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MEMBER LEE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CITY ZONE STATE.. 2000 ACRES ON T H E CALOOSAH ATC H E E RIVER • OPPOSITE FORT MYERS Vol, 64, No. 3; March 1958

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Cover by Benn Mitchell Contents for March 1958

THE AMERICAN'S CREED 9

DEATH PARTY by Duane Decker 10 ONLY FOR QUICK THINKING THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOME DEAD MARINES.

A SOUND DEFENSE PROGRAM by John S. Gleason, Jr 12 THE NATIONAL COMMANDER REMINDS US THAT MEN ARE STILL IMPORTANT.

CANADA'S BIG FISH by Gil Paust 14 HEAD NORTH IF YOU WANT TO GET THE REALLY BIG FELLOWS.

HOW WE HAVE BEEN LOSING JAPAN by Elizabeth Churchill Brown 16 AT FIRST WE HAD EVERYTHING ON OUR SIDE.

PLANNING YOUR PLANTINGS by Walter Holbrook 18 A SIMPLE LESSON IN EXTERIOR DECORATING.

A LADY WITH A JOB by Edward W. Atkinson 20 THE STORY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE AUXILIARY.

OUR BIG PITCH AT PARIS by Donald R. Wilson 22 HOW WE FAILED AT THE RECENT NATO MEETINGS.

NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 27

Features

SOUND OFF! 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB. 8 PRO AND CON 24

. . 25 EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 PRODUCTS PARADE 8 NEWSLETTER

PERSONAL AFFAIRS. 8 ABOUT BOOKS S PARTING SHOTS . 56

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2 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 Who gave the party for Mary ?

Her parents, of course. And they had the help of supply electric service for Mary's house. It's hard hundreds of other people— men and women that to imagine life without the electricity they provide Mary's parents don't even know. —for everyone depends on electricity for dozens of These people helped Mother bake the cake and jobs all over the house. cook the party food. They helped freeze the ice If you add up all the ways ijon put electricity to cream, sew Mary's dress, and wash and iron it. They work, you'll be surprised. Can you think of anything helped heat, light and clean the house for the party. else that gives so much value, day in and day out, These busy people are the men and women who for so little cost?

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zine of Books, is the best answer I have read to those who complain of Fishin-Fwn for Everyone the sex and general prurience in mod- ern novels: "I wonder why those who WITH dislike the fiction which today not pUSH- BUTTON only outrages decency but threatens the spiritual foundations of our cul-

ture cannot learn that the remedy is

equally simple. Stop reading it. Stop

buying it. Stop talking about it." John Moore

Herriv, III.

CONGRATULATIONS BUT

Sir: Congratulations on the article "I'll Take Teaching," by Thomas P. Ramirez, in your January issue. Wc are happy to see such a favorable arti- cle on the teaching profession appear in your magazine. Even though this is a fine article, we feel that two cri- ticisms are in order. Our first criticism REWARD is this: the author makes it seem that £USH- BUTTON teaching is a part-tiine activity \\ hich Sir: Mr. Sites' article on airships in the leaves much free time for frequent January issue brought to light many and lengthy vacations. Our second nderCast facets of a little-known branch of A push of the button—s-w-i-s-h of the rod criticism is on the basis of pay for naval aviation. I would like to bring — PRESTO-you're Push-Button Fishing. teachers. No matter what the pay of Bait castine to your attention a rather parado.xical AND spinning advantages. the teacher may be at the present time, Ask your dealer about machined gears, item, which was not pointed out in it is not enough, in terms of the re- smo-o-th drag, non-reverse crank, rug- the article, regarding Conidr. Hunt ged construction—other outstanding sponsibilities that the teacher must as- and the Reserve Program in the Navy features. No. 1775 with line, S 19.95 sume. Nor is it enough to give the Send for 5 new fishing booklets — FREE today. On Alarclt 15, 1957, when teacher the firm financial foundation SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Comdr. Hunt landed the Siioivhird that he deserves. KALAMAZOO. after the record-breaking flight. Rear MICHIGAN Samuel Engle Burr, Jr. Adm. Kivctte, .\ssistant DCNO (Air), W asbiiiatoii, ]). C. preset ited him with a letter of com- mendation from .A.dm. Arleigh Burke citing the wonderful contribution to ON UNIONS the Navy that he and his crew had TH/S VEAR . . see Sir: In >'our January issue, you pub- made. Then Fleet .'\dmiral Halsey es- lished a letter from one Harvey Scud- tablished precedent in the Navy by der which criticizes the views of S presenting Comdr. Hunt the DFC for Senator Pat McNamara. I am a great his accomplishment, hi No\ ember admirer of the Senator and feel that 1957 Comdr. Hunt received his "Dear the criticism was unjustified. Many John" letter infortiiing him of his im- nonprofit organizations own buildings pending release from active duty, prior and collect rents, such as universities to March 1, 1958. and even governmental units. Just be- Donald A. Genrich cause a labor union docs the same does Lt. Covnir., USNR not mean it is a profit-making organ- South eyniioiith, Mass. W ization. Legally, the category "non- profit organization" means that there NATO are no individuals who personally tiie activities of the organ- Sir: The real meaning of the NATO profit from ization. course, many individuals fiasco in Paris is that our allies told Of salaries, salary is a far us that they have little faith in our receive but a ideas and are even reluctant to accept cry from the unlimited profit that a private business firm makes. sen d for more of our global bribery. Instead, fREE BOOKLET Kadans they urge us to go to Aloscow and Joseph Treat your family to a 3-way vacation that make a deal with the men in the Detroit, Mich. includes mountains, lakes, and history. Kremlin whose promises are worth- They'll ride highways into the sky in the Sir: Answering Alarc C. Howe's letter Great Smoky Mountains National Park; less and who have repeatedly pro- in the October issue about "Right to fish, boat and swim in Tennessee's 22 claimed that their aim is to destroy W'ork Laws," you can't have a union Great Lakes; see the homes of three us. When will our misguided rulers in half half presidents, historic battlefields, TVA shop with union and who dams, and the world's only Atomic \Vashington learn that torrents of like their freedom. One half pay their Energy Museum at Oak Ridge. Yes, for words, bales of money, and tons of dues, and the freedom lo\ers who three vacations in one, see Tennessee. worthless propaganda will never win don't belong get the same benefits. Send now for free 40-page booklet. for Americans! Unionism is not to blame. What we Eugene W. Castle need is more men in the union move- New York City ment with honor and honesty who Tennessee Division of Information 1759 Corilell Hull Blijg.. Nashville, Tenn. T See page 22 for more on N.\TO. ( Continued on pa^e 51 Please send Free Booklet The Editors Letters published in Sound Off! do not NAME GOOD ADVICE necessarily reiriesent the policy of The Americcni Legion. Ninne withheld if re- ADDRESS quested. Keep your letters short. Address: Sir: 1 bciie\ the following paragraph, e Sound Off. The American Legion Maga- & STATE_ from an article by Edward \\'agen- zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y.

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Not only is there a marked reluctance to discuss this subject in advertising and other official pronouncements, but many companies are even reluctant to support publications and personalities that fight for the free enterprise system. In view of this situation, we think the Photographed at the Nassau Straw Market, one of the tourist Allen Bradley Company of Milwaukee Early attractions of the Bahamas. deserves a special vote of thanks. in the year it purchased two full pages of advertising in several large newspapers, not to sell its electrical equipment but to present some lucid and hard-hitting facts about communism. The copy was the testimony of Dr. Frederick Charles ^F you are like most Schwarz before the House Un-American Activities Committee, telling clearly what couples, the years after forty-five can be as communism is, the attraction it has for a certain type of mentality, and how it rewarding as any in your lives. You've raised achieves its aims. This is basic informa- tion in our cold war with communism, the children, seen them settled. Now you can but for some reason most Americans are ignorant of these simple facts. look forward to enjoying many things you For presenting such material to a large and strategic audience in several cities,

deferred while the family was growing up the Allen Bradley Company is to be com- years secure mended. Wc sincerely trust that other to pleasant made and independ- large manufacturers will follow the Allen ent by a lifetime of saving. How wise to pro- Bradley example in this almost unex- plored field of public service. Commu- tect that independence by investing part of nism is too clear and present a danger to be ignored as "too controversial" for your savings conservatively in safe, sure U.S. public discussion. Savings Bonds! The return is good — 314% at HIDDEN PERSUADERS the bonds' maturity. And you can increase WE TRUST you have been follow- ing the strenuous efforts being made easily your security so by buying more Series to rehabilitate J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is now berthed at Princeton's Insti- E Bonds regularly where you bank or auto- tute for Advanced Studies. Oppenheimer matically through the Payroll Savings Plan at has been highly publicized as a scientific genius, but when certain unsavory facts his background came to light a few work. Or, if you'd rather have your interest as about years ago he was quickly pulled away current income, order Series H Bonds through from top secret government projects. Now a potent group of "hidden per- your banker. The time to do it? Now. When suaders" are trying to sell the public the bill of goods that we have fallen behind financial independence counts, count on U. S. the Soviet because our security experts won't okay the incoherent Dr. Oppen- Savings Bonds! heimer and a few others like him. Presumably these unofficial press agents of the doctor are banking on the fact that The V. S. Govcnnucftt does not pay for this advertise- ment. It is donated by this publication in cooperation Americans have short memories. \\c are With the Advertising Council and the Magazine Pub- lishers Association. supposed to have forgotten testimony- some of it of a sordid nature—which g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 ;

showed how Oppcnheimer consorted with notorious communists for several SELLING OUT SALE! years. Also we are supposed to have for- gotten how Oppy knocked himself out Thousands of Camellias to help develop an atomic bomb when • the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. w ere co-bel- Azaleas Rhododendrons ligerents, but after the w ar did cvers thing Shade Trees • Flowering possible to persuade this country to stop work on the H-bonib. Prcsumabl)', too, Shrubs of Every Description we are supposed to have forgotten how- Actual photo of evergreen English Ivy 6 toot hedge run- parallel 12" apart. Any kind of viire did not complete our selling out sale last generous Oppy was in his cash donations ning up on wire strands We will do. Will grow rapidly anywhere. Plant 6" to 12" apart. season on account of enormous supply of to v arious communist causes. English Ivy is also used to grow on walls, poles, and as stock, but sale will definitely end this sea- ground cover. It runs up on itself and rarely needs trim- son, which closes May 31st. Best quality stock. Is this the sort of fellow to be trusted ming. Rooted cuttings-12 for $3, 100 for $20. Rush your order now. Nothing reserved. scientific projects designed to head with Few of the Bargains off the Soviet drive for world domina- Camellias—Mi.xed from 400 varieties of some of world's finest camellias, unlabeled. Will try to send choice guarantee. 4 6 years old, $3 each. 6 to 10 years old, e.xtra tion? We doubt it, and w e are not in the your but cannot to mostly budded: heavy, budded: $4 each. least impressed by his tub-thumpers. .Sasanqiia Camellias—v^ty hardy—2 years: 6, $5; 12, $9. Native Azaleas— hardy, deciduous, will grow anywhere— mixed colors, 1' to 3': 12, $3; 24, $5; 100, $1S. Rhododendrons—grow anywhere, evergreen, unsurpassed in beauty— mixed colors, 1' to 3': 12, $4; 24, DECISIONS BY COMMITTEE $7; 100. $25. Rose Bushes— Field grown, assorted varieties and colors, 2 years old: 10, $4.50. rushing SINCE EVERYBODY else is Banana Trees— rooted butts, bearing size, will grow in house, shade or sun. 4 years old: each $5. into print to explain why our missile Privet Hedse-2' to 4': 50 for $10, 100 for $15. IVfiiltiflora Rose-2' to 4': 50 for $10; 100 for $15. and satellite program is lagging, w-e might St. Augustine Lawn Grass— it is hardy, plant anytime, evergreen, thrives in shade or sun, $4 per as well the same. However, in our do bushel twigs. case we are merely going to refer to some- Da.vlilies— will grow anywhere. 400 varieties. Will try to send your choice, labeled, but may substitute thing w e published in our November 1956 nearest variety: 6 for $3: 12 for $5. Mixed colors, unlabeled: 24 for $3; 100 for $10. issue. In an article by Edward Hunter Do Your Own Landscaping at These Give-Away Prices entitled "Are Americans Being Brain- All Plants Listed Below Will Grow Anywhere in U.S. Ea.— r to 3'—Flowering Shrubs: Weigela. Spirea. Lilac. Snowberry, Forsythia, Dogwood, Deutzia, washed?" the following appears: 50f Mock Orange, Althea, Redbud, Butterfly Bush, Beauty Bush, Hydrangea, Hypericum, Coral Berry, "The original purpose of having com- Purple Fringe, Crepe Myrtle. mittees has been bent until the\' are a Trees: Weeping Willow, Pin Oak, Maple, Elm, Ash, Tulip, Birch, Red Cedar, Holly. shadow world where responsibility can- Miscellaneous: 50(' Ea.: Honeysuckle, Blackberries. Blueberries. All above plants shipped prepaid. You may com.c to the Nursery and make your selection if desired. not be pinpointed and where decisions No time to send price lists or letters during this sale. Remittance with order. All plants sold as is on become the least common denominator, Sales Lot, On mail orders, you may return any unsatisfactory plants immediately for full refund. instead of the boldest and the most out- MINIIVIUIVI ORDER $3.00. THOUSANDS OF OTHER BARGAINS! COME SEE FOR YOURSELF! Save enough on shrubbery to pay for a trip to Mississippi's beautiful Gulf Coast! standing. I was told that the committee Highway 90, halfway between Gulport and Biloxi. Turn at the Big Sign on the Beach. Shipped now method is the even military way our or when desired. operate now adays. Of course, this makes Address Mail Orders to Spurgeon Pickering. Dept. AL-S3, Biloxi, Miss. bold, pioneer thinking almost impossible. Commiticc rule usually de\elops into power being wielded secretly by some one individual or by a clique."

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Before you add a touch of silver to the present murky business picture The Government of and hope that prices will drop, remember that this year many major labor La Province de Quebec contracts expire. So the flattening-out of costs that we now are experiencing has reserved thousands of lived. virgin lakes, rivers, forests, may be short mountains, as a sportsman's Here is the kind of situation building up on the labor front: paradise. Six great Provincial • In at least seven major areas unions will be asking for new contract Parks offer the finest fishing, terms. They include aircraft, autos, construction, metal-working, oil, rubber, hunting, camping. Hotels, and trucking. None of the unions will start bargaining at less than 15( an camps, guides are eager to hour; indeed, 25( is not uncommon. help you organize the • Additionally, in at least three other major areas automatic adjustments best trip you have in old contracts will take hold. The principal (Continued on page 49) ever enjoyed. CLUB FOR THE MAN WITH AN INTEREST For information and reserva- tions, write: Provincial Publicity IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS. Bureau, Parliament Buildings. Quebec City. Canada: or 48 Rockefeller Center. New York WE'RE WRITING THIS just across the border from Mexico after return- 20, N.Y. ing from a brief stay in that country. The hunting and fishing are great there. There's plenty of fish and lots of game— quail, ducks, geese, deer, antelope, even jaguar. But everything is disoi-ganized. Guides, boats, and know-how are at a premium. The government seems confused about what to tell sportsmen or LA where to send them. We came to the country armed with letters, official PROVINCE documents that were supposed to let down the bars at the border for our OE guns. They didn't work. The army had to pass us, and that took an aggra- vating five-hour wait. (Continued on page 40)

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^e/en^> ft against all enentte^. The sergeant liiiiuhtd over the gun aiul started to hrc, straight out to sea. true story of 30 marines who faced an agonizing death on Guam.

"What is the death party?" the sergeant said. "Where?"

"They are the 30 marines who drink tuba. I don't know where." "Tuba!" the sergeant said, even more batlled. There was

nothing deadly about tuba — he'd been drunk on it a few

times himself since he'd hit the islands. It was just the fer- Y MID-SEPTEMBER 1944 the island of Guam had been, mented sap of the coconut palm, a favorite drink of the according to the official communiques, "secured" for islanders, and the worst you could get out of it was one hell slightly more than a month. Organized resistance on of a hangover. the island had ceased on August 10, but bands of Japanese "Tuba spiked with alky. Jap alky, left by them." soldiers were still there, hiding out in caves in the hills. They Suddenly the sergeant got the drift. "Methyl alky?" he made constant night forays in search of food, and Marine asked. patrols were still busy, night and day, rooting them out of The doctor nodded, hard. The sergeant knew all about that their hideaways. The sound of rifle fire during the night was too. Methyl alky was what the Japanese had used for motor still routine on the island when the events described here took fuel. But if a man drank it, even a small quantity of it— well,

first would come convulsions, then blindness. After that it

would eat its way to the brain. From the stories he'd heard,

the sergeant knew it meant a quick but agonizing death. "Doc, don't you have any idea where the party's at?"

The doctor shrugged, helplessly. "Only that it is somewhere outside Agaha, Sergeant."

"Well, how do vou know anything about it in the first place?" In swift, agitated blurts the doctor explained how five minutes ago a native guard had crawled into the tent that was temporarily his office. The guard had been seized by convulsions and was close to incoherence. But before he lost consciousness completely, the doctor had managed to learn that he had stopped at the home of a Chamorro friend who was waiting to give a tuba party for 30 marines. The Cha- morro's young son had been saved by marines during the worst, early days of the invasion, and he was trying to show his deep gratitude in the only way (Continued on page 47)

Under the unshaded light the native doctor was gasi)ing for breath. Finally he blurted out the horrible story. place. Many who took part in the Guam operation will recall hearing this true story told at the time.

THE NATIVE DOCTOR half-stumbeld into the sergeant's tent, gasping for breath. He was an undernourished-looking, mid- dle-aged Chamorro, and it was easy to see that he had been running hard, without the energy for it. He slumped onto the sergeant's sack, and when his thin chest stopped heaving he blurted: "Sergeant, 30 marines die soon. Any minute, maybe. Un- less we stop them before they get there." The sergeant didn't make much sense out of what the doctor had said. Still, the doctor was sober and there was a look of wild desperation in his eyes. "Easy now. Doc." the sergeant said. "Before they get where?" "The party," the doctor said. "The death party. May be on their way right now." They careened down the long liill leading through Agaiia. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT By JOHN S. GLEASON, JR. of our fighting men will be the decisive factor as it has always been. NATIONAL COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN LEGION That is why the national leadership of The American Legion has so consistent- ly demanded, year after year, the train- ing of our youth for military service in THERE CAN BE NO more fatal form make up for lack of fully trained fight- time of need. No National Commander, of self-deception for this or any ing men to operate them in battle or for no officer of The American Legion, other nation than the idea that lack of competent, experienced leaders whatever his position, could otherwise weapons can take the place of warriors. at all levels of command to direct their be responsibly representative of the The speed, ranges, and destructive use. Legion's membership.

power of today's weapons—not to speak The Legionnaires' knowledge is dis- Nuclear explosives, long-range rock- of tomorrow's—stagger the imagination. tilled from the memories of a thousand ets, supersonic aircraft, nuclear-powered They are far beyond anything that was battlefields. They have seen for them- submarines and surface ships, all the even dreamed of when The American selves what comes of sending under- wonders of electronics and of the pene- Legion first came into being nearly 40 trained men into battle. They know from tration of outer space by manmade vehi- years ago. Yet Legionnaires knew then grim experience the price in blood that cles have not changed one iota a basic,

and know now that no weapons can must be paid in war by a nation that unshakeable fact. This is that the skill, refuses to pay the price in dollars of courage, leadership, and self-sacrifice of training its young men before war men ready to offer their lives for their In this article National Commander Glea- comes. Instinct—the instinct of the vet- country, and trained by their country to son discusses some of the points raised by essential Maj. George Fielding Eliot's article "If eran warrior—warns them that if war do so to some purpose, are the War Should Come," which we published comes again, whatever the power of our ingredients of victory in war and of se- last month. weapons, the quality and competence curity in peace. 12 come the odds against them? cation and in subsequent training and The United States had atomic use of the human product—was the weapons; they had none. The cornerstone of their accomplishments United States had long-range in the armaments field.

aircraft and a vast experience I am not nearly so alarmed by the in their operation; they had enemy's gains in developing missiles as

none. They didn't even have I am by his gains in creating the broad, a respectable air defense sys- firm foundation of trained manpower tem. The Soviet planners saw upon which to base his future efforts in at once that they could not weapons production and in any type of hope to overtake the Ameri- war in which his weapons may be em-

can lead in long-range air- ployed. He is much farther ahead of

atomic capabilities based on us in this respect than he is in hardware. Our most urgent— indeed, desperate-

military requirement is to overtake that

lead, and to do it just as quickly as pos- sible. If we do not immediately start a crash program to bring our military leader- ship and technical skill up to the stand- ards of the nuclear-jet-electronic revo- lutionary era in which we live, crash programs to improve the qualities of our missiles or any other weapon are not going to matter very much. This crewman of the atomic submarine TIME is the vital commodity. We Nautilus bears a heavy responsibility. have wasted the postwar years. We (Continued on page 36)

This nuclear-jet-electronic revo-

lution is a technological revolu-

tion. It is the product of human intellects and skills. It profoundly affects and will continue to affect

all human institutions; it has become a ad- way of life. If not correctly appraised Ralph J. Cordiner, whose committee and applied by any nation or any insti- vocated a new deal for men in service.

tution, it may also become a way of manned aircraft as the means of de- death. livery. It has not changed the relative im- The only Soviet hope was in weapons portance of man and machines. Man is of massive destruction, hurled outward still the master of his creatures, how- from their land mass against the bases, ever enormous the capabilities he has the cities, the military establishments of engineered into them. But to retain this the free world. That was why, imme- mastery, to exploit to the full the capa- diately after World War II ended, the bilities which human genius has pro- Soviet planners made the development duced, demands vastly increased capa- of long-range missiles their primary ob- bilities from man himself: capabilities jective. Their present lead in that class which take years to acquire and other of weapons is the product of 1 2 years years to perfect. of thorough planning and hard work. This is where our military program That planning began with people. The has fallen down. Soviet personnel program—both in edu- have been stockpiling military We T he scr\iics iiuist attract top-grade hardware and nuclear explosives. We men and keep these men in uniform. have not been stockpiling the military wav is l)v recognizing that servicemen are entitled to a i)leasant home lile. skills necessary to use the hardware and One

the explosives effectively if war should come. What makes our present position in

this respect truly dangerous is the fact that our Soviet enemy has been stock- piling BOTH, weapons and military skills. When the Soviet leaders began pick- ing up the pieces of their shattered economy after the end of World War II, they faced a grim prospect unless they were prepared to abandon all plans for world domination. This they were not ready to do. But how were they to over- By GIL PAUST PROBABLY NO FRESH-WATER fisher- man will ever succeed in creeling so many big fish that in telling about them afterward he won't feel the slightest temptation to lie about them. But should such an ethical miracle oc- cur, the likeliest spot for it will be Canada. Canada's rivers, streams, and lakes total 146,116,480 acres and comprise more than half the fresh waters of the world! Ninety-five percent of these waters are cold and clean, fed by snow- hooded mountains and filtered crystal clear as they tumble through the prime- val forests that cover two-thirds of the country. And even the most accessible spots aren't apt to be fished-out in a hurry. In 1955, the latest year for which Our northern neighbor has the a tally is available, Ontario's fabulous fincubators alone dumped 2 million lake trout, 3 million speckled trout, 1 Vz mil- answer to almost any angler's prayer. lion black bass, 3% million muskellunge, 100 million pike, and a few tons of

Quebec's lakes and rivers are packed with bass, trout, salmon. Flycasting from a rock in northern Saskaichcuan. several other species for a grand total of 286,267,000. — none of eet ees bad, but some ees bettair zan ozzairs!" To reach all this fish you can travel by car, use the facili- For a general idea of Canada's game-fish layout, the coun- ties of either the Canadian Pacific or the Canadian National try can be divided from coast to coast into three sections of Railways, or— if you want to reach the remotest areas—you about the same areas. On the Atlantic side there are princi- can charter a plane. In the strip of Canada just above the pally the Atlantic salmon, ouananiche, speckled trout, and line you'll find the most practical selection of fishing areas, smallmouth bass. In the center section are northern pike, and there are certain to be some choice lunker holes due muskies, and smallmouth bass. On the Pacific side the sports- north of you no matter where you live in the U. S. Unless man's favorites are the Pacific salmon; the rainbow, steelhead, you are an experienced angler with a predilection to explor- and cutthroat trout; and a recently bred trout cross called the ing, you will be wise to leave the unknown alone and choose splake. Lake trout are everywhere. one of these proven spots where hot fishing is virtually guar- Atlantic Salmon: Fresh-water fishermen rate this scrapper anteed. An old Canuck guide, in describing Canadian fish- tops. ing, expressed it as follows: "Our feeshing ees lak cognac New Brunswick, bordering Maine, has the nearest and 14 Father and son inspect 511b. muskie caught in a northern Ontario lake.

You'll find fish and beautiful scenery at Lake Minnewanka in Alberta.

most popular salmon rivers, although many of them are privately leased. But plenty of good pools are still open on the world-famous Miramichi, Restigouche, and Upsalquitch Rivers. Every nonresident must employ a guide, and licenses cost $5 per day and up. However, for this you can count on a good catch. If you are travel minded, you can push on a bit farther and take your salmon at nominal cost. Another 300 miles will take you to Nova Scotia where there are no leased waters, where a nonresident season license costs only $5 and a single guide can serve up to three anglers. Here the salmon rivers are not as consistently prolific because they are public and

fished more heavily than those in New Brunswick. But if you hit them during the spawning "run," you'll get all the sport you can handle. The best are the Margaree River where the record 521 2 -pound fish was killed in 1927 at the Old Bridge Pool; the St. Mary's where salmon are larger than the average 10 to 15 pounds and you are apt to snag a 30-pounder; and the Medway, one of the best producers. An additional 100 miles by steamer out of North Sidney on Cape Breton Island above Nova Scotia Eager fisherman pulls a big one from Stony will land you and your car on an island whose fishing will soon make you Lake in the Kawartha Lakes area of Ontario. forget its long distance from home—Newfound- (Continued on pai^e 41)

Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, provides a trout for these two anglers. Fish abound in Province of New Brunswick. How we A Pro-communist demonstrators agitate against the U.S.A. in Tokyo's Ginza. have been

We persist in pushing American-style democ-

(General iMacArchur arrives at the throats of people— regardless. liis lieadquarters alter learn- racy down ing of his abru])t dismissal.

By ELIZABETH CHURCHILL BROWN

LMOST EVERYONE who has re- also came to realize the extent to which cently lived in Japan will tell you the United States has lost face among

that anti-Americanism is grow- the Japanese, a condition which found ing there. While visiting there recently, a climax with the Girard case and the traditional I became well aware of this feeling, Russian sputniks. Under the which was expressed in many ways. I politeness of the Japanese it was not difficult to sense their contempt for the nation that brought them to their knees and then spent billions of dollars to re- habilitate them. Why this return on an investment in money and friendship that is unprece- dented in history? The answer is that, either by lack of foresight, ignorance, or trusting the wrong people, we have Our Defense Department gone about almost everything we have turned loose films like these done for them in the wrong way. which hurt American ])opu- larity. Above is a ])icture of Tokyo bombing, at right a kamikaze sCrike on American shij), the U.S.S. LexinnUm. John Emmerson, inset, of our State Department, j)ersonally escorted Servicemen dancing in a newly opened night club. Many Japanese two notorious communists, Shiga and Tokuda, from Fuchu Prison. were u|)set to learn that GI*s were to mingle with their women. Some Tokuda is at lelt and Shiga at right. Center is Kuroki, another red. Jaj)anese girls defied parents, horrifying them by their actions.

With great fanfare we set out to give democracy to Japan. We presented the Japanese with a brandnew constitution patterned after our own. But this constitution did not

evolve from the thinking of the Japanese themselves; it is something imposed on them by officials in Washington. We pushed American-style democracy down the throat of a

people still incapable of digesting it. We gave them billions of dollars to rebuild their factories with the latest equipment. Now they no longer have to de- pend on cheap goods and toys for export, but can compete with the whole world in production of heavy industry. We built first-class airbases which will eventually be turned over to them lock, stock, and barrel. We helped rebuild their homes and schools and public buildings. But our Govern- consideration that Japan, with its We deflated the Emperor, The Jaj)anese misiinder- ment didn't take into leaving a religious and stood America's concern great national pride, might feel humiliated by our extrava- poh'tical vacuum in Japan. over the Girard case. gant generosity. Putting them on their feet to help them- selves would have been one thing, but to spoon feed our

defeated enemy with caviar, however tasty it is, infringes on

their self-respect. They eat it, but they don't like it. There are naturally some quite normal reasons for the Japanese to dislike Americans. They are a proud people who have never been conquered before. Nor had their country ever been occupied by an enemy. Our troops, even the token force remaining for 12 years after the end of the war, rankled deeply. Being a proud people, the Japanese thoroughly believe in the purity of their race. For 50 years they occupied Korea, but the percentage of intermarriage with the Koreans was very small. For 50 years they occupied Formosa, and the same thing held true. The purity of their race, they believe, makes them a strong and respected nation. When they learned that the occupation GI's were permitted to mingle freely with their girls, many Japanese parents were upset. Some kept their daughters away from the American boys. 3ne effect of our actions has been to bring the USSR and Japan But we were teaching the young in Japan that girls are loser together. Here Suemitsu Kadowaki presents his credentials equal to men and need no longer do as their menfolk tell o K. E. Voroshilov, President of the Presidium at the Kremlin. them. And young people are im- (Continued on page 50) 17 l)o\\vood. This well-landscaped house is (liiiiined witli rhododeiidioii, \ew, and slow gi owing

By WALTER HOLBROOK

/;~>r-'o YOU WANT A Handsomely landscaped home — at least as good as the folks next door have—but you don't want to spend all your spare time trim- ming the grass, weeding the flower beds, spraying, and Planning pruning the way they do? Nor do you want to invest a lot of money in it. You can do it easily, provided you: Plan carefully, in advance, on paper. your Pick out the right plants. Prepare the soil properly he/ore you set them out. Plant them correctly. Soak them once a week until the fall rains come and during droughts. Your original outlay may or may not be more than Plantings that of your neighbors, but your upkeep, in money, time, and sweat, can be much less. First costs will de- pend on the size of your lot. the terrain, and whether you are willing to wait for things to grow a little after yourself many you set them out, as well as on your choice of plants. You can save Suppose you have a quarter of an acre. If you do all the work except the rough grading and rotary plowing yourself, and if you have no special problems of ter- hours of hard work by doing your rain, you can get by for less than $500. Of this you should spend at least $300 and preferably more the first year. It's mighty easy to spend several times $500 paper. on plants alone, of course. If your land is swampy and preliminary gardening on

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Have your soil ana- Keep your flowers for cutting in their own area. Twin circles on your plan lyzed by an expert. will show how j)lants spread.

A croj> of rye grass will A good heavy roller l>rovide green manuring. is a gardening must.

you have to put in tile drains, if you have to build a retain- ing wall or buy several loads of topsoil at six dollars a yard, you can spend several times $500 before you buy any grass seed, much less a single bush or tree. The greatest saving, both in money and sweat, and the most attractive landscaping will often come from taking advantage of the natural terrain. If have large out- you For a spot like this be tarelul Ut selctt plants croppings of ledge rock, for example, it will generally be that will not grow too fast and sj)oil the view. less expensive and the result will be more attractive if you go in for rock gardening, even though ordinarily rock Lay hit; It Out on Paper gardens cost more in time and money, to maintain as well In any event, measure carefully and lay out as to build, than any other kind of landscaping. the whole place in advance and to scale on graph paper. Remember that the front yard is a pretty

public area; so it is usually best to keep it simple and in harmony with your neighbors' lawns. Divide the back yard into a private area (where you can take a sunbath or entertain) and a utility area (where the little woman can hang out clothes, the kids can have room to play, and you can grow a few vegetables and flowers for cutting) Space your trees and shrubs carefully, draw- ing two circles, one within the other, for each tree or shrub. The larger circle should represent the ultimate growth and the smaller one the size you intend to buy. Allow each plant room enough to grow unless your purse is long and you plan to thin them out every year or so. You may want to compromise here and put things a little closer

than you should, or better, fill in with cheap shrubs you intend to move or cut down in a few years. One way to hold down costs is to remember

that unless your house is perched on a tall foun-

dation, it doesn't need a green ruffle ail around

it. Don't put forest giants under your windows. This may seem obvious advice, but look around

you at those who have done it. The only way they will ever be able to see out their windows again Tiresome clipping can be avoided if you plant borders of pachysandra is to chop the trees down and start over. and other plants to serve as a buffer zone for your lawn mower. For the handsomest (Conliinied on pciiie 44) 19 NATIONAL PRESIDENT THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY A LADY WITH A JOB By EDWARD W. ATKINSON

EVERY FAMILY there is always one child to whom INthe others look in times of crisis. Usually it's the oldest child who pitches in to help the mother and to keep the other children in line. Hoiv one dedicated ivoman has In the Oscar M. Smith family of Valdosta, Georgia, it was the third child, Mildred, who always lent the helping hand. other people. Whenever there was a job to be done, Mildred was spent her life helping there to do it. When her seven brothers and sisters needed advice, they turned to Mildred. And she was always there, ready to help carry the burden, ready io offer a word of counsel. It came about because her husband was always on the

To her, it was the most natural thing in the world. When lookout for some way to help his fellow man. An ardent people need help, somebody helps them. She was the some- Legionnaire, Pat Kelly traveled thousands of miles over body who did so. rough country roads in rural Georgia to attend American The habit of helping others stayed with Mildred. In the Legion meetings and to make life a bit easier for veterans

1920's after she had married J. Pat Kelly, she was still ready and their families. Mildred went with him on many of these and eager to give aid whenever and wherever she could. jolting rides, and spent many a long, lonely hour sitting in And before long she saw an excellent opportunity to do so. the family car waiting for him. 20 Sitting outside a Legion hall or beside an unpainted shack ment. They recognized what she had done. They were con- that was home for some vet and his family, she pondered fident she could do more, and on September 19 they unani- Pat's enthusiastic descriptions of the Legion and its work, his mously elected her the 37th President of the nation's largest glowing reports of the friendships made among Legionnaires, organization of patriotic women. the seemingly limitless opportunities it offered for service. Charming, blue-eyed Mrs. Kelly is eminently qualified Neither waiting nor pondering, however, was Mildred for the job. Commenting on her election, one longtime Aux- Kelly's long suit. She wanted to do something useful; she iliary official said, '"Mrs. Kelly has tremendous ability and wanted to help too. energy. If she were a man, she would have been a Senator

Looking around her to determine how best to go about it, or business executive. As it is, she has raised a son and she found close at hand an agency tailor-made for those who devoted her ability and energy to serving her country and wish to serve. She saw that the American Legion Auxiliary the Auxiliary." was dedicated to doing precisely what she wanted to do, Mrs. J. Pat Kelly was born in Valdosta. Georgia, the and she joined the local Unit. daughter of Oscar M. and Clara (Graves) Smith. Her lawyer Characteristically, she worked hard to make the Auxiliary's father, a descendant of colonists who were among the first program effective. Throughout the more than 30 years she to settle Georgia, was mayor and city judge in Valdosta. has given the organization since then, she has consistently Her mother's antecedents were pioneers in Connecticut. combined great ability and apparently boundless energy with She completed grade and high school in Valdosta, then a selfless desire to help people. In so doing she has served attended the Georgia-Florida Commercial College, and stud- the Auxiliary well in her community, in her State, and na- ied education at the Georgia State Women's College (now tionally. Such ability and devotion have not gone unnoticed. Valdosta State College, a branch of the University of Over the years Mildred Kelly has filled an impressive num- Georgia). After having been graduated from both these col- ber of responsible offices in the Auxiliary. leges, she taught school — the fourth and fifth grades — in The delegates to the Auxiliary's 1957 National Conven- Brewton, Georgia. tion, meeting in the flower-decked, bunting-draped ballroom While still a student, Mildred was swept up in a storybook of mammoth Convention Hall in Atlantic City. New Jersey, romance that eventually led to the altar. It began because her were well aware of her record of dedication and accomplish- sister had a friend in the service on (Continued on page 54) 21 Were the recent NATO meetings the beginning

of the end ?

By DONALD R. WILSON measures which are less than likely to bring victory about. Even more do I de- test those who publicize as accomplish- ALRKADY BEEN Written ments policies and conclusions which 1^ Ml l^^l and spoken about the results, are sterile when measured by the yard- y produced by the Paris meeting stick of victory. Such publicity encour- of the heads of the NATO governments. ages us to deceive ourselves, and self-

It is doubtful whether any writing now of honeyed optimism to startle at least deception is the essence of defeat.

can enable truth and realism to shine a few people. It also ought to bring forth Strong language? I intend it to be forth from the tinsel of press-agentry quite a response from those who live in strong. The potential strength of lan-

which has covered up the appalling an intellectual twilight zone that knows guage is about all we have left to make nakedness of the NATO discussions. But neither victory nor defeat. They should, us rally ourselves in time to avert dis-

at least someone ought to try even if it as a matter of fact, bleat rather heartily aster. does no immediate large-scale good. over such "'lack of understanding." I assume that the Soviet Union is the Perhaps a few will be stimulated to think For my own part, I acknowledge only home of a worldwide military conspiracy realistically and fearlessly. We may yet one unit of measure in today's interna- which has as its ultimate goal the sub- have time to cut through the fabric of tional peril. That unit of measure is jugation of the remainder of the world.

unreasoning self-deception if only some- victory over the proposed world tyranny I assume, from the very essence of the one sufficiently challenges us so to think. of the Soviet Union. Whatever contrib- philosophy of communism, that the

The NATO meetings constituted a utes to victory, I applaud. I abhor any Soviet Union dares not compromise that dismal and frightening failure politically, compromise of that goal. I detest any ultimate objective. Tactics may shift and diplomatically, and militarily. This state- effort by anyone who either suggests that change with circumstances, but the stra- ment is sufficiently off the beaten track victory is not the goal or who approves tegy of world dominion must not be 22 changed by the Soviets. The whole struc- down into two time zones— before the can stay alive. All this is thoroughly in- ture of the Soviet system would collapse conference and after the conference. It's nocuous and about as meaningful as a if that strategy were ever changed. unfortunate that we have to do this, poorly organized introduction to a long-

Such a strategy is, in fact, a declara- but we do simply because the stories of winded speech. Nothing new, nothing tion of war against the United States and the two periods are completely different. startling, nothing of real consequence to every other nation not yet a part of the Before the conference we were told the Soviet aggressor. Soviet system. Such a strategy — irre- that the impact of Russia's claim that We finish reading "The Declaration vocable and unchangeable — is necessar- she had an operative ICBM and the fact of Principles" with the feeling that it ily founded on a fervent belief in the of her two earth-circling sputniks had failed to come to grips with the only reality of ultimate and complete victory. seriously shaken confidence in America's realistic statement in it: "The Commu-

This is the war. Our opponent passion- strength. America had been asleep at nist rulers again gave clear warning of ately believes in his victory. We dare not the switch. Russia had gone out front. their determination to press on to domi- believe less passionately in our own. We Everybody was scared. Hence the sug- nation over the entire world, if possible dare not conceive of this as a different gestion was to have a big meeting, pro- by submission, if necessary by violence." type of struggle from that defined by our claim victory as the goal, ring the Soviet But if "The Declaration of Principles" enemy. That way lies defeat. We must Union with missile bases and determina- seems weak, we still don't get the full take up the challenge as issued and fight tion, let every NATO nation put its eftect of bankruptcy until we have fin- it through on an undeviating life-or- shoulder to the wheel, present a united ished reading "The Communique." death basis until total victory is ours. front, call the Russian bluff, praise the First, "The Communique" reviews

To resolve less is to surrender and perish. Lord and pass the ammunition. the international situation and finds it Either these assumptions regarding The big trouble with this idea was bad particularly with reference to the our enemy are true or they are false. If that it was too little too late for those failure to unify Germany, the lack of they are false, then all the furor of the who were too scared. Consequently, stability in the Middle East, and the past several years regarding the Soviet after the meeting, its stated purposes serious events in Indonesia. This section system has been made up of a tissue of suddenly and magically became merely closes with a pious hope that the nations lies, and the American people have been to reaffirm the alliance, to lay plans for Oi A. rid will cooperate with the free foully misled. If, however, these assump- more detailed conferences, to gain time world lo bring about their own prosper- tions are true, then we are today being by talking, to assuage the fears of our ous development. misled as to the response which we must allies by giving them a greater voice in This is a sorry review of the inter- give to them. how to help us overcome our impotence. national situation even measured by the

1 believe the assumptions are true. I How disgusting and duplicitous can standards of a high school civics student. believe, therefore, that we are reliving you get? However, I suppose that any statement the era of Carthage and Rome. You will The fact is that we made our big pitch, would have to be pretty weak if all the recall that the backbone of all Roman and all our allies to whom we had given heads of government were to be signa- policy was "Carthage must be de- so much told us frankly that we weren't tories to it. You couldn't reasonably ex- stroyed." Carthaginian half-measures, a very good risk and that they'd rather pect them to say much about the rape compromises, and self-deception gave not get back-to-back with us at the pres- of Hungary, the general viciousness of victory to Rome and resulted in Car- ent time. Maybe later, but not right now Red China, the sham of the Korean thage being cruelly and completely —the odds were too great. After that the truce, the "neutralism" of India, the erased for all time. conference became a matter of trying poised dagger aimed at the innards of So, today, we live in an era when the to save our faces even though our skins the Malayan Penninsula, the arrogance backbone of Russian policy is "America had been hung up to dry. of Egypt and Syria, the duplicity of must be destroyed." I plead against So much for the purposes of the con- Yugoslavia, the ineffectiveness of U.N. American half-measures, compromises, ference as announced both before and resolutions, and a host of other vital and self-deception. after. problems which really go to make up

It is by this standard that I contend Now. what about the actual results? the present perilous international pic- that the NATO meetings were and are Here again, you have to differentiate be- ture and which have to be dealt with in sterile of accomplishment. tween fact and fiction, between policy a hard and realistic manner. President Eisenhower's "The deci- and propaganda. What vices are being So we have to conclude that the heads sions promise far-reaching results, and painted as virtues? What defeats are of government used just enough lan- should make war less likely, peace more veneered as victories? These questions guage to manifest an interest while sure" is too reminiscent of Neville call for an analysis that is both pains- avoiding calling a spade a spade. Chamberlain's "Peace in our time." We taking and painful. Then we come to a section which have the eerie feeling of having heard There are two basic documents ema- apparently deals with the "working of this part of the symphony of Whistling nating from the conference which pro- the alliance." This sets forth the propo- in the Dark before. This is the part vide our logical starting point. One is sition that the permanent representatives which precedes the roar of the timpani "The Declaration of Principles." and to NATO should be kept fully advised of assault and the crash of the cymbals the other is "The Communique." of all governmental policies which affect of terror and annihilation. I've heard "The Declaration of Principles" is a all other governments of the alliance so enough of the symphony. I want to stop disjointed and confusing jumble of that there can be a broad coordination it now before it works its hypnotic magic words which manages to convey the of policy. again. idea that NATO was formed to enable This is an open invitation to confu- With these preliminaries out of the all member nations to resist an attack sion and inaction rather than coordina- road, let's ask some fundamental and which could only come from Russia; tion. Let's see how it works out in prac- embarrassing questions. Worse still, let's that Russia still makes noises that sound tice. Prior to the NATO meeting Bul- try to evaluate the sometimes equally like world dominion; that NATO, there- ganin sent Eisenhower a note. It was a embarrassing answers as we go along. fore, still seems to be a good idea; and note which deserved a prompt, short,

First of all, why was a NATO con- that to make it an even better idea, all and to-the-point reply. Unfortunately, it ference of the heads of government ever of us ought to cooperate more particu- did not get that kind of reply. A draft held? To get the answer to this simple larly in the economic, social, and sci- was belatedly prepared and sort of question, you have to break the question entific worlds so that individual liberties (Continued on page 35) 23 iSTOi Pll(3)^S(S)ra

PRESENTING BOTH SIDES OF BIG ISSUES FACING THE NATION

THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT: What shouM foe the political and economic

relationship between the U. S. and our NATO allies?

There is not the least doubt that we The United States should not sur-

should have closer political and eco- render its independent judgment on nomic ties with our North Atlantic political or economic matters to any allies. supranational authority. We should, All our foreign policy, including our of course, cooperate closely and con- participation in NATO, has only one sult frequently with anticommunist end in view. That end is our own sur- members of the NATO alliance. vival as a free nation in a free world. Now a military alliance can contribute toward that The case for political or economic purpose only if all the members are headed in the union usually consists of an emotional appeal for self- same direction. We can cite many examples. per- . preservation coupled with a nebulous vision of petual peace and plenty. There is a good reason for Just a little over a year ago NATO—an alliance of 15 nations who had mutually agreed that their com- this capacious rhetoric. The American people are most mon defense was essential to all—was apparently hope- reluctant to make their country a subordinate prov- lessly split over the Suez crisis. This gave comfort, ince in an Atlantic Union governmerxt. This reluctance unfortunately, to the only potential common enemy hardens to conviction when only a few of the many that we have in the world. disadvantages of the proposed union are examined.

We learned then that we did not have effective liai- Of the 15 NATO members only the United States son or methods of prior consultation which would and one or two others accept free competitive enter- even make all of us aware of the position of the others. prise as an economic way of life, rejecting both state The Hungarian revolution—a tremendous popular socialism and private cartels. Capitalism and social- uprising—was cruelly and relentlessly crushed by the ism cannot coexist in any true economic union. As- Soviet Union, and the free world stood by helpless, suming that the will of the union majority would pre- realizing that it had no common plan to give succor vail, the American people would be forced to scrap in this time of need. What happens when the next the world has satellite revolts? the most productive economic system ever seen. Just a couple of months ago, NATO was split again —over the British and United States shipment of arms T?ie probable consequences of a political union of to Tunisia. I personally looked into this matter very NATO members are even more dismal. In such a carefully, because I to be attending the happened union the American people would be a minority group NATO Parliamentarians' Conference at the time. protesting vainly, for example, a foreign policy tied Once again we hadn't discussed the matter fully with to colonialism: a defense policy based on half-hearted our allies. Not even the Secretary General of NATO was informed. resistance to Soviet aims ; and an internal security policy dealing gently, if at all, with the communist These are just a few of the latest of examples ten- fifth column. sions created by the weakest links in our NATO chain —the links of political and economic consultation and For the past 15 years freedom-loving people on both cooperation. Along with our allies, we must be about sides of the Iron Curtain have looked hopefully to the business of strengthening those links, or else we America as the leader of the free world. Having ac- will awaken some morning to find that the chain has snapped. cepted this role, we have no honorable course but to lead. To surrender this awesome responsibility of There can be no lasting military ties, unless they world leadership to a NATO union in which we could are accompanied by political and economic coopera- be outvoted on every issue would betray the hopes tion. of untold millions who believe as fervently as Lincoln ever did that America is "the last best hope of earth."

Estes Kefauver (D), U. S. Senator irom Tennessee John W. Bricker (R), U. S. Senator Irom Ohio

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MINNESOTA NOW PROCESSING federal tax ... Insurance dividends themselves are KOREA BONUS APPLICATIONS: not taxable as they are not current income, but a

The state of Minnesota is now processing claims rebate on premiums paid in an earlier year. . for payment of its bonus for veterans of Korea- However, those who leave their dividends with the period service .. .Bonus was approved by the 1957 VA at interest must report the interest credited to legislature .. .Deadline for application s is their account in 1957 as taxable income.

Dec . 5 1 , 1958 . . .Actual payments will begin in January, 1959. 8 & 40 OFFERS $1,000 SCHOLARSHIPS To be eligible, a veteran must have served at FOR NURSE TRAINING IN TUBERCULOSIS FIELD: least 30 consecutive days in the U. S. Armed Forces The nat'l 8&40, service society of The American be tween June 27^ 1950 and July 27j. 1953j. and have Legion Auxiliary, grants a limited number of $1,000 been a resident of Minnesota for at least six months scholarships for the training of nurses for full prior to entering such service. time work in the field of tuberculosis control... Those who were on continuous active duty for They are for persons who already have a nursing four years or more immediately prior to background, and an opportunity to take specialized

June 27, 1950 are not eligible. training in the tuberculosis field. . .For details, and to apply, write American Legion Education and Veterans who became eligible to receive the Scholarship Committee, P. 0. Box 1055, (for in the Korean Korean Service Medal duty Indianapolis, Ind .. .Deadline is June 1 on theater of hostilities) rate |15 per month of awards for 1958-59 school year. foreign service, and $7.50 per month of domestic service, maximum of up to a 5J400. BILL TO COMBINE NEARLY ALL Veterans who did not become eligible for the VETERANS LAWS IN ONE ACT: Korean Service Medal (lacking service in the Veterans Administration officials fervently Korean of hostilities) rate per theater $7.50 hope a mammoth new bill will be enacted into law as month of active duty up to a maximum of $200. quickly as possible ... The 421-page bill (HR9700) The full payable to next-of-kin $400 bonus is has been introduced by House vets affairs chmn of those killed in action. Olin E. Teague (Texas) to put between the covers of Next-of-kin of those who died in service one act all existing veterans benefit laws that are (not killed in action) or who died after service, administered by the Veterans Administration... may qualify for the bonus earned by the deceased. In January, The American Legion, which has long For details, and apply, write: Lyle to favored such consolidation, testified for the bill. Kinvig, Commiss ioner Minnesot a Department Sj_aie pX Keen interest in quick passage on the part of of Veterans Affairs , Korean Bonus Division the VA results from fact that only last summer a

St . Paul , Minnesota . 1 similar bill, but smaller in scope, was enacted * * * * PENNSYLVANIA into law. . .That law (Public Law 85-56) consolidated KOREA BONUS all veterans compensa tion and pe-s ion lav/s into IS NOT PAYABLE YET: one. . .The new bill would now swallov/ up that law Payment of the Pennsylvania bonus for service as well as others. . .The VA hasn't gotten around in the Korean conflict must await action of the to revising its regulations to conform to last 1959 session of the state legislature .. .Voters at summer's consolidation yet, so VA staffers are the polls last Election Day approved in principle praying HR9700 will go through Congress so fast payment of a Korea bonus based on length of service that they can get right to work on it.. .Otherwise and not to exceed $500. . .No provision was made at they may have to revise their regulations twice -- that time for raising the money .. .Following first to conform to PL85-56, and then again to approval by the voters, the method of raising the conform to HR9700 money will come before the next mee ting; of the Purpose of new bill is merely to consolidate legislatur e. . .Pennsylvania's legislature meets many scattered laws and amendments, not alter them only in odd-numbered years, so the question will . . .Legion staff members carefully s tud ied the huge come before the 1959 session. . .Ea rlies t possible bill to detect unintentional alterations in law date for receiving applications and making that might have crept in, before testifying in its payments would be in 1960. favor... Two small changes were advocated by the Legion. TAXABLE VA PAYMENTS: The only income received from the Veterans LEGION SEEKS TO LOWER AGE LIMIT Administration which veterans must declare as FOR WAR ORPHANS RESTORATIVE TRAINING: taxable income in filing their 1957 Federal Income The American Legion Child Welfare Commission Tax returns (before April 15) is in terest on is seeking an amendment to the War Orphans insurance dividends held by the VA. . .Compensation, Education Act. . .It asks that the age limit be pension and other VA benefits are exempt from the lowered for the provisions of that act which offer

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federal educational aid to handicapped children, of the decision, and until this action is for restorative train ing . . .The War Orphans completed, the decision will not be final Education Act allows GI-Bill type educational help to all children who lost a parent as a result The decision went against a practice of the of wartime military service ... The general minimum Bureau of refusing to pay compensation for the

in . . . age limit was set at age 18. . .Generally, the bill first six months following a death service provides aid for higher education and vocational The Bureau refused because military pay continues training beyond high school... It also includes for six months after an in-service death. . .The restorative training for eligible children who Legion challenged this practice, saying there was have a physical handicap. no basis in law for withholding compensation during

The Child Welfare Commission points out that the extension of military pay. . .A Labor Dep't while the age-18 minimum applies reasonably to most appeals board upheld the Legion contention last beneficiaries of the bill, resto rative tra ining fall, in effect requiring the Bureau to pay back for the handicapped should begin as early as benefits to everyone on its rolls who is drawing

compensation for a in military . . possible . .Other groups interested in the welfare death service. of handicapped children are joining with the But the Bureau had 30 days in which to seek a

Legion in seeking an amendment to the age limit reversal, and it has used that right. . .Both the for restorative training. Bureau and the Legion have filed their last round arguments, and the final oral hearing was set FOUNDATION OFFERS BLIND for the end of February. The matter does not concern widows or orphans FREE GUIDE DOGS 8t TRAINING: who are drawing compensation from the Veterans Free guide dogs for the blind, plus four weeks Administration, as the VA had never held up free training in their use and care -- including compensation during the period when military pay board and lodging -- are offered by the Second continued after an in-service death. Sight Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind of

Forest Hills, Long Island, N.Y. . .Applicants must be totally blind, be in good health, need the dog ARMY PUBLISHES FIRST VOLUME "for constructive purposes" and provide adequate ON WW2 IN MEDITERRANEAN THEATER; The landings in North Africa, and their care for the dog, the Foundation has advised de- velopment, main "Newsletter For details write: Second Sight are the subject of a new 748-page WW2 Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, 71-11 Austin volume of history recently published by the

U.S. Army. . .Title of the new book is "Nor t St., Forest Hills 75, New York. hwest

A frica . Seizing the In iti a tive in the West" by

George F. Howe. . .Book is the first of the VETS GET TAX BREAKS Army's subseries on the Mediterranean theater of IN MANY STATES: operations, and the 37th in the Army's huge series Among the special recognition that many states " entitled "U.S. Army in World War II . . . .As usual have given their veterans for their war services in this splendid series, the story of the North to the nation, often at the behest of The American African operation (and of its strategic and poli- Legion, is a reduction on their real estate or tical background) is told in such detail that even persona l property tax. . .While thousands of those who were in it may learn much from the book. veterans are familiar with their local laws in . . .Volume is available from the Sup't of Docu- this regard, "Newsletter" has noted that many ments, U.S. Gov't Printing Office, Washington 25, others seem unaware of them ...If you own D.C Price: $7.75. property that is taxed locally, and don't know of * * t * any such provision in your state, ask your local WW2 GI LOAN PROGRAM American Legion Post Service Officer. . .Where ENDS THIS JUNE: such tax breaks are available it is always Unless extended by the present Congress, the neces sary ppl . . .The state laws vary. . .Thus, to a y GI home loan program for WW2 veterans will end in two neighboring states, Nev/ Jersey provides a June 25 this year ... Applications after that date reduction in the assessed value of war flat $500 a could not be honored under present law... The veteran's home, while New York allows an assessment Korea GI Bill continues until Jan. 31, 1965. investment reduction based on an in a veteran's However, both programs are nearly dead today home of he has received: bonus, veterans benefits because Congress has not let veterans offer lenders dividends, mustering out pay, gov't insurance an interest rate consistent with what lenders disability compensation, etc. can get elsewhere. * * * * In December, only 8,508 veterans applied for WIDOWS MUST WAIT FOR home loans... In December 1955 there were 45,514 BACK BENEFITS WON FOR applications; 33,118 in December, 1956. THEM IN APPEAL BY LEGION: Widows and orphans of reservists who are MANY LEAVE DIVIDENDS WITH VA: drawing Federal Employees Compensation for loss of Of 5,300,000 veterans who will get insurance a breadwinner in military service will have to wai t dividends from the VA this year, 1,100,000 have for back-benefits that a recent American Legion asked the VA to hold the dividends as a cash credit appeal won for them. to their account. . .Some of them have the dividends The Legion won an appeal decision that would credited directly to premium payments in advance require six-months back benefits to be paid them-- (at a discount) . . .Others keep paying the full the amounts running into several thousand dollars premiums, let the dividends gather at interest, and in some cases. . .However, the paying agency (the authorize the VA to use them to pay a premium that Bureau of Employees Compensation of the Dep't of they might miss, as a safeguard against the Labor) has exercised its right to seek a reversal policy lapsing.

25 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 NEWS ofTkeAmerican Legitton and Veterans' Affairs

Legion state conferences in Minnesota, Legion Busy on Many Fronts: New Me.xico and Colorado, and ga\e additional major addresses in California. Illinois, New York and Washington, Commander Re-enters Hospital D.C. Between speaking engagements he Major national American Legion news 27, but barely able to support his weight shuttled in plane and wheelchair be- events in January and early February on his right leg, he took a brief rest in tween Indianapolis, Chicago and Wash- included the following: Florida, flew north on Dec. 6 to ad- ington, D.C. for Legion business hud- dles and meetings with key go\ eminent ([ The re-hospitalization for 9 days of dress the AFL-CIO convention in Atlan- officials on Legion business. Nat'l Cmdr John S. Gleason, Jr., on Jan. tic Cit>'. From then on he stumped the 26, after two months of carrying out the country by plane and wheelchair witli Commander Gleason was in ob\ ions full schedule of his office in a wheel- but a short respite at home in Winnet- pain when he addressed the Legion's chair. ka, 111. at Christmas time. Dinner to the Congress of the United In the two months that he was out ol States in Washington on Jan. 15. Eight f[ The American Legion's annual Din- ner to the Congress of the United States, the hospital. Commander Gleason made days later, after visits to Maine, New in California. York, Indianapolis and Denver, final- at Washington's Statler Hotel, on Jan. numerous state visitations he Illinois, Indiana ly consented to return to the hospital. 15, at which Commander Gleason and Maine; addressed pledged the Congress the full backing of the Legion in necessary steps to shore up the national defense. H Winter meetings of the Legion's nat'l Legislative Commission in Wash- ington in mid-January. U Issuance of a call to the Nat'l Exec- utive Committee to a special meeting on Feb. 22 in Washington to consider plans that would make group insurance avail- able to members of The American Le- gion.

f[ Growing indications that the present Congress will not support any broad proposals to curtail the federal veterans program. C Identification, by Legion Rehabilita- tion leaders, of the Bureau of the Budg- et as the chief source of anti-veteran pressure within the government. Commander Re-hospitalized For two months, from Nov. 27 to Jan. 26, Nat'l Cmdr Gleason carried out the full and demanding schedule of his office by flying about the country while confined to a wheel chair. On Jan. 26, under pressure from his closest advisors, he re-entered St. Fran-

cis Hospital in Evanston, 111., flying there from Denver, Colo., where he had addressed the Colorado Legion's mid- winter conference. On Feb. 4 he was discharged and resumed his duties.

Gleason came down with a mild flu attack the first week in November, and was barely over it when he was stricken with phlebitis of the right leg, and was hospitalized in Washington, D.C., Nov. 6. On the 11th he was transferred to A CHAT at the Legion's dinner to Congress Jan. 15. Nat'l Cmdr Gleason, in wheelchair left, McCormack (Mass.), St. Francis Hospital in E\anston, 111. flanked by V'ice President Richard M. Nixon, and Rep. Jolm left to right, John Swift, Massachusetts Legion Com- near his Winnetka home. right. Behind the Commander, mander; Miles Kennedy. Legion Nat'l Legislat re Director; Jerome Duggan (Mo.), Chmii Discharged from the hospital on Nov. of the Legion's nat'l Legislative Commission; Bertram Davis, ass't Legislatixe Director. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE MARCH 1958 • 27 )

Commander Gleason's attention to his proved. Certainly it must always be "under both Democratic and Republi- duties under such handicaps has been subject to change to meet developing can administrations." making a deep impression upon all who conditions. Corcoran addressed the area E Amer- see him in action. "But improvement and emasculation ican Legion Rehabilitation-Economic Said Edwin G. Packard, in charge of are not synonymous. Neither are change conference in Phoenix, Ariz.; while the reception of the Commander in and destruction, although some individ- Kraabel spoke to the Nat'l Association Aroostook County, Maine: "Our Na- uals, including responsible government of State Directors of Veterans Affairs tional Commander is the tops! To have officials, seem to think so. This element meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. him come to Aroostook County in the would diminish the scope of the present Referring to the Budget Bureau's in- physical condition that he must travel veteran program, restrict its future avail- terference with, and influence in, veter- at this time is a miracle to say the least. abilit)', and undermine its historic, basic ans affairs, Corcoran and Kraabel said: It certainly all ". was appreciated by who foundation . . . all in the name of econ- . . It is in the federal Budget Bureau, met and heard him." omy, security and social progress. admmistered by a protected and clois-

In most of his public appearances. "The American Legion is determined tered group of officials, where veterans Commander Gleason has urged upon at- that this attack will not succeed. We're affairs find an unfriendly atmosphere.

tentive audiences the need for strong confident that it won't ... as long as the This group has been putting damaging public support for the seizure by Amer- Congress of the United States has any- words in the Budget Messages (of Pre-

ica of the initiative in the cold war thing to say about it. sidents) under both Democratic and struggle against communism. "You can be eciually certain of The Republican administrations. ". What He Told Congress American Legion's confidence and sup- . . Some . . . recall the circumstances port of your efforts to arm America under which The American Legion was, With a few unavoidable exceptions, militarily, scientifically, economically able to get Congress to authorize the the members of the Senate and House and politically against the increasingly Dawes Committee for a study of veter- of Representatives of the United States powerful threat of communist Russia. ans affairs and of the chaotic conditions were present as dinner guests of The "If studied interest and informed, existing in the early years after American Legion at Washington's Stat- WWL constructive comment will help to guide, "When the Dawes Committee recom- ler Hotel on Wednesday, Jan. 15. encourage and sustain you in the months mended the consolidation of veterans In a brief and concise speech, Com- ahead as you decide America's destiny affairs in the Veterans Bureau ( later the mander Gleason outlined to them the

. . . indeed, the destiny of civilization Veterans Administration), it also said two major issues with which The Amer- itself, then you can be certain that The that the Administrator of Veterans Af- ican Legion is curiently concerned, ( I American Legion's voice will heard fairs should be a man qualified to stand the integrity of the federal veterans pro- be

... in the halls of Congress . . . and as the strong right arm of the President gram and (2) the defensive position of throughout in dealing with veterans affairs. the United States. our land. It will be the voice of patriots unafraid "If that condition was ever met, it Said Gleason in part: and dedicated to but

one cause . . . the security and survival has been dissipated for a long period of "The American Legion can never ex- of America as a free nation under God." years. Now, we are told, the Adminis- press too often or too strongly its deep trator of Veterans Affairs is held at arm's appreciation to you members of the Pinpoint Budget Bureau length. Only rarely is he the spokesman Congress of the United States for the In identical messages on Jan. 24, for veterans affairs. More often, through significant and lasting contribution you many thousands of miles apart. The control of the dollar, the Budget Bureau have made to the welfare of our na- American Legion's new Rehabilitation tells what he may or may not do with tion's veterans. Director, WW2 vet, John Corcoran; J. the program provided by Congress and "You have built wisely and well the and its retiring Rehabilitation Director, approved by the President. sound structure of benefits now avail- WWl vet T. O. Kraabel, held career "An example (of this atmosphere) is able to disabled veterans, and to the employees of the U.S. Budget Bureau found in the manner of the Administra- widows and orphans of our deceased chiefly responsible for unremitting at- tion's handling of recommendations of veterans. But you appreciate, I'm sure, tacks within the government on the the Bradley Commission reports (which) that this structure can alwavs be im- federal veteran in program recent years ." downgrade the war veteran . . The Corcoran-Kraabel statement then HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? detailed the influence of the Budget If your address has been changed since paying your 1958 dues, notice of such Bureau in pressing the Bradley Com- change should be sent at once to the Circulation Department, The American Legion mission recommendations on the Presi- Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. dent. A year ago, the statement noted, BE SURE TO GIVE ALL INFORMATION LISTED BELOW the President promised to give Con- NEW ADDRESS gress a "special message" on veterans affairs. The nature of this message be- Name.. came clear when the Budget Director (Please Print) asked Congress not to increase compen- Street Address sation for war-disabilities last summer.

He said it would interfere with the City Zone.. State.. "President's plan." Congress passed the increase over the 1958 Membership Card No Dept. (State) Post No. (Include Prefix Letter) Budget Director's objection and the OLD ADDRESS OR ADDRESS LABEL FROM THIS MAGAZINE President reluctantly signed it, again promising to give a "special message" Street Address on veterans affairs at a later date. City State By then it became clear through the Washington grapevine that the "special

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message" would ask for almost complete obviousness of the damage that it did. BRIEFLY NOTED adoption of the Bradley recommenda- The Economy Act, by depriving all Twenty-two Departments of The tions, which the Budget Bureau was veterans then in receipt of benefits or American Legion ended 1957 with strongly urging upon the President. care, threw a multitude of sick and dis- higher membership than in 1956. At the same time it was noted that abled veterans onto the streets and onto the bulk of the Bradley recommenda- local welfare and relief agencies where • tions had been suggested earlier by em- their plight was plainly visible, all at Seventeen Departments were running ployees of the Budget Bureau, and that once, to the public. Public revulsion at ahead of last year's membership of the Budget Bmeau staff members had this spectacle helped wipe out the same date on Jan. 30. They were: North served on detached duty with the Brad- Economy Act quickly. Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, New ley Commission, where they exerted a Now, said Corcoran, the thinking is Mexico, Idaho, Nevada, Delaware, marked influence in formulating what to keep all present beneficiaries on the Mexico, Alabama, Kansas, Wyoming, then became known as the "Bradley rec- rolls, but deny the present program to Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Maine, Arizo- ommendations." all future eligibles. By this means, he na and Italy. ^ Where was the Veterans Administra- said, the present program may be denied Representatives of The American tion all this time, in its supposed func- to all WW2 and Korea veterans or Legion Auxiliary took part in the annual tion of advising the President on veter- their widows who may need its benefits ans affairs? in the future, without creating a mass Women's Forum on Nat'l Security in Washington, Says the Corcoran-Kraabel statement: spectacle of neglect that would be visible D.C., Feb. 6. "From January to June 1957 the to the public all at once. Budget Bureau had named a team of "Gradual elimination" of veterans ben- More than 30,000 Legionnaires sign- employees to work with the Budget efits is a consistent of the Brad- VA theme ed up 12 or more members each before Bureau in preparing the manner in ley report. New Years Day, thus becoming wliicJi these (Bradley) recommendations "Gleason Gunners" and earning mini- woidd he presented. The Administrator HOSPITALIZED VETS: ature howitzers as cap ornaments. Veterans was not a part of Affairs of • this picture. Who Are They? "Later in 1957 it might be assumed Veterans with non-service-connected Jeanette A. Colbrunn, columnist of that the the Memphis Press-Scin^itar, reprinted Administrator of Veterans Af- disabilities, whom many lobbying groups the editorial on Americanism that ap- fairs was advised of the Budget Bureau hope to see thrown out of the Veterans peared on page 1 of the Amer- position on the Bradley recommenda- Administration hospitals, are being con- Januaiy ican Legion Magazine in her 23 tions. stantly surveyed by The American Le- Jan. column the "It is conceivable that at least part gion Field Service. and completed column by of the saying: "My own concept of American- reason for his resignation (VA That Service has just released a sum- ism is herein expres.sed, and I thought Administrator Harvey V. Higley who re- mary of the results of bedside surveys signed last Fall) lay in the fact he others would find this editorial well that of 8,572 such patients in 48 VA hospi- did not want to a part of the worth reading." be Ad- tals, who are admitted only on the basis ^ ministration program in downgrading of their statement of inability to pay for Boston Legionnaires gave a testi- the war veteran." private care, a financial accompanied by monial dinner on Jan. 21 to the first Dim Prospect statement. three Dep't Commanders of Massa- Thirteen illnesses accounted for the At presstime for these words, the chusetts: Leo Harlow, Judge Frank admission of more than half of the pa- President's long-awaited special message Good and Dr. William Grilfin. tients. In order of their frequency, the asking Congress to remodel the veter- • thirteen leading illnesses, which ac- ans program in line with the Bradley Increased interest in volunteer hos- report had not been presented. counted for 4,666 of the patients, were: pital work has prompted The American Heart disease, cancer, fractures, ul- Members of the Legion's nat'l Legis- Legion Rehabilitation Commission to cers, diabetes, hernia, tumor, prostate lative Commission, meeting in Wash- distribute a supplement to its Handbook trouble, pres- ington in hypertension (high blood mid-January under the chair- Vohinteer Hospital Workers for use sure), for manship of lung disorders, arteriosclerosis Jerome Duggan (Mo.) re- of Dep't service officers and voluntary ported that (hardening of arteries) and asthma. contacts with members of services chairmen. Heart disease and cancer alone ac- Congress indicated that such a message • would not be welcomed, and would counted for 1,608 cases. Fifty-two other afflictions accounted Federal Benefits Available to Vet- have little or no chance of coming out for 3,011 additional patients. They in- erans and Their Dependents is the title of committee in this Congress. cluded amputation, anemia, Buergers of a booklet offered for sale the Chmn Duggan told the Legion Legis- new by disease, cataracts, epilepsy, gangrene, U. S. Govt. Printing Office, Washing- lative Commission that, however dim hemorrhage, leukemia, multiple sclero- ton, D.C., for 154 a copy; orders of 100 its chances might be this year, they sis, nephritis, paralysis, paraplegia and or more are granted a 25 percent dis- could e.xpect a concerted drive for the pneumonia. There were 68 cases of count. Bradle\' ideas after next fall's elections. 9 quadriplegia, involving paralysis of all Younger Vets Orange County (N. Y.) American Are Target four limbs. Legion furthers the Back to God pro- Whether the Bradley ideas blossom Miscellaneous afflictions, each too in- gram by display of posters on two bill- into full strength this year or next, WW2 frequent to report separately, accounted boards made available in Port Jervis, and Korea vets will be the chief target. for the balance. Legion N. Y., by the Midport Co. of Middle- Rehab Director John J. Corco- The 8,572 patients had spent just un- town, N. Y. ran told the Legislative Commission. der four million dollars for private care % Anti-veteran strategists are relying on before going to the VA ($3,952,080.05) Nat'l Cmdr Gleason has urged Le- a "grandfather clause" to gain them an There were five patients over 50 years gionnaires and all America "to partici- eventual political victory, he said, mind- of age for each four under 50. More than pate in the work of the Red Cross by ful that the Economy Act of 1933 lasted a third of the total were over 60. joining the organization and giving it full little more than a year because of the (Continued on next page) support" during 1958.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • 29 HOSPITALIZED VETS The American Legion nat'l Rehabili- Auxiliary Nat'l President Mrs. J. Pat (Continued preceding page) from tation staff, after studying the budget Kelly; Neil McElroy, Secretary of De- Of the total, 2,811 were receiving message, came to the conclusion that fense; Morris Cafritz, Washington in- veterans' pensions, a classification of the only way that the budget-message dustrialist; Lou Brissie, commissioner of veterans whose private income is nearly savings in TB care could be arrived at American Legion Junior Baseball; non-existent. An additional 1,292 had would be by closing down entirely some Thomas Peake" of Norton, Va., 1957 pension claims pending, indicative that VA TB hospitals rather than a few beds President of American Legion Boys Na- their incomes are also minimal. Another here and there. In January it alerted tion, and the Navy Sea Chanters, choral 1,222 were cmrently hospitalized for state Legion officials to this meaning of group of the U. S. Navy band. non-service connected disabilities, but the budget message. The program emphasized the im- had service-connected disabilities in ad- The current "slow attack" on veterans portance of prayer in each individual's dition. An additional 463 were hospi- benefits by the "gradual elimination" own faith, respect for duty, the im- talized as non-service-connected while suggested by the Bradley Commission portance of (1) the teachings of reli- awaiting a decision on claims filed tiiat is strongly suggested by the inadequa- gion in maintaining our national and actually service- their disabilities were cies in the budget message. social integrity, and (2) the religious connected. "Gradual elimination" as it applies to education of children. Nearly two-thirds of the total group hospital beds would slowly close out the were unemployed when ad- (5,279) beds as they are emptied of their present Answer Me This for mitted. All income stopped 4,566 It envisage a day occupants. would "Should a church accept a large cash when admitted. 689 had had medical in- a generation of veterans with when new gift from a man who was known to surance whose benefits had run out be- heart disease, cancer, and the 63 other have made his money from gambling?" fore being admitted to the VA hospitals. major causes of non-service-connected That cjuestion was fired at Rev. Fred- The entire 8,572 had signed state hospitalization, would have no VA beds erick W. Heifer by a youngster on a ments of inability to pay for their care available after they had run through regular Baltimore Sunday TV program when admitted and had filed financial their private resources. sponsored by station and statements in support. WBAL-TV the Maryland American Legion. Of the many organizations and indi- RELIGION: Rev. Heifer thought a moment, then viduals that have expressed views for dryly advised that he'd take the money, or against providing care for non-serv- Back to God Telecast because he figured the devil had had it ice-connected war veterans, in recogni- The American Legion's annual Back long enough and it was now time for tion of their war service, when unable to God telecast "For God and Country" the Lord to use it. to pay for their own care. The Ameri- on Feb. 1 was carried over ABC TV and is sort of highlight that can Legion is the only one that runs radio outlets. Mutual TV, Radio Free That the has such surveys of the actual condition and Europe, Armed Forces Radio and Radio made The American Legion Dep't of circvunstances of those hospitalized un- Liberation. Maryland's panel show "To Promote der this program. The program, emphasizing the Le- Good Will" one of the most popular These continuing Legion surveys do gion's accent on the need for strength- TV shows in the Baltimore area, and of the outstanding American Legion not cover the mentally ill or the tuber- ening America's religious and moral one cular. fiber, emanated from Washington, D. C. public programs anywhere. However, the President's budget mes- for the first time. It was broadcast from Three clergymen take the stand each sage for 1958-59 called for savings b\ the Legion's Washington office. Sunday to answer unrehearsed and closing down VA TB beds, and made no Thomas E. Paradine, (N. Y.) Pa.st often unexpected questions from panels provision for caring for the several thou- Nat'l Vice Cmdr, narrated the program; of youngsters invited in from schools

sand mentally ill veterans presently on and Nat'l Cmdr John S. Gleason, Jr., and colleges near Baltimore. Legion the waiting lists, whose condition was took leave of absence from his tempo- Nat'l Executive Committeemen Dave

described as urgent by VA Administra- rary hospitalization in Evanston, 111., to Brigham acts as moderator. tor Harvev V. Higley before he resigned appear. Others seen on the program The panel differs from other "kid" last fall. were Nat'l Chaplain Feltham James; shows in that the youngsters stick to BALTIMORE'S UNIQUE LEGION TV PROGRAM

PANEL of clergymen, left, who take the air each Sunday on WBAL-TV to answer religious questions fired by youngsters, right.

30 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 questions of morals, human relations and the City of New Smyrna Beach plan tion Seal Campaign by more than 35 and religion. Many of the questions to erect a $3,200 bronze monument to percent. Post also recently gave an ask for explanations of minute points the dead of all the nation's wars. American flag to a local Brownie troop. of the three major faiths, whose answers have been so constructive that even the U POST 121, Waco, Tex., owns what is f[ POST 464, Bronxville, N.Y., gave 28 other two clergymen have learned a very probably the first and only Legion American flags to a local grade school. thing or two from the reply of the third. Post flag to have been flown over the Post also joined with the local chapter The show has its tense moments, too. South Pole in an airplane. Post's Nation- of the Daughters of the American Rev- One of the most soul-searching came al Color also made the polar trip in Nov. olution in giving 35 American flags to when a native Korean studying at 1957 through the courtesy of Air Force Bronxville High School. St. John's College in Annapolis admitted friends of the Post. eliminating two people while escaping |[ POST 817, 'Van Nuys, Calif., won the from the communists in Korea. When ([ POST 127, Ansted, W. Va., joined 20th (Calif.) District Legion Blood he told his story and asked if there other local organizations in making up Donor Award. was ever any justification for killing an- and distributing to the poor baskets of other human, the only movement in the food, clothing, and toys at Christmas- ([ POST AND UNIT 4, Floreucc, Ky., en- studio was the trickling of perspiration time. tertained 200 needy children at the or- on his forehead. ganization's ninth annual Christmas Medical students have asked moral f[ POST 347, New Kensington, Pa., dis- party. Kids who needed jackets were questions on euthanasia, and law stu- tributed copies of Saved by the Bel], the given them, and 133 youngsters re- dents questioned the clergymen on comic book that tells what the Legion is ceived new shoes while at the party. defending a client known by his lawyer and what it does, to each downtown Each child was given toys and a bag of to be guilty. barbershop in that community. fruit and candy. Brigham; Herbert L. Schloss, Dep't Americanism Commissioner (who pro- U POST 1, Minneapolis, Minn., dedi- FOR THE THIRD time siucc 1951 Post duces the show) and Legionnaire John cated to the City of Minneapolis and the 474, Matteson, 111., has given a new Musselman, dean of Harford Junior Salvation Army the largest Christmas squad car to the village police depart- College, devised the program. tree in that city in honor of the latter ment.

The present panel of clergymen is organization's drive for funds to help made up of Rev. Heifer, pastor of the the poor at Christmastime. C POST 148, Dent, Minn., has fewer Christian Temple; Rabbi Abraham than 40 members; yet it recently bought Shusterman of Har Sinai Temple, and ([ POST 397, Monterey Park, Calif., ex- a building which it will remodel and Rev. William Kailer Dunn, chaplain of ceeded its quota of donations to the Los use as its Post home. Notre Dame of Maryland. Rev. Father Angeles American Legion Rehabilita- (Continued on next page) Richard Swift, who originally represent- ed the Catholic faith, was replaced by Rev. Dunn when he was transferred to another archdiocese. RECENT POST DOINGS: Mild, cool smoking... C R. ELMO HOOD, Dcp't Cmdr of Flor- ida, presented 40-year continuous mem- bership cards to 28 members of Post 47, natural tobacco taste... Lake Worth. always fresh! C POST 741, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., claims that its blood donor committee chair- man, Kal C. Livingston, is the world's champion blood donor. Livingston has given 164 pints of blood since he made his first donation in 1931.

C SINCE 1926 the Sunday Evening Club of Post 41, LaCrange, 111., has brought top-flight speakers and enter- tainment to that community. Attend- ance at the programs, which are held during the winter months, has passed the five million mark.

C[ POST 1, Denver, Colo., enrolled 9,875 members in 1957 and thereby became the largest Legion Post in the world. Forty-five other Posts enrolled more than 2,000 members each.

H POST 58, Glendale, Ariz., sponsors R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. a girls' drill team called "The Legion- ettes." Team is comprised of appro.xi- mately 75 teen-age girls.

C POST 17, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., PRINCE ALBERT

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • RECENT POST DOINGS of making a goodwill visit to the Brus- has helped countless thousands of veter- (Continued) sels World Fair in April under auspices ans and their families, now has to resign f[ POST 329, Pearl Ri\er, N.Y., gave of the People-to-People Foundation. A because of her health. A testimonial din- an American flag to Navy-Marine Corps party of 74, including members and ner is being given her. recruiters in Rockland County, N.Y. wives, will go. "I would like this to be published to help compensate what was done for me ([ POST 116, Drumright, Okla., will U THE HOMETOWN band in the motion in time of emergency, and as a token of give a $200 science scholarship to a picture Peyton Phiee is the band of appreciation of how The American Le- member of this >'ear's graduating class American Legion Post 30, Camden, Me. gion stands behind every veteran in time at Drumright High School. Camden is the setting of the picture. of need; and as a testimony to a won- The band had been formed one year derful woman, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Aid- ([ POST 16, Mansfield, Ohio, is spon- when 20-Century Fox moved on loca- rich, of Pacific Palisades, California, the soring a beard-growing contest to cele- tion. retiring social service director of the brate that community's 150th anniver- Los Angeles County American Legion." sary. Legionnaire Mayor Robert S. Lem- U POST 327, Shawnee, Kans., runs a ley was the first man to enter contest. huge \outh bowling program. It has CONTESTS: equipped 140 boys and girls with bowl- More Free Scliolarsliips ^ POST 6, San Diego, Calif., gave a ing shirts, and many Post members Once again this year you have a banquet for 50 members all of whom coach the youngsters, who compete in chance to give a $10,000 college scholar- have 40 years continuous membership. three mixed leagues. Auxiliary members ship to a youngster of your choice. For act as league secretaries. the second year in a row, the firm of f[ POST 325, St. Louis, Mo., cites 82- Johnson & Johnson (Bandaids, etc.) and year-old shoe warehouseman Julius H A NEW SQUADRON of the Sous of The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. have Oechsner for the great quantity of shoes American Legion has been installed bv put up $75,000 to buy insurance poli- he has channelled into charitable pm- Post 434, Chula Vista, Calif. cies for 49 lucky kids, to be named by poses through St. Louis American Le- you and you and you, that will give gion posts. f[ POST 5, Seward, Alaska, bought them college scholarships when they from nat'l hq 1500 copies of Saved by reach the right age. ^[ A BRAND NEW American Legion Post the Bell, and has placed one in every Biggest policy is for $10,000 and the lias been formed in Claremorris, County home in Seward; will do the same in a 36 smallest are $1,000 each. Mayo, Ireland. It is John Barry Post 3, neighboring town where a new Legion What you do is write a 50 word es- with 50 members, headed by Com- post is planned. say that completes the statement "A mander Thomas Lyons. First slate of CASE HISTORIES: good education is important because officers was sworn in Jan. 12 by Jack ." . . and send it along to the contest O'Connor, Adjt of Post 2, Killarney. Sam Meyerowitz board. If you win a prize you can desig- The files of The American Legion are nate what youngster will get the scholar- f[ POST 273, Burlington, Mass., has aid- loaded with cases of service to veterans ship. He has to be under 20 years and 1 ed a vet who was hurt saving lives of unseen by the public, because they are month old this March 15. two children; collects for March of confidential unless the veteran himself Winner of the big $10,000 award Dimes; gives gov't bonds to outstand- publishes them. Below, somewhat con- last year was Mrs. Fred Kaiser, of Man- ing school graduates; maintains Legion densed, is a statement of Sam Meyero- hasset, N. Y. She named her 1 year old magazine subscriptions in local libraries; witz, presently Commander of Post 693, grandson. Dirk David Smith of Evans- has just built a new $25,000 Post home. Los Angeles, Calif. ton, 111. "I was about to undergo surgery Two $5,000 awards went to Mrs. POST 3, Great Falls, Mont., put which gave me only a 50-50 chance of f[ Robert Natti of Gloucester, Mass., who Saved by the Bell in barber shops and recovery. I was down, and I thought I named Susanna Natti to get the scholar- in beauty parlors, too, figuring it was was out, and dangerously depressed b\ ship; and Leonard Hegland, of Pullman, important to tell the "weaker sex" about the thought that even if I pulled through Wash., who named Jean Alma Hegland. the leal American Legion. I couldn't meet my obligations while Fortv-six others won scholarships of hospitalized. $1,000 or more. POST 212, Sumas, Wash., after ha\- "Then I learned through the adjutant U For entry blanks write National Youth ing sponsored a highly successful of my post that I could see the director Scholarship Committee, 130 E. 59th "Sumas Community Day" for its town of social service for The American Le- St., New York 22, N. Y. Contest closes last year, is laying plans to repeat the gion Los Angeles County Council: and May 5. project this year. Last year the post that she would be able to help me at also organized local children in a com- least get my rent paid, so I could en- BOY SCOUTS: petition to design a UN stamp, which ter the hospital without having that won a trip to New York for a girl entry worry, at least. New Plan Cooking'

and her mother. "After an interview I was told I could The first major revision of the Boy go into the hospital and not worry about Scout program in many years is now C POST 28, Spenard, Alaska, took in the rent. Everything would be taken afoot. Boy Scouts of America will broad- 57 new members in one night in a care of. en the Explorer program, put new em-

membership contest with Post 1, "True to her word, two days after mv phasis on special interests of teen-age Anchorage, Alaska. visit, a check for the full amount of the boys, both on hobbies and vocational rent was received without any expecta- interests. Scouts will then encourage for-

^[ MEMBERS OF Post 209, Ncw York tion of the recovery of said monev . mation of new Explorer units based on City, have become the first group of "This woman, through whose office special interests, and seek sponsors for Americans to announce their intention The American Legion in Los Angeles special-interest Scout units among adult

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 .

groups, associations or businesses en- Charles VV. Emerv (1954). Post .11X. San Jose. Calif. gaged in such specialties. Dr. L. C. Jones and L. S. Lively and H. E. May I and T. D. L. Menke (all 1957), Post 11.^ Alamosa, The nat'l Scout organization expects Colo. ^ hTMAN-MADE the expanded Explorer program to be George H. Upchurch (1952) and Roy H. Millen la GEM STONE Pelt and Ralph R. Wood (both 195.1) and Hulon READEII'S DICES! well under way by the end of this year. (1957) Post 50. Davlona Beach, Fla. MORE BRILIIANT ani Ted R. Malotf and Robert L. IVIarlin and L. D. MORE BEAUTIFUL Ihon Aim is to increase the scope of adult- Morrison, Sr. (all 1957), Post IIX, Fort Gaines, Ga. DIAMONDS L. Canaday (1957), Post 40. 111. like activities open to Scouts and recog- R. Momcnce, Unsut "Titanla" Gems: 1 to John F. Haller and LndHik Januszewski and Dr. 0 t-arats; for your own ritius, brooches per carat, , .^^O* nize the interests of indiv idual boys. James I.. Kleinhenz and Frank Krajewski (all l-carat "Titanla" Solitaire 1956) , Post 7X. East Chicago. Ind. Program does not envision any limit i;et In 14-kt Eold mounlliii; Walter Cicliotviaz and Leo Mroz (both 1956), Complete for , , . $22.50* on the number of special activities Post 207. Gary, Ind. l-carat "Titanla" set In a R. Masculine Box Style ll-kt Henry L. Zawacki (1951) and Edward Stec mountlni;. Complete lor around which groups might be formed, (1952) and Marion T. Tcels (1953) and William E. ONLY $28.50 Osos (1954). Post 451, Michigan City, Ind. as there are bo\'s with the in- FREE: Folder & Size Chart so long Vaios Rizoiilis and Albert T. Rose and Joseph ISynlh) RUBIES S SAPPHIRES terests and adult groups with the spe- Tardif (all 1957), Post 22, Lewiston, Maine. Fred W. Draper (1954) and Charles S. Williams Proportionately Low Priced cial knowledge and experience. and Raymond A. Hill (both 1956). Post 89, Kittery, • AH ml. OS plus 111';, I\.il.Ti,.\ Maine. Regent Lapidary Co., Dpl.AL.79 Florence J. I>ono!;hiie (1956), Post 5, Worcester, 511 Eost 12 St., N.Y. 9, N.Y. IN SHORT: Mass. Leonard It. Campbell and Walter E. Carbonnean The annual conference of American •md Da\id J. Carroll and John T. Casey, Sr. (all

, Post 12.1, Ware, Mass. Legion Department Chaplains was heltl 1957) P. C. INorman Marcns and Manrice Semans and OPPORTUNITY in Indianapolis in mid-Januar\-. Louis Silvey (all 1957), Post 12X, Maltapan. Mass. William E. McTighe (1957), Post 140, Hull, New lur-bcarine ani- • Mass. mal now being bred in S. Offers huge John R. Parker (1957), Post 147, Rockland. U huge testimonial dinner was given profUs to breeders. This A Mass. fur is next to Mink NOW

J. E. Alfred Hudson (1957). Post .115. Draciit. 1 price and will soon sur- in January b\' Cheyenne. citizens Mass. is it. 15 to to 20 youne per year. Most easily and for outgoing Cheyenne Mayor Val Chris- Gordon L. Van Every (1957), Post 3K9, River- economically raised animal view, Mich. of our P;itent Booklet "Ilow to Copies of The American Legion Child Percy Waller (1951), Post 445, Rochester. N.Y. Protect Your Invention, " and an * 'Invention Record" Samuel A. Cox and Harold Giflford and Daniel form. No ohll(?aclon. They are \ otir.s for the asking. Welfare handbook For Want of a Nail Heisler and George C. Kantskv (all 1950), Post McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON 543. Brooklvn. N.Y. lie^rlsiered Patent Atto were given more than lOO police Chester L. Migdalski (1955) and Richard L. Sa- 146-C Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. juvenile officers in a special Januarv sala and Leonard J. Jaskowiak (both 1956). Post 799, Buffalo, N.Y. training course run by the Cook County Leonard Clarke Feathers (1948) and Bryce W. LaPoint and Lawrence C. Tenney (both 1957), Post Sheriff's office WHEN FAISE TEETH (111.) and the University 960, Albanv, N.Y. of Chicago. Booklets were provided by Joseph L. Diamond (1957), Post 1035. Water- vliet, N.Y. CAUSE SORE GUMS Mrs. Carol Lindgren, President of Aux- Coleman L. Bruckner and Bernard Bell (both 1957), Post 1142, Niagara Falls, N.Y. iliary Unit 21, Chicago, a member of You get undreamed of relief in Robert Curry (1957), Post 1205. New York, N.Y. seconds! Medically-formulated the Sheriff's ad\ isory council on ju\en- Bradley Goodyear (1954), Post 1503. Springfield NUM-ZIT Adult Strength has Center. N.'^'. already brought blessed relief to ile problems. Paul R. Krupp (1957). Post 344. Carey, Ohio. thousands. Recommended by • Joseph D. Walsh (1951) and Walter H. Bornman dentists everywhere. Pleasant- (1954), Post 3, Philadelphia, Pa. tasting . . . eases discomfort while E. GriHiths Rhode Island Legionnaires and W. and H. H. Schaffer and Robert you break in new false teeth. Lightner John Allen (all Post 5, Pitts- and 1953), Works wonders, too, for relief of toothache, neu- friends gave a testimonial diimer on burgh, Pa. ralgic pains. Keep it handy for quick first aid. James K. Dunn and A. G. Helbling and Edward Jan. 19 to Nat'l Vice Cmdr Lee A. At all drug counters. C. Iflft and C. K. Kennedy (all 1957). Post 19. New Lemos, of Riverside, R. I. Brighton, Pa. Edgar H. Schuessler (1947) and Robert S. Ogil- Adult Strength • vie (1949) and Fred M. Cleckner (1950) and Char- ZIT les Ebv (1951), Post 27, Harrisburg, Pa. Area Child Welfare Conferences Daniel B. Strickler (1955) and Walter C. Martin Another fine Purepac product were conducted In* The American Le- (1956). Post .14. Lancaster. I'a. Fred Filer and John L. Kelly and Fred W. gion & The American Legion Auxiliary Krauss and Clarence L. Marlnerger (all 1950), Post CLOGGED SEWER 67, Pottsville, Pa. at Portland, Maine (in heavv snow, Jan. RCMIMBER THi Albert IMokal and Charles Lapinskv and John COSTLY PLUMBING BILL- 10-11) Smulligan (all 1945) and E. Lamar Christ (1948), and West Point, N. Y. ( Jan. 23 Post 74. Mahanov City, Pa. CHICAGO— Mar. Ist. Just Intro- 25.) Both duced is a Free Booklet on a New meetings were well attended. .-Vlbert W. Holbrook (1956), Post 191. Sharon DIscDVcrv which enables the Home Hill, Pa. Owner. .Janitor, or Factory Main- loan any ClogB:ed Michael M. Markowitz (1947), Post 644. Swoyer- LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: Sev I>i ville. Pa. c.in operate this n.-w Plumbers Flushing Gun which J. and Arthur J. and Jo- Thomas Evans Frank I The citation of an individual Legion- I. If.i S i\lr pressure on a solid seph P. Graham and Fred Kries (all 1955). Post ii.iri III water cleaning the most ||M -r II stoppages up to 200 feet 675, Scranton. Pa. naire to life membership in his Post is a I.Hl I IS. SINKS, UKINALS. Benjamine L. Jacoby (1956). Post 716. Philadel- i;\Ti:irHS. FLOOR DRAINS, and testimonial by those H<)U.Si:-T<)-STUEET SKWERS clopr- who know him best phia, Pa. red Willi Grease, Ra^s, Sand, Robert L Rushing (1957). Post 36. El Paso. Tex. 1 loots, and paper melt away in- that he has ser\ ed The American Legion ^.tantlv when struck by the Ham- Albert S. McCahe (1957), Post 395. Yoakum, mcr-llko blow of this new unit. well. There is no need to remove Tex. wall or pipe, or (Jrease Trap. A Samuel Dobbins and Clarence E. Lynch and si)GCial attachment allows water Below are listed some of the previous- t() flow from the faucet throuKh Thomas E. Shinield (all 1957), Post 2. Burlington, the <;un while air Is released on ly unpublished life memberships that Vt. the pit)e. Vents or stacks are no <>bst.^cie. as force tends to strike Dr. Herman G. Decker (1957), Post 119, Mil- u lierevei- the w.iter lavs. But now. have been reported to the editors. \-. tills Flushing They waukee, Wis. hat i-^ PluMibers dun \v..Hli ill COSTLY PLUMBING are arranged by States. Rhinehart Schroedcr (1958), Post 237, Footville, BILLS SAVED? To Wis. id d.l 1- Howard IVIanchester (195.1) and Bernard Caiialla -Id.' it f.> FREE BOOKLET. (1955). Post Hi. Merced, Calif. Post Commanders or Adjutants are A p-.-K-ard Will do M'hj, > IMi.me . Paul W. Reynolds (1957J, Posl 184, Redondo Klld.ij r^- 1 7()2 > MILLER SEWER {Continued on next page) ROD CO.. DEPT. AL-M. 4640 N. Beach. Calif. Central Ave.. Chicago 30. Illinois. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • 33 LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Cmdr of Wisconsin (1937-38), and OUTFIT (Continued) U. S. Congressman from that State; suddenly, in Washington, D. 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Write me, Philip Reeves, 49 96th CA (AA), Btry D-,(May) Izzy Frisher, 62 Broughton Road, Marblehead, Mass. Claim Ave. B, New York 9, N.Y. 9, Salem. Oreg., appointed Ass't Nat'l pending. 103rd Gen Hosp-(Aug.) Harold J. Head, 5718 Convention Director by Nat'l Cmdr 82nd Airborne Div—Need to hear from anyone Daybreak Terrace, Baltimore 6. Md. who served with my late husband, Edward 106th Div-(July) John Gallagher, P.O. Box 106, Gleason. G. Lockovic, at Fort Bragg, N.C., Fort Blandon, Pa. EMORY MCINTOSH, appointed Dep't Jackson, S.C., or when he was with the 128th Inf, Hq Co (WWl)-(June) W. E. McKeand, Medical Dept at a camp near Camden, S.C., 307 Craig St., Fort Atkinson. Wis. Adj't of District of Columbia, succeed- or when he took jump training at Fort Ben- 134th Inf, Co M (WW2)-(June) Elmer S. Kohout, ning, Ga. He was injured in a jump. Write Beaver Crossing. Nebr. ing STEPHEN J. GRiLLO, resigned. me, Mrs. Edward G. Lockovic, 1321 King 139th FA Bn (WW2)-(July) Charles White, 801 ARCH M. 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Now Dunmore 12, Pa. to hear from anyone who remembers Ohio (1940-41), appointed chief in- need 415th RR Tel Bn-(Apr.) James J. Maher, 3723 me. Write me, Herman W. Greene, R.D. 5, S. Rockwell St., Cnicaw 32, 111. surance director of the Veterans Ad- Clarksville, Tenn. Claim pending. 542nd Engr Boat & Shore Regt, Co. E-(June) George R. Lindow, 1 122 S. 4th St., Ponca Citv, Okla. ministration. Air 581st AAA (AW) Bn (MBL)-(May) Charles H. Kearns, Utah, Overseas Replacement Center, WILLIAM R. CLARK, member of Post Miller, Congress Terrace. Milford, Mass. Medical Detachment— Need to locate someone 601st Ord Bn-(Mar.) Carl Eckhardt, 8511 Austin Fernandes was 84, Aurora, 111., appointed ass't director who recalls that Raymond Ave., Morton Grove, 111. treated for a back injury at this base. Write 685th Ord Ammunition Co-(July) William M. Na- Nat'l Security Div. 7, of the Legion's Eric Taylor, The American Legion, Post jour, 2782 Boulevard Drive NE., Atlanta 17, Ga. Newport, R.I. Claim pending. RALPH c. STOVER, member of Post 29, 705th Engr Petroleum Distribution Co-(July) Phil J. Neumann, R.D. 3, Streator, 111. Washington, D.C., appointed chief of 724th Ry Operating Bn (WW2)-(June) Edwin A. THE AMERICAN LEGION Jacob, 15503 Park Grove. Detroit 5. Mich. the White House Police Force. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 776th AAA (AW) Bn, Btry B-(June) Robert G. Shindler. 203 Pomeroy Ave., Pittsfield. Mass. WILLIAM M. CLEMENS, Past Cmdr of 19.)7 DECEMBER 31, 782nd Engr Petroleum Distribution Co — (July) Post 6, Dubuque, Iowa, named chair- ASSETS Earl J. Ruxer. 41 W. Maryland St., Evansville. Ind. man of the American Bakers Ass'n. Cash on hand and on deposit. . . .$1,056,853.27 882nd FA Bn, Btry A-(June) Wayne L. Brannon, COL. PETER c. BORRE, Dcp't Cmdr of Receivables 147,153.24 630 N. First St., Vandalia, 111. Inventories 505,869.01 1127th & 1400th MP Companies - (July) Frank Italy, awarded the Star of Solidarity by Invested Funds 1,156,855.63 Farina. 1001 Serrill Ave., Yeadon, Pa. 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OUR BIG PITCH AT PARIS (Continued from page 2J) cleared through our allies. It was so Imagine what would have happened if government issued a communique stat- watered down from what it should have there had been superimposed on it the ing that they still wanted to talk even been that even the Russians must have sterile leadership of our old-world allies. though Russia had already brushed off had trouble determining what side of The same general type of criticism further U.N. Commission talks. the line our marbles were on. Presum- can be levied against those sections of The impact of the Paris declaration ably we don't know ourselves until the "The Communique" dealing with eco- can be measured by the cavalier way in other nations tell us. nomic cooperation. What do our allies which Gromyko and Khrushchev

This sort of thing is heralded as being have to offer us? We've been paying promptly ridiculed the whole idea. a great step in the right direction be- most of their bills since World War II Let's face it. History has never known cause it demonstrates our willingness, anyway. In and out of the U.N. we've disarmament. We're not about to change in the name of unity, to give up some of been carrying most of the load for the the course of history now. Russia will the aspects of our sovereignty— in short, underdeveloped areas of the world. not give her advantages away. We're not some of the control over our own aflfairs. Who's fooled when we join with our yet strong enough to take them away. A I don't look upon this as a virtuous friends and announce that this sort of nation whose policy is to dominate the policy, particularly when I remain satis- thing is a good idea. For them, it cer- world can't afford to disarm. Those who fied that these other nations are more tainly is a good idea. It's nice of them want to avoid domination can't afford to concerned with appeasing than facing to join with us in a declaration approv- disarm either. Unless Russian policy up to Russia. This kind of procedure ing the spending of our money and ex- changes, and it's not about to, disarma- not only removes all initiative from our pressing their desire, with our help, to ment is not for our time. Whom are the hands, but even makes it impossible for keep trying to do the best they can. heads of government trying to fool? us to have any policy that we can truly vSome farce! Finally, we come to the biggest sleep- call our own. The disarmament section of "The er in the whole "Communique." IRBM's

Collective action is a good thing, but Communique" is even more ludicrous. are to be placed in the hands of the every team has to have a leader. We This section was born out of our allies' Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. have placed ourselves in a position lack of confidence in our ability to stand This is widely heralded as a great where we have not only renounced our up to Russia. We've been talking with achievement and a real answer to Rus- role of leader, but we have even cast Russia for ten years about disarmament. sian saber rattling. grave doubts on the question of whether These talks have gone on in the U.N.. Let's look at this one real closely. we have a team to be led. Everybody in the U.N.'s Commissions, and at the Where docs the commander get these now seems to be a general. There are no Summit of Geneva. No deal. The Rus- weapons? From us. of course. When troops left. sians won't play our way. After several does he get them? About 18 months Another section of "The Communi- days of meetings in Paris the heads of from now. Where does he place them? que" deals with scientific and technical cooperation. This section is an outright expression by our allies of their loss of confidence in our scientific and technical leadership as a result of our lagging be- hind in the satellite and ICBM races. Our own leaders have finally found a way out of the box they put us in by their own lack of vision and demon- strable negligence. The fact is that we came ofT second best in the satellite and ICBM races not because of any lack of scientific talent or know-how, but be- cause of inept political leadership which hamstrung our scientists by political and financial decisions that made the way of the scientist impossible. That is the real fact. However, our politicians avoid justi- MY CLOSEST l}\k^ltSiMr'''-'"' fiable censure by implying that the real reason for our failure was the inability "My closest shave was during the first try at a speed rec- of our scientists to exchange informa- ord in the fantastic Douglas Skyrocket," says Test Pilot tion with other scientists. That this con- Bill Bridgeman, author of The Lonely Sky. "A special B-29 at 30,000 feet ... I turned on my clusion is a concealed attack on our dropped me like a bomb

rockets and climbed to 40,000 . . . when suddenly all power whole security system is another story. failed. Rocket power, cabin pressure, heat — everything went Suffice it to say for present purposes — and the window frosted over so I couldn't see. Finally I that even if NATO scientists had been got the radio going on an emergency battery . . . and a pilot able ! to exchange information and even in a chase plane talked me down to a blind landing if they had had a science committee and even if they had had a science adviser, For YOUR Close Shaves-at any altitude-try new Russia would still have won the race if Colgate Instant Shave. It's the quickest, easiest way to shave our political and military leadership had ever, no matter what razor you use. Smooth, too ! Shaves been as complacent as it was. your whiskers, saves your skin. A great shave buy for the As a matter of fact, Russia might tough-beard guy! have won the race by a wider margin. Colgate Instant Shave Our own leadership was inept enough.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • 35 Where he thinks they'll be most effective of decisions which will promote greater told, we lost the right to lead the world. against Russia, naturally. But hold on. strength and greater security not only Is there an answer? Yes! But it doesn't There's a hooker in this one. He can't for our own nations but also for the lie in handing over the direction of our quite do that the way it sounds. Each world at large." destiny to a commimity of nations who nation of NATO can agree or refuse to It sounds like wishful thinking to me. have clearly demonstrated their inability accept these weapons. Of course, they I assume that the words of the heads of to control their own. It lies in telling the could do that even before the NATO government don't lie. If they don't, Rus- American people that the threat from meeting. In effect, the real decision at sia still has the initiative; and we are our enemy is real, that our goal is vic-

NATO was that the member nations without adequate weapons, without an tory, that the way is through strength not agreed in principle to talk later about adequate, fiercely resolved goal, and appeasement, and that night and day we whether they would arm themselves with without adequate friends. shall remain alert with what we have, the strongest available weapons against All the press agents and television will produce more, will remain unafraid Soviet aggression. amateurs in the world can't change the either of Russian power or Russian poli- In short, we stand now just where we facts, but they can deceive the American cies, and will insist that those who stand stood before the NATO meetings: no people. This is their greatest disservice. with us remain unafraid and dauntless. weapons available now, no agreement What is the greatest fact that emerged Let us serve notice that Russia surely now. No aggression now? from the Paris meetings? It is that the cannot court dominion without destruc- "The Communique" concludes with world no longer has confidence in tion, for we cannot endure life without this statement: "We have taken a series America. By weakness, we have been freedom. the end

A SOUND DEFENSE PROGRAM (Continued from page 13) have been producing weapons geared to my plans and all of ours will turn out nications. allaying panic, and generally the standards of the technological revo- as scheduled; while in fact all experi- minimizing the eftect of the hostile ac- lution, while pursuing military man- ence shows that the unexpected is what tion. For the first few days, until organ- power policies geared to the standards always happens in war. It is quite pos- ized civilian effort can be made effective, of World War II. sible that the first shock of the nuclear military rule might well be the only re- We must avoid becoming immobilized exchange would indeed result in fright- course. by considering only one kind of war— ful, but not fatal, injuries to both sides; Local military commanders—perhaps the all-out nuclear attack. That may the commanders of the corps areas now come, and we must be prepared for it. planned by the Army— might well be em- But we must also be prepared to deter powered to take under their control all or defeat limited and localized aggres- National Guard and Reserve units in sions. The free world can be fatally their area, and to call up all individual weakened, can be nibbled to death, un- reservists not attached to units, should less aggression of this type is met with a hostile attack occur. This, of course, firm resistance. would require a detailed plan for each For both limited and total wars, we such area, and each unit commander require two kinds of military manpower and individual reservist would have to —active and reserve. We can never ex- understand exactly what to do when the pect, within any reasonable limit of ex- siren blows. penditure, to keep in active service on Such a plan would not prevent the a full-time basis all the military person- later use of Reserve forces for their mo- nel we would need to fight an all-out bilization objectives, since in any event war. We cannot even expect—as was by the time it would be possible to as- shown in Korea—to keep enough full- semble and move them from the stricken time people to deal with a good-sized area it may be presumed that civilian limited war. Trained reserves have a recovery agencies would be functioning. part to play in either type of conflict. This arrangement does not take the As the basis of our deterrent force, place of State military forces composed intended to present the Soviet enemy of personnel not subject to call for ac- "How is it that / — who don't even know with an unacceptable—indeed, prohibi- tive Federal duty; such forces will be how to drive — have to keep telling yon tive-risk in launching total war, we must most useful, and will afford the Gov- what to do?" depend on our power of instant retalia- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ernors an element of military force tion in kind. Today this retaliatory which will be permanently available to power is of two kinds: the long-range and that thereafter the struggle would them after the first emergency is over. nuclear-armed aircraft of the Strategic continue by all available means and Obviously, in any prolonged major Air Command, operating from fixed perhaps over a considerable period of war there will be need for reserve units bases at home and overseas; and the time. In any case, well-trained and for all the services, trained and tailored great aircraft carriers of the Navy, which properly equipped reserve units will for the particular purposes of the serv- are mobile bases that can strike with have a part to play that we shall neglect ice to which they belong. Their level of nuclear-armed planes from any place on at our peril. training must be such that they can be the oceans of the world. In the first shock of nuclear explo- effectively used within certain time I do not subscribe to the often-heard sions in this country there will be severe limits. These time limits are much short- theory that a war, if it ever begins, will local casualties and disruption. I believe er today than they have ever been be- be all over and decided, one way or the that the presence in all our communities fore. other, in a few days of frightful nuclear of considerable numbers of trained re- In limited war the major requirements violence. That is a form of thinking servists of all the services would be a are mobility and flexibility. We must which has had a hypotic effect on our stabilizing factor in preserving order, have the right kind of forces for any military policy. It assumes that all ene- maintaining transportation and commu- conceivable emergency, and we must be

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 able to move them very rapidly to any the Executive branch must abandon the Amazing 100-Year-Oid Gypsy Bait Oil spot on the globe where they may be ancient shibboleth that the United

required, and support and reinforce States cannot afford to pay its military them as a developing situation may de- people at rates reasonably comparable MAKES FISH BITE "^^1° mand. Army and Marine divisions, the with the incomes of persons employed Navy's amphibious and fast carrier by profit-making enterprises. The exact forces, the tactical wings of the Air opposite is true—we cannot afford not to

Force and its airlift capabilities may all pay such rates. Our present rapid turn- be called upon to meet such limited over of military personnel violates every emergencies. The followup may well in- principle of sound economics and per- clude National Guard or Reserve units sonnel administration and would ruin as well as individual reservists as replace- any competitive business enterprise in a ments. matter of months. The net result of

So we return to our major require- present practices is to dilute efficiency at PICTURES PROVE IT REALLY WORKS 1 Look at 129S lbs. lish, ments: Regular forces with a high per- all operating levels and to emasculate those big hard to catch smell - feeders landed by Roy Martin party, Destitt, Fla. Gypsy Fish Bait Oil used on alt bait. Hundreds centage of career personnel, supported the future leadership of the services—or ol pictures like these on Mystery Scent Makes Smell by Reserve forces with a far higher level rather, to strangle it in its cradle. Feeding Fish Go Crazy of combat readiness than we have ever Faced with the problem—which has Fishins scientists are just li-uriiiii'; wlwtl watidcrine Gypsies

knew 100 years ago . . . many kinds of the most wanted fish known. Both must be maintained in long been known within the services- such as catfish, bulllieada, carp, snappers, are "smell" feedera. tiypsies invented this amazing scented oil formula that excitea numbers and quality sufficient to meet Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson these fish through the thousands of tiny smell organs covering tlieir bodies. A whiff while feeding and these fish streak raadly the demands of national survival in the in March, 1 956, appointed a Defense Ad- for yotir bait. They all fight over it and usually the largest fish w ins. Just dab mystery scented Gypsy Fish Bait Oil on your nuclear-jet-electronic age, capable of de- visory Committee on Professional and huit . . . fish lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds, or the ocean . . . still fisli with pole and bobber, cast, troll or spin ... if yours isn't the l)it;cest catch in the entire party, your money back. 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Secretary Wilson trained personnel to the units of our accepted ONUMEWTfi to Cordiner report with words M Reserve components. But the two-year of praise. Legislation translating its rec- draftee is of little value himself in build- ommendations into law was prepared ing a "'hard core" career service. We and sent to the White House. must depend on motivations consistent At its National Convention in Atlan- with the standards of a free society and tic City, N. J., last September, The a free-enterprise competitive economy. American Legion, in Resolution No. 30, There are three areas of motivation petitioned "the President and the United to which, I believe, our military career States Congress to enact legislation im- DIRECT TO YOU . . . EASY TERMS Genuine Rockdale Monuments and policy should be addressed. These are plementing the Cordiner Committee Markers. Full Price $ 14.95 and up. pay, security, and pride, though not Report." Satisfaction or MONEY BACK. We poy freight. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 They regarded the proposals as "infla- War II officers and top-level enlisted betterment should be there, but they tionary."" They considered that a mih- men begins to pass into retirement, an should be hard to get, not easy. Tougher tary pay raise would result in demands imbalance of experienced leadership and standards in selection and promotion for more money from other Govern- technical military skills will be created are needed. The two ideas go hand in ment employees. There was fear that which will take a generation to correct. hand; they are the cornerstones of a the debt limit might be exceeded. In At whatever cost, the United States proud and vigorous career military serv- short, holding down spending in the cur- must procure and retain the military ice. rent fiscal year was more important than leadership and skills required for the Implicit in such a change of national anything else. national security. attitude toward the military profession

The sputniks and the evidence of a Decent pay. commensurate with skill is the ever-recurrent question of the size

Soviet breakthrough in the missile field and leadership responsibility, is part of and constitution of the forces. Nothing have resulted in a change of atmosphere. the price. has had a worse effect on the retention President Eisenhower, speaking to the It contributes not only to individual of skilled manpower than the recent per- Nation from Oklahoma City on Novem- well-being, but to a man's pride. A sonnel cuts imposed for budgetary rea- ber 14, said bluntly: '"The military serv- young soldier who finds that his com- sons. They fell hardest on the Reserve ices are underpaid. We must be fair pany officers are struggling to make officers on extended active duty who with them. Justice demands this, but ends meet, are talking— as many officers today form by far the largest segment also compelling is the factor of efficiency do — of leaving the service, has little of our whole officer corps. Many of in our defense forces. We cannot obtain motivation to stay in himself. When he these officers were urged, after World and retain the necessary level of tech- sees that the noncommissioned techni- War II and/or Korea, to remain in nical proficiency unless officers and men, cians assigned as his instructors are un- service and make a career of it. Now. in sufficient numbers, will make the derpaid and overworked, why should he suddenly, they are kicked out before armed services their career." seek to join their ranks? reaching retirement age, with no com- The fact is that the Cordiner pro- For all these reasons, I believe that pensation except "severance pay." Does posals, if enacted into law, will indeed legislation embodying the Cordiner rec- this encourage young officers to stay in require increased spending for two or ommendations should be enacted by a military career? possibly three years. But this spending this Congress as a matter of prime ur- There are other points which require will be a sound investment in skilled gency. attention. Housing is one of the most military manpower, and it will pay good Dollars and cents, however, are not important of them. Our servicemen are dividends. After the third year the Cor- the whole story. There is an intangible marrying early. Almost all officers above diner plan will begin to pay its way and feeling that a country which treats its the lowest commissioned grade and al- even to result in substantial savings. It military people in a niggardly way has most all career enlisted men are mar- will cut down the incredibly costly rate very little regard for the military profes- ried. If wives and families are unhappy, of turnover, decrease losses from train- sion as such. Consider the effect among so are husbands and fathers. More and ing accidents and faulty maintenance, combat officers of the services when the better Government housing is only part reduce the number of personnel re- bill providing increased pay for medical of the answer. It's needed, but there will quired to produce a given level of mili- and dental officers was enacted. The bill never be enough. A high percentage of tary effort, and provide a long-term was passed to hold enough doctors and service families will have to find their solution to basic military manpower dentists in uniform, but the line officer's own housing, and pay for it out of their problems by making the service more reaction was, "Isn't my profession as allowance for quarters. This allowance attractive as a career. highly regarded as theirs?" should be set as the Cordiner report These long-term problems have got The need here is not only for higher suggests in a reasonable relationship to to be solved if this Nation is to survive. pay, but for challenge — a stimulus to the cost of procuring accommodations If the present conditions are allowed to which Americans habitually respond. and should be adjustable by Presidential continue until the senior group of World The rewards for proficiency and self- action to meet rising rental indexes. Directly connected with the content- ment of service families are better dis- location allowances for the constant

moving and separation which is an un- avoidable element of military life, and the restoration of the many so-called "fringe benefits" such as post exchange and commissary privileges. Insofar as the Regular services are

concerned, the problem is not procure- ment of "bodies." The services have consistently been able under existing law

to fill their ranks to the annual numbers permitted by appropriations. Selective

Service brings it its required quotas, but far larger numbers come in by voluntary entry (partly draft-stimulated) to the enlisted ranks or to officer candidate

programs. The problem is to retain not only enough of these men, but enough of the cream of the crop to build pro- gressively a career personnel structure in each of the services. With the Reserve components, which include the National Guard, the prob- lem has a somewhat different aspect. !

Here the initial problem is to procure there should be a single military chief — see for yourself! enough prc-t rained men, since the re- a super-Chief of Staflf through whom all quired level of readiness added to the military advice reaching the President far shorter periods of training time avail- and the Congress should be channeled. more dazziinej able to the citizen soldier (or sailor or That idea, for every nation which has than diamonds airman or marine) who must earn his tried it, has been the sure prelude to at 1/30 the cost own living requires that all this training defeat in war. Our Joint Chiefs of Stafl", time be devoted to unit training. Hence representing the three armed services on wn A CAPRA GEM the man entering a Reserve unit must an equal basis, was the command agency For 1/30 the Cost of o Diamond! Get full faets. FREE, on the basic training and pref- which won the last war and upon which most amazine discovery hv moigest. .''^^'5' diamonds, tary specialty appropriate to his unit. it comes. But the voice of the Joint Ajnnl" .J^i^^io yet cost much less. CAPRA GEMS* refractive quality is actually hichor than BHIliantly beautiful. dazzlin"cAPRA GEMS arS One source of such pre-trained per- Chiefs is today diffused and smothered hanTc"?' hand polished and hand selected . . . priced i!S !? „ .>; "'^'^^ diamondH ™ °' ^" 'o^e fine gems. A 1-carat sonnel is to be found in draftees who by the vast civilian bureaucracy which stone costs you approximately SIOOO. A com- ?S7 fe^]?.°,'f%'''"''"'"f ^'.i'^^"' CAPRA GEM Is yours for """oXt in have finished their two years of service has accumulated in the Department of fml-ll 'easrpaymentT."'"'""' ' ' • GET THE ,, , ,.. . FACTS NOW and have a remaining Reserve obligation. Defense. The Defense Department to- Valuable Illustrated booklet shows a wide selection of men's and women s nnss. Gives full details. Includinir prices and • f^EMS actual size. What is needed is the enforcement of day serves less as a coordinating agency IfmAVf s„- 'iTS "^A.™* Limited today without delay. No charge, no obli- Ration.VSr^^' Getn al the facts on CAPRA GEMS . . . more existing law, by which these men can than as a barrier by which the three d.-izzhni? than diamonds. be required to perform their Reserve military departments are walled off from CAPRA GEM CO., Dept. AL 38, Box 5145, Philadelphia 41, Pa. service with designated units. Another ready access to the Commander in Chief. source is the six months' active duty Reform in this matter is urgently de- RUPTURE EASER' training program for reservists. If the manded. Amazing comfort for reduci- ble Inguinal rupture. Strong, number of men who volunteer for this All of this has nothing at all to do [required washable, form-fitting, ad- Justable. Soft, flat groin pad. program should fall below the needs of with the kind of weapons systems we tMf wMfM* n.,,1,1. c a I^oi' men. women, children. the Reserve components, the men need or the respective states of the mis- *2 oc 4 Give measure around lower *5.V5 ^ abdomen. Indicate right, left. needed to bring Reserve rosters up to sile art, the electronics art or any other PIPER BRACE CO. double. Ppd. except C.O.D.'s. 811 Wyandotte Dept. AL-3S Kansas City, Mo. strength should be obtainable through aspect of armament. Selective Service. To all of these, trained manpower in I'll Set You Up For Life In Your Own The present ceilings on the number of readiness is basic. men who can be paid for attending drills The cornerstone of our military policy BIG PAY SHOE BUSINESS for the Army components (National must be the military profession. ONLY 8 ORDERS A DAY CAN MAKE YOU Guard, 400,000; Army Reserve, 300,- The United States has a military pro- UP TO $32.00 A DAY .\Zt 000) are unrealistic and should be raised fession, but alas, it is not an honored AMAZING at least 50 percent. Considerable savings profession save in the minds of a dedi- 2-MINUTE DEMONSTRATION It's no trick at Your SellinR in if Does money and elTort could be realized cated few. The people of the United all to make bit; Job For You money FUIJj OR FAST! duplication of local effort were reduced States do not consider an officer in uni- SPARE TIME activating with America's most comfortable by no longer Guard or Army form to be as important a member of shoes. Amazing new ".Spring- Step" cushion design proves it Reserve units in communities where a the community as a scientist, a lawyer, by actual demonstration. Only ORTIIO-VENT has it. No other unit of the other type is already flourish- a doctor, or an engineer. shoe in the world like it. Profits are BIG—repeat orders are sure ing and can usefully absorb the local Faced with an enemy who places the and easy with amazing 2-minute demonstration. No experience personnel resources. military profession at the topmost levels needed. No investment to make. Everything furnished free, in- Also, in case of future reductions in of compensation, reward, and public eluding finest sales outfit and I Give actual demonstrators! Re the the Regular I PRODUCERS Army (which certainly esteem, there can in the end be but one big pav ORTIIO-VENT man in THEIR OWN SHOES your territory. Send TODAY for AS A BONUS! hope are not going to take place) there outcome of this state of affairs if al- free outfit. should at least be a corresponding in- lowed to continue: Defeat in war or a ORTHO-VENT SHOE CO. crease in the strength of the Army's price paid for victory that will make FREE FOR Ready Reserve strength. Thus if a Reg- victory itself seem little worth the gain- ular armored division is to be deacti- ing. vated, a National or Re- AST Guard Army We cannot hope to oppose our enemy find If you suffer osthma attacks, choke and wheeze,

breathe . . . serve armored division should take its sucessfully with forces of less quality in sleep impossible because of the struggle to try FRONTIER ASTHMA MEDICINE now! Get immediote, place. leadership, experience, or technical skill. blessed relief from the dreaded symptoms of bronchial asthma. Over 1,000,000 bottles sold — FREE TRIAl However, it is my belief that for the is are trying to today, That what we do bottle by return moil. You pay nothing. Send name COMPANY, time being and in the light of the emer- on the feeble plea that we can afford no and address now to: FRONTIER ASTHMA 765 A Frontier BIdg., 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo 1,N.Y. gency situation thrust upon us by better. Soviet arms progress, all proposed per- We have one advantage which the sonnel reductions in the Armed Forces, Soviets cannot match within this genera- Active and Reserve, should be cancelled tion or the next — the basic quality of LOOK until a thorough restudy of our person- our human raw material. The American nel requirements has been made by the youth — in resourcefulness, imagination, FOR Joint Chiefs of Staflf and submitted — initiative and all-round adaptability to without alteration by the civilian staff of the miracles of the technological re- THIS the Defense Department — to the Presi- volution — is far superior to his Soviet dent, the Secretary of Defense, and the counterpart. We must cash in on this EMBLEM armed services committees of the Senate priceless asset. We can by appealing to and House of Representatives. these qualities—with the proper admix- It is displayed only in a

Directly related to this requirement ture of challenge and reward—create Legionnaire-owned store . . . is the urgent need for clearer expression, from this raw material a military profes- a member of at the highest levels of decision, of the sion and military forces both Active and professional military views of the Reserve which can make this nation se- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE leaders of our armed services. I am un- cure against any enemy. But let me re- RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL alterably opposed to the suggestion that peat: we must start NOW. the end

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 195.S • 39 TIME FOR FISHERMEN to write to Cort- land Line Co. Inc. for a copy of the 19^8 Fishing Forecaster. Gives the best days to fish throughout the year. By pulling out the colored tab on the Forecaster you can note the days during each month when you can expect to catch the most fish. Tab is marked "Most," "Some," and "Least" for different days of the month. Write to Richard F. Jennings, Cortland Line Co. Inc., Cortland, CLUB N. Y., for your free copy. FRANK VADAS, JR., Box Brilliant, (Continued from page 8) 644, Ohio, is a trapper, and he has an idea that may be helpful for you. "Take a bucket of Later, when we discovered an excellent THE JANUARY 1958 issue of the Sport walnut hulls," he says, "mash them well sporting goods store in Mexico City, we Fishing Institute Bulletin carries a lead arti- and add a little water, then dip your traps learned that it is not necessary to go cle on Super Insecticides that is well Avorth in the mixture or paint them with it. It through that sort of thing. The store is attention by sportsmen generally and con- will kill the scent on traps and I've found Kirten y Purvis, an establishment almost servation officials in particular. It concerns that it also keeps them from rusting." as complete as the famed Abercrombie and the plans of the U. S. Department of Agri- Pitch. Located at 83 Londres Street, it is culture to spray areas to exceed 20 million masterminded by \^'illiam Kirten, Jr., for- acres in the deep South with Dieldrin, a merly naval attache in Mexico Cif>^ lethal insecticide spray 20 times more toxic If you want to visit Mexico to hunt or to fish and wildlife than DDT. fish, write him first. He can arrange every- The purpose is to eradicate the fire ant. tliing, even the renting of guns and fishing The benefits of this activity are acknowl- gear. Believe us, this will make the whole edged but it is suggested that possible de- safari so much easier that your letter to struction of fish, game, songbirds and bene- Mr. Kirten will rate in your memory book ficial insects also be given further study as a collector's item. in connection with this massive spraying THE 14-FT. FISHERMAN'S Dream alu- campaign. Present plans call for application minum boat manufactured by Southwest of two pounds per acre of the infested iManufacturing Co. is just what the name area in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisi- implies. It has a bateau type hull, handles ana and /Mississippi. Other states that may equally well with paddle, oars, or motor. become involved are Arkansas, North Caro- Latter rated 7!'2-h.p. max. Has factor>' in- lina, South Carolina and Tennessee. stalled live well. Net weight 130 lb. Cost For more particulars write to R. H. $212 f.o.b. Little Rock. For a sporty run- Stroud, Exec. \'ice-President, Sport Fish- about the DUT-14 is a beautiful job. Avail- ing Institute, Bond Building, Washington able in red and white or blue and white. 5, D. C. Net weight 230 lb. Cost $515 f.o.b. Little WE LIKE THIS ice-fishing item from Rock. Write Burton C. Terr>% Southwest HERE ARE ideas passed on John C. Hayick, 163 Franklin Avenue, A FEW by Alanufacturing Co., P.O. Box 2501, Little Gerald Belter, of Baraboo, Wis. "Before Palmerton, Pa. "It is easy to make your Rock, Ark., for illustrated literature and putting a new pair or rawhide laces in your own ice-fishing tilts" he writes. "Use a more details. boots, be sure char the typewriter ribbon spool, a corset stay, and you ends. This will shrink and harden them and make them a hunk of red cloth for a flag. Add sinker "FISHING KNACKS, Tips and Know- easier to lace." And, "When hunting in a to line, as shown in illustration." how," a free illustrated booklet, is offered crowd, give a duplicate set of car keys to to anyone who writes to the Wallsten one of the other fellows. Then if REMINGTON ARMS announces a color- you sepa- Tackle Co., 5343 W. Diversey Ave., Chi- rate or lose one set, you won't be stranded." ful, lightweight version of its popular cago 39, 111. This company makes the ex- Also, "To train a pup to retrieve, first teach model 572 slide action .22. This is real news. cellent Cisco Kid Lures for spinning and him with a sponge or old This new model 572 (Fieldmaster) weighs sock or glove, light bait casting and the Cisco Salt AVater later with a pine cone. By going from soft four pounds (because of the extensive use Lures for game fish \\ hich live in the briny. to hard objects of lightweight metals throughout) and you teach him not to dam- The booklet gives information on equip- age the bird." comes in two color combinations. One is ment, casting, best time to fish, and how Buckskin Tan, the other Crow-wing black. to avoid foulups. Address your card or Both feature stocks and fore ends of har- letter to Art Wallsten. monizing "Sun-Grain" walnut especially checkered for positive handling. Other PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMISSION specifications same as model 572. Price announces bounty payments beginning

$62.25. Standard model 572 still available, June 1, 1958, for foxes and great-horned of course. owls, if killed in a wild state. Check Arti- cle XI, Section 1101 of the Pennsylvania KARL A. MARTELLARO, of 1332 S. Game Laws for further details. Bounties Street, Salida, Colo., is a big game hunter, will be 14.00 for each gray fox, $4.00 for and he has passed along a few good tips: YOU'VE READ THE fable of the fox and each red fox, $5.00 for each great-horned "When tracking down a wounded bull elk, the crow in the tree; now young Ray owl. Bounty on last mentioned will be dis- never follow his tracks directly on his Welch (age 14) comes up with a modern continued with the opening date of small route of travel. Always zigzag about 50 parallel. Ray hails from 419 Bagge Ave., game season and remain so through Novem- yards to left and right of his trail. The Pelham, Ga., and says: "I've found it a ber and December. bull elk has a natural sense of zigzagging good idea to tie the half carcass of a — Jack Denton Scott from left to right, keeping his pursuers al- chicken on the limb of a tree so that it is ways in sight." He adds, "When hunting in just out of reach of foxes, bobcats and If you have a helpful idea that pertains snow and sunshine, smear soot or ashes other predators. I then place a trap right to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we under the eyes to protect them from snow on the spot where the animal will have to can use it, we'll reward you with a hunting blindness. If no wood ashes are handy, burn stand up and try to reach the chicken in or fishing accessory. Address: Outdoor Editor, a few matches and smear burned remains the tree. It works." He also adds that it The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth under eyes." is a good idea for poultr>' raisers. Avenue, New York 19, New York.

4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 CANADA'S BIG FISH (Contitiued from page 15) — ENJOY YOUR land. It has more than 200 practically fishing in the St. Croix River which VACATION IN untouched salmon rivers. Two you won't forms the lower boundary between ONTARIO want to pass up are the Humber and Maine and New Brunswick and is the • Just across the Great Lakes • Beautiful Scenery— Land of Startling Grand Codroy, made accessible recently site of the far-famed Loon Bay Lodge Contrasts by a branch of the Trans-Canada High- for anglers. Farther on in the same • Relax with friendly people way. 14-day nonresident Newfound- Province are the Tabusintac, Nipisiguit, A • Rich in colourful history land license costs $20. Check local con- and Piskehegan Rivers, all good trout Send for FREE ditions with the Provincial fish and producers. And it's much cheaper to illustrated brochure now! game departments before scheduling fish for trout than salmon in New Bruns- 1/ your trip. wick. A nonresident, seven-day license Ouaiuiiuche: This "poor man's sal- for all species except salmon is $7.50, mon" is well worth a jaunt to the edge and a season license lasting from April of the Quebec wilderness. The ouana- 15 until September 15 is $20.50. Both Canada's niche is the Canadian landlocked sal- types include your children under 18 Varlefy Vacationland mon, three-pound cousin of our larger and your wife. These rates apply main- New England lake-dwelling landlock. ly to trout and bass rivers, however. If Denlse McDonald, Ontario Travel Hostess,

Because it haunts the river rapids it is you fish the much-coveted salmon rivers Room 318, Parliament BIdgs., Toronto 2, Ont. more tackle-busting than any eastern for sea-trout, which are speckled trout NAME. trout and is as spectacular a jumper as that go to sea and return to spawn, you the Atlantic salmon. You'll find it in must pay the fancy salmon prices. STREET. the rough country of the Upper Sague- In Quebec the Laurcntide Park, about nay River and the tributaries above Lake 1 50 miles above Vermont, is a patch- CITY STATE. PLEASE PRINT St. John about 300 miles north of the work of thousands of lakes and streams Vermont border. Guides who will safari where six-pounders aren't uncommon. you into ouananiche country can be Farther west in the same Province a 60- manftae folding found at the town of Roberval, which mile, newly paved highway from Ottawa BANQUET is just about the "end of the road." The north to Gracefield has opened up the JABLESI season is from the middle of April Gatineau River district, destined to be- through September, and $5.25 will buy come as famous for its fishing as it has a nonresident license. Your children been for the shanty songs of its lumber- under 16 and your wife can fish for an jacks. In Ontario a good place to toss extra $2.10 each. your fly is the Petawawa River or one Buy Direct from Speckled Trout: The only way this of the 1,200 lakes of Algonquin Park, Manufacturer fly fisherman's delight differs from our about 250 miles above Buffalo, New If you are on tbe board ot your post, school or squaretail is that it usually grows a heap York, and twice that from Detroit. And cliurtli, or oil the bouse or purcbasiiig commit- tee ot vour chib. you will be interested in larger. In the Peribonca River, which the big Canadian speckled trout isn't this modern, FoldiuE Pedestal Banquet Table. Write for catalog and special discounts. empties into the Lake St. John, men- out of bounds to anglers living in the Monroe Co., 69 Church St., Colfax, Iowa tioned above, I hauled in five-pounders Mississippi River States, because On- until my arm got tired. But there's no tario has moved it westward and kept need to travel so far. The speckled trout it flourishing. A 1 15-mile jaunt north of PUMP WATER DRY- SAVE MONEY covers Canada from the Great Lakes to the Illinois line will take you to the SUCT-DRI Only $0-75post Labrador. There are larae fish and fast 5,000-square-mile Chapleau Game Pre- ' ^ paid

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH I95.S • serve whose concentrated lakes and French River about 200 miles above north to Hudson Bay's lakes for 30- and streams are loaded with lunkers. About Toronto are places guaranteed to pro- 40-pounders. In these two Provinces,

125 miles above Minnesota is the Nipi- vide you with fast action. In the Lake where the pike's familiarity still breeds gon River, connecting Lake Nipigon Nipigon streams the smallmouth are some contempt, there is no closed sea- with Lake Superior, where a record almost as numerous as the speckled son in many waters. 4 1 '/2 -pound speckled trout was taken, trout. Originally planted in Long Lake Manitoba, the province adjoining On- and where almost everyone pulls out at east of Nipigon in 1901 as an experi- tario, is pocked with thousands of choice

least one five-pounder. A $6.50 nonresi- ment, they developed such a penchant pike spots. One is the Whitemud River, dent license covers all this vast Province for their new locale that they have since which flows into the bottom of Lake and its fish species. overflowed into most of the neighbor- Manitoba, 100 miles above North Da- Smallmoiilh Bass: This capricious ac- ing waters. Now midwesterners, too, kota. But in Saskatchewan you'll have to robat cavorts at the ends of fish lines all can fight Canadian smallmouth bass journey to the lakes scattered above over Eastern Canada with the exception anywhere in the Lake Of The Woods Prince Albert National Park, a good 500 of the colder climes, and shares the pop- area, just a step across the border from miles north of Montana. Here you can ularity of the trout and sometimes even Minnesota. The fishing season is approx- fish for them from May until March the same waters. Most New Brunswick imately July through October. for a $4 nonresident fee. An $8 license trout rivers have the smallmouth. In the Northern Pike: Although U.S. anglers includes trout and grayling. In Manitoba St. Croix, previously mentioned, you can have long sung the pike's praises, Ca- a shorter May-till-October season re- take your limit of each— if you can keep nadians have considered their lakes so quires an all-fish nonresident fee of the bass on your lure. The Magagua- cluttered with this "coarse" fish that not $6.50. davic is also a busy river. Quebec doesn't until comparatively recently have they Muskelliinfie: The muskie is a savage

boast of its smallmouth fishing, most of consented to designate it a "game" battler that makes a pike look like a which is localized in an area above the species. A local angler would throw piker. When you see one of these mon- Ottawa and Lower St. Lawrence Rivers, back a half-dozen of these voracious sters zeroing in on your lure like a but in the Pontiac district near Waltham, plug-gobblers for every bass he kept. guided missile, get ready for action.

75 miles west of Ottawa, there are And gobblers they are because they'll Ontario is the muskie Mecca of the enough of these bass to keep an angler smash at anything from a legitimate lure continent. Fishing is good in the east busy. to a cigar butt. around the Thousand Islands of the St.

Ontario's smallmouth fishing is tops, For easterners, the lakes of Western Lawrence River, a once-famous muskie however, and is the only reason many Quebec offer fine pike fishing. The Ga- haunt where you still might strike a 40-

U. S. anglers go to Canada. The species tineau River area previously referred to pounder. But the real jackpot is in West- can be found in almost all lakes and is a choice spot, also the Lievre River ern Ontario in the Lake Of The Woods streams from Lake Erie northward to section above it. To the west near the country which is better known for mam- the Quebec line, then westward along border of the Province there are big moth muskies than for bass or pike. the U. S. boundary to Lake Of The fish in the Kapawa Lake system, 350 Here you can take these "scarce" fish, Woods at the Manitoba line. Some have miles above Western New York. In pike- weighing up to 40 pounds, at the rate weighed in at more than seven pounds. packed Ontario this fishing is good all of a dozen a day from a number of lakes

If you're not a purist and have no idio- over, but the best is north of Lake Su- including Eagle and Vermillion. Even syncrasies about using live bait, you can perior. In the Chapleau district you can from Lake Of The Woods itself where pull in big ones along the shore of Lake take 10-pound pike as well as big trout. the lunkers lurk in the maze of chan- Erie and in the Georgian Bay part of They grow even larger around White nels formed by its 12,000 islands. Some Lake Huron across from Michigan River, a stop on the Canadian Pacific 50- and 60-pounders are there too. where schools of them skulk among the east of Lake Nipigon. Also in the Lake These are prizes worth trying for. and sand bars. Lake Nipissing and the Of The Woods system. Take a floatplane the best time for your try is September or early October. Officially the action starts about June 20. Pacific Salmon: Although the western coast of Canada has five salmon species, only two of these pound the angler's pulse: the chinook. also called spring, tyee, or king salmon: and the cohoe or

silver salmon. The chinook is larger, with 60-pound fish common. But the little school-swimming cohoe, which averages six pounds, will give you more thrills because there usually are more of

him and he is a spectacular fighter. Vancouver Island, just across the sound from Seattle, Washington, is the place to go. The big "run" of larger fish from the north begins in June and lasts

until fall. Sayward, 200 miles up the eastern shore of the island, sees them first: then the Vancouver waters are gradually crammed with them. From July until October the cohoe salmon hit the river mouths in wave after wave, and 25 or more fish can be hooked in a single pool. For both species the Nana- imo and Cowichan Rivers are excellent,

as also is the area around Campbell :

River, site of the famous Tyee Club. On hauled from Lake Athapapuskow near the mainland of British Columbia all the the Saskatchewan line. In Alberta there inlets and fjords northward to Alaska are 50-pounders in Lake Minnewanka WE'RE Veterans, offer fabulous summer salmon fishing. and the neighboring lakes of Banff and Steelhead Trout: The steelhead, a Jasper National Parks which begin 300 too . . . rainbow trout that goes to sea and re- miles above Montana. turns to the rivers to spawn like the Splake: This relatively new manmade on strong, group-type salmon, is a game fish that most anglers trout is a cross between the female lake hospital and medical insur- rate second only to the Atlantic salmon trout and the male speckled trout. It ance AT COST, also special family protector life insur- in vim and vigor. Although it averages grows as fast and as large as a laker and ance. Thousands of eight pounds, there are some 25- takes a fly as avidly as a squaretail. Al- ex-servicemen are thankful pounders taken every year. Should you berta has the largest specimens— 15- for membership in this fly tackle, it pounders. Some splake have been snag one of these on your non-profit organization. in will definitely be a high spot in your stocked out-of-the-way waters of On- For free details, just put angling career. tario and Quebec also; there they are your name and address on Rainbow Trout: Although Canadians called "Wendigo" trout. envelope and moil to- can't decide on a name for their rain- The foregoing species are the top- ARMED FORCES bow trout, calling it everything from Kamloops to black salmon, they agree MEDICAL AID ASSOCIATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION DIVISION OF AMERICAN INVESTOR'S that it ranks with its seagoing steelhead LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Pr<>t'ifire.s; AMERICAN INVESTOR'S BUILDING cousin as a heads-up fighter. This species Department of Natural Resources, St. P. O. BOX 2482, DEPT. AL 38 HOUSTON I, is spread over almost all inland British / TEXAS John's, Newfoundland Columbia and provides a variety of fish- Regional Supervisor of Fisheries, P.O. ing: four-pounders that hit flies in the Box 550, Halifax, Nova Scotia of Mines, Frede- fast waters, and lunkers up to 40 pounds Department Lands and ricton. New Brunswick that prefer trolled spoons in the deep Department of Fish and Game, Quebec. lakes. P. Q. The town of Kamloops, 175 miles Department of Lands and Forests, To- ronto, Ontario north of the Washington border, is a Concenlrofed odors fish love! One Director of Game and Fisheries, Win- tube ' Getzem" catches recommended center of operations. dozens of nipeg, Manitoba fish Only $1. (3 for $2.50.) In- dicote odor: Trout, cot, carp, other fresh Within 50 miles of this spot you will Supervisor of Fisheries, Prince Albert, water, salmon, other salt water, ice fish- find scores of rainbow lakes and rivers, Saskatchewan ing. Order today. Results guaranteed. Superintendent of Fisheries, Edmonton, Postpaid except C.O.D.'s. some easily reached and others acessible AL-38N Alberta NORKIN LABORATORIES Dept. only by horse over rough trails. 809 Wyandotte St., Kansas City, Chief Supervisor of Fisheries, 402 Pen- Mo. Cutthroat Trout: This native of the der St. West, Vancouver, British Co- west, named by the red stripe on each lumbia side of its lower jaw, provides as much Director of Game and Publicity, White- horse, Yukon Territory sport on light tackle as any speckled Railways "JUST trout. There are two varieties: the coast Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Montreal, cutthroat and the Yellowstone cutthroat. P.Q. FINE, The former is sea-run and can be found Canadian National Railways, Montreal, P. Q. in almost all the salmon rivers of British THANK Columbia, and the latter is locked in the inland waters of this Province of and rankers of Canada's light-tackle fighters. YOU!" Alberta. the mainland, On good fishing When you have decided which you are can be found in Harrison River and going to challenge, check with the fish Lake, 80 miles east of the city of Van- and game department of the Province couver. Also in the Kootenay area but for changes in seasons and license fees usually not in the same waters with the and for a list of guides and camps. The rainbow. Alberta has no closed season tourist services of the Canadian Pacific on any of its fishing, with minor excep- Railway Co. and the Canadian National tions, and its nonresident license is Can- Railways will provide helpful informa- ada's big bargain — $1 per year. tion on many specific areas, some of Lake Trout: Canada has more than which can be reached more conveniently 2,000,000 lakes, and in any deep, clear by train. They also offer package trips. one you'll find the lake trout, or "togue." Crossing the Canadian border is easy. It is so common up north that the aver- Simply carry proof of your U.S. citizen- age Canadian angler forgets he has it ship and a list in triplicate of your cam- until he sees it on a restaurant menu. eras (including serial numbers), rods, In Quebec you can find big lakers in reels, and camp equipment. One of these the Gaspe Peninsula above the crown of copies you leave with the U.S. Customs Maine. Also in the Lake St. John and so that you can get the stuff back in. The ...like 800,000 Americans who Gatineau River areas already mentioned. second goes to the Canadian Customs so have been cured of cancer A good togue hole in Ontario is Lake that they can be sure are all you taking because they went to their doc- Simcoe, 150 miles above Buffalo, New of it back out. The third you keep for tors in time. To find out how to York. In almost all deep waters north reference. guard yourself against cancer, of the Great Lakes you'll get huge You might have one diflSculty at the write to "Cancer" in care of lakers. There are 50-pounders in George border—accounting for all the missing your local Post Office. Lake of the Whiteshell Forest Park in tackle the lunkers busted or ran away AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Manitoba, 160 miles above the Minne- with. Better bring back the splinters as sota line. In 1930 a 63-pound laker was well as the trophies. the end

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PLANNING YOUR PLANTINGS

( Continued from page 19 place and the easiest maintenance, keep tween August 15 and September 15, and At least eight to ten inches of really the front yard free of flowers except thereafter mow and roll it regularly and good soil is practically essential. And if possibly spring-flowering bulbs. Here often throughout the spring, summer, trucks and bulldozers have compacted use only trees, shrubs, ground covers, and fall. Sowing a permanent lawn at it, there is no point in trying to make a and lawn. any other time of year is wasteful, since permanent lawn at once, even in August

Restrict the flowers — annuals, peren- it almost inevitably means you will have or September. In such a situation, and nials, biennials if you must, and prefer- to do the whole job over come August. it is all too common, lime and fertilize ably bulbs, too — to the private area. as if you were going to sow a regular Or, for the easiest maintenance of all, lawn, but sow a crop or two of rye grass to a separate cutting garden. Why? If instead. Don't groan! This "green your flowers are all together and in rows, manuring" will cost less time and money they are easier to plant and to weed. in the end, and the rye grass will make Also flower beds don't look so hot in a passable lawn, which you can mow. winter, and most look ragged or worse In early August have it chewed up and even in season unless the old flowers are turned under with a rotary plow, lime removed every day. the area, and wait a week or so. Then

Don't cut up your lawn into little spread on a complete fertilizer, rake the By Most Reverend pieces. A fairly good-sized lawn is easy loose soil smooth, roll it, and sow your to mow if the curves are sweeping and ALDEN J. BELL seed. Sow it twice, north and south, then there are few if any obstructions such Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles east and west, to make sure it is spread as rocks, trees, shrubs, and flower beds Department Chaplain of California evenly. Rake it in lightly and wait for to go around, or small strips where it is rain. Direct, we beseech Thee, all our difficult to mow. Make the lawn an inch When you buy seed for a permanent higher than walks and borders. That words and actions. Carry them on lawn, don't buy the cheapest and don't way the mower can overhang the edges b\' Thy gracious assistance that every buy the most expensive either, unless prepared to feed your lawn five without dulling the blades, and there word and work of ours may begin in you are will be little need for hand trimming. times a season. Merion bluegrass, for Thee and through Thee be happily This is a great timesaver. example, makes a splendid lawn in the ended. Frame the front door with a couple North and East, but only if it is fed of small trees and half a dozen shrubs, We know the achievements of that often every year. Standard mixtures soften the corners and any other angles, each of us may seem little, but that made up largely of regular Kentucky and, if your lot is small, bluegrass, plus a little creeping fescue you've probably little becomes much when united we done enough for the front yard, except and red top are generally recommended give our best. Like the little rivers of for the lawn, ground covers, and street for sunny areas. In lightly shaded areas nature running together when har- trees. The street trees usually become special shady mixtures should be used, the property of the village, town, or city, nessed for power may light a city made up chiefly of fescues, plus a little even if you set them out. And they and turn the wheels of industry, in- regular bluegrass, rough bluegrass, and a little bent. All-bent lawns are must, or should, conform to your neigh- spire us to give our best in our united maybe bors' street trees. the finest textured, and bent will grow efforts for the betterment of man- Lawn and Ground Covers in both sun and light, airy shade. But kind. Lawn can go right up to the founda- it requires more babying than bluegrass tion, but will look ragged unless trimmed Happily we have chosen the eagle or fescues and usually has to be re- regularly by hand. An edging of ever- as the symbol of our strength as a seeded more. Putting greens are sown green ground cover will look well and nation. Majestically the eagle stands in bent. can be kept in bounds by the mower Down South, of course, the summers alert, her wings lift high and are without hand trimming. Ground covers are too hot for bluegrass and fescues. strong, her claws have the grip of under the trees and shrubs permit the There St. Augustine, Bermuda, and even sweeping curves (which are easy to steel. May her strength ever sym- Zoysia grasses are preferred. In the mow) and cut down weeding. The bolize our endurance in the perform- North, despite all the hullabaloo the last shade-loving ones, such as myrtle (vinca ance of duty and her swiftness our several years, zoysias are good only minor), pachysandra, and ivy, will usu- around a summer cottage, as they do not readiness to do our best without self- ally do much better as the trees thicken green up until June and go brown again ishness of purpose. up than grass will. But remember that by October. Fill up what is wanting in us, ivy will climb if it gets a chance. An- O Everywhere grass does poorly in other way to save time is to plant nar- God, that we may accomplish our heavily shaded areas and under maples row strips, such as those between tasks in full measure. Grant us a (especially Norways), ashes, and other sidewalk and curb, in ground covers. surface-feeding trees. There myrtle, greater faith in Thee and a greater Ground covers seldom, if ever, need to pachysandra, and ivy are better. love for Thee and Thy people every- be mowed, although the ones mentioned Your lawn may well be your most where. Grant us the strength of per- and some others can be occasionally. expensive item in landscaping, in up-

And once they have thickened up, they severance, the light of understanding, keep even more than in getting it estab- require little or no weeding. Thickening and the happiness of accomplishment lished. Actually all lawns should be fed up this much takes two or three years, five times a season if you want the grass in the community service in which it if you plant them right; longer, if you to crowd out the weeds and look its best, is our privilege to participate. May don't. although you may be able to get by The only way to have a satisfactory Thy blessing be upon us now and after a couple of years with two or three lawn is to prepare the ground thorough- always. Amen. feedings if you avoid the fancier grasses ly in the first place, sow it evenly be- such as Merion blue. Furthermore, a

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 little reseeding is usually needed every much. If asked, the experiment station tends to look too higgedly-piggledy. As August, at least for some years, no mat- will classify it as to sandy, sandy loam, the artists say, such plantings are too ter how good a job you do. Bluegrass clay loam, or clayey, although you can "busy," and they can keep you that way, lawns must also be limed regularly. probably figure this out for yourself. too. Trees that are too big can dwarf a Ideally a lawn should be cut and If your soil is naturally acid enough house and leave room for little else. rolled once a week or oftener from mid- to grow rhododendrons and mountain Shrubs that are too big can be almost April to October or even into Novem- laurel, be thankful. For you can then as bad. ber. This means you should avoid light- grow many more fine shrubs and trees You can restrict the size and number weight lawn mowers, and get a heavy than if it weren't, and with a minimum of your trees, shrubs, perennials, and power job of the reel type, preferably of trouble from pests. If it is slightly on annuals, and still plant for pleasing year- one weighing around 400 pounds, such the clay side and contains considerable round interest. For example, a dogwood as the golf courses, cemeteries, and organic matter, be triply thankful. Water grows big enough to give shade in sum- parks use. It need not be of the gang leaches out of sandy soils fast and car- mer, and its red berries and foliage in type, but it should have a heavy roller ries fertilizer with it; so plants in such the fall are as dramatic and beautiful that rolls the grass immediately after it soils must be watered and fed regularly. as its flowers in May. Furthermore, its is cut. Such a mower costs several hun- In clayey soils, rich in organic matter, horizontal branching habit is pictur- dred dollars new, but you can some- the right trees and shrubs seldom need esque, providing a winter silhouette that times pick up a good buy second-hand. watering after the first year if they are blends well with most houses today. Be And there is no reason why you and set out properly in the first place. And careful of the pink variety, however, if several of your neighbors cannot buy they will usually do quite well without you like other pink or red flowers in one together. A good one will last a life- ever being fed. spring because its color is harsh, not to time if you keep it oiled and greased, If your soil is naturally neutral or on say belligerent. and it will cost less in the end than a the limestone side, forget most ever- Evergreens series of light mowers, especially those greens except for the conifers (the Evergreens generally are considerably of the rotary type whose speed soon needle ones). You have a pretty wide more expensive than deciduous trees and wears them out. Believe it or not, the choice of deciduous trees and shrubs shrubs, but few plants are richer look- professional-type mower is also easier to (those that lose their leaves). Most de- ing and a place without any evergreens use and will do the job in much less ciduous things do about as well in sweet looks pretty bare in winter. Too many time because the smallest size cuts a as in acid soil. And if you hanker for evergreens, on the other hand, can make swath 25 inches wide. annuals and a perennial border, they will a place look heavy and even gloomy. Never, except possibly in spring, mow come easier and you can grow many The Japanese rule of seven evergreens your lawn shorter than two inches. If more kinds in sweet than in acid soil. to three deciduous trees or shrubs will you use a heavy mower such as we rec- If your soil is sweet, your lawn will do usually result in the most satisfactory ommend, one that rolls the grass right better, and you won't have to lime it as year-round appearance.

after it cuts it. a two-inch cut will look often as you will if it is acid. On small lots, especially next to ranch better than a shorter one made with a Your Trees and Shrubs houses, the spready conifers look best.

light mower because it will be more It's easy to overplant in both public Among these are several kinds of yews,

even. and private areas. Don't do it. It's ex- Mugho pines, several of the junipers,

Lawns that are never cut closer than pensive, both in time and money, and and, if you want the richest of all. Sar- two inches seldom need watering except in prolonged droughts such as we had this last summer in the Northeast. When fW you do water, never water oftener than on^O HOMES CUT BUilDINp COSTS once in five or six days or a week. Water Build your own home and save house complete with all lumber, profit — plus savings roofing, nails, glass, hardware, long enough to soak down six inches or the builders' in lumber and labor with Sterling paint, doors and windows, marked more, or don't water at all. If you insist Ready - Cut Homes. Anyone can ready to ere«. Freight paid. assemble with simple, easy to Complete building plans ready for on watering in the evening, then keep follow plans furnished. Every filing at low cost. Sold separately if desired. Write today! the water playing on the same area until ORDER dawn to wash off the fungus spores. NOW SAVE UP Fungus will develop, not only in lawns TO PRICED FROM but on many other plants, unless each $2150 leaf dries off inside four hours after you Five Easy stop watering. For this reason it is also _Poyment Plans Send 35c for NEW best not to water on a dull day. Remem- INTERNATIONAL MILL AND TIMBER CO. COLOR CATALOG ber that greens keepers on golf courses DEPT. AL 38 BAY CITY, MICHIGAN often get up before dawn to brush the dew off the putting greens! MAIL THIS MONEY-SAVING COUPON Get Your Soil Tested 100 GLADIOLUS BULBS Before you decide what shrubs and trees you are going to plant, get your IMPORTED FROM H 0 L L A N D . . . only $« i If you send this Coupon you can get 100 GLADIOLUS soil tested. Take a spoonful from just NOW Bulbs, imported from Holland, for only a penny a bulb! These 1 below the surface at each of the four bulbs from the flower center of the world will produce a rainbow of blooms in colors as available from stunning reds, yellows, pinks, corners of your lot and a couple more purples, whites, crimson, violet and multicolor. These bulbs are small 1" H" in circumference. Any bulb not from the front and back of your house. blooming varieties already to 1 flowering five years will be replaced. Act now to get this wonderful Send them to the nearest agricultural bargain in time for spring planting. Limited Time Offer. Send today only $1.00 plus 35c for postage and handling. Orders sent C.O.D. experiment station. A trained chemist plus postage if desired. will, for a nominal fee or free of charge, 100 GLADS. $1.00 200 FOR $1.94 500 FOR $4.50 Send CO D. tell you whether your soil is acid or plus postage. NAME ^ limey and how much. Chances are he Cash orders ADDRESS . add 35(S and we ship post- will also tell you whether it needs nitro- CITY ZONE STATE age paid. gen, phosphates, or potash, and how .DUTCH BULB IMPORTERS • Dept. GP.14a3 Granil Rapids 2. Mich. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • 45 gent's weeping hemlock. Tail spruces, house, even if you must have flowers one a month, and, unless you live in the pines, and hemlocks need sharply there. Behind the house, in the private South or on the Pacific Coast, you will peaked roofs, hills, or a lot of space to area, plant only two or three ever-bloom- have to hill up a mound of soil about a set them off. Most of the conifers are not ing varieties, and those in small quanti- foot deep over the crown every fall and

too particular about the soil they will ties. A flat or two of petunias bought carefully pull it away every spring. This grow in, although most want good drain- every spring and a package each of must be done with floribundas too, age and the pines and junipers prefer zinnia and marigold seed are enough to though they require less food and

soil on the sandy side. Only the yews give you a good show, especially if you more of them can get by, and it's only and hemlocks will stand shade. plant half a dozen perennials too. You get by, without spraying. All roses, too, Generally speaking, the broadleafed require annual or even more frequent evergreens prefer a porous, peaty soil pruning. slightly to strongly acid. Mountain lau- Care of roses thus gets to be quite rel, most rhododendrons, and the heaths a chore if you have many of them. So must have decidedly acid soil. The an- either restrict yourself to shrub roses, dromedas, leucothoe, and even some of which bloom only in spring but do not the hollies, however, will do fairly well have to be fed, sprayed, or hilled up, or in a soil close to neutral, although their be content with a few ever-bloomers.

preference is for acid. Whatever you do, don't interplant roses

Where the soil is at ail suitable some with other things. Think twice before of these should always be planted. They you put them in a center spot. They are are practically pest-free, and the Japa- much easier to care for if you keep

nese andromeda ( Pieris japonica) is per- them together. And let's face it: the rose

haps the most beautiful of all hardy is perhaps the most beautiful of flowers,

shrubs. All winter the reddish buds look but it often looks better in a vase than

as if ready to burst into bloom. After on the bush. If it didn't bloom, who the white lily-of-the-valley blossoms would care to have the average rose bush come and go in April, the light green around? Except for a few species of

new leaves make the plant look as if it roses which very few people plant, rose were blooming a second time, and some foliage at its best varies from so-so to of them stay light green nearly all sum- ugly. mer. Some of the glossy leaves bronze Avoid the bulbs mice like to eat, such lightly in fall, especially in the sun, and as tulips, lilies and crocuses, or resign stay bronzy all winter. In winter, too. yourself to the expense and labor of re- the leaves do not curl at temperatures "The money! Ju.st the MONEY!" placing them often. Daffodils and jon- AMi:i;HAN I.K(,1I>\ MA(.A/I\K which make all rhododendrons look quils are mice-proof. And, though they shivery. Lastly this shrub will prosper will also have plenty for cutting. should be lifted and divided every two almost equally well in sun or shade. Perennials, or herbaceous perennials, or three years, they will thrive for many Deciduous Trees and Shrubs are the flowers that die down every fall, years without it. Grape hyacinth, snow- Deciduous flowering trees that require but come back each spring. If you se- drop, squill, and lily of the valley will little care after the first year in either lect them carefully, buy top quality also multiply and get better with the

acid or sweet soil include redbud, haw- plants (growing them from seed is years. They don't do so well interplanted thorn, mountain ash, the saucer mag- tricky and hard work), and prepare the with evergreen ground covers, however; nolia, the Japanese pagoda tree, the bed two feet deep and work in lots of so leave bare spots in winter. winter-blooming Chinese witch-hazel, organic matter, they will last for years Soil Preparation

and the Japanese as well as native dog- and require little care. There are quite Thorough soil preparation before you wood. Large shade trees similarly toler- a few others that are not too demand- plant is hard work, but much less work ant include the canoe birch, the Ken- ing, but peonies, baby's breath, phlox, than trying to make up for it later. It's

tucky colTee tree, ginkgo, bald cypress, day lilies, Shasta daisies, yucca, and also the one way to make sure that the and to a considerable extent the maples, chrysanthemums will give you varied plants you set out will do well. other birches, ash, and pin oak. bloom from spring to mid-fall. The phlox For lawns, ground covers, and small Shrubs that are equally tolerant in- and chrysanthemums should be lifted bulbs, spade up the soil or plow to a clude forsythia, beauty bush, mock and divided every year or two, but you depth of a foot if possible, mixing in oranges, the barberries, viburnums, wei- can delay longer. The others will bloom four to six inches of leafmold, peatmoss, gelia, Carolina allspice, rock spray, and for years with only little weeding. They or humus, and a generous sprinklng of

althea or rose of Sharon. Other shrubs, will do better if you feed them once a a slow-acting fertilizer such as bonemeal,

somewhat more particular as to soil, re- year, but they will bloom even if you cow manure, or even the usual five-ten- quire little or no care after the first year don't. five or ten-six-four (the first figure is al- if the soil is right. On the acid side these Be content with a few perennials, how- ways the percentage of ntirates, the sec- include the many deciduous azaleas, ever, in kind and in number. If you in- ond of phosphates, and the third of pot- blueberries, and summersweet; on the sist on a classic perennial border, all ash). For everything else, break up the limey side, the brooms, deutzia, and bets are off. There are few things that soil to a depth of at least two feet and firethorn. require more constant care to look well. mix in twice as much organic matter plus Most of these will tolerate some shade, Avoid all biennials, or resign your- the same amount or more of bonemeal but cannot be closed in. And the moun- self to more work. or cottonseed meal and manure. Quick- tain ash, magnolia, beauty bush, althea, Roses acting commercial fertilizers, such as brooms, deutzia, and firethorn want full If you must have ever-blooming roses, five-ten-fivc, etc., are best used only with sun. Generally acid-lovers are more tol- you will have to restrict yourself to a annuals, vegetables, and lawns, and then erent of shade than lime-lovers, al- very few disease-resistant varieties or sparingly. Be sure to water them in well though there are notable exceptions. spray them every week. Generally this if the soil is not quite damp. Go Easy on Annuals means you spray. Hybrid teas, which In planting trees and shrubs, break up Avoid all annuals in front of the most people prefer, also need feeding the soil to a depth of a foot below where

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the roots will come when you set them The Private Area out, and mix most of the bonemeal or Make the private area as private as You Get 1 cottonseed meal (the latter for acid- you can by surrounding it with a border lovers) and considerable humus in the of trees and shrubs. As in the front yard, with Arkansas « bottom foot of soil. If the roots when planting ground covers beneath them Traveler ^ spread out, or the soil ball, are a foot in keeps things neat and permits a sweep- diameter, then the hole should be three ing edge for a central lawn, terrace, or feet wide so that there will be a foot of combination of the two. Bulbs look well good soil to each side as well as beneath interplanted in ground covers when in the plant. bloom, and the ground covers hide their

Discard the soil you take out of the foliage to some extent as it dies. But bottom of the hole, and mix lots of or- strong-growing ground covers may in S-ft. Custom ^^^1 ganic matter with all that you put back. time crowd out the bulbs. Perennials that porlsinon ,W^^k Stomp it in well; and when the roots are die gracefully, such as peonies and day Dashing performance. Beautif ul lines. Per- barely covered, fill up the rest of the lilies, look well interplanted with ground fect blending of Fiber Glass and aluminum hole with water and let it settle before covers, and both of these will take some (good-bye maintenance bother). And now putting in the rest of the soil. Be sure to shade. a new GUARANTEE! See your Arkansas leave a little trench along the edge of the Add a charcoal grill if you wish, but Traveler Dealer. Or write for free folder.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • 47 geants had the answer to any life-or- "I'm the one doing the gambling. heard the pounding of feet. Many feet. death problem at their fingertips, said Doc," he said. As he turned to look, a half-dozen impatiently: The jeep roared past the Bank of marines pounded past him, scattering "Sergeant, do you understand? There Agafia that was almost completely de- sand in their wake. More followed in a

is not a minute, not a second to be molished from the pre-invasion naval steady stream. The doctor screamed to wasted if—" bombardment. At the far end of the warn the sergeant. But already the first

"Damn it. Doc," the sergeant said, street, the Pacific lay before them. The batch of marines had jumped him, some

angrily, "of course I know." jeep swerved left, then right, and went clobbering him, some clobbering the Through the opened tent flap across machinegun. the way, he was looking at a dim. un- shaded light bulb that burned from over- THE DOCTOR WAS kneeling beside the head. Suddenly he started out, calling sergeant who was lying on his back. He back: "Doc, back my jeep from the side was bloodied up a little but he was grin-

of the tent. Point it toward the road to ning at the circle of faces around him. Agafia. Keep the motor running." "Nothing bad," the doctor said. "A few The doctor followed him outside and bruises, a black eye on its way."

saw the sergeant charge across to the "Nothing is worse than a black eye, other tent. As he reached the jeep, he Doc, when you're a sergeant," the ser- saw the bulky shadow of the sergeant geant said. "It means you came off sec- inside the tent, bent over. He backed the ond best."

jeep onto the little, bumpy dirt road, "What I cannot understand," the doc-

raced it in neutral, and waited. tor said, looking around at the other The sergeant came out of the tent on marines, "is why the sound of the gun the double. The doctor saw that he was brought you running. We all hear the lugging a machinegun and ammunition. sounds of guns every night." That puzzled him. What kind of a solu- The sergeant said, "I'll answer that tion was that? one for you. Doc. The sound of this The sergeant reached the jeep and kind of gunfire has not been heard in tossed the gun and ammo into the back weeks around here. You see, I've got scat. "Move over," he said to the doctor, a pfc in my outfit, in the tent across and the doctor slid over. The sergeant from mine, and he's souvenir-happy. J "Sorry." got behind the wheel, gunned the motor, AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Well, after you told me about the death

and the jeep careened up the narrow party, I finally thought of him." dirt road to the junction of the two- off the road, jamming to a halt on the The sergeant patted the machinegun. lane highway that the Seabees had beach. "Remembered he had a Jap MG and started to build. The unfinished highway The sergeant jumped out. He grabbed ammo. Figured any guy who doesn't in- led down a long, curving, steep hill into the machinegun and ammunition, and stantly recognize the sound of a Nambu the dead center of the rubble that had set the gun up hastily, down near the from the sound of our own—well, he been the business district of Agaha. water. He turned into a hunched figure wouldn't be apt to still be around this Over the noise of the engine and of in the bright moonlight and he began to island right now." the rushing wind, the doctor shouted: fire away, straight out to sea. The doctor looked around at the "You think shooting machinegun will The doctor remained by the jeep. marines hemming them in. "Sergeant," bring them?" What the sergeant was doing was, to he said, "I will go around your tent area "I'm gambling on it," the sergeant him, pointless, crazy. Three minutes tomorrow and personally explain how yelled back. passed. Four. Five. The sergeant stuck you got that black eye." The doctor shook his head. "We hear grimly to his gun, pounding out bursts, "Thanks, Doc," the sergeant said,

the sound of guns on the island every as intent as if he'd been cleaning out a "but I still think that if my back hadn't

night. The patrols. Tm afraid that it will Jap nest in a forward area. Then, from been turned, I wouldn't be the only guy not mean anything." the highway behind him, the doctor around here who's got one.' the end

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HOW WE HAVE BEEN LOSING JAPAN (Cotiliiiiiecl from Jxige 17 pressionable. Some of the Japanese makes the King of Siam look ridiculous ences were generally silent," said the daughters defied their parents, discarded and tells him, in rather impolite lan- report, "except for applause when a the traditional kimono, donned bobby guage for a lady, that he has a nerve kamikaze plane smashes into an Ameri- socles, and learned to jive in dives opened expecting people to bow and scrape to can warship." for the American soldiers by Japanese him. The Japanese not only bow and If I were a member of Congress, I out to make a fast buck. scrape to their Emperor, but to each would like to know who in the Pentagon

In our effort to help them reach de- other as well. To them it is a sign of released these films and why. mocracy quickly we debunked their respect. The communists in Japan have strong Emperor who for centuries had been Did they resist this "propaganda"? or allies from the American Left. Most of their temporal and spiritual symbol. An did it influence them into thinking their the press in Tokyo carries the extreme American soldier will give his life for own Emperor was also a ridiculous, leftwing columnists so well known in his flag. A Japanese will give his life for stuckup snob? America. Leftist lecturers tour Japan his Emperor. We did not attempt to replace the and find large and receptive audiences. Our debunking began before the war worship of the Emperor with the wor- Sometimes these lectures are repeated ended when our press, "inspired" by ship of God. Instead we left a vacuum on the Voice of America. certain State Department officials, de- which the communists not only help to Simple diplomatic practice is some- manded that Emperor Hirohito be tried widen but are filling up very fast with times overlooked by our State Depart- as a war criminal. Although this was their own atheistic ideology. ment. Last year when the United States never carried out, the seed was planted There are so many ways in which sent Douglas MacArthur II as our Am- in the minds of the Japanese that the Americans go about making the Japa- bassador to Tokyo, the Japanese reac- Emperor was no better than anyone else. nese hate them that sometimes you ask tion was not good. An American might It was demonstrated to them when the if it is from ignorance or plan. Here is think that since General MacArthur was Emperor was "granted permission" to a classic example described in the Tokyo revered almost as much as their Em- pay his respects to General MacArthur papers and reported by the Associated peror that the appointment of his at the beginning of the occupation. To Press. nephew and namesake would make a many, he no longer represents the Sun The Defense Department in Washing- hit. But the opposite was true. Goddess. Although today thousands of ton released to Daiei Pictures 20,000 To begin with, what the Japanese call

Japanese, mostly older people, still feet of newsreel film taken during the "face" and we call "self-respect" plays gather at the gates of the royal palace war in the Pacific. Daiei Pictures spliced an important part in their lives. The to pay their respects to the Emperor, a it into a narrative and netted $800,000 name of MacArthur is identified with good number have dismissed him from from huge Japanese audiences. Japa- defeat and occupation. But his stern fair- their minds. Since the Emperor has be- nese newspaper critics "attacked the film ness for the former enemy who had come a powerless head of state, there is as needlessly stirring up anti-American- become his ward made them look upon now a religious and political vacuum in ism." "Some" American officials in him as their benefactor and leader. To Japan. Tokyo deplored the film but said they their astonishment the American Gov-

Since the end of the war it has been had not been consulted by Washington ernment did not appear to share their the aim of the communists that the beforehand. reverence for MacArthur. He was dis- people of Japan will do away with the The film. Thus Did Japan Fight. missed in about the most insulting man-

Emperor system. So it is not astonish- which was accompanied by funeral ner in which a man of his rank and ing that the debunking continues in vari- music and a slow-paced narration, ability could have been dismissed. If the ous forms and from different sources showed Japanese being killed by the American Government shows no re- even today. Not long ago the American thousands in various battles in the Pa- spect for the soldier who is "fading movie The King and I played to over- cific, and the audiences gasped at the away," then the sending of his name- flowing audiences throughout the islands. towering smoke clouds rising from the sake as our Ambassador was a slap in

Th? theme, of course, is that Anna bombs dropped on Tokyo. "The audi- their face. Psychologically, the appoint- ment was wrong. Then there are the little things that Americans do to rankle the Japanese. We do not take Anna's advice in Get- ting to Know Yon. Japan is seething with business, big business, with both free and Iron Curtain countries. If you enter the lobby of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, you will hardly be able to find

a place to sit. Every cluster of chairs is filled with Japanese businessmen talking to their counterparts from almost every country in the world. And if your are fortunate enough to find a place to sit and watch, you will always notice the Japanese are conducting their business conversation in a ritualistic manner with many polite preliminaries and social amenities. One evening we were forced to eaves- drop on a conversation between a Japa-

"\ <>u licanl me, lady. No green stampstamps! nese and an American businessman. Our A.MKllK AM I.IOfiTON MACAZTNE (Continued on page 52)

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • gj^ (Continued from page 50) ganizations to collect factual data in to keep up a continual agitation by fish- party was seated on the floor of a private order to produce "a conclusion on the ing in troubled waters. A year ago we room in a teahouse. Like the scenery in significance of the postwar land reform' happened to see a communist demon- Madame Butterfly, the partitions of the enforced by the Occupation Forces." stration in Tokyo. Before the imposing teahouse were all sliding doors made of Notice the word "enforced." gate of the U. S. Far Eastern Command paper so that the "private rooms'" could Another item in the press reported building milled a group of communists hardly be called private. (Each time the that "The Soviet Mutual Assistance As- wearing red bandanas and carrying red pretty waitress wearing a dainty kimono sociation (Nisso Sofu Kai), a private flags. On the ground was a battered appeared with a tray, she got to her organization established before the war phonograph grinding out the Interna- knees and bowed and scraped. Anna to promote cultural relations between tionale. They were there to protest the would have been shocked!) In the ad- Japan and Russia, was revived last Sat- dismissal of several Japanese drivers em- joining room the American was talking urday." ployed by the U.N. Command. We were

loudly and persistently. We call it high- It was a welcome bolt from the blue told that not long before this they had pressure salesmanship. On occasion he when, last June, Secretary of State Dul- been demonstrating for the Americans would stop for breath and we could les made a speech in San Francisco to get out. But when we finally began hear the Japanese speak quietly, though firmly pronouncing a strong U. S. policy. reducing our forces with the ultimate

never committing himself. I had the He informed the world that the United dismissal of the Japanese drivers, the feeling that he would have preferred communists reversed themselves. to exchange some small talk before get- This "damned if you do and damned

ting down to business. if you don't" game was again demon- Had I been a businessman in Japan, strated last September after the United

I do believe I would have first learned States had announced it would remove their business customs. I saw a letter to all our troops and make the headquarters the editor in a Tokyo paper from an of the U.N. Command in Korea. The American who told a strange story — withdrawal of our troops caused the un- according to American customs. He had employment of about 30.000 Japanese, written to several Japanese business and again we saw the communists dem- firms outside Tokyo saying he was in- ON THE JOB onstrating in the streets. In October they terested in their products and would called a strike of 13,000 union workers like to come and talk to them about ex- at seven U. S. Air Force bases in the ports to America. He never received a ...for you Tokyo area. They were demanding that single reply. His outrage and curiosity the United States compensate the newly caused him to ask a Japanese friend the unemployed Japanese. reason. He was told that no Japanese States would not recognize Red China Easy prey for the communists are the

businessman ever does business with until that nation renounced its barbaric small but articulate "expansionists." anyone to whom he has not been prop- ways and became a civilized nation. The After World War II the Japanese found erly introduced. And, incidentally, a let- speech made an enormous impression all themselves with a lot less territory. ter of credit showing how many thou- over the Far East and especially in Japan Eighty-six million people now live in a sands you have in the bank is not a suffi- where the conservative Prime Minister closely knit group of islands no larger

cient credential. Kishi was still struggling against letting than California. As in other free nations throughout down the bars against trade with Red After the end of the war we returned the world, the conservatives both in and China. But in the following month Dul- Korea and Formosa to their former and out of government have been attempt- les reversed himself in the eyes of the rightful owners. (You can hear occa- ing to hold the nation on an even, anti- Orientals when he announced that the sional rumblings in Japan that some day communist keel. But without an un- State Department would permit Ameri- they will get them back again.) At Yalta bending, anticommunist United States can newsmen to visit the China main- we gave half of Sakahlin and all of the

policy they arc unable to withstand the land. To them it was the first step to- Kurile Islands to the Soviets. (These are unrelenting pressure from the Japanese wards recognition. And when the strategically important but not large Left. In the fall of 1956 the Japanese Chinese insulted the American reporters enough to help the population problem.) read in their press of the extraordinary by calling them spies and refusing them The Japanese also lost the territory they courage shown by the anticommunist visas, both Mr. Dulles and the United had conquered on the China mainland. Hungarians who fought Russian tanks States lost face. The Soviets augmented their war loot with bare hands. They watched sharply Why, the Japanese ask, does America by seizing the islands of Habomai and for American reaction. When the out- talk of peaceful coexistence while at the Shikotan, off Hokkaido. The United rageous and uncivilized action of Russia same time they are reading in their front States still occupies Okinawa and the was merely met with "shock and dis- pages headlines telling about red aircraft mandated islands, and in the last year

may" accompanied by sympathy for the streaking over the Sixth Fleet? Is it our or so there have been widespread dem- refugees, this was the signal for the policy to ignore insults? onstrations by the expansionists for the

Japanese to look to their own interests There is no doubt that our diplomacy return of Okinawa. It goes without say- as far as the communists were con- puzzles them. Their press carefully re- ing that the reds are ready and willing cerned. They rushed to sign the Russo- ported the disarmament talks in London to help, and do help, in these anti- Japanese peace treaty, exchanged Am- pioneered by Harold Stassen. and the American demonstrations. bassadors with the Soviets, and quietly nonsocialist Japanese wondered why the The Girard case broke early last sum- exchanged "commissioners" with Red United States would volunteer to lay mer, and because of the bungling of China. down her arms. Nor could they under- American officers in charge it became a One Tokyo paper reported that the stand, in the face of Russian duplicity. cause celi'hre. Had the U. S. Army Communist Party in that city had im- President Eisenhower's proposal of a taken immediate steps for court-martial,

mediately increased its membership by pact with Russia calling for a year's it is likely that there would have been no 1,000. And in Osaka there had been a moratorium in nuclear experiments. more notice of the affair than there is of 40 percent gain. It went on to say that The socialists of Japan, with the com- the many other unfortunate incidents

"the party is mobilizing many of its or- munists as their inspiration, are able which have been happening periodically

52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 .

". in . in Japan. But there was a delay of sev- Almost all political prisoners Japan . the drastic democratization of eral weeks, and the wily communists were communists. And when General Japan along American lines re- egged the socialist press into making MacArthur ordered this to be done, it sulted in serious confusion and in- sensational headlines. The lid was ofY. caused, to put it mildly, a nationwide efficiency in government, economy, To those in Japan, including the sensation. This reached a high point and education, which helped inter-

Americans living there, it came as a sur- when John K. Emmerson of our State national communism to come to

personally . . prise that Girard became a hero back Department went to Fuchu the fore. . and released two notorious com- ". home. They had not realized that in the Prison . . The direct aim of the peace U.S.A. the issue was not Girard himself munists, Shiga and Tokuda, taking them offensive currently staged by the but the Status of Forces Treaties. These away in a stafT car flying the American Soviet Union and Red China is to angles had not penetrated the Japanese flag. The estimated net result of the isolate the United States with re- press. But the average Japanese con- release of these two reds by Mr. Em- gard to her foreign policy from the sidered Girard as just an irresponsible merson "was to add 100,000 new mem- rest of the world, and also to ob- American and certainly not worthy of struct the rearmament programs of • • • all the press he received. The case at least Japan and Western Ger-

t i,r/Aisi:rn (:iiukc;hm,i. iirown, the wife dragged on until it lost its momentum, many. . . . of syndicated columnist Constantino ". and the final verdict last November . . In order to realize permanent Brown, is the author of Tl:e Eiieniy caused no more than a day or two of U. S.-Japan cooperation, it is neces- iU His Back, a book \\ hich w as suffi- flurry in the newspapers. The Japanese cicntK' interesting to the Soviets to sary that all anti-U. S. sentiments had had something else to hold their cause them to order nine copies for in Japan be eliminated. The un- rile Kremlin. This article w as writ- full attention—the sputniks. settled territorial issues have been ten following two recent trips to the In this International Geophysical the core of the anti-U. S. senti- Far East.

Year the Russians launched the sputniks ments in Japan. . . . This situation • • • into the heavens to compete with the is causing serious irritation to the Rising Sun. To many Japanese this sig- bers to the Japanese Communist Party." Japanese national sentiment, pro- nalized the setting of the American sun. John Emmerson, we might add in pass- viding excellent material for the

What little respect the Japanese had ing, is still with the State Department. leftwing elements to fan anti- ." left for the once great and powerful In those bleak days of defeat no Japa- Americanism. . . United States was gone. Their complete nese dared protest. But as time erased This long petition went into their and unabridged contempt was demon- mutual bitter feelings and responsible trade problems, propaganda problems, strated when one of their leading news- Japanese came to know America better, foreign aid problems (they suggested papers published a cartoon depicting the a large group of prominent Japanese we were distributing it on unnecessary muttnik dog interrupting its spin around decided to bring the serious inroads of projects and neglecting essential pro- the world to lift its leg on the Empire anti-Americanism fostered by the com- grams), defense problems, etc. State Building. munists to the attention of President But we know that today Japan is fast

Now this is my story as I saw it, felt Eisenhower. slipping into the red orbit. If war comes it, and smelled it. But the seed for this There were 67 in all, representing uni- to that area once more, let us hope that fantastic growth of communism in versities, unions. Government, business, Japan will be on our side rather than Japan was sown. directly after V-J Day. motion pictures, and newspapers. A peti- that of Moscow and Red China. It The rules set down in Washington for tion was drawn up stating in detail the would be tragic if her great, modern our occupation and directed to General serious conditions, item by item, and factories, built by American taxpayers' MacArthur were the basis for our policy cures were proposed. Significantly money, should be used to manufacture then as they are now. One may not find enough, it was dated December 7, 1954. arms for our enemies. If Japan should the word "communist" in these orders Let me quote several short passages: not be on our side, it will take the lives ". win given the general, but they often specifi- . . American policies toward of many more American boys to cally applied to communists. One order, Japan, proceeding as they did from than were lost in World War II and to the effect that all "politicar' prisoners the best motives, often produced Korea. must be released, is THE END a good example. contrary results. . . .

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THE AM ICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • 53 A LADY WITH A JOB — (Couliiiiied from l>a<^c 21) — the Mexican Border. The friend had a is highly decorated and thrice wounded. She will be, in a word, serving. That, tentmate, a Methodist minister's son His decorations include the Silver Star, of course, is no novelty for Mildred from McRae, Georgia, who wanted a the Bronze Star Medal, and the Purple Kelly. pen pal back in the home State. When Heart with two clusters. After the war Her life has been devoted to service her sister suggested that she drop him he attended the Atlanta branch of the since she first joined Auxiliary Unit 13 a line, Mildred declined. But her sister, University of Georgia and then entered in Valdosta in 1926, as a result of help- convinced that someone should do so, the Air Force for pilot training. He has ing her husband with his Legion activi- wrote to him and signed Mildred's name. been in the service ever since, and is now ties. (Pat Kelly was, and is, an active That got the correspondence started. a fighter pilot stationed in Texas. Legionnaire. He was instrumental in Mildred and the young soldier, J. Pat Both Pat Kelly and Pat, Jr., are en- setting up the Legion Child Welfare pro-

Kelly, kept it going. They soon got to thusiastic hunters and fishermen, and gram in Georgia, and was Department know each other quite well, and they Mildred used to find time to do quite a Commander in 1937-38 and National planned to meet when Pat came back bit of hunting herself. She loves to fish, Executive Committeeman in 1939-41. from the border. and whenever they get the chance she He is a life member of Post 13, Val- But World War I intervened, and the and Pat try their luck— for trout mostly dosta.) The big attraction that the romance by mail continued for two —in the Withlacoochee River or in one Auxiliary held for her was the oppor- years. Pat Kelly was sent to France of the 83 lakes in Lowndes County, tunity it gave her to aid those who where, as a sergeant in M Company of Georgia. She gets a big kick out of needed aid. The human side of its pro- the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion of the paddling the boat on fishing trips, enjoys grams appealed to her. In the Auxiliary,

1st Division, AEF, he fought in such maneuvering it to the spot where the she found, not only could she be of di- now historic engagements as St. Mihiel fish are most likely to be waiting—a job rect help to those in need, but, as she and Chateau Thierry. He was wounded that requires, as any fisherman will tell says, she "could actually see the results three times, and won the Silver Star, the you, no little skill. Modestly, she admits of our efforts." This meant a lot to Mil-

CroLX de Guerre, and the Purple Heart that she's pretty adept at it. dred Kelly. with two clusters. But, unlike most men — and many She threw herself into the work of the After 22 months' overseas service, he women — who hunt and fish, Mildred Auxiliary, took an active part in her returned to the U.S.A. and made a bee- Kelly's interest does not end when the Unit's doings, and soon found herself line for Valdosta to meet the pretty, quarry is bagged. For her, part of the elected to a succession of Auxiliary dark-haired girl he had courted at long fun begins when the fish or game is offices. She held various chairmanships distance. brought home, because she likes to cook in her Unit, was Unit First Vice Presi- Mildred was waiting for him and they game. As a matter of fact, she likes dent and Unit President, and President met face to face for the first time. Al- cooking generally, and has devised her of the Eighth District of Georgia. though they did not marry until 1921, own private recipe for Japanese fruit Word of her ability spread, and she two years later, Mildred Kelly today cake. But game— particularly duck, quail, was appointed chairman of a number of says, "Even before I met Pat, I knew and venison — and the wild rice to go Department committees. She served a him quite well from his letters. And I with it are her specialties. The secret, term as Second Vice President of the knew I loved him." Since their marriage she confides, lies in taking sufiicient Department of Georgia, and was elected they have lived in Valdosta and Atlanta, time to cook it thoroughly. Department President for 1939-40. In where Pat now works as a management Such pleasures as these will have to 1940, when her husband's job caused engineer for the Public Housing Admin- go untasted while Mildred occupies the the family to move to Atlanta, she trans- istration. Auxiliary's top job. She'll be busy mak- ferred her membership to Unit 1 in that The Kellys had one son, J. Pat, Jr. In ing speeches, attending banquets, travel- city. She was a member of the National World War II he served in the 506th ing, writing, and doing all sorts of things Junior Activities Committee in 1940-41. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Air- for all sorts of people as she directs the After that she served on the National borne Division, and, like his father, he activities of almost one million women. Rehabilitation Committee, and headed the Auxiliary's Rehabilitation program in 14 Southern States. In 1948 she was elected National Chaplain of the Auxiliary, and in 1951 was National Vice President for the Southern Division. Between 1952 and 1955 she was National Chairman of the Pan American Study Committee, the Girls State Committee, the National Se- curity Committee, and the Child Wel- fare Committee. And in 1956, as chair- man of the Rehabilitation Committee, she directed the Auxiliary's vast pro- gram of aid to disabled veterans. All those jobs demand time and hard work. Mildred Kelly gave them all they required and more. Each job taught her something more about the Auxiliary. She learned about rehabilitation and child welfare, for example, by helping vets and their children. How well she

learned is perhaps best illustrated by her easy familiarity with the sometimes

54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 bafllingly complex (for civilians) desig- her church's welfare work, but the home. And. of course, I miss Toby, our nations used for military organizations. church had handled the distribution of little Scotty." In the course of a recent interview Mrs. it. In the Auxiliary, however, she could Mildred Kelly feels strongly about

Kelly was asked what outfit her husband see the results of her work. When she homes. As she sees it, "One of the great-

served with in World War I. She replied delivered a basket of groceries to a hun- est tragedies to strike this country is the that he had been a member of the 3rd gry family or when she helped a sick breaking up of homes. And one of our Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Division. veteran board the train for the lonesome greatest heritages is to be found in homes "Do you know," the interviewer asked, trip to a Veterans Administration hospi- like the one in which I was raised — a "what company of the 3rd Battalion?" tal, she could see the good that she and home where the mother teaches the Unhesitatingly the answer came back, her sister Auxiliares had done. children to know and to love God and ' Company M." As any service officer For some time this was a source of country." can tell you, such ready knowledge is wonder for her mother. Mrs. Smith She stoutly maintains that the Aux- immeasurably valuable in getting quick could not understand why Mildred gave iliary can render its greatest service to action on veterans claims. increasingly more and more time to the the United States by "making people The necessity of taking proper care Auxiliary. But when she met Johnny, a aware of the importance of educating of the basic records needed to establish young World War II Navy veteran children in the principles of American- claims was brought home forcibly to whom Mildred and Pat Kelly had helped ism." Much of this instructional job, Mildred Kelly by an almost funny, yet along the road to recovery from the she holds, "could be done in the home. pathetic, incident that took place in her effects of a serious wartime injury, she That is where it should begin, then the native Georgia years ago. She and her realized clearly why her daughter was schools and the churches can take up husband Pat, attempting to help a down- so intensely devoted to the Auxiliary's the task." and-out vet's family with a claim, asked work. Her soft voice became intense as she for the vet's honorable discharge. His Johnny had been wounded at Salerno added: "It should be mandatory that wife spoke up. She had seen the docu- and was suffering from osteomyelitis as American history be taught in the ment a few days previously, she said, a result. His leg and foot pained him schools. State history should also be a "when one of the kids was playing with constantly. He was sad, dejected, dis- part of the curriculum. If we were more it on the floor. If it's still around, I'll pirited. He had no one to look to for diligent about history, then children dig it out." help or even sympathy. All his life, from would learn more about the U.S.A. and That event made a profound impres- the time his mother abandoned him would appreciate it more. You can't sion on Mildred Kelly. In addition, it as a small boy, he had been on his own. learn the history of this country without contributed to her considerable store of When the Kellys first met him, learning of its greatness—and without firsthand knowledge of the difficulties Johnny was suffering so intensely that learning to love it." encountered by the hard-working Aux- he had resigned himself to having his The Auxiliary's National President iliares who operate at the grassroots leg amputated. They talked with him, made these remarks on October 21, level, where the organization's work is convinced him that he could be helped, 1957, just a few hours after she had actually done. It is through working that the leg could probably be saved. stepped off the airplane which flew her there herself that Mildred Kelly has More important, they demonstrated that back to this country from a 12-day tour learned what makes the Auxiliary tick. they would do all they could to help of the European facilities of the Crusade But always, and in each Auxiliary him, that they were genuinely interested for Freedom. She had seen some of the office she has held, one fundamental in his well-being. Johnny heard them millions of Europeans who have lost and continuing idea has governed Mil- out. and believed what they said. their freedom. She had looked from dred Kelly's actions. That one core mo- The Kellys arranged to have him West Germany into captive Czechoslo- tive, that central theme, has been serv- flown from St. Marys, Georgia, to At- vakia and had seen close up the stark, ice to others. Her substantial record of lanta where, in a Veterans Administra- evil force of communism. "The Czech accomplishments for the Auxiliary is tion hospital, he underwent three opera- border," she said, "is a grim-looking but a reflection of what she is as an in- tions. A piece of sheep bone was grafted sight." dividual: a person who sincerely likes to his shin, and Johnny's bad leg began The contrast between what she had people and who tries to help those who to heal. In addition, the rest of Johnny seen in Europe and what we have here need help. recovered. His outlook changed; he be- in America was still strikingly vivid in

She has been doing that all her life, came a different man. her mind. Equally forceful is her inten- and there is every indication that she will No longer did he feel that he was tion to insure that such tragedy never continue to do so. When she was asked alone in the world. Instead, he had dis- befalls this country. recently why she accepted the Presi- covered that there were, after all, people During her term of office as National dency of the Auxiliary with its accom- who cared about him. And he knew that President Mildred Kelly plans no special panying work and worry and responsi- it was "Mom" (as he calls Mildred) projects outside the organization's basic bility, her answer, typical of the woman, Kelly and her husband who started him programs. She proposes to stress the was forthright and simple. "I felt," she on the way to complete rehabilitation. foundation stones upon which the Aux- said, "that I could do some good." The work that she did for Johnny and iliary stands, the programs which are the

That Mildred Kelly has spent a life- the satisfaction of seeing him change reasons for its existence: Americanism, time doing good is evident from her Aux- from the lonely, suffering person that he Child Welfare, National .Security. Re- iliary record alone, but that is only part was into the well-adjusted, healthy man habilitation. of the story. Actually, she's been hard that he is gave Mildred her greatest thrill As always, Mildred Kelly's goal is to at it since childhood. She was active in in all her years of Auxiliary service. serve. She rcemphasized that idea when, welfare work in the First Methodist Her hobbies have been her duties — in accepting the National Presidency, Church in Valdosta. She taught Sunday her family, her country, the Auxiliary. she took from the Scriptures the theme School, was president of the missionary When she was asked, scarcely a month which will guide her administration. "I society (which numbered approximately after she took office as National Presi- shall strive at all times," she told the 800 women). She is still a member of dent, what she missed most as a result National Convention that elected her, the Daughters of the American Revo- of the travels necessitated by her new "to be true to your trust and together we lution and the Atlanta Women's Club. office, she promptly replied, "My hus- will achieve our goal for the new year— She had helped to raise money for band, home life, taking care of our 'Greatness through Service.' " the end

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1958 • For Greater Operating Effii-iency "V^'hat kind could I get her?" asked the "And see what the back in the boys room

/ have ascertained man. will have!" "Well," the — That oxir infant feels first class was reply, "here's a new Ivan Clark When bis radiator's drained perfume called 'Maybe.' It's only $50 an ounce." And he's completely out of gas. Glove Compartment — Archie N. Di Bacco "Fifty dollars!" exclaimed the man. "Lis- The nature its contents ten, if I have to spend $50, .1 don't want of Is generally in doubt, 'Maybe.' I want 'Sure Thing'!" — Dan Bennett So you push a little button, And everything falls out. — Stephen Schlitzer That's the Trouble Starting a biidget is a good ivay of facing Short on Cash Alone facts . . . such as the fact that you don't make enough money. The average husband knows exactly what — Hal Chadwick his wife expects of him. The trouble is that he can't afford it. — Hartman Chase Tune in March Time

This is a month you can't dope out (You and mc, both, or togetlicr) Stick to Business Never can tell when you lope out. The ace sales agent returned after six What you'll encounter in weather. weeks on the road and presented his ex- Soft balmy breezes or sudden deep-freezes pense account to the manager. "What's this Sun, rain or snow, or all three. big item here on the account?" growled Clear day or fog out—say, how can you tog out the boss. Fit for such changes? Search me! "Oh," replied the salesman. "That's my Oh Weather Man, here is a hint, or hotel bill." A hunch on a boon you could bring; "Well," grunted the boss, "don't buy any Make March take a march out of Winter more hotels!" And march into Spring. — Howie Lasseter — Berton Braley "Is there anything I can do for you, sir?" Cautious Fast Conntlng There's IVo Pleasing Tlieiii I never wear .slacks jolly college If you gave some people the shirt off A old alumnus was at the Or riding pants; festivities following the foot- your back they'd criticize your taste. homecoming I don't want folks laughing ball game and, being in a generous mood, —Maurice Seitter At my expanse. called to the waiter: — Della Springer "Drinks for the whole team!" Then You^d See He began counting noses and discovered so Easy Two men fell into an argument. "You only ten of the eleven were present. Not know something," declared one, "y^ou're He poundered on this situation a moment One of the most difficidt card tricks is to nothing but a henpecked nobody!" and then came the dawn. So he called the stop some people from doing them. "Oh, yeah?" retorted the other. "Well, waiter over and whispered loudly: — Francis O. Walsh you \\ ouldn't dare sa)' that if my wife was here." — Harold Helper

Aeeeptable Alternative

Wlten little tiephs and nieces Are takiua thinf^s to pieces. Should loving itnks ami aunties Spank their little panties?

The question is disputable. A course that seems more suitable, iVhen x'exed beyond forbearance, Would be to spank their parents! —S. Omar Barker

Expensive Gamble A young man was ha\ ing a hard time try- ing to decide \\ hat to gi\ c his new girl friend for a birthday gift. He wandered around a large department store, looking at various displays, until he saw the perfume display. Going up to the clerk, he said: "I've got to get my girl a birthday present. Would you suggest perfume?" "Certainly," smiled the clerk. "Every girl likes to get a bottle of nice perfume for a gift." "I can't spank him. If I do, he tells MY mother."

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