The American Legion Magazine [Volume 83, No. 4 (October 1967)]
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THE AM E R I CAN 20c • OCTOBER 1967 MAGAZINE THE CONGO Seven Bloody Years ! I I! I / A power station is blown-up in The Congo - you can find abetter bourbon ...biiyit! Ancient Age America's Largest Selling 6 Year Old Kentucky Bourbon! STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKY • 86 PROOF • ©ANCIENT AGE DISTILLING COMPANY. FRANKFORT. KV. (PRICE MAY VARY ACCORDING .... , , «r 65 Ancient Age about 0?;™ to state and local taxes.) The American OCTOBER 1967 Volume 83, Number 4 POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1954 Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 The American Legion Magazine LEGION Offices Editorial & Advertising 720 Fifth Avenue Magazine New York, New York 10019 Publisher, James F. O'Neil Editor Robert B. Pilkin Contents for October 1967 Art Editor AI Marshall Assistant Editor John Andreola THE CONGO—SEVEN BLOODY YEARS 8 Associate Editors BY PETER D. BOLTER Roy Miller James S. Swarlz review that assembles the chaos in the Congo into something A Assistant Art Editor like order, as a new chapter unfolds with the kidnapping Waller H. Boll and imprisonment in Algeria of onetime Production Manager Congo leader Moise Tshombe. Art Brelzfieid Copy Editor Grail S. Hanford HARPERS FERRY—WHERE JOHN BROWN RAGED 15 Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson BY ALDEN STEVENS Indianapolis, Ind. A travel article for today's motorists about the historic West Virginia Advertising Director town, scene of abolitionist Brown's raid in 1859 and im- Kobert P. Redden portant Civil War hub. Thirty-eighth in the series Chicago Sales Office "Seeing Historic America." Raymond W. Welch, Jr. 35 East Wacker Drive Chicago, 111. 60601 312 CEntral 6-2101 IDAHO'S WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE 16 A STAFF PHOTO REPORT CHANGE OF ADDRESS: A spread of color photos of the scene at the old WW2 Navy boot Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, Ind., 46206 using Post Office camp in Farragut, Idaho, when Boy Scouts from 106 Indianapolis, Form 3578. Attach old address label and nations met there in August. give ()ld and new addresses with ZIP Code number and current membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. THE NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 18 The American Legion BY R. B. PITKIN Publications Commission: James E. Powers, Macon, Ga. (Chair/nan); An introduction to William E. Galbraith, of Beemer, Nebraska, who Howard E. Lob man, Moorhead, Minn. ( Vice was elected in Boston to be the 1967-68 National Chairman) ; Bob Whittemore, Watertoivn, S.D. Commander of The American Legion. ( National Com m an der' s Representative ) ; Lang Armstrong, Spokane, U'^ash.; Cliarles E. Boolli, Huntington, It . Va. ; Adolph F. Bremer, Winona, Minn.; John Cicero, Sivoyer- tille. Pa.; Clovis Copeland, Little Rock, Ark.; HOW WE MADE AN ARMY OUT OF NOTHING IN WW I 20 Paul B. Dagne, Downingtown, Pa. ; Raymond (A WWl 50TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE) Fields, Guym on, Okla. ; Chris Hernandez, BY LYNWOOD MARK RHODES Savfinnah George Sumter, S.C.; , Ga.; D. Levy, There wasn't even an organized division in the U.S. Army when Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa ; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N.Y.; Morris Meyer, Stark- Congress declared war on Imperial Germany in April ville. Miss.; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, La.; 1917. Here's how we scrambled to make a Robert Mitchler, Ostvego, III.; Harry H. fighting force from scratch. Schaffer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bradley J. Stephens, Los Altos, Calif.; Wayne L. Talbert. Delphi, Ind.; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.; Robert H. Wilder, Dadeville. Ala.; E. Meade Wilson, Mulberry, Fla.; Edward McSweeney, A REPORT FROM BOSTON, MASS 26 Neiv York, N.Y. (Consultant) Sixteen pages of text and photos of The American Legion's 49th annual National Convention in Boston, 26-31. Aug. The American Legion Magazine is published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 40201 by The American Legion. Copyright 1967 by The American Legion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single Departments cents yearly subscription, $2.00. copy, 20 ; Order nonmember subscriptions from the Cir- culation Department of The American Legion, EDITOR'S CORNER ....2 DATELINE WASHINGTON 47 P.O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ....4 LEGION SHOPPER 62 Editorial and advertising offices: 720 5th Ave., New York. N.Y. 10019. Wholly owned by PERSONAL ....7 PARTING SHOTS 64 The American Legion, with National Head- quarters at Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. William E. Galbraith, National Commander. Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Advertising Sales Representatives JE Publishers Representive Co. 8380 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, California 90069 420 Market Street San Francisco, California 91111 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1967 theatres of war during WW2." If you're an ex-POW craving a change of scene EDITOR'S for your 1969 vacation you have 21 months from October 1 to salt away the CORNER needed cash. Qantas Airlines has just ad- vised us that the present round trip air fare to Brisbane from N.Y. is $1,734.70 THE BLOODY CONGO—AGAIN? (first class) or $1,246.00 (economy). Since Peter D. Bolter completed his From San Francisco the figures are article on the Congo (p. 8) further events $1,412.90 and $1,008.00, respectively. bear out his hunch that you will find it Scheduled one-way flight to Brisbane from timely. Mr. Bolter refreshes you on the New York takes 20'/2 hours, from San Congo mess that has boiled and bubbled Francisco 14'/2 hours. We would assume and at times shocked the world in the that similar conditions prevail on other years since 1960. His hunch was that by lines flying to Australia. The climate in the time you read it the Congo will be Brisbane verges on the sub-tropical, a bit looming large in the news again, and a like a somewhat wetter El Paso, but as refresher will help you make some sense June is its equivalent of our December it out of what you may be reading in the can get cool then—-like in the 40's at night. papers. For further information write: Such seems to be the case as we add The Honorable Secretary of State, a final note at presstime that, in the GPO Box 1972 X, Brisbane, Queensland, eastern Congo, forces hostile to dictator Australia. Joseph Mobutu—and to his plans to kill Moise Tshombe—have entrenched them- FOR FARRAGUT "BOOTS" selves and warned that Mobutu and his Our color spread starting on page 16 government are in danger if Tshombe is of this issue gives you a peek at the harmed. Mobutu can be counted upon World Boy Scout Jamboree, held this last to resist and attack if he can. August on the site of the old WW2 Navy Mobutu, supported by American for- boot camp at Farragut, Idaho. Had we eign policy, has been successful in putting had a few more pages to spare, we'd have down opposition in the past, but has included some nostalgic photos of what's counted largely on moving his troops left of the old Navy camp today, for the through the Congo with the help of U.S. benefit of the tens of thousands of WW2 planes. vets who learned how to put the left There is little sentiment among the foot in front of the right at Farragut, way people of the United States or in Congress back when. We can report that only four to aid Mobutu in events springing from old Navy structures remain—two water his determination to put Moise Tshombe towers, the old brig, and the fence around .E 0 to death, and there have already been the property. Back in untrodden areas the 0- rumblings in Congress against providing bare foundations of old barracks remain. any such aid. They stand in tall grass, and within them Part of U.S. policy in support of Mo- evergreens up to eight feet tall are grow- butu is that he has always been firmly ing where just possibly you—dear Navy anti-Communist. Tshombe and his fol- vet—once suffered white-gloved inspec- lowers are anti-Communist even more tion of the dust under your bunk. Beauti- so. So we have the makings of another ful Lake Pend Oreille is still there, and first-class mess in the United States when nearby Bayview is a summer marina town, it comes to taking sides between two anti- flooded with boat owners from all over Communist forces in a foreign land, at the west in the summer months. Their a time when that land may again erupt docks and summer homes stand way out into terrible violence. Just to show how over the water on floating piers. The Navy complex such things are, a likelihood re- is still present on Pend Oreille, whose mains that Mobutu, for all his past anti- great depths it uses as an inland substitute Communist record, may call in the Other for the ocean in oceanographic work. Side to help put down Tshombe's friends Out in the middle of the lake it has if we don't assist him in events growing anchored a semi-permanent floating base out of his determination to kill Tshombe. for deep-water schooling and research. How would you like to be Secretary We were told, but do not know, that the of State? small sub which rescued an H-bomb from Spanish waters was checked out there. EX-POW REUNION IN AUSTRALIA Hard by Bayview the Navy still has a have no idea how We many U.S.