The American Legion Magazine [Volume 57, No. 5 (November 1954)]

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Contents for November, 1954 Cover by Tony Kokinos

HE COULDN'T GET OFF THE GROUND (fiction) by Donovan Fitzpatrick 11 THEN HE FOUND HIMSELF WALKING ON AIR.

HOW TO PICK A DOCTOR by Tom Mahoney 14 FINDING A MAN WHO MAY SOMEDAY SAVE YOUR LIFE.

WILL CHILE BE NEXT? by William Wells 16 THE REDS ARE MUCH IN EVIDENCE HERE TOO.

THE MAN FROM LAS CRUCES by Joseph C. Keeley 18 THE STORY OF OUR NEW NATIONAL COMMANDER.

DUCK BLIND STRATEGY by Ray Trullinger 20 TIPS FOR LATE FALL HUNTERS.

MAKE IT LOOK GOOD by Robert Scharff 22 TRADE SECRETS FOR HOME CRAFTSMEN.

THERE . . ARE TOO MANY CARS FOR OUR COURTS by Caroline Bird . 24 JUSTICE IS STALLED IN TRAFFIC.

GIVE THE SPEAKER A BREAK! by Will A. Foster 26 A POOR SPEECH CAN BE YOUR FAULT.

-BECAUSE ALCOHOL DRIES MV NEWS OF THE LEGION 29 HAIR— MAKES IT HARD TO COMB" r r . Features SO I USE WILDROOTCREAM-0IL. IT'S NON-ALCOHOLIC.':'' SOUND OFF! 4 PRODUCTS PARADE .. . 8 ROD AND GUN CLUB 40 EDITOR'S CORNER 6 NEWSLETTER 27 PARTING SHOTS .... 64

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SORRY, NOT ANGRY idly by while the commies proceed to take over our country right before POWER! Sir: I have just read Robert Andel- their very eyes. son's or Else in article You Conform Clarice A. Larkin the August issue condemning the Uni- Mount Morris, N. Y. versity of Chicago. I attended the Uni-

versity. I hold two degrees from it. I TAKE IT OFF! served three years at sea. I would go to sea again for this country against Sir: I am a WW2 member of The any enemy it may have. I am not American Legion and I would like to angry with Mr. Andelson. I simply point out one of the little things with

feel sorry that he is so thrown off bal- which Legionnaires seem to irk ance by the academic climate of the people. Even a uniformed member of University. That climate demands that the armed services does not wear his all issues be thrashed out in the open, hat indoors, especially in a restaurant, with all sides aired. Yes, there are some nightclub, theater or railroad dining

left-wingers on the campus. I have car, and being a Legionnaire is no ex- argued with them heatedly and often. cuse for doing so, nor does it carry But these left-wingers are not subver- the right to disregard the ordinary sives who menace this country. What rules of politeness, courtesy and good these left-wingers do is set out a view- manners. point that conflicts with the majority R. Collier opinion. I have yet to see an un-Ameri- Milwaukee, Wise. can idea triumph at the University of Chicago. POINTS TO "FALSE STEP" John R. Williams Sir: On a recent TV program Youth Palm Bench, Fla. Wants to Know, I thought the an- nouncer said the program was "spon- PENNZOIL sored by The American Legion." Maybe I'm wrong, I hope so. Other- wise it will look like the first false step the Legion has made in years. It was announced as a completely unre- hearsed program, yet the youngsters all read their questions prepared in l ALL GOOD FELLOWS advance. Those about McCarthy were viciously slanted; there was not a fair ' Sir: You are anxious to find out how many former Junior Legion boys be- one among them. Noonan UNLOCKS came topnotchcrs. I played Legion ball J. many years ago here in Yonkers and Altoona, Wise.

can probably name some men who are T Youth Wants to Knozv is produced today topnotchers, as you call them. by Theodore Granik in cooperation HORSEPOWER But in my estimation all the fellows I with the National Broadcasting System played with, and against, are top- and the National Public Relations Di- • ENDS WINTER SLUDGE PROBLEMS notchers. By that I mean they are good vision of The American Legion. On substantial American citizens, enjoy- each broadcast the following statement • STARTS FAST! PROLONGS BATTERY LIFE! ing a full life as fathers to their fami- is made. "The questions you have just lies and working hard at whatever heard asked by the youngsters are en- • STOPS VALVE LIFTER RUSTING! their profession or vocation may be. tirely their own and do not necessarily James Malcolm reflect the opinions of The American • ELIMINATES VALVE NOISE! Yonkers, N. Y. Legion, Youth Wants to Knou> or the NO EXTRA COST! National Broadcasting Company." THANKS FOR DIPPER Editors

Sir: Let me congratulate you for print- SEWED UP, SIGNED UP ing and Mutual Broadcasting System for airing An Eye on the Dipper. It Sir: Can you top this? Recently, while is encouraging to know the author a patient for major surgery with spinal realizes the danger of communist in- block treatment, Herb E. Wilson, filtration and subversion which exists charter member of Paul H. Hughcy today in so many communities. Per- Post 25, signed up for 1955 the surgeon, Lubrica haps the piece will give the American during the operation. The new mem- people a jolt, a jolt they need ber of Hughey Post is Dr. Thomas ©1964. The Pennzoil Co., which J. Member Penn. Grade Crude Oil Assn.. Peri badly. Too many people are standing Hancock, of the staff of Fayette

4 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 County Memorial Hospital of this city. Herb eats, sleeps and even talks the Legion during trying times, and annually brings in his share of new members. Thomas H. Craig, Jr. Washington Court House, Ohio

A NOT K Sir: I was very pleased to read the in- Bierfa formative article by Tom Mahoney entitled How Good Are Your Eyes? in your July issue. Vision, one of our most precious senses, is often neglected and articles such as Mr. Mahoney 's certainly prove enlightening to all. Wonder if anyone called your attention to the misprint on page 56, to wit: "Dr. George Wald of Harvard discovered vitamin K in these rods (referring to the retina) and established

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Sir: Merely an observation — there is approximately one communist in our country for each boy left dead in Korea! Anne M. Spinner Floral Park, N. Y.

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Sir: In the article Yon Conform or Else reference is made to Students for America, a loyal group combating communists through chapters at some 100 universities and high schools of the nation. Might interest Legionnaires that the founder of Students for America, P.O. Box 2124, Hollywood 28, Calif., is Robert Munger, 1947 Hoosier Boys State Attorney General, and later West Coast Oratorical Champion. Luther F. Meyer Fort Wayne, hid. Want easier shaves? More comfortable soft work for any blade — keeps blades shaves? Closer, long-lasting shaves? sharp longer! Then you want one of the 3 great PROVE IT— AT OUR RISK! Mennen Shave Creams — Lather, Brush- Buy a tube of Mennen Shave Cream to- less, or Lather Menthol-Iced. No other day. Test how many good shaves you get shave creams give you such shaving com- per blade. If you don't get more good fort — and this big bonus: they actually shaves per blade with Mennen than you make razor blades last longer! are getting now, mail us the unused por- Even the best razor blades get dull tion of the tube — we'll refund your GOODS BY MAIL quick if they must cut tough, unsoftened money in full. Sir: The article Money by Mail in whiskers. But the special beard-softening THE your September issue reminds me that action of Mennen Shave Creams makes MENNEN CO., MORRISTOWN, N.J. I have felt obligated for some time to

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MASTER PLAN WE ARE indebted to Joe Jenkins, immediate Past Department Com- mander of Florida, for an interesting doc- ument he obtained from State Attorney George A. Brautigam. This is an official "Blind Man's" Bluff Communist Party "Rules for Revolution," which gives a pretty graphic picture of what we see happening all about us to-

day. Here it is, verbatim: You know how Handy Turner down A. Corrupt the young, get tnem aw ay at the hardware store goes in for from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their weird advertising stunts. Well, when ruggedness. Get control of all means of publicity it came to plugging his new Venetian B. and thereby:

blind department, his enthusiasm 1. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on ath- nearly landed him in trouble. letics, sexy books and plays and other Handy painted a warning on the trivialities. 2. Divide the people into hostile groups tailboard of his truck: "Caution— by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance. blind man driving." 3. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up "Had driven a mile," about Handy to contempt, ridicule and obloquy. says, "when a state trooper stopped 4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as me and told me that sign might be possible. misunderstood and cause trouble. 5. By encouraging government extrav- agance, destroy its credit, produce fear Guess he was right. From now on I'll of inflation with rising prices and general advertise in the Clarion." discontent. 6. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital and From where I sit, I agree—the industries, encourage civil disorders foster a lenient and soft attitude on the highway is no place for jokes. We all part of government toward such disorders. ought to be considerate of the other 7. By specious argument cause the fellow when we're driving. In fact, breakdown of the old moral virtues, hon- esty, sobriety, continence, faith in the let's respect our neighbor's right of pledged word, ruggedness. way always. Then, when we have C. Cause the registration of all fire- arms on some pretext, w ith a view to differences of opinion—say about the confiscating them and leaving the population helpless. best route to Centerville, or whether

beer or butterm ilk is better with lunch WHAT COUNTRY IS NEXT? —there will be less chance anybody of YOU may be sure the busybodies in the not given up in developing any "blind" spots. Kremlin have Latin America just because they have had a setback in Guatemala. The question is, what country is likely to be next on their priority list? Direct from Chile comes the report you will find on page 16 which indicates that

that country is rapidly boiling up into another Guatemala. Confirming what William Wells describes, the New York Times recently published a piece by their reporter Sam Pope Brew er, with the following conclusion: Copyright 1954, United States Brewers Foundation "Reliable Chilean sources say the com-

^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 munists are stronger among school teach- ers, writers and artists than in labor DON'T BE PUSHED AROUND THIS WINTER! unions. They cannot dominate labor's vote but they can influence the thinking of the whole country." That's precisely what we've been saying all along about communist infiltration — at home and abroad. The reds usually get little aid and comfort from the work- ingman; they find their allies among those who don't have callouses on their hands.

Also, it is hard to understand w hy so many newspapers readily accept the fact that communists in other countries try to influence public thinking as Brewer describes, but refuse to admit that the reds operate in precisely the same way here in the United States.

WHAT'LL THEY DO? SOME TIME AGO we published an article Why You Buy Books That Sell Communism which told how certain newspapers and magazines were able to manipulate the book publishing industry through their book reviews. The article showed how these publications, seeming- ly as a matter of policy, favored authors plugging the commie line and either ig- Your car will start fast with patented nored or bitterly opposed authors who attacked communists or communist skul- duggery. FIVE-RIB CHAMPION SPARK PLUGS! Since then we have published other material showing how this system operates to the detriment of the American Whatever the weather . . . just touch the starter and your full- people. The most recent article on this firing Champion Spark Plugs go to work! subject Who Are The Censors? appeared Champion's exclusive five-rib insulator design protects you in our July issue. against electrical "flash-over" due to dampness—a major cause The reason we mention all this is be- of hard starting. cause during November an unusual book Compare a FIVE-RIB Champion with an ordinary spark plug will be placed on sale, The Untold Story and you'll see why. of Douglas MacArthur. It is by the well Champion's insulating surface is greater because of its ribbed known Frazier Hunt, and the publisher construction. Exterior electricity is diverted and spent before it is Devin-Adair. The price, incidentally, can short out a damp plug. Tests prove this gives you as much as is $5.00. forty percent more protection than smooth insulator types under it is no secret that Now General /Mac- the same conditions. Arthur is not held in high regard in cer- Get the jump on winter now. Let your Champion dealer tain publishing circles, so it will be in- install a set of five-rib Champions when your car has its winter teresting to see what happens when they change-over. get around to reviewing this book about You'll get going—and get where you're going—with Champions! him. We don't think it's the kind of book that can be ignored, nor can it be tossed CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY, TOLEDO 1, OHIO aside as "a political tract," a term used in certain reviewing circles to describe a book whose views arc distasteful to them. But whether readers are urged to buy a book friendly to this great American pa- X triot is what we want to sec. Watch along with us for the reviews of The Untold Story of Douglas Mac- Arthur. It'll be interesting to sec which way the chips fall. As for publications like The Nation and The New Republic, it's a foregone conclusion what they'll do about it.

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These are the presidents of the companies in the Bell System. They all started in the ranks.

Seventeen years ago the Bell System first published

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^t. "You think it'll ^^rk, doc?" The^-ay-bearded man sHnjgged. ''^Hg can Yours is avk^ unusual case, my%)y. But you%ave nothing to lose, havew>u?" "No," Dudley sighed. He stood vip and reached for

lis hat. "I'll try it, docTrh^lesperate." the office and dro^^wiftly across trie (jueens- je and out upon Long Island, w here Tie came at length t^e West Hills AirportM^udley left tnKcar and inspected the set-up with considerable misgiving: West Hills was a small, private field with turf runways and a couple of hangars. Between the hangars w as two-story structure with an outside stairway lead second floor. A sign read: OfficeMJ^stairs. Michaf Hi ri.i;v, Manager. This, Dudley decided, was his desti-

i nation, but u^ fH®i,4 thought of climbing the star him to tremble violent There was a sound from above. A big man with a re "y face and no hair appeared in a w indo\v^*egajding Duidley amiably. "Are you Mr. Hurley?" Dudley called up "The same. What's on your mind, lad?" "I— want to learn to fly," Dudley said. "Not strange," Hurley said. "Come up and we'll talk it over." ****»»^

"Well, you see, I—" Dudley began, when a girl ap? peared in the window beside Hurley. She was fair of face and figure and Dudley, enchanted, forgot his afflic- tion. right up," he "Be said i^ecklessl\ , and bounded up

the stairs. He got to the eighth step before it hit him. Deep in the subconscious, wheels began to turn and gears to mesh. He stumbled, stopped. His legs shook and his face paled. He whirled and leaped to the ground. "

anything to do with the feeling. r "W hat you need is a mind mechanic,"

r Hurley said kindl\ . "I've been to a mental doctor," Dud- ley said. "He diagnosed my trouble as

a kind of delayed shock— I almost fell off a building last week. The doctor

suggested that I take flying lessons, on

the theory that when I learn to control He opened his eyes, felt an airplane—become master of the up- his pulse, wiggled his toes. per air, so to speak— it might get rid of the trouble. Do you follow me?" "Barely," Hurley said. "Who's your psychiatrist's psychiatrist? They were joined at this point by a young man with dark glasses and a scant>' mustache, whom Hurley introduced as Grover Forbes, the other flight (continued) instructor. Hurley briefed Grover on || E COULDN'T OFF THE GROUND the situation. "Nonsense," Grover said immediately, eying Dudley coldly. "We don't want any neurotics around here." Hurley* and the girl watched in aston- Dudley and shook her head. "Oh, my!" In spite of his fear of high places,

ishment. "What's the trouble, son?" "That's right," he said unhappily. Dudley felt his temper rise. "This is Hurley asked. "I've had it three days. Can't bear to get just a temporary aberration," he pro- "I've got a problem," Dudley gasped. off the ground. I'm an architect and it's tested. "Flying may cure it." "You'll have to come down." ruining my business. My offices are on "Rubbish," Grover said. He went up Hurley left the window and came the thirty-fourth floor of the Empire the stairs to the office.

lumbering down the stairs, followed by State Building and 1 can't get within Dudley turned to Elizabeth. "I'd like the girl. He introduced her as Eliza- thirty-three floors of the place. It's ter- to put myself in your hands, Liz—aero-

beth Ives, one of the flight instructors. rible. If Mr. Elingwood hears about it, naurically speaking. When can I have "Hello, Elizabeth," Dudley said. "Do he'll never give me the contract." the first lesson?"

you mind if I call you Liz?" He was by "Who's Elingwood?" Elizabeth "Well, we might try an orientation

this time sufficiently recovered to note wanted to know. flight, to see if you could take it with-

that she was constructed along sound "A big department store tycoon," out falling apart. How about it, Mike?" architectural principles, with such added Dudley said. "He's going to build a new Hurley deliberated. "I guess there's decorative assets as sea-green eyes and store in New York. I submitted my de- no harm in it."

hair the exact color of sandstone. signs a couple of months ago, but I cer- Dudley walked with Elizabeth across Hurley said, "What happened on the tainly couldn't supervise the construc- the field to the hangar line. The strange stairs— stumble?" tion in my condition." feeling of serenity was still upon him, "No," Dudley admitted. "Acropho- Suddenly he was aware, as he stood and he inspected Elizabeth with all the bia." close to Elizabeth, that he felt strangely enthusiasm he usually reserved for blue- "Acrophobia," Elizabeth said. "Mor- calm. He looked at her with even prints. "I'll bet you're the prettiest air- bid fear of high places." She stared at greater interest, wondering if she had plane driver in the country, Liz."

12 ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT of Eliza- "Look, Dudley," Elizabeth said. "In He entertained dark thoughts eating popcorn in the interests of aerial safety, if nothing E'izabcth looked at him wide-eyed. beth and Grover ?" far-away movie, Grover laughing else, our relationship must remain strict- "You mean — I — some merrily. This was naturally followed by ly on a student-instructor basis." Dudley nodded solemnly. "Liz, you're thoughts of Mr. Elingwood, who was "You sound like the Gallant Birdman," it. When I'm with you, I'm not afraid looking for another architect not Dudley said. "Are you engaged?" of height. We must have an affinity or and min- "Grover? No, not really. We date a something." laughing. But they arrived only ten utes late, and Dudley forgot his fears at lot, though." "Well, I'll be darned. My psychology Elizabeth. green "Good," Dudley said. "Is this airplane professor at Wellesley never told us sight of She wore a evening dress and an orchid in her hair safe? It looks awfully small." about anything like this." "Guaranteed, or your money refund- The phone rang. Dudley's office was and looked lovely. Grover wore tails ed," Elizabeth said. "Hop in." calling. He listened attentively, hung up, and looked mad. She taxied onto the runway and groaned, and slumped into a chair. Fur- On the twentieth floor the Moon- filled with dignified punched the throttle. The little yellow rows appeared on his brow. Light Room was swaying to the music of an plane lifted its tail and skimmed down "Bad news?" Grover asked. couples the field. Dudley closed his eyes and Dudley sagged deeper in the chair. orchestra in red coats. The glass canopy rolled a view waited for a full dose of the screamies. "Mr. Elingwood is in town and wants was back, and splendid Nothing happened. He opened his me to meet him for dinner tonight." He of Manhattan was available for the eyes. They were three hundred feet in exhaled heavily. "It looks like I'm going looking, plus a slight cover charge, but his and the air, climbing in a wide circle. Cau- to get the contract, all right." Dudley kept eyes lowered fol- tiously he felt his pulse, wiggled his toes. "Fine," Grover said. "You'd better stayed close to Elizabeth as they the to the table Mr. He felt fine. hurry." lowed waiter where "Liz," he yelled above the engine. "It "There's a slight difficulty," Dudley Elingw ood was already w aiting. worked. I'm cured." said, turning to Elizabeth. "He left T. S. Elingwood was small but well- padded, with three chins and a great "Are you sure, Dudley? I remember word for me to meet him at the Moon- department stores. Dudley intro- my psychology professor at Welleslcy Light Room. Do you know where that many " ; duced the others as his "associates." El- saying that the disintegration of the per- is Elizabeth. sonality, following a severe traumatic- "Sure," Elizabeth said. "In the Shcl- ingwood beamed at Through- shock -" borne Hotel. Central Park South." out dinner he tried to hold one of her table, but unsuccess- "I probably had a fast re-reaction," "More correctly, on the Shclborne hands under the reasons, was Dudley said. "Let's go down." Hotel," Dudley said. "Twenty stories fully; Dudley, for medical one, she had to "You're paying for a half-hour's fly- up." He regarded Elizabeth specula- holding the other and have something to eat with. ing time," Elizabeth said. "You still have tively. a meal, twenty-five minutes left." "Well, really," Grover said. "Tell him The tycoon ate tremendous and Grover "I'd like to fly around with you for you prefer to meet him some place else. as did Elizabeth. For Dudley with appalling slow- twenty-five years," Dudley said, "but In a subway. Or Macy's basement. Tell the dinner passed waiter cleared the I'm behind in my architecting. Besides, him you're stricken with acrophobia." ness, but finally the to the there may be word from Mr. Eling- "I can't do that," Dudley said. "He table anci Elingwood got down wood." wouldn't have any faith in my ability business of the evening. "Like your designs, young man," he They met Grover at the bottom of to build his store if he thought I had energetically, unzipping a brief-case the stairs and Elizabeth told him the a mental quirk." He looked hopefully at said the happy tidings. Grover looked com- Elizabeth. and spreading Dudley's plans on table. "Now, I'm ready to accept these pletely baffled: "Craziest thing I ever "See here," Grover said, jumping to as they are, except for one item we heard of." his feet. "If you think Elizabeth is going fault, understand "Goodby, Liz," Dudley said softly. to chaperone you tonight, you're crazier overlooked. Not your — I forgot to tell you about it." He watched her walk away with than I thought you were." that Elingwood wanted a Grover, out of his life forever. Sighing, "Oh, why not, Grover?" Elizabeth It seemed he turned said penthouse on the roof of the store. "I'll and bounded up the stairs, suddenly. "We were only going to j be spending a lot of time in New York eager to pay Hurley and be off to Man- the movies." j I know." hattan. "I don't want to spend an evening- after open, you ." . . Dudley said, frown- This time he got almost to the top watching you play nursemaid to this "Hmmm Jp professionally. bent over the step, but the screamies came as before. mental misfit," Grover said heatedly. ing He sf#> drawings, sketched busily. "Hmmm He paled, shuddered, vibrated. Glassy- "Besides, it's a western picture."

. . . . something like this . . solid eyed, he uttered a howl of anguish and "That does it," Elizabeth said. "Any-

wall of windows here . . . fireplace leaped for the solid ground. way, I certain feel a responsibility to ."

here . . . terrace . . Elizabeth and Grover rushed back. Dudley. In a way, he's my problem; I later Elingwood Hurley clumped down from the office. can't forget that." Ten minutes vigorously. "Lad, it's the devil himself that's got "I could," Grover said gloomily. nodded you," Hurley said. Dudley, bent over "Very easily." "By George, that's the and gasping for breath, was inclined to ticket. Capital. All right, man, I'm agree. well scrubbed and nattily attired in a young Elizabeth put a sympathetic hand on dinner jacket, Dudley paced the lobby (Cont'd on page 51) his shoulder. "Gee, Dudley, I'm sorry. of the Shelborne in a nervous twitter.

I thought you had it licked." At her touch, Dudley straightened up. The beautiful feeling of calm passed over him like a wave. He stared at Eliza- beth. "It's true," he croaked. He took her by the hand and started up rhe stairs. Up they went, until they reached the top and entered the office. How to Pick

You may live longer and feel better

if you find the right physician.

By TOM MAHONEY

that it's better to know one physician well than to know ten physicians. It bachelor girl hanging drapes one couldn't have happened to her if she family doc- Sunday fell and broke her wrist. had the number of her own A Blinded by pain, she dragged her- tor crayoned across the cover of her if in self to the telephone, opened the red- telephone book, or she had lived book with her good hand, and dialed one of the 666 counties whose medical the number of the doctor whose name societies have a special number for appeared on the top of several columns emergency calls. Incidentally, I've no- of physicians and surgeons. ticed that the people who complain they can't get a doctor are just the ones "Doctor is away for the week end," the trouble to a crisp answering service responded. who have never taken The next answering service coolly make one doctor their own." made her spell her name and address The appalling fact is that half the population is in the same boat with the aggrieved lady. Too many of us have

One way to get started is to no regular family physician. Thanks to get names and check them later. the medical tradition of service, cases like the broken wrist are rare. A doctor

hours after it was broken her wrist was is usually found for these medical or- set. The girl later recounted her diffi- phans and there is only an outside culties in a letter which the New York chance that the man who answers the Herald Tribune published. call will be an out-and-out imposter, a

When I read it, I asked a doctor quack, or a gross incompetent. In most

friend whether it could possibly be true. cases, he will simply be the licensed

"I'm afraid it can," he said. "There's no physician who is nearest or who hap- excuse for the treatment she received, pens to be free at the moment—and

but it just goes to prove the old adage neither circumstance is necessarily a recommendation. It is luck indeed, and luck beyond deserving, if he turns out to be the wise and sympathetic friend a frightened human being instinctively Your county medical society can give wants. you leads which will prove helpful. Your doctor is literally the most important friend you can have. The day before promising to relay the inquiry will come when your very life depends "in case the doctor should call in." on his skill, his integrity, and most im- In terror now, as well as agony, the portant, your confidence in him. For patient staggered into the street and got the latest word in medicine is the re- a cab to rush her to the nearest hospi- discovery, through psychoanalysis, of tal. There a receptionist regretted that what the horsc-and-buggy doctor knew nothing could be done until Monday, instinctively— that patients are healed as when the hospital's bone specialist and much through their relationship with its x-ray technician would be on duty, the doctor as they are by the truly from a public booth in the hos- wonderful drugs and procedures which pital lobby, the by now tearful girl have earned medicine the right to call managed to telephone a friend who sent Another good source of information itself a science as well as an art. his own doctor to her rescue. Three is your neighborhood druggist. You want a doctor in whom you and

14 house in Passaic County, New Jersey, asked the milk company salesman and a brush company salesman who called a on her to recommend a doctor. Follow- Doctor the ing example of the local medical society, each of these visitors gave her three names. She simply chose the doctor who happened to be mentioned by both—and is very happy with him, too. So many people choose their doctors from the classified section of the phone book that doctors whose names begin with A are said to have an alphabetical advantage in building a practice.

Nothing is more patently absurd than the reasons patients give for their choice. They will like a doctor because

he is young and must be "up on all the

new things," because he is old enough to have lots of experience, because he pulled the neighbor's baby through the measles (there is no real medical treatment for the measles!), because he charges less than the other doctor, because he belongs to the golf club, lives

next door, or is "so nice." It's a real question whether any lay-

man can do much better. After all, the

only judge of a doctor is another doctor—and they are honor-bound not to discuss each other with the laity most I

You can size up a doctor by having him give you a physical examination.

your relatives have confidence. The late not be his doctor." Dr. Harvey dishing, world-famous If the doctor is himself the brain surgeon, once spoke of this re- medicine, you certainly want quirement of a doctor in these words: a hand in choosing him. "This requires on his part an under- That's what the American standing of human nature, abounding Medical Association means

unselfishness, unflagging sympathy, and when it fights for "free choice observance of the Golden Rule. It calls of physicians." The trouble

for the exercise of that sort of benevo- is that patients seldom use the lent common sense in the handling of limited amount of choice many domestic problems-, not always most of them have. Most

relating to ill health, which so often people, doctors say, are likely makes the general practitioner an in- to show more intelligence, dispensable familiar in those households judgment, and circumspec- that have learned to accept him as a tion in choosing their vacuum A doctor's waiting room and his nurse provide trusted confidant and adviser." cleaner, whiskey or lipstick clues. But note especially the kind of patients. As Dr. Martin Gumpert, the noted than they do in selecting a authority on aging, points out, a good doctor. Some patients have doctor "can perform for us the role of baseless prejudices against young doc- personally involved. W ithin profession- an objective conscience which views us tors or women doctors, though one of al circles, however, they are constantly with detachment and pronounces a ver- these may be as competent as any avail- appraising each other for skill, integrity, dict uninfluenced by the self-pity and able for the case. and a mysterious medical intuition in wishful thinking that invariably colors Just look at what people do. A diagnosis. Their criticisms of each other our own thinking. He can reveal to us woman in New York City obtained the would surprise you. wherein we are strong, where wrong name of a friend's doctor and set out Patients become dissatisfied with a and weak, and often he can predict to call on him during his office hours doctor who "doesn't seem to know when and how our critical periods will but went into another doctor's office by what's wrong"— particularly if he passes

arise. . . . The doctor usually knows mistake. She liked the looks of the them on to specialists or subjects them the patient better than the spouse knows place, stayed on for a consultation, and to uncomfortable tests which make the patient, and if he does not, he should has been his contented patient ever them feel like guinea pigs sacrificed to PHOTOS BY DONATO LEO since. A woman moving into a new (Continued on page 59) 15 WILL CHILE BE NEXT ?

Communism has reached the point in Chile where

the anti-communists are having a hard time.

Demonstrating in behalf of the red leaders of Guatemala, these Chileans burned the U. S. flag in Santiago last June. By WILLIAM WELLS

The communists are far from through in Latin America. Their defeat in Guate- mala has only given them new impetus in other American republics. Moscow's agents are busily at work today trying to discredit the United States, to disrupt inter- hemisphere cooperation and good neighbor relations, and to make the Marxist doctrine replace democratic institutions. Recent developments in Chile are a striking example of the communists at work. The most sensational show of force of the Chilean communists came at the moment the newspapers and radios were announcing the victorious march of Col. Castillo Armas and the downfall of the red-dominated Arbenz regime in Guatemala: They won headlines and a propaganda victory by publicly burning the American flag in the principal square of Chile's capital, Santiago. Many other headlines are in the making unless something is done soon to check the spreading influence of the communists in

HI L Pablo Neruda Clotario Blest

Two of the major trouble-makers, held in high esteem by the communists.

Latin America. Here's how the reds are paving the way for another Guatemala in Chile.

Although their party is officially outlawed, the Chilean communists and fellow travelers are active in Congress, working under such banners as "The People's Front," "Popular Socialist Party," "Doctrinaire Radicals" and other splinter groups of Chile's two dozen political parties. Labor unions, in the cities and in the mines, are 16 thrown out by the Guatemalan people, these Chilean student bodies joined with the labor groups and quickly took up the call from Moscow. Mass meetings, street parades and public demonstrations of hate were organized. To stage these meetings and parades the communist organizations sought and got governmental clearance! The Minister of Interior, General Abdon Parra, although no fellow traveler himself, personally gave the go-ahead signal, the results of which proved to be just short of disastrous to Chilean-U.S. relations.

Once having secured official clearance, if not Riot and strike headquarters is the Workers' Center in Santiago. approval, the communist labor and student leaders called out their members without the slightest pretext of having a referendum, or getting rank-and-file approval. The under their domination. On the univer- "Centro Unico de Trabajadores" response was far from overwhelming, sity campuses the communists are open- (Workers' Center), which is a loose but it takes only a few well-organized, ly active in student organizations and affiliation of many local unions. At the well-drilled members of the inner "cultural" programs. Their newspaper head of the Centro Unico de Trabaja- core to perform the assigned task. El Sigh, w ith its splashy red ink head- dores is Sehor Qotario Blest, a militant So parades were staged in the down- lines, is on nationwide sale. Through communist whose May 1st address this town streets of Santiago with banners party members and red agents a large year was so extreme in its criticism of the proclaiming, "Chile, Yes; and vocal group of sympathizers has Chilean government that he was thrown United States, NO!" "Yankis Get Out," "Don't Make been formed. All of them were ready in jail as a fomentor of rebellion. Blest, Guatemala Another Korea" and a for the Guatemalan crisis with an anti- first comrade of the workers, gave the "Be Good Chilean — Shoot a Yankee." First U.S. campaign unequaled in the history word to the various union leaders that call that all the groups made was to the of Chile. it was time for action. Word was passed downtown Guatemala The magic word "intervention" was down the line and the workers were Embassy, where the demonstrators sang the national played to the hilt. Always ready to called out. At no level was a vote taken; anthem and shouted work against anything and with any- neither unions nor workers were con- up words of praise to the Arbenz diplomatic staff. one, the communists hit a responsive sulted. The whole thing was rigged by With good reason chord in their disclaimer against "for- the communist labor leaders. did the commies make the Guatemalan eign interference" in Guatemala, "for- Equally important to and active in Embassy their first stop, for inside was Jose Alvarez, eign" of course including any influence the "cause" are the vociferous and polit- ex-President of Guatemala, the Arbenz save that from behind the iron curtain. ically active university student organi- Ambassador to Chile and number one Many Chileans of all political and social zations. It is sometimes hard for us to communist organizer in South America. hues were dubious, skeptical and even realize the immense political importance Alvarez is considered to be one of the critical of the purported role that the of students in Latin American politics. most dangerous personalities on the United States had played in the ouster The communists have not overlooked continent. (Even though he has now- this tightly knit, energetic group of po- lost his diplomatic status, he is still free tential supporters, who during riots, to continue to work in Chile for his demonstrations and protest meetings Moscow masters.) join with the red labor unions to parade After the pep rallies at the Guate- the streets, giving voice and violence to malan Embassy, the street rioters went the latest ukases of their leftist leaders. on to more serious work, signaling out So when the first bold communist ex- the United States Cultural Institute and periment in this hemisphere was being (Continued on page 56)

Willard Carlos Ibanez Beaulac del Campo Fighting against communism, they are up against adverse economics.

of the Arbenz group. But it was the communists who made themselves the leaders of this band, the beaters of the big drums and the blowers of the bugles. In their efforts to stir up anti-U.S. sentiment they called out two of their most successful front organizations for street demonstrations. On the labor front they turned to the Copper is the key industry and lately copper has been in a slump. 17 THE MAN FROM LAS CRUCES

Seaborn P. Collins, the Legion's new

National Commander, likes to tackle

big jobs and Jots of them.

By JOSEPH C. KEELEY

western Paul Bunyan, the fabled woodsman who could step over moun- tains and do other wondrous things. Yet, the more you look into Seaborn Post 10 is housed in a building that the Collins' background the better you Commander recognized understand the things his neighbors as a very good buy. say about him. Since the new head of The Ameri- can Legion is Texas-born, from May- belle, now a part of Abilene, it is per- The legionnaire standing outside Post 10 haps natural to find that he's a strapping at Las Cruces, New A4exico, rubbed his six-feet-three and weighs 210 pounds. And, chin thoughtfully. further fitting the popular conception of a

"Of course I only know Seaborn Collins native Texan, he's easy-going and informal,

from what I've seen him do here. But 1 11 tell till he gets down to business. Then he is

you this, mister. Unless I miss my guess, it's what can best be described as a forceful going to be a bigger and better American character or powerful personality. Those Legion a year from now. Down here we who have heard him speak know exactly know what Seaborn can do, and he can do what we mean. an awful lot in one year." However, the best way to understand That sort of expression was pretty com- what Las Crucens say about Seaborn Collins Taken forty years ago, this mon in our new National Commander's is to look at some of the things he has done. picture shows young Seaborn home town. Some of it went even further, Take the matter of education. It has long with his parents at the par- portraying Collins in the role of a south- been axiomatic that a boy or girl who is able sonage of his father's church. 18 to work his way through college has w hat it Three years of this and he got a job purely takes to be a success in life. And that is true. in the Paul Bunyan tradition. He became But Seaborn Collins went somewhat further manager of the C. C. Slaughter estate, one than that. His father, a Presbyterian minister, of the four biggest ranches in Texas, w ith couldn't afford to put his three children 118,000 acres spread over several counties. through college, so Seaborn, being the oldest Flying with the Commander over this far- —he's now 42— undertook to give his brother James and his sister Sarah a college education while putting himself through Daniel Baker

BUSINESS LIFE Mouses need lumber, so he opened a lumber yard and a builders supply store.

One thing leading to another, he weiti inlo (he business of building roads.

Two of the hundreds of buildings constructed b\ reac hing domain of oil tions, from Vermont to Georgia, with Seaborn Collins since he made Las Cruces his home. wells, mesquite, cattle a side trip to Tennessee. and cotton, he re- Just as his flying helped make him "1 marked: used to National Commander, it also made him College, at Brownwood, Texas. He did travel this on horseback and I've cov- eligible lor American Legion member- this by running a cafe. ered every single acre you see down ship. World War II w as not long under But that wasn't his first experience there." way when, in l°42, Collins became a at earning a living. When he was in That would seem to be a full-time !li;_:iir instructor at Fort Sill, and later

high school he worked at such man- job for anyone, but Seaborn did a bit it Jacksonville, Texas. This was a civil- size chores as laying pipe in the oil more. He bought a 3900-acre ranch ad- ian billet but he donned a uniform as fields and laboring for the local gas joining the Slaughter holdings and ran soon as they'd let him, and as Flight company. that while taking care of his employ- Officer drew an assignment ferrying "I was young but big and strong for er's 118,000 acres of farm and ranch C-47s from Long Beach, California, to my age, so I was able to do it," he ex- land. However, to facilitate matters he Australia. When the war ended he was plained. took up flying. In order to take care in the China-Burma-India Theater, fly- Getting his B.S. from Daniel Baker, of business matters in such scattered ing between Dumdum Airport, Cal- now incorporated into Howard Payne points as Dallas, Lubbock and Amarillo cutta, and Karachi and New Delhi. University, Collins went with a gov- he bought a Piper Cub. This was the The turning point in Collins' career

ernment agency that is now the Farm first of six planes he has owned, the came because his father-in-law, George

Security Administration. His job was present one being a four-place Navion R. Quesenberry, of I .as Cruces, wanted

to handle farm and ranch loans and he that gets him around the country at a to go fishing. Known throughout the set a record for putting money out, by fast 140 miles an hour. southwest for his American Legion ac- lending $2,000,000 in one year. But he Indeed, that plane explains why Sea- tivities, and former Department Com- takes at least as much pride in the fact born Collins was able to put on a whirl- mander ol New Mexico, George that he set a record for getting the wind campaign for the top job in The Quesenberry wanted to get away from money back for the government. His American Legion. In one period ol his real estate office, and his recently ratio of collections to money loaned eleven days, to give just one example, discharged son-in-law seemed to be the was also record-breaking. he covered nine Department conven- (Continued on page 62) Tips from a veteran wildfowler that may mean a full bag for you

flock of geese took off a mile By RAY TRULLINGER chips and cards and gnaw on a flagon away, circled briefly over thou- of Old Swampfire. Besides, my shooting A sands of others loafing in huge rafts companion had to leave for the city on the calm waters of Pamlico Sound, and headed our way. the next day and wanted to take home some geese and ducks. About 200 yards from the blind the leader veered slightly So our jeering host had power-boated us out to a "reef to the right and for a moment it looked as if we wouldn't blind" twelve miles up the Sound, a weathered board struc- do any business with that bunch. But when the leader made ture which resembled nothing quite so much as a roofless his turn the flock strung out like kids playing crack the Chic Sale on stilts. By the time our decoys were spotted, whip and the tail end of the flock swept over the outer the sun was up and blazing. fringes of the decoys. Two magnums blasted and the last "I'll come back at noon and pick up you two screw balls, two geese in line collapsed. instead of waiting until four o'clock. You'll have a bellyful "Two down and six to go for a limit," I said. "Watch the by that time. Don't get too sunburned!" And with that en- fort while I wade out and pick 'em up." couraging crack, our scoffer kicked the boat's starter and

I was twenty yards from the blind, w ith water sneaking took off. up to the tops of my waders, when my partner called out My friend and I surveyed the watery scene with our softly, "Stand still!" Two or three seconds later his shotgun binoculars. There were extensive rafts of honkers about a boomed twice and two drake pintails hit the water. mile away, and beyond as far as we could sec. Also large

"Bring those in, too, while you're at it," I was ordered. patches of ducks, mostly pintails. They seemed noisy and The four birds were tossed in the hinged boxes that served restless— telltale signs to a long-time wildfowl observer. as seats in the blind, and our vigil was resumed. "I think they're going to fly," I remarked. "If the flight

"At least," I remarked to my shooting partner, "you'll heads this way we'll probably get an occasional shot. It isn't have something to take home tomorrow. And won't our likely anything will decoy — the weather's too bright. But host be surprised!" there are bound to be a few careless birds." As a matter of fact, our host had done everything to dis- Fifteen minutes later the birds began moving, and the courage that day's excursion. "You guys won't shoot any- bulk of them came in our direction. Many flocks of geese thing out on the Sound today," he had said at our predawn veered wide of our blind, but some sw ept by within range breakfast. "It's clear as a bell outside, with a few million of our heavy charges of No. 2s, and within an hour we stars shining, and there isn't a breath of wind. Stay ashore had our eight-goose limit. and w e'll play some three-handed poker." And with the geese came flock after flock of pintails. There was logic to his argument but his two guests had not They weren't disposed to decoy, but winged directly over journeyed down to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, to toss the blind at about flfty-y-ard height, affording some of the 20 )

prettiest pass shooting either of us about twenty-five years ago, on the occasion of early win- ever had enjoyed. ter's first sharp freeze. My companion on this occasion was A half-hour before noon the flight a commercial fisherman and guide, and one of the canniest petered out and about the same time operators I'd ever met. He also was a game-law violator of we heard the distant sound of a gas note, who supplied several customers with whatever they engine. Our host was returning to wanted in the way of fowl. We'll call him Pete although that pick up his screwball guests, who wasn't his name. had insisted on going duck shooting The two of us poled our Barnegat "sneak boxes" out in weather beloved of picnickers, through thin shell ice that morning to the point of a low, golfers and trout fishermen. A few grassy island, where Pete stopped to look over the situation. minutes later he tied up to the blind Black ducks, brant and geese were flying, along with a and looked up at us with a grin. smattering of bluebills. "Aren't you glad to see me? I figured you guys would Finally, Pete made his decision. "We'll rig out right here," be happy to get out of the hot sun and back to the house. I he said. "Get that little shovel out of my boat, scoop up told you there wouldn't be anything flying on this kind some ice and dump it over the tops of the boats. While of a bluebird day. Care for a bottle of cold beer?" you're doing that I'll lash 'em side by side in this shallow It was a great satisfaction to watch the expression on his water and put out the decoys." face when the two of us tossed eight big Canada geese into In those days Barnegat sneak boxes were painted dead the bow of his boat, along with seventeen pintails. white because they often were used as blinds in ice floes "If you'd waited another half-hour," I told him, "we during severe weather. would have had the three ducks needed to complete our "You mean right out here in the open?" I questioned him, duck limit." in a surprised voice. That fine morning's shooting was mostly pure luck. Why "Right here," he answered. those birds elected to fly as they did I do not pretend to "But we'll be in plain sight," I protested. "There won't know. Maybe they just had a desire to go somewhere else. be a duck come within a mile of us." Or their movement might have been caused by a change of "Get busy with that shovel and stop jawing," he replied. tide or some mysterious factor which inspires waterfowl In a few minutes our rather unusual ambush was set up and we took our places in the two sneak boxes, re- clining therein like corpses in twin coffins. After a short period of immobility in the ice-packed boat,

I began to feel like one. However, rigor mortis didn't quite catch up with me. There was action. A small flock of black ducks, wariest of the webfooted clan, winged up unsus- piciously, set their wings and slanted for the decoys. "Now!" Pete muttered, sitting up. We killed three before the survivors back-pedaled out of danger. It didn't make sense. There we were, as obvious as a stop light, but it didn't seem to make any difference. At intervals other birds flew up, decoyed, and ran into trouble. Pretty soon the bright morning sun melted all the ice off the boats but we still killed birds.

We quit before noon ( Continued on page 46

A well-trained retriever is a big help.

to fly. Who can tell about the strange ways of water fowl? And perhaps it was luck that we picked that blind, as there were half a dozen others in the area where we might not have done so well or possibly might have had no shooting at all. But our success that day was not all luck. There was our unwillingness to accept defeat and our insistence on going out, in the face of weather conditions which were anything but auspicious. And perhaps it is this little matter of making the most of one's opportunities which spells the difference between the successful duck hunter and those who are not so "lucky." For by and large, over the years, good weather and bad, the experienced wildfowler makes his own luck. How does a duck hunter make his own luck? Well, there are many ways, but a notable example comes to mind. The Two partners can cover a lot of skyline. locale was Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, and the time was 21 By ROBERT SCHARFF

neighbor, Ed Richards, came into my shop the other day looking like the last rose of sum- Mymer. He was really down in the dumps. After a few drinks and a little prodding on my part, it came out that his newest home project, a bookcase- storage unit, was relegated to the attic by his wife. "I worked hard on the darn thing, spent plenty of money for the best lumber, and built it according to the plans. But my wife said that it looked like something her kid brother made in school and won't have it in our living room." To prevent Ed from jumping from the nearest bridge, I agreed to go up into his attic to take a look at his masterpiece. The corners were square and true, the drawers slid in and out, and even when a level was placed on top of the piece, the bubble went to the center and no further. He had followed all the elementary rules of woodworking, but I had to agree (in thought only) with his wife — something was If your finished project looks like this, don't be discouraged. missing. It had that definite manual training school look. Nothing at all like those sleek, highly finished articles of furniture found in every store. Where did Ed go wrong? Have you ever been in his situation? We'll assume that you, like Ed, are up on the elementary rules and follow them. They can be found in any good book on the subject. know, Makeit You $ too, that you have to measure ac- curately, cut true and put the

parts together so that the

piece is solid and square. But have you watched out TIPS THAT MAKE A for such simple things as, PROFESSIONAL JOB say, nails and screws? That 0To give legs and other seems easy, but a lot of supporting members home-made pieces of furniture have strength, use metal brackets. lost their professional standing because Install where they don't show. of carelessness or lack of "know-how" To prevent ragged edges in this simple field. when sawing, use a strip Ed, for instance, didn't know that of cellophane tape. You still you should use wood plugs to hide heads can follow your cutting mark. of screws. Most professionals do. Plugs /S\ To prevent split ting of the can be cut with a tool called a plug wood, always stagger the cutter, which fits into an ordinary brace nails so that no two nails are and can be purchased at any hardware in the same grain of wood. store. Nor did he know the trick of To cover screw heads, use wood plugs. They concealing nail heads.

can be cut with a plug-cutter, or dowels may be used. Usually all that is required is to countersink the heads below the surface Fill in all cracks and dents with filler © wood with a nail set; then fill the depression or plastic wood. Sand smooth when thoroughly dry. with stick shellac, melted on a spatula and pressed into place. As the shellac (6) The proper applying consistency of glue is hardens, smooth with a chisel and sand- when it drops off the brush in big tear drops. paper. Wood plastic or putty of the proper color can be used in place of the shellac. Splitting of wood, when nailing, was also evident in Ed's work. To reduce this danger, stagger nails so no two nails

22 POINTERS ON HOW TO MAKE A BOOKCASE

n The doors can be given a paneled effect, left, by gluing and bradding a small piece of 54-round to each side of a lA" i i plywood panel. To make doors open and close easily, right, 0 a small amount can be planed off after the doors are set.

With a few simple tricks it can be made to look like this. LOOK GOOD

Neat hardware can add a great deal of beauty to the How to add the professional touch finished project, left. Always follow the manufacturer's installing directions to the letter. To conceal plywood edges right, glue and brad a strip of !/2-round on them. to those do-it-yourself projects.

go through the same length of grain. To control the splintering of plywood one makes a difference in the number A'lost hardwood splits easily unless you on the bottom side while sawing, first or position of visible edges. If your drill pilot holes first — about half the apply a strip of cellophane tape along shop equipment will make rabbets and thickness of the nail shank. Hardwood the underside of the planned cut. The miters, a little thought at the design also usually requires a blunt pointed tape will strip clean from the wood stage will reduce the edge problem nail which will punch its way into the after sawing, leaving a smooth cut. greatly. Consider also where the piece fibers and not spread them apart. This Getting back to Ed and his prob- of furniture will be located, what sur- helps to prevent the wood from split- lems, he had on the w hole done a good face will be exposed, and w hat finish ting. professional job of getting the piece sou will use. Splitting can be a problem when cut- to its unadorned stage, but from there There are occasions, of course, when ting hardboard or plywood, too. To on his masterpiece went sour. Like so no amount of thought in designing can prevent this, the good face must always many home craftsmen, Ed built his eliminate plywood edge grain. In these

be toward the cut. For hand-sawing, project from plywood. 1c is an excellent cases some method must be devised in use a 10 point cross-cut saw with the material, but the major problem of us- order to hide the edge. One of the most

good side up, and hold the sheet firmly ing plywood is how to conceal the popular means of accomplishing this is

so the saw won't bend. For hand power- edges of the panels. If care is not exer- by banding the edge with the same type sawing, use a sharp combination blade cised, the finished job will be banded of wood used on the face veneer. This and place the good side down. The with raw edges that resemble half- banding may be either a solid wood blade should not extend over 14 inch healed scars. strip glued to the edge or a thin piece on the under side. On a table saw, place Sometimes this can be prevented by of veneer — real or plastic. Its grain di- the panel face up and adjust the table carefully checking the design before rection may be either lengthwise or so that the saw extends through the building. Even w ith plain butt joints, crosswise, depending upon the desired

piece only about '/| to 1/2 inch. A com- there are an astonishing number of effect. bination is best for this operation, too. ways to assemble a simple box, and each (Continued 011 page 42) 23 If you should be involved in an automobile accident tomorrow

you may have to wait till 1958 to get a settlement.

Will you be one of the 16 million By CAROLINE BIRD "But your car is all right," you say, drivers who will get into an auto- trying to hold your temper. "What's mobile accident this year? If so, the name of your insurance company?" your chances of sudden death or serious what can happen if you have an accident. This isn't getting anywhere, and be- injurs are fortunately less on a mile- There isn't a car in sight as you sides a crowd is gathering. A policeman age basis than in the past, but your cruise up to a place where a road on takes names and addresses. A wrecker chances of a long and bew ildering legal your right comes in, when arrives to tow your car away. You fight are better than ever. Insurance can CRASH! A car shoots out and side- don't think you're hurt— just shaken up pay the damages in the end, but even swipes you. Your own wheel has —but somebody has called an ambu- if the figure is settled out of court, it winded you, and there's blood trickling lance and the men in white insist that will be based on how long you have down your wife's face. Your first you and your wife come with them. had to wait to see the judge. Some big thought is to thank God everyone is At the hospital they bandage your city courts are now hearing accidents alive. Then you see that the other car wife's head—the windshield was safety that happened four years ago, and de- is hardly scratched, but your right door glass so it was just a bump—but they lays are so common all over that law- is w recked. You want to ask the other find that you have three cracked ribs

yers think a court is dispensing speedy driver why he didn't see you, but he and will be laid up a week. justice if it is only a year behind. gets in ahead: Before you're out of the hospital the In most cases, the delay will hurt "What's the name of your insurance garage reports that it will cost you $600 more than the injury. You won't read company? After all, I had the right of to fix the car. That's more than you about it in the newspapers, but here's way!" have in the bank, but you need the car 24 to work. You've made a claim for your In spite of those rising premiums, in- — 18 months after the accident—to tell damages and you're sure the insurance surance companies generally lose money you the case is up for trial. Your best company will take care of the bill. on their automobile accident liability.) witness has died, another has moved Three weeks go b'y and nothing hap- In desperation, you borrow $1,000 away, and none of them really want to pens. The garage still has the car and from the bank to get your car out of testify. the hospital wants its money. You're hock. You put your claim in the hands (You've waited on the calendar the lying around home waiting for the mail. of a lawyer who suggests that you sue 14.3 months national average for coun- After dozens of phone calls to the in- for $20,000. ties of 500,000 to 750,000 population. surance company an adjuster finally This seems high, but so is Ins fee: 40 Delay is longest w here traffic is thick- appears to take down your story. est, headed by Queens County, He thinks you could have pre- New Yorlc, with 49 months. vented the accident and so are not Brooklyn and Worcester arc over entitled to recover, but he makes 40 months behind; Manhattan, an appointment for you with the Chicago, the Bronx, Boston, Hart- insurance company doctor. You ford, and Manchester, N. H., 30 spend a day being pummeled and months or more. Best record, ac- poked all over again. cording to the Institute of Judi- Six weeks after the accident cial Administration, was made last you get the company's last word: year by Cincinnati, a city of 700,- Not liable because their insured 000 which heard jury cases in two had the right of way, but they'll months; Newark, New Jersey, a give you $500 to get rid of you. city of a million where the wait "But that's only a drop in the is only six months, and New Or- bucket," you argue hotly. "The leans, a city of a half million garage bill is §600. The hospital where the wait is only three and doctor want §250, and I've months.) been losing $125 a week all this Your case brings nearly a score time I've been waiting for the of people to court—lawyers, doc- car. My wife has been having tors, witnesses, principals, rela- headaches ever since the accident tives—so you're understandably and hasn't been able to do the disappointed when the judge calls part-time work that brings us in the two law yers up to the bench $100 a month. You must think and asks them to go out into the

I'd win in court or you wouldn't hall and see if they can't settle the offer anything!" case. In the course of several hud- "Maybe so," the adjuster The money you pay out because of your accident dles, the insurance company be- agrees, "but it will take you years may come back, but there's no telling when. latedly offers to settle for $1,500, to get to court and there's a the expenses you actually in- chance you'll get nothing for curred. You would have taken it your pains." percent of the verdict if you win, noth- the day after the accident, but if you

(You can't blame insurance compa- ing but his out-of-pocket expenses if took it now you'd have only $900 left nies too much for using delay as a weap- you lose. You say fair enough—you're after your lawyer took his 40 percent. on. Carrying a claim for years costs over the hump now and 60 percent of By now you're mad and your sporting them money and ties up their reserves. $20,000 is worth waiting for. blood is up. Your wife knows just the Juries are handing out bigger and big- (Contingent fees are ethical, and kind of house she wants to buy with ger verdicts, and inflation may up your they make legal redress available to the your share of the §20,000 you're asking. claim in dollars when it comes to trial. penniless, but at a high price. The per- You refuse. centage varies from 20 percent in cases (You can't blame the judge for try- involving minors where the court passes ing to get rid of your case. He can on the fee, to whatever the traffic will handle only 60 jury trials a year, and bear. Forty percent is average. The there are hundreds waiting. Luckily 95 competition for these juicy cases carry- percent of accident suits are settled be-

ing high verdicts is so great that big- fore trial, but nobody gets serious about

city lawyers sometimes employ runners negotiating until judgment day is at to bring the cases in. This, of course, is hand.) illegal. New York City's District At- There's a scuffle over picking a jury torney Frank Hogan uncovered a well- as your lawyer gets across the news that organized ambulance chasing ring last the other driver is covered by insur- June.) ance. As the trial proceeds, you won- During the next few months there's der what they make of the story: always something to do about your —You testify that the other car drove case: chasing down witnesses, giving into you at a high rate of speed. The testimony in the lawyer's office, getting other driver testifies that you drove hospital records, signing papers, wait- into him at a high rate of speed. ing for the other side to answer. Final- —One witness says you were going 60 ly, you're on the calendar and your miles an hour. Another thinks you were

lawyer warns you it will take over a going 20, but she admits, on cross-ex- year. amination, that she didn't see the cars Chief Justice Vandeibilt ended a bad Life goes on and you've almost for- until she heard the crash. traffic jam in New Jersey's courts. gotten the crash when he calls you up (Continued on page 48) 25 !

Give the Speaker a Break

You will hear better speeches if you follow these suggestions on the care and treatment of speakers.

By WILL A. FOSTER

" n no now it is my honor and privilege U to present—" * That salutation, or one akin to

it, will be heard at least 18,000 times each week as the program chairmen of may change yearly, quarterly or sometimes even monthly.

: > (,() t ' 1c ls - nude and female service clubs time that i^X * 1\\ Jtl^A. They try hard to do a creditable job with the

' ' 1,1 ( ' irL st- nt r lc ucsr speakers K ^ l assignment. '< I y they have available to devote to the / * Hljjr for those meetings. If they, and the officers and members of the clubs, will *V «"« ^ You may safely add another 10,000 follow a few simple courtesies, they will have guest speakers meetings of Women's Clubs, Parent who would be happy to talk a return engagement. Teacher Associations, Chamber of Commerce, American Legion Posts and a host of other organizations. when a speaker accepts an invitation to address a club, Fully 2,000,000 persons will attend these regularly sched- there should be a definite understanding as to the date, time uled gatherings because we Americans are the "meetingest" and location of the meeting. people in the world. The prospective speaker should be told the size of the The majority of these audiences invite a guest speaker to audience, whether it will be made up of one or both sexes, talk on a subject of interest to them. and the approximate time available for the talk. What are the trials, tribulations and disappointments of Most service clubs have a definite closing time to which the 28,000 volunteer speakers who will be talking to a group they rigidly adhere; the speaker should be told w hat it is. of fellow Americans at some time during the week? If the program chairman has told the guest that there will During the past 33 years, it has been my rare privilege to be thirty minutes for the talk, then every effort should be be the guest speaker at about 1,000 clubs of this kind located made to allow that time. Many a good, well-organized, in 42 of the 48 States. thirty-minute talk can become badly presented when a

A1ost of the speakers come from the ranks of government, speaker is forced to cut his time to twenty minutes because trade and civic associations, educational institutions or busi- the club members had an argument, or a committee chair- ness firms. Few ever receive a fee for their thirty minutes of man gave an unduly long report ahead of the speaker. oratory and rarely do they receive expenses for the trip to The proposed talk should be given an appropriate title by address the group. the guest when he accepts the invitation to address the group.

I have talked on three different occasions to each of two If the group totals 80 or more persons, the invited guest Rotary Clubs in two widely separated States. Fd like to should be advised whether or not the room is equipped with appear for the fourth time at cither of them because they a microphone and voice amplification system. were so well-mannered. The speaker should be asked what equipment he or she On the other hand, Fd try to find an excuse for not might like or need. Any one who talks from notes or an talking a second time to some of the clubs that I have ad- outline wants a lectern or "table pulpit" on which to rest dressed. Their lack of good manners to the guest speaker the notes or papers. impaired my best efforts to do a pleasing job. At a recent evening talk to a group of businessmen in In most clubs, the program chairman and his commitee Tampa, Fla., I had to turn a cardboard shipping case, ob- are responsible for the verbal diet to go with the fried tained from the kitchen, upside down to serve as a lectern. thicken or meat loaf and peas. These program chairmen If slide or motion picture pro- (Continued on page 52) 26 PENSIONS, COMPENSATION GET COST-OF-LIVING HIKE and $37.60 (peacetime) unchanged. Statutory awards formerly $266 (wartime) and $212.80 (peacetime), now $279 The President signed Public Laws 695 and 698 on and $223. Awards formerly $313 (wartime) and $250.40 August 28. They increase most veterans' and dependents' (peacetime) now $329 and $263. Awards formerly $353 compensation 85 pension awards by roughly 5%. . . . Pension (wartime) and $282.40 (peacetime), now $371 and $297. increases in all categories are exactly 5%. Those who receive Ceiling on combinations of statutory and/or rating pensions can figure the increase by multiplying the former entitlements formerly $400 (wartime) and $320 (peacetime), monthly rate by .05. . . . Pensions are those awards made to now $420 and $336. wartime veterans and their dependents or survivors which No increase was awarded in compensation of dependent are based upon disability or death that is not service- children, or children dependent on a veteran's widow. But connected. . . . Not all compensation awards were increased, compensation for widows without dependent children and for nor were the compensation increases exactly 5%. Most of dependent parents was increased more than 5%. New rate them were about 5%, to the nearest even dollar. for widow without dependent children is $87, for one Compensation payments are those awards made to dependent parent, $75, for two dependent parents, $40 each. wartime and peacetime veterans and their dependents which are based on disability or death that is service- * * * * connected. Compensation increases are summarized below. A total of 2,580,700 veterans and 836,400 veterans' VETS CAN WAIVE PART OF dependents are affected by the new pension and compensation R.R. RETIREMENT BENEFITS rates, or 3,412,100 persons. . . . New rates became effective Two laws OK'd Aug. 31 permit persons pensioned under

Oct. 1, are included in end-of-October checks. . . . VA the Railroad Retirement Act to waive all or part of such pays new rates automatically. . . . Individuals need not and pension, over such period of time as they choose — and should not apply for them. . . . Increases are intended as permit the same waiver right for persons entitled to relief a cost-of-living adjustment. or retirement compensation from the police and firemen's American Legion played major role in bringing about relief fund of the District of Columbia. . . . Some veterans

increases, as did . . . . House Veterans Affairs Committee so covered can waive that part of such benefits which brings Opposition in legislature almost succeeded in burying their annual income above the statutory income limitation them in House Rules Committee, did reduce proposed for disability pension award by the Veterans Administration, hike to 10% 5%. and thus qualify for veterans pensions if they are otherwise * * * * eligible for them.

COMPENSATION INCREASES sN # # New monthly awards for wartime service-connected FRENCH LIBERTY MEDAL AVAILABLE disability compensation based on percentage-of-disability- TO MANY WW2 GIS ratings (under PL 695) areas follows: 10% disability, $17; French authorities award the Medal of Liberated France 20% disability, $33; 30% disability, $50; 40% disability, $66; to military members of the Allied Forces who participated, 50% disability, $91; 60% disability, $109; 70% disability, between Sept. 3, 1939 and Aug. 20, 1945, in actual combat $127; 80% disability, $145; 90% disability, $163; operations by land, sea or air in French territory, including total disability, $181. the French Union and French Mandates. Medal is also No increase was made in the extra compensation for awarded to Allied military personnel assigned to liaison with veterans rated 50% and more disabled who have dependents. French land, sea or air forces between June 18, 1940 and

No increase was made in the minimum compensation Aug. 20, 1945. . . . Under U. S. regulations, the medal cannot for arrested service-connected tuberculosis. be accepted or worn by U. S. military personnel, but may be Statutory awards for specific serious service-connected accepted and worn by former members of the U. S. mili-

disabilities, such as loss of limbs, blindness, permanently tary. . . . Eligible ex-GIs desiring the medal may apply bedridden, etc., were raised except in the lowest category. to the appropriate address among the following: Office of Conditions of these awards are too lengthy to print here. the Adjutant General, Department of the Army, or Office of "Newsletter" hopes recipients can recognize them by the old the Air Adjutant General, Department of the Air Force, amounts paid. Statutory awards formerly $47 (wartime) or Chief of Naval Personnel, U. S. Navy Department — all at

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 • 27 • Washington 25, D. C. . . . Applicants should state they are AIRBORNES FORM OWN ASS'N. give full applying for the Medal of Liberated France , name Combat vets of five airborne divisions have filed (printed), service number, rank, organization in which papers to form the Airborne Association, Inc., in Fayetteville,

served, mailing address battle participation credits. . . . and N. C. . . . Stated purpose is to "unite fraternally and for U. S. military offices forward verified applications to the mutual benefit, protection, improvement and association, French Embassy for action. former, present and future airborne troopers." . . . The 5 divisions represented are the 82nd, 101st, 11th, 17th and

13th. . . . The corporation office address is Airborne Ass'n., FUTURE Or PENSIONS, COMPENSATION SHAKY Inc., Market House, Fayetteville, N. C.

Unless they are well represented in upcoming sessions of Congress, recipients of both pension and compensation may suffer from new laws based on inexpert studies and K-VETS GET MORE TIME TO START, inexpert concepts of these awards, and the benefit of the new FINISH EDUCATION

increases could be short-lived. . . . President, in approving Public Law 610, approved Aug. 20, added a year to the increases, indicated reluctance, belief they be out of may time-cushion under which K-vets could start and finish

line. . . . He said he was ordering a new study of payments K-Bill training or education. Under 610, most K-vets now to veterans and their dependents with an eye to new have three years from date of discharge to begin training,

legislation. . . . Regarding compensation, he voiced a false eight years from date of discharge to complete training. . . . concept previously stated to him in a special report of the Added leeway is partial response to request initiated under

Budget Bureau. . . . Said Ike: Compensation "represents American Legion resolution at 1953 Nat'l Convention. . . . earning whose an attempt to compensate [veterans] for power Legion sought four- and nine-year cushions, respectively. loss is attributable to service in our forces." ... If armed Before PL 610, K-vets had two and seven years for the new studies ordered by President proceed with this idea — starting and finishing dates. . . . K-vets discharged before and there is no indication that they won't — war-disabled Aug. 20, 1951 have already run out of time for starting veterans find their awards hitched to their earning power may training. They had until last Aug. 20.

alone. . . . Compensation, until now, has been an attempt to compensate the veteran not for loss of earning power, but for the disability. It may or may not compensate for loss of income, it also compensates for pain & suffering, social WAR CLAIMS IN NEW AGENCY embarrassment discomfiture personality & , damage, personal The President has named the members of the new handicap & inconvenience, potential life-shortening, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, which succeeds restricted activities , etc. That the President can be the War Claims Commission and the International Claims successfully misadvised on this when on the threshold of Commission in jurisdiction over certain claims of seeking new legislation on the subject is a grim warning to the Americans abroad. . . . Jurisdiction includes claims arising war-disabled and their champions. out of WW2 by U. S. POWs and civilian internees in the Philippines, also matters under new laws relating to claims of U. S. citizens arising out of WW2, the Korea war and

international agreements. . . . Commissioners are Whitney UNCHANGEABLE DISABILITY RATINGS

Gillilland, Glenwood, Iowa (chmn) ; Mrs. Pearl Carter Pace, "Newsletter" has received evidence of some misunder- Burkesville, Ky., and Henry J. Clay, New York City. standings of Public Law 311, passed by Congress last March, which makes certain VA disability ratings unchangeable

after 20 years. . . . The law does not apply to all disability ratings, but only to those of total disability or permanent WHEN TO APPLY FOR COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

total disability . . . . Such ratings made for compensation, Children of veterans who will enter college in pension or insurance purposes under laws administered by September, 1955, are advised by The American Legion Child the Veterans Administration, which have been continuously Welfare Commission not to begin their inquiries and make in force for 20 years or more, says the law, "shall not be application too late. ... A year in advance is not too early reduced thereafter, except upon a showing that such rating

to file most scholarship applications. . . . Nearly all college was based on fraud." Ratings less than total or permanent scholarships have cut-off dates, after which they will not be total disability are not so protected. awarded even if they haven't been taken up by early birds.

# * * * Most scholarships for next September should be applied for before the end of March, 1955, and the earlier the DON'T PUT IT OFF better. . . . Few will be available by next July, when many

K-vets are again warned not to use their time-cushion applications will be made. . . . Many scholarships are

for starting training capriciously . The earlier the better is available only to children of veterans, and Child Welfare

the general rule for starting. VA points out that some K-vets, Commission has info on $2,000,000 worth of them. . . . near their deadline for starting, apply for VA counseling While the Commission isn't staffed to serve individual

service to help select best courses. . . . VA counseling service queries from all veterans' children seeking info, it has

is excellent , but it takes time. ... If deadline is close, there's distributed its pamphlet on scholarships for veterans' — — no time for counseling before vet must make his decision. . . . children "Need a Lift?" to thousands of American

"Newsletter" has previously told of ways in which vets have Legion Posts. . . . Interested parties should make query at lost their trainin g privileges by playing too close to their local Legion Post, which can obtain a copy of "Need a Lift?" vests with deadlines. if it doesn't already have it.

2g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 NEWS ofThe A.merican Legion

and Veterans' Affairs

R. Mahaffey signed up % of the members Commander Urges Early Action in 9 hours of soliciting. Mahaffey 's goal —to get 25 more than the assigned quota.

}\ Post 83, Glenwood Springs, Colo., For 1955 Membership Drive started 1955 membership drive by send-

Veterans Day, Nov. 11, is the target the 1954 drive with 102 new members Tips for Membership Chair- date for The American Legion's 1955 bringing total membership to 291. (5) men. This is the time for your big Membership campaign. In a letter in late Got the 1955 drive underway and by drive. Prompt enrollment of old Sept. to all Post Commanders, repro- Sept. 14 had 57 paid-up members. members and new will 1. Assure continuity of mem- duced in Programming for Legion ]> When E. Meade Wilson, Florida Nat'l Leaders, Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Col- Executive Committeeman, presented life bership in your Post. lins urged that "AL Weeks", Oct. 20- memberships to E. R. Rentley, William 2. Avoid interruption of sub- Nov. 11, be used to get the 1955 mem- Steitz and William Hardaker of Lake- scriptions to The American Legion bership drive wrapped up. land Post 4 recently, the 3 recipients and Magazine if subscription cards are "The number one job of every new Wilson represented 152 years of con- forwarded promptly. Commander," said Collins, "is member- tinuous Legion membership, or par for 3. Save energy of Post Mem- ship." The Commander said National the course. bership Committee and let Post concentrate on other programs. Headquarters would supply promotional ]> Post 35, Jeffersonville, Ind., reported material to help Posts do the job. One that for six straight years it had ex- example was Programming which gave ceeded the previous year's membership ing a letter to every local eligible outlin- a capsule public relations program record. From 743 members in 1948 Post ing Legion accomplishments nationally usable by Posts of any size and offered had climbed to 1180 in 1954. Of the and locally. newspaper mats for cooperative adver- 1954 total, 65% was secured by two men From The American Legion's Mem- tising ads together with an outline form —Herman A. Wenige with 461 and Wal- bership Division came some mid- 1954 of a proclamation to be made by the ter A. Kenney with 301. figures which made an impressive pic- local Mayor. Post 423, Hospers, Iowa, got away to ture:

With good publicity would come a fast start when Membership Chmn M. }} Total membership of continental De- community recognition of the Legion's work. Next step — ask the man to join. HANDICAPPED AT WORK Pointing to the fast start on 1955 membership — up 18,049 over last year on same date — the Commander asked for an all-out effort to get the membership program out of the way early. A strong membership, the Commander pointed out, would allow The American Legion to concentrate on the programs and activities which are the reasons for its existence. Two incentives for individual Legion- naires and Posts were announced in In- dianapolis : ( 1 ) Legionnaires who sign up 10 or more members will be awarded a membership card signed by Nat'l Cmdr Collins and Nat'l Adjt Dudley in the "Double Five" club. (2) Posts getting advance membership equal to or greater than 1954 will be awarded a Meritorious Service Citation. Membership news from all over the U. S. included the following:

]> In Colorado, Post 148, at Antonito and Post 131 at Center bet a sack of potatoes on their 1955 membership race.

]) In Stoughton, Mass., Post 89 reported some new membership records for 1954: (1) Secured 100% paid-up Post mem- Departments and Posts of The American Legion led the nation in observance of bership of 189 members by Nov. 11, "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week," Oct. 3-9, calling on employ- 1953. Passed 1954 quota (2) by Dec. ers to hire disabled veterans who have overcome handicaps by special training or 31, 1953. (3) Surpassed all-time mem- equipment. Good example of ability to handle difficult jobs is Eddie Ormanski, bership high on same date. (4) Finished Air Force vet of Korea, shown above at Wm. Betterly plant in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

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partments found 6 Depts with more than comics would get kaputted by their page editorial in one Gaines comic ad- 100,000 members each on July 31. Penn- group. The Ass'n. named a czar, N. Y. vised Gaines' horror book readers that sylvania had 267,387; New York 217,643 City Magistrate Charles F. Murphy, to criticism of comic books is communist and Illinois 217,511. The other three in take over as Code Administrator on his inspired. The editorial advised that if order, were California, Ohio and Indi- retirement from the bench, Oct. 1. Mur- "some joker" should get in your PTA and ana. The leaders in total membership phy would get a budget of $100,000 a complain about bad taste in comics he had enrolled the following percentage year on a two year contract to run the would probably be a communist or a of eligibles in their departments: Pa., Ass'n. He would have a staff of readers dupe of communists. 17.8%; N. Y., 10.5%; III, 17.5%; Cal., to judge if proposed comics would meet Appraisal 8.69%; Ohio, 11.6%; and Indiana, 21.15%. the as-yet-unwritten code. Approved The smallest enrollment, in Nevada, was comics would get the Ass'n. Seal of Ap- As a beginning, the new effort of 23,000 or 15.5% of eligibles. proval, displayed conspicuously on the Comics Magazine Ass'n. has the encour- agement of The American Legion. In }t On July 31, Legion Departments in cover as a guide to the buyer. Disap- 11 States had enrolled more than 20% proved comics would get no seal. knowledge of the effort, American Le- of the eligible ex-service men in their Not in the Ass'n. were 3 big outfits. gion Child Welfare resolutions directed areas into Legion membership. One was Dell, biggest of all and gener- toward urging additional controls of North Dakota had 42.93 percent of ally in good taste. Another was Classics comic books were held in abeyance at all eligibles enrolled. Next in order, Illustrated, also with a record of good the 1954 Nat'l Convention, while self- Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa had taste. Third was William Gaines, gener- policing efforts of the comic industry more than 30% enrolled. Above 25% were ally agreed to be the Mr. Hyde of the would be watched. But the Convention Vermont and Wyoming. Next in order called for continuation of study of unde- of the 20%-plus group were Kansas, New sirable comic books by the Nat l Child Hampshire, Indiana, Minnesota, and Welfare Commission and resumption of Montana. a more militant stand if "improvements materialize reasonable National average of all eligibles on do not within that date was 13.7%. Under 10% were, time." from the bottom up, Utah, Texas, Vir- The official Legion position should be ginia, Michigan, Rhode Island, Califor- noted in view of reports of pressure, locally, interests for a withdrawal nia, Delaware and New Jersey. by comic North Dakota, with the highest per- of criticisms and issuance of public praise based on the Waldorf meeting centage of eligibles enrolled on July 31, won the Franklin D'Olier membership and the appointment of Judge Murphy. trophy for 1954. Sense of Legion policy is that future product of the publishers would be basis ]> Forty-seven Posts had 2,000 or more members on June 30. The 47 Posts had of Legion attitude. Comic Ass'n., just be- seal, done 151,256 members altogether. They were ginning, has no code, no has located in 23 states. Pennsylvania had nothing— yet. 6 Posts with more than 2,000 members REHABILITATION: each, Tennessee 5, New York and Illi- nois 4. Nine Departments had 2 Posts in Kick in Teeth the 2,000 class and ten had 1 such Post. Arnold Cianella, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Czar Murphy . . . new code Post 1, Denver, Colo., had 11,118 mem- feels with considerable justice that he

bers; Post 1, Omaha, Neb., had 11,072. horror comic field, whose illustrated has been kicked in the teeth. Cianella Third was Post 14, Shreveport, La., with nightmares have peddled sadism, maso- has unsuccessfully devoted a large 5,963. Also over 5,000 were: Post 23, chism, blood and guts like crazy. Gaines, amount of his time for several years to Milwaukee, Wis., and Post 1, Memphis, whose testimony before a Senate com- undo an injustice growing out of the Tenn. Post 799, Buffalo, N. Y., had mittee set standards of taste unrecog- Korean war. Cianella, a WW2 veteran, 4,023. Eleven other Posts had more nized by most Americans, came out saved his GI Bill educational rights to than 3,000 paid-up members by the independently on Sept. 14 and said he go to medical school, meanwhile putting end of June. would get out of the horror field on his himself through undergraduate school own. without using GI rights. COMIC BOOKS: Said Gaines: "American parents will Cianella was called back to duty dur- Clean Up? be served." ing the Korean conflict, and while he was Said N. Y. State Assemblyman James in service his time for applying his WW2 They made a noise as if they meant A. Fitzpatrick, head of a committee GI Bill educational rights expired. Re- business. On Sept. 16, at a meeting in ready to handle the problem by NY sult: Cianella (who was accepted by New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, all State law: "Our committee has repeat- Georgetown U. Med school in 1952) but 3 of the nation's leading comic book edly pointed to the work of Mr. Gaines lost his GI entitlement. He has K-Bill publishers got together and swore to as a perfect example of the worst type educational rights, but they are far less clean house of the repulsive little seg- of comic book." than the WW2 rights that he had and ment of their big business that has Said Judge Murphy: "I am not so lost through Korean service, and Cia- brought heat aplenty on the comic book naive as to believe . . . any single indi- nella is still not in med school. medium. Twenty-four of the 27 bigtime vidual publisher can win public confi- The American Legion, familiar with comic publishers joined in a new Comics dence by promising he will screen his Cianella's case, introduced HR 2979 in Magazine Ass'n. of America. Also in the own books." Congress in 1953 to remedy all cases in circle were 5 comic engraving firms, 7 In one Gaines comic a woman split a which WW2 vets lost educational rights comic distributors, 6 printers of comics man's- head with a cleaver, hacked his through involuntary Korean service. The and 1 comic matmaker. First and fore- body to pieces and displayed his inter- Bill has rested in a subcommittee in the most, said the Ass'n., terror and horror nal organs as fare in a restaurant. A full House ever since. Inaction seems to be

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based on feeling in legislature that few essence that he had joined the Legion needed to make a similar motion. The such cases exist. The American Legion because of the Legion's resolute facing 5,500 subscriptions, Olson pointed out, Magazine would be interested in hearing up to serious national problems. were far short of the potential of 31,000 from other WW2 vets who lost GI Bill Outstanding aspects of other Nat'l which would put one copy of the Bul- educational rights because their delimit- division reports to the Conference in- letin in each of the Legion's Posts and ing date occurred while they were included: Auxiliary Units. voluntarily back in service. ]> Legislative: The trend in Washington CONFERENCES: toward rewriting veterans' pensions and compensation laws, tying those awards Top Dept Officials Meet to social security and/or other general welfare programs. also, "Newslet- Three major Nat'l American Legion (See ter," this issue) events were scheduled for the first two National Security: high priority weeks in October. They were: ]) The given in the 1955 American Le- 1. The Nat'l Conference of Depart- UMT gion program; the continued low-rating ment Commanders and Adjutants at of Civil Defense on the national scene, Nat'l Hq in Indianapolis, Oct. 1, 2 compared to its responsibilities and aw- and 3. ful obligations in the event of a modern 2. The annual fall meeting of the war. Nat'l Executive Committee at Nat'l Hq Public Relations: The growing impact in Indianapolis, Oct. 5, 6 and 7. j) on the general public of the work of The 3. The Nat'l Comdr's homecoming at Legion's major standing and Las Cruces, N. M., (Home town of Nat'l American special programs. Cmdr Seaborn Collins) on Oct. 9. The last two events above occurred LEGISLATION: too close to press time for coverage here; will be summarized in the December It Takes One Man issue. Last Legion From Washington . . . The three-day meeting of the March, The American Dept Legislative News Magazine reported the action of one Commanders and Adjutants consisted of man - V. L. Tatlock, Post Tescott, 4-page, bi-weekly Bulletin re- a series of panels of the entire group, 255, The Kansas, at Post ports the matters of interest to the which heard and discussed reports from a Meeting. The Chap- on lain and Historian of his Post, Tatlock Legion. It gives the status of bills sup- the major Nat'l divisions. Major empha- felt that too little interest was being ported or opposed by the Legion; sis of the meeting was given to the 1955 in the Legion's analyzes stand on various ques- membership campaign, particularly that shown legislative work. Legion The answer to the problem, he tions and gives Legionnaire subscribers phase of it that would end on next Dec. 31. thought, could be found in the Nat'l an insight into official Washington. Legislative serves as a guide on the Sense of the membership discussions Bulletin. Said Tatlock: The Bulletin ". . It also was that each department would con- . each Post ought to get it so that complicated legislative process. we know what's happening to our acts as the Legion's warning bell to tinue to clean up the bulk of the mem- man- dates in Washington. Maybe what arouse grass-roots support when needed bership drive as early as possible. It is a we need is to support or oppose bills in which the highly desirable aim for the good of the somebody to make a motion that is interested. Legion, in that the quicker the annual we spend $3 for a year's subscrip- Legion tion. I so move." The Auxiliary this year has a special membership job is done, the more effec- subscriptions to the tively can The American Legion devote Seconded and passed unanimously, incentive to get the motion made Post 255 of the Bulletin. Auxiliary Dept Legislative its energies to its positive programs. one subscriptions Early work on membership had already 5.500 subscribers to the Legion's bi- Chmn will get awards for weekly report legislative their Departments in proportion to produced significant results as the de- on doings. in In September, referring to the story total number of Units. To equalize dif- partment officials conferred. On Oct. 3, of Tatlock's the awards will closing day of the conference, 1955 motion, Assistant Nat'l ferences in membership, Legislative Director three categories. membership reported to Nat'l Hq stood "Cap" Olson voiced be made in the hope that all of the Legion's the convenience of readers, a sub- at 361,677. It was 20,395 ahead of the 17,000 For Posts would scription is published below. same date last year. Last year's early re- come up with the one man coupon ports had, in turn, run well ahead of previous years. National Legislative Commission Date | Final actions of the conference in- The American Legion cluded the annual telegraphic roll call 1608 K Street, N.W. MAKE ORDER PAYABLE TO THE AMERICAN LEGION of the departments for pledges of mem- Washington 6, D. C. bership to be delivered by Dec. 31. De- Here is check (money order) for three dollars ($3.00) for which enter | partments pledged a total of subscription Bulletin of The American Legion for 1,781,034 to the National Legislative | the entire 1st Session of the 84th Congress. by that date, 119,429 more than had | been pledged in last year's roll call when pledges were actually exceeded by 122,- I 000 on Dec. 31. Name. Highlight of the meeting was an in- (please type or print) I spiring talk by EdViehman, Minneapolis I Address. Legionnaire, radio and TV executive, | (please type or print) and World War II vet. Viehman, who I had saturated himself in American Leg- ion history and knowledge of its programs and policies as background ma- Subscriber is member of: Q Legion; Auxiliary terial for a series of broadcasts, said in

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 • 31 emnMnm NAT'L SECURITY: unequipped reserve units almost wholly number one legislative project for 1955. devoid of enlisted men." In Washington, with Congress home UMT In 1955? For any who doubted that UMT was for the election campaigns, the only necessary, the military men who came news of UMT was the announcement of

In early Sept., as The American Le- to the Legion's Convention dispelled the the appointment of A. J. Hayes, Presi- gion Convention drew to a close, a note notion. Some of their comments: dent of the International Machinists of cautious optimism was sounded over Gen. Charles L. Bolte, Vice Chief of Union to be a member of the Nat'l one of the Legion's oldest mandates. Staff, USA: "Despite all our efforts we Security Training Commission to re- After 34 years, 1955 looked like the best have not been able to attract the num- place Dr. Carl Compton, deceased. year ever for the successful completion ber of Reservists necessary to man more AMERICANISM: of the Legion's UMT Program. than one-third of the units we consider Legionnaire President Eisenhower, essential." Get Out The Vote speaking to the delegates gathered in Gen. Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of

Washington's Nat l Guard Armory and Staff, USAF: "We are losing highly On Sept. 23, Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Collins asked all American Legion Posts to step up their efforts to get a major turnout of voters for the Nov. 2 nationwide elecions. In asking for Post help to arouse qualified voters to exercise their voting rights, the Commander urged that special attention be given to having the American Flag displayed at or near the polling places. "I Pledge To Vote" lapel buttons, similar to those used in the 1952 cam- Adm. Arthur W. Radford paign are still available at Nat'l Emblem a nation-wide TV and radio audience, skilled officers and men faster than we Sales Division, The American Legion, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis Ind. laid it on the line: c an replace them." 6, ". The cost is $4.00 per thousand. . . political timidity must no longer Admiral DeWitt C. Ramsey, Pres., bar a program so absolutely essential to Aircraft Industries Association: "All of A suggested "Get Out The Vote"' our defense. Establishment of an ade- the military air services are experiencing radio script suitable for American Le- quate reserve — an objective for which serious difficulties in obtaining and re- gion speakers or adaptable to radio spot The American Legion and other patri- taining qualified personnel." announcements is available from the otic organizations have vainly fought for Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chmn, NatT Public Relations Division without a generation — will be a number one Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Today our Re- charge. item submitted to the Congress next serve forces are not adequate to meet Veterans Day year." the needs of our national security." The Convention's Xat'l Security pol- Summing it all up was President When on Nov. 11 the nation observes icy statement spelled out the history of Eisenhower who said, "We have failed Veterans Day for the first time, the the fight for UMT and underscored its miserably to maintain that strong, ready Legion will participate in the natural- needs. The sense of resolutions brought military reserve in which we have be- ization of 50,000 citizens. At the invi- to the Convention by 23 Departments lieved for 150 years." taton of U. S. Attorney General Herbert was incorporated in the statement which In strong language the Legion called Brownell, Jr., Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. prefaced its remarks with the observa- upon itself to bring to life the two-year- Collins asked The American Legion's tion that, "In a democracy the privileges old Public Law 51 which "approved the Departments and Posts to contact the and obligations of citizenship should lie principle of Universal Military Train- District Directors of Immigration and shared equally." ing", but which has been left unused Nauralization to arrange plans for the The obligations at least, said the Le- and unimplemented. ceremonies. gion, were not being shared as was Speaking from experience the Legion Veterans Day replaced Armistice shown by "the recall of over 600,000 voiced a fact which UMT opponents Day when Legion-sponsored Public veterans of WW2 into the Korean con- would like to forget. "In an emergency, Law 380 was signed by President flict in lieu of hundreds of thousands of every able bodied man will be called Eisenhower on June 1. Law changed those of the proper age and physical upon to serve or to fight, the only real the name of the day w hich commemo- condition who had never rendered any question being whether such able bod- rates the service of the men and women service and had therefore incurred no ied nun will fight as useful trained men in the Armed Forces. reserve liability." and as useful trained units or be sacri- The change of Citizenship Day, for- Speaking to the Legion's NatT Se- ficed as useless individuals and useless merly Constitution Day, to Sept. 17, curity Commission, Past Nat'l Cmdr units by reason of their lack of training." made the naturalization of new citizens Warren Atherton, a member of the To get the law implemented and to on that date impossible because of the President's Nat'l Security Training Com- act as a watchdog on Congressional ac- law prohibiting the granting of citizen- ". mission, warned that . . depending on tion in the coming session, the Conven- ship during the sixty days preceding me n who won the last war to win the tion mandated: a general election. next is unsafe, unfair and unrealistic." ( 1 ) The National Commander ap- As a result Veterans Day was selected Even worse, Atherton said, was that point a Nat'l Security Training Execu- as an appropriate time for the granting "these old veterans are not organized or tive Committee to (2) Draft and of citizenship to those who have equipped for immediate service." Aside introduce in the 84th Congress a bill to qualified. from the partially trained and equipped implement UMT in accordance with The ceremonies will see the natural- National Guard, "there are only a few Legion principles (3) Make UMT the ization of 8,000 new citizens in the

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 1954 Hollywood Bowl in California, 8,000 at New York's Polo Grounds, 6,500 in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field, 1,000 in Newark and smaller groups all over the nation. Recommended Reading

A newly revised list of 48 books dealing with communism at home and abroad has just been issued by the Nat'l Americanism Commission. The list, together with the details of the Memorial Book Plan, is available without charge from the Nat'l Americanism Commission, The American Legion, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. The books, all currently in print, are grouped under three broad headings: Communism in the United States, World Communism, and Communist Strategy and Tactics. In addition to serving as a guide for worthwhile gifts to local libraries, the list will serve the individual reader as a check list for his own education on the communist con- spiracy. EDUCATION: \ lore Than The Three R's

The Nov. 25, 1921, issue of The American Legion Weekly reported that, "The National Americanism Commis- BRIEFLY NOTED: ton, Maine; The Sunday Times, Balti- sion of The American Legion some time ]J Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn P. Collins has more, Md. ago decided that it would be well if urged that all Legionnaires not only j) The American Legion Badio Award Legionnaires and the public generally see the documentary film, This Is Your for 1953-54 was tendered jointly to the could be made to understand what is Army, but that they make sure that American Broadcasting Company, the going on in the schools today. That is their families and friends see it. The Columbia Broadcasting System, the the idea behind Education Week." The film, produced by Fox Movietone News Mutual Broadcasting System, and the Commission then took up the question under direction of the Army Chief of National Broadcasting Company for with the Nat'l Education Ass'n., and a Information and the Signal Corps, will the broadcast of the Feb. 7, 1954, Back- joint committee of the two organizations be shown in movie theaters across the to God program. worked out the details of the first country early in December. The movie, The Columbia Broadcasting System American Education Week, Dec. 4-10, which was two years in the making, won the 1953-54 American Legion Tel- 1921. That was the beginning of Amer- contains scenes shot at various Army evision Award for: (1) its presentation ican Education Week, which will be ob- installations throughout the world. of the Back to God program, Feb. 7, served for the 34th time Nov. 7-13. The Cmdr Collins also asked that each Le- 1954; (2) its telecast in cooperation program was begun in order to focus gion Post support and assist local thea- with The American Legion of the Flag public attention on the needs, aims, and ter owners to interest their fellow citi- Raising Ceremony at the Nat'l Capitol achievements of our schools, and to pro- zens in seeing how the modern Army on Flag Day, June 14, 1954; and (3) mote the teaching and fostering of is put together and how it handles its "its continued cooperation with The Americanism in the schools. world-wide responsibilities in the Atom- American Legion in other endeavors to ic Age. stir the patriotism of the people of the Joint Effort ]) Winners of the American Legion United States." A recent example of The American Editorial Awards for 1953-54 have been } Chaplain Hcm'}7 G. Spraggins, former Legion's continuing interest in teaching announced. They are: Tlic Indianapolis gambler who reformed and who served Americanism in the schools came from News, Indianapolis, Inch, for its Amer- with the 357th Inf. Regt., 90th Div., New Mexico. There a joint committee of ican Legion Birthday tribute; The Tren- wants to contact former members of this to The New Mexico Education Ass'n. and tonian, Trenton, N. J., for its editorial regiment for two reasons: (1) appear The American Legion prepared a book- "The Way Back", a tribute to the Back in the battle scenes of the movie From let which contrasts the American way To God movement; Don Barry, of The Hell To Glory, based on the Chaplain's of life with that of the communist slave Era, Bradford, Pa., for his editorial col- life; and (2) to attend a reunion ban- states. Fifteen thousand copies of the umn, "Born of War, Valiant Legion quet in Los Angeles. Write the Chaplain booklet, The Democratic Way of Life Lives in Peace;" Jack Hamm, of Waco, c/o Producers Guaranty Co., 6000 and Soviet Communism, will be dis- Tex., for his religious drawing, Back on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood 28, Cal. tributed to high school and college stu- the Foundation, published in more than j) The Back to God movement, which dents in New Mexico. The booklet con- 500 American newspapers. encourages regular church or synagogue tains forewords by Nat'l Cmdr Seaborn Honorable mention citations were attendance, daily family prayer, relig-

P. Collins; J. Edgar Hoover, Director of awarded to: The Newport News, New- ious training of all youth, is now a per- the FBI; and William A. Early, former port, B. I.; The Times-Advertiser, Tren- manent American Legion program. The

President of the Nat'l Education Ass'n. ton, N. J.; The Lewiston Journal, Lewis- campaign, endorsed by each Nat'l Con- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 • 33 vcntion since 1951, was unanimously be loaded with pictures and will cover tain States Telephone & Telegraph Co., endorsed by the 36th Nat'l Convention the activities of the group during and is paying the wire transmission costs to in Washington, D.C., this year. Dele- after WVV2. Since the project to com- supply the Football Roundup to patients

gates to that Convention also urged plete the history is not a profit-making at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital by means that standing committees at National, venture, the book will be provided to of bedside earphones. Post also present- Department, and Post levels push the former 305th members at cost of printed a framed facsimile of the Declaration campaign. ing and production; all other work in- of Independence to the school for tu-

) The Dept of Michigan reached a volved in its preparation is being do- berculous children at the National Jew- milestone in its fight against tubercu- nated by former members. Many of the ish Hospital, in Denver.

losis when it dedicated the new people who were in the 305th (among \ Post 270, Venango, Neb., whose 1955 $450,000 addition to The American them: Gen. Curtis LeMay, Cmdr, Stra- membership as of Sept. 8 was 72, has Legion Hospital at Battle Creek. The tegic Air Command, who, as the group's completed work on its Post home. The new wing is the first hospital building first CO, took it into combat in the building was purchased for $1,000 and erected by State funds on State prop- ETO) have been trying for years to an additional amount of approximately erty but furnished and equipped en- make such a history available. But there $7,000 for materials was raised through tirely by contributions of Michigan Le- is a difficulty: those who are writing the the efforts of the Post and Unit and gionnaires and Auxiliary members who history need to hear from many more other organizations and individuals. Post donated more than $30,000 to the one- former members of the group in order members did 95% of the labor required story, 120-bed unit. In addition to the to make the project a success. They ask for the remodeling and repair of the furniture and equipment, the donors that all old 305th'ers put out a maximum building as well as for the construction also provided a complete audio, radio effort in spreading the word that those of a community playground which the and electronic control system for the who wish to order the history or to get Post is building on an adjacent lot.

patients. information about it should write: P.O. ]> When Judy Oakwood won the $200

]) What is said to be the largest ship- Box 305, Times Square Station, New award in the Illinois Dept Essay Con- ment of relief goods ever delivered to a York 36, N. Y. test she became the third consecutive winner sponsored by Post 610, of Oak- 5th Air Force unit in Korea — thirteen ]| Dept of Missouri is distributing to tons of used clothing and shoes, and vi- new Post Commanders in Missouri a wood.

tamins—has been received by the 4th small pamphlet called Mr. Commander, )\ Among the achievements of Post 200, Fighter Interceptor Wing in response to A Personal Word Please, which — in very Black River Falls, Wis., are: (1) spon- a plea by the Wing Chaplain, Father brief space—arms a new Post Command- sorship of the Jackson Little League baseball loop for boys eight through Edmund J. Fleming, Past Dept Chap- er with basic aids for discharging his re- lain of Massachusetts. The goods, first of sponsibilities. Any Post Commander who twelve years in Black River Falls; and some 60 tons, which are the fruits of an heeds its advice (given succinctly in (2) distribution of Grace Before Meals eight-month campaign by the Massa- five pages) will have a highly successful cards as part of its Back to God Pro- chusetts 40&8, are being distributed to year. A detailed calendar of important gram. approximately 2500 Koreans in five or- American Legion programs and events ]\ Post 365, Bay Shore, N. Y., has initi-

phanages (two of which are sponsored is included. ated a counseling service called "Youth by the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing), Problems, Unlimited." Its aim is to pro- RECENT POST DOINGS: a hospital, and a home for the aged in vide advice concerning youth problems for children of all ages and their parents. the Seoul area. ]> Post 1217, New York, N. Y., gave the service is offered at and ]) The Dept of Defense has announced 1954 Bill of Rights Gold Defense Medal The no charge

that Christmas parcels for members of to William Randolph Hearst, Jr., to freedom from publicity is assured. Post the Armed Forces overseas should be commend his publications "for stead- offers the phrase "Youth Problems, Un- mailed by Nov. 15. Boxes addressed to fastly proclaiming, with surpassing limited" to any Post which may care to an Army or Fleet Post Office should not excellence, the expression of the glory adopt the idea, and has expressed desire weigh more than 70 lbs. nor be more of American history, ideals and way of to hear what developments may occur than 100 inches in length and girth life throughout these critical times and in those Posts which begin similar pro- combined. Air parcel post may not against as serious a subversive con- grams. weigh more than two lbs. spiracy as our country has ever expe- ]) Members of Post 73, Vincennes, Inch, have come up with a double-barreled ]| In Sept., Mrs. R. J. Murray, 70, of rienced." of helping the of Dimes Eaton, Colo., got a free trip to Hawaii )\ Post 1, Manila, Philippines, awarded method March when her son Capt. Edward R. Murray, a parchment scroll for valor to the crew and, at the same time, increasing mem- stationed at Tripler Army Hospital, of the aircraft from Clark Air Force Base bership. During the recent emergency Honolulu, became the first winner of the which rescued nine survivors of a Cath- March of Dimes campaign, Post voted "Hometown USA" Contest, jointly spon- ay Pacific airliner which had been shot to donate one dollar of the membership sored by The American Legion and Pan down by communist Chinese fighter dues to the polio drive. Result: 100 American World Airways. Capt. Mur- planes south of Hainan Island. members paid their 1955 dues, and a check for was presented to the ray had entered the contest, first of a ]\ Post 199, Hawthorne, N. J., raised $100 series to be conducted for American more than $2,000 for its building fund County March of Dimes Committee. forces overseas, by submitting a request by distributing maps of Hawthorne con- }\ Post 125, Pennsauken Township,

to the Washington, D. C, office of The taining a street index, and a listing of N. J., submitted a resolution to the American Legion, for a tune to be played fire calls and community services. Post Township Committee asking that legis- lor his mother on his home town radio Cmdr Jack Meyers has offered to relay lation be enacted to prohibit the sale, station. The tune was played and Mur- details of the plan and a copy of the distribution, and dissemination of lewd, ray's name was drawn—winning the trip map to any Post interested in the en- obscene, and horrendous comic books. for his mother. deavor. Address inquiries to Meyers at As a result of that resolution, a citizens' committee has been formed to make a ]) Some former members of the 305th 110 Tuxedo Ave., Hawthorne, N. J. to Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, are produc- ]) For the third year, Post 1, Denver, thorough study of the problem and ing a history of that outfit. The book will Colo., with the cooperation of the Moun- (Continued on page 36)

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The U.S. Government does not pay for this advertisement. It is donated by this publication in cooperation with the Advertising Council and the Magazine Publishers of America. (Continued from page 34) tionnaire to ascertain on which commit- MISSING take whatever steps it deems necessary tees they would prefer to serve and how to curb the flow of this trash. The com- much time they could spare for such IN KOREA mittee is comprised of leading members service. Name, rank, and complete unit should be of church groups, vets' groups, service or- clearly spelled out — no abbreviations. Re- ganizations, PTA groups, & civic groups. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: plies to these notices which ask for money should be reported to the editors. } For two years Post and Unit 122, Jobs, Honors, Activities Methuen, Mass., have participated with 1st Cav. Div., 5th Cav. Regt., Co. L - Merble E. Charles E. Daniel, Past Cmdr of Post Wilson missing Feb. 15, 1951. Anyone who other organizations in that community has any information about him please write 14, Anderson, S. C, appointed to fill the his mother. Mrs. Hazel I. Wilson, 356 S. Main in conducting Night" for high a "Prom St., Frankfort, Ind. unexpired term of the late U. S. Senator school students. Highlights of the events 7th Div., 32nd Inf. Regt., Co. B - Sgt. John E. Burnet R. Maybank. Joens reported missing Dec. 2, 1950. Anyone have been the showing of an after-the- who has any information about him please Lee Ward, Past Dept Cmdr of Arkan- write his mother, Mrs. Marie E. Joens. 629 dance movie under conditions similar to sas (1949-50), elected Chancery Judge S.E. 1st Ave., Cheshire Apts. #3, Fort Lauder- a Hollywood premier, with uniformed dale. Fla. for the largest Chancery District in Ar- 1st Cav. Div., 8th Engineer Combat Bn., Co. D - Legionnaires escorting young ladies to Sgt. Willie N. Bryant missing Sept. 4, 1950; kansas. reported dead July 16. recovered near the lobby of the theater, and the serving 1952; Paul Rutheiser, Past Cmdr, 1st Dis- Sansong. Anyone who knew him or who knows of a turkey supper after the movie. Re- the circumstances of his disappearance please trict, Dept of New York, appointed Di- write his parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. N. Bryant. sults: No auto accidents, no anxious par- R #2, Stilwell, Okla. rector of Veterans Affairs for the City of 24th Div., 19th Inf., Co. F - Robert Hamilton ents, no trouble of any kind, PFC New York. killed July 20, 1950. Anyone who served with j) Post 111, Tampa, Fla., has provided him or who was with him at the time of his Mrs. Sarah B. Seibert, appointed Ad- death please write his mother, Mrs. Helen rent-free space for the Tampa Air Force Dumler, 112 Croft St., Cincinnati 32, Ohio. jutant of the Dept of Mexico. - Recruiting Station. 32nd Inf. Regt., Co. B Pvt. Michael Dyondya James S. Gwaltney, appointed Adju- missing Dec. 2, 1950. Dept. of the Army has ) Post 1240 (Republic Aviation Post), declared that he died Jan., 1951. His parents, tant of the Dept of Illinois, succeeding Mr. and Mrs. George Dyondya, 1634 E. 4th Suffolk County, N. Y., which collected Leonard W. "Doc" Esper who resigned St., Bethlehem, Pa., would appreciate hearing $14,392.55 from Republic Aviation em- from anyone who knew their son. to enter private business. 24th Div., 21st Inf. Rgt., Co. A - Pvt. Charles G. ployees in a "Buddy Box" campaign last Kaniatobe reported missing July 10, 1950; pre- John M. Lindsay, appointed Adjutant sumed dead Jan. 4, 1954. Anyone who served Christmas, recently did the very impor- with him please write his father, Walter Kan- of the Dept of Nevada. iatobe. Rt. 1. B-94, Idabel, Okla. tant job of following up with an account- - Frank 1. Hale, of Los Angeles, Cal., 8th Cav. Rgt., Co. A Pvt. Kenneth W. Lippert re- ing of the use of the money. Gifts and ported missing Nov. 2. 1950. in the vicinity of who served as Administrative Assistant Unsan. In Aug.. 1953, he was reported to have distributed to four hospitals funds were died Feb. 16, 1951, in a POW Camp. His to Past Nat'l Cmdr Lewis K. Gough, and sanitaria caring for veterans in N. Y. mother, Mrs. Vivian Lippert, 1552 Hammerly elected President of the California Gro- Ct., S.E., Canton, Ohio, would appreciate State, to a county welfare and hospital hearing from anyone who knew him after cers' Ass'n. he was captured. fund, to the Legion State veterans rest 38th Field Artillery Bn. - PFC James M. Liggett Clayton B. Orth, Dept Adjt of Ari- camp, to a veteran's widow, and to a missing Nov. 30, 1950. Anyone who knows zona, hospitalized in Phoenix, Ariz., what happened to him alter that date please hospitalized veteran in bad financial write Mr. & Mrs. Granville A. Liggett, R.l, following a heart attack. Peabody. Kan. for straits. $13,792.55 of the total went 24th Div., 19th Inf., Co. C - PFC Reginald F. equipment and gifts for the comfort of Died Shackleford missing Jan. 1. 1951 near Chudo- long-ni. Presumed dead by government Dec. patients in four hospitals, including a Jay Cathcrwood Hormel, for many 31. 1953. Anyone who served with him, or who knows what happened to him please write radios, sets, years Chmn of The American Legion public address system, TV his mother, Mrs. Marie J. Shackleford, 1435 books, clothing, tape recorders, cigar- Employment Committee, of a coronary 29th Ave., North. St. Petersburg, Fla. ettes, tobacco, candy, etc. occlusion, at his home in Austin, Minn. of the board of one of the world's ]) Spurred by the article "Who Are the Chmn Censors?" (The American Legion Maga- largest meat packing concerns, he was COMRADES zine, July, 1954), Post 272, Rockaway the first to can ham successfully. During IN Beach, N. Y., has begun a program the depression, Mr. Hormel established DISTRESS whereby the Post Americanism Chmn a guaranteed annual wage for his em- Army will buy two pro-American or anti-com- ployees. Space does not permit notices to contact munist books each month. One volume Bertram W. Wall, Past Dept Cmdr of persons for any purpose except to assist in establishing a claim for a veteran or his de- is for the Post Library, the other is to be Rhode Island (1923-24). pendents. Statement to that effect should given to the local public library. Chester H. Grant, Past Dept Cmdr of accompany notice. heart at- j> Post 124, Kansas City, Mo., has spon- Massachusetts (1940-41), of a 42nd Div., 117th Ammunition Train, Co. D (WW1) tack. sored Scout Troop 105 for 29 consecu- — In order to establish a claim, I need to contact John A. Runbach whose last known tive years, and for the past 10 years has Judge J. A. Howell, Past Nat'l Vice address was 46 Elizabeth St., Johnson City, sponsored Cub Pack 105. Cmdr (1925-26) of Ogden, Utah. N. Y. Anyone who knows his address write me, Edwin F. Dale, 801 E. Bryan, Sapulpa, > Post 1060, Brooklyn, N. Y., has re- John E. Neiccomb, 93, of Augusta, Okla. 302nd Remount Station, Camp Upton, N. Y. (WW1) cently: distributed to the public 111., the oldest living combat veteran of (1) — Need to hear from those who remember my schools in the Flatlands section of VVW1 in The American Legion. having been knocked — by others — from a runaway horse. The incident, which was in Brooklyn thousands of book covers bear- Frank J. Schneller, Past Dept Cmdr line of duty, took place between corrals. Would ing the name of the Post and stressing of Wisconsin (1927-28), after a fall in especially like to hear from Sgt. Williams, of Tucson, Ariz., and Sgt. Bentz, of El Paso, Tex. the Back to God program; (2) begun his home. Help needed to establish claim. Write Ray- mond Shay, P.O. Box 433. Tombstone. Ariz. S. Sena- the first youth organization in Flatlands, Burnett Rhett Maybank, U. 90th Div., 357th Inf., Co. C - In 1945, at the Siegfried Line I was blown off the ground and which plans to enroll all boys age 10 tor from South Carolina, of a heart at- landed on my back. Anyone who recalls the through 16 in the community, and which tack. The Senator, a member of Post 10, incident or who knows the whereabouts of S/Sgt. Teck Hankins, of Texas, write me, will register each boy as a member of Charleston, S. C, served on The Amer- George D. Fox, 16701 Star Route, Shady the national Amateur Athletic Union; ican Legion Nat'l Distinguished Guest Spring, W. Va. Claim pending. Santo Tomas Internment Center, Manila, P. I.— (3) been the scene of the first of a series Committee, 1941-42. Need to contact an Army Repatriation Officer, rank was major, and who was at this Past Adjt whose of presentations of Grand Opera, (4) Pleas E. Greenlee, Dept station Apr. -June, 1945. Anyone who knows or whereabouts write D. Cnderhill, circularized all its 500 members by of Indiana (1928-30), at his home in his name Veterans Hospital, Napa County, Cal. Claim means of a self-addressed, stamped ques- Shelbyville, Ind. pending.

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8lh Div., lMh Inf., Co. C (WW1) - In order to establish claim, I need to contact Wilford Reed, who is thought to have been from Wis- consin. Anyone knowing his whereabouts write me, David Bretthauer, Kirk, Colo. Camp Hood, Tex., I.R.T.C., 95th Regf., 171st Bn., Co. D — Need to contact anyone who knows the whereabouts of Capt. Allen (Co. Com- mander), or the NCOs of the company (especially Cpl. Kessler or Keyzler), or who recalls the trouble I had walking and doing calis- thenics, Nov., 1944. Also need to contact the Mess Sgt. who helped me when I was assigned to quarters after having been released from the hospital. Also need to hear from anyone who knows the whereabouts of Pablo Gonzales and Joseph B. Ryan, with whom I served in the 151st Bn., Co. C, Nov., 1945. Illness which troubled me at that time has developed into multiple sclerosis. Claim pending. Write me, David Alt, 314 Reaume Ave., Kaukauna, Wis. 127th Airborne Engr. Bn., Japan, Nov., 1945-Sept., 1946 - I was a medic (T/4) with H & S Co. at Sindie, and with Co. B at Sapporo. In Jan., 1946, my back was injured at Jump School at Sindie. Need to hear from anyone who remembers me or who recalls my having been injured. Especially need to hear from S/Sgt. Dollin (Los Angeles, Calif.), John Gaffeny (Philadelphia, Pa.), PFC Lindinmier (Sioux City, Iowa), T/5 Pancou (Oak Park, 111.), or William Frazier (Detroit, Mich.). Write me, Norton L. Clock, R. 1, Box 48, Hampden, N. Dak. Claim pending. 2nd Div., Infantry (WWD — Anyone who knows the address of: Anna Forman, S. C. Cunning- ham, W. F. (or Olive) Maneher. Frank Free- man, or Lillian Winkler (believed to have last been in Denver, Colo.), contact Mrs. Helen Cannon, 1808 Poplar St., Amarillo, Tex. Need help to establish claim of Newt Rough. Also need to hear from anyone who served with Rough, who was hospitalized twice. 382nd Inf., Co. K (Oahu, Territory of Hawaii) - Need to contact anyone who has any information about PFC Paul E. Stickley who served with this outfit at Schofield Barracks, 1944. Write his mother, Mrs. Stella Stickley, c/o R. V. Long. Mt. Crawford, Va. 272nd Inf., Co. G (WW2)- Allen T. Goodwin (of Camas, Wash.) served as a First Scout with this outfit in the Bulge and in the Rhineland; he also had served in the ski troops in Colo- rado. Anyone who served with Goodwin or who remembers him write his widow, Mrs. Allen T. Goodwin, Ocean Paik, Wash. Claim pending. 224th General Hospital Group, Chabua, India — While serving with this outfit, I suffered a back injury at the motor pool, June, 1945. I was hospitalized for six weeks; hospital rec- Why pay more? PAL injector blades ords are lost. Anyone who served with me there (I recall Al Ford, of St. Louis, Mo.) write me, Raymond W. Graves, c/o Ernest Howard, Route #3, Rogers, Ark. Claim pending. with hollow ground edges Base Hospital 202, Camp Cody, N. M. (WW1) - Need to contact anyone who remembers me or who remembers my motorcycle accident and my having had barbed wire wound around my neck. M/Sgt. McLaughlin (of Miles City or 59* Billings, Mont.) was in the sidecar when acci- 20 for only dent occurred. Would also like to hear from Miss Crystal Eastman (Ogden, Utah), Miss Anderson (Devils Lake, N. D.), who were nurses in Ward 14; Graves Hulsey; and John- Compare a Pal Injector Blade with Yet Pal Injector Blades cost less to son (Enid, Oka.) Write me. Claude C. Hart, to only for 20 hollow Creighton, Neb. Claim pending. the brand you now use. Even the buy. You pay 59^ Camp Lee, Va., Training Center, Central Officers naked eye, the Pal blade looks ground blades in a metal injector Training School, 13th Co. — While testing gas masks during a night march, Nov. 30, 1918, I sharper. And if seeing isn't believing, with Pal's exclusive used-blade vault. was injured. At the Training Center Infirmary, the case was diagnosed as severe sprain of the wait till you try one in your razor! Pal Hollow Ground Injector Blades right knee; I was marked duty. With consider- reason for Pal's clear-cut su- fit every type of injector razor. Try able difficulty I completed the course. Anyone The who recalls the accident write me, William A. periority is its hollow ground edge . . them today! Kimble, 226 Park Entrance Drive, Lebanon , Hills, Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh 28, Pa. an extra, costlier step in manufacture. Fort Hood, Tex., 12th Armored Inf. Bn., Co. D - On July 21, 1950, Casimire T. DeMoll executed a will before 1st Lt. William Woodward. O. price is a pleasant surprise! This was witnessed by M/Sgt. James (or even the Jerome) L. Giarin, S/Sgt. Frank Bradshaw, Sgt. Paul P. Burhin (or Burhim). DeMoll, who was a Sgt., later served in Korea with Co. I or Co. D of the 19th Inf. Anyone who knows the addresses of those who witnessed the will, or who is familiar with DeMoll's handwriting contact T. M. McBride III, 849 Nat'l Bank of Commerce Bldg., New Orleans 12, La. Camp Atterbury, Ind., 184th Collecting Co. — In order to establish claim of Julius Raymond Evans, need to contact the following men who served with him in this outfit, Mar. 1951: John Dixon, George Dixon, Mike Ellis, Percy Hol- lands, Arthur Davis. Write John M. Monticue, Service Officer, 109 West Broadway, Mon- mouth, 111. new PAL INJECT0-MATIC - the 465th Field Artillery Bn., Battery C — Anyone who served with this outfit in the Philippines and WORLD'S MOST MODERN SPEED RAZOR! who remembers Joseph J. Sitko write him at 164 Newland Ave., Woonsocket, R. I. Claim It changes blades instantly, rinses clean pending. just as fast. It will give you better shaves 464th C. A. Bn. - (AA) From Sept. 1943 through PRODUCTS than your present razor. And it's uncon- Mar. 1944, PFC Thomas C. Vassar served with ditionally guaranteed! In this unit at Camp Davis, N. C. He now needs „„/ Qftrf Safety Razor Corporation yv to contact Capt. Aaron J. Lane who was bat- American travel case with 10 blades QjT* THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 • 37 tery commander at this time. Write Marshall 43, Pa. Claim pending. on 10th Army Hq work, particularly from E. Duggin, Service Officer, Woodbury, Tenn. Motor Supply Train, Co. 366, Reserve Mallet, at- Col. McLain, Maj. Beggs, Capt. Swan, Lieu- Claim pending. tached to French Army - On May 27, 1918, I tenants Croker, Randall, Bates, Braswell, and 93rd AAA Gun Bn., Battery C— I served overseas was gassed at Bussy DeLong, France, while Fogg, and Doctors Neuren and Grady. Write from May 16, 1942 until July 25, 1945, when our split convoy was hauling French reinforce- me, (former T/Sgt.) Frank A. (Pappy) Part- I left Okinawa. In order to establish claim ments to the frant. In order to establish claim, ridge, 2527 Channing Way, Berkeley 4, Cal. arising from illness incurred in the Gilbert I need to contact persons who were in the con- Claim pending. Islands, I need to contact: Mess Sgt. Harold voy, especially: Lt. H. J. Harper, Lt. George L. Cox; T/4 Mike T. Corona, a cook; and Cpl. L. Herrick, Walter V. Rowe. Arthur Lee Har- Navy John G. Richwine. Write me, Elmer Guthrie, ris, Herbert Cassenellis, Russell R. Busick, 629 Cedar St., Plainview, Tex. Allen H. Jones, Jacob A. Groh. Robert W. USS New Mexico (Mar., 1938-Oct., 1940) - Need 32nd Engineers, Co. F (A.E.F. 1918) - Need to Brothers, and Bernard C. Collins. Write me, to hear from anyone, especially those who contact anyone who remembers my back in- Ernest G. Smith, 736 E. Linden Ave., Miamis- were in "B" (Boiler) Division, who remembers jury. I was assigned to quarters for 13 days, burg, Ohio. Bernard (Barney) Bovin having been in Sick because the hospitals were filled. Some of the Camp Forrest, Tenn., Station Hospital, Patients Bay suffering from "cat fever" and earache. men I remember were: Kitchen, Edwards, Detachment — From about Nov. 15 to Dec. 1, Nov., 1940. Write Bernard Bovin, 1101 Union Hall, Turley, Gilmore, Burton, Louis. Write 1943, Joe B. Baker was in this hospital as a St., Brooklyn 25, N. Y. Claim pending. me. Luther E. Attebery, 1016 W. 1st St., Webb result of an injury he had suffered while at- 101st Naval Construction Bn. — Need to hear from City, Mo. Claim pending. tempting to lift the trail of a 105 howitzer men from this outfit and from other Naval 5th Inf., Co. L, Ancon Hospital (Ancon, Panama) which had fallen on another soldier. Baker's units who left Okinawa about Oct. 25, 1945 In late 1915 or early 1916, Pvt. John Sadoski back was permanently injured. There is no and arrived at Seattle. Wash., Nov. 10, 1945, underwent an operation for the removal of record of Baker's hospitalization. He needs to and who remember my having undergone sur- varicose veins. Anyone who remembers him, hear from anyone who remembers his having gery aboard the transport; also need to know especially Sgt. Price (of 5th Inf., Co. L) who been hospitalized. Write Joe B. Baker, RFD 1, the name of the ship on which the operation was admitted to hospital same day for same Graham, Tenn. Claim pending. took place. Write me. Henry J. Brown (former Travis, kind of operation, contact Eugene Hummel, Camp Tex., 165th Depot Brigade, 1st Dev. MM 2/c), 6224 Erdrick St.. Philadelphia 35, Jr., Commander, American Legion Post 264, Bn., 3rd Dev. Co. (WW1) — Anyone who served Pa. Claim pending. Clerk's Box, Post Office, Camden, N. J. Claim with Pvt. Douglas L. Moffett in this outfit, Armed Guard aboard SS Norlago — Need to con- pending. Sept.-Dec, 1918, or who knew him, or who tact anyone who served on this ship. 1943-44, 23rd Engineers — Need to contact Red Ferguson knows anvone who served with this outfit write and who knew Earl (Bill) Driver. Especially and William B. Smith who were with me in Mrs. D. L. Moffett, Rt. 3, Hermleigh, Tex. need to hear from Harold Yates. Write Earl this outfit at Fort Bliss, Tex., in 1917, when Claim pending. W. Driver, Route 2, Smithville, Tenn. Claim I lost my voice. Write me, Alvin E. (Tex) 95th Evacuation Hospital, Casablanca, North Af- pending. Wern, at Rl, Box 1, Eufaula, Okla. Claim rica — Need to contact former Capt. Max Ehr- U. S. Naval Supply Base, Cardiff, Wales - In 1919, pending. lich who served with this outfit as a doctor, John Mitchell, Y 1/c, was injured when he was 1st Div., 16th Inf., Co. L - While on patrol at in order to establish claim of former PFC crowded from a truck and fell to a cobblestone night in early June, 1918, near Cantigny, my Robert A. Reising of same outfit. Write Her- street. The truck operated between the dock spine was injured when I fell into a shell hole mann A. Wenige, Service Officer, 217-219 West and the Angel Hotel for the benefit of crew and my weapon fired and hit a grenade carried Court Ave., Jeffersonville, Ind. working at the "shed." Anyone who recalls the by a corporal (his name sounded like Colby) 40th Div., 108th Inf., Cannon Co. - On Guadal- incident write John Mitchell, 1423 Malcolm with me. He was badly wounded and was canal my arm was severely burned when I Ave., Newport, Ark. Claim pending. replaced by another corporal whose name was rescued a gunner from a tank into which a USS Pennsylvania (WW1) — Need to contact any- Barry. Need to contact these men (about jelly bomb had been thrown. I was hospitalized one, especially George Hagermann, who re- whose names I am not certain) and the fol- for another ailment at: Schofield Barracks, members that cold Jan., 1918, when we were lowing men (also not certain about their T.H., 1944; at Fort Lewis, Wash., 1945; at in dry dock and were putting on the last coat names): Capt. Logan, Sgt. Cooper, Pvt. Cas- Fort Douglas, Utah, 1946. Need to hear from of red lead by floodlights. I was under the per, Mann, Bogocho, Pastva, Post, Chapman, anyone who recalls my hospitalization, espe- scupper lip and got wet when someone drained Russo. Write me, Mike Kruike, at Grand cially from Cpl. Nielson (guard at Japanese a bathtub. Since I could not get off the stage Marsh, Wis. Claim pending. prison ward. Hospital 3. Fort Lewis, Wash., until the bottom of the ship was painted, my 98th Div. 389th Inf. Regt Co. M - About Dec. 27, 1945), and from Col. Norton (Adjutant, 9th clothes were frozen stiff on me. Write me. 1945, while going toward Osaka, Japan, from Service Command 1945-6). Claim pending. Paul M. Block, 724 Clark Rd., Lansing, Mich. Minoshima, the jeep in which I rode with an Write me, N. L. Rogers, c/o General Delivery, Claim pending. outgoing mail clerk named Zuckerman and two Salt Lake City, Utah. Goat Island Naval Hospital, San Francisco, Cal., others rolled over. I am now hospitalised and 1398th Engr. Bn. — Need to hear from anyone who Aug. 26-Sept. 26, 1918 - In order to establish need to contact anyone who knows anything remembers my having been sick on Okinawa claim, need to hear from men who were in about the incident or the whereabouts of those after having been in hospital on Saipan. Would hospital for surgery at the same time I was. involved. Write me. Leon Sprague, at 306 East like to hear from anyone who served with me Write me, Wesley Arthur (Whitey) Lindau, 415 Thurston St., Elmira, N. Y. Claim pending. Dewey St., Oregon City, Oregon. Fort Itemiing, Ga., Reception Center — In order to USS New Jersey (1918) — I was rammer man for establish claim, former Sgt. James E. Williams THE AMERICAN the 8-inch quarterdeck turret gun. Need to needs to contact two officers under whom he LEGION contact anyone who remembers my having served at this station: Capt. Leon E. Chakin NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS been treated for rheumatic condition at Vir- and Lt. Donald S. Culley. Write Williams at ginia Beach Rifle Range. Especially need to 148 U St., N.E.. Washington, D. C. AUGUST 31, 1954 hear from Lt. Hoppe, medical personnel, and Reynold Sehaver — This man was born Mar. 5, members of the third division. Write me, 1905, at Underwood, N. D. He served during ASSETS Otto F. Marquardt, 305 South 14 St., Salem, World War 2 and is believed to be a member Ore. Claim pending. of American is Cash 859: and Bainbridge, 1st Bn., Co. 372 - The Legion. He requested to on hand and on deposit. . . .$ 227,779.80 LST Md., contact his family in Ulysses, Kan., in connec- Receivables 279,114.31 Need to hear from someone who recalls the tion with settlement of an estate. Inventories 428^027169 accident at Bainbridge in which my knee was 10th Mountain QM Bn., Co. A, Pack Co. - In Invested Funds 960,611.22 injured. Especially need to hear from Dr. order to establish claim, Jess L. Fowler needs Permanent Trusts: Koval, who drew the water from my knee. to contact 1st Sgt. Robert M. Powers (from Overseas Graves Decoration Also need to hear from those who served with New York State) and Capt. James B. Ingram Trust Fund $ 256,477.33 me aboard LST 859, especially information (from Okla. or Tex.). Anyone knowing their Employees' Retirement concerning the many times my knee collapsed. addresses write Lynn E. Roberts, Service Of- Trust Fund 1 .636.01Hi.26 1,892,573.59 Would particularly like to hear from Phm 1/c ficer. P.O. Box 156, Yreka, Cal. P. D. Thompson and Freddie Davis. Write me, Real Estate 973,972.65 Edgewood Arsenal, Md., Guard and Security Unit Furniture and Fixtures, Randall J. Hurley, Elm Ave., R.F.D., Burling- — Anyone who remembers ton, Mass. Raymond J. Baker less depreciation 252,743.56 having suffered a broken nose during Norfolk, Va., Naval Operating Base, Marine Bar- the sum- Deferred Charges 74,611.72 mer of 1946, write him at 397 Pine St., Provi- racks; Little Creek, Va. (Sept., 1941-Dec, dence, R. I. Claim pending. $5,089,434.54 1941) — Need to hear from Pvt. Lovevette who Fort Bragg, N. C, F.A.R.T.C., C-5-2, PI. 2 - Need knows about the time I went blind while on to hear from anyone who served with Fred L. LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE guard duty at Norfolk, and who visited me at Foster in this unit Feb. -June, 1945, or anyone the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. Also need who was with him on Leyte with the 45th AND NET WORTH to contact anyone else who knows about the Coast Artillery, Hq Bn.. Aug. -Dec, 1945. Write incident, especially the doctor who examined Current Liabilities Mrs. Fred L. Foster, Rt. 2, Box 100, Buford, $ 321,819.67 me at the N.O.B. Naval Yard. Write me. Funds restricted to Ga. Claim pending. as use 86,901.95 Albert Pfund, Jr., 345 North 24th St., Louis- Deferred Income I.R.T.C., Fort McClellan, Ala.; O.C.S. Class 115, 859,726.58 ville 12, Ky. Permanent Trusts: Fort Benning, Ga. — Need to contact anyone USS Mathews — Anyone who knows about the Overseas Graves Decoration who served in these units with 2nd Lt. William back injuries I (then C 1/c) received from the Trust Fund Watt Russell. Also need to contact anyone who $ 256.477.33 recoil of a 5-inch 38 at Okinawa, 1945, write Employees' Retirement served wilh him at the Officers Mess Manage- me, Lewis A. Ross, 911 N. Dak. Ave., Sioux Trust Fund 1.636.096.26 ment Course G, Fort Bliss, Tex., or in the 1,892,573.59 Falls, S. D. Claim pending. 97th Inf. Div., 387th Inf., Co. K, Camp Swift, Net Worth: LST 53 — Need to locate former Lt. Bayard W. Tex. He especially remembers (from Camp Restricted Capital: Hendricks from Tennessee, in order to estab- Swift) Lieutenants Chas. Sagona. Upperco, Ed- Reserve Fund . .$ 23,852.30 lish claim. Anyone who knows his address die Reeves, Don Marvin, and Arthur Petchulat, Restricted Fund. 18,331.42 write A. J. Miciotto, 1801 Milam, Shreveport, and Cpl. Smith. Sgt. Kolesky. and Pvt. Moore. Reserve for Construction La.

Write William Watts Russell, c/o Mrs. Alethia Washington . . . 38,534.18 Adak, 1943-44 — In order to establish claim, need Anne Russell. 401 Fourth St., N.E., Cairo, Ga. Real Estate 973,972.65 to contact a hospital attendant (who worked in 1st Div., 28th Inf., Co. A - On July 20, 1918, Reserve for Reha- the solarium) named "Al" who gave me treat- Clarence L. Chatterton was wounded near bilitation 364,018.57 ments for injuries I suffered there. He had Soissons, France. In order to establish claim, Reserve for Child knowledge of chiropractic treatments and had need to hear from anyone who remembers the Welfare 35,472.36 studied in St. Louis, Mo. Write me, Harold E. incident, or from Wm. E. Morse (a schoolmate $1,454,181.48 Love, 5438 Delta, San Gabriel, Cal. who was a capt. in the 163rd Inf. in France, Unrestricted Capital: 1918). Write Chatterton's widow, Mrs. C. L. Excess of Income Air Chatterton, 2255 Claude St., Salem, Ore. over Expense. . 474,231.27 1,928,412.75 11th Airborne Div., 221st Medical Co. — Need to Air Force Training Base, St. Petersburg, Fla. (1943) $5,089,434.54 contact Casper Marking, of Ore., and Ronald — Need to contact Lt. Gerald Shattlander who Weidwald, of Johnstown, Pa. Write me, Cor- was in charge of targets 1-7 on the base and nelius J. Dugan, 5337 Osage Ave., Philadelphia who, noting my hearing difficulty after firing

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had begun, took me off the firing line. Also need to contact Dr. (Maj.) Craig Vanie (or Cragavanie), Ear, Eye. Nose and Throat Spe- cialist at Coral Gables Hospital, Coral Gables, Fla. Write me. B. M. Main-lift. 101 Vi East 6th St., Kinsley, Kan. 6th Air Force, 20th Troop Carrier Sqdn. — Would like to hear from crew members who remember flight during which my C-47 was lost in hurricane en route San Juan, Puerto Rico, Halloween Day, 1944. Write me, Donald H. Baker, P.O. Box 145, Wethersfield 9, Conn. Claim pending. Bergstrom Field, Tex., 1081st Guard Sqdn.; 807th A.A.F.B.U., Section A; Military Police Unit — When I fell out of a C-46 airplane one night in the first part of 1945, PFC Davis, whose home state was Indiana, helped me up. Davis may remember me as "Burrhead." In order to establish claim, I need to hear from Davis. Write me, (former Cpl.) Cecil J. Clifton, R. 1, Box 208, Lexa, Ark. Bowman Field, Ky., 27th Air Base Sqdn. — In order to establish claim, I need to contact anyone who served with me in this unit. 1942- 43. Write me, (former Cpl.) Joseph Bondy, 532V2 N. Bromley Ave., Scranton, Pa. Eglin Field, Fla., 607th Single Engine Gunnery Training Sqdn., Aux. Field No. 1 (Oct., 1942- July, 1943) — In order to establish claim, I need to hear from 1st Sgt. McCallister or Cpl. D. Strausky, or anyone who served with me and who saw me almost walk into an airplane propellor, or who saw me run out of the tow target practice pit. Write me, Albert Pfund, Jr., 345 North 24th St., Louisville 12, Ky. OUTFIT REUNIONS Notices restricted to those which give: Name of outfit; date; city; meeting place of reunion; name and address of secretary. Army 33rd Div. (California Chapter) — Annual reunion and banquet, Los Angeles, Cal.; Nov. 11; Rodger Young Auditorium. For details contact Bob Lindner. 5134 Clara St.. Bell, Cal. 90th Div. — 36th annual reunion, Tulsa, Okla.; Nov. 12-14; Mayo Hotel. Info from Samuel W. Fry, Court House Bldg., Tulsa, Okla. 8th Inf. Regt. (WW1) — Annual reunion and dinner, San Francisco, Cal.; Nov. 6; Whitcomb Hotel. Write Henry M. Buckley, 375 9th St., San Francisco 3, Cal. 309th Field Artillery Ass'n.—Annual reunion, Roch- ester, N. Y.; Nov. 6; Doud Post American Legion Home, Buffalo Road. For info write Jack Regan, 875 Long Pond Road, Rochester 12, N.Y. 145th Inf., Co. G (WWl)-Reunion, Findlay, Ohio; Nov. 7; Moose Hall. Contact C. A. Presnell, 811 Park St., Findlay, Ohio. 322nd Field Signal Bn. (Northern California) — 37th anniversary reunion, Sacramento, Cal.; Nov. 6-7; Senator Hotel. Write Johnnie Bas- cou. 1221 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento, Cal. 322nd Field Signal Bn. (Southern California) - other whiskey. 37th anniversary reunion. Los Angeles. Cal.; CALVERT SATISFIES like no Nov. 13. Write Dave Levenson, 512 S. Broad- flavor . . . way. Los Angeles, Cal. So for a surprising whiskey treat that's rich in 138th Inf., Co. I — 33rd annual reunion, St. Louis. all the way down Mo.; Nov. 13; Hotel York. For details write yet soft to your taste and smooth A. L. Bardgett, 1240 Arch Terrace, Richmond Reserve. Your first swallow will tell Heights 17, Mo. . . . drink Calvert 7th Ohio Inf. Regt. (Old Ohio Guard), Co. D Calvert is now one of the two largest-selling (WW1) - Reunion, Pleasantville, Ohio; Nov. you why 14; American Legion Home, Post 9. Write whiskies in the world. Just try it J. E. Derbyshire, 309 E. Main St., Lancaster, Ohio. Evacuation Hospital No. 37 — 36th annual reunion, and address with $1 to Chicago, 111.; Nov. 20; Bismarck Hotel. Con- SEND YOUR NAME tact Goldstein, Max A. 120 S. LaSalle St., Calvert, Box 5068-AL, Chicago, 111., for four Chicago 3, 111. 18th Engineers, Ry. (WW1), Seattle-Tacoma Area de luxe "Lo-Bali" Glasses hand-carved with — Annual reunion, Nov. 11. For details con- ( Print Plainly. tact Kenneth Mulligan. P.O. Box 1082, Ta- your last-name initial. coma, Wash. 74th Inf., Co. F; 108th Inf., Hq Co. - Annual or taxed, prohibited, or otherwise restricted by state reunion, Buffalo, N. Y.; Nov. 6; Hotel La- (Offer void if territories and possessions. Deliv- fayette. Write Joseph Silbert, 499 Washington municipal laws. Limited to U.S.A., its expires May 31, J95.5.) St., Buffalo, N. Y. ery of glasses takes about four weeks. Offer Navy USS Leedstown Survivors Ass'n. — Annual reunion and dinner. New York, N. Y.; Nov. 6; Dunhall's Restaurant. Contact Frank A. Wise- man, 126 W. 82nd St., New York, N. Y. CSS Saratoga — 3rd annual reunion, Long Beach, M Cal.; Nov. 27; Lafayette Hotel. Write H. G. Compare... and you Zinnecker, 4735 Graywood Ave., Long Beach 11, Cal. CSS Bolivar, Beach Party — Reunion, Cicero, 111.; Nov. 27-28. Info from Ben Babka, 3516 South 59th Court, Cicero 50, 111. swrtch to Calvert 557th Bomb Squadron Ass'n. — 3rd annual reunion. 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Deer season is full upon us. Statewide re- By JACK DENTON SCOTT John Grisham sends in a report that the ports claim that herds are bigger, fatter Roscoc-Enloc Post #5 of Jefferson City, and healthier than they ever have been. If Mo., staged a four-day Sportsmen Show on water. If you're going to bring the deer you're in a State permitting only the use Sept. 8, 9, 10 and 11 at the Jaycee Fair back on your car fender, wrap it well to of shotguns with rifled slugs, the follow- Grounds in Jefferson City. protect it against dirt, heat and insects. Let ing facts may help you bag your buck. Events were: Coonhound Drag, Fox- the carcass cool at 40 degrees for a full At 100 yards, the shotgun will shoot hound Drag, Checker Board Sam, Fox- week before storing it. Above all, do not from 11 to 16 inches low. At 50 yards, the Horn-Blowing Contest, Missouri State let it freeze, then thaw, then freeze again. slug will drop 3 inches. Shot groups at This ruins the meat. Duck - and - Goose - Calling Championship, 100 s ards will have spreads of 15 inches. Archery Exhibitions, Log-Sawing Contest, And don't throw the hide aw ay. Tanned should have no trouble keeping 50- Wrestling Exhibition, Motorcycle Exhibi- You deerskin can be worked into jackets, gloves yard shots in an 8-inch group. But remem- tion, Bait-and-Fly-Casting Exhibition, and many other handsome items. The ber, not all shotguns shoot alike. So before Superintendent of Documents, Government Horseshoe Contest and a Bench Show for you start off after your buck, fire a few Pointers, Setters, Coonhounds, Foxhounds Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., has shots to check on accuracy. As soon as you and Beagles. put out a booklet for 15 cents called Howe slip a slug in your shotgun you arc convert- There was a sporting goods exhibit Tanning of Lather mid Fur Skins. It is by ing it into a high-powered rifle that will kill catalog No. A 1, 9: 13334/8. local dealers and a rummage sale of sport- up to 600 yards. ing goods by the Cole County 4-H Coun-

Dale Folks, Rocky, Oklahoma, sends this cil. No admission was charged and parking our w ay: "When going to the duck blind, was free. I find it a good idea to take along more Of course there was dancing at night and than one duck call. They don't all work- rides and amusements for adults and chil- alike or the same way . dren. Frank Haggerty was master of cere- twice. . . When building the duck blind, keep in mind that monies and Herbert Huber ran the con- you arc trying to conceal movement. If tests. something loose on the blind moves, blows in the wind, all may be lost. . . . Common If you lose your hunting license certifi- Above is a simple sketch of a deer with barnyard pigeons can be used to train your cate and deer tag, go back where you shaded areas showing where you should dog to hunt quail. Rock the bird, (swing bought it, fill out a lost license certificate, place a shot to effectively down your deer. a few times in the air in a circle to induce and ask the town clerk or person from Red dots indicate sure kills. A hit in any unconsciousness), place it in tall grass. It whom you originally bought the license will other position will usually only cripple it stay put for your dog to hunt. The where to send it. In no time at all you'll scents are almost and may mean a lost deer. identical. . . . have a new license and deer tag. Don't use the "lost" alibi w ith your game warden. Don't bag your deer, then spoil the de- The New York State Conservation De- He's instructed not to go easy on the licious meat by doing all the wrong things. partment recently released figures on law hunter with the mislaid license. It's a good idea to take small violations along a ax, for the first three months of a dozen feet of !4-inch rope and a sharp 1954. It seems 637 violators were fined knife. After you shoot the deer, approach $17,739.50. Some stiff fines were handed cautiously to make sure he's dead. The out. Two hunters were fined $502.50 each body then should be drained of blood as for taking doe deer in closed season. One as possible. group soon Insert your knife five of six duck hunters were heavily inches at base of the neck and chest fined for and taking more than their limit. They cut sideways to sever vessels. had blood 84 ducks. Carrying loaded guns in cars was a The deer should be placed on its left side common violation. And we say it's or on its back with hind quarters down also dangerous. Beware of trigger-happy hill. Make a shallow cut through the ab- shooting companions. The Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. dominal wall, just above sexual organs. Department of the Interior, reports that big-game hunting in Alaska during the Turn knife, sharp side facing up and cut Jack C. Culbreath of the Fish and Wild- life 1953 season was the heaviest on record. right up to the ribs. Then cut out the mus- Service, U. S. Department of the In- And expected to get heavier every year. cular sheet separating the lungs from the terior, informs us that Wildlife Leaflet Reason: Areas formerly inaccessible are abdominal cavity, reaching into chest to #330 which was mentioned in our article "Hunting now being reaches by hunters in "sw amp sever the windpipe and food pipe. Remove For Better Hunting" in the buggies" improvised from odd pieces of lungs, heart, liver, stomach and intestines September issue has been discontinued. Mr. surplus military equipment. from the body. Cut around the anus so that Culbreath states that the same information it will easily pull out with the intestines. is now available from the National Wild- Save the eatable heart and liver and bury life Federation in their booklet "Organiza- Game biologists claim that a ringneck tions the remainder. and Officials Concerned with the pheasant has been known to fly as far as Cut off all bloodshot meat, prop chest Protection of Wildlife and Other Natural three miles. But that's rare. What makes and abdomen open to aid in cooling, and Resources" and may be obtained from the them interesting targets for upland game- Federation hang the both- in a shaded spot. Wipe the at 232 Carroll Street, Takoma shooters is their average flight of 200 yards. Park, entire body cavity dry with cloth, paper Washington, D. C. The price is 25$ In many states pheasant season extends well or dried leaves. Never wash it out with per copy. into November.

4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 Street, Wash- Gerald E. Brown, Box 369, Stuttgart, Men who handle either rifles or shotguns Walter P. Hesch, West 5th times I've Ark., tells us that having done plenty of will be interested in two booklets, Hand- ington, Mo., writes: "Many rifle camping out, he'd like to suggest an item book on Small Bore Rifle Shooting and wanted an extra hole in my belt, my Handbook on Shotgun Shooting published sling, my hunting bag, my dog collar, and he learned that might make life easier. reflect heat from your campfire by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manu- on a lot of other things too numerous to "To toward you while you're sitting around facturers Institute at 250 East 43rd Street, mention. Many's the time I've sat with a trying to cut a exchanging chitchat before bedtime, drive New York 17, New York. The rifle hand- pocket knife for hours hole. it's as easy as this: a few stakes in a semicircle behind the book is basic and covers equipment, marks- nice round Now fire and stretch aluminum foil over them manship, target shooting, practical shoot- Any empty .22 — 45 — 30-06 — or any brass in the world — bright side toward the fire. This will ing, rifle ranges and rifle clubs. It is 76 shell — makes the finest punch throw the heat where it will the most pages and cover, paper bound. The shot- for leather. Try it." do good." gun handbook is thicker, running to 144 pages and cover and tells about the use of Legionnaire Kahil of modern fowling pieces on moving targets. Dick Mt. Trcmpcr, N. Y., is entertaining grouse and deer hunt- It is of special interest to trap and skeet shooters. This handbook contains a great ers at his new Rainbow Lodge in the Cats- fund of information on gun pointing, kills. (In season, of course.) swinging with the target, pulling the trigger, The original Rainbow Lodge caught fire organizing clubs and so on. The chapters last spring and burned to the ground, but Dick and Blanche, (Airs. Kahil), his good "Applying Your Knowledge" and "Clay Dr. Wilson M. Blatz, 608 Livingston right arm in running this well-known re- Target Shooting" are extra good reading. Building, Bloomington, Illinois, feels that sort for hunters and fishermen, pitched Both booklets are illustrated. Cost is 25^ with the hunting season ahead, a trick he right in and with the help of neighbors each to cover handling and mailing. learned will be of help. and a friendly and sympathetic bank, they "It's no job at all," he says, "to be able were able to build a new Rainbow Lodge "Some rifles are equipped with a white to tell how soon the sun will set when out which surpasses the old one. Fishing is dot front sight," remarks Alan Littman of fishing on a lake or hunting in the woods. good in the nearby streams and lakes, while 4th and Broadway, Greensville, Ohio. "The Hold hand at arm's length, palm towards the Catskills afford good shooting. white dot works well in hunting when the face, with fingers parallel with horizon. light is bad, but if you're shooting in Hold hand so the top edge of first finger bright sun it is somewhat less than helpful. just touches bottom of sun. Count the I carry a small bottle of red fingernail fingers necessary to cover distance from If you have a helpful idea that pertains polish and, when the occasion demands, I bottom of sun to horizon. Let each finger to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we just dab the white dot with the red polish. represent 15 minutes, two fingers 30 min- can use it, we'll reward you with a hunting The result, especially when hunting across utes, etc., until the sun goes down. If or fishing accessory. Address: OUTDOOR snow-covered ground, is very good and horizon is hidden by timber or mountain EDITOR, Rod and Gun Club, The Ameri- the red polish can be removed with a range, consider a line at eye level as the can Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth Avenue, simple flick of the fingernail." horizon." New York 19, New York.

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To correct Ed's edge grain problem, Wood molding could have been used craftsmen — impatience. He was always we fastened a piece of half-round mold- to embellish Ed's project still further. in such a hurry to continue work on a ing to its surface. Of course, any other For instance, the doors would have project that he wouldn't leave the wood common wood molding such as a looked more professional if they had in the clamps long enough to allow the quarter-round, clover leaf, or beaded been paneled. Normally, this is done glue to set properly. To overcome this or even one of extruded aluminum cap by cutting grooves in the stile and rail time problem, many professional shops molding with wood veneer facing or members, then inserting the panel in use heat to hasten the setting of the standard metal molding could have been the grooves. Generally, work of this three common types of glue—urea resin, used. Variations with wood molding type requires the use of several ma- liquid fish or hide glue and resorcinol can be had by using one of a narrow chines; but if you don't possess this resin. width so that the edge of the plywood equipment, the same effect can be ob- For example, if you are using one of is not completely covered. This treat- tained by the use of stock moldings. the popular urea-resin powdered glue ment is especially effective where half To make up such a panel, the stiles such as Weldwood, Cascomite or Le or quarter-round banding is used be- and rails are first joined together by the Page's plastic resin glue, the setting cause of a more detailed effect which use of nails or dowels, then a molding period can be reduced by applying the is obtained. Another neat and attractive of suitable size and shape, such as a moderate heat of an infra-red heat lamp method of camouflage is to cut the edge bead and cove, is applied to the inner- to the joints. As such lamps are now in at a 45 degree angle; the edge grain then edge of each member. The panel is set common use in many homes, it is often may be painted or stained to match or against this molding and held securely possible — with the little woman's per- contrast w ith the panel. in place by fastening a small quarter- mission—to borrow one temporarily for Sometimes neither eliminating nor round molding to the opposite side. the workshop. Or, because they are concealing the edge seems to be the The uses to w hich wood molding can comparatively inexpensive, it would answer. If the piece is to be painted or be put are unlimited. An ordinary chest pay you to buy one for your shop if stained, fill the edges with composition lid can have a molded edge and end, much gluing is being done. In the ab- wood plastic or filler, and sand thor- without the use of a shaper, simply by sence of such a lamp, place the work oughly. If a power sander is available, gluing and bradding moldings such as a near an electric heater, radiator, warm another trick is to burn the edges de- nose — or bead and cove to these sur- air register or other source of moderate liberately by sanding so hard that the faces. A series of half-round moldings heat. wood discolors. This gives a hard glued together on a flat surface can It is highly important, too, not to use glazed finish that takes paint nicely or produce a pilaster or fluted effect. Since most modern glues if the temperature is very attractive by itself. To empha- half-round moldings can be obtained of your room goes below 70 degrees. size the exposed plywood edges, paint in a variety of sizes, it is possible to To make casein glues such as Casco them in color, either in a deeper shade make pilasters for small or large cabinet- or Le Page set more quickly there is

of the overall finish, in black, or in a work if this method is used. Once you a trick few home craftsmen know. Mix strongly contrasting color. have become familiar with the shapes the glue with only half the usual amount If you use lumber-core plywood, the and sizes of wood moldings, you will of cold water so that it becomes a very basswood or poplar core will take a find many applications that will make thick paste. Let the mixture stand for good oil-stain wax finish itself. Fill the difficult operations seem simple. at least 20 minutes. Then add slowly edges with wood filler. Try out differ- Ed wanted to know why he had so about half as much denatured alcohol ent finishes on a piece of scrap; often much trouble gluing joints, but it was as the original amount of water. This you can get an effect that will blend easy to see that his difficulty was one thins the glue to a working consistency

nicely with the face veneer. that is common with many amateur and makes it set more rapidly. The new liquid polyvinyl-resin glues and contact cements are very quick- setting. Even the most impatient craftsman can't complain about their harden- ing speed. Actually heat is used in their cases to delay the setting of the glue For example, if a piece of laminated plastic on a small project is misregis- tered and can't be adjusted because the glue has already begun to take hold, a moderately hot iron pressed over the veneer will soften the glue sufficiently to allow the piece to be shifted. Another point Ed missed up on was the construction of the shelves for his bookcase. The usual construction of

home bookcases is merely at right angles in good and practical proportions. When designing your bookshelves, make them as near as possible to the actual width of the books, because this reduces the amount of exposed shelving to be dusted. For this reason, shelving

is generally 1 by 8 or 1 by 10 inches. Shelves spaced 9 inches apart will accommodate most books, and a shelf or

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two with 11 or 12-inch clearance will take care of the larger ones. One-inch boards can support spans of about 3 feet without sagging. Two-inch boards can span approximately 5 feet. Longer spans require additional support such as toenailing them into the backing of the bookcase or into the wall studs. To support the shelf, angle irons or metal shelf brackets, along the back wall, can be successfully used where the back wall is painted a dark color. The front edge of the shelf is screwed to the side of the bookcase. If desired, a dado joint may be used in place of screws. Cleats, quarter-round molding or small metal angle-L brackets can be used for side supports and may be masked from direct view by vertical molding strips along the side edges of the shelves. Perforated metal strips and angle fins which attach to the sides give very Pick up your Ithaca FEATHERLIGHT Repeater- good support and are adjustable so that note the solid top and sides for your safety. The gun the heights of the shelves may be changed. Another adjustable-type shelf for left or right handed shooters! For left handers the is a small metal rest which sets in \4~ FEATHERLIGHT can be ordered with LEFT HANDED inch holes and may be spaced as de- SAFETY at no extra cost. sired. Metal shelf devices and brackets Bottom ejection protects your face and arms. You'll are available from most hardware stores. also get the thanks of the shooter next to you for not Speaking of hardware, attractive designs can add a professional touch to throwing shells at him. your project. Visit your local lumber Bottom ejection keeps out rain, sleet, snow, and dirt yard or hardware store and look over protects the action of your FEATHERLIGHT. the stock completely before starting Double protection — for you and your gun. Shoot an your furniture piece. Ithaca FEATHERLIGHT Repeater. Nothing gives homemade furniture an amateurish appearance like hinges slapped on the front of a door. All good SINCE 1880 professional objects have their hinges Send 10c for shoot- concealed and so should yours. While ing tips and gun ITHACA GUN CO., Inc. these hinges are not entirely invisible, information. only the edges of their thin joints show BOX 29, ITHACA, N. Y. when the door is closed. One half of the hinge is set in a grain cut in the top or bottom edge of the door, while the BECOME AN EXPERT IN other half is set in the front. WHY DON'T YOU WRITE? Writing short stories, articles on current events, business, Invisible-type hinges are also avail- hobbies, human interest stories, travel, sports, local, church and eluh activities, etc., will enable you to earn extra able that set in the edge of the door money. In your own home, on your own time, the New I VIC York Copy Desk Method teaches you how to write the way and frame and are entirely invisible Traffic men earnPA$4,000 to firms need newspaper men learn by writing. Our unique "Wilting $10,000 and up. Thousands of — experts on rates, tariffs, regulations. We train vuu thoroly in spare Aptitude Test" tells whether you possess the fundamental time at home fur traffic when the door is closed. They come in executive traffic- jobs. Personal trainmx under qualities essential to successful writing. You'll enjoy this autlioi itics. Placement counsel and help Write for free 4H-IK1K* book " test. Write for it, without cost or obligation. •Traffic Management — the Fast Growinir Profession. a variety of sizes, with the length of the LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. NEWSPAPER INSTITUTE OF AMERICA plates ranging from 1 to 5 inches, and A Correspondence Institution. Dept. mt.1T Chi. 5. III. SUITE 57 74 - T, ONE PARK AVE., NEW YORK 16, N.Y. the width from % to 1% inches. The mortise is roughly cut out with a brace and bit, the remaining waste stock is removed with a chisel, and the hinge VP PLASTIC lAMINfflMG HOME attached. This takes time and is harder Get ORDERS and CASH from your moil-

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4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 motion- opinions in that matter do not make their attention, and even if a iden- ideal shooting partners. less gunner is seen he isn't always stand-up- tified as danger, but more often as an The writer belongs to the [ and-watch school, and in a lifetime of unusual but harmless part of the scenery. W W™ reasonably successful waterfowling Boners, sometimes erroneously called more living never has seen any reason to change his "bad luck," are something else„that re- in ways except in places where stand-up duces the number of duck dinners of for your dollar vigilance was impossible. Consider: this fair land. "Flock shooting" is one Some blinds permit a good view of them. That mental lapse is the silly business the surrounding terrain from a seated of blasting into the middle of a flock, position, but many do not. In most in- without picking any particular target, stances the shooter's view is obscured with the fallacious notion that it will from the rear and sides by brush or RICHARDSON mobile homes pay heavy dividends. It never does, but other blind trimming. So birds winging Inside and outside, from every nook and a lot of the boys keep trying. your Richardson mobile home has been by from the rear, or from right or left, corner, planned for your comfort and convenience. Years ago as a kid I learned it was a For a fresh outlook on life and a thrifty good way to waste ammunition. I was plan for living— make a Richardson your future hunting on the Oregon side of the Co- home. Remember, there's a Richardson model to lumbia River one morning, when about meet your every need and pocketbook. forty mallards drilled by directly over Mail coupon today for free literature."; my marsh grass blind. I aimed where Richardson trailer mfg. co., inc. they were thickest, worked the slide | Dept. Al, Elkhart, Indiana on an old iModel '97 pump like mad, I Please send me literature on the Richard- I jon Models: 43' Coronation, 37' Highlander, and then hunched over so as not to be | | 32'// Regent, 28' Republic, 22' Sportsman brained by the shower of stricken | | I Name I quackers which I confidently expected would tumble. Street J J State The only thing that pattered down I City | was five charges of No. 6 shot. $ 00 Another amusing situation is set up Kruger P\sto\sFa^am when a pair of ducks break away from 3 .12 CALIBER «'noleshot a large, circling flock and decoy pretti- ly. The right move, of course, is to shoot the two ducks and forget the flock. But unwarranted optimism

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' Nothing I can't—" Dudley jerked to beth, this is absolutely the last straw his feet, fighting against the rising panic. I've never been so humiliated in my He clutched Elingwood's arm. "Where life. Now that this fellow has his pre diil she go?" cious contract, we're leaving." no

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' Lovely," Dudley gasped, hanging on Grover said heatedly, "Elizabeth, HOW OLD YOUR PLATE IS to the table grimly. "Better hurry; don't sometimes you show no more dignity HOW LONG IT HAS HURT YOU — — — w ant to miss your bus boat train than a fishwife." EZO Dental Cushions "That's right," Elingwood said brisk- She replied that maybe Grover was are guaranteed to give you: ly. He pumped Dudley's arm. "You look being a wee bit stuff)'. He had a fast a little pale, my boy. Been working too answer to that, and they had a nice, PERFECT FIT hard, maybe. So long." He bustled away. quiet fight, conducted in well-bred Dudley headed for the dance floor, tones. Dudley wisely kept quiet. After COMPLETE RELIEF lurching between the tables and leav- several highly-charged verbal exchanges, LASTING COMFORT ing a trail of spilled drinks behind him. Grover rose to his feet, bowed stiffly to He could see Grover and Elizabeth Elizabeth, and then turned to Dudley. or money back by return mail dimly, as in a fog. He staggered through Beginning with "Eve had quite enough EZO Dental Cushions help relieve sore — the dancers, came up behind Elizabeth from you " he delivered a brief, un- gums due to ill-fitting plates . . . makes and put both arms around her w aist. printable speech concerning Dudley's them FIT! . . . lets you EAT! ... or Surprised, she missed a step. Grover, present mentality and future prospects, money returned, w ho had been dancing with his eyes and ended with an invitation to repair $1.25 for 16 uppers, $1.25 for 20 lowers closed, opened them to look into Dud- to some secluded place and do battle. —or send $2.50 for both ley's face, a foot away. Dudley excused himself to Elizabeth EZO PRODUCTS COMPANY, Dept. 616-B

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assuring himself that Grover would "A strong emotional counter-shock— snap out of it in a minute or so, he that's all you needed," Elizabeth said crossed the street to the hotel, rode up sagely. "I remember my psychology the elevator, and joined Elizabeth at the professor at YVellesley telling us about WANTED table. it." She hesitated. "You didn't hurt him, MAN "Short and sweet, eh?" Elizabeth said. did you?" W/TH CAR "Yes, indeed." Her expression puzzled "Hardly at all," Dudley said. him; she had an expectant look about They stood quietly for some minutes. NO TIME LIKE NOW TO her. "Honest, Liz, I'm sorry about this, "It's odd, Dudley," said Elizabeth, GET IN McNESS BUSINESS but 1 got pretty mad—" He stopped, his "but I've had a wonderful time here It'a no trick to make pood money mouth hanging open. Elizabeth burst this evening." when you use your cat as a Me Ness "Store on Wheels." Farmers out laughing. "Me, too," he said, holding her hand. buy everything they can from McNess Men because "I'll be darned," Dudley said. "Down "I guess there's no reason for me to McNessProduct y arc tops in quality, repm- in the elevator, up in the elevator—do come out to the airport any more." sent extra values. At- you think I'm really cured, "I tractive business -get- i for good?" suppose not," she said slowly. tintf prints and premiums also money-saving deals t "Why don't you go out on the ter- "That means I won't be seeing you customers make selling McNess daily necessities a snap. race and sec what happens?" any more." The thought saddened him WE SUPPLY CAPITAL-START NOW! He left the table and walked out onto so much that he put his arms around her There's no better work anywhere. Pays well, permanent, need no experience to start, and we supply capital to help the terrace. He paused and waited. Feel- and kissed her, at length and with feel- you pet started quick. You bepin niakinp money first day. Write at once for McNess Dealer liook. It's FKEE. Tells ing no pain, lie leaned over the parapet. ing. all—no obligation. ( i"> Twenty stories below him stretched the "Wow!" Elizabeth said, when he re- THE McNESS CO., 145 Clark St., Freeport. III. dark expanse of the park. He felt noth- leased her. She staggered slightly. ing except a great happiness, especially "Hey!" Dudley said, startled. "Are U P T U R E when he saw a white-shirted figure reel you dizzy? Better get away from the RELIEF., .OR YOUR MONEY BACK from the shrubbery and hail a taxi. edge of the roof. Maybe you're getting Simple, easy to wear truss "Okay?" said Elizabeth, behind him. acrophobia, too." made by old surgical house. "Oh, boy," Dudley said, turning. "I'm dizzy, all right," Elizabeth said. You risk nothing. Write for "Just like magic." "But it's free booklet. Don't delay. not acrophobia." the end

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Nationwide Survey • WILL CHILE BE NEXT? New Booklet Reveals (Continued from page 17) the leading Chilean newspaper — Uncle stresses. The Chilean communists are Hard-Of-Hearing Wants Sam's staunchest supporter in the coun- alert to drive a wedge into every crack No need Lo (eel lonely il you're hard of try — El Mercurio. Whistling and jeer- that appears. In many respects the hearing! You

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the Stars and Stripes as its chief kin- per today gives the nation 70 percent of CHAMOIS dling. Again the special police task force its foreign exchange. Precisely because that was dispatched to the scene made these companies are so vital to the CLOTH no move to disturb the agitators. Chilean economy they have become SHIRTS That burning of the American flag political hostages. The government was the most dramatic pro-communist hasn't the financial resources to nation- The perfect shirt and anti-U. S. act that has taken place alize and run the copper industry. Poli- for outdoors! lately in this politically important sister ticians and statesmen of almost all parties Looks and feels like v chamois leather. republic. But it wasn't the first nor is it admit, at least privately, that only washing. Sanforized and gels softer with each the last chapter in the continuing strug- American capital and know-how can Warm, well-tailored and tough. Ideal for hunting and fishing. Give shirt size and color when ordering. gle for ideas and institutions that we make possible the continued develop- Colors: tan or scarlet. Only 54.95 postpaid are engaged in against the Russians, in ment of the big extraction activities. So South America. According to many ex- what they have done is to nationalize GOKEY CO* St. Paul 1. Minn. Send for free GOKEY catalog. perts Chile may well be the next prov- the selling of the copper that the big ing ground for communist influence in American firms produce! RETIRE ON that continent. Today, in spite of mo- Today, all copper produced in the mentary sensationalism, Chile is tied se- country must be sold to the government $90 A MONTH curely to the democratic system. But at government-stipulated prices. The there are mounting signs of strains and government then turns around and or less in a lake paradise, 365 days of sun a year, dry temp. 65-85°. Or maintain luxurious villa, servants, & ALL expenses SI 50-250 a mo. Am.- Eng. colony on lake 60 mi. long. 30 mi. to city of V2 million, medical center. Schools, arts, sports. Few hours by air. Bus, train. PAVED ROADS all the way. Servants S6 to SI 5 a mo., filet mignon 35c lb., gas 12c gal. Gin, rum, brandy 65c-85c fth. Houses S10 mo up. No fog, smog, confusion or jitters. Serene living among world's most considerate people. WHY NOT START LIVING TODAY? Airmail S2.00 for ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN Pages current info, from American view- point (Personal Chk. OK) to Peter Arnold, Box 10-A, Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. GROW MINIATURE TREES FR££i SEED & PLAN

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56 THE AMERICAN LLC. ION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 . . through its Central Bank sells the cop- curtail production, and the industrialists Win Cash Prizes! per abroad, at a very handsome profit. are discredited by all. The only group Everything was fine as long as there that likes the situation is the commu- > I was a strong world demand for copper nists. Have Given and the government could sell at the Having been outlawed in 1947 by $ 00 price it wanted. But within the past 18 former President Gabriel Gonzalez Vi- 276,000 months there has been a world-wide dela, with their newspaper El Siglo drop in copper prices. At first, when banned, and their spiritual leader, Pablo to Puzzle Fans the government could not get the price Ncruda, in exile in Moscow and later Now I'm ready to pay another GIANT JACKPOT of it asked it kept its copper off the mar- in Mexico, the communists now have $'10,000.00 to 100 lucky people. YOU may be the lucky ket. Available foreign exchange dwin- one of their frontmen in the office of winner of the $10,000.00 FIRST PRIZE. This contest is FUN. No 25-word essays to writc.no big diction- dled drastically, but the country's for- Vice President of the Senate, a revital- aries to toil over ... no weird pictures to identify. This contest "made to order" for SCRABBLE FANS and eign commitments continued. The ized El Siglo on every street corner, CROSSWORD PUZZLERS. Write me today, and I'll United States refused to buy Chilean international "cultural groups" converge send you ABSOLUTELY FREE and without obligation, contest instructions, entry puzzle charts and copper at the government-dictated, in- upon the country periodically, and Mos- complete rules. Dont delay! Send postcard or letter TODAY with your name and address to: flated prices. The U. S. copper compa- cow sends llya Ehrenburg to present a 210 Mutual Life Bids. nies had to cut back production as the Moscow diploma to repatriated Pablo Gr /-> r ka trnrwf . P. GEMEROY Seattle 4, Wash stocks of unsold copper in the country Neruda. mounted. And resulting financial crisis The burning of the American flag was laid at the doorstep of Uncle Sam. was the most dramatic of the commu- FREE FOR ASTHMA "Yankee imperialism" w as ruining Chile, nists' displays of strength. But of more If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke it w as charged. lasting importance have been their activ- and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to send ities along other lines. In the Chamber For many years, both Washington at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for a and Santiago have realized that this of Deputies during the Guatemalan FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA MEDI- CINE, a preparation for temporary symptomatic "one crop" economy in Chile was un- crisis, the communists were successful relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. No matter where you live or whether you have faith in healthy. Thanks to U. S. loans and tech- any medicine under the sun, send today for this nical assistance great efforts and strides free trial. It will cost you nothing. Frontier Asthma Co. 667-W Frontier Bldg. have been made to industrialize the DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. country. U. S. Government loans, cou- Avho ought to have a subscription to the do-it-yourself catalog pled with aid from the World Bank, Legion Magazine? If you send $1.50 to- Mazinc gether with his name and address to — have allowed Chile to build a steel in- SAVINGS up to 85% The American Legion Magazine - dustry, increase electric output, build I 320 PAGES WILY tUUSlKATED Circulation Department Palley's "Gadgeteer's Heaven," the Pioneer in roads, its railw DO-IT-YOURSELF improve ay system, mod- 700 North Pennsylvania _ oilers you this Bargain filled I catalog. Contains thousands ol Bargains in ernize its farms, develop its oil reserves Indianapolis 0, Indiana GOV'T SURPLUS -FACI0RT CLOSEOUTS and " GENERAL MERCHANDISE! and construct an oil refinery. it will bring him a year's subscription. I Includes Hand and Power Tools, War This large-scale and spectacular in- Surplus Gadgets, Precision Instruments, Microscopes. Binoculars, Cameras and a dustrialization has not only entailed I Sports Equip., Hardware, Foam Rubber, large amount of foreign commitments, in getting passed a resolution that "de- Elecl. Motors, over 20.000 Hydraulic | Cylinders in 61 sizes and types, also but has also played havoc with the plored foreign intervention in Guate- Hydraulic Motors, Pumps, Valves, etc. Complete stocks for. | Hobbyist, Gadge leer, Home Crallsmon, Sportsman, etc. mala" and pointedly laid the blame internal economy. As the country has on I of Handling and Mailing -50c credited o your flkST order/ become more industrialized, a new the United States. The Congress also

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~~THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 • §J advocating free trade with Russia and He tried to bring in more communist so dormant during the anti-U. S. dem-~~

all iron curtain countries. propaganda in his diplomatic baggage. onstrations, broke up the assemblies by Speakers at the "Congress" included What is being done to counteract the a liberal use of tear gas. In later demon- Chilean communist Congressman Raul communist influence in Chile? First of strations, the protesting students were Ampuero; Clotario Blest (chief of the all, the government of Don Carlos arrested. A strange contrast to the lack Workers' Union); Carlos Puig (commu- Ibanez del Campo is headed by enemies of police action toward the stone- nist Congressman from Uruguay); Pe- of communism and by friends of the throwing, flag-burning communist ri- dro Saa of Ecuador; and Alfredo Silenzi, United States and the western world. oters of a few weeks before! one of the top Argentine communists. His government, which inherited a The official and unofficial attitude of Not only was this openly pro-commu- dangerous economic situation, is trying the Chilean public in view of the grow- nist "Congress" given the use of gov- desperately to find some way to stop ing communist threat is becoming of ernment-owned buildings, but the Pres- the disastrous inflation and to improve increasing concern to our government. ident of the Chamber of Deputies, the general living conditions of the peo- U. S. Ambassador Beaulac, in a strongly Senor Castro, gave a cocktail party for ple. All friends of democracy must wish worded address to the American Cham- the foreign visitors in the dining hall it success, for upon its achievements de- ber of Commerce in Santiago on July of the national Congress. pends to a large extent the future of 12th, made a sharp attack on those No sooner had this group finished its Chile. "Christians who walk hand in hand" sessions than there began to arrive One of the most encouraging devel- with the communists. communist dignitaries from iron cur- opments has been the recent growth of The Ambassador pointed out that tain countries, ostensibly to celebrate a vigorous group of Catholic university some of Chile's leaders were associating the 50th birthday of Pablo Neruda, students who are determined to do their themselves with pretty strange bedfel- Chile's communist poet. Among the vis- best to stop the large-scale growth of lows! He took issue with those who itors were Dimitri Dimov and Nicolas communism in the student bodies. They supported the Arbenz regime, and were Fournadjieva from Bulgaria, Oscar Ko- know the task they face. In the Univer- blind to communist maneuvers both in ref Hcrsch from Hungary, Jan Drda, sity of Chile Medical School there are Chile and abroad. His speech was hailed Jan Rostra and Jaroslav Rurchvalek 132 first-year students, of whom 38 are by the pro-U. S. press throughout the from Czechoslovakia. By plane also ar- now communists. In the Law School, country. But the storm of protest that rived top party members from Argen- 43 of the 100 freshmen are followers of arose from the left-wing press and poli- tina, Uruguay, Ecuador and Brazil. In the red banner of Moscow. Now an ticians soon drowned out the applause. the passengers' baggage were found organized opposition to the communists In special sessions of the Chamber copious quantities of communist propa- has dared to express a Christian and of Deputies and the Senate, Congress- ganda. democratic point of view. man after Congressman got up and pro- The printed matter was confiscated But here's what happened the first tested the Ambassador's remarks and a by the customs officials, but the immi- time the anti-communists staged a big move was made to have him branded gration authorities made no difficulties demonstration. Within two weeks after as persona non grata. This attempt to about the entrance of the bearers. There the pro-Arbenz riots, the forthcoming force the recall of our forthright Am- is no semblance of the McCarran Act arrival in Chile of a Yugoslav Trade bassador was unsuccessful, but the in- in the law books of Chile. To cap the Mission was announced. The mission cident served notice that the fellow Neruda celebrations, which were cen- was headed by Jacobo Blazevic, who travelers in Chile are so strong that no tered in the Salon of Honor of the State was the state's prosecuting attorney outspoken criticism of communist in- University, word came from Moscow against Cardinal Stepinac. When the filtration or tactics is to be allowed to that poet Neruda had received the Catholic students staged orderly street pass unnoticed. Stalin Award. A few weeks later, chief parades to announce their opposition to To add iniury to insult, the commu- Russian propagandist llya Ehrenburg the Chilean Government's welcome of nists planted a time bomb in the U. S. arrived in Chile to present the award. Air. Blazevic, the police, who had been Cultural Institute in downtown Santi- ago. The explosion went off shortly after midnight on July 14th and with sufficient force to shatter windows up to the eighth floor in the apartment house located across the street. The Chilean Bureau of Investigations was unable to apprehend the culprits. The "revolution" has not yet arrived in Chile. But these recent events point out unmistakably the frightening ad- vances the communists are making there. More openly than ever they are trying to drive a wedge between Chile and the United States. Internally, they seek economic ruin and chaos. Internation- ally, they seek to discredit the "Colos- sus of the North" and to thwart our efforts to strengthen hemisphere unity and defense. To date our most strenu- ous efforts to help develop Chile eco- nomically, in her interest and that of the West have not stopped the communists. They bomb our buildings, insult our Ambassador and burn our flag, and God knows what next. THE END

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HOW TO PICK A DOCTOR ~fftOn*04, FOLDING (Continued from page 15) BANQUET TABLES the doctor's academic curiosity. Doc- means first choosing a good hospital. tors respect the man who patiently in- As an impersonal institution known to vestigates every possibility, and calls many doctors in the community, a hos- in outside help when he feels he's over pital can't hide behind professional his head. "If I were a patient," writes reticence as effectively as an individual. a noted authority, "I would employ Most physicians will be willing to tell only a doctor whom I heard say at you what they think of the hospitals in least once, 'I don't know.' the community, frankly pointing out Patients resent a doctor who "won't any bias they may have by reason of do anything for them." Conscientious their own affiliation. As a rule, doctors physicians, on the other hand, are deep- rate medical men who run private hos- ly concerned about the frequency with pitals, where they are not subject to which patients prevail on practitioners the check of other members of the profession, less highly than those who If you .ire on the board of your church, school, lo.lgc, to give them unnecessary medicines, un- club.' P.T.A., etc., you will be delighted with our new work in institutions where such checks MONROE Tables. NOW, at no extra cost, offered necessary shots, or even to perform with completely finished tops, highly resistant to exist. But many communities would most serving hazards. May be used with or without table cloths, as desired. Send for the complete, new have no hospital facilities if some phy- Monroe catalog with direct factory prices and money- saving discounts to institutions. sician did not provide them. MONROE CO., 69 Church Street, Colfax, Iowa If you need a doctor in a hurry, a

good short cut is to call the biggest and best known hospital in town, ask the EAT ANYTHING administrative office if it is on the approved list of the American Medical WITH FALSE TEETH Association or the Commission on Hos- If you have trouble with plates that slip, rock and cause sore gums — try pital Accreditation, and then get the Brinims Plasti-Liner. One applica-

1 tion makes fit name of the chief of staff. These may plates snugly without powder or paste, because Brimms not be the best doctors in town, some Plasti-Liner hardens permanently to your pjate. It relines and refits loose good doctors are not joiners and hos- plates in a way no powder or paste can do. Even on old rubber pital affiliations are sometimes denied plates you get good results six months to a year or longer. YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING! Sim- doctors for reasons that have nothing ply lay soft strip of Plasti-Liner on troublesome upper or lower. Bite and it molds perfectly. Easy to do with their ability. But they are to use, tasteless, odorless, harmless to you and your plates. Removable as directed. Money back if not sure to be medically competent. completely satisfied. Ask your druggist In the 666 counties mentioned earlier, BRIMMS PLASTI-LINER where medical societies have provided THE PERMANENT DENTURE RED NER systematic emergency service, it is only necessary, of course, to telephone the ALL NYLON Auto Seat Cover! proper number. The Medical Society of s TOUGH' Will Resist

.1 l_'r No I h.lM Prohlem—No Tackf the State of New York has arranged Nails Needed GUAR- ANTEED TO FIT OR "Jack, this is Elroy; Elroy, this is goodbye/ this type of service through 57 of the MONEY BACK WITH- IN 10 DAYS? WASH- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 61 county societies in the State. ABLE— Dries In One Hour. .Split Style for Folding Front Seat and Whether you are one of their policy- solid Style for Filher Front or Rear Seats holders or not, the local office of any Price ONLY S2 98 operations. While all doctors recognize For Front Split Or solid Seat and ONLY big casualty insurance company will be $3.50 for BOTH the important psychological value of Fr< nt and Rear Seats. glad to help you find a doctor and medi- Knclose Payment for sugar pills or "placebos," they resent Prepaid Delivery Or cal attention in the event of accident. Shipped COD. the man who is tempted to make money MARDO SALES CORP.

nqton Ave . New York 17. NY on a patient's neurotic interest in being Emergencies, and the vexing problem of specialists, too, are easy enough treated. They feel it is wrong for a Become an doctor to take advantage of insurance to handle if you have that rare jewel, to tie up a hospital bed with a patient a trusted family doctor who is your representative with rest who could do as well at home. Worse the of the nUOIHITMIT- medical world. If a yet, in professional opinion, is the doc- you are without Expert Bookkeeper— C. P. A. tor who lets a patient talk him into try' doctor because you have moved to a ing a new drug or treatment which may new city, your old doctor can usually The demand for skilled accountants men who really know their business— is increasing. National and state guide you to his equal in your do him no harm but cannot help his new legislation is requiring of business much more in the home. But at some time or other most way of Auditing, Cost Accounting, Business Law, case. Organization, Management, Finance. Men who prove important field are pro- No doctor will ever tell you which people have to make their own choice. their qualifications in this moted to responsible executive positions. The man you choose should, of individual does these things, but you FREE SAMPLE LESSON course, quali- can tune in on medical public opinion be medically competent— a Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary. We train you from ground up, or according to your individual by roundabout ways. It's bad form to fication you'll have to take at face value needs. Low cost: easy terms. ask a doctor friend to recommend a from his record and affiliations— and he Send name and address on the lines below for free book describing the colleague, but might able to must be the "right" doctor for you. As Sample Lesson and 48-page you be LaSalle accountancy training and the opportunities find out whom he consults when he Dr. Gumpert puts it, "Certain doctors in this highly profitable field. or EXTENSION UNIVERSITY his family is sick. fit certain patients." lACAIIT LAoALLt /J eowte&pandettce. 9*utittUio*t A more practical approach is to make Obviously, you are the only one who III. 417 S. Dearborn St., Dept. 1 1 36 1 H Chicago S, use of the searching, continuous evalu- can really tell whether a doctor is go-

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tal, on the assumption that a man must portant he is, you'd do well to try on Address be staff. good to win a place on its That several qualified men for size before City .Zone. . . .State. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 • 59 .settling down with one tor as long as retary who gives you the information won't be among the reading matter you both shall live. A reasonable amount can usually tell you which of these are provided for patients, but you'll be re-

of "shopping" for a doctor is a good elective honors which indicate profes- assured by any signs that the doctor thing, points out a bulletin of the Colo- sional distinction.) Your county medi- systematically covers some part of the rado State Medical Society. You can cal society is usually listed in the phone flood of medical literature prepared to go about it by making a list of qualified book under the name of the county. help him keep up to date. doctors and getting acquainted person- If you live in Chemung County, ask in- You can learn a great deal about a ally with at least two of them by the formation for "Chemung County Medi- doctor's philosophy of medicine from simple process of having them give you cal Society." In some parts of the the way he examines you as a new and a physical examination. It's neither safe country you may have to get the local presumably healthy patient. Dr. Harry nor medically proper to have two doc- public health office to refer you to the Johnson, medical director of the Life tors treat you at the same time un- medical group. The volume containing Extension Examiners, largest organiza- known to each other, but a physical this information, the American Medical tion devoted exclusively to medical check-up involves no treatment. Don't Directory, is also available in most pub- check-ups, tells how a generation ago worry that you've committed yourself. lic libraries and hospitals. doctors weren't sure that examining

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that they own me or I own them," a but you'll feel it doesn't tell you what medicine. Now that the emphasis is on prominent internal medicine man told you really want to know. Inevitably, the obscure, degenerative diseases, good me. "If they don't want to be my pa- you'll inquire around to see what other doctors get their deepest professional tients I get mad at them and wish they'd people in the community think of the satisfactions from detecting potential go elsewhere." men. Your druggist, your employer, trouble when it can be headed off. Since Your first step is to make up a list of well-informed friends and any special- no one lives forever, every one of us candidates. You'll be best served by an ists you have previously consulted who is a challenging puzzle. The better we internal medicine man who specializes do not take general patients will have feel, the harder it is to predict the weak- in infectious diseases, disturbances of comments, anecdotes, and perhaps even est link. body chemistry, degenerative diseases plain gossip to add. A good druggist The doctor you want is going to take such as arthritis, high blood pressure, knows the medical resources of his his time examining you. He will ask you and heart trouble, and the digestive and neighborhood. You'll discount opinion a great many questions and above all respiratory systems. Internal medicine on medical skill from laymen, but you'll he will listen so well that you will find is one of the 19 specialties policed by build up a valuable picture of each man yourself telling him about aches and national boards. An internist (not to be and the service he renders patients. pains you have dismissed as unimpor- confused with an interne or a young You'll also hear about other doctors tant. He will write everything down, doctor working inside a hospital) must whom you may want to add to your however trivial it seems. The Life Ex- spend three to five years after he gets list after checking with the county tension Examiners, who have examined his M.D. in further training and pass a medical society for the basic informa- three million well people over a genera- tough examination before he is listed as tion you have on the others. Pretty soon tion, find that many defects are spotted a diplomat in the Directory of Medical the list will shake down to several from the innocent-seeming questions Specialists. The central nature of the in- w horn you feel you'd like to meet. the doctor asks before he lays a finger ternal medicine man's field—the vital You'll be forming your opinion of on the examinee. inside of you—makes him the best man the doctor as soon as you arrive at his The good doctor will then proceed to direct traffic among the specialists he office for your check-up. You hope his to test his hunches. He will measure and may want to call in for you. waiting room is neat and comfortable, weigh you, look into all body openings, To start your list, call up the county but its furnishings and its address are listen to your heart, thump your chest, medical society and ask for the names less indicative than the patients waiting x-ray it, and have your blood and urine of three internal medicine men near in it. Is the nurse friendly, efficient, analyzed. Some laymen tend to judge you. Take down, in addition, their helpful? Does she schedule appoint- a doctor's thoroughness by the number medical schools, date of licensing, their ments so that no one is left to cool his of laboratory tests he puts them hospital affiliations, and the medical so- heels for hours on end without expla- through. Actually, there are hundreds cieties to which the>' belong (the sec- nation? Medical books and journals of diagnostic procedures, some of them

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• THL AMERICAN LEolON MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 uncertain, and many of them extremely top figure to curb a natural temptation complicated, uncomfortable, and ex- to overcharge the rich. Many of them pensive. A good doctor will not hesi- welcome voluntary health insurance tate to use them if he w ants to clear up plans which pay part of their fees and a suspicion in his own mind. Whether all of them are relieved to have patients he does his own laboratory work or who are protected by hospital insurance. sends it out is less important than his Others are glad to arrange for instal- tests bills mm judgment on which to make and ment payments of the staggering Man, here's light! what the results mean. catastrophic illness can bring. One ob- 14-mile beam — 15,000 beam candle When you are dressed and back at stetrician spreads his fee over the power. Compact, sturdy, his desk it is your turn to ask questions. months of waiting for the stork so that easy to carry ! Uses two 6 v. After you are satisfied that you under- the baby is all paid for when it arrives. batteries. See your dealer. 50 stand your present condition, you have His relieved mothers-to-be call it the DELTA ELECTRIC CO., Marion, Indiana a right to ask the doctor about himself. "pay as you grow" plan. Ask about ECTRIC la Does he spend part of his time teaching these possibilities for meeting unusual POWER-KING LANTERN in a medical school or serving in a free doctor bills so that you'll know just Nasal Congestion Associated With Head clinic? What are his office hours? What where he stands. Colds May Cause Symptoms Of is the best time to reach him by phone? Your final decision will feel like a Is he available around the clock for snap one. There are no rules for weigh- home visits? If not, who takes care of ing the different factors any more than SINUS his practice when he cannot come him- there are rules for choosing friends. ASTHMA, HAY FEVER. self or when he is away? What condi- The friendliness and sympathy of one Amazing New Treatment—FREE TRIAL Thousands have received amazing, fast relief tions does he ordinarily refer to special- outweigh, in your feelings, man may with this sensational, new treatment, from ists? What are his hospital connections? the superior training of another. Affilia- symptoms of hay fever, asthma, sinus headaches, pressure in forehead, soreness in eyes, cheek To what hospital would he send you tion with a hospital which you irration- bones, top of head, back of head and down neck, when caused by nasal congestion. Write if you had to go? What would it cost? ally dislike or a manner that "rubs you for 7 DAY FREE TRIAL, POSTPAID, no cost or Your doctor will bless you for com- the wrong way" may prejudice you obligation to try it except; it is agreed you will mail it back, postpaid at end of trial period if ing right out and asking, "How much against a doctor who you know is able. not amazed with results. National Laboratories, Dept. 52, Gait, Calif. is this examination costing me? What You may come away not quite satisfied Offer not good in California. do you ordinarily charge for office with the account you have been given visits, for home visits?" He will bless of your present physical condition, or you because he is the victim of a noble you may feel that the doctor doesn't tradition that forbids him even to won- really like you or isn't really willing to MASTER MECHANIC der whether he will get paid— a tradi- take enough time with you. Respect PORTABLE LIGHT PLANT Push Button Start -600-700 watts-] 15 v. tion which is unhappily not shared by those feelings even if they seem cock- 0U rye. AC. Powered bv u rueged 2 lip. eusy starting IWizgn gut his grocer eyed. Both you and the doctor you [.hit' and . Plantar of and landlord. He'll treat you tele i. oil burner. .P. MkMi. or see that you are treated whatever choose are investing a lot more than s. Ide:il (or ittagC. trailer telud nil, and f H-in

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THE MAN FROM LAS CRUCES (Continued from page 19) answer to the problem of getting help. it was when he started his first housing that when I hear a Legionnaire beg off Dubious at first, Seaborn decided he development. And they're good houses, from some minor task by claiming that liked real estate when soon after start- ranging in price from $7000 to $25,000, he's too busy." ing in at the end of 1945, he sold but mostly in the under-$ 10,000 bracket. Certainly there is no record that Sea- a farm that netted a $1500 profit. He All of them are distinctive and well born Collins has ever begged off when was certain he liked the work when, constructed, with central air condition- called upon by fellow-Legionnaires or soon afterward, he bought a farm ing and heating units, name brand re- anyone else. His father-in-law lost no which shortly produced an even great- frigerators, ranges and other accessories. time in signing him up in Post 10 when er profit. His father-in-law was equally About 300 more are about to be built. he got to Las Cruces, and took him to pleased and they formed a partnership. But if you think that this makes Sea- his first meeting late in 1945. Then he However, Collins was not content born Collins just a builder and seller of undertook to serve as his unofficial cam- merely to deal in real estate and insur- houses, that isn't quite the story. He paign manager. As a result, Collins be- ance. He saw that things were happen- puts it this way: "I consider myself came the first WW2 Commander of ing around Las Cruces that would essentially a businessman, with several the Post, first WW2 Area D Com- change the whole complexion of the enterprises, all closely related." mander in New Mexico, and the first community. Not far distant was Alamo- A run-down of his enterprises will WW2 Department Commander in gordo, where they had done a lot of give you an idea of the way Seaborn New Mexico. He served for four years work on the first atom bomb that was Collins operates in putting things to- as chairman of National Security of the ever fired. Important work was still be- gether. He has a real estate and insur- Department, four years as vice chair- ing done at the Army base there. And ance office, the Seaborn P. Collins man of the Legislative Committee of at White Sands Proving Ground, just Agency. The home building is done by the Department, four years as a mem- north of Las Cruces, large numbers of Southwestern Builders, Inc. Building ber of the Finance Committee of the scientists and specialists were engaged materials are handled by his Southwest- Department, and four years as director in top-secret work on guided missiles ern Lumber & Builders Supply, Inc. To of the Department's Boys State. Mov- and rockets. deal in rental property he has the ing into National, he served one year Those people, and many more who Alesa Investment Co., Inc., and another on the National Housing Committee, would follow them there, would need thriving operation is the Mesilla Valley three years as vice chairman of the housing, so Seaborn Collins started plan- Construction Co., Inc., which does road- National Military Affairs Committee, ning accordingly. However, his father- building. As this is written he has an- and later as chairman of the National in-law was not as enthusiastic as he was other project ready to go—the Mesilla Security Commission. He is also a mem- about getting into home building, so Valley Savings & Loan Association. He ber of Voiture 1346, Forty and Eight. they decided to dissolve their partner- is president of all these, but so well or- There's more to Seaborn Collins' ship. On his own, then, Collins started ganized are they that he is anything but American Legion work, though, than projecting developments which would tied down with them— a fact that is ob- the foregoing list of titles would indi- take care of the many people who kept vious when you consider how much cate. Soon after he joined Post 10, his coming to his real estate office trying time he has given to the Legion. fellow Legionnaires realized that here to buy or rent houses which were sel- The secret? One Las Crucen gave this was a man who not only had ideas but dom to be had. answer: "Seaborn Collins has a faculty was remarkably gifted in the way he The first houses went up in 1949. As of being able to spot things that ought could express them. So he was called one of his neighbors tells it: "Other to be done, then figuring out how they upon increasingly to represent the Post builders sat around waiting for the gov- can be best done, and then getting the in Department affairs. And in the natu- ernment to declare Las Cruces an emer- kind of people that can do things right." ral course of events, he started repre- gency defense area so money would be Seaborn Collins himself credits the senting The American Legion to the available for them to build. Collins people he has working for him. Only public and when it was necessary to didn't wait. I don't know where he because of them, he says, was it possible get something across to government begged or borrowed the money but he for him to take the time to become Na- officials or others. went right ahead and put up a lot of tional Commander. "It got so," said Collins, "that there houses when houses were desperately "Not only has my business not suf- was something doing once a week or needed." fered because of the time I have given oftener."

To date he has built about 500 homes The American Legion; it has gone All this led inevitably to the National in a community that has a population ahead. Maybe in my position I'm an Commandership. One evening he was crowding 18,000—almost double what exception, but I can't help thinking of called upon to make a speech before a g2 * THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1954 1n

group in Roswell. When he finished his the Collins family now numbers four, talk he was congratulated by Robert A. with nine-year-old Rex and three-year- CLASSIFIED — Marr, Department Adjutant, and Reed old Kay. But Seaborn Collins, thorough Exchange National Executive in persuaded his brother Mulkey, veteran all things, also Post« w OPPORTUNITIES Committeeman. "You're going to be James to move to Las Cruces, and he is National Commander someday," said now managing the lumber yard and HELP WANTED -SALESMEN -AGENTS SALESMEN— Put yourself in line for big money, real future Keep was more than three builders supply business. In addition he Mulkey. That stores supplied with self-selling 5 C $1 carded merchandise. Nation- years ago. Collins says that was the first got his sister, Mrs. Sarah Emerick, to ally advertised. Top profits for you and merchants Liberal deals boost sales. Sideline or full time WORLDS PRODUCTS, Dept time the idea ever entered his mind, but move there, and this helped the town's 13-W, Spencer, Ind. that's another thing about him. Once growth since she has three children. Sell Advertising Embroidered Work Uniforms and Bowling Shirts. Make big money full time, spare time. Huge selection of styles, he makes up his mind to do something To complete the Collins exodus from fabrics, colors. Every business a prospect. Giant Panoramic Line makes sales on sight It's FREE! Write TOPPS. Dept 8611, Roch- it his to he wastes no time getting done. Texas, he persuaded mother come ester, Indiana.

Indeed, he has no time to waste. One on to Las Cruces when his father died $15.20 AN HOUR is what W. F Wydallis reports he earns with amazing Presto Fire Extinguisher. Sells itself. No experience need- would think that with a large and ex- in 1950, and settled her in the first of ed. Free sales kit MERLITE INDUSTRIES. Dept L2. 1 14 East 32nd panding business, plus a large volume the hundreds of houses he has built. St., New York 16. Good man can make $3,000 next 90 days. Every house in town of American Legion work on the side, Once a teacher of college Latin and wants amazing NiLite glowing curbside numbers. Automatic free he'd forego other activities. But some- Greek, she occupies herself giving piano trial plan pays profits day after day. Write for free details. NiLite, 173 W. Madison. Dept 320. Chicago 2, III. how, in addition, he manages to take an lessons to her grandchildren. Money Making Opportunity! Take big profit orders for world famous Patented Varieties Fruit Trees. Also flowering shrubs, roses, active part in such community affairs kind of National Commander What vines. Big sales outfit FREE. Stark Bro's, Desk 301 55, Louisiana, Mo. as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Red will Seaborn Collins make? Possibly NEED EXTRA CASH? Get it selling Blair's unusual line of house- hold and food products. Every housewife a prospect. Products sent Cross, March of Dimes, Chamber of there is a clue in a resolution that was on FREE Trial. Write BLAIR, Dept. 451 MX, Lynchburg, Va. Commerce, Lions, Blood Bank, and lo- adopted by his local Chamber of Com- $1300 00 monthly for truck drivers, $1400 00 monthly for carpen- ters, electricians, plumbers, mechanics, $1200 00 for clerks and cal hospital work. merce when, in 1951, he finished four laborers. Full information and complete foreign listings, with current information on Spain, Korea, Australia, Alaska & Canada, $1 .00. His connection with these organiza- years as a director of the organization. Opportunities Unlimited, 1110 Commerce Blrjg , St Paul, Mi n tions, incidentally, is not just honorary, Part of the resolution follows: WE HAVE WORK at home jobs if you have time. $20 - $50 weekly No selling, experience unnecessary Rush reply: MAXWELL, 2108 and some of them call for a great deal "whereas, Seaborn P. Collins' deter- Payne, Dept. X-ll. Cleveland 14, Ohio. of time and effort. Such as his chair- mined effort, unswerving loyalty, and 30,000.000 WOMEN want amazing new Automatic Refrigerator Defroster. You sell 8 out of 10 on sure-fire FREE TRIAL 00 Fourth Advisory inspiration $250 manship of the Army devotion, has served as an weekly profit not uncommon. Rush postcard for guaranteed plan Committee, a liaison group between to all those with whom he came in con- D-Frost-O-Matic, Dept. T-l 1 8, 1 73 W. Madison St.. Chicago 2, III.

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After After-Dinner Spee-Hi with cold contempt, "What's wrong with you is just a psychosomatic disease." When all the guests are gone \ / Stunned by this sudden burst of intellec- And all the dishes washed and put away tualism, I interrupted to ask him if he knew It is refreshing to behold the dawn what a psychosomatic disease was. "Oh, Of a giiestless day. — Norman Grey yes," he replied smugly, "It's something you don't have until you've got time to FIRE Fair Enough think it up." DEPARTMENT — J. C. KlNGSLEY Two ex-GI's bought a racing greyhound with the idea of sharing its winnings. It Hard lo Take was entered in six races and in every race This would, be a much happier world it finished last. Finally they decided to get were not burdened excess rid of the dog, so they took him for a walk. if we with prophets. Arriving :it ;i river bank, one of them said — Herbert in disgust: Jack "That mutt can't race. Let's throw him in the river! Looking <»I;i*n The other looked into the appealing Garment fabrics made of glass will be on eyes of the unfortunate canine. the market before long. — News Item "Aw, we can't do that," he replied. "But. Cease the glances fit to kill

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I get the pip iche)i torch-songs drip "Of course I wouldn't trade you for anyone lo III How Re With teardrops by the cup; else. Besides, who would go for a deal like Their sad tales told just leax'e me cold that?" While he was playing w ith another youngster who complained of not feeling And also burn )ne up.

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