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armed forces to "stay in the fight"

by contributing their skill and experi- ence to an essential war industry.

For some time we have been making every effort to give employment to discharged veterans whose physical condition and aptitude permit, as rapidly as they are released from Army and Navy hospitals.

If you know of a veteran who will soon be released from the hospital, we ask you to recommend that he investigate the opportunities at North American.

The procedure is simple: When a veteran is ready

to leave the hospital, he is interviewed by a represen-

tative of the U. S. Employment Service regarding his desire to enter aviation work, his previous ex- perience, his mechanical training acquired in service.

Upon his release, the veteran will be referred to the USES office in his home district. That office will determine the plant near his home to which he will

be referred, and it is suggested that veterans inter- ested in joining the North American organization so indicate to the USES interviewer. At the North American plant, the veteran will be interviewed to determine his aptitudes, experience and training, given a physical examination, then placed in the

type of work for which he is best suited.

Veterans need jobs, our industry needs men. What helps both, helps America. We are proud to have a part in this important program.

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The Message Center CONTENTS HERE'S a communication that speaks COVER DESIGN By W. Aylward for itself. It arrived in our office J. one morning after issue soon the August LEGIONNAIRES: "CARRY ON!" 7 had reached subscribers: By Roane Waring, National Commander "Editor, American Legion Magazine: THERE WERE HVE OF US 9 I should have said it long ago, so now By Charles Guy Bolte I'm going to say it while Wally can en- joy it and before I let it slip unsaid down IT'S HI. DIGGER AND HI. YANK 10 Evelyn Ha\'1ll Shacklock the years. In my opinion Wallgren is the By Illustrated by Henry Raleigh greatest of them all. Quietly and steadily he puts out stuff that rings true and THIS COMIC-BOOK AGE 12 appeals to us all, and is just right. This By RoBERr Francis Illustrated by Carl humor is natural, easy and never exag- Pfeufer

gerated or fantastic. It is more than just JOHNNY DOUGHBOY. PRISONER 13 funny or clever. It is we, the Legion- Bv A. D. RAriiuoNE, iv naires, and our life. He is as much an Illustrated by Herbert M. Stoops American institution as Henry Ford, CHINA S WOMEN FIGHTERS 14 Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Eddie By Hal Mills Guest, James Whitcomb Riley or Mark Illustrated by Walter Hcrriuglon Twain. With his sly pokes and his sym- 16 pathetic realism he is head and shoul- LOSING TEAM By I'RANK Richardson Pierce Old Grand-Dad ders above any other cartoonist I The Illustrated by George Gigucrc Distillery Co. is en- know of." gaged in production These are the sentiments of ist Lieu- WALLGREN'S PAGE 19 of alcohol for war tenant Frederic E. Holmes, attached to HOST TO THE JAPS 20 purposes. This Medical Laboratory at Wright the Aero By Leo A. McClatchy whiskey was Field, Dayton, Ohio, who in the First made before World War was a buck private in the BUNKS FOR G. I. S 22 Boyd B. Stufler America en- Marines. They are also the sentiments of By tered the of Legionnaires, we are sure, thousands ON WITH THE DANCE 26 ivar. who have seen Wally's cartoons in this By John J. Noll magazine and elsewhere since February, EDITORIALS 52 (Continued on page 4)

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OCTOBER, 1943 When Purchasing Products PLrA<:i- Mention The American Legion Magazine ; ;—! ; — THE MESSAGE CENTER {Continued from page 2) 1918, when the first issue of The Stars and Stripes appeared. SURE IN THE article We Regret to Inform You . . . which we carried in our August issue the methods of the War Department in announcing casualties were set forth in some detail. At one point in the article it was stated that with the letter sent by Adjutant General James A. Ulio to the soldier's next of kin a bulletin is enclosed "explaining that, as the beneficiary" the person to whom the letter is addressed "will receive a gratuity amounting to six months' pay

and allowances." The and allowances is incorrect. Many persons who read the article felt they had failed to get some- thing to which they were entitled, and complained to the War Department. For the mistake and the consequences of the mistake we are exceedingly sorry. IN THE August issue we carried a four-stanza poem by Comrade James Patrick McGovem of Bethesda-Chevy Chase Post, Department of Maryland, titled The War Effort. The third stanza as it appeared in the magazine was a bit garbled, but this is the way in which it actually should have read:

Effort for this war? The martial call To warriors on land, in sky, on sea. Fortifying them to give lives—all, For love of the Nation's reverent memory. And here's another poem on the war the woman in your life WHEN effort from the slant of our all-out pro- gossips admiringly: "And he duction. Titled The Great Lakes Freight- smokes a pipe, of course!" don't ers, its author is Legionnaire Charles S. let her down. Guard that personal Pike of Alger Post of Detroit: plus with true PIPE APPEAL- From the mines of the Mesabi to the mills of Prince Albert! Pleasing fragrance Buffalo The ships plough through the waters on even to keep her smiling. No-bite mild- keel and slow ; ness to keep you smiling. Rich They are loaded to the scuppers with tons of iron ore taste, yet so easy on your tongue. That is needed by the nation for the imple- ments of war Crimp cut to pour, pack, and draw In their cargoes are torpedoes ; there are guns shells smoothly. Better tobacco—world's and jeeps and ; Bombs there are for dire destruction and cre-

largest-selling brand. Logical, ating human hells ; There are submarines more deadly than are isn't it? P. A. for PIPE APPEAL! stealthy water-snakes Aye, Death rides with the cargoes in the R. J. Reynolds Freighters of The Lakes. Tobacco Co. Winston-Salem, Through fog and stormy weather, the ore-boats N. C. make their way. Tossed about by angry lake-winds, coated o'er with icy spray Day and night, as into battle, the big brave freighters go. In their holds the mortal missiles for our haughty, hated foe Steaming onward down the lake-lanes they NCE bear the iron ore From the wilds of icy Northlands to our busy, sandy shore Where at Ecorse on the river, sturdy men of fervid zeal Toil unceasingly for freedom rolling out the hardened steel. From the mines of Minnesota, to the furnaces LBERT and mills Of Ohio and of Pittsburgh, 'mid its smoky, rocky hills. The ore for war goes forward in huge ever- mounting tons For planes and tanks and rifles and the anti-

aircraft guns ; pipefuls of fragrant tobac- And as the steel rolls on and on, to our foes co in every handy pocket we would recall 50 package of Prince Albert "The mills of God grind slowly and the mills BUY of God grind small." fine roil-your-own ciga- WAR So to the valiant vessels and brave crews that rettes in every handy packet BONDS freight the ore We give a cheer as on they steer with stuff 70 package of Prince Albert AND to win this war STAMPS The Editors

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The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine By the time you, my comrades in the Legion, read these lines, I will have

retired from office and our great organization at its second wartime convention

will have set its course for another year of service to God and Country. * * The report of my stewardship as National Commander will be found in the Summary of Proceedings of the Omaha National Convention. Many of

you will have received the message from me there but it seems fitting that I

repeat certain phases of it in this, my last printed message to you as National Commander. * * I have been with our fighting men in many of the army camps in this country, and on the African battlefront. I have talked with them in the camps, in hospitals, and at the front. I know how proud they are of their country; of America—the arsenal of the United Nations. I know, too, of their disappointment and anger when too often they hear of the selfishness, the squabbling, and the jockeying for personal advantage which slows down production on the home front while they defy death, to beat and crush a powerful, cunning, and resourceful foe. * * They are going to win the victory. They are going to defeat and crush Italy and Germany, and Japan will be

destroyed. The initiative is already ours, but total victory is not likely for a

long, long time. * * In public addresses and in writing I have taken every ,e^ionnaires: opportunity to express approval and admiration for America's fighting men. Since my return from Africa, I have said repeatedly, "The American Army of "CARRY ON!" today is the best trained, the best equipped and the best led army America has ever had" and this applies to all of our armed forces. * * In their name

and by your authority, I have unhesitatingly condemned all selfish actions,

all political jockeying which have tended to deprive them of the implements By ROANE WARING of war. I have challenged all un-American doctrines that jeopardize their right to live in a free democracy when they victoriously return and lay down their Jmmediate Past J

tanks just as fast as it is humanly possible to manufacture these armaments. We must protect them and their future by demanding a peace of absolute victory, ever remembering that a compromise peace would pass a death sen- tence on their sons. We must protect them by demanding that Congress assert

itself and assume its rightful authority as the lawmaking branch of the Federal Government. If bureaucracies continue to be pyramided and continue to make bureau regulations to govern this country, instead of laws passed by Congress, then our Constitution will be ignored and we will have lost the freedom for which they fight. * * In short, we on the home front must strive to match the efforts of our fighting men on the battlefront and with this concentration of American might we will speed the final victory. * * When peace dawns again we can meet our soldiers, look them in the eye and truthfully say to them, "We too have done our best. We have carried on. We have tried with our every might to match your courage and your patriotism on the battlefront with our zeal and our patriotism on the home front!' * * And so, I say to you in parting, be vigilant—keep America a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Be generous, buy bonds and give liberally of your time to worthwhile activities. Be patriotic— as good Americans and as good Legionnaires, so con-

duct yourselves as to set an example for other Americans to follow while our

Nation is at war. * * Legionnaires: "Carry On!"

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his little tube can't help you smell. But it can help That's why you can talk across the continent so easily. you talk, see and hear. Right now, it helps direct guns, Over 1,250,000 electronic tubes are in service in the planes, ships. It ought to get a war medal. Bell System. Bell Laboratories developed them, Western Electric made them. It has given birth to a new art called Electronics. But both Laboratories and Western Electric are busy In 1912 in the Bell Laboratories, Dr. H. D. Arnold made now with war — turning out tubes and putting them the first effective high-vacuum tube for amplifying to work in many a device to find and destroy the electric currents. enemy on land, in the air, and under the sea.

Vacuum tubes made possible the first transoceanic After the war, this Bell System army of tubes will telephone talk by the Bell System in 1915. work in thousands of ways for peace.

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Bolte (center) and Cox talk with Brigadier General Raymond E. Lee, United States Army, while in training in England

DON'T know where this story starts. of our contemporaries already had made. I Maybe with the founding of the Remember, we were young (18 to 62d Royal American Regiment in 22), comparatively unattached, com- 1756, raised in the thin Eastern paratively well-educated to the forces fringe There Were of American colonies to fight the behind the war, and not immune to the French and Indians. Maybe in the romantic appeal of seeing the world, twisted paths of thought, conviction and the fight, and a foreign regiment. impulse that led five American college Bob Cox of New York and Windsor, boys to believe England's fight was five of Us Vermont, a senior at Harvard, first America's fight, 'way back in the spring heard about the KRR's plan for young of 1 94 1. Probably the story starts where By CHARLES GUY BOLTE Americans, and from him we heard these two factors joined: that is, when about it at Dartmouth: Jack Brister of the 62d Royal Americans (now the Ambler, Pennsylvania, Bill Durkee of King's Royal Rifle Corps) decided to Balboa Island, California, and myself of renew the old bond with America by it as America's fight: a war America Greenwich, Connecticut, senior class- getting some potential officers to come could lose without fighting, if England mates and friends. The fifth was Hey- to England for training, and when the fell, and Russia maintained her uncom- ward Cutting of New York and Far five of us heard about it, having decided fortable alliance with Germany. From Hills, New Jersey, a Harvard sopho- to join the fight the quickest way pos- there it was easy to decide that if Amer- more. We asked others, but they had sible. ica was going to stay reluctant, we had good or bad reasons for not going then, The decision took a long time to to abdicate temporarily in favor of an though another eight or nine have gone reach, and each of us reached it a dif- army that was fighting; a decision many to England since then. The five of us ferent way, through the dark left New York on July 10, days of isolationism, through 1 94 1, for the war—for adven- the worse days when we stif- In simple soldier language Lieutenant Bolte, a ture, for finishing the fight, for fened our backs under the Dartnnouth graduate who as a lieutenant in a crusade hardly at all, and for charges of softness and cyni- death or limps. the British service lost a leg at El Alannein, cism leveled against us by Two got death and three got some of our elders, until we tells the story of himself and four other Yanks limps. None of us will finish came to a place where we felt who took the King's Shilling (Continued on page 2g)

OCTOBER, 1943 9 The Yanks and the people of Australia are getting along fine now, but at first they didn't even talk the same language. A native of California who mar- ried into Western Australia tells

you about it

A T THE close of the last war, I /\ married an officer in the Aus- I % tralian Arniy, and came here to live in a part of Australia rarely mentioned, save with a patron- izing smile, by the denizens of Sydney and Melbourne. A few other American women who had arrived under similar circumstances, or had met their Aus- tralian husbands while the latter were doing graduate work in American uni- versities, constituted a small group, aug- mented on occasion by strays such as the chief of the Terrestial Magnetism Station at Watheroo, and his charming wife, who were not of course permanent residents. We met on the Fourth of July, ate baked beans and pie a la mode, dough- nuts and "Divinity" fudge, sang one another's college songs and grew senti- mental as the evening advanced, as do homesick Americans all over the world. One year we actually set off firecrackers to the astonishment of the neighbors, who associate such demonstrations with small boys on the 5th of November, "Guy Fawkes' Day." Then came the Depression, and I found a gray hair in my head, and that long-promised trip to somehow The way in which he said, "I am a Virginian" America hadn't come off. In the early showed he was conscious of his heritage days I used to encounter the old sneer at Americans of "We won the war," but I quickly learned to retort "Too right, we won the war, and a damn good thing for you we did." Since the Australian, unless he hap- It's Hi, Digger pens to be a social-climbing Anglophile, is very forthright himself, and much prefers plain speaking from other people, we would just shake hands on it and forget it and everything was fine. and Hi, Yanlc I used to go to the movies and By EVELYN HAVILt SHACKLOCK watch for places I knew, to be shown on the screen. Once there was a scene in San Francisco Baj- and I lost the the Indian Ocean in January when it ing offices, with the idea of going over- thread of the story craning my neck to was hot, and had our annual Fourth seas like their fathers before them. Now see if it was the Oakland or the Berk- of July party in midwinter when it's gen- if you think Idaho, for instance, is a eley the hero crossed on (it was the erally cold as the devil, though the em- long way from Europe, believe me, Oakland), and to remember the places bers of a roaring fire were always handy Western Australia is heaps further, so where the oil lamps once hung, and for making popcorn, especially grown in a little while we settled down again the funny fresco around the "inside." from seed sent from America, and for to our usual activities and, except for My father just about lived on the toasting marshmallows. receiving from a soldier I knew a present Oakland when he was courting my On Sunday evening, the 3d of Sep- of a couple of lively French novels mother in the Gay Nineties; my earli- tember, 1939, we were told over the bought in Cairo, things were pretty much est recollection in life is of the big radio that we were at war. This was the same as always. golden harp in her orchestra. a three days' wonder and we talked Then, one Monday morning the Well, things went along quietly, and about nothing else. Quite a few boys butcher's boy arrived all out of breath we drove to the beach and swam in began asking questions at the recruit- and said, "Oh, Mrs. Shacklock, the Japs

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patriotic pride. I hadn't thought of Illustrated by HENRY RALEIGH "Over There"—that grand old song for more than twenty years. "The Yanks grimly, "but we're short of newspaper

are coming, the Yanks are coming," I print, and can't afford to waste it.

kept time to it as I walked down the That poster's three days old." street. On asking them where they came Our little city was bursting with from, they said Rochester, New York, them. Gobs streamed past, and Air and I told them my father's family Force men, lat«r to be supplemented had lived there ever since there's been

by the Army, all of them milling up a Rochester, and it turned out they and down Hay Street, swarming into knew my cousins, so I invited them to tea rooms looking for ice cream. Local come and see me. They produced their pedestrians jumped nervously as jeeps nicely engraved little visiting cards, and trucks, piloted by lads unaccustomed and I felt in my bag for mine, which to keeping to the left, swung around my mother had had done for me at the the comers of our narrow streets. A White House in San Francisco, only of dozen American naval officers stood on course I didn't have them with me, be- the steps of the Palace Hotel, cool and cause nobody in Perth ever uses any. smart in their white uniforms, and They weren't able to come to the further along Saint George's Terrace house, but next morning there was a the Stars and Stripes were waving above terrific din overhead, as a plane went the Adelphi. Plainly the American in- prowling around the neighborhood. vasion was in full swing! People rushed out of their houses, think-

I went in to get a soda, and slipped ing it was going to crash. The grocer's

onto a high stool between two young boy, watching it, fell off his bicycle. Air Force boj's. The Wiggens's two doors up feared for "I want a choc malt," said one, "and their chimney. My husband pounded

I'll have a lemonade," ordered the on the bathroom door and shouted, other. I was eager for an excuse to "Hurry up! Hurry up! Your boy speak to any one of the thousands friend's come to call on you!" By the around me, and as the girl behind the time I was sufficiently presentable to counter stared at them uncertainly, I appear in the back yard the plane was found my chance! just a speck in the distance, and it was "Excuse me for butting in, but you'll too late to wave our frail silk flag, have to pick something else. This town which has only forty-five stars, and has never heard of a choc malt, and which we hang on the chimney breast what you want," I told the second boy, each Fourth of July. "isn't lemonade. You want a lemon A few days later the Air Force boys squash." vanished. We heard rumors that the

"0. K. . . . 0. K.," he replied, and carrier had sailed. Then we heard we fell to talking. rumors that there just wasn't any car-

"This is a sleepy town all right!" he rier any more. Now all that's left is said. "Don't you know," pointing to simply two handsomely engraved vis- a poster at a newsstand across the iting cards lying in a drawer in the street which said in big black type, livingroom desk. have blown up the whole American Singapore Still Holds Out, "don't you I was going down Jacob's Ladder Navy!" and I said, "You're crazy; I even know that Singapore has fallen, when I met, going the other way, what don't believe it," and he said: "Honest! or is the fact censored?" was, I think, the youngest and smallest It came over the air an hour ago." "We know it, all right," I answered, (Continued on page All the boys and young men who had 47) still been around in the neighborhood disappeared soon after that. The butcher's boy went, too. An ardent Sea Scout, he joined the Na\y. Uncle Sam, I thought loyally, can lick his weight in fighting wildcats, and we've still got Singapore, so nothing much is likely to happen around here. I went on tying up Christmas presents. The news of the fall of Singapore stunned us. I went into town almost automatically to take a singing lesson on a warm afternoon, and when I reached the highway at the foot of our street there were funny looking vehicles bounding along, such as I had never seen before, and ever\' single one had the letters U.S.A. painted on the back. I got into a trolleybus and it was jam- packed with uniforms, strange uniforms without the stiff collars of 191 7—not a doughboy hat among them—but there was no mistaking the grand old sound of American voices. I swelled with

OCTOBER, 1943 his Comk'Book Age By ROBERT FRANCIS

Remember the "dime novel" of your boyhood? It

actually cost only a nickel, and it sold by the mil- lions, to the horror of parents and teachers. Today the comic book, favorite fodder of the millions,

is under fire in the same manner. Here's its story

KIDS won't read anything but those infernal comics!" a MYfriend of mine announced the other day. "There ought to be a law." I heard something like that a long time ago. Likely you did, too, if you ate up the pages while Frank Merriwell slammed across the winning pitch to Bart Hodge and Inez Burradge applauded coyly from the Fardale Academy stands. And by what parental dismay were accompanied those scholarly re- searches into the careers of Fred Fearnot, Jack Harkaway and Buffalo Bill? Fathers roared with disgust at "those confounded Dime Novels" and mothers sighed over the trashy tastes of the new generation. And

teachers didn't like any part of it either. Of course, the "nicer" children's books of that era shared their views. Any student who majored a course in Alger, Oliver Optic, Henty or Stratemeyer will remember that an occasional weaker human vessel in their epics used to drink hard likker and read Dime Novels. They made it pretty clear that a lad who went in for that sort of reading came to no good end. But while their more sonorous periods appeared on much better paper, those old boys managed to pack in as many lurid details as any gaudy-covered thriller presided over by the corner cigar store Indian.

No matter how it was packaged, the preferred literary diet of a studious Victorian childhood was pretty much the same. We grew fat on bloodstains, clanking chains, screams in midnight dark, and shady characters sneering over the sights of forty-fives. The gentlemen who authored those thrillers created a chapter of American folk lore. In spite

of all the uproar and alarm, I can't see that they hurt us much. Now by comics, my friend, who is a newspaper editor, doesn't mean the syndicated strips printed in his paper. He refers to the so-called comic magazines which have assumed the proportions of a major offensive on the juvenile reading habits of the country.

"Comics" is a silly word for them now. The Bam-Pow-Zowie school of the "Funny Paper" recessed long ago in favor of the continuous adventure story. Newspaper strips today are nearly all novelettes told in pictures. The comic magazine, their offspring, is a collection of the same kind of thing, except that all stories are complete episodes in each issue and are gaited strictly to youngster consumption. Actually, they are nothing more or less than the good old Dime Novel, streamlined and juiced up to meet the blood-and-thunder demands of a generation more familiar with a stratosphere plane than a horse car. So now the comic books come in for a panning like their predecessors, since fathers and mothers discover that it is next to impossible to keep Johnnie's and Susie's noses out of the gayly-tinted pages. They have been labeled " a poisonous mushroom growth," and are charged with corrupting decent reading habits. Their trashy, fantastic plots encourage day-dream- ing. They promote race hatred. It all has a familiar ring. And perhaps some of the brickbats are justified. Jack's beanstalk "mushroom growth" they are, a growth as fantastic. About nine years ago, the Eastern Color Printing Company of Connecticut, which printed colored Sunday comic sections for various newspapers, got the notion of putting old comic releases into book form at about a quarter of their original size. These books were sold to manufacturers for premium and souvenir purposes. The idea clicked, and a certain, foresighted salesman, M. C. Gaines, figured that if youngsters would buy stuff to get a premium book, they'd pay ten cents for the same thing at the local five-and-dime or newsstand. (Continued on page J4)

The Waiting for the day of deliverance, as certain as tomorrow's sun

Johnny Doughboy^ Prisoner By A. D. RATHBONE IV

Fritzie Deutschland should happen civilian internees and some of the dis- Illustrated by HERB STOOPS IFto take Johnny Doughboy as a abled soldiers have figured in any ex- prisoner of war, Fritzie cannot change of prisoners. According to the and "the use of tobacco shall be per- emulate his militaristic ancestors terms of the Geneva Convention, which mitted." of the Middle Ages and sell Johnny as Germany signed and ratified, Johnny As a prisoner, he "may be employed a slave. Neither can he put him in a must be "lodged in buildings or in bar- in the kitchens" of the prison camp, prison ship, a dungeon, or in irons, nor racks affording all possible guarantees and Germany, as the detaining power, can he hold Johnny for ransom. Those of hygiene and healthfulness." He must is faced with the dictum that "clothing, customs went out a long time ago, along be provided with a food ration "equal linen, and footwear shall be furnished with a lot of other distinctly un-nice in quantity and quality to that of troops prisoners of war," and that "replacement ideas concerning prisoners of war. at base camps." He must be furnished and repairing of these effects must be So, if Fritzie does catch Johnny with "a sufficiency of potable water," assured regularly." Furthermore, it must unawares, and Johnny has no be made possible for Johnny choice but to surrender, he im- to send and receive mail and mediately becomes a ward of How goes it with that lad who was captured parcels, "to take physical exer- the German government, in cise and by the Heinies at Kasserine Pass last spring? enjoy the open air," to which status he will doubtless be medically inspected "at least Does he get enough to eat? Can his folks remain for the duration. In once a month," to have free- recent warfare only certain send him things? Mr. Rathbone's article tells all (Continued on page 34)

OCTOBER, I94S 13 In utter selflessness and devotion to duty Chinese women carry on an unceasing and devastating irregular war upon the enemy, particularly in sec- tions the Japs have occupied. Here's their story

Soo spent hours each day visiting and or its vicinity on the following evening. comforting the wounded and spent vir- Pressed for further information, the tually all of her earnings for cigarettes, major stated that the Japanese military, candy and other things for the unfortu- in defiance of the International Settle- nate men. In time she became known as ment police, would raid the hotel for the "angel" of the Fu Ta-dah hospital, the purpose of rounding up a guerilla where she also frequently assisted the band suspected of making the hotel its nurses, even to scrubbing floors and headquarters. washing rice bowls. Miss Soo lost no time in contacting At that time Shanghai was faced with the guerilla leader, Lo Shen, the result the serious problem of housing and feed- being that when Jap soldiers, armed to Fighters ing the hundreds of thousands of Chi- the teeth, swooped down on the hotel, nese refugees who had sought the safety the birds had flown. of the International Settlement and the Major Shirada was furious, but al- By HAL P. MILLS French Concession. Patriotically, the though he strongly suspected Miss Soo owners of the Metropole closed the of warning the guerillas, he dared not ballroom and converted it into quarters arrest and charge her, because of his CHINESE women and girls are for the housing of refugees. own indiscretion. However, he repaired playing an important role in Miss Soo transferred to the huge Mei to the Mei Kao May that night, danced that nation's efforts to throw Kao May Ballroom, which was largely with Miss Soo, drank heavily and finally off the Nipponese yoke. In the patronized by Japanese military officers created an uproar, accusing her of having Shanghai area alone, since August of and Chinese in the pay of the Japs. An stolen his wallet. i937> which marked the outbreak of excellent dancer and conversationalist, Other Japanese officers gathered Sino-Japanese hostilities, more than 400 she speedily became the favorite of Jap around, the two and the enraged major, Chinese women have paid with their officers, evading their maudlin attempts supposedly an officer and a gentleman, lives for their patriotism and loyalty. at pawing and petting to the best of slapped and brutally kicked the girl, Consider heroic Miss Soo Fah-Tsze, her ability, at the same time encouraging then dragged her across the dance floor one-time queen of taxi dancers at them to talk of the war, thus often by her hair. Two indignant Australian Shanghai's Metropole Ballroom. The obtaining information of value to the civilians managed to rescue the injured beautiful Miss Soo, shapely, vivacious and Chinese, which she promptly communi- taxi dancer, but at great risk to them- patriotic, had lived in Japan for several cated to Lo Shen, a Chinese guerilla selves. years and was familiar with the Japanese chief, or one of his associates. Miss Soo was taken to the Chinese language. One October night at the ballroom Red Cross Hospital, and the major or- In 1937, Miss Soo, who was then 19 where she was employed, Miss Soo's dered the Association of Cabaret and years of age, was the favorite taxi entire evening was taken up by a would- Ballroom Owners to put her name on dancer at the Metropole Ballroom. Fol- be amorous Jap army officer answering the black list. This was done—the own- lowing Japan's cowardly attack upon to the name of Major Shirada. Heavy ers dared not do otherwise, but they China in August of that year, wounded drinking loosened the major's tongue. did raise a substantial fund for the Chinese soldiers were taken to Shanghai He warned Miss Soo to remain away patriotic girl. and lodged in improvised hospitals. Miss from the Chinese Great Eastern Hotel Thus the "gallant" major dug his own grave. Miss Soo borrowed a pistol from a guerilla, then sent a contrite note to the major, asking forgiveness and requesting that he call at her home on the night of October 24th. Obviously the major had not forgotten the physical charms of the girl, for he appeared at her home at the suggested time, but in accordance with ever-present Jap- anese suspicion, brought along two soldiers as bodyguards. An amah (Chinese female servant) admitted the trio and as the major and soldiers ascended the stairs to the girl's room, pistol shots rang out and the major fell, mortally wounded. The two soldiers also were wounded, but not fatally. Miss Soo than ran to her room and shot herself, dying almost immedi- ately, rather than face torture and death at the hands of the Japs. The Jap mili- tary barricaded the entire area and for weeks would not permit any foreigners or Chinese to pass in or out. When the barriers finally were removed, hundreds The Jap guard bayoneted her wrists when the pain of persons, including two Filipino of the wire caused her to move her hands slightly musicians, were nearing starvation.

141 Tlif AMERICAN I.FGIOM Mi!',a-Jnf he J^j^ major brutally kicked the girl, then dragged her across the dance hall by the hair

Prior to Pearl Harbor, Shanghai had they discovered to their amazement and Illustrated by WALTER HERRINGTON more than 3,000 Chinese taxi dancers, loss of face that Liang was a woman. of whom more than half had promptly Chinese say that Liang, mother of five wives or relatives of farmers, although engaged in various types of war work, sons, two of them in the Chinese army, many other callings are represented, principally hospital and Red Cross was strangled to death in Chapei including a considerable number of activities. by the Japs on Christmas Day of former college students, some of whom The Japs suspect that the remaining 1940. It was she who plotted the were famous as athletes. The latter have taxi dancers donate generously to Chi- destruction of the heavily-barricaded proved excellent fighting material and nese war relief funds, but they are Japanese Naval Landing Party Head- first-class marksmen. unable to prove it, although many of quarters at Shanghai, a plot frustrated It is not unusual for the wife of a the girls have been arrested and closely by a traitorous Chinese, but which other- farmer irregular to fill in for her husband questioned, even confined for weeks at wise would have been successful—in in case the latter is killed or captured. a time. fact, three powerful time bombs were An example: In and near the little vil- Contrary to belief in some quarters, actually planted within the structure lage of Wah Po, about 56 miles from the Japanese are fond of boasting, par- itself. Shanghai, a district where guerillas had ticularly officers in their cups and much The Japs' impudent, arrogant Victory been particularly active, Japs rounded highly-valuable military information has Parade through the heart 'of the Inter- up all able-bodied men, forced them to been obtained by the lowly taxi dancers, national Settlement in 1937 cost the dig a long trench, then shot and killed ior the benefit of their country. life of Mrs. Liang's youngest son. As them, burying the bodies in the trench. In Shanghai, as well as other cities the Jap soldiers marched along Nanking To the utter amazement of the Nips, of occupied China, thousands of women Road, near the great Wing On Depart- their small garrison at Wah Po was at- are regularly engaged in the task of ment Store, her 17-year-old son threw tacked and exterminated that same preparing bandages and dressings for hand grenades which wounded eleven night. Female irregulars had taken wounded Chinese soldiers. The Chinese Japs. A Chinese constable of the set- up where the men left off. During the have their own methods of smuggling tlement shot and killed young Liang as following week the garrisons of three the articles into Free China, despite Jap he attempted to flee. other small villages were wiped out and vigilance. China probably has more feminine in desperation the Japs sent word to When the Japs jubilantly captured irregular soldiers, fighting side by side Shanghai for reinforcements. More than the noted, much-feared guerilla chief, with venturesome male guerillas than 1,000 fresh Jap soldiers were sent to Liang King-fu, slayer of scores of Japs any other army in the world. For the the area, their first act being to com- and leader of a daring, fearless band, greater part these female irregulars are i Continued on page 44)

OCTOBER, 1943 IS Losing Team

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THIS had been football I d have officers and non-coms—knew why we IFfelt swell—and a hell of a lot more were out here. We had played football other. Some of us in the heat of gridiron confident—with my old coach with and against each other in the fall battle had called each other so-and-so's, CruiKher Morgan running the show. and spent our vacations in the Aleutian and traded a punch or two when the But this was war, the Japs were landing Islands, fishing, trading or surveying. We officials weren't looking. If a guy will in droves, and Colonel Cruncher Morgan knew how to take care of ourselves, and stand up and trade punches with you, commanded the American forces. You our men, in the vile Aleutian weather. you know he's dependable when you're could tell that the enlisted men, the non- The Kurile islands are actually an exten- shoulder to shoulder against a common coms, as well as we young officers won- sion of the Aleutian chain. The chain foe. None of this explained Cruncher dered how Cruncher rated a colonel's forms stepping stones of the Seattle- Morgan. eagles. All of us knew him as one of the Tokyo Highway which the American Steve Ladd squirmed through the West Coast's best coaches, and a Rose forces are readying for a lot of west- tundra to my side. "My God, Mike," he Bowl winner, but that didn't qualify him bound traffic. growled, "why doesn't that coach of to win a Kurile island from the Japs. It was logical that the brass hats as- yours give the order to tire? When those Not for my dough. sign us to this particular outfit. Besides yellow apes started landing we out- Three or four dozen of us—young knowing the country, we knew each {Contimied ofi page jo) i6 The AMERICAN LEGION Ma%a~Jne GOOD TOBACCO, YES . . .THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF THE WORLD'S BEST CIGARETTE TOBACCOS

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OCTOBER. 1941 19 An evacuee family in its barracks apartment at the Tulelake Relocation Center in California

NOBODY seems At first, it was said to know by the WRA that these what's be- releases were made only come of many after the record of each of the Japanese internees Host to the Japs individual had been released from War Relo- cleared through the FBI. cation Centers to accept This statement appeared civilian jobs they later to have been made in deserted, without leaving any forwarding error, for the FBI later said they had

addresses. Most amazing is that the War not been asked to make any check, and What It's like in one of Uncle Relocation Authority is wholly uncon- had not made any. The WRA then said cerned, and admittedly doesn't intend to Sam's Relocation Centers it had reported erroneously; no check

do anything about it. Rather, says the had been made by the FBI. WRA, the program of releasing evacuees The West Coast, from where these will be stepped up, in line with a policy Nipponese were evacuated by the West- of relocating as many of these people as By LEO A. McCLATCHY ern Defense Command of the Army, and possible. "It's the social thing to do." turned over to what Dies Committee At this writing, a report from the members have since branded as "cod- WRA shows that of the 112,098 resi- City and elsewhere. The WRA is author- dling" by the "stupid" and "inefficient" dents of the ten relocation centers, ity for the statement that many of the WRA, has become a bit jittery over this 15.861 are absent as follows: seasonal. colonists who accepted these jobs, dis- situation. There is fear that some of 5,946; short-term, 566; indeiinite, 9.359. appeared shortly after they arrived at these liberated Nips may return, to plot It is largely from the "indefinite" classi- the places of work, and have not since and carry out sabotage and other fication that the disappearances have been heard from, officially. Where they fifth-column activities. The Westerners,

occurred. This is the group permitted to are or what they may be doing is not through their congressional representa- leave the centers for placement in jobs known to the WRA, and so far as could tives, are demanding that all of the offered through WRA employment of- be learned no check is being made by former colonists be rounded up and

fices in Minneapolis, . Chicago, Kansas any agency of the Government. returned to the Relocation Centers and 20 : —

In the June issue we carried an article by Dr. Frederick G. Murray OUR NEIGHBORS titled Japs in Our Yard which advo- cated settling on islands of the Paci- ''The Japs in our Yard" fic, Japanese who have been living in this country. There was one reserva- BY CLAUDE N. SETTLES tion. Said Dr. Murray, "Naturally, a To the Editor of The American Legion rioting, the sanctioning of Shinto lec- man of Japanese ancestry who has Magazine tures in the camps, the disloyalty of the served the United States as a mem- members of the Japanese American ber of the uniformed services in this WRITE this as a veteran of World Citizens League, and dozens of other in First World should war or the War I War I, as a member of The Amer- charges blatantly made in the press were be allowed to live where he wishes." ican Legion, and as a direct descen- largely fabrications, political chaff to Legionnaire Murray's article carried dant of men who fought loyally in Rev- blow in the eyes of voters who were the sub-title "One approach to a olutionary days for principles which seeing too much. difficult after-the-war problem." We our magazine seems at times to have The Dies Committee charges were have selected the following letter by abandoned. part and parcel of the same weird tales When I first read the article Japs in found in Japs iti Our Yard. These people Legionnaire Claude Settles, a Cali- Our Yard in the June issue of our mag- settled only in strategic areas, we were fornlan who has left his college teach- azine I was exasperated that such rank told. But when we investigate we find ing job to serve with the American misrepresentations of fact could be al- that they, for the most part, bought Red Cross, as typical of many that we lowed to go uncontested. Then I learned where lands were cheap—long before the have received protesting against Dr. of the strong language with which the areas became strategic. Murray's statements, and publish it District Meeting of the Legion in Fari- We are told they "breed like flies" alongside Mr. McClatchy's article as bault, Minnesota had condemned the but their birth rate is less than that of "another approach." article and I felt better. the native whites, if we can believe

Alexander Gardiner, Editor I felt still better when I learned first House Report 2124. hand the way in which the Dies Commit- We are told that all States should tee at the end of -one week closed up a deny these exiled citizens the right to kept there for the duration. Further, scheduled three-week investigation of settle within their boundaries. Instead, they are insisting that complete admin- the conduct of the Relocation Centers it is implied we should take a minority istration of these centers be taken over and decided that the wild stories about group which has proved itself the most by the Army, and that the WRA itself cached food stores, refusal of the self-sufficient, the least inclined to crime, be evacuated and dispersed. WRA to call in the Army to suppress (Continued on page 57) First intimation that all was not well in the war relocation centers came from The American Legion's Department of California, whose investigating commit- tee issued a sizzling report about con- ditions it described as existing in the Manzanar and Tulelake centers. Here, it was charged, there was an "over- whelming pampering" of evacuees, many of whom were openly subversive; lib- erty was pretty much unrestricted, and the colonists were able to purchase through their self-operated cooperative stores many items of merchandise no longer available to the civilian popula- tion. This report was given official state

sanction when it was adopted by an investigating committee of the Califor- nia Legislature. It recommended that; 1. An appropriate course in American- ism be established, and that all adult evacuees be compelled to attend. 2. The English language be taught to all adult evacuees unable to speak English.

3. Some effort be made to segregate subversive from loyal evacuees. 4. Administration of all Relocation Centers be vested in the United States Army. This report prompted the more ex- tensive Dies Committee investigation, resulting in the official spading up of huge hoards of rationed food—including choice cuts of beef unavailable in civi- lian markets—for serving at evacuee meal tables. Most astonishing in the Dies Committee jackpot was the reve- Members of a camp fire department go through a practice routine (Continued on page 49) in near-zero weather 21 Opening night at the Service Men's Dormitory established and operated by Arthur L. Peter- son Post at Long Beach, California. Service men are registering for beds for the night

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thousands of American Le- and a hasty wash-up at a watering gate and . report on the problem. The SOMEgion Posts have won a place in trough were accepted as things to be committee, with true Legion initiative,

the hearts of service men because expected, but not always philosophi- made its investigation and at the very of timely and unselfish acts and cally. "C'est la guerre!" did not always next meeting, one week later, made a programs. Hundreds of Posts have es- completely satisfy the soldier who very comprehensive report. In addition, tablished service centers where the men hankered for a bed, clean sheets, and the committee reported a plan to amelio- gather for rest and recreation. Still a warm shower after a hard day of rate, if not cure, the condition. 'Beds hundreds of others have broadened the drill or travel. So, it is easy to under- for Buddies' was the plan recommended, service center idea to include sleeping stand why Legionnaires were quick to for which quarters had been found and rooms, bath facilities and other com- interest themselves in housing, and to a scheme for getting the means to pro- forts for the transients traveling under see to it that proper facilities were made vide the necessary furnishings had been orders and for those on furlough. available. formulated. Housing has become something of a "One of the most serious conditions "The Long Beach City Council was problem, even in the larger cities. Rooms faced by Long Beach, California, was asked to provide cots, mattresses, blank- for the night cannot always be had at the shortage in accommodations for serv- ets, sheets and pillows, and the Council, hotels near the railway and bus stations. ice men on furlough or leave," writes knowing the situation from first-hand Then there are the boys who are caught Legionnaire Hugo Evon Frey, whose reports, met the Post's recommenda- a bit short in the pocketbook. All of name is known as a contributor to na- these things add up to make a pretty tional magazines. "Hundreds of men problem, particularly in the terminal were compelled to sleep in hotel lob- centers and in towns where a large bies, on park benches and even on cots number of soldiers, sailors and Marines in police headquarters. Week-ends, espe- congregate to spend their limited days cially, would find hundreds of service of freedom from a rigorous training men in crowded, unsanitary and very schedule. uncomfortable quarters. Legion men have a lively recollection "Arthur L. Peterson Post of the Le- of their experiences a quarter of a cen- gion took cognizance of the condition tury ago when boxcar transportation and appointed a committee to investi-

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lion with instant approval and some 200 cots. The quarters recommended were located on the second floor of a down- town business building, near the railroad and bus terminals. Volunteers from the Post cleaned up the place, scrubbing and painting until everything was ready for an admiral's or a general's inspec- tion. Showers, wash basins, latrines and toilets were installed and, to make the men feel at home, such signs as 'latrine' and 'heads' were displayed conspicu- ously. To add further to the homelike atmosphere, souvenirs and decorations were scattered about. Seat of command in the brand new home of Harry Coppendyke Post "A balcony runs along the entire of Fair Lawn, New Jersey—a $10,000 home built by a 78-member unit front, overlooking Ocean Avenue. This space has been made use of by fitting it up as a general lounge room, with together and are assigned to the double House and Home reading matter and writing facilities, bunks they laughingly toss a coin to IS an easy jump from the Long and as a place where guests can be re- determine who is to sleep on the top IT ceived. deck. Beach dormitory to some of the new Legion in different parts of the "Errtrance to the place is easy. The "The place is always crowded. It is homes rules require that only men in uniform a real service to the service men and country. Legion Posts, most of them, are house- can register, each recording his home is just one example of what is being and home-minded and even town address. Registration completed, done and what can be accomplished. in this day of stress and trouble, home- building each man is given an American Legion The appreciation of the men in uniform goes on. Many Posts have de- Hospitality Card, on one side of which today will be remembered when they, ferred building projects to invest their savings in others is the bunk assignment. The men are too, return to civil life." War Bonds; have car- urged to keep these cards and, when The Long Beach plan, which falls into ried out the building plan with the showing them to their service comrades, the general pattern with modifications thought of fitting the new home into call attention to the Service Men's to suit local conditions, has been very some practical purpose in the national Dormitory at Long Beach. successful. Other Posts are doing a simi- war effort—community center, coordina- tion point for various "Each man is given clean sheets and lar work, and still others have projects — community pillow covers—and these are laundered on foot either to establish dormitories or boards and committees, and whatnot. after each use. Most of the beds are to expand their service center programs. Hafry Coppendyke Post of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, has completed a ten-thou- single bunks, with good mattresses and It is worth while; a bath and clean sand-dollar home, a neat structure springs, but some are of the 'two-story' sheets does a lot to lift the morale of with space serve its kind. Usually when two boys come in any man. ample to 78 members, and to carry on a broad program of com- munity enterprises. This clubhouse has an unusual history. At 11 A. m., on

December 7, 1941, members of the Post and interested friends gathered to break ground for the new building; just a couple of hours later the radio flashed the news of the Jap- anese attack on Pearl Harbor. So Harry Coppendyke Post's home and the current war were initiated at almost the same hour. The building proj- ect was carried through to comple- tion under the direc- Allen County Post of Scottsvllle, Kentucky, bought tion of a committee a nice club home a short distance out of town and composed of David T. celebrated the event with an old-fashioned picnic Probert, Chairman;

OCTOBER. 1943 better (not bigger) quarters, says Past

Commander G. A. Amidon, who is also a Past Commander of Philip Wade Post of Brighton, Colorado. "After moving a building from the site selected," says our reporter, "the battle was on. One Legionnaire donated some trees for lumber; another, who was in the logging business, trucked the logs in; another sawed them at his sawmill, and a member in the shingle business sawed out the shingles. "Saturdays, Sundays and many other days and evenings found other Post members on the building job. We've got a new home and had a lot of fun build-

ing it, along with many Monday-morn- ing backaches. Our Post was host to the Members of the Albion (Michigan) Post and Unit watched Commander Tenth District Conference in 1942, and Ralph Wilkinson and Mrs. Willard Reiser, Unit President, burn the mortgage in that year made 220 percent of our membership quota, and we came back to grab the highest percentage over Adam Weilhower, John Doran, Ernest 35 feet, seats 200 people. The kitchen, quota in the Tenth District again this Burke, and John Coudert. Arthur Hae- point of interest for Legionnaires, is year. These are a few things 'that fire' nichen was the architect. Six of the 78 large and roomy, with plenty of cabinet did for us." members of the Post are back in uni- space conveniently arranged.

form, and 27 sons of Post members are Harlingen is located in Cameron serving with them. County, the extreme southwestern coun- Out of Debt Scottsville, Kentucky, got into the ty of Texas, bordering on the Rio BUILDING a new home is one thing news a few weeks ago as the evacuation Grande and the Gulf of Mexico, and and paying for the completed build- center for the killed and injured in a only a few miles from Brownsville. ing is another, but during the past major plane crash. Scottsville is also "Three years ago," says Dr. D. C. Rose, month, while the reports of new homes the home of Allen County Post, an up- Post Commander, "I suggested in a were accumulating, the Stepkeeper had and-coming unit of the Bluegrass State also reports of incendiary parties when Legion, which has acquired a nice club Posts, celebrating release from debt on property located on the Glasgow High- their club houses, burned the old mort- way, about one mile from the city. The gages. home was dedicated on Sunday, July Albion (Michigan) Post and Auxiliary 4th, when an old-fashioned picnic was held an informal meeting when Mrs. held, with guests coming from con- a Willard Reiser, Unit President, applied siderable distance. Commander Elvis G. a match to the paid-off mortgage while Cole presided; Colonel Charles M. Car- it was held by Post Commander Ralph ter made the address of welcome, and Wilkinson. The document represented the principal speakers were W. D. Gil- an indebtedness of $1,750 made out in liam, Chairman of the Local Draft 1925, and considerably over $1,000 in Board, and Judge N. F. Harper, Chair- interest had been paid on it during the man of the Draft Board during the First 18 years it ran. The indebtedness was World War. "The new home will be regular meeting that the Post sponsor reduced to $800, where it stuck "in ready for the veterans of World II and build a swimming pool for our city. War suspension" during the depression years. when they return." said Commander I was Post Adjutant when the swim- It was not until the depression was Cole. ming pool was completed, and I had definitely over that payments were re- Pride and joy of Harlingen (Texas) the honor to sign the contract and see sumed and in a final effort, the work Post is its newly completed home, built the new home through to completion and of a committee under Howell Van Gor- to care for the needs of the present dedication." don, sufficient cash was mustered to dis- membership and for an expanded Post It is quite a distance from Harlingen, charge the debt. when this war is over. The building is Texas, to Oakville, Washington, where Purchased six years ago at a cost of finished throughout with knotty white William T. Hyder Post has recently $10,000. Joseph Baker Post of Toledo. pine, and the main auditorium, 60 by dedicated a new home to replace the Ohio, has finally discharged its debt quarters that went up in smoke on and celebrated the event by burning the the night of November 1939. After 9, mortgage. But while making payments meeting for a year in a grade school on the splendid clubhouse, a remodeling gym. Post members got the urge for job was undertaken, completed and paid for—all done by Post members, includ- III ing a large third-floor room dedicated to the use of the Post-sponsored Boy Scout Troop. The firebug party was a gala affair, Harlingen (Texas) Post has just attended by a large number of Legion- dedicated its new home (top). naires and Auxiliaries from the Toledo At right, the new home of Wil- area. The ceremony of reducing the liam T. Hyder Post at Oakville, mortgage to ashes was accomplished by Wash., built by Post members District Commander Peter Klippel, Jos- eph Baker Post member, who held the

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine document while matches were applied

to it by Mrs. Fred- erick Watts, Depart- ment President, and Martin V. Coffey, De- partment Comman- der. The Post had

1 01 members when it moved into its club home six years ago; now it has 333 mem- bers, six of whom have seen service in the current war. Shown in the picture on this page are, center. Department President Watts and Department Commander Coffey touching matches to the mortgage held by District Commander Peter Klippel. President Watching the proceedings, left to right, Ohio's Department Connmander and Department are William G. Biehler, House Man- apply matches to the mortgage on the home of Joseph ager; Earl E. Baird, Post Commander; Baker Post of Toledo, held by District Commander Klippel and Samuel Renshaw, Douglas McLain, Frederick Watts, and Edwin J. Tippett, ports Commander Milo Thompson, and tion of an active unit at an unspecified Jr., Editor of the American Legion the mortgage was paid off. Then the location in Northern Africa, with a Councillor, all Past Post Commanders. Post held an incendiary party on July membership made up of Douglas Air- Van Nuys (California) Post had an 21 —one of the quickest on record. Le- craft Company foreign project workers old debt of $1,600 hanging over its gionnaire A. R. Anderson impregnated and Army personnel whose active serv- home—not such a burden, but the mem- the paper with gunpowder and when ice in the First World War qualifies bers wanted to clear it up. Legionnaire the match was applied there was a flash them for membership. Boasting of an Sherman E. Weaver proposed that 80 —and no more mortgage. The action enrolment of more than 300 veterans of members volunteer the loan of $20 was too quick for the photographer to the war of twenty-five years ago, the each, without interest, with the under- get a picture. Post is reported to maintain one of the standing that two notes would be re- most popular social spots on the Douglas tired each month, the two to be paid Middle East Post projects. to be drawn by lot at a regular meeting. Among its active personnel who are Eighty of the 200 members of the IDDLE East Post No. i. The included in the picture below are, first Post responded to the suggestion, re- M American Legion, is the designa- {Continued oft page 32)

Legionnaires associate themselves together in a Post in Northern Africa—exact location not disclosed —where civilian employes of an aircraft company and members of the Army meet to carry on the common purposes of the organization

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Regulations violated? Army nurses dance with dough- boys and gobs on the honneward-bound transport George iVashingfon in August, 1919. The shot at left shows the super-colossal stag line at the impromptu dance

dearth of damsels for men in uniform appears to be one THEwartime problem that will never be solved. For parties or dances at Service Clubs on posts or stations, at U. S. 0. Clubs and at any of the innumerable other places of recreation provided for our soldiers and sailors and marines and coast guardsmen, cities, towns and villages surrounding the posts are scoured for dancing partners who are hauled by truckloads to the festive occa- sions. But still there are never enough girls to go 'round. "Wallflowers" during war days can be accounted for only by the fact that they must be the victims in the too-intimate and too-candid strip cartoons that advertise toiletries in most present-day publica- tions. It was true in our war, and now, with the girls in slacks and overalls employed in war plants, whose work prevents them from

entertaining the service men, it is even more true in this one. That bit of preachifying was inspired by the two First World War photographs shown on this page, which were graciously contributed to Then and Now by Mrs. Howard S. Bannister, 12237 Washburn, Detroit, Michigan, former Army nurse and now a member of Ragan- Lide Post, with this story: "I have enclosed two photographs which I obtained in August, 1919, while homeward bound from the A. E. F. aboard the U. S. S. George Washington. As you may know, the ban on association of nurses and enlisted men had been lifted. Many of us nurses were lined up along the rail of our deck listening to some Army band playing on the deck below, which was packed with soldiers. "Some of the soldiers called up and dared us to come down and dance with them. After a few minutes' consideration, we took their dare and were greeted with waves of cheers as we descended the rope with ladder—a feat which, I understand, present-day Army nurses take in On pictures, the girls today are cer- their stride! According to moving tainly getting training we never thought of. "Needless to say, when I landed at the foot of that ladder and looked into that sea of faces, my knees were knocking together the Dance perhaps because I was not much of an old seadog—but thank goodness 26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — :

of Red Cross Volunteer Nurses' Aides in the present war has prevented me from THEN and NOW being very active in my Legion Post, although the Legion endorses such work. "Perhaps some of the boys who re- His letter came to this department turned on the George Washington on shortly after he had acquired a French that trip will remember the festivities postal stamp on which was reproduced pictured and may even discover them- one of the noted structures in Hcaune, selves among the dancers or stag line. France. We show the stamp that Dr. Letters from them and from my fellow- Kleiner sent to us some months ago, nurses who helped entertain the boys along with two postcard views of the will be welcomed by me." particular structure in which he is in-

terested. All right, Doc, the floor is present indications, an inquiry FROM yours from Legionnaire Simon B. Kleiner, 'T am enclosing a 15-franc stamp M. D., of 315 Whitney Avenue, New which I recently received that I think the sea was calm that day. Anyhow we Haven, Connecticut, may be answered will be of great interest to the former danced—and what a 'stag line' we had! before too long by some of our young members of Base Hospital 47, Base Soldiers and gobs, both, were our part- fighters who are doing a bang-up job of Hospital 61 and other hospitals in ners. I am in the center of the larger setting the Axis forces back on their Beaune, Cote d"Or, as well as to the print, dancing with a soldier—a good heels in Europe. He wants to know what many American-soldier students at the likeness of my 'hair-do.' The other has happened to a town in France in A. E. F. University in that town. print shows the crowded deck, rails, which he served with the ist A. E. F. "All of the men who were in Beaune masts—men clinging everywhere. back in 191 8; whether the full occupation will remember the Hotel-Dieu as the "I enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps of that country resulted in the destruc- civil hospital which was built in 1443 by as Clara H. Parker, from Columbus, tion of any of the historic landmarks Philip the Good. This Duke of Burgundy Nebraska, during January, 1918 and was with which he and thousands of other endowed the hospital by allowing it to sent to Camp Shelby in Mississippi Americans had become acquainted. take the income from the surrounding vineyards, and many of us remember the colorful Sale of Wine which was held HOSPtCHS I>K UKArNK there in October, 1918, and probably continued to be held annually until the

one of the larger camps in the present war. During November, 191 8, I was sent with a replacement unit to France. After wading around in the mud at Brest and bathing in an oversized soupbowl for a while. I was assigned to Base Hospital No. 88 at Savenay. "At that hospital occurred the out- standing event of my army life. One of my patients was Sergeant Howard S. Bannister, Truck Company 8, 23d Engi- neers, who had misjudged a cur\'e while riding a motorcycle. He was with a detail guarding German prisoners of war. Dur- ing the year following our return to the States, that sergeant became my hus- The 15-franc stamp of pre-Nazi days brought forth the pictures band. He is a member of Twenty-Third Hotel-Dieu its quaint kitchen, known Engineers Post of the Legion, while my of the centuries-old and E. F. University students membership is in Ragan-Lide Post, al- to many hospital corpsmen and ex-A. though at present my work as a teacher who were in Beaune, France, during the First World War

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Boston Navy Yard and the other. Com- monwealth Pier in Boston. Both teams featured a lot of college men from Dartmouth, Colgate, Yale and other big- name colleges, including 'Cupid' Black of Yale and Cannell of Dartmouth. As you can see, the cheer leader was a vintage peculiar to that time, as he was more of the shortstop type. The game was good, but the score escapes me. "The U. S. Navy Radio School, Har- vard University, was just nicely under- way when sixty sailors from Mare Island, California, arrived and were assigned to the 15th Company. Included among this number was Landsman for Radio Norman A. McKinnon—myself. We had lingered at Dunwoodie Institute in Min- neapolis for a month for some unknown reason, although while there we did add a little salty flavor to a parade in honor Instead of colored cards, gobs in the rooting section of a Bos- of the Minnesota regiment of the to- ton Navy Yard-Connmonwealth Pier football game on Soldier's be-famous Rainbow Division, and later Field, Harvard, in 1917, used their white caps to spell out NAVY acted as ushers at one of Gar Wood's first speedboat races on the Mississippi. "We went to school in Pierce Hall Nazi occupation of the entire country. Base Hospital 47 veterans, or any other and were quartered in a dormitory, name "As a medical officer of Base Hospital Legion readers, have any information not remembered, then in Hemingway 47, I naturally visited the Hotel-Dieu about Beaune, letters to me would be Gym, and finally Craigie Hall, where we many times and enjoyed seeing the beau- appreciated." were six to a room. We followed the tiful paintings, intricate leaded work and usual Navy routine, including reveille, quaint old kitchens of the ancient hos- EVEN though it's Kick-Off time, the calisthenics, drill, school, meals, etc. pital. There was also a modern addition drain of young manpower for the We had a short intensive course in to the hospital with a well-equipped op- fighting forces has resulted in a far dif- electricity and wireless telegraphy. The erating room which contrasted greatly ferent situation in the field of football. universities colleges dis- with the timbered wards and other relics Many and have So!^.deoA)e^-)hn ain't of the days before America was discov- continued football for the duration, So bad oP' a \oo\

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THERE WERE FIVE OF US bloody, an awful night of confusion smoke, dust, tracer, bombs, and shells; {Continued from page g and from the stinking unburied Jerries but we gained positions on the ridge the fight. 0{ adventure we had pretty and Ities, swarmed over us, and drank and held them until the armor moved good portion. As for the crusade, which most of our tea before we could. We up. From those positions a week later we didn't expect it to be, no one will found out about the sun, and came to was launched the attack which broke know about that until we see what kind take its blazing heat so much for granted the German defenses of El Alamein and of peace we win after we have won the. we didn't talk about it any more. Some started the longest and quickest retreat war. days we drove across rutted desert in military history. I'm not laying any bets on it. tracks with the sand in our eyes so thick Heyward Cutting led his MG platoon We trained for a year in England, and we couldn't see ten feet. Other days we onto the ridge, Wishka, and was pinned learned to know and love that pleasant drove for miles over unmarked sand and down by heavy enemy fire, mostly on land and some of its quiet, shy, sound, gravel hills, following a careful compass fixed Ones, partly directed at his trucks courageous people, strange to us and course where no one had been before outlined against the blazing tanks and hard to know but once known the most but Bedouins. The happiest time was lorries behind him. He got his platoon faithful and generous friends. We a week our battalion spent resting at out of the hole, picked up a wounded learned to call the regiment the 6oth Burg el Arab, bathing every day in the fellow-officer, started to a flank in his Rifles and to be proud of its black but- blue-and-white Mediterranean. jeep, and drove into a flock of machine- tons, quick light-infantry drill, green Our first casualty was Jack Brister, gun bullets. One went through a knee, hats, and tradition of brave fighting blown up on a mine while he was out on another through a calf, a third through from Quebec 1759 to Calais 1940 patrol probing the quiet Axis lines. He an arm, and the fourth knocked out two though we never let on we were proud. burst an eardrum, and after a while at front teeth. He drove to the company We learned how to stand up straight, a base hospital escaped to our regi- area and collapsed. how to shoot straight, how to handle mental depot on the canal. The officer Bob Cox was trying to get his gun- rifle, pistol, Bren gun, mortar, 2-pounder, commanding told him he'd have to wait portees out of a tangle of wire and grenade; driving and maintenance of for orders to return to the battalion. mines, with enemy fire coming from trucks, scout cars, and Bren-gun carriers; So Brister said, "Thank you, sir," four sides, when a bullet went through wireless; tactics; interior economy and walked out to the road, hitch-hiked up his back and out his front. Cox was all the problems of training men and to Cairo, bluffed his way onto the Alex- evacuated as soon as the medical people looking after them in barracks, in the andria train, took a taxi to the transit found a route to the rear. field, and in battle. We learned to salute camp, and caught a ride on a truck I got through the night, but in the with a quivering hand, to say "petrol" carrying supplies to his battalion. The morning a shell landed behind me when for "gas," and "wireless" for "radio," colonel said, "Jack, you shouldn't have I was looking back to see if our tanks to drive on the left, and to mistrust done that, you know. But—we're glad would get up before the Jerries did. A Americans who talked about the natural to see you." fragment went through my right thigh, superiority of everything American. My battalion had been training a way high up. The blast knocked me down We got our commissions in April back from the front, and about this and after a while they carried me away. 1942, all of us proud because Bill time we started to move up. We knew That was three. Brister and Durkee, Durkee was given the stick as best cadet the Eighth Army had been reinforced away in the south, had less fighting in in the class. After a month with bat- by Sherman tanks, by guns, and by Divi- the early stages, but caught hell after talions in the field in England we met sions from England, including the re- the break-through. Their Division, our again for embarkation to the Middle formed 51st (Highland) Division and an former Division, famed as the Desert East, and had a long voyage from Glas- armored Division. But we were sur- Rats, led the army through the fron- gow to Suez around the Cape of Good prised when we heard that Monty was tier wire, and there Durkee was wounded Hope. Rommel was on the way to Alex- starting his battle as soon as October in both knees by cannon-shell from a andria and the delta when we left, but 23d. I had a new machine-gun platoon, Messerschmitt 109. by the time we landed he had been held which was a surprise to me, as I'd never Cutting, Durkee and I nearly had it at Alamein and thrown back in the seen a Vickers before; Cutting had the as a result of our wounds, but we all south when he tried to turn the solid same; and Cox had a troop of useful pulled through with limps. Cutting flank resting on the Qattara Depression. 6-pounders, anti-tank guns with a punch. healed well and now is a staff-captain We were split up again in Egypt, But we all cheered when we heard the in Alexandria. Durkee has an unbending Brister and Durkee going to one bat- news: action at last, a big battle that knee and is still in hospital, walking talion with a third American, Bill Chan- promised to be the turning-point of the with a caliper and a stick. I had my leg ning of New York and Harvard '42, who war. .amputated above the knee (the artery had joined us in England; while Cox, Our armored Division attacked in the was severed) and walk with an artificial Cutting and I went to another battahon. north, in front of Alamein station, be- limb and a stick. None of us will fight British regiments don't fight as regi- tween the Australians and New Zea- again. ments, but are divided into any num- landers, and behind the 'Highlanders. Cox returned to the battalion as soon ber of battalions, which may see service That was the tough sector, the best- as his wound healed, drove through on any front. The battalion the other defended part of the Axis line, and it Tripoli and the Mareth, met his coun- three joined was in Egypt when the war was where Alexander and Montgomery tr>Tnen come at last to fight, and was broke out, and had fought through threw the greatest weight of metal and killed by a German tommy-gunner in Wavell's magnificent days and all the men. the barley-fields of Enfidaville. Brister, marches and counter-marches across It was good tactics, because it sur- sent back again for sickness and ear- Libya. Our battalion had been nine prised Rommel and gave him no chance trouble, again dodged the doctors and months in the desert, completely re- to put in a deadly flank attack against rejoined his battalion to be killed by a formed after the regular battalion was our main thrust, but it cost us some- direct hit in late April as the armies destroyed in Calais holding up, with a thing. The Highlanders were badly cut up closed on Tunis. battalion of the Rifle Brigade, two Ger- in three night attacks against the bristling For myself, it was still a good deci- man panzer Divisions trying to trap the ridge, El Wishka, w-hile our armored sion, to join the 60th Rifles. For Cutting

B. E. F. as it left the beaches of Dun- Division leaguered between two mine- and Durkee and their limps. I can't say. kirk. fields and absorbed shell-casualties with- For Brister and Cox, dead, two I loved We went into the desert and met the out fighting back. Finally the motor as brothers. I won't say until after we've enemy—flies. They rose from the sand brigade of that Division attacked. It was made a peace to do them honor.

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When the fog lifted several days LOSING TEAM later, it was quite a sight! Abandoned equipment trom hell to breakfast; the Jap general, colonel and two majors and (Continued from page i6) ball teams that outweighed us and had a dozen other officers cut down as they numbered them. Now they outnumber more and better substitutes. huddled over maps. And our transports us three to one, and more coming." "They're wide open for an end run," he standing in. "I don't know why our colonel doesn't observed, and I remembered that he used You might have thought the general give the order to fire?" I answered. to explain that an end run, in warfare, was in command of our main landing force Cruncher's old players don't let outsiders nothing more than turning the enemy's would have given Cruncher a medal on criticize him. "Leave it to him." flank, then playing in his backfield. the spot, but he didn't. A man isn't sup- Steve was only voicing the feelings of I nodded, my glasses on a group of Jap posed to gamble lives when he's out- all of us. We were expendable and knew officers. "Japs don't all look alike, sir," I numbered seven to one unless it is a last- it, but wanted to get in the first lick. commented, "and I'm sure I've seen stand deal, or he has sound reasoning This island, previously unimportant even some of those officers among West Coast behind his attack. The percentage is all to the Japs, had suddenly become of student bodies." against winning battles by luck. tremendous value as a radar station. "You have, Mike," he answered. "I The general and Cruncher looked Destroyers had sped with us from Dutch recognize a general, a colonel and two oddly familiar as they faced each other. Harbor, landed us in a fog, then high- majors." Then he gave orders for the I had the feeling I had watched that tailed it back to escort the main expedi- gunners to get on targets, but hold their scene before, then suddenly I remem- tion. fire. He kept his glasses on the Jap back- bered, and a lot of things added up. It field in a long huddle. was a newsreel shot of an American HAD climbed the island's back- Suddenly a cruiser's forward turret WE Legion convention. Cruncher was telling bone, sometimes hip deep in snow, flamed gold. A shell screamed overhead, the general that he had used military dropped down the other side and taken hit and let go, heaving up snow, water tactics when he coached a division team position. Freshly fallen snow had cov- and hunks of frozen tundra. We all ex- that had whipped the division team the ered our tracks. The Japs didn't know pected Cruncher to order firing all along general had coached, in the other war. we had beat them to it . . . yet. the line, but he just sprawled there in I edged 'over. The general's voice was We had neither supporting ships, the icy water, his glasses now on the low, but I caught most of it. "Cruncher, planes or artillery just plenty of the cruisers. The fog bank was closer, the — you goddam fool, I didn't send you to things called American guts and resource- cruisers growing indistinct. The fog throw a Jap force off the island. I don't fulness, brains and well-hardened bodies. smothered the destroyers and beach a know whether to recommend a medal or "They knew we were after this vol- half hour later—the longest half hour court martial." canic rock," Steve said, "but they most of us had ever known. Then haven't found out that we got here ahead "Commence firing!" Cruncher spoke of them." He watched the Japs pour quietly, but I knew from his voice that "T DON'T rate either, sir," Cruncher -L applied knowl- from their landing barges and take posi- it had taken plenty of self-discipline to answered. "I merely local conditions, tion. "Their timing is beautiful, isn't it, delay this long. edge of Japs, weighed Mike? Reminds me of your outfit back Man! What a relief! It made up for and knew that if we threw their beauti- in thirty-eight." the hours we'd sprawled in that damned fully precisioned landing machine out of "We had a good team that year," I tundra fighting the fear inside. The near gear it would fall apart. Sudden, heavy admitted. guns let go and the others followed, fire, a quick bayonet attack by unknown "Cruncher always had good teams," shifting slightly to follow the probable numbers, did just that." Steve said. moves of the surprised enemy down there "But how did you know it would?" "Not always," I answered. "Some of in the fog. "I needed a job after the last war, chairman the years we beat better teams because The Jap fleet turned their guns loose, and my old colonel, who was Cruncher had the damnedest faculty of churning the higher slopes to muck, then of the school board in peacetime, gave Cruncher an- spotting weakness in the opposing team. working slowly down—literally blind me the coach's spot," He could sense team dissension or weak- pointers and trainers in a fog. One of our swered. "It was a West Coast school, turning out. ness a mile off. He used to say, 'When men went down and I saw Cruncher pick with plenty of Japs Japs coaching you haven't a lot, do your best with a up his rifle. I've never seen his eyes turned out, too, when I began " first-string little and you may come out on top.' harder. Like blue glacier ice. "Mike," he at college. Some of them were ." "Here he comes," Steve said. said, "we're going down and play in their men . . He squirmed through the tundra and backfield. And this time I won't be "First-string men?" The general's stopped at the heap of volcanic rock now watching the game from the bench." voice indicated he didn't like any part of serving as a machine-gun nest. Crawling such an idea. Cruncher explained, or sprawling in tundra is like rolling in OUR men must have been a terrifying "First stringers," a tub filled with sponges drenched with sight as their fog-distorted figures "when we were winning. But they used ice water. The chill had reached suddenly closed in. Before a Jap knew to go to pieces when we were losing and recognized Cruncher's bones long ago. "Hello, where a thrust was coming from, it was disorganized. When I a Jap Coach," I said before I thought. He an- there. I saw Cruncher get a couple, then general and colonel as my former players swered, "Hello, Mike. A lot of 'em down I had my own hands full. Above the up- I knew what to expect. I couldn't miss, there." roar of hand-to-hand conflict we could sir. They had the biggest squad, but I I grabbed the opening. "There're hear the fleet wasting ammunition on the was playing with none but first more coming, sir," I said, now minding tundra. stringers." my manners. "The men are taking in- Cruncher's strategy, as usual, was "And as usual. Coach," the general action very well, but they'd like to open solid. We cleaned out their advance added with a trace of a smile, "you first fire." party, then fell back. Our machine-gun spotted the enemy weakness."

"The suspense is hard," he agreed, "but outfits had a field day. They'd listen a "Exactly. It is basic, sir . . . the in- they're trained to go through it. Part of moment and locate the enemy by the ability to improvise and reorganize when war." He was sprawled in ice water, sound, then pour it on. Then they'd things don't go according to plan," studying the Japs through binoculars. I'd break off, shift, and open up again, while Cruncher said, "and it's going to bridge seen the same expression on his face, the the Japs plastered the spots they'd just plenty of bad spots on the highway to same mannerisms, when he studied foot- left. Tokyo."

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{Continued from page 25) row, left to right, Raymond K. North, Commander, Buffalo, New York; Regis

J. Barrett, O.S.B., Chaplain, Cafion City, Colorado; George Strompl, Santa Mon- ica, California; Colonel Harry S. Bishop, Walter R. LeSourd, Adjutant, Hamilton, Ohio, and Frank E. Nester, Sergeant-at- Arms, Arcadia, California. Second row, same order, Dwight S. Wallace, Burbank, California; Elmer A. Boldt, Santa Monica, California; Mur- phy L. Hayden, Los Angeles, California Dr. Elmo Alexander, Oakdale, Califor-

nia ; Dr. Clarence R. Hill, Hermosa Beach, Cahfornia; Lloyd L. Welch, Hartford, Connecticut, and Edmund D. Kearney, Historian, Snyder, New York. Third row, left to right, Richard S. Linderman, Los Angeles, California; Roy A. Baker, Laguna Beach, California; James De Simone, West Los Angeles, California; Theodore P. Lenzen, Chica- go, Illinois; Henry L. Koontz, Dayton, 0., and Eari H. Martin, Antioch, W. Va.

Fourth row, same order, William J. Young, Los Angeles, California; Daniel Pierre, Daytona Beach, Florida; John L. Patten, Los Angeles, California; Arthur H. Merritt, Pacific Palisades, California; Ralph A. Stevenson, San Marino, Cali- War certainly isn't any fun, no matter — during the last 7>2 months of 1942 fornia; Harley T. Crouch, West Los Virgil 0. how things are going. Maybe I feel it a alone, Remington produced more small Angeles, California; WiUiams, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Hanson E. bit deeper than some folks, but . . . my arms ammunition than the entire Sanders, Birmingham, Alabama. son is "somewhere in the Pacific." country produced during allfouryears Fifth row, same order, Ross J. Mar- of World War L However, one mighty comforting tin, South Bend, Indiana; Douglas E. thought is this: Every day we're fight- — thousands upon thousands of military Straube, Schoolcraft, Michigan, and ing, we're one day nearer what the rifles were speeded to our armedforces James E. Lee, Custodian, New York City. statesmen call our "post-war objectives" all over the world. Since the picture was taken, word has come that Father Regis Barrett, Chaplain . . . in other words, the right of decent, — and Remington has received four of the Post and a Past Department Chap- peaceful folks to live in a decent, peace- Army-Navy "E's." lain of Colorado, was killed in North ful way. The many thousands of us who are Africa on July 12th. He was in service One right that / include is free and Remington are grateful that we are able as civilian chaplain for the company. peaceful hunting. I happen to like to to serve our country. And after the war go out through fields with my dog and is won, we will be glad to serve our Honor Award my gun. ..and I don't want any foreigner sportsmen friends again with Reming- FIRST national Civilian Defense to say verboten. I like to see dawn and ton's distinguished line of sporting Honor Award in the Chicago metro- ducks out on the marshes, without any- rifles and shotguns, and such famous politan area goes to the Rescue Squad of

body telling me . . .well, how do they say ammunition as Nitro Express shells, Shields Township, which includes Lake verboten in Japanese? Kleanbore Hi-Speed .22's, and Core- Forest, Lake Bluff and the immediate Lokt big game bullets. Remington Arms sector. The squad is composed of twen- I suppose the statesmen call would Alexander Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. ty-six members of George America's heritage of free hunting one McKinlock, Jr., Post of the Legion—its of the "little" things we are fighting for. "Nitro Express," " Kleanbore," " Hi-Speed," and ritle team—commanded by Chief Samuel "Sportsman" are Reg. U. S. Pat. OflF.; "Core-Lokt"' is a trademark of Remington Arms Co., Inc. R. Sorenson. Matt R. Porter is the But to me . . . and to my son . . . it's one heutenant. of the bigger little things! Immediately after the Pearl Harbor Remington. attack the Legion rifle team offered its services in a body and was enrolled by Here at Remington we are doing Legionnaire Dwight Ingram, a member everything in our power to speed peace of the Post, who is coordinator of the

through victory . . Shields Township Defense Corps. Train- ing started in February, 1942, and in ad- dition to all of the required courses, members of the Rescue Squad have taken advanced training in first aid and

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OCTOBER. 1943 33 When Purchasing Products PirAsr Mention The American Legion Magazine introduces the child to a wide range of THIS COMIC-BOOK AGE vocabulary." Of course they encourage day-dream- (Continued from page 12) showing a couple of Eskimos at home on ing. So do Grimm's fairy tales, Haw- The result was the debut of "Famous Iceland. His public immediately, happily thorne's "Wonder Book" and "Treasure Funnies," the first and only book of the informed him that there weren't—and Island." kind for nearly two years. never had been—Eskimos there. To say that the comics incite race

However, while Gaines gets credit for All of this leads to sharper editing. hatred is to indict every newspaper and fathering the comic book, his first maga- The most successful magazines now have periodical in the country on the same zine was strictly a collection of reprints laid down taboos for writer and artist. charge. If fighting the Axis with every of syndicated newspaper strips. The man Some of the "don'ts" would give the means available to text and pictures who must take the responsibility, good old Dime Novel authors writer's cramp. means that, then the comic books are or bad, for inventing the "original" pic- Kidnapping is frowned upon. A hero guilty. They abound today in plots about torial story magazine is Major Malcolm must never kill anyone personally. That the confusion and confounding of our Wheeler-Nicholson. From an office is the villain's prerogative. If the villain enemies and their agents. equipped with an old parlor chair, a dies it must be by some agency of just Recently a publisher of one of the card table and a set of second-hand retribution. A hypodermic needle is out. largest groups of the magazines queried files, the major launched the comic So is a coffin—least of all with a corpse the Office of War Information, asking thriller avalanche. For a year or two in it. what his attitude should be on the sub- his "More Fun" and "New Adventure There must be no scenes of hangings, ject. The reply of Dr. Leo C. Rosten,

Comics" divided the field with "Famous electrocutions, tortures or whippings, Deputy Director, is interesting: "Con- Funnies." although a character may be placed cerning your inquiry about 'hating the By 1936 the two big syndicates, under threat of any of them. No one is enemy'—we believe in honest, accurate United Features and King Features, de- shown being stabbed or shot. The villain and straight-forward presentation of the cided they had been missing a bet and approaches with the weapon in one pic- facts about the enemy. The fact that climbed aboard the bandwagon. Six ture and is seen departing with sword some of these truths are shocking and years after the appearance of Gaines' or smoking gun in another. No blood brutal does not affect the necessity of first opus, presses were turning out sixty or bloody daggers. No skeletons or presenting the facts to the people." books with the "comic" tag on them. skulls. Children must never be killed or That is precisely what the better type

This year, according to an official pub- die of sickness. On rare occasions their of comic book is doing. Many of their lisher's report, the comic titles on the lives may be threatened, but that's the pictorial melodramas are based on fact, newsstands numbered 132. limit. and I have yet to come across a story The output fluctuates. It is impos- So the comics corrupt reading habits? which fails to stress a lesson in sym- sible to get exact figures, but an average The radio began that when the comic pathy for the underdog. Belaboring sale of 20,000,000 copies a month is book was only a glint in Mr. Gaines's arrogance, brutality and treachery in four claimed. eye. What youngster will wrestle with colors may be more inflammatory, but Comic-book publishers early discov- print, when he can turn a knob and get what it has to do with race hatred I ered that the youngsters don't want sex. "Orphan Annie" or "The Green Hornet" wouldn't know. The sweater gal and the leggy, brassiered with full sound effects? Will he waste a It isn't just the youngsters who take dazzler are all well and good in the more rainy Saturday afternoon over a "read- to these wartime comics, either. A adult newspaper strips, but the duty of ing" book, when Gene Autry is at the woman movie critic who works at a desk a comic book heroine is to fight for her neighborhood movie? It doesn't take a adjoining mine has an old house on the boy friend and not beguile. In better Quiz Kid to answer that one. Entertain- shore of Long Island. The Coast Guard books she is about as sexy as the Statue ment comes too easy nowadays. took it over temporarily for barracks of Liberty. Once in a while she may At best they are lazy reading. Strange while they were building new ones. embrace the hero but the emotional to say, more than a few teachers see it "How did the boys leave your house?" effect is about as stimulating as a flash as a means to a better end. Dr. Robert I asked her after they had moved out. of the late Tom Mix kissing his horse L. Thorndike, of Columbia University, "They policed everything up beau- goodbye. after a detailed analysis of an issue of tifully," she beamed. "But do you know They found out other things, too. "Superman," notes: "The magazine con- what was piled up in a corner of every Stories must have a reason and a logical tained over 10,000 words of reading bedroom? Those awful comic books! beginning, middle and end. Let no time matter. If a child read a copy of this or Hundreds of 'em!" be lost in the telling but no matter how a comparable comic once a month, he "They're no worse than a lot of those fantastic the plot, it must be accurate in would cover over 1 20,000 running words 'B' pictures you review, Jane," I re- detail. No one is quicker than a chronic in a year—roughly twice the wordage of marked. "And you'd better send them comic reader to spot an error. One a fourth- or fifth-grade reader. . . . We to the Red Cross or somewhere, so that editor recently let a yarn slip through have here an educational source which some other boys will get a crack at 'em." JOHNNY DOUGHBOY, PRISONER

{Continued from page /j) is to perform such work of a non- Pfc Doughboy's outfit also were taken dom of religious worship, and, so far as military nature as may be assigned to prisoner, Johnny may find his former possible, the Nazis "shall encourage in- him and. for which he is physically Top-Kick acting as his foreman. No tellectual diversions and sports organized suited. The work assigned Johnny "shall sergeant or other non-com may be called by prisoners of war." not be excessive and must not, in any on for anything but supervisory duties, Sounds like a large order for Adolf case, exceed that allowed for the civil and commissioned officers are exempt and something almost akin to the land workers in the region employed at the from all kinds of labor. Both, however, of milk and honey for Pfc Doughboy, same work." There will be a rest of "24 may request suitable work, and many but it isn't quite that easy. First of all, consecutive hours every week, prefer- do to offset the boredom of prison-camp as a prisoner, Johnny has his obliga- ably on Sunday." life. There will be regular pay days, but tions as well as his rights. One of them If any non-commissioned officers of {Continued on page 37)

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(Continued from page 34) most of the pay will go to the prisoner's credit, with a small amount for use at the prison canteen, and a day of final

reckoning when the war is over. By the time Johnny Doughboy arrives at the prison camp that will be his more or less permanent home until made-in- America bombs stop falling on Germany, quite a number of w-heels will have been set in motion in hisTDehalf. Several big, influential institutions that never heard of Pfc Doughboy as a soldier imme- diately become very much concerned over his welfare as a German prisoner. The Central Agency of the International Red Cross Committee for Prisoners of War, at its gigantic office in Geneva, Switzerland, will have a complete record of Johnny, his physical condition, and whereabouts. The same will be true of They graduate from "Evinrude University" the Prisoner of War Information Bureau in the Provost Marshal Office, General's to serve on fighting fronts around flie globe in Washington. The Secretariat of State of the Vatican, in Rome, will probably T7VEN before America went to war, companies of uniformed know more about Johnny, if he is in Italy, than he does himself. men began to fill the "class rooms" of Evinrude's long-estab- The U. S. Congress, anticipating John- lished service school. Even then fighting Evinrudes were coming off ny's special needs, handed two million the production lines. To keep them running under the toughest dollars to the War Department some service conditions motors have ever faced ... to patch up battle- time ago with instructions to buy spe- cial foods and have them packed in scarred motors and speed them back for more — requires battalions standard boxes. The American Red of resourceful, highly-trained experts in outboard handling, main- Cross, member of The International Red tenance and repair. Cross, said their volunteers, working in huge packing plants in New York, Phila- Since Pearl Harbor, "Evinrude University" has been in constant ses- delphia, and Chicago, would pack the sion. Swiftly and efficiently it has helped train class after class of food free if the Army would pay for the labor needed to seal and wire the boxes outboard experts for the Armed Services. Veteran Evinrude in- for shipment. Besides, they offered to do- structors have streamlined their wealth of experience into a few nate cigarettes and other comforts to brief weeks of intensely practical training. Now, on fighting fronts Johnny and his buddies, should they be captured. around the globe, "old grads" of the service school know all the The Quartermaster Corps of the Army answers to keeping 'em running! had an idea that Johnny's pants might that our peacetime Dealer Service School get ripped in the process of being taken We are glad was equipped, prisoner, and that probably the rest of staffed and ready for its wartime job. Serving America's fighting his apparel would be slightly mussed forces with all our resources necessarily restrias service and parts up. Knowing he couldn't get to a tailor available to Evinrude users. After Victory there will be sparkling shop in Germany, and wouldn't have

. . again, and satisfying service any ration tickets anyway, they made new Evinrudes . and complete to up a list of things to send him. It in- every owner of an Evinrude motor! cluded everything from shoes to shirts, from belts to blankets. Besides all these EVINRUDE MOTORS, Milwaukee, Wisconsin interested organizations, there is, of Evinrude Motors of Canada, Peterboro, Canada course, Johnny's family. Mom and Pop and Kid Sister will want to write letters and receive them from their soldier. (Quite naturally. Mom will think she can take better care of her boy than the EVINRUDE War Department, the Red Cross, and OUTBOARD MOTORS Congress, all combined, so representa- tives of those institutions worked out a scheme some time ago whereby Mom can send Johnny some of her best cook- ies. Pop can toss in a pipe, and Sis can if HELP SPEED VICTORY . . . BUY MORE WAR BONDS ship the muffiler and sox she knitted.)

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However, things in the world being as which are the International Red Cross entries in their own records, the I.R.C.C. they are these days, certain rules and Committee, the Protecting Powers, the sends the data on to the Prisoners of regulations must govern these activities. Vatican, and intercepted radio messages. War Information Bureau, Provost Mar- First and foremost are the methods of Even if Mom and Pop should hear shall General's Office, Washington. notification that Johnny Doughboy is a from some source other than the War This time it's reliable. If Johnny prisoner of war. There are several ways Department that Johnny is a prisoner, named Pop as his next of kin, the notice by which the folks might hear about it, and even if that source gives an address, will come to him, and included will be but only two are reliable, and only one they must tiot try to write or send a instruction sheets and the precious labels of them is official. If Pop tunes in on parcel. The address doesn't mean a needed to ship the first "next of kin short-wave Radio Berlin, he might hear thing. He could have been moved a dozen package." The parcel must not exceed 11 Johnny's name among those which Axis times while the message was getting over pounds gross weight; it must not be broadcasters announce as prisoners. That here, by whatever means it may have more than 18 inches long; it must not is neither reliable nor official. It is Nazi gone. As for parcels, IT IS IMPOS- be more than 42 inches in length and propaganda which is flavored with SIBLE to send packages to prisoners of girth combined; and Johnny may have American names, sometimes fictitious, as war without the proper labels which the one of these every 60 days, and no bait to get us to listen. It might be true, War Department furnishes. More about oftener. As regularly as clock-work, but there's nothing anyone can do about these later. Mom and Pop will receive the necessary it and the worst move that Pop can This is the way the official chain of labels from the War Department so that make under such circumstances is to information works: In Geneva, Switzer- they may ship a package every two write a letter to somebody, or spend land, is a large building occupied by The months, and always they will be accom- money on a phone call or telegram. He'd Central Agency of the International Red panied by the latest instruction sheets. probably get the wrong party anyway, Cross Committee for Prisoners of War. By the time Pop and Mom receive the and even if he talked to Major General Between 5000 and 6000 people, mostly official notice some of the food purchased

Allen Gullion, who is Provost Marshal volunteers, work for the I.R.C.C., where by the Army with that Congressional General and handles the whole prisoner mail averages over 60,000 pieces daily, two million dollars has, in all proba- of war problem, the General couldn't tell where there is a card index of 12,000,000 bility, reached Johnny Doughboy. In Pop whether the Nazis were lying or tell- names, and where as many as 6000 fam- Geneva, the Red Cross maintains an ing the truth. It's tough—mighty tough ilies have been notified in one day of the enormous stock pile of the standard food —but Mom and Pop will just have to fate of relatives of all nations. From the packages to guard against transporta- sit tight and wait for the next develop- Nazi Intelligence Service to this Swiss tion difficulties and to assure every new ment. beehive come Johnny Doughboy's name, prisoner of immediate attention. Be- That can take the form of either an serial number, information as to his tween January i, 1941, and the end of official or an unofficial notice from the wounds, if any, and the name and num- last April the total Red Cross shipments War Department, in Washington. ber of the German prison camp where he designated for United Nations prisoners The War Department receives its in- will be held, all according to the terms of of war in Europe and the Far East, formation from several sources, among the Geneva Convention. After making including all transportation costs, were

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OCTOBER, 1943 39 When Purchasing Products Pi.rAsr Mhntion The American Legion Magazine valued at $13,761,130. Supplies shipped and actually distributed included 2,303,- 290 standard 11 -pound food packages, 20,000 of which went to the Far East. The Army and the Navy are ex- tremely emphatic in their attitudes to- ward their men who are captured by the enemy. "We will not have our men dependent on charity," they say. That's why the Quartermaster Corps ships belts, NO MAN blankets, wool knit caps, drawers, gloves, handkerchiefs, jackets, shirts, shoes, socks, trousers, toothbrushes, tooth BE powder, razors, blades, and other articles. With so many strenuous efforts di- rected toward Johnny's welfare as a IN DOUBT.. prisoner, it behooves Mom and Pop to check the items they would like to send

their boy with the many things he is receiving so as not to duplicate too much. There are restrictions on what they may ship, and their best procedure is to consult their Red Cross chapter. Cigarettes, tobacco, snuff, and cigars may be purchased at special low rates and shipped postage free. Such gifts should not be included in the "next of kin'' package. ~They are sent separately, and directly by tobacco manufacturer. Medical kits, put together, donated, and shipped by the American Red Cross, are comparable to Johnny Doughboy's medicine cabinet at home, and satisfy all minor needs. They contain sufficient household remedies to meet the needs of 100 men for a month. According to the Geneva Convention, major ailments and illnesses of prisoners are cared for "in any military or civil medical unit quali- fied to treat them." Men who are wounded at the time of capture are sent to hospitals, and upon recovery are assigned to a regular prison camp. All this, of course, is very fine, but just how effective are these many chan- nels of help to PW's? How can Mom and Pop be sure their parcels reach Johnny? How do we know the Quartermaster's clothing gets there? How about those

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It is our privilege to help pay for these munitions American Legion. through the best investment in the world standard food parcels that start going to Johnny as soon as his name comes into the I.R.C.C. office at Geneva and con- WAR BONDS tinue at the rate of one a week for the duration? How about his health? Is he warm enough? Can he get a bath? What INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION about exercise? Good questions, all of them, particularly in view of certain Nazi practices since Hitler blew the whistle for the invasion of Poland.

The answer is encouraging. That very extensive document which came out of the Geneva Convention set up The In- ternational Red Cross Committee with a maximum of 25 members. At present, they all are Swiss. Representatives of the Committee, all neutrals, periodically inspect each

camp, meticulously check all require- ments, interviews prisoners privately, talk to the camp commander, make any suggestions or complaints necessary for betterment of conditions, and files a de- tailed report of their findings. Copies of these reports are received by our Depart- ment of State, the American Red Cross, the Provost Marshal General's Office.

Information on file to date indicates that while the basic diet of an American soldier in a German prison camp con- sists largely of potatoes, cabbage, fish,

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Far East is that prisoners in the camp near Shanghai, China, and those in camps near Tokyo are faring not too badly. What the conditions are in the Philip-

pines is not known, for the Japs have refused representatives of the I.R.C.C. permission to visit them on the grounds of Japanese national security.

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{Continued from page 15) pletely destroy Wah Po. Not a building was left standing. The women irregulars retaliated by surrounding a Jap patrol and killing every man, including Lieutenant Choyo Bumpo, English-speaking, American- educated military press-relations officer at Shanghai. The same officer was with the Japs when they captured Nanking and was photographed by a Canadian missionary while in the act of criminally attacking a young Chinese girl on a Nanking side street. The women irregulars are not lacking in cunning and ingenuity, it has been demonstrated. They caused a rumor to be circulated to the effect that a large number of young Chinese sing-song girls, en route from Shanghai to Nanking, were Train yourself to getting envi- being housed in barracks in the town ous stares when you start smok- of Li Chung, on the Shanghai-Nanking

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By L. B. ICELY, President

BUT for the grace of God, and the protect- ning, to be robust, strong and adept in the Let us resolve that not only our industrial ing breadth of our oceans, we might have skills and agilities that football, basketball, and economic machinery, but our millions of been another France, another Poland, or baseball, tennis, boxing, and other American Human Machines shall be physically equal another Greece. competitive sports develop. to the challenge of our job as leaders in world With this fearful lesson on the value of Let us broaden the application of Industrial restoration and progress after the war. preparedness still fresh in mind, let us here Let us now, therefore, dedicate this great, Recreation so that all the millions of young and now resolve, as a nation, that never again democratic nation of ours to the proposition men and women who work in our great indus- shall America be caught physically unpre- that all men everywhere are entitled to Free- trial plants may have access to organized pared and untrained. dom from Fear, Freedom from Want, Free- sports and games that will keep them healthy Our national purpose in this war is to help dom of Speech and Freedom of Worship. But and vigorous. establish worldwide peace and freedom. let us also be a Nation of athletes — ever ready, Let there be more golf clubs, more tennis But — let us resolve that/ro77f this war on, if need be, to sustain our rights by the might and badminton courts, more play fields and America shall be a physically fit, ever ready of millions of physically fit sports-trained, gymnasiums, and organized participation in people. freedom-loving Americans. them by more business executives and office First —let us see that our returning fighters Wilson Sporting Goods Co . and Wilson Athletic (ioo

Through compulsory Physical Training in As a vital factor in our Postwar planning our schools, colleges and universities, let us let us establish new and higher physical train all of America's youth, from the begin- standards /or all of America. SPORTS EQUIPMENT

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OCTOBER, 1943 45 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Maga/ine of cheer and a large Chinese flag to the beleaguered Chinese soldiers. Ten minutes after her arrival at the warehouse, the besiegers were astounded and infuriated to see the flag proudly floating from the roof of the structure. Although fired upon at close range, the girl managed to gain the north bank of the creek in safety and was transported to the Settlement side by a brave Chi- nese sampan man. Take the incident of the Toyoda department store in Shanghai, the larg- est Japanese concern of its kind in the entire city. Toyoda, the owner, had served with the Japanese army in 1932 and was said to have been one of the executioners at the notorious Japanese Club, which was the scene of countless killings of Chinese after the club be- came a military headquarters. The store had more than 200 Chinese employes and he forced them to bow to the Jap flag and bow twice daily before a likeness of the Emperor. No, the Chinese em- ployes did not work for Toyoda because of any disloyalty or because they liked the man, but because in doing so they could earn enough for their daily rice and vegetables. On July 10, 1940, Executioner Toyoda was guilty of a slight error, but a fatal one. At his bidding, armed Jap gen- darmes entered the store and Toyoda pointed out an even dozen male and Men who used to cruise on female employes, branding them as ter- rorists and informers for the Chungking Magnificent bio yachts government. All of them, five girls and seven men, were taken away by the mioht then have paid too gendarmerie. Not one was seen or heard from after that. A fortnight later, Toyoda's office boy whiskey, but in Much for now informed his employer that three Jap- anese men were waiting to see him. MATTINOLY Sr MOORE THEYVE FOUND A They were admitted, drew pistols quickly and shot Toyoda to death. All three Mellower & milder whiskey than escaped. The Jap armed forces, including the Many brands costing much naval, military and gendarmerie, raised a terrific hue and cry over the killing of Toyoda. They even arrested several money, so More why not questionable Jap and Korean civilians. A high foreign police official, however, Make this discovery yourself? said that the killers were not Japs or Koreans, but a trio of Chinese women Merely ask for M 9r M tonight./ irregulars disguised as male Japs. A number of American newspapermen who were prisoners at the infamous Bridge House in Shanghai during April of saw Chang Lo-Kee, a guerilla The best of 'em is An Explanation to our Friends 1942, leader, beaten to death by gendarmerie

II your bar or package store is some- guards, but they did not witness the times out of M & M, please be patient. revenge exacted by Mrs. Chang, his We are trying to apportion our pre- widow, herself a well-known irregular war stocks to assure you a continuing fighter who often accompanied her hus- supply until the war is won. Mean- band's band on its raids and who was MATTINGLY & MOORE BLENDED WHISKEY while, our distilleries are devoted credited with having shot more than 100% to the production of alcohol for a score of Jap soldiers. 80 proof— 72 V2% grain neulral spirits. explosives, rubber, and other war prod- Following the murder of her husband, Frankiort Distilleries, Inc., ucts. (Our prices have not been in- Mrs. Chang rented a room in a house Louisville & Ballimore. creased—except for government taxes.) opposite the Japanese Foo Ming Hos- pital on North Szecheun Road in the Hongkew district of Shanghai. The hos-

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pital at that time housed many wounded her, the Japs thought the deadly fire was Japanese, victims of guerillas, and was coming from a house in the French visited by many Jap officers and men. Concession, and accordingly searched all From her vantage point, Mrs. Chang, buildings in the neighborhood. armed with a rifle and pistol, hoped Mrs. Chang moved to other fields to pick off an admiral or general visit- only after the Japs began a search of ing the hospital, but after days of craft on the river. She escaped without patient watching and waiting, had to being accosted. be content with the next best thing Major General Honda, who was de- a full colonel named Hataka. The un- scribed by war correspondent H. R. fortunate Colonel Hataka chose to drive Knickerbocker as being "the toughest up to the hospital in a sleek military 95 pounds of human flesh" he had ever limousine about 5 P. m. on April 2 2d, seen, had a narrow escape from death at a time when Mrs. Chang, ritle in or injury by a hand grenade in Sep- hand, was watching from her window. tember of 1942 at Shanghai. The missile Perhaps the trim-uniformed officer was thrown by a Chinese woman while never knew what hit him, so for the the general and other officers of the benefit of any of his relatives or friends Jap military were dining at Rokusan who may read this, it will be stated that Gardens, a Jap pleasure resort where

it was a bullet. foreign newspapermen were often wined Carrying a market basket, after secret- and dined. ing her weapons, Mrs. Chang went away The woman patriot escaped but was from there— fast—while dozens of motor later taken into custody through the cars carrying indignant gendarmes, army treachery of a Chinese post office em- and navy officers swiftly converged on ploye, and was executed.

the hospital. General Honda, toughness and all, As usual, the Japs put up barricades, apparently was impressed by the in- but after three days of searching and cident, for shortly after he confiscated questioning, more or less admitted being the bullet-proof motor car of a Chinese baffled. banker. Mrs. Chang later connived with a sam- Thousands of women serve with the pan owner on the Whangpoo River, Chinese armies as nurses and stretcher- boarding the easily maneuvered craft. bearers. Hundreds of them have been Every time Her ritie barked a Jap sentry wounded or killed, but few have been went to his death. Her average was five captured. They know the fate in store per day for nine days. Fortunately for for them if taken.

IT'S HI, DIGGER AND HI, YANK I Smoke {Continued from page 11) "Look at the Yanks." gob in the U. S. Navy. Pointing out "I'm lookin' at 'em, " retorted the a Kayvioodie" the places of interest on the river, I second gloomily. asked if there was anything I could "Uniforms designed by Hollywood." do for him. "Yes," he said, "just tell "Yeah. Look at us." Put your tobacco in a Kaywoodie. When me where I can borrow a horse." It "Bigger wardrobe than a movie star, you do, you entrust it to a piece of briar seems he had never been on one. they tell me, while we've only one so rare (brought firom the Mediterranean A few days later he passed me on rig to flaunt our charms in. Wouldn't before the war) and so thoroughly pre- pared, that believe there's no equal of the highway, a very small sailor on it just?" we it today, anywhere. the biggest horse in Western Australia. "Yeah. . . . Wouldn't it?" You. hear men say "I smoke a Kaywoodie" He was hanging on for dear life, his "With an outfit like that we"d look all over the world. Men who know pipes face strained and anxious, gamely urg- swell, too." best. ing his mount to greater speed, while "I reckon." A Kaywoodie is seasoned beyond any- an old man on the sidewalk was shout- Not long after I sat next to an thing done to other pipes. And cured with ing: "Stick to it! Good on ye, me boy, American in the street car. He was tempering agents that permeate it. It yields

ye'll be a jockey yet!" carrying a bunch, big enough to choke ' the most delicious flavor, tempting and sat- Weeks went by and almost over night an ox, of Iceland poppies and Geraldton isfying, that you ever enjoyed from a pipe. international romances bloomed on every wax plant, one of our handsome native Kaywoodie Co., New York and London corner. The home town boys, lacking shrubs. In the other hand he clutched In New York, 630 Fifth Avenue, New Yori 20, N. Y. novelty, were brushed aside by local a five-pound box of nuts and raisins, belles in favor of the imported article, since candy has virtually ceased to and more than one disillusioned Aussie exist among us, and a book which, to carried a broken heart under his khaki judge from its jacket, must have been tunic. One Saturday night when the a recent popular American historical town was packed with Americans on novel. leave I overheard a conversation between Humph, I thought. Flowers, books, two young Australian militiamen. They and candy. Here is a nice boy, brought scowled as American uniforms streamed up in the old school. past on their way to dances and parties, "Heavy date?"' I asked with a grin. escorting local girls in their most glamor- "You bet." He grinned back. Then, ous mood. The first boy nudged the after a short pause, "I'm going to ask second and said: her to-night."

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Honor YOUU Service Man with "I do not. If she takes me she'll have kind of pride in reverse, nor the QJ8 this beautiful Service Flag in your 9 window or home. Satin, with yel- to take Missoula along with me." boisterous directness of a Californian K low fringe —blue star in field Of I* red for each man in service. We were nearing my corner, so I could show greater consciousness of his ORDER FROM THIS AD No. 21 — 7x11". each $ .SO rose. "Evidently the honor of Montana inheritance. The state of Washington No. 23— lOxir.", each 75 No. 24 — I2xis", each 1 .OO is safe in your hands. May you both and Lee! I was impressed. No. 25 lTi\24". each 1 .SO Includes 1 to 5 slafs—gold stars also live happily ever after ... in Missoula!" "Those noisy Californians," growled Order today. Satisfaction or money back. He waggled his enormous bouquet in someone at my elbow, "hogging all the Special sizes for Churches, Lodges, Business Houses. ROLL OF HONOR a farewell salute. limelight! They ought to give the rest A permanent tribute — beautiful walnut Convocation, which is the equivalent of us a chance!" plaque with eaple and Victory torche.'*. Cold bordered name plates, with name^ of an Alumni Association, of the Uni- "Thank you," I broke in, turning In .silver. Send for illustrated price list. V. S. Flags. Christian and Papal Flogs versity of Western Australia, decided around, "I am a Californian, if you for Churches. Send for price list. REGALIA MFG. CO. after much deliberation, to have an care to know. My grandmother stood Dept. A, Rock Island, Illinois evening for the graduates of American in Market Street in San Francisco to colleges. The deliberation was due, not see the first overland train come in over to any lack of cordiality (the Western the Union Pacific." Asthma Agony Australian is the soul of hospitality) but "So you're a Californian," boomed a to the fact that the American forces, hearty voice beyond, "I mean a real having first call on provisions of every Californian from San Francisco, not Curbed Firsf Day kind, were literally eating our small one of those Iowa farmers from around ForThousandsof Sufferers community out of house and home. Los Angeles." gasping, wheezing Bronchial Asthma Choking, After good deal of scratching around I nodded. "I'm native daughter, attacks poison your system, ruin your health and a a put a load on your heart. Thousands quickly and for ways and means, invitations were all right.'' easily palliate recurring choking, gasping Bron- chial Asthma symptoms with a doctor's prescrip- issued, and a starched collection, in "Now isn't that wonderful! U. C. '20 tion called Mendaco to help nature remove thick strangling excess mucus and promote freer breath- their best bib-and-tuckers met to dis- did you say? Why, I'm U. C. '38 myself. ing and restful sleep. Mendaco is not a smoke, dope or injection. Just pleasant tasteless tablets. Iron cover what the educated American out- Hey sister!" guarantee money back unless satisfactory. clad — side the textbooks is really like. And with a yell he grabbed me in Mendaco is only 60c at druggists. The first American I met inside the both arms, swung me off my feet, and WE door was a fiery red-headed bird, lit- to the amazement of the bystanders, erally a bird, since he was in the Air kissed me on each cheek with a smack ToAnySuit! Force, from Arkansas. that could be heard a block away. Double the life of jova coat and vest with correctly The next, a New Englander, by a "Honest, sister," he boomed again matched pants. 100,000 patterns.'' Every pair hand tailored to your measure. discreet yet charming series of ques- in a voice that rattled the chandelier, Our match Bent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. 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{Contimied from page 28) we were finally towed by the good old mates write to me, I can tell the story Prairie until the tow-line broke in a

as I heard it. . . . good old Cape Hatteras storm, and the "Late in the summer of 191 8 at York- Prairie left us, as her cargo was shift- town, our ship's team played three base- ing. Our radio was dead but the Prairie Single or Double Frame ball games with the U. S. S. Pennsyl- contacted a Coast Guard cutter, the 18 exp. 75c 16 exp. Split 55c 12 exp. Spilt 45c 8 exp. Roll 35c vania team for the Fleet championship Snohomish, I believe, which found us and we lost two out of three. The the next day and after the storm abated, All miniature and split size film f inisheii in our famous 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 Beauty Prints—deckled, em- Pc7insy team was loaded with big got a tow-line to us and hauled us into bossed margin and embossed date. leaguers, among whom I remember 'Del' Philly and—the Armistice, on November When film is scarce and every snapshot is doubly precious makeeveryshotcount! Don't takeaclianceand spoil good Gainor, Arthur Rico and 'Rabbit' Mar- II, 1918. film by poor developing and printing. Today, more than "If of the old 15th Company, ever, our careful, efficient, prompt service is your best pro- anville. any tection against wasted film— your best assurance of pride "Later I was transferred to an old Harvard, or crews of the New Hampshire and satisfaction with your pictures. Send roll and money or write for FREE mailers and samples—also complete submarine, the K-2, in Ponta Delgada, or K-2 remember me, I wish they would Price List. • • • • Azores, returned to Philadelphia on drop me a line, Artistic Contact Finishing. 8 exp. rolls com- and plete set of deckled-edge, embossed, wide- margin prints. Credits for failures. FREE En- her. What a trip for those days! Flu "I am now with the U. S. Engineers largement Coupon with each roll. Diesels broke down, bat- here at Camp Van Dom, Mississippi, MAIL-BAG FILM SERVICE broke out, all, civilian efforts to get Dept. 23 • Box5440A • Chicago SO teries went dead, no juice at and as a employe—my 48 The AMERICAN LEGION Maeaiine back into uniform failing entirely. I .31) Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 5. Joel T. Johnson, might mention that I married the girl secy., 411 Essex Bldg., Minneapolis. 52d Pioneer Inf., reunion. who kept writing to me when I was in AEF—Annual New York City, Nov. 13. Edw. J. Pollak. 331 THOUSANDS CHEER the First World War, our son is taking Tecumseh Av., Mount Vernon, N. Y. Co. C, 143d Inf.—Reunion, Beaumont, Tex., pilot training in the Army, and our Nov. 11. M. P. Stewart, 1475 Cartwright, Beau- daughter has graduated from Jackson mont. Co. I Vets, 306th Inf.—Annual reunion- "THE LEGIONNAIRE" High. I have a brother in the Coast dinner. Port Arthur Rest, 7 Mott St., China- Guard, another in the Navy, a brother- town, New York City, Oct. 4. G. W. Richardson, Box 69, Greenlawn, N. Y., for copy of / Co. in-law in the Army and another brother- News. Designed expressly Base Hosp. 116—25th reunion, Hotel McAl- in-law. Bob Patrick, played on the Great pin. New York City, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. Fred- Lakes Naval Training Station team in erick C. Freed, M. D., 59 E. 54th St., New York City. for all -day walking 1918." 322D F. S. Bn.—No. Calif, reunion, San Francisco, Nov. 6. Dr. John P. O'Brien, Flood Bldg., San Francisco. So. Calif, reunion, Los though the Outfit Notices col- Angeles, Nov. 11. For new roster and history, E\'EN write Julius Merkelbach, 1530 44th Av., San and marching umn is suffering shrinkage lately, we Francisco. Co. 6. 1st Air Serv. Mech.—Annual reunion- hope you fellows will understand that dinner. Hotel Piccadilly, New York City. Oct. R. St., Phila- that situation is due to paper shortage 23. C. Summers, 3258 Glenview delphia, Pa. and resultant lack of space in your maga- Natl. Assoc. U.S.S. Connecticut Vets.—7th convention and reunion-dinner, Hotel Martin- zine. We'll continue timely to publish the ioue. New York City, Oct. 23. Sidney A. Blum, notices of reunions that are scheduled, 1620 E. 33d St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 135th Amb. Co., 34th Div. —24th reunion, and hope that before too long, all an- St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 11. Norman F. Gludt, 483 Marshall Av., St. Paul 2, Minn. nouncements appear as they may have Natl. Otranto-Kashmir Assoc.—Annual re- throughout the years of our publication. union. Muscatine, Iowa, Oct. 3. A. H. Telford, Galesburg, 111. Details of the following reunions may North Sea Mine Force Assoc., N. Y. Chap. —Reunion and dinner-dance. New York City, be obtained from the Legionnaires listed: Oct. 15-16. Geo. H. Cole, secy.-treas., 203 E. 26th 29th Drv. Assoc.—Natl, reunion, Hotel St., New York City. Phone Lex. 2-6781. Douglas, Newark, N. J., Oct. 8-10. 25th anni- versary memorial service of actions in Ar- John J. Noll Konne. Chas. L. Hofmann, gen. chmn., 50 Prospect Av., Irvington, N. J. The Company Clerk

HOST TO THE JAPS

(Continued from page 21) touched very lightly and very vaguely lation that the Japanese-American Citi- on civilian Japanese. zens League not only had access to The Japanese-American soldier, the confidential files in WRA headquarters letter stated, is "to be accorded the in Washington—it "assisted"' the WRA privileges extended to any other soldier in formulating policy concerning the in the Army. This includes the privi- manner in which the relocation centers lege of returning on furlough to any should be operated. part of the United States he desires." The Dies Committee now says the The danger of that policy, according Some styles »5.S0 WRA is guilty of "inefificiency and to the western viewpoint, is that any Douglas "Down-to-the- Wood" construction bungling," and it accuses the agency of Japanese bent upon sabotage could dress assures you better fit. conducting "a silly social experiment" himself in the uniform of an American at the risk of undermining the nation's soldier and go about his mission prac- war effort. tically unhindered.

Meanwhile there is some intimation "The relocation of the Japanese," the Stores in Principal Cities that War Department policy, under McCloy letter stated, "is a social and Good Dealers Everywhere goading by certain church influences, is national problem, and only to the ex- BUY WAR BONDS FOR VICTORY! veering toward a wartime return of these tent that it really affects our military Japanese to their west coast homes. security does the War Department pre- First concrete evidence of possible lean- sume to express any opinion on the sub- ing toward relaxed restrictions was re- ject." The letter added, however, that ceived by the San Francisco Downtown "there may be certain other steps taken Association, in a letter from Assistant to alleviate hardships in individual cases KIDNEYS Secretary of War John J. McCloy. or to recognize the full responsibility of The Downtown Association is one of the country to a soldier in uniform, but MUST REMOVE many Western organizations that lodged this is all for the moment (this writer's strongly-worded protests with the De- underscoring) we are considering so far EXCESS ACIDS partment and the President against let- as reintroduction of Japanese-American Help 15 Miles of Kidney Tubes ting down the barriers erected by Lieu- citizens into the Western Defense Com- Flush Out Poisonous Waste tenant General John DeWitt, who or- mand is concerned." If you have an excess of acids in your blood, your If miles of kidney tubes may be over-worked. These tiny dered and carried out the evacuation of The McCloy letter has spawned addi- filters and tubes are working day and ni«ht to help system of excess a«ids and poisonous all Japanese from the Western Defense tional protests, including one from Cali- Nature rid your waste. Command. fornia's Governor, Earl Warren, who When disorder of kidney function permits poison- ous matter to remain in your blood, it iiiay cause nag- The Department's reply, signed by says that Japanese, wbether they be ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep getting up nights, swelling, puffiness McCIoy, was so carefully phrased that American citizens or aliens, are "the and energy, under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Freiiuent or there is strong suspicion the State De- worst potential saboteurs in the world." scanty passages with smarting and burning some- times Bhows there is something WTong with your partment may have had much to do There is no way in which Japanese kidneys or bladder. Kidneys may need help the same as bowel.s, so ask with its writing. The letter loyalties can be "accurately appraised,"' concerned your druggist for Uoan's Pills, used successfully by itself chiefly with Japanese-Americans the Governor said, and he added: millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes fltish out poison- who are in the U. S. Army, and it "I have always taken the position that ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.

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it isn't a question of whether we wani an apartment for each family. Each the Japanese here or whether -we don't building has electric lights and coal- with us at the present time it's a ques- stove heat but no running water. There tion of security. I just don't see how it are central mess halls, latrines, bath and can be consistent with the security of laundry facilities. There are cooperative our State to bring the Japs back to stores, with each colonist eligible to California. It would be dangerous from membership, upon payment of a $1 fee. the standpoint of our security and would Purchases are made with scrip and the be disruptive of law and order to bring profits are divided among the members. any Japanese into this or any other com- No rationed articles are sold, as the bat area in the country." evacuees do not have ration books. To A similar protest has been sent to the get shoes—one pair a year—they must REEVES FABRICS President and the Congress by an in- apply on special forms to the county terim investigating committee of the ration board. Few of these applications make strong, sturdy California Senate. have thus far been approved. UNIFORMS. ..WORK AND SPORT CLOTHES There is no objection to the presence In accordance with California law, on the West Coast of Germans and children are required to attend school. ItaUans, or to persons of German or Adults who volunteer for work are Specify Reeves Army Italian extraction, with the exception of given monthly pay of $13 for common Twill of which the U. S. those known to be anti-American, and labor, $16 for skilled labor, and $19 Army has already who have been interned or ordered to for technicians, including physicians and bought sixty million yards. Also demand move to interior areas. The explanation nurses. About half the camp popula- V—-"" See your Glengarrie Poplin for is that there has been ingrained in the tion puts in an eight-hour day at work. dealer for uniforms, work „a|ching shirts. Both ' through their dual Some acres are being cultivated or sport clothes made from ^ . • Japanese-Americans, 3,900 , . i J« Fobrics, or writeto: fabrics are Santoriied Reeves citizenship status, the conviction that by evacuee labor for an agricultural *F*bric stirinkage not more tlun ^% (U. S. Government test CCC-T-191-a' their first loyalty must always be to crop it is estimated will gross $3,000,- REEVES BROS., INC. :pl Japan, regardless of where they were 000 this year. The food helps to supply 54 Worth Street, New York City «;« 'Jf, born or where they live. several centers. A further test of this condition was The camp is divided into blocks, with Uncle Bill says: made in the Relocation Center near block managers and an internal security Tulelake, in northern California, about force, all made up of evacuees. Petty 40 miles from Klamath Falls, Oregon. offenses are tried in a police court pre- I spent two days in the Tulelake sided over by a WRA official who metes PAZO.:. PILES camp, on a general investigative mission, out sentences of small fines and re- Relieves pain and soreness and learned that many of the colonists stricted privileges. Felony cases are are resentful at their incarceration. This turned over to county authorities. Millions of people sufTering from simple Piles have found prompt relief with PAZO ointment. attitude was particularly true among There have been some uprisings in why: First, PAZO ointment soothes in- Here's this camp, including strikes. one flamed areas—relieves pain and itching. Second, the "Nisei," or second generation—those On PAZO ointment lubricates hardened, dried parts occasion the battalion assigned to un- —helps prevent cracking and soreness. Third, who were born in this country. PAZO ointment tends to reduce swelling and load coal from railroad cars refused to check bleeding. Fourth, it's easy to use. PAZO "We are American citizens," they Pipe makes application ointment's perforated Pile as loyal the carry on unless more help was provided. simple, thorough. Your doctor can tell you about protested, "and we are to PAZO ointment. United States as anyone. Why should The camp authorities broke that strike Get PAZO Today! At Drugstores we be locked up in here?" by informing the block managers that Yet when these youths were given unless the coal were unloaded regularly opportunity to volunteer for service in there would be no heat for the barracks, Give an all-Japanese unit of the Army to be no hot water in the bathhouses and trained for combat duty in European laundries. Each block now takes its Your this Feet An of registrants turn at extremely unpopular work. war theaters, the numbers was surprisingly few. "Our parents don't When volunteers were sought for Ice-Mint Treat want us to," was the usual response. military service in the Japanese-Ameri- Get Happy, Cooling Relief For On another occasion a representative can combat unit, "Redhots" in the camp Burning Callouses— Put Spring In Your Step agitated against registration. To trap Don't groan about tired, burning feet. Don't of the overseas branch of the Office of moan about callouses. Get busy and give them an War Information sought to round up a the agitators, authorities got this word Ice-Mint treat. Feel the comforting, soothing cool- ness of Ice-Mint to trusted colonists: driving out fiery burning , . . number of these military-age Americans aching tiredness. Rub Ice-Mint over those ugly "We don't expect you to be stool- hard old corns and callouses, as directed. See how for uncensored broadcasts by short wave white, cream-like Ice-Mint helps soften them up. to Tokyo. The evacuees were to tell, in pigeons, and we are not putting you Get foot happy today the Ice-Mint way. Your druggist has Ice-Mint. their own words, about living conditions on the spot, but there are lots of places in the Relocation Center. It was not around here where a list of names of anticipated there would be any difficulty troublemakers could be left—under a in getting a group for this assignment rock, under that bridge over there, or almost anywhere. We will find those Get Up Nights because it would involve an all-expense . paid trip to San Francisco and return. lists, and nobody will ever know who You Can't Feel Right But the OWI man went back to San wrote them—not even we. We want If you have to get up 3 or more times a night Francisco empty-handed. Much as the those lists tomorrow morning." your rest is broken and it's no wonder if you feel old and run down before your time. Functional internees would like to have made that Several such lists were found, and the rather than organic or systemic Kidney and Blad- "Redhots" were routed out of bed early der trouble often may be the cause of many pains trip, each one approached gave a very and symptoms simply because the Kidne'ys may indi- the following morning and transferred be tired and not working fast enough in filtering definite "No." Again the youths and removing irritating excess acids, poisons and cated they must be guided by the wishes to another camp. wastes from your blood. So if you get up nights or suffer from burning, scanty or frequent passages, of their alien parents—the "Issei." That policy is now being pursued gen- leg pains, backache, or swollen ankles, due to non- organic or non-systemic Kidney and Bladder At Tulelake the colonists live in bar- erally, segregating the known disloyal- troubles, why not try the prescription called Cystex? Because it has given such joyous, happy racks of the army type, with family ists. That is the only concession, thus relief in so high a percentage of such cases, Cystex is sold under a guarantee of money back groups segregated in barracks that are far, that WRA Director Dillon S. Myer on return of empty package unless completely the satisfactory. Cystex costs only 35c at druggists. partitioned into one-room apartments has made to Dies Committee. SO Thf AMERICAN LEGION Magazinf When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — OUR NEIGHBORS

(Contittiied from page 21) last war as I did know that inhumanity the most seldom on relief, the group with is no respector of flags. You as well as I the most wholesome family life—the know there are sadists in every nation. most industrious group, and spend $200,- If you don't believe it, I suggest you at- 000.00 a day, more or less, to keep them tend a few meetings of any class in Com- in "protective custody" (shades of Hit- mando tactics. ler!) in concentration camps, while in I make no plea for the anti-Americans Hawaii (a far more strategic area) they of any group. My plea is for the loyal guard our munition plants and police our American regardless of the color of his streets, work in our defense industries. skin. I know the Nisei because I have We are told they are saboteurs, al- lived amongst them for years. I know

though J. Edgar Hoover, and the mili- that their hearts quicken at the sound of tary and naval authorities have stated The Star Spangled Batmer and the blood On duty with the Army and Navy, Fyr-Fyter Extinguishers serve in the Tolan Committee Report that runs faster in their veins as they see America in all parts of the vporld. there have been no cases of sabotage by Old Glory float past, because they have On the home front, too, thiy help R. C. Iddings protect the nation against crippling Japanese-Americans or by Japanese been taught to love no other flag. I have President fire losses. Businesses and institu- tions essential to the war effort can aliens in America or Hawaii either be- heard their chokes of emotion and have now, under preference rating, secure Fyr-Fyter fore or since Pearl Harbor. Compare seen the tears streaming down their Extinguishers. After the war, Fyr-Fyters will be available to all. Valuable Fyr-Fyter Distributor- this with the convicted cases of Germans faces as they have spoken of the sacri- ships will then be open for our enlarged and im- proved line. Send us some information about your- and Italians! Our danger of sabotage is fices they must make—the giving up of self if you would like to be considered for our greatest from people of our own color. their homes, the breaking of family ties post-war organization. We hear complaints of their dual citi- —in order that their loyalties to this THE FYR-FYTER CO. zenship and yet the provisions of the country may go unchallenged. Dayton t, Ohio laws of citizenship passed in 1924 by the The Legion through the publication of Japanese Diet are basically the same as Japs in Our Yards almost proved itself ours covering children of American par- frequently been T Fiir-Fiiter to be what it has so ents born in a foreign land. called—the "un-American Legion." Like We hear that the Japanese language Northfield (Minnesota) Post I "do vig- schools should all be closed. Then let's orously protest against our national mag- Clean out car radiators thoroughly be fair. Let's make sure that every azine being used to foster race hatred in anti-freeze. school teaching English in foreign lands violation of our constitution and the before adding Use ." to American children using American Constitution of the United States. . . lOc and 25e sties textbooks with pictures of American I want to see the Legion become a Directions on can battleships and American skyscrapers be builder, not a destroyer of American similarly closed. Such poppycock! Over unity. I want to see it conform to the g.ooo Nisei receive pay from the Gov- principles presented to us on the back of ernment. Where would the Army and our membership cards and to the Bill of On Feet For Navy Intelligence have found its hun- Rights for which my forebears fought. dreds of loyal Nisei who today are Then we would be able to do as Gen- trusted with the most intimate secrets eral Emmons did in Hawaii—use these Over 30 Years Allen's Foot-Ease has been bringing relief and if it had not been for these schools? loyal Nisei, Kibei and Issei to guard our We comfort to tired, burning feet for over 30 years. should have had more of those classes plants, raise crops, police our cities, and Sprinkle it on your feet and into your shoes, and enjoy the refreshing comfort it brings while you under trusted, tested teachers, in our make America a flaming example of a stand long hours at your work. Even stiff, heavy, new or tight-fitting shoes, lose their terror when own schoolrooms. democratic nation in a democratic world. you use Allen's Foot-Ease. But good old Allen's We are told they are inhumane. But Claude N. Settles does even more. It acts to absorb excessive per- spiration and prevents offensive foot odors. Helps those of you who saw as much of the Willow Glen Post jiS keep feet, socks and stockings dry and sweet. For real foot comfort, remember it's Allen's Foot-Ease you want. At your druggist. HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? ;:g^Scratchinq If your address has been changed since paying your 1943 dues, notice of such // May Cause Infection change should be sent at once to the Circulation Department, The American Relieve itching caused by eczema, Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana. The one mailing list athlete's foot, pimples—other itch- covers both American Legion Magazine and National Legionnaire. ™^ The The ing troubles. IJse cool i ng, medicated ^ D.D.D.Prescription.Grcaseless.stain- GIVE LISTED less.Calmsitchingfast. 35c trial bottle BE SURE TO ALL INFORMATION BELOW proves it —or money back. Ask your -^druggist NEW ADDRESS for D. D. P. Prescription. Name (Please Print) FREE BOOK -To

Street Address etc. Chronic Sufferers Learn Facts On Constipation City State And Colon Troubles If you are interested in the correc- 1943 Membership Card No tion of Piles, Fistula or other rectal and colon ailments, write for a 40-page Post No State Dept. FREE BOOK which describes these and associated chronic disorders; OLD ADDRESS also contains many X-Ray pictures and dia- grams for helpful reading. Describes Street Address etc , latest mild institutional treatment. Write today—a card will do—to Thorn- City . State ton & Minor Clinic, Suite 1087, 926 Mc- Gee St., Kansas City, Mo.

OCTOBER, 1043 51 THE AXIS CRUMBLES THE EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT

AS THESE lines were written early in September, fighters and bombers. The Roosevelt-Churchill Quebec /\ with the allied armies poised for more invasions conference mapped the plans for attack, and we may X A- of the European continent, Italy surrendered be certain that every precaution will be taken, con- unconditionally to General Eisenhower's forces. The sistent with gaining the objectives, to keep our casual- Nazis meanwhile were desperately defending the con- ties down. Once the pincers movement starts operating, tinent as a beleaguered fortress. As the Legion pre- of Russia at the eastern end and Britain, the United pared to assemble in its TwentyTifth Annual National States and other forces elsewhere on the continent, the Convention at Omaha, how changed was the situation imconditional surrender of the Germans should be a from that of a year ago. Then the Russians were des- matter of months. It will then be "On to Tokyo!" perately defending Stalingrad on the Volga River, the for the final clean-up. Americans and Australians were almost equally des- We have scotched the Axis snake. We shall kill it. perately striving to keep the Japs from Port Moresby on New Guinea, almost within sight of the Australian No Trials for These mainland. The Germans and Italians under Rommel in Africa were less than a hundred miles from Alex- HAVE seen in an American magazine an andria, it believed that the "Desert Fox" would WEarticle President and was by former Herbert Hoover not only take that strategic British naval base, but and Hugh Gibson, onetime Ambassador to Belgium, would drive on to Suez. In China the Nips were push- titled History's Greatest Murder Trial, and dealing ing back the gallant Chinese land forces, which had with the treatment of Axis war leaders once victory has been denied the precious supplies from India through been achieved. Illtistrating the article is a drawing of the closing of the Burma Road, while General Chen- a somber Hitler facing three men dressed in judges' only whittle ". nault's airmen, vastly otunumbered, could robes. The article itself says: . . It would be pref- away at the enemy's vast air arm. In the Aleutians erable if all these war criminals could be arrested and ." also Tokyo's forces had intrenched themselves and were tried by proper courts . . and goes on: preparing blows against Dutch Harbor and other "The United Nations should agree upon a panel Alaskan strong points. And the submarine war in the of judges of the highest possible type to sit in such Atlantic was definitely going against us. cases, the judges to be assigned to individual trials by Only in the Solomons did there appear to be a ray a steering committee. This would invest the tribunal of light. There the U. S. Marines had in August estab- with the dignity of sitting on behalf of the whole lished a bridgehead that included Henderson Airfield, civilized world. Prosecutors who are to appear before but the Japs were giving them an unmerciful strafing the courts on behalf of the United Nations should also by day and by night, and the situation appeared to be designated before the end of the war."

be in the balance. That sort of procedure, we submit, is all right for What a difference has been wrought in the past the Axis imderlings. But in the cases of Hitler, Goer- twelve months! The Russians have freed a substan- ing, Hess, Goebbels and Himmler, to name a very few

tial part of the Ukraine and their hammer blows are leaders of one Axis nation, the idea of a court trial is sending the Nazis reeling back all along the battle- utterly repugnant to us. In the July issue of this maga- front from Leningrad southward. The Japs are on the zine we quoted with appro\ al the plan for dealing with defensive in the islands north of Australia, where these beasts advanced by Charles Warren, distinguished Allied sea, land and air forces have uncjuestioned American historian and lawyer. The known criminals, superiority. All of Africa is in our hands, and with said Mr. Warren, should be named in the formal docu- air bases on the Italian peninsula in our hands we shall ment setting forth the terms of capitulation, and this be bombing every section of Germany. The Chinese paper "should by its own terms adjudge them guilty situation has improved measurably. The Aleutians are and determine their pimishment, without the need again loo percent American. The battle of the Atlan- of further proof or trial; and the surrender of the per- tic is being won by the British and the Americans. sons of the guilty should become the condition to the Everywhere the initiative has been seized by the anti- signing of any armistice or treaty." Axis forces. The United Nations know the names of those Avho ^V''here and when further invasion of the conti- constitute the inner circle of power in both Germapy nent would come, whether it ^v'ould be launched at and Japan. At the proper time those names will no two or three points along one coast or at eight or nine doubt be made known to whoever the leaders of those points on two or three coasts was a military secret the nations may be when they are preparing to throw in Nazis had no hope of learning before the actual blows the sponge. "We've got a little list; they'll none of 'em fell. Meanwhile the softening-up of Germany through be missed!" as the Lord High Executioner sings in aerial bombardment had become almost a 'round-the- Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Doubtless the Jap clock performance. leaders will by that time have committed hari-kiri, and How close to victory? Not a man living knows. Prob- if the German criminals in cjuestion don't take a ably we shall see heavy castialties among our soldiers, like course their own peoples will try to tear them to sailors and Marines in the next few months while pieces. Once survivors of this murderous group are in beach-heads are being established and our forces go the custody of the United Nations there should be no forward to take territory under the umbrella of our more delay. Just hang 'em or shoot 'em.

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