendment to limit the international treaty, made numerous in the United States today to limit the treaty power, has been adopted by the assurances that it would be harmless to treaty power by clearly written law. American Bar Association. Best source of us, and said: THE END additional reading material — which also ". contains additional source references — is . . The United States, when it be- Editor's Note: Ray Murphy, author of the "Treaties and Executive Agreements" — the comes a party to the Covenant, would above article, says: "I have tried to put 1267-page volume of hearings on the Bricker . . . have a firm obligation to enact the into everyday language some of the back- Amendment before the Senate Judiciary necessary . . . measures to give effect to ground of a profound legal problem." Committee, 1953. "ALL JOIN HANDS" (Continued from page 27) are at a premium and that this may be and establishing the school, Henry Ford Cockade, which was penned back one of the weak spots in the entire pic- also dreamed up the "old-time fiddler's around 1685. ture of square dancing. Records may contest." This placed the national spot- Most of the big music companies cut rill the void, he says, but maintains light on square dancing and the good square dance records. RCA-Victor, there is no comparison between records old-fashioned music he loved so well. Decca, Columbia, Capital and Square and a caller, or a playing caller (a call- Generous prizes were offered to the Dance Associates all put excellent rec- er who plays a musical instrument and winning fiddlers, who sawed their vio- ords on the market. Some callers, such calls at the same time). Floyd Wood- lins to the gyrations of square dancers. as Lloyd Shaw, have formed their own hull, himself a playing caller, believes Music is a necessary part of square record companies and do a thriving that a caller should have a strong, clear dancing, but all musicians can't seem to business. voice, good enunciation and a sense of There are some interesting characters phrasing or beat so that the calls and among callers. Most of them dress either the music dovetail nicely. in rural costume or in real old-time In his area, up around Elmira, New habit, such as top hat and cutaway. Les York, a caller usually gets about $15 or Gotcher, a California caller, wears a $20 for four hours' work. This may not ten-gallon hat, a black string tie, and be a lot of money, but it is a field where can call a pretty mean square dance a good man can ride to the top. Wood- around a cud of tobacco. He cuts discs hull was written up by Life, has had for Capital and, like manyr another call- two square-dance records made by er, has put out a book of more than a RCA-Victor and one by Folkraft. And hundred of his calls fully illustrated for years his orchestra has been famous with actual photographs of square in upstate New York. dancers in action. The man who first gave Americans Some colleges consider square danc- five dollars a day for their labor, the ing a necessary part of their curriculum. late Henry Ford, is credited with hav- Even big-town Teachers College at ing revived square dancing. As a matter Columbia University has Dick Kraus, of fact, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford are author of Square Dances of Today in considered King and Queen of square charge of its entire dance program. dancing, even to this day. Kraus is a well-known caller and teach- Back in 1928, Mr. and Mrs. Ford er of square dances and has a strong compiled a 169-page manual, containing "Say, in which theater are you two playing feeling about square dancing. next?" complete information, with instructions, AMERICAN LEGION MAr.AZINK "Three factors are largely responsible on each of the square dances. They for this growing acceptance of square called this book Good Morning! It was catch the beat and play the unusual, dancing by the American public," he lavishly bound and illustrated and sold sometimes peculiar, music that square says. "The first is the emergence of for fifty cents. In addition, they placed dancers like. Consequently, about a square-dance federations and callers' Benjamin B. Lovett, one of the most dozen bands dominate the scene. The associations and of community and state talented square-dance callers of all time, tunes and titles are singular in them- folk and square-dance festivals. The in charge of the Ford School of Danc- selves. Titles like Give Ale Back My second is the increased awareness that ing at Dearborn, Michigan. Fifteen Cents, Round Jast One, Turkey school and college administrators have Mr. Lovett, 200-watt bulb in the in the Straw, Devil's Dream are a few gained of square dancing as a useful

square-dance world, burned brightly that keep dancers hopping. educative technique. Third, is the work for all. He gave his services country- Not many of these square dance of a number of outstanding callers, wide and was an able partner in Henry tunes make the hit parade, but one. The teachers and recreation leaders who, Ford's square-dance crusade for 23 Hop Scotch Polka, which has been though widely scattered across the

years. It is estimated that Benjamin heard and danced to on every juke box country and often working single- Lovett taught more people to square in the country, has its origin not only handedly, have done a remarkable job dance than any other person. in square dancing, but in history itself. of bringing good square dancing to the In addition to getting up the book It came from a tune called The IVhite people." THE END

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 BOATS FOR EVERYBODY (Continued from fiage 19) assembling the hull, 40 for the cabin, against the bow of the boat over the and another 15 for the painting. Time hum of the motor. can be saved by buying a partially as- The gear shift found on most new sembled boat, which most manufactur- outboards and finger spread control of ers offer at any stage of construction. all adjustment knobs have removed Rush a postcard today for my powerful FREE Shoe Selling: Outfit. It contains The increased cost of partly finished practically all exertion from outboard- everything you need to start a steady boats varies with the degree of coming. Until the forward—neutral—reverse profit, repeat-order shoe business! Jus 2 sales a day earns you up to $217 a pleteness. gear was developed, it took a certain month EXTRA! 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 57 up to 18 feet, with the average $1 a operators. In addition to holding free ing green to starboard and red to port foot; 18 to 24 feet, about $1.50 a foot; classes for boatmen, the Auxiliary spon- (visible two miles); one whistle or horn and over 24 feet, $2 a foot and up. sors such programs as motorboat ex- (audible for one-half mile) and a fire Lockers, showers and restaurant facili- amination. Under this program any extinguisher. Not required, but useful ties are offered by marine stations and boat owner can have his boat inspected indeed, in any small boat: oars or pad- yacht clubs for $100 and up. If you are for legal requirements and safeguards. dle. a member of an accredited yacht club, The Auxiliary has no power to punish So that American Legion Magazine other clubs will extend you such cour- violations, but merely advises the owner readers may get firsthand information tesies as free mooring overnight. if any exist. on types of boats and motors available,

At most marine service stations, a Free courses in navigation, small-boat and prices, here is a list of leading manu- variety of services are available—stores handling, engine maintenance, weather facturers who will be glad to send you where you can purchase supplies, oil and and safety are also given by the U. S. their latest catalog and information: gasoline and motel accommodations for Power Squadron. A non-profit organi- those who prefer to sleep ashore. For zation of some 20,000 yachtsmen and Boats Co., Minneapolis, cruising trips, major oil companies have others interested in boating, it has been Aluma Craft Boat marine information services similar to Minn. -California Kit Boat Co., 742 Hill St., those for motoring tourists. S. Los Angeles 14, Calif. Boating now ranks among the safest Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co., Wareham, of all outdoor sports. But with millions Mass. persons afloat in boats de- of of every Chetek Boat Co., 113 Dovre Road, scription, each season brings its inevi- Chetek, Wis. table crop of accidents. A study by the :: Chris-Craft Corp., Detroit Road. U. S. Coast Guard of boating mishaps Algonac, Mich. reveals that in practically every case :? Coronado Industries, P. O Box 1031, the real causes turned out to be one of Daytona Beach, Fla. -Custom Craft Inc., 1700 Niagara St., these three: 1. Too many people in the Buffalo, N. Y. boat. 2. Failure to keep a sharp lookout. *Dillabaugh Co.. 7928 N. E. Mallory Ave., 3. Speeding at the wrong time or place. Portland 11, Ore. Fortunately, all three symptoms re- Duniphy Boat Corp., 302 Broad St., spond quickly to an ordinary dose of Oshkosh, Wis. "common sense and courtesy." Follow Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., these eight rules for more safety and Metal Boat Div., Bethpage, N. Y. fun afloat. Larson Watercrafts Inc., 868 First St.,

1. Know your boat. Every boat has its N. E., Little Falls, Minn. limitations. Learn what you can expect Lyman Boat Works Inc., Sandusky, Ohio Molded Products, Inc., Cokeysville 1, Md. from your boat. Also use the right-sized "Marine Mart, Buffalo 7, New York motor. Too much power can damage : Ozarka Inc., 813 Borden Lane, your boat, may even swamp it. Woodstock, 111. 2. Don't overload— seats do not indi- : Penn Yan Boats, Inc., 10th Street, cate capacity. Two or three adults may "You realize of course that if I don't get my Penn Yan, New York license, I'll be back for another test." be a full load under many conditions. -Roberts Industries. Inc., 2020 N. Main AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 3. Balance your load — distribute St., Branford, Conn. weight evenly in the boat, from side to Southwest Mfg. Co., 2000 E. 14th Street, side and from bow to stern. Little Rock, Ark. in operation since 1914 and has national Star Metal Boat Co., Goshen, Ind. 4. Boarding a boat — keep low and headquarters in Englew ood, New Jersey. Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co., 226 Ann step in the center w hen boarding the Another organization of special in- St., Peshtigo, Wis. lxi.it or changing seats. terest to small-boat owners and outboard U-Mak-It Boat Co., 701 Whittier St., 5. Watch the weather—head for shore enthusiasts is the Outboard Boating Bronx 59, New York or cover before a storm breaks. If Club of America. This club, supported U. S. Molded Shapes, Inc., Grand Rapids, caught out in an open boat, seat pas- by outboard owners and outboard Mich. sengers on floor. Wagemaker Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. and motor manufacturers, has but Inc., Costa Mesa, Calif. 6. Head into the waves— if Wizard Boats waves are one purpose—to help more people rind high, head your boat at an angle to- more enjoyment on the water. OBC's Outboard Motors ward the w aves at slow speed. program of certifying outboard boats Champion Motors Co., P. O. Box 875, 7. Watch out for other boats—speed- and motors, providing instruction book- Minneapolis, Minn. ing near sailboats, fishermen or an- lets and complete insurance protection Evinrude Motors, 4876 N. 27th St.. chored boats is objectionable. Besides, to outboard owners, and other services Milwaukee 16, Wis. boats w ithout motors have the right of is available to you at little cost. Head- Flambeau Outboard Motors, 245 E. Keefe way over motor-pow ered boats. quarters of the Outboard Boating Club Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Hiawatha Outboards, Gamble Skogmo, 15 8. Avoid sharp turns— fast, sharp turns of America is 307 N. Michigan Ave., N. 8th St., Minneapolis, Minn. arc hard on equipment and sometimes Chicago 1, Illinois. Johnson Motors, 1600 Pershing Road, on people. Take it easy on turns. The Coast Guard has safety regula- Waukegan, 111. big A factor in keeping marine acci- tions for all sizes of boats used on fed- LeJay Mfg. Co., 2912 S. Emerson,

dents at a low rate is the informational eral waterways. Even though you may Minneapolis 8, Minn. programs and classes by such organiza- not use your boat in these waterways, Martin Motors, Eau Claire, Wis. tions as the ('oast Guard Auxiliary and it's wise to adhere to their regulations: Mercury Motors Division of Kiekhaefer U. S. Power Squadron. The Auxiliary Boats under 16 feet: One life-saving Corp., Fond du Lac, Wis. Scott-Atwater Mfg. Co., Inc., Minneapolis is a voluntary, civilian organization au- device for every person on board. (Ex- 3, Minn. thorized by Congress to w ork with the ample, a buoyant cushion or jacket.) THE END Coast Guard. Its members arc boat and Boats over 16 feet: Above equipment, aircraft owners and amateur radio plus— one combination bow light, show- 'Manufacture Boat Kits

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THANKS TO UNCLE SAM . . . THE BOOTLEGGER GETS A BREAK m RUPTURE-EASER • (Continued froth page li) Rce. In U.S. Pat. Off. (A Piper Brace Product) ripplers still prefer to buy legal liquor. ville State College expressed the opinion But in the slums and poorer neigh- recently that reports about bootlegging borhoods of almost every big city, and in the vicinity had been grossly exag- DewbU...4.9S in thousands of smaller places as well, gerated and suggested to 1 1 of his male ... Right or left Na joints," students that, as an experiment, they see "nip joints," "juice joints," "gill no \\|f sue $495 mum "jolt joints," "bottle joints," and other if they could buy any. The professor A strong, form-fitting washable support. Back lac- bootleg outlets have blossomed like was bow led over the next day when the ing adjustable. Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, flat groin pad. No steel or leather llowers in May since the Government 1 1 boys marched into class toting 1 bands. Unexcelled for comfort. Also used as after operation support. For men, women and children. made taxes so high that the working- bottles of moon bought at 11 separate Mail orders give measure around the lowest part of the abdomen and state right or left side or man (and everybody else) now has to places right in the heart of Jacksonville. double. We Prepay Postage Kxcept on CO.D.'s. lay down $4.27, on the average, for a Not only is bootlegging grog just as PIPER BRACE CO. 811 Wyandotte, Dept. AL-24. Kansas City S, Mo. fifth of blended whisky which cost easy to buy in countless communities

him only $2.90 in 1942-43. today as it was during Prohibition; it is In Philadelphia alone, police raided sold in just as w ide a variety of places. approximately 1,000 speakeasies last During my investigation, I did not hear INVENTORS If you believe that you have an Invention, you should lino \ ear, it like a of any being dispensed in a but say was punching young out how to protect It. We are registered Patent Attorneys. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect featherbed because they couldn't make ladies' seminary, but I found that dur- Your Invention, '* and an "Invention Record** form. No obligation. They are yours for the asking. a lasting dent in the racket. Every time ing recent months nip joints have been McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON they closed one joint, another one — or discovered in candy stores, cigar stores, Registered Patent Attorneys 1461 Victor Building sometimes two or three — would open billiard rooms, barber shops, filling sta- Washington 1, D. C.

up in the same block. It is estimated tions, trailer courts, motels, lunch- WALL STUD FINDER that there are now at least 2,000 nip rooms, barbecue stands, soft drink em- Don't damage your walls when hanging pictures, joints in the City Brotherly poriums, in of private homes of Love. hundreds etc. Find the stud quickly this magnetic instru- In New York City, illicit ginmills are and apartments — and just about every- with ment! Easy to work; points often so cleverly disguised and change w here else you can think of. out the place to drive the nail or hook. Hand/ for premises so often that authorities differ An unordained preacher in Prince detecting nails in tires, too. Simple directions. widely there are. Esti- County, Aid., was discovered on how many Georges Postpaid $1.00 A'o C O D. Guaranteed

mates range all the way from 500 to recently peddling moonshine from a Mi t. Ml O X 219 W. Chicago Ave., Dept. 800, Chicago 10, III. 3,000. In Newark, Jersey City, Boston, sound truck which he also used as his Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Indianapo- pulpit. In St. Clair County, Mich., the ..I Was lis and other big cities throughout the law closed in on another 'legger who Nearly industrial East and Midwest there are was using a pigpen as his place of busi- Itch . . . Itch Crazy Very first use of soothing cooling, liquid D.D.D. reportedly swarms of them. ness. In Cambridge, Mass., a still was Prescription positively relieves raw red itch- In a few States cast of the Rockies, nabbed a few months ago in a dormi- caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- ing other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. popskull has not made as dramatic a tory of hallowed Harvard. In Cleve- — 43^ trial bottle must satisfy or money back. comeback to date as it has elsewhere. In land, a thrifty little housewife was Ask your druggist for D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. Omaha, for example, and Kansas City, found to be picking up $500 a month

1 was told by local officials that it is pin money by serving snifters to thirsty Prints Postal Cards! difficult to buy moonshine unless you "friends" in the dining room of her IT^n Use on 30 Day Trial! dress up as a bum and frequent the local home. UiUU Send name today for facts and FREE Illustrated Book skid rows. But statistics on raids and The merchandise offered in most of of unique advertising plans and money-making ideas for your still seizures show the traffic is gaining rhe new speaks is raw, white likker business. Learn how others are in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and w hich is retailed at from $2.50 to $3 a boosting sales with post card

ads . . . easy with Cardmaster. has made notable strides in the Pacific fifth, or sold by the drink at from 15 CardmasterCo..l920 Sunny side. Dept. 7042 Chicago40. Ill Northwest. to 30 cents a shot. It is commonly Police reports indicate, moreover, that known as "moon," "high moon," I )ixic more than makes up for any boot- "corn," "mountain lightning," "sugar- STOP FALLING HAIR leg scarcity in the Western States. head," "popskull," "white mule" or

South of the Mason-Dixon Line and "tiger's milk." If you drink the stuff, Explained In Free Literature east of the Mississippi, I found, there you know you're drinking hootch and Anyone desiring booklet on hair growth and scalp trouble may obtain free copy by wri ting apparently is hardly a taxi driver or taking a chance. bellhop who can't steer you to all the But not all of our new crop of boot- LANOLE SCALP CLINIC mountain dew you w ant, whether it be leggers are sticking to white moon- 12822 Hickory Detroit 5, Michigan a snort or a gallon, and the consumption shine or catering to a low -income clien- in some Southern towns is fantastic. tele exclusively. Like their forebears of 40 ACRE GOVERNMENT Take Atlanta, for example. Nobody the Prohibition era, a good many of the OIL LEASES-$100 knows exactly how much moonshine is sharper brethren are coloring and You do no drilling, pay no taxes, may realize a imbibed there, but an inkling was ob- flavoring their product to resemble king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write for free map and literature. tained not long ago after 42 persons legitimate liquor and selling it in bottles American Oil Scouts, Dept. I, 7321 Beverly Blvd. died from drinking poison bootleg. which formerly contained virtually Los Angeles 36, Calif. This news was widely publicized and, every nationally advertised domestic as a result, the sale of legal, tax-paid and imported brand of whiskey. Dolled liquor shot up 51.8 percent during the up with doctored or counterfeited la- next five months. That would appear to bels and revenue stamps, some of this ORCHIDS indicate that at least half of all Atlanta bogus goods is so cleverly packaged AT HOME World's most thrilling hobby - profitable home business. drinkers normally quench their thirst that the presidents of large distilling Single Orchid plant may multiply into many-each m* valuable as ihc lirsi. Successful home grower shows you with illegal how! Raise gorgeous Cattleyas. Cymbidiums, Epiden- joy juice. companies have been unable to dis- drums, on living-room table. Big-profit orders come ighbors, f1orist*i. etc. - also Mail Orders. Illustrated Then there is little Jacksonville, Ala- tinguish it in appearance from their own pie "show-how" language AND blooming- site Orchid plants sent at NO RISK. Everything you need to start for bama. A history professor of Jackson- tax-paid product. fteasure or profit. FREE - full detail* - SEND NO MONEV. Wr ROPICAL FLOWERLAND, Dept. 14- E , 4622 Wilshire. Los Angele THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 • 59 The bootleggers demand higher with popskull. After a reveler has had Nor is it just a few raggedy, back- prices for this fancy-looking rotgut a few shots of real whisky and his woods Pappies and their barefoot young

than they do for plain moon and have taste perception is dulled, they switch 'uns who are defying Uncle Sam's rev- worked out several ingenious methods bottles on him and he usually doesn't enooers. Smart characters, some of them

of retailing it. realize it until he starts walking on his college educated, are bossing moonshine One method is to have a peddler cir- hands dow n Main Street or starts see- operations in many Southern States and culate the word in an office building or ing little men on the ceiling. doing such an efficient job of it that industrial plant that he has obtained The tremendously increased con- they are changing the economy in several cases of fine whisky from a sumption of both moonshine and whole communities. hijacker or dishonest liquor store em- synthetic firewater is reflected by Let me take you to North Wilkes- ployee and is w illing to part with it revolutionary changes in the bootleg boro, North Carolina, for example, at w holesale prices. Or he may spread production industry in both Southern which is typical of a good many other a report that he's obtained an assortment and Northern States. The illicit .stills towns throughout the South today. of mellow old Scotch from a smuggling being seized today have, on the average, North YVilkesboro nestles in the eastern seaman. In either case, he convinced his twice the production capacity of those foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge customers they were getting a terrific taken a few years ago, and distribution Mountains, but the rough country bargain and they paid a whopping price systems have also been vastly expanded around it is not much good for farm- for his bogus product — usually only 20 and streamlined. ing. And there are no big industries in or 25 percent less than they 'd have had There has always been some moon- the vicinity, or rich mines, or other to pay for the real McCoy in a liquor shining in the South, of course, and visible sources of wealth. store. probably always will be, because a few But North Wilkesboro is booming. Right in the heart of New York City, unreconstructed Southerners actually You see massive banks, bustling retail investigators told me, slick criminal prefer mountain dew to other bever- stores, glittering new automobile em- operators have disposed of hundreds of ages. poriums, fine churches and hospitals. cases of hootch in this way to citizens "Folks down here throw store likker All this prosperity is hard to understand eager to make purchases at wholesale to the hogs," a Georgia 'shiner said unless you happen to notice the unusu-

prices. And since most people don't recently. "They figger it ain't got no ally large number of high-powered like to admit being suckers, compara- substance. They want good nourishing cars w ith twin exhausts and rear-ends tively few of the v ictims ever squawk moon, and moon is w hat we give 'em." perched high in the air. They look that to the authorities. But it is not just for home consump- w ay because they have souped-up en- Bottles of synthetic w hisky and cans tion that Dixie stills are now cooking gines for hitting high speeds and extra of alcohol for making gin are delivered moon at a record rate. Enforcement au- leaves in their rear springs, so that they can right to the homes of some regular cus- thorities in the 1 1 Southern States which carry heavy loads without sagging tomers in New York and other big produce the most illicit whisk)' esti- conspicuously. cities, enforcement officers say, and a mate that HO percent of it is now con- These cars are the trademark of considerable amount of flavored alky- sumed away from the community in North Wilkesboro, and Wilkes County, and-water is sold under respectable w hich it is made, and that at least 10 in w hich it is located, for the truth is brand names in shady night clubs and percent of it moves out of the State that moonshining is the main wealth-

honkytonks. where it is made. That substantial quan- producing industry of the whole regon.

The chances of your getting rooked tities of it find their way to northern The local Chamber of Commerce might in most licensed bars are nil, ATU industrial areas has been proved over deny it, but many of the citizens are agents have found, but in dives which and over again by bootlegger arrests in living off the profits of a multimillion- operate on the fringe of the law bar- Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and other dollar liquor racket. Day and night the tenders frequently refill legal bottles big cities. year round, scores of those souped-up cars, often guarded by a pilot car and a tail car, carry sugar and other supplies to stills hidden in the hills, and deliver the produce of the stills north, south, east and west. Eight overworked officers of the ATU knock over about one still a day in Wilkes County, on the average, but are quite unable to suppress the well- organized industry. The 'shiners rarely shoot it out with the Feds any more. They've learned it is smarter to run than to fight, and with their fast cars, and fleet-footed young lookouts on guard duty near most stills, they are hard to catch. When they are arrested, they usually get off with light fines or short jail sentences which don't dis- courage them a bit. One ATU officer said recently that it would take two divisions of United States Infantry, aided by the Air Force, to wipe out moonshining in Wilkes

County. And if it were wiped out, it is "'Morning Miss Fredrics, 'morning Miss Broun, Hya' Toots, such a profitable industry that it 'morning Miss Obermeyer!" would spring up again overnight. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE The bonanza which has come to

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the North. North Wilkesboro has visited scores of legal distilling has become in great many other Southern communities on a lesser Tempted by easy- profits, a FREE-A BUSINESS unquestionably scale since skyhigh excise taxes put rich small entrepreneurs have YOUR OWN recent OF pay dirt hack into the bootlegging entered the business during • No Store to Equip • No Training Period country, months. But Federal investigations show racket. In other sections of the • No Investment *No Stock to Buy stills are illicit distillers also are stepping up pro- that most of the large, costly SUBSTANTIAL MONEY-MAKING duction at an amazing rate, as is shown built by well-organized criminal gangs which have their lines of distribution Your Total Cost by the increased capacity of stills seized OPPORTUNITY —a3-cent stamp during recent months. set up and are convinced they can All I ask of f? you is that you like to sell. If you In the years immediately following operate long enough to amortize their ' can makeafairlivingsellingany- thing else, I'll show you how to i heavy investments and make big profits %* the great dry spell, a big percentage of make tremendous profits as a Salesman, and I'll stills seized in the North were piddling as well. Master Work Garment furnish every t hi ng you need, free of charge. With all their modern methods, how- affairs which turned out a small amount MASTER Work Garment salesmen are L '« of alcohol for sale to persons of foreign ever, today's bootleggers are no more cashing a harvest of dollars in hundreds of communities all over America. Men who — a year birth who used it in making homemade sanitary in their manufacturing proc- ago—didn't know what a work garment was, are now homes and cars with the profits from a Master esses or considerate of the health of buying cordials. But the picture has changed. Dealer franchise. Your sales are volume sales, repeat steady-income-to-you sales. Every business in Giant, syndicate-operated stills of the their customers than were most of their sales, the country is aprospect foruniformsand work clothes Prohibition variety, costing from $25,- predecessors of the '20's and '30's. Stills, with name-and-advertising embroidery. Stores can't compete. Master brings you the world's finest, most large and small, in 000 to $100,000 to construct, and ca- turn up dirty cellars, complete quality lines in all new styles and fabrics. I you need samples, sales material pable of producing from 1,000 to 2,000 chicken houses, barns, dog kennels and supply everything — and guidance. Thousands making big money easily. gallons a day of high proof alcohol, similar surroundings. Rotten oranges, Your territory may be open. Write me today for full details; a postcard will do.— Del. V. Bergstrom. Pres. lye, urea and now dominate the illicit market in even manure are used to GEO. MASTER GARMENT DIV. Yankeeland. speed the fermentation of mash. 142 WATER STREET, LIGONIER, INDIANA Just a few weeks ago in Newton, Near Buckner, Ala., Federal agents found a dead hog in a N. J., a still which turned out at least mash vat. Near 1,200 gallons of alcohol a day was seized Norfolk, Va., they discovered a still in BLUE STEEL BLADES by state police, sheriff's (deputies and a Chic Sale one-seater back of a lady S3 and gel first quality guaranteed blades . . . over 50 I made. In business 22 years New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Con- grill-keeper's establishment. .old. Use new blade daily for 30 days ... if urn unused blades lor lull SI.00 refund. trol Agents. The main column of this Filthy vats and drums, rusty pipes, 80 Double edge lor gillette type razors $1.00 60 Single edge lor gem type razors $1.00 still was 30 feet high 36 inches in unsterilized jugs and bottles, and some- and nd check, money order or $1.00 bill to: diameter. times deadly alcohol, also Just a week before, a still of wood play a .OLD STOREKEEPER BLADE CO. s.. wVl-i 1,350-gallon daily capacity was raided part in the manufacture of today's pop- at Roxborough, Pa. Not long before skull. As a result, deaths from drinking Serving that, a 1,200-gallon still was discovered the stuff have soared. At least 65 per- INSTITUTIONS running full blast in a city-owned build- sons are known to have been killed by BUSINESS • HOMES ing on the bustling Brooklyn water- illicit booze since 1951, but the toll ALL PURPOSE r> LUXWOOD front. probably is much higher because in FOLDING These are not isolated instances. Dur- many cases death undoubtedly was at- ing the last two years, 17 other mam- tributed officially to heart disease or BANQUET TABLE Mirror-like Top moth stills of between 1,000- and 2,000- some other cause. and Smaller Hard Sizes Resists Heat and All liquids gallon daily capacity have been seized But the menace of death or blindness Folding Benches low Cost • Fast Delivery and Other Equipment w ithin a 100-mile radius of New York is only one of the perils which boot- Write lor Details Today CO., City. During the same period, hundreds legging is bringing in its wake. Many The JAMES P. LUXEM 3368 Lincoln Street Franklin Park, Illinois of smaller alky plants have been dis- of the new speakeasies are operated by covered in other northern communi- persons of criminal background — in- TIME ties, and it is significant that many of dividuals who formerly were in gam- IN YOUR SPARE them were revealed only by sheer ac- bling, narcotics, or vice rackets and UP TO $40 A DAY IN YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Start repeal cash business at home with cident. who have no scruples whatever about New BELSAW . . . sharpening and setting In Bridgeport, Conn., for example, a selling to minors or corrupting pub- circular saws, grinding planer and jointer knives, low Cost, $15 down... Start work homeowner reported the theft of a lic morals. Law enforcement authorities day BELSAW arrives. No experience needed. Send for Free Book, "Lifetime Security". radio to the police. w ith 1 When a patrolman whom talked w ere unanimous in BELSAW MACHINERY CO FREE BOOK 3063 Field BldK.. Kansas City 11, Mo. arrived to investigate the theft, he pointing out that if we permit such TELLS HOW sniffed alcohol, threw open a closed characters to take over the liquor busi- door, and discovered a sizable still bub- ness we can expect a great wave of I'll Send You This Handsome bling merrily. crime, juvenile delinquency and law- Near Columbus, Ohio, officers recent- lessness such as blackened the nation's SAMPLE CASE-FREE ly w ent in search of a man who al- record during the Prohibition period. and Show You How to Make legedly had slapped down one of his What needs to be done? Up to $15.00 in a Day Mail coupon for this FreeTaitoring pals with an axe. When they traced the The answer appears so obvious that Sumplet asepiuked with 150beaD- tiful, bitf-value suit and overcoat axe-wielder fabrics. Take orders from friends, to his home, they found it hardly needs stating. Virtually all fellow- workers, others, for fine ality .made-to-measure clothes. also a whisky still and several barrels students of the bootlegging problem say •cketbiK cash profits in advance, jpecause wearing our suits and over- rats brings more of mash. orders, we make it easy large-scale commercial operations could ret your own clothes without lc cost. No __ tided. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Just fill out - In Detroit, the authorities recently got be licked overnight by a reduction of SEND NO HONEY. and mail coupon today ! PROGRESS TAILORING CO., SOOS.Throop Street on the trail of a still operator when the present $10.50 per gallon tax to DEPT. G-IOS " CHICAGO 7, ILLINOIS birds and beasts at the Belle Isle Park some such reasonable figure as $6 a gal- PROGRESS j TAILORING CO., Dept. G-IOS I SOO S. Throop St., Chicago 7, III. zoo went on a four-day toot. It was lon. That would permit retailers of | Dear Sir: I WANT A MADE-TO-MEASURE SUIT TO WEAR 1 AND SHOW, without paying lc for it. Hash details and Sample I revealed the dumb creatures legal whisky to sell it at had been approximately | Kit of actual fabrics. ABSOLUTELY FREE. feeding on whisky mash dumped in 90 cents a fifth less than they now have I NAME. — AGE j the park. to charge for it, and it would no longer These and scores of other accidental be profitable for criminals to compete CITY STATE discoveries indicate how widespread il- with them.

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SPECIAL! for regular You may think chat would entail a be far less than $780,000,000. Some tax

$10 Gabardine . dangerous loss of Federal revenue in experts estimate it w ouldn't amount to DRESS A these times when Uncle Sam is having more than SI 50,000,000, or less than PANTS \'A a tough time raising enough money to the cost of one modern aircraft carrier. meet his running expenses. But that is Meanwhile, more revenue would go to not the case. An analysis of the finan- the States through their own liquor Get 2d Pr, Only $2.00 cial aspects of the problem show s that taxes. And the cost of law enforcement $ 2 Prs.,0nly... 9^ cutting the tax from $10.50 to $6 a gal- would be reduced. d i c D I lon would not result in 7 .95. ive second pair for onlv $2! Two pairs only nearly as big Any way you look at it, a slash in the $9. 95! YOU SAVE MORE THAN SlOt Conditions beyond our control force us to sacrifice 25.000 pairs our best a revenue loss as is commonly supposed. excise tax on liquor would be a blessing, pabardlne dress pants at this low price. Greatest savings ever offered In our 53 years. These are famous nut'-, our Last year, the Government collected a bargain, for all law-abiding citi- quality gabardine dress pants made of fine 2 -ply. 2 • way and rayon and acetate for Super Wear! Resist wrinkles, hold press, (five amazing service. Zipper front. Five roomy about $1,827,000,000 from the $10.50 ex- zens. At least that's the opinion of the pockets. T.m. Blue. Gray. Brown. Blue-Gray. Green. WAIST: 28 to 42 pleated or plain front. (Sizes 44 to 50. cise on distilled spirits. a tax, add 50c per pair.) Under $6 majority of law enforcement experts ccun UA unuiv Send name, waist size, color. You atHU MU mUNtT mav order 2 different colors, styles, about $780,000,000 of* that revenue with whom 1 talked. Bootlegging al- size. Pay postman, plus small C.O.D. Or send price plus 25c per pair postage, save C.O.D. would be lost if exactly the same ready is deeply entrenched in many LINCOLN TAILORS, Dept. AM-2, Lincoln, Nebraska amount of liquor were sold. But obvi- States. If we let it spread much farther, ously a great deal more legal liquor the authorities agree, we arc going to

would be bought by the public because be in a national mess which it will cost the bootlegger would be eliminated. us not millions but billions to remedy. PAYS BIG The actual loss of revenue would thus THE END New World Trade Boom Offers Big Profit Opportunity to Men and Women. Learn how to import thousands of THE C0NNELL STO^Y products at low foreign prices (Continued front pugt 21/ for buyers in your locality at high U.S. prices-operate a world*' v wide mail-order Import-Export busines For some five or six months in late University students in Middletown by your home. HERE'S PROOF. ..an import from overseas SENT 1921 and early 1922 Connell sold classi- patronizing Connell's. fire in late AT OUR COST. Mail 25c (coin) and we'll rush you this $2 A bad Melson Automatic cigarette lighter.This bargain will convince fied advertising for the Boston Herald- August, 1941 completely destroyed the you of tremendous World Trade profits. START WITHOUT CAPITAL or previous experience. Training includes shipment Traveler. Then, yielding to his father's building, but the store lost only a single to you of many sample imports from 'round the world. Save on personal purchases of Clothes, Tools, Gems, Watches, wishes, he became a clothing salesman day's sales, as it was possible to transfer Cameras, etc. GRASP THIS OPPORTUNITY TODAY. Send for your lighter and full details showing how to learn World for the elder Connell, traveling the the stock to another building. Trade secrets to put you on road to your own Profitable Home eastern circuit on w hich he had many The day before Memorial Day they Business. Opportunity world travel. You can get details alone tREE, but if you get the lighter you have an actual demon- times been taken as a child. It was an were back at the old address. The one- stration of Import Values. Either way. WRITE NOW!

MELLINGER CO., Dept. 302 . 1717 Westwood. Los Angeles 24. Calif. exhilarating experience and a challeng- story and mezzanine building has a ing one, and the habits of concentration, pleasing decor of pastel-shade walls, coupled with a knowledge of the busi- with a modern arrangement of the vari- It's time to rollup your sleeve... ness and a winning personality, paid ous departments, and fluorescent light- off. ing. There arc a dozen men and women GIVE During this time he kept h:s eyes on the permanent staff of the store, and open for a retail outlet w hich might be at Christmastime the number of em- expected to develop into a profitable ployes has sometimes totaled fifty. De- business, and in the fall of 1929 came spite his preoccupation with Legion ( f-BL00D an unusual opportunity. The Barton business over the years Connell has men's wear store in Middletown, Conn., continued to buy most of the stock, established in 1K87, was for sale. The and pitches in for work on the floor original owner, a close personal friend when needed.

to sell it in town CALL YOUR RED CROSS TODAY! of John J. Council, was glad The Councils live the of NATIONAL BLOOD PROGRAM to Art Connell. The date w as October 1. Portland, across the river from Middle- Connell had married five years earlier town, where their forty-acre estate, the charming and vivacious Patrice Fin- hidden from a principal road by the LEARN lay of Boston, whose family traces its drapery of large trees, features two MEAT CUTTING descent from Michel Ney, one of Na- guest houses and a ten-room colonial call Train quickly In 8 short weeks- at To- poleon's outstanding Marshals. Her home w hich they "Huntley." Con- ledo for a bright future with security

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her. As her the Connells pages of the December issue of this ' 'Last year we memorials to sharpened and re- paired about lOOO have established a number of scholar- magazine. Among the day's features was $2,600 TfUde lawn mowers for ships and other awards at the college, a three-hour parade reviewed by the a net profit of Last Season *S2 , 600," says the most important of these being a Commander, with Governor John E. G. "I have made a good liv- FREE PLAN tells how to start in prize to the girl who shows the best Davis Lodge of Connecticut and U. S. ing and have put spare time. FREE BOOK shows money In the bank * record in bettering racial relations, a Senator William A. Purtell of Harvard, how to sharpen all power mow- besides ' writes W. T. J. ers. You make 99% profit ! Low held that Joan had taken for her own. both Legionnaires, joining five Past prices — easy payments. Write There are also Joan Connell awards at National Commanders of the Legion to today — no salesman will call. FOLEY MFG. CO. Connecticut Chris' State. The family is pay tribute to the leader. new Enter- 203-4 Foley Bldg. characteristically generous, too, in sup- tainers Morton Downey, Conrad Nagel Minneapolis 18, Minn. porting the Boys' State activities of the and Edward G. Robinson took part in Connecticut Department. the festivities, which ended with a great Connell has carried his Legion mem- dance in the Middletown Armory after bership in Milardo-Wilcox Post of A 1 i d a banquet attended by nearly 1200 dletown ever since he arrived in that people at Restland Farms, in the adjoin- community. It is a highly successful ing town of Northford. There the Post of some six hundred members, with Legionnaire Mayor of .Middletown, a handsome brick home on Washing- Stephen K. Bailey, w as toastmaster and Learn Facts on ton Street, one of the principal resi- the speakers included Governor Lodge, dential thoroughfares of this thriving Dr. Victor L. Butterfield, President of Chronic Ailments Connecticut River city. Art Connell Wesleyan University, National Presi- was chairman of the building commit- dent Betty Burdett of the Auxiliary, FREE BOOK — Explains Causes, tee. Senator Purtell and Harvey Higley, Effects and Treatment In 1933 he became Post Commander head of the U. S. Veterans Administra- and a year later Commander of the tion. Seventh District. Avoid He was elected De- Arthur J. Connell has never ducked nmraw^'- 1 partment Commander at the Water- an assignment entailing responsibilities, Bury Convention in 1941, and in 1942 and his home town knows him as a civic a National Vice-Commander. For the go-getter. He served as chairman of Neglected piles, fistula and colon troubles often next several years he was an active par- the local draft board during a WW2, spread infection and cause other chronic condi- ticipant in Legion affairs at the Depart- job that, as many Legionnaires know, tions. Write today for 140-page FREE BOOK. I. earn facts. McCleary Clinic and Hospital, C260 ment ami national levels. His election as calls for the stiffest kind of backbone Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. National Commander followed three in the face of pressures. And he was for terms as National Executive Commit- a year Campaign Chairman of the local teeman. Just after the New York Na- Community Chest, which requires both tional Convention of 1952 he went to salesmanship and tact, plus occasional PUMP WATER fWT/ Europe as the representative of the plain talk on the subject of individual 7 ORAIN WASH TUBS. CELLARS, CISTERNS IRRIGATE — FILL TANKS— DRAW WELL WHTER^ national organization at the dedication obligation to the community. \ , N Pumps .:0Q

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY, 1954 63 Hue Said It To Implement a Program — Hire more people and expand the office. Because his work is trying Under Consideration — Never heard of it. And often trouble-giving Reorganization — Just what were we talk- The dyer may hate dyeing ing about? But — it's a living. Reliable Source — Someone who knows less Berton Braley than we do. The Bite We Are Making a Survey — We need more time to think up an answ er. He called liis 6-year-old twins to meet a We Would Like the Benefit of Your Think- business friend who'd stopped by. That the ing— We will listen to w hat you have to impulse a was mistake soon became appar- say as long as it does not interfere with ent. After well mannered how-do-} ou-do's, w hat we intend to do anyhow. Martha burst out, "Mr. Brown, if you've Give You the Picture — A long, confused, got a dime, Martin will make like a rooster inaccurate statement of w hat you already for you!" know. Mr. Brown reached in his pocket, grinned, You Spearhead the Issue — You be the goat. inquired, "What does he do? Flap his arms In Process — Hopelessly confused. and crow?" For Your Information — It means nothing Martha widened her big blue eyes and to us and probably nothing to you. shook her copper curls. "I should say not! In Due Course — Never. We wouldn't gyp you like that! He'll eat Will Be Home in Mind — No further action a worm." Mary Alkus until you squawk again. Referred to You — Unscrupulous method of annoyance. Finally, with a sigh, the daugh- having you do the work for which we take ter went to her room upstairs. credit. "Your daughter seems to be suffering A Growing Body of Opinion — T wo Con- from the heat," said the visitor to the girl's gressmen agree. father, a grizzled old farmer. Opinion Widely Held — One Senator agrees. "Nope!" he replied. "She's )cs" suffcrin' Unanimous Opinion — The Boss thinks it's from th' family grammar!" Mont Hirst the answer. Mr. Is in Conference— He doesn't want to talk to you. IKcstnurant Ham Sandwirh William G. McKinley

Between the two slices of bread I think I see just a vestige, a sliver of pink. Time Hangs Heavy

It must be the ham that's so tenderly It's not the minutes you put in at the — placed table that make you fat, it's the seconds! I can tell by the color, if not b\ the taste. S. S. BlDDLE Richard Armour New Kind Oi Game

Gleanings From The man went to his first concert and Congressional Correspondence was obviously puzzled by the large sym- phony orchestra and the dazzling repertoire A Glossary of Official Terms with which it gave forth. Finally he turned A Program — Any question that cannot be to someone near him and asked, "What's answ ered in one telephone call. that book the fellow with the stick there "Now thai you mention it, it is getting To Expedite — To compound and confound keeps looking at?" chilly — must he about time to chaos with commotion. "The score," he was told. change the oil." To Activate— Make carbons and add more "Oh," said the man. "Well, who's w in- names to the distribution. ning?" Harold Heller Crossroads

When some people come to the parting of the ways, they open a gas station.

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A friend of the family was calling one night to visit the daughter who had just returned to the old farm home after her first year away in a fashionable college. She noticed that the daughter kept on •'My mom would like to borrow 2 tups of "My mom would like to borrow 4 pieces twitching uncomfortably, frowning and Hour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, - eggs, of cake!" !" giving out little smothered exclamations of cup an' a hall sugar . . .

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