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tion is Stephen Ba> ne, the \\'estbur\ , CO STAMiNC FRANKIE AVALON • PATRICK WAYNE L.I., Sir: riie tribute to John J. Pershing high school boy who show ed his

is a classic. I knew the General and disrespect to men who suffered and saw him many times in The ar- died for his freedom. Another exam- JOHN WAYNE -JAMES EDWARD GRANT BOONE ticle should be put in pamphlet form ple: Our twin sons were passed COMPOSED «ND CONDUCTED BY DIMITRI TIOMKIN MUSIC and distributed in schools and colleges through the 6th grade with excellent

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Information that can help you icith everyday problems. new 22 autoloader Auto makers are going to adopt the one-stop shopping idea this fall. Most dealers will display a full line ranging from small to luxury models so that the customer can satisfy his pocketbook in a single showroom. unsurpassed It's close to supermarket merchandising — but not quite the whole way. Dealers still will stick with a single manufacturer; they won't mix suppliers accuracy the way grocery supermarkets do. On the other hand, you won't have to hop from dealer to dealer to look at a Valiant in one place and a Chrysler in another. For example: • Weighs just 4 pounds • A Dodge dealer now can carry a Simca (imported). Lancer, the Darts, • Chip-proof, warp-proof the Polara, plus trucks. • Similarly, a Mercury dealer will display British and German Fords, the • 3-point bedding Comet, the Monterey, Lincoln Continental, and English compact trucks. • No lubrication Here's what's behind the move: 1) the auto has become such a staple in the American economy that manufacturers have to cater to consumers with an ever-widening range of merchandise, and 2) they have to pile enough variety Here's a major advance in rifle into each showroom so that the dealer can survive. making. The same structural- nylon used in industrial machin- • • • ery has been used to create a gun Did the roar of war affect your hearing? Noise and concussion can do it — stock that is chip-proof, water- also tuberculosis, typhoid fever, flu, plus such childhood plagues as mumps, proof, oil-proof and warp-proof. chicken pox, whooping cough. Revolutionary integration of When loss of hearing begins in adults, the victim often has these symptoms: stock, ordnance steel barrel and nylon receiver means friction- He asks that words and phrases be repeated; he can't hear a dripping faucet free steel parts ride on nylon in the same room; he can't hear a speaker unless he's facing him; he tends to bearings. There's no break-in cock one ear toward the source of sound. Physical symptoms like earache, period, no need for lubrication. dizzy spells, and a "stuffed up" feeling in the ears also are common. The resulting accuracy and effi- In children, watch out for poor speech; mispronunciation of common ciency has never before been ob- words (particularly if they have an "s" sound in them); truancy and mis- tainable in an autoloading 22. Mohawk Brown and Seneca behavior; difficulty in learning to read. Mouth breathing may be a clue. Green stocks have clean, sharp An estimated 15 million persons — including upwards of 2 million young checkering, white inlays. Maga- people — have hearing problems, the American Hearing Society figures (this zine holds fourteen 22 long rifle nonprofit organization works in behalf of the acoustically handicapped, has cartridges. At your dealer's now. some 120 local affiliates) . The Society suggests: 1) Have your hearing tested regularly; don't poke into your ears with matchsticks or metal objects; see your doctor at the fii'st sign of pain or dis- charge; avoid swimming in uninspected pools or stagnant water.

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Something to Remember from THE 'uRonroe Doctrine

DECEMBER 2. 1823

. . We owe it, therefore, to candour, and to the amicable relations existing

between the United States and those powers, to declare that we should consider

any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemis-

phere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or depend- encies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained

it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing

them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power,

in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward

the United States. ... It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their

political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace

and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to

themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, there-

fore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference."

How free enterprise reared its head in a German prison camp.

By BENTON J. RESNIK working people gave them shelter and as But the Germans were not asleep. much food as they could spare from Word of the British activity leaked to their own pitiful supply. But they had a them. They sent in their own counter- MOST OF US the price of ciga- EOR deep and abiding hatred for the "te- intelligence complete with forged British letts keeps going up, usually as deschi," as they called the Germans. papers, perfect British accents and new taxes are levied. Naturally, When nazi troops came looking for the counterfeit money. These well-trained the citizens do quite a bit of griping aoout tnis. but somehow I can't seem to got wurked up over it. I can remember when cigarettes were worth their weight in plat. num. So mere taxes are child's pLiy compared to the problems in a prisoner-of-war camp. And Jerry Gordon solved most of them.

I met Jerry Gordon in Stalag Luft IV, a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied Air

Force personnel in Germany. I had been waist gunner of a B-24 which had be^n shot down near Vienna in August of 1944. Jerry's route to Stalag Lult IV was a circuitous one, for he began his POW career in an Italian prison camp early in 1943. Since this story is about

Jerry, it might be worthwhile to recount what this tough and shrewd man experienced between his capture by the Italians and his arrival in a German prison camp. Conditions in the Italian POW camp were unbearable. Dysentery, bad food or no food at all, insects and poor shelter were a few of the hardships, but Jerry managed to survive. This rugged, dark- haired product of New York's lower Jerry's better nature won oui and he reached into his bulging barracks bag. East Side was no stranger to poor living conditions, even before his Air Force prisoners, they were met with false leads, men also made contact with the roaming years. dumb stares and a great many stalling Allied personnel, managing to set up a Some time after Jerry's capture the tactics. Even threats from their own pipeline of their own — one that led to Italians capitulated. In a surprise move countrymen, the fanatical fascisti, were disaster. They hoodwinked the men into they freed their prisoners by merely ignored by the farmers. The recapture of coming to the beach for a supposed opening the compound gates and leaving Jerry Gordon and other prisoners was rendezvous with a submarine which the men to their own devices. This no fault of these Italian people. It was a would take them to freedom. But when proved to be a mixed blessing, however, combination of careful planning on the the unwary lads arrived at the beaches as the prisoners were behind enemy lines part of the Germans, plus a bit of luck, they were met by a withering burst of and the Germans were closing in to re- that turned the unfortunate trick. machinegun fire. Many a former pris- capture them. What to do? News of the former Italian prisoners oner, thinking he was returning home, The now ex-POW's didn't hang reached British headquarters. They sent walked unwittingly to his death. Jerry around long looking for a solution. They their agents to the central Italian hills. Gordon, one of the luckier ones, escaped took to the hills. Without arms, food or These agents managed to contact many that fate. Instead, he was recaptured and resources of any kind, they hid out. of the Allied men and gave them money, sent this time to a German prison camp. hoping that the nazis would retreat far reasoning that a bribe in a strategic spot Although conditions in the escape- enough for them to come out of hiding might enable a few of them to get proof compound of the Germans were and return to their own lines. through to Anzio, where the Allies had better than those under the Italians, life All the help they received came from made a landing. was far from being a bed of roses. the Italian peasants. These poor, hard- ILLUSTRATED BY RAY KEENE (Continued on page 40)

13 By WM. r. BUCKLEY, JR. y I'H WILL PROBABLY ncvef know lor sure guilty |[ il whether Sacco and Vanzetti were ot killing the paymaster and his guard, brutally in midafternoon, in South Braintree, Mass., for the sake of $15,000. There were witnesses who said they had seen Nicola Sacco. the shoemaker, in Boston on the 15th of April, 1920, at the hour the crime was being committed. Others came forward who said they had seen Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the fishpeddler. at Plymouth all that day. The jury concluded the defense witnesses were either lying in behalf of their friends, or that they had simply confused the date in question. At any rate, they didn't believe them. Witnesses stepped forward who looked at Sacco and Vanzetti and said these were not the men they had seen commit the murder, or drive off in the murder car. Other witnesses to the crime looked the de- Sacco and Vanzetti as they appeared fendants in the face and said. These are at their uial. At right, as they the men. were glorified on an NBC-TV show. The jury disbelieved the one set of

witnesses, believed the others. When hundred dollars in his pocket from the Vanzetti was picked up he had in his sale of fish. The dead guard, Berardelli, pocket a Harrington & Richardson re- carried a Harrington & Richardson, too volver, which he carried, he said, be- —but when they turned the corpse over cause sometimes he had as much as a after the shooting the gun was missing. Purely a coincidence, Vanzetti said; he

< Radicals have long hated Judge Thayer, left, who sentenced the ])air. They showed their hatred by bombing his home.

offered a story on how he had got hold

of /;/\ Harrington & Richardson, a story corroborated by some of his friends. Bunk, the prosecution protested: the revolver was snatched from the dying Berardelli to prevent him from shooting after the fleeing robbers. The jury doubted Vanzetti. Sacco. too. had a gun when he was The reds made the case a special Overseas, communists used the case to discredit picked up. a Colt .32 loaded with nine cause. This is a 1927 mass meet- (he United .States. This gathering, held in Paris in bullets. He carried a gun, he said, be- Van/etti's sister. ing in New York's Union Square. 1927, was addressed bv Bartolomeo cause he also served as nightwatchman at the shoe factory where he worked. In his pocket he had 23 additional bullets. Sacco's Colt was fired during the trial and four "experts" examined a test bullet

to compare it with the bullet that had been removed from the heart of Berar- delli. Two experts for the defense doubted the bullets' correspondence. One expert for the prosecution said the bullets had been fired from the same barrel; the Periodically the Sacco-Vanzetti Case is resurrected to "prove'

that American justice is not for poor people. AGAIN We are now getting another repeat performance.

Whs it Sacco's cap? There were those and draft dodgers. They wore appalled

who said it was, those who said it wasn't; by the accusations that they had been

the jury believed it was Sacco's, all right. servile instruments of a hanging judge. And so on July 14, 1921, they found They were not out to extirpate heresy, Sacco and Vanzetti guilty beyond a but to weight evidence: they believed reasonable doubt. Sacco and Vanzetti to be guilty of Thirty years later, in 1952, an enter- murder, in the first degree. prising reporter from the New Bedford • • • (Mass.) Sidiulaid-Tifucs decided to track Webster Thayer and Fred H. Moore down the jurors, hoping to find one or clearly loathed each other. Thayer was a

Harvard historian .Vrthur ,S( hU"siii

two of them still alive and willing to proper Bostonian, a man with an im- talk about the case. To his surprise he peccable record as a lawyer and a jurist, found eight were living, and all but one whose figure, in the courtroom and out, highly communicative. One of the seven was that of Defender of the Establish- fourth said only that the bullet was had even written a book (unpublished) ment. Fred Moore, lawyer for the de- '"consistent"" with having been fired about the trial, carefully chronicling the fendants, on the other hand, was the through Sacco's Colt. The jury believed day-by-day events, recording his im- romantic figure of a radical from Cali- .Sacco"s was the murder gun. (Several pressions of the witnesses, the judge, the fornia, an itinerant and passionate friend years later, when the knowledge of bal- prosecution, the defense, and his evalua- of any enemy of the Establishment, who listics had been greatly refined, the two tion of the testimonty. specialized in defending radicals, labor

bullets were once again compared: it Every single one of the surviving leaders, anarchists, wobblies. He had was then conclusively established, to the jurors was profoundly convinced that had some striking successes. He was, no

satisfaction even of the defense, that Sacco and Vanzetti had been guilty doubt about it. unscrupulous: there is they had been fired from the same gun. beyond a reasonable doubt, notwith- abundant evitlence of efforts by him in Whereupon the defense suggested that standing the ensuing uproar. All of them the months after the trial to suborn wit- the bullet on exhibit was a plant — sur- believed, moreover, that the trial judge, nesses, to cajole and intimidate them in reptitiously substituted for the mortal the controversial Webster Thayer, had order to win a retrial. But he was, in bullet in order to clinch the case.) been scrupulously fair. They were not, many respects, a poor lawyer, and cer- The bullets in Sacco's pocket were of they said, much influenced by the identi- tainly just the wrong man to put up in an obsolete make. But they matched the fication witnesses. Primarily they had Webster Thayer's courtroom. mortal bullet. The prosecution chal- been convinced by Sacco's possession of Moore's associates begged him at the lenged the defense to go out and find the obsolete bullets. All the jurors deeply outset of the trial to step down in favor

others like it. The defense looked, but resented the charges they had heard .so of a more finished legal technician, but

could not find any. frequently over the years, that they he would have none of it: the case be- A cap was dropped by one of the wanted to lynch Sacco and Vanzetti longed to him. In court he would some- murderers at the scene of the crime. merely because they were anarchists (Conliniictl on fxi^'c 47)

15 By DAVE WARNER

YOUR FAVORITE football team is IF upset this season, chances are bet-

ter than even that it all began with a good job of scouting. Up until the late 192()"s, football's Peeping Toms had a thankless job. They sneaked into stadiums on Saturday after- noons, stealthily jotted down notes and generally acted like undergroundlings who had come to steal the ordnance stores. Scouts now not only are accepted by rival colleges but are given choice seats in the press box and supplied with line- ups, paper and sharpened pencils — everything except the plays the opposing coach intends to use. These the gridiron gumshoe must dig out on his own.

That scouts get their job done is evi- Yale was host to at least 20 inquisitive scouts at last year's Harvard gai denced by the following spectacular examples of victories directly attributable to excellence in sleuthing: Item: Navy last year ran up the biggest score (43-12) on Army since the two service academies began playing in

1 890. The lopsided victory was made possible because from its scouting report Navy knew 95 percent of the time FOOTBALLS whether Army would pass or run. The Middies picked up the key early in the year and it held true. Navy also decided to rush Army quarterback Joe Caldwell, who usually got his passes off fast. Joe had no time at all to throw. As a result, he underthrew, overthrew and landed PEEPING TOMS on his back in his worst performance of the season. Item: In 1957, Notre Dame, an 18- point underdog, beat Oklahoma, 7-0, Nowadays there is nothing sneaky about ending the Sooners' 47-game winning streak. Irish scouts noticed and later con- firmed in movie films that Oklahoma was a bit weak on short passes and wouldn't football scouting. It's an honorable profession. gamble in a close game, preferring to stick with basic plays. Notre Dame clicked on short passes and stopped the six basic plays they were waiting for. Item: In 1942, Hugh Devore, then a Williams repeatedly ran the option play that Johnny Maulbetsch had a hearing

Holy Cross scout, discovered that the with reinforced blocking to its right side. loss and couldn't understand spoken sig- Crusaders" only chance of beating a great If the Amherst linebacker ran out with nals too clearly. The tap was his private Boston College team would be to trap its his man, the Williams back kept the ball sign from the signal-caller to get ready. All-American tackle. Gil Bouley. Holy and ran for big yardage. By the time the Coaches take their chances on being Cross repeatedly and purposely let Bou- Amherst linebacker wised up and de- the beneficiaries or victims of scouting ley flood into its backfield. And each cided to stay at the line, Williams simply jobs. But almost without exception high time George Connor hit him from the passed to the uncovered receiver. Wil- school, college and professional football side, assuring a gaping hole and a stun- liams won, 26-1 2. teams are glad to exchange scouting ning 55-12 Holy Cross victory. The loss Item: Back in 1914 Johnny Maul- courtesies. Logging millions of miles of was BC's only one of the season. betsch of Michigan was rated the best travel each season, scouts have become Item: Williams and Amherst met for plunging fullback of his era. But when as familiar to the football scene as long the 1956 Little Three championship in Michigan, with Maulbetsch its star, met gainers, dazzling quarterbacks, cheer- a game which "experts" said the boys a weaker Cornell team. Johnny was leaders, dogs interrupting play on the from Williamstown, Mass., didn't have thrown for a loss 14 of the 15 times he field and the time-honored waterboy. a chance of winning. During steady spy- carried the ball. Cornell scouts had no- All that coaches ask is for scouts to ing of five games, Williams scouts ticed that every time the Michigan All- stay away from the weekday practices learned that Amherst's left corner line- American was going to carry, his quarter- where the tricky, secret stuff is brewed. backer always ran out with any player back would pat him on the hip. It later Lately, no scout has been caught violat- who looked like an intended receiver. developed that the reason for this was ing that rule although, a report goes, a 16 Lt. IMiil iMoiu.haii, IJS.MC, aiul Steve r»t'Ii< hick. Their scouting lor Navy made possible siitli achievements as Navy's lopsided 4312 win over Army last year. At lelt is a scene from that game.

Notre Dame s stall study Oklahoma's weaknesses as shown on lilm. Head Coach Joe Kuharich is sho\vn with a reel that helped Notre Dame beat the Sooners 7 0 in 19-)7. Below, an Oklahoma player being stopped.

scout once rolled himself up in a field As a rule, a scout will sec an oppo- tarpaulin and ogled secret practice until nent several times a season. The first he was caught and shooed away amid time he may just look, getting an idea embarrassment. Scouts, who mostly doubled as assistant football coaches, must know football intimately and later must interpret what they see to form a plan of battle. Methods of operating will differ, but generally a scout's notes will include systems of play ( T-formation, single or

double wing, multiple olTense) ; giveaway traits such as the guard who leans before pulling out of the line; why a team is slow or fast; better players at various positions; best defensive and offensive tactics; which plays are apt to work best in which situations, etc. Rundowns on players will read something like this: Left halfback; Good on end sweeps.

Fast, hard to bring down . . . e.xception- aily good pass receiver and can pass as well. When in tailback spot will run four out of five times. Fullback: Weighs 215 pounds. Runs mostly to inside with power and speed. Overall team: In good shape at tackles and also in backfield. Based on present knowledge, weakest spots are at guard.

Quarterback position is undoubtedh strongest spot with two experienced players there. Can put lettermen at every of players and style. The second time he his team can work best. position except left guard. gets down to dummying patterns on a For a really important game, several

A scout's main objective is informa- pad. getting every play as precisely as he scouts may be assigned. .Scouting is big tion as to an opponent's weaknesses. As can. By the third game he is ready to business and is best illustrated by Army one sleuth put it, ""We've got to find what translate observations and diagrams into and Navy who began preparing for this we can do against the defense. We can a report, trying to evaluate where they fall's game the day after their game last hold 'em all day, but if we can't score, are strong and weak, where the oppo- year. Other equally warm rivals from we can't win." nent can operate on his team and where (Continued on pci^c 45) 17 By MERLYN S. PITZELE

HAS BEEN a lot ot tiilk justi- THhRi-; — fied talk about the "population The Elderly explosion." Looking into a future not too distant we can clearly see a further increase in the birth rate and a further decline in infant mortality. This means more babies, more children growing into adulthood, more people. As a nation we have been concerned about whether we will have enough schools, enough homes, enough jobs for them all. With all of the discussion and planning going on. no one can say it is a problem that has sutTered from lack of attention. But the impact of a population explosion so plainly seen in a climbing birth rate has a recoil that is too often over- looked. At the other end of the life tables, the increase in the number of people over the age of 65 is mounting faster than the birth rate. I The figures are dramatic: There are 15.4 million persons aged 65 and over I* in the population, representing 8.6 percent of the total. Over 3,000 persons become age 65 every day. By 1975, there will be 20 million people over the age of 65 in the popu-

Within 10 years the average family will be made up of four generations.

they remain cold and lacking in human- tually everyone who is employed, ex- ity. To feel their human dimensions con- cepting only those in a few professions. sider this: Our picture of the man pre- Since the system was established in 1937.

paring for retirement is of an aging improvements and expansion have been person whose family is a devoted wife, regularly legislated. Every male covered grown children and grandchildren in by Social Security has the right to re- whose company he looks forward to tire from his job at age 65 and receive spending happy hours in the new leisure benefits. Every female has the right to Most laniilies go into of his retirement. But the new facts show retire at age 62. 1^ iheir retirement years us that the true picture is far dilTerent. As of last year, the average monthly witlv a nest egg niatle up Now, one out of every three persons benefit received by all persons drawing of tlu'ir savings. between the ages of 60 and 64 has a Social Security was $72. But illustrating parent or close relative in his 80's or how benefits have been liberalized is the lation, even if the death rate stays the older. Within 40 years this figure will fact that those who retired last year re- same. double so that two out of every three ceived an average monthly benefit ol These figures take no accoimt of new persons approaching the retirement age $82. What this means is that persons re- medical techniques and pharmaceutical of 65 will have a parent or close relative tiring now, and those who will retire in developments which one may expect to over 80. The average family, not the rare the future, are entitled to higher month- come along at a pace at least as fast one, will be made up of four generations. ly payments. Close to 7 out of 10 aged as that of the last 15 years. Accelerated Your own chance of becoming a great- persons are now receiving Social Security scientific research on heart and circula- grandfather increases all the time. and that number will show a continuous tory disorders and on cancer — the chief How well is our society prepared to increase. killer diseases of older people — promise deal with the profound changes which There is nothing that smacks of char- further extensions of the life span. The an aging population will bring? ity or philanthropy in the Social Security conclusion is exact: Many more people For the financial support of the elder- program. The funds out of which bene- will live much longer. ly, a sound base already exists. A fed- fits arc paid are accumulated through Impressive though the figures are, eral system of .Social Security covers vir- direct taxes on employers and employees.

18 1

. . A Problem for All of Us

In dealing with the aged we must think

in terms of humanity, not just statistics. covered by a pension program is a rare, not a usual, company. Throughout all industry, the lowest paid employee, as well as the company president, can count on a pension when he satisfies the age

The payment of these taxes is, in effect, Mississippi it came to $29. and length-of-service requirements in the the purchase of an equity that the tax- Of increasing importance in provid- retirement plan. payer recovers upon retirement. Most of ing a foundation of financial support for The most recent estimates calculate the improvements in benefits have been our aging population are private pen- the amount of money in these private paid for by increasing Social Security sion plans. A program of retirement pay pension programs at $42 billion. You taxes or by broadening the base upon is now a commonplace in American can appreciate the magnitude of that which these taxes are collected. The industry. It used to be that only the figure when you realize that it is sub- applies man who for Social Security executive, the member of the topside stantially more than the entire U. S. benefits need feel only that he is getting management team, could count on the budget for national defense. Each dol- something that he, himself, for. paid continuation of some part of his salary lar of the $42 billion is earmarked for In addition to the Social Security sys- after his active work-life came to an end. pensions and can, under the law which tem, the federal government in collabo- That situation has been greatly provides special tax treatment for this ration with the States maintains an Old changed within the last 15 years. The money, be used for no other purpose. Age Assistance program. For hardship company which today has more than 50 Yet this tremendous sum is growing all employees and does not have them all (Continued on page 51)

OLD AGE ASSISTANCE: PAYMENTS TO RECIPIENTS BY STATES. APRIL 1960

MONTHLY MONTHLY MONTHLY STATE PAYMENTS STATE PAYMENTS STATE PAYMENTS Ala. $53.21 Maine $67.76 P. R. . . $ 8.22

Alaska 64.42 Md. 61.12 R. 1. 78.29

Ariz. . 61.67 Mass. 103.11 S. C. 40.38 Ark. 53.83 Mich. 72.36 S. Dak. 61.02 Calif. 90.93 Minn. 89.40 Tenn 42.91 Colo. 102.35 Miss. 29.77 Tex. 52.90

Conn. 116.65 Mo. 59.71 Utah . 73.01

. Del. 49.65 Mont. 63.85 Vt. . 62.56

D. . 1. C. 64.66 Nebr. 70.93 V. . 23.63

. Fla. 57.35 Nev. . 70.74 Va 43.95 Social Security benefits and funds Ga. 47.29 N. H. 77.83 Wash 82.80 from pension plans are increasing. Guam 24.66 N. J. 89.76 W. Va. 39.05 cases where income cannot cover neces- Hawaii 63.05 N. Mex 68.38 W/is 83.06

sary expenses, funds are available to the Idaho 67.96 N. Y. 107.48 Wyo. . . 72.65

aged on a regular basis. About one out of III. . . . 73.84 N. C. 40.57

Ind. . 61.97 N. Dak 90.09 six aged persons receives such assistance. Average Iowa 79.75 Ohio 74.69 The average monthly payment under Monthly Payments Okla. this program last year was $64 but there Kans. 80.25 79.88 $68. 1

. . . 46.11 are wide variations state by state. In Ky. Oreg 80.08

Connecticut, for example, the average La. . . . 71.66 Pa. . 68.26 monthly payment was $108, while in 19 By GARDNER SOULE

ASOLiNE IS NOW being used in large quantities to prevent backache and muscular pain. It is not applied as a liniment, however, but is used in small engines which, by the millions, are mowing lawns, cutting down trees, tilling gardens, pumping water, and doing many other chores that were once sheer drudgery. So many odd jobs are now being done by small gasoline engines of 10.9 horsepower or less that an estimated 6 million of them were manufactured last year. In 1958, the last year for which Depart- ment of Commerce figures are available, ihe U..S. produced ^5. 362.437 of the Portable j><)^^e^ in a small package. small engines, the majority of which were of 3 horsepower or smaller. Indeed, the production of the small engines is now running neck and neck with our output of automobile engines, and will probably forge ahead of the big fellows before long. As an indication of what this Everybody's means as a source of power, consider that thousands of big diesel engines are made in this country - for electric plants, for huge cross-country trucks, for road- building machinery, for ships, and for Little Helpers freight locomotives that can race along at 80 miles an hour. But in total horsepower available to do men's work, the small gasoline engines are doing more of a job than the powerful diesels are. Small engines are making life easy for

The small gasoline engine is today where the automobile was after World War I, when cars were first produced by the millions. In the automobile the in- many by doing all sorts of odd jobs. ternal combustion engine had one purpose: Transportation. The little engines have hundreds. The one-lungers that run your lawnmower or your garden tractor are proving themselves to be the most versa- tile helpers men ever had. Oflf New Zealand, they saw up whales. In New York City, they crack ice en route to gine is now used to drive a motorized horseless carriages like those made in hotels. On fishing boats, they haul up wheelbarrow which can carry three- the early 1900's are being manufactured nets. They paint stripes on highways, quarters of a ton of brick or concrete again, with a difference. The diff'erence sweep floors, staple cartons, inflate tires, up a 20-degree slope. You'll also see is 1960-model 3- to 5-horsepower gaso- even rock kids' hobby horses. them operating plaster and mortar mix- line engines. They give the new-old cars You'll see them wherever you go. ers, hoists, and power trowels. Look (as they are called) approximately the From atop the cabs of big trucks, they down manholes, and you'll see that they same horsepower the original ones had, cool fresh fruits and vegetables. On rail- perform ventilating chores— blowing out the same number of cylinders (one), road tracks, they drive what used to be the foul air. In Florida, they push swamp but a great deal more dependability. To- handcars. One model powers a small buggies—shallow-draft boats propelled day's horseless carriages are scaled either switch engine that runs either on track by airplane-type propellers above their to full size or two-thirds original size, or road, and moves single freight cars sterns. Around the Great Lakes, they are available either finished or as do-it- about with the greatest of ease. In oil- either bore or saw holes in the ice for yourself kits. Priced from $1,000 up, fields, they spin the flywheels to start the ice fishing. In the Midwest recently one they're finding favor for family shop- big diesel engines. They also start the little engine was spotted waving the arms ping, driving around town, and jaunts engines of some of the big earthmoving of a scarecrow. to the beach. machines building the interstate highway They have even caused a renaissance The biggest customer of all for the network. of oldtime horseless carriages, complete small engines is—you guessed it—you. By

You'll find them on building jobs. For with curved dashboards and brass head- far the biggest use is for lawnmowers. In example, a 7-horsepower gasoline en- lamps. Thanks to small gasoline engines, 1946, 100,000 power mowers were made 20 who owns a power mower cuts his grass- cutting time to one-third. "I save the most time," said a veteran homeowner to me the other day, "when my wife's behind the mower." The manufacturers are fully aware of this fact, and current models make mowing easier for the girls. The old jerk-the-cord starter is replaced by several easier methods— recoil starters or even electrically driven units. Mowers you ride are replacing those you walk behind. Riding-type mowers, ailhouili fairly new, already account lor hall of one big company's total production. A

1 961 -model pushing mower, due this too, They work in winter, October, will have bicyclj wheels for walks and drives keej)ing .5 2 easier pushing and a ' -horsepower clear ol slush and snow.

.Most oi ilie imii'Mi oiiipiu is heing used to keep the nation's lawns neat.

Ten-horse|K)wer engines were used to propel these Sno-Travelers which carried 900pound loads on a recent 1200-mile trek deep into Alaska.

Karts, i)Owered by small engines, are rapidly becoming a national tra/e.

clip dank, heavy grass in the U.S.A. In 1959, it is estimated. cast-iron motor to 4.2 million were produced. Although or thick underbrush. of the little power- 25 V2 million power mowers have been Second biggest use and tillers. made since the war, and almost 17 plants is for garden tractors school of thought, million are still in use, one of the Here, according to one mower firms estimates that by 1965 the they have reduced the toil and left in tractor," says market will require 7.3 million annually. the fun. "I have a garden a retired Columbia Uni- This firm is also convinced that there Fred Dutcher, professor, "and with will continue to be a big market for versity engineering of garden." mower attachments: edgers, trimmers, it I knock the devil out my Portable generators run by gas engines typi- snowblowers, snowplows, tillers, etc. He ows tomatoes, peas and other provide electricity for power tools. Manufacturers figure that the man (Continuecl on page 52) 21 There Are NO COMMUNISTS

By MORRIE RTSKIND Some people may have acted like commies

THERt ARE NO COMMUNISTS in Hol- lywood. And. contrary to what you may have heard from the but they were just sturdy non-conformists. FBI. the House Un-American Activities C^ommittee. the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security and the sworn testimony of informers, there never were records of Paul Robeson's, I go to bed a Mr. X. (his name doesn't exactly es- any. Sturdy non-conformists, yes; for- contentedly, seeing no evil, hearing none cape me, but 1 am allergic to it for rea- ward-looking progressives, undoubtedly; and thinking not at all. I awake in the sons I shall presently explain), in which agrarian reformers, definitely; but com- morning a normal, clear-eyed, unaware a Russian delegate to the United Na- munists? Perish the thought! American, psychologically unable to see tions expresses some rather angelic sen- communists where they don't exist and timents. It was her contention, as 1 recall True, 1 wasn't always of this opinion. —even more important—unable to recog- it, that all Russian dele- And even now, as 1 recall the doings of nize where they gates express men and women in the various Holly- them do. angelic 1 actual be- wood guilds who connived like commu- suppose my reformation sentiments but vote gan in but the in nists, spoke like communists and acted 1951, seeds were sown and work for the that fateful devil; tha like communists, some of the old doubts 1947. On September 2 of and occasionally come back. As a rule, I am proud to say, these doubts are only of momentary duration and my will power

is strong enough to banish them; if they

persist, however, I call for help from the local chapter of Anti-Communists

Proletarian authors continued to do business imder the same old stand.

year, a '"Town Hall Meeting of the Air" the author might have revealed some of debate — originating in Hollywood — was the delegate's deeds as well as words. scheduled on the subject, "Is there really In his rebuttal, Mr. X. replied that a threat of communism in Hollywood?" words lifted out of context do not give

Mrs. Lei a Rogers, mother of the f amous you the true flavor of a work: that his Ginger, was to speak for the affirmative play would come to New York in De- and, on the eve of the event, asked a cember, and that he was content to leave

group of her misguided friends, myself the final judgment till that time. And—

included, to listen to her prepared speech as an occasional playwright— I thought and offer any suggestions that might he made an excellent reply. occur to us. Well, the play opened in December We did; and the next day, having and ran seven performances. George rounded up such other horse-and-buggy Jean Nathan, in his summary for the chauvinists as we knew, attended the fes- " Theatre Book of the Year," made no Eveiylhing was g<)ing along fine till tivities. During the debate, Mrs. Rogers mention of Mrs. Rogers. What he wrote Hitler and .Stalin became (onnadely. quoted some excerpts from a then-un- was, "The public could not take any part

Anonymous (an organization of former produced play by one of her opponents, of it, and the play expired where it

red-baiters who have seen the light ) and, stood." Morrie Ryskind, co-auttior with George S. after a night devoted to reading aloud Kaufman of Pulitzer-prize-winning "Of Ttiee That would normally have been the editorials from the more liberal papers, I Sing," has also written the screenplays of end of it, for the sad fact is that the "Claudia," "Animal Crackers," "My Man God- listening to taped speeches by playwright is the last unprotected mem- Jimmy frey," "Man About Town" and "Room Serv- Roosevelt and Cyrus Eaton and some ice." He is known as a militant anti-communist. ber of American society. True, if he has 22 the deceased Sam Wood and James K. MeGuinness), "Town Hall Meeting of the Air" and the American Broadcasting Company for $1 million. He charged a HOllYWOOD conspiracy to damage his career and the ruination of his play. On September 1, according to his testimony at the trial in Ji- 1951, he tigured the value ol his play at S400,U*H). (This was interesting because the most he had ever made out of his best known play was—and this included

the movie sale-$8(),()0(). ) On Septem- ber 3, the day after the broadcast, the value of his play, because of Mrs. Rog- ers' remarks, was negligible. Further, his lawyer pointed out, some 20 million people from Canada to Mexico

listened in to the broadcast and most of them decided then and there not to go to Hollywood's agrarian rcfoiincr.s merely waiUcd to sc-i/e ilu- vasi arres New York to see the play. And they ob- owned !)y the rapitalisi exploiters and distriliiiie tht iii to the peasants. viously didn't. In addition, where Mr. X. had made $2cS,()()t) in 1947, he had a hit. his troubles are over for the year for playwrights by which a fellow could earned only $16,000 in 1948 - also di- except for the inevitable bout with the be paid not to write for a while; Secre- rectly attributable to Mrs. Rogers. income tax collector. But hits, alas!, are tary Benson won't export your flop to A jury of our peers awarded damages few and far between, and even such box- India or Chile or Ghana or other lands for "unfair criticism" to the extent of office writers as Oscar Hammerstein II virtually starving for plays; the Depart- $30,000; later a settlement was reached and George S. Kaufman have known the ment of Health, Education, and Welfare with the manager (oh, he sued, too); long years of drought. will not lift a finger for you; and even altogether, what with legal fees and as-

You can work a year on a show, bring in the charters of the ADA and the U.N.. sessments, it cost each of us between $12 it in, and once the New York critics and those two last resorts of culture and hu- and $15,000—and a solid month of our audiences put their thumbs down, what manity, you can find no word about aid time.

>ou have are one week's royalties— and for the indigent playwright. You can't After that I was cured. The hard way. that's all. For some silly reason, the mov- even get unemployment insurance for I still see Mrs. Rogers occasionally but ies don't buy flops; the government boys the 51 weeks your play doesn't run. we never discuss communisrn or plays. don't come forward to ofTer you even That's what happens to an ordinary She did once ask my opinion of a local 70 percent parity on what you would playwright— me, for example. But Mr. production of "Hamlet," when I ran into have made if it were a hit; they don't X. was made of sturdier stuff. He sued her during intermission. I looked around oft'er to pay you for storing it in an ever- Mrs. Rogers, all of us who had attended hastily and drew her outside. normal granary; there is no Soil Bank the September 1 conference (Ayn Rand, "Lela," I said, "arc you mad? Have ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID PASCAL Robert Arthur, myself and the estates of (Contiiiiu'd on pcif^e 41) 23 IHI®W When the Ford Motor Company decided to show its 1961 line in a typical American community

at the nation's population center, it selected

Flora, Illinois. There it found that The

American Legion was the town's center

By GEORGE H. WALTZ, JR.

TOURISTS WHO A fcw days u

ago drove through Flora, j,

III., a typical small Amer- ican city just 100 miles east of g St. Louis, saw an odd sight. Every car driven by the local

citizenry was white, it was a

Ford product, and it was a brand new 1961 model. If any visitor wondered about the invasion of the new Fords, Ed Beneki, Chairman ot the Flora Chamber of Commerce, addresses a dinner at the members of the local Amer- Post 11 where the plans tor "Ford Town, U..S..\., ^Veek ' were first discussed. ican Legion Post (Clay County Post 14), city officials and businessmen, were brought in from the Ford head- which to mass-test and introduce their and the Flora Chamber of Commerce, quarters in Dearborn, Mich. A mass car- line of 1961 Fords, Falcons, Thunder- soon set them straight. The Ford Divi- washing system was set up to keep the birds, and light and heavy trucks. sion of the Ford Motor Co. had picked white cars sparkling. Newspaper, mag- All of this took quite a bit of doing, Flora as the site for the official interna- azine. TV and radio reporters and pho- and Flora's American Legion Post 14, tional unveiling of its 1961 line of pas- tographers were flown in and housed, under the able leadership of Commander senger cars and trucks, an event nor- dined and taxied while they covered the Edwin Guyott, played a large role in

mally held in Detroit, the Automobile event. The town was spruced up for the that doing, just as it plays a leading part Capital of the World. occasion. in all of Flora's community and busi-

During that time. Flora Jiterally be- Why was Flora, III., chosen for this ness affairs. Commander Guyott not only came "Ford Town, U.S.A." Every car unprecedented new-car unveiling? First served on the city's Welcoming Commit- and truck owner within the city's iimits of all. Flora is an average small Ameri- tee, but Legionnaires in uniform served was presented with a 1961 Ford model can city (pop. 5,300, plus or minus a as drivers of the press cars, and manned to drive during the first-of-its-kind mass few) with a typical American Legion an Information Booth for the benefit of showing and demonstration. Just before Post and other community organiza- the press and visitors. The Post's Aux- the week began, 1,350 Ford passenger tions. Second, Flora is in close proximity iliary served as hostesses and waitresses. cars, 98 light trucks, 72 tilt-cab heavy to the present center of population in The Post also provided its bus for the trucks, and 30 assorted vehicles for the United States. The city provided the transportation of city and Ford officials emergency purposes were vanned into Ford Motor Co. with a typical cross sec- and set up one of its large tents for use Flora under wraps. Maintenance crews tion of America, an average area in as a fully equipped first aid station by 24 the Red Cross. For months before the first new Fords rolled in, a six-man Post Planning Committee had coordinated the Post's activities and worked hand-in- hand with the official city Welcoming Committee, Mayor Norman Bryden. and the Chamber of Commerce. In doing all of this work, the men of Flora's Post 14 were merely following the tradition of American Legion Posts in towns and cities all over the country. As a group, they performed a community service.

The story behind Flora's Post 1 4 is typical of many Posts across the nation —particularly Posts located in relatively small communities. Out of a male adult population (over 21) of some 1,500. about one out of every five men in Flora

is an active Post member. The Post's membership of 534 also includes members who have moved away from Flora, but who continue to pay their dues and return to Flora for occasional get-to- gethers and Post functions. First started in 1920, when meetings were held in a vacant store on the city's main thoroughfare, the Post now has an enviable 40-year history of actively serving as one of the main focal points in community activities. In fostering youth activities alone, the Post not only sponsors a Junior American Legion baseball team, but a Little League baseball team, a Little League football team, and a Boy Scout troop as well. The Auxiliary sponsors a Brownie troop. The Post's fine air-conditioned brick Commander Ethvin Guyott with one of the new tars in front of Flora s Post 1 t. building, just recently refurbished, is

25 used by the Red Cross Blood Bank, the Girl Scouts, Civil Defense, and the Chamber of Commerce. Many of the city's otlicial functions are held there because it provides the best meeting room and recreational hall in the community. Never forgetting those in need of help, the Post also maintains a stock of adjustable hospital beds and crutches for any Florian \\ ho may have need of them. The hospital beds are particularly helpful to the bedridden aged and to those convalescing after a hospital stay. Working with the Chamber of Com- merce, Post 14 is also active in trying to bring new industry to Flora. Besides active work, the Post contributes gener- ously to the city's Factory Fund. Just this year, a new large factory lor the manufacture of automobile horns was built on Flora's outskirts. As a matter of fact, you would find it difficult to live, or work, or do business in Flora, 11!., without coming into contact with members of Post 14 at least several times a day. Besides being active in community development, the Post membership also forms the core of

Mrs. Dios Meisenliinier, newly elected President of the Poni's Auxiliary, attepts the keys to her HMil model Ironi Leo Alien.

running for the office of Circuit Judge diologist. Dr. Naney is President of the this fall. These are but two of a half- Illinois Heart Association. dozen lawyers who are members of the At the nearby Fabrick Tractor Co., Post. Past Cmdr. Dave Schoonovcr is mana- Then there are Drs. Eugene Foss. Lu- ger and Charles Laird—both members of cien Hutchens, Howard Villman, and the Post Planning Committee — is book- Paul Naney who help to take care of keeper.

Flora's medical ills. At Flora's well- Ed Guyott, the Post Commander, is equipped modern hospital. Legionnaire the top salesman for the Flora Lumber

Dr. Thomas McCullough is the top ra- Co. However, in addition to his daily

C;<)()k and tlie Legion bus tliat he drove to transport peo|)le who partit ipatcd in the huge promotion.

Flora's professional, business, and administrative people. The Post membership includes doctors, lawyers, city officials and contractors, in addition to businessmen, shopowncrs and craftsmen. Two members — James Briscoe and Leo .Stitzner — are City Commissioners. Briscoe is Commissioner of Streets, and

Stitzner is Commissioner of Public Works, which includes the Police De- partment, the Fire Department, and the city utilities. Edward Beneki, another very active Post member, is Chairman of the Flora Chamber of Commerce. The Vice Commander of the Post,

I'aul Higgle, is a successful attorney, and Dave Ser, a Past Conniiander of Post 11, and Ids family gel their another attorney, Harold Wineland, is first look at the lour-door sedan they jiicked to drive during the week. 26 . .

work and his Legion duties, he also man- months before when they had been asked ing the city and its residents as well as ages to serve as Director of Civil De- by an independent research team which their pros and cons regarding the new fense (a post he has held since 1958), type of Ford car — standard size, com- F'ord cars they drove for one week. Al- as Chairman of the Disaster Committee pact Falcon, or Thunderbird — they together, the survey has required in- of the Red Cross, and as Chairman of would buy if they planned to buy a new quiries on hundreds of subjects. The the Boy Scout Troop 282 Committee. one soon. Unaware that they were ac- RAMAC can absorb some 10 million A good percentage of Flora's shops — tually selecting the type of car they separate items of information, catalog

5 1 of them— are either owned or manned would drive during the celebration of them, and give them out again in re- by Post 14 members. Also, if you want "Ford Town. U.S.A.. Week," Flora's car sponse to specific questions. According something done to your house in Flora, owners indicated the e.xact Ford model to George H. Brown, Ford Division mar- the chances are that the craftsman who and accessories they preferred. From the ket research manager, "Every available comes will be an active member of Post individual responses, the Ford Division statistic on Flora and its citizens, includ-

14. was able to compile a master list of a ing their likes and dislikes when it comes As a result. Post 14 forms a vital cen- typical small American city's car choices. to cars and trucks, has been recorded in ter of strength in the city of Flora, not Regular size Fords were selected by 69.6 RAMAC. To the best of my knowledge, only in general community activities, but percent of the city's car owners, while never before has the introduction of a in the economics of the community and 20.8 percent chose Falcons, and 9.6 per- new car been studied with such searching in its administration and growth. cent picked Thunderbirds. When it came thoroughness."

The invasion by Fords was quite an to accessories, heaters headed the list. Slowly, Flora is getting back to nor- event for Flora, and the membership of Next came radios, then backup lights, mal. However, as always. Post 14 is still

Post 14 was in the midst of it. When the windshield washers and automatic trans- busily engaged in community activity. 1,550 brand new 1961 Fords, shrouded missions. Flora's "Ford Town, U.S.A., Week" was and mounted on car carriers, began roll- The cars most seen during the "Ford just another one of the many city func- ing into town in mid-September, they Town, U.S.A.. Week" in Flora were tions in which the Post has played an im- were parked on what had just a few four-door standard size Fords with two- portant part. weeks before been a 15-acre wheat field. door sedans, station wagons, and conver- On my visit to Flora I spent consider-

The field was marked oft' like a giant tibles following in that order. Those who able time with the members of Post 14, parking lot, with each space identified by drove Falcons had preferred, in order, and I know. I also know that thousands a letter and number. At specific times. four-door sedans, station wagons, and of other Posts spread across our grand Flora's car and truck owners brought two-door sedans. nation are similarly dedicated and grow- their own vehicles to the field, obtained Besides serving as an unusual intro- ing in local leadership. Flora's Post, like new Ford products, and parked their ductory program for the new Fords, many, is active, vital, and not lacking for cars and trucks in the spaces vacated. Flora's Ford Week provided the first ma- membership because it has identified it- Careful listings were maintained of the terial for a complete survey and study of self with projects that help to meet the vehicles' owners, the 1961 Fords they a typical U.S. community's reaction to a needs of the community. would drive for the week, and the older new car line. Skilled technicians now are A slogan displayed in Post 14"s build- cars and trucks left parked on the field. feeding an IBM RAMAC 305 electronic ing sums it up with "Help Our City Thru

" What type of passenger car each Flora brain, installed in Flora in late August, Our Post. car owner received had been decided a steady diet of facts and figures regard- THE HND

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAOAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 • 27 PRCSENTINO BOTH SIDES Of BIG ISSUES FACING THE NATION

Tins MONTH'S SUBJECT: ghould the United States Abolish Its Civil Defense Agency?

ten (PRO) After years of civil defense (CON) It has been my conviction since planning, the government's ability to early in World War II that a strong protect our civilians is more ineffec- civil defense program is essential to tive than when it began. Americans the future security of this country. have been lulled into a feeling of Throughout my service in the Senate security while over a billion of their I have consistently supported legisla- tax dollars have been spent to perpetu- tion giving American civilians the ate a boondoggling, superannuated means to protect life and property and civil defense agency. give most effective support to the fighting forces in the event of nuclear warfare, sabotage or hostile invasion. For this huge expenditure, Americans have received a mismanaged bureaucracy which serves only to con- fuse the public with periodic multi-million dollar During 1941-1945, when I was Governor of Florida, doses of psychological pablum. some 338,000 Floridians were trained to execute specific roles in the defense of their State and Nation. For Our civil defense agency suffers from, among other example, they patrolled the State's long coastline — things, an acute case of split personality. Unbelievable some 1,200 miles — when it was discovered that would- as it may sound, at one the it and same time advocates be saboteurs were being landed by submarine. It is evacuation and shelter programs. Do we run, hide or unrealistic to believe that our present potential enemy both? is less well-equipped with undersea craft than was Germany. The single task of coast patrol confronting Soviet submarines can hurtle rockets 1,500 miles in- the 24 maritime States creates a tremendous responsi- land allowing us five minutes' warning. Intercontinen- bility which our Armed Forces could not possibly tal ballistic missiles fired from the Soviet Union would assume. permit us 20 minutes' warning at most. The thermo- nuclear weapon's tremendous destructive power and the missile's great speed make evacuation not only This is just one of the jobs which must be shouldered impractical, but impossible. To even consider evacua- by civilians for the protection of their families and tion is absurd. homes. There are many others, including care of the sick and wounded, and of children and the aged, the The conditions of modern warfare make shelters of maintenance of water supplies, shelter, sanitation and little or no use in saving American lives. shelter A food facilities. system will cost at least $20 billion. Even then there is no assurance that it will not be completely outmoded In the event of war our forces will be fully occupied by more advanced weapons. I know of no salaried civil with military duties, leaving them no time to assume defense official in Ohio who has bothered to build one. the survival functions for which civilians are being I pay tribute to the volunteer civil defense workers trained. Too, our Armed Forces are not equally dis- who performed often at gi-eat risk to themselves. This tributed in all regions of the nation and thus it be- is in the finest American tradition and will continue comes obvious that civilians must be ready to step into long after our present civil defense agency is abolished. the breach — just as England's Civil Defense Service (CDS) did so effectively while the Battle of Britain Civil defense today is a myth. The sensible course is was taking place. to scrap the present setup. Defense of civilians is part of our total defense posture and should be in the hands In view of the dire possibilities — which constantly of those best equipped for it — the leadei s of our armed services. increase in gravity through the deadly combination of international distrust and technical inventiveness — it Rather than pour additional billions into a shaky, becomes increasingly clear that the Federal Govern- untried plan for passive defense, more logical is the ment must assist in providing our civilian population sound notion that the best defense is a tremendous with the leadership, knowledge, equipment and en- offense. America's shelter lies in its weapons and its couragement to defend life and property in the event Armed Forces. If we are prepared, we'll never be hit of war. To do less is to court national disaster on a first or at any time. major scale.

Stephen M. Young (D) Spessard Holland (D) U.S. Senator from Ohio U.S. Senator from Florida

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INSURANCE REOPENING permanently housebound as a result of

BT-PASSED IN LAME DUCK his war-disability. . . . "Newsletter" CONGRESS SESSION] erred last month in saying that he must

The politically supercharged August meet both conditions. . . .This is in meeting of Congress ended without action on reference to the new law PL86-663. HR-11045, the bill that would among other things, have reopened for one year WW2 HAWAII BONUS LONG OVER: and Korea NSLI life insurance. . . . The Hawaii's bonus for WW2 vets expired bill had passed the Senate, but the House nine years ago . . . . Due to a recent error Rules Committee didn't let it come before in an Army publication, some Hawaii vets the House for final action. ... So it lay have been applying this year. as dead as if defeated. . . . Earlier, the lone objection of Rep. H. Allen Smith, of "CHANGING TIMES" MAG ISSUES California, had sent it to the Rules LATEST HOOET ON VETS ATFAIRSt Committee when the House might have Many readers have asked that we voted on it. "answer" a rather silly article about the federal veterans program that appeared in LEGION SURE TO ASK FOR the September Changing Times, the

CHANGES IN NEW PENSION LAWt Kiplinger Magazine . Predictions a year ago by government The Kiplinger article is scarcely experts on how the new veterans pension worth "answering" because the part that law would work may be wrong by a country our readers object to is chiefly made up mile. . . . As a result, the Legion national of old saws, cliches, stereotypes and convention in October will almost ignorance. . . . Changing Times editors, certainly call for significant amendments believing that they were publishing an to the law. . . . Figures so far tend to "overdue" look at the VA program and show that where government "experts" said veterans legislation, published a rehash that 7 out of 10 vets would benefit, it of some of the ill-informed and is closer to only 1 in 10. . . . Conse- irrelevant anti-veteran propaganda that quently, those vets with a choice are began appearing in slanted magazine staying away from the new law in droves. . . . articles more than a dozen years ago. Those without a choice may be hurt in First half of the Chang i ng Times piece numbers unpredicted by the predicters . . . is a fairly competent summary of some of

The Legion Rehab Commission is busy the major veterans benefits. . . . The amassing all facts available on the law's second half is a shabby and often self- working so the convention can act from contradictory potpourri of old anti- fact rather than fancy. . . . Latest fact- veteran cliches .... The unsigned search was a request by Rehab on Aug. 26 Kiplinger writer condemned vet organiza- to all state service officers for a run- tion policies and the Congressional down on what's happened to vets who process of writing veterans laws. ... In applied for pension after July 1, so doing he revealed a virtual blackout compared to how they'd have made out of knowledge of how vets organizations under the old law. make policies or how Congress writes

veterans legislation. . . . Changing Times' CORRECTION ON "HOUSEBOUND" LAWt editors believe with religious fervor in To qualify for the special rate of the existence of a villainous "veterans $265 a month compensation, a service- lobby", some 4-million strong, whose disabled veteran must have 60% disability officials, driven by insatiable greed, in addition to enough other disability annually force ever mounting demands on to rate him as "total" or he must be cowering Congressmen who "do their

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bidding." . . . The editors of Changing ing evidence ranges the gamut of Times state such insulting (to Congress) naivete, irrelevance, error, anonymous nonsense as sober fact. gossip, arithmetical incompetence, Exactly three major pieces of veterans historical ignorance, prejudice and legislation have been enacted in the last anachronism. ... It falsifies the condi- ten years—PL550, PL881 and PL86-211. . . . tions under which a veteran may enter a How did the villainous veterans lobby VA hospital. ... It complains that the shove these laws down the throats of the difference in benefits received by two timid, frightened Congressmen? . . . All unnamed veterans is "unfair", but hides three were designed in Congress, by the from its readers both the entirely

Congress, on its initiative. . . . PL550 reasonable basis for the difference and was the Korean GI Bill. . . . Congress the fact that the applicable law is no tailored it after the Legion-devised WW2 longer on the books. . . . The magazine

GI Bill. . . . The other two were the publishes an Elmo Roper poll to "prove" a inventions of Congress (the survivors contention of its editors that not even benefits act of 1956 and the 1959 veterans the 4,000,000 organized veterans favor pension law) .... The Congress relied on the federal veterans program endorsed by the veterans organizations to avoid pit- their officials. . . . Changing Times did falls in the early drafts of the bills. not do the arithmetic that translates the

. . . In the case of PL881, more than 30 Roper poll into numbers of veterans. improvements on the original draft of the But if the poll was reliable, what it bill were gratefully accepted by Congress proves is that between 8,775,000 and

from American Legion experts. . . . 19,350,000 veterans favor the different Congressmen sought the support of major veterans benefits (from 39% to responsible veterans organizations to 86% of 22,500,000 veterans) assure passage of the Congressionally Eleven veterans benefits are cited in tailored bills. ... To create PL881, the Roper poll, with the reactions of Congress appointed a special, select veterans to them. .. Several of the benefits

committee. . . . The other two major bills don't exist. . .The only one favored by less were drafted originally in the House than 4,000,000 veterans is a non-existent

Veterans Affairs Committee. . . . For 40 benefit that Congress is not considering and years. The American Legion has been no chartered veterans' organization seeks. asking the Senate to form a veterans At the end, the article tries to scare affairs committee also, so that the Senate readers by citing two "staggering" proposals could equal the expertness of the House for new veterans benefits, and signs off in this field. by hinting that people must band together to In perpetuating the old cliche of "squawk" and thus "make the politicians

the greedy, all-powerful, irresponsible change their ways" . . . Typical of the article veterans lobby bullying gutless Congress- the editors failed at this point to tell men, Changing Times has carefully their readers the highly pertinent fact that insulated itself (or at least its readers) the two "staggering" proposals are not from any insight into how veterans supported by the biggest veterans organiza- laws are really written. tion. The American Legion. Achilles heel of the Changing Times Had enough? editors was their unbounded faith in the The American people can be glad that the outdated and discredited Bradley report, same Congressmen whom Changing Times one of the most inept studies of veterans pictures as quivering cowards in the hands affairs that the taxpayers have ever paid of the greedy "veterans lobby" have exercised

for. . . . Lauding the often irrelevant, more thoughtful responsibility in writing sometimes childish, frequently self- veterans laws than Changing Times did in contradictory Bradley report as the "most writing abou t them. comprehensive" such study ever made, "Newsletter" isn't nasty to other maga- much of the article is a rewrite of zines by instinct, only for cause.. .Now go

Bradley piousities. . . . We analyzed them right out and buy the October issue of

on page 40 of our June, 1956 issue. . . . Cavalier Magazine if you want to read They are too old-hat to dig up again. William Bradford Huie's fine, warm story Knowing little of vets affairs. about Sgt. Alvin York, that grand hero of Changing Times' editors bought a piece WWl who deserves better of his country than shot full with assertions whose support- he's getting as he lies abed in his old age.

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ofThe American Legion

and Veterans' Affairs

citizen, according to his own conscience Kennedy And Nixon To Address and understanding." In view of this policy. Nail (Com- mander Martin McKneally recently dis- Convention Delegates This Month patched a special message from his Washington office to every one of tlu> Legion's State Commanders to follow For the first time since 1952, and lican candidate and Gov. Adlai E. through harder than ever before with only the second time in Legion history, Stevenson of Illinois, the Democratic The American Legion Aimual "(k't Out the two major party canchdates for the candidate. Eisenhower was elected to The \'ote Campaign." Said McKiiealh', Presidency of tlie United States will his first term as President of the U.S. "We must — and should — eliminate this address the delegates to an American in November of that year. neglect of one of the grc^at duties ol Legion National Con\ention. It wasn't until 1948 that any presi- citizenship." U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the dential candidate appeared before the Other Name Speakers Democratic nominee, will speak at 2:00 delegates of an American Legion Nat'l The list of headline speakers con- p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 18, the opening Convention. That year. President Harry tinues to grow as con\ ention time draws day of the convention sessions. S. Trinnan, who was rinining on the near. Scheduled to address the delegates Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Democratic ticket for leelection, ad- are: Republican standard bearer, will speak dressed the delegates at the Miami con- Hon. LeRoy Collins, Governor of at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, the vention. Florida; Raymond Triboulet, French closing day of the convention. In 1956, at Los Angeles, Adlai E. Minister of Pensions; Fulton Lewis, Jr., Both Vice President Ni.xon and Sena- Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for Mutual Broadcasting System; Sumner tor Kennedy are members of The Amer- the second time, addressed the Legion G. Whittier, Administrator of Veterans ican Legion. Nixon, a member of Post delegates to the nat'l convention held in Affairs; Miss Clarice Kleine, President 51, Whittier (Calif.) and Kennedy, a that city. of the National Education Association; member of Boston (Mass.) Post 281. Thus, presidential candidates have George Sokolsky, Neic York Journal The two vice presidential candidates made an appearance at nat'l conventions American.

(who are not scheduled to speak at the of The American Legion only three J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the convention) are also members of the times previous to this year's conxention F.B.I., U. S. Congres,swoman Katherine

Legion — Henry Cabot Lodge ( Rep. ) in Miami Beach - 1948, 1952 and 1956. St. George (Rep.-N.Y.); George Meany, of Beverly Farms (Mass.) Post 46 and Even though Kennedy and Nixon are President, AFL-CIO; Robert Hill, U. S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (Dem.), of making an official appearance at the na- Ambassador to Mexico; Admiral Arleigh Blanco (Tex.) Post 352. tional convention this month, the policy Burke, Chief of Naval Operations: Gen. The only other time that the presi- of The American Legion — since its first Alfred M. Greunther, President of the dential candidates of the two major national convention in Minneapolis, American Red Cross. parties ever addressed the delegates of Minn., in 1919 — prohibits the endorse- Defense Matters the same American Legion National ment of any candidate for public office. National defense readiness will i)c Convention was at the 1952 conclave However, that same jiolicy encour- given a first hand look by members ol in New York. At that time. General ages each member of The American the Legion's National Security Commis- Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Repub- Legion to "perform his full duty as a (Continited on page 34)

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AT PAST LEGION NATIONAL CONVENTIONS

Truman — Miami. 1948 Eisenhower — New Yoik. Stevenson — Los Angeles, 1956

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KENNEDY &; NIXON Results of 1960 Flag Photo Contest (Continued from page 31) sion several days prior to the opening Winner of our 1960 Flag Photo Con- Marshall's entries showed that they of the convention. test is Wayne E. Hoinan, of Reading, weren't novices at pointing a camera at The commission will begin its two- Pa., a member of Post 537, Morgantown, striking U.S. flag scenes. day session with an anti-submarine war- Pa. His well-composed photo of a Revo- At least 100 photos entered had more fare demonstration at the Naval Opera- lutionary War artillery piece with an than a little of the stuff that prize win- level tion Base, Key West, Fla. At high early American flag framed in its wheel- ners are made of. Some that ended out briefings, commission members will spokes, came out on top of nearly 450 of running were extremely well-com- hear many outstanding defense experts photos submitted by members of The posed and thought out in their fore- matters. outline current national defense American Legion and its affiliates. ground matter, but failed to avoid that will Some of the speakers who ap- An eye for striking composition of bugaboo of all camera fans, a cluttered pear at this two day defense briefing highly appropriate subject matter, which and irrelevant (hence distracting) back- are he called "Symbols of Liberty: Valley ground. Mr. Homan's winner is a good Air Gen. Curtis Lemay, U. S. Force Forge" got Mr. Homan the $100 first Deputy Chief of Staff; Wilfred J. Mc- prize. LIFE BEGINS AT ???: Neil, President of Grace Lines and The judges were glad they didn't have Wayne Homan, on being notified he'd of former Assistant Secretary Defense; to rate all the other prize winners in won our $100 flag photo contest, identi- Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau, Chief of Army exact order. fied himself as follows: Research and Development; Adm. Winners of the 1960 U.S. Camera A \ eteran of WWl and WW2 and the Korean Conflict. Legionnaire William Raborn, Chief of the Polaris Annual (2nd to 10th places) were: A since the Paris organization meeting in 1919, Missile Program; Brig. Gen. S. L. A. David S. Stiickler (three of the first which he attended. A founder of one of Marshall, Military Editor of The Detroit ten) of Annville, Pa. (Post 420, Steelton, the first Posts in Berks County, Pa. Re- News. Pa.); Milton R. Kiefer, Staten Island, tired from the Army for 100% disability Leo A. Hoegh, Director, Office of N.Y. (Post 385, New York, N.Y.); alter having been Commanding Officer Civil and Defense Mobifization; Gen. Joseph W. MaisJtall Post 11, Seattle. of CIC in the Far East under Gen. Administrator Elwood "Pete" Quesada, Wasli.; George E. Sliarlei/, of Flint, MaeArthur in WW2, and an intelligence of the Federal Aviation Agency; Robert Mich. (Post 413, Grand Blanc, Mich.); officer during the Korean Conflict. Lobelson, President of Aviation Space Robert T. Baxter, Post 35, Union, N.J.; "Three years ago the doctors advised I take up some time-consuming hobby Writers Association; Rep. George H. Harry Freeman, of Newport, R.I. (Post Mahon (D-Tex.), chairman of the ... I turned to amateur photography, 1, Providence, R.I.) ; and Lt. Col. Charles learning darkroom work from scratch. . . House Defense Appropriations Sub- L. WiUmarth, USAF, stationed on Iwo This is the first time I entered a contest. committee. Jima (Post 396, Geneva, N.Y.). . . . On receiv ing first prize . . . you should The 42nd National Convention will Winners of Annin & Co., Executive ha\e heard tlie whoops and squeals of be held at Miami Beach, Oct. 15-20. Desk Set Stand of Colors with 50-star my family." U.S. Flag (Uth to 16th places) were: MEMBERSHIP: Harlctj Frederick, Post 61, Sacramen- example of one way that such distraction to, Calif.; David Striekler of these Still The Lifeline (two is avoided or minimized. in addition to three of the first ten); Quite a few of some very good non- The 1961 membership year for The Joseph Marshall (one of these in addi- winners may yet realize some recog- American Legion officially starts this tion to one of the first ten) ; Mrs. Leonard nition, under the special contest rule month on October 20. Fischer, of Auxiliary Unit 125, Eads. that provides that this magazine ma\ For the year, chair- 42nd membership Colo.; Peter J. Sinumiiii, of Elgin, III. make an ofter for publication rights to in the men Legion's far-flung 58 depart- (Post 670, Algonquin, 111.). any entry in the contest that may be ment empire (continental and overseas) Two entrants pulled the unexpected suitable to fill future editorial needs. will again concentrate on enrolling as as every judge placed more than one of Entries came from all over the world. of the millions of many eligible veterans their entries in the top 16. (Judges Several came from men on duty on Iwo of WWl, WW2 and the Korean Conflict weren't permitted to know who the con- Jima, and showed the top of Mt. Siui- as possible into The American Legion, testants were and all pix got their prizes bachi, scene of the famous Iwo Jima still the world's largest veterans organ- on their photographic merits). David flag-raising in WW2, as it is today. The ization. Striekler, of Annville, Pa., pulled a small more striking of these, photographically, Complete planning b(Joklets for the slam, with five prizes of a possible five. placed in the first ten. 1961 campaign, titled "Full Speed Mr. Homan's lone entry that copped Several of the top 16 are shown here, Ahead," have already been mailed in first was all that kept his fellow Pennsyl- in addition to the first prize winner. The (quantity to each Head- Department \anian, Striekler, from a grand slam. necessity to reduce them in size, as well quarters in to kindle early order an Joseph Marshall, of Seattle, Wash., had as loss of quality in reproduction, de- momentum for the local membership two winners, one in the first ten, and pri\es our readers of the full impact of drives. one in the last six, Striekler's and the originals. Past experience has proven that Oc- tober and November are generally the two best months for concentrating mem- 31; and March 15, 1961 - the wind-up Membership figures sta\'ed over the bership drives — while the post chairmen date and 42nd birthcku' of The American 3-million mark during 1948 and 1949 are still fresh with ideas and (Mithusiasm. Legion. and then dropped below that figure for The four target dates for the 1961 The largest year in membership for the first time in 1950. In 1958, the figure campaign are the same as in previous the Legion was in 1946 immediately fol- dropped below the 2,700,000 mark but years: Oct. 20 — the "kickoff" date and lowing the return of millions of WW2 in 1959 went back up to 2,702,992. the beginning of AL (American Legion) service men to civilian life. That year This year, 16 Departments have sur- Weeks; Nov. 11 — Veterans I3ay; Dec. the membership total was 3,326,556. (Continued on page 36)

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MEMBERSHIP JUNIOR BASEBALL: had been eliminated on the third day of (Continued page the tournament. from 34) Orleans (]|iainps Nr\> Pittsfield played New Orleans twice passed their nationally assigned goals, The 1960 national junior baseball and was the only team to inflict a loss on 5 have set new all-time highs, and 18 championship of The American Legion the new champions. have exceeded their official total 1959 and In its first series — against membership. went south this year when a hale game hearty group of baseball maestros from Klamath Falls — New Orleans won 2-0 But even in view of these encouraging New Orleans, La., took possession of the on a superb two-hitter by pitcher, Dick gains, total membership figures on Aug. title at Hastings, Nebr., in early Sep- Roniger. 25th still showed a decrease of 23,663 tember. In order to win its second game, New members as was reported for the same The new champs, sponsored by Orleans had to rally for four runs in the date in 1959. Fifteen Departments on Crescent City American Legion Post eighth inning to beat Hastings, 4 to 1. this date were still more than 1,000 # 125, won the coveted title in the final Pittsfield inflicted the only loss on members short of the total they had playoff of the 15-game series by defeat- New Orleans by beating the champs 4 signed up in 1959. ing Billings, Mont., 9 to 3. to 1 the first time they met. Again the On the credit side, the Department It is the third national title for a New New Orleans pitcher had pitched a of the Philippines had set its 3rd consec- Orleans team. The city also had a win- classy two-hitter but four errors by his utive all-time high record, Minnesota, ning entry in 1932 and 1946. Five other teammates cost him the game. its 4th, and North Dakota, its 9th. times - in 1929, 1930, 1934, 1937 and Later in the series, New Orleans South Dakota exceeded the 30,000 1956 — a New Orleans team was the avenged this only defeat by beating the mark for the first time since 1949 and runnerup in the national playoffs. same Pittsfield team 6 to 1 for its fourth Rhode Island exceeded its quota for the The 1960 series, with eight teams win. 8th consecutive year. taking part, attracted record crowds, The champs' third win came a day There was a total of 16,753 char- estimated to be approximately 29,000 earlier when they defeated the Miami tered posts in The American Legion on spectators. Tournament officials attrib- entry 6 to 5 in the only extra inning Aug. 25, 1960. New York led the way uted the greater attendance to the fact game of the series — finalh' decided in with 1,311 posts and a membership of that eight teams played instead of four the 11th inning. 212,993. Next came Illinois with 1,112 as in past years and also because In the game against Billings for the posts and a membership of 207,752. Hastings, site of the series, was one of title, Dick Roniger, ace New Orleans Following in close order were these the 8 team entries. pitcher, hurled his team to a 9 to 3 Departments: Pennsylvania — 945 Posts An opening day heavy rain caused the victory with a six-hitter. In addition, he and 249,428 members (the largest mem- series to go an extra day to Sept. 4. collected one of the scoring singles in the bership); California — 803 Posts and Regional winners in the 1960 finals .explosive 7-run-sixth inning for the win- 137,674 members; Ohio — 731 Posts and besides New Orleans and Billings were ners. 114,882 members; Texas - 698 Posts Pittsfield, Mass., Miami, Fla., Brook- Of the three outstanding awards and 76,537 members; Iowa — 663 Posts lawn, N.J., Klamath Falls, Oreg., and made at the close of the series, two of — and 95,635 members and Minnesota Berwyn, 111. them went to one player — centerfielder 632 Posts and 94,610. The new champs won five of their six Robert Fry of the Billings team. He won Interestingb', Indiana, with only 452 playoff games in the Little World Series the toiunament batting title for his .460 Posts showed a membership of 107,211 in their quest for the biggest trophy in average and also the Legion Sportsman- and Massachusetts with 436 Posts Legion baseball. The only team they did ship Award — gi\'en on the basis of his showed 84,647 members. not play was the Berwyn entry which good sportsmanship and general attitude.

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The 1960 American Legion Pla\ er of taken previous courses offered by the C>atholic Archdiocese school fund for the Year Award went to Dick Roiiiger, Institute and have been generous in the construction of new high schools in

the ]7->'ear-()kl pitclier of the clianipion- their praise attesting to the \alue of the Brookh II and Queens. ship New Orleans team. His pitching course. record for the 1960 season was 14 wins The six-month coiuse of study in- More Clinics - Post 74, West Warwick, and 3 losses. cludes lessons on: the internal organi- R. I., has been conducting low cost anti- This year's Little World Series was zation of The American Legion, the polio clinics since 1957. Some 5,965 the 34th to be pUu ed since the first one Americanism program, the foreign rela- shots have been given to date in 12 was played in Philadelphia in 1926. tions program, the rehabilitation pro- clinics. 1,118 people of all ages were There were no series games in 1927. gram, the legislati\e program, the eco- inoculated on last June 19. nomic program and the child welfare LEGION EDUCATION: program. Hey Team!—Post 46, Ann Arbor, Mich., which boasts the state's largest member- School By Mail ship, has signed up the entire football POSTS IN If \ou are a new post officer or just ACTION coaching staff of the University of Mich- a new member in the Legion, you can Items from our posts. Those of most igan as members. iieiu'idl interest and widest ^eofiraphieiil spread find out all about the world's largest (ire seleeted, iiith u)>olonics for the hundreds organization b\' enrolling — in The Ameri- of others that are so kindhj reported to the Good Sports Post 61, Pcrliam, Minn., can Legion E.xtension Institute—a made- editors. donated $450 to the Pcrham Sports- to-order correspondence school. man's Club to be used for the improve- Applications — available from \<)iu' X-rays — Post 5, Pittsburgli. Pa., the ment and purchase of public access to post adjutant — for the 15th term of the state's largest post in membership, spon- lakes in that area. Institute should be forwarded by Nov. sored a free chest x-ray clinic for one 1, 1960 to The American Legion Ex- week in August for 6,285 persons in the Real Homelike — Post 294, Pemberton, tension Institute, TOO N. Pennsylvania community. Members of the post and N.J., conducted a successful Youth Ya- St., Indianapolis 6, Ind., along with your auxiliary unit donated 550 man-hours in cation Program this past summer as a check for the tuition fee. registering the clinic-goers. community serxice project. Underprivi-

The enrollment fee for I to 4 persons leged children from the area were taken is $6.00 each; for 5 to 9 persons, Joy Ride - Post 1059, Brooklsn. \. Y., into the homes of post members for pe- $3.00 each; and for 10 or more persons. took 1,100 children by ferry boat from riods up to one month and given all the $2.00 each. So you can definitely save the city's steaming streets and sidewalks advantages of real home family life. money by signing up as a group — and in late August to the famous Rye (N.Y.) your post will benefit all the more from Beach and Playland for a day's outing. Scholarships - Post 191, Webster City, the larger enrollment. A few weeks earlier, the same post Iowa, has established a local Legion Some 51,000 veterans have already contributed $1,000 to the Brooklyn Scholarship Foundation which will dis-

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tribute totally between $8()()-$]()()0 per appointed as a consultant in The Ameri- during a windup pitch. A long search year in single amounts ol $250 maxi- can Legion Nat'l Child Welfare Divi- for the lost lens produced no results. mum. Funds are available to post mem- sion, effective Aug. 15. So the 800 hometeam Milford fans dug bers, their ehildren or grandchildren and deep into their pockets and contributed to the ehildren or grandchildren of de- LYMAN STUCKEY of Lexingtou, Nebr., $137.63 to buy new lenses for the young ceased members. has been named Nat'l Executive Com- opposing pitcher. mitteeman for the Nebraska American Alert! - Post 496, Long Beach, Calif., Legion to fill the unexpired term of the • The Ncnember 1960 issue of lias instituted a community education late John E. Curtiss. CAVALIER MAGAZINE will carry an program on the evils ot communism by article about The American Legion distiibuting hundreds of free copies of Died: titled "He's Invisible to Legionnaires." PAUL CUNNINGH.AM, immediate past The story is woven the National FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's book around "Masters of Deceit" to schools, hospi- president and director of public affairs Adjutant, E. A. "Blackie" Blackmore and tals, ci\ic buildings, civic groups and of the American Society of Composers, the Indianapolis headquarters of the organizations, and interested citizens in Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Legion. Watch for it on the newsstands tile area. author of "Songwriting Soldiers and about October 1. Sailors" in the July issue of The Ameri- Emergency Vehicle — Post f 87, Wis- can Legion Magazine; on Aug. 14, in • The Dep't of Ohio spent $17,435 on consin Dells, Wise, purchased and pre- New York City. its "Gifts For Yanks " program last year. sented a new rescue squad truck to the The largest expenditure — $11,554 — Kilbouin X'olunteer Fire Department. EARL c. HITCHCOCK, past Dcp't Cmdr was for canteen books, a Christmas of the New York American Legion menu and a $1,000 gift shop contribu- Bill of Rights - Post 1217, New York (1946-47), vice chmn of the Legion's tion to the 5 VA hospitals in the state

C.'it>, |ireseiited a public program for Nat'l Publications Commission and a which benefited some 6,000 patients. the 17th consecutive year on the steps member of this commission since 1948, of the Federal Hall National Memorial an editorial staff member of The Glens • The American Legion, the American commemorating the Birthday of our Bill Falls (N.Y.) Times for 40 years; on Legion Auxiliary and the Eight and of Rights. The distinguished jurist. Aug. 15, in Albany, N.Y. Forty spent $6,976,001.81 on child wel- Judge Harold R. Medina, was given the fare and youth activities during the Bill of Rights Defense Gold Medal at BRIG. BEN. WILLIAM W. WELSH, di- year ending May 31, 1960. This was the ceremony. rector of pilot training in the U.S. during $300,000 more than the Legion and its WW2, and Nat'l Security Commission affiliates spent in 1959.

Polio Shots - Post f 248, Coal Valley, Technical Advisor to the Legion's Nat'l

111., sponsored three low cost polio vac- Cmdr (1950-51); on July 28, in Wash- cine clinics recently. A total of 483 shots ington, D.C. was given to the citizens of this small community. FEDERAL JUDGE ROBY C. THOMPSON, past Dep't Cmdr (1930-31) and Nat'l OUTFIT New Industry - Post 129, Hillsboro, Executive Committeeman (1931-33) of REUNIONS Ohio, led the way in the drive to bring a the Virginia American Legion; on July Keiinioii ivill be held in month indicated. new industry into town by pledging up 29, in Charlottesville, Va. For particulars, «rite person whose address to $1,(M)() investment in debenture bonds is given. foi- that purpose. The post voluntarily GEORGE M. CLANCY, past Dep't Cmdr Notices accepted on official form only. of the York made the pledge ahead of all other civic New American Legion, For form .send stamped, addressed return groups. former member of the Legion's Nat'l envelope to: O. R. Form, American Legion Distinguished Guests Committee (1936- Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, Hospital Fund-Post 125, Cultport, Fla., 37) and the Nat'l Rehabilitation Com- N. Y. Notices should be received at least foiu' months before scheduled reunion. recently donated $1, ()()() to the Florida mission (1938-41); on Aug. 2, in American Legion Hospital for Crippled Rochester, N.Y. C;liildreii. Army ALBERT S. LLEWELLYN, past Dep't 2nd Trench Mortar Bn, Btr.v B (WWI)-(Jan.) Cmdr of the South Carolina American Clyde S. Trester. 14425 So. Edbrooke Ave.. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Riverdale 27. 111. Legion (1930-31) and member of the 8th Inf (WWU-(Nov.) Henry M. Buckley, 37.5 c;c)L. noscOE TUHxicH, internationally Ninth St., San Francisco .1. Calif. board of directors of the Legion Pub- 11th Engrs (WWl)-(Nov.) Joseph V. Boyle, 326 known aviation pioneer and speed flyei lishing Corp. (1933-36); on Juh 3, in York St., .lersey City 2, N.J. vice chmn of the Legion's Nat'l Security 12th Army G|) Assoc. -(Oct.) Harry D. Henshel, Camden, S.C. Bulova Watch Co.. 630 Fifth Ave.. New York Oimmission, appointed as a special con- 20. N.Y. Recon Div Gil- sultant to the House Committee on J2nd Cav Tp, 32nd (WW2)-(Oct.) JUDGE STEPHEN S. JONES, paSt Dep't bert E. Yeske, 112 So. Rusk Ave., Sparta, Wis. Science and Astionantics. 45th Inf Div (WW2)-(Oct.l Harry Dobbyn, P.O. Adjt (1920-22) and forhier alternate Box XX, Abilene, Tex. 80th Btry D, 7th Div (WWl)-(Nov.) Nat'l E.xecutive Committeeman (1922- FA, Frank iiiiHiiKur Acoiu, chmn of the Werner, 3525 Alton Place, N.W., Washington, J- J 24) of the Kentuck\' American Legion; DC. Legion's Nat'l Internal Affairs Commis- 104th Engrs, Co B-(Nov.) George F. Seybold. 117 on July 10, in Louis\ ille, Ky. E. Homestead Ave., Collinaswood 7, N.J, sion, elected chmn of the District of 108th Inf, Hdqs Co (WWl)-(Nov.) R. E. Gar- C^olumbia Paiole Board. diner, 10 Bennett Village Terrace, Buffalo, N.Y. BRIEFLY 142nd Inf, Co L, 36th Inf Div (WW2)-(Nov.) Buck NOTED: Sheppard, Box 773. Breckenridge, Tex. 148th Inf, Co D, 37lh Div-(Oct.) Peter K, Sun. DANIEL w. sHAUn, Dcp't Adjt of the • When two Junior American Legion Jr., 1342 Foster Ave.. Toledo 6. Ohio PcnnsyKania American Legion since Baseball teams from Massachusetts — I68th Inf. Co M (WW2)-(Oct.) Elwin Diehl, 101 W. Grimes St., Red Oak, Iowa 1953, elected honorary past Dep't Cmdr one sponsored by Post 59 of Milford and 332nd Engrs G.S. Regt-(Nov.) Robert A. Moore, 9714 S. Avers Ave., Evergreen Park, 111. a the other by unanimous vote at the department's by Post 229 of South Deer- 504th AAA Bn-(Oct.) Joseph J. Jackson, 2115 July convention in Philadelphia. field — were playing each other one da\ Rockledge St., Pittsburgh 12, Pa. 704lh MP Bn-(Nov.) Bernard C. Hogan, 24 Wal- this past July, the South Deerfield nut St., Everett 49, Mass. Evacuation Hospital ;2r8 (WWl)-(Nov.) W. K. NOHMAN MVKHs oi Oakwood, 111., pitcher lost one of his contact lenses Van Arsdale, 303 North Ave., Greer, S.C.

3g . THE AMERICAN 1 ECUON MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 named veteran at RFD s24. Ho.\ 69.V Albatn. John L Kirk (19601. Posl 101. Newark. N. J. Navy Ga. Claim pending. John F. Fensi^e. Jr. and Harold M. Stahnier ibolh I960), Posl 500, Hrooklyn, N. Y. 2nd Na»iil DisI Ucsiivt Itiiiid (\VWll-(Nov.) Sam- Harold Inrner (1960), Post 678, New York. uel SihiTiTian. 680 County Road. Harrington. LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: N Y R I. rile citation ol an indiv itliial IjCgion- J. Franklin Bonner (1957) and Lee Downs and l^SS Lecdslown—(No\ .) Frank A. Wiseman. 104 Charles lower (both 1960), Posl 954. Churchville. St.. \'oik 24. N.Y. WeM XMd New iiaiit' to lilt' int'iiihci sliip in lii.s Po.st is a I'SS Solate (WWl)-(No\.> Dr. Richard A. Kern. N. Y. Fester A. Levy (I960), Post 101 Brooklyn, N.Y. Temple University Hospital. .1401 North Broad testimonial l)\ those \\ lio know him best 1, K. M. Manrer (1960), Posl 1298, Port Ewen, St.. Philadelphia 40. I'a. lliat lie has st'VN I'd \ hv .Vmei it an Legion N. Y. Joesph S, Marhefka (1959), Post 1305, Bing- Air well. hanilon, N. Y. Below are listed some ol the piexious- Allen Cameron, Sr. (1959). Post 1308, Pine W.m Ituiiihurdmeiit G|>-(()et.) Lt. Col. Edward J. Bush, N. Y. Herlel. Director of Administrative Services. 96th l\ mipnhlished life memberships that Fred I.. HackenbnrK. Jr. (I960), Post 1369. ess Base. Tex. llombardtnent Winp. Ox Air Force Slalcn Island. N. V. ha\e been leportcHl to the editors. They Arthur F. Illness and J. R. Weed and Georiie are arranged b\ States. J. Zalusky (all 19601, Post 2, Fargo, N. Dak. Harold J. Warner (1927) and Krncst O. Burrows Jaines \. Bavter (1960). COMRADES Post 1. Phoenix. Ariz. 11947). Posl 23. Pendletim. Oreg. Jolin H. itriel and Klnier Wiindtric (both 1960). William H. Andrews (1960), Post 153, Phila- I'ost 6. San Dieyo. Calif. delphia. Pa. IN DISTRESS Jose Reyes and Ray F. Tuclier (both I9.')0) and Donald K, Wauner (1959), Post 287, Milroy, Pa. .lesse .1. Coriiinji X.s, (19541. Post l.vnvvood, Calif. H. S. Bitncr and S. R. Larimer and C. E. Pickell Rfa\ eiiiberccr .<2. should (oiuaet their hxal ser\iene l)avi.s (1957) and Clarence Stamper witnesses lor riaitns de\ elopnuiit shcuilcl (1958). Posl 1S.1. Parkville, Md. Post (."ommanders or Adjutants aif Waller C. Moats (1955) and Daniel Warner refer the matter fo the Nat'l Rehabilitation (iy5K). Post 199. Odenton. Md. asked to report lite membership awards ('oiinnission lhiciii<>h normal eliainiels, lor R. Jess Chaillet (1959). Post 206. North Beach. to "Life Memberships," The American Md. liirlher search before referral to this column. Lester Mose. .Sr. (1959). Post 236. Sharpsburu. Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave., New Md. Y. of award is re- F'runcis .\. Jameson (1957), Post 2,38, Hughes- York 19, N. Date Navy \ille. Md. quested in all ca.ses. Receipt ol names Charles M. Dornian and Edward A. DowlinK I SiNGI), Port Hueneiiie. Huwaii CB .Maintenance and Robert S. Moser (all 1960), Post 261, White c annot be acknowledged. I nit 581 — W ilson Robert Bi^jhie. while attached Oak. Md. land. 10 the above unit, tell trom a G.I. truck durint; John A. Sunday (I960), Post 140, Detroit, Mich. Life memberships in Mar\ West an accident near Hickam Air Field in 1944. He Robert F. Chan (1960). Post 87. Alexandria. Virginia and Ohio are only accepted if suffered a leg and hip injury and was treated at Minn. the dispensary of an Ammo Depot located 4 or Jens Tvedt and O. Leslie Tveit (both 1960), Post received via the Department Adjutant, 5 miles from Pearl Harbor. Anyone who re- 371, Roosevelt, Minn. polic)'. members this accident, please write the above Roy A. Phillips (1959). Post 89. Walthill. Nebr. in conformity with state Legion

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTf)UER 1960 • 39 JERRY GORDON'S PX — — { (^(nithiut'd lioiit jxt^^f l>)

For one thing, the rations issued by Britisher to hunt up the tea Jerry would in the compound and his "shop." For a

the Germans were a joke. Breaicoffee'" made from some parched grain Jerry's offer to engineer this trade was under cover since no one knew how the — nothing more. Lunch consisted of a quickly accepted. For his services he guards would react.

soup of dried grains or vegetables; if demanded, and received, a commission But it couldn't last forever. An

any horsemeat was available it was of one cigarette. especially thorough German noncom added to the soup. At three o'clock in Soon, word of Jerry's trading services finally discovered Jerry's stores. The the afternoon, dinner was served: two spread through the camp. Under the sergeant's eyes popped when he saw the or three boiled potatoes. Together with very noses of the German guards an cigarettes, K-ration chocolate, lump

one-seventh of a loaf of black bread per American ""middleman" was operating a sugar and powdered milk. It looked as if man. and an occasional spoonful of highly profitable enterprise. For the non- Jerry was not only out of business, but ersatz jam, this was the food issued to smokers in the camp this was a special in for some disciplinary action as well.

our prisoners by the nazis. boon, since it meant they could trade He was immediately taken to the orderly Almost as trying as the scarcity of room for questioning. We waited glumly. food was the lack of cigarettes. Short- When he returned to the barracks ages of both cut deeply into prisoner later the grin on his face was literally morale. There is no telling what the from ear to ear. Not only was he to be shattering effects would have been were permitted to continue operations, but the

it not for the International Red Cross. guards "wanted in" on it! They'd like to This great organization did everything trade too, especially for our American humanly possible to ease the terrible cigarettes, which were superior to any- strain of POW life, in fact, next to mail thing they had known before. from home, the one thing prisoners Jerry, the businessman, saw the possi- looked forward to was the arrival of a bilities in such a setup, but realized that Red Cross parcel. he did not have sufficient capital to carry Most of the contents of these parcels out all his plans. Accordingly, he paid a were identical, with some small varia- visit to Sgt. "Pops" Allen. tions to accommodate national prefer- In a giant poker game the previous ences. As often as possible the Red Cross day "Pops" had been the big winner, so tried to include a touch of home in its he had a goodly supply of cigarettes. packages. For example, those meant for After listening to the proposition, he British POW's included tea. bully beef agreed to become Jerry's partner. Now and pudding. American parcels con- the wily Gordon really went to work. tained instant coffee, corned beef and He traded big with the Germans. For Spam. Since both American and British cigarettes he received flour, eggs, yeast, prisoners were in this German com- tins of jam in assorted flavors. With the pound both types of parcels were re- "Too bad you can't come aIon!{ toinonow, help of a flight engineer he constructed ceived at the stalag. C|y

often mixed up. The Germans didn't THK A\rKUI(AN' I,i:GI<)N' MAOAZIMi full tilt producing cakes and tarts. It was give a hoot who got which parcel, and incredible! Here was a group of prison- dealt them out indiscriminately. About ers, deep in the heart of Germany, en- half the time the British received the their cigarette supply for extra food. joying freshly baked pastries! Even the parcels meant for Americans and vice There were many prisoners to whom a Germans bought them. The business versa. It might seem to be a small differ- cigarette was as important as tea, coffee. grew so large that Jerry had to hire GI ence, but it was precisely this difference Spam or bully beef. Others would rather guards for his ovens and stores. that put Jerry Gordon in business, and have had the hard, bittersweet K-ration Then, very early in 1945, the little made an Entrepreneur of a POW. chocolate than raisins or prunes in the world of Jerry Gordon collapsed. Word The Germans did not allow noncoms parcels. Here again Jerry put his nimble came that the prison compound was to to work, so time often hung heavily on brain to work. be broken up in stages, and that in due

their hands. As a result there was much He made up a complete price list, time all the prisoners would be re- visiting back and forth between Amer- using cigarettes as the basic money. A assigned to other stalags. It would be im- ican and British prisoners. During one of set value was given every item, and possible for Jerry to take his ovens and his " social calls" to the British barracks, Jerry's appraisal was the final word. K- machines with him. Tycoon Gordon was Jerry heard an English tail gunner com- ration chocolate, for example, was worth put out of business! plain bitterly that he had been deprived three cigarettes, a tin of Spam was worth Jerry took the news stolidly. To of his precious tea ration because of the five, while a can of margarine com- ""Pops" Allen, who would remain behind usual mix-up in parcels. Instead, he was manded four cigarettes. If no buyer was until the last contingent was moved, he stuck with a useless (to him) allotment available for any one item Jerry would sold his share of the corporation. The of instant coffee. The vvheels in Jerry's buy it himself for future trading. But, commodities left over he sold or traded mind began to grind. with every transaction, he took his one- for cigarettes and some tinned food.

Since this Britisher had received an cigarette commission. When it was time for him to leave, American parcel, he reasoned, there was Jerry Gordon did a brisk business. Jerry's barracks bag was crammed full obviously an American with a British Soon he had accumulated a small store of precious goods, much more than he ration. And the chances were excellent of smokes and provisions, and was run- alone could carry. that the American would prefer coffee ning a sort of POW PX. The arrival of Knowing Jerry, it is easy to under- to the tea he had received. Why not Red Cross packages saw a steadv stream stand that he could have made a deal swap? If it was too much trouble for the of traffic between the various barracks with some of the train guards to take

4Q • THE AMERIC AN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER .

care of his possessions. He had the appreciative POWs. When he stopped, knack of swinging a deal. less than one-quarter of the bag had any- • Here's a unique opportunity . . But. fiye minutes before the trucks thing in it. came, this shrewd, inventive air corps- Then he took a long look around. man, this product of a grubby childhood Without a word, but with a wry grin and and a dog-eat-dog environment, seemed a jaunty wave of his hand, Jerry Gordon own a high-profit to melt. He didn't say a word, and his strode out of the barracks, climbed actions took everyone by surprise. aboard the waiting truck and was driven second business Jerry reached into his barracks bag out of the compound. and began to fling his stock at the open- The price of cigarettes keeps rising that runs itself! mouthed GI's. The packs of cigarettes but I can't get too excited about it. I and chocolates went sailing through the keep thinking of Jerry Gordon and his Open a Philco-Bendix Self-Service Laundry Store! .Many store owiUMs, <'x- air, caught on the fly by amazed but POW PX. THE END eculives, professional people— businessmen of all kinds—are going into the self-ser\ iee laundry business. The reasons arc obvious. THERE ARE NO COMMUNI!m IN HOLLYWOOD Many of these new-type laundry stores are (Co)iliiuied jroiii page 2?j delivering a 25% return on a small capital investment. you forgotten what happened—so soon?" fought bitterly against the Russian Army

She didn't get it at first. I looked at her of liberation; Mao Tse-tung took up Here are some of the facts: The coin- wrote only bourgeoisie refused and said. "Do you know who arms when the operated laundry business is one of the "Hamlet"?" to listen to dialectic materialism. Even fastest-growing businesses in the country. "Why," she said, "of course. Shake- the sainted Fidel Castro, in our own Customers simply come into the store, wash and dry their clothes in metered machines speare." backyard, has found that in carrying out and leave. I explained that was the popular as- agrarian reforms, wholesale executions sumption. But 1 pointed out that there are inevitable. Minimum supervision required. A coin- were other theories: I have some I think I am now in a position to clear many operated laiiniiry neeiis no attendant. Only books which claim the famous play was up the mysterious case of the Hollywood a couple of hours a week are required lo boxes supervise effi- really written by ( 1 ) Bacon; (2) Mar- Anti-Nazi League. Practically everybody empty the coin and operation. There are no credit prob- lowe; (3) the Earl of Rutland; (4) Ed- in Hollywood—Jewish or Gentile—joined cient lems — strictly a cash business. Machine ward de Vere; (6) (7) and (8) still that one. except me: I was in one of my (5) repair and daily maintenance can be con- others. more manic phases and I knew / was tracted to local people. An owner can spend "So?" she asked, still puzzled. anti-nazi. but I wasn't so sure about the full time with his regular business or practice and let the coin store run itself. "Look," I said, exasperatedly. "can't League. I offered to join and donate you see it? With all those claimants, this $500 if they would change the name would go to the Supreme Court one day to "Anti-Nazi and Anti-Communist Why are they so successful? Philco- Bendix coin-operated laundry stores offer for final adjudication. You know this League." a customer up to 65% saving over attended- of its decisions. bribe but they Court and some Any- The was turned down type wash-and-dry service. They are con- thing could happen. Suppose they de- went along merrily. I must admit, with- venient for busy people because they re- cide, five to four, that 'Hamlet' was out me. There were all sorts of meetings main open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They give customers a chance to do written by Mr. X? And it came out that and speeches and appeals for contribu- their own washing — their own way. we had discussed it?" tions followed by donations that made For a moment, she was silent. Then, my tiny bribe ofTer seem like pin money. Small initial investment. The cost of as the full impact hit her, she ran And then along came the so-called Hit- opening one of these stores equipped with screaming down the street, hailed a pass- ler-Stalin Pact. And overnight the Hol- Philco-Bendix Commercial Washers and ing taxi and never did get to see the rest lywood Anti-Nazi League vanished — Dryers, the only complete line of commer- of the show. (My own private opinion, completely and utterly — into thin air. cial equipment engineered jor coin use, is surprisingly low. Only a small initial in- for what it is worth, is that the secret Nothing remained: all was still; no more vestment is required. The balance may be author of "Hamlet" is Dalton Trumbo: meetings, no more solicitations, no more financed through Philco Finance Corpora- he seems to have written everything else speeches. Not even an office or a desk. tion. Return is so rapid that many investors — under another name — since he was Oh, of course, olher organizations im- amortize the total cost within a year. blacklisted.) mediately sprang up — where you could

With this background. 1 now see clear- hear the same speakers and similar ap- Act now! Investigate this exciting business opportunity today! Send the coupon for ly that the starry-eyed groups I mistook peals for funds — but these had a new full data on business locations in your area for communists in the period between theme song of peace, "The Yanks Aren't and help in all phases of planning, financ- 1936 and 1951 were really genuine Coming." But of the Anti-Nazi League ing and promoting a successful coin store. American patriots in the tradition of itself, nothing.

Jefferson. I now realize that my own Now a good many liberals were puz- COMMERCIAL Guild, the Screen Writers, was never in zled by this — but even more puzzled by LAUNDRY SALES danger of being dominated by reds, but the Pact itself, which seemd on the sur- Philco-Bendix Com- LaundryEquip- was merely in the hands of a group of face to be contradictory. From the evi- mercial ment is brought loyou dedicated agrarian reformers who sim- dence I now have, it was not a pact be- by Philco Corporation. ply wanted to take the vast acres owned tween Stalin and Hitler at all: it was a by the absentee landlords of Warner's, pact between the freedom-loving peoples PHILCO CORPORATION

A ] MGM. Paramount, Columbia. Univer- of the U.S.S.R. and the democratic Ger- Commerrial Laundry Adv. Dept. Tioga and C Streets, Philadelphia 34, Pa. sal et redistribute to — still — in oL, and them the mans who resided and reside Please send me information right away on peasants and workers who made up the East Germany. That pact has never been Philco-Bendix Commercial Laundry Equip- ment, also the name of my local distributor. Guild. And if you say there was bomb- repudiated: it still stands, and Mr.

ing and bloodshed in the four movie Khrushchev is sworn, in all honor, to iVom € . strikes between 1945 and 1947, I must uphold it — as he made perfectly clear at A ddress remind you that the ruling class never Paris. I do not claim that there are no City Zone Stale listens to reason: the Polish landlords bad Germans in East Germany, but they

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 • 4 J are gradually being weeded out. In one Amendment was formed, the Committee stalwart defenders of the Constitution. month alone recently. 18,000 of them, has never taken an ad to say it was wrong Messrs. Sinatra. Kramer and Preminger. realizing the jig was up. fled to the West- about the communist menace nor of- Sinatra hired Albert Maltz, one of the ern imperialists; and at this rate there fered a public word of apology to the famous Ten, to do the script for "The will soon be nothing but good Germans red-baiters it attacked in 1947. These Execution of Private Slovik"; but yield- in the democratic People's Republic. are people who believe in Truth and Jus- ing, alas!, to the pressures of the mob. — Let me add another footnote to his- tice — as they are the first to tell you he has since dropped Mr. MaUz from tory. At the Washington hearings of the and it is inconceivable they would not the payroll and will not use his screen- HUAC. where the Hollywood Ten were have done so if they could have put any play. martyred in that eventful year of 1947. credence in the alleged testimony. Not Kramer and Preminger, however, are a group of informers (including such long ago, more than a few of them sticking to their guns. They reserve the sordid characters as actors Adolphc showed their disdain for such sworn tes- undisputed American right of hiring Menjou, Robert Montgomery and Ron- timony by signing their names to a news- whom they please. Preminger has en- ald Reagan, writers Richard Macaulay, paper ad pleading for clemency for gaged Dalton Trumbo to write the Rupert Hughes, Ayn Rand and myself, Caryl Chessman. The latter martyr's screenplay for "Exodus," the saga of producer James K. McGuinness, direc- Israel, and pledges there will be no com- tors Sam Wood and Leo McCarey. and munist propaganda in it. If the film is that former labor leader, Roy Brewer) successful, rumor has it — 1 know be- made various allegations of "red" acti- cause I started the rumor — Mr. Trumbo. vities in their guilds and unions. The rest under his own name and under the aegis of Hollywood — the real Hollywood — of Mr. Preminger. will do the screen did not take this lying down: hundreds story of the Hungarian Revolution and of famous stars, directors, writers and its happy ending. producers formed the Committee for the As for Mr. Kramer, producer of "On First Amendment and bought thousands the Beach." when he says he can recog- of dollars of newspaper space and radio nize communist propaganda he has a

time to denounce both the inquisitors record to prove it. In 1947 — what a year and the informers. They hired a plane, that was! — he gave a course, together loading it with at least a billion dollars" with his subsequent partner. Carl Fore- worth of glamorous movie flesh and flew man, in screenwriting at the Peoples Ed- into Washington to beard the lions in ucational Center, which became afi'ec- their den. Reinforced at the Capitol by tionately known as the Little Red School- Senators Claude Pepper and Glen Tay- house. Mr. Kramer has stated that he lor, the intellectuals marched en masse was not aware that the Center was a

into a Washington hotel and. one and communist school and, since he is an ex- all, made memorable speeches in defense ceptionally aware person, that's good of human liberties and civil rights as well enough for me. as posing for the photographers and sign- To sum up: (a) there never were any ing autographs. It was a historic occasion communists in Hollywood; (b) the pro- and reporters who were present assure "All you can let it beat ducers in 1947 promised to get rid of me that after Danny Kaye's impassioned wlu'iu'vcr you're ready." them; (c) so there can't be any there appeal for justice—which they rank with THE AMKUKAN LEGION .MAGAZINE now; and (d) if there are any. they won't Spartacus' address to the gladiators — get any propaganda into their films. there wasn't a dry throat in the house. bust, too. I am certain, will one day be One final word: Although the U.S.S.R. Nevertheless, the Hollywood Ten enshrined in the House of Culture; a is violently opposed to spying, it was not went to jail for contempt of Congress. striking effigy has already made its ap- just the U-2 incident that wrecked the (But time has given be- them their revenge: pearance, I am informed, at Mme. Tus- Paris meeting. Mr. Khrushchev, who according to the late Danton Walker, saud's famous exhibition in London. lieves no writer should be blacklisted busts of the Ten now decorate the House From 1951 till very recently, the in- for his political opinions, was deeply of Culture in East Berlin — and you will dustry has lived in comparative quiet. shocked at the summary dismissal of search that sacred shrine in vain for a Oh, occasionally — especially at Acade- Mr. Maltz and felt he could not do busi- bust of any member of the FBI or the my Awards time — the same noisy crew ness with a country that would permit HUAC.) And, yielding to misguided of professional patriots has insisted on such goings-on. I humbly suggest that public clamor, the movie industry, which seeing communists under the bed and un- the candidates for both parties, if they under the courageous leadership of Eric der the table. How laughable these ridic- hope honestly to meet with Mr. K. at a Johnston had stuck by the Ten until that ulous charges are can be instanced by future Summit meeting, pledge them- time, issued the famous Waldorf Decla- the fact that a few years ago an Oscar, selves to see to it that Mr. Maltz is re- ration under which it pledged itself not for the best screenplay, was awarded to hired — with, of course, due apologies to hire anybody who refused to co- a Robert Rich. The chauvinists immedi- and back pay. And that they promise to operate with the House Committee ex- ately denounced the author as a commu- see to it that all who had any part in the cept, of course, under the table. That nist; subsequently it developed that there scandalous affair arc properly punished. cleared the situation up and left every- was no such person as Robert Rich, And now. if you'll pardon my haste. body happy. since the name was a nom de plume: I must be off. Since writing this, I have True, in 1951, at the HUAC hearings and. to this day, the Oscar has not been had my worst attack in recent years — held in Los Angeles, sworn witnesses claimed. A six-year-old should have I've even torn up my tickets for "On the named 298 in the movies as communists; enough sense to know that if a person Beach," to give you a slight idea — and the Committee itself identified four doesn't exist, he can't be a communist. my wife is rushing me to a hastily ar- more; and 1 1 others called to the stand O.E.D. ranged meeting of Anti-Communists refused to answer the $64 question. In But recently, I regret to say, these Anonymous, in the hope that I can be rebuttal, I would point out that in the 13 parlor Americans have raised a new hue saved again. I plead with you, one and years since the Committee for the First and cry. based on the actions of those all, to pray for me. the end

42 • THE AMERICAN rEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER l<)6U ROD AND Buck- GUN CLUB For the man ivith an interest in the great outdoors. buster!

I'VE HAD SEVERAL letters from parents HOWARD C. EHLERT, 3207 Georgia,

recently asking whether I thougiit their boy XE, .-Xlbuquerque, N. Alex., has some- should have a .22 rifle. My thougiit for par- thing for duckcrs: ".A rubber band on the

ents: If the boy or girl is 16, has a sense of weight (anchors) of duck dccoN s, put o\ er Micro-Groove responsibility, definiteh' yes, the>' should be the decoy's head and used to secure the permitted to own a gun. The right to bear strings, can pre\ent tangling and save time Model 336 amis is an integral parr of our Constitution. and tempers.'' It is significant that t)nK- the free can own Carbine BENT TO GIVE guns; the communistic and dictator coun- SWIMMING ACTION tries make gun-o\\ ning illegal for ali except Chambered for .30-30, .32 Special the military. But there are no laws in any and .35 caliber loads, this Marlm of our 50 States that prevent anj one from Carbine packs a brush-cutting owning a sporting arm. There should, of punch that clobbers deer for keeps! course, be careful instruction in gun han- And Micro-Groove Rifling, an dling and the .22 should only be used under DAVID BELLAMY, age 17, of 18 Rose- exclusive Marlin advantage, reduces adult supervision. But the pleasure of ow n- neathe A\ e., Leicester, England, has a no\ el gas leakage, prevents "muzzle flip" ing and shooting a .22 should not be denied idea for a pike lure which he says catches and bullet wobble, gives up to a youngster. Developing the competitive pike for him. We illustrate it above. He 25% better accuracy' spirit, gaining the social advantages from takes an old spoon about 5 '/> inches long. You save belonging to gun clubs and sportsmen's or- $10 when you buy the He then cuts out about one inch of the thin Model 336 and Marlin Micro-Power ganizations, and learning to use a defensive part of the handle near the bowl and Hunting Scope "combo." In 2'//X weapon skillfully, are all assets. throws this away. or 4X, this quality scope has Out of the remaining tw o pieces he fash- coated lenses, eye shade, positive STUART F, BROKAVy/,JR.,of622 Mend- ions his lure. He bends the handle a little click adjustments with weather- lik A\e., Antigo, \\'is., suggests that you to give swimming action. Then he hooks proof caps. Receiver is drilled and save the small plastic boxes they give you at the wide end to the bow 1 witii a split ring. tapped for easy mounting- the hardware store when bu\ ing screws, .At the front of the bowl he attaches the all mounts included. small hinges or small door latches. Stuart split ring, a swivel and his line. At the tail says he likes the kind that open like a match Other Model 336 features are; end of what was the spoon handle, he fas- box because they are w onderful containers 6-shot tubular magazine; solid- tens a treble hook. Tiien he's in business. for hooks and sinkers. And he also offers: top receiver with automatic Pretty neat, w e think. side "\\'hen scaling a slippery fish, try placing it ejection to permit low scope on a sheet of sandpaper. It pre\ ents the fish mounting: 2-piece firing pin MRS. JOHN M. ASPEN, 1123 W. 19th from sliding." prevents firing before gun is fully St., Sioux Cit\- 3, Itjwa, goes all out for cocked; gold-plated trigger; soda — baking soda, that is. "Take a package drilled and tapped for Marlm of it along with you on the camping trip," icro-Power Hunting Scope or she says. "Rub a bee sting or insect bite Lyman 66LA peep sights; with wet soda and forget it. If the thermos blued steel barrel ot jug coffee stale with bak- or pot gets wash Special Analysis Ord- ing rinse well with soda and hot water, nance Steel with crowned fresh water. or nettle rash will be Weed muzzle; stock of high- eased almost immediately when rubbed grade walnut, with JIM 337 VAGHY of Walnut St., Batavia, w ith wet soda. Clean the greasy skillet with weather-resistant 111., has an interesting idea it; fish; for kicking up remove the taste or smell of wash finish. rabbits. says: I riiose Jim ".My buddy and go rab- socks that will be used in hunting or Model 336 Carbines bit hunting this way. fasten a long wire fishing boots in the regular then We manner, are priced at $82.00, between us hooked onto a loop in our rinse well in lukewarm water with two only $8.00* down; pants. We drag the wire along the ground. tablespoons of soda dissohed in it. This with 4X Matlin a rabbit When jumps up we take turns soda-treatment gives all garments a velvety scope, $121.95, shooting. retrieve To the game we just un- soft feci. If you forgot your toothpaste, only $12. 00" down. ." hook the wire and pick up the rabbit." use baking soda . .

A. RAYMOND HAGER, SMSgt, USAF, HUNTERS WHO WANT to try Canada Marlin Firearms Co., New Haven, Conn., DD-10 4500th Support Squadron (TAID), Langley this \ ear might consider Nova Scotia. You Please send me the new 90th Anniveisary Maihn illus- AFB, \'a., questions: "Ever parked under can get white-tailed deer up tiiere, snow- trated catalog in full color, plus illustrated booklet on telescopic sights. 25t to cover handling a tree while fishing or hunting and come shoe rabbits, black bear, bobcats, red fox, I enclose and mailing. back to find the car's windshield spotted game birds and woodcock.

with tree sap? Or had the windshield cov- A non-resident hunter in No\a Scotia NAIVIE ered with bugs on a drive? Plain water must be accompanied by a licensed guide. ADDRESS. won't remove it, but you have the remedy Write to the Nova Scotia Travel Bureau, right in your car. Wipe the windshield Halifax, Nova Scotia, for border-crossing CITY ZONE STATE with water — open up a few cigarette butts infoniiation and complete hunting and fish- I and rub the windshield with tobacco. It ing regulations. •Under Marlm ."' Pay later removes all the sticky residue and film . . (Contimied on page 44) Plan THE .AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINK • OCTOBER I960 • 43 "

ROD AND GUN CLUB SOME HAVE WRITTEN in on the wolf THE PENNSYLVANIA Game Commis- question wondering if the gray creatures sion reports: In addition to the 1959 hunt- (Continued from previous page) had all been killed off. No, they are still ing harvest of 90,172 white-tailed deer, the around, although not in abundance. The following losses have occured between

NORTH DAKOTA REPORTS that 87 per- Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, in June 1, 1959 and .May 31, 1960: cent of all hunters w ho w ent afield for deer a surprise report, recently stated that 16 Killed for damaging crops 1,054 last year got their quarry. Twenty-eight trappers employed by the Commission ac- Killed by vehicles 6,756 thousand nuilc deer and whitetails were counted for 48 genuine wolves during the Killed in miscellaneous accidents 546 bagged. The split w as 79.5 percent white- month of May. Killed illegally in season and out 2,666 tails and 20.5 percent mule deer. Destroyed by dogs 597 iMulc deer harvest was highest in the Bad- WILLIAM A. STERBINSKY, 356 Raleigh Natural mortality last winter and lands where 76.1 percent of the bag were St., SE, A\'ashington 20, D.C, is a fisherman early spring about' 5,000 muleys. who picks up ideas from other sporting Some of these figures, like those for activities. Witness: "During the football "killed in accidents" and "destroyed b>-

"FIELD CARE OF TROPHIES" is the title season I noticed something the fishermen- dogs," are low because many deaths occur of a 48-pagc illustrated booklet that should readers of our Legion Alagazine Rod and unseen and uncounted. appeal to ourdoorsnien. It covers the sub- Gun column ought to try. If you've for- ject of game of all kinds, such as deer, gotten your sunglasses or lost them during moose, buffalo, small animals, fish and birds, a fishing trip, do what the football players with information on how to skin and care do to protect their eyes from glare. Take for deer heads, full bod\' mounts and half a cork from \ our tackle box and burn the bod>' mounts. It also tells how to skin your end until it is blackened; let cool for a few animals for rugs. There is, moreover, lots seconds, then rub the ct)rk under the eyes, of information on how to prepare your just at the top of the cheekbone. This w ill trophy in the field for tiie taxidermist. Cost greatly reduce the glare from the sun and is $1.00. Send to P>. .1. Brewer, P.O. Bo.x 487, water. 1 he soot comes off easily even with Nasii, Tex. . "MY MOTHER AND DAD belong to the cold w ater . . Legion and I read the Legion Magazine," writes Terr\- Powell, age 14, of 222 West Railroad St., Long Beach, iMiss. "I like arch- ery as a sport but I am always losing arrows. They are expensive and hard to find. Now I put a piece of red, luminous

paper on my arrows and if I can't find

them in the daylight, I come back at night w ith my flasiilight. The red glow from the luminous tape makes them easy to find."

TOM BURRIER, Box 217, Oak Harbor, \\'ash., lias been suppl> ing us with sagacious sidelights for some time now. His specialty

seems to be ducks. Here he is at it again: "A real boon to duck hunters wearing

glasses is an arm)' helmet liner, w hich can still be purchased at surplus stores for four bits to a dollar. This ligiitweight headgear can be painted if desired, then shellacked or \arnished for complete waterproofing,

it's roomy enough to fit over a iiunting coat hood or a wool cap, and the chinstrap keeps it in place in heavy winds. Among other

advantages: it keeps rain from slanting onto eyeglass lenses and from dripping down the back of your neck.

"Another handy surplus item is cartridge belts, the old-st\ le w eb pockets designed for caliber-. 30 cartridges. These pockets

hold four shotgun shells snugh , and for w arm-w eather upland hunting the shell belt

IN TIIE TRADITION OF beats a hunting \ est or coat all hollow. AN EARLIER AMERICA "A painless tip on fund raising for sportsmen's groups: Stamp dealers w ill pay from

50(' to $1 for old duck stamps if they are RUGER. left on the license so that they can be re- mo\ed without being damaged. Lesser amounts for used trout stamps, elk stamps, etc., as issued by State game and fish depart- HAS EARISED THE RESPECT OF ments. Organized drives within a club and MODERN SPORTSMEIV EVERYWHERE its friends can often net several hundred old duck stamps, and a neat profit w ith Designed for rugged use and engineered for dependa- small effort." l>iUl>\ the *^Single-Si\/* like all Ruger handguns, is built to give you the finest gun you can put in ^oiir hand. — Jack Denton Scott

Chambered for all .22 caliber R. F. i Frame ind Cylinder: Chrome molybdenum steel. 1. 2.'* 11 you have a helpful ilHmii. Il^ uill. to hunting or fishing, send it along. If Me

Write for Catalog describing all Ruger firearms. can use it, we'll reward you with a clieck for $5.00. Address: Outdoor Editor, The STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC. American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth M LACEY PLACE, .SOUTHPOUT, CONNECTICUT, U.S.A. Avenue, New York 19, New York.

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 FOOTBALL'S PEEPING TOMS ) ( t oiiliiiiietl jtoin jxi'^f 17 MEN PAST40 Woonsocket to Wenatchee work as hard can be used in certain circumstances. setting up plans of attack from their The major difference between pro and Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, scouting reports. college scouting is that the pro teams Hips, What does scouting do for a coach? know one another's personnel and the Pains in Back, Legs, Tiredness. It establishes a definite style for his team. basic offensive and defensive formations Nervousness, victim of the It tells v\hat certain opposing players do of all their opponents. Pro teams have If you are a above symptoms, the trouble may be due to Gland- It strikes the average of what the tremendous files on each other. best. ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- opponent generally does and what it is Pro scouts basically look for altera- ease for which it is futile for sufferers likely to do. That first report enables the tions to either offense and defense as to try to treat themselves at home. defense to be built against the obvious they are known to his team and then To men of middle age or past this type of inflammation occurs frequently. and inescapable strength of the club and primarily at personnel. Sometimes a pro It is accompanied by loss of physical an attack against its apparent weakness. team will set up one type of defense on vigor, graying of hair, forgetfulness and in of It is very difficult for a team to cross one side of center and another on the often increase weight. Neglect such Inflammation causes men to grow up a defense on bread-and-butter plays. other. The pro coach wants to know old before their time—premature senil- Those plays have to be used, and they where he can score. He wants to know ity and possible incurable conditions. can be scouted. So there is no surprise. the individual abilities of each lineman, Most men, if treatment is taken in successfully In its purest form, scouting gets down to linebacker and defensive back. He wants time, can be NON-SURGI- CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- being the discovery which may be the to know everything the opponent has mation. If the condition is aggravated difference in a deadlock of teams of shown on offense and the individual by lack of treatment, surgery may be equal strength. The coach devises the abilities of each player. the only chance. play, but the scout discovers the chink In college football, a scout must come in the enemy armor. up with a smart job of information on NONSUk$/CAL mATMSm One of the scout's best friends while enemy personnel. He must get down all The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat- spying on an opponent is the good quar- the offensive patterns and the defenses. ments used at the Excelsior Medical terback on a team opposing the one he He must get as much information as pos- Clinic are the result of discoveries in recent years of new techniques and is scouting. This quarterback will feel out sible on every phase of football, starting drugs plus over 20 years research by the opponent, jabbing here and there, out with the principle that his team scientific technologists and Doctors. finding weaknesses, then letting the team knows nothing about the opponent. Men from all walks of life and from over 1,000 communities have been suc- have it where it hurts. There are exceptions, because some col- cessfully treated here at Excelsior Scouts are invaluable because their leges play each other year after year, Springs. They found soothing and com- information is based on observation, plus but in general this holds true. forting relief and new health in life. the gossip and inside dope on injuries Interviewing a cross section of RECTAL-COLON and rhubarbs they pick up in the out- coaches, this writer learned that scout- EXAMINATION Are often associ- side world ing is a more intensive project than it ated with Glandu- AT LOW COST lar Inflammation. Coaches differ on how information was 20 or 25 years ago. In those days When you arrive These disorders, we should be transmitted to players. Some usually only one coach worked on a year- can successfully here our Doctors who treat for you. at prefer their scouts to address players, round basis. Larger coaching staffs work- are experienced spe- the same time we treat Glandular In- others want information boiled down to ing year-round, more accent on winning, cialists make a complete examination. flammation. mimeographed sheets and passed out to more variety in offenses, a faster game, condition is Your REDUCIBLE each individual. Still others combine wider exchange of films, increased in- frankly explained both methods. tersectional play have resulted in a heav- and then you decide HERNIA if you will take the is also amenable to Don Holleder, former AIl- ier burden on scouting, many of the Army treatments needed. a painless Non- Surgical treatment American now a scout at West Point, coaches say. Treatments are so that we have de- says that all Cadet scouting reports This means, among other things, that mild hospitalization veloped. Full de- is not needed a con- tails of this treat- passed out to players are numbered for scouting systems now produce a virtual — siderable saving in ment given In our security purposes. The report usually has library over a period of time, with op- expense. Free Book. a cartoon in it, such as Army planes posing coaches, methods of play, fine Write Today For Our % scoring a direct hit on Navy ships, to points of system becoming cataloged. The Excelsior Med- put players in the proper mood. Individ- Old friends are questioned, newspaper ical Clinic has pub- ual photos of opposing players also will clippings scanned. Sometimes scouting lished a New FREE Book that deals with be included. Other pictures will be blown is put on a wholesale basis with an en- diseases peculiar to for locker offday to up room use. By game time tire team showing up on an men. It could prove an opposing player's face and personal watch an opponent. of utmost importance to your future life. playing habits are as familiar as though With relatively recent advances and Write today. No ob- he were a member of the family. developments in movies, scouting reports ligation. Most scouting cards are broken down are now more complete with films. A EXCELSIOR into off by his the most minute details. This helps, coach may have been tipped MEDICAL CLINIC scout that an opposing quarterback looks among other things, to discover which i Dept. B1151 pass receivers must be double teamed, in the direction the play is going. By run- Excelsior Springs, Mo. I Kindly send at once, your how often certain receivers are thrown ning film through his 16-mm. projector I Centlemen: me New FREE Book. I am interested in full wishes, the gets a I the ball, etc. as often as he coach I information (Please Check Box) Going into a game, the football play- chance to study every flaw. I Hernia Rectal-Colon Glandular I Inflammation er is a walking filing cabinet on enemy "Movies give coaches time to analyze I maneuvers. To protect against forgetting and check fine points, things like block- ! NAME . what to do either through natural causes ing angles," explained "Red" Blaik. West ADDRESS. or by getting dazed in contact, certain Point's former great coach. \ TOWN- key players wear an elastic, plastic wrist Under an exchange system, most col- \ STATE- band, listing the plays or defenses that leges shoot footage of their home games

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 • 45 and swap a strictly limited number, usu- should be more familiar with the line and it until attending a party 14 years later ally three, with rivals. For bowl games, linebackers, the other with secondary in Pittsburgh where many of his former where teams have no chance to scout defense." assistants and players were in attendance. each other personally, the film exchange Navy's department of football intelli- After a few rounds of the elixir of life, takes on prime importance. gence informs as follows: "Multiple for- the scout assigned to USC on that dis- Movies complement, rather than re- mations create a severe problem for a astrous day in '32 went over to Jock and

place, personal scouting. "Films are veri- scout. Offenses and defenses of 20 or 25 said, "Doctor, I have something to tell fication, and another record, of what the years ago were stereotyped. The team you. The night before I was to scout scout has seen," is the way Ben Schwartz- used either single or double wing; very USC, I went out to a party and didn't walder, Syracuse University coach, puts few used both. Today teams may vary wake up until the next day when I found it. The scout knows his report must be systems on every play." myself in Tijuana. I never got to the accurate because the movies will show A scout's first duty is to get to the game, but a friend of mine told me USC

him up. Most college and pro teams con- right city, right game and on time. This never passed so that is why I gave you tinue to double team the opponent with is about like saying if you're going to the report I did." a personal scout and film exchange. play a football game, make sure you Everyone in the room howled except In their lighter moments, coaches oc- Sutherland who sobered up quickly and casionally like to chat about pet prefer- about tore his erring aide limb from limb ences on scouting the opponent. Joe before other guests could pull him off. Kuharich, Notre Dame's coach, a sea- Wherever scouts and other football soned veteran in the professional and folk gather, the late Jack Lavelle is college masterminding wars, seems to hit toasted as the superscout of them all. the medium with his summing up: '"No Jack, about a 300-pounder, scouted col- matter how many movies you have of lege and pro games for 30 years and as an opponent and no matter how you a pioneer helped scouting reach its pres- break them down, there never can be a ent status as an integral part of the game. substitute for the well-trained scout Many years ago, Knute Rockne sent watching the opponent in person." Jack to New Haven to scout Army for Movies give teams a good chance to Notre Dame in a game against Yale. scout themselves. After going over films Jack got caught in a traflfic jam and a few times, the coach knows exactly didn't arrive at the game until the sec- how his team played in the last game. He ond half. To get a fill-in on the first half, discovers and charts players' mistakes — he bought a paper and from play-by- '"telegraphing" plays, for instance. Films play accounts tried to complete the pic- enable the entire coaching staff to brain- ture. storm each problem. Rockne replied with a hasty letter:

Modern gadgets, too, have wormed "From your report, it appears you their way into scouting. Some sleuths missed the first half. If I want a news- like to work with portable dictaphones. paper account, I can buy one myself." The trouble is that when he plays back Lavelle got his scouting start when as ". . . and then I fimiicd, what good is tht the tape, instead of noting where the line- a third-string guard under Rockne he perfect crime if nobody knows about it?" backer flared to his right, a scout is apt THK AMKRICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was injured. "You scout Army," Rock to hear an angry discourse on "that told him. "You'll do all right. Just re-

stupid . quarterback . . doesn't he know have a ball. Yet almost any coach can member Army is in black, and if you see you don't pitch out on second and one." spin a favorite yarn about experiences any linemen playing the way you usu- Even those once legendary "Die for with scouts. ally do, tell me and I'll know where to Dear Old Rutgers" half-time talks by Lefty James, the Cornell University attack." coaches have all but disappeared because gridmaster, remembered his scout going In 1950 Lavelle scouted Princeton for of the accent on scouting. There's too to Philadelphia for the Yale-Penn game his pal, the late Herman Hickman, then much to be done in the brief half-time. instead of to New Haven where the game coach of Yale. After watching Princeton Example: Last year in their annual was played. "Another time," Lefty re- bury Harvard, 63-26, Jack sent perhaps meeting, which some followers like to called, "I sent a scout to the Army-Illi- the shortest scouting report on record: refer to as The Game, Harvard led fa- nois game in 1948. I got a beautiful re- "Cancel." vored Yale, 8-6, at half-time. Long ago port but later learned he never had been Dick Beyer, one of Ben Schwartz- this might have been an occasion for re- at the game. It turned out that was the walder's eagle scouts for Syracuse Uni- joicing by the Johnny Harvards during game in which Army put in its draw play versity's 1959 national championship intermission. Not today. Harvard play- for the first time. We never had a look team and Cotton Bowl winner, remem- ers studiously listened to a report from at it, and Army beat us a week later bered sitting at a game with Lavelle. the assistant coach, Al Bell, now skipper with the play." "I couldn't believe it when I first saw at Villanova, who had scouted Yale's In the 1932 Rose Bowl game, the late him work a game," Beyer said. "He just weaknesses from the press box during Jock Sutherland, Pitt coach, sent one of sat there. I slaved away with charts and the first half. As a result Harvard went his most trusted aides to the West Coast diagrams, took notes furiously while he back to work and scored more touch- to scout University of Southern Cali- simply watched the game. I learned later downs for a one-sided, unexpected Har- fornia, Pitt's opponent. The scout in- he had a wonderfully retentive memory vard victory. formed Jock: "You haven't got a thing and could recall a certain play and a "There is a difference of opinion as far to worry about. They never pass." player's assignment weeks later." as coaches are concerned on scouting in So Jock set up his defense aimed pri- The first year Army's immortal Mr. general," says Duffy Daugherty, football marily at stopping a powerhouse. USC Outside, Glenn Davis, played varsity at boss at Michigan State University. "Some threw three long touchdown passes in the Point, Lavelle discovered that on feel one man should be responsible for the first nine minutes of play and went pitchout plays Davis was fed the ball in scouting any single team. I like to have on to annihilate Pitt, 35-0. Sutherland such a way he didn't have a firm grip. at least two men see each team. One was furious but didn't think much about This intelligence went back to Notre

4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 Dame who stole the ball once Irom him from scouts: Fix your eyes on the line. and made him tumble three other times. Plays are made or killed there, and you NO NEED TO WEAR But in the "44 and "45 games Lavelle will see that in action. Meanwhile, you had only one word for Notre Dame in won't miss a thing, because bail carriers preparation tor those great Army teams: must get there sooner or later and noth-

is A "Duck." ing they do important until that mo- TRUSS If you want to see more football next ment. time you arc at a game, take these tips riii: 1 ND FOR RUPTURE

Thut Hinds, ( ills. (;<>iii.m's. Slips Hiul Docs Nut Hold If you must woar a 'I'liiss for Uupliiro, don't miss tliis A Post (^arduliire Control. Now in daily iis»! I)y tiiousands wtio say they froze starched circles, continues, indeed, which visibly the judge. saner which never dreamed possible siicli s(>ciire, depeml- The transcript reveals that Thayer kept to characterize most of the rhetoric on / Magazine, nationwide guide to extra you :ash lor millions of men and women. Contains hints, plans, hundreds years: "The Commimist Party has always in a letter to Moore dated August 18, of offers. No matter what your age, experience, or occupation— write TODAY for ne.\t 5 regarded cclebre, from issues FKKK. Send no money just your name. a cause particularly 1924, "has been use it Ithe case] H— — OPPORTUNITY, 850 N. Dearborn, Dept. 145 Chlcato 10, IIL with a labor or Negro angle to it, as a last three years like an instrument of in- golden opportunity for advancing the famous speculation. I am telling you MAKE YOUR FORTUNE Party's own fortunes politically and fi- that you are going to stop this dirty tiums Spi uiK-Mt'p 1 iisJiKiii .MKJc-. lor all The nancially. The personal fate of the in- game! You hear me! . . . No, because I ly-ntrn. wnnfii, rhililrtn iuni haliit-s! Earn Mioiic.v daily plus Cash IIdtius and Uotireini-nt dividuals involved is of no moment to know that you are the one that brings liir'tjtiic witii amazing 2 niiiuito demonstration that sells on sight. liig repeat business. Full the Party, which looks down upon the in these mud in Sacco-Vanzetti case . . . or -Spare tiino. Ainorlea's Itiegest Selection of Shoos for all the family. Free outfit puny human beings enmeshed in trouble (signed) Your implacable enemy, now given. No investment ever, Write tndav. from the Olympian heights of Historical and forever. Nick Sacco." ORTHO-VENT SHOE CO., Inc. 3001O Brand Road, Salem, Virginia Perspective through the objective tele- Moore withdrew, and drove back to scope known as Class Angle." California in search of more radicals to ENJOY STEADY PAY EVERY DAY AS A In Paris, the pro-communist L'Hiinid- defend. He had been one of those pri- NURSE iiite dutifully put the following words in marily responsible for lifting the case LEARN AT HOME IN ONLY 10 WEEKS ^ \ Enjoy security, iMilependince and freedom Judge Thayer's mouth, claiming they of Sacco and Vanzetti up by its own \ ^}\ from money worries, Ivtrn up to '^i^^'f.Oi) a wetk /Jlt^ had been a part of his level cclehre; y charge to the bootstraps to the of cause as a Practical Nui^se. Age, education not /~ jury: "They [Sacco and VanzettiJ are even so. Fred Moore was to whisper in imixirtant. Send for FRICI'; sample les.son. / guilty because of their ideas. It is pos- the ear of the radical socialist Upton POST GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NURSINC ROOM 37B100 — 131 S. WABASH, CHICaoO 3, ILL. sible that they might have committed Sinclair shortly after the execution that, this crime just to dishonor present so- in his judgment, "Sacco was probably, ciety and to give an appearance of rea- Vanzetti possibly, guilty." Shrinks Hemorrhoids son to those who hold that robbery is It is a long way from the communist the natural product of private property." view of history to that of Professor New Way Without Surgery The grounds of the American Embassy Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.. of Harvard, yet were stormed. It took 10,000 policemen as recently as 1958. in a work of history Stops Itch -Relieves Pain and 18.000 soldiers to guard the place. no less ("The Age of Roosevelt," Vol- Foi- the fifst time science has found a new healing- substance with the a-stonishinj;: I). Moore drew back, for he sensed that ume Professor Schlesinger wrote abilit.v to shrink heinoi rhoids and to relieve in taking on the cause of Sacco and about the case as follows: pain — without surf>'er.v. In case after case, while gently relieving Vanzetti "/// the communists could only hurt May J 920, foUowitif' the nntrder pain, actual reduction (.shrinkage) took place. his case and would merely stiffen the of a payinastcf in Soutli Braiiitree, Mass., Most amazing' of all — results were so thorough that sufferers made astonishing resistance of the Massachusetts judiciary Brockton police picked up two Italians statements like "Piles have ceased to be a But Moore was too late. The communists in an automobile with tlie innocent and problem!" and the ideologues never took over the febrile literature of anarchistic propa- The secret is a new healing substance (Bio-Dyne*) — discovery of a world-famous Sacco-Vanzetti case in the it . . sense that ^'anda. . research institute. can be said they took over the Scottsboro (It was a bus, there was no literature, This substance is now available in siip- pository or ointment form under the name case a few years later: but they did, by only guns and bullets.) Preparation II.* Ask for it at all drug count- their rabid distortions, create a hysteria "Eventually broui;ht to trial on the ers—money back guarantee. *hoii. u.s. rat. off

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nittnler charge, they stood little chance were convicted by a jury which was im- as confessed radicals, aliens and draft- pressed primarily by the circumstantial

dodgers in a time of hysteria. . . . evidence. The identification witnesses

(A year earlier, during the worst of washed each other out. What it comes

the "red scare," in the same courthouse down to, really, is the gun, and the obso-

at Dedham, an Anglo-Saxon jury calmly lete bullets. However unlikely, it is nev- and resolutely freed a self-confessed ertheless possible that the murderers and anarchist named Segris Zagroff, who Sacco were the only people who hap- proclaimed volubly his intense dislike of pened to have such unusual bullets in our form of government. The jury ad- their possession. And then of course, if $100 a Week to BEGIN. Car Furnished. judged him not guilty of the charge that in fact the fatal bullet was clandestinely he advocated the violent overthrow of withdrawn, and another, shot through Compare THIS Job to the government, thereby acting in a way Sacco's barrel, slipped in its place, the historians and sociologists and jurists substantive case against Sacco and Van- the OneYou Have GOT have been telling us for a generation no zetti disappears. Vfassachusetts jury would have acted Even without the bullet there are Then — if you'd like to switch toward an anarchist.) grounds for being suspicious about -111 Show You How to DO It "The trial judge, who soon . . . Sacco-Vanzetti, but no one, surely, Yes, I'll show you how to get into one of (Three years later. would then consider them guilty beyond the best paying professions in America '. . . boasted of what he had done to a reasonable doubt. The suggestion that today —Auto Claim Investigating. Here's

. . is — why employers are glad to pay top sala- 'those anarchistic bastards' . that exactly what happened that a ries to men in this particular field. (The judge flatly denied using those substitute bullet was sneaked into the This year more than 25 million auto words. He had, however, spoken im- exhibit counter - met, quite properly, accident claims will have to be settled! patiently and belligerently about the with the astonished resentment of Massa- No wonder Auto Claim Adjustors are so greatly needed. No wonder insurance screeching organization of leftwingers chusetts authorities. But it had become companies pay as much as $450 a month who, in his judgment, were attempting necessary to level that precise charge, to start; provide a private office, a secre- to undermine justice by reckless attacks for now, after the testimony of the bal- tary and a car for personal use — all ex- on the Massachusetts judiciary. The al- listics expert Col. Calvin Goddard in penses paid! That's why the money-mak- 1927, it longer possible for the ing opportunities in this exciting field are leged remark was made a few years be- was no so great. Even if you have only an aver- fore the judge's house was to be blown defense to maintain that the bullet and age education you can go far in this ex- up by an anarchist's bomb.) the gun did not match. It is too much to citing new profession. Let me teach you at ". . . the believe (though even wilder charges home by mail. In a few weeks you can learn completed design of Massa- enough to get on the road to a five-figure salary. chusetts justice. So in 1921 . . . than this were levelled before the case You can either work for yourself or for a big ( 1927) was closed) that a bullet was substituted reliable company. No need to change your lo- ". cation. No tedious oflice hours! You owe it to . . Sacco and Vanzetii were sen- on the motion of Judge Thayer and the yourself to find out all about this interesting tenced to death . . . prosecutor, Frederick G. Katzmann, and profession. Get in touch with me right away. ERIC P. McNAIR, President, LIBERTY (Si.\ years after they had been con- the villainy executed under the eyes of OF CLAIM INVESTIGATING, SCHOOL victed; after the hearing of a half dozen the police officials in charge of the ex- Dept. 1710. Liberty ville, Illinois. motions for a retrial, after carefully hibits. That way madness lies, the kind weighed appeals to every court in Massa- of madness which at a later time seized RUPTURE-EASER chusetts, to the federal courts, to four some otherwise responsible Americans UPlDer r.race Truss) (S) justices of the Supreme Court; after in- who have gone about charging that the dependent investigations by a committee Justice Department and the Federal composed of the presidents of Harvard Bureau of Investigation joined hands in a project to forge a typewriter with Double 5.95 and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- which to Hiss. a ight or left No nology and a former Massachusetts frame Alger Such Side C il Fitting judge; after a private investigation by charge is unthinkable about men with 93 Required the personal lawyer of the Governor of decent pasts and decent futures, in the A strong, form-iittlng washable support evidence; this is kind for reducible inguinal beinla. Back lacing adjustable. Massachusetts; and a review of the re- absence of not the Snaps up In front. Adjustable leg strap Soft, flat groin pad. No steel or leather bands. Unexcelled for comfort. views by the Governor himself.) of thing disinterested or honorable men Al'O used as after operation support. For men. women, children. Mail orders give measure around the lowest ". do. They are restrained from such venal- . . two obscure immigrants about part of the abdomen and state right, left aid* of double. We Prepay Postage eieept C.O.D.'i. ity if not out of respect for justice, then whom no one cared." . . . PIPER BRACE CO. from fear of being found out, and the 811 Wyandotte Dept. AL-lOO Kansas City 5. Mo. (No one except - to quote the cata- appalling consequences of exposure. logue compiled by Robert H, Montgom- I'll Send You This But — just — Handsome ery, a Boston lawyer, in his recent book suppose suppose that a SAMPLE CASE -FREE —"law professors, lawyers, law students, single man, an unscrupulous zealot, college presidents, college professors, whoever it was, took personal charge of and Show Vou How to Make journalists, preachers, poets, playwrights, the exhibits, contrived to make the sub- Up to $30.00 in a Day Mail coupon fortius KreeTHilorinff stitution, and carried his secret to the JsampleCasepucked with lOObeau- authors, labor unions, civil liberties tiful, biK-value suit and overcoat grave? Such a bears the responsibil- fabrics. Take orders from friends, unions, church councils, picketers, dem- man fellow - workers, others, for fine J qoality. made-to-measure clothes, ity for murdering Sacco and Vanzetti as rocket biK cash profits in advance. onstrators, dynamiters, and do-gooders.") Because wearinjr our suits and over- surely as if he had put poison in their coats briuKs more orders, we make it easy Thus from a professor of history at r yoa to tret your own clothes without Ic cost. No eTporience is needed. SATI.^fFACTION GUARANTEEf). soup. But even assuming that malevolent ' SEND NO fill - Harvard about the .Sacco-Vanzetti case. MONEV. Just out and mail c.upon today ! J.C. FIELD & SON,Harrison & Throop Streets hypothesis, what becomes of the great OEPT.L-1605 CHICAGO 7, ILLINOIS Is it any wonder that less fastidious stu- case of Sacco and Vanzetti? What would !" dents of political affairs — television J. C. FIELD & SON, Dept. L-160S Harrison I & Throop Sts., Chicago 7, lit. the framing have to do with the trial | writers, for instance — should be so Dear Sir: I WANT A MADE-TO-MEASURE SUIT TO WEAR I j I AND SHOW, without paying Ic for it. Rush details and Sample I confused? judge, and the prosecutors, and the Kit of actual fabrics. ABSOLUTELY FREE. I | • • • lawyers and judges and university presi- totally per- I say we will not, in all likelihood, dents who, innocent of the

ever know for sure whether it was Sacco fidy, concluded that Sacco and Vanzetti CITY STATE- :J and Vanzetti who did the murder. They had been fairly tried, and that the verdict

4g • rHE AMERICAN LEGION M.\GAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 was borne out by the weight of the evi- Sacco and Vanzetti, but someone else, dence? Lacking any proof of the because there was compelling reason to substitution, how could they have been believe the evidence had been rigged. expected to rule otherwise than they did? But no such demonstration has been Why are we constantly being told that made. Not a single change in the rules WINGSHOOTER'S justice itself was sick in Massachusetts, of evidence or procedure in Massachu- HANDBOOK when in fact justice ruled reasonably on setts law is traceable to the distilled crit- Learn new facts about shotgun the basis of the evidence in hand, and icisms of the handling of Sacco-Vanzet- shooting, shotgun chokes, and hovy they help you. ground out a verdict which the facts — ti. None was indicated, in the opinion VVrife to POLY-CHOKE — of the responsible in as known all but compelled? authorities, nor 1058 tunxis St., Hartfoid I, Conn.

it is impossible to construct judicial the opinion of a considerable number rules of procedure which cannot yield an of interested bystanders, who included unjust verdict. Of course it can be al- the great John Henry Wigmore, the leged that Sacco and Vanzetti were ranking authority on evidence in Amer- framed, just as it can be alleged that ica. Sacco and Vanzetti were fairly tried, they said. Grant all the improprieties Attention Electric Shaver Owners proved against Judge Thayer, grant in fact all the improprieties imputed to him: GUARANTEED even then, it was the view of his superi- TW/CE AS FAST ors that there was no cause to call a mis- Your electric shaver now ivorks on trial, a position shared by Justice alternating current (AC). PARKS SHAVER BOOSTER electron- Holmes, whose ofl^hand judgment it was ically converts AC to direct that Sacco and Vanzetti did not suffer current (DC). For ttie first time, your stiaver runs on full "anything more from the conduct of the power. It's like using ethyl Shaving judge than would be a matter of course gas in your car. becomes easier and faster, with in England." where judges tend to be up to 88% more cutting / power! Fully Guaranteed! highly domineering, and feel free to ex- , r/ie Perfec/ GiU . . . Ute wlfh ercise their opinions more widely, and • NORELCO • REMINGTON • SCHICK • SUNBEAM more pungently, than judges do here. At shaver dealers or send $5.95 to 7421 Woodrow Wilson Drive the continuing fever? Last spring Why Hollywood 46, California — Dept. O NBC devoted two long programs to tele- vising a rendition of the case by Regi- NO MONEY DOWN nald Rose which at least one viewer. Eugene Lyons, turned off halfway HOME. SITES through in sheer disgust. As a young man Eugene Lyons served as publicity $395 director for the Sacco-Vanzetti Commit- Lovely V* acre sites in Central Florida hills, lake, grove area $395, no money down, tee, and still believes in their innocence: $10 a month • Suburb of Ocala. high and THE AMKRICAN LEGION MAGAZINE dry • Streets, utilities • 22 miles to Gulf but he couldn't stomach Mr. Rose's Beaches • Fish, hunt • Invest or retire. "So much for the neighbors. Now letN hear parody. Now the Ford Foundation has FRFE color folder • Write Dept. M)_VA about you." Rainbow Park. Box 521, Ocala, Fla. awarded Marc Blitzstein, composer and longtime fellow traveler, a grant to make Bruno Hauptmann and Louis Lepke and an original opera out of the case of A! Capone were framed; just as it has Sacco-Vanzetti; and so their martyrdom PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE. SIC. ILLUS- been said that Alger Hiss was framed. TRATED CATALOG NOW! Gradu.ilis rt poi t will be set to music. triakitiK suhstantial inconits. Start and run your /Book/) The point is that there is no evidence, own business quickly. Men. womt-n of all aues, U-arn o.'isilv. t.niir'.L' covers Sales. Property During the year two books will have M.-iiiaL'enieiit. Appr.-iisini.-. Ix)nns. MorlKajfes. an

investigation (Skin Disorder ) cent, until proved guilty. of the case by a no-nonsense Boston lawyer who firmly believes What matters now is less whether SURE YOU CAH WEAR in their guilt. Scheduled to appear soon Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty than SHEER HOSE! is another book by Francis Russell, who whether they were fairly dealt with. If Don't let psoriasis keep you as firmly believes in their innocence, but from wearing the clothes that it should prove they were innocent — if. will make you most attractive. who is outraged by the lengths to which say, the real criminal is still alive, and SIROIL helps remove those unsightly crusts and scales. 27 will one establish Sacco-Vanzetti defenders have gone: day that Sacco and years of successful results. who believes, indeed, that and Vanzetti were not the murderers — to Sacco SIROIL won t stain clothing or on 2-weeks-satis- Vanzetti were fairly tried, though he bedlinens. Sold what extent would the adamant defend- faction or money refunded basis. ers of Sacco and Vanzetti, or rather the deplores Thayer's mention of radicalism adamant critics of the men who sent during the trial. them to Why the continuing interest? Because, death, win justification? I should tUlilSli^DRUG STORES say. Not at all. For their obligation for one thing, both Sacco and Vanzetti, HI}?' • For greot«r daytime comforl u»e SIR-O-LENE would still be to point back to the trial though mostly Vanzetti, developed into Skin Softener Dclween nightly Siroil applltoliont. and say why the jury should have voted magnetic, expressive men, as they sat, Sir-O'Lenc is alio ideal for dry and flaky skin. Write todoy for new FREE booklet otherwise; or tell us where the prosecu- year after year behind bars, moving to- {* SIROIL LABORATORIES, INC. *] at- tion failed to follow a lead; or show ward their final rendezvous with an awe- ! 0«pl. 14. S

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tiinc ol almost overpowering elociiience. murderers and non-murdorcrs alike. just as it cannot, alas, be demonstrated and all the world was struck, and re- These clearly were mythogenic men. that men of such fragile sensibilities as mains so, by the fierce serenity of his final And if indeed they were innocent, how Whittaker Chambers, and Arthur Koest- testament: "If it had not been for these sublime their ordeal! The apotheosis, to ler, could not have been agents of vio- thing I might have live out my life talk- be sure, went quickly to obscene lengths. lent revolutionary socialism. ing at street corners to scorning men. From the beginning, the anguish was But beyond the personal appeal of the

I might have die, unmarked, unknown, unrestrained. There was even a book poor and illiterate fishpeddler and his a failure. This is our career and our of poems, including the titles, "Two friend the shoemaker, there was every- triumph. Never in our full life can we Crucified," "Jesus Also Sinned." "To where the virulence of men who de- hope to do such work for tolerance, for Slay These Christs" ("Once in a while spised this country and its institutions. justice, for man's understanding of man. the earth produces a man to die ... on Here was a human vehicle through ."). as now we do by an accident. Our words, the cross and to live on forever . . which to indict the existing order, con- our lives, our plans, nothing! The taking This is bathos, and sacrilegious bathos demn our institutions, dramatize the of our lives, lives of a good shoemaker at that. It remains true that notwith- cause of proletarian socialism, scrape and a poor fish peddler — all! That last standing the experience of the ages, it away at the Puritan ethic, tear and moment belongs to us! That agony is continues to be hard for sensitive men wrench the nation and cause it to bleed our triumph!" And Sacco's final letter to believe that other sensitive men can across the pages of history. Their suc- to his son; "Remember always, Dante, be guilty of atrocities, a premise, inci- cess has been considerable, and they do in the play of happiness, don't you use dentally, not unrelated to the failure of not give up. just as they will never give all for yourself only, but down yourself our foreign policy to cope with the up on Alger Hiss. But they face the just one step at your side, and help the Soviet Union these last 40 years. It can- formidable opposition of common sense, weak ones that cry for help, help the not be demonstrated that men capable of and the toughmindcd honesty of Anglo- persecuted and the victim, because they writing the lines I have quoted are not Saxon jurisprudence. And a Colt .32. ." are your better f riends . . capable of pumping bullets into the body and 23 oddball bullets, found in the This is a lesson for all of us, surely. of an innocent paymaster and his guard; pocket of Nicola Sacco. the end

we cannot liandle stunted and scmi- could be used by the refugee tenants. psychotie minds that way? Give them In addition, these vast redoubts might one good thing — and you know the be connected to the outside world rest. They swell up and scream for beyond tiie immediate target area by more and more, demanding everything hooking them up with existing surface in sight, free and unearned. The more rail systems in adjacent suburban or considerately we treat them, the more rural areas. There is still time to act, they think only that we arc afraid of since neither the Russians nor the them, and hold us increasingly in con- Chinese are as prepared for war at the (coiitimicd frow page 4) tempt. They are a nation of spoiled present nor as inclined toward it as brats — and we made them that wa>\ the>- very probal)ly will he in the not Isn't it aljout time the worm turned? so distant future. And a firm stand at "They arc doing just fine in school. When the next major outrage occurs, this time, based on absolute prepared- Tlicy need no help from home." I 1k\' act. Land lOO.OOO soldiers and marines, ness in all aspects, defensive anil offen-

could not read! Tiicy do read now . w ell covered by air, and take law and sive, migiit be just the trick that puts Phonetics was the key. Our left w ing order in hand. Nor should we be in off \\'\V>, ad infinitum. ciUicarionists liax c done much damage. any hurry to withdraw, regardless of Larry Schocnniaiin Mrs. Lloyd IJaucr liaise. what is said. Of course thc\- will shriek Spri/iii C'lrcci/, M c J I o'inhicc , Mic b shrilly. And so will Cuba. But have we descended to such craven levels that LOST AND FOUND FAITH IN NO OAS we would cringe lieforc the yelps of Sir: I his could not happen but it ilid. Sir: I agree with c\ cr> thing that I'd- a jackal pack tiiat had been begging I lost an identification bracelet about said al)()ut Castro in for just w hat they got? ward Tomlinson 15 years ago w hile working on a rail- your August issue, hut I have no faith C'.hel Sthwar/.kopl road in the Los Angeles area. I hunted that the Organization of American Eureka, C'alif. everywhere for it without success. States can or w ill help. The \A'estern Last week a Los Angeles-bound better off Hemisphere was when we GOING UNDERGROUND freight train passed me in a yard near took unilateral action. Latin Today the Culver City. I handed up a bundle of Sir: Without (juestion, the cost of ade- politicos arc constrained by the likely billings to the contiuctor in quate emergency underground living who tmn fact that nascent Castros arc waiting handed me an envelope. When I quarters in our Priority I target areas to push them out. Apparently, the opened it, there w^as identification would be immen.se. These costs could my Castros have an easy time of it. All bracelet. On intiuiring, I learned that nevertheless be ilefrayed in large they is promise land need do reform. it had been turned up a disk plow measure by allocating for them some I he guns come from tiic reds. cleaning the right of way in West of the useless foreign aid dollars Hai ry G. Liesc many Los Angeles. A brakeman seeing m\- even yet being dispensed in coinitries iVc-ci- York\ r. N. name on it gave it to the conductor where they have never benefitted the w ho gave it to me. U.S. These underground shelters SPOILED BRATS Harry R. Vllard could be equipped in such a way as North HollyiL-ouJ, Calif. Sir: \\hatc\er has happeiictl to our to serve two purposes. They could American courage and self-respect that provide storage sjiacc for surplus we let a nasty httlc gnat of a nation grains, dairj- products, and other food- like Panama spit in our collective faces, stuffs for which the Commoditj- Letters iniblisiied in Sound Off! do not necessarily represent ttie policy of The desecrate flag, our and make bumbling Credit Corporation has paid our mil- Amertcan Leqion. Name withtteld if re- fools of us? Appease and placate that lions just for storage in the past few- quested. Keep yonr letters short. Address: Sound Off. The American Legion Maga- rabble? I lavcn't wc learned yet that years, and in case of emergency they zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y.

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PERSONAL THE ELDERLY... A PROBLEM FOR ALL OF US •(Continued from page 19)- We will pay you $100 each week for as long as one year when you the time and will continue to do so. human needs require, we minister to are in the hospital for Sickness or Not only are new pension programs them. One may with confidence assume Accident. People up to 80"ycars of being established every day in companies that the basic needs of older people will age are eligible. No Agent Will which are late in joining the pension be satisfied as we build further upon the Call. For FREE details of this ofTer write to Crown Life, 203 No. Wa- parade, but there is a pronounced trend base of public and private programs and bash Ave., Chicago 1. 111., Dept 91 in all companies to improve and liberal- group and individual plans for their eco- ize benefits. They are year by year allo- nomic support. SPARE TIME INCOME ONLY! NO SELLING REQUIRED cating more money to their pension re- While there is reason for optimism Ask atwvit our piott'ftecl franchise plan. We siiou von serves. about satisfying better the economic how to Immediately esiablisli lu muney-niakinK husi- ness looation.s In or near your community. To Quality l)e have use of a car There is another factor working to in- needs of older people in an aging popu- you must Hnancially resi)on.sihle. ami l)e able to devote 4 hours a week to service your crease the importance of these private lation, a consideration of their social hications. .Address your letter to "Franchise Locations Division." Sunmaster Electric Products Inc., Dept. pension programs as financial underpin- needs is far less encouraging. This is a AMLIO, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York I. N. Y. In Canada: Dept. AMLIO, 539 King Street West. ning for the old age of millions of Ameri- problem that is deep and difficult. Toronto, Ont. cans. That is the simple passing of time. The American ideal is youth. We envy STOPPED In many cases the man retiring now at it, glorify it, enshrine it. To make us IN A J/Ffy age 65 under a pension plan that was want to buy a product, use a service, or ITCH or money hack is initiated only 10 years ago will get much visit a vacation spot, our advertising Very first use of soothing, cooling liquid D.D.D. less than a man who will be 65 five years illustrated with pictures of lean young Prescription positively relieves raw red itch caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- This is because the man of and long-limbed carefree girls who from now. men ing— other itch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. 60 will have five years more of "service throb with the vitality and energy of 45^ trial bottle must satisfy or money back. Ask your druggist for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. credits" since the program was estab- youth. To be lean, strong, happy, and lished. young is a national aspiration. The CANCA^ PUT YOU IN A Therefore, just as the history of So- wrinkles, quietude, and even the wisdom FINFINE BUSINESS! cial Security has been a record of con- of age are qualities accorded little value. Rush Card TODAY for FREE OUTFIT Get into highly profitable, repeat-order shoe b tinually higher benefit payments to the It is because we glorify youth and try ness! Sell newHneof Air-Cusnion comfort sho< tofriends, neighbors, folks at work! Over 21 aged, so private pension programs will to forget old age that we do so poorly dress, sport, work, safety shoe styles for men. women. Never sold by stores. Just2ea>.y' follow the same pattern. for the social needs of older people. That ordersaday— in spare time-bring you $217 extra incomeamonth! Noinvestment. Rush name ;in of sln; i' hu- applied, will eliminate ri-l DIFfEREN But the point to remember is that once found and hernias become double) , UNTIRELY healthi Get full facts FHl I man values are paramount in our coun- from old age the loneliness, frustration, about Miller's patented deslprn

and materials . . . Fltted-To- try. We do not let the unfortunate go and unhappiness, and by some miracle Order-Method. Get BALANCKI SUPPORT both sides at no extr hungry nor the sick go unattended. As will sweeten the sour cream of too much Dept. 53-P, FRED B. MILLER Hagerstown, Maryland idleness. For that to be done for every- beginning to be concerned about provid- Although the Cal Tech conference, at- one, the aged among us will have to be ing those approaching retirement with tracting executives from more than 60 assigned a new place of honor, respect the information and guidance they need leading companies, was the first of its

and love in our society. We will all have to plan a good life for their later years. kind, it is safe to forecast that there will

to find some way of establishing the Just this spring, the California Insti- be others like it. value, and making use, of the talent, tute of Technology held a day-long con- As Martin E. Segal, president of Re- experience and wisdom of older people. ference on "Industry's Interest in the tirement Advisors, Inc., pointed out at Such a change in our attitude will take Older Worker." Cal Tech is justly the Cal Tech conference, industry has a long time in coming. In the meantime, famous as a great institution from whose more than a humane interest in seeing

however, the individual can do much for laboratories and classrooms have come that its older employees look forward himself. Just as he prepared for his job many ideas to improve the products and without dread and anxiety to retiring in life by education, training, and ap- processes of American industry. It is sig- from their jobs. Their last years at work prenticeship, so he must prepare for his nificant that Cal Tech recognized that may be less productive if they are beset life in retirement. industry was beginning to feel some re- by fears of what lies ahead, their attitude There is a growing realization that this sponsibility toward helping its older em- toward their former employer may be can and should be done. And it is per- ployees prepare for life in retirement embittered and may be spread through haps the most hopeful sign that can be and it provided a forum to which leading the community if, after retiring, they discerned for our older people. Employ- employers could come to discuss just find themselves unhappy. ers, unions and community agencies are how best to help. THE END

EVERYBODY'S LITTLE HELPERS (Continued from l>a!^e 21) cal home crops on his place in Connec- mous, slow engine. Daimler's weighed lighter, faster. Mr. Dutcher showed me ticut. Third biggest market for the en- only 88 pounds per horsepower and pro- the engines in the Columbia University gines, Mr. Dutcher points out, is on the duced 800 revolutions per minute. laboratory. "Look at this," he said. "It's farm. Here the engines do everything From then on. the engines got smaller. a 1924 Fairbanks-Morse. It runs at 475 they do everywhere else — and more be- revolutions per minute, develops 3 horse- sides. They milk cows, cut silage, churn, power, and weighs 400 pounds. load grain, cut weeds, mow and bale 'Today," he goes on, "a IV2 -horse- hay, pick berries, detassel corn, dust power chain saw operates at 3,000 rev- crops, sharpen disks, shear sheep. The olutions per minute." A new saw on the smallest practical engines for home work market weighs under 14 pounds, yet de-

( '/2-horsepower) run washing machines velops 5V2 horsepower. A 1960 IVi- and cream separators. horsepower outboard motor weighs only As Mr. Dutcher grew up with the little 36 pounds. engines, he watched them grow con- 'The thing that really put these en- stantly smaller— till they grew down into By REV. THOMAS B. CANNON, S.J. gines in business," Mr. Dutcher says, the small lightweight "was II. be- powerplants of Department Chaplain of the Philippines World War In the war, GI's today. gan to use them all over the place." Al- Dear Lord of Infinite Wisdom, "At first," he recalls, "'low-horsepower most every World War II vet is familiar gasoline engines were big in size, very help us to know You, to love You, with the "putt-putt." Around the world, heavy, and slow. We thought we couldn't and to serve You. they ran air compressors, laid smoke make a gasoline engine run fast and screens, ran firefighting pumps, warmed You insisted: "Ask and it shnll be last long. Then we learned about lubri- up airplane engines. Outboard motors given > ou; seek and > ()u shall find; cation and heat transfer, and we finally were dropped with rubber rafts in res- knock it shall be opened unto realized that within limits speed did not and cues; they pushed pontoons into place adversely affect life." \ou." for bridges; they drove assault boats. The gasoline engine was born in 1874. And so, with confidence, we beg A wide U.S. military use was in gen- George Brayton, trans- erators. at these 100-pound gen- an Englishman for know ledge of You, tliat w e ma>' "Look planted to Boston, produced a machine erators," Mr. Dutcher said. "One man know w hat is right; for love of You, to compete with other crude engines that could carry them. Two men could carry that we may not be misled b>' evil ran on coal, wood, or gas (not gaso- them nicely and usually did. During the line). His original model is today in the passions; for help in serving \'ou, war their size continued to be cut down. nation's attic, the Smithsonian Institu- that we nia\' fulfill our nature. One generator, carried by paratroops, tion in Washington, weighed eight D.C. To know You is to understand only pounds." The engines stayed big till the 1880's. After the war came the turning point. peace, justice and freedom; to love Then, in 1885, a man named Gottlieb "The thing that really made 'em tick." You is to love our countr>' and our Daimler in Germany shrank one and put says Mr. Dutcher. "was mass produc- fellow men; to scr\ is to reign it onto a two-wheeled vehicle— the first e You tion." This meant precision manufactur- motorcycle or motor scooter. That same forever. ing of parts. It meant economy in price, year, working independently but also in "Thou has made us for Thyself, O with the average lawnmower selling in Germany, Karl Benz put a Va -horsepow- recent years for around $55. Mass pro- Lord, and our hearts are restless till er engine onto a three-wheeled carriage. duction also entailed research that they rest in Thee." In 1886, Daimler put a 1 '/2 -horsepower brought about quicker starting and us. Lord, as Legionnaires, job onto a horse-drawn landau. Benz and Aid to quieter engines. Daimler had invented the automobile. know You more intimately, love You It made the engines more dependable Daimler, Mr. Dutcher points out, had more ardcnth', and follow You more and longer lasting. Engines are beefed done more: He had drastically reduced faithfully. Amen. up at critical points of wear. A mower the size of the engine. Instead of an enor- should last seven or more years. Most

52 • rUE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 do. The postwar mass production also the U..S.A. is not one of Detroit's com- led to a network ot service centers cov- pact cars but a 6y()-pound, two-passen- ering the U.S. and Canada. Even where ger, 9'/4 -horsepower midget that has been there isn't a regular service center, manufactured in Athens, Ohio, for 12 Earn $10.00 to $50.00 weekly cxtro there's usually a neighborhood handy years. Small boys have two vehicles to cosh, with great Kushiontred ShoesI No experience or investment! Spore Andy who can fix up an engine. Besides, choose from: Quarter-midget racers time onlyl Write for big FREE outfitl the engines arc simple. "There's nothing (which are boy-size racing cars) or TANNERS SHOE CO. » 702 Brockton, Mom. hard about fixing a gasoline engine," karts. These latter are simple frame- says Mr. Dutcher, "if you know just works-on-wheels. with one or two lawn- AI»l»nilMTl,||T Wk 1 1 BECOME AN EXPER T I what to look for. They can be repaired, mower engines at the rear. Currently IM dismantled, and assembled easily." there's a boom in karts. More than 1,600 AbbUlilllHnl SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE LESSON fast-growing use for the little en- tracks built this year i ,.r A have been where E.Tecutiv*- Ac- t, i ri-A-. .-.trn J.^.IJDI) t.. .5111. and !ip. Till gines at the moment is in chain or re- boys may be turned loose on 'em. for Cl'A L-> Ii^.ininu unde U|i, ,1,, ft

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, .irs, pl.im.s. l„ols, li,. tion's golf courses, the three-wheelers — Iru. k-i, iK.aK. mac | l. nlv l.irnilur.v p,iiu|is. i:.-rurators. | now equipped with automotive-type,

^ <.-< 1.- disk that cuts underbrush as much as 10 Fleet r.>-\Vaniit)i p.u i-ni I » Llie Kreatest ilevlcf mwt In- vented for sleeplnK comfort, times as quickly as by hand. The small- beats electric blankets lO

ways. You sleep ON it . . . Bob Gibson, vice president of a lawn- est gasoline engines of all, '-(-horsepow- not under It . . . heat noes up. Kxclu^ilvc Coniforl Control carefully rcKUlate.s the bed mower company, who thought he knew er, fly your son's model airplanes. iiporatu ou select, and automatically turns the len heat Is needed, and off the minute all about the small engines, hired a man The success of small gasoline engines \wz\X. cn-^or needed, so tliat no current is 'd. Ke ; tlie lu-d warm and ilry the year around, has not unnoticed h's fjenlle soothing warmth brings a to cut down an 18-inch oak tree re- gone and. as you 11 Ion of conii>lcle rc-laxallon and won- lerful drowsiness, which Inihice.s r people who suff«'r because of cold dampness. Uecommemlod by doctors — see your dozen heads. 10- doctor for special tises. You can make an excellent started about 8 a.m.," Bob recalls. "With A 5-horsepower and a Income, full or spare lime, by lettlnti customers sleep on the Electro-Warmlh .it our risk. « out of lO will his chain saw, he cut off the limbs. He horsepower gas turbine are on the mar- buv. and immedlaH-ly iiorniiie i-nlhuslastlc boosters. Our most successful distributors .started with thla ket. Diesels, traditionally proven method of ireltlnk' Into big volume tiulckly. passed them down by ropes. He laid out huge, now are Write today for free ItlL-rature anri comp'ete details n this exreptlon.il monev maker. Patented Products 1 the limbs to make a sort of mattress for made from ' 2 -horsepower up. Their Corp., Dept. AL-1060. Danville, Ohio. the trunk to fall on. With his saw, he goal is direct competition with the gaso- felled the tree within two inches of where line jobs. The first diesel outboard went Free Book on Arthritis he said he would. 1 hen he cut branches, on the market this year. Manufacturers trunk, and all. into IS-inch lengths for of electric-powered vehicles are experi- And Rheumatism firewood. He hadn't harmed a single one menting with smaller batteries, fuel cells, HOW TO AVOID CRIPPUNG DEFORMITIES of my rose bushes. Didn't even harm the and even solar power. One company is newly enlarged :'>G-paKe \ An amaziny grass. He was done by noon." experimenting with a Dutch-designed book entitled "Arthritis-Rheumatism"

In homes away from power lines, gen- hot-air engine, burning kerosene or fuel ' will be sent free to anyone who will erators provide the power for furnaces, oil, that could result in silent mowers, write for it. It reveals wh.v druj^s and medicines household appliances, workshop tools. chain saws, outboards. give only temporary relief and fail to (Their exhausts are vented to carry Whatever the competition, ihe gaso- remove the causes of the trouble; ex- fumes outdoors, or they're located outline engine revolution is not ended, but plains a specialized non-surpical, non- side the house.) On construction jobs is a current, pulsating event, still un- medical treatment which has proven before wires have been strung in, they folding. One prediction seems sure: The ' successful since 1919. provide lighting, and run saws, drills, 1 960's will see more mechanical aid You incur no obligation in sending hammers, pipe threaders, pipe benders. available to the average man than ever for this instructive book. It may be years of un- The small gasoline engine is opening before. Power in small packages will the means of saving you told misery. Write today to The Ball up a vast new field right now, that of the give him the greatest help he's ever had. Clinic, Dept. 560, Excelsior Springs, light vehicle. The smallest auto made in THE END Missouri. No agent will call. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 • 53 —

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Now tor only 8Sc . an Automatic Rain Sprinkler that eliminates washouts, gullies and mud holes —prevents soil erosion and 88( damage to lawn! This sturdy wear- resistant plastic tube is 8 ft. long. Attaches PI""- easily, in a moment, to any round or rectangular spout. Remains in neat, unobtrusive rolled-up position until it rains. Then, when water rushes through drain pipe. Rain Sprinkler automatically unrolls conducts water away from house— gently sprinkles it where it can do no harm! Save the trouble and expense of installing dry wells! Only 88c each, ppd.; CIVIL WAR wall map ^hous marly 100 NL-SLAM BLU LLL\ ATOK raises your 3 for S2.50 ppd. Send check or m o. Satisfaction places, events and campaigns, gives complete mattress so you can enjoy new sleeij comfort. or Back. Spencer Gifts, E- 12 Guaranteed Money infonnation on all. Brilliantly drawn, in 4 Like a hospital bed, it uses gravity to improve Spencer Bldg.. Atlantic City, N. J. colors, map has 8 side panels with paintings circulation. 4 positions. Fine for head and leg depicting such as Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, elevation. Folds flat. Tvviir bed size. S8.75; etc. Measures 28"x32". SI. House of Maps, double, S9.95 ppd. Better Sleep Co.. Dept. iBAR BIRDS Dept. AL-20. 60 East 42nd St.. N. Y. 17. AL, \ew Providence, N.J. I COCKTAIL CALENDAR I

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HANDSOME BOBLCHE SET in brass or CIVIL WAR FIGIKINES of the Blue and STAMP THEASUKE HUNT - A «iant sur- siKor pkito, slip o\tr caudles to catch wax Grey come alive in this new centennial set. prise baij is packed with some 700 foreign drippiiiys, protect tablecloth and furniture. Detailed and hand-painted, each 6" china postage stamps from Eurojie, Africa, etc. 3" iu diameter. Choice of two patterns. Sun- ligurine is authentic in uniform, stands on its Stamps are unsorted — just as received from burst or Provincial. (Specify). Set of 4. SI own base. A fine way to eonniieuiorate the foreign missionaries, banks, etc. Heal value ppd. Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL, Spencer Bid;;., centennial. Set of 4, S7.y.T ppd. Greenland for only $1 ppd. H. E. Harris Co.. Dept. D- Atlantic City, N.J. Studios, Dept. AL-9, 3735 N.W. fi7 St., 728. Boston 17. Mass. Miami 47, Fla.

GIANT PLAYHOUSE is made of flame- METAL HORSE BANK is handsomely cop- MICROSCOPE-TELESCOPE - No bigger resistant, waterjiroof plastic, has sloping roof, perplated, should hold enough change in its than a pen, but plenty powerfid is this pre- imprinted windows, curtains, shingle walls, 8 X 12 inches for you to take that vacation cision-made imported pocket microscope- Big enough for 2 or 3 children, interior is 23 trip. Has a slit in the saddle for coins and telescope. Telescope magnifies 8-power with a cu. ft. Pre-assembled. With free name iJlate, bills. Comes complete with key. $2.59 ppd. wide, brilliant field. Microscope is 60-pow< r. SI.25 each; 5 for S4 ppd. Novel Mfg. Co.. Barclay Distributors, Dept. AL. 170-30 Ja- Focus sharp at any range. S-1.95 ppd. U. Ho" - Dept. EP-6, 31 Second .A.ve., \. Y. 3. maica Ave., Jamaica, N.Y. land. AL. 105 East 35th St.. N. Y. 10.

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TOOTHBRUSH NAME PLATES will end ADJLSIAHLE C:OLLAK STAYS art goid- 95 mix-ups once and for all. Attach quickly, plated and spring-tempered. They adjust to includes come with name engraved in gold tone or fit any length collar and will not curl or rust. ft postage and sterling silver. Specify. Set of 4 toothbrush Saves time and trouble. Each pair comes in handling. Send check or money order LD. tags, $1.50 ppd. Each additional, 35ii\ a leatherette presentation case for $1 ppd. Set of 4 in silver, $2.95 ppd. Each addit.,75«'. Order from Harrison Products, Dept. AL, Hard cover. 176 pages. Also contains Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL, .Atlantic City. N.J. Box 201, Bethpage, X. Y. listings and values of Confederate currency and Canadian coinage. Makes a perfect Christmas gift.

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8 ' TILT ARBOR POWER SAW SOLD DIRECT VOLKSWAGEN imported scale model is only LEFT-HANDED SHEARS are espeeialK de- FACTORY-TO-YOU « 4" long, goes 20 mph on a straightaway. ( They signed for people who arc left-handed. Blades

AT BARGAIN PRICE race these in California. ) Beautiful detailed, and handles are completely reversed. Made of BUDE TILTS - TABLE STtVS LEVEL car has micro-sensiti\e adjustment and differ- drop-forged steel, hardened and tempered for Heavy duty all cast iron ential for precision steering, brake, free- long performance, it measures 7". $3.95 ppd. and steel construction. wheeling, crash absorber etc. $2.95 ppd. Lee 5" size for voung.sters, $1. Magic Mold, Dept. Precision ground cast iron Comp. ProdiK ts.Dcpt. AL IO. 10.3 Park Ave.. X. V. 1 7. AL. 1140 Broadway, N. Y. table. Price includes mas- AsShown sive cast mitre gauge and less Blade patented motor drive that fits any motor. Does everything same as saws costing 5 times as much—cross cuts, rips, bevels, mitres, dadoes, cuts compound angles. Adjustable 0" depth of cut; to 2W . SPECIAL BARGAIN—No dealers involved. You buy direct from factory. Brand new—sent to you in factory sealed cartons. Advanced production techniques —exclusive pat- ents —and your enthusiastic reception in putting 480,000 in use makes this surprising low price possible. FAMOUS lUIONEY BACK GUARANTEE — Try this famous saw 10 days. If not completely delighted — FOR ANY REASON— return for immediate refund. SENT EXPRESS COLLECT— Send check or M.O. $2.00 deposits on C.O.D.'s. We reserve right to refund money if stock is exhausted. Avoid diappointment. Order right now! AMERICAN MACHINE & TOOL COMPANY Ro/ersford 79, Pa. PROTECT SHRUBS, flower!., lawn, etc. with VOICE CHARACTER is oiten the difference this special chemically impregnated rope between success and failure in business and which keeps dogs, cats and other animals social life. There's no reason why you can't Shopper's Note away from them. Can be laid on ground, tied have a he-man voice, one people will heed MercTiandisc apptarins in The American to fence, garbage cans, etc. In sealed can. and respect. Free booklet in plain envelope. Legion Shopper represents the newe.st and 110 feet, $1.69 ppd. 3 cans, $4.75. Chape- Send name, age. Prefect Voice Inst., Dept. most unusual products available. They are rone. Dept. 11.53. Sudbury. Mass. AL-10, 210 S. Clinton. Chicago 6, 111. believed to be good values and should make worthwhile gifts for men and women. .308 WINCHESTER CALIBER PORTING R/nE NEW NATO HIGH VELOCITY CALIBER SPECIAL CLOSEOUT PURCHASE! Our gunsmith customizes this superb European rifle, converts prime walnut stock to sporter contours, lightens, rounds forestock, installs swivels, rebeds, headspaces, testfires. .308 Winchester Is the odicial NEW NATO caliber, sporting and target ammo available at all sporting goods stores Add $4 per rjfle for selected collector's grade exterior. 22" T308 WINCHESTER SPORTER SPECIFICATIONS: Lightening last 5-shot bolt action, box magazine fed, WITH 4 POWER SCOPE bbl., sharp, accurate bores, rear sight adjustable for elevation and windage, all nulled parts. $75 value. $29,95 complete! SLIDE RULE - 10 inches long - multiplies, ACCESSORIES AND AMMO: .308 softpoint hunting ammo: 20 rds., $2 95. SURPLUS SCOPE purchase allows divides, finds roots, proportions, computes Leather sling, $2. Cleaning rod, $1, Gun case, heavy duty, Cleaning kit, us to mal^e tills fantastic offer! $2. We household bills, commissions, formulas, etc. have picl^ed up just a few hundred (patches, bore cleaner, gun oil) 75c. "High Vision" Clearview Selector shows the of these 4X color corrected scopes TO ORDER: Enclose check, cash or m oney order. $10 deposit for CCD. Shipped (adjustable for windage and ele- correct instantly. for f.O.B. Culver City. 10-day money back answer Handy book- vation) at an inventory clear- B. MARTIN RETTING, INC. keepers, .salesmen. Free instructions. ppd. ance. We mount and boresight at guarantee. Calif, resid. add 4% state tax. $1 cur cost with purciiase of rifle. 1 1029 Washington Blvd., Culver City 33, Calif. Larch, 118 East 28, Dept. 98-PC, N.Y. 16.

5^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 NOW! Vita min-Quota's Glorious jShopper

You bought these at a cost of less than 2'2< a day and it was a tremendous bargain! Now get your Plems for the unheard-of cost of less than lU^ a day!

GIANT PLAYING CARDS-Ymi umi t have to \\ ()ri y aliout aii> bod\- slipping one ot these \ip his sleeve. Sturdy, washable plastie eards 16 VITAMINS 2 BOTTLES of are a good 7 inches tall, are called "bill- single boards. Real beauties, and fine for the beach, tablet 100 TABLETS Each playing poker etc. S3.98 ppd. Boinier Im- 9 MINERALS ports. Dept. .\L-10. 509 East 80th. \. Y. 21. Including the important "Red" Vitamin Bu Along With ° Other Stimulants for the Growth of $2.35

RED BIOOD cells on Special, Limited-Time,

Try this Freshly Packed, Guaranteed Potency, all-Vltamin- Minerol Formula, containing 25 nutritional factors, not at 2-F0R-1 SALE! the usuol low cost of only $2.35 for 100 tablets, but at the This offer good on sensational limited-time offer of only $2.35 for 200 tablets, first order only over 6 months' supply — one a day is an adequate dose. Each Freshly-Packed, Guaronteed-Potency PLlMS tablet contains: Vii. A 5000 USP un. Vitamin B-2 2 Mg. Cal. Ponto 3 Mg. Choline 10 Mg. Vii. D 1600 USP un. 6-6 Vilomin 0.5 Mg. Nioc namide 20 Mg. I nosifoi 10 Mg. Vitamin B-1 2 2 Meg. Copper 1 Mg. Vita,ii;n !< 0.2 Mg. Iodine 0.15 Mg.

Folic Acid 0.3 Mg. 1 Coicium 43 Mg. Vitamin E 1 .25 I.U. Potossium 5 Mg.

NAME AND ADDRESS are handy Vitamin C 50 Mg. Iron Biotin 1 LABELS 15 Mg. Meg. Zinc 1 Mg. Vitamin B-1 5 Mg, to have around, and are perfect for such as Manganese 1 Mg. Rutin 1 Mg. Magnesium 10 Mg. letters, cards, packages, checks, etc. Print Phosphorus 1 10 Mg. \'0ur name and address carefully and send it Tests prove that no comparable, nationally advertised formula surpasses Plems in value and into these people and they'll print you 1000 potency. They contain vitamin potencies that exceed minimum daily adult requirements. gummed labels packed in a plastic box. SI BOTTLES BOTTLES ppd. Tower Press, Bo.\ 591, AL, Lynn. Mass. 2 of 100 $2.35 2 of 500 $10.00 2 BOTTLES BOTTLES of 250 $5.25 2 of 1,000 $19.00

YOUR PURCHASE IS FREE IF THESE SENSATIONAL VALUES CAN BE DUPLICATED ANYWHERE For over 37 years Vitamin-Quota has saved money for doctors, hospitals and over 2,500,000 families coast-to-coast. BUY IN CONFIDENCE! All orders supervised by Qualified Pharmacists. PLEMS are sold only at the addresses below. Order C.O.D. or save all charges by sending check or money order. We pay all postage. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED. _!923,i96o_ VITAMIN-QUOTA 37th Year Prescription Speciolisfs ond one of the world's lorgest distributors of Vitamins POWERFUL 5X -MAGNIFIER is self-illu- Established 1923 minating, and excellent for stamp and coin Dept. A-132, 880 Broadway, New York 3, N. Y., or collectors, inspecting textiles, doing close Dept. A-132, 1125 S. Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles 19, Calif. -1' work on fishing and hunting gear, tie-flying, Vr;/<'< in Caliloniitt atld ' Ic lolul ct oidei . laboratory study, etc. Imported; ground lens. Uses standard batteries, S2. 95 ppd. Lee Pro

StMIT ADDING MACHINE i.s tlie lowest priced desk model on the market. Made in the U.S., it's guaranteed for 2 years. Saves $100,000 went into tooling this remarkable kit which contains enough individual and interchange- hours of time. Made of heavy gauge steel, it's able parts to construct 6 different truck models. Permits assembly of following, all working models: accurate and built for heavy duty. Horizon- chain side loader, dump truck, fire engine with rotating and elevating ladder, scoop, steam shovel blue color. S 19.95 ppd. Order from Barilen and logger with cab and body. All gears and parts are steel and mesh perfectly. With complete Corp.. Dept. EV, 11 Ea^t 47th St.. X. Y. 17. instructions, S12.9.5 ppd. Lincoln Model Co., Dept. AL-10, 509 East 80th, .\ew York 21.

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The Talk of the Country — You can now buy diamond jewelry by mail direct from one of America'^ Well ICnown Diamond Cutters. Any ring maileil direct tor FREE 10 DAYS INSPECTION without any payment, if references given. Even appraise it at our risk. Send for FRKE CATALOG. Over 5,000 styles $50 fo $100,000 EMPIRE DIAMOND CORP., DEPT. L-9 Empire State BIdg., New York 1, N. Y. NAME ADDRESS 1 OPERATING I LIVE-STEAM ENGINE iM FIGHTING FISH is great tun iur kids to play EVER TRY to buy one of tliese? Hard to -5ri'*y*jr * Safe dry fuel with in bathtub, wading pool or e\ en on land. find, and usually expen.sive, this U.S. Medical ^'^. ''^jI^ • Educational— and fun When hooked with the lure it springs to Cori^s stethoscope is brand new, ideal for action and fights to get away. Powerful spring doctors, engineers and mechanics (check ^tf. 't Tills preci!;ion \ 7^ made livc-steani device does the job. Comes for .$5.23 ppd. trouble spots in motors, etc.), educational

Fvfe . engine will add Order from Magic Mold, Dept. AL-10. 1270 for kids and adults, $2.95 ppd. (half-price). '•^ realistic power to Mrf. Broadway, N.Y. Madison House, AL-10, East 41, N.Y. 17 'f/ operatinK model. 49 / It develops a stroriij <— / l/30th h.p. at 1800 r.p.m. Boiler is drawn 8^" hrass and fittiPRS are solid bronze. Has hand- throtlle steam whistle and Kroored puile.v wheel (easy to hook up power for jour models). Operates off safe dry fuel and stands .some 10'. German-made, and with fuel for initial run. .^8.115 ppd. Additional fuel — :( boxes for CHABON SCIENTIFIC, Dept. AL-10, 60 East 42nil St., N.Y. 17

New'CLIP-ON Magnifiers

NO FISH STOltV- fins cast aluminum hold- er finished in dull lilack is a good way to PERSONAL MEMO PAD has 200 , ts ol keep fishing rods sately stored vvlien not in crisp white bond paper, si/e Vi"\o\/', with use. Fish hooks won't damage guides and your name and address at the toi^. Bound in huffed-aluniinum raised letters spell out handy pad form, it's wonderful for .short notes, -Have rod, will fisli." $1.98 ppd. Medford memos, orders etc. Just $1.25 ppd. per pad of Products, Dept. AL, Box 39, Betlipage, N. Y. 200 sheets. 5 pads (any name or names), $5 ppd. Memo Pad, Box 591 -A, Lynn, Mass. Make Reading Easy Now. eMTVone who wears prescription-made eye glasses can 'CLIP ON" these wonderful magnifying lenses. Make small print read bigger. No need for e.vira reading glasses. Clip on and off in a second. Can only be worn on other glasses (not bifocals). Read the Bible, do fancy work with ease. Fit any type and size. 10 Day Home Trial. Send name and address. On arrival pay postman only $4. plus C.O.D. Satisfaction guaranteed. Or send S4, we ship prepaid. Ideal gift. Order today from: PRECISION OPTICAL CO. Suite 34-M Rochelle, III. RAINBOW LAKES 'i-.cic homcsites in Florida, lovely homes, jjaved roads under construction. Private lake and country club, LOOKING FOR A GIFT? beaches, fishing etc. Betw een Ocala and Dun- The Anierioaii Lt-gioii Shopper offcis a wide nellon. $595complete. $10 down, $10 a montli. selection of reasonably priced merchandise Free photos, booklet. Rainhow Lakes Estates, that make e.vcellent birthday, anniversary Dept. CA-1, 819 Silver Springs, Ocala. Fla. PERSONALIZED BELT HACK eliminates and .cradiiatioii gifts. Go ahead and order. aggravating searches by giving all your belts a place to roost. Wahiut stained wood has golden metal hooks for belts, keys, etc. Plain or with 1 initial. Plain $1; with initial, $1.25 ppd. Spencer Gifts, Dept. AL, Spencer Bldg., P Mogic Moil Man-MakejipJp^San Hour! Atlantic City, N.J.

Get ORDERS and CASH from i Oet into your mailman — do work in PLASTIC SPARE Tl ME at Home—or ex- LAMINATING o/Aome pand into FULLTIME business, St'nd coupon for Free facta about the new- in every envelope. No canvassing—no seiz- est and most fascinatinpr of all home oper- ing. We even supply the circulars you mail to ated businesses. For the first time a simplified brinp back the cash and orders, Uon't waste m^u'hine brings the fabulous profits of Plas- a minute. Rush your name. We'll send you tic Sealing and Plastic Laminating within FREE and postpaid, pictures, prices, details, ttii reach of the small operator. Anyone can and all the facts you need to start. Mail cou- Ir;u n to operate the machine with a fewmin- pon or send name on postcard. No charee. utL-s practice— then with our Magic Mail Plan WARNER ELECTRIC CO., Dept. l-8-l can get mail orders pouring in daily with cash 1512 Jarvis Avenue - Chicago 26, Mlinois

Dept. L-8-L Thousands of Beautiful Art Creations;nWARNER ELECTRIC CO., I 1512 Jarvis Ave., Chicago" 26, III .fob—ord. rr.l l.v • JEWELRY • CIGARETTE BOXES TRAYS . PATENTED rupture truss for reducible mail onlv 1 1 — CANDLESTICKS • COASTERS • LAMP BASES Ill cost material BOOH ENDS. ..ALL IN SPAR .pie inguinal hernia is worn like a pair of .shorts. hrinKs back KLING COLORED PLASTIC Name S2.r,S in cash by No straps, bands or springs. Has double foam mail. Capacity rubber pad. Adjustable, washable; for singles of riir. .hino: S25.00 profit or doubles. Give waist size. $9.95 ppd. Kin- per hour of len, Dept. 809 Wyandotte, Kan- operation. City. AL-IOOW, sas City 5, Mo.

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I SLIDE RULE TIE CLIP" WORKS LIKE THE REAL TOOL.' I Xegion ^hopper I Perfect miniature of the brain-saving slide rule I I in a conversation dress accessory for engineer, architect, student, draftsman, math instructor. Working model is jeweler-precision tooled. I I Gold plated, $1.65; Sterling Silver, $4.40. MATCHING CUFF LINKS are non-working models. I I Gold plate, $2; Sterling Silver, $4.40. Price incl. tax, postage. I I GREENLAND STUDIOS Dept.Al-101 3735 N. W. 67 St. • Miami 47, Florid^ I " KIDsToVE TlT

WEATHER PROOF CO\ EKALLS are made FOR BIG OR TALL MEN, this catalogue beahs.*- of tear-resistant, light vinyl, give complete covers large sizes only in everything from protection against water, chemicals, dirt, etc. dress to sports clothes, shoes, etc. includes THEY JUMP Slips o\'er clothes in a jitf>'. In small, medium sizes 10-16, e.xtra long clothes. Write for this and large sizes with handv told-aw'ay case, catalogue if vou'rc a big man. It's free. King WALK, CLIMB -DO MOST $4.48 ppd. Empire, Dept. AL. 140 .Marble- Size, Dept. ,\L, 5260 Forest St., Brockton 64, ANYTHING BUT TALK! dale Rd.. Tuckahoe. N.Y. Mass. Perlorm the most amazing tricksl FREE GAMES SUPPLIED New novel games that can be played With Jumping Beans. Fun for entire family. MURRAY HILL HOUSE Dept. J.B.-96, P.O. Box 126 Bethpage, Long island, New York DEER HUNTERS! RIFLESCOPE Flag. Stainless Banner, Last National and ing, maximum of 30 letters (including punc- KnfieUI. liver :rill I S. & Foreinn rifle iriakes incl Bonnie Blue. 4"x6" rayon flags are on staffs tuation and space) per line. 150-piece bo.v, OKDKK NOW! Only t!l 9.'> piid Inel. FItKK mount. COD's rei;iiire deposit. .\(UI with gold tops. stand; flag historv. S2.98 $1. Triple box Send casll. elieek oi M.O. Wood (450 pieces), $2 American \- of .Tl tor .\ir Mall, lie stile to sperity make model ppd. Davis Flags, 509 East 80th, N.' V. 21. Stationery, Dept. AL. 1448 Park, Peru, Ind. sco|ie power lor rif le.«'oiie. rifle . plus indicate Immediate Delivery! Cuaranteed Satisfaction. PAN TECHNICS. LTD. 1230 Pan Technics BIdg., Enclnltas 22. Calif.

GIANT iI* 9'xl2M108Sq.Ft.) OthtTsrharce SI .00 or more for huge Mxl2 ft. (108 sq.

fi . ) touEh. durable.

1 ransparent plastic sheet, but our price Cent dolls of Is only One DOLL SET has 100 little made each. when you styrcne plastic and hard synthetic rvibber. buy another same size and exactly Includes baby dolls, nurse dolls, dancing the same quality this nice equip- RECORD AT HOME with dolls, foreign dolls, clown dolls, cowboy dolls, sheet for 99c. In words, you ment which just attaches to your own phono- other bride dolls and many others. Hours of fun for TWO 9x12 ft. and cet graph to work. Includes recording arm any child. Comes for $1.25 ppd. 100 Dolls, sheets for $1 -OO! seconds or throw-ouis! Protects ruRs. head, microphone, tracking disc, cutting 17. First quality, not Dept. AL-10, II East 47th St., N. Y. furniture and floors when painting. Perfect cover for needles, blank records. Record songs, jokes, cars boats. buKj^y. appliances, bicycles, lawn furniture, aprons, tablecloths. lamp shades, appli- play it back instantly. $7.43 ppd. Honor etc. Make Into ance covers, etc. Water-proof, Kreaseproof, dlrtproof. House. Dept. Ah, Lynbrook, N'.Y. clean with damp cloth. Each cover Is full one piece. No seams. You pay Only $1.00 for TWO 9x12 ft. plastic sheets (plus lOc for pstg.). or Sl.lO In alll Exciting GIFT for Boys and Girls PLASTIC CLOTH, Dept. PL-693, Box 881, St. LOUlS, Mo. LUNI-CYCLE ?:'/2 A ONE-WHEEL Cycle ACCORDIONS OFF that'i \oad\ of fun

SAVE UP TO ' OFF RETAIL PfllCES OF COMPARABLE ACCOROIONS Complete will 95 IMPORTER! 5-DAY FREE TRIAL Training Pole OIKKCi fr.im world's largest 14 ppd. TO YOU'.I Buy accordion deak-rl Low Importer-to- Add $1 for Hdl. & Phg. You prices. Over 30 models— Hnest easier terms. West of nockies add (2 Italian makes. New Small down payment, 5 Day llome- Young'.feri thrill to the chol- play trial. Free Bortus Gifts for lenge of the Luni-cycle. Sturdily promptness. Trade-ins w< lcotned.

built, odjustoble leg lengths. lOO' , Satisfaction Assured. Mailcoupon for VHEK color catalog'! POWER STEERI.NG-Just dp these pronged Ride indoors or Out. Troining all-steel ball-bearing casters into legs of beds, poles moke riding eosy, ok- Accordion Corporation of America. Dept A1 00 citing, pnjoyoble. Money-bock Ctiicago III. tables, chairs etc, and you can move your 2003 West Ctiicago Ave.. 22. Rush FREE color catalugB; Importer-t^i-You Prices. heaviest furniture without scratching floors or marring rugs. Makes house cleaning a Send Cash or Money Order to. breeze. 8 for $1.98 ppd. Best Values, Dept. BOX 339 WATERLOO. IOWA Address AL, 403 Market St., .\ewark, X. J. ELSTAN CO.

PERFECT FIT IN your big size! Sleeve lengths to 38, neck sizes to 18' 2! Ivy League stripes, plaids, solid- tones, whites in Sport and BIG FREE CATALOG! Dress styles. New wosh- Shoes, size lOAAA to and-weor fabrics! Bodies cut 16EEE! Fine quality in 4" longer than ordinary smartest new dress shirts! Not sold in stores — styles. Also sport and by mail only! We are work shoes, boots, sox, America's best-known spe- slippers. All FOR BIG cialists for BIG MEN ONLY! MEN ONLY! A postcard Finest quality at sensible brings you big color Cat- prices! Satisfaction Guaran- alog, FR^E! Write today! |! teed! Write for FREE Catalog! KING-SIZE, INC. 4270 BROCKTON, MASS.

VITA-CANDY, the lu-w brisilitly-colorcd, CHILDREN'S LICEN.SE PLATES are i^er- candy-covered chocolate-fiavored vitamin is sonalized with name or nickname (up to 8 pleasant for children to take, essential for the letters). Letters are embossed on 25-gauge growth of yoinig liealthy bodies. Combines steel tag in baked enamel colors. Fine for 20 vitamins and minerals for children. Bottle tricycles, bicycles, wagons, scooters etc. Print of 100 (3-months supply), $3.98 ppd. ADF name clearly. $1 ppd. Rembrandt Co., Dept.

Vitamins, 12 Lynwood Rd., Scarsdale, K.Y. AL, 403 Market St., Newark, N. J.

Magnifying Reading Glasses with finest plano- convex lenses. No longer need you strain or squint to read small type or use an old fashioned hand Magnifyer, Cleorvision Magnifying Spec- tacles ore perfect for those who need simple magnifying lenses and do not hove Astigmatism or eye disease. Read fine bible print, find tele- phone numbers, do fancy needle and machine work with ease and comfort. 30 Day Free Trial. Money Back Guarantee. Send Name, Address, Age and 3.95 or send no money and we ship C.O.D., postage extra. NU-LIFE PRODUCTS Dept. U-311 Cos Cob, Conn.

GIANT 1.5 INCH, .l-cvll ll,.^llli^llt tilnA^^ a 100 IMPORTED TULIP BULBS are Den- strong, wide beam a quarter of a mile, is mark fall planting stock about 2V2 inches one of the largest and brightest available. De- circumference. Colors and varieties are as- i%H LARGE v< lops 40,000 candlepower. Used by hunters, sorted; some bloom the first .season, some the r jun:;le workers, foreign g(jvts., it doubles as a second. 100 bulbs, $2.38 ppd. (12 blue NEW billv. Alumininn; imported; $2.95 ppd. Jack- Dutch Musari bulbs included free). Michigan /iJL K EA. sou' Products. AL-IO, 509 East SOth, X.Y. 21. Bulb, Dept. MG-1403, Grand Rapids 2, Mich. TOWELS W Unwoven Cotton and Rayon That's liKht: Two dozen lar;n- soft liuiTv wliile towels fin-

Shopper's Note EMBLEM LABELS witli the new 50 star fl.ig LADIES' FUR COATS arc remodeled into iu full color are 2'L'" x 1%", stick instantly to glamorous stoles or capes by this finn that M(.'icliand;.se appearing in The American riu t.d. leather, paper, wood, plastic, etc. Fine specializes in doing this work. Furs are re- LiV'^Um Siiopper represents the newest and for d splay (m aut'is, luggage, book covers, modeled, cleaned, glazed, lined, monogramed most unusual iiroducts available. They are bicycles, etc. 4 for 50' ; 9 for $1 pi)d. from etc. for $22.95. Send for free stvle booklet. belie\ ed to be jjood values and should Masar Corp. Box 147. Rockville Centre. L.I.. Gala.xy Fur Co. Dept. 99K. 236 West 27th make worth while gifts tormen and women. X.Y. St., N.Y. 1.

FASTEN PAPERS WITHOUT STAPLES

Press down in one eosy motion and up to 10 papers ore clipped together neotly and securely WITHOUT clips or stoplesl The amazing clipless fostener mokes its 'clips"" right out This is a honey— a fine RAZOR BLADE SHARPENER put a 7-jewel Swiss-made pock- of the paper, does away with t' e expense of buy- ket'H cutting ed'^e on any razor blade. It works et alarm watch that can be ing staples, ends the annoyance of empty staples set to go off at any time, at cruciol moments. Made of like a barber's strap, gives a quick, smooth rings with sharp, clear tone. form a stand, oo a Back opens to sturdy metal, ideal for home, Jp^' edge. Will m ike your blades go further, $2,98 makes watch double as desk or niqht-tahle clock. Second office or school use. ppd. S5; three. ppd. Imperial sweep, luminous dial and hands. Size makes it handy for ppd. Two, $7.50 business or sportsmen. Sold on a I year guarantee MEDFORD PRODUCTS, Box 39 Sales. Dept. AL, 480 Lexington Ave., New Dept. AL-lOA, Bethpage, MADISON HOUSE, Dept. AL, 305 Madison Ave., N. Y. 17 N. Y York 17.

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 !

NEW. . .DIFFERENT i WEST POINT with ADJUSTABLE POWER PANEL

HEALTHFUL SUPPORT h SLIM APPEARANCE

MAN S DIAMOND RING has 1 carat soli- 7 X 35 BINOCULARS haM- pieeision ynjund, taire diamond set in 14-K white gold. Buy it non-prismatic coated lenses, bring distant ob- from one of America's well-known diamond jects close up and clear. The Zeiss type they cutters on a 10-day free inspection basis by h.ive center focusing, come complete with pig- sending credit reference. $395 ppd. Free skin case and shoulder straps. $10.95, i^lus catalog of other styles. Empire Diamond, 107o Federal Tax. Empire, Dept. AL, 140 Dept. AL-4, Empire State Bldg., \. Y. 1. Marbledale Rd., Tuekahoe, N.Y. Amazing "Power Panel," flattens abdomen up to 4 inches.

A few seconds Is all It takes for the power panel to adjust to your own personal comfort. Immediately your abdomen appears firm. You look taller and walk erect. RELIEVES ACHING BACK

in such cases where firm support is needed. Ease the pain of nagging backache. Back and sacro area receive soothing support. Introductory price

h.iv, the links tie are Order today on ten-day 398 NON-SKID RUBBERS same patent- LEOPARD CLAW cuff and bar REG. 5.98 ed Tri-Vac traction grip soles and heels used really rem

^ MAGIC MOLD INC. Dept. A-45J 149 South Main Street, Freeport, L. I., New York

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AUTOMOBILE PRIM S ol ^ i.uly American INSTANT GLAMOUR W l( ke it models dress up your den, or any room. Prints easy for the gals to get read\ iinnkl) lur any colorful, include 1908 Stan- party. It's made of soft celanese acetate, looks are accurate and f/2 ley Steamer, 1913 Chevrolet. Also available: like real hair. Black, Brown, Dark Blonde, SAVer^ ON fINB tTAUAM set of 8 locomotive or fire engine prints. Light Blonde, Platinum, White, Pink, Ice Each set, SI ppd. Terrv-Elliott. Dept. AL, Blue, Grey Streak, Blonde Streak. $5.95 ppd. 135 E '.st 44th St., N.Y. Guild. Dept. AL, 103 E. Broadway. N. Y. CHORD ORGANS BUY DIRECT FROM IMPORTER! BIG DISCOUNTS!

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IMPROVE YOUR APPEARANCE with light- LEARN KARATE, the art of defending your- DUTCH l ISIIINf; CKAl I Imip is made weight shoulder brace that gives comfortable, self with your hands against anyone, regard- from an original Dutch slioc, has a beautiful correct support to any man, woman or child. less of size. This illustrated program covers landscape scene on the parchment sails. Lamp Made of batiste cloth, support has adjustable the various holds, pressure points, etc. Karate is made by skilled craftsmen in the Nether- lace back for individual fit. Chest measure- is easy to learn, could help you some day. tands. Makes a handsome mantelpiece or TV ments 28 thru 45. Specify. $3.49 ppd. Magic S1.98 ppd. National, Box 549 Times Square lamp. 8" X 9',i" oak. $3.98 ppd. The Shan- Mold, Dept. AL, 473 Livonia, Brooklyn, N.Y. Sta., N.Y. non Co., 100 North St., Sunhury, Ohio. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1960 • ^3 " " HOTS

I^leinoric>s heart of a forest, sitting in the top branches team if Bronski hadn't been hurt in the first

One year sticks in his niiiid like ghie; of a stateh' pine tree. "I'm hungry,"' he game. .\nd I onl>' saw about fi\e minutes It's Princeton, Class of Mli thought, "and there ought to be some bugs of actit)n during the entire season. And he can't forget another date— under the bark of this tree." He hauled 1940— Ves, I recall Bronski very well. \Ve '28. His Marriage, Clash of '48. off and took a mightv peck at the trunk: were both on the Cranford squad of at the same time a bolt of lightning struck They used to call us the "Brick Fence — Leonard K. Sc:[4iff and split the tree from top to bottom. Gang." Of course, Bronc was the real star Brother woodpecker picked himself up, of the team. Who's Lost? preened his rumpled feathers and croaked 1945—Now , son, yoLi rc catching the ball

After looking up and dou n the crow ded proudly: "A fella just doesn't realize what like I did in the first couple of games I cits street, the little bo\ approached a po- he can do until he gets aw a,\- from home. pla>cd for Cranford. And, boy, did 1 get liceman standing c)n the corner. — Freu W. Nor.man smeared. Fortunateh', I'd learned my les- "Sir," he asked, "did >"ou happen to see son before the big game with W'oolscy.

1950— I a lad>- going In w ithoiit me?" A 3liso^ynist Speaks \\ h\- wouldn't be afraid to get — F. G. Kf.rnan out there today the way these kids play. Fete her and date her and take her to dine— When I was at Cranford, I playxd a full Give her cm diamonds, she asks for the game without relief many times. Get A Female Prerogative mine! knocked out in those days and they )ust Any time your ziife decides to suffer in Buy her an orchid, she says, "Are yon propped you up in the line for the next silence, yon can be sure she'll tell yon abont broke?" play. W'e didn't know the meaning of the it. She orders cocktails—yon save on a coke. word padding. — Hai. Chadwick Buy the best seats that your roll can ajford. 1960—The T-formation goes back a lot The play's not the thing—she's desperately longer than that, friend— to 1928 to be ex- bored. A Bachelor's Life act. I was on the Cranford team that year Take her out stepping, the orchestra's flat- and our coach was sick. Fellow named What is there to compare to being Yon pay the check and go after your hat. Bronski was quarterback, but he had no unmarried — Count on this mtmber to spoil all the f nit- imagination. A\'ell, w ith the big game com- Many ivoiiiev try to "bag" ///e. she'll Give her the moon and ask for the ing up, I know we had to spring some sur- Yet there's no one home to nag me, — Elizabeth M. Adams prises to win. So I told Bronski . . . I can drink tmtil Pm bloated, — \V. G. Livingston Smoke mitil my lungs are coated. Dissipate iintil Vm faint. Alatri Money Play Late Extra "Don Juan" instead of saint; Troubles in nunriages often stent u'hen a I can call my home my oiisii, man is so busy earning his salt that he for- I'm dumb at parties; but ah, next day, I don't fight to use my phone; gets his sugar. There flashes into my head, There's no one around to stare Tlie cleverest sort of thing to say — iMarvtn J. Brockett M'hen I cheat at solitaire; That I hadn't—but might have—said. There's no female near to harry me — However, my keen wit makes the grade, Passing Fan«*ie.s Darling, will yon marry me? (Through time has a bit delayed it) — iMARiiA N Ross 1930— It's nice of you to remember my As I tell the crack that I might have made, playing football at Cranford, Air. Bemis, The way that I wish I'd made it.

but the truth is I'd ne\ er ha\ e made the — Jeff Matthews Noble HiiKbaiiil

A man show ed up at a new spaper office and placed an ad offering SI,000 for the return of his w ife's pet cat. "Isn't that quite a lot of monc\- to pay for a cat?" he was asked. "I wouldn't say so," w as his response, "Not w hen \ ou consider the fact that I drow ncd it."

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.1 city slicker is o felloiv icho thinks the pofndation is dense in a small tou n.

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4|iiote Says the farmer's happy daughter — Of the banker's stuffy son, "I woiddn't .say he's 'No account,' — Just 'Insufficient fun' — Paul Armstrong

Kealixed Potential A woodpecker decided he was going stale; a vacation w as w hat he needed. Se\ - ''There's two sets of books. Which set shouUI I eral da>s of fl\ing brought him into the bring in for the auditor:"

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