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E AMERl'CAN Enjoy rich tobacco flavor wnen you carft smoke. It's rich tobacco taste you want, right? You don't have to rich flavor of fine tobacco, tobacco too good to smoke. For smoke to enjoy it. Whenever you can't smoke, place a pinch more information on our smokeless tobaccos, write United • of our fine smokeless tobaccos—Copenhagen"', Skoal*', States Tobacco Co., Dept. A22, Greenwich, Conn. 06830. Happy Days"— between gum and cheek. You'll enjoy the Copenhagen and Skoal also available in Canada. The smokeless tobaccos. :.. The American APRIL 1971 Volume 90. i\umhrr 4 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: LEGION Nolity Circulation Depl.. V. O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, Iiid., 46206 iisin^' Post Officf Form H'uVv. \Uach old adilipss label and givr old and new addresses n ilh ZIP Code number and i urrent nieniber.'-liip rard number. Magazine Also be sure to notify ymir Post Adj utant. The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices Contents for April 1971 1345 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 Publisher, James F. O'Neil Editor WHAT THE ARMY IS DOING TO MAKE OUT Robert B. Pilkin WITHOUT THE DRAFT 4 An Editor M Marshall BY LEAVITT A. KNIGHT, JR. Assistant to Publisher Steps the army is taking to see if -it-can't make out on volunteers John Andreola and reenlistments by 1973. They're getting rid of Assistant Editor some of the "chicken," for one. James S. Svvartz Associate Editor Roy Miller SHOULD ONE-WAY CONTAINERS BE BANNED? 10 Assistant Art Editor Walter H. Boll SIDES OF A NATIONAL TWO QUESTION Production Manager pro: rep. JOSEPH P. VIGORITO (D-PA.) Art BretTifinld con: sen. JENNINGS RANDOLPH (D-W.VA.) Copy Editor Grail S. Hanford Circulation Manager THE ROWDY EARLY DAYS Dean K. Nelson OF THE VOLUNTEER Indianapolis. Ind. FIRE DEPARTMENTS 12 Advertising Sales BY PAUL DITZEL Robert Redden Associates, Inc. An account of the gaudy era of big city volunteer fire Ill West r>7tli Street ^ Neu- York, N.Y. lOOlQ fighters, from their dignified beginning in the 212-216-2546 nOO's to their fall in 1865. The American Legion IVIagazine Commission: Jauie? E. Powers. Macon. Ca. ( Chair ninn); SOME Gl LETTERS FROM VIETNAM 18 Benjamin D. Truskoski. Bristol. Conn. ( Vice Chairman ) ; James R. Kflley. Radnor, Pu. BY MAURICE RIES (National Commander^ s Representative ) : Lani; Armstrong. Spokane, If ash.: Charles E. Booth, A small sample of some largely ignored views of H untington. U" . Va. ; Raymond Fields, Guy- young people loho are more involved in mon, Okla. ; iMiUord A. Forrester, Greenville, Vietnam than anyone else. S.C; Chris Hernandez, Savannah. Ga.; Myli" S. Kraja. Youngstown, Ohio; Russell H. Laird. Des Moines. loiva; Howard E, Lohnian, Moor- head^ Minn.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N.Y.' Arllinr M. MacCarthy. Tallahassee, Fla.: HOW TO GET TEENAGERS INVOLVED IN YOUR Loyd McDermott, Benton, Ark.: iMorrls Meyer. BUSINESS, TRADE, PROFESSION OR HOBBY 24 Scarkville. Miss.; J. H. Morri-., Baton Rouge. La. ; Frank W. Naylor, Jr., Kansas City BY PETER D. BOLTER Kans.; Harry H. Schaffer. Pittsburgh. Pa.; George Fresno, B. An old, familiar organization now has 217,000 high school youths Sinopoli, Calif. : George Stover. Jonestown, Pa. ; Way ne L. I'alberl. sampling the inside life of industry, business, medicine, Delphi, Ind.; J. Cornelius Tromp, iMnnhattait police work, fire fighting or you name it. A phone call III.: Robert H. Wilder, Dndcville. Ala.: Ed- A^eir York. might get you in as a sponsor, too, if you're interested. ward McSweenev, N.Y. (Consull- ant) ; Chester K. Shore. Helma, Mont. (Coti- sultant). The American Legion Magazine is piibUsbe<I COVER: THE CHOW LINE AT FORT DIX, N.J. PHOTO BY JOHN PITKIN monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 40201 by The American Legion. Copyright 1971 by The American Legion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price : single copy. 20 cents ; yearly subscriptions, -1?2.00. Departinents Order nonmember suhserijitions from the Cir- culation Department of The American Legion, P.O. Box 1954. Indianapolis. Ind. 46206. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 2 NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 28 Editorial and advertising oflfices : 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019. DATELINE WASHINGTON 17 PERSONAL 54 Wholly owned by The American Legion with LIFE IN THE OUTDOORS 23 LEGION SHOPPER 55 National Headquarters at Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. Alfred P. Chamie, National Commander. PARTING SHOTS 56 NONMEMBER SUBSCRIPTIONS Send name and address, including ZIP num- ber, with S2 check or money order to Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, Indian- Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, apolis, Ind. 46206. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material! POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1954 Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1971 . support of all responsible efiforts to im- plement the humanitarian provisions of LETTERS TO THE EDITOR the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, and (2) that it request the government to seek the immediate release of all P.O.W.'s. Letters iiubVished do not necessarily ex- a supposed list of prisoners to dove Con- Peter Chase, Canon Residentiary press the policy of The American Legion. gressmen, the list may be false, and John Keep letters short. Name and address must The Cathedral Church of St. be jurnished. Expressions of opinion and their failure to release it to our govern- the Divine requests for personal serinces are appreci- ment or the Red Cross is an evasion. New York, N.Y. ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or answered, due to lack of magazine staff for But they only release it because they these purposes. Requests for personal ser- are hurting. When they let in a little sir: I would like to express my appre- vices icJiicIi may be legitimately asked of The American Legion should be made to more mail for the prisoners, as they ciation to National Commander Chamie tiour Post Service Officer or ynur .state have done, they are reacting in a half- for his article. It expressed a feeling that (Department) American Legioi! Hq. Send letters to the editor to: Letters. The measure, but they are reacting. When I'm sure all Americans feel at this par- Legion Magazine, 1345 Avenue of American they give our too-generous TV stations ticula ' *'me in our destiny. It was a job tlip Americas. New York, N.Y. 10019. TV films showing how "kindly" thoy well ctoii^. treat prisoners, it may be phon>- Canole THE PRISONER OF WAR ISSUE the Debra propaganda. But the act of releasing it Placentia, Calif sir: In his editorial on protesting North indicates that the protest persuad > Vietnam's treatment of American pris- them, as Commander Chamie said, th 'l LINCOLN AND HIS DETRACTORS oners of war (Feb.) National Legion their treatment of the P.O.W.'s contrar\ sir: I have read of the bad time Presi- Commander Alfred P. Chamie was ab- to international law is "an albatross dent Lincoln's enemies gave him during solutely right when he said that the around their necks." his life, yet I never realized the extent name of the game on behalf of the Let us not be faint-hearted if the of venom and mendacity in their dia- P.O.W.'s is "persistence, keep it (the going is slow. The name of the game tribes until I read Tom Mahoney's ac- protest) up, never let it die but only let is persistence. count of them in the February issue, it grow," and urged Legiormaires and J.L. Schwartz "The Abuse of a President . Abra- all others to "swell the public protest in Neiv York, N.Y. Lincoln and His Detractors." every way that we and other organiza- ham Contemporary hatred of former Presi- tions will suggest from time to time, and dents should be appraised lightly in re- in every way they can think of by them- sir: With reference to your most helpful trospect. It seems to have varied in direct selves." article by National Commander Alfred to point out ratio to their accomplishments. The five The protest is effective, even if the P. Chamie, I would like Episcopal Presidents whom historians classify as Communists reveal it in roundabout that the SVa million member resolu- greatest have been the worst victims. ways. It is hurting them to hear from Church passed two important at it ' General I am old enough to remember the savage all around the world, day in and day tions on prisoners of war 1970: attacks on Theodore Roosevelt in his out, that they are equitable with Hitler Convention in Houston in Octobin- it;- day. He is now regarded as a hero, but in their barbarisms. When they release (1) that the Episcopal Church affirm In the know. .on the Go with your Radioear Hearing Aid! Get back in the swing of things - enjoying everything you really like to do: dancing; playing bridge; hunting; going to the theater; attending a lodge meeting; lis- tening to or singing a favorite song. Radioear hearing aids, since 1924, have helped thousands of people to enjoy the benefits of better hearing. Chances are that Radioear can help you . on the job, on the go, to be really in the know! Hear for yourself. Visit a Radioear Counsellor . he's listed in the Yellow Pages. 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