The American Legion Magazine [Volume 57, No. 1 (July 1954)]

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THE AMERICAN LKtiHH A Legion LEGION - of Pleasures in MAGAZINE

Contents for July, 1954 cover by Frank McCarthy

Pennsjjbania THE GIMMICK (fiction) by Everett Rhodes Castle 11 THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A TOO -PERFECT ALIBI.

WHO ARE THE CENSORS? by Irene Corbally Kuhn 14 THE ODDS ARE STILL AGAINST ANTI-COMMUNIST AUTHORS.

AMERICA'S IN B. Stutler 16 . . . ready to add FIRST CARS COMBAT by Boyd HOW WE CHANGED FROM HORSE TO HORSEPOWER. their thrills to your AS GOOD AS ANY MAN 18 summer holiday IT'S A SELF-RELIANT BUNCH OF GUVS AT BILL BETTERLV'S.

TV- WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE IN 1955 by Walter Brooks 20 WHAT YOU GET DEPENDS LARGELY ON WHAT YOU WANT.

TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST by Alfred Lilienthal 22 SOME EXPLOSIVE ISSUES ARE NOW SMOLDERING.

HOW GOOD ARE YOUR EYES? by Tom Mahoney 24 CHANCES ARE, A DOCTOR CAN MAKE YOU SEE BETTER.

COOKING THE FISH YOU CATCH by Jack Denton Scott 26 Convention bound . . . DON'T THINK THE FUN IS OVER WHEN YOU LAND 'EM. homeward bound ... or just NEWS OF THE LEGION 33 plain summer holidaying . . . Traveling by motor car, Features

SOUND OFF! 4 PRODUCTS PARADE . . 8 NEWSLETTER 31 train, bus or plane . . . EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB . .28 PARTING SHOTS . . . 64 certain your trip Make Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included. includes a visit to Pennsylvania. And you'll be certain of a The Americon Legion Magazine is the official publication of The American Legion and is legion of pleasant hours visiting owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1954 by The American Legion. Pub- lished monthly at 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for moiling at special rate world-famous patriotic shrines of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Entered as second class matter June 30, 1948, at the Post Office at Louisville, Ky., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Non-member . . . and scenic wonders . . . subscriptions should be sent to the Circulation Department of The American Legion Magazine, P. Box Indianapolis 6, Ind. enjoying an endless variety of O. 1055, EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING WESTERN OFFICE sports, resorts and fine relaxing ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES 580 Fifth Avenue 333 North Michigan Avenue

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WORLD GOVERNMENT PRO & CON General Zwickcr cooperative or extremely evasive? Senator McCarthy Sir: I read Legionnaire Mullen's letter sroe ~r AND I CAN'T has stated he believes 99 percent of r in the May issue and agree that too FOSD/cK*. BEAR ANY- the Army is loyal. If you had a rattle- much can't be done to expose the I CAN'T BODY WITH snake in your back yard what would Z World Federalists' scheme to turn the BEAR MESSY you do about it? THlSff HAIR Tr United Nations into a world govern- Ford M. Spcrry ment in 1955 w hen the charter ques- Binghamton, N. V. tion comes up for discussion. Waldo I. Nichols DON'T SMEAR STODDARD Davidson, Conn. Sir: There arc one helluva lot of us Sir: Just one question for the guys Legionnaires that are getting darn fed who don't like World Federalism. up on the steady diet of McCarthy- Have they got a better plan to pre- like articles in your magazine. You vent atomic war or piecemeal com- attack the schools, civil liberties, our munist conquest of the world? If so, ministers and who next? Where were let's hear about it. anti-communists when Indo- Martin T. Hutchinson the great China fell? I'll tell you. They were Rutgers University busy dividing Americans. When are New Brunswick', N. ]. you going to wake up to the fact

that Russia is our No. 1 enemy, not honest liberals, dissenters and agrarian rebels who resist your brand of con-

formism? I dare you to print this — and don't try smearing me. ANTI-GERANIUM Charles H. Stoddard Executive Director Sir: How could you pull such a boner Independent Forest Farmers as you did on the iMay cover? To us of America Legionnaires the Poppy is the symbol Minneapolis, Minn. of Memorial Day. Who ever thought up that bright geranium idea? You NEEDS HEAD EXAMINED will hear plenty from the members of the Auxiliary, I'm sure. Sir: It is my sincere opinion that Zeb George Runcie Hawkins, of Long Branch, whose let- Los Angeles ter appeared in the May issue, needs GET WIIDROOT -BUT THAT'D his head examined. Just because the J national magazine of The American CREAM-OIL, rr BE ILLEGAL.'.' GOT US! rr - accepts the advertising of lead- CHARUE. . MY NAME IS Legion I) Sir: I've gotcha! The United States HERMAN//" ing manufacturers of cigarettes, beer Constitution, originally located in the and whiskey is no reflection upon the Library of Congress, was moved quite magazine or, for that matter, on any some time ago with full military es- Legionnaire. Therefore, he, Haw kins, cort to the National Archives Build- is narrow-minded, ignorant and against ing, in fact your picture shows it ex- the very principles of all true Ameri- actly in that location! May I suggest cans. a revision in your caption on page 26 Louis J. Bezdek, Sr. of the May 1954 issue? West, Texas Karl W. Helft Washington, D. C.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED err wildroot cream-oil Sir: Considering all the verbiage we KEEPS HAIR NEAT- but NOT- U6Hf- GREASY. NON- read and hear, the communists and ALCOHOLIC. CONTAINS One-Worldcrs evidently have accom- LANOLIN. RELIEVES DRYNESS. plished their purpose to sidetrack the REMOVES LOOSE issues and get a concerted smear of DANPRUFFTf Senator McCarthy. Isn't it time to get BIBLES ARE READ back to the main issue? Why did Dr. Pcress invoke the Fifth Amendment Sir: In Sound Off for April, a Mar- 0011 ta M .„.. on 33 questions asked about his pos- garet Russell Dillon questions whether sible ties with communists? During many travelers rea*! the Bibles in hotel Wildroot Senator McCarthy's questioning to de- rooms. As a district sales manager for

termine who promoted Dr. Percss was ( Continued on page 53)

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PASTE THIS IN YOUR HAT WE HOPE that the people who occasionally write to complain that we are "anti-liberal" had the opportunity

to hear or read J. Edgar Hoover's speech before the 63rd Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Discussing the danger threatening us from within, the head of the FBI said: "Otherwise respectable, seemingly in- telligent persons, perhaps unknowingly aid the communist cause more effectively than the communists themselves."

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speak at universities not despite but because they were communists. . . . Gov- ernment officials, church leaders, scientists, doctors, lawyers and judges collabo- rated freely with the communists. ... In politics, of course the main weight of communist influence was thrown behind ." Roosevelt. . .

Since Browder is telling all, it's too bad he didn't tell the truth about that Shirley Temple episode which, he says, caused Dies to be hooted out of Congress. The fact is that Dies did not call Shirley Temple anything. On August 22, 1938 Dr.

J. B. Matthews testified before the Dies Committee, showing how the commies used prominent Americans and often got them to sign statements when they had no idea what they were signing. As an example, he told how the French communist newspaper Ce Soir in its then recent first anniversary number had fea- tured greetings from several movie stars, including Shirley Temple. But Matthews had prefaced his remarks with this sentence: "I am not trying to make these persons' names stand out in any odious manner whatsoever." >YOU When it comes to the commies you

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The door was jerked open and the ugly snout of a sawed-off shotgun shoved in.

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When the prosecution in the Case of the People a bank guard named Alfred Cesack were transport- vs. Charles Morales, alias Big Fingers Marotto, ing $55,000 from the Federal Reserve Bank to War- alias Chuck Martin, rested there was general rendale, a distance of forty-two miles. agreement among the working press that even the Brainard drove the car. Cesack sat beside him. The legal magic of Cornelius Cassidy could not beat this bag containing the money was on the seat between one. them. When the car reached the outskirts of In his opening statement Sam Bard, the County Warrendale a dark blue sedan containing two men Prosecutor, had placed the facts calmly and dispas- suddenly emerged from a side street and forced sionately before the jury. They were, Bard main- Brainard's car to the curb. Before the guard could tained, as follows: withdraw his gun from its holster, the door on his On February 17, 1953, at eleven o'clock in the side of the car was jerked open and the ugly snout morning, George Wilson Brainard, a vice president of a sawed-off shotgun took charge of the situation. of the Warrendale Savings & Trust Company and "It is the contention (Continued on next page) (continued) mho

of the State," Sam Bard told the five women and seven men composing the panel, "that the man behind the shotgun was the defendant, Morales." Bard was a chunky man of forty who looked shorter than his five feet, six inches. He had a round face, solid-looking without any suggestion of surplus flesh but his speech was hesitant and, compared with Cassidy's, was completely unimpressive. However, in front of a jury, Bard, who was no political hack, had a telling way of employing this speech disadvantage to project a sense of fairness and ear- nest objectivity. "Both Brainard and Cesack, as you shall hear, support this contention," Bard had continued dispassionately. "Both men were shown the pictures of hundreds of known criminals by the police. Both, unhesitatingly, pointed to a picture of Morales and proclaimed him the man behind the shotgun. They could not identify the driver of the car. Three weeks ago, when the police arrested Aaorales, both men again picked him out of a police line-up as the man who made off with their $55,000. "But the State's case, as far as identification of the defendant is concerned, does not end with these two men. A resident of Warrendale, a Mrs. Edna Battles, was crossing the street just as the blue sedan rocketed away from the scene of the robbery. Indeed, it almost Mr. Cornelius Cassidy removed his glasses and his questions struck her in its haste to make a quick and safe getaway. Fortunately, Mrs. Battles was accompanied by her son

Curtis, a student in Warrendale Junior "The answer is simple. A4r. Morales, rier where the lady picked out a mink

High School. The young man's quick- or Big Fingers as he is often referred to coat priced at $2975. ness saved his mother from serious in- by his friends and associates, has a "The openhanded Mr. Morales paid jury, possibly from death. But despite unique reputation for beating what the for the coat in cash. The State will offer the clanger of the moment both had a underworld calls a rap. The able coun- in evidence the monies Air. Alorales good look, in full sunlight, at the man sel for the defense would probably ob- used to consummate the transaction. It sitting beside the driver of the car. ject strenuously if I attempted to list will prove that the numbers of the bills They both agree it was the defendant. the numerous crimes of which, he has show that they came from the little "Undoubtedly the distinguished coun- been accused and subsequently acquit- black bag stolen from the bank car. sel for the defense will, ." and quite prop- ted. But if Mr. Morales has a great tal- "This is in essence the State's case . . erly, challenge these identifications. But ent for escape he also has a weakness— thanks to Chief of Detectives William what might be called a betraying virtue. the following is the bare-boned S. Devers and the associates who worked Mr. Morales prides himself on his open- testimony of the doctor which threat- with him day and night on the case, handedness. ened, for many anxious hours, to tor- the State has even more telling evidence "Captain Devers ordered his associ- pedo the prosecution's copper-riveted to prove the guilt of the accused. ates to hold their fire until they could case. In the general view of informed

"Perhaps you have already noticed see the green in Morales' wallet. His pa- courtroom opinion it probably ac- the time lag between the identification tience was rewarded about three weeks counted for Mr. Cornelius Cassidy's un- of Morales and his arrest. Perhaps you later. Mr. Morales accompanied his girl precedented gentleness in cross examin- have already asked yourself why it was friend of the moment, a young lady ing the stream of witnesses for the that the police waited three weeks after variously known as Miss Inez La Fevre prosecution. Certainly, everybody the identification before they made the and Miss Billie Acosta, to the establish- agreed, it was the root cause of (Morales' arrest 5 ment of a well-known and exclusive fur- amused boredom. When the court bai-

12 sound ran across the courtroom. Big Fingers caught the quick consternation in the dark eyes of the assistant D.A., and smiled complacently. The sudden tenseness seemed com-

.... pletely lost Cassidy. removed his 1 * t MOMMM on He 1 I 1 1 old-fashioned pince-nez and stared at them intently. "We are particularly interested in the latter visit, Doctor. Can you state the exact time of the appointment?" "Eleven o'clock." ( Judge Bailey gaveled sharply for si- lence. A newspaper reporter raced for a telephone, closely followed by two of his mates. Sam Bard stared stonily at the rigidly upright figure in the witness box. Ben Welsh muttered something in his car. The sounds drifted unheard in the quick turmoil the testimony had en- gendered. "You arc quite certain of the hour. Doctor?" Cassidy was saying. He had a handkerchief in his hand and was wiping his lips delicately. "Yes, sir." "You have refreshed your memory on this point?" "I have. My testimony has been pred- icated on the entries in my appointment

book. 1 see many patients every day. It would be impossible—" "Exactly. Who makes the entries in the book?" "My nurse, Miss Laura Styner." "You regard her as a thoroughly competent person?" "She has been with me for thirteen years. Yes." "One more question concerning your appointment book. Doctor. Suppose a patient makes an appointment for a given time on a given day and then is became sharper. "Can you state the exact time of the visit?" unable to keep that appointment. Would your record so indicate?" "It would. My statements are based on services rendered." lift escorted the gaunt, distinguished- of our local Academy of Medicine?" "Did the defendant keep his appoint-

looking medico into court Big Fingers "That is true." ment at eleven o'clock on the morning hitched up the trousers of his $250 Cassidy teetered complacently on his of February seventeenth?" fawn-colored gabardine suit, ran a set of heels. His client inched forward in his "My record clearly indicates that he beautifully manicured fingers through chair. Sam Bard stared uneasily at his did. Yes, sir." his sleek hair, and smiled openly. assistant, Ben Welsh. These surprise "You have that record with you?" "Your full name?" "Yes, sir." Cassidy inquired, witnesses . . . taking up a strategic position between "Are you acquainted with the de- Necks craned everywhere as Doctor the witness box and the jury. Because fendant in this case, Doctor?" Glendenning unwrapped a package he of his pink cheeks and silky white hair "I am." had carried to the box. Divested of the he was often spoken of as the Vicar of "Will you tell the Court under what white paper, it proved an ordinary- Wakefield. circumstances you came to know him?" looking sort of book to have such mo- "James B. Glendenning." "He came to my office." mentous meaning. "Your address, Doctor?" "As a patient?" Cassidy made a production number "912 Medical Center Building." "Yes, sir." out of its acceptance. In sonorous tones "This city?" "When did he first visit your office?" he asked that it be marked and placed "Yes, sir." "January 26th." in evidence. The jury eyed it avidly. "In addition to being a duly quali- "This year?" "Your witness," he said with a smile fied physician you are also vice chair- "Yes." and his best clerical bow. man of our Community Fund?" "He came to your office again?" Judge Bailey stared suggestively over "1 am." "On two occasions. February the sec- his horn-rimmed spectacles at the cloc k. "Also you've served as a past president ond and February seventeenth." "It is five minutes to five," he pointed ILLUSTRATED BY FRED IRVIN The working press sat up. A ripple of (Continued on page 62) 13 A spot check of a public library BOOKS ON THE LEFT 0 will soon disclose if there is a desire on the part of officials to present both sides

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As this paragraph from a book contract shows, there's money to be made out of a fast-selling book. And some of the fastest sellers have been written by people whose theme is that "book burners" have suppressed free expression. Who are THE Censors ?

If you want to learn about

censorship, write a book that exposes

Elmer Davis communism or official corruption. BOOKS BY SUCH AS THESE ARE VIRTUALLY ASSURED Owen OF CORDIAL REVIEWS. Lattimore By IRENE COREALLY KUHN

ever anything took a beating this the traditional American position that The censorship we've been hearing If past year, and was slugged, pum- we are all against censorship, 100 per- about ad nauseam all year is what the meled, abused and misused, it was cent, 24 hours a day, all the time. reds and the professional leftists, and the word CENSORSHIP. And no In point of fact, nobody likes cen- their intellectual captives, have dubbed propaganda campaign ever got farther sorship as such, even though there are "book-burning." As a matter of fact, the than this illegitimate one, launched few people who won't draw the line term was invented bv the left. Thev from a paper base, that the whole coun- somewhere when pinned down. It is try was in the hands of a few hysterical, censorship to exclude obscene literature evil characters able, willing and de- and pictures from the mails and from termined to destroy our constitutional public sale and exhibition, but no sen- rights and freedom. sible, decent person objects to this any Book There's an old saying that empty ves- more than he objects to the unrestricted Police Throw sels make the loudest noise, so it might sale of poisons and drugs. be smart if we all stopped screaming Publisher for a while and asked ourselves who's In addition to left-wing huckstering we lit Filth hysterical, who's censoring what. And have this kind of pornography to hurt us. Multiple Charges at the outset, let's restate and reaffirm File Slugs Cop 14 After He

eany book publisher bscene in him W detective, * ^,Sslugging a literature, i .

... of controversial issues or only the side that is OKS ON THE RIGHT? always plugged by left-wing hatchet-men who fight any attempt to expose subversion and the people who engage in it. THEIR SUBJECTS WERE TABOO TO OUR LITERARY THOUGHT-POLICE.

Capt. Russell Greniell.R.N.

long on these shelves. The real question is not why books by Owen Lattimore, Howard Fast and Dashiell Hammett were discarded, but why and how they got on the shelves in the first place. All books, unfortunately, were not chosen by Americans completely familiar with the directive or in entire sympathy and agreement with its pur-

took their cue from the burning of the evil, one which is alive and vigorous, pose. The government's information Reichstag by Hitler and his nazis, the ruthless and penetrating — the commu- libraries have had their origins in sev- public burning of books in Germany, nist conspiracy to conquer and enslave eral sources: Army occupation libraries because they know they can always the world. in several countries; OWI wartime in- raise the blood pressure of decent people So what was all the shooting-off-of- formation libraries when Russia was in this country by repeating the vile the-mouth for? militarily our ally; American Library

methods of nazism and implying that This is what it really gets down to . . Association-originated libraries in Latin Hitlerism may be incubating here. The communist conspiracy, which America. A little-known point is that Corliss Lamont, the red millionaire, never sleeps, seized on the fact that a all overseas libraries are subject to pres- author of The Myth of Soviet Aggres- few books were pulled off the shelves sure to accept gifts from nationals in sion (how contemptuous of American of tax-supported United States Infor- their country, well-meaning donors for libraries intelligence can you get? ) complained mation Center abroad. The the most part, and others who deliber- loudly that copies of his Soviet Civili- word went out and the roar went up; ately and successfully managed by this zation (you should pardon the expres- and in the emotionally supercharged means to get anti-American, pro-red

sion! ) had been burned in a Chicago atmosphere that was created one would books on the shelves. street. Counterattack, the anti-commu- think that the cities of the United States Sufficiently careful screening of such nist weekly news letter, made an inde- were ablaze with the fires from moun- gifts quite probably was not always pendent investigation and learned from tains of books piled high in the streets done, chiefly because of an unequal the Chicago police and other responsible from denuded libraries. average of sophistication on the part of sources that no such incident ever oc- The issue which was obscured was USIS personnel. curred. But Lamont, through an adver- that the purpose of the old United States The fact that communists and their tisement by his publisher in the New Information Service was to disseminate dupes may have been successful in this York Times, wailed: "Remember that information abroad about our country^ sly and skillful device, and that the li- in Hitler's Germany it started by burn- The State Department stated specifically' braries were actually used as propaganda ing the books and ended by burning- the purpose was "to reflect American centers by this means and others, is people." objectives and values, the nature of proved by the fact that a new policy

Lamont and other intellectual huck- American institutions and life, and to is in effect. Since the start of the Con- sters would have you believe that utilize the books and related materials gressional investigations, and for manyr

Hitler, long dead, and nazism, drowned to advance ideas of America in the months now, all gifts to overseas li- in American and Allied blood these struggle against communism." It follows braries have had to be books from re- many years, are more dangerous to the then that any book which gives a false vised and approved lists, or books spe- United States than an infinitely greater picture of the United States doesn't be- (Continued on page 59) 15 Grand-daddy tank built on Quad chassis used by U. S. troops chasing Villa in 1916. Tremendous fleets of Ford ambulances served sick and wounded of AEF.

By BOYD B. STUTLER This durable Dodge saw service as General Pershing's staff car on the Mexican border and later was used in France. Recently restored and given to The American Legion, it will be at this year's National Convention.

"the punitive expedition into needs to be produced especially for and the use of motor transport in the Mexico (1916) in pursuit of Army use. Changes come slowly, and war in Europe which had then been Francisco Villa marked the the old Army was wedded to its Cavalry raging for nearly a year and a half. And real beginning of the use of and to its horses and mules. despite the spectacular feat of General motor transportation for the Army, al- Gasoline-fueled machines — after ex- Gallieni who, in September, 1914, mo- though for many years the motor truck periments with electric and steam- bilized the taxicabs in Paris to send his had received some attention for military powered trucks and cars — had been army out to check the German advance purposes." This, Benedict Crowell, As- brought into use by the Army in a in the first Battle of the Marne. Paris sistant Secretary of War, wrote in an minor way, passenger cars predomi- was saved for the entire war by the official report in 1919 to tell of the nated for the personal transportation taxicab army. victory-winning use of motor-driven of headquarters personnel and high Almost forgotten in the spectacular vehicles in Europe in the First World ranking officers, but until Villa made happenings abroad was a recommenda- War. his raid on the New Mexican border tion of the Adjutant General made in True enough, there had been some there was no organized system of me- late December, 1914, that means of experiments by the Army extending chanical transportation. Worse yet, transportation be changed without de- back to 1901, but in a desultory sort there was no organized system for the lay from animal-drawn vehicles to auto of way. The Secretary's "some atten- supply of machines in the event of a machines, and that motorcycles be is- tion" to motor transport can be set sudden emergency. sued to each Regiment and superior down as an official overstatement. The We have Pancho Villa to thank, then, headquarters. Nothing was done, or Army's experts had contributed very for jerking official Washington and the at least nothing got beyond the plan- little to the development of self-pro- high command into a sudden realiza- ning stage. pelled transport for use in combat or tion that the day of animal-drawn trans- So when the 1916 emergency came

field service, particularly in the field port was over. It took a home emer- and General John J. Pershing was or- of standard designs to meet the varied gency to do it, despite the warnings dered to take his column into Mexico 16 Pershing and his Locomobile — a familiar sight to AEF front-line soldiers. Top-ranking AEF commanders had Cadillac touring cars; man) were on front lines.

AMERICA'S FIRST

American observers faithfully reported on their performance to the State De- partment. This w as in contrast to the adverse reports made to the War De- partment in late 1900, w hen the Quar- Cars -Combat termaster General pointed out that European roads unlike the roads in the United States were, as a rule, in excel- For years the use of cars was delayed, thanks to the lent condition, and recommended that no large expenditures be made to develop satisfactory machines for serv- old Army game, which preferred to play the horses. ice over our bad roads. This attitude was maintained as late as 1908 when the Quartermaster General wrote that ir found the Army almost completely part in the Pershing campaign in which automobiles were too expensive for unprepared in the way of motor trans- motor-driven vehicles were first used Army use in the United States, but port. In fact, in the face of all that had as a primary means of transportation. thought they might be experimented been done in the fifteen or more ex- The 1st Aero Squadron was the first de- with in the Philippine Islands. perimental years, there were less than tailed to serve the expedition as aerial To go back to the beginning. The one thousand motor vehicles of differ- observers and, of course, had to be fully motorcar for commercial and pleasure ent types and models in the whole equipped with ground motor transport use dates from about 1895— at least there United States Army when Villa struck. to serve them when they made landings were four cars built and put on the These cars, it may be said, were scat- on the sun-scorched desert plains. market in that year. Also in that same tered throughout the whole establish- In the light of later world-shaking year Major General Nelson A. Miles, ment in the home country and in the wars when victory, no matter from Civil and Indian Wars veteran, suc-

Philippine Islands. what angle you view it, was made pos- ceeded to the command of the Army Of course through the years when sible by motorized and mechanical by reason of seniority, and almost im-

electromobiles, steamers and internal equipment, it seems strange that the mediately the development of self-pro- combustion types were being tried out, nation that had done most to develop pelled vehicles for military use caught self-propelled transports had vigorous the motorcar and was foremost in pro- his imagination. He could see the dawn- champions in service circles. But ap- duction should have been the last to ing of the machine age and of mecha- parently there were none who, like give scientific motor transportation to nized auxiliaries for service in peace and General Billy Mitchell of the Air Serv- its Army. The United States lagged wartime—and he could see in the new ice, were willing to lay their military behind Britain, Germany, France, Rus- machines a revolutionary change in careers on the line for their belief in sia and even the Swiss armies in testing methods of transportation. He was the utility and necessity of motorized types of machines for military use. As quick to recommend that a bicycle ground equipment. Paradoxical as it early as 1901 the Swiss Army used corps be organized, and that motor may seem, the Air Service also had a motorcars in its fall maneuvers — and (Continued on page 50) 17 In Wilkes-Barre jobs are hard to get. Here John L. Jacobs, WW2 paraplegic Air Force vet, applies at the Pennsyl- vania State Employment Agency for a job, with 20,000 able-bodied unemployed men as his competition.

A frequent visitor at the huge Veterans' Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, Betterly tells the men about his plant and the work being done by their former buddies.

do for a disabled veteran is to prove to him that he can stand on his own two

feet. This rule is that if a vet gets a bet-

ter offer elsewhere, he has to take it. "We don't want any of our men getting the idea that this is a club where they can spend the rest of their lives just because they've been injured." Bill sounds very gruff when he says this, but somehow the gruffness doesn't ring true. Those who know him well point out that less than four years ago, when he was trying to get enough capital to get his factory going, he had to borrow money for a bus ticket to The disabled veterans who work for Bill Washington. Today the factory is running smooth- ly, giving work to many veterans who Betterly ask only one thing* — a chance to prove otherwise would be languishing in hospitals or at home. But when contracts are up for negotiation, Bill Betterly gets they can work as well as anybody. the same haunted look he must have had when he boarded that Washington bus. THE END

hen a max goes to work for Wil- terly's minimum pay is $1.10 an hour. Trained at Betterly's, Joe Barron got a liam A. Betterly in his factory at This does not, however, imply that job as head mechanic at Prestige Shoe Wilkes-Barre, Pa., two things are once a veteran goes to work for Bet- Co., Wilkes-Barre, earning $125 a week. understood. First, the man is a disabled terly his future is secure. It is made clear veteran because Bill Betterly hires no to him at the start that he gets no special

one else, and second, he is expected to treatment—no babying—and if he can't do as good a job as any man can do. measure up he's through. More so than Handling government contracts to the boss, other men working at the plant make such tilings as parachute bags. Bill get this idea across to newcomers. Betterly's plant has tough competition. It's pretty strong medicine to some Even though he has to give his men on- men, particularly those who have had the-job training, the government gives no responsibilities of their own since him no preference, and time and again the time they were wounded, but in contracts have been lost to concerns virtually every case it's extremely effec- which do nothing for the disabled. tive. As Bill says: Given a job to do, Bill Betterly's men "The thing these fellows want most can compete with any corresponding is a chance to prove they've got what number of able-bodied workers. And it takes." they are paid accordingly. In a com- There's another rule, also based on munity w here jobs arc hard to get, Bet- his belief that the greatest favor you can Bill Betterly discusses with associates ways and means of getting costs down so they can get a government contract. Even though it is completely staffed by disabled veterans, a company such as Betterly's re- ceives no government preference.

PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS

AT WORK

Eddie Ormanski, Air Force vet, lost Joe Zuzelski and Noah Sharp were in- Lawrence Kaperst, plant engineer, his right arm in Korea, but this does jured in WW2. Sharp was buried alive watches Stanley Piasecki cut a pattern, not impair his efficiency processing and mistaken for a French soldier. Stanley's leg paralysis does not in the tarpaulin ties through a bench press. Years later, he recovered and explained, least impair his efficiency in this job.

Another Betterly graduate is Leon Ziomek, who also went with Prestige. Betterly en- courages his men to look for better jobs.

John L. Jacobs and Daniel Nemish Frank Grevara received internal are kept busy splicing ropes for injuries in a B-29 crash at Saipan. tarpaulins. Nemish shows the marks Today he is Betterly's trouble of shrapnel wounds from WW2. shooter, and designs machinery.

19 Science has done its stuff, now it's up to yon.

Are you willing to pay the price for super-television fare?

added together, by persistence of vision, which is the basic By WALTER BROOKS optical qualify that makes motion pictures possible. A\ hde your eyes are registering the image, they get three color versions in progression, and the total result is perfect color, in television, right now There's more than meets the eye for all practical purposes. —or will be likely to, on your home TV set, in the near There's been a hitch, officially and technically, because future. Because not all of the foreseeable new develop- Columbia Broadcasting System originally came out with a ment is being aimed directly for the 30,000,000 sets that are variation of the ancient color wheel which adds color me-

now in use. chanically, as it did in early motion pictures. The three TV is undergoing an inventive stage, a manufacturing color segments of a rapidly revolving wheel gave three phase, but, most of all, a merchandising interlude. color impressions in quick succession, to get the result. The The high potentiality of invention and manu- Federal Communications Commission first okayed this proc- facturing is tied irrevocably to merchandising— ess, then reconsidered, and then approved the and the radio industry has learned the technique National Television Committee's recommendation of selling new devices. It's a complicated—and of the color tube, which gets the color electroni- slightly ruthless— procedure, based on substantial cally. CBS then withdrew its color wheel from the experience through three decades. market to join in the manufacture of color tubes. Thus, they know that "the firsters"—those who The mechanics of the process almost defy de- will pay premium prices for the privilege of scription. You can look at the fine, four-color being first to own anything new, will pay more cover on this magazine to get the idea. Here you now. They will have first crack at color TV, which is not see four halftones, superimposed on each other. In the half- merely just around the corner, but has been stalled, waiting tone screen are thousands of tiny dots of color, and the for the traffic lights, for a number of years. The processes result adds up to color reproduction. In the new color tele- are pretty well established, but marketing methods take vision, the face of your chromatic tube has upwards of precedence, along with the matter of Government super- 200,000 color-sensitive phosphors, which are "scanned" vision and control. thirty times per second, for the three colors in sequence. It's not simple, for color television requires three times All that activity sounds expensive, and will be, both in pro- the capacity of the ordinary receiver. It's really three sets in duction broadcasting, and in your receiving set, at home. one, with separate transmission and reception for three The color wheel, added to a parlor set, was cumbersome,

colors. It's simultaneous, so you see the combined result, and it wasn't modern. The new er electronic method is up- 20 )

One bout grossed cool $400,000.

gionf in a dither. They couldn't arrange a wedding of the arts, with so much reason for divorce apparent at the very outset. You couldn't expect old or new buyers to be pleased with the prospect of deciding between color, or black-and- white, one without the other. February 28th, the first newspaper advertisement for The 30,000,000 owners of TV sets now in On use, and the 15,000,000 others who will buy a color TV set appeared in a New York paper. It offered a TV sets in the next three years, are waiting to Westinghouse set, with a 15-inch color tube, which pro- know "what's coming on television." jected a 12% -inch picture, and the price was $1295. In the A survey by a well-known advertising first flush of demonstrations, farms agency indicates that 40 percent of the exactly one set was sold,*^))^^ and in some areas are now equipped with TV VVanamaker's. One day after^r that farm network programs will follow. the Westinghouse announce- Sets have been selling at the rate of 500,000 ment, the Emerson company per month; with the last full year accounting the fact that they for 7,000,000 sets made. made known Of 250 color sets placed with dealers, only would rent, not sell, color TV twenty-four had been sold to bona fide pur- sets, for a monthly charge, "in chasers, as of March 15th. the present status of the art." Color programs were to begin on the air This really caused confusion, in March, at the rate of two a month, with but the effect has been to up a big $500,000 program coming in October. the sale of standard TV sets, Now Mr. Big can talk Color tests are seen frequently — after mid- which had languished for some to his entire stall. night. time while buyers waited for information about color. Sales- men said folks felt disappointed with the facts revealed and the to-date, and doesn't alter the outward appearance of found it easier to decide in favor of the standard set. Emer- unit in your home. It is also "compatible"— i.e., it will re- son's deal calls for $75 per month, but the first month costs ceive black-and-white ordinary television, or color trans- $200 and includes both installation and "instruction." mission, without difference or difficulty. of The matter There is little color available today, and it will be highly "compatibility" had the Federal Communications Commis- expensive to its sponsors, as it makes infrequent appearance on the airwaves. First, you'll get color "slides"—commercials, that is—and these will almost knock your eye out, in contrast with the drab monotone you've been used to. You'll almost like the commercials, you'll be paying so much for them. Best on the air so far, has been "Chiquita Banana," a natural in the advancement of electronic arts. Then, you'll be getting color films, made originally as motion pictures, in Technicolor, Kodachrome and other familiar processes. These will be the best yet, as you'll find out, when sponsors are willing to pay for them. "Live color originations"—to use trade parlance for direct color broad- casts from the studios— will come last. Of course, studio players have always been in natural color, if you were there to see them, but the process of putting that color on the air, and bringing it into your home, will cost millions, and angels must be found with no fear to tread the new roads of finan- cial underwriting through advertising. It's the little screen, again, that slows down the sale of color TV sets and the acceptance of price by the public. The 12% -inch image looks small, indeed, compared to the There are overtones of Dick Tracy in 21 -inch size that we've grown used to. RCA estimates the

this new cops-and-robbers adaptation. industry will manufacture "less ( Continued on page 41 21 TROUBLE IH THE MIDDLE EAST

ARABS ISRAELIS

Huddled in tent cities like this near Amman, Jordan, nearly a million displaced Arabs live without hope.

By ALFRED M. LILIENTHAL munist worlds. Freedom's fate may be decided here. Like a belt girdling the globe and separating the two con- testants in the East-West war, lies a group of young nations who have not yet chosen sides. The Arab states of Egypt, Elevi-n Israelis are machine gunned to death in a bus at Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Saudi Arabia and their Scorpion Pass in the vicinity of Becrsheba in the Negev Moslem coreligionists in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indo- desert of Israel. A week later nine Arabs are slain in a nesia are the core of a powerful African-Asian bloc of raid on the Jordanian village of Nahhalin near the sacred fifteen nations and six hundred and fifty million people, city of Bethlehem. These two events might reasonably seem who are determined to keep out of the gathering conflict. quite remote to anyone living in Topeka, Tucson or even Aspiring to achieve the position of a "third force," these New York. But they directly affect every American every- countries have displayed an increasing cohesiveness in their where. Congress has been deliberating how much money voting and abstentions in the UN. They have been flexing and arms to be sent to the Middle East, businessmen have their muscles, meanwhile being wooed assiduously by the been planning increased trade with the area, and the march Soviet Union. of communism has been headed in that direction. Here is found the balance of power between the free and the com- in 1947, when USSR Ambassador Gromyko announced 22 )

Some of the 66 victims of an Israeli attack in Kibya. Israel charged that Arabs massacred 11 bus passengers.

his government's support of the partition of these words. The Arabs were indeed Palestine, the Russian reminded the Arab rep- "looking toward Moscow" in the 1952, resentatives at Lake Success that the Soviet 1953 and 1954 diplomatic balloting. On people "still entertain a feeling of sympathy the Moroccan and Tunisian questions for the national aspirations of the Arab East. the Russians supported the North Afri-

. . . The USSR is convinced that the Arab States can nationalists against the French and will still on more than one occasion be looking the Western position. On questions in- toward Moscow and expecting the USSR to volving Israel, the Soviets grabbed every help them in the struggle for their lawful in- opportunity to solidify their standing in terests, in their effort to cast off the last vestiges the neutral world. The five votes of of foreign dependence." the Soviet bloc were instrumental in The Soviet Ambassador must have been defeating the United Nations resolu- The Soviet's effort to woo looking into a crystal ball eight smaller when he uttered the Arabs is symbolized by tion, introduced by powers this handclasp between and backed by the Big Three, which Gromyko and Prince Faisal. would have compelled Israel and the Arab states to "sit down" and settle their differences. The Arab states opposed this proposal on the ground that past directives of the international organization concerning the status of Jerusalem and the rights of the Arab refugees had first to be accepted by Israel before any further negotiations could be justified. At the Security Council session in January 1954, it was the Soviet Union's vetoes, their 53rd and 58th, that defeated the U. S.-British-French resolutions relative to the Israeli-Syrian dispute over the Jordan River hydroelectric project and the Egyptian-Israeli quarrel over shipping in the Suez Canal. The Arab states had bitterly fought the Western solutions to these controversies and were now more deeply indebted to their neighbors to the North. The Soviets were again successful in keeping the Middle East pot boiling. The continued tensions and near-chaos, wrought by Palestine's partition and Israel's establishment, are exactly Dr. Malenkov's prescription for the area. Moscow's patient long-range program has its sights these When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and on visited the Middle East last year, communist stakes: teeming millions, strategic approaches to three conti- demonstrations caused tension. Above, Mr. Dulles nents and the world's largest oil bank. in Lebanon; below, red demonstrators in Tel Aviv. Inside the Middle East the seething political scene facilitates the Kremlin strategy. Resurgent nationalism and communism arc- inseparable handmaidens, and their adherents are scarcely dis- tinguishable from one another. The fanatical devoted core of doctrinaire communists hangs on to the coattails of nationalists. The first visit of an American Secretary of State in May, last year, had been awaited with great expectation in Beirut. On the morning of John Foster Dulles' arrival, the Lebanese people awoke to find walls and buildings smeared with crimson-painted admonitions: "Go home, dog of Wall f Continued on page 41 By TOM MAHONEY

you have trouble viewing the new Dothree-dimensional motion pictures? Even when sitting well back in a theater, are your eyes unable to encom- pass all of the stretched-out charms of your favorite actress on one of the new wide screens? If so, you almost certainly have an unsuspected eye defect. Like thousands of others, you arc indebted to the new film developments, which Your eyes control 80 percent of all your can be enjoyed only by normal eyes, for bringing your condition to your attention and giving you a chance to do for learn- something about it. actions and account most of our

Sight is the most precious of our five

ing. Do you treat them with due respect?

detail at close range, and our eyes require glasses. In a large measure,

this is simply a penalty of working indoors at desks and papers instead of hunting outdoors in the bright sunlight like our cave- man ancestors. At age twenty, 23 percent of all eyes are faulty; at thirty, 39 percent; at forty, 48 percent; at fifty, 71 percent; and at sixty, 82 percent. Yet millions who need glasses do not have them and, at the wheels of automobiles, become menaces to others as w ell as to themselves. At the same time, our eyes, especially if they are neg- lected and abused, are subject to countless injuries, infections and mishaps which threaten sight and even life As we grow older our eyes become inade- itself. According to Dr. quate for fine detail at close range. Franklin M. Foote, executive director of the National So- ciety for the Prevention of senses. Scientists and poets agree that we study, work, play, talk, hate and love with our eyes. They control 80 percent of all our actions and are responsible for perhaps 83 percent of all our learning. Normal sight, as everybody who has Much eye trouble can be avoided been through the armed services may by giving our eyes sufficient rest. recall, for practical purposes is termed 20/20. This means that on a chart devised in 1862 by Herman Snellen, a Dutch ophthalmologist, you can read, at 20 feet under good light, with each eye a line of printed letters as small as three-eighths of an inch high with strokes about one-sixteenth of an inch thick. There are also bigger and smaller lines "normally" readable from other distances but 20 feet is the basis for

records. If your sight is so poor that you read at 20 feet what normal eyes read at 40 feet, you have 20/40 vision. If you can still read at 20 feet, a line ordinarily readable at 15 feet, you have 20/15 vision and are exceptional. There are a lot of other factors to consider but for straight-ahead seeing, Snellen's chart tells a lot. When we grow older, as more and more of us are doing, a greater pro- Don't abuse your eyes by subjecting

portion of us have less than 20/20 sight. Our vision is inadequate for fine them to intense light. Use glasses. 24 PHOTOS BY DONATO LEO

rarely happens. Some adults have the fatalistic attitude that eye troubles are inevitable and that nothing can be done about them. It is sadly true that there are are EYES ? eye conditions for which no rem- YOUR is edy known. These are few. One is color blindness, in which colors appear as varying shades of gray, one woman in 200 to some degree; This affects one man in 12 and science doesn't yet know the reason for this disparity. Another eye It is highly important that you first warning symptoms blood of malady without remedy so far is retro- have an eye examination as part of disorders, hypertension, brain tu- lental fibroplasia. It was described first a general physical examination at mors, kidney diseases, tuberculosis, by Dr. T. L. Terry of Boston in 1942. least every two years and, perhaps, vitamin deficiences, anemia and This blinds about 500 babies, usually every year. Study of the retina and jaundice. An examination may thus prematurely born, each year and the concentration of oxygen required by other parts of the eye reveals not help to save your life in the course them for survival is believed related to only visual defects but often the of checking your sight. the cause. Some tumors called gliomas may develop behind the eye and force a choice between death or blindness. All of these, fortunately, are rare. Blindness, disease, accidents and neglect tact lenses, which fit directly over the For any usual vision defect or eye will blind 27,000 more Americans, more eyes, and for practical purposes arc in- infection that you are likely to have, than 500 a week, in 1954, half of them visible. In any case, a girl who can see science now has an effective and some- needlessly. Some 3,400 will become is likely to be more socially acceptable blind from glaucoma, a pathologic eye than one who cannot. condition from which 1,000,000 Ameri- More serious is the fact that much cans suffer, half of them without know- eye trouble develops gradually with

ing it. few symptoms. There may be no pain

Why do we neglect our eyes so dan- or if there is, it may be a headache which can be blamed on something else. Even dread

glaucoma is often heralded only by a narrowing of the field of vision, such as the inability to see all of a motion picture on one of the

new wide screens. There is a mistaken but widespread belief that children can out- grow their eve troubles. It

Eye defects can be diagnosed quickly times almost a miraculous and accurately by modern instruments. answer. In 95 percent of al cases of the more common eye defects, properly fitted gerously? There are reasons, or at glasses will restore normal vi- least excuses. Accepting as gospel sion. Even grave conditions Dorothy Parker's line that "men like glaucoma can be arrested never make passes at girls who if discovered and treated wear glasses," some women refuse early enough. them for fear of appearing unat- To understand what can be tractive. This is largely ground- done to maintain your vision, less. Glasses are now attractively Good sight means safer motoring. Here students let us review the mechanism designed and there are even con- at Roosevelt H.S., in Yonkers, N. Y., get eye tests. (Continued on page 56) 25 you Catch

There's many a slip

between the stream

and the dish, and

this tells you how Woman's place may be in the home, but Jack Scott is opposed to not to make 'em. his wife Mary Lou's being in the kitchen when he's cooking.

By JACK DENTON SCOTT

Back about 1620, even before Izaak Walton wrote The The next night they gathered and had fried bluefish. The Compleat Angler, a fisherman named Thomas Jordon white meat of the fish was dried-out with grease and over- said, "Fish dinners will make a man spring like a flea." cooking and the dinner was something less than a culinary He meant, of course, that fish properly cooked would success. So the next day, neighbors were recipients of nice make a man jump out of his seat in sheer delight. Apparently fat bluefish. The two fishermen gave all away except a half- he was a much wiser man than many present-day fisherman. dozen each and their wives sighed with relief. There are evidences everywhere during fishing season that Two months later, I happened along and heard the story. some think fish are fun to catch but not necessarily wortli By that time even the six bluefish they had saved were gone, fussing with after you take them home. Badly hooked fish vanished in deep fat and dissatisfaction. So, to teach a lesson, are thrown back to die, fish are left on the banks for woods 1 took my friend to the fish market, bought two fileted blue- cats to cat and the sun to rot. Fishermen who waste fish do fish at 90 cents a pound and invited the four of them to my so because they probably have never had the pleasure of home that night for dinner. When they arrived, I served sinking a tooth into the flesh of a properly cooked fish. them golden hunks of meat about the size of a quarter, with

Much ado is made over the types of lures, flies and hooks their cocktails. to use, and countless books have been written on the rods FRIED BLUEFISH CHEEKS and reels necessary to reap the most from fishing; but scant They exclaimed over the succulence of the hors d'oeavres. attention has been directed to what to do with fish after I explained that these were bluefish checks that I had cut out you catch them. in fat little circles and frozen from my last catch. They are a delicacy a taste sensation. They are the only part I remember one day last September when two friends of great and mine went bluefishing in Long Island Sound. The blues were of the bluefish that should be fried. running and they had a magnificent day. The crusty five- BROILED BLUEFISH pounders gave them black-and-blue muscles and a tremen- Next, I took them all out to my kitchen and showed them dous sense of satisfaction after they had boated over fifty of the bluefish, fileted, laid out in a shallow cookie tin that had them. The mate hog-dressed or gutted the fish and w hen been w ell rubbed with butter. The bluefish were also laved they got ashore, the w hole bunch of blues were thrown into with butter, and salt, pepper and parsley had been sprinkled the back of my friend's station wagon. When the wives of over them. They were placed in the broiler of my oven the fishermen saw the catch, they threw up their hands in which had been preheated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

1 horror. "What'U we do with all those?'' they asked. Within a half hour they w ere crusted a golden brow n and 26 ready to eat. 1 served them with w edges of lemon

and a tossed green salad. I can still hear the moans of delight as they ate the juicy, yet flaky white flesh of the bluefish. "When in doubt, broil! Otherwise, that fish you may spoil!" This is a good dictum for the amateur chef to keep in mind. If you feel that your wife doesn't know or care too much about fish cook- cry, then man the kitchen yourself. At least halt of the thrill of fishing lies in that precious moment w hen you mate the fish with plate and take up

If you are in doubt, you knife and fork. can play sale by broiling. So, good wives, would you kindly step out of

the kitchen? Go in and get a good book to read. We'll call you when dinner is ready. Fish cookery is uncomplicated. In many cases it is

easier to cook the fish than it is to catch it. But, there are a few things to remember and some tools you'll need before you ask the little woman to step out of the kitchen and let you take over. Most kitchens are equipped to handle the recipes covered in this article but anyway I am listing my favorite utensils. I prefer copper pans because they are the best conductors of evenly distributed heat; they are handsome and have the added economy of sometimes acting as servers as well as cookers. I also like these new- infra-red broilers. You can plug them in and cook right at the table. But any good gauge aluminum over an open gas flame will do the job. You'll need a Dutch oven, a double boiler, a large, a medium and a small frying pan, a couple of pyrex casserole dishes, one large, one medium; a stainless steel strainer, one of those little garlic presses that make mashing garlic a pleasure rather than a hazard, at least three very sharp knives, a food chopper and accurate measuring devices. At any hardware store you can get inexpensive plastic measuring spoons, all handily joined together, from tablespoon size right down to half-teaspoon. Remember, when a recipe calls for a tablespoon, it doesn't mean the big kitchen size. It means a measuring tablespoon. Likewise, get a The tastiest fish of all are those you cook in an open fire alongside the stream where they're caught. glass measuring cup, marked off in ounces, cups, and quarter cups. Inaccuracy has (Covthuied on page 54) 27 ) LEGION ROD'OUN

By JACK DENTON SCOTT The Childress American Legion Junior Richard E. Herd, Bath, Pennsylvania, Rifle Club of Childress, Texas, have a dis- offers the following: "When using a row- tinguished record as shooters. They recent- Legion Posts can have a free movie, boat to fish lakes or rivers, be sure to take ly won the National Shoulder to Shoulder "God's Country," showing two expert fish- along several good burlap bags and place match held at Joinerville, Texas. The club ermen Red Fisher and Art Nuss catching them on the deck of the boat. They help is sponsored by Cox-Furr Post No. 65, Inc., fish in northern Canada and the Florida prevent undue noises made by mov ement of Childress. Everglades. They disagree as to w hether of feet, bait and tackle boxes—folded they of the club the seat cushion. if Members who took northern or southern fishing is the better. make a comfortable And championship at Joinerville, Texas, are, Art catches a 25-lb. northern pike in you have forgotten your fish bag or box, Lowell Landrum, captain, Gerald Havens, Canada and Red lands tarpon and other just grab a piece of wire leader from your Ray Simpson, tackle box and string it through the top Troy Walkup and John southern fish in Florida. The movie is in Robinson. Dewey Bushon is coach and was color and sound, 16mm. Non-commercial. of a burlap bag. You can then attach this the organizer of the club. James Edmond- Write to Airex, 411 4th Ave., New York to the boat so that it is suspended in the son and Clifton L. Inman, w ater. It's a good to keep your catch Jr., former mem- 16, N. Y., if you want it for a Post meeting. way bers, are in service. Others in college where alive, so you can sort the fish, returning their rifle training can help them get ahead A fisherman with the appropriate name those to the water (in good condition) that in R.O.T.C. are Sid Holland, Doyl W. of Allan Learn from Bismarck, North you aren't taking with you." Stamps, Lon Ray Elkins, Tom Chestnut Dakota, has a snag item for us: "Many times and Eddie Joe Riley. in the process of casting my lure," he writes, "it has become snagged near the

bottom of the river or lake and I haven't

been able to retrieve it. Now I carry with me a large weight with a good-sized snap

on it. My hook snags, and I snap my weight, which is free sliding, on the line, working the weight down close to the snagged lure by raising my rod as far above Here's a cute one from LeRoy J. Smith, my head as possible. When the weight Morrisville, New York: "If you're fishing reaches the lure, a few light tugs on the on a stream that has culverts, bridges, or line, plus the weight, will dislodge the Are you a tip guide breaker? Many of us heavy cover such as tag alders and wil- hooks." are, and L. R. Pattison of 1828 Adams lows," he says "and you want to place a Street, Pinehurst, Washington, thinks he baited hook in a certain spot; (worm or If you fishermen think your equipment has the answer for our clumsy clan. piece of crab) just put it on a light piece of costs are mounting, pity the poor goose He says: "Simply take an ordinary safety bark or wood and let it float down until shooter. Detailed studies from Michigan pin, remove the head and attach thus: (see it reaches the precise spot where you want bring out the fact that it cost that state's illustration it. Then you give your line a jittle jerk hunters about $11 in shells to bag one goose. "You secure the pin to the tip section and the baited hook will drop in that hard- It took 84 shells to bring dow n a single with scotch tape, adhesive tape or even a to-reach pool." honker. piece of fishing line. Bend the loop end of the pin to the desired angle to give smooth D. G. Simmonds, Omaha, Nebraska, action to the line." claims that pipe cleaners make good fly bodies. Colored ink can be used to work the fly into any hue desired. Allah does not deduct body From the allotted time of man With fishermen scanning July's skies, Those hours spent at fishing watching all sorts of summer birds in flight, That's what Joe Godfrey says in the the old argument starts again: Which is the booklet. Spin Fishing with Airex. Joe fishes fastest bird? Among the smaller birds it is in the north central states and Canada. This the swift. This feathered jet works up a little booklet has a short piece too by Bache speed of 170 miles per hour. Among the Brown, an early bird on bringing spin fish- If you like tasty fried crab, then don't bigger species, the duck hawk is the fast- ing to America. Chuck Meyer writes on salt let your wife throw away her old nylon est. The peregrine falcon (duck hawk) has water spinning. Chuck caught a 261-lb. stockings. From Brisbane, Australia, comes been clocked at speeds up to 200 miles an Mako shark on a 12-lb. test monofilament word that fishermen there are using dis- hour! line with an Airex Beachcomber salt water carded stockings to great advantage. They that pertains spinning reel and a model #275 Airex glass fill an old stocking with decaying meat and If you have an unusual idea boat rod. fish heads, tie a line to the stocking and to hunting or fishing; one that is helpful to it along. I bis booklet has complete information dump it overboard. Crabs tangle their claws fellow readers of this column, send on spin fishing, with answers to questions in the fine mesh of the nylon trying to If we tan use it, we'll reward you with a most asked. Also dope on knots, lures, get at their meal, can't get untangled; all hunting or fishing accessory. Address: OUT- rods and reels. It's free to fishermen. Write you have to do is hoist them into the boat. DOOR EDITOR, Rod and Gun Club, The ro Airex, 411 4th Ave., New York 16, New Better yet, net them when you get them American Letrio i Magazine, 580 Fifth Ave- York, for sour copy. near the top of the water. nue, New York 'Mi, New York.

2$ • Till: AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 first flight

Without trust in Daddy's strong arms, fear would To give and to get security is the main business of living. It is a privilege and a responsibility. blot out the fun of first flight. But because Daddy's It provides us life's finest rewards. smiling, loving face is beloiv, life adds a thrilling Have you ever thought that this security is new dimension, founded in love and trust. possible only in a democracy? And that this is the source of America's greatest strength? For we All our adventures begin in and come home to continue to grow stronger as a nation when more the security we cannot do without. and more secure homes are bulwarked together. The security of your country depends on your security.

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LAST CALL FOR WW2 POW BENEFIT PAY: most of the 3,676,972 veterans and dependents on VA rolls

WW2 POWs who are eligible for $1.50 per day com- March 31 would be in line to benefit. . . . VA has estimated pensation because of forced labor or inhumane treatment — the total cost of the proposed increases at $290,000,000 who have not filed for the benefit — have one more chance, annually. . . . Disability pensions (Part III, non-service but they must act quickly. . . . Public Law 359, signed by connected) increased from $63 to $68 — at age 65 raised

President Eisenhower, extends the deadline for filing to from $75 to $80. . . . Death pensions (in non-service con-

August 1, 1954. . . . Law also validated and put in line for nected cases) from $48 to $54 for widow; widow and one processing some thousands of applications received after child, from $60 to $67.50, with $8 for each additional child;

the expiration of the old deadline. . . . All claims must be one child, no widow, $26 to $29, and with corresponding made on special forms prepared by the War Claims Com- increases for other children. mission (available through State Departments of Veterans' * * * * Affairs, or direct from the Commission). . . . Send completed forms — all information asked for given completely SOCIAL SECURITY PAY HIKES LOOMING: — to War Claims Commission. Washington 25, D. C. . . . Some six million retired Americans above the age of 65 Use Air Mail. — veteran and non-veteran — now drawing Social Security

: & !i benefits are due for an increase if an administration-rec-

ommended measure is enacted into law. . . . House Ways PAYMENT TO K-VET PRISONERS: and Means Committee, on May 21, approved the bill pro- Legion organization is actively backing measure to posing increases in both taxes and benefits — bill now goes provide K-vet POWs the same compensation as that given to floor of House and Senate for action. . . . Under this bill to WW2 POWs, totaling $2.50 per day. . . . H. R. 9094. the wage base would be increased from $3,600 to $4,200 introduced by Representative Hinshaw, (California), Chair- per year, which would cost the employees an additional $12 man of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee, per year, with the same contribution by employer. . . . Self- provides for the benefit. . . . Filing period, if measure be- employed persons covered by Social Security would be comes law , would be six months following date of enactment. taxed an additional $18. . . . Monthly benefits would be . . . Present War Claims Commission or its successor would increased by at least $5 per month for a single retired worker be the administrative agency. . . . Watch Newsletter for to as much as $31 for a family. . . . Maximum family bene- further reports.

fits would be increased from $168.75 to $200. . . . The mini-

mum payment is $25. . . . Benefits would be reflected in

checks received two months after enactment of the bill . . . . HOUSE GROUP APPROVES VET PAY INCREASE: Increases in Social Security taxes would affect about Veterans Committee of the House of Representatives , 47,000,000 workers now employed in jobs covered by the on May 25, gave approval to veterans' omnibus bill, H. R. insurance system. ... An additional 10,500,000 would pay 9020, by Representative Y.), Radwan, (N. which, if enacted the taxes under provisions of the bill for broader coverage. by Congress, will give a 10 percent increase in compensation . . . Washington experts forecast enactment of the increase to disabled vets and deceased veterans' dependents. . . . measure — but warn that bill is subject to amendment in Bill goes to floor of the House for action — It to now has both House and Senate before final approval is given. pass two hurdles, the House and Senate , before it can go

to the for final . . . President action. The proposed cost-of- :!: # * * living increases run to 10 percent of the amount the veteran or dependent is currently drawing, ranging from $15.75 per NO RIFLES AVAILABLE FOR POSTS: month for a 10 percent rated disability to $172.50 for a Newsletter is asked to announce that the supply of

rated 100 percent disability, service -connected. . . . Most M1903 rifles is completely exhausted and the weapons are statutory awards for specific handicaps (except lowest bracket no longer available for distribution to Legion Posts and of $47) would also get the increase. ... In the dependent other vet organizations for ceremonial purposes. ... A compensation group (service-connected vet husband, parent small supply became available recently, but were used up or son) the widow alone would go from $75 to $87 per in filling orders already on file. . . . Lt. Col. Edward Lesowitz, month; dependent mother or father from $60 to $75 per Office Chief of Ordnance, Department of the Army, adds month; for both parents amounts would go from $35 to $40 that it is not anticipated that additional rifles for this pur- each. . . . Children would not get increases. ... If passed, pose will become available at any time in the near future.

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ARMISTICE DAY BECOMES VETERANS DAY: Teams will be traveling constantly from one Regional Office Senate gave final Congressional approval to a bill to another — their reports will be made direcdy to the

changing the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day. . . . Central Office in Washington.

November 1 1 will in the future be set aside as a legal holi - day in all States in honor of those who died in both World AIR FORCE ACADEMY CANDIDATES: Wars and the Korean War. . . . Armistice Day originally was established as a legal holiday in 1938 to commemorate First class in recently authorized Air Force Academy 255 the end of WW1. will start July 1, 1955. . . . Members of Congress have

$ :js # % appointments. ... 45 cadets will come from District of PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AMENDED: Columbia, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and from Reserve

and active duty personnel and sons of veterans. . . . Selec- House Judiciary Committee has given approval to a tion will be closely screened. . . . Senators and Representa- Legion-supported bill to insert the words "under God" in tives have been asked to nominate up to 10 candidates each. the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. . . . The Senate has . . . Believed educational and physical qualifications will passed an identical bill. . . . The measure, sponsored by be comparable to those for West Point and Annapolis. Representative Rabaut, (Michigan), would change the pledge to read: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the * * * * United States of America and to the Republic for which RETURN OF ALIEN PROPERTIES: it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty Senator Dirksen, (Illinois) , has introduced S. 3423 and justice for all." providing for the return of impounded alien properties to * * * * Germany and Japan. . . . This return, in the interest of K-VETS MAY WEAR FOREIGN DECORATIONS: better foreign relations, is a Legion objective — and this New law signed by President Eisenhower (Public Law measure has active Legion support. 354, 83rd Congress) will, after Defense Department issues * * * * necessary regulations, permit some thousands of veterans of the Korean War to wear decorations awarded them by OKLAHOMA'S CROSS OF VALOR: our allies in Korea. . . . Consent of Congress is required Oklahoma is the only governmental unit in the U. S. under the Constitution for of the Forces members Armed that has issued a medal honoring Prisoners of War in WW2 to receive and wear a decoration from a foreign nation. . . . and the Korean conflict. . . . Medal, with certificate, ?s This bill covers specifically governments whose personnel issued to vets who were residents of Oklahoma at time participated with or under the United Nations command in of entering service; were officially listed as captives of the Korea. enemy, and were honorably discharged from wartime service. $ $ $ $ . . . Requests for medal by eligibles should be sent to the MICHIGAN GIVES DISABLED TAX BREAK: office of Governor Johnston Murray, Oklahoma City,

. . . Give date of enlistment and discharge; date Michigan Legislature passed bill Oklahoma. a , signed into law captured and released, also address at time of entry into by Governor G. Mennen Williams, permitting total State service. tax exemption to veterans whose disabilities require specially * * * * constructed housing. . . . Paraplegics, quadruple amputees and others who must have special ramps or elevators in VA SEES EASIER GI LOAN MONEY: their homes will benefit by this bill. VA sees indication that WW2 and Korea veterans are

finding it easier to obtain GI loans for housing at reasonable credit terms in the record made for the first four months ARMY REVISING NCO DESIGNATIONS: of 1954. ... In April — third straight month of increased

Beginning January 1, Army non-commissioned officers appraisal activity — VA received GI home loan appraisal in the four top grades will be divided into two groups — requests for 72,990 proposed and existing homes. . . . This non-commissioned officers who have leadership or super- was a 76 percent increase over April, 1953. . . . Sudden in- visory jobs, and specialists who do technical or administra- crease in loan guaranty activity has literally swamped VA tive work. . . . All are now designated as Master Sergeant, Regional Offices, requiring overtime, additional technical

Sergeant First Class, Sergeant and Corporal. . . . Under personnel, and increased the roster of fee appraisers and new setup specialists will get new titles and insignia, as inspectors. Master Specialist, Specialist First Class, Specialist Second ¥ * * ¥

Class and Specialist Third Class. . . . Regardless of grade INSURANCE PAYMENTS FOR DEAD K-VETS: they will be addressed as Specialist — Master Specialist Jones Some insurance payments paid for Korea servicemen and Corporal Smith, both of whom do administrative work, who were first declared missing and later dead may be will be called Specialist Jones and Specialist Smith. . . .

available to beneficiaries as refunds. . . . For insurance pur- Insignia of the four top grades in line or leadership jobs poses VA assumes that these men died on the date they remain unchanged. first became missing in action, unless there is definite proof * # * *

that death did not occur until a later date. . . . Beneficiary VA AREA SUPERVISORY OFFICES: is entitled to refund of premiums paid from the date of Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Hartford, presumed death to the declaration of death by the Service

Connecticut , are headquarters for new area supervisory Department, at which time military pay and deductions offices set up under the VA reorganization plan. . . . The therefrom are discontinued. . . . Refunds to beneficiaries five offices will be manned by teams of supervisory special- are based on VA insurance regulations relative to disposition ists who will oversee the work of 70 Regional Offices. . . of unearned premiums. 32 NEWS LEGION

and Veterans' Affairs

essary for rescue work at natural and First Legion Rescue Instructors man-made disasters. FCDA is driving for a minimum of 30,000 such teams — Train at Civil Defense School trained and equipped for the job. By Civil Defense standards every community of more than 5,000 persons needs On May 2, on what had been the tims of bombing attacks or other disas- at least one squad and a fully equipped campus of a boys' school at Olney, Md., ters would generally be found. rescue truck for its protection. 20 miles north of Washington, D. C, To get to the victims trapped by For those communities which have 14 Massachusetts Legionnaires began a debris and rubble the Legionnaires suffered floods and tornadoes in recent unique course of instruction at the only learned how to tunnel, breach solid years, no urging has been needed to get Federally-operated school of its kind in walls, brace and shore weakened walls teams going. With the Legion behind the U. S. and how to jack up broken wall or floor the program as a contribution to national They were the first Legion-sponsored sections. security and community service, the res- trainees to attend the Federal Civil De- On the "wrecked" buildings they also cue service could well become a major fense School at Olney, the vanguard of learned how to fight the fires that accom- program for the 17,200 Legion Posts. men whom 17 Legion Departments will pany explosions and bombings. At the Posts can send men under their aus- send to Olney to be trained as instructors same time they got a taste of smoke that pices to the FCDA school by arrange- for Legion rescue teams. was the real thing. ments made through their local Civil For two weeks the Legionnaires When the Legionnaires had learned Defense Director. In addition to trans- worked to learn wartime rescue work the tricks of the trade they put them to portation, the only expense is 5 dollars which the English call the only "com- use. per day for room and board. Posts that pletely new craft" to come from WW2. They got the big test in a night exer- have members who have graduated They began with a 10-ton CD Rescue cise which tried their ability to rescue from Olney may send them to a one- truck and its 2400 pounds of specially live "casualties" buried under the rub- week refresher course now being set up. designed equipment. ble of Disaster Street. The first class will begin on Sept. 13. They learned how to use everything An air of realism was given to the from generators and compact acetylene scene by explosions, fires and "hysteri- VETERANS ADMINISTRATION: cutting tools to the old standby pick and cal" persons running about and scream- shovel, and water buckets. ing, under the bright glare of floodlights. More Willi Less? The big lesson for most was that res- When the first class of Legionnaires On May 27, the deputy chief medical cuing people can't be done with a bull- graduated on May 13, they returned to director of the Veterans Administration, dozer and crane. The job has to be done their home towns ready for the job of Dr. Roy Wolford, huddled with repre- slowly and carefully with hands, shov- instructing others. FCDA hopes they sentatives of the leading vet organiza- els, and back-breaking manual labor. will whip into shape the rescue teams tions to explain how VA expects to make Working in small units every man got now being organized by their Posts. its medical operating budget fit its job a chance at each job. When a demon- By the end of May, the Legion's Nat'l during fiscal year 1955. Vet leaders had, stration was given of lowering a "casual- Security Division could report 642 Res- and still have, their fingers crossed over ty" on a life-line from the top of a build- cue teams organized. The 8-man workability of that budget. ing, each man got a chance to be the teams will provide the know-how nec- As the VA medical budget for 1955 victim. He soon realized when swung into space 40 or 50 feet off the ground that his safe descent depended on how THE LEGION ABROAD - IRELAND well his teammates had learned how to tie knots the day before. When a 150-pounder got the job of bringing a 240-pound "unconscious" victim down a ladder by himself he found that the theory looked easy but the work was hard. As the classes got into the more technical aspects of rescue, even the professional firemen in the class expressed their amazement at the detail which had been packed into the course. They learned that buildings don't collapse haphazardly but fall according to a pattern depending on their construction. On Disaster Street, a collection of American war veterans residing in many foreign lands have their own Legion Posts. buildings which had been built in a col- Seen above are some of the 140 members of Post 2, Killarney, Ireland. The little boy condition, lapsed they learned where to is John Horan, 8-year-old orphaned son of the late William Horan, WW1 vet. Post, look for "voids" and spaces—where vic- chartered in 1951, was named for Father Francis P. Duffy, famed VVVV1 chaplain.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 33 emerged, it provided $1,704,000 less ducing the staff in 100 hospitals, could plete six years more active reserve par- than the past year to handle approxi- make a better over-all national picture. ticipation or two more years active duty mately 3,000 more patients daily. But increasing the care in some geo- would stir up hornet's nest of public Scheduled patient-load increase is due graphic areas at the expense of other outcry. If Times report is true, Defense to the near-completion of the post-WW2 areas could make more problems than it would appear to be in desperate spot VA hospital construction program of might solve. Already, personnel cut- caused by deterioration of nat'l military 128,342 heds, a total figure representing backs in some hospitals have been reserve and failure of Congress to write a 16,000-bed cutback from original ordered, along with a cutback in the an equitable compulsory reserve law. plans. patient load of those hospitals. Cliche that present law is "UMT" is VA's 1955 medical budget is (in addi- The meaning of the reduction in food complete misnomer. UMT means Uni- tion to being $1.7 million short of last and supplies could only be judged by versal Military Training. Present unen- year's) $6 million short of VA's original future experience. The interest of the forced law, far from universal, places estimate of its needs to handle its in- vet organizations is that the quality and eight-year military obligation on men creased load in 1955. quantity of care are not impaired. selected by draft, or who volunteer, and Reduction of budget came as result The Legion's Nat'l Rehabilitation none on anyone else. of economy aims of Administration and Commission has asked Legion officials CONVENTION: of the House sub-committee that han- in all localities "to observe closely how dles VA appropriations, chairmanned by the application of the operation affects The Big Parade Rep. John Phillips (R-Cal.) services in their areas." By the end of May, Legion Conven- VA Administrator Harvey Higley has tion officials were busy nailing down CHILD WELFARE: insisted that if VA medical job is to be final details of the Parade to be held on done on cut budget without impairing What's the Score? Aug. 31 at the Washington Convention. quality or quantity of scheduled care, he The Parade will assemble in the In mid-May Nat'l Child Welfare must have more flexibility in managing shadow of the Capitol Building on the Chmn George Ehinger asked the his budget than in the past. Higley as- streets to the south and east. Starting Legion's 17,200 Posts to fill out a simple, sented to the reduction with proviso he point will be at Independence Avenue one-page form. Its purpose: To get a be granted such flexibility. and Capitol Plaza. brief summary of the child welfare work With the cut budget practically cer- The Parade route is west on Consti- done at community levels and the tain to be the final one, Dr. Wolford's tution Ave., to Fourth St.; west on money expended by the Posts. May 27 huddle with worried vet lead- Pennsylvania Ave. to 1 5th St.; south on Social and w elfare workers have long ers revealed the following expected 15th St. to Constitution and west on believed that the Legion's work in this ways of doing more with less: Constitution to 18th Street where field is an untold story. On July 1, when ( 1 ) VA medical plant would have an marchers will disperse. Nat'l Hq compiles the final report of over-all increase of 2,000 personnel. The route, as far as 15th where the the last 12 months' work, the Legion (2) In a reshuffle of personnel and Parade turns south, is the traditional hopes to reveal the greatest volunteer patients, 100 hospitals in the VA system one used for the Inaugural Parades. The program of its kind in the nation. would lose 2,100 personnel. reviewing stand for the Legion's big Chmn Ehinger urged all Posts who (3) Most savings would be effected show will lie on the north side of Con- may not have sent in their figures to in the 30% of the VA medical budget stitution Ave. at 16th St., facing the tabulate and pass on to the District or that goes for food, supplies and other Washington Monument. Dept Child Welfare Chmn the sum- non-personnel items. Having obtained the highest member- mary of their activities. He hopes all (4) Managers ot VA hospitals, domi- ship percentage of any of the Legion's Depts will match Colorado, which re- ciliary homes and regional offices will Departments, North Dakota will have ported on June 3 that it had received get the full amount of their (reduced) the honor of leading the Parade. The 100% response from its Posts. budget and be expected to use initiative many Divisions which follow will in- in managing it to do the scheduled job. MILITARY: clude a large number of military and Previously managers worked with a naval units from the bases in the Wash- "hard line" budget, could not transfer Teeth in Fake UMT? ington, D. C. area. Convention officials any part of savings in one area to need- New York Times reported on May 12 estimate that these units alone will take ed compensatory expenses in another. that Defense Department was sending 1/2 hours to pass the reviewing stand. Budget Bureau simply impounded to the President a recommendation that They include Midshipmen from the whatever savings VA managers could "UMT" be implemented. Further details Naval Academy, Marines from Quan- make on any budgetary line. Such of Times story indicated that, far from tico, Army troops from Fort Meyer and impounding ran into millions. It was seeking UMT, Defense Dep't was ask- Airmen from Boiling Air Force Base. Administrator Higley's opinion that ing that teeth be put in present double- Because of a Washington, D. C. or- managers could economize by better duty law to compel men who have dinance which prohibits more than one

management if they had freer use of already served to participate fully in parade a week, the 40&8 will march this appropriated funds. further reserve obligations. year as part of the Legion Parade. They

Net result appeared to be that it will Legion Nat'l Security Director James will be a separate Division and will fol- be up to VA field managers to make the Wilson advised this magazine on May low the last Legion Division in the

budget fit, and prove promise of Budget 27 that Defense had not released details marching order. Bureau, Rep. Phillips, et al. that quality of its plan, woidd not do so until the Tickets are now available for seats VA care can be given more patients at President, his Nat'l Security Training along the Parade route. Prices are one, less cost. Commission, Nat'l Security Council and two and three dollars each. Checks, The reshuffling of medical personnel the Office of Defense Mobilization have made payable to "The American Legion

would apparently be ordered by VA's reviewed it. 1954 Convention Corporation," should top command, and not be included in Defense Dep't has long feared that be mailed to American Legion Conven- flexibility given managers. The reshuffle, enforcement of requirement that men tion Headquarters, 1420 Pennsylvania adding to the total personnel while re- with recent two-year military duty com- Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C.

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 For those Posts which would like a the Nat'l A.A.U. 25 Kilometer Road covers boroughs of Saddle River and preview of the sights to be seen in the Race, which will be run in Pittsburgh, Upper Saddle River. Last year, Post re- nation's capital, a 15-minute, 16 mm July 5. ports, it won Howard Ames Trophy for

full-color film is available for showing ]> Post 638, (all members of which are Membership, awarded annually to the at Post meetings. teachers), Cincinnati, Ohio, conducted Post in Bergen County that achieves the Narrated by movie and radio com- the flag-raising ceremony at the dedi- largest percentage increase in member- mentator Lowell Thomas, the film is cation of the new Central High School ship. Thus far this year the Post is on its titled "What to See in D. C." Requests in that city. Approximately 4,000 per- way to new membership high. for the film should be sent to the Nat'l sons attended. ]> Post 1092, Niskayuna, N. Y., is con-

Public Relations Division, Motion Pic- ]) Post 79, Burlington, Wis., staged ducting a continuing project of collect- ture Section, P.O. Box 1055, Indian- "May Day-U. S. Way" on May 1. The ing eyeglasses in co-operation with apolis, Ind. Post, with the cooperation of civic or- "New Eyes for the Needy, Inc." Post ganizations and city officials, attracted has already collected a large number of RECENT POST DOINGS: a crowd of 30,000 to see the three-hour eyeglasses.

]> The Post & Unit at Hemingford, Neb., parade and ceremonies and to hear }i Post 523, Santa Monica, Cal., will co- donated to the Public Library the Senator McCarthy speak. sponsor, with the Santa Monica Art

$314.77 they raised by staging a min- }i Post 66, International Falls, Minn., Ass'n., the eighth annual Nat'l Veteran strel and amateur show. counts four mayors among its members. Art Exhibition. The event will take place

]> Post 17, Fairmont, W. Va., gave a They are Joe Bartkowski, Harvey Steele, in August at the Santa Monica Art Gal- television set to the Hospital at dis- VA Verne J. Larsen, and Joe Livingstone— lery and is open to any honorably Clarksburg, W. Va. who are mayors respectively, of Inter- charged veteran or any person currently

]t Post 68, Hutchinson, Kan., was co- national Falls, South International Falls, a member of the Armed Forces. sponsor with Hutchinson Junior College and Ranier (all in Minnesota), and Fort j» When Post 2, Manchester, N. H., of the 13th Nat l Junior College Track Frances, Ontario, Canada. opened its new $250,000 clubhouse, this & Field Meet, held at Hutchinson ]> WW1 vet Walter Gibson, of Bell, Cal., Thomas E. Paradine, Chmn of the Nat'l year. and his 8 sons are all war veterans. He Public Relations Commission, delivered

}i Nine Posts in Lansing, Mich., donated and 4 sons are members of Post 120 in the principal address; Past Nat'l Cmdr $1,500 to the Legion's fund for a TB Bell. Two other Gibson vets live else- James F. O'Neil, a member of Post 2, sanatorium at Battle Creek, Mich. where, and two more are still in service. officially dedicated the structure; Mau-

]> Post 32, Greenville, Miss., awards a ]> Post 469, Detroit, Mich., donated rice F. Devine, member of the Nat'l plaque to each of the five schools within $1,000 to the American Legion Hospital Legislative Commission, also a member the Post area. The plaque provides a in Battle Creek, Mich. Money is to be of the Post, presided. place to record the names of those stu- used to equip a four-bed room in the '} Post 540, Minneapolis, Minn., pre- dents who are awarded medals and cer- new wing of the hospital. sented a hand-operated printing press tificates in The American Legion School ]> Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Md., Post 105 for use by polio patients to the Eliza- Award Program. has invited Legionnaires motoring to beth Kenny Institute. j| Among recent activities of Post & Unit the Nat'l Convention in Washington to AMERICANISM: 91, at Austin, Minn., was the sponsor- stop oft for a stretch and refreshments ship of an auction of five used cars (do- at the Post home. The Post, located on ' Salt of (he Earth" nated by local dealers) which raised Route 240 n.w. of Washington, has a On May 10, the Nat'l Americanism $300 for the Dept's Camp Courage and large parking lot, a snack and beverage Commission released a special edition $30 for the Wooden Church Crusade. bar, and a "barn" with music and a of The Firing Line, its anti-communist They also sponsored the sale of General dance floor. Maps of Washington and newsletter. Mills cake mixes in local markets, there- Convention information will be avail- The entire edition was devoted to one by earning $333 which was given to the able. Post will be open continually from subject—the release of the independently Legionville Camp. July 29 to the Convention's end. produced motion picture "Salt of the ]> When fire destroyed the farm build- ]> Post 501, New York, N. Y., gave an Earth." The Firing Line called the ings and the harvested crops of Lew award on May 18 to Post member Col. picture "one of the most vicious propa- Sternsland, his comrades of Post 260, Willard Millikan who recently set a ganda films ever distributed in the Slater, Iowa, held a benefit dance and transcontinental speed record for jet United States." gave the proceeds $750 ) to Sternsland. planes of 4 hours, 8 minutes. ( The Americanism Commission pointed ]) Post 443, Elmira, N.Y., sponsored the Post Yarmouth, Mass., presented } 197, out that while the film had been banned second annual kite-flying contest in that each member of the graduating class of in Detroit, it was booked for other show- city. the Yarmouth High School with the ings in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, ]i Post 250, Hinsdale, 111., again gave American Legion Americanism pam- and Silver City, Nevada. It had already $350 in college scholarships to two high phlet Knmv Your America. Post also been shown in New York City. In Chi- school seniors, bringing to ten the num- gave additional copies of the pamphlet cago the Film Projectionists Union was ber of such awards in the last five years to the school for use in American His- accused of not cooperating in showing by Post 250. tory classes. the picture, by a theater owner who had ]) Members of Post 153, Peabody, Mass., !> Post 209, York, N. Y., gave New booked it, when no projectionist made the semi-annual trip to Chelsea, $5,000 to Just One Break, Inc., which showed up to run the film. Mass., via bus, to donate 36 pints of operates an electronic assembly plant The three page report was given over blood to the blood bank of a hospital that is staffed by disabled persons. to describing the background of the in- there. bus available The was made by ]> Post 95, Vandalia, 111. was host to the dividuals and groups behind the film. the Michaud Bus Lines at no charge. 16th Annual Crow Hunt of the Ameri- The International Union of Mine, ]> When Post 149, Bridgeport, Conn., can Crow Hunters Ass n. which was Mill and Smelter Workers who produced had only 80 members, it pledged the held June 18-20 in Vandalia. the picture in cooperation with the In-

National Commander that it would ]> Memorial Day ceremonies at Saddle dependent Productions Corporation, was reach the 200 mark. By April 1, the River, New Jersey, conducted by Post cited in 1952 by the Senate Internal Post had 200 members. 367, drew largest crowd in the borough's Security Sub-Committee as "controlled

]) Post 351, Pittsburgh, Pa., will sponsor history. The Post, organized in 1946, by officers who have been identified

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY. 1954 • 35 under oath as communists and will not tally or vertically against a wall, the other at the right front of the audience deny their membership in the commu- union should be Uppermost and to the on the floor level, the organization nist party." Flag's own right; that is, to the observ- and/or other flags and banners at the

The director, Herbert J. Biberman, er's left. When displayed in a window left of the speaker. has been identified as a communist by a of a home or a place of business, the Copies of the Flag Code and the total of 17 witnesses appearing before Flag should be displayed in the same booklet Let's Be Right on Flag Eti- the House Un-American Activities Com- way; that is, with the union or blue field quette can be purchased from the Nat'l mittee in the last three years. to the left of the observer in the street. Emblem Sales Div., The American Le- Paul Jarrico, producer, has been iden- Q. What is the proper respect to the gion, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. tified before the same committee as a Flag during the ceremony of hoisting or Prices are available on request. communist by 11 witnesses and has re- lowering the Flag, or when the Flag is fused to affirm or deny his membership passing in a parade or in a review? The Inside Story in the party. A. All persons should face the flag, On May 15, Legion Jr. Baseball Com- Simon M. Lazarus, owner of Inde- stand at attention and salute. Those missioner Lou Brissie announced that pendent Productions, appeared before present in uniform should render the the major leagues had made their film the House Un-American Activities Com- military salute. When not in uniform, libarary available to the Legion for the mittee and refused should remove the headdress with on March 26, 1953 men first time. The films include World to affirm or deny membership in the the right hand, holding it at the left Series pictures from 1943 to 1953. Most communist party. shoulder, the hand being over the heart. important to Junior Baseballers are the Importance of the public being aware Men without headdress should salute by movies made by outstanding stars in of the nature of the film was pointed up placing the right hand over the heart. each position. by many anti-communist writers. Aliens should stand at attention. Women In addition to World Series Films, the

Howard Push more writing in the New should salute by placing the right hand list includes: York journal-American on March over the heart. The salute to the flag 24, }i "Infield Play at First and Third" with 1954 said "communists everywhere have in moving column should be rendered Gil Hodges, George Kell, Bob Elliott been ordered to guarantee the film wide at the moment the flag passes. and Ferris Fain. circulation and attention." In what position should the Flag Q. ]) "Double Play Kings of Baseball" with Obviously designed to sell the com- be when suspended over the middle Lou Boudreau, Joe Gordon, Marty munist line to an unsuspecting movie- of the street? Marion and "Red" Schocndienst. going public, the production appears to A. In a north and south street the ]> "Pitching Stars of Baseball" with be at the same time an attempt by the union (field of blue) should be to the Harry Brecheen, Hal Newhouser, Ewell party to replenish its badly depleted east, and in an east and west street it Blackwell and Bob Feller. coffers. For knowing Americans this should be to the north. ]> "The Batting Stars of Baseball" with will be one picture to pass up. Q. What should be the position of the Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Stanley Flag when displayed from a staff in a Musial and Tommy Holmes. Star Spangled Banner public auditorium or other public meet- ]> "The Umpire in Baseball" with Bill ing place, indoors outdoors, Pinelli, Art Passarella Just before Memorial Day this Maga- whether or McGowan, Babe on platform or floor or level? and George Barr. zine received a phone call from an edi- on ground with- tor of another publication. A. When used on a speaker's platform, Legion Posts can have the films for shipping charges. A ticklish question had arisen and the the Flag, if displayed flat, should be out cost except Write Lew Fonseca, American and Na- editor wondered if The American displayed above and behind the speak- tional Leagues of Professional Baseball Legion could give him some advice. It er. When displayed from a staff in a Clubs, 64 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, seemed that someone in his office had church or public auditorium if it is dis- 111. carbon copy of the request must bought a cartoon which he was about to played in the chancel of a church, or A be sent to Lou Brissie, Comm. of have printed. The difficulty was that on the speaker's platform in a public Jr. Baseball, The American Legion Nat'l one of the figures in the cartoon was auditorium, the Flag should occupy the Hq, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. wearing a vest made of an American position of honor and be placed at the

Flag. The question — was it all right to clergyman's or speaker's right as he BRIEFLY NOTED: faces the congregation or audience. Any use the Flag as a garment? ] American Legion's "New Glory For other flag so displayed in the chancel The answer obviously was no. But the Old Glory" program got a helping hand or the platform should placed at question brought to mind once again the on be from the nation's dry cleaners. The lack of knowledge concerning Flag Eti- the clergyman's or speaker's left as he Detrex Corp., manufacturers of cleaning faces the congregation or quette. As summer rolls around with its audience. But equipment, announced that 25,000 dry many holidays, the Nat'l Americanism when the Flag is displayed from a staff cleaners offered to clean without charge Commission called upon Legionnaires to in a church or public auditorium else- American Flags to be displayed on Flag lead the nation in correct observance of where than in the chancel or on the Day, June 14th. platform, it shall be placed in the po- the Flag Code. }t For the eighth consecutive year the sition of honor at the right of the con- From Nat l Hq came some pertinent Seagram Corporation will give away reminders for Americans who would dis- gregation or audience as they face the four Ford convertibles at the Legion's play the Flag. Questions most frequent- chancel or platform. Any other flag so 36th National Convention in Washing- ly asked of the Americanism staff, and displayed should be placed on the left ton, D. C. Only requirement for enter- of the or as their answers are: congregation audience they ing the drawing is that entrants be mem- Q. When the Flag is not flown from face the chancel or platform. bers of the Legion or Auxiliary. The a stall, how should it be displayed? Q. If it is desired to display two Flags coupon for the drawing will be found A. It should be displayed flat, whether of the United States, each flown from a on page 43 of this issue of the Legion indoors or out, or so suspended that its staff, how should they be displayed? Magazine. Each winner's Post will re- folds fall as free as though the Flag were A. One should be placed in position ceive $250. stalled. When displayed either horizon- at the right of the speaker and the ]> Dept of Oregon is giving away 11

3£ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 valuable prizes, including a $500 dia- Cemetery holds bodies of vets of wars mond ring and a free flight via United from 1812 to 1918. Sell yourself and save Air Lines to the Nat l Convention in ] Dept of Iowa donated a new electric August, as part of its membership drive. organ for the newly-decorated chapel at on th ese Prizes will be given to membership Iowa Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown. workers at Dept Convention at Coos ]> Nat'l President Mrs. Harold S. Bur- Bay, Ore., July 21-24. dett of The American Legion Auxiliary GREAT SHOE VALUES '<) The Capitol Building in Washington, will attend roof-raising ceremony of the D. C, flew a new Flag on Flag Day, first "Wooden Church" at Schoeningen- BUY BY MAIL June 14th. Nat'l Cmdr Arthur J. Connell stedt-Ohe, near Hamburg, on July 4. presented the Flag as a gift from the Members of Posts in Germany will rep- Legion to Vice President Nixon who resent the Lesion.c a $12.00 accepted it on behalf of the Congress The "Legionnaire" VALUE PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: of the United States. FOR LEGION DISTINCTION Jobs, Honors, Activities • Handsome fine calfskin with ]i Nat'l Cmdr Arthur J. Connell asked leather sole, rubber heel. Sizes Legion's Depts and Posts to co-operate Dr. W. J. Danforth, Past Dept Cmdr and half sizes 6 through 12; in $10,000,000 fund campaign of Nat'l of Texas (1937-38), won the Navy's widths A through E. We pay American-Korean Foundation. Action new Meritorious Public Service Award postage. was in compliance with mandate of St. for his services to the Navy in the fields © Louis Nat'l Convention of 1953. Special of recruiting, training, morale, and wel- 00 The ^-SERVICEMAN" attention called fare, thus the first to & was to "Veterans March becoming person FOR X-TRA WEAR lor Korea," a campaign, by veterans or- be so honored since the establishment • Styled exactly like the "Legion- ganizations, headed by General James of the award. naire" — only differences are A. Van Fleet, president of the Founda- John R. Quinn, Past Nat'l Cmdr that "X-Serviceman" has Neo- lite sole and fine kip upper tion. Vets will conduct door-to-door (1923-24), ill, in Los Angeles, Cal. leather. We pay postage. drive for funds. John A. High, Nat'l Vice Cmdr, hos-

]> Nurses of WW1 and WW2 are being pitalized, in Keene, N. H. PLAIN-TOE 81UCHER recruited by the National Organization Robert L. Gordon, Past Dept Cmdr No. 350- BROWN.. $9.00 of World War Nurses. The organization of Arkansas (1929-30), critically ill in No. 351 - BLACK $9.00 No. 360- BROWN. .$7.00 limits its membership to war nurses Little Bock, Ark. No. 361 - BLACK $7.00 holding membership in The American Died Legion. Nat'l Cmdr, Mrs. Doris Clarke, APRIL 3390 Oak Ave., Miami 33, Fla., will Charles Henry Lawrence, Past Depc supply to details those interested in Vice Cmdr at Large of West Virginia joining. (1946-47), of a heart attack, at Clarks- }i 37th Div. Ass'n. has copies of its Di- burg, W. Va. visional history for the next-of-kin of MAY served the Division. Sur- men who with Alfred Loy Zenger, Sr., Adjt-Finance vivors of the deceased who want a copy Officer, Dept of Alaska, at Juneau, of the history should send their name, Alaska. address, relationship and name and Truman L. Ingle, Nat'l Executive outfit of veteran to Frank Walker, Exec- from Missouri, sudden- Committeeman STRAIGHT-TIP BAL utive Board, 37th Division Veterans ly, at Hayward, Wis. No. 352 -BROWN.. $9.00 Assn., 5620 Brinsted Ave., Dayton 9, No. 353- BLACK.... $9.00 Ohio. RACKETS: No. 362- BROWN.. $7.00

]) 101st Airborne Div. is planning a No. 363- BLACK.... $7.00 tenth anniversary reunion at Eindhoven, The Case of the Vultures Holland, on Sept. 17-19. Plans call for Prisoners in the Alabama state prison chartering a plane to take the Division's at Atmore, Alabama, figured a new rack- vets to Holland. William A. Bolton, 600 et. They read the Missing in Korea no- Custis Boad, Glenside, Pa., is chairman tices in this magazine, then wrote phony of the organizing committee. letters to the mothers, sisters, wives of

]> The Legion Dept of Georgia has men missing in Korea. joined with the State and Federal Civil "I am a chaplain," said a typical Defense agencies in providing funds to phony letter. "Your boy is not really create a Civil Defense film library, for missing in Korea. He got in trouble with local showings, in connection with com- the Army, stowed away in a ship and is munity CD activities. here in Alabama. He got in more trou-

]i Erie County, N. Y., American Legion ble, and is just finishing a jail sentence The X-Serviceman Shoe Corp. presented a plaque to Marine Trust —using a fake name. Now he is free, but 115 Legion Parkway Company of Western York for its he needs help, because the military New Brockton 64, Massachusetts sponsorship of anti-communist TV pro- would still make trouble for him. Please gram "I Led Three Lives." Plaque was send money to me to help your boy, NAME presented on the telecast program of who — you understand — must use a fake STREET April 26th by County Legion officers to name to avoid a court martial." officials of the Bank. Though the serviceman referred to of- CITY ZONE.

]) Bronx County Legion reported suc- ten lay dead in Korea, some missing STATE cessful completion of a 30-year cam- men's relatives, grasping at any straw, SHOE STYLE NO COLOR paign on May 6. A 100-year-old, long were victimized. But others reported the uncared-for Soldier's Cemetery in the letters. SIZE WIDTH county taken over By April 1—through efforts of the Post was by New York AMOUNT ENCLOSED City to be restored and maintained. Office Department, the FBI, the Ala- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 37 bama State Prison, the American Le- Clark Field, Philippines, 97th Engineers, Co. C— COMRADES During World War 2, I contracted fungus gion, the Department of Defense, and infection. I need help to establish claim. Need to hear from Capt. Walters and especially the recipients of phony letters who re- IN DISTRESS from Lt. Adams. Please write Junior Thomas ported them— six long-term convicts at Huff, 32 Vine. Cincinnati 2, Ohio. Space does not permit notices to contact 63rd Div., 255th Inf., Co. I-Between Mar. 1 and identified with the Mar. 15, 1945, Cpl. John Bruce Sullivan and Atmore had been persons for any purpose except to assist in others were going from one small town to racket. For them—small chance of pa- establishing a claim lor a veteran or his de- another in Luxembourg clearing the houses role, possible future Federal imprison- pendents. Statement to that effect should after a bombing raid. Sullivan was wounded while clearing one of the houses. Need help accompany notice. ment upon completion of terms for state to establish claim. Please write John B. Sulli- van, Box 184, Newton Falls, N. Y. offenses. Army 2239th Trucking Co.— While serving with this out- Lest the same or similar rackets that 35th Div., 137th Inf., Co. B-On July 11, 1944, fit near Cerignola, Italy, from Feb., 1944 to Harold G. Tempest was injured on Omaha May, 1945, S/Sgt. George Louis Lakman suf- prey on families who lose men in the Beach. Proof is needed that the injury resulted fered from a back condition. Anyone who in his having a cyst on his pancreas. He has recalls Sgt. Lakman's condition please write at Armed Forces should spring up again been hospitalized since Dec, 1953. Need help K. Klemmetson, State Service Officer, The Atmore or elsewhere, those who place to establish claim. Anyone who knows about American Legion. 620 University St., Seattle his injury please write Harold G. Tempest, 1, Wash. notices on these pages are urged to re- Ward #3-D-E, Veterans Administration Cen- Veterinary Hospital No. 2—1 served with this out- ter, West Los Angeles 25, Cal. fit at Fort Riley, Kan., Camp Lee, Va., and port to the editors any and all responses 2nd Div.. 5th MG Bn., Co. A (WWll-I would St. Nazaire, France. Need to contact someone who was in this outfit at that which ask or hint for money. The three like to hear from Brown. Duffy, Miller, or time. Espe- anyone in the company who knows of my cially remember Capt. Beverly, Lt. Knox, and types of personal notices accepted lor condition. Info needed to establish claim. Lt. Evans. Served much of the time as an Write Harry Cohen, 814 Albany St., c/o orderly. Claim pending. Write Christian L. these pages do not request services for Grand Rapids Furn. Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Hansen, Route 3, Mound. Minn. which payment should be made. Motor Truck Co. 454, Motor Supply Train 415- Hq 209th AAA Bn. (AW)-Urgently need to hear Need to hear from someone who was stationed from former members of this outfit, particu- with me in Horsc'ieim. Germany, in Feb.. larly those who were in the invasion of Luzon. 1919, and who knows about my illness at that Among those whose names I remember are: time. Need help to establish claim. Please Ivan Van Leona, Colo.; Sgt. Yarber, Miss.; write Wayne G. Elliott, 1501 Second Ave., Des Benjamin Kelly, Mo.; Frank Tusak. Wis.; Jim Moines, la. Crieve. Wis.; Jim Pertosky, Wis.; Chester Laabs, Wis. Write Max Wagoman, Grand MISSING 220th Military Police Co. (WWl)-Need to hear from members of this outfit who remember Mound, Iowa. Barkley, Tex., Div., my having been run over by a truck at or Camp 12th Armored 56th Armored Inf. Bn., Co. C-Need to locate Lt. IN KOREA near Romertine. France. Would especially served like to hear from Ham< E. Stone. Please write Lowich or Lowitch who with this outfit. Frit/ E. Schroeder, Box 125. Florida Citv, Fla. He lives somewhere in New York City. Any- Name, rank, and complete unit should be one who knows his whereabouts please write 30th Div., 1 17th Inf., Co. H-Pvt. John A. Lasich Alfred J. Walker, clearly spelled out — no abbreviations. Re- served with this outfit from May through Oct.. Box 104, Newton Falls, Y. 1944. In France, during July. 1944, his back N. plies to these notices which ask lor money S. Inf. Volunteers, was injured as a result of a bomb explosion. 29th V. Co. L-George T. should be reported to the editors. He wishes to contact Capt. Williams (whose Crawford enlisted at Albany, N. Y.. Aug. 21, 1899 and served until June 30, 1901. While back was broken shortly after Lasich was in- 555th Field Artillery Bn.. Battery B - M/Sgt. serving in the Philippines, he contracted ma- jured) and Lt. Gorman of this organization. Charles Rhodes reported missing July 14. laria. result of the malaria, liver M. Help needed to establish claim. Write John A. As a he had 1953. Anyone, especially returned POW's, trouble; the liver his Lasich, 191 No. Maple, Manistique, Mich. cancer of was a cause of who has any information about him please death. Need to contact those who remember Camp Cook, Cal., 6015th ASU-Need to locate write his mother. Mrs. Edith McKenna, 69 his having malaria, especially a doctor who T/Sgt. Elmer H. Grauche, last heard from at Edgewood Road. Bradford, Pa. treated him. Write his widow, Mrs. Olive B. Letterman Army Hospital, San Francisco. Cal. Crawford, R 2. Bennington, yt. Claim pend- 1th Diy., 31st Inf. Regt., Co. L-PEC Charles H. Need help to establish claim. Write C. H. ing. (Chuck) Long reported missing April 10, 1953; Briscoe, 1799 Main St., Springfield, Ore. believed to have been on Old Baldy. Anyone Camp Callan, Cal., Medics, Signal Corps, having any information about him please write D.E.M.L., QM S.C.U.-My knee was mashed his parents, Mr. Henry Durand, Navy & Mrs. Long, at the Motor Pool in 1942 when it was caught 111. between a jeep driven by Capt. T. E. Den- 3001st C.B. Detachment. Camp Perry, Va., Camp 45th Div., 180th Inf. Regt., Co. I-Sgt. De Alton nencourt and the back of the motor pool Endicott, R. I.—While on duty at these two H. Sanford, Jr., reported killed June 14, 1952. shed. VA has no record of my having been bases "Sea Bee" Jack Kranz suffered a leg in- His body has not been returned. His mother, hurt in 1942. hut it does have record of injury. In order to establish claim, he now Mrs. Owen Farley, Freemont Road, R.D. #3, jury having bothered me in 1944. Each night needs verification of this. Contact Jack Kran/, E. Syracuse, N. V., would appreciate hearing for 2 months I took whirlpool treatments' at Ward 3D, Rm. 325, Hines VA Hospital, Hines. from anyone who knew him or who has any the hospital. Need help to establish claim. 111. news about him. Write John W. McDonald, P. O. Box 393. 83rd CS.N. Construction Bn.-Need statement 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Regt., Co. M-Sgt. Herhert F. Wauchula, Fla. from doctor who treated my knees while in Pearl Harbor and in Samar. Also need to Vinyard missing Dec. 2, 1950. Reported to 31st Div.. 167th Inf., 3rd Bn.-Need to contact hear Office Hall have been killed in North Korea while en- anvonc knowing of mv hospitalization during from Warrant and Lt. Brow. help to Chester route from one prison camp to another. His 1941-43. Especially Sgt. W. D. (Dan) Cowan. Need establish claim. Write B. "Pop" Wylie, Box 55. Winside, Neb. mother, Mrs. Athen A. Vinyard, R 1, Green- Sgt. C. P. (Clarence) Hammond, and Dr. NOB Navy 3256, Tsuken Shima, Shore Patrol- field, 111 , would appreciate receiving more McClain at Camp Shelby, Miss., or Camp to locate the doctor had charge information about his death, especially from Howie, Tex. Need help to establish claim. Need who repatriated men who knew him. Write Ralph C. Burroughs, Printers Home. of sick bay on Tsuken Shima. Among men who served at this station, which was com- 5th R.C.T., Co. John R. Young reported Colorado Springs, Colo. D-PFC manded by Lt. Daniel Marsella, were William missing 1953; believed Camp Polk, La., 509th lank Bn., Co. B, 4th June 12, to have been Anderson. Pittsburgh, Pa.; Jimmie Dorman. near Outpost Harry. Anyone who knew him Platoon— In order to establish claim, I would like to Kan.; Wally, Indianapolis. Ind.; Gagne, Mass.; or who knows the circumstances of his dis- contact Pvt. Joseph Gray and SFC Chief Hunt (Policeman), N. J.; Jacquish (Po- appearance please write his parents, Mr. & Vem W. Freeman. Write John Havnes, Tor- liceman), Chicago, 111.; Hagen (Policeman), Mrs. be rt. La. Myron Young, R.D. #2, Horseheads, Cal.; Dick Jones (Policeman), Brattleboro, Vt. N. Y. Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo., 3rd OJM Training Regt., Co. H— Need to contact anyone who The doctor I am trying to locate was stationed 7lh Div., 17th Inf. Regt., Co. G-Pvt. Donald H. remembers mv falling from a truck at the at the Naval Hospital at Oahu. Hawaii, before Vetowich missing July 8, 1953, at Pork Chop motor pool, July 17, 1942, and injuring my coming to Okinawa and Tsuken Shima. I had Hill. Anyone having any information about right hand. Claim pending. Write Henry L. trouble with my legs, and this doctor knew him please write his mother, Mrs. Martha Fletcher, 223 S.W. 4th St., Oklahoma Cits. of my condition. This condition was not noted Smith, 8061 Roselawn, Detroit 4, Mich. Okla. on my medical records. Would like to hear 2nd Div., 38th Inf., Regt., 3rd Bn., HWorld War I, please Air Lillian Eastwood, 511 Walnut Dr., Oxnard, write his widow, Mrs. Laura Coon, 210 Allen Cal. St., Hudson, N. Y. Claim pending. Camp Kearns, Mali, 507th Training Group-In 25ih Div., 35th Inf. Regt., Co. I -Paul T. Voight, 487th Engineers, H&S Co.— I need to hear from 1943. while in basic training, Elmer Weeks Jr., captured Nov. 28, 1950. Anyone who was anyone who served with me in this outfit injured his left knee. In order to establish with him or who knew him please write his from Dec. 1942 until Dec, 1944. Help needed claim, he needs to contact someone who re- parents, Mr. & Mrs. Paul Voight, R. 1, Box to establish claim. Write Bill Lawrence, East members this injurv. Write Veterans Service Tex. I U. Berrien Springs, Mich. Shcrmon St., Harrison, Ark. Officer, P.O. Box 204, Cleburne,

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 OUTFIT REUNIONS

Notices restricted to those which give: Name ot outfit; date; city; meeting place of reunion; name and address of secretary. f Army

1st Cav. Div. Ass'n.—7th annual reunion, Wash- ington, D. C; Sept. 3-6; Willard Hotel. Details from 1st Cav. Div. Reunion Committee, c/o The Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C. 2nd (Indian Head) Div. Ass'n.— 33rd annual reunion, Chicago, 111.; July 22-24; Sheraton Hotel. Contact the Nat'l Hq. of the Ass'n., liox 445, Camden, N. J. 3rd Armored (Spearhead) Div. Ass'n.—7th annual convention, Reading, Pa.; July 22-24; Abra- ham Lincoln Hotel. For info contact Paul Corrigan, 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. 4lli (Ivy) Div. Ass'n.—Nat'l reunion, Los Angeles, Cal.; Aug. 5-8; Hotel Alexandria. Write Lewie W. Smith, 4517 Marmion Way, Los Angeles 65, Cal. Soc. of the 5th (Red Diamond) Div.— 34th annual reunion, Providence, R. I.; Sept. 4-6; Shera- ton-Biltmore Hotel. Info from Wm. Barton Bruce, Sr., 15 Brooks St., Cranston 9, R. I. 6th Armored (Super Sixth) Div. Ass'n.— 7th annual reunion, Philadelphia. Pa.; Sept. 2-4; Penn Sherwood Hotel. For info write Edward F. Reed, P. O. Box 492, Louisville, Ky. 8th Armored Div. Ass'n.—Annual convention & reunion, Cleveland, Ohio; July 2-4; Carter Motel. Write Henry B. Rothenberg, 134 North La Salle St., Chicago, 111. 9th Inf. Div. Ass'n.—9th annual reunion. New York, N. Y.; July 29-31; Hotel New Yorker. Info from Stanley Cohen. 9th Inf. Div. Ass'n., Box 428, Jersey City, N. J. I()lh Armored Div. Vets' Ass'n. & 796th AAA— Annual convention, New York, N. Y.; Sept. 4-6; Henry Hudson Hotel. For details write J. Edwin Grace, 172 Larch Road, Cambridge 38, Mass. 16th Armored Div. Ass'n.— 3rd annual reunion, Louisville, Ky.; Aug. 13-15; Kentucky Hotel. Contact John McCreary, 315— 43rd St., Union City, N. J. Telephone ahead 25th Inf. Div. Ass'n.— 5th annual reunion, Chicago, III.; July 2-4; Hotel Sherman. Write 25th Int. Div. Ass'n., P. O. Box 101, Arlington 1, Va. 27«h Inf. Div. (both WWs)-34th annual reunion. a more pleasant trip Binghamton, N. Y.; Sept. 17-18; Arlington for Hotel. Write Lawrence Reagan, P. O. Box 1403, Albany, N. Y. Soc. of the 28th Div., A.E.F.— Annual reunion, Wilkes Barre, Pa.; July 14-16; Sterling Hotel. For info write Harry A. Prentiss, 317 Hor- Wherever you go this summer, let Long Distance add ton St., Wilkes Barre, Pa. 29th (Blue & Gray) Div. Ass'n. (both WWs)- pleasure and peace of mind to your vacation. 36th annual reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Sept. 3-6; Hotel Roosevelt. For details contact John Planning to travel? You'll want to telephone ahead for C. Lautsch, 405 Tenth St., Charleroi, Pa. 32nd (Red Arrow) Div. (both WWs)-35th annual reservations. It's no fun hunting for rooms in a strange convention, reunion & banquet, Grand Rapids, Mien.; Sept. 4-6; Pantlind Hotel. For details town when you're tired and hungry. write V. J. Coles, 2306 Oakwood, NE, Grand Rapids, Mich. Making a side trip to visit friends? It's a good idea to 35th Inf. Div. Ass'n.— Reunion, Kansas City, Kan.; Oct. 1-3; Town House Hotel. Info from telephone first and make sure they're home. Mahlon S. Weed, P. O. Box 1001, Kansas City, Kan. Expecting a business matter to come up while you're 37th Div. Vets Ass'n.—Reunion, Chicago, 111.; Sept. 4-6; Morrison Hotel. Write Jack Mc- gone? A Long Distance call will keep you posted. Guirc, 1101 Wyandotte Bldg., Columbus 15, Ohio. 45th Inf. Div.—Annual reunion, New York, N. Y.; Some of the family staying home? You can keep in Oct. 1-3; Hotel New Yorker. For info write regular touch with them by telephone. Herman Lesansky, 398 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn 7, N. Y. 63rd Inf. Div.-Reunion, New York, N. Y.; July There are many ways Long Distance can add fun, sub- 23-25; Hotel New Yorker. Write Tom Hoctor, 60 Sound View St., New Rochelle, N. Y. tract worry from your vacation. It's fast and convenient. 75th Div. Vets Ass'n.-Reunion, Columbus, Ohio; the cost is lower than most people think. Aug. 13-15; Neil House Hotel. Info from And low—much Peter G. Dounis, 647 Emerson St., N.E., Washington 17, D. C. 78th Div. Vets Ass'n.— Annual reunion, Fort Dix, N. J.; July 30-Aug. 1. Info from 78th Div. Vets Ass'n. Nat'l Hq, 620 High St., Newark, N. J. Long Distance Rates Are Low BELL 82nd (All American) Div. (WWl)-35th annual Here are some examples: reunion & dinner, New York, N. Y.; Oct. 23; Memorial Hall (28 East St.). info TELEPHONE 39th For York to Atlantic City 40* write Edward C. Ellinger, 82nd Div. Ass'n., New 28 East 39th St., New York 16, N. Y. Cleveland to Buffalo 554 SYSTEM 83rd (Thunderbolt) Inf. Div. Ass'n.-Mh annual convention, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Aug. 12-14; Hotel New Orleans to Houston .... 80< Wm. Penn. Info from 83rd Inf. Div. Ass'n., 1435 Clark St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. St. Louis to Hot Springs, Ark.. 801 87th Div. Ass'n.-5th reunion, Philadelphia, Pa.; Sept. 17-18; Ben Franklin Hotel. Details Irom Boston to Los Angeles $2.00 Donald McCabe, 6517 Torresdale Ave., Phila- delphia 35, Pa. These are Station-to-Station rates for the first 3 minutes, 92nd Inf. Div. Veterans Ass'n. (both WWs)-Re- after 6 o'clock every night and all day Sunday. They do union, Chicago, 111.; Aug. 7; Ass'n. Hq., not include the fedetal excise tax. CaU by Number. It's Faster. 5745 So. State St. Info from J. L. Carter, 6223'/i Indiana Ave., Chicago, III.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 39 99th Inf. Div. Ass'n.—Annual convention, Colum- 1st Special Service Force Ass'n.— Annual reunion, 89th Cav. Recon. Sqdn., Troop E— Reunion, Kan- bus, Ohio; July 9-11; Deschler-Hilton Hotel. Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Aug. 13-15; Mt. sas City, Mo.; Sept. 4-6; Hotel Phillips. Info Contact T. D. Wilson, 14516 Summit Ave., Royal Hotel. Contact Bill Becket, Rm. 1416, from Clyde Rassette, 12541 East State Fair, Maple Hts., Ohio. Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Detroit 5, Mich. 101st Airborne Di>. Ass'n.— 9th annual reunion, 279th Engr. Combat Bn.—Kth annual reunion, Bal- 6lst Railway Engrs. (WWl)-Annual reunion, timore, ^Md.; Aug. 13-15; Sheraton-oelvederc ( leveland, Ohio; Sept. 3-4; Hotel Carter. For Shreveport, La.; Sept. 4-6; Caddo Hotel. For details contact Sam Hershman, 3577 Farland Hotel. Details from John G. Gotzen, 7512 details write E. M. Soboda, 932 Roscoe St., Rd., University Hts. 18, Ohio. Belair Road, Baltimore 6, Md. Green Bay, Wis. 222nd Inf., Co. 3rd annual reunion, Greenfield, HI6th Inf. Div. Ass'n. -Reunion, Atlantic City, G— 140th Inf., Co. F— 25th annual reunion, Kansas Ohio; Aug. 14-15; Armory. For additional info N. J.; July 23-25; Haddon HaH. Contact City, Mo.; Sept. 5-6; 818 Spruce St. For ad- write Bob Kubik, 528 N. Morgan. Rushville, Douglas Coffey, Town Hall, West Orange, ditional info write Enos L. Trusdell, 4544 Ind. N. J. Terrace St., Kansas City, Mo. 737th Tank Bn.— 7th animal reunion, Asheville, 49th Springfield, 342nd Field Artillery Band (WWl)-2nd annual Ordnance Co. (MM)— Reunion, N. C; Aug. 14-15; George Vanderbilt Hotel. reunion, Denver, Colo.; Sept. 5-6; Hall, UL; July 9-11; St. Nicholas Hotel. Write Info from Tilden Hollowuy, Hildebran, N. C. VFW 1545 S. Broadway. For info write George diaries E. Biller, 4715 N. Leavltt, Chicago 62nd Armored Field Artillery Bn.— Annual reunion, W. 111. Smith, P. O. Box 97, Lucerne, Mo. 25, Abilene, Tex.; Aug. 21; VFW Hall #2012. 824th AAA Bn.— Reunion, Lansing, Iowa; July Details from W. T. Hester, 123 West Monroe 33rd Eield Hospital Reunion, Chicago, 111.; Sept. 10-11; Lansing Hotel. Into from Robert J. Ave., Lovington, N. M. 11-12; Sherman Hotel. Contact Lester Solidav, Sweeney, Lansing, Iowa. 273rd Eield Artillery Bn. (WW2)-Annual reunion, 9335 Harper Ave., Chicago 19, 111. 93rd Cav. Recon. Sqdn., Troop C (WW2)-Re- St. Louis, Mo.; Aug. 21-22; Kinasway Hotel. 716th Railway Operating Bn. and 707th Railway union, Chicago, III.; July 10; Paradise Garden Write Walter J. Olsen, 3411 Caroline, St. Grand Division-Annual reunion, Milwaukee, Grove. For info write Alvan Borie, Jr., 2716 Louis 4, Mo. Wis.: Sept. 17-19; Hotel Schroeder. For info Spring Hill Road, Secane, Pa. 899lh T.D. Bn., Co. B-Reunion. Mankato, Minn.; write W. C. Morris, 1319 Linda Ann Drive, 152nd Inf., Co. L— 7th annual reunion, Warsaw, Aug. 21-22; American Legion Hall. For info Tallahassee, Fla. Ind.; July 11; Warsaw Armory. Write Clar- write Stanley Gronseth, Dexter, Minn. 314th Inf. (WWl)-36th annual reunion, York, ence W. De Turk, Box 28, Winona Lake, Ind. 242nd Field Artillery Bn.— Reunion, Kearney. Neb.; Pa.; Sept. 24-26: Yorktowne Hotel; wives in- Park. Details L. vited. 149th Inf. Vets Ass'n. (WW2) -Reunion, Louis- Aug. 22; Harmon from Wiech- Contact Jim O'Connor, 7328 Ogontz P. O. Funk, Ave., Phialdelphia ville. Kv.; July 16-17; Seelbach Hotel. Info man, Box 143, Neb. 38, Pa. 309th Engrs, Ass'n. 30th annual from T. W. O'Leary, 162 Wiltshire Ave., & Ladies Aux.— Minnesota Chapter of 54th Pioneer Inf. Ass'n.— reunion, Indianapolis, Ind.; Aug. 27-28; Lin- Louisville 7, Ky. Annual reunion, Minneapolis, Minn.; Sept. 25; coln Hotel. Write George Stoner, Frances 1976th OM Truck Co.— Reunion, Dubuque, Iowa; American Legion 5th District Clubrooms. Info Hotel, 750 N. High St., Columbus 8, Ohio. from Elias July 17; Hotel For S. C. Streeter, 3226 East 25th St., Julien. info write Metl 172nd Ordnance Depot Co.— 3rd annual reunion, Johnson, Lake, .viinneapolis, Minn. Elbow Minn. Tex.; 28-29; State near Marshall, Aug. Caddo 297th Sig. Instl. Co.-Reunion. Cleveland, Ohio; 24lh Tank Bn~, Co. D— Bi-annual reunion, Bakers- Park. Contact Hayes. 4137 Wycliff, Dal- Lee Oct. 9; Hotel Allerton. For details contact town, Pa.; July 17-18; Post 548, The American las, Tex. Donald E. La Pierre. 1726 Holyoke Ave., E. Legion. Contact Everett Fleming, R. D. 1, 137th Ord. Maint. Bn.— Reunion, Knoxville, Tenn.; Cleveland, Ohio. Gibsonia, Pa. Sept. 3-5; Andrew Johnson Hotel. Info from 75th Station Hospital— Reunion, New York, N. Y., 14th Armored Div., B, Mark Bailey, Route 2, Strawberry Plains, CC Hq Co.-Annual re- Oct. 22-24; Hotel Governor Clinton. Info union Tenn. McConnellsburg, Pa.; July 17-18; from Miss Charlotte R. Schmidt, 130 West Johnnie Stenger's 16th Engrs. (Ry. WW1 (—Reunion, Detroit, Mich.; Motel. Write Richard Kingsbridge Road, c/o Nurses Quarters, Wheeler. 1004 Lincoln Alliance Bldg., Sept. 3-6; Detroit-Leland Hotel. Write Harold Bank Bronx 68. N. Y. Rochester 1, N. Y. J. Oliver. 4955 Walwit, Dearborn, Mich. 229th Army Postal Unit-Reunion, West Union, 168th Inf., Co. E (WWD-Reunton, Shenandoah, Iowa; July 17-18. Members of 231st APU Iowa; Sept. 4-5; American Legion Country Navy invited. Contact E. T. Alcorn, West Union, Club. Details from Everett I. Briggs, 1005 Iowa. So. Elm. Shenandoah. Iowa. 2nd Marine Div. Ass'n.—5th annual reunion, San 253rd Armored Field Artillery Bn.— Reunion, Cin- Diego. Cal.; July 17-19; U. S. Grant Hotel. 52nd Engrs. Ass'n. R.T.C.— 15th annual reunion, cinnati, Ohio; Sept. 4-5; Sheraton-Gibson For info write W. A. Martin, 2526 Rosegarden Bridgeport, Conn., July 22-25; Hotel Stratfield. Hotel. Contact Robert M. PittrofI, 8578 Plain- Drive, Lemay 23, Mo. Info from George H. Eckrote, 71 Poplar St., field Rd., Cincinnati 36, Ohio. 12th anniversary nat'l reunion, San Kingston, Pa. WAVES— 513th Parachute Inf., Co. I— Reunion, Chicago, Francisco, Cal.; Aug. 14-15; Hotel Mark 130th Field Artillery, Batteries C&D fWWl (-Re- 111.; Sept. 4-6; Conrad Hilton Hotel. Info from Hopkins. Write WAVE Reunion, P.O. Box 45, union, Pittsburg, Kan.; July 23. Russell Write Dean C. Swem, 402 Main St., Buchanan, Mich. San Francisco, Cal. Johnson. Hotel Stilwell, Pittsburg, Kan. 129th Inf., Co. E (WW2)-7th annual reunion. U.S.S. Manila Bav— Reunion, St. Louis, Mo.; July 749th Rwy. Bn. -Reunion, Opn. Minneapolis, Spring Valley. 111.; Sept. 4-6; American Legion 17-19; Hotel Lennox. Contact H. W. Tibbitts, Minn.: July 23-24- Radisson Hotel. Info from Home. For info write Ralph Grivetti. Box 462. 3147 Pennsylvania Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Don Gothard, 84 Dana Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Ladd, 111. USMC— 1st Corps, Motor Transport, Company C 160th Inf., Co. A—Reunion, near Oregon, 111., —3rd annual reunion, Leavenworth, Kan.; July 25; White Pine Forest State Park. De- Aug. 13-15; Cody Hotel. Details from Henry tails from Abbott Ashcraft, Brandenburg, Ky. T. Barnes, 4331 Mission Road, Kansas City, 531st Engrs., Co. H-6th annual reunion, Marietta, THE AMERICAN LEGION Kan. Ohio; July 25; The American Legion Home. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS U.S.S. Concord— 3rd reunion, Biloxi, Miss.; Aug. Info from James Flannery, R.D. Marietta, 4, APRIL 30, 1954 28-30; Buena Vista Hotel. Contact Philip A. Olio. Smith. 1366 E. Livingston Ave., Columbus 5, 484th Engr. Construction Bn.— Reunion, York, Pa.; ASSETS Ohio. July 30-31; VFW Home. For Info write Harry 93rd Seabees— 5th annual reunion, Kansas City, > Keeker. R. D. 8, York, Pa. Cash on hand and on deposit . . . 409,824.58 Mo.; Sept. 3-4; Aliddan Hotel. Write Darle 215,643.25 108th Inf., Co. L (WW2)-14th annual reunion, Receivables Christy. 2029 Main. Kansas City 8. Mo. Elmira, N. Y.; July 447.547.66 31; N.Y.S. Armory. Con- U.S.S. Claxton-3rd reunion, Chicago, 111.; Sept. tact Invested Funds 1,458,666.88 George Berbary, 1303 College Ave., El- 4-5; La Salle Hotel. Info from Theodore J. mira, Trusts: N. Y. Permanent Gryn, 127 Grape St., Philadelphia 27, Pa. 224th Overseas Graves Decoration Airborne Med. Co.-7th annual reunion, 33rd Seabees— 8th reunion. New York, N. Y.; Youngstovwi, Ohio; July 31-Aug. 1; Wick Sept. 17-19; Hotel Park Sheraton. Contact Employees' Retirement Drive-In Hotel. Write Edmund A. Wientczak, Clarence A. Decker, 387 Union Ave., Staten 3*92 Washington Trust Fund 1,603,023.34 1,856.468.17 Park Blvd., Cleveland 5, Island 3, N. Y. Ohio. 97:'., 972. 65 56th Pioneer Inf. (WWl)-Reunion, Portland, Furniture and Fixtures, Maine; Aug. 6-8; Eastland Hotel. For info 260.381.62 Air contact William H. Wilson, 28 Minerva Ave., Deferred Charges 69,251.04 Sanford, Maine. 14th Air Force Ass'n. (including vets of A.V.G., $5,691,755.85 and China Air Task Force)— 7th annual con- 379th AAA Bn.-5th (AW) reunion, Cincinnati, vention, Toledo, Ohio; Aug. 12-14; Commo- Ohio; Aug. 6-8; Hotel Metropole. Info from dore Perry Hotel. For details contact Hugh Die;. Davis, 5556 Delhi Road, Cincinnati 38, LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE Hutchinson, 818 Madison Ave., Toledo, Ohio. Ohio. AND NET WORTH 284th Aerial Sqdn. (WW I (-Annual reunion, Bel- 805th T.D. Bn., Co. C-Reunion, Du Bois, Pa.; leville, 111.; July 10; Monday Night Club. Info Aug. 7; VFW Post 813. Current Liabilities S S 340.632.79 Contact Joseph Koz- from Leo T. Neu, 1115 Hornsby Ave., St. minski, Du Bois. Pa. ill. 330. 89 Louis 15, Mo. 568th AAA I AW) Bru-Reunion, Bovertown, Pa.; Rich Field, Waco, Tex. (WWl)-Reunion, Cin- Aug. 7-8; American Legion. Permanent Trusts: Write Gerald D. cinnati, Ohio; July 23-24; Sheraton-Gibson Landis, 132 S. Franklin St., Overseas Graves Decoration Boyertown, Pa. Hotel. Contact Win. E. 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4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Atlrprtitemnit (Continued from page 23) Street," and "Down with the United States." At the time the Secretary was preparing to leave Damascus in neigh- From where I sit boring Syria, a mass protest meeting was held in the city's main square. For- eigners, like this writer, were warned by hotel concierges to deposit their 6y Joe Marsh valuables for safe-keeping, to stay in the hotel, and if one had to leave, to speak only French on the streets. Mr. Dulles was not permitted to visit the campus of the American University of Beirut, one of the leading American educational institutions abroad. Communists and nationalists together had stirred this Middle East center of intellectualism. As happens so often the extreme left and the extreme right had buried their ideological differences in a The "Write" Prescription common hatred and in joint action. "Spite Communism" is an accommodat- ing outlet for frustrated nationalism. It Noticed three half-finished letters is, for example, impossible to ascertain lying on the counter down at Jones' whether the eggs thrown at the Secre- Drug Store last week. "Writing three tary's car on his arrival in Cairo were directed by "down with the West" at once, Doc?" I asked. communists or "Egypt for Egyptians" — nationalists. 'Wo," Doc said, "you are you The foreigner in the Middle East pro- and the rest of the town. Those are for vides a convenient target symbolizing imperialism. One need be only momen- the boys from our town who are at the tarily in the Arab states to encounter National Guard encampment. the widespread conviction that the people's enemy is not Russian commu- "Everyone who comes in adds a line nism, but Western imperialism. As Pro- or two, and when a couple of pages are fessor Nabih Farris, a foremost student filled, I mail them. That way the boys of this area, has pointed out: "The Arabs hate foreigners, not because for- who are serving our country here at eigners are foreigners or because they home hear from folks who might not are not Moslems, but because of their bitter experiences with those foreigners write otherwise. They sure do enjoy and because of their fear of them." getting these letters." Since the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union has had no territorial holdings in From where I sit, little things can the Middle East and astutely has kept add up pretty big. A few short notes out of the area. With clean hands, therefore, the Russians can — and do — make a letter. Boys from our little lead the cry: "Out with the imperial- town help build up a strong National ists." The Arab peoples, subjected until Guard to protect our freedom. Even the end of World I to War the yoke freedom is made up of a lot of things of the Ottoman Empire, welcome out- — side aid in their quest of complete free- living where we like, voting the way dom from all foreign controls and in- we think is right, choosing between fluence. By encouraging the national aspirations of the Middle East masses, coffee, tea, or beer at dinner. And any- Russia emerges as the champion of the thing that adds up to freedom gets my underprivileged. The United States, on stamp approval. the other hand, is viewed as the ally of of the established empire builders, Britain and France. And antipathy toward the United States has been increased by the continuous American support given to the Zionist cause and to Israel.

There is an old Arabic aphorism: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Blinded by this philosophy, the (Continued on page 44) Copyright, 1954, United States Brewers Foundation THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 4^ !

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO ATTEND CONVENTION TO WIN bIGNAl URE. (please sign here) (Continued from page 41) factor in Middle East politics, and the the attempt of the United Nations Re- to Arabs have left the back door wide clever communist agent has made a spe- lief and Works Agency (UNRWA) open to communist penetration, even cialty of playing up to the volatile replace tent camps with stone houses though the strong theism of their Is- youngsters. College students and even failed, both due to poor construction lamic faith might have locked the front high school boys have in the past been and the refusal of refugees to occupy entrance. And skillful agents by whip- responsible for disturbances and riots houses which they looked upon as a ping up anti-West hatred to a frenzy which have led to the overthrow of "ruse" to declare them permanently have no difficulty guiding the discon- governments and the creation of new settled and thus to deprive them of their tented, the masses in Egypt and the in- ones. Since it replaced the corrupt U.N. right to go home. tellectuals in Lebanon alike, into the Farouk regime, the Naguib Government Last fall and winter were unusually Soviet camp. has had to wrestle with this problem. harsh and bitter. In Lebanon tents were The Communist Party has been out- In Iran leftist students at the Uni- uprooted by the winds, and the meager lawed in the Arab countries, but the versity of Tehran staged anti-British personal possessions of the inmates cells are operating underground. Small demonstrations in January. Persons en- swept away by the floods. In Gaza the though the organization itself may be, tering the university were forced to rainfall of severe storms equaled twice the tracks are evident. The efforts arc take off their neckties unless they were the average rainfall. directed by the number of agents who black, and to wear black armbands as Mass camp life is the ideal climate have been sent into the region in the a sign of mourning for the resumption for communist indoctrination. The idle guise of diplomats. The communists of Iranian diplomatic relations with Arab with no incentive and little hope have come to the surface from time to Britain. Throughout the area commu- is conveniently exposed to the "happy time under the high-sounding title of nist contacts have spread with success talk" of the small core of communists. "Committees of National Liberation." their vermin among young people— in- Six years of little to do but bitterly and The hand of communism, however, tellectuals and workers as well as stu- morbidly brood about their plight has manifests itself more subtly in the many dents, associations, trade unions and destroyed morale and morality. A blind simple street uprisings, whether directed faculties and student bodies. hatred of the West has been bred, along against a foreign power or against the The key to communist success with a deep resentment against both the government. The Cairo uprising of throughout the world rests in their se- efforts of the United Nations and the January 26, 1952, which ousted the cretive tactics and their ability to oper- leadership in the Arab states. There is Wafd Party from power and swept ate with small forces. Their advance is rare resort to affirmative communist General Mohammed Naguib and the never heralded by drumrolls or flour- ideology, but reiterated reference to Revolutionary Council into control, ishes. Since they sow their revolution- "western imperialism" and "big power gave clear indications that communists ary seed in the minds of the hungry and colonialism." The despair which drives were moving among, if not directing, discontented, nowhere has the commu- even the most religious of the children the demonstrators as they pillaged the nist more fertile soil than among the of Islam to forget their religion—and city. During the November, 1952, anti- nearly one million displaced and im- this debility appears strongest among

American riots in Iraq, in which the poverished Arab refugees from the 1948 the youngest— is revealed in conversa- United States Information Service Palestine War. These refugees, barely tions held with American visitors. building was burned, men came out kept alive by United Nations charity, This Middle East human tragedy from the side streets at a given moment are scattered throughout the land of stands out in full focus in Gaza, a strip and demonstrated. The evidence of this Biblical lore—in the hills of Judea and of desert land eight miles by eighteen, uprising was still in sight last summer Samaria, in the Gaza region of Philistia, along the Mediterranean. Into this nar- during my visit to sultry Baghdad. Most in the Jordan Valley and in the high- row strip, governed by Egypt, have of those apprehended proved to come lands of Amman and Gilead. Many of poured 200,000 refugees on top of the from Iran, where the strong Tudch these homeless Arabs passed their fifth indigenous population of 85,000, whose communist movement operates. winter crowded together in the tents means of livelihood depended on the Students have long been a disruptive and huts of refugee camps. In Jordan adjoining land, now part of Israel. On a hot July morning last summer this writer arrived in Gaza for what was in- tended to be but a thirty-six-hour stay. The pilot of the United Nations plane, an American captain, returned a half hour ahead of his schedule and took off. Efforts by radio to make him turn around and come back for me brought a laconic answer reminiscent of Gen- eral McAuliffe's famous "Nuts," in the Battle of the Bulge. This time the reply- was: "Ha," and I was destined to earn the dubious honor of becoming the expert on the Gaza strip. There I was stranded and had four days in which to become acquainted in detail with misery in full bloom. Occupying a tent (left over from World War II) with his parents, his wife, and three children was Ibrahim Hassan, aged 45. He used to be a small, thrifty shopkeeper in Beersheba, when the Arab-Israeli war erupted. He fled with a few belongings. Ibrahim like his camp companions has been subjected

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY. 1954 to much communist propaganda in his crowded abode. "I do not have to believe everything I have read or been told," he said to me, "to know that whatever change will take place for us will be for the better. 1 am willing to listen to anything which offers some hope." Another Gaza refugee, a 35-year-old farmer who had lost his wife and child, Bierte told me with bitterness in his voice: "You have caused our enslavement, but someday someone will help us go home." And as he spoke that last word, he pointed to the open fields but a few hundred yards away where what was once Palestine lay. The sole boundary demarcation was a six-inch ditch. Con- tinued infiltrations and reprisals under such conditions are inevitable. When Adlai Stevenson reached Bei- because all 3 MENNEN SHAVE CREAMS wilt toughest whiskers extra soft! rut on his round-the-world tour, he visited Dibyah, the refugee camp out- side of Lebanon. Through a United Nations interpreter, he talked to the Arabs, including the muchtar or chief of an old Palestinian village, who re- tained his position even in exile. The chief poured out his soul for fifteen minutes with invective against the United States for turning its back on victims of war and injustice: "Why don't you do something to return us to our homes?" he impatiently asked. "The United States is our enemy, and we must find other friends elsewhere who will assure us justice and freedom." The Democratic 1952 standard bear- er was hard pressed to answer the argument advanced. With characteristic lightness, Mr. Stevenson replied, "1 will remember what you have said. But don't forget, no matter what has happened, you yourself are pretty lucky—you are still chief. Look what my people did to

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In Egypt Aaadame Sphinx still wears new state of Israel when the Arab states ly within the country, is a small, articu- her inscrutable smile as the fires of un- invaded Palestine in the late spring of late group, and the Mapam Party and rest smolder. The Bermuda Conference 1948. The Skoda arms works, in afford- leftists such as Moshe Sneh and his fol- of the Big Three Foreign Ministers ing Israeli fortitude and tenacity the lowers add considerable strength. failed to evolve any new formula for Israeli pro-Russian elements have been the Suez Canal controversy. The new more and more pressing for an inde- republic, which the popular Naguib pendent foreign policy and for a "clean and the Revolutionary Council pro- break with Israel's American overlords." claimed last July, has had to expunge On returning to Moscow as Israeli Min- existing corruption to maintain control ister, and presenting his credentials to over the nationalist extremists, and keep the Soviet President Marshal Voro- their eye on the underground commu- shilov, Dr. Samuel Eliashev recalled the nist cells. A week after the factional past friendliness of Russia in granting dispute between Naguib and Nasser recognition immediately after the estab- publicly erupted, Egyptian security au- lishment of Israel and pledged his gov- thorities claimed they had smashed the ernment's determination "to strengthen biggest red organization in the country, mutual understanding and friendship seizing "seven printing presses together between the USSR and Israel." One di-

with enough subversive literature to fill rection that this friendship has taken four storerooms." has been efforts toward increased trade The absorption of the government in arrangements and barter deals.

political problems has handicapped It is, however, in another direction efforts to ameliorate Egypt's aged eco- that Russia may yet show its friendship nomic problem. There are exactly three for Israel and at the same time set off arable areas in the lands bordering the a A4iddle East atomic bomb. Nile, where 99% of the Egyptians have At the time of the Slansky trial in their homes and earn their living. Czechoslovakia and of the arrest of the "None for me! I saw what went into it." Chronic unemployment cannot be AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Jewish doctors in Moscow, the Israeli abated until the increase in fertile soil government launched a new propaganda wins the race against the increase in means to preserve its independence, campaign. Both at home and at the population. The appeal for more ex- coincidentally made sure that the sore United Nations, Israeli leaders called on treme remedies, meanwhile, gains re- in the heart of the Arab world would the Soviet Union to release satellite and cruits among the overcrowded, pov- remain open. Continued Arab-Israel Russian Jews to come to Israel "to join erty-ridden Egyptians. tension blocked any plan for an effec- in the collective effort of the Jewish The death of Ibn Saud, the strong tive area defense against Russian aggres- people." This cry has not abated, al- and able ruler of Saudi-Arabia, has sion. though the doctors' trial has proved a brought an element of uncertainty to From its inception, Israel has been hoax. These Eastern European Jews the land laden with American-owned anything but anti-Russian. The threat number almost two and a half million. oil. Labor difficulties, fomented during of a second Arab round plus pro- What the Arabs fear most is an in- the last lengthy illness of the aged pa- nounced Russian diplomatic bid for flux of more Jews, and if the Soviet triarch-king, bear the familiar red im- Arab support has opened the gates were to permit any appreciable number print. His successor, King Saud, who of New Jerusalem even wider to red to move to Israel Arab reaction could was one of 40 sons, struggles to con- penetration. On February 9, 1953, a well erupt into war. It may be assumed solidate his position on the throne. bomb exploded on the territory of that the Soviet would cheerfully exploit General Adib Shishakly, the strong the USSR legation in Israel, wounding this situation if it could do so without man in Syria who had most impressed several Russians and leading to the sev- losing the gains it has made among the Secretary Dulles on his Middle East erance of diplomatic relations between Arab nations. tour, himself became the victim of an Russia and Israel. Less than four months Time is indeed running out on the Army uprising. The two-year rule of later, the Israeli government proposed Lmited States and its allies in the Middle- Shishakly was brought to an end and to the Soviets a resumption of diplo- East. As Mine. Demcshkea, the matri- former President Hashem Atassi, 89 matic relations. In a subsequent ex- arch in Beirut of one of the great Leba- years old, was restored temporarily as change of notes, the then Israeli Foreign nese families, told this writer last sum- chief of state. As control of Syria Minister Moshe Sharett reiterated to the mer: "It is too late for talk; you must changed top hands, the communists USSR the pledge contained in a previ- do something." w ere very much in evidence, both in ous note of November 21, 1951, to the Better than anyone else, Secretary office and in street demonstrations. effect that the government of Israel Dulles knows that the United States Under King Feisal, Iraq was infinite- would never be a "member of any kind must assume the offensive and face the

Is more stable than was Jordan under of union or agreement which pursues realities of the Middle East. Like it or his Hashemite cousin Hussein, where aggressive aims against the Soviet not, the Eisenhower Administration

45 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 must^resolutely resolve the conflict between American Jew ish support—finan- cial and political—of one protagonist to the area feud, and vital facts which demand some American consideration of the other protagonist, thirty times as populous, three hundred times as large and possessing invaluable oil and Mos- lem allies. Without such a reconciliation nothing constructive can be accomplished. America's bumbling, stumbling and fumbling in the- Middle East will continue if, as in the past, domestic politics govern policy rather than the national interest. A bi-partisan agreement not to use the Middle East issue for vote-getting purposes undoubtedly will be required to still the fears of politicians. The alternative to courage and forth- right action is to permit still another large land mass to fall behind the iron curtain. The poverty of the Middle East, aggravated by the plight of the Arab refugees, and the continuing Arab-Is- raeli bitterness constitute a formal in- vitation to the Kremlin to invade. Here is likely to be a repetition of the China t story, the ideological war being won long before the Chinese communist military strength made itself felt. Then it was proved that a propagandist's poetry Distilled can garland an invader's path. THE END LondonDry Mr. Lilienthal, whose The Explosive Middle East appeared in the September Gin 1952 issue, is the author of the current book What Price Israel, published by Henry Regnery Co. of Chicago.

TV, WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE IN 1955 (Continued from page 21)

than 100,000 sets in this dimension," and it promises 19-inch tubes in limited 0 quantities, before long, and probably a 21 -inch chromatic tube, next year. CBS promises an even better schedule, and talks of "millions of tubes." The advertising trade press headlines "the coming marketing battle of the color TV sets"—and leaves the impres- sion that the old idea of pouring the cream off the top of the bottle may give way to a different merchandising policy that can take a turn for the public benefit through highly competitive circumstances. Maybe the wire-pullers, from behind the scenes, will be unable to make their puppets behave as formerly. One statistician says there'll be 1,000,- 000 color sets by 1955, at an average BECAUSE OF LIQUEUR QUALITY and HIGH PROOF (94.4) price of $700, and by 1959, a total of 5,000,000 color sets, costing an average DRINKS NEVER TASTE THIN WITH GORDON'S GIN of $350 each. Television set buyers are not inter- LINDEN, N. J. ested in industry statistics, in which 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN • GORDON'S DRY GIN CO., LTD.,

they usually get the worst of it. Color TV demonstrations are always jammed, THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 47 bur nobody buys. Distribution of pilot free, but Palm Springers pay for the been more haphazard if they had drawn color sets helps the sale of black-and- meter ($27.50), pay for the wire charge for wavelengths, out of a black bag in white, which is a healthy sign, for the ($60 per year) pay for the special an- the dark of the moon, blindfolded. In market had reached its peak. The most tenna connection (costing from $150 to the early days of radio, all you had to favorable outlook is that 15,000,000 $450, depending on terrain, distance, do was to drop a postcard in the mail more TV sets, of all kinds, will be sold etc.)—and then they guarantee to pay and ask for a wavelength, and one sta- by 1960, in comparison with about a minimum of $3 per month, deposited tion operator who did exactly that, tw ice that number now in use. There in the coin box, for the collector who afterwards sold his holdings for close will be television in every home. calls, to pick up the take. It will be to a million dollars. The whole pro- It's peculiar, over the years, that wonderful, if it works in sufficient vol- cedure has been a fantastic story of television has hurt other lines of busi- ume. Theoretically, a theatre perform- bureaucracy, stupidity and special privi- ness—motion pictures more than any- ance could gross a million dollars in a lege. thing else, for obvious reasons. While night. There has been a lot said about edu- the family is paying for a $400 televi- So far, Telemeter must work on cational TV—and that objective is in sion set, other amusement spending "closed circuits" since they're not on the lap of the FCC, who declare the suffers. iMagazines and newspapers lose the air, legally, as yet. Palm Springs, stipulations required to enter the lists. business, and standard radio suffers most. and 250 other communities throughout For instance, it is always demanded of Even municipal bus lines lost paying the United States, are in reception areas radio or TV stations, that they be "on customers, because the family remained where you can't get television, unless the air" a certain number of hours every at home, glued to the TV set, and didn't you go up on a convenient mountain day. It's like specifying that a newspaper go downtown at night. They offered top and establish a community antenna, publisher could not have a second-class free return rides for those who were to serve the town. In such locations, mailing privilege at the post office un- persuaded to venture out. When the programs are brought in on a closed less he printed 40 pages every issue, novelty wears off, and the installments circuit, and the subscribers pay the whether conditions justified this expen- are finally all paid, these competitive extra costs—well justified by the results. diture of money, materials and effort. lines recover from the original impact. We've seen fine TV reception in Penn- No educational TV station can main- The movies have a new interest in sylvania, where the mountains shut out tain as many hours as are required, or TV, an altogether different interest the signal from available stations, and invest the amount required in plant and than you'd suspect. In Palm Springs, the programs are more appreciated be- equipment for a commercial station. California, a desert resort town that cause people have to work, and pay, to The FCC has been recently "embar- boasts many swimming pools, a demon- get good results. Perhaps Telemeter rassed" by the fact that more than 60 stration has been made of something TV will re-discover another lost audi- applications for new stations have been new, called Telemeter, which brings ence. withdrawn, because of the bleak out- "controlled TV" into the home, on a And when color TV is finally settled, look for revenue. pre-payment basis. With Telemeter, it may be found that the coin box idea, It would be truly educational to ob- you drop coins into a box, attached to on each individual color set, is the only serve how a New York State network your set, and thus practical to provide for receive a program way payment of schools and colleges could fill a that is otherwise distorted beyond re- the costly processes that are involved. proper quota of daytime hours, over ception. Put in $1.00 per program and You can't expect commercial adver- existing facilities, with no more than a you get first-run films, football games, tisers to pay all the bills, nor can the minimum plant investment, and mod- prize fights and other entertainment public expect to wangle these benefits erate wire charges. This has been re- that is not otherwise on the air. It's the out of the air, without somebody pay- fused by the Commission, probably be- beginning a of new era in television. ing the freight. cause it is too simple. Someone has said, it will be hard to the original broadcast alloca- When There's still more in the offing. ask the public to pay for what has been tions were given out, it couldn't have Theatre TV is another new development, already thriving in some key cities. Program materials are brought by closed circuits to theatres, full screen size, with projection to large audiences. Prize fights have led the way. One not- able bout grossed $400,000 in forty cities, from coast to coast, with patrons paying good prices to see simultaneous telecasts, at a single performance. Busi- ness houses also use Theatre TV, led by concerns who hold national conventions in theatres, with salesmen assembled in key cities, to see and hear their executive officers in sales talks on the theatre-size screen. The Sheraton Hotels announce "national conventions" in any or all of their 27 hotels, w ith both broadcasting and reception over a closed circuit, to an audience assembled in each city, occupying the banquet halls. The opportunity for this type of development is tied up pretty closely by the telephone company, who hold the — they really get-well cards for mothers-in-law?" "No kidding make reins when it comes to making wire I.K.GION M AC AZINK AMERICAN services available. For that matter, the

4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 American Telephone and Telegraph Company has played a major part in the development of radio, sound, color, motion pictures, and everything that has to do with the transmission and reproduction of these processes, over the years. The telephone company made the progress that resulted in sound motion pictures, twenty-six years ago, and they financed and built the coaxial cable system throughout the country that makes radio and TV transmission what it is today. Bing Crosby is one who has accumu- lated strength and a substantial fortune for himself, through Bing Crosby En- terprises, in the development of tape recording, a method that has grown by leaps and bounds since Bing grew strong enough to wipe out the old restrictions against anything less than studio broadcasting by long distance telephone wire connection. There used to be an idea in some circles that it was "cheating" if

the actual cast were not . in a studio, at the actual moment that you heard or saw them on the air. Bing likes to do his program at 7 o'clock in the morning, and he tapes it, making the corrections to eliminate bad spots and "fluffs" in the same manner that you would edit a motion picture, so now the bars are down on that ancient formula. Bing's very substantial and experi- enced research staff has also brought out color-TV on tape, recorded the "We love to catch them on a Springmaid Sheet" same way that you record your voice, to mail to Korea, so a soldier away from ALL NYLON Auto Seat Cover! home can hear the voices of his family FAST! WATER [ PUMP is TOUGH! Will Resist Damage. No Installation and friends, and reply by similar and y DRAIN WASH TUBS, CELLARS. CISTERNS^ Problem—No Tacks or Nails Needed GUAR- IRRIGATE— FILL TANKS— DRAW WEll WATER^ simple methods. After all, color in tele- \ ANTEED to riT on . >f Pumps 2800 GPH 420 GPH at 75' High or 1600 MONET BACK WITH- GPH from 25' well Sturdy. Rustproof Alloy Metal. Six IN lO DAYS! WASH- vision is electronic, anything ABLE Dries in One and elec- H P. Motor. Will — Blade Impeller Uses any 1/8 to 1/2 QQJj Hour. Split Style for clog Fits any garden hose. Immediate K tronic can be recorded in film, or tape, not leak or IN foldinc Front Seal and Money Back Guarantee Send Check, MO., or C O D. wp s Solid Style for F.ither Front or Rear seats or by other transcription method. But MOORE MANUFACTURING CO. Price ONLY S2.98 SWfDtSBORO #m NiW JERSEY For Front Split Or there's one little thing that has solid Seat and ONLY to be S5.50 for BOTH Frrnt and Rear Seats. fixed, and Bing is working nights on it. Payn Or The usual tape recording runs at a rela- SAVE on tively MARDO SALES CORP. slow speed, so tapes can be made ncjton Ave.. New York 17. N Y and sent through the mails, in reasonably short lengths. Color TV carries CIGARS three colors and the sound track, simultaneously, and it has to operate at faster Tend'ncTmoNEY than three times normal speed, so it is Favorite brands at sensa- SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE LESSON more than three tional values! Clear Havanas, otiv. Accountants and C. P. A'fl earn $4,000 to $10,000 « times as long, and that Thousands of firms need them. We train you thuroly at home in ran time tor C. P.A'b examinations or executive accounting positions. others, ACT NOW! Write for Persona! training under supervision means more than three times as much I't evi..iis expel ience unnecessary. of stair off 1' .V-. Placement e...insel. Writ* lor free I k. "Ac- FREE price list. Dept. #80G tape to run, and wind-up, at high speed. countancy, the Profession That Pays," and sample lesson. H-F Cigar, 631 Newark Ave., jersey City LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. Even Dick Tracy has introduced A Correspondence Institution Dept.73GiH: Chicago 5, III. something new in TV, and a idea, good TO >> too. It's a variation of Theatre TV, so SAVEUP very practical and desirable that we FAN KITS wonder what they're waiting for. By for easy-foassembfe this time, they must know that Dick WINDOW or ATTIC FANS Tracy's two-way wrist radio is an un- ANYONE CAN DO IT! No qualified success. With his new idea, special tools or skill re the police lineup quired! Included: Fan will take place simul- Spider, Masonite taneously in twenty cities, and the de- Blades. Rubber-mount- $19. SO ed Bearings. Shaft, S14.9S 113.95 tectives assembled in each location will Belt, Pulleys, Bolts and see criminals on a television parade, in famous EASI-BILD pattern giving complete Instructions! You fur- For CASTING & their own headquarters projection nish lumber and Vt HP motor. Send check or M.O. STILL FISHING FLOATS Immediate shipment postpaid. Start enjoying rooms. The most-wanted will surely Satisfac- cooling breezes hours after kit arrives! Used by MILLIONS of FISHERMEN! be recognized by someone, and Dick tion or money-back guarantee. Circular Free. FAN KIT COMPANY, Boi 5842 -z Memphis 4, Ttnn. Tracy can get all the credit, the end AT LEADING DEALERS EVERYWHERE! THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 49 AMERICA'S FIRST CARS IN COMBAT (Continued from page 17)

wagons be quickly introduced into the Greely said that "the internal combus- incidents in which motors could have Army. The recommendation was re- tion type seems preferable, especially been given a test — but such cars as newed in his report for 1896. one using kerosine or heavy oil," and were available were used in only a General Miles got his experimental complained that a type using crude oil minor way. The earliest use' of an auto- bicycle troop in 1897, organized and had not been developed. mobile in a field movement of the U. S. commanded by 2nd Lieutenant James The Ordnance Department followed Army — and that not by any means for A. Moss with men drawn from the with an order to the U. S. Long Dis- combat use — was in September, 1906, 25th Infantry Regiment, but he saw no tance Automobile Company in 1902 for when units of the Army moved into more than brief and sporadic experi- a forge and battery wagon, and in 1903 Cuba to take over as the Army of mental use of "motor wagons" during the Surgeon General started negotia- Cuban Occupation. Motorized equip- his years of active service. However, tions with the White Sewing Machine ment was not mentioned — only horse- when he reached the age of retirement Company, Cleveland, Ohio, to build an drawn transport— in the tables of equip- in 1903 he addressed a long letter as a experimental ambulance along the lines ment, but on cabled request five Haynes swan song to the Secretary of War in of the standard horse-drawn vehicle. automobiles were shipped to General which he reviewed the entire national The first listing of a passenger car as Fred Funston in October. These cars defense structure — which he did not U. S. Army-owned was in the report were for the personal transportation of find pleasing. The Cavalry, he said, had for 1903: Oldsmobile, 1; cost $735.00. the General and his staff, with opera- been extended out of all proportion, tion limited to a restricted area in and useless and enormously expensive. De- around Havana—not military restriction, velopment in modern arms had made but limited by lack of roads. A few that branch obsolete. months later request was made for a General Miles called attention again Royal tourist car to replace the Haynes, to the use of motor-powered transport for which no repair parts could be had and warned that "it will be utilized in in Cuba. The motorcar played a very incon- the next war and preparation for its use by our Army should no longer be neg- spicuous role in the Mexican border troubles of 1911 the Madero rev- lected. This power is recognized by when olution and consequent disturbances European governments and I have sev- caused the mobilization of some 20,000 eral times recommended its use by the international ours." Then the General came close to U. S. Regulars along line the Pacific. It was heresy, arousing the ire of the old caval- from Gulf to the a long, thin line, but except in a few rymen, by recommending that five isolated and at old es- regiments of Cavalry be disbanded and instances chiefly tablished posts the supply problems a corps of five motorized regiments were use of the traditional ani- be organized. His idea was broader than met by mal-drawn wagon transports. There peace-time military service and pre- were a few passenger cars, some private- paredness—a corps to be moved about ly owned by officers, scattered along over the country to build and stimulate the line at the various headquarters; a the building of good roads. He pointed few trucks on duty—but so far as found out that by so using the millions of there was only one makeshift motorized dollars that were being squandered on "You don't say much, pal, but it's nice to service unit. This was a chow wagon the mounted force, the country would meet a guy who isn't always kiddin' about built by men of the 30th Infantry on receive lasting benefits. my eyesight." duty at the Presidio of Monterey, Cali- Nothing came of his recommendation AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE fornia. Mounted on the chassis of a —but he lived to read, or had the oppor- light truck, this grand-daddy of the tunity to read, Benedict Crowell's offi- The official tests — even the cross- rolling kitchen had served the outfit at cial summing up: "The motor truck in country run in a Mobile Wagonette the home station and at field maneuvers 1914 literally saved the world from from New York to Washington in the at Atascadero, California, in 1910. German domination." fall of 1901— had given proof of the Three years later, when we were The records in the National Archives utility of auto-driven machines, but not again at odds with our neighbor to the disclose that the first piece of powered of their reliability and efficiency. The south, Navy and Army units made a equipment purchased for Army use was roads were generally bad; even in the forced landing and occupied Vera Cruz acquired in 1899, when the Signal Corps Eastern States they were not good in April, 1914. Again, no motorized bought two heavy delivery wagons and enough for the efficient use of this form equipment was provided. However, a light carriage operated by an electric of transportation— there were too many Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, command- motor. The wagons were to be capable break-downs, too much time lost in ing the occupation force — and later of carrying not less than 800 pounds and making repairs, and too many times a General Fred Funston, his Army suc- the carriage to seat four persons. These team of horses was needed to pull the cessor—did fall heir to a 6-cylinder Chal- machines, built by the Woods Motor machine over a bad place or across a mers which belonged to the State De- chicle \ Company of Chicago, were stream. partment, and which had been carried tested under the personal supervision of So the automobile and the motor out of Mexico City by rail when the General Miles and General A. W. truck had to wait for the hour to strike American Embassy personnel were Greely, Chief Signal Officer. Most pro- — wait for Pancho Villa to create an dismissed by the Huerta government. gressive in adopting motor-driven vehi- emergency — to get a firm foothold in But the 1st Marine Brigade, a part of cles, the Signal Corps made exhaustive the Army. the occupation force, was a little better rests of the three types then available- Between the advent of power-driven fixed for motor trucks. The Marines, in electric, steamer and internal combus- transport machines and the expedition keeping with the tradition of always tion. In his report for 1902 General into Mexico there were at least three having the situation well in hand,

50 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 scouted around and located three Mexi- can-owned German-made Benz light Why more and more people say trucks which they commandeered and used for freighting service. The real crisis came on the night of March 8-9, 1916, when revolutionist TINCLFOOT ITCH! Francisco Villa with a force of 500 to ® 1,000 Mexican raiders attacked Colum- The amazing story of a new "dry" treatment bus, New Mexico, killing seven soldiers for itchy, peeling toes or Athlete's Foot! and eight civilians before he was driven V back across the border by units of the 13th Cavalry. Brigadier General John

J. Pershing, then commanding the El Paso District, was ordered to go into Mexico "to capture Villa dead or alive" with a force already mobilized along the border. Although a reciprocal agree- I USED IN HOSPITALS for 2 ALREADY MILLIONS have ment was made with the Carranza gov- • Athlete's Foot. TING has found relief with TING, ernment permitting mutual border only been released nationally Must, satisfy you in one week a short time, yet . . . — or money back! It's grease- crossings in pursuit of the revolution- less, stainless! ary-bandit chieftain, the Mexican Army and the people generally considered the American expedition a hostile invasion. In carrying out his mission General Pershing not only faced a hostile people, with whom clashes were always immi- nent, but he faced a problem of supply that for an extended line seemed almost *> IN LAB TESTS sensational A APPLIED REGULARLY, insurmountable with which the animal- "•TING has proven effec- ^* TING helps relieve itch- drawn wagon trains could not cope. tive in killing specific types of ing and burning of cracked, fungi on 60 second contact! peeling toes, aids healing Food, ammunition, forage for the amazingly! horses, water, and all things necessary for an army in the field had to be trans- Even if other products have failed, try TING today! Easily applied as a cream, TING dries in seconds to a fine powder. ported over long distances of arid coun- Fungicidal. Germicidal. A real treatment for Foot Itch or ONLY 69# try. To add to the difficulties, the Car- Athlete's Fool! All druggists. LARGE ECONOMY SIZE JUO ranza government refused the use of railroads to the American expedition, LUFTWAFFE DRESS DAGGER and to seize them for military purposes would have been tantamount to a declaration of war. The only answer that could be dredged up was the use of motor truck trains — but where were the trucks to come from? The Army Special — limited supply. Ceremonial Weapon of W.W II had only a few — less than a thousand German Luftwaffe (air force). The dress cars of all types in all stations. But if dagger that is the most rare and highly motor trucks could be found, prized war souvenir. Polished 10" who Solingen blade, overall lSi/2"- would drive them? Besides, there were Ivory -like handle, silver cord wrapped. Equipped with black German custom leather sheath. A must for every den and wall collection. As new. Send check, cash no roads for them to run on. s£fr~z^ or M. O. For U.S., APO and FPO airmail, add 80c per knife. Sorry, no COD'S. Calif, resid. The Army paid a terrific price for add 3<7o. state tax. its unpreparedness in mechanical trans- GOLDEN STATE ARMS CORPORATION port and its lack of standardized equip- 9 BOWLING BLOC, 972 E. COLORADO ST., PASADENA 1, CALIF. ment — which meant interchangeable parts— to meet the needs of the men in ATTENTION LEGIONNAIRE RETAILERS! Mexico. But the Army had to be served, no matter what the cost, and motor See Retail Advisory Council Ad transport trains had to be built from the on Inside back cover ground up.

The punitive expedition is an almost The American Legion Magazine, Retail Advisory Council, forgotten epic in American military his- 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, New York tory, overshadowed as it was by the I am the owner and operator of the store listed below. Please sign me up stupendous proportions of the First for free membership in the Retail Advisory Council. Send me Decal Emblem, World War into which we were and Newsletter. plunged within two months after Per- shing withdrew his forces from Mexico. What was accomplished in that minor Name. .Store Name . campaign in revolutionizing the entire transport system of the little Army is Store Address. .City. .State. short of miraculous. Before Pershing set his troops in mo- Type of Store. tion at Columbus, New Mexico, on the evening of March 15 he had already Legion Card Number. .Legion Post Number. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 51 started the wheels turning at official of cars—wrecking damaged cars for the thoroughly tested out the various types Washington, and in the auto manufac- spare parts—had to be practiced along of' trucks and special service units and turing centers at Detroit, Cleveland, and the route, though we had to wait for had learned many lessons — chief of wherever cars and trucks were made. the Second World War to get the ex- which was the crying need for stand- He had asked for complete mechanical pressive term. ardization of designs. But the need was equipment for an initial five trains, with When the trucks and accessory equip- immediate and could not wait for stand- twenty-seven trucks to the train. It ment were assembled they were useless ard designs to be blue-printed and pro- seemed appalling. "When he said he without trained mechanics and expert duced. By that time each division of the w ould call for five truck trains we were drivers. The Army could not find with- Army had its own motor transport flabbergasted," said a member of his in its own ranks enough men, or even auxiliary and each one set out to buy to staff—but before the eleven months' a small part of the number required, to fill its needs — taking what the manu- campaign was over the original five man the trucks and run the repair shops. facturers had to offer. trains had been expanded to seventy. It was necessary to employ civilian As a result of the experience in General Pershing, himself an old drivers and mechanics, and thus the first Mexico—and thanks to Pancho Villa for cavalryman, kept his favorite charger, truck trains to go out across the scorch- the experience — the Army had about "Black Jack," with the cavalry column, ing plains to feed and supply the troops 2,400 serviceable trucks when war was but for his personal transportation and were manned by civilians in charge of declared. It also had the nucleus of a that of his staff he used the Dodges and regular officers. A number of these motor transport service in the motor Buicks which made up the headquar- drivers enlisted, other qualified drivers truck companies organized by Pershing, ters pool of nine cars. and mechanics were recruited for the composed of seventy men with thirty- The war was raging in Europe. Army and as rapidly as possible these three trucks and one or two passenger Agents of the British, French and Rus- civilian-driven truck trains were con- cars in each outfit. Some of these units sian governments had placed large con- verted into military units. were with the first contingents of the tracts for motorized equipment with It was in fact a makeshift motorized American Expeditionary Force w hich American manufacturers, completely outfit, but before Pershing was recalled sailed in June, 1917. Then, to add to absorbing the output of some plants and on February 15, 1917, he had made the confusion, when cars did not ar- making big inroads in the output of roads, overcome all difficulties, and had rive fast enough from the homeland to others. It was a matter of scraping the penetrated 400 miles into Mexico. meet the needs of the overseas forces bottom of a well-scraped barrel. The Foreshadowing the future daring the Army began to buy motor equip- Army began to buy stock models when battle action of a commander who ment of different kinds from foreign and w here it could—trucks, automobiles, blazed a path across Europe in the Sec- manufacturers. At one time the Ameri- tractors—and so great was the need that ond World War, a young hell-for- can Army in France had in use 294 dif- some were shipped by express to El leather Lieutenant named George Smith ferent makes and body types of motor Paso. There were all kinds and makes Patton, Jr., made history in the puni- vehicles— 213 of these were of American of trucks: Jeffrey (later Nash Quad), tive expedition w hen he made a daring make, and the rest of French, British White, Packard, Locomobile-Riker, charge against a bandit-held stronghold and Italian manufacture. FWD, Pierce-Arrow, Ford and a dozen in a touring car. He made history be- No mechanical or administrative other makes. Passenger cars were even cause it was the first instance on record genius could hope to keep an adequate more varied: Maxwell, Ford, Dodge, of a motorcar being used in actual supply of repair parts for such a diverse Buick, Chalmers, Chevrolet, Overland, combat by the American Army. aggregation. But the Army tried. At Studebaker, Winton, Packard, Cadillac Efforts to round up with cavalry a the repair shops which were hurriedly —in fact nearly every make of car pro- bandit group headquartered at a ranch set up to keep the motors on the road, duced in America at that time and in- had failed. Then Lieutenant Patton took some 57,000 non-interchangeable parts cluding, one veteran wrote, an Apper- over. He rounded up three Dodge tour- were kept in stock, and in addition son Jack Rabbit. The official report ing cars, loaded fifteen men into them 13,000 kinds of bolts, nuts and screws says that 128 different makes and mod- and moved forward for a surprise at- had to be maintained. To make matters els of motor vehicles were used along tack at daybreak on the morning of worse, combat units at the front had the border and in the punitive expedi- May 15. The approach was over an to look to five separate sources for tion, which means, of course, that spare open stretch of a mile - shoving the motor equipment. parts had to be supplied and kept on gears into high, the drivers made a roar- To bring order out of chaos, General ing hand for each make. That was the first charge across the desert at better Pershing consolidated all motor trans- lesson in standardization for efficiency than 40 miles an hour, and were within portation under the direction of the and lower cost of maintenance. a few yards of the ranch before the de- single Motor Transport Corps—and a Makeshift armored cars — crude fenders were alerted. Then as the half- few weeks later the Army at home fol- clad models of the tank as it was later de- bandits poured out of the doors and lowed his example. Stabilized by plac- veloped—were fabricated and these lum- windows to seek cover, the soldiers ing procurement and command under bered along over the rough roads. Light opened fire. The leader and two lieu- a single division, the next step was to Ford trucks were partially armored and tenants were killed; the others made design standard types—the biggest ac- w ith Lewis machine guns mounted on good their escape. But the band was complishment was in producing the them served as the flying artillery w ing. broken up. Quartermaster Standard B heavy truck. Getting the trucks and putting them "The motorcar is the modern war Some 10,000 of this design had been pro- into service was only part of the big horse," Lieutenant Patton told a cor- duced before the Armistice, 8,000 of task. They had to be kept running. To respondent. Perhaps it was this incident which had been sent overseas. do this, work repair shops had to be that fired his interest in tank operation And now, a couple of wars later, set up, spare parts for the 128 differ- and made him the great tank com- there is no longer a question of stand- ent makes and models had to be as- mander of World War II. ardization, of command or of efficient sembled, and - most vital — heavy Holt Less than two months after Pershing's operation. The only question is that of tractors and roadbuilding machinery- recall from Mexico the United States mass production in event of global dis- had to brought in. Many of the cars was plunged into the war in Europe. turbance—and even that of mass produc- shook to pieces over the rough roads Another crisis developed in motorcar tion has been reduced to the minimum. and from first to last "cannibalization" supply. The punitive expedition had THE END

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(Continued from page 4) from a five-day work week to a four- a national organization I spend two- day week with a five cent per hour thirds of my time traveling through wage cut. The Republicans are against the veterans, the Northwest, and my home is usually against labor and against fair government and fair play. a hotel. In my journeys I meet lots Under of traveling men and can assure you our twenty years under the Demo- that a large majority of them read the crat Party we have seen progress, Bibles placed in hotel rooms. The progress, security and prosperity. I wonder if you will print my letter due tempo of our business life today is Get COOLING RELIEF with this very grueling and bedtime often finds to the fact that I am a Democrat. Ross Rajotte MEDICATED POWDER! us tired and exhausted. Then it is that Northbridge, Mass. burning, itchy heat rash — you we reach for The Book. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • 53 COOKING THE FISH YOU CATCH (Continued from page 27) spoiled many a delicious fish dish. butter and sprinkle lightly with salt and Fish is a good food to get fancy with. It's well to remember that fish cook- pepper. If you want to, run your knife No matter what style of cooking you ery differs somewhat from that of meat. along the backbone so that the flesh falls may like, the French have a fish for it. Most people tend to overcook fish. off the bone — remove the bones and sit Take your fish and fool around with There's a reason for this: All fish have down to the tastiest fish you've ever it. Don't be afraid to use your imagina- fine and somewhat fragile connective sunk a tooth into. Simple? tion. Use wine, tomatoes, or spinach tissue. Heat breaks this down. Go easy FROZEN TROUT, PANFRIED — fish will take to it. with the flame. Cook with slow heat, Take a trout from the freezer, NEW ORLEANS FILET except when broiling. frozen solid, wash under cold water and In New Orleans they take the lowly Even if you do use your own fish, it's then place in a paper bag into which has blackfish, the flounder or any fish they helpful to know what to look for in a been placed two cups of ordinary flour, have and filet them. They are then fish that is proper to cook. A cookable a dash of salt and pepper and a pinch dusted in flour and cooked until brown fish should have bright, bulging eyes, of oregano, an Italian herb that imparts on both sides. firm flesh, scales that adhere closely to tart and subtle flavor. Shake the trout The fish is then taken from the pan the body and little smell. A poor fish in the paper bag until it is well-floured. to another pan. Drop two tablespoons makes a poorer meal. I have found that Remove and place in a frying pan into of fat, melt it and add one clove of it also pays dividends to wash the fish which two tablespoons of vegetable fat chopped garlic, cook for about a half in lemon juice and water. This not only have been melted. As I mentioned, I use minute, then place in thick slices of prevents any odor while cooking but a copper pan because it is an even con- about four skinned tomatoes, or as whitens the flesh. ductor of heat and cooks in a balanced many as you want. (This is for a serving CAMPFIRE BASS way. Cover the pan and cook the fish of four filets.) Cook for two minutes, Some say bass have a slightly muddy for five minutes on each side, or until turning tomatoes so that they are slight-

or strong flavor. I dispute this. I always a slight brown crust has formed. Then ly cooked and seasoned on both sides. make a practice of cooking at least two remove the cover and cook, turning the Take the tomatoes from the frying pan of my bass right beside the stream. fish once on each side for ten minutes. and arrange them in a buttered casserole A'lake sure your campfire is at the right When it is nicely browned and has a or ovenware dish and place the filets pitch — embers glowing nicely — and crusty feel to the fork, turn onto a over them. Over this pour a sauce that then wipe the bass dry. Don't scale warm platter and serve with a dollop you have made from one cup of raw

l them. If you can remember, it's a good of butter riding on top. chopped spinach, /2 cup of sour cream, idea to bring some foil paper with you, Cooking fish frozen does two things. salt and pepper, a pinch of grated Ro-

but if you don't have it, newspaper will When you pop that frozen fish into the mano cheese and a half teaspoon of do the trick. Soak the newspaper — at hot grease, especially after it has been lemon juice. Then sprinkle more of the least three thicknesses — and then wrap well covered with flour, you are cook- grated Romano cheese over the top,

the bass securely in it, make certain you ing the juices right in the fish. If you brown under your broiler, and serve. wrap them separately, with the ends permit the fish to defrost first, it be- BOILED SALMON tucked in. Don't try to cook a half comes limp and soggy and doesn't have (A LA CANUCK GUIDE) dozen in one wrapping of paper. Then the flavor the frozen one has. Also, that A few seasons ago in Canada, I had pop the well-wrapped fish into the em- additional moisture has been frozen into boiled salmon so good that the taste is

bers. Ten minutes or fifteen at the most the fish and isn't left on the platter still with me. The guide prepared a in the intense heat of the embers will where it would be if you defrosted the liquid to boil the fish in by chopping a complete the cooking. Rake the fish out, fish first. Many will disagree with this, cup of carrots, onions and celery and remove the charred paper carefully, so but after several hundred fish and three half a clove of garlic, mixed these all as not to break the flesh of the bass. years of experimentation, I will harbor together into a mush, and warmed it in Then simply peel off the skin and scales; no contradiction. I've proved it the two tablespoons of melted butter. He turn the bass onto your plate, rub with hard way. then placed this in a deep pan with two quarts of water and added a few pep- percorns, a bay leaf, some salt, a teaspoon of vinegar, a touch of ginger and let this all boil for ten minutes. Then he cut thick slices of gleaming red salmon, wrapped them in cheese cloth and low- ered them into the boiling water for just a little over ten minutes. Next, he took a cup of this stock, added a tablespoon of butter, one of flour, and put it into a little pan. Into this he beat the yolk of an egg. He then poured this sauce over the salmon steaks and served with a side dish of wild rice. He was a Canuck guide and could work magic with a little boiling water, some vegetables — and, of course, a fish. PIKE CHOWDER Swimming in the waters of the St. Lawrence River are many hard-fighting fish called "kings of the chowder" — large, well-fleshed pike. My wife and I caught a half-dozen up in that cold

54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 river a few years ago, and I whipped up sprinkle with salt and then pound with a specialty of mine: Potato-fish chow- the blunt end of a knife until they are CATCH 'EM der. I also use blackfish and weakfish cutlet size, making certain you do not - KING-SIZE when I have them. shred the meat. Place the fish between WITH For a three to six-pound fish, I take sheets of wax paper while pounding and THE % pound of diced salt pork and fry in a you'll get a neater cutlet. Then dip it deep kettle, until it is brown and the into beaten egg white. Roll this in grat-

. want to get away bottom of the kettle is covered with ed bread crumbs and fry in butter, mak- you .rom the minnow plague sizzling grease. I add three thinly sliced ing certain that it is well browned on and hook into lunkers for onions and cook these until they arc both sides, turning cautiously so that a change, tie on a Flatfish and go after the king-size fellows that the soft but not browned. I then add four the cutlet holds its shape and doesn't Flatfish has such an overpowering medium-sized, uncooked potatoes break. Melt three anchovies in a table- attraction for. World's largest selling Over 12,500,000 sold. Get it at (mealy Idahos are especially good) spoon of butter until you can mix this plug. your tackle dealer's or write for 48- w hich I have diced into about %-frich into a sauce. 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stock from a few fish bones left over % cup of milk. Stir this until it comes friends staring bug-eyed at your expert from the fileted fish and put them in a to a boil and then put in one table- manipulations. pan with a clove of garlic, a few pep- spoon of heavy cream. This is the wine Don't get careless with your catch, percorns and slices of onion. I add one sauce. the next time you go fishing. Take only cup of water and a half of a cup of a Now put two egg yolks in a mixing your limit, but take it. Don't leave bad- good dry white wine; bring this to a bowl with a tablespoon of cream, two ly hooked fish to die, or throw or give boil and let it perk along for about a tablespoons of vinegar, a sprinkle of them away as something fun to catch, half-hour. Strain this and pour it over salt and cayenne p&pper. Place this but tasteless on the table. your fish filets (sprinkle with a few herbs bowl in a pan of water and heat well Fish is the most versatile of food, of your liking) that have been arranged over a slow fire until it begins to high in vitamin value and adaptable to in a glass baking dish. Poach the whole thicken, then add % cup of butter any type of dish or cookery. The next business gently in a moderate oven for a little at a time, and a couple of drops time you bring a full string of fish l 15 minutes. Take /2 cup of sliced mush- of lemon juice. This is your hollandaise home and hear your spouse say, "What rooms and a teaspoon of lemon juice, sauce. are we going to do with them?" you'll add two tablespoons of melted butter, Take your fish filets from the dish in have the answer: salt and pepper, and cook in a covered which they were poached and add them "I caught 'em; I'll cook 'em." It's the pan for five minutes, stirring so the but- to another ovenware dish, paint them mark of the true sportsman and you'll ter doesn't brown. Hold this aside. with the white wine sauce. Spread your leave your wife and guests at your din- Melt two tablespoons of butter, take sliced mushrooms on top, cover these ner table dazzled with your dexterity, l from heat and add \ /2 tablespoons of with the hollandaise sauce and glaze the both on the stream and in the kitchen. flour, stirring mixture until it is smooth. fish until brown under a grill or broiler. As Rex Beach put it, "The natural Then take a cup of liquid from the An infra-red grill, plugged in right at habitat of a fish is in the pan." It's a wine pot, mix it with the butter and the table, is good for this last-minute simple matter to put a fish where he flour mixture until thickened and add glazing and will have your spouse and belongs. Try it. the end

HOW GOOD ARE YOUR EYES? ( Continued from page 25 of the eye. It is best described as an sible defect that can be found in an to the Eye-Bank. As they must be taken extraordinary camera which focuses optical instrument and even some pe- within a few hours, it is not enough to automatically and adjusts swiftly and culiar to itself. ... If an optician tried stipulate this in your will which may unconsciously to wide ranges of light to sell me an instrument which had all not be read until later. The demand for and dark. The outer covering is the these defects, I should think myself corneas is so great that most are used transparent cornea. This is the eye's justified in sending back his instrument." at once, but surgeons at St. Mary's window. Bathed in antiseptic tears, it The most usual troubles are hyper- Hospital in London have made success- protects the inner mechanism and metropia (far-sightedness), myopia ful transplants with corneas frozen for through it may be seen the iris, the (near-sightedness), presbyopia (aging as long as nine months. colored part of the eye. The dark pupil eyes), astigmatism (blurred vision), ani- Surgery is also the treatment in many of the eye is merely the opening to the seikonia (unequal vision), bacterial and cases of cataract; the single leading interior. Light passes through it and virus infections, glaucoma, cataracts, cause of all blindness, it is found most then through a muscle-controlled natu- cross-eyes and corneal injuries. Some- frequently in persons over 60. Because ral lens within. In bright light the pupil thing can be done for all of these. of accident or disease, or more often, contracts; in darkness it opens wide. For persons with damaged corneas an aging process, the crystalline lens After passing through the lens, light but otherwise intact and healthy eyes, gradually becomes opaque and obstructs falls on the sensitive inside lining of the one of the most dramatic operations in the passing of light rays. The operation eye called the retina, which corresponds surgery has been devised. This is the involves removal of the lens in the eye to the film in a man-made camera. It is successful transplanting into a defec- and letting a suitable spectacle lens take connected to the brain by the vital tive eye part of the clear cornea of over its function. As the condition pro- optic nerve. The surface of the retina another person, often a dead person. gresses very slowly, surgeons usually is composed of 137 million tiny recep- Airs. Samuel B. Jones of Augusta, are in no hurry to operate and, in many tors. Some are cone-shaped. These func- Georgia, whose sight had been a blur cases, may wait five to ten years until tion in bright light and are the organs since childhood thus regained normal vision is seriously impaired. Nearly all of color vision. Others are rod-shaped vision in both of her eyes at Walter operations are successful. and function in dim light. Dr. George Reed Hospital this spring. She received A variation of this operation, still Wald of Harvard discovered vitamin corneas from two army men who each considered experimental by many, is K in these rods and established that had to lose an eye because of tumors. now attracting attention. In this, a tiny lack of it caused night blindness. Originally performed only in New lens made of plastic similar to Plexiglas

All babies are born with blue eyes York, enough surgeons have been is actually inserted in the eye in place but most change to brown within their trained in the operation since 1945 to of the natural lens that has been re- first year. Like kittens, new-born babies make it available at more than a hun- moved. The technique w as devised by must learn to see. As we grow older, dred hospitals and in many foreign Dr. Harold Ridley, a London eye sur- we become right-eyed or left-eyed just countries. The Eye-Bank for Sight Res- geon. At the last meeting of the Ameri- as we become right-handed or left- toration of which Mrs. Aida de Acosta can Medical Association, Drs. Warren handed. This is little noticed but be- Breckinridge, an indefatigable woman S. Reese and Turgut N. Hamdi re- comes obvious when you sight a rifle who suffers herself from glaucoma, is ported marked success in 14 of 16 such or pick up a spyglass. executive director, obtains the eyes. operations in Philadelphia.

But there are eye troubles along with Sight is restored often dramatically, in "Crossed eyes," a serious handicap for eye wonders. Helmholtz, the German several thousand cases each year. some children, may also require surgery scientist who invented the ophthalmo- You can participate in this noble on some of the muscles involved, but scope with which the inside of the eye work by telling your next of kin, in many cases can be corrected with spe- is studied, said: "The eye has every pos- event of your death, to give your eyes cial glasses, exercises and training. The

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY. 1954 • 57 nea. Vision is blurred and it is fatiguing less headache absenteeism and fewer candle, the amount of light thrown by to use the eye. Astigmatism with my- mistakes. Twelve million workers have a candle a foot away. For reading the opia or hypermetropia accounts for been checked with the Ortho-Rater average book or newspaper (the size of some three-fourths of the headaches re- since its introduction in 1942. type, color and finish of the paper are

sulting from close work. Carefully fitted Another device is the Porto Clinic, a factors), a level of 35 foot candles is re- glasses are required. While ordinary 28-pound New York-made electric unit, quired. This is about the light found eye defects can be corrected with which tests the eye qualities and reac- 20 inches from a 100-watt lamp. School simple spherical lenses, astigmatism calls tions required for safe automobile driv- children should have a minimum of 15 for a "cylindrical" lens. This means a ing. As a public service, the Socony- foot candles on their desks. In general, slice taken lengthwise from a glass Vacuum Oil Company has provided light should come from above you and cylinder. The axis must be kept cor- these units to New York area high from your left. It should fall on your rectly before the eye. For this reason, schools with driver-training courses. work, not in your eyes. astigmatic persons should not use spec- The Armed Forces are among the many If you need glasses, wear them. For tacle frames with round lenses. If such users of the device. It should be em- protection against strong sun, snow a lens turns, it throws the axis out of phasized that being a good driver de- glare, the brilliance of welding arcs, line. and on jobs that carry the hazard of While the defects just enumerated flying sparks and metal, persons with can be encountered at any age, presby- normal eyes should wear glasses. If you

opia, or "middle age sight," is something just want to keep the sun out of your that comes on after age 40. One obvious eyes for a few minutes at the beach, symptom is misreading numbers in the any sun glasses may do, but for long telephone book. By this time in life, the wear and especially for long driving,

natural lens of the eye is not as elastic sun glasses should be of good quality. as formerly and the ciliary muscle that Part of the horror of atom bombs is controls the thickness of the lens be- the damage done to eyes. "Atomic ex- gins to lose some of its resilience. More plosions," wrote the late Dr. Daniel B. light and glasses are required for close Kirby, a noted New York eye author- work. If you are already wearing glasses ity, "combine the bad effects of con- for distance correction, you will need cussion force, of flying particles, of a second pair for the new problem. Or extreme degree of blinding light, of ex- you can have the two combined in a treme heat, and of infrared, ultraviolet, single pair of bifocals. Interestingly beta and gamma (neutron) radiation. enough, bifocals were invented in 1784 The best prevention is to seek . . . by the versatile Benjamin Franklin, who shelter. Those who are caught unaware had exactly this condition. Improve- should lie face down." ments in glass and its machining have What about television? You don't made possible production of tri-focals need to worry. The tube in a receiving in recent years. These make possible set is a source of light and other radia- an intermediate field of vision. tion but it is too feeble to be dangerous.

^ Aniseikonia is a Larger screens may be a little easier on comparatively rare "That's the best I can do with that cheap condition which was identified first at leather." the eyes than the smaller. In any case, Dartmouth Eye Institute in Hanover, AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE you should not sit too close and should N. H., only a few years ago. It is an ab- not attempt to view programs that can- normality in which the separate images not be tuned in clearly. You should received by the two eyes are of differ- pends more on how well you use your have some light in the room other than ent size and shape. The unequal images vision rather than on how much vision that coming from the picture tube so burden the brain and the sight of one you have. that your eyes will not be tired by hav- eye may be suppressed. There is diffi- A survey made by the American Op- ing to adapt from it to darkness. culty in judging angles and distances. A tical Company of 44,000 industrial If there is a doctor available, you magnifying lens can be prescribed to workers a few years ago found 38 per- should have him remove anything that correct the inequality and bend the cent of them visually inefficient. The gets into your eye and should, of course, light rays so that the images become Akron Beacon Journal recently pur- go to him with any injury or infection identical. Persons who drive off the chased 4,625 pairs of glasses for school of the eye. Never rub an eye that has highway or bang into garage doors may children revealed by a mass examina- a foreign body in it. This may imbed be suffering from aniseikonia. tion to be in need of them. September it further and injure the eye. All of these defects can be diagnosed has been designated as "sight saving" If there is no help, hold the eyelids swiftly and accurately by instruments, month and scores of organizations con- closed tightly. This will accumulate some of which are complex enough to stantly urge eye care with films and tears and perhaps wash out the object. look like the periscope station in a sub- pamphlets. If the object can be seen, it may be marine. There is a Dartmouth-devised What can you do as an individual to removed with a cotton ball or the cor- instrument, the eikonometer, for detect- preserve your sight? ner of a clean handkerchief. ing aniseikonia. There are also less You can, first of all, take care of your If chemicals get in the eye, they complicated devices designed for the general health. You can eat and sleep should be washed at once and profuse- mass testing of eyes. properly. Late hours, heavy drinking ly with clean water, and a doctor sum-

One of these is Bausch & Lomb's and inadequate diets are bad for the moned. Ortho-Rater. Using this device, the eyes. A "black eye" should have medical New England Telephone and Tele- Good light is necessary for good attention. If none is available, apply graph Company recently determined sight. You should make sure that you cold compresses. The virtue of the old that 1300 out of 16,851 of its Massachu- have adequate light at your job and in raw beef steak remedy for this eye mis- setts employees had visual defects. your home. There are light meters for hap was not the meat itself but its cool- When these were corrected, they had measuring this. The unit is the foot ness. THE END

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WHO ARE THE CENSORS? 3 FT. (Continued from page 15)- PLAY cially approved by Washington before ies saw to it that certain book reviewers they could be added to the library clubbed it to death in its cradle. Any BALL collections. sturdy books that survived that on- fun for There has been the recent decision slaught were smothered under the of USIA head, Theodore Strcibert, to counters of book stores by disciplined exclude some works by Senator Mc- communists put there for that purpose, 1 Carthy. In this connection, the Wall or by misguided, susceptible clerks. This Jumbo Live-Rubber Ploy Ball Street Journal in an editorial on March The techniques which gave such aid is GUARANTEED 100% AGAINST 18, 1954 commented as follows: and comfort to the reds and made BREAKAGE. A barrel of fun for tot American communist fellow-travel- Last June there was a great hullabaloo and and pop at beach, backyard, raised about book burning. The clamor ing authors rich, were described in full, pools, picnics, gyms, etc. No vaca- started when Senator McCarthy in the article Why Yon Buy Books That tion complete without one. Multi-color, gay charged that the Overseas Libraries Sell Communism in this magazine in design. Inflates easy by mouth or pump, pat- contained some books written by com- January, 1951. But the reds never quit ented blow-up feature can't leak. One-piece, munists. Senator McCarthy's revelations year-round and the fight still goes on. seamless construction. Perfect resulted in the removal of some of Here are some examples of book gift. Only $1 ppd. Order now! these books and there were loud out- abortions, if this it SPORTS DIV. VOLUME SALES CO. cries in the press and elsewhere about and isn't censorship the sacredness of the written word, the will do until censorship comes along. Dept. IP-754 3930 Sunset Blvd. hunting of witches, and the burning Devin Garrity, the courageous head Los Angeles 29, Calif. of books. Well, the USIA has now of the Devin-Adair Co., last fall pub- banned two books written by Senator lished a book titled Unconditional Ha- McCarthy. They are. judged "not suit- tred by Captain Russell Grenfell, of the ^ttUmnec FOLDING able reading" for the purposes of the British Royal Navy. Grenfell comes of BANQUET program and if any overseas library an old English naval family and served TABLES possesses these books they will be re- in the Royal Navy for more than 30 moved forthwith from the shelves. Direct Prices and years, taking part in most of the deci- And we haven't heard a word about Discounts To book-burning. sive actions of World War I and sub- American Legio At the time of the big hullabaloo over sequently helping to direct the Royal Hotels Clubs, Lodges the "book-burning" of alleged subver- Navy Staff College. He is an excellent Service Clubs Societies sive books on the shelves of the over- writer and his six previous books had Schools. Churches seas libraries, it was stated that there been published in Britain and America WRITE FOR actually was some book-burning. The by leading publishers in both countries. Manufactured By CATALOG New York Times reported in the sum- When Nelson the Sailor came out in THE COMPANY mer of 1953 that Secretary of State 1949, and Main Fleet to Singapore in ~WomO£- 69 CHURCH STREET COLFAX. IOWA John Foster Dulles told a news con- 1951, they were given top billing in the ference that 1 1 books on the shelves of book review sections. Another book, United States libraries abroad had been The Bismarck Episode, the story of how M C H * ° -1 burned in Sydney, Australia, and in the German battleship was hunted Singapore. Then Gillespie S. Evans, di- down, became a best seller here. Just show FREE Samples to friends, keep $1.10 cash rector of the USIS for Australia, denied But this newest book of Grenfell's, a per box. Make still more with big line of 21-card $1 Assortments, 3-D and Talking Cards, surprise Gifts, that any books most important since it deals with Personalized Christmas Cards and Stationery, etc. had been burned either one r Profits to 100% plus $10-$2. i-.$50 in Honus Gifts. Get As- sortments on approval. Imprints Free. $1.26 Retractable in Sydney or Melbourne. The State De- political policy rather than military Pen Set included FREE if von act fasti Write TODAY

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There is no denying that there is a first publication has had to take place American Oil Scouts, Dept. L, 7321 Beverly Blvd. lunatic fringe of ignorant bigotry in in oar still largely uncensored United Los Angeles 36, Calif. this country. But it is also true that States." Garrity knew he had a highly there are several noisy minorities which controversial book, one the Roosevelt can be counted on to join voices and and Churchill idolators would rind dis- energies from time to time, and exert concerting to a degree. Garrity is the Stops Foot Itch powerful pressures to inflame individual publisher of John T. Flynn's The passions against those whose ideas they Roosevelt Myth, The Road Ahead, and Kills dislike. In this minority, besides the ac- The Lattimore Story, and he has had tive enemies of American ideals, must his lumps at the hands of the leftists ATHLETE'S be put certain self-righteous folk as well and the liberals, and all the passionate FOOT as a horde of self-styled Liberals, and partisans of the New and Fair Deals. their following of Gulliberals who live So, with his tongue in his cheek, he an- Fungi by an intellectual double standard. ticipated the reception the book would If your feet itch ... if the skin between your toea For years these people, deliberately get and when he sent a review copy to ia red, raw, cracked or peeling— lose no time. Get Dr. Scholl's SOLVEX at once. This famous formula or unwittingly as the case might be, John Oakes, of the New York Times is a specific for Athlete's Foot. Quickly relieves in- have operated as book abortionists to staff, he urged that Mr. Oakes see that tense itching; kills fungi of the infection on contact; promotes rapid healing. Liquid, Ointment or Pow- make certain no book opposing their the book be reviewed, not "burned." der. At Drug, Shoe and Department Stores. ideas would ever see the light of day. When some time passed and the If, perchance, such a book could not Times did not review the book, Mr. r said D- ScholIs SOLVEX be cut out of a publisher's list, the left- Garrity he met Mr. Oakes and

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • IULY, 1954 • 59 asked him why his paper had passed up Mr. Garrity, "written that way pur- Committee maintains. They say it rep- this work by a distinguished authority. posely so that high school and first year lesents businessmen of the days of the Oakes' reply, Mr. Garrity said, was college students could grasp it easily. American Revolution as a despicable lot. brief. Miss Bentley became involved in Soviet The book is aimed at arousing hatred "'You wouldn't expect us to review espionage after she took her degree at of businessmen as a class. According to that, would you? It's a tract,' is what Vassar and while she was a graduate communist author Fast, it would be Mr. Oakes told me," Mr. Garrity said. student at Columbia University. She impossible to find a patriotic business- "To get this important book to the wanted particularly to reach young man. Yet this book is said to make "a American public," he continued, "I had people with Out of Bondage. This ac- substantial contribution to an under- to rely on a handful of reviews, chiefly count of the bitter lessons she learned standing of one aspect of our war for those of the Chicago- Tribune; the from her experiences with communism independence." Brooklyn Tablet, a Catholic newspaper; and communists should be in every high If the liberals on Scarsdale's board of and Church Management, a Protestant school library in the country. Yet it is education feel they must have Fast's newspaper." a book which, to date, insofar as we interpretation of American history in

Mr. Garrity, who is a determined have been able to determine, and de- the high school library, and glorified and resourceful man, made a virtue of spite all our efforts, has been kept out biographies of contemporary pro-com- necessity. He gave studied attention to of high school libraries." munists, why not counterbalance these special mailing lists; and he used per- Well, what's in a typical high school books with books by non-communist sonal salesmanship on individuals like library? authors? Scarsdale's H.S. Library had Gene Tunney, Robert R. Young, Philip In one high school, in Scarsdale, Paul Robeson's biography with four il- LeBoutillier, and a member of the N. Y., a pleasant, well-to-do suburban lustrations from the Daily Worker on British Royal Family whose name can- town just a few miles from New York the recommended list from 1947 to 1950, not be divulged. These men have all City, eight books by Howard Fast arc although the book failed to win the ap- bought 100 or more copies of the book on the shelves. (Five of Fast's books proval of the National Council of for distribution among their friends were removed from the USIA library Teachers of English. The Scarsdale here and in England. This is circulating shelves abroad last year. ) And there are Citizens' group asked a reasonable ques- and selling books the hard way, and it others. tion: why give preference to the biog- is an expensive process in time, energy Theie is a committee of citizens in raphy of a communist? Why not rec- and money. Only a stubborn fighter Scarsdale which was formed four years ommend the biography of Booker T. like Garrity, who hates communism the ago to expose and stop the communist Washington, the great Negro educator? way the devil hates holy Mater, and penetration of Scarsdale public schools. Or Jackie Robinson, the Negro base- loathes censorship either direct or The committee reported that in Janu- ball player who personally repudiated adroit, would be willing to do this to ary 1954, Fast's book Hayvi Salomon, the treasonous statement of Paul Robe- sell 7,500 or 10,000 copies of a book Son of Liberty was still on the recom- son that Negroes would not go to war which should have a much greater audi- mended list for 10th grade students in against Russia? And why favor Fast's ence. the high school library. The president biography of Citizen Tom Paine? Why Garrity was the publisher of Eliza- of the Board of Education, Malcolm not Conway's or Woodward's biog- beth Bentley's book, Out of Bondage. C. Spence, wrote that it was put on the raphy of this great American instead Miss Bentley, it will be remembered, recommended list and kept there be- of a distorted one by an American com- was a long-time communist who re- cause members of the staff were of the munist? pented and recanted and gave valuable opinion the book "can make a substan- Scarsdale is not the only New York testimony to the government on Harry tial contribution to an understanding of suburb where a certain element sees to

Dexter White and other highly placed one aspect of our war for independence, it that books by communists and pro- Washington contacts who were mem- and because it is highly readable by reds get every break. The Hastings, bers of her espionage ring. Her book is children of the age involved." N. Y., News reported on Feb. 11, 1954, a valuable case history. "The book was The book is a piece of communist that the local school board rejected a written on the high school level," said propaganda, the Scarsdale Citizens' move to oust Fast's books from the library shelves of the Hastings public- school. Seven copies of Fast's Goethals and the Panama Canal were at issue. The trustees voted 4-1 to keep the books on the shelves. Fast, like most other communist writers, has made a fortune from his books. For one thing, the Stalin Literary Prize which he received recently for being a faithful, unswerving follower of the communist line, and foremost Red Writing Hoodwinker, can run as high as $25,000. For another thing, such a valuable, dependable and prolific producer of red propaganda as Mr. Fast is supported and promoted unceasingly by the comrades. One way they do this is through book clubs. One of these is an integral part of a communist-dominated labor union, the red U.E. (United Electrical). This book club vigorously plugs books by communists and fellow travelers and pushes them into best sellers. The U.E.'s

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"Union Book Club" in a full-page ad- Of course the whole idea of censor- GIANT BALLOONS vertisement on Sept. 21, 1953, bragged ship is confused inconsistent. Even Surplus U.S. Govt. NEOPRENE and Weather, target h.iloons (new iv.r.it'u). for FUN or PROFIT. that 25,000 U.E. members had "read the public libraries exercise it and al- ;reat sport In the backyard; or or partfes, picnics, dances, fairs. and enjoyed" Albert E. Kahn's High ways have. Virtually every library has moneymakers. Use these balloons to attract crowds to civic Treason and recommended his latest a section in which books are kept events, conventions, oxhl billons some trade shows. Terrific for liluh proms, aii book to the membership. This titled school and college one, under lock and key because the librari- sizes are approx. Inflate, 1 size. Postage paid on prepaid orders. The Game of Death, sold more than ans recognize that such books must not 3 ft. din. 49c — C ft. dla. 99< 13 ft. dla. SI. 59 1 7,500 copies almost before the ink was be given to certain people, or people dry on the pages. The book is an at- of a certain age. Indeed, most librarians Calif, residents please add sales tax. tempt to sabotage our civil defense and would exercise immediate and drastic WAR ASSETS DIVISION, Volume Sales Co. Dept. 1754, 3930 Sunset Blvd., Las Angeles 29, Calif. was among the first books published by censorship if a 10-year-old came into Cameron & Kahn, Inc., a firm which the place and wanted a highly salacious was formed when the pro-red views best-seller for his own use. INVENTORS and red-favoring book bias of Angus The totalitarian accusation of censor- If you believe that you have an Invention, you should find Cameron, long-time chief Editor at the ship is not leveled at this. But in virtu- out how to protect It. We are registered Patent Attorneys. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect old Boston house of Little, Brown & ally every case the "cen- Your Invention," and an "Invention Record" form. No where cry of obligation. They are yours for the asking. Co., were finally revealed and Mr. sorship" goes up, what it boils down to McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON Registered Patent Attorneys Cameron eased out. is citizens showing an interest in the 1466 Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. Ordeal By Slander, Owen Lattimore's books on the library shelves. There is anguished screams about his appearance nothing wrong with this. Libraries sup- before the Senatorial investigating com- ported by public funds are not sacro- mittee which eventually brought about sanct. (h-SUCard his indictment, was issued in two edi- So far as public libraries are con- PRINTED WITH SENDER'S NAME tions. One was a paper-back "quickie" cerned, remember this: Citizens certain- Make $65.00 CASH on only S ' and the other a regular hard-cover ly have a right to know about their orders by Amazing Double-up Plan. Sell Personal Christmas Cards i printed for just book store edition at book store price. public, tax-supported libraries. In prac- with Sender's Name / Trf > about 3c each. N o experience needed The paper-back was sold on newsstands tically every city, of course, there's an OH CARDS FREE! All different •CO styles. Designs include Reli- everywhere simultaneously with the elected board of trustees who are the gious, Humorous, Artistic, and Busi- ness. Also special box assortment sent on approval . Bij? season more expensive hard-cover edition. This city library's Board of Directors, as it now. Send no money. Samples Free.' Send name on postcard. GENERAL CARD CO., 1300 W. Jackson, Dept. 4 I, Chicago 7, III. is a fairly unusual procedure which has were, in matters of fundamental policy. been tried out with books like Wendell Ask your trustees what is their policy KILLS FLIES, BUGS, only $1 T.V. .Jr., new miracle asbestos collar Willkie's One World, and the decidedly with respect to books by such names as ir hi bulb, non-communist novel, The Cardinal, Howard Fast, Corliss Lamont, Albert E. Li e vapoi rate InU sirs the f flies, mollis, mosquilos. ants, roaches, sll- but as a rule paper-back editions are not Kahn, etc. Ask them, too, what is their verlish, etc. for weeks. Pkt;. of IT) collars — a season's supply — full di- issued until a year after regular book with respect to books the rections — $1 prepaid. Satis, guar. policy by Dealer Inq. invited. store copies. The Lattimore book sold anti-communists—Eugene Lyons, James BATES CO. like fans in a heat wave, and stirred up Burnham, William L. White, John T. Box 301 A, South Pasadena, Calif. more dust to confuse the case, a handy, Flynn—and books which reveal the old-time communist trick. tactics and strategy of communism. In-

It is a rare occurrence, indeed, when quire especially about The Enemy a book on an anti-communist subject Within, the first eye-w itness account of POLIO FACTS sells 5,000 copies. What does this mean the communist conquest of China; and in terms of income to the author who Edward Hunter's Brain Washing In FOR 1954 has spent months in study, research and Red China. I mention The Enemy writing? The average book takes a year Within, which I wrote w ith Raymond PATIENTS—There will be new victims to write, rarely less, often more. The J. dejaegher, because I can speak from in 1954. They and 66,000 patients from normal book contract is written to give direct knowledge that its revelations past years will need help from the the author a return of 10% of the re- were so damaging to the communists National Foundation. tail price of his book on the first 2,500 that it was sabotaged here w hile, ironi- copies sold; 12%% on the next 2,500; cally, the foreign editions continue to PRECAUTIONS- and all sell well. equally damaging reve- 15% on copies after that. A book The When polio is around— which sells for $3.50, about the average lations of the "brain washing" book price today, therefore, will earn 35 have been proved by events in Korea, each on 2,500 copies, and 44? on each by the case of General Dean, Col. of the next 2,500 copies. That's a total Schwable and other American POW's. of a $1975 for 12 months' work, or $164 This magazine recently published long DON'T mix DON'T get DON'T gel BUT DO a month, $41 a week—if the book sells list of anti-communist books, and the with new overtired chilled keep clean groups 5,000 copies. An uneducated, untrained list is available. domestic, at the going rate of 75? an But when you start checking into GAMMA GLOBULIN—This gives hour (it's $1.00 in many cases) does al- the situation in your town, do so as temporary protection. The National most as well—often better—for the aver- sensible citizens, not as crusading zealots Foundation will spend up to $19,000,- age domestic gets $36 for an 8-hour, 6- looking for trouble. While you have 000 for GG for the national stockpile day week. A writer usually writes seven every right to inquire about and to in '54. Health officials will distribute it. days a week, and all hours of the day study what is happening in your com- safe and promising and night, and he runs his feet off and munity, in the libraries and the schools, VACCINE— A spends money to do his research. He you do not have the right to make vaccine is being tested now. But re-

buys his paper and supplies, typewriter, yourself obnoxious while doing it. Such sults will not be known until 1955. carbons, stamps; and does his own sec- actions only discredit you and bring retarial work or drafts his if down on you the phrases the Leftists wife he's THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION lucky enough to have a self-sacrificing love to toss at those they hate— "self- INFANTILE PARALYSIS partner able and willing to do it. appointed vigilantes;" "book-burners;" FOR

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"super patriots," and a new one, the cases, librarians and the Board of lowers. Book publishing is a business 1954 version of "American fascist." A Trustees prove uncooperative, there is like any thing else. If there is money "fascist" is now a "primitive." The con- every reason then why the issue should to be made publishers will publish and notation, I presume, is that a "primi- be made public so that if there are books promote the sale of more anti-commu- tive" is an ape, a baboon, a monkey who by and about the left on the library nist books. walks like a man. shelves, there can also be placed there It's time yve did more about buying This is important, too: don't start the counteraction of books by and books by authors on our side, and get- out with the assumption that the li- about the right, in the fullest American ting those books in the libraries. And brarian is your enemy. The great ma- tradition. as a corollary', we might start reading jority of librarians are good, conscien- And there is something else you can a feyv books on the tactics and strategy tious people, as patriotic as you. They and should do. of communism so yve '11 knoyv \y hat are as overworked as they are under- You can buy books. You have seen books and what authors are on our side, paid, and they have to rely on materials how the communists push and plug and writers yvho should be helped and en- that are handed them by the higher-ups. sell the books by the comrades and couraged—and their books bought. However, if, as has happened in some their totalitarian liberal friends and fol- THE END

THE GIMMICK ( Continued from page 13 out. "The Court suggests that cross ex- case, if your reasoning is correct (and I sure," he reported stolidly. "The bind- amination of the witness be deferred think it is) then the page was gim- ing is intact, proving that a page was until tomorrow morning at ten o'clock." micked. Big Fingers couldn't have been not extracted and a new one substituted. in Warrendale and Glendenning's office The immediate pages preceding and fol- sam bard, coatless w ith his shirt open at the same time." loyving the seventeenth are also unblem- at the neckband, stared grimly ahead at "You said it," Cannon offered, ex- ished. Ergo, the idea that Morales had a bust of Abraham Lincoln on a book- tracting a fresh cigar from a vest pocket really visited Glendenning's office on, case opposite his desk. In a leather chair and beginning to peel away the cello- say, the fourteenth or the fifteenth or to his right his assistant, Ben Welsh, sat phane. "Absolutely." later on, say, the eighteenth or the nine- with his long legs dejectedly jack- "I agree," Bard conceded grimly over teenth falls flat on its face. Reider says knifed over the arm of the chair, his the rustle of the cellophane. He tugged further that all entries in the book up drawn lips sucking disconsolately at a his necktie around until it seemed sus- to and including the questioned date cigarette. Over on the couch sat County pended from his right ear. "Unfor- were made by the same person." Detective George Cannon chewing dis- tunately, the thought doesn't encourage He picked up a blackened pipe from piritedly on the mangled remains of a me." His troubled eyes traveled back to his desk and fingered the bowl yvearily. smoldering cigar. Lincoln. "Cassidy knows we'll have "I guess that w raps it up," Ben Welsh

"As I see it," Welsh told them, "A, Reider go over that page with every- said and dropped leadenly into the we have twelve hours to show that the thing from ultra violet light to an in- leather chair. "How now, Sherlock?" he doctor perjured himself; or B, his book spired fine tooth comb. He knows that asked the scoyvling Cannon yvith a tired was gimmicked; or C, the nurse is not if there have been any alterations or smile. the sweet character the doctor believes erasures Reider will find them." "I'd like to have Morales alone in a her to be." "You fellows ever read Sherlock dark cellar for a couple of hours," the "In my book," Cannon muttered Holmes?" Cannon inquired suddenly. detective said yvith feeling. "Man, would lugubriously, "the doc is strictly on the He stared at them over a flaming match. I dislocate his alibi! I suppose he is sit- level. "Anybody could see the old gent "I read him all the time. Have for years. ting in some expensive hot spot right wasn't enjoying the act." Like a trade journal as you might say. noyv with that floozie of his, drinking "Including the jury," Welsh agreed Well, Holmes covers this same situa- champagne and laughing his guts out at bitterly'. "And if Devers can't come up tion in a nutshell. When you have cut our expense." w ith anything on the girl—" out the impossible Holmes says what- "That's a good idea, George," Bard "He won't," Sam Bard predicted ever you have left is the truth no mat- told him. "Hoyv about a gallon or two gloomily. "But just let's suppose we get ter how cock-eyed it seems. Now we of coffee and some hamburgers." something on her? Even more unlikely, know Big Fingers pulled this heist. So "With plenty of onion," Welsh added. suppose we had some reason to be sus- we know it is impossible for him to be picious of Clendenning? We would in this doc's office. Okay. So this alibi the three of them yy ere jayv-deep in still be stymied." is cock-eyed. Like I said—" hamburgers yvhen the telephone rang "Why?" The strident shrill of the telephone again. Bard gestured Welsh toyvard it. Bard stared somberly at his assistant. brought him up short. Bard swung "It maybe Reider calling to say that "Because of that damned appointment around in his chair and snatched the he made a slight error," Cannon sug- book. The doctor's testimony is based receiver out of its cradle. He said, gested optimistically. "Even the best of on it. So, undoubtedly, is the nurse's— "Hello!" and then covered the mouth- them make a mistake noyv and then." w hen it comes. So you see the corner- piece with his hand. "It's Reider with But it yvas Devers. stone of Cassidy's defense is the ap- a preliminary' report." "The nurse is lily-white yvith the pointment book. Without it he is vul- Welsh sprang out of his chair and law," Welsh reported aftenvard with nerable as hell. And don't think he paced the rug as Bard listened. Can- a shrug. "The only time they' ever even doesn't know it. That's what scares me." non sat back on the couch and puffed heard of her downtown she was an "Reider is the best man on questioned his cigar confidently. After a few min- outraged taxpay er. Somebody' snatched documents in this part of the country," utes Bard replaced the receiver and her purse." And then as the hamburger Welsh reminded him. Welsh was swung around to face them. The very came ayy ay from Bard's face, "Don't get thirty-seven but w ith his brush haircut stiffness of his movements told them excited, Sam. It happened over a uionth and restless vitality he looked like a col- what was coming. after the robbery." lege senior. He straightened out in his "Reider says the page detailing the "It doesn't add, anyway," Cannon chair and blinked nervously at his chief. appointments for February seventeenth consoled them over his coffee. "A coin-

"We know Morales is guilty. In that shows no evidence of alteration or era- cidence."

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"Even a coincidence is better than He crushed his coffee container and nothing," Bard grunted. Then he swung hurled it at the wastepaper basket. around sharply to face Welsh. "Sup- "Misdirection," Bard explained with

pose I wanted to gimmick an appoint- a chuckle. "A magician's gimmick. We ment book. What would I do first? were expected to concentrate our at- "Get the book," Cannon said. "But tention on the date of the alibi. After the girl didn't have the book in—" all, why should we be concerned with "Get a key to Glendenning's office!" routine entries made a month after the "But the book wasn't gimmicked," crucial date? And it damned near Welsh protested. worked!" "Let's forget that for a minute," Bard "It's still working as far as I'm concerned," Welsh confessed ruefully. He stood, feet wide apart, in front of the desk and frowned down on his superior. "Morales planned his alibi in advance PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD QEATTI of the job. I'll buy that. His visits to Glendenning's office laid the ground-

work for it. I'll buy that too. Follow- ing his arrest he went into action. With What the key from the nurse's purse he entered the doctor's office and obtained are the facts the book. It makes sense except that—" A wide, quick grin suddenly split his face, making him look younger than about cancer ever. "You mean—" "Simple, huh?" Bard grinned back at him. "Same like most good illusions. of the lung—? Morales was smart enough to realize that if he altered the page vital to his just 20 years ago, in 1933, cancer of defense any expert on questioned doc- the lung killed 2,252 American men. uments would spot it in a minute." Last year, it killed some 18,500. "So he forged an entirely new book!" "I'll have the specialty of the house." increase? Our re- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "Exactly. It wasn't a tough assign- why this startling ment. The book itself was common searchers are finding the answers as enough. Almost any stationery store rapidly as funds and facilities permit pleaded. "I may be crazy but I have an could supply a duplicate. original but there isn't enough money. idea. Did Devers give you the exact The — book would furnish plentyr of examples date of the theft?" doctors estimate that 50% of all men of the nurse's handwriting. Morales had "Saturday, March twenty-ninth." who develop lung cancer could be the underworld connections necessary "That would give Morales, or some cured if treated in time. But we are to get himself a clever forger." of his talent, all day Sunday to gim- actually saving only 5% . . . just one- "Then the new book was replaced in mick the book. Some time Sunday night tenth as many as we should. or early Monday morning he could re- the nurse's desk and she unknowingly why—? Many reasons. But one of the turn the book!" carried on. Morales had really visited most important is not enough money "But Reider said—" Glendenning on another date—probably the sixteenth or the eighteenth—" ... for mobile X-ray units, for diag- "George's friend Holmes said it bet- nosis and treatment facilities, for train- ter!" Bard dropped the remains of his "That's the way I figure it. Morales ing technicians and physicians. hamburger into the wastepaper basket. undoubtedly realized that an expert He met the detective's sudden smile could spot the difference between his these are just A few of the reasonswhy with a bark. "What's Reider's number?" boy's imitation of the nurse's fist and you should contribute generously to "Longacre seven-seven-six-two-nine." the pure quill. But he gambled that we the American Cancer Society. Won't wouldn't "Get him on the line." concern ourselves with en- you please do it now? Your donation is His mounting excitement infected tries made long after the date of the needed—and urgently needed—for the both men. crime. And without that report on the fight against cancer is everybody's fight. "What's the scoop?" Welsh cried. purse snatching—" The telephone stopped Bard. For sev- But Bard was busy with the tele- Cancer phone. Over the whirl of the dial he eral minutes the excited chatter of the MAN'S CRUELEST ENEMY looked at his assistant and grinned. instrument seeping past the prosecutor's "Reider?" he snapped when the con- ear was the only sound in the room. Strike back— Give "Okay," said crisply nection was completed. "Sam Bard. I Bard when the want you to take another look at that chatter ceased. "We'll take care of it right away." He dropped the receiver. appointment book. Yes, yes, I know that. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY "Reider caught it immediately. George, This time forget February seventeenth. GENTtEMEN: That date has had us hypnotized. Take Reider wants a sample of the nurse's Please send me free information on cancer. a look at the back of the book, begin- handwriting right away. You have her Enclosed is my contribution of address. to it." ning with March thirty-first. If my Good! Hop $ to the cancer crusade. hunch is correct it will Cannon reach for his hat. put the cute Name . . . Mr. Morales right back across the well- Bard and Welsh were shaking hands Address known barrel." with each other. City State He dropped the receiver back with Cannon eyed them briefly. Simply address the envelope: CANCER a happy clatter and sat back in his chair. "It was like Holmes said, wasn't it?" c/o Postmaster, Name of Your Town "I don't get it," Welsh complained. he suggested complacently. the end

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY, 1954 • ^3 Un-mighly Dollar wanted them back and cried, but my To have a dollar, years ago, iER mother said, "Don't cry, someday you'il get your Would fill you with assurance; wooden soldiers back." sergeant But the dollar of today is built EXPLOSIVES The paused a moment. i'or speed and not endurance! "And believe me, you thick-headed numbskulls," — F. G. Kernan he roared, "that day has come!" —Francis Gerard Try Again Spread Out Incensed at the number of rejection slips A flood is a river that has too he'd received, a young writer sent the edi- become big for its bridges. _ tor of a leading magazine a pint of blood. T. J. McInerney Two weeks later it was returned with the enclosed notation: "Sorry. Wrong Silly Filly type." — Anthony J. Pettito She let the experts cue her On how to get a man, By letting him pursue her; JAji Result: she also ran. — Philene Hammer

I'm Sure of It \ow

Two little brothers were having such a

strenuous fight that their mother felt it "Hey, when am I going to get some more her beer?" was duty to intervene. "Bobby," she protested, "don't be so "But you've had your quota for this selfish. Let your little brother play with week," replied the manager of the plant. your marbles for a while." "Yes, I know that," insisted the voice at "But mother," said the youngster tear- the other end of the line, "but what about my customers?" —Dan Bennett fully, "he's going to keep them all the time." "I don't think so, dear," replied the Overhead Expenses mother.

.4 bald man decided, one day, "But I know he's going to," insisted the To order a ivig, right aivay. boy. "He's swallowed two of them already." — lint it proved a loose fit Dave Castle So he zeouldn't remit Because it was too much toupee. Then Shall We Danish Sorrow? — BeRTON BRALE^ This sad ride Fin submitting To guide the youthful shopper; Speaking Franklv "You ought to glance at the bulletin board The sweater that's most fitting Is hardly ever proper! occasionally, Ferguson. You were laid off After an exhaustive two hours of drilling, last Friday." the sergeant was completely disgusted with — Dorothy Brenner Francis the squad of rookies. "Listen, boys," he said suddenly, "I'd It Works Two Ways Trapped like to tell you a story. Now, when I was

a kid I had a set of w ooden soldiers. One Hay fever can be either positive or nega- The furniture salesman climaxed his sales- day I felt sorry for a poor boy in the neigh- tive. Sometimes the eyes have it and some- talk with: "And don't forget, you put a borhood and gave them to him. Then I times the nose. — Don Tanner small deposit down and then make no more payments for six months." With a start of surprise, the prospective customer exclaimed, "Who told you about me?" — Howie Lasseter

Carried Along

Fellow travelers: People who swallow the party lyin'. _ D. O. Flynn

.Speed Demons The hitman race Is a speedy race,

However else you may class it. To he more exact, Consider this fact:

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Thinking of Oihci \

I here had been a fire in a brew cry in a small city and while repairs were being made, the local tavern owners were forced to go <>n a quota. One afternoon the manager ol the brewery picked up his phone to "Of course, now, the Ball Club expects you to complete your formal ." hear a tavern-keeper say: education before reporting for duty . .

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