The American Legion Magazine [Volume 62, No. 4 (April 1957)]

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2 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 This trick's on you

A bucket of water over the door is one of the risks of April Foors Day. But being tricked on other days is something else again.

Yet that's what happens as far as your taxes are concerned. Part of your taxes are used to help pay the cost of electric service for customers of federal government power systems.

First, your taxes help build the federal power plants that produce electricity for these people. Then, you have to be taxed more because they don't pay all the taxes in their electric bills that you pay in yours. People who get electricity from the TVA, for example, pay less than one-fifth of the taxes on electric service that you pay.

Next time you hear someone talk in favor of federal government electricity, ask him

about the trick it plays with your taxes ( and his). Chances are. he'll stop talking and start thinking. America's Independent Electric Li^ht and Power Companies'"'.

'^Company vamcs on request through this magazine as a hostage for bargaining purposes

by the reds. Surely that is long ent)ugh to handle the communists with kid gloves, as our State Department does. In 1950 my son was listed as missing in action. Then when the "big

switch" came in 1953, I received a telegram from the Army saying he \\as being held by the communists. Then in December 1954 they declared

him dead, but his name is still being presented to the reds for an accounting. The State Department has informed me that our American boys mm fought with the United Nations forces; therefore the United States wasn't responsible. This letter was on State Department stationery but there

w as no signature. So that is what the parents and next of kin have to contend with, besides giving up our sons and husbands. .My boy was only 17 years old and had only eight months training. OFFICIAL APATHY Alice Anderson

Sir: .May I direct > oiir attention to the Julian, Calif. plight of more than 2,000 American men listed as missing in action in COMMEND COMMANDER Korea. An organization was formed in 1952 called "American Prisoners of Sir: National Commander Dan Daniel War Association," comprised of for- speaks much old-fashioned American mer POW's and their families to- horsesense in his article "Why Trade ?" gether with parents and wives of men Our American Birthright . . . in the still missing. Meetings were held in February issue. We Americans would Boston and letters were read from do well to take note and continue the officials in various Government agen- fight for the American way here at cies revealing damning evidence of a home. lack of interest, bungling and contra- Walter E. Lehnert

dictory information \\ hich served only Plaivview, Nebr. grief families of to add to the of the Sir: Permit me to congratulate >'ou for tlie missing men. Many letters were the splendid article by the National sent to President Eisenhower asking (Commander. I have a sales class here his assistance. Not one reply was at Sunmount, a veterans TB hospital, has forthcoming. Our Government v\ ill quoted and MASTER MECHANIC PORTABLE LIGHT PLANTS and your magazine be good reason to believe that some of I Button Start— 700 watts 115 v 6U eye tiiis article used as background to I'owcrtil by a rugged ea.'.y- starting (I Urn W 2 2 h. p tliese men are alive and rotting in 3«) 3 irigfjs (,'.is engine No wiring necessary, just American history, which is so neces- in .inH oj>erale Plenty current for any luK of fly r.i'lio. leleviMon, oil burner, freezer, pump. communist jails. Our diplomats sary to a good salesman. lighK elc v^hich refjuire up (O 700 watts ideal for Camp, cottage, trailer or fjoat! here and there around the world. U.X. Paul Corcoran Includes voltmeter and built in winding to charge v aulo batteries Wl. 75 lbs commissions confer. Distressed condi- Siiiniioiint, N. Y. Ka^ily fits in car trunk. Be prepared if storm knocks out power In tions of European and Asiatic peoples Futiv qunranleed Kegularly IM) $143.50 S275 Special arc alleviated by billions of American IIl^IM) Walt Plant

gave so much for our Country. Wc issue since it started. From your pale, PAINTING IS EASY! now ask Mr. Eisenhower to answer static articles to the \cry dull humor our pleadings; to take the strongest page, tlie magazine is as exciting as a rJi:; BURGESS possible action to make this objective Harold Stassen manifesto. You are not number one, to keep informed the the ELECTRIC and reflecting the guts, the tempo or parents and wives who pray daih" for sentiments of most vets on some SPRAYER the fate of their missing men. mighty li\ e issues. Why pull punches Ralph Burns type of creep- Just plug in J. on the new Republican and Spray: Behiiont, Mass. ing socialism in the White House? arc you silent on the Tito visit, paint • varnish Why • enamel • shellac • moth- FORGOTTEN BOYS the iiollow "token" support of the proofers • garden sprays Hungarians, tlie wreck of the pension • water • insecticides Sir: I'm glad to see that ever>'one bill, no tax relief, etc.? Who killed the hasn't forgotten the boys being held PAINT 3 to 7 TIMES FASTER! old Legion courage, with punch in the b\' the reds and not accounted for. My For the fastest, smoothest paint- magazine? America is still with tlie ing or spraying Job you ever brother, Pfc, Bill Carnett, has been saw. try the Burgess Sprayer. Legion. Who's scaring \'ou? missing since December 2, 1950. Like Completely self-contained . . . If not available locally G. F. Carroll Just plug into regular household send (12.95 for post- a lot of people, I think more should outlet, pull the trigger, and paint paid delivery. Money- Chicago be done it. It's to furniture, floors, walls, screens, back guarantee. about up The cabinets, fences. Fine for moth- American Legion to do something. It's proofing and garden spraying, too. Sapphire nozzle, handy spray adjuster, new convenient hanging book. 25 oz. for sure no one else is doing anything. CONDEMNS Gl BEHAVIOR graduated Jar. Easier to clean than a brush. Mrs. Finley Patton Sir: Your January w ail about the kind Pad lie ah, Ky. Send for Free Booklet,"How to Paint the Easy Way" of justice GI's get in foreign courts ^BURGESS VIBROCRAFTERS, INC. Sir: For six and a half years my son is in marked contrast \\ ith tlie report DEPT. A-67 • GRAYSLAKE, ILLINOIS Orville F. Linebaugh has been held {Continued on page 65)

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Joe'G Place Editors WHERE SCHLITZFELLOWS c o r| n e r GET TOGETHER EXPENDABLES IT IS NO secret that after wc were euchred out of victory in Korea, and follow ing the farce of the armistice talks there, we left hundreds of American men and hoys in the hands of the communists. Of course our officials did not like to desert these GI's, but in order to v rap up the mess these men were w ritten off. In view of the way communists man- handle those in their power, this action on the part of our Government could hardly he, described as laudable. But in

the intervening years it has become downright contemptible. Letters from

parents and \\ ivcs of the prisoners show quite clearly that our officials are much more interested in washing their hands of the bloody mess than they arc in pres- suring the Chinese and North Koreans into abiding by the truce terms. Indeed, in some cases these officials seem more re- sentful of the relatives of the prisoners than they are of the reds.

As Air. Ralph J. Burns points out in a letter in this month's "Sound Oif!" our

Government is an amazing thing indeed. W'c ha\ e the utmost solicitude for the teeming millions of the Middle East, In- dia, F.urope, and all way stations. Our

Government is generous to a fault in handing these people billions of dollars collected from American taxpayers. \Ve send troubleshootcrs among them to help them solve their economic and technical problems. We are asked to provide American men and boys to fight their begins when you meet for Schlitz at your favorite tavern. FUN battles and settle their disputes. But God Today's Schlitz is adult refreshment. Paced to modern help an\' of those men if they get in trouble in the course of our international leisure. Sits light because it's SchUtzUght. You drink more of it meddling. Then it's every man for him- without feeling full. Be Schlitzfestive tonight! self because from all indications the United States Government can't be bothered w ith such petty details.

— kiss of the SCHLlTzUGMr hop INTERNATIONAL ALPHABETICS REMEMBER HOW, during World War II, our lives and destinies w ere SCHLlTzKEPr regimented down to the last detail by hundreds of thousands of eager beavers — air-free w ho operated under such banners as OPA, OWI, WPB, NLRB, OPM, DSC, SCHLlTzNESS ESB, FPHA, FHA, NRPB, CPA, and so on ad nauseam? —continuous quality At the end of the war the nation breathed a sigh of relief when, to all in- tents and purposes, the "alphabet agencies" were closed up. Actually some did Be a Schlifeer- Be refreshed go out of business, but most of them merely name served a great © 1957 Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wis., changed and humanitarian purpose providing a lot Brooklyn, N.Y., Los Angeles, Cal., Kansas City, Mo by g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 of jobs. So, burcaucrac)- marclied on. Indeed, it's now bigger and better than ever — international in scope. Now you zi\d cver) one else in this big wide world have at j our beck and call an amazing list of agencies. For instance, you have ACC, BCG. ECOSOC, ECAFEiM, ECE.M. ECLA, GATT, FAO, UNESCO, ICCICA. ICITO, ILO, OEEC. TAA, TAB, TAG, UNICEF, IBRD, UNRWAPRNA, UNKA, etc., etc. Don't 'ask us w hat the abbreviations .stanti for, or what these things do. They're agencies and appendages of the United Nations. The only thing we're sure of is that they qualify as wards of the American taxpayer.

GREETINGS TO HALLMARK IAST MONTH we mentioned in this J column that Hallmark had sponsored a T\' version of Lillian Hcllman's de- pressing play The Little Foxes, presumably to sell Hallmark Christmas cards. At that time we referred to La Hellman's extensive list of communist front affilia- tions. However, Hallmark must be fond of the lady and her works because since then they telecast her adaptation of The Lark. You could write to Hallmark about this but it probably wouldn't do much good. The theory behind TV merchan- day-to- dising seems to be that if you like a show TELEPHONE MEN AND WOMEN attend one of the training courses in you arc duty bound to rush right out day matters of telephone service, employee and public relations. These particular (before the stores close) and buy, in this courses are for management people in the Bell Telephone Companies throughout case, a bale of genuine Hallmark greeting the country. There are many other Bell System programs for the training and advance- cards. If the show offends, don't blame ment of telephone people at various stages of their careers. liberal the sponsor. He has nothing whatsoever They include broad to do with it. It's a "package" he knows arts courses at leading universities as well as schools within the business for executives. nothijig about. Take your complaints to the ad agency, the network, the producer or the man who mops up the studio. You'll find that they know nothing about nothing either, so presumably the only left "From the building man to discuss it with is the man of people bcliind the counter.

RED HUNTERS comes the progress of the business" SARAH LAWRENCE College, the well-known bastion of intelleftualism located on the left bank of the Bronx River, in Yonkcrs, was the scene of a pedantic-type hootenanny a few weeks Be// Sys\&rc\'% management train- What we aim to do is to provide ago. Students from 50 eastern colleges both the opportunity the gathered to hear various academic medi- ing programs benefit telephone and cine men thresh out the subject, "Whither users and the company as well as preparation for a better job. The the Present Generation?" long-standing policy of making pro- Starred in the production was Robert telephone men and women. M. Hi'tchins, a former Chicago boy now motions from the ranks also helps to gainfully employed by the Fund for the There is nothing more important assure the continuing know-how Republic. Dr. Hutchins is noted for, to good telephone service and to the among other things, his oft-quoted epi- and spirit of the organization. gram: "As a matter of fact, I have never future of the business than the find- been able to find a red professor." ing and developing of capable people. This in turn brings far-reaching Co-starred with the ex-Chicagoan was benefits to all who use the telephone Harold Taylor, president of the ladies' The Bell System has long been seminary- where the gathering was held. and to the progress of the company. this field Like Hutchins, Taylor too has a penchant among the leaders in and for the boil mot. One of Taylor's more has pioneered new methods for the It is an important reason for to- precious drolleries was his statement that training of telephone men and wom- day's good service and the solid foun- almost a decade of incessant snooping had turned up only rvvo communists in en at various stages of their careers. dation for still better things to come. American colleges or universities. However, the statement was written before the Senate Internal Security Subcom- Working togefher io bring people together mittee got around to Sarah Lawrence and BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM some of its faculty members.

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In World War I posters carried the meaning of battle to the home front.

By FAIRFAX DOWNEY TEILTHATTO THE MARINES? ^^OON AFTER THE United States climbed off the

fence it had been sitting on and declared war /^^ on Germany in 1917, the Battle of the Fences* began. It was fought with posters put up on fences, billboards, and walls throughout the land. Artists, wielding pens proverbially mightier than the sword, turned them out by the thousands. Conventional recruiting chromos faded and folded up before those vivid, hard-hitting placards. The best of them rang like a trumpet blast in the call to arms, capturing the martial glamor of battle- bound infantry, of a cavalry charge, of artillery galloping

of the war effort, a gift to their country they were proud liliE WAR of the FiilCiS, to give. Secretary William G. McAdoo's Treasury De- partment, skeptical whether such patriotism would

stick, tried to play it safe. A Treasury agent rose at a into action. Some were cartoons as sav- dinner of the artists and read a long contract specifying age as close combat, others as poignant that the Government was without obligation for posters as Taps. supplied. Bitterly offended artists began pitching pen- We would not look upon their like nies an(' walking out. Somebody snorted loudly and in World War II. Posters then seemed Chailes Dana Gibson was selected scornfully, "McAdoo about nothing!" as outdated as flags at the front had been to head the poster organization. Gibson, quelling the riot, hurried to since the Civil War—or as the songs we Washington where he found the Secre- sang with such fervor in 1917-18. Other tary's desk covered with so many news- wars, other ways. Why that martial art paper clippings on the incident that for failed to revive is anybody's guess. Did a moment he thought the war was being

it succumb under the urgency of a grim- fought with American artists, not the mer, more widespread conflict? To the Germans. Tactfully he smoothed mat- taste of a more sophisticated, cynical ters down and assured authority that he generation? To photography, or the rise and his colleagues were sincere in their of radio? In any event those posters re- offer. main stirring history. The spirit of the A one-man revolt indicated that the First World War lives in them. affair still was not completely settled. At The first engagement in the Battle of another meeting a Philadelphian took the Fences turned into a rout for the the floor and declared that work not home forces. A cartoon contest, launched paid for was of little value. There should, by the Government, had flooded Wash- he orated, be a Government fund to pay ington storerooms with 2,500 drawings. for the posters and thus put the project Few effective ones were found by a on the sound basis that produces worthy committee called to select from them. works of art. Heavy, ominous silence If posters with a punch were to be pro- was broken by a blast from Monty

duced, it was as much a professional Flagg, who anticipated General Mc- job as the making of munitions. One of One of Gibson's finest war pictures Auliffe and even went him a bit better. the judges was drafted to take on the was this, titled: "Here he is, sir." leadership of the effort.

He was, oddly it seemed to some, Charles Dana Gibson. Was the creator of the Gibson Girl, the depicter of young love, the social satirist, a man for such a task? Those who had scanned his drawings in the old Life since the German invasion of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania were certain he was. Gibson, his pen leveled like a bayonet, had been doing his best to rip neutrality to shreds. Wilhelm II, fierce- ly cartooned, had put the artist down as an insulting and ungrateful fellow. Some years before Gibson's mother on a trip to Germany had been invited Here is the panel of famous artists. Left to right they are: Jack Sheridan, ^V'al- aboard the Kaiser's yacht to be compli- lace Morgan, Devitt Walsh, Herbert Adams, Charles Dana Gibson, DeSales Casey, mented by him on her son's work and Frank Sheridan (standing), Adolph Treidler, Harry Townsend, Charles B. Falls. told that a set of his books graced the Emperor's private library. However, gaged in the campaign—plus an obstacle "The only answer to the gentleman Gibson's jabs and thrusts from 1914 on course set up by the administration. from Philadelphia," Flagged snapped, may well have infuriated the "All- Gibson, mustering his art army, ap- is-!" Highest" to the point of staging a pre- pointed steady, dependable Frank De S. The first posters scored a tremendous view of Hitler's book burning. Casey his adjutant. He placed one noted hit, and the Battle of the Fences devel- It was the Society of Illustrators that artist, unfriendly to him, on his staff for oped into heavy action. Rush orders nominated Gibson, long its president, to the same reasons that Lincoln took Stan- poured in. Casey traveled to Washing- head the poster organization. Reluctant ton into his cabinet. Three belligerent ton every week with a 75-pound load of to accept, modestly insisting there were spirits—James Montgomery Flagg, C. B. drawings and returned with urgent calls others far better fitted, he finally yielded Falls, and Jack Sheridan—who took no for more. Recruiting for all arms of the to his colleagues' demand. Then he nonsense from editors, clients, or any- service, shipbuilding, munitions. Liberty faced up to coping with a record ag- body else, could be counted on to serve Loans, conservation of food and other gregation of artistic temperaments - as shock troops. Soon after the group resources—they all wanted posters and 6,000 artists would ultimately be en- had been given official status under the they got topnotch ones. Gibson not only Division of Pictorial Publicity, trouble acted as assignment editor, giving sub- Author and military historian Fairfax started. jects to the men best fitted to execute Downey is a longtime contributor to this From the outset the artists had em- them, but turned out his own share in magazine. His latest book, Sound of the phasized that they would accept no pay addition to many magazine drawings. Guns, a history of American artillery, was recently published by David McKay and Co. for their work. It was to be their share (Continued on page 48) 13 By ruph lee smith AVK YOU BEEN doing any work at home lately? Of course. I don't mean

?ork or mowing the lawn. I mean spare-time work, for money, to add a few dollars to the family income. in Many people are trying it. Disabled four vets, persons living on modest pensions, shut-ins, and housewives who would like to turn their spare hours into a pad- ding for the badly stretched family budget, are all on the lookout for opportunities to work at home. Some need Horn; the money for bare necessities. Others would like to have that new refrigera- tor, washing machine, or encyclopedia for Johnny sooner than would be possible on the breadwinner's salary alone. It isn't surprising, therefore, that advertisements like the following, which have appeared in newspapers and maga- How people who need a few extra dollars are zines throughout the country, should being exploited by a cynical bunch of swindlers.

lion people are being swindled by this than 15,000 people paid in upwards of racket each year. $500,000, but got no work. Make no mistake about it—work-at- An envelope addressing scheme took home rackets are big business. The Post in $40,000 a year. Office Department, the Federal Trade A scheme to sell instructions and ma- Commission, and Better Business Bu- terials to equip the purchaser to sell reaus have pried the lid off of some of nameplates on a commission basis took these operations, and their findings are in more than a million dollars just from astounding. Here are several examples: the receipt of one-dollar bills for the A showcard-painting scheme was re- alleged course of instructions.

After he pays his money the sucker is put to work copying the phone book. attract a lot of enthusiastic interest: "WANTED: Men and women to work at home. $25-$50 per week. Spare time. Send $1 for information." The response has been tremendous. And a lot of money has been made. A number of people can easily afford Cadillacs and long Florida vacations on the proceeds of these earn-money-at- home plans. But that kind of money isn't likely to go to the people who answer the ads. It's more likely to be made by the clever con men who place the ads. Certain The old ladies think their . . . but they often end up it smooth operators have turned the na- handicraft will be bought . . . peddling from door to door. tional desire to "work at home" into a ceiving in excess of 2,500 letters a day Scores of different types of earn- 500-million-dollar fraud. Better Busi- in answer to its advertising; it took in money-at-home schemes are currently ness Bureaus estimate that several mil- more than $500,000 before it was going strong. Some of them involve the stopped. sale of such varied merchandise as nameplates, aprons, jewelry assembly Ralph Lee Smith has spent six years fighting A scheme to promote the idea of dec- fraud with the Better Business Bureau move- orating and selling Christmas cards took kits, birdcages, beach robes, lamp ment. He was formerly a case investigator for in more than before the pro- shades, and even rubber roses. In other the Better Business Bureau of Philadelphia, and $100,000 he is now editor of three monthly publications moter closed up. earn-money-at-home schemes the pro- for the National Better Business Bureau. He In a scheme to sell employment for moter sells nothing but "instructions." served in the Air Force and is a member of Advertising Men's Post No. 209, New York City. persons doing photo-coloring, more Despite their diversity, one common 14 ILLUSTRATED BY RUDY GARCIA

promoter, asking for $1 for "Complete

Information and Instructions." This is a standard feature of homework frauds. In this case, as in most others, the gimmick worked beautifully. An avalanche of dollars descended on the promoter, from people who did not yet even know what the offer was all about. Each person remitting $1 received by return mail a little booklet stating that the firm was engaged in the sale, by mail, of nameplates at $1 .98. The booklet urged the recipent to remit an additional $5 for a box of 250 unstamped double post cards which advertised the nameplates. The homeworker was to lo-

cate or compile a mailing list of 250 persons, address the cards to these persons, stamp them with stamps purchased by the homeworker himself (the double post cards provided space for two 2^ stamps, one for mailing and- one for reply), and mail them. The firm agreed to pay a commission of $1 on each nameplate sold. Now, let's give this whole proposition a careful once-over. First, note that the promoter placed his advertisement in help wanted columns. This was a deliberate attempt to mislead the public into thinking that he was oflfering some type of salaried employment at home. Naturally, people eagerly responded to such an intriguing offer. They didn't learn until later that the firm was not offering any employment of any kind. Second, persons who were interested in the proposition could not find out what was really involved until they had already parted with some money. The sum total of money received by the promoters for their "instructions" in such schemes represents a tremendous haul for them. Prospective homeworkers can decide for themselves whether they want to make even a modest contribution to a Cadillac or a Florida vacation for Lots of money can be made at home — for a shabby lot of chiselers. these promoters. Third, the homeworker denominator can be found in "homework" racicets. Persons had to do a good deal of work responding to the advertisements are required to buy something on his own time, for which from the promoter. And there you have the heart of the scheme. he was guaranteed nothing. Despite the elaborate deception used by these homework pro- In this particular scheme he moters, they actually have no interest in setting people up in or she would have to com- authentic business activities at home. Their true and only pur- pile a list of 250 names, pre- pose is to sell instructions and/or merchandise to persons who sumably from a telephone respond to their advertising. book or some other direc- A typical case, documented in the files of the Post Office tory. Two hundred and fifty Department, will serve to unmask the postcard addressing post cards, for which the scheme, one of the most prevalent earn-money-at-home frauds. homeworker must pay, must The promoter launched his little deal with classified adver- be addressed, stamped, and tisements in the help wanted columns in newspapers in a num- sent out to this list. There is ber of towns. The advertisements read as follows: no hourly pay and no as- $50 WEEK—address and mail postcards for us at home. sured return for this labor. Spare time. Pen or typed. Enclose self-addressed stamped Fourth, there is the all- envelope." important matter of how

The advertisement was a smash success. The promoter was Don't hesitate to report much the homeworker can deluged with inquiries. your complaints to au- expect to earn for his efl'orts. Each person who inquired was sent a postal card by the thorities fighting crooks. (Continued on page 45) 15 Pilgrimage to

What it was like to cross tl

By HARRY G. SANDSTROM

GREAT EVENT IN American his- Elizabeth and usea perhaps as an elabo-

tory will be reenacted this April. rate captain's gig. Yet, it is large for

Once again the stalwart Pilgrim 1620; also it is well built, strong, and Fathers will step down on that rock in seaworthy.

Plymouth, Mass. At least these voyagers It is a typical apple-cheeked vessel of will be dressed like the Pilgrims, and the time— all curves, not a straight tim- they will have bobbed across the Atlan- ber on her. She carries the usual three tic in an exact replica of the tiny May- masts, fore and main are square rigged, flower. the short mizzenmast behind the poop At first the sponsors insisted that the flies a lateen sail. Built across the fore- far-from-perilous voyage''' be made un- deck is a good-sized forecastle, and der the identical conditions of the first, sticking up out of it is the chimney of with only the primitive few navigational the galley fire. Below the poop is the aids of 1620. But calmer minds have low waist deck—which ships water in prevailed and although this second May- even a moderate sea—where you take flower will carry no power but its sails, the air in calm weather, but only then. it will have a minimum of modern in- Here, too, you hang your wash—but struments. Except for this, everything again only on the few calm and sunny will follow as closely as possible that days you have. This low waist is the history-making first crossing. only open space allotted to passengers.

Now we all know it was a crossing The expedition is financed by a group fraught with perils and hardships, that of London merchant-adventurers. You there was a commingling of anxiety and sail originally from Southampton on hope in the hearts of the Pilgrims, but August 6, the ship loaded to capacity that they had an ironbound faith in God with 90 passengers and a crew of about and were convinced of the Tightness of 40— to whom, incidentally, this is just their bold venture. another routine trip, not worthy of spe- But what about the fascinating small cial note. Another 25 separatists and details of that 1620 expedition? What others sailed on the smaller Speedwell. were the everyday sights and sounds But this little vessel leaked so badly, the and smells? expedition had to turn back after two Here— as far as extant records and tries. Twelve folks and some cargo from expert surmisings allow— they are. The the Speedwell were added to the already Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, crowded Mayflower and you set sail England, .September 6, 1620 and, as that again. popular TV program puts it. you are Master is Christopher Jones: first there! mate and pilot is John Clark. Robert

The ship is a scant 90 feet long. This Coppin is second mate and pilot. Other is 15 feet shorter than the average tug mates are Andrew Williamson and John that chugs about in the harbor and 53 Parker. Dr. Giles Heale is the surgeon; feet shorter than an oceangoing one. he will be of great help to you in your She is not a new vessel. Gross tonnage terrible first winter in Plymouth. Young for yourself, is 244. Thus it could be tucked away John Alden, 21, is the cooper. His is a "Why don't you speak in a corner of the 84,000-ton Queen highly responsible task, for he makes John?" Or at least so Longfellow im-

and repairs the casks and barrels in agined it, but the fact is that lovely

which the is kept (of Priscilla Mullins turned down Captain *An all-British project, intended as a gift to the most of food Amcriciin people. The sponsors have thus far politely course there is no refrigeration on Myles Standish's indirect proposal and hilt firmly refused all help, financial and otherwise, board). married John Alden at Plymouth be- from citizens of the United States. Ultimate resting place of the replica will be Plymouth, Mass. ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER BUEHR fore 1624. They had at least 11 children. 16 PWmouth

cean in the g:ood ship Mayflower,

facilities, cargo spate.

tain Myles Standish, are the most dis- sans, laborers, tradesmen. There are no tinguished of this seemingly ordinary bluebloods, nabobs, or eggheads among but actually extraordinary group of men you. You are simple folks. Also—and who constitute the strongest blocks in Your fellow passengers are an as- this will probably come as a surprise- the foundation of our great nation.

sorted group of men, women, and chil- there is no clergyman, ordained or William Bradford, while a young dren. The adults are youngish; there are otherwise, among you. man identified himself with the separa- only two men over 50. With the excep- There are 41 male adults, separatists tists' congregation at Scrooby, in mid- tion of a few Dutch women who mar- and nonseparatists. on board who are England near Sheffield, which left the ried separatists, self-exiled in Holland, destined for immortality in the pages of Anglican Church. In 1608 Bradford ac- away from the persecution of the Eng- American history as the "Pilgrim companied this group to Holland, where lish Church, you are all English. Fathers." Wisest and best-educated of they fled to enjoy religious freedom. You are a sturdy lot of God-loving, these are William Bradford and William However, life in Holland was not easy freedom-loving tillers of the soil, arti- Brewster. These two, along with Cap- (Continued on page 51) 17 t

Some people think that these are man's most important discoveries, but over- shadowing them all is his discovery that it is necessary to work together. —>

Internal combustion engine. mbUNG PEOPLE JUST NOW reaching Atomic energ). \^ voting age will spend their re- (3-» tirement in the 21st century. Their business careers will span most of the last half of what in all probability Second, we must anticipate continued

is the most important and significant improvement in living standards century of all the tens of thousands of throughout the world. Not only will the years man has lived on our planet. relatively well-to-do live better, but the

This is so because of the rapid devel- millions now living marginally will at- opment of industry and science since tain a substantial level of comfort.

the great inventions of the 19th century. Our third anticipation is a conse- I propose to give you my guess as to quence of the first two. It is that more what we may expect between now and people living better will pose a tremen- the year 2000, and then suggest certain dous challenge to the world's agriculture courses of thought and action which ap- and industry to supply their material pear essential if the great problems we wants. face are to be dealt with effectively. Fourth, there is every reason to an- As we look ahead to the year 2000 ticipate that the problems of meeting these rising demands will become pro- gressively greater as depletion of irre- 1929 placeable natural resources forces us to

turn to even less accessible and still .S.000.000 1955 poorer sources of raw materials. If this appraisal of probable develop- Some of the best work and most stim- ments between now and the next cen- 4,450.000 ulating thinking along these lines have tury is valid, it follows that our civiliza- Those who think big bu.siness is stifling small business don't know tion is confronted with a tremendous about the gain in all businesses. challenge. How can this challenge best be met?

1 General Motors 13 Socony Mobil Oil Man's greatest discovery is not fire or 2 Standard Oil (N.I.) 14 Standard Oil (Ind.) tttttf the wheel or the internal combustion en- 3 Ford Motor 15 Texas Co. gine or atomic energy or anything in the 16 Shell Oil 4 U.S. Steel ft ttf material world. It is in the world of 17 Westinghouse Electric 5 Chrysler ideas. Man's greatest discovery is team- 6 General Electric 18 Goodyear Tire & Rubber work by agreement. The advance of mill If If 19 Standard Oil of W 7 Swift California civilization can almost be told in terms 8 Bethlehem Steel 20 National Dairy Products of widening appreciation of the fact that mill 1^ 1^ 21 Republic Steel ^ 9 Armour ^ working together to produce more of 22 Union Carbide & Carbon 10 Du Pont the good things of life pays better than 23 International Harvester tttttf (E. I.) de Nemours fighting with one another over the divi- AAA -s. 11 Gulf Oil 24 Firestone Tire & Rubber sion of what is already available. 12 Western Electric 25 Sinclair Oil mill Nowhere on earth and at no time in : Millions share in .American industry. The all-black figures indicate stockholders, history have so many men worked to- Our 25 biggest industries, listed above with each figure representing 100,000. The gether of their own free will under a have more stockholders than employees. black-and-white figures indicate employees. common direction as in the business organizations of our country. If there is one thing that seems certain for the rest

we must anticipate, first, continued pop- been done at the California Institute of of the century it is that such teamwork, ulation growth. While experts do not Technology. The Cal Tech findings boil on an ever increasing scale, is going to

agree precisely, it is competently esti- down to this: Given sufficient energy, he required just to maintain present liv- mated that as compared with a popula- the essential raw materials can be ob- ing standards, let alone improve them. tion of two and a half billion now, the tained for the indefinite future. Given The farther mankind pushes out the world will contain three and a half bil- sufficient capital, the needed energy can frontiers of knowledge, the larger must lion people by the end of this century. be made available. But these prerequi- be the safari organized to take the next If the present rate of natural increase sites depend on mental and moral re- scientific explorer into the unknown. continues, the population of the United sources — on education, inventiveness, You or I could walk up a mountain States can double by the year 2000. organization, management, and fair play. alone, given enough time, on trails built 18 ILLUSTRATED BY COURTNEY ALLEN

In this respect, too, we see the need for teamwork on a larger and larger scale as capital costs increase and accumulations of capital in individual hands are pared by income and inheritance taxes. How to raise the necessary capital to meet the challenge of a more abundant life for more people from poorer resources may prove to be the most difficult of all the big problems we face in the next 43 years. It seems likely that continued reliance must be placed on that part of earnings retained by industries to finance a substantial portion of their capital needs. Business managers facing huge capital requirements due to expanding demand, costlier raw material sources, and depreciation charges made inadequate by inflation have found as a practical matter that it is almost impossible to raise on the outside all the capital they need, when they need it. Ours being a free country, our fellow citizens are able to do what they wish with whatever part of their income is left after taxes. A good many save relatively little. While their spending of the balance may help our sales,

it does nothing to meet our capital requirements unless we manage to make sufficient profits to finance internally. Ironically, both at home and abroad, at a time when capital needs loom larger than VnWXtyor the ever before, we find powerful forces working to discourage that form of teamwork we call investing. At home the primary deterrent is inflation, which means that the lender gets back Future less purchasing power than he lent. That hits at all savings, pooled or not. There

is a tax proposal in Congress, however, which would strike directly at teamwork by investors. It is a proposal to apply a graduated income tax to corporations— Problems facing mankind can be the larger the incomes, the larger the percentage paid in tax. Today's large corporation represents solved with man's greatest invention. a pooling of the savings of many people — some of them individually weahhy, some of them in very modest circumstances, and the vast majority some- By B. BREWSTER JENNINGS where in between rich and poor. In CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY, INC. many corporations the number who participate in this teamwork through the (Conlinuecl on page 55) by others, but it took hundreds of men women coordinate their efforts in all working together to enable the first two parts of the world to find, produce, men to reach the summit of the world's transport, refine, and market oil. It is highest mountain. The individual is no teamwork when one man, who knows less important than he ever was, but in how to operate an electionic calculator, more and more fields of human en- gets the answers to problems he did not deavor large-scale teamwork is required originate and may not understand, to merely to place the individual on the aid another man who thought up the perimeter of the known world where problems but has not learned to oper-

discoveries become possible. ate the calculator. And it is teamwork Teamwork by agreement takes many of the most essential kind when in-

forms, but its essence is that men join vestors—men, women, colleges, hospitals, together to accomplish what they could and insurance companies—agree to sup- not do at all, or as easily, or as well, by ply the tools and materials for a project

themselves. It is teamwork when one they may never even see, in return for man plants corn enough for two while a promise to repay their capital with the other makes a hoe. It is teamwork interest or to give them a share in the The blocked Suez Caiuil allows iio when 74,000 Socony Mobil men and profits, if any. nationalization threatens in\cstor 19 Dan Brown in his mill. At Amwkmdqf right is a wheat germ, shown with the head of a pin to indicate its size.

Grandma's loaves were tastier and

By JAMES C. G. GONNIFF more nourishing because of an ingre- NE DAY DURING Prohibition police descended on a brewery in Morris, 111., and padlocked it. Of course dient now being restored to bread. O this wasn't the only brewery that suffered such a fate during the so-called Noble Experiment, but this particular padlocking had a strange aftermath. It cut down some of the available supply of beer in the early 1930's, of course, the oil in the germ has been heated, hurrying a chemical ac- but, more important, it is going to mean a world that is better tion that impairs the keeping quality of the flour. nourished than it is at present. Naturally the miller was sure that his unconventionally Not long after the law closed down the brewery, a miller processed flour would soon spoil because the wheat germ leased it with the idea of using part of the beer-aeration ma- had not been milled out of it. But, strangely, it remained fresh. chine to clean his wheat. In the course of converting the He tried to peddle the freak flour, but nobody was having machinery a fluke occurred of the type that has any; so he relinquished his lease on the brewery time and again changed the course of human his- and quit for keeps. tory. The miller's plant manager decided to turn That might have been the end of the matter, on the blower device full power for a quicker only for a man by the name of Dan Brown, from cleaning job, using controls to keep the wheat from Chicago. Dan, a former newspaper circulation ex- taking off in the gale. It worked, but it did some- ecutive, had for years been trying to find out how to thing else that hadn't been counted on. The mighty mill flour and leave the wli ?at germ in, without air currents also cooled the rollers that ground the having the flour go bad. This pursuit might indeed flour, and there was no sign of the wheat germ be called an inherited trait since his grandfather, which is left as residue in modern milling opera- Dan T. Hedges, a Sioux City, Iowa, banker, had tions. This tiny but vital part of the wheat had all spent a $502,000 fortune trying to solve the same Daniel T. Hedges been crumbled into the flour. problem. who St arted the Being a conventional man, the miller was might- The two Dans were not just anxious to enjoy the search years ago. ily upset to find his machinery doing such an un- taste of old-fashioned bread of the type that was conventional thing. Indeed, so upset was he that he closed baked a hundred years ago; they, and more particularly the down temporarily to put things to right. Now usually when grandson, knew that modern milling methods removed a lot wheat is milled, the wheat germ that is left in it has to be more than taste when the grain was ground into flour. fine-combed out. This is because the germ has been flattened The secret lies in a blackish speck at the base of every grain instead of pulverized like the rest of the flour, and because of wheat: the wheat germ. This oily speck, the heart of the 20 Spun at high speed through revolving steel, the wheat grains pulverized all right, but the wheat germs didn't. Mov- ing metal heats up. The heat got to the oil in the wheat germs and made them soft. Instead of shattering, they flattened. Heat and oil meant quick spoilage of the flour; so the wheat germs had to be fine-corrrbed out. Never wasteful where the dollar was at stake, the millers

caked this wheat-germ discard and sold it to farmers for livestock feed. It put solid meat on pigs and beef cattle in no time. Among humans, only health-craze addicts bothered

with it. The now wheat-germ-free flour kept well enough. But the

bread it made, when fed to lab rats as their only diet, brought death from nutrional deficiencies.

Even so, it wasn't till 1940 that the States began forcing bakers by law to put back in bread, via chemical additives, some of the plundered nutrients of the wheat germ. This now all but universal enrichment program is a repair move

in the right direction. But that's about all it is. Enriched bread

3LD-FASHI0NED

These bakers at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, show how bread used to be made in the good old days.

BREAD still provides only a fraction of true wheat-germ potency. Till World War II, in other words, the bread that couldn't keep a lab rat alive was the same bread you fed your children.

Since then it's been improved, but only some. Kids, as everybody knows, are smarter than lab rats. Luck- ily, so are most grownups. From 1870 to 1940 kids and their

wheat, is no bigger than a poppyseed on a hard roll. Yet into folks simply ate less and less bread. Grandpa wolfed 250 its subpinhead confines are crammed almost all the nourishing pounds of grandma's bread a year. Today even his growing vitamins, minerals and vitality-building acids for which wheat great-grandson, who needs it most, puts away an indifferent

is famous. 100-plus. This steady drop in bread consumption worried In grandma's flour the wheat germ got well crumbled by the big bakers. But what did they do to counteract it? They

the stone grinders of yesteryear. Before their spilled riches just bleached the flour in their dud loaf whiter still. They could make the flour go bad, she'd used it up. In grandma's loaded it with extenders and spoilage retardants and they

bread you thus got all the nourishment and that moist, un- baked it light as the air it was pumped full of. Then they forgettable flavor. spent millions on "educational" advertising to convince the

But about 1870 high-speed steel roller mills brought here American public it wanted this tasteless plug. from Hungary began the mass production of bread that in Confident that Americans deserved better in the way of the end put grandma out of business. Unfortunately, those bread. Dan Brown made an intensive study of milling prac- rollers also took much of the nourishment out of bread. With tices, and in this he was aided by his grandfather's copious it went the flavor. reports. When in 1935 he heard about the miller's experience in the brewery, he pricked up his ears.

Conventional machinery flattens the wheat Cattle benefit 1 rom this because Could this be the elusive secret his germ which must then be combed out. they get the disc irded wheat germ. grandfather had spent a fortune on? Taking time off from his newspaper circulation job in Chicago, he went down to Morris for samples of the odd flour. It tested out as true wheat germ.

Dan even found he could still make tasty bread from the ancient stuff. His head spinning, he tapped the family till to buy the miller's interest (Continued on page 56) 21 .

1957_™ YeaiI

Supply center for isotopes is this shipj)ing room at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Atoms are already working

for you, to an extent you may

In this autontatic cigarette-making machine uniformity of not realize. Here's how . . product is maintained by means of a beta-gage detector.

N ISOLATED AREA on the Ohio River west of Pitts- burgh will soon leap to life with the throbbing 3 wizardry of bursting atoms. Years of work vital to man's future will reach a climax as top scientists set controls on a massive steel cylinder. Within, uranium atoms will begin to split in a series of hellish-hot minia- ture explosions. This will mark the first test of the government's historic Shippingport nuclear reactor. In the fall, and after many other tests, the heat from this atomic furnace will be turned into electricity for western Pennsylvania communities.

It is this fact that establishes Shippingport's claim to

fame. For the new A-plant is the first large atomic power station built solely to produce electricity for commercial uses. Its 60,000-kilowatt initial capacity could meet the needs of 40,000 average homes. ^ These frankfurters were stored at room temperature loi iliit( While this start-up is the brightest episode in the 1957 months. Those at right were sterilized by gamma radiation drama of atomic progress, it is only one of many. From almost any point of view, this is a banner year for the Atomic medicine is on the way. The patient drank an "atomic cocktail" containing radioactive iodine; Geiger counter checks it peaceful atom. On the electric-power front, America is [ 'f witnessing:

( 1 ) Marked progress on a score of other power-producing A-plants. (2) Completion of several small but important government experimental reactors. (3) Stepped-up work on 17 nuclear naval vessels, an atomic airplane, and "package" power plants for the Army. All this activity aimed at harnessing the atom to the job of producing power will pay off in assurances that we will continue to have the electricity basic to production and high living standards even after conventional

fuels like coal, gas, and oil are exhausted. Deflated is the once-dismal prospect of the world's lights dimming and finally going out. But the atom is more than just a vague dream of things to come. On the non-power front it is here now in the usable and highly useful form of radioisotopes — those ofl'shoots of normal elements that emit radioactivity like 22 9/the im By JAMES N. SITES

By fall, this atomic |)lant at Ship|)ingport will be supplying power to many commimities.

sioning could be sustained in a continuing chain of reactions. During World War II work on atomic bombs laid foundations for the controlled release of atomic energy. In 1954 Congress passed a basic law setting the ground rules for private industry's role in development. In 1955 officials from 73 countries met at Geneva and blew the lid off the The success of the Nautilus means we will have many more atom-])owered subs. world's hoard of atomic secrets, sharply spurring progress. Last year a special panel of outstanding citizens analyzed the atom's uses and impact, putting these into vitally needed, clear perspective. Today the atom emerges as no longer in the "gee whiz" class. Its potentialities and shortcomings are understood and a base erected for a rapid buildup. Real- ists see a tough development job ahead.

Yet, there is no denying that atomic

technology is turning in some brilliant performances. And, like a rolling snow-

ball, it gathers substance and momentum

as it breaks across each new frontier.

Shippingport is playing a basic role in this expansion of know-how. Begun back in 1953 along with four other experi-

mental reactors, this plant is already outdated technologically. Power produced

from its first uranium core will cost around five cents per kilowatt-hour, or five times that estimated for a couple more large nuclear plants now moving into the construction stage. Nevertheless, valuable operating data which can be applied to other "first generation" A-plants *S2 will be turned out by this trail-blazing crops radioactivity save years im[)ro\ing strains. Exjjosure of to may in plant 106-million-dollar station. Here are some of the plant's details: an Independence Day sparkler. Steady to the development of better products. The heart is a steel pressure vessel 33 gains are being made in: Many of these atomic applications are feet high and 9 feet across, with walls (1) Medicine, where atoms are find- not wholly new, though their widening two-thirds of a foot thick. Suspended in- ing expanded uses in life-process re- application and benefits are. To get the side is a 13-foot-high cage which con-

search and in the diagnosis and treat- full picture of progress, it is necessary tains a nest of thin, metal-sheathed ura- ment of disease. to step back and to note how far nu- nium rods. When made "critical," the (2) Agriculture, where the atom is cleonics has come in the surprisingly splitting of these uranium atoms creates preserving foods, fighting insects and few years since the science was launched. intense heat. To put this heat to use, plant blight, and speeding development These milestones underline this point: water under the tremendous pressure of of wondrous new plant strains. As recently as 1938 physicists first 2,000 pounds per square inch enters at (3) Industry, where atomics are act- proved uranium atoms would split, re- the reactor's bottom, passes through the ing as testing tools controlling key proc- leasing vast amounts of heat. hot core, and leaves at 542 degrees Fah- esses, and contributing in other ways In 1941, it was found that this fis- (Continued on page 60) 23 Shooting Needn't Be a Chore

-HEN WORLD WAR II ended, there You'll get more out of your firearms was a rash of surveys among the new veterans. Pohsters tried discover where we were going to Hve, to if you think of fun instead of form. what kind of jobs we wanted, and what hobbies and sports we intended to take up. On the question of sports, millions of men answered that they planned to By ROBERT UHL go hunting, and a respectable portion of those also said that they'd like to do some target shooting. This was not surprising. Millions of men had learned to fire a rifle, and almost as many had been introduced to the handgun and to the service version of skeet. What happened? The hunting part of the predictions came true. The total number of hunters doubled, and today estimates place the number between 15 and 17 million. But organized target shooting showed only token increases. Scarcely 2 percent of the millions of civilian gun owners even stepped on a target range last year; less than one- third of 1 percent took part in registered rifle, pistol, trap, or skeet shoots. Yet millions of guys who like to shoot at live game or at casual targets would like to practice up before the hunting season, sight in new rifles, pattern their shotguns,

During their training GI's learned that shooting can be a lot ol Ian

tion is the same as it was 20 years ago- vided some attention is paid to their proof that these new gun owners, and needs and desires. the 20 million or so who already have In an effort to dig out the reasons for guns, do not get enough chance to en- this queer situation, I have queried joy them. Open seasons have been short- scores of hunters in various parts of the ened and bag limits have been reduced country. Here are some of the reasons to help game withstand increased hunt- they give for not taking up some form ing pressure. But there's no closed sea- of target shooting: son and no limit on tin cans, paper tar- "Local target shooting layouts are gets, or clay pigeons. You can go plink- nonexistent or too inaccessible." This is

ing; you can set up a basement range; the principal reason; it overshadows all you can set a paper target against a hill- others. side; you can use a hand trap for clay Although there are not as many tar-

targets. All are fun, but it's troublesome get shooting clubs as are needed, con- to find a safe place to shoot and some- sidering the siz6 of the country, they one to shoot with. Sooner or later you still outnumber the golf clubs. There are begin to get a bit bored at the trouble approximately 3,200 senior rifle and and lack of company and absence of pistol clubs registered with the National competition. Rifle Association, 1,650 trapshooting An old tire can be used to make Present members of target clubs do clubs registered with the American an exciting moving target. Just not seem to feel that a problem exists. Trapshooting Association, and 350 skeet be sure you have a good backstop. Most of those I queried attribute the clubs registered with the National Skeet try out their souvenir handguns or home seeming disinterest in target shooting Shooting Association. American Legion defense weapons, teach their kids safe on the part of the vast majority of gun Posts have sponsored many hundreds. gun handling, or get a little expert in- owners to lack of competitive spirit. But Yet a lot of hunters who actually lived struction themselves. the hundreds of non-target-shooting near well-established clubs did not know What's wrong? Interest in guns is still hunters whom I questioned do not agree. of their existence! on the increase. More than a million Scarcely a one of all I asked said that "Don't know how to get started," was new sporting firearms are sold each year. he wasn't interested in target shooting. another frequent complaint. "None of Yet the total production of ammuni- They most certainly are interested—pro- my friends belong to a target club." 24 -

"Target shooters think only of the score, and resist any changes which will reduce scores even though they add to the novelty and offer a greater challenge to ability." "Too expensive. My hunting rifle or shotgun is not good enough. I'd have to buy specialized guns at high prices. Am- munition costs too much." "Not interested in competitive shooting." "No spectator interest, so no fun for the family." (This was very rare.) "Not worth the trouble of getting a

pistol permit." (Of pistol shooting only. ) All this sounds pretty discouraging

doesn't it? Yet the fact is that it is much easier than you may think to get a thriving target shooting project going in a Legion Post or any similar organization having a high proportion of outdoor men. Let's forget all these negatives for a moment, and look at the positive advantages that could result from a rebirth of target shooting activity. Some of the more obvious are: It would make shooting a year-round sport. Hunting fills a basic need of the . . but too often guns remain in racks because shooting facilities are scarce. masculine spirit, especially in America

with its frontier traditions. Target shoot- "Don't know any target shooters, and "Not enough fun." "Too formal and ing gives some measure of that fulfill- have never been invited to shoot by any static. Organized target shooting lacks ment when hunting seasons are closed. local clubs. Hate to barge in among variety. Most rifle shooting is belly It would make better shots. Most of strangers." "I stopped over at a local shooting, with tight slings, known dis- our hunters are incompetent marksmen. rifle range, but I didn't seem to be wel- tances and clear stationary targets." "No There is no better way for hunters to come." resemblance to actual field shooting. In improve their skill than by practice at While these were the most universal trap all birds come from the same trap, inanimate targets. and important reasons given, some of and in skeet, they travel at known Wildlife conservation is served. More the other comments about target shoot- angles. In both trap and skeet the tar- skillful shooters means fewer cripples. ing are interesting. get appears only when you call for it." Many target clubs engage in worthwhile conservation projects possible only to Basement range like this provides year-round, organized groups. all-weather sport for rifle or pistol shooters, Better observance of the rules of t Seventy feet of clear sjiace is room enough. (Continued on page 58)

POSITION Of SHOOTERS 2

4^ Trapshooting is oldest clay target sport. Diagram above shows space required for a trap field.

.TAJICET OiOSSING PO

Skeet shooting was invented LOW HOUSE to provide shots from 8 stations to give all the angles encountered in field shooting. 25 PROtCON

Presenting both sides of big issues facing the nation

THIS MONTH s SUBJECT: FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION

(PRO) At the present time a subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor has been considering proposed legislation on this subject. There is universal agreement that a continuing and wide-spread shortage of public school classrooms exists. The latest estimates made by state education agencies place the total shortage at approximately 159,000 classrooms at the start of this year. Last year approximately 63,000 classrooms were built. More may be built next year, but all indications are that the States can do no more than keep up with the additional needs caused by increased enrollments and obsolescence. I believe that the role of the Federal

Government is to help the States overcome the shortage just as soon as possible and then get out of the picture.

HR 1, which I introduced on January 3rd, 1957, is designed to provide Federal assistance in several different ways so as to meet the need for schools that has developed during and since World War IL Title I of my bill authorizes $600 million annually to be distributed as grants to the States and would be used to assist the most needy school districts in each of the States. Title II authorizes the Federal Government to purchase bonds issued by school districts which are capable of financing their own school construction but cannot sell their bonds on the market at a reasonable rate of interest. Title III authorizes credit assistance to state school financing agencies which exist in some States and may be created in others.

HR 1 provides for assistance over a 6 year period but I have recommended that this be reduced to a 5 year period. It is my firm conviction that if HR I is enacted, the backlog of classroom needs will be eliminated during the next 5 years, and from that time on State and local communities can and will provide schools.

(CON) I compliment The American Legion on its stand for sound Americanism. It is apparent that veterans, as a group who fought to retain freedom, stand ready to fight against any principles that would lose those freedoms. This is the reason that I am proud to have been a continuous member of the American Legion since our local post was chartered. A symbol of this freedom fight is your continuous opposition to Federal aid to education. With many others I have been concerned about the excessive growth of our Federal government and its attempts to assume too many functions that rightfully belong to the States and to local governments.

One such attempted usurpation of authority is this repeated effort to authorize the Federal government to assume control of the public school system. If this movement is permitted to grow, then too soon we can expect governmenf schools with thought control instead of pubiic schools with freedom of thought. Equally important would be the effect on the several states and on local initiative. Our home state of

Indiana (and I understand this is true of all of the states) has been able to supply all of the necessary classrooms without Federal aid. In doing so, millions of dollars have been saved for the taxpayers. Whenever any of our tax dollars travel from our home state to Washington, and then are returned back to us, these same dollars have shrunk to a small fraction of the original amount. There are justified complaints on the size of the present proposed Federal budget. The proposal to provide Federal aid to schools would add to this burden. Thus, savings to the taxpayers should be a serious consideration.

/A (R)M.C. 1 1 John v. Beamer, member of Congress from 5th District, Indiana

The American Legion's stand on Federal Aid to Education is: 1: That the state and local £;overn- ment ought to, can and should, assume and take care of primary and secondary school needs.

26 SecuritY (^nd Common Sense

Sometimes there is a tendency to concentrate on the wrong people.

By BRUCE CAMPION security program must eliminate the emphasis on clearance regardless of an BECENTLY A GOVERNMENT agent individual's background; it must abolish entered the office of an industrial the current insistence on technicalities tycoon. The executive had been which harrass and annoy but do not furnished as a reference by a former achieve security. general in the Armed Forces, now a What are some of the aspects of the consultant to a private contractor. The program better eliminated and others general would have access to classified streamlined? To answer this it would information and therefore was required be well if we reviewed why we have a to execute a Personal History Statement security program in the first place. We and be investigated for a clearance. The have one because during the 1940's we agent wished to know what the corpora- belatedly realized that the Soviet espio- tion head had to say about the character, associations, and loyalty of the general. The executive gave the highest recom- mendation on all counts. Puzzled over the need for the inter- The Soviet Embassy in AVashington view, he asked why the agent was in- deals in more than diplomacy. vestigating the applicant when the man accomplished? It seems to me if the had formerly commanded one of the Government concentrated on investi- country's most sensitive defense posts gating communists and Russian agents and had led a distinguished military we would be a lot closer to achieving career for 35 years. The embarrassed the security we're paying for but not agent, making his exit, could only stam- getting." mer that he was simply doing his duty One is inclined to agree with the ex- The executive was perplexed. Discuss- ecutive in this case. It borders on the ing the incident later with his adminis- absurd to investigate a man who for years had prime responsibility in the \Ve keep loyal Americans from jobs defense of our country. With no exam- but foreign delegations can see all. ination or appreciation of his past life, career, or service to country, his name nage system was stealing every defense was merely noted as one to be "cleared." secret we had, and that the Communist The wheels, once set in motion, could Party had been successful in placing its not stop. members and sympathizers in positions This and some of the other aspects of power and influence in our Govern- of the security program demonstrate ment. We wanted to prevent this from that we have allowed the program to happening again. This is the premise.

become concerned with the form rather From this everything else flows. If it than the substance of what constitutes weren't for this, no security program security. If we are to have a successful would be necessary. security system, certainly more imagin- For a century and a half our Govern- ation and creative thinking are neces- ment required no security clearance. The employee was suspended because sary than have been exhibited so far. How then have we gone so far afield, he forgot to state he had been arrested. An effort must be made to rid the pro- for example, as to censure a man on gram of its bureaucratic aspects which security grounds who might have unin- trative assistant, he said, 'They ask tend to deteriorate into a deadly routine tentionally misrepresented his previous questions about a man whose whole of merely closing cases for a statistical education, service record, or other back- career has been an act of patriotism: showcase. Clearing X number of Gov- ground information? they waste a trained investigator's time ernment employees does not in itself Our security program attempts to and the taxpayers money, and what is purchase security. To be efi'ective, the (Continued on page 49) 27 LEGION ROD DON'T AND GUN FORGET! CLUB

, By JACK DENTON SCOTT You can provide

SPRINGFIELD RIFLES arc again available AN INCREASING NUMBER of screwball according to an announcement by the Na- legalisms are being thrown into legislative LUCKIES by the case tional Rifle Association. Tiic terms arc hoppers around the country, with the idea membership in the NRA, which costs five of restricting the use of sporting firearms. TAX-FREE (LESS THAN dollars per year and includes subscription If all these were enacted into law, owner- to the The American Rifieiiia7i, ship and use of firearms would be difficult magazine 8^ A PACK) for and $30 for a ser\ iceable U. S. .30-Caliber if not impossible. Owners of shotguns and A11903 A3 rifle or §15 for an unserviceable rifles, as well as handguns, would be con- Springfield. The serviceable rifle has no stantly dealing with local and State au- shipment to one or missing parts; tiie unserviceable rifle may thorities for various kinds of licenses and have small nonfunctional parts miss- permits to buy ammunition and guns for some all of the following ing. All rifles are suitable for firing live hunting. ammunition. Prices quoted do not include Much of this proposed legislation is based 12.85 for packing and handling, nor express on the false premise that e\ ery gun owner service groups: charges. Slings are also extra. is a potential criminal. Reasoning from this, Those interested should write to Jim anti-gun legislators assume that if owner- * V.A. HOSPITALS Dimond, National Rifle Association, 1600 ship of guns is made tough enough, crime Rhode Island Ave., NA\'., A\'ashington 6, w ill disappear. Unfortunately, the criminal ^ STATE HOSPITALS AND D. C, for membership application in the is discouraged, element never and only the SIMILAR HOSPITALS IN NRA. For NRA .Member Purchase Re- law-abiding citizen is disarmed. quest write: Lettcrkcnny Ordnance Depot, This is not to say that all gun legislation THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Chanibersburg, Pa., for a Springfield rifle. is wrong. Some of it is necessary good. and ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY Rut much of the stuff that is dashed off^ by anti-gun legislators, some of whom are avid AND MARINE HOSPITALS

headline-hunters, is weird and unrealistic. ^ U.S. ARMED FORCES IN .\cquaint yourself with what is being done in \our State. You may be in for some KOREA

surprises. If you find that legislation is be- Cases available in two sizes: ing considered which will curtail your legitimate rights as a hunter or shooter, • 500-PACK CASE..$3930 protest; get your friends to protest too. • 100-PACK CASE. ..$786 (Price subject to change without notice) FRANK YAMAOKA, 753 Liberty Road, EVERY YEAR about tliis time thoughtful Petaluma, Calif., off^ers: "The cork butt fisiicrmcn start working on the dreadful Send today for your on a fishing rod can easily be cleaned with problem of pollution, the careless spoiling lacquer paint-thinner and a piece of cloth. Lucky Strike order blank of public fishing waters b\- indiff'erent in- Sandpaper or steel wool will ruin a soft dustry. ^^'e've got it close to home here cork butt." Mail this coupon in Roxbury, Conn., and it exists in practically every neighboriiood. Determined men like August C. Hennig, Rehabilitation Di- rector, Chicago Board of Trade Post 304 of The American Legion, do something about 150 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N.Y. if. .Appalled b\' the spoilage of the beautiful Dear Sirs: Des Plains Ri\er, he called it a "floating Please send me Lucky Strike order blank(s) with

which I may provide TAX-FREE Luckies by the sew er," and w ent to the press of Chicago case for shipment to: with his facts and findings. A campaign Check those desired) started and now the people along tiie Dcs Veterans Administration Hospitals Plains River area believe that something ) Army, Air Force, Navy & Marine Hospitals w ill be done. Hea\ >• fines, with sportsmen's L. T. WILDER, JR., Sainte Genevieve, } U. S. Armed Forces in Korea groups acting as w atchdogs are another an- •Mo., has a trick for those who fish from ) Stote Hospitals and Similar Hospitals in sw er. 13on"t ignore the danger of pollution. a boat. "Take a regular bicycle basket," he ) The District of Columbia says, "hang it on the inside of your boat. JOHN L. MURPHY, JR., 50 Pacific St., This can be used to hang plugs on, and to L\nn, Mass., gives us a trade secret: "Don't keep them in a close position and un- throw away those plastic tubes and con- tangled. The basket can also be used to tainers that you recei\c pills and throat keep hooks, leaders, or what-have-you, in tablets in at the drugstore. They make a convenient spot. I've also found that the City or Town swell containers for hooks, swivels, flies, basket method works fine in keeping my spinning lures, and other fishing items that tackle from becoming tangled." become 'lost' in your tackle box." (Contimied on page 61)

2g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 .

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A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

EXCEPTION TO TAX-FREE VA PAYMENTS: trol of the GI mortgage program by the House Vets Affairs Committee, with either an open rebellion Most VA payments to veterans and their depend- against its recommendations on the House floor, or ents are not taxable income and need not be reported a taking over of legislative thinking on the to Uncle on income tax forms. . . . But Internal subject by the House Banking and Currency Com- Revenue has decreed recently that one form of VA mittee, now looking into the same situation. payment must be listed as taxable income -- namely interest on dividends earned by a holder of a service life insurance policy. . . . If VA is holding your insurance dividends at interest, you BILL TO INVESTIGATE FUND RAISERS must declare the interest accrued in 1956 as "FOR VETERANS": taxable income. This, and several items below, deal with several of many bills relating to vets which have been introduced in Congress by Olin E. Teague CHARGE VETS BEING "PROTECTED" (Tex.), Chmn of the House Vets Affairs Committee.

OUT OF THE HOUSING . . MARKET; . . . Several have great merit. . One of them will Something sure to pop soon on the shortage of be vigorously opposed by the Legion. ... In the money for home mortgages, in which the veteran, with hurrah dep't is a Teague proposal calling for an his GI loan "privileges" finds himself with the investigation of outfits that solicit money in the poorest functioning home loan program . . . When name of veterans. . . . This should be done to a the House Veterans Affairs Committee re.iected f are-thee-well , and the sooner the better. . a proposal of Congressman E. Ross Adair (Ind.) to The public has been wheedled out of millions since authorize increase of GI mortgage interest rate WW2 by outfits enriching themselves by pleading from 4?5 to 5% on Feb. 18, Legion Nat'l Cmdr for support in the name of vets. . . . Racket Dan Daniel objected that if the rate stays at 4^i% varies from outright begging accompanied by vague it means the death of the GI home loan program. mention of disabled or jobless vets, to selling "Hundreds of thousands of WW2 veterans and over cheap products, such as ball-point pens, at forty three million Korean War veterans would be deprived or so times their value by mail, along with litera- of the opportunity of buying a home by this rec- ture that hints -- and never quite says in so ommendation," said Cmdr Daniel, noting that mort- many words -- that the big profits will be used gage money at 4^,% has al most disappeared. . . . to find jobs for handicapped vets. Except in a few areas of the country, only way vets get 4)2% loans today is by also paying hidden charges

Daniel . . . wasn't the only one to grumble. INHERITANCE OF About Washington, various Congressmen called WOULD RESTRICT for an end to "kidding the veteran" that he was ACCUMULATED GOV'T BENEFITS OF being "protected" by champions of the 4)2% GI loan INCOMPETENT VETERANS: interest rate Another Teague bill (HR72) proposes that un- Said Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen (N.J.), "Mort- spent gov't vet benefits held in trust for in- gages cost more than that today, so why not tell competent vets must go to a restricted class of the vet the truth and permit him to pay a rate immediate dependents, on the death of the veteran. that'll get him the home he wants?". . . . Lacking such close relatives they'd revert to

Other Congressmen voiced similar views. . . . the government. . . . If nothing else, this is an

Said one, "The veteran can't get his mortgage at interesting and complicated subject. . . . Such

4Jj:5 and if this keeps up the vets that need GI benefit checks at present go to the estate of the home loans the most are going to be protected right deceased vet, finally passing on, in some instances, into sleeping in the streets." to heirs who neither rendered the service to the Said another: "When we first adopted the gov't for which the benefits were paid, nor were

GI Bill, the veterans' interest rate was set at ever remotely dependent upon the deceased vet. . . . about under the going rate, which gave the vet Sometimes accumulated thousands of dollars in a fair break and worked fine. . . . Now the going compensation payments pass on to 11th cousins from rate for mortgages in the open market has moved up Timbuctoo by this process, and it is Teague 's so that it is l^^^j higher than the GI rate, and is reasonable view that this is an unintended use approved by the Administration at that level. . . . of vet benefit appropriations. No wonder vets are having trouble finding lenders. Rep. Teague anticipates that control of such

. . . The veteran who can't get a mortgage is not sums already in trust, having been paid out under going to thank those who are trying to protect him existing law, might be contested in court battles right out of the market, and the veteran who gets with the outcome questionable. . . . He is more a mortgage by paying hidden charges knows that confident that future payments, if HR72 were en- 4^2" " is the bunk. acted, could be so controlled. . . . Total vet bene- Such rumblings foretell possible loss of con- fit payments held in trust for incompetents or

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 ......

minors is nearly half a billion dollars, not all system is most advantageous to them. . . . The one

of which would be affected by HR72. . . . American exception is a provision that anyone having a Legion Nat'l Rehabilitation Commission has approved choice who once elects the new system, and gets a

HR72. payment under it , can never go back to the old. . . . * * But the complexity of this law has made it ex- WOULD STOP BENEFIT PAYMENTS TO tremely difficult for some survivors to determine VETS IMPRISONED MORE THAN 60 DAYS: what choice they should make. . . . Many survivors, Yet another Teague bill (HR71) proposes to particularly dependent parents, quickly forwarded suspend benefit payments to vets who are to the VA a selection of benefits which, in many incarcerated for a misdemeanor or felony, payment cases, would probably be to their disadvantage. to cease after 60 days imprisonment, and remain To protect survivors from making a wrong choice as a result of excusable misunderstandings, the Vet- suspended until release. . . . Provisions are erans Administration is now going to great length written in to protect wives and children^ . . . The bill would dignify the vets benefit program, to check each choice before making the fatal first and the 60-day clause prevents hardship on persons payment that would make the choice unchangeable. convicted for short terms for deeds that are more In some cases, not even this safeguard may pro- infractious than criminal in nature, like you doing tect the survivors, as the future status of the 80 mph and not having the fine individual survivor may be the governing factor, This bill, too, has been approved by The Ameri- so that many must make an irrevocable choice based can Legion Rehabilitation Commission. upon unpredictable data. The American Legion endorsed PL881 when it was % :{c :f: SEEKS TO HOLD VETS TO ESTIMATED before Congress, stating at the time that it un- COSTS OF MEDICAL CAREt derstood that nobody already on the rolls would be adversely affected. . . . And the Legion also A horse of another color in Teague 's bill HR58. advised that it would probably offer amendments to ... It seeks to impose additional requirements on the law based on early experience of its operation. vets who seek VA care for non-service-connected . . . Apparently the biggest lesson learned from disabilities such experience so far is that some persons already In addition to requiring even more detailed on the rolls may be adversely affected unless their financial statements from applicants for such first choice is not made irrevocable. care than the present VA form demands, this bill proposes to "help" the veteran determine his CORRECTION: ability or inability to pay for his own care on the "Newsletter" last month listed Representa- following basis: tives still in Congress who were on the House VA would get an estimate of the probable cost Veterans Affairs Committee last year , but not this for care of what ails the veteran from local doctors year. . . . Omitted was Rep. Ed Edmondson, of and hospitals, if the vet "is determined to Oklahoma, who played a leading role in the passage

require less than 30 days hospitalization." . . . of the Legion's bill HR7886 by the House. . . . The vet would then state his ability or inability Rep. Edmondson has switched to the House Public to pay on the basis of that cost estimate Works Committee. Only reason this wasn't done long ago is that

it's too simple . . . The present and past KNOW YOUR LEGION CHANNELS: quarreling over whether a vet properly predicts Every day, veterans who never gave it a thought in advance that he can or cannot pay for his own before suddenly find they need an expert answer care lies in the well-known fact that nobody can to some question dealing with their status as tell in advance what full treatment for any set of veterans of military service. . . . "Newsletter"

symptoms is . . going to cost. . Doctors can't, is honored that hundreds of such vets write directly hospitals can't, and neither can the patients. here for the info they need. Medical costs are so unpredictable that it would However, the answer can often be found much be unfair to hold a private doctor or hospital to closer to home. . . . Post service officers can any such estimate, and by the same terms it would correctly answer the bulk of such questions, and be unfair to hold veterans to such estimates. the office of the Department Adjutant of The The American Legion Rehabilitation Commission American Legion in your own State can handle the has opposed this bill, and was scheduled to testify tough ones. . . . Because so many questions deal with against it shortly aftere words went to press. matters involving individual situations, "Newsletter" usually refers your questions to your SEEK END TO "IRREVOCABLE CLAUSE" IN PL881: own Department Adjutant, who is much closer to you

than we are. . . . There is no service The American A story elsewhere on these pages notes that Legion can render which can be better handled the Legion's Nat'l Rehabilitation Commission has than through your Post Service officer or your own recommended that the "irrevocability clause" of Dep't Adjutant's office. Public Law 881 be canceled by Congress. . . . The reader probably doesn't know the full meaning of * * * * that, which is one of the chief reasons the Rehab LEGION JOINS IN DRIVE TO INOCULATE Commission wants an end to it. ALL UNDER 40 AGAINST POLIO: PL881, enacted last summer, set up a new system In late Feb. The American Legion joined with of benefits for survivors of veterans or service- the March of Dimes in a campaign to have all Ameri- men who died of service-connected causes, and gave cans under 40 voluntarily inoculated against in-

those a lready on the rolls a choice of the new system fantile paralysis before hot weather sets in. . . . or the old system. Nat'l Cmdr Daniel urged all Legion Dep'ts to set up

With one exception, the entire act reflects an committees to cooperate in the drive. . . . Salk intent to let those on the rolls choose whichever vaccine now plentiful.

22 ' THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 NEWS /^^^merican Leguwn and Veterans' Affairs

ment by reason of disabifity, to take ad- Social Security Laws Chief vantage of the disability clause in their contracts. In many cases the board pointed out they may be relieved of the Issue at Rehab Conference necessity of making high premium payments at a critical time. The 34th Annual Nat'l Rehabihtation 2. Backing of VA research and post- Many Questions Conference of The American Legion graduate education in the general treat- The three day long conference was met in Washington, D. C. Feb. 26 - ment program. arranged in a series of panel discussions. March 1. For three days before the Con- 3. Participation in the following pro- More than 75 experts from various gov- ference convened there were meetings grams by" the appropriate Legion Na- ernment agencies participated together of the Medical Advisory Board Insur- tional Commissions: with Legion Service Officers. ance Advisory Board and the Nat l Re- (a) Accident prevention including Most questions dealt with immediate hab Commission. poison control centers. problems and current veterans claims More than 700 service officers and (b) Inoculation of all members of cases. Considerable time and attention rehab workers crowded the Presidential American families with Salk Polio vac- was given to questions involving Social Room of the Statler Hotel during the cine before the end of March, 1957. Security coverage of veterans.

three-day conference for meetings with (c) Prevention of juvenile delin- One long-time attendant at Rehab . Legion Staff members and government quency by more positive approach to Conferences observed that "the Social representatives. recognition of children's achievements. Security people and ourselves came here Emphasis this year was on the intri- The Nat'l Rehab Commission imple- with a good deal of apprehension. Now cacies of two bills - P.L. 880 and 881 mented the Medical Advisory Board's we find we're both interested in the same —passed by the last session of Congress. recommendations with a resolution op- thing and the only thing we have to do

They brought servicemen and their posing any change by legislation or ad- is sit down and begin to work out the dependents under Social Security, and ministrative action in the eligibility re- problems that any new law brings out." involved many disabled veterans in quirements for a veteran seeking admis- Still another pressing problem which problems, relating to Social Security sion to a VA Hospital. the Service Officers brought with them benefits, not easily solved. The Rehab Commission accepted the to the Conference was the lack of mort- Some of the problems created by this report of the Insurance Advisory Board gage money in many areas of the coun- recent legislation drew immediate atten- which opposed any use of NSLI funds try at the 4/2 percent interest rate pro-

tion from the Nat'l Rehab Commission. for direct GI home loans. \ ided by law for GI loans. At the meeting prior to the Conference, The Insurance Board also urged Stanley M. Huffman, chmn of the that Commission voted: holders of USGLI policies, particularly Nat'l Economic Commission during his 1. To ask the Social Security Board Term policies, who are unable to con- panel discussion before the Conference to set up a definite policy in regard to tinue in substantially gainful employ- read a statement from Past Nat'l Cmdr income limitations; clarify what constitutes total disability from a medical LEGION BOl TQIIET TO "FAMILY THEATER' standpoint and what is to be considered marginal employment for a totally disabled Social Security beneficiary. 2. Asked for Congressional action to remove the "irrevocable" clause in Pub- lic Law 881 to give claimants the right of election to receive any benefit which would be greater or to their best interest. 3. Recommended that Section 224 of the Social Security Act be amended so that eligible veterans may receive Social Security Disability benefits, between ages 50 and 65, without having veterans' disability benefit subtracted therefrom. The Medical Advisory Board meeting on Sunday, Feb. 24, urged the continued cooperation of all interested parties in the preservation of the VA Hospital program. The Advisory Board report, which went to the National Re- hab Commission, also urged: Indianapolis, presents a 1. Legion endorsement of VA pro- LEGION NAT'L CHAPLAIN, Rev. Bernard W. Gerdon of special Legion eitation to Mutual Broadcasting's "Family Theater" and its originator. Rev. gram for longterm patient care and com- Patrick C. Peyton, as John Poor, (left) Mutual President, and Rosalind Russell, a "Family munity participation in providing facili- Theater" star, look on. Citation lauded program, on its 10th aunixersary, for theme: "The ties for "extramural care." family tliat prays together sta>s together." Fatlier Peyton eoneei\ed the program in 1947. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 33 )

Seaborn Collins touching on future Con- 1957 NAT'L CONVENTION: The Legion, meanwhile, promises to gressional action in this area. give equal memories to Atlantic City. Firsl Tor Atlantic City The statement referred to the study Greatest convention city in the country, made by a Special Committee and ap- Legionnaires will experience some- it has never housed a Nat'l Legion Con- proved by the Nat'l Executive Commit- thing new in their 39-year histor\' when vention so—in that sense— it just hasn't tee asking for more flexibility in the G.I. the American Legion National Conven- li\ ed as a convention town. loan interest so as to attract sufficient tion assembles in Atlantic Cit\', N. J., For sheer pageantry, the Legion will funds for home-building. next Sept. 16-19, with colorful prelim- give Atlantic City tlie convention of its The Conference hoped that Federal inaries on Sunday, Sept. 15. It will be career. The boardwalk Legion parade funds could be found to meet the G.I. a convention held right on one of Amer- will top any e\er seen there. More en- home loan demand without raising the ica's finest beaches. Nearly all activities tries are expected in the Senior Drum interest rate. will be within shouting distance of the and Bugle Corps competition than at Nat'l Legislative Director Miles Ken- breaking surf of the Atlantic Ocean. any previous convention, and the final fabulous will the nedy in reviewing the Legion's legisla- The boardwalk be contest in the huge Convention Hall street the tive program for the year gave the con- main of convention. Because will make history. '57 ferees some good news. He pointed out of these facilities, offers perhaps the Atlantic City's Convention Hall— that H.R. 52 providing for increases in finest combined convention and family whose main floor can hold a football compensation had passed the House vacation the Legion has ever known. game and 12,000 spectators too—has to \'eterans Affairs Committee and that For the first time in history, the Le- be seen to be believed. The main floor Congressman Olin Teague, chmn of the gion parade itself will be held on a will seat more than 40,000 people when committee was seeking a rule to bring boardwalk. Following the new pattern given over to chairs, and the balconies it to the floor of the House of Repre- initiated at Los Angeles last year, the another 5,000. At one time it held a sentatix es for immediate action. parade will be held on Monday, Sept. standing audience of 65,000. The ball- In answer to queries of how Legion- 16, before the first business session of room, oft out of sight of the main hall, naires could best support the Legion's the convention. Business sessions will will seat more than 5,000. then run straight through Tuesday to legislative program at this time, Ken- Thursday, Sept. 17-19. nedy asked for letters to Senators urg- LEGISLATIVE: ing establishment of a Senate Veterans Still another first will be racked up as Affairs Committee. the colorful pageantry of the finals of Nat'l Meeting the Legion's National Senior Drum and Rehab Dinner The American Legion's annual din- Bugle Corps competition will be held .\h)re than 900 persons attended the ner to the Congress of the United States, indoors, in Atlantic City's Convention Kat'l Rehab Dinner which concluded in the Statler Hotel in Washington, Hall— largest indoor meeting place in the Conference. Nat'l Rehab Chmn Ro- D. C. on Feb. 19, highlighted the annual the world. bert McCurdy in introducing the many meeting of the Legion's Nat'l Legislative These and other announcements of distinguished guests present called on Commission in Washington, Feb. 18-19. convention planning came from a two- Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Congresswo- Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel gave a brief day joint meeting of the Nat'l Conven- man from Mass. and a long-time friend address of appreciation to the Congress tion Commission and the 1957 Conven- of the veteran and the American Legion. to a packed dining room. Mrs. Rogers tion Corporation, held in Atlantic City, drew a roar of acclama- Business meetings of the Legislative tion and March 2-3, attended also by Nat'l Cmdr applause when she told the Commission stretched over two da\s, gathering Dan Daniel, Nat'l Adj't E. A. Blackmore that "The Bradley report is during which time various resolutions a thing of the past." and other nat'l officials. Heading the referred to the Commission were acted Before Commission was chairman Joe Adams, addressing the guests, Nat'l upon, and several key members of the of Miami; the Corporation was headed Cmdr W. C. Daniel presented a citation Congress addressed the Commission on for Meritorious by its President Albert E. McCormick, Service to Chesser A. subjects of current importance. Among Hood. Mr. in of Mt. Lakes, N. J. and William Hood ten years as \^AVS the guest speakers appearing before the McKinley, Jersey City, N. chairman representative at the VA Hospital in J., Commission were Rep. James E. \'an Richmond, Va. has of the Board. amassed 7,500 hours Zandt (Pa.); Rep. Overton Brooks of volunteer Because of Atlantic City's unusual hospital work. (La.); Sen. John W. Bricker (Ohio); Nat'l Cmdr Daniel reaffirmed the convention facilities and attractions, its Le- Rep. Clyde Doyle (Calif.); Rep. Edith gion's determination location near huge population centers, to fight for the Nourse Rogers (Mass.); and Sen. rights and well-being of the nation's and its availability by excellent roads George W. Malone ( Nev. veterans. He pointed out that "pri- and toll roads, a record breaking crowd the Vice-Chmn* Gene Hassman (Okla.) mary motivation for the existence of is expected. gave extensive reports on difficulties en- The American Legion is the rehabilita- The only ocean-front city of its size countered by veterans in U. S. Civil tion of our disabled veterans and the (65,000 with accommodations for more Service, and the recent action of the care of widows and orphans." than its own population in visitors) Oklahoma Medical Societ\' in attempt- He praised the Service Officers and whose entire ocean front is public beach ing to govern admissions to the VA Rehab workers for their devotion, and and boardwalk, with miles of first class hospital in Oklahoma City. named as their reward "the priceless ocean front hotels behind the boardwalk, satisfaction of knowing that your lives with miles of amusement facilities, with ha\ e the higliest possible purpose." a broad beach of firm, genth' sloping EDUCATION: The week's activities concluded with white sand fronting a graduall\ -deepen- Painless Scholarships a final meeting of the Nat'l Rehab Com- ing and usually gentle surf that is wami mission at which VA Administrator into October, the famous New Jerse)' re- A unique bill to pro\ide from $3 to Harvey Higley discussed some of the sort promises to make the 1957 Ameri- $9 million a year in scientific scholar- planning now being made to meet fu- can Legion Con\ention an outstanding ships for the children of veterans of ture \ et problems. one in the memories of all. WWl, \VW2 and Korea, \\'ithout re-

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 .

quiring appropriations from the Federal licpiihliraiiM Senators Alexander Wiley When a veteran or his dependents (Wis.); William Langer (N.D.); William Treasuiy, has been introduced in the give power of attorney to an American E. Jenner (Ind. ); Arthur V. Watkins Congress. The funds would come from Legion Post Service Officer to represent (Utah); Everett M. Dirksen (111.); Jolm the interest on enemy properties seized N. Butler (Md.); Roman L. llruska them in a claim, the VA recognizes the during World War II. (Nebr.). right of The American Legion to handle The bill was introduced in the Senate the claim on behalf of the claimant, to by Sen. George A. Smathers, of Florida, HERE'S OSCAR have access to the veterans' VÂ folder, on Jan. 17, and referred to the Sena^ê to assist him in developing his claim, Judiciary Committee, chairmaimed by and to present the claimant's case. Sen. James O. Eastland, of Mississippi. There are more than 17,000 Legion Titled the "Veterans' Children Schol- Post Service Officers. Most of them are arship Act," and numbered S.727, volunteers. They are not as expert or as Smathers' bill proposes to invest $100 specialized as the professional Legion million of seized enemy assets in gov- staffs on the state and national level, but ernment securities immediately, the in- they are well versed in initiating claims terest to provide scholarships for higher for veterans, and in steering them scientific education of veterans' children. through the best channels. Scliolarsliips would be administered by A constant flow of claims from Post Congressionally-created National Sci- the Service Officers pours into the many ence Foundation. STUDIOUS BOA wrapped on arm of Prof. Legion State service offices daily (and Furtiier sums would be added to the K. W. Vinton is Oscar, seen by about 50,000 in large metropolitan areas, into profes- original $100 million as available. That sum WW2 GIs in Caribbean, and handled by would yield about three million dollars a about 25,000 of them, as the Prof and sionally staffed Legion county service year, which could provide roughly 1,500 Oscar toured WW2 jungle camps demon- offices) scholarships a year. strating survival and showing how nice Full-time Legion professionals Total seized enemy property still in U.S. snakes really are (well, boas anyway.) state or receive, custody is in the neighborhood of $300 Oscar, now 19, here reads a new book by (county, even national) million. Of an original $575 million, rough- Prof. Vinton, Tlie Jungle Whispers. Ralph review, prepare and watch over claims Skinner, Iv $275 million was used to settle war of Balboa, C.Z., sent pic along so .sent up from Post Service Officers, usu- claims of individuals and corporations old pals could see how Oscar is doing now. ally on the premises of the local VA Re- against enemy nations. gional Office where most of the claims Some of the remaining funds are held THE LEGION AT WORK: are administered by the VA. Before a in trust, pending the outcome of law claim is presented to the VA it is re- suits involving them. Various proposals Veterans Claims viewed. If improperly developed, it is have been made to return the balance One of a series of thumbnail sketches sent back down to the Post, or the vet- to the original owners or their designees. of little-known daily activities of The eran involved is contacted personally, to In support of his bill. Sen. Smathers American Legion. have it better developed before risking said the funds should be used to Nearly all benefits and special rights a needless denial. "strengthen our country." This is par- of war veterans provided by the Fed- When it is in the best shape possible, ticularly true, he said, "since our former eral government are administered by the it is offered to the VA for adjudication, enemies have agreed that we keep these Veterans Administration. There are with a professional Legion service officer seized assets as our only reparations." some exceptions to this, but by and acting as "lawyer" for the veteran. If the Bill is aimed directly at helping alle- large the VA administers most special VA Regional Office allows it, the tale viate the growing shortage (relative to \ eterans laws of the U. S. ends there. the nation's needs) of scientifically It is the nature of many veterans' laws If it is denied, however, the Legion trained persons. that benefits will accrue to a veteran or will study the VA judgment carefully Regarding this acute and worsening his dependents or survivors provided it to detect errors or seek interpretations shortage. The American Legion passed is shown tliat the claimant meets certain in favor of the veteran which the \A. the following resolution at its 1956 Nat'l conditions. may have overlooked. Convention in Los Angeles: To know all these conditions, and to sometimes know what will be recognized as good If an error is discovered, as Resolution 31 . . . Resobed: That The happens, the Legion may successfully American Legion . . . requests the Congress evidence that the claimant meets them, Regional Office to pass legislation for the implementation and to know how to get and prepare point it out to the VA of a new program to locate highly talented without recourse to and present such evidence in the most and effect a reversal young people in our high schools who will is practically an appeal. become the researchers in basic science of relevant possible manner, Office gives no the future; to select carefully an appropri- beyond the knowledge of any one man. If the VA Regional ate number each year and subsidize their Consequently, the VA has a host of favorable action, and if the Legion feels education and training in the scientific and specialists to administer different aspects there are grounds for favorable action technical colleges of the universities of this of veterans' laws. There are those nevertheless, it may refer the \eteran's country in the field of basic science and even for administra- research; to make proper provision for the who specialize in the application of cer- claim to Washington, an continuation of tlieir studies and research tain paragraphs in the laws or regula- tive review or appeal with the \Â Cen- for a minimum number of years to the end tions. tral Office in Washington. In such cases, that the welfare and securitv of our coun- Likewise, The American Legion, the veteran is represented by a claims try will benefit from the education and sci- Legion's National Re- entific knowledge they have gained." which represents veterans without specialist of the In addition to Chairman Eastland, charge in prosecuting their claims, main- habilitation staff in Washington. members of the Senate Judiciary Com- tains a host of specialists. Naturally, not all denials by the VA for review or mittee to which the Smathers bill has Except in a few routine matters, such are taken back to the VA instances there been referred are: as paying insurance premiums, it is most appeal, since in many to quarrel with the Democrats: Senators Estes Kefauver unwise for a veteran or his dependents is no \alid reason (Tenn.); Olin D. Johnston (S.C.); Thomas to deal with the VA without expert help. VA's decision. C. Hennings, (Mo.); L. Jr. John McClel- The odds are thoroughly against the This is especially so since the Legion lan (Ark.); Joseph C. O'Mahonev (Wyo. ); claimant knowing how to further his does not prejudge a veteran's claim. Matthew M. Neely (VV. Va.)'; Sam J. the service officer feels it Ervin, Jr. (N.C.). claim properly. Even though THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 35 :

has scant chance, it will be processed 8. Elimination of subjection of GIs on sored a community polio inoculation in the most favorable terms that condi- duty abroad to prosecution in foreign program, and was the first organization tions warrant at the VA Regional Office. courts. to undertake the task in Johnson County. The fun begins in those cases in 9. Reduction of foreign economic aid Post, which is a comparatively new one, which the Legion service officers firmly programs. also raised funds to help pay for its believe that a denied claim should ha\ e Post colors by staging a play with all RECENT POST DOINGS: been allowed, under existing laws and Legion talent. Play was written by the regulations. f[ THERE ARE 110 potential Legion Post Cmdr. members in Petroleum County, Mont., Such a denial is not apt to rest until f[ IT WAS REPORTED here in February of every resource of the Legion's Nat'l Re- and 108 them were signed up by that members of Post 1, Denver, Colo., of in slightly habilitation staff has taken it every pos- Post 95, Winnett, less than who were elected to public office last sible step of the way. Most state and two months. If your Post can equal that November included: national service officers take a denial of record, write Bill Wiedeman, Cmdr of A U.S. Senator, a Congressman, the 9th Mont. District, at 401 a veteran's claim personally, if they are the Montana Governor of Colorado, the Lieutenant Bldg., Lewistown, Mont. absolutely convinced it should have Governor of Coloiado, a Justice of the gone the other way. f[ POST 1340, Rochester, N.Y., printed Colorado Supreme Court and the Secre- more than plaques bearing the They will take it home with them at 1,500 tary of State of Colorado, as well as - pledge of allegiance to the flag and gave night, talk it over with every other ser\ numerous members of the Colorado Leg- to all ice officer they meet, sometimes keep it them the elementary public and islature. in city in the back of their minds for years—and parochial schoolrooms the and Now R. L. Olson, publisher of The sometimes come upon something years in the Diocese of Rochester. Reveille, official newspaper of Post 1, later that brings the case back to life f[ POST 51, Lebanon, Oreg., initiated advises that the above listing short- and wins it, belatedly. 81 new members in one mammoth cere- changed Post 1, as it should also have Such cases have, from time to time, mony. included resulted in the Legion going to Congress f[ WHEX 104 OF THE 140 members of The Attorney General of Colorado, a and having the law changed. And be- Post 800, Chicago, 111., recently donated Superior Court Judge, and a District hind this type of case there is many a blood to Hines VA hospital, they Court Judge. tale of unending detective work, involv- brought their total donation over five ([ POST 207, Chicago, 111., composed of ing Legion service officers in many vears to 500 pints, with a commercial 3,400 police officers, held its 24th an- states, tracking down the additional value of $10,000, b\' the Veterans Ad- nual Law and Order Dinner on the eve piece of evidence that will win the claim ministration's estimate. of Lincoln's Birthday. Nat'l Cmdr Dan that everyone feels should never ha\e Thirty-five patients undergoing major Daniel and Post Chaplain Father Har- been lost. surgery and five requiring emergency old W. Rigney, who was imprisioned by Before this series of thumbnail transfusions used the blood on the day the Chinese Reds for more than four

.sketches is complete, some of these tales of its donation. years, were the featured speakers. will be told. f[ POST 753, Ca.stile, N.Y., and Post f[ MEMBERS OF POST 81, Wakefield, 105, Silver Springs, N.Y., promote in- Nebr., decked themselves out in large LEGION AIMS: terest in their Posts and increase mem- cardboard hearts as they went about the '57 bership by conducting a "Know Your streets of that community collecting Highlights for \'eterans" contest in the Castilian, a monev for the heart fund. They raised The American Legion's major legis- weekly newspaper. To win the contest, $86.50. this session of Congress identify a local Legion- lative aims in readers must f[ SONS OF TWO Past Dep't Cmdrs of were outlined by Nat'l Cmdr Dan naire who is described in a brief bio- \^irginia were among new members for- Daniel in a statement issued in Feb- graphical .sketch. mally inducted into Post 31, Hampton, ruary. ([ POST 121, Forest City, Iowa, col- Va. They are: Nelson T. Overton, son Major objectives include: lected appro.ximately $700 for the polio of Nelson C. Overton, who was Dept 1. Increased compensation for service- fund, most of it through a "Points for Cmdr in 1928-29; and John A. Blake-

disabled veterans. Polio" project at a local basketball game more, Jr., whose father, J. A. Blake- 2. Improved pension eligibility for whereby donors pledged to give so more, Sr. was Dep't Cmdr in 1947-48. widows and children of vets of per point scored. WW2 much money f[ POST 12, Palm Beach, Fla., presented and Korea, and increased pension pay- f[ MEMBERS OF POST 125, Lakcsidc, the American Legion Medal for Hero- ments for all eligible widows and chil- Va., have a vigorous program of visiting ism to 12-year-old Herbert C. Gibson, dren. hospitalized veterans in McGuire VA who, when he was 1 1 and was on duty 3. Recognition of age 65 as meeting Hospital, Richmond, Yn. On a recent as a member of a school safety patrol, unemployability and disability require- Sunday a party of 22 from the Post saved a 15-month-old boy from being ments for pension purposes of WWl and Unit moved a total of 66 wheel- run over by a heavy truck. vets. chair and litter patients three-quarters ([ THE 1957 membership quota of Post 4. Opposition to recommendations of of a mile to the chapel and back. Walter 38, Jal, N. Mex., is 55, but as of late various agencies, committees and com- B. Davis, Sr., of Post 125, has more than Feb. Post had enrolled 151 members missions that would be detrimental to 2,000 hours of volunteer hospital work and had requested 200 more member- the veterans' program. to his credit. Among other services, ship application blanks from Dep't Hq. 5. Compulsory reserve training in the Davis takes pains to find where the pa- Post won numerous Nat'l and Dep't Armed Forces. tients come from, and brings them their membership awards, and has also re- 6. Restoration to the States of powers home State Legion newspapers. He also cently opened its new Post home. to control subversion. collects copies of TJie American Legion f[ FOR THE 28th consecutive year 7. Restraints on the power of treaties Magazine from Post members and dis- Frank Martin, School Awards Chmn of tributes to entered into by the U. S. to alter do- them patients. Post 310 Chicago, til., presented a mestic law. U POST 370, Elk Creek, Nebr., spon- {Couliiiued on page 3S) 3^ • the AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 BILL LUNDIGAN REPORTS:

I toured the country and proved to nnyself THE SWITCH IS ON

and styling is a big reason why!"

PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE 2-DOOR HARDTOP SPOR

Travelling between weekly shows, your TV-host on "Climax!" and "Shower of Stars" heard people all over

the U.S.A. tell why they're switching to the all-new cars of Chrysler Corporation.

"Everywhere I go," says Bill, "people tell me that these fins, in addition to their heauty, give the car

Chrysler Corporation cars really hit the mark. They added stahility at normal driving spct'dfi! Over and like the new lowness, the extra room inside. They over I got the same enthusiastic reaction to these like the show-window view — and love those fins! cars: 'Any way you look at them, for styling or " But they say what really interests them is the way performance—they're terrific!'

%/o/n the switch to THE FORWARD LOOK CHRYSLER CORPORATION>- PLYMOUTH • DODGE • DE SOTO • CHRYSLER • IMPERIAL RECENT POST DOINGS contact men who served in it at any Indication of the public education (Conliiiiicd fioiu page 36) time. Object: to gather historical papers job still to be done regarding mental or relics relating to the regiment for use health is found in reports which school award to a pupil at the Mosely VA in a proposed regimental trophy room. show that of 60,000 vets in neuropsychi- School for Retarded Children in that community. If you served witli the 3rd, write: Regi- atric wards, 10,000 cannot return to mental Historian, Hq, 3rd Inf. Regt., their communities because friends and U POST 8, Lexington, Ky., has distrib- Fort Myer, Arlington 11, \'a. families refuse to accept them. uted 18,000 safety reminder cards bear- "Drive Slowly — save The American Legion's contribution ing the message South Dakota enrolled 102.61 per- ^ of .$25,000 helped to launch the Nat'I our children!" to parents in that city. cent of its 1957 membership quota hy Ass'n for Mental Health in 1950. Public, parochial, and private school Jan. 28, thereby becoming the third officials cooperated with Post to permit Dep't to meet its quota this year. On children to take the cards to their ^ Mrs. Dwight D. Ei.senhower has ac- school Feb. 27 Minnesota l^ecame the fourth parents with tlieir report cards tliree cepted a complimentary membership in to do so; it had 100.13 percent. Ne- Auxiliary Unit 31, Thomasville, Ga. times a year. braska followed on Feb. 28 with 102.5 POST Gibson, Minn., has made J[ 226, percent. its membership quota for 31 years. ^ Foiu- Legionnaires are among 12 Post's current membership of 157 in- ^ Sons of New Hampshire, lost at sea managers of chain food stores who re- cludes seven father and son combina- in war, will be memorialized when tlie ceived national awards for outstanding tions and 16 pairs of brothers. New Hampshire Marine Memorial is community service in 1956 from the Chains. are C[ THE 50-MEMBER Auxiliary Police dedicated at Hampton Beach this Me- Nat'I Ass'n of Food Awards Unit of Post 12, Elyria, Ohio, won the morial Day. to encourage store managers to assume Mayor's Annual Award for Community Dedication follows seven years of important roles in community life. Le- Service. The unpaid volunteer unit as- planning, fund raising, and research by gionnaire store managers cited were: sisted the regular police force during the State marine memorial commission Gilbert R. Williams, Jewel Tea Co., Chi- severe storms and when a fire threatened cago, 111; Donald W. St. Hilaire, Grand the entire community. Union Co., Hoo.sick Falls, N. Y.; John B. f[ TWO NE^'ADA POSTS, cach with a Elias, Red Owl Stores, Virginia, Minn; membership of less than 50, provide and J. W. Latchum, Benner Tea Co., movies for citizens of two isolated com- Ottumwa, Iowa. munities. They are Post 36, at Mountain City, and Post 34, at Virginia City. ^ Under the leadership of Chmn E. L. C[ POST 1, Rome, Italy, enrolled 2,006 Gilroy, the religious empliasis program members in 1956, thereby bringing to is thriving in Illinois. More than 125,000 50 the total number of Posts with a religious emphasis leaflets have been membership of more than 2,000 for last distributed throughout that Dejj't. The year. The other 49 Posts are all in con- Albert Pick Hotels printed 35,000 copies tinental Dept's. for distril^ution in their 25 hotels in the C POST 28, Grand Haven, Mich., pre- U.S. Dep't of Illinois distributed 17,000 sented the American Legion Heroism in the larger hotels in Chicago, and aji- Award to Star Scout Clint Gilbert and proximately 35 111. Posts have distrib- 2nd Class Scout Tom Gilbert for saving uted nearly 52,000 copies. the life of a young lady who had fallen tlirough the ice while skating. ^ The American Legion Education and N. H. Memorial to lost-at-sea. Scholarship Committee will administer BRIEFLY NOTED: the recently established 8&40 TB Schol- to build the $30,000 memorial and col- Hospitalized veterans can compete arship Fund. Fund provides scholarship lect the names of the lost-at-sea, en- for some of the $5,000 in prizes offered awards of $1,000 each, and is open to dorsed and financially backed by the in the 11th annual contest of the Hos- graduate nurses who liave had two years Legion and the Auxiliaiy Posts and pitahzed Veterans Writing Project. Con- experience in tuberculosis nursing or Units of the State. test closes Apr. 15. who have alread\' enrolled in a graduate Central figure is a mother placing a Various Legion and Auxiliary organi- program on a part-time basis and wish wreatli in the sea ( see pic ) . Project be- zations are among tlie groups which con- to continue their study on a full-time gan in 1950, after repeated refusal of tribute the prizes. Full details of the basis. the Federal Go\ "t to memorialize in the contest may be obtained by writing to Purpose of scholarship is to assist U.S. either the lost-at-sea or the missing- Hospitalized Veterans Writing Project, nurses in securing advanced training for in-action. 1020 Lake Shore brive, Chicago, 111., full-time work in tuberculosis control. or by contacting Special Service in any ^ Dep't of Louisiana won the Gen. Deadline for applications for awards for VA hospital. 1957-58 scliool year is June 1. Applica- John J. Pershing Honor Award, which is made annually to the Dep't with the tion forms are available from The Amer- The ^ 11th District of The American greatest percentage of Posts attaining ican Legion Education and Scholarship Legion in Arkansas held its third an- their memljership quota for the coming Committee, P.O. Box 10.55, Indianapolis nual dance for boys and girls — and year by Dec. 31. 6, Ind. their dates — who attended Boys State and Girls State in Arkansas last year. ^ Ninth annual observance of Mental ^ The American Legion Press Ass'n Health Week will take place Apr. 28- reached an all-time membership high for ^ The 3rd Infantry Reg't (The Old May 4 under direction of the Nat'I Ass'n the second straight year. As of Feb. 25 Guard), the oldest active infantry regi- for Mental Health in cooperation with the A.L.P.A. numbered 912 individuals ment in the U.S. Army, is seeking to Nat'I Institute of Mental Health. {Cuntiiiiicd on jxige -fO)

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 The man with experience

is the man who succeeds!

YOUR SERVICE EXPERIENCE IS VALUABLE NOW...

* AND THE RAMP TO YOUR FUTURE ... IN THE U. S. AIR FORCE

The skills you learned in service are now more valuable to you in the U.S. Air Force. Under a new liberalized policy, you have even greater opportunities than before—a wider range of skills accepted, choice of assignments, paid 30-day delay in reporting and, for all ex-servicemen, a more liberal conversion list. And if you don't have a usable skill, you may, before you sign up—on the basis of aptitude testing—6e guaranteed technical training in a needed skill. Find out, too, about more generous pay raises, increased bonuses and allowances, and extended retirement benefits. Mail the coupon now, or see your local Air Force Recruiter.

PASTE COUPON ON POST CARD AND MAIL TO Today and Airmao Recruiting Information Branch, Box 2202 v-6I.al-2 Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio tomorrow... Please send me more information on the Air Force Prior Service Program. YOU'RE BETTER Name

OFF IN THE Address. -Age-

U. S. AIR FORCE City ^one_ -State- BRIEFLY NOTED report to that body on Feb. 28 this year braska's Federal Employee of the Year {Continued from page 38) it stated that "The American Legion led by the Federal Personnel Management the veterans' organizations in support Council and the Omaha Chamber of and 556 Legion papers. These figures rendered" [to Boys Clubs]. Commerce. represent slightly more than 60 percent BITER, of the known potential Legionnaires and BRIG. GEN. FRANKLIN Chmn in of Legion's Special publications eligible for membership, ^ Six Posts Bergen County, N. J., The American Com- and the A.L.P.A. year does not end un- have formed a joint Americanism committee on the Uniform Code of Military mittee, all a Fellow of the Ameri- til Nat'l Convention time. because their communities Justice, named are served by one regional high school. can Bar Ass'n. The improptu association unifies, and TIMOTHY BUCKLEY, of BoStOn, ^ When Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel vis- J. prevents overlapping, of such school elected President of the Nat'l ited the U.S. Air Force Academy in Mass., Colo., he saw new evidence of the value Americanism programs as Nat'l Educa- Ass'n of American Legion Dep't Service tion of training in Legion Boys States. Week observances, oratorical con- Officers. tests, street his greeters were 1 1 cadets who school awards, safety signs Among Died: are graduates of Boys States. and school flag programs in the Northern AUSTIN s. "dutch" imbie, Past Dep't Valley Regional High School in Dema- Adj't of the District of Columbia (1921- rest, N. J. G. Eric Sachers, Cmdr of Post 3, ^ 22) ; in Washington, D. C. The six Posts, all part of the larger Va., Roanoke, and Post Chaplain C. JOHN A. WHOMSLEY, Past Dep't Cmdr Bergen County Legion organization, are: Dean Lucas sent letters to 329 clergy- of New Jersev (1940-41); at Riverside, Posts Haworth; Norwood; 318, men announcing when the Legion's For 13, 272, Demarest; Northvale; 111, Closter N.J- God and Coiintrij program would be 366, and Harrington Park. CHARLES L. STIFFELL, Past Dcp't carried on a local TV station and urging 30, Cmdr of Louisiana (1945-46). originated the joint that it be brought to the attention of the The Haworth Post LuiGi BiASiNi, a founder of the Legion public through the churches. committee idea. Clifton Westervelt, of in Italy, and several times Vice Cmdr Closter, represents all six Posts in high of that Dep't. school activities, as chairman. ^ Rev. William H. Moss, Chmn, Ten- nessee Legion Religious Emphasis Com- PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: mittee, has blanketed the State with re- The citation of an individual Legion- BAY A. BEYER, named Adj't of Dep't ligious emphasis billboards and placards. naire to fife membership in his Post is of Kentucky, succeeding Thomas H. By Feb. 28 Tenn. Legionnaires had re- a testimonial by those who know him Hayden, retired. ceived 50,000 grace before meals cards best that he has served The American .ARTHUR E. STODD.\RD, Army Reserve and 2,000 window cards proclaiming the Legion well. major importance of religion in American life. general and a member of Post 1, Below are listed some of the previ- Nebr., Before Feb. 1, 154 Back to God bill- Omaha, named Man of the Year ously unpublished life memberships that board posters had been placed. by the Omaha Chapter of the Reserve have been reported to the editors. They Officers Ass'n. are arranged by States. JAMES J. MURPHY, appointed Asst ^ The American Legion is seeking Ezra F. Ziebell (1947) and James J. Gambs Adj't of Dep't of Virginia. changes in the Federal Civil Defense West (1951) and Ralph E. Conners, Sr. (1953), Post 44, Monrovia, Calif. Act of 1950 in order to keep up with the COL. FRANK R. KOSSA (lud.), Vice James F. IJchteiithaler (1956), Post 250, Tujunga, Chmn of The American Legion Nat'l Calif. advances in long-range weapons of mass Leslie \. Farnham and Robert H. Moore (both destruction. Security Commission, joined the staff of 1952) and A. J. Lovell (1953). Post 392, Sacra- mento, Calif. Congress has been asked to include the Nat'l Director of Selective Service. Cal Maier and Ralph W. Kimball (both 1956), Post 32. Longmont, Colo. civil L. EN'ERETT defense instruction in the training PAGE, Past Nat'l VicC Benjamin F. Bernstein (1952), Post 50, Ansonia, of military reservists, so that a ready Cmdr (1955-56), made a member of Conn. James H. RothweU (1956), Post 131, Hartford, corps of trained civil defense workers the Tex. Veterans Land Board. Conn. Edward A. Mulrooney (1949) and John J. Diigan will be available. Legion also recom- ARTHUR D. BRADLEY, JR., member of (1952) and Rev. Thomas A. Lawless (1954) and mends decentralization of new indus- William J. B. Regan (1956), Post 1, Wilmington, Post 1, Omaha, Nebr., selected as Del. tries wherever possible. Omaha's Outstanding Man of the Year William Stevens Bean, Jr. (1955) and Edgar S. Stayer (1956), Post 5, Rehoboth Beach, Del. (1956) by the Omaha Jr. Chamber of Arthur W. Gibson (1954), Post 79, New Port Richey, Fla. ^ Scouting Magazine is looking for Commerce. Herbert W. Moon, Sr. (1946) and Frank D. Stapleton (1953) and J. E. B. McLendon (1954) current, newsworthy information about R. c. JACK CANN, longtime employee and A. S. Tillman (1955), Post 2. Americus, Ga. American Legion scouting activities. If of The American Legion Public Rela- Scott Crum (1956), Post 263, Lincoln, 111. Edwin A. Hovorka (1940) and Dr. Edmund J. you have news of such activities or plans tions Div., and Sec. of The American Crump (1941) and Fred P. Page (1942) and Martin G. Glass (1943), Post 422, Berwyn, 111. in your community or State, send a brief Legion Press Ass'n, retired, on Mar. 20. George F. Snider (1933), Post 112, Brownstown, account to: C. A. Tesch, Americanism Ind. BRIG. GEN. LESLIE MULZER, C.G. of Nile Scavezze (1956). Post 64. Pittsburg, Kans. Director, The American Legion, P.O. Gentile AFB, Ohio, who suggested an Albert Greenlaw (1944), Post 2, Augusta, Maine. W. R. MacCallum and Oscar J. Nelson and Box 1055, Indianapohs Ind. 6, aerial membership roundup in the Charles E. Eakle and Roswell C. Haynie (all 1955), Post 4, Baltimore, Md. 1920's and flew in the first Statewide John Ford (1955) and Maurice Leibowitz (1956) ^ The American Legion Nat'l Security roundup, retired from active military and Mary Ford (1956), Post 17, Portland, Maine. Louis A. Scheldt and Eric S. Stearns and Wil- and Foreign Relations Commissions will service, on Mar. 31. liam C. Petrie (all 1956), Post 108, Cheverly, Md. Harold B. Hanson (1950), Post 72, Dundee, hold in meetings Washington, D. C, JOE H. ADAMS (Fla.), Chmn of the Mich. Apr. 25-27. Judge Earl L. Meyer (1949), Post 7, Alliance, Legion Nat'l Convention Commission, Nebr. elected President of the Orange Bowl John A. Tibus (1950) and George J. Buce (1951), Post 155, Whippany, N. J, Schroedl and Willis Wendover (both ^ Nat'l Boys Club Week is Apr. 1-7. Committee. Martin 1955). Post 194, Rochester, N. Y. The organization was chartered by the A. H. DUXBURY, life member of Post J. Harold Sandifer and Charles G. B. Haber- mann and Joseph G. Tschabrun (all 1953), Post Congress last year, in its and first annual 56, Plattsmouth, Nebr., named Ne- 272, Rockaway Beach, N. Y.

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Arthur K. Woods (1954), Post 212, Parma, Ohio. Lee Wheeler (1953), Post 462, Interlaken. N. Y. Tom E. Galvin and Barney W. Rodfiis (both 1952). Post 97, Pawhuska. Okla. Walter A. Lorah (1945) and Harry Reichlein (1946) and J. David Miller (1947) and Henry S. Brown (1948), Post 12, RcadiniJ. Pa. FLY TO Dr. Frank P. White (1952) and David W. Gra.v- bill, Jr. (195.3) and Eugene S. Rutherford (1956), Post .34, Lancaster, Pa. Lloyd C. Flook and Dr. Samuel IVI. Carter and Charles H. Elder and W. Henrv Elder and Bernard B. Grasso, Jr. (all 1955), Post 36, Jersey Shore, Pa. Russell Frazier (1951), Post 874, Pittsburgh. Pa. Paul K. Wilson (1951), Post 96, McKinney, Tex. J. Howard O'Neill (1956), Post 2, Burlington, Vt. Ernest J. Maloney (1956), Post 327, Norfolk, Va. Sally A. Hilmes (1956), Post 4, Seattle, Wash. PARIS Trueman W. Felton (1953), Post 268, Bruce, Wis. Edward K. Aanonsen (1951), Post 502, Witten- berg, Wis. American Legion Pilgrimage for Peace Post Commanders or Adjutants are September 27 — October 1, 19S7 asked to report life membership awards to "Life Memberships," The American TWA — an oflkial airline to the American Le- Magazine, 720 5th Ave., Legion New gion Pilgrimage for Peace — offers you these York N. Y. Date of award is re- 19, advantages quested in all cases. • Your choice of luxurious Ambassador serv- EUROPEAN PILGRIMAGE: ice with sleeper seats and full-length berths or Bookings Begin thrifty Sky Tourist flights. Delicious complimentary meals. hospitality. Bookings have begun for the mam- Warm TWA moth American Legion Pilgrimage for • Special 15-day Tourist Excursion Fares. For

Peace to Europe following the National example, Paris is only $47 down from New Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. next York with TWA's Time-Pay Plan. September. Early in March, the Ameri- • TWA's stop-over plan enables you to visit can E.xpress Co., official tour agency, FLY THE FINEST forwarded a preliminary prospectus of extra cities in Europe at no added cost. approved official American Legion Pil- • Official Pilgrimage Tours. Ask your travel grimage tours and prices to its field agent or call TWA. FLY TWA offices throughout the U. S., and to in- TRANS WORLD AIRLINES dividuals who had earlier inquired for Pilgrimage travel details. Widespread early interest in the Pil- grimage had already resulted in queries involving more than 5,000 interested members of Legion families. The preliminary tours list seventeen different conducted post-convention tours of Europe, each starting and end- ing in New York, each following its own route through various European countries, but all of them converging on Paris for three days, Sept. 28-29-30. Except for the concentration in Paris, the tours will be fanned out over most of Western Europe on other dates. Thus on Oct. 5, different groups of Legion- naires will be at the following places: Rome, Venice, Oslo, Geneva, Heidel- berg, Lucerne, Cordoba, London, Milan, Amsterdam, Zurich, Frankfurt and In- fishing fun is family fan terlaken. Now For a period of several weeks these ...especially with a Bronson Mate! and other European cities will entertain This new Bronson spinning reel makes fishing fun for everyone. fresh groups of Legionnaires on many The Mate's silky, free-flow action helps even a novice cast succeeding days. Tours range in length accurately without backlash! New Dial-a-Drag from 17 days (taking advantage of spe- smoothly and easy drag adjustment. Attractive blue-green cial 17-day round trip transatlantic air permits smooth, or spin rod. See it, try it rate) to 41 days (longest). Minimum housing, satin finish frame. Fits bait

and equip the whole family. Complete with line . . . only $15.95. price for lowest-cost tour is $836 (17- day round trip air, tourist class). Mini- Bronson "Mate" (Model 900) mum price of most expensive tour is with Dial-a-Drag $15.95 $1251 (41 days, tourist class steamship). Expenses over quoted prices are in- Bronson Write for your FREE booklet on spin fishing, in all tours, travel volved since the basic "Spinning Itie Bronson Way." Bronson Reel Company, FISHIIVG KEELS rate does not include tips, passport fees, Bronson, Michigan Div. of Higbie Mfg. Co.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 4^ home-to-New York travel, port taxes tional training, counseling, help for the cept contributions from Dep'ts, Posts, or registration; nor extras which most retarded and for the gifted, etc. and Legionnaires, for relief of flood travelers will want in addition to the The Legion Child Welfare Div. book- victims in Ky., Va., W. Va., and Tenn. basic travel and living accommodations. let April is Child Welfare Month, for When Post 35, Jeffersonville, Ind., Quoted rates do include all scheduled example, points out that the Legion has sent its $200 contribution to the Disas- travel to and from Europe, and in conducted a nationwide effort — through ter Relief Fund, Post Finance Officer Europe, all hotels, and all meals except its Back to God program — to call to the John G. Way said in the accompanying a few dinners in major cities. attention of parents the importance of letter, "The attached check represents The American Legion Pilgrimage the spiritual development of their chil- in a small way the appreciation of our Registration fee fluctuates according to dren. It notes that "freedom of religion people for the help extended us twenty the length of each trip, since a major does not mean freedom from religion." years ago when we were in the same part of the fee includes insurance. Other child welfare developments: circumstances." Registration fee is $12 per person for Announcement that police officers in tour of 30 days or less (U.S. to U.S.); 10 States have received grants enabling $16 for 31 to 45 days; $19 for 46 to 60 them to attend the Delinquency Control COMRADES days. Institute of the U. of Southern Cahf., IN DISTRESS Fee includes official registration and where they will be trained to work with Space does not permit notices to coniact badge; $5,000 accidental death or dis- juveniles. Grants were made on recom- persons for any purpose except to assist in memberment insurance; $.500 medical mendation of The American Legion establishing a claim for a veteran or iiis de- insurance for care needed due to acci- from funds made available to the De- pendents. Statement to that effect slioiild dent; and $1,000 baggage loss or dam- linquency Control Institute by Legion accompany notice. Send notices to: Comrades in Distress, age insurance. Child Welfare Foundation. The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth Airlines involved in the scheduled Three other universities — Tulane, Avenue, Nov York 19, New York. tours are TWA and Pan American. and Florida State — have Minnesota, Army Ocean liners are the America, Liberte, started or are starting delinquency con- Giulio Cesare, Cristoforo Colombo, 2nd Med Bn, Co D—An injured foot caused me lo trol institutes. be hospitalized twice at Fort Sam Houston, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, He de Tex., in 1940. Need to hear from the captain Thirty-five memorial contributions to and Maj Keeling and anyone who remembers France, United States, Vulcania, Nieuw The American Legion Child Welfare me. I was a cook. Write me. Ben D. Helve.v, Amsterdam, Statendam and Maasdam. 111 Tennessee Blvd., Dalhart, Tex. Claim Foundation since Jan. 1 have totaled pending. In nearly all steamship tours, optional 4th Armored Div, 25th Cav Recon Sqdn, Co A— $350. Need to hear from anyone who served with crossings by plane either way — with a William Showers from Germany to Czechoslo- vakia, especially those who remember his ill- saving of time — are available. COMMUNITY SERVICE: ness. Write, Herbert Showers, 141 N. Mover For certification of eligibility, pre- St.. Annville, Pa. Claim pending. 13th FA Rest, Btry E-While serving at Schofield sentation of paid-up 1957 membership Barracks, T.H., in 1938-.19, I fell from a large Help in Hip Boots tree while trying retrieve section keys at card in to The American Legion or The the gun park. My right arm was broken, and Hip-booted Legionnaires helped make American Legion Auxiliary will serve in I was generally shaken up. Need help on claim from anyone who served with me, up the first rescue and relief squads in lieu of a certificate of membership from especially from: Cpl Joe Berry; Pvts Edwin the Appalachian Mountain region as Swanson. Honaker. and Lewis Metzgar: Sgt a Post or official. Unit Jack Taylor; Paul IJIose; and Capt J. J. Derry swollen streams brought death and All tours will be filled in the order of (the btry commander). Write me (former S/Sgt) Frank E. Allison, 621 First St., Piqua, destruction to the area in mid-winter. confirmed application. $100 deposit with Ohio. In Pikeville, Ky., the water supply 16th Co C.\C (WWD-Need to hear from anyone travel agent constitutes confirmation of who served with me. Write me. Raymond E. application. Payment of registration fee was shut oft, one of the two hospitals Harris, 218 Lynn St. S., Peabody. Mass. Claim pending!. all stores with properly filled out application form was abandoned, and were 25th Div, 27th Inf, 1st Bn, Hq Co-Need help on claim from anyone who served with me in the flooded when Dr. M. D. Flannery, first constitutes preliminary application on Pacific in WW2, especially Capt West (Seattle. basis of which bookings are Cmdr of Post 83, Pikeville, took the jol) Wash.), 1st Sgt Berity, Cpis Guie Miller and authorized. Skinner, and Pfc Lovic. Also need to locate of coordinating the program Deposits are refundable at par if can- emergency anyone who served with me in the 51st Train- int; Bn at Camp Callan, Calif., under Capt during the first few days of the flood. cellation is necessary, up to within four Thompson; the general commanding Camp Callan in July and Aug. 1941; doctors and weeks of embarkation date. Two hundred miles away, in Leb- nurses at Camp Callan Hospital where I un- derwent Nurses New U. S. regulations prohibit block- anon, J. T. Whitlock, chmn of the emer- surgery (especially Tucker and McDonald); anvone who served with me in procurement of passports by The Ameri- gency flood committee for the Ky. Camp Haan, Calif., or the 64th CA, Btry M or in the 79th CA (AA). Btry A in Hawaii. can Legion as in American Legion, collected and distrib- earlier Pilgrimages. In- Mv nickname was "Soldier Ferrell." Write di\iduals must obtain their own pass- uted to stricken communities 2,000 gal. me. Corbett D. Ferrell, 240 W. Broadway, Phoenix, Ariz. of ports. fresh milk, 3,800 gal. of fresh water, 57fh FA— Need to hear from anyone who recalls 165 new blankets, 900 gal. of fruit juice, that I had fungus on my feet in Seoul, Korea, in 1947. Write me, Alfred Martins, 190 Hunt CHILD WELFARE: and $1,750 worth of canned goods. St.. Central Falls, R. I. Claim pending. 79th Encr Construction Bn— While tearing down Before the flood waters had started a water tank in Seoul. Korea, in 1952-53, I Ecliication is Tliemo to subside, the Dep't of Kentucky had was bumped or fell about 60 ft. I fell across some two-by-fours, and was knocked uncon- Child Welfare Month is being ob- spent more than $7,000 for flood relief. scious: my head and stomach were injured. I was not hospitalized. Need to hear from served this April for the 19th time. Al- Post 8, Lexington, had donated two anyone who remembers my fall, especially though child welfare activities of The tmckloads of supplies; and Post 40, recall Charlie Boobler, of Wis. Write me, Eneene Burke, Route 3. Cleveland. Ga. Claim American Legion go 365 days a year, Henderson, and Post 7, Frankfort, had pending. 85th CA AA Bn, Btr.v A (Newport News, Va., April is set aside to each. emphasize the pro- contributed one truckload Jan. 1942-Oct. 1943)-Need to hear from those gram through special projects and pro- On Feb. 3 Nat'l Cmdr Dan Daniel who served with me, especially Ca t \ on .Sherk, to prove that I was sent from the btry motions. sent checks of $2,500 each from The to Fort Monroe Hospital, was treated for eye condition, and was discharged. Write me. Jack This year Legion Posts are asked to American Legion Disaster Relief Fund Allen, 721 Mickel St.. Camden 3. N. J. Claiin gi\'e particular attention to education — to the Dep'ts of Kentucky and Virginia. pending. 90th Div, 359th Inf, Co B-I was injured in a truck not just in the academic sense, but edu- And on Feb. 6 he advised all Legion accident, and I now need to hear from any- who served with Vilseck. Germany, cation that includes spiritual one me m and voca- Dep't Cmdrs that Nat'l Hq would ac- in June 1945. Write me, John A. O'Neill, 3316

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N. Hancock St.. Philadelphia 40. Pa. you • • 93rd Div, 368th Inf, 3rd Bn, Hq Co-Nced help on claim Irom anyone who served with me MAN-MADE and who knows thai 1 was treated for sick GEM STONE headaches, stomach pains, leg injury, nerve READER'S condition, a peeling of the Hesh on my DIGEST and MORE BRILLIANt and hands (jungle itch) while on combat duly in MORE BEAUTIFUL than Lu/on in 194.1 or 1944, New Guinea in 1943, lAMONDS and S. Philippines in I94.S. Especially need "Titanla' Gems: I to to contact; Capt Clarence Allen (doctor): ts; for yoi own rings,

rat. . 1 ,Sgts Freddie L. King (Cleveland. Ohio) and per c .$10* Slaughter Fortune (La.); Sgts Walter E. Bul- Titanla " Solitaire veteran gold mountlnir lock of Rocky Mount, N. C. (hospitalized with set in 14-kt Complete for . . . $22.50* me in the Philippines). Stanley Morgan (Miami, . . . can now secure hospitaliza- 1-carat "Titanla" set In a of Angeles. Calif, Fla ). Andrew Jackson Los Masculine Box SLvle 14. kt tion (company clerk). "Branch" (Tex.). Lawrence mounting. Complete for insurance for yourself and ONLY $28.50 Jones, John T. Valdiz (Colo.); Pvts Rufus your family at cost— through Dunlap. Herbert Studeman (Wadesboro. N. C). FREE: Folder & Size Chart Ted Caldwell (Shelby. N. C). John Staples (Synth) RUBIES & SAPPHIRES AFMAA, your own, non-profit (Birmingham. Ala ). I was a s sgt, platoon tionalety Low Priced sgt. Write me. Cleveland Diggs, Hospital, organization. VA ices plus lOC'o Fed. Tax Batavia, N. Y. Lapidary Co.,Dpt.AL-21 You'll agree: the policy you 260th Coast Artiller.v (AA), 2nd Bn, Hq Btry- East 12 St., N.Y. 9, N.Y. While I was serving with this outfit at get as an AFMAA member is McChord Field. Wash., in Mar. 1943. the the best deal medical officer (1st It) sent me to be X-rayed; Worry of anywhere. Write it was discovered that 1 had two broken ribs today for details. and a broken eardrum. 1/Sgt Foxie made me a K.P. pusher because of the side injury. Need FALSE TEETH to hear from anyone who remembers these ARMED FORCES MEDICAL AID incidents. I also served with Col. William J. Slipping or Irritating? ASSOCIATION McCarthy in the 9Ist Div in WWl. Write me, Gus Polos, Veterans Hospital, Saginaw, Mich. Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth USAA Building—Dept. AL Claim pending. slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat, 4119 Broodwoy, Son Antonio 9, Texos 260th Coast Artiller.v, Btr.v A-During a night talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH practice alert at .McChord Field. Wash., about on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a Sept. 1943. my leg was injured. I was a pvt remarkable sense of added comfort and secu- MEX! WE FIT at the time. Need to locate James Carman rity by holding plates more firmly. No gummy, and Joseph Caswell who were in the gun pit gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline when I was injured. The outfit was later (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at any drug W-I-D-E FEET! known as the 380th AAA AW Bn. Write me. counter. E to EEEE Only Claude Lovell, Warrenton, N. C. Claim pend- Sizes 5 to 13 ing. DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; Real conifoit at last for w-i-d-e feetl 504th AAA Opns Det—Need to contact men who We .specialize in wide .sizes and offer IRRIGATES - - served with me in 1954. especially anyone CIRCULATES SPRAYS you styles you lilie to «ear but can't T,\pe P has l.ool uses. to who remembers that I fell down the 25th 1 Pump Up find in the width you need. Fine :.;,iMio GPH; 80' lilRli; or 18(Ki } 450 GPH dre.ss shoes, work slioes, casuals, AAA Bn barracks steps and that I was rrom 25' well. Use 1/6 to 3/4 HP smart hand-.sewn genuine mocca- treated at the Sullivan Barracks Dispensary motor. Coupllntr Included free. 1" in. .toilet: 3/4" outlet, stainless shaft. Won't sins. Top quality. I'opular prices. in Apr. 1954. In Sept. 1954 I was treated by Vtt" rust or cloE $7.95 Lt Peterson while serving in Germany. My .'^ Heavy Duty Ball>Bearing Pump. Up to Money Back Guarantee 7.51)11 GPH. 11/4" Inlet; 1" outlet . $12.95 sold stores. Write for overseas service was in Knielingen. Mann- If Not in / Postpaid cash with order. Money Back FREE heim-Kaefertal. and Heidelburg. Germany. Guarantee. Also other sizes, tvpt's. FKKE catalog today. No obliga- i tion! No agent will call. C ATAL OG Also need to hear from Bernard B. Lisek HinghamS'D, Mats Write Today (Baltimore. Md). Alfred Gartenhaus (Phila- IP^LABAWCO PUMPS, Belle Mead 56, N.I. Hitchcock Shoo. delphia. Pa). John W. Determan (St. GOVERNMENT 40 ACRE Cloud. Minn ). M/Sgt Joseph Lloyd; Capt ASTHMA George I. Franklin (who served with the 34th AAA Brigade). Write me. Francis C. Heil, AGONY OIL LEASE $100 Jr., 5830 N. Camac St.. Philadelphia 41. Pa. 583rd Port Bn, 574th Port Co-My husband T/4 With the first few puffs of Dr. R. Act of Congress gives citizens equal rights with Oil Go's, to obtain Govt, leases. You do no drilling, yel Alvin J. Hannon, served with this outfit in Jan. Schiffmann's Asthmador Cigar- 1945. He previously served with 513th Port may share in fortunes made from oil on public lends. ettes get relief from bronchial if Oil Brokers. Bn, 601st Port Co. Need to contact Capt you (Payments desired) Licensed & Bonded Free Information of booming areas. Write: Thomas W. Thorpe. Jr.. (CO of 601st) and asthma symptoms. Aik Your Drugg/sf & Maps anyone who remembers my husband, especial- NORTH AMERICAN OIL SURVEYS ly: Depot Surgeon of 10th RepI Depot, (Maj cigarettes ASTHMADOR 8272-L SUNSET BLVD., LOS ANGELES 46, CALIF. B. Bair); the 1st Sgt of the 528th RepI Co; Capt Harold Moore (surgeon of the 67th RepI Bn); CO of the 489th RepI Co; Capt A. S. Bulz. Jr.. of the Med Corps; and anyone from any of these outfits who remembers STOP AT THIS SYMBOL BE A SATISFIED CUSTOMER my husband. My husband was excused from drill, calisthenics, guard duty, and various details because of his condition. He is thought Appearing throughout the nation, in to have been injured in France and sent to a hospital in Southampton, England, where Ivy store windows of 20,000 Legionnaire Clayton, of Plymouth, England, was his nurse. Also need to locate a Capt or Lt Fox who owned establishments, this symbol of served with my husband or treated him. Write me. Mrs. Lucy Hannon. 722 E. Seminary, The American Legion Magazine Re- Danville, 111. Claim pending. 645th TD Bn, Recon Co—Need to hear from any- tail Advisory Council is your personal one who served with me at Anzio, especially Pfcs Paul H. Pyles. John Gibson, Andrew guarantee. It assures you of outstand- Lichkey, and Kenneth Beatty. Also need to hear from those who remember when "Pol- ing service in a friendly atmosphere. lock" Polaskey was killed and I was hit by concussion on Apr. 22. 1945. Write me. John R. Wise, 596 Boone Ave.. Houston. Pa. Claim pending. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL 1907th Service Command Unit, Co C, Fort Lewis, Wash.—My shoulder was dislocated, and I was treated at the general hospital at Fort Lewis; I wore a sling for about three weeks. THtS MONBY'SAVING COUPON Now need to locate the men who worked MA/l with me at Warehouses 1 and 2. Commissary, especially: M/Sgt Bennison (Wash.); Sgts 100 GLADIOLUS BULBS Arthur Purfurst (Tex.). Ward Peplinski. M. M. Murray (Wash.); John Carlton (Calif.); IMPORTED FROM HOLLAND Leonard Simms; Capt Collard. Write me. Paul only Bigler, 450 West 3rd S.. Payson, Utah. It you send this Coupon NOW vou can kvI 100 Army Recruiting Service, Indiana— Need to locate 100UV GLADIOLUS Bulbs, imported from Holland, for only penny bulb; Those bulbs from the Sgt Swartz, with late w a a flower center of whom my husband, the world will produce a rainbow ot blooms in stunning Adrian O. Barton, worked in Indianapolis in reds, blues, yellows, pinks, purples, whites, crimson, violet and multi- 1934-36; Sgt Scott, who was in recruiting in color. These bulbs are small, blooming varieties already 1' to in South Bend in 1938 1939; V i' or and Sgt Rains, circumference. Any bulb not flowerins Ave years will be replaced! who was at Indianapolis in 1928-35. Write Act now to get these wonderful bulbs in time for spring planting. me. Mrs. Estle M. Barton. 522 W. Butler, Limited Time Offer. Send today only $1.00 plus 35c for postage and Olney. III. handling. Orders sent C.O.D. plus postai;e il desired. Field Remount Squadron to hear 306—Need 100 GLADS. $1.00 200 FOR $1.94 500 FOR $4.50 from anyone who remembers that I went on n sick call at Toul. France, and at Conflons, Alsace-Lorraine, in 1918; I was assigned to quarters for two days at Conflons. In Jan. 1919 AnnRFss I was assigned to quarters in Mayenc, Ger- many, after I had gone on sick call for about _ZONF._ „STATE Cash Enclosed 10 days. I was a pfc at the time. Also need Q Q Send CCD. plus postage to hear from recall right those who that my DUTCH BULB IMPORTERS • Dept. GP-1403, Grand Rapids 2, Mich. (Coiiliniu'd oil next page) THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 43 COMRADES IN DISTRESS age on it for some time thereafter. I may be S. 21st St., New Castle, Ind. remembered as the man who was jokingly 23rd Armored Engr Bn, Hq Co—(May) Leon- (Continued) called "Blinky." Because of a mistake when ard Marron, Box 7, Newcastle, Nebr. I was discharged, my records do not show 27th Div-(Sept.) Lawrence Reagan, P.O. Box side was injured during an alert about May that I was injured. I enlisted under the name 1403, Albany 1, N.Y. 1943 when I was a pfc serving with the Air Corps Medical Detachment, Station Hospital, of Vincent Pizzo, but later discovered that 34th Div-(Sept.) Junior F. Miller, 690 40th is properly spelled Pizza. Need to St., Des Moines, Hamilton Field, Calif. Write me. Charles my name Iowa. served with or 55th Arty, Btry Frederick J. Rose, 724 Sidney Baker, Kerrville, Tex. hear from anyone who me who B (AEF)-(Apr.) knows anything about my eye injury or the Milliken. 12 Puritan Ave., Dorchester 21, Mass. Navy incident that caused it. Particularly need to 77th Evac Hosp (WW2)-(July) Mrs. Marion Cross locate the doctors who were stationed at Hill, 1046 S. Kansas, Wichita 16, Kans. San Die!;o Marine Corps Base, Bn 1321 or 1322— Dorr Field in 1918, especially Captain White, 103rd Inf-(May) Leo Vigue, 172 N. State St., My late husband. Pvt Homer Dan McKenzie who is thought to have treated me. Write me, Concord, N.H. (sometimes called "Dannie"), trained at this Vincent J. Pizza, 380 Simons Ave.. Hacken- 104th Inf-(Apr.) Maj. Gen. Ralph A. Palladino, base. He suffered a heart injury from con- sack, N. J. Claim pending. 19 N. Gateway. Winchester, Mass. cussion of a bomb on Iwo Jima. He was at 436th Troop Carrier Group, 82nd Sqdn—Need to 108th Inf, Machine Gun Co-(Apr.) Wm. Becker, Iwo when the famous flag-raising picture was contact Capt Mack and Sgt Richard Hen- 67 Dorchester Rd., Rochester 10, N. Y. taken. When he returned to the States, he nessey. Write me. Curtis (Porky) McMahan, 109th MG Bn, Co D (WWl)-(Aug.) William - was taken to the Oak Knowl Hospital. After O Route Gadsden. Ala. Claim pending. Donnell, VFW Home, Lebanon, Pa his discharge from this hospital he lived in 2. Wharton, England, Detachment F, Sqdn, 121st QM Car Co and 103rd Regt, Co San Pablo, Calif. Need to hear from anyone Hq & Hq QM D- (June) Harold who knew him. Write me, Mrs. Louise Mc- Base Air Depot—This outfit was at Wharton C. Casper, 685 State St., Ham- and later at Liverpool. In June 1944 I was burg, Pa. Kenzie. Apt. 20. 201 S. 6th St., Las Vegas, 126th Inf, Nev. Claim pending. treated at the hospital at Wharton for an at- Co M (WWl)-(June) George Quick, I 644 Three Mile Road NE., Grand Corpus Christi, Tex., Cuddihy Field, Naval Air tack of appendicitis. At the same time was Rapids 5, Mich. Station, Med Dept—Need to locate PhM 3c treated tor fungus of the feet; medication was 133rd Inf, 2nd Bn-(Apr.) Robert Furnish, 1315 Mack Leon Harris, who struck the left side applied to my feet and they were placed in a sling for about three days. I was a pvt at 7th SE.. Mason City, Iowa. of my jaw as I was trying to wake him. Write 135th AAA Gun Bn, Btry B-(May) C. E. Miller, me, Roy E. Cunningham, Box 218, R.D. 2, the time, and was later pfc and cpl. I was a 915 Fairfield Road, Hagerstown, Md. Robinson, 111. Claim pending. truck and jeep driver. Now need to hear from 164th Inf, L-(June) Daoussis, Spyros— Need to locate Spyros Daoussis, anyone who served with me or who knew Co Edward J. Murphy, 203 Universal Bldg., Fargo. N. Dak. Navy Serial No. 879 94 32, with whom I me in the hospital. Write me, John Griffin, 166th Co-(Apr.) Barney 43 served. His last known address was 611 W. 346 La Marido St., Pittsburgh 26. Pa. Claim MG Baker, Tulane Road. Columbus, Ohio. 158th St., New York City. Write me, James pending. 209th (formerly Regt, Karabas, 22.'<8 Cottle Ave., San Jose, Calif. FA Bn 161st FA 2nd Bn)- Claim pending. (June) Red Mann, Toronto, Kans. Farragut, Idaho, Naval Training Station, Co 447- 217th CA (AA), Btry E-(June) Roy Rowley, Crooks- ton, Minn. 43— About Aug. or Sept. 1943 I was hit on OUTFIT 240th forehead by bowling ball. Need to locate man FA Bn-(Aug.-Sept.) Charles Hirsch, Box Poseyville, Ind. who helped me to sickbay and the pharma- 228, Write REUNIONS 274th Armored -FA Bn-(July) Harold Williams, cist's mate or doctor who attended me. me, Robert L. Palmer, 1326 Sharar Ave., 3144 Marr Road, Everroad Park, Columbus, Ind. Send notices to: Outfit Reiiiiions, 1 lie Opa Locka, Fla. Claim pending. 299th Engr (C) Bn-(June) Donald A. Miller, 602 City, Farragut, Idaho, Camp Ward, Co 747—1 was in- American Legion Magazine, 720 Fil'tli Ave- Oakdale Road, Johnson N.Y. 308th Bn, E. jured in a swimming pool accident. Now need nue, New York 19, New York. MG Co D (WWl)-(May) John Brophy. 8803 104th St., Richmond Hill, N.Y. help on claim from Glenn Fogel and anyone Reunion will be held in month indicated. else who remembers me. Write me, Richard 332nd Ambulance Co (WWl)-(June) Harry B. For particulars, write person whose address Brown, 16715 Kenyon Road, Shaker Heights L. Cale, Box 93, Atalissa, Iowa. 20, Ohio. Newport, R. I., Naval Training Station—Need to is given. Inf, hear from anyone who .served with me in the 360th Co G (WWl)-(May) Ernest P. Nitch, P.O. Box Bryan, Tex. Waves Galley or Galley D in 1944, especially 207, Jerome Hiller, Henry Landeroes, Zipito (Joe) Army 41Sth RR Tel Bn-(Apr.) James J. Maher, 3723 S. Rockwell St., Chicago 32, 111. Domico, and Charles McAvoy. These men 1st Armored Div-(Aug.) John J. Cullen, 516 454th Engr Depot Co—(Aug.) Simeon J. Bogin, were working with me in the galley when the W. Eleanor St., Philadelphia 20, Pa. 135 Crest Terrace, Bridgeport 4, Conn. ligaments were pulled loose from the right 4th Va. Inf, F-(Aug.) Co R. W. Glaus, 806 478th AAA AW Bn-(July) Joseph F. Morell, side of my spine. I was treated as an out- Duke St.. Norfolk, Va. M.R. 1, Box 217, Rochester, Pa. patient. Write me, (former Ship's C00I4 Ic) 5th Inf Regt-(July) Robert T. Weston, P.O. 478th Engr Maint Co-(Sept.) Charles S. Ostrander. Oscar L. Martin, 122 Park Circle, Old Hick- Box 2161, S. Portland, Maine. Box 149, R.D. Waukegan, 111. ory. Tenn. Claim pending. 19th Engrs-(Aug.-Sept.) 3, Mahlon H. Campbell, 626th TD Bn-(Apr.) Fred O. White, 18 Spring Opa Locka, Fla., Naval Air Base, Personnel Div 307 Rogers Road, Trooper, Norristown, Pa. Park Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass. No. S— In June 1945 I was stacking boxes on 22nd Engrs, Co E-(Aug.) John Gilson, 1215 Operating -(June) E. A. Jacob, a trailer in the salvage yard, when the man 724th Rv Bn (WW? 15505 Park Grove, Detroit 5, Mich. driving the caterpillar started it. I was thrown Operating John Ciesla, 2629 about 15 feet and landed on my back on the 732nd Ry Bn-(May) Marwood St., River Grove, III. tongue; I was knocked unconscious. Our lieu- THE AMERICAN LEGION 964th Co-(July) Clifford D. Creighton. tenant's name was Moore; our master at arms Engr Maint NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Drive. E. Peoria, 111. was from Wash. State. Need to hear from 107 Oak Park 228th Regts-tApr.) anyone who remembers me or the accident. JANUARY 31, 1957 967th FA Bn & 176th & FA Donatelli, Blvd.. Hampton Lakes. Write me. William Nuberry Mowery, 708 ASSETS F. A. 56 Holly Pearl Ave., Kannapolis, N. C. Claim pending. Vincentown, N.J. 1127th and 1400th MP Companies-(Aug.) Frank USS Harry Lee— back was injured while I was My . .i Cash on hand deposit. . > 441,803.98 and on Farina, 1001 Serrill Ave., Yeadon, Pa. aboard this this ship. Need to locate the 244,425.84 Tank Corps (WWl)-(Apr.) John J. Conlon. 9811 doctors and carpenters who served in this 546,504.72 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, N.Y. ship in 1943 and 1944. Write me, Ernest Invested Funds 1,652,680.39 USS Thomas Stone (Soldiers who traveled in this Fersner, Route 1, Orangeburg, S. C. Claim Trust Funds: ship)-(May) Ed Wawrzyniak, 6318 Hudson St., pending. Overseas Graves Decoration Baltimore 24, Md USS Rodman—Need to locate Lt Comdr Frank Trust Fund $ 259,966.51 Foley who was captain of this ship in 1942. Employees Retirement It is thought that his home is in Boston or Trust Fund 2,1:56.513.91 2,396,480.42 Navy N. Y., and that he is about 60. Also need to 5th Marine Div— (June) Joseph Raspilair, Jr., 38 Real Estate 978.243.65 hear from anyone who served aboard the St., Gulf port. Miss. Furniture and Fixtures, 51st Rodman in 1942-45. Write me. Raymond 19th Seabees-(Sept.) Herbert McCallen, 655 E. 222,049.60 Champine, 9 King St., Fairfield, Maine. 14th St., New York 9, N.Y. 130,023.23 CSS Ward-My late husband, BM 2c William 52nd Seabees-(Aug.) Herbert Wardlaw, Box 128, George Griep, served aboard this ship. He i<6,612,211.83 Altheimer. Ark. may be remembered as having had his leg 104th Seabees-(June) Ed Hosey, Box 2465, Browns in a cast for a while. Need to hear from any- LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE Mills. N.J. one who served in this ship which .sank in AND NET WORTH Calif. Naval Militia-(Apr.) Capt W. J. Ashley. Dec. 1944. especially from: R. H. Knapp. 630 Mason St.. San Francisco, Calif. Scotty Fenton, D. W. Gruening. H, P. Flana- Seabee Vets of America—(Aug.) Mrs. Leo F. Liabilities 351,652 55 gon, J. C. Peick, E. J. Bukrey, John Peterson, Current $ Crowley, 14035 Longacre Road, Detroit 27, Mich. Funds restricted as to use 39,197.76 A. J. Fink, Donald Pepin, Frank L. Fratto, USS Black and USS Kidd-(Aug.) Harold F. Deferred Income 1,501,076.38 A. A. Domigall. Write me. Mrs. William Monning, 310 E. 8th St., Kewanee, 111. Griep. 10186 Camino Vista Drive, Monta Trust Funds: USS Nevada-(Oct.) W. E. Larson. 4019 W. 176lh Overseas Graves Decoration Vista, Calif. Claim pending. St., Torrance, Calif. USS Yorktown, Marine Detachment, 1943-45— Trust Fund $ 259,966.51 USS Thomas Stone-(May) Ed Wawrzyniak, 6318 Employees Retirement My head and ears were injured while 1 was Hudson St., Baltimore 24, Md. a member of a 20-mm. gun crew. Battery Trust Fund 2.136,51:5.91 2,396.480.42 #2, Port Side. Need to hear from anyone Net Worth: Air who served with me. especially: Sgt Lloyd Reserve Fund $ 23.852.30 13th Air Depot Group, 13th Supply Sqdn-(July)

Luna, Pfcs Albert Dickenson and Cliffton T. Restricted Fund . . 19,213.15 Carl A. Herbig, 521 Western Union Bldg., At- Hall, and Cpl Longern. Write me. Walter Real Estate 978,243.65 lanta 3. Ga. Brois, R.D. 3, Miller Circle, Newburgh, N. Y. Reserve for Washington 30th Air Depot Group— (Aug.) Charles C. Ponnter, Claim pending. Building 18,529.37 2223 Ravenwood Ave., Dayton 6, Ohio. Reserve for Reha- 87th Supply Sqdn and 88th Repair Depot Sqdn- Air (July) John Wilcox, 275 E. 211th St., Euclid 23, 240th Aero Service Sqdn, Dorr Field, Arcadia, Reserve for Child Ohio. Fla.-In Sept. or Oct. 1918, I left the flying 148th Aero Sqdn (WWl)-(Nov.) Capt. Neil M. field at about 6:30 p.m. and went to my bar- $1,536,391.43 Goen. 14 Gardenia Drive, Melbourne, Fla. racks. As I entered the doorway, I was struck Unrestricted 302nd Depot Repair Sqdn—(June) R. F. Stierman, in the eye by a ball. The eye was blinded by 2,323.804.72 2955 Baike St.. Dubuque, Iowa. that blow. I was sent to the hospital 385th Group-(Aug.) R. G. Weikert, 719 but no $6,612,211.83 Bomb positive results were achieved, although my Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Indianapolis 4, eye was bandaged and I did wear the band- Ind.

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 RACKETS IN YOUR HOME

( Continued from page IS)

Promises of earnings that range from $25 to $150 a week are the stock in trade of the homework promoters. These figures are frequently featured in the advertising. The testimony of thousands of disillusioned homeworkers and the investigations of Better Business Bu- reaus, the Post Office Department, and the Federal Trade Commission, however, tell another and a sadder tale. The fact is that in most cases, the homeworker makes little or nothing, and frequently he actually loses money on the whole transaction. The Post Office Department investigated the specific offer we have been discussing. Postal inspectors found that, accepting the company's statements and figures at face value, the average amount that could be earned by a homeworker participating in the plan would be 45^ a week. A Better Business Bureau ex- More . . . and more . . . and more periment, the results of which have been confirmed time and time again, showed ECHO SPRING answers the call the following balance sheet for addressing and mailing 250 post cards for a for truly smooth homework promoter: Kentucky Straight Bourbon $1.00 for information (sent to promoter) No finer bourbon ever came Kentucky Bourbons. For a And yet truly smooth bourbon call for $5.00 for 250 double cards (sent out of Kentucky. Echo Spring comes to you at Echo Spring again. ..and to promoter) a price lower than most other again... and again. $10.00 for stamps to mail cards WHISKEY... 86 PROOF... ECHO SPRING DISTILLING COMPANY. LOUISVILLE, KY. $16.00 Total Expense STRAIGHT BOURBON $2.00 Profit (two orders returned) $14.00 NET LOSS ON "HOME WORK" EFFORT Finally, there is the question of the' quality and value of the merchandise which the promoter sells through homework schemes and the demand which may exist for these items. In their advertising literature the promoters frequently claim that the demand for their "quality" products far exceeds the supply, and that the items will sell "like hotcakes." Actually, the merchandise offered by the promoters is often cheap and shoddy, and is being sold for tremen- dously inflated prices. There is frequently little or no demand for such useless junk.

Better Business Bureau files record a homework scheme in which the item of Official Legion Flagship merchandise was a half pound of "fire proofing salt." The promoter's price for American Legion Pilgrimage to Europe this item was $4.98. A half pound of the September 1957 same item was selling for $.38 at retail stores. Arrive rested and relaxed. Sail on Convenient sailings from Europe during Oct. and Nov. return No matter how you look at it, there- the Official Legion Flagship, from for transportation Legionnaires. fore, the promoter wins and the home- New York, September 20. of worker loses. The promoter gathers in Other Pilgrimage Sailings from The s.s. United States and s.s. UNrrEo States, America operate in regular serv- a large harvest of dollars simply for his New York: world's fastest liner: September 6 ice between New York and Ireland, "instructions." He makes further huge and 19, s.s. America: August 30. England, France and Germany. profits on any of his shoddy merchan- CONSULT YOUR TRAVEL AGENT OR dise that the homeworkers manage to sell for him. The homeworker does all UNITED STATES LINES the work. And, in exchange for his serv- One Broadway, New York 4, N. Y.. Tel.: DIgby 4-5800 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 45 ices, the homeworker makes either next worked on. You should easily fin- These instructions are likely to be to nothing, or he may actually lose on ish 30 dozen per week." worthless. For example, one promoter the deal. Older ladies who are experts at sew- offered instructions on how to start a "Piece work" schemes are another ing and embroidery are among the catalog addressing business at home. In favorite dodge of certain homework favorite victims of this racket. exchange for the victim's dollars, he racketeers. A typical advertisement After purchasing the "instructions" merely sent out a list of mail-order com- placed by the promoter of such a and "working kit," the happy home- panies, suggesting that the prospective scheme read as follows: worker begins to turn out the finished homeworker write to these companies $100 monthly for doing assembly handiwork, which is often of a very off'ering to furnish names and addresses work at home." high grade. When the work is completed, from telephone directories! Another advertisement placed by a the homeworker mails it to the firm with The "instructions" sent out by an- piece work promoter read: the pleasant expectation of receiving a other promoter on "How to Renovate "Sewing machine owners—earn ex- check. She is often very pleased with Neckties at Home" told the victim to tra cash." herself that she has found such a won- cut out the soiled part of a neckties and Advertisements for these schemes do derful way to make profitable use of sew the two pieces together. A course not disclose that it is up to the pur- her best talents and abilities. on "Candy Making at Home" suggested chaser to sell the completed items. Per- Then comes the rude awakening. The that the homeworkers go around trying sons who respond to the advertisements homeworker receives a form letter from to sell candy to neighbors. are urged to purchase "instructions" and the firm, informing her that her work The advertisements used for the sale

"materials" for assembling such mer- is "not good enough" or "not up to our of such "instructions" are frequently chandise as costume jewelry, bow ties, standards," and therefore cannot be ac- misleading and fraudulent. For example, aprons, baby shoes, and even dog tags. cepted by the firm. a typical ad intended for the sale of a After the homeworker has assembled The homeworker is baffled, and her set of instructions read as follows: these items, he must then see if he can pride is sometimes deeply hurt by this "LONGHAND addressers needed find a market for them. letter. Nevertheless in many cases she by large mail-order concern. Piece The so-called "kits" supplied (for a gamely makes another effort, devoting work home, spare time." price) are sometimes ludicrous. For ex- twice or three times as much effort {c Another advertisement made the fol- ample, in a scheme involving dog tags, make the product perfect. lowing rosy promises: the "kit" was sold for $2. The "assem- The second batch is sent in—and the "EASY MONEY AT HOME. Be bly work" consisted of attaching a small homeworker receives the same form let- your own boss. Make $25 to $75 chain to a connector and running it ter back from the firm. a week at home in your spare time. through a hole in the tag! The promoters of this scheme have We guarantee to make you a show There is a prominent variation of this little or no intention of buying anything card writer by our own simple scheme in which the promoter promises back from the homeworkers. method." to buy back the materials which the There is one group of homework pro- Certain homework promotions in- homeworker has assembled. A typical moters who do not even bother to han- volve the sale of a major item of equip- advertisement for one of these schemes dle merchandise. They find that it is ment for the homeworker along with a read as follows: easier, and very profitable, to sell noth- course in how to use the machine and 'LADIES—Turn your spare time ing but "instructions." They have there- how to set up a business. For example, into money and paint novelties for fore dreamed up "professional instruc- certain racketeers have offered hosiery- me at home. No experience neces- tions" for starting various part-time knitting machines to the public along sary. I teach you free and furnish businesses at home, such as typing, en- with a "course" in how to operate these all material except paints." velope addressing, home printing bu- machines and how to conduct a business Another promoter ran this ad: reaus, mail-order businesses, photo- at home by providing retail outlets with "WE PAY YOU up to $5 a dozen coloring, making of greeting cards and knitted goods. for initials or monograms, varying Christmas cards, home news bureaus, The demand for the finished product,

according to styles of initials and public bookkeeping. of course, is greatly exaggerated. Some- times the promoters promise that work will be provided by local stores or local cleaning establishments. They frequent-

ly tell the prospective homeworkers that they "have been chosen" for the deal because of their well-known abilities. In other cases, the racketeers have given meaningless "aptitude tests," which everybody of course passes. One scheme involving hosiery-knitting machines took in more than $6,000,000 from cripples,

shut-ins, and others who could ill afford to lose the major investments involved in the purchase of such equipment. At this point, you are perhaps ready to exclaim "Why doesn't somebody do something?". The answer is: a lot of tfyngs are being done to stamp out the vicious homework racket. Many fraud orders have been issued by the Post Office Department which have put homework gyps out of business. The Federal Trade Commis- sion has issued orders prohibiting cer-

45 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 B tain racketeers from plying their shady of time. The efforts to catch up with him, In other words, you have to pay trade. Better Business Bureaus, who meanwhile, proceed at a slow pace. to find out. This should always have received tremendous numbers of Complaints must first be received. An serve as a warning signal. Don't complaints from the public about home- investigation must be commenced, and send a cent until you have work rackets, arc doing their best to a case must be developed. By the time checked with you local Better warn the public about the schemes, and all this work is done, the promoter may Business Bureau or Chamber of to publicize the activities of individuals have changed the name of his company, Commerce. who operate such schemes. discontinued his promotion, or started If you are interested in establishing Strong efforts are also being made to another one under a new name in an- a part-time business at home, don't pay prevent the advertising from appearing. other area of the country. money for the worthless instructions and Responsible newspapers and magazines For all these reasons, the fight against materials being offered by gyps. Instead, are scrutinizing advertising offers of this the homework racket is far from won, write to the Small Business Administra- type with great care, in an effort to pro- and the only decisive way to beat it is tion of the U. S. Department of Com- tect their readers. to inform the public about the scheme merce, Washington 25, D. C, and Unfortunately, these combined efforts on a broad scale. Forewarned is fore- request Business Service Bulletins #95 have so far failed to put an end to the armed. When the promoters can no and #98 on the subjects "Information racket. One of its worst evils is the fact longer make any money at their racket, and References on Home Businesses" that, although phony homework opera- the problem will be solved. and "Information and References on tions can eventually be identified and When you read advertisements which Handicraft and Home Products for Pro- stopped by the authorities, there is little offer plans for earning money at home, fit." redress for those who have already lost always keep the following points in Information on employment at home their money which the promoter keeps mind: is frequently available from your .State — promoters know this, and they make ( 1 ) Racketeers in this field are not Employment Office and from reputable hay while the sun shines. offering any salaried employ- commercial employment agencies.

The advertising itself is so tricky and ment, and are not interested in Everybody gains when ambitious per- misleading that it sometimes fools the setting you up in a remunera- sons set themselves up in profitable ac- advertising departments of the publica- tive business operation at home. tivities at home. The homeworker gets tions to which it is submitted. And, if These crooks are interested only something for his efforts, and the econ- one newspaper or magazine rejects the in selling instructions and/or omy benefits from the increase in useful advertising, the promoter tries another, merchandise to you. labor that this work represents. It's high and another, until he succeeds in getting (2) It is characteristic of homework time to clear the gyps out of this field, it placed. frauds that the promoter will ask and to divert the tremendous sums of The response from readers is prompt, for some money for "instruc- money that they have been securing from and the promoter can make a large tions" or "merchandise" before their frauds back into the legitimate amount of money in a very short period revealing the nature of his deal. American community. the end

VETERANS . What would you say to these boys facing service?

BOB wants to he a draftsman. What does the Army offer him"?

JOE wants to work with guided missiles. What does the Army offer him?

ART wants to travel overseas. What does the Army offer him?

Young men constantly look to experienced veterans like you for straight facts on Army service. Sometimes it is difficult for you to keep up-to-date on Army opportunities, and the Army would like for you to know three important facts that meet the needs of yoimg men like Bob, Joe and Art.

For Bob: choice of job training. many more— they name it and High school graduates can iVsguaranteed before enlistment. choose their Army training For Art: choice of travel. Under before they enlist. Over 100 the new Unit Rotation program courses are offered drafting, — he may plan his overseas serv- mechanics, photography, elec- ice —whether in Europe, the Far tronics, practically everything! East or Alaska. This Army And it's guaranteed before en- travel is guaranteed before enlistment. listment. For Joe: choice of branch. He With these facts you can show can enlist directly into the Army young men that they will get Antiaircraft Command for the choice, not chance, in the Army. work he wants. This option lets For further details on various young men pick their spot. In- Army programs available to fantry, Armor, Signal Corps, them, why not direct them to Engineers, Artillery, Airborne, their local Army Recruiter?

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 4-7 )

THE WAR OF THE FENCES (Continued jrom page 13

Gibson's warlike Uncle Sam was a hammered and riveted. Leyendecker's the earth," was the legend beneath grand figure of homely, Lincolnesque coalers stoked, and his gun crews took Joseph Pennell's vivid representation of dignity. The Gibson Girl became Co- battle stations. Charles Livingston Bull's an air raid on New York. Bombs burst lumbia, still lovely and appealingly femi- lively portrait of a bass was an appeal around the Statue of Liberty, stark nine, but now a lady of martial ardor. to the public to eat more fish and save against the glaring background of a The artist marched the German war blazing city. "My idea," the artist wrote, lords across his drawing-board at the "was New York City bombed, shot pen's point. Ludendorff, cold and ruth- down, burning, blown up by the enemy." less. Hindenburg, heavy-featured and Though long-range bombers and guided gross. The thin, cruel hauteur of the missiles were far in the future, such a Crown Prince. The Kaiser, hollow-eyed, disaster then seemed well within the despicable with cringing bravado, his realm of possibility to Americans after hands bloody, the mark of Cain upon the Zeppelin bombings of London. his forehead. These were cartoons in- Wallace Morgan, Henry Dunn, Er- tended to make Americans fighting mad nest Peixotto, George Harding, Harry and they did. Profiteers and slackers Townsend, J. Andre Smith, W. S. Ayl- took a beating. One of the finest Gibson ward, and Walter Jack Duncan were war pictures was the drawing captioned commissioned captains in the Army and "Here he is, sir," in which a mother ordered to France. They sent back splen- offers Uncle Sam her sturdy son. Gib- did sketches of the AEF in action. son's son, Langhorne, who posed for the In case anyone might have missed the boy in the drawing, lived up to its chal- regular-size posters, artists lifted the lenge. As soon as he was old enough, he National Society campaign to a grand-scale operation. for left college to enlist in the Navy and Huge canvases, 90 by 25 feet, were Crippled Children and Adult.s served on a destroyer through the latter erected in front of the New York Pub- 11 So. LaSalle Chicago 3 months of the war. lic Library. While watching crowds From the fences pretty Fisher and bought Liberty bonds, a succession of Christy girls implored the public to buy artists climbed up on scaff'olding and war bonds. A Christy beauty in a sailor meat for the men at the front. Our short- painted figures from previously blocked- suit announced, "Gee, I wish I were a ages of essential equipment prompted in outlines. All the branches of the serv- Man. I'd join the Navy." Adolph Tried- Gordon Grant's poster of a blindfolded ice and the various Allies were repre- ler pictured women munitions workers skipper. It pleaded for gifts of binocu- sented in turn. Charley Falls took over doing their bit and exhorted, "For every lars with, "Will you supply eyes for the assignment duties for this enterprise, and fighter a woman worker. Care for her Navy?" Uncle Sam, painted by Flagg, gave the Army to N. C. Wyeth, the through the Y.W.C.A." Flagg mustered pointed a finger directly at a beholder Navy to Henry Reuterdahl, and the Marines, and Benda celebrated our and bade him enlist to fight for his major countries to other major artists. Polish allies. Wallace Morgan, drawing country. Recruits also responded to Painters, allotted smaller nations such as a jolly sailor manning a galley range, Frank Brangwyn's striking painting of a Czechoslovakia and Liberia, were slight- urged, "Come on, you sea-cooks." Falls' boat's crew abandoning a torpedoed ly mifl'ed, but they came through. It was infantryman with slung rifle and arms ship, an all too frequent scene during Charles Dana Gibson, fittingly, who was full of volumes told people that "Books those days of heavy losses to German assigned the United States. are wanted for in our men camp and submarines. Fini la guerre, as we put it in our 'Over There.' " Jonas Lie's shipbuilders "That Liberty shall not perish from AEF French. War posters came down from the fences like banners furled. The artists, deservingly celebrating their contribution to victory, met at a dinner where they presented Gibson with a bust of himself, executed by James L. Eraser, and a leather-bound volume of repro- ductions of posters drawn under his chairmanship. The book was dedicated to him by his friends and associates "in recognition of his services to the nation through the arts in the Great War." Veterans of the Battle of the Fences took keen pleasure in additional awards given Gibson, both as a symbol of their effort and for his own work. France made him a chevalier of the Legion of Honor; Belgium made him an officer of the Crown. Clemenceau expressed his thanks on a postwar visit to Gibson's home. In 1944 when Gibson was stricken with a heart attack on a Maine island, his country showed its gratitude for his "It's that pest from Washington again!" past services by flying him to New York AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE in a Navy airplane. the end

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SECURITY AND COMMON SENSE (Coiiliiiiitd from I'oge 27) show that a man might be a risk by his pose for which it was intended. If this it since the clerical personnel typed the habits or traits of character. This is intent is conscientiously pursued, such forms. Later he stated: "You know, I reasonable as far as it goes. Who is to unfortunate incidents as the Wolf Lade- am not excusing what I did. It was say though just how far traits or habits jinsky case will not arise. Let us bear wrong and I admit it. I do feel though will lead a person down the road to be- in mind we are not out to punish and that I am a victim in this entire affair." coming a danger—or even a traitor— to harass American citizens but to resist Asked what he meant by this, he con- the U. S.? This is one of the twilight the internal incursions of our Soviet tinued: "Well, I read a lot and consider zones where varying individual interpre- enemy. myself informed on public affairs. I tations of norms or morality or right- It will clear the air considerably if we know why we have a security program eous conduct can result in justifiable go back to the premise of the security and am all for it as is every other loyal criticism against the security program. program: the Soviets— not loyal Ameri- citizen. An incident recently occurred

It is here too that the pseudoliberals and can citizens—are the enemy. though that makes me think I am an leftwing clique have had a field day of George R., a Government employee innocent victim of the security program. malicious criticism. in the Midwest was recently suspended "The commies initiated a 'friend of We who acutely realize the need for from his position. He had falsified his the court' brief for submission to the a security program must insist even Personal History Statement, the infor- Supreme Court protesting the Internal more emphatically than the leftists that mation sheet used in the security pro- Security Act. There was little doubt who the rights of Government employees gram. It seems he denied any arrests, was behind it as six identified Commu- and defense workers are protected. We when in fact he had been arrested in nist Party members and the usual fel- must see that constitutional guarantees December 1954 for drunken driving. low travelers signed the brief. The thing are not endangered by arbitrary enforce- The arrest resulted as he was driving that astounded me though was to see the ment of the provisions of the security home from an office Christmas party. name of Senator Patrick McNamara on program. The pseudoliberals and com- At a police roadblock he admitted to the brief. I couldn't help but ask myself, munists, though they profess concern officers that he had consumed two high- 'Is it security to suspend me for denying at the threat of civil rights, consistently balls; he was automatically booked. This a minor arrest when a U. S. Senator can endeavor to abolish or undermine the was the first and only trouble George associate his name with known Com- security program. We must recognize had ever been in. The investigation of munist Party members and fellow travel- the program's weaknesses—but not to course disclosed the arrest. Asked why ers?' Tm dubbed a security risk; nobody undermine or abolish it. rather, we must he had falsified the Government form, even interviews him. Who's kidding? Is strengthen it and eliminate its shortcom- he replied that if he had admitted it this security?" ings. We must make it work for the pur- everyone in his office would have known Let's be frank about this. George R.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 49 is a victim of injustice in so far as our may have had a splendid service record ture and hasty action, action that would security program is concerned. His ar- or that another member had a success- adversely affect an innocent person's rest has nothing to do with the security ful law practice in no way indicates he reputation and career. of the United States. We agree, cer- will be skilled in judging the traitorous No one, for example, thinks it unusu- tainly, he should not have denied it on intent of the participants in the com- al if a prominent criminal attorney is his Personal History Statement, but munist conspiracy. appointed county judge. He will not be what relation does his offense bear to The Commission on Government Se- accused of partiality in later judicial de- that, say, of the Rosenberg's, or to the curity was recently appointed by the cisions because he previously defended damage that has been done by certain President to review the security prac- felons. Earl Warren's experience as a politicians, educators, clergymen, play- tices of the Federal Government. It district attorney did not preclude his wrights, radio commentators, and other consists of prominent and successful appointment to the Supreme Court. Can celebrities. careerists in varied lines of endeavor. we do less in the sensitive area of secu- Real security for the U. S. does not There is little doubt that these people rity where civil rights and constitutional lie in prosecuting the George R.'s in our will bring an objective and earnest view- guarantees are at stake? Can we con- Government for minor character defi- point to their task. Nevertheless, if they tinue choosing the administrators of the ciencies. It lies in forthrightly defining are to obtain accurate information on security program from well-intentioned the areas where a man, no matter what the security program, they must get it but uninformed people? his status or office, aids our enemies by secondhand; they must seek it from Recently Michael L. was called to the encouragement, collaboration, or assist- those who have the best knowledge of security office about a month after he ance. it. Their information on the communist started to work for a sensitive agency The ultimate eff"ectiveness of the se- conspiracy, espionage, and fellow travel- of the Government. He had previously curity program lies in the hands of its er techniques will of necessity be fur- been a top technician in a small com- administrators. Here too, the program nished to them by the real professionals, pany. Through the persuasions of a can break down and deviate from the the experts. Why go through a middle- Government personnel man he left his job it was designed to do. There is a man when you can deal directly? former job to go to work for this agency peculiar psychology about the subject of There seems to be a reluctance on the where his skill was needed. The security security. Almost everyone—and particu- part of higher Government officials to officer was' a new man who interpreted larly those who hold administrative po- utilize the services of men experienced his responsibilities rather literally from sitions in other lines of endeavor—con- in the ways of the communist con- a manual. He started to review Michael's siders himself a security expert. spiracy. Understandably there is perhaps Personal History Statement. In the rush Security is a complex, intricate, and an underlying fear that seasoned secu- of moving to Washington, leaving his specialized field. The fundamental error rity men will adopt a too stringent ap- old job, and other necessary prepara- is often made, though, of appointing in- proach to the subject. Possibly our lead- tions, Michael had executed the state- dividuals lacking even the rudiments of ers feel there is danger of totalitarian ment rather hastily. Besides, he had investigative or security know-how to police state practices being initiated. always had a poor memory for dates and administrative positions in the program. Neither could be farther from the truth. places. The makeup of the Personnel Security Experience has proven that men accus- For an hour and a half Michael was Boards, for example, consists of one tomed to dealing with the bedrock of cross-examined by the novice security member of each of the Armed Forces the communist conspiracy are not likely officer. Going by the book, this fellow and a civilian member. Nowhere is it to fall into the error of penalizing inno- tried to put the worst possible interpre- spelled out that the board members cent people through ignorance. Rather, tation on innocent errors. At the end of should have had prior experience in they extend every effort to see that jus- the unpleasant session he reached the dealing with the communist conspiracy tice is done where a less experienced obvious conclusion that Michael was no or espionage. The fact that a member person would be stampeded into prema- security risk. Some time later Michael discussed this with me. "A while back in New York City," he said, "Soviet secret police were able to kidnap Russian seamen who had asked political asylum in the U. S. They were put on a plane and shipped back to Russia and are probably in a concentration camp right now. Why doesn't the Government start its security program with the foreign agents responsible for such outrages here in America? You waste your time and mine asking silly questions while strong-arm goons parading as diplomats aren't even touched." Score a point for Michael. Michael's interview made the country neither more nor less secure. It irritated a loyal American and almost deprived the Government of a useful worker. Even the security officer was something of a victim in that he was merely im- plementing ill-conceived material contained in a brittle directive. Insistence on arbitrary details bearing

little relationship to security defeats the intent of the program. To better the program, we must rid it of the useless con-

5Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 — centration on trivia. We must also raise PILGRIMAGE TO PLYMOUTH standards objectives of security the and (Coiilimutl ji oin page 17) personnel to a keen awareness of what we're trying to achieve through the for them, Dutch influence seemed to be er of the Pilgrims, and at Plymouth was program. altering their British ways, and war with to save the Colony several times from Certainly a more practical approach Spain threatened. For these reasons they Indian raids. to the security problem would be to put decided on a daring move—and sailed You spend more than two months on more emphasis on communists and So- on the Mayflower into history. the ship and they arc probably the most Bradford, a leader, life. viet espionage agents. If this were done born was to be unpleasant two months of your Governor of effectively we would stand a much better Plymouth Colony for most The discomforts are both physical and chance of running down the sympa- of his life; he was re-elected 30 times. mental. Mental, because it is, of course, thizers, friends, and contacts of these He wrote the famous History of Ply- your first crossing of the Atlantic. In

mouth Plantations, 1 turbulent is still people whether they were in Govern- which was not pub- 620 this body of water lished in full until pretty quantity, ment, defense work, or anywhere else. 1856, and which much of an unknown forms the basis for all accounts of the and we are always fearful of the un- Why not concentrate on this practical aspect of security rather than on endless colony. Every page of this history re- known. And once the "Sea of Dark- veals the high character sincerity ness"' is if it is—there remains investigation and clearances of a great and crossed— of the author. the land its dangers. many loyal citizens? unknown with William Brewster, educated at these fears, allayed but not Abraham Lincoln once said this coun- Cam- And bridge, was the chief the erased your strong faith in try would never be conquered from member of by and Scrooby congregation. After their mi- prayer to the Almighty, are combined without, but that the enemy would come gration to Holland they were known as with every physical discomfort—over- from within. The enemy today is within; Pilgrims. Brewster became an elder of crowding (and its inevitable frictions), this has been demonstrated repeatedly. their church at Leyden and is the sole improper food which leads to scurvy, The enemy today is communism; of this religious leader on the seasickness, dampness, cold. there can be no doubt. And the peculiar Mayflower. He was to act as pastor of the Plymouth All during that ghastly first winter in evil genius of communism turns some Colony until 1629. But since he was not Plymouth when half of you died, the people against their own country. It is ordained, he carefully confined his min- Mayflower remained in the harbor. In from these people who have turned their istry to services of prayer and praise April Captain Jones offered to take any backs on the United States that we must only; he would not administer the sac- of you back to England who wanted to protect ourselves. These are the ones raments. go. Not a one of you climbed aboard. who constitute a conscious, willful dan- Myles Standish, after serving in the The Mayflower has no luxuries and ger to the security of the United States. Netherlands in the English army, joined very few comforts. It is merely a means They work diligently to enslave you and the separatists at Leyden. He was imme- of transportation. Yet, two babies are me; they are the menace. diately recognized as the military lead- successfully delivered on board, thanks But there are other people who, although they are loyal to the United States, are nevertheless a danger to our country. These are the security risks— WILL YOU SPEND *2 not loyalty risks—people who for some reason (perhaps they are overtalkative or they drink too much) should not be trusted with information which would TO SAVE YOUR HAIR? benefit the enemy. They may occupy im- How many hard-earned dollars DOUBLE MONEY BACK portant positions or very minor ones- have you spent to save your hair? How many hair tonics* gadgets, GUARANTEE it makes no difference; they are weak restorers, electrical devices, have Formula kills the you tried in the last few years In seconds, Ward's links in our security chain. with no success? How many times three parasitic germ organisms re- hair growth. after an unsuccessful hair-grow- tarding normal Thi* Obviously then, these people should ing attempt have you sworn not has been proven in scientific tests labora- to spend another cent on an- by a world-famous testing not be employed in report sent spots where they other hair treatment? tory (copy of laboratory on request ) . Ward's removes infecti- will be able to harm the United States; Yet, you buy the next product that comes on the market ous dandruff, stops scalp itch, bring! they should with hair-growing claims. hair-nourishing blood to the scalp* not have access to secret tends to normalize very dry or oily information. Surely the Government has scalp. In brief Ward's Formula cor- CAN YOU GROW HAIR? rects the ugly symptoms of seborrhea, stops the hair loss it causes. Ward's the right to see that these people are Doctors who have spent a lifetime studying hair and hair growth Formula has been tried by more than not employed in these positions. Indeed have concluded that nothing now 350,000 men and women on our famous known can grow hair on a bald Double - Your- Money - Back Guarantee. it has the duty to see that they are not. head. So, if you are bald, prepare Only 1.9% of these men and women to spend the rest of your life that ore not helped by Ward's and asked for But in carrying out this duty, the Gov- way. Accept it philosophically and iheir double refund. This is truly an amaz- quit spending hard-earned dollars on ing performance. Treat your scalp with ernment has another duty. And that is hair growers. Ward's Formula. 7"ry it at our risk. In only what can to see to it that security safeguards are If you can't grow hair— 10 days you must see and feel the marked excessive hair you do? Can you stop improvement in your scalp and hair. Your save the hair you still established without injury to innocent loss? Can you dandruff must be gone. Your scalp itch must have? Can you increase the life expec- stop. Your hair must look thicker, more attrac- people. In combating the danger let us tancy of your hair? Probably. Please read tive, alive. Your excessive hair loss must every word in the rest of this statement care- and stop. You must be completely satisfied in only 10 not create another menace to our coun- fully, since it may mean the difference to you — between saving your hair and losing the rest of it days—with the improved condition of your scalp and try; let us not drive a wedge between to eventual BALDNESS, hair, or simply return the unused portion for Double why delay? Delay may cost the people Your Money Back. So and the Government. your hair. Ward Laboratories, Inc., 19 West 44 Street, HAIR Let us instead improve the aspects of HOW TO SAVE YOUR N. Y. 36, N. Y. © 1956 Itchy scalp, hair loss, dandruff, very dry or oily the security program which sometimes scalp, are symptoms of the scalp disease called sebor- Ward Laboratories, Inc. Dept. 4L warnings of rhea. These scalp symptoms are often 19 West 44 Street, New York 36, N. Y. harass and alienate loyal approaching baldness. Not every case of seborrhea re- persons. Let Rush Ward's FormuTa lo me at orce. I must b* completely tatisfied ' sults in baldness, but doctors now know that men and in only 10 d^vs Of vou GUARANTEE refund of DOUBLE MY • us improve the administration of the women who have this scalp disease usually lose their hair. MONEY BACK upon return of boule and unuied portion. | Seborrhea is believed caused by three parasitic germ security program so that it will water- be organisms < staphylococcus albus, pityrosporum ovale, tight against our microbacillus). These germs first infect the sebaceous enemies and their un- glands and later spread to the hair follicles. The hair follicles atrophy, no longer can produce new hairs. The witting helpers and eminently fair and n Enekned find S2, tend posip*>d (che

52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 of a New England winter— to nothing Thus, rain is anxiously awaited and zier, of course, gives off a little heat; but but a savage wilderness! happily greeted. Cold as the day might the resultant smoke, which has no out- Francis R. Stoddard, in The Truth be, you are on deck in the rain mopping let, is almost more of a hardship than About the Pilf^rinis sings this paean: up every possible drop of rainwater. the cold. But then most of you suffer ". . . one of the most remarkable groups Then you wash yourself, and sometimes, with seasickness or scorbutic sickness; in our country's history! They lived in after a heavy downpour there is enough so you are beyond caring. To understate stern times, and yet in the face of what it completely, it is an unpleasant journey. seemed to be unsurmountable obstacles, But at last, after two months of these they devoted themselves to their ideas GIVE EM THE WORD unmitigated rigors and privations, land- were willing to give their property fall is made at Cod. anchor is and Most non-Legionnaires have little under- Cape The and lives for conscience sake. They standing of The American Legion. dropped in what is now Provincetown placed their trust in God and accom- Much criticism ol our organization is due Harbor, and you promptly fall to your to this. plished the impossible." knees to thank God for safely delivering You can counter this bv getting copies of In addition to the multitude of other you. go ashore to stretch legs The American Lei^ioii Mnga%i»e into as You your discomforts, it's an infinitely noisy voy- many hands as possible. and get fresh water. Later, on shipboard, age. Underway, in even a moderate sea, A year's subscription costs only $1.50. Ad- the men sign the famous Mayflower dress: the Mayflower comes terrifyingly alive: Compact. Then some of the men led by The American Legion Magazine the cargo clanks and bumps; there are Circulation De]>artment Standish and Bradford, sail in the ship's the hollow echoes of slapping, vicious P.O. Box 10.55 little shallop to explore the coast for a water; the wind tears madly and loudly Indianapolis (>, Indiana suitable place for a settlement. This is at all the sails; the timbers moan and found at what is now Plymouth, and groan; the yards creak, chains clank. here you land December 21. But be- These, plus all the other noises of a water to do some laundry also. You fore that you hold your first Thanksgiv- wooden ship battling the seas. hang this up and it takes a long time to ing on Clark's Island in Plymouth Har- Captain Jones issued orders that no dry—hung either on deck or in the hold bor. ". one but an ordained minister can hold over the brazier. Even in fair weather William Bradford describes it: . . church services or preach on shipboard. you are allowed a fire only one hour the next day was a faire sunshining day, And since there isn't a clergyman on every three days. Used thus sparingly, and they found themsellvs to be on an board, no services are held. But in fair there is just enough charcoal to last out iland secure from the Indeans, wher weather prayer and song meetings are the voyage. they might drie their stufe, fixe their sometimes convened under the leader- As already mentioned, there are very peeces, and rest themselves, and gave ship of Elder Brewster. few days you can take the air on the God thanks for his mercies in their

The water on board is for cooking waist deck; it is either storming or too manifould deliverances. And this being and drinking only; none can be used cold, or both. You spend your days in the last day of the weeke, they prepared for personal cleanliness or laundry. the unventilated, frigid holds. That bra- ther to keepe the Sabath." the end

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pooling of skills. Of the 25 largest U. S. or individuals in business for themselves. Socony Mobil and its United States industrial corporations, 19 have more To the extent that such enterprises are affiliates supply 2,700 independent dis- shareholders than employees. Our com- run by capable individuals who have tributors and 34,000 independent deal- pany has more than twice as many. enthusiasm for their work, devote them- ers who sell our products, and we buy The fact that one corporation is larger selves to it, and make the most of the from some 15,000 companies. than another usually means simply that advantages they have over big com- There are some who feel that while it has more shareholders. Generally panies in flexibility, their future is secure big business is necessary, it is socially speaking, the larger a company is in and their number should continue to undesirable, that it tends to exalt mate- capital assets, the larger the number of increase. rial values at the expense of human people who have pooled their savings in This is not just theory or wishful values. In my opinion such a view is it. I think anyone who sees this point thinking. The number of operating busi- without foundation. Let's look at the clearly will reject the notion that higher nesses in our country reached a record record tax rates should apply to large corpora- high of four and a quarter million at the Big companies instituted old-age pen- tions than to small ones. Or that, at a end of 1955. In 1929 the total was three sions 30 years or more before our Gov- time when greater teamwork is our best million. It dropped below that in the ernment got around to social security. hope, investors who join forces to do a depression of 1932 and again during the In my own company our pension plan job should be penalized simply for team- war; so the increase in the number of dates back to 1903. ing up. It would be analogous to penal- businesses in the last decade has been Big companies have led the way in izing employees for working for a big sharp. And. by the way, some of those introducing safety measures to protect company. that were small 10 or 20 years ago have their workers. Abroad, the threat to investor team- grown pretty big. Big companies have set the pace in work manifests itself most frequently as Big business today is not an octopus conservation and antipollution measures. nationalization. Anyone who sees the that grows by devouring small busi- Are we to infer from all this that big next 44 years as I do must conclude that nesses, but rather it is a central facility companies are managed by more hu- the real problem of underdeveloped na- like a railroad or highway along which mane and statesmanlike men? Frankly tions insofar as foreign capital is con- all kinds of small businesses spring up I doubt it. By and large I think the men cerned is not to get control of that which both to serve the big business and to in big business have pretty much the has already ventured within their bor- take advantage of the new opportunities same virtues and the same faults as the ders, but rather to attract the vastly in- it creates. General Motors has 21,000 general run of mankind. creased amounts of foreign capital they suppliers and reports that out of 12 and The social benefits of big business are urgently need. Instead of asserting the power to break their contracts unilater- ARE YOU ally, ALWAYS nations needing foreign capital should be asking themselves if there is not some way whereby they can make pledges on which outside investors can TOO TIRED AT NIGHT rely.

I suggest that what is most needed is an affirmation by civilized nations that And Too Worried .h. Daytime? a sovereign power has the authority to you come home from work tired out too Do — Each Dally C. F. exhausted to give your wife and family the Capsule Contains; make a contract binding on itself. Prece- real companionship they expect? Have Choline you been Bllarlrate 31 4 nie dents to the contrary notwithstanding, experiencing that "run-down, old-before-your- Inositol l.'i niK tlme" feeling? If so, your condition may simply dl. Methionine 10 mn. world trade be strangled Vitamin A may in seman- be due to a common, easily corrected nutritional 12.500 rsp VrUt. deficiency. vitamin D tic redtape unless a way can be found 1,000 I'SP Unit' Yes, the food you eat may just not contain the Vitamin C 7S nig to put an end to the absurdity that a necessary Vitamin Bl 5 ni«. and correct amounts of lipotropic fac- Vitamin 82 2 me tors, vitamins and minerals. You owe it to your- Vitamin B6 0 5 mg sovereign power, like a minor child, is Vitamin BI2 1 mCE self and your family to find out whether a safe ttiacin Amide 40 mg. incapable of giving investors assurance and proven food supplement such as Vitasafe Calcium Pantothenate 4 Capsules can restore your pep and energy. And Vitamin E 2 l.U. that it will do what it specifically prom- you can find out at absolutely no cost by accept- Folic Acid Calcium ing this offer. ises to do, and will not do what it spe- Phosphorus 30 mg. cifically Cobalt 0.04 mg. promises not to do. 30 DAYS Cooper 0.45 mg. Mangan 0 5 m«. Sometimes people seem to think too Molybdenum 0 1 tug SUPPLY Iodine 0.075 nig about Potassium 2 mg. much what may be legal, and too Zinc 0.5 mg. Maoneiium :i mg. little about what is wise. I know of no HIGH Compere this POTENCY formula with better way of killing the goose that lays CAPSULES any otherf the golden eggs than for an underdevel- LIPOTROPIC FACTORS, MINERALS and VITAMINS Safe Nutritional Formulo Containing 25 Proven Ingredients: oped country to intimidate foreign Choline, Inositol, Methionine, 11 Vitamins Plus 1) Minerals VITASAFE CORP. 3.4 capital. Yes, we'll send you this $5.00 supply FREE so you , I, 6lst Street, New York 23, N. Y. can discover how much healthier, happier and II 43 West , If, as I believe, teamwork on 1 Please send free trial vitamins and an ever peppier you may feel after a few days' trial! 1 capsule supplies your with well over J details of new Plan which I will AC- larger scale is Each body going to be required to ' I not obligated the minimum adult daily needs of the 11 impor- I CEPT OR REJECT. am to buy anything. solve mankind's material problems in tant vitamins, plus 11 minerals, choline, inositol' I The potency and purity are ( I enclose 25c for packing and postage the next and methionine. 44 years, is that good or bad? guaranteed through strict U. S. Government regulations. free vitamins, will also You may be wondering whether I en- With your we details that Niiiic_ send you of an amazing new Plan i vision a world in which a few giant com- provides you with a 30-day supply of vitamins every month for just $2.00—less than half the panies control everything. I don't. There Address usual retail price. But you are not obligated to Citif, are jobs for which a big company is no buy from us now or ever! The supply of free cap- f Zone, Stile sules is limited—so mail coupon today! more suited than a sledge hammer is for Only one trial supplii per familv VITASAFE CORP., 43 West 6Iit Street, New York 23, N.V. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 55 )

both a cause and an effect of bigness. dLfferent from the family doctor who is work can be brought about most effec- How a cause? In our competitive society making a lifetime career in one com- tively by a large business organization, companies grow big because they do a munity. That big companies tend to we should encourage, not discourage, better job for the customer, the share- operate more in the public eye than growth to the size needed to do the job. holder, and the employee alike. Pension smaller ones, and hence cannot expect Second, we must encourage capital and other benefit programs help to at- their sins to be overlooked, may count formation and movement. To meet the tract good employees. Safety measures, for something too. challenges that face us, vast amounts of notably when a company is large enough The point I am trying to make is that capital will be required for businesses of to be a self-insurer, cut operating costs. big companies' leadership in social bene- all kinds and sizes in all parts of the

Conservation is basically waste preven- fits rests on factors inherent in their big- world. tive. ness rather than on accidents of mana- Third, big business and little business

How are social benefits a result of gerial character. Thus it seems probable complement each other. Neither thrives bigness? that they will continue to be good, and on the destruction of the other. Big companies must take a longei to do good. Fourth, both on the record and by view than small ones, just as the pilot At the beginning of my comments I their nature big companies have led and of a great ocean liner must look farther said I would suggest courses of thought are likely to continue to lead in social ahead than the skipper of a launch. and action which appear to me essential benefits of many kinds. When anyone takes the long view, eco- if we are to contend successfully with Mankind's way to a richer life in a nomics and ethics rather frequently the problems ahead of us. poorer world is clear. I have the utmost point to the same course: The hawker First, we must recognize that the big- confidence that if we can but see the of patent medicines who passes through ger the job, the more teamwork required light, we will be guided by it. town but once acts on principles quite to do it. In those areas where this team- THE END

A NEW KIND OF OLD-FASHIONED BREAD (Continued from page 21 and lease the magic brewery. From the As proof that he was right in believ- taste alone, and the word got around. Sioux City attic he dug out a complete ing he could make such flour, today his When the U. S. Quartermaster Depot file of his grandfather's reports. Within process is patented here and in 32 for- in Chicago tested 600 barrels of the a year, in 1936, he had the combination eign countries, with six more to come. stuff in two Army camps, 85 percent of — and the flour — that grandfather It yields a natural wheat-germ flour that the soldiers voted for nothing but wheat- dreamed of. But perfecting the process will not only make a loaf to rival grand- germ bread from then on. Unhappily, for which U. S. patents were finally ma's best; it will also keep indefinitely they never got it. The year was 1942 and granted in May 1950 cost Dan another at 55-90° F. Bread, sweet and crusty, Uncle had other more pressing tasks. $2V2 million. was made from a barrelful of the stuff Washington, cautioning Dan not to let The wheat-germ factor occupies no that had been stored and forgotten for the enemy get hold of his process, prom- more than 3 percent of the flour's vol- four years. The U. S. Department of ised to get back to him later. ume; yet in totally independent analyses Agriculture and the State of Georgia It hasn't yet, though Secretary of Ag- researchers from the University of Chi- found Dan's wheat-germ flour fresh and riculture Ezra Taft Benson has per- cago under Dr. Anton J. Carlson and wholesome after two and a half years. sonally endorsed the value of wheat- biochemists under Dr. Philip H. Derse From the results of these tests, millers germ flour to our national health and at the Wisconsin Alumni Research privately came to agree Dan had some- farm programs.

Foundation have pronounced it the key thing worthwhile. But even if sure of a Why the holdup in giving the people to this flour's overwhelming superiority market, they said, how could they afford of the United States, and the world, a on all counts. to shut down their mills long enough to superior flour that could have been made For low caloric count and minimum switch over from ordinary flour? And available two decades ago? Actually, at

carbohydrates, enriched white flour what about the cost of conversion? the present time it can be had only compares M«favorably. Weight-watchers Dan has worked out with his engi- here and there — in parts of Florida, will also be glad to hear that wheat germ neers a system by which even the big- Michigan, Texas. Georgia, and Illinois. flour has more protein. It is lengths gest mill can convert— w/z/jom/ loss of But that isn't Dan's fault, nor is it be- ahead on vitamin content and the vital production—in less than 30 days. The cause of any lack of effort on his part. trace elements (nutrients other than the cost is merely a drop in the advertising He'd like the whole country to share big three: niacin, riboflavin, thiamine.) bucket. this bodybuilder and taste treat. To that Better for you than even whole wheat, Consumer reaction has been more end he puts in a 14-hour workday, in- wheat germ contains seven times more than heartening. When 500 Chicago cluding weekends. vitamin E than any bread going. Vita- ladies of The Illinois Club Women's' Only now are results of all this mis- min E is the heart disease preventive Service Forum sampled three breads sionary work beginning to show. For that is so helpful to recovery after a identified only by number, 421 said the first time the millers and bakers— coronary too. they'd buy No. 3 bread (Dan's) if they the people who decide what kind of

However, experienced millers told could get it. While only 263 said they bread you're going to eat—seem to be Brown he couldn't make flour like that. baked at home, 291 said they'd like to in a mood to listen. Grandma, they pointed out, got away with that No. 3 flour (also Dan's) be- "Milling executives of companies rep- with using fresh stone-ground flour because of its rich texture and creaminess. resenting 75 percent of our national cause for home baking she needed only And 418 found the No. 3 bread the capacity," Dan told this writer, "have relatively small quantities. And she tastiest by far. assured me they will make wheat-germ baked so much that her flour had no In Michigan sales of wheat-germ flour available as demanded and re- time to spoil. bread in test marketings soared 100 per- quired by today's bakers." You couldn't do that on a commercial cent a year. Macon, Ga., had a 30 per- More and more independent bakers, basis, the millers warned. Commercial cent jump in 90 days. The important needled by customers hungry for real flour has to be stored. It has to keep. thing here is that the bread being tested bread, are eager to take the millers at Dan went ahead anyway. was not labeled wheat germ. It sold on their word. Right now these small bak-

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ers' only source of wheat-germ flour is 1958 model automobiles next year. And

Dan's own six-story mill at Morris, 111. if you want to hurry the revolution in

But its 1,700 sacks a day—enough for the bread business, start calling for it 1,500,000 loaves a week—are only a now. Not in a demanding way, of course, puff compared to the typhoon of de- but persistently. Indeed, since some sup- mand that Dan feels sure is bound to pliers are a bit sluggish, it may be neces- come. sary to be ultrapersistent, with some Further on the bright side, advertis- of the crusading zeal that marks Dan ing managers representing seven of our Brown. top 12 baking chains have seen Dan Incidentally, there's more than the privately to map out campaigns for zeal of a businessman that fires Dan when enough local pressure from you, when he's trying to sell wheat-germ the consumer, forces them to market flour. He wants healthier Americans, wheat-germ bread nationwide. and he knows that a well-fed nation is To reach such a turning point, this a strong nation. Also, he'd like to see enriched industry had to come a long use made of his process to help whittle Never before a lather so rich, way. It had to stop thinking in terms our wheat surplus by sharing with needy \ so creamy, for so little money! i of money invested in costly machinery peoples a flour that is truly nutritious Push-buifO' Get Aero Shave Push- which turned out flour of a sort, even if and capable of being stored indefinitely. Button Lather! it did mangle the vital wheat germ. It From sheer gratitude and affection, had to stop thinking in terms of stopgap English-descended Dan Brown has him- Not Not Only measures to restore wheat's nutritional self, through Seumas MacManus, offered values by dosing it with all kinds of his wheat-germ process to the people of Troubled with GETTING oddments out of the pharmacopoeia. Ireland free of all royalties. UP NIGHTS, Pains in BACK,

And it had to stop thinking in terms of "I feel a tremendous debt to Ireland HIPS, LEGS, Tiredness If you have these symptoma using advertising for wife, Curry," says copy as a substitute my Margretta then your troubles may be for the important element missing from Dan, "and a splendid son, and now traced to Glandular Dysfunc- tion ... a constitutional disease. Medicines its flour. little Mollie." that give temporary relief will not remove the cause of your trouble. Neglect of Gland- Obviously this called for some major Dan will tell you with pride and ular Dysfunction often leads to premature adjustments in thinking, but in a free frankness that he not only loves his one- old age and sometimes incurable malignancy. The past few years men from over 3,000 enterprise system it is necessary for year-old daughter Mollie, but considers communities have been successfully treated suppliers of goods or services to adjust her one of the most convincing argu- here at the Excelsior Institute. They have found soothing relief and a new outlook in when their bosses, the buying public, ments for wheat-germ bread. When she the future of life. The Excelsior Institute, devoted to the call for changes. And they're beginning was born at the end of 1955, he was 57, treatment of diseases peculiar to older men to insist on flour with the natural good- "an age when most men are having by NON-SURGICAL methods has a NEW FREE BOOK that tells how Glandular Dys- ness left in. Where the new flour is grandchildren." function may be corrected by proven NON- SURGICAL treatments. This book may coming into use, comparisons are inevit- A royalty-sharing foundation which prove of utmost importance in your life. Write today. is obligation. able; and the word is getting around to Dan Hedges Brown set up as a memo- There no Excelsior Institute, Dept. B-3532, Excelsior Springs, Mo. the effect that it's possible to get bread rial to his grandfather, Dan T. Hedges, that tastes the way bread should taste. is probably the most unshakable evi- Possibly you've tried the new kind of dence of all that Dan means every word fr^d/ ISRAEL STAMP bread, but if not you will before long of it when he says he hopes a really because its coming is as inevitable as good bread will help good people every- COLLECTION Usually selling for SI. 00 and iri..ie. tlu.s packet of 25 ALL DIFFERENT ISRAEL stamps Is yours FREEI Stamps from this proud, freedom-lovlns Nation are soufjlit after the world over, Here Is your Chan n own a good basic collei-tlon Includlne the varl neurit HEBREW COIN SETS. 12 TRIBES ISSUE, HIGH HOLY DAYS, RUNNING STAG ISSUE, AIR-POST, and CHILDREN'S ISSUE. Itc All this Is yoins, to Introduce our l.arKaln ai.pr..val olTers. EXTRA: 48 PAGE STAMP DICTIONARY AND GUIDE Included Free. Send lli^- t«, tu>lp <',\'-r iiKiiliiiij costs. STAMPEX Co., Box 47-IVIL, White Plains, N. Y. Become an nccouninnr- Auditor— CP. A. The demand for skilled accountants men who really know their business— is increasing. National and state legislation is requiring of business much more in the way of Auditing, Cost Accounting, Business Law, and Income Tax Procedure. Men who prove their quaUfications in this important tield are promoted to responsible executive positions. SEND FOR FREE BOOK Knowledge of bookkeeping unnecessary. We train you from ground up, or according to your individual needs. Low cost: easy terms. Send name and address on the lines below (or free illustrated book describing the LaSalle Accounting training and the opportunities in this highly profitable field. EXTENSION UNIVERSITY LASALLE /I CoVie4fio*tde*ic& S*uictuiio*t

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 5-7 where understand and assist one an- benevolent philosophy, he is assigning other. This foundation, set up under 5 percent of royalties to the Catholic WHY Illinois law, gives to charity 40 percent Archdiocese of Chicago where Samuel of all royalties on Dan Brown's wheat- Cardinal Stritch has long been his very 3 out of 4 germ process forever. Dan has ear- good friend. Another 2Vi percent goes PELLET GUN SHOOTERS marked 20 percent of his wheat-germ to the Franciscan missionaries. Chi- royalties for The American Legion. cago's Shrine Hospital percent ASK FOR A gets 5 shavetail bayonet instructor at Camp and Dan's University of Chicago fra- Crosman Pike in World War I, he helped found ternity, Psi Upsilon, IV2 percent. Sioux City's Monahan Post No. 64 in To show that Dan Brown's spirit of Super-Pells® 1920. He also served as Adjutant and good will is infectious, both the Imperial ... the better ammunition for all pellet guns ... top accuracy and safety. Factory sealed In exclusive self- Vice Commander in charge of member- Recorder of the Nobles of the Mystic dispenser metal box. FREE . . . new colorful 32-page ship. Dan was later with William Ran- Shrine and the editors of the Vatican Gun Book. WRITE Crosman Arms Co., Inc. dolph Hearst Post No. 478 in Chicago, newspaper, Osservatore Romano, have Dept. AL-4, Falrport, New York. and is now active in Morris (111.) Post gone out of their way to publicize wheat- No. 294. His wheat-germ money will be germ bread. 40 ACRE GOVERNMENT used for academic and 4-H Club schol- "Something big is happening," wrote arships, awarded jointly by city and Walter Persegati at the start of a long OIL LEASES-$100 country Legion Posts to deserving boys editorial in that semiofficial publication you do no drilling, poy no taxes, may realize a king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write and girls. a year ago. "A new white flour for a real for free map and literature. Dan is a prominent Mason and a bread has been discovered. This makes American Oil Scouts, Dept. I, 7321 Beverly Blvd. good Episcopalian. But in line with his good news for humanity." the end Los Angeles 36, Calif.

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nearby. You don't have to begin on a are not hard to set up. Even with the grand scale. The various shooting asso- formalized sports like trap and skeet, What Do 3 Out of 4 ciations (N.R.A., A.T.A., and N.S.S.A.) special events can be run for the rank will give you material assistance, as will and file shooter. The New York Athletic Doctors Recommend any of the arms companies. If you Club holds a Hunter's Special for mem- haven't enough people in your group, bers and non-members who have never to Relieve Pain? classified in the local news- broken 20 targets out of 25 traps. Fee run a ad A survey shows 3 out of 4 doctors recommend the paper, or put up a sign in the principal is $5, which includes shells. The club famous ingredients of Anacin Tablets to relieve pain sporting goods stores. You'll be aston- even provides a class for complete be- of headache, neuritis and neuralgia. Here's why Anacin® gives you better total effect in relieving ished at the response. ginners; in 1955 Class C was won by a pain than aspirin or any buffered aspirin: Space requirements for a rifle or pis- guy who had only 6 hits. ACTS INSTANTLY; Anacin goes to work instantly. tol range depend largely on the nature There are many variations of these Brings fast relief to source of your pain. of the backstop. An abandoned sand or hunter's special shoots. On the small- MORE EFFECTIVE: Anacin is like a doctor's pre< scription. That is. Anacin contains not one bat gravel pit makes an ideal range, because bore rifle range you can have a match a combination of effective, medically proven ingredients. of the steep sides. The .22 rimfire cart- limited to sporting rifles so that compe- i^^ SAFER: Anacin simply can not upset your stomach. ridge is relatively noiseless, but you tition is not restricted to the guys who LESSENS TENSION; Anacin also reduces nervous further neighbors for want to invest in fancy target rifles. Not need to be from ' tension. leaves you relaxed, feeling fine after pain centerfire and pistol shooting. Where a more than one in a hundred of the rim- goes. Buy Anacin today.

hill is used, cut the lower section back fire rifles in circulation is of the match to nearly vertical to prevent ricochet. target type. There's no law that says Shrinks Hemorrhoids Steel plate baffles can be used to stop you have to score all your clay target wild shots in flat country. Trap and skeet New Way Without Surgeiy fields don't need a hill or a backstop. Science Find* Healing Substance That Relieves Pain— Shrinks Hemorrhoid* For a skeet field you need a clear space For the first time science has found a 600 by 300 yards, with the shooting new healing substance with the astonishing semicircle in the middle of the long side. ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve pain — without surgery. for Add 50 yards to the long dimension In case after case, while gently relieving each additional skeet field (650 yards pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. by 300 yards for two fields). Trap- ^ Most amazing of all — results were so shooting requires less ground, especially Corner thorough that sufferers made astonishing statements like "Piles have ceased to a if the layout is located in open country be problem! where approaching passers-by can be By Rev. ROBERT G. BALNICKY The secret is a new healing substance seen. A space 100 yards by 300 yards (Bio-Dyne*) — discovery of a world-famous McCutchen Memorial Presbyterian research institute. will do. If the land is brushy or tim- This substance is now available in s«p- Church, Union, S. C. bered, a site 300 yards square is pre- pository or ointment form under the name Dept. Chaplain, South Carolina Preparation H* Ask for it at all drug count- ferred. For each additional trap, add 30 ers—money back guarantee. 'Beg. u. s. Pat. off. yards to the width (130 yards by 300 O Lord, Thou Who art the yards for two traps in open country). Commander of all the armies in The basic idea is that no shot should be fired toward a boundary less than 300 heaven and on earth, we would yards away. Salt meadows, swamps, and thank Thee for continued guidance MONEY MAKING other wastelands are entirely adequate throughout the years. We confess FOR YOU WITHOUT INVESTMENT! as impact areas. No experience needed to act as our Local our need of Thee. Without Thee Dealer for Master Work Uniform garments. A good indoor rifle and pistol range Every business concern a prospect, Adver- we can do nothing; with Thee all tisingr embroidered on garments is a big sales can be set up in any basement having feature. Stores can't compete. You can easily things are possible. earn up to many thousandsof dollarsyearly. about 70 feet of clear space. This al- We supply all Sales Equipment FREE. Write GEO. MASTER GARMENT CO. lows five feet for the skeet metal back- Enable us to seek Thee while A-21 WATER STREET, LIGONIER. INDIANA stops, and 15 feet for the firing line and Thou canst found and to call be • I ELECTRIC Comoletc Line of BinRo Supplies ready line. For a starter you can get upon Thee w hile Thou art near. i BINGO commercial bullet traps for around $20 Help us to forsake any wickedness BLOWER each, or you can put up ordinary steel > Regular spectals,

I 6000 series plates baffles. in our way of life. Cleanse our un- to as » Lapboards Plastic Markers In making any plans for shooting pro- righteous thoughts. Then Lord, en- — Admission grams the important Tickets most thing to do able us to return unto Thee, and • Cages — Flash- boards — Auto- is to provide right from the start for all according to Thy promise have matic Cards, etc, H. A. SULLIVAN CO. members of the Post or group who LAWRENCE, LONG ISLAND, N,Y, mercy upon us and abundantly might want to shoot, not just for the competitive shooters. There should be pardon. a patterning target with yardages We beseech Thee to bring the RHEUMATISIVI marked out for shotgunners. There blessings of understanding to the NEURITIS • SCIATICA • LUMBAGO • ARTHRITIS Why continue to suffer agonizing pains when should be a sighting-in range for big families and friends of those who usual remedies have failed. Learn how by game and varmint hunters, with a spe- thousands have been successfully treated have given their lives that we may an amazing new method which is fully ex- cial earth-fill backstop if necessary on plained in our New FREE Book. Don't wait. be free to serve God and Country. Write today. No obligation. a small bore range. If is there a slope Excelsior Institute, Dept. C8606, Excelsior Spgs,, Mo. near the butts or the impact area, a Enable us as Legionnaires to real- gravity-operated running deer target will ize that the only hope for us as well $3 HR. EVENINGS add a lot of fun. Moving targets can be Make up to $3 or $S an hour !n your as for the world is to get back to spare time. Start saw flilnff shop in as simple as a bull's-eye in the middle basement or garage. No experience needed to turn out perfect cutting God. Use us toward that end for s.iws with machine accuracy of Foley of an old tire casing which is rolled Automatic Saw Flier. No canvassing name's sake. -steadv vear round CASH business. down a trough. Surprise Thy Amen. Ideal for small towns. Free booKlet targets which '•MONEY M.^KTMr, FACTS " — shows how to start. No salesman will call. can be operated behind the firing line Send postcard today. FOLEY 1VIFG."C0. ,'439-7 Foley BIdg., Minneapolis 18, Minn. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • 59 events in multiples of 25 targets. The one of the biggest trap events of the prices to the shooter. The ammunition cost runs a bit steep for the old-fash- year, shooting a $60 duck gun against a companies are not taking excessive ioned 100-bird event. Hold some 10- $600 custom trap gun. Many clay target profits; actually, they have a long his- and 15-bird programs. If the club makes shooters use conventional field guns. tory of being satisfied with a very mod- money, then it's easy to expand to build Nevertheless there is a definite need est margin. a range house, covered firing points, a All of the groups concerned—hunters, grouse walk, a quail walk, and similar established gun clubs, sporting goods target games which more closely re- dealers, shooting associations, the arms produce actual hunting conditions. companies, and publications appealing The cost of target shooting has, like to men — could accomplish significant everything else, gone up, but it is still gains by a combined agitation for pub- not excessively expensive. The basic lic target shooting grounds. The legisla- costs for establishing a rifle range or a tures of all the States have recognized trap or skeet layout are low. Hence most the obligation to provide recreation fa- target clubs have very modest dues — cilities for their citizens. It is necessary, usually no more than $10 to $15 a year. however, for interested groups to com- The cost of match ammunition for an pete for such funds as are available. In afternoon's small-bore rifle shooting this competition the sheer numbers of (100 rounds) is only $2.26. A single the gun owners in the country are their circuit of trap or skeet usually costs greatest strength. And they have an ex- about $3.50 for shells and targets. ceptionally good case to make, because The best target rifles and shotguns target shooting facilities require a small are not cheap, of course, but neither investment, can easily be made self- are the best golf clubs or other sports liquidating, and serve the causes of equipment. One of the most popular safety restoration as well as The champion smalllxnc lidc team and game bigtime small-bore target rifles costs of Alamogordo Post ^-1, N. .Mex. recreation. $140 complete; a popular trap gun, It is downright silly that so many $200; and the most popular skeet gun, for more target events that can be fired hunters should lose the chance to im- $145. You must pay the full freight to with hunting guns. "Cheap rifle" events prove their skill and to gain year-round compete effectively in present big league can be held, with a price limitation on pleasure out of their guns simply be- rifle matches, but that is not the case the arms used. Greater and more uni- cause they don't know where to go to in scattergun shooting. I have seen a form year-round consumption of am- do their target shooting and don't know Maryland shooter successfully battling munition would result in lower manu- how to get started. through a shoot-off at Vandalia, 111., in facturing costs, and eventually in lower THE END

1957 -THE YEAR OF THE ATOM (Continued from page 23) renheit. It then flows through a heat ex- eral Electric and Pacific Gas and Elec- Standouts in the demonstration pro- changer where it boils other water to tric, has more significance than its 5,000- gram are the big 100,000-kw. and 134,- make steam. This is fed at 600 pounds kilowatt size would indicate. It is a pro- 000-kw. stations which Detroit Edison pressure through turbines which spin totype of a 180,000-kw. station Com- and Yankee Atomic Electric, respective- generators to produce current for the monwealth Edison is building outside ly, hope to bring on line by 1960 at Duquesne Light Company's distribution Chicago, and will "prove out" many Monroe, Mich., and Rowe, Mass. network. complicated design details for its bigger All these stations will provide the ex-

As is evident, an atomic powerplant brother. The latter is scheduled to come perience under ordinary operating con- is much like any other except for the onto line in 1960. ditions which is basic to progress. While reactor furnace. This is what gives the Among other leading A-plants to encouraging private industry to take on special benefits — and problems. The big come are: (1) A 236,000-kw. giant such tasks, AEC concentrates on basic fly in the atomic ointment is deadly north of New York City which Con- research as holding the best hope of radioactivity, the inevitable result of solidated Edison plans to operate by finally getting atomic power costs down blowing atoms into two parts. 1960; (2) One of 200,000 kilowatts to competitive levels. The ultimate re- Since humans can take only so much planned for completion by 1962 by a actor, obviously, has yet to be built. Like radiation without injury or death, mas- Florida utility group; (3) A 150,000-kw. the auto or airplane, it will probably sive shielding must be installed around a station which Pennsylvania Power & evolve and be improved endlessly. reactor's lethal core. Heat transfer must Light hopes to start up in eastern Penn- Meanwhile, a huge store of reactor be done in two steps— at least at Ship- sylvania by 1962. knowledge is being built up daily as the pingport — to reduce chances of passing About ten other A-plants in the plan- Nautilus, the world's first A-powered radioactivity on to the generating part ning or initial building stages are mov- submarine, cruises the oceans. The Navy of the plant. A giant dome must be built ing ahead under the Government's is so impressed with her performance, overhead to safeguard surrounding areas "power demonstration" program. On in fact, that orders for more than a doz- from the accidental release of fission these the Atomic Energy Commission en other atomic subs are on the books. products. Wastes must be stored or and private or public-power sponsors All except one — the troublesome Sea buried to prevent contamination of the share the cost. Federal money is spent Wolf — will have the same basic type of air or river. with the object of offsetting some of the power being proven in the Nautilus and For the present awareness of this development losses such plants now en- at Shippingport. hazard is proving no bar to progress. tail, and to show which types are most Also ahead are a 33-knot atomic air- This year two small A-plants are being promising. Congress is likely to wind up craft carrier of 85,000 tons, which will brought onto line in California — one at its current reappraisal of nuclear prog- contain eight separate reactors, and a Santa Susanna and the other at Liver- ress by voting more money for faster high-speed missile -launching cruiser, more. The latter, a joint product of Gen- paced development. (Continued on page 62)

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 ROD AND GUN CLUB AS THIS IS THE month that launches fisiiing in much of the country, we'd like (Continued fro/// piT.ttc 2S) to take a look at a few of the better fishing Almost Frantic from THE RADIO CORPORATION of America ideas that fellow Legionnaires have sent our way: William Raverty, 613 E. Cook has just released details of a dcx icc that is J. DRY SKIN ITCH? St., St. Paul, Alinn., lias just patented fish going to make life rough for the fish. It's a First applications of Zemo — a skinner called the "Skin E Z," which he an electronic fish-finder. A portable ma- doctor's soothing antiseptic — claims makes it possible for anyone to do chine a foot square and w eigiiing less than relieve itch of surface skin and a professional job of skinning a fish in five .^0 |)ounds, it uses an indicatorscopc and a scalp irritations. Zemo stops seconds flat. You work the gadget by slip- transmitter-recei\ cr unit to give a continu- scratching and ous picture of actix ity under the w ater. It ping the fish through its holder, then push- so aids healing. this with ultrasound impulses ing forward a fiv e-inch blade w hicii auto- zemo does focused transmitted dow nw ard througii the w ater. matically penetrates just deep enough. The If you are the talented outhor I'ish that interrupt the sound waves are skinner is lighter than a pair of pliers; it of an unpublished manuscript, FREE let us help gain the recognition projected as "blips" on the scope. It also retails for $3.50. you deserve. We will publish Dr. Bob L. Brosius, 32 North 6th St., Booklet identifies fish b>- size and type, and indicates your BOOK—we will edit, design, Pa., calls the best spot to drop bait. It w ill be on the Siiamokin, has invented what he on print, promote, advertise ond

tell it I Good royalties. market soon, and then w c can reall>- pit\' tiie "Handy Pak" landing net. It's a full- Publishing Write for FREE copy of size net that folds up and fits snugly into the poor fish. Your How To Publish Your Book a handsome leather pouch which you wear Book COMET PRESS BOOKS, Dept. Al-4 WE LIKED THE NEW Alercury 10 Trol- on your belt. It sells for $4.95, is guaranteed, 200 Varick St., N. Y. 14 Tw in outboard motor w iiich w e saw at the has a plated spring steel frame, and will National Alotor Boat Show at the New hold more than ten pounds. C. B. Shuman, 941 Stow St., Kent, Ohio, RUPTURED York Coliseum. The tiller handle features throttle and forward, reverse, or neutral has put together two lures that are guar- BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY Now there is a new modern Non-Surgical treat- anteed to get the giant muskellunge and speeds all designed for one-hand opera- ment designed to permanently correct rupture. tion. This model offers an acceleration the biggest of largemouth bass. They are These Non-Surgical treatments are so certain, that a Lifetime Certificate Assurance is given. made of real fur and feathers, and look so of range from \ er\' slow trolling speed to 26 Write today for our New FREE Book that miles per hour. Its glide-angle underwater real they fooled us. One is a fluffy, yellow gives facts that may save you painful and expensive surgery, and tells hov7 non-surgically you may structure slides rocks, duckling; the other a baby muskrat. o\er stumps, and again work, live, play and love and enjoy life in St., weeds. Exhaust is tiirough the propeller J. Dixon Baker, 4054 Thalia New- the manner ycu desire. There is no obligation. Excelsior Hernia Excelsior Spgs., Orleans, La., is peddling he calls Clinic, Dept. 7205, Mo. liub; so it's very quiet. About $350. AVrite what "Alanning's Tasty Shrimp" lure. It is the Kiekhaefer Corp. Fond du Lac, W is., for more details. only hollow-bodied lure of its kind on the market. Shaped like a shrimp, it is designed to take bubble-pellets which are inserted OIL NEWS LETTER THE 1957 DIRECTORY of Camps is out. Free on request. IneUides map showing,' recent sue- in as dissolve, give the Approximatcl)' 2,500 camps are listed al- the body and, they ces'sful well completions, new field discoveries, etc. Also drilling wildcat.s and their progress, oil and pas phabetically by States. Information includes shrimp live action and fish appeal. At least news items IP-arf^in^' an area ttiat offers you the that's says. location of camps; name and address of what the man chance of a litetinie by lilinp oil and gas leases on IT.S. r.ovt land. OIL LEASE SEUVICE. INC.. owner or operating organization; number, Ilondcd Lease llroker. Dept. AL. 8943 Wilshire Blvd.. ages, and sex of children served; fees; fa- r.everly Hills. Calif. cilities; and program features. Available from American Camping Association, Bradford AVoods, Alartinsville, Ind., for 50(!' per copy. INVENTORS If you beUeve that you have an Invention, you should LET find out how to protect It. We are registered Patent At- US REMIND YOU again this year torneys. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet **How lo Protect Your Invention," and an "Invenllon Record" that if > ou haven't tried fishing in the \ ari- fori No 'llK Till for tlH sklnK. ous State and national parks, \-ou are miss- McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON ing one of the best fishing bets in the 146-Z Victor Buildii Washington I, D. C. country. Fish are stocked; all the informa- GORDON L. STROBECK, 707 Short St., tion \ ou want is yours for the asking. Just Irw in. Pa., is a man w iio is long on ideas. NEW, NATURAL LIGHTWEIGHT w rite to The National Park Service, \\'ash- Here's one: "You won't ha\e parts from

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found to their liking, namely the 5I2 hp. that he is an excellent taxidermist. 7 at $234, the 'A hp. at S264.50, and the 10 ENJOY NEW FREEDOM,-- hp. at $345.50. All have slip-clutch propel- If you have a liclpful idea that jjertains of action, peace of niiiid ami lENTIRELY DIFFERENT! ler protection, twist-grip speed control, and eotiif ort at woi k or pi a v. to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we I'lnvcn, pafriiKMl MWAAM liolds your niiifiire manual starting. Other models, such as the can use it, we'll reward you with a hunting back Day anit Xi-tii will buns .^oii last- Golden Javelin 35, at $635. A\'rite Johnson or fishing accessory. Address: Outdoor Editor, in- nli.'i, ha-, tliousaiuN. For FREE facts in plain wrap Alotors at AVaukegan, 111., for complete The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth per. Send Xame and Address i information. FRED B. MILLER. Dept. 53- Avenue, New York 19, New Vork. Exclusive Manufacturer

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 • (Continued from page 60) Examples are corn, oats, and barley with F. Libby, estimates that they will save with two. Congress this year approved shorter, stronger stems that stand up in industry and agriculture between 200 funds for the world's first nuclear mer- storm and wind. Rust resistance has been and 300 million dollars yearly. He fore- chant ship, as well. This is to be a pas- bred into wheat strains. Radiated peanut casts a rise in this to a billion dollars senger-cargo combination of 12,000 tons plants produce bigger harvests. annually within a few years. "Were we and a speed of 21 knots. It is set for Other long strides have been taken in to have no other benefits than the appli- completion in three years, and should research on fertilizers and insecticides. cations of isotopes to industry and agri- prove to be the forerunner of an atomic- Trees sprayed with chemicals containing culture, the American people would powered merchant fleet. Actually, tracers reveal that, contrary to earlier have a sound financial return on their atomic energy may already compete thinking, fertilizers can be absorbed investment of some $15 billion in the costwise with conventional fuels to through leaves as well as through roots. AEC's far-flung properties," he con- power huge supertankers for long-haul Isotopes also reveal what fertilizers cludes. service. plants will take up from the soil, thereby Other benefits derived from the atom

The question of costs is decisive in pinning down the best nutrients and cannot be measured in money but add any outlook for the atom. It now appears methods of applying them. up heavily in terms of better health. Doc- that a decade or more may elapse before Secrets of nature's complex, challeng- tors hold that radioisotopes are the A-plants will generally edge out ordinary greatest boon of modern times to medi- new facilities, costwise — at least in the cine, that they have advanced such United States. Advances are coming in knowledge by 25 years. By tagging such a rush, however, that no one knows foods, vitamins, minerals, and drugs with when one will break through to reshape m radioactivity, then tracing these inside the entire outlook. the body with ultrasensitive geiger While waiting for atomic power's hey- counters, research workers are bringing day, America can go on reaping mount- vital bodily processes into full view for ing rewards from radioisotopes. Oak the first time. New diagnostic techniques Ridge National Laboratory, famed Ten- that can be applied generally in a few nessee site of nuclear bomb making, years are emerging, and they are vastly handles 90 percent of isotope produc- improving the chances of treatment pay- tion. It makes these by exposing ordinary ing off in improved health and length- elements like cobalt, iodine, gold, and ened life. iron to radiation in an atomic reactor. Atomic diagnosis and therapy for These come out loaded with radioac- cancer are outstanding examples of this tivity, which they retain for varying work. Special processes are being devel- periods whether heated, smashed, sliced, oped for concentrating radiation in can- diluted, or whatever. cerous growths, reducing or eliminating Oak Ridge has made nearly 100,000 their malignant effects. A leader in this shipments of isotopes during the past research is Brookhaven National Lab- decade. Industrial firms and medical oratory on Long Island where a 6.4-mil- outlets each account for more than a lion-dollar Medical Research Center is third of demand, with government, going up. This will have a 48-bed hospi- "Oiue — just once I'd like to see what ne schools and research institutions taking tal and a reactor, making it possible to would do to them if the Cavalry didn't show the remainder. Illustrating growth of up." utilize many short-lived isotopes at the use, only 100 firms used isotopes in 1 950; AMEUK AN LEGION MAGAZINE moment of their production. Completion today all users total nearly 4,000. of this medical research center is set for 1958. Mill and factory uses of tracer-iso- ing process of photosynthesis are being topes and radiation sources make a pried open with the aid of isotopes. This One of the amazing atomic treatments lengthy list. It has radi- concerns cancer of the brain. Brook- been found that is the magical conversion of water and At ation will change the structure of plas- carbon dioxide into sugars in the pres- haven doctors found that boron isotopes tics, giving greater strength and resist- ence of sunlight. If this can be dupli- would collect in such tumors. They in- ance to heat. Soaps are improved by cated synthetically, untold abundance ject this into a patient, allow it to con- checking how much radioactive dirt they may well be created. centrate, then bombard the growth with remove from fabrics during washing. Atomic food preservation techniques a stream of neutrons from a reactor. The best motor oils can be determined are being tried out, especially by the This stream causes the boron atoms to by that re- exposing engine pistons and rings Army, in an effort to cut spoilage with- burst in microscopic explosions to radiation, then testing after a run to out complicated packaging and refriger- tard if not destroy the cancer without see how much of this surrounding brain tissue. radioactive metal ation. Radiation is most effective in kill- damaging appears in the crankcase. ing harmful bacteria. But it has the un- It may even be that the atom, in piling Production techniques are also being fortunate effect of altering taste and up such beneficial results, will eventu- improved. it One example is the wide- structure of many foods. The process is ally shake off the feeling of horror spread use of radiation gauges to monitor considered a coming thing, nonetheless. produced upon its debut at Hiroshima continuously the thickness of rolled Radiation has also proved it can pre- and Nagasaki nearly 12 years ago. In sheets of metal, plastic, paper, etc. Ra- vent skin rot and molds on fruit, inhibit spite of the ever-present threats and diation is giving some unusual results in sprouting of potatoes, and kill weevils constant danger of nuclear war, atomic heatless, one-step cracking of petroleum. in stored grain without leaving harmful science is striving to turn down this Radiation sources are replacing expen- effects. Another promising use is in drug broad path of progress. sive X-ray equipment in detecting un- laboratories, where special preparations What the peaceful atom has already seen flaws in thick castings. that might be damaged by heat can be accomplished can only be described as In agriculture, scientists use radiation sterilized. marvelous. Yet Shippingport and other to speed "genetic mutations" in seeds. Such uses of radioactivity account for events show that results to date are but

Plants can thereby be tailor made to fit some fancy financial returns. The AEC's portents of still greater things to come. special soil, climate, and yield conditions. respected scientific member, Dr. Willard THE END

52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957 L

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No canvassing or selling but mail orders a \\'GBH in Boston, operated by progress is made the Post's charter bring in $20 a day. Write for full particulars FREE. Rush name on postcard to WARNER, Room 4-D, 1512 Jarvis, Chicago III. community group headed by banker should be revoked. The Commander 26, Ralph Lowell, is topnotch. A couple should have a committee for every of weeks ago on this station Hugh program and the chairman of each Gaitskell discussed the "Challenge of committee should submit a report at Co-Existence,"' and recently on one the end of the year describing the night they had the following: A talk work done. This should be signed by by Zechariah Chafee, Jr., of Harvard, the Commander and forwarded to the on "whether legislative bodies should Department. seek out individual citizens and punish Edwin C. Dowen them"; an interview with Arthur Mil- Cleveland, Ohio ler, playwright, on the status of the contemporary theater; a violin recital FROM A BLIND READER by Joseph Fuchs. Alfred Kohlberg Sir: I wish to convey my thanks to New York City The American Legion for The Ameri- can Legion Magazine, which I have REVVED UP received. This magazine in my opinion is the most outstanding Braille maga- Sir: I don't think I've ever read a story zine I receive. It contains vital infor- that got me so revved up as "We mation on current topics and prob- Learned About Prisons from the Jap lems and I read it all. .My thanks to Inside," in your January issue. What The American Legion. the hell seems to be the matter with HiLncr A. Hanson those "diplomats"? I think we need Minneapolis, Minn. some new ones. Blair L. Geedy, Jr. WANTS CHANGES Miffiiiitoivn, Pa. Sir: It has been my contention that ALL TO WASHINGTON the Soviets should never have been recognized by our Government. I am V i Sir: Americans have been told many for expelling the Soviets from the You know those rare days when times that communism and socialism United Nations. Harry Bridges should everything checks? Air smells good. are one and the same. Yet our nation be stripped of his citizenship and de- Food tastes terrific. Even the old face plods doggedly onward toward social- ported back to Australia, and the looks good in the mirror. Today can ism with hardly a backward glance, Communist Party should be outlawed. be thet kind of day. Just do two while lashing out at communism all Allen A. Stuart things. Call your doctor for a thor- the way. As a people, Americans Fhoenix, Ariz. medical checkup for cancer. clamor for the benefits of the welfare ough write state. We promote those leaders who Then out a check— a nice fat promise us every manner of aid and Letters published in Sound Off! do not one — to the American Canceic necessarily represent the policy of The Federal handout. 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tamer. The man went into the lion cage THE TRYOUT first. He was quite successful w ith ail the animals except Duke, a young, fierce, heavily maned creature. Duke would nor o perform for him; so he came out. The young lady, clad in a Bikini-like costume then entered the cage. After a few cajoling phrases Duke gro\clled on the floor, crept meekly to her feet, patted her genth' with his paws, ran his tongue out about a foot and kissed her on the chin. The circus owner said to the young man ''A\'hy can't you put on an act like that?"

Replied the young man "I can if you'll get those doggone lions out of there." — Coi,. T. F. McCarthy

Keep the f'liaiijuje

Cheer up! The murkiest clouds may gle(i)ii With sih'er linings. The woes you curse Are frequently not as bad as they seem, — Ami frequently ii'orse. — Howard AVini.ev

So They Say In damaging parts of automobiles, women are sometimes claimed to be the worst of fenders. — George Hart

Soii|ietl ITp

In restaurants where soup is sold. From Maine to Alabaimny, Clmii choivder's very often cold. But very seldom clammy. — Richard Armour

ThatN a Faet

Don't marry a girl because she looks sensible, because a sensible girl has more sense than to look sensible. — F. G. Kernax

Fancy FaKhi«»nK

At his first formation after receiving his army gear, the scion of a wealth\- society family, an impeccable dresser, fell into line still wearing his handmade English shoes. They slightly resembled low quarters, but were distinctly not Government issue. As the 1st Sergeant paced uiiiiappily through the ranks of fresh draftees, he stopped, incredulous, when he spotted the civilian shoes. Placing his bulldog jaw next to the re- cruit, and pointing his finger downward,

the veteran inquired bitingly, ".May I ask, what are you doing in those?" "Tiiev're mine, sergeant,'' the lad replied blandly.. Reyoiiil the Law father when he opened the door, "I ahnost "They're yours!" The Sergeant was be-

ran over a duck out there— is it yours?" side himself. "Would you w ear a ! *# top The tivo types of people who have no "That's no duck," sighed the man. "It's hat if ) ou had one here?" compunction about takiiiji your last thin "Oh, no," the elegant draftee said in dime are o/ttLnvs and in-laws. the stork with its legs worn down." shocked tones, "not with brown shoes!" — Hal Chadwick — Harold Helier — Burton M. Halperx Work-worn Feature Act Daffynition The doctor, driving up to a homestead to A >'oung man and a young woman re- 'out as lion Girdle: Pot holder. — Jack Herbert

^4 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1957

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