The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue Contents for October 1964 New York, New York 10019 Publisher, James F
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THE AMERICAN LEGIONMAGAZINE 20c. OCTOBER 1964 THE INSIDE STORY OF THE GREAT NATIONAL COIN SHORTAGE AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD PRATT, AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION; AND THOMAS 0. WAAGE, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK WHEN FDR MAN'S ENEMY JUGGLED THE RAT, TODAY THANKSGIVING . NEWFOR G5... Extra power for tough jobs 48% more power now available in a new 240 cu.in.Six. Big new power! That's the big news is more powerful: a new 170 cu. in. standard equipment . roomier, more '65 in Ford Econoline Vans. New op- Six gives a power boost of up to 23 comfortable cab . more compact, tional 240-cubic inch Six is biggest, percent. And both new engines are high-output heater ... all reason most powerful engine in any van! engineered to give you maximum dur- aplenty to see your Ford Dealer and Gives you outstanding performance ability and full economy. test drive the Van that has outsold the with full loads— powerful hill-climbing Also new for '65 are huskier under- others by 2 to 1, Ford Econoline Van! ability— nimbleness in heavy traffic. structure for a sturdier cargo floor . Even the standard engine for 1965 stronger bumpers . alternators as A PRODUCT OF MOTOR COMPANY BUILT TO LAST LONGER ; The American OCTOBER 1964 LEGION Volume 77, Number 4 POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, Magazine Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue Contents for October 1964 New York, New York 10019 Publisher, James F. O'Neil Editor Robert B. Pitkin THE UN AND THE AMERICANS 6 Art Editor BY JEFF ENDRST Al Marshall Associate Editors An account of the impact on one another of elbow rubbing among (1) John Andreola Roy Miller UN delegates and (2) New Yorkers and American tourists at UN Hq. James S. Swartz Production Manager PLANNED: A PERMANENT MEMORIAL Art Bretzfield Copy Editor FOR AMERICA'S WAR HEROES 12 Grail S. Hanford Contributing Editor military decorations are Medal of Honor winners and holders of other Pete Martin about to be recognized by a natural shrine in a grove Circulation Manager at Valley Forge. A 4-color feature. Dean B. Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. Advertising Director THE GREAT NATIONAL COIN SHORTAGE 14 Robert P. Redden PRATT, AMERICAN Chicago-Detroit Sales Office AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD Bart J. Burns BANKERS ASSOCIATION AND THOMAS O. WAAGE, 35 East Wacker Drive N.Y. FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF Chicago, 111. 60601 Experts on the acute national coin shortage, which everyone may CEntral 6-2401 feel during Christmas shopping, tell what's behind it all and what the cure is. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Office THE PLYMOUTH COLONY, MASSACHUSETTS 19 Form 3578. Attach old address label and give old and new addresses and current BY ALDEN STEVENS membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. A travel article for today's motorists about the site of the Mayflower landing. Fourth in the series "Seeing Historic America." The American Legion Publications Commission: WHEN F.D.R. JUGGLED THANKSGIVING 20 Dr. Charles H. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa (Chairman); Adolph F. Bremer, Winona, MAHONEY Chairman) Lang Armstrong, BY TOM Minn. ( Vice ; Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. Booth, Hunting- The story of the time when we had two Thanksgivings, including ton, W. Va.; John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; many previously unpublished highlights. E. J. Cooper, Hollywood, Fla.; Clovis Cope- lard, Morrilton, Ark.; Paul B. Dague, Down- ingtown, Pa.; Raymond Fields, Guymon, Okla. Chris Hernandez, Savannah, Ga.; George D. MAN'S ENEMY THE RAT, TODAY 24 Levy, Sumter, S. C; Howard E. Lohman, Moorhead, Minn.; Edward Longstreth, La BY FRANK L. REMINGTON Jolla, Calif.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss.; Robert How man's ancient rodent foe is adapting to modern life, and how man Mitchler, Oswego, III.; Harry H. Schaffer, is trying to adapt right back at him. Pittsburgh, Pa.; Harold A. Shindler, Lafayette, Ind.; William F. Taylor, Greensburg, Ky.; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.; Robert SHOULD THE U.S. RECOGNIZE A CUBAN H. Wilder, Dadeville, Ala. Edward McSweeney, Armonk, N. Y. (Consultant) GOVERNMENT IN EXILE? 26 TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION The American Legion Magazine is published pro: REP. WILLIAM C. CRAMER (R-FLA.) monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Copyright con: SEN. PHILIP A. HART (D-MICH.) Ky., by The American Legion. 1964 by The American Legion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single copy, 20 cents; yearly subscription, $2.00. Gl INSURANCE BENEFICIARY CHANGE FORM 35 Order nonmember subscriptions from the Cir- culation Department of The American Legion. Is your vets insurance beneflciary-of -record the one you want? P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 The VA will accept this page to make an official change. Editorial and advertising offices : 720 5th Ave., New York, N. Y. 10019. Wholly owned by The American Legion, with National Head- Departments quarters at Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. 2 NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 31 Publisher's Representatives DATELINE WASHINGTON 4 BOOKS 46 West Coast Arden E. Roney & Assoc. EDITOR'S CORNER 5 PERSONAL 49 Los Angeles & San Francisco, Calif. Northwest 28 LEGION SHOPPER 56 The Harlowe Co. Wash. 98101 29 PARTING SHOTS 60 Seattle, Southeast Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, The Dawson Co. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Miami, Fla. & Atlanta, Ga. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1964 J by far the most concise and well- thought-out material on the subject I've LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ever read. Legionnaires should put it in the hands of non-voting friends and neighbors. Nancy J. Evans Letters published do not necessarily ex- The whole story of his work to provide Clarksville, press the policy of The American Legion. Tenn. Keep letters short. Name and address must training for our reserve corps, beginning be furnished. Expressions of opinion and when he allowed Gettysburg College requests for personal services are appreci- The YWCA asked and received permis- students to use the Army rifles for vol- ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or sion to reprint several thousand copies answered, due to lack of magazine staff for unteer drill in 1913, should be written these purposes. Requests for personal serv- of Commander Foley's editorial for all the records. ices ivhieh may be legitimately asked of by someone with national distribution. The American Legion should be made to With respect to another of your arti- your Post Service Officer or your state (Department) American Legion Hq. Send cles, that by Bill Hosokawa in July BLACK TOM ADDENDA letters to the editor to: Letters, The on our Nisei in the Pacific, I spent two American Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave- sir: The excellent article on the Black years with a bunch of Nisei trained for nue. New York, N.Y. 10019. Tom explosion (August) aroused many the CBI but detached to the Signal Corps memories. As a slight correction, it was in Virginia. Whenever there was a call MEMORIES OF GEN. WOOD not the Secret Service which lifted Dr. sir: Congratulations on your editorial for paratroopers, practically the entire Albert's briefcase but Customs Intelli- work in getting "The Ordeal of Leonard unit put in for that. Their excuse: "Bet- gence, then known as the "Neutrality Wood" by Clarence Woodbury, in July. ter pay." In fact, they felt like slackers Bureau." I was in the Bureau at the It brought back memories of 65 years while on detached duty in the U.S. time. The Secret Service was limited to ago. Today the Leonard Memorial Gordon T. Fish Wood safeguarding the President. is doing good work against Hansen's Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. F. J. Maher Disease (leprosy) in the Philippines. New York, N.Y. Henry Abeott Horne sir: Gen. Wood was also made Governor Brooklyn, N.Y. of the Philippines in 1921, when things sir: The article on the Black 'Tom ex- were a mess there. plosion is in error in a passage which sir: Some footnotes to the Spanish- William A. Reece reports the first fire fighters on the scene American War, called to mind by your Webb City, Mo. as volunteer firemen with ludicrous article on Leonard Wood in July. The equipment. Let me set the record rest of the slogan "Remember the Maine" sir: I appreciated the Leonard Wood straight as a retired officer of the Jersey ". was . and to hell with Spain." There article very much. There's much more City Fire Department who fought the were penny postcards for sale that we to be said about Gen. Wood than the Black Tom explosion and fire in 1916. kids used to buy, with a picture of the story of his ordeal in occupied Cuba. I This first started as a fire. Notified by battleship Maine, a fuse attached to it, served under him at Camp Funston, phone, the Jersey City Fire Hq (a pro- and some powder under the ship. When Kan. Hope sometime you can tell of fessional fire department) sent an engine the fuse was lit it ignited the powder his great work in training men in WW1, and truck company, whose ladders in- and blew the ship up. As kids in In- though they wouldn't send him over- cluded a 75-foot aerial ladder (not dianapolis we got a big thrill watching seas. "several short lengths of ladder") . These the troops off at the station. We would R. W. Walter two companies had eight men, and had bum hardtack from the soldiers, and one Tampa, Fla.