The American Legion Magazine [Volume 75, No. 5 (November 1963)]

THE AMERICAN 20c • NOVEMBER 1963

LEGIONMAGAZINE

THE CONFLICT

in the PENTAGOl

What the clash between ^K**

Secretary McNamara' Secretary of Defense ROBERT S. McNAMARA and the military means to our security.

By GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT

Tlie American

NOVEMBER 19G3

Volume 75, Nuntbfr 5

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A pictorial feature The American Legion Kxeriilive and Administrative OIHces Indianapolis, Indiana 46206 THE CONFICT IN THE PENTAGON 8 Daniel F, Foley, National Commander BY GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT What's the nature of the criticism of Secretary of Defense Tile American Legion Commission: McNamara by professional military men? Publications Edward .McSweeney, Armunk. /V, }, (Chairman); Dr, Cliarles K, Logan, Keokuk, Iowa (Vice Chairman); Lang .Armstrong, THEY'RE CLEARING THE WEEDS FROM CORREGIDOR 10 Spokane, K iixh.; Charles E, Bo.rlli, Hunting- ton. W. l a.; John Cicero. Sin, irr, ill. . Pa.: BY CARL/WO S. BARROS Roland Cocreham, Baton Roui;,-. La.; E. J, Cooper, llullyuuoil. Fla.; CInii- C land, For two decades, Corregidor Island rotted away. Now Mornll,,,,. 4rk.; Paul B. U..^.!.. Douning- the Philippines are doing something to honor toun. P.:.; Dan tt. EnHnell, t)„k,l„lr. (alif.; the men who made their stand there. Raymond Fields, Cuymon, Ukla.; Chris Her- nandez, Savannah, Co.; Hi-rsc li i--! L, Hunt, El Campo, Tex.; George 1). Suniter. S. C; Frank C, Love, Syracuse. A. 1.; Earl ONE WAY TO RAISE YOUR BOWLING AVERAGE 12 L. Meyer, Alliance, Nebr.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss.; Robert Miti hl. r, Ihieego, BY DON CARTER III.; Harold A, Shindl.r. I.„l,ncii,-. Ind.;

. William F, Tayl.ir, Creru.hurn. k . ; Benja- Almost everything written for howlers is min B, Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.; Koh.'rt H. for beginners. Here are some tips for Wilder, Dadeville, Ala. regular league bowlers, by a great ehamp. The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW WRITING A WILL .14 720 Fifth Avenue ABOUT New York, New York 10019 BY SYDNEY PRERAU Publisher, James F, O'.Neil An expert gives some answers that every family Editor should know about wills and estates. Robert B, Pitkin Art Editor Al Marshall As.iociale Editors ROSCOE TURNER, FLYING'S ORIGINAL SPEED DEMON. ...16 John \u.lreola BY PETE MARTIN Roy Miller James S, Swartz America's most colorful pioneer of high speed Production Manager Peluso aviation as he was then and as he is now. Ralph Copy Editor Grail S. Hanford Contributing Editor SHOULD CONGRESS ESTABLISH A35-H0UR WORKWEEK? 18 Pete Martin Circulation Manager TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION Dean B, Nelson Indianapolis, Ind, pro: rep. ROLAND V. LIBONATI (D-ILL.) Advertising Director con; rep. JOE POOL (D-TEX.) Robert P, Retlden Midwestern Adv. Sales Office Ray A. Jones AMERICAN LEGION'S 45TH NATIONAL CONVENTION 20 35 East Wacker Drive THE Chicago, 111. 60601 16 pages of convention news and pictures Washington Sales Office from Miami Beach. Jack L, Spore 1608 K. .Si, N,Vi Washington, D.C. 200(16 Publisher's Representatives PERSONAL 45 Departments Jf'est Coast Arden E, Roney & .Assoc. Los Angeles & San Francisco, Calif. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ROD & GUN CLUB 46 Northuest The Harlowe Co. DATELINE WASHINGTON LEGION SHOPPER 52 Seattle, Wash, 98101 Southeast The Dawson Cf>, EDITOR'S CORNER PARTING SHOTS 56 Miami, Fla, & .Atlanta, Ga. Detroit

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 street?" "All right," he said, a little defensively. Without touching him I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR said; "Take my arm, I'll go a half step ahead of you so you can sense what's up." "Wonderful," he said, taking my arm. With him holding my Letters published do not necessarily ex- peated threats and admonitions have arm, and myself leading a little, we press the policy of The American Legion. crossed the street. Keep letters short. Name and address must failed in many cases, this recognition be furnished. Expressions of opinion and has succeeded. At a time of their lives "How far are you going?" he asked. requests for personal services are appreci- "No farther," I said. "I the ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or when youths strive for status and the was going answered, due to lack of magazine staff for desire to belong, the Courtesy Car other way when I stopped to give you these purposes. Requests for personal ser- a steer." "What a pity," he said. "I vices which may be legitimately asked of Club has wisely singled out safe The American Legion should be made to drivers for status, and the entire could go with you all day." your Post Service Officer or your state The blind man's compliment (Department) American Legion Hq. Send community has gained. was letters to the editor to: Letters, The Edgar C. Lundberg sweet music. As you may guess, I had American Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave- Park Ridge, III. read blind Maj. Gen. Melvin Maas' nue, New York 19, N. Y. article in your September issue, so I AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK THE THING ITSELF didn't grab him, push him or drag him. What a wonderful article that sir: Congratulations for saying so sir; Yours was one of the few na- was. much so effectively and tersely in tional publications that printed the your October "Veterans Newsletter" actual text of the test ban treaty George Heines message on American Education (Sept. Veterans Newsletter), instead New York, N. Y. Week. The American Legion seems to of talking about it. I circulated it to ALERT YOUNGSTERS be revitalizing the observance of this newspapers in this area, and the (Ohio) Daily Reporter sir: I pass each issue of my Legion important week and I trust the re- Dover pub- magazine on to students in my U. S. sults will be gratifying. lished all five treaty articles, crediting history and government classes, Sidney Dorros myself and the Legion magazine, U. S. assign them oral reports Publications Division along with an editorial enumerating and on different articles. I proud to have National Education Association the test ban pros and cons. was one of my students point out that in Washington, D. C. Les Cole New Philadelphia, Ohio the September message, "The Roots DRIVER EDUCATION of Americanism Are Spiritual," the sir; Thanks for the publication of the date of the Mayflower Compact, given sir; The article "Is School Driver text of the test ban treaty. All too as 1609, was incorrect. We had just Education a Success?" by Frank A. often people don't have access to studied this famous document, and he Tinker (Sept.) contained a number what is discussed, and must rely on was able to point out that the correct of pertinent and constructive points. what others say about it. Yours is the date was Nov. 11, 1620. However, the AAA survey quoted in second national publication known to Willie L. Jones the article might lead the casual me which made the full text avail- Nathalie, Va. reader to believe that the AAA has able. If others were to follow your Thanks for sharp young eyes. lost faith in the driver education pro- lead, we might all be better informed. gram. Actually, we are continuing Jack A. Quilico THE MARINE HYMN long-range surveys and feel that it is Billings, Mont. sir: It was a fine idea to present the too early to predict what final trends Marine Hymn on the inside front will be revealed. Meanwhile, we are ' LIKE "SEEING THE BLIND cover for September, but I wonder in possession of many spectacular sir; As parents of the only young how many of the thousands who have studies comparing the accident and blind child in our community, my sung it know who wrote the basic violation records of trained and un- husband and I were enthused about music. It was a surprise to me that trained yoimg drivers in many local Maj. Gen. Maas' article "How Not to the composer was a Frenchman with areas, in which the trained young Help the Blind." Not only was it a German name—Jacques Offenbach. drivers' record is far better than the pleasant reading with a nice bit of If you don't believe me, go to your untrained. humor, but it states both the stark favorite long-hair music shop and see We feel that the vast weight of the facts of blind existence and what to if they have recordings from Offen- evidence is that driver education do about them. One occasionally bach's La Perichole. Listen to it, then holds one of the brightest promises reads about these problems, but with tell it to the Marines. for a safer motoring future, and we no solution or answer to them. Thank Lewis Gulick feel that the task ahead is to upgrade you for such a downright good article. Miami, Fla. our driver education courses so that Mrs. C. a. Danklefsen they will be of maximum effective- Bellevue, Ohio sir: The article "The Advance of ness in evolving a better generation Soviet Economic Warfare" by Gerald of drivei s. sir: It was inspiring to read Gen. Steibel (Sept.) is one of the best in John De Lorenzi, Directoz? Maas' article. I've followed his career analysis and in reducing a difficult Department of Public Relations for 31 years and remember when he subject to readable English that I American Automobile Association was a Congressman from our state, have seen. To date I have recom- Washington, D. C. and disarmed a deranged young man mended it to many teachers. who was terrorizing the House of M. N. Daffinrud sir; As a former magistrate, I fully Representatives with a gun. Gen. Viroqua, Wis. agree with Frank Tinker's implica- Maas shows greater courage than t'le sir: bridge column in the tion that much of the auto driving poet Milton in his blindness. He also In my Franklin (Ind.), Daily Journal, I re- trouble of teenagers can be traced to serves, but he does not "only stand viewed your recent articles on bridge attitudes. Callousness and disccu"- and wait." He goes and does, with I highly tesy, rather than lack of driving good humor and military bearing. We play by William S. Root. am enthusiastic about this series, and techniques, is at the root of much of need more men like him. the highway tragedy today. Here in Richard R. Petty closed my comments with this advice Park Ridge we have a Courtesy Car Plainview, Minn. to readers of my column: "If you Club which gives recognition to cour- don't take The American Legion teous, cautious and considerate sir: I saw a blind man at a busy inter- Magazine, try to borrow it." drivers, and provides them with a section, so I said; "The light's with Mrs. John W. Cannon decal to put on their cars. Where re- you. Do you want a hand across the Franklin, Ind.

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DATELINE WASHINGTON

RED EOOM AT THE TOP. WEEK. SHORTER WORK PEOPLE AND QUOTES JAPAN'S REMARKABLE RECOVERY. SPEAK OUT ". Although saddled with one of the largest bureaucracies . . it is tremendously important to all of us that the in the world . . . one manager for every ten workers . . . the voice of the United States Soviet system of developing men at the top has generally should be clear, should be un- proved to be successful , . . so that today the key leaders ambiguous and should.be au- in the Khrushchev regime are a shrewd, tough-minded bunch, thoritative." Prime Minister experienced over a wide range of subjects and capable of Robert G. Menzies, of Aus- handling complex problems of national policy with tralia. reasonable foresight and dispatch. SHORT MEMORIES Such is the ob j ective conclusion of a Senate subcom- "Some of our allies tend to mittee which ha s made a study of Russian manpower training forget, all too soon, our so re- and selection. cent escape from a serious threat to our existence as free A similar study of Communist China discloses that Mao nations." Ex-President Harry Tse-tung, undisputed boss for more than 30 years, has S. Truman. surrounded himself with a disciplined and dedicated elite DANGEROUS DELUSION . . . men who have proven themselves to be tough, ruthless "The fantasy that world com- and, above all, thoroughly reliable in the teachings of Mao. munism's basic aims can be The dominant figures in the Red Chinese system, the mollified, tamed or bought off study found, are dogmatic, poorly educated and distrustful with reasonable concessions,

of scientists and technicians. . . Political conformity can be fatal to our world and rates higher than know-how, but the ambitious party dev- all that it cherishes." A. N. Spaniel, industrialist (chair- otees on the way up to the top face an "impenetrable road- man, International Latex in the block" upper strata of old, tired, and overworked Coip.) "true believers" who solidly surround Mao. "AH, WILDERNESS" The S^ unions , with more than 18,000,000 members . . Man's aesthetic response and never f inancially stronger, are nonetheless in to nature tends to grow more deep trouble and the labor leaders are aware of it, even intense as his civilization cuts

if the general public is not. . . Automation . . . newer, him farther and farther away ." faster, more efficient, less expensive methods of getting from earth and water. . things done and produced ... is steadily and inexorably Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of Interior. whittling away at the jobs now held down by union members. Some unions have made gains by concentrating on URBAN BLUES

security as their principal bargaining point. . . But even "Big cities grow rapidly and completely uncontrolled; the long walkouts have failed to halt the automation tide. . . motor car conquers the streets In some areas management and unions have worked out com- and pushes man to the side, promise methods to provide financial aid and retraining leaving him more insecure than

. . . ." for workers squeezed out by machines but for the most, ever. . Constantine A. Doxi- labor leaders will turn more to the shorter work week. adis, Greece, city planning ex- Four of our World War II foes—Austria, Germany, Italy, pert.

and Japan—are among the 15 countries which have , in the ONCE IS ENOUGH eyes of the Agency for International Development (AID), "Everest is war. The life and "successfully completed programs" so that they no longer death factor is present all the need our assistance ... in all four cases, the recovery time. Once is gi-eat—but it's enough for a lifetime." Barry from defeat and devastation has been relatively rapid, Bishop, member of first U. S. but in the case of Japan, it has been truly remarkable. team to reach top of world's Today Japan leads the world in shipbuilding and fishing, highest mountain. is fourth in steel production and electric power genera- NO IN BETWEEN tion, and among the first five in cement production. . . "To be second is to be last." Japan's rate of growth is the highest in the world ... Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., at an annual rate of 9 to 14%. discussing national defense.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 3 ! EDITOR'S How I Made —CORNER—

CORREGIDOR REVIVED FOR TWO DECADES after General Wain- '1,000,000 wright's glorious holding action and tragic surrender on the island of Corregi- dor in the Philippines at the start of WW2, Corregidor itself fell into decay and ruin. For the photos of the rotting fortress, and In Mail Order for the report on the national shrine which the Philippine Republic is now starting by E. Joseph Cossman there, which appear on page 10, we are indebted to Carlino S. Barros, Public Re- lations Officer of The American Legion Department of the Philippines. Mr. Barros Would you like to make $1000 a day—day after day—in youi- own mail or- is now Radio Program Director of the der business ? Starting at home week-ends, without giving up your regular job ? only Would you like to see cash, checks and money ordeis come pouring into your U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital home, sometimes as much as $5000 in a single day ? outside the United States—the Veterans That's exactly what you can do with the help of a new book I have just writ- Memorial Hospital at Quezon City, ten. I started out using my kitchen table for an office and today I have a mail Luzon, Philippines. He was a first year order fortune of a million dollars. college ROTC student at the outbreak of This gold-mine of a book shows you how you can start with nothing but an WW2, and at the tender age of 16 he vol- idea and parlay it into more cash than you ever dreamed of. Where and how to unteered for the colors, fought on Bataan, find a product to sell by mail. How to find out if people will buy your product was in the Death March of the surren- before you spend a single it. dime producing How to weed out clinkers and dered U.S. and Filipino forces, and was spend money only on tried and proven sellers. "concentrated" at Camp O'Donnell prison After you've found a successful product, the book shows you to produce how camp at Tarlac. In a photo which he sent it at rock-bottom cost with "insider" tips and tricks. You won't be spending a us he is wearing his American Legion cent on production until cash-in-advance orders have started pouring in. It's jacket which, he says, he "treasures much." "mail order magic" you can put to work for you . . . mail oi-der "know-how" you can use to start from scratch and build a personal fortune just as I did. My book helps you to do evei'ything from finding a product and picking a THE PENTAGON CONFLICT PAGE 8 IS AN ARTICLE by the noted brand name for it ... to writing the short, simple ads that sell it. You get sam- ON ples of 35 super-successful mail order ads that each sold at least a million of military analyst George Fielding Eliot, each pi'oduct. "The Conflict in the Pentagon." Mr. Eliot One of my little ads has pulled one million eight hundred and ten deals with the impact on our military of thousand orders (yes, that's 1,810,000). And the product sold for $1.00 that remarkable person, Robert S. Mc- each! You'll find the exact words of this amazing ad right in the book. Namara, U. S. Secretary of Defense. For

You'll see how easy it is to organize your own mail order company. How additional background we wish here to to license and register your company. How to get a box number. How to keep give you the full text of Resolution 1 17 of records. How to handle your simple tax problems. There's nothing to it when the Legion's recent National Convention you know the ropes, and this book shows you the ropes. at Miami Beach, which is squeezed into Best of all, the book shows you how to branch out—how to go from one too-brief notice in our convention report successful product to a whole line of big sellers. How to take in the cash from in the center of this issue. product after product, idea after idea, money-maker after money-maker. Resolution 1 17 was offered from several Mail oi'der is the only business in the woi'ld that offers virtually endless states, revised into one statement by the possibilities without great J'isk or expense. Just starting with one product and Convention's National Security Commit- working in your spare time, with the system explained in this book, you can tee, and adopted unanimously. Its text: make as much as $1,000 a day—maybe even more. I know it's true because I did "Whereas, there have been many cases it and so can you in the immediate past of appointive ci- Editor's Note: Joe Cossman, President of E. Joseph Cossman and Company, is one of the most successful men in the mail order world. He has pushed a small strinf;: vilian officials of the Department of De- of products to gigantic sales, by means of a simple system of his own devising. He fense overriding the opinions and recom- his mail order products spells out his system in the book. In the last six years alone mendations of specian> trained and ex- have sold over four million dollars worth of business! Today he continues to break of the top brackets of into new fields ... is selling his products by mail to biand-new customers all over perienced members the world. our military establishments; and

"How I Made $1,000,000 in Mail Order" is available for ten days free examina- "Whereas, this has resulted in many tion, and if you decide to keep it the cost is only $5.95. Mail coupon below for your early retirements and separations from free-trial copy. the Service of far too many of these dedicated career officers, with the attendant economic losses to the United States of Parker Publishing Co., Inc., Dept. 5044 PI. America, which has so heavily invested in 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, New York their education and experience; and "Whereas, by law the Joint Chiefs of Staff are the advisors to the Government Please rush me a copy of HOW T MADE $1,000,000 IN MAIL ORDER for a ten-day free trial. I understand I may return the book within 10 days if I am not satisfied in any way, and owe on matters of military decisions and the nothing. If I cents )>ostai?c. as payment in full. keep the book, I will remit $5.95 plus a few Secretary of Defense is only charged to coordinate all information from all N a me sources; and "Whereas, the civilian appointees are Add ress now assuming the right to 'direct' and 'control' all decisions, with the resultant City . Zone State destruction of the morale of the profes- C A%#P I Send S5.i)5 v ith coupon and we pay postage. Same return/refund privilege guaranteed. Dept. 4. sional military people; and "Whereas, in far too many cases failures

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of equipment due to the ignoring of the experience of career officers and other military personnel have brought about untold economic losses as well as the sup- plying of ineffectual equipment to our armed forces; now therefore be it "Resolved, by The American Legion in National Convention assembled in Miami Beach, Florida. September 10-12, 1963. that The American Legion requests a complete reappraisal of this system of decision making which has brought about these ir- reparable losses; and be it further "Resolved, that the Department of De- fense insure that adequate consideration be given to the advice and findings of competent military personnel commen- surate with their training and experience."

THE LEGION ON CUBA WITH RFSPiiCT TO ANOTHER Legion resolution adopted at Miami Beach—regarding Cuba—we offer the editorial comments of the New Haven Register of New Haven, Conn., for Sept. 16, entitled "Is Legion Sentiment National Sentiment?" The editorial, which follows, was sent us through the kindness of Charles F. Trow- bridge, Sr., of Wallingford, Conn.:

"As a general rule, no one is more ad- verse to plunging a country into war than the men who have fought its wars.

"Rank and file members of our Ameri- can Legion, we are confident, share this viewpoint. "The fact that they do, we think, makes more interesting and more impressive the resolution the organization just has adopted calling upon the Kennedy Admin- istration to abandon its policy of 'timidity and vacillation" toward Cuba. "The wording of the resolution itself, we think, demonstrates that the Legion is ." not a war-mongering group . . "It does want our government to 'employ whatever weapons become necessary' Here is one repairman to throw Castro and communism out of our Western Hemisphere. "But, in the listing of those weapons, one should note the sequence. "First is placed boycott, then quarantine who doesn't send a bill and third, blockade. "Last on the list would be the use of armed forces, and these used with an 'if need be' restraining proviso. Of course, you may never need him, either. The "The resolution first would have us seek co-operative action against Cuba by the average telephone gives years of good service other American nations. It would have our government reassert and implement the without repair or adjustment of any kind. Monroe Doctrine and demand removal of all hostile foreign troops from Cuba. It But if your phone ever does demand attention, would also have us deny the use of U.S. just call the Repair Service (see your directory). ports to any vessel or shipping line engag- ing in trade with Communist Cuba. A telephone man will come promptly. He'll do a "This resolution, presumably, expresses the sentiments of some 2.7 million Ameri- careful job. And there will be no extra chargefor his visit. can ex-servicemen.

"But does it represent a majority senti- Does anything else you use so often give you ment of our citizens as a whole? such dependable, low-cost service as your tele- "This, we think, is a question the Ad- ministration should ponder well and ex- phone— year after year after year? plore fully. "For. if the answer comes up in the affirmative—as we think it will—the Ad- ministration is out of step with the wishes BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM of our people. ^si^^ SERVING YOU "And if it is, it had better correct its stride immediately." rbp FOR YOUR INFORMATION A New Legion Year

By NATIONAL COMMA ^^^^ /{(U^oc^ ^ ^

LITTLE MOKE thiiii a iiionth since A has passed you and your I believe the great majority of our citizens favor fair and accredited delegates elected me to the office of National generous treatment of disabled veterans and of widows and Commander. My sole purpose is to so conduct myself as to orphans. Legionnaires share priane responsibility for main- merit your trust and to honor our mutual commitment to taining public interest in their welfare. serve God and Country in The American Legion tradition. I believe the plight of aged and aging veterans ranks in It's a big order— too big for a few of us to handle alone. the highest order of legislative, importance. We must make That's why I welcome the opportunity in this first published clear to the Congress the urgency and justice of their entitle- message to the entire membership to thank vou, to ask vour ment to meaningful help. support, and to state plainly the creed w hich w e shall .stand I believe the times require that we rededicate ourselves and work tor dining this new American Legion year. to the basic tenets of Americanism. Let us rediscover and I campaigned two years for the office of National Com- ccjmmnnicate to others, especially our young people, the mander because it offers a limitless opportunity for service spiritual roots which give life and direction to our free society. in history's greatest service organization. I believe it is Americans' destiny to achieve an ever in- The American Legion over the past 45 years has built an creasing measure of freedom and mutual understanding and unparalleled record of achievement. It's a record each of us material progress. Recent events have emphasized that major- should know and be proud of. It was made possible bv men ity rule does not automatically insure minority rights. Legion- and women who love their countrv without reservation and naires, having upheld both of these principles in foreign wars, without shame—who acknowledge a permanent debt to those have special reason to promote their practice here at home. who gave their lives and loved ones in time of war—who I believe communist control of Cuba places an intolerable glory in the distinctivelv American concepts of liberty and pressure upon America's secmily and the future freedom of compassion for the weak and vigilant defense of our free insti- all Latin America. The overthrow of Castro must be made a tutions. priority goal of our national policy. A complete economic But the record to date, both America's and The American blockade represents one available and effective means of Legion's, contains more of promise than of fulfillment. You implementing this aim. and I are determining now whether oin^ children will realize These beliefs are embodied in the mandate given your that promi.se. leadersliip last month in the form of Convention resolutions.

THE MO.ST DANGEROUS challenge to confront Americans in TRANSLATING THE PROGRAM iuto actiou will entail the time the past 100 years remains unresolved. I firmlv believe that and effort and cooperation of all Legionnaires and Ameri- the world will not long remain half communist and half free. can Legion Auxiliary members. It will also recjuire the enroll- We will bear the responsibility for decisions and actions ment and active help of veterans not now within our ranks. taken in our name which will spell dominance for one side The fact is that an American Legion of 2,600,000 members or the other. simply won't get the job done. Individuals in positions of

I believe The American Legion is the Greatest stabilizing leadership sometimes tend to measure our strength in terms force in America today. Legionnaires understand through un- of numbers onlv. We need a substantial membership gain this f(ngettable personal experience the folly of both war-making coming \ ear to assure the attention and impact our program and appeasement. The nation's leadership needs in a special warrants. This recjuires real leadership at all levels. way now the influence of an informed citizenry dedicated to Accordingly, I have undertaken as the first order of busi- the advancement of America's interests. ness visits to 21 regional membership conferences in as many

I believe our demonstrated capacity to defeat an aggressor states. In this as in other matters, the real work of The Ameri- is the best way to prevent aggression. The limited test ban can Legion is done at the Post level; our most productive treaty—even if the Kremlin honors it— offers no basis for salesmen are Legionnaires representing their own Posts and cutting back United States militar\' strength. While we hope contacting prospects on their home grounds. the treaty will make possible real advances toward world May I count on you to do your part? Make it your first peace, we must bear in mind the Russians' consistent practice order of business to sign up at least one new member between of breaking their word when it suits their purpose. We will now and Veterans' Day. Let this be your initial investment serve our cause best by keeping our powder drv. in a new American Legion year of record achievement.

5 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 K^/'^'-'l/^n. 1 ^^^^^''^f] Disarmament ^..^^

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THE DAY OF THE ARMISTICE, NEW YORK, NOV. 11, 1918. —

RMY A meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon last November.

Does the Secretary of sequence largely on data supplied by Defense put housekeeping young, fast thinking civilian analysts

whose military experience is zero. The McClellan investigation, as far ahead of national security? That's the question. as revealed, has focused on the point that in the TFX decision, McNamara set aside the repeated and unanimous recommendations of the military evaluation

By ing's bid had actually been somewhat boards, all of which favored the Boeing GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT lower than that of the successful Gen- off^er as promising superior performance. eral Dynamics outfit, outraged cries were Leaks from the investigation resulted in THE EARLY SPRING of 1963, the heard both from the losers and from headlines playing up this feature, and INlightnings of press and Congres- disappointed politicians such as Sen. leaks from other interested sources sional criticism played fiercely Henry M. Jackson, (D.-Wash.). The lat- some in the Pentagon itself—added to around the unbowed head of Robert S. ter immediately demanded a closed-door the clamor. McNamara, the dynamic and very tough inquiry by the Senate's Permanent In- Similar charges of ignoring military Secretary of Defense of the United vestigations Subcommittee chaired by advice had already been leveled at Mc- States. The occasion of this violent out- the redoubtable Sen. John L. McClellan Namara in regard to his refusal to go burst was McNamara's decision to award (D.-Ark.) ostensibly to determine ahead with the RS-70 long-range strike the contract for a new aircraft—called whether favoritism played any part in plane, his cancellation of the Skybolt air- TFX for Tactical Fighter experimental the decision. borne missile, and his delay in advancing —to General Dynamics of Fort Worth, Senator Jackson hardly believed that the Nike-Zeus "anti-missile missile" from Tex., instead of the Boeing firm at Seat- McNamara had been influenced by fa- a research project to production status. tle, Wash. voritism. What he did think is what many Any notions that the hearings would

This contract is not peanuts. It in- other anxious members of both Houses cause the stubborn Secretary to change volves the production of up to 1,700 of Congress have been saying, openly his decision about TFX were wrong. planes for the Navy and Air Force, and for the most part and with increasing Instead, he fought back with his usual the total price tag attached to it is esti- frequency—that McNamara is paying vigor. "Fighting Bob is at it again," said mated at $6 to $7 billion. It also involves insufficient attention to the views of pro- Time, quoting McNamara's angry state- 20,000 prime jobs in the period 1963- fessional military men and tends to make ment to the McClellan subcommittee

1969. So when it was disclosed that Boe- high-level decisions of great military con- that its leaks and partial releases of testi-

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U. .S. NAVY mony had "needlessly undermined pub- liked the TFX decision and had said so to lic confidence in the integrity and judg- the McClcllan committee in vigorous ment of the highest officials of the De- language. The two-year terms of both partment of Defense." Chiefs expired in August. Admiral An- McNamara had much more to say. derson was suddenly notified that he He produced—as he generally does would not be reappointed for a second carefully prepared and "quantified" an- term, as had been the usual custom; Gen- swers about the merits of his decision. eral LeMay was reappointed for a single He had never taken his eye off his tar- year only. Press and Congressional com- get: one plane for both Navy and Air ment linked this action to McNamara's

Force, not two planes as the services Elvis Stahr and John B. Connally re- discontent with the TFX testimony of both wanted. This would save up to $1 signed as Army & Navy Secretaries. the two officers. There followed sub- lUE WORLD DEFEN.SE DEPT VIliK WORLD

McNamara at TFX hearings. The Pentagon, nerve center of our defense. Senator McClellan at hearings.

billion in production and maintenance surface rumblings in the Navy and Air costs and simplified spare parts inven- Force sections of the Pentagon. The tories. Some modifications between Navy was already apprehensive about the Navy and Air Force versions would a new McNamara order that the value of be permitted, but General Dynamics the fleet as a whole must be re-studied came closer to real "commonality" (or in relation to the cost of defending the two-service plane) than did Boeing. Boe- fleet against air attack. The Air Force, ing's design did promise better perform- already smarting under the RS-70 deci- ance in some respects, but both de- sion and the Skybolt cancellation, fore- signs satisfied the basic military require- saw not only the eventual disappearance ments of the services. Gen. LeMay and Admiral Anderson. of manned aircraft as nuclear delivery The real decision turned on McNa- Were they punished for testimony? systems but also a challenge to their mara's judgment, reinforced by that of U. S. NAVY both service Secretaries. Their choice boiled down to this—with General Dy- namics we have a relatively reliable prospect of getting a steady flow of satisfac- tory aircraft according to schedule; with Boeing we are less certain about timely delivery and are not even sure their lower cost estimates will not be offset by production bugs besides their less satisfac- tory meeting of the "commonality" Admiral Dennison. A committee in Washington ran his Cuban operation. requirement. So stated, this was a deci- WIDE WORLD sion which turned less on the military close-support mission by the swift ex- qualities of the two designs than on pro- pansion of the Army's own aviation. duction prospects and McNamara's fa- The Army has made notable gains vorite yardstick of "cost-effectiveness." under McNamara (with a strong assist It was, therefore, a decision which fell from Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, now properly within the province of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). civilian leadership of the Defense De- It rejoices in new weapons, 16 combat- partment. That was the McNamara ready divisions instead of 11, and a story on TFX, in substance, and he prospective increase in global mobility stuck to it determinedly. with the expansion of airlift. A little later in the spring, he again But the Army shares with the other underlined his determination to be mas- services the gathering anxieties as to the ter in his own house. The Chief of Naval weight accorded to professional experi- Operations, Adm. George W. Anderson, ence in top-level decisions. The Ander- and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Sen. Jackson. The TFX hearings son-LeMay crackdown suggested omi- rugged Gen. Curtis B. LeMay, had not were called at his insistence. {Continued on page 41)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 9 They're clearing the weeds from

After moldering for two decades, the last stronghold of Wainwright's F "grim, gaunt, ghastly men" will become a Philippine National Shrine.

MAY 6. 1942. the American and and her allies to reorganize their forces ONPhilippine defenders of the Island in Australia, so that 28 months later Gen. of Corregidor at the mouth of Douglas MacArthur could land on Leyte Manila Bay could take no more. They and announce to the Philippines: "I have had held out for nearly five months, first returned!" What happened to Corregi-

on Bataan Peninsula, and when that fell dor? The jungle took over, and it became on April 9, in the beleaguered an island of ruins, debris and fortress of Corregidor. or The desolation, half-buried in dense

Rock, as it was fondly called. tropical foliage. The impover- At noon. May 6. Gen. Jonathan ished post-war Philippine Re- Wainwright painfully started to public could not afford the mil- surrender his emaciated men to lions of pesos needed to make

Japanese General Homma. it a fit war memorial. Ten years Their sacrifice had held up the ago a volunteer American at- enemy conquest of Southeast tempt to raise IVi million dol- Asia long enough for America Alberto de Joya lars for the purpose fell short. opposite page

De Joya (necktie, left-center) shows Commission overgrown gun emplacement.

PHOTOS ON THIS P.\GE shoiv how the jungle took over Corregidor. Alberto de Joy a in the large photo above shows the condition of a pitted, rusted old gun emplacement to a party of the National Shiine Commission. De Joya, only Filipino to have been American Legion Philippine Department Commander (1959-60) is President MacapagaVs L ndersecretary of Na- tional Defense. At 22, he fought on Bataan, marched in the Death March and was incarcerated at Camp O'DonnelL Capas. Tarlac. To start the rehabilitation of Corregidor, de Joya led volunteer parties of weekend clearers of ipil-ipil growth, armed with bolos and machetes, some of whom are shown above, right. At right is seen the ruins of the enlisted mens barracks on Topside, Corregidor, fronting the old parade grounds. Ruins of Topside Barracks. TDlowing through the weeds and rubble, volunteer cleanup squads found that though scrap metal scaven- gers had foraged the ruins of Correg- idor, historic relics and remains still littered the island, 20 years after the siege. In the photo at right, de Joya

(felt hat) inspects the unearthed dog tags of Edivard King, of Toutle, Wash., namesake of the General who surren- dered Bataan. The dog tags of Edward King of Toutle, Wash.

Finally, in 1962, Philippine President from the Death March and the coming itors and tourists. When Edwin Richards, Diosdado Macapagal declared Corregi- of the Liberators. Meanwhile, The Corregidor veteran from Phoenix, Ariz., dor a National Shrine and named Al- American Legion Department of the makes a sentimental dedicatory journey berto de Joya, long a proponent of the Philippines is organizing private invest- to The Rock he will find, inscribed on project, to carry out the 9 million peso ment in hotels, resthouses and restau- one of the gold tablets of the memorial, mission. The island will be rehabilitated, rants on the island to accommodate vis- the words of Douglas MacArthur: "Cor- beautified; the 23 wrecked batteries that regidor has sounded its own story at the saw action will be restored. Atop The mouth of its guns. It has scrolled its own Rock's highest point, a 23 million peso epitaph on enemy tablets. But through bronze memorial, designed by Guillermo the bloody haze of its last reverberating

Tolentino, will depict the spirit of Ba- shot, I shall always see a vision of grim, taan and Corregidor. Hard by two dead gaunt, ghastly men, still unafraid." Those Filipino and American unknown sol- words will tell exactly, to the whole diers, two towering figures will give the world and for all eternity, what Corregi- famous "V" sign. On both sides of the dor stood and still stands for. base, reliefs will depict famous scenes Corregidor Island by Carlino S. Barros.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 11 One way to raise youil

A great champion tells the 160-to-175 bowler

the most Hkely road to immediate improvement.

Bill Llllard's perfect approach. Don Carter's text (below) spells out meaning of the "pushaway" (first two photos).

By DON CARTER number of effective balls. But as the scratch, nor even—necessarily—to learn 200-average bowlers prove, a bowler can- anything new to do at all, in order to MANY TIMES have you not average as low as 175 without throw- raise his average ten pins or more. His How ing a large number of ineffective balls problem is to learn the difference be- watched star bowlers on television or in person consistently too. tween his good balls and his bad balls, so that he can more consistently do what roll over 200—running a string of strikes A male bowler in the 1 50 class may —and wonder how they do it? have a fundamentally bad form, so that he is already able to do some of the time. The key word is consistency, and that's for substantial improvement he may A friend, watching such a bowler, may what will help you improve your average need to overhaul his complete style, in be able to point out so long a list of by ten pins or more. The secret to be- which case he should study the proper things that seem wrong that the only re- ing consistent lies in timing. The secret stance, footwork and pendulum swing sult may be complete confusion.

almost scratch. I in of timing lies in two things: ( 1 ) a knowl- from As recommend However, if one watches 1 ,000 bowl- edge of what is fundamental about cor- my Brunswick instruction tours, you can ers in the 160-175 class, a strong pattern rect timing and (2) perfecting the exe- improve these three essentials to good of timing irregularity isolates itself from cution of that knowledge in purposeful bowling form and. consequently, im- all their delivery movements to reveal practice sessions on the lanes. prove your scoring ability. what the fundamental reason is for their

If you are a 160 to 175 bowler, you But if we are looking for one thing bowling well for a few frames, then have a stance, footwork and swing of most apt to improve the average of a poorly. your own, and you roll a lot of balls 160 to 175 bowler, it is fair to assume The location of their so-called "ex- correctly. A bowler cannot average as that he throws good and bad balls. His plosion point" changes subtly from ball high as 175 without throwing a large problem is not to learn to bowl from to ball.

12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • N OVEMBER 1963 The first step is in the second photo. The poised left foot in the first photo is simply a standing position.

The "explosion point" (a descriptive phrase for a peaic of action) is the point in the delivery of the bail at the foul line A uthor Don Carter, one of the great at which the bowler starts his finger-lift boivlers of this age, gives a demon- ball release—a critical point in the total his in his approach and delivery. A minute differ- stration of form capacity ence in timing or aiming at this point can as a member of the Brunswick Ad- make all the difference between a ball that visory StafJ of Bowling Champions. is magnificently effective or miserably ineffective, as well as between a ball In this photo Carter shows the par- which holds its line with ease or one that ticular subtle point that he makes goes badly off line from the start. for 160-to-175-average bowlers in If the bowler starts to apply any part of the follow-through to the ball while this article. His fingers are apply- it is still on its final clown swing, every- ing the final lift at a point well for- thing may go wrong. Instead of a lift, ward his shoulder and left knee, the ball may be dropped. Instead of a of mixing, rolling action on the ball that after the ball had reached the bot- scrambles the pins on contact, the ball tom of its swing. may have a sliding action that may leave {Continued on page 51)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 13 A SURVEY CONDUCTED by the Metro- An interview with SYDNEY PRERAU, politan Life Insurance Company last May showed that among 62,000 grad- eminent tax and estate specialist. uates of New York's Columbia Univer- sity, less than one-third had made their last will and testament. A spokesman for the company added that in considering the entire nation, the percentage of men What You not having wills may be as high as 50%. The A merican Legion Magazine has discussed the subject through a series of questions and answers ivith Mr. Sydney Should Know Prerau, a distinguished New York City attorney specializing in estate planning. about

Q. Mr. Prerau, why do you suppose so many men fail to write wills?

A. Chiefly, I think, because of bad information and superstition. Q. Bad information? WRITING A. Yes. The rich write wills, while the middle class and the poor don't. Most people lack the information needed to understand that the poorer a man is the less he can afford the luxury of dying without a will. A WILL Q, Why is that true? A. Naturally, you want your wife to have as much relief from financial worries as you can give her. If your estate Q. What's wrong with holding property the most crucial time she is left without is small and you don't leave a will, you jointly with wife, instead of giving guidance her risk having your property divided be- your from husband. it to her in your will? tween your wife and others. You can Q. But, nonetheless, she does receive A. Joint ownership has advantages in readily see what that would do to your guidance from the court, doesn't she? specific cases, but it is not a substitute wife's share of your estate. A. Yes, she does, but take the New York for a will and it is risky to think so. 0. How about superstition? State laws, for instance, to see what she Q. What's wrong with letting the court may face. Suppose you die without a A. I am certain that, even though they distribute your property according to will leaving your wife and two children. might not admit it themselves, many law? men feel that if they write a will their Your estate is immediately tied up. A A. The laws for distributing estates in death will soon follow. Of course that's guardian has to be appointed by the the absence of wills vary from state to children. silly, but it's hard to reason with because court for your In most cases state, but they are all alike on one thing. they appoint the (though it's not a thought, it's a feeling. Anyway, would widow Close relatives are considered the court a large number of men who should write — not necessarily), but now she would have has no choice and they can share your wills think that if they hold their prop- — to furnish bond to be the guardian of estate according to formulas that are not erty jointly with their wives they don't her own children, and pay the fee for it. apt to be what you would have wanted. need a will. For the rest of their childhood, she must Are these laws rigid? report to, and get permission from, the Q. Do you know of any justification for Q. If leave will is rigid court to use any part of the children's the superstition? A. you no the law when it comes to distributing your prop- legal share of your estate for their sup- A. In most of the cases that I know of erty. But by making a will you have the port or education. where a man died soon after writing a right to decide exactly what shall be She must file an accounting each year will, it was because he put off writing done with your property subject only with the court, reporting what she did the will until he was on his deathbed. — to your state's law to protect your wife. with your children's property. She must I've known of many, many others who go to court to explain the accounting, died too suddenly to write a belated will Q. Doesn't the court consider the widow and spend time and money preparing the and left their affairs and their heirs in and children before other relatives, in accounting. Because you lacked a will, a needless tangle. I've never heard of a a case where there's no will? her relationship with her children in case of a man who died because he wrote A. Yes, but I suppose there are no two property matters switches from mother a will, except in those instances in fact people who want their brothers, sisters, , to court-appointed guardian. and fiction where a beneficiary murdered parents, uncles and aunts to share their him to get his estate. That isn't apt to estates in exactly the same way. So the Q. Supposing there are no children? happen to the people I'm most concerned court's method may not be the way the A. If you have no will, then in most about. Their wills won't make anyone deceased would have done it himself. states your wife would share your estate rich. They are more valuable to their de- And the needless hardship for the widow with your closest relatives: parents, pendents alive than dead. where there is no will is inexcusable. At brothers or sisters, nieces or nephews.

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0- If you wanted your wife to have it all. she couldn't? A. Sure she could. By your writing a

will and leaving it to her. Q. But not otherwise? A. Not otherwise, in most states.

Q. Suppose you just leave a piece of paper in a strongbox, saying: "I want my

wife to have everything," and sign it.

A. That's what it is. A piece of paper. It will not be considered a will.

Q. Suppose you get a regular form for

a will and fill it out and leave it behind, without all the rigamarole of a lawyer and witnesses? A. Such a form may serve as a will, if

you are in military service when you fill

it out, but in most states it becomes in- valid a short time after discharge usually a year. But military wills are the only exception. The court won't accept directions, even in your own handwrit- ing, unless you meet certain requirements. If you don't have the aid of a lawyer, that's not likely to happen.

Q. Then a lawyer is necessary? A. Of course. And witnesses, too. But you cannot use anyone as a witness whom you have named as beneficiary of anything, no matter how small, in your will. If you do, he will not be able to claim his legacy. Q. How many witnesses are required? A. In some states two, in some three. It's better to have one more than is called

for in case of death of a witness or if

he is in some way disqualified.

Q. So far, we've talked about the reasons for having a will and the steps a man should take toward making his. What goes on during a will-making session between the lawyer and his client? A. Quite simply, the client will tell the lawyer what he owns and how he wants to dispose of his possessions and to whom. The lawyer can tell you how this can be done to meet legal requirements and may suggest diflerent methods for disposing of the property if he feels they would be more to your and your beneficiary's advantage.

Q. Isn't it just a matter of saying I leave such and such to my wife or my child or my brother?

A. That's one way to do it. Q. What other ways are there? A. Well, there are many. The more com- monly used one, however, is a bequest of an article or part of your property,

which is called a specific bequest. After your specific gifts are made, then what

remains, and it's usually the largest part, is called your residuary bequest.

Q. These are outright gifts. Suppose I want to provide for my minor children, but I also want to make sure that my Sydney Prerau in his New York Office. (Contimted on page 48)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 15 Turner's plane after it crashed 55 miles from Gallup, N. Max., when It's 1929. Turner (left) and his lion cub, Gilmore, are set to he was on his way to the 1936 Nat'l Cup Race at New York City. take Bert White (right) up for the highest parachute jump yet.

The Chairman of the Legion's Aeronautics and

Space Committee ancd his fabulous career in flying. Roscoe

By PETE MARTIN ever flown before. He sensed that air travel would never come into its own Turner Roscoe Turner, of Indianapolis, who except as a result of increased speed, and helped raise aviation from its in- he risked his life innumerable times to fancy in the United States, is one of the promote this idea. He barreled through few men in the field still operating under skies. He bored into thunderheads. He a full head of steam. Eddie Rickenbacker skittered around pylons. He invented Flyings and Jimmy Doolittle are others, but aerial maneuvers. During the pre-radar that's almost the end of the list. days, before radio beams or even bea- Roscoe Turner. His name can bring cons, he would search out a railroad a grin to the faces of the men who know track to use as a guideline, cock an eye Original him and the men who have heard of him. at an auto map or, as was more often Turner was the great, flamboyant public necessary, fly by the seat of his pants. But salesman of flying. The death-defying he got there. He broke old records, then Speed merchant of ever faster airspeeds. An set new ones in some of the trickiest air- outsize showman to the tips of his power- craft ever built. ful hands and long fingers, he created a Turner dramatized everything he did press agent's personality for himself in in startling fashion. He was always ready Demon order to focus the spotlight of public to roar off furiously in any direction interest on his flying and, through his whenever he felt the cause of aviation flights, upon aviation. could be furthered. He would preach In his prime. Turner was good-looking, aviation in grandiloquent style as long as bizarre and rococo. He designed his own there was an audience to hear him. He sky-blue uniform tunic, on the breast of appeared on radio, endorsed products, which were pinned his wings, glittering competed in every topflight race he heard a constant theme: "Climb out of the with precious gems costing $5,000. He about. mud, you earthbound turtles, and pin flew with a pet lion named Gilmore who In the 1920's and 30's. our armed on your wings." They believed passion- had his own parachute and was regis- forces seemed more concerned with re- ately in man-powered air power. Not just tered in hotels with Turner as "Roscoe pudiating the sage, hardnosed and far- pushbutton, manless rocketry, but in the and Gilmore." While to the more stufTy- seeing counsel of Billy Mitchell than they human element of piloted aircraft. Not minded his stunts sometimes seemed "a were in perfecting military flying. Luck- many of them got rich and quite a few little much," Turner had a definite goal ily for the country. Turner and other died, but they proved their point: Avia- in mind and his stunts were part of his dedicated pioneer birdmen barnstormed, tion was here to stay, both militarily and plan to achieve that goal. raced, hedgehopped, stunted, walked commercially.

A World War I pilot, he continued wings, dangled from trapezes attached At 68, Turner is still a large hunk of flying in peacetime, always anxious to to the landing gear and ran ferry serv- lusty, gusty, robustious man. He stands speed fastei and still faster than man had ices. The roar of their planes proclaimed six feet one, weighs 225 pounds, and

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IDE WOKM

Jacqueline Cochran, champion woman flyer, and Fred Crawford, trophy donor, embrace Turner (center) as he won Thompson Trophy for second time, at a record 283 mph, in 1938 at Cleveland. Right photo—Doug Davis died trying to beat Turner in 1934 race.

: rumors that it had been left outside in the weather. He bristled E indignantly. "Do you mean my plane is not being given proper shelter?" he growled. Intense in his likes and dislikes and bluntly outspoken, he is tremendously warmhearted. A friend once said of him, "At times he may seem absentminded and detached, and therefore neglectful of people. This causes him to be misun- derstood, but everyone who knows the real Roscoe likes him and is loyal to him." And his loyalty to his friends is unques-

tioning. The only time he is happier than performing some

kindness for them is when he's flying. His acquaintances among them hundreds of the world's notable—are scattered all over the globe. A hero to many himself, he in turn has been a hero worshipper. Three men he has admired most in his lifetime were Malcolm Campbell, the auto speedster; Gar Wood, the speedboat racer; and Clyde Beatty, the animal trainer.

Few men can boast as insatiable a lust for living in all

of its aspects as Turner. Ebullient is a word that could have been coined for him. Among other personal characteristics

he is a heroic trencherman. One night at the famed Antoine's

in New Orleans, he ordered a large dish of catfish. When it was served he asked, "Is this all you've got?" Hastily he was brought two additional platters of the succulent fish, all of which he devoured with gusto. In memory of this gastronomic feat, Antoine's now calls this dish "Catfish a la Turner." His

ability to tuck away lobsters is legendary and to date no one

has been able to top it. Over the years. Turner invested $200,000 of money he earned flving his planes in a constant efi"ort to attain higher speeds. No "angel" ever backed him. He never hired a pub- licity man to tub-thump his feats. Factually he says, "I made Roscoe Turner today. my stufl" so good the newspapers came to me for it." talks in a rumbling bass that echoes his Mississippi farmboy All the while, with an X-rav eye and a sensitive touch, upbringing. His eyes are a startling pale china blue. His once he sought out weaknesses in metals, fabrics, construction tech- glossy black hair has silvered, but his speech and personality niques. He installed new devices, appliances, gadgets, and are forceful, aggressive, stubborn. A friend once said of him, experimented endlessly. Using the trial and error method, "He seemed to breathe his own limitless determination and he bet his life that the planes his imagination conceived and energy into his plane, and his plane reacted." his hands created would stand up under grueling tests, and Turner can be emotional at times. On occasion he has been bring him back alive. moved to tears when making a speech about his long love Vibrating wires broke around him. Oils became super- affair with aviation. Obsessed by affection for his planes, he heated and sprayed his face in flight, blinding him and forc- watches over them eagled-eyed even after they've been re- ing him to land in cow pasture*, orchards, rivers. Crankshafts tired. Shortly after he presented his beloved gold-painted cracked, magnetos went dead, gasoline lines leaked, motors Weddell-Williams Special (he had helped design and build stalled and burned. His plane was buff'eted by storms. His it) to the Thompson Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, he heard feet and hands were frostbitten. But (Continued on page 36)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE . NOVEMBER 1963 \J WASHINGTON PRO & CON

THIS MONTH'S BIG ISSUE: SHOULD CONGRESS ESTABLISH

unemployment was cut, a growth rate of 5V2% would, PRO possibly, keep it down. But in the last few years the gross national product has grown only about SVzVo a Roland V. Libonati (D-lll.) year. 7th District Presently, about 1 million ^persons per year enter the labor market. Between now and 1970 the number bill, providing H. R. 3320, will grow to nearly IV2 million each year. for a 35-hour work week, My At the same time that demands for jobs are rising, will stimulate the economy by less manpower is needed because of the development deterring and unemployment of technology. The present and future effects of mech- thereby releasing spending dollars. new anization are estimated at IV2 million jobs lost per year The economy of our nation is retarded in direct —the same number of jobs which will be needed ratio to unemployment. There have been tremendous annually to employ people entering the labor market money pressures on state and federal governments for for the first time. Only rising unemployment and part- relief funds unemployment compensation. Our and time work can result; for some, a partial work week, nation's youth, the Negro and the aged are hardest hit and for many, a work week of zero hours. the high rate of unemployment. The economy by by H. R. 3320, by shortening the work week to 35 hours, failing to provide jobs for these workers has lost mil- will spread the job opportunities to a greater number lions of hours and billions of dollars in the over-all of people. The initial result? New jobs will establish productivity of goods, because they and their families family credit to accentuate new sales. live on charity or relief programs. Such crippling must Then a second effect will take place: the growth rate necessitate added taxes on corporations, demands — of the economy will pick up, because of the increased utilities, sales, liquors and cigarettes. spending power of the consumer. When growth and In fiscal year 1962, the cost for not providing jobs was sales rise together, a further stoppage to unemploy- $3,618,634,000; total unemployed in all 50 states was ment is created. The economy can grow more quickly,

or 5.T i of the population. In my own state 4,063,000, without causing job losses—and can even create more of Illinois, had 257,000 or 5.8' ^ of the population we jobs. as of last January. The cost in benefits unemployed The federal government must set an example by the administering those benefits was $209,163,000 a and enactment of legislation beneficial to the worker and year. to the sagging economy. In the states of New York and Pennsylvania where the unemployment rate was 8.4/( and 7.1'y respec- tively, the cost is a staggering $850,000,000.

To cut down unemployment to A' '< in 12 months, the growth of the economy—as indicated by the gross 9' national product—would have to jump to 8 or ^ . Once

If you wish to let your Congressman or one of your

Senators know how you feel on this big issue, tear out

the "ballot" on the facing page and mail it to him.

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 PRESENTING BOTH SIDES THE BIG ISSUES

35-HOUR WORK WEEK?

In December 1960, 4,540,000 American workers had no jobs. During the same month, 3,000,000 American CON workers had two or more jobs. Rep. Joe Pool (D-Tex.) A Labor Department review of the changes in paid At Large labor between 1940 and 1960 shows that more than half the total gain in paid leisure came from increased that Congress set The proposal vacation time rather than a reduction in hours per day a 35-hour Hmit to a man's pro- and week. This is a shift from the pattern of earlier ductive week seems anachronis- years, and indicates that people prefer to have blocks to tic just as we have begun of time for the spiritual regeneration which comes from that isn't such a bad thing after recognize again work travel, uninterrupted days spent in natural surround- all. ings, in personal work or study projects. time to resume a normal life after the We've had Vacation time such as this stimulates the economy glorious glad-to-be-alive, postwar relaxation binge. It as it stimulates the individual spirit. Entire new indus- was glorious because we'd earned it. tries, employing millions of our people, have been to have Now, in a thoughtful era, Americans seem created by vacation spending. discovered a natural law of leisure, which goes some- I would prefer increased vacation time to shorter thing like this: "Enjoyment of leisure diminishes in hours, but I do not feel that vacation time is a matter direct proportion to increase in its quantity." And a for legislation. corollary: of work rises in proportion to "Enjoyment Apart from the economics of the question of the 35- the increase in leisure." hour week, there is a spiritual issue here which con- We're examining the meaning of leisure, a word cerns me. Should I as a legislator help to make official whose definition is "free and unoccupied." Many of us the idea that leisure for its own sake is more to be believe that unoccupied time, like unoccupied space, desired than work? I don't believe so. Our people have constitutes a vacuum. because human nature, too, And a drive which demands recognition. abhors a vacuum, we have found things to fill unoccu- I like Justice Holmes' lucid comment on the place pied time during our days: amusements, sports, hob- of work in our lives: "The work is never done while bies, and all the "busy work" of leisure. the power to work remains. It cannot be while you still At some point for each of us, these pursuits become live. For to live is to function. That is all there is to self-centered to interesting longer. Perhaps too be any living." it is at that point that Americans with surplus leisure hours turn back to work, in order to restore a balance. Statistics show clearly that, given shorter work weeks, Americans do more work. This answers the theory that shorter hours create new jobs, made from the edges and trimmings of days which have been cut.

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IN MY OPINION CONGRESS SHOULD I have read in The American Legion Magazine for November SHOULD NOT ESTABLISH A 35-HOUR WORK WEEK

the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject: "Should Con- SIGNED

ADDRESS.

gress Establish A 35-Hour Work Week?" TOWN STATE

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soon and did not return (page 28); while the Drum & Bugle corps spectacle, at- AMERICAN LEGION tended by thousands in Miami's Mu- nicipal Stadium, Sept. 8, was interrupted, but not washed out, by two heavy show- ers (page 26). Sunshine blessed most of the quiet enjoyment of Florida's tourist NATIONAL CONVENTION attractions which thousands of Legion- naires and Auxiliary members—along MIAMI BEACH, SEPT. 6-12 with a great many wives, husbands, sons and daughters—enjoyed (page 32). His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spell- Sixteen Pages of Dean Rusk (page 24) who invited an man, Roman Catholic Archbishop of official American Legion study of the New York and Military Vicar to the Convention News State Department from the inside. Armed Forces, received The American THE 45th national convention of The convention reaffirmed its 1962 Legion's highest award, its Distinguished The American Legion was held in policy calling for reforms in veterans Service Medal, on Sept. 10, for his con-

Miami Beach, Florida, from Friday, pension laws, again backing HR1927; it tinuing contributions to the spiritual wel- Sept. 6 to Thursday, Sept. 12, 1963. Of continued its request for reopening Na- fare of the American Armed Forces. His 2,974 authorized delegates in 58 delega- tional Service Life Insurance for one Eminence avoided any recognition by tions, all but 9 (from the Philippines) year and for the creation of a Senate himself that he had done anything in par- were in attendance or represented by Veterans Affairs Committee; it sought an ticular by telling a rollicking tale of his their alternates. Each was chosen and Amendment to the Constitution of the efforts to join the Armed Forces himself certified by his own Department (state United States to guarantee voluntary re- in WWl. Cardinal Spellman is the 55th organization). They came from all 50 ligious observations and Bible study in person, and the second religious leader, states, the District of Columbia, the Pan- public schools. to receive the medal since the first five ama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, and four All told, the delegates adopted 143 went to military leaders of the Allied foreign Departments. With minor excep- resolutions, which ten convention com- WWl Forces in 1921. tions they voted their full strength on mittees, comprised of a total of nearly The convention also heard addresses every rollcall question. Largest delega- 500 working Legionnaires, had boiled by Maj. Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Army

tion was Pennsylvania's with 249 votes, down from an original 557 resolutions Chief of Staff ( on the state of the Army ) the smallest a tie, at 7, among Canada, proposed. The remainder were either Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, President of Mexico, and the Canal Zone. consolidated in the adopted resolutions, The American Red Cross, who also The convention named Daniel F. or rejected, or referred to a standing brought to the convention a Red Cross Foley of Minnesota, as National Com- Commission for further study. Commit- citation for The American Legion's aid mander for 1963-64 (see page 30); sup- tee recommendations on two resolutions to that body (photo page 22); John C. ported ratification of the then-pending were contested on the floor and went Staton, of the Boy Scouts of America ex- test ban treaty, with certain reservations to a rollcall (pages 23-24). ecutive board; John S. Gleason. Jr., Past (page 23); again asked for a U. S. policy Throughout the convention the Nat'l Commander of the Legion and on Cuba positively directed toward re- weather was warm to hot. Heavy rains, presently Administrator of Veterans moving the communist regime there normal in Florida in September, oc- Affairs; Robert Wyatt, President of the (pages 4 and 24); heard numerous dis- curred only briefly and sporadically, and National Education Ass'n, and Mrs. tinguished speakers, including (at the every outdoor event came off almost as O. L. Koger, outgoing National Presi- National Commander's Dinner to Dis- scheduled. The big night-time parade on dent of The American Legion Auxiliary. tinguished Guests) Secretary of State Sept. 9 started in a squall, which ended Concurrently with the Legion's con-

Good stuff. Delegate listens in The Joe Terrells, of Kentucky. Would-be Conviviality, dancing, and joyful meet- rapt attention as Boys' Nation astronaut Joe, Jr., loved the missile dis- ings of old friends marked the party President speaks to convention. play. Joe, Sr., is a double amputee. thrown by the Louisiana Legion, as usual.

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THE LEGION'S NATIONAL CONVENTION- CONTINUED major aspects reported on the following thirteen pages, included the following: vention in the spacious, modern, airy, through Nov. 15. Before leaving, he vis- The American Legion Life Insurance Miami Beach Convention Hail, The ited President John F. Kennedy at the Committee reported that benefits total- American Legion Auxiliary held its 43rd White House, Sept. 24, and discussed ing $1,306,256 had been paid to survi- National Convention in the auditorium with the President the major expressions vors of insured Legionnaires under the of the Doral Beach Hotel. There it of the convention. A day earlier he ap- Legion's life insurance plan during its elected Mrs. Luther D. Johnson, of Val- peared on a TV program with U. S. Sen- first 5 1 months of operation—or nearly ley, Nebraska, wife of a prominent hard- ator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota, who $25,000 a month. ... The Board of Di- ware dealer and herself a farm manage- stated that he would support the desire rectors of the Legion's Child Welfare of the Legion to create a Veterans Af- Foundation authorized grants totalling fairs Committee of the Senate. $29,500. They included: $5,000 to the Foley has been among the leaders of University of Oklahoma Medical Center the Minnesota American Legion, which to start a special research project on has produced increased membership cystic fibrosis; $2,000^—for the develop- each year for 12 straight years, and has ment of practical nursing in children's set all-time membership highs every year hospitals—to the Nat'l Ass'n for Prac- tical Nurse Education and Service; $7,500—for 25 physical therapy fellow- ships—to the Nat'l Cystic Fibrosis Re- search Foundation; $15,000—to start research in pediatric virology—to the University of Arkansas Medical Center.

. . . The American Legion Press Ass'n

Cardinal Spellman thanks the Legion for its Distinguished Service Medal.

ment specialist, as National President for 1963-64 (page 33). She was Nebraska Auxiliary President in 1953-54, and has been Nat'l chairman of the Auxiliary's Gen. Earle Wheeler, Army Chief of Staff. Rehabilitation Committee. Daniel F. Foley, of Minnesota, elected since, and including, 1957. Its 1962 year- National Commander for 1963-64, em- end total of 96,399 Legionnaires put barked on a series of 21 regional meet- Minnesota in 7th place among the 58 ings with local American Legion leaders American Legion Departments, though shortly after the convention, starting Minnesota ranks 18th among the states Gen. Gruenther speaks for the Red Cross. Sept. 25 at Butte, Montana, and to con- in population. tinue, with interruptions for other duties, Convention highlights, besides the named Warren Hanscom, Bradenton,

Fla.. its President; the Nat'l Ass'n of American Legion Dep't Historians chose Miss Ethel Matuschka, Milwaukee, Wis.,

to be its 1964 President. . . . Appearing before the Child Welfare Commission, Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, Conn., asked the Legion to support as strongly as possible his proposed bill to control youthful ad- diction to pep pills, sleeping pills, and other dangerous drugs not presently con-

trolled by the narcotics laws. . . . The American Legion of the State of Wash- ington again won the Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., Trophy for exceeding other Depart- ments in sponsorship of Boy Scouts

units. . . . The Iowa Department received the James A. Drain Trophy for its 1963

record of community service. . . . The Ralph T. O'Neil Trophy for the greatest activity in the use of American Legion School of Medal Awards went to the De-

partment of California. . . . The fifteen Departments honored at the convention exceeding their 1962 membership WHEN HE was Secretary of Defense under Pres. Truman, Past for prior to the 1 963 convention ( see p. 25 ) Nat'l Commander Louis Johnson (W . Va.) had his Pentagon were Panama Canal Zone; Canada, office bedecked ivith state has given them to the Legion. In flags. He Utah, Hawaii, Arkansas, Alabama, the convention scene above Past National Commander Paul Griffith Alaska, Maryland, Indiana, Iowa, Ver- (Pa.), who was Johnsons Ass't Defense Secretary, formally pre- mont, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South sents them, as a Legion leader from each state attends his state flag. Dakota and Oregon.

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 TEST BAN AMENDMENT

How SHOULD THE AMERICAN LEGION go On recofd regarding the test ban treaty with the Soviet Union and other nations? At the time of the convention, the

Senate was still deliberating its ratification of the treaty. Delegates to the convention were torn between the perfidious treaty-keeping record of the Soviet Union

(about 96% of all treaties it has signed it has broken), as well as the dangers

to the United States if it should be double-crossed—on the one hand; and the possibility that // the treaty were honored it could mark at least a small step Lewis, Tenn. Miller, Nev. away from the U.S. -Soviet nuclear arms race and the befouling of the atmosphere Made the Report Offered Amendment with radioactive products, as well as prevent numerous other signatory nations

Moore, Okia Snyder, Calif McKinley, N. J Korkowski, Nebr. Trovi/bridge, Conn. Wyles, III. Cusick, Pa. For Against For Against For Against For

from developing more nuclear weapons. The entire body of the convention was agreed that the Legion could not espouse

the treaty ( 1 ) if it were considered by our government to be a step toward disarmament of the United States; (2) if

it were considered by our government to be a step toward surrender of U.S. con-

trol of its own military; or (3) if we

should ratify it with any notion of cur- tailing lawful nuclear testing (under- ground) or impairing our constant readi- ness immediately to r>;sL: ~^ atmospheric testing should the treaty .5 violated. CAUCUSING ON TEST BAN. With a rollcall ordered, states caucused on floor. A special subcommittee of the conven- Left, a group gets off by itself. Right, South Carolina debate and nose-count. tion Foreign Relations Co nmittee proof the debaters are shown in action in the subject, and a recess was declared posed through its cha.nian, George the photos above, identified as being for while they caucused on the floor. Miller's Lewis, of Tennessee, lae idoption of or against Miller's amendment. At the amendment, supporting the treaty if the Res. #303 which asked that "7. the ab- end of the debate, Nat'l Commander safeguards are met. carried on the roll- sence of the foregoing safegu ds, the Powers, in the chair, could not fairly call,^ 1.922 to 1,029 with 14 votes test ban treaty should be renegotiated." judge the voice vote, and after several at- (Idaho's) not cast. The utter lack of That report touched off one of the most tempts a rollcall was requested. The dele- partisanship on the question was empha- interesting debates of the convention. gations had not anticipated a rollcall on sized when New York cast all 219 of its Thomas W. Miller, of Nevada, moved that the resolving clause be amended to PARENT BRUTALITY TO CHILDREN read that "// the foregoing safeguards have been met, The American Legion supports ratification of the test ban treaty." That was the choice: to demand renegotiation if the safeguards were not

met, or to support the treaty if the safeguards were met. The two alternatives meant almost the same thing, but one,

fearful of dangers, expressed its intent in the negative while the other, aware of the dangers but anxious for the Legion to furnish more leadership in the search for cold-war solutions, expressed the same intent in the positive. There followed one EVIDENCE o/ the brutality of some parents to their small children is of the outstanding floor debates of any shown to the Child W elfare Commission by Dr. James L. Dennis, convention of the Legion, conducted at without rancor, nearly every participant pediatrics prof The U. of Arkansas. Here a slide shoivs X-rays of obviously understanding the sincerity a small child's beaten body. The Legion is calling for laivs to pro- and the thinking of his opponents. Some vide more thorough reporting of medical eridence of such cases. THE LEGION'S NATIONAL CONVENTION - CONTINU ED

Somoza of Nicaragua LPra

The scene, and the speakers, in the Hotel Fontainebleau East Ballroom, on Sept. 8, as the Legion Foreign Relations and National Security Committees held joint hearings on Cuba policy before formulating their reports to the convention.

votes for the amendment without a floor debate, the Committee's rejection speakers and "briefers," the following:

whoop from the Hke-minded or a groan was sustained, 2,216 to 722. 1 . U.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating of from the opposition. New York; (2) John Hugh Crimmins, One other resolution went to a roil- Cuba Hearings Coordinator of Cuban Affairs for the cail during the convention, on the ques- The convention had 18 resolutions State Department; (3) former President tion of opening American Legion mem- from various states on U.S. policy in of Nicaragua Luis Somoza, and (4) bership to veterans whose service was Latin America, most of them bearing on Emilio Luis Rodriguez, a Cuban refugee during government-recognized war pe- Cuba and the Monroe Doctrine. In order active in the Cuban exile movements to riods, but not during actual hostilities. to bring the latest information to bear unseat the Castro regime. Alfonse Wells (III.), as chairman of the on their deliberations, the Foreign Rela- In a nine-part resolution (#414), the Committee on Constitutional Amend- tions and National Security Convention convention urged a series of steps which ments, read its report recommending re- Committees held the largest single com- the U.S. and Latin American nations jection of the proposal. North Dakota mittee meeting of the convention—an should take to undo the red regime in asked for a reversal of the Committee open hearing on Cuba (see photos Cuba, with direct military intervention recommendation, but after a thorough above) on Sunday, Sept. 8 with, as as the last alternative.

THE NATIONAL COMMANDER'S DINNER TO DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

s. SECRETARY of State Dean Rusk Department of State, because, he said: U. was the speaker at the top social "i am quite sure that both of us (The function of the convention—the Na- Legion and the State Department) could tional Commander's Dinner to Distin- benefit by becoming better acquainted."

guished Guests, Sept. 10. The affair Later he made it official by requesting packed the enormous ballroom of the a study of the State Department from the Hotel Fontainebleau, and ended with en- inside by an official Legion committee, tertainment by Larry Storch, Vivienne an invitation which Nat'l Cmdr Powers Delia Chiesa and the Dunhills, produced announced had been accepted. by James S. Rule, co-ordinator for the American Society of Composers, Au- thors and Publishers. Secretary Rusk, during a review of the worldwide problems faced by the State Department,

noted ( 1 ) that he is proud to be a member of the State Department's own Le- gion Post, he having worn the Army uniform for 25 years, and (2) that some of the resolutions before the convention called for an investigation of the State Jimmy Rule Department. He then proposed that The U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk as he American Legion itself investigate the Entertainment courtesy of ASCAP. spoke at the National Commander's Dinner.

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AWARDS Achievements in and out of the Legion were recognized on the convention stage. The Legion s Fourth Estate awards for leadership in journalism went to William I. Nichols, editor and publisher of "This Week"" Magazine, and James S. Copley, head of the Copley News- papers. The Pennsylvania American Legion won the 1963 Hearst Americanism Trophy and Dave Sentner, Hearst Washington Bureau chief

(hatless in photo) presented it to Pennsylvania Commander Louis Greco. A special Public Relations plaque ivent to South Carolina Legionnaire- journalist Sam Latimer, Jr. Representatives of IS Legion Departments were honored for exceeding their 1962 membership. "This Week's" Nichols Copley

Legion Departments honored forexceeding 1962 membership. Sam Latimer, Jr. Hearst Americanism Trophy to Pennsylvania. DEVOTION TO GOD

THE CONVENTION did fiot overlook the spiritual foundation of everything

that is American. Before any other general program convened, solemn Patriotic and Memorial Services (far right photo) were led by Nat'l Chaplain Rabbi Albert Shulman (Ind.), at the Eden Roc Hotel Auditorium, Sunday, Sept. 8. The full Father Keating Rabbi Shulman Special Memorial Service convention opened on Tuesday with a Benediction at opening services. at the Eden Roc Hotel. half hour of devotional exercises. Past Nat'l Chaplain Dr. Tom Clark (Okla.) Nat'l Sgt at Arms Howard Larsen bareheaded to Taps. Later, in Res. #25,

delivered the Invocation. The champion- (N. Y.) lit the convention Peace Candle. the convention called for a Constitu- ship Sioux Falls, S. D., chorus sang Past Nat'l Chaplain Father Robert Keat- tional Amendment to guarantee volun- "There Is No Death" followed by the ing (Ind.) offered the Benediction (near tary participation in religious exercises Memorial Address by Rabbi Shulman. right photo) and the delegates stood in public schools.

REPRESENTATIVES OF AMERICAN LEGION YOUTH PROGRAMS

Oxman, Schabes, Dash, Stratton, Goodfellow, Oratorical Sons of Legion Baseball Boys' Nation Boy Scouts

OUTSTANDING AMERICAN youngsters in Legion Legion; Richard A. Dash, 18, Long Beach, Calif., youth programs spoke warmly to the convention the 1963 American Legion Baseball Player of the delegates. Representing Legion youth training and Year and a member of the Little World Series Cham- citizenship programs ivere: Stephen A. Oxman, 18, pionship team sponsored by Post 27 of Long Beach, of Short Hills, N. J., 1963 winner of the Legion s Na- Calif.; Richard J. Stratton, 17, of Leland, III., Presi- tional Oratorical Contest and recipient of a $4,000.00 dent of the 1963 Boys' Nation; and Eagle Scout college scholarship; Robert J. Schabes, Jr., 17, of Steven Goodfellow, 18. selected by the Boy Scouts Miami, Fla., representing The Sons of The American from a Legion-sponsored troop in Hollidaysburg, Pa.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 25 THE LEGION'S NATIONAL C O N V E N T I O N - C O N T I N U E D

AT A LEGION CONVENTION, many ^ smaller societies of veterans hold meetings of their own on the side. At Miami Beach these included ANA- VICUS (American and Canadian vets); Legion Chaplains; Legion Historians; The Society of American Legion Founders; Women Legionnaires; Twenty & Four (another group of women Le- gionnaires); Yeomen F (WWl Navy gals); Fres (former WW2 state Legion officials); World War Nurses; Eight & Forty (an Auxiliary society), and The Sen. Martin & Gen. Schwengel.

American Legion Press Ass'n. ANA- VICUS surprised Gen. Frank R. Schwengel (N. Y.) with a special citation for his contributions to veterandom for 4 decades. Ex-Senator Edward Mar-

tin (Pa.) presented it (above). The Legion Founders named John J. Wicker Jack Wicker, Founders' President, (left) of Virginia, as 1964 President.

Alabama National Guard band serenades guests at a hotel.

SEAGRAM POSTS GIVE AWAY FORDS.

Waiting to help run off the drawing, these Seagram's gals were cheated by rain.

THE legion's SEAGRAM Posts gavc away four Ford convertibles to lucky Legion families, but when rainsqualls stretched out the finals of the Drum THE & Bugle Corps contest, the drawing ceremony, MUSIC planned for an intermission that was never held, AND was postponed until next day. The winners—drawn by Nat'l Adj't E. A. Blackmore and announced on the convention floor by Nat'l Cmdr Powers, were: MARCHING John J. Dombrek, Post 799, Buffalo, N. Y.; Donald S. Adams, Post 1006, Chicago; T. O. Reynolds, Jr., Post 86, Columbia, S. C; and Carol Ann Etling, Auxiliary Unit 37, St. Louis, Mo. Miss Etling's par- CONTESTS ents were present and drove the car home for the 17-year-old winner. Herb Evenson, Kent Tagge and Nat'l Adjutant and Seagram Ivan Gare, N. Y. Seagram Post officials, are seen at

Post officials . . . postponed. left with Nat'l Adj't Blackmore, second from left.

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 Indianapolis Police Post—Motorcycle Drill Team.

Little Bills— Double channps. Kankakee— Junior Color Guard it

i CHAMPIONS

Tramping m water, the Cabaileros of Hawthorne, N. J., show the form that again won them the Senior Drum & Bugle title.

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS had a field Rebels of Post 20, Baltimore, Md., also rium. The Junior Band, sponsored by day in the contests of uniformed wading, took third among the ten final- Los Angeles Police Post 381, had the music and marching organizations at the ists. field to itself in defending its title, as did Legion's 45th National Convention. In Earlier contests saw one major upset, the Motorcycle Drill Team of Indianap- the great American pageant that is the in which the Blessed Sacrament Golden olis Police Post 56, of Indiana. The Lit-

National Senior Drum & Bugle Corps Knights of Post 302, Newark, N. J., tle Bills, precision marching outfit of championship, held at Miami's Munici- snatched the Junior Drum & Bugle Corps Commonwealth Edison Post 118, Chi- pal Stadium, Sunday night, Sept. 8 be- championship away from the defending cago, III., extended their winning habit fore an audience of thousands, the Cab- champs, the Garfield Cadets of Post 255, by taking both the Senior Firing Squad aileros, of Post 199, Hawthorne, N. J., Garfield, N. J. and Senior Color Guard championships, stretched their string of wins to eight, In most other contests, previous cham- while the youthful Shadows of Post 85, competing among the corps which came pions did a ho-hum job of repeating. The Kankakee, 111., had their name put up on right after a heavy squall delayed great Senior Band of Harwood Post 5, again as national Junior Color Guard proceedings and left standing water on Joliet, III., extended a skein of victories titleholders. The Singing Legionnaires the field. The Skyliners of Post 1163, that goes back almost beyond the mem- of Post 15, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., took Yonkers, N. Y., marched dry, earlier, ory of mortal man, in competition at the Chorus Contest, as they have, with and came in second, while the Yankee Miami Beach's Ocean Front Audito- some interruptions, over many years.

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CONVENTION PARADE, On Sept. THE before the early downpour. But it was surprised 9, everybody. It was held one of the Legion's big, happy parades at night, began in a brief but tremendous (over 5 hours), and spectators beyond rainsquall, and had laciced the year's count packed it on both sides from end planning that usually goes into this event. to end, down Washington Avenue, across "It will be the smallest, poorest attended, Lincoln Road and up Collins Avenue, far we ever had," was the consensus, even into the night. THE BIG PARADE

SEPT. 9, 1963

A musical group from Palm Beach marches with the host Florida Department

Dan Foley, later named National Commander, led the Minnesota contingent.

These laughing gals blew bubbles, to the The Oregon group looked suspiciously as delight of the watching throngs, as they if It planned to bring umbrellas all along. rode the parade route in an open vehicle. They all had them and they were all alike.

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 The crowds, for a showery night, were surprising. Those watching this blind vet march with his dog were duplicated on both sides over the full parade route.

A Los Angeles musician and a Baltimore drum-

mer helped fill the line of march with music.

Firing squad members from Leonardo, N. J., file by. Sedley Peck, of France . . . clothes and a smile to fit the occasion.

Distant delegations didn't bring floats, but Florida provided plenty.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 23 Demonstration for Dan Foley starts after Adolph Bremer (inset) nominated him for National Commander.

DANIEL F. FOLEY, NATIONAL COMMANDER. FOLEY'S BIG FAMILY.

DANIEL F. FOLEY, 41, attorney of Wabasha, TTimself the fifth of ten children, Dan Foley has five sons. Left to right, seated Minn., new National Commander, is a XI on the convention stage are: Mrs. Dan (Ellen) Foley; Commander Foley with graduate of St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn., son Rory, 8; cousin Jack Foley (eyeglasses); son Kevin, 12, drinking pop; son Danny, and Fordham (N.Y.) Law School. He helped 17; son Tom, 15; and son Patrick, 11. Commander Foley served with the Corps of lead Minnesota to Legion's best growth record. Military Police in WW2. He followed his late father in the practice of law.

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 THE LEGION'S NATIONAL CONVENTION - CONTINU ED AT NOON. Sept. 12. the convention . elected national ofikers for 1 963- 64. Two candidates were nominated for ELECTION National Commander: Daniel F. Foley, Minn., and Joe L. Matthews, Texas. Fol- OF ey won—2,251 to 709. The tally.

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INUI III L/dK.Uld 30 5 wnio 0 119 Oklahoma 53 0 Oregon 22 6 Panama, CZ. 7 0 Pennsylvania 217 32 riJiiîff'/ûeno ixico1? 1 6 10 Rhode Island 13 5 Wright Sipple Iglesias Murphy Franklin jouin vâroiina 27 0 THE LAST OFFICIAL act of the Convention as a voting South Dakota 5 32 body was to name five National Vice Commanders Tennessee 57 2 and a National Chaplain for the ensuing Legion year. Texas 0 77 The Vice Commanders, all long-active and well- Utah 0 13 known Legionnaires, and WW2 vets, are: Harry Vermont 18 0 Wright, of Mexico City, Mexico; Emory Sipple, of Virginia 37 0 Menomonee, Wisconsin; Emilio Iglesias, of Mont- Washington 46 0 pelier, Vermont; Dr. Garland D. Murphy, Jr., of El West Virginia 33 0 Dorado, Arkansas; and Earl D. Franklin. Jr., of Ster- Wisconsin 62 18 hng, Colorado. The unanimous choices of their areas, Wyoming 15 0 and unopposed, all five were named under a suspen- sion of the rules without roll-call. By the same pro- TOTAL 2,251 709 cedure the convention elected the Rev. John J. How- * 5 votes not cast, 2 from California. ard, Episcopal minister of Phoebus, Virginia, to be 2 from Florida and 1 from New Hamp- I Chaplain Rev. Howard. National Chaplain of the Legion for 1963-64. shire.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 31 THE LEGION'S NATIONAL C O N V E N T I O N - C O N T I N U E D OFF HOURS FRIENDSHIP, good eating, swimming, sightseeing, partying offered plenty of relief from the serious convention business, as south Florida was thronged with Legionnaires and many of their families, from the hotel lobbies of Miami Beach to Key West, 156 miles away.

Strangers with something in common don't pass without stopping to chat. The Fontainebleau cabana area provides a busy scene full of fun. \

Commander Powers gets a hand while strolling through a hotel.

Mallard, Iowa, at the Seaquarium j*j The Russel Steil family of

Flamethrowers at Camp Lejeune, observed by Nat l Security Commission members who visited Marine Friends from Illinois take the sun at the Eden Roc pool. and Naval units in the South en route to Miami.

32 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 SERIOUS BUSINESS

THE 1963 NATIONAL CONVENTION adopted a total of 143 resolutions out of 557 that were proposed. Ten Convention Committees started work on the original 557 on Saturday, Sept. 7, Df;D«^ET in order to have a positive recommendation on each one ready to present when the business sessions of the convention A panel of gov't information officers took ques- first started the following Tuesday. By tions on the test ban treaty from Nat'l Security noon on Thursday the delegates had Committee members all morning, Sept. 7. acted on every recommendation. Here, and on the next two pages, is a digest of abroad not lose U.S. citizenship due to com- the 143 adopted resolutions. pulsory foreign military service. A delegate takes a breather from busi- 282. Opposes communist speakers on campuses. AMERICANISM 382. Urges strict control of mail order firearms ness in the convention hall lobby. trade. 25. Seeks Constitutional Amendment to assure 385. Urges establishment of a "Radio Free voluntary religious observance in schools. America" program in the Western Hemisphere. 37. Reaffirms Legion's position on equal rights 388. Condemns the American Nazi Party. of citizens and the definition of Americanism. 392. Urges 150th anniversary celebration in 1964 38. Urges Senate investigation of UNESCO. of composing of "Star Spangled Banner." 81. Asks Congress investigate ACLU. 464. Commends the late Francis E. Walter, Chmn, 82. Seeks Congressional investigation of Foreign House Committee on Un-American Activities. Policy Association. 510. Protests establishment of the communist- 83. Commends House Un-American Activities and infiltrated U.S. National Students Association in Senate Internal Security Committees. tax supported colleges. 84. Commends Pres. Fawcett of Ohio State U. for barring un-American speakers from campus. CHILD WELFARE 85. Urges Legion Posts promote flag education. 107. Urges the President never to lose sight of 58. Commends the Save the Children Federation, communist plans for world domination. Inc. 109. Protests granting of the $50,000 Enrico Fermi 96. Seeks laws to fix responsiiblity for beatings Award to J. Robert Oppenheimer. of children at home. 119. Urges removal of certain murals from Rincon 397. Urges law enforcement to eliminate the dis- Annex of San Francisco Post Office. semination of pornography to our youth. 121. Urges denial of passports to communists. 488. Supports reduction of school dropouts, and 124. Opposes sale of communist-made products. job training for non-college youths. 125. Commends merchants who sell only free- 538. Seeks stronger controls of the sale of dan- world manufactured merchandise. gerous drugs. 129 & 130. Urge Congressional hearings on com- 539. Urges better enforcement of laws governing munism in motion picture industry. sale of tobacco and alcohol to minors. 131. Opposes weakening American people's faith 540. Urges fullest use of any licensed vaccine in Divine Guidance. developed to combat any communicable disease. 132. Urges flag display by Legion Posts. 541. Urges school use of safety gla: ses. 133. Commends the Freedom Documents Founda- tion. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS 134. Asks Posts to honor schools that institute patriotic programs. No amendments to the Legion's Constitution were 138. Condemns appearance of Alger Hiss on adopted. ABC's 1962 Veterans Day TV program. 138. Urges defeat of laws that infringe on the ECONOMIC right to keep and bear arms. 139. Commends "The Firing Line," anti-sub- 2. Urges adequate federal funds for employment versive publication of The American Legion. services to veterans. 178. Urges creation of a Freedom Academy to 43. Endorses public education in behalf of the help Americans cope with communist techniques. handicapped seeking suitable jobs. 199. Opposes removal of words "Under God" 70. Urges that the 'VA have same authority in from Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. fixing interest rates on GI loans as the FHA Impromptu twist in a hotel lobby. 227. Opposes commercialization of Memorial Day. exercises on FHA loans. 247. Commends the FBI. 77. Calls upon the military to utilize talents of the 248. Opposes any change in the quota system handicapped in suitable jobs. under the McCarran-Vi^alter Immigration Act. 196. Opposes any efforts to weaken the present 280. Urges that sons of U.S. veterans living structure of the Veterans' Preference Act.

AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY OFFICERS FOR 1963-64.

HERE ARE THE NEW OFFICERS of the American Legion Auxiliary, elected at the 43rd Auxiliary Convention held in Miami Beach: (I. to r.) Mrs. Luther D. (Lucile) Johnson, Valley, Nebr., a farm management executive, Nat'l President; Mrs. Glenn E. Perry, St. Johnsbury, Vt., Eastern Div. vp; Mrs. Omar J. McMackin,

III., Div. vp; Woolley, Wash.. Western Dallas, Texas, made sure that every- Salem, Central Mrs. Frank S. Evans, Sedro one knew where to go next year, when Div. vp; Mrs. Dan Waite, Jr., Centre, Ala., Southern Div. vp; and Mrs. Olen Hel- it will host the National Convention. land, Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., Northwestern Div. vp.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 33 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ECONOMIC

T RIGHT are the chairmen of the ten Convention Committees that reported recommendations on all resolutions to the delegates.

Daniel O'Connor Or. G. 0. Murphy, Jr. Alfonso Wells Almo Sebastianelli New York Arkansas Illinois Pennsylvania 197. Recommends a nationwide promotion of fair opportunities for older job seekers. 286. Endorses movement in architecture to ac- 549. Seeks adequate funds for extension of spe- 60. Asks Navy to give USS Massachusetts to that commodate building designs to problems of the cialized services for older workers in state and state as a WW2 memo. ial. physically handicapped. affiliated employment services. 76. Urges action to relocate flag pole in the 361. Urges clarification of reemployment rights National Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. for probationary Federal employees who enter FINANCE 143. Commends outgoing Nat'l Cmdr Powers. military service. 146. Urges Legion Posts issue Medic-Alert em- 407. Urges that sufficient time be allowed Vet- Unnumbered: Fixes Nat'l Legion dues at $2 for blems to persons with special medical problems. erans Employment Representatives to perform 1964 (same as last year). 181. Protests Interior Department opposition to their duties in assisting veterans in obtaining expansion of Custer Battlefield Cemetery. employment. FOREIGN RELATIONS 201. Seeks postage stamp commemorating Yeo- 408. Urges creation of Federal a Veterans Em- men (F), first enlisted women of WWl. ployment Representative office in each Civil 17. Urges official reviews of the State Depart- 233. Seeks stamp commemorating the 50th Anni- Service Regional office. ment, to achieve the highest level of public versary of The American Legion in 1969. 409. Seeks extension of existing veterans prefer- confidence in it. 292. Urges inscription "In God We Trust" on stamps, legal tender, postal cards, etc. 301. Urges the Government to issue surplus M-1 rifles to veterans organizations. 371. Recommends "Service to God and Country" be new theme for former "Back to God" program. 444. Supports proposed National Cultural Cen- ter in Washington, D. C. 466. Seeks expansion of National Cemeteries. 547. Authorizes continuation of study group on The Sons of The American Legion. LEGISLATIVE

89. Seeks Senate Veterans Committee. 249. Opposes violation of Veterans Preference Act by government agencies. REHABILITATION

6. Asks that VA "medical services," include special attachments on automobiles, etc., used by severely disabled veterans. 32. Asks increased disability and death payments to Filipino vets and their dependents. 68. Urges a modified life plan of NSLI for aging term policy holders. ence in civil service jobs for mothers in cases 47. Urges an unyielding policy against com- 90. Asks that the VA, when determining annual the motherhood is where by adoption. munism. income of a person for pension eligibility, dis- 542. Supports bills to allow wrongfully dis- 53. Supports U.S. stand on Germany and Berlin. regard income received before entitlement date. charged veteran government employees to sue 65. con- Urges keeping Connolly Reservation as a 156. Opposes any plan to declare as surplus for restoration in their own district courts. dition of our participation in World Court. lands controlled by the Veterans Administration. 543. Urges additional funds for U.S. of, Employment 66. Opposes U.S. recognition and admission 191. Seeks temporary contract hospital care for Service in growth states. to the U.N. of. Communist China. eligible non-service-connected veterans when use 544. Opposes HR6812, which would make pro- 71. Opposes plan for general and complete dis- of VA hospitals is not practical. posed occupancy factor in granting a GI home armament, and any disarmament agreement 304. Urges a $100 VA burial benefit for acquiring loans. lacking enforceable inspection provisions. and securing burial sites. 545. Supports preference for veterans service- 99. to non-com- and Supports U.S. aid only certain 322. Deplores determinations by the VA which men in low-rent public housing projects. munist nations. tend to reduce the veterans' program. 546. Supports bill to relieve VA of interest pay- 112. Urges Congress to intensify and publicize 324. Asks reopening of GI insurance for 1 year ments on funds transferred from Direct Loan Fund inquiries into the situation. Cuban for qualified veterans of WW2 and Korea. to Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund. 184. relations Opposes diplomatic with red Hun- 326. Seeks payment of service-connected compen- gary. sation in proportion to the disability. 236. agreements Opposes cultural exchange with 327. Advocates exclusion of income derived from any communist country. sale of a dwelling from computation of annual 252. Supports recommendation of Clay Committee that U.S. should not aid a foreign government in establishing government owned industry in competition with private industry. 258. Opposes trade between the U.S. and any communist affiliated country. 259. Protests awarding Legion of Merit Medal to former enemy officers. 303. Supports test ban treaty with reservations (See p. 23). 335. Opposes any reduction of U.S. sovereignty over the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone. 345. Urges a Congressional investigation to determine whether it is still in the best interest of the U.S. to remain a member of the U.N. 414. Urges immediate removal of all foreign troops and technicians from Cuba, by whatever means necessary, with, if possible, the aid of all free American nations; urges aid to Cuban refugees in forming a government-in-exile. 415. Supports unrestricted international aerial reconnaissance (the "open skies" policy). 416. Urges full exposure of the communists taking two U.S. flyers prisoners in Korea. 418. Urges encouragement and assistance to the Soviet-enslaved nations of Eastern Europe. 493. Reaffirms demand for a constitutional amend- A $25,000 gift of the Pennsylvania Legion ment to prevent treaties and agreements from Auxiliary to the Legion's Child Welfare Foun- superseding the Constitution. nonaggression pact between dation is acknowledged by Foundation Presi- 496. Opposes any Support the Nat'l Cultural Center in the U.S. and the Soviet Union. dent Eldon James, Va., with a plaque to Mrs. Washington, urged Edgar Bronfman, Pres., INTERNAL AFFAIRS William F. Todd, retiring Pennsylvania Auxil- Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. And in 27. Seeks postage stamp honoring South Dakota iary President, at the Auxiliary Convention. origin of American Legion Baseball in 1925. Res. #444 the Convention did support It.

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 FOREIGN INTERNAL NATIONAL FINANCE RELATIONS AFFAIRS LEGISLATIVE SECURITY REHABILITATION

Churchill Williams Emilio Iglesias Herbert Jacobi Clarence Horton William Doyle Robert McCurdy Iowa Vermont Dist. Columbia Alabama New Jersey California income that might limit VA benefits. tronauts Major Gordon Cooper, Major Robert M. 553. Seeks a strong aeronautical educational 378. Supports HR8009, which would establish a White, and Major Robert A. Rushworth. program for U.S. youth. new program of nursing care in the VA. 523. Asks national recognition of military space 555. Urges passage of Military Pay Bill HR5555. 479. Urges suport of HR1927, the Legion's vet- mission and calls for priority on a manned 558. Endorses a strong American Merchant Ma- erans' pension reform bill. orbital space station. rine. 480. Seeks extension of disability income pro- 528. Seeks effective anti-missile weapons system. 560. Seeks integration into Army combat and visions of WW2 Gl insurance to age 65. 548. Asks Congress to pass HR8200, to extend support units of necessary air vehicles. fallout shelter program. 561. Supports Army programs for countering NATIONAL SECURITY 550. Directs the National Security Commission, communist insurgency in the free world. to report on the Gesell Report to the Fall meeting 562. Calls for continuance of accelerated pro- 21. Seeks a uniform system of military deferment of the National Executive Committee. curement of modern equipment for the Army. for medical and dental students. 551. Seeks adequate funds for U S Navy. 563. Continues support of the National Guard and Organized Reserves. 564. Calls for expansion of the U.S. Army, Army Reserves and the Army National Guard.

staff convention photos and reporting by R. n Pitkin, Al Marshall, Dean Nelson, John An(ire«ila Roy Miller and James Swartz.

VA head, and Past Nat'l Com- The job of keeping the conven- mander John S. Gleason, Jr., as tion in order was that of Nat'l he addressed the convention. Sgt. at Arms Howard Larsen, N. Y.

STEPPING DOWN. Outgoing National Commander James E. Powers, Georgia, and outgoing National Legionnaire Gov. John Reed, of Maine, spoke to the Americanism Com- Auxiliary President Mrs. OIlie Koger, Kan- mittee. Here he is introduced by Maine Adjutant James Boyle (right). sas, give the delegates a parting smile.

79. Recommends the advantages of the Army Nurse Corps Program. 80. Opposes reduction of ROTC. RECOGNITION FOR PAST NATIONAL COMMANDERS 104. Urges Legionnaires cooperate fully in local Civil Defense Programs. 117. Seeks reappraisal of civilian overriding of LIVING PaST NATIONAL COM- military decisions in the Defense Dept. EVERY 160. Urges active participation in Civil Defense. MANDER received a plaque in token of 224. Backs the President and the Dept of Defense in proposed call to active duty of military reserve his services. Alvin Owsley (Tex. 1922-23) units in Cuban emergency. 263. Seeks adequate funds for the Army National tvas the senior Past Commander present, in Guard and Armed Forces Reserves. 328. Expresses confidence in the capability of the absence of Hanford MacNider (Iowa. the Tactical Air Command. 330. Again urges the President, Congress, and 1921-22 ). All told, 28 living Past National the Dept of Defense to assure continuance of a balanced mix of manned and unmanned strategic Commanders were so honored, nearly all of weapon systems. the 331. Urges speedup of development and produc- whom tvere pr esent. The procession of tion of improved manned interceptor aircraft. recipients to the rostrum as they were hon- 334. Reaffirms support for increased benefits for Armed Forces personnel. ored summoned up an image the whole 432. Lauds Military Air Transport Service. of 438. Urges Defense Dept to build up the Military history the Legion. Previously, Past Sea Transportation Service. of 439. Seeks a U.S. Afro-Asian Fleet. Commanders had no such suitable memento. 447. Urges continuance of the Legion's Special Committee on Military Justice. Alvin Owsley, Texas. 481. Recommends suitable Legion awards to as- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 196^ 35 1

ROSCOE TURNER, FLYING'S ORIGINAL SPEED DEMON (Continued from page 17) he never railed against fate, never felt unchallenged for five years.) He also Turner. He possesses an enormous drive, jinxed, not once did he bail out. When broke the record on his return flight—ten a massive towering virility, an instinctive friends and admirers commiserated with hours five minutes. shrewdness. him on a misfortune, he replied, "I'm not 1934—Took the Thompson Trophy When he realized that age would kicking. I'm lucky I'm here. Any landing (he and Jimmy Doolittle are the only eventually bring him closer to terra I walk away from is an O.K. landing." winners of both the Bendix and the firma, he wasted no time preparing for Turner makes no claims of fearless- Thompson) and placed second in the that day. With $15,000 in cash and ness. He told me, "The fliej who says Speed Section of the MacPherson Rob- $100,000 worth of planes, he opened an he's not afraid is a liar or a fool. I used ertson International Air Race from Lon- aviation school in Indianapolis, a busi- to tense up as soon as I got near a ship don to Melbourne. ness now valued at over half a million I was about to fly. When I climbed out 1935 —Placed second in the Bendix dollars. of it after a flight my hands shook so and National Air Races. The puckish war correspondent, Ernie hard I couldn't sign autographs." Grin- 1937—Broke the American record Pyle, once wrote of him: "Roscoe is ning, he added, "I signed a lot of cards for 100 kilometers at 293 mph in the busier than a bird dog. His secretaries I'd before I took off. That way have them Thompson. never know where to find him, but I on hand afterward." 1938—Placed first in the Thompson, finally cornered him. It was the first time

setting a closed course record at 293.1 19 I had seen him without his uniform. His WORLD WAR II arrived, only WHEN mph. uniforms have always been a joke in the 100 pilots in the United States had 1939—Again awarded the Harmon flying fraternity, but he is not thin- logged as many as 10,000 flying hours; Trophy. Placed first in the Thompson skinned, neither is he dumb. He had a Turner had 12,000. He had flown more (the only three-time winner), breaking purpose in designing and wearing those than 2 million miles. He hadn't just flown his own record at 299.033 mph while duds. It xnade the public remember him. aimlessly. Briefly, here's what he'd done: qualifying for the race. Received the His uniform— and his spiked and waxed 1929—Established record flights. Henderson Trophy (America's No. 1 moustache 'They are part of my busi- New York to Los Angeles in a Lockheed speed pilot) and the Goddess of Victory ness.' " Pyle concluded, "He is the busi- transport in 20 hours 20 minutes. His Trophy, given by The American Legion, est one-man aviation industry I ever return trip used up 18 hours 30 minutes. as America's ace speed flier. saw." 1930—Broke his own coast-to-coast There is his record; a record never Shortly after Roscoe Turner moved record by three minutes. surpassed by any flier anywhere in the to Indianapolis he was motoring home 1932—Took home the Bendix Trophy world. The president of the Thompson from the airport when another driver and the Shell Speed Dash prize. Again Products Company of Cleveland wrote ran a red light, smashed into his car, and broke the New York-Los Angeles record about him: "Among those who flashed broke one of Roscoe's hips. While in 12 hours 35 minutes. around the Pylons of Progress bringing grounded in the hospital. Turner got 1933—Awarded the Harmon Trophy us to a day when we will be able to flirt many telegrams, including one from by Ligue Internationale des A viateurs as with supersonic speed, no name stands President Roosevelt, ragging him about America's 1932 premier aviator. Took higher than that of Col. Roscoe Turner." his crackup. the Bendix and Shell Speed for the sec- Eddie Rickenbacker declared, "Roscoe ond time and broke his own record for Turner has contributed more to speed in UPON America's entry into World east-to-west transcontinental flight in 1 aviation other than any man." War II, it surprised no one when hours and 30 minutes. (This record went There is an elemental quality in Roscoe Turner tried to organize a squad- ron of old-time fliers. But he was told sympathetically to stay at home and help train younger men to fly, which he did with outstanding success; his school turned out thousands of military fliers. Turner followed our aerial strategy close- ly—and he pre-guessed the military strat- egists early in the war when he wrote to Jimmy Doolittle suggesting the Tokyo air raid. After that air strike. Turner wrote what Doolittle says is the shortest letter he ever received. It contained four words and three initials, "Dear Jimmy: You s.o.b., Roscoe." Turner had wanted to be included on the mission, possibly as Doo-

little's copilot. Roscoe Turner was born in Corinth, Miss., on September 29, 1895, one of six children of farming parents. As a boy he was mechanically inclined. He tried to build a kite big enough to carry him, then he graduated to a flying machine, using some parts of an old gramaphone. Neither attempt was successful. Later, fascinated by the notion of becoming a racing driver, he started tinkering with

"Every to tine pants I give tier one of my cigars.' time she decides wear an old Ford. His father warned him, THE .AMERICAN MAGAZINE LEGION "You won't be worth shootin' if you fool

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around with things that burn gasoline the South, charging $500 to $1,000 an was converted into a German Gotha and go pop." exhibition. One Turner trick was called Bomber. One hot day, in response to Roscoe attended a country school until "Falling a Mile in Flames," which con- Hughes' yells of "fly lower, fly lower!" he reached the tenth grade. At 16 he sisted of a screaming dive billowing trails during a scene. Turner knocked the cam- ran away to Memphis, Tenn., where he of smoke from smoke pots simulating a era flat on its crank. A few weeks later, became shipping clerk for a wholesale burning plane. He formed a partnership when Turner was away, another flier grocery, met some truck drivers and, al- with a fellow aviation entrepreneur, cracked up his Sikorsky. To this day though underage, bluffed his way to a Arthur H. Starnes, and so began the Turner has never received indemnity driver's license and a job driving a five- "Death-Defying Roscoe Turner Flying from Hughes. ton ice truck. He learned about the in- Circus." The circus featured a wing- Later on he formed the Nevada Air nards of internal combustion engines walking show, including the "Swing of Line, featuring "The Alimony Special" while working as a mechanic for Packard Death," a parachute jump, and aerial flight to Reno, a service that proved pop- and later for Cadillac. acrobatics. The tab was picked up by ular with the well-known and the un- In 1913, he tried to enlist for training local merchants who bankrolled the known seeking divorces. in the infant aviation section of the Sig- circus in return for advertising tie-ins. At this time, too. Turner introduced nal Corps, but was turned down because flying to many of the big wheels in the he hadn't gone to college. When World IN THIS WAY, Roscoe advertised Curlee movie industry. (One of them, Will War I broke out he enlisted as an am- Clothes, and used his plane as a "Fly- Rogers, wouldn't enter a plane from the bulance driver with the promise of im- ing Cigar Store" for the United Cigar right side because "a cowboy always mediately being sent overseas. Once in Stores in 1925. That year he borrowed climbs on his horse from the left.") France he was transferred to the aviation more money to buy the first transport It was during this period also that a section of the Signal Corps where he was plane Igor Sikorsky built in America—an Turner experiment foreshadowed the commissioned a second lieutenant. A 18-passenger job costing $35,000. For mass airdrops of World War II supplies year later he was sent to Bordeaux for three years Roscoe conducted radio and heavy equipment by dropping an more training, then into Germany just broadcasts from the air, held pink teas airplane by parachute. as the Armistice was signed. Ironically, aloft for society women, and ferried as- On April 13, 1930, a three-week-old his first airborne experience was in an ob- sorted notables about the United States. lion cub entered Turner's life. Called servation balloon. In 1928, he went to California to work Gilmore, after the president of the Gil- After a period of Army flying duty in in the movie, "Hell's Angels," being more Oil Company which Turner was and around New York, he was dis- filmed by Howard Hughes, another publicizing at the time, he soon attracted charged at 23. Borrowing money, he rugged individualist with whom Turner sufficient attention to prompt the Hu- bought a half interest in a plane, revved didn't hit it off too well. Through the mane Society to request that Turner have it up and stunted back and forth across magic of camouflage. Turner's Sikorsky a parachute made for him. Roscoe and - For Action, Security, Big Pay -

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ROSCOE TURNER happen to you it scares you, but you can't BORROW BY MAIL! (Continued from page 37) afford to let them make you lose your Gilmore were a smash hit wherever they head." ONLY nooo went. In time, Gilmore achieved a weight In '33, Turner placed first in the Thompson. After the Borrow $100to $1000 en- SELECT LOAN HERE of 700 pounds and was grounded in the winner's wreath ^» tirely by mail! Pay all your was placed about his neck, he was es- I bills with a confidential loan CashYou 30 Monllilr Los Angeles zoo. Today, his stuffed hide from Postal; only one small Receive! Parmenti stands in Turner's trophy corted to the platform and handed the ' mon thly room wearing -payment instead of $ioo $ 5.12 many. Over 57 years of dependable a purple saddle blanket. heavy trophy. Then came a heart-break- service to people throuprhout theU.S. A. $300 15.06 State-licensed— your assurance of fair ing moment. man worked his way In the early 30's, Roscoe became pop- A rates and supervised reliability. FAST, $500 23.57 AIRMAIL SERVICE. TRY US! through the crowd and whispered into $800 35.28 ular with air-minded moppets as a sort POSTAL FINANCE CO.. Dept.22-V Turner's ear, "It's a mistake. The offi- 200 Keeline BIdg., Omaha 2,Nebr. $1000 42.92 of airborne Robin Hood in a radio serial cials say you cut a pylon. You've been show. He figured if he could interest kids, . Levitt, President AMOUNT Postal Finance Co., Dept. 22-V disqualified." Roscoe's victory smile van- I NEEDED they might support aviation when they I 200 Keeline BIdg., Omaha 2, Nebr. Rush FREE complete Loan Papers. ished^ the wreath was removed, and the I grew up. To this day, men who wear crowd turned to face the newly ac- Name two and three stars on their shoulders claimed winner. Address tell him they remember his shows, and In the 1934 Thompson, joined his radio flying club. Turner and -Zone State. Roscoe Turner has been such a demon for speed and activity that even his sleep

is restless. As a boy, while sound asleep, Be in Profitable Business, Earn he went outside his father's house and NFORMATION hitched up a team of mules to a wagon. CASH FILING SAWS In Memphis he dreamed of an air battle Make from S3 to $6 an hour in and thought he was going down in your spare time. Start saw lil- ingshop in basement orsarage. flames. Draped in a sheet he "bailed out" No experience needed to turn out perfect cutting saws with —out of a second story window into a machine accuracy of P'oley Au- toniaiic Saw Filer. Xo canvas- sing —steady year 'roimd Cash flower garden. His wife still sometimes business. Ideal for small towns. Free booklet "Money Mak- wakes up to find him poised at the foot ing Facts" —shows how to start. Easy payments. No of the bed talking to his crew or the salesman will call. Send postcard today. tower. Foley Mfg., 1139-3 Foley BIdg., Minneapolis 18, Minn. The 1929 Thompson Air Race marks the beginning of our modern air age. The faint rustle of Otto Lilienthal's wings in Germany in the 1890's and the HOW MUCH MONEY CAN YOU MAKE Wrights' at Kitty Hawk in 1903 had Dress sprouted into Glenn H. Curtis' record Selling the Only flight at 46'/2 mph in the first air races of Its Kind Shoe at Rheims, France, in 1909. Those early in the mMl speed contests soon became the testing

Amazing new exclu.tive Mason^ ground for new principles of aerody- Flex Shoe is so soft, flexible, comfortable it needsno brealnrnj namics, new fuselage and cowling de- "Bowling ball bags?" ill! h'very man an eager prospe — convincing 2-second demonstra signs, new fuels and lubricants. Most of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE tii'H wins sales fast. You can m up to $250 a month spare time all, they would show what nerveless 51 .000 inamonth full time. Just one, of over 200 fast-sellinjr Mason courage could do when combined with Davis waged a nip-and-tuck battle for styles formen anfi women. Just, write orders, collect Adtmvcel the fierce love of flight. first place until the eighth lap when Cash Profit, wedothe rest. Get FREE shoes, FREE prizes, insurance In the Thompson, pilots tackled the Davis' Weddell-Williams plane gave way at no cost. Send forFREE Selling Kit. MASON SHOE, Dept. H-918 ten-mile Cleveland course, lap after lap, and he plummeted to his death. Turner Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin at tree-top level, for 30 laps—if they went on to win at 248.129. He had made it—in the 300-mile race. The broken the Thompson jinx that thereto- Thompson Products Company offered a fore had kept victory from him, but it cup, and the annual worshipping of the was a sad victory as no one realized bet- NO NEED TO WEAR Goddess of Speed began with Doug ter than he. Davis, who won the cup with a speed of His next race—the 11,323-mile Lon- 194 mph in his Travel-Aire Mystery don to Melbourne MacPherson Robert- A TRUSS Ship. It was the first time an Army or son International—was the most gruel- Navy flyer was ever defeated by a ci- ing one in which he was ever to compete. FOR RUPTURE vilian. Doug beat the Army; Roscoe, Sir MacPherson Robertson offered a That Binds, Cuts, Gouges, coming in third, beat the Navy. prize of 10,000 pounds sterling and a Slips and Does Hold Not gold cup to the winner. If you must wear a Truss for Rupture, SOUPED up his Lockheed Vega "The sporting angle of that race ap- don't miss this. A Post Card, with name ROSCOE and address, is all you send to W. S. Rice, in California and zoomed out of the pealed to me," Turner said later. "I Inc., Dept. 8R, Adams, N. Y., to get FREE, West to the '29 races. Before leaving the wanted to compete against the best in- and without obligation, the complete mod- ernized Rice Plan of Reducible Rupture starting gate, he recalls "I was so nervous ternational pilots. I had earned the title Control. Now in daily use by thousands who that when the starter held up five fingers of American Speed King and I figured say they never dreamed possible such secure, indicating five minutes to go feet it was up to to represent the U.S.A." dependable and comfortable rupture protec- — —my me tion. Safely blocks rupture opening, pre- were shaking so I couldn't keep them on He chose a Boeing ship powered by Pratt vents escape, without need for bulky, cum- the rudder pedals. But by the time the and Whitney Wasp engines. He selected bersome Trusses, tormenting springs or harsh, gouging pad pressure. Regardless of starter got down to two fingers, I was Clyde Pangborn, who had circumnavi- how long ruptured, size, occupation, or as calm as a mill pond. When he fired his gated the globe in 1931, as his copilot trusses you have worn. TRY THIS and send your Post Card today. gun I was on my way. When those things and Reeder Nichols as his radio operator.

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To save their plane for the race they

shipped it to Europe by boat.

When King George V, Queen Mary Make your next fund drive a fast sure suc- and the Prince of Wales visited Milden- When you want cess by selling DOLLY DEERE CANDY.

hall—the airport where the race began There's nottiing to buy ! You just order the the press reported: ""Turner entertained candy and we deliver it— packed in hand- to raise money, some containers with them with acrobatics so daring he even your organization's name, insignia and picture on the front. kept royalty gasping." When your drive is over, simply ship any Pangborn finished Turner and second unsold, unopened candy back to us (freight

in the Speed Section. As the plane, the prepaid) and pay us only for what you've

"Nip and Tuck," swooped into the Mel- sold ! How can you miss? bourne airport for a perfect landing, an SWEETEST WAY TO RAISE MONEY! RAAF officer who watched commented, DO IT! 59 Dolly Deere Candy sells fast because every- "The most noticeable thing about Turner body loves It! And you have two kinds to was the speed with which he did every- choose from: the Dolly Deere Assortment of thing. He not only flies fast; he even chocolate covered nut and fruit centers; and walks fast." Almondeeres— whole rich almonds, covered After the race, a reporter for an Aus- with the most deluxe milk chocolate. You sell the Assortment for a dollar a tralian newspaper wrote: "I like Roscoe box, keep 45c. Almondeeres sell for 50c a box Turner. His masculine ego erupts in col- and bring you 23c! ored shirts, diamonds, an entourage of pet lions, an unending flow of blushless DOLLY DEERE WILL HELP! This candy swank. In a world where the theory that IS so easy to sell, and we'll make your whole campaign even easier by providing you with all men are equal now prevails almost an experienced Dolly Deere representative universally, the art of swank, open and SEND COUPON TO: to sit down with you and help you plan unashamed, is practically dead. I find it Dolly Deere Candy Company oept ALII every step of the way! Box 4830, Delaware Valley refreshingly stimulating. Showmanship is Philadelphia 24, Pa. Get the details all a gift not all who have something to show on the extra advantages Gentlemen: Please tell me more about offered by the Dolly Deere Fund-Raising off display to its best advantage without the Dolly Deere Plan.

Plan ! Remember, when you want to raise arousing public suspicion, jealousy or Name- money— let Dolly do it. Mail coupon today scorn. Swank is a subtle art. When 1 see Address- anybody carrying it ofT as well as Turner, Phone 1 am consumed by envy." Organization- The Melbourne flight left Turner $35,- City -State- DOLLY DEERE 000 in the hole, and it took him five Age (if under 21)_ years to pay off, but pay off he did. By 1935, the Thompson Trophy Race prospect of winning, but, blinded by the on the stand. Then he announced, "I had become a different sort of jinx, as a setting sun on his oily windshield, he wanted you to meet this man. My life has paper reported at the time. "Six times thought he cut a pylon. Returning to been in his hands for nine years!" the Thompson race has been flown and circle it, he slipped back and finished When the 1939 Thompson was flown, has brought violent death to four of the third. One newspaper reported, "Roscoe the world's eyes were turned upward for six winners. fifth beat the jinx by quit- A Turner of the gaudy uniform, the waxed another reason—the Luftwaffe was mating air racing. Only one carries on: moustache and cocky strut, drew a big neuvering over Europe; war had been Colonel Roscoe Turner." hand when he appeared before the mike declared two days before the race. Tur- The jinx tried to get Turner that year and declined to make excuses for his ner, cheering crowds behind him, came too, and just barely missed. He was seven failure to win. He merely said, i just to the starting line-up as a heavy favorite. miles his last " ahead on lap, apparently didn't fly it very well.' Later on, when He had learned a lot during ten years of

a sure winner, when something went it was too late, officials said Turner had racing and he and his engineers had sour in his engine. Black smoke boiled not cut the pylon. added approximately 25 mph to the out over the cockpit. He was on fire. speed of his plane. Skeptics had said that People screamed at him to bail out but PRIOR TO THIS RACE there were some his plane's air-cooled engine would never he stayed with his ship, nursing it over who weren't sure that Turner was a develop more than 600 horsepower. Tur- the trees to the airport's edge where he good sportsman. Instead, they thought of ner didn't agree with them and he went cut the burning engine and landed him as just a guy who wore loud clothes on to prove it. (In 1939 he proved to the roughly but safely. and talked big, but when he shook hands Army and Navy that a Pratt and Whit- It would have surprised no one if he with the winner, Harold Newman, and ney engine could develop more than had hopped out roaring mad, shouting said, "I'm happy to be congratulating 2,000 hp) In the '39 race he qualified at that he had had rotten luck. All he said Harold. He's one of the best pilots in 299 mph. the fastest anyone had ever after he wiped the oil out of his eyes the country, perhaps in the world," an flown a closed course. It was estimated and climbed wearily out of his smoking approving roar went up from the crowd. that he bored through the air at 350 mph plane was, "I couldn't see anything after In 1938, Roscoe paid off those who on the straightaways. His winning aver-

1 turned that last pylon, but I'm just as had gradually and reluctantly given him age was 282.436. happy as if I had good sense." Then he their respect and admiration. That year As the race officials presented him grinned. his Thompson victory was clear cut. He with the winner's floral wreath he made In 1936, Turner couldn't compete in flew the course faster than that classic a typical Turner remark, "'Make room the Thompson because he cracked up had ever been flown before. When he for the photographers. It'll be their last

his plane a week before in New Mexico, received the victory wreath he hung it chance to shoot me in the Thompson. but in 1937 he entered the race in a on the engine and kissed the propeller. Pylon racing is a young man's game. Laird-Turner plane, "'The Meteor." He He refused to address the audience until I'm 43. Besides, from now on we'll have pulled up from fifth to first with every Don Young, his mechanic, joined him another kind of race on our minds."

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 39 ROSCOE TURNER air force both in size an J performance." he doesn't live in the past. He has plans

(Continued from page 39) In a recent Legion address. Turner for the future. He still flies whenever drove his point home: "As a nation it he gets the chance, logging about 150 Turner puts a lot of time, thought and is our weakness that we dislike unpleas- hours a year. He holds a commercial rat- energy into helping The American Le- ant things, so we dismiss them from ing and is checked out in jets. He is chair- gion keep the Army. Navy and Congress our minds. One of our troubles is that man of the board of the largest inde- air minded. He accepts all invitations to we don't move until we get mad or pendent aviation sales and service or- appear before Legion conventions. On scared. If, between 1921 and 1941, we ganization in the Middle West. The March 10, 1925, Gen. Billy Mitchell had spent one billion dollars a year on Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corpora- wrote him: "All of us who know avia- air power. Hitler and Hirohito would tion of Indianapolis, which he founded tion must try to make people realize its have remained fidgety and ambitious, but in 1939. His wife is president of the importance in connection with our na- quiet! And we would have saved 360 bil- corporation, but Turner is no figurehead tional defense. We will win only when lion dollars in the cost of our wartime chairman of the board. He is very active they understand the necessity for an planes. and alert in his appetite for new aviation adequate air force." "It is not only wishful thinking, it is business ventures. folly to lull ourselves with the thought LONG AGO, Tumcr had occasion NOT that there will be no more wars. Human PERSONS have accomplished as to remember Mitchell's remarks FEW nature does not change that radically. much during their lives as Roscoe when writing to the National Command- It can be partially controlled b'.it basi- Turner. He earned the nickname "Mr. er. In his letter he said: "I am steeped in cally it's the same. An ' n:xt time, Amer- Speed," the hard way. The title of colonel the old Billy Mitchell school of thought. ica may be blotted out. Never forget, comes from the Indiana State Guard If we could have sold the idea of strong in the next struggle there won't be a and the Nevada National Guard (1929- air power to the right people at the right declaration of war anv more than there 35). He has served on the honorary staffs time we might have escaped World War was in the last one. Another thing, air of four governors, and is a lieutenant II." power is not merely military aviation, colonel in -the Civil Air Patrol. But it is "Everything Billy Mitchell said came it is civil aviation, and anything that in building and flying the world's fastest to pass," Turner told me. "In every helps flying helps air power. The more airplanes, and in showing the public World War II battle, aviation was the commercial and civil air power we have what airplanes can do. that he takes his deciding factor. Aviation has come to the easier it will be for us to expand our greatest pride. rule the world more and more, both air arm into a defensive weapon. Air In 1952 he was awarded the Distin- economically and militarily. Nations power is peace power." guished Flying Cross by an Act of with fast air transport and fast commu- Roscoe Turner once had a visitor who Congress. His citation read: "For his nication are better than halfway to reported of him that he looked out of contributions to aviation development leadership. Only recently our Presi- I own his office window and said. "When get and pioneering in speed flying." It was dent stole a march on the rest of the I can't here and look out so old come the first award given in more than 20 world by planning the building of a 2,000 over the Indianapolis airfield and hear years by an Act of Congress and one of mph transport plane which we of the I die." the engines, want to Another time the only six DFCs ever awarded by Legion have advocated for four years. he said, "I don't know what I will do Congress. Since July I960, he has served If the Legion doesn't go all out for aero- I I can't fly. the when get so old That's as consultant to the House of Repre- nautics, I you and may yet see enemy only time I'm able to relax." The man sentatives Science and Astronautics occupation troops walking up and down who used that word "relax" was one of Committee. our streets. The United States is the the first men to fly 400 mph. How does Turner, who lived aviation, largest prize the world has ever known. Now that he is 68, Roscoe Turner look at private aviation now? His out- To stay safe we must constantly main- likes to talk about his days as a barn- spoken reply is, "There's too much red tain and develop the world's number one storming aviation and racing pilot, but tape and government regulation in private aviation today. We're not only pricing ourselves out of the market in the private field, we're also about to tax ^188^ ourselves entirely out of the aviation JEEPS business!" lOOO's OF ITEMS AVAIL- As for eliminating big fast planes in ABLE Such As; Guns, favor of pushbutton, manless rocketry. Cots, Autos, Recorders, .IS^ SURPLUS Radios, Walkie-Talkies, Turner says, "The Soviets are still turn- Books, Trailers, Tools, ing out big, fast bombers. They show no SELLING FOR A SMALL Parachutes, Scooters, Amphibs, Power Plants, FRACTION OF THE ORIGINAL COST! Binoculars, Mine Detectors, Sextants, etc. sign of stopping, and whether we like it Boots $1.00 Mottress $1.50 Both Tub. . .$8.00 they're pretty smart." BUY DIRECT from the U.S. Goyernment at TREMEN- or not, Cots. $2.00 Ponchos $1.00 Ammo Box. . $ .15 DOUS SAVINGS. Eliminate the middlemon - SAVE . Fan. . . $2.00 Jackets $1.00 Batteries. .$2.00 aviation career like Turner's could BIG MONEY! Poy as LOW as 2< on the dollar or An Pots. $1.00 Arties. . .$1.00 Tool Box. . .$ .50 less. Our Difettory Government Surplus S^ies lists happen again. "We've reached an Bed. . $5.00 Bicycle $5.00 Canteens. . .$ .25 never lOO's of Army, Navy, Ait Force Government Surplus

Desk. , $1.50 Engines $5.00 Blow Torch $1.25 Depots. Many of them right in your own back yard. era of terrific speeds and jet aircraft," BUY JEEPS, sports equipment, hunting, fishing and Jocks $4.00 Ladders $1.00 Trousers. . . $1.00 photographic equipment and supplies, radio, elec- Chairs $1.00 Stove. . . $1.50 Sleep Bog. . $2.00 Turner told me. "No individual can tronic and electrical equipment, trucks, boats, air- Extro Illustrated Cotalog. 150 low priced achieve what I once did. We're living in planes. Plumbing, hardware, office equipment and popular surplus items, discount priced, supplies. Tools, machinery, furniture. We DO NOT that you can order by moil. FREE when an age of vast and enormously expensive sell jeeps or other surplus. This book tells how to ] you send $1.00 (or our surplus directory. direct. profits to FREE buy Government Surplus No dealer team efforts. In my day it was the indi- pay. With this Directory you too can moke senso- Aviation Surplus, Inc. Dept. No. 39, Box 177 tional savings on lOOO's of items Gov't, sells at Abbottstown, Penna. vidual." Even so. this aerial pioneer is low, low surplus prices. Send SI for the TODAY Enclosed is $1.00. Send Surplu s "Di rectory" and "Government Surplus Directory". still hard at work trying to advance avia- catalog. $1.00 will be refunded if not satisfied. SOME TYPICAL SURPLUS SALE PRICES: tion and promote air power through his Auto ...$78.00 Troclor $68.00 Nome activities in The American Legion. ....$5.90 Planes $366.00 Truclis $212.00 Fork-Lift $197.00 And so successful is he that many G»nero ....$8.78 Co»,presso, $9.69 Address ....$3.68 Hyd. Cyls $1.09 who've never met him say: "Keep 'em ....$ .99 Gtor 8o« $ .97 City State., flying, Roscoe." the end

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THE CONFICT IN THE PENTAGON (Continued from page 9) nously that McNamara would not toler- military initiative. In the Cuban instance, dent himself felt so deep a sense of re- ate any future military questioning of the established system of military con- sponsibility, where the Soviet reaction his judgments. trol was literally pushed aside in favor was so uncertain and potentially terrible, "Maybe," some military long-range of a committee, largely civilian in com- that the tightest kind of personal Presi- thinkers in the Pentagon began to reason, position and chaired by the President in dential grip on the controls was an in- "outright opposition isn't the best way person, which met daily during the crisis. escapable requirement. But allowing for of dealing with the McNamara phenom- It issued, through Secretary McNamara, that, was it not the duty of the Secretary enon. He's got a hard head, and what- the most detailed daily orders covering of Defense to protect the integrity of the ever impression we make is quickly off- such minute points as the exact type military chain of command in passing on set by public admiration for his courage and scope of aerial reconnaissance to be the President's orders, instead of taking and the growing notion that he's doing carried out each day. and just what steps personal charge himself? a job that has long needed doing. Let's should be taken to inspect each Soviet "Certainly, in principle," an officer turn our attention to improving commu- ship departing Cuba with a dcckload of commented. "But although the principle nications—with the Secretary himself missiles. involved has been developed from the and the whole crew of civilian analysts The responsible operational command military experience of 25 centuries, and researchers he sets such store by. was the Atlantic Command under Adm. there's just no means of communicating

Our real object ought to be to find a way Robert L. Dennison, with which officer it to McNamara so that he'll accept it. to hitch up the McNamara drive and Mr. McNamara should normally have He's simply incapable of realizing that energy to the military values that he communicated through the Joint Chiefs there can be times when the decision of doesn't yet fully accept. Let's admit that of Staff by means of a directive embody- what to do next is much better left to a analysis has some very real values and ing the President's orders. The details of three-stripe destroyer skipper standing try to get the Secretary's civilian analysts execution should have been left in Ad- on his bridge looking at a situation than to admit—as some of 'em are beginning miral Dennison's experienced and able to Bob McNamara sitting in Washington to—that it also has its limits, beyond hands, and in those of his naval task- with all the miracles of modern commu- which judgment and military experience force commanders and ship skippers nication at his service." must be relied on." a course far more efficient and far safer This "creed of skeptics New Hope," as than trying to run the show from a Wash- MILITARY OPINION is nearly unani- promptly dubbed it, has shown some ington committee room practically on an mous that McNamara's basic diffi- promise, but it has not healed all the hour-to-hour basis. culty from the first day he took office has wounds, nor allayed the deep-seated mis- The consciousness that the Secretary been just this baffling inability to com- givings, born of even deeper-seated mili- of Defense was breathing down his neck municate with professional military men. tary instincts, which torment many vet- was certainly no help to Admiral Den- He thinks fast and learns incredibly fast eran officers. nison. The constant stream of minutely in terms of facts and figures, but not in detailed orders—not always either re- terms of intangibles. He has an energy THESE MISGIVINGS REVOLVE around sponsive to a changing situation or con- and drive which have been described as two questions which bear directly on sistent with previous instructions—was "ferocious." He is impatient with an- the security of the nation. no help to the commanders who were swers to questions which are slow in com- (1) Is the development of decision- actually dealing with the situation at sea ing or which do not seem to him suffi- making machinery which is tailored to and in the air. ciently responsive or precise. the needs and capabilities of "a very It may be urged that this was a very "If you can't explain your answer, you special kind of Secretary of Defense with special instance, one in which the Presi- don't understand the problem," is one of a most unusual array of assistants" producing a defense establishment which can be readily and smoothly taken over AMAZING CIRCUS of by Mr. McNamara's successor in office? Will not the inevitable change, when it 6 GROWING ANIMALS comes, result in an interval of relative ONLY chaos which an alert enemy might well anticipate, and which (if it occurs as the result of an election) might be so pre- WATCH THEM dictable that hostile exploitation could GROW BIGGER be prepared in advance? AND BIGGER $]Q0 (2) Have over-centralization and over- RIGHT BEFORE civilianization already impaired the capa- YOUR EYES! The Secret of Growth bility of the defense establishment to Unbelievable! But it's

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 41 The Conflict in the Pentagon fully, "It's our own fault if we're in brought to bear on the incoming Presi- (Continued from page 41) trouble. Our Joint Staff-Joint Chiefs of dent to reappoint, at least for the time Staff system is the best and most reliable being, the last of President Eisenhower's his maxims. He has not disguised his setup for fighting and winning a war that three Secretaries of Defense, Thomas S. dissatisfaction with competent military the mind of man has yet devised, as the Gates, Jr. Gates in his single year of oflSce associates who have given him answers Germans and Japanese learned to their had displayed great ability and certainly drawn from the depth of their experi- cost. But in peacetime, without the prod- possessed the full confidence of the mili- ence, but who are hard pressed at times ding of a war, the system often moves tary. McNamara promised himself that to produce convincing, detailed, hot-off- slowly. McNamara is a man who can't he would prove to President Kennedy the-griddle supporting explanations that wait patiently for his answers, so he sets that no mistake had been made in the can be mathematically "quantified." his whiz-kids digging at lower echelons final decision. He, however, can hardly More and more he has tended to de- for facts and figures and alternatives, and have understood the handicap under pend on answers provided by quick- the time a finalized JCS paper gets to which he would suffer his lack of that minded civilian research analysts drawn by — his desk he already has a paper of his "visceral understanding" of military men from civilian institutions such as the bright youngsters and their motivations which was the key RAND Corporation and the Institute of own drawn up by these to Gates' close relationship and easy Defense Analyses. These are on the with more or less advice from subordi- communication with the services and the whole free-wheeling young men who re- nate military people. Because it's written Joint Chiefs, as had been the case with gard the most sacred concepts of the in the terms in which McNamara thinks Robert A. Lovett and James Forrestal in military profession with skepticism, and himself, he may like this paper better earlier times. what they are pleased to call the "mili- than the JCS production. The job that professionals have to do is to get Mc- McNamara had his own view of the tary mind" with unconcealed disdain. we — Namara to understand that there are special interests of the services "knock- ing heads together" was not his own way McNamara's favorite measuring limits to what theoretical analysis can do of putting it, but it was his concept of stick for the validity of any pro- for him, that it is only an aid to human how to deal with service differences of posal is "cost-effectiveness." He thinks in judgment and not a substitute for it." viewpoint. This view started the new terms of dollars and of figures. Ideas The new Secretary took over the De- Secretary off with a certain distrust of which don't lend themselves to those fense Department on January 21, 1961, judgments as being predomi- terms he regards with suspicion. Consid- amid a barrage of press comment—to military nantly merely pro-Army, or pro-Navy ering the enormous financial burden which this writer contributed—that as- Experience has begun which today's defense requirements im- serted with a confidence based on past or pro-Air Force. distrust, but it is still not pose on the nation's taxpayers, no Secre- experience that a brand new Secretary to erode this wholly eliminated. Combined with his tary of Defense can ignore the dollar val- with no military experience except a self-confidence, this has led uation of his decisions. There are, how- wartime hitch as a statistical officer in tremendous McNamara to insist on "finalizing" all ever, troubled military men in high Pen- the Air Force would certainly take a important decisions himself. His almost tagon assignments who believe that Mc- year or two to get the hang of his job incredible capacity for hard work en- Namara can hardly be induced to consid- and become anything like effective. abled him to make good on this resolve. er any argument which can't be evaluated McNamara was sternly resolved to will not soon forget the in dollars and figures, that he tends to dis- prove otherwise—and he was completely The writer senior miss military judgment and experience confident that he could do just that. "He distress with which a very Army officer told of McNamara's curt order as "emotion" unless it can be mathe- didn't underestimate the size of the job," re-organization of matically expressed. Also he likes fast a civilian aide remarked. "He just figured regarding ROAD— Army divisions a huge Army-wide con- answers—as one officer puts it, "he gives that he was equal to it despite its appal- — fairly well way when the impression he'd rather be rapid than ling dimensions." McNamara was also cept that was under right." But another officer admitted rue- aware that strong pressures had been McNamara took over.

"X^EFORE THIS IS APPROVED," the ScC- 1) retary snapped, "you are going to have to convince me of the need for every man, every weapon, every vehicle." The general simply could not believe that any one man could find time and energy to make decisions— in such detail and go on doing it "It just means that the decisions will actually be made by some half- baked civilian analyst or maybe a junior officer in the Secretary's office instead of being made by the Army staff." But the general wasn't quite right. Robert McNamara has managed to find the time to deal personally with the ROAD decisions as with many others equally detailed. Sometimes he does make snap judgments which he sticks to stubbornly and which are not always fortunate—as when an adviser came in with a paper suggesting that in applying the somewhat flexible ROAD concept to the National Guard, an average strength of 88 company-sized units per division might be a useful rule of thumb. —

"Whereupon," the adviser relates, functionaries of the Office of the Secre- "the trap clicked shut on me. Mac had tary of Defense have spread a little a figure, and that was it. Now no Na- farther in both directions around the E l:llliiill:H'l tional Guard division can have either Ring. It won't be too long before the more or less than 88 company units no three service Secretaries and the Chiefs of matter how much better a different num- Staff are all relegated to the inside offices You Can Now Be FREE ber might fit its mission and its local which are doubtless considered the ap- From Truss Slavery circumstances. The cardinal virtue of propriate status-symbols of their reduced Surely to ROAD—organizational flexibility— is to importance." you want THROW AWAY TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid of Rup- this extent denied the National Guard That the status of the three service ture Worries. Then Why put up with because the boss just doesn't think in Secretaries had indeed been sharply wearing a griping, chafing and unsani- terms of military values which can't be downgraded can hardly be questioned. tary truss? For there is now a modern fed into a computer." Nominally they still have some degree Non-Surgical treatment that is designed to correct rupture. These Non- Nevertheless, Secretary McNamara's of independence, as Congress always has Surgical treatments are so dependable decision-making machinery is not en- intended they should. that a Lifetime Certificate of Assur- tirely a one-man show. It couldn't be and For a service Secretary to be able to ance is given. get the work done. command the respect and loyalty of his Write today for our New FREE BOOK that gives facts that may save own service, he must be able to cham- you painful, expensive surgery. Tells THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY of De- pion the views and objectives of that HOW and Explains WHY NON-SUR- fense has grown and grown as more service with some effect. He must not GICAL Methods of Treating Rupture and more people are required to feed pa- merely be a transmission belt for carry- are so successful today. Write today Dept. H-1144. pers, information, and computerized data ing out the wishes of the Secretary of Excelsior Medical Clinic, Excelsior Springs, Mo. into the McNamara personal-decision Defense. mill. A graphic illustration of what this McNamara's first Secretaries of the 16mm Sound Motion Pictures on may mean is presented by Col. William Army and the Navy (Elvis J. Stahr and SPORTS • TRAVEL • AMERICAN R. Kintner in the Naval Review—two John B. Connally, Jr.) have both left the \ PROBLEMS and CHALLENGES > charts contrasting the organization of the Pentagon because they could not stom- FOR FREE LOAN to your club. j Defense Department (Gates model) on ach the downgrading of their historic For a complimentary catalog of available films with descriptions, write to: • January 1. 1961, and (McNamara offices. Mr. Stahr has subsequently ex- MODERN FILM SERVICE, Inc. ! model) in March 1961. In both charts, pressed anxiety lest "the leadership of Dept. 40, 3 E. 54th St., New York 22, N.Y. ^ the Secretary of Defense is at the top of the military services might become stul- the pyramid. There all similarity ends. tified and its identities and initiative lost

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The Conflict in the Pentagon value of these processes within prudent (Continued from page 43) limits, is there not a point beyond which proposed expenditure, there must be a military judgment and instinct, born of experience, must be given priority? If MEN PAST40 proven benefit; and for every benefit, we do have another war of limited the cost must be measured and all pos- even Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, sible alternatives examined to determine dimensions, it is from the military chiefs that the Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, whether the same result can be attained nation will expect the decisions that will victory Nervousness, Tiredness. by expanding existing programs or in mean or defeat. A system of peacetime decision-making in If you are a victim of any of the some other less expensive way. Show me which military judgment and initiative above symptoms, your trouble may the benefit; show me the cost; and show are consistently subordinated to financial be due to Glandular Inflammation me the proof." and housekeeping considerations is hard- a constitutional disease for which it ly a system which develops a healthy in- is futile for sufferers to try to treat UNDER SUCH A SYSTEM it is far easier themselves. to wash out existing projects while terplay of initiative and responsibility between civilian and military leaders. Neglect of such inflammation may still in the development stage than it is to cause men to loose their vigor, grow initiate new projects and keep them alive This is one of those rather rare situa- tions in which compromise could provide old prematurely . . . and often leads until they reach the stage of actual pro- to incurable conditions. duction of military hardware. Few in- a happy solution. The rather significant deed are the military novelties that the success already achieved by military of- NONSUMWAL TRBATMim McNamara regime has produced so far; ficers on duty in the Pentagon in im- but its path is well marked by the tomb- proving communications and restoring Most men, if treatment is taken in time, can be successfully non- stones of projects which have become the mutual confidence between military and surgically treated for Glandular In- victims of cost-efTectiveness—at times civilian personnel at what may be called flammation. If the condition is against a substantial weight of military the second and third echelons of decision aggravated by lack of treatment, sur- opposition. has already been noted. But the top level

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 45 lure to the correct distance, and he could locate weed beds, bars, etc. A bucket with an improvised glass bottom, immersed half- ROD 6r>GUM way below the surface so the angler can see CLUB down through the glass, is the usual device for looking down into the water. But Jerry Silk of Overland Park, Kans., has a ready- made solution. He uses a skindiver's mask The Deer Family and he simply leans over the side of his boat with his head partly under water.

BETTER RIFLE SCOPES are now being Of almost 100 species of deer throughout panions for a system of calls to be used offered by Bausch and Lomb; not only the world, the American varieties carry the should one of you become lost. Three shots better but cheaper. They're so rugged that largest and most majestic antlers. fired in rapid succession with a single an- salesmen in demonstrations have used them Antlers of the Eastern white-tail and swering shot is the usual arrangement. to drive nails into pine planks. There are the Western mule deer often appear on the walls But a crow call is simpler, saves ammo and 21/2X Baltur-A and 4X Balfor-A for of hunting lodges because these species are works just as well. $49.50, also two nice variables: one IVi to the most numerous, but moose, elk, and 5X and the other IVi to 8X. These last are caribou are also deer, according to biolo- NEED A STOVE for your duck blind, "zoom" designs, producing all magnifica- gists, and their huge racks are rare trophies. tent or trailer? Morsan Tent Co. of Param- tions between their limits. Neither reticule Like cattle, all deer are "ruminants," or us, N. J., is selling a really hot one for $21. size nor point-of-aim changes during ad- cud-chewers. Each has an extra stomach. Called Heat-Pal, it's spillproof, leakproof justment. The food stored there is later coughed up and explosion-proof, burns inexpensive de- CHEST OF DRAWERS, miniature style, and chewed like a cow chews her cud. But natured alcohol (IVi pints per 20 hours) in which anglers can store their flies, sinkers, unlike cattle, deer are browsers, not grazers. and produces as much as 3600 BTU's of hooks, etc., is the suggestion of Mrs. F. W. They feed on live growth such as shoots, heat per hour. Its secret is a patented burner Roseberg of Isle, Minn. She uses a number bark, plants and berries. that burns the alcohol in a series of gas-like of empty kjtchen match boxes glued to- The American moose, called elk in Eu- flames. Folded, it's only 9x9 inches. Weight gether. A 12-drawer chest has three rows rope, is the largest deer in the world. Its is 6 lbs. each four boxes high. Labels can be glued antlers are flattened into wide "'palms" IT WASN'T LONG before anglers to the front of each drawer; snap fasteners rimmed with many points, and those of a found a new use for the snap-tops serve as drawer handles. 1,500-pound bull might weigh 60 pounds on beer cans. George Gafric of Washington, Pa., is the with a spread of six feet. The American elk DON'T THROW AWAY your empty first to send in his suggestion. He makes is more correctly called by its Shawnee In- lemon-juice containers, those plastic yellow dian name, "wapiti." The bull has rounded squeeze-bottle gadgets shaped like lemons, many-tined antlers that reach five feet in says Jim Moore of Gallon, Ohio. He knows spread. Both male and female caribou have other uses for them besides holding juice. antlers and these are most unique. They When hung from a tree limb on strings, sweep forward over the head and one tine they'll sharpen your shooting eye with a .22. spreads down in front of the face to form Filled with machine oil one of them makes a vertical palm, or "shovel," which the ani- a dripless, unmessy oiler for your fishing mal uses to dig under the snow for moss. reels, guns, etc. They also make good fish- Each year the males of all deer species ing bobbers. (and the female caribou) shed their antlers and grow new ones. Even the bull moose fishing lures out of the snap-tops. They're HOW FAR do your shotgun pellets travel? Their maximum range is easy to fig- sheds and regrows its 60-pound headdress. shaped just right, he says; all they need is ure the trick. In shells hav- Hunters seldom find shedded antlers in the a hole at each end, one for a split-ring to when you know ing woods. Rodents, especially porcupines, eat take the line and the other for a split-ring equal powder charges, the range depends them. to take the hook. You can bend them so primarily on the diameter of the pellets; the All deer have poor eyesight but keen they'll dart, spin or dive. larger sizes have more momentum and so senses of smell and hearing. For the hunter travel farther. First find the diameter by who realizes these facts, stalking these ani- WHEN GAME BIRDS are being pointed subtracting the shot No. from 17, and by a hunting dog, they usually mark ofl" two decimal places. Thus with mals is not difficult. It is necessary to avoid hide motion- sudden movements and unnatural sounds less in the brush until the shooter walks up No. 6 shot, for example: 17 — 6=.ll. To such as metallic ones and the rhythmic to flush them. But pheasants often won't find the maximum range of express loads, play 2,200. 6 plodding of feet in dry leaves, and to stay the game fair; they'll run instead of multiply this number by With No. downwind so the air currents can't carry fly, frustrating both dog and hunter. Paul shot this is: .1 1x2,200=242 yards. For No. man-scent to the deer's sharp nose. Brey of Ontario, Wis., has a remedy. Since 8 shot it's 198 yds., 176 yds. for No. 9, etc. all birds are instinctively Stalking is aided by the insatiable curios- afraid of hawks, AN OUTBOARD MOTOR is safe on the ity of all deer species. An unusual sight or he carries a hawk call and when his dog is stern of your fishing boat when the latter is sound intrigues them and they are com- on a hot scent he blows it and the birds hold in the water but not when the boat is being in one spot as though frozen. pelled to identify it. Often they will walk bumped along the highway on a trailer be- right up to a motionless hunter they can't SOME TIME AGO this magazine ran an hind your car. The motor's weight can jar scent. Frequently they will circle downwind article deploring the highway toll of wildlife loose the transom, might even pull it off. to catch his scent. taken by speeding cars. Here's an interesting Best place for transporting the motor is in Deer can be called to the hunter, also. statistic just released by the Pennsylvania your car trunk. And to keep it from being During the fall mating season, the call must Game Commission: the highway kill of deer knocked around on rough roads, recom- imitate the "bellow" of a bull moose or the in that state during the first six months of mends Wilfred Beaver of Chicago, III., rest "bugle" of a bull elk; these are challenges 1963 was 4,560! The number for the same it on a half-inflated inner tube of a tire. to battle. Any unusual sound, even the period last year was 3,742; 9,544 for the squeak of a rabbit, will arouse the curios- If you have a helpful idea for this fea- entire year. Remember to drive carefully at ity of a white-tail or mule deer. ture send it along. If we can use it we'll "deer crossings." For your own sake as well pay you $5.00. However, we are unable as the deer's. LOST HUNTERS will number in the to acknowledge contributions, return thousands again this year. But Eric Flaherty WHAT'S DOWN BELOW? 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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING A WILL (Continued from page 15)^

one-half of an estate, bequest to charity is tax deducti- A. Well, up to wife is taken care of during her lifetime? Q. A spouse, escapes tax. is from a man's estate when given to your A. Then you may set up a trust. Your ble, isn't it? That Q. What about state estate taxes? wife will get the income from your prop- tax after his death? entirely. But more impor- A. Each state, with the exception of Ne- erty and, on her death, you can stipulate A. Yes it is, consideration is the chance vada, has them. Your lawyer can tell you that your children get the property. In tant than that of this sort gives you to declare what they are in your particular state. this case, you would need to name a a bequest the source of real meaning $60,000 exemption is a pretty trustee. Or. you can consider a gift for for all times Q. That life. In this way, you can express big sum. A lot of us, I guess, don't have life. That way, you can give your prop- in your appreciation to individuals and in- to worry about as far as taxes are erty, or even part of it. to your wife and your much part they may have had when she dies the property will go to stitutions for the concerned. in enriching your life. A. Don't let the figure mislead you. I'll \ our children. your readers who have never Q. There doesn't seem to be much dif- Q. Such as? bet a lot of help the their assets would be very ference between the two—trusts and A. Churches, organizations to added up all ill, orphans. Take your if they did to see how quickly gifts for life. blind, mentally surprised American Legion, for instance. their estate can reach the $60,000 level. A. But there is. A trust will give your own familiar with the consider the value of the wife or whomever you name an income Your readers are You have to work, such as the Endowment property distributed by your will and, for life. A gift for life usually involves Legion's your National Re- property owned jointly with use of property—a house, say, which, on Fund which makes in addition, and Child Welfare proceeds of life insurance pol- the death of your wife or beneficiary, habilitation program another, possible. The Legion's good the value of your survivor's future and at your willed instructions, is turned Foundation icies, on is well known by everyone. And on receipts from an annuity or pension over to someone else—your children work level, the individual posts do you and your survivors are joint or, perhaps an organization. the local which of excellent work in their com- beneficiaries.- Some people who think of Q. What happens when your property a lot munities. I'm sure if anyone were to con- themselves as having only modest means decreases after you've made a will? sider either in his will, the bequest would come close to $60,000 with just their A. If your bequests are specific ones, good use. homes and life insurance. then you should look over your estate be put to should, however, consult with the Considering everything you've said periodically and adjust your will accord- You Q. will can and any other charity you are so far, it seems that making a ingly. Or. you can state that distribution Legion considering. Some states have laws lim- get rather involved. be on a percentage basis. Actually. I iting the amount that can be willed to A. Not when you have a lawyer to assist don't think it's always best to make spe- it's a a church or charity over the objections you—and that's the only way. But cific bequests. I know of a case in which of close relatives. good idea to make a memo of your per- a man distributed his $100,000 estate hard? sonal affairs, what you own and where by giving $5,000 to three cousins, $5,000 Q. Do taxes hit an estate him, and necessarily. Any amount up to you have it, before visiting to a charity and the remainder to his A. Not extra specifically exempt, and while you're at it, make a couple of wife. When he died, he was worth only $60,000 is deduction," as which you can give to your wife $35,000. Yet. his cousins got their there's also a "marital copies' for losses while the and your executor. And review and up- $5,000. the charity got its $5,000. but well as deductions settled; debts and mort- date the memo at least once a year. his wife got only $15,000. If he had estate is being administration ex- Is it necessary to have an executor? used the percentage basis, giving his gages; funeral and Q. mentioned before, gifts Very definitely. Someone has to ad- cousins and the charity 5% each and his penses and, as we A. represent you, so to church and charity. minister your estate— wife the remaining 80% , she would have deduction?" speak. received $28,000. Q. What is a "marital to Q. How should you go about choosing one? A. Obviously, you want a person you have confidence in and who has the capabilities to do what you would like to have done. It's a good idea to ask him beforehand whether he will accept the responsibility. You can, of course, save the executor's fee by naming your wife or an adult son or daughter. die? Q. What if your executor should A. Then a choice would be up to the court. Usually, they name your closest relative, who may or may not be the person you would want, so be prepared for that eventuality by naming an alternate executor in your will. Q. What's the relationship or the difference between an executor and a trustee? A. You could liken the two to custodian and manager. Your executor collects your assets, pays your debts and turns over the remaining assets to your trustee who manages the property. He will in- the best of things." "I'll say this for Tilford, he tries to make vest, reinvest and manage the property THE AMERICAN LEGION MACAZI.VE (Continued on page 50)

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WRITING A WILL up to the court if you don't name an al- NEW IMPROVED (Continued from page 48) ternate, and the court is not always suc- as long as it's in trust. When the trust cessful in choosing the person you would terminates, he will turn over the trust consider best. principal to the person or institution you Q. It would seem the best thing then, is designate in your will. for your wife to have a will, also. Q. When you name a trustee, then, he A. Yes, even if she owns no property. should be in the legal or financial field? Where your children are concerned, mat- A. Either would certainly help. How- ters should not be left to chance. For a child to left the ever, if you have a small trust, you can be alone with possibility Better than ever taste! of being taken into the custody of an un- name someone—an adult, of course—in kind, unsympathetic guardian would be Better than ever relief! your family, but do so only if the in- a grave misfortune. Nothing works like TUMS! vestment problems are simple. This may have pointed out also save the trustee's fee, but, all things Q. You many problems that can arise from not having a will. Is considered, certainly if the estate is large,

I think it's best to name a disinterested expert. A trust company or a bank. Trusts can continue for years and this way you'll have continuity of management. Otherwise, if your trustee dies and the court has to appoint a successor, each successor will receive a full trustee's commission. Q. What does a trustee's commission usually amount to? A. It varies according to your com- I'M GIVING TO THE munity and with the size of the estate. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Q. Trusts and trustees often seem to THIS YEAR. conjure up an image of cold, unap- proachable buildings where only the wealthy feel at home. A. That's pretty ridiculous. If they ap-

pear somber, well, it's a somber business, not to be taken lightly. Trust companies and banks are prepared to do as well by a small trust as by a multimillion-dollar trust. And besides, you direct the trustee in your will as to your wishes. You can

give him as much or as little discretion "What's it going to be? Turkey or meat loaf?" THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE MAYBE SOME YEAR as you choose in using your principal for the support of your beneficiaries. IT WON'T BE NECESSARY. Q. Trust funds are very often set up in there a particular classic case arising the name or names of a man's children. from the lack of a will? Suppose you choose not to set up a trust. A. There are many, but they don't vary You wouldn't need a trustee then, but much except for the individuals involved what assurance would you have that your —well-known people, extremely wealthy children would be provided for? people, those you read about in the pa- A. If you don't want to set up a trust, pers. Their cases are not very different you can leave them property or cash from the less newsworthy. The wrangling

and then appoint a guardian to manage is no less complicated, the bitterness is Th/s spoce confribufed hy the publisher their legacy until they are of age. no less bitter, the children, where there Q. And who should that person be? are children, are no less unhappy, the A. Actually, if you wish, you can name disappointments are no easier to take. Shrinks Hemorrhoids two guardians—a guardian for your All of us have at one time or another child's property, who should be a person heard of such cases, and they should New Way Without Surgery who will conserve and wisely manage the serve to demonstrate in no uncertain property, and a guardian of the child, terms the real need to arrange for dis- Stops Itch -Relieves Pain himself. This must be your wife, since position of our property by a will. deprive of her natural a quote by a Surro- For the first time science has found a you cannot her Let me read you new healing substance with the astonishing right of personal guardianship. gate whose experience has given him an ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve wife doesn't survive knowledge of the many head- pain — without surgery. Q. Suppose your intimate In case after case, while gently relieving you? aches that result from the lack of a will. pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. A. Then, of course, you appoint a guard- It expresses my feelings precisely and I Most amazing of all — results were so thorough that sufferers made astonishing ian for the children. Naturally, you want can't think of a better way to bring to statements like "Piles have ceased to be a to choose the person best qualified to act your readers' attention the importance problem! in- The secret is a new healing substance as a parent to your children. It is best, of having a will: "I believe the best (Bio-Dyne®) — discovery of a world-famous in any case, for you and your wife to surance anyone can leave those he loves research institute. alternate guardian. If is a lawyer-drawn will, kept up to This substance is now available in sup- consider an you good, pository or ointment form under the name both were to die in a common disaster, date. It's a simple act of decency." Preparation H®. Ask for it at all drug counters. then a choice of guardian would be left THE END

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ONE WAY TO RAISE YOUR BOWLING AVERAGE (Continued from page 13)- EAR NOISES one or more pins or even a split, tiiough onlya helpful realization of what the most relieved! it hits fairly well in the strike pocket. likely difference is between his many . . . thousands reported relief from years Instead of a ball that goes easily down good deliveries and his many poor ones. Wonderful of suffering from miserable the line which the bowler intends, it may On the other hand, a correct under- ear noi-ses and i)oor hearing caused by catarrhal (e.xcess be pulled out of its course by the bowler's standing of a vital point in timing may fluid mucus) conditions of the head. For the past 2'i hand during the follow-through. not help others to improve their execu- years that'.s what folks (many repoi'ted after using our tion of it. Once you get to the foul line past 70) Palliative HOME TREATMENT. OPPOSITE is more apt to happen if THK it is usually too late to control the timing. TO WEAR. SOME of the symptoms likely to deafness ear noises the bowler not interrupt the final go with your catarrhal and ; does The timing of the delivery of a ball is mucus dropping in nose or throat every day ;

ball until it ; hear better pendulum swing of the has determined by what happens on the first hear — but don't understand words on clear days — wor.se on bad days ; ear noises reached the hottoin of its downswing and and subsequent steps of the approach. So like crickets, bells or others. Write TODAY for PROOF OF RELIEF and is about to start up. The bowler now ap- a bowler who needs additional instruc- .•HO DAY TRIAI/ OFFER. Pay only if helped. plies his in front follow-through of him, tion in order to learn how to apply his THE ELMO CO., Dept. 4AL2, Madrid, Iowa instead of beside him; the desirable lift follow-through late will find the most SIROIL GUARANTEES is ball easy and natural; dropping the fruitful field for practice to lie in the execution of his first step and the pushaway PSORIASIS of the ball as he starts the approach. The RELIEF ball is pushed toward the pins, easily, OR YOUR MONEY BACK while the first step is taken at the same Siroil works . . . we guarantee if or money time, and that step is no more than an back. Siroil stops the itching, removes embarrassing scales and crusts, and it's easy half-step. easy to use. Millions of bottles of Siroil have been sold. Get Siroil today at all drug stores. The photos of Bill Lillard, which ac- company this article, give a clear idea Laboratories Inc. Dept. AL-29, Santa Monica, Calif. the the half-step that iroil of pushaway and Please send me your new Free booklet on PSORIASIS. I

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advertisers. All products are sold with a money-back Cordless Electric Super-Shiner-$498 Makes shoe-polishing quick and easy! Takes of buffing... it's automatic! guarantee. When ordering, please allow a reason- the puffing out Powered by standard batteries ( available anywhere.) the highspeed revolving brush buffs able amount of time for handling and shipping. leather to gleaming lustre in whizz-time. Com- pact design has a handy hang-up hook. Great for home, travel or office use. Guaranteed or your money back! ELECTRIC SPEED-SHINE, only S4.98 postage paid. Sunset House, 475 Sunset BuiWing, Beverly Hills, California.

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THE AfVIERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 53 THOUSANDS LEGION POSTSOF and other fraternal groups SAVE MONEY

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 55 PLEASE REPLACE TURF March to November It's always the same- PARTING Some are biu divotees Of the game. MiNMi Him \Ioodv

COCKTAIL PARTY Where alcohol removes the veneer SHOTS from the furniture and the guests. Dan BiNNEir

MOUSETRAPPED "Two bits to date mc with Marie,"

The tackle begged his friend . , . He got his quarter l)ack, for she Was faithfid to the cndl

H aroi I) Wil l \ui) Cii I AS()\

CASTE SYSTEM PROBLEM Reformers are usually members of the meddle class. Jack Hirhiri

KITCHEN CHRONICLE Vox \ears his molhti diti'd and toastcil, Parboiled, grated, miiKcd and ro,islt\l. She whipped and [)iitcil, pareil and steamed. And sifleil, basted, kneaded, creamed In fact she's simmering now, because' Her dauglut-M-in-law just sits and tliaws

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NOSTALGIA "That's a chair, Sir!" An old-timer is one who remembers when girls who had nothing to wear stayed home.

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SPLITTING PERSONALITY UNIMPEACHABLE SOURCES A harassed housewife called on a psychiatrist with an unusual complaint. Statistics: about and aneni em "Doctor," she wailed, "my husband thinks he's Moses." This Expert can quote each percenluni. The analyst suggested patience and reassured her that her husband's And you caiuiot find llaivs imagining of power and greatness was oidy a passing phase. In his ligures because "I do hope so," sigiied the woman. "But in the meantime, how can If he can't dig em up. he'll invent 'em.

" I keep him from parting the water in the tub when I'm taking a bath? BiRroN Braitn Jim Hlnr\ SPIKED SPARK Sooner or later every firebrand RELUCTANT HERO makes an ash out of himself. When a sudden storm blew up at sea a young woman, leaning W'Ai.r SiRi u.iiiu r against the ship's rail, lost her balance and was thrown overboard. Immediately another figure plunged into the waves beside her and held her up until a lifeboat rescued them. To everyone's astonishment, the hero was the oldest man on the voyage. That evening he was given a party in honour of his bravery. "Speech! Speech!" the other passengers cried. The old man rose slowly and looked around at the admiring group. "There's just one thing I'd like to know," he said testily. "Who pushed me?" K. H. R. S1MK.IN

LOST OPPORTUNITY A young minister had just returned from delivering a sermon at a larger churcli to which he hoped to be called.

"How was your sermon? " his wife asked.

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' gi\e, or the one I delivered so brilliantly on the way home in the car? V. D. Palat

DIET TALK During one of those suburban house gatherings the discussion got around to overweight and dieting. The hostess, a rather buxom woman, said she could not understand why she was so heavy. "I'm a very light eater, you know," she sighed. "Yes," her added, soon as it's light, start eating." husband "as you 'I don't care how far traffic is backed up. Josi i>H Salaic Nobody is sawing his horns off!"

56 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1963 Enclosed find my contribution to the American ...ARE YOUR BUSINESS Legion Child Welfare Foundation. You have a responsibility to the youth of America, 70 million strong, for they are the strength and the Please send a brochure that tells more about sinew of tomorrow. how my contribution will help build a better Today we are making every cent count toward reducing the social and physical ills of youth through America through research and development. research and development. Projects of the Foundation include efforts tO: curb delinquency, educate mentally retarded children and children with speech disorders, provide facilities for the preservation of sight, and determine causes of physical disorders such as cystic fibrosis. NAME- Won't you help these efforts with your check?

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